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'Survivor' stint shaped Texan's priorities
09:16 PM CDT on Saturday, May 14, 2005
By LEE HANCOCK / The Dallas Morning News
TYLER, Texas Forget the million dollars. Coby Archa says being on the CBS reality show Survivor wasn't about the money.
The payoff is having kids hugging him in parking lots and their moms calling him a role model. Middle-aged women have stalked him for autographs at Six Flags, and a retired military vet bounded into Mr. Archa's hair salon to say he'd want him for a teammate.
Coby Archa didn't win the top prize on Survivor: Palau , but he says he found himself on the island. It's about coming full circle and finding a measure of acceptance in his quirky corner of East Texas. On that Hollywood-perfect desert isle, the 32-year-old says, he let go of some of the pain of his past and learned what he's capable of. Now he's ready to embrace his life exactly where he is and become a family man.
After all, he's a survivor. He's even played one on TV."It took going to the other side of the world and having everything stripped away to make me realize what really matters," he said.
When Survivor debuted in the summer of 2000, Mr. Archa was instantly obsessed. It dominated conversation on the sweltering day that I picked him from among the hip, bored 20-something stylists waiting for walk-ins at the Tyler mall's Toni and Guy hair salon. I left promising my new hairdresser that I'd see the show.
"You watch. I'm going to be on Survivor," he declared.
My response was something inane, like, "Oh, right."
Mr. Archa says he was always picked on as a boy growing up in West Texas. His mother indulged his wish for his own Barbie doll. Then again, he was determined, funny, and easily the most out-there gay man in largely closeted East Texas. He shrugged off what came with being so different in a conservative town. Teenagers made it sport to yell "Toni and Gay!" at the mall, and rednecks sometimes muttered slurs, so Mr. Archa made wicked comebacks a performance art.
Born near Abilene, he said it was obvious early on that he wouldn't be a roughneck, a cowhand, a football player or any other "Bubba" persona favored by his neighbors and his "redneck, hillbilly" kin.
"I've had no choice. People have always known," he said. "I've always known that this is who I am."
His older brother, Chad Archa, recalled their father vetoing Coby's pleas for a Barbie until their mother stopped a sibling spat by whacking Chad with the first thing in reach: Coby's Ken doll.
"She ended up breaking it on me," Chad said. "Mom felt so bad, she went out and bought him a Barbie. I'm not sure Mom wants everybody to know that she was beating me with a Ken doll. But boy hidey, Coby was glad to get that Barbie."
Their parents divorced when Mr. Archa was 8, and he moved with his mom, Bonnie Archa, to Durham, N.C.
By the end of his junior high years, the family discussed his sexual orientation. Ms. Archa said "we all already knew," but she made a point of talking about it and telling her youngest son that their love was unconditional after her brother was diagnosed as having AIDS.
"My mother would never admit that my brother was gay, so he had to be a different person when my mother was around," Ms. Archa said. "It was always hidden, and that always hurt him. I just decided that I wasn't going to make my baby feel that way."
Outsiders were far less accepting. Mr. Archa said fellow students taunted him as "a sissy," and jocks chased him, once spitting so much gum into his hair that he had to cut it off. After his uncle died, he said, kids regularly called, "Here comes AIDS boy!" as he walked school halls.
He said he dropped out of 10th grade after someone heaved a log through his windshield. "It wasn't like they were just calling me prissy boy," he said. "It was more than I could take."
He stayed with friends when his mother moved back to Texas, acting in local theater and gravitating toward trouble. He got busted for breaking into cars, burglarized a mansion and then stole a car that he and a friend drove to see his mother in Midland.
"I was awful," he said. "Unhappy teenagers do messed-up things."
Dodging cops, he hopped a bus to Dallas "with $10 in my pocket" and spent weeks on the street "in a cardboard box" before a new boyfriend took him in.
"One day, I got up, looked at myself in the mirror and said, 'This is not my life,' " he said. "I went back to North Carolina."
By then, his family expected his rap sheet to be longer than his resume. But he said turning himself in, pleading guilty to a theft charge and serving seven months in jail "changed my life, thank God."
Once out, he joined his mother, a medical stenographer, in Midland and learned hairstyling. He flirted with acting but settled with his mom near Athens in 1999 and started doing hair at the Tyler mall.
In 2003, he and his best friend, Amanda Page, opened a Tyler salon and got matching tattoos to celebrate. He muscled up his 6-foot-4-inch frame and got a bleach-blond mohawk. It waved like a yellow warning flag when he cruised through Tyler in his Miata convertible.
He sent audition tapes for every new season of Survivor. Some acquaintances scoffed that it sounded like asking to go back to junior high hell, with cameras recording every zit for a worldwide audience in 108 foreign countries and territories.
He admitted a fascination with being marooned with bimbos and buff boys, mean girls and brains, clowns and outcasts on a post-modern Gilligan's Island all to find out to how much lying, cheating and manipulating they'd do for $1 million.
But there also was something about going in the wild, deprived of everything. The game might be more TV construct than rite of passage, he told people, but it might change his life.
In early 2004, he heard from show producers and was among 800 people interviewed in Dallas and 15 other cities. He was candid with CBS about his criminal history. He was then one of 50 flown to Los Angeles for 10 days of tests and interviews.
He said he knew he was one of several vying for the "gay role," so he pulled out all his drama-queen stops. In one meeting, he dropped his pants and showed the room including Survivor host Jeff Probst that he'd written the casting producer's name on his butt with an indelible marker.
"It was a freshness that we don't see very often. He just had an energy around him that was so fun and likeable," he said. "We got lucky."
Without the mohawk, which producers made him lose, Mr. Archa left in October with 19 other castaways, all sworn to secrecy about their destination: the Pacific island of Palau. He returned in late December 10 pounds lighter, tanned and ebullient.
"He said he realized how lucky he was and that he wasn't taking things for granted anymore," Ms. Archa said.
She and others said they soon realized how serious he was. At his urging, relatives began joining him, Ms. Page and other friends for monthly family nights something they'd never made time for. When the show's 10th season started in February, they gathered each Thursday to watch and share a meal, most decked out in pink "Coby Survivor Palau" T-shirts.
His TV tribe, Koror, included a New York City firefighter, a Las Vegas showgirl, two lawyers, a nanny, a consultant, an ad executive and a dolphin trainer. They annihilated the younger Ulong tribe in contests for food, water, shelter and avoiding Tribal Council, each episode's end when someone is voted off the island.
Mr. Archa often paraded in black bikini briefs he dubbed "manties" and dished regularly about alpha males, lazy girls and tribal intrigue.
"Part of his strategy was to play the game the way he was," Mr. Probst said. "You could go to Coby for an interview, and he would give you something every single time. If I asked him something at Tribal Council, I would get something good and probably stir something up."
Mr. Archa was also competitive. In what Mr. Probst called "one of my favorite moments of the season of any season," the Texas hairdresser thumped a self-described redneck steelworker from Alabama in sumo-style combat. The steelworker later bemoaned getting "whipped by a homosexual."
"That's a tailor-made square-off, and when the gay man kicks the redneck's ass, that's a home run!" Mr. Probst said. "He's fighting, in his own way, for everybody who's picked on."
Mr. Archa's earthy Texas clan alternated between laughter and tears, particularly during the eighth episode, when his role in winning a challenge ensured that he'd be among the castaway jurors who will tonight choose the show's $1 million winner from the two Survivors left after 39 days.
"Coby, you run like a girl!" Chad yelled at the TV as his brother rushed through the crucial challenge.
"But you sure swim pretty," his aunt, Deanna Calvio, added.
On the show, Mr. Archa told his tribe that he'd just realized a life goal. Since childhood, competition had been little more than an invitation for abuse, but on Palau, he'd been cheered and allowed the chance to show that he could hold his own.
"When I was a kid, the jocks would make fun of me. I'd quit. I'd run off crying. That was one of the reasons I came here," he said as the cameras rolled. "I never got to be part of a team, especially a winning team."
He was even more emotional in the show segment offering contestants' private thoughts.
"As a kid, I never played sports. I was always called the girly guy, you know. I was a sissy. People would pick on me, and I would just give up. I ended up quitting school because people made fun of me. I've given up a lot in my life," he said, tears rolling down his cheeks. "But I wasn't going to let anybody make me quit this time, no matter how hard it is."
He wept again while watching, and family and friends hugged him and wiped their own tears.
Then his aunt lightened things. "You made me cry my false eyelash off, Coby!" she declared.
Later, his brother cried again trying to explain what it had meant.
"It's just hard to see his pain," said Chad Archa, 36, an X-ray technician who lives with his wife and stepson near Chandler. "He's tougher than I'll ever be because he's been through more ... than I ever did. He's been in more fights, had more hell, been called more names, had people treat him worse than most of us ever will have to put up with. But still, he's pulled through."
Mr. Probst said those scenes were among the season's most moving.
"This is no longer the kid who got picked on. That guy is gone," Mr. Probst said. "Coby showed a lot of people: You can change your life any time you want. Just stand up and be strong in your convictions."
Mr. Archa said being voted off in the ninth episode, which aired April 14, was a "total and utter relief." He added with a laugh that he wasn't expecting to be booted on the 24th day, but he wasn't exactly playing it safe complaining, squabbling and revealing Koror's tribal strategy to the last Ulong.
His family kept gathering weekly for the show, reveling in his island stories and the messages and calls he exchanged with his fellow castaways. Mr. Archa said the show prompted his first real conversations in years with his father in West Texas and his sister in Arizona. He got other castaways from the show to leave her supportive phone messages when her husband died in March of brain cancer.
He said Survivor: Palau also rekindled his relationship with his half-brother, Obie Archa. The 22-year-old had never left his West Texas hometown before Mr. Archa recently offered him a place to live and help paying for an education with some of his Survivor winnings.
Mr. Archa said he can't discuss how much he will get after the show ends. Some Internet sites speculate that players at his level get about $30,000.
He bought a house last month in Tyler with Ms. Page, and they recently moved in with her 2-year-old daughter, Chloe, his mother and his half-brother.
And on April 28, he brought home what he said is the best result of Survivor: a newborn baby girl he's in the process of adopting.
The baby was born to a 25-year-old cousin, Victoria "Torie" Ramoz of Colorado City, a single mom with two young daughters. Mr. Archa said he learned just before leaving to film Survivor that she was pregnant and considering offering the baby for adoption. Ms. Ramoz said she'd just had a "hard separation" and lacked the financial or emotional resources to raise three kids alone.
Mr. Archa said he'd always wanted a child, particularly after Ms. Page had Chloe and he became her godfather. But he expected that his cousin's baby would go to another relative.
On Palau, he grasped for the first time that he carried "tremendous guilt" about his sexuality, and he also understood that that had kept him from seriously considering fatherhood. "It's just something society says gay men aren't supposed to do," he said.
He also realized that his Survivor experience and money could allow him to make a difference, but to do that, he'd have to stop allowing himself to be confined by other people's attitudes about gay people.
"I answered so many questions," he said of his personal journey. "How many 32-year-olds get a second chance at all that? Yes, Survivor is candy-coated. It's a TV show. But if you strip it down, it was a deep, profound experience. I came home knowing I couldn't waste it."
Once back, he told his cousin that he wanted to be a father. As the show started in February, Ms. Ramoz asked him to adopt her child.
Mr. Archa said he knew that the adoption might be controversial, and he got bad reactions from the first two lawyers he tried to hire in Athens. One wouldn't shake his hand and showed him the door when he said he wanted to adopt. The second was more cordial, he said, but kept asking why a couple couldn't take the baby.
He ultimately hired a lawyer in Tyler, and Ms. Ramoz and the baby's birth father have signed papers surrendering custody to him. The adoption is expected to be final this summer.
Mr. Archa went to Colorado City for the birth on April 27, and Ms. Ramoz said word spread quickly among her friends what he was there for. She said one friend came to the hospital to say she was cutting Ms. Ramoz off, and others quit calling her.
"In a small town, people aren't so understanding," she said. "People are afraid of what they don't know. I know Coby. I know his heart. I know that he will love her like I would and take care of her better than I'm able to."
This weekend, Mr. Archa traveled to New York for Survivor's live finale tonight, along with Ms. Page and most of his East Texas kin.
Mr. Archa said he plans to surprise his fellow Survivors with the news of his new daughter on national TV. He'll also reveal to his closest friend on the island, showgirl Janu Tornell, that he named his child after her.
Mr. Probst said it will be a "huge" moment.
"Think about kids who are gay and are thinking about coming out, or about kids who aren't gay and are picked on, and what this says," he said. "We've had a lot of fun people on the show and a lot of great, funny characters. ... Coby changed people. Coby changed himself and, in doing so, will change a lot of other lives."
Afterward, Mr. Archa said, he'll come home to East Texas, to do hair and raise Janu. For now, he has no romantic prospects.
"I don't date well. Maybe I'm just not meant to have a partner. My life is full," he said. "I've realized in the past few days that I've actually formed my own new tribe. Maybe we don't have a mom and a dad and two kids and a dog. This is a new face of a family, and that's OK.
"We all have such a loving relationship and want to take care of each other, so why can't we?" he said. "This is what I've wanted all my life."
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As someone who related to a lot of Coby's experiences as a child and youth, I find his story heartening. The most emotional moment of the Reunion show was when Coby announced his adoption and that he had named her after Janu.
Leave it to Coby to steal some of the spotlight...and good for him!
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Puddin thanks for posting this excellent article. I am so happy for Coby that he seems to have found that inner peace and can now live a life that he can thoroughly enjoy. It was so touching when he told the story about adopting the baby and then naming the baby Janu. That was so sweet. Janu was so touched. I am sure they will continue their friendship. I thoroughly enjoyed Coby on survivor. He always had something interesting and funny to say in his camera interviews. I also liked the part when he beat James at that sumo bag competition. It just goes to show that you should never judge a book by its cover. It seems to me that Jeff has a soft spot for him too. \|] ]**]
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}bH{ Coby just about stole the show from Tom ..I Heart Coby too .
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i was on the edge off my seat . .
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The International Public Relations program and the Office of University Communications will welcome Dr. Melissa Aronczyk, assistant professor in the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University, for a lecture on Thursday, April 10. Aronczyk will discuss her latest book Branding the Nation: The Global Business of National Identity, which delves into how nation branding changes the terms of politics and culture in a globalized world.
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Monday, November 26, 2012 through
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Plymouth Meeting, PA
Radio personalities, Preston and Steve from 93.3 WMMR help struggling families put food on their tables through their Campout for Hunger. This year, Pet Valu will be on location, in partner with Philadoptables, generating awareness, and collecting pet food and supplies especially for the shelters and pet owners of our local impoverished families.
Pet Valu is working hard to restore hope for these families by lessening the burden for pet owners who need supplies to properly care for, and provide a healthy life for their furry companions. Help our four-legged friends and the people who own them, by donating leashes and collars so pets can be safely walked, toys for training and stimulating playful and social lives, beds and coats to keep warm, canned and dry food, or monetary donations to help shelters purchases supplies most needed.
It's all a part of Preston and Steve's Campout for Hunger Campaign. The morning radio hosts will spend the week of Monday November 26th in the parking lot of the Metroplex in Plymouth Meeting. They'll broadcast, eat, and sleep on site. It's a 24/7 commitment, all in the name of raising money for the city's hungry. Pet Valu plans on joining them and they will have their very own trailer and donation center to collect supplies. All supplies donated through Pet Valu will benefit Philadoptables, a non-profit dedicated to supporting the Philadelphia Animal Control Shelter. Help Pet Valu make a difference in the lives of people and animals this holiday season.
Individual Pet Valu stores make it easy to support animal shelters too. While shopping for your pet, drop an item or two in the collection box next to the door on your way out! For stores nearest to you, visit http://us.petvalu.com/.
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"Lawmakers vow to execute child rapists"
Really? With their bare hands?
What courage these lawmakers show in standing up to the pro-child rape lobby.
This does remind me of the fundmental problem with the death penalty, though. It assumes the state – the same state that can't deliver the mail or win a war or build a working levee – is competent to provide a proper trial.
I endured a speech recently from a "libertarian" GOP candidate who, when asked about the dealth penalty was full of bravado in favor. I pointed out that a neighboring county had recently overturned the conviction of a man who had been convicted of a brutal murder about 10 years earlier. The cops basically concocted a case based on no physical evidense. Wasn't it a good thing that he hadn't been executed?
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I'm honestly really worried about this rework. Karma lost her fans which depresses me a little, but I can handle it.
What I'm far more disconcerted with is the visuals in the screen shot. I can clearly identify what appears to be Spirit Bond, but the rest, I'm not so sure of. Mantra's still in, apparently.
But what of her other skills? Karma's always been out of the meta. Playing with a Karma strategy made the game feel different, almost like a different game. She's basically geared towards melee ADC, and she works well with bruisers etc. She isn't weak--she's a beautifully designed gem, just of a different cut than the rest.
She was the epitome of Ionian perseverance and balance, that inner calm was brilliantly thematic and honestly fit with her and her kit well.
She ran around, in a dress, with a huge HP bar and deceptive durability. Honestly, when I played her, I felt the inner calm her lore talks about. Because when one of my friends I like to play with was critical health, outnumbered, and thought dead to everyone else around, I never paniced, and they never did either. Just quick flawless reactions: E, R, Q, and suddenly, seemingly outmatched the fight would be turned around.
Or sitting around in lane, low health, getting ganked when at the last second, with a sliver left, making awesome plays and jukes getting 2v1 double-kills.
I'm worried that will be gone, and this rework will, as some people have said, make a new support-mage with Karma's name and a bit of her visuals.
Honestly she's one of my favorite characters in the game, even if I haven't played her nearly as much as I should have.
It's why I'd really like the kit changes to be released as fast as possible. Karma's incredibly important to me and my interest in LoL because of how well she was designed, even if she feels like she's almost from another game.
I'd like to feel our feedback makes a difference, because once the kit rework hits the PBE, it feels as good as in game. I hate to be defeatist but...at that point I think it'd be too late for the community to have an impact in keeping Karma as she is.
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The legs on the "Traditional" outfit looks really awkward...
Besides that, she looks so amazing.
Holy ****, she looks more awesome now!
wow did Riot just ninja a post leaking more info on the new karma kit?! good thing i read it and from the looks of it, she's gonna suck even more. lol
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In general, rules of legal interpretation. In a more specific sense, regulae juris are certain legal axioms found in the Decretals of Gregory IX and the Decretals of Boniface VIII. There are 99 in all, referred to as R.J. Some instances will make the matter clear. "Once bad, always presumed to be bad"; this applies only "in the same crime, e.g., if a man has been proven a perjurer once, he is excluded from giving testimony again, but he would not be considered a homicide from the fact that he was a perjurer. "There is no injury done to one who knowingly and freely consents"; this suggests that no one is injured if he knowingly and willingly gives up a right which he is allowed to surrender, but does not apply in case he is morally incapable of giving it up.New Catholic Dictionary


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It's your time to shine like a star with Karaoke Revolution. Following in the party-game footsteps of Konami's Dance Dance Revolution titles, Karaoke Revolution tests your singing abilities to the max. A special music engine tests your pitch and rhythm as you sing over 45 pop and Motown classics, including Madonna's "Like a Virgin," Mr. Mister's "Broken Wings," and UB40s "Red Red Wine." An interactive audience reacts to your singing. Modes include Arcade, Showtime, Karaoke, and several mini-games. Sing by yourself or with your friends. Who needs a karaoke machine when you have Karaoke Revolution!
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Ambrosia and Demonstrator caught the eye when the horses were exercised here on Tuesday morning.
Inner sand
600m: Sun Salutation (Hamir) 41. Easy.
800m: Dancing Splendour (rb), Hidden Goodness (rb) 56, 600/40.5. They moved level freely. Sumo (Shammi), Flight To Freedom (Chandrakant) 54, 600/40. Former finished a distance ahead. Bullseye (Kharadi), Eskimo (J.Chinoy) 56, 600/42. They ended level.
1,000m: Senor Hill (S.Sunil), Fifth Gear (rb) 1-11, 800/55, 600/41. Former ended five lengths in front. Ambrosia (Zervan), Zakynthos (B.Prakash) 1-8, 600/40. Former started three lengths behind and easily finished level.
Outer sand
800m: Twilight (Late Ice Dancer) (Sandesh), Edwina (rb) 54, 600/40. They moved level freely.
1,000m: Hachiko (Sandesh), Novak (rb) 1-10.5, 600/41.5. They finished level freely. Demonstrator (Sandesh), 2/y/o Dark William (rb) 1-7, 800/53, 600/40. Former was well in hand while the latter was pushed to end level.
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Sand track — Nov. 20
800m: Fire Engine (Merchant), Wind Of The Hills (Rupesh) 54, 600/38. They moved neck and neck freely. Grand Dame (F.Irani), Ancient Wonder (D.A.Naik) 57, 600/42. Pair level. Midnight Wind (Merchant), Shadows Of Time (Rupesh) 57, 600/43. Pair level. Romantic Beauty (Merchant), Wind And Rain (Rupesh) 55.5, 600/41. They moved freely.
Race track
600m: Ocean Star (rb) 41. Easy.
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WHEELING — They came for the ultimate joy ride, a half-hour flight July 18 aboard a World War II Consolidated B-24 Liberator.
One passenger from Wisconsin received the flight as a Father's Day gift. Two North Shore men paid $450 to the Collings Foundation simply for the experience.
The Wings of Freedom Tour, which rumbled North Shore skies for three days near the Wheeling-based Chicago Executive Airport, caused grounded folks to stare at the soaring vintage war crafts July 18 through July 20.
Three planes were advertised on vintage-looking posters. They were the B-17 Flying Fortress, the B-24 Liberator (affectionately called "The Flying Coffin") and the P-51 Mustang.
Motorists slowed at the sight of the planes, which dominated a Milwaukee Avenue Tower Drive runway access. Walk-through tours ($12 for adults, $6 for children 12 and under) offered first-hand living history.
For those fortunate to fly in the planes, the majority of their $450 donation to the Collings Foundation, a 501c3 non-profit entity, was tax deductible.
For the July 18 flight, which took off at about 5:40 p.m., three men bonded over a mutual love of World War II military history.
Matthew King of Evanston and Ron Brown of Wheeling are pals who work at Glenview Glenbrook Hospital as radiology technicians. Mark Koth of Winneconne, Wisc., who received the ride as a Father's Day gift, made memories with King and Brown aboard the B-24 Liberator.
"I have a great appreciation for the men who served in these planes during World War II and (who) let us be free today by their service and their sacrifice," said King, who admitted he was nervous about the height through an open window. But fear quickly passed.
The plane route hugged the Lake Michigan shoreline, offering a view of Chicago kissed by azure waters.
"It was an amazing thing what these guys did," King said, of World War II soldiers.
"I can't imagine being up in such a basically, primitive plane, getting shot at…"
King was grateful to the Collings Foundation, "that they've been able to restore these planes."
Ron Brown is concerned many Americans or newer immigrants lack an understanding of the ultimate sacrifice or risk.
"I just have a great respect for those who have served, before and currently, that we have our freedom because of all of these people who flew in these planes and that are currently in active duty," Brown said.
"Freedom is not free and somebody has to pay a price for it."
Mark Koth's family waited on the ground. His wife Julie, daughter Kelly and Kelly's boyfriend Dave McAdow were beaming when he deplaned.
"They knew I was always interested in the B-24 and what my dad did in the war," said Koth, whose father Lloyd Koth flew on the B-24 while serving in the World War II U.S. Air Force.
"My dad passed away in 2007 and he's the classic greatest generation, they didn't talk a lot about it," said Koth, who started to choke up recalling his father.
"I wish he were here today to ask a few more questions of," Koth said.
"As time goes by, that's kind of a sore spot for me that I didn't ask enough questions at the time."
Koth was grateful the July 18 flight connected him to his father who had completed 36 combat missions over occupied Europe and Germany.
The three joined other passengers who boarded the plane from under the belly of the craft. Each had to shimmy up a narrow metal runway to perhaps sit on a bench that held four people.
This sort of seating was nothing like what one would find aboard a first-class American domestic plane.
Once airborne, it was okay to move about the cabin. If you chose, you could see what it was like to shoot military (obviously unarmed) weaponry.
After about 20 minutes flying to Chicago, it was then back to Wheeling.
"It's excellent, it's rare, it's unique and everyone gets out with smiles ear to ear," said John Fudala of Northbrook, a volunteer associated with the tour.
"Sometimes it takes four of us to get a vet in and out and for them, it's especially a wonderful experience," Fudala said.
Both King and Brown, who took cell phone photos of each other inflight, shared a message.
"If it wasn't for all of the people who served in World War II in particular, we would be conquered," Brown said.
"I'd just like to say thank you very much for your service to our country," said King, to all soldiers.
"I really appreciate all of the sacrifices that were done to keep us free today," said King, who has loved military history since childhood.


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Cook pasta according to package directions; drain. Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat; add onion and garlic. Sauté 3 minutes or until tender. Add carrot, zucchini, and mushrooms; cook 12 minutes or until tender. Add broth; cook 4 minutes or until reduced by half. Stir in tomato and chipotle pepper; cook 2 minutes. Stir in salt and black pepper.
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The worldwide storage software market grew 23.3 percent year-over-year in the first quarter of 2004, International Data Corp. said last week.
The back-up and archive software market continued to represent the biggest market segment, growing 22.0 percent year-over-year, IDC reports.
The storage resource management market posted the largest gain at 32.3 percent year-over-year growth.
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Sorry to get back to you so late, we had a surge in Q&A requests. Oil leaks are a gray area for repairs. You have seepage, where there is a light coat of oil that has accumulated some dirt, but is not serious. Then there is an oil leak wher you the customer sees visible signs of leakage beneath the vehicle, seriousness varies. Last is the acute leak, it leaks large amounts where it affects the use of the vehicle. We as technicians have balance the symptoms with the actual repair, because all vehicles leak at some point. so you need to ask your advisor to rate how serious it is and how long can you go without repairing it. Any serious leak should be handled promptly, others you may be able to delay for awhile. I hope that helps you.
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NEW YORK (WKRC) -- Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Andrew McCutchen, the reigning National League Most Valuable Player, has taken over the top outfield spot in the final balloting update for the 85th All-Star Game, to be played on Tuesday, July 15th at Target Field in Minnesota. The 2014 A.L. and N.L. All-Star squads will be unveiled on the "Taco Bell All-Star Selection Show" on ESPN at 7:00 p.m. (ET)/6:00 p.m. (CT) on Sunday, July 6th.
McCutchen has received 3,173,810 votes, which ranks second overall in the N.L., and he is joined by fellow outfield leaders Carlos Gomez (3,169,748) of the Milwaukee Brewers and Yasiel Puig (3,001,907) of the Los Angeles Dodgers. They are followed by 2012 All-Star Giancarlo Stanton (2,681,019) of the Miami Marlins, Gomez's Milwaukee teammate and five-time All-Star Ryan Braun (2,509,770) and Charlie Blackmon (1,859,729) of the Colorado Rockies.
McCutchen, who is bidding for his fourth All-Star selection and first fan-elected start, would become the first Pittsburgh player to earn a fan election since outfielder Jason Bay in 2006. In addition, McCutchen could become just the seventh player in franchise history to garner a fan election, joining Bay, Barry Bonds (1992-93), Andy Van Slyke (1992-93), Dave Parker (1977-78, 1980-81), and Hall of Famers Roberto Clemente (1972) and Willie Stargell (1971-72). McCutchen, who has hit safely in eight straight games, led all Major League players with 20 extra-base hits during the month of June, and he was the first Pirates player with 20 extra-base hits in one month since Brian Giles in June 2001. He ranks first in the N.L. with 54 walks, second with a .418 on-base percentage, tied for third with 38 extra-base hits, fourth with a .314 batting average, tied for fourth with 24 doubles and 159 total bases, tied for fifth with a .525 slugging percentage, seventh with 95 hits, tied for seventh with 48 RBI,
Gomez is attempting to earn his first career fan election after being selected an All-Star for the first time in 2013. He would join teammate Ryan Braun (2008-11) as the only Brewers outfielders to garner a fan election in franchise history. Gomez, who posted a career-best and Milwaukee season-high 18-game hitting streak in June, is third in the N.L. with a .359 batting average with runners in scoring position, is tied for fourth with 159 total bases, tied for fifth with a .525 slugging percentage, tied for seventh with 36 extra-base hits, ranks eighth with 94 hits, ninth with a .310 batting average and is tied for ninth with 52 runs scored.
Puig, in his second Major League season, is seeking his first All-Star assignment. An election for Puig would give the Dodgers a fan-elected outfielder in the All-Star Game for the fourth time in the last five years, following the elections of Andre Ethier (2010) and Matt Kemp (2011-12). The Cuban native is tied for fifth in the N.L. with 28 multi-hit games, ranks sixth with a .401 on-base percentage, seventh with a .344 batting average with runners in scoring position, tied for seventh with a .311 batting average overall, eighth with a .517 slugging percentage and is tied for ninth with 153 total bases.
After taking over the top spot at third base last week, Aramis Ramirez (1,790,777) of the Milwaukee Brewers continues to hold a slight advantage over seven-time All-Star and five-time fan-elected starter David Wright (1,555,717) of the New York Mets, and two-time All-Star and 2012 starter Pablo Sandoval (1,406,026) of the San Francisco Giants. Ramirez, a two-time All-Star, is aiming for the first fan election of his career, and he would become the first Brewers third baseman to win a fan election. The 35-year-old native of the Dominican Republic is batting .292 with 11 home runs and 40 RBI on the season. Among N.L. third basemen, he ranks third in home runs and fifth in RBI. Wright is attempting to join Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt (eight fan elections) as the only N.L. third basemen to earn at least six fan-elected starting assignments. Sandoval would become the fourth infielder in Giants history to earn multiple fan elections, joining Will Clark (1988-91), Jeff Kent (2000-01) and Matt Williams (1994-96).
Behind the plate, St. Louis Cardinals backstop Yadier Molina remains the leader with 3,100,939, but Brewers catcher Jonathan Lucroy (2,636,640) has cut into his lead and is within striking distance heading into the final stretch of fan voting. Molina, a five-time All-Star and three-time fan-elected starter, is attempting to earn his second consecutive fan-elected starting assignment. He would join Hall of Famer Ozzie Smith (12) and former teammate Albert Pujols (5) as the only players in Cardinals history to receive at least four fan-elected starts. Molina has thrown out 17 of 34 runners attempting to steal this season for a N.L.-best .500 percentage. The Cardinals have had at least one player elected to start in each of the last five seasons (2009-13), marking the longest active streak in the N.L. Lucroy, who is vying for his first career All-Star selection, leads all Major League catchers with 100 hits and 28 doubles, and ranks second with 42 RBI.
Rockies shortstop Troy Tulowitzki continues to lead the N.L. with 3,997,477 votes, which also ranks third in the Majors behind A.L. outfielders Jose Bautista (4,460,245) of the Toronto Blue Jays and Mike Trout (4,085,647) of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Tulowitzki leads the Majors with a .353 batting average, .445 on-base percentage and 65 runs scored, and he is second with a .618 slugging percentage. The three-time All-Star, who is trying for his second consecutive fan election, would become the first N.L. shortstop to earn consecutive fan-elected starts since Hanley Ramirez accomplished the feat from 2008-10. Tulowitzki would also become just the third player in Rockies history to earn multiple fan elections, joining Todd Helton and Larry Walker, both of whom were voted a starter on three occasions. Tulowitzki, the N.L. captain for the 2014 Gillette Home Run Derby, also ranks second in the N.L. with 18 home runs and 170 total bases, is tied for second with 29 multi-hit games, tied for third with 97 hits, tied for sixth with 46 walks, tied for seventh with 36 extra-base hits and tied for 10th with 47 RBI. Milwaukee's Jean Segura ranks second behind Tulowitzki with 1,729,054 votes.
On the right side of the infield, Philadelphia Phillies second baseman Chase Utley and Arizona Diamondbacks first baseman Paul Goldschmidt own comfortable leads as balloting comes to a close. Utley, who has totaled 2,436,143 votes, is followed by Neil Walker (1,556,511) of the Pirates. Utley is attempting to make his sixth All-Star squad and earn his sixth fan election after garnering a starting assignment in each season from 2006-10. His five fan elections trail only Schmidt (9) for the most in Phillies history, and the only other N.L. second basemen to draw more All-Star starts are Utley's manager Ryne Sandberg (9) and fellow Hall of Famer Joe Morgan (7). Utley is batting .293 on the season with six home runs, 37 RBI, 24 doubles and 45 runs scored. Utley, who picked up his 1,500th career hit on Sunday against Atlanta, leads all N.L. second basemen in doubles and is tied for first with 33 extra-base hits.
Goldschmidt has accumulated 2,582,955 votes, and he is followed at first base by Milwaukee's Mark Reynolds (1,430,395). Goldschmidt, who earned his first All-Star selection in 2013, would become the first D-backs first baseman, and just the fourth player in franchise history, to earn a fan election. The other three to do so were second baseman Jay Bell (1999), third baseman Matt Williams (1999) and outfielder Luis Gonzalez (2001). Goldschmidt is tied for first in the N.L. with 28 doubles and 43 extra-base hits, ranks second with 59 runs scored, third with 53 RBI, a .529 slugging percentage and 166 total bases, is tied for fourth with 47 walks, tied for seventh with 15 home runs, tied for eighth with 27 multi-hit games, and places ninth with 93 hits and a .387 on-base percentage.
With seven different teams currently represented among the eight leaders, this would mark the eighth time since fan balloting began in 1970 that the N.L. could have as many as seven different teams represented among the starting position players. The other years in which this has occurred include 1971, 1984, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2010. The N.L. has never had eight different teams represented among the eight positional leaders.
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It's been spoken of many times, the youth of New Albany's girls' soccer team. At any given game, at least seven freshman take the field, and it's been that way for the last two years, which would make you think they do not have much success.
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The Lady Bulldogs made history Tuesday night, defeating Lewisburg to advance to the second round of the 4A playoffs for the first time in school history. Yes, those freshmen play a large part in the success, but guiding them are four seniors, who made it their personal goal to accomplish this particular feat.
"When we lost at Lewisburg last year (first round playoffs), I saw the hurt on Brittany Ellett's face and on the face of all of the seniors, so I made it my goal to make history this year," Morgan Odle said.
Along with Andrea Hall, Summer Sanderson and Randi Stevens, the Lady Bulldogs finished second to Corinth in division play, which placed them on the road at Lewisburg earlier this week. Now with this win behind them, the Lady Bulldogs can focus on continuing to advance in the playoffs while proving their critics wrong.
"This is showing everyone that we are a good team," Sanderson said. "We can work together and we can make it somewhere. We're better than a lot of people think we are."
And there's no competition as far as who's the better athletes on this team. While they may hold seniority, these upperclassmen are quick to credit their young teammates.
"I've only been playing for two years, so I look up to some of them, like Kristen (Olson)," Odle said. "When I watch them, I try to learn from them."
"Down the road, they're going to be that much better because they learned early on how to play as a team," Stevens added. "They've been together for all of these years, and I'm sure they played on youth teams growing up, so there's so much potential for this team in the future."
This year's accomplishment is just another to add to what the Lady Bulldogs have achieved the last two seasons, which the girls give credit to the ones who have graduated before them.
"Back when Kelly Skinner and Callie Creekmore played, that was the first year we made the playoffs. We set the goal, and we were the first in history to do that," Hall said.
"Now to be the first to make it to the second round is such an honor, and I think it was just the seniors in the past setting that goal, and that encouraged us to set goals for ourselves."
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