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MEXICO, Mo. — When Dennis Sapp travels the 30-something

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — It takes about 24 hours to get to Johannesburg, South Africa, from Samford University, the latter tucked away among the hills of Alabama’s largest city. Jermaine Seoposenwe will soon make that trek to play for the South African national team against Equatorial Guinea in an Olympic soccer qualifier. She will play the game on a Saturday, then turn around and travel the route in reverse so as to miss as few classes as possible the following week.

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And that’s the easier itinerary for her in October.

Less than two weeks after that initial round trip, Seoposenwe will again endure endless hours on an airplane to rejoin her team in South Africa and then travel to the return game in Equatorial Guinea (the distance between those two countries, by the way, roughly equivalent to that separating the Atlantic Ocean from the Pacific Ocean in this country).

If South Africa wins over the two legs, it qualifies for the Olympics in Brazil. Either way, Seoposenwe will be back in Birmingham, by way of another stop in South Africa, within days to continue pursuing both a

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Earlier this year it looked like Opera San Antonio, the 2009 start-up company that won a residency at the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, was in trouble. In February the company announced that its high-profile artistic director, composer Tobias Picker, was leaving. Its first season at the Tobin was well-attended, but the cost of three brand-new productions, two of which were staged in the smaller Alvarez Theater, was taking its toll.

Now, as Mel Weingart sits in front of me in the TPR studios, he smiles as he says that October’s production of Madama Butterly is “fully funded.”

One way that costs are being kept down for the moment is that Weingart is wearing three hats: Board Chair, Artistic Director, and General Manager. He grimaces a little, but there’s a smile around the edges.

“Is that tough?” I ask.

“Well, it’s challenging, but extremely interesting! [There are] more moving parts than I ever imagined,” Weingart says. “Every day is a new experience.” 

Help for Weingart is on the way. He says there are many people that have already expressed interest in taking over the role of artistic director, and a decision will be made sometime this season, which opens with a production of Madama Butterfly at the Tobin Center on October 1.

In the interview below, Mel Weingart speaks about the opportunities he sees for Opera San Antonio, and his artistic, financial, and logistical vision for the company, inspired by the successful Glimmerglass Opera near Cooperstown, New York. Note: the interview has been edited

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The Masonic Temple on Main Street was one of two designated fallout shelters in Logan. The other was the White and Browning building on Stratton Stree.

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After watching last Wednesday night’s hilarious Republican debate, I was reminded of the Cold War days of growing up at a time when the fear of atomic war was ever present. Historians generally agree that the Cold War period existed from 1947 until 1991. Following World War II the United States and the Soviet Union began a nuclear weapons race that almost led to what could well have been the end of the world—at least as we knew it back then. Now, today, with Russia’s dangerous leader Vladimir Putin, and the crazy “kid” leader Kim Jong-un of North Korea in possession of nuclear weapons, Americans must take notice of more than just the unfortunate state of our economy. The question may be: “Is it time to build bomb shelters again? Or to teach our school children the “duck and cover” routine that many of us went through in school while we were growing up?”

For those of us “baby boomers” that were around in 1962 when most of us had access to television and the news, the Cuban Missile

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