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As he walked among Syrian refugees living in tents this summer in Turkey, Othman Shibly couldn't help but picture himself and his family.
Having grown up in Syria, Shibly identified with the pain and suffering of tens of thousands of people forced to flee their homes and find safety in a foreign country.
Shibly knew he had to do something. So the Amherst resident and University at Buffalo faculty member decided to focus on what he knows best – dental care.
He helped spearhead the opening of two full-service dental clinics serving Syrian refugees in Turkey, and he returned to the region for 10 days last month to provide dental care and train other dentists.
One of the clinics, in Reyhanli, near the Syrian border, already has served 1,056 patients since it opened Oct. 9. More than 500 patients have been treated at the other clinic in Kilis, said Shibly, a periodontist and associate director of the Center for Dental Studies at UB.
Why shouldn't Syrian refugees have healthy teeth and gums, and live without pain in their mouth? he figured.
"Those are people like us. They should not be deprived of regular treatment like I and my children get," said Shibly, who saw the need for full-service dental care during a visit to Turkish refugees camps in July.
More than 120,000 Syrians have registered with the Turkish government as refugees – part of the 440,000 registered refugees who have fled to countries that are Syria's neighbors.
Shibly originally envisioned organizing a dental mission team from the United States and Canada, but he quickly realized such an endeavor wouldn't reach enough people.
"I was thinking about a mission, but the need was beyond what a mission can do," he said. "We really wanted to establish a dental clinic."
The clinics are staffed by six dentists and two dental assistants, all Syrian refugees, Shibly said. He returned to Turkey on Oct. 18-28, along with a Syrian-Canadian dentist, to check on the sites, provide dental care and train the dentists in newer technologies.
"The main problem is people have a lot of cavities, very deep cavities, because they have been away from dental care for a long time," he said. "We are doing fillings, root canal treatment, periodontal treatment."
Crowns and bridgework were not yet available, he said.
The free clinics are also open to Syrians who live in apartments, outside camps, he said.
"I thought at first maybe it's a luxury thing [to provide dental services] because they need food, they need shelter, they need blankets, they need lots of things," said the Syrian-Canadian dentist, who asked that his name be withheld because his mother and sisters still live in Syria, and he feared for their safety.
But before the clinics were set up, dental care was limited to emergency tooth extractions paid for by the Turkish government, even though in many instances teeth could have been saved, the dentist said.
After returning to Buffalo from his trip in July, Shibly was able to raise about $11,000 from the local Muslim community toward the clinics.
Through his Syrian-Canadian colleague, Shibly connected with a Canadian charitable organization, Human Concern International, which provided about $57,000 toward the effort.
"We directly purchased all of the equipment from the medical companies there," said Heidi Vallinga, project development officer for Human Concern International.
That equipment includes two dental chairs and lights, digital radiology units, amalgamators and sterilizers, Shibly said.
Human Concern International has worked closely with the Union of Syrian Medical Relief Organizations on emergency medical response, Vallinga said. The organization recommended funding the dental clinics.
UB's dental school donated materials such as fillings and anesthesia.
Now Shibly is working on getting area dentists to travel overseas and assist at the clinics. "We have a plan to sustain it for one year," he said.
Syria quickly is becoming the site of the world's latest ethnic slaughter, in the same vein as the Holocaust and mass killings in Bosnia, Rwanda and Cambodia, said Shibly, who wants to see the United Nations step in more firmly to prevent further bloodshed. More than 40,000 Syrians have died since March 2011, when Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's troops began a crackdown on protesters seeking al-Assad's ouster and a democratic government.
"Civilians should be protected," Shibly said. "It's the world's responsibility to protect civilians."
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Jennifer Aniston keeps her friends close and her yoga instructor, Mandy Ingber, even closer.
But Aniston, 43, says a lot has changed since the fitness friends first met 22 years ago.
"We were a lot rounder," Aniston said with a laugh at the Self magazine-sponsored celebration of Ingber's new book, Yogalosophy: 28 Days To the Ultimate Mind-Body Makeover (available May 6) at West Hollywood's Soho House. "We ate terribly. We did that, and then we sort of grew up a little bit more and we got jobs."
Ingber – who has shared her health tips in a weekly blog for PEOPLE.com – notes that she's witnessed Aniston's transformation over the duration of their friendship.
"It's hard to say is that yoga or is it as we get older we grow into ourselves, but I've seen her become so empowered, so grounded in herself, so comfortable in her own skin," Ingber said. "I've definitely watched that process happen and unfold, and I'm grateful that I've gotten to be the observer of that."
But Aniston isn't the only famous figure Ingber is responsible for: she also works with Kate Beckinsale, Brooke Shields and Helen Hunt, and the actress credits Ingber's approach to yoga with helping her sculpt her enviable body.
"That was always my 'ugh', my legs," Aniston explained. "That's why I credit her for [them] – with yoga."
Although she remains dedicated to her healthy lifestyle, the bride-to-be admits to having a cheat day every now and then.
"Cheat days for me are usually ... it's either Mexican food ... maybe Italian pasta, but I think you always have to do it in moderation."
Join Mandy for 28 days of healthy body and mind tips, kicking off May 6 on PEOPLE.com. You can also visit Mandy on her website MandyIngber.com and follow her on Twitter @msmandyingber and Facebook.com/yogalosophy.
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Jireh D. Williams, 21, of Buffalo, has been identified as the passenger killed in the early morning Sunday motor vehicle crash at the ramp to the Kensington Expressway near Elm Street, police said today.
Williams, a back seat passenger, was thrown from the vehicle just before 3:30 a.m. when it struck a guard rail and a tree before coming to rest on some nearby grass. Police accident investigators are continuing to probe the cause of the crash, which may have involved speeding.
The driver of the vehicle and another passenger were taken to Erie County Medical Center, where they were treated for "non-life-threatening injuries," according to police.


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Thank a Linux packager today
Who helps your Linux distribution run smoothly? Thank a packager today
The people behind the scenes who work tirelessly to make your Linux distribution run smoothly are the packagers. The vast majority of Linux packagers are volunteers who dedicate their evenings and weekends to create and maintain the gears of the Linux distributions they love.
The Linux ecosystem is thriving with many different distributions. They satisfy different audiences, needs, and styles. They range from types that are:
- secure and suitable for military and financial applications (RHEL)
- bleeding edge and dynamic (Fedora)
- universal (Debian)
- educational (Edubuntu)
- for the hobbyist (Raspbian)
- for the media artist (Ubuntu Studio)
- for the easy-going user (Mint)
- for the desktop application and cloud (Ubuntu)
- simple and lightweighted (Arch)
- faithfully built from source code (Gentoo)
and keeps going for tens of other distributions that are continuously evolving.
In all the cases, the Linux distributions are aggregating free and open source packages, configuring them and combining them in a manner that ensure their proper collective behavior. Thanks to all that configuration and testing, adopters of Linux distributions have the peace of mind of simply installing a package (a given application) and having the confidence that it will work nicely with the other packages currently installed in the system.
The "magic elves" behind the scenes who work tirelessly to make this work smoothly are the packagers. The vast majority of Linux packagers are volunteers who dedicate their evenings and weekends to create and maintain the gears of the Linux distributions they love.
Back in February 2012, I had the luck of being the first trainee of the Debian Maintainer of the Month (MoM) program, started by Andreas Tille. The goal of the MoM program is to educate and train new packagers for the Debian distribution by pairing trainees with mentors and doing the training while packaging a new real application. The program has all the ingredients for balancing an interesting, challenging, and rewarding task.
During my training, we learned how to package fis-gtm, the open source implementation of M/MUMPS that is of great importance for the ecosystem of open source Electronic Health Records systems. The fis-gtm package has just been accepted in the Debian unstable distribution.
Going through the training was eye opening. I learned a great deal of very useful tools and practices, that since then I continue to use daily. From the proper use of GPG keys, to chroot containment and remote screen sharing with tmux. The collaboration environment was well described by Andreas Tille as: "Waking up in the morning to realize that someone in another continent has already solved for you the problem that had you stuck last night."
In ideal circumstances, a Linux packager works closely with the developers of the upstream package in such a way that new releases of the package can be adapted quickly to be included in the next release of that Linux distribution. In many cases, the process of packaging uncovers issues with the package that require the upstream developers to make changes and adjustments. A packager also works in close coordination with other packagers in the same Linux distribution because many packages have dependencies on other packages or provide services for other packages, making it vital that the community of packagers coordinate their updates to ensure the consistency of the final Linux distribution.
As Linux users, it is often easy to forget (disregard?) how much work goes into the creation and maintenance of a Linux distribution.
Becoming a Linux packager is an excellent way to learn about software development, quality control, project management, and software maintenance in an environment of passionate individuals who deeply care about the output of their work. This is an experience all young developers should have.
After having learned the ropes of Linux packaging, and having seen first hand the dedication of this community, I developed a great deal of respect and appreciation for their work. Now, every time I install a package, whether it is from the command line with
sudo apt-get install package
yum install package
or any of the equivalent graphical interfaces, I pause and think:
"Thank you to the person who spent many hours configuring and building this application so that I didn't have to."
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Good article!
I also thank all the packagers worldwide for their work in all
I think there should be a "Packagers Appreciation Day"!....Secretaries have one......Teachers.....and other professions....and even if this isn't their chosen profession, a lot of these people have lives to live and yet they take time out of their lives to ensure that packages for the various distros all work and can be installed with very little problems!....I guess the only decision to be made would have to be WHICH DAY will they pick?...
This is an awesome article Luis. Thanks!!!
Great article. Yes, thanks to all the packagers, and "Packagers Appreciation Day" is a great idea.
I liek the digging into history angle, it would be a landmark day...one that would resonate within the entire community!....
Thank You, to all linux developers and packages. Especially Arch Linux team, for making my life that much easier.
Sincerely, TuxLyn (GoTux.net)
Thank you all programmers, packagers, testers, etc.!
We just love GNU/Linux and FLOSS in general.
Very good article.
Packages are one of the unadvertised things that make Linux so much easier to use than Windows. It is great to see an article that shows one of the hidden gems that makes things work so much better.
What a pleasant article to read.
As easy as they are to make, simple expressions of gratitude have unfortunately become rare commodities in an entitlement culture that seems all about "me, me, me".
Missing from your list is the oldest surviving distro: Slackware. Since its birth in 1993, Slackware has developed a very loyal following and a reputation for elegant simplicity. A possible one-liner you could add to your bullet list: "reliable and unpretentious (Slackware)"
PS While we're spreading appreciation, let me thank you for all your contributions to image processing tools.
kudos to Debian developers and especially the crunchbang linux guys.
switching to Debian freed !#.
Thanks for this article and thank you to all the packagers and everybody else who works to make gnu/linux a reality. :)
This is what gives Desktop Linux a competitive age against the well known proprietary OSes where users boasted of lots of apps. I still recall the long lost days where installing an application means compiling and executing the source. Which at least for a Desktop User for me was a greatest turn away. Thanks to the packagers, now more and more Desktop OS users can settle down for Desktop Linux.
I think there should be even MORE appreciation heaped upon the heads of the people who toil for long hours sometimes days even, making sure the packages they are responsible for work "right out the box". These folks don't even step into the spotlight, they work anonymously sometimes and then when something doesn't work you have that one "gem" out of thousands who complain about the distribution or the package being a "piece'o-crap" When what they SHOULD do is submit a bug-tracker and try to help remedy the situation. SO once again I offer nothing but kudos and much thanks to the guys and gals who allow me to work on my very old Gateway machine without having to worry about "bloat-ware". I run XFCE and its pretty fast on a later
Sorry, my son came along and hit the "Enter" butto nwhile on my lap! But Iwas saying I have a Gateway laptop from 2007 that if I had to run another OS on it would be dreadfully slow. But through the package developers I am able to continue to use it and have no plans on scrapping it anytime soon. Ok...I think I've said enough...you all have a great day!!
and don't forget the FreeBSD folk - Linux are the only packagers out there.
Didn't get it...
Do you mean to say that we should not forget FreeBSD as it too has packagers apart from Linux?


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From Star Wars Episode VII: the Broadway Edition... FN and the Amazing Technically-Poe's Dream Jacket.
Featureless, clear, monotonous skies and 71ºF right now. We're promised rain by the week's end.
¡Que la fuerza te acompañe!
It was supposed to be 74 today, but it's actually closer to 80 right now. I wish I weren't sick and could go out and play.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
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[FONT=Courier New]This part of February is always pretty nice here in Portland. [/FONT]
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A few light rain showers so far this morning. Unfortunately will clear up later. Mid 50's today.
We needs the rain, I tells ya!
¡Que la fuerza te acompañe!
It was mid 40's late this morning, now however it is snowing. :dangWisconsinweather:
Bright, sunny, warm, mid-70's.
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CHICAGO � One in 3 young adults with autism have no paid job experience, college or technical schooling nearly seven years after high school graduation, a study finds. That�s a poorer showing than those with other disabilities including those who are mentally disabled, the researchers said.
With about half a million autistic kids reaching adulthood in the next decade, experts say it�s an issue policymakers urgently need to address.
The study was done well before unemployment peaked from the recession. The situation today is tough even for young adults who don�t have such limitations.
Ian Wells of Allentown, N.J., is 21, autistic and won�t graduate from high school until next year. He is unlikely to attend college because of his autism. He wants a job, but has only found unpaid internships and is working part-time and unpaid as a worker at a fastener factory.
He�s a hard worker with good mechanical skills, but has trouble reading and speaking, said his mother, Barbara Wells. She said his difficulties understanding social cues and body language can make other people uncomfortable.
�I�m very afraid� about his prospects for ever finding long-term employment, she said. �It keeps me up at night.�
The study, published online in Pediatrics, was based on data from 2007-08. It found that within two years of leaving high school, more than half of those with autism had no job experience, college or technical education.
Things improved as they got older. Yet nearly seven years after high school, 35 percent of autistic young adults still had no paid employment or education beyond high school.
Those figures compare with 26 percent of mentally disabled young adults, 7 percent of young adults with speech and language problems and 3 percent of those with learning disabilities.
Those with autism may fare worse because many also have each of the other disabilities studied.
The researchers analyzed data from a national study of kids receiving special education services, prepared for the U.S. Department of Education. About 2,000 young adults with one of four types of disabilities were involved, including 500 with autism.
It�s the largest study to date on the topic, and the results �are quite a cause for concern,� said lead author Paul Shattuck, an assistant professor at Washington University�s Brown School of Social Work in St. Louis.
�There is this wave of young children who have been diagnosed with autism who are aging toward adulthood. We�re kind of setting ourselves up for a scary situation if we don�t think about that and how we�re going to help these folks and their families,� Shattuck said.
Government data suggest that 1 in 88 U.S. kids have autism and there�s evidence the rate is rising.
Within the next 10 years, more than 500,000 kids with autism will reach adulthood, said Peter Bell, vice president for programs and services at Autism Speaks, an advocacy group that helped pay for the study.
�It�s a huge, huge issue,� Bell said. �Unfortunately, there are many families that really struggle to understand what that transition ultimately entails. ... They face the reality of having a child who may potentially not be able to have enough services to keep them busy during the day.�
�It�s only going to get worse ...� Bell said.
His own 19-year-old son has autism and is being home-schooled, and Bell has hired therapists to prepare him for jobs and other life skills.
Carol Schall, a special-education policy specialist, said the results confirm smaller studies showing difficulties facing kids with autism as they transition into adulthood, and highlight a need for better job training services offered in public schools for special education students.
She is involved in research at Virginia Commonwealth University investigating whether on-the-job training and teaching social cues to high school students with autism makes them more employable.
Kids are taught a range of practical skills and appropriate behavior. �It takes a much higher degree of intensity for them to learn skills� than for other kids, she said.
Preliminary results show this training has helped kids with autism find and keep jobs, she said.


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These ever-popular, super bouncy toys have a cavity inside for placing a treat, giving your dog lots of chewing pleasure as they work to get to it, which helps to clean teeth and gums. Very durable and long lasting.
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smaller than expected
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We have the largest Kong and our Newf can't always empty it. Got the medium,..way too small; will save for puppy.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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great purchase
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Cant destroy it
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Kong... nuff said!
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Great way to keep a chewing pup busy. Throw some treats in it or a little PB. Makes them use their noggin-- smart pups are the best pups.
Absolutely Necessity for any dog parent
By sophiemol
from Philadelphia, PA
I wish I had invented the Kong. Best invention ever. I fill it with treats and peanut butter, freeze it, and then give it to my dog. Keeps her occupied for a good while and she loves working to get the treats out. Must-have.
The perfect chew toy!
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One of the most well known standard chew toy. Why it's great and a favorite...1) Natural Rubber2) Sustainable and durable; withstands very strong chewers3) Able to add treats, peanut butter or the Kong specific treats for hours and hours of stimulation!
I like the old ones better
By Sweet"C"2u
from Kettle Falls, WA
We bought our Boston Bull Terrier one when he was a pup, we loved it because he is quite a chewer and it held up. The hole on the bottom was just large enough to stuff with small puppy biscuts, we could fit 6 to 8 in. Now the holes are larger and too big to hold the smaller biscuts and they have eliminated to nubs on the outside. Bring back the originals please.
A must have for my dog
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My dog loves kongs. I stuff than freeze them. They will keep him occupied while eat, when hes in his crate. I clean buy throwing inthe top rack of the dish washer.
Kongs rule!
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Great for keeping dogs entertained!
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Tough? Sort of.
By veggiechick
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My dog loves Kongs and has had several over the past few years. Why several? Because he's 9 pounds and can destroy a small Kong in about 6 months. I really wish they'd make the "tough" version in the small size! He does love them though so I just keep replacing them. I make my own dog biscuits and use those to stuff the Kong and when he wants one, he tosses his empty Kong at me. =)
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This is a Kong. It's one of the toughest toys out there and perfect for stuffing with something a little mushy (yogurt, sweet potato, and peanut butter all mixed up, raw food, etc.) and tossing in the freezer. Taa-daa! Kongsicle. Frozen Kong's take longer for dogs to eat, and keep them occupied for a while. This can be a little tough to clean depending on what you've put in it and how long it's been stuck in there, but most stuff comes off in the dishwasher or with a good, hot, soaking. Perfect treat for crate training and keeping a dog calm and quiet for a little while. Also great for parrots.
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EAST LIVERPOOL - Heroes don't always wear capes, nor are they always human, or so Westgate Middle School fifth- and sixth-graders learned Monday.
In honor of Veterans Day, teachers in the social studies department prepared a program for students to learn about war-time heroes, human and otherwise.
Students prepared ahead of time at recent grandparents' day events, gathering information from their grandparents about family and friends who have served in the military.
Those names were written on different-colored stars which were used to adorn the auditorium stage Monday morning: red for those who served, white for those who served and were injured, and gold for those who served and paid the supreme sacrifice, giving their lives for their country.
Principal Linda Henderson said teachers thought seeing the stars would be a way to make the students realize the numbers of people they know who are veterans.
A power point presentation allowed students to also learn about well-known heroes of World War I and World War II, such as Gen. John Pershing, fighter pilot Eddie Rickenbacker, Sgt. Alvin York, Edward O'Hare, John Basilone and Audie Murphy.
But, as interesting as the human heroes were to the students, their attention was piqued as the topic turned to animals who helped the war effort.
This included Sergeant Stubby, the most decorated war dog in WWI, who captured an enemy spy and was the only dog to be promoted to sergeant through combat.
Sergeant Reckless, a Mongolian mare, was the "pride of the Marines" during the Korean War, winning two Purple Hearts after joining as a pack horse in 1952 and then being promoted to sergeant.
Cher Ami "dear friend" in French was a Black Check Cock homing pigeon and one of 600 used by the U.S. Army Signal Corp during WWI, but the only one honored for saving 200 American lives.
Teacher Jan Toot said the Germans reportedly trained hawks to go after the homing pigeons, and Cher Ami was attacked twice by the hawks on her rounds.
A German shepherd/collie/husky mix, PFC Chips was a tank guard dog for the U.S. Army during WWII and was recognized for silencing a German machine gun nest by jumping on the soldier manning it.
Perhaps the smallest hero of WWII was Smoky the Yorkshire terrier who was found by an American soldier in a foxhole in the New Guinea jungle. The four-pound fully-grown dog stood a mere seven inches tall, which proved helpful as she traveled with a Cleveland soldier who bought her from her rescuer for $6.44.
When the Army needed to move a telegraph wire through a 70-foot-long pipe that had an eight-inch circumference, Smoky was called into action, pulling the wire tied to his collar as he edged along the pipe and ran out the other end to his waiting owner.
The students ended their day by singing patriotic songs.


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Tiemann on transforming IT the open source way
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." Michael Tiemann used this quote from Albert Einstein to lead off his talk at last week's Open Your World forum. His presentation was called "Transformation and the Open Source Way"
Tiemann is the VP of Open Source Affairs at Red Hat and the President of the Open Source Affairs Initiative. He's one of the true early pioneers of open source. Since 2006 Tiemann has also been actively charting the waste of the IT world and the $1T lost to "bad software"--taking a close look at why so many IT projects fail or are simply abandoned. And what to do about it.
In his talk, Tiemman applies the lessons of Darwin to Deming toward transforming the model of IT using the open source way. Adaptability leads to reuse, which leads to sustainability.
Tiemann also spoke about value of innovating out in the open. "The more that we can bring skills and knowledge to the people in the system, the more we can innovate."
How can we bring transformative change to they way software is developed? How can we apply the principles of the open source model to improve our ability to build better quality software and deliver greater value in the long term?
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Very informative and very well spoken.
I like when Tiemann talks about adaptability (audio 9:30) - survival of the fittest translates to survival of the most adaptable. The size and strength of the dinosaurs is not in and of itself--it's not a sustainable strategy. It's adaptability that's the long-term sustainable advantage--which can also be implied as the size and strength companies.


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A Dream Factory employee is charged after police say he assaulted a teenage relative.
Kenneth Smith is facing an assault charge.
According to arrest records, he's accused of hitting a teenage relative with a belt several times, causing welts and breaks to the skin.
The dream factory's executive director told WLKY that Smith, who worked in web design, has been suspended.
The dream factory grants wishes to terminally ill children.


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The bulls in the hotel business have the tourist-soaked Charleston peninsula pretty much staked out.
Now, some of the herd are stampeding to what they hope are green pastures across the harbor.
Mount Pleasant suddenly is flush with lodging projects after a fairly lengthy period of inactivity. The uptick is a bright spot in the recovering commercial real estate business, where much of the post-recession growth had been concentrated in the apartment business.
But not all. The region's lodging stock has been in an expansion mode of late. Most of the attention and money had been focused on downtown Charleston, where more than 1,800 new rooms are either under construction or approved.
It was a matter of time before developers would rediscover the hop-skip-and-jump-away East Cooper market, where more than three years have passed since a new hotel has sprung from the ground.
The time is at hand, it seems.
The town certainly can accommodate a few more rooms, though the ideal balance of supply and demand will be dictated by the turns of the economy and other market forces.
At the moment, business is good. The latest figures show the year-over-year hotel occupancy rate for the Mount Pleasant area, including Daniel Island, jumped more than 5 percent in June to nearly 80 percent.
So it's little wonder that no fewer than four projects that would add a few hundred rooms to the market are either under construction or well along in the planning process. At least two others are in the offing.
The latest wave started with a trickle last year when the owner of the Charleston Harbor Resort at Patriots Point OK'd a plan to add 93 rooms to the 130-room property.
Activity has picked up in 2013.
In May, a group announced plans to replace the shuttered and soon-to-be-leveled 119-room Masters Inn on Wingo Way with a six-story, 133-room Hilton Garden Inn.
Just this month, two more developers entered the fray, well north from the Ravenel Bridge.
In a deal that blends rooms with retail, a group announced plans to build a hotel with an undetermined number of rooms at Mount Pleasant Towne Centre.
The latest deal comes courtesy of Columbia-based IMIC Hotels, an owner and operator with 14 lodgings in five states. It's preparing to start on a seven-story, 119-room Wyndham Garden Inn near where I-526 merges into Chuck Dawley Boulevard.
"You're not limited on hotel rooms in Mount Pleasant, but there's a limited number of new properties. That's why we see a niche there," said Bert Pooser III, vice president of the company.
Pooser cited the favorable attention that influential publications like Conde Nast Traveler and Travel + Leisure have lavished on the area.
"From our standpoint, it's just the market, and how Charleston is ranked nationally and internationally," he said. "It's just a great market."
The Wyndham would be one of the few hotels in the town that's not along the newly widened U.S. Highway 17. Even so, Pooser said, the site is still "a very central location" for a hotel looking to capture both business and leisure business.
"You have great access to North Charleston, great access to the beaches," he said. "And with the Highway 17 improvements, it's really easy to get to downtown Charleston."
The bonus is that the Wyndham will be built on the site of a defunct down-market lodging: the gritty Fort Moultrie Motel. The low-slung, shuttered eyesore is scheduled to be demolished this week, Pooser said.
"I figure everyone will want to pull up a chair and toast that it's going away," he said.
Contact John McDermott at 937-5572.


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EBENSBURG - Bishop Guilfoyle Catholic sophomore Sam McCloskey almost sounded like he'd been reminded enough about getting to the District 6 Class A championship game.
"Our seniors didn't stop talking about it. I never heard the end of it," a breathless McCloskey said.
So McCloskey shut them up the best way he could: He helped get them there.
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Bishop Guilfoyle's Zach Patterson puts up a shot behind Homer-Center's Darren Carr.
McCloskey complemented big games by Marauder upperclassmen Brandon Drenning and Pat Irwin by scoring eight of his 10 points in the third quarter to give second-seeded Guilfoyle a little bit of breathing room in a tight game against third-seeded Homer-Center. BG pulled away in the fourth quarter to claim a spot in the 6-A boys basketball finals for the first time since 2008 with a 68-55 victory on Monday evening at Central Cambria High School.
Drenning's 21 points led the Marauders, who improved to 19-5 and will face Laurel Highlands Conference Section 1 rival Bishop Carroll on Friday at St. Francis University on Friday, while Irwin netted 13 of his 18 points in the fourth quarter. Joe Capitosti fronted Homer-Center (18-6) with 15 points.
"I think we did a better job of ball rotation and taking better shots [in the second half]," said Guilfoyle first-year coach Chris Drenning. "I think our depth helped. I'm a big believer in playing your bench and developing your depth, and I think that showed."
It showed most notably in the case of McCloskey. Guilfoyle only led by a point at the end of the first quarter and the half and had lost starter Tyler Koehle to a shoulder injury. McCloskey, though, came off the bench to open the second-half scoring by finishing on a fast break, and his 3-pointer from the corner three minutes later put the Marauders ahead by four.
He followed that up with another trey that started off a 6-0 run that pushed the difference to eight points.
It never was a one-possession game the rest of the way.
"My role is just to come in and play solid defense, but Coach looks to me to score a lot," McCloskey said. "Brandon Drenning's our main scorer, but, when the defense gets on him, he looks for me or Damon [Rickens] to score. I had a good quarter. We'd been trading baskets for a while."
"We've gotten that from him. He's done that all year," Coach Drenning said. "He's a quality basketball player. He does a lot of good things."
McCloskey's production helped the Marauders when the Wildcats began to watch Brandon Drenning a little more closely. The younger Drenning scored 11 in the first half with three 3-pointers. He finished up 4-for-9 from 3-point range and 6-for-12 from the field.
"Whenever we broke their trap, we just reversed the ball, and I just happened to be open," Drenning said. "We knew they liked high-scoring games, so we had to slow them down, be strong with the ball, rebound and beat their trap, and we knew we were going to be all right."
Homer-Center stayed in it largely because of a 36-31 rebounding margin and Cody Miller's 11 points inside in the first half. Miller and Darren Carr each finished with 13 points for the Wildcats, who'll play Juniata Valley on Thursday in the 6-A consolation game for a spot in the state tournament.
"I think we just started to press ourselves offensively. We came down and tried to rush our offense a bit in the second half," Wildcats coach Bob Rado said. "You can't give a good team opportunities like we gave them. They knocked down their 3s. They're a good basketball team. They made their 3s and they made their foul shots."
Guilfoyle was 29-for-35 from the foul line, helping expand the lead to as many as 17 points midway through the fourth quarter of a game that featured seven lead changes in the first half. Irwin was the prime beneficiary, canning 15 of 18 free throws, including 13 out of 14 in the final 6:10.
"All week I was really practicing free throws. With playoffs, I knew big free throws were coming, and I didn't want to miss those," Irwin said. "I started off the year pretty well, but I had a stretch there were I wasn't where I should be."
Guilfoyle split two regular-season meetings with Carroll, each winning on the other's home court. The Marauders will be looking for their first title since 2007.
"It feels pretty good," Brandon Drenning said. "It feels pretty good."
HOMER-CENTER (55): Jones 1 0-0 2, D. Carr 5 3-3 13, I. Carr 2 1-1 5, Joe Capitosti 5 3-6 15, Miller 5 3-4 13, Della Penna 0 1-2 1, Wilden 1 1-1 3, Berezansky 1 1-2 3, Gaydosh 0 0-0 0, Caruso 0 0-0 0. Totals - 20 13-19 55.
BISHOP GUILFOYLE (68): Irwin 1 15-18 18, Drenning 6 5-5 21, Fulare 1 3-4 5, Koehle 1 0-0 2, Patterson 3 1-2 7, McCloskey 3 2-2 10, Rickens 0 2-2 2, Chadbourn 1 0-0 2, Nardelli 0 0-0 0, Wolf 0 1-2 1, Fiore 0 0-0 0, Brumbaugh 0 0-0 0, Baldessaro 0 0-0 0. Totals - 16 29-35 68.
Homer-Center12 11 12 20-55
Bishop Guilfoyle13 11 16 28-68
3-point goals: Homer-Center 2 (Joe Capitosti 2); Bishop Guilfoyle 7 (Drenning 4, Irwin, McCloskey 2).
Officials: Cliff Kitner, Skip Dry, Jason Moschgat.
Team records: Homer-Center (18-6); Bishop Guilfoyle (19-5).


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Must watch for all XAML developers. Many, many tips.
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