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Michiganians know that summer will be a long time coming. Much as they complain, they know their gripes will not reduce the heavy snowfall, nor the bitter Great Lakes winds. And although March and April tease them every year, they know that they can't really count on spring until May. So when summer finally arrives, you can be sure they will spend every possible moment outdoors.
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For concert schedules, ticket prices and exact locations, contact Michigan's outdoor concert venues directly:
Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Summer Concert Series, 1000 E. Beltline NE, Grand Rapids, 888/957-1580. www.meijergardens.org
Grand Rapids Symphony Picnic Pops, Cannonsburg Ski Area, Cannonsburg Rd., Grand Rapids, 616/454-9451. www.grsymphony.org
Interlochen Center for the Arts, Summer Arts Festival, 4000 M-137, Interlochen, 800/681-5920. www.interlochen.org
Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, Summer Arts Festival, 300 E. Crystal Lake Rd., Twin Lake, 800/221-3796. www.bluelake.org
DTE Energy Music Theatre, 7774 Sashabaw Rd., Clarkston, 248/377-0100. www.palacenet.com
Meadow Brook Music Festival, 3554 Walton Blvd., Rochester Hills, 248/377-0100. www.palacenet.com
There are, of course, a few risks in attending outdoor concerts. With the exception of severely inclement weather, the show will go on as scheduled, rain or shine. But families are happy to pack umbrellas and rain ponchos. Lawn seating in outdoor music venues, with few exceptions, allows youngsters the space to run around if they become restless and the freedom to make a little noise if they can't resist.
From Interlochen, in the Lower Peninsula's northernmost reaches, to metropolitan Detroit, from the idyllic lakeside setting of Blue Lake to the suburban atmosphere of Meadow Brook, Michiganians and visitors love to celebrate the summer with great music. Join in the fun. After all, winter will return all too soon.
Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids
The setting alone might be enough to draw crowds to Frederik Meijer Gardens' outdoor concerts on a balmy summer evening. The almond-shaped amphi-theater sits at the lower end of a terraced, grassy slope, bordering one of the finest sculpture parks in the Midwest. The park's most famous artwork, the 24-foot-high bronze "American Horse," created by contemporary sculptor Nina Akamu and based on drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, is visible from the amphitheater, as are other sculptures. Lush perennial beds and ornamental trees and grasses add to the appeal. And if the sky is clear, you might also enjoy a blazing sunset.
This year marks the third season of summer concerts at the Meijer Gardens, which is fast earning a reputation for scheduling some of the finest and most diverse headliners in the state. Previous years have included performances by B. B. King, Art Garfunkle, Ricky Skaggs, the Indigo Girls and John Prine.
As with any outdoor concert, music events at the Meijer Gardens are casual. Families are well-represented among the attendees, and it's not uncommon for folks to get up for food or restroom breaks during the show. However, there's little room for very young children to run around. And given the high profile of some of the featured artists, your fellow concert-goers will not take kindly to too many interruptions.
Seating is general admission lawn. Bring along a blanket or low-rise folding beach chair. Sandwiches, snacks and beverages are sold on-site, but many people bring along a picnic basket and eat dinner before or during the concert. Alcoholic beverages may not be brought in but are sold on location.
Grand Rapids Symphony Picnic Pops, Cannonsburg
In the middle of winter, the slopes of Cannonsburg Ski Area are ribboned with the tracks of downhill ski buffs. But in the height of summer, when snow is a distant memory, families head to Cannonsburg for a very different kind of activity: picnic and a concert.
In the summer months, the Grand Rapids Symphony leaves its elegant setting in downtown Grand Rapids' DeVos Hall for eight concerts in Cannonsburg, northeast of the city, where the setting and the musical repertoire are distinctly casual. In fact, Picnic Pops is the most casual outdoor concert venue in Michigan. Families spread blankets and lawn chairs over the grassy slope and enjoy a picnic dinner during the concert. Conversations are not frowned upon. Fidgety children are expected. (If they can't sit still, just head for a wide-open space and let them run around.) This is not your typical classical music concert; it's an opportunity to introduce live music to children in a fun atmosphere.
And it's an opportunity for adults to enjoy a summer evening outdoors. Orchestral and popular music are the chief draws (this season, expect light classical with a fireworks finale, swing music with Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, and Motown with The Miracles and Ben E. King). But don't underestimate the appeal of a picnic dinner. Casual fare such as sandwiches and soda are most commonly drawn out of family picnic baskets. But you might also see couples dining on French baguettes, seafood salad, cantaloupe, and a bottle of wine.
Grilled items and soft drinks are sold at Cannonsburg if you don't want to pack a picnic. Alcoholic beverages are permitted but are not sold on-site. Reserved table seating is available, but most attendees opt for the cheaper, general admission lawn seating. Family lawn passes are a good value if you're attending with two or more children. Gates open approximately two hours before concert time for picnicking, preconcert music and organized children's activities.
Interlochen Fine Arts Camp, Interlochen
One of the nation's premier fine arts camps, Interlochen is home to natural beauty that is tough to beat. Taking its name from the nearby state park and bordered by two lakes, Green Lake and Duck Lake, Interlochen is the epitome of a summer camp. Small, brown cabins lie scattered throughout the sprawling, forested campus, where young proteges expand their knowledge of song, dance, instrumental music, the visual arts, theater and creative writing. Students come from across the nation and the world, all eager for an opportunity to learn under the tutelage of some of the nation's most gifted artists. And Interlochen's idyllic setting seems to add inspiration.
If your family is making the trip to Interlochen for a summer concert performance, you'd be well-advised to arrive in the early afternoon for an opportunity to view the young artists at work and play. Virtually every building on campus is open to the public, and most practice rooms have viewing areas. Step inside an instructional building to view ballet rehearsals or students spinning clay pots; inside others are band or piano recitals, faculty recitals or art exhibitions. To learn what may be going on during your stay, just stop inside the Information Center at the camp's main entrance.
Interlochen has more than one concert venue, but Kresge Auditorium is its outdoor stage. In truth, the stage and its seating area are enclosed by a roof and partial walls, providing welcome protection from the thunderstorms and chilly evenings common in northern Michigan. But the structure's walls disappear as they approach the stage, offering views of Green Lake's shore and allowing a cool breeze and bright sunlight.
Interlochen is known for its first-rate classical and jazz programs, but the venue is a favorite among performers from all musical backgrounds. The approaching season promises such diverse entertainers as the Sousa Band, Steve Winwood, Kathy Mattea, Arlo Guthrie and Aretha Franklin.
Admission to most Kresge Auditorium concerts is by reserved seating. Lodging is available in modest family cabins and hotel rooms at Interlochen and in nearby Traverse City. Before select Kresge shows, a Prelude Picnic offers pizza, salads, sandwiches and beverages for purchase, and there are several designated picnic areas on campus. There is no dining inside the auditorium.
Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, Twin Lake
Like Interlochen, Blue Lake is, first and foremost, a fine arts camp, dedicated to developing the skills of young people interested in music, art, dance and theater. And like Interlochen, Blue Lake can boast an idyllic setting in which to instruct its campers: the cool shade of Manistee National Forest, the beauty of Little Blue Lake, the characteristic brown, wooden cabins inhabited by uniformed school-age children.
The William Stewart Memorial Music Shell matches the remainder of Blue Lake's cabins, its arching, brown, wooden roof resembling a walnut shell over the stage and the first two dozen rows of seats. The amphitheater sits near the bottom of a grass-covered slope that leads to Little Blue Lake, visible just beyond the concert shell. And while there is an ample supply of wooden bench seats, many attendees take along folding chairs and strollers or wagons for the kids. Broad grassy areas beyond the seating area give restless kids the space to run around a bit.
Blue Lake's musical repertoire is classical and orchestral. Previous performers have included the United States Army Field Band and Soldiers' Chorus, the Grand Rapids Symphony and Blue Lake's own festival orchestra, band and ballet ensemble. The concerts are also the least expensive in the state, costing no more than $5 per person; some performances are free.
While the concerts are always a treat, part of the entertainment for many adults at Blue Lake is the participation of the campers. Young people from throughout the state and the nation fill the front rows of the audience at Blue Lake, all dressed in a uniform of light blue polo shirt and navy skirt, pants or shorts, all polite, respectful, and excited. Their enthusiasm for the arts is refreshing and inspiring. When was the last time you attended a classical music concert where most of the attendees hadn't yet hit puberty? Have you ever heard a bunch of kids whistle and whoop with glee for an operatic number? You'll hear it at Blue Lake, and it will give you hope.
Seating at William Stewart Memorial Music Shell is general admission on bench seats. Tickets, when required, are sold at the door. Lawn chairs are permissible but not necessary. Lodging and dining are available in nearby Muskegon. There are numerous picnic areas throughout the camp, but no food service.
DTE Energy Music Theatre, Clarkston
Formerly known as Pine Knob, DTE Energy Music Theatre is the polar opposite of a quiet outdoor venue such as Blue Lake. Since 1991 the theater has garnered honors as either the nation's busiest or top-grossing amphitheater every year.
DTE Energy Music Theatre is big: More than 15,000 patrons can be seated in metro Detroit's favorite outdoor amphitheater. And it is very busy: Approximately 80 events are hosted here every year, a remarkable feat for a stage that is only open from mid-May to mid-September.
At least part of the theater's appeal is its outdoor location. There's something thrilling about listening to your favorite rock, rap or country music out in the fresh air, nibbling on picnic food, remembering to appreciate Michigan's fleeting warm weather months. But while the green grassy lawn area and clear blue summer skies are appealing, nature is secondary at DTE Energy Music Theater. The music is everything here, the venue's consistent line-up of first-rate performers drawing thousands from throughout the Midwest and the country. Internationally recognized headline acts are the rule, including performers as diverse as Reba McEntire, Chicago, Fleetwood Mac, Motley Crue and 50 Cent.
Seating at DTE Energy Music Theatre is in both reserved sections and general admission lawn. Bring along a blanket or low-rise folding beach chair. Picnic baskets with food may be brought into the theater but no beverages of any kind. Strollers and wagons are not permitted.
Meadow Brook, Rochester Hills
Meadow Brook Music Festival is owned and operated by the same organization that manages DTE Energy Music Theater. The amphitheater sits on the grounds of Oakland University in the northwestern Detroit suburb of Rochester Hills. Because the university makes use of the amphitheater, Meadow Brook has a shorter calendar of events, limited to about 40 events each season, beginning in mid-June.
Meadow Brook seats about half the patrons that its Clarkston counterpart does, most of whom opt for lawn seating. And, like DTE Energy Music Theater, the grounds and promise of fresh air on a Michigan summer evening draw its share of fans.
But it is, in the end, the music that fills Meadow Brook's 7,500 seats. The Detroit Symphony Orchestra leaves its grand home in the Max Fisher Music Center in downtown Detroit to perform six concerts at Meadow Brook during July and August, including a Tchaikovsky spectacular with fireworks, an evening of Gershwin favorites and a collaboration of the orchestra and the cast of "Beatlemania." Other headline acts on the schedule are folk singer Ani DiFranco, singer-songwriter Jack Johnson and the British rock group Oasis.
Seating at Meadow Brook is in both reserved sections and general admission lawn. Bring along a blanket or low-rise folding beach chair. Picnic baskets with food may be brought into the theater, but no beverages of any kind. Strollers and wagons are not permitted.
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Hello, girls. Thank you for taking a whole day out of your busy modeling careers to come here and pose for this rare group shot, and thank you too, Iman, even if you were three hours late. As you know, the photo Bert Stern is about to take of you will be the cover of Becoming a Professional Model by Larry Goldman, and some of the proceeds will go to the charity MAMAN, or Models Against Missing, Abused and Needy children. And it was also very generous of 23 top designers to supply 45 dresses and of Harry Winston and Bulgari to lend about $18 million worth of jewelry with all these guards. What do you mean, Kim, you don't want to go to the bathroom with all that stuff on and those guards watching you? What do you mean, Deirdre, you don't like red lipstick? It really doesn't matter, Andie, that your bare feet are getting dirty, and yes, Carol, you do have your dress on backward. Look, while we're waiting for Bert to get things just right, Krishna Johnson here, from PEOPLE, has a couple of questions for you. What's your favorite color? Pink, most of you say? Who's your favorite designer? Azzedine Alaïa? Okay. What do you think of the Madonna look? You never heard of Madonna? Who's your favorite singer? Phil Collins? Your most favorite clothing? "Old slips," you say, Andie? "Birthday suit," you say, Joan? And do you count calories? Never? Wait, don't start clowning around now, bubble gum can really wreck your makeup, girls.... Girls...?
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Red Moon Rising
This year promised two total eclipses of the moon – the first visible in parts of the United States in more than three years. Tonight on Saturday, November 8th, the brighter of the two presented the unfamiliar prospect of a red moon overhead.
|An early summer and late autumn lunar eclipse on tap
Credit: Noel Munford (Palmerston North Astronomical Society, New Zealand)
Total eclipses of the moon occur when the moon passes through the circular shadow that the Earth casts into space and is fully shaded from direct sunlight.
Although masked by the Earth completely or partially from the Sun for as much as an hour and a half, scattering of sunlight off the limbs of our atmosphere doesn't leave the moon without illumination. Instead the blood-bright color of long-wavelength red light enshrouds the moon's otherwise familiar grey pallor.
A small scallop of darkness will begin to appear on the moon's left edge began around 8 p.m. ET. The moon will take nearly three hours to pass completely through the umbra, and just less than one-third of that time it will be deeply immersed in shadow. The moon will pass entirely out of Earth's umbra, and the last evidence of the penumbra should vanish at or around 10:45 p.m. ET.
The eerie, coppery hue is produced by sunlight filtered, reddened and scattered by the rim of the Earth's atmosphere. Because of changes in terrestrial dust in the atmosphere, each lunar eclipse is unique in appearance.
The Moon is believed to play an important role in Earth's habitability . Because the Moon helps stabilize the tilt of the Earth's rotation, it prevents the Earth from wobbling between climatic extremes. Without the Moon, seasonal shifts would likely outpace even the most adaptable forms of life.
In addition, because our moon is lifeless, it is one of the most appealing places to look for the preserved records of life elsewhere. At least according to recent estimates for the amount of ejected rocks that might survive there, the Moon may hold clues from the early history of Mars, Venus and Earth.
Related Web Pages
Making the Moon
Review of Theories of Moon-Forming Impact (Planetary Science Institute)
Big Bang, New Moon (SwRI)


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An earnest desire to truly master the subtle intricacies of your regular roster of duties can drive you to devote yourself more fully to your labors today. You may be surprised to discover that you feel tremendously lively as you go about your duties and are suffused with a restored passion for those tasks you might otherwise deem tedious. Your enthusiasm for the simple act of accomplishing one goal after another can energize you and inspire you to address your obligations with a creative flair you typically reserve for personal projects. Should others recognize your dedication with accolades today, you will likely take pleasure in their praise while deriving an even greater sense of satisfaction from your own feelings of accomplishment.
Our enthusiasm for our daily pursuits can energize us, giving us the fortitude and stamina we need to handle the many obligations we are called upon to undertake in our homes and workplaces. A task tackled enthusiastically will almost always seem more interesting and worthwhile than one pursued in a halfhearted manner. When we are passionate about doing a good job no matter the activity before us, we are more apt to work diligently and dedicatedly until each of our disparate goals is fulfilled. Upon completing our tasks, the satisfaction we earn knowing we devoted 100 percent of ourselves to our objectives can inspire us to labor as assiduously and conscientiously in the future. Your unflappable, boundless energy will be fueled by the mindful gusto with which you work and play today.
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LOS ANGELES - Knott's Berry Farm is dialing back prices for adult admission and cotton candy in hopes the move will boost traffic at the amusement park.
For the new season, the amusement park is charging $39.95 for an adult ticket, down 11 percent from last season's $45.
It has also trimmed the price of cotton candy by a quarter to $2.75.
Compared to other area theme parks, adult ticket prices for Disneyland in Anaheim cost $59, while Universal Studios Hollywood charges $56. A comparable ticket at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia costs $59.99.
Officials at Sandusky, Ohio-based Cedar Fair, which bought Knott's Berry Farm in 1997, said the price reductions were designed to keep a visit to the amusement park affordable to the average consumer.
In the last six years, the amusement park sector has had to weather a drop-off in tourism following the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, the economic slowdown and severe weather last year.
Last year, Knott's drew roughly 3.5 million people, while Disneyland had some 14.5 million attendees.
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Macaroni and Cheese Take 3
As a quick announcement, I've finally set up a Facebook page! I would appreciate any "likes" if you would like to follow along. Thanks!
I took a little break from my quest to find the ultimate creamy stove top macaroni and cheese recipe. After sticking to a healthier diet for a few weeks, I rewarded myself with another macaroni and cheese recipe. And this is the best one yet in my opinion. In fact, this may be "the one."
While I was making it, I was thinking that it wasn't as easy as the Alton Brown recipe, but the end result was worth it. One of the issues I had with previous recipes was that there was just a little too much cheese flavor for me. This recipe uses less cheese, striking the perfect balance for my palate.
The dash of hot pepper flakes and hot sauce added a little kick, making this dish more grown up. Recipe from Evil Shenanigans.
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Interesting about grating the cheese. My niece and I were wondering why our mac and cheese sauce was grainy, and I can see how the pre-grated cheese would cause this. I'm also not a fan of big cheese flavor, so I'm going to try out this recipe.
Okay, you've got to try this recipe! I was on the search for the perfect mac and cheese too, and then my sister gave me this recipe. I think it's delish. Let me know what you think if you make it! Sorry it's so long, lol!
2 cups uncooked macaroni or baby shells
2-1/2 cups milk, preferably 2 per cent
1 tbsp Dijon mustard
1 tsp salt
Pinch of cayenne pepper
2 cups grated light cheddar cheese, preferably old
2 tbsp butter
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
Bring a large saucepan of water to a boil. Add pasta and cook according to package directions, until al dente, 10 to
12 minutes.
Meanwhile, position rack on top shelf in oven and preheat broiler to high. In a medium-size bowl, whisk milk with
Dijon, salt and cayenne. Grate cheese. Melt butter in a large saucepan set over medium heat. Whisk in flour. Mixture
will be dry and very lumpy. Gradually add milk mixture, a little at a time, whisking constantly between additions to
beat out any lumps. Stir often until mixture comes to a boil, 3 to 6 minutes. Remove pan from heat and gradually stir
in 1-1/2 cups cheese. Continue stirring until melted.
When macaroni is cooked, drain well. Do not rinse. Stir into cheese sauce. Mixture will be very creamy and saucy.
It's great as is or turn into an 8-inch baking dish. Place on a rimmed baking sheet. Sprinkle with remaining 1/2
cup cheese. Broil on top rack of preheated oven until cheese melts, about 5 minutes.
You're welcome! I hope you like it. It tastes especially good with some chopped ham or turkey stirred in
I'm a fan of adding red pepper flakes to my pasta, but I've never tried hot sauce! I'll have to try that next time. Thanks for experimenting and finding a great recipe to share!


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|Literary arts survival spurs Poets Laureate
Katherine Hastings, Terry Ehret make appearance at Penngroves Sitting Room
Katherine Hastings and Terry Ehret are on a mission to keep the literary arts alive and well in Sonoma County. The two Poets Laureate were recent guests of The Sitting Room in Penngrove and have many more working projects in the county they call home.
They were promoting Hasting's book "What Redwoods Know – Poems from California State Parks" to raise money for California's State Parks.
"My spouse and I are out and about a lot on the weekends and, when we notice all the tourists, we often turn to each other with smiles and say 'We live here,'" says Hastings, who was raised in San Francisco and now resides in Santa Rosa. "In Sonoma County, it's as easy to find solitude as it is to find top-rate musical entertainment, lectures, readings, etc."
A Poet Laureate is an honored member of the community who is charged with the undertaking of promoting literary arts within the county. Each poet chosen usually has a project they work on; Katherine's is called "Digging Our Poetic Roots" where she sends short essays concerning an aspect of poetic craft to those who are interested. After her two-year term as Poet Laureate, she plans to publish an anthology by local poets.
Sonoma County has had eight laureates since the program began in 2000. The "laureate" part of the title comes from the Greek tradition of crowning the winners of their athletic and poetic competitions with laurel wreaths.
"Here in Sonoma County, the poet laureate is someone who stands out for his or her body of work and presence in the literary community," explains Terry Ehret, who was the county's fourth Laureate. "Our poets laureate create special projects they carry out during their two-year service, and they also act as literary ambassadors."
Ehret moved to Petaluma with her family in 1990. Her poetry, essays, stories and reviews have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, and she has many literary awards, including the National Poetry Series, California Book Award and the Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize. She is currently working with a couple other local poets to translate works by Mexican poet Ulalume Gonzalez de Leon to English, which has not yet been done. She teaches composition at Santa Rosa Junior College and holds poetry workshops regularly at The sitting Room.
"Not every county has a poet laureate program," says Hastings. "Recognizing the value of poetry by establishing this position says a lot about the county. Separate from that, there are many programs in this county that give writers and artists a platform for their work; the Sebastopol Center for the Arts comes to mind immediately, but of course there are others."
She mentions that during Ehret's time as laureate, she had established a website called the Sonoma County Literary Update, which is still in use. It is a compiled list of literary events taking place locally. Although in a perfect world where there would be much more funding for the arts, there are still numerous venues for those wishing to thrive in literature.
"I grew up in a difficult situation and found the rhythms and rhymes of "nursery rhymes" very comforting, so I began writing my own," says Hastings, noting a children's book she wrote when she was younger called "Monique the Mouse."
She founded the WordTemple Poetry Series (www.wordtemple.com) nine years ago, a program that hosts well-known poets as well as gets budding writers on their feet. Local poet Todd Melicker will be celebrating his first full-length collection at WordTemple on April 26. Currently a non-profit, Hastings also hosts a monthly program on the air with KRCB FM and has had guests such as Leslie Scalapino and F.D. Reeve, the father of late actor Christopher Reeve.
"The living web of art and life is so rich here," comments Ehret. "We support each other's projects, cheer for the successes. We celebrate each other's breakthroughs – even the minor ones. But right here, right now, I feel incredibly lucky to be part of this generous literary community."
Ehret recalls her first rejection letter in high school: "I was devastated, but a friend told me such things didn't matter. Only the writing matters."
Both try and find the time to write in solitude, moments away from the regular hustle and bustle of everyday life.
When asked if there is an ideal time and place for writing: "Here," answers Hastings. "Now."


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On November 20, 2011, after a devastating singles match against the Mexican Aristocrat Alberto Del Rio, CM Punk earned his second WWE championship.
Now, 319 days removed from that event, CM Punk is still the WWE champion. However, how much longer will his reign last?
Punk's current reign comes in at No. 5 in the list of the longest WWE championship reigns of the past 25 years.
He is 39 days away from the No. 4 spot, currently held by "Big Diesel" Kevin Nash, a spot Punk will without a doubt surpass.


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Stop for a moment and consider yourself. What does it feel like to be you?
There is an interesting phenomenon with the sense of touch - our body feels differently when we are touched by someone else than it does when we touch ourselves.
If there is too much sensation, too much pressure, your body forms a callous to protect itself and then you cannot feel anything in that spot.
The way you feel physically and the way you feel emotionally are strongly connected. Each one affects the other.
Sometimes our lives are directed by what we feel and that is good - removing your hand from a burning stove protects you from harm. Sometimes our lives are directed to move beyond what we feel and that is good - acting despite fear allows us to accomplish new things.
Are you more concerned with the way you feel or the way other people feel?
Every inch of your body is capable of feeling. Inside and out, your body is designed to feel everything that happens in and around it.
"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. " - Albert Einstein


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A massive manhunt was underway Thursday morning for an ex-Los Angeles Police Department officer suspected of shooting three police officers early Thursday, one fatally. He is also a suspect in the shooting of a couple in Irvine over the weekend.
The suspect is believed to have written an online manifesto on what authorities say is his Facebook page, threatening to harm police officials and their families, law enforcement sources said.
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Gisele Bündchen and Tom Brady may have kept their Thursday night nuptials top secret, but friends aren't surprised that the duo tied the knot.
"They are a great couple," celebrity trainer Oscar Smith, who works with the Patriots quarterback, tells PEOPLE. "He is a super athlete and she is a supermodel. They belong together! I am very happy for the both of them."
Meanwhile, Bündchen, 28, and Brady, 31, remain at their home in the Brentwood community of Los Angeles.
The couple had a small gathering of friends and family at their house Thursday night following their intimate wedding ceremony at St. Monica Catholic Church in Santa Monica, Calif. At the ceremony, Brady wore a tuxedo by Ermenegildo Zegna, a source tells PEOPLE.
After spending the night at home, more visitors arrived at their house Friday morning to help the newlyweds celebrate.
And they're sure to have a happy honeymoon. "He is madly is love with her," a source close to the pair tells PEOPLE. "He lives for her."
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Update to stratum servers, posted Mar 8, 2014 at 23:22 by ubaldo
We have now introduced 2 stratum servers to replace the old one.
The old server kept being attacked and so we have discarded it however the new ones have an important role thanks to their location.
We now have us1.mineabit.com based in north america & eu1.mineabit.com based in central europe.
Depending on demand we will increase the number of stratum servers.
We have also made some changes to the withdrawal rules:
Minimum automatic payout set to: 0.0001 AUR
Tx Fee for auto payment: 0.001 AUR
TX fee for manual payment:0.001 AUR
Please also note there is a 1% mining fee which helps us maintain the pool running.
Emails fixed!, posted Mar 5, 2014 at 21:34 by ubaldo
Emails are now sent correctly, payout minimums have been reduced to 0.0001 AUR and tx fee to 0.0001 AUR.
Locked accounts part 2, posted Mar 3, 2014 at 19:02 by ubaldo
I am manually unlocking accounts on a regular basis. The new mail server has been deployed and is being configured.
This should sort out the issue with mails not being delivered.
Please bear with me while this is done.
Once the new server is up and running, all notifications should run smooth
Locked accounts, posted Mar 1, 2014 at 19:31 by ubaldo
We had over 300 accounts locked due to the failure of our mail server.
Every account has been manually unlocked and you should be able to log back in.
Please be aware we are still waiting for the deployment of the new mail server and the backup one is holding the load but is limited to 100 emails per hour.
As people is getting annoyed with messages on this thread from pool ops (most of them are spam anyway) please keep an eye on the news sewction of the pool.
The pool is not charging fees and is set to 0.01tx fee so we rely purely on donations from our miners.
Should anyone wish to contribute here is the aur address: AHfCtJcvgoiHNWKx2HBivry5Eh6FNCQp3B
Back!, posted Feb 28, 2014 at 22:09 by ubaldo
The stratum has been restarted successfully and miners are connecting again.
We are still waiting delivery of the new mail server and exploring options to mediate in the mean time!
Site issues, posted Feb 28, 2014 at 20:00 by ubaldo
As you know we have been experiencing issues with the load.
To explain the situation we have a total of 1100 new accounts in the last 12 hours.
Each account required email verification and also email validation to change the account settings, you can do the math... the result was a crash of the mail server.
At that stage the backup mail server kicked in however it has ( and was not known before) a maximum of 100 emails per hour.
Going through the logs I am noticing a lot of people had turned on email notifications for blocks found which again adds to the load.
The result of all of this was that a lot of emails were not sent properly and when they were tokens would have expired. Rage!
Please keep in mind this was unpredicted and we are now working on two things:
- new mail server capable of handling the load
- new database server to improve load
Updated wallet for hardfork!, posted Feb 25, 2014 at 01:15 by ubaldo
The wallet has been updated in preparation for the hardfork at block 5400!
While i tried my best to keep the downtime to a minimum i apologise for the 5 seconds it took the updated wallet to synch.
The pool will remain with 0% fee and just 0.01 tx fee.
All I will receive is your generous donations!
Donors, posted Feb 18, 2014 at 18:40 by ubaldo
It's nice to see some willing to help!
New pool - No fees!, posted Feb 13, 2014 at 20:53 by ubaldo
A friend suggested this coin, i liked it and decided to set-up a pool.
There are no fees simply because i like the idea of this coin and i hope the devs stick to their plan!!!
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GIRARD Wednesday marks 20 years since Charlotte Nagi Pollis was reported missing, and family members said they haven't given up hope that one day someone will be held accountable.
"It's been 20 years of built-up frustration. It's like no one really cares anymore. But we care," her brother, Ali Nagi of Youngstown, said.
"I think about it every day. I look at her case every day. There are a lot of questions and I know there are people who have the answers. We're just hoping they finally come forward.
Nagi said he realizes the case went cold at least 15 years ago, but he's hoping that advances in technology and social media connections can help net new leads for investigators.
Pollis' husband, Paul Pollis, reported her missing from their Girard home on March 12, 1994. Charlotte Pollis, who was 28, has never been found.
Investigators have said they believe they know who is responsible, but they have never been able to gather enough evidence to prove it.
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MARTINSBURG - A large fire at a model home in Berkeley County Sunday caused an estimated $700,000 in damages and sent one person to the hospital, fire officials said.
The call reporting the fire at 34 Soaring Eagle Way was received at about 11:25 a.m., Hedgesville Volunteer Fire Department Chief Mike Nichols said.
"We arrived on scene to find a two-story, single-family residence that was actually being used as the model home for the development. There were numerous offices in it and heavy fire showing from the first floor and second floor on the front side of the home," Nichols said.
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Journal photo by Edward Marshall
What's left of a model home near Martinsburg is surrounded by yellow emergency tape following a fire Sunday.
The model home is located in The Ridges of Tuscarora community west of Martinsburg. A civilian at the scene was transported to City Hospital after suffering burns to one of her hands, Nichols said.
He said it's believed the fire was caused by a wall-mounted electric heater located on the first floor of the home in an office area that appeared to have originally been a garage.
"Nobody was living in it. It was a model home with offices," Nichols said.
The home is located in an area without fire hydrants, which required tankers to be called to the scene. Numerous units and fire departments assisted at the scene, including personnel from the Hedgesville, Baker Heights, Bedington, South Berkeley, Back Creek Valley, Shepherdstown and Berkeley Springs volunteer fire departments, as well as personnel from the Martinsburg Fire Department and the 167th West Virginia Air National Guard. Nichols also said an additional tanker from either the Bakerton or Friendship Volunteer Fire Department assisted at the scene as well.
"It burned the second floor and the roof off of the residence, and right now we're estimating the loss of the structure to be about $500,000 and the value of the contents at roughly $200,000. We're looking at total loss right around $700,000," Nichols said.
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Turn off lights when you don't need them. Including your Christmas lights!
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- Melting ice sculptures symbolizing climate change
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- Exclusive meeting with Al Gore
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Dear Editor:
I have been following articles about Wellsville's council and the Riverside Roadhouse attempt to expand their liquor license. The first article mentioned a fear of attracting the wrong type of people or some undesirable people opening an undesirable business. The first question that entered my mind was what does the mayor and council consider undesirable and what is the wrong type of people? Are the council and mayor considering rules for who moves to Wellsville? Are the rules for all people who move to town or just those who want to start a business? Who will be in charge of this program (special committee, mayor, selected official)? Will a test and background search be conducted? Is there a list of undesirable businesses? Who made the list and did the council vote on the list?
I would like the mayor to describe a "beer joint" for me. I operated a bar in Wellsville until the mills closed (1983) and I decided that the time I was putting in was too much, as I was also working another job. I believe my customers were some of the nicest people I have met. I met my wife there. In fact, police officers, school teachers, millworkers, farmers and all other walks of life came in as customers. These people were like an extended family, helping each other with problems and caring for each other. There were problems like any family, but not anything major. Is a beer joint a place of contempt because of who go there or by who owns/operates it? I know that times change and some bars can attract people who are not out for a good time but to cause trouble. After an establishment has proven to be a trouble spot then action can be taken. Not wanting to curse the police department, but it's one of the best around and has shown that they can close a trouble bar. They have in the past. Lastly, the mayor and council should give the Riverside Roadhouse all the help they can to get the expanded license. It will help them compete with the other restaurants in the area, level the playing field so to speak.
I think the citizens of Wellsville should look into where this is going, as the mayor and council may decide to deport "undesirable" people. It would be best if the Bill of Rights and other amendments were followed. They may already have plans for re-education camps.
For those of you who think I'm an outsider, I was born and raised in Wellsville and educated and worked there for 35 years. It's still my home and I still think of myself as a tiger.
As an afterthought, is there a conflict of interest for a council person to vote on issues that might affect their own business?
Vince Amato
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A little bit about a lot from the desk of AGN Media Director of Commentary Dave Henry
■ Leftover nuggets from a recent visit with Texas Tech University Chancellor Kent Hance: Hance is supportive of Tech's decision regarding the transfer of quarterback Baker Mayfield to Oklahoma, a decision that will probably cost Mayfield a year on the sidelines. I get Hance's point about schools not letting players transfer within a conference without sitting out a year, but Mayfield was not on scholarship at Tech. If schools aren't willing to provide anything to a player, it is only fair that schools have little — if any — say when a player transfers.
■ The race is on: Hance tells a great story about beating future President George W. Bush in a 1978 congressional race — Bush's only loss in an election. As part of the campaign, there was a marathon in Lubbock. Bush ran, but Hance went out and recruited a Tech student who happened to be a distance runner to take his place. Hance told the runner — clad with a Hance bumper sticker on his backside — to stay 15 feet in front of Bush. And he did. For 26 miles. "(Bush) laughs about it now, but I don't think in 1978 he thought it was all that funny," Hance said with a smile.
■ Pants on fire: Fox News recently blasted White House Press Secretary Jay Carney for the administration's latest bungle on Benghazi, using a logo in the bottom of the screen proclaiming Carney as "Obama's paid liar." Isn't this sort of thing a prerequisite for the press secretary job, no matter who is in the White House?
■ Knowing Noah: I know I'm late to the party, but I recently caught the movie "Noah" with Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly (no way I'm leaving Connelly out of the credits). I was disappointed, doubting the movie's relationship to Scripture. However, an online review by Ben Sachs is interesting. It says "Noah" is actually pretty close to Jewish texts, or "midrash." That explains the fallen angels made of stone.
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PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- Mets shortstop Jose Reyes will return from the World Baseball Classic much earlier than expected after the Dominicnan Republic was eliminated last night by -- who else? -- the Netherlands.
Reyes is expected back in Port St. Lucie on Thursday or Friday at the latest. And though he is unlikely to play Thursday night against the Florida Marlins, his return will give the WBC-depleted Mets a bit of a closer resemblance to the team fans will see on Opening Day.
With Johan Santana set to make his debut Thursday and Reyes on his way back, things are looking up for the Mets, who are off Wednesday.
Infielder/outfielder Fernando Tatis, who also played for the Dominican Republic, will return soon as well.
And if Mexico loses to Australia Wednesday night (10 p.m., MLB Network), pitcher Oliver Perez could be back by the end of the week.
As for the rest of the Mets in the WBC, it'll be a while. With the U.S., Venezuela and Puerto Rico all advancing to the second round, that means Carlos Beltran, Carlos Delgado, David Wright, J.J. Putz, Francisco Rodriguez, Pedro Feliciano and others will be gone at least another week.


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The Beautiful Butterflyby Judy Sierra
A beautiful butterfly is courted by many suitors. She finally finds a husband who has a singing voice soft and sweet enough to please her, but no sooner does the honeymoon begin than he is swallowed by a giant fish! All of nature joins her in mourning, setting off a comical chain of events that results in a second chance for the beautiful butterfly and her devoted husband. Enchantingly original depictions of the beautiful butterfly and her friends and an inventive happy ending reveal the sweetness and humor of this enduring Spanish folktale. FOLKLORE NOTE.
The Sleepy Little Alphabetby Melissa Sweet Judy Sierra
A fun read-aloud for little ones who are learning their ABCs.It's sleepy time in Alphabet Town. But the twenty-six little letters of the alphabet all have something they need--or want--to do before big-letter moms and dads tuck them in. Not since the classsic Chicka Chicka Boom Boom has there been such an appealing way to teach the youngest child the ABCs while providing a one-minute goodnight story. Of course, Melissa Sweet's animated watercolor, pencil, and collage illustrations may beg for a little more time to match up all the toys with the right letters, and Judy Sierra's rollicking rhymed story will want to be heard again and again. Okay, so maybe it's a three-minute story!
We Love Our School!by Linda Davick Judy Sierra
This picture book about the first day of school, featuring a frog, a duck, a mouse, and a snail, combines a story in rhyme with colorful graphic rebuses, making it a fun book for parent and child to share in the reading. Children about to enter kindergarten or first grade who long to be able to read will get a sense of accomplishment by "reading" the little rebus pictures in the story. Judy Sierra, author of Wild About Books, uses bouncy rhyme and rhythm as cues for the child to name the pictogram rebuses. Preschoolers will enjoy following the animals and their teacher, Tom Burkey (who is a turkey), through a happy first day of school.From the Hardcover edition.
ZooZicalby Marc Brown Judy Sierra
Winter weather is keeping children from visiting the zoo. So the animals are out of sorts--listless, grumpy, and no longer fun. All except two little friends, a very small hippo and a baby kangaroo. Their hip-hopping, toe-tapping, and rap-rocking soon has the other animals joining in the hip-aroo beat. "Racoons danced in pairs, baboons danced in troops, and snakes joined the dancers as live hula-hoops." Children's favorite songs get a funny new spin--seals bark out "The seals on the bus go round and round"--as the animals create their very own musical.Young readers and listeners will be amazed and delighted at how the animals chase the winter doldrums by getting along as friends, pooling their talents, and pushing themselves to new heights. After all, these are the same clever animals who learned to read in Judy Sierra's and Marc Brown's Wild About Books, an award-winning New York Times #1 bestselling picture book. ZooZical is sure to inspire some "can do" fun in kindergarten and primary grades.From the Hardcover edition.
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Pharmaceutical Sciences
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Contact InformationSchool of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
270 Kapoor Hall
South Campus
Buffalo, NY 14214-8033
Phone: 716.645.2825
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Web Address: pharmacy.buffalo.edu
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Program OverviewThe Pharmaceutical Sciences major program is a four-year program leading to a bachelor of science degree in pharmaceutical sciences. While the major is structurally a basic science program (like biochemistry, biology, etc.), it is also a unique interdisciplinary field of study that seeks to achieve better understanding and control of the factors influencing clinical response to drug therapy.
Areas of interest in pharmaceutical sciences range from the physical chemistry of pharmaceutical systems, which is concerned with the development and optimization of the physical-chemical properties of traditional and novel drug dosage forms and systems; to biopharmaceutics, which encompasses the study of the relationship between the nature and intensity of biologic effects of drugs and various dosage formulation factors, to pharmacokinetics, which is the science of the quantitative analysis of drug concentration and drug effects in the body, to clinical pharmacokinetics, which is concerned with the application of pharmacokinetics to the safe and effective therapeutic management of individual patients.
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Ph.D. University of Georgia
Under conditions of commercial mariculture cumulative mortalities may reach 40%, and vibriosis has been cited as the major worldwide impediment to the successful commercial rearing of coldwater trout and salmon species. Using an integrated approach of DNA technology, microbial physiology and genetics, and immunological techniques, research in the laboratory is directed at constructing a recombinant Vibrio anguillarum vaccine for the simultaneous protection of salmonids against vibriosis and viral diseases such as infectious pancreatic necrosis.
A significant portion of the forest products industry in Maine is involved in the production of timber for use in building materials and furniture, dictating that the wood be kiln dried. A minimum of 4 x 1010 lbs of water vapor and organics are removed annually from nearly 30 billion board feet of wood dried in the United States alone. Kiln drying systems can be viewed as either venting evaporated moisture into the environment, or as condensing the evaporated moisture to recover heat energy, allowing the aqueous condensate to drain from the kiln and onto the ground. Biological effects of these uncharacterized wood drying condensates have not been examined. A second research focus in the laboratory is aimed at characterizing the in vitro and in vivo toxicological effects of condensates on life forms from bacteria to eukaryotic cells to mammals.
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The 60-year-old U.S. Navy veteran, who served two tours of duty in Vietnam, proudly flies the American flag year-round outside his home in Rothbury.
He flies it for his nephew, Sgt. Todd Robbins, who was killed in Iraq on April 13, 2003, and buried with full military honors in Hart a few days later.
Louis Robbins raises Old Glory every single day, its vibrant red, white and blue unfurling in stark contrast to the somber black-and-white POW/MIA flag he flies alongside it. He flies it ...
"Because I can," he says.
No need to talk about patriotism, sacrifice or service; Robbins, who is taciturn by nature, lets the flag deliver his message 365 days a year.
"I get tense when I see a flag all tore up, and still on a flag pole, flying," he says.
Recently retired from Alcoa Howmet Corp. after 42 years on the job, Robbins has been known to challenge businesses -- and even government officials -- when he spots flags in disrepair still in use.
|For more information about Flag Day, which is June 14, visit www.usflag.org
"Things aren't too good in our country," he says, "but it could be worse. We have a lot to be proud of."
A 1966 graduate of Hart High School, Robbins didn't have the money or inclination for college, so he went to work at Howmet right out of school. In December 1966, he decided to enlist in the Navy, in a sense, outmaneuvering the military.
"I figured I was going to be drafted anyway, so why not choose what branch I wanted to be in?" he says.
He was stationed in Long Beach, Va., and assigned to the Valley Forge, a World War II-era aircraft carrier that earned nine battle stars in Vietnam as an amphibious assault ship, shuttling Marines in and out of battle by helicopter.
An E5 Hull Technician, Robbins was assigned to the firefighting/damage control unit, attached to a Marine helicopter squadron, preparing for the worst: helicopter crashes; and helicopters, damaged by enemy fire, limping back to the ship.
"There was a lot of helicopter noise, that chopping sound. It was constant," he says.
Robbins made plenty of buddies along the way, befriending another young sailor, Clint Brown, from Nebraska who liked to hunt and fish like he did; and a man named Ron Reeves, who was married with children and who, even in the midst of war, knew he was going to make the Navy his career.
Robbins and his high school sweetheart, Sharon, married before he was shipped out to 'Nam, but she was back home in West Michigan. So when Robbins was on base in Long Beach, he volunteered to take Reeves' duty for him so he could be with his family. When they were at sea, they relied on each other.
"We weren't war heroes," Robbins says. "We just did what we had to do. We did what our country asked us to do."
When Robbins was discharged in 1969, he and Reeves shook hands and wished each other good luck. Reeves went on to his next assignment in what became a 20-year career. Robbins came home to West Michigan. He and his wife, Sharon, had two children, bought a house in Rothbury and started careers.
For 40 years, the wives sent Christmas cards back and forth, promising that "one day" the guys would have to get together. But life's demands always got in the way.
"But I always knew he was there," Robbins says.
On April, the long-awaited reunion finally happened. Louis and Sharon Robbins made the trip to Suffolk, Va., to see Ron and Judy Reeves.
"Whew, after not seeing somebody for 40 years, it was really important," says Reeves, 63, who retired from the Navy in 1987 as a Senior Chief. He works as a private contractor on base in Norfolk, Va. "We had a lot to share; a lot of stories to tell."
The stories ran the gamut from the outrageous, like the time some of the guys used the chief's fishing pole line to fly a kite aboard the Valley Forge, to the serious.
"A lot of guys didn't come back," Robbins says. "I fly the MIA/POW flag for them."
Reeves called the two, who served back-to-back tours of duty during a divisive war, "a couple of proud veterans."
"I consider it one of my greatest achievements to serve my country," he says.
So does Robbins, a man who grows dahlias in retirement, works on old cars and visits Civil War battlefields whenever he can. But of all his many hobbies and interests, it is his generation's war that most identifies him. It's not uncommon for him to wear T-shirts identifying him as a Vietnam veteran, always paying homage to those who didn't make it home -- or came home injured and disabled.
"I could have had it a lot worse," he says. "I've seen guys, a lot of guys, have it a lot worse than I did."
And so Robbins flies the flag, not just on Flag Day, but every day, as a living memorial and reminder of the freedom it represents.
"It's important," he says, "and the older I get, the more important it is. That's all. It's important."


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Doug Laidlaw wrote:
> I downloaded the Dual 1586/x64 CD and successfully upgraded my Cooker
> installation to Official.
> My NVidia card was not detected on running the installer, but I was
> successful after rebooting the first time.
> Now, I have updated my kernel to the latest, and although I ran XFdrake,
> apparently successfully, the nvidia.ko module was not created. I didn't
> see dkms run, and suspect that it didn't.
> On the bootup messages, I see that the relevant dkms.conf is not set to run
> automatically. The problem is that for each set (2 versions of nvidia +
> virtualbox,) there are about 4 files called dkms.conf.
> (a) Can I set dkms to run during bootup? (Something like that used to happen
> under previous releases.)
> (b) If so, which file should I edit? Or all for the relevant nvidia
> version?
Load mcc, go to system, and there to services. Set dkms to run
at boot.
In addition to dkms being installed, you will need
dkms-nvidia-current-169.12-4mdv2008.1 or something similar,
I think the next two are installed automatically.
Plus, you must have the kernel devel package for
your _exact_ kernel. This will be something similar to,
Then reboot. If dkms builds you a proprietary nvidia
module, it will be nvidia.ko and must be entered as nvidia
in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. If it builds you the reverse
engineered module, it will be nv.ko and must be entered
as nv in xorg.conf. If you get the nv.ko module, you
may need to get the nvidia package from plf (though I think
it is now included in the regular Mandriva package).
If you have done all the above and still no joy, run
XFdrake again and see what happens.
jim b.
UNIX is not user-unfriendly; it merely
expects users to be computer-friendly.


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HARDING CLASS OF 1956: The monthly luncheon of the June Class of 1956 of Warren G. Harding High School will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Hometown Buffet in Niles. Guests are welcome. For more information, call Harold at 330-759-1211.
HOWLAND CLASS OF 1981: The Howland High School Class of 1981 is having its 30th reunion from 6 to 11 p.m. July 2 at Divieste's Banquet Rooms, Warren. For more information, see classmates.com or contact Brigitte Radich at email@example.com.
MESOPOTAMIA REUNION: The Mesopotamia School Reunion will be held May 21 at the Mespo Historical Building (the old Grange Hall). Anyone who attended Mesopotamia School is invited. Social hour is at 5 p.m., followed by dinner at 5:30. Cost is $11 per person. Make checks payable to Mesopotamia Alumni, c/o Alice Bean, 4915 Kinsman Road, Middlefield OH 44062.
WGH 1946 LUNCHEON: The Warren G. Harding High School January Class of 1946 will meet for a luncheon at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Leo's Ristorante, 7042 E. Market St., Warren. The group will discuss the 65th class reunion. All classmates, spouses and friends are welcome.
WGH 1948 BREAKFAST: The Warren G. Harding High School January Class of 1948 will meet for breakfast at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Perkins Restaurant on Elm Road in Warren. All classmates and spouses are welcome.
WGH 1947 LUNCHEON: The Warren G. Harding High School June Class of 1947 will meet for a luncheon at noon Friday at the Trumbull Country Club, 600 Golf Drive, Warren. All spouses and guests are welcome.
109th GREENE ALUMNI BANQUET: The 109th annual Greene Alumni Banquet will be held at 6 p.m. May 28 in the gymnasium at Maplewood North School. Doors open at 5 p.m. Advance tickets are $12 per person, or $14 per person at the door. A swiss steak dinner will be served. Reservations are needed today and can be made by calling 330-583-0039 or 330-583-3190. Anyone who attended Greene School is welcome.
FALLS CLASS OF 1956 RESERVATIONS: Reservations are being accepted for the 55th anniversary reunion of the Newton Falls High School Class of 1956. The reunion will be held June 17 at Faces banquet room in Newton Falls. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Deadline for reservations is June 3. Reservations can be made by calling Barb at 330-872-3261 or Carol at 330-872-0795.
RIDGE ALUMNI BANQUET: The Mineral Ridge High School Alumni Banquet will be held June 18 in the Mineral Ridge High School cafeteria. Social hour will begin at 5:30 p.m., with a buffet dinner at 6:30. Cost is $18 per person, in advance. Honored guests will be the classes of 1961 and 2011. Reservations are due by June 10 and can be made by calling Carol Garland at 330-638-9995 or Kay Smith at 330-652-0567. Checks, payable to Mineral Ridge Alumni Association, can be mailed to: Mineral Ridge Alumni Assoc., P.O. Box 191, Mineral Ridge, OH 44440.
WILLIAMSFIELD ALUMNI BANQUET: The 101st Williamsfield Alumni Banquet and Homecoming will be held June 11 at the Williamsfield Community Center. The group will gather at 6 p.m., with a buffet dinner at 7. Graduates of 2011 and classes of 1961 and 1986 will be honored. Entertainment will be provided. Reservations are due by June 6 and can be made by contacting Dorothy Somerville at 440-293-6070, Christine Lipps at 440-293-7390 or Florence Lipps at 440-293-6783. The cost for dinner is $8.50.


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MONTVILLE — Police are asking for the public's help to solve a string of car thefts and break-ins that took place in a quiet Montville neighborhood early this morning, authorities said.
Two cars were stolen from a garage on Cooks Farm Road and three other cars were broken into within a mile of those thefts, said Det. Sgt. Andrew Caggiano. The incidents all happened between midnight and 5 a.m., according to Caggiano, who said police believe the same suspect or suspects were involved in each theft.
Caggiano said undisclosed amounts of cash, cell phones and other properties were stolen from each car.
Anyone with information should contact the Montville Police Department's detective bureau at (973) 257-4300.


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Zac Efron landed in Berlin this weekend and was greeted with a familiar sound – from the hordes of screaming girls.
In Germany to promote the European release of his hit romantic comedy 17 Again, the sexy screen star, 21, saw the sights, caught some rays and even indulged in a favorite local custom of having a drink in a beer garden. His date for the trip: his mother, Starla.
On Saturday, the two did their drinking at a Berlin favorite, the Fischerhütte, on Schlachtensee Lake. After driving through the city, the Efrons had dinner at Käfer, the gourmet restaurant in the glass dome atop the historic Reichstag parliament building.
On Sunday afternoon, more than 800 shrieking fans lined a cinema red carpet to catch a glimpse of their fringed hero. The hottie, who was jauntily clad in a dark blazer over a rumpled white T-shirt and dark gray jeans, happily signed autographs and posed for photos. The reaction even seemed to take him by surprise.
"This is amazing," Efron said for the TV cameras. "The decibel level is really high."
Inside the theater, Efron greeted the audience auf Deutsch with a hearty "Guten Tag," before continuing in English to say, "It's a big honor for me to be here. A lot of people worked hard for this film." Then, after promising to return to Berlin in the future, he disappeared.
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If x, y and z are real numbers such that: x + y + z = 5 and xy + yz
+ zx = 3. What is the largest value that any of the numbers can
Find all the solutions to the this equation.
Four vehicles travelled on a road with constant velocities. The car
overtook the scooter at 12 o'clock, then met the bike at 14.00 and
the motorcycle at 16.00. The motorcycle met the scooter at 17.00
then it overtook the bike at 18.00. At what time did the bike and
the scooter meet?
This is another inverse problem. If you were given the equations and asked to draw the graphs then graphing software would do the work for you. This challenge is posed the opposite way round. You have to use mathematical reasoning to deduce the equations of the graphs in the illustration. Then you can use graphing software to check to see if your reasoning was correct.
You can read about one teacher's experience of using this task in the classroom.


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- Home > Museum of Korea > National Museum
The Buyeo National Museum located in Buyeo is playing a central and leading role in the study, research and preservation of the Baekje culture.
The Buyeo National Museum exhibits about 1,000 artifacts out of the approximately 15,000 relics in the fields of archaeology and arts in its collection collected in Chungcheongnam-do Province. Located in Buyeo
The Cheongju National Museum opened on October 30, 1987. Its mission is to survey, study, and display the cultural heritage of Chungcheongbuk-do Province and educate the public onthe unique provincial culture.
- The Chuncheon National Museu m that was finally opened on Oct. 30 in 2002 after the long-cherished desire of Gangwon people has served as both the treasure house of cultural heritage of the region and the pivotal cultural infrastructure of the nation as it??.
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The Daegu National Museum opened on 7th December 1994.
The Daegu National Museum houses approximately 30,000 artifacts. Its main collection consists of not only archaeological objects but also fine art objects.
Exhibition of Artifacts from Royal Palaces
- The Royal Museum opened in December 1992 to serve as a means of giving the right understanding of royal culture and life of the Joseon Dynasty. It contains artifacts from the royal tombs and palaces within the city of Seoul and its vicinities.
- (http://gongju.museum.go.kr)
The Gongju National Museum preserves and manages 10,000 cultural properties including 19 national treasures and 3 treasures excavated in Daejeon and Chungcheongnam-do areas. Important artifacts of high academic value are shown in permanent and special exhibits for the public,
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The gwangju national museum was established at maegok-dong of jeollanam-do province on dec.6,1978 after korea's liberation from japan in 1945. since its opening, it has contributed to the development of unique and regional culture consistently.
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Welcome to the Gyeongju National Museum.
The Gyeongju National Museum, a treasure house of Silla Kingdom's one thousand year culture, has been loved by Korean people and has attracted great interest from people all over the world. Recently, we have opened the Art Hall and renovated the Archaeology Hall,
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JeonJu National Museum is a comprehensive museum that provides the history and culture of Jeollabuk-do. We are committed to satisfying visitors expectations with various rooms in the main building such as an Archeology room, which displays archeological m aterials from all over Jeollabuk-do. The Fine art room exhibits Buddhist art work, ceramics, and paintings, and the Folklore room displays folk materials from which you can see modern lifestyles.
- According to the theory of configuration of the ground, the National Lighthouse Museum is located in Homigot (Cape Homi), which corresponds to the tail of the tiger. It is the only museum dedicated to lighthouses in Korea. In 1985, Yeongil-gun (now the city of Pohang) opened the museum,
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In September 1908, when the fate of Daehan Jeguk (the Great Han Empire) hung by a thread, the last Emperor Sunjong established the Imperial Household Museum at Changgyeonggung Palace. It was Korea's first museum.


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Is there any end in sight to the dysfunctional Hulk Hogan family saga?
It's one nasty turn after another, and barely a day seems to go by without one of the family members spewing venom in the media.
One might have hoped that the 2007 car accident involving son Nick, which left friend John Graziano in a permanent vegetative state and the now 18-year-old with an eight-month prison term, would have had a sobering, humbling effect on the Hogan family. Perhaps some good could have come out of such tragedy. Valuable lessons could have been learned.
Life is fragile. Fences can be mended. Families should stick together.
If anything, though, the War of the Hogans has only intensified.
And now 21-year-old daughter Brooke Hogan, whose second season of "Brooke Knows Best" premieres today on VH1, seems to be in the line of fire as her parents' acrimonious divorce battle plays out before the public, on TV and in the tabloids.
The latest coming out of the Hogan camp is from the Hulkster in response to his estranged wife's charges that their daughter's behavior doesn't match the All-American girl image Hogan has tried to create.
Linda Hogan (Bollea) claimed that Hulk (Terry Bollea) was rolling and smoking joints with Brooke's boyfriend, rapper Staxx, at her recording sessions. Hogan vehemently denied the allegations, and said that Linda was "lost" and "needs help."
"Brooke is a clean-cut girl. She's very open and honest," Hulk proclaimed in the current issue of Life & Style magazine. "Brooke can't have a relationship with her mother like this."
Hogan, 55, also refuted Linda's allegations of drug use, and said it's his 49-year-old, soon-to-be-ex-wife who is engaging in illegal drugs with her 20-year-old "boy toy" Charlie Hill. He even offered to take a legally supervised drug test if Linda would do the same.
"If Linda says she'll take a drug test, I say bring it, brother. It needs to be done, and she'll fail it."
Linda answered the challenge by voluntarily taking tests that came out negative.
"Linda Hogan is clean, clean, clean," publicist Gary Smith reported last week. He said she took a full medical exam and tested negative for everything including marijuana, cocaine, speed, amphetamines and opiates.
"Linda does not do drugs and never accused her daughter of doing drugs either," said Smith. "Now the truth is in black and white; all Linda wants is an apology from both of them."
Brooke told US magazine last week that she tried calling her mother, but to no avail.
"I actually dialed her phone ... but she didn't answer. I love her no matter what. I'll forgive her and I'll pray for her, but I don't think I can be around her anymore. Ever. She may as well have disowned me. She did in my heart."
Brooke also said on Howard Stern's Sirius satellite radio show Wednesday that she can't say for sure that her mom has done drugs, but that something isn't right.
"Do I have a gut feeling that she has something to come clean about? Yes," she said. "But that's just my gut."
Smith issued a release claiming Brooke "continues to spew lies on behalf of her father's lame attempt to distance himself from the reality that he is no different from the homicidal O.J. Simpson." If Brooke continues, the rep added in an unintentionally humorous statement, "Charlie (Linda's boyfriend) will be forced to put aside his paramedic/firefighting career path and release an album called Redemption which will easily surpass any of Brooke's records sales."
Smith, in the letter to celebrity blogger Perez Hilton, also accused Brooke of fabricating claims or misrepresenting the facts about her breast augmentations, her relationship with Staxx and comments about Hill.
"She only judges Charlie because of his long hair and age. Linda doesn't judge ... Brooke is Hulk's only remaining mouthpiece and a pawn in his game of control," said Smith.
"Brooke Hogan has spoken out in support of her father only because of her mother's repeated fabricated attacks on him," replied a Hogan attorney. "She is in the unique position of knowing both parties in this litigation and she has only spoken as to what she knows to be the truth based upon her personal experience with each."
Hogan added that he believes his daughter is more of an adult than her mother.
"I hope one day Linda will grow up and be an adult like Brooke is," he said. "Linda has to reach to her level. One day, maybe."
Hogan's attorney says a mother-daughter relationship appears unlikely at this time because Linda "continues to attempt to throw her family under the bus to gain publicity."
Linda filed for divorce just a month after the last episode of their popular reality show aired. Hogan later said he was surprised that his wife wanted to end their 24-year marriage, even though the two had visited a marriage counselor on their VHI show.
Hogan told People magazine last year that the couple had experienced marital difficulties for nearly a decade, and that "the reality show just amplified the problems."
- The highly anticipated Jim Cornette book is out, and it's a must for any serious wrestling fan's collection.
Don't expect a behind-the-scenes look at Cornette's life. "The Midnight Express 25th Anniversary Scrapbook" is not an autobiography, nor is it advertised as such, but it is a fascinating look at one of the greatest managers and tag teams in wrestling history, as told by one of the smartest and funniest guys in the business.
The full-color book is detailed and accurate, with results, clippings, photos and even payoff receipts, along with insightful recollections from Cornette.
The book is available at www.jimcornette.com.
- Ric Flair may be 60 years old. He may be officially retired. Yet he still found himself in a familiar position last week - the main event of Monday Night Raw. And he more than held his own in a street fight with Randy Orton.
Flair got the better of Orton during a show-finishing brawl that started in the parking lot, moved to the backstage area and ended up inside a cage in the ring. Orton got last-minute help from cronies Ted DiBiase and Cody Rhodes, however, and ended up knocking out the Nature Boy with his trademark stiff kick to the cranium.
Flair, who suffered a head laceration, also badly cut his hand during the backstage segment and had to get 12 stitches.
Flair, bloodied and bruised, was pleased with the performance.
"It was great," he said the next day. "But I'm sore as hell."
- Maverick (Dakota) Darsow was among several developmental performers released by WWE last week.
Darsow is the son of former pro star Barry Darsow (Krusher Khruschev, Demolition Smash, Repo Man).
- Former WWE announcer Tazz should be appearing in TNA rings soon.
"The prison sentence is almost done ... Can't wait!" Tazz recently posted on his Facebook page, referring to his 90-day, no-compete clause. His WWE contract expired in late March.
Tazz is expected to serve as a mentor to Samoa Joe when he arrives in TNA.
- Sting's days with TNA are expected to come to an end when his contract expires at the end of October. His last match with the company most likely will be at the Bound For Glory pay-per-view.
Sting's oldest son, Garrett Borden, is a sophomore fullback on the Azusa Pacific University football team. Azusa Pacific is a private, inter-denominational, evangelical Christian university located near Los Angeles.
- Sean Waltman, the former 1-2-3 Kid, X-Pac and Syxx, recently told a radio show that he's well on the road to recovery one year after completing a WWE-sponsored rehab program.
"Some people may know that I hit a rough spot a year ago," Waltman said on the Monday Night Mayhem show. "Courtesy of Vince McMahon ... I gotta thank him. I'm doing great now."
Waltman, who now lives in Mexico where he is headlining for the AAA promotion, said the intervention probably saved his life, but he doesn't foresee wrestling for WWE and reforming DX anytime in the near future.
"For the time being it (WWE) is really not the place for me," Waltman said. "This is the place for me right now. I'm making good money, I'm featured and I'm healthy. That's the bottom line ... I'm healthy."
Waltman also noted that he would have to prove himself to WWE officials if he ever came back.
"They're very wary of me, they love me to death, I love them to death, but I have a lot to prove just to be honest with you."
- Bobby Lashley remains unsigned by TNA, and isn't expected to sign until after his June 27 MMA match with Bob Sapp.
Sapp recently told an online site that Lashley, 3-0 thus far, wasn't prepared to handle his striking and power offense.
"I don't think he's ready for what I can bring," Sapp told wrestle-network.com. "We'll just check it out and see what he can do. Sometimes they can answer the bell and bring something out of their hat."
- Jeff Hardy remains on the fence regarding his WWE contract. He's still unsigned, and it's a good chance that he'll take time off and return at a later date.
- You might have to cut the President some slack for calling "WWE" the "WWF" in a recent statement to NBC's Brian Williams.
Barack Obama told Williams that he doesn't watch the political talk shows on cable because they remind him of "WWF wrestling." He said the various talking heads all play specific roles and he doesn't feel like he learns anything from their conversations.
"I've used this analogy before, it feels like WWF wrestling. Everybody's got their role to play. I know a lot of these guys. And if Pat Buchanan is having a conversation with Chris Matthews or talking to Keith Olbermann, everybody's got their set pieces and, so, I don't feel as if I'm learning anything from the debate."
- Shaver Hansen, son of pro wrestling great Stan "The Lariat" Hansen, has completed a very successful year on the baseball diamond for the Baylor Bears. Baylor's season came to an end last Sunday with a 15-12 loss to Minnesota in an NCAA tournament elimination game.
The power-hitting shortstop was the Big 12's home run leader on the nationally ranked Bears squad, and set a school record for homers with 17 and hit over .350 for the season.
His father played linebacker at West Texas State in the early 1970s before launching a career in the pro wrestling ranks.
Younger brother Sam plays baseball at Waco Midway.
- According to a recent article in the Miami Herald, Cryme Tyme's Shad Gaspard once served as a bodyguard for several rappers, actors and athletes including Puff Daddy, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Mike Tyson.
The 28-year-old Gaspard, who qualified for the finals of WWE Tough Enough 2 in 2002 but was disqualified and replaced after failing a physical, broke into the wrestling business in 2003 in Ohio Valley Wrestling.
Gaspard told the Herald that a turning point in his career came when Jim Cornette had Booker T sit down with him and talk to him for two hours.
"That was one of the best experiences of my life. To this day, me and Booker T are friends," said Gaspard.
- Old School Championship Wrestling returns with a show today at Weekend's Pub, 428 Red Bank Road, Goose Creek. The card will feature former WWE performer Gangrel. Bell time is 6 p.m. Adult admission is $10; kids 12 and under $5. For more information, visit www.oscwonline.com or call 743-4800.
- George's Sports Bar, 1300 Savannah Highway, will air WWE's Extreme Rules pay-per-view at 8 p.m. today. Cover charge is $5.
Mike Mooneyham can be reached by phone at (843) 937-5517 or by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com. For wrestling updates during the week, call The Post and Courier Info Line at 937-6000, ext. 3090.
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Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., the 28-year-old Shad Gaspard is Haitian and Curacaon.×