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Live Music Transitions into Fall...
September 7, 2013 - Jim Price
As the first hints of "autumn crisp" arrive in the late summer nighttime air, the live music scene continues its transition from summer into autumn with more seasonal festivals, fairs and performances this weekend and upcoming week.
Making its debut this weekend is the inaugural Northern Appalachian Folk Festival in Indiana. The festivities began on Thursday night, and the event continues through Saturday with a full slate of live musical performers – including renowned folk singer, activist and State College native Si Kahn on Saturday evening. Friday's and Saturday's music will take place on the outdoor stage at the corner of 6th and Philadelphia Streets in Indiana. Admission is free.
Altoona's Lakemont Park presents The Festival this Friday and Saturday. Formerly the Altoona First Festival (and Keystone Country Festival), The Festival features arts and crafts, a variety of food items, and live musical entertainment. Saturday's performers include Johnstown-based blues, folk and Americana artists the Southside Strays beginning at 11 a.m., and longtime vintage rock'n'roll favorites the Fabulous Flashbacks starting at 4 p.m. Sunday's entertainment includes State College based country rockers AC Express starting at 1 p.m. Admission to The Festival is $5 per person.
Summer fair action continues in the coming week, with the annual Cookport Fair starting on Monday. Located near the Indiana/Cambria County border just north of Northern Cambria, the Cookport Fair features a variety of country, gospel and rock'n'roll performers each day.
The 82nd annual Sinking Valley Fair takes place Tuesday through Saturday at the Sinking Valley Fairgrounds near Skelp in northern Blair County. This fair will feature musical entertainment spanning gospel, country, rock'n'roll and even Celtic flavors. Admission and parking are free.
Two summertime events present their final chapters on Wednesday evening. The Blair County Community Action Agency concludes their "Summer in the City" concert series with their Patriot Day concert at downtown Altoona's Heritage Plaza on Wednesday, commemorating the events of September 11, 2001. The concert will feature performances by Flight 19, Big Mac & the Fries and Nobody's Heroes. Admission is free, and food and refreshments will be available for purchase. Meanwhile, across the railroad tracks, Altoona's Railroaders Museum will present its final WingDay Wednesday event, with Born and the Beanstalk and The Sitch providing the musical backdrop to munch on hot chicken wings from area restaurants. Admission is free.
There are lots of performers and shows to check out, so support live music this weekend and upcoming week! And if you plan to celebrate heavily while doing so, please designate a driver or call a cab!
Here is a full listing for live music on area stages this weekend and the coming week:
Northern Appalachian Folk Festival, Indiana; featuring: 6 p.m. – Endless Mike & the Beagle Club, 7 p.m. – Luchenbach Penna Pickers, 8 p.m. – Well Strung, 9 p.m. - Jazzam (all at Outdoor Stage, 6th and Philadelphia Streets)
Felix & the Hurricanes at Heidelberg Clug, Altoona (starts 8 p.m.)
Dunnings Creek at Zach's, Altoona
Xs for Eyes at Aldo's, Altoona
Punk Fiction at the Buccinese Society, Altoona
Ethan Shoop at Shan Nicole's Irish Pub, Hollidaysburg
Ruff Tymes Bob at Bakerton Inn, Bakerton
John and Joan at Bakerton Athletic Club, Bakerton (starts 8 p.m.)
Southside Strays (11 a.m.) and Fabulous Flashbacks (4 p.m.) at The Festival at Lakemont Park, Altoona
Suzapalooza at Duman Lake Park, Ebensburg; featuring Barr T Bluegrass Band, Ghostown Revelry and Never Enough (starts 12 noon; proceeds benefit Conemaugh Health Foundation)
Northern Appalachian Folk Festival, Indiana; featuring: 11 a.m. – Voices of Joy, 12 noon – Julia Voris & Garret Rowan/Fiddlin' Joe's Legacy, 1 p.m. – Rowan Cunningham Band, 2 p.m. – Striped Maple Hollow, 3 p.m. – Mountain Therapy, 4 p.m. – Sue Massek, 5 p.m. – Wisaal, 6 p.m. – Trains, Moonshine & Jesus, 7 p.m. – Melville Walbeck, 8 p.m. – Si Kahn, 9 p.m. – Coastal Remedy (all at Outdoor Stage, 6th and Philadelphia Streets)
Randy Jackson & Friends at Family Pizza, Altoona
Born and the Beanstalk at Aldo's, Altoona
D.D. & the Pub Crawlers at Belmar Hotel, Altoona
The Syrins at Zach's, Altoona (starts 10 p.m.)
Ganister at Magoo's, Cresson
Shades Of Leather at City Hotel, Northern Cambria
AED acoustic and Black Ridge at Jay's Place, Ebensburg
Live Wire at Sunshine Bar, Coalport
K8 and the Crew at Schellsburg VFW, Schellsburg
Crazy Nites at Saxton Sportsmen's Club, Saxton
The Sitch at Bedford Moose, Bedford
AC Express at The Festival at Lakemont Park, Altoona (starts 1 p.m.)
Mama Corn at Baker Mansion, Altoona (starts 2 p.m., free admission)
Drum Circle at Heartspace Wellness, Altoona (starts 2 p.m., free admission)
The Country Travelers at Beach Concession, Canoe Creek State Park (starts 2 p.m., free admission)
Ricky Lee at The Wall That Heals, Altoona (starts 3 p.m., free admission)
John and Joan at Mad Hatters, St. Boniface (starts 4 p.m.)
Left For Dead at Pellegrine's, Altoona (starts 8 p.m.)
Felix & the Hurricanes at Shaw's Bar, Altoona
Terry Lee Spencer and Big Tiny Young at Cookport Fair, Cookport
TUESDAY AFTERNOON: Luckenbach Penna Pickers, Big Tiny Young at Cookport Fair, Cookport
The Conniptions at Cookport Fair, Cookport
Ty Ayers (acoustic) at 4D's Lounge, Altoona
Mercy Vessel, The Masters and Big Tiny Young at Cookport Fair, Cookport
Patriot Day Concert at Heritage Plaza, Altoona; featuring Flight 19, Big Mac & the Fries and Nobody's Heroes (starts 5 p.m.)
WingDay Wednesday with Born and the Beanstalk and The Sitch at Railroaders Museum, Altoona (starts 5:30 p.m.)
Jack and the Country Gentlemen at Clair's Ashville Inn, Ashville (starts 6 p.m.)
No Back Road at Sinking Valley Fair, Skelp (starts 7 p.m.)
Wertz & Pletcher at 4D's Lounge (upstairs), Altoona
Open Mic/Jam Night at Pellegrine's, Altoona (starts 9 p.m.)
Born and the Beanstalk at Belmar Hotel, Altoona (starts 9 p.m.)
The Steinbeisers at Sinking Valley Fair, Skelp (starts 12 noon)
Twolick Senior Band, Big Tiny Young and Ole 97 (Johnny Cash tribute) at Cookport Fair, Cookport
The SharpTones at Sinking Valley Fair, Skelp (starts 7:30 p.m.)
Steve Summerhill at Jethro's, Altoona (starts 7 p.m.)
Matt Pletcher at Zach's, Altoona (starts 8 p.m.)
Drew Dodson at Aldo's, Altoona
(More shows may be added to this list as information becomes available. Feel free to check back.)
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Chrissy Miller of AC Express, performing during the Pints for Pets Brewfest at People's Natural Gas Field in May. The State College-based country and rock group will perform at The Festival at Lakemont Park this Sunday afternoon.
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Thursday was a busy day for Tracy Morgan: not only did he and his fiancée Megan Wollover announce that they're expecting their first child together, but his long-running NBC sitcom, 30 Rock, came to an end later that night.
"It's sad because all your friends and your people, you're not gonna see anymore, but at the same time, it's feeling good because we know we did seven years of good television," said the actor, who admitted that he's keeping his character's "TJ" chain. "We're feeling great about what we've accomplished."
To celebrate the finale, Morgan, 44, who is in New Orleans for the Super Bowl (his commercial for Mio Fit, a sports drink, will air immediately after halftime on Sunday) said that he and Wollover, 26, were planning to lay low.
"Me and my lady are gonna go out to dinner, watch the finale and go to sleep," he said. "She's looking forward to grabbing a plate of soul food. Collard greens – I think she's in love with macaroni and cheese."
As for the announcement that they're expecting a child later this year, Morgan says, "We are feeling great about it – to have a new addition to our family and our life. I want my fiancée, my soon to be wife, to have a healthy and a safe childbirth, that's the most important thing and we are just delighted to have a bundle of joy on the way."
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A 20-year-old Bend man was arrested early Wednesday, accused of stabbing his roommate several times during a dispute a short time earlier, police said.
Police responded around 1:30 a.m. to a home at 387 SE Dell Lane on a reported stabbing, said Sgt. Tom Pine. Arriving officers found Jesse James West, 23, inside the home with several stab wounds on the upper half of his body, Pine said.
Bend fire medics took West to St. Charles Medical Center-Bend with non-life-threatening stab wounds, according to Pine; a nursing supervisor said later he was not listed in the public patient directory.
An investigation determined Spencer Antonio Perez was a suspect. Perez later was found at his mother's home and taken into custody without incident by Deschutes County sheriff's deputies, assisted by Bend police, Pine said. He added that Perez had minor injuries that did not require medical attention.
Perez was booked into the Deschutes County Jail on charges of first-degree assault and unlawful use of a weapon, Pine said. He was held without bail on a parole violation charge, according to jail records.
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Things got a little testy during Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's testimony Wednesday on the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
The attack killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans on Sept. 11, 2012.
Days later, UN Ambassador Susan Rice said the attack grew spontaneously from a protest over an anti-Islam film produced in the U.S.
That turned out to be incorrect.
During Wednesday's Senate hearing, Sen. Ron Johnson persistently questioned Clinton about that, saying Rice intentionally misled the American people. You can watch the full exchange in the video player above.
"We were misled that there were supposedly protests and then something sprang out of that, an assault sprang out of that, and that was easily ascertained that was not the fact, and the American people could have known that within days, and they didn't know that," Johnson said.
Clinton responded, "With all due respect, the fact is that we had four dead Americans, was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night and decided they'd kill some Americas; what difference at this point does it make? It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to keep it from ever happening again, senator, now honestly I will do my best to answer your questions about this, but the fact is that people were trying in real time to get to the best information, the IC has a process, I understand, going with the other committees to explain how these talking points came out, but you know to be clear it is, from my perspective, less important today looking backwards as to why these militants decided they did it than to find them and bring them to justice and then maybe we'll figure out what was going on in the meantime."
WISN 12 News' Craig McKee talked with Johnson on the phone Wednesday afternoon.
He said the report of events shows the administration's original information on the attack didn't hold water, and he defended his questioning of Clinton.
"It is very obvious that there wasn't a protest, and people on the ground would have known that. I mean, they would have known if there was a lot of activity out side the compound," Johnson said. "A simple phone call would have determined that, and that was the only point I was trying to make with the secretary was, 'Did anybody make that phone call and why not?'"
The testimony is one of Clinton's last acts before leaving her post.
Clinton was originally scheduled to testify last month but postponed her appearance to be treated for illness, a concussion and a blood clot near her brain.


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Bethlehem Police say a 50-year-old man stabbed his elderly uncle in the city Monday afternoon.
John Bragg Jr. of 256 E. Goepp St., Bethlehem, is accused of stabbing his uncle -- Bill Fitzpatrick -- several times at the Goepp address around 12:30 Monday afternoon.
Police said Fitzpatrick is the executor of the Goepp property, which was owned by Fitzpatrick's brother, Bragg's father.
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Bragg is charged with attempted homicide, aggravated assault, recklessly endangering another person and possession of an instrument of crime.
Police said the knife used in the stabbing was recovered.
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A Chocowinity man is accused of stealing several items from a Beaufort County farm. Deputies said Austin Taylor, 22, of Emma Cannon Road in Chocowinity, stole a bush hog, aluminum pipe, a utility vehicle and a hay baler from a farm on Wells Road in Chocowinity in August.
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LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls woman pleaded not guilty Thursday to an indictment charging her with stabbing a man last spring and of assaulting him two other times.
Sicory Y. Walker, 38, of 17th Street, denied two counts of second-degree assault and single counts of third-degree assault, third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, fourth-degree criminal mischief and second-degree harassment.
Anthony Gates, 42, allegedly was stabbed on the night of May 14-15 and assaulted Sept. 7 and 17. Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas held Walker in lieu of $3,500 bail.


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5 Famous Filmmakers Whose Dream Projects Were Disasters
Hollywood is full of stories about writers, actors, and directors struggling with projects that take forever to get produced but are finally released to critical and commercial success -- films like Garden State, Schindler's List, and Hellboy II: The Golden Army. But not every filmmaker's passion project turns out to be Star Wars. More often than not, it's The Chronicles of Riddick, and everyone goes home broke and depressed.
#5. Battlefield Earth
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L. Ron Hubbard decided that Battlefield Earth was going to be made into a movie pretty much the instant he finished writing it, which was news to anyone who actually took the time to read all 1,000 vaingloriously self-indulgent pages. So, he immediately whipped up some screenplay drafts, had copies of the novel sent to John Travolta, and had the Church of Scientology's in-house literary agency sell the movie rights to the first production company that made them an offer. A screenwriter and producer were hired, a giant inflatable alien was stationed on Hollywood Boulevard to try to raise money for the movie, and the project caved in on itself like a Peruvian mine, because precisely no one in Hollywood was interested in turning this ridiculous book into a movie. Except for John Travolta.
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"It's like Star Wars, only on a much less challenging reading level!"
At that point in the 1980s, Travolta had about as much industry clout as Dean Cain's butler, so he spent the next decade clinging to Battlefield Earth like a seat cushion in a transatlantic plane crash. As soon as Pulp Fiction came around and gave him some of his A-list juice back, Travolta thrust the full force of his considerable chin-butt into fierce negotiations for a Battlefield Earth movie. That was in 1995. It still took five more years for the movie to finally come out, because no production company wanted to touch it -- they felt it was too mired in Scientology, a notion they probably got from the countless passages in the novel condemning the field of psychology as a long-dead cult, the fact that the evil aliens are called Psychlos and Catrists, and the fact that John Travolta had been Scientology's most visible and vocal supporter right up until Tom Cruise was lured into pledging himself to the teachings of L. Ron Hubbard by Mimi Rogers' giant boobs. There was also the lingering problem that the story was the stupidest fucking thing ever written, an affliction John Travolta seems to be incapable of diagnosing.
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Exhibit A.
Travolta didn't give up, though, and insisted that the movie was going to be better than Star Wars, which back in the '90s was still a high-enough bar that you couldn't jump straight over it with a rusty tricycle and a ramp of old refrigerator boxes. He finally found a willing partner in Franchise Pictures, a production company headed by a nightclub-owning swindle merchant who unsurprisingly wound up embezzling $30 million of the film's budget, and in July of 2000, Battlefield Earth was unleashed on a world that wanted absolutely no part of it.
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Pictured: the exit row of every theater showing Battlefield Earth.
The entire movie is filmed in skewed-angle shots like a two-hour episode of Batman, the dialogue sounds like someone trying to write a ransom note using nothing but fortune cookie messages, and John Travolta seems to be doing an impression of a terrible John Travolta performance. Also, Forest Whitaker is in it, and Forest Whitaker should know better.
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Both of these men have received Academy Award nominations for Best Actor.
Battlefield Earth bombed like shrapnel from an unholy meteor, incinerating the proposed plans for a sequel alongside John Travolta's credibility as a maker of sound financial decisions.
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Exhibit B.
#4. Dune
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The Sisyphean task of adapting Frank Herbert's Dune into a movie began in 1971, back when science fiction still looked like this:
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Over the next 13 years, Dune changed hands in the wake of collapsed ruin so many times, it was like the goddamned monkey's paw. First, the people responsible for the Planet of the Apes sequels tried to get Dune off the ground with two different directors and two different screenwriters, but the head of the production studio wisely died before the project went anywhere, and the rights were picked up by another company.
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"The task of bringing my perfectly sculpted hair to the silver screen must pass to another."
The second company meant to turn it into a 10-hour miniseries starring Salvador Dali, Mick Jagger, and Herve Villechaize and featuring a soundtrack by Pink Floyd. The ticket stub to see this movie would've been a tab of LSD. Had it been made, this version of Dune would've been the most well-baited trap of all time -- people would've totally paid to see Tattoo and Mick Jagger prance around a cosmic desert and wouldn't have discovered that the movie was 10 hours long until it was too late. That's like going to the circus and suddenly realizing that all of the clowns are stolen children and all of the ushers have had their mouths sewn shut.
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And in order to escape, you have to battle Sting to the death.
When that production of Dune eventually ran out of money, it changed hands yet again, this time falling to legendary producer Dino De Laurentiis, who hired Ridley Scott to direct. Scott tried three times to turn Dune into something both filmable and watchable, but then quit to go make Blade Runner, and the world is a better place for his decision. However, judging by Blade Runner's seven versions, it does not appear as though Scott had any firmer grasp of what the hell was going on in that movie.
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In his defense, I don't think anyone was meant to decipher the sequence wherein Sting tortures a man
with a cat in an electric body sling.
Finally, the producers saw The Elephant Man and inexplicably decided that David Lynch would be the perfect person to direct Dune. Apparently they thought the Elephant Man was from space. Anyway, Lynch personally wrote five drafts of the script before they finally started filming, resulting in one of the most sprawling productions in film history -- there were about 80 sets built for Dune, and it had a working crew of nearly 2,000 people. It also had Sting, whom I think just showed up in clothes he brought from home. And Sean Young, who probably showed up in clothes she stole from Sting's garbage. And a young, moon-faced Kyle MacLachlan, who disappeared into his role as the prince of the cosmos so completely that, to this day, nobody has any idea who he is.
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He arguably prefers it that way.
Dune finally premiered in theaters in 1984 and immediately bored audiences into weeping, blubbery depression. As Cyriaque once pointed out, David Lynch refuses to have his name attached to certain cuts of the film, because many of the final decisions were taken completely out of his hands and he was so thoroughly bummed with how they turned out that he didn't want to be associated with them. Judging by his filmography, if Lynch had gotten his way, Dune would've been utterly indecipherable as opposed to merely confusing.
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Not even Patrick Stewart knows what's going on, and he's usually hip-deep in this bullshit.
#3. Toys
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Occasionally-esteemed director Barry Levinson really wanted Toys to be his first movie, because he was apparently engaged in some Andy Kaufman meta joke designed to euthanize his own career before it ever had a chance to live. He wrote it back in 1979, but 20th Century Fox thought Toys was way too risky, because it is full of visual gags and jokes seemingly intended for children, yet is aimed directly at adults as a larger commentary on war and pacifism. So despite the fact that they'd already invested money in the project, Fox decided to sit on it for another 10 years, presumably hoping the script would make more sense the longer they thought about it. At one point they almost sold the movie to another production company, so I guess their decade of meditation never really crossed that "sense-making" threshold.
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"What ... what is this? We can't show this to people, they'll be killed."
Levinson had to spend the 1980s directing a bunch of other movies before anyone would trust him to turn the howling stack of moonman gibberish that was the Toys screenplay into something people would pay money to go see. After he coughed up Diner, Good Morning, Vietnam, and Rain Man, Fox said, "We still have no idea what shrieking Mesopotamian deity commanded Barry to write Toys, but we guess he knows what he's doing" and gave him $43 million to finally make his dreams come true.
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One of which was to see Robin Williams drive a bumper car to a funeral.
The finished film, released in 1992, features Michael Gambon as a militaristic toy developer who wants to make human-murdering toys for the military, LL Cool J in an early king-making role as Robin Williams' improbable cousin, and Joan Cusack as Williams' secretly robotic sister. That sentence sounds like someone spilled Wite-Out in a TV Guide and put all the surviving words together in a straight line. To try to convince people to watch this monster, Fox unveiled a baffling marketing campaign that included a shitty Sega game, full-page ads in children's comic books, and one of the worst theatrical trailers ever created. Toys is the type of film Roald Dahl and Michael Jackson would've made together and is remarkably similar to the film Michael Jackson did make.
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"You know what? Let's not pursue this line of thought any further."
To the surprise of absolutely no one, Toys didn't manage to connect with anyone and quickly vanished from theaters like a 19th century magician. Levinson has made a bit of a career of putting Dustin Hoffman into uncomfortable situations (he stuffs him into a metal dungeon at the bottom of the ocean with Sharon Stone and Sam Jackson in Sphere and forces him to pretend to be related to Tom Cruise in Rain Man), so I'm curious why he didn't ask Hoffman to be in this picture. Maybe he did and Hoffman declined. He and Robin Williams probably had a good laugh about it while they were making Hook.
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"This evening Shakespeare's comedy, 'Much Ado About Nothing,' was produced at the Lyceum Theatre before a brilliant audience. The scenery and costumes were of the most gorgeous description, the climax of the play being reached in the fourth act, in which the church scene, with an altar-piece and the complete accessories of a Catholic cathedral, was a marvel of realistic scenic effect. Mr. Irving achieved a genuine success as Benedict, but to Miss Ellen Terry as Beatrice the greater meed of praise was accorded. Mr. Forbes Robertson was much applauded for his finished rendering of the part of Claudio, and other parts were well sustained." London Correspondence , Freeman's Journal, Dublin, Oct. 12, 1882. Courtesy of 19th C. British Library Newspapers. Image: courtesy of the Hampden-Booth Library, New York.


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Starting Thursday, they will have a direct route from Charleston to Beantown.
Low-cost carrier JetBlue will fly into the Holy City, offering three daily flights to the tourist-and-business-traveler-rich Northeast corridor: one to Boston's Logan International Airport and two to John F. Kennedy International in New York.
"The addition of JetBlue flights out of Charleston will provide our travelers with more options and will spur more competitive fares, both of which we are looking forward to," said Stephanie Thomas, manager of Blackbaud's corporate travel program.
While the inaugural flights aren't sold out, New York-based JetBlue, with its first-bag-flies-free offer, is so satisfied with the demand in Charleston, it will offer a second flight to Boston on Saturdays starting in April.
"That's unusual to add it before they start service," Charleston International spokeswoman Becky Beaman said.
"What a credit to Charleston for advance sales," said Helen Hill, executive director of the Charleston Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, which lobbied nearly three years to bring the airline to the Lowcountry.
"We are very pleased with the bookings," JetBlue spokeswoman Allison Steinberg said.
The airline's arrival could add up to 175,000 travelers annually to and from Charleston International, she said, boosting the airport's passengers count well above the current 2.5 million each year.
It also gives Charleston year-round nonstop access to Boston, something the airport doesn't offer now, as well as more flights to JFK.
Equally important is that both airports offer direct links to international passengers, giving those travelers direct paths to Charleston, a port city steeped in history that readers of Conde Nast Traveler magazine voted the No. 1 tourist destination in the U.S. and the world in 2012.
"Both of those cites are major international gateways," said Perrin Lawson, deputy director of the CVB. "This opens up the Northeast corridor."
JetBlue and Southwest Airlines, which began serving Charleston in March 2011, are the two premier low-cost carriers, Lawson said. "JetBlue (like Southwest) is an airline you like serving your community," he added.
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When passengers arrive in Boston and New York for the first two flights headed to Charleston, they will be greeted at the gate with "an essence of Charleston breakfast," Steinberg of JetBlue said.
While she didn't name all the menu items, she didn't rule out grits as a possibility.
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Shortly after the first plane from New York touches down in Charleston around 10 a.m., a festive atmosphere will greet passengers.
Airline leaders, airport officials and government leaders will roll out the red carpet for JetBlue through a press conference followed by a reception.
Later in the day, JetBlue officials will be treated to a private reception by the CVB, which pumped nearly $700,000 into startup marketing incentives to woo the airline.
The Charleston County Aviation Authority kicked in just over $200,000 through start-up infrastructure costs, a two-year waiver of landing fees and about $10,000 for marketing.
"I'm glad they did what they did to bring JetBlue in," said Aviation Authority Chairman Andy Savage, who was not chairman when the airline announced in September it was adding Charleston to its route system.
"Charleston is becoming ever more popular as a tourist destination," said Savage, who will be on the inaugural flight to Boston on Thursday to visit his former high school principal.
"We also have national and international corporations here, and people living here are looking for quality at a fair price," he said.
The Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce also pitched in $117,700 in in-kind marketing through its website and other promotions.
Charleston-area travel agents such as Hazel Berry said the addition of JetBlue is a ticket booster for the travel industry, especially the direct link to Boston.
"I just think it will benefit us regardless," said Berry, president of Travel Leaders of Charleston in Mount Pleasant. "People are familiar with JetBlue and have been talking about it."
Frequent traveler and local businessman Steve Parker called the airline's arrival "a great benefit" for Charleston.
"When I lived in New York, I loved flying on JetBlue," said Parker, chief executive officer of Levelwing, a Charleston digital marketing and business analytics company off Clements Ferry Road in Berkeley County with another office in New York City.
"I don't know if I will use them for every flight, but I will certainly use them," he said. "It depends on the schedule. From an option standpoint, it's a win-win. If it impacts prices, that's better."
Beaman, the airport spokeswoman, said JetBlue's arrival should definitely bring down airfares to those markets.
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This years inductees will be former West High School basketball player Ernie Kent, former East High School track and field runner Donna Cargill, the 1939 Rockford High School boys' basketball team, former Rockford High School basketball coach and East High School basketball program funder Jim Laude, and former East High School football and boys basketball manager Brad Muzzarelli, deceased.
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DECA (no thanks to Cronk) was once an acronym for Delta Epsilon Chi Association. However, when it grew from a college-only organization to college and high school, for some unknown reason it became, according to the DEAC website, just plain DECA. It is an international association comprised of 5,000 schools and some 185, 000 students and its mission is to prepare "leaders and entrepreneurs for careers in marketing, finance, hospitality and management." Congratulations Musselman!
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Now. Go to college. Spend 20-30k on an education in a special field. Have a student loan payment of about 400-500 a month. Use those skills when a retail job is all you can find in this economy after college.
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Stubborn like a nail, but will love you till the day you die, honest trustworthy, funny and caring, but most of all loving, but do not get on her bad side
Jacob loves Kaite with all his heart
লিখেছেন- Anthony jacob 27 de ফেব্রুয়ারি de 2015
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A girl who is obsessed with her body image and constantly works out.
She has been at the gym all day. Her name must be Kaite
লিখেছেন- Knowitall55 6 de জানুয়ারি de 2014


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Mary Foor of Duncansville said she transferred her son, then a seventh-grader, out of the Hollidaysburg Area School District in February 2012 because other students were teasing him about his clothing, stealing his lunch and kicking his textbooks down the hallway.
After spending a year at Blair County Christian School, Foor said her son wants to return.
"He misses activities he was able to do in Hollidaysburg" like band and theater, she said.
But she's not so sure it's a good idea and recalled that, as a bullying victim herself, she knows it could get worse if he goes back.
When speaker Elizabeth Bennett, a national bullying expert and advocate, asked the audience how many of them were bullying victims, the show of hands proved Foor wasn't alone.
More than 200 people attended Wednesday night's bullying program at the Ramada Altoona Conference Center, sponsored by a Blair County committee of local mental health service organizations as part of May is Mental Health Month activities.
Bennett explained that she doesn't use the term bullying. It minimizes the problem, she said, and the term peer abuse better explains what people are going through.
When one calls it abuse, "you put it up there with other forms of abuse" like domestic abuse, child abuse and elder abuse, she said. "You start to see the seriousness of it," she said.
Bennett often relayed her own experiences to educate the audience on how the abuse can be detected and what to do - as well as what not to do - to stop it.
"I was passive too," she said, pointing to a slide showing what types of children normally are bullied and how they cope. She also said bullying victims sometimes become bullies themselves.
"I know I did that," she said. "Because I didn't want to be abused."
Adults are the ones who have the power and understanding to prevent peer abuse, she said. There are a lot of feel-good marketing strategies that can rally kids to treat each other better, but adults have to follow through.
"It's up to us to stop this," she said, pointing out the need to get training and know the proper way to report and stop bullying.
Bennett also emphasized that there is hope.
"It's not like ... nothing's ever going to be happy again or bright again," she said, and adult survivors are proof of that.
Pat Long brought her granddaughter to see Bennett speak.
The Altoona eighth-grader said she's been bullied since kindergarten.
"Apparently I'm ugly and stupid," she said.
Tears in her eyes, Long said she wanted the girl to know there's "a light at the end of the tunnel" and they're going to stop the bullying.
Long took pages of notes during the program and said she came out of it "very impressed" with Bennett and the knowledge she has.
She said she wants to buy Bennett's book and use it whenever any of her grandchildren are facing abuse from their peers.
"I am hopeful," she said.
Mirror Staff Writer Kelly Cernetich is at 946-7520.


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Vice President Joe Biden is in
Michigan today at the NextEnergy Center in Detroit. He is
reportedly going to announce the first round of $2B USD in Department
of Energy battery grants. The grants should boost the state's
economy and help develop better electric vehicles, currently favored
as the future of the car industry by the domestic automakers.
federal government is also separately loaning money to battery
manufacturers under the $25 billion Advanced Technology Vehicle
Manufacturing Incentive Program (ATVM). Among the battery
manufacturers that applied for that loan are A123 Systems, EnerDel,
and Compact Power. Thus far Ford,
Nissan, and Tesla Motors received ATVM loans. It is unknown who
the grants will go to, but A123 Systems, EnerDel, and Compact Power
seem like leading candidates.
Ed DeSeve, the president's
special advisor on the stimulus program, had stated about on July 21,
"I think you'll see over the next week or so ... some
industrialization focus, for example, on the battery grants that are
coming. It makes sense to put those in places where there is
productive working capacity -- people who can do the jobs. There are
plants where the jobs can exist, and I think you are going to start
to see more and more of that over time."
The ATVM loans
must be repaid eventually by automakers and battery makers.
However, the DoE grants do not have to be repaid. Michigan has
also offered battery makers some big
tax cuts in hopes of luring business into the state.
limited amount of tickets to Mr. Biden's appearance have been offered
to the public on a first-come-first-serve basis.
quote: Michigan has also offered battery makers some big tax cuts in hopes of luring business into the state.
quote: Perhaps he needs to clean up Congress - you say that they elected corrupt politicians - ALL politicians are corrupt.
quote: It is this two-party blindness which is keeping our country from being fixed.
quote: Also, Obama's birth certificate is public record, you can even fill out a form requesting to see a copy.
quote: He could instantly defuse the criticism by releasing those documents--yet he won't.
quote: I thought he closed his birth records?
quote: Don't rate me down for asking a question. Did he not lock up his records?
quote: Lets face it, even if Obama did release the very slip of paper that was typed on to certify his birth the day he was born these birthers would STILL not be happy, claiming forgery
quote: quote: It is this two-party blindness which is keeping our country from being fixed.
quote: This battery silliness is insane spending to placate certain voting communities
quote: Either way, I'm much more afraid of his policies than his background.
quote: Kenya was a Dominion the date this certificate was allegedly issued and would not become a republic for 8 months.Mombasa belonged to Zanzibar when Obama was born, not Kenya.Obama's father's village would be nearer to Nairobi, not Mombasa.The number 47O44-- 47 is Obama's age when he became president, followed by the letter O (not a zero) followed by 44--he is the 44th president.EF Lavender is a laundry detergent.
quote: Do you not think that the CIA and all these other agencies wouldn't do background checks on candidates for Presidency?
quote: Then there's the whole recent Kenyan birth certificate that just came out. You saying people are willing to risk fraud in order to frame the man?
quote: Nor did he really release any personal information as every other presidential candidate has ever done in recent history
quote: Obama released a couple pages. Why? Especially when the man is a smoker and has even admitted to taking and dealing drugs.
quote: If you try to get a passport with a "short form" you WILL be sent away because it's not a LEGAL DOCUMENT, period. I'm sure he has a passport.
quote: Oh and listening to Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck 24/7 doesn't count as being informed.
quote: As far as Communism goes, what about police forces, fire departments and the armed forces?
quote: You're not asked to cover a $3000 deductible before the fire dept puts out the fire at your house, or a cop stops the guy trying to shoot you. So why is that OK before you'll be allowed to enter an O.R.?
quote: As far as Communism goes, what about police forces, fire departments and the armed forces? These are all services that we, as a SOCIETY or COMMUNITY (same roots as Socialism or Communism
quote: My view on the birth certificate thing is, why hasn't he released it?
quote: What other president has ever not released their birth certificate and medical records?
quote: What reason does he have not to release it? He's spending a huge amount of money (probably tax payer money) in order to not release it.
quote: About 20 reporters-- including CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta and NBC's Dr. Nancy Snyderman -- were allowed to enter a room at the resort in the back of the Alchemy restaurant. We were allowed in at 7:30 and given three hours to review the records and take notes.
quote: As far as "communist". Look at the man's record and what he himself has said when not on the campaign trail (and even on it at times. You know who I am on this site. If I started saying I agreed with liberals, would you just trust my word blindly? Obama has said he favors a single payer system, a complete gun ban, wealth redistribution, etc. on more than one occassion. But we're supposed to believe him when he says he doesn't as he tries to get approval for his plans or tries to get elected?
quote: Remember, Descent is the highest form of patriotic! http://www.flickr.com/photos/unpossibles/346224619...
quote: Not sure what to make of the article, as it sounds like a decent plan if it helps the State, but all this Obama/Administration hate you see across the internet would be hilarious if it weren't scary
quote: You are acting like there have never been any corrupt republicans in office.
quote: By your logic, one or more of the following leads to "dirty democrat politicians"...1. high unemployment2. high taxes3. high minority populations
quote: Oh Michigan. The state that elected a crazy amount of corrupt democrat politicans throughout the state, most notably in Detroit ... they can't even sell homes in the city there for $1 now. Oh, but NOW they want to lure companies back there to hire employees, after all the skilled non-union employees left from being overtaxed.I see a bucking trend happening in major metro areas down the pipe. Seriously, who WOULD NOT want to live in this urban wasteland?


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But for a lucky few stars, the people they grew up with became celebrities themselves, with their own fans, their own love interests and their own trending topics.
It must be a welcome surprise. After all, it's lonely at the top, but it's a little less lonely when your childhood friends are there, too.
In honor of International Friendship Day – commonly celebrated on the first Sunday in August – we're rounding up the celeb pairs who have known each other since before they were famous.
Ryan Gosling and Justin Timberlake
Most celebs who knew each other as kids went to school together; Ryan Gosling and Justin Timberlake were co-workers. As cast members on the revamped Mickey Mouse Club, Gosling and Timberlake were self-confessed "partners in crime," hanging out between shoots and even living together for a spell after Gosling's mom moved back to Canada.
"We were crazy," Timberlake told The Jonathan Ross Show in 2013. "We, like, skipped tutoring. Going to the park, to the Honey I Shrunk the Kids set. We'd have milkshakes. Oh man, we were so gangster."
Gwyneth Paltrow and Maya Rudolph
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Decades later, when Bruce's daughter Gwyneth was hosting Saturday Night Live, she used her monologue to give a shout-out to Dick's daughter Maya, who had recently joined the cast.
"This week has been real extra-special to me because one of my best friends is on the show now, and I'm so proud of her," Gwyneth gushed. "She's super-funny and talented, and I'm so glad she's in the cast."
Jonah Hill and Adam Levine
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"Our dads met at the principal's office in junior high," Hill told Howard Stern. "We basically lived together – we were in carpool, sleepovers at each each other's houses, everything."
Hill's first concert was a show featuring Maroon 5 predecessor Kara's Flowers, which nabbed a record deal while Levine was still in high school. Still, the 21 Jump Street star swears that fame has not changed his old friend: "That is a guy who is exactly who he ever was, in a great way."
Besides those kind words, Hill was able to do PEOPLE's Sexiest Man Alive an even better favor, officiating Levine's wedding to model Behati Prinsloo in July.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire
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The pair met as child actors in the late '80s, often auditioning for the same roles (which Leo almost always won). Both sons of divorced parents, the two bonded over what DiCaprio later called their "humble beginnings."
As the Aviator star later told the Associated Press, "We both were these young, very enthusiastic, ambitious young men that really wanted to get our foot in the door."
In the '90s, the pair collaborated to make (and then hide) the little-seen film Don's Plum, before forming the center of a pack of young actors with an unprintable name that ran wild around New York City in the post-Titanic era. (Other members of the crew included Entourage's Kevin Connolly, magician David Blaine and Stan from Mad Men.)
"Every project we do, we talk about," DiCaprio told the AP. "Every single choice I've made, I've talked to Tobey about and vice versa. We've had endless conversations about certain projects and argued with one another and supported one another along the way."
In 2013, DiCaprio and Maguire teamed up to play one of literature's most famous best-friend duos: Glittering millionaire Jay Gatsby and his loyal sidekick Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby.
"I got to work on one of the great American novels with my best friend," Maguire told PEOPLE. "It was great!"
John Krasinski and B.J. Novak
Michael Buckner / Getty
As Novak wrote in his Reddit AMA session, "I sometimes think that if I were to wake up and it turned out The Office was all a dream, the fact that John Krasinski was in it with me would be what I'd realize afterward should have been the obvious tip-off. 'Oh! And John Krasinski was in it, too! But they called him Jim!' "
Nicole Kidman and Naomi Watts
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The pair later stared together in the 1990 film Flirting, but while Kidman's star rose quickly, Watts toiled along in obscurity. She later credited Kidman with helping her through this tough time: "She kept saying, 'It's just going to take one thing … if you're in a hit film [then] everything changes.'"
The pair reportedly hit a rocky patch in 2013, with dueling biopics and a spat over Kidman's refusal to take part in a celebration of Watts's Oscar nomination. In September, Kidman took over the lead role in Werner Herzog's Queen of the Desert after Watts dropped out, which can be interpreted as a favor, a power move, or nothing at all.
Kate Hudson and Liv Tyler
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The experience was slightly awkward for them. As Tyler told Metro UK in 2008, "We were always so shy about the kissing, but in retrospect we were like, 'We should have just totally made out and tongued each other.' But we never did, we were just too scared to do it."
Jennifer Aniston and Chaz Bono
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"Every day a group of us would go to Chaz's house after school," Aniston told Allure. "I haven't spoken to him in a while."
Lauryn Hill and Zach Braff
Vallery Jean / WireImage; Millennium / Todd Williamson / AP
"There was a game called Coke and Pepsi: You'd have a partner, and one person was Coke and the other Pepsi," Braff recalled to Jane magazine. "Depending on what the DJ would yell, you had to run and get on that person's lap. And Lauryn was my Coke and Pepsi partner."
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck
"Before Matt, I was by myself," Affleck told Parade. "Acting was a solo activity where I'd just go off and do something, act in a little TV show or something, and no one understood it. … All of a sudden I had this friend Matt, and he gets it and wants to do it and thinks it's interesting and wants to talk about it."
The pair split up once Affleck went away for college – Damon, two years older, had gone to a local school called Harvard – but they reunited in the early '90s in L.A. Both had dropped out of college and were trying to make it as actors. Frustrated by their lack of success, they decided to write their own movie, tossing around ideas for a script about a working-class genius and his townie friends. The rest is history.
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on May 26, 2013 - 12:01 AM
St. Catherine Laboure Adult Day Health Care at Sisters Hospital provides an opportunity for adults age 18 and over, who are chronically ill or disabled with a medical diagnosis requiring skilled services, to spend the day in a supervised setting. Services include: nursing care, social work, therapy, nutrition and health counseling, recreational activities, certified nursing assistant and pastoral care. The program focus is to maintain independence in the community. Medicaid or private pay accepted. For more information, call 862-2513 or visit: www.chsbuffalo.org/adultday.
J.P.'s Foundation, a not-for-profit corporation established to better the community by charitable, educational and cultural programs, is hosting its 3rd annual "Run the Burg for Autism," a 5K run/walk race in the Village of Hamburg to benefit Autism Services. The race will start at 11 a.m. Saturday at J.P. Fitzgerald's Restaurant, 4236 Clark St., Hamburg. A post-race party including awards, food and live music will be held at the restaurant. For registration information, visit: www.jpsfoundation.org.
NFTA Advisory Committee on the Disabled will meet at 2 p.m. Thursday at Western New York Independent Living., 3108 Main St. It is open to those interested in learning about the NFTA's accessible services and programs for people with disabilities. For information, call 855-7286.
Independent Living of Niagara County is hosting its 8th annual Bass Fishing Derby benefit on Aug. 4 at the Lower Niagara River. Boat launch starts at 7 a.m., weigh-in at 1 p.m., followed by an awards ceremony, family barbecue and theme basket auction at the Fin, Feather and Fur Conservation Society, 904 Swann Road, Lewiston. Cost is $125 per person, which includes boat, fishing needs and barbecue or $25 per person for barbecue alone. Early bird registration cost is $100. Deadline is Saturday. For more information, call (716) 284-4131, Ext. 181.
Parent Network of Western New York and Early Childhood Direction Center offer a support group for families of individuals with developmental disabilities. The group meets from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. the last Tuesday of every month at Early Childhood Direction Center/People Inc., 3131 Sheridan Drive, Amherst. Families can meet and network with other parents, caregivers and families, share thoughts on topics of interest, ask questions and receive support. Open to families of children of all ages. For more information or to register, call 332-4170.
ArtsWork, the art and music program sponsored by Autism Services to create a bridge between people with autism and the community, is hosting "Decades," a variety show at 7 p.m. Friday at Depew High School, 5201 Transit Road. For information about services and programs offered by Autism Services, visit: autism-services-inc.org.
OAHiiO (The Good Path), part of Western New York Independent Living's families of agencies, is providing a MICA Soup and Support Group for Native Americans coping with both chemical addiction and mental illness. Weekly meetings designed to move each participant forward to recovery are held over soup and dialogue. For meeting times and locations, contact Kate St. John at 836-0822, Ext. 118 or (800) 348-8399.
Items of timely events may be submitted by fax, 856-5150 or by mail to City Desk, Events for People with Disabilities, The Buffalo News, P.O. Box 100, Buffalo, NY 14240.


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Top Definition
The type of slop that you shit the mornign after a night of drinking Budweiser.
I had the worst case of Bud Mud this morning.
מאת todd 29 בדצמבר, 2003
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Can you define these popular missing words?
An uncontrollable case of diarrhea, or other loose-stooled B.M. stemming from consumption of alcohol, generally cheap alcohol.
After a long night of hammering Milwaukee's BEAST, Peter woke up with a severe case of the Bud Muds.
מאת somuchmud 6 בנובמבר, 2005
The shit that works it's way out of your colon after a night of smoking the chronic.
Man you should have seen the bud mud i left in the shitter this morning
מאת JerseyJohn 3 באפריל, 2003


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on April 15, 2013 - 7:54 PM
, updated April 15, 2013 at 7:55 PM
A group of middle schoolers at King Center Charter School are testing a new app designed to help them get into college and succeed.
The students have been asked to give their comments and feedback to the designers of the app, called WOOP, which stands for Wish-Outcome-Obstacle-Plan.
"I think it's good," said sixth-grader Kalei Garner, who like many of the other young testers likes the app's basic design.
But they had some ideas to make it better.
Elijah Marshall, a fifth-grader at the school, suggested that the designers add more color to the graphics, "so it's not so plain," and use picture frame designs to border each screen.
"That will make it fancier," he said.
Elijah's classmate Ceionjae White suggested using real people instead of stick figures.
"Maybe like a person with a cap and gown to show how the app helped them," she said.
The app was one of 20 winners in the $2.5 million College Knowledge Challenge, sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to create free or low-cost Web and smartphone apps to help low-income and first-generation students make it to and through college.
The competition was launched last September at Facebook headquarters in California. Winners were chosen in January by a panel of college-access and technology experts.
"And now they're all building their apps," said Keith W. Frome, headmaster of the charter school, which is located on Buffalo's East Side.
Frome is also the co-founder of College Summit, a national nonprofit organization that offers curricula and technology to guide students through the college admissions process.
From March to September, the apps are being beta-tested by students around the country, including the King Center Charter School students, and will be launched to the nation in September.
The apps cover all of the aspects of successful college admission, Frome said, including scholarship searches, college list research, course planning, peer support and career exploration and preparation.
Several of the apps deal with financial aid application services.
Some of them provide help with getting the college application together.
Others, like WOOP, the winning app that King Center students tested Monday, focus on the "acquisition of grit and perseverance skills," Frome said.
The basics of the app are simple: Make a wish. Imagine an outcome. Identify the obstacles and then make a plan.
"It teaches kids to be gritty because that's the key to success," Frome said.
New York University researcher Gabriele Oettingen developed the WOOP app, which asks students a lot of questions to direct them to set academic goals and use a research-verified process to reach them, Frome said.
The King charter school kids were the "experts, the typical users" who tested the design of the WOOP application for recommendations on how to make the app simpler and more interesting to young people.
The testers seemed to like the basic design.
The 20 winning apps were granted $50,000 to $100,000 each, depending on the size and scope of their project, and involve social media tools to coach and encourage students.
College Knowledge Challenge will not take equity, ownership of intellectual property rights or require revenue share from the funded projects.
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Friday, June 13, 2014
Dorchester County Council passed the countys 2014-2015 fiscal year budget during its June 16 meeting.
This years budget, funded at the same millage level as last years, comes in slightly higher at about $44.2 million and includes some $3.8 million in capital improvement fund expenses and $3.3 million in debt service expenses.
The General Fund Budget saw several amendments proposed and passed, none of which changed either total expenditures or revenue. Some of these amendments included authorizing some $56,000 for a Capital Projects Manager; authorizing the transfer of the Budget Officer and $65,422 from the Budget and Finance Department to the County Administrators Office and renaming the Budget and Finance Department the Finance Department; transferring Transport Officers and some $188,000 from the Sheriffs Office budget to the Detention budget; and decreasing funding to the Charleston Regional Devlopment Alliance by $123,000 as well as decreasing funding to the Medically Indigent Assistance Fund by about $43,000.
For the seventh year in a row, the state legislature is decreasing funds allocated to the Local Government Fund. Dorchester Countys share remains the same as fiscal year 2013-2014 at $5.16 million, leaving the county funded at about 73 percent of what it should be according to state statute, officials noted.
That means a number of requests about another $4.4 million -- simply could not be funded in this years budget. These included a little over $2.5 million in new position requests and $1.8 million in operating requests. Significant items not funded this year include two new dispatchers, four new deputies, two new 12-hour medic shifts, and a 1.9 percent salary increase for county employees.
Another $6 million in Capital Fund requests will also have to remain on the back burner for now, noted council members and staff.
All of these requests come on the heels of another year of being underfunded by the state, Council Chairman Bill Hearn said. I think weve done the best we can given the situation seven years of being underfunded is adding up.
Hearn did note, however, that the legislature, which had originally planned to cut local funding by some $2.2 million, revised that number to $1.83 million.
We are grateful for and appreciative of that, Hearn said.
Council Vice Chair George Bailey said he believes the legislature understands the gravity of the situation local governments face and will be more responsive in the future.
I think things are going to change, he said.
The county does have a number of capital projects it will be undertaking, most notably the new detention center, the bids for which are to be opened June 19, County Administrator Jason Ward told council during a final budget retreat June 12. With those projects coming on line in the coming year, staff is recommending that the county hire a Capital Projects Manager.
This position would manage building projects and assist with Capital Improvements planning, budgeting, and estimating, Ward said.
Other projects include storm water projects, including work currently under way in the Archdale neighborhood.
Other efforts include public education initiatives, building relationships with private property owners to secure permission to access properties not owned by the county to continue debris removal efforts and improve drainage, and undertaking a major study of problems and issues associated with Polk Swamp, near St. George.
The county is also seeking a solution for parking at the EMS Headquarters Building on U.S. 78 in Summerville. With construction on the site of the Alston Middle School property slated to begin in the near future, the county will lose parking on that property, Deputy Administrator Ashley Jacobs said.
Council did approve a small millage increase for the Dorchester County Library budget of .2 mills, which adds about $99,000 to its budget to help cover operating expenses; Council also approved a $200,000 cash advance ahead of tax collections to prevent negative cash flow.
Council did not approve a proposed 6.3 millage increase for the Dorchester School District 2.
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