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As a 3-year-old child being carried from his home on Hudson Street, Frank Kowalski clung to his father's neck as his family made the five-block trip to the Ohio Theatre on Lagrange Street.
That was 1926. Now, 87 years later, Frank said he clearly remembers those Saturday morning trips to a building jam-packed with other children excited to see a motion picture featuring Flash Gordon or Western shoot-'em-ups with Buck Jones and Tom Mix.
On May 5, Frank was just as excited, according to Delphine Kowalski, his wife of 61 years, as the couple made the trip from their home in the Polish Village to the newly renovated Ohio Theatre and Events Center (OTEC) for the 1 p.m. performance of chamber music by 14 members of the Toledo Symphony Orchestra.
"He could hardly wait to come today," Delphine said. "He usually sleeps late, but he didn't sleep late today."
Although he admitted his disappointment that the orchestra's brass and woodwind quintets and string quartet only drew 25 patrons, Frank said he was overjoyed to learn that the Toledo School for the Arts (TSA) dance performance on May 2 drew more than 450 people.
"Oh boy, that's good news. That's really good news," Frank said. "These people are bursting with talent. I hope this takes hold. That's what this neighborhood needs."
Delphine said she is happy that the Polish Village she has called home for more than six decades has come to more closely resemble the close-knit community in which she and Frank raised their two sons.
"It's nice to have a place again for entertainment and culture that we can come to so close in the neighborhood," she said. "We don't have to go too far away."
The couple said much of their lives have revolved around events held at the former Ohio Theatre. Frank said he spent his childhood at Saturday matinees watching chapter plays.
As a couple, they attended hundreds of events, including their son's musical shows, Echoes of Poland dance performances, English and Polish language films, magic shows and organ recitals. They even credit the Ohio Theatre with filling the family's kitchen cabinets with dinnerware since patrons received plates when they attended Monday shows.
And as grandparents, they watched their granddaughter perform there in an acting troupe. On May 5, they enjoyed the second performance of what they hope will be many more shows in the renovated and renamed Ohio Theatre and Events Center, 3114 Lagrange St.
Saving the neighborhood
The Kowalskis said they credit the late Rev. George Rinkowski, a Roman Catholic priest and pastor of St. Hedwig Church from 1968-84, with the foresight to save the Ohio Theatre for the neighborhood.
According to the Rev. Paul Kwiatkowski, who replaced Rinkowski as the parish's pastor after he retired in 1984, Rinkowski bought the Ohio Theatre in 1976 for $59,500 "to prevent a syndicate out of Detroit from purchasing it and turning it into an adult movie theater.
"In fact, Bishop Donovan didn't want him to do it. He did not give him a loan but said, 'If you can get a loan, I'll let you get it.' He went to a bank in Defiance, Ohio, and got the loan."
The eight-year loan was for about $25,000, as Rinkowski had raised about $34,000 himself from concerned Toledoans sympathetic to his cause.
"I really do think it helped stabilize the area," Kwiatkowski said. "The neighborhood could have gone down if the Ohio Theatre had gone triple-X. There was a theater on the East Side — the Eastwood — and the neighborhood did suffer for a while. It was showing X-rated movies, and he didn't want that to happen in the North End. They called it the St. Hedwig Culture Center. They wanted it to be indeed that — a cultural center."
"We had this wonderful theater, and after the painting was done on the inside of the church, Father Rinkowski had the painters go over to the theater and paint the interior there.
"And then he had that thrust stage built, which was nice, because that stage — because of the alley and the angle of the building — is very narrow at one end and then it opens up a little bit on the other end. It was not a very deep stage at all, so Father built this big thrust stage."
'We own it. Now let's use it.'
Kwiatkowski said that when he became pastor of St. Hedwig in 1984, he said, "We own it. Now let's use it."
"We got a number of things going. Bob James, the first theater manager, brought in theater acts. At the grand reopening we had Myron Floren, the accordionist with Lawrence Welk. He gave a nice concert and brought some people with him, and we honored Father Rinkowski."
Kwiatkowski said he had the Toledo Symphony Orchestra perform in the theater a couple of times.
"Mr. [Yuval] Zaliouk (director from 1980-89) thought of doing some recording there with the symphony because the acoustics were good," Kwiatkowski said.
"We even had a symphony once with Ole Schmitz from Denmark. He had written the score for the orchestra for the black-and-white silent movie 'The Passion of Joan of Arc.' It was just lovely. But darn if the film didn't break during the performance, but they got it back on again."
In addition, Kwiatkowski said during his tenure, the Ohio Theatre hosted art auctions, children's theater workshops, movie nights, political candidate forums, St. Hedwig Grade School Christmas plays, The Echoes of Poland dance troupe, the Shopper-Herald newspaper and The Toledo Area Theatre Organ Society.
"We would get things and the neighborhood wouldn't show up," Kwiatkowski said. "We never made any profit on any of the things we had in there, which was a shame.
"People would say, 'Oh you have a 500-seat house.' Well, yeah, but all those seats didn't get filled up."
Age takes its toll
By 1987, the 66-year-old building was showing its age, Kwiatkowski said.
"The roof leaked so bad and the worst leak was over the organ chamber," he said. "They would have pots and visqueen (plastic sheeting) because, in a way, water is worse than fire for an organ like that with all the wooden parts."
When he replaced the roof on the theater in 1987, the Rev. Albin Radecki, then-pastor at St. Adalbert Church, donated $1000 to the renovation.
"He saw the value of it as a neighborhood thing even though St. Hedwig was operating it," Kwiatkowski said. "We had Ohio Building Restoration repair the decking that was rotted out over the organ chamber, and then they put a Duro-Last membrane over the whole roof, and also over the marquee because it was leaking too.
"It was a struggle. We tried to have it stand on its own. After I left, Father [Joe] Przybysz (St. Hedwig's pastor from 1994 to 2005) was able to sell it to [Ohio Theatre, Inc., a nonprofit management board, in 2004].
Catalyst for private investment
Terry Glazer, United North's chief executive officer, bought the theater from Ohio Theatre, Inc. five years later for $60,446.
"Its renovation is part of an overall comprehensive effort in a four- or five-block area, and I think the theater will be the catalyst to bring more private investment back to Lagrange Street," Glazer said.
Glazer said the North Toledo community development corporation envisions OTEC serving as both a theater and a community center.
"It's going to be very versatile," Glazer said. "It will provide an opportunity to introduce youth to the arts.
"Some youth are interested in sports, but we need to have other activities for youth, and the arts have proven to help youth with their academics. And because of funding issues, the Toledo Public Schools cannot afford to do as much with the arts as they have in the past.
"Secondly, I think what happened after the [May 2] show is a good example of economic development. People left the OTEC and went right across the street to the restaurant that recently opened, J'Mae's Home Cooking. There was a line of people that waited to get into that business.
"We believe that the people coming in for events at the theater will help existing businesses and encourage new businesses to come in, which in turn will provide goods and services for neighborhood residents and also provide jobs.
"The other interesting thing about the theater is that this was not done in isolation. If you look across East Central Avenue, there is a Fifth Third [Bank], built just two years ago."
Glazer said United North's next project will be the adaptive reuse of St. Hedwig's School, which closed in 2005.
"We're proposing to convert that into 41 units of senior housing. And we've renovated four commercial buildings called Shoppes on Lagrinka."
That redevelopment project in the 2800 block of Lagrange Street created a 8,204-square-foot shopping plaza that opened in January 2008.
"Within those shops, we have a financial opportunity center which enables people to have long-term coaching to increase their financial wealth.
"There's a senior center — not new — but a senior center is located there and a new restaurant that opened directly across the street from the OTEC. And then there's a Dollar General store that's going in on the corner of Park and Lagrange."
Multipurpose space
Glazer said United North never lost sight of its economic development mission during the theater's renovation.
"We started with the question, 'Should the theater be a one-purpose kind of theater or should it be something that could be used for multiple purposes?'"
Everything from bathroom to stage design decisions were made to ensure the building's renovations facilitated the creation of a multiple-purpose theater, Glazer said, since United North was convinced that North Toledo's redevelopment would best be served with that type of building.
"The original plan didn't call for the extension of the stage," Glazer said. "But when we looked at it, we thought the extension of the stage would allow the theater to be used for multiple purposes.
"For example, with that large stage, you could do a banquet. You could also have an intimate concert by just putting chairs around a platform. You could have what we had [May 2] — 85 kids on the stage at one time.
"The expanded stage allows the building to be more multipurpose. In some ways, that was the most critical — not the most expensive, but one of the most critical — improvements that we made. Because in the final analysis, it's great to renovate a building, but you want to make sure that building is going to be used in the long run."
Under new management
United North turned to Northwest Ohio's arts community to find a qualified individual with the education, skills and enthusiasm to manage the theater, Glazer said.
That's where United North's search committee found Jamie Leigh Sampson, 28, a Bowling Green State University graduate with master's degrees in musical composition and bassoon performance and internship experiences with a symphony and an opera company.
Sampson's salary as OTEC's part-time theater manager is paid through a grant from the Toledo Community Foundation, Glazer said.
"In the 10 weeks I've worked here, the theater has gone from looking rather beat up to looking like a modern-day gentleman," Sampson said.
"The biggest difference is when we put up these black [sidewall] curtains to cover up material that was pretty beat up. The change is much like someone walking into an interview in a T-shirt and jeans versus someone walking in wearing a business suit. In the last week before we opened, the theater has shown its capability to clean itself up and be ready for anything, like going from grubby clothes to a suit and tie."
Sampson acknowledges the scaffolding in front of the theater gives the building a temporary beat-up look.
"There are so many people who are just discovering that it's reopening, that have memories of coming here as a kid to see Santa Claus on stage or who saw their first movie or had their first kiss here.
"There's a lot of sentimentality surrounding with this opening. And so I heard a lot of positive reactions.
"I've had a couple people say, 'I've had no idea it was opening because the scaffolding is out front.'
"When the symphony came and toured, one of them said, 'When you're looking at it from the outside, you say, '"It's OK. It's a theater.'"
"Then you get into the lobby, and you feel a little bit more at home. And then you get into the theater proper itself. And you say, "Wow. It's a theater.'""
"That's the reaction we want," Sampson said. "We don't want it to get worse as they walk in. We want it to get better and better until they see the brand-new stage that's been expanded and they say, 'This is something no one else can offer us.'"
Neighborhood life
Sampson is in the process of moving from Bowling Green to the Polish Village.
"I found a beautiful place. I can see the river from my front yard. I grew up near the St. Lawrence River. I am very sentimental about the Maumee River. That was part of it.
"But also, I thought, 'What would it say if I'm working for an organization whose entire goal is to revitalize this neighborhood and I live Uptown or in the Warehouse District? I have friends in those neighborhoods, and they're beautiful and wonderful. They've done so much to restore them.
"I want the same thing to happen here. I want to be one of the people who says, 'The reputation this neighborhood has is fed by fears.' And I don't believe that's all that this neighborhood could be. That's why I work for this theater. That's why they bought the theater, and if I can be closer to it to make sure that if anything does go wrong, I'm here.
"One of the big markers for that in any community development book that you read is that people in their 20s are moving back to the urban areas, and we want that to happen."
Quality acoustics
The Toledo Symphony Orchestra musicians who performed chamber music at OTEC's second show praised the acoustics in the theater as some of the very best in Northwest Ohio.
"This is some of the best acoustics we've ever played in," said Lauraine Carpenter, principal trumpet. "I would absolutely love to come back here."
Merwin Siu, principal second violinist, said he was equally excited with the quality of sound in the OTEC.
"The acoustics are very bright and very present," Siu said. "I think that one of the things that is great about this particular venue is when you're there, the sound is not metallic, but it's very warm and it's very present. You don't feel far away from the sound. The sound seems next to you, around you."
'A rectangular shoebox'
Garth Simmons, principal trombonist, said the OTEC owes its great acoustics to the architect who designed the building back in 1921.
"Part of it is the shape," Simmons said. "If you look around here, essentially it's a rectangular shoebox.
"It's the really high ceilings. Everybody's in the same room. We're not behind the proscenium, which acoustically puts us in a separate space. It's not a smaller space trying to drive a larger one, like it is on a proscenium stage, which tends to make the acoustics weird.
"We're in the same room as the audience is. If you look around, the dimensions of the space we're in is basically a shoebox. That's a great proportion. That creates great acoustics."
'Unique space'
Marty Porter, director, at TSA, was just as enthusiastic as Toledo Symphony Orchestra musicians in his evaluation of the OTEC as a "unique space in Toledo that will be especially effective for dance and music performances.
"It was a great experience with the acoustics and lighting at a very reasonable price. They did a nice job expanding the stage, and the large rig they built for the lighting will serve them very, very well. Because there is no curtain, the theater allows for creative presentations. I'm delighted to see they're bringing that theater back to life."
Under the direction of Letha Ferguson, 135 sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade students from TSA opened the newly-renovated OTEC on May 2 with a 90-minute dance production. Porter said he plans to continue to use the OTEC, along with all the other venues around Toledo.
"We work in lots of different venues around the city," he said, "because we want our students to experience as many different professional venues as possible.
"We are committed to work in our community. TSA is a believer of supporting the community. Whenever there is a new venue, we are happy to utilize and support it."
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The "baby X6″ will stick close to its concept design, as shown by this video, the reposted spy photos below, and the revealed patent design images.
As with the X3, the X4 will be produced in Spartanburg, SC.
Follow our X4 coverage @ http://www.bimmerpost.com/x4/
We've shown you many looks at the exterior of the X4 prototypes, but no views of the X4 interior (not even on the concept X4), until now.
The X4′s interior design is predictably similar to the X3, with which it shares a platform (see comparison photo). The new iDrive touch control knob can be seen. As with the X3, the X4 will be produced in Spartanburg. Expect the X4 to hit the market in the second half of 2014 – early 2015.
Following the leak of its patent drawings, the X4 M Sport has now been spied out testing.
Like the X3 M Sport, with which it shares a platform, the X4 M Sport Package will feature cosmetic enhancements such as the M Sport aerodynamic kit, M Sport wheels and shadowline exterior trim, as well as an M Sport steering wheel and interior.
The aerodynamic kit includes the M Sport front bumper, rear bumper, sideskirts and body color matched fenders, which can be seen on this prototype.
This model also … CONTINUED
The patent drawings for the upcoming X4 SAV have been revealed and they preview many body panels, as well as headlights and tail lights.
The front bumper pictured in the diagrams may be an M Sport bumper as it features much larger air intakes than those seen on recent standard model X4 prototypes.
And while the production X4 will lose the hexagonal corona lights of the X4 Concept, the diagrams show that the X4 will receive a full adaptive LED headlight option (figure 3.2).
Here's a real life look at the upcoming BMW X4 SAV versus the current X3. Both cars share the same platform.
First BMW revealed the upcoming BMW X4 in concept form, then came the photoshops of what it could look like in various colors, and now in the next stage of online followship of the new BMW, come the very first prototypes of the production version.
Just like the bigger siblings in the BMW X family, the BMW X5/X6, the BMW X4 will be closely paired with the X3 in both looks and underlying architecture. The styling is where the real differences seem to be. And thankfully, … CONTINUED
Have a look at the BMW X4 SAC rendered in several colors and even in X4 M form.
The production BMW X4 will hit the market sometime in 2014.
Video of BMW at the Auto Shanghai 2013, with press conferences showing the BMW X4 Concept, as well as visual highlights from the BMW display.
We were on hand to witness the BMW X4 Concept making its world debut today at the 2013 Auto Shanghai. As the X4 Concept draws heavily on the design of the X6 SAC, it looks very much like a mini-X6. Expect certain elements on the concept model to be changed when the production version hits the market next year – notably the headlight lighting elements, front bumper, mirrors and door handles.
The interior was not showcased, but expect it to share an interior with the current … CONTINUED
We have added new BMW X4 Concept wallpaper images, featuring the first on-location images.
First live look at the BMW X4 Concept, including a walkaround and closeups, as well as the lights in action.
With its latest models and groundbreaking concept studies on show at Auto Shanghai 2013 [beginning April 20, 2013], BMW is offering a clear pointer to its continuing model push.
The Shanghai show is the stage for the world premiere of the BMW Concept X4, which carries the attributes of a Sports Activity Coupe into a further vehicle segment. The study reveals at first sight how smoothly the qualities of a BMW X model meld with the genes of a BMW Coupe.
Auto Shanghai 2013 also sees the … CONTINUED
With the BMW Concept X4, the BMW Group offers a preview of the future of the BMW X family. It takes no more than a first glance to see how smoothly the qualities of a BMW SAV can blend with the genes of a BMW Coupe. The new Sports Activity Coupe concept from BMW is poised to continue the success story of the BMW X6 in a new vehicle class. Eye- catching proportions, tight contours and numerous high-quality details produce an unrivalled product character brimming … CONTINUED


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The Wolves return home for Game 3 on Tuesday, but face elimination after dropping the opening two games of the Western Conference Quarterfinals in San Antonio; Chicago has posted a 15-10 all-time mark when facing elimination in the playoffs, which includes an 8-6 mark on home ice.
--- Darren Haydar: Shares the team lead with 3 assists and 4 points during the postseason ... His two-assist effort in Game 1 moved him into sole possession of first place on the AHL's all-time postseason assist list ... Ranks first all-time in AHL postseason scoring with 60 goals, 79 assists, and 139 points in 107 career Calder Cup outings ... Ranked first on Chicago with 36 assists and second with 57 points in 70 games during the regular season ... Shared second on the squad with 21 goals
--- Kevin Doell: Shares the team lead with 2 goals and 4 points during the playoffs, which includes his first career multiple-goal postseason outing in Game 2 ... Appeared in 51 career Calder Cup playoff matchups with Chicago in 2004, 2007, 2008, 2010, and 2012 notching 11 goals, 22 points and 57 penalty minutes ... Tallied 6 assists, 7 points, and a +4 plus/minus rating in 17 games this season while he missed 58 contests due to injury
--- Mark Mancari: Dished out 3 assists in two postseason games, which included his ninth multiple-point playoff contest in Game 2 (2A) ... Collected 9 goals, 17 assists, and 26 points in 26 career Calder Cup playoff games ... Ranked first on the team and shared eighth in the AHL with 30 goals and paced Chicago with 58 points in 69 contests this season ... Paced the AHL and matched a franchise record with 10 game-winners
--- Brad Hunt: Accrued an assist in each of his first two games and shares the team lead with a +2 plus/minus rating during his Calder Cup debut ... Posted 4 helpers and 5 points in 14 regular-season games after being signed to an Amateur Tryout Contract (ATO) on March 14 ... Led Bemidji State University with 21 assists and ranked third on the team with 26 points in 38 games during his senior campaign this year before signing with the Wolves
--- The 2012 Western Conference Quarterfinals marks just the ninth time in their 42 postseason series they have dropped the first two games of a series; Chicago has posted a 2-6 mark in those series, with the last series win coming in 2002 when it came back to beat Syracuse 4-games-to-3 in the Conference Semifinals en route to its 2002 Calder Cup title.
--- Chicago has accrued a 24-14 mark (.632) all-time in Game 3 of a postseason series and Tuesday's Game 3 at the Allstate Arena will be the franchise's first Game 3 at home since the 2004 West Division Finals.
--- All six of the games between San Antonio and Chicago during the regular season and playoffs have been decided by one goal with the Rampage winning all six meetings.
--- Eleven of the Wolves last 16 postseason tilts have been decided by one goal dating back to the 2010 Calder Cup playoffs; Chicago has accrued a 4-7 mark in those games, which includes four overtime defeats
--- Left wing Nicklas Jensen tallied two power-play goals in his Calder Cup playoff debut on Thursday, one game after he posted a hat trick in the Wolves regular-season finale; the 19-year-old forward scored four goals in six regular-season games with the Wolves after being assigned by Vancouver on April 6.
--- Nine of the 16 goals scored by both teams in the first two games of the series have been scored on the power play; Chicago has bagged four man-advantage markers on 10 opportunities, while it has allowed five Rampage power-play goals in nine chances.
Saturday, April 21
(at) San Antonio 4, Chicago 3
--- The Wolves bagged two goals in the third period, but couldn't find the equalizer as they fell 4-3 to the San Antonio Rampage in Game 2 of the Western Conference Quarterfinals at the AT&T Center.
--- Center Kevin Doell scored twice and right wings Darren Haydar (G, A) and Mark Mancari (2A) notched two points for Chicago
--- Goaltender Matt Climie recorded 20 saves in 33:34 of action while Eddie Lack kicked out all seven shots he faced in 25:25 of relief duty in CLIMIE's loss
Thursday, April 19
(at) San Antonio 5, Chicago 4 (OT)
--- The Wolves surrendered the final three goals, including the game-winner 14:16 into overtime, as they dropped Game 1 to San Antonio at the AT&T Center
--- Forwards Nicklas Jensen (2G), Bill Sweatt, and Tim Miller lit the lamp for Chicago
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We were thinking about him long before and he had to switch it up and think about Te Huna, so weve been having a long training camp for him. At least thinking about him for when I healed up and started training again and getting back at it, it was for Glover, Bader told MMAWeekly content partner Knockout Radio.
I was either scouting him or watching video and hes been on my mind knowing that Im going to fight him, so I have had a lot of time to prepare for him, more so than I would have to prepare for someone else or for him to prepare for me, he added.
UFC Fight Night 28 takes place at the Mineirinho Arena in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Fighting a Brazilian in Brazil is a unique experience. The crowd is nationalistic and vocal. Bader had the opportunity to travel to Teixeiras home country a few weeks ago to attend UFC 163 and witnessed the atmosphere firsthand.
We got a call that we had to go down to Brazil about three weeks ago, so I was kind of bummed I had to leave in the middle of training camp, but it was good because I got to go down there and went to that UFC Rio fight, he said.
I was starting to listen to the energy of the crowd, the Youre gonna die chants, all that kind of stuff. They were all really cool to me, really respectful. Everybody was fine, but theyre definitely going to be chanting and rooting against me when its my turn to come out, so I listened to it, I heard it, I know what to expect and its not going to bother me, said the 30-year-old American.
Fighting in your home country or hometown can play in your favor with not having to get acclimated to time zones and travel, but it can also be a major distraction.
I think its more pressure on the guy being in his hometown or home country and you have to deal with more people. For me, Im going down there with my three coaches and thats it. So theyre all in the same state of mind that Im in, explained Bader.
Nobody is asking me for tickets or where my after party is at or anything like that. So I just focus on that and its kind of like the old school wrestling days when you go to some random Midwest town in the middle of winter where you just get the job done and leave. So thats my mindset going into that, he added.


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(Almost) always receive e-mail messages for postmaster@*, abuse@*, hostmaster@*, webmaster@*.
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You should always allow to be contacted on the four special aliases listed above. For example, in certain circumstances another postmaster from an external domain would like to contact you about messages coming from his server and considered spam by your local server and not delivered because of a misconfiguration.
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- Requirements:
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- Note:
- This article was written with a CentOS-based system in mind. Adapt it for your system.
- Step 1.
Create the lookup table /etc/postfix/accept_special with the following contents (a regular text file):
abuse@ OK postmaster@ OK webmaster@ OK hostmaster@ OK
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Compile the above file using postmap, type hash:
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Edit /etc/postfix/main.cf and add the accept_special.db lookup table to smtpd_recipient_restrictions, to a place in the rule chain you see fit for your server:
smtpd_recipient_restrictions = reject_unknown_sender_domain, reject_unknown_recipient_domain, reject_non_fqdn_sender, reject_non_fqdn_recipient, reject_unlisted_recipient, permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated, reject_unauth_destination, check_recipient_access hash:/etc/postfix/accept_special, // <-- For example add it here [...]
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Looking for indoor entertainment during the winter season? Look no further than your local library.
As part of the annual Winter Community Programs, the Walton County Coast Library has the next few months packed with events to stimulate your mind.
"We've been hosting this series for six years," said Linda Thompson, library manager. "Our focus is awareness for our local talent. It's a great way to support the library and meet talented people."
Experts in topics from classical music to wildlife conservation will be visiting the library every Wednesday to entertain and educate the public on various subjects. This week, Jan. 15, Wayne Sconiers, vice president of
Sconiers started researching his own family history when he retired from the Navy in July 2000. As a DeFuniak Springs native, he started by tracing back his own immediate family, as well as his wife's (who is also from DeFuniak Springs). Today, the database has expanded to more than 52,000 people and is commonly referred to as the Walton County Genealogical Family Tree.
As a museum volunteer, Sconiers often greets visitors asking whether they're from the area.
"You'll be surprised how many people walk out with a genealogical list of family members," he said.
This Wednesday, Sconiers will share his advice to anyone searching their family, giving them tips and clues on where to look and what software to use.
"I hope they come away from the event with an understanding of how easy it and how important it is to do genealogy research," he said. "It draws the family together and also provides medical data."
With websites such as Ancestry.com, peering into your family's past is a growing trend.
Even after 20 years of research, Sconiers still gets excited about
DISCOVER YOUR ROOTS! Wayne Sconiers will be presenting a discussion on genealogy at the Coastal Library, located at 437 Greenway Trail, 10 to 11 a.m., Jan. 15. Admission is free. For more information, call 267-2809.
Jan 22, 10 a.m. — Demetrius Fuller, Music Director & Conductor,
Jan 29, 10 a.m. — Tony Mennillo, along with Hank Klein, "The Walton Guards and Captain William McPherson"
Feb 4, 10:00 a.m. — Stan
Feb 11, 10:00 a.m. — Jim Dietrich, local beekeeper & owner of Dietrich's Honey Farm.
Feb 18, 10:00 a.m. — Rickie Wood Bovee, author, "Writing & Self-Publishing"
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Saturday, October 5, 2013
Dozens of friends gathered for a "baby shower" hosted by the Caring Hearts of Snee Farm. The shower was the sixth annual event of its kind to collect onesies, sleepers, diapers and other essentials for Newborns in Need. NIN will send these necessities to agencies and hospitals serving premature, ill or impoverished newborns.
More than 500 new items were collected including sleepers, socks, onesies, bibs, blankets, hats and diapers to help needy babies who might otherwise spend their first few days of life with nothing to keep them warm.
The Caring Hearts of Snee Farm is a group of 15 women dedicated to charitable works of all kinds and to providing a convenient platform for friends and families to join in the celebration of giving. email@example.com
Newborns in Need is a non-denominational, volunteer, not-for-profit 501(c)3 charity organized to take care of sick and needy babies and their families; and in cases of crisis to help where help is needed. Currently, the Charleston Chapter is donating to through several area hospitals, A.I.D.S., Birthright, East Cooper Community Outreach (ECCO), Florence Crittenden and Lowcountry Crisis Pregnancy Center and individuals and other facilities as needed. All items are donated free of charge.
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"Luck or Something Like It" by Kenny Rogers
c.2012, William Morrow
$27.99, 294 pages
By Terri Schlichenmeyer
Throughout your life, you've learned a lot from your music.
You know where Joltin' Joe has gone, and what you might want to do if it's your party. You've gotten dancing lessons from songs, reasons for walking the line, and symptoms for pneumonia and boogie-woogie flu. You've even heard instructions on counting, spelling, languages, and when to hold 'em or fold 'em.
You can learn a lot from your tunes. And as you'll see in the new book "Luck or Something Like It" by Kenny Rogers, the singer of those songs gets a lot out of them, too.
Kenneth Rogers started life poor.
Born into a Houston housing project in 1938, Rogers was the fourth child of an alcoholic father and a mother who spouted lasting wisdom. He recalls being a quiet boy in school and a good boy at home, thanks to his mother's lessons, but the most enduring memories were of times spent at his grandfather's East Texas farm.
Every now and then, Rogers says, his father's family would gather there to play music and sing. His father was on fiddle, one uncle dragged out the organ, and two others had guitars. Rogers says he sat with his feet under the porch, beating rhythm on the floor with his hands.
Though he was "girl crazy" when young, he was also guitar crazy and took advantage of a local music store owner's generosity in a "picker's corner." Rogers saved diligently to buy his first guitar and it wasn't long before he started a band. That was a great way to learn, but it didn't last and Rogers went solo – both professionally and personally when his first marriage dissolved.
That hurt, but it didn't ruin his momentum. He recorded a minor hit, became "Kenny," appeared on American Bandstand, and ended up in a jazz band, which opened doors for his career.
He met many performing stars, left the jazz band, then joined the New Christy Minstrels. When they disbanded, some members formed The First Edition and, because of an accidental stroke of luck, Kenny Rogers was that group's first big name.
When The First Edition broke up, Rogers "didn't know how to be a solo singer."
Within two years, he learned fast.
I've read my share of celebrity biographies and I can tell you that the vast majority of them make my eyes roll. But this one is different. This one is good.
Really good.
Reading this book reminded me of dusky summer evenings, porch swings, and good friends. Author Kenny Rogers tells stories that are entertaining and sometimes funny, with good and bad tales and, in a few cases, admitted responsibility for wrongs. Rogers writes of his five marriages, his friends, his career, family, and things that interest him – and that's what keeps readers interested, too.
Fans are going to like this book especially, but I'm tickled to say that there's something here for anybody who ever heard Rogers sing. Grab the pages of "Luck or Something Like It," and you'll want to hold 'em.
Terri Schlichenmeyer has been a professional book reviewer for more than a decade. She lives in Wisconsin.
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Originally posted by Biskop
What was that single player star wars game that you started off as Vader? MMO's should do that, have the intro zone demonstrate the potential instead of giving you the absolute most mind boggling useless and boring skills to ease you into the game.
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Originally posted by Biskop
Entire post is sig worthy
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Originally posted by GrayKodiak
Didn't Aion have some dream sequence at lvl 3 or something where you could try flying for a short time? Guess something similar could work in Wushu.
Still, I'm not sure pleasing the instant gratification crowd is the way to go. MMOs are about progression and developing a character - it should be obvious to anyone with half a brain that the first couple of hours will not be representative of the whole game. Also, I remember logging in for the first time and seeing some awesome dudes flying around kicking each other and whipping chains, running on walls and so on, and that was my carrot right there. It made my noob ass feel really gimped, but at the same time it made me want to experience more.
Not saying AoW has a perfect starter experience, on the contrary. But people need to realize you won't be a martial arts god just because you pushed the "log in" button.
Originally posted by bcbully
I don't know what is so signature worthy about what he said . The highlighted part is all wrong considering majority of western sandbox MMOS are all about OPVP with exception of sandbox like Saga Of Ryzom which focus on PVE.. Unless you are mixing sandbox with themepark i don't know, what he said makes no sense at all.
Now you may or may not like the western sandbox OPVP games but to exaggerate and say majority of western devs are scared to alienate WOW casual crowd even though those who play WOW are completely different audience from sandbox players.
But i guess you get more cool points if you randomly throw WOW in every post no matter how un related to original topic of discussion.
"The problem is that the hardcore folks always want the same thing: 'We want exactly what you gave us before, but it has to be completely different.'
"Online gamers are the most ludicrously entitled beings since Caligula made his horse a senator, and at least the horse never said anything stupid."
Originally posted by Doogiehowser
Did you entirely miss the AAA and indie references in his post?
Originally posted by Doogiehowser
At least you missed some points in reading comprehension.Why don't you try and re-read what I wrote?
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Originally posted by GrayKodiak
IIRC Fallen Earth did this. You started at max level and then through the intro tutroial became a level 1.
Originally posted by Biskop
Is AOW a AAA sandbox? if it is your comparison with AAA developers in west would make sense. When i played AOW i didn't feel i was playing a AAA sandbox games. Felt like a cheap F2P game from Perfect World Entertainment.
However, if it is nnot a AAA sandbox than i come back to my original point that wests in devs mostly focus on sandbox games which are OPVP.
"The problem is that the hardcore folks always want the same thing: 'We want exactly what you gave us before, but it has to be completely different.'
"Online gamers are the most ludicrously entitled beings since Caligula made his horse a senator, and at least the horse never said anything stupid."
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Sounds really boring. Especially the part you had to wait 1 hour because someone paid 40 silver as a bounty. FUN
this game is just focuses on too many real aspects, and time restrictions. For a sandbox, I don't like being restricted and told I can't do this because of how the game works.
Originally posted by Doogiehowser
Sorry but you're not making any sense at all. What is your point again?
I was comparing AoW to Western MMOs in general. My point was that the AAA companies lack the balls to make a well designed oPvP game and that the indies, while having the balls, lack the skills and resources. That's why there are no games like AoW coming from the West, even though many of us would like there to be.
But you wouldn't know what I'm talking about, now would you? Judging by your "cheap f2p" comment you've hardly seen enough to know what Wushu's about.
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It is sad that western mmo don't put thought into pvp systems and instead just separate the pvp from the actual game. The spy missions and the pvp from them would have been perfect setting wise for TSW.
I think western developers also cater too much to the certain crybaby type of pve player ( most are not like that) and I am talking about the ones who always complain about pvp even when it is optional and think that is only about high level players ganking low levels.
The thing is I play mmos to interact with other players and I find scripted pve events to be boring, I think that AoW did a great job at implementing the pvp system right into the actual game which I believe makes the world feel much more alive, whereas the western mmos ( swtor,gw2 and tsw) failed because in a way they created two different games ( pvp and pve ) within their games instead of just making one game.
Originally posted by Agrias34
Jail time serves the purpose of detering rampant ganking and murder. So the freedom of being able to attack anyone anywhere comes with the price of risking jail if you kill people left and right for no legitimate reason. Also, you can avoid jail (at least for a time) by being better than the players who try to catch you.
That's called balance, which is essential in a well designed game.
If you prefer the freedom of unchecked murder rampages and noob griefing, log in to Mortal Online or something.
There is a leader bored for criminals who escape capture. I find this feature interesting.
@#$$ I'm drained. It was a slow day for most the day, I wasn't pushing things. I hooked up with a fellow bandit anout an hour before the script steal event. I lost count how many carts we robbed. Had o be about 12 or 13 I ended up with 49 [bad goods] each can be exchanged for 10 xp pills. The more xp I have the more days free to do what ever I want. 490 xp about 5 days worth for me.
During the script steal, I was so f'n close. First right at the start, I got caught getting on my horse trying to make it to the boat man. The second 22 minutes later, about 2 minutes before the event ended, I killed a guy on the road right where you leave the scene. I ran through and was like F yeah! I ported back to my school and began the run up to the librarian. I got about half way up the winding hill, and the event ended.... Book gone... You talk about an emotional roller coster ride.
I hooked back up with the friend I made earlier and robbed 2 or 3 more carts. I couldn't focus though, the scipt event took it all out of me.
I just set up my stall. Gonna relax for about 1/2 hour then jump in the school war!!!! I need to go to bed...
edit-I gained about 30 evil today . I may have moved into the top 50 evil too. All in all, a pretty good day.
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What I did today was look up all the information I need to play Wushu with out a time limit, DL Wushu. Got in the game and fell to sleep at my desk after the training tut.
Wushu had put me into a deep sleep state because of the way it looks, it don't look bad tho oh and the low gravity jumping had alot to do with it. I still have Wushu and will be giving it another try.
Originally posted by slim26
lol the tutorial can be slow.
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Originally posted by Biskop
Sorry if it felt cheap F2P game to me. But that doesn't mena i didn't give it a good try. I already said that there are some good things about AOW but i couldn't get past the F2P cheap quality of the game.
However, my point was simple. You were complainign about how AAA western devs dont have balls to make a MMO like AOW. So i simply asked is AOW a AAA MMO? because as far as indie MMO goes, western devs are putting their best effort in bringing us as many OPVP sandboxes as possible and new line ups for announced sandbox titles prove that.
So where does these high expectations come from? because you played AOW ? what abotu games like Repopulation from west? i tried beta and i would take it over AOW any day.
"The problem is that the hardcore folks always want the same thing: 'We want exactly what you gave us before, but it has to be completely different.'
"Online gamers are the most ludicrously entitled beings since Caligula made his horse a senator, and at least the horse never said anything stupid."
Originally posted by Doogiehowser
Repop sure looks promising but it's not released yet. Also, it's made by an indie dev like every other Western sandbox MMO, and in my experience that means it should be approached with caution and skepticism.
During the last couple of years I've played most of the sandbox games made in the West (Darkfall, Mortal Online, Xsyon, Earthrise, Salem, and Linkrealms), all of them made by small, inexperienced teams on shoestring budgets. All of them failed to deliver one way or another. They were either incomplete feature-wise, void of content, horribly designed, or bugged like hell, and sometimes - like with ER, Xsyon and MO - all of the above. Add slow development cycles due to the low budgets and amateurish conduct by the devs due to their lack of professional experience, and you've got a bunch of broken games that only appeal to a tiny speck of people.
Compared to this fiasco of a Western sandbox scene, AoW is certainly AAA. Coming from these games I'd say it's a fucking miracle of good design and professional coding. It looks good, it plays good, the animations and gameplay are responsive and fluid, it's fully fleshed out feature-wise, there are no game breaking bugs, dupes, or exploits, no stupid core design flaws killing the oPvP, no rampant griefing and asshatery, no bot armies, no required macros or 3d party programs, etc. It just works.
It has flaws of course, but I'll still play it over any other contemporary MMO.
Also, given its popularity in China, it has a secure funding and a steady development cycle which means we're looking at years of content and feature updates ahead of us if things goes well on the Western market.
Don't know whether any Western devs will give us any solid sandboxes any time soon. EQN is supposedly a sandbox but no one knows jack shit about that game yet. Repop is in beta but as I said, it's indie so I'm not counting on a smooth launch there. DFUW is stuck in "beta" (more like an alpha from what I hear) and AV is such a clown company that I refuse to take them seriously. Got some other titles like Greed Monger, EoC and Pathfinder on the horizon but yet again: indie devs, slow development, Kickstarter campaigns, lack of substantial info, etc.
You want to wait around and keep your hopes up for a flourishing Western sandbox scene some time in future, that's fine. Me, I prefer to play a functional, fun game that's up and running as we speak. If you can't look beyond your personal prejudices of what makes a game "cheap f2p", it's your loss.
Originally posted by Biskop
I guess the experince with AOW is going to vary from person to paerson. To me it felt low quality, clunky and combat was the worst part of all the features. However, as far as AAA title goes it has nothing to do with how you feel but the actual budgest behind the game. And i really doubt AOW can be considered as a AAA title .
But then again it is unfair to expect that some AAA devs to gamble with their money on high quality sandboxes when you are getting low quality indie MMOS like AOW from asia and holding them up as some new standard for comparison. And it is not my prejudice but how i felt while playing the game,
If Asia has its AOW west has Repopulation. But although far in future World Of Darkness is going to be the first AAA title from west. So nope all is not doom and gloom like you are tryign to project.
I understand you are enjoying the game but this first month romance is nothing new on these forums. Where people go voer the board in praising the new MMO and try to make it something it is not. I tried it myself and i suggest others do the same and find it out for themselves if AOW is a quality AAA title which puts western devs to shame.
"The problem is that the hardcore folks always want the same thing: 'We want exactly what you gave us before, but it has to be completely different.'
"Online gamers are the most ludicrously entitled beings since Caligula made his horse a senator, and at least the horse never said anything stupid."
Originally posted by Doogiehowser
Now you're rambling again and your point, if there is one, is lost.
First of all AoW is not indie. It has millions of players in China and Snail is a big company, so any comparison to Western indie devs where like 5 guys work on the game in their free time is just moot. The money is there if that's what you're concerned about. To me quality matters more than company budgets, but at least stable financials usually means professional coders and artists, and thus a more polished product (even if it certainly not guarantees good design, which recent AAA titles have shown.
As for your experience of the game it's kind of obvious that you just played for a few hours at the most, so please don't talk about quality when you haven't experienced more than the starter tutorial (which is horrible, no question). You don't like the game and that's ok, but that's personal preference based on your perception of what "cheap f2p" means (i.e. prejudice), not a factual statement about the game's actual features or design. But please feel free to elaborate on why it's low quality, rather than just repeating your personal, subjective sentiment.
And yeah, some of us here might be a bit in love with this game. After all, it's a breath of fresh air on the stale MMO market and to me it was a surprise hit - I totally expected it to be "just another Asian ptw grinder" so I was really pleasantly surprised. But I am not blind to its flaws; there are issues (mostly translations, starter experience, risk of turning into ptw) but nothing that's serious enough to keep me from playing it. After all there's simply nothing else to play right now if you like oPvP and freeform play and also happen to prefer a working game.


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Some organizations that overflowed with donated food just a few weeks ago already are seeing their supplies start to dwindle.
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The Chattanooga Mocs ended play in a rain-shortened Grizzly Open in Lawrenceville, Ga., today. UTC scored a pair of wins in singles action at the Gwinnett College tournament.
Sophomore John Peacey led the way with two wins in the Singles B Flight. He defeated Astin Adams of Palm Beach Atlantic (8-2) and Presbyterian's Gonzalos Asis (8-3). Sophomore Luke Saunders also won two matches against unattached competitors. He was playing in the Flight A Singles bracket.
Most of Saturday's play was wiped out due to rain. Sunday's action was limited to one, eight-game pro-set. All of the backdraws were cancelled for singles and doubles.
Complete results for UTC players are available below with updated brackets on the Tournament Central link at the top of the page. This completes UTC's fall schedule.
Singles B Flight
John Peacey (UTC) def. Asti Adams (PBA) – 8-2
John Peacey (UTC) def. Gonzalo Asis (Presbyterian) – 8-3
Gagan Jain (Tennessee Tech) def. Gino Delavalle (UTC) – 8-6
Doubles A Flight
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In spite of a weakened economy, Ashe County's STEP program has successfully launched several micro businesses for local adults who have developmental disabilities.
The Summit Training and Educational Programs (STEP) is a licensed day activity program where participants are engaged in acquiring basic life skills and receiving pre-vocational training.
"STEP is basically a training program for people with developmental disabilities to explore new things - and allows them the opportunity to go into business for themselves if they choose," said Elizabeth Percival, a staff person who works with STEP.
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Saunders was in a car accident in 1983, and even though she sustained several injuries in the wreck, she said the car accident was almost like a blessing. She said her accident has allowed her to care more for people who have been in similar accidents because she has "experienced it through their eyes."
Saunders also enjoys singing and writing song lyrics. Saunders' car accident caused trauma to the left side of her brain. However, the right side of her brain, which inspires creativity and music, wasn't damaged.
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Associate Professor of Physics Suzanne Amador Kane (center) in the field with student researchers Alyssa Mayo '13 (right), and Marjon Zamani '13 (left). Zamani co-authored a just-published scientific paper with Kane.
A Student-Faculty Research Collaboration Takes Off
In 2009, Suzanne Amador Kane began studying collective animal behavior and predator-prey interactions with Haverford students working in the summer and during the academic year. Kane, an associate professor of physics who specializes in biological physics, was interested in mobbing—a phenomenon in which small birds team up to harass or even attack a much larger predator, such as a hawk. However, she realized that in order to understand the rules governing this behavior, her group first would need to investigate how raptors, such as falcons and hawks, pursue their prey.
That investigation led to an unusual collaboration with falconers around the world who agreed to mount tiny video cameras on their birds, and to countless hours spent analyzing the dizzying, dramatic footage from those cameras. Now, the results of that study have been published in a research paper co-authored by Kane and recent Haverford graduate Marjon Zamani '13, which appears in the current issue of The Journal of Experimental Biology.
Their paper, titled "Falcons pursue prey using visual motion cues: new perspectives from animal-born cameras," was designated the journal's January 2014 Editors' Choice article, and was featured in Inside JEB (the journal's public news branch), and it has already been attracting wide media attention.
Kane has been interviewed by dozens of journalists and a video made from footage from one of the "falconcams" has had more than 2 million views on YouTube.
"I was taken aback by all of this interest," says Kane, "But falcons are magnificent, charismatic animals and the falcon's-eye videos of their hunts are very exciting. I can still say that, even though I have spent hours studying them frame by frame using image analysis software. This is truly nature red in tooth and claw. There is something really primal and moving about watching that elemental struggle between predator and prey."
Going into the project, Kane and her team discovered that the literature on falcons did not establish how the birds pursue their prey. But how could the team get an up-close look at falcons in pursuit in the air? The question baffled Kane—until she and her students watched the PBS documentary Raptor Force and got the idea to film these encounters using miniature bird-mounted spy cameras.
Finding the falconers she needed to collaborate on the study wasn't easy, says Kane. "We used social media and networked with falconers, even going to a falconry convention to make connections. It took a few years to assemble the full team."
She now has 13 falconers around the world helping with the research. "Five of them worked on this study and there is a larger group working on two related projects also involving our undergraduates," she says. The videos analyzed for the just-published study provided the researchers with a birds-eye view of the falcons' high-speed, in-air pursuit of their prey and revealed information about the bird's hunting strategies that had been unavailable previously. The Marion E. Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences Center provided funding for this novel and risky venture through its Special Projects program to promote faculty-student collaborations in new directions, especially those involving off-campus research.
Working with Zamani, a physics major with a biophysics concentration, Kane tested three strategies proposed to describe how the falcons pursue prey. After painstakingly locating the prey's position on each video frame and comparing the data with computer simulations of each strategy, they concluded that only one model agreed with the videos. During pursuit, the falcons appear to head off their prey using a strategy called motion camouflage that intercepts the prey in the least amount of time while also masking the falcon's approach. Their research also showed how the falcon uses its complex visual field during pursuits, and suggests that some seemingly dangerous maneuvers prey use to escape can be interpreted as a way to prevent motion camouflage.
Prior to the publication of the study, Kane and Zamani presented their findings the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology in Austin, Texas. Zamani was also the lead student researcher on another study the pair is writing up now that looks at how raptors move their heads when they search for prey. She has also launched her post-Haverford scientific career as an NIH researcher working at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering in Boston, Mass.
Zamani isn't the only Haverford student on Kane's team to gain the sort of research experience that is more typically reserved for graduate students at other colleges and universities. M. Elias Tousley and Emily Cunningham, both Class of 2011 physics majors, performed the mobbing study, and Tousley gave a talk on his mobbing research at the March 2010 meeting of the American Physical Society. Emma Oxford '13 helped develop the team's bird-mounted GPS and other sensors, while Andrew ("Harvey") Fulton '14, Elliott Schwartz '14, and Lee Rosenthal '15 followed up this work with a study of how hawks hunt prey on the ground and how birds form flocks.
Reflecting on her work at Haverford, Kane says, "We are always working in competition with much bigger groups at research universities, but I'm always amazed at how much our students can get done in their summer research and senior theses. I'm also inspired by how passionately they devote themselves to their work. I had to order Marjon home from the lab at times! She was inclined to camp out to finish up a really challenging stretch of data analysis."
To view a video of a falcon in pursuit made by falconers Eddy de Mol and Francois Lorrain, working in Belgium, go to YouTube
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