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March 16, 2010
Grady College alum, Mara Shalhoup ‘98, will hold a bookreading and signing for her book BMF: The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family. The event will take place at 7pm on March 17 at The Cinelab on West Hancock Street. She will also be speaking to several journalism classes that day.
February 10, 2010
Athens, Ga. – Three Academy Award winners and several film industry veterans will be special guests at Robert Osborne’s Classic Film Festival, Thursday through Sunday, March 25-28, at The Classic Center in Athens. The festival is an annual nonprofit event of the University of Georgia Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Actors Marshall Bell, Corey Feldman, Cloris Leachman and Caren Marsh-Doll will join authors John Bengtson and Eddie Muller, producers Gray Frederickson, Fred Roos and Leon Vitali, and Turner Classic Movies’ vice president Tom Brown as special guests.
Marshall Bell has acted in both television and film for more than 25 years, including a role as an emotionally distant father in Stand by Me, which will be shown on Friday, March 26, at 4 p.m. Joining him will be Corey Feldman whose film career includes Gremlins, The Goonies, and his breakout role in Stand by Me.
Cloris Leachman’s career includes a long history of roles in television and film including the Mary Tyler Moore Show and an Oscar-winning performance in The Last Picture Show. In addition to her Oscar, she has eight primetime Emmys and one daytime Emmy to her credit. She played the role of Agnes in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid which will be shown on Friday, March 26, at 8 p.m.
A professional dancer and actress, Caren Marsh-Doll, served as the Judy Garland’s stand-in for Sunday’s 2 p.m. matinee, The Wizard of Oz. She also worked with Garland on the Hollywood musicals Babes in Arms and Girl Crazy. She is the author of Hollywood’s Babe—Dancing Through Oz.
John Bengtson is the author of the critically acclaimed series of books, Silent Traces: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Charlie Chaplin, and its Buster Keaton counterpart, Silent Echoes. He will be the featured guest for the film festival’s first silent film screening, Steamboat Bill, Jr. on Saturday, March 27 at 4 p.m. The screening will also feature a special live music accompaniment by local band, Kenosha Kid.
Eddie Muller is founder and president of the Film Noir Foundation and has been instrumental in rescuing America’s noir heritage by restoring and preserving (with the UCLA Film & Television Archive) nearly lost classics. He will share his knowledge of film noir at the Friday, 1 p.m. screening of Double Indemnity.
Gray Frederickson and Fred Roos have long associations with Francis Ford Coppola, having worked with him on The Godfather, Apocalypse Now and this year’s festival selection, The Godfather II, for which they won an Academy Award. The pair will discuss the film on Saturday, March 27 at 8 p.m.
Hollywood veteran Leon Vitali worked with legendary producer/director Stanley Kubrick in a variety of roles on four of his films including The Shining, the festival’s midnight film on Friday, March 26.
Alfred Hitchcock’s classic To Catch a Thief will open the festival on Thursday, March 25. Turner Classic Movies’ Tom Brown will host the evening and discuss the film. Brown oversees all original programming at TCM which includes the Emmy nominated, Cary Grant: A Class Apart.
Guests will appear on stage after screenings for a candid discussion with hosts Osborne and members of the audience. Guests present on Saturday morning March 27, will form a panel and discuss “Social Change: How Film Reflects and Inspires a Shift in the Collective Cultural Climate – Propaganda or Art?” with Osborne. The panel discussion is free, open to all and will take place at 10 a.m. at The Classic Center Theater.
The movie lineup for the festival includes To Catch a Thief, Double Indemnity, Stand by Me, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Shining, All About Eve, Steamboat Bill, Jr., The Godfather II and The Wizard of Oz.
For the four-day festival, the 2,000-seat Classic Center theater will be transformed into a world-class movie palace with the installation of a motion picture screen and state-of-the-art 35mm projection and sound systems.
“It’s an exciting adventure to see these films the way they were meant to be seen,” said Osborne. “The big screen gives a different dimension and vitality to these extraordinary films.”
Festival tickets can be purchased separately or as a package at The Classic Center box office, online at http://www.classiccenter.com, or by calling 800/918-6393. A variety of pass options are available. Ticket prices are $10 per individual film. Students and UGA Alumni Association members can purchase individual film tickets for $8 with valid identification. Special $5 tickets for children 12 and under will be available at the box office the day of the show for Sunday’s showing of The Wizard of Oz.
Tickets for the festival’s opening reception at Hotel Indigo are available at www.therialtoroom.com. For more information on the festival, see www.robertosbornefilmfestival.com. Note that the guest list is always subject to change.
Established in 1915, the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication offers undergraduate majors in advertising, broadcast news, magazines, newspapers, public relations, publication management and telecommunication arts. The college offers two graduate degrees, and is home to WNEG-TV, the Knight Chair in Health and Medical Journalism and the Peabody Awards, internationally recognized as one of the most prestigious prizes for excellence in electronic media. For more information, see www.grady.uga.edu.
February 10, 2010
Washington , D.C. – Husch Blackwell Sanders is pleased to announce it has significantly expanded its Government Contracts practice with the addition of seven partners in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office. Six of the attorneys were formerly partners at Wickwire Gavin, which merged with Akerman Senterfitt in 2006. The seventh attorney was a partner at Holland & Knight.
“This team of attorneys brings a phenomenal opportunity to the firm’s clients to do more business with the federal government,” said the firm’s Co-Chairman David A. Fenley. “With the addition of these partners, Husch Blackwell has become one of the premier providers of full service government contract representation for firms within the Am Law100.”
Steven M. Kupka, Managing Partner of the firm’s D.C. office, added, “Our Washington, D.C., office continues to grow to meet clients’ needs, with 17 attorneys now based here. Partner and leader of our Government Contracts practice Walter A.I. Wilson joined us in 2009, and we’re excited to expand our sphere of influence thanks to the impressive depth of our Government Contracts practice.”
Government Contracts attorneys represent domestic and international clients in all areas of federal supply, service and construction contracts and all phases of government contracting, including bid protests, compliance with federal laws and regulations, Defense Contract Audit Agency audits, compliance audits, Federal Supply Schedule procurements, contract administration, change order negotiations, and claims and disputes.
Brian P. Waagner focuses his practice on the resolution of claims and disputes arising from public and private construction projects. He represents owners, contractors, subcontractors, sureties and design professionals in all aspects of the preparation, prosecution and defense of claims, including fraud and False Claims Act issues. In addition to his bench and jury trial experience in state and federal courts and the boards of contract appeals, Waagner represents many clients in alternative dispute resolution proceedings such as arbitration and mediation.
Waagner earned his J.D. from Cornell Law School (1994), where he was Managing Editor of the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy. He earned his A.B. from the University of Georgia (1990), where he was Phi Beta Kappa.
February 10, 2010
Michael F. Adams, president of the University of Georgia, is doing battle this month with the CEOs and presidents of Georgia’s top universities and corporations to benefit a program that brings joy as well as literacy skills to young children across the state. The presidents and CEOs were recently videotaped reading a favorite children’s book to a group of youngsters. Adams read Boom Chicka Rock by John Archambault to a group of four-year-olds at UGA’s McPhaul Child Development Lab. Click here to watch the videos and vote for your favorite reader.
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February 9, 2010
A message from UGA Beyond Coal:
There is a coal plant on campus and we want to break our dependence so we’re reaching out to alumni to sign our petition.
Using coal contributes to air and water pollution, along with high asthma and autism rates. Our power plant emits toxic air pollutants such as lead and arsenic. Soot can trigger heart attacks and strokes, cause irregular heartbeat, and lead to premature death.
We’re working with the whole UGA community to encourage our administration to venture away from coal. Alumni are an integral part of our community and we want to reach out to give you a chance to voice your opinions.
Click here for our online petition.
January 27, 2010
UGA alumni and former football players David Greene ‘04 and Matt Stinchcomb ‘98 will speak at the 2010 Annual Fundraiser Banquet to benefit FCA Summer Team Camps. The banquet will take place on February 15 at the Classic Center in Athens. There will be a buffet and a silent auction featuring autographed sports memorabilia and other exciting items. The program begins at 6:30. For more information about tickets and sponsorship opportunities, please call (706) 227-9000.
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January 21, 2010
“Welcome to Panic Land” is a documentary film but presented in print. This book will chronicle every last aspect of Widespread Panic and will be told by the legions of people who have been chasing this band since 1986 at the Uptown Lounge in Athens GA. Apparently tickets were $1, Budweisers were a quarter. Fans from all over the country, over the course of panic’s career from the 80s to today will re-live and re-tell the moments that mean the most to them. No topic is out of reach and this book encourages you to really express what this band means to you. From the first “Arleen” you got, to the road trip through Montana, to NYE to Halloween, to the wife you married after you met her in Raleigh 02, to the time you took your parents. Every Panic show takes on a personality of its own, and with close to 2500 shows played, many memories have been created. Tell us about why Birmingham is so special, explain the 14 hour flight to get to New York, and you finally got that song you were chasing. The greatest band in the world has the greatest fans in the world and we have the best stories to share. If you went to the University of Georgia back in the mid 80’s and saw JB and the boys when they first began, we want to hear all about it.
All of these stories will be carefully placed in the timeline and 25 years will come to life through your own very words and the words of your peers who you have grown close to.
Tell us about the special guests at the first Bonarroo, the show in 1987 with 20 people in attendance, the time you finally called the opener, and the legendary Halloween call you still remind your friends about. What is the best JB quote, your favorite “Hatfield”, the best “Bowlegged” you ever heard. The time you met JB on the street and that night you finally got that elusive “Sharon”. We want to hear it all. The goal of this project is to have stories from every city, every venue, every tour, every song, and every show. This is a project for the PANIC people by the PANIC people. Please pass this on to all the folks you know. The goal is to have this out as a celebration of 25 years of Panic in 2011.
Please send all stories to the following email address. justin@ghosttownmedia.com with panic book in the subject line.
Please include the following:
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November 11, 2009
Des Moines, Iowa: Four Farm Bureau Rural Family Medicine Scholarships were awarded during the Iowa Academy of Family Physicians’ (IAFP) Annual Meeting held November 5, 2009 at the Des Moines Marriott. Noreen O’Shea, D.O., President of the IAFP Foundation and Barb Lykins, Director, Community Resources of the Iowa Farm Bureau Foundation, made the four $2,500 award presentations.
Carol Gunnett, MD – completed her undergraduate education at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA; graduated from University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA; trained at the Northeast Iowa Family Medicine Residency Program, Waterloo, IA; and is now practicing in Clarksville, Iowa.
The purpose of the Farm Bureau Rural Family Medicine Scholarships is two-fold:
- To encourage residents, upon graduating from an Iowa family practice residency program, to pursue a medical career in Iowa communities with populations under 10,000.
- To encourage medical students to enter an Iowa family residency and to practice in a rural Iowa community.
Barb Lykins, Iowa Farm Bureau Director Community Resources says “The Iowa Farm Bureau is committed to Iowa’s rural character; after all it is the rural communities and citizens who created Iowa and continue to be the backbone of this great state. We’re proud to sponsor this scholarship as a means to not only ‘give back’ to our rural citizens, but to encourage our highly-valued graduates to stay in Iowa and serve the rural community.”
The IAFP Foundation is the philanthropic body of the Iowa Academy of Family Physicians. Each year the IAFP Foundation works with the Iowa Farm Bureau Foundation to make these scholarships possible. “Iowa’s strength and even its identity come from its rural roots.” States IAFP Foundation president, Dr. Noreen O’Shea. “The Iowa Academy of Family Physicians and its Foundation strive to enhance that strength by encouraging young physicians to serve in rural areas. By establishing their “medical homes” in the small towns of Iowa, they will continue the legacy of quality healthcare that for which Iowa is known. We also are honored to partner with the Iowa Farm Bureau Foundation in its wise investment in its own roots and in these young doctors.”
Since its inception in 1993 sixty-eight scholarships have been provided totaling $170,000.
November 10, 2009
Nashville, TN - October 27, 2009
University of Georgia graduate releases new lifestyle/cookbook: “Have Her Over for Dinner, a gentleman’s guide to classic, simple meals”
Arriving just in time for the holiday season, University of Georgia graduate Matt Moore is releasing the perfect solution for any guy looking to impress a significant other in the kitchen. Have Her Over for Dinner is a book that emphasizes the basics, without requiring dozens of ingredients or expensive equipment to complete outstanding meals.
The book boasts over 100 recipes in cuisines ranging from Italian to Southern Eclectic to Vegetarian in order to suit almost any palate. In addition to defining and explaining many common terms and methods, Moore provides detailed information on how to properly stock a kitchen, purchase the proper equipment, and how to pair beer or wine with food. He is also careful to outline, in a humorous tone, the “must dos” on any date, including everything from prepping for the day, lighting, and the best way to go about cleaning up. Have Her Over for Dinner provides a laid-back guide for the novice cook or the seasoned gourmet to create the perfect meal that is sure to impress any date . . . every time.
Author Matt Moore is originally from Lilburn, GA where he attended Parkview High School. He is a graduate of the Honors Program at the University of Georgia, completing a degree in international business with an emphasis in finance and a minor in French. While attending the University, he was highly active with his own fraternity, Phi Gamma Delta, and also served as the Secretary/Treasurer for the Inter-fraternity Council. Moore was named Greek Man of the Year in 2005, and was also honored with memberships in The Gridiron Secret Society and the Order of the Greek Horseman. Upon graduation, Moore moved to Nashville, TN to serve as Vice President for Elmhurst Financial Services. He also performs as a country music singer/songwriter and has shared the stage with such acts as Sugarland, Dierks Bentley, and Luke Bryan.
Title: “Have Her Over for Dinner, a gentleman’s guide to classic, simple meals”
Publisher: Last Resort Press
Author: Matt R. Moore
ISBN: 978-0615318790
Details: Soft cover, 8.5 x 8.5 Trim Size, 86 pages
Contact: Matt R. Moore
Address: 508 Madison St #7, Nashville, TN 37208
Phone: 770.367.7231
Email: lastresortpress@gmail.com
November 5, 2009
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The State Board of Education picked a Georgia educator Friday to become chancellor of Alabama’s two-year college system and help lead it back from a financial scandal that brought down a former chancellor.
Freida Hill, deputy commissioner of the Technical College System of Georgia, was unanimously chosen by the nine-member board. Women have served as interim chancellors in the past but Hill is the first female to hold the position on a permanent basis.
The board’s chairman, Gov. Bob Riley, said he talked to Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue before deciding to support Hill.
“I’m not too sure I’ve ever heard someone as highly recommended,” Riley said.
The other finalists for the job were John Osborn, the director of academic programs and policy for the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Rose Johnson, the president of Haywood Community College in Clyde, N.C.
Hill, who holds a doctorate in adult education from the University of Georgia, has spent most of her career in education, beginning as a high school English teacher in Maryville, Tenn., in 1973.
She became deputy commissioner of the Technical College System of Georgia in February 2008. Prior to that, she served as assistant commissioner and as president of Southwest Georgia Technical College in Thomasville.
Pending negotiation of a contract and passing a background check, Hill will replace Bradley Byrne, who resigned in May to run as a Republican candidate for governor.
Byrne took over in 2007 after state and federal investigators launched a widespread probe of corruption and nepotism under ousted Chancellor Roy Johnson. The former chancellor pleaded guilty last year to 15 federal charges, including money laundry and bribery involving contractors.
Johnson had the power to hire employees and sign contracts without the board’s approval.
In an interview with the board Friday, Hill said, “I would not like to see the chancellor enter into contracts without board approval.”
Two board members asked Hill why she would want to come to Alabama considering what the system’s gone through in recent years.
She said she had prepared herself throughout her career to become a chancellor.
“To be in education, it would be the pinnacle of a career,” she said.
Plus, she said, “I’m a Southern girl. I don’t want to go to Michigan and I don’t want to go to Arizona.”
Riley said work force development, including preparing technical workers for new Alabama industries, is a critical part of Alabama’s two-year college system, and Hill has a record of success in that field in Georgia.
“There will be no learning curve,” the governor said.
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