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"We're showing her how much we love her Sunday," said Tessmer. "If anyone's going to beat this, it's going to be Anne. Words cannot express the pain in my heart for what my friend is going through right now."
Tessmer encourages people to donate blood to the Red Cross and to sign up for the national bone marrow registry, both of which she says will benefit Taritas and others who suddenly learn they may need life-saving treatments.
It's another rallying cry for friends of Taritas as their friend digs into her fight.
"It blows my mind how much support people are giving me," said Taritas.
The fundraiser will run from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday. The Polished Edge Salon is located at 882 West Stadium Boulevard in Ann Arbor.
Sun, Feb 12, 2012 : 1:26 p.m.
Sun, Feb 12, 2012 : 4:06 a.m.
Wonderful people helping a person in need, this is Ann Arbor.
“Gangnam Style” met “2 Legit 2 Quit” at the AMAs. Korean sensation PSY closed the star-studded show with a performance of his smash single, but the big surprise was when he brought out MC Hammer for a medley of their dance hits. The pair performed some synchronized choreography as celebrities danced in their seats. Oppan Gangnam style!
Rep.-elect Mark Harris, R-N.C., reacts after drawing his number during the Member-elect room lottery draw on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Nov. 30, 2018. Harris drew 76 out of 85, which determines the order in which he gets to select his new Capitol Hill office.
Dec. 6, 2018, 10:26 a.m.
If runoffs didn’t extend the midterms long enough for you, legal drama churning in a pair of congressional districts could send it to double overtime.
A ballot fraud investigation in North Carolina's 9th District and a challenge to election law in Maine's 2nd District both have the potential to lead to brand new elections next year, which would extend the 2018 cycle well into the 116th Congress.
In North Carolina, a second election would give one of the four House incumbents who lost a primary, Republican Rep. Robert Pittenger, another shot to retain his seat and Democrats an opportunity to increase their net gains to 41. Mark Harris, who came less than 200 votes shy of unseating Pittenger in 2016, appeared to defeat Democrat Dan McCready by 905 votes last month after toppling Pittenger by 828 votes in May.
Rep. Bruce Poliquin of Maine hopes to have his loss in the first ever congressional ranked-choice vote ruled unconstitutional. The Republican led on the initial ballot but didn’t eclipse 50 percent, and then lost to Democrat Jared Golden as voters’ ranked choices were tabulated. With a ruling expected next week, we’ll likely know his fate far sooner than investigators wrap up the mess in the Tar Heel State.
Pakistan equities closed marginally negative Thursday with benchmark KSE-100 Index settling at 39,244 points level, down 28 points.
Market opened red amid dull volumes yet benchmark KSE100 Index traded in a pressure for most part of the day with an intra day low of 492 points as investors traded cautiously awaiting mini-budget due on 23rd January however activity witnessed improvement in final trading hour as local institutions turned selective buyers in Energy and selected sideboards stocks.
AAH Securities’ analyst said index ended in red in a highly volatile trading session. Index declined over 491 points in mid-day trading and remained in 38,000 points territory through most of the session on weaker larger-scale manufacturing numbers and 19.2 percent decline in foreign direct investments (FDI) in first half of Fiscal Year 2018-19 (FY19). However, in later hours benchmark recovered back into 39,000 points level as UAE shared details related to USD 3.3 billiion package and exports revealed 41 percent growth in food exports.
Investors remained cautious in the entire week and stayed reluctant to take fresh positions in the market. However, the last day of the week also turned out to be depressing even though a The government has agreed to abolish 0.02 per cent advance tax on sale and purchase of shares in the upcoming mini-budget which was a major demand of the stock market players, said an analyst at Trust Securities & Brokerage Limited.
Investors tracked down developments as the large-scale manufacturing industries of the country has witnessed a decline of 0.9 percentc during the first five months of the current fiscal year as compared to the corresponding period of last year.
Volumes charts again dominated by retail names i.e. Bank Of Panjab (BOP), TRG Pakistan Limited (TRG) and K-Electric Limited (KEL) collectively traded 28 million shares.
An equity analyst at Elixir Research Murtaza Jafar expects market to take immediate support around 38,800-38,700 Levels.
Power interruptions took the tenth spot from the top in a new ranking of the leading global causes of business interruption-related losses from 2010 to 2014.
The ranking was based on an analysis by Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty, a specialist insurer for business and industrial risks, of nearly 2,000 business interruption-related insurance claims from 68 countries between 2010 and 2014. The claims had a total value of more than more than $5 billion and excluded losses from 149 of claims related to “very large events,” including the Japanese earthquake in 2011 and Superstorm Sandy in 2012.
The average large business interruption property claim is now about $2.4 million, more than one third higher than the corresponding average property damage claim of just over $1.7 million, according to Allianz.
The top 10 causes of business interruption losses accounted for over 90% of all business interruption losses globally, according to Allianz’s new report. The majority of the losses resulted from non-natural catastrophe events.
Allianz attributed the recent rise in business-interruption insurance losses to increasingly interconnected and complex global supply chains.
“The effects of interconnectivity are of growing concern, and play an important role in many risks now appearing on the horizon,” the report says. “Power infrastructure, for example, was once localized and isolated, but today, energy supply and distribution are far more integrated and span entire continents. As a result of increased interconnectivity, a solar storm or a cyber-attack on a power grid could result in countrywide blackouts lasting days, or potentially weeks, with a multitude of knock-on effects.
Exelis has won two subcontracts totaling $617 million to help General Dynamics U.K. support the U.K. Ministry of Defence.
The contracts call for tactical communications modernization and logistics, supply and support for existing tactical radios.
Under the first subcontract, Exelis will provide post-engineering design services for VHF and UHF radios manufactured by Exelis for the U.K. Bowman team, the company said. The second subcontract calls for logistics, supply and support of current tactical radios fielded as part of the Bowman program, including replacements and repairs.
Exelis has been part of the Bowman program for over ten years.
She and her husband Leyman Lahcine welcomed their first baby in December 2016.
Paloma Faith has spoken about the “loneliness” she experienced as a new mother, also revealing that she was forced to cut short her maternity leave because of financial worries.
The British pop star, 36, welcomed her first child with her husband Leyman Lahcine back in December 2016. One and a half years of parenthood down the line, Faith has opened up about the struggles she experienced in the first few months.
“Don’t get me wrong, I love my child – but it’s hell,” Faith told the i newspaper on Friday (June 15th).
Furthermore, she spoke about how she made the decision to return to the recording studio to make her latest album The Architect, released in November last year, after she received a phone call from her accountant with some unexpected bad news.
Statistics Canada has determined which major Canadian cities use the most marijuana, by studying sewage. Dan Burgard from Puget Sound University works in the emerging field of analyzing waste water to quantify trace levels of pharmaceuticals and illicit drugs, and tells Global News what he has discovered.
Why no online liquor sales along with cannabis in B.C.?
Chamber of Commerce hosts business networking event Thursday.
The Heart of the Valley Chamber of Commerce will host Business After Hours: Waverly Beach from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday at Waverly Beach, N8770 Fire Lane 1, Menasha.
The purpose of the meeting is network with other professionals.
For more information, call 920-766-1616 or visit www.heartofthevalleychamber.com.
On Wednesday morning, residents of Norman, Okla., woke up to discover that their city had been littered with racist and anti-Semitic graffiti.
The collective damage horrified the community and brought one city councilwoman to tears. It also seemed to closely resemble a scene that had unfolded in Oklahoma City, about 20 miles to the north, just the week before. On the morning of March 28, Oklahoma Democratic Party and Chickasaw Nation employees showed up for work and discovered that the entrances to their respective offices were covered with Nazi symbols, homophobic slurs and messages like “White planet only,” as The Washington Post’s Reis Thebault reported.
Police now say that the vandalism spree in both cities was the work of one woman: Allison Christine Johnson, 45, who, during an interview with detectives, went on a lengthy rant about her racist beliefs and her efforts to “wake people up,” according to a police affidavit released Monday.
On Thursday, the day after the vandalism in Norman was discovered, Johnson showed up at the police department there and asked to turn herself in, according to court records obtained by KOKH. During an interview with investigators, she “described in detail committing all of the acts that had occurred in Norman and Oklahoma City,” police wrote. Detectives determined that her car, clothing and overall physical appearance all matched up with the suspect whom they had identified in surveillance footage.
Johnson “said that her intention was to scare Jewish people” and anyone who wasn’t white, the affidavit says.
In the newly released records, authorities in Norman also revealed for the first time that they had been fielding reports of “racial, religious, and ethnic threats” for four weeks. Written and spray-painted messages had been found at two churches, two public schools and two private homes, in addition to the arts center and the Democratic Party office, they wrote. Prosecutors have also said that the Junior League of Norman, a branch of the nonprofit service organization for women, was targeted.
“Every race but white will die . . . This WILL happen,” said one of the messages that police discovered, according to the affidavit.
Johnson was arrested on Thursday and booked into jail on $25,000 bond. On Monday, she was charged with felony and misdemeanor counts of malicious injury to property and misdemeanor malicious intimidation or harassment, court records show. Cleveland County District Attorney Greg Mashburn told local media outlets that prosecutors had weighed charging Johnson with making terroristic threats but ultimately decided not to because the law wouldn’t apply in her case.
Mashburn also said that Johnson most likely will need to undergo a psychiatric evaluation. She is expected to face additional charges in Oklahoma County, where Oklahoma City is located, for the alleged vandalism. She has not acquired an attorney or entered a plea, according to the paper.
Very little is known about Johnson, who attended the University of Central Oklahoma on and off for more than a decade before graduating with an English degree in the summer of 2006, according to the Transcript. Online court records indicate she has no prior criminal convictions in Oklahoma. Those records also show that a woman named Allison Johnson who lives in Cleveland County has faced legal action over unpaid rent, credit card bills and debts owed to an Oklahoma City-based credit union, with the first instance dating back to 2006.
A neighbor who asked to remain anonymous told the Oklahoman on Saturday that Johnson “has had a tough last few years,” and expressed shock and disbelief about the alleged vandalism.
According to the Transcript, Johnson switched her political affiliation to the Republican Party in July 2018, after initially registering to vote as a Democrat.
'Kai, the Hatchet-Wielding Hitchhiker’ became a viral star. Now he’s on trial for murder.
This undocumented worker and her husband were owed $11,000. Then their boss called the cops, they say.
Gently comic episodes in the life of 75 year old Hartley Manners - a grand actor of the 'old school'.
Matthew O’Sullivan has had an extensive career as an actor, director and writer in the UK, NZ and Australia. He has numerous film and television credits including Melba, Rafferty’s Rules, and Water Rats. His theatre experience is vast, including numerous roles in Shakespeare’s great tragedies.
Grant Tilly had a long and varied career, including 30 years in Wellington theatre where he was involved in 170 productions as actor, designer or director, as well as playing 28 different roles in film and television since 1972. He also appeared in many plays broadcast by Radio New Zealand. Tilly is perhaps best remembered for the film adaptation of Middle Aged Spread and Carry Me Back. He is often associated with Roger Hall, appearing in many of his plays including Glide Time, Middle Aged Spread, Bedtime and C'mon Black.
"The best roles I've done are these New Zealand roles - they're roles written by New Zealanders for New Zealanders. Those are the ones that I remember and cherish,"
Fernand Nault’s unapologetically traditional version of the holiday favourite has been dazzling audiences for 55 years. It returns to Place des Arts from Dec. 13 to 30.
With the regularity of a clockwork soldier, Les Grands Ballets’ lavish production of The Nutcracker reports for duty on Thursday to begin its annual 2 1/2-week billeting at Place des Arts.
Now in its 55th year, this unapologetically ultra-traditional production has attracted more than two million spectators. That’s two million-plus people reliably oohing and aahing at the sight of more than 300 sumptuous costumes; at the magnificent sets representing the von Stahlbaums’ lavish Christmas party, the magical Land of Snow and the Kingdom of Sweets; at the trompe l’oeil of an incredible shrinking Clara as she is magically transformed to mouse-size proportions; and at the dazzling skills of Les Grands Ballets’ finest dancers, going through the paces the late Fernand Nault first choreographed in the early 1960s.
It is pure, sumptuous, feel-good holiday spectacle, for sure, but how has it managed to stay on its toes for so long? And how do those dancers, many of them returning to the same parts for the umpteenth time, keep themselves from manically gibbering whenever they hear those opening bars of Tchaikovsky’s overture?
One of those dancers is Jean-Sébastien Couture, who this season chalks up his 19th year performing in the show. Originally from St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, he joined Les Grands at 17 and now, as a first soloist, he’s alternating with several other dancers in the roles of von Stahlbaum, Drosselmeyer, the Mechanical Soldier, the Spaniard and, of course, the Nutcracker.
In terms of coping with the physical demands of the show’s 2 1/2-week, often twice-daily run, Couture explains how the roles are distributed.
Just how gruelling the rigours of ballet can be is indicated by the fact that Couture suffers from a herniated disc. He says he has been dancing around it for years and spends a considerable part of his working days performing exercises to mitigate its effects.
Throughout the decades, there have been minor changes to the choreography Nault created back in 1964. For instance, Couture recalls Nault himself coaching him to make subtle changes as one of the soldiers battling the marauding mice. Recently, there have been more substantial changes that perhaps chime with the times: Clara, for instance, now takes a more active part in the second act, rather than just sitting back and swooning over the feats of exotic visitors to the Kingdom of Sweets.
According to Couture, the dancers are also given some leeway regarding the way they portray their characters, which, he agrees, can be one way of keeping one’s sanity. Couture was one of the dancers who performed the role of brooding gamekeeper Mellors in the company’s recent adaptation of Lady Chatterley’s Lover, so the opportunity to act a layered role like toymaker and magician Drosselmeyer comes as a welcome challenge. Is Drosselmeyer a sadistic puppet master, or a lovable uncle?
“He can be a bit of both,” says Couture. “In the first part, he’s a little bit quirky and the kids are a little bit scared of him. At the same time, he’s there to make them happy. He brings gifts like the Mechanical Soldier and Harlequin and Columbine. After, you see in Clara’s dream that he’s depicted as a little bit sinister because he arrives with a big cape and he’s the one that makes the scary mice come and get her. But he is also the one that makes the Nutcracker grow and defend her.
As if to offset what’s sometimes seen as the ballet’s cloying conservatism, some Nutcracker productions have explored, say, the Freudian aspects of Clara’s magical adventures. Have there been attempts to radically reinterpret the story in this production? No, according to Couture, and you can understand why they wouldn’t want to tinker with a winning formula.
There are also practical reasons to leave well enough alone. The astronomical cost of the existing sets and costumes discourages significant change: the costumes alone, all designed by the late François Barbeau, average $2,000 each. And, says Couture, “there are always new dancers, and we have two weeks to rehearse,” so there’s simply no time to sit around a table discussing the characters’ ids, superegos and the like.
Not surprisingly, in an enterprise this huge and relying on so much stage trickery, things can occasionally go wrong, and that’s fine by Couture. “It adds to the performance and the thrill a little bit,” he says.
Couture once found himself at the mercy of an uncooperative prop.
Given all the stress of wayward props, all the extreme physical exertion, all the existential angst of returning to the roles again and again, it sometimes seems one of the most impressive feats the dancers perform is to keep on smiling so gleefully throughout. How do they do it?
And just in case there are cynics out there who think those smiles are fixed or in any way insincere, Couture has an anecdote from one of his very first Nutcrackers that might stop your Grinching.
The Nutcracker is presented from Thursday, Dec. 13 through Sunday, Dec. 30 at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier of Place des Arts. Tickets: $74 to $149; 17 and under $44 to $94. For more information, including performance dates and times, call 514-849-0269 or visit grandsballets.com.
Ballet Ouest de Montréal offers a more modern version of The Nutcracker (as well as projected images from the original 1892 St. Petersburg production) as part of a Quebec tour. It plays Saturday, Dec. 8 at 2 and 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 9 at 2 p.m. at Salle Pierre-Mercure of Centre Pierre-Péladeau, 300 de Maisonneuve Blvd. E. Tickets cost $24 to $52.50. Call 514-987-6919 or visit centrepierrepeladeau.uqam.ca.
Ballet Eddy Toussaint takes The Nutcracker out of this world. In this version, Clara is whisked off not to the Kingdom of Sweets, but to another planet. It plays Dec. 19 at 7 p.m. at Salle Pauline-Julien, 15615 Gouin Blvd. W. ($35 to $45), then on Dec. 21 and 22 at 7 p.m. at Théâtre Marcellin-Champagnat, 1275 du Collège Ave. in Laval ($40.50 to $50.50). Call 514-383-9204.
While Disney’s The Nutcracker and the Four Realms plays at the cinema, there’s also the chance to catch a live screening of the Bolshoi’s Nutcracker on Dec. 23, with an encore screening Dec. 24. Visit cineplex.com for times, cinemas and ticket prices.
And there’s still time to catch the Nutcracker Market, which ends Sunday, Dec. 9. Situated in the ground-floor mall of the Palais des congrès, it features 100 exhibitors selling everything from toys, decorations and jewelry to gourmet treats. Admission is free and 10 per cent of sales go to the Nutcracker Fund, which enables sick and disadvantaged children to attend Les Grands Ballets’ The Nutcracker.
Jensen Harris made it official - Microsoft will release the Technical Refresh for Beta 2 of 2007 Microsoft Office system (small "s") tomorrow. This is a patch to an already installed version of Office 2007 Beta 2 and not a full installer. Microsoft has said there will be no charge for this download.
As I wrote in June, there are a number of changes in B2TR, ranging from minor tweaks to relatively significant improvements. In particular, we've made nearly 1000 individual improvements to the content in the Ribbon—everything from redesigning the Home tab of PowerPoint to subtle changes to scaling or labels to work better on small monitors. Most of these changes are, of course, very minor, but they add up to a new level of fit and finish in the overall user experience.
The investigation into a hit-and-run incident involving a jogger west of Brighton continues.
On Thursday, Livingston County sheriff’s officials said they have traced a part number on the vehicle’s mirror to the following types of vehicles: 1992-1994 GMC Jimmy or Chevrolet Blazer; 1988-1999 GMC/Chevrolet pickup 1500; 1988-2000 GMC/Chevrolet pickup 2500; 1988-2000 GMC/Chevrolet pickup 3500; 1992-1994 or 1997-1999 Chevrolet Suburban 1500/2500; 1995-1999 Chevrolet Tahoe; or 1992-99 GMC Yukon. The color of the vehicle remains unknown.
Police said the 45-year-old victim was jogging on Brighton Road near Timber Bend Drive in Genoa Township when he was struck by a vehicle at around 11 p.m. June 25. The victim, of Genoa Township, suffered life-threatening injuries and was taken to an area hospital.
The driver who struck the jogger left the scene prior to the arrival of emergency personnel.
Preliminary investigation indicates that the vehicle was traveling westbound on Brighton Road when it struck the Genoa Township man, who was jogging in that direction.
The vehicle’s passenger’s-side mirror is missing, although the housing for the mirror may still be attached to the vehicle, police said.
Anyone who has information about the vehicle involved is asked to contact Deputy Brad Neff at 517-546-2440 or Crime Stoppers at 800-SPEAK-UP.
April 28, 2017, 9:59 a.m.
The Axel Springer-owned app gets an automatic leg up across Europe from being pre-installed on new Samsung phones, but can it now keep enough of those users interested in order to sustain itself on advertising alone?
By Shan Wang @shansquared April 28, 2017, 9:59 a.m.
What happens if you preinstall a news app on millions of new Samsung phones in Europe, in the way that Apple “gifted” U2’s 2014 album to unsuspecting iTunes users?
It appears so far that people have responded much better to that offering than iPhone users did to the much-maligned U2 giveaway. News aggregator app Upday, an Axel Springer brainchild on which the company has placed big hopes for European ubiquity, comes already installed on new Samsung — and only Samsung — smartphones in Germany, France, Poland, and the U.K. The app boasts more than 8 million unique monthly users, according to Upday editor-in-chief and chief product officer Jan-Eric Peters, thanks in large part to that exclusive arrangement with Samsung.
The app will now also be preinstalled on Samsung’s new S8 phones, which become available on Friday in Europe, and expand into 12 additional countries, broadening its Android-only domain.
The app itself has two components: a top news section maintained by journalists who select top stories and which news organizations to link out to, and a personalized section determined by an algorithm the Upday team built that serves up stories based on a user’s reading history. Upday positions itself as a platform through which any publisher can distribute stories — an Apple News counterpart for Android that is up against the likes of Google Newsstand and Flipboard — and sees itself as a more open alternative that just takes various publishers’ RSS feeds, then rewards them with respectable mobile traffic and ad views.
About 3,000 publishers’ feeds, vetted by a “content quality team” for technical criteria such as whether pages are mobile-optimized, will be available through Upday with the expansion. Peters has also been negotiating with other publishers who have hard paywalls, to get some of their stories into Upday as well. Sweden’s Svenska Dagbladet has already been integrated so that Upday users won’t be hitting the metered paywall. Newsweek Polska is in process of integrating a separate RSS feed. An Italian paywalled daily will be added sometime in May.
Peters would not disclose on the record what percentage of users who automatically got the app on their phones continued to use it on a regular basis, nor did he share the terms of the deal with Samsung. But from the outside, there appears to be continued investment and confidence. Upday doubled its editorial staff to 50 journalists, spread throughout eight cities (Berlin, London, Paris, Warsaw, Milan, Madrid, Amsterdam, and Stockholm) who can deal with the various languages spoken across Europe (Upday itself doesn’t do any translation). It has 40 additional staff among developers, sales, and management.