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Most comedians getting writer's bloc would logically rush to snare the low-hanging fruit available from 2017's byzantine politics.

There's a president with a hairstyle straight out of a 1950's sci-fi "B" movie.

He's got Machiavellian advisers playing off, or squaring off against, a Jewish prince and princess, powers behind the throne, in the same suite of West Wing offices.

Prune-faced legislative leaders spout holier-than-thou homilies.

If a jokester could not craft at least part of his/her show off the flow of current events, they've buried their heads in the sand.

But maybe, just maybe, a comedian has developed a style and schedule not dependent on satire of real-life characters – except herself.

And maybe her routine isn't bolstered by insulting her own audience.

Maybe it's old-school escapism tinged with 21st century personal sensibilities.

That describes multi-media practitioner, Las Vegas headliner, nice-Jewish-girl Rita Rudner, coming to the theater near you – in this case the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie on April 21.

The 63-year-old Rudner explained the craft of comedy in the flow of a phone interview from her Las Vegas home.

If she was on the air nightly, "I could write a (political) joke right now.

The problem is it changes every day, every minute.

By the time I get to Skokie, it'll be irrelevant.

The only way you can do political humor is have a nightly forum.

You do your five minutes of monologue, throw it away and do a new one the next night.

(Political discourse) changes every minute."

Not that Rudner is apolitical and unmotivated.

"I do have my strong beliefs," she said.

In 2009, Rudner teamed with Bette Midler and Sheryl Crow to craft a fund-raiser for then-President Barack Obama and then-Senate Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid, representing Nevada.

"You can tell by looking at me what my beliefs are," Rudner said.

"I don't think because people come to my show they have to think the same things I do, even though I know I'm right.

"The news is assaulting every day, it's worrisome and I'd like people to leave (her show) refreshed."

Her style is more observational and anecdotal, descended from the Jerry Seinfeld mold.

Rudner traces her comic inspirations all the way back to Jack Benny and Woody Allen.

"I never thought I'd be a comedian," Rudner said of paying attention to comics in her Baby Boom-era youth.

I would pay much more attention to Gwen Verdon.

"When I started doing comedy, because I was kind of a shy, introverted person, I asked who was another shy, introverted Jewish person?

He was somebody I listened to a lot because I thought he was the best crafter of jokes.

I could figure out the reason things were funny because his structure was so clear."

Rudner also was at George Burns' side for one of his late-life birthday celebrations.

These and other comic influences have comprised Rudner's popular act, the vintage, big-haired 1980s version available on YouTube, other tapes floating about from her guest gigs on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and the David Letterman Show, and her mature-woman, savvy standup storyteller and "epigrammatic one-liners" all over the internet from recent live performances.

So for one night it will be Vegas in Skokie, Rudner tapping from the momentum of having sold almost two million tickets for 15 years starting at the MGM Grand in June 2000, becoming the longest running solo comedy show in the history of Las Vegas.

She was named Las Vegas' "comedian of the year" nine years in a row.

Later, she ranged far and wide across the country with her routine, filling Carnegie Hall in New York three times.

Throughout her three-decade run, Rudner has learned to slit open her creative vein daily, bleed it dry if necessary and start all over again the next day to craft her performances.

"I have a very simple answer, I keep trying.

I never stop trying," she said of jokewriting.

Sometimes I sit down and I look at something I wrote 10 years ago and I say, 'Oh, I understand how I can make that funny.'"

Sometimes I see a word and I say that word will be good in a joke and I write it down.

"I always sit down with my notebook about 45 minutes before the show, and go over everything that I think that might be something and figure out where I might put it.

Then I have to get a feel for the audience and see if they're a giving audience or a judgmental audience, to see how they would react to this or that.

And I usually put a new joke between two jokes that work."

Far from Vegas, Rudner will change her style with more audience participation.

"I take out my notebook at the end," she said.

"I say, 'Now I've been funny for an hour, 20 minutes, would you like to help me try to write some new jokes?'

Then I say things if they laugh, I put a star next to it.

Rudner will not do dry runs or dress rehearsals.

There's no audience off which to bounce her jokes in a comic's batting practice.

I talk the way I talk and do it the way I do it.

On her guest shots, Rudner was set up nicely by Carson, possibly the greatest comic ad-libber in history and a protégé of Benny.

In a 1965 "Tonight" skit, Carson watched as Jewish actor Ed Ames, playing the Native American "Mingo" on the "Daniel Boone" program, demonstrated his tomahawk-throwing ability.

Ames heaved the tomahawk at an outline of a cowboy.

The blade landed squarely on the cowboy's groin.

Amid uncontrolled laughter from the cast and audience, the very Nebraska gentile Carson ad-libbed, "Frontier bris."

A comic can refine his ad-libs over the years.

But like a raw athletic skill, you either have it or you don't.

"I think he had a very, very natural (ad-lib) ability," Rudner said of Carson.

That has to be something you have in you.

You never know what was going to come out.

The more you test yourself, the better you get at anything."

Rudner's own confidence as a comic soared via approval from Carson as he watched her routine.

"What was really great about Johnny was he was a very good audience for comedians.

That's another reason why comedians wanted to be on his show.

Carson, Letterman and all their brethren also lived on double entendres, pushing the envelope of taste and R-rated humor according to the mores of the times.

Now, their late-night successors use words and terminology that would have been forbidden on a young Rita Rudner guest shot.

Again, a comic is comfortable in her own skin and does not feel pressure to flirt with raunchiness no matter what the era.

"It doesn't really matter what the year is," Rudner said.

I don't say, 'Oh, my gosh, I'm free now.

I don't think about pushing the envelope.

I don't think everyone should have one kind of humor.

Rudner also will tailor the ethnicity of her act based on the audience.

Logically, she could well-stock the show with Jewish humor based on her life and others she knows.

But she also realizes that Jewish audiences will far better "get" Jewish humor.

"If it's a predominately Jewish audience, I have a different way of beginning my act than if it's a more mixed audience," she said.

"You always have to look who you're playing to.

I don't do anything consciously (Jewish angle), like I really want to write a joke about this or that.

It's whatever really happening in my life that I want to write about."

She is a frequent collaborator with Martin Bergman, her husband of 28 years.

They have written film scripts, plays and books together.

Rudner wanted to do her own project after her husband wrote a script for a video mini-series based on a book the couple wrote, "Turning the Tables," about a revenge relationship in Las Vegas.

After five previous books, she is now working on her autobiography.

"This year my challenge is writing my autobiography," she said.

Every day I sit down, write and it's fun.

"I just keep thinking every year I have to do something to challenge myself.

Last year I did my first two-person play, which I've never done before."

In Jan. 2016, Rudner appeared at the Laguna Playhouse in the new play by David Ambrose and Claudia Nellens entitled "Act 3," alongside English actor Charles Shaughnessy.

"It was really daunting because you have to memorize a lot of dialogue," she said.

"When there are only two people talking, when the other person stops, you got to start.

Another person with whom Rudner alternates the start-and-stop of the lively art of conversation is 14-year-old daughter Molly Bergman.

The aspiring singer-songwriter opens some of her mother's shows.

"She's been on stage a long time," Rudner said.

She's seen me go on stage my whole life.

It's a natural for her to walk on stage.

Molly started wanting to play the guitar after watching the 'Hannah Montana' show on the Disney Channel.

She loves the guitar, and started on the piano.

President Barack Obama in Las Vegas greeting entertainers at Caesars Palace on May 26, 2009.(Official White House photo by Pete Souza)

She hosts open-mic nights at a restaurant.

We carry the sound equipment, and sit there making sure nobody bothers her.

She's also a very, very good tennis player and is very good in science.

Ah, but Molly Bergstrom has a senior advisor if she wants to combine humor and music.

"I'm definitely part-Tiger Mom," Rudner said.

More so than being on stage together is a close mother-daughter relationship.

Rudner avoids long road trips so she can be involved in her daughter's life.

On this day, the pair planned to have their nails done together.

More adventurous outings are scheduled when they travel around the world when Rudner is not performing.

"I've been ziplining with her in New Zealand.

I've been snorkeling with her in Bora Bora.

I've been climbing mountains with her," Rudner told the Las Vegas Review-Journal in 2016.

Once grown, Molly Bergman will have to get quite busy to match her mother's multi-media resume.

In 2001 and 2003, Rudner helped write the Oscar shows with Steve Martin.

In between, in '02, she teamed with Whoopie Goldberg for Academy Awards scripting.

Also in 2003, Rudner launched from Las Vegas her first syndicated daily TV show, "Ask Rita," which ran two seasons featuring a panel of celebrities lightheartedly attempting to solve personal problems submitted by members of the public.

"Ask Rita" earned Rudner a Gracie Allen Award for best program host from the American Women in Radio and Television.

Rudner's first solo HBO special, "Rita Rudner's One Night Stand," was nominated for several awards.

Later HBO one-hour specials were ratings standouts: "Born to Be Mild" and "Married Without Children."

In 2008, "Rita Rudner Live from Vegas" was PBS' first-ever standup comedy special.

She also aired a BBC-TV show in England that later appeared in the U.S. on the A&E cable network.

Now she alights in Skokie, a venue she has played before.

No fool, she scheduled her North Shore Center for the Performing Arts booking after the snow season ended.

My favorite place, right between Ulta and Designer Shoe Warehouse," she said.

But there likely won't be jokes about Chicago's chancy weather or its often-unfunny Jewish mayor.

In the true spirt of the great Jewish jokewriters in history, Rudner's own story will provide more than enough grist for a night of chuckles.

Tickets for Rita Rudner's show at 8 p.m. April 21 are $42, $50 and $58.

They can be purchased at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts' box office, 9501 N. Skokie Blvd., via phone at 847/673-6300 or on-line at www.northshorecenter.org/events-tickets/box-office/.

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 After leaving Cambridge University in 1979, Bergman produced several live arena shows with his Australian partner Michael Edgley, including the world tour of ice skaters Torvill and Dean. He also produced several comedy shows in Australia, Britain and the USA. Bergman married the American comedian Rita Rudner in 1988. They have written several award-winning films, plays and TV projects together.


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If "Wings of Courage" had not been filmed in the 3-D IMAX process, and projected onto a five-story screen--if it had been, in short, an ordinary movie--there wouldn't have been much in the acting or screenplay to recommend it.

But the dramatic credits are beside the point.

The only reason to see the movie is to experience the process, and that's reason enough.

I've been watching 3-D movies since my father took me to the first one, "Bwana Devil," in 1952.

I've seen "Amityville 3-D," "Jaws 3-D," and even "The Stewardesses in 3-D," a soft-core porn film with stars whose body parts loomed alarmingly over the audience.

All of them had one thing in common: The 3-D wasn't very good.

Now IMAX has developed 3-D to be projected on the world's largest screens, with a process that uses a wider film gauge, more intense light and a brighter screen (covered with five coats of silver).

And instead of those flimsy little glasses with the red-and-green lenses, you get space-age goggles that wrap around your head and make you look like Tom Corbett, Space Cadet.

The goggles are high-tech; they have liquid crystal lenses that are controlled by radio waves, and each lens blinks 48 times a second, in sync with the projected image.

The result is breathtakingly good: The picture at last looks truly three-dimensional.

Because the screen is so large, the illusion isn't constantly being shattered when an object touches the edge of the screen.

And because the light source is so strong, the picture isn't dim and washed out.

The movie is showing at the IMAX Theater at Navy Pier, which recently shut down to install the new projectors necessary for the process.

It's one of only four theaters in the country capable of showing IMAX 3-D (another is the Sony flagship theater on Broadway in New York City).

IMAX movies are more or less limited to a 40-minute running time because of the huge size of their film reels (you need a block and pulley to lift one).

"Wings of Courage" finds that more than long enough for its thin story, which involves the early days of commercial aviation in South America.

A company is established by aviation pioneer Antoine Saint-Exupery (Tom Hulce) to extend airmail service over the Andes, and Henri Guillaumet (Craig Sheffer) is the brave pilot who flies his flimsy little craft into mountain storms.

Elizabeth McGovern plays his wife, Noelle Guillaumet; and Val Kilmer is Jean Mermoz, the heroic pilot who is his inspiration.

The story: Guillaumet takes off, crashes and spends several days trekking back through breathtaking mountain scenery to civilization.

Meanwhile, Saint-Exupery searches for him, and Guillaumet's wife waits fearfully at home.

Because IMAX screens are so large, quick cutting between closeups can actually cause disorientation and even nausea in an audience.

Outdoor scenes with lots of long shots are best.

The director, Jean-Jacques Annaud, captures the vastness and beauty of the mountains (actually, the Canadian Rockies) in shots of incredibly clarity, which allow us to see for miles.

The film's opening shots, in which a plane seems to hover in the center of the theater space, are far beyond anything 3-D has achieved before.

Other shots, of the biplane in a storm, are not quite as impressive, because it's pretty clear that a model is being used.

There are a few straight dramatic scenes--in a nightclub, in the airline headquarters and with the wife at home--and they're so detailed and realistic, they're almost distracting.

There's so much in each scene to look at that I found it hard to focus on the characters because I was checking out other details.

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In "Wings of Courage," Annaud uses those speakers to allow Sheffer's private thoughts to be whispered into our ears.

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As part of a three-month deal with Tetley Tea announced in October 2011, Smooth Radio's logo appeared on Tetley products sold in British supermarkets.

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# Tetley and Smooth Radio form partnership

GMG Radio's national station Smooth Radio has agreed a commercial partnership with tea maker Tetley.

The three month deal will see the station's branding appear on a million boxes of Tetley decaf this winter.

The arrangement, which runs from November until February 2012, gives Tetley sponsorship of Andy Peebles' weeknight evening show using the 'Gaffer' in sponsorship tags and a week-long promotion in Mark Goodier's morning show next January.

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# GMG Radio trialling new all-70s station

RadioToday.co.uk can exclusively reveal that GMG Radio will introduce a new national 70s station on Digital One.

The new service, to be called Smooth 70s, will start on December 27th on the channel currently used by Smooth Xmas.

The station will begin life as a non-stop music service without adverts, features or programmes.

Just station imaging will identify the station between songs.

The move follows Absolute Radio's recent launch of Absolute 70s on November 29th, which currently brands itself as "The UK's Only 70s Radio Station", although only available on DAB in London.

Smooth 70s first started life in the summer as a steam on we7.com, along with Smooth 60s and Smooth Soul.

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Descended from prominent and wealthy New York families, she was trained for a life in society.

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Late in 1842, the Gardiners went to Washington for the winter social season, where Julia became the undisputed darling of the capital.

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Tragedy brought Tyler's courtship poignant success the next winter.

Julia's father lost his life in the explosion of a huge naval gun.

Tyler comforted Julia in her grief and won her consent to a secret engagement.

The first president to marry in office took his vows in New York on June 26, 1844.

The news was then broken to the American people, who greeted it with keen interest, much publicity, and some criticism about the couple's difference in age: 30 years.

As young Mrs. Tyler said herself, she "reigned" as first lady for the last eight months of her husband's term.

She enjoyed her position immensely and filled it with grace.

For receptions she revived the formality of the Van Buren administration, welcoming guests with plumes in her hair and attended by maids of honor.

She once declared, "Nothing appears to delight the President more than...to hear people sing my praises."

The Tylers' happiness was unshaken when they retired to their home at Sherwood Forest in Virginia.

There, Julia bore five of her seven children and acted as mistress of the plantation until the Civil War.

She defended both states' rights and the institution of slavery.

She championed the political views of her husband, who remained for her "the President" until the end of his life.

His death in 1862 came as a severe blow to her.

As a refugee in New York, she devoted herself to volunteer work for the Confederacy.

Congress in 1870 voted a pension for Mary Lincoln, and Julia Tyler used this precedent in seeking help.

In December 1880 Congress voted her $1,200 a year - and after Garfield's assassination, it passed bills to grant uniform amounts of $5,000 annually to Mrs. Garfield, Mrs. Lincoln, Mrs. Polk, and Mrs. Tyler.

Living out her last years comfortably in Richmond, Julia died there in 1889 and was buried there at her husband's side.

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 President Tyler proposed marriage several more times before being accepted. He and Julia Gardiner wed on June 26, 1844.


Each artist will perform a solo song alongside the coaches duets.

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# The Voice Kids 2019 finalists to duet with their coaches in live final

Posted July 26, 2019 21:35 by Josh Darvill

The Voice Kids 2019 finalists will duet with their coaches in the live final.

While we're used to seeing the duets in the adult version it's the first time that The Voice Kids final will see each finalist sing with their coach.

The finalists on The Voice Kids are 10-year-old Lil Shan Shan (Team Will) , 9-year-old Keira Laver (Team Jessie), 12-year-old Gracie-Jayne Fitzgerald (Team Pixie) and 13-year-old Sam Wilkinson (Team Danny).

Pixie Lott and Gracie-Jayne will be singing River Deep, Mountain High by Ike & Tina Turner while Danny Jones and Sam will perform Hey Jude by The Beatles.

Will.i.am and Lil Shan Shan will duet on Pump It by The Black Eyed Peas and Jessie J and Keira will perform When You Believe by Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston.

Alongside the coaches duets, the four finalists will also each perform a solo song before viewers are given the opportunity to vote for their favourite.

While the coaches will offer comments it'll be the public poll alone that decides the winner.

The prize for The Voice Kids champion 2019 will be a £30,000 bursary towards their musical education as well as a family holiday to Orlando courtesy of Universal Studios and Norwegian Air.

Together with the competitive performances, Little Mix will appear as special guests, performing their latest single Bounce Back.

They said ahead of the final: "We're so excited to be performing at The Voice Kids final.

The four finalists are all so unique and talented it's impossible to say who might win.

"We can't wait to see their final performances and to cheer them all on."

The Voice Kids 2019 final airs live on Saturday, July 27 at 8PM on ITV.

The results will air in the same show which will conclude at 9.45PM.

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"Million Reasons" was one of the award-winning songs at the BMI Awards.

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# Mark Ronson Receives the BMI Champion Award at the 66th BMI Pop Awards

Justin Tranter named Songwriter of the Year; "Shape of You" awarded Song of the Year; Sony/ATV Music Publishing Presented with Publisher of the Year

Mark Ronson performs onstage at the 66th Annual BMI Pop Awards at Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel on May 8, 2018 in Beverly Hills, California

BMI honored internationally renowned super producer, artist, songwriter and DJ Mark Ronson last night with the BMI Champion Award at its 66th Annual BMI Pop Awards.

The evening also celebrated the songwriters, publishers and administrators of the past year's most-performed pop songs in the United States from BMI's extensive catalogue.

Hosted by BMI President & CEO Mike O'Neill and BMI Vice President Worldwide Creative Barbara Cane, the private event was held at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.

As one of the most sought-after producers in the world, the five-time GRAMMY winner received the BMI Champion Award in recognition of his extraordinary creative accomplishments, dedication to charitable causes and commitment to supporting the next generation of songwriters and music makers.

Marking the first time such an honor was given out at the BMI Pop Awards, Ronson joins an elite group of previous recipients including singer/songwriter/rapper Residente, Country superstar Keith Urban, Congressman Doug Collins (R-GA-9) and singer/songwriter and activist, Lee Thomas Miller.

After receiving his award, Ronson brought the house down with electrifying performances by special guests curated by the hitmaker himself.

His protégé King Princess, backed by Ronson on guitar, performed a mash- up of his hits "Somebody to Love Me," "Ooh Wee," "Joanne," "Uptown Funk," and "Bang Bang Bang."

Yebba followed up with a stunning rendition of "Back to Black" from Amy Winehouse's 2006 album of the same name.

Back to Black went on to sell more than 20 million copies worldwide, earning Ronson a GRAMMY for Producer of the Year in 2008.

Throughout the evening, video tributes were shown from many of Ronson's celebrity friends including Quincy Jones, Nile Rodgers, Sir Paul McCartney, Jimmy Fallon, Chris Martin, Josh Homme and Ellen DeGeneres to name a few.

The 50 best-performing songs were also named including a moving tribute to Mike Shinoda, Brad Delson and the late Chester Bennington of Linkin Park for their hit song "Heavy," marking the band's fourteenth BMI Award.

The BMI Pop Song of the Year went to BMI songwriters Johnny McDaid and Ed Sheeran for the smash hit "Shape of You," which spent 12 weeks at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart and 33 consecutive weeks in the Top 10, the longest run for a single in the history of the chart.

Justin Tranter took home the coveted Songwriter of the Year award for the second year in a row for his hand in co-writing hit singles "Believer" performed by Imagine Dragons, "Cold" performed by Maroon 5 featuring Future, "Heavy" performed by Linkin Park and "Issues" by Juliana Michaels.

Sony/ATV Music Publishing took home Publisher of the Year for representing 26 of the top 50 most performed songs of the previous year.

Below is the complete list of the 2018 Pop Award winners.

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"Joanne" made several publications' year-end lists. "Billboard" ranked it as the 32nd best album of 2016, adding that the "kitchen-sink pop album" had an "instant-classic breakup ballad" in "Million Reasons", which enabled Gaga to reclaim "her sweet spot with "Joanne"". "Digital Spy"'s Lewis Corner placed the record at number nine, believing that "simplicity" was the key to the album's success. "Joanne" was "NME" magazine's 20th best album of the year, with the publication highlighting how it hearkened back to the stripped-down sound employed by Gaga in her early years as an artist. For "Rolling Stone", the album was the seventh-best release of 2016, with a writer from the magazine feeling that, "Gaga's soft-rock transformation takes the pop star into a new direction without losing her flair for the dramatic and penchant for the kitschy." The album was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards, while "Million Reasons" was nominated for Best Pop Solo Performance.


It was one of three works commissioned by the Dallas Opera in 2015.

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# The Dallas Opera Announces Commission of New Work by Composer Mark Adamo

Katie Womack | November 15, 2013 | 12:03pm

2015 is shaping up to be a good year for fans of new music and opera in Dallas.

Last night The Dallas Opera announced that acclaimed American composer/librettist Mark Adamo has been commissioned to compose what they are calling "a holiday opera."

The new work is scheduled to be premiered in December 2015 under the direction of TDO's new Music Director Emmanuel Villaume.

He is perhaps most famous for his staging of Little Women (1997), but local audiences may remember more recent performances of his endlessly pleasing Lysistrata from the 2012 Fort Worth Opera festival.

Adamo also made a big splash on the national scene last year when the San Francisco opera produced his much-talked-about The Gospel of Mary Magdalene.

This announcement means that The Dallas Opera will produce three new operas during the 2015 calendar year, an ambitious and welcome achievement for the company.

In February 2015 British composer Joby Talbot's Everest will have its premier, followed by Jake Heggie's October 2015 premier of Great Scott starring Joyce DiDonato.

Commissioning and producing new operas is an expensive endeavor, so the announcement of this and other commissions says good things about the stability of TDO's fiscal health.

New operas are also artistically risky business, but big risks can reap big rewards, and it is exciting for the community that these composers are taking that risk on our stage.

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No word yet on what exactly a "holiday opera" might entail, but Adamo has a knack for theatrical entertainment and spinning catchy, memorable tunes, so whatever he conjures is sure to be a crowd-pleaser.

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"Great Scott" is a 2015 opera with music by Jake Heggie to a libretto by Terrence McNally.
 In a production starring mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, "Great Scott" premiered at the Winspear Opera House in Dallas, Texas, on October 30, 2015.


County Conventions held March 17, 2018, District Conventions held March 24, 2018, and a State Convention held April 14, 2018.

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# Important Dates for the Party Conventions, Primary Elections and General Election

Introductory Note Concerning Conventions of Parties Holding Primary Elections

Precinct conventions may be held at a time and place determined by rules adopted by state executive committee of a political party.

If precinct conventions are held on general primary election day, the hour set for convening conventions may not be earlier than 7:00 p.m. or later than 9:00 p.m., but a convention may not convene until the last voter has voted at the precinct polling place.

If precinct conventions are held on a day other than general primary election day, county executive committee must set the hour for convening or a time frame in which the convention must convene.

County chair must post notice of date, hour, and place for convening precinct convention on county or state party's Internet website or other Internet location easily found through a search engine.

If county party does not maintain an Internet website, chair shall post notice on the county commissioners court bulletin board.

Notice must remain posted continuously for the 10 days immediately preceding the date of convention.

Because convention times are not yet determined, this calendar does not show any deadlines for posting such notices.

Not later than the 10th day before the date of precinct conventions, county chair must deliver to county election officer written notice, either on paper or in electronic form, of date, hour, and place for convening each precinct convention.

State executive committee by rule must specify date county and senatorial conventions will be held.

Political party may by rule allow a county to hold precinct conventions before county convention on same day and at same place as county convention.

Notice of hour and date for convening county convention must be posted electronically on county or state party's Internet website or on the bulletin board used for posting notice of meetings of the commissioners court.

Not later than the 10th day before the date of county and senatorial convention, county chair must deliver to county election officer written notice, either on paper or in electronic form, of date, hour, and place for convening county and senatorial convention.

Biennial state convention must be convened on a date selected by state executive committee.

State convention date is no longer limited to one in June or July.

State executive committee must set date of state convention not later than date state chair delivers to county chairs certification of names for placement on the primary election ballot.

Accordingly, this calendar does not show any deadline or time frame for holding state convention.

Notice of date, hour, and place for convening state convention must be posted by state chair on party's Internet website before date of party's precinct conventions.

First day county chairs may accept applications for a place on the ballot for office of precinct chair.

First day Republican or Democratic Party candidate may file an application for a place on the primary ballot.

First day county chairs may accept applications for a place on the primary ballot for office of county chair.

First day independent candidates may file declaration of intent to run.

If a vacancy for an unexpired term in an office of state or county government occurs after the 10th day before the date of the regular filing deadline, but on or before the 5th day before the date of the regular filing deadline (on or after December 2 and on or before December 6), an application for the unexpired term is subject to an extended filing deadline.

Last day a vacancy for an unexpired term may occur and appear on the primary ballot.

Deadline for county chair (or secretary of county executive committee) to post on political party's Internet website or in the location where a candidate files for a place on the ballot a notice containing the address(es) at which county chair and secretary will be available to receive applications on the last day for filing an application.

Last day Democratic or Republican Party candidate may file an application for a place on the primary ballot (6 p.m.).

NOTE: This deadline is also applicable to applications for a place on the primary election ballot to fill a vacancy for an unexpired term in an office of the state or county government that occurred on or before the 10th day before the date of the regular filing deadline.

See entry at December 18, 2017 for Extended Deadlines

Last day county chairs may accept applications for a place on the ballot for office of county or precinct chair (6 p.m.).

Last day independent candidates may file declaration of intent to run (6 p.m.).

Last day minor party candidates may file applications to be nominated by convention (5 p.m.).

A political party by rule may extend the filing deadline for applications for nomination for an office for which a candidate who has made application withdraws, dies, or is declared ineligible.

If a candidate withdraws, dies or is declared ineligible by this date, the name is omitted from the primary ballot.

Deadline for state or county chair, as applicable, to receive applications for a place on the general primary election ballot for an unexpired term for a vacancy in an office of the state or county government that occurs after the 10th day (December 1, 2017) before the date of the regular filing deadline, but on or before the 5th day (December 6, 2017) before the date of the regular filing deadline (6 p.m.).

(This deadline is extended by Tex. Elec. Code Ann. § 1.006 from the 5th day after the date of the regular filing deadline for the general primary election, which falls on Saturday, December 16.)

Extended Deadline (6 p.m.) for state or county chair to receive an application for a place on the general primary election ballot for an office if a candidate who has made an application that complies with the applicable requirements:

dies on or after the fifth day before the date of the regular filing deadline (December 6, 2017) and on or before the first day after the date of the regular filing deadline (December 12, 2017);

holds the office for which the application was made and withdraws or is declared ineligible on the date of the regular filing deadline (December 11, 2017) or on the first day after the date of the regular filing deadline (December 12, 2017); or

withdraws or is declared ineligible on the date of the regular filing deadline (December 11, 2017) or on the first day after the date of the regular filing deadline (December 12, 2017), and at the time of the withdrawal or declaration of ineligibility no other candidate has made an application that complies with the applicable requirements for the office sought by the withdrawn or ineligible candidate.

NOTE: An application filed by mail with state chair under this Extended Deadline provision is not timely if received later than 5:00 p.m. on the Extended Deadline.

Recommended deadline for state chair to certify to Secretary of State for placement on the general primary election ballot the name of each candidate who files with chair an application that complies with Section 172.021(b) of the Texas Election Code on or before December 11, 2017.

NOTE: The Texas Election Code does not provide a deadline for state chairs to make their certification.

However, because a new law enacted by the 2015 Legislature requires state chairs to notify county chairs no later than the 9th day after the regular filing deadline that the list of district and statewide candidates for the primary has been posted on Secretary of State's website, it is reasonable to request state chairs to make the certification no later than December 18, 2017 so that the information can be posted to Secretary of State's website on or before December 20, 2017, the 9th day after the regular filing deadline.

See entry at December 21, 2017 for certification of candidates who file with state chair an application that complies with Section 172.021(b) of the Texas Election Code on or before the Extended Deadline of December 18, 2017.

Date by which Secretary of State anticipates posting on Secretary of State's Internet website that is viewable by the public certified list of candidates who filed on or before December 11, 2017 provided by state chairs.

Deadline for state chair to notify county chair in each county in which the candidate's name is to appear on the ballot that certification of candidates who filed on or before December 11, 2017 has been posted by Secretary of State.

See entry at December 21, 2017 for supplemental notification of certification of candidates who filed with state chair on or before the Extended Deadline of December 18, 2017.

Deadline for state executive committee to set date, hour, and place for convening state convention.

NOTE: Section 174.092(b) of the Texas Election Code provides that state executive committee must set date, hour, and place for convening state convention not later than the date state chair delivers to county chairs certification of names for placement on the general primary ballot.

However, Section 172.028(a) of the Texas Election Code was amended by House Bill 3103, 2013 Legislative Session, to provide that the state chair no longer certifies names of the district and statewide candidates for the primary ballot to county chairs.

Instead, state chair certifies candidate names to Secretary of State and Secretary of State posts candidate names on his website.

Section 172.028(b) of the Texas Election Code was amended by Senate Bill 1703, 2015 Legislative Session, to provide that state chair must notify county chair in each county not later than the 9th day after the regular filing deadline that certification has been posted by Secretary of State.

Accordingly, the calendar continues to show the 9th day after the regular filing deadline as the deadline for state executive committee to set the date, hour, and place for convening the state convention.

Deadline for chair to post notice on the party's website 24 hours preceding the date, hour, and place of ballot drawing if ballot drawing is conducted on December 21, 2017.

If the party does not maintain an Internet website, the party must post notice on the commissioners court bulletin board.

All candidates who provide an email address on their filing form must be notified electronically of drawing.

NOTE: Section 172.082(e) was amended in 2017 by House Bill 1735 to require that the notice be posted on the party's internet website, and only on the commissioners court bulletin board if the party does not maintain a website.

Deadline for county chair to conduct drawing for candidate order on ballot (unless committee provides by resolution that the county executive committee is to conduct drawing).

Tex. Elec. Code Ann. § 172.082(c), as amended by House Bill 1735, 2017 Legislative Session

NOTE: Section 172.082(b) was amended in 2017 by House Bill 1735 to allow the county chair to conduct the ballot drawing, unless the county executive committee provides by resolution that the drawing shall be conducted by the county executive committee.

Additionally, section 172.082(c) was amended by House Bill 1735 to no longer require that the ballot drawing be conducted in the county seat.

Recommended deadline for state chair to certify to Secretary of State for placement on the general primary election ballot the name of each candidate who files with chair an application that complies with Section 172.021(b) of the Texas Election Code after December 11, 2017 and on or before December 18, 2017.

NOTE: The purpose of this recommendation is to ensure that candidates whose applications are filed in accordance with the Extended Deadlines under Section 202.004(a), (c) of the Texas Election Code, as amended by Senate Bill 904, 2013 Legislative Session, and Section 172.054(b) of the Texas Election Code, as amended by Senate Bills 904 and 910, 2013 Legislative Session, are added to the list of certified candidates previously submitted by state chair to Secretary of State.

See entries at December 12, 2017 and December 28, 2017.

Date by which Secretary of State anticipates posting on Secretary of State's Internet website, that is viewable by the public, additions to the certified list of candidates provided by state chair that are the result of the additional candidates who filed on or before December 18, 2017 in accordance with the Extended Deadlines.

Recommended date for state chair to notify county chair in each county in which the candidate's name is to appear on the ballot that certification of additional candidates who filed by the Extended Deadline on or before December 18, 2017 has been posted by Secretary of State.

See entries at December 11, 2017 and December 18, 2017.

Recommended deadline for county chair and state chair to electronically submit certain candidate information (including information on candidates for county and precinct chair) to county election officer, state chair, and Secretary of State.

Recommended date for county chair to submit the ballot format to primary committee for its approval, for primary committee to approve ballot format, and for county chair to order ballots.

First day for voters to submit application for ballot by mail for March 6 primary election, or for both the March 6 primary election and May 22 runoff primary election.

Last day for party with state organization which intends to make nominations by convention to register with Secretary of State.

Deadline for early voting clerk to mail ballots for the primary election to those overseas voters from whom the clerk has already received applications for ballots by mail or federal postcard applications ("FPCA").

Last day citizens may register to vote in March 6 primary election.

(This deadline is extended by Tex. Elec. Code Ann. § § 13.143(e) from the 30th day before election day, which falls on Sunday, February 4.)

First day of early voting by personal appearance for March 6 primary election.

(This date is extended by Tex. Elec. Code Ann. § 1.006 from the 20th, which is a Saturday, and as February 19, 2017 is President's Day)

Last day for early voting clerk to receive application for ballot by mail for March 6 primary election.

Last day for early voting clerk to receive an FPCA for March 6 primary election.

Last day of early voting by personal appearance for March 6 primary election.

First day independent candidates for offices not involved in runoff primary election may collect signatures for petitions in connection with applications.

Last day to post notice of county executive committee's meeting to canvass returns of primary election because canvass must take place on March 15, 2018.

Notice must be posted at least 72 hours before scheduled time of meeting.

Precinct conventions held to elect delegates to county or district conventions of minor parties.

Local canvass of the primary election by county chair and at least one member of the county executive committee, selected by the county executive committee, must be conducted on this date.

Tex. Elec. Code Ann. § 172.116(b), as amended by Senate Bill 1073, 2015 Legislative Session

NOTE: House Bill 1735, 2017 legislative session, amended section 172.083 of the code to require that the ballot order for a runoff election will be the same as the general election.

As thus, a second ballot drawing for the runoff election is no longer required.

Last day to post notice of state executive committee's meeting to canvass returns of primary election because state canvass must take place on March 18, 2018.

Notice must be posted at least 72 hours before the scheduled time of the meeting.

County convention for minor parties that are nominating candidates for single-county district, county, or precinct offices.

Deadline for state executive committee to conduct state canvass for all races with potential runoffs (races with three or more candidates).

State chair must certify these candidates for statewide and district offices for placement on runoff primary election ballot to county chair as soon as practicable after canvass is completed.

Last day runoff primary candidates may withdraw from ballot (5 p.m.), if the state canvass was held on March 18, 2018.

Recommended deadline if state canvass is held on March 18, 2018 for state chair to certify candidates for statewide and district offices for placement on runoff primary ballot.

District convention for minor parties nominating candidates for multi-county district offices.

Deadline for state executive committee to conduct state canvass for races with no potential runoff.

Deadline for county chair to post on the secretary of state's website the names of persons elected as county chair and precinct chair for the county.

NOTE: House Bill 1735, 2017 legislative session, amended section 172.118 so that written notice is no longer required to be delivered to the state chair or county clerk.

Instead, this information is posted to the secretary of state's website.

Deadline for early voting clerk to mail ballots for the runoff primary election to those overseas voters from whom the clerk has already received applications for ballots by mail or FPCAs.

State convention for minor party that is nominating candidates for statewide offices.

Last day to register to vote in May 22 runoff primary election.

(This deadline is extended by Tex. Elec. Code Ann. § 13.143(e) from the 30th day before election day, which falls on Sunday, April 22.)

Last day for early voting clerk to receive application for ballot by mail for May 22 runoff primary election.

Last day for early voting clerk to receive an FPCA for May 22 runoff primary election.

First day of early voting by personal appearance for May 22 runoff primary election.

Last day of early voting by personal appearance for May 22 runoff primary election.

First day independent candidates for offices involved in runoff election may collect signatures for applications.

Last day to post notice of meeting to canvass returns of runoff primary election because canvass must take place on May 31, 2018.

Notice must be posted at least 72 hours before scheduled time of meeting.

Last day minor party chairs may submit petitions and precinct convention lists to Secretary of State and to the appropriate county clerk (or other county election official) for placement on the November general election ballot.

(This deadline is extended by Tex. Elec. Code Ann. § 1.006 because the 75th day after the precinct conventions falls on Sunday, May 27.)

Local canvass of the runoff primary election by county chair and at least one member of the county executive committee, selected by the county executive committee, must be conducted on this date.

Last day to post notice of state executive committee's meeting to canvass returns of runoff primary election if state canvass takes place on June 9, 2018.

Notice must be posted at least 72 hours before the scheduled time of the meeting.

Deadline for state executive committee to conduct state canvass.

Instead, this information is posted to the secretary of state's website.

Last day independent candidates may file applications and petitions (5 p.m.).

Deadline for state chair to deliver state executive committee's tabulation of runoff primary election to Secretary of State and to certify list of candidates for statewide and district offices who received the necessary votes for nomination at the runoff primary election to Secretary of State, if state executive committee canvassed on June 19, 2018.

Deadline by which former county chair must transfer party bank accounts and records to new county chair; it is a Class C misdemeanor if the former county chair fails to transfer the records.

First day candidates may file declaration of write-in candidacy for November 6 general election.

Last day to order November 6 general election.

Last day candidates may file declaration of write-in candidacy for November 6 general election (5 p.m.).

Last day candidates may withdraw from or be declared ineligible for general election.

Last day citizens may register to vote in November 6 general election.

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In 2015 a change was made where only the first verse of the alma mater is recognized by the university.

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# 'Troubling' lyrics prompt action on NDSU song

The "troubling" lyrics come in the third stanza, which the president of the school said he has never heard.

A North Dakota State University school song will come under review due to "troubling" lyrics in a seldom-heard stanza.

In a letter to the campus community sent Wednesday, NDSU President Dean Bresciani said he was notified that the third stanza of the song contains cultural and ethnic references that are "troubling" by modern standards.

The school in Fargo will be removing all but the first stanza of the song from all university websites and publications, which Bresciani called an "intermediary but immediate" step.

In addition, Timothy Alvarez, vice president for student affairs at NDSU, and Provost Beth Ingram will gather students, staff and faculty to discuss how to balance the history of the song with the need to be appropriate.

There was a "Yellow Out" at the Fargodome as 18,823 witnessed North Dakota State's 28-19 win over Stephen F. Austin on Sept. 8. 2007

Bresciani said he had never heard that part of the song performed, but was notified of the issue through the university's anonymous reporting system for bias issues.

"Our school song, the 'Yellow and the Green,' has been a long-standing and broadly enjoyed tradition of our campus since 1908.

Typically it is only performed through its first stanza; to be honest I have never heard it beyond that and I suspect most in our University community are like me," he said in the release.

Bresciani said some may find his reaction an "overstated concern," while others "will find it central to a deep and sober examination of our campus history."

The change comes months after the University of North Dakota changed their team name to "The Fighting Hawks."

UND, in Grand Forks, also faced criticism earlier this month for continuing to sell merchandise with the old "Fighting Sioux" name and logo.

Ben Farniok is a University of Minnesota student on assignment for the Star Tribune.

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In 1908, the school's alma mater "The Yellow and The Green" was written and a year later the school's official colors, Yellow and Green, were selected.


His 2013 photograph of a polar bear which had starved to death was published in "The Guardian" and elsewhere and called attention to the effect of the lack of sea ice in the Arctic.

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# Starved polar bear perished due to record sea-ice melt, says expert

Climate change has reduced ice in the Arctic to record lows in the past year, forcing animals to range further in search of food

First published on Tue 6 Aug 2013 08.17 EDT

This 16-year-old male polar bear died of starvation resulting from the lack of ice on which to hunt seals.

Photograph: Ashley Cooper/Global Warming Images

A starved polar bear found found dead in Svalbard as "little more than skin and bones" perished due to a lack of sea ice on which to hunt seals, according to a renowned polar bear expert.

Climate change has reduced sea ice in the Arctic to record lows in the last year and Dr Ian Stirling, who has studied the bears for almost 40 years and examined the animal, said the lack of ice forced the bear into ranging far and wide in an ultimately unsuccessful search for food.

"From his lying position in death the bear appears to simply have starved and died where he dropped," Stirling said.

"He had no external suggestion of any remaining fat, having been reduced to little more than skin and bone."

The bear had been examined by scientists from the Norwegian Polar Institute in April in the southern part of Svalbard, an Arctic island archipelago, and appeared healthy.

The same bear had been captured in the same area in previous years, suggesting that the discovery of its body, 250km away in northern Svalbard in July, represented an unusual movement away from its normal range.

The bear probably followed the fjords inland as it trekked north, meaning it may have walked double or treble that distance.

Polar bears feed almost exclusively on seals and need sea ice to capture their prey.

But 2012 saw the lowest level of sea ice in the Arctic on record.

Prond Robertson, at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, said: "The sea ice break up around Svalbard in 2013 was both fast and very early."

He said recent years had been poor for ice around the islands: "Warm water entered the western fjords in 2005-06 and since then has not shifted."

Stirling, now at Polar Bears International and previously at the University of Alberta and the Canadian Wildlife Service, said: "Most of the fjords and inter-island channels in Svalbard did not freeze normally last winter and so many potential areas known to that bear for hunting seals in spring do not appear to have been as productive as in a normal winter.

As a result the bear likely went looking for food in another area but appears to have been unsuccessful."

Scientists are tracking polar bears with radio collars in Svalbard, Norway, to monitor their search for food.

Research published in May showed that loss of sea ice was harming the health, breeding success and population size of the polar bears of Hudson Bay, Canada, as they spent longer on land waiting for the sea to refreeze.

Other work has shown polar bear weights are declining.

In February a panel of polar bear experts published a paper stating that rapid ice loss meant options such the feeding of starving bears by humans needed to be considered to protect the 20,000-25,000 animals thought to remain.

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature, the world's largest professional conservation network, states that of the 19 populations of polar bear around the Arctic, data is available for 12.

Of those, eight are declining, three are stable and one is increasing.

The IUCN predicts that increasing ice loss will mean between one-third and a half of polar bears will be lost in the next three generations, about 45 years.

But the US and Russian governments said in March that faster-than-expected ice losses could mean two-thirds are lost.

Attributing a single incident to climate change can be controversial, but Douglas Richardson, head of living collections at the Highland Wildlife Park near Kingussie, said: "It's not just one bear though.

There are an increasing number of bears in this condition: they are just not putting down enough fat to survive their summer fast.

This particular polar bear is the latest bit of evidence of the impact of climate change."

Ice loss due to climate change is "absolutely, categorically and without question" the cause of falling polar bear populations, said Richardson, who cares for the UK's only publicly kept polar bears.

He said 16 years was not particularly old for a wild male polar bear, which usually live into their early 20s.

"There may have been some underlying disease, but I would be surprised if this was anything other than starvation," he said.

"Once polar bears reach adulthood they are normally nigh on indestructible, they are hard as nails."

Jeff Flocken, at the International Fund for Animal Welfare, said: "While it is difficult to ascribe a single death or act to climate change it couldn't be clearer that drastic and long-term changes in their Arctic habitat threaten the survival of the polar bear.

The threat of habitat loss from climate change, exacerbated by unsustainable killing for commercial trade in Canada, could lead to the demise of one of the world's most iconic animals, and this would be a true tragedy."

Ashley Cooper is a British photographer with a particular interest in documenting the effects of  global warming.


Diego Negri (born 16 April 1971) is an Italian former yacht racer who competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics, in the 2004 Summer Olympics, and in the 2008 Summer Olympics.

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Score Entertainment created the "Yu Yu Hakusho Trading Card Game" for release in the United States.

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Score Ent. is teaming with FUNimation Prods. to produce a trading card game based on the popular anime show Yu Yu Hakusho, which airs during Cartoon Network's Toonami block.

On TV, Yu Yu Hakusho follows a band of teenage detectives who investigate happenings in the Spirit World.

The show's ratings have surpassed those of the immensely popular Dragon Ball Z, and Score Ent. hopes the Yu Yu Hakusho card game will also match the success of its Dragon Ball Z line.

The Yu Yu Hakusho trading card game is scheduled to premiere in September of 2003.

For the latest details, visit www.YuYuHakushoTCG.com.

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An encyclopedia titled "Official Yū Yū Hakusho Who's Who Underworld Character Book" (幽☆遊☆白書　公式キャラクターズブック　霊界紳士録, "Yū Yū Hakusho Koushiki Kyarakutāzubukku Reikai Shinshiroku") was published by Shueisha on March 4, 2005. It contains extensive character profiles, story summaries, and an exclusive interview with Yoshihiro Togashi. An art book, "Yu Yu Hakusho Illustrations" (幽☆遊☆白書 画集, "Yū Yū Hakusho Gashū"), was published by Shueisha on April 27, 2005. It is composed of pieces of artwork from the series, including illustrations created for the "kanzenban" edition reprints and an index of print material where each image was first used. Shueisha has also released two volumes of a guide book titled "Yū Yū Hakusho Perfect File" (幽☆遊☆白書 パーフェクトファイル, "Yū Yū Hakusho Pāfekutofairu") and books based on both films, each containing screenshots organized in manga-style panels. In Japan, various collectables such as trading figures, plush dolls, and gashapon toys also exist. A collectable card game based on the franchise was released by Movic. In North America, the series saw licensing for apparel from ODM, lines of action figures by IF Labs and Jakks Pacific, a Skannerz electronic toy from Radica Games, and an activities book from Scholastic.