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January 20, 2013, 03:16 PM
So do you think we are going to see another boost to the gun/ammo buying craze as people start getting their tax refunds?
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January 20, 2013, 03:24 PM
Is there anything left to buy?
I just started a new job after a year of searching. Got my first paycheck a few weeks too late, it seems. My plan was to buy a Colt AR and a smaller 9mm for carry...I cannot find a single thing in stock or that is not insanely inflated in price.
If I would have known, I would have maxed out my credit card when the buying spree started and gouged everyone myself...
January 20, 2013, 03:29 PM
I don't know I was in Academy at about 2 pm on Thursday and there were at least a dozen people doing NICS paperwork at the gun counter, I did not get close enough to see what they were buying.
January 20, 2013, 04:41 PM
a yearly trafdition... ill mainly focus on ammo this time around... hopefully there will be ammo in stock by then...
January 20, 2013, 04:59 PM
Nope, because there is nothing left LOL. Unless, you are one of these that will pay 4x what something is worth just to have it.
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January 20, 2013, 05:14 PM
One of our local Fleet Farms had a decent stock of handguns when I looked yesterday, rifles not so much. I am blessed to be pretty stocked up on all calibers and tooling, but there are still some pieces of tactical gear that might find their way into the load out closet.
January 20, 2013, 05:19 PM
I have a lot of wants and needs = pent up demand for my tax refund.
A new mattress or
50 in+ flat screen or
Colt 6920 or
a couple of Glocks and/or M&P's or
Ruger MkIII or
a Mossberg shotgun or
a new laptop
or a combination of several of the cheaper items
In the big picture--even if I don't spend it on gun stuff--it free's up my paycheck to save up for gun stuff.
January 20, 2013, 05:34 PM
Nope. I was going to wait until tax time to buy an Hk MR556. I ended up talking myself into just buying it in December. I missed the craze/tadgedy by one day. I am stocked up on ammo for a couple of years, but am always looking for more. I am just not prepared to pay $.75-$1.00+ a round for 5.56.
January 20, 2013, 05:41 PM
So do you think we are going to see another boost to the gun/ammo buying craze as people start getting their tax refunds?
Not for me. Purchased a CMP Kimber 82G rusty on Dec 7th, a SA Range officer 1911 early on December 14th, and a Savage FCP .308 with the HS stock a couple weeks ago.
That tax refund is spent! I'm paying off the credit card as soon as the refund comes in.
January 20, 2013, 05:43 PM
Haven't seen a tax refund since the 80's...
January 20, 2013, 05:48 PM
Depends on whether I get anything back. If I do, I might order the Savage Axis .30-06 lefty I've been wanting, along with a hundred rounds or so.
Or possibly another CCW gun, like a Charter Arms Southpaw, and a few boxes of .38.
January 20, 2013, 05:51 PM
Actually the last few weeks before April 15th is a good time to buy from individuals. You can guess why.
January 20, 2013, 05:54 PM
Well I had $1,000 earmarked solely for ammo but then........ so now I'll just sit on it or maybe buy some silver instead. I can always sell the silver and buy ammo when the panic subsides and the supply catches back up.
January 20, 2013, 06:07 PM
A gun no... Mine might be going toward a scope, scope mount, and quad rail handguard for my AR I got completed right before the current madness...
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Nicholas A. Vassar, 30, of Fremont, was charged with possession of drugs early Friday morning.
James Y. Mees, 22, of North Ridgeville, was charged with possession of drugs early Friday morning.
Richard E. Alford III, 26, of Tiffin, was cited with operating a vehicle while intoxicated early Friday morning. He also was cited with obstructing a roadway.
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Joshua L. Heyman, 32, of Tiffin, was charged with theft Friday morning.
A vehicle in the first block of Sycamore Wood Lane was reported broken into Friday morning.
A woman went to the station Friday morning to report her child's father punched her vehicle in a parking lot in the 2000 block of West SR 18.
A shoplifter was reported Friday morning at Walmart, 2801 W. SR 18.
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Russell M. Smetzler, 52, of Tiffin, was charged with disorderly conduct Tuesday.
James R. Caskey, 49, of Fostoria, was charged with disorderly conduct Wednesday.
A 5000-block North TR 63 man reported Thursday evening people were removing items from his residence without permission.
A man from L&L Pavement, 6705 TR 106, reported early Friday morning one of his vehicles was stolen and involved in a hit-skip accident in Huron County. The Norwalk Post of the State Highway Patrol advised the sheriff's office the person who drove the vehicle fled on foot into a wooded area after the accident. The vehicle was to be towed.
A 16000-block East TR 178 man reported Friday morning items were stolen from three vehicles parked in his garage.
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A 500-block Columbus Avenue woman reported Thursday evening the father of her daughter assaulted her.
Ray V. Scott III, 31, of Fostoria, was charged with domestic violence Friday.
A girl was arrested Friday morning at Fostoria High School, 1001 Park Ave.
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Although there are many other UAV drones that have already been deployed into the legitimate battlefield, the Cypher should still be an excellent tool for reconaissance.
Although there are many other UAV drones that have already been deployed into the legitimate battlefield, the Cypher should still be an excellent tool for reconaissance.
"The Cypher was popularized in Metal Gear Solid 2. But let's see how much more popular it becomes in real-life."
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Clearly shown in freestyle/beatbox circles and breakdancing.
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The turncoat from The Matrix,
Cypher sold out to Agent Smith for riches and power.
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Believed to be one of the greatest hacker alive, we don't know whether he exists. He is believed to work with Anonymous, but also is said that he does Mercenary work. His best hacker friend is 'Blackout' - Most famous for DDoS Attacks on major servers deemed to be invulnerable to traffic-spikes related tango-downs. Blackout is believed to have one of the largest Botnets (or Slaves). Cypher is known for his breaking into multiple computers for no reason and deleting files, he's believed to leave behind a text file (.txt) on the victims desktop with the word Cypher as the filename and Anonymous's motto written on the file itself. Cypher's believed specialty is Cryptography, thus the name 'Cypher'.His knowledge is used for Decryption, and he is said to use his extended knowledge in Cryptography to crack (break) his way into very secured Databases and for dehashing passwords hashed in most secure algorithms. He's very dangeorous, but as any Hacker-On-Steroids, he is vulnerable to dogs and specially curtains.
Cypher has just broken into N.Korea's missile arsenal.
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The Lordstown-built Chevrolet Cruze posted its best-ever monthly sales in August, General Motors Co. reported Tuesday.
The record Cruze sales helped push the auto-maker's sales up 10.1 percent compared to a year ago, the company re-ported. Total August sales hit 240,520, compared to 218,479 a year ago.
The new Cruze sales record hit 25,975 in August, beating the old sales record of 25,160 set in April 2011.
The Lordstown plant produced 27,624 automobiles in August, according to numbers released Tuesday by the automaker.
"All four of our brands are building momentum behind new products so we're very well positioned as the economy continues to slowly improve," said Kurt McNeil, vice president of U.S. sales operations.
Auto industry senior analyst Jessica Caldwell of Edmunds.com saw higher gas prices helping to push the sales of compacts and subcompacts.
"Although trucks had a solid month, the small car performance is what's most impressive about GM's numbers today,'' Caldwell said. ''Cruze, Sonic, and Spark were all unknown nameplates just a few years ago, but now they almost equal the volume of Silverado, the core of Chevy's identity. Higher gas prices in August will lead to unseasonably strong small car performance across the industry."
Ford's sales also rose 13 percent and Chrysler's 14 percent.
Most automakers reported strong gains as Americans flowed into dealer showrooms, drawn by model-year closeouts, low-interest financing and appealing new models.
Pickups, traditionally the top sellers in the U.S., drove much of the business, thanks to a recovering housing market. Sales of Ford's F-Series trucks rose 19 percent, while Chrysler's Ram jumped by the same. GM's pickups, the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra, among the oldest trucks in the market, saw a 6-percent sales increase.
Asian companies and Germany's Volkswagen did well in car sales.
The overall increase was due mainly to pent-up demand as consumers and businesses were forced to replace aging cars and pickup trucks, said Yingzi Su, GM's senior economist. The average age of a vehicle on U.S. road is approaching 11 years.
"People have been holding off new purchases for such a long time, since 2008 to now," she said, adding that auto sales are seeing overall improvements even though the economy is growing slowly.
August sales could hit more than 1.2 million vehicles, up about 20 percent from a year earlier, analysts predict. The annual pace could reach 14.6 million units, among the best months of the year.
Toyota now has a full inventory of new cars at dealers and continued its recovery from bad sales last year. Sales grew almost 46 percent.
Honda, which like Toyota saw its factories hobbled by the earthquake in Japan last year, reported a 60 percent increase led by the Civic compact, CR-V small SUV and the Accord midsize sedan. Kia sales rose 21.5 percent from a year earlier, while Hyundai's rose only 4 percent over strong numbers from August 2011.
Volkswagen continued its staggering growth. Sales jumped 63 percent on strong demand for the Jetta and Passat sedans.
GM recovered from a bad July, with all four of its brands reporting increases. Chevy sales were up 11 percent, led by the Cruze compact. The Sonic subcompact, which had barely reached showrooms in August of last year, saw sales jump to more than 8,700. It likely will be the top-selling subcompact in the nation again in August.
GM also said it was helped by heavy advertising during the Olympics and a full month of a money-back guarantee program for Chevrolets.
Industry analysts say U.S. auto sales are likely to keep the economy going even as it struggles to grow. The economy expanded at a tepid 1.7 percent annual rate from April through June. On Friday, Chairman Ben Bernanke made clear that the Federal Reserve will do more to boost the economy because of high unemployment and a recovery that remains "far from satisfactory."


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Just a heads up for people interested in maybe picking up a second copy or trying to get a friend into the game!
kittychix:If you know your behaviour or language is going to result in a ban, and continue with the actions anyway...you are heading in a direction of less then temporary action.
I would never be such a jerk as to get my friend into this game.
start patching, or stop selling
J McMillin:i paid 40 for it :(. lol but is this a real physiclal copy or a download caus i'd lke to get it for a friend but i'm out of town right now and not on my computer. it says complete colection so that means it has twc and tad right?
Bought :b
J McMillin: can i download it from steam if i already have it installed on my pc?
You can download it on Steam if you currently have it. You'll need to re-install if you wish to use the Steam provided CD key. While the steam CD key will work on some retail complete collections, I would suggest reinstalling via steam to make sure you're using the right version. Following Metis's instructions here: http://forum.agecommunity.com/forums/thread/960099.aspx
Should help to make sure that the steam install functions properly, but if you run into error creating a new account (if that's what you're doing), shoot me an email at email@example.com and let me know the situation.
Metis:This is a great opportunity for new players to get into the game for a nominal cost. I hope the sale is advertised well.
at the very least i can say my friends text message inboxes are now filled with messages about this :D
TacticalWillie:No pikes are not half as good as dopps, for one they don't have a giant OP sword do they? nooo they only have a silly looking stick with a knife on the end and they don't even have a cool looking hat either!
I am honored to say, when given the option to have AOE3 back on sale for 8 hours, steam players worldwide voted for Age of Empires III! It's back up on the community choice for another 4 hours at 75% off (and back in the top 3 overall!)
I never expected there to be so much support still for the game, and am both flattered and humbled to see so many gamers excited about picking up the game again.
J McMillin:how many games were purchased total do you know?
I don't believe those numbers will be published / publicly viable at any point in time. But I can tell you (as you can no doubt decipher from the current 'top games' list), that it has been doing very well.


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TRUCKEE, Calif. - Dr. Dennis Chez, medical director of Gateway Urgent Care in Truckee has recently become certified in aesthetic medicine for primary care physicians. Dr. Chez, in addition to offering acute care medicine and general family health care, will now be offering non-surgical cosmetic procedures including BOTOX Cosmetic injections, and dermal fillers including Restylane and Juvederm.
BOTOX Cosmetic has become the most popular injectable cosmetic enhancement procedure in the U.S. Less invasive than a facelift and other surgical options, BOTOX injections are designed to reduce the appearance of lines and wrinkles in the face and give facial features a smoother, more refreshed appearance.
As we age, muscles in the face begin to contract, ultimately forming wrinkles and fine lines. BOTOX Cosmetic temporarily relaxes facial muscles and prevents them from contracting, leaving the area smooth and wrinkle-free. Dr. Chez uses a fine gauge needle to inject BOTOX Cosmetic into the areas targeted for wrinkle reduction - with results often almost immediately visible. A BOTOX Cosmetic procedure typically takes about 30 minutes or less at Gateway Urgent Care, and there is no "downtime" afterward.
Most people who are candidates for BOTOX can also benefit from dermal fillers. Dr. Chez can recommend an injectable treatment for each patient's specific goals.
Dermal fillers not only reverse the signs of aging, but also enhance the appearance and fullness of lips, contour and restore volume to the skin, and temporarily eliminate wrinkles and facial folds. These non-animal, biotechnology-produced, crystal-clear, biodegradable gels are hyaluronic acid substances normally found in the skin. Each is injected through a tiny needle to produce a long-lasting, safe and natural enhancement.
Many people discover that dermal fillers are perfect for their needs. While BOTOX can only improve wrinkles caused by movement of facial muscles, dermal fillers can improve a wider variety of wrinkles and creases, such as nasolabial folds (parentheses), smile lines, and lip lines. In addition to wrinkle reduction, dermal fillers may also be used for gentle facial sculpting. They can add volume to features such as the nose, cheeks and lips.
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In many kitchens, frying is a dirty word.
Not just for the calories and the fat content, which puts off many health-conscious eaters, but the mess, too. You can clean up oil splatters and air out your house, but if the finicky business of frying isn't conducted smartly, you'll be left with regrets.
That's why it makes sense to get expert advice if you're going to enjoy making fried food in your own kitchen. "The Way to Fry," authored by Southern Living test kitchen professional and fry master Norman King, is an incisive primer on the fried arts, offering both classic techniques and lighter approaches for today's diets.
"You'll learn how to fry chicken like your grandmother did, keeping classic flavors alive and well, and how to make a lighter, oven-fried version you can proudly serve to your family and guests," King writes in the introduction.
King educates readers on the best tools, oils, basic techniques and the most important safety steps. If all else fails, there's a sensible section on putting out a grease fire.
His fried appetizers and party snacks include macaroni-and-pimiento-cheese bites, andouille corn poppers, Hoppin' John hush puppies, okra rellenos stuffed with cheese, and more.
Vegetables include a peanut-crusted okra, crispy eggplant with tomatoes and mozzarella, and fried green tomatoes topped with shrimp remoulade.
The classics are well-represented, with several versions of fried chicken, plus fried catfish, chicken-fried steak with redeye gravy, deep-fried turkey and two versions of chicken on a biscuit.
Just when you're feeling your bad cholesterol rise just flipping through the book, you get to the "Lightened Favorites." King offers shallow-fried and oven-baked-not-quite-fried versions of those fried green tomatoes, chicken-fried steak, coconut shrimp and chicken drumsticks. Also on the lighter side are an array of salads and side dishes that never met hot oil, including citrus-walnut and avocado fruit salads.
The desserts includes beignets and apple fritters, but also flights of fancy: versions of deep-fried bananas Foster and pecan pie, as well as deep-fried Jack and Coke, a whiskey bourbon ball glazed with cola syrup.
The book's photographs are highly designed, verging on intimidatingly good-looking at times. They do offer enough detail to tell if you're doing it right, however, and the accompanying recipes are simple and clear. They're pitched to a beginner who's brave enough to heat up some oil and see what happens next.
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Voters in Madison and St. Clair townships decided the fate of several liquor measures put forth by a trio of local businesses on Tuesday.
For the American Legion Post 736 on Y&O Road in Madison Township, voters approved a D3 permit, allowing sales of spiritous drinks for on-site consumption until 1 a.m., and a D6 permit, allowing sales of spiritous liquor on Sundays from 11 a.m. to midnight. Prior to this, the post was only permitted to serve low-volume beer and mixed drinks, as well as non-alcoholic beverages.
"We really needed that," said Steve Tatgenhorst, past commander of the post. He wished to thank all the voters in the Rock Camp Precinct of Madison Township who made the victory possible.
With a majority of the post's membership, including Tatgenhorst and post commander Sam Crane, living across the border in St. Clair Township, they were unable to vote on the measure themselves. Tatgenhorst said this left the post relying on the goodwill of Madison Township residents, who did not disappoint. "We try to do what we can for the community, and we were hoping they would do that for us," he said.
It was a sentiment echoed by Cyndi Hays, bartender at the post. "We're very excited and very thankful," she said. Hays hopes that the post will see enough increased business as a result of the passage that they will be able to make more donations to charitable organizations in the community.
In St. Clair Township, voters gave a split decision on liquor permits requested by the Marathon station on Y&O Road in Glenmoor, approving permits for carry-out sales of beer and wine and mixed beverages, but rejecting a bid for Sunday sales of the same. This was a second attempt for the station, which lost its first bid for liquor sales one year ago. It is unknown if the business will make a future attempt for the Sunday sales provision.
Voters in the St. Clair South Precinct rejected a second bid for liquor permits in requests for a C1 permit for beer sales and a C2 permit for wine and mixed drink sales at the Walmart Supercenter on Dresden Avenue in Calcutta, 39 to 61 percent on both measures. This past March, they went down to defeat 52 to 48 percent.


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It's the most personal part of your PC. The spacing and height of our keys are specially designed to be comfortable to use and to increase accuracy.SEE THE OTHER REASONS
The ThinkPad Yoga delivers flexibility for business. Its 12.5" display rotates 360 degrees to offer four different usage modes: Laptop, Tablet, Tent, and Stand. Boasting legendary ThinkPad reliability and a range of business and security features, it's the ultimate multimode business Ultrabook.
Easily change between four modes — Laptop, Stand, Tablet, and Tent — while your system automatically switches system settings and locks the keyboard in place. The secret: ThinkPad Yoga's unique design and touchscreen display allows the screen to flip around 360 degrees, which means you can select the mode you use based on what you choose to do.
Starting at a mere 1.58kg (3.5 lbs) and just 19mm (0.75") thick, the ThinkPad Yoga is ultraportable — it's perfect for doers on the go.
Pioneering ultrabooks need pioneering keyboards — and the ThinkPad Yoga's innovative lift-and-lock keyboard fits the bill. When your Yoga switches between modes, the keyboard frame automatically rises and the keys lock, eliminating accidental keystrokes and providing a more comfortable grip.
With up to Windows 8.1 Pro and up to 1TB in HDD storage/256GB SSD storage, the ThinkPad Yoga has plenty of space for all of your important files, videos, photos, and presentations. And the Lenovo Performance Booster enhances performance by up to five times.
The ThinkPad Yoga's durable magnesium-alloy frame and heavy-duty, scratch- and smudge-resistant Corning® Gorilla® Glass display means it can handle tough treatment from even the hardiest road warrior.
Choose a model with an optional digitizer pen to maximize productivity on your ThinkPad Yoga. In all four modes, the digitizer pen provides a natural, fluid, writing experience and lets you take notes, sign documents, annotate PDFs, and more.
The ThinkPad Yoga lets you stay productive over the long haul. With up to 8 hours of battery life — and a 30-day standby — you can go all day without recharging.
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Tracking the troops: GI Jane, GI Joe
Do you have ancestors or relatives who served in the military?
As we peer into our past, we often find family members who served on land or sea in many countries and in many capacities. Some were on-the-ground forces, while others filled support roles such as tailors, doctors, nurses, cooks or musicians.
London's Imperial War Museum has organized a Family History Day on Saturday, November 6, sponsored by MyHeritage.com. The event will assist participants - from beginners to experienced family historians - to learn how the Blitz affected families, the roles relatives played to help win the war, the aftermath of this history in today's families, and what records are accessible for more information.
The Imperial War Museum is the museum of everyone's story: the history of modern conflict told through the stories of those who were there. It is an educational and historical institution responsible for archives, collections and sites of outstanding national importance. You can view the Museum's main website here.
Women as well as men have served in diverse capacities in all US military branches - Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines and the Coast Guard. For information on women veterans from Colonial to contemporary times, view stories here (scroll down to see other relevant pages on that site), and a time line here. For a collection of photos and artifacts documenting women's service, click here.
One Civil War surgeon - Dr Mary Edwards Walker (photo left) - was the first woman to receive the Medal of Honor.
Accessible records include regiment lists, files for widows' pensions, death and burial records, medals, hospital lists for the wounded, transport lists and many other records, each supplying another piece of the family history puzzle.
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In the 1950s and '60s, Frank Kearns was the "go-to guy" at CBS News for stories in Africa, the Middle East and parts of Europe. A native of Morgantown, he covered stories during a time when journalism could be a harrowing occupation while also helping to shape the emerging influence of television news.
A one-hour documentary, "Frank Kearns: American Correspondent," explores what it was like to be a reporter during the Cold War and the effects it had on his life afterward. The film is set to air at 10 p.m. Monday on West Virginia PBS.
The documentary's narrator is Jean Snedegar, a resident of Elkins and contributing producer to the BBC and W.Va. Public Radio. She was selected following a national search for the right voice to tell the story of Frank Kearns.
Jake Davis, the film's co-producer and a former student of Kearns, also is an Elkins native and former reporter/photographer for The Inter-Mountain.
"Frank Kearns was a courageous journalist and an inspiring college professor whose story has never been told before," Davis said. "With the cooperation of his family, friends and many former colleagues both here and in Europe, we have produced a compelling documentary that not only tells his role in the early history of TV news but probes the role of journalists in a democratic society, examines how relationships are formed for gathering information, and reveals the complexities of growing countries during the Cold War."
Like many American reporters in the 1950s, Kearns was a World War II-era patriot who believed that Egypt and the Middle East's pro-Arab movement was being influenced by the Soviet Union. He risked his life to be the first broadcast journalist to report from behind the battle lines in Algeria and volunteered for many dangerous assignments. In the process, he won several major journalism awards.
In 1971, following 18 years with CBS News, Kearns became one of 10 Benedum Professors at West Virginia University, where he taught journalism until 1983. It was during his tenure at WVU that CBS News told a congressional hearing that Kearns also worked for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in Egypt during the 1950s sparking a controversy that is debated to this day. Kearns denied this allegation until his death in 1986.
"Many people in Morgantown, in New York and in Europe knew of or worked with Frank Kearns," Davis said. "When he became the subject of a national story dealing with journalists who may have worked with the CIA, it raised a lot of questions about who was and who was not telling the truth. And that's the point of this documentary: Searching for truth in a story that was difficult for Kearns himself to tell convincingly. This is our effort to do what he could not do for himself, while at the same time telling for the first time this timely but nearly forgotten story to a national television audience."
"Frank Kearns: American Correspondent" is co-produced, written and directed by Davis, executive producer at Greenbriar Group Films in Columbia, S.C., and West Virginia Public Broadcasting's award-winning producer and videographer Chip Hitchcock whose works include "Bridgeport to Baghdad" and "The Last Mission: Establishing the Rule of Law in Iraq."
In addition to Monday's airing, the film will be shown again at 9 p.m. Oct. 26. A companion book, "Algerian Diary: Frank Kearns and the Impossible Assignment for CBS News," is scheduled to be published next spring by the WVU Press.
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Mitch (center) complains about the dogs that shredded his shirt. The actors shown (from left) are Graham Altizer as Uncle George, Justin Grimes as Mitch and Paige Hanson as Mitch's wife, Joanne.
ometimes, what remains unseen can be as curious as what is plainly visible.
That is the case as Tiffin University's Dragon's Den Players present "The Money in Uncle George's Suitcase," a comedy by Pat Cook. Curtain time is 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday in Osceola Theatre in the Gillmor Student Center on campus.
The audience is transported to Uncle George's rustic lake house, which has few amenities for guests, especially city folk.
In the title role is Graham Altizer, who has invited his surviving family members to the backwoods cabin for a reunion of sorts. They include his sisters Margaret and Mamie Jo, played by Jamie Reed and Nicole Beard, respectively. George's two nieces also arrive. Cari Lyczek-Roser and Tyler Bell portray Gloria and Andrew Shumway. Paige Hanson and Justin Grimes have the roles of Joanne and Mitch Bryant. Completing the cast is Julie
Banks as George's great-niece, Chelsea.
Only the teen-age Chelsea takes an interest in Uncle George and his rambling stories.
The audience does not see the venison and rabbit George feeds his visitors, but their digestive distress is clearly dramatized. George's dungeon-like cellar and rambunctious dogs do not appear on the set, but they add to the humor as Mitch gets his shirts shredded and Andrew has an adventure down below.
Finally, George brings out his will, in which he is leaving the cabin to the family, with many stipulations about its preservation. Once the news is announced, the relatives react with disappointment and prepare to leave.
Offhandedly, George mentions a suitcase full of cash he has hidden somewhere on the site.
The visitors immediately decide to stay and humor Uncle George - and maybe find the money. They become suspicious of one another and break into heated arguments. All except Joanne and Chelsea grope around the darkened cabin during the night looking for the suitcase.
But wait. What if the stash is just another of Uncle George's stories?
"This domestic farce characterizes the lengths to which family members will go in order to end up with the largest slice of the pie," said Mary Grennen, associate professor of English and director of theater arts. "In each of the family members, we witness an about-face in character when the news of a hidden bundle of cash on Uncle George's dilapidated property is revealed. The exact location of the money is anybody's guess, and the tension builds as all engage in a comical and devious treasure hunt."
Tickets are $4 at the door. For more details, call Grennen at (419) 448-3376.


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Women's Golfer Jenna Hague Receives Postseason Honors
Ball State freshman women's golfer Jenna Hague, who won the Mid-American Conference Championships, was honored by the league in its postseason awards.
Hague was named to the 2012 MAC All-Tournament Team and the All-MAC Second Team.
The Cardinals finished second at the MAC Championships behind only 14-time champion Kent State, and Hague won medalist honors in a one hole playoff. She became only the third non-Kent State golfer to ever earn medalist honors in the history of the conference championships and the second Ball State player to ever accomplish the feat. Ball State's Katie Sundberg earned medalist honors for the Cardinals at the 2005 MAC Championships.
Hague managed a 77.97 average in her initial season and tallied three first-place finishes. In addition to earning medalist honors at the MAC, she won the Eastern Kentucky Colonel Classic and followed that victory with a tie for first at the Indiana Invitational. Hague lost medalist honors on the fourth playoff hole at the Indiana event.
Hague, who carded a hole-in-one on the 15th hole in the final round of the MAC Championships, tallied a career low 69 in the final round. Her birdie on the 72nd hole forced a playoff and a birdie on the first playoff hole won her medalist honors.
Hague posted eight top-20 finishes, including six top-10 showings as a freshman. She tied her 54-hole total career low with a 223 at the MAC Championships, a mark she also posted at the Redbird Invitational Sept. 10-11.
This marked Ball State's third top-three finish at the MAC in the last three seasons. Under the guidance of head coach Katherine Mowat, the Cardinals were second in 2010 and third in 2011 at the league championships.


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Erie County will pay $67,500 to a former nurse at the Holding Center to settle her race discrimination case against the county.
Nkechi P. Ilogu sued the county in 2011, claiming she was suspended and forced to retire because she is African-American.
Ilogu, in her original complaint, cited several incidents of racial discrimination and said the hostile work environment at the downtown jail resulted in her suffering from depression and post traumatic stress disorder.
Harvey Sanders, Ilogu's lawyer, declined to comment on the settlement, which was confirmed by county officials.


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February 28, 2011
House Two-Week Spending Bill Includes Major Spending Cuts
As you know, the Federal government is operating under a Continuing Resolution (CR), as Congress has not passed any of the appropriations bills for Fiscal Year (FY) 2011. The current CR expires on March 4. If Congress does not reach an agreement prior to that time, many functions of the Federal government would be curtailed.
House Republicans have proposed a temporary measure that appears to be gaining bipartisan support. Under the proposal, the CR would be extended until March 18. The measure would maintain current funding levels for most programs until that time. However, the proposal also includes an immediate cut of $4 billion in FY 2011 spending. Of that amount, approximately $1.2 billion would be from cuts in programs identified in the President's 2012 budget request for reductions or eliminations. Furthermore, the temporary spending proposal would revoke $2.7 billion in Congressional "earmarks" requested by individual lawmakers.
The measure is scheduled to be considered by the House of Representatives beginning March 1. Assuming the legislation passes in the House, the Senate would then need to approve the measure before it is sent to President Obama for his signature.
Once the temporary measure is in place, the House and Senate will continue negotiations on appropriations for the remainder of FY 2011. Earlier this month, the House of Representatives approved a spending bill that cuts overall Federal spending by $61 billion in FY 2011. This includes a $1.6 billion cut to the National Institutes of Health as well as cuts to cancer-related programs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration. Senate Democrats have indicated their opposition to the House GOP proposal and will instead introduce their own proposal.
Oral Parity Bills Introduced in Various States
State legislatures across the country are busy debating various issues important to cancer patients. Many states have already introduced bills concerning orally administered anticancer medications. It is imperative that all cancer patients have access to the treatments recommended by their physicians and the IMF believes that patients should not suffer from cost discrimination based on the type of therapy provided or the mechanism for the delivery of that therapy. To find out what's going on in your state, please visit the IMF Advocacy Action Center at www.advocacy.myeloma.org.
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The totals began mounting tonight after a widespread storm dumped blankets of wind-whipped snow across the region.
By evening, some of the highest totals were recorded in parts of Cattaraugus County, southwest of Buffalo and immediately north of the Pennsylvania border.
According to the National Weather Service, 10.3 inches of snow was recorded in the Town of Allegany just before 7 p.m. in the southeast corner of Cattaraugus County; 6.3 inches in Salamanca, which is just northwest of Allegany; and 4 inches in Perrysburg in the northwestern most part of the county.
By contrast, only 3.3 inches was recorded at the Buffalo-Niagara International Airport in Cheektowaga shortly before 8 p.m.
About 8 inches of snowfall was forecast to accumulate overnight in the some of the valleys and lower elevations across Western New York, with as much as 16 inches forecast for the higher elevations.
"The amounts will be highly localized. More snow is favored in locations on hilltops that tend to be a little more exposed to catching snow," National Weather Service meteorologist Bill Hibbert said.
The deluge of white began blanketing the region early this afternoon, a couple of hours ahead of the start of rush hour traffic, making its arrival in the Southern Tier communities between 1 and 2 p.m., bringing with it strong winds and lots of snow.
By 6 p.m., most roads across Western New York – including the State Thruway and major expressways – were snow-covered and slick, as police and rescue workers across the region began answering calls for minor crashes and vehicles that had skidded off pavement.
Motorists were injured in wrecks in Buffalo at Main Street and Winspear Avenue and in Cheektowaga near the Walden Galleria. On the Thruway, a car slid into a ditch near the Williamsville toll barrier, state police said, but troopers had no serious Thruway incidents to report tonight.
The storm came quickly, said Kirk Apffel, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Cheektowaga.
"It went from light snow to heavy snow within minutes here at the airport," Apffel said.
The band brought snow from Buffalo to Rochester and southward, said Apffel, who anticipated that it reached the shores of Lake Ontario by 6 p.m. and will last throughout the region until about 5 a.m. Thursday. The forecast calls for heavy snow, falling at times at a rate of two inches an hour.
The forecast of heavy snow prompted a winter storm warning from the weather service that went into effect at 4 p.m. and remains in effect until 4 p.m. Thursday.
Driving conditions were starting to get slippery in time for rush hour – Cattaraugus County Sheriff Timothy S. Whitcomb advised no unnecessary travel in his county – but the worst of the storm wasn't expecting to start until after the rush hour was over. Still, the heavy snow combined with winds in the 20 mph to 30 mph range made for difficult driving conditions.
Meanwhile, temperatures are expected to hover in the 20s. Today's high barely reached 30 degrees.
Some light snow is expected Thursday, and Friday should be mostly dry. Some light snow may also fall during the weekend.
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CANFIELD - While at Muskingum College she felt that health and physical education was her career calling, but after personally training people through her college years Erin Mellinger found that was the way she wanted to go.
"I shifted my focus from health and phys-ed and obtained certification as a personal trainer," she said. "I was trying to think of creative ways to make money and found my true passion in personal training."
She opened her first Fitness Together center in Canfield in 2008. Last April a second location opened in Poland.
You could have found a better year to start a business than in 2008 when the economy took a plunge. But Mellinger, 29, moved ahead. It was a good move and the Poland Fitness Together has turned out to be more than a good fit. Mellinger was recently recognized with the Franchisee of the Year award from among 240 Fitness Together studio owners at the company's recent national conference in St. Petersburg Beach, Fla.
"The location on the edge of Canfield and Poland ... I was already training people from that area and I had a pretty good reputation," said Mellinger, a 2002 graduate of Crestview High School.
The Canfield Fitness Together is located at 6579 Ironwood Boulevard and the Poland Fitness Together is at 6541 Clingan Road. Both can be reached by calling 330-702-1311.
"Poland is close but far enough away not to take away from Canfield ... and I still had brand recognition," she explained.
There are five employees at each location with a total of six full- and four part-time and Mellinger tries to split her time equally between them.
A little more than 1,000, 45-minute training sessions are held each month (250 a week) serving about 110 clients spread over both locations, she said.
"You've got a trainer with you all the time to take all the guess work out of it."
Most clients are between 35 and 55 years of age and Mellinger said 60 percent are female.
"We do a handful of high school and college athletes," she said and the ages range from 11 to 85 years old. Each client has a custom workout program and nutrition plan," she said, noting that the busiest hours are from 5:30 a.m. until 11 a.m. peak, and then from 3 p.m. until 9 p.m. when it peaks again.
Hours are 5 a.m. until 9 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 5 a.m. until 3 p.m. on Saturday.
Three-tiered programs include resistance training with dumbbells, bands and medicine balls; cardiovascular workouts with the elliptical machine; and, nutrition.
"We have a dietitian who floats between each facility and gets them started and checks in periodically," Mellinger said, explaining that most clients are interested in weight loss, while some just want to be in shape and others are looking at comebacks from surgery and need professional knowledge about rehabilitation.
And there are also athletes.
"But the vast majority is weight loss," she said. "We've had a couple people who lost over 100 pounds. We have one girl who lost 100 pounds and her goal was to run a 5K and she ran a half-marathon (13 miles)."
She mentioned another middle-aged client, a man who lost 100 pounds and is "now ripped."
Mellinger said the staff is "laser focused" on the clients. Apparently the word has gotten around. "Most people call us," she said and put down any notion that personalized training is a luxury.
"You can't put a value on health," she said noting that while it is disposable income it's not a luxury. "It's for everybody. Everything in life is better when you look and feel your best. That's why we're successful. We see value and saving lives as success. We've changed lives for some. We've really been able to get them where they want to be. I got into business because I know how important it is for people to enjoy life, that's what it's all about. Helping people have a quality of life."


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Derogatory. Someone who suffers from Down's Syndrome (trisomy 21). Derived from contraction of a now unused description: "Mongoloid features" referring to the bridgeless nose and epicanthic folds of certain far-eastern races.
Jesus man, Maccy D's have got a Jimmy no-stars working at the drive thru' and he's a fuckin' mongo.
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In skateboarding, pushing the skateboard with your front foot. If you're normal, you use your left foot, and vice versa for goofy.
The poser skated mongo.
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Mongo is a skateboard pushing style. Mainly used by tools who can't figure out how to skateboard. You push with your front foot instead of your back foot.
Look at that kid harrison over there he pushes mongo!
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"what you did last night was a mongo move." or "nice try mongoe:
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In the construction industry, scrap metal (usually copper) sold by workers for cash and t-shirts.
Wow, clean copper mongo is going for more than 2 bucks a pound!!
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Mongo as in "humongous". Used to describe something extremely large or important.
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A character from the movie. Blazing Saddles.
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Enterprise Infrastructure is not solely a stagnant service department. It has a strong research and development side to it. Recently, it acquired funding from National Science Foundation to establish a telecommunications and networks laboratory to enrich curriculum in the relevant Computer Science courses. It also includes equipment for parallel computing and electrical controls. The facility is called BCEIL (Beowulf-based Curriculum Enrichment Integrated Laboratory). Because of its strong research component, EI operation infuses new technologies into infrastructure, telecommunications and networks.
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An attorney is calling for a statewide investigation into how a man died in police custody.
Oklahoma City police say Robin Howard died on June 23 after a car and foot chase. His family claims investigators didn't tell them about the 54-year-old's injuries until he was dead.
"They came Thursday and notified us that he passed on Sunday, so that was the first thing we heard of," said Kimberly Turner, Robin's sister. "Nobody had contacted my mother before then, and said that he was in the hospital or anything was wrong with him. We didn't know anything."
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Room to Read | World Change Starts with Educated Children
As part of our commitment to serve children across Asia and Africa with the highest-quality programs possible, Room to Read conducts rigorous research, monitoring and evaluation to inform our program design. This includes tracking every project in an extensive Salesforce.com database, conducting independent evaluations of completed projects and performing a detailed analysis of the impact our programs have on the surrounding communities.
For each program, we have identified specific indicators to help us measure progress towards our goals. The collection and analysis of this information is managed by our Research, Monitoring and Evaluation Team, which consists of 23 full-time staff across eleven countries.
In the coming months, we will be conducting a combination of country-specific and cross-national evaluations and research studies of our School Library, Book Publishing, School Construction and Girls' Education programs. We will also be working to identify and refine the program indicators for the newest of our programs, Reading and Writing Instruction.
The School Libraries program in Sri Lanka provides a good example of using evaluation results to improve our programs. In 2007, the Sri Lanka team conducted a country-specific research study looking at the training provided to librarians and teachers. The study indicated that the trainings were very theoretical and needed to be more hands-on. Consequently, our team in Sri Lanka revised their training curriculum, and they have witnessed significant improvement.
Another example of programmatic adjustments inspired by our RM&E findings is that of our Girls' Education program in Cambodia. In 2009, our team reviewed the available monitoring data and observed in increase in the drop-out rate for girls on our program as compared to previous years. The team then launched a country-specific study examining the factors contributing to drop-out. We found that many girls were leaving school to enter the workforce, and that neither their parents nor school personnel were taking an active role in encouraging them to continue their studies. As a result of these findings, our team in Cambodia began placing greater emphasis in both teacher and parent meetings on the long-term benefits of having girls' education, in addition to stepping up mentoring for the girls through our social mobilizers (female staff members working directly with the girls).
In order to compare the performance of students who benefit from our programs with that of their peers, we have built treatment-control designs into our School Library and Girls' Education Cross-National Evaluations. These evaluations are longitudinal studies, allowing us to measure the impact of our efforts over time as well as compare them to a control group in the area.
As we develop studies to assess our programs that include skills training (such as Reading and Writing Instruction), we will seek to measure whether or not those taught skills are being acquired effectively.
Community ownership of our projects is paramount to long-term impact, so our rigorous site selection process evaluates the likelihood that a community will sustain the facilities on its own. Then, we work to provide all the initial training and support required to help the community do just that.
In our School Libraries, for example, we provide three years of ongoing training to school officials, librarians and teachers on the effective use and management of a library. In 2011, we began a post-completion study, designed to assess how the libraries that have "graduated" from our support period are functioning on their own. View an infographic containing Phase I results from the School Libraries Post-Completion Study.
We conduct regular evaluations of our School Libraries to monitor their use and look for areas of potential programmatic improvement. In these evaluations, both teachers and students have consistently reported that students' skill level and frequency of reading had improved as a result of their new library.
Our staff collaborates with local authors, illustrators, writing organizations, and printers to publish new children's books each year. After we source and develop the content, our Book Development Committees, made up of individuals with publishing expertise, assist with editing and refinement of the manuscripts.
Our attrition rate—5 percent in 2011—is much lower than the average for girls in the countries where we work. That said, we do occasionally see some dropout for a variety of reasons.
In many developing countries, families depend on girls for labor. Although social attitudes are changing over time, many parents are not aware of the benefits of educating girls, so helping their daughters stay in school is not a priority. Our program includes parental engagement activities, which help communicate the importance of educating all children, but it does not provide a 100 percent guarantee that a girl's family will support her education.
Our goals and objectives are most closely aligned with two of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals: achieving universal primary education; and promoting gender equality and empowering women. Beyond that, we know that improving access to education also indirectly promotes all of the other Millennium Development Goals.
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The ego defence of dehumanization involves seeing other people as less or other than human so as not to have to think about them so much and/or feel guilty for neglecting or abusing them.
One simple example of dehumanization is that of a person who thinks of her partner or child as a pet or even a great teddy bear so as to better forgive his many failings.
Dehumanization is easier if the target people are marked out as being different, perhaps by age, gender, race, religion, social class, disability, sexual orientation, or even so little as a different style of dress. Thus, in everyday life, it is all too common to see people in uniform such as waiters, cleaners, bus drivers, and police officers being treated as mere automatons devoid of any such human attributes as feelings or families.
In April 2011, riots broke out in Bristol, England over the opening of a new supermarket. During the riots, one Benjamin Cyster dropped a five stone concrete block from the top of a building onto an advancing line of police officers. The block caught PC Nicholas Fry square on the shoulder, knocking him flat to the ground. Instead of expressing anguish or remorse, Cyster continued rioting, and even exclaimed, 'I want to find that copper I hit on the head. I want to do it again.' During Cyster's trial (he received a total sentence of 11-and-a-half years), the court heard that Fry was recovering, but could not bring himself to tell his wife and three children about what Cyster had done to him for fear of upsetting them.
Diane Davies, a 62-year-old grandmother of nine from Anglesey in Wales, was holidaying in one of the most exclusive areas of Barbados. Then one day, in broad daylight, she was brutally raped by a complete stranger. One year on, in November 2011, she decided to talk about her ordeal in a national newspaper so as to expose the shabby treatment that she received from the island's authorities. Of particular note is that she felt certain that she would have been killed had she not remembered reading that a victim of attempted rape should talk to the rapist so that he might see her as a person rather than as an object of gratification. 'So I told him I was a 61-year-old grandmother with four children and nine grandchildren and felt he slightly softened. I think talking to him saved my life.'
Unfortunately, dehumanization is not limited to thugs and rapists, and may also be employed by supposedly decent, middle class people. For example, it is commonly employed by healthcare professionals to cope with distress at loss, grief, disease, and death – with patients being referred to by their diagnosis rather than by their name ('the stroke in bed number 6', 'the fractured hip in the ER'…), or just being thought of in terms of a long line of faceless 'patients'.
In the early 1970s, the psychologist Philip Zimbardo and his colleagues set up a mock prison with hidden cameras and microphones in the basement of Stanford University's psychology building. The researchers selected 24 healthy, well adjusted undergraduate students, mostly white and middle class men, and randomly assigned them to the roles of either prisoner or guard. The 'prisoners' were to remain in the mock prison 24-hours a day, while the 'guards' were to 'work' in three-man teams over eight-hour shifts. The experiment – which, not surprisingly, has been heavily criticized for its ethics – had been due to run for 14 days, but had to be stopped after just six days due to the aggressive and abusive behaviour of the 'guards' and the extreme adverse psychological reactions of the 'prisoners', five of whom had had to be released early.
Even Zimbardo, who had been acting as the prison warden, had overlooked the dehumanizing behaviour of the guards until graduate student Christina Maslach voiced objections to him. In his subsequent book, The Lucifer Effect, Zimbardo candidly looks back over the experiment and says, 'Only a few people were able to resist the situational temptations to yield to power and dominance while maintaining some semblance of morality and decency; obviously I was not among that noble class.' The Stanford Prison Experiment attracted a lot of interest after the horrific abuses that took place in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, and is often upheld to demonstrate the important effect that situation can have on human behaviour.
Dehumanization is particularly common during times of war, when it may be incited by governments in a bid to prosecute, or quell opposition to, the war. If people can be seen as less than human, then they become dispensable, and any atrocity can be justified. Thus, Josef Goebbels, the Minister of 'Public Enlightenment and Propaganda' (Volksaufklärung und Propaganda)in Hitler's Nazi regime, ruthlessly employed all contemporary methods of propaganda to inflame already existing anti-Semitic feelings. By pinning the blame for all the economic and social ills of the time on the Jewish people and then lampooning them as an 'inferior race', Goebbels prepared the ground for the progressive elimination of their rights and freedoms and, one thing leading to the next, for the mass genocide of the Holocaust.
Adapted from my new book, Hide and Seek: The Psychology of Self-Deception