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Book Review: "The Beautiful Mystery" by Louise PennySubmitted by Reading Room on Wed, 12/26/2012 - 20:51
The Inspector Armand Gamache mysteries, written by Canadian author Louise Penny, offer an amazing glimpse into the internal workings of Quebec's official police force, the Surete Du Quebec.
A thread of conspiracy and intrique is building slowly throughout the series, forcing the characters to choose whom they will stand beside when the final confrontation occurs. Penny also has added a more human (and humorous) element to her books by splitting the action between Montreal and an idyllic rural community where the residents seem to have a penchant for murder.
Book Review: "Salt: A World History" by Mark KurlanskySubmitted by Reading Room on Wed, 09/26/2012 - 11:51
What Mark Kurlansky did for cod in his book of that title he also does with Salt: A World History. This is an encyclopedia of the world's only edible rock, covering a variety of aspects of a substance so essential to our existence. This common substance has a myriad of uses apart from our daily sprinkling on our food. In fact, the salt industry claims it has at least 14,000 uses including pharmaceuticals, fertilizer production, soap making and even textile dyeing.
The book begins with a fascinating account of salt's use in religious, magical, and folk rituals. In Ancient Egypt, salt had a role in both food preservation and the mummification process of less important people. Kurlansky details the actions of alchemists and chemists extracting elements from salt and recalls how Humphrey Davy extracted sodium using electrolysis. We also learn of methods used through time to obtain salt in both brine and solid form.
Salt has been the cause of wars and disasters and has even been used to create works of art. Miner near Krakow in Poland created entire underground churches with statues and carvings that remain tourist attractions to this day.
Book Review: "When the Killing's Done" by T. C. BoyleSubmitted by Reading Room on Wed, 08/15/2012 - 11:54
What do you get when you cross influential, determined biologists, well-to-do, radical animal lovers, eccentric-yet-lovable retirees, wild animals, attractive rollicking seas and the beautiful California central coast region? Another one of T. C. Boyle's tales with a purpose.
In When the Killing's Done, alternating chapters are narrated by the level-headed protagonist Alma Boyd Takesue, a National Park Service biologist, and by her foil, the hot-tempered antagonist Dave LaJoy. Dave is a local businessman who, in fierce opposition to the schedeled "elimination" of invasive animals, will go to great lengths to sabotage the aims of the park service and the work of Takesue.
What both of these determined characters forget, though, is the impartiality of nature and its powerful ability to upend the most carefully laid plans of man. These three forces at odd lead to some riveting scenes that involve several fascinating people, wild and breath-taking scenery and intricately woven events. In classic Boyle style, controversial topics are examined in a very personal way through the eyes of complex characters with competing interests.
Book Review: "How to Talk With Your Doctor" by Ronald L. HoffmanSubmitted by Reading Room on Wed, 08/15/2012 - 10:18
All of us must go to a conventional doctor sometime for an injury, ailment or a checkup.
In "How to Talk With Your Doctor," author Ronald L. Hoffman instructs us how to approach doctors, develop conversations and direct those conversations to important issues, using a blend of knowledge from both conventional and alternative treatments.
Hoffman is in the camp of alternative and natural medicine and points out proven alternative/natural treatments that can supplement or complement conventional medicine. He offers sidebars throughout the book for both the patient and doctor to refer to, offering tips on how to improve communication and furnishing reliable internet sites and sources of medical information.
Also included are ways to practice preventative medicine with alternative therapies to chronic problems with references to studies and treatment methods to discuss with your doctor. This book would be a good read before you make an appointment for that next office visit.
--Review by Rodney Combs, Reference Librarian


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Editor's Note: Last year Chatsworth historian Virginia Watson wote this column in anticipation of the annual Chatsworth Historical Society's Garden Festival. I've updated the time elements and offer it to those who have not read it before. This year's event runs from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. today at The Homestead Acre, 10385 Shadow Oak Drive. A highlight of the day is the $10 Duchess of Devonshire's High Tea served from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Donations at the entrance are $5 for adults or seniors, Children $1 and kids under 5 are free. There is a free shuttle bus from the Chatsworth train depot. For more information call 818-882-5614.
It is time to begin thinking about our coming which is planned for Sunday, April 29, at , 10385 Shadow Oak Drive, within Chatsworth Park South at the west end of Devonshire Street.
Last year was our 21st festival and we have been thinking of other years and what took place.
One thing that stands out is the fact that we have so many people in the community and elsewhere that support us and our circle is widening as The Chatsworth Historical Society grows and develops.
TV's Huell Howser is one of the well-known people who have helped us. He taped two shows in Chatsworth, one about The Munch Box and one about Chatsworth and our local monuments. So last year when we were planning our Garden Festival I asked him to re-schedule the tapes he made of Chatsworth to play again because so many people came to The Garden Festival when he ran the tapes previously. He is such a wonderful person, he said he would not only run the tapes again he would tell people about our event. And he did! We had more than 330 people come into the Chatsworth History Museum and many of them said that they had seen us on Huell Howser.
We had three special people contact us from that program. The first one is John Glinn, who found out that he is a descendant of our Hill Family after he called on the telephone to ask about our Garden Festival. He is the grandson of Clarence Glinn, a great nephew of Minnie Hill Palmer. He came out to our festival and brought his family including two of his grandchildren. They really enjoyed pictures we had on display and we were able to find him on the James David and Rhoda Jane Hill genealogy chart that the family had given us.
Wayne Preston sent us an email telling us that his father had been a minister at the Chatsworth Church in the 1930s. Mr. Preston was in the 5th grade at Chatsworth Park Elementary School at that time. He remembered that they were still in tents following the 1933 earthquake and that he has fond memories of sneaking through the railroad tunnels with his brother, watching movies being made at the train station and climbing rocks on the edge of town. I checked and his father was listed on the official list as a minister of the church in 1933-34. Preston, 87, wasn't able to come to the Festival but he emailed a picture of his father and mother, The Rev. Harold Preston and his wife Virgie, which we were able to display in the museum.
Joan Seligmann brought her sister and other family members to the Garden Festival. She had visited us earlier one Wednesday-at-the-Acre and had donated items to our collection from her grandmother who was the second president of the Chatsworth Women's Club. She was Mrs. A. H. Haworth and she was president from 1923-24. Mrs. Seligman had discovered that the Craftsman House built by her grandfather is still in use in Chatsworth and is registered at CSUN. She became our latest Life Member following the festival.
Here is hoping that our 2012 Garden Festival will bring us more people from our rich past.
If you would like to learn more about Chatsworth and people from the past you may visit the local museum at The Homestead Acre, 10385 Shadow Oak Drive, within Chatsworth Park South at the west end of Devonshire Street. The museum is open the first Sunday of every month from 1-4 p.m. There is no charge.


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FROSTBURG — While other Frostburg State University students are using winter break to catch up on sleep, Dave Knotts, Joe Bohrer and Brittney Stakem have been working 14-hour days at the university's Performing Arts Center.
"We come here at 9 a.m. and work until 11 p.m., go home, sleep for a while, then come back and do it all over again," Knotts said.
What they and about 20 other students are helping to accomplish is no small task — pulling together a professional theater production of "Cabaret" in just two short weeks, starting basically from scratch.
Forty-two professional actors, musicians and crew members from Windwood Theatricals Inc., most based out of New York City, set up shop last week in Frostburg to organize the production before setting out on a five-month-long nationwide tour.
While they're in town, a group of Frostburg students, most from the theater program, has taken the opportunity to help out and get some real-world work experience.
It's the 11th year the university has hosted a theater group as it finalizes a touring production, and Cultural Events Series Director Mary Jane Plummer said the experience, though hectic, is well worth it.
"This is where they start the show," Plummer explained. "They're actually building the show here, before they go out on tour."
And "building the show" means just that — anything from tweaking the stage lighting design to buying out all the plastic fruit from the local Wal-Mart to use as props.
Windwood Theatricals even has storage facilities in Cumberland where props and sets from former productions are kept until they're pulled out and reworked for another show.
The students help with everything from building props to tailoring costumes to hospitality jobs such as organizing meals. Right now, the students work for pay like any other job, but Plummer said they're trying to revamp the program into a competitive internship. If that happens, Plummer said she hopes the interns could even go out on tour with the productions for a while.
Several of the students working on "Cabaret" have also worked on other touring productions in previous years. Stakem works with the production's wardrobe supervisor, Brittney Griffith, to make final alterations to costumes.
"I would never have gotten as good at costumes if I hadn't worked here," she said. "That's for sure."
"This gives us the kind of experience that's hard to get while you're still in school," Bohrer said. "We have a professional lighting designer to give us pointers on things every single day for 14 days."
One of the pros giving out pointers is a former Frostburg student, himself. Jon Wildesen, the show's production manager and a native of Deep Creek, graduated from the university in 2004.
He's got a stressful, sometimes frustrating job, but Wildesen said he appreciates the enthusiasm the Frostburg students bring to the work.
"They might not know everything, but if I teach it them, they'll handle whatever I ask them to do," he said.
Work on "Cabaret" will go on throughout the week. Three performances for the public will be given in Frostburg before the production packs up and heads out to its next location, North Branch, N.J.
Performances will be presented Jan. 15 at 8 p.m. and Jan. 16 at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. To purchase tickets, call (866) 849-9237 or (301) 687-3137, or go online at ces.frostburg.edu
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Burglary … An arrest warrant was issued April 27 for Eugene Thomas Batchler, 26, no known address, for his role in an April 14 burglary in the 1400 block of Amity Road, Rydal, police said.
According to police, several items were stolen from the home, including a TV and jewelry. The house was also ransacked.
The resident's granddaughter admitted to bringing Batchler to the house. The granddaughter then said that Batchler broke into the house. According to police, the granddaughter said she backed the car up to the house so Batchler could load the TV.
DUI and careless driving … Jonathan Rios, 20, of Ripley Street, Philadelphia, was arrested April 19 at 1:33 a.m. in the area of Old York Road and Washington Lane following a traffic stop for making an illegal turn, police said. According to police, Rios smelled of alcohol, had bloodshot eyes and was lethargic. Rios said, "I'm coming from my house and I only had maybe half a beer."
Police found a bottle of Rolaids in Rios' boxer shorts. In the bottle were 21 Oxycodone pills. Rios' blood tested positive for the presence of marijuana, Xanax, Adderall and Oxycodone. He had a blood alcohol content of 0.025 percent.
DUI and possession of a controlled substance … Margaret Boyce, 53, of Prospect Avenue, Willow Grove, was arrested April 14 at 1 a.m. at a DUI checkpoint in the 700 block of Huntingdon Pike, police said. According to police, Boyce, when she approached the checkpoint, drove to the rear of Genuardi's, which was closed. There was a bottle of Smirnoff Ice in the vehicle, and a container of pills in the center console.
There were 21 pills marked "4839," which were identified as Percocet pills, and four pills marked "M360," which were Vicodin pills.
According to police, Boyce said she did not know whose name was on the prescription bottle, but added that the pills were hers.
Two days later, Boyce dropped off a receipt to police proving that she had a prescription for Oxycodone in November; it had nothing to do with the pills in the vehicle, police said. Boyce's blood alcohol content was 0.119 percent.
Possession of a small amount of marijuana … Bijon D. Burks, 18, of St. James Place, Roslyn, was arrested March 24 at 11:30 p.m. in the 800 block of Huntingdon Pike following a traffic stop in which he was a passenger, police said. According to police, the vehicle's registration plate light was malfunctioning and two of the vehicle's passengers did not have their seat belts on. The vehicle smelled of marijuana and Burks had remnants of marijuana on his shirt. Police pulled a small clear bag of marijuana from Burks' underwear … then police removed a blunt from his underwear. Both items tested positive for the presence of marijuana, police said.
DUI, careless driving and driving with a suspended license … Derek Michael Inhat, 37, of Scotts Lane, Philadelphia, was arrested March 15 at 3:52 a.m. following a traffic stop for driving more than 70 mph near the area of Tennis Avenue and Limekiln Pike, police said. According to police, there was a strong odor of alcohol emanating from the vehicle. Inhat had poor balance, failed a field sobriety test and had a blood alcohol content of 0.153 percent.
DUI, reckless endangerment, fleeing and reckless driving … Francis Xavier McCaughey Jr., 34, of Mount Carmel Avenue, Glenside, was arrested March 10 at 9:51 p.m. near the corner of Maple and Pine avenues following a traffic stop for an illegal right-hand turn, police said. According to police, McCaughey then accelerated to an unsafe speed, and locked the wheels when he braked and made a right onto Maple Avenue. He also blew the stop sign at the corner of Limekiln Pike and Maple Avenue, continuing northbound on Maple Avenue. McCaughey then got out suddenly and was placed into custody and then started crying. He said he was sorry, admitted that he was drunk and then admitted that he had a prior arrest for DUI.
McCaughey also urinated in his pants. He had a blood alcohol content of 0.161 percent.
Possession of a controlled substance … Anthony Cairone, 19, of Keith Road, Abington, was arrested Feb. 8 at 10:16 p.m. following a traffic stop near the corner of Easton and Castlewood roads for driving without his headlights on, police said. According to police, there was a strong odor of marijuana emanating from the vehicle, a maroon Ford Contour. Cairone said he had marijuana under the passenger-side seat, as well as a pipe. According to police, Cairone said, "I was loading up the pipe and I didn't know that my headlights were not on when you stopped me, and when I saw you, I put it under the passenger seat."


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Retailers, consumers and prices
Check Out Line: Some light amid retail darkness?
Check out the mixed messages from Home Depot.
The retailer posted better-than-expected quarterly profit. But that was still a 31-percent drop.
The company also said it expected sales to drop more this year than it previously thought.
Home improvement retailers were the leading edge of the retail slump, getting hit by the housing slowdown before the rest of the economy fell into what is likely a recession.
But with rival Lowe's and now Home Depot both beating expectations, there could be signs of of a turnaround.
"Hardline retail stocks have historically begun their recoveries when expectations begin to be achieved, and this may be happening for Home Depot and Lowe's," Credit Suisse analyst Gary Balter said in a research note.
Also in the basket:
Wal-Mart says gas price drop helping store traffic
Saks third-quarter loss wider than expected
Gift card sales seen down 6 percent this holiday
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Laura Marling has teamed up with directors Fred & Nick on a 20-minute long short film When Brave Bird Saved that features the four opening songs of her forthcoming LP Once I Was An Eagle. According to the directors the film is "directly inspired, informed, and narrated" by those first four songs. It's a beautifulRead more...
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They bring apples baked with stuffing and pork, salads, casseroles, dips and desserts.
They bring a heaping helping of goodwill, too.
On the third Thursday evening of each month at the Downriver Council for the Arts in Wyandotte, Mich., women talk, eat and give cash to a cause.
The goal is to raise money for women and children living in poverty around the world – empowering them, giving them tools to lift themselves out of despair – while sharing a meal and learning about another culture.
They do it by pooling the $10 or $20 or $30 each would have spent on an evening out with friends to benefit people in need, instead.
It's part of a national organization called Dining for Women, which was founded nearly a decade ago in South Carolina.
Since then, the nonprofit has grown to include 9,000 members, with 389 chapters in the U.S. Dining for Women is on track to raise about $800,000 this year, says Jamye Cooper, executive director of the national program.
"It's the power of collective giving," Cooper says. "When you have 9,000 members who are giving something on a fairly regular basis throughout the year, you can really make a big dent in these women's and children's issues in developing countries."
To Lynne Savage, 59, a dental hygienist from Grosse Ile, Mich., it's gratifying to know that "our little group really is making a difference for so many women who really need our help."
She co-founded the Wyandotte chapter in March. Forty-four women attended that first meeting at the Grosse Ile Yacht Club, collecting $1,075 to educate women in Liberia and Sierra Leone about hygiene, land and water use.
Each month, Dining for Women chooses an international cause to support. In October, the focus was on the women of Ajmer, India, where the caste system and poverty have forced many into prostitution.
"You really learn about what's going on in countries around the world, and you're thankful that you're living in the United States," says member Collie Hooper-Yan, 65, a retired school nurse and former school board president from Grosse Ile.
"I'm impressed by the things that we can do with our $20, and what it can buy. Just $25 can buy an education for a year for a girl in Afghanistan."
To learn more about Dining for Women, go to www.diningforwomen.org


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Jeff Pidgeon
Jeff Pidgeon studied at the California Institute of the Arts, learning character animation from Disney veterans Bob McCrea and Hal Ambro. He graduated with a BFA degree in 1988, working on such programs as The Simpsons until joining Pixar in 1991.
While at Pixar, Jeff animated in the commercial division before going on to help develop their first feature film, Toy Story. Storyboarding under the tutelage of John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter and Joe Ranft, Jeff went on to work as a story artist on all three Toy Story films. He has also storyboarded on Monsters, Inc., Mike's New Car, Lifted, Wall-E, Up, and 2013′s Monsters University.
In addition to storyboarding, Jeff designed Tex the THX robot, and has voiced such characters as the squeak toy Aliens in Toy Story, and Thaddeus Bile in Monsters, Inc.


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The Avon Land Trust held a dedication ceremony Sunday for the Oakes Preserve, its newest property.
Avon Town Historian Nora Oakes Howard's family donated a small parcel of land that the land trust later swapped for the 17-acre Chidsey Road property. The Chidsey property, now the preserve, was named after the Oakes family.
Oakes Preserve is open to the public and has a park atmosphere. The preserve has many natural features, such as a pond, swamp, meadow and woodlands. There is also an old wagon road leading to the old town center. Land trust members installed a gazebo this past summer and there is a hiking trail on the property.
Editor's Note: The Oakes family did not donate the Oakes Preserve to the Avon Land Trust, as was originally reported. The family instead donated a small parcel that the land trust swapped for the land where the Oakes Preserve is now located. The error has been corrected.


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Surprise Guest Artists
SpookyTime Jingles is proud to host a different surprise guest artist each month.
We enjoy finding and showcasing up-and-coming artists
as well as bringing you the established artists you have known and loved for years.
Below are the guest artists we have featured in the past.
January 2011 -Wendy Leaumont of My Brain Child
Feb 2011-Jamie Moore of Creepy Creations
March 2011-Janell Berryman of Pumpkinseeds Originals Folk Art
April 2011-Dusti The Halloweenstress
May 2011-Christine Benjamin
June 2011- Ginny Betourne of Trout Creek Tales
July 2011-Debbee Thibault
August 2011- MykoBocek Studios
Sept. 2011-Christine Alvarado of Du Buh Du Designs
Oct. 2011-Nicol Sayre
Nov. 2011-Amber Middleton of Amber Leilani
January 2010 - Leah Humbertson of Leah's Art Magic
February 2010 - Kim Hardt Originals
March 2010 - Dylan & Jo of Cart Before The Horse
April 2010 - Kerry Schmidt of Paper Moon
May 2010 -Vania Cruz of Fantasy Whispers
June 2010 - Julie Haymaker Thompson
July 2010 -William Bezek
August 2010 -Tom of Haunted Construction Co.
September 2010 -Benita of Willow Springs
October 2010 -Dee Foust
November 2010 - Rafael Hr of My Tiny Studio
December 2010 - Len Bentham of Happy Holidays
January 2009 - Elaine Thomas of Alphabet Studio
February 2009 - Danita of Danita Art
March 2009 -Carolee Clark of King of Mice Studio
April 2009 - Kim Owens of Folk Art from the Heart
May 2009 - Janet McCarter from Bells & Bones
June 2009 - LuLu of My Pink Turtle
July 2009- Johanna Parker
August 2009- Debra of Nanny Norton Prims
September 2009 - Joyce Stahl of Enchanted Productions
October 2009 - Scott Smith of Rucus Studio
November 2009 - Nancy Malay of Vintage Whimsy & Folk Arts
December 2009 - Carole Watts of Treasures of Time
September 2008 - Jenn of Noodle and Lou
October 2008 - Chris of Designs by CK
November 2008 - Colleen Moody
December 2008 - Melissa Valeriote, Holiday Queen


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4:20pm Monday 12th November 2012 in News By Charlotte Shepherd
YOUNG aspiring local artist Fraser Day from Rendcomb College Junior School has had his artistic talents recognised in a national painting competition.
The eight-year old schoolboy's painting was chosen from thousands across the country as the winner of the national lower junior category in a painting competition run by the charity Sightsavers.
His artwork, a painting of a boat on a lake, is now on display at London's prestigious Royal Academy of Arts and was inspired by a Monet painting hanging on his classroom wall. Fraser said: "I feel very pleased that all my hard work and effort was recognised and extremely proud that my picture will be on show in the Royal Academy for everyone to see."
The competition, run in partnership with the Royal Academy Schools, aims to promote the use of paint in school classrooms, whilst encouraging children to explore their senses and reflect on sight and blindness.
The judging panel, led by the Royal Academy's new keeper Eileen Cooper, chose Fraser's painting as a winner for his use of colour, texture, expression and imagination.
Ms Cooper said: "I have been very moved by all the amazing entries from children across the country, it has been great to see young artists embracing painting with such enthusiasm. "Fraser's painting of a boat on a lake is beautifully composed and quite controlled; quite a serious painting. It's got a great sense of place."
Fraser will join the two other national winners on a special awards day out in London this month with his teacher Julia Lee-Browne, including an awards ceremony at the Royal Academy. * The Sightsavers i:dream exhibition will be open daily in the Café Gallery at the Royal Academy of Arts, London until November 21 and entrance is free. You can also view the winning paintings online at www.sightsavers.org/juniorpainter2012
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Hopkins school district enrollment dropped below 7,000 students for the first time in recent years—likely the result of demographics and a narrowing open enrollment gap.
The Oct. 1 fall seat count fell 2.1 percent this year—a 151-student decline from 7,105 students in the 2011-12 school year to 6,954 in 2012-13, according to numbers discussed at Thursday's School Board meeting.
Much of that loss comes because more students are graduating than entering the district. The district counted 116 more high school seniors than kindergarteners.
Those numbers likely reflect a larger trend called "aging in place." Couples who might have once left their homes for smaller residences when their children left are keeping their homes longer. That makes it harder for families with school-age children to move into the district.
Open enrollment has helped to keep the drop-off from being so steep, and this year Hopkins saw a 3.18 percent increase in the number of students from outside the district enrolling in Hopkins schools.
But even though open enrollment into the district has been growing, it hasn't lately been growing as fast as open enrollment out of the district. While numbers aren't yet available on open enrollment out of the district, Hopkins saw net declines in open enrollment in 2010-11 and 2011-12. Numbers are estimated to have fallen 26 percent between 2007-08 and 2011-12.
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Definition of rates and relation between risks and rates; manipulating person-time data in Stata using the st commands; analysis of rates using Mantel-Haenszel methods and Poisson regression; splitting follow up time to allow for exposures that change with time; introduction to survival analysis; log rank tests and Cox proportional hazards regression; graphical displays for survival analysis; Cox models with continuously time-varying covariates.
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Rob Schneider. You either love him or you hate him, I think. Me, not love. In this sitcom, he marries into a Hispanic family and hijinks, much of them racially based, ensue. Good luck.
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It's back, it's back, I am so happy because it is back!!! Tonight, "Jack questions the family value of the network's new talent competition; Tracy gets frustrated at his inability to upset Liz; Kenneth prepares for the Rapture." And yes, they plan to cover the storyline of Avery being kidnapped by Kim Jong Il in the wake of his death.
The Finder, 9 p.m., Fox
Remember spin-offs? Like, pretty much the whole 1980s? Well, leave it to Fox to try to revive it (have there been any spin-offs since the CSI and L&O mania of a few years back?) This is a Bones spin-off, although not really because it was a single episode of Bones and not recurring characters (a la Frasier, for example). Anyway, "Iraq veteran Walter Sherman helps a teenage boy locate his missing father, a military pilot who vanished while on a mission; Leo and Walter keep a watchful eye on a teen parolee."
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Four people injured in a violent accident in front of a Jackson high school Thursday will survive, according to medical officials. An official with the University of Mississippi Medical Center reported that the conditions of two of the victims were upgraded overnight, while two others were treated and released from the hospital.
The injuries stem from a three-car accident in front of Callaway High School on Beasley Road Thursday afternoon. Joshua Thurmond, who was driving a Mitsubishi SUV involved in the accident, died at the scene.
According to UMMC, Shabritani Vanburen, 18, is in fair condition and Annette Rhymes, 59, is in good condition. Annette Thurmond, 51, and Jessica Manning, 19, were treated and released.
Jackson Police spokeswoman Colendula Green said Joshua Thurmond was driving his SUV carrying his mother, Annette Thurmond, and sister, Manning. Annette Thurmond told police her son had a seizure causing the vehicle to run a stop sign and careen into oncoming traffic.
A witness said the SUV collided with a Toyota Camry driven by Vanburen. The force of the impact sent the Toyota airborne landing on a Ford Contour driven by Rhymes.
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Welcome to part five of my handy cut out and paste guide to the entire history of queer popular music. Today's lesson - REM.
More specifically, the video for REM's Losing My Religion.
A new exhibition at London's Dulwich Gallery of Guido Reni's paintings of Saint Sebastian has spawned some learned essays in the press musing about how the pierced one came to become the patron saint of pooves.
There's really not much to this - he was a good-looking young chap who was invariably depicted wearing nothing but a loincloth - and you couldn't just Google "free" "gay" and "porn" back in Renaissance times, you know?
Anyway, it was the SS reference combined with the high quota of top male arty titty in the video for Losing My Religion that got many wondering for the first time about the sexuality of the previously oblique and "enigmatic" Michael Stipe.
"Losing my religion" is a slightly campy old southern phrase - which you might have expected to be taken up in song by their mates from Athens, The B-52s (See Part Three). Michael sort of sounds like he's singing about he's deliberating about losing his gay virginity, no?
This became REM's breakthrough hit in 1991 - proving you can never go wrong with a video full of half-naked men and a mandolin.
Fascinating fact: Popstarz promoter Tommy Turntables once had a lizard called Stipe. It smelt funny.


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A drunken grandmother forced a New Zealand-bound Qantas flight back to Melbourne after she punched a passenger in the face, a court heard today.Frances Macaskill, 58, from Perth, pleaded guilty in the Melbourne Magistrates Court to one charge of offensive and disorderly behaviour on board an aircraft and one charge of assault over the air rage incident.Commonwealth prosecutor Lauren Gurry told the court Macaskill had been in seat 8F on board Qantas flight QF37 bound for Wellington at 9.20am on Saturday.Ms Gurry said the air crew had observed Macaskill drinking alcohol she had bought duty free at Melbourne International Airport before boarding the plane."As the accused continued to yell profanities at other passengers and air crew, she then began to punch the seats in front of her in a violent manner," the prosecutor said.Macaskill was told to stop but she ignored the cabin crew.She then stood up and punched another passenger seated in 7E on the right side of the face, causing a six centimetre cut and heavy bleeding.Macaskill was restrained by the cabin crew with the help of the victim and placed in flexi cuffs before being moved to an empty seat at the rear of the aircraft.Ms Gurry said Macaskill continued to yell profanities and repeatedly headbutted the seat in front of her.The crew was forced to attach three child seatbelts together and strap Macaskill across the shoulders to the seat to stop her from injuring herself.At about 10am, the captain decided to return to Melbourne because of Macaskill's behaviour.Federal police arrested Macaskill and noticed she was swearing loudly, slurring her words and was suffering the effects of alcohol.The cost to Qantas to turn the flight around was A$19,760 (NZ$25,360).
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A letter from Superintendent Thomas J. Douglas
December 14, 2012
Dear parents and guardians:
On behalf of the Bethlehem Central School District, I would like to offer my deepest condolences to those families who have been affected by today's tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. You are in our thoughts and prayers.
To our own families, I would like to offer these tips on helping our own students discuss and cope with this terrible event:
• Start by finding out what your child knows. When a news topic comes up, ask an open-ended question to find out what she knows like "What have you heard about it?" This encourages your child to let you know what she is thinking.
• Ask a follow up question. Depending on your child's comments, ask another question to get him thinking, such as "Why do you think that happened?" or "What do you think people should do to help?"
• Explain simply. Give children the information they need to know in a way that makes sense to them. At times, a few sentences are enough. "A good analogy is how you might talk about sex," adds Nancy Carlsson-Paige, Ed. D. "You obviously wouldn't explain everything to a 5-year-old. Talking about violence and safety is similar."
• Listen and acknowledge. If a child talks about a news event (like a local robbery or kidnapping) and is worried, recognize her feeling and comfort her. You might say "I can see you're worried, but you are safe here. Remember how we always lock our doors." This acknowledges your child's feelings, helps her feel secure, and encourages her to tell you more.
• Offer reassurance. When a child is exposed to disturbing news, she may worry about her safety. To help her calm down, offer specific examples that relate to her environment like, "That hurricane happened far away but we've never had a hurricane where we live." Actions speak louder than words — so show your child how you lock the door if she gets scared by a news report about robbers, point out the gutters and storm drains if a hurricane story causes fear, and explain what the security guards do at the airport after a story about terrorists.
• Tailor your answer to your child's age. The amount of information children need changes age by age. "A kindergartner may feel reassured simply knowing a hurricane is thousands of miles away. An older child may want to know how hurricanes could affect the place where he lives and may want to know what is being done to help those in need. Both ages will be reassured by doing something to help," notes Jane Katch, M.S.T., author of Under Deadman's Skin: Discovering the Meaning of Children's Violent Play.
(Source: http://www.pbs.org/parents/talkingwithkids/)
Our students' well being is our utmost priority in Bethlehem. We will make our counselors available for any students who may be having difficulty coping with these terrible events and, of course, we will continue to provide as safe and nurturing a learning environment as we possibly can.
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Ask a Trooper: What is the law on frosted windows?
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Clear you vehicle windows it is important to see where you are going!
Minnesota Statute 169.71 subdivision 3 states, "No person shall drive any motor vehicle with the windshield or front side windows covered with steam or frost to such an extent as to prevent proper vision."
Start early; taking a few minutes to warm the vehicle so frost, ice and snow can be easily removed. Do not be tempted to drive off before the job is completed. Driving is about
; a little circle cleared on the windshield, in front of the driver, is insufficient, dangerous and illegal.
It is a good Idea to remove the snow off the entire vehicle so it does not engulf you, in a cloud, when you pick up speed. Clearing all the snow will prevent it from coming in through the vents, also. Finally, do not forget to give your front and rear lights some care, as well, so others can see you, your brake lights and your signals.
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Ronny K. was born on 1st August 1974 at Trinec, Czech Republic. In 1991 he started his career as a DJ. He was learning to mix on vinyl decks (later on CD players) under the direction of professional DJs. After 4 years of practice he DJs solo and started to produce his own music. His first projects were called Exhibit, Sonic Empire and FM FACTORY, which rised in 1997 and was devoted to commercial genre of music. The first album of this project, called The Album, arose in 2001. It included debut tracks like 17 story, Get up, Give you more, Mrazik 2001, Malo je malo. Year 2003 brought fresh wind to Ronnys production. He started to produce club/house together with his friend and they formed a project called Weekend Project, which was oriented on this genre. In years 2004 and 2005 he added new genres to his production: eurotrance, trance and uplifting trance. Meanwhile he cooperates with interactive TV channel and radio Fun1, for which he creates music graphics, jingels and signatures.
2010 started for him with a great release of his official ah.fm anthem "Morning Light" which was supported by Armin Van Buuren in asot 435. People voted for this track as the Future Favorite and then Armada Music released this track on their compilation called "A State Of Trance Radio Top 15 (February 2010)". As the next "The Emotion EP" (contains 2 tracks: Ronny K. Vs Ziki – From Somewhere and Emotia – Sequile) which was choosen by Jorn Van Denyhoven. He was playing Emotia – Sequile on ASOT450 live in Wroclaw for huge crowds (approx. 9500 ppl). Armin used his production again and the track "From Somewhere" sounded on ASOT 453.
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Did Kanye West view the Kim Kardashian sex tape to get himself "in the mood" while he was dating other women? This is the latest rumor about the rap mogul and his reality television girlfriend that is circling the internet.
That's right, Kanye West apparently needed to fantasize about Kim K and Ray J "getting nasty" in front of a camera before he could actually have sex with other women. The tabloid rumors go on to say that after Kanye watched Kardashian's "special" home video, he was able to go all night long with the women he was intimate with.
Okay, Kanye West does admit that he "fell in love" with Kim Kardashian before she started dating Kris Humphries. Was it her home-made porn flick that did it for him? Who knows, and frankly who cares?!? There have been plenty of stories about how Kanye was trying to get with Kim way back during her relationship with Reggie Bush. Still, that he was somehow watching the Kim K sex tape to get himself in the mood is in a word... silly.


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Hey -- remember that group of governments and school districts in Niagara County that signed a 50-year deal with the New York Power Authority? In exchange for supporting a new federal operating license for the Niagara Power Project, they'll share $8 million annually through 2057?
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By Kenna Caprio
It's not that cold in Vancouver. Really — insists Ryan Barth-Dwyer, a 21-year-old College at Florham student who just spent a year studying abroad there — it just rains frequently. Kind of like nearby Seattle, he says.
Even the weather on the East Coast of the United States is more comparable to the weather in Vancouver, save for all that extra rain, he says. Most of the traditionally cold Canadian weather usually steers clear of the city. While at FDU-Vancouver, Barth-Dwyer only encountered snow in the city once.
Of course, it snowed often in the mountains visible from the downtown. "When it's raining in the city, it's snowing in the mountains," he explains. That weather phenomenon might have been just the thing that convinced Barth-Dwyer to study in Canada.
The avid snowboarder knew that he wanted to experience city life abroad, so that knocked the University's Wroxton campus out of the running. Combine that with the chance to snowboard frequently, and Barth-Dwyer was sold.
So sold, in fact, on the international experience he enjoyed at FDU-Vancouver that he ended up working with Neil Mort, director of enrollment and student services for Vancouver, to extend his stay.
"Ryan was really involved in student government — a position became vacant and he ran for it. He was the social rep here at the campus," says Mort. "It seemed like he wasn't ready to leave yet.
"We recognized and fully supported that, so then it was just a question of getting the appropriate approvals from his program," he continued.
Mort essentially facilitated the extended stay with help from Barth-Dwyer's advisor at the College at Florham, Janet Rapisardi, an advising counselor for business students.
Barth-Dwyer is even considering returning to the Great White North for a third semester, perhaps in the spring 2013 to end his FDU career there.
"When you graduate from Vancouver, you get a three-year work visa," he explains. Living in a foreign country for a few years certainly appeals to the Greenlawn, N.Y. native who roomed with students from Zimbabwe, El Salvador and Mexico. Often times, he was the only American in the bunch.
"I gained knowledge beyond the classroom at Vancouver," says Barth-Dwyer. "You get to network so much. Now that I'm home, I can contact someone in almost every country."
Eventually, post-graduation, the entrepreneurial studies major wants to open his own restaurant. Of course, he knows that he needs, "other capitol investments and money to be able to do that."
So first, he'll spend the summer lifeguarding at a pool and cooking in a restaurant. This August he also heads to Turkey, since he now has a few friends there to visit. Barth-Dwyer is also saving for a trip to El Salvador. His friends there all want him to come stay.
Mort attributes that desire to travel to the "Canadian mosaic." There is no dominant culture in Vancouver, he contends, as the city is a hub for international residents, most under the age of 35.
"You get that international experience and a soft immersion (at FDU-Vancouver)," says Mort. "Studying in Vancouver is a good springboard to then do another international exchange."
American and Canadian cultures are "very similar," says Mort. "But they're very different too. It's subtle though." Mainly, students just need to adjust to different government, social services and city life, he says. Luckily, because of how the study abroad option at FDU-Vancouver is structured, students can make what they will of the exchange.
"It's a create-your-own-experience type of thing, with no weekend trips and little physical campus property. Students are in home stay or apartments," says Brian Swanzey, Director of Study Abroad.
Once he got the lay of the land, Barth-Dwyer opted to move out of home stay — a housing option in which students live with a host family — and into the downtown area. He loved the instant access to campus. "I enjoyed being able to talk to the provost on a daily basis and my advisors," he says. And, despite no formal schedule for day or weekend trips, Barth-Dwyer, along with classmates, took lots of trips.
"I traveled to Seattle and the Yukon and saw the Northern Lights. There were a few times where I was so happy that I was there in that moment," Barth-Dwyer says. "Just being happy with where my life has come to — in one of the most beautiful places in the world with city, mountain, water."
Smaller excursions included a boat ride in Loinsdale Quay in North Vancouver, a bungee-jumping adventure in Whistler and, of course, snowboarding there too.
"Ryan is a good example of how to make the most of an exchange program. If students want to learn something from him, it's that when you come into a new environment, you have to work that much harder to get more," says Mort. "The more they're immersed and getting involved and are a participant, the richer and more enjoyable the experience."
A rich and enjoyable experience is certainly what Barth-Dwyer had abroad. "Going there for school is beyond a blessing and a pleasure," he says of Vancouver.
And so, even though they say it's only sunny in Vancouver for three months of the year, the close-knit campus, flourishing city and stunning landscape is worth the trip. Perhaps you'll even see residents "applaud the sunset when it happens," says Barth-Dwyer. One can only hope.
For more details on how to study abroad in Vancouver, students can call Swanzey at 201-692-7218 or 973-443-8086.


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AbstractContinuum Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) has proved to be an invaluable tool for predicting the properties of matter from fundamental principles. The multiple forms of parallelism afforded by QMC algorithms and the high compute-to-communication ratio make them ideal candidates for acceleration in the multi/many-core paradigm, as demonstrated by the performance of QMCPACK on various high-performance computing (HPC) platforms including Titan (Cray XK7) and Mira (IBM BlueGene Q). The changes expected on future architectures - orders of magnitude higher parallelism, hierarchical memory and communication, and heterogeneous nodes - pose great challenges to application developers but also present opportunities to transform them to tackle new classes of problems. This talk presents core QMC algorithms and their implementations in QMCPACK on the HPC systems of today. The speaker will discuss the performance of typical QMC workloads to elucidate the critical issues to be resolved for QMC to fully exploit increasing computing powers of forthcoming HPC systems.


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Alessi Lilliput Salt and Pepper Set by Stefano Giovannoni
I do not claim to be a specialist in design, but there is one thing I can tell you for sure: a simple design is always better than an intricate one, especially when we are talking about everyday use items like this Alessi Lilliput Salt and Pepper Set by Stefano Giovannoni. It would be absolutely ridiculous to deign a salt and pepper shaker in a glamorous way, made of pretentious materials and all shiny and glitter. No wonder Stefano Giovannoni was chosen to be one of the most influential designers of the years 2000. He worked for Alessi for a long time and succeeded having a lot of fun and success at the same time with his works.
This salt and pepper set looks funny and playful and you feel like a child again when you see it. The shakers look like stylized little men that are headless, but ready to roll. They are available in many choices of colour, depending on your taste and also on the general colour in the kitchen, but I think this combination is the best: white with grey and black, as it is also associated with the colour of the salt and pepper inside.
The shakers are made of thermoplastic resin and look fabulous. The base is made of 18/10 stainless steel mirror and is also polished, which makes it shiny and gorgeous. You can now purchase this set online for $42.


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By Monica Pryts
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Searching the Internet for the most accurate and updated information on local gas and oil drilling is confusing for many people, but a nonprofit has stepped up to make that data available in an easy-to-read format.
Pittsburgh-based FracTracker Alliance is constantly reviewing records from the state Department of Environmental Protection and other watchdog agencies and loading the information onto a mapping system available to the public at www.fractracker.org
"It's really tough as an outsider," Sam Malone, the group's manager of science and communications, said of the average person trying to collect and interpret various types of drilling information on their own.
FracTracker Alliance, the Mountain Watershed Association and Marcellus Outreach Butler on March 26 hosted a two-hour training session at Slippery Rock University, where about a dozen people learned to navigate FracMapper, the online tool that provides information on shale extraction operations.
FracTracker Alliance, which has no official stance on hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," started in 2010 at the University of Pittsburgh and has since branched out on its own, providing drilling data on many states including Pennsylvania, Malone said.
Fracking has made it possible to tap into energy reserves across the nation but also has raised concerns about pollution, since large volumes of water, along with sand and hazardous chemicals, are injected deep into the ground to free the oil and gas from rock.
The gas and oil industry is rapidly progressing with drilling activities, and the regulatory agencies aren't always prompt in providing updated records that are easily accessible to the public, said Kathryn Hilton, community organizer with the Watershed Association, which helps administer FracMapper.
"They have a lot of stuff still on paper," Malone said of agencies like DEP.
Those who run FracMapper are doing so to educate the public and provide them with tools and support to learn more about drilling permits issued, locations of unconventional wells and violations connected to gas and oil companies, Hilton and Malone said.
They focused on the Pennsylvania maps, which are updated at least once a month, and the training session was held in a computer lab so everyone could follow along at a desk.
Google Chrome is the best Internet browser to view FracMapper, said Malone, who zoomed in on Butler County, showing how the purple shading is Marcellus Shale and the tan is Utica Shale.
Dots appeared on the map, each color indicating a different category: orange means unconventional wells drilled; purple means well permits issued; and yellow means a violation was issued.
Clicking on a dot brings up a box that provides details including: permit number; when the permit was issued; name of the operator; last name of the property owner; municipality location; and violation information, if any.
"They have to apply for each permit separately," Malone said of how one dot could represent multiple well permits on one drill site.
The map can be viewed numerous ways by removing or adding "layers," or categories, by using the toolbar on the right. For example, if you want to view only wells that had violations, check the "Violations" box only, and the yellow dots will appear on the map.
The map itself can also be changed to show land from an aerial view photograph or in a street-map format, showing the user which roads surround a drill site location; use the "Base Map" option on the toolbar.
Other tools include: measuring property sizes or distances between properties; saving and sharing a screen shot of the map; and a "Search" option for entering an address to find a well, one of several features the group is still working on to make it more user-friendly, Malone said.
Hilton noted that every drill site should have a mailbox-type container that has paperwork on the property and its activities, and anyone can review those documents.
"That information is required to be there," she said, adding you should contact the DEP if those papers are missing, which is considered a violation.
Even more information can be found by clicking on "About" in the toolbar while you have a drill site box pulled up -- there will be links to the websites where FracTracker Alliance obtained its data.
Several people at the training session questioned serious violations, which Malone said seem to be on the decline.
DEP and other regulators contend that overall, water and air pollution problems related to fracking are rare, but environmental groups and some scientists say there hasn't been enough research on those issues. The industry and many federal and state officials say the practice is safe when done properly, but faulty wells and accidents have caused problems.


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New York, NY (Sports Network) - Kansas City Royals infielder Miguel Tejada, who was suspended Saturday for 105 games after testing positive for amphetamines, was absolved of any possible Biogenesis-related infraction on Wednesday.
"The Office of the Commissioner investigated all allegations regarding players associated with Anthony Bosch and Biogenesis. The investigation found no violation by Miguel Tejada of the Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program," Major League Baseball said in a statement.
ESPN reported that Tejada was implicated in the Biogenesis investigation. ESPN's "Outside The Lines" show reported MLB had the choice of suspending Tejada for his involvement in Biogenesis or for his use of amphetamines.
Bosch, the founder of the now-defunct anti-aging clinic, provided evidence that Tejada had been a customer of Biogenesis, according to ESPN.
The 2002 AL MVP hit .288 with three homers and 20 RBI in 53 games this season.
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Greater Cincinnati White Castles presented a donation Tuesday to Crayons to Computers (C2C), a local charity that provides school supplies to classrooms and area schools in need.
A check for $15,000 was donated to the program, made possible through efforts of White Castle and customers.
During the 2009-2010 school year, C2C provided
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Bethlehem is planning to open its fourth city-sponsored technology center, Mayor John Callahan announced this morning during his final State of the City address.
The project, currently being called Tau, will reclaim for productive use the East Annex of the Bethlehem Steel General Office Building at E. Third Street and Founders Way.
A new wrinkle in this project is that the center will welcome creativity-based businesses – such as architects, graphic designers and musicians – as well as those in the technology sector to create a dynamic environment that many new companies are looking for, according to Bekah Rusnock, the city's enterprise zone coordinator.
Also, unlike the three previous technology centers, this one will not be purely an incubator, but "a fully integrated technology center which attracts companies in every stage," Callahan said.
The last technology center the city developed – the 8,000-square-foot Pi, in the Cantelmi Hardware building – was occupied about as soon as it was completed in 2012, Rusnock said.
"Last year, with the grand opening of Pi: Partnership for Innovation … we put out a call to every entrepreneur, inventor, scientist, developer, hacker, mathematician, student, professor and thinker: Bethlehem wants you," Callahan said.
"The demand for office space in the Keystone Innovation Zone remains high," the mayor continued. "As we move from a post-industrial era and build an economy with jobs for the 21st century, we must again reinvest in technology centers, facilities where we can attract and grow the best and brightest companies and individuals."
In hunting for more space in the Bethlehem's Keystone Innovation Zone, the administration decided to get more proactive and pursue a larger space, Rusnock said. The East Annex is five-stories tall and has 125,000 square feet of space.
The Tau site is not under the city's control. It is owned by Sands BethWorks – the investment group led by Michael Perrucci that owns the western 100 acres of former Bethlehem Steel land – the portion of the property that has been conceived as an arts and entertainment district.
Obviously, the city believes it is close to making a deal for the property or Callahan would not have made Tau public today.
Since the building lies within the Keystone Innovation Zone, it is eligible for a number of federal and state financing options to pay for the renovations that will be necessary. The project will likely be financed and developed in phases – perhaps one floor at a time, Rusnock said.
The city, meanwhile, still holds out hope that the remainder of the Steel General Office building can be redeveloped into a mixed-use office and residential space, Rusnock said.


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Summa & Spery win election and are sworn in.
Bruce Summa and Maura Spery were sworn in on April 7 at 12 noon at village hall.
The Mastic Beach Village Crier has been created to be your voice in a village that seems to have forgotten the wants of their own citizens!
We are here to remind our Village Board that their job is to listen to the residents, make Mastic Beach a better place to live, and NOT line their pockets!
Be sure to let us know what you think the Village of Mastic Beach should be doing to make The Incorporated Village of Mastic Beach a better place to live and work. Tell us how the Village has made your life better or worse.
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Rails To The Darkside, East Windsor
When building the Hartford to Springfield trolley line in the early 1900s, workers encountered a cemetery. Instead of diverting around it, the workers tore up the tombstones and laid the track over the graves. And so the lights in the car go out, and the trolley rocks as it accelerates down the line into the dark woods, across the desecrated ground.
Whatever became of those riders? Find out for yourself if you dare on Rails to the Darkside at Connecticut Trolley Museum in East Windsor. Admission: $15.
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Buddy Radio
During an exhaustive study regarding use of the name "Buddy" in recording credits, lab assistant Igor was sent off on a research project involving a somewhat notorious indie rock label, Shimmydisc. The length of time spent on the ensuing research was in itself overwhelming; suffice to say that certain associates of the lab assistant were so worried about what might have happened to him that they were unable to perform their normal functions, except of course the hangman who never rests.
Igor himself was quite happy about the results of his mission. "We may now have a recording credit attributed to an animal," he beamed, no doubt already imagining the thrill of adding another such credit to the thrilling list of birds, dogs, cats, fish, even a llama, that have wound up with recording credits. In this case Buddy seems to have been a cat, perhaps even one belonging to someone connected with the label itself. At any rate, Buddy received a credit for graphic design on a 1996 Shimmydisc release by the Semibeings. "The name of the band is in itself a clue about the relative humanity of the participants -- and I oughta know about that!," Igor added. ~ Eugene Chadbourne, Rovi
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MANATEE -- Sales of condominiums priced $500,000 to $700,000 are seeing a surge in Manatee County, according to the latest report commissioned by Michael Saunders & Co.
Condo sales in that price range are up 250 percent year-over-year for the month of September, and up 18.7 percent over last year, according to the latest Trendgraphix report. Seven condos in that price range sold this September compared to two sales in September 2012, according to the report. Condos priced at less than $150,000 sold the most, with 74 sales in September, up 5.7 percent compared to September 2012.
"As September is traditionally a quiet period for most of our region's economic sectors, it is not uncommon for real estate sales to soften this time of year," says Michael Saunders, founder and CEO of Michael Saunders & Company. "Additionally, with prices on the rise and inventories low, the large institutional investors -- who helped jump-start our market to begin with -- have become less of a presence in the market, at least for now. This is enabling more purchases by buyers who plan to occupy the homes, a sure sign that our market is edging closer to normal."
Mid-range single-family homes continue see an increase of sales for homes priced $200,000 to $1 million, according to the report, with homes priced $700,000 to $1 million seeing a 75 percent jump from last year with 14 sales.
Another report by RealtyTrac, a real estate data website, shows that cash is again king for those sales. Cash buyers made up 64 percent of the sales in the Bradenton-Sarasota-Venice metro area in September, with short sales making up the next highest percentage at 29 percent. Tampa's 33 percent of home purchases being short sales was among the highest in the nation for metro areas with more than 1 million people.
The median distressed home sale price in the metro area is also up 14 percent year-over-year at $105,001, according to RealtyTrac, while non-distressed home sales sold at a median price of $167,000 last month, up 10 percent from last year.
Charles Schelle, business reporter, can be reached at 941-745-7095. Follow him on Twitter@ImYourChuck.