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Read a summary of NCWGE's hill briefing held in honor of the 41st anniversary of Title IX, "Title IX, Pregnant and Parenting Students, and ESEA: Supporting Young Parents to Achieve Their Educational Goals." It brought together teen parents, advocates, and service providers to explore the promise of Title IX's protections for pregnant and parenting students and to explain the implications of the currently pending Pregnant and Parenting Students Access to Education Act (PPSAE Act). Panelists included Anurima Bhargava, Chief of the Educational Opportunities Section of the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and Kimberly Inez McGuire of the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health; Lara S. Kaufmann of the National Women's Law Center moderated the discussion. For more information on rights for pregnant and parenting students, read NCWGE's report chapter on pregnant and parenting students.
Thanks to complaint initiated by the National Women's Law Center, City University of New York adopts new policy to protect students who are pregnant and parents.
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More than forty years after Title IX outlawed sex segregation in education, women and girls are still sorely underrepresented in Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs that are nontraditional1 for their gender. Click here to see the research.
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You've heard about Title IX and athletics, but Title IX is about much more! In honor of the 40th anniversary of the law's passage, NCWGE published a comprehensive report to help give educators, parents, students, and lawmakers a better understanding of Title IX's impact and challenges that remain in many areas of education, including:
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The National Coalition for Women and Girls in Education (NCWGE) is a nonprofit organization of more than 50 groups dedicated to improving educational opportunities for girls and women. Our mission is to provide leadership in and advocate for the development of national education policies that benefit all women and girls. This site provides information on our coalition, current activities, updates on relevant federal education legislation, useful resources, and NCWGE publications.
NCWGE was formed in 1975 by representatives of national organizations concerned about the failure to issue regulations implementing Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. NCWGE was successful in mobilizing strong support for publication of the Title IX regulations by the then Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
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Introduction to Modern Chemistry
Selected subjects in Chemistry, with emphasis on material necessary as background preparation for Chemistry 1000.
Recommended background: Chemistry 20 (or Science 30); and Mathematics 30 or Pure Mathematics 30, or Applied Mathematics 30 and at least 75% standing in Athabasca University's Mathematics 101.
Note: Credit for Chemistry 0500 will not be granted to those with Chemistry 30 or equivalent.
Gas laws; solutions and colligative properties; atomic and molecular structure; chemical reactions and energetics. Scientific models; their utility and relationship to experiment. Chemical applications of contemporary concern.
Prerequisites: Chemistry 30 or 0500; and Mathematics 30 or Pure Mathematics 30, or Applied Mathematics 30 and at least 75% standing in Athabasca University's Mathematics 101.
Recommended background: Mathematics 31.
The principles of chemical equilibrium, with particular emphasis on solutions and reactions in solutions. Electrochemistry and its relation to chemical equilibrium. Brief discussion of chemical kinetics.
Prerequisite: Chemistry 1000.
Survey of organic compounds; their preparation, properties, reactions and significance.
Prerequisite: Chemistry 30 or 0500.
Recommended background: Chemistry 1000.
Note: Chemistry 2100 cannot be used to meet the requirements for the major in Chemistry.
Credit is not allowed for Chemistry 2100 and 2500.
Organic chemistry of carbohydrates, lipids, proteins and nucleic acids in relation to biological function and metabolism.
Prerequisite: Chemistry 2100.
A course designed for the non-Chemistry or non-Biochemistry majors. The course will examine the history of basic chemistry and its impact on society. This will include energy, synthetic materials, pollution, consumer chemistry, drugs and other current topics of interest.
Note: Credit is not allowed for Chemistry 2310 and 2000 or 2200 or 2850 (Chemistry and Biochemistry in Society).
Principles of quantitative analysis: gravimetric and volumetric analysis; acid-base, complexation and oxidation-reduction titrations; statistical treatment of data.
Prerequisite: Chemistry 2000.
Chemistry of organic compounds, with emphasis on relation of chemical reactions to structure and bonding; mechanisms of organic reactions.
Prerequisite: Chemistry 2000.
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Carbohydrates, amino acids, applications of spectroscopy and selected subjects of contemporary importance.
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Basic theories and experimental methods of chemical kinetics; relationships of reaction rate to mechanism.
Prerequisites: Chemistry 2000 and Mathematics 1560.
Basic thermodynamic theory with applications in chemistry and the life sciences. Elements of quantum mechanics emphasizing their applicability to molecular science, including spectroscopy.
Prerequisites: Chemistry 2000, Mathematics 1560, and Physics 1000 or 1050 or Engineering 2060.
The chemistry of the elements. Examples of applications in chemistry, industry, mineralogy, biology and the solid state. Laboratory experiments will illustrate the lecture topics with emphasis on properties of the elements.
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Introduction to the major instrumental methods of analytical chemistry; atomic and molecular spectrophotometry; gas and liquid chromatography.
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Introduction to electrochemical methods of analysis; potentiometry, voltammetry and coulometry. Computer interfacing and automation in the chemical laboratory.
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Practical organic and inorganic spectroscopy (infrared, nuclear magnetic resonance, mass spectroscopy) with attention to structure determination.
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Theory and application of modern synthetic and analytical methods of organic chemistry. Steroids, chemistry of carbonyl compounds and rearrangements. Laboratory experiments demonstrate techniques in synthesis, purification and characterization.
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A second course in physical chemistry with an emphasis on experimental methods. Advanced chemical thermodynamics, including calorimetry and solution thermodynamics. Other topics may include phase equilibria, colligative properties, transport of heat and matter, electrochemistry, nonequilibrium thermodynamics, surface science and advanced spectroscopy.
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Major League umpire Mike Reilly worked his 4,000th game on Tuesday. Reilly was the first base umpire for the game between the Angels and Tigers. No official records are kept on umpires and how many games they have worked but it's believed that Reilly ranks third among active managers behind Bruce Froemming and Ed Montague.
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Yard Sale
Maranatha Christ Center, 7879 N. Hwy 87 in Orange, will hold a yard, plant and link sale from 8 a.m. - 2 p.m., Saturday, April 27. Items include clothes for all seasons for men, women and children, furniture, electronics, housewares, shoes purses, artwork and more.
Women's Day Celebration
The public is invited to attend the United Methodist Women Annual Women's Day Celebration at 3:30 p.m., Sunday, April 28 at Salem United Methodist Church, 402 W. John in Orange. Guest speaker is Rev. Hebert Winston Sr., pastor of White Rose Church of God in Christ in Port Arthur. Call 409-883-2611 for info.
Pastor and Wife Appreciation
Mount Olive Baptist Church, 106 W. Park in Orange, will hold an Appreciation Service at 3:30 p.m., Sunday, April 28. Guest speaker is Rev. Hardy O'Neal, Pastor of St. James Baptist Church in Orange. The public is invited to attend.
Gospel from Asia
Little Cypress Baptist Church, 3274 Little Cypress Drive, will have a guest speaker at 10:30 a.m., Sunday, April 28, speaking on Gospel from Asia, a program which sends missionairies throughout South Asia sharing the hope of Jesus Christ. Everyone is invited.
Christian Music Concert
First Baptist Church of Buna welcomes The Martins, multi-Dove Award and Grammy nominated trio, in concert at 6 p.m., Sunday, May 5. Call 409-994-3517 or visit www.fbcbuna.com for information.
Antioch Missionary
Antioch Missionary Baptist Church has relocated to 132 John St. in Orange. Worship service, led by Pastor Carol Luper, will be held at 11 a.m. Samaritan Way, led by Pastor Barbar Myles, will hold service at 9 a.m.
Public welcome to Trinity Baptist
Trinity Baptist Church, 1408 W. Park Ave. at 14th Street in Orange, invites guest to their Traditional Worship Services each Sunday at 11 a. m. and Sunday School at 9:45 a. m. Sunday Night Bible Study starts at 5 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall. The public is invited to come and enjoy the sermons and gospel music. Dr. Robert (Bob) Webb is the pastor and Dan Cruse serves as Worship Leader.


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Recovery and Rehabilitation
Rehabilitation after stroke may include the following activities, as prescribed by your doctor:
- Physical therapy—to regain as much movement as possible
- Occupational therapy—to assist in everyday tasks and self-care
- Speech therapy—to improve swallowing and speech challenges
The Post-Stroke Clinic
The Post-Stroke Clinic at Lee's Summit Medical Center provides a continuum of care including ongoing stroke treatment and rehabilitation at one convenient location. Our inter-disciplinary team includes nurse navigators, neurologists and physiatrists who answer questions and provide support for the best possible chances of full recovery. In addition, we'll help assess health needs, screen for depression, and monitor treatment options such as medication, test results and lifestyle changes. We can also refer patients to physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech-language pathology and adaptive/assistive devices.


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Reviewer: Jason Kroll
CodeWarrior is an integrated development environment (IDE) which has existed on several platforms for a number of years and has just recently been made available for Linux. Metrowerks is releasing two versions of CodeWarrior for Red Hat Linux (with SuSE releases to follow): the GNU Edition and the Professional Edition. The GNU Edition is the subject for today.
An integrated development environment, as in the case of CodeWarrior, is a graphical environment incorporating the main elements of software development. This includes managing the project, dependencies, libraries, editing code, compiling, debugging, linking and all of the usual coding tasks. It does not include paint programs or other multimedia tools that could be used in software development. Essentially, the idea of the IDE (not to be confused with Integrated Drive Electronics) is to combine all these things under one interface for easy project management. This is a different approach from using Emacs in one virtual console while running gcc in another and editing the Makefile in a third. An IDE will presumably take care of the entire project, and one can easily call up whichever parts of the program need editing and have the computer keep track of changes to the Makefile (or what would be the Makefile). This approach has its advantages and disadvantages.
The principal advantage of the IDE is that it is easy; the program takes care of everything and lets you concentrate exclusively on your code. On machines without the make command, this can be completely wonderful, and even on Linux, many users have wished that someone would port CodeWarrior. Now it is available, and the development environment is basically the same as on other platforms, so migrating from other operating systems (or between, if you must) is even easier.
Because development is such a large part of the Linux movement, people are very sensitive to all sorts of programming issues, including devout preferences for certain keystrokes over others and one editor over another. CodeWarrior is flexible in these areas, allowing (or requiring) third-party products such as editors and debuggers. However, some shortcomings are applicable to the open-source, multi-platform world of GNU/Linux.
One advantage of the CodeWarrior IDE is that it eliminates the complications involved in writing and maintaining a Makefile. Probably the main disadvantage is that it eliminates the advanced functionality and power that go along with the Makefile. This means that on one level, anything you write with CodeWarrior cannot be compiled on non-CodeWarrior systems unless you write your own Makefile to correspond with the CodeWarrior .mpc file (not a difficult task). The other side of this problem is that if you want to use CodeWarrior to hack some typical open-source software, you have to convert the Makefile first. Frankly, this is often quite difficult, and it defeats a large part of the purpose of an IDE—you might do just as well or better with Emacs/vi/joe/pico in one window and a terminal running make in another.
One possible solution would be for Metrowerks to add a Makefile importer and exporter. (Macintosh and Windows versions are said to have a Makefile importer, though I have not had a chance to use it.) If there were an open-source version of this converter for Linux, developers who use CodeWarrior could easily cooperate with those who use other IDEs or the usual combination of Emacs (or vi) and make. A two-way converter may be a mildly difficult undertaking, considering the flexibility of make (with configure) compared to .mpc which is quite specialized. Still, it would be nice. So, although CodeWarrior may make cross-platform development much easier, it may slightly complicate cross-UNIX development. KDE developers in particular may be annoyed that it is difficult to use extended C++ class libraries like Qt. (I had trouble getting KDE programs to compile.)
Serious programmers may find other limitations. For example, third-party products (such as the debugger) are not integrated into the IDE, they are just loaded for you. Also, CodeWarrior does not support the Gnome/KDE drag-and-drop standards (who expects this?), and there seems to be no support for languages outside of C/C++ except as provided by egcs (for example, you can write in assembler). Also, if you would like to use KAI's C++ or any compiler other than gcc/egcs, the GNU Edition of CodeWarrior does not support it—this edition is based exclusively on free development tools. Now that we know what CodeWarrior is not, we can take a look at what CodeWarrior does have to offer.
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Enid News and Eagle
Enid's boys "improved dramatically'' in scoring 22 points at the Union March tennis tournament Tuesday.
The Plainsmen only scored 12 points a few days before at Jenks.
Jason Christopherson, at No.2 singles, became the first Plainsman to win a match on the winners side. He ended up sixth after losing to No. 1 seed Alec Powers of Cascia Hall, 6-1, 6-2. He now is 5-3 overall.
Tyler Hallett and Koderick Miller, making their debut as a team, won the consolation championship at No. 2 doubles, beating Broken Arrow's Howard and Arnold 6-4, 6-3 in the ninth-place match.
Connor Angleton and Blake Young won two matches to finish 13th at No. 2 doubles, raising their record to 3-5.
Zac Gwin was 14th at No. 1 singles.
The Plainsmen won all three of their split set matches and lost only one match, 6-0, 6-0.
"We're making some big baby steps,'' said Enid coach Darrell Herndon. "We made a lot of improvement. Jason really had a good day and it was good to see the No. 2 team come back like they did.
"Overall, it was a positive day. It was cold and windy, but we have been playing on Ninth Street (in Enid) long enough that it felt like being at home.
The boys go to Muskogee Saturday. The girls go to Muskogee Friday.
Madison Blevins and Savannah Blasi were third at No. 2 doubles at the girls Union Tournament and not fourth as previously reported.
Enid results
Team — 22 points
Zac Gwin, No. 1, 14th — def. by No. 2 seed Austin Hoose, Cascia Hall, 6-0, 6-0; def. by Matt Incolo, Owasso, 6-3, 6-2; def. Seth Fritter, Norman North, 6-7, 6-4, 10-6. 13th — def. by Connor Nelson, Tahlequah, 6-3, 6-4
Jason Christopherson, No. 2 singles, 6th — def. Zac Price, Metro Christian, 6-2, 4-6, 10-5; def. by No. 2 seed Stephen Wolfe, Edmond Memorial, 6-1, 6-0; def. Darien Ghali, Union, 3-6, 6-3, 10-8. 5th place — def. by No. 1 seed Alec Powers, Cascia Hall, 6-1, 6-2
Connor Angleton-Blake Young, No. 1 doubles, 13th- def. by Carter-Marrs, Norman North, 6-2, 6-4; def. by Peters-Sims, Broken Arrow, 6-3, 6-1; def. Diddick-Roper, Norman, 6-2, 6-0. 13th - def. Day-Gold, Henryetta, 4-6, 6-4, 10-6.
Tyler Hallett-Koderick Miller, No. 2 doubles. 9th — def. by No. 4 Li-Roberts, Union, 6-0, 6-1; def. Prewett-Yoon, Norman, 6-4, 6-4; def. Lashley-Farzaneh, Norman North, 6-3, 6-3. 9th - def. Howard-Årnold, Broken Arrow, 6-4, 6-3.


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"I want to work with people."
The internet has revolutionized communication for every industry, especially for nonprofits like The Volunteer Center. We send out newsletters by email, we update our website regularly, our profiles on Facebook and Twitter are important to us and here we are blogging. It is then easy to forget that it is the human connection that we look forward to and, for many volunteers, what they want when they commit to serve.
This past weekend, The Volunteer Center sponsored the MLK Day of Service with over 20 projects around our area. It was a day where the human connection was reinforced and neighbor helped neighbor and showed that they care.
With hundreds of people serving on one day, we need another project for people to show their commitment to our community. The Volunteer Center has organized Valentines and Volunteers, an opportunity for individuals, families, colleagues, groups and you to show you care by making heart-shaped window clings destined for Blythedale Children's Hospital.
For the children who are treated at the hospital, their families, the staff and volunteers, it will be uplifting when they see scores of colorful window valentines around them.
The project itself is easy to do (we found it on the internet on another blog!) and requires just wax paper or aluminum foil and fabric paint. Details are found on our website at www.volunteer-center.org.
Since it is winter, we are not taking any chances with the weather. The project can be done at home or at the office. Give the clings plenty of time to dry and should be delivered to The Volunteer Center by February 5th so we can bring them over to Blythedale Children's Hospital with plenty of time for them to decorate for Valentine's Day.
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NORMAN — Dr. Chuck M. Childs and Childs Chiropractic Wellness Center were honored with Integrity Management's prestigious Five Star Quality Service Award.
The Five Star Quality Service Award was developed by Integrity Management as a means of promoting and publicizing superior chiropractic clinics that excel in patient treatment, customer service and professionalism.
Clinics must go through an extensive examination and are graded on things such as punctuality, patient communication, equipment, the quality of services provided and patient satisfaction in order to even qualify for the award. The Five Star Quality Service Award was established to provide a uniform grading system that rates quality in chiropractic clinics across the country.
Just as five star hotels are synonymous with quality service, five star clinics ensure patients they will receive quality care.
Childs Chiropractic was one of only a few clinics chosen among approximately 60,000 chiropractic clinics across the country to receive this distinction.
"The Five Star Quality Service Award is a great honor," remarked Integrity Management's CEO, Keith Maule. "We established a very strict criteria to qualify for this award and Childs Chiropractic excelled in every area. They are a great example to look to for quality care."
Childs Chiropractic is located at 1330 N. Interstate Drive, Norman and is open on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Tuesday and Friday from 8 a.m. to noon. More information is available at 366-9355 or on the web at childschiropractic.com.
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Birth Place: Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
Years Active: 1966–1988, 1991–present
Genres: R&B, Soul, Funk
Years Active: 1966–1988, 1991–present
Genres: R&B, Soul, Funk
The Bar-Kays are a soul, R&B, and funk group who formed in Memphis, Tennessee in 1966. The band continues to perform today, although with only one original member. They originally consisted of Jimmy King on guitar, Ronnie Caldwell on organ, Phalon Jones on saxophone, Carl Cunningham on drums, Ben Cauley on trumpet and James Alexander on bass The Bar-Kays began as a session musicians backing major artists at Stax Records. Their break came in 1967 when Otis Redding asked them to be his backing band. Tragedy struck on December 10, 1967 when band members King, Caldwell, Jones, and Cunningham along with Redding, died in a plane crash in Lake Monona while on their way to a performance in Madison, ... Continue Bio >>
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Cregle iPen promises to be the first active stylus for the iPad
The Cregle iPen promises to become the first ever active stylus available for the iPad. The project has just received Kickstarter funding blowing its required $35,000 goal with pledges totalling a massive $162,000. The iPen is totally different to any iPad stylus available today.
The Cregle iPen transforms the iPad into a content creation device, not just a content consumption device. iPen is the first active digitizer stylus that allows you to write with precision directly on the iPad. Unlike the passive digitizer used in the typical iPad stylus, iPen writes like a real pen with accurate positioning and palm rejection features that passive products simply cannot achieve. With the Cregle iPen's active digitizer, the attached receiver picks up the iPen's signal and its precise position as it hovers above the screen. This crucial advantage allows iPen to actively transmit 60 samples per second to pinpoint the pen's exact location.
The iPen has now received funding and should go into production early next year. In order to use the iPen, apps will need to include code to support it. Some apps have already decided to support iPen such as PDF-Notes, Procreate, Ghost Writer notes and a few others. We expect this to increase dramatically especially as the iPen will be under Apple's own MFi (Made for iPad) program. The iPen should retail for around $89 when it eventually hits store shelves.
Cregle is also working on iPen 2 which promises to support pressure sensitive features. This would allow a user to alter the thickness of lines by pressing harder or softer on the screen with the iPen; now that would be a huge development should it prove possible.
Source: Kickstarter
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Now THAT looks cool! If only it didn't require that hardware to be plugged into the iPad, but I understand why it is needed. Maybe one day the receiver will be built into the iPad....?
On the other hand: $89 for a pen? Again, I completely understand why the price would have to be higher because it is a piece of technology, but would the average person buy it?
Awesome. I will buy it.
I still think there needs to be some palm-guard technology in place as well. Like, there's no way I can draw or write without resting my hand on anything!
This is not the first stylus like this. One already exists and is on sale that does the same thing. It is called Stylus I and it's made by By Zero (by-zero.com). I have one and it works amazingly well. If you don't want to wait a year for a kick starter project check out by zero.
I'm a backer of this and I'm extremely excited to get mine.
@Daniel: A year? It's coming out at the end of January 2012. Secondly, that stylus you mentioned only works with 1 program(theirs) and you can't buy it, so not sure how you got one...
@James: There is. When the pen gets close to the screen, the pen becomes the only thing to interact with the screen. it's only when you pull the pen away that you can then use your hand again.
The only thing this thing is missing is pressure sensitivity. Supposedly, that's to be in the next one (something I think should've been in this one from the start).
To use this in the classroom with a projector, I need to plug the projector into the docking port. If this stylus device doesn't have a passthrough to allow the VGA adapter to work while using it, then I can't use it.
We got an ipen and we cannot get it to work, very dissapointed :(
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DURHAM — To demonstrate his new liquid bandage, Jerry Chesson twists the lid off a brown bottle and pours a few drops into a cup of water, then dips a Q-tip into the mix and draws out a long trail of goo.
He promises that the stuff, which smells of model airplane glue, will cure scrapes, burns and irritation without leaving a scar. Sitting behind his desk at Chesson Labs, he raises the cotton swab and asks, Have you got a boo-boo?
I hold up a nick on my left thumb, but before I can speak, Chesson is slathering his Nuvaderm over my injured digit. It stings for a second, then turns shiny like the gloss on a manicured fingernail.
Its stronger than skin, Chesson tells me. Its a moisture barrier, but not a vapor barrier. Itll breathe. You can put it on airplane wings to eliminate de-icing. You get stung by a bee, put it on and the pain goes away immediately.
This bottled innovation, the product of Chessons small R&D company at the corner of Ellis Road and Pettigrew Street, aims to become the nations go-to remedy for patching up wounded skin a global market approaching $17 billion.
Chesson got clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to market Nuvaderm for minor cuts and scuffs, and hes waiting on the FDAs go-ahead to tackle toenail fungus.
But the funny thing about Chessons miracle polymer is it started out as a product for pressure-treated wood. The only reason he considered rubbing it on skin was a bad case of poison ivy, which flared up like the stings of a 1,000 fire ants while Chesson was driving 80 mph down the highway.
If youd have told me you had a butter knife, and you were going to operate right away, Chesson recalled, Id have considered letting you.
But instead of a butter knife, Chesson reached for his polymer, rubbing it over both arms. Pain gone. Itching gone. Bleeding stopped.
Chesson had his accidental bandage tested at Nelson Labs in Utah. Its not a carcinogen. Its non-allergenic.
It was as safe as Vaseline, he said.
He gave to his barber, whod accidentally shot himself in the hand with a 9mm pistol. Pain gone.
He rubbed it on a cat whose neck had been gouged out by the bite of a brown recluse spider. The skin grew back with white and fluffy fur.
Ive been using it for eight years, he raved.
Chesson, 70, doesnt have a chemistry background. He studied history at North Carolina Wesleyan College in Rocky Mount. He once ran Southeastern Shelter Fireproofing and tinkered with scientific experiments as a side line. What he does have, though, is nearly $5 million in financing, plus a marketing and distribution agreement.
I fix things, said Chesson. I dont say no. I dont say cant.
Theres not enough chemistry rolling around in my brain to spot the carbon in a lump of coal. But I am a trained skeptic, so I asked Chesson what kind of calls Ill get from biochemists and medical researchers when I tout his miracle goo.
Tell them come see me, he said.
Chesson cautions against trying Nuvaderm for jock itch. Itll work, but only after exacting a payment of several uncomfortable seconds.
Meanwhile, the nick on my thumb is still there, but its smaller. Much smaller.
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July 31, 2014
POSTED: Wednesday, January 2, 2013 --- 8:45 p.m.
UW is looking for about 800 smokers to receive free drugs and treatment as part of a new study.
The UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention announced a new $10 million federal grant to help smokers quit, and study their treatment and its effects. Participants will get counseling, coaching, and one of three medications for free over five years.
"We'll be providing participants with counseling, with state of the art medicine, with a variety of medical tests and see how we can most effectively help them to quit but also assess the changes, the improvements we expect to see over time as a result of quitting," said Dr. Michael Fiore.
Fiore began a similar study in 2005. He says half of smokers die prematurely, on average 15 years sooner than non-smokers. The previous study determined depression after quitting does not last long-term, and that elasticity in blood vessels is restored after quitting, among other findings. This time he hopes to learn more about how blood inflammation may cause heart attacks in smokers and perform new tests on the lungs.
To sign up for the study, visit endcigs.com or call 1-866-END-CIGS.


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f1.. also another question...
Are the passive radiators for front and back tuned for different frequencies? I just realised that when I took them off I didnt note down which one goes where thinking they are exactly the same....
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f1.. also another question...
Are the passive radiators for front and back tuned for different frequencies? I just realised that when I took them off I didnt note down which one goes where thinking they are exactly the same....
If you don't get an answer, I'll email the designer to see if he remembers.
Any time you see a cheap looking lacquer finish it's because it wasn't rubbed out. The rubbing out process is what most folks don't seem to understand or think is required.
Also the sl3000 tweeter... doesn't have + and - marked, do you guys know if it is the smaller or the larger terminal for plus?
The Black wire with the narrow Faston connector is the positive wire.
The white wire with the wider Faston connector is the negative wire.
The passive radiator with the smaller mass loaded dust cap is installed on the front baffle just below the bottom 6.5 inch driver.
The heavier mass loaded passive radiator is installed on the back of the cabinet.
here we go finished speakers. Next is tweeters, then, xover upgrade.
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I have the same speakers with the RDO's and the crossover upgrades done to them. The sound amazing! Nice looking pair of 15's!
Hey All,
Quick question for Decato or anyone else who may know. Can I use 3 X 3.3UF caps for the 10Uf Cap in this crossover? Is the 0.1uf going to make any audible difference in this crossover configuration? I found a good deal on older Clarity Caps, but 10Uf's were not available. Thanks for your help. Awesome thread. The knowledge here is incredible!
You'll be fine.
Agreed. No problems there.
Have fun. Let me know how your modifications turn out.
Face and Decato - Thank You : )
I will post up my X-Over once it's done!
"Decato"Brian, I'm new to the site and found this string on the TLs while Searching for replacement SL3000. I purchased my 15"T"s back In 91 and had tweeter issues almost from day one. I am very interested in XO/RDO198-1 upgrade but am abit lost navigating my way around a Crossover board. Have you by any chance published your upgrade in a "Crossovers For dummies" format. With that I mean step-by-step instruction. Have no problem soldering if I know what I'm soldering...thanks
No, I'm sorry. I posted everything I have online. There are very few parts for the RTA 15TL, so it should be pretty easy to figure out which components to replace. All the originals parts except the inductors are labeled. Feel free to email me (check my profile) if you have additional questions, or perhaps someone else from the forum can offer assistance.
scroll here and you will find the schematic...
The RTA15TL board only has like 3 capacitors, 1 resistor, a polyswitch and the inductors. Pull the binding post cup and the XO should come out with it. You should be able to figure out the labels of the parts on the board by referencing the schematic. If not, snap a picture, and post in the forum and someone will figure it out.
You just desolder the the capacitors, resisitors, and PS (if you choose) and solder the new parts in.
The RDO-198 is a drop in replacement and can be done without the XO upgrade.
doing the passive swap...what about the SW101's that were used in the m7/m10's to use in the fronts and use the sw100's to the rear like you did ?
I just picked up a pair of RTA 15TLs, and a quick search pulled up this wealth of information. I read the comments about blown SL-3000 tweeters, and yes, mine does have a blown tweeter. I was going to try and source another one, but looking at this page, I might have to bite the bullet and order the replacements from Polk.
I also like the idea of upgrading the crossovers. I have a pair of JBL L100s that have the most basic crossovers you ever did see (just 2 caps and 2 L-pads). I replaced them with an upgraded design, but also added some switches so I could switch back to the original ones (albeit with replacement caps). If any of you are on AudioKarma, you can see these speakers by searching for threads started by "leesonic". I wonder if I could do the same with these RTAs...?
I'm looking forward to working on these speakers. Having just sold our house though, space is VERY limited where we are staying right now.
So after reading through literally every post in this thread (and discovering that the 15TLs I bought have a blown SL3000 and that the owner wasn't entirely honest when he said "The xovers have VR3 upgrades done to them"...they are upgraded (with newer electrolytics) but it is a hack job and not pretty at all.), I have decided to do the xover mods myself.
It is very likely that I will scrap the stock pcb and use breadboard and wires ala VR3 but with the suggested parts list from the second iteration here.
I have already ordered everything and also had them throw in some hurricane nuts and new gasket material so I can do those things while I have them apart. Sticking with the Solen caps and Mills resistors but am hand winding the 1.75mh 16awg inductor and using a Madisound 0.22mh 19awg.
Ordered the 198s from Helen at Polk CS.
I verified all the other drivers were working as they should.
I don't know if I will be using a plug like above.
Would re-wiring make any difference? I have spools of good quality wire but wasn't sure if it would truly make an audible difference.
That will determine if I use a plug or not.
So all the parts are on the way. The cabinets are stripped down and my wife is pissed because our office looks like a speaker spare parts graveyard.
I will begin to post pictures and progress once I get everything here and start putting stuff together.
Last of the parts arrived today...
Looks like speaker and audio rack weekend for me. The wife wanted to do something fun so I bought her a soldering iron. She has only stabbed me with it 4 times so far.
Why does everyone have the same table as me????
Have fun!
Can you post pictures of these "Vr3 modifications?" I have only upgraded three sets of RTA15TL and sold one DIY kit and they are all Clarity Cap ESA/PX/Solen type parts. Not to mention all of my RTA15TL use the "Decato Mod" anyways... never have done one without doing it.
This concerns me and I would also like to know who you bought these speakers from and I would like to contact them directly.
Looks like it's time to sue someone Trey!
OH Boy somebody's about to have some fun!!! Hopefully the wife had it plugged in and on when stabbing a lot less blood she would have to clean up:eek:
Trey, hope the information in my PMs helped. I seriously doubt the guy was doing anything more than trying to use it as a selling point. As I said, I knew right away it wasn't your work or even your kit.
As for my upgrade, I am using your stacked layout simply for the cleaner, easier to access each side of the xover part. Everything else I am using was publically displayed here in this thread. I hope this isn't an issue for you.
So it sounds like you guys are pleased with how the crossover modifications improve the sound. I like the RTA 15TLs too, and I still have the pair I modified back in early 2007.
VR3, how much do you charge to redo a pair of crossovers with my mods?
By the way, I just finished cleaning up the sound of Monitor 5jr+ Series 2 with a complete redesign of the crossover, now tailored to suit the RD0198-1 tweeter. What a great little speaker it is. It no longer has colored, stuffy mids, but still retains the best attributes of the classic Polk sound!
Got the old crossovers pulled today but it was a day filled with other projects. Like reassembling my freshly refinished Klipsch KG 3.2s.
Also made 5 cutting boards this weekend and finished assembling my audio racks.
Hopefully, I will be able to focus on them on evenings this week.
Got one done...ugly but it works...
Initial impressions...Wow. Just wow.
I will do a full write up in a separate post but the upgrades have made a pretty significant difference.
Thanks Brian.


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Baltimore County police have charged a Baltimore man with rape based on DNA evidence from a 1997 crime.
Ronald White, 49, of the 2800 block of Forest Glen Road in northwest Baltimore, was arrested Oct. 1 and was indicted Nov. 5, according to a police statement.
The statement alleges that on Feb. 2, 1997, a Woodlawn woman came home to find White in her living room. She locked herself in her bedroom, but White allegedly kicked in the door, sexually assaulted her and left the room.
She escaped by jumping out of her second-story window, in the 1600 block of Bluffdale Road in Woodlawn, before seeking help from a neighbor.
This spring, technicians used current DNA processing techniques and matched the DNA profile from 1997 to his DNA sample from a 1993 Baltimore City case, the release states.
White is currently being held at the Baltimore County Detention Center.


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July 29, 2014
Deputy Jailer William Sizemore was taken into custody on January 15th for something he allegedly did five days earlier.
"There was a warrant obtained for the Deputy Jailer here in Clay County for harassing communications and assault 4th," said Sheriff Kevin Johnson.
Sizemore allegedly assaulted his girlfriends 17-year-old daughter.
Sheriff Johnson says this is the first time anything like this has happened at the residence.
"There's not been any prior calls to the residence or anything of that nature. This is the first knowledge that we've had of any type of problems between the two individuals."
Johnson says even though Sizemore is a jail employee, he was treated no differently.
"If we obtain a warrant we're gonna do our job and serve the warrant," said Johnson.
Sizemore's arraignment is scheduled for January 31st.
Both charges he faces are misdemeanors.


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All competitive runners can benefit from additional physical activity, and that includes veterans who have been accustomed to counting solely on roadwork for their success.
Dalton State College is preparing for its first season of cross country — the Roadrunners will have men's and women's teams and compete as a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics — and Andy Meyer is sharing head coaching duties with Margie Bruner. The coaches have had their runners focus on weightlifting and stretching this summer as they prepare for their season opener.
According to the school's athletic website, dsroadrunners.com, that will be the Berry Invitational on Aug. 31. Dalton State athletic director Derek Waugh said previously that the school anticipates joining either the Southern States Athletic Conference or the Appalachian Athletic Conference beginning with the 2014-15 school year, so the Roadrunners' athletic teams are putting together non-conference schedules this season.
Regardless of the competition, though, Meyer wants his teams prepared. That means doing things differently than distance runners might have years ago.
"When I was coming along, you just went out and ran," said the 51-year-old Meyer. "Now I know that there is a lot more to it."
Meyer went to high school in Ohio, where he clocked 4 minutes, 28 seconds in the mile and 9:48 in the two-mile run. He went on to compete with the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga's cross country program before becoming a physical therapist.
"I found that 85 to 90 percent of the runners I treated with physical problems had a lack of mobility," Meyer said. "That led to such things as weightlifting and stretching to help the runners."
Now as president of his own company in Dalton, Industrial Capability Systems, he coordinates fitness programs for various businesses.
"On our first day of summer workouts for our college runners, June 15, we worked with weights," Meyer said. "A lot of the runners had never done it. They had never seen a weight room. We didn't want to cause any injuries, so we did it slowly with light lifting at the start. Coach Bruner and I broke it up into training cycles. Little by little, they add a little more weight. The guys, who are naturally stronger for the most part, will do heavier weights."
Since Dalton State does not yet have a dedicated weight training facility for its athletes, these workouts have occurred at Bradley Wellness Center, a Hamilton Health Care System facility in Dalton.
"They've been real good about letting us use it," Meyer said. "We lift two to three times a week. We will total about 2 1/2 hours a week."
He considers stretching just as vital.
"The mobility is so important," Meyer said. "We'll do that about three times a week at 15 to 20 minutes each time."
The Roadrunners are adapting well to the lifting and stretching, Meyer said.
"They've all pretty much bought into it," he said. "They realize that it will make them better runners."
In the early workouts, the Roadrunners were logging some 30 miles over five days each week. Their maximum will likely be 60 miles.
The customary college racing distances are 8 kilometers (almost 5 miles) and 5 kilometers (3.1 miles) for the men and women, respectively. But some races will vary — for instance, at UTC's Twilight Invitational on Sept. 6, the men will run a 5K and the women will cover a 2-mile route.
Bruner and Meyer recruited heavily from the area in putting together their first rosters, signing several local high school seniors and transfers from other college programs who graduated from local high schools. With five runners needed for team scoring, there are 11 women and 10 men going through the paces for the Roadrunners.
"Margie and I were concerned before starting the program that we might not have enough runners," Meyer said. "However, we have been pleasantly surprised."
In the future, Meyer expects more prospects from the immediate area to be more attuned to training aspects of the sport other than just running.
"The high school coaches in this area are doing a pretty good job now of having their runners do more than just run," Meyer said. "It is also good to do some swinming and other physical activity."
Meyer coaches from experience. Five years ago at age 46, he finished eighth in the Atlanta Marathon with a time of 2 hours, 48 minutes on the 26.2-mile course. He earlier posted a 2:32 in the Savannah Marathon. During his UTC days, he logged a 24:53 in the 5K and 31:50 for the 10K. With Meyer's wisdom as an example, even the veteran adult runners who have long shunned extra activity might want to take a hard look at expanding and diversifying their training.
• Many area runners will participate Saturday in the 40th annual Missionary Ridge Road Race at historic Bragg Reservation in Chattanooga. The 4.7-mile event, set for 8 a.m., is a points race for the Carpet Capital Running Club's Runner of the Year competition.
Proceeds from the race will be split between the American Red Cross and Team Bruner, which gives college scholarships in memory of former Dalton High School distance runner John Bruner, Margie's son. Bruner died at age 19 as the result of a coronary artery anomaly after competing in the Missionary Ridge Road Race in 2007. With no parking available at the race site, a free shuttle service will be available at McCallie School.
• If anybody doubts the impact of running and related activity, consider the Waterfront Triathlon in Chattanooga, which contributes some $1 million annually to Chattanooga, said outgoing co-director Sherilyn Johnson.
As a regular volunteer for that activity, I always come away so impressed with those performers who complete the event. Most years, competitors swim about one mile, bike 26 miles and finish with a 6.2-mile run. Since the Tennessee River was far above its normal level for the mid-July action, though, the swimming was eliminated this year.
Instead, a two-mile run took the place of the swim, and other events followed as in the past.
Two sleek athletes claimed the top prizes: Craig Evans, 35 of Hendersonville, Tenn., at 1 hour, 51.37 minutes; and Meghan Degan, the 23-year-old female champion from Marietta in 2:01.36.
Doug Hawley has been a competitive distance runner for more than 50 years. You can write to him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Civil Rights Icon History Maker Dr. Josie Johnson - Feb. 17th Health Notes
February 17, 2014
Born in 1931, Josie Robinson Johnson has played an active role in the civil rights movement since her teenage years, when she and her father canvassed her hometown of Houston to gather signatures on an anti-poll tax petition.
In the early 1960s, Johnson lobbied professionally for passage of bills concerning such issues as fair housing and employment opportunities. In 1964, she traveled from Minneapolis to Mississippi with an integrated group of women to witness and take part in the struggle there. After visiting an open-air freedom school where blacks were organizing, the group learned the school was bombed later that day. Johnson became a community organizer for Project ENABLE, a pioneering effort in developing parenting skills and strengthening family life in 1965. A member of the Minneapolis Urban League, she served as acting director between 1967 and 1968.
Johnson worked with elected officials many times over the years. In 1968, she became a legislative liaison and community liaison as a mayoral aide in Minneapolis during a time of trouble for African Americans in the town. The executive assistant to the lieutenant governor of Colorado from 1975 to 1978, Johnson went back to Texas in 1978 and supervised Judson Robinson's campaign staff. In 1980, she served as deputy campaign manager for the Jimmy Carter presidential campaign in Tennessee.
Johnson has also had an ongoing relationship with the University of Minnesota. Between 1971 and 1973, she served on the University's Board of Regents. She earned a B.A. in Sociology at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, and an M.A. and Ed.D. at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. The University of Minnesota offered her a senior fellowship in 1987. Johnson directed its All-University Forum as diversity director from 1990 to 1992. That year, she became responsible for minority affairs and diversity at the college as the associate vice president for academic affairs. The University of Minnesota established the annual Josie Robinson Johnson Human Rights and Social Justice Award in her honor.
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Charles Wilkinson's new book, The People Are Dancing Again: The History of the Siletz Tribe of Western Oregon describes how a tribe "terminated" by the federal government fought to regain its identity.
Open Spaces: Voices from the Northwest doesn't quite work as an anthology, but it features some intimate and thoughtful writing about the Pacific Northwest.
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The Tragedy of Children Left in Limbo
The U.S. needs to do more to ease the international adoption process.
According to reliable estimates, there are nearly 10 million children around the world who, if global bureaucrats would merely get out of the way, could be adopted into loving, permanent families.
Unfortunately for those involved, the process to complete an international adoption is often time-consuming, paperwork laden and expensive. Some estimates put the total cost involved in adopting a child from an overseas orphanage at close to $30,000. And it can takes years between the time a match is made between prospective parents and an adoptable child before they can live together as a family.
There are many villains in this tragic story. One is UNICEF, the United National International Children's Fund, which will show up in a developing country and offer the government large quantities of cash if it will only establish a regularized social welfare system to care for abandoned and orphaned children. Too often, UNICEF's intervention leads to a cessation of international adoptions until all of its recommendations are in place.
[See Photos: Obama Pays Visit to Preschool Children.]
Another is the United States Department of State, which is not doing what it needs to do to protect the interests of children, and instead is all too deferential to the international adoption bureaucracy born out of The Hague convention on the issue.
It is a tragedy that so many children of so many races, creeds and ages are waiting in sub-standard conditions without anyone to hold them or care for them or love them. It is equally tragic that so many American families who would welcome these children, who would take them in as their own, are not getting the support they need from the U.S. government.
A new documentary film, Stuck, executive produced by Craig Juntunen and the group Both Ends Burning, shows just how the system isn't working. It shows how, time and again, children who have already been matched to a family and who have met their prospective parents have their adoptions blocked by faulty paperwork, bureaucratic requirements and, worst of all, plain, ordinary indifference by U.S. officials.
The problem has come to the attention of some in Congress and they are getting ready to propose a way to deal with it. Sens. Mary Landrieu, D-La., and Roy Blunt, R-Mo., and Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., are preparing legislation, Children in Families First, to establish and fund an inter-governmental agency that is intended to get a handle on the problem. It will be modeled on what was done in the apparently successful effort under George W. Bush to finally get serious about combating international trafficking in women and children.
[Read Peter Roff: How the U.S. Could Do More to Aid Kidnapped Children]
It's a well-intentioned effort that should streamline, simplify and consolidate the processing of international adoption cases. It will establish additional and improved post-placement follow-up services for international adoptions, which many believe will help the United States work better with other countries and support the needs of adoptive families here in the U.S.
The problem, and there is always a problem when making changes of this magnitude, is that there will almost certainly be bureaucratic resistance from within the State Department itself, which values stability and the status quo above all else. A new agency to push international adoptions through will likely be viewed as a hindrance to the normal course of business in which the diplomats and foreign services officers that make up the department's career employees are so busily engaged.
In order to really address the problem, Congress does not need to propose or even pass legislation; it simply must get serious about communicating to the State Department bureaucracy that children – whether they are part of an international adoption, are being trafficked into the sex trade or have been abducted from the United States by non-custodial parents or guardians and need to be brought back home – are now a priority. Congress needs to turn up the heat at Foggy Bottom and make sure everyone is clear that business as usual is no longer an option, not while so many children around the world are suffering and so many Americans are willing to take them in.


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Perlman quartet performs for Haile Middle students
Date: November 4, 2009
by: Pam Eubanks | News Editor
MANATEE COUNTY — Violist Laura Seay doesn't see music as something to appreciated as much as something to be relished with every emotion.
"It should be pure enjoyment," she said minutes before stepping onto the stage at Haile Middle School with three other musicians from The Perlman Music Program Oct. 30. "We really love what we do."
The group, called the LK String Quartet, traveled from New York last week to visit schools in Manatee and Sarasota counties through the Perlman Music Program/Suncoast, a nonprofit intended to provide stability and funding for a permanent Sarasota Winter Residency for the Perlman Music Program.
Seay, a Juilliard graduate student at Teacher's College at Columbia University, and Juilliard students Sean Lee, Jordan Han and Areta Zhulla spent the day performing alongside orchestra students, playing musical games and answering students' questions.
The quartet ended their visit with an educational performance in the school's cafetorium, educating Haile's students about the instruments on which they played, technique and other aspects of music.
"The purpose of the (quartet's) visit was to stimulate a love of music in our students," Haile Principal Janet Kerley said
Last week's performances at Haile and other area schools marked the launch of The Perlman Music Program/Suncoast's new educational outreach program, which will provide for the LK Quartet to spend three weeklong residencies in select schools.
The Perlman Music Program/Suncoast is working to develop its curriculum-based programming, which will serve a total of four middle schools in both Sarasota and Manatee counties as well as their feeder elementary schools in its initial year.
The quartet is expected to return to select schools again in January and in March.
For more information about the program, visit the organization's Web site at www.perlmanmusicprogramsuncoast.org.
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By Danielle Haynes
The Tonawanda News
NORTH TONAWANDA — As warmer weather creeps its way into the Western New York forecast, it signals the coming of one very important day for many students: graduation.
For college graduates, it's the light at the end of a very long tunnel that somehow gets narrower at the end. Term papers are due, exams are scheduled, and for art majors, it often means a thesis show at a honest-to-goodness gallery.
Natalie Brown, proprietor of Project 308 Gallery, said her first spring in business has been a busy one and it will continue to be with a few more shows on the docket through May.
"It's been really amazing how students talk about the gallery," Brown said.
"One student has a show and then word get out. They book up really fast and students don't have a lot of money so they can't go to expensive galleries," she said, adding that she's really happy Project 308 Gallery can provide space the students at what she calls an affordable cost.
And when it comes to student shows, you might end up seeing some things you wouldn't normally expect to see in a gallery setting.
Dana Heider, of North Tonawanda, plans to show viewers just how artistic restaurant and food packaging can be in her upcoming show, "Product to Palate."
The Buffalo State College graphic design student is graduating with her bachelor's degree this year and wants to work in product branding and identity.
Her show will consist of packaging for made-up food brands and restaurants.
"That's what draws us to products, what it looks like on the outside," Heider said, adding she interested in "designing things to see what makes people more attracted to certain items.
"When we see something that's designed on the outside we kind of judge a book by it's cover. We expect what the outside looks like to reflect what we get on the inside."
"She's interested in figuring out why we buy what we buy," Brown said.
Heider describes her style as illustrative, "really loose and playful and kind of whimsical," adding that she chose food products like beer and wine bottles that would lend themselves to her type of hand-drawn approach.
Brown said she was happy to have a food packaging show at the gallery because she understands the art world has expanded so much.
"There's a large variety of things artists can do, from sketches to computer design, and I like to display everything and cater to the people coming to the show because someone who might not like sculpture might like design," she said.
For those who might like a little more of that variety in a gallery showing, Project 308 is hosting a three-artist exhibit May 3 to May 17.
The three artists — Alexander Derwick, Luke Dougherty and David Leighty — will be graduating from University at Buffalo's visual studies department with master's degrees. While they will be featured concurrently at the gallery, their shows are not meant to be viewed as one cohesive unit.
Leighty, a mixed-media artist who primarily works in print-making, said that while there are no thematic strands tying the three artists together, they wanted to show together because they get along well.
"We have similar aims and goals in the presentations of our work," he said. "It felt very comfortable and I'm a big fan of community and ... that's the important part to me, the camaraderie."
Leighty said his work is all about the community. His element of the show, which will be on view in the back storage room of the gallery, is based on his undergraduate years living in a large house — AKA, the monster house — with a bunch of other people interested in art and the punk scene in Ohio.
One part of his show is two large screen prints on cardboard — meant to emphasize the lowbrow, DIY art scene — and the second part consists of photographs from disposable cameras he sent to his friends back at the monster house.
"The photographs are not of the most amazing quality so prints of them are sort of grainy," Leighty said. "They're not beautiful, gallery quality but they're more authentic of the experience in the (punk) community."
If there's one way in which the artists might overlap thematically, it might be in capturing that authentic experience of where you come from.
Derwick's works are all animations depicting his experiences of life growing up in Olean. The animations, displayed on several 1990s-era televisions are inspired by television shows and video games.
"Some of (the animations) are either television commercials or fake movies I've created that have to do with action or violence," he said. "Then there is a counter video for each of them that are about a boy's life and it's up to the viewer if the media is influencing him or if he's acting out on his own internal thinking."
Derwick's televisions will be set up in the gallery's basement
"They all give a feeling of home, they give a feeling of almost a domestic space," Brown said of Derwick working in the basement.
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In the main gallery will be Dougherty's small paintings based on YouTube video stills. Most of the subjects are from popular culture or political figures, Brown said.
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"The main purpose of this gallery is to show people that art is exciting."
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• WHAT: "Product to Palate" by Dana Heider
• WHEN: Friday-May 1; Opening reception 7-9 p.m. Friday
• WHAT: Art by Alexander Derwick, Luke Dougherty and David Leighty
• WHEN: May 3-May 17; Open reception 7-9 p.m. May 3
• WHERE: Project 308 Gallery, 308 Oliver St., North Tonawanda
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By Marjorie Nesin
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---- — Beachgoers flooded Gloucester's sandy spots this past weekend, and they have on other weekend days, filling lots well before noon.
But beach parking revenues are still the lowest Gloucester has seen at this point in the season since 2009, leaving city officials hoping for more sunshine and a brighter financial picture.
After a bustling weekend at Gloucester's three paid parking beaches, Good Harbor Beach, Wingaersheek, and Stage Fort Park, the city had pulled in about $222,000 from beachgoers paying to park. Yet the city had earned about $367,000 by the same time last year, according to city Department of Public Works records.
Assistant Public Works Director Mark Cole said beach erosion is most noticeable at Good Harbor Beach, where storms washed out the sand that used to create a nearly level walk from the dunes to the water. But, he said that sand has already started to come back in, so beach revenues are likely to once again depend more on weather than anything else.
"If you look at numbers from the previous years, they're a lot higher. That just means we had sunnier weekends," Cole said. "There's still time. Good weather this weekend and next weekend would definitely put us back up on pace."
Though Mayor Carolyn Kirk had carried springtime worries of winter storm erosion negatively affecting beach revenues, a summer dip this past weekend dispelled her fears, making her confident too that this year's revenues could catch up.
"I swam at Good Harbor and at the low tide had to walk out really far, farther than I think I've ever had to, in order to just dunk. That sand is what gets churned up and is eventually coming back up to the beach," Kirk said. "It was a good sign this weekend that so much of the beach was back. There was plenty of space for bathers and picnics and towels."
Beach parking attendants began collecting fares on Memorial Day weekend, as usual, and pulled in $47,163 just this past weekend as the temperatures sprang into the high 80s. Over the past five years, the parking pull in by this time in the beach season has averaged at about $269,400, about another $47,500 higher than the take in so far this season.
As the 2012 fiscal year nears its close, the parking revenues for the year have slid comfortably past the $1.4 million projection, totaling in at over $1.5 million for the fiscal year. Still, the budget revenues for fiscal 2104, which begins next Monday, added just $50,000 to last year's $1.4 million prediction.
Though Kirk has faced some criticism over an alleged tendency to under budget, she said she prefers to take the safe route, especially with the harder to predict beach fares.
"You never know,"Kirk said. "It's completely weather dependent, and we never want to over estimate beach revenues because you just get into trouble if you do. We'd much rather have a little more on the bottom line than come up short."
Two beach attendants working the stand at Good Harbor Friday said despite some windy and rainy days, they had only received one complaint, the woman had wanted a refund after spending a windy 15 minutes on the sand.
The attendants, Mark Haberland and Jack Doyle, said some "regulars" visit the beach daily. Beach staff collect $25 on weekends for each vehicle that parks at Good Harbor or Wingaersheek, excluding those with resident stickers. Non-residents who park at Stage Fort pay $15 on weekends.
While Wingaersheek brings in the most parking dollars, Good Harbor follows close behind, with each having pulled in six figures already this season.
Nina Palk and her daughter Emily headed to the Good Harbor Friday after the close of the school year at West Parish, where Emily completed fifth grade this year and where Nina works. The mom and daughter spent a "wonderful" afternoon at the beach, noticing only a slight change from last year.
"It was a little bit more of a drop off to the water," Nina Palk said.
But some visiting Good Harbor for the first time found no erosion follies, including Leslie Eliet and her husband Dick Gaulton. The pair moved to Gloucester from Ithaca, N.Y., and have begun making the rounds to Gloucester's beaches, visiting Good Harbor Friday.
Eliet wore a sunhat decorated with dragon fly pins, and the two sat as Gaulton wiped sand from his feet and strapped on his sandals.
"I liked it, very flat," Gaulton said of the beach.
Eliet pointed out a bag of trash the pair had picked from Good Harbor during their visit, and said she actually preferred one of Gloucester's more intimate beaches.
"My favorite's Half Moon," she said, smiling to Gaulton from beneath her floppy brim. "It's a cute little one."
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