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SANDY HOOK, Conn.—President Barack Obama was to join a grieving community here Sunday, as authorities continued to piece together how a gunman stormed an elementary school and killed 20 children and six adults, in one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history.
The White House said Mr. Obama would meet with the families of children and adults slain at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., and would speak at a vigil set for 7 p.m. Eastern time.
The 26 victims who were shot inside the school on Friday were each hit by more than one bullet, most of them from the high-powered semiautomatic rifle wielded by the 20-year-old suspect, the state's chief medical examiner said on Saturday.
Authorities worked into Saturday morning at a temporary morgue on the school grounds to identify the bodies, H. Wayne Carver II said, as state authorities released the names of those killed at the school.
The Victims
- Charlotte Bacon, 6
- Daniel Barden, 7
- Rachel D'Avino, 29
- Olivia Engel, 6
- Josephine Gay, 7
- Ana Marquez-Greene, 6
- Dylan Hockley, 6
- Dawn Hochsprung, 47
- Madeleine F. Hsu, 6
- Catherine V. Hubbard, 6
- Chase Kowalski, 7
- Nancy Lanza, 52
- Jesse Lewis, 6
- James Mattioli, 6
- Grace McDonnell, 7
- Anne Marie Murphy, 52
- Emilie Parker, 6
- Jack Pinto, 6
- Noah Pozner, 6
- Caroline Previdi, 6
- Jessica Rekos, 6
- Avielle Richman, 6
- Lauren Rousseau, 30
- Mary Joy Sherlach, 56
- Vicki Soto, 27
- Benjamin Wheeler, 6
- Allison N. Wyatt, 6
On Saturday afternoon, authorities revealed the truth behind the grim numerical toll: a list of names, overwhelmingly female, heart-rendingly young. Twenty of the 26 victims in the school were just 6 or 7 years old.
"I believe they were all first-graders," Mr. Carver said.
The six adults killed in the school included school psychologist Mary Jo Sherlach, the oldest victim, at age 56.
On Sunday, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner said Mr. Carver determined that the mother of the suspected shooter was killed by multiple gunshot wounds to her head. Nancy Lanza, 52, who was the first victim in the Friday shooting spree, was found dead inside the home she shared with the suspect, Adam Lanza, in Newtown.
Authorities discovered her body after Mr. Lanza forced his way into the elementary school. The rampage ended when Mr. Lanza killed himself inside the school as the first emergency responders arrived, according to Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy. The spokeswoman for the medical examiner said an autopsy revealed Mr. Lanza fired a single bullet into his head.
Shock, Tragedy at Connecticut School
Police said they believe Mr. Lanza forced his way into the school through a plate-glass partition next to a locked front door, possibly by shooting his way through. But why he had done so remained a mystery, despite waves of speculation among survivors, news reporters and law enforcement.
The quaint New England town on Saturday shared stories of heroics, including those of teachers who died trying to save their young charges, while at the same time it convulsed in grief. Some victims' families retreated in silence to mourn, in houses guarded by state police or private security. But some spoke out.
Standing before TV cameras Friday night, Robbie Parker, 30 years old, held back tears as he spoke of his murdered daughter, 6-year-old Emilie, and offered condolences to the other victims of the massacre.
"This includes the family of the shooter," Mr. Parker said. "I can't imagine how hard this experience must be for you, and I want you to know that our family and our love and our support goes out to you as well."
Miles away, a local official in Kingston, N.H., read a statement from James Champion, Nancy Lanza's brother, who offered condolences but was too overcome to speak.
"The whole family is traumatized by this event," Kingston Police Chief Donald Briggs Jr. said.
The suspect's father, Peter Lanza, issued a statement of condolence Saturday, according to the Associated Press.
"We too are asking why," it read in part. Peter and Nancy Lanza divorced in 2009, according to court records.
The forcible entry helped solve one of the many unanswered questions about the massacre Friday: how a heavily armed young man was able to pass through the locked security doors of an elementary school.
School staff members saw evidence of forced entry as they were ushered out of the school, said Mary Ann Jacob, a clerk at the school library who hid with others in a storage room during the shooting spree. As they left the building, Ms. Jacob said she saw that the plate-glass window next to the building's front door was broken.
But much remained unanswered, and much of what had been assumed in the rush of the crisis turned out to be wrong. It was incorrect, Lt. J. Paul Vance of the Connecticut State Police said, that Mr. Lanza's mother had had any connection to Sandy Hook Elementary, where early reports suggested she had been a teacher.
Law-enforcement officials initially said an assault rifle had been discovered in a car in the school's parking lot. In fact, said Mr. Carver, the medical examiner, it had been the primary weapon used in the killings.
And a television report that Mr. Lanza had been in some form of altercation at the school earlier this week also appeared false, Lt. Vance said.
Investigators were still trying to glean Mr. Lanza's motives, and why he had chosen to attack the school in Sandy Hook. Lt. Vance said investigators at the scene "did produce some very good evidence" that could be used in "hopefully, painting the complete picture as to how—and more importantly why—this occurred."
The investigation unfolded in the middle of a reeling community—decked out with Christmas decorations but packed with strange out-of-town vehicles, police cruisers and news trucks. The school was expected to remain an active crime scene at least through Sunday, said Lt. George Sinko of the Newtown police. Sandy Hook is a village within Newtown.
In addition to the buildings, investigators were searching a large number of vehicles in the parking lot. The suspect's car remained outside the school on Saturday morning.
One of the victims, first-grade teacher Vicki Leigh Soto, 27, died trying to protect the children she loved, her cousin Jim Wiltsie said. When the gunfire started on Friday morning, she gathered her students and tried to hide them in a classroom closet, officials told her family.
"In doing so, she put herself between the kids and the gunman's bullets," said Mr. Wiltsie, who is a police officer. "That's how she was found. Huddled with her children." He said he didn't know if her students were among the dead.
Diane Day, a therapist at the school, was sitting with the principal, a parent and other staff members for a meeting when she heard gunshots.
"At first we heard a bunch of kids scream, and then it was just quiet and all you could hear was the shooting," Ms. Day said Friday.
Principal Dawn Hochsprung and the school psychologist, Ms. Sherlach, both of whom were killed, leapt from their seats and ran out to help, Ms. Day said. "They didn't think twice about confronting or seeing what was going on," she said.
Without a lock to secure the door, a teacher at the meeting pressed her body against the door to hold it shut, Ms. Day said. That teacher was shot through the door in the leg and arm. "She was our hero," Ms. Day said.
Carrie Usher, a fourth-grade teacher, said she believed the principal turned on the campus loudspeaker system, which broadcast sounds of "screaming and crying" through the school to warn others.
Ms. Usher's class, meanwhile, was in the library, and they hid in the closet.
"The gunfire was just unbelievable. It felt like it lasted for five minutes," the teacher said Friday. "It wouldn't stop." No one in her class was hurt.
In the minutes after the shooting stopped, students were taken to a nearby firehouse that became the staging area for anxious parents who quickly streamed to the campus when the news broke. Many remained there until late Friday night, still awaiting word of their missing children, officials said.
There, some were informed of their children's deaths by Mr. Malloy, whom an aide described as "stricken" in delivering the news.
Rabbi Shaul Praver of Congregation Adath Israel in Newtown said that when the governor came in to announce all the children had been killed, not everyone immediately understood, leaving one parent to shout out, "Does that mean my kid is dead or alive?"
Once the governor was clear that all children were killed, Rabbi Praver said some parents were in shock and others erupted into wailing. One man was hitting himself in the head, said Rabbi Praver. "He wanted to roll himself into a ball," he said. "It was just a horrible thing to see a person in that state of mind."
Across the country, some officials turned to issues of policy, including some calling for additional gun-control measures and to focus on treating the mentally ill.
That included some from Connecticut, like Democratic Rep. John Larson, who called for votes on background checks, bans on high-capacity clips and other measures.
"Politics be damned," Mr. Larson said in a statement. "Of the 12 deadliest shootings in our nation's history, half of them have happened in the last five years. And there is not a single person in America who doesn't fear it will happen again."
But it seemed too soon for policy for officials on the ground, said Democratic Rep. Christopher Murphy, who was recently elected to the U.S. Senate but has represented Newtown in the U.S. House for three terms.
"For those of us who are on the ground here, there's no way for us to think about the policy implications right now," Mr. Murphy said. "But I don't begrudge anyone else who's beginning to raise these issues."
"Obviously, this is going to be an awful week," he said, "because we'll begin to have the funerals, and the real grieving will start."
People in the region are "concerned and scared," said Mark Boughton, the mayor of nearby Danbury, where extra police will be on hand Monday morning outside the city's schools to provide reassurance to parents and students.
Mr. Boughton said a bipartisan commitment to funding better treatment for the mentally ill was long overdue, and while he said his city and Newtown had developed effective emergency-management procedures, there was little to stop an unpredictable threat like the one visited on Sandy Hook.
"If somebody shoots the window in, it doesn't matter that you've got a doorbell in front of the door," he said.
—Josh Dawsey, Will James, Lisa Fleisher, Alison Fox and Aaron Zitner contributed to this article.
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One week from today Casey Anthony is due to be released from a year of check fraud probation.
An Aug. 28 hearing is now set in Anthony's civil case.
Attorneys for the woman suing her for defamation, Zenaida Gonzalez, want to know if Anthony's parents have been funneling money to her from their foundation received in connection with an appearance on the "Dr. Phil" television show.
Anthony's lawyers objected, saying that information is irrelevant to the case.
Gonzalez claims Anthony ruined her life when she told authorities a nanny by the same name kidnapped her daughter, Caylee.
Anthony was acquitted of killing 2-year-old Caylee in July 2011. She has since been serving one year of probation in a check fraud case.

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Christianity's big bad scapegoat/boogieman. Originally a Jewish demon-like character who tested you, but changed into the all-evil devil that Christians blame everything on. Allows for the dismissal of accountability.
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Another Stimulus Check? Perhaps.
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Update: Here's the latest on the second stimulus package.
When Democratic Presidential hopeful Barack Obama mentioned a second stimulus check in a speech in early June, I didn't think that it would actually happen. Presidential nominees do a lot of talking in the months leading up to November and I chalked the idea of another stimulus check as a short term as just that – talk.
Well, turns out that the Democrats, led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, want another stimulus check. As expected, the Republicans are firing back, President Bush is asking that we "wait for the stimulus package to fully kick in," and it's simply business as usual in Washington.
I have mixed feelings about yet another stimulus check. On one hand, I understand that there are many families on the boundaries getting squeezed by soaring fuel and food prices. On the other, I don't think the "stimulus package" is really stimulus at all and I don't really think a stimulus package is the solution to our economic woes. Overall, I think it's just political maneuvering and time that would be better spent on more important issues like education, medicare care, or climate change.
At this point, it's merely political fodder and we shouldn't expect another stimulus check, just that there have been discussions of one. As anyone who has watched Congress work can attest to, there are plenty of discussions in Washington that lead nowhere.
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A cabbie was robbed at gunpoint Saturday while picking up a fare several blocks east of Buffalo's Cobblestone District, city police reported.
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One man pointed a black, long-barreled gun at the driver, who handed over $350 cash, his cell phone and a set of keys, before the two robbers fled. No injuries were reported.
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CHESTER, W.Va. - In what has become a perennial problem, the Dr. David S. Pugh Overlook in Chester has once again been damaged by an act of vandalism.
City officials discovered the vandalism on Friday and reported it to the Chester police, who are investigating. "We have it on video. We're going to review the tape and see what we find," Chief Ken Thorn said.
The damage, while not extensive, is noticeable upon first approaching the overlook from First Street. Ten bricks that used to sit atop the right front wall now lay strewn about the base of the wall. Five bricks are missing from the left side, as well as one brick pillar.
Second Ward City Councilman John Woodruff, who checks on the Overlook regularly, said the city will make repairs once it finds a contractor. He said he is not sure of the damage estimate.
Woodruff said it's possible the vandals were not local. "Whoever did it didn't know the camera was there. They didn't have any idea they were being filmed," he said. "We should have good pictures of them, front and back."
Chester City Council had the camera installed late last year as an extra security measure following reports of vandalism in July. That instance involved the removal of decorative stones around the bronze plaque memorializing Pugh, a beloved Chester physician who died on Memorial Day 2001.
Council discussed the issue in the months following, ultimately deciding on two security measures: a video surveillance camera and brighter lighting. The new light, which has yet to be installed, would be 10 times brighter than the current one.
Vandalism has been a problem at the Overlook ever since it was renovated in 2010. Previously made of wooden decking and steel railings from the original Chester Bridge, the Overlook was rebuilt with masonry and blacktop with funding from private and public sources.
Chester resident Sue Badgley, coordinator of the renovation project, said the vandalism began soon after the project was completed.
"The first thing that happened was, we had chains on the pillars, and there was vandalism done with the chains, so we took the chains down," she said.
Badgley said vandals also have damaged the flower bed and memorial marker. "There's kids all the time doing stuff down there," she said.
Woodruff said he doesn't think any more security measures, other than the lighting, are feasible.
The vandalism has been particularly upsetting to the Pugh family. "My dad would turn over in his grave if he knew what was going on down there," said Pugh's son Richard, of Chester. "It's a disgrace. An absolute disgrace."
Pugh, who lives near the Overlook, said he didn't notice any suspicious activity recently. "I see a lot going on up there in the summer months. It's terrible," he said.
Pugh said brighter lights and more police patrols might help with the vandalism problem. "I'm kind of disappointed in what's going on up there," he said. "They put all this money into it, and people don't have enough respect for a peaceful, quiet place. These young kids these days - they don't care."
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Heritage tourism and education in Western New York have received a boost with the recent congressional approval of a 327-page management plan and environmental assessment for work done by the Niagara Falls National Heritage Area Commission.
That big step is on top of the July 13 approval of the management plan for the Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Area.
Too bad we're still waiting for the Michigan Street African-American Heritage Corridor Commission to get its act together.
Otherwise we would have three links in a chain taking full advantage of the cultural and historical treasures that exist in the Buffalo Niagara region.
But for now, two links are better than none.
The good work done by the Falls National Heritage Area Commission will add to the 49 national heritage areas across the United States. The local commission is expected to get an increase in funding with approval of the plan. Congress can appropriate up to $1 million a year for the Heritage Area Commission, up to a total of $15 million.
Fitting into that national effort is the Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Area. That area commission won state approval of its proposal within four years of being seated and well before the commission sunset date this April.
That is far and away ahead of the Michigan Street African-American Heritage Corridor Commission, beleaguered from its inception by politics, lack of the same level of interest shown by Niagara Falls and, quite frankly, lack of dedicated money.
State legislation established the commission in 2007 and a master plan was due in 2011, but the deadline had to be pushed back to this year. The commission just recently got its first money from the state – $35,000 of the $120,000 secured by Assemblywoman Crystal D. Peoples-Stokes.
Unlike Buffalo, the City of Niagara Falls embraced its heritage area process, using a professional city planner to manage most of the request-for-proposals process for hiring a consultant.
The links in this area's cultural heritage tourism chain are ready to be locked together, creating a regional experience for schoolchildren, residents and visitors. The Michigan Street commission needs to do better and the city needs to do more to help. If nothing gets better soon, then the commission needs new leadership.


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There are new books on CD at the Ellinwood Community/School Library. They are:
The Barton County Clerk released the list of Hoisington City Council candidates for the April 5 election on Wednesday evening.
ELLINWOOD - From Jan. 24-28 Ellinwood Grade School will be observing "No Name-Calling Week." This is an annual week of educational activities aimed at ending name-calling of all kinds in schools across the nation and thus helping to create safer and more affirming schools for all students. No Name-Calling Week was inspired by a young adult novel entitled "The Misfits", by popular author, James Howe. The book tells the story of four best friends who grow tired of the constant teasing in their school and decide to run for student council on a "No Name-Calling" platform.
HOISINGTON - At its meeting Monday night, the Hoisington City Council approved ordinances establishing guidelines for handling health nuisances in the city. It was the consensus of the council to hire a Public Officer for 5-10 hours a week at a wage of $10-$12 per hour.
HOLYROOD - At its regular meeting on Monday night, USD 112 Board of Education heard a proposal for providing all students and teachers from ninth to twelfth grade with Macintosh laptop computers.
CLAFLIN - The governing body of the City of Claflin met in regular session, Jan. 10 at 7 p.m. in the city building. Present were: Mayor Curtis Nelson, Council persons Kirk Schneweis, Dan Michaelis, Leon Oberle and Mike Urban. Also present: City Attorney Bob Suelter, City Clerk Patricia Schmidt, Robert Gunder, Richard Hayes, Curtis Wolf, Murine Prosser and Pete and Lois Krier.
At Ellinwood Grade School, Lisa Reser's fifth grade class is excited after receiving zippered-cased drawing sets for art. Lisa McMullen, the EGS art instructor, received a grant from Midwest Energy and purchased "Keep N Carry Artist Sets" for the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades. The students will be using the drawing sets for various class and at-home art projects.
HOISINGTON - Hoisington High School student Chaz Stephens was hungry one day, and he and fellow classmate Drew Reisner along with Principal Meg Wilson brain-stormed a plan last fall to begin serving healthy snacks at a reasonable cost to students mid-morning. The students are finding that good nutrition makes a difference.
ELLINWOOD - Over the years, the Ellinwood High School debate and forensics teams have achieved great success, and the students give credit to coach Julie-Ann Jacobs and hard work. The students involved begin work in the summer, attending a workshop and spending many hours researching their topics.
There several new books available at the Ellinwood Community/ School Library. They are:
Every winter I look forward to watching the drama unfolding in the backyard, as birds and squirrels begin arriving at feeders, searching for and sometimes battling over food and even becoming food for predatory birds.
HOISINGTON - In December, Hoisington Main Street Inc. mailed out a survey to solicit ideas regarding what people liked the least and best regarding Hoisington's downtown. It asked what types of businesses should be established and events to hold. The results of the survey will be presented at a community meeting at 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 31, at the Hoisington Activity Center meeting room, 1200 Susank Rd. The meeting is open to everyone.
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A Fair in the ParkOver 100 regional and national American contemporary craft artists exhibit clay, textile, jewelry, metal, glass, wood and mised media works of art. Featuring creaft demonstrations, live music, performance art, kid's activities, and a variety of foods.09/07/2012 - 09/09/2012Location: Mellon Park, Fifth and Shady Ave., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite
The Dukes of DixielandThe best of traditional Dixieland jazz woven together pop. gospel and country. Bright, brassy and smooth, with more than 38 years of tradition behind them, the Dukes bring a time-honoredauthenticity to all of the hits of Dixie's yesteryear. "The audience is really in love with you."–Keith Lockhart, Conductor, Boston Pops Orchestra.09/07/2012Time: 7:30 pmLocation: University Union, Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PAwebsite
Two Ballet PremieresThe premiere of two ballets by founding directors Blake Ragghianti and Luke Mayernik, with orchestra conducted by Ryan Keeling and Alejandro Pinzon -- The Alkonost, with music by Mayernik, and Infinity, with music by Ragghianti. Choreography is by Alan Obuzor, Kelsey Bartman, and Pearlann Porter featuring Texture Contemporary Ballet Company and The Pillow Project. Mention WQED and get a 25% discount on tix, online or at the box office!09/08/2012Time: 4 & 8pmLocation: CAPA Theater, 111 Ninth Street, Downtown Pittsburghwebsite
East Winds Symphonic BandThe Saxonburg Arts Festival presents this East Pittsburgh-based community band in patriotic works including America the Beautiful, You're a Grand Old Flag and Armed Forces Salute; marches On the Mall and Americans We; Broadway favorites including Seventy-Six Trombones and selections from Chicago; plus movie music from Aladdin and by John Williams. Free admission.09/08/2012Time: 3:30 pmLocation: 365 Saxonburg Blvd, Saxonburg, PAwebsite
Michael Jackson, baritoneBaritone Michael Jackson performs with guest mezzo-soprano Adele Grabowski and organist Martin Barstow. The program will include Josef Rheinberger's Six Religious Songs, Op.157, Max Reger's Op.105 for Organ and Voice, and J. S. Bach's Cantata #57 "Selig ist der Mann," which will feature singers from the Covenant Church of Pittsburgh.09/09/2012Time: 3:00 pmLocation: Heinz Chapel, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Budapest on the Bluff: Fife and DrumsNine members of the Pittsburgh Symphony show off an array of sounds and colors in this season-opener, in music ranging from 17th century dances through dazzling Romantic virtuosity. The witty musings of Antal Doráti, one of the great conductors of the 20th century lead to the masterpiece of Bartók's Sonata, a work of overwhelming genius seldom heard in concert because of its great difficulty.09/09/2012Time: 3:00 pmPNC Recital Hall, School of Music, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
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One of the sexiest guys in music. The voice, the face, the clothes, the hair..the drinking & smoking!! There is nothing hotter.
by Yassa October 08, 2003
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Vocalist for The Strokes, a band which for our time is phenomenal. Highly cool and unconventially attractive, his real magnestism lies in the droll way he carries himself and holds the mike. Son of John Casablancas (head of Elite modelling agency) and one-time Miss. Denmark. Rebelled against the establishment while in a Manhattan prep school.
I adore Julian Casablancas.
by Idon'thaveaname November 20, 2003
vocalist for the strokes. he is cooler than you are, sexier than you are, filthier than you are and is a better singer than you are. face it, he is a rock god.
julian casablancas is beyond sexy.
by n.s. January 04, 2004
the lead singer of the strokes, julian casablancas (aka jules) also writes all of the strokes music and lyrics. some of his musical inspiration comes from the cure, the doors, and especially the velvet underground. he is half spanish, half danish, his middle name is fernando, and he hates pringles. he often kisses his bandmates, and air (dry) humps the strokes drummer, fabrizio moretti. he has a drinking problem, and is very very beautiful, and often stoned. very witty, intelligent, and funny. he is my soulmate.
julian casablancas is the hottest guy in the entire world.
by joey April 08, 2004
Man with a voice who can lure you in very easily (sounds like young Lou Reed). His lyrics are original and intriguing. He's got the right attitude for where he is now, and when it comes to interviews, the boy's got wit. The man is sex.
The room is on fire as Julian Casablancas walks in.
by Jo May 07, 2004
The extremely talented, extremely hott singer of one of the best bands out there, the strokes. Jules is half spanish and half danish, and has the most gorgeous eyes in the world. He's a great live performer; with his raspy vocals and increadable stage-ora. Julian is by far one of the sexiest perfomers of there, if not the most.
Julian Casablancas is my lover. Yeah, you heard me. Back off!
by Marissa January 03, 2004
The twenty-something lead singer of alt. rock band The Strokes. Similtaneously hot and beautiful, passionate and apathathtic, Julian is a symbol of a generation of hipsters and people who know good music.
Man, that vintage shirt is sooo Julian Casablancas on you.
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In Ohio, football is king.
It always has been.
It always will be.
For Seneca County, volleyball has to be queen.
For the second straight year, the county had a team at the state volleyball tournament.
And for the second straight year, the local team fell in the state semifinal to a team from the Midwest Athletic Conference. Last fall it was St. Henry knocking off Mohawk in five games. On Friday, it was Marion Local beating Buckeye Central in three.
The MAC is arguably the best league in the state and some would make arguments for best in the country. Think of the MAC as the SEC of college football. If a high school championship is being contested, it's likely involving a school from the MAC.
And the Bucks have probably seen enough of the Flyers. For the second straight year, it's been Marion Local who has beat them on the grandest stage in high school sports. The Flyers bested the Bucks in football last year in the Division VI final.
Like the school's explosive football team last fall, on Friday the Flyers displayed amazing athletes and sickening kills. Sure the Buckettes got their shots in (as well as their digs), but time after time it was the Flyers who came away with the points.
And like last year, Friday's semifinal was the de facto state title game as Kidron Central Catholic doesn't have the horses to run with Marion Local today. That game will be over in three sets and not close.
These Flyers are No. 1 for a reason.
Not only are they big. They are fast. They can jump. And they don't stop. It seems like every time one of the big guns, Claire Heitkamp, the player of the year in Division IV, or Josie Winner, an honorable mention All-Ohio selection last year, would rotate out of the front row, there were two more vicious windmills awaiting Buckeye Central. It didn't stop.
Winner was one of the best players I've seen in a long time and she had the quickest swing I've ever seen. The ball would go up and Winner's arm would blur and the ball was gone.
The Buckettes played well but needed about two more girls on the floor to stop the barrage of attacks Marion Local had. And that's saying something, given how good the BC defense has been this year. Friday was no exception.
Like the football team that went to the state last year, the previous BC volleyball team may have been a more athletically gifted team. But like their football team last year, this BC team played as a more cohesive unit than the previous squad.
And that's why they found themselves in Fairborn on Friday.
The question remains if they'll be back there next year.
It was a foregone conclusion in many people's minds, including mine, that Mohawk was going to be in Fairborn this year, returning to the state tournament after losing just three seniors, including two starters.
But McComb had other plans for them in the regional semifinal, ruining the all-Seneca County final many were hoping for between Mohawk and Buckeye Central.
Buckeye Central loses three seniors off this state semifinal team, including two starters but returns everyone else. Sound familiar?
Mohawk (23-3) loses some key players including Ashley Parker, Sarah Parker and arguably the most underrated player in the area, Lynsey Trusty. Sarah and Lynsey are both All-Ohio selections this year.
Buckeye Central (26-3) loses All-Ohio first-teamer Sammi Marcum and Kendra Schultz. What they lose in Marcum is a bottle of enthusiasm. Every time that girl makes a big kill, it's like someone shook her up like bottle of champagne and she erupts with enthusiasm and vigor. They bring back the area's nastiest serve in Maddie Williams, a third-team All-Ohio selection this year.
New Riegel loses just one senior, Cassandra Acree, the team's starting setter, off a team that lost twice, both times to Mohawk, in a 23-2 season. They bring back All-Ohio second-teamer Kara Scherger and All-Ohio honorable mention Lauren Ladd.
Alex Cameron and Allison Snyder, the team's setter for the last four years, are the only graduates off an Upper Sandusky team that went 21-4. They return All-Ohio second-teamer Taylor Graboski.
Between the four teams, they were a combined 93-12. Seneca County may not be the MAC. But it's pretty good.
Buckeye Central has been to the state tourney 10 times in its history, winning a state title twice.
Hopewell-Loudon has gone nine times, including in 2009, winning five state crowns.
Year after year, the area is sending multiple girls to college to play volleyball.
In the last five years, Seneca County has had a team make it to the state tournament four out of five years.
I think we'll be talking about five of six next year.
Volleyball season can't come soon enough.


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|Two Studies Reveal Details of Lithium-Battery Function
Our way of life is deeply intertwined with battery technologies that have enabled a mobile revolution powering cell phones, laptops, medical devices, and cars. As conventional lithium-ion batteries approach their theoretical energy-storage limits, new technologies are emerging to address the long-term energy-storage improvements needed for mobile systems, electric vehicles in particular. Battery performance depends on the dynamics of evolving electronic and chemical states that, despite advances in material synthesis and structural probes, remain elusive and largely unexplored. At Beamlines 8.0.1 and 9.3.2, researchers studied lithium-ion and lithium-air batteries, respectively, using soft x-ray spectroscopy techniques. The detailed information they obtained about the evolution of electronic and chemical states will be indispensable for understanding and optimizing better battery materials.
When charging a lithium-ion battery, lithium ions must be extracted from the cathode material (delithiation) by an external voltage source and inserted (intercalated) into an anode material (lithiation). The same process occurs in reverse when discharging. Cathode materials are key to improved performance, partially because there is not yet a candidate that can maintain high power and stable cycling with a capacity comparable to that of anode materials.
In the search for safe, high-performance cathode materials, perhaps the most striking discovery is lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4 or simply LFP). LFP is a natural mineral of the olivine family and a surprisingly good cathode material despite some unfavorable properties. Delithiation in LFP is nominally a two-phase process, with a higher energy barrier than a single-phase transformation. It has structural peculiarities that affect its conductivity. It is also believed to have one-dimensional lithium diffusion channels, prone to impurity obstacles. Therefore, LFP's impressive high-rate performance challenges our conventional wisdom on understanding, choosing, and developing cathode materials.
To better understand LFP, researchers combined x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) at Beamline 8.0.1, theoretical calculations, and material synthesis to tackle the subtle evolution of the key electronic states in LFP cathodes under different lithiation levels in nanoparticles and single crystals. The sensitivity and high resolution of XAS provide spectroscopic "fingerprints" of the lithiation process, with abundant information on phase transformation, valence, spin states, and local structural distortions. Thus, this technique provides systematic and in-depth information on the interplay between lithiation and electronic structure evolution, shedding light on the phase transformation and lithium diffusion mechanism in LFP cathodes.
By taking oxygen from the air rather than incorporating an internal oxidizer, lithium-air batteries can have up to four times the energy density of conventional lithium-ion batteries by weight. However, they cannot charge/discharge as efficiently or as many times (less than 100 cycles), and there are still many questions surrounding reaction mechanisms during oxygen reduction and evolution. Attempts to unravel these questions are complicated by equipment requiring ultrahigh-vacuum (UHV) conditions that allow only ex situ characterization and by the use of liquid electrolytes that place electrodes in contact with many other chemical species and potentially cause parasitic reactions.
At Beamline 9.3.2, the researchers overcame these challenges with ambient-pressure soft x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (APXPS) on a solid-state lithium-air cell. The cathode (the electrode of primary interest) was a mixed ionic and electronic conducting material, allowing lithium ions, electrons, and oxygen to converge over the entire electrode surface. With this apparatus, the researchers were able to examine the chemistry of lithum-oxygen reaction products in situ as a function of applied voltage in both UHV and in 380-mTorr oxygen.
The study provides the first evidence of reversible lithium peroxide (Li2O2) formation and decomposition on an oxide surface and lays the foundation for the characterization of reaction mechanisms for both conventional lithium-ion and lithium-air batteries using in situ APXPS. Future work will take advantage of this cell design to understand the influence of other gas environments and electrode materials on intercalation and reaction-product formation, providing fundamental insights improving energy-storage technologies.
Research conducted by: X.S. Liu, Y.D. Chuang, Z. Liu, Z. Hussain, and W.L. Yang (ALS); J. Liu, X.Y. Song, G. Liu, T.J. Richardson, and D. Prendergast (Berkeley Lab); R.M. Qiao (ALS and Shandong University, China); Y. Yu (Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Germany); H. Li, L.M. Suo, and Y.S. Hu (Chinese Academy of Sciences); G.J. Shu and F.C. Chou (National Taiwan University); T.C. Weng, D. Nordlund, and D. Sokaras (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory); Y.J. Wang, H. Lin, B. Barbiellini, and A. Bansil (Northeastern University); S.S. Yan (Shandong University, China); S. Qiao (Fudan University, China); F.M.F. de Groot (Utrecht University, The Netherlands); Y.-C. Lu, E.J. Crumlin, J.R. Harding, E. Mutoro, and Y. Shao-Horn (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); and G.M. Veith, L. Baggetto, and N.J. Dudney, (Oak Ridge National Laboratory).
Research funding: Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program, Berkeley Lab; National Science Foundation; and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. Operation of the ALS is supported by the DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences.
Publications about this research: X.S. Liu, J. Liu, R.M. Qiao, Y. Yu, H. Li, L.M. Suo, Y.S. Hu, Y.D. Chuang, G.J. Shu, F.C. Chou, T.C. Weng, D. Nordlund, D. Sokaras, Y.J. Wang, H. Lin, B. Barbiellini, A. Bansil, X.Y. Song, Z. Liu, S.S. Yan, G. Liu, S. Qiao, T.J. Richardson, D. Prendergast, Z. Hussain, F.M.F. de Groot, and W.L. Yang, "Phase transformation and lithiation effect on electronic structure of LixFePO4: An in-depth study by soft x-ray and simulations," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 134, 13708 (2012); and Y.-C. Lu, E.J. Crumlin, G.M. Veith, J.R. Harding, E. Mutoro, L. Baggetto, N.J. Dudney, Z. Liu, and Y. Shao-Horn, "In situ ambient pressure x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy studies of lithium-oxygen redox reactions," Sci. Rep. 2, 715 (2012).
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5 Obnoxious Personality Flaws That the Internet Makes Worse
It's fascinating how vastly different people act in real life versus online. It's like all our normal emotions, reactions, and desires are blasted through the dick end of a fire hose -- nothing filtered, nothing held back, the pressure cranked up to Rambo-washing levels. It's no secret what causes it: Eye-to-eye, personal contact is the wall that holds back 90 percent of our worst impulses (even on the phone, there's a voice connection that can convey tone, reminding you that the droning idiot on the other end is an actual human). But remove that contact while keeping the ability to communicate, and we just turn into ridiculous children.
#5. We Now Have Disposable (And Fragile) Friends
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In Real Life:
I am fortunate enough to have a diverse range of friends in my life. I have frequently sat in rooms full of Christians and atheists, democrats and republicans, and people from each side of every major issue you could dream up. We've spoken peacefully and respectfully. We have also had heated arguments that needed to be broken up before someone got stabbed with their own shoe. But we never let our specific beliefs dictate our bonds because there are enough traits that overlap to hold us together. That diversity is what makes us dynamic and gives our group its unique features. I would never, ever want to be in a group of friends who are all exactly like me. I'd set us on fire by the end of one conversation.
But on the 'net ...
This is the "I disagree with your last comment" button:
And this is the "I get the last word" button:
I know this because, though he doesn't do it much anymore, one of my favorite things used to be watching Gladstone point out the number of followers he lost upon making a joke about a band or show that some of his followers liked. I loved the fact that up until that point, they were totally fine with every hard-edged joke he made about recently dead celebrities or religion or just poking the beehive with a stick. But if he dropped even one innocent jab about a show that nerds decided to swarm around in a perpetual circle jerk, they'd drop out by the dozens like he just posted photos of their mothers doing anal with a horse.
Seriously, imagine that in real life. You start hanging around someone new, and you're getting to know them pretty well. They're funny, they have interesting things to say -- you could definitely be friends. Then one day, they make a joke about how the white-haired chick from Game of Thrones should really fuck one of those dragons before they get too big and she physically can't anymore. You know ... because of all the fucking in that show. Then without a word, you just stand up and walk out of the room, never to be heard from again. No follow-up conversation explaining why. No bullshit talk about why you can't be friends anymore. You just walk away like that person never existed.
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"Wait, you packed? You don't even live here!"
But because of this weirdass type of social connection, that's now a regular thing. "Friends" are a statistic -- a definitive, representable number -- and your goal as the owner of your page is to collect as many as you can like fucking Pokemon. When that number gets to a certain level, losing one doesn't much matter. What's the difference between 499 and 500 at that point? The dude said Battlestar Galactica is boring. I can't listen to a single word he says beyond that sentence. He has to go.
#4. The Approval of Total Strangers Becomes an Outright Need
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In Real Life:
Regardless of what all the family sitcoms taught us about the opinions of strangers (and the not-giving-a-shit thereof), there are still times in your life where you do need to make a good impression on people you're likely to never see again. Campaigning for class president, petitioning a council for a business permit, convincing a jury that you're not the "stabbing" type of dude they're making you out to be. And even in the nonformal sense, if your kid is being a screaming piece of shit in a movie theater and you do nothing to stop it, every person in that building wants to see you severely injured. The embarrassment you feel as you grit your teeth and pull the little bastard back up the aisle is a direct result of being rejected and hated by your fellow man.
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And why you have to explain to your husband why you relapsed back to heroin again.
But on the 'net ...
Not long ago, I decided to start following people who regularly interact with me on Twitter. It's a big step for me because up until then, I never followed more than 10 to 15 people at a time, and most of those were people I knew personally. Following strangers is a big risk because, holy shit, what if they type something I don't agree with?
Now for me, follower count doesn't mean much because I have my column here on Cracked, and those "view" numbers are what define my literal worth as a writer. So it came as a bit of a shock to me when I realized how many people really do put massive amounts of value into things like that and retweets. For instance, one of the people I follow retweeted this from one of their friends, and I jumped on the first joke that popped into my head because I'm an asshole who automatically assumes everything I read on social media was written by an adult who can infer my intended tone in a text message.
I responded with:
Yes, now that I know I was responding to a 15-year-old girl, I feel 10 kinds of creepy and gross. Especially when she took obvious, justified offense to the reply. All she was wanting was a little bit of attention and validation, and I shit on her attempt.
And this is what's so weird about this current generation of early teens with this kind of easy access to a massive audience. It's developed a need for their acceptance to be measured by a quantifiable number. For this particular girl, that number is 100. What if we gave her 10,000? I don't mean that as a social experiment or thought exercise. I mean if I so easily put her on the defensive by making one dumb joke, imagine how happy it would make that girl to wake up today and find that her retweet request had been fulfilled a hundred times over.
Is that desire for mass acceptance a good or a bad thing? I don't know ... the adult in me has a natural knee-jerk reaction to reject the idea because it's a massive change over what I grew up with. The logic side of me says, "You are literally able to pay your rent because you were able to gain mass acceptance of total strangers." But the thing is, I am in the entertainment industry -- not a 15-year-old girl, just looking for validation.
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OK, so I actually am a teenage girl. What's it take for a chick to get a little goddamn validation around here?
But like it or not, every form of social media has this rating system in place, and it's pretty obvious that people love the idea. "Did you like what I said? Did you agree with my comment? Did you enjoy this video of my cat?" Every comment, creative project, and passing thought gets immediate feedback and a numerical rating. At the very least, I hope it's a good idea because it sure as hell isn't going anywhere.
#3. We Demand (And Receive) Apologies from Celebrities
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In Real Life:
Let's skip back almost 25 years to 1989. Andrew Dice Clay was supposed to introduce Cher at the MTV Video Music Awards. She was running behind because she's Cher, so they asked Clay to fill some time. He did one of his then-famous "adult nursery rhymes" -- specifically: "Jack Sprat could eat no fat. His wife could eat no lean. So Jack ignored her flabby tits and licked her asshole clean."
He was banned for life ... "life" in this case meaning "until 2011," when they invited him back for another awards show. His entire career was built on this offensive character, and he baited press and activist groups constantly until he was selling out 20,000-seat arenas based on the publicity they had ironically drummed up for him. Here's the point ...
At no point in his career did he ever have to stop and hold a press conference to apologize to the public for something he'd said or done, which is crazy because his entire act was purposely misogynistic. Not just that, but any protesting backlash came from the media because the public had no means to "unleash demands" upon him. He just did his act, and if people liked it, they liked it. And if they hated it, it didn't matter; he'd just move on to the next show and continue working, his act unmodified and unaffected by public input.
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His jacket growing ever angrier.
But on the 'net ...
Flash forward to 2007 when Alec Baldwin lost his shit and reamed his daughter's ass over a voicemail. He didn't do it in public. He didn't release the voicemail to the press, himself. It was a private call to his daughter's phone that ended up all over the 'net. Was he wrong in this situation? Was he justified? Was it bad parenting? Should he be punished for it? Here's the answer to all of those questions:
None of our fucking business. It doesn't matter what we think. The harsh, no bullshit truth is that he doesn't owe us a solitary second of explanation for a goddamn thing. Yet, he still made a public apology about it. He had to. Because in this day and age, if you don't you're fucked as a celebrity, and we know that as an audience. So now, it's become commonplace for us to not only expect them, but demand them when a celebrity says something we don't like or expresses a belief that we don't agree with. Or rips up your 8-year-old's sign at a WWE event, fully in character the way all heels do at every goddamn show.
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Holy shit, how did TMZ pull off that exclusive story?
Before the Internet -- hell, for that matter, before social networking sites -- if you were to respond to a celebrity's behavior or comments with a demand for an immediate and personal apology, they'd never be able to tell you to go fuck yourself because of their uncontrollable, unrelenting laughter. Now it's the standard.


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The Truckee volleyball team defeated Sparks in straight sets on Wednesday and Whittell in four games last Friday to run its win streak to 10 straight entering its final match of the regular season.
The Wolverines started slowly against the Railroaders en route to a 25-21, 25-21, 25-10 victory. Mackenzie Redner and Mel Jones led the way in the kill department, finishing with 18 and 13, respectively, while Jones had nine service points and three aces, and Redner had seven service points.
Kestlie Stefanelli posted a team-high 10 service points and 15 digs, Gabby Moretti had 30 assists and 11 digs, Chelsea Mohun had 16 assists, 13 digs and six kills, Nichole Riofrio had seven service points and five kills, and Bailey Copeland had eight digs.
Redner was Player of the Match against Whittell, which Truckee beat by a score of 25-23, 25-11, 18-25, 25-15. The junior outside hitter finished with a match-high 20 kills to go along with her 19 digs and two service aces.
Jones posted 10 kills, Moretti had 27 assists and four aces, Mohun 13 assists, 11 digs and four kills, Stefanelli 26 digs, and Peak eight service points.
The Wolverines face one final test before postseason play, a home match against South Tahoe on Friday at 6 p.m.
Truckee, which defeated South Tahoe in four games, 22-25, 25-21, 25-23, 25-13, on Oct. 16, will enter the match with a perfect 9-0 record in Mount Rose League play and 9-0 against fellow Division I-A schools. The Wolverines are 19-9 overall, with all nine losses against larger divisions.


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Real Estate
Grandma's Home Enhances a Family Legacy
Westminster College occupies a special place in the hearts of the Schow family. Glorya Schow was a Westminster nursing professor for six years, between 1973 and '79. Her son, Shawn, is a 1981 graduate of the college, and granddaughter, April, graduated in spring of 2004. Glorya credits her grandparents for instilling the importance of education in their family. Immigrants from Norway and Mexico, they stressed to their children the value of studying hard to live a successful life full of meaningful opportunities. Each child passed this value on to their children…thus the legacy grew and thrived.
Helping others is another important value for the Schow family. "To those that much has been given, much should be returned," is one of Glorya's favorite quotes. She has taught her children the importance of contributing to others. Together they established the Paez-Garcia-Schow Scholarship after the death of Glorya's mother as a way to honor her values while making a Westminster education possible for others. The family encouraged memorial gifts to the scholarship, in lieu of flowers, at the time of Glorya's mother's funeral. And Shawn's employer, 3M, matched his contribution to the scholarship. "I was a scholarship recipient," Shawn said, "so it felt good to give back."
When it came time to sell Grandma's home, the family had an idea – why not give the house to Westminster College? The donation of Grandma's home on South Washington Street further funded the scholarship in her memory while bypassing costly capital gains taxes. The transaction was simple. The Schows gave the house to Westminster, the college sold the property, and the proceeds funded the Paez-Garcia-Schow Scholarship in perpetuity. In addition, each member of the family realized a tax deduction for their gift of real property.
Glorya and her children receive tremendous pleasure from attending the annual scholarship luncheon and meeting the recipients of their family's scholarship. "Creating this scholarship enhanced our lives," said Glorya. "To sit and talk with these young people is the fulfillment of a lifelong dream."


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No. 14 Men's Volleyball Defeats Mount Olive, 3-0
MUNCIE, Ind. - The No. 14 Ball State men's volleyball team swept Mount Olive College (25-15, 25-9, 25-20) Saturday evening at Worthen Arena. Senior Kevin Owens led the team with eight kills while junior Matt Sutherland added seven kills. The Cardinals out-blocked the Trojans 16 – 3 in total team blocks.
With the win the Cardinals improve to 10-5 on the season while the Trojans fall to 7-9 on the year.
Owens was accurate on his attacks on the night, not committing a single attack error off 11 swings for a .727 attack percentage. The middle attacker added three digs, two solo blocks and three assisted blocks on the night.
Sutherland earned the start and added seven kills, a service ace, six digs and a career-high six blocks. Sophomore Marcin Niemczewski registered five kills, four digs and three assisted blocks while junior Shane Witmer chipped in four kills, two service aces, six digs and three assisted blocks.
Freshman Alex Pia got four kills off the four attacks he made on the night, a career-high in kills for the middle attacker. Setters Hiago Garchet and Graham McIlvaine shared time on the court tallying 15 and 13 assists respectively. Senior Matt Leske had five assisted blocks on the night to go with one kill.
Ball State hit .256 for the match (30-10-78) while Mount Olive managed -.133 (21-34-98). The Cardinals hit .500 in the second set (9-1-16). Both teams had five service aces while committing six errors each.
Ball State will continue its home stand next weekend when it hosts Belmont Abbey on Friday, Mar. 7 and King on Saturday, Mar. 8. Both matches are set to begin at 7:30 p.m.
Follow your Ball State men's volleyball team on our new BSU Volleyball tablet app. Updated weekly, the app includes match highlights, player profiles, team history and more. Download the BSU Volleyball app to your iPad or Android tablet today!
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A popular Jewish food festival is back for another go.
The second annual Altoona Jewish Food Festival featuring the Union Avenue Deli, a production of Altoona's Reform congregation, will take place Oct. 6 at the Temple Beth Israel, Altoona.
The fundraiser for the Temple Beth Israel Sisterhood, a Temple-affiliated philanthropic association, according to the festival website, is also a "community [event] that's really fun because people like the kind of food and it just isn't available around here," said Susan Holzer, co-chair of the Deli with Barry Allen.
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The menu, reflective of an old-time delicatessen, includes corned beef, pastrami and turkey sandwiches, all-beef hot dogs, matzo ball soup, latkes and pastries, such as chocolate babka and rugelach.
Don Clippinger, author of the cookbook, "Real Jewish Men Cook Kosher!" and a regular guest on WTAJ's "Central PA Live!" program will serve up vegetarian fare at a Falafel Bar.
"The favored fast food of Israel, the falafel is the model for the modern street taco: a seasoned chick-pea patty in fresh pita bread with hummus and a spicy pepper sauce," a festival press release said.
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What: Second annual Altoona Jewish Food Festival, Union Avenue Deli
When: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 6
Where: Temple Beth Israel, 3004 Union Ave.
Details: Admission is free. Street parking is available and after noon the nearby Altoona Bible Church parking lot is open.
On the web: www.altoonajewishfoodfestival.com
"Last year's Union Avenue Deli was so successful that we knew we had to open again this year," Holzer said in the release. "It was wonderful to see so many of our friends and neighbors turn out and just spend time together. The sense of community made for a very special event."
"Everyone certainly enjoyed the Union Avenue Deli's foods. We sold out of some items, and one of our guests said he wished we were open every week," she said.
Sandwich platters which include a pickle, coleslaw, and a drink are $8. Other items are sold individually.
"Well, I would tell you last year we sold out of the Matzo Ball soup. And the people loved Don's Falafel. And it was probably a tie between the corned beef and the pastrami sandwiches," Holzer said of what's popular.
A new addition to the festival will take place this year with Clippinger offering to make a free dinner for four. A drawing will be held to determine a winner.
The festival started as a way to still provide the Temple Beth Israel's Union Avenue Deli food booth that was once part of a DelGrosso's Amusement Park event, the website said. It closed after scheduling conflicts several years in a row between the event and the observance of the Jewish holy days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
"We had such a good time last year and you cannot believe how many people would come over and say, 'When are you doing it again? Why don't you do this more often?'" Holzer said.
Holzer said they also held an office day this spring for which they made food for delivery or pick up. It was also successful, she said.
Temple Beth Israel's Rabbi Audrey Korotkin, Clippinger's wife, experienced a favorable reaction from people, as well.
"From my perspective what made it so successful last year was that we had something for everybody," she said in an email. "You wouldn't expect vegetarians to come to a deli that features corned beef and pastrami, but because we had Don's vegetarian falafel bar, it was a big hit with everyone. Lots of people came after their church services. I've been stopped by scores of people since the 'Matters of Faith' interfaith series in July about when we're going to have the deli again."
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expensive -- it's about $500 extra to install -- however, it's more
than worth it, providing fuel economy gains of around 7 percent.
EPA's flawed test cycle, though, currently only includes one stop so
the tech only earns automakers a 0.1 or 0.2 mpg increase in the
official EPA mileage estimates, despite much larger real world
gains. Without the extra rating to justify the extra costs,
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customers demanding that the EPA reconsider stop-start. Robert
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comments, "In Japan, we're seeing anywhere from 7 to 9 percent
fuel economy gains from it. That's a jump from 33 to 37 miles per
gallon in a metro environment."
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U.S. EPA estimates based on required testing cycles."
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procedure. It's taking public comment on stop-start
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April. Those procedures could finally include a test with more
stops. Mazda is urging automakers to join together to lobby the
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We are clearly on the verge of a revolution in medicine—one in which the sequence of As, Ts, Gs, and Cs is as much a part of a patient's phenotypic profile as are the sounds of the heart or were the colors of the bile. Yet we are clearly not there yet, with many hurdles still to be overcome.
At the recent "Asia Pacific Bioinformatics" conference in Vancouver, Brad Popovic, Ph.D., CSO at Genome BC, moderated a session where stakeholders from pathologists and funders to bioinformaticians and large technology firms discussed how to traverse the technical, political, cultural, and other landscapes while avoiding the hidden mines on the way to viable medical informatics. The panel discussion helped to provide attendees—who Dr. Popovic described as largely trainees, and largely from the broadly defined bioinformatics field—with some guideposts to get from here to there.
Sequencing technology has been advancing at such a clip that in some ways it is outpacing our ability to assemble and interpret the data it is able to generate, said Dr. Popovic.
Among the biggest concerns in medicine—and in medical testing specifically—are whether data is accurate, reproducible, and translatable from one instrument (or algorithm, or lab, or technician) to another.
Jordan Stockton, Ph.D., director of product marketing, computational biology for Illumina, was asked, "How do I know what truth is? How do I know when I see a call, or a variation, or an interesting marker, that I know I'm looking at something real?"
He believes the answer has two parts. On the one hand, vendors like Illumina "own" the "accuracy problem"—of optimizing the fidelity of the calls, and alerting the end user when they should or shouldn't trust the data. That problem, he said, is "addressable if not solved."
(A greater challenge is in knowing what the data means, and in what context should it be taken to mean something medically serious or medically actionable, Dr. Stockton said. That is something that will potentially evolve rather than being solved in one fell swoop, and will be tackled by the community and vendors together.)
The medical community wants to see measures of confidence and portability. One way for this to happen—to move the field forward—is to coalesce around a particular set of standards. "I think in the past three years there has been a lot of consensus around various means of variant calling and various means of representation of data," Dr. Stockton said.
He added that Illumina's market presence allows the company the opportunity, and to some extent gives it the burden, to impose some standardization. Using a cloud-based system to analyze the data churned out by sequencers, too, "gives people the opportunity to literally be using the same code to execute the same test anywhere in the world."
As of now the field is mostly in the research mode, trying to collect data, write algorithms to deal with the data, experiment with human interfaces, and debate the ethics, decide on regulation, and explore options for reimbursement.
Clinicians will need to know when a result is actionable and when it is a "variation of unknown significance (VUS)," said pathologist Aly Karsan, M.D., head of clinical diagnostic genomics and director of the cancer genetics lab at the BC Cancer Agency. It's important that a test has been validated.
Treatment decisions require clear, crisp answers. Yet for the most part we haven't done enough genomes to know what "normal" is, and we don't know how extensively SNPs and indels pervade, pointed out George Michaels, Ph.D., director of life sciences programs in the Health Strategy and Solutions Group at Intel: "Interpreting genomic information in terms of the context of individual and populations really is in the early stages of directly impacting clinical practice."
The complexity involved in personalized medicine is only beginning to be dealt with computationally. For now it's unlikely that a genomic analysis can help recommend a particular drug or treatment—with possible exceptions in oncology—although Dr. Michaels predicts that affordable proactive personal genome technologies will soon be able to identify those that should not be used.
"There is going to have to be some larger consortia to actually define what variants actually impact on the biology of the case at hand," Dr. Karsan remarked.
While physicians need—and regulators require—clear and concise answers on which to base clinical decisions, there is an inclination among those developing tests to continually try and improve their product.
Interrogating the same samples on a routine basis should yield the same result. Even minor fixes in the software that calls bases coming off a sequencer, for example, or the algorithms into which those calls are being fed, can result in different data being delivered, and this is "not really stable enough to be stable from a clinical perspective," said Dr. Karsan. The first step for genomic approaches to be truly useful is "locking down the informatics approaches."
That doesn't have to mean throwing away the key, though. "Locking down means that, on a day to day basis, you use what you have," he noted. "If you find a bug, you fix it, but then you test and you go back and ask, 'Does this bug-fix actually impact on previous results?'"
Algorithms can also be improved just by virtue of having a larger training set. Take a hypothetical algorithm, based on mining the data of 5,000 patients, from which were collected not just one variable-worth of data but literally millions. It uncovers a set of 22 biomarkers useful in establishing a prognosis, it's vetted in clinical trials, it's marketed as a test in CLIA labs, and it's ordered by oncologists. But then fast-forward two years and 15,000 more patients, and "based on these 20,000 patient experiences and genomic data, it's these 22 markers plus another 5 markers that we've found," offered Elai Davicioni, president and CSO of GenomeDX.
Yet from both a regulatory and reimbursement perspective, a new test based on the 27 markers cannot simply be marketed as the new and improved version of the original test. A test has to be locked down, immutable: "If you want to change you basically have to go through the whole process again," he lamented, although he does not see an easy solution to the dilemma.
Informatics software, like any black box, faces "the most rigorous bar for anything to go through FDA approval," pointed out Dr. Popovic. "You'd better have an algorithm that can be replicated a gazillion times in different clinical environments, against different types of samples, if you're ever going to put that into clinical medicine. I don't think the field has matured yet to really realize that."
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Several of you have asked us to give the "our-side-of-the-desk" view on recommendation letters. That sounds easy enough. After all, we've read thousands of them and have a pretty good idea of what works and what doesn't. The problem is that every draft of this column has read as if we think we know how to do your job better than you do, which certainly isn't the case!
Still, in our never-ending attempt to make this newsletter both useful and playful (read: not simply a Hamilton "commercial"), and at the risk of offending those of you who haven't asked for our advice on this topic, we've decided to go for it. We hope the following 10 tips are helpful!
FINALLY, above all else, know that we read your recommendation letters. This requirement is not just another arduous hoop we make you and your students jump through to no avail. To be sure, the single most important factor in our decision-making process is the high school transcript. But your comments and insight provide us with perspective and help us assess fit with our community. While we recognize that counselor workloads are not getting smaller and that you might not know all of your students (rest assured we won't hold it against candidates in those latter cases), if and when you know a student well, your letter can be — and often is — the difference-maker that will get a student a closer look in our process.


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The $120,000 blaze started about 2 a.m. today in the one-story ranch on Margaret, between Longmeadow and Eggert roads and not far from Northtown Plaza, the officials said.
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Now We Know How Many Active Users Instagram Really Has
Instagram has 90 million users that check into the application at least once a month, according to new data released by the company today.
You may recall when the entire Web freaked out over reports that Instagram users were leaving in droves after the company changed its terms of service around a month ago. At the time, it seemed that Instagram had lost around 25% of its daily active users (DAUs) based on data from AppData.
This turned out to be potentially misleading, as it was largely attributed to seasonality. The numbers also didn't reflect users that created or used accounts that were not connected to Facebook, so the true number might have been slightly skewed.
Granted, Instagram didn't include a DAU number in its statement Wednesday, which would have given us a sense if the earlier reports were completely accurate. But it still does seem that the numbers were much higher than suspected — the last reported number from AppData earlier this month for Instagram's monthly users is about 46 million. (Again, these are Facebook-connected users.)
Instagram said the 90 million monthly active users is 10% higher than the previous month.
Facebook has said Instagram has more than 100 million registered users, but there was no word on how many of them were regularly checking the app. Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom told AllThingsD, a sister blog to The Wall Street Journal, that the app was still seeing growth.
"Instagram continues to see very strong growth around the world," Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom told AllThingsD. "With many of the product and internationalization improvements we've made, we've been excited to see these efforts resonate with users globally."
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How to Pull a Rappel Rope
My brother and I were rappelling the nearly vertical face of Prince of Darkness at Red Rocks. When we pulled the ropes they sailed past us and we heard a loud whip-like crack. Upon examination we discovered that the end of our new rope had exploded into tatters. What's the best procedure for pulling ropes on multiple hanging rappels? What should we do about our rope?
In 1877 the Austrian physicist Ernst Mach laid down the principles of supersonics, or objects traveling greater than the speed of sound, later called Mach 1, which is 761 miles per hour. Mach also described the sound effects created by supersonic objects. Your outing perfectly illustrated his theorems. When you pulled your cord, the tail of your new rope cascaded down in a loop, rather than falling straight. When the loop straightened as a result of the rope coming taut on the anchor, the tail accelerated at such a speed it created a vacuum in space. The cracking sound you heard was made by air rushing back into the vacuum, creating a mini sonic boom that would have made Mach yelp his safe word. The cracking of a bullwhip is identical to what your rope experienced, and, as anyone in a back leather mask can attest, is not to be trifled with.
Unfortunately, there is nothing you can do to prevent a repeat performance. The instant the tail of your rope pulls through the upper anchor, it becomes as uncontrollable as fission. Best to just duck and cover.
Don't fret, your rope is fine, it just needs a little surgery to get up to snuff. Tightly wrap a piece of athletic tape around the rope a few inches down from the exploded end. With sharp scissors or a knife, cut through the tape, then cauterize the fresh rope end with the hot flame from a Zippo. Next!
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A fierce custody battle is brewing over two of Michael Jackson's children, with their mother relaying word Thursday that she plans to fight for them in court, and the Jackson family signaling they will fight right back.
Debbie Rowe, the mother of Prince, 12, and Paris, 11, spoke to her former attorney Iris Finsilver, who says, "She is going to be pursuing custody of the children."
"Frankly, she won't have to fight for them," Finsilver tells PEOPLE. "She is the children's biological mother. She loves her children."
The kids, along with a third child, Prince Michael II (Blanket), 7, whose mother is unknown, are in the temporary court-ordered care of Jackson family matriarch Katherine Jackson, 79, whom the singer named as guardian in his 2002 will. (Diana Ross was also named, in the event that Katherine is unwilling or able to care for the kids.)
A custody hearing is set for July 13, and Katherine will keep the children until at least then. A source close to the Jackson family says they intend to seek permanent custody. "They will fight," says the source.
Rowe earlier made her position clear in an interview with a Los Angeles television station, saying, "I want my children."
"I am stepping up," she told a reporter for Los Angeles station NBC 4 in a 90-minute phone conversation. "I have to."
Rowe also said she'd be willing to take custody of Blanket to keep the three children together, and she may seek a restraining order to keep her former father-in-law, Joe Jackson, away from her children.
Later, Rowe's current attorney left open the possibility that she could change her position. Calling her remarks to the TV station a "single snapshot of a single conversation," lawyer Eric George said, "Debbie has not reached a final decision concerning the pending custody proceedings."
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When Denison English professor Kirk Combe was working on his sci-fi book, 2084, he often would run plot ideas by his son Clayton, who, at the time, had just graduated from Granville High. When Clayton headed off to Oberlin College, Kirk kept at it, still calling on his technologically savvy son to help him iron out the technological aspects of his futuristic novel—a novel that tells the tale of a world in which capitalism and violence are allowed to thrive unchecked. Throughout the whole process, the father-son team kept saying to one another: This would make a really cool movie.
Clayton graduated with a B.A. in cinema studies in 2007. Kirk's book was published in 2009. And now that movie they always talked about is one shoot away from completion. This summer, Kirk will join his son in New York City to consult on the final scene of the short film The Feed, written by father and son, directed by Clayton, produced by Rik Cordero of Three/21 Films, and based on 2084. For more behind-the-scene videos of the short film, which will be submitted to film festivals this fall, visit The Feed on Vimeo.


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i story that is used for a song. like what you think about when you hear a certain song. i thought of a character i named marado. he's a deep emo vampire with a mind of hate 24/7. he wasnt always like this. its why an old friend of his lets him live in the spare bedroom of her house. but every sense the horrors occur and she starts to hate him, but still lets him stay. i was listening to the shaprest lives by my chemical romance during this time.
That's actually a good idea...I needed some ideas to inspire me about new characters...It's a good thing I have my CD player with me The Soul can be as hollow as Hell
kano. from the roleplay you guys have been seeing me post as yakuro's friend, i thought of him up while i was listening to comfortable liar by chevelle. and loki came from me listening to forfeit by chevelle. oh..crap dont listen to it though cause i might have gave the people who like listening to my roleplay an idea about them LAWL!!««∂σηt ℓєt tнє ƒα¢є ƒσσℓ уσυ.tιѕ ιт αℓℓ αη α¢t»»
Now that you mention it, I was creating Ayano when I was listening to The Wicked End by Aveneged Sevenfold...No wonder she seemed so dark...The Soul can be as hollow as Hell
another is listening to doukoku to sinru and red sil by dir en grey when my whole story was thought up. like a blast of idea.««∂σηt ℓєt tнє ƒα¢є ƒσσℓ уσυ.tιѕ ιт αℓℓ αη α¢t»»
Hmm, well, stuff like that really can inspire you. Right now, I'm listening to music to see if it can help me with new ideas.The Soul can be as hollow as Hell


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