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on March 13, 2013 - 11:51 PM
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Buffalo Bills linebacker Manny Lawson was blissfully unaware of his new team's shortcomings.
"That is new knowledge to me," he said Wednesday during his introductory news conference, when asked whether he had any preconceptions about signing with a team that's failed to make the playoffs for 13 straight years. "I guess it's good to know. I look at myself as: I'm coming here to change things."
The Bills showed they believe Lawson can be a part of the franchise's revival by dipping into the free-agent pool for the first time in 2013 and signing him to a four-year contract worth up to $12 million.
"This team really wanted me here," said Lawson, who arrived in Buffalo on Tuesday night, the opening of free agency, "and that was just enough for me to come here."
Lawson, 28, is a versatile defender who has experience the last two seasons in the Cincinnati Bengals' base 4-3 scheme. But at 6-foot-5 and 240 pounds, he's ideally suited to be a 3-4 strong-side linebacker, and he wanted to return to that role, which he played for San Francisco — the team that picked him 22nd overall in the 2006 NFL draft — at the start of his career.
His signing is an indication the Bills will line him up in that role in the new scheme installed by defensive coordinator Mike Pettine.
"I look at myself as also being a hybrid," Lawson said, borrowing the word frequently used to describe Pettine's new scheme. "I'm a defensive end in a linebacker's body. I can drop into coverage. I can rush the passer. I think I fit well in this scheme in that I can bluff those same things, too. As far as creating mismatches for offenses, whether or not this guy's going to do what he's lined up to do right now based upon on previous film, I think I fit well in this scheme."
Lawson started 25 games over the last two seasons for the Bengals, and is coming off a season in which he recorded 39 tackles, two sacks and one forced fumble. Lawson has 18 career sacks, but just six have come in the last three seasons.
The Bengals did not use him a lot as a pass rusher, something he hopes changes with the Bills.
"Definitely, I would like to rush the passer more," he said. "And talking to Mike, with the packages that he has for us, I'll get a chance to."
In his last two years with the 49ers in a 3-4, Lawson played 67 percent of the defensive snaps. He played 47 percent for the Bengals in 2011, then just 34 percent last season.
"I think I pursue the ball well," he said. "I can always use work in drop coverage and rush. I think I do those, if we had to do those on a grading scale, I give myself a C-plus."
Lawson's signing with the Bills will reunite him with college teammate Mario Williams. They played together on a defensive line at North Carolina State that also featured former Bills first-round draft pick John McCargo.
"It's great to have somebody that you actually knew before the NFL came into our picture," Lawson said. "We jawed back and forth and it's good to know that's still there and we actually do get a chance to, I guess you could say, rekindle our college lives."
Lawson was also happy to sign a four-year deal after playing the last two seasons on one-year contracts.
"I still look at myself as being young, but you talk to a couple of the young guys, I'm now an 'old head' as they put it," he said. "Just settling down, it's a huge stress reliever."
The hole at guard along the Bills' offensive line is getting deeper by the day.
A day after the team lost left guard Andy Levitre, a player thought to be a candidate to replace him followed him out the door when Chad Rinehart signed a one-year contract with the San Diego Chargers.
Rinehart, 27, played in 27 games over the last three seasons as a key reserve along the line, making 17 starts. He played in just seven games and made two starts in 2012 before going on injured reserve because of an ankle injury he suffered in a Week Seven loss to Tennessee.
Rinehart, 6-foot-5 and 321 pounds, will be reunited with offensive line coach Joe D'Alessandris — who held the same job with the Bills last season — in San Diego.
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It is refreshing to see an Irish play that isn't like all the other Irish plays.
Which is to say – with all due respect to those plays that we love, and that the Irish Classical thankfully presents – one that doesn't revolve around the countryside, or a kitchen packed full of children and porridge, or a dance being held in the village center.
"Being Behan" is a welcome change of pace. Brothers Jim and Peter Sheridan co-wrote the three-actor play, and Peter directs here at Irish Classical. (Jim is the six-time Academy Award-nominated director of "My Left Foot," "In the Name of the Father" and "In America.")
The Sheridans and the O'Neills – Irish Classical Theatre leader Vincent, and his late brother, Chris – have a history together, on both sides of the pond. Their intertwined stories of collaboration and compatriotism are well-documented in program notes, and feel just as apparent on stage.
The play's subject adds to this camaraderie. Brendan Behan was a real-life Irish Republican revolutionary, and later poet, novelist and playwright. He was a man of, and for, his country. So devout to his bloodline, he planned to bomb the Liverpool docks in protest, at age 16. He was arrested for possession of explosives and sent to a youth detention facility for three years. Behan's political activism had only just begun, though. His later attempted murder of two detectives sent him away for 14 more years. Activism and association with the IRA subsided, but Behan's nationalism surely didn't.
O'Neill plays Older Behan, while Joe Liolos plays Younger Behan. Their complements are nicely mingled. Liolos plays the boyish, outspoken young renegade with determination and resolve, while O'Neill plays the tired, drunk, assumedly wiser poet with reflection and self-doubt. They speak to each other, whispering and hinting at each other's perception of real time, which plunges us into this man's psyche.
Liolos is a small guy, but his presence fills the room, especially when he must bring physicality to the play's steady flow of humor. O'Neill is his dependable storyteller self, but shines in chances to throw on a robe and play a priest, for instance. Much of the play moves as fluidly as that, with cleverly choreographed costume changes, and voices changing midbreath. Adriano Gatto plays a slew of accessory characters with an impressive range of gag humor and sincere pathos. Together, the three actors share their space nicely.
This is especially apparent in the second act, when pacing and action pick up the pace from a much slower, occasionally boring first act. The first half is spent mostly in Behan's detention, where he befriends a cell mate and adds to his brotherhood.
The second act, though, is where we see Behan out of his element. After making some headway as a writer and playwright, Behan travels to New York City where his professional life stumbles on and off television sets – Gatto as Jack Paar is especially fun – and into bars. His new surroundings give us new vantage points to the man inside, much the same way his inside-out internal dialogues show us unexpected angles. The Sheridans are smart to remove this man from his own grip as often, and in as many ways, as he does. This man-of-state is, himself, a man in many states. We can't be sure, any more than he can't, from time to time, which allegiance is more honorable, more worthy.
It's guilt at its Irish best. Which makes this as inherent-to-form as any typically staged Irish play, to say nothing of its contribution to the perpetual church-and-state dialogue in the Irish narrative. But with both Sheridans' vision of a contemporary man trapped in an age-old battle, in modern-day context of language and sensibility, no less, we see new valleys in this pasture.
It is a treat to witness this production, another full-circle collaboration that celebrates the connectedness between two sets of two brothers, and two countries, that are joined, every few years or so, on the stage. What a view.


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he soap-opera saga that walloped Penn State's football program since news of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal first broke in November 2011 continued to become more surreal and incredulous throughout the year 2012.
Legendary coach Joe Paterno's death at the age of 85 from lung cancer Jan. 22 left much of Pennsylvania in mourning.
Former Penn State quarterback Michael Robinson was one of the several hundred former Nittany Lions players on hand to eulogize Paterno at a packed memorial tribute at the Jordan Center last Jan. 26.
The ceremony followed a two-day public viewing (Jan. 24-25) in which Penn State fans, stretching for blocks across campus, stood for hours to pay their respects.
"He's in all of us,'' was how Robinson, a Pro Bowl running back with the National Football League's Seattle Seahawks, summed up Paterno's lasting influence on the players he coached and the lives he impacted.
Sandusky's conviction in June, the damning Louis Freeh report in mid-July, and the removal of the Paterno statue, for his alleged involvement or lack thereof in handling information involving Sandusky, from Beaver Stadium July 22 led up to what could have been a knockout punch for the Nittany Lions' long-storied football program.
On July 23, the NCAA levied sanctions against Penn State that included a four-year postseason bowl ban, a $60 million fine, drastic football scholarship reductions, and the vacating of 111 of Paterno's previous college football record 409 career coaching wins - leaving Penn State and its newly-hired football coach, Bill O'Brien, with the monumental task of rebuilding a shattered program that has traditionally been regarded as one of the nation's best.
O'Brien proved to be the right man for the job, too, at least in his first season. He led one of Penn State's most resilient teams ever to an 8-4 record after an 0-2 start and several key player defections had initially brought forecasts of doom and gloom for the program in 2012.
For his efforts, O'Brien earned recognition as the Big Ten Conference's Coach of the Year and was one of nine finalists for the National Coach of the Year Award.
The NCAA sanctions that compounded O'Brien's challenge allowed current players the opportunity to transfer from Penn State without penalty, and many did so - including star running back Silas Redd, who bolted for USC, kicking specialist Anthony Fera, who left for Texas, and wideout Justin Brown, who transferred to Oklahoma.
On the football field, Paterno left almost nothing undone, winning two national championships, setting the all-time NCAA Division I college football coaching victories record, and helping Penn State blossom from a rural, agricultural school in the middle of the 20th century into a national college football and academic powerhouse just a few decades later.
As the Paterno era came to a close, Penn State hired a new football coach who was half his age. O'Brien, who had formerly been the New England Patriots offensive coordinator, was formally introduced at the Nittany Lion Inn on Saturday, Jan. 7.
"There is so much pride in Penn State, and we will never, ever take that for granted,'' O'Brien, 43, said at his media coming-out party. "I believe in myself. I believe in Penn State.''
O'Brien inked a five-year contract with Penn State that will pay him at least $2.3 million each season. After the sanctions, it was announced the contract was extended four more years, through 2020.
O'Brien brought a run-and-gun, wide-open offense that was a big change from Paterno's conservative approach. Senior Matt McGloin developed into one of the country's most improved quarterbacks, and sophomore wideout Allen Robinson blossomed into a premier receiver.
The Lions' strong finish - eight wins in their final 10 games - leaves O'Brien as a hot commodity for NFL and college football coaching vacancies this offseason. But in late November, the coach publicly declared that he has no plans to leave Penn State.
O'Brien retained a pair of long-time Penn State defensive coaches, Ron Vanderlinden and Larry Johnson, on his first-year staff, but former defensive coordinator Tom Bradley's life-long affiliation with the Nittany Lions came to an end after the 2011 postseason.
Bradley, a Johnstown native who was in the running for the Penn State head coaching vacancy, took over the head coaching reins of the Nittany Lions after Paterno's firing for the final three games of the 2011 regular season and the team's TicketCity Bowl game against the Houston Cougars in Dallas on Jan. 2, 2012. Penn State lost that game, 30-14.
The developments at Penn State were among the nation's biggest stories in 2012, as well as the Mirror's top sports stories for the past year.
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Franco returns as Altoona football coach
John Franco spent 18 years putting the Tyrone Area High School football program on the map.
He led the Golden Eagles to three appearances in the PIAA Class AA state championship game - the last in 2011 - and a state title in 1999.
There wasn't much else left for him to accomplish at Tyrone, but there was plenty of room for improvement with the football program at Altoona Area High School, where Franco began his second tour of duty as the Mountain Lions' head coach on Jan. 30. The Mountain Lions had won just eight of 36 games from the 2008 through 2011 seasons.
Franco, a driver's education teacher at Altoona Area High School, was the Mountain Lions' head football coach from the 1986 through 1993 seasons, compiling a 40-45-2 record.
Franco was hired for his second tenure as the Mountain Lions' coach by a 6-3 vote of the Altoona School Board. His Tyrone teams put together a composite 190-37 record over 18 seasons.
Altoona was a high school football power back in the 1960s and 1970s, turning out several future National Football League players. Franco believes that the Mountain Lions can become one of the state's elite high school programs again.
"To me, when I think of Altoona, I think of a school that has to be a football power,'' Franco said on the day of his hiring.
In Franco's first season of his second tour at Altoona, the Lions qualified for the playoffs for the first time since 2007. They posted a 4-6 record, losing to North Allegheny in the first round of the WPIAL playoffs.
Among the assistant coaches on Franco's staff is Tom Palfey, who had been the Mountain Lions' head football coach for three seasons (2009 through 2011) before the job was opened in November 2011. Palfey had previously served as Franco's assistant at Tyrone before taking over the Altoona program.
Bellwood reaches football semifinals
The 2012 Bellwood-Antis High School football team punched its third ticket to the semifinal round of the PIAA state playoffs, joining the 1988 and 2006 squads as the only two teams in school history to do so.
Under the direction of veteran coach John Hayes, Bellwood compiled a 13-2 record and came within one victory of a berth in the PIAA Class A state championship game.
Bellwood, which won the District 6-A title with a 54-3 victory over Bishop McCort, defeated Delone Catholic of District 3 in double-overtime, 33-26 in the first round of the state playoffs. Bellwood's season ended the following week with a 40-19 loss to District 2 champion Dunmore in a semifinal-round game played on Central Mountain High School's field in Mill Hall.
St. Francis coaching changes
The past year brought head coaching changes with both the St. Francis University men's and women's basketball programs.
Don Friday left as the St. Francis men's coach in April after compiling a 32-86 composite record over four seasons, including a 6-23 mark in the 2011-12 campaign. Friday's departure was characterized as a mutual parting between the coach and St. Francis, but SFU athletic director Bob Krimmel said that in the aftermath that "we didn't see the results that he expected to see or that we expected.''
In a move that generated a great deal of controversy, Krimmel's son, Rob, who had been the team's associate head coach, was promoted to the head coaching position.
Rob Krimmel played at St. Francis and had been on the SFU coaching staff for the past 12 seasons.
Earlier in April, the St. Francis women's basketball program also experienced a changing of its guard, as Susan Robinson Fruchtl - who had guided the program to three straight Northeast Conference championship game appearances, two NEC titles, and two NCAA tournament appearances - left Loretto after five seasons to become Providence's new head coach.
Joe Haigh, who had been Robinson Fruchtl's assistant coach for the past four seasons, was promoted to the head coaching post in late April.
Penn State wrestlers defend NCAA title
The Penn State wrestling team won its second consecutive NCAA team championship in March, taking top honors at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis.
Penn State racked up 143 team points, rolling to the team title by 25 points over second-place Minnesota.
The Nittany Lions boasted three individual champions in Frank Molinaro (149 pounds), David Taylor (165) and Ed Ruth (174).
State College Area High School product Steve Bosak won the 184-pound NCAA championship for Cornell, defeating Penn State standout and Bald Eagle Area grad Quentin Wright in the title match.
Everett grad part of Olympic medal effort
Clearville native Natalie Dell, 27, a graduate of Everett Area High School and Penn State, was part of a four-person rowing team that secured a third-place bronze medal in the 2012 Olympic Games.
Dell, along with California's Kara Kohler, Wisconsin's Megan Kalmoe, and Washington's Adrienne Martelli - took third place in the women's quadruple sculls event at Eton Dorney, England on Aug. 1 - enabling the U.S. to earn just its second-ever Olympic medal in rowing, and its first in 28 years.
The team finished with a time of six minutes, 40.63 seconds. Ukraine took the first-place gold medal with a time of 6:35.93, and Germany captured a second-place silver medal in 6:38.09.
Curve home park renamed
The Altoona Curve played in the same ballpark this past summer that they did for their first 14 seasons in the Eastern League.
Beginning with the 2012 season, however, that ballpark began going by a different name.
The Peoples Natural Gas company of Pittsburgh purchased the naming rights to what had previously been known as Blair County Ballpark, and the Curve's home field is now going by the name of Peoples Natural Gas Field.
Peoples Natural Gas services 16 counties in western Pennsylvania, and partnering with the company will give the Curve some much-needed revenue support.
Wilson-Adams wins high jump title
Tyrone Area High School's Charles Wilson-Adams proved at the PIAA track and field meet that performance is much more significant than expectations.
Wilson was only seeded in a tie for seventh place entering the Class AA high jump event, but he became the Mirror coverage area's only gold medalist in the 2012 state meet last May at Shippensburg University's Seth Grove Stadium by jumping six feet, eight inches.
Schuylkill Valley's Jared Horne finished second to Wilson-Adams with a jump of 6-7.
Wilson-Adams used his low seed entering the meet as a motivating factor to win the gold medal as a junior. He'll be one of the Class AA favorites to defend his championship in 2013 as a senior.
"Seeds really mean nothing,'' he said. "I knew coming in that I was a low seed, but that actually motivated me. I knew that I could do better [than a seventh seed].''
Altoona, Central, Bedford reach Final Four
Both the Altoona Area High School baseball team and the Central High School softball squad enjoyed unprecedented success for their programs last spring.
Both came within one victory of achieving a berth in state championship games. Altoona won the District 6-AAAA championship and two state playoff games before winding up its deepest playoff run in school history and a 17-6 season with a 4-0 loss to Council Rock South in the state semifinals.
Central, the District 6-AA softball runners-up, wrapped a 19-6 campaign - its best ever - with a 15-5, five-inning loss to Neshannock in the state semis. The Lady Dragons also won two state playoff games to reach the semis.
The Bedford High School boys soccer team also reached the PIAA Class AA semifinals this fall, its best finish ever. Bedford won 21 of its 23 games.
Ex-Altoona coach Swogger dies
John Swogger, who coached the Altoona Area High School boys basketball team from 1968-80, passed away on Christmas Day at the age of 77.
Swogger brought an exciting style that swelled the Mountain Lions' fan base, packing the Jaffa Mosque and Altoona Fieldhouse. He developed point guard Johnny Moore, who became a standout for the San Antonio Spurs and was the first of four Altoona players to make the NBA from 1979-97.
Following his retirement from the bench, Swogger taught the game and provided basketball and life lessons to area youth until the time of his death.
He was inducted into the Blair County Sports Hall of Fame in 2006.
Former Mirror sports staffer Polito dies
Frank Polito, a former long-time member of the Altoona Mirror sports staff, died on Oct. 6 at the age of 69 at Bellmeade Manor after enduring an extended illness.
Polito, who retired as a journalist with the Mirror in 2009, was known by his former co-workers as "Salty" because of his love of pretzels and his crusty wit.
Outgoing and personable, Polito forged life-long friendships with many area coaches, both current and retired. Polito covered the Hollidaysburg Area High School and the University of Pittsburgh football programs, as well as many other Blair County scholastic sports programs, early in his 40-plus year tenure with the Mirror.
Other notable deaths with local ties ...
Former local sprint car racer Johnny Grum, 82; former Penn State men's basketball coach Dick Harter, 81; former professional golfer and Gallitzin native John Felus, 77; former Penn State assistant football coach Joe Sarra, 75; former National League Basketball player Jack Twyman, 73, who had been a guardian of the late St. Francis University basketball great Maurice Stokes; veteran area sports photographer and wrestling writer Jim Butler, 65; long-time George B. Kelley Baseball Federation Martin Oil manager Ed Davis, 64; former Johnstown Area High School and National Basketball Association player Pat Cummings, 55; former Penn State men's basketball player Monroe Brown, 41; former Hollidaysburg Area High School basketball player Matt Yeager, 39; former track star Jim Gehrdes, 1989 Blair County Sports Hall of Fame inductee; former Tyrone High School football player and wrestler Terry Hyde, 36; former Moshannon Valley High School football player Dylan Keith, 19; Huntingdon High School wrestler Clayton Bishop, 16; Everett High School wrestler Neal Hammond, 15.


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Wright State University prepares actors to succeed in professional theatre and films. Our Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) degree in Acting is one of the most competitive programs in the nation, and only the most promising students are selected from our annual auditions. As part of the College of Liberal Arts, our students not only learn to perform at the highest level, but also gain a greater understanding of our world to inform their work.
With Wright State's undergraduate focus, students participate in rigorous conservatory training and exceptional performance opportunities from the very start. Throughout their four years, students are cast in a range of musicals and plays, as understudies, ensemble members, supporting parts, and leading roles. Students also have the opportunity to perform in films produced by our award-winning Motion Pictures program. Seniors travel to New York City to participate in an intensive career workshop and showcase, with elite casting agents and creative talent.
The Acting faculty members are all performance professionals and teachers, with active careers as directors, actors, choreographers, and teachers in theatres nationwide.
After four years of multidisciplinary training, our graduates are ready to begin work immediately. Recent graduates are appearing in TV and movies, on Broadway and in national and international touring companies, as well as at theme parks and on cruise ships.
Admissions & Auditions
The Acting program at Wright State University is designed for students who are highly motivated to pursue professional careers in acting performance. Students must demonstrate acting proficiency through an audition and meet the university's educational standards for undergraduate admission. The day before auditions, we hold master classes so that students can get a glimpse of the outstanding level of our faculty and our productions.
Admission Process
Prospective students should:
- Apply online for admission to Wright State University.
- Schedule an audition by completing and submitting the B.F.A. Admission and Scholarship Application (PDF).
- Provide copies of academic transcripts to Wright State University Admissions and the Department of Theatre, Dance and Motion Pictures.
- Submit recent photographs and a resume of pertinent training and performance experience.
Admission to the Acting program is competitive and dependent upon the results of the audition. An individual may audition only once for the Acting or Musical Theatre Program.
Auditions, which are required for all first-year and transfer students, are held each year in the winter for students who want to be considered for admission in the fall semester. Please see the department calendar for the audition schedule or refer to the B.F.A. Admission and Scholarship Application (PDF).
For the Acting program, the audition consists of two one-minute monologues that should be selected from Broadway plays from roles that are roughly the student's age. The monologues should contrast in style, showing two sides of the student's abilities (classical, contemporary, comic, dramatic) and should not be from musicals or collections. The presentation must be memorized and presented without costumes or properties.
Students also present a one-minute song excerpt from a musical (not adult contemporary or church music). The student should provide sheet music in the desired key, marked to the appropriate length on double-sided copies in a binder for easy reading by our accompanists. The total audition must not exceed three minutes.
If you are interested in the Musical Theatre program, please see the Musical Theatre audition information, which includes additional music and dance requirements.
The audition also serves to determine qualification for scholarships.
Transfer Credits
Transfer students may be accepted into the program after a successful audition and university admissions process. However, the program is geared to four years of training and transfer students are rarely accepted after the second year. The university generally follows a liberal policy in accepting credits, allowing virtually all credits earned at an accredited institution from courses in which the student earned a "C" or better. The Office of the Registrar is responsible for determining which credits are eligible for transfer.
The Department of Theatre, Dance and Motion Pictures offers an array of scholarships based on talent, academic performance, and financial need. For first-year students, the audition will determine qualification for a scholarship.
Department scholarships include:
- The Tom Hanks Scholarship
- The Augsburger/Estevez Scholarship created by Martin Sheen
- The Theatre Arts Talent Scholarship
- The Rising Star Scholarship
Talent scholarships are awarded for one year to students in acting, dance, motion picture production, and design/technology. Students in all majors are eligible to apply each year for merit scholarships. Although competition for scholarships is keen, the department provides generous support to qualified students throughout their four years of study to enable them to complete their degree.
Acting (B.F.A.)
Wright State University provides a rigorous but supportive Professional Actor Training Program designed to prepare students for early career success. Our undergraduate focus means that students audition for and perform in our main stage productions from the very first. Our small class sizes of 16 students or fewer allow the faculty to provide individual attention and coaching to help students develop their talents to the fullest.
Course Work
Acting is a classically oriented program with instruction in dance and voice to prepare the well-rounded professional. All acting majors are required to study one year of dance fundamentals and modern dance, followed by jazz/theatre dance or ballet as electives. The Acting major is encouraged to participate in additional dance courses.
The Acting faculty believes that all actors must be trained to sing. Students who study singing learn the rudiments of breathing, vocal support, and placement. Singing is required all four years of the training period.
The four-year B.F.A. curriculum in Acting includes:
- Four years of acting training
- One or more years of dance classes
- Four years of private singing lessons twice each week
To see the entire four years of curriculum and course schedules for the Acting major, please visit the Undergraduate Catalog.
Students are required to maintain an active performance schedule in campus productions throughout the school year.
Honors Program for Seniors
The Honors program in Acting provides superior students with further opportunity to demonstrate excellence and receive special recognition in their senior year. Honors students write original monodramas for publication and professional production. The scripts require preproduction approval by the Acting faculty in addition to the project director. To apply for admittance to the Honors program, a student must possess a 3.0 overall grade point average and be in the last year of the B.F.A. program.
Senior Showcase in New York
Acting students participate in an intensive workshop to prepare them for audition trips to New York or other major entertainment centers. This workshop assists students in the selection and preparation of a wide range of audition materials and in the development of the actor's presentation. The Showcase in New York City is the culmination, which includes a cabaret production and an audition workshop where students audition for and receive feedback from agents and casting directors.
Assessment of Progress
The department leaders feel a strong obligation to graduate only those students whose chances of attaining professional employment remain strong. The faculty believes it is unfair to graduate people who, because of lack of motivation or apparent talent, will not achieve successful, professional careers or who do not seem to be growing adequately within the Professional Actor Training Program. Therefore, students are evaluated regularly for progress, especially through their sophomore year. At the end of the first year of training and at the end of each term of the sophomore year, students participate in faculty juries to assess their abilities. When deemed necessary, the faculty advises some students to select another major. All students are urged to carefully consider their career choice and to fully understand the rigors and demands of the acting profession. There is no specific quota for the number of students in any given year of the curriculum.
Professional Acting Training Program students must maintain a grade of "C" or better in all classes required of their major to be retained. Students who are not making satisfactory progress, even with a grade of "C" or better, may be advised by the faculty to withdraw from the program. An overall GPA of 2.5 is required for graduation.
Faculty & Staff
Acting & Musical Theatre
- Bruce Cromer, Area Coordinator of Acting and Musical Theatre
- Joe Deer
- Greg Hellems
- Deborah Thomas
- Marya Spring Cordes
- Dr. Mary Donahoe, Professor Emeritus
- Jamie Cordes, Faculty Associate, head of MAPP Program
- David Hapner, Faculty Associate
- Scot Woolley, Faculty Associate
- Lee Merrill, Faculty Associate
- Sherri Sutter, Instructor Voice
- Susan Carlock, Accompanist
- Amy Gray, Accompanist
- Shelly Goodman, Faculty Associate
- Erin Robbins, Instructor Dance
- John Ueber, Instructor Dance
- Danita Wallace, Instructor Dance
Associate and Adjunct Faculty
- Jamie Cordes, Faculty Associate, Head of MAPP Program
- Michelle Goodman, Faculty Associate in Dance
- David Hapner, Faculty Associate
- Lee Merrill, Faculty Associate in Voice
- Sherri Sutter, Faculty Associate in Voice
- Scot Woolley, Faculty Associate & Musical Director
- Jill Becker, Adjunct Acting
- Christopher Erk, Adjunct Dance
- Tricia Gelmini, Adjunct Acting
- Pamela Matthews, Adjunct Dance
- Brian McKnight, Adjunct Acting
- Jeanette Popp, Adjunct Dance
- Erin Robbins, Adjunct Dance
- Susan Carlock, Accompanist
- Bernadette O'Connor, Accompanist
Competition for professional opportunities in acting is extremely high, and our Professional Acting Training Program is designed to develop our students' talent, skills, and commitment to secure employment upon graduation from Wright State University. We maintain an excellent network of relationships with agents, casting directors, and creative talent nationwide. Because of their intensive professional preparation at Wright State University, fully 80 percent of our graduates find work in the field immediately after graduation.
Wright State students find jobs in a wide variety of performance-related fields. If desired, they may pursue additional graduate training in order to teach at the college or university level. Graduates have attended such programs as the Denver Center, Northwestern University, DePaul University, Emerson College, and New York University.
Our alumni are working on and off Broadway, in national tours, and at many of the country's finest regional theatres, including The Guthrie, Actors Theater of Louisville, Cincinnati Playhouse, Seattle Repertory Theatre, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, and the Human Race Theatre Company in Dayton. They appear on television, films, radio, industrial films and commercials, as well as on cruise ships and themed entertainment venues, comedy clubs, and cabarets.
Graduates of the program have achieved membership in professional theatrical unions, including Actors' Equity Association, the Screen Actors Guild, the American Federation of Radio and Television Artists, and the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.
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- Victoria Clark, Tony Award, Best Actress for The Light in the Piazza
- Jason Robert Brown, Tony Award, composer, Parade, The Last Five Years
- Tom Jones, award winning lyricist for the longest running musical in New York stage history, The Fantasticks
- Tina Landau, Obie Award winner for Best Director
- Liz Callaway, star of stage and screen, from Sonheim to The Spitfire Grill
- Howard McGillin, Tony-nominated actor, from Drood to Phantom of the Opera
- Ted Sperling, award-winning conductor and arranger
- Audra McDonald, multiple Tony Award winning actress - presently in Porgy and Bess on Broadway
- Ted Neeley, star of stage and screen, including the title role in the film Jesus Christ Superstar
- Brian Yorkey, Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner for Next to Normal
- Austin Pendleton, Broadway director, award-winning playwright, and featured actor in over thirty films
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SALEM - A $99 low-dose CT lung cancer screening program started two months ago at Salem Community Hospital can detect cancer the size of a pea in a 3-D high-resolution image of the lungs.
For five of the 32 patients so far who have stood and held their breath for 3 seconds for the scan, that's been a priceless picture, showing them they have lung cancer in time for them to have life-saving treatment.
"Our goal is to catch the lung cancer before you have symptoms so you can be cured," SCH Medical Imaging Department Chairman Peter Apicella, M.D. said. "You have to catch it when it's small enough that you can take it out."
Three of the five patients diagnosed with lung cancer have already had surgery to remove it.
"We think this is going to make a huge difference because lung cancer is such a huge problem in this area," he said.
By the time lung cancer typically causes symptoms in a patient, the cancer tumor can be the size of a fist or six times larger than the small size the CT scanner can detect before symptoms appear. Symptoms can include a cough, chest pain, blood in a cough and pneumonia.
As a means to improve the chances of survival for residents in the SCH service area, Apicella said the hospital decided to offer the low-cost screening for people with a history of smoking and those with increased risk factors for lung cancer.
"Lung cancer is the number one cancer killer. It kills more people than breast, prostate and colon cancers combined," he said.
In a press release about the program, he referenced a recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine based on the National Lung Cancer Screening Trial which "proved that patients at high risk for lung cancer who are followed by annual low-dose CTs have a 20 percent reduction in lung cancer deaths compared with using traditional chest x-rays."
Apicella explained that chest x-rays produce shadows of the lungs while the low-dose CT produces high-resolution 3-D images of the lungs. The screening takes just a few seconds "with minimal radiation, no special diet or preparation, no holding of medications, and no injections."
He compared the idea of the annual CT scans to the annual mammogram which helps detect breast cancer.
Patients eligible for the screening include: those age 55 and older with a smoking history of 30 or more pack years or who quit smoking within 15 years; those 50 or older with a smoking history of 20 or more pack years with increased risk factors for lung cancer, such as COPD, environmental/occupational exposure, prior cancer, radiation therapy, genetics or family history; and lung cancer survivors.
Patients not eligible for the $99 program would be symptomatic patients (coughs, colds, etc.) and patients with prior abnormal diagnostic chest CTs, whose insurance would typically cover a complete CT of the chest in those cases.
Apicella said people who think they may be eligible should talk with their physician to see if the test is right for them. The physician would have to order the test. Patients must have a local physician on the SCH medical staff or live within the SCH service area.
People without a primary care physician can contact the SCH medical staff coordinator at 330-332-7213 for help.
Smokers who participate in the screening will also receive information on smoking cessation classes and other cancer screenings. The press release noted that stopping smoking "is the most important step to reduce the risk of lung cancer, but low-dose CT lung screening may help detect lung cancer at an earlier stage to help improve treatment."
The $99 cost for the program is not covered by Medicare or most insurances at this time, but the Salem Community Hospital Charitable Foundation can cover the cost for people who can't afford it.
"We know there could be people who are ideal candidates for screening, but $99 could be a problem," said LuAnn Haddad, SCH Vice President of Institutional Advancement and representative of the Charitable Foundation.
"Don't let that stop you from getting this screening. There is help available if that's a problem," she said.
The Charitable Foundation is a support arm for the hospital, made up of a board of volunteers from the community who work on fundraising events as a means to help the hospital help the community.
"It's just a terrific circle of the community helping each other," Haddad said.
To donate or learn more about the Charitable Foundation, call Haddad at 330-337-2883 or check the hospital website at www.salemhosp.com.
SCH is the only hospital in the area with the 3-D software and the Dual-128 CT scanner, which generates 1,000 images of the lungs in a matter of seconds. A surgeon can then see the location of a tumor and the software shows what it looks like and measures its size, allowing for minimal surgery to prevent the cancer from spreading to other areas.
Apicella said the CT scanner can also scan the heart, the colon and the kidneys.
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February 12, 2011 - By WAYNE SHEETS, Contributing Business Writer
Since the "Great Recession" hit in late 2007, we've lived through the greatest economic downturn since the Great Depression. This is, of course, no secret to the business community....
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As part of a review of our online information and services, the website www.croydononline.org is now unavailable.
Much of the information held on the site is still available from other online sources:
- For historical information about the borough, including Rolls of Honour for WWI and WWII, visit croydonhistory.wordpress.com
- For information relating to community events and other activities, visit www.justcroydon.com and www.allaboutcroydon.co.uk
- For information about grants and funding, visit our Voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) information pages.
- For information about the Armed Forces Covenant, visit our Community Covenant pages.
- For information and advice on benefits; council tax; benefit changes; managing your money and help with finding a job or training, visit our council tax and benefits advice pages
- For photos of the borough, visit our Flickr account at www.flickr.com/photos/yourcroydon/albums/
- For information and advice on registering births; marriages and deaths; community safety; citizenship and more visit our community and life events pages.
- For information about Croydon Dyslexia Association, visit their new website at croydondyslexia.wordpress.com/


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The Ignacio High School girls basketball team defeated Farmington 40-28 on Saturday afternoon to take third place in the annual Shiprock Tournament in New Mexico.
�We had some good pressure defense right from the start,� head coach Justa Whitt said after the Bobcats improved to 3-1.
�After (the loss to) Shiprock on Friday, we wanted to get our confidence back,� the first-year head coach said.
An offensive surge triggered by defense helped the Bobcats build a 12-point halftime lead.
But it could have been bigger, Whitt said.
�We missed a lot of ... easy shots. We missed a lot of layups,� Whitt said.
�We could have blown them away by more than we did if we had made some of those layups,� Whitt said.
Mariah Vigil led the Bobcats with 13 points, including 9 of 11 from the free throw line. She also had nine rebounds.
Michelle Simmons added 10 points and nine rebounds. She also had six steals in Ignacio�s win.
Sky Cotton scored eight points and had four steals.
Sky�s older sister, Pam Cotton, had five points, seven rebounds and five steals against Farmington on Saturday.
�We were very good at running our offense (Saturday),� Whitt said.
�We were patient. We passed the ball around, and we got better looks. That�s good for us.�
The Ignacio girls beat Aztec on Thursday before the loss to tournament host Shiprock on Friday.
The Bobcats defeated Bloomfield (N.M.) in their home opener last week.
Combined with Saturday�s win over Farmington, all three Ignacio victories have come against bigger New Mexico high schools.
The Ignacio girls will return to the court next Friday when they host Sargent at 5:30 p.m. in a nonconference game.
The boys varsity game between Ignacio and Sargent will follow the girls game at 7 p.m.


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Volunteers at CROSSWAEH play important roles. They not only provide activities and education for the clients at the community-based correctional facility, they also help successfully transition them back into the community.
One volunteer, Sister Paulette Schroeder, does just that during her weekly yoga classes at the women's facility.
Schroeder, who has been involved with prison work for a long time, first began teaching yoga to the men at CROSSWAEH several years ago. About three years ago, she introduced the practice to the women's facility.
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"I wanted to bring something that they'd enjoy," Schroeder said.
Schroeder, who has been practicing yoga for 16 years, said she believes in its holistic power, and she said she has seen those results in the women at the facility.
"It helps us whether we want it to or not," she said. "Every time I encourage them to stand like a mountain, I think it does something to them."
One woman who was going through a divorce found relief through the practice of yoga, Schroeder said, while others have told her it has helped with pain and promotes better sleep.
"This is one hour that they're away from their stress," she said. "And it's one hour that makes them more open to accept themselves."
Schroeder said many of the women at the facility also face the stress of being away from their children, and yoga has helped them deal with that separation.
"Many of these women are separated from their children and that is so hard for them," she said. "Even though they've made mistakes, it doesn't lessen the love for their children."
Lisa Elliott, a client of CROSSWAEH who has been at the facility for three months, said she normally attends Schroeder's yoga classes, unless she is out performing community service. Elliott had practiced yoga prior to attending Schroeder's classes.
"I enjoyed it before. It's a huge stress reliever and it helps me feel centered," Elliott said.
Valerie Gates, another CROSSWAEH client and yoga student, said she previously practiced power yoga in prison.
"This is more relaxing," she said of Schroeder's classes.
"When you do yoga, everything leaves your mind," added Kellie Foreman, also a student of Schroeder's at CROSSWAEH. "It helps relax us. Even though we're incarcerated, we still have a lot of stress."
Elliott said during the classes, Schroeder is helpful and patient when the women have trouble with certain poses.
"She's a huge sweetheart and she's very patient and kind," she said.
Just as the women are thankful for Schroeder, St. Francis is grateful for the volunteer work that CROSSWAEH clients provide. Schroeder said the men and women of CROSSWAEH often assist with gardening, pottery, heavy lifting and construction work at St. Francis.
"They come out to St. Francis a lot and help," she said. "We could not do it without these guys as volunteers. We are so grateful for CROSSWAEH."
Schroeder said she is a supporter of CROSSWAEH because of its success in rehabilitating its clients and introducing them back into the community.
"This is the best alternative to rehabilitation that I know," she said. "Each stage gives them just a tiny bit more responsibility."
Schroeder said in the near future, she would like to help introduce a volunteer-based music program at the facility. She said music, like yoga, would be a healing outlet for the clients.
Schroeder said she is looking for volunteers who could teach music once a week at the women's facility.
"I think for a volunteer, it really helps break myths about people who are incarcerated, and it also helps us really get down to the bottom of our fears and our own stereotypes," she said. "It's a wonderful way to be involved in our community in ways we probably haven't been before."


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Seneca East's Frank Lamoreaux and Lakota's Tiger Jaso earned the top Division IV honors when the District 9 Coaches Association teams were released Monday.
Lamoreaux was named coach of the year while Jaso took the top player award.
Divisions II through IV were filled area players and players from area conferences.
Seneca East's Dalton Wise, Mason McWilliams and Jordan Bowerman joined Jaso on the Division IV first team, as well as Hopewell-Loudon's Garret Sendelbach, New Riegel's Andrew Hohman, North Baltimore's Jordan Watson and Fremont St. Joe's Zach Yeckley.
The second team included Seneca East's Ethan Caudill and Daniel Bartley, Calvert's Eric Elchert, Hopewell-Loudon's Tyler Imes, New Riegel's Brandyn Reinhart, Mohawk's Drew Loose, Buckeye Central's Austin Lutz, Old Fort's A.J. Phillimore, and Crestline's Brian Barnett.
Area honorable mention players were Buckeye Central's Eric Hanes, Hopewell-Loudon's Jordan Stewart, Lakota's Nick Watts, St. Wendelin's Donovan Scudder, New Riegel's Brady Hall, Old Fort's Brad Heilman, Seneca East's Darin Baldosser, Mohawk's Grant Gucker and Calvert's Jesse Gase.
North Baltimore's Jacob Frost, Crestline's Zach Taylor and Riverdale's Dillon Farrow also made the list.
No local player made the first-team list in Division III, though Wynford's Adam Hartz was named player of the year.
Upper Sandusky's Alec Oney was the only local player on the second team. Galion's Austin Prosser and Isaac Cuffman gained that honor.
Locals on the honorable mention team were Upper Sandusky's Daniel Newell, Fostoria's Casey Kitchen and Carey's Austin Patton. Wynford's Mason Davis, Galion's David Nay and Bucyrus' Eli Pojman also made the list.
As in Division III, no area player made the Division II first team. Bellevue's Alex Manner was named the player of the year, with Willard's Sam Petrie and Shelby's Justin Lewis joining him on the first team.
Columbian's Vince Anway was the lone local on the second team. Bellevue's Nick Raifsnider and Dalton Jarvis and Shelby's Andrew Baird helped fill out that group.
The honorable mention list had Columbian's Nate Hoyda, Willard's Alex Storts, Shelby's Lee Newmyer and Bellevue's Dylan Dewitt.
There are no area Division I teams, but Northern Ohio League athletes did gain honors.
Norwalk's Isaac Perry was named player of the year and Norwalk's Wes Douglas was tapped as coach of the year. Norwalk's Collin Souter and Sandusky's Drew Yontz were also on the first team.
The second team had Norwalk's Joseph Hinkley and Sandusky's Michail Delk and Derrick Kirkwood.
The honorable mention list had Norwalk's Colin Obringer and Sandusky's Dominic Kirkwood.


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Jon Gosselin admits he was "nervous" when he began waiting tables at the Black Dog restaurant in Beckersville, Pa.
Just a few years ago, he'd been on top of the world, starring in the top-rated TLC reality show, Jon & Kate Plus 8 and co-writing a New York Times bestseller, but a messy divorce in 2009 ended all that.
While his ex-wife Kate and their eight kids remained in the couple's $1.3 million Pennsylvania home, he moved out, and admits in a new interview with Entertainment Tonight that it's been "next to near impossible to find work."
Now Gosselin's gone from partying on yachts in the south of France to living in a cabin in the woods with no internet and no TV. And after hitting rock bottom "like 20 times," he took a job as a waiter.
"At first I was nervous because I was like, 'How are people going to react?' " Gosselin, 36, admits. "But then I'm thinking, 'Well, it's fun and I get to talk to people.' And they technically already know me … they're like, 'Are you the guy?' I'm like, 'Yeah, I'm the guy.' "
Gosselin – who's being sued by his ex-wife, Kate, for allegedly hacking into her computer and phone to gather material for a 2012 tell-all Kate Gosselin: How She Fooled the World – insists that he isn't struggling to make ends meet and while he's not partying like a rock star anymore, he has no regrets.
"I don't regret anything," he says. "You learn from your mistakes. That's what builds you to who you are today."
Jon Gosselin: From TV Stardom to Waiting Tables
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Software developer Seesmic, maker of popular
social media management smartphone apps, delivered stinging news to
Canadian-based smartphone maker Research in Motion, Ltd. (TSE:RIM), commenting in a blog
Effective June 30th, Seesmic will discontinue support for
Blackberry in order to focus development efforts on our most popular mobile
platforms: Android, iOS and Windows Phone 7.
While normally it would be foolish to
microanalyze app defections, this was merely the latest development in a broad
trend of top developers abandoning RIM this year. Bloomberg reports
that Purple Forge Corp., a maker of political campaign an polling apps, will
drop general support for the platform, offering it only if clients specially
request it. Likewise, Mobile Roadie LLC, which makes apps for fans
of the Miami Dolphins and country singer Taylor Swift, says it is ditching
support for Blackberries.
Reportedly one key factor is that developing for
RIM handsets is complex, thanks to a large amount of hardware inputs and a less
than modern API that fails to match the ease of Google Inc.'s (GOOG)
Android, Apple, Inc.'s (AAPL)
iOS, or Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT)
Windows Phone 7.
Purple Forge CEO Brian Hurley reflects this,
commenting, "As soon as RIM brought in a touchscreen and mixed it with a
thumbwheel, a keyboard and shortcut keys, it made it really difficult and
expensive to develop across devices. What Apple scored big on is having a touch
screen and a button and that's it. In deploying Apple applications, there are
very few surprises. In Android, there are increasingly more surprises. But in
BlackBerry, there are immediately lots of gotchas across the board."
Like struggling
Finnish phonemaker Nokia Oyj. (HEL:NOK1V), RIM
is counting
on an OS change to reverse its fortunes. In early 2012, it will
switch to using QNX's operating system in its new smartphones. RIM's
first QNX product was the
PlayBook tablet, released in April -- a year after RIM acquired the small
Canadian OS maker.
quote: I mean what does an ipod do, it plays music
quote: It has a screen I can actually still read in daylight when I use it outside for yard work. The people who design apple products must simply never see daylight.
quote: RIM failed the Playbook because they showed incompetence with releasing a half-baked product
quote: running android apps in a emulator is not it
quote: will not run close to metal or bare metal
quote: where new Blackberry Bold 9900 pwns iPhone 4 in a real life web browser speed test I'd say RIM knows about their shortcomings and already fixes them. Playbook is the best tablet for browsing the web these days, these new Blackberries 9900 and 9930 look like hot items too judging by the previews I've seen so far, and the situation will likely be even better when QNX replaces Blackberry OS on their handsets too. Should be much, much better platform to develop apps for. WRT to the multitude of input methods - I've seen quite a few BB junkies gloating about best keyboard and best trackpad on their BBs, now BB 9900 will add best touch screen to that, I dunno, seems like RIM would like to keep it as a distinguishing factor. If they ditch their signature keyboard and trackpad they will look like another generic Android/Apple handset, probably not the wisest move would that be eh?
quote: What matters is the eco-system, the value stack, what services the device connects to, the range of apps available, how many accesories there are for it, can I plug it in my car and stereo
quote: By all these metrics Apple lost the war with Microsoft's eco-system, but still Apple sells Macs for a nice profit. Same happens with RIM now. They may lose the war just like Apple lost the war but they will still sell niche little handsets for some nice profit, even when their market share is as low as Mac's. Got it? :)
quote: THERE IS A VALID REASON THEY ARE GETTING TRASHED IN THE REVIEWS
quote: expensive terrible to develop for platform, soon to be replaced by a nearly unheard of linux derivative, hoping to run the web os that recently got such back reviews that they actually used the word "shit" in quotable text


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sorry for causing such a who-har but i was just using the nick name id seen used
on other threads. didnt think anyone could get that upset over such a trivial thing!
Maybe some fans should be more interested in our prospects while they are in the
farm teams and not just when they are called up to Detroit.
ps. Bannedforlife, you certaintly made a point there eh?


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5 Reasons You Should Never Brag on the Internet
But even taking those things into account, one of the stupidest things I've ever seen (and that never seems to go away) is the farce of Internet bragging. Whether on Usenet or forums or the Facebook wall of someone you're cyberstalking, it's not hard to find someone on the Internet boasting about their rad video game skills or the beauty of the women they lay all the time or how many Dilbert comics they've made. Once you start seeing these misguided boasts, you'll soon realize they're among the saddest written words on the Internet. Instead of a sign of how awesome the poster is, they are instead inevitably a marker of how clueless they are about how the Internet actually works. Please, I beg you, children and stupid adults: Do not brag on the Internet. Here's why:
#5. Because No One Will Believe YouThere's this thing about the Internet that you may have heard before, so if you think you know everything, feel free to skip this point. Because we're all behind computers, everyone on the Internet is highly anonymous; our online personae don't have to in any way be tied to our real world figures. An example: You might think of me as Chris Bucholz, your trusted Internet guide and all around gentleman, but how much do you really know about me? Did you know I'm actually a team of 53 Vietnamese sweatshop comedians and one thesaurus? I'm not, but dammit, now that you think about it, I probably could be. Because we're separated by keyboards and glowing wires and I guess RAM, you can't read my expression or touch my face to tell if I'm lying.
Also, about half the Internet are typing dogs.
And the same thing holds for any claim made by anyone on the Internet, especially in a place with a low barrier to posting, like basically everywhere you hang out. Anything could be a lie, and there's often no way to prove otherwise. Text is all obviously bullshit, and even screenshots and pictures can easily have their pixels repixelated. That's why, when someone makes a bold claim about themselves on the Internet, the default response of everyone else who's been on the Internet for more than a day is to say "OK," and then they go on not believing a thing. It only takes one cybersex session with a typing dog before we get shy about believing anything about anything online.
"That's messed up. You're messed up, bucholz_42_sextank."
#4. Because You Probably Haven't Done Anything That ImportantTake a step back and look at the accomplishment you're thinking of boasting about. Is it related to video games in any way? Is it about all the muscles you have, and all the karate those muscles know? Is it something that nearly everyone in the world could also do, like grow huge breasts? Congratulations, you're not a huge deal. I don't want to deflate you too much, because maybe you're 12 and this recent achievement is kind of a big deal to you. It's these little successes that make life worth living, and there's no reason you shouldn't enjoy them and feel proud about them -- except for karate, which has, I think, kind of waned in value the last few years. But that doesn't mean these achievements are going to impress other people. In the grand scheme of things, your gaudy list of Xbox 360 achievements isn't that big a deal. It's not like you've created polio.
"Eat my shit, Salk."
#3. Because Someone Reading Is Way Better Than YouDepending on the popularity and activity of your chosen Internet cesspool, within seconds, minutes or hours of submitting a boast, someone will reply that they've done the same thing, only way better than you, and that you're kind of pathetic for even bringing up your little feat. "Son of a bitch!" you shout. "No one knows more karate than me!" you add, punching the monitor in half. Indeed, striking monitors in twain is the first (and most popular) of two possible reactions to such a counter-boast: 1) "That son of a bitch is lying!" We've already explained why this is likely, but if your reading comprehension is not entirely there, a recap: It's because everyone on the Internet lies, all the time, and if they're not lying, you probably should just pretend they are. If that realization doesn't help you understand why you shouldn't have bragged in the first place, well, read that sentence again and see if anything clicks. 2) "Unless they actually are much better than me." The Internet is a big place, and by now everyone who's not desperately poor or elderly is probably hanging around on it in some capacity. Competitive cyclists, Nobel laureates, former Mouseketeers and all sorts of accomplished people are, as we speak, hanging out in the comments section of Cracked right now, just being incredibly accomplished. Which means that unlike in say, high school, where you might very well be the best battle rapper around, you're definitely not that on the Internet.
"And they call me MC Rhyme-A-Lot cuz I rhyme a lot, and if you ain't impressed, then you're hard to impress."
So which will it be? Will you accept the humbling that comes with knowing you're second best? Or decide that the other guy's a liar, and accept the implication that that means you're probably a liar, too, and the confusing spiral of self-doubt and despair this realization will set you on?
"So I actually suck at Angry Birds? Well, it looks like self-mutilation again for me."


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Felician University is hosting Transfer Tuesdays and Thursdays where students can submit an application and transcripts to receive an admission decision. Upon acceptance you will receive a transfer credit evaluation.
This event is open to any transfer student who is interested in attending Felician University.
Students should bring the following:
- Official or Unofficial Transcript (s) from all schools attended.
- Two Letters of Recommendation
- One Personal Statement
Appointments are encouraged but not required. Transfer Tuesdays and Thrusdays will be held at the Iviswold Castle from 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM.


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Scottish phrase given to one who instead of washes/showers/bathes, instead sprays themselves with deoderant.
'Are you going to shower before going out?', "naw, just gonna have a Dundee shower"
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Can you define these popular missing words?
The act of using deoderent in place of a real shower, like the unwashed people of Dundee.
No hot water left? I'll just have a Dundee shower.
StuFishによって 2009年10月06日(火)
The original waterless shower. No shower? No problem! Just apply your spray on deodorant liberally and your good to go!
Mark - Did you see the queue for the showers this morning?
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BELLEFONTE, Pa.—Former Pennsylvania State University football coach Jerry Sandusky was sentenced Tuesday to between 30 and 60 years in prison, four months after his conviction in the sexual abuse of 10 boys over a decade and a half.
The sentence all but ensures that Mr. Sandusky, 68 years old, will spend the rest of his life in a state prison. Legal experts said the chances of Mr. Sandusky's successfully appealing his conviction were remote, and state law doesn't allow parole until the minimum sentence is served.
Mr. Sandusky had faced a minimum of 10 years and a maximum of more than 200 years.
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Wearing a red prison jumpsuit with "Centre County" printed on the back, Mr. Sandusky stood motionless in a crowded but hushed courtroom as Judge John Cleland read a list of individual sentences for 45 counts related to child sex abuse. Mr. Sandusky, a former longtime defensive coordinator, was convicted of those crimes in June.
The case has rocked Penn State and the surrounding region, leading to the ouster of the university's president and longtime head football coach Joe Paterno, who died in January. Penn State accepted tough sanctions that will likely hobble its football program for years, and it has taken steps to improve oversight of administrators.
"The tragedy of this crime is that it's a story of betrayal," Judge Cleland said before handing down the sentence in Centre County Court. "Those who have never encountered a pedophile can hardly begin to understand the anguish of those who have been so expertly deceived.…The crime is not only what you did to their bodies but what you did to their psyches and souls."
After Mr. Sandusky was led from the courtroom, his attorney, Joe Amendola, called the sentence "reasonable." But he later said he would argue on appeal that the judge rushed the case to trial by repeatedly denying requests for more time. "We had 4½ months flying by the seat of our pants," Mr. Amendola said. "That's the due-process issue."
The lead prosecutor, Joe McGettigan, called the sentence "wise and proper." In addressing the judge earlier, he referred to Mr. Sandusky as "the most insidious and depraved of criminals."
Mr. Sandusky, who chose not to testify at trial, made a lengthy statement in the courtroom and again denied the charges. "Others can take my life. They can make me out as a monster," he said. "They can't take away my heart, and in my heart I know that I didn't commit these alleged disgusting acts."
In jail, Mr. Sandusky said, he has been meditating and clinging to a card bearing the word "hope." At times, he appeared to be addressing the public at large. "Please don't close the book today at sentencing," he said. "There's a lot left to learn, if you choose to do that." At the end of his statement, his voice cracked as he spoke of being separated from his family.
Attention will turn now to a criminal trial of two former campus officials charged with perjury in a grand-jury investigation of Mr. Sandusky. That trial is set to begin in January. Four civil suits also have been filed against Penn State by men who say the university was negligent in failing to prevent abuse committed by Mr. Sandusky.
Joel Feller, a Philadelphia attorney who represents several young men who say they are victims of Mr. Sandusky, said there is a "realistic possibility" that civil claims against the university can be settled by year-end, a goal set by the school.
Wes Oliver, a law professor at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, said the chance of reaching civil settlements is "always high." In this case, he said, "every day this drags on in the news, Penn State's brand suffers."
In a statement Tuesday, Penn State said: "While today's sentence cannot erase what has happened, hopefully it will provide comfort to those affected by these horrible events and help them continue down the road to recovery."
Before the sentencing, three young men who testified at Mr. Sandusky's trial read statements in court and said they were still suffering from being befriended and then sexually abused by Mr. Sandusky. "I will never erase the filthy images of his naked body against mine, but he must pay for his crimes which he has now been convicted of," said a young man identified as Victim 5. At trial, he testified that he was molested in a shower on the Penn State campus by Mr. Sandusky. "He took away my childhood the day he assaulted me," the young man said.
Judge Cleland directly addressed Mr. Sandusky's victims. "The fact that you were assaulted is no cause for embarrassment or shame," the judge said. "It is for your courage and not for your assault that you will be remembered. And it is that on which you must focus if you are going to become whole and healed."
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SOUTH CHARLESTON — How can the West Virginia Legislature and state Department of Education implement meaningful education reform in the Mountain State? That question topped the list of issues......
The unfortunate part of this account is that it is presented through the reporter's keyboard. It sounds to me like there were some interesting ideas being discussed by the panel but the ideas are barely visited in this article. It's too bad The Journal itself did not dispatch a reporter to attend but, I guess, this issue is not nearly as important as letting us know who wins the Caring Educator award each month.
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We have been listening to these idiots for decades talk about ideas to "Transform the Education System" and it's about time they admit that they don't have a clue what they are talking about.
It started with removing God and the Ten Commandments from the classroom, then proceeded to pick away at all of the of the other values that are taught at home, then the "Open Classroom", which was a dismal failure which took years and millions of dollars to correct.
How about you include the parents in these meetings and we will tell YOU what we want our kids learning.
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This is all smoke and mirrors to make the voters think they are all deeply concerned and going to do something constructive. They don't have the guts, period. Their political positions are more important than the kids. House Bill 3051 is in committee It gives parents school choice tell them to pass it!!!! Putting kids into the current dysfunctional school system 12 months a year is government sponsored and enforced child abuse it just that simple.
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"House Bill 3051 is in committee It gives parents school choice tell them to pass it!!!!" No public money for private education.
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You are not going to be able to squat with kids who have no parenting or morals. Two parents and interactive parenting. Even if one parent has passed away(or skated), morals and goals need to be taught. How about religious training? I don't care if what religion you are, as long as you have a purpose.
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HANOVERTON - Five straight league championships.
That was the goal from the onset of the season for the United girls basketball team.
With a 49-23 win over South Range on Thursday night that secured their fifth consecutive Inter-Tri County League upper tier championship, the Eagles checked that goal off of their list and added one more trophy to the collection.
"Everyone wanted to beat United," senior Courtney Hydrick said. "But we practice hard and we play hard. We each put our share in and did what we needed to do to get to this point."
United - winners of 30 straight league games - improves to 18-2 overall and 12-0 in the ITCL upper tier.
The Eagles led from horn to horn in a game that was never really in doubt. South Range (8-8, 8-4) entered the night suffering from a disappointing loss to Lisbon on Monday.
"We knew this was going to be a tough game and that South Range wasn't the team that got beat by Lisbon the other night," head coach Sam Mathias said. "We knew they were going to come out with a high energy level and I feel like we exceeded that energy level."
Earning number five in front of a home crowd was something especially important to Mathias and his strong core of returning players. Becoming complacent was never an option as a challenge was posed each night they took the floor.
"It's always a challenge because each team bring something different whether it's zone or man-to-man," Mathias said. "There are tall players and quick guards, so it's always something different to prepare for each night. We knew we were going to take everybody's best punch. We were excited for that challenge and we look forward to it every night."
The Raiders were the last team to beat the Eagles. That was three seasons ago. With a perfect record this season, the girls from that team two seasons ago wanted no part of another loss coming at the hands of South Range.
"We talked about that before the game because the seniors this year were sophomores and they got the witness that their home floor," Mathias said. "I asked them 'How did you like it?' They said they didn't like it and I told them don't let that feeling come back again here tonight."
It didn't as the girls raced out to an early lead and never looked back in savoring their last league championship as seniors.
"We wanted to win that ball and win the ITCL again and make it further than we ever have before," Hydrick said. "Being our senior season, we just wanted to make it a season that we would remember."
Year in and year out the bar at United is set high for its' girls basketball program that is backed by a supportive community. But there's no difference from one title to the next.
"They're all great there hard to get to you have to have a lot of luck you have to have your shots fall," Mathias said. "You have to stay away from injuries and sickness, so each one of them has a different feel to it. They are all great."
"We know how to stay focused when we really want something we set goals," Hydrick said. "We always meet those goals and we will do anything it takes to accomplish them."
Hydrick and her fellow seniors, such as Emily Zehentbauer who had 11 points to lead the Eagles on Thursday, have been playing together since they were in fourth grade. The experience and growth they have gone through together has only strengthened their bond as teammates and enhanced their performance on the floor.
"We all work really well together, and we're friends on the court and off the court," Hydrick said. "That helps so much because we know what each other does and it helps us work together as a team."
Game notes
Hydrick missed all of last season while recovering from a knee injury. She tore her ACL against South Range her sophomore year and was forced to undergo surgery, the fourth she's had. Hydrick opted not to play bastketball her junior year in order to recouperate and be ready for her senior year.
"It was rough with the surgeries, but I knew that I wanted to play with these girls because I have since for so long," Hydrick said. "The girls were so supportive of me and I gelled right back in with them, never missed a beat."
Smithville, the top ranked team in the Division III state poll, had representatives on hand to scout the Eagles on Thursday. The Smithies beat the Eagles in the regional semifinals last season.
SOUTH RANGE SCORING: Ashley Sharp 1-0-2, Morgan Czopur 0-1-1, Stevie Taylor 2-0-4, Lexi Naples 1-4-6, Starla Sharp 2-1-5, Sierra Patrella 1-1-3, Lynnie Ritter 1-0-2. TOTALS: 8, 7-12: 23
UNITED SCORING : Emily Zehentbauer 4-2-11, Sam Spitler 3-0-8, Tara Gray 1-3-6, MacKenzie Gatchel 4-0-8, Cassidy Yoder 4-1-9, Kenzie Firth 1-0-2, Mollie Phillis 1-0-2, Courtney Hydrick 1-1-3. TOTALS 19, 7-17: 49
Three-pointers: South Range 0, United 4 (Spitler 2, Zehentbauer, Gray).


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I wonder what 7-Eleven the guy works at now.
Im talking about the guy working with the NFL who suggested back in 2010 that they play a Super Bowl in New York City.
Okay, yes, Met Life Stadium is located in New Jersey, but for marketing intents and purposes this is an all New York Super Bowl.
This is like having a Lawn Jarts party at your house, but because you took up all of your backyard to set up the party with the barbecue pit, the beer garden and of course, the canopy over the picnic table, you had no more room for the Lawn Jarts courts so you moved those to your next door neighbors back yard.
Thats what the NFL did with the Super Bowl, and to top that rocket scientist decision, the New York Super Bowl fell on Groundhog Day.
Thats asking for trouble on a cosmic level.
Didnt anybody clear this with Bill Murray?
In the Groundhog Day movie Bill Murray plays a weatherman who gives an alls clear forecast for Pennsylvania and all points east in direct contrast to what the gopher forecast, and you know Bill Murray and gophers have something of a history.
Bill paid for it.
The blizzard set in and Bill was thus trapped in Punxsutawney indefinitely, like forever, until he learned his valuable lesson.
It not about treating people with respect, no, its more like, you dont fool around with Mother Nature, and you dont schedule a Super Bowl in New York, in February, on Groundhog Day.
Six more weeks of winter is the least of your problems. Here, Groundhog Day lasts forever.
Back in 2000, the NFL stuck its Super Bowl in Atlanta, and 14 years ago an ice and snowstorm sacked the city, much like what happened there last week. It shut the entire state down.
This past week, new stadium or not, the City of Atlanta showed the NFL and the rest of the money spending world how it still does not know what to do in the event of a snowstorm.
Can you imagine a Super Bowl being played there on Sunday?
The NFL did stick a Super Bowl in Detroit a couple years back, but the people in Michigan know what to do when it snows. There are two seasons in Michigan in fact winter, and fixin to be winter.
New York does New Years Eve every year and to its credit knows how to process a million or so people in and out quickly.
But on New Years Eve Old Man Winter is just getting warmed up. This is February, and its about to be Valentines Day, and I bet Winter has an ex-wife out there somewhere who isnt happy when it gets cold.
This has been the nasty weather playoffs and I like that. Downpours in Seattle, blizzard conditions in New England, icy cold in Denver, balmy 40-below shirtsleeve weather in Green Bay except for the first round game in Indianapolis, everything was played outside in the weather.
I loved that.
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Here at the Salem News, we can look right out our front window to see a great example of progressive thinking. Kent State bought and fully utilizes the former Salem Junior High School building....
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Toby, a Springer Spaniel, was always licking and chewing at his feet. His owner, Lin, didn't know what to do about it, but she knew it was driving her 3-year-old dog crazy (not to mention turning Toby's snow-white feet dark burgundy). Lin decided to take her suffering spaniel to her veterinarian for some answers.
Lin had guessed Toby chewed at his feet because they itched so much. Was Toby having a reaction to something he stepped in? Did he have bug bites? What Lin didn't know until she saw her veterinarian was that itchy feet is actually a classic symptom her pet is suffering from an allergy to pollen.
Like Lin, many animal lovers don't know the signs of pet allergies because dogs and cats show different reactions to some of the same things we're allergic to. Grass pollen, for example, made Lin sneeze and her eyes water. That same pollen, it turns out, made her spaniel's feet itch.
Depending on the type of allergy, your pet may exhibit different symptoms. Although pets occasionally exhibit watery eyes and some sneezing, the most common reaction is scratching. Constant scratching may lead to raised infected welts, open sores, and loss of hair. Ear infections are also common in dogs with allergies.
Pets who are affected by allergies may suffer their entire lives; typically symptoms worsen as they get older. We can help alleviate some of that suffering by knowing the signs of allergies and finding the right type of product relief for the symptoms.
Types of Allergies That Affect Pets
There are many types of allergies that can affect your pet. Environmental allergens that are inhaled or come into contact with the skin can cause allergies known as atopy. Common sources are pollens, molds, and dust mites. Allergies that result from flea-bites are referred to as flea allergy dermatitis. Certain allergies occur from items your pet ingests, and are typically called food allergies. Contact allergies are caused by something your pet comes in direct contact with, such as carpet fibers, plastics, and other things. Contact allergies are less common than atopy and flea allergy dermatitis in pets.
Atopy is the most common form of allergy in dogs and cats. Atopy is often seasonal. If a pet is allergic to ragweed, symptoms occur in the fall. Pets who are allergic to spring tree pollen will show signs in April and May. If a pet is allergic to dust mites, the symptoms may be most dramatic in the winter, when more time is spent inside. Signs of atopy include:
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Food allergies account for about 10-15% of all allergies in dogs and cats. Food allergies may show up concurrently with allergies to pollen, dust, etc. Symptoms include:
Occasionally, dogs with true food allergies may have increased bowel movements and soft stool. Food allergies should not be confused with food intolerances, which are not true allergies, and generally cause diarrhea and vomiting.
Watching your pet go through the misery of allergy symptoms can be miserable in itself. If you suspect your pet has allergies, visit your veterinarian. The type of allergy and severity of the symptoms will determine how your veterinarian decides to treat them.
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That Tali has some nice purple.
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Yo, you gotta come over and smoke, boy! I got the purple!
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one of the key ingredients to Grape Drink,-
Sugar, Water, Purple
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It just ain't grape drink with without that purple.
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Irrefutably the best color in the world. End of story, period. This period signifies the end >.
Purple is the only note-worthy color. The end.
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guys are blue, and girls are pink... when they get together they make purple!
bow-chika-wow-wow = purple
by ejb31894 August 05, 2009
Irrefutably the best colour in the entire world; End of story. All who object can go and be a loser elsewhere themselves.
Purple is the most awesome colour ever!!!!!!!!!! <3
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the color of happiness
im feeling rather purple today
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UFC 121 and Brock Lesnar's epic clash with Cain Velasquez are only hours away.
Well, to be perfectly honest, the non-televised portion of the preliminary card has already started. But we're talking the big ticket items. When Spike begins its telecasts and takes us right up to the main card, THEN the real fireworks begin.
We've got Jake Shields making his UFC debut against Marin Kampmann.
There's a brotherly-scrap-turned-mild-grudge-match between Tito Ortiz and his former apprentice, Matt Hamill. We've also got Diego Sanchez, Paulo Thiago, Brendan Schaub, Gabriel Gonzaga, and TUF winner Court McGee making his big event debut.
All of that paves the way for arguably the biggest heavyweight bout in the history of the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
So be sure to tune in for live reactions, analysis, a few predictions if I feel like putting the kibosh on someone, and other quick hits.