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Broulim's Fresh Foods, Redner's Warehouse Markets, Harris Teeter and Tops Friendly Markets were named National Retail Beef Backer Award winners at the 2013 Cattle Industry Annual Convention in Tampa, Fla.
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if i don't steal this/break this/sex this guy before marriage jawsh'll smite me.
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The 5 Stupidest Ways People Try to Look Smart
#2. Reference Kafka
Brilliant literary scholars love to analyze Franz Kafka, but absolute poseur morons love to say his name out loud. All the time. Franz Kafka was a Czech writer who lived from 1883 to 1924. His most famous works are probably the short stories "The Metamorphosis," "A Hunger Artist" and "The Penal Colony," and the novel The Trial. Much like me, he was Jewish and thoroughly unimportant in his lifetime, but he became a wildly respected writer after his death. (Also, while working his day job at the Worker's Accident Insurance Institute for the Kingdom of Bohemia, allegedly he invented the hard hat.)
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"Thanks for mentioning my day job, Gladstone. Remind me to tell everyone in heaven you're a weekend manager for T.G.I. Friday's when you're not writing for Cracked."
So you can see, it's pretty clear that I'm one of those terrible people who try to seem smart by referencing Kafka. But here's the way to spot people who are really insufferable in Kafka terms: They'll drop his name or turn it into the adjective "Kafkaesque" without really having any understanding of the author.
At this point, Franz Kafka has become a spokesman for the merely strange or a champion of the common man's struggle against bureaucracy. And the people who believe that that's an accurate description of Kafka's writing are the same people who've probably never read a thing he's written. The Internet is not the place to gain a deep understanding of Franz Kafka, and I'm not quite obnoxious enough to think that I'm the one to teach it, but suffice it to say that Franz Kafka might be many things, but a man whose writing fits neatly into a simple description is not one of them.
Where most people focus on the darkness of his writing, supposedly Kafka would laugh out loud while reading his works to friends. (See? I told you he was just like me. He thought his own stuff was hilarious.) And far from being some champion of the common man against the abuse of authority, there are often no good guys in his work. If you can't be bothered to read, try to dig up Harold Pinter's adaptation of The Trial starring Kyle MacLachlan. You'll see that the protagonist, Josef K., is not just a victim of rumors from a cruel system, but also an arrogant, frightened man equally responsible (if not more so) for his suffering.
See? Doesn't it look funny?
So the next time you see a guy in a suit riding a unicycle down the street and someone says, "Dude. So Kafkaesque," just ask them if they think that Hunter Gracchus is meant to be a Christ figure, and, if not, what his true significance is. (Spoiler alert: If they answer with anything other than "I don't know," they're wrong.)
#1. Refuse to Argue
The world has no shortage of foolish loudmouths vomiting forth their opinions in desperate attempts to seem wise, but I don't need to tell you that. And I won't. Instead, I'd like to focus on a different bunch of game-playing imbeciles who are just as omnipresent, but somehow escape condemnation: people who refuse to argue. Sure, some people aren't worth arguing with, and some things aren't open to debate, but employing silence or a simple world-weary dismissive phrase to shut down conversations is also a trick used by the intellectually feeble who are attempting to look smart.
Most opinions that can't be debated aren't worth having. If beliefs don't stand up to cross-examination, all the raised eyebrows and silent eye rolling won't suddenly make them legitimate. Eighty percent of the people who will not engage in an argument or go toe-to-toe with dissenting voices are not wiser, more mature or more sophisticated. Most are just incapable of explaining their own beliefs. Outclassed in the marketplace of ideas, they hope that silent indifference will be mistaken for quiet reflection.
"In closing, my rebuttal is: this face."
And when they say, "Well, I'll debate with the people whose opinions matter," nine times out of ten all that means is "I'll debate with my closest friends, who likely already agree with me." Previously, I'd described a refusal to argue as a sign of arrogance, and it can surely be that, but just as often it's a mask worn by someone incapable of defending their views who would rather be mistaken for arrogant than exposed as simplistic.
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text: Stetson Notches Big Road Win at FAU 78-66 December 15, 2012 Senior guard Shanasa Sanders scored a game-high 18 points including 16 in the second half as the Stetson women's basketball team defeated Florida Atlantic 78-66 Saturday afternoon at the FAU Arena. Victoria McGowan scored 17 points and Jama Sharp added 16 points as the Hatters (5-4) picked up their first road win of the year. "We haven't won on the road all year, so it was a very good win," said Sanders, who also collected nine rebounds and played 36 minutes. "The first half I didn't contribute much to the team, and I know in order for us to win, we need players to step up. So I just tried to get rebounds and do whatever I could to help us get the win." Despite a strong offensive effort that saw the Hatters shoot 57 percent from three-point range and 86 percent from the free throw line (18-21), Stetson head coach Lynn Bria was quick to praise the defense after the game. "I was very proud of our defensive effort, that was probably our best defensive game of the year against a really good team," Bria said. "Cherisse (Burris) had the assignment of guarding their best player, a post player, and I thought she did a great job." After a seesaw first half that featured a nine lead changes, the Hatters used a late 8-0 run to grab 34-27 halftime lead. Stetson still led by 10 with 9:51 left when McGowan picked up her fourth foul, sending her to bench for the next six minutes. FAU's full court press forced the Hatters into some backcourt turnovers and allowed the Owls (5-5) to cut the lead to five. "They pressured us very well, and when Victoria went out the pressure got to us for a couple of possessions," Bria said. "But we were able to regroup and play really strong there at the end." Sanders scored nine points over a four minute stretch to help the Hatters maintain the lead, and three-point plays by McGowan and C.J. Coddington in the closing minutes help nail down the victory. "Both Jama and Shanasa really stepped up and carried us in the second half," Bria said. "I was also really proud of Simone (Taylor). She just grabs rebounds for us. She is just an energy player and always gives us a spark." Taylor, a native of nearby Delray Beach, finished with six points and a season-high nine rebounds while playing in front of a large group of friends and family. "My parents, my grandparents, old high school teammates, old coaches, they were all here," Taylor said. "It was exciting to play in front of them since many of them haven't seen me play college ball before." The Hatters shot 46 percent from the floor and outrebounded FAU 44-30. Chenise Miller led the Owls with 15 points and 11 rebounds. Stetson will host the 25th annual Hatter Classic next week at the Edmunds Center. The Hatters will face Georgia Southern at 1 p.m. Tuesday and UNC Asheville at 1 p.m. on Wednesday. Bethune-Cookman will also participate in the Classic. Video broadcasts for both Stetson games will be available for free on HatterVision, while live stats will be available for all four tournament games. Notes: The Hatters were wearing brand new black jerseys Saturday ... Stetson, which ranked 17th in the nation in free throw percentage, will likely see that improve after going 18-21 from the line (85.7 pct.) ... The Hatters also improved upon their conference-leading field goal and three-point field goal percentages ... Also playing in front of friends and family, C.J. Coddington from nearby Davie, Fla. scored seven points while making her second start of the season.Print Friendly Version More Headlines


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8 Stupid Arguments That Internet Debates Always Devolve Into
The Internet is full of debates about important subjects like abortion, censorship and religion, and even more important subjects like what is wrong with music these days and who is the most victimized group on earth, child soldiers or gamers.
All too often, these debates fail to stay on topic and degenerate into an argument about something completely different, which isn't surprising, but the weird thing is that there's a pretty short and predictable list of arguments that they devolve into. Some common ones:
#8. Who Has Less of a Life
Almost anyone who's spent any time on the Internet has seen this one. Some people are having an intelligent, productive discussion about which season officially marks the beginning of the Simpsons' decline, making their points thoughtfully with capital letters, a lot of swears and an occasional anti-homosexual slur. When ad-hominem attacks about the other person's weight fail to connect, one arguer goes to the good old standard "You don't have a life" argument, pointing out the time of night (or amount of time) that the other person is arguing about this stupid subject.
"I must not sleep until I have proven that Kirk is superior to Picard."
For example, "You've just wasted five hours trying to prove to me that The Simpsons is still funny," or "You're sitting here at 3:30 a.m. arguing about when The Simpsons jumped the shark." Then they conclude that the other person is a loser with "no life" and might add that they "feel sorry" for them.
Few human beings being talked to in such a way can resist pointing out the obvious -- the accuser himself is sitting here arguing at 3:30 a.m. as well, and has been doing so for the past five hours as well.
That puts the first person on the defensive, and he has to point out his time zone ("It's afternoon here!") and other mitigating factors ("I'm just killing time until my girlfriend finishes work and comes here for sex!") before reasserting that the other person is, in fact, the pathetic one, and insisting that he feels sorry for them.
"I must not sleep until I have proven that Avery Brooks is the most insane Star Trek captain."
Usually these start off as side arguments, a "by the way" postscript after each side makes a point about what is wrong/right with The Simpsons, but eventually they grow and consume each post until there's one perfunctory sentence about the actual debate before an essay explaining point by point how much of a life they have, followed by a short story about how the other person came to the tragic day-to-day life they lead in their parents' basement. On YouTube and Twitter and other limited-space media, it's a little less eloquent -- usually just a random, disjointed jumble of cliched phrases, like "parents' basement," "Cheetos," "fat loser," "ur just jealous," "FEEL SO SORRY FOR U" and the like, that is mashed together to resemble a telegraphed message from a concussed toddler.
A tragic epidemic that underscores the need for child helmet legislation.
These arguments usually go on a good while, because people who have something better to do generally prove it by doing it, preventing them from participating in these arguments. Everyone remaining to participate in arguing about who doesn't have a life is afraid to stop the argument because stillness often forces contemplation and they might have to face the obvious truth that any observer could see in 30 seconds, and nobody likes looking into the abyss.
#7. Who Is More Mature
This plays out pretty similarly, except instead of people trying to point out the other person's lack of sexual relations and financial independence, they point to their own maturity and ability to stay above it all. They use words like "disappointed" and "amused" to describe their reaction to the other person's arguments. "I could respond to your immature, petty insults in kind, but I'm not going to stoop to your level," they say, which is a good enough sentiment when you just act on it, but extremely douchey and ironic when you say it.
You sound like you look like this.
Not stooping to someone's level works best when you actually do it, not when you announce it. Announcing it is just arguing back in a more sneaky, indirect way. Deciding to be the mature person in an argument is great, but if at any time you give in to a compulsion to demonstrate that you have decided to be the more mature person, you have blown it. Whether by saying it straight out, or by describing your physical reactions ("Your comment made me smile mildly"), or by implying it by speaking in language you imagine a supervillain might use to describe his plans.
When people start talking in stilted language and using SAT words to hint that they are above the whole argument and are looking down at the petty bickering with nothing but disappointment or bemusement, it is pretty sad. It's like a little girl putting on her mother's clothes and smearing lipstick across her face and thinking she is indistinguishable from a grownup, only without the cuteness.
This sort of thing stops being cute around ... 13 or so.
It's bad enough when one person puts on the act, but when the second person starts going "I too find this farce an amusing diversion ..." the insufferability rating goes through the roof. The illogic of two people going back and forth saying that they are above petty squabbles and will therefore let the other person have the last word, again and again, for 50 or so replies, is enough to make the average person's head explode.
#6. Who Can't Be Objective
It might be pointing out the obvious to mention that a lot of these debates degenerate into "You're biased!"/"No, you're biased!" At that point, the actual debate is neatly wrapped up in mothballs and put away, never to be seen again, and the discussion becomes an examination of both sides' life stories.
It's a tear-jerker.
Which is fine, I love stories! But defying common sense, Person A's life story is told by Person B, and vice versa. "I know that you've had bad experiences with men in the past, and I think that's coloring your judgment. Every time you talk to a man, you probably see the men who did something bad to you, so you're misreading what they're saying." Or: "You mentioned earlier that you were eating Pringles, so I assume you're fat, which means you can't think straight about the soda-ban law, and that your objection is just a knee-jerk reaction, although I mean that figuratively, because you are so fat that the hammer can't get through to trigger your actual knee-jerk reflex."
I mean, sometimes a person is laughably biased, entering a discussion with a cut-and-paste propaganda post and shouting slogans in response to any questions. But sometimes people are just passionate on both sides of the issue, which is fine, because why bother to debate it otherwise? What's not fine is when people are so hung up on the bias issue that they stop talking about the subject completely and start arguing bias back and forth like they are trying to get the other person removed from the jury or something.
This lawyer has successfully removed three of the 12 jurors. I believe if you can remove them all, you win the trial.
It's not just for "serious" issues, but also arguments about movies, TV and video games, in which case the accusation takes the form of the word "fanboy." There you are, explaining logically why Final Fantasy sucks, when someone dismisses you as a "typical Xbox fanboy," and then it's on. Fanboyism accusations galore fly back and forth until you both collapse, short of breath, into your reinforced computer chairs.
As mentioned, there's definitely a line that can be crossed, but everybody involved in a debate has to have some minor emotional investment at least or they wouldn't care enough to talk about it. So anyone who wants to go on a "bias" hunt is going to find something, if they really want to. It just seems like a person should think about whether it's big enough of an issue to risk deep-sixing the entire conversation to talk about it.
If the subject is whether Final Fantasy sucks, for example, then why not. The tangent has got to be more interesting than the actual discussion would have been.
#5. Who Is "Bringing Politics into It"
It can seem tough to draw the line between when someone is raising awareness of an important issue that should matter to everybody and when someone is dragging politics into a discussion where it doesn't belong. But it's actually very easy. When someone is bringing up an issue that is important to you, they are doing a public service by raising awareness. When someone is bringing up an issue that disagrees with your views, they are "making things political." It's pretty simple.
Like most politicians! Ha ha!
As you can see, by this definition, two disagreeing folks can throw accusations back and forth of "turning this into a political issue," "grandstanding," "getting on a soapbox" or "being preachy" literally forever, or as long as they are alive anyway. They are making great advances in medical science these days, though, so who knows.
To give a more distant example, every time a celebrity picks up a cause, people who agree with the cause usually applaud the celebrity for "making a difference" and "taking a stand," and people who disagree with the cause complain about how society listens to celebrities too much these days and how actors/musicians should stay out of politics. The exception is Bono, who usually gets called a douche whether people agree with his current cause or not. I mean, nobody is for AIDS, but many still wish to punch the man in the mouth.
Maybe it's the glasses?
There's no problem with two people disagreeing about some political issue, but the problem with this side argument is that it's not even about the issue itself, but about whether bringing up the issue is considered "political." For example, people who have stopped arguing about whether gay marriage should be legal or illegal and are just arguing about what kind of talk about gay marriage is "political" and what kind isn't.
I think we're all human, and although we can try hard to overcome our instinct to think like this, nobody can shake it entirely. So fair enough, we're all going to secretly feel like the other person is grandstanding and soapboxing more than they really need to while we are being relevant and straightforward, and they might think the same about us. But as long as they're still arguing some actual facts and reasoning that you can try to disprove with other facts and reasoning, you might as well focus on that and not waste time deciding who is the biggest drama queen.


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Do you like the new mini-map integration with TomTom
AesirRising Mar 28, 2009 at 14:03 UTC - 0 likes
I like the concept, and I think a re-think of default options, some granularity around the Autoscan feature to define the scan scope will help usability.
For example: limited to the current zone, continent, and universe Limit to only recipes currently trainable versus all recipes for a given profession. Set which professions you wish to track, regardless of professions available to the current PC. Limit to just the current PC versus all characters on the realm.
For myself, I'd like the defaults to be: Current zone only, with WPs clearing on a zone change and repopulating with recipes available in the new zone. Current PC professions only (it would be too confusing to track recipes for all my PCs) Currently trainable recipes (I don't anticipate leveling to 80, then going looking for all my recipes. I'd rather train recipes as I level up and gain profession skills).
@todd0168: type /arl and look at the options menu. Uncheck the box for Autoscan.
todd0168 Mar 18, 2009 at 18:10 UTC - 0 likes
Ok, so if it's already in there to be able to shut off the auto waypoint feature, can you point me to where it is, because I cannot seem to find it and I really don't want to have to lag out every time I want to check my recipe list.
thunderkitten Mar 15, 2009 at 07:50 UTC - 0 likes
I'm not sure what happened but while I was checking, I somehow ended up with about 100 waypoints at once on minimap and the Crazy Arrow was acting like a bad case of seizure whenever I moved. I had to use clear all waypoints before I can actually see the minimap. I was also using Carbonite Lite as well so it may be addons conflict?
Also when you have mouse over scanned missing recipes, there's 2 tooltip windows that is kind of blocking the view. Can't those tooltip be moved to the side of scanned recipes window? So that I can actually see what recipe or npc I'm pointing at?
todd0168 Mar 13, 2009 at 21:50 UTC - 0 likes
So I'm a bit confused on this waypoint thing. I am using carbonite and when I scan for missing recipes my map gets flooded with location markers and ant trails and lags out my game. Is it possible to shut this part off yet or not? I just installed the latest version today.
Thanks. :D
trinitis Mar 07, 2009 at 01:35 UTC - 0 likes
I do use Tomtom, and I love this addition, but with one possible change?
I don't know if it's a setting I have in ARL or Tomtom, but as soon as I scan, it populates my map with dots. I'd rather have an option to do that as I desire, rather then having it automatic. Mayhaps a button that does the function?
BJRubino Mar 04, 2009 at 03:22 UTC - 0 likes
Good idea, the peoblem I was having is that TomTom would create a waypoint for every recipe I moused over. Not sure if this has been updated in the new releases.
chr1sr Feb 27, 2009 at 05:49 UTC - 0 likes
Cartographer also has it's own built-in waypoints module with minimap display and floating arrow.
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A Buffalo woman and two teenage girls were arrested Tuesday night, after a brief car chase following their apparent efforts to break into parked cars on Woodward Avenue, near West Oakwood Avenue, according to a Buffalo police report.
Tina Cotto, 31, of East Utica Street, and the two teens jumped into a car and tried to drive away after they were spotted by a patrol officer, police said. The teens tried unsuccessfully to flee on foot while Cotto initially told officers she had been a victim of a carjacking, according to the police report.
All three were charged with conspiracy, petit larceny and unlawfully fleeing police in a motor vehicle.
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Norine Hoch knew right away she would adopt the emaciated, shivering puppy that was near death when she rescued it from the parking lot of a veterinary clinic.
That is, if the animal would even survive the ordeal.
Hoch's wish came true Monday afternoon, when she walked out of the SPCA Serving Erie County with the female pit bull mix puppy and took her to her new home in Amherst.
"She will definitely be spoiled," Hoch said.
It was about month and a half after she and Breanna Horwood – both EMTs with Rural/Metro Medical Services – spotted the animal left out in freezing temperatures Nov. 28 and rushed it to the SPCA.
Initially named Metro, for the Rural/Metro ambulance crew that found her, the dog now has a new name. She will be called Abby – a name given to her by her new family.
Abby was skin and bones when Hoch and Horwood found her lying on the ground in the parking lot. She weighed only nine pounds. She could not hold up her head and was cold to the touch.
"Her lifeless little eyes were just yelling out for help. It was scary," Hoch said.
The SPCA staff had to work for hours before they could even get a temperature on her. "She actually had seizures. It was heartbreaking," said Ronnie Podolefsky, an SPCA board member who served as a foster parent to the dog.
"She's got spirit and heart to survive all that," Podolefsky said. "She tripled her weight. Put food in front of her, and she inhales it. ... She's a very smart little girl."
Podolefsky would send Hoch pictures of the puppy that reminded her of her other dog, Molly, a three-year-old pit bull.
Her 18-year-old daughter, Katelyn Pietrzyk, said the resemblance is striking.
"They could pass for twins," said Pietrzyk, who recently moved into her own place last month and took Molly with her.
But Pietrzyk promised to bring Molly back to her mother's home for play dates.
In addition, Rural/Metro made a $750 donation to the SPCA's Yelp for Help Fund, which assists injured or ill animals. Donations can be made at www.yourspca.org.
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Westminster had all the qualities Chase-Adam Fox wanted in a college—close to home, small class sizes and prestige. "I've always heard great things about Westminster," he says. In a class that rarely exceeds 20 students, Chase doesn't feel like just a number in the classroom. "Professors I had from two years ago are still calling me by my first name," he says.


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The crypto outbreak is growing and has now spread to Milwaukee, health officials said.
There are eight confirmed cases in the city, according to the Milwaukee Health Department. Three of the cases are linked to a crypto outbreak on the North Shore but the source of the other cases has not been determined, officials said.
The North Shore Health Department confirmed two more cases, bringing the total in Milwaukee County to 20. There is also one confirmed case in Ozaukee County.
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Tip 2: Distinguish CPU-Bound work from IO-bound work
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Async Tip #2: It's crucial to distinguish CPU-bound work (should be done on threadpool) from IO-bound work (which needn't).
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I wish I saw this video earlier. I was using TPL for IO bound work which lead to thread starvation. Nice video.
@Srini, we also saw this within Visual Studio itself. We wanted to write the new features of the product using async. But they still had to speak to the older synchronous components within VS. The result was that a lot of our async methods had to make blocking calls to those components.
Result: thread starvation, because we were using all available threads, and the TPL was only giving us one additional thread a second.
Fix: to fix this we've been systematically spreading the "async virus" throughout those components, making them all use async from top to bottom, so that we don't starve the threadpool.
Interesting video, but can you just clarify something? When he keeps mentioning the "thread pool", does that include threads that you kick off yourself by creating a new instance of System.Threading.Thread and then calling the Start method? I was always under the impression that threads created like that are nothing to do with the thread pool but perhaps I'm wrong and it just grabs a free thread from the thread pool anyway. At the moment if I want to run a load of tasks that need to wait for I/O then I would do a loop and create a new System.Threading.Thread instance for each iteration and start it - telling each of these threads to execute my method that starts the I/O request. So am I going to get any performance benefit out of using Await or would it already be starting each I/O request at the same time as it is?
Enjoyed the video ... you say not to use TPL for IO bound work which I understand mostly ... but if I'm awaiting Async framework methods that do IO bound work, are they internally using the threadpool for their work?
I guess I have a hard time comparing to my current pattern of starting a task with Task.Factory(() => downloadfile())...
downloadfile() that takes a while and at the end calls Dispatcher.Invoke() to finish up on the UI thread.
Clearly the syntax is much better with async/await and I'm all for it ... is that the only difference?
Thanks a lot!
I think I know the answer to my question now thanks to some of your other videos ...
I guess a lot of the framework async methods (like those on HttpClient for instance) don't do their work on threadpool threads per-se... or at least they don't block them ... it looks like the "IOCP" (IO completion thread) is what is always running that queues our code for continuation in the HttpClient case...
So yes I see now that using the built-in Async methods should be much faster than using the threadpool and blocking on synchronous methods myself.
I would assume most if not all of the framework provided async methods are similar to the HttpClient example in that they do not block a threadpool thread while running? This would be in line with the general guidance to NOT make an async method available if all it's going to do is block on a threadpool thread, since the framework users can do that as they desire... I'm sure the .net framework class designers follows that guideline (or if not have some other good reason)
Thanks again for all your great videos that explain these things ... I feel like async/await is dramatically changing the way I code for the better!
Great discussion here, Lucian. Thanks! I first did multi-threaded apps in assembly language back in the 80's (DOS), so I understand threading concepts. But I need to catch up on some of these new framework constructs.
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* Substitute teachers and clerical (all levels) — $100,000
* Elementary teaching positions (three) — $150,000
* Substitute teachers and clerical (all levels) — $100,000
* Elementary teaching positions (three) — $150,000
* Middle school teaching positions (six) — $300,000
* High school teaching positions (30) — $1,500,000
* Special education (all programs) — $700,000
* Private institution tuitions — $400,000
* Department of Teaching and Learning — $50,000
* Apple lease (computers) — $1,400,000
* Elementary librarians — $200,000
* Principal's assistant (one) — $70,000
* Elementary secretary (one) — $30,000
* Data Processing Department — $50,000
* Operations & Maintenance — $200,000
* Security — $150,000
Special education, high school teachers and technology could be cut the most under a spending plan proposed Monday by interim Springfield School Superintendent Bob Hill.
Hill recommended $5.3 million in cuts during a special bargaining session to cover an estimated $4.7 million budget shortfall next school year.
However, school board members said Monday they expect to have to slash even more because the $4.7 million figure does not factor in any raises for teachers or administrators. Those collective bargaining sessions are scheduled to start this spring.
"When we go into bargaining, we're not going to get a hard freeze," said school board member Scott McFarland. "We need to budget for that."
The biggest proposed cut that hasn't been talked about publicly so far is to special education. Hill suggested the board trim $700,000 from all the district's special education programs. What specifically will be cut will be determined through further analysis.
Hill said special education has been one of the fastest-growing areas in the district's budget the past seven years. The district will spend more than $20 million on special education this year compared to $14.3 million in fiscal 2008.
Hill said the district should re-examine its policies concerning individualized educational plans because too many plans were being granted, he believed.
"Every study we've done has come to that conclusion," Hill said.
Board members agreed Monday the spending on special education needs to be reviewed.
Mike Zimmers said the district has "shot itself in the foot" because a number of people enroll their children in Springfield public schools due to the quality of services.
"I think we need to look at the whole process," Zimmers said.
The largest cut in Hill's recommendations was the reduction of about 30 high school teachers at a savings of $1.5 million.
Board members already approved that reduction in December when they voted to eliminate a teacher collaboration period. The move will require teachers to be in front of students for six periods a day instead of five.
Technology would also take a big hit. Under Hill's proposal, the district would not renew its lease with Apple, freeing up $1.4 million. Board members floated the cut before Hill's arrival.
Three elementary and six middle school teaching positions could also be eliminated at a savings of $450,000. The recommendation was based on enrollment figures, Hill explained.
In addition, Hill recommended all four or five elementary school librarians be let go and that the district rely solely on volunteers, which would save $200,000. Currently, elementary librarians only make it to each school once per week, Hill noted.
Board member Judy Johnson said she was concerned about releasing the librarians.
"If we're not encouraging students to learn at the elementary level, we're setting them up for failure," she said.
Page 2 of 2 - A total of $150,000 could also be slashed from school security by eliminating guard positions under Hill's proposal.
Board members will continue to discuss the cuts over the next few months. Staff members should have say in what areas are trimmed in their individual budgets, Hill said.
Ultimately, he said, the district was put in this financial position after increasing spending between 2009-12 by 32 percent.
Hill's budget presentation included a seven-year look at the district's past spending and staffing levels.
"There was a one-third increase in spending over that four-year period," Hill said. "That explains where the fund balance went and why we're having this conversation tonight."
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When St. Moritz hosted the 1948 Winter Olympics the Alpine races were held on Corviglia. The men's downhill to Chantarella was regarded as being particularly difficult. Today's Olympic piste follows the original route to a large extent. Because the ski area has grown significantly since then, it is now located more on the edge. This has the advantage that it is much less crowded than the other slopes and skillful skiers can therefore take their swing turns without being disturbed.
Starting point: Corviglia (2486 m a.s.l.)
Starting point: Corviglia (2486 m a.s.l.)
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Destination: Chantarella (2005 m a.s.l.)
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59.59 in 4th place. How much does such a fall cost?
59.59 in 4th place. How much does such a fall cost?
It looked like Yuko was slightly ahead of Sasha in exiting the lift and he got slightly backward on his heel. The combination of the two just seemed to pull him down and she crashed on top of him. A freak accident to my eye.
Holy crap, and B/L fall at the end of the program!!
Another fall
Well, not funny if it costs them deductions?
OMG. Wow. Another fall. Far from B/L's best anyway. Their placement will be interesting.
hey whats up on the ice L fell @ the end
was the music over????
This is ridiculous. B/L both fell on their ending pose. Russian couples are doomed tonight. Come on V/T! Break the jinx!
Oh my goodness, Russians are jinxed today. So weird!
B/L's fall
I honestly haven't liked any of the Russian Pairs since the 90's; this generation is blah. And not just them, they're all soul-less, robots, automons.
Another Russian freak fall. At least they had finished their program. Similar to Sale/Pelltier's fall on ending pose.
1 Narumi TAKAHASHI / Mervin TRAN JPN 65.37
2 Caydee DENNEY / John COUGHLIN USA 62.48
3 Mary Beth MARLEY / Rockne BRUBAKER USA 59.62
4 Yuko KAVAGUTI / Alexander SMIRNOV RUS 59.59
5 Jessica DUBE / Sebastien WOLFE CAN 55.83
6 Vanessa JAMES / Morgan CIPRES FRA 50.51
7 Nicole DELLA MONICA / Matteo GUARISE ITA 49.07
8 Maylin HAUSCH / Daniel WENDE GER 48.48
9 Mari VARTMANN / Aaron VAN CLEAVE GER 47.91
10 Danielle MONTALBANO / Evgeni KRASNOPOLSKI ISR 44.69
11 Anais MORAND / Timothy LEEMANN SUI 44.59
12 Stacey KEMP / David KING GBR 39.33
13 Ji Hyang RI / Won Hyok THAE PRK 36.23
I would have B/L in front of K/S...I'm not sure by how much.
No penalty. Hmmm...
What's going on with the Russian teams, falling at the most unexpected places? Alexander SMIRNOV is sexy. He has Daisuke-like dancing quality.


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Anje Lockhart (left) and Rachael Lincoln of Bandaloop perform during the opening of the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas on December 1, 2012 in Dallas.
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Photoshop... LOL
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In getting a new driveway, it became obvious that the mailbox was clumsy, random, so uncivilized. This one made it 12+ years; the only mailbox I built that actually made it to the curb (unlike my AT-AT one that was too bulky and heavy). It was meant to resemble the Endor shield bunker, but after a week or so, the mailman refused to deliver mail because he had to open the doors to the side, not pulling it down. I had to nail a metal box to the top, and he had the nerve to put a note in the box saying "it looks great." Yeah.
From Star Wars Episode VII: the Broadway Edition... FN and the Amazing Technically-Poe's Dream Jacket.
Looks kind of like it could be used as a bird house. You could train pigeons to open the box and bring the mail to you. That could have been useful at my parents' house, as the mailbox was close to a 200 meter walk from the house.
From Star Wars Episode VII: the Broadway Edition... FN and the Amazing Technically-Poe's Dream Jacket.
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granda at the party dropped her toupe;i took a toupe on the front lawn; i stripped down to my toupe
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Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Hundreds of parents and students joined principals and teachers for a celebration of student artwork on June 13.
The Summer STEP (Special Talent Enrichment Program) finale for elementary and middle school students was held at Goose Creek High School. Families were able to see the artwork of their students, visual arts performances and music.
The summer program lasted eight days. Students learned visual art, photography, creative writing, drama, hand bells, orchestra, jazz improvisation, the evolution of Broadway, steel drums, guitar, puppetry, African drumming, dance, chorus and arts in film.
Visitors like Renee Pringle-Ellison of Cross were with their families. She was there with her daughter, Lakesha Pringle and her two sons, Talbert Mustapher, 14, and Tyrell Mustapher, 12.
Talbert drew a portrait of Will Smith and Tyrell drew a portrait of Berkeley County School District Employee Relations Specialist Willis Sanders. Students were asked to draw someone who inspired them. Tyrell drew Sanders, who was also present at the STEP finale.
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Durante la m‡s reciente edici—n del Auto Show de Nueva York, Carlos Ghosn, CEO de Nissan Co. Ltd., present— el totalmente nuevo Nissan GT-R 2017, el veh'culo sœper deportivo insignia de la marca.
NEW YORK (March 23, 2016) - The new 2017 Nissan GT-R, which features the most significant makeover to the iconic supercar since its launch in 2007, made its global debut today at the 2016 New York International Auto Show.
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American Idiot Gang Will Play Green Day Video "Rock Band" at Theatre District Pub Sept. 23
Cast members from Broadway's American Idiot will appear in a theatre-district watering hole following the Sept. 23 performance to revel in the Green Day Rock Band video experience.
The public is invited to join the cast of Green Day's new musical at the new Village Pourhouse (366 W. 46th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues) at 10 PM. A "night of rock 'n' roll and Rock Band" — and booze — is expected.
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More Fests and Foliage!
October 11, 2013 - Jim Price
More annual area fall festival events provide some of this weekend's live music highlights.
Bedford's Fall Foliage Festival continues with its final two days, each filled with some marquee performers. Saturday's entertainment highlights include Cleveland-based Journey tribute band Arrival on the downtown Gazebo stage, and Pittsburgh blues group Mahajibee Blues on the river stage. Sunday's music includes Pittsburgh jazz performers Cadillac Jazz with Donna Bailey on the Gazebo stage, and 60s hitmakers The Vogues on the river stage. Admission to Fall Foliage Festival is free; shuttle buses provide transportation to and from the festival from the Bedford County Fairgrounds and Old Bedford Village for a parking fee.
Main Street in Alexandria, Huntingdon County, comes to life on Saturday with the annual Hartslog Day, which will feature plentiful arts and crafts vendor, food stands, and live music. Performing at this year's Hartslog Day are scholastic musicians from Juniata Valley High School, annual favorite Anita Roseborough and friends, State College folk-rock favorites Biscuit Jam, Tyrone-based blues duo Raining Blue, and Christian-themed performers Strings of Faith and Scent of Water. Admission to Hartslog Day is free.
For a slightly longer roadtrip, Ligonier hosts its annual fall festival, Fort Ligonier Days, from Friday through Monday. Commemorating the Battle of Fort Ligonier, which happened on October 12, 1758; Ligonier Days features multiple arts and craft vendors, a food court centered around the downtown diamond, and live music.
And for an even longer roadtrip if you are a fancier of maximum fall foliage this weekend, Berkeley Springs, West Virginia (about a 2-hour drive from Altoona) features its annual Apple Butter Festival on Saturday and Sunday, with arts and crafts, food and live music both days.
Whether you prefer outdoor or indoor, support live music this weekend and upcoming week! And if you plan to celebrate heavily while doing so, please designate a driver or call a cab!
Here is a full listing for live music on area stages this weekend and the coming week:
Fort Ligonier Days Festival, Ligonier; featuring Full Kilt (1 p.m.), Sydney Hutchko and Blue Ridge Honey (3 p.m.) and Arrival – The Journey Tribute (5 p.m.)
Drew Dodson at Blue Knob Clubhouse, Blue Knob Ski Resort
Nashville Pussy, Jayke Orvis and Railroad City Murder Machines at Aldo's, Altoona
Ruff Tymes at Liberty Café, Nanty Glo (Coats for Kids benefit)
Swing-Nova at Mimi's Restaurant, Huntingdon (starts 8 p.m.)
Hartslog Day Festival, Alexandria; featuring Juniata Valley High School Band (10 a.m.), Strings of Faith (10:45 a.m.), Juniata Valley Select Chorus (11:30 a.m.), Anita Roseborough & Friends (12:30 p.m.), Biscuit Jam (1:30 p.m.), Scent of Water (2:30 p.m.), and Raining Blue (3:30 p.m.)
Bedford Fall Foliage Festival, Bedford:
Gazebo Stage: 10 a.m. – John and Jesse Topper, 12 noon – Southern Comfort Band, 2 p.m. – Dennie Huber, 3 p.m. – Arrival – The Journey Tribute
River Stage: 10 a.m., 12 noon – Richie Fields; 2 p.m., 4 p.m. – Mahajibee Blues
Strolling: Mythica, Junk Rock
Fort Ligonier Days Festival, Ligonier; featuring Acoustic Shadows of the Blue and Gray (2 p.m.), Michael Christopher (4 p.m.) and Beatlemania Magic (6:30 p.m.)
The Backyard Rockers at St. Bernardine's Monastery, Hollidaysburg (Care for Creation event, starts 5:30 p.m.)
Inside Out (Kyx members) at Family Pizza, Altoona
NailDriver and 10 Million Devils at Aldo's, Altoona
Born and the Beanstalk at Shaw's Bar, Altoona
R2B2 at Heidelberg Country Club, Altoona
White Shadow at Newburg Firehall, Altoona
PennSoulVania (hip-hop artists) at Pellegrine's, Altoona
7th Gear at Glenn's Place, Claysburg
One Brick Shy at Williamsburg American Legion, Williamsburg
Ganister at Castle Pub, Ebensburg
Driving Sideways at Davey's, Hastings
Punk Fiction at Mad Hatters, St. Boniface (starts 9:30 p.m.)
Bedford Fall Foliage Festival, Bedford:
Gazebo Stage: 12 noon – Cadillac Jazz with Donna Bailey, 2 p.m. – Dennie Huber, 3 p.m. – Black Horse
River Stage: 10 a.m., 12 noon – Matt Otis; 2 p.m., 4 p.m. – The Vogues
Strolling: Mythica, Junk Rock
Fort Ligonier Days Festival, Ligonier; featuring The House Band (western PA) (12:30 p.m.), River City Brass (3 p.m.)
Left for Dead at Pellegrine's, Altoona
Felix & the Hurricanes at Shaw's Bar, Altoona
Ty Ayers (acoustic) at 4D's Lounge, Altoona
Jack and the Country Gentlemen at Clair's Ashville Inn, Ashville (starts 6 p.m.)
Wertz & Pletcher at 4D's Lounge (upstairs), Altoona
Open Mic/Jam Night at Pellegrine's, Altoona (starts 9 p.m.)
Steve Summerhill at Jethro's, Altoona (starts 7 p.m.)
Felix & the Hurricanes at Belmar Hotel, Altoona
Phil Baskin at Thirsty Dawg Taverne, Patton
(More shows may be added to this list as information becomes available. Feel free to check back.)
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She came for a show, but left with a puppy!
While performing in West Palm Beach, Fla., with Dierks Bentley, Miranda Lambert made a pit stop at the Big Dog Ranch Rescue in nearby Wellington and failed to leave empty handed. Bentley posted a photo of the singer's adorable new pup on WhoSay Saturday, writing, "Look who adopted another dog! Hint: he is headed to Oklahoma..."
According to local news station WPTV, the singer, 29, visited the rescue after a young fan told her about their work in the area. She has named the pup Bellamy, in honor of the pop/country duo, The Bellamy Brothers.
Lambert's new addition joins the ever-expanding brood of dogs and fosters she cares for with husband Blake Shelton. On Saturday, she Tweeted a photo of herself standing on the steps of the rescue with its staff and her new pet.
"I visited Big Dog Ranch Rescue today in West Palm Beach," she wrote. "Amazing place & great people helping so many dogs in need!"
The Daily Treat: Miranda Lambert Adopts Another Aww-dorable Puppy
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50 Cent and Oprah Winfrey haven't always had an easy relationship, especially since the rapper accused the media mogul of catering to "old white women" in 2006. But the pair sat down to discuss their differences for the latest installment of Oprah's Next Chapter, where Winfrey went after the hip-hop star about a peculiar slight.
"Let me ask you, I heard you have a dog named Oprah," she says in the episode, airing Sunday at 9 p.m. on the OWN Network. "I consider that a compliment, whether you meant it to be one or not."
While 50 Cent at first deflects her inquiries, saying, "I was just looking for real cute names for pets," and admitting he also has a cat named Gayle, he later reveals the reasons behind naming his schnauzer after the star.
"At the time I was just looking at the situation and I saw I was developing negative feelings for someone who doesn't even know me," he says. "I gave it to the dog because I was excited about the dog."
Though his feelings have since changed for the talk show host, 50 Cent does acknowledge he's gotten into trouble for some of the comments he's made through dog Oprah's Twitter account.
"I say crazy stuff on Twitter," he says. "It made an impact because it was associated with me saying it to you."
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TAHOE/TRUCKEE, Calif. - Boarding For Breast Cancer's Eighth Annual Skate the Lake presented by Tahoe Longboards took place Saturday, Aug. 18 in North Lake Tahoe and was a great success. More than 85 participants pushed for prevention and collectively, more than $10K in net funds were raised.
Participants included Tahoe residents from near and friends from afar to encourage people to come together and show one way of living a healthy and active lifestyle. Some who joined in the fun were pushing in honor of loved ones who have battled breast cancer, and others participated because they believe in B4BC's mission of spreading the importance of early detection, plus active living as the best means of prevention. B4BC was proud to extend its support to the local survivor community through a $2,500 donation to the Gene Upshaw Memorial Tahoe Forest Cancer Center in Truckee.
A special thank you to all who fundraised including top fundraisers: 1. Randy Scheidt, Valley Springs, Calif.; 2. Arnie DePietro, Valley Springs, Calif.; and 3. Araseli Lopez, Sunnyvale, Calif.), as well as the following sponsors for their support: presenting sponsor Tahoe Longboards, GoPro, Sun Bum, Mamasake, New Belgium, Hartline Construction, Hurley, Paul Mitchell, Woodward Tahoe, Tahoe Dave's and The Alley.
To kick off Breast Cancer Prevention month, B4BC's second yearly longboard-a-thon, Skate the Coast, will took place in Southern California on Sept. 29 and will consist of an 18-mile course that will run from the Santa Monica Pier to the Redondo Beach Pier.
For more info about how you can get involved with B4BC's year-round fundraisers, events and educational programs, visit www.b4bc.org.


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The longtime season-ticket holders behind the Buffalo bench will undoubtedly do double- and triple-takes tonight in First Niagara Center. After 16 years of looking at Lindy Ruff and his designer ties, they'll see Ron Rolston and his Burberry glasses. It'll take some getting used to for everyone involved.
The Sabres learned that quickly during Rolston's coaching debut.
The forwards heard a new voice handing out assignments and sending them over the boards Thursday in Toronto. Though the transition from Ruff to Rolston went seamlessly — the Sabres weren't penalized for too many men and never missed a shift change — it was different.
"It's just awkward when you hear a different voice," Sabres captain Jason Pominville said. "Lindy's been a leader of this organization for 16 years, so he's been the guy that everyone's been used to hearing, whether it's on TV, in the media or in the locker room.
"It's nothing against Ron. It's just different. It's going to take a little time for everyone."
The problem for the Sabres is there's not much time left to salvage this season. They welcome the New York Islanders to town tonight as one of the NHL's worst teams, one that has lost three straight and eight of 11.
"Certainly coming into the situation that we're in now is a challenge," Rolston said Friday after practice in Northtown Center at Amherst. "It's something I'm looking forward to, and the team has been very responsive to date. That's our mind-set right now is making sure we're always keeping faith in what we're doing and we're staying positive in what we're doing."
Rolston has decided against any immediate, jarring changes on the bench. The interim boss has taken over the forward lines, a duty Ruff handled, while assistant coach James Patrick is still in command of the defense pairings.
"I thought we were pretty dialed in on the bench," Rolston said. "We were plugged in to what needed to be done. I liked our bench Thursday night. I liked what we were talking about all the time and what guys were focusing on, and it was the whole night that way."
Rolston's biggest decisions usually center around faceoffs. He needs to quickly analyze where the puck will be dropped, which center is better on that side and which line is appropriate for that zone, whether it's offensive or defensive.
"I'm still getting a feel, first game, for the team," Rolston said, "so there's a lot of things still that we can continue to iron out until you learn the players and what they can do and get more comfortable with that."
Rolston let the holdover assistants handle the video scouting of the Maple Leafs prior to the 3-1 loss because he wanted to focus on his new team. But with three days on the job, he planned to change that for today's game. He should have a feel for opponents based on his preparation.
"I've been watching video on the Sabres and NHL teams the whole year," said the former Amerks coach. "We have a server in Rochester that has all Buffalo's games in four different angles, so I continually watched all the other teams that come into town along with the Sabres. I try to stay up with that as much as possible with the trends and how teams are playing."
Folks who keep an eye on Rolston during the game will frequently observe him taking notes, which he writes on a card that's kept in the inside pocket of his suit coat. Occasionally, he'll choose to look down and briefly stop watching the action. When intermissions came in Toronto, he waited on the bench until all his players had departed before heading to the dressing room. Ruff was usually among the first down the hallway.
Another change came after the game. Ruff almost always addressed the team at the conclusion, and his theme would be repeated by players in postgame chats. Rolston does not make a summary speech, which will leave the players to sort out the win or loss in the immediate aftermath.
"I don't talk to them after a game," Rolston said. "I like to go and watch things and really get focused on what the message needs to be instead of just emotionally throwing something out there that's not really what you want to get across to the guys."
Rolston's message during his first full practice day was the team needs to be quicker in its decisions and stop making crucial mistakes.
"We have to play at a different pace right now," he said. "We don't put enough pressure on teams right now, just playing a little bit too slow.
"If you lined all the players up on the goal line across the league, it'd be a pretty close race from end to end, but a lot of teams play faster than other teams with puck movement and guys knowing what other guys are doing on the ice. We've got to make a concerted effort at doing that, just putting teams in pressure situations more than we do."
Rolston essentially lost his debut during the second period. The Sabres played a bad middle frame but nearly escaped with a 1-1 tie, then they made multiple mistakes to allow the Leafs to go end-to-end with only 1:56 remaining.
"When you're on the road like that, you want to be able to go into, for example, the third period 1-1," Rolston said. "What happens right now with our hockey team is we're the team that blinks first when you have a staredown. In other words, if the faceoff's in the zone and we make a mistake in execution, the next thing you know it's a 2-1 game going into the third.
"That's part of the reason why things aren't going the way we want them to go is because there's times in the game we execute for a long period of time, and then in this league if you have even a short span of a couple of shifts where you don't execute, that can be the difference in the game. A lot of times it's been the case here."
Andrej Sekera may return to the Sabres' lineup after missing three games with a charley horse, while fellow defenseman Jordan Leopold missed practice again with an upper-body injury. Goaltender Ryan Miller took the day off after a 33-save performance.
"Everyone here knows the value he has to the organization and our team," Rolston said. "Just more of a maintenance day for him to make sure he's in the right place."
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An underemployed, skateboarding party animal, Colby Buzzell traded a dead-end future for the army—and ended up as a machine gunner in Iraq. To make sense of the absurd and frightening events surrounding him, he started writing a blog about the war—and how it differed from the government's official version. But as his blog's popularity grew, Buzzell became the embedded reporter the Army couldn't control—despite its often hilarious efforts to do so.
The result is an extraordinary narrative, rich with unforgettable scenes: the Iraqi woman crying uncontrollably during a raid on her home; the soldier too afraid to fight; the troops chain-smoking in a guard tower and counting tracer rounds; the first, fierce firefight against the "men in black." Drawing comparisons to everything from Charles Bukowski to Catch-22, My War depicts a generation caught in a complicated and dangerous world—and marks the debut of a raw, remarkable new voice.


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SALEM - Brian Le Wayne Steiner, 10, of Butler Township, Salem, died on Friday afternoon on the family farm due to an accident.
Services will be held on Tuesday, 10 a.m. at the Greenford Christian Church with the Mt. Joy Ministry officiating. The burial will be in the Mt. Joy Church Cemetery, Leetonia.
A time of visitation will be held on Monday from 2-4 p.m. and 6-9 p.m. at the Mt. Joy Mennonite Church. (South of Washingtonville, where Washington Street and Chestnut Street Extension meet at the Leetonia Village limits.) 549 Chestnut Street Extension, Leetonia.
The Steiner Family would like to thank the neighbors and friends for their deeds of kindness and prayers.
To view the complete obituary, sign the guest book go to www.apgreenisenfh.com.
Brian was born on Nov. 29, 2001 in Orville, Ohio to David L. and Regina S. (Van Pelt) Steiner. He was in the fifth grade and a member of the Mt. Joy Mennonite Church in Leetonia.
In addition to her parents, he is survived by his siblings, Janice, Christina, Wesley, Linda and Bruce Steiner of the home; and grandparents Tilman and Wilma Steiner of Salem and Ivan Van Pelt of Columbiana.
He is preceded in death by his grandmother Mary (Good) Van Pelt and step-grandmother Eleanor (Hostetler) Van Pelt.
Arrangements by the Arbaugh-Pearce-Greenisen & Sons Funeral Home, Salem.


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Six gleaming pairs of brass doors to be unveiled today are replicas of the Main Street theater's original doors that first greeted the public back in 1926.
In the next several weeks, the words "Shea's Buffalo," in shades of gray, will be installed in porcelain tile to re-create what was seen in an old black-and-white photo of the theater discovered in the past year.
Meanwhile, restoration work continues on the former movie palace designed by leading theater architects Rapp & Rapp. About 60 percent of the restoration work on the underside of the balcony and 50 percent of the dome restoration were completed this summer.
The completion of the Main Street doors comes in time for the annual "Curtain Up!" celebration Friday and the opening of "Billy Elliott" on Sept. 25, marking the start of Shea's 25th season of presenting Broadway plays.
"Our mission continues to restore and maintain this national historic building for current and future generations to enjoy," Shea's President Anthoncy Conte said. "This is another milestone in our mission."
The theater also installed a replica of the "Wonder Theatre" sign in the theater's entrance in 2004.
The $600,000 doors project was made possible through funds from the New York State Dormitory Authority. The entrance doors on Pearl Street also are being replaced.
"We're just thrilled to be part of the renovation of Shea's," said David Dawson, a third-generation business owner whose Jamestown company, Dawson Metal and Dawson Doors, manufactured the doors. "It's such a beautiful landmark - kind of the heart and soul of Buffalo, I think."
Two other local companies were also involved. The decorative molding was done by Jamestown Bronze Works, and the glazing was done by South Buffalo Glazing.
Restoration consultant Doris Collins said she is excited to see the new doors and that new polishing materials will help keep them and the brass inner doors looking shiny for years to come.
"They are just going to glisten," Collins said.
Scaffolding set up this summer inside the ornate auditorium is scheduled to reappear next summer - only higher. Shea's plans to tackle its last remaining big project: plastering and painting the main ceiling, including the side walls and the proscenium arch, which frames the stage.
"My goal is to get 90 to 95 percent of the interior done by the beginning of next season," Collins said, with the rest completed in 2014.
As the 2012-13 theater season - which also includes "Jekyll & Hyde," "Priscilla: Queen of the Desert" and "The Book of Mormon" - gets under way, 12,751 season tickets have been sold so far, including 1,900 new season ticket-holders. That's slightly down from last year's 13,100, a theater record. But it still ensures Shea's reputation as one of the top one-week subscriber markets in the country.
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Durant Scores 45
Kevin Durant quickly recovered after Sunday's dismal effort, scoring 45 points (15-of-24 FGs, 14-of-15 FTs) in Monday's loss to the visiting Spurs. Durant is averaging 29.5 ppg this season and projects as a top-three MVP candidate. He added one 3-pointer, eight rebounds and three blocks but couldn't prevent OKC from falling into a tie with the San Antonio Spurs for sixth place in the West.


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TRUCKEE, Calif. — The Truckee Donner Railroad Society's rotary snow plow is about to become even more of a historic artifact.
Union Pacific is rebuilding its rotaries in a way that will change the appearance of the snow-removal machines. The change was prompted by the 2010-11 winter's heavy snows. More than 58 feet of snow fell on Donner Pass, making it one of the 10th snowiest winters since 1879.
The rotaries are the third line of defense in the railroads' war against these winter storms.
The first line of defense when snow covers the rails are the yellow, caboose-like flangers. A flanger is so named because a "flange" drops down between the tracks to clear snow from between the rails. When it begins to snow, these short trains run as fast as 35 mph between Truckee and Blue Canyon clearing the rails of snow. The first sign of trouble last winter was when a flanger was derailed by a heavy accumulation of snow.
The second line of defense are spreaders with large "wings" on the side of the units that spread the snow out from the rails. The blades normally keep the snow clear for some distance from the tracks. Most winters this is all that's required as the flangers and spreaders can keep the line sufficiently clear to provide for continued railroad operation.
Last winter, spreaders were running 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They were pushing snow as high as the cab of the spreader and still appeared to be losing the battle. When a flanger was caught in an avalanche west of Cisco, the Union Pacific had no choice but to bring the rotaries out.
Even then, it took more than a day to open the Union Pacific's main line over the Sierra. The rotaries hadn't been used since 1998 because snow levels during that period were such that the flanger/spreader combination was sufficient to keep the tracks clear.
After experiencing the heavy snows of 20 l0-20I l, Union Pacific decided it was time to upgrade the three Roseville rotaries. They are being sent back to the Relco locomotive rebuilding facility in Albia, Iowa. This will be the first major upgrade in more than 60 years.
The entire top section of the rotary will be replaced and new steam generators will be installed. The engineer's visibility will be improved by placing his position in the center of the cab. The center window is clearest because the rotary blows snow to either side. Lastly, the latest electronics will be added to allow the rotary to be controlled at low speeds.
Because new parts have not been available, rotary SPMW 207 became the source of spare parts for the other two rotaries. It will be the first of the three rotaries to be upgraded. Recently, large cranes in the Roseville yards lowered SPMW 207 on a special low-center flat car for rail transport back to the Iowa rebuilding facility.
— Submitted to email@example.com. Brendan Compton of BA Productions provided information about the rotary upgrades and railroad operations in the winter of 20l0-201 l.


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HOWLAND - Each year, students from various school districts use their creativity to come up with skits and displays to use as part of the Destination Imagination competition.
Many teams have already been meeting in preparation for local, state and national competitions.
Lorie Rhine and Tina Cook, who are both coaches for the Howland Middle School team of seventh- and eighth-graders, said students from kindergarten through high school can take part in DI.
The local regional competition will take place on March 16 with teams from Trumbull, Mahoning and Ashtabula counties.
Rhine said the competition involves problem solving, critical thinking, and teamwork to accomplish both a central challenge and instant challenge.
Taylor Cook, a team participant, said the instant challenge requires teams to either build something or act something out.
"You have five minutes to plan what you want to do or build your object and then there is two minutes to make a presentation," she said.
Nathan Nadler, a participant, said the challenge is to follow the directions but to put your own spin on the challenge. He said the judges look over what creativity was involved to solve the challenge.
Rhine said for the instant challenge the team does not know what the challenge will be, while for the central challenge the teams do know what to expect and can prepare several months in advance.
She said there are three ways to solve any challenge: performance-based with five minutes to develop a skit within certain parameters, building something, or a combination of performance and building.
Cindy Baer, tournament director for the local region, said the students learn to use what is available to them to complete the challenge.
"The students really have to think on their feet and come up with a solution using the materials,'' she said.
She said preparation for competitions begins in the fall. She said the first-place winners from the regional event in March go to the state tournament at Mount Vernon College in April. The first- and second-place winners there advance to global finals at the University of Tennessee in May.
Baer said while there are a lot of participants in upper elementary levels and middle schools for DI, there are fewer participants at the high school and college levels.
"It has become more difficult to find high school teams for our region,'' she said.


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Nokia CFO: Next Lumia to be a 'hero' phone
0. phoneArena 03 May 2013, 09:09 posted on
We can't wait to see the next Lumia flagship phone, which will probably be the Lumia 928, and it looks like the same goes for Nokia. Speaking to analysts after the company's Q1 earnings call, Nokia's Chief Financial Officer, Timo Ihamuotila, has hinted that there's definitely a reason for us to be looking forward to the next high-end Lumia...
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1. charming (Posts: 6; Member since: 28 Apr 2013)
but actual nokia you should choose android for better feature
4. chaoticrazor (Posts: 2347; Member since: 28 Aug 2012)
or you could stop whining and move on nokia =wp8 deal with it and there making ground with it
they are setting themselves apart from the swarm of android with nokia's specialities
choice is what we want and nokia are bringing more of it
44. tuminatr (Posts: 773; Member since: 23 Feb 2009)
I think they should make both windows phone and android
51. chaoticrazor (Posts: 2347; Member since: 28 Aug 2012)
but there not in the position to split there resources to another os...there doing whats best for the company which is focus on one os and become the main player
but whats really annoying is most that go on about android and nokia only say it out of fanboy blindness they just want android everything as they see it as perfect. and the fact half wouldn't put there money where there mouth is and actually buy it
57. HDShatter (Posts: 1021; Member since: 17 Jan 2013)
I don't know what the deal is with companies having to be 1 OS for phones, HTC for example makes both android and windows handsets.
59. chaoticrazor (Posts: 2347; Member since: 28 Aug 2012)
and look how there doing, not very well luckily for them they seem to be improving with the HTC one (great device)
nokia are focusing on one os to come back as major players in the mobile world and its working.....for a fanboys like yourself who loves to mouth off about how you have so much choice with android to then be begging and moaning for nokia to go android and even more to slate every other android device that isnt samsung your pretty one way and biased
your view is android is perfection and samsung are gods......we all know your this way we have seen your comments
61. HDShatter (Posts: 1021; Member since: 17 Jan 2013)
If you buy either Samsung or HTC your an idiot. Both the HTC One and S4 are terrible devices. Extremley disappointed in 2013 phones so far. I have had a Nexus 4 since launch and I see no reason to switch besides sharper displays.
67. Dastrix (unregistered)
Yeah, but look at where HTC is now. Android = Samsung, WP = Nokia.. So HTC really stands below Samsung and Nokia both ways, even though they do make great phones. That's why Nokia choosing WP only was the best option, like chaoticrazor best put it.
49. dan86 (Posts: 298; Member since: 17 Mar 2012)
WP sucks as pikachu!
5. tashreef (Posts: 476; Member since: 24 Nov 2012)
which better features you are talking about ?
Lag? LOL We don't need it...
14. Kurai (unregistered)
tell that to Jellybean . . . nitwit
31. jacobspeeds (Posts: 36; Member since: 26 Feb 2012)
f**k jellybean...android is so f**kin inefficient...they'll take ages to refine it...all their versions are like betas...and they're using all u fanf**kINGdroids to test their laggy bulls**t
16. TROLL (banned) (Posts: 4851; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
Surely if Androids feautres were given on Wp it would lag even more.
Android no longer lags after ics and jb has no lags with highend Android device!
We dont need an outdated device on Android by Nokia™
22. tashreef (Posts: 476; Member since: 24 Nov 2012)
everyone can't afford high end device ......
Look at the low end WP device .... much smoother than any High End Android device.....
42. chocolaking (Posts: 494; Member since: 22 May 2012)
I see a good come back of Nokia in the future.
63. HDShatter (Posts: 1021; Member since: 17 Jan 2013)
Thats because nothings running. Get a low end android 4.0 or higher device and run at minimal task and it will be smooth.
48. freebee269 (Posts: 539; Member since: 10 Aug 2012)
jelly bean has no lags huh? check out these threads talking about samsungs flagship on 4.2.2....lagging.
that's the first 6 threads in the general section for at&t gs4.
your trolling = denied.
55. sprockkets (Posts: 1611; Member since: 16 Jan 2012)
Apparently the culprit is the SG4, as one poster said, "Those phones are blazing, and honestly my old Note 2 was faster than this S4."
But two can play that stupid game:
Bottom line: Who gives a s**t?
69. freebee269 (Posts: 539; Member since: 10 Aug 2012)
The people buying the phones care, common sense should have answered that for you. But i guess i gave you too much credit. And i never said Windows phones don't lag. I was just showing the troll what he said is false. More reading comprehension please.
45. kozza3 (Posts: 697; Member since: 17 Oct 2012)
yea bro, my n4 lags so hard! its the best feature though!
72. JojoGo101 (Posts: 211; Member since: 17 Dec 2012)
Thats a lie Kozza, but I agree to a certain point, android stutters on some apps.
8. SIGPRO (Posts: 1435; Member since: 03 Oct 2012)
Damn people enough crying about why Nokia choose WP.
Android is not good enough, it lags and full of bugs.
WP is faster and snappier, glad Nokia did not chose Android!
Android is not the future!
23. Kurai (unregistered)
Android is not the future? 1.5 million Android devices are being activated per day . . . PER DAY . . . .and have you ever tried Jellybean? For f**k's sake stop comparing Android with WP8 . . .Android is Open source . . .everything can be fixed with custom ROMs . . .that's right CUSTOM ROMs . . .
26. tashreef (Posts: 476; Member since: 24 Nov 2012)
and in that 1.5 million Android owners, how many of many of them know to root their device.. or at least what does Rooting Means or what a CUSTOM ROM is?....
may be none of them....
33. Kurai (unregistered)
I just opposed his comment about android not being the future because it's a bulls**t opinion. . . i'm not saying that all android users can root their devices or install custom roms on them . . . what i'm trying to say is android is way more ahead than wp8 . . .and wp8 is still young and still have a lot to improve . .
41. Aeires (unregistered)
I fail to see any relevance in that. The average user doesn't know what root is and doesn't need to know. The average user is also what is making the massive portion of the daily sales.
12. xperiaDROID (banned) (Posts: 5629; Member since: 08 Mar 2013)
Even though I love Android, but I must say that Android always LAG!
Nokia made a smart choice to go with Windows Phone!
19. mafiaprinc3 (Posts: 530; Member since: 07 May 2012)
have you ever used a phone with jellybean?
android does require more memory and processing power because it's true multitasking like windows but with jelly bean it's all good.
25. xperiaDROID (banned) (Posts: 5629; Member since: 08 Mar 2013)
I'm using a Sony Xperia Z with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, even though the Xperia Z is running 1.5 GHz quad core with 2GB of RAM, it will still lag, for example when playing games like Asphalt 7.
39. CanYouSeeTheLight (Posts: 1116; Member since: 05 Jul 2012)
Sorry but Sony can't optimize their software, their high end devices only benchmark high, the user experience is laggy.
See the second point. Even my One X which was a 2012 flagship doesn't lag, Sony must be doing something wrong.
43. xperiaDROID (banned) (Posts: 5629; Member since: 08 Mar 2013)
Ok, Sony must be doing something wrong.
But what about my cousin's Galaxy S3, it lags too, I'm not kidding!
47. CanYouSeeTheLight (Posts: 1116; Member since: 05 Jul 2012)
Did he update to jellybean? If yes there is the reason, Samsung released a half baked update infested with bugs last year, he should try to update the phone to the latest build of jellybean Samsung made available.
50. xperiaDROID (banned) (Posts: 5629; Member since: 08 Mar 2013)
Yup, he updated his S3 to Jelly Bean but not the latest, he said that he will update to the latest build later, he's always busy.
13. TROLL (banned) (Posts: 4851; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
If it did it would use outdated midrange or last years Cpu and Gpu, so it would be like buying a highend Nokia device with midrange specs, but surely it will have the best camera™
36. RiseAgainst94 (Posts: 281; Member since: 03 Mar 2012)
I agree, Android does have better features and it is far more intuitive. Just compare how long it takes to change the Wifi,bluetooth, etc settings. Also, you cannot customize Windows Phone very much - 3 sized tiles, limited colors, and you have to select a theme instead of individually changing each tile? It's too restrictive and not intuitive enough yet.
Also, haven't the last 2 Nokia devices been "Hero" phones. We've been saying the same thing for years now.
This all coming from someone who has owned and used a Lumia 900 for the past 13 months.
40. Aeires (unregistered)
Wish they would do both Android and WP.
52. akki20892 (Posts: 3901; Member since: 04 Feb 2013)
just watch and see, in some year how Nokia and WP will........!!! right now they are fighting hard and they will success for sure.........!!!
53. Leo_MC (Posts: 1481; Member since: 02 Dec 2011)
Android phones are so bad that you want Nokia hardware to run Google's os?
56. TheBitterTruth (unregistered)
Go for HTC, Sony or Samsung and stop arguing.
64. HDShatter (Posts: 1021; Member since: 17 Jan 2013)
If you want a smooth phone get an intel powered one. It will fail at games but will be smooth and multitask like a champion.
70. MC1123 (Posts: 1255; Member since: 12 Nov 2012)
better features? lol android is just costumizable! nothing special! besides even though its already at version 4.2 its still laggy as hell!!
a REAL awesome OS is that its optimize even to run on an ancient technology yet it is modern! symbian can do what android can! nokia just need to rewrite symbian!!
Meego is way better option than symbian and WP! but heck nokia just ditch it!
2. Droid_X_Doug (Posts: 5993; Member since: 22 Dec 2010)
IDK. From everything that has leaked, the L928 seems like a warmed over L920. Almost like a L920S. I think the real 'hero' phone will be the one that includes the 41+ Mp PureView sensor. That one will most likely launch Fall, 2013 on AT&T.
3. juandante (Posts: 463; Member since: 23 Apr 2013)
Yes but the Microsoft's OS bug rises again…
6. Jcdz100 (Posts: 16; Member since: 14 Apr 2013)
Nokia is definitely capable of doing something great in camera department.. But it's not everything, they need to strengthen other aspects too... Love to see competition..
7. dangchitrung (Posts: 88; Member since: 04 Apr 2012)
Ladies and Gentlemen
Today, we Nokia are honored to bring you a product that crushes every Iphone and Galaxy badly, CALLED---- "HAMMER"...
No, seriously, it is a hammer.
11. dexter_jdr (Posts: 1163; Member since: 28 Jun 2012)
meh, still better than those two phones.
9. xperiaDROID (banned) (Posts: 5629; Member since: 08 Mar 2013)
Nokia will be the hero again! I'm waiting for your comeback Nokia!
Go Nokia Go! :)
21. TROLL (banned) (Posts: 4851; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
Please don't make me laugh my AO, nokia the hero....! More like a year or 2 behind that others. Surely a hero with those big heavy wide thick oversised phones, with hardly and apps and games. A hero in living nowhere™
28. xperiaDROID (banned) (Posts: 5629; Member since: 08 Mar 2013)
You think like that because you have small hands! :O
62. Emily1985 (Posts: 127; Member since: 08 Nov 2012)
You think like that because you have small brain! :0
xperiaDROID, sorry for copying.
65. HDShatter (Posts: 1021; Member since: 17 Jan 2013)
Lol all the downvotes on this guy because he speaks the truth that you tards can't take.
10. smallworld (Posts: 484; Member since: 13 Jul 2012)
Zero more like...
15. cornerofthemoon (Posts: 590; Member since: 20 Apr 2010)
If the leaked pics of the Lumia 928 are the real deal, then I don't see that being the hero. It's more Clark Kent than Superman.
29. lubba (Posts: 1313; Member since: 17 Jan 2011)
@charming... What feature are you talking about on Android that's better? I'm sorry but customer satisfaction rate regarding WP and Nokia is pretty darn good. And Nokia already have features missing in Android.
30. lubba (Posts: 1313; Member since: 17 Jan 2011)
Troll and his BS .02$ is back! Welcome Troll! So what BS you got for us today? Nokia this Nokia that?
34. XperiaPrince (Posts: 108; Member since: 25 Dec 2012)
WP is the future! THE KING IS BACK!!!
35. KParks23 (Posts: 618; Member since: 13 Oct 2010)
WTF is a HERO phone? Are they just making words up to put in front of the word phone well i want the next gen BOSS phone!
37. ryq24 (Posts: 722; Member since: 17 Oct 2011)
Nokia always make great phones but windows lack of apps is killing them! And also samsung's great marketing strategy is something nokia should really emulate!
54. Leo_MC (Posts: 1481; Member since: 02 Dec 2011)
The lack of apps in Android didn't killed it; quite the contrary: it became no 1 selling platform.
Why do you think WP can't do the same considering it's app store is growing faster than the play store did a few years ago?!
58. HDShatter (Posts: 1021; Member since: 17 Jan 2013)
It has much more to do than with apps, that is only one of the problems with it.