For Rare And Hard To Find Model Trains
Despite heroic rescue efforts by neighbours and firefighters, a 56-year-old Seeleys Bay man died in a weekend house fire on the village's main street. Clifford Smith was alone at 167 Main St. when neighbours reported smoke billowing out of the bungalow at around 4 p.m.
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Man dies in fire
Incoming Nanakuli High School freshmen yesterday test-drove new laptops they will use over the coming year as part of an initiative to turn around low-performing schools.
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Nanakuli High moves to high-tech learning
MUSEUMS Center for History: Fairways, Green & Clubs golf exhibit features American golf from the 1890s to the 1940s presented in the atmosphere of a vintage clubhouse. The Disaster, Courage & Silence exhibit immortalizes the capsizing of the SS Eastland in 1915. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Saturdays; noon to 8 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays and 1 to 5 p.m. Sundays ...
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For first-time mom-to-be Roclyn Otani, the starting point was a fluffy pink shag rug made of soft cotton pieces. The rug, which she ordered online, makes up the centerpiece of her baby girl's nursery. It's flanked by an espresso-colored crib and dresser topped with a bookcase.
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Make room for baby
The California High-Speed Rail Authority's forecasts of demand and ridership for a new San Francisco-to-Los Angeles high-speed train are not reliable because they are based on an inconsistent model, according to a new study by researchers at the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Berkeley (ITS Berkeley).
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The California High-Speed Rail Authority's forecasts of demand and ridership for a new San Francisco-to-L.A. high-speed train are unreliable, says a new study from UC Berkeley's Institute of Transportation Studies. The study is the first academic review of the rail authoritys ridership forecasts, which was included in California's successful application for federal stimulus dollars.
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California high-speed rail ridership forecast not reliable, study finds
Herman Helle A scene from Kamp Recreatingif that is the right wordthe daily routine of mass murder at Auschwitz with miniature puppets made of plasticine may not seem a promising enterprise. However artfully done, it could make what actually happened look trivial, like a kind of game. And yet Kamp , staged at St. Anns Warehouse in Brooklyn in the first week of June, by a Dutch group called ...
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Holocaust on Stage
Fishermen catch lobsters from a floating cage set up in the sea at Mandapam, Tamil Nadu.
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Right off Route 34 near the Plano Amtrak station sits a tiny community filled with lakes, mountains, trees and quaint homes. Most notably is the multitude of trains that snake through the settlement, hugging tight corners and weaving in and out of gardens and along cliff edges.
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How to train your garden
The Rev. Mike Gillespie's earliest childhood memories involve trains. When he was 2 years old, his father lifted him onto a stream locomotive in Lexington, Ky. Gillespie ran around the locomotive and jumped into the lap of the engineer. "I was terrified and in awe of trains at the same time," Gillespie said Sunday at Homewood Railroad Heritage Days. Gillespie, the senior minister at South Side ...
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