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WASHINGTON – Tired of the taunts from a critical colleague, Mariana Cole-Rivera, an employee at Hispanics United of Buffalo, took to the 21st century method of complaint.
"Lydia Cruz, a coworker, feels that we don't help our clients enough at HUB," she wrote on Facebook on Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010. "I about had it! My fellow coworkers how do u feel?"
Little did she know it at the time, but with those words, Cole-Rivera wrote the first phrases of a morality tale that's still playing out amid two of the uncomfortable realities of modern life: social media and political partisanship.
Fired after her boss saw their Facebook conversation about working conditions at the small Buffalo nonprofit, Cole-Rivera and four of her former colleagues filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board to try to regain their jobs and back pay. And last December, they won.
What's more, they won the first-ever federal edict on how far workers can go when discussing their work on social media.
Facebook is similar to the water cooler.
"Employees have a protected right to discuss matters affecting their employment amongst themselves," the NLRB ruled.
But now that ruling is in question, all because President Obama – unable to get his nominees to that labor board past Republicans in the Senate – appointed them via an end-around that a federal appeals court just ruled unconstitutional.
In other words, it's suddenly unclear what the Hispanics United case will turn out to be.
It could be a labor-law free-speech landmark that gives employees the freedom to discuss work on Facebook and Twitter. Or it could be yet another casualty of the never-ending war between Democrats and Republicans.
A Facebook chat
Whatever the Hispanics United case turns out to be, it started as the kind of Facebook conversation that happens every day all over the world.
Seeing Cole-Rivera's question, her colleague Damicela Rodriguez replied: "What the [expletive]. Try doing my job I have 5 programs."
Then Ludimar Rodriguez chimed in, saying: "What the Hell, we don't have a life as is, What else can we do???"
To which Yaritza Campos wrote: "Tell her to come do mt [my] ...job n c if I don't do enough, this is just dum."
And after Carlos Ortiz de Jesus posted a sarcastic description of his work with Hispanics United's clients, Cruz took to Facebook to make clear that she was not amused.
"Marianna stop with ur lies about me," Cruz posted in the Facebook conversation, which was spelled out in NLRB records.
And that was just the start of it.
Cruz complained to Lourdes Iglesias, the executive director of Hispanics United, saying the stress of seeing that online conversation was so traumatizing that she was hospitalized with what she thought was a heart attack.
Iglesias, who is on medical leave now, could not be reached for comment. But according to NLRB records of the case, the following Tuesday she told the five employees that they had violated Hispanics United's anti-harassment policy and had bullied Cruz – and therefore, they were being fired.
Cole-Rivera and her fired colleagues were shocked to hear it.
"I never said anything about her [Cruz] personally or even professionally," Cole-Rivera said. "That was not the intent."
She explained that she was merely seeking feedback from colleagues.
But Cruz offered an entirely different take on things. She had complained to Cole-Rivera because she and other Hispanics United employees were "talking in the office, doing nothing" when they should have been helping clients.
What's more, Cruz said she was crushed when she saw the Facebook conversation.
"I freaked out," she said. "My heart started pounding and I started to cry. It was like I had a nervous breakdown and had to be rushed to the hospital."
Plenty of sympathy
Shortly thereafter, Cole-Rivera and her fired former colleagues rushed to the NLRB, which is charged with resolving disputes in both unionized and non-unionized workplaces.
There, they found plenty of sympathy. An administrative law judge ruled in their favor in September 2011, and the NLRB affirmed that decision last Dec. 14.
Both the judge and the labor board cited the National Labor Relations Act's provision guaranteeing workers the right to "engage in ... concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection."
That protection dates back to 1935, so in a way, the Hispanics United decision is nothing new, said Nancy Cleeland, director of public affairs at the NLRB.
"It's applying the old, established protection of the right of workers to act together and applying it to a new form of communication," Cleeland said.
Yet in doing that, the Hispanics United case may well be seen someday as a legal landmark.
"I think it's potentially pretty important," said Matthew D. Dimick, a law professor at the University at Buffalo. "It's the board's first case sort of drawing the line in the sand about what employees can do and what employees can say in social media."
Still, it's not the be-all and end-all case on the matter.
Only three months earlier, the board ordered an Illinois BMW dealership to rewrite its employee handbook, which barred workers from any comments that could harm the dealership's image.
But it let stand the dealership's decision to fire a worker who took to Facebook to make fun of a company sales event, as well as to post pictures of an accident at a Land Rover dealership under the same ownership.
That decision, along with recent NLRB memos on the matter, serves as a warning to workers everywhere that you can't just say anything about your employer on Facebook and expect the law to protect you.
"You can't publicly disparage your employer, whether on Facebook or in a news story," without potentially paying a price for it, said Rhonda Ley, regional director of the NLRB in Buffalo.
'Invalid' appointments
Then again, that Illinois decision, as well as the Hispanics United case, are now in something of a legal limbo.
That's because of a Jan. 25 decision from a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. The court ruled that three appointments Obama made to the NLRB in early 2012 were "constitutionally invalid."
Unable to get Senate Republicans to allow a vote on their confirmations, Obama appointed the three NLRB members when Congress was out of town, thinking the Constitution's provision allowing him to make "recess" appointments would permit him to do that.
But the D.C. court ruled that the Senate, although out of town, had not officially adjourned, thereby making his recess appointments invalid.
The ruling conflicts with decisions of other federal appeals courts, which means it's likely destined for a higher authority, said James A. Gardner, a constitutional law expert at UB.
"The opinion is so far-reaching that I think it's going to be taken up by the Supreme Court," Gardner said.
In the meantime, the NLRB is regarding that case – Canning v. NLRB – as a one-off, with no impact on other cases, Cleeland said.
Other lawyers aren't so sure. Some argue that if the NLRB members who ruled last year in more than 200 cases – Hispanics United included – were in fact appointed unconstitutionally, their rulings are null and void.
"It becomes an issue for us to raise on appeal," said Rafael O. Gomez, the Buffalo lawyer who is defending Hispanics United.
Neither of the women who started the online spat at Hispanics United were aware that the fate of their NLRB case may well rest with the U.S. Supreme Court.
And while Cole-Rivera and Cruz offered entirely different takes on that trouble-causing social media conversation, they do agree that they've learned the some hard lessons about Facebook.
"Am I more careful now? Yes," Cole-Rivera said. "Do I post things about work? No."
As for Cruz, she said: "I love Facebook. It is my therapy: I vent and people respond. It is not for the use of 'cyberbullying' ... especially when it affects the person being talked about."
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Did the Clutter Murderers Kill Again?
Forty-seven years after Perry Smith and Richard Hickock were hanged for murdering a Kansas family—the crime profiled in Truman Capote's historic book, "In Cold Blood"—they are under investigation for the slaughter of another family in Florida.
DNA samples extracted in December from the exhumed bodies of the two killers are being tested in a Kansas Bureau of Investigation laboratory to determine whether Messrs. Smith and Hickock fatally shot Cliff and Christine Walker and their two young children in the Walker home in Sarasota County, Fla., on December 19, 1959.
A match with DNA evidence found at the scene of the Walker murders would solve a horrific 53-year-old cold case. Sarasota County authorities say that one or more assailants raped and murdered Mrs. Walker and shot her husband when he walked in the door with their toddler children. Three-year-old Jimmie Walker was shot as he crawled to his bleeding father's side. Debbie Walker, nearly two, was shot in the head and left in shallow bathtub water to drown.
A month before that crime, on November 15, Messrs. Smith and Hickock invaded the Clutter farmhouse in Holcomb, Kansas, in the mistaken belief that the family kept a safe loaded with cash. After binding and gagging Herb and Bonnie Clutter and their teenagers Nancy and Kenyon, the two killers found no trove of cash and decided to leave behind no witnesses.
All four of the Clutters were shot in the head with a shotgun. Afterward, Messrs. Smith and Hickock were traveling through Florida at the time of the Walker killings.
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Mr. Capote's account of the murder and its aftermath, "In Cold Blood," is considered a masterwork of 20th century literature.
A detective on the Florida case, Kimberly McGath, recently named Messrs. Smith and Hickock "the most viable suspects" in the Walker murders, according to an official at the Sarasota County Sheriff's office. But over the past 53 years, nearly 800 people have been regarded as suspects in that crime, including several with possible motives. And yet the case has remain unsolved.
In a sealed affidavit asking the KBI to exhume the bodies, Ms. McGath argued that there is significant evidence suggesting that Messrs. Smith and Hickock may have committed the Walker murders, including eyewitness accounts that place the two men near Osprey in the days surrounding the Walker murders, according to Wendy Rose, the sheriff's office spokeswoman.
Also left behind at the Walker crime was a semen sample with which KBI authorities will now compare DNA from Messrs. Smith and Hickock. The culprit or culprits also left behind a bloody cowboy boot print, a cigarette wrapper, a palm print, hair samples, a white T-shirt with grease and seven .22-caliber bullet shells. A family friend discovered the murder scene around 5 a.m. on Dec. 20, 1959.
Messrs. Smith and Hickock aren't new suspects in the Florida crime. Shortly after their arrest for the Clutter killings, they described their wanderings, including a swing through Florida in December 1959. That, along with the fact that both cases involved the slaughter of a family, led investigators at the time to question the two about their possible involvement the Walker murders.
They both consented to lie-detector tests, which they passed. Fingerprints of theirs didn't match evidence found in the Walker home, though investigators now believe they were incorrectly compared with a palm print. In "In Cold Blood," Messrs. Smith and Hickock tell the author, Mr. Capote, they spent the evening of Dec. 19, 1959 in Tallahassee, Fla., some five hours' drive from Osprey.
From the earliest days of the investigation, Sarasota County officials suspected that the murderer or murderers were acquainted with the Walkers. According to a December 2005 Sarasota Herald-Tribune review of the case, an early list of suspects included male relatives and neighbors.
Since DNA testing has become available, Ms. Rose said, 22 people have been eliminated as suspects after providing DNA samples for comparison with crime-scene evidence. Other suspects were eliminated through alibis.
Local residents professed to have seen Messrs. Smith and Hickock in the Sarasota County area around the time of the Walker murders after photos of the men were published locally, according to Ms. Rose.
After exhuming the bodies of Messrs. Smith and Hickock on Dec. 18, 2012, the KBI said that conducting the DNA testing would take weeks, and that the Florida cold case wouldn't take precedence over active investigations in Kansas. Sarasota County paid for the exhumation. "I'm hearing…it may take weeks or months," Ms. Rose said.
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Buffalo's newest park on the waterfront will be open to visitors just in time for summer, complete with a beach, sand volleyball courts, decorative lighting and public art.
The land on the outer harbor that for decades was used by the New York Power Authority to store the ice boom has been reclaimed for public enjoyment and is expected to open in late May.
"It's really going to be an exciting place," said Rep. Brian Higgins, D-Buffalo. "It's a very, very attractive and functional waterfront destination."
The 21-acre park, which hasn't been named yet, will feature gazebos, bridges, trails and wind sculptures that rotate and sit on a mound of land on a peninsula that reaches into Lake Erie. A portion of the site will be prepared for future private development.
The park is located on Fuhrmann Boulevard across from South Michigan Avenue, adjacent to Times Beach Nature Preserve, and has views of the downtown skyline.
It complements other developments on the waterfront, including Mutual Riverfront Park, a 1.3-acre space on the Buffalo River where the Power Authority has invested $24 million.
The park opened last summer and has a boardwalk, boat launches and a facility where the ice boom is stored in warmer months.
Storage of the ice boom was never the highest and best use for public land adjacent to Lake Erie, Higgins said, and the creation of the outer harbor park was a solution to two problems – the need for a better storage site for the boom and greater public access to the waterfront.
Most of the land was transferred from the Power Authority to the Erie Canal Harbor Development Corp. for $1 in June 2011 and has been undergoing a $3.3 million transformation, funded by a relicensing settlement with the authority, which allocated $279 million for waterfront development.
Land formerly owned by Cargill also is included in the new park.
Higgins and representatives of Erie Canal Harbor, which will maintain the park, and the Power Authority talked Thursday about progress on the waterfront and marked the week when the ice boom is removed.
The goal of Buffalo's waterfront redevelopment is to allow public access and some low-density private development, Higgins said.
"We don't need to create another city on the outer harbor," he said.
In other waterfront news, the transformation of Ohio Street into a parkway that will connect Canalside and the outer harbor is in final design and should be under construction next year, Higgins said.
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. � Steven Spielberg has matched his personal best at the Academy Awards: 12 nominations for his Civil War saga �Lincoln,� including best picture, director and acting honors for Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field and Tommy Lee Jones.
That ties the 12 nominations for his 1993 drama �Schindler�s List,� which won seven Oscars, including best picture and director.
Also among the nine nominees for best picture Thursday: the old-age love story �Amour�; the Iran hostage thriller �Argo�; the independent hit �Beasts of the Southern Wild�; the slave-revenge narrative �Django Unchained�; the musical �Les Miserables�; the shipwreck story �Life of Pi�; the lost-souls romance �Silver Linings Playbook�; and the Osama bin Laden manhunt chronicle �Zero Dark Thirty.�
�Life of Pi� surprisingly ran second with 11 nominations, ahead of �Zero Dark Thirty� and �Les Miserables,� which had been considered potential front-runners.
�I thought we�d get a few, so this is really great for us,� said �Life of Pi� director Ang Lee. �Eleven really surprised me. But it�s a good surprise. I�m very happily surprised.�
More surprising were snubs in the directing category, where three favorites missed out: Ben Affleck for �Argo� and past Oscar winners Kathryn Bigelow for �Zero Dark Thirty� and Tom Hooper for �Les Miserables.� Bigelow was the first woman ever the win the directing Oscar for 2009�s �The Hurt Locker,� while Hooper won a year later for �The King�s Speech.�
The best-picture category also had surprising omissions. The acclaimed first-love tale �Moonrise Kingdom� was left out and only got one nomination, for original screenplay. Also snubbed for best-picture was �The Master,� a critical favorite that did manage three acting nominations, for Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Two-time winner Spielberg earned his seventh directing nomination, and also in the mix are past winner Lee for �Life of Pi� and past nominee David O. Russell for �Silver Linings Playbook.� The other slots went to surprise picks who are first-time nominees: Michael Haneke for his French-language �Amour� and Benh Zeitlin for �Beasts of the Southern Wild.�
Oscar directing contenders often are identical or at least usually line up closely with those for the Directors Guild of America Awards. But only Spielberg and Lee made both lists this time. The Directors Guild also nominated Affleck, Bigelow and Hooper, but not Haneke, Russell or Zeitlin.
Haneke�s �Amour� also was a best-picture surprise. The film, which won the top prize at last May�s Cannes Film Festival, mainly had been considered a favorite in the foreign-language category, where it also was nominated. �Amour� had five nominations, including original screenplay and best-actress for Emmanuelle Riva.
�It is fulfilling to discover that a film has found the audience and critical acclaim that �Amour� has garnered,� Haneke said. �I have been very fortunate on both those fronts, but it is especially rewarding to discover that a film has found favor among one�s industry peers who know, in particular, the effort that goes into getting a film � any film � made.�
The year�s second-biggest box-office hit, �The Dark Knight Rises,� was shut out entirely, even for visual effects. The omission of its predecessor, �The Dark Knight,� from best-picture consideration for 2008 was largely responsible for the expansion of the Oscar category from five nominees to 10 the following year. �The Dark Knight� had earned eight nominations and won two Oscars.
Chronicling Abraham Lincoln�s final months as he engineers passage of the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery, �Lincoln� stars best-actor contender Day-Lewis in a monumental performance as the 16th president, supporting-actress nominee Field as the notoriously headstrong Mary Todd Lincoln and supporting-actor prospect Jones as abolitionist firebrand Thaddeus Stevens.
Joining Day-Lewis in the best-actor field are Bradley Cooper as a psychiatric patient trying to get his life back together in �Silver Linings Playbook�; Hugh Jackman as Victor Hugo�s tragic hero Jean Valjean in �Les Miserables�; Phoenix as a Navy vet who falls in with a cult in �The Master�; and Denzel Washington as a boozy airline pilot in �Flight.�
Cooper had been a bit of a longshot. John Hawkes, a potential best-actor favorite, missed out for his role as a man in an iron lung aiming to lose his virginity in �The Sessions.�
Nominated for best actress are Jessica Chastain as a CIA operative hunting bin Laden in �Zero Dark Thirty�; Jennifer Lawrence as a troubled young widow struggling to heal in �Silver Linings Playbook�; Riva as an ailing woman tended by her husband in �Amour�; Quvenzhane Wallis as a spirited girl on the Louisiana delta in �Beasts of the Southern Wild�; and Naomi Watts as a mother caught up in a devastating tsunami in �The Impossible.�
Best actress had a wild age range: Riva is the oldest nominee ever in the category at 85, while Wallis is the youngest ever at 9.
Along with Field, supporting-actress nominees are Adams as a cult leader�s devoted wife in �The Master�; Anne Hathaway as an outcast mother reduced to prostitution in �Les Miserables�; Helen Hunt as a sex surrogate in �The Sessions�; and Jacki Weaver as an unstable man�s doting mom in �Silver Linings Playbook.�
Besides Jones, the supporting-actor contenders are Alan Arkin as a wily Hollywood producer in �Argo�; Robert De Niro as a football-obsessed patriarch in �Silver Linings Playbook�; Hoffman as a dynamic cult leader in �The Master�; and Christoph Waltz as a genteel bounty hunter in �Django Unchained.�
�Family Guy� creator Seth MacFarlane, who will host the Feb. 24 Oscars, joined Emma Stone to announce the Oscar lineup, and he scored a nomination himself. He�s up for original song for �Everybody Needs a Best Friend,� the tune he co-wrote for his big-screen directing debut �Ted.�
�That�s kind of cool I got nominated,� MacFarlane deadpanned at the announcement. �I get to go to the Oscars.�
Walt Disney predictably dominated the animated-feature category with three of the five nominees: �Brave,� �Frankenweenie� and �Wreck-It Ralph.� Also nominated were �ParaNorman� and �The Pirates! Band of Misfits.�
�I�m absolutely blown away,� �Wreck-It Ralph� director Rich Moore said. �It is weird at 5:30 in the morning to hear Emma Stone say your name. It�s surreal.�
�Lincoln� is Spielberg�s best awards prospect since his critical peak in the 1990s, when he won best-picture and directing Oscars for �Schindler�s List� and a second directing Oscar for �Saving Private Ryan.�
Spielberg�s latest film could vault him, Day-Lewis and Field to new heights among Hollywood�s super-elite of multiple Oscar winners.
A best-picture win for �Lincoln� would be Spielberg�s second, while another directing win would be his third, a feat achieved only by Frank Capra and William Wyler, who each earned three directing Oscars, and John Ford, who received four.
�Lincoln� also was the ninth best-picture nominee Spielberg has directed, moving him into a tie for second-place with Ford. Only Wyler directed more best-picture nominees, with 13.
Day-Lewis and Field both have two lead-acting Oscars already, he for �My Left Foot� and �There Will Be Blood� and she for �Norma Rae� and �Places in the Heart.� A third Oscar for either would put them in rare company with previous triple winners Ingrid Bergman, Walter Brennan, Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep. Katharine Hepburn is the record-holder with four acting Oscars.
An Oscar for Jones would be his second supporting-actor prize; he previously won for �The Fugitive.�
�Lincoln� composer John Williams � whose five Oscars include three for the music of three earlier Spielberg films, �Jaws,� �E.T. the Extra-terrestrial� and �Schindler�s List� � earned his 43rd nomination for best score, extending his all-time record in the category.
The Oscars feature a best-picture field that ranges from five to 10 films depending on a complex formula of ballots from the 5,856 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Nominations in most categories are decided by ballots from members of specific academy branches � such as directors, writers or actors. All members are eligible to vote for best-picture nominees, and the entire academy can vote in every category for the actual Oscars, whose balloting begins Feb. 8.
Winners for the 85th Oscars will be announced Feb. 24 at a ceremony aired live on ABC from Hollywood�s Dolby Theatre.
AP entertainment writers Christy Lemire, Sandy Cohen, Anthony McCartney and Derrik Lang in Los Angeles and AP writer Jill Lawless in London contributed to this report.


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The Curse of Marian Hossa
Posted 23 May 2010 - 10:53 PM
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Pavel datsyuk is the best player in the world because he snatches the puck from unsuspecting players and follows it up by the simultaneous undressing of the defence pairing. The goalie then gives up, and flops like a fish. The end result is a calm skate back to his bench where he can bask in the praise of his multiple girlfriends from the motherland.
Posted 23 May 2010 - 11:41 PM
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"Let's go." - Sergei
Posted 24 May 2010 - 12:21 AM
Posted 24 May 2010 - 12:22 AM
Philly > MTL
I think Philly can pull up an upset against Chicago, there defense is incredible specially at blocking shots.
Posted 24 May 2010 - 01:48 AM
"I don't like to be the pony. I like to be on top." -Pavel Datsyuk
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Posted 24 May 2010 - 03:38 AM
and I actually want Hossa to lift the cup finally. he's a great guy and I most certainly wish
him to win the grand prize at last.
it is a little bit pity, though, to see yet another "suck for a number of years and collect high picks"
team succeed and I'd like the league to reconsider draft lottery should the Blackhawks win this year.
I didn't like it for years, because it's artificial parity and plain and simply unfair to good GMs.
but now with (likely) 2 champs winning the cup thanks to years of sucking and having high picks - maybe
the NHL will finally realize this is not parity but giving unfair advantage to bad teams. because
it's not like the Penguins of 2004 or Blackhawks 2006 were so bad to finish at the bottom of the
standings. they did it very much on purpose. and that's unfair
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Posted 24 May 2010 - 03:48 AM
I find it funny that Hossa is repeating his playoff performance from last year though.. he only has 2 goals and 11 points, causing him to get some criticism, but at the same time just like he did for us he's playing good hockey. You can bet that if by some freak accident Chicago loses the final he will be just as hated as he is around here for not doing more.
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Posted 24 May 2010 - 05:27 AM
I Hate the BlackHawks.... So I am invoking the curse!
I want the Flyers out of the East (despite the gag reflex induced by Pronger), mostly because I don't want les Français getting any more cup wins ahead of us than they already are (yes I am petty enough to want the overall cups won record ). As for Marion, Hossa made trade off decisions based on economic climate (not just financial costs but overall opportunity costs, any econ majors feel free to elaborate =P), and seeing as he's still playing and we're not you'd have to say he made good ones.
That said, it's not like the East has much of a shot, but if the Hossa curse stands I will thoroughly enjoy watching the festivities, and will personally deliver a 21 beer salute.
"They would have to carry me off on a stretcher to keep me from playing at this time of the year." - Steve Yzerman
Posted 24 May 2010 - 05:50 AM
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Posted 24 May 2010 - 05:51 AM
On the other hand, in the past 4 years, Conklin has been involved in:
SCF loss
SCF loss
ECF loss
SCF loss
No Conklin... Hawks take this, imo.
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Of course, I could get off my lame rear and do something.
Posted 24 May 2010 - 05:53 AM
No kidding. I got nothing against Hossa in the grand scheme of things but I'll be laughing inside if he loses a 3rd year in a row with a different team. How much bad luck can you get if that happens?
if the hawks lose the finals to the east I will laugh so hard. i hope this curse keeps going strong!
Why so?
most retarded thread ever posted.
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Growing up, Ellen Carlisle was a Christian: She went to Jesus camp, downed stale Nilla Wafers at Sunday school, and never, ever played with Ouija boards. Now, years later, when infertility prevents her from giving her ambitious attorney husband a family, she finds herself on the brink of divorce, unemployed, and living with her right-wing, born-again Christian parents in her suburban New Jersey hometown. There the schools are private, the past is public, and blessings come in lump sums.
Then Ellen meets a man to whom she believes she can open her heart, and she begins to think that maybe it's true that everything happens for a reason—until all that was going well starts going very badly and Ellen is finally forced to dig deep to find her own brand of faith.
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Dear Kickstarter supporters,
Winter is upon us, and the latter half of 2011 has been a roller coaster ride for Ai Weiwei. Shortly after being named ArtReview magazine's most powerful... Read more
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Thank you for your patience and continued support of the film! So much has happened since the last update. The team is hard at... Read more
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State paper, Xinhua, issued a brief statement on June 22 at 10:15 pm Beijing time that Ai Weiwei was released on bail following an alleged confession and promise to pay... Read more
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MARTINSBURG — The first and second reading of an ordinance to hold a special election for Martinsburg residents to vote on renewing the city's police levy is scheduled for City Council's meeting......
My friends and family seem to enjoy my style just fine thanks. If you don't... well, I'll take that as an indicator that I'm doing things right. I find it interesting that, as someone who doesn't look forward to my comments, you have been consistantly responding to them of late.
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If they are going to keep putting forth these levies, they should be set to expire AFTER a regularly scheduled election. Then the vote could be included on that ballot and it would save, per their figures, around $60,000 of taxpayer money by avoiding the need for special elections.
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Troy Aikman has been with Sporting News every week this season, breaking down the NFL's biggest matchups. He'll be doing just that again for Super Bowl XLVII.
The Hall of Fame quarterback and Fox Sports NFL analyst knows about playing in the Super Bowl, and playing well in his sport's biggest game—he's unbeaten in three tries.
In today's Hot Reads, Aikman talks about his thoughts on Sunday's Super Bowl XLVII between the San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Ravens.
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Observations on British and American English
by an American linguist in the UK
England and America are two countries separated by a common language.
--George Bernard Shaw
BrE = British English
AmE = American English
OED=Oxford English Dictionary (2nd edn. [1989], unless otherwise noted)
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
Separated by a Common Twitter competition
Here's what I tweeted (with added linkage for you blog-based readers):
Competition: RT to me a tweet (not by u) that is (unintentionally) so full of Americanisms or Briticisms that it would flummox a UKer/USer.
The prize: I'll send you a packet of whatever cookies/biscuits you most miss from UK or US.
My entry to competition: RT @Nancy4Brighton...the Speaker has interrupted PMQs to ask MPs to stop 'barracking' - it puts the public off...
Competition deadline: midnight Greenwich time, Friday.
Obviously, the intended audience for this competition is expatriates who are missing their baked goodies, but if you'd like me to use the post to send you some biscuits/cookies that you could buy at your local shop/store if only you weren't too internet-addicted to get out of your chair, well, I can do that too.
(The plan is to buy biscuits/cookies in one country, carry them to other country and post locally...so while I will try to send you biscuits/cookies, I cannot guarantee that you won't get a package full of ex-biscuits/cookies, aka crumbs.)
I'll post winning entries on the blog this weekend.
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- Tony Finch said...
Is that midnight 00:00 or 24:00?
- 03 March, 2010 17:13
- Robbie said...
I'm more puzzled by the term RT. What's that mean?
- 03 March, 2010 18:07
- dbanoff said...
Ah, that would be McVities Rich Tea Biscuits. But, I don't use Twitter, so I don't get anyone's tweets.
- 03 March, 2010 19:18
@Robbie RT is tweet-speak for "Re-Tweet." It's basically copying someone else's twitter post (or "tweet").
- 03 March, 2010 21:53
- lynneguist said...
Ooh, good point, Tony Finch. I'd meant end of Friday, but that's not what I said, is it? Oh well, I'll leave things open till end of Friday, and if people get their entries in earlier, then good for them!
- 03 March, 2010 22:10
- Robbie said...
Thanks, Amy! I broadly picked up the meaning from context, but always nice to know what the letters stand for!
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The Diamond Peak Ski Team traveled to Northstar for a giant Tahoe League Big Gee Race against competition from all the ski teams in the Tahoe Basin.
More than 500 athletes age 7-14 competed in this single-course race during the two days of competition. Skies were sunny, temps were warm and the race course got a bit slushy in the afternoon.
Diamond Peak was the last team to race on Saturday through a pretty sloppy race course. Nonetheless, Diamond Peak's Aidan Pretti raced to fourth place for the boys' 7/8 division, and Ethan Chen just missed an award with his 11th-place finish in the boys' 9/10.
On Sunday, Diamond Peak's Daniel D'Olimpio took the podium in second place in the boys' 11/12 division. D'Olimpio is currently in fifth place in the overall standings in his division.
On the girls' side, Diamond Peak's Sophia Holm stood atop the podium with a third-place trophy in the girls' 11/12 division.
Pretti is currently fifth in the Tahoe League point standings for the season in boys' 7/8 and Holm is in eighth place overall for girls 11/12.
The Diamond Peak team looks to do well in the Tahoe League Championships at Squaw Valley, which is scheduled for March 31 and April 1. The young Incline skiers will be training hard for the final three weeks of the season leading up to the championships.
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2011-12: Atlantic Sun All-Academic Team ... Posted a 76.9 stroke average in 22 rounds of play ... Posted a pair of top 10 finishes, earning an 8th at the Holiday Inn Express/Hatter Classic, and tying for eighth at the Marsh Landing Invitational ... Posted a low-round score of 73 in back-to-back rounds at the MSU Ocala Spring Invitational.
2010-11: Atlantic Sun All-Academic Team ... Posted a 79.6 stroke average in 27 rounds as a rookie ... Took third at the Siena Homewood Suites Invitational (March 18-19) ... Tied for fifth at Holiday Inn Express Hatter Classic (Nov. 8-9) ... Had a career-low 72 in the final round of the Hatter Classic as well as in final round of the FIU Pat Bradley Invitational (Nov. 2) ... Tied for 21st at A-Sun Championships (April 11-13) ... Competed in NCAA East Regional.
Prior to Stetson: Paired with her father Gene to win the 2010 Kentucky Golf Assocation Father-Daughter Championship ... Shot 74 to tie for second at 2009 KHSAA Region 5 Championships, qualifying her for state tournament ... Tied for 12th in state high school championship ... Tied for 18th in Amateur Division at 2009 American Express Kentucky Women's Open ... Graduated from Assumption High School in Louisville, Ky.


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Based on Hillary Chute's deep experience with cartoonists, "Making the Graphic Novel" will focus on how today's most noted artists go about producing comics—and how their different approaches, practices, and attitudes matter to the meaning of their comics. It will also explain some of the recent trends in the field—and how comics are emerging in all sorts of spaces, from the classroom to the museum wall to the covers of magazines such as The New Yorker.
Hillary Chute Biography
Writer, professor, and editor Hillary Chute has worked extensively with today's most famous graphic novelists. She is associate editor of Art Spiegelman's award-winning MetaMaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus (Pantheon, 2011), for which she collaborated closely with Spiegelman—arguably the world's most acclaimed cartoonist—over a period of 6 years. In 2011, she and graphic memoirist Alison Bechdel (Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic; Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama) won a Mellon Award to teach a class together on comics and autobiography at the University of Chicago. Her book Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics (Columbia 2010) examines the graphic narrative work of five authors, including Alison Bechdel and Marjane Satrapi, arguing that the medium of comics has opened up new spaces for nonfiction narrative—particularly for expressing certain kinds of stories typically relegated to the realm of the private. Chute's book Outside the Box: Interviews with Contemporary Cartoonists is set to appear in 2014; it includes her interviews with figures such as Lynda Barry, Chris Ware, Daniel Clowes, Charles Burns, and Joe Sacco.
Her current book project, "Disaster is My Muse: Visual Witnessing, Comics, and Documentary Form," deals with comics as documentary, and looks at the post-World War II environment in which Art Spiegelman in America and Keiji Nakazawa in Japan concurrently developed comics as a form for addressing the fallout of war, as well as exploring current graphic reportage by figures such as Joe Sacco on the Balkans and the Middle East. The Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in English at the University of Chicago, she has written for such publications as The Village Voice, The Believer, and Poetry.
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CCP has released a fresh batch of screenshots highlighting the vehicles of destruction in upcoming free-to-play FPS, Dust 514. The screenshots, which were accompanied by a developer diary from vehicle game designer Ryan Thorton, give us a look at the heavy and light vehicles in the game, as well as the dropships.
In Dust 514 players can purchase, customize, and upgrade the vehicles in the game. These vehicles can be called in on demand and have a major impact on the battlefield, even turning the tide for a team.
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The C.H. Bailey House is a "green" historic, elegantly-appointed, country-quiet retreat in the Land of Umpqua. Award winning wineries, a fly fishing haven, gateway to Crater Lake, waterfalls and a dynamic music scene make this destination an idyllic lodging experience.
Nestled in the Deer Creek Valley, the C.H. Bailey House is a historic farmhouse built in 1909 by Dr. Clarence H. Bailey. Surrounded by rolling hills, pastures, and a 50 acre Christmas tree farm, you will find many scenic places. Come relax with a book, star gaze, bird watch or soak in the hot tub. Or, maybe you're looking for adventure. Hike to a local waterfall, white water raft, mountain bike the North Umpqua Trail, take a guided fishing trip, wine taste, go antiquing or golfing. It is all close by.
Whether you're looking for a romantic getaway, adventure, or rest for a weary traveler, the C.H. Bailey house is right for you.
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You can relax at the C.H. Bailey House knowing that your luxurious gourmet B & B experience will leave a small foot print on the earth. There are many ways we have incorporated our green lifestyle into the C.H. Bailey House.
You'll find fruits, vegetables and herbs from our organic garden in your breakfast. We purchase local organic food products whenever available and receive a weekly CSA share of organic vegetables and fruit from Big Lick Farm. We compost food scraps.
You'll discover that the complimentary treats provided for guests including wine, chocolates, dairy products and soap are made and purchased in Roseburg to support our local economy. We serve locally roasted Fair Trade coffee at your bedroom door.
You'll find refillable dispensers in bathrooms for soap and shampoo to avoid unneccessary waste and disposal of plastic bottles. We clean with environmentally friendly products.
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The 5 Weirdest Patron Saints of the Internet
#2. Neil DeGrasse Tyson
If each field of knowledge were to be represented by one single person, Neil DeGrasse Tyson would represent science. Kim Kardashian would represent vacuous suckholery, which you can major in at DeVry.
Any time a media outlet needs to talk to a scientist, they go to Tyson. He's pop culture's answer to every question it doesn't currently have an answer to because the question is really tough and sciencey. It used to be Bill Nye the Science Guy, but he's starting to look more and more like the Hyper-Chicken from Futurama in his old age.
Tyson, an educated, knowledgeable and insightful man, seems like a great idea for a hero. He should be the kind of person young folks look up to, dadgummit. But recall that the Internet is the place where, in 1999, half its population believed the Blair Witch was a real thing because an ad campaign for a movie told them so. The Internet is the place where Nigeria 409 scams were brought back to life thanks to people who honestly thought rich African princes had just stumbled onto their AOL email addresses and needed their help. The Internet is where goatse was not only born, but found a home.
Sorry, Timmy, your goatse impression is still all fucked up.
Offline, Tyson is just a guy on the news explaining, 45 minutes past the hour, why that meteor is probably not going to hit Earth. Online, he's got the No. 2 slot on a Google search for "Neil" after Patrick Harris, and he's also the model for his own badass meme, the Neil DeGrasse Tyson reaction face, which we can confirm is really Tyson and not Steve Harvey, as many have thought. You'll find millions of instances of the "we got a badass" meme if you Google it, he has about a half-million followers on Twitter and he'll net about 6,000 hits on Reddit and around 3,000 videos on YouTube. To put that into perspective, that is more than me. Me. And I once wrote an article about romantic songs you didn't know were about rape.
Incidentally, none of this questions Tyson's badass science cred. It's about time we started looking up to smart people. Mr. Tyson, I want to make a model of the solar system with you.
#1. Bacon
Bacon is cured pork meat. You use brine or dry pack it in salt to preserve it, then maybe you smoke it. That's literally as complicated as bacon gets. However, bacon is pretty much the number one food on the Internet today, and it's only as a joke now.
KnowYourMeme.com tells me there was a bacon site back in 2004, and shit has only spiraled out of control since then. Books, memes, songs, cartoons, Epic Meal Time, bacon lip balm, bacon jelly beans and bacon lube all exist for the love of bacon. No one likes bacon enough to literally, sincerely want to use it as a sexual lubricant, and if, perchance, some mental deficiency gave rise to that desire, they'd never find another suitably despicable person to bacon hump.
If we take it for granted that, yes, bacon can be delicious and there's nothing wrong with eating a Baconator once or twice a year, but no, no one gives as much of a shit about bacon as its presence on the Internet indicates, then why is it so damn popular?
Bacon is subversive.
Bacon is counterculture awesomeness. We all know we need to avoid trans fats. We should wear sunscreen and make sure we're getting enough folate. We need prostate exams and pap smears as genetics dictates. We should drink water and maybe replace that side of fries with a nice garden salad sometimes. We should exercise and stop jerking off in the back seats of cabs. Bacon is the freedom that society very politely asks us to deny ourselves.
No one is making anyone be healthy, and the news is happy to tell us all, every day, that we're not healthy. There's an obesity epidemic. I'm sweating just typing this. There's no call to action, no government mandating that you change your life at all, but it's implicit, all the time, that you're scum for being unhealthy. You're what's wrong with America, you fat, lazy American. And you lift your middle finger, which is wrapped in crispy, greasy pork fat, and you don't give a shit.
It's human nature to push back when pushed, and bacon is the push back that Internet culture, a culture of people who have to sit in one spot and not do anything, produced. It represents freedom from the tyranny of low-fat vegan hot dogs and fun runs. It represents what's good. Even if you'd probably die and prove all those health nuts right if you ate even a fraction of what the Internet thinks is acceptable.
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COLUMBIA — South Carolina's team bus cruised along the highway Saturday night, carrying disappointed players and coaches who couldn't wait to get back to Columbia and get on with a season that has taken a frustrating turn.
The Gamecocks had just lost 14-5 at Florida, to complete a three-game sweep at the hands of the Gators. They are 8-7 at the midpoint of their Southeastern Conference schedule for the second straight year, though last season, they rolled into the midpoint having swept Mississippi State.
They found some joy on the long road home from Gainesville, because they watched their former ace Michael Roth throw two perfect innings of relief and get the win in his major league debut for the Los Angeles Angels.
It also served as a reminder of what this USC team is chasing. Roth led the Gamecocks to back-to-back national titles in 2010 and 2011 and a runner-up finish in 2012. Perhaps these Gamecocks don't have the makings of a College World Series finalist, but then again, many observers believed early last season that USC wouldn't get back to Omaha.
Then the Gamecocks surged to start the second half of their 2012 SEC schedule, winning 9 of 10 games, including their first seven. But that USC team had its full complement of players and opened the second half with Auburn and Alabama, who finished 13-17 and 9-21 in league play.
These Gamecocks didn't have closer Tyler Webb last weekend because of a sore elbow and likely won't have him this weekend against No. 17 Kentucky. His status for the following weekend's series at No. 3 LSU is uncertain.
USC, which is currently ranked 18th, finishes the gauntlet by hosting No. 2 Vanderbilt.
It's no wonder that Holbrook called the trip home from Gainesville "one of the most miserable bus rides I've had in my coaching career."
USC has a chance to gain some confidence tonight at home against the College of Charleston, which the Gamecocks defeated 3-1 last month.
"We were not as aggressive as I would have liked when we played (USC) last time," Cougars coach Monte Lee said. "That's something we're going to stress. When we've had trouble scoring this season it's because we're not swinging the bats."
Holbrook just wants to see some encouraging innings from his starter tonight, Forrest Koumas. With Webb out, Holbrook will lean more on Koumas, Evan Beal and Colby Holmes to solidify the bullpen. All three have been spotty this season, and their numbers pale compared to Webb's 0.75 ERA in 17 appearances.
Koumas has a 6.39 earned-run average in 122/3 innings over seven appearances, with two starts. Beal's ERA is 5.33. Holmes' is 4.28, but Holbrook is now turning to him to fill Webb's spot in the late innings.
Koumas, a junior, started Game 1 of the 2011 College World Series final and allowed three hits and a run in 52/3 innings. He hasn't been consistently effective since.
His ERA was 4.82 last season, as he dealt with an elbow injury that required offseason surgery. He threw just 28 innings last season after throwing 73 in 2011, when he was a weekend starter. Though he is healthy now and still throwing hard, his accuracy has fluctuated.
"His stuff is not an issue," Holbrook said. "He was one of our better guys in January. We thought we were going to get ready to have a big year from him. He's just thrown too many balls and worked behind in the count. His stuff is as good as what we've got. He's been 90 to 92 (mph) every time we've put him out there. He just needs some confidence. We're counting on him to give us some quality outings here in the second half of the year."
Holbrook thought on Sunday that Webb might be done for the year, but an MRI on Monday revealed just a muscle strain. So Holbrook felt encouraged. But he is taking a realistic approach to these next three SEC series, all significant challenges. He finds it hard to envision USC winning nine of 10 to start the second half again.
"The strength of our schedule is extremely difficult," he said. "We're not in a good spot. I'll be the first to tell you. I'm not going to sugarcoat it and say, 'Hey, we're OK.' Because I don't feel that way. We've just got to try to fight like crazy to keep our head above water."


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On April 9, 2013, Heaven welcomed a new angel, Virginia Belle Baxa.
She was born Dec. 21, 1922, a daughter of the late Delia and Charles Cade of Gaines.
She was the wife of Arie R. Baxa, who preceded her in death on March 1, 2006.
She is survived by two daughters, Dorothy Redmond and husband, Everette, of Matthews, N.C., and Juanita Baxa of Buckhannon; one son, David L. Baxa of Bluefield; and two granddaughters, Emmy Msaitif of Buckhannon and Elizabeth Baxa of Bluefield.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by one son, Danny R. Baxa; four brothers, Robert, Billy, Harold and Charles Cade; along with three sisters Mary Rollins, Marie Shipman and Eleanor Van Meter. Her two surviving sisters are Goldie Nutter of Clarksburg and Helen Hutson of Salem.
She also is survived by one aunt, Margaret Blake of Glenville.
Virginia and her husband Arie owned and operated the Knotty Pine Restaurant from 1969 to 1981. In the last days of her life, she was cared for in her home by her loved ones and some special people from St. Joseph's Hospice. Also, making visits to her home was the Rev. Donald Butcher, who gave her and her family spiritual support. Virginia will always be remembered for her kindness to all and for her love of her family and friends.
Friends will be received from 10 to 11 a.m. Saturday, April 13, at Poling-St. Clair Funeral Home. A funeral service will follow at 11 a.m. with the Rev. Donald Butcher officiating. Interment will follow in Salem United Methodist Church Cemetery in Gaines.
Online condolences may be made to the family at www.polingstclair.com. Poling-St. Clair Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.


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Coach wanted! German U19 Men´s National Team
The German Lacrosse Association is looking for a head coach and several assistant coaches for the German U19 men's national team �" all positions are on a voluntary basis. The German U19 men's national team will participate in the U19 men's world cup in Turku, Finland, in August 2012. Until then several try-out-camps and practice-camps will take place. The full camp schedule will be announced in the next few weeks. However, the next try-out camp will be held in Hamburg on the 26th and the 27th of August.
Requirements for the coaching positions:
* Several years of coaching experience in men's or juniors' (U19) lacrosse
* Availability in August 2012 (exact tournament dates have not been announced, yet)
* Language requirements: German OR English native speaker; English fluent
* International lacrosse coaching experience would be desirable
Evaluation process:
I am the DLaxV Director of Men's Lacrosse and therefore I am responsible for the appointment of the U19 men's national team coaches. So, please, send your application to email@example.com. Your application should include your resume and a cover letter concerning the reasons why you want to become a coach for the German U19 men's lacrosse national team. I will then evaluate all applications together with the general manager of the team, who I will announce in the next few days. After that I will invite the best applicants to telephone interviews. The coaches of the U19 men's national team will be nominated based on the result of these interviews.
It would be great if the whole coaching staff would already be complete by the time the next camp takes place. However, as the time frame until the next camp is very short and as the decision is a very crucial and important one, we will definitely not rush any decisions.
Kind regards,
Wolfram Greb
DLaxV Director of Men's Lacrosse


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SAXTON - Tussey Mountain's running tandem of senior Darrin Sipes and junior Daniel Taylor is one of the finest in the area.
"We complement each other with the way we run,'' Sipes said Friday night after he and Taylor led the Titans to a 33-14 victory over North Star in a District 5-A quarterfinal playoff game at Dick L. Hess Memorial Stadium. "Together, we get it done.''
That was the case again Friday as Sipes rushed for 127 yards on 14 carries and three touchdowns, and Taylor scooted for 156 yards on 11 carries and two scores.
Both have rushed for more than 1,000 yards this season, giving the Titans a vaunted 1-2 backfield punch.
"Having two backs rush over 1,000 yards has made a big difference for us,'' said Sipes, who opened the scoring with a 39-yard sprint around left end before adding a 32-yard TD run to close the third quarter and a 17-yard touchdown jaunt with 2:21 left in the game.
"It has to be tough to defend against them,'' Tussey coach Josh Smith said of Sipes and Taylor. "They're both fast runners, but they both possess different styles of running. Daniel Taylor is a little bit more shifty. Jason Sipes will just put his foot on the ground and run through you.''
Tussey Mountain's victory gives the third-seeded Titans (8-2) another home playoff game next Saturday against seventh-seeded Shade, which upended second seed Northern Bedford, 42-36 Friday.
North Star, which closed a 6-5 season, had a tough time trying to corral either Sipes or Taylor.
"They just made a couple nice runs on us and took the wind out of our sails,'' North Star coach Stacy Schmitt said.
North Star pulled to within a tie, 14-14 at halftime, when senior quarterback Joey Berkebile hit junior wideout Justin Holcomb with a 64-yard scoring pass in the opening minute of the second quarter.
Tussey took control in the second half, taking the lead for good when Taylor found himself free in the open field and sped down the left side for a 63-yard touchdown run with 6:43 left in the third quarter to put Tussey ahead to stay, 20-14.
The momentum really shifted as the third quarter closed, when Sipes busted free for his 32-yard TD run down the left side to give Tussey - benefiting from a short field and a start at the North Star 39 - a 26-14 advantage after three quarters.
"We knew we had to sustain our blocks better on offense and play a little bit better defensively in the second half,'' Smith said. "In this game, big plays ruled, and our guys did a good job blocking downfield.''
It was Taylor's downfield blocking that enabled him to score his first touchdown of the game, in the first quarter.
Sipes broke through the middle of the field but had the football jarred loose from his grasp and fumbled near the Titans' 45. Taylor, following through on a downfield block, alertly gathered the ball into his hands and raced the remaining 55 yards untouched to put Tussey ahead, 14-6 after one quarter.
"Taylor did a good job blocking downfield on that buck sweep play, and he put himself in the right spot to pick up that ball,'' Smith said. "We're the type of team that makes its own breaks.''
Smith hopes that trend will continue in the semifinals next week against an upstart Shade team.
"It's a big challenge,'' Smith said. "They have a very strong offense. We're going to have to play good defense.''
North Star6 8 0 0 - 14
Tussey Mountain14 0 12 7 - 33
First quarter
TM-Sipes 39 run (Wentz kick), 8:00.
NS-Miller 1 run (kick failed), 2:43.
TM-Taylor 55 run (Wentz kick), 1:46.
Second quarter
NS-Holcomb 64 pass from Berkebile (Berekbile run), 11:07.
Third quarter
TM-Taylor 63 run (kick failed), 6:43.
TM-Sipes 32 run (pass failed), 0:00.
Fourth quarter
TM-Sipes 17 run (Wentz kick), 2:21.
RUSHING: North Star-Miller 27-83, Maluchnik 3-2, Berkebile 6-(-1), Team 1-(-12). Tussey Mountain-Taylor 11-156, Sipes 14-127, Kline 8-26, Wentz 2-5, Barnett 5-(-8).
PASSING: North Star-Berkebile 12-22-1-198, Maluchnik 0-1-0-0. Tussey Mountain-Barnett 5-9-1-78.
RECEIVING: North Star-Holland 6-135, Straiser 2-35, Maluchnik 2-14, Knupp 1-7, Mostoller 1-7. Tussey Mountain-Brumbaugh 2-43, Kline 2-20, Sipes 1-15.
INTERCEPTIONS: North Star-Rice. Tussey Mountain-Barnett.
First downs1114
Passing (comp.-att.-int.)12-23-15-9-1
Yards passing19878
Total yards274384


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To be very, very drunk. Contrary to the guy before me, the word 'mortal' is also used in the North-East of England (ie: Newcastle and Sunderland)
Last night, I was proper mortal!!!!
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I was fucking mortal last night!
I was fucking mortal last night!
av AO'CB 14 maj 2008
Not immortal. A mortal is someone or something that can die off through natural or unnatural selection.
Is there life after this mortal coil is shed?
av larstait 29 oktober 2003
To get so incredibly drunk you only escape your mortality from alcoholic poisoning by pure luck. Probably originating somewhere north uk (or another country altogether). This term is usually used prior to going out drinking, and is followed by a failed effort or pretence of being incredibly drunk.
"I'm gonna get mortal tonight! So lock up your daughters/sons/animals/other"
av sarcasmqueen 11 januari 2014
An insult in the Percy Jackson or Heroes Of Olympus fandoms. Meaning being idiotic or ignorant. Mostly fangirls or fanboys will call you this. It is very offensive to fangirls or fanboys if called a mortal. Be prepared to be stabbed, smacked, or punched. (For some extra zing they might stab u with a pen)
Oh my gods dude, your such a mortal.
av Demigod121 27 februari 2014
1. a downer, upsetting, depressing
2. uncool
2. uncool
1. Bob: "man, my girl left me last night."
Stu: "damn, son. that's mortal."
2. Bob: "yo, george is so awesome!"
Stu: "what are you on about? that dude's fuckin' mortal."
Stu: "damn, son. that's mortal."
2. Bob: "yo, george is so awesome!"
Stu: "what are you on about? that dude's fuckin' mortal."
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To be very, very drunk. This term is used almost exclusively in the west of Scotland.
I went oot last night and I was pure mortal, man!
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Joseph A. Smith Sr., 58, Hollidaysburg, died unexpectedly Wednesday morning at his residence.
He was born in Altoona, son of the late Donald and Anna (Helman) Smith. He married Cynthia L. Wertz on June 14, 1997, in Kershaw County, S.C.
Surviving are his wife of 15 years, Cindy; a son, Joseph Jr. and wife, Beth, of Canoe Creek; a daughter, Amy Espy and husband, John, of Spruce Creek; a stepdaughter, Erin L. Scott of Hollidaysburg; five grandchildren; a sister, Kate Smith in Texas; and a brother, Bruce and wife, Jeanne, of Williamsburg.
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He was preceded in death by his twin brother, James O.
Joseph was a 1972 graduate of Hollidaysburg Area Senior High School. He retired from Smith Masonry as a foreman and union bricklayer.
A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012, at Sorge Funeral Home Inc., Hollidaysburg, by the Rev. Jaime G. Olson. The family requests casual dress. Interment will be at New Canoe Creek Cemetery.


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aka Woody. To innebriated with the purpose of self destruction. If you are balig(which you are not) then you would have reached the highest level of enlightenment possible by the consumption of alcohol.
Yo Balig is here. No he's not I haven't had enough liq.
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Q: What is all-inclusive pricing and how does it work?
Q: If I register as a "single" attendee for the weekend, do I have an option to bring my spouse or other guest to my class dinner?
Q: What if my spouse or guest is coming to Reunions, but only attending the class dinner? (She will be shopping with friends, out with area relatives, ... etc)
Q: What if we are arriving Thursday, but arriving after the dinner hour?
Q: My child cannot commit to the date just yet. Is it possible to add them simply for the cook-out as it gets closer in time?
Q: I want to sign up for Friday and Saturday, but plan to have dinner off-campus with friends Friday night. How is that handled?
Q: What exactly does the all-inclusive pricing cover? Is there a schedule of meals and events that are covered?
Q: What is my most economical option?
Q: I am only interested in attending my class dinner-can't I just buy a ticket for the dinner and bypass the rest of the registration information?
Q: Is it possible to pay for my package in installments?
Q: What if my plans change? Can I get a refund?
Q: Where can I get a reunion schedule?
Q: What is in the dorm rooms? / What do I need to bring?
Q: What if I need a private bathroom?
Q: What if I need a handicapped bathroom?
Q: What if I would like to stay with a group of my classmates?
Q: What if I need to make a hotel reservation?
Class dinners will be held on Saturday evening. The class dinners are usually more formal gatherings than other meals during the weekend. Semi-formal attire is recommended. You will be most comfortable dressed in a jacket and optional tie for men, and dress slacks or a dress for women.
A: By offering an "all-inclusive" rate for attendance at Reunions, each alumnus/a has the option of selecting a plan that best fits his/her personal preferences for the number of days they want to attend and participate in the outstanding array of programs and activities offered by the College. The all-inclusive pricing enables a person to take full advantage of all the activities on each of the days he/she chooses to attend without having to pay for each of them separately.
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A: Yes, of course you are welcome to bring a guest for your class dinner, but if you register under the "single" option, you will need to contact the Office of Alumni Relations to make provisions to pay for the extra dinner for your guest. The Office of Alumni Relations can be reached at 866-729-0314.
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A: If you'd like your spouse or guest to stay on campus with you, you should register for the double Saturday package. This will provide housing with 2 beds and includes Saturday class dinner for both of you. If you plan to stay on campus but your spouse is going to stay elsewhere, you may register for the singles package and contact the Office of Alumni Relations to pay for the class dinner separately. The Office of Alumni Relations can be reached at 866-729-0314.
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A: If you arrive on Thursday after dinner, register for the 3-day package in addition to the $100 fee you pay for on-campus housing which will allow you to stay all three nights.
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A: If a guest joins you for one or more events during the weekend, but is not part of your registration package, you will need to contact the Office of Alumni Relations, 866-729-0314, to get reunion pricing tailored to your unique situation.
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A: You are certainly welcome to have dinner off-campus with friends on Friday night but, since your 2-day package includes all meals and entertainment charges, we will not be able to refund you the cost of the All-Reunion Buffet on Friday evening.
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A: When you select one of our all-inclusive packages, you are paying for all meals, activities and entertainment that you and your guest(s) will attend during the course of the weekend excluding child care and kids' camp. If you choose to stay on campus, you will be charged a flat rate regardless of the number of nights you stay, so it is to your advantage to stay as many nights as your schedule will allow. When you arrive on campus and check in at reunions registration headquarters, you will receive a registration packet that will contain tickets for all your meals and a master schedule of events for you and any guests you may bring along.
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A: Reunion Weekend is the single largest alumni program offered by the College and, as you can imagine, requires considerable planning and personnel in order to provide the scope of events and programs that take place over a four-day period. Hamilton subsidizes nearly 50% of all costs associated with this large scale celebration. In order to prepare and present an exceptional weekend of activities for alumni and their families, it is necessary to ask attendees to contribute toward the overall cost of the weekend based on the number of guests they bring and the number of days they will participate in Reunion activities. We make every reasonable effort to manage costs as carefully as possible in order to encourage strong attendance without compromising the quality of the celebration.
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A: The minimum package choice to participate in Reunions is $100 for the single 1-day package. We recommend you select the single, 1-day package and stay with a friend or your old professor in town. The other most economical options:
If you have extenuating financial circumstances, please contact Director of Alumni Relations Sharon Rippey, firstname.lastname@example.com, 866-729-0314.
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A: While we hope that you will take advantage of the full array of activities throughout the weekend and the many other chances to meet and mingle with classmates, you are certainly welcome and encouraged to attend your class dinner. You will need to contact the Office of Alumni Relations to arrange a ticket to your class dinner.
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A: Yes, the College can arrange to bill your credit card in regular monthly installments. The amount billed will be divided equally based on the number of months before June 2012 and the package that you purchase. The last date this option can be selected is April27, 2012. When you register, select the Recurring Payment option. Call the Alumni Office at 866-729-0314 with questions.
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A. Refunds for alumni events may be requested 72 hours prior to the event.
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A: Registered attendees will be posted on the website; see Who's Attending. Alumni need to be registered Hamilton users to view the list. If you are not already registered please login at:
A: A reunion brochure including a full schedule will be mailed to your home in early April. In support of our efforts to be environmentally green, please bring your brochure with you. A limited supply of printed schedules will be available at the reunions registration desk. A complete schedule, including weekend highlights, Alumni Colleges and campus map are also available online. You can also scan the QR code on the brochure or visit www.hamilton.edu/reunions on your mobile device.
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Whenever it is possible, classes are housed together. Specific housing assignments will be given at registration headquarters upon arrival for the weekend.
A: Guests may want to consider bringing a fan and an additional reading lamp as these are not available in the rooms. Packages with the following items will be provided in rooms (one package per person): two towels, one washcloth, top and bottom sheets, one blanket (you may want to bring an extra one in case of cool weather), one pillowcase, one pillow, two soaps and two disposable cups. A limited number of cribs are available at registration headquarters.
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A: Due to the limited number of private bathrooms on campus, we cannot guarantee you will be housed in a room with a private bath. However, we will try our best to accommodate your request. Add a note in the Special Housing Needs section of your reunions registration form indicating your request. Having a room with a private bath may mean that you will not be housed with the rest of your class.
If having a private bath is a necessity for you, we recommend that you make alternative reservations at a local hotel in case we are not able to accommodate you on-campus. Be mindful that most hotels will charge for reservations canceled within a certain number of hours prior to the arrival date. Your hotel can let you know what their policy is. Prior to canceling your hotel room, please call the Office of Alumni Relations at 866-729-0314 to see whether or not we were able to accommodate your request.
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A: Please help us determine if there is a real need (ex. wheelchair-bound). We will do our best to accommodate you but there are a limited number of rooms with handicapped-accessible bathrooms. Please add a note in the Special Housing Needs section of your reunions registration form indicating your request. Having a room with a handicapped bath may mean that you will not be housed with the rest of your class. If it is a medical need, we recommend that you make alternative reservations at a local hotel where you can cancel before the hotel cut-off date if Hamilton is able to accommodate your request. You can call the Office of Alumni Relations at 866-729-0314 during the week of May 27 to see if we were able to assign you a room with a private bath.
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A: Do you want to stay near your old roommates, teammates or choir friends? Coordinate your efforts and sign up for group housing (8-10 alumni per group) to let us know. Please list all names on the housing form. Groups will be assigned neighboring rooms only after we receive registration forms for all individuals in your group. We will do our best to accommodate you.
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A: If you prefer off-campus accommodations, please directly contact one of the hotels where blocks of rooms have been booked for Hamilton Reunion '12 guests. To get the booked rate, please book by April 30.
For a list of other local accommodations please consult the accommodations page.
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A: Hamilton's on-campus childcare provider, Clinton Early Learning Center, will provide child care on Friday, June 1 from 6–11 p.m. and on Saturday, June 2 from 5 p.m.–12 a.m. for children under 6 years. If a family has older siblings that the parents would like to have included with the younger, they will be accommodated as well. Older children are invited to enjoy the tennis courts, athletic facilities, the computer center as well as supervised outdoor activities.
Public computers are available in the Sadove Student Center lobby and Information Commons (IC) located on the first floor of Burke Library, and the Nesbitt-Johnston Writing Center on the first floor of Kirner-Johnson. These are accessed using a guest log-in (username and password are available at registration headquarters). Burke Library will be open from 8 a.m.–4 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, and from 10 a.m.–2 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.
Wireless Internet is available campus-wide. Consult the Reunions Information Desk 315-859-4811 and 315-859-4911 for log-in information.
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I love this series. It is clean and a fun listen. Great for all ages.
Every time I read a book in this series I wish I lived in Excelsior with Betsy and Jill. I love the plot, characters and setting in the series. Whic..Show More »
These are definately fireside listens. They are far fetched in that the police are so laid back. Hopefully this is not the way in real life, but the..Show More »
I sound like a parrot when I write these reviews. They are simple, clean mysteries. They border on silly, but they are also enjoyable. It is so har..Show More »
The story overall is good. I don't understand why the author feels the need to make some characters gay when their sexual preference had absolutely no..Show More »
the Excelsior Minnesota art fair is happening, and Betsy is involved volunteering for the fair. When an artisan is murdered there, the list
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Another 4 stars. This is a light and quick read. The characters lovable and realistic. If you are looking for a series with a likeable, honest, str..Show More »
This series is a new one for me. This was easy listening. It also had you hooked until the end. I could not guess whodunit. I can't wait until more ..Show More »
I'm not a knitter, had to look up "counted cross stitch" to figure out what they were talking about, but the Minnesota locale drew me in to the first ..Show More »
Love this series. Can't wait until there are more of this series on audible. It is fun and I like the plots and the mystery of whodunit.
This might have been a good book. However, the inflection and emphasis on the wrong words make for a painful listening experience. Also, sometimes s..Show More »
These are all good 'three stars.' If a change from teeth grinding suspense and gory descriptions of macabre emotional mayhem are what you seek perhaps..Show More »
With Threadbare, Monica Ferris has gotten back into the swing with the Needlecraft Mystery series. A plot that you couldn't figure out immediately, m..Show More »
Great story - Monica Ferris has done it again! The performance left a lot to be desired in my estimation. Susan Boyce put emphasis on the wrong word..Show More »
The narration was awful. Of all the Crewel World mysteries I have this was the poorest narration I have experienced. While Betsy's voice was good the ..Show More »
This was one of the best in the series! I so hope that there are more to come, BUT only narrated by Susan Boyce. I had to return the last three becaus..Show More »
This is one of the best in the series. Betsy had become somewhat predictable and dry in the past couple of books. However, in this book, I felt like..Show More »


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Someone who, when having a private conversation on a cell phone, will move into the nearest closet to talk, instead of holding off the conversation for a later time. These people should be made fun of and ridiculed as much as possible while in said closet.
Kris thought his conversation with his girlfriend was so important, being a closet caller, he ran into the closet thinking nobody would hear it.
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Adam Sweet is a faded musician who now prefers Linux to people. Studied BSc Computer Science at the University of Wolverhampton and now works as a Linux sysadmin and consultant for an Open Source support, training and consultancy company.
Went by the somewhat dismal IRC nickname of drinky for historical reasons, but more recently prefers the less crap, though less imaginative nick of adamsweet. Was an avid follower of LugRadio until he became one of the presenters in mid 2007.
Likes Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, guitars, music (particularly The Clash), nice food and good films. He used to really like beer but it really didn't like him much the day afterwards so now he is miserable.
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Fifty States HALF Marathon Club is a club for runners & triathletes of all levels and abilities. Walker Friendly, No time limit to complete challenges. No minimums to become a member. The 50 States HALF Marathon Challenge is to finish a HALF in all 50 states (which can be a half marathon OR a half ironman triathlon with a 13.1 half marathon finish). Runners can also choose to work toward the 50 States Endurance Challenge instead of the 50 States HALF Marathon Challenge, which allows half marathons, marathons, half ironman triathlons, or ironman events, or combination of any of those distance events, in all 50 states. All members can also work toward the 100 HALF Anywhere Challenge (which is ONLY "HALFS" .... half marathon or half ironmans with half marathon finish. Over 160 event discounts, awesome personally engraved Gold Cup Trophy awards for finishers, annual meet up for members (in addition to many smaller more informal meet-ups amongst members) and amazing, fun members! Visit http://www.halfmarathonclub.com for more information.
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