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Upset over Montevallo propels Armstrong player to record breaking success
The Armstrong men's basketball team treated Pirate fans to a night of records while hosting the Montevallo Falcons in Alumni Arena Jan. 19. Senior guard Mychal Horn scored a personal career high of 29 points, and senior guard Chris Vanlandingham became just the 18th player in Armstrong history to surpass 1,000 career points as Armstrong defeated Montevallo 79-75. Horn set the tone for Armstrong scoring 15 first-half points. The Pirates held an early 14-3 lead but were overtaken by Montevallo with a little more than five minutes remaining in the half. Montevallo's D.J. Rivera scored a first-half layup with 4:26 left on the clock which put the Falcons up by five. The Falcons — up by three with less than 30 seconds left in the half — looked to go into the locker room with the lead. Horn had other plans and with time expiring banked a three-point buzzer-beater to tie the game at 37. Vanlandingham had an uneventful first half and went into the locker room still four points shy of the 1,000-point record. The Pirates exploded into the second half where they shot 56 percent from the floor and took an early eight-point lead. As the Falcons started to gain ground, Vanlandingham landed a three-point shot to widen the Pirates' lead and to give him his 1,000 career point.
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"It is my standard to always have an A," said Louis Duran, general manager for Sodexo who manages Armstrong's campus dining services. However, a Nov. 30, 2011 Chatham County health inspection rated The Galley/Dining Hall with a score of 83.
The score is not normal for The Galley, considering the establishment has never received a grade lower than A, according to Duran. They also received a score of 96.5 percent in October 2011 during a national audit by NSF International, an independent not-for-profit devoted to establishing global health standards.
The health inspection listed that the infractions violated the, "proper eating, tasting, drinking, or tobacco use; adequate hand washing facilities supplied and accessible; food separated and protected; and toxic substances properly identified, stored, used" codes.
Duran attributed the violations to an improperly labeled bottle of glass cleaner, an employee beverage which had no lid and the improper placement of potatoes near a sink used to prepare raw chicken.
"This is potentially a cross-contamination hazard," said Todd Jones, environmental health director for Chatham County Environmental Services, in an e-mail. "Raw chicken is a source of bacteria, and cross-contamination from raw chicken to ready-to-eat foods — such as potatoes — can result in illness."
The county maintains that scores which fall in the range of 80-89 qualify as a satisfactory rating. However, students residing on campus are required to carry a meal plan which often leaves them no choice but to dine on campus, regardless of the score.
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Sofia Tavlik tours for new album ‘The Owls Are Not What They Seem’
Not many people would quit their jobs and move to another country. However, Swedish musician Sofia Talvik and her husband Jonas Westin challenged this premise when they decided last year to move from Stockholm, Sweden, to Florida to pursue a career in music.
Now they're touring across the U.S. from their new RV home.
"I was getting kind of tired of Sweden," Talvik said. "It's such a small country. Everything is kind of the same all the time. For a few years, I was thinking of getting a job abroad."
Talvik studied art and graphic design at Bergh University in Sweden. Until this tour, she worked as an art director and freelance graphic designer. The singer-songwriter does all her own artwork for her website and albums.
In addition, Talvik and Westin own their own record label, Makaki Music, in Sweden. Before making the move, Westin left a job working at TV4, one of the biggest TV stations in Sweden.
Talvik has released four albums since her 2005 debut, "Blue Moon." On Jan. 31, her album "The Owls Are Not What They Seem" will be available on iTunes.
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Expensive looking CGI, and eye-candy female leads — that basically describes most action films today. Movies like "Underworld" and "Colombiana" have women as their main protagonists, but they often use these characters' sexuality to draw in their targets and, most importantly, audiences.
However, following the success of David Fincher's realistic and dark female-revenge thriller "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," director Steven Soderbergh ("Ocean's Eleven," "Contagion") has brought audiences "Haywire."
After watching mixed martial arts specialist Gina Carano in a fight on television, Soderbergh pieced an entire film together revolving around Carano's fighting abilities. The result is an action-heavy, fast-paced film that makes up what it lacks in story with thrills.
Carano stars as Mallory Kane, a freelance covert operative who finds herself double-crossed while on a mission in Dublin. After narrowly escaping an attack from one of her own and dodging local police, Mallory makes her way back to the United States to find the culprit of the setup. The suspects include: her former employer Kenneth (Ewan McGregor), a mysterious contact named Rodrigo (Antonio Banderas) and the high-ranking government employee Coblenz (Michael Douglas). With only her father (Bill Paxton) to trust, Mallory sets out on a vengeance-fueled quest to uncover the truth.
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