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Pending legislation could results in job loss in Salem
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As I watch the debate unfold regarding climate change legislation, I am amazed at the lack of understanding on behalf of our politicians with respect to the economic ramifications if such irresponsible legislation should become law. With one stroke of a pen, this pending legislation could wipe out my business and its 25 jobs right here in the Salem area.
We, along with our steel industry customers, cannot compete on an international basis when we are fundamentally disadvantaged with yet another tax that we will have to cover in our pricing. We are already struggling to compete on a global basis given our higher wage rates and benefits in this country compared to other nations such as India and China.
The House climate bill, known as Waxman-Markey, is a tax in disguise, nothing more, nothing less.
It will harm many small businesses and families like mine in the Northeast Ohio region. An implicit tax increase is not a favorable solution to climate change-neither is artificially driving up energy costs at the beginning of the high cost winter season.
Many families and businesses are struggling to make ends meet-tax hikes and higher costs are the last pill we need to swallow at this time. I call on Senators George Voinovich and Sherrod Brown to take this into account should a bill come before them in the Senate.
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Directed by Sam Mendes
Starring: Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Javier Bardem
Rated PG-13 for intense violent sequences throughout, some sexuality, language and smoking
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After decades of watching the invincible James Bond with his smug smile, speedy reflexes, endless weaponry and smooth sexuality, a new Bond has appeared. Call him the inevitable Bond — less amusing, emotionally savaged and with nothing to live for except the pursuit of death.
Skyfall strips away the old Bond's superior macho persona and reveals a different sort of man, older but not necessarily wiser, aging, a booze addict. And the inevitable end for any agent who does this as long as Bond? Someone who ends up dead.
Some may prefer the previous Bond. Perhaps it ties them to their own erotic fantasy life. The guy with the gun and the girl. The girl seduced by the dangerous hunk. While not completely devoid of these stereotypes, this version of Bond unveils the darkness behind his facade.
Skyfall picks up in Turkey, where Bond (Daniel Craig) is pursuing a thief who has stolen a hard drive containing all the names of agents who currently work for MI6. Someone is out to destroy the agency and plans to use these files as a death list.
While Bond fights with the thief on top of a moving train, his partner, MI6 agent Eve (Naomie Harris), has pursued them in an SUV in hopes of shooting the thief. As the train passes her, she has one last chance to take out the enemy. Unfortunately, Bond is in the way. M (Judi Dench), the head of MI6, orders her to take the shot anyway. Eve fires and hits Bond, who disappears over the side of the train and is presumed dead.
Weeks later, a huge explosion at MI6 headquarters in London reveals that a powerful enemy has infiltrated their offices and has a vendetta against M. Under fire from her government over the security breach, M needs to track down the infiltrator and avoid further political damage.
She needs someone ruthless for this assignment. Someone like . . . Bond. Yes, despite all appearances to the contrary, Bond proves he is very much alive by showing up at her house, bitter and cynical but ready for duty.
What is revealed in his pursuit of M's invisible enemy is that M herself has a long, ruthless history within the agency. That history has now come back to haunt her in the form of former MI6 agent Silva (Javier Bardem). In a daring cat-and-mouse game, Bond and Silva begin to hunt each other like two gladiators on the prowl.
Director Sam Mendes has done a yeoman's job of holding together a complex and lengthy script. Sometimes it feels weighted by its length, but overall he manages to hold the viewer's attention with his artistic visual touches and tight dialogue. There are no wasted words in this script, and what is uttered seems to have several layers of meaning.
Yes, there are a few typical Bond moments, even some small tributes to the 007 legacy. But the casual flings, the cutesy quips, even the high-tech weapons have been trimmed down to the bare essentials. This story is really about pursuit, survival and the urge to kill.
Skyfall is perhaps the most visually stunning and emotionally powerful of the Bond series, insightful because it explores the long-term effects of violence and how patriotism, betrayal and murder are often closely intertwined.
The film subtly explores Bond's psyche all the way back to his early childhood. The picture painted is of a man haunted by his past, cynical about his work, splintered by his loyalties. Bond still has a spark of light, especially when it comes to M, but that light is a barely glowing wick.
Skyfall is a telling prophecy about his future as 007. Cold eyes. Bone, muscle and reflex attached to a shrinking soul. A man turned machine turned killer. In short, he's the right man for the job.

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Ronald McDonald played ambassador Thursday at a program aimed at building bridges between Milwaukee teens and the police.
The McDonald's mascot hosted the kickoff of S.T.O.P., the Students Talking it Over with Police program. It aims to foster positive interactions with police.
"It's a great program because students can actually interact with police instead of feeling that the police is their enemy," St. Marcus eighth grader Unasia Vann said.
"It helps you to learn how to get along better with authority and get along better with people," St. Marcus eighth grader Brandon Raymond said.
Kids get ID cards to show police they are program participants. The ID card also gets them two-for-one McNuggets, an incentive to carry the card with them.


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The State Liquor Authority has charged the owners of the Depew bar where a Lancaster man was served even after he was falling-down drunk, then got into his vehicle, drove away and fatally struck a teenage bicyclist.
The state is charging the bar with serving a patron who was "visibly intoxicated." Possible penalties include a fine or revocation of the bar's liquor license.
The owners of the ForestView Restaurant have pleaded not guilty to the charge, a violation of the state's Alcohol Beverage Control law, and a hearing before an administrative law judge will be scheduled as soon as next month, according to the authority.
Surveillance video from inside the bar May 3 showed Michael C. Ettipio stumbling to the floor before getting back up and being served another drink.
Ettipio later pleaded guilty to first-degree vehicular manslaughter for driving drunk in the death of 14-year-old Bryce Buchholz. He was sentenced in September to 1 to 3 years in prison.
State Supreme Court Justice John L. Michalski, in handing down Ettipio's sentence, lamented that criminal charges couldn't be filed against the bar employees who continued to serve Ettipio and were "equally responsible" for Bryce's death.
An attorney said the Buchholz family was pleased with the SLA decision to go after the bar owners.
"We're happy to hear that the State Liquor Authority is doing what we had hoped would be done," said Christopher J. O'Brien, the attorney representing Bryce's parents in civil suits filed against the bar and Ettipio.
Authority documents list George A. Peppes as the licensee, but Donald G. Powell, the attorney representing ForestView on the ABC charge, said Peppes is just one member of the entity that holds the license, ForestView Restaurant LLC. Powell did not identity the other members of ForestView.
In a case separate from the Liquor Authority filing, William and Linda Buchholz are seeking $254 million in punitive and compensatory damages against the owners of ForestView and $6 million in damages against Ettipio, O'Brien told The News. They plan to put any award for punitive damages into a foundation in Bryce's name.
The lawyer representing ForestView in the civil suit declined to comment, while the lawyer representing Ettipio noted his client has taken responsibility for his actions.
"He's been contrite throughout this whole thing, and I certainly believe it's genuine," said Scott Orndoff, Ettipio's attorney.
Ettipio spent hours drinking with co-workers and friends at the ForestView Restaurant in the late afternoon of May 3, prosecutors said.
Video recorded inside and outside the bar showed Ettipio in an apparent drunken state, and prosecutor Bethany A. Solek pointed out at Ettipio's sentencing that he initially walked off in the wrong direction before his friends pointed him toward his SUV.
Ettipio smashed into Bryce as the teen rode his bicycle on Lake Avenue in Lancaster, killing him instantly. Authorities say Ettipio registered a 0.24 blood alcohol level – three times the legal limit for a driver.
An administrative law judge will preside at a hearing on the charge and present his or her findings to the authority's board, which will decide on any penalties, said William J. Crowley, an authority spokesman.
The bar's owners paid a $4,500 fine after they were charged in November 2010 with sale of alcohol to a minor, according to authority records.
The bar's owners pleaded not guilty to the charge Oct. 31. Powell declined to comment further.
William Buchholz declined to comment on the authority's action, but he said he and his ex-wife have sued the bar and Ettipio "to make a statement that this activity can't continue."
"Neither one is solely responsible, but together they both are," he said.
O'Brien, the Buchholzes' attorney, said his clients are seeking $250 million in punitive damages from ForestView and $4 million in compensatory damages, and $2 million in punitive damages and $4 million in compensatory damages from Ettipio.
O'Brien said he can't ask for the bar to be shut down but could still get some justice. "I have the ability to try to make sure that Bryce's death was not in vain," he said,
The attorney representing ForestView in the civil suit, Patrick Kenney, declined to comment on the suit, while Orndoff emphasized that Ettipio has "very limited assets" and deemed the amount of damages sought as "arbitrary."
William Buchholz said he and his ex-wife hope to use an award to establish scholarships in Bryce's name, perhaps, or to build more areas where children can play and ride bikes and skateboards.
The Buchholzes, with a group of community volunteers, have raised $110,000 toward a skate park in Lancaster and are working with local officials to select a location.
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Mother Nature must not know it's Spring because we could see some snow flakes Monday night and into Tuesday.
Monday should be fairly Spring-like as temperatures rise to a high of 66 degrees.
Rain will move in late in the day Monday, with rain showers expected by 5 p.m. Temperatures will then start to drop overnight.
We're expected to reach a low of 36 degrees tonight, and some of the rain showers could mix with snow showers overnight.
No accumulating snow is expected.
The rain/snow mix could continue through the morning Tuesday. It will be a very chilly day, with highs reaching only about 38 degrees.
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Ten years after his last album, David Bowie is back – and so is his swagger.
Forget the moody musings of "Where Are We Now?" – the reflective comeback single that he dropped, seemingly out of nowhere, on his Jan. 8 birthday. The Next Day – which, though not released until March 12, began streaming in its entirety on iTunes on Friday – represents much more of an emphatic, energetic return from the 66-year-old Rock and Roll Hall of Famer.
"We'll never be rid of these stars/ But I hope they live forever," sings Bowie, sounding like the immortal rock god he is over the glittering guitar-pop bounce of "The Stars (Are Out Tonight)."
It's one of many driving, guitar-charged tracks on The Next Day: You can just imagine Ziggy Stardust getting his groove on to the bouncy beat of "Dancing Out in Space," while "(You Will) Set the World on Fire" is a rocking, fist-pumping anthem for today's young Americans.
Elsewhere, "Dirty Boys" is a sleazy grinder that, with its saxed-up funkiness, harks back to his soulful periods like 1975's Young Americans. In another nod to Bowie's past, The Next Day was produced by Tony Visconti, who also worked on the star's Berlin Trilogy albums from 1977 to 1979.
On one of the standouts, the melodic, midtempo "I'd Rather Be High," the album takes a political turn with Bowie's anti-war message: "I'd rather be dead or out of my head/ Than training these guns on those men in the sand."
It's moments like these that make The Next Day a triumphant comeback from a much-missed icon.


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Those who depend on bus transit to get around Williamsport and Lycoming County can now ride on a bus that is powered by compressed natural gas.
"This is really awesome," said Carl Eiswerth, of Old Lycoming Township, a daily rider of River Valley Transit buses at the unveiling Friday afternoon of the first compressed natural gas bus in city history.
Eiswerth and others outside the terminal at Trade and Transit Centre near Pine Street noticed the bus didn't have smelly fumes.
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River Valley Transit unveiled the first compressed natural gas bus in city history on Friday.
"The bus emits pure water vapor," said John Kiehl, assistant general manager of River Valley Transit.
The event was considered monumental enough to hold a blue ribbon-cutting ceremony with a focus group affiliated with the design of a compressed natural gas fuel station under development at River Valley Transit garage, 1500 W. Third St.
"This is a momentous occasion," said William E. Nichols Jr., general manager of River Valley Transit, who added the $500,000 bus was paid for through a $400,000 grant from the federal Highway Transit Administration, a grant for $85,000 from the state Department of Transportation and $15,000 in city capital funds.
For Nichols, the bus and use of the alternative source of fuel, ideally will supplant diesel and is a historical marker in the evolution of local transportation and use of alternative fuel sources.
"In 1865 the trolleys started, and buses in 1933," he said. "Today is the first compressed natural gas bus for River Valley Transit and use of alternative fuels."
Nichols said he anticipated River Valley Transit will save $500,000 a year in fuel cost annually by using the buses. "It is about 50 cents per gallon versus about $3.50 per gallon for diesel fuel," he said.
On the trip from the California factory, the bus had to get fuel at Illinois before arriving in Pennsylvania.
"That gives you an idea of how far it can run without fueling up," Nichols said. He expected the bus
to run for two days on trips in the county before requiring the tanks to be replenished with fuel.
In October, a first phase of the River Valley Transit compressed natural gas fueling facility was completed with installation of a slow-fill option in advance of the design and construction of the speedier fill fueling station. Slow-fill takes about eight hours, and the quick-fill is as one would fill up at the gas fuel pumps, Nichols said.
Lycoming County Commissioner Jeff Wheeland sent a text message to Patrick Henderson, Gov. Tom Corbett's energy executive about the bus.
"That's awesome," Henderson text back.
Lt. Gov. Jim Cawley also was on Wheeland's speed-dial.
Mayor Gabriel J. Campana, who rode the bus with three of his daughters, said it is an example of the stakeholders' commitment to continue to make the city the energy capital of the state and to set a model for third-class cities that are trying to save costs on fuel and protect the environment by burning less carbon emissions.
Andy Rohrer, a marketing representative with UGI, a natural gas provider, said there is no way to determine if the gas used in the bus comes from wells drilled in the Marcellus Shale. However, Rohrer said, there is a Transcontinental (Transcon) gas line running through the county that is tapped into.
Dominick Bragalone, selected as River Valley Transit bus driver of the year, manned the wheel.
"He's the best driver, really friendly," Eiswerth said of Bragalone. "Everytime I ride with him he makes people smile and he makes them feel safe, following the speed limits and helping elderly at the bus stops," Eiswerth said.
Bragaolone, a bus driver since 2001, said he has noticed ridership increasing over the years as fuel costs continue to trend upward, not dropping below $3 per gallon. "You can see more people keeping their cars at home," he said.
Bob Schurer, a mechanic at the company since 1986 who was chosen River Valley Transit mechanic of the year, said the technology involved in keeping the buses running will require additional training and be a learning curve for himself and the other mechanics.
It's going to take some transitioning, Nichols acknowledged of the technology and the glitches that come with something new. The bus is the first of four the city is ordering for a growing fleet, he said.
On the inaugural ride, most of those seated said the noticed the smoothness of the bus. Four tanks fixed on the top of the bus hold a combined 300 gallons of the gas. The fast-fill and slower-fill fuel tank acess areas are beneath a panel on the side toward the rear of the bus.
The snazzy colored bus with green trip and words plugging the use of cleaner burning fuel is equipped with the chair lifts to assist riders such as Lewis Finzel, of Catherine Street, who uses a wheelchair.
He didn't ride the bus with the dignitaries, but Finzel smiled as Bragalone lowered the lift so he could easily board the bus before the start of the tour.
Finzel seemed to consider the day to be worthy of wanted have his picture taken near the bus.


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Percussion EnsembleAll percussion majors gain experience by performing in the Duquesne University Percussion Ensemble, directed by Eliseo Rael.11/12/2013Time: 7:30 pmLocation: Pappert Center, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PAwebsite
Jim Cunningham - On the Road with the Pittsburgh SymphonyThe Fox Chapel Branch of the American Association of University Women presents Classical QED 89.3's Jim Cunningham's "On the Road with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra: European Festivals Tour 2013," a multimedia behind-the-scenes look at the PSO's travels to spectacular venues.11/12/2013Time: 9:30 amLocation: Fox Chapel Presbyterian Church
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Ann Hampton Callaway presents The Streisand Songbooksinger-songwriter and Tony Award-nominee Ann Hampton Callaway performs The Streisand Songbook, featuring timeless classics from Streisand's extraordinary career. Callaway crafts a loving musical portrait of the legendary performer, while putting a unique pop/jazz spin on unforgettable songs from Streisand's Broadway years to her film and pop album works. PSO Assistant Conductor Fawzi Haimor will conduct.11/14/2013 - 11/17/201311/14 - 7:30 pm11/15 - 8:00 pm11/16 - 8:00 pm11/17 - 2:30 pmHeinz Hall, 601 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
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Am I the only one that respects Gary Bettman?
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The NHL commissioner is looking to define his league -- and his legacy
GARY BETTMAN IS IN A GOOD MOOD. Two days earlier, an independent arbitrator upheld the league's rejection of the Devils' first attempt to sign Ilya Kovalchuk. The decision backed Bettman's belief that the 17-year, $102 million deal was just a blatant end run around the NHL's salary cap. It was the latest validation of Bettman's stature as the most dominating commissioner in pro sports. Even the August sun, pouring through a wall of windows into Bettman's Manhattan office, seems to shine for him. He's relaxed, even cheery, in pleasant contrast to his reputation as a pugnacious and humorless know-it-all who looks as if he were born in a dark suit. At the moment, he's even in shirtsleeves -- blue tie knotted at his throat, but shirtsleeves nonetheless. "Whatever you want, we're happy to help," he says.
"In that case," I say, "I'd like a franchise."
He grins: "Do you have an American Express card with a pretty big limit?"
Soon enough we're digging into serious issues: the Kovalchuk deal, off-season drug testing and NHL participation in the Olympics -- all issues that will shape pro hockey in the coming years. Bettman handles even the most contentious subjects with aplomb. But something has him uneasy. Without warning, he blurts, "I assume when I'm being funny and cute, we're not going to intersperse it into the article."
Any hint of a smile is gone. "Do it in context," he says, more order than request.
Summer sun or not, Gary Bettman's office is suddenly as chilly as Calgary in January.
KENESAW MOUNTAIN Landis saved baseball's soul by excommunicating the Black Sox. Pete Rozelle created an NFL juggernaut with a savvy merger and socialist distribution of TV revenue. But no major sport commissioner has had more far-reaching impact in his world than Bettman, who has influenced everything from the location of franchises to the size of goalie pads. The NHL is Gary's league; Sid and Ovi just play in it.
In his 18-year reign, the NHL has gone from a league hemorrhaging $200 million a year to one that just produced record (estimated) profits of $180 million. On ice, the clutching and grabbing that numbed offenses last decade has given way to thrilling open-ice rushes. "He's the best thing that could've happened to the NHL, because he's always known what needed to be done," says Dave Checketts, managing owner of the Blues.
Change, though, has come at a cost -- most traumatically, the 2004-05 season that Bettman sacrificed to win the hard salary cap he insisted was necessary for league survival. And still, payroll-cost certainty hasn't kept several owners from struggling. The Coyotes became a $170 million ward of the league, and other warm-weather clubs are barely above water, giving rise to the biggest wave of criticism about Bettman's reign -- his focus on southern expansion.
This was probably why Bettman had second thoughts about his charge-a-franchise quip. He is a fierce protector of the brand. And god help the naysayer who suggests that even the toughest problems won't be solved. "He's the last guy you want to fight," Checketts says. "He doesn't give up, doesn't give in, doesn't bend. When he decides, it's over. He will win."
His ruthlessness has Bettman both respected and despised. In Canada, fan and media vitriol is so nasty you'd think the man had torched every Tim Hortons from Halifax to Whitehorse. Players and GMs, fearing reprisals, refuse to talk publicly against him. Even Boston's Jeremy Jacobs, one of the NHL's most powerful owners, worries that an innocuous quote for this story about adjusting the collective bargaining agreement will get him fined. Don Meehan, one of hockey's shrewdest agents, can't get off the phone with me fast enough: "I'm not going there," he says at the first mention of the commissioner's name.
Simple fear isn't all that makes players and agents go silent: Donald Fehr has told them to shut up too. The most powerful man in baseball for two decades as head of the MLB players' union, Fehr is a fierce negotiator who once won a $280 million payout when he proved that MLB owners were colluding. After retiring in 2009, he became an unpaid consultant to the chronically chaotic NHLPA; he's now the presumptive choice to be the union's next executive director, a hiring expected to be finalized by a vote later this fall. (Calls to Fehr, 62, went unreturned.) For the first time since former union boss Bob Goodenow lost his throwdown with Bettman six years ago, NHL players have someone who might just be able to muscle the commish.
Over the next 18 months, Bettman will try to make himself stronger by shoring up struggling franchises, bolstering league finances, securing a more lucrative TV deal and, most important, sealing loopholes in the CBA. Bettman says the media overhyped the Kovalchuk contract battle, even though he spent the summer engaged in the talks. The NHL approved a slightly shorter and smaller deal on Sept. 4, but New Jersey was fined $3 million and lost two draft picks. More to the point, Bettman got the NHLPA to limit such deals going forward. The commissioner, never complacent, feels an extra urgency to secure labor peace. "I would prefer a constructive, strong relationship with a players' association that can work with us," he says, countering a pervasive feeling that he's trying to put the union out of business. "There's a lot of people saying we already did that," he says a bit too enthusiastically. Bettman seems to realize his overzealousness because he quickly adds, "That's not the goal." He saw the new union regime looming long before Fehr showed at the World Hockey Summit in Toronto in August. And he has been in charge too long to be scared. But it has been forever since Gary Bettman wasn't the undisputed smartest person in the room.
He was small and felt like an outcast as an only child growing up in Queens, N.Y. His father, who owned a nut business, left home when Gary was 5; he died eight years later. "I don't think I'm overstating things," Bettman says haltingly. "I may have been the only kid in the '50s living in a single-parent household." He pauses. "It was different."
What he lacked in size or social confidence Bettman made up for in smarts. And while that made him more of an outsider, it also gave him a means to control his world. Today, he eagerly argues the most controversial issues facing the NHL but gets prickly over innocent biographical questions -- like what he dreamed of growing up to be. "I'm 58 years old," Bettman snaps. "I'm not exactly in touch with what my feelings were 46 years ago. I'd need a couple of hours of therapy to start thinking about that stuff."
For the record, he claims no memory of ever wanting to be anything other than a lawyer. He went to Cornell's school of industrial and labor relations, mostly for its prelaw curriculum, then got a law degree at New York University. Hired by a Manhattan law firm whose clients included the NBA, his talents were soon recognized by then-executive vice president David Stern, who hired him away in 1981. Bettman eventually rose from in-house lawyer to the league's No. 3 executive, charged with implementing its salary cap. The NHL came calling in 1992, making Bettman the first non-hockey lifer to run its ship.
He wasn't born into the game, but Bettman seems genetically suited to command a sport. "Our mother had enormous brain power," says Jeffrey Pollack, Bettman's half-brother and 13 years his junior. "Gary is a kinetic intellectual force. Some of that came from her." Pollack says his own career was inspired by Bettman's: He founded Sports Business Daily before spending four years as commissioner of the World Series of Poker. Today, he heads the Professional Bull Riders league. Pollack knows how it feels to walk into a foreign culture as its boss. "Gary is a superior intellect, and some people take that as pugnacious," he says. "When I'm with him at an NHL arena and he gets booed, I cheer loudly. Gary laughs it off, but it's painful."
The boos are one side effect of forcing many wrenching changes on the NHL. Six new teams -- Florida, Anaheim, Nashville, Atlanta, Minnesota and Columbus -- sprung to life during Bettman's first eight years on the job. Three others migrated south, pushing the NHL's center of gravity from its roots. But the current state of warm-weather teams has sparked some second-guessing, even within the NHL's Board of Governors (albeit anonymously). "I think selling ice to the Sun Belt, driving hockey into markets that didn't want it, may be Gary's one mistake," one owner says.
The commissioner disagrees: "The idea that I hate Canada is obviously absurd. Calgary and Edmonton wouldn't have survived if not for the things I did to save those franchises. Having teams in big U.S. markets gave us a footprint competitive with what other leagues have. Those markets make us more attractive, long-term, to television and national sponsors."
Another key to Bettman's recovery plan -- tamping down player salaries -- nearly killed the patient. Shuttering a major league for a year was an unprecedented gamble, one which won him a hard cap but also led to an untimely end to a valuable TV deal with ESPN. The NHL has since been shown on Versus, the young cable network owned by Comcast, which also owns the Flyers. That deal expires next summer and the league expects competitive negotiations, with ESPN among those at the table. How successful the league is at securing more money and exposure will largely answer the question of whether hockey has truly recovered from the lockout. Bettman says some evidence is already in. "Our cable ratings, nationally, in the first two rounds of the playoffs were the highest they've been since they started recording these things," he says. "On a network that isn't in as many homes."
Those ratings reflect a more dramatic and clean game, mitigating gripes from traditionalists still rankled by postlockout innovations like tie-breaking shootouts. Bettman credits execs Colin Campbell, a former Rangers coach, and Brendan Shanahan, an ex-player, for authoring most of the rules changes. But that isn't to suggest he isn't heavily involved in every decision.
HE PRACTICALLY BURSTS with delight. "Oh, I know the question that's coming!" Seven words into hearing a sentence, Bettman, like a game show contestant pounding the buzzer, jumps in. He's slightly off in anticipating the subject, but it's his overeager reaction that is most telling. He isn't just the smartest guy in most rooms; he can't resist making sure everyone is clear on that fact. When Bettman is excited, he springs up in his chair, military straight. "Go ahead!" he says. "It's the fighting question!"
No actually, it's the head-shot question. Last season, the NHL confronted an epidemic of concussions by rewriting the rules to draw distinctions between east-west headshots and full-on noggin-poundings. So why can't a civilized-if-violent sport -- Bettman interrupts me to substitute "physical" for "violent" -- ban headshots entirely?
"No, no, no!" he shouts. "It's not about hitting people in the head. We obviously don't want players hit in the head." Bettman then begins a disquisition about the tiptoe between letting players play and keeping them from killing each other. His reasoning is impressive. What gets him stoked, though, are illustrative examples. "So if I take my elbow and I hit you in the head," he says, leaning forward, words pouring faster, "or I take my stick and I hit you in the head or I take my fist and I hit you in the head & " The father of three and doting grandfather looks as if he'd like to drop the gloves right now, or at least unclasp his French cuffs.
The biggest fight Bettman has won to date, the salary cap, still feels like a split decision. And it is largely what's drawn Fehr into the players' corner for the rematch. Sure, the cap saved franchises on both sides of the border, but it has also fueled a dizzying turnover in talent that frays the team-fan bond Bettman claims to prize. The Blackhawks won the Cup in June; by August the cap had forced them to jettison one third of their roster.
"Since the lockout, guys have played for three, four, five teams," says Ian Pulver, an agent and former NHLPA executive. "The game is better and more exciting, and the players like that. But it's a lot different to be a player now. Everyone points to an increase in the average salary, but careers are cut short as younger players replace older, more expensive ones. Pack your bags, unpack, pack your bags."
Bettman shrugs when he hears this critique. "The relationship with fans is about whether you're winning," he says. "Chicago decided what it was going to do this past season to try to win the Cup. I think they knew going in this wasn't a team they could sustain for the long haul."
He brings the same lack of sentiment to the debate over whether to pause the 2014 season so players can participate in the Olympics in Sochi, Russia. "The players who represented their countries in Vancouver, they didn't get compensated, and they risked their careers," he says. "I think the total of their contracts exceeded $2 billion. And yet the IOC wouldn't even allow the NHL Network to cover my press conference!"
His detached stance is entirely rational, but it also gives the commissioner another chip when collective bargaining comes around next year. Still, how will he tell Alex Ovechkin that he can't represent his homeland in his homeland, especially when Ted Leonsis, the Capitals owner, says he'll allow his star to play regardless?
"Have you ever been to Sochi?" Bettman says with contempt. "Maybe you should go."
So much for the charm offensive.
Then again, Bettman isn't much interested in winning hearts, not when he believes his sport can do it for him. And, anyway, it is the looming battle with Fehr that will most likely determine his legacy. Bettman says, and has shown often, that he's not one to back down. But he claims not to be spoiling for anything other than a league that works for both sides. "I'm not a fan of the fight for the sake of the fight," the commissioner says, settling placidly back into his chair.
Maybe the Kovalchuk wrangling, which ended with both the league and the union able to claim victory, was the beginning of something radical: hockey's combative commissioner figuring out how to wage peace. Or maybe that's just what he wants the other guys in the room to think.
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Posted 22 September 2010 - 01:05 PM
Well, now that we got that out of the way.
yes, you are
I will move along then.
Posted 22 September 2010 - 01:18 PM
Posted 22 September 2010 - 01:44 PM
I'm just glad he's not driving the sport into the ground like Stern is with the NBA. What a joke of a league that's become.
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Posted 22 September 2010 - 01:45 PM
Well, now that we got that out of the way.
I will move along then.
well i think you were asking for it with that title
Posted 22 September 2010 - 01:48 PM
The NHL commissioner is looking to define his league -- and his legacy
I would think that he would have already defined his "legacy" in the almost eighteen years he's held the position; he shouldn't be thinking of doing it on the downward side of his tenure. To me, any actions now seem to be made in an attempt to please the majority of those who hired him. So, I offer this.
"Mess up tomorrow, don't mess up now".
- Harry James Benson, CBE.
Posted 22 September 2010 - 02:18 PM
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HankthaTank - Squirrels, they hate to be thrown. / Why is the magical unicorn named Brian... Jedi - I just downloaded the "kids" book, "Go the F--k to Sleep" as narrated by Samuel L. Jackson on my kindle. I am now ready to be a daddy. / *Checks Router* No, I'm positive I didn't hit the "Wings Defense Sucks" button. Electrophile - I'm just glad the Wings were able to win despite the Curse of Brian. ACallToArms - I think Trey needs to put something about payroll tax and deferred income in his sig... Edicius - I'd rather [have] a soundbite of me saying "I like (man sausage)" rather than "I like Crosby".
Posted 22 September 2010 - 02:25 PM
No, you probably aren't. Personally I have neither respect nor disdain for the guy since he is only one member of a very large organization.
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Posted 22 September 2010 - 02:40 PM
I think 18 years is absurdly long for someone to be in office, seems more like a dictatorship. I'm hearing praise for him in this thread for things he didn't even do, but simply occurred during the time of his reign.
IMO, his priorities with this league are completely backwards, with quality of gameplay and officiating being much lower on his itinerary than expansion and pleasing the owners, GMs and trustees who will agree to keep him in office as long as they keep getting paid, despite the fact that several franchises are obviously losing money. Not to mention some of the egregious decisions he approved during the NHLs expansion days.
I'm no conspiracy theorist. He doesn't fix games, he isn't corrupt, or working for the pens. He's just self-serving. Sure, there have been things he didn't screw up, but I do not believe that he is the only person in the world who can run this league, and there is a LOT of room for improvement.
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"Mess up tomorrow, don't mess up now".
- Harry James Benson, CBE.
Posted 22 September 2010 - 03:11 PM
He's done a good job you say? Give me a break. A team can dominate for 2 periods and come the 3rd get charged with ridicules penalties and lose the game. Whats the matter with you guys...
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Posted 22 September 2010 - 03:14 PM
Bettman is the reason the NHL is not on ESPN right now.
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Posted 22 September 2010 - 03:15 PM
I'm interested to know how big of a crowd the Duck's are drawing these days. How about the Stars? I honestly don't know how loyal their fan bases are, but I'd bet they aren't as loyal as a lot of the northern teams in the traditional hockey markets.
And don't get me started on the NBC shenanigans..... oh boy.
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Posted 22 September 2010 - 03:32 PM
I suppose a commissioner is not allowed to look at the problems in a league and make changes to it in response? At least some credit has to go to him on fixing these issues.
You say hes done a great job in the post lockout era fixing the clutching and grabbing from the 90s and 00s. But, uhh, he was the commissioner in the 90s and 00s as well.
You are right. In the end though, he will get tabbed as the guy who did it or not. As right or unjustified as that might be. Its the same thing as being a CEO. The failings of a company will in effect hit the CEO. Just as if the company does well. The CEO may have not done anything, and it was the people below him, but the CEO gets credit.
I think 18 years is absurdly long for someone to be in office, seems more like a dictatorship. I'm hearing praise for him in this thread for things he didn't even do, but simply occurred during the time of his reign.
I agree with you somewhat here. Some of the expansions should have never happened. Giving expansion clubs to questionable markets is really horrible. His job is to please the owners, but I still think the fans is what he should be concentrating on more. After all, he is marketing to us. As for the quality of gameplay and officiating, I believe it is quite good. The NHL Officials are the best out there. As a referee, I can tell you that it is not easy to do even at a rec league or youth hockey official. These guys are like professional athletes. There really is not as much of an officiating problem in my mind. The real issue is fixing the gameplay problems such as removing the instigator rule. I would add no touch icing to reduce some injury. Those are just a couple examples.
IMO, his priorities with this league are completely backwards, with quality of gameplay and officiating being much lower on his itinerary than expansion and pleasing the owners, GMs and trustees who will agree to keep him in office as long as they keep getting paid, despite the fact that several franchises are obviously losing money. Not to mention some of the egregious decisions he approved during the NHLs expansion days.
I believe there is some room for improvement for sure. I also believe that there are better people out there. I also believe that there will be some dud commissioners in the NHL that will really do nothing down the road. Take a look at the history of commissioners in the league, and you will see that there were a few one year wonders who did nothing for the game. Then you have people like Clarance Campbell who held their post for 20+ years.
I'm no conspiracy theorist. He doesn't fix games, he isn't corrupt, or working for the pens. He's just self-serving. Sure, there have been things he didn't screw up, but I do not believe that he is the only person in the world who can run this league, and there is a LOT of room for improvement.
You forgot your /sarcasm tags.
He is singlehandedly responsible for us not winning the Cup in 1995, 1996, 2004, 2006 and 2009.
Posted 22 September 2010 - 03:33 PM
This game is the only sport I watch with a passion and I have to say Bettman has brought the game down in my eyes. The teams may be making money but the game itself isn't what it was before he took over. I pray for the day an actual person who is brilliant financially and loves the sport becomes commisioner. Then we can see how well this sport can do against the big 3 (NFL/NBA/MLB)
Posted 22 September 2010 - 03:35 PM
Here's some reasons I hate him and blame him for since 75% of you are sucking his balls right now.
-A labor strike that reduced the season to 48 games, and the other a lockout that lost an entire season.
-I'm a hockey fan and I can't watch many games without shelling out money for those channels.
-$600 million with ESPN in 1998 to $72.5 with Versus in 2008
-Bulls*** scheduling in the 2009 playoffs.
-Terrible, terrible reffing every year. Hey! remember the 2008, 2009, 2010 playoffs?!?
-Putting teams in cities where I don't believe hockey will ever be successful(well, maybe because of teams like the Red Wings and revenue sharing)
-The dilution of talent because of over expansion.
-Hockey isn't yet popular in the U.S. so lets start playing in Europe!
-Handling of the Phoenix situation.
-Did I mention terrible AND s***ty reffing?
-Say what you want about his wonderful economic growth that you make it out to be but the NFL, MLB, NBA and even NASCAR spank the NHL every year.
-And the most recent for me wasthe NHL's reaction to this fiasco. A prime example of, "Shut the hell up, we're in charge."
Are all of these his fault? Probably not.Let me hold onto those delusions. BUT there is a reason he get's booed so many places he goes. He gets booed at the NHL DRAFT for christ sake. You talk about him eliminating the clutch and grab play like it was such a genius move too, no just a goddamn OBVIOUS one.
/end of rant
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First, combine the peeled and cored peaches, sugar and half-and-half in a food processer or blender and SLOWLY blend. If you don't have access to a peach tree or can't find a good deal on them at the store, then canned would be just fine and it would save you the tedious task of peeling and coring all of those peaches.
Next, mix your peach mixture and other ingredients into your ice cream machine and follow the machine's directions. If you're like me, I have a really small machine so I had to mix in a large bowl and do it in segments.
After my ice cream was done churning, I put it in the freezer for a couple hours because we prefer ours a little more firm.
If you do not have an ice cream machine, just freeze it in a bowl and it will still be very delicious.
So enjoy! If you and your children decide to try this out, be sure to let us know what you think.
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Capital One Buys ING Direct
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The news broke yesterday that Capital One would be the happy recipient of the keys to a brand new ING Direct. Everyone knew that ING Direct was up for sale, the ING Groep was required to sell it, but no one was sure who would be the happy new owner. The acquisition puts Capital One in the lead as the largest online bank, mostly because ING Direct was absolutely enormous. The final price? Around $9 billion, in a mix of $6.2 billion cash and $2.8 billion stock.
We speculated as to what would happen when someone purchased ING Direct, though we were using Ally Bank as the acquirer (those were the rumors at the time). Since it was a friendly acquisition, rather than an FDIC chaperoned affair, mostly nothing would happen.
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Alethia Biotherapeutics selected Goodwin Biotechnology (GBI) as development and GMP manufacturing partner for its lead candidate, AB-16B5, designed to treat certain forms of cancer. The molecule is a mammalian cell line-based humanized IgG mAb.
It targets secreted clusterin for the inhibition of cancer-associated epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT). "It has shown positive preclinical results in representative cancer models derived from various solid tumors," according to Mario Filion, Ph.D., Alethia's EVO and CSO. Indications for AB-16B5 are metastatic tumors that include prostate, breast, pancreas, colon, and lung cancers, according to the company.
Besides the EMT program, Alethia also has ovarian cancer and cancer-induced bone loss candidates in preclinical testing. AB-3D3 is being evaluated in animal models of ovarian cancer. It targets KAAG1, a cell-surface protein reportedly expressed in more than 90% of ovarian tumors and some normal tissues.
For cancer-induced bone loss, the company's AB-25E9 is being of evaluated in various models of the disease. It targets Siglec-15, a cell-surface protein with expression very specific to osteoclasts.
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battle between the auto industry and the federal government over changes
to fuel economy regulations is exploding. Lawmakers in Washington want to
impose much more efficient standards on future vehicles that could see a fleet
wide fuel economy average of 62 mpg in effect by 2025.
Some in the automotive industry argue that the costs to reach the lofty 62 mpg
fleet wide average will be much higher than the cost of burning more fuel in
less efficient vehicles for consumers. Automakers have previously claimed that
the costs would have a dire impact on the industry.
A new
study by the Center for Automotive Research has been published and the
study claims that the rise in efficiency standards by 2025 to 62 mpg could add up
to $9,790 to the cost of a new vehicle and will reduce sales by 5.5 million
units. The report also claims that the resultant price increase would force a
reduction of 260,000 automotive industry jobs due to reduced demand for
vehicles by consumers.
On the other side of the battle, those pushing for the increased efficiency
standards claim that the tech needed to meet the efficiency standards would
only add $770 to $3,500 to the price of a new vehicle.
David Friedman,
deputy director of the Union of Concerned Scientists' Clean Vehicles program and
supporter of the new efficiency mandate, said, "The Obama administration
should ignore this industry-advocate propaganda piece and focus on setting the
strongest vehicle efficiency and global warming pollution standards based on
credible scientific analysis."
President and CEO of the Union, Jay Baron, says that the main difference in
cost between the industry and government studies depends on how much the price
of the technology will come down over the next 15 years.
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BASCOM - The start was slow. The finish - and finishing statement - was dominating.
Carey overcame a four-point deficit heading into the final round Saturday to roar past Hopewell-Loudon and claim its fourth-straight Midland Athletic League crown, the last in the league's 29-year history.
"The last one to me, I put it way up there. Football won it, wrestling won it, the boys basketball [players] are on a path to win it," Carey coach Ryan Pratt said after his Blue Devils beat H-L 185-169 1/2. "I think we're going to leave a statement. A couple years ago (2011), we had a statement called 'Creating a Legacy.' And with the MAL ending, I'd say we fulfilled that and we did it."
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Hopewell-Loudon's Damion Vitt gains control of Mohawk's Kevin Lonsway in the 152-pound championship match at the MAL championships Saturday in Bascom.
Carey's Deryk Sammet takes down Calvert's John Brodman. Sammet pinned Brodman in the 120-pound championship match at the MAL?wrestling championships Saturday in Bascom.
With authority.
The Blue Devils went 10 for 13 in the finals, which included a 5-0 showing in the title matches.
"We were down by four going into finals, we told the kids to wrestle hard, don't give up, keep moving and first and foremost, Carey pride. We don't quit," Pratt said.
"And, wow. All I can say is wow," he said. "It's emotional because being a coach here at Carey for so many years and the group of kids I've got, the heart of these kids; I've got three seniors in the lineup and the rest are all underclassmen, they're all back next year, 24 on the roster. It's tough. It's kind of amazing; very amazing."
The final round started at 160 pounds, and the Blue Devils got right to work, using thirds by a decision by 160-pounder Seth Rehus and a pin from 182-pounder Brady Mullholand to counter Hopewell-Loudon getting a title from 170-pounder Zach Clouse, beating North Baltimore's Tristan Fagan 12-3. Carey's Adric Stombaugh added a fourth at 170.
Jon Racheter and Zach Sauber then followed with championships for Carey, with Racheter pinning Mohawk 195-pounder Derrick Sowers (4:23) and Sauber doubling up Fremont St. Joe 220-pounder Bobby Mancha 10-5.
Marcus O'Flaherty followed that up by taking third at 285 pounds by pinning North Baltimore's Kaleb Andrus (1:22), and Jevyn Pratt flattened St. Wendelin's Nick Dehaven (2:48) for the 106-pound championship.
Dylan Kincade ended fourth at 113 pounds, but 120-pounder Deryk Sammett pinned Calvert's John Brodman (1:20) for a championship.
The Blue Devils had no one advance to the final round at 126 pounds, but they got two thirds via pin in the next two weight classes - 132-pounder Kyler Dyer over Lakota's Brendon Biddle (1:44), and 138-pounder Dylan Pratt over Mohawk's Haydon Tiell (:58).
Zach Brodman then outlasted Fremont St. Joe's Sean Vasquez for the 145-pound crown, and Cody Ferguson ended fourth at 152 pounds.
While the Blue Devils found success in the finals and consolations, Hopewell-Loudon did not.
After powering their way to the top of the standings in the early part of the tournament, the Chieftains ran into trouble in the final round when a combination of tough foes and a lineup change - two Chieftains moved up two weight classes and five more went up one - caught up with them.
"We tried to put kids in a place where we could score a lot of points. That being said, sometimes when you have most of your lineup up a weight class, you run into an issue with just wrestling bigger guys - you're late in the tournament, tougher competition and we're dropping matches late in the tournament," H-L coach Travis Traxler said. "You kind of get found out being 15 pounds, 10 pounds lighter.
"My guys wrestled hard today, and we can't point a finger at one kid. They all worked their butts off. We got nickle and dimed [by opponents' scoring], and don't take anything away from Carey because they had a fantastic finals round," he said. "That being said, we kind of wanted some help [when others wrestled Carey] and we didn't get help."
The Chieftains went 4 for 8 in championship matches, but ended just 5 for 11 in the final round overall. Clouse's crown was H-L's lone match win over the first seven weight classes in the finals.
Lakota 160-pounder Madison Jaso beat Bryce Steinhauser 7-3 in one title match and Mohawk 182-pounder Cole Draper defeated Tristan Myers 9-4 in another, with Elijah Bustillos losing by pin in the 195-pound consolation.
The Chieftains returned to team scoring when Chet Swarztmiller got a 13-2 major decision over Lakota's Levi Beckford for the 113-pound title, and 120-pounder Dylan Hammonds edged Lakota's Dakota Kroeger 4-3 for third.
The Chieftains suffered back-to-back losses in the next two championship bouts, with Mohawk's Chet Margraf beating Braxton Young 12-3 at 126 pounds, and St. Wendelin 132-pounder Cole Williams pinning Vollie Brock (1:37).
Hopewell-Loudon captured titles in two of the remaining three weight classes, but Carey's lead was too much to overcome by then.
Alex Brock beat Seneca East's Elliott Hoepf 7-1 for the 138-pound crown, and Damion Vitt scored an 8-0 major decision over Mohawk's Kevin Lonsway for the 152-pound title. Mateo Muniz added a fourth at 145 for H-L.
Mohawk took third with 110 points, followed by Lakota (87 1/2), St. Wendelin (60 1/2), Fremont St. Joe (52 1/2), North Baltimore (46), Seneca East (27 1/2) and Calvert (16 1/2).
The only weight class at which neither Carey nor H-L competed for a title came at 285 pounds, where Fremont St. Joe's Cory Durbin pinned Mohawk's Arin Mullins in 4:24.
Mullins was later awarded the MAL's career outstanding wrestler award, with the outstanding tournament award shared by Brodman from Carey and Vitt of Hopewell-Loudon.
Pratt took home the coach of the year honor, his fourth-straight and his fifth in six seasons.
"I'm emotional. It lets you know your peers, the coaches from other schools, they must think something of me," Pratt said. "I respect each and every one of those coaches and I respect the sport, and to have them vote me coach of the year, I'm at a loss for words.
"It means a lot to me," he said. "I have those plaques on display at my house because I take it seriously."


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Thursday, April 11, 2013
The Summerville Farmer's Market is back.
Saturday marks the first day of the market, which runs from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. each Saturday until Nov. 23.
Anyone who visited the Flowertown Festival last Saturday had a chance to see some of the vendors in a preview of the market.
Nick Kierpiec, assistant parks and recreation manager for the town, said the farmers and specialty food vendors had a great response at the festival.
"Anybody that was there had a pretty wonderful day," he said.
He said both Gruber Farms and Behr Family Farms sold a lot of produce and generated a lot of interest in their CSAs, or community-supported agriculture programs.
By joining a CSA, a customer pays a pre-determined amount and gets a weekly boxful of whatever's fresh from the fields.
There are about 65 vendors signed up for the town's market. Kierpiec said the town received 110 vendor applications last year; this year it received more than 200.
Spaces are limited because the market occurs in the parking lot between Town Hall and First Citizens Bank.
The market will remain there for the foreseeable future, Kierpiec said. The town did look at other spots, but vendors said they liked the family atmosphere created by the close-in space, he said.
In addition to farmers, artisans and specialty food vendors, there will also be two food trucks beginning at the end of the month.
The first food trucks will be Dulce, which sells baked goods, and Refueler's Mobile Café, which sells Filipino fusion.
The trucks will rotate each month, Kierpiec said.
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Incline sophomore Devi Meyers won another Division III golf tournament at Old Brockway Golf Course this past Thursday.
Meyers fired a 92 to easily claim medalist honors ahead of North Tahoe's Kylie Daniels, who shot a 104. Abii Johnson of North Tahoe was third with a 113.
Aside from Meyers, Incline's Lauren Keller carded a 119, Tori Findlen a 116 and Kailee Harbaugh a 138 to help lead the Highlanders to the team win with a collective score of 441. North Tahoe was second at 475, followed by Yerington at 528.
The Highlanders will now shift their focus to the Northern Division III regional tournament, which is scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 11, at Fernley Golf Course, where they will compete for a state championship berth as a team against North Tahoe, Yerington and Battle Mountain.
Only the top two teams advance to state, while the top three individuals from non-qualifying teams will also advance. The state championship is Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 15-16, at Eagle Valley in Carson City.


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SANBORN – The Niagara Wheatfield School Board directed the superintendent this week to find out if there is a cheaper way to provide health insurance to employees.
The board agreed unanimously to have acting Superintendent James Knowles conduct a study to determine if the district should remain with the insurance consortium it presently participates in or go with another plan.
Board member Richard Sirianni had attempted to persuade the board to talk with Crown Benefits Group of Niagara Falls – formerly Accardo Agency – about the district's health insurance needs and figure out ways to save money. He said he was familiar with Crown and thought the company would be able to provide accurate information to the district. Crown also offers its own health insurance consortium, according to its website.
But board President Steve Sabo opposed going with a particular private business, preferring instead that the board direct the district's business office and human resources staff to do a study and seek information from a number of companies, including Crown. Sirianni said he was not trying to push one company.
District business executive Kerin Dumphrey said the rates paid in 2011 and 2012 are less expensive with the district's current consortium than in the community. He suggested the board establish a subcommittee to compare all costs and plans, noting the issue is complicated and might involve dealing with various physicians networks.
"It's not like switching car insurance [companies]," Dumphrey said.
He said the district pays about $6 million a year to the health insurance consortium hosted by the Orleans-Niagara Board of Cooperative Educational Services. The district has been a part of that consortium for about 20 years, he noted.
In another matter, Knowles said the board is progressing with its search for a permanent superintendent and encouraged residents to respond to a survey on the Niagara Wheatfield website. Once completed and submitted, each survey goes to a consultant that is assisting with the search.


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