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Because that would make the league less, and not more, competitive? I'm not sure we're seeing eye to eye on the definition of competitive. More teams, all with a reasonable chance of winning in any given year, is competitive. Less teams, dominated by those that spend the most, is not competitive. You apparently favor having fewer teams, with success contingent on who can buy the most free agents, which if fine. But don't sit here and preach about how you want more competition.
Also, I'm going to reiterate again, the players want revenue sharing too. So stop making it seem like revenue sharing is some awful sin perpetrated by Bettman and the league. Players want more teams, because more teams mean more jobs, and more money. As a matter of fact, the owners want more teams, the players want more teams, and the fans in places like Dallas, Nashville, Phoenix, and Carolina want more teams. The only people that want teams to fold are people like you...an extreme minority.
RS is basically an option not the answer. The league - especially the BOG - has allowed a certain guy too much power and therefore agreed to franchises that just can't support themselves, so what exac tly is the point of having them? Keep in mind, relocation =/= fold? Would I love seeing a 30 team league well run you can be t on it but as this stupid lockout has proven, that is not the case and the current regime will always find things to force their stupid parity s***.
The 5 year contract limit is crap, it would basically remove a lot of player rights they've countered with a great proposal the NHL should be ashamed for not accepting it. It is not up to the players to give up money and their rights, so the league can continue to support piss poor owners and horrible run franchises. Believe I'd love seeing the Isles succesful again but as long as they have their japanse owner nothing is going to change. Why should a guy like Mike pay for him?
Are the players without any sort of blame? No, but the hardline owners are just delusional for me I think it is time, for the good guys Mr. I, Dolan, Acqelani, Geffrey Molson and Snider to speak up against the BOG, their puppet and the play it poor owners because we then qualify for RS.
Some NHL guys don't even understand the point of negotiating this, picking things you like and then modify those you don't like is the whole point of this.
If I am a player and a guy with no hockey skills, no hockey sense and the charisma of a punching bag is calling me indirectly out like that you can bet I'd give my leader (Fehr) not only full support but also the green light to go nuclear against the BOG.
I think the Wings as a club would benefit from decertification so I am all for it, no more stall lockout tactics every 5 years.


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Saint Vincent College Department of Physics will offer an opportunity for the public to view the upcoming rare transit of the planet Venus on Tuesday, June 5. "A twice in a lifetime event – at best – is coming up next month," advised Dr. John Smetanka, professor of physics and vice president for academic affairs at Saint Vincent. "Late in the afternoon on Tuesday, June 5 the planet Venus, which for the past six months has been the most brilliant 'star' in the western sky just after sunset, will begin to pass directly between the earth and the sun. This perfect alignment will allow viewers in Pennsylvania to see the planet's silhouette move across the surface of the Sun – known as a transit. Transits of Venus are rare, they occur in pairs, eight years apart and then not again for more than 100 years. The next transit of Venus will be in 2117. So if you missed it in 2004, now is your last chance to see a transit of Venus in person." Dr. Smetanka reminded potential viewers that directly observing the sun can cause permanent eye damage. "Never look directly at the Sun," Dr. Smetanka warned. "Viewing the transit should be done only by projecting the image or using approved filters. Weather permitting, we will have telescopes outfitted for safely viewing the transit at the Sis and Herman Dupré Science Pavilion beginning at 6 p.m. on June 5, 2012." While this is only the seventh transit of Venus since the invention of the telescope, these rare events have been important to astronomers. The first coordinated observations of transits across the globe allowed the distance between the Sun and the Earth to be calculated most accurately. Other astronomers deduced that Venus had a thick atmosphere by watching the transit. Most recently, the transit of Venus in 2004 was used to refine techniques to detect planets around other stars. "Not nearly as rare, the Perseid Meteor Shower occurs each August," Dr. Smetanka concluded. "This year promises to offer good conditions around its peak on August 13. We see a meteor shower when the Earth passes through the orbit of a comet. Debris from the comet litters the orbit. When these small particles hit the Earth's atmosphere at a relative velocity around 15 miles per second, observers on the ground see a bright, fast-moving vapor trail as the shock of the collision disintegrates the ancient piece of ice or rock. This year the Moon will not be in the sky most of the night allowing more of the meteors to be seen without the obscuring glare from the Moon. We are also planning a public viewing on campus for this year's Perseid meteor shower peak." For information on these special events and regular public planetarium shows, visit the Angelo Taiani Planetarium and Astronaut Exhibit web page at www.stvincent.edu/planetarium/.
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On page one yesterday we published a story regarding a jeans drive being conducted by thoughtful students at Salem's Southeast Elementary School.
On other pages during the past week alone, we brought you accounts of spelling bees held throughout area schools. We ran photos from the mock trial in Lisbon which highlighted high school students in simulated courtroom dramas. We have told you about merit scholars. About graduates from our area high schools making the dean's list at their respective college or university. We told you about other accomplishments on the collegiate level by local students, like being chosen for an astute committee or being selected for a big conference.
We told you about the Salem High School chapter of the National Honor Society and the Spanish Club again sponsoring the weekly Banquet in Salem. We recounted the successes of local athletes on our sports pages like the South Range girls basketball team winning a share of the ITCL title and finishing a wonderful regular season at 18-2. Last weekend we covered the big wrestling tournament at Salem High where West Branch did so well.
We told you about Knox Elementary School students participating in the Jump Rope for Heart and raising $5,400 for a great cause. We told you about a production by the West Branch High School Theater Arts Class. We told you about the West Branch High School Instrumental Music Dept. presenting 30 young musicians performing solo and in ensembles.
You were informed about a Pasta for Pennies fundraiser being held by the Salem Schools. Young students will be given a learning experience while collecting money to help battle blood-related cancers. We published a review of "Alice in Wonderland" playing at the Salem Community Theatre which showcases an array of talented young people. That production continues this weekend.
We published a page one story last Sunday applauding the successes of schools participating in the annual Columbiana County Academic Challenge. Every student involved in that from all county schools is very, very smart. We told you about National Honor Society inductees at East Palestine High School and about a Salem High graduate proudly serving as a battalion commander at West Point. Soon we will publish our quarterly roster of pages saluting honor roll students from all schools in our readership area. Our weekly Sunday Spotlight page is chockful of information listing the good deeds of area youth. This Sunday's Spotlight will be no different.
Notice a pattern from all of the above??On virtually a daily basis, young people in our area are doing good: in the classroom and in the community. We have so many very bright, very generous and very ambitious young people. The Salem News is happy to acknowledge what they are doing on our pages. Don't forget to do likewise and offer up some praise and encouragement when you see some of these wonderful young people. They will appreciate it and in all likelihood politely offer you a "thank you."
Those out there who complain about today's youth, accusing them of doing nothing but mindlessly sitting in front of a computer, or spending most of their lives texting on the phone while in hypnotic trances, are clueless. Go ahead and pick a day, any day and read a Salem News. Chances are you will read about the sheer goodness, smarts and generosity of our young people. There are so, so many of them out there and that bodes well for our future. That isn't lost on us.


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The tiny Local History Museum in the village centre of Guggisberg is dedicated to the story of Vreneli. But Guggisberg offers much more. From bathing and barbecue fun on the banks of the River Sense (here the border to Fribourg) to equally as much pleasure on the panoramic terraces of traditional taverns, and well-signposted biking, cross-country skiing, walking and hiking tours. Offers are rounded off by a privately-run Farming Museum as well as horse trekking and horse-drawn carriage rides. Guggisberg (1115m) is particularly appealing when the sun shines on the sea of fog below.
Another folk song is almost as well known as the Vreneli song: «S'isch e länge Wäg ufs Guggershörnli» or «It's a long way up to the Guggershorn». Actually it isn't that far from Guggisberg to the Guggershörnli - but it is extremely steep. The hike to the 1283m summit takes a good hour. Allow equally as long to enjoy the panoramic views.
Also belonging to Guggisberg is Ottenleuebad, with its hotel/restaurant, group of holiday homes and a small skilift. Ottenleue is primarily one of the gateways to the Gantrisch cross-country ski region, with its scenic and very snow-sure pistes. Another small ski & cross-country ski area is found near the village of Riffenmatt.
- Guggershorn (1283m) – the climb is richly rewarded with one of the most stunning panoramas in the Swiss Mittelland.
- Vreneli ab em Guggisbärg – two-day hike along the banks of the Sense, through wetland forests and flower-filled meadows to Vreneli's home, Guggisberg and the Guggershorn.
- Gantrisch cross-country ski centre – spectacular views of the Gantrisch chain from a sunny yet snow-safe southern slope.
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- Hirschmatt Celtic Festival – a Celtic thatched-roof roundhouse has been erected in the otherwise so traditional countryside surrounding Güggisberg. An annual Celtic Festival is celebrated with guests from all over Europe - a real success story (August).
- Schafscheid Riffenmatt – before the hustle and bustle of the market really gets underway, the sheep summered on the alp are handed back to their owners (first Thursday in September).


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Alfred H. Falter, 95, of Attica, died Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012, at St. Francis Home, Tiffin.
He was born Dec. 9, 1916, near Attica, to Clem and Clara (Wechter) Falter. He married Marie (Mayer) Falter June 10, 1939. She passed away shortly before their 50th wedding anniversary in April 1989.
He is survived by his son, Al (Sherry) Falter Jr. of Naples, Fla.; three daughters, Mary Jane (F.J.) Dick of Attica, Ruth (Joe) Costanzo of Spartanburg, S.C., and Donna (Gerald) Studer of Mansfield; nine grandchildren, Kevin (Julie) Claus of Lewis Center, Steve Shank of Perrysburg, Lisa (Steve) Donald of Boiling Springs, S.C., Shari (Scott) Smith of Canal Winchester, Dennis (Theresa) Shank of Alexandria, Dana Ingram of Shelby, Martin (Kerrie) Shank of Clayton, N.C., Kristi (Lance) Beglin of Shelby and Michael Falter of Ewing, N.J.; 22 great-grandchildren; four stepgrandchildren; eight stepgreat-grandchildren; and a brother, Virgil Falter of Tiffin.
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He also was preceded in death by his parents; a grandson, Matthew Falter; a great-granddaughter, Laura Jane Shank; five brothers, Cyril, Berdell, Leonard, Eugene and Gerald Falter; and three sisters, Marcella Hippler, Bernadette Holmer and Bernadine Schaffer.
Alfred was a lifelong resident of the area and a farmer by trade. This was supplemented by working at various jobs including driving milk truck, working at the ice plant in Willard, New Departure, Sandusky, and Mansfield Brass, New Washington. He enjoyed playing cards, traveling and visiting with friends. His greatest joy was being with family.
Visitation will be 2-6 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012, with the rosary being recited at 6 p.m. at Lindsey-Foos-Kocher Funeral Service, 295 W. Tiffin St., Attica.
His Mass of Christian burial will be 10:30 a.m. Monday, Oct. 8, at Our Lady of Hope Catholic Church, Attica. Burial will follow at Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery, Attica.
Memorial contributions may be made to Our Lady of Hope Church, St. Francis Home or Bridge Hospice in care of the funeral home.
Online condolences may be made at www.lindseyfooskocher.com.


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The Japanese news agency says world champion Miki Ando will sit out this year's figure-skating Grand Prix season.
The Japanese news agency says world champion Miki Ando will sit out this year's figure-skating Grand Prix season.
No kidding! Who said that post-season is dull.
^^I do! LOL It's the same stuff rehashed every year with the same old news hitting the boards - so and so will sit out, so and so will not be skating with so and so... and I don't get to see anyone jump or twirl on the ice while they do it *pouts* (and my favorites always break up, or retire, so the news is never fun)
I will be interested to see who replaces Miki as a seed. I assume also that YuNa will not do the GP either, and will be replaced.
One of them should be Nagsu as she has higher seasonal best then some of the seeded skaters
It seems Miki might sit out the whole season as well. It will be really interesting to see how the others step up now. This opens the door for the European ladies to grab more spots on the Worlds podium, unless Mao and Yuna regain the upper hand and Mirai finally gets a handle on her nerves.
And/Or giving Alissa Czisny another GP season to bring up her confidence. =]
If she sits the season out, opens the door for the field doesn't it? Man.
I'm glad to hear it. It'd be good if Mao sat out too...I really think she needs the rest.
Still, with Yu-Na and now Miki out for the GP, we'll see a very interesting re-shuffling of the front-runners, especially with all of the newbies coming in.
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Babcock is making a huge mistake
Posted 29 March 2012 - 01:11 AM
What kind of message are you sending to the team when you are afraid of your number one goalie facing a competitor, even if he is not in top game condition? It is a team game and if the team is playing like a team they will give Howie all the protection he needs. Showing fear is a recipe for failure.
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Posted 29 March 2012 - 01:30 AM
Look at the end game. We havent lost against the Preds on Friday, we have more games to play with Howie in net and we need a healthy goalie going into the playoffs.
To risk Howie for the Preds game and lose him to injury for the playoffs is asinine.
We are in the show, set yourself up for the best chance to go the distance. If we were in the bottom seeds where someone is going to be on vacation next week then you play Howard. Since we arent you win the games you can and deal with the losses.
This is PRE PLAYOFF HOCKEY!!!! You make every concession necessary to be healthy for the second season.
Im amazed by the people here that cant absorb the fact that we are in, we need to stay healthy to progress and acting like we are on the bumb is a bit premature.
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Posted 29 March 2012 - 03:09 AM
NEWS FLASH..... ANY player at ANY time can get hurt. You don't have to be playing a good team to get injured. In fact, players get injured in practice.... players get injured even when they are not on the ice. Not playing a player because you are afraid they will get hurt in asinine. There is that "fear" again. If you are afraid then pack your bags and go golfing because you won't be playing hockey in May. The playoffs ARE a war of attrition. It is usually the healthiest team hoisting the cup at the end... not necessarily the best. A team can be the healthiest team going into the playoffs and all it takes is facing a team like San Jose or St. Louis at this point and they can hit and punish you into oblivion and there is no way you make it to the finals. IMHO, it is mostly luck.... the luck of having the "easiest road". And right now the easiest road starts by having home ice advantage over Nashville.... so you have to do whatever it takes right now to achieve that.
Posted 29 March 2012 - 03:42 AM
Babs doesnt want Howie in if he didnt have a warm up game prior. I dont blame him in the least.
Yes any guy can get hurt, are you just gonna throw in your only starting goalie and risk him when we already are gonna go to the playoffs?
I read half of the first sentence of your reply before realizing you are completely clueless...
Point being WE NEED A GOALTENDER TO WIN A CHAMPIONSHIP.
I spared everyone the half screen font.
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Posted 29 March 2012 - 06:26 AM
That being said, if Howard is on the fence about whether he is prepared or not, and coming back early means having an unprepared, cold goaltender in a crucial head-to-head with major playoff implications, I side with Babcock on this one. This team playing as sloppy and inconsistent as they are, it really is going to depend completely on which skaters show up to play, less so on which mediocre or cold goaltender you have between the pipes. Leave Howard out another 3 days, make SURE he is healthy, get him more practices under his belt, and prevent any possible confidence buster that might come with playing cold behind this Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde team against your first round opponent.
Nashville is a defense first hockey club, and the Red Wings are going to win or lose Friday depending on what they do in the trenches to improve their play and score goals. While a fluky Conklin goal may still be the difference, a soft goal with a cold Howard is probably equally as likely, with more downside.
Posted 29 March 2012 - 07:27 AM
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I like this team.
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Posted 29 March 2012 - 07:50 AM
I wonder if Babs is shielding Nashville from Howard, so they don't have an in-game refresher on his strengths and weaknesses so close to playoffs. You also don't want to let your potential 1st round opponent get confident against your goalie because they lit him up one game removed from injury. Hell, Babs might be worried about them taking runs at Howard trying to reaggrivate whatever was bugging him. Who knows.
Your common sense is refreshing and has absolutely no place in this thread.
EDIT: You're -> your. My bad.
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Howard and Conklin in nets for practice, Pearce back with GR
Posted 29 March 2012 - 12:25 PM
Babcock having second thoughts about starting Conklin tomm. will talk to goalie coach Jim Bedard and decide tomm between Howard/Conklin
"We thought we were indestructible, The Lords of Iron"
Posted 29 March 2012 - 12:37 PM
You might just get your wish...
I'm glad I'm not the only one to think the OP wasn't off his rocker.
Posted 29 March 2012 - 12:44 PM
I'm actually indifferent to Babs' decision. On the one hand, it'd be good for Jimmy to get back against a team that's not going to go soft on him. But on the other hand since they aren't going to go soft on him, there's always a chance they might try to take a run on him and further aggrivate the injury, especially since there's a good chance that Nashville will be our 1st round opponent.
I'm glad I'm not the only one to think the OP wasn't off his rocker.
In the end, Jimmy will probably give us our best chance at getting 2 points. But the risk of long-term damage to the team if Jimmy gets hurt (as opposed to Conkblock, if he played) is greater too.
I'll defer to Babcock's judgement on this one, though. After all, the man's won a Stanley Cup, and about the best I've done is win a Guitar Hero tournament at work...
"We thought we were indestructible, The Lords of Iron"
Posted 29 March 2012 - 02:56 PM
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Posted 29 March 2012 - 05:31 PM
Posted 29 March 2012 - 05:49 PM
What pisses me off the most is that all those Wings fans that came to see them were given a raw deal. For crying out loud, they deserved a much better show than what the Wings gave them. These overpaid players obviously don't give a crap about the fans that come watch them.
By any chance were you at the game?
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Yes. Points, then ROW (Regulation+Overtime Wins/All Wins) which Nashville leads in.
So if we stay tied with Nashville after their game tonight, we still sit in the 5 spot?!? We have one more win overall, less OT wins, and the season series was tied.... How does it make sense that the tie-breaker goes to Nashville?
Did they change the rules, I thought they went off points, then overall wins as the first tie breaker?
If we get the road game going strong then it's ours. A playoff series is far different from the regular season. All the preparation work will be working on ways to play against ONE team, not a combination of 29 others. Get game 1 right and the momentum is ours.
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I am writing to you today because of the great ski patrol at Diamond Peak Ski Resort.
Two Fridays ago, my friend and I were skiing on a nice and sunny afternoon, when all of a sudden we were lost. I personally ski at Diamond Peak a lot, so I knew we were somewhere we shouldn't have been. Lost in the wilderness, we called our parents and searched around, looking for any kind of sign or run to see where we were.
When we hit a sign that read "Steep Hill, No Trespassing" we knew we were in deep trouble. I called back, notifying the ski patrol of our location. They responded by telling us we were out of bounds, and we needed to follow our tracks and start hiking upward.
Driven by our own will, we started slowly walking uphill. Finally, after an hour and a half of hiking, patrollers found us and got us out of our sticky situation quickly, in a friendly yet professional manner. They knew where we were, and we all traversed out fairly quickly.
Dennis and Pat were the two best patrollers I have ever met, and they saved my life. The patrollers were not mad at us, they simply used it as a learning experience to be more thoughtful about where you go. They also understood that it was an accident, for there were not any ropes where we went out of bounds. There were signs every hundred feet though, and they reminded us to look more carefully next time for signs notifying us of the boundaries.
This experience was made much better than it could've been just because of the great ski patrol that Diamond Peak has to offer. So next time, when you're skiing at Diamond Peak, thank the patrollers for always being there for you on the mountain. They have a tough job, and deserve praise and respect for all the good that they do.
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Jennifer Suer and J. Nicholas Lay were united in marriage at 1 p.m. April 28, 2012, at St. Boniface Church, Cincinnati. The Rev. Joseph Robinson and Deacon Thomas were con-celebrants for the double-ring Catholic nupital Mass. A reception followed at Marriott Northeast, Cincinnati.
Jennifer is the daughter of Randall and Joanne Suer of Cincinnati.
Nick is the son of John and Becky Lay of Tiffin.
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Jennifer, given in marriage by her father, wore a strapless organza gown featuring a sweetheart neckline, drop waist and A-line skirt. She carried a bouquet of white hydrangeas, white roses and purple lisianthus.
Erica Suer of Cincinnati was her sister's maid of honor. Bridesmaids were Arielle Kiss of Columbus, friend of the bride, Courtney Hahn of Columbus, sister of the groom, and Jill Budde of Cincinnati, Beth Langlois of Chicago and Jennette Manning of Charlotte, N.C., friends of the bride. They wore strapless, knee-length purple satin dresses and carried smaller versions of the bride's bouquet.
Kent Dale of Westlake was his friend's best man. Groomsmen were Andy Ritzler of Tiffin, friend of the groom, Howard Hay of Columbus, brother-in-law of the groom, and Tim Ritzler of Tiffin, Erik Huss of Cleveland and Jordan Carnevale of Cleveland, friends of the groom.
Danica Kiss of Columbus, goddaughter of the bride, was the flower girl.
Logan Ritzler of Tiffin, godson of the groom, was ring bearer.
Jennifer is a 2004 graduate of McNicholas High School and a 2008 graduate of Miami of Ohio University. She is a marketing manager.
Nick is a 2003 graduate of Calvert High School and a 2007 graduate of Miami of Ohio University. He works as a CPA, financial analyst.
Becky Lay and Bobbi Wilson hosted a bridal shower Nov. 12, 2011, Joanna and Erica Suer hosted a bridal shower March 24, 2012, and Mr. and Mrs. John Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Frank, Mr. and Mrs. Rick Feasel and Dr. and Mrs. Jack Felton hosted a couples shower April 13, 2012.
The rehearsal dinner was at Carlos and Johnny restaurant, Montgomery.
Following a honeymoon trip to Costa Rica, the newlyweds reside at 23041 Virginia Ave., North Olmsted.


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1. The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission is saying "mistakes were made" in the controversial raid on a Fort Worth gay bar after an internal report rips agents, The News' Scott Goldstein reports. However, the report seems to tiptoe around one of the biggest complaints — allegations of excessive force. One patron, you may recall, sustained a brain injury in the incident, which sparked protests and national news coverage.
2. Former Dallas Mayor Laura Miller remains on the witness stand in the City Hall bribery trial, which you can follow on Jason Trahan's live blog. In testimony yesterday, she described defendant Don Hill as an official bristling at ethics reforms. Other interesting nugget: Developer and Miller supporter Brian Potashnik fed her negative information about his employee-turned-rival James R. "Bill" Fisher, yet she said she was in the dark about similar unflattering details regarding him.
3. Beyond Dallas, we have a series of ethics scandals making news: a NASA official who steered millions to a consulting client, resignation calls for University of Illinois trustees and a House Democrat who got sweet deals on loans.
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Not Exactly Neverland
Depp's family settles in Miramar, Fla., when Depp is 7, living in a hotel until his father finds work. Prone to self-inflicted knife wounds – his arms still bear the visible scars – Depp starts smoking at 12, loses his virginity at 13, starts doing drugs at 14 and eventually drops out of high school at 16 to join the garage band, The Kids.
- 1983
The Marrying Man
Months after moving to L.A. with his bandmates, Depp, 20, marries makeup artist Lori Allison, 25, in Miami. The relationship lasts two years and leads to one important connection. Through her friend Nicolas Cage, Depp is introduced to the agent who lands him his first film role, as a teen swallowed by his bed in 1984's Nightmare on Elm Street.
- 1986
Reporting for Duty
Depp gets his first taste of Oscar-quality work with a small role as a Vietnamese-speaking GI in Oliver Stone's Platoon. The film will receive eight Oscar nominations the following year, taking home statues for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Sound and Best Film Editing.
- 1987
Undercover Bother
With the successful premiere of high school cop drama 21 Jump Street, one of the first shows on the new FOX network, Depp becomes a teen heartthrob, receiving 10,000 fan letters a month. Although he signed a six-year contract with the show, not believing it would last a season, Depp begins to rebel against his heartthrob status and by 1990 negotiates his way out in order to pursue movie work. "He didn't make any secret of the fact that he didn't particularly care about being on that show," recalls castmate Holly Robinson to PEOPLE.
- 1989
Depp Dates Winona
Depp meets actress Winona Ryder at a film premiere and is immediately smitten. "There's been nothing in my 27 years that's comparable to the feeling I have with Winona," he tells PEOPLE at the time. Five months after their first date, the couple is engaged; three years later they split. Depp, who alters the "Winona Forever" tattoo on his right biceps to read "Wino Forever," seems to have a fiancée fetish: before Ryder, he was also briefly engaged to actresses Sherilyn Fenn and Jennifer Grey.
- 1990
Total Cutup
In an extreme contrast from his 21 Jump Street persona, Depp takes on the eccentric title role in Edward Scissorhands. It is his first collaboration with director Tim Burton, whom he works with on many other films, including Ed Wood (1994) and Sleepy Hollow (1999).
- 1993
Art Film Confidential
Depp passes on big-budget roles for films like Benny & Joon, where he plays an eccentric who models himself after silent-movie star Buster Keaton. He'll continue the trend with What's Eating Gilbert Grape (opposite Leonardo DiCaprio) and Ed Wood. "I was so uncomfortable being a product, I swore to myself that I would choose my own path," Depp says on Inside the Actors Studio. "I figured I could always go back to playing guitar or pumping gas or something."
Death of a Friend
Fellow actor and pal River Phoenix collapses outside the Viper Room, the Sunset Strip club Depp co-owns until 2003. An autopsy shows that Phoenix's body had toxic levels of cocaine and heroin, as well as marijuana and Valium. Depp faces accusations that his nightspot is one of the centers of Hollywood's drug trade. "To pinpoint one club or one street is really ridiculous," he tells USA Today. "There's a tragic loss of a very gifted, very sweet, nice young man."
- 1994
Up-and-Down Relationship
Depp meets model Kate Moss at the Manhattan bistro Café Tabac, and from the beginning their union is one of tremendous highs and lows. "They can't keep their hands, lips, mouths, legs off each other," a friend says to PEOPLE. The passion often turns the other way as the pair are frequently seen shouting at each other in public. "Instead of hitting women, he just gets angry and lets off steam in other ways," a longtime friend says to PEOPLE.
Charge It to the Room
Suspected of being drunk and fighting with Moss, Depp is arrested on suspicion of criminal mischief after trashing his $1,200-a-night room at New York City's Mark Hotel. Charges are dismissed after Depp pays nearly $10,000 in damages and fees. Ironically, legendary hotel trasher Roger Daltrey of The Who was trying to sleep next door. "On a scale of 1 to 10," Daltrey says to PEOPLE, "I give him a 1. It took him so bloody long. The Who could've done the job in one minute flat."
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- Name
- Johnny Depp
- Date of Birth
- June 09, 1963
- Birth Place
- Owensboro, Ky.
- Relationships
Amber Heard, wife (2013 to present)
Vanessa Paradis, ex-girlfriend (1998 to 2012)
Kate Moss, ex-girlfriend (1994 to 1998, engaged)
Winona Ryder, ex-girlfriend (1989 to 1992, engaged)
Lori Anne Allison, ex-wife (1983 to 1985)
- Children
Lily-Rose Melody, daughter (5/27/1999)
Jack John Christopher Depp III, son (4/9/2002)


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KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. � Keegan Bradley still has trouble watching those tense final holes from last year, when he rallied from a five-shot deficit to win the PGA Championship in a playoff.
�I have a very hard time watching the replay,� he said. �I really can�t. I get nervous. I get uncomfortable.�
After winning a major in his first try last year, Bradley�s best finish in one this year was a tie for 27th at the Masters � but he�s confident heading into his title defense at the PGA this week at Kiawah Island. On Sunday, the 26-year-old Bradley edged Jim Furyk in a surprising final-hole swing in the Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone.
It was Bradley�s third career win, and it all but assured him a spot in the Ryder Cup.
�It�s a couple different emotions,� Bradley said. �One, it frees me up a little bit. I�m not as worried about the Ryder Cup. Any time you win, it�s a great feeling. A little less pressure than you normally have. But also there�s a lot more pressure now, playing well, coming back to the PGA.�
Bradley was five shots behind with only three holes to play at least year�s PGA after a triple bogey on No. 15. That�s when he began his comeback with an impressive drive that helped him stay in contention.
�I striped it,� Bradley said. �If I didn�t hit a good drive there, I wouldn�t have won the tournament. I was able to keep it together after making triple. It was the biggest shot of my entire career.�
Jason Dufner made three consecutive bogeys, falling into a playoff, which Bradley won.
Bradley had some help last weekend, too. He saved par from a bunker on No. 18, putting pressure on Furyk, whose double bogey gave Bradley the win.
After Adam Scott wasted a four-stroke lead in the final four holes of the British Open last month, it sometimes feels like no lead is safe.
�I don�t think it�s quite explainable why it�s happening,� Bradley said. �I think now you�ve got guys coming from behind and really putting it to the guy that�s leading, and I think you�re seeing the guys feeling it a little bit. From what I�ve been watching, I feel like the guys in second place have looked freed up and shooting really low numbers and coming back and winning tournaments.�
Bradley is one of 16 different players who have won the last 16 majors � a list that includes the likes of Charl Schwartzel and Louis Oosthuizen, but not Tiger Woods.
Of course, Woods is the only player to win back-to-back titles at the PGA since it went to stroke play in 1958.
�A good defense for me would be to contend in the tournament at some point,� Bradley said. �Any time you have a chance to win, no matter where you finish, whether you finish 20th or third, I think that�s a great accomplishment and shows that you�re in it to win it.�
Last year, Bradley stayed in contention until the end and found himself with a shocking major title.
�It was a life-changer for a lot of different reasons,� he said. �A lot of people knew more who I was � kind of validated my position out here on tour as one of the top players. It just was a lifelong dream to win a major championship, and it kind of put me in a different category with some of my idols.�
Now, Bradley would like nothing more than to break this pattern of a different player winning each major.
�You think when you get here, you�re going to get on tour ,and you won, and you can just relax. Once you do that, it gets even harder,� he said. �It�s very difficult for me to think that I won�t have something to play for because even right now I have 100 things that I�d like to do. Every day I try to improve as a golfer and hopefully someday become one of the best.�


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Super says story has been sensationalized
The superintendent of a San Francisco Bay area school district where high school athletes created a statistics-based fantasy sex league says the story has been sensationalized.
Piedmont Unified School District Superintendent Connie Hubbard told people at a school board meeting on Wednesday that the district does not condone the students' behavior, but has "really good kids that can make mistakes."
According to the Oakland Tribune, she said there was no information of criminal conduct.
The league - created by male athletes at Piedmont High School - awarded points when girls the boys "drafted" were rumored to have engaged in sexual activity.
Piedmont is an affluent area of Oakland.
The league came to light after the school's principal informed parents about it last week.
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6 Disturbing Trends That Might Ruin the Internet Forever
There was a time when no one took the Internet seriously. Gangs of anonymous hooligans could crash websites and swarm online games to their hearts' content. The FBI barely had a website, let alone the ability to arrest 4channers. Cracked was still a print magazine, and America's insatiable desire for dick jokes was met by a vast array of crude Angelfire websites dense with hit counters and various browser-sodomizing embedded GIFs.
Click this link and hate everything.
The Internet is taking its first baby steps toward respectability, it's true, but it still has a lot of growing up to do before it graduates from "insufferable little shit" to "joyless productive adult."
(When the Internet dies, you'll need published evidence of the truths your teachers failed to mention. Get The De-Textbook and laugh your way through a post-online world.)
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#6. Companies Will Soon Show Bandwidth Favoritism
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Have you ever stopped to think about how weird it is that a single click can deliver you to Facebook or Jim-Bob's Erotic Taxidermy Homepage with equal ease? Facebook spends millions of dollars a year to keep their servers up, while Jim-Bob pays his host about $20 a month. Despite a vast disparity in the bribe budgets of these two media titans, Verizon is forced to treat them like equals. This is what people are talking about when they mention "Net neutrality."
It's often seen as an absolute. The Way Things Are. But the FCC's first attempt at enforcing Internet neutrality didn't come until 2008. And it was a "success" in the same way our occupation of Afghanistan was a success. In other words, the FCC is still fighting, and absolutely nothing has been decided. Verizon's arguing right now for the freedom to add tollbooths and fast lanes to the Internet. If the D.C. Circuit Court sides with their millions of dollars in lawyers, only the Supremes will be left to stand for our freedom to view SwingingCartoonDicks.org as easily as the Huffington Post.
Cracked's future rests upon their sequined bosoms.
The end of Net neutrality is the tech industry's equivalent of erectile dysfunction. It's going to happen one day, and all the Viagra Google can buy won't stop the inevitable. There's money to be made in treating the Internet the way we treat physical property. Why shouldn't Walmart or Amazon.com be able to pay for better "real estate"? It isn't right that rich people have to browse in the same filthy tubes as gutter punks with cracked iPhones. The moneyed among us should be able to pay (and charge) for a better Internet experience.
That's the basic argument House Republicans made when they added an end to Net neutrality as part of their list of crazy demands for raising the debt ceiling. They lost this year, and perhaps Verizon will as well. But neither group will ever stop fighting this battle. And Comcast, lead wallet in the money-fight against Net neutrality, now spends more money bribing Democrats than Republicans.
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It's cool, though -- corporations like Comcast are people. Really impossibly loud people.
Even Google, patron saint of Net neutrality, recently told the FCC that they should have the right to limit how subscribers use their bandwidth. So enjoy your digital palace of socialism while it lasts, comrade, the walls are coming down.
#5. Searches Will Turn into Conversations
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The iPad is proof positive of one incredibly important technology trend: If you give people something they saw in Star Trek, they will buy the fuck out of it. We saw Jean-Luc Picard balding about with this fancy number ...
... and the first company to actually offer a tablet computer that tiny and convenient wound up making approximately every dollar in the country. This goes back further than The Next Generation; Star Trek has inspired inventions ranging from the mobile phone to NASA's new ion propulsion system. Much of this has to do with the series' long-running trend of seeing technology as a good thing, rather than the inevitable precursor to Skynet. Normal sci-fi looks at the concept of a humanoid robot and gives us the T-1000 arm-knifing people. Star Trek takes that same concept and responds with Brent Spiner.
He barely impales anyone.
Outside of the whole "zipping around the galaxy in giant space ships" thing, there's only one major Star Trek innovation without a real-world counterpart: the ship's computer. Captain Picard doesn't hop onto Google when he has a question. He just says, "Computer, what kind of alien venereal disease is Riker covering up with that beard?"
Siri made a valiant effort at this, but she's less a robot you "converse" with than a robot you shout sexual propositions/movie lines at just to see what she'll say. Google's "conversational search," released earlier this year, allows you to search like a Starfleet officer. Finally, you can pace around your living room demanding answers from a robot who sounds a little like Majel Roddenberry. I had some research to do for an
abduction article I planned to commit write, so I decided to give this bold new innovation a try.
"What is Vanilla Ice's real name?" I asked, using my actual voice and everything.
As if I didn't know. As if I'd ever not known.
A robot ladyvoice boomed from my speakers, "Vanilla Ice's real name is Robert Matthew Van Winkle."
That checked out with the official fan guide, so I asked, "Who is his spouse?" hoping against hope that the answer would be "no one." Alas, my computer replied:
"His spouse is Laura Giaritta since 1997."
My next question seemed to confuse Computer. She understood my shouting, but she said nothing in reply this time. Instead, she almost sheepishly slid me a link to Vanilla Ice's Wikipedia page.
Fortunately, Computer was out of date. A little digging informed me that they split up in 2011. So it isn't perfect yet, but Google's trying. And conversational search, combined with a Parrot AR drone and this smartphone-controlled laser gun, allows any nerd with roughly 500 bucks to make his own personal Enterprise for, like ... 10 minutes at a time.
A man can right a lot of wrongs with a flying laser and 10 minutes.
#4. Anonymity Is No Longer the Norm
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The reason for all this brouhaha over the NSA and the FBI's break into Tor is that a majority of Internet users still remember a time when anonymity was a given. But that era has ended. There will always be more Silk Roads and Tors out there, but nothing you put online is safe. The old days of buying a nudie mag from that dude at the newsstand and trying desperately not to make eye contact are back. Only Google and Facebook play the role of that old man's silent judgmental stare.
While most users still think people SHOULD be able to browse anonymously, a nearly equal majority recognize that this is fucking impossible. Even Hushmail, the go-to messaging service for journalists, child pornographers, and people buying drugs online, is more than happy to decrypt your messages for the feds.
"When we said 'private,' we didn't mean 'from the government.'"
A tiny fringe of people will always fight to hide their Internetting. But for the rest of us, anonymity is quickly fading into the past. Last year, the New York State Assembly debated banning anonymous comments over the entire state. The Huffington Post banned anonymous comments in August. And in October, the European Court on Human Rights ruled that online anonymity shouldn't apply to people who act like dicks.
As of November, Google started dismantling anonymity in the festering cesspool that is YouTube's comment section. This leaves 4chan and Reddit standing alone, backs against the wall, united by the justice of their cause and fighting to the end with every DOS attack and upskirt picture of a teenage girl in their arsenal.
Field Marshall Douglas Haig is clearly 1918's answer to Anonymous.


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Tens of millions of Americans are getting what President Barack Obama no doubt hopes is only a reprieve from his drive to force electricity prices skyward....
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The ONLY promise Obama will keep. Hey YOU stupid lefties voted for this; so man up and dig deeper in your wallets to pay those 'quadruple' electric bills. Heeeee...heeee...
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The ONLY promise Obama will keep. He PROMISED you all "quadrupled utility rates" so start getting ready to pay for it. You ignorant nonthinking stupid liberals don't even believe Obama when he SAYS IT HIMSELF. How stupid can you all be? Obviously more stupid than anyone else. How you going to pay your electric bill now??
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I should have guessed by the title this would contain inaccuarcy. The % of Maga-Watt Hour electricity generated by coal in the US was less than 50% in 2007 (48.5%) & 2008 (48.2%) according to EIA data. Thus, it is not true that "When he (Obama) took office, more than half the power generated in the U.S. came from coal," as the editorial tries to ascert. Actually, coal, by MWH produced, has not been 50% or greater in electric generation since 2003. Does this mean GWB had a war on coal too? h t t p://w w w.eia.g o v/electricity/data.cf m#generation
Perhaps rather than politics being the reason for coal's lower use, market forces are the real primary cause; natural gas MWH generation % increases almost always have cooincided with the same % of coal decrease. NAH, that doesn't make as good a headline and takes research; its Obama's fault.
The mid-2012 data was cherry-picked as well. The % cited is accurate, but it raised to 37.4% for the entire year.
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Lester Marion Hamilton, 87, of Attica, completed his journey on this earth Aug. 28, 2012.
He was born in Seneca County to Don and Zola (Fast) Hamilton on May 18, 1925. Lester is survived by his wife, the former Joan Featheringill, whom he married at the Trinity Lutheran Church in Willard May 29, 1948.
He also is survived by a daughter, Nancy (Charles) King of Attica; three granddaughters, Amy (Joe) Keefer of Perry, Leslie King of Westlake and Cheryl (Joe) Walter of Columbus; three great-grandchildren, Jared and Ryan Keefer and Kaylin Whatley; two sisters, Donna Heibertshausen of Attica and Marjorie (Harold) Altherr of Napoleon; and many nieces and nephews.
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Lester was preceded in death by his parents; a son, Randy A. Hamilton; five brothers, Earl, Harrison, Wilbur, Wayland and Russell Hamilton; and two sisters, Alice DeMuth and Leona Hamilton.
He was a 50-year member and past master of Attica Lodge 367, a 50-year member of Sappho Chapter 50 OES Attica, and a member of Tiffin Chapter 189 OES, Attica American Legion Post 260 and Union Pisgah United Methodist Church of Attica,
Lester was a U.S. Navy combat veteran, having served in the Philippines during World War II. He retired from General Motors New Departure-Hyatt Bearing division in 1987, having worked as a machinist. After retirement, he enjoyed woodworking and generally "putzing" around in his garage. His greatest enjoyment came from spending time with his grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
A celebration of life service will be 10:30 am. Friday, Aug. 31, 2012, at Union Pisgah United Methodist Church, 7880 S. CR. 35, Attica, with Pastor Pete Bellamy officiating. Burial will be in Attica-Venice Cemetery in Attica. The Attica American Legion Post 260 will conduct military graveside services.
Family and friends will be received 4-8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012, at Lindsey-Olds Funeral Home, 3085 S. SR. 19, Bloomville. Attica Lodge 367 will conduct a Masonic service at 6:30 p.m. at the funeral home.
Memorial contributions may be made to Stein Hospice, Attica Historical Society or to a charity of the donor's choice.
Online condolences may be made to the family at www.lindseyoldsfh.com.


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Lester H. Helsel, 81, Lowell Avenue, Altoona, died Wednesday at Altoona Regional.
He was born in Washington, D.C., son of the late Lester R. Helsel and Marie (Griffith) Helsel Kelly. He married Leila "Dee" Holland on July 2, 1950, in Lakemont.
Surviving are his wife; three daughters: Diana Wallace of Duncansville, Terri Dunham of Waverly, Ohio, and Leslie Conzo (Scott) of Ashville; six grandchildren: Melissa Cooper (John), David Dunham (Krista), Craig Wallace, Patrick Dunham (Meredith), Joshua Conzo and Ashley Conzo; three great-grandchildren: Mia, Zane and Brooke; two siblings: Kenneth (Ruth) of Baden and Janet Broskin (Jack) of New Sewickley; as well as numerous nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by a granddaughter, Nicole Dunham; and two sons-in-law: Ralph Wallace Jr. and Russell Dunham.
Lester was a graduate of the Altoona Bible Institute and retired in 1996 from Signature Door Co., Altoona. He was a member of the Buckhorn Bible Church and enjoyed reading, camping and bowling.
Friends will be received from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. today at Gibbons Funeral Home, Ashville. A funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012, at Buckhorn Bible Church, the Rev. Carl Wolfe officiating. Committal will be at Blair Memorial Park, Altoona.
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The Buffalo Bills relinquished their exclusive negotiating rights with guard Andy Levitre on Friday.
Meanwhile, it remained to be seen whether the Bills would demand a restructuring of the contract of quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick as the NFL prepared for the start of the free-agent shopping season.
Levitre is the Bills' top fully unrestricted free agent, and he became free to negotiate with other teams early this morning – as soon as the clock struck midnight – under a new NFL rule. The NFL's free-agent signing period does not begin until 4 p.m. Tuesday. But this year there is a formal three-day period before the start of the new league year in which teams can negotiate with the agents of all players set to become free agents.
The Bills had no deal with Levitre as of Friday, a sign they are being prudent with their offensive line budgeting. Tackles are a higher priority than guards in both the draft and free agency. Many teams want to be careful about how much money they devote to their interior offensive linemen.
Bills center Eric Wood is entering the final year of his contract, and it's expected the team will want to keep him in the fold with a big contract. The Bills re-signed right guard Kraig Urbik to a contract in December that pays him about $3.4 million a year.
Levitre will be much more expensive. He's the top-rated guard in free agency this year and arguably is one of the top 10 players available at any position.
The NFL's top-paid guard is Tampa Bay's Carl Nicks, at $9.8 million a year. The fifth-highest paid guard is the Giants' Chris Snee, at $7.25 million a year. Arizona's Daryn Colledge has the 10th best guard deal, at about $5.5 million a year.
Levitre never has made All-Pro or the Pro Bowl. But neither has Colledge nor Green Bay's Josh Sitton, who makes $5.8 million a year. Furthermore, Levitre's durability figures to be attractive to other teams. Not only has he never missed a start in his four-year, 64-game career, he hasn't missed a single play in his last 46 games.
The Bills stood about $18.5 million under the NFL salary cap as of Friday, according to News figures. The amount of space they need depends in part on how much free-agent shopping they intend to do.
Fitzpatrick could give them more space under the cap.
Bills coach Doug Marrone has stated Fitzpatrick will compete with Tarvaris Jackson and whoever else the Bills add at quarterback for a starting position.
Fitzpatrick is due to get a $3 million bonus on Wednesday. If he gets that bonus and does not take any kind of pay cut, he would count $10.4 million against the Bills' salary cap. If he were to be released before the bonus is paid, he will count $10 million against the cap. Fitzpatrick is due to make a base salary of $4.25 million this year.
There are few quarterback options available to teams in free agency. Chicago's Jason Campbell and Kansas City's Brady Quinn are the top unrestricted quarterbacks. The top young quarterback who might be available in a trade is Philadelphia's Nick Foles. The Bills passed on him in the third round of last year's draft to take receiver T.J. Graham.
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Megan Kathleen Bish-Ritter, 30, of Chatfield and Tiffin, passed away Wednesday evening, Nov. 21, 2012, as the result of an auto accident in Kremmling, Colo.
She was born March 19, 1982, in Tiffin, to Gregg and Elaine (Starr) Bish.
Survivors include her mother, Elaine (Jim) Houck, formerly of Tiffin and presently of Steamboat Springs, Colo.; father, Gregg W. (Gretchen) Bish, formerly of Tiffin and presently of Fremont, Mich.; grandmother, Mabel Starr of Tiffin; three brothers, Brandon G. Bish of Lawrenceville, Ga., Specialist Ryan A. Bish, 101st Airborn of Fort Campbell, Ky., and Sean C. Bish of Steamboat Springs, Colo.; four half brothers and sisters, Christian, John and Connor Bish, all of Fremont, Mich., and Stephanie Shiffer of Columbus; a stepsister, Aspen Houck of Bradenton, Fla.; a stepbrother, Mike Ward of New Riegel; and many aunts, uncles and cousins.
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She was preceded in death by her grandparents, Merle Starr and Kenneth and Kathleen Bish, all of Tiffin.
Megan graduated from Mohawk High School in 2000 where she was a member of the Honor Society and from Southern Ohio College of Nursing, Findlay, where she graduated class valedictorian and became an LPN. While in high school, she was the wrestling statistician, played softball for four years and was also involved in theater productions and dance.
She was planning to move to the Denver area to be with friends and family. She enjoyed beading, jewelry making, art and drawing. She loved taking care of her pets and critters, many of them rescued animals. Megan had a passion for the outdoors; loved fishing, swimming, gardening, outdoor music concerts, campfires and evening sunsets.
Megan was a very compassionate people person. She helped care for elderly neighbors, her grandmother, worked in a local nursing home, helped deliver babies for friends and family and was furthering her education in EMS training.
Her Mass of Christian burial will be 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012, at St. Mary Catholic Church, Tiffin, with the Rev. Gary Walters officiating. There will be no burial at this time. Megan's celebration of life gathering will follow the Mass in the recreation room at St. Mary.
Friends may celebrate and share stories of Megan's life with the family from 2-4 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30, at Hoffmann-Gottfried-Mack Funeral Home & Crematory, 236 S. Washington St., Tiffin, OH 44883, (419) 447-2424.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Seneca County EMS, 100 Hopewell Ave., Tiffin, OH 44883, Wyandot County EMS, 10 Court St., Upper Sandusky, OH 43351 or Crawford County EMS, P.O. Box 126, Bucyrus, OH 44820. These agencies helped Megan many times over the years.
Condolences may be sent and the guestbook signed at www.hgmackfuneralhome.com.


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Hamburg Educational Ethics, an Internet blog, talks of lofty issues like the value of state assessments and teacher evaluations.
It also depicts the superintendent of Hamburg Central Schools as Pinocchio, one School Board member as a cheerleader, one as a crying baby and another as Rosie the Riveter, and talks about the "Bored" of Education with sarcastic, caustic, opinionated, satirical, biting and humorous prose.
Now some in the district want to know who is behind the blog, which is operated anonymously and posts some anonymous comments.
The district has obtained a subpoena for Google to find out the identities of the person who runs the blog, "Concerned Hamburger," and two people who have posted comments on it, "Klozman" and "Super."
When Google told Concerned Hamburger about the subpoena, the blogger notified the other two. The three communicated via email and hired an attorney.
"It's just wrong. It's strong-armed, storm trooper type of tactics," said Buffalo attorney Joseph M. Finnerty, who has filed a motion to quash the subpoena. He also called it an "assault on the First Amendment."
The subpoena came to light when one of the posters, Super, identified himself and asked board members for an apology at Tuesday's budget hearing. Robert Johnstun often attends School Board meetings and speaks out on various school issues, including the rights of special-needs children. He also posts to the blog and has used his own name in some of his postings.
"None of them apologized," he said. "None of them even offered a reason why I was being brought into the lawsuit," Johnstun said.
A spokeswoman for Google said that the company is not commenting on the Hamburg case but that privacy and security of data that users store with Google is "central" to its approach.
"Before complying with a government request, we make sure it follows the law and Google's policies. We notify users about legal demands when appropriate, unless prohibited by law or court order. And if we believe a request is overly broad, we seek to narrow it," she said in an email.
The subpoena to Google is part of the school district's lawsuit against Sally Stephenson; her daughter Lyndsey Stephenson; and teacher Martha Kavanaugh. The district claims they secretly taped an executive session on Sept. 21, 2010, and is seeking damages from them. The women deny the charge. Since the lawsuit was filed in June 2012, Sally Stephenson has taken a seat on the School Board.
Johnstun is outraged that the district is spending thousands of dollars on the lawsuit.
"I am essentially paying my property taxes so the school can serve a subpoena for a lawsuit I have nothing to do with just to silence me," he said.
His lawyer accused school district leaders of being "thin-skinned autocrats lavishly spending other people's money to try and silence their critics."
The school district's attorney issued an email to Concerned Hamburger in January 2011, demanding that he or she "cease and desist" from administering the blog, immediately remove the contents from it, and said information on the blog is defamatory. He called the anonymous postings "cowardly" and said once the names of Concerned Hamburger and other users are confirmed, they would be served with legal papers.
Finnerty notes that the blogger and two posters were not included in the lawsuit filed against the three women. Concerned Hamburger has denied taping the meeting and said he did not know who did, Finnerty said. "This blogger has an absolute right to publish speech anonymously," Finnerty said. "Sometimes, the only way you can safely speak truth to power is anonymously, because otherwise power tries to crush you."
Concerned Hamburger intends to continue the blog.
"For almost three years and approximately 300K page hits, Concerned Hamburger has been operating as a citizen journalist reporting on the antics of the public faces of the Hamburg School District. Concerned is dedicated to reporting, and will continue to write on the school district despite their efforts to silence me and others," Concerned Hamburger said in the blog.
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After calling this their "toughest year ever," reality star Bethenny Frankel announced on Dec. 23 that she and Jason Hoppy, her husband of nearly three years, were separating.
Having said earlier this year that the two were fighting for their marriage (her show Bethenny Ever After focused on the struggle), Frankel, 42, had revealed her concerns to PEOPLE during an interview in May.
"Nothing comes easily for me," she said at the time. "Being successful in business doesn't come easy for me. Marriage doesn't come easily for me. You have to fight for everything."
Regarding her relationship with Hoppy, "Our core issues are wanting the other person to be somebody they are not," she said. "Jason is more balanced. He doesn't want to work 24 hours a day. He wants to play golf and go out with his friends."
She added, "The irony is, we chose each other for who the person is – and then sometime you want it both ways."
Although much of what the couple went through ended up on TV ("Money, family, gender roles, we just keep fighting over them," she said. "It's almost like a scab that you keep picking at"), she insisted that having their lives in the spotlight did not worsen the situation.
"Our issues are our issues, and I can't say reality TV exacerbates that," she said. "We had our issues when we were dating. We always had the struggle to accept one another."
Their basic issue? "He feels there are so many people who have a piece of me," she said. "The core issues are he wants me to open up to let me in, and my basic thing is, I don't want to be in a situation where I can't say what I feel. I have to be in a relationship where I can say what I feel even if it's wrong – so we can work through it."
Ideally, she said, "I just wanted to be able to say something, without him saying I am a bad person for having those feelings. What can I be, besides honest?"
In the end, emphasizing that the happiness of 2½-year-old daughter Bryn remained her chief concern, Frankel said, "I've often thought that if I didn't make it work, I would end up alone and that I would never want to be married again."
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Two Saint Vincent College faculty members in the Saint Vincent College School of Humanities and Fine Arts – Thomas Octave, associate professor and chair of the music department, and Ben Schachter, assistant professor of visual arts, will collaborate in the Westmoreland Choral Society's presentation of Arthur Honneger's King David at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 17 at the First Presbyterian Church, South Main Street, Greensburg. The concert, under the direction of Octave, portrays the life of David from his life as a shepherd through his triumphs over Goliath and Saul, and up to his death. Accompanied by members of the Pittsburgh Festival Orchestra, soloists Amber Meade, Aubree Smeltz, Patti Flowers and Katie Zuzik sopranos, mezzo-soprano Sheena Chopra, tenor Edward Graybill, the Westmoreland Children's Chorus and featuring Joanne Luchsinger, adjunct lecturer in voice at Saint Vincent College as the Witch of Endor, the Westmoreland Choral Society will transport the audience to the time of King David through music, art and the spoken word. Visual artist Schachter has created original art work to depict the story of King David. Schachter commented, "The King David Oratorio is an eclectic piece of music. Even the story it illustrates in music runs the range of human emotion. The abstract paintings I created for the performance were spontaneous responses to the themes from the music and the words." Octave commented, "I have always admired Ben's work and I think that his art will enable the audience to experience the music in a different way." Anna Singer,WQED radio personality will be the narrator for the production.
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The sun broke out and temperatures warmed over many parts of Central Oregon's snowy winter wonderland Sunday morning -- providing better conditions for government crews, contractors and regular folks to get busy shoveling, plowing, blowing and moving aside two-plus feet of snow from the past two days' onslaught.
Temperatures quickly rose to freezing in Bend on Sunday morning and several degrees above in the afternoon -- but then, as night fell, in moved fog that quickly dropped visibility.
Redmond Airport reopened Sunday after a 36-hour closure due to heavy snowfall -- which officials said the first closure for 24 hours or longer in close to a quarter -century.
Some schools made early calls for Monday closures, including Jefferson County 509-J , Culver and the Redmond Proficiency Academy (Redmond schools already were planned to have no classes Monday for a district-wide curriculum day.)
Bend-La Pine Schools decided Sunday night on a two-hour delay of classes Monday morning.
"The decision to delay comes as the result of a record-breaking snow storm that has left much of the area blanketed in deep snow," the district said in Sunday night's announcement. "Bend-La Pine Schools' Transportation crews spent several hours driving area roads today and determined that the combination of sub-freezing temperatures and standing water, slush and snow on area roadways would make travel too risky for an on-time start in the morning."
City of Bend spokesman Justin Finestone said all city plow crews were out Sunday, including contractors, in hopes of clearing neighborhood streets by day's end. He said city crews have been working 12-hour shifts since Friday and were making good progress on the big task.
But because the snow rarely stopped falling heavily, it could take days for everyone on the High Desert to fully dig out.
Madras Airport reported 12 degrees, freezing fog and half-mile visibility at 7 p.m. Sunday, while the Bend Airport had 27 degrees, fog and a half-mile visibility.
The National Weather Service reported more snowstorm reports Sunday, including 18 inches in 24 hours by a spotter six miles southeast of Bend, for a total of 25 inches from the storm. Camp Sherman's spotter reported 22 inches fell on Saturday, another west-northwest of Bend reported 19 inches Saturday. Other reports included 14 inches in 24 hours seven miles northeast of Bend, eight inches west-northwest of Sisters and 4.5 inches north-northwest of Madras.
The NWS also warned Sunday that rising temperatures and snow melt could bring "minor nuisance flooding in urban areas and small creeks" over Central Oregon and other areas east of the Cascades. Water levels are expected to rise on rivers but remain below flood stage, forecasters said, adding that rain or snow could boost snow melt Tuesday and Wednesday as well.
Despite all that snow, Central Oregon and the rest of the state still have a lot of catching up to do, snowpack-wise. Automated Snotel readings Sunday morning showed the Upper Deschutes/Crooked River Basin still only at 50 percent of average snow-water content for this point in the winter and precipitation just 58 percent of normal.
Sgt. Nathan Garibay, emergency services manager for the Deschutes County Sheriff's Office, issued a plea Saturday morning that residents "forgo travel plans and stay off the roadways" so crews could work to clear them, working on main roads before residential streets.
The NWS allowed its winter storm to expire at 10 p.m. Saturday.
And the new threat of a messy transition -- familiar to long-time High Desert residents -- a slight chance of freezing rain or sleet -- was pushed back 24 hours, to early Monday -- providing more time to clean up from the snowy onslaught.
But as it all melts, that could pose flooding problems, and-or an icy-slushy travel challenge.
Everyone had stories to tell of the challenges the heavy snow brought Friday night and Saturday.
Marily Badger of the Woodside Ranch neighborhood on Bend's south side said they "barely made it home (Friday) night and almost couldn't make it down our own driveway." She said the new snowfall was "very heavy, with branches breaking. It seems like a losing battle as we keep plowing, but we are afraid to stop."
But there also were plenty of stories of Central Oregon neighbors helping neighbors -- offering a stuck mail truck in Redmond a tow, shoveling the snow from elderly or disabled residents' sidewalks or porches and the like.
As of 3 p.m. Saturday, NWS storm spotter 24-hour snow totals included 19 inches in the Sisters area, 18 inches at Bend and Madras, 16 inches at Tumalo, 15 inches at Prineville and Sunriver, 15 1/2 inches at Terrebonne and 12 inches at Pelton Dam.
That Bend snowfall report obliterates the daily record for Feb. 8 snowfall of seven inches, set back in 1944, and for snow depth of 12 inches, set in 1969.
But the record official snow depth for Bend in the record period from 1928 to 2005 is 23 inches, set back on Jan. 4, 1982 -- a very snowy month -- though many of the closest highest readings came during the very snowy, memorable winter of 1992-93, according to the Western Region Climate Center. (Check the records and data for cities around Oregon at http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/summary/climsmor.html)
By noon, a Camp Sherman storm spotter had 22 inches in 24 hours, for a 29-inch tally on the ground.
Early Saturday afternoon, a spotter northwest of Bend reported 19 inches in 24 hours and it was coming down at a rate of an inch an hour.
Early Saturday morning, a National Weather Service storm spotter in Sisters said a foot of snow had fallen in 12 hours, for a total depth of 32 inches.
Another spotter north of La Pine had a 16-inch total in 24 hours -- and 20 inches in 48 hours.
A Warm Springs storm spotter reported 14 inches of new snow since Friday afternoon and a 27-inch total on the ground.
In Facebook posts to NewsChannel 21, Nancy Jones Foote reported 22 inches southwest of Sunriver, whileSara White McCool reported 23 inches near Round Butte near Madras. Near Sisters, Donna Scott said there was 25 inches on Holmes Road -- and Jennifer Gleason Smith reported 37 inches on George Cyrus Road in Sisters.
Meanwhile, to the south, Yvone Fuqua of La Pine said they had just one more inch of rain Saturday, "but man, the RAIN sucked!"
The snow wasn't just affecting people. The Three Rivers Humane Society in Madras reported Saturday that its tarps and shelters were being destroyed by the heavy snowfall, prompting movement of dogs to veterinarians or foster homes. For more information or how to help, call 541-475-6889.
In late Friday e-mails and Facebook posts to NewsChannel 21, Crooked River Ranch resident Jana Lynn said she had 13 inches on the ground and "still dumping" two hours later.
Jacqui Robinson at Tumalo Rim said they had 14 inches total. Charles Stuber reported 11 inches by the evening and there was 10 inches by then at Deschutes River Canyon Rim in southwest Bend.
A Deschutes River Woods resident reported 18 inches on the ground Friday night, while there were 10 to 14 inches in Juniper Canyon southeast of Prineville, according to Amie Hamilton.
And by 10 p.m. Friday, viewers in Madras, Crooked River Ranch and DRW all said the same magic number -- 20 inches, and still coming down. One Tumalo-area resident, Donna Johnson, reported an even higher number -- 2 1/2 feet, or 30 inches.


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A divided U.S. Supreme Court let stand the streamlined process for finally bringing biosimilar drugs to market when it surprised many pundits by upholding President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul this morning, leaving drug developers likely to wonder what their next move should be.
In a widely awaited and widely anticipated 5–4 decision with Chief Justice John Roberts siding with liberal justices, yet still reflective of the sharp political divide among the justices, the high court upheld the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation (BPCI) Act of 2009, incorporated within Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The act, enacted on March 23, 2010, mandated the creation of an abbreviated approval pathway for biological products shown to be biosimilar to or interchangeable with an FDA-licensed biological reference product.
With BPCI upheld, "the biosimilar market will proceed in the same course as it has. Depending whether you're on the brand name pharmaceutical side or more on the biosimilar side, where your allegiance is, you may view that as welcome news or not," Maria E. Gonzalez Knavel, a partner with the law firm Foley & Lardner LLP, told GEN.
In approving biosimilars and bringing them to market, FDA lags behind the European Medicines Agency, which developed a biosimilars pathway in 2005, and has since developed biosimilar guidelines for nine categories of medicines.
FDA on Feb. 9 issued three draft guidances intended to carry out BPCI, as required by the law. Under one of the yet-to-be-finalized draft guidances FDA said it intends to use a risk-based "totality-of-the-evidence" approach to evaluating biosimilars, and employ a gradual or "step-wise" approach to developing biosimilar products. The second presented analytical factors for drug developers to consider when assessing biosimilarity between a proposed therapeutic protein product and a reference product. The third addressed concerns arising in the early stages of product development, including requesting meetings with the FDA, addressing differences in formulation from the reference product, and requesting exclusivity.
BPCI also set a 12-year data exclusivity period from the date of first licensure of the reference product. However, Obama proposed to shorten that to seven years in his fiscal 2013 budget proposal, claiming the change would save Washington $4 billion over 10 years. The change is opposed by most of the branded-drug industry, led by the Biotechnology Industry Organization and Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, which argue the change would discourage development of the very biosimilars that exclusivity is supposed to catalyze. Last year, House and Senate committees backed the 12-year period.
The Supreme Court also upheld the controversial portion of Obama's healthcare overhaul that requires Americans to purchase health insurance or else pay a penalty, by ruling that the mandate was constitutional as a tax, not as originally argued by supporters, under the U.S. Constitution's interstate commerce clause (Article I, Section 8, Clause 3), which expresses among the listed powers of Congress: "To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes." Supporters of the mandate said it prevented Americans from benefiting from healthcare without paying for it.
Gonzalez Knavel said that the repeal of the insurance purchase mandate would not result in a dramatic change of business for biopharmas: "Business is going to continue as it is. Pharmaceutical companies right now do have discounts to states under the Medicaid programs. They're doing a lot of patient programs where they are providing patients that are indigent with the ability to receive their medically necessary drugs. I don't really perceive much of a change in that," she said.
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When it comes to Apple, the thing most fresh in most peoples' minds have been Microsoft's "Laptop Hunter" ads. Microsoft's three ads took direct aim at Apple's "cool" but expensive laptops and compared them to Windows Vista-based laptops which offered similar specs for hundreds less.
Despite the back and forth that has been brewing on the internet with Microsoft's fresh attack on Apple, the boys from Cupertino have something else on their minds today: Q2 2009 results for the period ending March 29. Despite the downturn in the economy, Apple as a company managed to post revenue of $8.16 billion and profit of $1.21 billion which represented earnings of $1.33 per diluted share. Apple's results for the same period last year were $7.51 billion, 1.05 billion, and $1.16 respectively.
While Microsoft's Laptop Hunter ads came too late in the quarter to personally do any serious damage to Apple's momentum with Mac sales, it appears that the slowing economy and consumers' penchant for lower-priced netbooks was the motivating factor for the three percent slide in Mac sales to 2.22 million compared to a year ago.
On the other hand, iPod sales grew a modest three percent to 11.01 million units while iPhone sales were up a whopping 123 percent from a year ago to 3.79 million units.
"We are extremely pleased to report the best non-holiday quarter revenue and earnings in our history," said Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer. "Apple's financial condition remains very robust, with almost $29 billion in cash and marketable securities on our balance sheet. Looking ahead to the third fiscal quarter of 2009, we expect revenue in the range of about $7.7 billion to $7.9 billion and we expect diluted earnings per share in the range of about $.95 to $1.00."
Most Apple fans will now be looking forward to June when the company is expected to announce a new hardware revision of the iPhone and OS v3.0. The next generation iPhone hardware is expected to feature faster connectivity speeds, dual cameras, and support for stereo Bluetooth. The latest iPhone OS revision will bring much-needed support for MMS messaging, copy/paste, push notifications, and landscape email support.
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Kirstie Alley and Maksim Chmerkovskiy are so close, the Dancing with the Stars duo know exactly what the other looks for in a partner – off the dance floor.
"I'm all about true beauty," Chmerkovskiy, 32, says when asked what he finds attractive.
"You don't have to be all, you know ... heels and that's it. I'm good," he says. "Heels gave 70 percent of women a fighting chance."
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MIFFLINTOWN - In the wreckage of the World Trade Center that was destroyed by terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001, emergency responders discovered the likeness of a cross in steel beams.
The cross quickly became a shrine of hope after the tragic day that will remain in the memory of every American old enough to recall the event.
Tomorrow will mark the 10th anniversary of the attack, and several local churches have organized special services to remember those who died as well as to honor local service men and women who respond to emergencies in our communities every day.
The Rev. Ron Shupe, of the First Baptist Church of Juniata County, remembered how so many Americans turned to fervent prayer after the attacks.
Sept. 11, 2001 was a "horrific event of death and destruction" that caused widespread shock for weeks following the event, Shupe said.
Reflection is an important part of life and faith, he said.
When Christians look back to those fateful days, they remember to thank God for helping the nation through that extremely difficult trial, Shupe said.
"(We can) ... even thank God that things were not even worse because it could have been," he said.
The Bible says in 1 Thessalonians 5:18, "In everything give thanks; for this is the will of GOD in Christ Jesus concerning you."
This is why First Baptist and several other local churches have scheduled special services to commemorate Sept. 11, 2011.
Along with prayers and memories, Shupe said his church will give thanks to local fire fighters, police and other emergency service personnel for their sacrifices and service to the community, year after year.
The pastor referred to Romans 13:7, which says, "To give respect to whom respect is due and to give honor to whom honor is due."
Retired Lt. Colonel John Sargent, guest speaker at First Baptist, said the military, police, fire fighters and emergency service men and women are the "sheepdogs" of society, protecting the citizens, or "sheep," from the "wolves."
The sheepdogs often get taken for granted, he said.
A minister with Missions to Military, Sargent and his wife were in Kiev, Ukraine, in 2001 when they heard about the U.S. attacks. They had just pulled up at the airport to pick up a group of volunteers from New York, when they noticed all the taxi drivers outside of their cars listening to the radio.
"Your country is being attacked," one of them told Sargent. They couple returned home and turned on the TV. A German station was broadcasting the attacks, and they watched the buildings burn, he said.
The U.S. ambassador cautioned all Americans to keep a low profile for a while and stay off the streets, Sargent remembered.
Their ministry in Ukraine did not change a whole lot after Sept. 11, 2001, though, Sargent said. They continued serving there until 2006, when they returned to the U.S.
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Now, an Australian billionaire plans to recreate the legendary ship, and charge $1 million for a first-class cabin when his replica Titanic II re-traces the original 1912 route of the great ship that went down.
Once the new ship is built in China, its maiden voyage is scheduled for late 2016 and will hopefully go the full distance from England's Southampton to New York's West Side.
Its furnishings, said its financier Clive Palmer, will include a Turkish bath (just like on the original) and the ornate grand staircase which Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet descended in the 1997 James Cameron movie.
It will also have some things the original didn't: air-conditioning and enough lifeboats.
But will it be "unsinkable?" Unthinkable, Palmer said at a press conference in New York Tuesday.
"Anything will sink if you put a hole in it," he said. "I think it would be very cavalier to say it."
The ship will have three separate classes – with no mingling among them, like in the movie – and offer period costumes to its passengers.
Does that sound like fun to you?