Times-News Takes Eight Top Honors in Regional Awards

Source: The Times-News, Twin Falls, IdahoAug.self storage 28--TWIN FALLS -- The Times-News raked in eight first-place awards and 10 other major prizes Tuesday in the Utah-Idaho-Spokane Associated Press Association's annual news contest for spring 2012-13.The newspaper competes in Division 2, for newspapers of 10,000 to 50,000 daily circulation, against nine other papers in Idaho and Utah.Winning first-place coverage in the beat reporting category, for the Times-News' high-profile wildfire coverage, were senior photographer Ashley Smith, veteran wildfires reporter Kimberlee Kruesi, reporters Laurie Welch and Alison Smith, and former Times-News reporter Melissa Davlin.That same team's coverage of the 2012 wildfires also won the Lee President's Award given yearly by Lee Enterprises Inc. as well as the Idaho Press Club's special coverage award. Idaho saw some of the nation's largest wildfires in 2012, which was the state's worst season since 2007.The Times-News photography staff won nine total awards, including three top prizes."We have a very talented and hardworking team of reporters, photographers and editors who do top-notch work every day," Times-News Publisher Travis Quast said Tuesday. "It is great to see them recognized for their efforts by the editors at the Associated Press. I couldn't be prouder of their commitment to covering the important stories in our community."Photographer Drew Nash won first place in the general news photo category for his work on the funeral of Army Sgt. Daniel Brown, 27, of Jerome, who was killed in Afghanistan on March 24, 2012.Nash also won first place in the sports photo category for his images of steer wrestling at a rodeo at the College of Southern Idaho.Ashley Smith won first place for his spot news photo of the Kinyon Road Fire, a photograph that also captured him first place for spot news in the Region 9 National Press Photographers Association monthly clip contest for July. The image showed Shawn Torres, of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, starting a backburn while battling the Kinyon Road Fire, which scorched 216,050 acres that July.Sportswriter Ryan Howe won two first-place awards -- for his spot sports story on six-man迷你倉football's return to Idaho and for his sports feature "The Shot," which looked back at the 75-foot buzzer-beater in the 1998 A-3 boys basketball championship game between Declo and Kimberly.Yet another first-place prize went to reporters Alison Smith and Davlin for their feature story, "Cross to Bear," documenting the stories behind roadside crosses placed throughout the Magic Valley to memorialize accident victims.And Davlin won first place for her spot news story, "State of Emergency," about a massive windstorm that toppled a tree and wiped out power to the city's water pumps, resulting in a city-declared state of emergency.Nash, Ashley Smith and online editor Dan Warner won second place for an online special package, Portraits of Veterans, for a website presentation of veterans' stories and portraits, including audio and video coverage by Warner.Nash also won the second-place portrait prize for his picture of the middle-weights wrestler of the year; and third-place awards for a picture story / photo essay, "Conquering Borah," depicting his ascent to the highest point in Idaho, a feature photograph of pig-wrestling and a sports feature photo, "Pumped," showing a football player pumping on his team at Canyon Ridge High School.Editor Autumn Agar placed second for her editorial, "Crapo's DUI: Why No One is Angry."The staff placed second in general excellence for its online presentation at magicvalley.com.Sports Editor David Bashore won second place for his spot sports story, "Delving for Dollars," about high school athletic departments finding creative ways to raise money for their facilities.Kimberlee Kruesi placed third in the series or special projects category for "Beneath Our Feet," a series on brownfields, environmentally tainted lands in the Magic Valley.And Ashley Smith won a third-place award for the portfolio category for his collection of work.This contest was judged by editors from AP member newspapers in Arkansas. The UISAPA has represented northwestern newspapers for 88 years.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 The Times-News (Twin Falls, Idaho) Visit The Times-News (Twin Falls, Idaho) at magicvalley.com Distributed by MCT Information Services文件倉

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Actor Ethan Hawke feels that to be known in Hollywood, you have to kill someone on screenIf you are an actor and want to earn a decent living in Hollywood, you are going to have to kill someone.新蒲崗迷你倉On screen, at least. This is the pet theory of actor Ethan Hawke, who made his name with touchy-feely dramas such as Dead Poets Society (1989) and Reality Bites (1994), before graduating to the science-fiction film Gattaca (1997) and corrupt- cop movie Training Day (2001).His latest effort, The Purge, written and directed by James DeMonaco, may be the most violent thing he has done yet - and one in many projects that seem to herald a comeback for the 42-year-old, one of Hollywood's hottest young actors in the 1990s.Opening in Singapore this week, it is a dystopian thriller that imagines a not-too-distant future in which the United States government sets aside a 12-hour period every year and allows citizens to murder, rape or commit any crime they want, the idea being to purge society of its darker impulses.Hawke, who plays a father forced to defend himself and his family when their expensive security system breaks down during this blood-soaked free-for-all, chatted with reporters in Los Angeles recently about the film, which some critics have accused of glorifying violence and America's gun culture even as it ostensibly criticises it.The actor has given this apparent contradiction more than a little thought.Hawke, who is also a novelist and Tony-nominated stage actor, waxes intellectual on this and a wide range of other topics during the expansive interview.Clearly delighted at the debate it is generating in the media, he tells Life! he will "be curious to see what people write about the movie, in regard to the fact that it's such a violent film with an anti-violent message"."It begs the question of whether such a purge is an appropriate place to put our violence, and what we do with the violent part of our personalities."Another big Hollywood name, Jim Carrey, recently boycotted the publicity tour of his own movie, Kick-Ass 2, because he decided it was too violent in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting last year.But Hawke does not buy into that logic. "I never thought that Catcher In The Rye made that guy kill John Lennon," he says, referring to the 1951 J.D. Salinger novel linked to the British musician's assassination in 1980 by Mark David Chapman."Sick people find reasons to name what they are, and I think this movie does an interesting thing by using violence to talk about violence."Violence and story-telling have always been intertwined, says the actor, whose two novels, The Hottest State (1996) and Ash Wednesday (2002), received positive reviews."For as long as people have been telling stories, stories have been violent. Like the Greek plays. Julius Caesar ends with mass death, and everybody's still interested in it."He and the film-makers behind The Purge are hoping that their film provokes a little reflection among moviegoers as they munch on their popcorn."I watch this movie and it's really difficult not to think about Sandy Hook and America's relationship to guns, which really is so outrageous."In France, they've retitled the film 'American Nightmare', which I thought was kind of funny."It speaks to the way America is perceived.Because we're the ones who are obsessed with protecting this idea of the right to bear arms, to the point where it is obscene," he says, before segueing into a brief critique of the pro-gun lobby in the US. He breaks off, joking that he is "going to be found dead in a car now".Hawke concedes, however, that this movie is typically American in terms of its obsession with firearms. "It would be just like America to make an anti- violence movie that is so violent."But for me, I think the movie works kind of like A Clockwork Orange, inmini storagethat it inundates you with so much violence that in the end, you just want it to stop," he says of the 1971 Stanley Kubrick classic.As an actor trying to find work, his relationship with violence has changed over the years."I was at a dinner party at the Cannes Film Festival when I was younger, and the late film critic Roger Ebert stood up and toasted me as the only male in Hollywood who had had a career without killing anyone. And I remember thinking, as he did it, 'Ah, s**t', because I had just finished shooting the first movie where I killed somebody, but he didn't know it yet," he remembers."The truth is, it's impossible to maintain a certain level of career as a male actor without participating in some sort of violence in movies and blowing heads off. It's just what we want from our stories."As a director, you can avoid it, but as an actor, it's difficult. And it's a real moral conundrum."As Ebert pointed out, though, Hawke has managed to get away with doing more than just the action stuff.This year, he appeared in Before Midnight, an unconventional love story that he co-wrote with actress Julie Delpy and indie director Richard Linklater as a follow-up to their acclaimed Before Sunrise (1994) and Before Sunset (2005).Hawke has done Shakespeare too, both on stage, where he has a successful, thriving career - winning a Tony nomination for a 2006 production of Tom Stoppard's The Coast Of Utopia - and on the big screen, in the 2000 film version of Hamlet.Singapore audiences saw him as the troubadour Autolycus in a touring production of The Winter's Tale in 2009.At the other end of the spectrum, he has won acclaim for action thrillers such as Training Day, where his role as a rookie police officer with a corrupt partner (Denzel Washington) earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.He has mixed it up too, by appearing in the horror flick Sinister last year, and in the new car-chase movie Getaway with Selena Gomez, which opens in the US at the end of the month.He is also planning to return to Broadway later this year, and to complete an indie film he has been working with Linklater on for 12 years.Hawke says he has always "tried to base as much of my career on my own gut instincts as possible", but adds that "it's getting harder for me to navigate" because roles that are good, or a good fit, are now few and far between."I'm a dramatic actor, and they just don't really make that many dramas. If you don't get a part in the two or three real dramas they make a year, you don't have a job."So it kind of forces you to have an openness to making other kinds of movies," says the actor, who is also driven by pragmatism, having four mouths to feed - his two young daughters with wife Ryan Shawhughes, and his son and daughter with ex-wife and actress Uma Thurman.It was not always like this, he says, noting that there were more dramatic parts on offer in the 1990s.Now, he is willing to do movies that have broad commercial appeal - even "genre movies" such as low-budget horror or science-fiction ones - but that also smuggle in a subversive or thought-provoking message, or an alternative artistic approach. "I feel like now is almost a throwback to the 1950s, where the art is to be subversive underneath the genre, and that's what I have been trying to do," he says, noting that there is a long history of "good theatre actors funding their careers with genre movies".This is what attracted him to the low-budget and trigger-happy The Purge, "which is a flat-out genre, Friday-night, drive-in movie", but which was well-made and had "something sociopolitical that turned me on"."My hope is that it functions like kind of a Friday night movie, but leaves people with a little bit more to think about than normal."stlife@sph.com.sgThe Purge opens in Singapore today.Getaway opens in October.self storage

Hot rod road trip aims to help

Source: The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.迷你倉新蒲崗Aug. 28--There's lots to catch the eye when Lenny Cestaro and Aaron Showalter roll up in the hot rod.There's Cestaro's car itself, a chopped 1935 Ford."The car attracts attention," Showalter said. "At each gas station, it can take an hour."Then there are the two Marine Corps veterans who are traveling in the car. Particularly Showalter.As Cestaro noted, it's not quite accurate to say that his 6-foot-4, 250-pound friend sits in the car."He wears the car," Cestaro said.What they really want people to see is the website address that's part of the artwork on the rear of the car -- .derekherrera.com.Cestaro said that he served with Lt. Derek Herrera a few years ago when the 1st Battalion, 9th Marines went to Iraq.In June 2012, Herrera -- now a captain -- was shot while leading a special-operations patrol in the Helmand Valley in Afghanistan. The bullet lodged between two vertebrae."He's paralyzed," but Herrera is still on active duty, Cestaro said, "and he wants to get back into it."Hospitalized in Los Angeles, the Marine officer is hoping to raise $70,000 for an exoskeleton -- a high-tech bracing worn around the legs that would offer a workaround for Herrera's paralysis.A brotherhoodCestaro and Showalter are trying to bring awareness to the fundraising effort with their hot rod trip from Alaska to Arizona. The route brought them Tuesday to Vancouver, for a stopover with Showalter's uncle, Norman Bordine.They aren't collecting money along the way."We don't want to touch any money," Cestaro, 32, said. But they do want people to know about Herrera's story. They also want to point potential contributors to another s迷你倉出租te, .marsocfoundation.org; the Marsoc Foundation is a nonprofit that supports members of the Marines Corps' Special Operations Command.Showalter, 30, said he doesn't know Herrera, but that doesn't matter: Once you're a Marine, it's a brotherhood.It's been quite a trip so far, and not just because of the distinctive ride. It's a little crowded in there, the Alaskans acknowledge. Cestaro is a 5-foot-7, 200-pounder.They have to figure out the driving rotations with height in mind. The 6-foot-4 Showalter doesn't drive the '35 Ford on a city street. Even when he's hunched over behind the wheel, Showalter can't see a stop light through the lowered wind shield.Showalter did get a more normal driving experience a few days ago -- depending on your definition of normal. On an isolated stretch of Canadian highway, Showalter and Cestaro saw a tractor-trailer hit a pickup truck. The driver got out, but Showalter and Cestaro had to help the passenger out through the sun roof; she was seriously injured.The two combat veterans had casualty-care training, Cestaro said, and stayed with her until a first responder arrived. It was an oil-field medic, in an oil-company ambulance; he made arrangements to meet a hospital ambulance down the road and the medic spent the trip in back of his own emergency vehicle with the patient."I got to drive the ambulance," Showalter said -- complete with sirens and red light. "That was kind of fun."------Tom Vogt: 360-735-4558; twitter.com/col_history; tom.vogt@columbian.com.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 The Columbian (Vancouver, Wash.) Visit The Columbian (Vancouver, Wash.) at .columbian.com Distributed by MCT Information Services迷你倉

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Li Na cleared of doping allegations

By Sun Xiaochen ( China Daily) Tennis star's coach says stories about her steroid use 'totally made up' China's tennis queen Li Na has once again found herself at the center of controversy after a recent New York Times profile caused misunderstanding that the 2011 French Open champion took banned substance at the advice of her former coach.文件倉According to the profile story published on Sunday, Li was persuaded by then-coach Yu Liqiao to take steroid pills in 2002 despite of her allergy. In the article, Yu also tried to prevent Li from dating Jiang Shan, who would later become her husband, forcing Li to temporarily retire in 2002.The article triggered sensation on Chinese media outlets, which translated it into Chinese but wrongly identified the substance Li took was testosterone, a performance-enhancing drug banned by the anti-doping authorities around the world.China's Anti-Doping Agency denied the allegation."Steroids in general are a kind of medicine, and only testosterone, which is also a type of steroid, is widely considered as a banned substance in sports," said Zhao Jian, deputy-director of China's Anti-Doping Agency, as reported by Beijing Youth Daily on Wednesday.Brook Larmer, who wrote the story for the Times, conceded that the information about Li taking steroid pills was not quoted directly from the player but sourced from her autobiography. In it, she said she took pills to treat menstrual disorders before the 2002 Asian Games.Yu denied the allegations on Wednesday that she had tried to persuade Li to take drugs."It's something totally made up. I never taught my players to improve their performance by doping. It's not working in tennis, and I don't believe that's what Li said," said Yu as quoted by Yangtze Evening News on Wednesday.Media blamed Sports public relations experts said the Chinese media misled the public about Li taking a banned substance because of their lack of ethics."Some media only pursue sensational and eye-catching news without paying enough attention to verifying the facts and their 存倉ources," said Hong Jianping, a sports PR researcher with Beijing Sport University, on Wednesday."High-profile sports stars will always be victims of false reports because people are interested in celebrity rumors and a lot of media, especially websites, thrive on people's interests." Hong said Li is a typical target because she is outspoken, has a fiery temper and previously had a conflict with China's governing body of tennis.Adam Zhang, founder of sports consultancy company Key-Sports, echoed Hong's sentiment, stressing that Li's individuality, which contrasts sharply from other Chinese athletes, easily sparks debate."Li's straightforward personality makes her a unique presence because individuality is not promoted in China's traditional sports system," Zhang said. "And the media would like to take advantage of that, turning each of her aggressive comments into sensational news." Li's outspoken views have always stirred debate in China, most recently when she claimed "that (representing her country) is too big a hat for me to wear" in the New York Times profile.This isn't the first occasion that Li has stressed that she plays for herself, and she has frequently drawn condemnation from the Chinese media and outrage on China's popular micro-blogging platform Sina Weibo, even among her 21 million followers.Although Li's budding romance with Jiang was squelched by the State-run sports system in the early 2000s, Li still sports tattoos on her chest and lower back that boldly declare her love for Jiang. She dyes her hair different colors and she's not afraid to shout "shut up" to crowds at tennis tournaments.But a more mature Li said she has learned to handle the media spotlight and criticism with a calmer mindset."I actually started to feel grateful to the media. Everyone has to experience something before growing up. Without these reports, I won't experience so much ups and downs and I won't be as mature as I am right now," Li said after winning the first round at the US Open on Tuesday.sunxiaochen@chinadaily.com.cn迷你倉

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APEC CEO Summit 2013 Gathers Government and Business Leaders of the Asia-Pacific to Seek Path Towards Resilience and Growth

BALI, Indonesia, Aug.迷你倉 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) Indonesia today announced an updated list of confirmed speakers for the APEC CEO Summit 2013, Asia-Pacific's premier business event. The Summit will take place at the Bali International Convention Center in Nusa Dua on 5-7 October as part of APEC Leaders Week. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia, President Xi Jinping of the People's Republic of China, President Park Geun-hye of the Republic of Korea and President Enrique Pena Nieto of Mexico are among the APEC Leaders confirmed to address the Summit.(Logo: photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130828/NY71205LOGO)The APEC CEO Summit 2013 will convene under the theme "Towards Resilience and Growth: Reshaping Priorities for the Global Economy." More than 1,000 global CEOs and regional business and policy leaders will discuss some of Asia-Pacific's most pressing issues, including economic integration, trade liberalization, sustainable growth and energy security.Attendance at the Summit is by invitation only. To request a delegate invitation, visit the APEC CEO Summit 2013 website at apec2013ceosummit.com/. Delegate registration will close on August 31, 2013.Government leaders confirmed to attend the CEO Summit include:President Sebastian Pinera, ChilePresident Xi Jinping, People's Republic of ChinaPresident Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, IndonesiaPresident Park Geun-hye, Republic of KoreaPrime Minister Najib Razak, MalaysiaPresident Enrique Pena Nieto, MexicoPrime Minister John Key, New ZealandPrime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, SingaporeGovernment leaders invited and anticipated to attend the CEO Summit include:Prime Minister Stephen Harper, CanadaPrime Minister Shinzo Abe, JapanPresident Benigno Aquino III, The PhilippinesPresident Vladimir Putin, RussiaPrime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, ThailandPresident Barack Obama, The United StatesBusiness and thought leaders confirmed to attend include:Frank Appel, Chairman of the Board of Management and CEO, Deutsche Post DHLMichael L. Ducker, COO and President, International, FedEx ExpressTony Fernandes, Group CEO, AirAsiaFrank Ning Gaoning, Chairman, COFCO CorporationKishore Mahbubani, Professor in the Practice of Public Policy, National University of SingaporeRaymond W. McDaniel, Jr., President and CEO, Moody's CorporationDennis M. Nally, Chairman, PricewaterhouseCoopers International Ltd.John G. Rice, Vice Chairman, General Electric CompanyEric Rudder, Executive Vice President, Advanced Strategy and Research, Microsoft CorporationKlaus Schmidt-Hebbel, Professor of Economics, Catholic University of ChileSusan C. Schwab, Professor of Public Policy, University of Maryland; Strategic Advisor of Mayer Brown, LLP; Former US Trade Representati新蒲崗迷你倉eChristopher A. Viehbacher, CEO, SanofiCher Wang, Chairperson, HTC Corporation and VIA Technologies, Inc.Wang Hongzhang, Chairman, China Construction BankKeith E. Williams, CEO and President, Underwriters Laboratories Inc.Hiromasa Yonekura, Chairman, KEIDANREN; Chairman, Sumitomo ChemicalCurrent sponsors of the APEC CEO Summit 2013 include:Host Sponsors: PT Astra International, PT Bank Negara Indonesia, PT Indika Energy and PT Pertamina; Platinum Sponsors: Chevron Corporation, China Construction Bank, COFCO Corporation, FedEx Express, Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., Johnson & Johnson, PricewaterhouseCoopers International Ltd., Microsoft Corporation, Sumitomo Chemical, Underwriters Laboratories Inc. and Wilmar International Ltd.; Gold Sponsors: Caterpillar Inc., Deutsche Post DHL, Dow Chemical Company, HTC Corporation, Eastman Chemical Company, General Electric Company, Invest in Canada, Moody's Investors Service Inc., VODone Ltd. and Walmart.Media partners of the APEC CEO Summit 2013 include:Platinum Media Partners: BeritaSatu Media Holdings, Bloomberg, CNBC, Kompas Gramedia Group, METRO TV, NET., Time Warner and The Wall Street Journal; Gold Media Partners: America Economia, BBC World News, Caixin, International Herald Tribune and The Jakarta Post.Media accreditation to the APEC CEO Summit 2013Media interested in attending the CEO Summit must register for accreditation with the APEC CEO Summit 2013. Media registration closes August 31, 2013.For security purposes, all media must also apply for accreditation from the Indonesian government. Only journalists accredited by the government will receive access to the Nusa Dua Compound during APEC Leaders Week.About the APEC CEO Summit 2013The APEC CEO Summit is an annual business forum for Asia-Pacific business and policy leaders, held as a part of a series of meetings organized for heads of state and senior government officials from all APEC member economies. At the Summit, business leaders have the opportunity to share their views and search for solutions in an open multilateral dialogue with APEC government leaders. The APEC CEO Summit 2013, hosted by Indonesia, is organized by the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) Indonesia.For more information about APEC Indonesia 2013 visit:APEC 2013: .apec2013.or.id/ APEC CEO Summit 2013: .apec2013ceosummit.com/ CEO Summit on Twitter: @APEC_CEOSummitMedia Contacts:ABAC Indonesia: Hani Fibianti; media@apec2013ceosummit.com Indonesian Media: Tursiana Setyohapsari; tsetyohapsari@golinharris.com International Media: Matthew Doering; media@apec2013ceosummit.comPhoto: photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130828/NY71205LOGOPRN Photo Desk, photodesk@prnewswire.comAPEC Business Advisory Council IndonesiaWeb site: apec2013ceosummit.com/mini storage