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Zack Harold
Silver Bridge tragedy still haunts river city residents
Published by zackharold on December 15, 2016
This story originally appeared in the December 11, 2012 edition of the Charleston Daily Mail.
Ben Cedar crossed the Silver Bridge three times on the day it fell.
He was working as a Kirby sweeper salesman back then, and crossing the bridge was the fastest way to get across the Ohio River from his home base in Ravenswood.
"I was worried about that bridge every time I crossed over," he said. "If you got stuck in the middle of that bridge, it would wave back and forth, back and forth."
He crossed the Silver Bridge for the final time just before 5 p.m. on Dec. 15, 1967, headed for Gallipolis, Ohio. Once there he stopped at a Kroger store and used a payphone to call his office, just to check in.
As he was in the store, he overheard other customers talking about a bridge collapse. "I didn't have any idea what they were talking about," said Cedar, now 75. He asked someone what had happened, and they told him the Silver Bridge had fallen. "I said, 'I just crossed that bridge 15 or 20 minutes ago.'"
Cedar headed back toward the span. He remembers seeing a large truck stuck on the Ohio side of the bridge, its trailer hanging down into the water. One of his co-workers was supposed to meet him in Gallipolis but had not yet arrived. For all Cedar knew, the man was on the bridge when it fell.
About the same time, 31-year-old State Trooper Rudy Odell was standing on the West Virginia side of the river. He also was surveying the damage. Odell, now 76, might have been the first law enforcement officer to respond to the disaster.
He was in downtown Point Pleasant when the bridge collapsed. Earlier that day, a man from Hutchinson Insurance called the local State Police detachment office wanting to talk with Odell, but he wasn't at his desk. The secretary radioed Odell and asked him to stop by the man's office. He parked his car on Main Street, just two blocks from the bridge's on-ramp. He got out of the cruiser and had started to walk inside the insurance agency when he heard a low rumble. "It sounded like someone upstairs moving furniture," he said.
Odell stepped back onto the sidewalk. A man across the street hollered at him, saying someone had gone through the bridge. Odell ran toward the river and up the bridge's ramp, where he found a "very pregnant" lady standing beside her car. Her name was Charlene Clark. She had been on the bridge as it began to fall. Seeing the road collapsing before her, she shifted into reverse and sped backward toward land. Odell said Clark was "shook up," but otherwise fine. "I would have been shook up, too," he said. "It sheered off right at the water line on the West Virginia side."
He left Clark and continued toward the collapse. It was a dreary, murky day, so Odell couldn't see much of the wreckage. Some trailers had broken loose from their trucks and were floating downstream.
The murkiness did nothing to quiet the cries coming from the river, however. "I could hear them hollering for help. I didn't know how many there were at that time," he said. "There was absolutely nothing I could do. It was a long way out into the water. Nobody could get to it."
Odell headed back to his car and radioed the State Police headquarters in South Charleston. He doesn't remember what he did for the rest of his shift, but for the next few weeks he was stationed on a river barge helping recover vehicles and bodies from the river.
Forty-six people died in the disaster, but Cedar's coworker was not one of them. He was one car back when the bridge collapsed, right behind Charlene Clark.
Opened in 1928, the Silver Bridge connected Point Pleasant and Gallipolis and was the first bridge in the United State to forgo a wire cable suspension for an "eyebar link" suspension, according to the West Virginia Encyclopedia. The bridge was held above the water using a series of flat metal links joined by steel "eyebars."
These eyebars were about 12 inches wide and 2 inches thick, resembling giant-sized automotive wrenches. A crack in eyebar number 330, on the Ohio side of the bridge, brought the entire structure down. Odell said as the bridge collapsed, the deck turned upside down, dumping cars and trucks into the water. The bridge fell moments later, crushing many of those vehicles.
Workers had to remove pieces of the bridge from atop the cars before they could bring the vehicles out of the water. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers leased 50-ton cranes to make the work easier, but the process was painfully slow.
Odell's primary job was to tag victims found inside the cars with the location and approximate time of their deaths before sending them to the morgue. He said police weren't attempting to identify the bodies at that point, but often could.
The State Police had received calls from people all over the United States concerned their relatives might have been on the bridge when it collapsed. When one of those loved ones arrived home safely, Odell said the families often called back so police could remove their names from the list of the missing. "We never brought up a vehicle or a person that we didn't know was there before they came up," he said.
Once, when the Army Corps of Engineer's crane brought up a car, Odell found a father and the man's young son. "He had one of those little winter suits on, with the fur around the collar," he said. "And I knew the little boy. I knew his mother. You don't get used to it."
The Point Pleasant River Museum will have a special memorial service at 2 p.m. this Saturday to commemorate the 45th anniversary of the Silver Bridge Disaster and remember the 46 people who died."
This is a part of history. A lot of people have been affected by this," said Ruth Fout, who works at the museum and helped organize the event. "If they didn't have a loved one on the bridge. . . they knew someone, or maybe their best friend's father was on the bridge."
Three of Fout's neighbors died in the collapse. She was working as a clerk at Mason County Insurance at the time, just a few blocks from the bridge. "We were getting our coats ready to go home, and we heard a large noise. I can't exactly explain how it was; I can just remember it sounded like a swoosh. Then the lights went off in the office. We didn't know what had happened," she said.
Then Steve Darst, her supervisor's husband, came into the office. He always picked up his wife, Virginia, from work. As he was driving to the office that evening, he got held up in traffic near the bridge. While he waited, he watched as the bridge began to shake." He said the eyebars looked like clapping hands," Fout said. "He saw it fall."
Fout was parked near the base of the bridge, but a floodwall blocked her view of the river. She could have walked another block to look in the water but did not want to. She got in her car and went home.
When she returned to Point Pleasant for a hair appointment the next day, Fout said the town was very quiet yet busy with activity as recovery efforts began. She continued to avoid looking at the river. "I never went back there during the time of the recovery," she said.
Fout no longer averts her eyes. Beginning last year, she and her sister Ruth helped Hartford College professor Stephan Bullard and student Bridget Gromek write a new book, The Silver Bridge Disaster of 1967.
The book, which contains 200 photos and a history of the bridge and its collapse, debuted Oct. 1 and has been an instant success."We're trying to keep it alive for the future generations because, as time goes on . . . the story gets fainter and fainter," Fout said. "It is something we don't want to forget."
And even a half-century later, parts of the story are left to be told.
About three years ago, Bill Needham, a former truck driver from North Carolina, came into the river museum and told Fout he was on the bridge when it collapsed. Needham said his rig quickly sank to the bottom of the Ohio River. He held his breath until he was able to roll down a window and swim out.
Fout said Needham told her the water was pitch-black when he finally escaped his truck but as he got closer to the surface, "he could feel the water getting lighter." He grabbed onto some floating debris, and after 15 minutes in the water was pulled onto a rescue boat.
Needham's driving partner, Robert Towe, did not make it out of the truck. Towe, of Cana, Va., was a husband and father of three small children. He had just built a new home and purchased a farm.
It was to be his last day as a long-haul trucker.
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Arsenal, Emirates Make Football History in Sponsorship Deal - Business Journal
Arsenal, Emirates Make Football History in Sponsorship Deal
Emirates, the world's largest international airline, and Arsenal Football Club, yesterday announced a new sponsorship deal.
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The new sponsorship agreement strengthens one of the most recognisable and respected partnerships in sport. The agreement was formally finalised today by Arsenal Chief Executive Ivan Gazidis and Emirates President, Sir Tim Clark.
Gazidis said: "Our shirt partnership is the longest running in the Premier League and one of the longest relationships in world sport. This mutual commitment is testimony to the strength and depth of our unique relationship. Emirates are again demonstrating their great belief in our approach and ambition and their significantly increased investment will help us continue to compete for trophies and bring more success to the club and our fans around the world."
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Press Published: 11 Aug 2021
OPERA America Announces 13 Participants for Its 2021 Leadership Intensive Program
OPERA America is pleased to announce the 13 participants selected for its 2021 Leadership Intensive program. The Leadership Intensive exemplifies OPERA America's long-standing commitment to identify and encourage the field's most promising administrators who will help move opera forward for years to come.
The 2021 Leadership Intensive participants are:
James Barbato, director of artistic administration, Palm Beach Opera;
Esther Blevins, marketing and communications manager, Knoxville Opera;
Eric Broker, marketing and communications director, Minnesota Opera;
Kelvin Chan, founding general director, Vital Opera, and general director, VOXCRAFT;
Matt Cook, executive and development director, Pacific Opera Project;
Julia Cooke, artistic and general director, Baltimore Concert Opera;
Alonso Escalante, artistic director, Ópera de Bellas Artes;
Kathryn Frady, founding executive artistic director, Marble City Opera;
Sara Litchfield, youth and family programs manager, Seattle Opera;
Jessica Phillips, clarinetist, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and co-founder, MET Orchestra Musicians;
Mitra Sadeghpour, education consultant;
Linda Schulte, director of development, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis; and
Hannah Waldman, director of development, Long Beach Opera.
This eighth class of the Leadership Intensive was chosen from a pool of 35 candidates through a competitive selection process. Candidates were evaluated based on their potential to make significant contributions to the opera field. (Alonso Escalante was selected by Ópera Latinoamérica, OPERA America's partner organization in Latin America, which also underwrote his participation in the program.)
"The Leadership Intensive has proven to be a catalyst for the development of a new generation of opera leaders who would not otherwise have access to such specialized learning opportunities or to an international network of peers," stated Marc. A. Scorca, president/CEO of OPERA America. "Alumni from the program now hold more than 10 percent of executive leadership positions at member companies across the United States."
The Leadership Intensive, which was supported by funding from American Express in 2020, offers participants an extended professional development experience that will bolster their leadership capacity and advance their careers. Participants will be immersed in the program from August 13 to 20, 2021, for a weeklong curriculum that will address strategic issues, build essential skills, and foster strong professional connections. Expert faculty include Astrid Baumgardner, J.D., certified professional coach; JiJi Lee, storyteller and writer; Jeremiah Marks, chief financial officer, Opera Philadelphia; Michelle Ramos, J.D., Ph.D., executive director, Alternate ROOTS; Jonathan Tessero, creative director and producer; Sarah Carter, director of learning and leadership, OPERA America; Laura Lee Everett, chief programs officer, OPERA America; and Marc A. Scorca, president/CEO, OPERA America.
OPERA America People Administrators
ABOUT THE PARTICIPANTS
James Barbato
Director of Artistic Administration, Palm Beach Opera
James Barbato is director of artistic administration at Palm Beach Opera, where this season he was instrumental in the creation of the company's outdoor festival in February, making PBO one of the first companies to safely accomplish a full season of live opera for in-person audiences during the pandemic. At PBO, Barbato leads all artistic planning, including the direction of the company's acclaimed resident artist programs. He joined PBO in 2015 as a department assistant and went on to assume greater responsibilities and new titles while concurrently spending four summers at the Santa Fe Opera as assistant director of the rehearsal department. Barbato began his career in opera as a singer, earning his B.M. and M.M. degrees from the Eastman School of Music and continuing his training at the Boston University Opera Institute. He progressed through several young artist programs, most notably at Florida Grand Opera and Central City Opera. He was also a fellow at Tanglewood Music Center and performed in residencies with Aldeburgh Festival's Britten-Pears Programme, the Académie du Festival Aix-en-Provence, and Marlboro Music Festival. In addition to his musical training, Barbato is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Rochester, where he earned a B.A. summa cum laude in economics.
Esther Blevins
Marketing and Communications Manager, Knoxville Opera
Esther Berland Blevins, a Cuban-American Miami native, is the marketing and communications manager at Knoxville Opera. Before joining Knoxville Opera, she provided consulting services to Knoxville-area nonprofits, interned at the Knoxville Museum of Art, and singlehandedly ran the Smoky Mountain Arts and Crafts Fair. Blevins completed her master's degree in arts administration at the Savannah College of Art and Design while on an honors scholarship and serving as vice president of the Student Arts Managers club. Prior to grad school, she was her high school newspaper's editor in chief, Quill and Scroll Honor Society president, and copy editor for a college newspaper. Her minor claims to fame are winning a photography award, having been a child actor on a Spanish-language Saturday morning television show, and being able to point herself out as an extra in the Hannah Montana movie.
Eric Broker
Marketing and Communications Director, Minnesota Opera
Eric Broker is an arts producer, writer, and performer working to define and pursue justice through art and media. He currently serves as the marketing and communications director at Minnesota Opera, where he develops and executes strategic, multi-channel marketing and public relations plans that integrate marketing, fundraising, and artistic goals. Broker also serves on the planning team of Picnic Operetta, an organization that brings together classical music, horticulture, food, and storytelling into a celebration of the urban ecosystem, and is an artistic advisor for Opera-Oriented Projects Sponsorships in Minnesota. In addition to his work with arts institutions, Broker is an arts and culture journalist, as well as a baritone who has appeared with Minnesota Opera, Mill City Summer Opera, Lakes Area Music Festival, Arbeit Opera Theatre, Metamorphosis Opera Theater, Skylark Opera, the Schubert Club, and more. Broker was a 2019 fellow with the Twin Cities chapter of the New Leaders Council, a hub for progressive Millennial thought leadership, and has been a featured speaker at St. Olaf College, the University of Minnesota School of Music, and OPERA America. A native of St. Cloud, Minnesota, he graduated summa cum laude from St. Olaf College, where he received his Bachelor of Music in vocal performance.
Kelvin Chan
Founding General Director, Vital Opera, and General Director, VOXCRAFT
Netherlands-based Chinese American artist and administrator Kelvin Chan pursues his core commitment to cultivating human connection through the arts as a singer-actor, stage director, theater-maker, and arts leader. He is a former member and music director of the award-winning physical theater company Song of the Goat Theatre (Teatr Pieśń Kozła). Other credits in opera and new music theater include New Amsterdam, concert:nova (Cincinnati, OH), the Tri-Centric Foundation, Pittsburgh Festival Opera, the Little Globe Foundation, Bard SummerScape, Schlüterwerke (Vienna), Ostrava Days, S.E.M. Ensemble, New York City Opera's VOX Festival, Opera Moderne, Cincinnati Opera, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, American Repertory Theatre, Nautilus Music-Theater, Theatre de la Jeune Lune, and HGOco. Kelvin pursues myriad avenues of actor training and theater-making, participating in workshops with New Dramatists, the SITI Company, the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards, Meredith Monk and Ensemble, Pig Iron Theatre Company, and Theatre de la Jeune Lune. He is the founding general director of the New York-based social impact arts organization Vital Opera and the general director of a new vocal arts organization in the Netherlands, VOXCRAFT.
Executive and Development Director, Pacific Opera Project
Matt Cook is an artist and arts leader in Los Angeles, California, who has successfully managed small to mid-sized performing arts organizations and connected them with the communities they serve. He currently serves as executive and development director of Pacific Opera Project, leading all financial, partnership, fundraising, and administrative operations for the organization. Cook has also held positions in development and production with the new music ensemble Wild Up. He produced performances at the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Fluxus Festival and the Ecstatic Music Festival in New York City, and led partnerships with organizations such as the Martha Graham Dance Company. Previously, he worked with the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet in various roles, including managing director, and led the organization to international recognition in its field. Cook is also a Grammy Award-winning performer whose work has been heard on studio and film recordings such as Aquaman and various Netflix series, and he has been seen live in performance with ensembles across the world. As an educator, he has been a featured clinician at institutions including Stanford, Colburn, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He is on faculty at Fullerton College (Fullerton, CA). A native of Atlanta, Cook holds degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the California Institute of the Arts.
Julia Cooke
Artistic and General Director, Baltimore Concert Opera
Julia Cooke was named artistic and general director of Baltimore Concert Opera in 2019 after serving as a founding board member and executive director of the company. In her current role, Cooke leads artistic programming and casting, fundraising, business management, and long-term and strategic planning. Under her direction, BCO attendance has reached 96 percent of annual capacity, total annual contributed revenue increased 50 percent from 2012 to 2019, and the company established an endowment fund in 2018. Cooke also oversaw the development of BCO's successful audience-building programming, free concert series for community members, and children's education program. She has navigated the company through the challenges of the pandemic and is leading the organization through a major expansion in the 2021–2022 season. Before her career as an arts executive, Julia maintained a dual career in performing and teaching. She served as professor of classical voice at Morgan State University, Towson University, and the American Musical and Dramatic Academy; conductor for the Chicago Children's Choir and Maryland State Boychoir; and private voice teacher to dozens of rising singers. Cooke holds a Master of Music in opera performance from Indiana University and a B.A. in music and psychology from the University of Rochester.
Alonso Escalante
Artistic Director, Ópera de Bellas Artes
Alonso Escalante, artistic director of the Ópera de Bellas Artes, began his music studies at nine years old in the Coro de Infantes de la Basílica de Guadalupe in Mexico City. Later, he entered the Centro de Investigación y Estudios de la Música (CIEM), where he studied composition with a major in opera singing. He went on to receive a master's degree in cultural management from the University of Girona and the University of Catalonia and subsequently interned at the National Endowment for the Arts and the Kennedy Center. After pursuing a career as a professional singer, he entered the field of cultural promotion, serving as general director of the Teatro del Bicentenario in León, national music and opera coordinator at the National Institute of Bellas Artes, deputy director of artistic programming at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and deputy director of artistic development support at the National Fund for Culture and the Arts. Escalante has also worked as a theater consultant, artist manager, promoter, independent producer, lecturer, and cultural commentator for radio, TV, and written media. He has served as a jury member for several singing competitions, including the Competizione dell'Opera (Germany), Neue Stimmen (Germany), and International Opera Competition Laguna Mágica (Chile).
Kathryn Frady
Founding Executive Artistic Director, Marble City Opera
Kathryn Frady is the founding executive artistic director of Marble City Opera. The company's mission is to cultivate a new following for opera by producing authentic and innovative performances of contemporary and traditional works in non-traditional venues, with the aim of creating a more accessible atmosphere for audiences. A passionate and prolific performer, director, and producer of modern operatic repertoire, Frady has worked on the development and premiere of 12 new operas over the last 10 years, as well as directed workshops for Cleveland Opera Theater's NOW Festival and served as a panelist for MassOpera's New Opera Workshop. With Marble City Opera, Frady has envisioned and brought to life 32 fully staged productions, including nine premieres, with three new premieres in development. In 2016, Frady was named one of "10 Women Who Make a Difference" by The Knoxville Mercury, and in 2019, she was recognized as a "Trailblazer in Her Field" by the Step Ahead Foundation of East Tennessee. Frady has a Master of Music in vocal performance from the University of North Texas and a certificate in executive women in leadership from Cornell University, and she is currently working on a fundraising management certificate from Boston University.
Youth and Family Programs Manager, Seattle Opera
For the past decade, Sara Litchfield has been dedicated to opera education and youth development. She began this journey touring throughout the Midwest with Opera for the Young. Litchfield then shifted her focus to teaching and from 2011 to 2018 served as a teaching artist for both Lyric Opera of Chicago and Chicago Opera Theater. During this time, she created and led upwards of 20 in-school residency programs with Chicago Public Schools and facilitated and directed each subsequent youth performance. In 2018, Litchfield joined the team at Seattle Opera as youth and family programs manager. In this new position, she is responsible for implementing and overseeing all afterschool youth programs, which include Youth Opera Project, Teen Vocal Studio, both spring and summer camps, and all Family Opera Day activities. This past year, she successfully adapted all of the youth programs into a digital format, which resulted in two virtual youth opera productions, a live Zoom recital, multiple virtual masterclasses, and virtual opera scenes concert. Litchfield is committed to making opera and arts education equitable and accessible for all. She holds a Bachelor of Music from Loyola University New Orleans and a Master of Music from Chicago College of Performing Arts, Roosevelt University.
Jessica Phillips
Clarinetist, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and Co-Founder, MET Orchestra Musicians
A musician in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra for 20 years, Jessica Phillips co-founded MET Orchestra Musicians, a nonprofit organization through which the MET Orchestra gives back to underserved communities in and around New York City. Under her collaborative leadership, it developed into a groundbreaking online presence through innovative storytelling, relevant arts programming, and community-based collaborations. She served as chair of the MET Orchestra Committee, leading two negotiations. In 2020, Phillips co-founded K+P Strategy, a consulting business helping clients all over the country build their brand, strengthen their online presence, and connect further with their audiences through strategic and innovative content creation. She serves on the faculty of the Center for Music Entrepreneurship at the Manhattan School of Music. Phillips has been a guest speaker and participated on panels at the International Conference of Symphonic and Opera Musicians (ICSOM), The Juilliard School, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Center for Innovative Leadership, discussing topics such as nonprofits, labor negotiations, unions, musician advocacy, and the future of the arts. She holds a certificate in nonprofit arts management from NYU and a certificate in labor relations from Cornell. Phillips sits on the board of The Field, a nonprofit organization striving to help artists thrive financially.
Mitra Sadeghpour
Mitra Sadeghpour is currently an education consultant for opera companies and university opera programs. She holds a doctorate from Indiana University and served as education director for Minnesota Opera for two seasons. She has also had a 19-year career in higher education, teaching voice and opera at University of Northern Iowa, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, and Luther College. Sadeghpour is a frequent adjudicator and is an active member of NATS and OPERA America. She loves dogs, kayaking, gardening, and coffee.
Linda Schulte
Director of Development, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis
Linda Schulte joined Opera Theatre of Saint Louis in 2019 as director of development. Her prior fundraising and management experience includes roles at St. Louis Shakespeare Festival and the Civic Federation, a public policy research organization in Chicago. Schulte holds a Master of Arts in international affairs from Washington University in St. Louis and a Bachelor of Arts in communications from Truman State University.
Hannah Waldman
Director of Development, Long Beach Opera
Hannah Waldman is an artist, fundraiser, and administrator with over 20 years of organizational know-how across a broad sector of nonprofits, from universities to healthcare to cultural institutions. With a commitment to a radically inclusive workplace culture, Waldman has a background in strengths-based counseling and career coaching, a passion for community-centric fundraising, and grounding in practices of equity, diversity, inclusion. Waldman earned degrees in voice performance from Oberlin Conservatory and the University of Southern California and sang professionally for several years before transitioning to the administrative realm. She is currently the director of development at Long Beach Opera, where she has been on staff since 2018, and was a founding board member of Pacific Opera Project. With a subspecialty in event planning, she has executed million-dollar fundraisers for a high-budget healthcare organization and increased special events revenue 25 percent year-over-year in her time with Long Beach Opera, maintaining an expense ratio of under 25 percent. Musical America named LBO's 2020 Songbook, an initiative Waldman spearheaded for the company, was one of its "Top 10 Pandemic Pivots" in 2020. She was a keynote speaker for OPERA America's Development Forum in 2020 and is currently the chair of its Development Network.
For more information on OPERA America, visit About Us.
For press inquiries, contact Press@operaamerica.org or 212.796.8628.


We are pleased to announce that Causeway has been selected as a beneficiary of Bon Appetit Ottawa 2018. Bon Appetit has been supporting Causeway's Wellness program for 9 years, and we are excited to partner with them again this year!
Bon Appetit brings together over 70 of the region's best restaurants, caterers, wineries, and breweries in support of charities that provide hunger and poverty relief in Ottawa. Tickets are $95 each, and include access to all you can eat food and drinks as well as a $55 tax receipt. Tickets are available at www.bonappetitottawa.ca.
All funding received from Bon Appetit Ottawa will be used to support Causeway's Wellness program, specifically, to provide healthy breakfasts and energizing snacks to our Solutions for Youth participants. Through this funding, we will can provide youth workshops on nutrition, meal planning, tips for smarter grocery shopping, budgeting, and overall health and wellness. Healthy nutritional choices are a huge part of our clients' mental, physical and emotional well being, and the Wellness program equips them with the skills they need to make positive changes in their lives and make them more resilient to poverty.


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Edge of Seventeen: Juvenile Agony and Youth Fantasies in New Queer Adolescence Films
Unformatted Document Text: emotion only at every stage of the narrative. Further, melodramatic plots have no inner motivation, instead intensifying the viewer's emotions through excessive ˜ reproduction of structural and stylized conventions (Alerdice, 1965). Hence, melodrama, and the Hollywood melodramas in particular, constitute simplifications of more complicated ˜ film genres. In these melodramas, which originated in the bourgeois novel in the 19 th century, the protagonists experience personal, social, and family difficulties on their way to romantic unification (Feuer, 1984). These difficulties are reflected and intensified by an emotional soundtrack. The dictionary definition of melodrama is that of a dramatic narrative in which musical accompaniment echoes the emotional effects. This is still perhaps the most useful definition, because it allows melodramatic elements to be seen as constituents of a system of punctuation, giving expressive color and chromatic contrast to the story- line, by orchestrating the emotional ups and downs of the intrigue (Elsaesser 2002 [1972], p. 50). Correspondingly, the protagonist's coming out in the queer youth melodramas of the 1990s, in particular to their parents, is visualized in over-dramatized scenes and always involves emotional melodies, tearful outbursts, shouting, rebuke and imputation, while the cinematic queer adolescent in these films is always questioned, doubted, distrusted, and disrupted by the hostile hetero-normative environment. According to Hannah Arendt (1959), speaking makes a person a political substance, and only what is relevant and deserved to be seen and heard can be tolerated by society. Hence, the irrelevant immediately becomes a private matter. Thomas Elsaesser (2002 [1972], 46) refers to the blurred boundaries between the public sphere and private domain in cinematic melodrama in particular. He notes that this genre possesses the element of interiorization and personalization of what are primarily ideological conflicts, together with the metaphorical interpretation of such class- conflicts as sexual exploitation and rape. Elsaesser theorizes the "Masochism of melodrama" (p. 65), and points out that one of the characteristic features of melodrama in general is that it concentrates on the point of view of the victim, and sometimes even manages to present all the characters convincingly as victims. "In Mineelli, Sirk, Ray, Cukor and others, alienation is recognized as a basic condition, fate is secularized into the prison of social conformity and psychological neurosis, and the linear trajectory of self-fulfillment so potent in American ideology is twisted into the downward spiral of a self-destructive urge seemingly possessing a whole social
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emotion only at every stage of the narrative. Further, melodramatic plots have no
inner motivation, instead intensifying the viewer's emotions through excessive
reproduction of structural and stylized conventions (Alerdice, 1965). Hence,
melodrama, and the Hollywood melodramas in particular, constitute simplifications of
more complicated
film genres. In these melodramas, which originated in the
bourgeois novel in the 19
century, the protagonists experience personal, social, and
family difficulties on their way to romantic unification (Feuer, 1984). These
difficulties are reflected and intensified by an emotional soundtrack. The dictionary
definition of melodrama is that of a dramatic narrative in which musical
accompaniment echoes the emotional effects. This is still perhaps the most useful
definition, because it allows melodramatic elements to be seen as constituents of a
system of punctuation, giving expressive color and chromatic contrast to the story-
line, by orchestrating the emotional ups and downs of the intrigue (Elsaesser 2002
[1972], p. 50).
Correspondingly, the protagonist's coming out in the queer youth melodramas of the
1990s, in particular to their parents, is visualized in over-dramatized scenes and
always involves emotional melodies, tearful outbursts, shouting, rebuke and
imputation, while the cinematic queer adolescent in these films is always questioned,
doubted, distrusted, and disrupted by the hostile hetero-normative environment.
According to Hannah Arendt (1959), speaking makes a person a political substance,
and only what is relevant and deserved to be seen and heard can be tolerated by
society. Hence, the irrelevant immediately becomes a private matter. Thomas
Elsaesser (2002 [1972], 46) refers to the blurred boundaries between the public sphere
and private domain in cinematic melodrama in particular. He notes that this genre
possesses the element of interiorization and personalization of what are primarily
ideological conflicts, together with the metaphorical interpretation of such class-
conflicts as sexual exploitation and rape. Elsaesser theorizes the "Masochism of
melodrama" (p. 65), and points out that one of the characteristic features of
melodrama in general is that it concentrates on the point of view of the victim, and
sometimes even manages to present all the characters convincingly as victims. "In
Mineelli, Sirk, Ray, Cukor and others, alienation is recognized as a basic condition,
fate is secularized into the prison of social conformity and psychological neurosis, and
the linear trajectory of self-fulfillment so potent in American ideology is twisted into
the downward spiral of a self-destructive urge seemingly possessing a whole social
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Well we did it! We finally booked our honeymoon, and I'm so freakin excited! We got married last Halloween (10/31), and since time rolled right into the holidays, we figured we would hold off the wedding until early 2016. But something got in the way, like it always does, and we had to push it back even farther. Finally, last night we sat down and booked the tickets for Paris and Barcelona at the end of August. So now all we need to do is find a place to stay… anyone have any recommendations?
Anyways, lets get down to the recipe… Warm weather always has me craving light meals and especially fruit, so I turn to this salad. I made it for my bbq last weekend, and it was eaten up so quickly – plus I don't think anyone realized it was even kale. I put the dressing on the kale in the morning, and before serving I topped it with the fruit and almonds.
I typically make this salad with kale, because it lasts longer and I can make it ahead of time. However, this salad is also delicious with spinach. If you use spinach, mix all the salad ingredients in a bowl, but don't put the dressing on it until your ready to serve. Spinach wilts so fast!
Place the kale in a large bowl and pour the dressing over it. Massage it into the leaves, and place in the refrigerator for 5 minutes.
Mix the rest of the ingredients into the salad bowl.
Oh I'm going to try this salad. Thanks for sharing, Chloe.
I too will have a houseful this 4th, and this Strawberry Kale Salad will be on the menu for sure!


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Bogle: A 90th birthday surprise
Kathleen Bogle
American Correspondent
One would think that a person on the cusp of 90 years would expect some sort of birthday surprise. That never occurred to me as I offered to take everyone out to eat after church services last Sunday.
But I first became suspicious as my brother and his wife approached. Then, when we entered the room, my whole extended family was there.
And that wasn't my only birthday surprise.
On Monday, my daughter suggested we ride out to Campbells, but she wanted to first stop at the library to look at the books for sale.
Waiting for me at the library was an entire room filled with friends — the bridge club, family, friends, our preacher Derrick Ward, Lamar County District 2 Supervisor Warren Byrd and more.
They had prepared a meal and a birthday cake, and Byrd presented me with a plaque recognizing my service to Lumberton and Lamar County — the whole nine yards. I thank everyone who joined in on this unexpected event, which was hosted by my bridge club.
My memory takes me back to my Baxterville days. My parents, Connie and Kitt, were both school teachers. They came to Baxterville in 1926 — just before I was born.
Daddy was a Smith-Hughes agriculture teacher, while Mother taught elementary school. By 1933, the state was broke. Daddy quit teaching and ran a country store. Mother continued to teach for several years. When the bank failed in Lumberton, I remember how disturbed everyone was. When Daddy was unable to pay his bills, the companies that he owed didn't shut him down. They figured that he would eventually pay, and he did.
Daddy was a great practical joker. Mother was different — she was the eternal optimist, and she did not always appreciate his jokes.
They were both deeply religious. Many of my childhood memories are of going to the one-room church building where joint services were held. The Baptist preacher preached one Sunday a month, and the Methodist preacher another — but everyone attended both services and the Sunday School that was held on the other two Sundays.
Happy days! ...
NO DATE HAS BEEN SET for the special alderman election, but three people have picked up qualifying papers.
A special board of aldermen meeting was set for Thursday, and it is expected that a bid will be selected for the Lumberton Museum roof project and a date will be set for the election.
Contact Kathleen Bogle at kathleenbogle@hotmail.com.


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TTC says no definitive cause of issue behind intense subway vibrations after lengthy investigation
After months of complaints from residents along the Toronto Transit Commission's Line 2 subway line in the latter part of 2018 and the beginning of 2019, the agency says it still hasn't determined what's definitively behind the source of the issue behind intense, extraordinary vibrations.
Global News has reported on the issue since October. Throughout that time, the TTC has said the vibrations and an associated clunking noise heard and felt by residents on parts of the Bloor-Danforth line are being caused by "wheel flats," which are flat spots developing on subway car wheels. On parts of the system, mechanical lubricators are used on sections of rail to help minimize squealing from wheels. However, between turning off the units for testing and malfunctions in equipment, complaints were made about excessively loud screeches.
In a report being considered by the TTC board on Wednesday, agency staff noted it's normal to see an increase during the autumn periods due to falling leaves and "seeping natural oils" that reduce friction and increase train sliding during braking. Wet weather, emergency braking, onboard computer braking software and material composition of the wheels have all been cited as contributors to "wheel flats."
However, staff acknowledged they received an "unusually high" number of complaints about issues related to "wheel flats" in September and December.
"These two incidents overwhelmed the maintenance facility and corrective maintenance activities were no longer able to keep pace with the high volume of new wheel flats being generated each day," the report said, noting the issued carried into this year.
"The number of new wheel flats continued to remain high throughout January and February 2019. Given the large backlog of flats experienced, to ensure subway service requirements were met, trains had to be placed into service with this defect."
The problem forced the TTC to turn to engineering experts at the National Research Council of Canada (NRCC) in January and a rail consulting firm in May to probe the issue. The report said TTC staff, the NRCC and the consultants reviewed train and track data, inspected vehicles and track equipment, did a "systematic elimination of potential contributors to the problem" and looked at how other agencies responded to similar issues with "wheel flats."
The TTC said after speaking with multiple transit agencies in the United States, many of which noted seasonal "wheel flat" issues, "staff at each location could not recall having wheel flat issues similar to the problem faced at the TTC."
After reviewing the track data, the report said, "Patterns in wheel flat locations however was difficult to identify. Wheel flats appeared on both sides of the trains and were not consistent from axle to axle. Geographical location of wheel flats being generated along Line 2 could also not be determined." Also, inspections and tests of train cars "did not identify deficiencies that would contribute to the wheel flat problem."
As part of the review, the TTC said speed restriction zones have been put in place in open portions of the subway line during inclement weather to minimize wheel slipping. Also, staff said they have modified how the rail lubricators work and are testing new technology. Despite temporarily turning the lubricators off and temporary speed restrictions in outdoor portions, there was only a minor reduction in "wheel flats" during the test period.
The report noted the NRCC gave the TTC "action items to reduce formation of flats," but the full list of recommendations from the organization wasn't included in the TTC report.
The transit agency said there has been a noticeable improvement recently, coinciding with spring and summer seasons.
"With a recent seasonal reduction in new wheel flats being created, the effects of wheel flats on noise and vibration on Line 2 has been nearly restored to historically normal amounts," the report said.
"Staff will continue to work with the National Research Council of Canada to investigate this problem and to improve operations to better avoid future unexpected spikes in wheel flats."
There is a recommendation for TTC staff to report back to the board by the end of March on the status of the "wheel flats" issue and "results, conclusions and lessons learned" as part of the agency's ongoing investigation into the issue.
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Martin Simiyu Wamalwa – Africa East
Vice President Africa East
Martin is creative and funny, a coach and trainer who empowers people to live out their God-given potential. He grew up in Nairobi and Kitala, Kenya, and has six full siblings. He also has many half-siblings, since his mother was one of seven wives to his father. He grew up in church, although he describes his early involvement as a "goer" rather than a "doer." Martin got involved with Young Life in 2004, when he was working as a youth pastor. He previously led all training for Young Life Africa and served as Regional Director of Young Life in Western Kenya.
In 2019, Martin was promoted to be the first vice president of Africa East, which includes overseeing current ministry in Kenya, Ethiopia and Uganda. He supervises the established geography and provide more hands-on supervision and leadership development of staff. He also continues to cast vision and work to develop ministry in new areas and countries.
Martin continues to lead Young Life in the Kahawa West neighborhood. This impoverished neighborhood is full of kids and families who are struggling to survive, and are disinterested in a relationship with Christ. Yet God has transformed this neighborhood – now, Martin sees the ways that the community is surrounding the ministry and getting involved. Many of his former Young Life kids are Young Life or church leaders, and he is thankful for the ways that the Lord continues to grow their ministry. He sees Young Life as a "game changer" for the future of his country and his continent.Martin is married to Alice and father to four kids. He also cares for his two nieces, whose mother (Martin's sister) died 15 years ago. Martin is an incredible man of God.
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To introduce and showcase Ledcor's electrocoagulation wastewater treatment technology, we staged two trial projects.
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Running over a five-week period, the Sechelt Pilot Project processed 9 million liters of wastewater. This trial validated the use of new materials, new sludge handling equipment, and increased treatment capabilities. It resulted in a more efficient and economical system that will provide the foundation for future mobile electrocoagulation wastewater treatment plants.
In November 2011, Ledcor installed a wastewater treatment system that uses electrocoagulation to treat septage wastewater for sanitary sewer disposal, for the town of Kingman, Arizona.


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A.R. Rahman Essentials (Love)
Azhagiye (From "Kaatru Veliyidai")
Haricharan, Jonita Gandhi, Arjun Chandy, A. R. Rahman & Madhan Karky
Mental Manadhil (From "O Kadhal Kanmani")
A. R. Rahman, Jonita Gandhi & Mani Ratnam
Omana Penne (From "Vinnathaandi Varuvaayaa")
Benny Dayal, Kalyani Menon, A. R. Rahman & Thamarai
Adiye (From "Kadal")
Sid Sriram, A. R. Rahman & Madhan Karky
Mersalaayitten (From "I")
Anirudh Ravichander, Neeti Mohan & A. R. Rahman
Neethanae (From "Mersal")
A. R. Rahman, Shreya Ghoshal & Vivek
Aye Sinamika (From "O Kadhal Kanmani")
Karthik, A. R. Rahman & Vairamuthu
Aaruyire (From "Guru")
A. R. Rahman, Qadir Khan, Murtuza Khan, Chinmayi Sripada & Vairamuthu
Nenjukkule (From "Kadal")
Shakthisree Gopalan, A. R. Rahman & Vairamuthu
Aye Mr. Minor! (From "Kaaviyathalaivan")
Haricharan, Shashaa Tirupati, A. R. Rahman & Pa. Vijay
Mannipaaya (From "Vinnathaandi Varuvaayaa")
Shreya Ghoshal, A. R. Rahman & Thamarai
Usure Pogudhey (From "Raavanan")
Ennodu Nee Irundhaal (From "I")
Sid Sriram, Sunitha Sarathy & A. R. Rahman
Yenga Pona Raasa (From "Maryan")
Shakthisree Gopalan, A. R. Rahman & Kutti Revathi
Marudaani (From "Sakkarakatti")
A. R. Rahman, Madhushree, Henry & Vaalee
Innum Konjam Naeram (From "Maryan")
Vijay Prakash, Shweta Mohan, A. R. Rahman & Kabilan
Pookkalae Sattru Oyivedungal (From "I")
Shreya Ghoshal, Haricharan, A. R. Rahman & Madhan Karky
Naane Varugiraen (From "O Kadhal Kanmani")
Sathyaprakash, Shashaa Tirupati, A. R. Rahman & Vairamuthu
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MARK209 Releases Live Concert Video
SGN Scoops Staff August 29, 2020
(NASHVILLE, TN) – Award-winning Christian country artist, MARK209, announces the long-awaited release of their first concert video entitled "A New Standard".
This live performance was recorded last year at the historic Opera House in Rochester, New Hampshire, during the band's month-long tour in the Northeast. The 2 hour and 45-minute show includes 39 songs from three of the band's popular shows (Grassroots, 4-Part Country, and Country with A Jesus Kick). "Grassroots" features songs from the band's Grassroots series of albums and is filled with hymns and classic gospel favorites. The "4-Part Country" set consists of songs from the band's family-friendly country show and "Country with A Jesus Kick" is pure MARK209 filled with favorites off their mainline Christian country albums.
A highlight of the evening's concert was the guys performing solfège (Do Re Mi) to the classic hymn "Winging My Way Back Home" during their Grassroots set.
As a bonus feature, included on the disc is the band's Diamond Award nominated music video, "My Kind of People" (official music video).
MARK209 invites their fans to relive this rare performance through this exclusive video.
This keepsake is available in both high-definition Blu-ray and standard DVD formats.
For more information about this or to order your copy, visit their website, www.mark209.com.
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Love Affair to Remember
Love After Hours, Book 2
© 2016 Jennifer Skully
All books in this series are standalone, connected romances
Get set for another installment of the sexy Office Romance series by New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author, Jennifer Skully.
Anything can happen After Office Hours…
What if one night ruined your whole life?
In one sizzling night of forbidden passion, Gloria King set fire to her comfortable life and watched it be consumed in the conflagration. The man who lit the match—Parker Hunt.
Now Parker is back.
More than five years have passed since Parker has seen Gloria, but the passion between them is undeniable. And he'll do anything to have a new chance to get it right, if only he can convince Gloria to trust her heart.
Gloria has pieced her life back together after their forbidden night. But Parker is still the only man in the world with whom Gloria can never look for happiness, no matter how badly she might want it. If only she could resist his magnetism, forget the delicious taste of his kiss and the sweetness of his caress…
Can a single night of passion born in shame become a lifetime of love?
Desire Actually
Pretty in Pink Slip
He was gorgeous. As perfect as the day they'd first met, as the day she'd last seen him. As gorgeous as he was that night.
His hair had been all dark then, but the few strands of gray now peppered through the earthy brown made him seasoned, more desirable, even mouthwatering. But it was his eyes she remembered the most, a penetrating sapphire as deep as the ocean seen through a cloudless sky from a plane thirty thousand feet high. Looking in them had sometimes made her dizzy. Beneath the black suit, white dress shirt, and red tie, he still wore the same toned body, without an ounce of fat gained in the more than five years since they'd worked together.
Since she'd made that one terrible mistake and her life had changed utterly.
With only the width of her desk separating them, Parker Hunt was too much. Too handsome, too sexy.Too much history, too many memories.Just too everything.
"Gloria King." He said it as if he was finally getting over the shock of seeing her on his interview agenda. "It's been a long time." His whisky-smooth voice was as potent as ever.
How on earth had she thought she could handle working with him again? But the company had moved too far along the interview chain to put a stop to it. Besides, they were both different people now. She was different. Scarred by her own guilt and by everything she'd lost. She would never allow anything like that to happen again. Not with anyone. Especially not with Parker Hunt.
Even if she hadn't dated anyone in the five years since her divorce.
Even if she'd never forgotten Parker.
"I was very glad to see you on the interview list." Gloria pushed back slightly from her desk, crossing her legs. She hadn't dressed specifically for him. Three other interviews had been scheduled for the day. But Parker looked at her, and her feminine side was happy that she'd changed five times this morning and finally settled on a less businesslike skirt and blouse.
With another man, the appreciative look would have been a warning sign. You didn't hire an executive who ogled a woman right there in her office. But Parker wasn't just any executive. She might have ruined her life over him, but if he hadn't given her a second glance, her forty-seven-year-old heart—forty-eight in October, only a few weeks away—would have stopped beating.
She put them cleanly on the business level by saying, "I've read through your resume." Not that she'd needed to look at it. Parker would make a top-notch VP of Marketing. He worked outside the box, not just with new releases but in searching out alternate applications for current products. He would be an asset. "But I'd rather hear straight from you what you've been doing since you left Sunderland."
Sunderland was the company they'd both worked for. Until Gloria couldn't work there anymore.When she could no longer see Parker day in and day out without the crushing weight of her guilt.And the fear that she'd succumb to her own selfish passionsagain.
He smiled his too-gorgeous smile. "I didn't move around much after Sunderland. Same company for the past five years."
There was so much she wanted to ask him, especially about his bare ring finger and its lack of telltale tan line, indicating he hadn't worn a wedding ring in quite some time. But she wouldn't ask what had happened. Couldn't. She noticed he hadn't even looked at her hand.
"So why did you leave your last job?" She waggled her fingers at the resume on her desk. "Besides wanting to explore your opportunities."Which was a meaningless artifact everyone added to their details so they didn't have to say they'd been fired or hated their boss or they were bored out of their minds. With Parker, she assumed it was none of those reasons.
Putting his elbows on the arms of his chair, he steepled his fingers. "Do you want something Brett Baker will find palatable? Or the truth?"
Brett Baker was their CEO. The Silicon Valley startup was relatively large in employee headcount, considering that they wouldn't begin shipping the final product for three and a half months, at the beginning of the new year. Their funding was decent, though Brett was always reviewing options. His greatest strengths were his integrity and his fair-mindedness. But he didn't take anyone's crap either.
"The truth would be good. And I know full well you'll give Brett the same answer."
He grinned. "With a little varnish."
"All right, give me the totally unvarnished version." She settled back, the sun falling on her head. She hadn't closed the blinds and the office was small. None of the executives had sumptuous digs with massive furniture and plush décor. Her conference table supported four at most, and she'd borrowed a chair from that grouping for Parker. You were provided a space large enough to fit your needs, but they hadn't skimped on the hardware. Her computer was state-of-the-art, her desk equipped with an ergonomic keyboard and her chair providing proper support.
It was nothing like Sunderland, but there she'd been only a controller and Parker was a marketing director. They'd both moved up in the ensuing years. Until their universes once again converged. It could be a cataclysm worse than the collision that wiped out the dinosaurs.
"Unvarnished it is." His gaze tracked her face, from her eyes to her mouth, turning the word into something sexual with just a look.
Or maybe she was turning everything sexual because she was starved for male attention.
"Brett knows," Parker went on, "that I didn't see eye to eye with my former CEO."
"And he didn't think it was a warning sign?"
Parker splayed his hands in the air. "He appreciated the honesty. But in the unvarnished version, the guy was a dickhead."
Her lips curled in a slight smile. Parker answered it just as slightly. They'd both known their share of dickheads at Sunderland, and they'd both had a tolerance for them. You couldn't walk out every time you encountered a difficult boss or coworker or employee, or you'd never keep a job. "You were there for almost five years. So what changed?"
"Profits changed. Or should I say losses. About nine months ago, orders started falling off. People want product improvement, new bells and whistles, and we weren't keeping up anymore."
Nine months. Just when Gloria was changing jobs. Why did that seem like a portent for this moment, as if they'd been walking a path destined to bring them together again?
He shrugged, shook his head with feigned sadness. "I worked as well as I could with him. But you have to spend money to make money. And the product suffered even more. Until the quarter was so bad, he wanted me to pull orders in from the following month to make the numbers look better."
"Robbing Peter to pay Paul. It's happened before." She'd been known to call customers to ask if they'd be willing to take an early shipment.
"Yeah," he said on a sharp breath. "But the product was still in QC and wouldn't make it out the door till the following week. He just wanted me to authorize my customer service group to do the invoicing."
There was negligence, and then there was downright fraud. You just couldn't bill for stuff you hadn't shipped. "What did your CFO say?"
Parker blew out a disgusted pfft of air. "He was a yes man. Since the shipments were completed, even though not tested, he was okay with it."
"Well, gee," she said, dousing the words with sarcasm. "Why don't we just invoice for everything that's in the warehouse since it's completed and will eventually ship on an order?"
He smiled with her. God, that smile. It turned her heart inside out just as it always had. She had to stop looking at him. "I refused to have my customer service people involved," he said. "Told the bosses that if they wanted it, then Accounting would have to do the invoicing. They backed down but the writing was on the wall."
She understood perfectly. "Why'd you leave Sunderland, though?" He'd enjoyed the job, and there was a good possibility he'd have made it to the executive staff in a short time.
The silence was as screeching as nails on a chalkboard. And the look he gave her scorched. "I left fairly soon after you did."
She wouldn't touch that one with a silicon oven mitt that handled up to five-hundred-degree temperatures. She'd cut all her ties with that job. She hadn't returned friends' calls. She'd pulled her blinds down over everything that had to do with Sunderland.
It hadn't worked. She'd still ended up divorced. Alone.And guilty.
"Well," she said with ridiculous brightness. "What can I tell you about us? You'd be a great fit. I know you'll bring dynamic ideas to the mix. There's a lot of opportunity here. And Brett's a good man. You won't get any of those invoicing shenanigans under his watch." She sounded like a cheerleader on speed.
Parker didn't seem to notice. Or he was too polite to mention it. "How's your executive team? The unvarnished version."
"Unvarnished," she said softly, thinking about Rhonda Clark, VP of Human Resources. "What did you think of Rhonda?"
He smiled without curving his lips. "Is that a subliminal message?"
For a very short time, they talked without saying anything, with just a look. Gloria had always felt that if nothing was acknowledged, if it was never said aloud, you had the thing totally in hand.
Maybe that's why her emotions had burned out of control so quickly. In that one single night.
And why everything had gone so wrong afterward. Because, while she thought she had control, she was kidding herself.
"Due to our…" She didn't want to use the word past, or even history, because of everything it implied. What was the right word? She left the sentence hanging, which might have been even worse. "She can be annoying. Everyone else is cooperative, a team player, and all that business."
"Rah-rah," he said, and they both laughed.
He could always make her laugh. She'd noticed him the first time—had really seen him—because he made her laugh. But she didn't want to think about any of that.
"The most important thing is that you'll never be pushed into unethical practices. And Rhonda is manageable." She shouldn't say it, but it was the unvarnished truth. "You'll charm her into agreeing with you on just about anything."
He settled deeper into his chair, regarding her with an understated grin she'd call cheeky. "Thank you for that vote of confidence. I appreciate the good word you've put in with Brett."
"I didn't put in a good word. I haven't even told him we worked together."
He regarded her for a long moment, emotion in his eyes that she couldn't decipher. "Why?"
"I didn't want to influence the selection process." She hadn't been able to decide how much to say. In truth, she hadn't known how she'd react to Parker after all these years. And now she'd reacted the same as she had the first time. And the last time. The difference was more than five years in between, and the fact that she wasn't the same woman anymore. "I'll tell him after this. And that you'll be a good fit. There's nothing else really to say."
"Nothing?"
"Nothing that has any bearing on how well you do your job."
His facial expression shifted, eyes slightly narrowed, a line across his brow. "Can you work with me again, Gloria?"
This was her out. The moment he'd entered her office, she'd wondered if she could handle seeing him day after day. But she wasn't the same person she'd been. She was stronger because she'd paid for her mistakes. She wouldn't let her emotions get the better of her. Not this time. Not ever again.
"Of course I can work with you, Parker. We've both moved on from Sunderland. We're different people." She smiled and rose to her feet. He joined her, and she held out her hand. "I'll put my vote in for you. You're the most qualified."
But when he took her hand in his, the shake lasted far longer than formally necessary. With his touch, the ghost of the woman she'd been unfurled inside her, whispering that her emotions weren't as dead as she wanted them to be.
He wasn't worried about getting the job. His resume was solid, his qualifications impeccable, and just as Gloria had said, he was a good fit.
Everything had fallen into place. He'd found himself on the wrong side of an internal power struggle, and before he'd even updated his resume, he'd learned about this opportunity.
Silicon Valley was a small world with a big grapevine. You heard who went where, when they did it, and why, and he knew the paths Gloria had traveled. He'd learned about her promotion. He'd even heard about her divorce. And he knew her name would be on that agenda before the HR Manager, Jordan Davis, had even handed it to him.
He just hadn't expected the impact the sight of her would have on him. Her beauty hit with a visceral reminder of everything they'd done, everything he'd felt. Back then, it had been a huge error in judgment. If he could change that, he would. But that was then.
And this was now. Everything was different. Their rings were gone, their debts paid after more than five hard years, and the past was simply that, past. If there were new lines around her eyes, he didn't see them. She was as luscious as she'd been back then. A couple of years older than him, she hadn't suffered the fate of physics that many people did as they entered their late forties.
He'd told only one lie throughout the whole interview process.
Because he hadn't come here for the new job. He hadn't come to get away from an unethical situation. He hadn't come for the pre-IPO stock options.
He'd come for Gloria.


The measure will also help give users more data storage and improve battery life, said the ministry.
For example, Samsung's Galaxy S4 released by SK Telecom has a total of 80 apps pre-installed, including 25 apps loaded by the telco, 39 by Samsung and 16 by the OS provider Google, noted Yonhap News. When the new guidelines kick in, at least half of those apps can be deleted, it added.


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Cook lasagna noodles according to package. Spray the bottom of a 9 x 13 baking dish.
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Abby and Tom have the cutest proposal story, but first let me start by telling you how they met. These two lovebirds met years ago when they were both in the 7th grade. Abby instantly had the biggest crush on this tall, lanky and hilarious man. That's how she described him. Five years went passed and they decided to meet up at a party together. Next thing you know, Tom and Abby were building Harry Potter Legos all night long. I'm loving this corky couple already! It took a bit of time before these two started dating and before you know it they were inseparable.
Tom proposed the night before they were leaving on a trip to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Abby was busy getting her laundry and clothes together for their vacay when Tom mentioned that they needed to go run a quick errand. She kept denying his request and finally Tom yelled sweetly that he had a surprise and she needed to get in the car! A few things ran across Abby's mind, maybe they were going for margaritas, a pedicure or maybe even a massage! She had no clue.
Tom passed all of the above while driving and they ended up in a park where they both went to college together. Abby had bought and new camera and thought he brought her there to take some snaps, so she started looking for her camera in the car. That's when she noticed huge pit stains down Tom's entire shirt. She thought to herself, "Wow, he's really sweaty!" (I almost fell out of my chair when I read this! :) They got out of the car and Abby spotted one of Tom's friend's from school (who happens to be a photographer) and said, "Hey, what's up Will!" When she turned around Tom was on bended knee. Will was capturing the entire proposal. It took Abby a good 30 seconds (which felt like eternity to Tom) to answer the question! She said YES of course!
Abby and Tom, I'm so excited for your wedding next summer and I can't wait to boogie on the dance floor with ya! CHEERS!


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With lots of space for the kids to let off steam, our private reserve is a great place to host an Easter egg hunt. Whether it's a hunt on foot, by boat or by bike, your little ones are sure to make some great memories here. Just make sure to not leave any chocolates at doggie height, as it's not very healthy for our four legged friends staying with us for a dog holiday. And when it's time to wind down, reward yourself with a few moments in the hot tub and a few marshmallows toasted on the fire pit beneath the stars.


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"I mainly walk him for exercise and fresh air.
"Also I just like to let people see him and maybe experience touching him.
"He can run really quickly and he wouldn't just run in a straight line.
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Breckenridge local to launch women's leadership conference
Sawyer D'Argonne
sdargonne@summitdaily.com
The Roar founder Brittany Speer is bringing her new women's leadership conference to Breckenridge on Aug. 4.
Sawyer D'Argonne / sdargonne@summitdaily.com
FRISCO — A local woman is launching a new conference in Breckenridge next month, hoping to celebrate and connect female leaders in the Summit County community and to highlight their abilities to make an impact in the workplace.
The conference, called The Roar, will focus on developing emotional intelligence among participants through a keynote address from a local life coach and exercises designed to improve leadership abilities.
Brittany Speer, Breckenridge resident and founder of the conference, said she became drawn to the idea because of a lack of anything similar in the area.
"I couldn't find any conferences or organizations that met my needs, so I made my own," Speer said. "I was looking for some sort of outlet for women like myself, women in leadership, that put an emphasis on emotional intelligence in the workplace. I saw a need, and the more I spread the word, the more that need was validated. The support so far has been really amazing."
Speer, who also works as a manager at Breckenridge Grand Vacations, said that throughout her business career, she's seen plenty of female-specific conferences — she noted topics like "how to be more assertive" or "how to get what you want" in the workplace — but always in a way she felt created a sense of inferiority to their male counterparts.
Instead, Speer said she's interested in creating an experience that would emphasize the natural strengths of female leadership.
"I feel there aren't a lot of resources for women out there, especially in leadership," Speer said. "It seemed to me the conferences that are out there are highlighting the idea that women are less than. It was all about how women can feel equal in the workplace.
"What I wanted to celebrate is our strength. And what that strength is, to really generalize here, emotional intelligence. I want to celebrate women in leadership, and highlight the positives and natural abilities rather than trying to just make comparisons to the male gender. And that's a whole different level of emotional intelligence — recognizing that the genders are different, and there are reasons to be proud of that and find value in both genders."
The conference will key in on that idea, beginning with a presentation by local facilitator Claudine Norden, of Ascent Life Planning out of Frisco. Norden — who runs one-on-one and larger corporate leadership events — will lead the group through a workshop on emotional intelligence, consisting of group activities and active reflexive exercises.
According to Norden, the concept of emotional intelligence is composed of five main skills: stress management, self-perception, self-expression, decision-making and interpersonal skills. The idea is to help women better hone these skills on a personal level so they can bring them back into the community.
"I'm hoping to make personal impacts," Norden said. "Once we have that personal impact and self-awareness, we can make a bigger impact on the community around us. … I'm honored to be a part of it. I believe what we're bringing to the community will inspire our young women in leadership."
Speer also will head exercises later in the day, including a guided meditation and training in communication and self-perception. There will be a happy hour and farewell address at the end of the day.
The Roar will take place from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Aug. 4 at Carter Park in Breckenridge. Registration is open at TheDailyRoar.org or at the event, though there are only 45 available spots.
Speer said she's hoping the conference can become an annual event and help to create a community among participants.
"This community attracts the best of the best, and people are always looking to take things to the next level," Speer said. "I just want to provide that resource. … These are skills you can take with you."


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Art About Art About Art: Dramaworks' Pitmen Painters
Bill Hirschman | Florida Theater on Stage
Art as an ennobling sanctification for both the artist and the observer whose interpretation completes the symbiotic circle is just one of a dozen themes swirling around Palm Beach Dramaworks' stimulating production of The Pitmen Painters. Dramawork's skilled ensemble of character actors led by director J. Barry Lewis delivers a thought-provoking...evening of theater. Set just before, during and after World War II, a group of miners and their friends seeking an evening of adult education randomly choose an art appreciation class. When the teacher finds they have no exposure to art to appreciate, he assigns them to create it themselves just as a way to familiarize themselves with the ideas. ...All this philosophy is made accessible by Lewis, South Florida's expert at clearly depicting complex concepts, plus the down to earth performances from a troupe of Dramaworks' veterans. All of them deliver seamless, credible performances, especially the men who are never quite comfortable in a world that they had been taught to believe was reserved for a more refined, intellectual class. ...As always, Dramaworks' skilled creative team creates a multi-sensory environment. Michael Amico who bowled everyone over with his detailed set last fall for All My Sons, wisely dials it back for a simpler but equally evocative multi-purpose scene lined with dark woods that could be the same ones used to shore up the galleries in the mines instead of the galleries in museums. He's aided immeasurably by the morphing lighting of Ron Burns, and Matt Corey's jolting soundscape of screeching whistles, clanging bells and grinding gears that remind us this is not a world of drawing room and high tea. Erin Amico has clad the men in a variety of modest tweedy Sunday-go-to-meeting outfits offset by rough work shoes.


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What Philadelphia star athletes and coaches are the best golfers?
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If you love sports — and if you are reading this chances are you do — this Sunday's live golf match between Tiger Woods/Peyton Manning and Phil Mickelson/Tom Brady is surely a must-watch for you. Seeing Tiger and Phil duke it out is definitely a draw, but seeing former athletes play golf is also a very interesting spectacle.
We see them all the time, at Pebble Beach or in fundraising celebrity golf games, guys like Tony Romo and Michael Phelps impressing with the stick.
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If you watched The Last Dance on ESPN over the past few weeks, you saw another example of a pro athlete (Michael Jordan) being pretty obsessed with golf. So what about in Philly? Do we have any current or former stars who are making birdies regularly in retirement or on their off days?
Who's the best former (or current) Philadelphia star athlete on the golf course? That's what we set out to learn. Just in case you are unfamiliar, we have ordered the pro athletes on this list by their reported USGA handicaps. We only included guys who have posted scores recently. Their handicap index is not exactly the average score they shoot over par — it's the average of the eight best of their last 20 scores. That number is then standardized, so a golfers handicap can be compared to another golfer. Brady is an 8.1, and Manning is a 6.4, for reference.
Could any of these guys make it on the pro tour? Probably not — a handicap in the plus-range range would be required. Still, several are surely making runs at their local club championships:
*Note: There are surely other talented golfers we could have included, but not all of them use the USGA's official GHIN database
Merril Reese, Eagles announcer: 14.8
Reese, the radio voice of the Eagles, hosts a charity tournament every year in Radnor. For 77 years old, he's pretty darn good.
Joe Girardi, Phillies manager: 14.2
Back in February, Girardi and Phillies owner John Middleton played a round of golf in Florida. The two were likely a pretty good match.
Aaron McKie, former Sixer, Temple basketball head coach: 11.1
McKie spoke to Dei Lynam just after becoming Fran Dunphy's successor with the Owls' Men's Basketball team:
"I love it," McKie said on a recent spring day when we had a chance to catch up. "If I am not watching college basketball, I am watching golf. I am drawn to it because it is such a difficult sport to learn, so difficult to master." [Jerseymanmagazine.com]
John Middleton, Phillies owner: 10.3
Middleton is worth $3.3 billion and is not surprisingly a member at the prestigious Merion Country Club, which hosted the U.S. Open back in 2013.
Jeffrey Lurie, Eagles owner: 10.2
Lurie is a frequent participant in celebrity and charity golf games and at 68 years old, his game appears to be in pretty darn good shape.
Mark Recchi, former Flyer: 9.9
The former Flyers' star is currently an assistant coach for the Penguins and a frequent golfer in charity tournaments.
Andre Iguodala, former Sixer: 9.1
Iggy is another frequent player on the charity and celebrity circuit. He's one of a handful of very talented golfers on the Golden State Warriors (Stephon Curry is a +1.9!). Here's Iguodala's swing:
Mike Quick, Former Eagle, radio announcer, 8.3
The former standout receiver is a regular in local charity and celebrity tournaments.
Ron Jaworski, former Eagle: 7.8
In addition to hosting a celebrity tournament every summer, Jaws (the former Super Bowl quarterback for the Birds) is an entrepreneur who owns several local golf courses, so he better be good.
Doug Pederson, Eagles head coach: 6
Pederson plays golf a lot and is apparently really good. Last year, he made a bet with his former offensive coordinator:
Pederson didn't come close to winning the tournament, played at the Edgewood Tahoe South Golf Course along the banks of Lake Tahoe. But he accomplished his objective of beating his former offensive coordinator and current head coach of the Indianapolis Colts, Frank Reich, in a bet for charity. Just as he did a year earlier against New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton, who had agreed to allow the Eagles to wear their home jerseys at New Orleans for their regular-season matchup if Pederson won.
This year Pederson bested Reich, who made a donation to the Eagles Autism Challenge. Had Reich won, Pederson would have had to donate to Reich's selected charity, Ascent 121, which aids in the recovery of sex-trafficking victims. [Morning Call]
Chase Utley, former Phillie: 5.9
Utley said he would play a lot of golf when he retired, and that's certainly held true as the former Phillies' All-Star has shown he can go low.
John Kruk, former Phillie: 5.1
Kruk is a high-volume golfer when at home in Florida. He was asked by NBCSP about some of the forthcoming baseball rules regarding no spitting and he had this to say:
"I still do it on the golf course," Kruk said. "I get to the first tee and I spit. Even the guys I play with do it and they weren't ballplayers."
Pat Burrell, former Phillie: 3.5
Burrell, a former slugging outfielder for the Phils, is an extremely talented golfer who now lives in his home state of California and coaches in the Giants farm system.
Mike Schmidt, former Phillie: 2.5
Schmidt is really, really good at golf. About a decade ago, he was a +1.1 (meaning he averaged rounds under par). He is still a low single digit golfer at age 70.
Jake Elliott, Eagles kicker: 2.2
Elliott's short game is on point. I'll let the video do the talking:
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