http://www.lafayette-online.com The original online guide to Greater Lafayette, Indiana. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:22:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- CityBus will not operate on Thursday, November 27 due to the Thanksgiving holiday. Additionally, the Purdue Campus Loop routes will not operate from 6:00p Tuesday, November 25, through the weekend, including evening and night buses. Campus Loop service resumes on Monday, December 1. [caption id="" align="alignright" width="216" ... http://www.lafayette-online.com/community/2008/11/citybus-3a-detour-thanksgiving/ WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Purdue University engineering students used a new method to track traffic by monitoring Bluetooth signals from cell phones and other wireless devices carried by football fans as they drove home from a recent game with Penn State. The method uses the pervasive Bluetooth signals to constantly update ... http://www.lafayette-online.com/purdue-news/2008/11/bluetooth-signals-track-football-traffic/ WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Seventy-five years after the curtain opened before an audience of 200 at the first Purdue Christmas Show held in Fowler Hall, Purdue Musical Organizations will present "Christmas is Calling You Home" Dec. 12-14 in Elliott Hall of Music. Purdue Musical Organizations director Bill Griffel said everyone involved ... http://www.lafayette-online.com/arts-entertainment/2008/11/pmo-75th-anniversary-purdue-christmas-show/ WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- A box of gun supplies that led to Monday's (Nov. 17) evacuation of the Purdue Armory has been claimed by its owner, who had reported the items as stolen, according to university police. Lt. Fred Davis said a graduate student came to the Purdue Police Department on ... http://www.lafayette-online.com/purdue-news/2008/11/grad-student-stolen-items-armory-evacuation/ COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The Huntington National Bank announced it is the No. 1 Small Business Administration (SBA) 7(a) lender for 2008 (Oct. 1, 2007 - Sept. 30, 2008) in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and West Virginia. The bank also improved its national standing as an SBA small business lender, moving up ... http://www.lafayette-online.com/business/2008/11/huntington-bank-sba-7a/ LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- The Tippecanoe Arts Federation announces that Paige Sharp will take the reins of Regional Services Director beginning Friday, November 21. Sharp is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting and writing and has been involved ... http://www.lafayette-online.com/business/2008/11/paige-sharp-tippecanoe-arts-federation/ LAFAYETTE, Ind. –– "Life Cycles", an exhibition of watercolors by local resident Rena Brouwer, will be on display at the Lala Gallery & Studio in Downtown Lafayette from Sunday, November 14 through Saturday, December 6th. Brouwer is a self taught artist working in Lafayette capturing colors, shapes and lines from ... http://www.lafayette-online.com/arts-entertainment/exhibits/2008/11/rena-brouwer-life-cycles/ WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- For those ready to get their geek on, Purdue University has created the computer game for you. Rack-A-Node is an online video game that lets those über-geeks who love both science and technology try their hand at designing and operating a simulated research supercomputer. [caption id="" align="alignright" width="216" ... http://www.lafayette-online.com/purdue-news/2008/11/build-virtual-supercomputer/ WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- The Supplier Diversity Development Coalition of Greater Lafayette, of which Purdue University is a member, is bringing together buyers from several local corporations with minority- and women-owned supplier companies for the fourth annual Relationships to Partnerships Conference on Nov. 20. The conference, at Purdue, is designed to ... http://www.lafayette-online.com/business/2008/11/supplier-diversity-coalition/ WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - The Purdue Armory was evacuated for about 90 minutes Monday morning (Nov. 17) after university police evacuated the facility when a suspicious container was found on the building's north side. Police evacuated the Armory and closed off northbound University Street at Third Street shortly after the call ... http://www.lafayette-online.com/purdue-news/2008/11/purdue-armory-reopened-after-police-investigate-suspicious-package/