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PITTSBURGH - Andrew McCutchen is unquestionably the Pittsburgh Pirates' best player, and one of the main reasons the team was 16 games over .500 on July 28.
But it's also apparent that McCutchen is one of the main reasons the Pirates collapsed over the last third of the season and finished with their 20th consecutive losing record.
McCutchen's batting average was a season-high .372 on Aug. 7. He finished at .327. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, that was the biggest decline in average for any full-time player over that period.
After reaching .372, McCutchen batted .240 (48-for-200) for the rest of the season. To put that in perspective, much-maligned Clint Barmes hit .269 over the last two months of the season.
No one should have realistically expected McCutchen to hit .372 for the season. But he'd had three solid months in May, June and July, after a good April that didn't include a home run. It wasn't an isolated hot streak. He was one of the National League's best hitters, combining average with power.
What's even more disturbing about his decline is it happened for a second consecutive year. In 2011, his splits between the first half and the second half of the season were dramatic: a decline in batting average (.291 to .216), on-base percentage (.390 to .330) and slugging percentage (.505 to .392).
The Pirates had a corresponding drop in winning percentage (.580 to .309). It happened again this year, with the Pirates falling from a .593 first-half percentage to .383 in the second half. McCutchen's statistics were sinking at a similar level.
When the Pirates assess this season, a component will be determining why McCutchen fades down the stretch. If it were simply a matter of opponents discovering different pitching patterns in the second half of 2011, that would have been in play over the first four months of this season.
Does he wear down? Does he need more time off? Does his approach change? The Pirates are invested in McCutchen through 2018, and they need answers.
Last Sunday's PNC Park commemoration of Roberto Clemente's 3,000th hit included an odd touch.
Clemente's widow and two sons were joined by an actor dressed as Clemente, who walked in from right field, then duplicated Clemente's famous cap-lifting pose at second base after the historic hit.
The Clemente impersonator, dressed in a full Pirates' No. 21 uniform, has appeared in an off-Broadway play about Clemente's life. His participation in the ceremony was apparently requested by the Clemente family.
After the ceremony, the faux Roberto walked off the field with the family. It was more unsettling than poignant.
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When a girl jerks you and your friend off when your on either side of her, her up and down motions resemble a skier using ski poles
Hey did u guys get a piece or what?
Yeah she ski poled us but nothin else
Yeah she ski poled us but nothin else
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A nickname given to any girl who has been known to simultaneously jerk off two guys sitting either side of her.
I hope ski poles is coming on our next excursion, Jack.
She sure made the bus trip a highlight last time.
She sure made the bus trip a highlight last time.
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when a girl beats off two guys in a jerking motion like skiing
You this beat fresman slut named sarah ski poled a couple fags last night, ones a canisus fag
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what the hell is he doing directing trafick or jerking someone off?
nah thats just ski poles dave.. he does that all the time
nah thats just ski poles dave.. he does that all the time
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riding in the middle of two people in the back or front seat.
dude I can't ride ski pole in the back seat.
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synonomous with circle jerk. (pretend that you are cross-country skiing, moving your arms up and down vigorously)
"the yankees suck. how about some ski pole action?"
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Celebrity Central / Top 25 Celebs
Jordin Sparks
- 1991
No Baby Talk
At the tender age of 18 months, Sparks skips baby talk and finds her voice through singing. Her first songs are her ABC's and "Jesus Loves Me," according to her mother Jodi.
- 1993
An Idol is Born
Sparks hones her performance skills in front of a captive audience: her infant brother, P.J. The family moves often to follow father Phillippi's NFL career, but they eventually settle in Glendale, Ariz. Sparks enters Friday night children singing contests at local restaurant Mr. Lucky's. "She didn't have to work for (her talent), she was a natural," J. David Sloan, former owner of Mr. Lucky's, tells the Arizona Republic in 2007. On a regular basis, she knocks them dead with her rendition of Martina McBride's "A Broken Wing," which she will later sing on national television.
- 2002
Loving the Stage
Sparks, 13, is cast in an ensemble role in Phoenix's Valley Youth Theatre's production of The Wiz. "She was pretty young then," artistic director Bobb Cooper tells the New York Post. "She was good; she got even better." Later that year she appears in the theater's production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella and the Sandra Day O'Connor High School's production of A Christmas Carol.
- 2003
Upping the Ante
Sparks' auditions for Star Search and the American Idol spin-off, Junior Idol, fuel the singer's ambition. "When I'm on the stage, I feel like I can be myself and nobody will care," Sparks later tells PEOPLE. "I love being up there. I love seeing the faces in the crowd. I love hearing the clapping when you're performing." Determined to move her career forward, she records a five-track demo album, "For Now."
- 2004
Young Professional
Sparks enters NBC's America's Most Talented Kid, winning in the first round, but losing her championship bid. A few months later she scores two Gospel Music Association Academy awards and catches the eye of Chaz Corzine, a Christian-music talent scout, who introduces her to Christian singer Michael W. Smith. "It wasn't just a case of her being good 'for a 15-year-old.' She was great, for any age," Smith tells the New York Post. He hires Sparks as a background vocalist for his Christmas 2005 and 2006 tour, and at the start of her sophomore year in 2005, Sparks opts to be home-schooled to focus on her singing career.
- 2006
Another Shot
After winning Arizona's own Idol spin-off contest, Sparks wins a Ford Fusion and a second chance to audition for the sixth season of Idol in Seattle. (She initially auditioned for American Idol in Pasadena, Calif. but did not make the cut.) The 16-year-old blows judges Paula Abdul, Simon Cowell and Randy Jackson away with her rendition of Celine Dion's "Because You Loved Me." Cowell describes Sparks' performance: "It was a little bit too sugary for my taste. [But] I like you..." She receives a golden ticket to Hollywood rounds and a spot among the show's top 24 contestants.
- 2007
Cracking Idol's Top Ten
Though some criticize Sparks' overly cute, youthful behavior, viewers continue to vote for her. She earns a spot amongst Idol's Top 10, and PEOPLE dubs her the "Teen Wonder" of the ''Diva Trio'' rounded out by finalists Melinda Doolittle and Lakisha Jones. While on the show, Sparks wakes up early to complete three hours of school, rehearses for the show and shoots the Idol-required Ford commercials.
Breakout Performance
With only seven contestants remaining, Sparks sings Martina McBride's hit "A Broken Wing. The country star, who served as the episode's celebrity coach, calls Sparks' rendition "awesome." Cowell is equally impressed: "This is the first time since we have met where I actually believe, based on that performance, you could win American Idol." The following week, she performs Rodgers and Hammerstein's "You'll Never Walk Alone," and Jackson calls the performance "one of the best vocals in the history of the show."
Jordin vs. Blake
Sparks battles risk-taking beat boxer Blake Lewis in the one-hour finale. The show's defining moment comes when both contestants perform the new inspirational ballad, "This Is My Now," the winning entry in the show's songwriting contest. While Lewis, who is stronger as an entertainer, appears uncomfortable and out of range with the song, Sparks blows it out of the park with Cowell telling her, "You just wiped the floor with Blake on that song."
Idol Crown
The 17-year-old wonder is crowned the sixth winner of American Idol, becoming the youngest in the show's history. Lewis, who says Sparks was his pick from the beginning to win, tells PEOPLE, "She's 17 and she's already a woman. She performs, she's good looking, she's got a fantastic personality." Sparks tells reporters, "I'm very, very strong willed. This is what I want to do. It's what I've been wanting to do for so long."
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- Jordin Sparks
- Date of Birth
- December 22, 1989
- Birth Place
- Phoenix, Ariz.
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CLEMSON – And Saturday started out so well.
Bill Murray, Charleston's No. 1 sports fan, became the greatest guest picker in "GameDay" history when he picked Clemson and wrestled Florida State grad Lee Corso to the ground.
Corso was dressed as a corny cartoon Native American. The comic actor wore a teal Piggly Wiggly shirt as he threw Corso's faux spear off stage.
But in the main act, No. 5 Florida State tossed No. 3 Clemson out of the national championship picture with a major 51-14 statement at Death Valley.
A long day ended late Saturday night with Florida State fans doing the Tomahawk Chop at midfield.
"They're happy. They're proud. Their team got a great win," Clemson wide receiver Sammy Watkins said. "I don't blame them."
The disciplined Tiger team that didn't allow a point off turnovers in its first six games bobbled the night away.
Tajh Boyd, Clemson's classy career passing leader, had his worst game. It didn't help that receivers couldn't get very open against a skilled secondary, or that Florida State quarterback Famous Jameis Winston played like a Heisman Trophy winner.
The Tigers' "nameless, faceless opponent" approach that works well against lesser foes but not so well vs. rivals took a hit.
The build-up, the national attention given college football's first top 5 matchup of the season …
It feels like a once-a-generation grand opportunity fumbled.
"We still control our own destiny," running back Roderick McDowell said. "We just have to keep playing Clemson football. We just have to find our swagger back on offense."
ACC title destiny, however, is in a bank in Tallahassee.
"What I mean by 'destiny' is that game is over and I'm focusing on our next game, which is Maryland," McDowell said. "We can still go 11-1 and go to a BCS bowl. That's still our goal."
Not 'worth a dang'
Florida State looks good enough to give Oregon or Alabama fits. That's up to voters and computers probably until January.
What's certain is that Clemson, while improving, is losing ground to the top program in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
2011: 35-30, Clemson at Death Valley.
2012: 49-37, Florida State in Tallahassee.
Saturday night: Nightmare.
Winston will be back next year.
This might sting a while.
"It was just one of those nights where we couldn't get into a rhythm," Clemson defensive coordinator Brent Venables said. "A lot of that was because of them, not necessarily because of us. But in regards to the plan and the execution – all of it - it wasn't worth a dang."
Dabo Swinney predicted all week that the first top five matchup in Palmetto State history would come down to three or four plays. The Clemson head coach just didn't expect them all to come in the first 25 minutes, and all to go Florida State's way.
"We lost two fumbles right away," Watkins said. "Had they lost two fumbles like that, it might have gone the other way."
Much was made of the quarterback contrast. Yet with Clemson receivers having trouble getting open against a skilled secondary it was a bad time for Boyd to struggle like a pitcher without his best stuff.
Not enough Bill Murray
Winston, an actual Florida State pitcher, was poised amid the noise. He played most of the game with a large smudge of orange paint on the rear end of his white pants, but that was a rare sign of Clemson pressure. Hardly rattled with his back to the student section on The Hill, Winston was never better than while igniting a quick 95-yard drive that put Florida State up 24-7 midway through the second quarter.
Too many times, Venables said, "they were the aggressor and we were playing not to give up the big play."
Now Clemson, as Boyd said,
must guard against "letting this loss beat you twice."
The first beating commenced soon after Florida State running back James Wilder Jr. ran straight from the locker room to The Hill a few minutes before the kickoff. He flexed his muscles at Clemson students, prompting memories of Deion Sanders waving the Tigers down The Hill before the 1988 "Puntrooskie Game."
Historical twist: Osceola, the great Seminole chief, is buried (minus his head) on Sullivan's Island.
Orange twist: Clemson was buried early before one of the loudest crowds in Death Valley history.
Too bad Bill Murray was out of athletic eligibility.
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In the numbers-driven credit union business, one can be equal to two.
At least that's how the math works when it comes to the trade groups that represent the industry's interests in state capitals like Columbia and on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
The South Carolina Credit Union League is a case in point. The Irmo-based, industry-funded organization is advancing a plan to merge with the North Carolina Credit Union League by early 2014 after nearly 80 years of independence. The unified group would be called the Carolinas Credit Union League.
"The consolidation of talented staff from both organizations would allow the new league to enhance its delivery of core association services: advocacy, compliance, and professional development," the groups said in a recent statement after deciding to let their members vote on the proposal.
The urge to merge is being fueled by the fact that there are fewer credits unions thanks to consolidation, said Steve Fowler, president and chief executive officer of the S.C. Credit Union League, which dates back to 1934.
"We here in South Carolina have 74 credit unions. That's down from 1978, when we had 200," he said.
North Carolina has 87 credit unions, down from about 320 over that same period.
The result is that the costs of keeping the trade groups going is falling to fewer affiliates, Fowler said.
"As we have seen the number of credit unions contract, the leagues have begun to take a look around and say, 'How can we best service our member credit unions going forward?' " said Fowler, who is retiring at the end of this year.
He added: "Consolidation really became something that was a very viable option."
The leagues have worked closely together for years on various projects and in some case they already use each another's back-office services, including legal compliance and accounting.
They began looking at the pros and cons of combining a couple of years ago.
Their peer groups in some other states already have taken the plunge, Fowler said.
"We're not in any real danger other than the number of credit unions is dropping," Fowler said.
"We're dues-supported and affiliation is voluntary, so at some point you're going to lose critical mass. If you wait until that point, you start eating into your equity. We're making this decision from a position of strength, with time on our side."
Both groups have been sharing details of the plan at town hall-style meetings with members, who are expected to vote on it next month.
Each state would be represented by three officials under the combined organization, which would maintain offices in Columbia, Raleigh and Washington, D.C. John Radebaugh, CEO of the North Carolina group, would lead the Carolinas Credit Union League.
Fowler said most members he's spoken with support the idea, through he acknowledges there are a couple of skeptics. He's not one of them, saying that "by combining our forces the sum is going to be greater than the total parts."
"There so many more reason to do it than not to it," Fowler said.
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Sylvan Avenue bridge — and Trammell Crow Park — closes Saturday
The stretch of Sylvan Avenue that crosses the Trinity River will close Saturday as the Texas Department of Transportation begins in earnest the months-long process of building a bridge over the occasionally flooded bottomlands.
That means drivers will have to detour across the Margaret Hunt Hill or Hampton Road bridges to get from the Stemmons Corridor to West Dallas until the $42.3 million project is finished in spring 2014.
And as my colleague — and frequent Ticket contributor — Robert Wilonsky pointed out last month, that also means that Trammell Crow Park and its famous cow statues will be out of commission for awhile.
Anyone catching one last ride today across Sylvan — deemed by the city as "the last of the Dallas streets low water crossings — will notice there's already huge pilings in place that give a pretty good sense of the new bridge's height.
TxDOT and the city added that the rebuilt bridge, which will be continuous over the Trinity's levees, will help provide more consistent traffic through the area "without the threat of floodwaters closing the road."
Check out the jump for a PDF that shows the detours.


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7 Needlessly Difficult Features of Every Retro Video Game
I've been thinking about retro games a lot recently. Because modern games are screwing us harder than minigun-cocked spiderdemon bosses ever did, because I'm always at least 10 percent thinking about Smash TV, and because I'm taking part in the RETRO gaming magazine Kickstarter with Seanbaby, Jeremy Parish, Bob Mackey, and almost every other video game writer you could possibly care about.
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Now I'm also 90 percent thinking about that thing's motorized Gatling genitals, and really wishing I wasn't.
I remember a simpler time when we got extra costumes by entering secret codes instead of credit card details. But those are rose-tinted glasses, and in retro gaming the only rose-tinted glasses are the Virtual Boy: an expensive headache that wasn't nearly as good as it should have been. Most old games were so shit, they'd make lab rats ask to get back to work at the shampoo testing plant.
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"I would rather fill this beaker with Chili & Vinegar conditioner than play Manic Miner one more time."
I spent much of my childhood hypnotized by computers simpler than most modern watches, and these are the repressed memories of pain I'm confronting ...
#7. Limited Lives
Having multiple "lives" is still the most famous trope of video gaming, even though it now has far more to do with British men who abduct emotionally vulnerable women in phone boxes. It made sense in the arcade, because they were trying to get the maximum amount of money for the least amount of work, but then they used it in home games for exactly the same reason. Forcing you to start from the absolute beginning every time extended a two-hour game into months of Sisyphean struggle. In fact, the more I remember old games, the more I realize that they only existed because parents can't leash a kid to the table with wrist manacles and a ball gag without getting a visit from the FBI.
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Even though video games cause exactly the same pose and facial expression.
We fondly remember the Konami Code, but the reason we remember it is because one of our favorite games was such a blatant timesink. Playing Contra with only three lives was how you threw away an hour of your life. Entering the code became muscle memory. If I have a heart attack, forget the defibrillator -- put an NES pad in my hands and I'll automatically enter it, come back to life 29 more times, and be able to run through the first level before my eyes reopen. Thousands of children learned the first levels of games instead of musical instruments, playing them like sheet music made of machine guns.
And playing Emerald Hill Zone Act 1 won't impress anyone at college parties.
Combined with the lack of saves, this did more damage to childhood sleep patterns than the way they used to hide tits on TV at 1 a.m. It's just another problem technology has solved for modern kids.
#6. Water Levels
Age brings perspective. I now understand that many games were ruined by obviously terrible decisions because the projects were managed by old people who'd never played one before. Their worst revenge was adding a water level to the game, which ended fun faster than adding water to your Nintendo. Water levels slowed you down, made everything dark, made it so you couldn't properly control your body, and surrounded you with little fast things that could still move quickly and kill you, and time was noticeably ticking away before you died. That wasn't just added by an old person; it was a simulation of being an old person.
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"Hammer 'A' to avoid bladder control problems! Don't get too excited for the same reason!"
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles had the most brutal water level of all time, and turtles are meant to be OK with water.
U.K. television called them "Hero" turtles and censored all the fight scenes, and that still didn't ruin the fun this badly.
Even Sonic the Hedgehog had a water level, and that game's only selling point was "moving fast." He couldn't have been less designed for immersion in water if he'd been Sparky the Talking Toaster.
Sonic the Hedgehog was never meant to be an exploration of mortality.
The mandatory water levels did worse than interrupt your fun: They blatantly revealed that the staff behind the games we loved couldn't care less. They were just working off a checklist to make the game long enough so they could finish and go home. It's heartbreaking to realize that people who had your childhood dream job hated it.
#5. Ladders
You're playing a character whose only job is running face-first into the unknown, where the only unknown thing is how it'll kill you. The hero leaps through smoking holes in alien fortresses, directly at attack helicopters flying considerably lower than safety regulations recommend, and becomes a cardiac catheter by running through alien guts just to be sure of shooting them in the heart. And the only thing that terrifies him is ladders.
"Here we see the flying enemy in its natural habitat, the video game ladder nursing its offspring as it OH YOU SON OF A FINCH!"
Leaving a ladder could mean limply dropping to your doom, but the worst games turned you into the world's worst train, fixing the character to the ladder so that it wasn't just turning its ass to the player, but to any rampaging enemy who might like to ream it. You had to slowly scroll up and down to avoid incoming pellets like a crappy anti-Pong.
In Castlevania, even the stairs could kill you, slowing you down, gluing you to the ground, and letting you fall through like you'd failed the leap of faith if you walked on them without thinking "up" with enough trust in your heart.
The stairs are by far the most lethal thing in this picture.
A ladder should only threaten an armed commando when he's attacking Jackie Chan.
#4. Reverse Controls
When a game reversed your controls (so that left was right and up was down), it was because the designers could only get "Fuck you" into the game via contortionist ventriloquist sign language, twisting your thumbs to show you what they think of "players." A game shouldn't give you digital aphasia.
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And you get so screwed up that for a second this pad doesn't look insane.
"Don't interfere with the link between gamer and game" is the second thing they teach you at video game design college, just after "Haha, we've got your money, and you really should have taken a real design or computer science degree." But back in the 8-bit days, entire games could be coded up by a couple of people in a room, and one solid hangover could radically change the game mechanics (and is the only possible explanation for screwing up the input this badly).
More than ruining immersion, reversing the controls revealed the designers' real attitude: It was their job to create as many obstacles as possible. When you destroy the players' ability to control the character instead of giving them a reason to do that, you suck.


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When you cum into a condom, then stretch it out and let it go at someone, like a slingshot.
If you sling shot on me one more time...
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sleeveless t-shirt that vatos love to wear to show off placas.
Rednecks call 'em wifebeaters, vatos call them slingshots
by Ruca13 July 29, 2008
An awesome sexual manuever! have sex with a girl, cum all over her insides make it sloppy, a fucking sloppy mess, but leave your dick inside, eventually it will get soft. with your soft dick in the girl ( it's good to leave it in there overnight for best results) just pull it out as quick as humanly possible. sick! ur dick has shrank inside her dilly-hole (a.k.a. vag) you will have created suction cause ur dick to stretch and finally give way and come snapping back into ur testicles at starship-enterprise-warp-speed hittin ur nuts so hard that for some reason u get sexually aroused -- rinse (or not :D) and repeat!
Dude, i slept of lafawndah's house and totally sling shotted myself like 7 times!
by NugBee September 01, 2006
An extremely effective napping method, also known as a "coffee nap". Drink a coffee or espresso quickly, then immediately go to sleep for 15 to 20 minutes. Waking up right as the caffeine hits your bloodstream makes you feel refreshed and alert.
Shit, I tried to slingshot but I just ended up having a dreamathon at double speed.
by Krangold v. Krangold September 01, 2014
When a guy is wearing a banana hammock and gets an erection causing the hammock bands to stretch out looking like a sling shot.
I was thinking about this fine ass chick last night and got a sling shot.
by peponator June 14, 2009
Sexual act in which a woman's vagina is motorboated, yes, motorboated and the resulting mixture of air and pussy juice is then queefed immediately and violently back into her partner's mouth; preferably among lesbians. Not to be confused with a mudslide.
Dude, I was eating this girl out the other day when I sneezed and got an accidental slingshot. That bitch queefed so hard I almost choked.
by Giggity Giggity Guy January 18, 2014
The act of strategically breaking some distance before a red light in an open lane to prevent coming to a full stop before the light turns green, and speeding past the strugglers stopped by the lights and leaving them far behind you when the lights do change.
Slow down the lights will change soon and you can slingshot these strugglers!
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Abnormal lobes of the lung have been recognized in autopsy material for many years. The least common of such abnormal lobes are those known by such synonyms as Rokitansky lobe, extralobar sequestrated lobe, accessory lung, aberrant lobe, and supernumerary lung. Bruwer, Clagett, and McDonald1 precisely define the abnormality as "an anomalous, nonfunctioning piece of pulmonary tissue... found either below the diaphragm or between the diaphragm and the lower lobe.... [It] is enclosed in a pleural sheath of its own." Although von Rokitansky * in 1861 was able to find 12 cases in the literature and reported 1 of his own, all were autopsy cases, and the first clinical report did not appear until 1947. In that year Valle and White3 presented their patient, a 9-month-old boy, with an extralobar sequestrated lobe, who unfortunately died of shock during operation for an associated diaphragmatic hernia. The following year DeBakey, Arey, and
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"There's always a blessing in every bad thing that happens, it seems," said Joni Lingenfelter, speaking via phone from the hospital room of her daughter, Chelsea. The 21-year-old Chelsea had received kidney dialysis earlier in the day at The Cleveland Clinic and was resting.
Joni's comment serves as more than just positive reassurance. It has become a guiding principle for life since Chelsea was diagnosed with liver cancer in October 1995 when she was only 4 years old. Joni says she fainted after doctors at Tod Children's Hospital in Youngstown told her the source of the painful lump in Chelsea's abdomen, and she had to be revived by medical staff.
The blessing then was that the cancer had only progressed to Stage 2 and was still treatable. "They mostly only catch them with children at Stage 4," Joni said, by which time it's often too late.
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Chelsea Lingenfelter (left) and her mother, Joni, of Wellsville, enjoy life while waiting and hoping for the organ donation needed to save Chelsea's life. (Contributed photo)?
After aggressive chemotherapy treatment, including an experimental trial, showed little progress, surgery became necessary. Several operations to remove the tumorous sections of the liver followed, but the cancer was aggressive as well.
"Cutting it back, cutting it back, and then, there was just no more to cut," Joni said.
Chelsea's salvation came in the form of a living relative donor transplant. Joni proved to be a suitable match, so surgeons removed 20 percent of her liver and transferred it to Chelsea. The operation at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital in Cleveland in 1999 was the first living relative donor liver transplant in northeast Ohio.
Chelsea was now cancer-free, and she remains so to this day. However, she still only had one-fifth of a liver, and complications followed her through childhood and adolescence. Scar tissue meant the bile ducts would clog up periodically and had to be drained off. Over time, the process repeats itself as the liver portion grows steadily weaker, eventually dying off completely.
The blessing this time was that the transplanted liver portion kept working for almost 14 years. At the time, doctors told Joni that it would only last for seven.
In response to the liver's failure, Chelsea's kidneys have picked up the slack, but they are now becoming overworked. That is why she has been receiving regular dialysis at The Cleveland Clinic while doctors search for a suitable donor liver.
Though Chelsea's now is now at the top of a tri-state donor list, finding a proper match is no simple task. She needs a liver from a person with O-negative blood and a small stature, to match her petite frame.
In addition to the specific liver type needed, Joni says that myths about organ donation are another hurdle to all kinds of people who are in need and waiting, like Chelsea. One is that people who register to be organ donors on their driver's license will be allowed to die if they find themselves in need of emergency medical services. Another is that the donor's family has to pay the medical costs of post-mortem operation. Both assertions are false.
"If people would just read the facts and register," Joni said. Though she admits her main purpose is that of a plea for her daughter, the experience has turned her into an advocate for organ donation. "You can help so many lives, not just one," Joni added.
Joni knows that for her daughter to receive a donor liver, it will mean the passing of another human life. She says this is actually the most difficult part of the waiting process. "It's a difficult subject to talk about," she said. "You don't want to offend people, you don't want somebody to pass on." However, Joni says she has come to accept it as part of the cycle of life, in which a part of someone else can live on after they're gone.
For her part, Chelsea says the core group of friends who has been with her since elementary school has been her blessing. "They've been there the whole time," she said. Joni is also certain that the experience of Chelsea's illness has brought the two of them closer together. "We talk about everything," she said.
Chelsea also surpassed the physical limitations that kept her from pursuing athletics, cultivating a passion for the fine arts instead, particularly music and drama. When asked which plays were her favorites, she replied, "Anything I could get my hands on in high school, pretty much."
Though she originally expected to pursue French education following her graduation from Wellsville High School in 2010, Chelsea is looking into audiology and speech pathology. "I discovered that I really like the language aspect more than the actually teaching," she said.
Go and Do:
* A Celebration of Hope for Chelsea Lingenfelter, featuring a candlelight vigil, will be held at 6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 16 at Wellsville First Christian Church, 831 Main St.
* A zumbathon will be held to raise money for Chelsea's medical costs will be held on March 8 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Calcutta YMCA. Contact Megan Beagle at 330-853-9456 for details.
* A spaghetti dinner will be held at First Christian Church in Chester on March 9. Call 304-387-2887 for more information


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The old muleteer's track that connects Sonogno to Lavertezzo is called "Sentierone per l"arte". On some stretches it runs on the right side of the River Verzasca, sometimes it runs on its left side. The clear river waters have rounded off the large rocks in its midst. The hiking trail is dotted with interesting cultural highlights ranging from chapels, holy markers, and bridges. In fact, it is so inspiring that several artists have decided to focus on this valley in their art. There are 30 sculptures and on-site installations that dot the trail between Brione and Lavertezzo. The art reflects the ancient history of this valley and the many influences the people have been subjected to. It is a good thing that one can quickly jump into the cool Verzasca before one"s head overheats!
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Drive or take public transportation from Bellinzona or Locarno to Brione in the Verzascatal via Gordola.
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The careful planning of a tour will ensure that you also derive the maximum pleasure and enjoyment from it. Please take the time to contact the local information centre and enquire about route and weather conditions before setting off. Your intended trail may be fully or partially closed, depending on the time of year and weather conditions.


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Client Application Services with Visual Studio 2008
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Introduction: In this 18' video you will learn from scratch how to take advantage of .NET Client Application Services. As usual, the code and links to the documentation are available from my blog.
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The Zicklin MBA features a core curriculum that spans all the major business areas and a specialization that permits students to explore a specific area in greater depth. At Zicklin, you can study on a full-time or Flexible basis:
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The Full-Time MBA Program is a selective, cohort-based program featuring a collaborative learning environment emphasizing teamwork and leadership. Admission to the program is highly competitive. Applications are accepted for the fall semester only.
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The Flexible MBA Program gives working professionals maximum flexibility to complete their degree. Students can vary the number of courses they take each semester based on personal and professional circumstances. Applications are accepted for the fall and spring semesters.


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|Two Phase Transitions Make a High-Temperature Superconductor
Superconductivity—conceptually remarkable and practically revolutionary—is a quantum phenomenon in which bound electron pairs flow through a material in perfect synchrony, without friction. Conventional superconducting materials reach this state via a single thermal phase transition at a critical temperature (Tc). It was generally believed that such a picture also applied to the copper oxide (cuprate) superconductors—first discovered 25 years ago and the current record holders for highest Tc. However, three groups of researchers who performed measurements on the same cuprate material recently joined forces to prove that this view is inaccurate. Their work showed that another phase transition actually exists at a higher temperature in the cuprate phase diagram, below which electrons, instead of pairing up, organize themselves in a drastically different way.
The new phase transition occurs at the so-called "pseudogap" temperature (T*). The pseudogap has been traditionally understood as reflecting the formation of electron pairs that lack the long-range phase coherence required for superconductivity. This traditional view was supported by many early experiments that detected subtle anomalies in various measurable quantities (electron density of states, transport, and thermoelectric and magnetic response properties) broadly around T*. Such a "precursor pairing" interpretation of the pseudogap raised hopes of increasing Tc (perhaps as high as T*—comparable to room temperature) by promoting phase coherence in cuprates.
With the advent of advanced experimental techniques, however, researchers have paid increasing attention to the possibility of a true phase transition at T*. For example, time-resolved reflectivity measurements at different temperatures have shown that a fast-changing, negative signal sets in below T* that is distinct from the slow-changing, positive signal at the onset of Tc, hinting at the different nature of both pseudogap and superconducting phases. Despite the accumulation of similar evidence, however, a more definitive result has been lacking.
High-precision measurements of the magneto-optical Kerr effect, a bulk, thermodynamic probe of magnetization, had also revealed the clear onset of a signal at T*, going from zero above to finite below, a behavior expected in a phase transition. However, although the thermodynamic nature of the probe could permit a strong conclusion on the pseudogap phase transition, the small size of the overall signal previously measured in an yttrium-based cuprate was in strong contrast to the sizeable effect of the pseudogap found in many other measurements, including angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES).
ARPES, a surface, microscopic probe in energy–momentum space, allows the entire thermal evolution of the pseudogap to be monitored in detail. However, largely owing to an exclusive focus on the superconducting transition, such ARPES experiments on the pseudogap had rarely been performed; data recently obtained on a bismuth-based cuprate showed that the pseudogap opens rather abruptly below T* and evolves in a way incompatible with the formation of incoherent electron pairs but consistent with the development of some density-wave-like order. Nevertheless, the extreme surface sensitivity and microscopic nature of ARPES, together with the considerable variation of T* among different cuprate families, have precluded a definitive conclusion about a connection between the pronounced spectral change in ARPES and the small Kerr signal observed in different materials.
Here, in this work, three research groups from Berkeley and Stanford report convincing data on the subject using a combination of the three complementary methods described above, including ARPES at ALS Beamline 10.0.1. Taken together, the results have allowed the Stanford-Berkeley groups to reach a firmer conclusion than would otherwise be possible. The mutually consistent results show that the ordering of electrons persists through the superconducting phase transition and coexists microscopically in the ground state with the electron pairs that first emerge close to Tc. Albeit belated, such a major revision in our understanding of high-Tc superconductivity will undoubtedly transform our thinking about how to make Tc higher.
Research conducted by: R.-H. He, M. Hashimoto, and J.P. Testaud (Stanford University and ALS); H. Karapetyan, V. Nathan, R.G. Moore, D.H. Lu, T.P. Devereaux, S.A. Kivelson, A. Kapitulnik, and Z.-X. Shen (Stanford University); J.D. Koralek, J.P. Hinton, and J. Orenstein (University of California, Berkeley, and Berkeley Lab); Y. Yoshida and H. Eisaki (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan); H. Yao (Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, and Berkeley Lab); K. Tanaka (Stanford University, ALS, and Osaka University, Japan); W. Meevasana (Stanford University and Suranaree University of Technology, Thailand); S.-K. Mo and Z. Hussain (ALS); and M. Ishikado (Japan Atomic Energy Agency).
Research funding: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES); Stanford Graduate Fellowship. Operation of SSRL and ALS are supported by DOE BES.
Publication about this research: R.-H. He, M. Hashimoto, H. Karapetyan, J.D. Koralek, J.P. Hinton, J.P. Testaud, V. Nathan, Y. Yoshida, H. Yao, K. Tanaka, W. Meevasana, R.G. Moore, D.H. Lu, S.-K. Mo, M. Ishikado, H. Eisaki, Z. Hussain, T.P. Devereaux, S.A. Kivelson, J. Orenstein, A. Kapitulnik, and Z.-X. Shen, "From a single-band metal to a high-temperature superconductor via two thermal phase transitions," Science 331, 1579 (2011).
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A native of Huntsville, Lee Hoekenschnieder began his banking career more than 35 years ago and has held senior leadership positions in several areas of banking including consumer banking, branch administration, commercial lending and the Wealth Management Executive for a large regional bank. He attended the University of Alabama and UAH as well as the School of Banking of the South at Louisiana State University and Canon Trust School at Pepperdine University, and also has his Series 7, 63 and 65 securities licenses.
Hoekenschnieder has been active in the Huntsville community and has held leadership positions in several organizations including the Rotary Club of Huntsville (president), Huntsville Hospital Foundation (chairman), Huntsville Museum of Art (chairman), Huntsville-Madison County Library Foundation (president), American Cancer Society (president), American Heart Association (president), Huntsville Rehabilitation Foundation/Phoenix Industries, New Futures (treasurer), and was a member of the Class 1 of Leadership Huntsville.
Currently, Hoekenschnieder is treasurer of FirstCommunity Health, president of the Madison County Veterans Memorial Foundation, member of the board of directors for Biztech, and chairman emeritus of the Huntsville Hospital Foundation.
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EYE CANDY: I Blame Coco – Live From Stockholm (Webcast)
For all of you that missed it (or if you're a super fan who wants to re-watch it), here's I Blame Coco's live broadcast earlier today (Oct. 1) from Stockholm in celebration of the release of her debut album, The Constant, in Sweden. Now let's all thank God for the Internet!
*Audio and performance starts around the 23 minute mark, so fast forward and enjoy!Vodpod videos no longer available.
DON'T MISS: I Blame Coco Live from Stockholm (Webcast!)
Tomorrow night (Friday, Oct. 1), I Blame Coco is performing live in Stockholm, Sweden w/ a special guest, Robyn, to promote the release of her debut record (The Constant), and the show will all be broadcast LIVE at 9pm CET (8pm GMT or 3pm EST, for us in Toronto).
It will be streaming over here: www.iblamecocolive.com
You don't want to miss this!
UPDATE: If you weren't able to catch the live broadcast earlier today, you can now watch the recorded Live from Stockholm show on www.iblamecocolive.com. On the video app, click "More" and then "I Blame Coco Live from Stockholm!". Enjoy!
ON THE VERGE: I Blame Coco
WHO: I Blame Coco (Coco Sumner)
WHERE: London, UK.
SOUNDS LIKE: Gritty pop with soul
CONNECT THE DOTS: Pete Doherty, Robyn
CLAIM TO FAME: Raw Vocals, Bohemian Love (w/ Pete Doherty) Sting's Daughter
FOR FANS OF: Rachael Yamagata, Sting, Damien Marley
She has his eyes, his jawline, his unflinching talent; she even has his voice.
With music in her genes, Coco Sumner (the Police man's daughter) has been making music since forever and writing for her debut since she was 15. But when she turned the ripe age of 17, she signed to Island Records and got the go-ahead to record her first album, The Constant, under the moniker I Blame Coco. With its October 12 UK release date edging up upon us, the raspy-voiced Coco has been releasing a slew of music videos, including "Self Machine" and "Caesar" (feat. Robyn).
Her vocals on the Pete Doherty-written "Bohemian Love" (rumoured to be written about Kate Moss) is probably what first got her noticed. Well, it's when I discovered her. And it's a must-see for all I Blame Coco newbies.Vodpod videos no longer available.
There's no denying Sting has a very talented bloodline.
Download: I Blame Coco – "Caesar" ft. Robyn (Miike Snow Remix)
Download: I Blame Coco – "Caesar" ft. Robyn (Diplo Remix)
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Nickname for the Thompson submachine gun - an automatic firearm with a distinctive drum magazine and verical foregrip.
The Tommy gun is best known for being the weapon of choice of Prohibition-era gangsters, but it was also used extensively during WWII.
The Tommy gun is best known for being the weapon of choice of Prohibition-era gangsters, but it was also used extensively during WWII.
Jimmy the Finger got a mouthful of lead from a Tommy gun.
Back in the war, my granddad used his Tommy gun in the trenches of Normandy.
Back in the war, my granddad used his Tommy gun in the trenches of Normandy.
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A Thompson .45 ACP callibur submachine gun. With a large, heavy round, it is extremly powerful at close ranges, however is notoriously inaccurate at long rages. It compensates for this with a very high rate of fire. Can be loaded via a 30 round stick magazine or a 50 round drum feeder, and magazines are commonly stored in 9 clip vests. It utilizes a barral grip, trigger handle and a wooden stock. Due to it's high preformance and relitive simplicity, it is used widly by mobster and mafia (exspecialy in 1930's New York) but was also mas preduced as a reliable weapon in World War Two.
The young American officer sprayed with his Tommy Gun at the group of Gerrys.
Beküldő: Mark T. 2005. július 22.
Actual name: Thompson submachine gun. It is a .45 caliber weapon firing at about 600-900 rounds per minute. The normal size for the ammo in WWII was a 230 grain bullet. These were just plain full metal jacket bullets, not hollow points. You couold get a wide variety of magazines/drums for your thompson: You could get 20 or 30 rounds stick magazines, and you could also get 50, 75, or 100 round drums. Many poeople loved these drums even though they made the Thompson about 7 pounds heavier, for a grand total of almost 17 pounds. To just look at the weapon, you wouldn't think it could weight that much, but it's just a big chunk of steal. This also helped with recoil.
My Tommy Gun is empty!
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A sexual term to pleasure not only yourself, but the person sitting next to you as well. You must grab not only your penis but your neighbor's penis at the same time. Start pumping at full throttle; Once both of your bodies are shaking out of control, and you both have succsessfuly ejaculated onto yourself you have acheived the Tommy Gun.
I heard that Alex has been giving Tommy Gun lessons for so long that he only shoots blanks.
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Thompson submachine gun. Saw extensive use during gang warfare in the 1920s and 1930s, World War II, and Korea.
You know you're a gangster when you wear a fedora and carry a Tommygun.
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A pint of beer with three olives and a splash of grinadine. Usually consumed at strip clubs. The olives start dancing like a lava lamp.
That Tommy Gun was bouncin and the hoes where intrigeud like moths to a flame!
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It's the surname of the Thompson submachine gun.
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Chelus, Herdzik, Speyer and Monte named Leah Costanzo an associate attorney. Costanzo, a University at Buffalo graduate, received her J.D. from the UB School of Law.
Synacor Inc. promoted Matt General to engineer. General, a University at Buffalo graduate, joined the company in June as an engineering intern. Also, the company named Cameron Poland a project manager. Poland previously was a project manager at Advance2000. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees from Medaille College.
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LPCiminelli, Buffalo, recently accepted the 2012 Associated General Contractors of New York States' Safety Excellence Award for the company's job-site safety record.
Moog Inc., East Aurora, was awarded a $3,543,474 federal contract for the repair of electro-mechanical actuators from the U.S. Naval Supply Systems Command, Philadelphia.
Construction & Service Solutions Corp., Buffalo, was awarded a $2,042,970 federal contract for roof repairs from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville, Ky.
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Inventors: Trapp, Timothy J. (Orchard Park); Buresch, Robert Michael (Strykersville); Scheffold, Donald George (Lancaster)
Assignee: Mattel Inc. (El Segundo, Calif.)
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SCHLADMING, Austria � One year from the Sochi Olympics, there�s no Lindsey Vonn or Bode Miller competing in the downhill at the World Championships.
They�re out of action with injuries � Vonn crashed and will need knee surgery, while Miller is recovering from surgery � but the U.S. Ski Team still has plenty of skiers capable of winning medals.
Start with Julia Mancuso. She already won a bronze in super-G, could be a threat in today�s super-combined and seeks her first podium of the season in Sunday�s women�s downhill.
Steven Nyman, from Sundance, Utah, grew up mowing Robert Redford�s lawn. He won the classic downhill in December in Val Gardena, Italy, after years of injuries and appears in top form for the men�s downhill Saturday.
�It�s all about building confidence, and this race here is the second biggest race we race,� Nyman said. �Especially being in Austria, there are going to be tons of fans and media. It�s a good warm-up for the Olympics.�
Skiing is the top sport in Austria, and some 50,000 fans are expected to descend on this small Alpine village for the men�s downhill Saturday.
Nyman will be joined by team captain Marco Sullivan � who earned his first podium finish in four years this season � Olympic super-G bronze medalist Andrew Weibrecht and emerging talent Travis Ganong of Squaw Valley, Calif.
Besides Mancuso, the women�s team will feature recent World Cup winner Alice McKennis, veteran Stacey Cook � who finished slightly behind Vonn twice earlier this season � and Leanne Smith, who also had two podium results in downhill this season.
The women�s team has been performing so well that Laurenne Ross, who posted a fifth-place result last month, likely won�t make the downhill squad, with only four spots available.
�There�s definitely some confident skiers on our team right now, and feeding off each other is a great environment to be in,� Smith said. �We�re all really excited for this weekend and the rest of the season.�
Cook was the top American in Thursday�s second training session in eighth.
�Everyone keeps saying this is a good downhill for me,� said Cook, the same age as Vonn and Mancuso at 28 but never has won a top-tier race. �I�m a good glider, and it�s pretty flat up top, and it�s got a lot of gliding.
�But then it has these tricky elements, and one thing that�s hard on this course is to make and keep speed,� Cook said. �It�s really hard to gain (speed) anywhere. You have to be really perfect, and that hasn�t been something I�ve been dominating this year in � perfection; I�ve been kind of wild.�
Even if she doesn�t win a medal here, Cook still has a lot to look forward to the rest of the season. With Vonn out after her season-ending crash in the super-G, Cook has a chance of winning the World Cup downhill title. So do McKennis and Smith.
The current standings read: Vonn 340 points, Cook 211, Tina Maze 189, McKennis 180, Anna Fennninger 179 and Smith 167. Three more World Cup downhills remain this season.
So it�s not like the team is about to slow down without Vonn.
�Lindsey is a huge part of our team, and we get a lot of our pace from her and a lot of knowledge and experience, but we�re also pretty independent girls as well,� Cook said. �As much as we�re friends on the team, we have that independent side, so we know how to take care of ourselves. We�ll miss her of course, and we wish her the best in recovery, but we also want to go after the same thing she was here for.�
Mancuso may have not made the downhill team if not for Vonn�s crash.
�I�m part of the downhill team, thanks and no thanks to Lindsey,� said Mancuso, who was going to visit Vonn on Thursday.
After the downhills, the men�s super-combined is scheduled for Monday, with American Ted Ligety aiming for another medal to follow up his super-G victory.
Without Miller, the Olympic champion in super-combined, the other U.S. starters likely will be junior world champion Ryan Cochran-Siegle of Starksboro, Vt., Tommy Biesemeyer of Keene, N.H., and Will Brandenburg of Spokane, Wash.
Biesemeyer finished 13th, and Cochran-Siegle was 15th in the super-G for their best career results to open their first championships.
For Biesemeyer it marked a strong return from a nasty fall in December in Bormio, Italy, that left him with a torn groin muscle and bruised kidney.
For Cochran-Siegle, it extended a family legacy. His mom, Barbara Ann Cochran, won Olympic gold in the slalom at the 1972 Winter Games, and his cousin, Jimmy Cochran, used to be a member of the U.S. team.
Biesemeyer had an early start number in the super-G and got to feel the big-race experience.
�I�ve never started inside the top 30,� he said. �Usually when I come down, people start to leave, so it was nice to come down with a crowd ready to bring on the winner. That was really cool. Being in front of over 30,000 people was an experience, and I hope there�s more days like that.�
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The businessman Fred Zoeller officially became a politician Thursday afternoon when he was sworn in by Seneca County Common Pleas Court Judge Steve Shuff.
Zoeller, owner of Laminate Technologies, starts his term as commissioner Jan. 3.
"I know that when I started on this venture, I had a couple of people say 'Fred what are you doing this for? Why do you want to go there?'" he said. "I just want to help people. I want to help the community. It's just been amazing the support of the campaign, and all that I ask is I'm going to need that support in the future more than I have in the past."
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Fred Zoeller (right) smiles after being sworn in by Seneca County Common Pleas Court Judge Steve Shuff (middle) Thursday. Several other elected officials were also sworn in by Shuff and Seneca County Juvenile and Probate Court Judge Jay Meyer (left).
Zoeller said he wanted to compliment the exiting commissioners Dave Sauber and Ben Nutter for their work.
"I believe the county is a better place today for their efforts over the last eight years," he said.
Zoeller said he has done a lot in preparation for his first time serving in office, including regularly attending commissioner meetings and speaking with several elected officials.
He said he has set up a procedure to meet with elected officials at least once a quarter to discuss their needs. He also wants to implement a program asking employees for suggestions on how the county can save money.
Zoeller said he is getting an assessment of county departments as they compare to similar sized county departments and looking at staff sizes and wages. He said this is a technique he used in business.
"I'm going to need the help of God, I'm going to need some prayers from a lot of people to be successful," Zoeller said. "A lot of people have put a lot of faith in me, and I pray that I can live up to everyone's expectations."
He said his primary focus is economic development, and he said he expects less subsidies from the state, so it's more important to improve the county's business sense.
"I know I'm going to make some mistakes, as I move forward," Zoeller said. "I apologize in advance for those mistakes. But those mistakes will be made with the best intentions. I have no personal agendas, I don't have any axes to grind with anyone. Unfortunately, as in business, I may step on some toes through the process of putting some business sense in county government."
Sheriff Bill Eckelberry, Clerk of Courts Mary Ward, Engineer Mark Zimmerman, Recorder Mike Dell and Coroner Mark Akers also were sworn in to office Thursday afternoon.
"We were all born and raised here, and we really believe in this community and this county and the people in it," Shuff said. "There's a lot of good things that are going to happen in our community."


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CLEMSON — A promising 4-0 start for Maryland has been awash in two dismantling defeats and a rash of injuries at key positions.
After shutting out West Virginia, 37-0, in Baltimore on Sept. 21 to move into the Associated Press rankings, the Terrapins (5-2, 1-2 ACC) lost 63-0 at Florida State and 34-10 at Wake Forest in two of their first three games to open October.
After sustaining a concussion earlier this year, Maryland quarterback C.J. Brown was yanked in favor of Caleb Rowe in the first half at Wake Forest.
Head coach Randy Edsall has listed Brown and Rowe as co-starters going into Saturday's matchup with No. 9 Clemson at 3:30 p.m.
"Our quarterback situation is that it'll be either Caleb or C.J. in there," Edsall said Wednesday. "We'll make decisions after we get through practice this week, based on the health of our quarterback.
"With C.J., the concussion isn't the problem; there's other issues there we have to look at. I have to watch during practice if guys can perform at the highest level and not put themselves in any more danger from a health standpoint."
Maryland's top two receivers, sophomore Stefon Diggs (named a preseason all-ACC receiver by multiple publications) and junior Deon Long each suffered season-ending leg injuries Saturday in Maryland's 34-10 loss at Wake Forest.
Diggs and Long combined for 66 catches, 1,076 yards and four touchdowns in seven games. The rest of the Maryland roster has 65 receptions, 888 yards and five touchdowns.
The new Terrapins roster lists sophomores Levern Jacobs and Nigel King and freshmen Amba Etta-Tawo and Malcolm Culmer as their top receiving options. Only Jacobs has exceeded 162 receiving yards, and none have more than 14 catches this year.
However, the Terrapins do return home to Byrd Stadium, where they're 3-0 this season.
"We've played better here at home," Edsall said. "You're always more comfortable at home, we've had great support here, and hopefully we can continue that. You're in your own locker room, your own surroundings."
Clemson has won three of the past four at Maryland, and three straight overall, heading into the teams' final matchup before Maryland leaves to become a Big Ten Conference member.
"They're very talented. They're athletic up front. They present a big-time challenge for you, and they have a number of playmakers who can hurt you," Edsall said of the ninth-ranked Tigers. "So you've got to do enough to not allow those guys to make enough big plays against you."
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Against South Carolina State and Wake Forest, the Tigers scored two touchdowns off turnovers in each game. Against Georgia, North Carolina State, Syracuse and Boston College, they converted one turnover into a touchdown in each game.
In those six games, the Tigers hadn't allowed a single point off turnovers, making for a commanding 56-0 margin in their 6-0 start.
But on Saturday night, Florida State struck first with a Kelvin Benjamin TD catch from Jameis Winston in the first 90 seconds off Clemson tight end Stanton Seckinger's fumble, and the rout was on.
The Seminoles ended up scoring 24 points off turnovers — including Mario Edwards' return for a touchdown off Tajh Boyd's fumble — and the Tigers had none for the first time this year.
"Sometimes you go out there, you had a great week of practice, great prep, and next thing you know the put the ball on the ground a couple times and you start pressing," Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney said. "You can't beat bad football teams that way, much less a great team like Florida State. They don't make many mistakes, and you get your tail whipped."
Bouncing back
With Tajh Boyd as Clemson's starting quarterback, the Tigers are 4-1 in games immediately following a loss (not counting the 2012 Orange Bowl, when Clemson had to wait nine months for the next season.)
"Last year we probably played our worst game of the year against South Carolina. It was a huge game, probably would have been in a BCS bowl had we won that game," Swinney said. "We had a lot of our key guys didn't play very well; we turned it over; we had a tough night, and for 30 days we had to listen to how bad we were. Well, they responded in the bowl game."
Road warriors
By winning its last six games away from home (five on the road and the Chick-fil-A Bowl), Clemson's equaled its longest such streak since 1994-95.
A win Saturday at Maryland would give the Tigers their first seven-game road or neutral winning streak in 34 years.


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One year ago today, Chris Collins found himself wallowing in a self-described "funk" – his promising political career in tatters.
The Republican county executive had just lost his re-election bid to Democrat Mark C. Poloncarz. A return to politics, he acknowledged, appeared unlikely.
But now the spotlight shines once again on the businessman-turned-politician following Tuesday's superslim victory over Democratic incumbent Kathleen C. Hochul in the 27th Congressional District. Though barely winning the most Republican district in New York State, Collins has suddenly resurrected from the political ash heap in a most spectacular way.
As a result, Mr. Collins is going to Washington.
"This win is the best, because many people said we were down and out – in fact, dead on arrival," he told reporters early Wednesday morning. "I talked to my wife and kids and decided that this would be a good place for me to be.
"We all look at our book of life. I look at this as one of my last couple of chapters now, going to Washington."
But the victory fails to merit any superlative labels like "stunning" or even "impressive." He won with 50.8 percent to Hochul's 49.2 percent – one of the narrowest congressional margins in local history – even while President Obama lost the district by 15 points.
He believes that his own message combined with Hochul's "Buffalo China" ad that "backfired on her" produced a victory that, one way or another, is now sending him to the House of Representatives.
"I think it was the ad," he said, referring to the controversial spot that accused him of firing 150 workers when his investment group took over Buffalo China. "It aggravated people, and in Erie County, they knew better.
"She should have pulled the ad and moved on to something else," he added. "It just went a little too far."
Steven A. Greenberg, spokesman for the Siena Research Institute poll commissioned by The Buffalo News and WGRZ-TV, noted that poll results favoring Hochul began to reverse once the ad aired and several media outlets, including The News, deemed it false.
"There is no empirical evidence to prove it, but it's certainly a theory for which one can make a strong case," Greenberg said.
Collins pointed to winning Erie County, 51 to 49 percent, as one of the reasons he carried the district. And Greenberg agreed that while polls in August and early October showed Hochul with far more favorable ratings, Siena's November survey indicated that Collins had reversed the trend and was viewed significantly better.
"Hochul had some good will among marginal Republicans over the course of the campaign," Greenberg said. "She largely lost that.
"[The ads] took away the good will and moved Republicans to be much more unfavorable toward Hochul."
And because Hochul started off with the disadvantage of competing in a very Republican district, he said that it was only a matter of time before the negative ads aired by Republicans took hold with GOP and independent voters.
"What the campaign and all the negative commercials did was solidify the voters for each party around their candidate," Greenberg said.
The congressman-elect said he is well aware that area political observers often label him "arrogant," with a "my way or the highway" attitude. But he said that those who know him best dispute that view, adding he is ready for collegial work on Capitol Hill.
"People have put out a narrative about me time and again that is really not me," Collins said. "It's not 'my way or the highway.' Life is not like that. I can only prove that through my actions going forward.
"I understand," he added, "that people are watching, that people prejudge, and that people misjudge."
Collins now says he can turn from his traditional role as executive to becoming one of 435 members of the House.
"I understand it will be a different role, but the good news is that I'll be in the majority," he said.
"Now I must be respectful of other members and be cognizant as a freshman that Washington works differently.
"You study the landscape and respect what the rules are," he said, "and I'm very good at that."
Hochul, meanwhile, said she takes pride in running so strongly in an overwhelmingly Republican district. She said she knew when first viewing new district boundaries early this year that enormous obstacles blocked her road to re-election.
Many political articles in Washington, she noted, pronounced her "toast."
But losing by only about 4,000 votes, and bucking the backlash against the president proved "significant," she said.
"We had more than $2 million in ads from Super PACs outside the area that were mostly false," she said.
She again stood by the Buffalo China ad but will not dwell on rehashing a campaign effort that came oh-so-close to succeeding.
"I didn't have enough votes," she said. "The voters chose Chris Collins, and I accept that. I don't want to be a Monday morning quarterback."
Hochul said she does not leave Washington with bitter feelings.
"Setting aside the negative and personal attacks, I had the opportunity to go through the district and meet all kinds of people, and found it incredible," she said.
Hochul said she will now concentrate on the remaining two months of her term and said that she considers her 18 months in Congress "the highest honor of my life."
"Democracy worked," she said. "This is how we choose our leaders. I walk away with pride."
Collins said Wednesday that he knew from the outset he was facing an experienced and skilled campaigner.
That remains a prime reason, he said, he won by such a slim margin on solid GOP turf.
"To give Kathy her due, … I've never seen anyone work harder," he said. "I've got to give her kudos as one of the best constituent-service members of Congress ever elected."
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By buckyfelix
from Boston, MA
I very rarely review items but I had to review this one because I was so pleasantly surprised that it actually worked! I have tried many similar products that appear to work when first applied but the results fade once they "dry" within a day or two. I used the Tibet Almond Stick on two coffee tables- one was about 10 years old and has attracted water rings like crazy any time someone put their glass down for a second without a coaster- one treatment and the table has looked brand new again for the last 2 weeks! The second table is about 15 years old and has been destroyed by kids and our dog chewed the legs as a puppy but we don't want to replace it until it our kids are older. I can't believe how much nicer and totally presentable it looks now! Even the chew marks on the legs aren't as noticeable. The best part is that this was all for $5!!
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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By Glagan91
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This Almond Stick lives up to its reputation! Instantly removes white spots and small scratches on any unbleached wooden surface within - in seconds, and without any mess. I've used it on tables, chairs, and doors. Highly recommended for the household tool chest!
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I have some beautiful Levenger cases i bought several years ago. From several moves, they had some unsightly scratches.i could hardly wait to try this out and am so delighted to say, it really works. I am just sorry i didn't know about this years ago!
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I own several high end antiques and was absolutely amazed at how this product made surface scratches literally disappear. As advertised, it will not work on deeper gouges but it works on minor scratches. You won't believe your eyes! I used it on different finishes and surfaces; it even worked on my scratched maple hard wood floors. This product is an incredible bargain for the price. It leaves an oil trace behind, but I simply rubbed the oil into the furniture or floor and it absorbs well.
Didn't work for me
By Mommy of 2
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I was hopfull this product would remove scratches on my kitchen table (surface scratches, not deep). It's a brand new table that was scratches when I put a crate on it. The product didn't work, I don't see where it really did anything at all. I was very disappointed.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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I figured I'd try this product since it's so inexpensive anyway, and I can't believe how well it works -- I just rub it on a scratch on any of my wood furniture, and it makes the scratch invisible. Even "wide" scratches. I'm surprised Levenger doesn't charge more money for this thing, to be honest...! The only quirk is that it doesn't come with any instructions, so if you buy it, just be sure you remove the outer plastic wrap and *leave on* the inner wrap, and rub either end of the stick on your furniture. There's some sort of protective gauze on both ends and a crayon-like wrapping around the body of the stick, so be sure to leave those intact. Highly recommended!
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I was very much surprised of how it worked on the scratches that i had on my furniture.
Really works!
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I was dubious at first, but pleasantly surprised that it actually works!
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Dyess representatives, airmen and spouses react to military tuition assistance suspension
ABILENE, Texas - The Air Force's tuition assistance program helps service members with the cost of their education.
It's been around since just after the second World War.
Now, for the first time in the program's history, the Air Force is suspending the benefit.
The tuition assistance program, commonly known as TA, has been suspended as a result of the $85 billion in federal sequestration cuts.
Senior Airman Mikel Fair was using the TA program to finish his bachelor's degree.
The perk was a big reason he joined the Air Force in the first place.
Fair was disappointed upon receiving word of the suspension.
"I was a little bummed because that's what I was utilizing," Fair said. "It offers about six classes a year for me and my school so now I have to find other ways to pay for my school," he said.
Fair said he has now filled out an application that would determine for which Pell grant he can qualify.
He also said had it not been for the Air Force's TA program, he would still be attending school, but would have to take out loans, which would obviously cost him more money in the end.
The TA program provides up to $4,500 a year for students.
Airmen who were enrolled before the program was suspended will still receive the benefit until their individual money runs out.
New applicants are being denied altogether.
However, education representatives at Dyess Air Force Base say there are other options.
"We can offer assistance in either Pell grant or use of their Montgomery GI bill or post 9-11 bill to help them ease the burden," said Ferdinand Pateo, chief of education and training services at Dyess Air Force Base.
But that's won't help everyone.
The GI bill benefits can be transferred to dependents.
But as military spouse Amanda Otto is finding out, military families with more than one student may find the GI bill won't cover everyone.
The Otto's depended on TA to fill the gap.
"A lot of people that have gotten the cut are like, 'Well, at least we still have the GI bill,' but we don't have that because it's one or the other," Otto said. "We can't both use it because I would almost completely use it up in nursing school," she said.
"I understand they need to make cuts," Otto added. "But I feel like there is so much other waste in the military where they could make things more efficient and trim things," she said.
"They could look for long term solutions rather than looking for a quick fix and cutting the TA," she said.
According to Patao, the TA program is still in the budget for the 2014 fiscal year.
Patao said he is hopeful the program will be reinstated.
Airmen should know sometime in the late summer if that will happen.
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INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. - A 15-year-old boy died in a sledding accident Sunday afternoon north of Lake Tahoe, an official said.
The teenager - identified Tuesday as Dylan Ridolfi of El Dorado Hills, Calif. - was sledding down a hill at about 3:30 p.m. in the Sheeps Flat area north of Incline Village when he struck two trees, Washoe County Sheriff's Office Deputy Armando Avina said Tuesday.
According to witnesses, Ridolfi was traveling at "high rate of speed" in an inner tube, Avina said. While CPR was administered, he was pronounced dead on the scene at about 4:10 p.m.
As of Tuesday morning, the Washoe County Medical Examiner's Office was still looking into the cause of death.
Sheeps Flat - often referred to as Tahoe Meadows - is located off the Mt. Rose Highway north of Incline Village and is a popular sledding and snowshoeing destination for locals and visitors. The incident occurred about 150 yards from the highway on the west side, Avina said.
According to a Tuesday article in the Sacramento Bee, Ridolfi was sledding with about 10 family and friends on Sunday as part of a weekend trip to Tahoe.
Ridolfi was an offensive lineman on the unbeaten Oak Ridge High School freshman football team.
Football was a passion for the teen, according to the article, who stood 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighed 240 pounds. He also had a soft spot in his heart for children.
"He was a big kid but he had a huge heart," his father, Dan Ridolfi, told the Bee.
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dionim, on 22 January 2013 - 10:46 AM, said:
Priest damage IS fine, a couple times some burst but aside from that we have to cast alot (still not much but compared to lock, mage, bookim we do) the problem in the support we bring, i think spriests are fine, its trainable, go oom fast if you cant spam VT the cc isnt very good cuz it requires meele range, but i also agree that MD is really good nowdays, i think if they nerf instant cc like insta fear, pom ring, pom polly they should raise MD cd for shadows for like 25s or so.
edit. also shadow damage is not even close to the other classes damage. aside from orbs witch you have 3 every 25s IF you cast MB on cd
I have been 100-0d by shadowpriests in a blanket silence. Its more rare than from certain other classes, but shadowfiend burst is insane, its CD and damage should be reduced. (JUST FEAR IT HUR), Can't do that while silenced/horror'd.
Djandawg, on 22 January 2013 - 11:57 AM, said:
I said remove the glyph, not the ability. 0.3 seconds casts are stupid, at that point why not just make it instant?
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LOCKPORT – A Broome County woman was arraigned Tuesday in State Supreme Court, one of five defendants in a bogus check and fraudulent credit card ring that allegedly stole more than $60,000.
The other defendants are from Buffalo, Niagara Falls and Lockport.
Assistant District Attorney Brian D. Seaman said one woman already has pleaded guilty and the others are named in a multiple-count indictment that accuses them of passing fake checks and fraudulently using credit cards between April and July 2012.
Two defendants are accused of using a stolen credit card. All five were allegedly involved in depositing forged checks in bank accounts and withdrawing the money.
In a previous court appearance, Seaman said the forged checks were printed using information on a check stolen from the mailbox of a Town of Niagara man.
He said the credit card was obtained through the mail by using personal information left behind by a former resident of one of the defendants' homes.
Pleading not guilty Tuesday was Krystal H. Pesoncko, 21, of Johnson City. She is charged with 12 counts of second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument, 12 counts of identity theft, four counts of grand larceny and two counts of scheming to defraud.
Scheduled for arraignment today is Akeyta M. Fambo, 29, of West Avenue, Buffalo, who is charged with seven forged instrument counts, six identity theft counts, and two counts each of grand larceny and scheming to defraud.
Previously arraigned were Tasheen N. Dillard, 32, of Cedar Avenue, Niagara Falls, and Demetrius M. Davis, 33, of 16th Street, Niagara Falls.
Dillard faces 35 forged instrument counts, 22 identity theft counts, 10 grand larceny counts and two counts of scheming to defraud.
Davis is named in 17 forged instrument counts, 11 identity theft counts, five grand larceny counts and two scheming to defraud counts.
Shana L. Wallace, 21, of Hawley Street, Lockport, pleaded guilty to two counts of third-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument, and is scheduled for sentencing by Kloch on Feb. 27.
Seaman said Dillard and Davis are the only defendants accused of using the credit card.
All five were allegedly involved in depositing forged checks in bank accounts and withdrawing the money. The prosecutor said about $40,000 was stolen in the check scams and about $20,000 through use of the credit card, although with banks reversing charges as quickly as they could, it's unclear how much money actually made it into the pockets of the defendants.
Pesoncko is in Broome County Jail for violating probation on a conviction for similar conduct there, Seaman said. Justice Richard C. Kloch Sr. set $20,000 bail on her Niagara County charges.
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Redshirt-freshman Brian Pegg went for 18 points and 15 rebounds as the Stetson men's basketball fell on the road to Jacksonville by a score of 88-75 at Veterans Memorial Arena Thursday.
The Hatters (3-13, 1-3) dropped their third straight game in league play as the Dolphins (7-9, 3-2) went over .500 in Atlantic Sun Conference competition with its second straight victory.
"We have to be a lot more competitive than we were tonight," Stetson head coach Corey Williams said. "We need our seniors to step up. When they don't plays as well it makes it very difficult for us to win basketball games."
Stetson, which turned the ball over only 18 times in its last two games, handed the ball over to Jacksonville 18 times on Thursday alone. The Dolphins turned those 18 turnovers into 21 points in the victory.
Jacksonville continually got out in transition for easy baskets, which resulted in a 52.2 shooting percentage for the Dolphins. Leading the way was senior Keith McDougald, who went off for 27 points and seven assists for JU.
The Dolphins put five players in double figures on the night, including J.R. Holder, who scored 12 points off the bench. R.J. Slawson added 15 points, while Jarvis Haywood and Javon Dawson chipped in with 14 and 11, respectively.
The Hatters were never able to take the advantage after Jacksonville used an 18-4 to turn a two-point deficit into a 12-point lead midway through the first half. The Dolphins led by just six points at halftime as a McDougald jumper made it 43-37 at the break.
Stetson was led by Pegg, who had a career night. The second-year Hatter scored a career high 18 points, and his career-best 15 rebounds was a number no Stetson player had achieved in nearly five years. Garfield Blair was the last Hatter to grab 15 boards (16 on Feb. 16, 2009).
"Rebounding is about effort," Williams said. "One of the things [Brian] will do is he'll fight for a rebound. If you want to be a good rebounder you have to go after the basketball. [Brian] certainly did a terrific job for us tonight."
Senior Aaron Graham scored 13 points, freshman Glenn Baral poured in a career best 11 points, and senior Raymone Andrews added 10 points in the defeat. Andrews added a game high eight assists in the loss, a career best for the point guard.
Stetson returns to action on Saturday taking on North Florida. The Hatters and the Ospreys are scheduled to tip-off at 7:00 p.m. from UNF Arena.


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NEW YORK -- The NYPD is taking a closer look at traffic deaths involving vehicles, bicyclists and pedestrians.
The New York Times reports that the Collision Investigation Squad has been bolstered with more detectives, high-tech mapping tools and a new mandate to investigate about three times as many crashes as last year.
Until recently, the unit responded only to fatal crashes or those in which a victim was likely to die. It was previously called the Accident Investigation Squad.
Now the squad responds whenever a paramedic lists a victim as critical.
Prosecutors have welcomed the change. They say it already has generated more cases.
Not all crashes lead to criminal charges.
In 2012, 274 people died in traffic-related deaths, up from 245 a year earlier and the most since 2008.


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1 cup onion, chopped
4 cups water, including reserved shiitake soaking water
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1/4 cup Eden Quinoa, washed and drained
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1/4 tsp black pepper, freshly ground
2 Tbsp fresh parsley, minced
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