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The 4 Worst Things About Being in Love
#2. When It's Too Much
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Being socially retarded is interesting insofar as you get to learn fun new things that other people are never aware of because they never engage in the same sort of retardation you engage in because obviously they'd never think of such dumb things. But you would, ya weirdo.
I can't say for sure that most people will experience this or if it's just reserved for a special subset of people, but there's definitely something to be said for being too open and too much into other people. Your friends probably never want to think you'll show up in their room at midnight smiling with a human-skin suit on. But if you decide to open up and express a real joy at being with others, especially those you're not in a cult or regularly having nude hot tub fun with, you'll slowly begin to realize that you're creeping the shit out of everyone. No one likes a guy who tells them he loves them unless it's in the confines of a serious buddy-cop moment, a death scene, or a drunken, shame-filled blather session.
Most of you probably agree that there's no good reason to express love for your friends out of the blue, because who does that? Especially if it's two straight dudes, because we still live in a society where that's considered weird and, let's be honest, sometimes it is weird. Most times. We're not Eloi here, no need to go around holding hands and smelling snapdragons.
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"Your skin is so soft."
If you foolishly decide that you need to let your group of friends know how you feel about them in just totally unbridled, heart-on-your-sleeve terms, I invite you to not be surprised if they react in the same way people react when they see an animal dying on the side of the road. There's an underlying sense of compassion, but mostly revulsion-based fear, and you can be damn sure no one wants to poke you.
Every relationship has boundaries, and it's best to learn what those are before making a ginormous fool of yourself. But on the other hand, there's something to be said for at least having a willingness to be that guy or girl who doesn't let fear castrate them and just say what you feel when you feel it, unrestrained, unbidden, and unfiltered. I tried it once. It didn't work out. I'm not bitter, though. Not at all. Be my friend?
#1. When It Never Existed
When is love not love? I bet some asshole of a poem or Bon Jovi song contains that line, and whatever line follows it is so sappy and douchey that for me to write it here would make you literally shit saccharine kittens onto your sofa and/or computer chair and that, my friend, would probably tear your perineum. That said, the question is valid when you're dealing with something that, when analyzed, couldn't be less like love if it came with a flesh-rending chainsaw and was directed by Tyler Perry, which is to say something no one may ever love.
This differs from unrequited love in that, with unrequited love, at least the sane sort, one of you still has real feelings. In this situation, no one really gives a flying fuck about anyone else. This is your Tyler Durden/Marla Singer Fight Club relationship based on things like mutual disgust, antagonism, the desire to use or be used, and exploitation. Magical, right? Probably lust plays a big part in this, too. It's arguably where society constructed the idea of friends with benefits, a social contract that allows for us to be OK using each other for fun without actually giving much of a damn about the other person. Like, sure, if I see you on fire, I'll toss a jug of water on you and dial 911, but like ... I'm probably too busy to visit you in the hospital because I just got Injustice for Xbox and it's really taking up a lot of my time.
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"I'll do my duty to that booty when you're out of ICU."
Some people call these kinds of relationships toxic, but that always makes me think of that Britney Spears song and is therefore a bad use of language. And they don't need to be as bad as all that anyway; it's not like you need to be slapping each other while you mainline household cleaners and have butter-lubed sex in an alley to really hit home the notion that you don't really care about each other. A lot of times it's a much more mild form of exploitation, a kind of parasitic relationship where you get something (usually sex) and never seek to actively harm or degrade the other person, unless they're into that. A good way to tell if that's the kind of relationship you have, however, is to ponder how likely it is that you'd introduce that person to friends, or just go to see a movie with them. Because you so wouldn't. Unless it's like a weird moviesploitation friend, like someone who owns a theater and that's actually how you use them because they keep inviting you to see new releases. That would be kind of awesome. If anyone wants to be my movie friend and pay for me to see movies, send me a message.
What makes this particular scenario awful? If it ever changes in any way at all. And it will. If you have a hump buddy who is cool with being a hump buddy and never even makes the slightest hint that they want the nature of that relationship to change, hold on to them like grim death for as long as you're both mutually satisfied because you just found a sexual unicorn. For everyone else in the history of ever, this breaks down when one of you and your breezy, disinterested ways finally get on the other's nerves and they want to talk about feelings or do yoga together or some godawful thing that you never signed up for and you, emotionally uninvested as you are, will say something less than compassionate, like "Can't we just do it in the butt?" and that'll be the end of that right there. If you have any humanity installed and you start to realize you're playing with someone else's feelings, you'll start getting that dull ache in your guts that says it's time to move on or forever face sitcom-style hijinks and/or emotional trauma.


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on January 13, 2013 - 10:06 PM
LOCKPORT – The Town of Lockport saw $10.5 million in new business investment and the creation of 75 jobs in 2012, Town Economic Development Director David R. Kinyon reported last week.
Kinyon's annual report pointed to makeovers at several South Transit Road auto dealerships, the completion of a new $840,000 concession stand and projector building at the Transit Drive-In and the opening of Eastern Niagara Hospital's renovated $5.6 million ambulatory care center.
Meanwhile, the town Industrial Development Agency sold another 13 acres of land in the town industrial park to Yahoo with an eye toward expansion of the Internet giant's data center.
"We'd been negotiating that deal for the last three years," Kinyon said.
The IDA also took the first steps toward attempting to use eminent domain powers to take 91 acres of land from General Motors to enlarge the industrial park. A public hearing on that move is set for 7 p.m. Jan. 24 in Town Hall.
Kinyon said that though the town would like to see construction of a shopping center, it had some success in trying to fill vacant retail space.
Sprint and Sally Beauty Supply opened stores in the Home Depot Plaza; Amazing Grazing opened in the Tops Plaza; and Burrito Bay moved into the Radio Shack Plaza.
The Towne Square Plaza across from Town Hall filled vacant space with Toni Pepperoni, and a new Dunkin' Donuts is under construction.
"The southern portion of [South] Transit Road is really undergoing a face-lift," Kinyon said.
Following the completion of Basil Toyota's new dealership in 2011, competitors improved their showrooms, too.
Niagara Nissan spent $400,000 on building improvements, and Heinrich Chevrolet plowed $350,000 into a makeover of its own.
Master Motors and Ontario Auto Sales, two independent used-car dealers, also made improvements, and Magic Mist, a new car wash, opened after a $300,000 investment.
Off the Transit strip, Mulvey Construction completed a new headquarters in the Ulrich Business Park at the southern end of Davison Road, with A&A Beauty Supply moving into Mulvey's old building.
Custom Laser bought the long-vacant Franbilt plant on Akron Road and made plans to move its business there from the industrial park.
The park also saw construction begin on Introl Design's new $700,000 plant, and plans were floated for a business incubator there from McGuire Development. However, the project is moving slowly; plans were withdrawn from this month's town Planning Board agenda.
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Softball Opens 2014 Season Friday In San Marcos, TX
► LET THE GAMES BEGIN: Due to cold weather predicted for Friday in San Marcos, Texas, Ball State's season-opener versus Southern Illinois has been pushed back to a 2 p.m. ET/1 p.m. CT first pitch ... In addition, the Cardinals are now scheduled to play two games on both Saurday and Sunday ... The current schedule has Ball State slated to play Texas State (1:15 p.m ET/12:15 p.m. CT) and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (3:30 p.m. ET/2:30 p.m. CT) Saturday ... Sunday, the Cardinals are slated to battle SIU (10 a.m. ET/9 a.m. CT) and Stephen F. Austin (Noon ET/11 a.m. CT) ... Check BallStateSports.com or the CenturyLink Classic Tournament Central tomorrow for any future updates to the tournament schedule.
► FOLLOW THE ACTION: Cardinals fans can follow the action at the CenturyLink Classic with live stats for all five games and streaming video for the match up versus Texas State at the tournament central page: http://www.txstatebobcats.com/sports/2014/1/30/SB_0130145125.aspx
Fans can also get regular updates by following the team on Twitter: @BallStSoftball and Facebook: BallStateSoftball.
► CARDINALS ALL-TIME: After posting a 37-17 overall record in 2013, the Ball State softball program enters the 2014 season with an 854-915-4 (.483) all-time record in 39 seasons of play ... Established as a varsity program in 1975, Ball State has won four Mid-American Conference regular season titles (2009, 2010, 2012 and 2013), two MAC Tournament championships (1998 and 2010) and advanced to the NCAA Tournament twice (1998 and 2010).
► HEAD COACH TYRA PERRY: A two-time Sun Belt Conference Coach of the Year (2009 & 2013), Tyra Perry was named the eighth head coach in Ball State softball history Aug. 6, 2013 ... Perry enters her 13th season as a NCAA Division I softball head coach with 342 career victories during six-year stints at both Western Kentucky (2008-13) and Birmingham-Southern (2002-07) ... In 2013, Perry guided WKU to the program's first-ever NCAA Regional appearance and to a final ranking of 26th in the NCAA Ratings Percentage Index (RPI), the highest final ranking in program history ... The Lady Toppers also posted the program's first 40-plus win season (43-18) under Perry's tutelage in 2013, and earned its first SBC regular season title with a 20-3 league record.
► OFF TO AN EARLY START: When the Cardinals take the field versus Southern Illinois Friday, it will mark the earliest start to a season in program history ... Prior to this season, the earliest Ball State had played a softball game was Feb. 12, 2005 ... Ironically, the match up was also versus Southern Illinois, with the Salukies pulling out an 8-0 victory in six innings at the Ole Miss Tournament.
► SCOUTING THE CARDINALS: Ball State returns 14 letterwinners, including six starting position players and two starting pitchers, from last season's squad which posted a 37-17 (18-3 MAC) record and won the program's fourth MAC regular season title in the past five years ... Highlighting the list of returning players are two-time reigning MAC Player of the Year Jennifer Gilbert (Sr./OF), reigning MAC Freshman of the Year Nicole Steinbach (So./P), First Team All-MAC selection Taylor Rager (Sr./1B) and MAC All-Freshman Team honoree Selena Reyna (So./SS) ... The Cardinals also welcome six newcomers to the roster in sophomore transfer Samantha Jones (1B/OF) and freshmen Amanda Arnett (3B), Taylor Cooley (OF), Hayley Cruthers (Util), Jocelyn Rivera (RHP) and Shelbie Scamihorn (C).
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS: The Salukies are picked to finish fourth in the Missouri Valley Conference Preseason Coaches Poll ... SIU returns 14 letterwinners, including seven position starters and two pitchers, from last season's squad which posted a 25-27 (13-10 MVC) record ... Representing the Salukies on the MVC Preseason All-Conference Team are senior Jayna Spivey and junior Meredith Wilson ... The Salukies hold a 10-6 edge in the all-time series, including a 1-0 victory in the most recent meeting Feb. 21, 2010
STEPHEN F. AUSTIN: The Ladyjacks were selected to finish ninth, among 10 teams, in both the Southland Conference's Preseason Coaches and Sports Information Directors polls ... SFA returns seven starting position players and one starting pitcher from last season's squad which posted a 16-32 (9-17 SLC) record ... Senior shortstop Elizabeth Arana was named to the 2014 All-Southland Conference Preseason Softball Team ... The Ladyjacks hold a 4-2 lead in the all-time series despite the Cardinals winning the latest meeting by a score of 1-0 March 11, 1989 ... The teams also split a March 7, 1989 doubleheader with BSU winning the first game 1-0 and SFA taking the second by the same score.
TEXAS STATE: The Bobcats were tabbed to finish fourth in the Sun Belt Conference Preseason Coaches Poll ... Texas State returns 10 letterwinners from last season's squad which posted an 18-38 overall record, including a 10-11 mark in the Western Athletic Conference ... The Cardinals and Bobcats will be meeting for the first time in softball.
TEXAS A&M-CORPUS CHRISTI: The Islanders were chosen to finish 10th in both the Southland Conference's Preseason Coaches and Sports Information Directors polls ... The Islanders return 12 letterwinners from last season's squad which posted an 11-39 (6-21 SLC) record ... Junior utility player Lindsey Lyles was named to the preseason All-Southland Conference Second Team ... The Cardinals and Islanders will be meeting for the first time in softball.
► ONE TO WATCH: Ball State senior outfielder Jennifer Gilbert was one of 50 NCAA Division I players selected for the 2014 USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year Top 50 Watch List as announced by the Amateur Softball Association (ASA) of America and USA Softball ... Now in its 13th year, the award is designed to recognize outstanding athletic achievement by collegiate softball players across the country ... The list includes 24 seniors, 20 juniors and six sophomores ... Freshmen are ineligible for consideration for the initial Top 50 list. Gilbert is the lone representative from the Mid-American Conference.
► MORE PRESEASON HONORS: In addition to being named to the Top 50 Watch list, Jennifer Gilbert was also named to the College Sports Madness Preseason All-America Second Team ... College Sports Madness also named Gilbert the Madness 2014 Mid-American Conference Preseason Field Player of the Year, while Ball State head coach Tyra Perry was named the Preseason MAC Coach of the Year ... Gilbert and senior first baseman Taylor Rager were also named to the Madness 2014 Preseason All-MAC First Team.
► GILBERT NAMED A 2013 NFCA ALL-AMERICAN: Jennifer Gilbert became the first player in program history to earn all-America honors when she was named to the 2013 National Fastpitch Coaches Association NCAA Division I All-America Third Team ... Gilbert is the 13th different player in MAC history to earn NFCA All-America honors and the first since Kent State's Marci Ridenbaugh was named to the third team in 2001 ... In all, MAC student-athletes have garnered a total of 17 NFCA All-America honors since 1988 which includes two first-team selections, nine second-team awards and six third team accolades.
► 2013 MAC PLAYER OF THE YEAR: In 2013, Jennifer Gilbert was named the Mid-American Conference Player of the Year for the second consecutive season ... She is just the fourth player in MAC history to earn the league's top honor twice in a career, joining Central Michigan's Pam Stanley (1991 & 1992), Central Michigan's Tina Kinney (1998 & 2000) and Eastern Michigan's Lauren Clark (2006 & 2007) ... Overall, Ball State players have garnered MAC Player of the Year honors six times: Bernie Coffman (1989), Katie Shea (2002), Alicia Barkley (2009), Jessie Ware (2010) and Gilbert (2012 & 2013).
► GILBERT IN MAC PLAY: Jennifer Gilbert earned her second straight MAC Player of the Year award in 2013 by ranking second in league-only contests with a .446 batting average, while ranking first in slugging percentage (.973), RBI (34), runs scored (23), home runs (11) and total bases (72) ... Her 34 RBI were 11 better than the next closest player, while her 23 runs scored were three better than second place, both of which were teammates ... Gilbert reached base safely in 19 of BSU's 21 league games, while also posting a 14-game hitting streak in MAC action ... Gilbert posted six game-winning RBI, scored two game-winning runs and blasted a pair of seventh-inning, game-tying home runs to play a crucial role in 10 of BSU's 18 league victories.
► 2013 MAC FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR: On the strength of her 9-1 record and 2.06 ERA in Mid-American Conference play, Nicole Steinbach became the first player in program history to win MAC Freshman of the Year accolades ... A six-time MAC West Division Pitcher of the Week honoree in 2013, Steinbach held opposing MAC teams to three-or-fewer hits in five starts, while holding teams to three-or-fewer runs in nine of her 11 league appearances.
► 2013 ALL-MAC TEAMS: In addition to earning their specialty awards, Jennifer Gilbert was named to the All-MAC First Team, while Nicole Steinbach was named to the All-MAC Second Team and MAC All-Freshman Team ... Taylor Rager joined Gilbert on the All-MAC First Team, while senior center fielder Amanda Carpenter joined Steinbach on the All-MAC Second Team ... In addition, shortstop Selena Reyna was also named to the MAC All-Freshman squad.
► THE RAGER FACTOR: In addition to being the program's record holder in double plays turned at 51, Taylor Rager is also quickly climbing up BSU's career offensive charts ... Based on the strength of her .404 batting average in 2013, Rager has moved into fourth in program history with a .349 career batting average ... Her 28 career home runs rank third in BSU annals, while her 132 career RBI are fourth and her 38 career doubles are fifth.
► Ball State has won the MAC regular season title in four of the past five years, and last advanced to the NCAA Tournament in 2010.
► Ball State's 18-3 MAC record in 2013 tied the 2009 squad for the best league record in program history.
► Ball State finished the 2013 season ranked in the top 25 nationally in nearly every major offensive category; doubles per game (4th/1.78), scoring (9th/6.56), slugging percentage (14th/.508), home runs per game (15th/1.24) and batting average (25th/.307).
► For the first time in program history, two players finished the season batting above .400, with Jennifer Gilbert batting .451 and Taylor Rager batting .404 ... Ball State was one of only 10 programs (out of 289) nationally to have two players bat .400-or-better.
► Jennifer Gilbert smashed a school-record 23 home runs in 2013, while her MAC-record 70 RBI allowed her to become the league's career RBI leader as just a junior.
► The Ball State defense ranked fourth nationally with a 0.56 double plays per game average, turning 30 double plays in 54 games.
► The Ball State softball team was heavily rewarded for its 2013 Mid-American Conference regular season title run, claiming three of the league's five specialty awards and a league-high nine overall honors.
► The Ball State softball team led the Mid-American Conference with eight MAC West Division Player of the Week selections and seven MAC West Division Pitcher of the Week honors in 2013 ... Jennifer Gilbert earned the division's player of the week nod four times, while Nicole Steinbach was a six-time pitcher of the week honoree ... Overall, the Cardinals had at least one MAC weekly award winner in 10 of its 12 weeks of play, while sweeping the award five times; Feb. 19, March 19, March 25, April 1 and April 15 ... Gilbert and Steinbach combined for three of the sweeps; Feb. 19, April 1 and April 15.


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The Eden Central School District has parted ways with its superintendent.
Superintendent Ronald K. Buggs has resigned and is being replaced by an interim until the district hires a permanent replacement, according to a statement on the district's website.
The Eden School Board accepted Buggs' resignation during a special meeting Friday, which immediately put an end to his 15-year career in Eden.
The School Board appointed Richard Schaefer, principal of Eden Elementary School, as the interim.
A permanent successor could be named as soon as the end of this month.
Buggs' departure from the district comes as no surprise, because it has been in the works for a while, but the end came rather abruptly.
The School Board last July did not renew Buggs' contract, which expires June 30, and has been searching for a new superintendent.
Expecting the search was nearing an end, Buggs – who is retiring – gave his 60-day notice to the board on Thursday.
Buggs thought that would give the board enough time to hire his successor, without having to appoint an interim superintendent, and give him time to tie up some loose ends in the district, Buggs said.
"From what I understand, as of Friday, [the board] chose to meet and expedite that," said Buggs, when reached on Saturday. "They ultimately had been hinting at that all along."
"It was their choice," he said.
Board President Steven Cerne could not be reached to comment Saturday, but the statement by the district indicated a new superintendent is expected to be hired by the end of the month.
Cerne, in the past, has declined to comment on why the board did not want to renew the agreement with Buggs, saying it is a personnel issue.
In fact, two board members resigned last February, citing disagreements with the board majority, which has been critical of Buggs' administration.
Also, a taxpayers group for several years had questioned the district's financial practices and called for Buggs' termination.
"We're trying to take the district in a different way," Cerne told The Buffalo News in July.
Buggs – whose career in education includes administrative roles at Niagara Catholic High School in Niagara Falls and St. Mary's High School in Lancaster – was named principal of Eden Junior/Senior High School in November 1997.
He became superintendent on Jan. 1, 2006.
"We thank Mr. Buggs for his contributions to our district during these 15 years," the district statement reads. "Both as principal and as superintendent, he has managed our schools through some challenging times and we wish him success in his next career endeavor."
Schaefer, meanwhile, will provide "continuity and stability during this transition time," Cerne said in a prepared statement.
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Children's author Cynthia Storrs Cotten grew up in Lockport and remembers being frightened of the Erie Canal. "I was scared to death of the canal when I was a kid and I don't know why. It was deep, it was dark water, it was just pretty scary to me." ¶ Now Cotten has taken a little-known aspect of life on the Erie Canal as the subject of a charming picture book – "The Book Boat's In," published by Holiday House ($16.95), with colorful folk art-style illustrations by gifted artist Frané Lessac. ¶ The book, set in the 1830s, tells the story of Jesse, a young boy who loves to visit the book boat, "the R. Edwards Library and Bookstore," when it stops in his canal town. He finds various odd jobs (sweeping the store, chopping wood for the tavern, running errands for the doctor) to earn the extra pennies he needs to buy a used copy of "The Swiss Family Robinson" the next time the boat stops in town. ¶ Cotten, who lives with her husband in Dumfries, Va., first learned of the "floating libraries" that traveled the canal through an article in the Lockport Union Sun & Journal written by Douglas Farley, director of the Erie Canal Discovery Center in Lockport. "My mother cuts out these articles" and mails them to me, Cotten said. "When I saw this one, I just knew that there was something there."
The article noted that packet boats of the 1800s competed for travelers and were often equipped with libraries – biographies, Bibles, classics, books of travel, adventure, science and history "to help passengers pass the time more agreeably" on the very slow canal journey. A traveling bookstore, with a billboard reading "E.& E. Wilcox, Bookstore and Lottery Office" and offering books for sale and for rent, stopped at "every port-of-call along the old Erie," Farley wrote. "Bookboats" owned by entrepreneur Elihu Phinney also stopped at canal towns, "renting titles for two cents an hour or ten cents per day."
Cotten said once she decided to come up with a story about a floating library, she knew "I've got to get a kid in there somehow."
"Originally the character was going to be a girl. I thought probably a boy would have had a little more freedom to check out the book boat on his own. I pictured this boy browsing all the books and finding one he wanted and not having enough money for it. I remembered how I used to love to browse around bookstores. Who knows what you're going to find?"
She said researching the era was a little tricky. She had to find a book that a boy of the 1830s might want to own, and "The Swiss Family Robinson," published in 1812, seemed like a good choice. To research the money of the period, she turned to her brother, William, who collects coins. "He told me they didn't have nickels, they had half-dimes." They also had half-pennies.
Lockport is actually not mentioned in the story. "I didn't want to give any specific town," she said. "The canal is a long body of water. It could have been anyplace."
Lessac wanted to join in the dedication Cotten came up with for her seventh published picture book: "For every librarian we have ever known – and those we have yet to meet." "Librarians have been such an important group of people to me," Cotten said. "Mr. Edwards was kind of like a librarian, so why not?"
Cotten said she got her love of reading from her parents, Mary Lou Storrs and the late William Storrs, an artist and longtime art teacher at Lockport Senior High School. "My parents were big readers," she said. She recalls "as a very little girl, being taken to the library about once a week. When I was old enough to hop on my bike and go by myself, I'd go to the library every Saturday morning and get books. The library was a wonderful place. My idea of the best summer vacation was to find a cool spot in the house and read all week and then go to the library and get more books."
Cotten and her husband are parents of two grown children, Amanda, 33, and Christopher, 27.
Her interest in writing children's books began when her daughter was 2 years old and "I wanted to find a simple retelling of the Christmas story," Cotten said. She took a correspondence course from the Institute of Children's Literature, joined a children's writers group at her local library and eventually enrolled in the Master of Fine Arts in Writing for Children program at Vermont College, now the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She sold her first book, "Snow Ponies," in 1998. More than 20 years after she first had the idea, her Christmas tale, "This Is the Stable," was published, in 2006.
"The Book Boat's In" was the first picture book she had sold in seven years, after steady success in the beginning selling one or two manuscripts a year. "I was afraid perhaps I had peaked and was on the downhill run," she said.
While she has published one novel for children, she said she prefers "writing for younger kids. It's harder to sustain the momentum of a novel."
For now, Cotten is working on publicizing "The Book Boat's In." The book got a positive mention in Kirkus Reviews, which called it "a pleasing historical tale about a boy willing to work hard for what he desires most – a book."
After discovering the existence of present-day "book boats" in England with a Google search, Cotten sent inquiries to both Word on the Water, a secondhand book shop in London, and the Book Barge, a floating bookshop in Lichfield, Staffordshire. Both expressed an interest in her book. "I sent them each a copy," she said.
Lessac lives in Australia but visited the Erie Canal Museum in Syracuse for her research. In an email interview, she said: "I gained information vital to the setting and period of Cynthia's story. The clothing, the landscape, and most importantly the canal boats. Going on board a real canal boat was a highlight."
Lessac's brightly colored illustrations show colorful packet boats floating in brilliant blue water and scenes with humorous details, including a cat chasing a mouse at the general store. "I love the color, I think the style fits the period, I think they're wonderful," Cotten says.
One thing about the illustrations "did make me laugh," she added. "I said, Frané, the canal has never been blue. I don't think the canal has ever been blue, but it looked good in the illustration."
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Acts, 2016 Reg. Sess., Ch. 175
A nurse-midwife who applies for authorization to prescribe drugs shall:
(a) Be licensed and certified as a nurse-midwife in the state of West Virginia;
(b) Not be less than eighteen years of age;
(c) Provide the board with evidence of successful completion of forty-five contact hours of education in pharmacology and clinical management of drug therapy under a program approved by the board, fifteen of which shall be completed within the two-year period immediately before the date of application;
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(e) Submit a completed, notarized application to the board, accompanied by a fee of one hundred twenty-five dollars.
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The prosecutor formerly involved in the widely publicized animal-cruelty case against Beth Lynne Hoskins was fired from his job with the Erie County District Attorney's Office late last week.
The exact reason for Friday afternoon's termination of Assistant District Attorney Matthew A. Albert remained unclear. However, it's believed to be related to a relationship he maintained with an SPCA employee connected to the case and accusations that the nature and duration of that relationship were previously misrepresented in court.
The revelation, made by Albert himself, overshadowed Monday afternoon's anticipated verdict in Hoskins' criminal case before Aurora Town Justice Douglas W. Marky – who reserved judgment until next week – and was the latest in a bizarre three-year running saga involving Hoskins, the SPCA Serving Erie County and law enforcement authorities.
"I've done my job honestly and ethically for 5½ years," Albert said, contending that he is being unfairly characterized as "a liar" by not only Hoskins' defense team, but now also by his own former employer for stating that his personal relationship with SPCA employee Alex A. Cooke had previously terminated.
That relationship, which blossomed following their meeting during the criminal case against Hoskins alleging she mistreated animals at her Emery Road farm, formed the basis for an earlier defense motion to dismiss the 74 misdemeanor animal-cruelty counts on grounds of prosecutorial misconduct.
Prosecutors instructed the court that the relationship between Albert and Cooke had ended in March, and Marky rejected the defense motion for dismissal.
Late last week, however, a retired FBI agent hired by Hoskins as a private investigator surveilled Cooke and Albert and uncovered photographic evidence from last week suggesting a possible rekindling of that relationship. That's something that Albert continues to steadfastly deny.
"We broke up in March," Albert told reporters outside the courtroom Monday, explaining that Cooke had come to his home to console him over a death in his family.
Shortly thereafter, Hoskins' lawyer, John P. Bartolomei of Niagara Falls, filed a renewed motion with the Aurora Justice Court to dismiss Hoskins' case.
Albert said he arrived for work at 25 Delaware Ave. on Friday and was escorted from his office, forbidden from retrieving his belongings and "treated like a common criminal." He said he appeared at the East Aurora courthouse Monday to set the record straight.
"They could take my job, but not my dignity," Albert said, adding that he and Cooke, while not currently in a relationship, share mutual interests in protecting animals and that both are "vegetarian."
Erie County District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III could not be reached after business closed Monday to comment about Albert.
Current prosecutor Nicholas Texido told Marky in court Monday that despite the new defense accusations, the case's outcome should not be affected. "Our contention is that this relationship was not a violation of the law," Texido said. "No ethical canon was violated."
Texido did not inform the court Monday that Albert was no longer employed by the District Attorney's Office. Hoskins' team learned of Albert's termination when reporters sought comment after court and believes that it further bolsters Hoskins' case.
"I'm pleased to hear that," Hoskins said. "He probably should have been terminated in March when this was first raised. I think it's also an admission" on the part of the District Attorney's Office.
Marky reserved judgment on both Hoskins' renewed motion to dismiss because of prosecutorial conduct, as well as on the verdict in her nonjury trial until Monday afternoon in Aurora Town Court.
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CHESTER - A state matching grant designed to help Mountaineer Casino, Racetrack & Resort boost its customer numbers may also be good news for Hancock County's tourism industry, officials said.
Mountaineer was among three West Virginia casinos to receive grants from the West Virginia Tourism Commission last week. The Mountaineer grant of $184,423 requires a match of the same amount from the casino.
The money will be used to promote Mountaineer's recently-announced "IN Club" player loyalty program, which gives patrons the opportunity to earn points toward rewards every time they play slot machines, video lottery terminals, table games and poker or bet on horse racing, according to state and casino sources.
"They are using it specifically for their 'IN Club' advertising campaign, with a focus on direct mail, print and radio, as well as targeted television and outdoor advertising," said Jacqueline Proctor, deputy commissioner of the West Virginia Division of Tourism.
"They're doing this to attract new audiences and drive return trips by current customers - keeping the customers they have and engaging them to return to their facilities," she said.
Proctor said such growth will "ultimately impact the economic growth of the tourism industry (in Hancock County)."
Last year, a similar campaign by Mountaineer generated more than 30,000 new customers to sign up at the player's club within eight months of the campaign, Proctor said.
"They have described in their grant application ... who their partners are to really make it a solid, all-encompassing marketing effort," she said.
Mountaineer Director of Marketing Lesley Campbell did not return phone calls seeking comment.
But, according to the Mountaineer Web site, the new player's club "IN Club" was introduced in May at all three MTR Gaming Group properties - Mountaineer, Presque Isle Downs & Casino in Erie, Pa., and Scioto Downs Casino & Racetrack in Columbus.
The new program offers players more comprehensive benefits "aimed at garnering greater customer loyalty," according to the Web site.
The new player's club and state-funded promotional campaign come at a time of increasing competition for Mountaineer from gaming sites in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Earlier this month, Hollywood Casino Columbus opened in Columbus, Ohio. Earlier this year, casinos also opened in Cleveland and Toledo.
The state grant also comes at a time of increasing scrutiny of Mountaineer by Hancock County commissioners, who claim the county's coffers are suffering from the casino's practice of not collecting the 6 percent hotel occupancy tax on complimentary rooms. Sheriff Mike White filed suit against Mountaineer in September, asking for $600,000 in lost revenue dating back to March 2009.
The tourism grant is part of the Matching Advertising Partnership Program, whose purpose is to "promote West Virginia as a premier tourist destination, increasing the number of visitors and travel expenditures to West Virginia," according to a Division of Tourism news release.


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Disney is planning a week-long Easter celebration as part of its latest Limited Time Magic event.
Beginning on Saturday, guests to the Magic Kingdom park will be able to meet Mr. and Mrs. Easter Bunny at Bunny Lane which is next to City Hall. The pair will also join butterflies, flowers and dancing hippos for an Easter procession down Main Street, U.S.A.
Mr. and Mrs. Easter Bunny will also greet guests at the United Kingdom Pavilion inside Epcot. Egg hunts will also be held each day through March 31 in Future World East.
Limited Time Magic events are themed celebrations that will last an entire week at the parks.
Disney's plan is to amplify holiday fun with the events. Additional themes are expected to be announced throughout 2013.


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Tiffin reports
A person reported Saturday afternoon four windows were broken out of a garage in the 200 block of Circular Street.
A person reported Saturday afternoon a vehicle at the rear of a residence in the 300 block of South Monroe Street had been entered.
A 500-block South Sandusky Street resident reported Saturday evening a cell phone had been taken.
A person reported Saturday night a woman was walking on Ella Street when she was assaulted.
Troy A. Witt, 22, of Tiffin, was charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated and failure to obey a traffic control device early Sunday morning.
Jared D. Chandler, 22, of North Fairfield, was charged with disorderly conduct early Saturday morning.
A man in the 200 block of South Washington Street reported Sunday afternoon his vehicle had been hit sometime overnight. Someone had thrown a wood pallet against the driver's door.
Grace A. Robison, 21, of Tiffin, was charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated and improper right turn Sunday after an incident Saturday.
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A person reported Saturday afternoon the theft of two antenna whips from a vehicle while at Seneca County Fairgrounds, 100 Hopewell Ave.
A woman from Fremont Memorial Hospital reported Saturday night treating a 24-year-old woman and a 10-month-old. The woman had been assaulted by her husband in the 500 block of TR 150, and the baby accidentally was hit.
Fostoria Police Department advised Saturday night a woman was at the station with her son, who said he was assaulted by his father in the 12000 block of West Axline.
A 2000-block South SR 231 woman reported Sunday morning the theft of two wooden sculptures.
A 900-block South Bon Aire Avenue woman went to the station Sunday afternoon to report the misuse of her credit card.
A 3000-block North CR 11 man reported Sunday morning he believed someone had been in a residence. Forced entry was noted to a side door.
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A person reported Sunday morning a metal window panel on an overhead door at JF Swinehart Inc., 1370 N. Main St., had been pried open.
A person reported Sunday morning Filmtec, 1120 Sandusky St., was broken into. Petty cash was taken, and an investigation was pending.
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WASHINGTON – In the marble-columned courthouse where five Supreme Court justices ruled that American citizens have the right to keep and bear arms, the gun-control law that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo calls the SAFE Act could one day find itself in grave danger.
The federal lawsuit filed in Buffalo earlier this month raises serious constitutional questions about several of the new law's provisions, according to legal scholars who specialize in studying the Second Amendment – which guarantees gun rights – and who are familiar with the New York measure.
Most notably, legal scholars said, the Buffalo case might be the one in which the court determines whether the Second Amendment gives people the right to own the kind of assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition clips that the SAFE Act seeks to ban.
"This is a very significant case," said James B. Jacobs, a constitutional law professor and director of the Center for Research in Crime and Justice at the New York University School of Law. "It may go all the way to the Supreme Court."
And even those who were unfamiliar with the New York law's details said that, in wake of two landmark Supreme Court decisions on gun rights, any major state gun law is likely to endure a rigorous review by the federal courts.
"I think there will be lots of constitutional challenges" to state gun laws in the coming years, said Carl T. Bogus, a gun-control expert at the Roger Williams University School of Law in New Jersey. "Eventually they will be decided by federal courts of appeal, and at some point the Supreme Court will take one or a collection of them and further define whether this right (to bear arms) extends further."
Any Supreme Court action is years away, but many scholars think it's inevitable in wake of two previous cases.
In the 2008 case of District of Columbia v. Heller, the high court for the first time established that the Second Amendment protects the individual right to bear arms.
And in McDonald v. Chicago of 2010, the justices ruled that the Second Amendment also applies to state and local gun laws.
For its part, the Cuomo administration says the SAFE Act will withstand its coming review in the federal courts.
"We believe that our law is sound and is immune from constitutional challenge," said Richard Azzopardi, a spokesman for the governor. "Heller is the broadest reading of the Second Amendment that has ever come down, and the SAFE Act is consistent with that decision."
But Stephen P. Halbrook, the constitutional law specialist who is representing the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association in the federal court case filed in Buffalo, disagreed.
"What's happening here is the state criminalizing ordinary gun possession by law-abiding citizens," said Halbrook, and he does not believe the federal courts will abide by that.
Halbrook was one of the top attorneys for the National Rifle Association in the Chicago case.
Guns 'in common use'
The SAFE Act includes stronger penalties for crimes committed with guns and a section that requires mental health professionals to tell authorities about people who may be a danger to themselves or others.
The New York gun group's lawsuit doesn't challenge those provisions, and because the law includes a "severability" clause, those provisions would stand even if federal courts invalidate other parts of the SAFE Act.
Provisions under challenge in the lawsuit include the bill's expansion of the list of weapons covered by the state's assault weapons ban, as well as a section restricting the size of ammunition clips to seven rounds – a provision that Cuomo has expressed willingness to move back to 10.
Halbrook said those provisions conflict with the high court's reading of the Second Amendment in the Heller case, which said that individuals have the right to own guns for self-defense so long as those weapons are "in common use" for such purposes.
Cuomo's lawyers disagree.
Under the SAFE Act, they say, New Yorkers still have a choice of a vast array of weapons for self-protection and the guns restricted under the law are not commonly used for such purposes.
Who's right?
That will be up to the federal courts to decide.
It's "very hard to define" which guns are in common use, said NYU professor Jacobs, the author of a book called "Can Gun Control Work?"
And in its decisions to date, the Supreme Court has not yet come up with a full definition.
"The Supreme Court ruled that individuals have the right to keep and bear arms," Jacobs noted, "but people have left for another day the questions of which arms."
Broad interpretation
Some scholars believe, though, that the high court's recent Second Amendment decisions show that is viewing the right to bear arms very broadly – which could point to a very dire fate for the provisions in the New York law that limit the type of guns and the size of magazines people can possess.
Federal court decisions in the case will be "grounded on principles established by the Supreme Court over the last several years that seem to produce a robust set of problems for lots of aspects of the New York law," said Nicholas A. Johnson, a Fordham University law professor and co-author of the book, "Firearms Law and the Second Amendment."
Those problems go beyond the Second Amendment, Johnson noted.
The lawsuit filed in Buffalo challenges several provisions of the SAFE Act as being unconstitutionally vague, contending they conflict with the 14th Amendment's guarantee of due process under the law.
For example, the law's definition of assault weapons includes some guns that include a pistol grip "that protrudes conspicuously beneath the action of the weapon."
Which raises the question: how big is a conspicuously protruding pistol grip?
It may be up to the courts to decide, which is nothing unusual. Johnson said gun-rights activists have been routinely challenging gun-control laws for 20 years on the grounds that their wording is too vague.
Such issues arise because of the "technically inept descriptions" of weapons in many gun control laws, Johnson added.
Amendment's scope
The gun-rights activists also challenge the SAFE Act's restriction of ammunition sales to New York dealers approved by the State Police, saying it violates the Constitution's Commerce Clause, which gives Congress – not any one state – the power to regulate commerce among the states.
But scholars who study gun laws said the Second Amendment arguments in the Buffalo case – and in cases springing from other state and local laws – will be the central focus of federal court action on the gun issue.
Thanks to the Heller case and the Chicago case that followed it, it's now for the first time certain under the law that the Second Amendment protects the individual's right to own guns, said Roger Williams professor Bogus, the author of several law review articles on the gun issue.
"We are now deciding whether the Second Amendment permits more, and how much more," he said.
Richard Briffault, the Joseph P. Chamberlain professor of legislation at the Columbia University Law School, agreed.
"We are only just now beginning to develop the case law that will determine the scope of Second Amendment rights and the extent of constitutionally permissible state regulation," Briffault said.
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MORGANTOWN — It certainly was wonderful to hear from Willie Akers last weekend that he feels good and has been showing daily improvement....
Willie was and is a great Mountaineer. I saw him play all his home games and he always was good to me when I, as a youth, used to wait for him and other players to come out of the dressing room after games to get their autographs ,ankle wraps,oranges and milk. I wish him well.
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5 Music Videos That Justify the Existence of the Internet
A while back I wrote about how music videos improve the Internet, because all the evil comments in existence can't cancel out one awesome song. Good music is a thought transfusion, wirelessly injecting moods from another brain into yours. It's a sonic emotional override, hacking the brain by directly accessing the pattern-recognition systems which make up our personality the same way pipes and wires make up an engine.
"I am the pinnacle of evolution and I listen to Justin Bieber."
For years major music-releases were controlled by the sort of people who think "target demographics" is a phrase you can use and still count as human. It doesn't matter if you have a tween-pop single or a metallic endoskeleton: When you're reducing entire swathes of the population to numbered metrics, you're not someone who can speak to the soul. But modern technology means anyone can make a music video and share it with the world. The following five music videos would have been destroyed by production committees, and only exist because the Internet is a thing -- and the world is better for it.
#5. "Die Hard" [the Song]
When someone is trying to be popular, as opposed to actually doing something genuine (which risks not being popular), they want to produce something familiar and liked by everyone. That's why we have approximately one billion songs about love and almost exactly the same number of them suck. Most of them couldn't capture the joy of finding a piece of next-morning hangover pizza, never mind the soul-fire of love.
"I love how you're not covered with anchovies, let's make out."
It's automatic anti-originality. The sort of person who thinks, "The world needs another song about love" is by definition the last person capable of saying something new. Which is why Guyz Nite chose an emotional state just as well known, just as widely understood, and even more powerful: "Die Hard Kicks Ass."
This video takes every feel-good song ever written and throws them all out of a 40th-story window. A good song can change your life, and this does that by changing the next seven hours into "Rewatch the entire Die Hard Quadrilogy." Which will still be the best life-advice any song has ever given you. I don't care if you're currently on fire, this song will make you feel good about life. And decide to run into a fuel tanker driven by terrorists.
It elevates a fairly serviceable rock structure into pure joy with the greatest bridge of all time, which rhymes with "Hippies like hay, lover succor," but means the exact opposite. It shouldn't even be possible to sing, "Now we know what the basic gist is," but in this song it not only rhymes, it's an expression of legitimate lyrical genius, working with both the subject material and its relative location in the song. And anything that devotes an entire stanza to killing Ellis is automatically great.
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#4. Game of Thrones of Teamwork
The Game of Thrones theme is now a Pavlovian response for millions of viewers. Play it in a public place and everyone will start phoning their family to make sure they're still alive. It's a more dire reminder of mortality than the horn of an impending train, because trains can't leap off the tracks to veer directly at your favorite characters. But as "something popular that has existed in the last four years," it's been covered by everything from auto-tuned cats to floppy-disk drives. And as if to apologize for those, three people made the most magnificent version of it you've ever heard.
Jason Yang is better with a violin than you are with your own genitals, and has already made more people happy than you ever will. Roger Lima of White Noise Lab is proof that one-man bands don't have to suck, if that one man has the intelligence to stay at home and use a mixing desk instead of bugging people. Director Paolo Dy cunningly crafted their work together. And these people have never met. The Internet isn't just causing collaborations between people who would otherwise never have got together, it's creating collaborations between people who still haven't got together. There's just so much creativity being uploaded that we've reached collaboration critical-mass, where mixes can be generated across the world with nothing but HTTP.
The result is a "super-feit" -- a copy superior to the original. The official Game of Thrones theme sounds as if an orchestra clocked in at the Epic Theme Factory and dutifully completed its shift. The fan-made version sounds as if people really wanted to grab their swords and epically murder each other's families. But, you know, heroically.
#3. StarCraft Pop
Zerglings and Justin Bieber should only meet in a "Top 10 Incredibly Annoying Scraps of Flesh You Can't Escape" list. Instead, in the hands of Nerd Alert they make for an awesome parody. This video isn't the work of some idiot with an auto-tuner trying to get a few extra nerd-clicks by adding the word "Mario"; it's packed with more acronyms and codephrases than Rainbow infiltrating a disco. And more explosions.
And it's been watched by twice as many people as those living in my home country. Clearly, "niches" are getting big.
I'd point out how this is better than the original "Baby" if that weren't true of everything up to and including screwdrivers through the eye. It's also a music video with a twist: What seems like a simple mockery of a Zerg Baneling Bust rush (an intricate strategic plan made entirely of alien suicide bombers), morphs into scenes from: a Terran counter-strategy that involves flying bases, a hidden island fortress, a Lamborghini and a swarm of female backup dancers. Clearly, this game is more complicated than we thought.
This is not the normal environment of people complaining about OP (OverPowered)
For most of the song people are thinking, "It's just a couple of gamers with better than normal cameras"; then you find out that they did have access to all the usual cars and women -- they just knew it was more important to talk about the game first. Nerd Alert also made an original romantic ballad portraying a pair of interstellar military T-280 space construction vehicles as hunky gay lovers. It's still better than most pop songs, and uses probably the only analogy which hadn't already been used for a love song.
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Not what first comes to mind when thinking of StarCraft players.
Who is Nerd Alert? StarCraft expert Husky lives a gamer's dream, commentating on StarCraft games so hard he ended making a living from it, teaming up with music producer Kurt Hugo Schneider to appear in pop songs that have ended up for sale on iTunes and are listened to by millions of people. That is the exact opposite of what StarCraft mastery normally gets you.


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CALCUTTA-St. Clair township trustees received a preview of the complications that can arise from the county's growing oil and gas industry on January 30. Trustees spoke about the incident at their February 12 meeting and said it could not have come at a worse time, as they were out of town that week at a conference for township officials in Columbus.
On Wednesday, January 30 on Old Fredericktown road a Semi truck owned by T.K. Stanely, a nation-wide trucking company that specializes in oil field services, became stuck on a steep and winding portion of the roadway. The semi truck was carrying what is refereed to as a "mud pumper unit", a large and heavy piece of equipment used in the drilling process.
Bruce Enterline who lives on Old Fredericktown road near where the incident took place attended the trustees meeting on Tuesday to voice his concerns about the incident and the overall expansion of gas and oil activities in the township. Trustees reminded Enterline that there are not yet any drilling sites within the township but noted that many gas and oil companies do come through the area frequently.
While attempting to climb a steep and windy portion of Old Fredericktown road the T.K. Stanely owned semi truck and its trailer carrying the massive piece of drilling equipment, became stuck. The bad situation became worse when the driver of the truck attempted to back down and slid off the road becoming stuck in the ditch according to Enterline, who was on scene that day. "That load was literally feet from a pole where it could of snapped that pole and dropped power lines," said Enterline adding, "A lot of people were on the ground down there and somebody could have gotten killed-It was a bad situation."
Both trustees and Enterline noted that the incident took place on a day when recent snow accumulation was melting and it had been raining off and on, making conditions particularly treacherous. Enterline reported to trustees that the incident had left the road damaged, adding that township road foreman Scott Barrett and township crews had recently finished work on the road before the incident happened putting the road in "as good of condition as its ever been in."
Enterline also advised trustees that the semi and its load, totaling a weight of approximately 80 tons crossed a small concrete bridge on Fredericktown road which is rated for 10 tons. Enterline said he was "shocked" to learn that neither crossing the bridge nor attempting to climb such a steep hill had earned the semi's driver a citation.
Trustees advised Enterline that the trucking company was being held financially responsible for all damage to the road and the lead driver, who led the semi down Old Fredericktown road was fired over the incident.
"We have a full police report on file on it and a file with the insurance company to get the road repaired so it doesn't cost the township anything," said trustee Robert Swickard. Road foreman Scott Barrett reported that county engineers have since inspected the bridge, declaring it was not damaged and is safe for continued use.
Enterline told trustees that he came before them to to get a better understanding of the township's policies regarding such incidents and urge more communication between the township and gas and oil companies. "We have to stop reckless, irresponsible behavior like this in our township," said Enterline, adding, "It's like the wild west: they (gas companies) are going everywhere and doing anything."
Trustees told Enterline that the township uses road use management agreement or (RUMA) to insure that roads are used appropriately and repaired if damaged. " This is the first incident we've had like this, but I can assure you we're not taking it lightly," said trustee James Sabatini II.
Sabatini noted that the RUMA applies to any gas and oil company who wishes to use township roads and that it is now part of the drilling permit process, meaning that companies wanting to drill will have to first agree to the terms of the agreement.


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Water break closes Our Lady's Christian School
A water main break on Peninsula Drive has knocked out service to a small portion of Millcreek Township.
Erie Water Works crews are reporting a break on Peninsula Drive that cut service down West Sixth Street to Sommerheim Drive, according to Executive Director Paul Vojtek. Customers in the area, including Our Lady's Christian School, lost service.
The school has been closed for the day, according to an official at the school.
Vojtek said at 11:30 a.m. that crews were probably an hour away from having the water service turned back on.
The break is one of three that Erie Water Works crews are dealing with today. They are also finishing up a repair on a break at East Dobbins Landing, and are working on repairing another break in the 3600 block of French Street, Vojtek said.


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NFL Picks Week 11: Who Comes Out on Top this Week?
With another NFL Sunday just around the corner, it's time to start making some picks for Week 11's upcoming games.
We already saw the Chicago Bears shut out the Miami Dolphins on Thursday night, and the rest of this week's matchups will be just as intense.
So can the Cincinnati Bengals end their losing streak as they host the Buffalo Bills?
Will the Dallas Cowboys start a winning streak against the Detroit Lions?
And who will win the battle for the top of the NFC East as the Philadelphia Eagles take on the New York Giants?
Read on for my predictions.


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A woman is now facing charges in connection with a methamphetamine lab that exploded in Bethlehem earlier this month.
Elaine Noone was arraigned Monday on charges relating to the operation of the lab, located inside Noone's home at 1965 Greenleaf St., authorities said.
The lab exploded hours before authorities had scheduled a search. Seven people were injured in the blast, including two police officers.
Noone, 64, was charged with possession with intent to deliver/manufacture methamphetamine, recklessly endangering another person, possession of drug paraphernalia, risking a catastrophe and related charges.
Noone posted $75,000 unsecured bail. Her preliminary hearing has been set for 10:30 a.m. on March 27.
Officials said they have arrest warrants for two more people believed to be connected to the lab.
A third, Davina C. Bowler, 39, has been arrested and faces three charges related to this manufacturing operation
According to Bethlehem police, arrest warrants have been issued for Jeffrey Caulfield, 28, and Daniel James Houser, 39. They are wanted on charges of operating a methamphetamine laboratory, criminal conspiracy, and six other charges
Anyone with any information regarding the whereabouts of Caulfield or Houser can contact Bethlehem police at 610-865-7187 or Detective Christopher Vasvari at 610-865-7129.


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As others have already mentioned...Flyers GM Holmgren is on the 'hot seat' more ways than one...
The team sucks - they goon it up (in a rather unsavory fashion I might add - mind you I still enjoy the pugilistic side of the game) - and as Harold pointed out - I'm certain Holmgren had words with both the coaching staff, and players.
To me - this has suspensions, and fines written all over it...Can we possibly ship Franzen, and maybe Smith (or player/s 'X') to land Giroux before Holmgren is relieved of his duties?
I honestly don't believe it will happen, but just think if it did.


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Sigma Tau Delta 2017 International Convention
Theme: Recreation
Theme: Recreation
This past spring we invited students attending the 2016 Sigma Tau Delta Convention in Minneaoplis, MN, to submit their convention stories. The stories have been added to the Society's archive in order to create and…Read more
"You say 'to-may-to' and I say 'to-mah-to,'" Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers sing in the 1930s movie Shall We Dance. The song's cheeky suggestion, "Let's call the whole thing off," is a playful and hyperbolic reminder that pronunciation can be the difference between comprehension and confusion.
The theme for the 2017 Sigma Tau Delta Convention, which will be held March 28-April 1 in Louisville, KY, invites such considerations of pronunciation and of how subtle shifts—from /ē/ to /ɛ/—matter. In shifting from the notion of recreation—rebirth, renewal, a second go at existence—to recreation—play, leisure, pasttimes—we tap into one of the glorious aspects of the English language: we often must know context before we can properly affix a word with its meaning.
The word recreation, in microcosm, represents the work we do in our discipline. The theme invites us to ponder our own existence...and the means by which we seek answers to such vexing questions. We reach for the divine, the mystical...and find ourselves, instead, embracing the popular and secular. One word demands the study of the most erudite notions to face humans—as well as the most common or mainstream views.
No matter how we pronounce this year's theme, we come to the intersection of numerous threads of the study of English. We look forward to seeing you in Louisville!
Convention Theme
Sept. 27: Paper and Roundtable submissions open
Oct. 24: Paper and Roundtable submissions due
Nov. 17: Roundtable decisions emailed and posted
Dec. 1: Roundtable confirmations due
Dec. 14: Paper decisions emailed and posted
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Golf Camp- Tecumseh
July 9, 2013 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
It's Summer and that means it's time to get out the clubs, dust them off and join Tecumseh Parks and Rec as we partner with Raisin Valley Golf Course for a third year in a row to offer a golf camp for children ages 8-14 years old. This 3 week camp will meet from 1 to 2:30 pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Raisin Valley and their Golf Instructors will showcase proper forms and hitting techniques to teach our young golfers how to play like the legends. Players are asked to bring their own clubs, but rentals will be available if needed.
Dates: July 9th – 25th
Location: Raisin Valley Golf Course
Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:00 – 2:30 PM
Cost: $50
Register by: Wednesday July 3rd
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After redshirting indoor season, Shelar broke the school record in the pole vault with a mark of 4.08 meters in her first-place showing. Shelar takes over the school record from Erin Nett who had held it since 2002 with a mark of 4.00 meters. The Novi, Mich., native becomes the fourth track athlete to break a school record this season. Shelar is currently ranked No. 4 in the Big 12, No. 10 in the NCAA East region and No. 22 nationally in pole vault.
WVU Student-Athletes of the Week
Week 1: Christal Caldwell, Women's Basketball
Week 2: Haily VandePoel, Women's Swimming and Diving
Week 3: Hailey Barrett, Women's Tennis
Week 4: Christal Calwell, Women's Basketball
Sydney Cummings, Women's Track and Field
Week 5: Petra Zublasing, Rifle
Week 6: Kaylyn Millick, Gymnastics
Week 7: Petra Zublasing, Rifle
Week 8: Rachael Burnett, Women's Swimming and Diving
Week 9: Petra Zublasing, Rifle
Week 10: Matt Frazer, Baseball
Week 11: Mandie Nugent, Women's Swimming and Diving
Week 12: Jordan Hamric, Women's Track and Field
Week 13: Katlyn Shelar, Women's Track and Field
This Week in Baseball
The WVU baseball team will play five games this week … on Tuesday the Mountaineers travel to Ohio State for a 6:35 p.m. start, before returning home to host Youngstown State on Wednesday at 6 p.m. … WVU has a bye in the conference schedule this week and will travel to Liberty this weekend (April 12-14) … Friday's game begins at 7 p.m., Saturday's game starts at 4 p.m. and Sunday's finale is set for 2 p.m.
Last Week in Baseball
The Mountaineers went 2-2 last week, defeating Marshall on Tuesday, before dropping a Big 12 series at Baylor over the weekend … WVU defeated Marshall, 10-2, to even the season series at 1-1 … at Baylor, WVU won the first game 9-8, before falling 8-0 in game two and 11-1 in game three.
Notes & Quotes
Senior catcher Alan Filauro continued to swing a hot bat, going 6-for-11 (.545) during the week with five runs, two doubles, two home runs and five RBIs … junior third baseman Ryan Tuntland also had a strong week, going 7-for-13 (.538), while junior first baseman Ryan McBroom batted .467 (7-for-15) with four runs, one homer and three RBIs … sophomore lefty Harrison Musgrave earned a no-decision on Friday night, allowing two runs on four hits in six innings of action … Musgrave walked four and struck out three.
This Week in Track and Field
The West Virginia University track and field team travels to the Patriot Open Invitational hosted by George Mason in Fairfax, Va., on Saturday, April 13, with events starting at noon.
Last Week in Track and Field
The Mountaineers split up between the Tiger Track Classic in Auburn, Ala., and the Ohio Team Challenge and Sunset Classic in Athens, Ohio.
Notes & Quotes
At the Ohio Team Challenge and Sunset Classic, junior Katlyn Shelar broke the school record in the pole vault with a mark of 4.08 meters … Shelar placed first in the event with a personal-best mark and takes over the school record from Erin Nett who had held it since 2002 with a mark of 4.00 meters … senior Heather Adams won both discus and hammer throw for the second meet in a row with marks of 43.88 meters and 50.47 meters, respectively … the 4x400- meter relay team of Christ D'Egidio, Ashanti Bess, Arielle Gaither and Shakiyla Cosby placed first with a season-best time of 3:53.41 … at the Tiger Track Classic, Chene Townsend led the way with a seventh-place finish in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 13.75 … Sydney Cummings placed fifth in the invitational heat of the high jump with a leap of 1.77 meters, while Hannah Stone took fifth in the unseeded heat with a leap of 1.67 meters … junior Stormy Nesbit also competed at Auburn and placed seventh in the triple jump with a mark of 12.11 meters.
This Week in Women's Tennis
WVU (4-13, 0-6 Big 12) travels to Ames, Iowa, to take on Iowa State (7-12, 0-6 Big 12) on Sunday, April 14, at 9:30 a.m.
Last Week in Women's Tennis
The Mountaineers were defeated by No. 31 Oklahoma State, 7-0, on Friday and Oklahoma, 7-0, on Sunday … Sunday's match was the team's final home match of the year.
Notes & Quotes
WVU scored one victory in this past weekend's action … Audrey Wooland and Emily Mathis, who were competing in their last home matches of their career, were victorious in doubles play on Friday … the victory was the combo's team-leading ninth doubles win of the season … four players (Mathis, Hailey Barrett, Ikttesh Chahal, Vivian Tsui) share the team lead in singles victories, with six apiece …Sunday's meeting against the Cyclones will be the second time that the programs have meet … in 2009, Iowa State defeated the Mountaineers, 6-1, at the Nebraska Tournament in Lincoln, Neb.
This Week in Women's Rowing
The West Virginia University rowing team heads to Cherry Hill, N.J., to compete at the Knecht Cup Regatta, on April 13-14.
Last Week in Women's Rowing
The Mountaineers traveled to Tuscaloosa, Ala., and competed in a dual regatta against Alabama and UCF on the Black Warrior River, on April 6.
Notes & Quotes
The varsity 8+ crew of Rachelle Purych, Lisa Deklau, Kelly Kramer, Danielle Widecrantz, Elizabeth Kantak, Jessica Hurlbert, Karen Verwey, Courtney Schrand, and coxswain Mallory Fisher paced the Mountaineers with a first-place finish (7:41.5) over UCF (7:43.2) and Alabama (7:52.1) … WVU's second varsity 8+ crew of Bethany Anne Sapen, Melinda Sharon, Hilary Meale, Mary Ignatiadis, Mollie Rosen, Tamyra Roberts, Jeannine McCarty, Elizabeth Duarte, and coxswain Morgan Leach trailed behind the Golden Knights (7:48.4) and the Crimson Tide (7:50.4) for a third-place finish with a time of 7:57.6 … Alabama took the top finishes in both the varsity and second varsity 4+ races, with WVU finishing in third (9:13.9) and second (9:10.4), respectively.
This Week in Gymnastics
The Mountaineers (13-9, 1-3) have concluded their 2013 season.
Last Week in Gymnastics
The Mountaineers scored 194.475 and finished fifth at the 2013 NCAA Morgantown Regional Championships on April 6, at the WVU Coliseum … the team scored 49.025 on vault, 48.475 on bars, 48.45 on beam and 48.525 on floor … senior Kaylyn Millick tallied 39.0 and finished ninth overall … she paced the team on bars with a 9.825 score … senior Alaska Richardson scored 9.875 on floor and tied for second place, while sophomore Beth Deal tallied 9.825 on beam and finished tied for fifth … Richardson and freshman Jaida Lawrence paced WVU on vault with 9.825 marks.
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No. 5-ranked Michigan, the region's top seed, finished first with a 196.725 score, while No. 17-ranked Illinois, the No. 3 seed, scored 196.025 and finished second … both teams earned the right to move on to the NCAA National Championships, set for April 19-21, in Los Angeles … No. 8-ranked Nebraska, the Big Ten champions and the region's No. 2 seed, finished third (195.875), No. 19-ranked Kentucky placed fourth (195.575) and North Carolina placed sixth (194.35) … senior Chelsea Goldschrafe matched her season high on vault with a 9.8 … Saturday's competition was the final career meet for Goldschrafe, Millick and Richardson.


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35-year-old man dies in Schuylkill County crash
State police: Man crashed into tree
Published 2:08 PM EST Dec 15, 2012
A 35-year-old man has died following a crash in Barry Township.
Pennsylvania State Police say at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Eric French, of Hegins, was traveling west on Airport Road in Schuylkill County. He was driving around a right hand curve where Taylorsville Road intersects when he skidded and hit a tree, police say.
French was pronounced dead at the scene. There were no other passengers in the car.


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Michelle Williams and Jason Segel may be a new couple, but they sure don't seem new in the PDA department.
On Sunday, the pair were again cozy at the Tribeca Film Festival and Heineken afterparty for her film Take This Waltz – four days after doing the same at a party for his film The Five-Year Engagement.
On Sunday, Williams, 31, arrived at New York City eatery Abe & Arthur's first, with Segel showing up 10 minutes later.
Williams was affectionate throughout the night, touching the back of Segel's head, running her fingers through his hair and gently brushing his hair around his ear. They flirted and laughed together while sipping wine – white for him, red for her.
Williams would often wrap her arm around Segel and hug him. At one point, he made a funny comment, and she grabbed him by the shoulders and made him fall on top of her. They left in separate SUVs after an hour of socializing.
Like Segel's new film, Williams's is about commitment and marriage. In it, the three-time Oscar nominee plays a young wife who is tempted by another man.
"I feel like every project grows me up and changes me," she told PEOPLE on the red carpet. "I hadn't quite hit 30 when I made this movie, and to me that's a big part of what this film is about, making that transition and leaving your girlhood behind and becoming a woman."
Asked about her character's troubles, she replied: "There's many hard parts of relationships. I think that's what the movie's about, but I don't know because I've never been married. I don't really know what those first few years [of marriage] are like, but I hope they're great."
With reporting by JANINE RAYFORD
Michelle Williams & Jason Segel Enjoy Another PDA-Filled Afterparty
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Photo courtesy of Laura Branson
Photo courtesy of Laura Branson
Laura Branson said when her son, Jonathan Craft, was deployed to Afghanistan with the 16th Infantry Regiment for most of 2011, she couldn�t ask him a lot of questions.
�I can�t tell you, Mom,� was his frequent response when she strayed too close to a sensitive topic.
Despite the evasive answers and the obvious danger of his deployment, Branson said, in many ways, she felt better about his safety than she did when he was a teenager back here in Durango.
And she credits the military for that.
As with many teens, Craft, strong-willed and intelligent, struggled to define himself. But his coming of age was more difficult than most and included brushes with the law, dropping out of high school, living on the street, rolling a car and a litany of other behaviors certain to keep any parent worrying into the wee hours.
�He was a mess,� said Branson, who is a nurse at Mercy hospital. Adding later, �for six years, I feared for his life.�
While the possibility of joining the military had come up, it wasn�t until after a prolonged walkabout in the woods that the epiphany fully materialized for Craft.
Once committed, he applied himself with singular focus, excelling at training that was unrelentingly difficult, mentally and physically, his parents said.
Craft, 27, said he wasn�t authorized to be interviewed for this story. Branson and her husband, Jeff Branson, who raised Craft since he was 3, agreed to talk about their experiences but avoided specifics related their son�s time in Afghanistan.
But on one point, they were crystal clear: �We�re so proud, we can hardly stand ourselves.�
Craft and his wife, Samantha Craft, are presently back at Fort Riley, Kan., where he is stationed.
They were married in 2008 after a long courtship that started when she was in middle school in Durango. She later joined the Army as well.
As summer began, Craft was approaching the end of his four-year commitment and considered re-enlistment.
His decision, his mother said, depended on what opportunities he would be presented with.
In late June, he called and, with breezy casualness, told her he had been promoted to sergeant.
�That was very exciting,� she said.
Soon, he�ll be off to train for his new job. Back home, his mother, a member of Blue Star Mothers, couldn�t be more pleased.
STEVE LEWIS/Durango Herald


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UNIVERSITY PARK - Penn State's offensive balance was on display again at the Jordan Center Sunday afternoon. In a 93-67 blowout of Longwood, the Lions overcame a so-so game by star guard Tim Frazier and a sloppy first half to win with ease.
Forwards Brandon Taylor and Ross Travis, along with guard D.J. Newbill, combined 59 points, 25 rebounds and 12 assists as Penn State improved to 4-1 on the season. The Lancers fell to 2-3.
"You can't be just one or two guys," said Newbill, who had 23 points, nine rebounds and seven assists. "All five guys have to come ready to play every day. That's the beauty of our team. ... The depth has really picked up."
Taylor posted a career-high 25 points on the strength of a 5-of-9 effort from the arc. Travis had a double-double early in the second half, and finished with a career-high 13 rebounds to go along with 11 points.
Longwood used a zone defense that allowed multiple men to hedge toward Frazier. He came in averaging 20.5 points and more than 13 shots per game. Yet he didn't force anything Sunday. He took only six shots (making four) and finished with eight assists.
"When have you ever seen your best player take only six shots and continue to look for others?" third-year coach Pat Chambers asked his team after the game. "He took good shots. He didn't force anything. To me, that's a big-time leader."
"That's how much of a great player he is," Newbill added. "He can impact a game without even scoring."
Penn State did not play particularly well in the first half. The Lions had nine turnovers and made only one of eight 3-pointers. But they played hard, led by Travis' six points and nine boards, and still managed to take a 37-27 lead into the locker room.
"It was nice for me to see that we could still play hard without making shots," Chambers said.
The made shots would come in the second half. The team was 1 of 13 from the arc at one point, but then Taylor found his range. He bombed in four treys, including one from NBA distance.
"For this team to be good, I'm going to have to knock down shots when Tim and D.J. penetrate into the gaps," Taylor said.
His shooting opened things up inside for the slashing Newbill, who went 7 of 10 from the floor and 8 of 11 from the stripe. He was a physical mismatch for the Lancer guards, too, with five offensive rebounds.
"Our offense is clicking right now, we're hitting shots," Newbill said. "Our offensive spacing is beautiful right now."
It amounted to a 56-point second half, PSU's most in a single period since hanging 60 on Gardner-Webb in the final 20 minutes in December of 2009.
According to first-year Lancer coach Jayson Gee, the key to Penn State's offense is the ability of big men like Taylor to hit 3-pointers.
"I don't know how Big Ten defenders are going to come out and defend that," he said. "On a hot (shooting) night, I think they can beat anybody."
They obviously could beat Longwood, as the second-half margin grew as wide as 30 (85-55) before Chambers cleared his bench with three minutes remaining. But it is difficult to gauge just how good the Lancers are. Their resume includes an 82-79 win at TCU. But it also features an 81-69 home loss to Brown.
Chambers is just happy to see different players stepping up in different games. If someone is a bit off, someone else may be a bit more on.
In other words, you never know who might explode.
"As you can see, the confidence is building in each guy," Chambers said.
Game notes: Guard Isaac Belton led Longwood with 17 off the bench. ... Penn State won the battle of the boards, 36-24. ... After committing nine turnovers in the first half, the Lions only had two in the second. ... With students gone for Thanksgiving break, the crowd was listed at only 4,261. ... Penn State plays host to Monmouth at 6 p.m. Tuesday. The game can been seen on BTN.
LONGWOOD (2-3): Ziegler 0-4 6-6 6, Havenstein 0-1 0-0 0, Fisher 2-6 2-2 6, Woodhouse 3-9 0-0 8, Carey 5-12 0-0 13, Allen 0-0 1-2 1, Belton 4-10 7-8 17, Dublin 7-10 2-4 16, Geter 0-0 0-2 0. Totals 21-52 18-24 67.
PENN ST. (4-1): Jack 1-2 0-0 2, Taylor 9-16 2-2 25, Travis 4-9 3-4 11, Newbill 7-10 8-11 23, Frazier 4-6 1-1 9, Woodward 2-4 1-2 7, Roberts 3-6 1-1 8, Thorpe 1-1 2-2 4, Montminy 0-0 0-0 0, Cooper 0-0 0-0 0, Wisniewski 0-0 0-0 0, Moore 1-2 2-2 4. Totals 32-56 20-25 93.
Halftime-Penn St. 37-27. 3-Point Goals-Longwood 7-20 (Carey 3-8, Belton 2-5, Woodhouse 2-5, Fisher 0-2), Penn St. 9-24 (Taylor 5-9, Woodward 2-3, Roberts 1-4, Newbill 1-4, Frazier 0-1, Jack 0-1, Travis 0-2). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Longwood 24 (Woodhouse, Ziegler 5), Penn St. 36 (Travis 13). Assists-Longwood 9 (Woodhouse 5), Penn St. 25 (Frazier 8). Total Fouls-Longwood 21, Penn St. 20. A-4,261.


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Earlier treatments, longer treatments and smarter treatments will "become the standard of care for myeloma patients," said Brian G.M. Durie, M.D., Chairman and Co-founder of the IMF, about the myeloma research presented at this year's annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH), which begins Saturday in New Orleans. "The IMF will be hosting several educational events at ASH and two Webcasts for people who cannot get to New Orleans in person," added IMF President and Co-founder Susie Novis. "We remain committed to supporting myeloma patients in the United States and around the world – through research, education and advocacy." READ MORE HERE
Tune in as the IMF brings myeloma support group leaders and patients to New Orleans for the 55th annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH). Follow the IMF ASH team members on social media as they ramp up to share the latest clinical updates in myeloma research, therapies, and practice strategies via Twitter (#ASH13IMF), Facebook, blogs and videos. READ MORE
Myeloma Canada, an international affiliated partner of the IMF, is participating in a Canadian government funding review process for the treatment of myeloma with pomalidomide (Pomalyst®) and needs our help. To participate in this review process, Myeloma Canada needs to gather information from myeloma patients and caregivers who have experience with pomalidomide. If you or someone you care for has used pomalidomide, please take 20 minutes to complete this survey. The close date and time for the survey is 5:00 p.m. Friday, December 20th, 2013. Thank you! READ MORE
The IMF is thrilled to announce that the Myeloma Foundation of Australia has now become affiliated with the IMF. Brian Rosengarten, a pharmacist, helped start the organization 15 years ago after his wife Roslyn was diagnosed with myeloma. Today, the group has divisions in Victoria, South Australia and New South Wales. We are honored to be aligned with this great organization, whose mission is "to facilitate myeloma research… to support and inform those living with the disease and educate those involved in its care and treatment." Welcome to the family!
The deadline to enroll in a new health insurance marketplace has been extended from December 15 to December 23 for coverage beginning January 1, 2014. The IMF knows how difficult shopping for insurance can be with cancer and we want to remind you of the resources we have to help you. We have launched a new site with the most supportive information we can find for myeloma patients regarding health care reform. Along with 19 other cancer organizations, we have put together the Cancer Insurance Checklist to help you compare which plan is right for you. Use this helpful decision-making tool and the Multiple Myeloma Insurance Questionnaire to make sure your special needs are covered. CHECK OUT OUR NEW PAGE