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The opponent for Vincent Pettway's comeback fight at Martin's West tomorrow night has changed -- again.Pettway, the former 154-pound IBF champion, had been scheduled to fight Tyrone Jackson during tomorrow's fight card. Instead, he will face Anthony Ivory, 34, of Chicago.Jackson was the fifth opponent to pull out of the fight against Pettway, who is attempting a comeback after having surgery earlier this year to repair a detached retina. Ivory, who is scheduled to arrive in town today, has a 37-39 record.

WHITE HALL - Ivory Mills is not the pristine example of the gristmill that it was in the 19th century.The wheel is gone, lost during Hurricane Agnes in 1972. The upper millstone is missing and the mill itself houses some lawn chairs and an old McDonald's "M" sign.But Karen and Joseph Barbacane saw enough - and worked hard enough over the last 20 years - to win the mill and surrounding farm buildings a spot on the National Register of Historic Places. The property was listed in July as an example of the gristmills that were once common throughout the area.

In the Mandingo culture of West Africa, KanKouran is the spirit who guides adolescent boys through the ceremony of initiation into manhood.KanKouran West African Dance Company of Washington, which performs this weekend at the Baltimore Museum of Art, is the performing arm of an organization that helps young African-Americans realize their African heritage.It was founded in 1983 by Assane Konte and Abdou Kounta, both of Dakar, Senegal, who met as members of the Ballet Africaine de Diebel Guee.

"My favorite book is 'Arthur's Eyes' by Marc Brown. Arthur gets new glasses and his sister, D.W., laughs at him. He ignores her, though. The best part of the book is when Arthur goes into the girls' bathroom by mistake before he gets his glasses."- Ivory Robinson, Grade 3Samuel Coleridge Taylor Elementary"'A Book of Satellites for You,' by Franklin M. Branley, is the best book I ever read. Here are some things I learned. One is that the moon is a satellite. It goes around the planet earth.

The soundtrack pounds rhythms and sweeps tall, lean women along in the ritual procession of the summer designer shows. They wear colors plucked from the earth -- unadulterated browns and reds baked by the sun. The mood is African in Ralph Lauren country.Models in rich drapery worthy of an Ivory Coast princess pose in luxe evening wear by Mary McFadden. The designer calls the collection Talking Timbuktu, and it is assembled from fabrics and inspirations gathered on her pilgrimage to Africa.

In "Surviving Picasso" (8 p.m.-10 p.m., Cinemax), Director James Ivory, co-producer Ismail Merchant and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ("A Room With a View," "Howards End") turn the life of Pablo Picasso into a conventional biography.The 1996 film splits its attention between the Spanish painter (Anthony Hopkins) and Francoise Gilot (Natascha McElhone), the woman who was his companion between 1943 and 1953 in Paris. Julianne Moore and Susannah Harker portray two of the artist's mistresses.

NEW YORK - "The Glory of Byzantium" exhibition on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through July 6 shows the influence of the Orthodox Christian church in illuminated manuscripts, processional crosses, small and large mosaics, fragments of frescoes, painted icons, gold and enamelled medallions and ivory carvings.Byzantium was the heartland of Orthodox Christianity, and much of this art was created in the centuries when the Eastern and Western branches of Christianity, long drifting apart, formally divided.

Less-than-serious pottery pieces have been made for centuries. Small figurines made to attract tourists, for example, have been sold at fairs and shops since the early 1800s.The best known are "fairings," which often had a title on the front explaining the joke of the piece. A small figurine might portray a woman in bed watching a man carrying a baby, with the title "Twelve months after marriage."Porcelain pieces that collectors call "flip-overs" exhibit an even-more-subtle type of humor.

A thousand years ago, a trade route developed from the interior of South Africa, up the East African coast, across the Red Sea to Europe. Swahili tribesmen carried goods to Muslim sailors who took them to the ports of Naples, Sicily, Genoa and Marseilles.Among the goods were ivory tusks of African elephants, which European artists of the Gothic period carved into statues. Larger than Asian elephant tusks, the African tusks were prized for the thick layer beneath their surface, called dentin.

FOR TWO DECADES, Richard H. Randall was Mr. Walters Art Gallery. As its director from 1965 to 1981, he led the campaign for a bond issue to fund its expansion, then supervised the building and installation of the new wing of 1974, tripling the exhibitions of the great collection assembled by William T. and Henry Walters and given by the latter to the people of Baltimore.His public manner sometimes reinforced an image of the Walters as an unwelcoming private club -- always a bum rap, and one he did much to reverse.

On May 26, 2009, IVORY CRAIGHEAD, devoted mother of five children. Friends may visit the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST, INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue on Friday after 1:00 P.M. where the family will receive friends on Saturday at 1:30 P.M. at which time funeral service will begin.

On November 29, 2008, JAMES WALTER HARTSFIELD, SR. "Sugar Man", age 70. Survivors include children Jamie Thorne, James Ivory Hartsfield, Charles Thorne, Daryl Hartsfield, Anthony Dixon, James W. Hartsfield, Jr., Robert L. Hartsfield, Patricia Hopkins, Dorothy Barnes, Katrina Siddle, Joey Hartsfield and Ebony Hartsfield. Also survived by a sister, Etheleen H. Williams and several grandchildren. Memorial Service Saturday, December 6 at 1 P.M. at William Toney's Funeral Home Chapel in Spring Hope, North Carolina.

For decades, ancient Iraqi ivory and other art has languished in Iraq's poorly kept storage facilities, gathering mold. But a new initiative funded by the federal government aims to restore Iraq's antique and contemporary art stores and establish a state-of-the-art museum there. Through the program, called the Iraq Cultural Heritage Project, the Walters Art Museum is teaming up with the Winterthur Museum and Country Estate and the University of Delaware to train Iraqi professionals in conservation of that country's cultural heritage.

Nigerian militants call for cease-fire LAGOS, Nigeria -- The main militant group responsible for attacks on foreign oil installations in Nigeria's lawless south announced a one-month cease-fire yesterday, giving the new president a chance to resolve the crisis that has helped cause global crude prices to spike. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta did not offer to stop kidnapping foreign oil workers, but it released six hostages who had been seized May 1, including one American, as a peace offering to the government.

On March 17, 2007, MICHAEL IVORY GREENE. On Wednesday friends may call VAUGHN C. GREENE FUNERAL SERVICES, (RANDALLSTOWN), 8728 Liberty Road from 4-8 P.M. On Thursday, Mr. Greene will lie in state at VCGFS, 8728 Liberty Road, where the family will receive friends from 10:30-11 A.M. Inquiries to (410) 655-0015.

I am in receipt of a very nice e-mail from a Miss Vivian Williams, who writes from Abidjan, Ivory Coast. "Hello, dear," she begins. " ... I have a proposal for you - this however, is not mandatory nor will I in any manner compel you to honour against your will." Breezy. Informal. No pressure. I like that. Right away, I can see we're going to hit it off. Miss Williams goes on to say that she's 21, the only daughter of Chief Alex Williams, a highly reputable diamond, gold and cocoa merchant who operated in Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast.

Sun reporter Milton Kent's prediction for the women's Sweet 16, by regional sites. Greensboro, N.C. 1. Maryland Defending champ has all the necessary parts to repeat. 2. Tennessee Even with Candace Parker, the Lady Vols are under the national radar. 3. Purdue New coach Sharon Versyp takes over a talented Boilermakers squad. 4. California Former Duke assistant Joanne Boyle is building a power at Berkeley. Fresno, Calif. 1. Stanford Candice Wiggins is ready to lead Cardinal return to prominence.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Hundreds of people protested violently yesterday in the commercial capital of Ivory Coast against the open-air dumping of toxic waste, beating a Cabinet minister and burning down the home of a port director implicated in the dumping. The health minister said that seven people, including four children, have died in the West African country's main city, Abidjan, after breathing fumes from the wastes, which were unloaded at 14 open sites, including the city's main dump.

Anytime Mariame Djouara steps on a basketball court, she's right at home. No matter that her hometown lies more than 5,000 miles away. Basketball has been an international language for the St. Timothy's senior who hails from Ivory Coast in West Africa. When she arrived at St. Timothy's in October 2004, Djouara knew barely a word of English, but she knew plenty about basketball. One of the youngest players ever on the Ivory Coast senior national women's basketball team, Djouara had played internationally in northern Africa and France.

In a new twist on the legendary narwhal's tusk, a study suggests that it's bristling with nerves sensitive to the Arctic whale's environment and food supply. Males and some female whales brandish a single corkscrew tooth with 10 million nerve connections that may sense changes in water temperature, pressure and saltiness, as well as act as a dinner bell, according to research presented this week at a conference in San Diego. The ivory tusk's strength and flexibility - it can bend about a foot in any direction - is unique, investigators said.