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A major New Bern cultural hub will soon relocate for six months of renovations.
A major New Bern cultural hub will soon relocate for six months of renovations.
The Bank of the Arts on Middle Street, home of the Craven Arts Council & Gallery, will close March 16 and begin moving to temporary quarters at a Tryon Palace property on George Street.
A $155,000 renovation project will gut the rear portion of the building, providing a larger gift shop and display area; new restrooms; kitchenette facilities for caterers; and a new look to the rear of the building.
�It will have a higher ceiling, better exhibition walls and lighting,� said Arts Council Executive Director Carol Tokarski.
Arts Council offices will be moved from the first to second floor, which has been vacant. That space once housed the ornate board room for the building owners, First Citizens Bank, which donated the 1914 building to the arts council.
�We will be historically renovating it,� Tokarski said of the upstairs and stairway leading to the second floor.
The slate tiling at the front door of the gallery will also be replaced.
�We�re not increasing our size,� Tokarski said. �We just want to be very efficient in space and historically correct.�
The temporary home for the Arts Council will be at the Cook House, 308 George St., behind the Tryon Palace Commission House. The council will continue ticket sales for local events at that site, along with office work and providing a gift shop.
Tokarski said that since the project was just confirmed, some exhibit scheduling is in a to-be-announced mode for dates and sites.
The Bank of the Arts will continue to host programming on the odd-months ArtWalk schedule, along with some of its other signature events. The Middle Street gallery is now installing an exhibit from Craven County school students, which will be featured in a March 8 reception during ArtWalk.
�We will have the May ArtWalk and the July ArtWalk,� she said. �Just because the gallery is closed doesn�t mean ArtWalk won�t continue.�
Tokarski said the annual Juried Art Show will also be held, although the dates for the traditional May show may change.
The renovation project is being funded through multiple sources, including a donation from the estate of the late Georgene Hannon, a longtime New Bern volunteer docent at the Banks of the Arts.
Grant funding includes the N.C. Department of Commerce�s Main Street Solutions Fund, Harold Bate Foundation and the Craven County Community Foundation.
A campaign within the community will be announced soon for the opportunity to invest in this renovation, Tokarski added.
The Bank of the Arts was originally a People�s Bank, constructed in 1914, with architectural design by Burett Stephens. It later became First Citizens in 1934.
The Craven Arts Council was founded in 1974. In the 1980s, the council merged with the New Bern Art Gallery and with the First Citizens building donation, opened the Bank of the Arts.
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Actress/model ELIZABETH HURLEY has sparked controversy over her bikini line for children.
The Bedazzled star has been accused of sexualising kids with her two-piece designs, which are modelled by young girls on her website.
The range includes an leopard-print Mini Cha Cha Bikini, as well as the Collette Bikini, for eight to 13 year olds, which is described as being "great for girls who want to look grown up".
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GRANBURY, Texas, May 16 (UPI) -- Officials said 14 people were missing Thursday and the death toll could increase from six after a blitz of at least 10 tornadoes ripped through North Texas.
Hood County officials confirmed six people died in the tornado, 16 others were said to be critically injured and multiple homes were damaged. Hood County Sheriff Roger Deeds told the KDFW-TV in Dallas that there were 14 people unaccounted for, suggesting the death toll could go higher.
Deeds said the deaths occurred when a twister struck a Habitat for Humanity neighborhood in Granbury, Texas, destroying most of the 120 homes in the area, CNN reported.
About 100 people were injured when tornadoes hit the area, said Matt Zavadsky, a spokesman for MedStar Mobile Healthcare. He said the tornadoes may have touched down several times throughout Hood, Tarrant, Dallas and Parker counties.
The Dallas Morning News said power was out for much of the area. Rescue workers said the extent of the damage may not be known until the sun comes up, CNN reported.
"With these types of tornadoes, they touch down; they lift up; they touch down. They tend to hopscotch," Zavadsky said. "The darkness doesn't help but the crews on scene are doing a really good job to try and reach out to the folks who might be trapped or unable to get to a shelter or the triage area."
KDFW-TV said authorities estimated at least 10 tornadoes developed in a line of severe storms.
One mile-wide twister, with winds about 80 mph, hit 2 miles south of Cleburne in Johnson County and multiple injuries were reported.
The Red Cross said initial indications were Hood County was the hardest-hit, followed by Johnson, Parker, Wise and Montague.
Cleburne Mayor Scott Cain told WFAA-TV, Dallas, downed power lines posed a danger to people trying to get out of their homes.
Granbury Mayor Pro Tem Nin Hulett told WFAA-TV, "We've got a lot of injuries out there right now" and confirmed more than 50 homes were damaged or destroyed, with the worst of it in the Rancho Brazos subdivision just outside the city limits.
Lake Granbury Christian Temple Pastor Dean Porter said the storm struck while he was conducting a Bible study in the fellowship hall.
"It began to suck up debris and I ran inside and got our people and children into a safer location," he said. "Apparently what happened was, the tornado formed over us and touched down on the other end of our property."
"There are a lot of traumatic injuries," Donna Martin, a worker at a veteran's organization in Hood County said.
"My husband told me that a car was lifted in the air. It just came in and hit so fast."
At Stumpy's Lakeside Grill in Lake Granbury, the storm took diners and workers by surprise. Some people rushed inside from the patio and ducked under tables as the wind gusts and hail started but nobody was injured, said Eric Martinez, a cook at the restaurant. He said he saw boat docks "just get torn apart" by high winds.
In Ellis County, a possible tornado knocked out power for much of Ennis, said City Manager Steve Howerton.
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Gladys Lucille Cook, 88, formerly of rural Lagro, died at 2:25 p.m., March 18, at Bickford Cottage in Wabash.
She was born July 25, 1924 in Wabash County to Macie Guy and Hazel Beatrice (Vickery) Ross. Gladys was a 1943 graduate of Linlawn High School. She married Harold Robert Cook in Wabash, on Jan. 6, 1945; he died Dec. 17, 2003. She retired from General Tire and also worked at Wagner Industries, both of Wabash. She attended Lagro United Methodist Church and was a member of the Wabash Saddle Club. Gladys and her husband loved spending time with their children riding horses and camping in Brown County, and with their friends at the Wabash Saddle Club. Gladys lived at Bickford Cottage for the last four years.
She is survived by her two children, Janet A. Necessary, Greenville, Tenn., and Joe A. (Libby) Cook, Lagro; five grandchildren, Susan (David) Music, Centerville, Tenn., Lee Necessary, Wabash, Jeff (April) Necessary, Greenville, Amanda (Jason) Lyons and Nathan (Jess) Cook, both of Lagro; five great-grandchildren, Ashley, Mason, and Logan Lyons, Lagro, and Aaron and Jake Necessary, Greenville. She was also blessed with a second family, the staff and friends at Bickford Cottage. She was preceded in death by two brothers, Delmer and Bobby Ross; and three sisters, Gertie Dailey, Edna Gaunt, and Esther Hickey.
Funeral services will be held at Grandstaff-Hentgen Funeral Service, 1241 Manchester Avenue, Wabash, on Friday, March 22, 2013 at 10 a.m. with Rev. Rick Borgman officiating. Burial will be in Center Grove Cemetery, Lincolnville. Friends may call 4-8 p.m., Thursday, March 21 at the funeral home.
Preferred memorial is Bickford Cottage Activity Fund or Lagro United Methodist Church.
The memorial guest book for Gladys may be signed at www.grandstaff-hentgen.com.


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TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Peyton Manning has arrived at the Arizona Cardinals facility.
The free-agent quarterback showed up Sunday morning with Arizona coach Ken Whisenhunt, stepped out of a white SUV and nodded and waved to cameramen as he walked past a security gate and into a building.
A few minutes earlier, Cardinals receiver Larry Fitzgerald arrived in his own car.
This is the second stop on Manning's tour of teams he might end up signing with. The former Indianapolis Colts star met with the Denver Broncos on Friday night at the team's headquarters.
After Arizona, Manning reportedly is going to Florida to meet with the Miami Dolphins.
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When the speaker at the podium, Stephen Peroutka, predicted that Roe v. Wade would be overturned within three years, the crowd at the Ball for Life roared with approval. I've been to quite a few pro-life fund-raisers, but this was the first time that any speaker dared to set a timetable for an end to the 1973 Supreme Court decision.
A last-minute surprise speaker, Senator Brownback of Kansas, drew laughs when he said, "Here I am in the bluest of the blue states. Dorothy, you're not in Kansas anymore." Because overturning Roe would simply return abortion legislation to the states, the senator said he recognized the difficulty of changing the abortion laws in New York. "But if it happens here in New York," he said, "it will affect the whole world. Whenever anything happens here in New York, millions follow."
He reminded the crowd that Russia is paying dearly for its liberal abortion policy: It is now having to pay couples to have babies. Japan also is struggling to replenish its population.
Still, the idea that the majority of New Yorkers will ever be persuaded to support the pro-life position would make many incredulous. Yet more and more of them from all walks of life are becoming increasingly vocal in the defense of life. Why? "For the times, they are a-changing."
A rookie Giants wide receiver, David Tyree, was a guest speaker at the Ball for Life last Friday. He admitted that he was not always a pro-lifer. "In fact, I made a lot of mistakes in my life, one in particular that I sincerely regret and I promised I would never do that again," he said.
He then pledged his lifelong support for such organizations as the Good Counsel Homes, for which the fund-raiser was held. Christopher Bell and Father Benedict Groeschal co-founded the group, which provides shelter for pregnant women and their children. One of the residents of Good Counsel, Antoinese, related the moving story of her rescue last November, when she was seven months pregnant, caring for her 4-year-old child, and had no one to turn to.
Another guest at the bash was Bobby Schindler, Terry Schiavo's brother, who received a standing ovation for his tireless fight for his sister's life. Another warrior in that battle will be appearing at the Lincoln Center campus of Fordham University, on the 12th floor of the Lowenstein Building, at 5 p.m. today. Nat Hentoff, a self-proclaimed Jewish atheist, libertarian, and unabashed pro-lifer - and the only real reason to continue reading the Village Voice - will be introducing the author of "Defiant Birth: Women Who Resist Medical Eugenics," Melinda Tankard Reist. She compiled the inspiring stories of women who defied the calls to terminate their pregnancies for a variety of health reasons.
Just glancing around the ballroom, I noticed some members of the clergy and a few men wearing yarmulkes, but most noticeable was the number of beautiful young people. There are more and more of them coming to these events, and Mr. Peroutka, the chairman of the National Pro-Life Action Center, used their growing numbers to explain why he believes Roe v. Wade "is going down."
"Anyone born after 1973 is a survivor, for they were born into a world where one out of four are aborted," he said. "That's a higher casualty rate than any war. That's why you see thousands of them marching for life in Washington, D.C., every year. They're survivors."
Another reason he sees for the imminent downfall of Roe is that, unlike the established clergy, the priests and ministers coming out of the seminaries today are geared for this pro-life battle. After Father Pavone, founder of the Priests for Life, gave the benediction, I overheard a man at the next table say to his dinner companion, "The priests in my parish care more about other issues than being pro-life." This started a fascinating discussion that raised questions about the New York archdiocese's commitment to the pro-life movement.
"It's great that the priests are concerned with education, immigration, gun control, and other issues, but we're not compelled in our faith to act on them. But we are compelled to respect life," one man said. "It seems as if the archdiocese doesn't want to offend the liberal New Yorkers who want to distance themselves from what they view as the religious right. But this is just wrong."
I'm sure that Edward Cardinal Egan is as committed to the pro-life movement as Father Pavone. He needs to make sure that others in the archdiocese also respect the movement that Pope John Paul II called "the greatest work in the history of the world."
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The history of the NFL has countless examples of players who were once riding high losing their jobs to upwardly mobile backups, which makes it easy to understand why most players would sooner subject themselves to a Pauly Shore film festival before happily giving up playing time.
Ravens running back Ray Rice is zigging where most players might zag, however. Word out of Baltimore is that Bernard Pierce is in line for a bigger share of the touches out of the backfield after closing strong in 2012, something that Rice says isn't bothering him at all. He sees Pierce as a player who brings different skills to the table, skills that the Ravens can use to inflict more damage on defenses early in games before Rice closes out the game.
"Sharing touches aren't something that bothers me, because I know when it comes down to crucial situations, I'll be in the game," Rice said on the NFL Network, via the Ravens website. "And there's not one running back that takes it all. There's a few — Adrian Peterson and a few other guys — but Bernard's a great backup, and he's a great runner. … Going into our game plan, it's hard to prepare for, you know, two guys that can come at you, rather than one."
Pierce was used just about as often as Ricky Williams and Willis McGahee in past Ravens seasons, but an upward trend would make sense on two fronts. The first is that Pierce is early in his career as opposed to the two vets that used to be Rice's counterparts and the other is that Rice isn't as young as he used to be. A little less work now should help Rice's chances of avoiding the kind of wear and tear that has sent many other running backs careening downhill as they get closer to turning 30 years old.


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Merry Go Round Shorts
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by saxsilverain
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merry go rounds, horses, hot air balloons and flowers…the carnival is here, right on my shorts!
for these shorts, i used the same pattern as my Marimekko safari. but instead of gathered & cuffed hem, i did scalloped hem! (can't get enough of them!)
the waistband, side and back pockets come from a second fabric, just so that the shorts won't look too turquoise. and since i don't have any supplies of buttons & buying new buttons here cost a fortune (well…not really, but it can be surprisingly expensive, compared to prices of the fabrics themselves), i decided to check my collection of spare buttons. you know, those that usually come with pieces of clothing that you buy (like coats, jackets, pants..), in case the actual button falls off & disappear. luckily for me, i have a green coat that came with one big extra button…and the green colour is perfect for these shorts!
made a little mistake (not sure where) on the zipper, so i had to alter the waistband a bit, but as long as i can wear them, then it's not a problem at all for me!
oh, the top is also actually half altered by myself. it's originally a plain white t-shirt from H&M, but i added the bib-like ruffle part on the chest. it was just a quick project i did last winter.
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80cm cotton fabric (for the actual shorts), 40cm another cotton fabric (for the pockets & waistband), 15cm of pants zipper, 1 big button.
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Per Rapoport, at the end of the highlight film of last week's game, the team's video department tacked on Flair's WWE intro. As it started, they opened a door in the back of the room and in strutted Flair. "If you have to go against Mother Nature, got to bring in the Nature Boy," a team source told Mr. RapSheet.
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Revisit the Lost Super Mario CD-i Game
>> Thursday, July 31, 2008
Nintendo's involvement started with the mere suggestion simple Nintendo games could be converted to the CD-i. They didn't say which games, Novalogic took the steps to produce a Mario game all by themselves. a demo Novalogic did for Nintendo where Nintendo wanted to produce games on CD-i. This is where the first SMWW demo came from (with mario characters pirated off a video feed, because it was merely a tech demo), even though Nintendo was impressed by the demo, they decided not to produce and of their games on CD-i because CD-i wasn't selling enough. Nintendo turned down this project so Novalogic went to Philips and the game turned into a shell game intended to generate cash for a game Novalogic never intended to release. This became painfully clear to the developmental staff who eventually took jobs with other companies leaving one out of four original staff members behind. The project couldn't be sustained and ended in early 1993, but what the developers achieved on CD-i was amazing. As Marty Foulger said "Our goal was to clone Nintendo's Super Mario World with new characters and locations, but use the interactivity familiar to SMW gamers." Novalogic pushed on with the project "about 80% of art, 95% of design and maybe 30% of code was finished at project termination. SMWW had been in development from early 1992 for an entire year until version 0.11 was burned to CD on 03-03-1993 which is the final known prototype to exist, although far from complete.
The following stories were published by The Black Moon Project but has become unaccessable since the updates of almost 2 years ago. Last week I got a request by someone who was searching for the coverage on Super Mario's Wacky Worlds, which I thought is a nice excuse to implement them in our line of stories as well. Thanks to the Black Moon Crew for all the great work, even after all the years it has been done.
Cast your mind back 10 years and the veteran gamers amongst us would remember a time of two video game giants waging a war over supremacy for the 16-BIT platforms. Competition was fierce and of course you needed a mascot, SEGA had Sonic the Hedgehog and Nintendo Shigeru Miyamoto's ingenious Mario creation. It would have been unthinkable to see these symbolic characters on other platforms but in Mario's case it happened. After a break down in communications over the agreement between Nintendo, Sony and Philips to produce a CD add on unit for the SNES, Sony walked away with the PSX and Philips an agreement to produce 4 Nintendo licensed games including characters such as Zelda, Donkey Kong and Mario.
Philips capitalised on this agreement by simultaneously releasing two Zelda games on its CD-i platform, "Link: The Faces of Evil" and "Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon" both considered a terrible waste of a popular gaming franchise. The third installment in the series "Zelda's Adventure" was a reasonable game but came too late and was overshadowed by the failings of the previous two outings. The final release was "Hotel Mario" a fair attempt to revive interest in the licensing flops. It never made a high impact on the CD-i charts and ultimately failed to ship any quantity of CD-i units to reverse the obvious decline of the platform. Even though these licensed games were supposedly developed away from Nintendo we have heard some rumor that Nintendo had a strong hand to play in the games eventual gameplay mechanics. Which leads to the question over how restricted the developers were when producing these Nintendo licensed games and why didn't Philips cash in on the Donkey Kong license.
Even less well known, a title developed by Novalogic called "Super Mario's Wacky Worlds" for the CD-i, which was never fully developed, a lost Mario game. Programmer on the project, Silas Warner comments "Novalogic was seeking work from Nintendo, we had already produced one Nintendo cartridge. A Nintendo sales executive came up with the idea that maybe simple Nintendo titles could play on the CD-i. I suspect he was thinking of some kind of adapter to plug a Nintendo cartridge into a CD slot! But it set off a frantic race at Novalogic. The project was to put a popular Nintendo game, Super Mario World onto a CD-i disk."
It's clear that Nintendo instigated the project although probably didn't have Miyamoto's Mario in mind as a possible conversion. Nevertheless the results of Novalogic's development team was impressive. The simple gameplay mechanics stay faithful to the original SMW, with no obvious differences in an early prototype version of SMWW. Nina Stanley, lead artist on the project comments, "It was intended to be part of the Mario series, and as far as I was aware, a sequel or follow up to SMW. It needed to be as much like Mario on the SNES as far as handling and game mechanics."
Silas adds "The characters were pirated from a video feed, the level maps drawn off on paper, and John Brooks and I prepared to put in 24-hour days for two weeks. At the end of that time, we had a little bit of one level done, enough to display at an upcoming Nintendo developer meeting. The disk was burned at 4am on friday morning for an 8am meeting." Which leaves the question, why was the game never completed? "The effect was just what was expected. Nintendo marveled and applauded the marvelous job we had done in two weeks, then killed the idea. The CD-i wasn't selling. The project was over, and I went looking for new work." adds Silas.
The story of SMWW doesn't end there. Novalogic pushed on with the project "about 80% of art, 95% of design and maybe 30% of code was finished at project termination. I do not know the exact circumstances, but I do know that we seemed to be a bit understaffed on the project and I felt a little like the poor stepsister to the Commanche products, which were Novalogic's main focus." said Nina.
One enduring theme is there absolute respect for Shigeru Miyamoto, "The development team had great admiration for the Super Mario games and wanted to create something that would feel natural to players of Miyamoto's masterpieces. Our design goals were to bring high quality graphics and sound into the Mario world, along with diverse themes and creative gameplay experiences." said John Brooks, lead programmer.
It would have been intriguing to see how SMWW would fare on CD medium during a time when it wasn't a particularly accepted format within the video game industry, Nintendo especially against the leap from cartridge to CD. John elaborates, "The huge CD was hundreds of times larger than ROM cartridges of that era. The nearly unlimited art and audio content allowed great variety within each level (256 color bitmapped graphics and high quality audio streamed off of CD), as well as great diversity between levels (6 distinct worlds with 6 levels per world). Marty Foulger, of Dragon's Lair fame, was a prolific designer who created unusual puzzles and worlds for Mario to explore.
Marty Foulger, lead designer outlines the games brief, "Our goal was to clone Nintendo's Super Mario World with new characters and locations, but use the interactivity familiar to SMW gamers. The CD-i hardware imposed some severe limitations, but we identified the core game mechanics that we thought we could implement, and designed a game around them. We used one of the SMW cheat books that diagrammed all of the levels and mechanisms in the original. Some of them we adapted and others we created new mechanisms altogether. The improvements over SMW would be more depth and variation in the backgrounds and characters due to the large capacity of the CD and more flexibility in game music and sound effects that were stored on the disc, rather than synthesised."
Evidently this was quite a different project compared to the other Nintendo licensed games on the CD-i, which altered the game mechanics to an unrecognizable state to Zelda and Mario fans. Marty adds " We knew that the value of the Mario license lay in the devotion of the fans to the games they knew and loved. Our intent was to use familiar themes and mechanisms combined with creative new environments and characters to create a new game that would appeal to the same fan base. It was not the best use of CD-i in that the hardware was never intended to produce a sprite-based game; however, we had been charged with the difficult mission of making a Nintendo-style Mario game and through the incredible technical work of John Brooks, it was well on the way to achieving that goal."
SMWW had been in development from early 1992 for an entire year until version 0.11 was burned to CD on 03-03-1993 which is the final known prototype to exist, although far from complete. Still questions remain, why was the project so short staffed and why was this amazing piece of software never developed into a full game and finally released. Marty reveals some insight into the possible motivations behind senior management at Novalogic "I was not involved in management decisions regarding resource allocation, but from my perspective, it appeared that the intent was to produce the title with the smallest expenditure of resources as possible. Philips was spending an enormous amount of money on CD-i titles at that time and Novalogic used SMWW as a cash cow to fund Commanche and other internal titles that they intended to publish themselves at a greater profit than development-for-hire titles like SMWW. In fairness, they were no different than dozens of other developers that stuck their hat under the Philips spigot to make some easy cash." So at least we know why Novalogic refused to comment on there participation in the project.
Whatever managerial decisions were made at Novalogic for SMWW, this does not detract from the enthusiasm behind the games development staff. SMWW stands as an amazing piece of technical engineering for what could have beeen a great game on the CD-i. It remains a much sought after curiosity to Mario and CD-i fans alike. Three prototypes are known to exist in the RetroGaming circuits one of which sold on ebay for $1000, it's doubtful that we've heard the end of this story but hopefully this article makes a fair and accurate attempt at describing one of many interesting facets in CD-i gaming history.
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