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While she waited alone at the head table in the Kimmel Board Room on Wednesday afternoon as well-wishers filed in and the local television stations set up their cameras, Kaycie Reffner had time to reflect on the amazing turn her life and athletic career had taken in the last five months.
"I'm on cloud nine right now. It's just awesome to know that all my hard work has finally paid off," Reffner said.
The payoff for Reffner, the 5-foot-5 senior guard on the Altoona Area High School girls basketball team, came in the form of a Division I scholarship to Presbyterian College in South Carolina. Reffner is the 38th Lady Lion to receive an NCAA Division I scholarship and the first to sign with a Division I program since Katy Oblinger completed her career in 2006-07.
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Altoona senior Kaycie Reffner is headed to Presbyterian on a Division I scholarship to play college basketball.
Very few, if any of her predecessors, though, can boast a road as unlikely as Reffner's. As a junior, she averaged 5.8 points per game while starting at wing on Altoona's District 6 Class AAAA championship squad to go along with 3.4 assists, 3.2 rebounds and 1.8 steals.
Basically being recruited hardest by Division III Elmira College to that point, Reffner was as surprised as anyone when a coach from Presbyterian - a school that recently made the move to Division I and is a fully certified member of the Big South Conference starting this season - made contact after seeing her at an AAU tournament during a live recruiting period in July.
"I wasn't expecting it at all. To be honest, I was thrown off-guard. I didn't really think anything of it," Reffner said after signing and getting hugs from her parents, Doug and Mary. "Their coach was actually watching another girl play. He wasn't there for me. He saw me and he liked what he saw. He called me and told me that he watched me and ended up staying for more games after that.
"He loved how I hustled all the time. He liked my leadership. He said one of the things he liked about me was the way I'm always encouraging other people my team."
Reffner is the first Division I college recruit in Jill Helsel's tenure coaching the Lady Lions.
"This is a great day for Kaycie and her family first and foremost, and another great day for the Lady Lion program. Her hard work and dedication has led to this day, and she is going to be such an asset at Presbyterian College," Helsel said. "All the intangibles that you can't teach a player, she has, and I'm so glad that a Division I school saw in Kaycie what we saw in two years."
"She's an outstanding kid. She's a leader in everything she's done," Altoona athletic director Phil Riccio added.
That isn't so surprising when one considers her maternal aunt is Lisa Shover, the former Lisa Fubio, one of the first Lady Lions to get a Division I scholarship and still considered one of the greatest talents the Altoona program has produced. Cousins Rachel and Brady Gehret went on to huge success in college track after being standouts in multiple sports at AAHS, and two other cousins, Lauren and Matt Gehret, also excelled in high school athletics.
With them in her corner, she's been playing basketball since first grade.
"They've all been so encouraging," Reffner said. "We're such a big basketball family. When they heard the news, they were all for it. I received so much support from them, and I couldn't be more thankful."
Reffner's story is the latest indicator of how recruiting has changed, as colleges now rate players more through camps and tournaments than regular season games. While she was with an AAU team that was essentially her college team, playing over the summer gave Reffner a chance to expand her game without having to worry that missing a shot or turning the ball over would cost the Lady Lions' a win.
"I don't feel as much pressure, and it's a lot more fun," Reffner said.
Reffner was recruited to play both the point and wing for the Blue Hose, but with the college choice out of the way, she is looking forward to the regular high school season.
"I'm hoping to be more of a scorer this year," Reffner said. "We had pretty good seniors last year, and I'm looking to fill their shoes as a scorer and bring hustle and leadership to my team."
Reffner plans to major in business.


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Last night looked promising, with a quiet house and the last kid bedded at 10 pm. My eyes were wide open and I did laundry, read a book, then finally became sleepy by 2 am. Just as I cozy up to my pillow, there are sounds of a sick child in the other room (Mom radar says: Carter. Top Bunk. Vomit.)
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I read the sad story of another mother this afternoon and I wonder if she knows all too well the midnight steamy bathroom remedy for her baby's barky cough. Or the sweet half-asleep chatter, as you kneel beside the bathtub in the middle of the night and your son says I love you Mommy and Thank you for taking care of me. The wrenching of your heart in the most tender corner, twisting with hurt for how much you'd do absolutely anything for your child to be ok. To know he's loved. And that you will always be there to take care of him.
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During the playoffs, Eaves was playing excellent defense, grinding hard, and creating scoring chances. Cleary was falling down, skating slowly, and falling down more.
All of Eaves excellent playing didn't amount to much though, which is typical for a fourth liner. Cleary, regardless of how many times he fell or how slowly he was skating, still managed to put up solid numbers in the playoffs, and as per his entire tenure with Detroit, better numbers than Eaves.
Eaves is an effective fourth liner, and I really enjoy having him on the team. That I think everyone can agree on.
Cleary has been a less than stellar top-9 player, and I would even agree that he was a poor option for the top-six last year.
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How to explain what I just saw? To be honest, I'm not exactly sure.
Because while Blue Man Group has been performing to rave reviews for 20-odd years, Friday night's performance was the first I'd ever experienced.
And it was … interesting.
I should be able to drum up a better adjective for a show that felt like a series of Three Stooges routines performed by alien Smurf mimes, but as I stumbled out of Shea's Performing Arts Center into the snowy dark, all I could feel was a vague sense that I'd been entertained.
Founded by three friends in the New York theater scene in 1987, Blue Man Group has gone on to tour the world, make albums, land a Grammy nomination and become synonymous with high-quality family entertainment. And judging by the electricity in the venue, generated by audience members of all ages, it would seem that the show hasn't lost a bit of its mass appeal.
Friday's show (the first of five, including two today and two more on Sunday) featured plenty of the PVC-pipe-xylophone fireworks that made the act famous – in which the trio of Blue Men unleash intricately syncopated pieces before being joined by its glow-in-the-dark backing band.
This stuff was impressive, the rhythms complex and mesmerizing.
But then there were the vaudevillian bits in between, which often made me wonder whether what I was seeing was funny, disgusting, bizarre, or all three. Is it fun to watch a man catch balls of clay in his mouth until it overflows, then bend over and regurgitate everything onto a table? What about when he walks into the audience and dumps his creation into a woman's purse?
I'd say the answer to that is no, but I'm conflicted, because I do like the Blue Man characters.
At first blush, they're utter innocents, an alien race come to earth with nothing but their insatiable curiosity and desire to entertain. But when you see them up close – which everybody seated on the floor did, thanks to the constant crowd interaction – they're reminiscent of the aliens in the classic Twilight Zone episode "To Serve Man," seemingly friendly creatures with a devious glint in their eye.
No, nobody got eaten Friday night, but we did see a guy get covered in paint before being trussed up and slammed into a painter's canvas. And we did see something involving Twinkies that I'm not sure I can un-see.
None of that compared to the big finale, a delightful dance party that was part Flaming Lips concert and part Beavis and Butthead conversation.
Now that I've had time to reflect, I think I managed to enjoy Blue Man Group, while at the same time getting totally creeped out by it. The entire performance was peppered with the laughter of the many children in attendance, so maybe I'm just irrationally afraid of wild-eyed men with blue faces and no ears that like to spit stuff at you.
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Been mucking around with the ipodtouch having rescued it from the family for the last week. I have been subject to the "can't find your location" feature while at home. Google points me at Skyhook Wireless' site at GetSatisfaction and I discover that like Plazes, it uses a database solution, in this case run by Skyhook, who explain how it works on their site. This means that you need to be connected to the net to discover your location, but since that's true of the map application, its not too onerous a constraint.
For a 'touch, I need to find out my router's MAC address, which is harder than I'd like; it doesn't seem to display in the control panel. I was pointed at NetStumbler, but it has to run on an operating system it supports with wireless. NB this seems to exclude Vista 64 and obviously in retrospect my desktops, so on my third install I finally discover the address and use it to update SkyHook's database. I need my Longtitude and Latitude for this, which I have never bothered to record, so I used http://www.streetmap.co.uk to get this because its easy.
I had to wait ten days, but its working now.
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A Sunday afternoon fire at a private residence along Frankstown Road was intentionally set by the homeowner who attempted to barricade his property to keep police and emergency officials from entering, police said.
Edward Houck, 981 Frankstown Road, was arrested after officers found him outside the two-story garage in possession of a .38-caliber weapon, Logan Township Police Chief Ron Heller said.
Police are conducting a criminal investigation and said they do not know what motivated Houck to start the blaze.
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Police said the homeowner set fire to the home and garage Sunday afternoon along Frankstown Road.
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The home's heating tanks were punctured and spilled fuel was found in the basement, he said.
"It's apparent he dumped fuel in the garage and house," Heller said.
Emergency crews were initially blocked from the residence.
Houck attempted to use downed tree limbs and his white PT Cruiser to barricade the driveway of the residence, Heller said.
A backhoe that was driving on Frankstown Road at the time of the incident helped police push the vehicle off of the driveway so firetrucks could move closer to the home, Sral said.
Houck had nearly finished cutting down a second large tree by the time police arrived, Heller said.
Crews contained the fire shortly before 6 p.m., but smoke from the smoldering garage continued to rise.
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Fire crews contained the blaze to the basement and first floor of the home. The second floor escaped most of the damage, officials said.
A row of pine trees shielding the house from view of the roadway was also chopped down, allegedly by Houck, police said.
The cleared trees would have given Houck a clear line of sight to the area of Frankstown Road where fire and police personnel were staging.
"We're not sure what his intentions were," Heller said.
Police recovered a firearm from Houck's person and located ammunition within the home. Houck did not threaten officers when he was arrested, Heller said.
Initial scanner reports of entrapment at the fire were unfounded, Heller said. Houck was alone and found outside near the garage when police arrived.
Houck was transported from the scene to Altoona Regional in the back of a Logan Township squad car.
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"We're very fortunate there were no injuries to anybody," Heller said.
A state police fire marshal was called to the scene, and the fire is under investigation, Heller said.
Police closed Frankstown Road from about 4:30 to 8:45 p.m. to investigate the incident.
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I lied in bed, trying to get Ivy to sleep. My hopes had been for an early bedtime for all of them but we were passing nine pm. And she was still awake. We nursed. I found myself very annoyed.
Stewing... because when I finally am able to roll away I don't get to go do something relaxing or fun, I get to do the pile of dishes in my sink. And then the baskets upon baskets of laundry. I'm frustrated that the house was so clean for Mother's Day, when was that? Oh, YESTERDAY. But now it's a disaster again.
I must make sure to wash Gray's Aunt Lisa pants so he can wear them in the morning to the dentist. Because going to the dentist is going to be rough enough. He will HAVE TO WEAR THOSE PANTS.
And I already set out three shirts I know he likes, all with out tags. Hoping he picks the one that matches his pants but knowing he won't. But he's going to the dentist and so I'll let him choose whatever makes him happy.
By the time I roll away from the bed, I'm wishing I could just go to sleep, too. But there's too much to be done.
[I've been hooping with an adult hoop the past week. It's surprising-ly therapeutic. At first I couldn't get it around 10 times and now I'm in the hundreds. The more I do it the more I want to do it. I sneak out into the garage and disappear for five minutes several times a day to do some hooping. And it makes me feel a bit better, my mind appreciates it.]
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Source: Microsoft [TechNet]
quote: Your personal preference doesn't make something absolute fact. Wake up! Even Blackberry has more users and makes more money than Windows phone, and that's after a 4 year nosedive. Why do you think that is? If Windows Phone was THAT good, this wouldn't even be possible.
quote: Can you prove this? Anyway the argument is now moot with Android going to Jelly Bean. Sorry, no 'smoothness' advantage (if there even was one).
quote: Oh and if you even think about retorting with "fragmentation", guess what? Jelly Bean alone has more market share than Windows Phone anyway.
quote: Just enjoy your OS without resorting to garbage like "Android is a steaming heap of dung" and we'll be okay. That crap doesn't belong here.
quote: they succeeded making the most innovative and practical interface for smartphones.
quote: Yes but the problem is, people just don't like "live tiles". They don't like them on Windows Phone, and they damn sure don't like them on Windows 8 RT or otherwise.
quote: Windows Phone has been around a long time now. For comparison, at this point on the market Android had nearly a 40% market share. You can only make excuses for so long before you acknowledge Windows Phone might not be the mecca you think it is, and it doesn't 'jive' with consumers.
quote: When I want an app to display live info, I have a widget for that. You know Widgets, the concept MS blatantly stole and called "live tiles"? I don't want my entire UI to be big square widgets though, that's absurd.
quote: Sorry, but it's a disjointed mess! Those colors, those multi-sized tiles, the complete lack of any hierarchical structure or organization. You have to be kidding me.
quote: Also the notification system, well, I should say LACK OF. Seriously this is a big deal to me, I'm a huge fan of Android's notification system and how intuitive and powerful it is. Even iOS has a more robust system for this than Windows Phone. There's no option to see a silent pop-up, and there's no notification center which also means you don't have a single place to glance at incoming e-mails, text messages and social network messages. If you want to see what's happening, your only option is to go to the home screen and thumb through a bunch of Live Tiles. Wtf??
quote: This is really showing that you have never used a Windows Phone. You can choose a tile to act as a notifier for WHATEVER you want. I have my SMS, and two email accounts set up as live tiles. I can glance at the screen to see if I have any messages and if I do I can read them with two taps.
quote: As these contracts expire and more Windows Phone options become available, it is likely that more people will gravitate toward it because it is such a well-designed mobile OS.
quote: Oh yeah, compare the phones side by side and there's no comparison. Windows Phone is by far the smoothest and most fluid UI. Are you in denial about the infamous android lag? Denying it doesn't make it go away.
quote: Oh yeah, compare the phones side by side and there's no comparison. Windows Phone is by far the smoothest and most fluid UI. Are you in denial about the infamous android lag? Denying it doesn't make it go away.
quote: Oh but it is and always has been. The primary (only?) reason it took off is because of a massive push from Google AND because it was the only alternative to IOS at that time.
quote: Jelly Bean is at least as smooth if not smoother than Windows Phone