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The 7 Types of Friend Everyone Needs
Just like a superhero team or jewel thief gang needs each member to specialize in a different skill set, a good circle of friends also needs a wide range of useful skills. While a superhero team might need a guy who is superstrong and a guy who has a lot of gadgets, your friend team might consist of a guy who can get you discounts at the Best Buy and a guy who's totally cool with feeding your cats when you're out.
When I suggest assembling such a team, I'm not suggesting you go around preying on emotionally vulnerable people who can do useful things for you and pretend to be their friend. I'm just saying that if you happen to run into some cool people you enjoy hanging out with, who also own a pickup truck, don't take them for granted.
Sure, you can have friends that are just fun people, or that you are fond of for no logical reason, but that doesn't mean you don't also want to have friends such as:
The Friend With a Pickup Truck
Everyone has to move sometime, and even if you don't, you probably are going to go on Craigslist and buy a TV or a couch or a caged bear sometime, and have to pick it up. Sooner or later, you are going to reach the limit of what you can carry in the trunk with the backseats folded down.
This is way past it.
That's where the friend with the pickup truck comes in. You can take that IKEA box or bear cage that you've been unsuccessfully trying to stuff in your Civic for the past hour and just toss it in their truckbed.
This is a friendship you really have to be careful with, though. Pickup truck owners in circles of friends who mostly don't have pickup trucks usually tend to feel a little used, especially if they have trouble saying no. If you spot a look of terror in their eyes when you ask, "Hey, you have a pickup truck, don't you?" you might want to step lightly.
That look.
You can bake them some cookies or take them out to dinner, but you probably want to make sure you can pay them back with something that's equally hard on you and helpful for them, like helping them hide a prostitute they killed, or maybe just something else on this list.
If you're in high school, this can probably be expanded to just "the friend with a car."
The Friend Who "Knows About Computers"
This is the Internet, so I'm sure a lot of you are into computers yourselves, but there's also a lot of people like me who get bored to tears reading about technical details of graphics cards, processors, audio equipment and the like. It's not that we're necessarily too dumb to understand the principles, but I personally can't stay awake while comparing benchmark tests on Tom's Hardware or reading a debate on the best way to overclock something.
The coffee, it does nothing.
I do need to occasionally buy a computer or computer parts, in order to play a fun game or do some 3D graphics work, which, while also technical, apparently requires a totally different kind of brain than the kind that is fascinated by hardware specs.
"But you can get all that information on the Internet now," you might say. "Unless you are some kind of slow grandma type who doesn't know what Google is." But it's not exactly right at your fingertips. Outside of the occasional CNET or PC Magazinecomparison article (which is so occasional that the category you're looking for is usually a year or so out of date), there's nowhere you can go to find out quickly what's the "best" printer or monitor.
Is it the biggest one?
Tom's Hardware might have tests on three of the things you're looking at, while CNET has a brief comparison of five things from last year, only two of which are still on the market, while you have to piece together how good the other ones are based on a hodgepodge of single reviews from random other sites and some shitty, unreliable user reviews.
This is why I had Pat. Pat was a friend of mine who would read this stuff all the time and loved it. I could have made fun of him for enjoying something I thought was boring, or I could tell him I needed a new graphics card that could play World of Warcraft but didn't need to play Crysis (this was a while ago) and 10 minutes later he would send me a link of exactly the right thing to get, and I would learn to celebrate the differences that make us human. Making fun of people for liking different things can be a great time, but it does close a lot of doors.
Weirdo? Or someone who can teach you a valuable lesson in how to tell the difference between a woman and a "woman"?
Aside from purchases, obviously your computer-knowing friend can help you fix your computer if it's broken. Sure, you could take it to the Geek Squad, but you have to pay them money, and who knows what they're doing to your computer in the back room when you're gone.
I'm just saying, you don't know.
Just because you don't have to pay your friend, though, doesn't mean you don't have to show some gratitude. Computer-fixing friends can feel just as put-upon as pickup truck friends. If they don't need a murder covered up, maybe you could find something else they'd like. For Pat, I spent years helping him achieve a goal that was strangely important to him -- trying to understand "Yours til Niagara Falls" jokes -- because sometimes when you are really good at computers, you can be a bit behind on other things.
Don't shut this out if you're a computer expert yourself. There's bound to be some area of expertise you don't have a handle on -- maybe home improvement or cars or understanding a very narrow genre of corny jokes. I'm sure someone would be willing to arrange a trade.
The Friend Who Can Watch Your Kids or Pets
If you have kids, or pets, you might someday want to go to one of the thousands of places pets aren't allowed, or one of the millions of places it's inconvenient to bring kids. Since leaving them alone means you'll probably return to a destroyed house where everyone's been electrocuted by chewed wiring, somebody needs to watch the little monsters.
Or maybe they'll invite all their friends over for a cocaine party or whatever the kids are doing these days.
Just like fictional detectives, you often have trouble finding someone with both motive and opportunity. It's not that hard to find someone to come by and feed your cats -- but caring for a dog starts to become a serious chore, and taking care of kids is a full-time thing. Even if someone is willing, they've got to have enough experience to handle emergencies, and the kid or animal has to like them enough not to shit on their carpet or bite them. There is only one other person that's able to enter my house without my black cat spazzing out and running for cover as if the house is being raided by Nazis.
If you're lucky, parents or relatives can step in, if they live near you, and if they're not terrible people you're afraid to leave your kids with. This is the opportunity problem, where the people most willing to do it live far away from you or work full-time (or possibly are in jail).
"So, uh, do you think you'd be able to watch my dog for a week?"
If you somehow find a friend who isn't working, knows how to take care of kids/pets and is willing to give several days of their life to watching over your kids/pets, do not lose this friend. If they have an annoying laugh or say "irregardless" all the time, just let it go. You should even go watch The Notebook or Epic Movie with them if they ask you.
Otherwise you will never go on vacation again.
The Friend "In The Industry"
If you want a job in the movie business, you probably know that you've got to know somebody. This somebody will direct you to people you can show your script to, or boobs to, to get a job. What a lot of people don't realize is that it's the same way even if you're in an ordinary, nonglamorous industry, like insurance or accounting.
These days, you need connections to get a job mopping floors.
There's a commonly accepted myth that you get "regular jobs" by finding ads on Monster.com or on the company's website and sending in your resume, and then going through the whole interview and urine test circus. The truth is that something like 80 percent of jobs aren't advertised. Some are internal hires, but a lot are filled through referrals and networking, where someone turns in a resume for a friend, or a friend's nephew's tennis partner or something.
I've been in on a number of hiring decisions, and the part about how qualified you are goes pretty quick -- they just look at your experience and education and portfolio, if applicable, and take a reasonable gamble. What they're digging for in interviews and references is usually some kind of assurance that you're not crazy and you won't be a drama queen. If someone within the company can vouch for you, this really puts you ahead because a testimonial from a trusted co-worker that you aren't crazy is a lot stronger guarantee for the hiring manager than trying to read between the lines of your resume or throwing bizarre lateral thinking questions at you in an interview.
Maybe one of those things where there's two doors guarded by a brother who always tells the truth and a brother who always lies.
You don't just need an insider for the connections, either. From the outside, it's easy to be really misled about what kind of jobs in an industry are easy to get, which jobs you'd actually want and what jobs even exist. A lot of people going into CG claim to want to be an "animator" -- which is entirely the wrong title for a lot of the work they want to do -- and are picturing a creative, goofy environment with people riding scooters and shooting Nerf guns at each other all the time, when most of the entry-level jobs are going to be in what are basically first-world sweatshops.
Where you only get two massages a week. No, I'm kidding, they're actually sort of horrible.
Here is a story for you if you doubt the power of connections: I went to animation school with an asshole who gradually went insane over the course of the program. His animation was appalling, and when any teachers or students called him on it, he had a hissy fit and complained they were trying to sabotage him. However, he had a brother-in-law who was a lead animator at EA, and used him to get a plum animator job straight out of school. His brother-in-law probably regretted it, and apparently the EA folks had to spend some time beating some sense into the new guy, but he's still there. Next time you see some shitty animation in an EA game, remind yourself to try to make some friends in your dream industry.


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So you understand incorrectly. Franzen's contract (as well as Hank's & Kronner's) is covered by the Cap Advantage Recapture clause, also known as the Roberto Luongo Rule, in the new CBA. If a player signed a 7 year+ deal prior to Jan 2013 & retires before the expiration of the contract, the potion of the contract that was considered a cap advantage (years where actual salary exceeded the cap hit) is recaptured over the remaining years of the actual contract. So for example, if Franzen were to retire after the 2015-16 season, he would have been paid $36m over the course of 7 seasons but the cap hit was only $27,681,815. The difference would apply evenly over the course of the final 4 years of Franzen's contract, meaning the Wings would take a $2.08m cap hit for Franzen starting the 2016-17 season & he would finally come off the books after 2019-20.
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Parsons City Council heard from the Cheat River Water Trail Committee Tuesday about the designation of a water trail that will stretch through Tucker County.
Janet Preston, a member of the committee, explained the basic ideas and principles behind the water trail, and addressed concerns brought up by council members about the trail creation.
"It's a way of making use of the river, (to) promote the river and make use of the river easier for the public," Preston said. "It's an effort to designate certain access points and display what you can do along the river."
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Preston said the trail will begin in Hendricks and extend to Rowlesburg, a 39.4 mile stretch.
The Water Trail Committee is attempting to gain support for the creation of access points along the Cheat River, she said. This will include basic access to the river, handicap access and educational items such as kiosks and maps.
Basic river access, she said, will be limited to roads and ramps that allow patrons to enter the river by foot and carry in small boats, such as canoes.
Preston was clear about her committee not creating any ramps that will be suitable for motor boats.
"That, at the moment, is not our goal," she said. "Let's bring people's focus to where it's safe to enter the river.
"We are working to develop two handicap-accessible sites along the river," Preston said.
Kiosks will provide information about the surrounding area and can display maps of the river, she said. In addition, separate handouts can include maps and information about the area as a whole, such as places to eat or nearby lodging locations.
"Our biggest cost right now," Preston said, "is the production of a map."
She said her committee intends to include GPS coordinates for access points so they can be easily found in that manner.
The Water Trail Committee is currently applying for grants to help fund the project.
Councilmen Tim Auvil and Hoy Roy expressed their support of the concept.
"I'm in full favor of this," Auvil said.
"I think that it's a good idea on your part," Roy said.
Council passed a vote on a resolution of support for the creation of the trail.
Also during Tuesday's meeting:
- Roger Poling, representing the Tygarts Valley Conservation District and state Conservation Agency, spoke to council about a proposed stream restoration project at Mill Race Park in Parsons.
The WVCA is attempting to address issues at the park concerning aesthetics, maintenance and mosquitoes, Poling said.
He said the agency wants to expand the existing wetland by turning it into an educational area that is more public friendly.
"Right now, it's just in the planning stage," he said.
The planning stage includes finding out the best ways to deal with each issue listed above.
Poling said the creation of deeper water at the upper end of existing channels in the park and the introduction of animal species that are natural predators of mosquitoes can help to fight an infestation of mosquitoes.
Flora can be planted to create a more aesthetically pleasing environment, he said. And self-paced educational materials, such as signs and information kiosks, can help visitors learn about the surrounding environment.
Council voted to support the Conservation Agency in their attempts to get estimated costs and, once costs are realized, apply for necessary grants.
Any larger role that may be played by the council, Auvil said, will be determined once cost estimates and grants have been secured.
- Council voted to purchase new security cameras for the Charles W. Rosenau Municipal Building.
"These are industrial-type cameras," said City Administrator Jason Myers. "The clarity of the cameras is outstanding."
Council documents list the cameras as being purchased specifically for the main hallway, police room, city safe and parking lot area.
The Community Oriented Policing Services grant, which was scheduled to be used by the end of this year, will be used to purchase the cameras.
Leftover funds initially allocated for HVAC installation in the city building will be reallocated to pay for security camera installation.
-Council approved a holiday stipend of $100 for each active city employee.


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By Alan Stahler
Special to The Union
A typical hurricane packs a punch of some three trillion watts - as much power as could be generated by three thousand large coal or nuclear plants.
A truly monstrous hurricane can deliver ten times as much.
A hurricane over land is a bull in a china shop. As the bull charges from one shop to another, meteorologists try to predict where it will hit next.
Earth's tropics absorb more sunlight than do the poles. The tropics would grow infinitely hot, but for the fact that warm air rises. Heated by the land and water beneath it, warm air rises up from the tropics and flows toward the poles. Cooler air flows out from the poles to replace the air leaving the tropics.
Earth's spin puts an east-west twist on these flows, turning them, for instance, into the prevailing westerlies that blow storms out of the Pacific and into California.
As great currents of air blow over the oceans, they set the waters in motion. The Gulf Stream carries warm sub-tropical water up the eastern seaboard, moderating temperatures on the east coast and in Europe. The California Current brings cold Alaskan waters down the west coast.
In tropical and sub-tropical latitudes, atmospheric circulation manifests as the east-to-west Trade Winds, which carried sailing ships from Europe to the new world.
The Trades also carry hurricanes east-to-west, across the Atlantic.
Not all of the air warmed by the sea escapes to the poles. As warm, moist air rises, it cools; as it cools, water vapor condenses to form clouds (much as water vapor in your breath condenses when you blow into a freezer).
It takes energy to turn liquid water to vapor (water won't boil unless you put it on the stove). When water vapor condenses Ð when it changes from gas back to liquid Ð it releases that very same energy. Newly-formed cloud droplets thus warm the air around them.
Re-warmed by the energy of condensing cloud droplets, the air in the cloud resumes its ascent.
Warm air rises, and cools ... water vapor in the air condenses, forming clouds, and re-warming the air ... a cycle emerges, and a towering thundercloud climbs into the sky.
Thunderstorms are a daily occurrence in the tropics. Most of the time, they grow, rage, and die. But if conditions are right , multiple thunderstorms may merge into a tropical storm.
If such conditions endure, the tropical storm may grow into a hurricane.
Just burning wood, or coal, or gasoline won't by itself get you from here to there. For that, you need an engine - a machine that transforms the energy of heat into the energy of motion. A car engine is such a heat engine.
A hurricane, too, is a heat engine, transforming the ocean's warmth (and the energy carried within its water vapor) into the fierce motion of wind.
It's hard to think of something composed mostly of air as an object, yet that is what a hurricane/heat engine is: an object that can be pushed from place to place by the wind.
Like leaves carried this way and that by currents in a stream, hurricanes are driven by the currents of air in which they're embedded. The Trade Winds carry the storms across the Atlantic. Approaching North America, the hurricane may feel a northward thrust from the Bermuda High, a huge mountain of air that spins clockwise over the Atlantic ... and causes hurricanes to hook to the north.
Just as a wildfire creates its own weather as it sucks in the surrounding air, hurricanes spin up the air around themselves, creating whirlpools of air that, in turn, can nudge the hurricane this way or that.
High and low pressure systems, such as those that bring storms to California, also push or a pull on a hurricane. Three years ago, a low over the Midwest sucked hurricane Katrina inland ... and into New Orleans.
Since it is the sun that energizes Earth's atmosphere, our atmosphere's motions respond to where the sun is in the sky - to the seasons. Hurricane paths evolve as summer and fall progress. The Gulf is most likely to be hit in September.
I spoke recently with Kerry Emanuel, professor of meteorology at MIT, and author of "Divine Wind," a book on hurricanes. Our conversation will air on KVMR next Tuesday at 1 p.m.
Alan's radio program, "Soundings," can be heard on KVMR, 89.5 FM, on alternate Tuesdays, at noon. He offers private classes in science, math and writing, and may be reached at 470.8937, or at email@example.com


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The Tonys honor Broadway's best. This year's top nominees include the musicals Fela!" and La Cage aux Folles, with 11 nods each, and the revival of the drama Fences, starring Denzel Washington, with 10.
"I am absolutely thrilled to be hosting the Tony Awards," Hayes, 39, said in a statement. "As the new guy on Broadway, it's an honor to be included in the established alumni."
Hayes was also the subject of a controversial Newsweek essay on April 26, in which journalist Ramin Setoodeh suggested that gay actors (Hayes has recently come out) could not be believed in straight roles. The reaction was swift and severe.
Hayes's Promises costar, Kristin Chenoweth, led the charge, labeling Setoodeh's position "moronic."
All-Star RosterBesides Hayes and Washington, other familiar names nominated for Tonys this season include Jude Law in Hamlet; Alfred Molina, in Red; Liev Schreiber in A View from the Bridge; Christopher Walken in A Behanding in Spokane; Kelsey Grammer in La Cage; Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury in A Little Night Music; Linda Lavin in Collected Stories; and Valerie Harper in Looped.
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5 Psychological Flaws That Warp the Way You See the World
#2. You Don't Learn from Your Mistakes
Sometimes we make mistakes.
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But that's cool. After all, we have to fail to get better, right? We can all think of times in our lives when we were new and sucky at something and kept screwing up, but then slowly and slowly got better at it. Inspirational music may have been playing. There may have been some splashing around on the beach in some tiny clothes, too.
Regardless of how much homoerotic clutching is in your personal success story, the lesson was that it was the failures that made us better.
Except no, no, no they didn't. We learn far more from success than we do failure. MIT scientists hooked up something to a monkey's brain, a laser probably, and then watched as the monkey tried various activities successfully and unsuccessfully. They found that every success registered brain activity that influenced later attempts in a way that failures didn't. Failures didn't seem to do anything. Doing something right made it far easier for the monkey to do it right again in the future.
So what then to make of the old advice? Well, I'd suggest it might better be rephrased "We learn by trying again." (Assuming you have the common sense to not fail the same way twice.)
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Success! No, wait ...
At a higher level, we can look at another one of those pesky cognitive biases, in this case the choice-supportive bias. This is what happens when you make a choice and then immediately seek out justifications that you made the right choice. Evidence that supports the choice is promoted over evidence that suggests otherwise. (If you've ever met anyone who bought a Mac, you'll have seen this one in action.) What makes this so insidious is that in cases where the choice was actually and objectively a mistake, it's incredibly difficult to figure that out, because your own damned brain will fight like hell to prevent you from seeing it.
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If you've ever met anyone who installed Linux, you'll have seen this, too.
#1. Overconfidence
And yet, despite all of the preposterous shortcuts our brains take, usually without telling us, our brains don't seem to lack for confidence. We probably even have an excess of it. For example, when people say they're 100 percent certain of something, there's probably about an 80 percent chance they're right. Ninety-three percent of us seem to think we're above-average drivers. And apparently 84 percent of all Frenchmen consider themselves above-average lovers.
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Which is statistically unlikely, but scientists have been unable to attach enough lasers to French women's vaginas to be sure.
We all seem to think we're above average at everything we do, and bizarrely, we grow even more confident in our abilities the less we know about something. As Charles Darwin, a man made famous for killing God, and certainly no stranger to confidence, once stated:
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge."
More formally, this is called the Dunning-Kruger effect. There are a few possible causes for this, but basically, if you're doing something that you're totally incompetent at, you might be so bad at it that you don't even know you're doing it wrong. The decision-making processes you use to answer a question are the same processes that you'd use to evaluate whether it's right or not. We don't just not see our blind spots, we don't know they exist. It's yet another way we don't learn from our mistakes.
But even the ultra-competent can be prone to overconfidence. Consider the case of surgeons, who are by most measures above average at most of the things they do.
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But not, sadly, at lovemaking.
But surgeons are still human and inevitably make mistakes. Instruments get left in patients, surgeries get started without the right supplies, leg bones get attached to the neck bone. It's a serious problem, and people have, haha, actually died because of it.
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The instruments left in patients thing. Not this. That was actually a joke.
A really easy way of minimizing these avoidable errors is by using checklists. Is the patient here? Check. Are there enough leeches? Check. That kind of thing. Basically, pages and pages of utterly obvious bookkeeping, the kind of stuff any expert already knows how to do. Boring though they may be, the airline industry uses checklists for everything, and it's one of the reasons why airlines have such preposterously good safety records.
And yet when a surgeon tried to implement checklists in various hospitals, he encountered significant resistance among the surgeons he suggested it to. They considered checklists pedantic and insulting, a waste of their time, full of things they already knew how to do. The very idea that they could forget the 18th step in a 57-step surgery, a pretty plausible-sounding error that happens all the time, was unthinkable to them.
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"I did not go to school for eight years to be treated like I was fallible. NOW KISS MY GOD DAMNED RING."
And so there you have it. Dumb or smart, you're basically doomed to fuck up at everything you do. The only solution is apparently to use a checklist, which is boring and insulting and something you're not gonna want to do.
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Hell, for all I know, you'll probably just eat the fucking thing.
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We've done OK out there this year. Nothing special, but better for us than last year.
Last time out, we found piles of fish in 60-70 feet. Caught a few, couldn't release them, and stopped fishing them. Got a couple jig rapping shallower, got a few trolling, and got a few on spinners. No one pattern got skunked, but nothing stood out, either.
Sorry for the late response....I suspect not many folks are building skid houses these days.
Our houses have steel skids. One had wood, but we changed them out.
if you ever need another shooter let me know I would be down to shoot with you
Like the food and like the menu. Like the fact there are places to eat on the lake and will continue to support them.1 person likes this
Thanks, cigar guy. Might check into it next year. Or maybe not. They always used to have some expensive entrees but we just ignored them.
Even 12 for a burger is sort of high for the area, but the view is worth something. Probably stay with the Crescent. I don't see how there are enough tourists for the landing to make it.
I have put my guide clients on lots of pike this summer. So far largest bass is 21"- 5lbs Pike 36" Approx. 8-9lbs, Walleye is 23 inches 3lbs. The walleyes will get better as the water cools. Time to start jigging, everything you got. I'm even started using my crankbaits.
I'm a local and yes we boycott the place. Friends have been told that they aren't wanted there that they only want the tourist business. Wife and I boat to Wolf Bay when we go out. We live 2 miles from the landing and wish it was still run by Jack.
Well I made a decision to put the trolling rods away and go do some jigging. It seemed to be a good one. I concentrated on rocky transition areas. I had three slot fish in an hour. Went back in for some VC pizza and picked my kids up and went back out for a evening trolling run and that produced as well. You have to love this lake.2 people like this
We have friends up and they wanted to take us out for dinner, via the boat. With the wind, the only place was the landing, I tried vetoing It, but lost out. Had $12.00 burger and fries. Very good and the service was fast-only 8 others in the dinning area and a few at the bar. I checked the prices on the wings-$16.00 for 1-1/2lbs. Del, they had a pretty good burger menu. I asked about the 20% off deal and the waiter blew me off and said he didn't know anything about it. I asked who I should talk to, he said the manager or the owner. We paid the bill and left without asking. I liked it a few winters ago when they had ,25 wings and 2.00 beers.
seen enough grouse to keep me interested, lots of turkeys, seems they and the deer are everywhere this fall. did not here much shooting from the duck hunters though.


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Safe Electricity Shares Tips on Scald Prevention and Water Heating Safety
(SPRINGFIELD, ILL.)—Burns are among the most painful injuries and are responsible for sending thousands of people to hospitals each year. In observance of National Burn Awareness Week (Feb. 3-9), Safe Electricity encourages you to learn about scald prevention and water heating safety, as well as other electrical safety tips.
Hot liquids and steam are responsible for scalding burns. Cooking, hot beverages, tap water, and bath water can all cause scalds. In fact, half of all burn injuries at emergency rooms are scalds, and most of those victims are young children. Scalds are painful and can cause lifelong scars and even death.
"In a matter of seconds you can become a victim of a life-changing scald," says Molly Hall, director of the Energy Education Council's Safe Electricity program. "A simple water heater adjustment can not only help prevent these tragedies, but it can also help you save money through energy efficiency."
To prevent scalds, it is a good idea to start at the source of the hot water. Water heaters keep a supply of stand-by water so that hot water is available instantly. Much of the cost of water heating comes from keeping water warm and ready for when you turn on the faucet. On a normal water heater, you can set the temperature from 120 to 180 degrees Fahrenheit. At 155 F, scalding can occur in just one second. Dial your hot water heater down to 120 F to reduce scald risk and to save money on standby heating costs.
Even with cooler water, it is still important to practice caution around hot liquids and steam, especially around children. "Make sure children know not to play in the kitchen when you are cooking," says Hall. "Use sealed travel mugs, and turn pots so curious hands cannot grab the handle."
If someone you know experiences a scald, immediately remove the scalding source and remove affected clothing. Briefly rinse the scald in cold water-not in lotion or ointment. Apply a dry covering to the burn that will not leave thread or other residue in the burn. Seek medical assistance for severe burns.
Burn Awareness Week is also a good time to learn how you can help prevent other types of household burns, including electrical burns. Household wiring problems and damaged electronics increase the risk of shocks, burns, and fires. Discolored outlet covers, frequently tripped circuit breakers, flickering lights, and a persistent burning smell all indicate major electrical dangers. Hire a qualified electrician to inspect and repair your home. Be careful with space heaters and electric blankets, especially with children in the home. Never use damaged electronics or cords that are frayed or cracked. Do not repair electrical equipment that is plugged in. Even if an appliance is unplugged, if it has capacitors it has shock potential. Do not work on appliances if you do not have a firm understanding of electricity.For more information on preventing electrical shocks and burns, visit SafeElectricity.org.
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"Our home videos are pretty self-evident that these kids loved to shake, rattle and roll," their dad, Bruce Hough, tells PEOPLE.
Now the siblings, who gained fame on ABC's Dancing with the Stars, are doing just that on their summer Move Live on Tour, selling out venues across the country.
But as Julianne, 25, and Derek, 29, recount in PEOPLE's new cover story, the success they've found on the dance floor came at a hefty price.
When Julianne was just 10 and Derek was 13, they left their sheltered life in Utah, as well as their three older sisters and parents (who were then going through a divorce), for the prestigious London dance school Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts to train as ballroom dance pros.
Moving in with family friends Shirley and Corky Ballas (whose son Mark also became a DWTS pro), they endured a grueling schedule that had them leaving the house every morning at 6:45, taking the subway by themselves and heading to school. "I remember one of my first days there I got off at the wrong train station," Julianne says. "I was just standing there thinking, 'Where am I?' "
They battled homesickness, and young Julianne especially struggled with the pressure of trying to fit into the mature world of ballroom dance. Thanks to her spray tans and competition makeup, "When I look back, I think it's so sad I have no pictures of me with a cute, bare, 10-year-old face," she says.
But today, the two agree that their success is due to the sacrifices they made as kids and their years of hard work.
"People will say, 'How could your parents let you go off to do that?' " Derek says. "I think it's great that they saw an amazing opportunity. That is the reason we are here today."
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WBB Celebrates Season at End of the Year Banquet
MUNCIE, Ind. – Ball State head women's basketball coach Brady Sallee announced the team's award winners for the 2013-2014 season at the annual Women's Basketball Banquet, which was held Saturday night at the Alumni Center.
The Cardinals ended the season with an 18-17 overall mark and a 9-9 Mid-American Conference ledger. After a thrilling run to the 2014 MAC Tournament championship game, Ball State extended an at-large invitation to play in the 64-team Women's National Invitation Tournament. The Cardinals WNIT run was cut short after Ball State suffered a close 69-65 loss at Northwestern, March 20.
Sallee, who completed his second season at Ball State, became only the second coach in program history to take the Cardinals to back-to-back WNITs. The last time it happened was 2001-02 and 2002-03 under former head coach Tracy Roller.
The Cardinals became postseason eligible by winning seven of their final eight games en route to advancing to the MAC Tournament championship game for the first time since winning it all in 2009. In the semifinals of the MAC Tournament, Ball State scored a thrilling 73-55 win over 25th-ranked Bowling Green. The Cardinals then lost to No. 3 seed Akron 79-68 in the title game.
The Tom Hammond Memorial Media or Fan Appreciation Award was given to Mike and Jackie Johnston. The Feeney Memorial Scholarship, which goes to a deserving women's basketball player who has demonstrated passion and commitment to basketball and academics, was presented to Shelby Merder. The Amy Lindsay Fuller Memorial Scholarship, awarded to a team member who is competitive, the ultimate teammate, loves the game of basketball and life, and is a person of great humor, that award was given to Haley Richardson.
Brandy Woody was recognized after earning MAC Player of the Week honors this season (12/30). Two Cardinals, including Woody, were placed on the postseason award list. Woody received All-MAC Honorable Mention, while Nathalie Fontaine was named Second Team All-MAC. Woody and Shelbie Justice earned 2014 MAC All-Tournament team honors.
Fontaine received the Warrior Award for being the biggest fighter and battling for the team all throughout the season. Woody was presented with the Blood, Sweat and Tears Award for the second straight season, because of her hard work and for being the toughest player. Katie Murphy earned the Coaches Award and Justice was given the Cardinal Award.
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i saw this thread on HFboards a few days ago. someone asked if any wings fan would give up on buying tickets to the games due to the cleary signing, and some posters said they'd downright not watch games on television anymore.
i'm just curious, will anyone here tank the games this year? i personally will watch the games but probably won't attend one.
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It�s billed as �Where History Meets Art,� but the title should probably be �Where Herstory Meets Art: An Homage to the Women of Southwest Colorado.�
The Animas Museum�s new quilt exhibit features most of its collection of 18 quilts, which were either made in the area or brought here. They cover about a century, from the late 1800s to 1980s, with everything from the utilitarian to ornate.
Quilts tell the story of women�s lives and times as well as displaying their creative talent.
Heather Lundquist served as the guest curator, with Susan Hilton Jones assisting. (Jones was busy this spring � she guest curated the museum�s other summer 2012 exhibit �Forged by Flame,� a history of fire in our area, very apt with this scary summer we�re having. But I digress.)
Every quilt tells a story, but most stories are incomplete. Two doll quilts were donated by Judith McDaniel Harris. They probably belonged to Barbara Turner McDaniel, who played with them in the 1930s, but the maker of both is unknown. The smaller one was used with her doll Carolyn Virginia. (This is a great example of the mysteries surrounding many of the quilts. We know the doll�s name but not the maker�s.)
The exhibit includes a few crazy quilts, made using scraps of fine material, so they�re deteriorating a little, and full of embroidery and symbols. One, possibly made by Sara Schafer, was rescued by Lola Davis from Schafer�s trash. Shafer�s husband owned or operated a mine up Junction Creek and served as La Plata County sheriff at one time. Viewers are asked to play a little game with this quilt. Can you find a frog? A bumblebee? A cat?
The quilt even makes a bit of a political statement, campaigning for the Grover Cleveland-James Hendricks ticket in 1884.
Helen Ruth Aspaas donated another crazy quilt, this one made by some of her family members, Annetta Johnson Aspaas, Minnie Aspaas, Sadie Price Aspaas and Lucy B. Gray. The Aspaas family was one of the first to settle in the Animas Valley after the signing of the Brunot Treaty in 1873. In an ironic twist, the fire exhibit includes information about the loss of the trading post in Ignacio founded by Hans Aspaas to fire. His name is embroidered on the quilt, as are the family�s pet�s names, including that perennial favorite, Spot.
Helen Ruth Aspaas also donated a comforter-style quilt once used a cover the ranch cats� winter quarters and a double wedding-ring quilt made for Laura Belle Boyce by her sister Ruby after Laura Belle married Carl Aspaas in 1946.
Joan Isgar Kellogg donated two quilts from her family, both made by Helen Elizabeth Hetherington Isgar before 1936. Born in Toronto in 1863, Hetherington Isgar married Durango businessman George Isgar in 1889, and she was known for always having a quilting frame set up in her house.
Margaret Ptolemy�s roots go way back in the area and so do her gifts to the museum. She donated a crazy quilt that had belonged to her Aunt Cora VirginiaCarpenter, which was probably a gift from Carpenter�s grandmother�s sister Virginia Hiltman in England.
Ptolemy also donated a treadle sewing machine from circa 1914 that is a work of art itself. The sewing machine belonged to Cecilia Bobbie Ptolemy, the wife of Silverton Mayor Robert Ptolemy. Family members also used it in Mancos, Cortez and Durango.
The Animas Museum has fine examples of signature quilts in its collection. Alix Ferguson, an AmeriCorps volunteer, conducted a great deal of research about the signatories.
Victoria S. Day, the widow of Durango Democrat Publisher David Day and a force in her own right, signed not one, not two, but four squares on one quilt, which may have been created as a fundraiser.
Another friendship quilt was created by the ladies of the Florida Grange in the 1930s. It belonged to Avery (Foster) Brown, donor Marie Spencer Wells� grandmother.
Jeanne Park donated an unfinished quilt top, and several quilts� provenance (that�s history in museum talk) may never be known.
The most modern quilt in the exhibit was created by the La Plata Cowbelles in 1980 for the centennial of Durango. (The official date of the founding was in 1881, when the town incorporated, but Durango was a hopping place by the end of 1880.) It includes scenes from our history and used the Cowbelles� traditional brown and cream color scheme, the same the group uses for its annual fundraising brand quilts.
On Curator of Collections Jan Poster�s wish list for the quilt collection? One made of flour sacks, one of denim and one of the Cowbelles� brand quilts, preferably one of the early ones.
This was the first exhibit at the museum sponsored by other organizations, including a grant from the Colorado Quilting Council, Hi Fashion Sewing, the Durango Sewing Center, the Durango Quilt Co., Fresh Off the Press and Yarn Durango.
Postler showed me the meticulous care it took to mount the show with the delicate textiles, and it was a labor of love by a number of volunteers. (Nearly 500 volunteer hours in May alone.)
Those committed volunteers included Carol Bentley, Kathy Chamberlain, Charlie DiFerdinando, Cathy Duggan, Patricia Joy, Orianna Keating, ArielleLiakat, Robert Lundquist, Joyce Morton, Kathy McKenzie, Carole Morain, Linda Mount, Sheila Niblick, Bill Postler, Shar Short, Kevin Smith, Susan Smith and four young men from the Fort Lewis College football team, who carried a very heavy case up some steep stairs.
The new light-emitting diode light bulbs, courtesy of the La Plata Electric Round Up Foundation, really make the colors in the quilts pop, and the schoolhouse-style window shades in the classroom are courtesy of what Executive Director Carolyn Bowra calls the �Shady Characters.� History�s full of �em, after all.
The museum is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and it�s located at the corner of West Second Ave. and 31st St.
These folks are grateful to be celebrating another year � David Downs, LorisRank, Tanner Smith, Ross Turpin, Jan Nesset, Mary Roberts, Clark Kepple, JillWiegert, Lucy Martinez, Hannah Buck, Brian Van Mols, Suzanne Zerbe, Kayte Barnes, Mike Dalenberg, Linda Tikalsky, Duane Danielson, Henry Bell and Don Magill.
If you�re looking for a stress reliever, check out the talented ladies, Traci Lyn Thomas, Erika Beardsley, Jessica Jane Hagemeister, Danni Lyn Parker, Jeannie Wheeldon and Rachel Saul Pollack, performing in �Beehive� on Friday and Saturday nights at the Durango Arts Center. The music is sing-alongable, and Diane Welle�s costumes are fantastic.
At the opening for sponsors and donors, producer Diane Panelli did her research and provided a snack table full of foods introduced in the 1960s. Bugles or Frosted Mini-Wheats, anyone? The Bit O-Honeys were particularly popular.
(The honey-flavored taffy with almond bits was actually introduced in 1924, but who can forget the �60s jingle: �It�s the chewy candy you don�t have to chew, just put it in your mouth �til the nuts pop through, Bit O-Honey goes a long, long way.�)
Tickets are $22 for adults, $20 for DAC members and $18 for students and are available at the center, 802 East Second Ave., or online at www.durangoarts.org.
Celebrating the last of the June anniversaries and the first of July are Charles and Ann Karnes, John and Shanna Stordahl, John and Louise Grayson, Carl and Shelly Hotter, Joe T. and Peggy Herrera, Larry and Margaret Hjermstad, Don and Laura Yale and Chad and Ann Tidwell.


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Songs from the Attic
"Great show. Fantastic selection of songs, super energy, choreography, and costumes." - V.S. North Vancouver BC
"Voni's shows are excellent plus how lucky we are to have her come here!!!" - B.M. Sorrento BC
"It was great to relive a very wonderful time in our lives…"- A.W. Kamloops BC
"The best theatre production here – we have come every year – always love it and this was extraordinary."C.S. Salmon Arm BC
Producing this high calibre of entertainment amazes me. - M.C. Red Deer, Alta
"Very good! Excellent production all around. Talented cast." - H.G. Kamloops BC
"Very enjoyable evening out. Thank you for bringing back the memories!"- D.B. Anglemont BC
"Outstanding! Thoroughly enjoyed the entire experience." - P.W. Terrace BC
"Super show. Loved the music and going back in time." - N.B. Vernon B.C.
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Musical director Dave Pickell on keyboards provides the bulk of the narration and does little singing, but rocks out on piano on an Elton John medley. At the other end of the stage, lead guitarist Tim Porter gets to show his great chops on "The Thrill Is Gone," "Purple Haze," and "Riders on the Storm," among others.
Dead centre, under the peace sign, big-voiced drummer Peter Padden is featured on Bowie's "Space Oddity" and the Righteous Brothers' "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" in a duet with Joanie Bye, who plays rhythm guitar and has some of the show's prime solos: Joplin's "Piece of My Heart," a searing "Disco Inferno," and a gorgeous riff on Joanie Mitchell's mature remake of "Both Sides Now."
Linda Kidder plays bass and sometimes drums, and kills "White Rabbit." Putting aside his guitar and harmonica, Oliver Conway charms with his Jagger tribute on the Stones' "Get Off of My Cloud."
Many of the show's best moments are the group numbers, showing off Bye's vocal arrangements and the ensemble's instrumental skills: a great medley of Beatles' tunes, a terrific version of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody," the show's closer, Jackie DeShannon's "Put a Little Love in Your Heart," and the encore, "Imagine." Those last two capture the theme of the show: the Sixties dream of making a better world.
Kudos to the players, producer/director Voni Grindler, choreographer Viktoria Langton, and the entire Jupiter team for reminding us what glorious musical times they were. - Jerry Wasserman
|A great show! 'Jump!' star Diane Lines delivered honey-smoked vocals, as she and her able band of accompanists took [the audience] on an exciting musical journey from the demise of the big-band sound at the end of the Second World War through the 1950s of swing, jump blues and eight-to-the-bar boogie-woogie and deposited the audience at the door of the rock 'n roll era.


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Man to spend 30 years in prison
A Holly Hill man will spend the next 30 years in prison for stabbing his housekeeper when she refused his advances.
The victim, Deidre Nightingale, spoke exclusively to WESH 2 News in June from the hospital. She had worked for the defendant, 64-year-old Michael Anselmo.
Nightingale said he became obsessed with her; one day chasing her down and stabbing her.
"I could see it in his eyes. When he pulled that knife out of my chest he was like a demonical smile with that knife going toward my throat."
A father and son who were golfing nearby tackled Anselmo and saved Nightingale.
During Tuesday's sentencing, she said if not for those two complete strangers she would have died that day.
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The Town Board will meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday for a workshop prior to the regular meeting at 8 p.m. in Town Hall, 2255 Baseline Road
The board also will hold workshops at 8 a.m. Wednesday and 8 a.m. Friday, also in Town Hall.
Also this week:
• The Cinderella Isle Garden Club of Grand Island is having a plant and craft sale from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Frriday and 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday at the Grand Island Library on Bedell Road.
House plants, crafts and confections will be available for sale. Proceeds go to purchasing plantings for the library. The club plants and maintains the surrounding gardens each year as well as cares for the house plants in the library.


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Guess what? We forgot to tell you that several months ago we added a mobile website, no iPhone required, for you road warriors and for folks that use their smartphone for everything and why not they are cool! Of course our mobile site is not magic so it can't make a room available when its not, but if your on the go and remember you need to make a reservation it will make the process a bit less complex from your phone. You iPad users out there, we know who you are so you will still get the full website. Also for speed and efficiency we kept it basic and straightforward; after all it still a phone.
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TRUCKEE, Calif. - A couple of months ago, I wrote about an evil plan to control the world's beer supply. Here's part of what I wrote back then.AB InBev is a mega corporation that was formed in 2008 as a result of a hostile takeover of Anheuser-Busch by InBev. InBev is based in Belgium and is the maker of Beck's and Stella Artois. When they took over Anheuser-Busch they got all of the Budweiser products. Bud Light is still America's number one beer. AB InBev is a $140 billion company.In November, AB InBev got approval from the Mexican authorities for the purchase of Grupo Modelo. Grupo Modelo is the company that makes the popular beer known as Corona, which is America's numero uno imported beer. That means number one for those of you who don't speak Spanish. The headline may seem innocent enough, like just another corporate acquisition, but in reality it's a part of a much larger plot for one company to control the global beer supply.Apparently someone at the U.S. Department of Justice read my column and decided to take action because the Justice Department has now sued AB InBev to stop the takeover of Grupo Modelo, the maker of Corona. The price tag on Grupo Modelo was about $20 billion.Bill Baer, assistant attorney general of the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, said, "If AB InBev fully owned and controlled Grupo Modelo, AB InBev would be able to increase beer prices to American consumers. This lawsuit seeks to prevent AB InBev from eliminating Grupo Modelo as an important competitive force in the beer industry."Bloomberg News has said that the pricing strategies of Grupo Modelo and AB InBev are opposite. While Grupo Modelo has tried to keep its prices low in order to be competitive, AB InBev has a history of raising prices to further their profits.That's good news for the American consumer. AB InBev already has about 250 beer labels under their control and many long time beer drinkers have claimed that they have been tinkering with some old recipes and have lowered the quality of some of the labels. It will be interesting to see how this case plays out over the next few months and which party prevails. Both AB InBev and Grupo Modelo stock declined when the news of the legal action from the Justice Department was announced.Kenneth Roberts is a Truckee based Registered Investment Advisor. Information on his money management service can be found at his blog at www.sellacalloption.com or by calling 775-657-8065. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Consult your financial adviser before purchasing any security.
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Even in this advanced technological age of smartphones and computer tablets, the mighty pen remains a critical commodity.
That is, perhaps, attested to by the huge number of pens that disappear from Erie County's Auto Bureaus – nearly 5,000 a year, according to County Clerk Christopher L. Jacobs, who estimates the cost to county taxpayers at about $1,500 annually, or about 30 cents a pen.
"I found it frustrating to pay so much taxpayer money for pens, so we looked for a creative solution," Jacobs said.
And that solution was to let the pens pay for themselves through an initiative Jacobs launched whereby local companies are solicited to donate pens with their logos or other advertising on them.
"It was just kind of an idea that came to me," Jacobs said.
"I was talking to the staff about it, and somebody suggested we just attach the pens to a clipboard. Well, we tried that a couple of years ago, and people started stealing the clipboards."
Instead, Jacobs got the idea to piggyback on an initiative that was launched by his predecessor, Kathleen C. Hochul, which Jacobs has since expanded on: the county clerk's "Thank-A-Vet" discount card program.
As part of that veterans program, the County Clerk's Office – which has the responsibility of keeping copies of honorable discharges from the U.S. military – provides veterans with picture IDs that they can use at various local businesses where they may be entitled to discount items and services.
So far, Jacobs has attracted nearly 500 local businesses to that program, and he has since contacted them to provide the County Clerk's Office free pens. After the success of the veterans discount card program, Joseph Carubba, president and CEO of Carubba Collision, did not hesitate to take part in Jacobs' pen donation.
"I think it's terrific for Chris to continually come up with ideas to save money for the county," said Carubba, whose company has already donated 3,000 pens to the County Clerk's Office.
Amherst Alarm, another participant in the county clerk's "Thank-A-Vet" program, donated 5,000 pens with the company's advertising on them and an encouragement to "please keep this pen."
"It's a very new program, so we don't know how successful it's going to be, but we thought it was something worth supporting," said Timothy M. Creenan, CEO of Amherst Alarm.
Since the County Legislature in April approved a resolution allowing the county clerk to accept donated pens, Jacobs said his office has received more than 10,000, about a year's supply.
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quote: This is no different from the stink the Dems made over Mitt Romney's finances.
quote: Are you sure? The government has guns, and the legal authority to use violence against you, and you're more afraid of a corporation?! Limiting the power of government is the only way to prevent the corporatism that is what I think you actually fear.
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EAST ALTON — Authorities are trying to pinpoint what sparked a weekend fire in an outbuilding near a southwestern Illinois ammunition plant.
No one was injured during the blaze early Sunday on the Winchester plant's property in East Alton northeast of St. Louis.
Fire officials and the company say the fire happened at an unoccupied maintenance building that's not part of or adjacent to the property's production area.
The company says the site's manufacturing wasn't interrupted.
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09.21.05 Continuing Professional Competency Requirements
Business Occupations and Professions Article, §§3-208, 3-309, 3-309.1, and
3-309.2; Annotated Code of Maryland
Notice of Proposed Action
The State Board of Architects proposes to amend Regulation .08 under
COMAR 09.21.05 Continuing Professional Competency Requirements. This action was considered by the Board of Architects at a public meeting held on March
26, 2014, notice of which was published in 41:5 Md. R. 359 (March 7, 2014), in accordance with State Government Article, §10-506(c), Annotated Code of Maryland.
Statement of Purpose
The purpose of this action is to amend the current regulation which has proven difficult to apply and administer. The amendments will clarify the procedures
and circumstances under which a licensee may request a one-time exception from compliance with continuing professional competency requirements due to extenuating
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on January 18, 2013 - 12:00 AM
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If the Erie County Industrial Development Agency does not act on an incentive package for Kittinger Furniture Co. next month, the Clarence Industrial Development Agency is prepared to.
That was the message from Thursday's Clarence IDA meeting, amid the furniture maker's plan to move from Buffalo to Clarence.
Kittinger's request for tax breaks is expected to be on the ECIDA's Feb. 19 meeting agenda. Clarence IDA officials said Thursday that if the ECIDA board rejects or does not act on Kittinger's request that day, the Clarence IDA will vote on the package when it meets on Feb. 21.
The Clarence IDA board members have given every indication they support the request. The furniture maker plans to buy, renovate and expand a former roller skating rink behind Eastern Hills Mall and convert it to a manufacturing plant. The move from Buffalo's Tri-Main Building would also put the company closer to its retail store on Transit Road.
The ECIDA is expected to schedule a public hearing in Clarence on Kittinger's application. The company is seeking mortgage tax, sales tax and property tax breaks to support the project, estimated at $1.36 million.
The ECIDA has the first opportunity to vote on the application under a common policy between the ECIDA and town IDAs related to companies moving from the city of Buffalo to a suburb, said Nathan Neill, the Clarence IDA's bond counsel. Neill said the policy was created in response to lawsuits over companies that left the city for a suburb like Amherst and received tax breaks.
The issue of a company receiving incentives to move from one municipality to another within Erie County has been sensitive in some cases. But Clarence IDA officials say the Kittinger project meets the agency's eligibility requirements, and that the company visited a few potential sites in the city but did not find one that met its needs.
"The Clarence IDA is cooperating all the way," said Paul Leone, a Clarence IDA consultant. "We have not caused any problems whatsoever."
If the ECIDA approves the Kittinger package, the ECIDA would split the agency fee for the project with the Clarence IDA.
"When you really think about it, the only thing that the Erie County IDA would accomplish by not approving this project is that they wouldn't share in the fee, because the project is still going to go and it's still good for the community," said Lawrence Meckler, the Clarence IDA's co-counsel.
Also at Thursday's meeting:
• The Clarence IDA chose its slate of officers for 2013, with David C. Hartzell Jr. remaining the chairman.
• Picone Construction received a six-month extension of a sales tax break for a building at 10995 Main St. The project is not yet complete, Clarence IDA officials said.
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WASHINGTON – Rep. Tom Reed of Corning has been named the Republican co-chairman of the House Manufacturing Caucus, an ad-hoc group of lawmakers that aims to promote a rebirth of America's factories.
Reed said he will work with the Democratic co-chairman of the caucus, Rep. Tim Ryan of Ohio, to promote manufacturing and to make sure the interests of America's factories are protected in federal legislation.
"We are excited to be working with Congressman Ryan to continue to build the caucus' reputation as a voice and a resource for the manufacturing sector – a group whose success is vital to our country's ability to make a strong economic recovery," Reed said.
Key to that effort, Reed said, would be promotion of the production of shale gas and domestic oil resources.
Thanks to those resources, "we can lower energy and transportation costs for everyone and really have a manufacturing renaissance in the United States," Reed said.
The caucus also will promote the interests of small and large manufacturers in the upcoming legislative effort to reform the nation's tax code.
"It's all about improving communication between manufacturers and Congress so that we can bring more manufacturing jobs to the 23rd District and the entire country," Reed said.
The first caucus event under Reed's leadership, to take place next Tuesday in Washington, will be "Manufacturing 101." That event will feature representatives from Cummins Inc., which has a plant in Jamestown, and other manufacturing experts who will discuss the obstacles that manufacturing faces and what Congress can do to overcome them.
Reed succeeds Rep. Donald Manzullo, an Illinois Republican who left Congress at the end of last year, as the GOP head of the caucus.
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UNIVERSITY PARK - Through the first 16 games of his Nittany Lion tenure, one of the things we've learned about Bill O'Brien is that he's not afraid to speak his mind.
He reinforced that when he tried to steer the postgame questioning away from the offense following Saturday's 34-0 victory over Kent State at Beaver Stadium.
"You guys need to ask me some defensive questions," he said in mild but mostly serious protest. "They're all offensive questions. The defense just pitched a shutout you guys were all over them last week."
O'Brien's tactic worked temporarily until the inquiry flow swung back to a unit - the passing offense - that didn't match the precision it showed through three games.
Entering the game with a sparkling completion ratio of 71 percent, Christian Hackenberg completed 13-for-35 for a season-low 176 yards and "probably was a little frustrated," O'Brien said.
Whether it was the wet ball - the game was played in a steady rain - or a couple of dropped passes or some decent coverage by Kent State, Hackenberg finally showed some growing pains.
And for the first time this year, he couldn't count on Allen Robinson to shred the defense as Robinson, despite repeated attempts on fade patterns in the end zone, was limited to a season-low three catches.
Neither Hackenberg nor Robinson was made available to the media so it was pretty clear this was a performance they'd rather not talk about.
O'Brien, though, wasn't overreacting.
"I think he [Hackenberg] had some good throws and probably some he wants back," he said. "That's the mark of a fantastic player, and that's what he is. He'll get better and you'll see improvement. Just like I'd like a few play calls back, he probably wants a few throws back."
The spotty success in the passing game forced the Lions to focus on the ground, and they rumbled through Kent State, pounding away for 5.4 yards per clip (on 53 carries), and relied on a defense that acquitted itself nicely after last week's collapse against Central Florida.
"We've got to be able to make the catches when we need to, even though it was raining," tight end Kyle Carter said. "[But] with the passing game not going that well, we were definitely running it great."
Carter's return from an elbow injury produced one catch while fellow tight ends Jesse James and Adam Breneman combined for four more.
Hackenberg was just 2-of-14 with an interception in the second half, and it seemed O'Brien, knowing the Lions could run all day, kept trying to get his QB in rhythm.
"He's a tremendous young quarterback with a great future," he said. "It wasn't about building his confidence."
Now 3-1, the Lions head into the bye week - "I think it comes at the right time," O'Brien said - having shown some positives in all aspects and some areas that can be improved upon.
Central Florida exposed weaknesses in the Lions' secondary, but they were shored up Saturday, albeit against a now 1-3 opponent whose administration saw fit to schedule trips to LSU and Penn State on consecutive weekends.
O'Brien said the week off will give the staff a chance to "self-scout," before it opens Big Ten play at Indiana, which entered Saturday leading the league in offense.
One area O'Brien will no doubt be focusing on is the Lions' penchant for slow starts. Though they're averaging 33 points per game, they've only scored 47 points in the first half (11.7 per game) and just 21 in the first quarter (5.2 per game).
That can be partially attributed to a freshman quarterback, no matter how decorated, adjusting to a new level of football. We saw that for the first time Saturday and are likely to see it again in 2013.
Which may sometimes leave the praise - and the questions, as Bill O'Brien suggested - for the defense.
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Google Hangouts is a browser based video chat application tied to the Google+ platform. Google Hangouts allow you and up to 9 of your students or colleagues to participate in a dynamic and engaging live interaction with video, voice, and some really clever instructional applications.� Simply start a hangout by adding your students' NAU email addresses. An email message is then sent to your students' NAU gmail account. Your students click onto the invitation, and - voila - you have started a Google Hangout.
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Go, Kawaguti/Smirnov!
Sasha fell on the triple toe
Disaster for K/S he falls on the 3T, she stumbles out of the throw
Sloopy exit from the death spiral.
Yuko KAVAGUTI / Alexander SMIRNOV (RUS)
Music: The Blue Danube by Johann Strauss
3FTw - small collapse on catch, as usual
3T - he falls
3LoTh - twofoot, stepout
BoDs - gets to low, shaky exit
Li - didn't manage the catch-foot, I think
Too bad... quite a meltdown with 3 quite big mistakes.
Score: 28.28 + 28.92 - 1.00 = 56.20 and into 1st
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Not a good day for K&S
Tss = 56.20
Too bad. I always like watching them skate. But not like this ...
Daria POPOVA / Bruno MASSOT (FRA)
Music: La Belle Histoire (soundtrack) arranged by Gablé
3FTw - big, but minor boble on landing
3LoTh - stepout, hand down
Score: 28.13 + 25.62 = 53.75 (SB), and into 2nd
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Vanessa JAMES / Morgan CIPRES (FRA)
Music: Rhumba d'Amour
Safri Duo
3FTw - very shaky catch, she stepouts on landing. Twist almost seemed too big.
FCCoSp - off unison
Score: 31.06 + 28.21 = 59.27 (PB) and into 1st
Pechalat look so pretty and chic in Kiss n Cry. Too bad she can't skate here.
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I'm becoming quite fond of James/Cipres - I really enjoy watching them.
No. The commentators got me on that one. Already checked the event page to confirm.
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That is a ridiculous standard, and if you were to apply it to any other GM in the history of any sport you're not going to find even one you think is adequate.
In the span of a few seasons we lost Yzerman, Shanahan, Hull, Robitaille, Fischer, Larionov, Hasek, among others, plus maybe the best coach of all time. Chelios went from a Norris candidate to depth player, Draper and Maltby from invaluable role-players to guys filling out the roster. We'd lost in the first round, second round, and first round. We had a lot of good prospects and could afford to lose some. Plus we made the transition to the cap era.
Holland made some moves, some were decent, some not so much. We signed some cast-offs that no one else wanted, brought up some young guys, signed one big UFA. It worked and we won a Cup. It wasn't luck that we had a bunch of cheap guys. It's what you have to do in the cap era. Then we had to start paying guys and trying to fill the rest of the roster with bargains. Some of those guys were decent, some not so much.
It's just not reasonable to expect that we should have had a replacement for Lidstrom before he left. The only way to get that is to get lucky, either with a prospect or someone else's cast off. If you want someone already proven, you would have had to give up a lot to get them, and we couldn't have fit them under the cap. We would have had to make the team worse in previous years. Maybe in hindsight you can say they should have, because we haven't done much in the playoffs anyway, but really you all would have just been bitching about mismanagement back then.
Some people are completely backward in thinking that the biggest needs, the biggest losses, should be the easiest to fill. Fact is, those holes have the fewest available options and the least margin for error. That's why almost no one, in any sport, in any era in history, has much success filling them without a hitch.
Nothing Holland could have done would have been better than landing Suter and Parise (particularly since we wouldn't have had to give up anything), and he put us in position to make a strong play for both of them. Unfortunately, it didn't work out. But we're still in a good position to add more, and we still have a well stocked prospect pool. Maybe, probably even, things will get worse before they get better. That's the nature of the beast. We need stars and those almost always come through the draft. Once we have our next generation of stars, then will come the time to start making trades and looking for a good UFA or two to put us over the top. Hopefully at that time, some of the young prospects we have now will emerge to fill some roles at bargain prices.
Sure, we could make a move or two now and it might work out. Or not. Look at the Rangers, Philly, San Jose... Maybe Holland could have done better. But who actually has?
Pittsburgh? Cup winner, last three years lost in the 2nd, 1st, and 1st round. Found some nice fits at forwards, including one absolute steal of a trade, wrecked their defense. Looking good this year, maybe they'll go somewhere, maybe not. Their best players can't stay healthy, probably going to have cap troubles again in a couple years.
Chicago? Cup winner, sat watching the TV hoping for Dallas to lose to put them in the playoffs the following year. Two first round losses. Looking good this year... Likely cap trouble again next year.
Boston? Cup winner, lost in the first round last year. Looking good... maybe some cap trouble next year.
LA? Cup winner, had to fight down to the wire to make the playoffs, likely the same this year. About $15M to fill almost half their roster next year...
Anaheim? Doing great this year after plenty of struggles since their Cup win. Big commitments to their stars likely to create some cap issues down the road...
Anyone else...
Pretty much all that separates us from any of them is they have young stars while ours are aging. Most of them were irrelevent not long ago, and will likely end up back there before too long. Come back when their stars are aging and see how much better they do than Holland. I bet none of them do half so well.
What Holland has already done proves that he's a great GM. He's had some luck, and a great staff to work with, but he's still been great. No matter how successfully we make it through our current transition or the next.
the biggest issue i have with the holland critics is that most of them completely gloss over the good moves holland has made and only focus on the bad ones, in particular the hossa and franzen situation.
Holland never gets credit for giving osgood another chance after the lockout when everyone said he was washed up
he never gets credit for signing datsyuk long term right after the lockout ended. this board was calling for holland's head after that one. datsyuk is now arguably the league's best player.
he never gets credit for trading for brad stuart during the cup winning season. he turned out to be our number 2 dman for 3 years after that
he never gets credit for going out and getting rafalski the day after Schneider left back in the summer of 07
these are all moves that directly helped the wings win a cup but i never see any of the holland critics ever give him credit for these moves.


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Ohio's five public employee retirement systems have a combined unfunded liability of more than $66 billion. That is more than $5,700 for each resident of the Buckeye State.
Officials of the funds, providing benefits for teachers, law enforcement officers, state agency employees and others, have devised proposals to get their finances back on even keels. Some of those ideas have been implemented but most require approval from the General Assembly.
State senators already have approved a package of bills meant to shore up the pension programs' long-term outlooks. But leaders in the state House of Representatives have hesitated, insisting they need more information.
Perhaps they are sincere in wanting to act only on the best available intelligence about the funds. Still, the timing is suspicious. At one point there was speculation House action might have to wait until after the November election.
That would be convenient for incumbent legislators who don't want to lose votes from tens of thousands of public employees who may be called upon to make sacrifices to get their pension programs in order.
Now, hearings on the issue have been scheduled in the House. They are to be conducted later this month, with the goal of getting the reform packages to votes by September.
Good. Every day that passes builds up new unfunded liabilities. House members should approve reforms as quickly as possible.


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little did I know that in a few short hours around, oh, 3 AM I'd also be chatting it up with the ER doctor in the hospital while Gray had a bout of croup.
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials have said they will release more water from Lanier and West Point Lake because of drought conditions affecting river basins in Georgia, eastern Alabama and Florida's panhandle region.
The Times of Gainesville reports that officials expect Lanier to drop six inches each week at the current release rate.
Corps of Engineers spokeswoman Lisa Parker said the extra water being released is needed downstream to maintain hydropower, fish and wildlife and water quality in those areas. She said the Corps has also drawn down Walter F. George Lake, on the Alabama-Georgia line, as much as it can.


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