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In 2003, before Amherst Street morphed into the bastion of cool it is today, Doreen DeBoth made a bold decision.
On this gritty drag in a proud neighborhood that had seen better days, DeBoth opened a modest studio in an old storefront on the 400 block. It was one of the first visible signals that a change was afoot on this half-mile stretch of Amherst Street, which over the past decade has bloomed into a bona fide cultural destination.
DeBoth's gallery, Artsphere, is in the midst of a monthlong 10th anniversary celebration, which culminates Saturday with a talk from photographer Bogdan Fundalinski and artist Michelle Mazur. It's a celebration that DeBoth and Artsphere, important catalysts and beneficiaries of the ongoing Black Rock revival, richly deserve.
Earlier this week, I sat with DeBoth in the front room of her gallery space at 447 Amherst St., across the street from its original location, as she reflected on a decade at the helm of Artsphere.
There is little particularly edgy or hipsteresque about Artsphere, a renovated former funeral parlor DeBoth shares with her daughter's hair salon. It's a place where the floral aroma of hair products wafts from the salon into a sort of homey gallery space where you are more likely to encounter idyllic watercolor scenes of pastures and prairies than avant-garde installations.
That makes DeBoth's role in kicking off the transformation of this neighborhood into a haven for the city's young arts culture even more interesting. But the aesthetic of Artsphere or the artists who exhibit there isn't really what matters when it comes to the resurgence of the street. What matters is that DeBoth went first.
She brushed off her decision to open Artsphere on Amherst Street, writing it off as a pragmatic choice based more on the proximity of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the Burchfield Penney Art Center than on any grand desire to infuse new life into the area.
"I thought this was an absolutely perfect place to have a gallery," she said. "I didn't have any qualms about being the first one. I guess I believed in myself, and I believed it would work, and I was going to make it work. So I did."
During the past decade, DeBoth has worked with neighborhood residents to build an archive of historic photographs of Black Rock, to promote the neighborhood's important role in the War of 1812 and to produce educational material and murals about the area's history. In addition to hosting dozens of exhibitions, Artsphere has served as a hub for community members to meet and share ideas about how to improve the neighborhood and honor its historic importance.
On the back cover of a catalog marking the gallery's 10th anniversary, Amherst Street architect Max Willig sings DeBoth's praises:
"The revival of Black Rock, a historic community that is seeing a proud revival of art, music, architecture, food and culture over the past few years, has been the collective effort of the people who proudly lived there and those who've moved to the neighborhood to join in bringing the vision of what could be, to what it is quickly becoming," Willig wrote. "Doreen single-handedly began the renaissance of the cultural soul of this community."
Though that might be overselling it just slightly – others, such as Black Rock developer Susan Cholewa, 464 Gallery owner Marcus Wise and many other longtime neighborhood residents and businesses, played integral roles as well – the sentiment is right on.
Without DeBoth and Artsphere, it's unlikely Amherst Street would look the way it does today.
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on December 28, 2012 - 11:42 PM
Considering her family's history with Penn State University, one would think it might be a forgone conclusion that Lainy Pierce would end up picking the Nittany Lions.
But other programs still tried.
Ohio State, North Carolina and Coastal Carolina were among many colleges that recruited Pierce, the junior standout for Eden who was named to the All-Western New York first team for the second straight season.
But in the end, she verbally committed to Penn State, where her parents were standout athletes and where older sister Kendall, herself a two-time first-team All-WNY selection at Eden, just completed her freshman season for the Nittany Lions (a season that extended to the NCAA Final Four).
"Kendall and I have always grown up around Penn State with both of our parents going there, and we were introduced to the campus really early — I think I was 9," said Lainy. "I fell in love with the campus and it's always been kind of my dream. When I thought of college, I thought of Penn State."
Lainy's father, Eden boys volleyball coach Robert, played volleyball at Penn State from 1985 to 1989. Her mother, Kiernan, was on the Penn State track and field team from 1984 to 1989.
Having Kendall go through the recruiting process then spend her freshman year at the school further familiarized Lainy with Penn State. Kendall chose to forgo scholarship offers from other schools, including Syracuse, for a walk-on opportunity at Penn State. Kendall not only earned her spot on the team but played in 29 of the Big Ten champions' 125 games.
"It was a huge step with Kendall going to Penn State, seeing her and seeing how she reacted to everything," said Lainy. "I'd think, if my sister can do it, I can do it too. Kendall and I are so close. I've done everything she's done, from volleyball and track and training. I don't want to be following in her footsteps the rest of my life, but it was great to hear all of her feedback about Penn State, to see another side of it."
While Penn State was always an option, Lainy explored other opportunities in the recruiting process, which included her getting scholarship offers from Bowling Green and the University at Buffalo. "I told my parents, I want to make sure I have more options if something falls through [if Penn State only offered a walk-on position]," Lainy said. "I want to have a backup plan."
Lainy has been offered a scholarship for at least one year.
"Things worked out with Penn State," she said. "You have to maintain [the scholarship]. I'm going to work my butt off to try and get more of that [one year], but we'll see."
Throughout her high school career, Lainy has pummelled many of Eden's opponents from the outside hitter position. This year she moved to setter and excelled. At Penn State, the 5-foot-8 Pierce will be a libero (defensive specialist), a position for which she's been recruited by Division I programs going back to her younger days of club volleyball.
The varied positional experience will help her in her defensive role as she has an understanding of each position's role in the offense.
"I learned how to set this year, and that gives you a whole different perspective on the game, going from outside to setting," said Lainy. "I play libero in club volleyball because we have a really tall team. I'm so thankful for playing all of the positions. … It gives me more of a 'volleyball IQ' as my dad would say. I'm always thinking, 'If I were a hitter, where would I want the ball set?' And so on."
The Eden program, coached on the girls side by her uncle, Stephen Pierce, won its fourth straight state championship this year, giving it 10 overall, which extended its own state record.
As for committing to Penn State: "I couldn't be happier. This is where I wanted to go. I thank Eden volleyball, that and club, and my uncle and dad, who have made me who I am as a player and a person."
Around the courts
• Joining Lainy Pierce as a repeat first-team All-Western New York selection are Grand Island's Alex Brown and Williamsville East's Erica Moser.
• St. Mary's, represented by senior Samantha Giardina and sophomore standout Leah Meyer on the All-Western New York first team, was considered the top local team most of the year. The Lancers won their second straight state Catholic championship to give them a total of 13 state titles. They did not drop a set in Monsignor Martin play all season, including the playoffs, as a sweep of Immaculata (which didn't lose to any other MMA team) capped off its 23rd league championship.
Among the Lancers who have determined their college destinations are Giardina, who will sign with Division II Mercyhurst, Amber Drzymala, who will play at Daemen, and Marlena Clotfelter, who will attend Medaille.
• In the prepvolleyball.com final national poll, St. Mary's was the highest ranked team from New York State.
The Lancers were at No. 86 in the veteran site's "Century Club." Mercy of Section V (Rochester area), which won the Class AA NYPHSAA state championship, was one spot behind and the only other state team cited.
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CHESTER, S.C. — Bond has been denied for a Chester County man charged with homicide by child abuse after his girlfriend's 11-month-old daughter died with head injuries.
A judge on Saturday denied bond for 27-year-old Jeffery Todd Bradley Jr. He's next scheduled in court in November.
Chester County deputies say Bradley was the only adult at the home with the baby when she suffered injuries that needed emergency hospital care.
Deputies responded to a call about an injured baby on Wednesday but found the home empty. Deputies then got a call from Levine Children's Hospital in Charlotte, where the girl had fractured skull and eye and kidney injuries. She died Friday.
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SANBORN – The president of the Niagara Wheatfield School Board would like to refine the district policy on field trips.
President Steve Sabo on Wednesday night said although there have been no specific problems, he wanted the policy to be changed so that board members would be aware when students are away on day trips. Currently, the policy allows both elementary and secondary classes to go on field trips during the school day without board approval or notification.
Sabo said he wanted the board to be notified as a standard procedure.
Also, he said the board should have a pre-approved list of places students could go on field trips. He said the list would include places that have been most frequented without any difficulties, such as Becker Farms in Gasport.
Acting School Superintendent James Knowles said he would prepare a list of all the places students have visited in the past and present it to the board for discussion.
Sabo noted that it was necessary for the board to review and adjust all district policies periodically.
In another matter, the board congratulated 11 seniors who received academic scholarships.
Awarded $1,500 a year for four years by the state Regents Board were Josh Miller and Kirsten Scherrer. Named to receive $500 a year for four years were Francesca Viola, Nicole Golias, Daniel Miera, Kali Ryan, Mary Warne, Marissa Watroba, Rachel Szeliga, Rachel Coddington and Todd Phillips.
Also honored were Jack Buddenhagen and Danielle Crocoll, who were chosen for the National Association for Music Education All-Eastern Honors Ensembles for a regional performance next spring at the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford, Conn. Niagara-Wheatfield has not had a student chosen to participate in the program in almost 20 years, it was noted.


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Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility (like the electricity grid) over a network (typically the Internet).
Monitoring network performance in the cloud is by no means the only thing an IT professional needs to worry about. It now becomes more important than ever to monitor cloud servers and apps. Monitoring the network, the Internet connection and the cloud vendor is only watching the route (critical as it is). You have to deploy a network management solution to make sure that your servers and apps in the cloud are up and running and performing at their best. You are also making sure that you are actually getting what you paid for-making sure that your cloud provider is delivering the SLA that you agreed upon.
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Tuesday, September 3, 2013
The Swamp Foxes had their best showing to date against the Gators, but Goose Creek once again proved to be too strong.
Ashley Ridge suffered a 56-28 loss to Goose Creek in the season opener for both teams. Despite some miscues by its offense in the first quarter, the Swamp Foxes held their own early in the game. Goose Creek only out gained Ashley Ridge by 32 yards in the first half when the Gators took a 14-7 lead.
"It took our offense a while to get going and we gave them a short field too much in the first half," Ashley Ridge coach Kenny Walker said. "But our defense hung in there."
However, the Gators held the Swamp Foxes to only 2 yards of offense in the third quarter. Goose Creek scored three touchdowns in the quarter while Ashley Ridge only managed a kick return for a TD.
"In the second half we kind of ran out of gas," Walker said. "With Goose Creek, it's all about them wearing you down so you have to play a full four quarters. We played maybe two-and-a-half quarters and turnovers killed us."
Led by senior tailback Caleb Kinlaw, the Gators' rushing attack was lethal. Kinlaw rushed for more than 100 yards and four touchdowns. Fullback Evan McField also had a 100-yard rushing night and scored on an 18 yard run.
Senior Sean White had a productive evening for Ashley Ridge. He was used as a quarterback, running back and receiver and finished with 80 yards of offense.
Junior Chandler Avenel took the majority of snaps for the Foxes. He completed 5 of 8 pass attempts for 86 yards.
Junior receiver Dashaun Santiago provided two of the Swamp Fox scores. In the second quarter, Santiago made a leaping catch in the end zone to cut the Goose Creek lead to 7 with Matt Gable's extra-point kick. But much of Ashley Ridge's momentum was taken away when Goose Creek caused and recovered a fumble on the second-half kickoff and capitalized with a 24-yard scoring drive.
The fumble recovery was just one of many key plays made by special-teams athletes in the second half.
Later in the third quarter, Santiago returned a kickoff 85 yards for a touchdown.
In the fourth quarter, Goose Creek's Omar McRae returned a kickoff 60 yards for a TD. Then Ashley Ridge's Donavan Thompson returned the ensuing kickoff 77 yards to the Gator 8. Two plays later, White scored on a 3-yard run for a 49-28 score.
Despite the win, Goose Creek coach Chuck Reedy says his team has some work to do.
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GC – Caleb Kinlaw 7 run (kick failed)
GC – Caleb Kinlaw 2 run (Jordan Barnes pass from Dantez Bennamon)
AR – Dashaun Santiago 19 pass from Chandler Avenel (Matt Gable kick)
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GC – Caleb Kinlaw 16 run (Alex Jacobus kick)
AR – Santiago 85 kickoff return (kick blocked)
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GC – Darin McNeal 7 run (Jacobus kick)
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Creating online community the open source way
I presented "Creating online community the open source way" at the Triangle Drupal Users Group (TriDUG) on the evening of Thursday, July 22 and thought it would be a good idea to share with a broader audience. For this post, I'll use the opensource.com online community as my case study.
Opensource.com is a community for exploring how open source principles like collaboration, transparency, and meritocracy are influencing innovation beyond technology--shaping education, law, business, government, and everyday life. Opensource.com is a platform to share, discuss, and discover how people are applying the open source way, even if they don't call it that.
Many people are familiar with how the
open source development model became successful by using principles of sharing, collaboration, rapid prototyping, and many others. The term "open source way" is the collection of all those principles.
One of my favorite open source principles is failing faster. You may have heard the phrase "release early, release often." Another version of that is "fail early, fail often." To me, that means iterative course correction. DeLisa Alexander goes into greater detail about this in her post, "Fear of failure? Embrace it by failing fast."
How did the opensource.com project team go from an idea to a deployed website with a growing community? We needed what I call the 3 C's: content management system (CMS), content, and community participation.
How we chose our platform
The first step was to identify our goals and audience. Once we determined what we wanted to accomplish, we started looking at open source platforms that would fulfill our goals. Our final decision was Drupal. Some of the factors that led us to Drupal were the hosting and administrative options. But the factors that made Drupal stand out were the community modules available as add-ons allowing us to customize our deployment and the job trends, which for us, mean that the platform and support for it will be around for a while.
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How we get content
The site is divided into five channels: business, education, government, law, and life. Each channel has moderators who actively write and search for others to write posts. We also invite our community to send our moderators stories they find or to contribute blog posts themselves.
Aside from that, we are always keeping an eye on current events and trends. We conduct interviews with subject matter experts on a variety of topics and invite guest bloggers to contribute their thoughts.
How we build community
We used a multi-pronged approach to building our community. Our approach includes social media, traditional ("old school") ways, events, and participation on opensource.com.
Social media
First, we decided on a name: opensourceway, laregly because it was descriptive and available across most of the popular social media outlets: Twitter, Identi.ca, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, and LinkedIn, all of which we now use.
Traditional ("old school") ways
Some of the traditional tools used to build online communities include email marketing, Internet chat rooms, and mailing lists. Our community asked for an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) channel—you can now find us on Freenode in the #opensource.com channel. We have a large mailing list that receives a monthly email that highlights some of the content published on the site. We also use smaller mailing lists both for content dissemination and smaller, collaborative work within channels.
We've attended a variety of events, and we continue to learn how events can help us drive awareness and grow our community. Each event is different with different audiences and opportunities.
Within four months of launching the site, we hosted our first virtual event. The Open Your World forum was a day-long webinar that brought in speakers from around the world. The presenters were compelling, and it was a great learning experience for us.
Participation on opensource.com
The final part of our multi-pronged approach to community building was what our users could accomplish on the site. We thought it would be best to have some low barriers to participation, such as rating articles and voting on polls.
One of our goals is to encourage visitors to join a conversation and comment on the articles. This is extremely valuable to us because we want to start conversations around the articles we are posting.
Wrapping up
There really are no right and wrong answers to the open source way, but we're trying lots of things. It's important to remember that the principles of the open source way should be used as guidelines when making decisions. But you should always be as transparent as possible with your community.
The "Creating online community the open source way" slides are available below.
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on the thinking behind each step of building a successful community-centric site.
In fact all posts on this are consistently insightful & thought provoking . It's wonderful to be hooked up with everyone here.
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Thank you for the article, I'm contrasting this against, and apply some concepts to a reassessment (reboot) of an open source game development community-building project I'm coordinating. We suffered some significant setbacks and ended up with a FUBAR site, badly stagnated community, and failing project. I'm certain its still salvageable though.
From experience I can definitely say both "fail early, fail often" (small manageable failures), and "fail spectacularly, and don't forget to take notes" (huge failures) works well as part of an iterative process. The problem I encountered is failing in a community building initiative tends to present a unique set of challenges. To fail in a development initiative is expected, if there is any "baggage" it usually resolves itself when the recovery phase starts. What I was entirely unprepared for is how emotional and "political" baggage can have a lasting impact which is difficult to overcome. Even if the underlying failure is resolved the side effects can fester into a bad reputation, or stigma, and tends to create a negative feedback loop which rapidly stagnates the community.
The serious danger here for community coordinators, and core of the problem I encountered, is if the community becomes large enough that recovering from a failure requires a community effort, then the negative feedback loop effect can result in the community loosing the capacity to recover. From there the only solution seems to be essentially restarting from scratch, magnifying the impact of both the original failure and accompanying baggage several times over.
For now I can only point that out as a hole in applying the open source way methodology to community building, perhaps its a quirk of human nature. I have yet to find a solution, other than persistence through sheer force of will. Do not take spectacular failures personally, else it can become demoralizing, and the accompanying frustration is just unnecessary stress, or needless suffering.
Hope that helps someone...
The risks of failure, I believe, are not wholly different for open source communities than they are for any other group or entity. Lost time, morale, effort to pick up the pieces and regroup? Those are all problems that I've experienced in other domains as well. The difference with an open source community, I think, is not in what you risk, or what you have to do to cope with the failure -- it's in the requirements of performance, and what you stand to gain by following through on them.
When you fail, provided you're working in the open source way, everyone will (and arguably should) know it. There's no sweeping it under the rug when the project falls apart. Possibly the worst response is trying to obfuscate or hide what's happened. That's simply erecting a barrier to recovery, and in a healthy and scaling community, recovery is meant to happen quickly. Fast recovery can enhance morale, or at least stem its downturn, and ensures that unnecessary resistance to change doesn't build up. This is why objective criteria are so important in open source, just as in any other successful project. Everyone can use the same yardstick and understand when a plan is working, and when it's not. Making those criteria or whatever quantitative measures you're using part of a transparent process is important.
Owning up to failure when it happens also has a side benefit, I believe -- perhaps small, perhaps intangible, but certainly vital -- that balances out (hopefully) a bit of the inevitable pain. By being up front about risk and consequences before, during, and after a failure, you stand to enhance your reputation as a plain dealer, a straight shooter. Community values honesty, because the openness and transparency it engenders is the bedrock upon which the relationships that bind the community together are built. Anyone who's trying to run an open source project, large or small, benefits from providing an environment of honesty. It attracts good contributors, and breeds an atmosphere of mutual respect and dedication among them.
Those are invaluable insights.
Another one to consider is how restarting from a failure can offer new found agility. A chance to try a new approach with the added benefit of hard earned experience on a community level, without many of the barriers seen in starting entirely from scratch. Its often impossible to explore new ideas when a project has significant momentum, to-do lists a mile long, and roadmaps going out for years. While that is not unique to open source, the capacity for a community to do this through collective force of will alone is definitely a unique benefit.
Its also an opportunity for the most dedicated, often selflessly committed "hardcore", community members to take a vacation....


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What do a spider, porcupine and worm all have in common? The answer is they're allowing researchers to develop a new medical tape that's super sticky and doesn't damage the skin.
It's a new neonatal medical tape that, unlike old tape, doesn't tear the tender skin of babies.
Dr. Jeffery Karp, associate professor at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, used geometry from the spider's web and added a third layer to the bandage.
"We changed the point where the bandage breaks to a middle layer," Karp said.
The Spiny Headed Worm helps Karp's team create a microneedle adhesive patch to help keep skin grafts in place. Inspired by a parasite worm feeding off fish, scientists designed these needles to grab onto the skin, swell up, and lock in.
"There's a greater chance of engraftment, so less complications and less number of procedures," Karp explained.
Porcupine quills, because of their geometry and backward facing barbs, allow for easier penetration than standard needles.
"When a clinician is pushing a needle, for example, into tissue, if they have to push harder on the needle there is a greater chance of overshooting the injuries," Karp said.
Karp's team believes the biomedical patch could someday deliver medicine to patients. So far, this tape has not gone through human clinical trials.
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Last summer, an Indiana-based excursion locomotive steamed through the area and back again, drawing crowds of people who tracked the train online and waited for hours to see it.
They'll get an opportunity to see even more of the Nickel Plate Railroad's No. 765 in May, and if they're willing to pay, may even get the chance to ride behind the chuffing, clanking machine over the Horseshoe Curve.
The Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society plans to run excursions from Lewistown through Altoona, over the Curve to Gallitzin and back again on May 25, 26 and 27, with a two-plus hour layover at the Railroaders Memorial Museum on each return trip.
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The Nickel Plate Road steam engine 765 steam trip travels under the 13th Street Pedestrian Walkway before receiving water from an Altoona City Fire pumper at Ninth Avenue and Ninth Street last August. After the Indiana-based excursion locomotive's visit through the area was highly received, the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society is planning more visits this May.
Mirror file photo by Gary M. Baranec
More than a hundred railroad lovers gathered at the Horsehoe Curve in August to catch a glimpse of the Nickel Plate 765 steam locomotive.
The weekend before, the society plans to run two or three trips each on May 18 and 19 from Altoona over the Curve to Gallitzin and back for employees of Norfolk Southern Railway and their families.
In between, if a society track inspector gives the OK, the society will house the 765 - under steam - in the Altoona museum's new quarter-roundhouse.
Thus, instead of two fleeting opportunities to catch a steam locomotive negotiating the Curve, there may be as many as nine chances to witness the engine negotiating the mountain - plus a chance to examine the locomotive at leisure indoors.
As of mid-afternoon Friday, only 170 tickets remained for the public to ride the train - and they were all for May 27.
There's a wait list online and a notification that the society might add cars to make the trip available to others.
Railfans snatched up seats in express fashion - 1,300 in just 63 hours, after they went on sale online.
"We didn't have a chance to run newspaper or radio ads like we usually do," said Wayne York, excursion manager. "This is by far the hottest ticket our organization ever had."
The society has been running the excursions with No. 676 for a total of 20 years.
The buyers this time include people from Argentina, Australia, Ireland, Canada and all over the U.S., York said.
The seats aren't cheap: ranging from $129 for a child in coach to $379 for a dome car.
But it will be the first time since 1977 that a member of the public will have the chance to ride the Curve behind steam, York said.
"It will probably be the most significant railroad excursion this year anywhere in the U.S.," he said.
The last public steam excursion on the Curve was pulled by a former Reading Railroad engine now stored in Hamburg, Pa., and long retired from service, York said.
It's hard for people here to "have perspective" on the Curve's draw, according to York.
"It is the No. 1 railroad landmark in the U.S.," he said.
It's attractive because of the difficulty of the engineering problem it surmounts, its "heavy duty" 1.7 percent grade, which is a hazard to descend; because the line is a key artery; and because Altoona at the foot of the mountain was a key railroad city, according to York, who is from Lima, Ohio.
The Curve last hosted a regular steam powered train in 1957 - three years before regular commercial steam disappeared in the U.S. altogether.
The last bastions were in West Virginia, Michigan and Illinois, York said.
It will be a "cool thing" if the society can bring the locomotive into the quarter-roundhouse, said Railroaders Memorial Museum Executive Director Larry Salone.
Museum admission and lunch is included with a first-class excursion ticket, according to York.
"We'll help [the society] in any way possible," Salone said.
The 765 is one of six steam locomotives of its size still operating excursions in the U.S., and the only one east of the Mississippi, according to York.
"It's the ultimate for rail enthusiasts," York said. "To recreate traditional railroading the way it was."
Ticket sales are through fortwaynerailroad.org. More information is available at 260-267-5765.
Mirror Staff Writer William Kibler is at 949-7038.


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Sound claustrophobic? It sure beat the alternative – filming in a plane that simulates zero gravity known as the "vomit comet."
"I'm deathly afraid of flying" Bullock, who turns 49 July 26, told reporters at Comic-Con in San Diego on Saturday. "Anything they asked me to do after that, I couldn't care less what it was ... I didn't care [as long as] it wasn't in the vomit comet."
The Oscar-winning actress made her debut at the pop culture extravaganza Saturday to promote the film, which costars George Clooney and is directed by Alfonso Cuarón.
Bullock, whose character spends much of the film floating alone in space in complete silence, spent six months training for the role and continued to workout during the production – and it showed on a recent trip to London.
"I just wanted my body to get to a place where my core could accomplish anything," she said. "I wanted the look of her to be as androgynous as I could get, because in the story she experienced such great loss in life that she just stopped doing anything that reminded her of what she was, which was a mother and woman."
Now that's she's freed up from that cube and has her feet firmly on the ground, Bullock said she's ready to hit the Comic-Con floor, where fans pick up complimentary swag. "I'll do anything for free stuff," she said.
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Lycoming County United Way (LCUW) officials have reported the 2012-13 campaign has raised $759,443 to date.
That is $963,868 short of its targeted $1.7 million goal to meet the needs of the 38 human service programs operating under the organization's umbrella.
"We still have a lot of work to do to close that gap and accomplish our mission," said Virgil Probasco, campaign chairman. "Recent history has shown that December has been a very positive month so we are optimistic that we will have a strong stretch the next few weeks to reach what is needed."
Compared to where the agency was last Nov. 30, the campaign is about $14,000 ahead, he said.
"The devastation caused last year by the floods slowed the early campaign results but in some ways it heightened the awareness of the importance of helping others. That translated into some positive results for our campaign," Probasco said. "This year we are experiencing a slight decline in some areas due to gifts that are being directed to the victims of Hurricane Sandy."
Many of the larger workplace campaigns in Lycoming County have yet to complete their in-house employee campaigns. With nearly 60 percent of campaign gifts coming from the workplace, the achievements of those campaigns will have a significant impact on the success of the overall campaign result.
"In recent years, we have received results later than was the case five or 10 years ago," said Scott N. Lowery LCUW executive director. "Consequently we have now found that it will be late January or early February until the results are known. It used to be we could report this information prior to Christmas."
Ron Frick, chairman of leadership giving, said individual donors at the Peter Herdic and Tocqueville Society levels have shown steady increases in contributions.
"Many of our donors contributing above the $500 level have increased their contributions this year. Their support, trust and confidence is vitally important to allow us to help so many others," Frick said. "Those wishing to make year-end contributions can be assured their gift will be put to very good use right in our local community."
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Hospice becomes appropriate when treatments are no longer effective in curing the disease. Hospice aims to provide relief from physical and emotional pain so that the patient and family can spend the rest of their time in comfort and dignity. Hospice affirms life and assists the patient and family with life closure activities.
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one of the funniest shows on cable. was canceled on fox because it made no money there, but now makes tons of money on adult swim].
"bite my shiny metal ass!"-bender
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the best TV program ever created. Evily canceled by fox.
Futurama - "comming soon to another channel"
di tranquil_demon 18 agosto 2003
A television show created by Matt Groening that is a lot funnier than The Simpsons
Turn off The Simpsons, I want to watch Futurama.
di Matt Groening 05 giugno 2003
A great mature animated show, jerked around by FOX, pre-empted most weeks, then cancelled for "lack of ratings". FOX have now culled their cash cows down to The Simpsons which is a sad shadow of its former self, and World's Blankiest Blank...
...well she is wearing the World's Shortiest Skirt
di Archie2K 12 aprile 2004
REALLY FUNNY animated series by Fox, featuring an intergalactic delivery crew in the year 3000. Look for it on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim, because Fox cancelled it... :(
If you looked this up you probably love Futurama.
di Matt I 10 settembre 2004
the funniest fuckin show ever created
di Anonymous 10 marzo 2003
An excellent animated comedy based in an off-the-wall future world. Created by Matt Groening, the legendary creator of The Simpsons. Better than Family Guy, and DEFINITELY better than King Of The Hill.
"Today was a great day, because my Futurama Season 2 Box Set arrived in the post"
di Your worst nightmare 14 novembre 2003
Best animated series of all time.
Hermes: He'll be as strong and flexible as Gumby and Herculies combined!
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Re C&B, I totally agree with tulosai; they were spectacular at Nationals.
Re C&B, I totally agree with tulosai; they were spectacular at Nationals.
For as long as they are going to UMich, their choices are Marina, Igor and Angelika.
Angelika has H&B, A&E, and H&D. Igor has C&B.
They're stuck. Unless UMich has some kind of overseas program.
I'd send them to Platov. Or Skotnicky.
because the shibs have never shown as much potential as the other two? brother/sister teams are hard to package and the shibs are no duchesnays. that and their serious decline in the rankings since 2011....marina's shady comments about i/k show that she's already looking elsewhere for her next world/olympic champions because it's becoming obvious it'll be a battle to even get the shibs on the podium right now, let alone dominate like her last two teams didWith v/m and d/w retiring, why wouldn't she invest in the Shibsibs?
I would give them to Linichuk (improving some of their SD-s and helping a LOT about politicking with Russian friendly countries and judges) and Stavisky as a choreographer.
I think quite a few of the "best ever" Programmes was created by this team in the time of Denkova/Staviyski.
They should remained in the USA than...
I don't really like Linichuk, but other than her terrible choreos, she is a very effective coach in many ways.
1. I think it's a bit disingenuous to call Marina's comments 'shady'. She was quite forthright IMO
2. I am on team 'Dutch Zuzu, Shibs!' but we also Do have to consider that it's HIGHLY unlikely that they have not discussed the future and their vision for the future and her vision of their future with her at length. Whatever she has said to them has made them very confident in her and their ability to go forward with her. Indeed it is HIGHLY likely that whatever she said is part of why they have chosen to continue at all. For that reason, I'll give it a season or two and see where she does go with them. I am prepared and on some level expect to be disappointed, but it's n ot like the Shibs probably made this decision lightly, especially as they were open that they were contemplating retirement.
I really hope this team works out its problem. Maybe I am looking for a villain but Morosov scares me. He's like Satan incarnate. Innocent until proven guilty how is it he ends up sexually it would appear with all these attractive and good skaters? And Elena is so young compared to him. He really creeps me out. Elena needs good discipline and they both need to work (I and K) hard and develop their natural talents. I know it is hard but working in Michigan with Zueva would be good or maybe even Krylova or Dubreil and Lauzon. they need to work on using their talents, developing clean skates and upping their technical skills which they can do. I am biased but they are such a pretty couple too I hope they stay together and ditch Morosov. Too bad bad taste or immorality is not illegal - Morosov would be in jail for life. I am sorry he is just so creepy.
I too have yet to "get" what's so special about Chock & Bates. Bates always looks as though he's bending at the waist to try to not look as tho' he's towering over Chock. It draws my attention & annoys me. I agree, he looked much better with his previous partner (Samuelson?)...they were closer in height and they looked like a team.
The problem I had with Samuelson was, while she and Bates had wonderful matching lines, extension, etc., they lacked charisma together. Pretty much the only program of theirs I found exciting was the 1940s themed one (can't remember the music for it at the moment). They were nice, a couple for purists. Madison Chock has charisma galore. There's a wonderful quote from Katharine Hepburn about why the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers pairing worked so well: "He gives her class and she gives him sex [appeal]." And I definitely think that is applicable to C/B. And one thing that no one mentions about C/B is range. They can do playful (Cirque du Soleil, Finnstep), romantic (Dr Zhviago), dynamic (Les Miz). And I think they've only just started to tap into that, given that Bates is only starting to come out of his usual "stem" shell.
As far as the Duschenays/ShibSib comparison, they're very different kinds of teams. The Duschenays were more "raw" and a bit more rough around the edges. The Shibs are more "cooked" and with much better technique. Very different styles. I'd love to see the Shibs go arty and smooth as opposed to the Duschenays arty and rough-edged. If Marina can come up with a program like Marlie's Giselle for them or Bollywood, then wonderful. But I don't think she is the right fit for them, given that she has generally tried to replicate or repeat the styles of past programs. A very narrow vision.
Hmm, yes, Patrice Lauzon and Marie France Dubreuil might be a better fit for the Shib Sibs. I was very impressed with what they brought out of Hurtado and Diaz. And the Shibs have better technique than H/D. Interesting...
I think of D&L as great for creative lifts-both in their own career and now for Hurtado/Diaz.
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Located near the French border, Porrentruy is the second largest city in Canton Jura. The Old Town, which has burgher houses in the Aaroque, Gothic and Neoclassical style, is well worth a visit. Large fountains such as the Samaritan Fountain (1564) and the Swiss Fountain (1518) are interspersed between the houses. The "Porte de France", built in 1563, is a remnant of the medieval city fortifications.
The churches of Saint Pierre (14th century) and Saint Germain (13th century) house rare side altars and church treasures. The oldest part of the castle dates back to 1271. The castle towers above the city and was the residence of the prince bishops of Basel from 1527-1792.
Stained-glass windows in the Jura: an artistic phenomenon unique in Europe. With their almost sixty churches and chapels, the inhabitants in the Jura canton have, in less than half a century, created a museum of art – modern, alive and open. This is the largest concentration of stained glass across a relatively small region in Europe. Great masters – Frenchmen, Swiss and Jura canton inhabitants – created these works.
Fertile agricultural land and many vineyards dominate the wide landscape of the Ajoie (in German: Elsgau) to the north of the hilly Jura folds. It is an ideal area for hiking and biking tours and tours lasting several days with a horse-drawn gypsy caravan are also popular. The Ajoie is known as the «fruit orchard of the Jura» on account of its many vineyards and famous but rare Damson or Damascene plum trees.
Particularly worth visiting in the Ajoie are the caves of Réclère (Grottes de Réclère) and the family-friendly prehistoric park at Réclère, which focuses on the evolution of fauna from fishes via dinosaurs to mammals.
- Porrentruy's old town and castle – impressive castle, town hall, market hall, old hospital, fountains and beautiful baroque-style bourgeois houses with small turrets and courtyards.
- Museum «Hôtel-Dieu» – historical apothecary, a masterpiece of wood craftsmanship in the former hospital and medieval treasury of the St. Pierre Church.
- Botanical gardens – 200-year-old botanical garden, Switzerland's oldest, exhibiting 800 plants from the Jura region, medicinal plants, old vegetable and fruit varieties and 600 varieties of cacti.
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- St. St. Martin's market and festival – the event marks the end of work in the fields, celebrating regional produce, crafts and customs and serving traditional pork dishes (November).


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has anyone seen it yet? it looks like a good movie from the comericals...and stuff.
I haven't seen it, i've heard mixed reviews of it but I've liked other films from the production co. Lengendary pictures such as 300 and Watchmen, so it might be good. I think this is not an adapted work from a graphic novel, but an original work, so it will be interesting to see.
haha yeah i was like OMG the whole time
A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections.
it an alryt movie i quess...
The movie "Sucker Punch" was really superb! Last Sunday, I saw it and Me and my friends again planning to watch it at my home.
it's on dvd now I think I'll check this out
It was awsome you guys really should check it out!


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Nick Scott grew up a huge fan of Penn State football, and he had his first chance to attend a Nittany Lion game when he was 4 years old.
"My brother's god brother, Corey Jones, was a wide receiver at Penn State. My family's really close to his family, and they actually invited us to a game," Scott said. "My father and my brothers went, but I was a little young.
"I wanted to come, but somehow I got persuaded by a toy car rather than going to Beaver Stadium."
Scott might have turned down Penn State once, but he wasn't going to do it again. Thirteen years later, he finally made that trip to University Park, and he ended up returning to his suburban Washington, D.C. home as a Nittany Lion.
Scott, the standout 6-foot, 185-pound junior running back for Fairfax High School in Virginia, made a verbal commitment to the Lions after visiting Penn State on Saturday as part of a large gathering of top underclassmen. He became the second prospect to join the Lions' 2014 recruiting class.
"It was my love for Penn State and growing up watching them and wanting to play there," Scott said of his reason for choosing the Lions over Boston College, Virginia and Maryland. "It was all that, plus when I got up there and saw the stadium and met the coaches. Bill O'Brien is a very good coach. He's accomplished so much in his career already. The whole coaching staff is so wonderful. And the team is so family-oriented. There's this feeling that they're just one, and it's a great academic school.
"Everything just came together, and I knew right then and there that this is the school."
Of course, it had been known for quite some time that Penn State had a leg up on everyone else when it came to landing Scott. Scott grew up in Lancaster before moving to Brookline, Mass. when he was 11.
"To be honest, my whole family was Penn State fans. I guess I was just born into it," Scott said with a laugh. "Everybody I knew was a Penn State fan. I really became a diehard Penn State fan probably when I started to get into football when I was in kindergarten."
Scott had three favorite Nittany Lions growing up: Derrick Williams, Daryll Clark and Evan Royster, whose one-cut, fall-forward running style he said is similar to his own.
Scott doesn't quite possess the size Royster had, but he also has something the Nittany Lions' all-time leading rusher lacked - game-breaking speed. A sprinter and jumper in track back in Massachusetts, Scott has been hand-timed at 4.47 seconds in the 40-yard dash and said he's consistently around 4.5.
Scott had 1,164 total yards and 12 touchdowns as a junior for the 5-5 Rebels, rushing for 932 yards on just 80 carries in his first season as a fulltime running back after playing quarterback since he took up the sport.
He had game of 246 yards on the ground against South Lakes and 227 yards against Madison, and he scored three touchdowns on seven touches in the season-opener with Annandale.
"You could see the speed, you could see the cutting ability, but there were just some things he had about him that made you go, 'We've got something special. Let's not screw this up,'" Fairfax coach Kevin Simonds said. "He came in and really made an impact."
Simonds said it happened from Day 1, when, right after transferring in, Scott showed up first for weightlifting, then stayed and helped the freshmen players during their session. Symonds gave Scott the highest marks for his character.
"A lot of our guys, by the second game of the season, were looking at him like one of our senior captains, even though he was only a junior," Simonds said.
Boston College was Scott's only scholarship offer besides Penn State early in the recruiting process, but a lot of other colleges were taking notice. He had been a guest of Alabama for a game last fall.
"It's a great school and a great facility, but I was telling my parents while I was up there that, while Alabama is great, I just didn't feel that Alabama is me," said Scott, who plans to major in psychology, English or business at Penn State and who has an older brother playing at Holy Cross. "I was just way more comfortable at Penn State."
In fact, Scott already is making himself at home at University Park. He made friends with 2013 recruits Christian Hackenberg and Brendan Mahon during his visit, as well as Lion freshman running back Akeel Lynch.
Scott also decided to give a shout-out to Penn State fans this week on Twitter and got more than he bargained for - about 300 new followers in a few minutes.
"They really amaze me," Scott said. "I had no idea Penn State's fan base was so deep. Oh my goodness."


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Fiesch is situated on a low hill on the sunny side of the valley of the upper Rhone, where it is met by the Fiescher valley. In the old part of the village you can see the typical weathered houses of the Valais. In the heart of the forest on the edge of the village is the well-known "Fiesch Sport and Leisure Centre", offering accommodation for groups, professional and amateur sportsmen and women, and numerous sport and leisure facilities such as an indoor pool, sports halls, outdoor climbing wall etc.
Fiesch is one of the family-friendly Swiss resorts to have been awarded the "Families Welcome" seal of quality.
In summer the Aletsch resorts of Fiesch, Fiescheralp, Bettmeralp, Riederalp and Belalp offer a pleasant walking area close to the Aletsch Glacier in the UNESCO natural World Heritage Site of the Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch.
From spring right through to autumn, the holiday destinations of Fiesch – Fieschertal – Lax offer you the most beautiful high-altitude walks, glacier crossings and breathtaking views of the surrounding Alps. Rest and relaxation go hand in hand with a varied and action-packed cultural and sports programme. Families with children will definitely get their money's worth in this holiday destination. Attractions vary from discovery tours in the animal park to exciting film shows to hikes with the dwarfs.
The region around Fiesch is a paradise on earth for mountaineers and hikers. There are innumerable mountain tours, over 100 kilometres of hiking paths and 100 kilometres of mountain bike trails where you can experience the unique mountain scenery and regain your strength. The most popular tourist destination is the Eggishorn at 2927 m, reached by cable-car from Fiesch. The walk is called "From the ice to the water" and takes you in four hours down to the Fiescheralp. From the small but charming Märjelensee, walkers enjoy a wonderful view of the nearby ice-sheet of the Aletsch Glacier.
And if you're looking for something more exclusive – you definitely won't get bored paragliding at Fiescheralp.
Everyone enjoys coming to this winter sports resort because snow is guaranteed. Enjoy the snow on over 104 km of slopes! The Aletsch Arena skiing area offers facilities for beginners, experts and connoisseurs. Beginners' ramps, snow parks, half-pipes and illuminated night runs included. Those looking for bigger challenges can get their own special adrenaline rush on the three freeride slopes at Fiescheralp. By the way, the ski instructors know some super off-piste runs from Eggishorn to and over the Aletsch Glacier. And cross-country ski lovers can reach the wonderful holiday region of Goms with 100 km of prepared cross-country ski runs within a few minutes!
There is also plenty to do if you just like going for walks in the snow. The family-friendly Aletsch plateau offers 72 kilometres of well-maintained winter hiking trails. And if you're looking for a bit of variety, why not venture onto the 13-kilometre-long toboggan run from Fiescheralp down to Lax in the valley.
- Eggishorn – from the summit, at 2927 m, beautiful views over the whole length of the Aletsch Glacier, the smaller Fiescher Glacier and the mighty peaks of the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau right as far as the Matterhorn.
- Huge Aletsch Glacier – the largest glacier in the Alps, 23 kilometres long, 27 billion tonnes of ice, the high point of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Jungfrau-Aletsch.
- Fieschertal – a spick-and-span village consisting of seven hamlets, with fine views up to the Fiescher glacier, a vast area including most of the Aletsch Glacier and extending as far as the Mönch and the Jungfrau.
- Binntal – a side valley of the Rhone valley near Fiesch, unspoilt nature, a walker's paradise with the largest mineral reserves in Europe.
- Goms – a sunny upland valley in the Upper Valais, with unspoilt villages clustered round white churches, a cross-country skiing paradise in winter.
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- Aletsch Half Marathon – in the week before the Half Marathon there is a training week on the Bettmeralp, led by professionals and aimed primarily at amateur runners (June).
- Aletsch Alpine Open-Air Film Festival – less well-known films are shown at Riederfurka, with a backdrop of snow-capped peaks and the full moon (July).
- Riederalp Alpine Festival – big alpine festival with procession (August).
- "Gratzugnacht" beside the Märjelensee – spooky full moon event based on the legend of the Gratzug, where the traditions of witches, goblins and dwarves (Gogwärgini) are revived (August).
- Big Advent market – Christmas market in Fiesch (November).


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A home foreclosure in Little Rock, Ark., has led to a most unlikely discovery of part of Charleston's lost architectural heritage.
What at first appeared to be a dozen gravestones in the home's backyard turned out to be memorial tablets that once lined the lobby of the Charleston Orphan House on Calhoun Street.
Evan Thompson, executive director of the Preservation Society of Charleston, announced the find and said the society plans to bring the tablets back to the Holy City, restore them and find them a suitable permanent home.
"That these 12 memorial plaques have survived in Arkansas is astounding," he said.
The story began in 1956, when the vacant Charleston Orphan House was demolished to clear a site for a new Sears and Roebuck store.
The building had been considered one of the city's grandest, and many national dignitaries visited it during its heyday.
But by the mid-20th century, society's view of caring for orphans had changed, and the orphans, like many others, moved to the suburbs. Charleston preservationists still rank the Orphan House among the city's greatest architectural losses.
Only a few fragments survive: The Charleston Museum has the wooden statue of Charity, which once stood on top of the grand dormitory-style building. The Carolina Youth Development Center, a descendant nonprofit in North Charleston, has the stained glass window that once decorated the chapel.
It wasn't until the society received a surprise phone call from Little Rock that anyone knew still more of it existed.
A credit union there had foreclosed on a home, and its officials thought the pavers in the backyard were looted gravestones.
They called the Oakland and Fraternal Historical Cemetery, which sent a researcher to take a closer look. She realized they weren't gravestones, and the names were unfamiliar to Little Rock's history.
After more research, she made the connection with the Charleston Orphan House and called the Preservation Society to see if it wanted to accept the plaques.
"Of course, we didn't have to think too hard about that," Thompson said.
Thompson noted there were more than 12 in the lobby originally, "but we have no idea where the rest are."
They are inscribed with the names of many prominent Charlestonians, such as Gov. and railroad founder William Aiken, who helped support the home.
The Preservation Society is looking to raise about $1,000 to cover the costs of transporting the stones.
Charleston Mayor Joe Riley called the find "astounding," and said the city will help store the tablets upon their return.
Riley said he had no initial thoughts on an appropriate home for them, but added, "The community is very good about coming up with ideas. They'll be wonderful treasures to have back."
Reach Robert Behre at 937-5771.
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Michael, Davey, Jhonny and Gherardo were sitting about kibitzing over the woeful shortcomings Obamacare. Suddenly, young Jhonny blurts out: "I can't believe Agnes has sex with her alligator, Mitur, Bud and whatn't!!!"
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Aug. 4, the Challenger II aircraft named ArchAngel took off from Fostoria Municipal Airport, giving flight to three years of work, struggle and dedication.
In a news release from St. Wendelin Catholic School, the Challenger II project is described as a STEMM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics, medicine) initiative that began three years ago under the direction of Ron Bowerman, a teacher at St. Wendelin, and in association with the Lindbergh Foundation, an organization created in 1977.
The purpose of the Lindbergh Foundation, as stated on its website, is to "honor the Lindberghs' pioneering contributions in aviation, exploration, conservation, sciences, and the humanities," the cornerstone of which is to balance technological advancement while preserving human and natural environments.
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Mike Kramb (left) explains instruments and gauges to St. Wendelin Chinese exchange student Li Zelong.
Senior Justin Ball (left) and fifth grader Quintin Taylor work on the instrument panel.
Myron Walters of Fostoria gets a closer look at the Challenger during the public display.
In a newsletter published on the Lindbergh Foundation's website, Bowerman said, "The purpose of the (Challenger II) project is to get students interested in science, technology, engineering and math."
About 100 St. Wendelin students were involved in the building of the Challenger II, and Bowerman said during an interview his focus is to look at what the Wright Brothers did, and to help kids be inventive.
The St. Wendelin news release stated Bowerman received a Toyota Tapestry Grant for physics, and the funds from that grant were used to purchase an ultralight plane kit from Quad City Aircraft Corp.
The project was blessed, Bowerman said, by an offer from Quad City to charge only half price for the kit. The flight Aug. 4 was the culmination of years of student effort and the support of the Lindbergh Foundation, as well as other companies and individuals.
One exceptional donation, said Bowerman, was a whole-aircraft emergency parachute, which was given by BRS Aerospace in Minnesota. A private contribution of space in which to build the aircraft also was donated, and Fostoria's Roppe Corp. allowed Bowerman and St. Wendelin students the use of its hanger for final assembly of the ArchAngel.
Bowerman said the focus of the aircraft is to collect in-flight physical data for online labs. Research is being conducted now, he said.
July 27, the ArchAngel passed inspection by the Cleveland office of the FAA, and, after its inaugural flight, the aircraft made its first public flight Aug. 26 at Fostoria Municipal Airport. Almost 300 people attended the event, Bowerman said.
"It was great," he said.
The ArchAngel was flown by pilot Mike Kramb, he said.
In about three weeks, said Bowerman, the ArchAngel, with planning help from the Lindbergh Foundation, is to be shipped to the Kenya Wildlife Preserve in Africa to monitor and protect wildlife in their national preserves, with a focus on the protection of elephants from poaching.
As the Challenger II projects comes to a close, Bowerman hopes his love of aviation and the hands-on learning experience of the ArchAngel build will help inspire in his students lifelong commitments to the pursuit of science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine.


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"Eat your carrots or I'll let the groke out again!"
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Groceries, or anything bought from a grocery store or supermarket. From the abbreviation "GROCS" which appears on receipts.
I'm going to take the SUV to pick up the grokes.
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ACTA and Its Complex Politics
Peter K. Yu
Texas A&M University School of Law
November 3, 2011
WIPO Journal, Vol. 3, pp. 1-16, 2011
Drake University Law School Research Paper No. 12-16
Written for a special issue on the politics of intellectual property, this article examines the "country club" approach the negotiating parties of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) embraced to establish new and higher international intellectual property enforcement standards. It points out that the agreement is flawed not only because it is a country club agreement but also because it is a bad country club agreement.
The article then situates ACTA in the context of a recent trend of using bilateral, plurilateral and regional trade and investment agreements to circumvent the multilateral norm-setting process. It contends that this disturbing trend could upset the political dynamics in the current international intellectual property regime.
The article concludes with a discussion of the multiple layers of complex politics behind the ACTA negotiations: international, domestic and global. It focuses on developments both within the new intellectual property enforcement club and without.
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Long time Stetson University coach, administrator and teacher Bob Weickel will be honored on Tuesday, May 7, prior to the Stetson baseball game against Florida State at Melching Field.
Weickel is retiring from Stetson after 52 years of service to the University. During his tenure at Stetson, Weickel served as an assistant basketball coach under Glenn Wilkes, as head baseball coach and, since 1971, off and on over three tenures, as head men's golf coach.
Weickel was given the nickname "Mr. Hatter" by former basketball coach Murray Arnold because of all the different roles he filled at the University over his career.
All of Weickel former players, along with friends and family members, are encouraged to attend.
Weickel will be recognized in a pre-game ceremony and there will be a reception in the VIP booth at Melching Field in his honor.
The game between the Hatters and Seminoles is scheduled for a 6:30 p.m. start and a near sell-out crowd is expected. Last year Stetson defeated then No. 1 Florida State in one of the two games played in DeLand. Once again this year the Seminoles are ranked among the top 10 teams in the nation.
Anyone interested in being a part of the reception for Coach Weickel should contact Stacy Turner at firstname.lastname@example.com or by calling 386-822-8100. The deadline to RSVP for the reception is 5 p.m. on Monday, May 6.
To reserve tickets for one of the two games against Florida State, the teams will also play on Wednesday, May 8, at 4 p.m., call the Stetson Athletics Ticket Office at 386-738-HATS.


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On the topic of Cruz's recently evident baby bump, Woody Allen, who directed the sizzling couple in 2008's Vicky Cristina Barcelona (for which Cruz won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar) joked, "I had nothing to do with it!"
He then added, "I think it's great. I'm crazy about both of them – Javier and Penélope. And I'm sure they'll have a super baby, because their genes are award-winning."
Speaking at Tuesday's Cinema Society and Blackberry Torch premiere of his new film, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger at New York City's Museum of Modern Art, Allen, 74, wasn't shy about voicing his opinion about Cruz and Bardem as prospective parents.
"She'll be great," he said. "And why not? I think he'll be great as a father, and I think she'll be a great mother. She's a lovely person."
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Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Shaytee Gadson vividly and honestly tells his family's life story in "Hallelujah in Hollywood – A True Hollywood Story," sharing intimate details about his turbulent childhood, precarious college years and life as a single African American dad raising two young girls. Born and raised in Hollywood, Gadson's recollection of his younger days captures your heart as he paints an uncomfortable picture of a young boy's quest to understand the adulterous relationships, politics and sin that surround him.
He opens up about his parents' relationship and unconventional marriage, his older brother's addiction to crack cocaine and his sister's inner strength to overcome the pressures of being extremely obese. Among many highlights in the book, Gadson sets the spotlight on his alcoholic father, Herbert Gadson, who rises from the ashes of poverty to become mayor of his hometown. Readers follow intently as Mayor Gadson constantly faces his addiction of alcohol, sex and power.
In his first novel, Gadson paints a picture of life surrounded by constant fire and brimstone, scandal and prayer. His mother, the town's First Lady, prays her way through life while using every ounce of faith to try and save her husband and those in need around her. Even though the book's setting isn't the popular West Coast Hollywood, it certainly has all the same characteristics – plots, drugs, politics, sex, characters and yes, even the press and attention.
Copies of the book and a Kindle version are available for download at Amazon.com.
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Here is my list of preferences for sweater designs:
1. In the round - You knit and get stocking stitch for free! Elizabeth Zimmerman said that we would enjoy purl just as much as knit, but we don't do it enough. I am sure that she was right. I'm getting faster at purl, but knit is just so easy!
2. Little or no finishing - Remember my unfinished objects that I mentioned last fall? They are still in the bottom of my closet. Shameful, I know, but it seems the longer you put something off, the harder it is to get back to it. I hate finishing!
3. Worsted weight yarn and size 8 to 10 needles. These are big time savers. Speed is important for me when I am making a big garment. Seeing the sweater develop quickly is motivation to continue.
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164 yards/100 gram ball). It is a lovely, soft yarn and easy to work with. Knit Picks has a large selection of patterns from independent designers, beautiful, reasonably priced yarns and a large assortement of knitting needles.
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|Here you can see the fake seam!
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CHARLESTON - The Charleston Ballet will hold two separate audition classes for company membership and apprentice positions. The company audition will be held at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday; and the apprentice positions audition will be held at 4:15 p.m. May 6 at the 818 Virginia St. East studio location.
Male and female dancers of advanced ability with classical ballet background are encouraged to audition for the company. Dancers must be at least 14 years old, and women must be proficient in pointe work.
For the apprentice positions, male and female dancers must be 11 to 14 years old with a classical ballet background and at least an intermediate ability level are encouraged to audition.
Girls must be working on pointe. All interested dancers and their parents must be willing to comply with company membership regulations.
More information is available by calling a304-342-6541.
Belles of Berkeley seeking members
MARTINSBURG - Belles of Berkeley Sweet Adeline Chorus has openings for new members in all voice ranges. The chorus will be starting preparations for its annual show, which will be a Christmas show.
All former members are invited to participate, and the chorus welcomes new members.
Audition music will be provided along with a practice CD, and those who are interested may attend up to four chorus rehearsals prior to auditioning.
Rehearsals are held at 6:30 p.m. every Tuesday at Trinity Episcopal Church.
For more information, call Brenda at 304-267-4796.
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More contemporary art than festive fir, these unconventional Christmas trees are best decked sans lights, tinsel and ornaments
1. The black-and-white branches on this tree created by Swedish designer and mathematician Johannes Molin can be swivelled and styled in a multitude of formations. barneys.com. $38.
2. This lightweight, suspending tree floats over presents and easily compacts into a small bundle for storage. possibilitree.com. $460.
2. This wooden tree arrives pre-ornamented with painted-on, yellow polka dots. urbanoutfitters.com. $16.
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Topman LUX returns this spring with a fresh collection of modern, forward-thinking menswear that continues to push the boundaries of contemporary fashion. The evolving shapes of the collection which merge street wear and formal styles are enhanced by a bright new colour palette including greens, pinks and earthy neutrals. Understated, pared-down pieces are paired with luxury fabrics and unique textures to create items such as tailored joggers and bomber jackets crafted in suiting fabric. Co-ords are key to this collection with each individual piece also ideal to mix and match with your regular wardrobe.


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Biomedical Sciences & Health Disparities SymposiumApril 8, 9:00am - 3:00pm
Manoa Campus, 651 Ilalo St (JABSOM) Honolulu, HI 96813
This two-day symposium is a forum for students and mentors to learn about ongoing research in the biomedical sciences at the University of Hawaii. Three sessions are held in the lobby of the John A. Burns School of Medicine.
April 8 Posters are Graduate Students, Post-doctoral Fellows, Research Associates and Undergraduates.
April 9th Posters are Faculty, Resident Physicians, Medical Students, Post-Doctoral Fellows, Researchers.
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Maui Campus, Pilina Bldg., Wellness Center
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Manoa Campus, Watershed Hydrology Laboratory at the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources
|Biomedical Sciences & Health Disparities Symposium
Manoa Campus, 651 Ilalo St (JABSOM) Honolulu, HI 96813
|Special Microbiology Seminar
Manoa Campus, Post 126
|A Discussion on Wrongful Convictions and DNA Evidence: The Case of Amanda Knox
Manoa Campus, Moot Courtroom, William S. Richardson School of Law
|East-West Center Research Program Seminar
Manoa Campus, East-West Center, Burns Hall Room 3012
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Manoa Campus, Paradise Palms
|Bollywood Mondays: 'Gangs of Wasseypur' (2012)
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|UH Opera Workshop in Concert
Manoa Campus, Orvis Auditorium
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