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Lindsay Lohan poked fun at her troubled personal life when she hosted 'Saturday Night Live'
Posted: March 5, 2012 at 4:20 pm
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Published Monday, March 5, 2012, 8:47 AM
Updated Monday, March 5, 2012, 8:56 AM
Lindsay Lohan hosting "Saturday Night Live"
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The 'Mean Girls' actress - who has endured several stints in rehab and a string of legal problems in recent years - kicked off the show by referring to her stint under house arrest in the opening monologue.
She joked: "Wait, so the alarm goes off if I leave the stage?"
'Bridesmaids' actress Kristen Wiig also mocked the guest host, giving her a hug that turned into a body search for illicit substances, quipping "she's clean" at the end.
In another sketch, she donned a bandana to play a prisoner trying to scare three boys of a life of crime, and made reference to her arrest last year for stealing a necklace.
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Simpson’s personal best lands her silver
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BATHURST swimmer Jodie Simson has continued her golden run of recent form, grabbing three top 10 finishes at the recent NSW Country Championships.
Competing at the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre where she has raced plenty of times of late, Simson snared a silver medal in the 50 metres breaststroke her pet event and set a personal best in doing so.
She completed the one lap dash in 34.28 seconds to claim a podium finish in the 15 and over division. She defeated 59 other hopefuls.
She followed that with a ninth place in the 100m, again setting a new best mark with a 1.17.36.
That time was good enough to qualify her for the 100m at the Australian Championships to be held in Adelaide later this month, where she has already qualified for the 50m.
In her final and most gruelling event, the 200m breaststroke, she recorded a 2.47.39, good enough for sixth in the final and once more, a personal best.
Simsons performance comes on the back of her recent appearance at the NSW State Open Championships where she placed 32nd in the 50m.
The second placing was obviously a highlight, but also the fact that she swum a PB in all of her events was fantastic, Jodies dad Charlie Simson said. Shes qualified for the 100m in Adelaide now and shes absolutely worked her bum off to get there.
She didnt expect to finish that high up in the 50m, she was over the moon to find herself on the podium.
The teenager will now set her sights on a good finish at the nationals and her workload has increased of late accordingly in preparation.
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Fraser Institute Ranks Academic Performance of 2,695 Ontario Elementary Schools
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TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire -03/04/12)- The Fraser Institute today published its annual ranking of Ontario elementary schools, allowing parents to review the academic performance of their child's school over the past five years and compare it to that of other schools in their community and across the province.
"Using long-term, provincewide school performance data, our school rankings let parents monitor the performance of their child's school over time and also help educators identify key areas for improvement in their classrooms," said Michael Thomas, Fraser Institute associate director of school performance studies.
"Our report card is the only objective, reliable tool that shows which schools across Ontario have improved, or fallen behind, in terms of reading, writing, and mathematics over the past five years."
The Report Card on Ontario's Elementary Schools 2012 rates 2,695 public, Catholic, and francophone elementary schools across the province based on nine key indicators using data from the annual provincewide tests of reading, writing, and mathematics administered by the Ontario government's Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO).
The report card also includes key information about each school's make-up, including parents' average income, the percentage of ESL students, and the percentage of special needs students. Results of the report card are available in an interactive and searchable format or as a free PDF at http://www.compareschoolrankings.org.
According to the rankings, the 20 Ontario elementary schools showing the fastest academic improvement over the past five years include 16 schools where parental incomes are below the provincial average. At one of these schools, ESL students make up 32.7 per cent of the total student enrollment; at another, 36.6 per cent of the students are special needs. The complete list follows.
The report also notes that, of the 19 schools tied for first in the provincewide rankings, seven have parental incomes lower than the provincial average.
"In fact, of the 2,695 schools included in the report card, 565 performed above average academically despite having parental incomes lower than the provincial average," Thomas said.
"These results show that both academic excellence and continued improvement in academics is possible in any school, regardless of the personal and family circumstances of its student population."
Data contained in this year's report card also shows that 29.5 per cent of exams written in 2011 scored below provincial expectations, compared to 30.1 per cent in 2010.
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Rowers provide personal stake in Olympic bid
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The London Olympics just got personal for Marlburians.
The naming of five Marlborough rowers in the New Zealand team on the road to London has given rowing, and sport, in our little province a massive boost. This is almost certainly our greatest representation at an Olympics.
Definitive records are hard to find but the collective wisdom of those in the know suggests Marlborough has never been represented by so many Olympians at any one time.
In fact, our Olympians have been few and far between.
Rowers have stood out. Our previous best effort came at the 1932 Los Angeles Games where John Hoani (Jack) MacDonald, Lawrence "Jumbo" Jackson (from the Picton club) and Charlie Saunders wore the black singlet.
MacDonald and Jackson rowed in the eight, MacDonald being the New Zealand team's flagbearer at the opening ceremony, while Saunders finished fourth in the coxed four final.
In Montreal in 1976, Ivan Sutherland claimed the province's first, and so far only, Olympic medal when the New Zealand eight won bronze.
Cantabrian George Keys, who rowed for Wairau for several years, attended the Games of 1984 and '88, while Rob Hellstrom, who also wore Wairau colours to national success, competed at the 2000 Olympics.
Our most recent Olympian was cyclist Robin Reid, who competed in the road race in Athens in 2004.
Fellow cyclist Graeme Miller made it to three Olympics 1984, '88 and '92 his best result being eighth in the 1988 road race.
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Music Nation fulfils personal ambition
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4 March 2012 Last updated at 09:30 ET By Beth Rose BBC News
The chance to play with international musicians does not come along very often, especially if you packed your instrument away years ago thinking that your concert days were over.
But Music Nation changed that as 200 adults and children, including me and my father, came together as the BBC Devon and Cornwall Family Orchestra.
Joined by the BBC Concert Orchestra, the 270-strong group performed the world premiere of Tim Steiner's 'Hunter Gatherer'.
In under 30 hours, the four-movement piece - based around some of the region's folk songs including The Helston Furry Dance and Widdecombe Fair - was brought together, reflecting the South West and the musicians involved.
The final rehearsal, on the day of the concert, was the first time the Family Orchestras had played with the Concert Orchestra and, in short, it was the one chance for the 270 musicians to get it right.
While our rehearsals had been noisy and chaotic, things were very calm and measured at the BBC Concert Orchestra, where all conductor Matthew Coorey had to do was instruct sections to replay the odd bar.
Rehearsing with these professionals is an experience like no other - they create a sound so pitch perfect it is as though someone has turned on the radio.
But at no point did we run through the entire piece - that was left for the performance.
'Hunter Gatherer' is allegedly 15 minutes long, but it went in a flash as everyone played to the best of their ability while listening to the Concert Orchestra, following four conductors and absorbing the experience.
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UF weight thrower Postin qualifies for NCAA indoor meet
Posted: March 4, 2012 at 7:43 am
As the Gators wrap up their final day at their last-chance meets, they come away qualifying for another event at the NCAA Indoor Championship.
Thrower Jeremy Postin improved on his Southeastern Conference championship performance on Saturday by breaking a UF record, setting a personal-best mark and winning the event. Postins throw of 21.60m/70-10.50 qualified him for his first NCAA Indoor Championship appearance.
Im incredibly proud of Jeremy, coachMike Hollowaysaid. He broke his own school record and qualified for his first NCAAs what a huge performance for him.
Florida is now qualified for nine events at the NCAA Indoor Championship. The men will send Jeff Demps (60m), Omar Craddock (triple jump), Sean Obinwa (800m), Kemal Mesic (shot put), Gray Horn (heptathlon) and Postin (weight throw). The womens squad will send its 4x400m relay team (Lanie Whtitaker, Alishea Usery, Bria Goodson and Ebony Eutsey), Cory McGee (mile run) and distance medley relay (Agata Strausa, Eutsey, Shelby Hayesand McGee).
Darshay Davis (200m)andUgonna Ndu (60m hurdles) will find out Monday if they have made the NCAA meet.
Like Postin, Davis (60m) and Ndu (60m hurdles) set personal and UF records at the Alabama High Tide Indoor Qualifier.However, both Davis (7.35) and Ndu (8.31) missed the NCAA qualifying mark in their events by .11 seconds and .21 seconds, respectively.
We didnt get all the performances we wanted out of the weekend, but I couldnt be more pleased with Darshay and Ugonnas performances this weekend, Holloway said. Great [personal records] out of both of those ladies, who just set their previous [personal records] last weekend.
Now Ndu and Davis will have to wait for Mondays announcement to see if their performances Saturday was good enough to make it to the Championship.
Were looking forward to Monday evening when the official qualifier lists come out, Holloway said. We think we have a strong group for both the men and the women traveling to the national meet and were looking forward to that.
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German artist thrills guest at interactive live performance in Accra
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Local and foreign guests at a live art performance and documentary were inebriated by a German performance artist with Turkish root in Accra, who uses her creative sense abilities to mix cooking scenes with people's personal life stories.
Nezaket Ekici, the artist, currently touring five continents in the world for her interactive performance and documentary films, chose Ghana as her destination to represent the African continent for her classic project dubbed: "Five Senses in Ghana".
The Goethe Institute, a cultural Institute of the Federal Republic of Germany with global reach in Accra, facilitated Ekici's choice of Ghana for the project.
In the "Five Senses in Ghana" documentary, an event to sensually experience the Ghanaian culture filmed in Accra, Twifo Praso and Cape Coast, Ekici shows different people cooking their favourite dishes, where she also mixes in the film with scenes of her video performances of using and playing with cooking ingredients that people cook in the video.
"Ghana is my fourth continent. I have done the same Five Senses in Brazil, South America; in Turkey, Europe; and in Vietnam, Asia. My final continent will be Australia after which I will bring all the collections together to be presented in German," Ekici told the Ghana News Agency at the Institute on Thursday during the live performance.
"I go to countries I don't know the people and I am curious in the way they cook their traditional meals and then learn a little about their lives and finally I bring these people together and invite people to come to learn, cook themselves and eat,"
Known for her dynamic and culturally atmospheric art performances, Ekici believes as an artist it is always important to go to different countries and places to see cultures and get inspiration and to learn something new.
"This is a beautiful world and because of that I have the possibility to see people in their houses, who opened their doors to me. If I come into Ghana as a tourist, I would never have this great opportunity in just ten days."
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A personal performance in Wytheville
Posted: March 3, 2012 at 1:20 am
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Actress Anita Shontel Woodley portrays her mother, Mabel-Ree, who died at 47 from breast cancer. She is bringing her one-woman show to Wytheville on March 10 to honor a local woman.
By WAYNE QUESENBERRY/Staff
Lindaleigh Portner and Vickie Mack Coble have been friends as long as they can remember. To honor Coble, who has breast cancer and liver disease, Portner is planning a fitting tribute.
She has arranged for actress/playwright Anita Shontel Woodley to bring her one-woman play, Mama Juggs, to the Hedgefield Community Room in Wytheville on Saturday, March 10, for a 7:30 p.m. show. Portner is using her rainy day money to back the performance and pay for Woodleys overnight stay.
Woodley uses inspiration from true stories in her life for the performance. She confronts issues of womens breast health and body image from puberty to maturity to old age.
So many times people do things in memory of a loved one, Portner said earlier this week. I wanted to do something for Vickie while shes still living. This is going to be a celebration and done in her honor.
According to Portner, she first met Woodley on Facebook several years ago and did a radio interview with her at the University of North Carolina on another issue. Portner also saw a posting of Woodleys Mama Juggs performances and ordered a CD.
Oh, I loved it, Portner said. Its a show youll never forget. Were going to have a ball.
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