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The Ashley Ridge boys basketball team banked a weighty win Tuesday.
The Swamp Foxes earned a 70-56 victory over Wando at The Ridge to improve to 6-2 on the season. Wando dropped to 8-4 with the non-region loss.
Any time you come away with a win over a program as disciplined and well coached as Wando thats a big win, Ashley Ridge coach Brian Welch said. Our guys did a great job of playing tough all night an played our way loose, free, fast and aggressive. It was a good team win with so many people giving big contributions to help make it happen. I think this groups biggest strength is the way they play for each other.
In his first game returning to the team after a week of Shrine Bowl activities, senior Romelo Doctor led the Swamp Fox charge by scoring a game-high 25 points. Fellow senior Fred Weeks added 15 points to the Ashley Ridge cause and five other members of the team got in on the scoring.
Wando was led by Taylor Magenski, who finished with 10 points. Richie Alston added nine points for the Warriors.
Welch said he is hoping the victory is something the Swamp Foxes can build on.
When a group plays as hard as they can as smart as they can every single second for one another you have a chance to win every night, he said. Im proud of my guys and now we just have to make sure we are getting better each day as we approach Christmas and our region schedule. Hopefully we will be playing our best basketball at the end of the year.
The Ashley Ridge girls got off to a slow start and fell 38-26 to Wando. The Lady Swamp Foxes dropped to 6-2 on the season while the Lady Warriors improved to 6-2.
Wando outscored Ashley Ridge 10-2 in both the first and third periods. The other two periods were tight and the Lady Swamp Foxes even bested Wando 10-8 in the fourth but the damage was done.
Ashley Ridges Shelby Daly led all scorers with 13 points. Kearsten Duvernay led Wando with 12.
Wando will host the Ashley Ridge teams for rematches Jan. 4. On Jan. 8, Ashley Ridge opens region play when it hosts Bluffton.
Boys Basketball:
Ashley Ridge - 70
R. Doctor - 25 F. Weeks - 15 D. Stevens - 9 T. Jenkins - 8 V. Moree - 5 M. Goodwine - 4 M. Graham - 4
Wando - 56
T. Magenski - 10 R. Alston - 9 A. Brown - 8 A. Moore - 6 E. Wagen Lander - 6 K. Backman - 4 A. Glover - 3 A. Terrell - 3 T. Price - 2
Girls Basketball:
Ashley Ridge 26
Shelby Daly 13, O. Baum 4, A. Glover 4, A. Tierney 3, K. Cousins 2
Wando 38
Kearsten Duvernay 12, K. Smalls 8, R. Torlay 6, A. Stasky 4, T. Akers 4, B. Winkler 2, K. Kopp 2
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After denying county officials, including Mayor Alan Arakawa, the floor to speak at Tuesday morning's committee meeting, Budget and Finance Committee Chairman Mike White could face impeachment.
But most likely not, officials said.
The county Department of Parks and Recreation had assigned its newly appointed deputy director, Brianne Savage, to present the budget that morning, county spokesman Rod Antone said. White would not allow the deputy to present without the director, Glenn Correa, saying that in light of the department head's 15 percent salary increase approved in February, Correa should present the budget and answer questions. (Beginning July 1, Correa's pay will go from $99,800 to $114,770 per year.)
Correa was present in the council chambers. It is customary for directors to present their department's budget.
Arakawa, who has been working closely with the Parks and Recreation Department for the past six months, then offered to speak on behalf of Correa, but White would not allow it, according to Antone. The mayor then opted to speak from the same lectern that the public uses to provide testimony, limited to three minutes.
"I find it unusual that I have to be testifying here instead of sitting up front and representing the administration," Arakawa said tersely. "However, the chair has asked that I not sit up front."
At the end of his three minutes, in which he presented on as much of the Parks and Recreation budget as he could, Arakawa cited the Maui County Charter clause that denies council members the right to "give orders to any county employees or county officers."
The charter reads: "Neither the council nor its members shall give orders to any county employees or county officers other than those appointed pursuant to Section 3-7 or Article 5, either publicly or privately. Any willful violation of the provisions of this subsection by a member of the council shall be sufficient grounds for the council member's removal from office by impeachment."
(Section 3-7 covers the powers of the County Council, and Article 5 pertains to the Office of the County Clerk, which is under the council's direction and oversight.)
So technically, White could be up for impeachment, though the prospects of that are highly unlikely, Antone said.
"The mayor's worked very hard to have a good working relationship with the council; this is not something that is going to all of a sudden change things," he said. "You can't agree all the time."
Ultimately, Antone said, it was just "a slight hiccup" in an otherwise average day.
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The meeting was recessed until 11 a.m. to give Correa enough time to get up to speed with the department's budget. When the meeting resumed, both Correa and Savage presented in front of the committee.
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An anthropologist's view of an open source community
In the first session of FUDCon talks this past weekend, Diana Harrelson reported on her anthropological study of the Fedora community, which she used to find ways to sustain and grow an open source development community. She studied the group from the Fedora 12 launch through the Fedora 13 development cycle while she was a master's candidate at the University of North Texas. (She now has that degree and is working towards a PhD in human computer interaction.) Here's are a few of her findings, much of which certainly apply across open source communities, not just to Fedora.
What's a community?
Diana noted that while 75% of the survey respondents in the study agreed that the contributors make up a community, she was more curious what the other 25% thought. Mairin Duffy, a member of the audience, suggested it might be that some think of Fedora "as more of a distro than as a community first." Someone else in the audience asked Diana if she defined community for these questions. She answered that the definition was up to the individual respondent, and that she had also asked them each what their definitions were. She also had some answers from that other 25%:
- Language is a barrier and splits the community. The LATAM contributions are large, but sometimes don't feel included because of cultural barriers.
- Some are split in disagreements over things like desktop environments--KDE vs. Gnome.
- Cliques arise between groups, e.g., developers and everyone else, newer contributors and older ones, or by those with access to certain levels of equipment.
74% of those who became Fedora contributors were users first
This isn't particularly surprising. In fact, I'd be interested in knowing what got that other 26% involved. But it is important, as it confirms that getting more contributors means you have to get more users first. One contributor summed it up:
"I started having doubts that attracting new users should be the ultimate goal in FLOSS even if the cost is making existing users uncomfortable. I think attracting contributors is a more important goal, so it's better to attract new users who have the potential to become contributors than just attracting more users."
Over half described the community as "somewhat easy" to "somewhat difficult" to get involved with
Respondents generally had different ideas of what was required to be a contributor, but the consensus was that regardless of the definition, it wasn't entirely simple. She repeatedly heard in interviews that the contributors had trouble getting started, which surely indicates that there were others who gave up.
"Setting up a login, setting up an SSL key, and contributing was a little daunting at first. That process could be simplified," said one interviewee.
Diana found that the ease of joining the community in many cases was directly linked to whether the prospective member knew an existing community member.
As you would expect, collaboration came up as highly important to the community. More than 50% said that they collaborate with others more than half the time, but a majority also said they wished they could collaborate more often.
Preference for method of collaboration was dependent on the person's role, e.g., designers tend to prefer email over IRC because of the time required and ease of send attachments, whereas packagers tend to prefer IRC for speed.
Why they do it
"My entire research was just to find out why you guys do it," Diana said in her talk. Motivation may seem more obvious to those within communities, but from the outside, it looks more like doing a lot of hard work for no pay.
High on the list of reasons were learning for the joy of learning and collaborating with interesting and smart people. Motivations for personal gain, like networking or career benefits, were low on the list. Self motivation, however, is important, as seen in comments from multiple contributors who said things like, "Mainly I contribute just to make it work for me." Or as another put it:
"It goes back to an age old idiom that programmers develop software to 'scratch an itch,' and it breaks out to 'a group of developers with a similar itch' so they write code to 'scratch' or satisfy that itch."
These are just a few of Diana's recommendations based on her results:
- Gather community recommendations based on their reactions to this research
- Research ways to make becoming a contributor easier
- Look into ways to educate new contributors on contributing to open source projects
- Investigate the effects on contributors
- Examine further contributor motivations and how to better provide these
- Consider the effects
- Look in to special interest groups to combat cliques
I think her most useful recommendation, however, was to find ways to unify the community behind one common definition of Fedora. She found disagreement over things like whether it's a distro or a community, and who it's meant for. Gathering a community around a common idea and mission are critical to its success.
If you're interested in seeing more detail about the study, you can read Diana's longer report on her blog, where she writes about the anthropology of gaming, blogging, social networking, and online communities.
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Hi Ruth-- very interesting. I love the observation that gathering a community around a common idea and mission is critical to success. Did she talk more about this recommendation, or was there any discussion in the audience about the Fedora vision/mission or the Four Foundations?
Wondering if she found whether these core beliefs were closely or loosely held by the community members? It might be an opportunity for Fedora to educate people about them on a broader scale...
With regards to the common idea, the Fedora Board seems to have invested tremendous energy and time in coming up with a definition for Fedora (or, The Fedora Project) that participants can identify with. It would perhaps be an interesting exercise to see if decisions and discussions that led up to that definition have resonance with the findings in Diana's research.
that's because currently Fedora is driven away from the foundations, making the community very unhappy. at previous FUDCons, the foundations were everywhere... not so now, when we ignore them, trying to become the second Ubuntu.
I tend to believe that the Foundations and the underlying aspects of it need to be held out and discussed at meets where there are new users. In other words, at every meet. Perhaps not in the form of preaching from the pulpit but more in the conversational tack of how it is relevant in decisions - infrastructure, engineering and community.
More than the mission I'd think it is the vision that brings a group together to form a community. A vision allows a sense of trust, goodwill and helpfulness to shape up.
examples about abdications from the foundations:
- free: we at the Design Team are planning the use of SparkleShare, a tool depending on Mono (sorry for the "we", I am currently "on strike" from the team);
- friends: in the last years we have more flames than real work on many places... check the advisory board list; many peoples are disgruntled and leave.
- features: F14 was the release with the least number of features ever; we introduce policies and bureaucracy, features are delayed.
- first: see the item above about policies and bureaucracy.
Indeed. And, these have been brought up on the Advisory Board list and blogs often. However, I think that the part of Diana's work that I find important is using it to find the intersection - of a 'Board', a Project and it's vision and, its 'participants'. Note that at this point I am not using the word community yet. An idea about what would be good to get the cadence amongst a group of like minded folks needs fine tuning and revision. I believe that Diana's work allows that to happen. Or, at least can induce that to start.
if the things go as now, i pretty much expect the Board to ignore studies like this and continue doing its own thing.
I think we are getting a bit off-track for the article. However, I strongly believe that the existence of the Board provides a forum for itself to introspect, solicit comments and take decisions in the best interests of the community. A recent article at http://www.managementexchange.com/blog/moonshot/turn-%22they-should%22-c... had this quote that resonates with me "If the community isn't invited on the journey, it will reject the destination."
Nicu, we're not using SparkleShare. It doesn't work in F14 and it never caught on anyway, so we're still using an unbacked-up shared folder on the fedorapeople server.
And to be fair, mono is open-source.
I was one of Diana's lab rats and I see some of my own words/ideas even in this very article... it would be interesting to hear the same people now... I, for example, am really disgrounted... we stopped "scratching the itch" and chasing some illusionary targets that don't give any return but make our lives harder.
I noticed this picture (made by tatica) from Diana's presentation at FUDCon: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tatadbb/5410423703/
Scoping in on Linux for a moment . . .
I haven't used it for years, but have a nagging suspicion that the entire Linux community is permanently disabled by the KDE v. GNOME divide. "A lot" depends on a smooth, predictable, and polished user interface stack. This is really complicated (when not broken), and energies/resources squandered, by advocates on both sides of the desktop wars. "Better is the enemy of good enough" really applies here.
No doubt that it's fun tinkering for many. But I think it's keeping Linux a ghetto.


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According to Omaha Poker Rules, there are four betting rounds in a complete game – exactly the same as in Texas Holdem Poker. In Omaha Holden, the dealer deals each player their own four private cards face-down.
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quote: Unless, of course, you count the guy that was standing a little to close to the island bench and arced to the outlet from his zipper.
quote: ground potential - and that is most likely what you were when you touched that conductor (I assume it was one of those demonstration thingies that make your hair stand up and the like).
There is a reason why 50V (AC @50Hz) is considered the safety threshold for humans. For DC, it is 120V.
quote: No, you're incorrectly using Ohm's Law. In simple terms, you must realize that real-world voltages are not idealized sources, and do not remain constant regardless of load. Even in the case of 120VAC house current-- once current begins flowing, the potential drops. Voltage is measured assumming infinite resistance (or, if you prefer, zero amperage).
quote: In the case I described, I most certainly was touching a >100kV voltage source while well-grounded, and thus current was flowing through me. A few microamps at most...which explains why I'm here typing. The reason your calculation of current was incorrect is, because the moment I touched that source, the current flow caused a corresponding potential decrease.
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The shocking murder case of Olympic hero Oscar Pistorius has taken an even more shocking turn, if that is possible. The lead detective is now facing his own murder charges.
One day after giving confusing testimony in a Pretoria, South Africa courtroom, where he said they could not prove the accused didn't shoot his girlfriend by accident as he has insisted -- causing the prosecution team's jaw to drop -- seven counts of attempted murder charges are now being re-instated against Hilton Botha.
Botha had also admitted to bungling other areas of the case -- like losing track of illegal weapons found at Pistorius's home; leaving a 9mm slug fired, in the toilet and contaminating the crime scene by walking over the home without protective shoes on.
The murder case against double amputee Pistorius is just in the bail hearing phase and already there seems to be more twist and turns than an entire trial. The prosecution has chosen to re-instate a shooting murder charge against Botha and have asked that he be removed from the case.
The murder charges reportedly stem from a 2011 incident where he and two other officers were accused of opening fire on a minibus. The timing of the re-instated charges seems extremely odd but Bulewa Makeke, spokesperson for the prosecution team, claimed it was already in motion since Feb. 4th, before Pistorius was arrested for the shooting death of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Feb. 14.
Which begs the question, why did the prosecution allow Botha to lead the investigation if they knew the case against him was going to be re-opened?
Makeke reportedly said Botha was not prosecuted before because of a lack of evidence but that there is now sufficient evidence to go ahead with the case. Though they are requesting Botha be removed from the case, they also stress it is up to the police whether he stays or goes.
It seems to get stranger as the presiding judge, Chief Magistrate Desmond Nair reportedly asked the defense lawyer Barry Roux on Thursday: "Do you think there will be some level of shock if the accused is released?"
To which Roux allegedly replied: "I think there will be a level of shock in this country if he is not released."
The defense also pointed to autopsy results that showed that Steenkamp's bladder was empty. This Roux said, shows his client was telling the truth and that his girlfriend had gotten up to use the bathroom. Adding that she probably got scared and hid in the back powder room when she heard Pistorius frantically shouting at the intruder he thought had entered the home.
To add to his confusing testimony on Thursday, Botha was raked over the coals about the slow processing of Pistorius' phone records. His testimony of a 2009 incident he had investigated, where an old girlfriend of Pistorius had accused him of assaulting her, did not help the prosecution for he said the woman had lied about the injury.
Though the prosecution case looks like it's unraveling, there is still some strong evidence against the accused. According to live CNN reporting from South Africa, Pistorius's claim of not realizing Steenkamp wasn't beside him when he got up does not hold up, for the gun used was kept on his girlfriend side of the bed.
Moreover, he had to pass by her twice to get to the bathroom. Then there was the case of the cellphone that Reeva took with her to the bathroom. Why did she take her phone if she was simply going to use the toilet?
Meanwhile the bail hearing has been suspended until Friday and the 26-year-old Pistorius is back in his cell.
USA Today is now reporting that lead detective Hilton Botha has been replaced by top investigator Lt. Gen. Vinesh Moonoo. Will bring you more when it becomes available.
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when some one is being so annoying, bitchy, jackassish, and difficult to the point of insanity.
"oh my lord, your being a bitch and a half right now"
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adjectival phrase; can be used to describe a past or future event. Adds emphasis to the pred. nom. bitch. A difficult event or action; denotes either mental, physical and/or emotional pain. Indicates an unwillingness to complete said task or revisit an action.
Man, that class was a bitch and a half!
Hauling those rocks is going to be a bitch and a half...
Hauling those rocks is going to be a bitch and a half...
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A woman who is incredibly annoying, supremely critical, is never satisfied, and extremely demanding -- so much so as to account for one bitch plus half.
My ex-wife is a bitch and a half.
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Somthing is anoing or somthing that piss you the fuck off, is discribed as a (bitch). so something that is extreamlly anoing or difficult is a bitch and a half.
Fuck, that test was a bitch and a half.
Carring that T.V on the fucken bus was a bitch and a half.
Carring that T.V on the fucken bus was a bitch and a half.
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"how did it go removing that boot from your bottom"? -"it was a bitch and a half".
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Pitty & Bitty are both alike when ther being mean isnt that A bitch and a half
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Corhart to lay off up to 64 workers
April 27, 2013
Officials with the Corhart plant in Buckhannon announced that as many as 64 employees will be temporarily furloughed beginning July ....
There are about 150 employees working at the Buckhannon facility, and the production employees are represented for collective bargaining purposes by the United Steelworkers of America, AFL-CIO-CLC and the local union No. 477.
Well start looking for another job; Unions have been the cause of thousands of businesses shutting down lately and there's no hope of these folks coming back to their jobs anytime soon. At least not until Obama and progressives are out of our lives next elections.
They say there's no guarantee when or if they will be called back. Uh, that's 'code' for it's going to be a very long wait. Hope they all find other jobs...but with the UNfocused laser-like focusing Obama keeps saying he is going to do with jobs/economy his REAL focus only lasts until his "hot-air speeches" end! Obama: poster child for ADHD. Gun control is NOT top priority dufus; ECONOMY and JOBS are!! TIme for another vacation. At least when he's vacationing he's not doing MORE damage to Am
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Unions caused Hostess to shut down. I've noticed a new owner has recently opened it back up after purchasing company and it's NOT Unionized. THIS is the 'result' of the Unions today which are NOT doing anything for the dues the workers are FORCED to pay. Unions today are nothing short of Mafia-thugs, stealing money from your paychecks and giving nothing back but disappointment and joblessness. Corharts will be same. They'll end up closing; reopening---NO UNIONS!
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This is normal for this buisness. It has been that way for 30 years. You people know nothing about Corhart or the Union that keeps the doors open to the plant. The union has never been a problem with the buisness.Get your facts straight before running your mouth.
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Mike....considering you don't even KNOW who I am........you show stupidity by 'assuming' you know anything yourself. It's no surprise that liberals always shoot off their mouths before getting 'facts' first. You just proved my point.
I KNOW people who have retired from Corharts. And I don't care if you believe me or not. You don't make anyone believe you by acting immature, childish by telling others to shut up because you don't like what they say. Grow up. Your immaturity is showing. UNIONS have been cause of a lot of businesses shutting down all over the United States whether YOU want to see it or ignore it makes no difference to FACTS! Unions keep demanding more and more until companies CHOOSE to just shut it down. Wait a few months and then reopen without being forced to hire union workers. That is exactly what they've caused by their selfishness and GREED. The GREED is coming from the left liberals in this country. YOU can't have everything you want...so get over it.
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If it was not for the union the people who work there would have nothing. I notice you never talk about management making more than they deserve. That is what the real problem is. You act like unions are the problem with everything. Not true by a long shot.
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Tiffin YMCA adds activities for kids with special needs
February 15, 2014 On a recent Thursday evening, a group of children and adults circled around a colorful parachute in the small gym at the Tiffin YMCA. more »»
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February 15, 2014 Locally and globally, A Little Faith Ministries is meeting the needs of others by following a God-centered path of service. more »»
Big, bad winter doesn't blow away straw house
February 15, 2014 During this winter's cold, snowy weather, Sister Jane Omlor said she stayed snug and warm inside Little Portion Green, the passive-solar straw bale house on the Sisters of St. Francis campus. more »»
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February 15, 2014 Moving the planned dog park to Highland Park, adding Leadership Park and lighting the walkway at Oakley Park were the highlights of the year for Tiffin Park and Recreation Department. more »»
Seneca County Park District wrapping up planning effort
February 15, 2014 Seneca County Park District is to have a set of specific goals and a plan for reaching them when the district's strategic planning process is completed by the end of March. more »»
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February 15, 2014 A May 17 grand opening is scheduled for a wheelchair-accessible high-ropes course under construction at Camp Glen. more »»
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February 15, 2014 Local veterinarian Bob McClung has been practicing in Tiffin for 37 years, with a special interest in surgery and immunotherapy. more »»
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February 15, 2014 Because stem cell applications have been so successful in his animal patients, McClung started looking for facilities that would administer stem cell therapy for humans — specifically, himself. more »»
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February 15, 2014 Adoption rates at Seneca County Humane Society and Seneca County Dog Warden's office have been on the upswing. more »»
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Despite Kim Kardashian's pressing for a divorce, Kris Humphries deeply believes their 72-day marriage should be annulled and he won't give up the fight, a source tells PEOPLE.
"Kris only wants an annulment," says the source close to Humphries. "He never wanted to be married more than once and he feels like she cheated him out of the chance to have a real, loving marriage."
The Brooklyn Nets forward is also not sympathetic to Kardashian's pleas to end the battle for the sake of the baby she's having with boyfriend Kanye West, adds the source.
"He feels that even if she's pregnant, she still has to deal with the mess she made," the source says. "He thinks their entire marriage was a fraud, and he's not going to just give up because of the situation."
Kardashian, who says she's due to deliver in early July, is asking a judge to start a divorce trial as soon as possible or at the very least to have their marriage legally dissolved while they litigate other issues.
"There was no fraud on my part," she says in papers filed last month in L.A. Superior Court. "I wish this issue to be tried immediately so that this false claim can be put to rest and I can move on with my life."
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The actress, who stars in the weekend smash film adaptation of the dystopian teen trilogy about a televised battle to the death, told David Letterman on Late Show this week that her two older brothers roughhoused with her growing up.
"I've got scars all over my body," she said. "The best part – they would fight each other over who could fight me."
One ritual in particular was particularly agonizing.
"When I was doing the gymnastics phase, they used to pin my feet back behind my head – I can't do this anymore – and then they would get our dachshunds and put peanut butter all over my face," she said. "We had three dachshunds and then the dogs would do this [go crazy licking]. And then they'd shut the door, lock me in the basement with dachshunds.
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Letterman, who feigned a therapy session throughout the interview, said, "I'm going to make two calls, Jennifer. The first one will be to Amnesty International, and the second one will be to Dick Cheney. I think we have something here. It might replace water boarding, that little dachshund deal."
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Compared to last year, Lenovo actually shipped less units (16 million), however they still lead the market due to an overall drop of 12% of overall shipments. The market has experienced a slowing in demand for tablet PC's as users are less likely to have a need to upgrade these devices.
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It's a shame Brendan didn't have a good free skate - especially because he has done an amazing free skate in competition!
Crossing my fingers and toes for Nebelhorn!
It's a shame Brendan didn't have a good free skate - especially because he has done an amazing free skate in competition!
Crossing my fingers and toes for Nebelhorn!
Tomorrow afternoon at 2:30pm (Mexico Time) [Which is Tomorrow Morning (AEST-Australian Eastern Standard Time)] is the Junior Ladies Short Program.
It will be great to see Brooklee competing. It should be good for her as the required jump this year- the triple loop- seems to be a good jump for her! She has kept her Short Program from the previous season which worked for her very well. Hopefully they worked on boosting her PCS mark. She will be skating in the final group.
Kerrys born with ice in their veins
CHANTELLE Kerrys immediate future is on ice while brother Brendan is running, or rather skating hot.
Translated, that means Carlingfords Chantelle is waiting to know if shell contest the last Winter Olympics qualifying event in Germany this month....
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Thanks GS2445 for all the links and information. I hope our Aussie skaters can make it to Sochi. Good luck to them all!
Han eighth in Mexico
"Australia's Brooklee Han has produced a promising performance as she aims for Olympic selection, finishing 8th at the Junior Grand Prix in Mexico City over the weekend..."
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Published on September 9th, 2013
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This weeks grand prix is back in Europe in the Kosice, Slovakia.
Australia's Kailani Craine, the current national junior ladies champion and winner of the junior ladies event at the inagural Skate Down Under last month will be competing.
All the best of luck for our sole representative.
Unfortunately, she wasnt lucky. She only managed 31pts. Thats ok- there is still the free program to go
Congratulations Kailani for moving up in the Free Program. She finished 18th in the Free, moving her from 25th to 21st. She scored a total of 102.21. A respectable total for her International Junior Grand Prix debut.
The crowd loved her program but the technical specialist were assessing her jumps like crazy.
Great job- just get your jumps around!
Also, a big congratulations to Kailani, taking the silver medal in the Junior Ladies event of the Lombardia Trophy in Milan, Italy
Also a big thumbs up to Chantelle Kerry who finished 8th at her first Junior Grand Prix Assignment with a total score of 123.94. David Kranjec finished 11th with 145.03 points.
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Nebelhorn is this week! Good luck to Brooklee, Brendan and Danielle and Greg!
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Ok. It's Brooklee's turn.
Good Combo
AAHH!- fall on Triple Loop
Nice recovery with Double Axel
Super Spins-- she is behind in the music
Just makes it!
Despite a fall on the triple loop, Brooklee Han scored 48.74pts for her SP.
She is currently in 6th place, however, since 1st-4th place at the moment are skaters from nations who already qualified (Japan, United States, Canada and Germany), she is in actual fact very much still in the competition.


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SALEM - Members of United Auto Workers locals from around the area are expected to rally at the Salem Ventra plant on Pennsylvania Avenue at 2 p.m. today as part of a national day of action with Flex-N-Gate Corp., Ventra's owner.
"It's a rally in support of the workers of Ventra," UAW organizer Mike Gearhart said.
A UAW press release says members and non-members will "rally for justice" at the plant while simultaneous rallies at seven plants in five other states operated by Flex-N-Gate are scheduled.
The company, a $3 billion global parts supplier, says it is the 14th largest North American automotive supplier and makes interior components for the GM Lordstown plant where the Chevrolet Cruze is assembled.
Flex-N-Gate employs more than 16,000 people at 52 manufacturing and nine product development and engineering facilities in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil and Spain.
Its products include interior and exterior plastics, lighting systems, mechanical assemblies, metal structural body components, and exterior metal parts.
UAW spokeswoman Christine Moroski said Tuesday that of the 40 plants in the U.S. and Canada, 25 are unionized.
Asked to respond for this story, the company said, "Flex-N-Gate associates receive competitive wages, enjoy quality growth opportunities and benefit from our ongoing commitment to safe working conditions. The vast majority of Flex-N-Gate associates are happy with their employment."
The UAW says many Salem plant employees have worked there for 10 to 20 years and "still only earn around $10 an hour."
"Workers want to organize in order to improve pay and working conditions, and to work with the company to make it more successful," Moroski said adding the rally is to inform the public.
"Traditional views of jobs in the auto are good but the auto parts sector pays poverty-level wages," she said. "Many employees are on food stamps. This is a highly profitable company and can afford to pay higher wages."
She added, "Certainly we don't think $10 is a living wage."
With health care costs around $200 a month, she said many can't afford it and live without it.
The demonstrations are aimed at shining a light on the company's treatment of workers at its non-union facilities and to show support for workers bargaining new contracts, the UAW said, adding it represents workers at six facilities owned by Flex-N-Gate.
Workers at several plants in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and Texas, have been illegally fired or disciplined for attempting to form a union, according to the National Labor Relations Board, the UAW said.
The Ventra plant employs approximately 450 hourly people, about half of them women, Gearhart said adding there are issues regarding respect, treatment of workers, favoritism, wage and raise disparities and safety concerns.
There is "no structured way" these are handled, he said.
"Workers just want a voice in the things that matter to them and to make the company better in Salem," he said.
UAW members at Flex-N-Gate union plants in Warren, Mich., and Belvidere, Ill., are currently trying to bargain new contracts.
At both facilities workers voted overwhelmingly to strike if necessary to achieve a fair contract, the UAW said.
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The Hatter men were ranked ninth in the preseason poll, the same place they finished in last year's championship race. They were ranked ahead of Jacksonville, who was picked to finish 10th.
Defending champion USC Upstate was voted to finish first in the conference, earning one more point than Kennesaw State in the preseason poll. Both teams split the first place votes, earning five each.
The third through six teams in the preseason poll were Lipscomb, ETSU, North Florida, and Mercer, respectively. Northern Kentucky was voted to finish seventh by the coaches in their first season in the Atlantic Sun.
The Hatter women were picked to finish 10th, which is where they finished last year in the conference championship.
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Cooley Dickinson Hospital seeks to fund pilot projects to provide tobacco prevention and treatment projects and activities in the City of Easthampton.
About this grant
Through its Health Communities Committee, Cooley Dickinson Hospital conducted a health assessment. The assessment include a survey of health needs, interviews, a focus group and a community discussion forum in Easthampton to obtain local input on the priority health issues facing the City and how best to address them. Obesity and high tobacco use were raised by participants as concerns. Cooley Dickinson wishes to support projects and programs that support health improvement. Partnerships that include health care providers, the City and school representation, and other service providers are encouraged. A separate funding opportunity is available for healthy eating/active living.
$14,000 is available to fund activities, projects and initiatives that will prevent tobacco access, use or offer treatment to smokers in the City of Easthampton.
It is anticipated that one or more pilot projects will receive funding. Applicants are encouraged to request funds based on project capacity and scope of their proposal.
View health assessment results and reports here.
Who can apply?
We are interested in receiving applications from community groups, 501(c) 3 non-profit providers, the City of Easthampton Health and School Departments and other sponsored service agencies that have ideas and a commitment to create sustainable opportunities for the City to address tobacco access, prevention, and treatment to support local residents.
Grants may be used for an event, program planning or to support projects already underway in Easthampton.
Applicants may also submit a separate proposal to support healthy eating and active living projects and programs in Easthampton. Each submission will be evaluated as a unique project with its own outcomes.
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Complete a cover sheet for each proposal.
All applicants must submit typed responses to the following questions. Please copy and paste the questions below into your word processing program in the order shown here:
1. Who is your organization and what are you planning to do?
2. Who is your target population and how many will benefit from your project?
3. Describe organizational strengths and capacity that will lead to a successful project(s)?
4. Describe local data that supports the need that you will meet in this project.
5. Who will be involved and who will you partner with to optimize funds, community participation and reach your goals?
6. As a result of this project, what will change? How will you measure results?
7. How will positive outcomes be sustained after the grant ends?
Please include a budget and the time frame in which the money is to be spent, including other revenue resources that will support this pilot project.
Please keep your response to these questions to a 4-page limit. The budget and a project implementation plan chart are additional.
Please identify a key contact person for follow-up.
Submitting your Proposal
Questions may be e-mailed by Dec. 20, 2013 to Jeff Harness for response.
Applications are due on Jan. 17, 2014; e-mail applications to Jeff Harness.
All applications will receive an email confirmation of receipt. If you do not receive a receipt in 48 hours, please call 413-582-2035.
Applications will be reviewed by the Healthy Communities Committee with award notification by Feb. 5, 2014.
Grant funding ends on Sept. 30, 2014.
All pilot project recipients will participate in an evaluation process to be determined by the Healthy Communities Committee.
Evaluation Criteria
The Healthy Communities Committee will review your Application answers and will weigh and balance the following criteria:
• Innovation
• Collaboration
• Feasibility
• Inclusiveness
• Ability to lower barriers to healthcare access
• Values all cultures
• Ability to offer marked improvement to quality of community life
• Uses local data to identify needs and solutions
• Uses evidence-based approach to accomplish goal
• Sustainability of positive work
End of Pilot Project Reporting
A three-page final report must be submitted by Oct. 31, 2014. It must answer:
• What were the results of your project? Did your project change from your initial proposal? If yes, how?
• Did the project reach its goals and objectives?
• What outcome data can you show as a result of this funding? What has actually changed or been improved?
• Do you plan to continue your project? If yes, what types of support do you need?
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She was born on March 23, 1919, in Annawan, the daughter of Peter and Emma (Schoutteet) VanDeKerre. She married Lawrence DeSplinter Sr. on Sept. 14, 1937, in Annawan. Mary and Lawrence owned and operated Red and White Grocery Store for 20 years, and later she worked as an assembler at Harper Wyman. She was a member of Sacred Heart Church, Altar and Rosary, Blue Cross Sewing Circle, WATCH Program and Bloodmobile Chairman. She received the first Volunteer of the Year Award in 1995 from Sacred Heart Church and also the Pierre Marquette Award from the Bishop in 2006. She enjoyed playing cards with her many friends and traveling to visit relatives, especially to Belgium. Mary also was an avid Cubs fan.
Survivors include one son, Jim (Cheryl) DeSplinter of Moline; one daughter, Barb DeSplinter of Kewanee; seven grandchildren, Kevin Cathelyn, Brad DeSplinter, Rob DeSplinter, Tim Willage, Sheila Schierer, Nicole Smith and Seth DeSplinter; 15 great grandchildren, Eddie and Will Cathelyn; Ashlie Hamilton; Jamie Schaab; Andrew and Bobbi DeSplinter; Bryan, Evan and Kristin DeSplinter; Kendra, Tyler and Calab Willage; Zoye, Anna and Ty Schierer and one on the way; two great-great grandchildren, Mackenzie Hamilton and Emma DeSplinter; and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; one daughter and son-in-law, Donna (John) Schultz; one brother, Walter VanDeKeere; and one granddaughter, Kamey Cathelyn.
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It was a goat chase. No kidding.
A runaway goat led officers from several different law enforcement agencies on a frantic, hourlong chase through the Buffalo State College area Wednesday afternoon.
Believed to be on the loose since Christmas Day, the white female goat was chased by at least a dozen officers for at least an hour before they finally snared it at about 2:45 p.m. near the intersection of Elmwood and Forest avenues on the grounds of the Buffalo Psychiatric Center.
Before it was captured, the goat took a whirlwind tour of some city sites, including the college campus, the Scajaquada Expressway, some buildings on Tonawanda Street and the Burchfield Penney Art Center. It was taken to the SPCA shelter in the Town of Tonawanda after being captured.
"I've been here 20 years, and this is the first time we've ever taken in a goat that was out running on the [Scajaquada] expressway," said Barbara Carr, executive director of the SPCA Serving Erie County. "The bigger question is, why does anyone have a goat in the City of Buffalo? You can't legally keep goats in the city."
Why should police spend time and energy chasing a goat?
"You don't want an animal running loose like that," one city officer said. "If you're driving on the expressway and a goat runs out in front of your car, you could wind up making a sharp turn in a hurry, and somebody could be hurt."
In recent years, chickens, roosters and other farm animals – including a pig that now weighs more than 700 pounds – have been found roaming in the city and taken to the SPCA's shelter, Carr said.
"I know we have a fairly large immigrant population in Buffalo, and a lot of people probably don't realize that you aren't legally allowed to buy a goat or pig and raise it in the city," Carr said. "We probably need to do a better job of educating the public."
Authorities late Wednesday were trying to find out where the goat came from and how it got free.
One or two goats were seen roaming the city's West Side on Christmas Day, according to officials at the city animal shelter.
Buffalo police, animal control officers, wildlife officers and other officers began tracking and chasing the goat at about 1:30 p.m. Wednesday.
At one point, officers thought they had it cornered near a building on Tonawanda Street, and at another point, officers thought they had it trapped on the Buffalo State campus.
Finally, on the grounds of the Psychiatric Center, a city wildlife officer managed to get a snare around the goat's neck, and another officer from the state college wrapped her arms around the animal to stop it from running.
The animal – a white female with black spots – weighs about 35 pounds. Carr said the police chase certainly hasn't hurt its appetite.
"It's a little stressed out, but otherwise appears to be very healthy," Carr said.
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Show me the money... | Opensource.com
Show me the money...
Every day I come to work, I get excited about the possibilities of the power of participation: to solve complex problems, to share knowledge, to bring people together. Opensource.com has been a great vehicle for me to learn and participate in a dialog about the power of open source principles–-especially when applied beyond software.
I believe together we can solve many of the most complex problems our world faces. I also believe strongly that we, as a society, will never fully realize the full potential of the power of participation unless and until we find vehicles for individuals and institutions (both public and private) to directly profit from it.
So, while it might sound strange, I believe one of Red Hat's most valuable contributions to the open source way is our profitability. We have clearly demonstrated that a company can be a good steward and catalyst in open source and be a profitable enterprise as well. I hope this serves as an example and inspiration to others to enter and participate in open source.
In order for the open source way to thrive, there must be ways for individuals and institutions to make a return on investments made in participation. For most, these returns are non-monetary or are derived from the later use of the end product of that participation--IBM's and Intel's participation in Linux are good examples of the latter. But there still needs to be catalysts in communities to start, foster, and grow collaboration. These business models are less common, but, I believe, vital to accelerating communities of participation.
Red Hat is an example: our mission is to be the catalyst in communities. Our community/enterprise model clearly works, but we need to find more business models to encourage others to play catalytic roles and foster their own communities of participation.
I'd like to start a conversation. Do you agree with this premise? Do you have examples of other business models that are working for catalysts? Do you have new ideas of what next-generation business models might be? Let me know.
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@Jim Whitehurst, Well said sir.
Now is the time for all the Open Source Companies to get in the face of the business world. The executives and workers at every level have to tell the story. You have to say "This works." "This is how we did it." This effort at OpenSource.com is a great start.
News is coming in that Mandriva is bankrupt and Novell is up for sale attracting more than 20 bidders. RedHat sure is an inspirational company. But leaving away RedHat, the fate of the rest of the companies in open-source does not seem promising (like the state of Sun which touted itself as the biggest contributor to opensource).
I strongly believe that open-source is the right way to do programming but from a business perspective I could not find success stories except RedHat (leaving aside the consumers of FOSS like Google) . If you could share your esteemed opinion on this, it will be nice. Thanks.
The evolution of Red Hat as a company has strong roots in a "pure source" philosophy that means that the organization has never worked on any significant codebase that was not developed in a radically transparent way.
The companies you give as examples are a bit mixed. I'm not qualified to speak about these businesses in the business sense, but I know that Novell is not steeped in the history that Suse was. Sun had a similar challenge, trying to mix two different developer cultures.
Google practices a lot of the open source way internally, from what I can tell, and does so in many ways externally. Yet everytime they don't start and run a project 100% in the open from the very start, it counterbalances that and creates a situation where they haven't lowered the barriers enough to create community participation.
Who is exciting? Automattic, makers of Wordpress. Acquia, significant contributors to Drupal and the vendor behind WhiteHouse.gov and our own opensource.com. StatusNet, makers of identi.ca. The WikiMedia free and open empire. These groups not only have found ways to make money themselves, they have created awesome ecosystems that allow so many others to make money or profit in other ways.
These are companies who really get the open source way, and they do it by having the free and open radical transparency in place from the very beginning.
Sun tried to reap the benefits of both proprietary and open source business models at the same time and got lost in the journey. Its open source projects had proprietary hooks (eg. OpenSolaris closed binaries) and the company didn't really open the processes involved in creating the final product (eg. bug tracking, website team, etc). If you compare the OpenSolaris ecosystem to, for instance, Fedora or FreeBSD, it's miles away from coming near the level of community involvement.
That alone creates an atmosphere of doubt and uncertainty. People are always stepping on some toes when they call for more openness. If they are in favor or closing it up, the community gets furious. It's not an easy situation if you aren't clear about your intentions and provide a clear path for communication.
IMHO, it's not easy to shift from proprietary to open development and it requires much more than good intentions. Unfortunately for Sun and their projects, I don't see Oracle having any intentions of being a reference in the open source world (they fail on open source 101 every day).
As you can read on their official blog:
"We want to stress out the fact that Mandriva has not been bought by anybody."
Plus, you only mention the Linux-as-a-product oriented OpenSource companies, what about those that make web frameworks and other software? :) What about the Apache Foundation for example, RedHat also makes lots of quid with their JBoss division, VMware has SpringSource, Google has a ton of OpenSource projects, Cloudera is going great with Hadoop, Vyatta is a strong OpenSource competitor to Cisco, etc etc..
Even Microsoft is starting to OpenSource stuff piece by piece, I think that that's a strong sign of things to come.
The other model I have seen is paid-for plugins and enhancements to open source projects. For example, the for-pay modules for Joomla, and the Mono-Touch add-on to the Mono project.
Making money FROM open source is different from making money USING open source, and currently I think the latter is more successful.
Making money by using open source is still significant as it means open source is a viable alternative other than just a free ride. This includes setting up systems or developing a products using open source tools, e.g. developing a Drupal website for a company, whether or not the actual product is open sourced or not.
The more businesses can develop profitable models from open source, the more open source projects will get funded and the more time will be spent developing and improving not only the project but, due to the transparency of open source, benefiting the community as a whole!
It is going to be easier to build a business up from the bottom with open source at the core than establish businesses that need retrofitting and re-aligning it's employees' thinking.
Dru Lavigne from the BSD community talks about the 'maturity' of open source projects. Often people think of the maturity of the code, but she talks about the maturity of the community. One of the factors is the involvement of people who are not coders, per se. They bring expertise from other realms. How well the community is accepting of and open to their contributions, she argues, is one of those factors in measuring the community's maturity.
Entrepreneurs, ideas people, are changing these communities. I do sense there is a zeitgeist. I see this conversation happening in other OSS communities, but I know the Drupal community best.
Dries from the Drupal community posted some articles about business models:
- http://buytaert.net/on-business-models-for-drupal-distributions
- http://buytaert.net/joomla-vs-drupal-business-models-and-commercial-ecos...
And, coincidentally, Liza Kindred from Lullabot (a large Drupal shop) posted an article with this same title: Show me the money!
There has to be a way to make this work, while still maintaining the quality of the community at the core, for contributions. It has to be sustainable.
I was pondering this today, while listening to Jim Corbet of the Linux community talking about contributing to Linux. He specifically addresses companies in his webinar: *managers* need to understand open source and the processes of communities. It's fundamental.
I took some notes from his webinar here:
I'm keen to understand this from the perspective of an educator, as I see some of this as a learning gap that can be traversed.
At OpenLogic we've expanded the "power of participation" beyond the development model to a paid support model. With our OpenLogic Expert Community we pay open source developers to provide support in an on-demand mode.
OpenLogic finds the customer, provides front line support 24x7, and ensures SLA's are met. The open source developers choose what issues they want to work on and we pay them for that help. OpenLogic acts as an intermediary between the customer that needs SLA support and the open source developer that wants to offer support services without the overhead of finding customers and answering the phone 24x7. We've had this model in place for 4 years and it works amazingly well.
I partially disagree with the premise of this post.
Namely that:
"Profitability of a given FOSS company is a measure for the success of peer-production"
When peer-production is successful we restore the equilibrium of the market. When the market is in equilibrium, profits should tend to zero since a healthy diversity of offer and demand should create the right conditions for competition in a Free Market.
The fact that profits should tend to zero in a Healthy Free Market (and that's Free as in Freedom) is a carefully held secret of our greedy corporate culture. Obviously that's not the kind of economic truth that a CEO would like to tell to her shareholders.
I certainly agree with the part of the premise stating that a successful FOSS-based business is good for the image and morale of peer-production. However, if we are going to measure the economic impact of FOSS we should do it not just by looking at the profits of FOSS companies, but by also including the savings from the many companies that have benefited from FOSS. More specifically by being freed from the control of Monopolies and the deadweight that they impose to the economy.
What FOSS has done is to create a way out of an "market failure" situation; where the conditions of the software market are too close to being dominated by a few players (dangerously close to being monopolies).
The "real" money, therefore, will be found in the many savings that so many institutions (both public and private) have achieved by not being subject to the traps of Market Failure.
How to properly estimate those savings ?
That's a project that probably will require to do crowdsourcing from many CFOs and CTOs around the country.
My reply is in my blog post on what will we use dot com (no spaces) called Making Free Pay.
Basically I would like to see Red Hat get back into to the desktop game... and it can be done... at little cost to Red Hat.
Cutting to the chase: Kitware is a for-profit, open source company. We are approximately 70 employees, growing at a 33% clip the last couple of years (through the recession). Our revenues FY2010 are estimated to be towards the $20 million mark. We have two US offices and will soon open international offices. We have been profitable from our first year of business 12 years ago. I have put two kids through college (Duke and Michigan State) and paid for my daughter's wedding with open source profits . :-)
Our business model is mainly services: integrating our open-source systems into customer workflow and engaging in collaborative R&D (we have a lot of PhD's and highly trained software engineers). We also sell support products but these bring in much less revenue than our services.
I strongly believe that a service model is the way to go with open source software. It lends itself to agile, collaborative development which minimizes customer risk and results in better software
I have a six-part blog on "Why Open Source Will Rule Scientific Computing" http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/3. In particular the last part addresses the business model http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/20


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Duke Energy Honors Leadership Speaker Series: William Henry Curry
Main Parlor, 1st Floor Main Building
Mon Feb 24th, 2014
06:30 p.m. - 08:00 p.m.
Celebrating Black History Month
William Peace University is pleased to host William Henry Curry, Resident Conductor with the North Carolina Symphony, for a discussion on The Emancipation's effect on music, as part of WPU's Black History Month celebrations. Dr. Charles S. Duncan, WPU's Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor of English, will moderate.
Maestro William Henry Curry is entering his 18th season with the North Carolina Symphony and serves as the artistic director for the Rex Healthcare Summerfest Series and all North Carolina Symphony summer programs. Maestro Curry has also served as music director of the Durham Symphony Orchestra since 2009.
A native of Pittsburgh, Maestro Curry started conducting and composing music at age 14. His first major appointment was at age 21, when he was named assistant conductor of the Richmond Chamber Orchestra. He also served as resident conductor with the Baltimore Symphony and Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Maestro Curry was appointed associate conductor of the Indianapolis Symphony in 1983, a post he held until 1988, the same year he was named winner of the Leopold Stokowski Conducting Competition and performed in Carnegie Hall.
Maestro Curry has conducted over 40 orchestras, including appearances with the Chicago, Cleveland, Houston, National, Detroit, Denver, American, Atlanta, Shreveport and San Diego Symphonies, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Israel Camerata Jerusalem Orchestra, as well as the orchestras of Indianapolis, New Jersey, Bangkok and Taiwan and with the New York City Ballet in their famed Balanchine production of The Nutcracker.
Opera engagements include the Houston Grand Opera, Chicago Opera Theater and New York City Opera. In 2009/10, at the invitation of the U.S. Department of State, Maestro Curry spent two weeks in Taiwan presenting master classes in conducting and leading concerts of American music. His final performance was filmed and shown throughout the country on Taiwan's Public Television Service. He has conducted the Charlotte Symphony and North Carolina Dance Theatre's production of The Nutcracker in multiple performances during the past two seasons.
Maestro Curry is also a composer, and his works have been played by many of America's finest orchestras. The Indianapolis Symphony premiered his work Eulogy for a Dream. The late William Warfield of Porgy and Bess fame narrated the North Carolina premiere to an enthusiastic audience and critical acclaim in January 2002.
Dr. Charles S. Duncan is in his sixth year as a professor of English at William Peace University. He joined the WPU community as an assistant professor in 2001 before earning tenure in 2007. In 2013, he was named Associate Dean of Academic Affairs.
During his time at WPU, Duncan has taught courses in 19th Century American Literature, Introduction to Short Fiction, Non-Fiction Writing, Freshman Composition, Independent Research in English, Professional Writing, Technical Writing and Advanced Creative Writing among others.
He is also heavily involved in campus administration, serving as the Moderator of the Faculty and Chair of the Faculty Executive Council among other roles.
Duncan's professional research has focused on Charles Chestnutt, who was a mixed race author, essayist, political activist and lawyer, best known for his novels and short stories exploring complex issues of racial and social identity in the post-Civil War South. Duncan's research has also focused on 19th Century Western North American authors. He has presented papers at prestigious schools around the world including Cambridge and acted as guest lecturer at Duke University.
He was awarded the Sylvia Lyons Render Award for Outstanding Contribution to Chestnutt Stuides and is a board member for the Charles Chestnutt Research Association starting in 1998. Duncan has also won William Peace University's McCorkmick Distinguished Teaching Award and the Stockard Research Award.
Duncan earned his Ph.D. in English at Florida State University in 1994 where he was an instructor for five years.
Come Celebrate Black History Month at William Peace University!
Event Time: 6:30 P.M.
Event Location (UPDATED): Leggett Theatre
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LOCKPORT – A former Lutheran school music teacher whose 2005 child sexual abuse conviction was overturned on a technicality was back in Niagara County Court on Monday.
Michael J. Solomon, 48, of North Tonawanda, was awarded a new trial last month, when the state Court of Appeals ruled his attorney had a conflict of interest because she had represented the investigating police officer in a private matter. That canceled Solomon's conviction and his 32-year prison sentence.
The case, involving acts that allegedly occurred between 1999 and 2004, starts over from scratch. As the tearful, now 22-year-old alleged victim looked on, Assistant District Attorney Elizabeth R. Donatello quoted what she characterized as Solomon's confession: "Does it matter whether I had sex with her one time or 100? I was drunk."
Defense attorney Mark J. Mahoney, who won the appeal, said he would return in two weeks to announce whether he will continue to represent Solomon, for whom Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas set bail at $50,000.


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SHA On-the-Job Training Program Open for Applications Today
Interested applicants can apply for program at DLLR One Stop Centers
BALTIMORE, MD (December 19, 2011) - The Maryland Department of Labor (DLLR) is partnering with the Maryland State Highway Administration to encourage participation in SHA's BuildUp program - a new training program for disadvantaged Marylanders. The program gives jobseekers the essential skills needed to compete for jobs in the transportation field. The BuildUp training program will provide on-the-job training for 150 individuals over the next year for transportation careers in one of three primary tracks: construction craft skills, Computer Aided Design and Drafting (CADD) systems and accredited CDL (commercial driving license) preparation.
"I am proud that DLLR is partnering with SHA to raise awareness about new opportunities to earn and learn," said Maryland Labor Secretary Alexander M. Sanchez. "Maryland is positioned to recover from the national economic downturn more quickly than other states. But in order to win the future, we must equip all Maryland workers with the skills to compete in the New Economy. The BuildUp initiative will go a long way to complement our ongoing efforts to build the nation's strongest, most skilled and best educated workforce pipeline."
The first phase of BuildUp, which began accepting applications last week, is targeted at jobseekers in the Baltimore and Washington Metropolitan Areas. Applications can be downloaded on SHA's website . All One Stop Career Centers in the Baltimore and Washington Regions will provide jobseekers with access to computer labs, assist interested individuals with completing the application form, and forward applications to SHA.
"Our local workforce investment areas and DLLR's 35 One Stops are excited to work with SHA to make BuildUp a model for workforce development," said DLLR Assistant Secretary for Workforce Development and Adult Learning Paulette Francois. "We support skills training across the state and applaud SHA for developing and championing a program that will help give 150 Marylanders a better chance to compete in the New Economy."
"We are taking another step forward to creating more jobs and expanding opportunity for more Marylanders," said Maryland Transportation Secretary Beverly Swaim-Staley. "The BuildUp program invests in people and provides them with essential job skills to be competitive in today's market. This program is a win/win initiative because it provides our transportation field with qualified, skilled individuals while creating and saving jobs for our families."
DLLR supports a variety of workforce training initiatives, including a statewide on-the-job training (OJT) program. DLLR received a $2 million federal Recovery Act grant to launch the OJT initiative. Through the grant, employers who provide dislocated workers with the opportunity to "earn and learn" can receive partial reimbursement to offset the costs of training new workers. As of last month, 71 Marylanders had found work through DLLR's OJT initiative.
Additional information on the SHA BuildUp program can be found on their website. Interested jobseekers can also apply to participate in the program at any of DLLR's 35 One Stop Employment Centers. Applications must be submitted by January 15.
The Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation protects and empowers Marylanders by safeguarding workers, protecting consumers, providing a safety net and cultivating a thriving workforce that can meet the demands of Marylands dynamic economy. Follow DLLR on Twitter (@MD_DLLR) and Facebook.


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Friday, October 4, 2013
Playing chicken
A man bought a drink for a woman at a local chicken restaurant and then stopped to chat with her in the parking lot on the way out to his car when leaving. A man came out of nowhere and brushed up against him and told him he needed to leave now.
The suspect then drew his thumb across his own neck in an attempt to threaten the victim, a police report said.
The victim called police to report the incident and claimed that when he was trying to leave the parking lot, the suspect rode up in front of his car on a bike, dropped it to the ground and smashed the hood of the car with his fists. He caused an estimated $500 in damage.
The victim said he did not want to press charges but wanted the incident documented.
Police were able to find the suspect at his apartment. His story was that when he was leaving, the alleged victim brushed up against him. He said the alleged victim and two others were intimidating him and when he got on his bike to leave they were playing chicken with him via the car and he got off his bike and hit the victim's hood.
Pay your bill
There is a scam going on in which a person calls and claims to be with the power company. The caller will say the electricity is being shut off unless they pay their bill over the phone that instant with a credit card. This is a scam. Do not fall for it folks.
A clerk at a local discount store watched two women come into the store and try to steal some items off a display table. They saw that they had been spotted and played it down by putting the items back and walking outside to a sidewalk display. Their car was parked along the sidewalk out front. They pretended to browse the outside display and then began placing items in the back seat of their car.
The clerk then walked outside and confronted them. The suspects said they were coming inside to pay, according to a police report. But the clerk took back the items and told them to leave.
The suspects then left, according to the report and drove down a ways to another store in the shopping complex.
An officer was able to find one of the suspects. She said she did not know anything about the incident other than the cashier flipped out on her friend.
She said her friend was inside the store, and the officer went in searching for her. By this time, he had the suspect's name and had knowledge of a warrant that had been put out for her arrest for shoplifting and property crime enhancement.
The officer spotted her and put her under arrest for the pending warrant. He escorted the suspect to the patrol car. While he was filling out the paperwork, a clerk from the second store approached him. She said she found an old pair of boots hanging next to a display of new boots. She said she believed the woman swapped her old ones for some new ones.
He had the suspect exit the car to look at her boots. Sure enough, the boots belonged to the store and had been taken without being paid for.
The boots were given back and the woman was taken to jail with no shoes on.
Half owners
A man was having a mobile home delivered to his property, and the truck driver had to take down a street sign to access the property. The neighbor, who shares ownership of this particular road with the new mobile homeowner, got into an argument with the truck driver.
According to a police report there was a huge disturbance. But when police arrived the truck driver was gone.
The new mobile homeowner asked police to tell the woman to stay off of his property.
Police spoke to her and she said the road is on her property and all she did was ask the truck driver to repair any damage he may cause and to put the sign back up when he is done. She said she never stepped foot on her neighbor's property and agreed not to do so in the future.
Bait and switch
A woman was pumping gas when a salesman came up to her and started talking to her about windshields and how his company can replace damaged ones for free. He gave her his business card and moved on down the line. She went back to pumping and saw that the pump shut off at $32. When she started her car it was still on empty.
She said it normally costs about $80 to fill her car.
She called the number on the business card because at that point she suspected the salesman had someone use her pump to pump gas into another vehicle while he distracted her.
He called the woman crazy and told her he never left her sight while they were talking and he couldn't have possibly done such a thing.
He hung up on her and she called police.
There were no cameras in the pumping area so police could not prove this man did anything. But they did call and at first he thought the call was a prank. After some convincing he finally spoke to the officer and said he would never even know how to do that. He said he was just there to get his name and company out there.
When the officer asked for his personal information he became difficult and would only give the officer an old address from Myrtle Beach. The case was closed due to lack of any evidence of theft.
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Holy biceps, Batman.
Henry Cavill hasn't lost an ounce of his Man of Steel-ness, judging from this first look of him as Superman in the upcoming Zack Snyder crossover/fanboy dream-come-true, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.
Fans have already been given glimpses of Ben Affleck as Batman alongside the Batmobile, and casting rumors have been swirling around Jason Momoa, long-rumored to be playing Aquaman.
Jesse Eisenberg is also reportedly confirmed to play Lex Luthor, while Jeremy Irons is taking over the Michael Caine role of Bruce Wayne's loyal butler, Alfred.
The film has been shooting in Detroit and is slated to hit theaters May 6, 2016, so there's plenty of still plenty of time for the traditional emotional arc of Tentpole Picture Anticipation: Disappointment, rage, acceptance and ecstatic glee.
First Look: Henry Cavill as Superman in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
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