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[news in brief] Fighting Gravity performs live
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Fighting Gravity, a dance group comprised of 13 Virginia Tech students in the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, performed Tuesday night on the NBC show “America’s Got Talent.” The group was one of 48 that were admitted by judges to the next round of the competition in Hollywood. Viewers had the opportunity to vote for the dance group after its live performance Tuesday night. If the group receives enough votes, it will advance to the next round of competition. -liana bayne, news editor
Athletics surgeon cleared of charges Felony property destruction charges against Marc Siegel, a surgeon who works with the Virginia Tech athletics department, were dropped Monday. In October, Siegel was arrested and charged with felony property destruction at the Montgomery Regional Hospital where he allegedly caused damage to a fellow doctor’s vehicle. In December, the $1,000 charge was certified to a grand jury. At a hearing in January, the charge was reduced to a misdemeanor because $1,000 in damage was not found on the vehicle. After a six-month waiting period to certify that the damage was less than $1,000, the charges against Siegel were dropped. -liana bayne, news editor
Virginia ends fiscal year with $220 million surplus RICHMOND — Virginia ended the fiscal year in June roughly $220 million in the black, a surplus that Gov. Bob McDonnell today heralded as an early symbol of his successful financial stewardship. The turnaround stems largely from better than expected collections of certain individual and corporate taxes. Together, they account for more than 75 percent of the surplus. Historically, both are among the more volatile state revenue sources, prone to fluctuate with the economy. The surplus announcement isn’t entirely surprising; state officials have been hinting for a few months that a surplus seemed likely. -mcclatchy newspapers
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The intersection of Washington Street and South Main Street is currently closed for the installation of a new traffic signal.
TRAFFIC SIGNAL PROJECT AIMS TO REDUCE CONGESTION ON MAIN STREET CORRIDOR CLAIRE SANDERSON managing editor Though congestion continues on North Main, another portion of the project will soon begin that aims to eventually improve traffic flow throughout the Main Street corridor. It will replace and coordinate all traffic signals from Progress Street to Ellett Road, meaning less stops for motorists and a quicker drive through town. “We use a radio technology called a coordinated traffic system,” said Brad Stipes, project manager for Whitman, Requardt, and Associates, the design firm for the project. “The signals will operate in a much more effective manner, with several different timing schemes for different times of day.” The timing schedules were developed through many traffic studies that were conducted last fall, according to Brandon Steele, Blacksburg’s urban transportation manager. “The whole point is a technological upgrade to align and synchronize them so traffic flow in that whole part of town will be better,” said John Bush, a member
of the Blacksburg Town Council. “They will be linked, and all be able to coordinate with one another,” Bush said. According to Stipes, there are 13 signalized intersections in total that will be replaced and synchronized, beginning at Progress Street and ending at Ellett Road. This does not include the intersection at Prices Fork, which will be replaced by a roundabout. “A good example of a coordinated traffic system in place that people in the area might be familiar with is North Franklin Street in Christiansburg,” Stipes said. “You can drive all the way through, or you might stop once and then see the rest green.” The upgrade is included as a part of the North Main Street Improvement project, which has just begun its second phase downtown. “It will move traffic from one side of Main Street to the other. This is when we’ll start building the new sidewalk,” Steele said. “We’re hoping to have the concrete work done by midwinter, but the bricking could take longer.” Motorists will now drive on
project developments to look out for this week According to the Blacksburg town website, there will be temporary lane closures on College Avenue to accommodate improvements on a sewer system. Nighttime work will take place between Sunday, July 18 and Thursday, July 22. The work will take place between 7 p.m. and 6 a.m. There will be flagging operations to assist in directing traffic during the lane closures. side of Main Street closest to the Virginia Tech campus as workers begin to work on the Old Main Street side. Stipes said that the Main Street Improvements and the signal replacements will go on simultaneously in order to reduce the amount of time overall that construction will be underway on Main Street. “We’re hoping to start the signal replacements at the beginning of the year,” said Steele. “I’d hope to have them done by August 2011.” The North Main improvements are not scheduled to conclude until the spring of 2012. “I think the positives outweigh the negatives,” Bush said. “But it’s roughly a two-year project, so we’ll see some discomfort during the school year.” However, he said that the construction plan probably wouldn’t
affect Virginia Tech in ways that were vastly different from how it has affected the town. “Tech faculty, students and staff have to traverse our streets just like everyone else does, but I think when they really begin work on the new Center for the Arts, that will affect Tech parking in the lot next to Shultz,” Bush said. He noted, however, when Tech has large events such as move-in weekend or football game days, traffic congestion could be very bad. “I think that in general, the town coordinates very well with the university,” Bush said. “And in coordinating for various event days where we’ll see an influx of people, I wouldn’t be surprised to see an increase in police presence to help direct traffic, or to see some of that work curtailed for a short period.”
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April 16 families asking Congress for gun checks JULIAN WALKER mcclatchy newspapers
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WASHINGTON — During a Capitol Hill event today, family members of those wounded and killed in the April 2007 Virginia Tech shooting massacre will continue to push for a law change requiring criminal background checks before certain firearms transactions are completed at gun shows. A forum about closing the gun show loophole is scheduled to be held in the U.S. House Judiciary Committee room this afternoon. The so-callled loophole is a wrinkle in state law that requires licensed gun dealers to run a criminal history check before selling a gun but doesn’t hold private sellers to that standard. Efforts to change the law to mandate background checks before private gun sales are completed have repeatedly failed to pass the General Assembly. Tech families and others of their ilk argue that lax gun laws lead to violence. Gun rights advocates disagree, noting that Tech gunman Seung Hui Cho did not obtain at a gun show the weapons he used to slaughter 32 people. On the eve of today’s forum, Tech families and the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence issued the following statement: “The families of the victims, the survivors and their families would all like to thank Congressman Bobby Scott for his leadership on this critical public safety issue. After the massacre at Virginia Tech, Governor Kaine created the Virginia Tech Review Panel comprised of eight nationally recognized and respected individuals with a wide variety of expertise. The panel eventually produced an extensive report which included 81 specific recommendations covering: improved laws, policies, procedures, systems and institutions of the Commonwealth of Virginia and the operation of public safety agencies, medical facilities, local agencies, private providers, universities and mental health delivery systems. From the beginning we, the families
of the victims, the survivors and their families, gave our support to the panel members and, after the report was presented, to the agencies and legislators charged with implementing the recommended changes. Virtually all of the recommendations were acted upon with one glaring exception, that being: ‘Virginia should require background checks for all firearm sales, including those at gun shows.’ The panel recognized the importance of limiting the ease of access to firearms for people that have been judged to be a danger to themselves or others due to severe mental illness. They also recognized that any improvements in the procedures that identified individuals prohibited from buying firearms due to mental illness through the NICS background check system, would be totally ineffective if some types of commercial firearm sales are allowed to continue to circumvent the background check system. Gun shows are one of the most popular public venues where firearms can be sold or exchanged between total strangers without the need for a background check on the purchaser. Virginia has yet to close this ‘Gunshow Loophole,’ however, this problem is not limited to the confines of the Commonwealth of Virginia, but rather extends across all 37 states still allow the public sale of firearms without a background check. Background checks on purchasers attempting to buy firearms from licensed dealers have prevented 1.8 million ineligible sales over the years that the Brady law has been in effect. The vast majority of background checks currently take less than a few minutes to complete and present no obstacle to eligible firearms buyers. We know from firsthand experience the pain and devastation that can result when a person prohibited by law from owning or possessing firearms can nevertheless gain easy access to them and use them to maim and kill. That is why we are asking the Federal Government to step in and enact legislation to make it more difficult for dangerous people to obtain dangerous weapons.”
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cleaner. Military documents show that the base’s water was contaminated with benzene, trichloroethylene (TCE), tetrachloroethylene (PCE), vinyl chloride and other chemicals — much of it leaked from on-base sources. Benzene and vinyl chloride are known to cause cancer in humans; TCE is under study for the same designation by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Many advocates, including Partain and Ensminger, remain skeptical of the military, which they say has not been forthcoming with details of the contamination. Ensminger has been lobbying Congress and the media about the contamination for the past 12 years, since
he saw a local news story inElizabethtown, N.C., about toxic water at the base. He connected the water to the leukemia that killed his daughter, Janey. He said former Lejeune residents should join the Marines’ Camp Lejeune historic drinking water registry so they take part in scientific studies on the matter. Ensminger and Partain, along with several other advocates, also have developed a website called The Few, The Proud, The Forgotten to collate documents and provide a forum for former Lejeune residents to connect with one another. Partain and Ensminger also recommended that listeners get active politically by calling their senators and
members of Congress. “Numbers are power, OK?” Ensminger told the group. “Whenever you’re dealing with politicians, the more members you have signed up on your organization, the more power you have.” The meetings are sponsored by Bell Legal Group of Georgetown, S.C. The law firm has signed up about 200 clients for potential lawsuits about the water contamination. The firm didn’t make a pitch at Saturday’s meeting, but attorneys attended and put their business cards out on a table. Future meetings are planned in Syracuse, N.Y., and Pittsburgh, Pa. For information or to sign up for a meeting, call Vanessa Bertka at Bell Legal Group at 843-546-2408.
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ROANOKE — Advocates pushing for answers about water contamination at Marines Base Camp Lejeune, N.C., have taken their documents on the road. Mike Partain, a male breast cancer survivor from Florida, and Jerry Ensminger, a retired master sergeant in White Lake, N.C., whose daughter died in 1985 of childhood leukemia, have held three informational gatherings in the Southeast in recent months. The men want to bring together Marine veterans and their family members who might have been exposed to toxic water at Camp Lejeune from the mid-1950s to the mid-1980s. “Our biggest problem is we don’t know who each other are,” Partain said this past weekend to listeners at a meeting in Roanoke, Va. “We’ve got to network out.” The next meeting is scheduled for this Saturday in Virginia Beach, Va., from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Another is scheduled for July 31 in Charlotte, though the venue hasn’t been set yet. Inside a chilly meeting room last weekend in Roanoke, Partain, the son of a Marine, posted on a wall huge maps of groundwater contamination plumes at Camp Lejeune. “This sample?” Partain circled a number with a laser pointer — 1,400 parts per billion of trichloroethylene (TCE) found in a water sample back in 1982. “This came out of a hospital emergency room sink.” “Oh, my God,” came a male voice from a small audience of Marine veterans and their families. “I was bathed in it,” said another male voice. Added a woman: “They made formula out of that water.” The Blue Ridge Mountains outside the windows seemed a world away from the coastal sands of Camp Lejeune, N.C., but the Marine veterans easily summoned collective memories of the base. They came with stories of cancers, heart ailments and other diseases, trying to learn more about whether their illnesses could be connected to the toxic water. “I was there 13 years,” said Curt Overington, who grew up at Lejeune as a child. “I lost a brother. One brother was born without organs. One was born with a (cleft palate).” Francis Rogers of Christiansburg, Va., served at the base from 1957 to 1962, and his youngest son served at Lejeune in the 1980s. “He has breathing problems,” Rogers said of his son. “I have skin problems.” Rogers learned of last week’s meeting from a newspaper advertisement and didn’t know what to expect. “My eyes were opened up,” he said. The community meetings come as Congress continues to investigate
the water contamination, its causes and its health effects. Meanwhile, scientists at the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry are performing studies to better understand the type and extent of the contamination and its impact on the health of former residents. The Marines have stressed that the water at Lejeune today is safe to drink, and the military says it is working to find answers for its members and their families. The military was required by law to contact Marine veterans through the Internal Revenue Service, and it has run advertisements about the contamination in popular magazines. Until recently, much of the contamination was blamed on an off-base dry
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Hokie Sports website infected with malware LIANA BAYNE news editor The Hokie Sports group experienced an Internet virus this week that allowed malware software to hijack its website on Monday. The website, hokiesports.com, along with its sister website, hokievision. com, was shut down for portions of Sunday and Monday as technicians attempted to find the malicious code. Tommy Regan, director of information technology for the athletic department, said Monday that his team was still working on removing the malware, which was apparently generated from an ad coming from Paraguay. “It appears it came from another
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site,” Regan explained. He said the malware seemed to come to the website through a small advertisement. “We took the ad off,” he said. On Tuesday night, the website was still blocked by Firefox and Google Chrome. Google placed an advisory warning on the website because of “malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent.” By Monday afternoon, however, Regan said his team was “finished off on cleaning” and “analyzing the code” to delete the malicious software. Although warnings were still appearing before navigating to the website, Regan said it was functional.
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State in the National Championship at the Sugar Bowl on January 1, 2000. Other sports have come close too such as softball, when they played in the Softball World Series in 2008, or the men’s soccer team when they played in the Soccer Final Four in 2007. What could Virginia Tech do to raise its profile on the national level? It appears that we often come close but can’t go over the hump or we lose at the wrong moments. I look to other schools such as Stanford, Florida, North Carolina, Duke, Notre Dame, Texas, UVA as examples of schools that have a strong academic background and a history and tradition of competing and winning national championships in different sports. What makes them different from us? Why are they more successful at the national level? While most will focus on the major revenue sports such as football and men’s basketball, there are opportunities in other sports, whether it is soccer, wrestling, track and field, tennis, golf, swimming and diving, gymnastics, baseball, women’s basketball, volleyball and others. Within the last ten years, Virginia Tech has invested in its athletics infra-
structure through facilities, better support services for athletics, the caliber of its athletes and coaches. We have seen additions to the football stadium, the new softball stadium, upgrades at English field, new soccer fields, a new aquatic center in Christiansburg, a new basketball facility, and a new wresting facility. The recent past at Tech shows that the investment is paying off with the recent successes in wrestling, baseball, track and field, softball and other sports. We have also had a strong line-up of coaches throughout this period. While some sports have had more changes than others, it has been relatively stable. Often, we focus solely on the coach of a team; clearly a coach is important as they provide the vision and focus for the team. When a team falters, the brunt of the complaints often falls on the coach. While not entirely fair, a lot of trust and faith is placed on coaches, pressuring that they get results quickly. In today’s age, failure to get results will lead to a short-lived career at an institution. But within a team there are many components, such as the individual athletes and the support staff. A coach needs to work with the players that
they have available. As we saw in this World Cup, a team can be loaded with big name stars and fall flat on its face, but it takes willing individuals putting egos aside and being a part of a team to be successful. What will it take to get to the next level? While there is no shortage of support for football and basketball, what are we doing as a community to better support the other sports? Are we going out and supporting volleyball for example? Are we contributing money through the Hokie Club to support these sports? If other institutions can win national championships and maintain their high academic standards, why can’t we? I hope to one day to witness a national championship win by a team at Tech, and it will be a significant moment for our entire Hokie community.
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irginia Tech’s official motto, “Ut Prosim — That I May Serve,” was adopted in 1896 under the leadership of President McBryde. This was the same year our well-known school colors were selected, which identify us around the world. Our goal should be to become equally well known for the way we actively live out our motto by serving others. In response to this goal, the university established the full-scale volunteer program VT-ENGAGE in October of 2007. VT-ENGAGE is now a part of the Center for Student Engagement and Community Partnerships, which was established about a year later. One of the easiest ways to get involved with service is to utilize the VT-ENGAGE website. You can find current volunteer needs on the VT-ENGAGE home page, and we also recommend that you use the Volunteer Solutions website link provided to find a volunteer opportunity posted through the United Way of Montgomery, Radford and Floyd. There are also links to national websites for finding volunteer opportunities.
On the volunteer solutions website, there is a special tool that lets you take a survey about your volunteer interests. You can sign up to automatically receive an email whenever a volunteer opportunity related to your interests is available. It’s an excellent matching tool to successfully pair volunteers up with volunteer needs. We hope you take about five minutes of your time to connect to this email alert program by going to http://www. engage.vt.edu. You are especially encouraged and invited to attend Gobblerfest on Friday, August 27th. At this event, area nonprofits and student organizations will be seeking volunteers to meet their program needs throughout the year. Gobblerfest is a fun event that welcomes you to campus. You can discover organizations to join or to volunteer with, have fun playing games and listen to some great music — all for free. The event will be from 3:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. outside Squires and in downtown Blacksburg. Other free events are being provided for students into the early morning hours in Squires. Both at Gobblerfest and on the VT-
ENGAGE website, you can elect to participate in a brand new program sponsored by the student planning committee for April 16th. This new service initiative is called “32 for 32.” Participants are asked to perform 32 hours of service to honor the 32 people we lost on April 16, 2007. You can pledge and record your 32 hours of service on the VT-ENGAGE website. We will showcase the types of service students have done as part of this program on April 16, 2011. We encourage students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members to participate and support this major service effort all around the globe. This year we are also having our first annual Fall Day of Service. In cooperation with Blacksburg United Methodist Church and many generous sponsors, we will be packing rice as a “Stop Hunger Now” event to benefit Haiti. Student members of our Greek housing community will also be participating in a community-wide service project called Greeks Give Back on that same day — it is a huge day of service!
As a Hokie, you will always want to look for ways to serve others. Organized opportunities are provided for you all throughout the year. We have major service projects in April such as the Big Event and Relay for Life. In addition to established events, you can always create your own service event. Simply look for a need in the community and find other people willing to help. VT-ENGAGE can also help you recruit volunteers. If you need resources such as tools or transportation, VTENGAGE and CSECP are here to help you find those resources. It is up to you to decide how you will join us in actively living out our motto as a true Hokie, both as a student and throughout the rest of your life.
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few days ago, Spain was crowned World Cup champions after a hard-fought victory over the Netherlands, and hundreds of thousands of people celebrated in Spain and around the world. As I watched the celebrations online, I couldn’t help but think about what a national championship would be like for Virginia Tech. How would we as a community react to such an event? True, we have all experienced the joy of upsets and felt that incredible Hokie pride for our team and for our school, but nothing could rival that feeling of winning a national championship. We as an institution have been successful in the different leagues from the ACC, Big East A-10, Metro and others through winning league titles, but have not been able to translate this to national success. Tech has had individual athletes win individual national championship titles, but we have not as an institution won a national championship in a team sport. Recently, for example, Queen Harrison won national titles in the 100 and 400-meter hurdles. We have certainly come close in a few team sports as well; the closest was in football when Tech played Florida
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Art at the market offers outlet for artists, art lovers CLAIRE SANDERSON managing editor “All that creative energy surging though the air from artist to artist — it’s a wonderful affair. I hope to be doing this when I’m one hundred!” That is how local artist Sally Mook described Art at the Market, an annual sidewalk art show and sale that she has been participating in for more than 25 years. The event will take place this Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the lawn across Draper Avenue from the farmers market. “The art is judged at 10 a.m. in two different categories, 2-D and 3D,” said Laureen Blakemore, director of special events for Downtown Blacksburg, Inc., the group hosting the event. Mook is one of almost 40 artists that will be participating in this Saturday’s show, but the participation has not always been this high. In fact, Art at the Market has been through quite a few ups and downs over the years. “It’s been going on since the 80s, though it’s been called different things,” said Steve Miller, president of Mish Mish, Inc. Mish Mish is one of the sponsors of the event. He explained that the event was once called Art Along the Fence, and that artists lined up their work on the fence that borders Henderson Lawn along College Avenue. It was held in the spring, however, and cold, wet weather was a common occurrence.
Art at the Market What: Free sidewalk art show and sale When: Saturday, July 17, from 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. Where: Downtown, across Draper Avenue from the Farmner’s Market Who: Hosted by Downtown Blacksburg, Inc. “It’s been mostly enjoyable and mostly rewarding, even the times when other artists were few and far between. I enjoyed it because of all the people that came out to see what we have done,” Mook said. When the Farmers Market was placed on the corner of Draper and Roanoke, it was renamed Art Along the Alley and was located at the alley behind the market, Miller explained. “This is fourth year we’ve been out on the lawn in front of the media building, and I think we’ve had a good number of artists the last few years,” Miller said. For the artists who come to show their art at the event, it’s an opportunity to get their work noticed — perhaps sold — and maybe even win a prize. Mook is an Art at the Market veteran, one of the few artists who has
COURTESY KIRK CARTER AND AMITY DEWEY
Left: Photo from “Signs of Dysfunctional” by Kirk Carter. Right: ‘Nesting,’ a painting by Amity Dewey. continued to participate in the event through all of its changes. “Some of my mentors and friends originally encouraged me to participate,” Mook recalled. “I’ve really enjoyed being out there with the
other artists.” Mook describes her work as “a little bit of everything.” “I do whatever appeals to me at the time,” Mook explained. “When I paint I’m hoping I’m going to paint something that the viewer enjoys, and I’m also painting for my own enjoyment. That is my inspiration.” Amity Dewey is an artist who paints scenes of nature. She has done Steppin’ Out for several years, and this will be her second year participating in Art at the Market. “It’s always been a good time. There’s usually a good amount of people that come out, and it’s nice to be a part of the local atmosphere,” Dewey remarked. There are newer artists as well. For Kirk Carter, a photographer and longtime resident of Christiansburg, this Saturday’s show will be his first arts show outdoors. “It seemed like a good place to connect with people who are interested in what I do as an artist,” Carter said. Carter will show and sell prints as well as display his book, “Signs of Dysfunction.” “I take pictures of things that imply the people who made them or changed them,” Carter said. “After years of photography, I noticed that the most interesting pictures I was taking showed the effect of people left on things.” Another artist is Evan Beloni, whose work focuses on welded metal sculpture. “This is my first time doing something public with my art, and I’ll also have a booth at Steppin’ Out,” said Beloni, a 2008 Tech graduate who taught himself how to weld.
“I make things out of random metal pieces that I find; my inspiration comes from the piece itself,” Beloni explained. One of his pieces will be a sculpture made from scrap metal found at his office in the Corporate Research Center. In addition to the work of individual artists, the Children’s Museum of Blacksburg will be sponsoring an interactive art project for children from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Children will be assisted in creating large piece of art by walking in paint and making colorful footprints on a large piece of paper. The artwork will be displayed at Steppin’ Out, according to Miller. Other sponsors for the event are Fringe Benefit, the Community Arts Information Office, Matrix Gallery, and Downtown Blacksburg, Inc. “(Being a sponsor) fits with what we do,” Miller said. “We like to give back to the community and the arts, and it’s a benefit for us as well.” “It’s always been to try to encourage the arts in Blacksburg, and to help the artists and help them sell their work,” Miller said. “It helps out everyone because the more there is to do, the more people will come downtown.” And there will certainly be a lot going on there this Saturday. Art at the Market will coincide with the farmers market’s normal hours from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., as well as the annual Breakfast at the Market, when a special breakfast made with local ingredients will be available. According to Miller, proceeds from the breakfast, hosted by Friends of the Farmers Market, will go toward the farmers market.
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s a college student, one of my biggest concerns — outside of my actual studies — is balancing my obsession with extravagance and my student poverty. I save obsessively and am more frugal than most people I know (my friends would probably use the term “cheap” to describe me). But my cushy savings allows me to sort out disasters like my recent laptop meltdown and plan out budgeted world travels. I might be “cheap” for 11 and half months out of the year, but for two weeks I’m queen of the world. I have a problem, though, and that problem is food. I love good food. I try to spend only $30 a week on it, and I rejoice anytime I manage to stay under budget. I can’t help myself, I need fresh fruits and veggies and all the materials to make dinners from scratch every night. And of course, my homemade sweets. To save money, I look up recipes and modify them to work with what I already have in my kitchen or what money saving substitutes I can buy instead. This week, I got an intense craving for some tiramisu, and honestly, my meager $30 food budget wasn’t going to cover ladyfingers, unsweetened cocoa powder and coffee liquor. So I found a decent looking recipe online and searched my kitchen, then hit up the grocery store. I ended up spending about $10 extra outside of my regular spending, but it was well worth it. I ended up changing several things in the original recipe, but when I served the dish to friends, no one said, “Hey, did you switch the cocoa powder for your boyfriend’s Nesquik?” or “Why didn’t you use vanilla sugar? It has a much more subtle taste than just regular granulated sugar and vanilla extract!” In fact, no one said much because
they were too busy gorging themselves on cake. WHAT YOU’LL NEED 6 egg yolks 1/2 cup of table sugar 4 teaspoons vanilla extract 1 box of vanilla wafers (I use the reduced fat generic kind) 2 cups of coffee Nesquik 2 8-ounce containers of mascarpone cheese So here’s all you need to do to treat yourself and your friends, while not spending a fortune: The substitutions I ended up making were vanilla wafers for lady fingers, regular coffee for coffee liquor, Nesquik instead of cocoa powder, and vanilla extract and sugar instead of vanilla sugar. In the end, I only had to buy the cheese (which was the most pricey expenditure at $3.50 for each container) and the wafers. As for the Nesquik, it’s going to be something you’ll probably use a lot more than cocoa powder, so even if you don’t have any on handthinkabouthowoftenyou’lldrink yummy chocolate milk versus how often you’re going to be doing extensive baking before you go shopping. Also, one of your friends is bound to have some kind of chocolate milk powder mix anyway. I grabbed an 8-by-8 inch circular baking pan to make it in, but a pie tin works fine too. First, I separated the eggs, making sure to save the egg whites in a Tupperware container. After such a sugary treat, a super healthy breakfast of egg whites is just as useful to your health as it is delicious. Immediately place the egg whites in the fridge. Pour the egg yolks in a large mixing bowl (it’s going to need to be a pretty good size) and then add the sugar and the vanilla. Mix these together
thoroughly with either a wooden spoon or a whisk. If you just prefer to use an electric mixer, make sure it’s set on low. The directions of the original recipe says to fold in the mascarpone cheese (which is like cream cheese but with a smoother texture and no flavor) into the yolk and sugar mixture, but I gave up on folding after five minutes and just carefully stirred it in. (It might be easier if you have an electric mixer, but let’s take a second to remember that I’m a person who’d rather save three bucks than just buy cocoa powder. There’s no way I’d dish out $20 for something I can do by hand.)
Now for the fun part: Pour the coffee you made (you can even use instant coffee, but java is the one thing I don’t skimp on) into a mug or glass bowl. You can choose whether or not you want to try to quickly dip the vanilla wafers into the coffee and place on the tin before they disintegrate, or go ahead and arrange the wafers into the pan and then sprinkle it on. I chose the latter because I lack the necessary coordination and timing to pull off the former. Just try to cover the bottom with wafers. You can stack a little if you like, but don’t overdo it or the tiramisu will be too heavy and rich.
Once your wafers have all had their coffee, layer on half of the cheese mixture. Smooth it out before making another layer of coffee-soaked-wafer. Once you’ve finished, cover with some plastic wrap and chill in the fridge for at least an hour. Before serving, sprinkle the Nesquik on top, giving it that pretty, dusted look tiramisu is famous for.
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aybe you grew up in the primetime of action films like “Rambo,” or 15 years later when Michael Bay was finding this mailbox or that spacecraft to blowup. Either way the storyline behind “Predators” is something that everyone can agree with: Without going overboard, it brings back the memories of its predecessor and still makes it fun. Those who come into the film are probably already well acquainted with the “Predators” dynamic: The advanced warriors that fight with advanced weaponry, trying to become the best in the universe. From the previous movies, you would know that they have a certain level of honor and that comes into play when our heroes Royce, Isabella and a gaggle of convicts and criminals find themselves hunted by a trio of the aliens. In this installment, all that’s been changed is that the predators are not one, but three, and they have moved our “heroes” onto an alien planet to be hunted for sport and for the thrill. While all of this seems overly complicated and practiced in execution, the majesty of the film is that nothing is really shoved in your face. Take Adrian Brody’s character, for example. He is brooding, dark and angry for no good reason, while sole female Alice Braga is sweet, deadly and somewhat charming. How they play off each other in the death trap that is the alien jungle is what makes it something worth watching. The runaround, crazed antics of Lawrence Fishburne (who pops up solely for plot
progression) make you actually just sit back and watch. Thankfully, the directing of the film never leads you astray with over-the-top explosions or needless gore. Nimrod Antal, coming back from the extended thriller “Vacancy” and action flick “Armored” has done a decent job of blending the shock, the action and the superimposed comedy. You don’t need an alien and a Yakuza member to have a samurai-like sword fight, but it doesn’t hurt if it’s done right, right? As long as the acting is done right and it can be followed at a legitimate pace, then everything works out well. This is not meant to come out and receive an Oscar. It’s here to entertain and make someone smile or laugh. One has to take into consideration that people don’t need a film like “Predators” to do well in the box office. Instead, you want it to just be a decent enough movie to sit around and watch with friends. As long as it sticks true to the canon of the series (and it surprisingly does) and brings back those fond memories of when Arnold trudged through the jungle to win the fight (that’s two-fortwo) then in the end, you win the day.
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he thing about the summer blockbuster is that producers and directors try to get their big story out right away and make it as explosive as possible. What they forget is that the story is the most important part of anything they will do. That is the big issue with “Despicable Me:” It becomes more of a tale of “It’s so fluffy!” without leaving having anything to grab onto. However, who could blame it? Developed by Illumination Entertainment — a newcomer in the world of CGI pictures that’s starting out in the same summer with the blockbuster hit “Toy Story 3,” both the company and directors Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud had their work cut out for them. While their intentions were good, it’s almost as if they were trying too hard from the film’s beginning, right down to the end with the jabbering of the little minions. The film steps into the feet of Gru (Steve Carell), a supervillian with an army of yellow Excedrin-looking minions that create bits and pieces of cuteness throughout the film. This
doesn’t account for his mother (Julie Andrews), arch-enemy Vector (Jason Segel) and a trio of orphans that arrive on Gru’s doorstep to change a heart he didn’t know he had. Sounds jam packed, doesn’t it? It is. Especially when you learn that everyone is connected to each other in a hodgepodge of a family feud. Gru has always played second fiddle to Vector and has never received enough love from his mother. This fuels his caper to shrink the moon — all because he never got enough hugs as a child. It all becomes convoluted in an effort to make people love both the characters and the film. The story bounces from one plot point to another, forgetting what the characters were talking about for a slapstick joke or potty humor. Now understandably, this is for children, but both Pixar and Dreamworks have proven that you can make your movie entertaining and intelligent without killing for a joke. At the same time, you almost feel angry with yourself for not laughing. You watch the movie, you see the
punch lines coming and you begin to giggle at the impending joke or fall, knowing that this is all being tried and tested far too hard. It’s either wellwritten placement or simply the world that has been created — a world full of overly produced robots, guns bigger than a man’s head and, well, minions — that make it work. Arguably, the overriding aspect of the film is that there is simply too much and not enough. Too much overacting from Carell and Segel to allow the story move along, while not enough concrete direction will ultimately be the movie’s downfall. Is it something to watch once? Sure, why not? If it has something to give you to remember and hold onto is a completely different
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ESPN, ACC reach 12-year television agreement ALEX JACKSON sports editor Late last week, ESPN and the Atlantic Coast Conference struck a 12-year television deal, more than doubling the conference’s television revenue while guaranteeing the conference financial stability for years to come. The deal gives ESPN exclusive rights to every conference-controlled football and men’s basketball game, plus women’s basketball and Olympic sports match-ups, and conference championships. According to a statement made by the ACC, ESPN will now serve as the national cable and broadcast TV home for the conference. It will also serve as the distributor of syndication telecasts via an agreement with Raycom Sports, through which Raycom Sports will continue its long-standing position as the syndication home of ACC content. In other words, Raycom Sports will continue to syndicate ACC content while the conference’s games will not be blacked out in its 12 local markets. “We are excited to be continuing our partnership with ESPN and Raycom Sports,” ACC commissioner John Swofford said after the agreement was made official. “This agreement allows our schools to reach significantly new financial heights while also showcasing more ACC content and coverage than ever before across traditional and new media platforms.”
While the two sides did not release financial terms, a person who spoke on the condition of anonymity to the Associated Press said the deal increases the average annual TV revenues per school from $5.4 million to an estimated $11.9 million. More than doubling the conference’s annual revenue to $155 million, it also makes the ACC the third-highest grossing conference in college sports, trailing just the Big Ten ($242 million) and Southeastern Conference ($205 million). The deal comes after a season in which the league’s schools won a record eight national championships, with Duke’s triumph in April marking the conference’s fifth men’s basketball title in 10 seasons. It will result in approximately 4,800 ACC events over the 12 years on ESPN’s television outlets, digital and mobile platforms, syndication and more. “Some of ESPN’s most memorable moments have featured the ACC and we’re proud to extend our longterm relationship with this great conference and Raycom,” said George Bodenheimer, President of ESPN, Inc. ESPN has been televising ACC content since the first year of the network in 1979-80. However, never has it had the dedication to the conference that it will have beginning in 2011-12. Highlights of the football deal include national games on Saturday afternoons and evenings, primetime
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ference tournament produced and distributed via ESPN and Raycom Sports. “We are very excited to continue our 30 year partnership with the ACC and ESPN,” said Ken Haines, President and CEO of Raycom Sports. “Throughout the ever-changing landscape of sports television, we have always prided ourselves on the long term relationships we have with both the ACC and ESPN.” Under the deal, ESPN will have a new, weekly ESPNU Sunday telecast and will continue televising ACC action on ESPN’s Super Tuesday, Wednesday Night Hoops, Thursday Night Showcase and on Saturdays. A record number of women’s regular season basketball games and the addition of the entire conference tour-
nament are included in the deal as well. Additionally, an expanded commitment to the league’s 22 sponsored Olympic sports, increasing ESPN’s coverage to include regular season and conference championship events is included in the agreement. The agreement, which will last until 2022-23, includes all of ESPN’s entities including ESPN, ESPN on ABC, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN3.com, the new ESPN 3D network, ESPN Mobile TV, ESPN GamePlan, ESPN FULL COURT, ESPN International, ESPN Deportes, ESPN Classic and ESPN.com. Numerous events will also be produced in high definition across ESPN HD, ABC HD, ESPN2 HD and ESPNU HD.
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‘Larger than life’ Yankees’ Steinbrenner dies at 80 MARK HERRMANN mcclatchy newspapers George Steinbrenner took over the Yankees in 1973, promising to be an absentee owner. Instead, he became a larger-than-life presence who changed the sport, the city and the storied franchise that he made more profitable and popular than it ever had been. Steinbrenner died Tuesday morning
at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Tampa, Fla., after having suffered a massive heart attack on Monday night. He was 80, having been saluted by the Yankees at Yankee Stadium on his birthday, July 4. “It is with profound sadness that the family of George M. Steinbrenner III announces his passing,” the Steinbrenner family said in a statement released by the Yankees. “He
passed away this morning in Tampa, Fla., at age 80. “He was an incredible and charitable man. First and foremost he was devoted to his entire family — his beloved wife, Joan; his sisters, Susan Norpell and Judy Kamm; his children, Hank, Jennifer Jessica and Hal; and all of his grandchildren. “He was a visionary and a giant in the world of sports. He took a great but
struggling franchise and turned it into a champion again.” Steinbrenner became a well-known figure in Blacksburg after generously donating $1 million to the Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund after the April 16, 2007 shootings. “We are saddened by the passing of George Steinbrenner, owner of the New York Yankees,” Virginia Tech president Charles Steger said in a statement Tuesday night. In March of 2008, he sent the Yankees to Blacksburg for an exhibition game against the Hokies. “While that match was no match, it exemplified Steinbrenner’s huge heart and passion for helping others... and helping this community to heal,” Steger said. Under his watch, the Yankees won seven World Series titles, moved into a new Yankee Stadium, formed the YES Network and became a worldwide brand. Along the way, he became a part of the American landscape, wooing free agents, firing managers, getting suspended from baseball twice, giving lavishly to charities, appearing in TV commercials, hosting Saturday Night Live and allowing a character bearing his name to become a regular on “Seinfeld.” Mostly, he was known for the way he ran the most famous organization in pro sports. During his introductory news conference on Jan. 3, 1973, when the group that he headed announced that it had bought the Yankees from CBS, Steinbrenner said, “We plan absentee ownership as far as running the Yankees. We’re not going to pretend we’re something we aren’t. I’ll stick to building ships.” It was not long, however, before the Yankees were supporting his shipbuilding company, rather than the other way around. With a relentless drive that created an air of electricity, he made the
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