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By faBiana Brown
Staff Writer
The performers of STREB: Brave dis-played just how brave they are in their per-formances Friday and Saturday night inMemorial Hall.Not even belly flopping onto a stack of mats from 25 feet in the air posed an obsta-cle.The performers astounded audiences with their creative mix of aggressive aero- batics, extreme sports and dance.The “extreme action heroes,” as creatorElizabeth Streb refers to her eight perform-ers, pushed the limits of the human body.They flew into the air and landed on theirstomachs to produce a thump that soundedalarmingly like bodies slamming onto planksof wood. Performers called this “slam danc-ing,” and the noises emitted after each land-ing were a part of the music accompanyingthe elements. An announcer mixed music and nar-rated the different acts so that there wasnot a moment without entertainment. Heintroduced the show by insisting that theaudience interact with the performers. Theaudience complied by filling the two-hourperformance with cheering, clapping, laugh-ing and occasionally gasping at impressive
By chad royal
Staff Writer
For Molly Buckley, networking onTwitter is similar to attending a cocktailparty.Buckley, sales and marketing coordina-tor for local radio station 1360 WCHL, was one of three panelists who discussedTwitter at the Community Technology Forum on Friday at Carrboro’s Cybrary.Twitter is an online service that allowsusers to post 140-character statements.The Cybrary, a branch of the OrangeCounty Public Library system, has 244Twitter followers — the second-most fol-lowers of any library in the state — andis ranked 127 in the country, said LauraDallas, manager of the Cybrary, who runsthe library’s Twitter account.“It’s a quick, easy and convenient way toconnect with people,” Dallas said.Mostly business owners attended theforum, which started with Dallas coveringTwitter basics like setting up an account.Buckley said she thought Twitter wasstupid at first. But after moving to the areain June, she found it useful to expand hernetwork.Most of the 20 or so attendants wereinterested in using Twitter to expand their businesses.Panelist Brian Russell, owner of Carrboro Creative Coworking, explainedhow using Twitter helped him find clientsand market his company.“It’s valuable for keeping people up todate,” Russell said.Panelist Paul Jones, a UNC journalismprofessor and director of Internet library ibiblio, said a way of looking at Twitter islike a broadcast medium. People shouldconverse with others, not push their prod-ucts at people, he said.The Orange County Main Library started a Twitter account a month ago,said Josh Walker, the library’s informationservices assistant.“We thought that it was a beneficialnetworking tool,” Walker said. “To keepup with society, we have to keep up withtechnology.”He said it was his idea to start a Twitteraccount for the library. He generally updates it four or five times a day, mostly to answer patron questions.The Cybrary, located in Carrboro’sCentury Center, emphasizes providingcomputer services to adults. It also updatesits Twitter account daily.Dallas said she usually tweets about new books or upcoming events at the library.Buckley said she used Twitter to get the job she has now and encourages collegestudents to use it to find internships or jobs after school.
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By Victoire tuaillon
Staff Writer
Men wearing 18th century redcoats with shiny gold buttons, the uni-form of the British army during theRevolutionary War, camped out in themiddle of downtown Hillsborough onSaturday.The Loyalists’ camp stood across thefield, where actors were demonstratingparts of camp life, such as cooking soupin front of a hemp tent.The Alliance for HistoricHillsborough re-enacted the occupa-tion of the city by British troops in 1781for its ninth annual Revolutionary WarLiving History Day.In February 1781, the 64th regimentstayed in Hillsborough, the most sizabletown in North Carolina at the time. They occupied the town for 10 days, trying togather as many Loyalists as they could tofight the Patriots.David Snyder works in medical researchat Duke but became the re-enactment’sregiment captain on Saturday. He has been participating in re-enactments for35 years.“I like to bust historical myths,” he said with a British accent that he harboredfor the occasion, although he is fromthe Bronx. “I just love to get in anotherperson’s skin and get away from moderntimes for the weekend.”Every detail was there: the knittedsocks, the hats, the sound of the musketsfiring, the smell of gunpowder and roughorders barked with a British accent whendoing marching drills.Re-enacting history is not a cheaphobby. The hand-sewn uniforms costabout $500 each. The muskets cost themost, usually between $600 and $1,100.Participants were not paid by the town forputting on the event.Some participate in such re-enact-ments every two weeks, on various placesall along the East Coast. Some of them
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tricks.Every thrilling act revolved around anunconventional prop, such as swinging cin-der blocks or a clear plastic wall. The audi-ence cringed as the performers slammedtheir bodies into the plastic wall or dove infront of the cinder blocks and barely missedthem before hitting the ground.The audience experienced a mixture of awe and terror, wanting to cover their eyes but also unable to blink for fear of missinga second.In “Squirm,” seven of the performers laidon top of one another in a small box as theeighth member squirmed through them toget to the top and nearly lost his shorts alongthe way. Once he reached the top, he did aswan dive back in and squirmed through tothe bottom once again.The performance included technology with Streb herself bringing out a miniaturerobot that did the worm, headstands and anumber of other acrobatic tricks.The final and most thrilling act employed“The Whizzing Gizmo.” This contraption canonly be described as an oversized, rotatingice-cream cone.The performers ran in it, ran on it, leapt,flipped and performed various other grav-ity-defying tricks until the “gizmo” cata-pulted them into the air and onto a stackof mats.The only drawback to the show was not being able to hear the performers’ narration, which was done without microphones. Evenin the smaller venue of Memorial Hall, it wasdifficult for those in the back of the theaterto hear what they were saying.
Contact the Arts Editor at artsdesk@unc.edu.
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have even gone to England for re-enact-ments.Steve Rankin, a carpenter and arche-ologist portraying a poor farmer on theLoyalist side, sat on the ground as he watched soup at the war camp come toa boil.“It was not as cut-and-dry as peoplelike to imagine,” he said. “Not everyone was a Patriot, and most of people actu-ally picked the safest side at the moment,Loyalist or Patriot.”Portraying history accurately and shar-ing that with the public motivates actorsto continue, Rankin said.Jean Gangloff, a Hillsborough social worker, came with her husband and theirtwo children to the re-enactment.“I majored in history in college because my brother was participatingin these war re-enactments,” she said.“Seeing him doing it is what really gotme into history, and I want the same formy children.”
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Edward G. Holley, 82, formerdean and professor at the School of Information and Library Science,died Thursday in Durham.Holley was born in 1927 inPulaski, Tenn. He earned his B.A.in English from David LipscombCollege — now LipscombUniversity — and a Master’s degreein library science from GeorgePeabody College for Teachers. He went on to complete his Ph.D. inlibrary science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.He came to Chapel Hill in 1972 to become dean and a professor at theschool of library science. While dean, he established adoctoral program, expanded themaster’s program to two years andhired distinguished faculty.Holley was preceded in death by his wife, Bobbie Lee Holley. He is sur- vived by four children, Gailon Holley,Jens Holley, Amy Holley Spitler andBeth Holley, and three grandchil-dren. A memorial is being planned,and details will be announced asthey become available.For information on how to makedonations in Holley’s name, pleasecontact the SILS office at 919-843-8337 or send an e-mail to wmon-roe@unc.edu.
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Student Congress candidateTaylor Ann Holgate has filed a com-plaint with the Student SupremeCourt against Board of ElectionsChairman Peter Gillooly, request-ing that the Feb. 9 results for theDistrict 5 Student Congress elec-tions be invalidated.Holgate, a junior, is arguing thatonline ballots with incorrect classstanding or residence informationdeterred or prevented some stu-dents from voting. Holgate lost theDistrict 5 election by 25 votes.Holgate and another eliminatedcandidate already questioned theelection’s legitimacy the StudentSupreme Court once for similarreasons. The case was dismissed.
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The N.C. Cancer Hospital willpartner with campus organizationsto bring a campuswide bone mar-row registry drive on Tuesday.The drive will be held from 11a.m. to 4 p.m. in the faculty loungeof Morehead Planetarium andScience Center.Organizers hope to attract 1,000students and community membersto the drive, where they will be regis-tered into the national BeTheMatchregistry system. The process takesabout 15 minutes, and volunteersmust submit to a cheek swab. At any time, 6,000 people aresearching the registry for match-ing donors. Because bone marrowis a tissue-matching process unlike blood type, volunteers are neededof every ethnic background.Minorities are underrepresentedin the current system. Of registereddonors, 73 percent are Caucasian.Minority groups make up theremaining 27 percent. As a result,minorities in need of bone marrowtransplants oftentimes don’t findmatching donors in time.There are a couple of ways todonate bone marrow. The tradi-tional way requires an outpatientprocedure where doctors remove bone marrow from the donor’ship. But doctors said that processis being phased out. The new pro-cess mirrors donating platelets, where donors are hooked to amachine that filters the marrowfrom the blood and pumps the blood back in. Visit bethematch.org for moreinformation.
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A parking lot in downtownChapel Hill is available for publicparking starting today.The West Rosemary ParkingLot, at 104 W. Rosemary St., willoffer metered parking for 17 vehi-cles. People can park for up to fourhours.Town officials said in a pressrelease that the conversion of thelot from leased parking to publicparking was part of an effort toenhance the downtown shoppingand dining experience for visitors.
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The Rev. Robert Campbell, anactivist for the Rogers Road neigh- borhood north of Chapel Hill, waschosen to receive the county’s 2009Pauli Murray Human Relations Award.Campbell, who has foughtexpansion of the landfill and watercontamination in the Rogers Roadneighborhood, will receive hisaward at a ceremony Sunday.
— From staff and wire reports.
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