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The event is being held on Tuesday from 5-9 p.m. at Nolley Elementary, 6285 Renninger Road.
HANCOCK - South Hagerstown boys basketball coach Kevin Naylor received the perfect birthday gift Wednesday night - a victory.
The Rebels (5-9) raced to leads of 21-6 and 37-20 in the first two quarters and defeated Hancock (6-8) for the second time this season, 71-59.
Senior guard Steve Burnett scored 27 points, including three 3-point baskets, and teammates Alvin Roberson and Shane Santell added 17 and 13 points.
South jumped to a 21-6 first-period advantage and never looked back.
Naylor and his counterpart, Hancock coach Ron Hose, echoed similar remarks following the fast-paced contest.
"We're trying to focus on playing 32 minutes of basketball. We play well here and there, but we have to get more consistent," Naylor said as he accepted congratulations on birthday No. 51.
In the opposing locker room, Hose said much the same thing.
"We've been playing in spurts all year. This was almost a carbon copy of the first time we played South," he said. "We were down by 17 points (the first time) and actually led in the second half. Tonight, we showed no intensity in the first half and found ourselves trailing at halftime. To their credit, the team did pl...
Roberson set the tone for the evening with a dunk off a steal in the first minute of the game. Burnett added seven points in the next five minutes to help South gain a 15-point first-quarter lead.
Trailing 37-20 at the intermission, Hancock came out with renewed intensity in the third quarter and trimmed the deficit to 50-37 with 2:24 remaining before South took over again.
"I used a lot of players tonight, tried different combinations," Naylor said of the South effort. "We are starting the second half of play. It's a new season. I feel comfortable with the top seven players, but we need some more help off the bench. We hope to have more depth before the end of the season."
Hancock had three players in double figures on Wednesday. Steven Beaver led with 20 points, while B.J. Weller had 16 points and Josh Unger finished with 10 points.
Penguins leave the water at Low Head, where the discovery was made.
A dozen dead little penguins have been found dumped in a bin near a popular Tasmanian coastal reserve, with authorities calling for public help to work out how they died.
The carcasses of the birds were found in a garbage bin at Low Head Coastal Reserve on Tasmania's north coast on Wednesday.
Photo Little penguins are the smallest of all the species.
Wildlife rangers collected the dead birds and took them to Mt Pleasant Laboratories for a post-mortem examination to determine the cause of death.
A tip-off from a member of the public alerted Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment staff on Wednesday to the bin's contents.
The birds were little penguins — also known as fairy penguins — and are the smallest of the penguin species, growing to an average height of 40 centimetres and weighing an average of 1 kilogram.
Primary Industries Minister Jeremy Rockliff said the Tasmanian Government took the matter very seriously.
"Protection of our wildlife, and indeed all areas of animal welfare, are of crucial importance," he said.
Penguin spotting tours are conducted at Low Head where spectators watch the birds on their nightly journey from the surf, up the beach and to their burrows.
Anyone with information about the incident should contact the department.
Patrick J. KigerPatrick J. Kiger last wrote for the magazine about the foibles of outsiders in Hollywood.
English writer W. Somerset Maugham published a 1949 essay in which he pondered whether Dostoevski or El Greco was the greater artistic genius. He reluctantly came down on the side of El Greco after deciding that 16th century Spain was a more fertile environment for the flowering of inspiration than czarist Russia. One ...
Some people today find it perplexing that the author of "Crime and Punishment" and the painter of "Adoration of the Shepherds" are being jostled for a spot among the pantheon of immortals by the composer of such couplets as "I still gotta lot of growin' up to do/ I still gotta whole lot of throwin' up to spew" and "Bra...
We ought to consider ourselves blessed. Forget about ancient Athens, China during the Tang dynasty, Florence during the Renaissance, Paris in the 1920s and Greenwich Village in the 1950s. We live in an age peopled by more artistic geniuses than in any other moment in history, though the bar is set considerably lower th...
As recently as the mid-20th century, qualifying as an artistic genius meant belonging to a rarified elite--Picasso, Hemingway, Stravinsky, Pollock, Frank Lloyd Wright, Miles Davis, et al.--who created masterpieces that changed the way people thought about the world, and in the process lived existences infused with dram...
To borrow a phrase from a visionary thinker of another era, Sly Stone, today everybody is a star. Or quite nearly everybody. Write a book that cracks the bestseller lists, act in a successful film, record a hit song that gets played on MTV, garner an invitation to appear on the cover of a major magazine, and you're pre...
Though we have more supposed artistic geniuses than ever, their output, oddly, is increasingly middling. What's happened in the last couple of decades is that puffery seems to have surpassed prodigy. Here's a test: Try to think of a recently produced book, movie, poem, pop song or artwork that you could imagine being a...
Stumped? That's because we're living smack-dab in the golden age of mediocrity.
"There was a time, especially right after World War II, when we had certain people who clearly were geniuses and became celebrities because of it--Einstein, for example," explains rock critic and cultural historian Greil Marcus, author of the book "Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century." "But eventually...
Today, the hyping of what passes for genius has become so extreme that it even offends New York-based A-list publicist Dan Klores. "I read about this musician who'd died, and there was a great outpouring of mourning about 'the passing of a genius,' " he says. "And he's done two albums! That's where we are today. We use...
Electronic databases readily yield a vast and ever-growing list of similar contemporary artistic giants. Type documentary filmmaker Ken Burns' name into the Nexis database, for example, and you'll find 74 articles from U.S. newspapers in which his name occurs within 15 words of the word "genius." Movie director Quentin...
The late Kurt Cobain racks up 109 hits, an even more remarkable feat for a musician whose output consisted of three studio albums. Nevertheless, he not only beats out Gehry (65 hits), actor Johnny Depp (44) and conductor and composer Andre Previn (24), but totally trounces Jonathan Franzen, author of the critically acc...
Humans have always argued about what constitutes artistic greatness, and the source of genius. The Romans believed artistic ability came from a supernatural being, the "genius," that guarded each man. The 18th century essayist Joseph Addison decided that there were two sorts of geniuses--those who'd diligently worked t...
More recently, developmental psychologist William Therivel, author of the three-volume treatise "The GAM/DP Theory of Personality and Creativity," has argued that genius is a combination of genetics and assistance (i.e., educational opportunities, supportive families and intellectual mentors). There's also the unexpect...
Therivel cites Mozart, whose talented but unsuccessful musician father made sure that his son had opportunities to study in Venice and Vienna, as an example of a genius who scored high in all GAM/DP categories. In contrast, rival 18th century composer Antonio Salieri came from an apparently less talented gene pool and ...
Nevertheless, the concept of the innate, unfettered artistic genius persists, perhaps because it has given generations of writers, painters and musicians an excuse to frequent brothels, smoke opium and wreck hotel rooms in pursuit of their muse. The notion of being a human vessel for a divine gift also gave artists a b...
Albrecht Durer, who in the late 15th and early 16th centuries became one of the first great art stars of Western culture, had the audacity to paint a self-portrait in the style that artists used to portray Christ. When Oscar Wilde arrived in New York in 1882, the author of "The Importance of Being Earnest" and "The Pic...
The truly pioneering genius of self-promotion was surrealist painter Salvador Dali. From his mid-20s to mid-30s, he created genuinely inspired paintings--"Lugubrious Game," "The Persistence of Memory" and so on--that staked his claim to greatness. He then spent the next five decades promoting himself as an eccentric ge...
In a sense, the current crop of house-brand geniuses are spawns of Dali and his Great Artist shtick. But today--with the Internet, blast faxes, hundreds of cable channels and 750-square-foot video screens that can turn anyone, regardless of talent, into a giant looming over Times Square--it's possible for would-be grea...
There was a time when such extravagant self-praise by musicians would have elicited stinging ridicule from angry young rock critics of the Lester Bangs school. These days, though, when having a star on a magazine cover is deemed crucial to newsstand success, there doesn't seem to be much danger of that happening. As Ro...
In Hollywood, auteur theory, which views a film primarily as the work of a single artist, has helped push pretension to great extremes. "Filmmaking really is a group enterprise," explains former Premiere magazine editor and film historian Peter Biskind, author of "Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance and the Rise...
Another convenient way to establish one's credential as a genius is to attract legions of college faculty members apparently scouring for fresh scholarly subjects. Take, for example, the 1993 anthology, "The Madonna Connection: Representational Politics, Subcultural Identities, and Cultural Theory," in which scholars p...
Technology deserves a great deal of the blame for our cultural morass. Increasingly sophisticated computers and software make it easier for authors, visual artists, movie directors and pop musicians to churn out ever greater quantities of work, while doctoring and/or blurring defects to conceal shortcomings. In a recen...
Such technological advances promise not only to make recording studios obsolete, but also to enable hit-making Svengalis to transform even the most marginally talented performer into a virtuoso. The potential for producing an endless succession of totally soulless, Clear Channel-ready hits is frightening.
We might expect such de-evolution from pop culture, but the fine arts may not be a source of much consolation, because we have a seeming oversupply of creative types. The number of Americans identifying themselves as artists increased from 737,000 in 1970 to 2.2 million in 2000. The number of musicians grew from 100,00...
On the other hand, maybe mediocrity is the new genius. In 2002, for example, New York's New Museum of Contemporary Art displayed "Cloaca," a room-size mechanical installation by Belgian sculptor Wim Delvoye that was designed to emulate the human digestive system. Twice each day, at one end of the artwork, a plate of fo...
"I chose [excrement] because it is not only useless, it's also cosmopolitan, so universal," the artist told an interviewer from Wired magazine. "You could go anywhere, and it speaks to everyone." Critics hailed the work, waxing profound about "the iconography of the scatological" and the cleverness of Delvoye's symboli...
Art aficionados purchased samples of "Cloaca's" output from Delvoye's website for $1,500 per ersatz stool. In doing so, those aesthetes chose to ignore the fact that the art-is-crap motif is a bit derivative. Four decades ago, Italian conceptual artist Piero Manzoni peddled 30-gram cans of his excrement to collectors f...
Who has two thumbs and contributes to an almost $100 billion industry? Gamers. Sixty-three percent of U.S. households are home to at least one gamer, logging in at least three or more hours of screen time a week, according to the Entertainment Software Association. While the average gamer might be pictured as a mid-30s...
As with any trend, there are areas where it is expanding faster, and areas that are, well, stuck in the past. In order to study this more closely, WalletHub’s data team compiled a list of the Best Cities for Gamers in America, factoring in its own devised indicators of “gamer-friendliness.” Among the factors are gaming...
Other highlights (and lowlights) include: highest internet speed — Virginia Beach, Virginia, lowest internet cost — Durham, North Carolina, fewest videogame stores per capita — Memphis, Tennessee and fewest arcades per capita — Long Beach, California.
And the overall worst city for gamers is Detroit, Michigan, ranking 99 and 100 in gaming environment and internet quality and coverage, respectively.
Surprisingly enough, Utah doesn’t fall anywhere on this list.
That’s right folks, Utah cities fall nowhere near the best or the worst city for gamers, along with states like Montana and Wyoming. This is not only shocking, but a bit soul-crushing, considering the strides that the University of Utah’s EAE Program has made in the past few years. As of 2017, it is the number three un...
Not only has the program received numerous accolades for academic superiority, but it has had its share of tournament trophies as well. In 2016, it received received awards from the Microsoft Imagine Cup and the Games4Health competitions, including first place in Clinical Games, first place in Innovation and first plac...
If that’s not enough to get Salt Lake City on the map, how about throwing in the fact that the University of Utah’s EAE Program has over 70 student projects published, eight of which are available on Steam, courses are taught by industry professionals and the program strives to use the latest technology to further impr...
Supposedly, Salt Lake City isn’t “where it’s at” when it comes to gamers. But with stats like this under the EAE’s belt, SLC will soon find its way to making that list.
After serving in a temporary role for more than a year, Port Arthur's interim city manager may be moving on.
Mayor Derrick Freeman said the council will discuss appointing one of the city's two assistant city managers to the interim leadership position on Monday.
Interim City Manager Harvey Robinson will "still be around, but he's ready to get back to retirement," Freeman said.
At the meeting the council also will have a workshop to discuss the search for a permanent city manager. It's expected to review a timeline for interviews and other important dates.
It's unclear if the city has received any new applications for the position.
The council members who voted against opening the search, Harold Doucet Sr., Raymond Scott Jr. and Kaprina Richardson Frank expressed frustration that the city would put a procedure to select a city manager in place and then decide not to follow it.
The council members who voted for the motion said they didn't think it was too much to ask for more time to be sure the correct candidate was chosen for the city.
Freeman thought that was a compromise everyone could live with.
The City Council is expected to review the four finalists from the last search, as well as any new applicants, for the position.
The city has been without a permanent manager since Brian McDougal resigned from the position in November 2017, citing several issues on both sides.
Freeman said previously that the job was left open for so long because the council needed someone at the helm who had experience dealing with hurricane recovery and the challenges that come with that, such as getting money from the federal government. He said the council also has struggled to find the right candidate t...
The meeting starts at 10 a.m. Monday at Port Arthur City Hall, 444 Fourth St.
US President Donald Trump briefed on the situation in Syria. Photo Credit: White House.
In the current stage of evolution of international law and universally accepted norms of civilised behaviour, the use of any weapon of mass destruction by any actor whatsoever affronts the conscience of mankind and cannot be tolerated.
The responsibility for the recent episode of the use of chemical weapons in Syria has not yet been clearly established. But the posturing of the players in this dramatic episode sometimes obscures the appalling reality that a weapon of mass destruction with such cruel and indiscriminate effects still exists in national...
In 2013 and 2014 chemical weapons were used in Damascus, Aleppo and other places in Syria. Under international pressure, Syria became a Party to the Chemical Weapons Convention, clearing the way for the destruction of its stocks of such weapons. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and other ...
The United States government claimed that 100% of the chemical weapons had been destroyed. However, there were reports that a part of the stocks could have been hidden from the inspectors or seized by any of the warring groups in the country. Small quantities of lethal chemicals may even have been manufactured in cland...
A couple of weeks ago the release of a lethal chemical agent killed over 80 people, among them many children in Khan Sheikhoun in the Idlib province in Syria. At least 100 other persons are suffering their effects. The two major powers, the Syrian government and rebel factions, are exchanging accusations about the resp...
However, political rivalries and disagreements, as well as the lack of confidence among the major players, make it very difficult to reach a credible, indisputable conclusion. The use of chemical weapons – either by design or accident – is absolutely unacceptable and its perpetrators must be punished. The multilateral ...
Humanitarian reasons are behind the long and quite successful history of international attempts at limiting the use of chemical weapons dating back to the 17th century when France and Germany agreed to ban poison bullets. In 1874 the Brussels Convention on the Law and Customs of War prohibited poison or poisoned weapon...
Efforts were renewed after a strong reaction from the international community and civil society and in 1925 the Geneva Protocol prohibited the use of asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases as methods of warfare, but not the development, production or possession of such weapons. Many countries kept large stocks that cou...
Only in 1997 did the international community finally achieve a robust instrument outlawing the use, manufacture and stockpiling of chemical weapons and requiring its parties to destroy their stocks.
The OPCW, headquartered in The Hague, ensures a credible and transparent regime for verifying the destruction of such weapons and preventing their re-emergence while protecting the legitimate national security and proprietary interests. However, the comprehensive prohibition finally achieved with the adoption of the Ch...
There are three recognised categories of weapons of mass destruction: chemical, bacteriological and nuclear. All are weapons of terror having excessively cruel and indiscriminate effects that hit combatants and innocent civilians alike. The first two are already prohibited by international treaties.
The international community has just started a long-awaited multilateral effort to negotiate a treaty to outlaw atomic weapons. Predictably, all nine possessors and their allies have chosen not to participate in the initiative and cling to out-dated military doctrines that contemplate using such arms in the circumstanc...
A nuclear confrontation will have devastating effects on the climate and populations alike, regardless of their location. It is high time to complete the task by eliminating the last remaining category of weapons of mass destruction.
* Sergio Duarte was the UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs with the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (2007-2012). He was the President of the 2005 Seventh Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. A career diplomat, he served the Brazilian Forei...
Kid stars grow up so fast these days, which is why you have to squeeze everything you can out of an actor like Chloe Moretz before she gets all adolescent and ungainly—such as signing her up to play Emily The Strange, patron saint of Gadzooks goth girls everywhere since the early ’90s. Universal has acquired the rights...
Looking for a toothbrush that points out when you've missed a spot? There's an app-enabled, Bluetooth-synced brush for that.
From the Microsoft Surface Studio and Beats headphones to Android Wear watches and new Samsung Chromebooks, these are the coolest gadgets we saw this month.
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Of course, many people can't spare $24,000 to set aside in their 401(k) each year, but even modest additional contributions can add up fast, so consider boosting your contributions from their current level. Let's say you put an extra $1,000 into your IRA starting at age 50 and you plan to retire at 65. Well, ...
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