| Mr.Aries male pageant at Del Rio High School
Fifteen Del Rio High School males made history Monday night as they took part in the schools first ever Mr. Aries Male Pageant.
When the event was over, sophomore Hugo Sanchez, son of Dina Sanchez, took home the top honor plus a $100 scholarship.
To win was something really cool. I really wasnt expecting to win. I thought Joe (Valdez) would win, but this is very nice, Sanchez said.
In addition to winning Mr. Aries, Sanchez also won the Peoples Choice Award, which was awarded to the contestant whose collection box contained the most money.
First Runner-Up, and a $75 scholarship, went to senior Michael Hanson, son of Michael and Jackie Hanson. Second Runner-Up, and a $50 scholarship, went to senior Lance Schmidt, son of Lon and Kathy Smith.
A play of note
LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa - Jon Marans couldn't have asked for a more enthusiastic response to "Old Wicked Songs," his first major success as a playwright. The play won high-profile awards in New York and Los Angeles and was nominated for a Pulitzer in 1996.
An oddity among plays, "Old Wicked Songs" revolves around an intricate piece of music, Robert Schumann's song cycle "Dichterliebe." Through the analysis and performance of the song cycle, a burnt-out Jewish American piano prodigy and his emotionally distraught Austrian piano teacher learn to deal with their respective demons.
The play, a coup for Marans, opened at Philadelphia's Walnut Street Theater and later moved to the Jewish Repertory Theater in New York. It tallied more than 200 performances in an off-Broadway run at the Promenade Theater, but as is so often the case, the playwright's signature success eventually felt more like a shackle.
A Time to Represent: SIUC hosting heap of events to honor Asian ...
To celebrate Asian-American Heritage Month, Student Development Multicultural Programs and Services at Southern Illinois University Carbondale has put together a slate of informative and entertaining events that will appeal to people of all cultures."It's always good to share something that most people won't experience without leaving the country," said Yuki Nakayama, an intern for Student Development MPS and one of the planners.
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Lessons from the Free Kareem campaign
Even though the “Free Kareem" campaign has not yet achieved its primary goal of getting the 22-old blogger Kareem Nabel Sulaiman released from the prison where he is sentenced to spend the next four years for insulting Islam and the Egyptian president Hosni Moubarek, support for the case is growing rapidly, both online and offline. Even those who may not agree with the things he wrote on his personal blog — or the manner in which he wrote them — are expressing solidarity with Kareem by signing petitions, demonstrating in the streets, blogging about the case and adding his banner to their sites and blogs. Worldwide rallies designed to help “Free Kareem" have taken place in front of several Egyptian embassies around the globe and the case has caught the attention of both mainstream and citizen media.
GameStop Q4 2006 Earnings Call Transcript
Good morning and welcome to GameStop Corporation's fourth quarter and year-end sales and earnings results conference call. (Operator Instructions) I would like to remind you that this call is covered by the Safe Harbor disclosure contained in GameStop's public documents and is the property of GameStop. It is not for rebroadcast or use by any other party without the prior written consent of GameStop. At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to Mr. Dick Fontaine, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of GameStop Corporation. Please go ahead, sir. Dick Fontaine Thank you. Good morning and thank you for joining us to review GameStop's 2006 fiscal year and an even more promising forecast for 2007. As mentioned, I'm Dick Fontaine, GameStop's Chairman and CEO.
Council advised to bolster police
Bethlehem needs to increase the size of its police force by 30 people soon or its ''backbone is going to break,'' the incoming president of the city's police union told members of City Council on Wednesday night.
Wade Haubert, who in addition to being a police officer is a veteran of the current war in Iraq, compared what is happening to Bethlehem police to the plight of soldiers in the four-year-old war, saying city law enforcement officers are overworked and understaffed.
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Association Health Insurance Q and A
For small telecom businesses in particular, the cost of providing health insurance coverage for employees has grown tremendously during the past several years. Some companies no longer than afford to adequately cover the healthcare needs of their workers. .
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