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BEST AVAILABLE COPY E6 ARIZONA DAILY STAR Thursday, June 1, 2006 News of the Weird Chuck Shepherd Laguna de Sherman por Jim Toomey tltt TAL tSt 1 1 a TURISTA CON LA PMNUTAfl lp- "TTooN WWMO a-ssJ CH1I KHO, ESO 10 00 -j jl I Now look what'll happen. How about that guy? I What guy? The tourist with the tiny thong. I Good choice. Nice cast Be very careful pull it in. Boing! 0 How sad you only caught his good, thong.

That's what I wanted to get. Seven-card stud requires tough decisions 5 Playing Poker Advice try Daniel Negrearm nitely want to play these big pairs, and you'll want to be raising. I Split pairs: When your up card matches one of your down cards. I Burled pairs: When your pair is concealed and hidden from your opponents. It's certainly better to have a buried pair than a split pair, because it's a lot more difficult for opponents to figure out your hand.

If you have a pair of split kings and raise, your opponents will likely assume that you have the kings. If, however, you raise with buried kings and a seven door card (up card), then your opponents may figure you for a pair of sevens rather than the powerful cowboys that you have hiding in the hole. Pairs like J-J or Q-Q can be trickier to play. Generally, you want to be in there raising, but if a tight, conservative player raised from an early position with a king or an ace showing, consider folding on third street. This is especially true if one of your cards is dead (for example, you have J-J-6 but see that there is anbther jack also in play).

I Little pairs: It's best to have 2-2, 3-3, 44, 5-5 and 6-6 buried. Don't play small pairs, however, if one of your pair cards is dead. Having a good kicker is also extremely important. Your kicker should be higher than your opponent's door card. For example, if you decide to play a pair of deuces against a player who raised with a queen, then you'll want your kicker to be an ace or a king.

That way, if you do make two pairs by the river, it will likely be higher than your opponent's queens up. I Rush draws: Three-card flush hands can be powerful, but it's always important to note how many of your suit are already out on the board. Let's say you start with (Kh 7h) 3h, but notice that the Qh, 8h and 4h already are dead. ITiis significantly decreases your chances of making a flush so much so that your hand becomes unplayable. When playing three-card flushes, it's best to have three high cards or three straight cards to go along with it.

A hand such as As-Ks-9s gives you a three-card flush, but it also gives you another way to win if you catch a pair of aces, kings or even nines. Hands like 4h-5h-6h give you both a three-card flush and a three-card straight. I Straight draws: Unsuited three-card straight draws are very difficult to play, and I would advise to avoid them for the most part If someone ahead of you raises with a queen, then a hand like 9-10-J simply doesn't look too hot. Your opponent might have a pair of queens, which makes it even less likely that you'll complete a straight. However, if a 6 had raised, and you had that same 9-10-J, you could call the bet because you have three overcards to your opponent's possible pair of sixes.

So, as a beginning player, stay away from the straight draws. Stick with high pairs, low pairs with good kickers and powerful flush draws. In my next column, "Seven-Card Stud Made Simple: Part II," I'll give you a basic betting guideline for playing through an entire hand of seven-card stud. I Daniel Negreanu wants to hear from you. Send your questions and comments to www.

fullcontactpoker.comlnews online. All rights reserved. Seven-card stud has been around for ages. It originated from five-card stud, but it's a more exciting alternative with added variables. More variables mean tougher decisions; the most important one coming after you're dealt your third card, otherwise known as third street.

The game employs an ante. For instance, in a typical structured game of $15 to $30, the ante would be $2. The lowest card on third street would have the bring-in and be forced to either bet the discounted minimum of $5 or could go ahead and make a full $15 bet. Here's a seven-card-stud rule to live by: Never bring it in for the full amount always choose the minimum bring-in. As important as that is, you'll also need to know which hands you should play and which ones to avoid.

I Big pairs: J-J, Q-Q, K-K and A-A all qualify here. You'll defi lieutenant governor, said in March that he now regrets introducing unsuccessful legislation for 14 straight years (until 2001) to make it legal for suspects to physically resist police. People with too much money Women's handbag designers, uncertain about the effect of Hurricane Katrina on Louisiana's alligator habitats, spent the winter searching for new supplies of hides, according to a March Wall Street Journal report. The fall gator harvest saw prices rise 50 percent from two years earlier, forcing Ralph Lauren, for example, to raise the price of its most prestigious alligator purse to $14,000, and hide prices were expected to rise another 50 percent this summer. (Alligator shoes, shirts and coats have also soared in price, and the alligator-paneled piano sold by Giorgio's of Palm Beach now costs $950,000.) People with issues In April, Michael Thele-man, 45, finding true love hard to come by in the isolated town of Bray, Okla.

(pop. posted a yard sign offering to pay $1,000 for help in finding a "virgin" bride between the ages of 12 and 24. Offended neighbors convinced him to take it down, but he replaced it with another, stating that his future wife must not be "pig- worshipping, heathen (or) white supremacist." Theleman said he couldn't understand the neighbors' furor, recalling that his grandmother was married at 14 to "a much older man." Least competent Salt Lake City high" school student Travis Williams was bitten by a baby rattlesnake in May, even though a companion had warned him to avoid it. Said Williams, "(E)ven though she told me not to I picked it up anyway. I'm not too bright that way." (2) Chesterton, high school student Michael Morris was hospitalized in May with a broken leg and broken arm after being run into by a friend driving an Acura at about 25 mph, but it was consensual.

The friend described Morris as an adrenaline junkie who had had the friend run over him before, but Morris told the Times of Northwest Indiana, "I won't do this no more." Recurring themes News of the Weird reported in 2001 that a bulimic woman in Toyoda, Japan, had been caught illegally dumping about 60 pounds a week of her own vomit in remote locations and, in 2003, that another bulimic woman had been caught discarding similar quantities near Madison, Wis. (perhaps, say health professionals, to assist their denial process by keeping their own homes untainted). The classic middle name (all new) Arrested recently and awaiting trial for murder Bruce Wayne Potts, 34 (DeSo-to, Texas, February); Oral Wayne Nobles, 71 (arrested in Kingman, on a Massachusetts warrant, April); Ronald Wayne Spencer 19 (Richardson, Texas, April). Arrested and suspected of murder Darrell Wayne Lewis, 32 (Tempe, March). Sentenced for murder David Wayne Hickman (Dallas, May); Anthony Wayne Welch, 27 (Viera, March).

Committed suicide while serving life in prison for murder John Wayne Glover, 72 (Sydney, Australia, September 2005). God's will More than 90 people were killed while observing their religion in three incidents in April. A stampede by thousands of women at a religious gathering in downtown Karachi, Pakistan, resulted in 29 deaths; a packed bus speeding home from a religious festival went out of control and plunged into a ravine near Orizaba, Mexico, killing 57; and a few days later in Santa Maria del Rio, Mexico, five were killed by lightning, which struck a large metal cross as they were praying. I Send your Weird News to WeirdNewsTipsyahoo.com or P.O. Box 18737, Tampa, FL 33679.

Lead story The National Health Service office in Dundee, Scotland, has recommended toilet techniques for the estimated one-third of the population that suffers from bowel and bladder dysfunction, according to an April report in The Times of London. The pamphlet, "Good Defecation Dynamics," lists preferred breathing habits and describes the proper, upright, seated posture for effective elimination your mouth open as you bulge and and encourages support for the feet, perhaps "a small footstool." The entrepreneurial spirit I Earlier this year in separate incidents, two physical education teachers at Ernest Ward Middle School in Pen-sacola, were arrested and charged with bribery for allowing students to avoid gym classes by paying the teachers money. Tamara B. Tootle, 39, charged in April, allegedly gave students credits at $1 per student per class, and Terence Braxton, 28, arrested in February, pleaded guilty in May to a similar scheme, admitting to making at least $230. More Side Businesses: (1) A highly publicized attraction of the Isdaan restaurant in Gerona, Philippines (according to a March Reuters dispatch) is its "wall of fury," against which diners can vent frustrations by smashing things (with fees ranging from the equivalent of 30 U.S.

cents for a plate up to $25 for an old TV set). (2) In July, according to BBC News, British farmer David Lucas will be forced by European Commission rules to give up his lucrative sideline of building gallows for Zimbabwe and other governments that still employ hangings. Lucas' single, gallows sells for the equivalent of $22,000, and the Multi-Hanging Execution System, mounted on a trailer, goes for about $185,000. Science on the cutting edge In April, noted surgeon Sir Magdi Yacoub and a team at Ormond Hospital in London re-started and re-inserted the original heart of a 12-year-old girl after it had been in storage for 10 years" while she lived with a donated heart. Because the donated heart was finally showing signs of rejection, Dr.

Yacoub decided that the original, which was removed because of acute in- flammation, might have repaired itself enough to work again. Workplace traumas (1) In Miami, actress-dancer Alice Alyce, 29, sued the owners and managers of the musical "Movin' Out" for $100 million in March after they fired her, allegedly because they believed her breasts are too large for her role. (2) Schoolteacher Sue Storer, 48, filed a lawsuit against the government in Bristol, England, in March, asking the equivalent of $1.9 million for having fired her when she complained of, among other things, never getting a replacement for her classroom chair, which she said emitted a "farting" noise every time she sat down. Politicians: Only the best and the brightest I Unclear on the Concept (1) Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate (and football hall-of-famer) Lynn Swann, who says state taxes are too high, was revealed by the Allen-town Morning Call in March to have been neglecting to collect legally required state sales tax from the Pennsylvania customers of his football memorabilia Web site. (2) Arizona gubernatorial candidate Mike Harris donated $100,000 of his own money to his campaign in April, six months after successfully begging a judge to cut his child-support payments in half (and conceding that he had not disclosed that he owed his ex-wife $44,000 more from a property sale).

Harris said even paying $1,000 a month was "pretty darn generous" of him. I (1) Pasco County, candidate John Ubele, 28, a proud member of the white separatist National Alliance, said he's more concerned with runaway government expenses than with race as he campaigns for a seat on the county's Mosquito Control Board. (2) New York state Sen. David Paterson, running for duction with a distinct sense of theatricality. Her actors move with dreamy, dance-like steps, using a passion-red piece of sheer material that serves as a shawl a bed, a sheet, a line that connects the two, and finally one that separates them.

At first that theatricality feels too contrived, but within five minutes of the 90-minute production, you become so involved with these characters, and watching this headed-for-a-wreck relationship that you not only indulge the artifices, you come to embrace them. Carlisle Ellis and Victor Carpinteiro are the couple in lust. Ellis, a veteran Tucson actress, is pretty theatrical herself, and that fits in well with the character who throws caution to the wind and brings a young man home from Colombia to bed and wed. Carpinteiro is magic to watch and listen to. He moves with a sensuality and grace, speaks with an eloquence and passion.

Though much of what he said was in Spanish, his intent was so clear that non-Spanish speakers should have no trouble grasping the story and the words in the bilingual production. This play is steamy with language, emotion, lust and, especially, message-without-the-lec-ture. Whew, indeed. I Contact reporter Kathleen Allen at kallenazstarnet.com or 573-4128. DESIRE Continued from Page El hires him to be her chauffeur.

And then she invites him to have a drink. Then to her hotel room. The two are in serious lust with one another. They make love. She brings him back to Los Angeles.

They make love again. Then again and again. No discussions about family, or desires, or hopes and dreams. Who needs talk like that when the sex is so good? Rascon Banda uses poetic language to have Susan describe what madness has overtaken her: "When suddenly at the end of one's lifeone stumbles on a young bodyYoung laughterYoung breath A fog envelops youA light dizziness, like being a little drunkClouds your eyesThe eyes can no longer see She proposes to him. He accepts.

They move to a new home with extra bedrooms. And he mentions there's room for his family. Not a good idea, she says. He says he wants to work. Not a good idea, she says.

He describes in great, sensuous detail a meal he wants to make for her. "Take out the garlic," she says. "And no chorizo. It's not kosher." The downhill trip has begun. But oh, what a raw, raunchy ride.

Eva Tessler directed this pro she wrote in an e-mail. Over the next 10 years, Stevens would be writer, reporter, camera person and on-air talent. In 1972, she was named news director for KGUN. "Shortly after I took over the department, I was invited to a conference of ABC affiliate news directors in Chicago," she wrote. "When I showed up, I was the only woman in the room." Technology eventually came knocking as well, first with 16-niillimeter film, then with videotape.

"We got our first microwave truck in the early '80s," Parris remembers. "But our first live remote was in front of a door we couldn't get in," says Blake. "So we showed the door and said, 'Behind this Over the years, the station went through a succession of owners, as well as a move in. 1990 to a facility at East Speedway and North KolbRoad. KGUN's news department of one has now swelled to about 15 in news production, says Blake, along with another 40 to 45 reporters, editors and photographers.

Like other news outlets, KGUN is feeling the hot breath of competition these days. "It's an MTV world," says Blake. "We've gone to shorter, faster presentations, added graphic elements. We look snazzier." So 50 years from now, will there be a 100th anniversary? Could be, says Blake. "I think there's always a place for the local news." I Reach columnist Bonnie Henry at 434-4074 or at bhenryazstarnet.com, or write to 3295 W.

Ina Road, Suite 125, Tucson, AZ 85741. Bonnie's book I Reprints of Bonnie Henry 's 1992 book, "Another Tucson, are available for $29.95 from cafepress.comlazstarnet or 1-877-809-1659. The product number is 13596486. KGUN-TV Continued from Page El As a former child performer and later producer and star of an Ohio-based kids' show called "Nosey the Clown," his credentials were impeccable. "The sales crew wanted a vehicle to sell Saturday nights," says Jacobson.

"Because of my background, I came up with Dr. Scar. It had a big cult following." Costuming and a slathering of makeup helped keep him incognito. "We never told anybody who I was," says Jacobson. Jack Parris, who came to KGUN in 1978 as station and program manager, says: "We had a lot more freedom to improvise.

ABC only had two or three hours of programming, and that was at night so we had to fill it up with local programming." In between the shows, advertisers sold everything from cars to lamps right in the studio. "We built a Utile dressing room for Lee Levitz with a star on it," says Blake. "She would come in, change outfits, cut 30 commercials." As for the station's news department, it was pretty much a one-man operation name of Mac Marshall throughout the early 1960s. Standing behind a lectern, Marshall served up the news. He also handled sports, weather and photos, often rushing out to cover the latest flood, fire or auto wreck with his trusty Polaroid camera.

"I put the photos on a story board, and they would aim the camera on it" says Marshall, who also pitched commercials. "I remember one time approaching one of the managers and saying, 'Look, let's buy this sound-on-film They said, 'No, it's not in the news budget' I asked, 'What is the They said, 'Your salary." At the time, Marshall was making $125 a week. In March of '66, Pat Stevens became a news writer for Mar- shall "Mac taught me how to use a camera, and off I went" PAINT Continued from Page El flections of rock formations on the surface of the lake." Wolterbeek said painters Plein-air painter Cindy Car-rillo will give a free class on the technique at 10 a.m. Other events include an outdoor exhibition of art by members of the Mesa Art League and a midday potluck. Wolterbeek said visitors who want to take part in the potluck should bring a $2 donation and a dish to share with others.

I Contact reporter Doug Kreutz at dkreut2fSmstarnet.com or at 5734192. are welcome to enter me arboretum as early as 6 a.m., even though the event officially starts at 10 a.m. Normal admission fees will be in effect "It's just sublime for painting in those first hours of the day," Wolterbeek said..