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Whether it's a family vacation, a business trip or simply armchair traveling, Travel Tidings USA is your free USA vacation, hotel and travel guide of choice.
From the whales of Alaska to the beaches of Florida, from the theatres of New York to the theme parks of California, from the Grand Canyon to the islands of Hawaii, Travel Tidings USA is your one-stop gateway and guide to everything you need to know about the United States of America.
Alabama From its northern mountains to every beach on its Gulf Coast, Alabama has many attractions and events for a vacation of fun: the beaches, golf, abundant natural wildlife, fishing and hunting, and above all, there is a wealth of history to explore in Alabama. The Civil Rights Movement that started in Alabama changed the world. ALABAMA HOTELS
Alaska Whether taking a cruise in Alaska or hitting the road, travel in Alaska offers endless options, from exploring its vibrant Native culture (its art, totem carving, dancing, music or museums) to enjoying Alaska's natural wonders and wildlife the glaciers, the whales, the bald eagles, and the northern lights among them. ALASKA HOTELS
Arizona The Grand Canyon, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, is a magnet that draws visitors to Arizona. About 4-million visitors a year travel to see the Grand Canyon.
Arizona is steeped in Western legend and lore. Some visitors are there for Arizona's many shopping venues or for its 27 State Parks and the fishing, camping, hiking, horseback riding, wildlife viewing and boating they provide. ARIZONA HOTELS
Arkansas Arkansas is a compact, multi-faceted vacation land known as The Natural State and noted for the beauty of its extensive forests (more than 60% of Arkansas is wooded) and for an abundance of water (more than 600,000 acres of lakes, 9,700 miles of streams and rivers, and numerous natural hot springs). Six national park sites and 51 state parks preserve the natural, historic and cultural aspects of Arkansas's heritage. AKRANSAS HOTELS
California There are a thousand reasons California is the sixth most-visited destination in the world .... and six of those are Anaheim, Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco and San Jose. Count among the other reasons, amusement and theme parks for kids of all ages, many miles of uninterrupted strands of pristine California beach, 700 wineries (and counting), some 20,000 gray whales passing California's shores, 21 historic missions, 45 snow resorts offering downhill and cross country skiing, snowboarding, ice skating, and more, 20-million acres of National Forest and 50 significant wilderness areas for backpacking and superb hotels, motels and spas across California. CALIFORNIA HOTELS
Colorado Colorado ranks first among all states in skiable acres and is home to nearly 50 natural hot springs; Colorado is also a great place for nearly every other outdoor winter activity like inner tubing, snowshoeing, ice skating, snowboarding, ice fishing, horse-drawn sleigh rides and snowball fights. COLORADO HOTELS
Connecticut Connecticut, one of the 13 original colonies, is a lacework of preserved Early American and Colonial structures and sites with a legacy of Victorian architecture, military firearms, Industrial Revolution manufacturing, literature and theater, and American Impressionist art. CONNECTICUT HOTELS
DC (Washington) Washington DC is best known for a wide array of cultural and historical attractions, and historic monuments and memorials .... most of them free to the public, and open seven days a week. WASHINGTON DC HOTELS
Delaware Delaware draws 13 million-plus visitors a year with its picturesque scenery, sandy beach shores, colonial history, its museums and performing arts, culture-rich Brandywine Valley, and of course, its tax-free shopping. DELAWARE HOTELS
Florida Florida is probably the perfect vacation destination for the entire family its beaches, theme parks, shopping, history and culture, outdoor parks and activities, hotels and resorts, (even the weather) and all the attractions that draw over 80-million visitors a year to The Sunshine State say so. FLORIDA HOTELS
Georgia Georgia has exciting destinations that are fun for the whole family, from interactive museums to waterparks and zoos to the thrills and spills of a world-class amusement park; and outdoors to state parks brimming with Civil War history, panning for gold in the Georgia Mountains, hiking the Appalachian Trail, shooting the Chattanooga River rapids and enjoying the beaches and golf courses along the Coast at charming Savannah and the beautiful Brunswick & The Golden Islands. GEORGIA HOTELS
Hawaii The moment you arrive in Hawaii, with its own language, distinctive music and hula, the Polynesian magic and its warm, friendly people take over. Hawaii is famed for its dazzling beaches, unrivaled for surfing and windsurfing, and its golf courses (eight Hawaii courses can be found in Golf Magazine's list of Top 25 USA Golf Resorts). HAWAII HOTELS
Idaho With its high mountain peaks, alpine lakes, lush forests and desert sand dunes, Idaho's door is always open to adventure seekers, outdoor enthusiasts and those looking to learn about its scenic beauty, western history and diverse culture. IDAHO HOTELS
Illinois From the skyscrapers of Chicago and the riverboats along the Mississippi, to the brand new Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield and the lush Shawnee National Forest, the opportunities to discover Illinois are endless. ILLINOIS HOTELS
Indiana With its two big rivers, its lush lakefront parks, rolling hills and quaint villages, visitors can explore a wide array of adventures in Indiana, from arts and culture, sports and motor racing, agritourism, history and heritage, outdoor recreation, scenic getaways, family fun, shopping and some 470 golf courses spread across Indiana. INDIANA HOTELS
Iowa From fascinating museums and historic sites to theme parks and art galleries, Iowa offers attractions galore. Motels, hotels and inns across Iowa provide relaxing getaways and access to hundreds of miles of hiking and biking trails. IOWA HOTELS
Kansas In Kansas visitors can explore the continent's largest remaining tallgrass prairie and discover sweeping horizons, find dinosaur bones and moon rocks, hunt and fish, find diverse art centers and museums, and comb out-of-the-way antique shops. KANSAS HOTELS
Kentucky From the hills and hollows of eastern Kentucky through the rolling bluegrass of its heartland to the massive lakes and flatlands of the west, Kentucky has much to offer vacationers: from roller coasters to scenic tours to classical music concerts; its diverse landscape and waterways provide great opportunities for outdoor recreation and all year long, Kentucky is alive with more than 700 festivals. KENTUCKY HOTELS
Louisiana Louisiana's attractions are as diverse as its many cultures, from casinos and nightlife, to plantations and museums, to restaurants, jazz venues, marinas, golf courses and Mardi Gras and other festivals. Visitors can check out the year-round Mardi Gras exhibits in museums across the state. Along its Gulf Coast are beaches, bird watching, fishing. LOUISIANA HOTELS
Maine For the family, Maine offers animal parks and zoos, family fun parks, beaches, minIature golf, and waterparks; for great outdoor activities for vacationers there is downhill skiing and snowboarding in Maine, Nordic skiing, snowmobiling, hiking, biking, canoeing, sea kayaking, sailing and rafting and golf. MAINE HOTELS
Maryland In the 1920s, a reporter for National Geographic visited Maryland and dubbed the state "America in Miniature." It sum up Maryland quite nicely. It has it all from mountains to seashores and everything is within about a 3-hour drive of Maryland's biggest city, Baltimore. MARYLAND HOTELS
Massachusetts With more than 1,500 miles of shoreline on the Atlantic coast as well as two famous offshore islands Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard Massachusetts boasts more than 80 beaches. Other well-known beaches are located on Cape Cod, Cape Ann and the shore areas north and south of Boston. Travelers can also visit a number of beaches near lakes, ponds and within national parks. There are 107 state forests and parks. MASSACHUSETTS HOTELS
Michigan In Michigan you are never more than six miles from a body of water with plenty of beaches. Rockhounds scour Lake Superior's rocky shore for agates and other specimens, and the Lake Michigan beaches around Petoskey in search of the namesake state stone, the Petoskey stone. MICHIGAN HOTELS
Minnesota Minnesota may be known as the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes and these lakes are the focus of Minnesota's great outdoor activities but it is the vibrant Minneapolis-St. Paul hub (known as the Twin Cities) that provide its cosmopolitan flair. MINNESOTA HOTELS
Mississippi Mississippi has a unique blend of cities and countrysides, history and contemporary appeal. Mississippi's culture and heritage is found in the state's museums, historical homes, Civil War sites and landmarks, its casinos throughout the state from Tunica, the third largest gaming destination in the USA, to Biloxi along the Gulf of Mexico, a year-round resort and a major fishing center. There are over 145 Mississippi golf courses. MISSISSIPPI HOTELS
Missouri Across Missouri, some 300 historic districts allow visitors to see, touch and walk around Missouri's history. There are beautiful state parks, rivers and caves throughout Missouri. Branson, America's live entertainment capital in the Ozark Mountains, has more theater seats than Broadway and features entertainers performing everything from music to magic MISSOURI HOTELS
Montana Visitors to Montana are drawn there by the lure of river trips, hiking, fishing, mountain biking, skiing and snowmobiling in its wide open spaces or in its majestic mountains and superb parks, scenic drives like Beartooth Highway in Montana's Yellowstone and the Going to the Sun Highway in Glacier National Park. MONTANA HOTELS
Nebraska In Nebraska visitors find some of the nation's most acclaimed attractions and events, from a world-class zoo to the world's largest private collection of Americana to a 10,000-year-old unsolved mystery plus museums, historical outposts, and otherworldly rock formations. NEBRASKA HOTELS
Nevada Go to Nevada and you can spend the night in an Aladdin's cave, in a pyramid, in Venice, in Casablanca or overlooking breathtaking Lake Tahoe, or spend a night in a ghost town .... it's part of the casino glitz and glamour of Las Vegas, Reno or Laughlin and the tranquility of Lake Tahoe; but visitors can also enjoy the history of the Old West, scenic and historic recreation areas, or go golfing, hiking, biking, climbing, and enjoying watersports. NEVADA HOTELS
New Hampshire From the sea coast to the soaring peaks of the highest mountains in the northeast, New Hampshire is a vacation destination that offers plenty of opportunity for sport and play and the state is small enough to crisscross in a day. Vacationers can drive from ocean to mountains in less than three hours or dawdle in antique shops, berry-picking farms and picnic spots along the way. NEW HAMPSHIRE HOTELS
New Jersey While New Jersey is best known for its beaches and boardwalks, visitors can discover enjoyable journeys off the beaten path in the Garden State from authentic historical reenactments at Revolutionary War sites across the state to Thomas Edison's home and laboratories or an eclectic sculpture garden in the middle of an industrial park. NEW JERSEY HOTELS
New Mexico From dinosaurs to volcanos to Native American Anasazi ruins, New Mexico is famous for its natural beauty and its ancient past. Its mountains, deserts, lakes, and forests offer endless recreational opportunities. The remains of New Mexico's ancient civilizations offer an evocative glimpse of the lives of centuries past. New Mexico's monuments and museums chronicle these historic events. NEW MEXICO HOTELS
New York New York state is a dazzling vacation destination with world-class attractions like Niagara Falls and the Statue of Liberty. Even longtime visitors still marvel at the pulsating excitement of Times Square; you can camp, hike, canoe in the Adirondack or Catskill mountains, fish or play golf everywhere, explore the Hudson Valley mansions and the battlefields of Saratoga, and stand in awe at Niagara Falls. There are breweries, wineries, casinos, Halls of Fame, museums, nature parks and zoos; and some of the greatest shopping in the world. NEW YORK HOTELS
North Carolina From the misty mountains to the sunny coastal beaches, North Carolina is the USA's variety vacationland with natural beauty, history, arts, culture and adventure something for everyone. NORTH CAROLINA HOTELS
North Dakota Pick up the trail of America's greatest legends like Lewis and Clark, Sakakawea, Custer, Sitting Bull and Theodore Roosevelt in North Dakota and follow in their footsteps. NORTH DAKOTA HOTELS
Ohio Vacationers to Ohio will find offerings in four key areas: family travel, arts and culture, history and heritage and outdoor adventure. Vacationers to Ohio can travel from ancient Indian cultures to the birthplace of aviation to the world's fastest roller coaster in less than three hours. OHIO HOTELS
Oklahoma Oklahoma has more than 300 museums and historic sites, attractions from kitschy Route 66 icons to top-rated zoos, from art museums to roller coasters. From pristine mountain streams and piney forests to peaceful lakes and sandy beaches, Oklahoma's 51 state parks and numerous wildlife refuges and recreation areas offer a wealth of outdoor adventure. OKLAHOMA HOTELS
Oregon Tourists are flocking to the rugged coastline, snow-dusted mountains, dramatic river canyons and vineyards of Oregon. Its treasure chest of natural resources includes 13 national forests, more than 240 state parks, over 1,700 lakes, and more than 112,000 miles of waterways and rivers. OREGON HOTELS
Pennsylvania Bustling metropolitan cities and charming small towns many of which, like Gettysburg and the Battle of Gettysburg, were home to turning points in American history make Pennsylvania a land of contrasts as diverse as its attractions. PENNSYLVANIA HOTELS
Rhode Island Rhode Island is the perfect getaway for vacationers who want all the variety of a New England experience without hours of travel and hassle. Attractions, accommodations, first-class restaurants and shopping are packed into Rhode Island, the smallest state. RHODE ISLAND HOTELS
South Carolina South Carolina is one of the original American Colonies with a rich history and culture shaped by European, African and Caribbean influences. Visitors will discover cherished American historic sites, cultural and artistic treasures, award-winning museums, and fantastic shopping and dining. SOUTH CAROLINA HOTELS
South Dakota From the rolling prairies and glittering lakes to the Badlands and its legendary Black Hills, South Dakota is a haven for fisherman, hunters, golfers and skiers alike. It has more than 1,100 square miles of water and a fishing season that never closes; hunters have access to nearly 5 million acres of public land. SOUTH DAKOTA HOTELS
Tennessee Tennessee is a fun-filled vacation destination from the Great Smoky Mountains in the East to the rolling horse country and city scapes of Middle Tennessee, to the world capital of country music in Nashville and the blues on Beale Street and Graceland in Memphis .... all amid rolling hills, mountain streams, river cities, world-renowned attractions and shopping in malls to outlet stores to antiques. TENNESSEE HOTELS
Texas Texas is a place where every day can hold a new adventure for hunters, anglers, campers, bird watchers and other outdoor enthusiasts, but there is also another side of Texas: its 45 theme parks, its ocean playground on the Gulf Coast with 600 miles of coastline and beaches, its world-class museums and arts centers, and over 900 golf courses. TEXAS HOTELS
Utah Utah is called "Crossroads of the West", the place where cities, mountains, rivers and cultures converge. Utah has five national parks: Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon, Arches National Park, Canyonlands National Park, and Capitol Reef National Park. UTAH HOTELS
Vermont Vermont is famous for its country inns, covered bridges, and recreational opportunities: in the summertime there is hiking, biking, swimming and sightseeing; in the winter, snowmobiling, snowboarding, skiing downhill or cross-country, skating, and autumn is, or course, Vermont's incredibly beautiful foliage season. VERMONT HOTELS
Virginia Virginia is for lovers of vacations a laid-back place of natural beauty, mountains or seashore a vacation promising what each visitor seeks fun, shopping for antiques or fashion, history, theme-park excitement, nature, cultural events, boating, skiing, and mountain climbing. VIRGINIA HOTELS
Washington Washington is a place to discover the energy of sophisticated cities, and all the culinary, cultural and arts experiences for which Seattle and Tacoma are famous; outdoors there is the high desert, the rain forest, alpine wilderness, the inland waters of Puget Sound, islands, mountains, rivers. WASHINGTON HOTELS
West Virginia West Virginia offers whitewater rafting, snow sports, canoeing, hiking and backpacking, hunting, fishing, camping, wildlife viewing, and large tracts of wilderness. WEST VIRGINIA HOTELS
Wisconsin Woods and water are two of the reasons Wisconsin has become the Midwest's vacation playground; from the USA's largest collection of indoor waterparks to 22,000 miles of groomed snowmobile trails, a variety of indoor and outdoor activities await Wisconsin winter travelers. WISCONSIN HOTELS
Wyoming There's plenty to see and do in Wyoming: following in the footsteps of Wyoming's Western pioneers, experiencing Native American culture firsthand, exploring Wyoming's many natural wonders, joining in the Western fun in any of Wyoming's diverse cities or driving through some of the USA's most scenic countryside. WYOMING HOTELS
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HDFS Club Holds Breast Cancer Awareness Event
Penn State Shenango HDFS Club members and the Nittany Lion took a break during the club's Breast Cancer Awareness event on October 23 to take a picture with Chancellor Fred Leeds (center) and Adrienne and Dean Toth and their baby boy Kellan (front right). Adrienne is a local cancer survivor who was diagnosed with breast cancer at the same time she found out that she was expecting her first child almost a year-and-a-half a go. She and her husband came down to the campus to support the event and answer questions that students, faculty, staff and community members had regarding cancer. Representatives from Sharon Regional Health System and UPMC Horizon were also in attendance to provide information.
Michele Truax, secretary of the HDFS club, who sported a pink wig for the day, was instrumental in organizing the Breast Cancer Awareness event. Michele is a strong advocate for breast cancer awareness as both of her grandmothers are breast cancer survivors. She, herself, has been tested positive for the cancer gene. According to Michele, "Cancer can happen to anyone. Risk factors do play a part in it, but it doesn't mean it can't happen to you. I've read so much about Adrienne and Adrienne's Army, her supporters, and she stuck out in my mind when I thought about holding this event."
Other club officers who helped plan the event were President Kelvin Jordan, Vice President Ellie Thompson, and Treasurer Tessa Chanze.

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RTE: A Station in the Front Line
RTE is going through its most difficult period in editorial terms since the start of the Troubles. Remember the sacking of the Authority and the jail sentence imposed on Kevin O'Kelly?
At least on this occasion, there is no talk of anybody being put behind bars – well not yet! Personally, I don't believe in lecturing journalists in other media organisations – or indeed my own – about standards.
But there has been a problem with The Frontline since its inception. One was never comfortable with the audience - a fairly typical example was the recent programe with Minister of State Ciaran Cannon which was the subject of the following blogpost.
I wrote at the time that such was the array of opinion against Cannon that one was reminded of a crowd ganging-up on a youngster in a schoolyard. I hardly know the man and would not necessarily agree with him on any subject whatsoever, but he kept his cool remarkably well.
I also wrote that it was a disturbing sight. Others I meet in and around Leinster House have expressed the view that The Frontline was entering a new zone for Irish television – more akin to the Jerry Springer Show than traditional current affairs television.
Frankly, I have never watched more than a few minutes of Jerry Springer so I am not qualified to comment on the comparison. But the RTE production did seem to be taking a strongly-populist approach where the Government panellists were likely to become very isolated targets.
Good, hard, robust criticism is an essential feature of democracy and when politicians go for election they can't expect to be treated with kid-gloves. But there also needs to be balance and fairness.
It is at least arguable that Sean Gallagher would be President of Ireland today, were it not for The Frontline. I have it on good authority from inside the Michael D. Higgins campaign that all seemed lost the weekend before the election.
But one Tweet changed everything. Or rather the way the Tweet was received and broadcast, without being verified, and the failure to report the Sinn Fein disavowal of same brought Gallagher down.
Some folk say it was good for the country that Gallagher was undone, by fair means or foul, that there were too many question-marks over him, etc. The problem with this view is that it is a denial of democracy.
Had Gallagher made it to the Park and then turned out to be entirely unsuitable – well, there are ways of dealing with that in the Constitution.
RTE is a major national asset but it has its flaws. There is a coarseness in some of the comedy output that it is at times a cause of dismay. A different version of the same mentality was in evidence in the way Sean Gallagher was treated.
Let's hope this worthy broadcasting institution can come through this crisis, weather the storm and that normal service can be resumed, with lessons learnt and taken to heart.
Interestingly, this is not the first time a politician was brought down by a Tweet, except that in the case of Willie O'Dea, the message sent out by Dan Boyle was genuine. Twitter rules the political landscape, it would seem.


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The outspoken comedian and actress, 52, moderated the program from 2006 to 2007, before leaving after a heated argument with former co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck in 2007. Now, O'Donnell is in talks to return to the show, PEOPLE has learned, and has been in talks with producers for the last 6 months. O'Donnell will join current host Whoopi Goldberg, and the show will reportedly be making two more hires.
Former host Elisabeth Hasselbeck, now a co-host on Fox & Friends, said it was clear that O'Donnell remained a force on the show from her involvement in Walters's final show, where the broadcast legend was feted by her star peers.
"I do believe this has been in the works for a long, long time," Hasselbeck said on air Wednesday.
"She walked around with a lot of control. And then when I had the chance to talk to her, Rosie herself told me, on set while we were mic-ed up, that she produced the reunion show to have everybody together and that it was her idea," Hasselbeck said. "Now, do you think the woman who left the way that she did would be producing Barbara's goodbye show? Here's the shocker, it was actually her 'Hello Show.' "
A rep for ABC, however, refused to confirm to PEOPLE that any casting decisions had been made for The View.
"As we have said previously, The View will be moving in an exciting new direction next season and ABC has made decisions to evolve the show creatively but at this time," the rep said in a statement to PEOPLE, "we have no announcement to make and we are weeks away from making any type of announcement about anything pertaining to the show."
With reporting by LYNETTE RICE and EMILY STROHM


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5 Environmental Myths Too Many People Still Believe
The environment is everywhere. It's in the forests, and in the plains, and in the sea, and in the sky, and up in the club.
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It's behind you right now.
Now, I understand that a lot of you don't care about this, because you're not some filthy environmentalist, and that's fine. But it's hard to deny that we need air to breathe and water to drink and dirt to grow corn that we also drink, and from that observation, it's not unreasonable to conclude that activities that ruin that air, water, or dirt are something we should at least consider minimizing. Yes, there are serious differences of opinion about how much risk or impact certain activities might actually pose, but at some point, basically every one of us is an Ent-loving hippie.
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"I can hear its heartbeat! And ... feel it sprouting a new branch?"
But whether you consider yourself an environmentalist or not, you'll have at one point shouted out loud as some idiot spouted off yet another widespread misconception about the environment. These go both ways, from misguided idiots demanding we stop saving the environment to misguided idiots demanding we save it in all the wrong ways. Here are five of the biggest.
#5. Eating Local Doesn't Help Much at All
Eating locally grown food makes lots of sense, just buckets and buckets of sense.
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Food grown far away has to ride to you on pollution-belching trucks or ships or coal-fired bulldozers, all of which result in carbon dioxide entering the atmosphere. Consequently, the theory goes, we can dramatically reduce the environmental impact of what we eat by buying food grown locally. That's sort of true, although don't look surprised when I tell you there's a "but."
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The "but" is that it takes a lot more carbon to simply grow the food, with production accounting for something like 83 percent of the total carbon footprint. This means that a farm that's even slightly more efficient at growing might be the better choice, even if it's farther away. For example, if you're buying lamb in the U.K., one study has calculated that it's four times more carbon intensive to buy locally grown lamb than lamb shipped all the way from New Zealand. That study was admittedly performed by a New Zealand university, which might not be entirely unbiased on the subject of lamb exports, but the same thing has been found in a lot of other cases as well.
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Also, these "food mile" calculations elevate carbon dioxide above all other pollutants and environmental impacts. A full life-cycle consideration of the environmental impacts of food might reveal a dramatically different conclusion from "local food is better." But seeing as that kind of spreadsheet heavy-nerd-lifting is the kind of thing people don't want to do in a grocery store, here's a super simple shorthand trick you can use to reduce the environmental impact of your food:
Waste less food.
Something like 40 percent of the food we grow isn't eaten, the vast majority of that because it's thrown away by the consumer. As long as you eat everything you buy, you'll be way ahead of the guy buying local produce and letting it spoil. So eat your leftovers, kids, and please be sensible when buying food in bulk.
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If you're buying 30 burritos at Costco, you'd goddamned better be prepared to saddle up and eat 30 burritos, partner.
#4. Things Are Rarely Recycled into Themselves
We all know how recycling works. You use a thing, you throw the thing in the thing, and then it's recycled and becomes a new thing again, in an endless cycle of death and rebirth.
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Every one of these bottles was its own great-grandfather.
Except that no, that's not how it works at all. Due to all the paper, glue, dyes, fillers, leftover soda, and bodily fluids that are included in the average recycled bottle, when this stuff gets melted down, it results in a crappy, gross product. The very highest quality recycled bottles can get turned back into fresh bottles, but that's only a fraction of them. Most of your recycled Coke bottles get turned into cheaper, less fancy products like carpet or Dr. Pepper bottles.
Which is why Dr. Pepper tastes a little bit like carpet.
This is called "downcycling," and it's a big problem in the recycling world, which means a huge amount of the recyclable products we buy are still made with virgin raw materials. Paper has a similar problem; it recycles fairly easily, but that process chops up the fibers that give paper its texture, and recycled paper never feels as smooth or high quality as the fresh stuff.
It's not all bad, though. We have plenty of use for not-very-smooth-feeling paper in our packing materials and cheap napkins and such. And some recyclables recycle up real nice. Aluminum cans, for example, can be turned into fresh aluminum cans with no quality problems at all, using 5 percent of the energy required to make new cans. So please don't stop recycling. Because ...
#3. Recycling Is Far from Pointless
You see the opinion that we should stop recycling trotted out every now and then because of the problem with recyclable products (as discussed), and also because of how expensive it is. Recycling requires extra collection containers, dedicated trucks to pick them up, and dedicated facilities to sort and process them, none of which come cheap.
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Even if you reduce your labor costs somehow.
The simple form of this argument stops there, with the unsaid assumption that throwing stuff away is "free." It most certainly is not. Landfills aren't just a place where a dump truck backs up and unloads a bunch of trash. That trash has to be compacted and covered in soil (to fight the stench, and also the birds that desperately want to move that trash right back into your city), and this all has to be done in carefully engineered layers so that the damn thing doesn't collapse on the poor guys working there. And then there's the costs associated with leachate treatment and groundwater monitoring and landfill gas collection and the falconer.
Oh yeah. Landfills have falconers.
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This noble beast defends the garbage of the defenseless.
And that's all if you have an existing landfill. If you want to build a new one, you're looking at years of design and engineering and the small matter that no one wants a landfill anywhere near them, and as soon as you propose the location for a new one, everyone around it will flip their shit.
But let's say our arguer knows that and still says recycling is too expensive (they're not wrong -- landfilling is up to 50 percent the price of recycling). Even then the comparison isn't clean, as it has to account for the fact that recyclables can be sold and the wildly fluctuating market value of those recyclables, as well as the total life-cycle cost of building new products and landfilling them vs. partially recycling them. For example, those plastic bottles we discussed earlier that get recycled into crappy lawn furniture? Well, if we weren't making that lawn furniture out of plastic bottles, we'd be making it out of oil (that's what plastic is, kids), and as you might have heard, that hasn't been getting cheaper. Yes, we should probably be buying less crappy lawn furniture, but while we're not, these total life-cycle calculations make recycling far from a pointless activity.
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Although it will cost some falcons their jobs.


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Any parent who takes their child into a grocery store knows the routine: The child wants Mommy or Daddy to get them everything - and doesn't understand that it costs money.
So the result is an upset, angry or whiny child, and parents who wonder why they brought the child to the store.
That's an all-too common story for many Americans. But while it's usually the source of some eye-rolling bemusement now, it can also be the warning sign of what's to come in the future - when the child grows up, still doesn't fully understand how to handle money, and winds up buried beneath a mountain of debt, with no steady income, no retirement savings and no ability to manage finances.
That's why experts say you should start teaching your children early about the value of money, what it means to save or spend, how to budget and how to handle yourself financially.
"This isn't for some of the population. This is for all the population," said Laura Levine, executive director of the national Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy. "The financial decisions vary, but we all have to make those decisions."
Otherwise, they say, children will end up making the same mistakes as their parents before them, because we can't just assume they'll pick up the knowledge and good behavior along the way from someone else.
"There's room for financial awareness around the dinner table and in the classroom, right on the way up," said Timothy Oldenburg, career and technical education coordinator and director of the Academy of Finance for the West Seneca Central School District.
"It's about preparing for your life as part of a family and also your life in the workforce and preparing more than ever for your own retirement desires," he said.
Understanding the basics of handling your money isn't one of Americans' strong suits. Countless studies have shown many people don't know how to balance a checkbook, don't know how credit cards and checking accounts work and don't comprehend many other fundamental financial concepts. As a result, they don't teach their children.
Bankrate.com even cited a recent survey by TrueCredit.com that found about 20 percent of parents had never discussed the basics of money with their kids between the ages of 4 and 18.
While that's been "a tremendous failure" by parents, it's not because they don't think it's an important thing to do, Levine said. "I don't think they misunderstand the importance, but there are a whole lot of things that get in the way, including parents' own lack of knowledge and comfort with money management," she said.
Increasingly, schools have been introducing personal finance curriculum at all levels, through partnerships with banks or groups like Jump$tart, Junior Achievement and others.
Bank of Akron, for example, is launching a new financial literacy program from one of its vendors for middle-school grades in Western New York. Called Money Island and featuring a character named Stone Broke, it's set up like a video game, and the bank will offer it free to local schools. It also has had a partnership with Akron Elementary School for 10 years.
"We think that it's good for young children to have some kind of incentive-based program in the elementary school level, where they can have accounts and a piggy bank," said E. Peter Forrestel II, president and CEO of Bank of Akron, which gives each child an account and collects their savings at the school once a week. The bank even brings the first-graders for a tour, letting them hold a packet of $10,000 to see what that much cash looks and feels like.
"We just think it's good for kids to save, so we're willing to shoulder the expense of operating the account and sending the statements," he said. "When they're in first grade, they're learning things, and that's a good time to learn what a bank is and what a bank is for."
The Academy of Finance, a national initiative that operates in high schools across the country, is a formal school-based program that has been growing. The three-year program includes financial literacy, with a course on budgeting, setting financial goals and reconciling bank statements "so they know what they have in there, how to plan for the future and reach those goals," said Renee Day, the program's lead teacher for the two West Seneca high schools.
But it also offers a deeper grounding in finance and allows the students to operate a bank branch in the school, for use by students and parents. The branch at West Seneca is operated with Evans Bank, while Lancaster High School's is run with Bank of Akron.
Formal education isn't the only time to teach money skills, though. "At schools, we have the opportunity to teach kids standards-based education," Levine said. "At home, kids have the opportunity to see some of this in practice and parents have the opportunity to integrate their own values. So parents still play an important role."
So how early should you start to talk about money with your children? As early as preschool, ages 3 to 5, experts say.
"I absolutely believe in starting early," said Levine, who started with her son at age 3. "This is the age at which they are learning behaviors, learning right and wrong. They're starting to form their opinions, starting to understand how the world works. This is the time to teach this."
Here's a few basic tips from experts, including the local banks, JumpStart and Bankrate.com:
1. Set a good example. Make sure you're saving money yourselves from every paycheck, and that your kids see that.
"Even if you maybe have not done as well as you could have in the past, you have to resolve to do better starting now, so that your kids can see that," Levine said. "If you're telling your kids you ought to save but then you're out spending on things you can't afford, your kids will be more influenced by your behavior."
2. Start talking to your kids early about money. When your child receives cash, have them divide it into three groups of "give," "save" and "spend."
"It's never too early. I'm having conversations with my 3-year-old," said Curtis Arnold, founder of CardRatings.com, chairman of the Arkansas JumpStart Coalition, and father of six children. "If they can work an iPad better than we can as adults at age 3, then you can teach some basic principles."
3. Start a bank account early, and have them save money.
4. When you bring the kids to the grocery store, talk about how much things cost, and look for what's on sale. When they're older, let them choose items, so they learn to compare prices.
"You take every opportunity you can as a parent," Day said. "It's a safe environment, because if they fail, they have a parent to help them out, unlike when they're on their own."
5. Engage your kids in family budgeting and decision-making, especially about big purchases. "If you look at a house, a lot of students take for granted that the phone is always on, the heat is always on, the cable is always on," Oldenburg said. "But with that comes a monthly bill that has to fit with income coming in and expenses going out."
6. Giving an allowance can help a child learn to manage money. But make sure you have the cash ready on time. "You can't get to Sunday night and not have cash to pay. That sends a message to the kid that money is kind of loose," Levine said.
7. Show the meaning of earning money, by making them do some extra tasks or chores. But make sure those tasks are above and beyond what's normally expected of any member of the household. Don't pay them for making their beds. "We don't want to raise kids in a frame of mind where they won't do anything unless they're paid," said Levine, whose son helped her touch up paint on some walls to earn money for a video game.
8. As they get older, work with them to help them set short-term and long-term goals for their money, and even to budget their spending for themselves. And give your child the freedom to make mistakes and learn from them. If your child overspends, don't bail them out.
Finally, "if you don't start early, don't give up. That kid isn't lost," Levine said. "You still have lots of time to influence behavior throughout their childhood years."
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Lucinda M. Finley, vice provost for faculty affairs for the past nine years, will leave the administrative post at the end of the current academic year to resume her faculty role as a teacher and scholar in the UB Law School.
An internal search for her successor as vice provost will be launched later this spring.
In a message to the UB community announcing Finley's decision to return to the faculty full time, Provost Charles F. Zukoski said Finley "can be proud of her accomplishments in building strength in the UB faculty — the foundation of a great university. As vice provost, Lucinda enhanced greatly UB's goals of promoting faculty excellence and recruiting and retaining excellent faculty."
"Lucinda's commitment to faculty success, recognition and development has greatly advanced UB's mission to achieve academic excellence," Zukoski said. "She has provided meaningful advice and assistance to faculty members preparing for the promotion and tenure process, improved the clarity and transparency of information about the process, as well as coordinated that process university-wide."
Zukoski also praised Finley's work helping to obtain recognition for faculty by leading the nomination process for internal, SUNY and national awards. Nearly 50 faculty members have been appointed to the ranks of SUNY Distinguished Professor during her tenure as vice provost.
Among Finley's other accomplishments cited by Zukoski were expansion of the new faculty orientation program, creation of a department chair workshop series and workshops to provide search committee training, and the popular dual career partner hiring assistance program.
Frank Raichle Professor of Trial and Appellate Advocacy in the Law School, Finley has been a member of the law faculty since 1990. Her research and teaching have focused on tort law, women and the law, reproductive rights, employment discrimination and First Amendment and equal protection law.
She is the author of numerous law review articles and book chapters on tort law and women and the law, and is co-author of a leading casebook, "Tort Law & Practice" (Lexis Publications, third edition 2006). She is also active as a litigator and appellate advocate in the federal courts, and frequently testifies before the U.S. Congress and state legislative committees. She was the first female lawyer from Western New York to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court.


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#4: Improve Yourself
The more attentive amongst you might recall that the concept of this Source Code film is reminiscent of Groundhog Day, a 1993 film where Bill Murray had to prevent Andie MacDowell from blowing up a train.
In Groundhog Day, Bill Murray (played by Bill Murray) escaped his time loop by using every iteration of the loop to learn new skills, improving himself and ultimately becoming a better person. To use the language of those who are not nor ever will be better people, he was essentially "power-leveling." Although this did lend a nice arc to his character, time scientists now agree that for the rest of us it is actually advisable to act more like Bill Murray, rather than less like him.
#3: Avoid Frasier
In the classic Star Trek:TNG episode "Cause and Effect" the Enterprise got trapped in a time loop, doomed to continuously die in a fiery explosion after being run down by Kelsey Grammer.
"I'm fine, you big babies. It was five drinks. And I ate. I'm fine."
In this circumstance, escaping the loop was made more difficult because no-one could clearly remember they were in a time loop, which made the solution -- moving a bit to the left -- not quite as childishly easy as it sounds. So if you happen to find yourself in a time loop, try doing everything a few feet to the left of where you are right now. And if you are in a time loop, but don't know it, simply keep an eye out for Kelsey Grammer, and hurl yourself into a random direction as soon as you see him, even if it's just on television.
Oh shit -- there he is now!
#2: Find and Murder the Witch
Witches are constantly plotting and scheming, and with your ill-advised tendency to shriek insults at groups of women, it's entirely possible that you have angered a coven.
A typical coven.
Examine the people around you, checking for signs of witchiness. Cackle-like laughs and pointy shoes are typical signs, by also look for anyone immune to fire. Douse everyone you see in fire, and when you do find someone who doesn't burn to death, douse that person in water to kill them. It may seem less dangerous to do this the other way around, but that's witch magic trying to trick you.
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The common misconception is that punk musicians aren't very good at their craft. For the most part, that might be true — Dee Dee Ramone did get laughed out of an audition for Television in 1973.
But for a musical genre so driven by the beat, where lightning fast technique is a prerequisite for acceptance, the punk drummer rises above the rest. Unlike the guitar and bass players, drummers can't turn down their instrument or increase the distortion. Sid Vicious relied on Steve Jones for direction, but Paul Cook (the drummer of The Sex Pistols) had his balls on the line every night; a lesson he first learned from Tommy Ramone, the original drummer of The Ramones.
Tommy, who passed away over the weekend, was the prototype of modern punk drumming. After him, the position of punk drummer meant you needed to be talented, machine gun fast, and in the case of Green Day's Tré Cool, part human, part mutant — the secret weapon of a punk outfit.
So here it is, a short list of the most dangerous secret weapons in punk history. It's an homage to the genre's original drummer, Tommy Ramone, who remains the blueprint for every name on this list.
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Members of the Randolph County Commission had something to smile about Thursday morning - discharging a $3.1 million debt.
Commissioners Mike Taylor, Chris See and Joyce Johns watched as members of the Randolph County Building Commission approved the cutting of a $279,021 check for the final payment on the Wees Annex.
The annex houses the Randolph County Health Department, WVU Extension Service, the Randolph County Sheriff Department's law enforcement branch and Randolph and Tucker County Family Court.
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The commission borrowed $3.1 million to bankroll the annex when it was first conceptualized and had expected to pay the money back in $156,000 annual installments over 20 years. Instead, the county managed to pay off the mortgage in only three, said Will Hertig, acting chair of the building commission.
"Today is a particularly special day because we have the privilege and honor of considering [for approval] the payoff of a 20-year loan that's been alive for only three years and will be terminated as of today," Hertig said.
Building commission member Crystal Warner Gibson touted the taxpayer savings she said will stem from the commission's achievement.
"This will save Randolph County citizens considerable tax dollars in interest fees that never have to be paid," Warner Gibson remarked. "This is a good job and a great example of fiscal responsibility."
Randolph County Commission President Mike Taylor stressed that Randolph County was "on solid financial ground."
"I think what's important for the public to understand is that we paid off a 20-year loan in three years," Taylor said. Taylor also praised department heads for their meticulous management of public money, he said, calling the achievement "a cooperative effort" between many parties.
"Elected officials worked hard to hold down expenses so we could have that excess funding," Taylor said.
Hertig, the acting chair of the building commission, tendered his resignation to the county commission Thursday. Hertig said it had been a pleasure to work with county officials and that he was proud to be part of approving the final payment on the Wees Annex.
The commission then transitioned into its regular meeting, during which it approved a request from Randolph County Prosecuting Attorney Michael Parker to hire attorney Lori Gray as the county's assistant prosecuting attorney.
Parker said Gray will replace Randolph County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Shannon Johnson, who is vacating her position to become the prosecuting attorney for Calhoun County. She is running unopposed for the position in the November election.
Parker said the departure of Johnson, who has worked in her current position since 2004, will be a big loss for Randolph County. Gray, however, will be able to hit the ground running, he added.
"Lori will be able to come in and start from day one and know what she's doing. I've had the opportunity to go against her, and I decided to hire her so I wouldn't have to practice against her," Parker joked.
The commission also voted to hire Donald Shreve as a part-time custodian at $10 per hour effective Oct. 9. In other personnel business, Randolph County Sheriff Jack Roy welcomed Roger Foster, the department's newest deputy, to its ranks. Foster recently graduated from the 16-week state police academy, where he was elected spokesperson of his graduating class, the sheriff said.
"[Completing the police academy] is a real achievement," Roy said. "Not everyone is cut out for this kind of work."
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Not attacking you, but I firmly belive that if the 08-09 team was as health in the PO's as the 07-08 one was, and if Malkin was as hurt as we was earlier, we would have won easily. Datsyuk at 60% and Hossa at 70% was a huge blow, and we never had to deal with Malkin the year before.
Before I get attacked, I mean "failed" in the sense that the team didn't win the cup for whatever reason. LGW went nuts over that seemingly impossible trade.
Wings Transactions You Loved Which Unfortunately Failed
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Posted 19 March 2010 - 03:59 PM
See the NFL's "Terrell Owens" rule about changing a person's habits. Not a chance.
getting rid of Avery, if he would have stayed a wing he could not only be a better player, but he would keep his edge on the ice the same but he would act more professionaly off the ice. I believe he could be a 20 goal scorer every season if he was still here, and he would add toughness and get into the other teams heads.
Posted 19 March 2010 - 04:03 PM
Hatcher for me as well; would've been solid however he tore his ACL early in the season, and unlike the Mule he never got back into game shape when we had him...Uwe Krupp - 'nuff said...Both Ulfie, and Wendel were unfortunately past their expiration dates.
What is either a trade, free agent acquisition or draft pick which the Wings have made that you were super hyped about, but which turned out to be a bust?
For me, it'd be the Derian Hatcher signing. I remember being super hyped about us signing a big physical D-man, unlike any that we'd had before. Also, at that time Hatcher was still an All-Star calibur player and long-time Dallas captain.
I thought it would make us exponentially better and tougher, but we all know how that turned out with his injury and then the lockout.
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Posted 19 March 2010 - 04:07 PM
I think it was an ice time thing with Ray. As I said earlier I never understood why we signed him. I was happy giving Draper, Zetterberg, and Datsyuk more ice time with Fedorov bolting to Anaheim.
Ray Whitney, to echo the sentiments of other people. He was great with, was it Columbus? Then he turned into a non-factor here, then goes to Carolina and is a huge presence and actually looks much different. Like the Hatcher situation, coming here was probably not good for this team nor Whitney.
Posted 19 March 2010 - 04:07 PM
LOL - many posters here are probably too young to remember these guys...Neither had a snowballs chance in of making the Red Wings.
Kory Kocur and Curtis Bowen.
Posted 19 March 2010 - 04:13 PM
Not trying to derail the topic here, but was he the last known goalie to play in the NHL that was truly a "Stand-Up" style netminder?
Theres a good one... Ranford was kinda a let down...
I honestly can't think of anyone else that played that style in the past 10 to 15 years.
Posted 19 March 2010 - 04:14 PM
* Bringing Hasek back the 2nd time.
*K.P. over Jagr or Broduer (add Jagr and we have at least one more cup, add Broduer we have at least 3 more)
*Oates for nothing
*Letting Quincy go (though at the time I could understand why) for nothing. It sucks he became a good player, but we could have at least gotten a draft pick (at the time I was mad about that).
I think you missed the spirit of the thread.
I was talking about transactions you liked which turned out as failures.
If the thread was just about transactions you hated from the beginning, every post would be half a page long.
Posted 19 March 2010 - 04:20 PM
Ok back on topic....
Actually, just to go off the grid and go opposite of the topic (A transaction that I hated the Wings made and was thrilled that failed) was CORY CROSS
Posted 19 March 2010 - 04:28 PM
Not to sway the thread but every time it comes up it is depressing to think we chose Primeau ahead of Jagr, Hatcher, Tkachuk, and Brodeur.
Ok back on topic....
Actually, just to go off the grid and go opposite of the topic (A transaction that I hated the Wings made and was thrilled that failed) was CORY CROSS
You call this failure?
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Posted 19 March 2010 - 04:29 PM
Kory Kocur and Curtis Bowen.
lol i just found a Kory Kocur hockey card the other day...weird
Not trying to derail the topic here, but was he the last known goalie to play in the NHL that was truly a "Stand-Up" style netminder?
I honestly can't think of anyone else that played that style in the past 10 to 15 years.
basically any goalie in the late 90s other than Roy. Somewhere around that time is when they all started to go to the butterfly.
Not to sway the thread but every time it comes up it is depressing to think we chose Primeau ahead of Jagr, Hatcher, Tkachuk, and Brodeur.
No Primeau = no Shanahan.
Jagr would have been a slight upgrade over him but i can live with that but Brodeur....i could lose sleep over that.
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Posted 19 March 2010 - 04:50 PM
Yup, we made the right pick with Primeau.
No Primeau = no Shanahan.
Jagr would be been a slight upgrade over him but i can live with that but Brodeur....i could lose sleep over that.
Posted 19 March 2010 - 05:10 PM
I was referring to his 2002 stint with the Wings.
I think he left for a few years before he came back in 2002. Even the 1998 signing wouldn't have been that much of a splash. Krupp is German for crap.
What really happened was..... Krupp signed a big deal in the summer of '98. It was either going to be him or Jyrki Lumme, and at the time Krupp was the better choice. They were still trying to fill the void left after the Konstantinov accident. Unfortunately, he got injured early in the '98/'99 season and ended up getting caught dog sledding while he was supposed to be hurt. The team suspended him after that, and pretty much replaced him when they acquired Chelios at the deadline that year. Krupp missed the following 2 seasons. However, Bowman always had a thing for Krupp since he drafted him for Buffalo back in the 80's and they reinstated him for the last year of his contract which was '01/'02. He played 8 games missing most of the year hurt (again), but this time he didn't dog sled and Bowman had him penned for the playoff line-up in the first round. He played in those first 2 games that we lost to Vancouver, and he was atrocious. He was either -4 or -5, I can't remember. He really s*** the bed, as he was on the ice for just about all of Vancouvers goals. He was scratched the rest of the playoffs and Olausson was put in his place, even when Fischer missed the Stanley Cup clinching game, they dressed Jiri Slegr over Krupp.
That would have to be one of my biggest failed transaction. I was excited to see Krupp come to Detroit after watching him play with Colorado. The fact that he was 6'6" was the coolest thing to me when I was 11 years old.
Another one was Wendell Clark. I thought he was going be an awesome fit in Detroit, but didn't really make a mark. Actually, all of the players we got during Hollands deadline explosion of '99 save for Chelios, didn't work out. Ranford ended up s***ting the bed hardcore against Colorado, and we barely got to see much from Samuelsson.
I never really liked CuJo in Detroit. After Hasek retired, I was really pulling for Ed Belfour. I thought he would've been a better fit for Detroit. He ended up replacing CuJo in Toronto and fared a lot better.
Another one was Manny Legace. I wasn't jumping for joy when we first got him, but when he finally became our starting goalie I was really pulling for him. It's too bad he had a horrible attitude.
Ville Leino is another one. He looked good during the regular season last year, albeit a little lost during the playoffs. But what an utter disapointment he was this season.
I'm going to catch s*** for this one... but Brad Norton. I thought it was interesting when he made the team out of camp after Detroit had been beat up so bad the year before, and then he gets hurt while fighting 6 games in and was replaced by Filppula. Once again making the team a bunch of wimps.
Igor Grigorenko coming over seemed exciting at the time, but he ended up looking awful. Holland even said he'd give him a qualifier so he could come to camp the next year, but he ended up blowing it in Russia too and they just let him go. It was a shame, when he was drafted he had Datsyuk potential. Unfortunately, the accident he had crippled that.
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Posted 19 March 2010 - 05:23 PM
No Primeau = no Shanahan.
Jagr would have been a slight upgrade over him but i can live with that but Brodeur....i could lose sleep over that.
We never would have been able to hold onto Jagr on a team with the firepower and leadership we had. I know there is a lot of love for him on these boards, but let's face it... if Fedorov was a lockerroom distraction, I can't imagine what Jagr would've done for chemistry -- my guess is be traded away. I'm glad we picked Primeau over him, in retrospect.
Hatcher and Tkachuk...eh, I think we made the right choice once it played out. All three were solid performers in their time. I might give the edge to any one of these three in a given year of their primes.
The Brodeur thing, though. Man. Can you imagine how different our team would have looked with someone like Marty backing? It's hard to say that things would have worked out "better," but they certainly would have looked a lot different with one of the best ever in net. That's like some bizarro world type stuff right there. Chances are, we would have won our cups with him, but never would the lineups and systems we've lauded for the past 15 years been a responsible strategy with him as our last line of defense. Would we have adopted a puck possession game? Would the Russian Five have ever been? Would we have had to have traded someone like Nick at the advent of the salary cap? The mind boggles.
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Brendan Shanahan - I was really excited to get a player like him, but he never really worked out that well for the Wings.
Your kidding right?!
Posted 19 March 2010 - 07:49 PM
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A lightweight, a coward, a shitbag, a big girl's blouse.
if your mate is too scared to do something dangerous, like doing that big surfboard jump, or stay out late cos he has to be home for his bird girlfriend or talk to a girl in a bar, you could call him a "woose".
by Birdy October 08, 2004
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Woose or WÖÖse is one of the most rarely seen animals alive it is a cross breed between a moose and a walrus. people from Canada see this as their main god
look at the majestic woose gallop across the plains
by woose follower January 21, 2009
common mis-spelling of the word wuss
Don't be such a wuss, stand up for yourself! (not woose)
by Trembler December 07, 2006
a person who cries and doesnt stand up for himself/herself. does noot have the courage to be strong and just cries. basically a coward.
You are being a woose by not standing up to the fucktard bully.
by dastarfairy June 09, 2006
silly drunken man whore who likes to think he is one for the girls!
Oh Woose not again!
by Helen December 05, 2003
A lesser-known cousin of the moose family; a person who acted in an inappropriate manner whilst drunk.
"Is is a moose? Is it a plane? No, it's a woose"
"She was such a woose that night"
"She was such a woose that night"
by Sez January 08, 2004


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Stanley Roy Watson Sr., known to many as "Root," 49, of Leading Creek Road, departed this life Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013, in Ruby Memorial Hospital, following a brief illness.
Stanley was born Thursday, Dec. 5, 1963, at Elkins, a son of the late Harold Richard Watson and Geraldine Ida Ross Watson.
Surviving is the love of his life, his wife, Patricia Shaffer; one daughter, Wendy Isner and fiance, Anthony Blackburn; two sons, Stanley Watson Jr. and wife, Chasity Kelley Watson, and Joshua Watson and companion, April Miller; three granddaughters, Miciah Kelley, Savannah Vannoy and Alexah Blackburn; one grandson, Chase Kelley; one aunt, Irene Cross and husband, Kenneth; one uncle, Charles Watson; seven brothers, Richard "Bub" Watson and wife, Veronica, Mark Watson, Kirby Watson, Ricky Shaffer and wife, Jamey, Charles "Porky" Shaffer and wife, Sabrina, Daniel Shaffer and Rocky Shaffer and wife, Terissa; seven sisters, Delores Shaffer and husband, James "Jimmy," Rebecca "Becky" Bender and husband, Jerry, Pamela "Pam" Fortney and husband, Dewayne, Sheria Blackburn and husband, Joseph "Joe," Tabitha "Tabby" Tharp, Cindy Chancellor and companion, Michael McGee Sr., and Carol Ann Shaffer; several nieces, nephews and cousins; and a very good friend, Linda Ferguson.
Preceding him in death, besides his loving parents, was his neighbor and special friend, Thomas "Lynn" Ferguson.
Stanley attended the schools of Randolph County, had worked for Tygart Moulding for 20 years and had worked for Bates Enterprises. He enjoyed playing horseshoes, fishing, ginsenging and spending time with his friends and family. He especially loved playing with his grandchildren whom he loved with all of his heart. He was the best father and grandfather. He was a kind-hearted and compassionate man who never knew a stranger. He will be sadly missed by all who knew him and will always have a special place in our hearts.
Visitation will be conducted at the Randolph Funeral Home Friday, Jan. 11, from noon until 1 p.m., the funeral hour. Pastor Terry Cannon will officiate, and interment will follow in Mountain State Memorial Gardens at Gilman.
The Randolph Funeral Home has been entrusted with the arrangements for Stanley Roy "Root" Watson Sr. Send online condolences to the family at www.therandolphfuneralhome.com.


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One of our own fights for life. Let this unite usPosted Friday, June 8, 2012, at 8:41 PM
That's over.
Consider this blog post now a candle burning for the boy who drowned here in Spencer, who now is in critical condition in Sioux Falls.
As his father requests on the CaringBridge site:
"We also ask that you keep things positive as you reply on this, both on Caring Bridge and on Facebook and any other social media you're communicating through. We have already had to delete one venomous post from here and we've seen several nasty posts on facebook concerning the situation and how it was handled.
Let me just say that the people that worked on Michael, from the lifeguards that recusitated him, to the EMT workers at the Spencer ER, to the staff here at Sanford have been nothing short of amazing. Our own eyes have witnessed this heroism, dedication, and steadfastness while dealing with this traumatic time. You people are incredible, and our hearts and prayers go out to you during this time of healing as well as to our little guy fighting for his life. From the depths of our hearts, we thank you all. You all worked so hard to bring our boy back to us from this accident and you have all performed flawlessly."
I hope that answers the questions of anyone who has doubts about the efforts of the lifeguards, EMTs or anyone who was there. It's a situation that now requires our courage and everything good that's in our hearts. I wish the doctors taking care of this boy the utmost skill and wisdom, and belief that in the face of great odds, they may yet prevail. I wish peace that surpasses understanding to the family. I wish healing and unity to the community.
RIght now, this blog is a place of only goodness, kindness, gentleness, faithfulness, forbearance, and self-control. We can put our own conflicts and preferences aside for a moment in a time of need for hope.
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This truly is an unfortunate occurrence. My prayers go out to his family and friends during this time.
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Will you please post a link to your "routing" code? TIA Anthony
I am going to clean up the code a bit and put it out on my blog in a few days or so. I will update this post here when it is done. Thanks!
Any new on the clean up project? I reall don't care if it is not production quality code. Thanks.
Almost ready. I have added the return cookie injection and it needs to be tested a bit. This allows the router to be stateless.
Dunnry, I guess you didn't finish that project yet, right? Can you please send me the code as it is and I can take it from there, I'm curious to see if my implementation is based on the same idea as yours. Thank you much.
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