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a furpile is pile of furries
all those cute furries are in a furpile
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A group of furries, usually taking a rest, that slowly grows with the accumulation of more members; this occurrance is rarely sexual, but is depicted as so in popular T.V. programs such as CSI.
The small group of furries sitting by the wall became a fur pile within minutes.
Por J.K.K. 08 de octubre de 2010
A furry orgy.
"Did you see how many furries were on that furpile?
Por Ember December 16 de abril de 2009
1. A fur pile is a common occurance at anime conventions where groups of furries have large public orgies
The entrance to the Anime Convention was blocked by a large fur pile. There was fur everywhere!
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July 26, a dinner to celebrate the release of Yes, Chef will take place at 7 p.m. at Michael's Genuine in Miami. Tickets for the event are still available for purchase here! $150 per person, including appetizers, a four course meal with wine pairings, and a signed copy of the memoir. Inspired by Yes, Chef, the menu was specially designed by chefs Michael Schwartz, Bradley Herron, and Hedy Goldsmith. The courses, in order, will be: wood roasted eggplant with chickpeas, heirloom tomato, raisins, yogurt; local fish with coconut milk and rice; berbere braised beef with flatbread; wood roasted peaches with honey, and rice milk custard with curried wafers and pickled rhubarb.


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MTV's "Behind The Lens" features Boulevard of Broken Dreams. Check it out: HERE.
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Gang Green and Green Day are ready to play together.
The New York Jets said Friday the band will play during the team's regular-season opener Sept. 13. The Jets face the Baltimore Ravens in the Monday night game at New Meadowlands Stadium.
Green Day will perform "Last of the American Girls" with the Broadway cast of the Tony Award-winning rock musical "American Idiot." The halftime show will finish with fireworks.
The guitarist Slash and Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger will play during a tailgate concert outside the stadium. Scherzinger will sing the national anthem.


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Alix Generous just turned 21. If she wanted to, she could buy a beer.
Instead, the College of Charleston junior has been a bit busy. In just the past year or so, she has presented her own coral reef research to the United Nations in India, studied neuropathic pain at MUSC and is now examining childhood epilepsy at a prestigious Boston medical school.
And on Saturday, she presented a TED talk in Albuquerque, N.M. The event featured physicists and educators, CEOs and techies, writers, a doctor, a folk healer — and her. She discussed the need to tap people's unique minds to solve the world's complex problems.
She discussed it by way of personal experience.
Generous has Asperger syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder characterized by difficulties with social interaction and nonverbal communication. She grapples with depression.
She's also a genius, one with big plans.
Now, to round out 2013, she will serve in November as a youth delegate for the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change in Warsaw, Poland, advocating for global technology sharing.
"I want to teach people how to use their quirks to help others and make this world a better place," she said. "But before we can do that effectively, we have to build an environment where mental diversity is accepted."
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Diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder when she was 3 or 4, Generous began taking Adderall at 6, and was (wrongly) diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
She recalls an early childhood spent unhappy and heavily sedated.
At 12, when her mental health and behavior spiraled with the onset of hormones, her parents took her for further treatment. She was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome.
It offered a welcome definition, a label for her idiosyncrasies.
"But that was a totally wrong way to look at it," she recalled. "As I got older, I realized that I am not a diagnosis. I'm a person with a very complex personality."
Then her divorced parents moved in different directions — her mother to New Mexico and her father to France.
Generous looked at boarding schools. One was a Quaker school in rural Ohio with a focus on environmental sustainability where students helped to grow their own food.
Her own parents didn't so much as recycle back then, and she never had heard of global warming.
But her best friend was going to that school, and best friends had been hard to come by.
When Generous visited the Olney Friends School in Barnsville, Ohio, an intense feeling came over her.
"I felt really connected to it," she recalled.
At 15 she became one of the school's 55 students and learned about everything from tagging salamanders to the thrill of competing in rigorous environmental competitions.
"It became a place where I belonged," she said.
By the time she graduated from high school in 2010, she no longer saw Alix as a diagnosis. She saw herself with gifts.
College girl
Truth be told, she didn't want to go to the College of Charleston. Her parents bribed her with a car.
She entered as a music major after teaching herself to read sheet music, a hippie girl in long skirts and cowboy boots from a tiny Quaker boarding school.
The first year was awful.
"Socially, it was a miserable experience," she recalled. "It was very hard for me to transition."
But then she met people like her current best friend, Victoria Hamilton.
"She's a genius, but she's a really, really cool person," said Hamilton, a psychology major who has cerebral palsy. "I feel so blessed to have her as a friend. She's the most unique person you will ever meet."
Together, they formed an eclectic band of friends and got involved with the college's Students Needing Access Parity, which assists students with disabilities.
For instance, the staff suggested that Generous take tests in a room with blank walls, a table and a pencil — and no other stimuli to derail her focus. She went from B's and C's to A's.
"It's just the way my mind processes information," she said.
When she enters a room, it's hard for her to focus on a single conversation. All stimuli rise to equal importance in the clamor. If she's with a friend, she struggles to filter out other conversations.
She's not aloof or incapable or shy. And it's not that she cannot read social cues.
It's that she gets "completely over-stimulated."
"I notice everybody else and the vibe they're giving off," Generous explained.
She recently noticed that she tends to mimic the body posture of people she's talking to. She's not trying to mock or annoy them.
"I just read people really intensely," she said.
Meanwhile, she switched majors.
She had become infatuated with mental illness. At first she considered psychology, but she wanted more of a molecular basis for her education than a behavioral one.
After all, modern brain imaging has revealed physiological bases for many disorders, including depression and ADHD, and is opening new frontiers for medical researchers.
"This is where it's moving," Generous said. "It's really promising."
She even began hosting her own show, "Brains and Fluff: Making Science Sexy," on the college's radio station and blog.
Now she loves the school. "It's just been a really great choice for me."
But she's still not big on crowds. She hates clubs. She's not fond of drunk people.
"And no small talk allowed with her," Hamilton said.
Generous is simply not one to linger on the surface of conversation — or of life.
Diving into research
In the summer of 2012 she went on a research trip with other students to Bali, Indonesia.
While snorkeling amid the coral reefs, her blooming interest in pharmacology and neuroscience sparked an idea for a research paper.
She had come across the concept of quorum sensing, a process bacteria cells use to communicate with each other and survive. She wondered if ensuring that communication stays active would boost coral resilience to climate change and other causes of reef damage and death.
She submitted her resulting paper to the 2012 Citizen Science research competition. Winners would be invited to the U.N. Conference on Biological Diversity in India.
When her friends had gone to a party one day, Generous received an email.
She had won first place in the undergraduate division. The honor meant presenting her idea to 14,000 U.N. delegates from 193 countries.
She journeyed to India last fall, a country she recalls as rich with colors and sounds and smells. Not to mention an abundance of people.
"It was like an Asperger person's worst nightmare," she said.
And a revelation.
At one point she saw a series of tents made out of mud and trash along a street. It was a women's shelter.
Yet she also talked with a teenage Indian girl about her boyfriend, a universal discussion between young women.
As with people who suffer mental illness, Generous realized it's easy to stereotype people from other cultures as the age-old, unknowable other.
"When I left India, I felt a sense of being united with other people in the world. It really inspired me in a lot of ways."
A life's passion
This semester she is at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston studying childhood epilepsy and damaged brain tissue in a neuroscience lab.
She will return to Charleston in December with plans to pursue a dual M.D./Ph.D. program specializing in the interdisciplinary science of neuropsychopharmacology. She envisions her future self developing psychiatric drugs while treating patients and advocating for them.
It will be a lot of work.
"But when you're passionate, it won't feel like work," she said.
She's particularly passionate about explaining brain disorders so that parents raise their kids to see themselves as "awesome" and gifted — no matter their diagnoses.
It was the crux of her Albuquerque TEDxABQ talk.
"I want to reach as many people as I can to spread a message of acceptance, both of people and their quirks, and even encourage others to embrace them," she said.
Yet even she still struggles. She has learned to cope with Asperger syndrome, but dark waves of depression still plague her.
Even while in India, she felt horribly depressed. Nobody knew.
But she's learned that if she keeps working, the depression eventually will subside.
"Successful people aren't people without problems," Generous explained. "Successful people use their positive coping mechanisms. A lot of successful people have these issues but they're able to deal with them."
And to turn them into gifts.
Reach Jennifer Hawes at 937-5563.
Generous is at the Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston this fall studying childhood epilepsy and damaged brain tissue.×
Alix Generous, a College of Charleston junior, has achieved in a year what many hope to accomplish before retirement. She has done so despite a diagnosis of Asperger Syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder characterized by difficulties with social interactions.×
Alix Generous, 21, presented to a United Nations conference in India last year about her coral reef research. The project began during a snorkeling trip to Bali with a group of College of Charleston students in 2012.×
Provided Alix Generous, 21, presented to a United Nations conference in India last year about her coral reef research. The project began during a snorkeling trip to Bali with a group of College of Charleston students in 2012.×
Alix Generous, a College of Charleston junior, has achieved in a year what many hope to accomplish before retirement. She has done so despite a diagnosis of Asperger syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder characterized by difficulties with social interactions.×
Alix Generous, 21, presented to a United Nations conference in India last year about her coral reef research. The project began during a snorkeling trip to Bali with a group of College of Charleston students in 2012.×


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One Chris to find them.
One Chris to bring them all.
And in the darkness bind them.
Okay, so the stars of Hollywood might not have as much power as Tolkein's One Ring, but you'd be forgiven for thinking that you can't launch a franchise these days without one Chris on your roster.
Friday's opening of Guardians of the Galaxy saw new addition Chris Pratt joining the ranks of Star Trek's Chris Pine and The Avengers' Chris Evans and Chris Hemsworth in the Hunky Chris Club – now the only thing that's left to do is see these musclebound super Chrises duke it out in the battle for our hearts (and, uh, other parts).
Which Chris will reign supreme? We've asked four PEOPLE staffers to go to the mat for their favorite. Which one will you choose?
Chris Pratt: The Funny Chris
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Chris Evans: The Sporty Chris
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Chris Hemsworth: The Dad Chris
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MARTINSBURG - Some things are changing at the Martinsburg VA Medical Center, where director Ann R. Brown will soon be leaving her local post to take another position in Chicago.
Brown's expected departure date is Sept. 27, and an acting medical director will be named prior to her leaving, according to a Department of Veterans Affairs press release.
She will become medical center director of the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center in Chicago, which is a 200-bed inpatient tertiary care facility, the release said.
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It is a clinical referral level IB facility and provides services that include acute medicine, surgery, psychiatry, neurology and rehabilitation medicine. Additionally, "it is a teaching hospital, providing full range of patient care services, with state-of-the-art technology as well as education and research," the release reads.
The facility is part of the VA Great Lakes Healthcare System (Network 12), which includes facilities in Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan.
Brown, a San Antonio, Texas, native, has served as the local director since being appointed to that position in January 2008.
Prior to coming to Martinsburg, she previously served as acting deputy director for Veterans Integrated Services Network (VISN 9) in Nashville, Tenn.
At the time of her arrival in Martinsburg, the hospital had more than 1,300 employees and an approximately $187 million budget.
In an article in The Journal announcing her arrival, Brown pledged to work with all veterans, especially those who are just returning from deployments, stressing the need for "100 percent accountability" in helping vets.
She replaced Pedro Garcia, who had been acting medical center director since April 2007, when previous director Fernando Rivera transferred to the VA Medical Center in Washington, D.C.
Brown is not the only top hospital official to transfer to an Illinois facility.
Timothy Cooke, who was the Martinsburg VA's associate medical center director, began a temporary post in Danville, Ill., in mid-August.
Cooke, who Brown announced as Martinsburg's new associate medical center director in June 2010, had been acting associate director since July 2009.
He previously served as the center's facility management service chief from 2004 until becoming associate director.
He is now the acting director of the VA Illiana Healthcare System in Danville, Ill.
The Associated Press reported that Cooke will serve as the Illiana system's acting director until a new director is hired to replace Emma Metcalf, who transferred to the VA Medical Center in Lexington, Ky. A search is now underway to find a permanent replacement.
Cooke began his new, temporary post in Danville on Aug. 19, just a few days before local VA officials announced that "common" mold - similar to that found on bread or a shower curtain - had been found on stand-alone air conditioning units in the domiciliary and approximately 175 patients would have to be relocated.
At that time, officials estimated the remedial work might take up to 60 days to complete. Veterans have since been housed in local hotels.
On Sunday, however, a hospital spokesman said in an email that the mold remediation is "100 percent complete."
Spokesman Mike McAleer said Pathway to Wellness residents will return to half of the domiciliary in early October. The other half of the domiciliary is expected to be completed in mid-November. Completion will include the installation of new air conditioner units, according to his email.
In the same email, McAleer said information wasn't available on hotel costs, contractors doing the mold remediation work or the project's projected cost.
- Staff writer Jenni Vincent can be reached at 304-263-8931, ext. 131.


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Common surname from the outer reaches of Planet Snurb. Here on Earth, famed Smeltzburgian Storyteller and Artist, W.T. Snurb brings Planet Snurb to life through the characters of Herb Snurb, Millie Feltz, Bobby Fenster, Professor Funk, Betty Bomber, Witch Blinda, Mrs. Minus, Mortimer Blickley, and others.
W.T. Snurb occasionally becomes tired of the pace of humanity and retreats to Planet Snurb for a brief vacation.
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Snobby urbanites, especially those recent haughty urban dwellers who were raised in suburbs, small towns or rural areas. A snurb's childhood was usually somewhat idyllic or quaint. However, when returning to their hometown to visit or for the holidays, a snurb will frequently and sanctimoniously point out how "this particular situation or occurrence" never happens in "this big city," or that people in "this big city" never do "this." Thanks to its humbler origins, a snurb usually identifies itself as being too down to earth to be a hipster, making them even more annoying when they pontificate about the virtues of their adopted metropolis.
Snurbs: "Wow, we can't believe people still (insert) here."
Friends and Family: "Bitch, you only moved to San Francisco a year ago."
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Ken Deep (left) and Louis Trapani (right) pictured with Daphne Ashbrook (middle) with her DWNY mug in which she was presented with at the DWNY and Gallifreyan Embassy joint meet up on June 15, 2009.
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ACU Leadership Camps offer a uniquely focused leadership training experience that calls young believers to respond to God with their heart, mind and life.
- KidQuest Day Camp emphasizes discovery active learning and expressive play for kids entering 1st through 3rd grade.
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- MPulse offers a community-building experience for adolescents in a transition period preparing to enter 7th through 9th grade.
- Kadesh Life Camp maximizes challenges to high school students through its innovation and intense focus of week-long events.
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ACU Athletics offers fun-filled summer sports camps providing skills development, leadership training and spiritual mentoring for students from age 5 to 18. These camps include Camp Wildcat (multi-sport camp), Baseball, Basketball, Football, Soccer, Softball, Tennis, Volleyball and Track and Field. All ACU Champions Sports Camps take place on Abilene Christian University's campus and the students will have the opportunity to enhance their skills at various sports using the same facilities that ACU student athletes use.
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A few Maui teachers willing to speak on the record Monday about a tentative contract agreement with the state were positive but cautious.
A half-dozen teachers preferred not to comment, saying they had not had the time to review details in the four-year deal struck over the weekend by the state and the Hawaii State Teachers Association.
"As usual, the devil is in the details," said Kalama Intermediate School special education teacher Karolyn Mossman, a former HSTA officer. "It looks pretty good on the surface."
She said she hopes the new contract will help lift low teacher morale.
"I'm hoping the teachers will see something positive coming forward for them," she said.
HSTA President Wil Okabe said the new deal restores a previous 5 percent pay cut and gives teachers a 3 percent raise on top of that in July. Teachers will get raises of 3 percent and 3.2 percent in following years, he said.
Preliminarily, it looks like salary increases are a "little bit" of an improvement, Mossman said.
"It's not where it needs to be, but it's definitely going in the right direction," she said.
Maui Waena Intermediate School counselor Ed Garcia said he was "very excited" about the tentative contract.
"I believe the state recognizes we're professionals who deserve a fair and decent contract," he said, adding that he hopes a living wage would help recruit and retain teachers.
Fourth-grade teacher Alan Isbell, the head faculty representative at Wailuku Elementary School, said he believes that teachers will approve the proposed contract.
"Everybody's really tired of these protracted negotiations," he said. "Everybody just wants it to be over. I think it could be acceptable to most teachers. . . . I think they'll ratify it."
Two of the reasons a proposed contract was rejected before were that teachers didn't have enough time to digest the proposal, and they didn't want to commit to a six-year contract, Isbell said.
This new labor agreement is for four years, he said, and the contract can be reopened by the union only for higher wages in two years.
With a restored 5 percent pay cut and pay increases over the four years of the contract, most teachers would see an 18.6 percent pay hike over the course of the contract, Isbell said. Some teachers in top classifications with the most seniority would see increases of 22.3 percent, he added.
Isbell said the new contract would take some of the sting out of trying to make a living in high-cost Hawaii.
"I know teachers who've had to leave because they just can't make it financially," he said.
Hawaii salaries for teachers still won't be competitive with what Mainland teachers get paid, but they would be an improvement, he said.
Kamali'i Elementary School counselor Vern Dahl said that in the past four years, teachers have lost pay through furloughs and cuts in salaries. That lost pay has been "a pretty severe hit," he said.
Dahl, an 18-year veteran of the Hawaii school system, said he would vote for the proposed contract, as would most teachers.
"They've been hit so hard in the last four years," he said. "They've got to recover something."
Hawaii's teachers union has set an April 17 date to vote on the new contract.
Union officials said on the association's Facebook page early Monday that teachers will be able to review the contract and ask questions at information sessions before the vote. The union also posted a link to the 106-page agreement.
The teachers' last contract expired in June 2011. Teachers voted down a contract offer in January 2012, then tried to pressure the state into accepting it by later voting on it again and passing it.
The sides sought the help of a federal mediator this month.
"We've worked very hard to get to this point, and we remain committed to providing teachers with necessary resources and support to achieve our strategic goals," said Kathryn Matayoshi, superintendent of the state Department of Education.
Okabe said the deal takes steps toward restoring the previous percentages that teachers would pay of their insurance premiums.
"I believe that the reason we have a tentative agreement in large part is because of the ongoing pressure teachers put on the employer to settle the contract in the best interests of teachers and students," Okabe said in a letter to teachers.
Gov. Neil Abercrombie said at a news conference Sunday night that the state would be able to fully fund the deal.
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To retreat to one's car or room at half time to drink more during the game or other event.
This lacrosse game is such a bust, we will probably need to midgame in order to deal with it.
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Similar to pregaming, drinking between two social events (or sometimes midway through one event) usually at someones house. Like pregaming, it can be to avoid expensive drinks in town or to just be drunk on reaching the second event.
We're going out for dinner then back to Dave's to midgame at his flat before going to a club
Por Moliey 21 de noviembre de 2009
If you're in the process of playing a video game and you are called by your parents to do something, shout the universal term, I'm Mid Game. Your parents will understand that you cannot be bothered at this moment and you will see them when the game is over.
A. "Hey Bren, come downstairs for dinner."
"But Dad I'm Mid Game."
B. "Yo can you send me the homework on aim?"
"Sorry bro, not right now, I'm midgame. In a few."
"But Dad I'm Mid Game."
B. "Yo can you send me the homework on aim?"
"Sorry bro, not right now, I'm midgame. In a few."
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An interesting combination of implodeing and explodeing all at the same time. But this can only happen if you have a name that is similar to the word "Wallnutz".
"If i were to put a monkey in a partical accelorator, it wouldn't just explode, it would dexplode".
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The purpose of this site is to provide basic information for members of the University of Toronto's Computer Science Department and their use of the CSLab computing environment. We have organized these pages into various subjects or groups of subjects; please select the appropriate links on the left. A great place to start is with the Getting Started page.
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I honestly believe Shea weber has played his last game in a preds sweater. Poile will put an offer in front of him that makes suter's contract look like pocket change. Contrary to popular belief, money will not be an issue. Weber can sign it or poile will open up the bidding. There is no way poile goes down this road again. The one thing working in nashvilles favor is the uncertainty in regards to the new CbA. If weber wants one of these ridiculous 13 yr contracts, then he needs to sign one with the preds now because I don't see those type of contracts holding up under a new CbA.
As for suter, I wasn't surprised he left but I wish he would have had the balls to be honest with poile from the get go. I don't think suter ever had any intentions on staying and the "family" excuse was a weak way out. Besides all that, suter was skating with one foot out the door every since he made the comments at last years ASG. he was skating away from the play ALOT. He never had his teammates backs. He's not the franchise defenseman a lot of people think he is. Weber, on the other hand, is. I hope I'm wrong and I get to watch him skate out his career in Nashville but I just don't see it. I'll be happy if we can get a team to give us a couple of cups in return for him aka Colorado in the lindros deal when they raked Philly over the coals..i can be optimistic!!
Most people on this board never believed Suter was staying in Nashville. Which is why I was surprised Poile seemed to be in such denial. I don't believe Weber wants to stay either because if he were then he would have signed a long term contract extension last summer. I think he is still pissed off Poile lowballed him last summer. The arbitrator gave Weber his contract last season. If Poile does trade Weber this summer, I would bet on the Flyers. Poile and Holmgren have quite a bit of trade history between the 2 of them. GMs tend to deal with other GMs they feel comfortable with. The Flyers are in the East and I think Poile would sooner move Weber there than to a team in the West where he would face the Preds more during the season. The Flyers have alot of forward depth they can deal the Preds. Poile has to get some assets back for Weber for sure. He can't repeat the same mistake he made with Suter. I believe Suter is a very good dman but not a franchise guy. He is being paid like one though. I was disappointed the Wings didn't get him but UFAs can sign where they like. Holland tried his best. That's all I can ask as a fan. Hopefully Poile doesn't let this drag on like Howson is in Columbus. I am already sick of hearing about Rick Nash. Weber is a franchise dman and teams will be willing to pay a huge price for him. I just believe he ends up in Philly. We shall see.


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Erie County Democrats are heading toward election season in disarray once again after an anti-headquarters faction of town chairmen complained to state party leaders that Chairman Jeremy J. Zellner failed to convene endorsement meetings for County Legislature candidates.
The result, they say, is a free-for-all of primary contests from challengers recognizing the opening created by the absence of endorsed candidates.
"It is our belief that Erie County Democratic Chairman Jeremy Zellner, who is also employed by the Erie County Legislature as the Democratic majority chief of staff, has refused to call endorsement meetings throughout all legislative districts because he is afraid the elected Democratic Committee members may vote to endorse a candidate that is not his personal or his bosses' choice," the dissidents said. "Even worse, Jeremy Zellner is printing and passing out petition packets containing only his hand-picked candidates for the Erie County Legislature at the expense of the Erie County Democratic Committee, without there ever being an endorsement meeting."
The letter was signed by several town chairmen, including Daniel S. McParlane of West Seneca, Frank C. Max Jr. of Cheektowaga (leader of the party's anti-Zellner faction), Mary Alice Grant of Aurora, Richard Rose of Marilla and Mary I. Julian of Wales, and Lancaster Vice Chairman Robert Giza.
The chairmen cited party bylaws requiring the county chairman to convene committee members of the various legislative districts for endorsements and are asking the party's state leaders to "intervene and require that Chairman Zellner convene the appropriate subordinate committees."
Max said he has "no doubt" any endorsement meeting convened in several districts would have resulted in backing for anti-Zellner candidates.
Rodney S. Capel, executive director of the state committee, did not return a call Monday seeking comment.
Zellner said he had not received requests for endorsements from several candidates until designating petitions were already in circulation, and he opted for "open primaries." He said such a process has been employed in the past while petitions are being signed.
"Given the timing of this whole thing, it is not convenient for anybody," he said, adding he expects to field Democratic candidates in all 11 districts.
McParlane, however, said divisive primaries will now take place all over the county because challengers recognize the absence of candidates with the advantage of backing by party leaders. He labeled the situation a "sham."
"Just because you can't control an endorsement meeting doesn't mean the committee members don't have the right to choose who would best represent the area," he said.
But Zellner said the whole effort is orchestrated by Max to foment more disunity in the party.
"We're busy trying to put a party together, and Frank and company want to continue divisive politics here," he said. "I'm not interested in it."
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Six Saint Vincent College alumni were newly elected, nine were re-elected and five were appointed to Saint Vincent Alumni Council at the group's quarterly meeting at the Fred M. Rogers Center on August 6. Newly elected alumni include Stephanie Fitzgerald, C'11, of Lower Burrell; Eric D. Hoffman, C'97, of North Huntingdon; Andrew D. Jeffers, C'06, of Scottdale; Robert L. Kasperik, P'64, of Derry; Thomas W. Kennedy, C'69, of Latrobe; and Ronald W. Virag, C'67, of Ligonier. Re-elected for an additional term were Donald J. Accorsi, C'57, of Latrobe; Matthew A. Cheplic, C'06, of North Huntingdon; Terrence L. Conroy, C'68, of Tarentum; Kelly Sheehy DeGroot, C'97, of Murrysville; Patricia L. Henry, C'95, of Latrobe; Daniel W. Kunz, C'99, of Wexford; James K. Laffey, C'75, of Carnegie; Gina Rocco Lawry, C'97, of Latrobe; and Louis M. Zecchini, C'60, of Greensburg. Newly appointed members include Jaime L. Crawford, C'00, of Jeannette; Sherrie E. Dunlap, C'09, of Hostetter; Martin G. Mullen, P'65, of Alexandria, Virginia; Zachary S. Parkhill, C'09, of Allison Park; and Dr. Gabriel B. Pellathy, C'95, of Wexford. --- Photo: Participating in the reorganization meeting of the Saint Vincent Alumni Council were, seated from left, Edward McCormick, president of Alumni Council; Thomas W. Kennedy; Ronald W. Virag; Andrew D. Jeffers; and Zachary S. Parkhill; standing, from left, Jaime Crawford; Robert Kasperik; Dr. Gabriel B. Pellathy; Martin G. Mullen; Michael Gerdich, C'98, director of alumni relations; Eric D. Hoffman; Richard Stillwagon; Sherrie Dunlap; and Stephanie Fitzgerald. PR2011-615


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RENO/TAHOE - Real estate professionals are hopeful a recovery in the northern Nevada residential market that began to take hold in 2012 will take off in 2013. "We had our strongest sales since 2005," says Helen Graham, president-elect of the Reno-Sparks Association of Realtors and an agent with Keller Williams Realty in Reno. "Optimism is high. We see all the trends going in the right direction."
In the first 10 months of 2012, sales of existing single-family homes in Washoe County increased 5 percent, from 4,892 in 2011 to 5,057, according to the association.
The median home price in October rose 23 percent to $181,750 from the same month a year earlier. In October, 338 existing single family homes in Reno sold, a 2 percent increase from the 2011 and a 9 percent jump from September; 170 sold in Sparks, a 13 percent gain from a year earlier and a 12 percent bump from the previous month; and in Fernley 48 homes sold, a 12 percent increase from last year a 30 percent rise from September. The low end of the market is doing better than the high end, says Graham. "There's a two-week supply for houses priced $100,000 to $199,000 and 4.9 months of inventory for homes priced at $400,000," she says. "The higher the price, needless to say, the higher inventory we have."
Graham attributes that in part to a tightening in credit, making it more difficult for potential buyers to qualify for pricier properties.
She says real estates and brokers have other concerns about the year ahead, including the effect of any tax changes now being worked out in Washington, the expiration of the federal debt-forgiveness bill, which exempts homeowners from taxes owed on mortgage debt forgiven by banks during short sales or foreclosures, and Nevada's Assembly Bill 284, the 2011 robo-signing bill that resulted in a drop of bank notices of defaults on homes and fewer foreclosure properties on the market. Graham, as well as others, is confident interest rates on home loans will remain at rock bottom.
"We really do expect rates to stay historically low and not rise not until 2014," says Graham. "Even then we're only expecting them to rise to 4 percent." Carson City is reporting similar trends. Through Dec. 12, 657 single family homes were sold there, a 12 percent jump from 585 sales in the same, nearly 12-month period in 2011, according to Heidi McFadden, president of the Sierra Nevada Association of Realtors and an agent with Realty Executives. The median home price in 2011 was $134,000 compared to $130,000 in 2012.
"I don't want it to reflect that our prices have gone down. We have 75 more transactions this year than we did last year, which would change our median, obviously," says McFadden. "Prices have stabilized and we're seeing multiple offers on properties under $250,000. There is a demand for housing under this range."
McFadden says she's even seen a return of bidding wars at the low-end of the market, especially in Carson City and south Reno. In Lake Tahoe, signs are positive, too. Sales of home rose 2 percent in the 12-month period from December 2010 to November 2011, and jumped 27 percent, to 731 sales, from December 2011 to November 2012, according to the South Lake Tahoe Association of Realtors.
Meanwhile, the inventory of homes on the market has been cut almost in half in two years, from a 10.5-month supply in 2010 to 5.5-month supply in 2012.
The median home price for south lake went from $228,000 in November 2011 to $289,500 last month, a 27 percent jump, while the average days on the market fell from 126 days to 108.
Last week, Chase International closed the sale of the 7,100-square-foot Osprey Estate in Incline Village, the largest single-family home sale at Lake Tahoe since January 2008.
Chase says the final selling price and purchaser are confidential, but the home was listed at $29.5 million.
According to various media reports, the estate reportedly sold for $25.5 million to PeopleSoft and Workday cofounder David Duffield, of Incline Village.
Osprey Estate was owned by late inventor Jerome Lemelson and his wife and has been featured in "Architectural Digest" and the "Wall Street Journal." The contemporary home includes a guesthouse and conference center.
Chief Executive Officer Shari Chase says there has been increased activity at the high end of the residential real estate market.
"The Osprey Estate sale is an example of the recent interest in larger estates, and it will encourage others to take that step," Chase says.


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Prep Time 15 minutes |
Cook Time 5 minutes
2 cups organic whole wheat couscous
2 cups water
1/2 cup Eden Garbanzo Beans, drainedor cooked Eden Dry Garbanzo Beans
1/2 cup green peas, fresh or frozen, cooked
1/4 cup red onion, minced
1/4 cup carrots, quartered, sliced thin
1/4 cup celery, diced
1/2 tsp Eden Umeboshi Paste
3 Tbsp organic roasted tahini (sesame butter)
3/4 cup water
1 Tbsp fresh parsley, minced
Bring 2 cups water to a boil, add the couscous and stir. Cover and turn the flame off. Allow the to couscous to steam for 5 minutes. Remove and fluff with a fork to cool. Add the vegetables and garbanzo beans. Mix thoroughly.
To prepare the dressing, place umeboshi paste, tahini, parsley and water in a blender. Puree until creamy. Serve over the salad or mixed in.
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Prep Time 5 minutes |
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8 ounces Eden Soba, 1 packageor any Eden Soba
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3 Tbsp Eden Mirin
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1 1/2 tsp Eden Wasabi Powder (Japanese Mustard)
1 Tbsp Eden Shake
1 sheet Eden Sushi Nori, cut into 2 inch long thin strips, for garnish
1/4 cup green onions, finely sliced for garnish
Cook pasta as package directs, rinse, drain and set aside. Place the water and kombu in a sauce pan, cover and simmer 5 minutes. Remove kombu and set aside for later use or discard. Reduce flame to low, add the mirin, wasabi powder and shoyu. Place the soba in the broth to heat up. Place soba in serving bowls and ladle the broth over. Garnish each bowl with equal amounts of Eden Shake, Nori, and green onion.
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Softball Picks Up Friday Split At Kent State
KENT, Ohio - - The Ball State softball team opened its final regular season road trip with a spilt at Kent State Friday afternoon, losing the first game 7-3 and winning the nightcap 8-5.
With the split, the Cardinals improve to 33-13 (11-3 Mid-American Conference) and maintain their overall lead in the league standings. The Golden Flashes move to 26-22 (11-5 MAC) with the split.
Over the two games, the Cardinals continued there torrid home run pace, knocking two more balls out of the park to up their single-season record to 57, which is two shy of the MAC record of 59 set by the 2010 Kent State squad.
Sophomore third baseman Audrey Bickel (Munster, Ind./Andrean) would provide the first blast in the top of the second inning of the opener, improving her season total to nine. Sophomore left fielder Jennifer Gilbert (McKinney, Texas/McKinney) launched her league-leading 15th four-bagger in the top sixth of the nightcap, which also tied her own BSU single-season record set last year.
Overall, Gilbert led the Cardinals at the plate with a .500 average, going 4-for-8 including a two-run double in the second game which upped her league-leading total in that category to 17. She also added two more runs and three more RBI to her league-leading totals.
Freshman designated player Hanne Stuedemann (Mattawan, Mich./Mattawan) and Bickel each went 3-for-7 at the plate for .429 averages on the day, with Stuedemann posting a team-high four RBI and also drawing a walk. With his in both games, Stuedemann also extended her streak of reaching base safely to 37 games.
In the circle, senior pitcher Kim Mazzapica (Palm Harbor, Fla./East Lake) picked up her league-leading 20th victory of the season in the second game, improving her MAC-best record to 20-3.
The Ball State softball team continues its final regular season road trip Saturday, with a 2 p.m. contest at Buffalo.
GAME 2 RECAP: Ball State 8 - Kent State 5
Freshman designated player Hanne Stuedemann (Mattawan, Mich./Mattawan) opened the second game with a double to left field, and advanced to third on a groundout. Senior catcher Amanda Montalto (Las Vegas, Nev./Palo Verde) would then drive her home with a sacrifice fly to left field.
Kent State responded with three consecutive singles to open the bottom of the first, tying the score at 1-1. However, some sloppy base running on the third hit led to the second runner being gunned down at home and helped BSU escape without further damage.
Ball State put four more runs on the scoreboard in the top of the second, as a leadoff walk to junior center fielder Amanda Carpenter (Santee, Calif./Santana) sparked a BSU rally. After a groundout, an infield single from freshman second baseman Taylor Cox (Garden Grove, Calif./Pacifica) put runners on the corners. After Cox stole second, a walk to senior shortstop Alison Mercado (Perris, Calif./Arizona Western College) loaded the bases.
Stuedemann followed with a two-run single through the right side to give the guests a 3-1 lead. Sophomore left fielder Jennifer Gilbert (McKinney, Texas/McKinney) would drive in two more runs with her MAC-leading 17th double of the season, pushing the score to 5-1.
The Golden Flashes rallied for four two-out runs in the bottom of the fourth, cutting the Ball State edge to 7-5. One of the runs came on a single from Alex Marcantonio, while the final three came on a three-run blast from Mary Holt.
After a scoreless fifth inning, Gilbert would launch her league-leading 15th home run of the season over the center field fence to extend the BSU edge back to three runs at 8-5. The blast also tied BSU's single-season home run record which was set by Gilbert last season at 15.
The Cardinals would also hold the Golden Flashes scoreless over the final two innings to complete an 8-5 victory.
Senior pitcher Kim Mazzapica (Palm Harbor, Fla./East Lake) picked up her league-leading 20th victory by limiting the hosts to five runs on seven hits over seven innings of work. She also struck out three batters to improve to 20-3 this year.
Danielle Abernathy suffered the loss for KSU, falling to 7-8 after allowing seven runs (six earned) on 11 hits over 4.0 innings of work. Game one winner Emma Johnson came in to pitch the final three innings, allowing just Gilbert's home run in the sixth inning, while striking out four more Ball State batters.
GAME 1 RECAP: Kent State 7 - Ball State 3
A pair of one-out walks came back to haunt the Cardinals in the top of the first, as a two-out single by Lauren Grimes drove in the game's first run.
However, sophomore third baseman Audrey Bickel (Munster, Ind./Andrean) would answer by leading off the second with a rocket shot over the left field fence to tie the score at 1-1. Junior center fielder Amanda Carpenter (Santee, Calif./Santana) kept the rally going with a single up the middle, while freshman right fielder Loren Cihlar (St. Charles, Ill./St. Charles North) reached on an error to put runners at first and second.
Following a fielder's choice from freshman second baseman Taylor Cox (Garden Grove, Calif./Pacifica) which forced out the lead runner at third, a strikeout gave the Cardinals two outs. However, freshman designated player Hanne Stuedemann (Mattawan, Mich./Mattawan) came through with a clutch two-out, two-run double to right center field to give Ball State a 3-1 edge.
After being held scoreless for three straight innings, the Golden Flashes rallied for three runs in the bottom of the fourth to take a 4-3 edge. A leadoff walk and three consecutive singles pushed the first run across, while two more singles following a strikeout plated the final two runs. Bickel would snag a sharp liner and tap third base for an inning-ending double play, however, to limit the damage to three.
Kent State would add three insurance runs in the bottom of the sixth, thanks to a three-run blast to left field which made the score 7-3.
KSU pitcher Emma Johnson would then retire the side in order in the seventh to complete the victory. In earning her 15th win of the season, Johnson (15-11) limited the Ball State offense to three runs (one earned) on five hits over seven innings. She also struck out 11 BSU batters.
Senior Audrey Workman (Wickenburg, Ariz./Yavapai College) suffered the loss in the contest, falling to 13-10 after yielding seven runs on 10 hits over six innings. She would strikeout three batters.


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Merial Adds Two More Training Modules to Recently Enhanced Best in Class Dairy Website
Merial Adds Two More Training Modules to Recently Enhanced Best in Class Dairy Website
The economic impact of mastitis on the dairy industry is nearly $2 billion or eleven percent of total U.S. milk production.1 Educating dairy employees about this issue is an important part of minimizing loss and reducing the risk of infection. To support dairies in their efforts to educate employees, Merial is pleased to announce the addition of a new web-based audiovisual training module, Mastitis Control, to www.BestInClassDairies.com
"Providing milker training to your employees is an investment - one that can pay long-term dividends in terms of productivity, herd health and profitability," says Frank Hurtig, DVM, MBA, director of Large Animal Veterinary Services, Merial. "Making that investment can sometimes be daunting, though, with questions about where to find a training program, what to cover and how to engage employees. Through the Best in Class Dairies program, Merial is helping take the guesswork out of milker training by providing dairies free access to valuable training tools and information that make investing in your team simple."
Disease prevention often starts with employees, and because they spend the vast majority of their time with the herd, on-the-line workers are a great resource when it comes to spotting illness and health issues. "One of our new training modules will help workers understand and implement best management practices and procedures to help minimize mastitis," says Dr. Hurtig. "The other module will help workers better understand what it means to be a valuable dairy employee and the impact their actions have on farm production and profitability. Both will provide an opportunity to foster better communication between management and workers."
Each module is available in both English and Spanish. Workers can access the modules at any time, which allows them the opportunity to read and review the information at their own pace. The quiz that follows the video keeps the employee engaged and helps ensure an accurate understanding of the training information. For those employees who prefer to listen to the information and quiz questions, a new text-to-audio function has been added (Spanish version only).
In addition to the modules, the enhanced website is structured to provide dairy operations with access to more external resources, including a daily dairy report with up-to-date market information for milk, cheese and butter prices and relevant dairy news.
"We want the Best in Class Dairies website to be a dairy manager's one-stop shop for employee training materials, dairy information and resources, and industry news," says Steve Vandeberg, director of Merial's endectocide marketing. "By expanding the site and adding more resources, we are continuing to support dairies in their efforts to achieve an optimal bottom line, enhance efficiency and improve milk quality."
Other training modules – "Environmental Mastitis Prevention" and "Dry Cow Therapy" – will be added in the next few months. Both will be offered in English and Spanish.
Producers can get more information about the Best in Class Dairies program by contacting their Merial sales representative or visiting www.BestInClassDairies.com
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The creation of the Best in Class Dairy program by Merial stemmed from the company's commitment to the dairy industry and an identified need in the industry – a need to put information into action through a practical, user-friendly and cost-effective training program. This program will leverage all of the research and data that exists to help dairies function more efficiently. While there are a number of sites that offer information, few provide training that can be monitored and measured and ways to integrate training with real-life implementation of strategies and protocols.
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January 25, 2013, 04:05 PM
Anyone have a recommendation for good prescription shooting glasses? My local place tried to sell me Maui Jims, and while I love their sunglasses, I really don't feel the need to drop $800 on shooting specs.
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January 25, 2013, 05:11 PM
I just have polycarbonate lenses in my regular frames, and the ranges I shoot at usually think that's good enough--they aren't even wraparound.
January 25, 2013, 08:54 PM
I just have polycarbonate lenses in my regular frames, and the ranges I shoot at usually think that's good enough--they aren't even wraparound.
Same. I also have a set of glasses made by a company called SportRx for more "serious" or deliberate shooting.
January 25, 2013, 10:45 PM
I have a pair of Oakly half jakets with perscription transition lenses. Transitions has a tint called autumn gold which is for shooting. They are about 600 with out insurance but with insurance i got mine for 180.
January 26, 2013, 09:44 PM
I use WileyX
They're also my motorcycle goggles
January 26, 2013, 09:54 PM
i've had poly lenses in my glasses for over 20 years, if only because they're 1/3rd the size/weight of glass lenses (+2.25 to +2.5 correction in both eyes, depending on the day of the week they measure me.) totally fine for shooting sports. I can get clip-on "wings" if I ever so choose, but i keep my hat low, my shirt collar high and my pistol straight in front of me, so I haven't much concern of anything coming at me from the side at least of my own.
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January 27, 2013, 02:14 PM
I go thru a new pair of prescription sun glasses about every 24--30 months. They're usually a RayBan or Wayfarer style clone, and with insurance they run me around $180/$200 (no-branded frames, but tough). The lenses are plastic poly carbonate (or something similar), are Polarized and coated and seem pretty well made. I wear these all the time at our various ranges, indoor and out, and have only had to explain one time in long detail to an R/O why it would be much better for all involved if I can actually see clearly whilst shooting, and not to worry too much about my (already) bad eyes.....:D
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February 5, 2013, 11:25 AM
Got my wife the ESS Suppressors. We opted with the thin metal prescription lens holders, but you can get the thicker plastic ones a little cheaper. These come with the thin earpieces that will fit under muffs, if that's something you're interested in.
The prescription inserts can be taken out to use as regular shooting glasses, but it's a little tough to do without getting fingerprints on the lenses. Maybe with some practice. They can fill the prescription for you or you can have your local glasses guy do it (their preference). We had the local guy do it. Seems like all in it was right around $200 for everything.
These glasses are super tough and interchangeable, so you can use yellow, clear, or tinted, depending on your environment.
I'd definitely buy these again. My wife hates double glasses. I wear contacts, or I'd probably use them myself.
February 5, 2013, 06:10 PM
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February 5, 2013, 08:02 PM
I recently had regular lenses ground for my frames from 39dollarglasses dot something or other. google it. They were pretty good. They had an option for tinting the lenses. You can actually get a complete set of glasses cheaper than just the lenses, but I had nice frames I knew fit my face.
PS: as far as I can tell they are a legit operation. my glasses work and no funny charges have appeared on my credit card. This was 7 months ago.
February 7, 2013, 01:16 PM
I've been using 39dollarglasses for years
Zenni optical is good, too
I just don't like their "safety glasses" options, although I always check when I'm due for an optical update.
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UNIVERSITY PARK - Penn State coach Bill O'Brien has been the Nittany Lions leader for six games, but he has already begun to earn respect throughout the Big Ten and around the country.
After Penn State's thrilling 39-28 win over Northwestern on Saturday talk of O'Brien being in contention for national coach of the spread throughout college football highlight shows and on Twitter.
O'Brien downplayed any talk of being considered for the end of the season honor during the weekly Big Ten coaches' conference call and said it is the furthest thing from his mind.
"There are a lot of great coaches in this country," he said. "I have only coached six games in my whole career so that is the farthest thing from my mind."
The Lions started the season 0-2 after a tumultuous offseason that saw unprecedented NCAA sanctions and key players transfer with just over a month before the season began. Penn State has since righted the ship and won four straight games,
After this weekend's bye, Penn State will travel to face Iowa (3-2, 1-0 Big Ten) in a night game at Kinnick Stadium. The Lions will then return home to Beaver Stadium and face Ohio State on Oct. 27. The Buckeyes are currently undefeated.
O'Brien called the second half of the season's schedule "murderers' row" and said his team needs to continue improving if it wants to remain successful.
Belton not 100 percent
Running back Bill Belton was limited to just four carries for 12 yards on Saturday. The tailback appeared to still be hampered by an ankle sprain that he suffered in the season opener on Sept. 1 against Ohio.
O'Brien confirmed on Tuesday that Belton is still probably not at 100 percent health-wise and said the injury was a significant high ankle injury.
Belton, who was moved from receiver to tailback in the offseason, returned to the field two weekends ago against Illinois for the first time since sustaining the injury. But since returning, his carries have been at a minimum.
O'Brien said Belton is trying to get back into the groove of his position while having his ankle finish healing.
"Billy is a good football player," the coach said. "I do think this bye week will let him heal up and get back into the rhythm of the offense."
Specialists lack consistency
The Penn State special team unit is coming off a weekend to forget against Northwestern.
The Lions gave up a punt return for a touchdown, muffed a punt that led to a Northwestern score, and Evan Lewis allowed a punt that roll 15 yards that pined the Lions at their own 15-yard line to begin the fourth quarter.
O'Brien said the team would dedicate a good bit of time to improving the special teams this week in practice.
The coach said while he agrees the special teams unit has a whole have struggled; the specialists in particular have not played with enough consistency. O'Brien said his kicker, punter, and long snapper all need to do a better job as the season moves forward.
Kicker Sam Ficken's struggles this season have been well-documented. The sophomore has hit on only 3-9 field goals. He did connect on a 21-yard field goal on Saturday and went 4-4 on extra points.
"I think we have to be careful when we say our special teams haven't played well," the coach said. "I think our specialists need to play better but overall our kids on special teams have done some good things."
O'Brien said he has been mostly pleased with the job done by the kickoff, kick return and punt return unites.
Ex-Lions still playing
Former Penn State teammates Paul Jones and Dakota Royer were seen Monday night playing together on an intramural flag football team at the school.
Both players chose to leave the Penn State program this season but remained enrolled at the school. Royer left the team in the beginning of August and Jones at the end of September.


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I think I look forward most to this post each week. I just love small style and am so thankful to have found Morgan at Mama Loves Papa. I also love that after almost six years of blogging that I still can't wait to write here.
This past weekend we had a family reunion at a park, with a big playground and fishing.
Before I forget, I've noticed in the past week or so that if I casually and loosely leave my hand out to my side, Ivy will grab it and hang on. But if I force her to hold my hand (say in a parking lot or somewhere to keep her safe) she resists it. This small act speaks so many silent words, and reminds me so much of myself. So much.
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June 19, 1925 – Jan. 23, 2013
Daisy B. George of Lackawanna, an executive secretary at Friendship House in Lackawanna for 25 years, died Wednesday in Mercy Hospital. She was 87.
Mrs. George worked at Bell Aircraft and then in the War Department in Washington, D.C., during World War II and later filled a position for the Veterans Administration in Buffalo. She then raised a family.
The Lackawanna native returned to work at Friendship House of Western New York, broadening her community service. The community center where she worked provided comprehensive services to people of all ages.
She is survived by two daughters, Cathleen Adams and Barbara Daniels; four sons, Terry, Wilbert Jr., Kenneth and Russell; a sister, Doris Belton; and three brothers, Leonard Baker Sr., Daniel Baker Sr. and Jerome Baker.
Services will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday in Greater St. Matthew Missionary Baptist Church, 450 William St.


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Ask Frank Lamoreaux what stands out about this year's regional qualifying Seneca East team, and he responds with one word:
"The biggest thing is the experience of being there," Lamoreaux said two nights before his team is to appear at the Division IV regional tournament for the second consecutive season. "Experience is gonna pay off."
It has already - for the Tigers and their opponent Thursday at Copley High School, the New Middletown Springfield Tigers.
Like the opponent that shares its nickname, Springfield is a regional veteran. It has won three consecutive district titles, and made the state tournament finals in 2009 and 2011.
Springfield coach Matt Weymer said his team burdened itself with winning a third straight district crown
"We've had so much success that I think kids put pressure on themselves," he said. "Now they can relax. It's just, this is a chance to play a team you've never seen and that's the fun of baseball."
The teams are something less than traditional rivals.
One-hundred and forty six miles separate Attica and New Middletown. While Lamoreaux said his program has been able to get some scouting done on his team's foe, Weymer said he's been relying on stats and conversations to get a read on Seneca East (23-4).
But then again, what's important this time of year isn't the opponent.
"You focus on yourself this time of year," Weymer said. "If you do [what you're supposed to], you feel good about your chances to win."
If Springfield (18-7) can create runs the way it did in the district tournament, Weymer has to really like his chances.
Springfield beat McDonald 10-6 in the finals, three days after an 11-8 semifinal victory over Lowellville.
But Weymer said the scores are a bit misleading.
"I think the biggest key is we've been able to take advantage of lackluster defense," he said. "It looks like we hit the ball all over the yard but in reality we were able to put the ball in play and cash in."
Still, Springfield has impressive numbers. The team has a .333 batting average, as well as a .421 on base percentage. It doesn't appear to have much power - Springfield boasts only three homers as a team - but it has excellent speed, swiping 67 bases. It's only been caught seven times.
Outfielder Ryan Kohler is the team's top thief, stealing 19 of 21 bases. He also has a .367 batting average and has driven in 15 runs. Also impressive is second baseman Eoghan Bees, with a .391 batting average, 18 runs scored and 20 RBIs.
"It looks like they have good speed, nice batting averages, good mix of sophomores, juniors and seniors," Lamoreaux said.
And Thursday, that offense will face Mason McWilliams, one the Midland Athletic League's best hurlers.
McWilliams, a lefty, comes in with a 8-1 record to go with an ERA under two. He's also among the league's strikeout leaders.
"Mason's control has improved dramatically," Lamoreaux said. "His strikeout-to-walk ratio is pretty impressive."
Meanwhile, Seneca East's batters have been doing their part, scoring 17 runs over their two district games last week. In Dalton Wise, Daniel Bartley and Ethan Caudill, SE has three hitters batting far better than .400.
Despite that, Lamoreaux said all have been asked to play small ball and advance runners.
"They've done what it takes," Lamoreaux said.
To advance to regional finals, SE will need to solve Springfield starter Dalton Donachie, who is 6-1 with a 2.13 earned run average.
Weymer said he's been impressed with the sophomore's poise.
"He's not in awe of the moment," Weymer said. He has a nice mix of pitches, loves to be on the mound, loves to pitch."
First pitch is scheduled for 5:30 p.m., but it is the second game of a doubleheader. The first regional contest is between Cuyahoga Heights and Dalton. That game starts at 3 p.m.


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Nevada County transportation officials continue to gather viewpoints on a $1.3 million road-widening project slated to be performed on Newtown Road in 2014.
The project aims to install 4-foot shoulders on either side of Newtown Road in an effort to make the transportation route safer for motorized vehicles and for bicycles, said David Garcia, a transportation planner with the Nevada County Department of Public Works.
Newtown Road is a key segment of one of the most popular loops for recreational bicyclists in western Nevada County, said Duane Strawser, mayor of Nevada City who also owns the Tour of Nevada City Bicycle Shop.
"It's one of my favorite loops on this side of the county," Strawser said.
The loop is known to most locals as the Newtown Loop but is also referred to as the LeMond Loop after famed professional cyclist Greg LeMond, who is native to the Sierra Nevada.
The route is attractive to cyclists of every ability level due to its accessibility, concision, scenic value and relative degree of safety, Strawser said.
While strenuous stretches that may challenge more seasoned riders abound, the route can be accomplished by beginning cyclists.
The loop typically begins in Nevada City, heading westbound on Ridge Road until it dead ends into Rough and Ready Highway. Taking a right, the road continues onto Bitney Springs Road until the cyclist hits the intersection with Newtown Road.
Newtown will filter the rider out onto Highway 49, which makes for a harrowing ride on a narrow roadway until the rider encounters Old Downieville Highway, which leads back to Nevada City, Strawser said.
The California Department of Transportation has committed $320,000 toward the addition of a Class II bicycle lane to either side of the portion of Highway 49 that connects the recreational loop, said Daniel Landon, executive director of the Nevada County Transportation Commission.
The slice of roadway represents one of the most "dangerous stretches" of road for motorists, bicyclists and pedestrians, Strawser said.
Many vehicle accidents are caused on roadways with a narrow shoulder, where the driver drifts off and then overcorrects, he said.
Garcia said the road-widening project will not only allow for safer passage of bicyclists but will help motorists drive safer.
However, not everyone is pleased with the project.
Molly Fisk, who lives on Newtown near the intersection with Highway 49, said she is concerned that the project will entail the removal of a 60-foot pine tree in her front yard that provides shade while reducing highway noise. Fisk said it was a good idea to build lanes for bicycles on Newtown but said she is hopeful that she can work with officials to spare the tree while fulfilling the aims of the project.
Garcia said the county is in the process of addressing right-of-way issues with many of the residents on Newtown Road.
Initially, many people expressed opposition to the project, but once residents were given a more accurate picture of the road-widening project and its impacts, most residents were generally receptive, Garcia said.
Funds will be derived from the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program, a federally administered grant funding program that provides money to projects and/or programs aimed at improving air quality in qualified areas. The transportation commission maintains the Nevada County Bike Master Plan on the books, a necessary qualification for obtaining funding from the California Bicycle Transportation Account, Landon said.
The existing roadway network in Nevada County includes an estimated 958 miles of developed roads, according to the master plan. Travel is primarily accomplished by automobile due to the rural nature of the transportation network and limited opportunities for alternative modes of travel.
To contact Staff Writer Matthew Renda, email firstname.lastname@example.com or 530-477-4239.


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