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RANSON - Despite the chilly temperature and snowflakes, Ranson community members came out Saturday evening for the city's annual holiday celebration and tree-lighting in the city.
With Santa, Frosty and horse-drawn carriages for entertainment, bundled-up families took part in what mayor David Hamill called an "adventure that we all look forward to."
"It's a tradition that we have in Ranson, all of the communities come together at Christmas time. A lot of times, this is when people can put their worries behind them for a short period and try to dwell on the good things in life, of which Christmas is one of the greatest," Hamill said.
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The city of Ranson rings in the holiday season Saturday with a tree-lighting ceremony.
Jessica Palencar of the Ranson Convention and Visitors Bureau organized this year's event. She said most of the groundwork is already laid out since the city has been hosting the event for so many years.
Palencar looked to bring in local groups to perform from Ranson and Blue Ridge elementary schools, in addition to local Christian Lopez, who appeared on American Idol.
Miss Jefferson County's Outstanding Teen from Jefferson High School, Lexi Openshaw, also came out to support the community and take part in the festivities.
The CVB and Ranson Parks and Recreation worked hand-in-hand to organize the tree-lighting, which CVB president and city councilman Tony Braithwaite said has been growing each year.
"We try to add something new every year, and everything that has been done out here is by volunteers. The public works department sets everything up, and the police have the road closures. We are a really close community," said Braithwaite, who was also born and raised in Ranson.
Councilman and Ranson Parks and Recreation president Duke Pierson said to have an event such as this one is what elected officials do along with other collaborating organizations.
"This is something the public really needs the way the economy is and the way everything else in the country is, to be able to come out and spend a few hours out here, to see friends, it's quite essential, needed and something we are proud of," Pierson said.
Hamill said taking part in community events such as the tree-lighting and the spring festival in May are ways that Ranson encourages people to participate in their community, because that is a responsibility of the citizens to take part in and support their community.
"It's okay to be on the outside looking in, but it's always better to be part of what the people are looking at and coming together and just enjoying the season," Hamill said.
- Staff writer Michelle Horst can be reached at 304-725-6581.


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Dennis Gareis to Ervin Nick, $180,000, Charles Town
John Kilroy to Catherine Lewis, $390,000, Harpers Ferry
Larry Gassman to Donald Silveous, $230,000, Middleway
Penny Grimes co-administrator to Renee Williams, $110,000, Harpers Ferry
Karen Miller to Jeffrey Grey, $301,500, Kabletown
Bull Run Investments LLC to Christy Casey, $219,945, Ranson Corp.
Michael Faulconer to James Cavill, $329,900, Harpers Ferry
Dan Ryan Builders Inc. to Raymond Bangit, $247,236, Ranson Corp.
Dan Ryan Buildesr Inc. to Aaron Fellows, $157,000, Ranson Corp.
Preserve at Barleywood LLC to Jesse Glarrow, $399,087, Charles Town
Dan Ryan Builders Inc. to Joshua Neeriemer, $229,990, Ranson Corp.
Dan Ryan Builders Inc. to Jordan Davis, $271,071, Charles Town Corp.
Dan Ryan Builders Inc. to Anna Portrey, $227,000, Charles Town Corp.
Craig Kastle to Deborah Cross, $265,500, Charles Town
Tasha Catrow Tr. to Hamerhill LLC, $115,000, Charles Town
Mike Clagett to Dean Kirschling, $258,667, Shepherdstown
Frank Hill III Tr. to Jose Romero, $2,500, Shepherdstown
Geraldine Feliciano to Patowmack Properties LLC, $99,000, Ranson Corp.
Kimberly Legoff to Cynthia Wood, $235,000, Harpers Ferry
Donald Fisher Jr. to Joel Harvey, $190,000, Harpers Ferry
Seneca Trustees Inc. Sub. Tr. to U.S. Bank National Association Tr., $202,414.81, Kabletown
Seneca Trustees Inc. Sub. Tr. to Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Tr., $57,180.20, Ranson Corp.
Harvey Briggs to Apostolos Diavolikis, $5,000, Ranson Corp.
Shanta Grantham to Blue Ribbon Management LLC, $40,000, Shepherdstown
John Dobbie to Jamie Staubs, $134,000, Charles Town
Kimberly Rector to National Residential Nominee Services Inc., $263,000, Shepherdstown
National Residential Nominee Services Inc. to Francis Carroll Jr., $248,000, Shepherdstown
Gene Capriotti to Harold Flaherty, $125,000, Charles Town
County Green LLC to Dan Ryan Builders Inc., $150,000, Kabletown
Arcadia Craighill LLC to Dan Ryan Builders Inc., $25,000, Charles Town Corp.
Carl Hemesath to John Sheehan, $32,000, Shepherdstown
Bank of Charles Town Executor to Guy Chicchirichi, $96,000, Charles Town Corp.
David Camilletti Sub. Tr. to Chen Yu, $200,000, Charles Town Corp.
Richard Pill Sub. Tr. to Wesley Smoot, $140,000, Middleway
Fritts Builders LLC to Ya Chen, $145,000, Ranson Corp.
Branch Banking & Trust Co. to Purnell Enterprises LLC, $20,000, Kabletown
Jason Caldwell to Peter Gerringer, $309,000, Charles Town Corp.
Prospect Enterprises Inc. to Frank Harding, $10,000, Middleway
John Allmond to Zack Halliday, $149,900, Charles Town
Laura Wamsted Tr. to David Wachter, $25,000, Kabletown
Dan Ryan Builders Inc. to Jennifer Cain, $288,622, Charles Town Corp.
Laura Wamsted Tr. to David Wachter, $225,000, Kabletown
Gary Tessman Jr. to Jeffrey Dodd, $240,000, Charles Town Corp.
Paul Simmons to Wells Fargo Bank NA, $156,964.63, Charles Town
Gregory Gold to Jeffrey Craze, $210,000, Charles Town
John Atherton to Phoenix Property Management LLC, $58,200, Charles Town
Brenda Turner to Michael Anderson, $50,000, Ranson Corp.
John Doulakis to Victor Escobar, $249,900, Ranson Corp.
Rosimi Flores to John Mao, $123,166.66, Charles Town Corp.

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When I began writing about global warming climate change, public outcry was tremendous. Amid a sea of media stories about the sins of our wasteful lifestyle, no one wanted to hear about contradictory research, conflicting data, or skeptical scientists.
Now, over two years later, a funny thing has happened. The roles have shifted. My stories are the staid and ordinary ones. It's the fellows predicting flood, famine, and disaster who are generating all the controversy.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry. What happened?
2008 was the year predicted to be the "hottest in a century". Instead it became the coldest of the decade. It was the year the North Pole would "melt entirely, allowing you to swim to it". Instead, nuclear-powered icebreakers became trapped in unseasonably thick ice. It was a year of record-breaking cold and snow, everywhere from Baghdad to the beaches of Malibu. It was the year the "Gore Effect" entered the public vocabulary, as whenever global warming protestors got together to march, they were met with blizzards and ice storms. Let's hope schadenfroh isn't a sin.
Polls are clear. Despite the media's increasingly shrill tone and ever-more unrealistic predictions, the public has lost all faith in global warming. After all, how many times can you say that this time the science is now finally proven, without being laughed at?
In some respects, that's good. It means less chance of implementing incredibly damaging policies, policies that will have disastrous impacts on standards of living, especially among the poor.
In other ways, it's bad. The overselling of inconclusive conjectures as "proven science" is leading some to distrust science itself. Given that, I think the year should conclude with a reminder of just what the scientific debate -- minus its alarmist media trappings-- is really all about.
As a moderately well known skeptic, I sometimes surprise people when I say I believe in global warming. If we define the term as, "man is having some impact on global temperatures", then the evidence is fairly clear. That statement in itself, though, means nothing. Are we impacting it enough to matter? Can CO2 cause catastrophic climate change?
That debate revolves around a single number, one so important we have a special name for it.
Climate Sensitivity
How much will the earth warm if we double the amount of atmospheric CO2, or its equivalent in other greenhouse gases? That value is called climate sensitivity. If all else remains equal, it's fairly easy to calculate: about half a degree C, a figure accepted by most proponents and skeptics of AGW alike. It's also a value far too small for concern. With that sensitivity, the planet would warm by maybe a quarter of a degree by the year 2100. Yawn.
But there's a wrinkle in that simple calculation. As greenhouse gases rise, other things change as well. Some are positive feedbacks, which lead to more warming. Some are negative feedbacks, which counteract the warming. Scientists in the modeling community tend to believe positive effects predominate; they bandy about sensitivity values from 2C all the way up to 6C or more. Observational earth scientists (primarily geologists, meteorologists, and some atmospheric physicists) tend to believe negative effects dominate, and that the actual value may be even smaller than 0.5C.
The problem is that no real evidence exists for strong positive feedbacks. Worse, they seem contradicted by the paleoclimatic history of the planet, which has never experienced runaway warming even when CO2 levels were ten or more times higher than they are today. Over geologic time, CO2 correlates very poorly with temperature, leading one to conclude that it's a very weak greenhouse gas.
There is other evidence against a high sensitivity. But the real point is this. Whichever side is right, the media (and a few researchers) have forgotten one of the basic rules of science. Until a theory can predict the unexpected, it should always be viewed critically. The ancient Greeks knew the stars moved, and they had a thousand theories to predict why it would keep happening. Until we can explain past climate shifts and successfully predict future trends, global models are educational toys. Not indisputable evidence.
Some pundits are calling 2008 the year global warming was disproven. I prefer to call it the year science triumphed over alarmism.
quote: In January the government commissioned Sir Jim Rose, a former chief inspector of primary schools, to trim ten existing required subjects to give extra space to computing skills and to accommodate two new compulsory subjects: a foreign language and the now-optional "personal, social, health and economic education" (eating fruit and veg, refraining from hitting one's classmates and much more). On December 8th he published his interim report—and many fear that, as well as losing fat, education will see a lot of meat go too. Sir Jim proposes merging the subjects into six "learning areas". History and geography will become "human, social and environmental understanding"; reading, writing and foreign languages, "understanding English, communication and languages". Physical education, some bits of science and various odds and ends will merge into "understanding physical health and well-being", and so on. His plan would "reduce prescription", he says, and, far from downgrading important ideas, "embed and intensify [them] to better effect in cross-curricular studies".


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An Altoona gas station manager said no one has come forward at the store to claim a $1 million ticket purchased there in Wednesday's Powerball drawing.
The Pennsylvania Lottery sold three winning Powerball tickets worth $1 million each, a lottery press release said. The tickets were sold at Swaraj Service Station, 1700 Seventh Ave., and two other locations in Butler and Montgomery counties.
Each ticket correctly matched all five white balls, 5, 16, 22, 23, 29, but not the red Powerball 6, to win a prize of $1 million, less 25 percent federal withholding. Each retailer will receive a $5,000 bonus for selling a winning ticket.
The Sunoco is owned by Venu Golla, the manager said.
The manager said they were excited about the win. The store also had a $1 million scratch-off ticket winner in February, and having two such large winnings at one store is rare, he said.
Kimberly A. Kuny of Altoona won a $1 million prize in the Winner Take All Millionaire Edition in February, according to lottery records.
The manager did not know who purchased Wednesday's winning ticket. It takes awhile for a winner to claim a prize, and even then the winner can do it elsewhere, he said, although it is a courtesy to tell the store where the winning ticket was purchased.
Wednesday's Powerball jackpot reached a game-record $587.5 million annuity prize, or $384.7 million cash. Jackpot-winning tickets were sold in Arizona and Missouri.
It had been growing since Oct. 6. Through Wednesday, the Pennsylvania Lottery saw just over $93 million in Powerball and Power Play sales - ranking it third among participating states in overall sales for the run. Sales peaked between 5 and 6 p.m. Wednesday, selling at a clip of about $40,500 per minute.
The Powerball jackpot reset to an estimated annuity value of $40 million, or $26.2 million cash, for the Saturday drawing.
In the 2010-11 fiscal year, in addition to awarding more than $32 million in prizes to Blair County winners, the Pennsylvania Lottery said it contributed more than $16.4 million to programs that benefited the county's older residents.


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MORGANTOWN - Not a lot of heads turned whenever the Big 12 coaches picked West Virginia to finish eighth in their preseason poll.
After the Mountaineers 10-point loss to No. 2 Alabama on Saturday, some might be changing their mind about how well the Mountaineers will fare this season, their third in the conference.
The same case could be made for Oklahoma State after the Cowboys' six-point loss to top-ranked Florida State. OSU was slated to finish fifth in the 10-team league.
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''All these teams are better than people gave them credit for,'' Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops said. ''I'm very aware both (Oklahoma State and West Virginia) are very good teams with good football players on them.''
If there is one thing you can take away from WVU's and OSU's season opening loss, it's the fact the Big 12 can play with any other conference in the nation.
''We are an excellent conference,'' Kansas State coach Bill Snyder noted. ''There is incredible strength in our conference.''
While Mountaineers coach Dana Holgorsen wasn't interested in talking about moral victories, he did note his team came away
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The fourth-year coach said if West Virginia could build on the good and fix the bad, the loss could be viewed as a positive.
''We didn't play well in critical situations,'' Holgorsen said. ''Same thing happened last year.
"We've got to able to get better at that and build on that. If we do, our confidence will continue to grow and the team will continue to improve.''
Speaking of confidence, Iowa State's has to be shattered.
The Cyclones jumped out to a 14-0 lead but were shutout the rest of the way by FCS opponent North Dakota State in a 31-14 defeat.
After a loss like that, it's fair to question what conference teams will do to Iowa State. The answer won't be pretty.
Interestingly enough, this is the fifth consecutive year the Bison have posted a victory against an FBS opponent. They also beat Minnesota 27-21 in 2007.
Ash's Future at Texas
Texas coach Charlie Strong announced Longhorns quarterback David Ash will not play against BYU this week.
Ash, who missed a lot of time last season with concussion symptoms, is again experiencing more concussion-related symptoms after Texas' victory against North Texas.
''Anytime you have that number of concussions, you have to be concerned,'' Strong said. ''You're always concerned about a young man's health, and we would never jeopardize a young man's health just for this football team.
"Players' health is always first.''
No official word has been made as of yet if Ash will play again or if his career has come to an end.
Other Injuries
As if losing your season opener to an FCS opponent wasn't bad enough, try losing your top receiver for the season.
That's what Iowa State coach Paul Rhoads is dealing with in Ames as he announced Quenton Bundrage suffered an ACL injury and his year is done.
In Waco, Baylor coach Art Briles is also dealing with injury problems as his Heisman
Trophy candidate quarterback Bryce Petty is day-to-day with two cracked bones in his spin. Petty played only in the first half of the Bears victory against SMU.


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Police looking for information in Millcreek home invasion
Millcreek police are looking for information about a home invasion that occurred on the 4200 block of Concord Road at 9:05 p.m. on Thursday.
A 62-year-old victim reported that two men entered the house brandishing handguns, forced him to the floor and bound his wrists with string and handcuffs, said police.
The suspects then stole multiple items and left in an unknown direction, said police.
The victim called 911 from a neighbor's house, said police.
The victim described the suspects as one 5-foot-9-inches tall black male wearing a black ski mask, white hooded jacket and dark pants and one 5-foot-7-inches tall white male, wearing a black ski mask, gray hooded jacket and gray sweatpants, said police.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call the Millcreek police at 833-7777.


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#3. Get a Dog
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You can tell this is a totally legit website because of the clock and green cross on it, which are traditional signs of reliability or leprechaun health care schedules. I suspect this is just another site like the one that recommended raisins, but it doesn't matter. What does matter is they, too, care about your penchant for pop locking Jason Statham.
Our friends at the clinic fear for our sexual survival and offer 10 tips to stem the wang-jangling tides. While chastising yourself with a rubber band or going for a jog are novel ideas, their most noteworthy recommendation is that get yourself a new friend. Specifically, a pet. A pet will love you unconditionally and will never shrink in terror from the compulsively masturbating crotch troll you've become, shunning the light and leaving a trail of crusty socks in your wake. That dog will just dodge and weave your onslaught until he's close enough to sit at your side and be your pal, and maybe then, when you see that warm, loving look in his eye, you'll return Sergeant Splatter to the barracks and take your dog for a walk. Look at you, cured from your masturbation addiction. Good boy! Who's a good boy? You are! Yes, you are!
#2. Pee
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This tip comes to us from a blog that I suspect is written by a certified asshole. Like, literally, he may have a piece of paper at home issued by a governing body that indicates he has met all the requirements to be a stunning asshole. If I need to qualify this, I will do so by directing you to the sentence in which he advises you to train your wife or girlfriend to give you wake-up blowies without a hint of irony.
Anyway, Don Juan Douchemarco stumbled upon the wisdom of not wanking at some point and has been reaping all manner of benefits. What kind of benefits? Increased energy, focus, and attractiveness. It's true, he links to an even stupider blog about alpha and beta male behavior to prove this. See, women can smell pheromone signals from a man with more testosterone, and a chronic masturbator has less testosterone because Bill Nye the Science Guy apparently thinks testosterone and spooge are the same thing. But never mind faulty science, it's not what we're here for. We're here for faulty wank advice. And this guy's advice is to piss it away. Literally.
If you find your mind drifting to thoughts of Kate Upton on a pogo stick (or for you ladies, me on a pogo stick), run to the can and tinkle away your temptations. If you're outside you're probably OK to do it the hobo way and pee in an alley, but that presupposes you were about to rub one out at Wal-Mart or some such, which is a whole different ball of crazy.
Once you pee, your wiener will deflate like that last party balloon after none of your friends showed up to celebrate your birthday. Ladies, no advice for you on this one, but it's probably because this guy doesn't know his ass from a bottle of Mr. Pibb, so his insight into lady folk is limited to what he's seen on the Internet and from the window of the place where he buys his roofies.
#1. Become a Better Human
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Of course there's a Wikihow on how to stop masturbating because why wouldn't there be. Now that we're at the final entry of this article, doesn't it make you a little sad that there's clearly a decent enough population of people Googling "how to stop masturbating" that there are dozens and dozens of articles on the subject? That's the world we're in, people. A world in which people are at home, one hand clenched like a vulture's claw at their groins, all carpal tunnelly and pruney with spittle, desperately typing away trying to find a way to end the madness.
Wikihow offers you numerous solutions to your random jack attacks, including such things as "do pushups until you're exhausted," "volunteer your time," "eat healthy," and "take up a creative past time like music or art." Basically Wikihow wants you to unhand yourself and become a better thing than that which you already are, which sounds awesome at first and even kind of a good idea. Until I try to ruin it in the next paragraph.
Now I'm not saying this is always the case, but what if all those good people out in the world -- the artists, the volunteers, the healthy joggers, the out and about people who always have something going on - are just compulsive masturbators in denial? These people want desperately to be at home giving their goodies a wicked drubbing, but instead they're distracting themselves at soup kitchens and gyms and poetry slams. The people we're meant to look up to are really just like the rest of us, only lying to themselves in a sad yet arguably less sticky way.
You think about this the next time you shake hands with someone who's always on the go. See how firm their grip is. See if they have that crazed look in their eye. They want it, man. They want it bad.


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The chilly January weather makes this month the perfect time to take advantage of the wealth of museum options that the Dallas-Fort Worth area has to offer. We've gathered info on 15 great attractions, as well as what you can do there.
Compiled by Dena Hill, Ann Pinson and Joy Tipping, from sources including Guide archives


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Tomblin's reform bill a good start
March 26, 2013
Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin and West Virginia legislators have accomplished something very worthwhile in passage of a major education reform bill....
i think they should drug test all boe employees if they really want to WEED out the bad ones
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I am sick and tired of lazy incompetent whining teachers. But that being said......I also think SOMETHING must be done to 'parents' who show NO interest in making sure their children show up for school and do their homework. Surely, there is something else that can be done in these situations too. It's just as much a parents responsibility for half of the effort the kids must make. It takes parents plus teachers to have a well-educated child!
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Why Pure....Merit pay would give most of these teachers LESS pay. Isn't that quite apparent by the passing each year of kids who can't read or write??
Seniority must be "thrown" out the window first of all. Then the counties can FIRE the incompetent lazy teachers who build up seniority and then think they cannot be fired no matter what.
We'll see a year from now what happens. I'm not holding my breath. Seems democrats always think throwing $$ money at everything fixes everything.
You want kids to learn? MERIT PAY....MERIT PAY!!! It's the ONLY way!
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I understand that some may view my comments as inappropriate given my position as a Penn State trustee. However, I feel so strongly about this issue that I believe I have a responsibility and a moral obligation to comment on Cory Giger's recent column regarding the position of Penn State athletic director.
First, I do not believe Dave Joyner deserves the job on a permanent basis as was suggested by Giger. In fact, I do not believe Dave Joyner should have ever been placed in the role of acting athletic director. And I am not the only one.
Auditor General Jack Wagner's recently issued special report, called "Recommendations for Governance Reform at The Pennsylvania State University," details the issue of insiders moving back and forth between the Board of Trustees and university staff.
One year ago, the Penn State board allowed Joyner, then a trustee, to seamlessly and quietly move into the lucrative position of acting athletic director, thus creating a cast of influential insiders with the potential to impair objective and independent thinking. The perception of impropriety was very real, for good reason. Openness and transparency be damned.
Second, at the time Tim Curley was placed on administrative leave, then Associate Athletic Director Mark Sherburne was named the acting athletic director. A seasoned administrator, Sherburne served as acting athletic director for only 10 days before being suddenly and questionably replaced by Joyner.
A 21-year employee of the university, Sherburne was widely respected by coaches and athletic department staff, in addition to university administrators with whom he had worked his entire career. Joyner's controversial firing of Sherburne in April of this year led many to question his motives, again with good reason.
Third, on November 17, 2011, NCAA President Mark Emmert sent Penn State President Rod Erickson a three-page letter in which he asked four specific questions. A Penn State staff member contacted Joyner in December of 2011 recommending the immediate hiring of special counsel for this NCAA matter, in order to protect the best interests of Penn State. The staff member was told that this was unnecessary and the matter was under control.
Penn State did not engage such counsel until July 11, 2012. Consequently, we were needlessly caught flat-footed, unprepared to address the unprecedented sanctions imposed by the NCAA. Furthermore, the recent additions of Maryland and Rutgers to the Big Ten were made without any member of Penn State's administration, including athletics and the Board of Trustees, knowledge of the financial impact to Penn State.
Fourth, the hiring of an athletic director should not be based on the successful hiring of one coach, even if that coach is Bill O'Brien. Penn State athletics encompasses so much more than 31 varsity sports. The athletic director is responsible for more than 300 staff and 800 student-athletes, in addition to all club sports and branch campus athletics. The operating budget exceeds $118 million.
Finally, when the time for a permanent replacement to Tim Curley arrives, if there is a serious commitment to eschewing Penn State's historically insular leadership culture, we should all expect - and, in fact demand - that the Board of Trustees take note of the specific recommendation in the Freeh Report to "conduct national searches for candidates for key positions, including head coaches and Associate Athletic Director[s] and above."
Tim Curley's dynamic and passionate leadership has been the driving force behind the Nittany Lions' tremendous level of athletic and academic achievement since his hiring in 1993. Great care, attention and expertise must be invested in a transparent and comprehensive process to ensure that standard of excellence is solidly in place for Penn State's next generation of student-athletes and fans.
Anthony P. Lubrano
Sanctions still hard to swallow
As the scales of justice continue to evolve and prosecute those responsible for the cover-up of Sandusky's sexual abuse at PSU, I am having a real problem accepting the actions of the NCAA toward PSU.
In my humble opinion, it makes absolutely no sense to punish future generations of PSU football players.
The fines, reduction of scholarships and elimination of bowl bids only serve to punish the future of players who are putting themselves at risk of injury every game.
Every football coach in the country should be voicing their displeasure for such punitive action of future generations due to actions of a despicable group of individuals who were at the helm.
As far as I'm concerned, the buck stops with Graham Spanier, followed by Tim Curley and Gary Schultz and other staff who have yet to be indicted.
I'm hoping that these individuals are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, and if they are found guilty, the Board of Trustees should request reimbursement of all legal fees to PSU and the surrender of their pensions as additional punishment for their dereliction of duty.
It's pretty hard to fix stupid, but I would urge each of you to take up your pen or email and let the NCAA know that punishing the future and tainting the reputation of an excellent university is just plain dumb.
Frank M. Fedeli
Seniors go out in style
I'm so happy for Penn State's seniors.
It was wonderful to send them off with a win against a tough Wisconsin team. I can't help but wonder if kids such as Anthony Fera (who is somewhat of an exception due to the health of his mom), Justin Brown and Silas Redd are thinking twice about their decisions after seeing what their friends and former teammates have accomplished this year.
If Bill O'Brien leaves PSU for the NFL, I'll understand. A guy doesn't get a lot of chances to coach an NFL team or to get paid an NFL salary. So I'll understand, but I won't forgive him.
O'Brien is now the reason for potential recruits to come to PSU. O'Brien has shown that he can win, that he can take a walk-on from Scranton and make him one of the top quarterbacks in the Big Ten, and that he can do that stuff with a program that is reeling.
If O'Brien walks, the appeal of PSU takes a huge hit for the duration of the sanctions. I hope he will show the sort of character that his players displayed, and that he will stay with PSU at least until the sanctions are done.
I'm sad that PSU won't get the chance to play in the Outback Bowl or the Capital One Bowl or whichever bowl they would have landed in under different circumstances.
But I won't allow that to diminish the admiration that I feel for the team this year.
Tod Jacobs
Reading, Mass.
Realignment feels wrong
There is something fundamentally wrong with the academic/athletic relationship when a school is willing to pay $50 million (sounds like a powerball lottery payoff) to leave one league and join another - assuming reports of the ACC exit fee for Maryland are accurate.
It will take a long time to make up the financial difference between staying in the ACC and paying to move to the Big Ten (now 14).
And how does Maryland replace North Carolina, Duke, N.C. State, Virginia and Clemson on their basketball schedule. With home-home vs. the Nits?
The Rutgers situation is a bit different. After all, the wise guys who run the Big East thought it was a great idea to add Boise State and San Diego State to the conference. Both are natural rivals for Temple.
I would love to get the frequent-flyer miles San Diego State accumulates.
I cannot remember a team leaving the Big Ten, but with the league having added three teams from other conferences in the past few years, they should not be surprised if others raid them.
Love the amateurism that is college athletics.
Larry Eisman
Ficken comeback impressive
It's probably not polite or even appropriate to say "I told you so."
However, earlier in the year, I wrote with my concern about Penn State coach Bill O'Brien not using placekicker Sam Ficken after the Virginia game. I even commented that he may need him some time later in the year.
Now, to his credit, O'Brien did go back to Ficken, and he did well when he did. You sure have to feel good for that kid finishing the year with a field goal that was the difference in the Wisconsin game.
It turned out to be quite a year for Penn State and perhaps one of the most entertaining in Penn State history.
Will Walk
Spring, Texas
'O'Brien made it happen'
I enjoyed Neil Rudel's Nov. 25 recap for a great PSU team and coach titled "O'Brien caps great debut with victory."
It was extremely well-written and captured the emotion of this year's team and coach.
How fitting that Coach O'Brien received Big Ten Coach of the Year. At one time, I was hoping Urban Meyer would coach at PSU. Although his Ohio State team had no losses, it's obvious that the 8-4 PSU outcome was way beyond expected in this crazy year.
Although I don't want to downplay the team's efforts, O'Brien made it happen. I'm so relieved to learn he will be coming back next year. I am concerned now about the recruiting process, and if the best undergraduate players will stay with the PSU team next fall.
But miracles do happen - as witnessed by this year's team.
Carol Goodman


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"The whole time we were filming [season 3], I had no idea what other people were saying about me," Giudice, 39, writes in her latest blog for BravoTV.com. "I just assumed they were all my friends."
Though she specifically refers to "the other ladies having a go at me" on the show, Giudice may as well have been addressing costar Jacqueline Laurita, who earlier this week vented about Giudice on Twitter.
Among her Twitter claims: that Giudice told everyone her sister-in-law, and fellow Jersey housewife, Melissa Gorga, once worked as a stripper. (Gorga subsequently denied that in a blog of her own.)
And Laurita pointedly Tweeted, "Teresa is scum."
Meanwhile, sources told PEOPLE that Laurita has quit the Bravo show, which has already begun taping season 4. Rumors also abounded that she – and costar Caroline Manzo – were actually let go from the show for season 5.
But no one has been fired as of now, says Bravo, who told PEOPLE in a statement, "All five cast members will be featured on season four. No decisions have been made about season five at this time."
Taking a Twitter BreakAs it stands now, Giudice, who faced an $11 million bankruptcy and family feud as part of season 3's plot, says that her costars may talk about her failings behind her back, but she's taking the high road.
"I don't talk about personalities or their kids or how they spend their money, or how smart I think they are," she writes on her blog. "I say, 'She pissed me off, but I'm not going to let it bother me.' "
And she writes: "Cut to everyone else: 'Teresa can't be reasoned with, Teresa was dropped on her head as a baby,' all about my 'character flaws' and how I didn't 'grow up,' how I'm 'cuckoo.' I had no idea they were bashing me like that."
As for her recent Twitter war with Laurita, Giudice says she's taking a break from Tweeting.
"I don't think it's a very healthy place to be right now," she writes. "(I just can't take anyone who's suddenly friends again with Kim G. seriously, sorry!), so I'm going to slowly slip out of it and maybe take a little break for a while."


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Ronald S. McDonald, Keith's father and my grandfather, appears in the Minnesota State Census for the year 1895. He is living in Hennepin County, Minnesota. He has been living in Minnesota for 4 years. This may mean he might have left home right before the Canadian census for 1891 was enumerated? He would have been 25 years old by that time and probably wanting to strike out on his own.
McDonald, Ronald, age 29, male, white, born in Canada, 4 yrs in state, 4 years in dist, Lumberman, 12 mos. employed, parents of foreign birth – yes, yes, was not enumerated before – no. Source: Minnesota State Census 1895, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, pg. 7. Ancestry.com.
Note: The counties around the area of the twin cities in Minnesota are Ramsey (St. Paul) and Hennepin (Minneapolis) so you do have to pay attention when doing research or check the documents for both counties.
Apparently, Ronald or better known as R.S. decided to become naturalized. Naturalization is not easy to find in the early years before about 1906 when they changed the laws. It is usually in the court where the person applied. I made an educated guess and wrote to the court in Hennepin county and was very lucky.
1. A.R. McPherson swears that he knows Ronald S. McDonald and that he has resided in the country for over 5 years and one year past and is of good moral character. Followed by Ronald S. McDonald swearing allegiance to the United States and the State of Minnesota and renounces his allegiance to the King of Great Britain. Ronald S. McDonald is granted citizenship and it is Signed by David T Simpson, Judge District Court, Dec. 16, 1901.
2. Second document stating that Ronald S. McDonald had appeared on the 15th Day of October in 1894 and made his declaration of intention at that time to become a citizen of the United States. Signed by the Clerk of the Court (unreadable) and the Deputy of the Court on Dec. 16, 1901.
Source: State of Minnesota Fourth Judicial District, Hennepin County, Minnesota #341-6, December 16, 1901, Witnessed by A. R. McPherson and signed by the Clerk of the court (unreadable).
This helps to place Keith's father in the United States and Minnesota in and before October 1894 or earlier.
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Co-artistic director of Altoona's Things Unseen Theatre and actor Jody C. Hesley wasn't like others who would drop into the Altoona Community Theatre wanting to get involved, ACT's Operations Manager Steven C. Helsel said Tuesday.
Helsel knew Hesley was a "different animal" when upon his arrival he began talking about how he was doing a lot of reading including playwrights Thornton Wilder and Eugene Ionesco, he said.
"And that was kind of the first time that I've ever really had somebody who had that kind of an interest walk through the door," Helsel said, noting Hesley immediately asked if he was allowed to borrow from the library of scripts at the theater office. He took home several only to return them in two days hungry for more.
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Local actor and director Jody Hesley passed away Friday at age 46.
Hesley was "always full of ideas on the philosophy of the theater and different studies of the theater. He would talk about Stanislavsky and different methods and things like that," Helsel said. "He had that true sense of wanting to be an actor, I think, and wanting to really be able to develop a craft that way."
Sadly, the Hollidaysburg father of three, who started the local theater company in the summer of 2011 with co-artistic director, Valerie Stratton, died Friday at the age of 46.
"He was an intense actor. Everything he did was intense. He lived his whole life with intensity and that was clear in his acting. And I think that his intensity was clear to anyone who met him," fiancee Haley Hawk of Hollidaysburg said Tuesday. "When he put his mind to something he gave himself a hundred percent."
Hesley was a "creative brilliant soul" who "did a lot of good things for the art community," said Hawk.
Hesley played Stanley in Altoona Community Theatre's 2011 production of "A Streetcar Named Desire." The production was directed by Russell Stiles, Hollidaysburg Area Senior High School English/ Drama Department Chair.
Stiles said Hesley's audition was "so powerful it was like Marlon Brando walked into the room and his performance was just amazing. It was inspiring and cutting-edge Tennessee Williams. I really think that physical roles like that he was brilliant at. He really displayed a presence on stage that you couldn't take your eyes off him. He had that like magnetism and audiences really responded to him."
Stratton, who was stage manager for the production, was close friends with Hesley.
"He just put everything into [the role]," she said. "Without having had any training he just had this natural raw talent of bringing so much emotion to a role that he just did an excellent job in any of the acting parts that he had."
Hesley also starred in the 2013 short film "Get Down," which was produced in New York City and shown at the Pittsburgh International Film Festival.
Among his accomplishments, Hesley, who was accepted into the New York Conservatory of Dramatic Arts, first took the stage in ACT's 2010 production of "Broadway Bound," according to his biography on the Things Unseen website. In 2011, came his performance in a "Streetcar Named Desire," and then a performance in Next Stage Theatre's production of "Time Flies Like an Arrow, Fruit Flies Like a Banana" in State College.
He also directed, including Things Unseen's 2012 production of "Nickel and Dimed."
Stratton and Hesley started the theater company after meeting when they were both cast in "Broadway Bound," she said.
They discovered shared common interests and began talking "about the need to support the arts in this area," Stratton said.
Hesley was "the creative force, the energy behind it all," said Stratton, who plans to continue the company.
Hawk said Hesley, who was also a poet, was "very kind" and had a love for animals.
"He kind of looked at the world in a child-like way. He could see beauty and wonder all around him," she said through tears. "And I'll miss him very much."
Hesley "was just different and unique and wonderful in many ways," said Stratton, who also spoke through tears at the loss of her friend who she said "had so much to contribute and he's just gone way too soon."
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Calvert won both doubles matches, getting the edge it needed to nip Columbian, 3-2.
The Senecas moved to 6-1.
Margaret Bowers and Samantha Gase defeated the Tornadoes' Ashley Niedermier and Sam Krintzline, 6-3, 6-2. The Senecas' Kerrigan Kwiat and Cassie Recker beat Julianne Peacock and Kristina Talbot-Koehl 6-1, 6-2.
In singles play, Calvert's lone win came when Laura Haley beat Kayla Magrum, 6-3, 6-0.
Columbian's Sarah Guzowski beat Madison Daniel 7-5, 4-6, 7-5, while Tiffany Walker beat Regina Hoepf, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4.
Columbian dropped to 4-3.
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FOSTORIA - Upper Sandusky traveled to Fostoria and took care of the Redmen Thursday, 5-0.
In singles play, the Rams Kilee Saylor topped Erica Moore, 6-1, 6-0. Upper Sandusky's Nadia English defeated Jessica Kaufman, 6-0, 6-0. In the final singles contest, Taylor Dilley beat Sabra Tate, 6-0, 6-0.
In doubles play, Rene Vent and Kayla Gault teamed to beat the Redmen's Autumn Affholder and Jillian Smith, 6-4, 7-5. Upper Sandusky's Melissa Latham and Hope Voorhees defeated Destinie Farris and Ellen Guan, 6-0, 6-0.
Daniel delivers for Seneca East
Jack Daniel shot a 41 to tie for medalist, and Seneca East knocked off Old Fort, 174-183, at Mohawk Country Club.
Calvert also played at the event but didn't field a full team.
Daniel's 41 tied him with Old Fort's Adam Alexander for the match's best score. The Stockaders' Maison Steyer shot a 42, while the Tigers' Johnny Diehm added a 43.
Calvert's three players - Matt Huffman, Bryan Kennedy and Henry Burns - all shot a 47.
Wickham leads TC to a win
T.J. Wickham fired a 41, leading Columbian in a victory over Northern Ohio League rivals Ontario and Sandusky.
Wickham's score helped the Tornadoes finish with a 176, five strokes ahead of Ontario, which was led by Andrew McGee, who had a 44. Sandusky had the medalist in Kyle Dickman (38), but finished with a 184.
Columbian's Graydon Bunting shot a 43, while Jack Burkes had a 44.


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With reference to the article in the Jan. 23 News, it appears I'm one of the four out of 10 Americans who disagree with the eventual pathway to citizenship for the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the country. Not being a politician, I have nothing to gain.
I don't think we need more "poor and huddled masses." We already have enough legal citizens in this situation. Where are the jobs for these estimated 11 million people coming from?
It's time for both political parties to stop worrying about the rest of the world and get our country back on track. They take our money, arms and whatever else they can get and laugh at us.
Stop looking for votes and do the job you were all elected to do.
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The dumb online video trend of the moment starts with footage of teenagers and 20-somethings walking through the aisles of grocery stores, carrying a gallon jug of milk or juice in each hand.
After a few seconds, the star of the video clip flings the containers into the air, or smashes them on the tiled floor, then performs a pratfall into the pool of liquid as an accomplice records the scene.
It's called "milk smashing" or "gallon smashing." It's a prank that's trending on YouTube and, to the frustration of law enforcement and store employees, at grocery stores nationally and in Buffalo Niagara.
Tops Markets has seen six of these cases in the last week at its stores in Erie County, while Wegmans has seen three in its area stores over the same period.
"It's a prank. However, we don't find it to be amusing," said Shaun Frank, asset protection manager for Wegmans in Buffalo. "We consider it a crime."
So far, no one has been reported hurt in any of the local "milk smashing" incidents, but police say the pranksters could face criminal charges, and store officials say they will prosecute anyone they catch in the act.
"Milk smashing" follows in the footsteps of the once-popular "fire in the hole," in which participants pulled up to a drive-thru restaurant window and threw their drinks at a worker while shouting the aforementioned phrase.
It's the latest bizarre, food-related prank that has transfixed a segment of the population that apparently has high-tech savvy and too much time on their hands.
"[Online file-sharing] is a great tool. Whenever you have a tool, people will end up using it for other purposes, including a ridiculous one," said Jeffrey J. McConnell, chairman of the Computer Science Department at Canisius College. "What you have is people using YouTube to get Andy Warhol's 15 minutes of fame."
An ABC News report traces the "milk smashing" or "gallon smashing" trend to three teenagers in Northern Virginia. The initial video they recorded received three million views before it was removed by YouTube.
The prank has spread, with a search Tuesday on YouTube for the term "milk smash" bringing up more than 2,900 clips on the video-sharing site.
The smashers in the videos typically end up lying on the floor in the aisle, with milk or juice pooling around them, after pretending to lose their balance. The occasional unlucky shopper can end up splashed by milk, and store employees are stuck cleaning up the mess.
"If their intention was to prank, this isn't even a really good prank," said McConnell, who added, "They just look foolish writhing around on the floor."
Lancaster Police Capt. William Karn said the "milk smashing" pranksters can be charged with criminal mischief, a misdemeanor.
Town police learned about the prank Monday, when a store employee from the Tops at 4777 Transit Road reported a "milk smashing" incident that occurred shortly before 1 a.m. Sunday.
In that case, a man smashed two plastic jugs of milk while a woman recorded the prank on her cellphone, said Karn, whose detectives will study the store's surveillance video of the incident.
Katie McKenna, a Tops spokeswoman, declined to identify the locations of the five other "smashing" incidents at Tops stores in Erie County over the past week.
"This is destructive behavior. It's potentially dangerous. It could lead to associate and customer injury. We are taking the matter very seriously," McKenna said.
Wegmans has had three such incidents, also in the past week, with one at a store on Losson Road in Cheektowaga, one in Erie, Pa., and one apparently at the Alberta Drive location in Amherst, Frank said.
He said contacts in the law enforcement community and in the industry had warned Wegmans officials to prepare for the "milk smashing" trend, so Frank wasn't surprised when it came to the company's stores here.
Store security guards, managers and cashiers have been warned to be on the lookout for possible smashers, Frank said.
"If we can prosecute these individuals, we absolutely will prosecute them," he said.
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Beavers, bobcats, and cutthroat trout aren't your typical city residents, but then Forest Park in Portland isn't your typical urban park. At 5,000 mostly forested acres (2,023 hectares), it's not the country's largest city green space (that honor goes to El Paso's 24,247-acre [9,812-hectare] Franklin Mountains State Park). But Forest Park, an outpost of wild Cascadia just minutes by car or bus from downtown office towers, transports you into wilderness faster and more completely than any other park in the nation. Instead of baseball diamonds and manicured lawns, Forest Park offers an untamed woodland of stately cedar, fir, and hemlock soaring above an understory of sword fern and huckleberry. Roughly 70 miles (113 kilometers) of trail weave through this Pac Northwest postcard, including the 30-mile-long (48-kilometer-long) Wildwood Trail, a favorite among hikers and runners for its easy grades and knack for locating moss-covered beauty spots. "The north end of the park is where you'll find solitude, even on a weekend," says Stephen Hatfield, stewardship director of the Forest Park Conservancy. For an eight-mile (thirteen-kilometer) hike that visits several seasonal streams, step onto the Maple-Wildwood Trail loop off Saltzman Road. Post-hike, ease your reentry into society by joining the trail-weary at nearby Lucky Labrador Beer Hall for a pint of rye ale and some chowder.
Vitals: Forest Park Conservancy; www.forestparkconservancy.org. Lucky Labrador Beer Hall; www.luckylab.com
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If you ever do cloth diapers, I'll give you my suggestions. they're great and much easier than I expected!
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That's what we use too. After several horrible diaper rashes that went on WAY longer than any rash should, we switched in case there was some diaper-allergy going on. I am not sure if that was the fix but no diaper rash since then. We cloth (sometimes) at home but we love the seventh generation diapers and wipes. It is encouraging that there are other mothers who are attachment parenting minded in most other ways but don't consistently cloth diaper. It is easy to get caught up in things like that. I too feel like using seventh generation is a step in the right direction. Thanks Steph!ReplyDelete
And you call yourself a hippie?! ;)
We love California Baby over here too. We are Cloth fans btw, but we do use the sposies on occasion... like at the airport.
(What's in that large zippered bag? Why it's dirty diapers! Would you like to xray them?)
thanks for the tip. i do cloth diapers during the day, but switch to 7th generation (to hold julian's massive pees) at night. good to know i can get them cheaper online. :)ReplyDelete
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I love cloth (and encourage anyone who is even slightly interested in using cloth to give it a try!) but when we went on vacation I did use 7th Gen part-time while traveling. It is really nice to have alternative disposable options!ReplyDelete
Ok...that is so cool! I have never seen that potty before! I wish I had known about that 6 months ago! Wow! Grayson (mine) is definitely getting one of these in 2 to 3 yrs!ReplyDelete
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I've been using them for over 6 months, I think, and haven't had any problems. Makes me feel good to be doing something that's less harmful for the earth.
YAY -- our boys are learning quickly. :)
we looove 7th Gen, did I tell you my cousin works for them? He just sent me a huge box of products (including tons of diapers) that will threaten my Method addiction. ;)ReplyDelete
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Wow! I am excited for you on the potty training! What a big boy to use a urinal. My goal is to have a sitter so there is less clean up down the road. I am still so grateful my MIL did that with all her boys.ReplyDelete
7th generation diapers are the best! We've been using them for quite a while for nighttime (when we aren't using cloth) and for travelling. I didn't know they could be ordered online, though.
Good job with the potty training! :-)
Thanks for the code. I ordered me a pack of the diapers for Burger (we use disposables at night because with cloth he wakes up earlier and always leaks!) so we figure 1 disposable a night is ok ;-) and still saves us money. Caleb still uses a pull-up at night as well.. so I ordered him a set of the 7th generation pullups.
He just cant seem to NOT pee at night :-(
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Music: It's all Irish
Music makes the world go 'round, except on St. Patrick's Day weekend when it sends it into another orbit altogether.
Think about it: Can you imagine the day if President Obama ordered it without music, due to budget cuts? No "Whiskey in the Jar"? No "Galway Bay"? No "Danny Boy," sniff?
Get real. Reels, jigs, pipe and drums, and clover-shaking Celtic rock are as key to the holiday as shepherd's pie and green derbies. Fortunately, Erie has no shortage of options, and that's no blarney. Read on for Irish-related music events; see Around Town for the full list of who's where.
Erepa Grotto Pipes & Drums. Bagpipin' on the hour, every hour! That's not the official motto of this group, but it could be on St. Patrick's Day. It makes the rounds, while people do rounds of green Jell-O shots at area clubs.
Everyone makes way when the bagpipers come marching in.
"On St. Patrick's Day, if you have bagpipes, you're in," said Tom Kalinowski, the group's president. "We're looking forward to it. The guys have a good time doing it."
Shows: Saturday in the parade, then at Park Place afterward. Sunday: Zukor Club (2 p.m.), Clancy's (3 p.m.), Calamari's (4 p.m.), Plymouth (5 p.m.), Sherlock's (6 p.m.), Brewerie (7 p.m.).
The Bangerzz. Ischabaha regaled Erie at St. Patrick's Day time for a dozen years, but the jig was finally up in 2012. Jim Tometsko didn't want the party to end, though. Enter the Bangerzz with Tometsko and Dan Dahlkemper, formerly of Ischabaha, plus Tom Kitchen and Jon Sedelmyer.
"This is with a drum set, and it kind of gives it a new energy, which is pretty neat," Tometsko said. "We'll still be playing 'St. Patrick's Day in Erie' and all that, but we'll give it a new twist."
Bangerzz will do a "Danny Boy" contest and play Irish traditionals. They'll also do several U2 songs and give oldies such as "Love Potion No. 9" and "Secret Agent Man" a Celtic kick.
"We'll do some Bowling for Soup, too, just for fun," Tometsko said.
Show: Sunday at 5 p.m. at Brewerie
Blarney Rubble. Former Ischabaha member Mike Hart dreamed up the Flintstones-meet-Ireland band name after he joined former members of Paddy Racket, including fiddle player and vocalist Pam Verity. The group also include Ron Stubbe on tenor and five-string banjo and bodhran, plus guitarist Puddy Agans.
"He came up with it in the shower," Verity said, with a laugh. We're going to do traditional Irish -- drinking and dancing (songs). Singalongs. Instrumentals. Jigs and reels and polkas and marches."
Expect such songs as "Wild Rover," "Tell Me Mama" and "Merrily Kiss the Quaker," among others.
Shows: Saturday following the parade (around 3 p.m.) and Sunday from 4 to 8 p.m. at Pufferbelly.
Paddy Whacked. It's not St. Patrick's Day unless you get whacked by this energetic band of rowdy, hard-rocking (and hard-drinking, we suspect) Celtic-rock-punk upstarts. They cover Flogging Molly, the Pogues, Young Dubliners and even Johnny Cash's "Sunday Morning Coming Down," which should be appropriate this particular Sunday.
Shows: Today at 9:30 p.m., opening for the Tossers and Continental at Crooked I. Saturday at 6:30 p.m. at Sherlock's. Sunday at 11:30 a.m. at Erie Ale House and 6:30 p.m. at Sherlock's.
Brokenstraw. Led by eternal Irishman Michael Hampsey, Brokenstraw is one of the Erie area's longest-running St. Patrick's Day traditions -- one that will continue at the Brewerie. This will be the group's 22nd consecutive St. Paddy's Day show.
Show: Sunday, 2 to 5 p.m. at Brewerie.
The Mulligans. If the stars of the "Boondock Saints" needed a house band, they'd probably hire this working-class band that pumps out one mug-clinking drinking song after another, such as "Whiskey and the Devil," "Beer Beer Beer" and "What Would You Do with a Drunken Sailor?"
Shows: Friday at 8 a.m., live on WRKT-FM/Rocket 101; Friday at 5 p.m. at Brewerie; Saturday at noon and also following the parade at U Pick Six Taphouse; Saturday at 9 p.m. at Brewerie; Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m. at Urraro Gallery.
Celtic Clan, Forsythe Special, Zem Zem Pipe and Drum Band. All three outfits will converge at Crowley's in Cranesville. Expect traditional jigs, fiddle songs, spirited reels and more from the three-piece Celtic Clan, while Zem Zem will get your heart pumping. Forsythe Special -- an accomplished trio that includes Brian Hunt -- specializes in traditional songs with tin whistle, fiddle and bodhran.
Shows: Celtic Clan on Friday from 6 to 9 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 3 p.m. Forsythe Special on Saturday from to 6 to 9 p.m. Zem Zem will appear Sunday evening. Donations for Erie Shriners Ambulatory Surgery Center and Outpatient Specialty Care Center will be accepted during the St. Patrick's Day Celebration.
Town Pants. Up for a drive? It's worth it to catch this rousing, highly danceable Vancouver band led by entertaining brothers Dave and Duane Keough. Town Pants usually play the Great Blue Heron Music Festival in Sherman, N.Y., every July. Not in 2013, though. They'll make just one area stop. Don't miss it.
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A term used to describe a race car driver who is either pulling away from the pack or is quickly moving through the field.
Jimmie Johnson was bad fast towards the end of the race, and he finally caught and passed Kurt Busch with two laps to go.
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A term to discribe the breaking of a combonation of multipule posts on an internet message board, or in a chat.
Usuauly the post is just a simple bolded "C-C-C-C-Combo breaker!"
Usuauly the post is just a simple bolded "C-C-C-C-Combo breaker!"
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Combo Breaker: noun, while doing combos in game, Killer Instinct, break someones combo by tapping the block button.( + -- .'.' ) <-- snes crap controller tap the y button repeatedly till breaking combo succesfully.
"Man did you see that c-c-c-c- Combo Breaker Bitch!"
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A person or group of people who is "Going Against & Fuckin' Up The Odds."
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Reversal move used in Killer Instinct (Iconic mid-90s beat 'em up videogame) to stop your opponent in mid-combo (chained attacks). This reversal is punctuated by the announcer shouting "COMBO BREAKER!"
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Term used when Saltin someone's swag, Often to the point of swag jackin a fellow gentleman. Originally referenced in killer instinct
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A Combo Breaker is an instantaneous deviation from the regular pattern of vaginal intercourse to the anal route - generally done unexpectedly, and almost always to the female party's detriment.
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In her column on Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice, who was suspended two games by the NFL after his arrest for domestic violence, Washington Post columnist Sally Jenkins criticized the light response to Rice's actions, asking how the league could justify "a two-game penalty for a running back going all Flintstone on his wife."
On Thursday, Jenkins's column provoked an impassioned response from one Post reader, who sent a letter to the editor defending Fred Flintstone against implicit charges of spousal abuse.
As Martin Kramer of Takoma Park, Maryland, wrote, "Fred Flintstone had his faults, but he loved and respected his wife Wilma, often referring to her as his queen."
Kramer reminded Jenkins that the fictional cartoon character worked back-breaking hours at a local rock quarry to put food on the table for his family, laboring "until the whistle blew so he could slide down the back of his brontosaurus rock mover and head home to Wilma."
"What Mr. Rice did could perhaps qualify as a stereotype of caveman behavior," he concluded, "but yabba dabba don't lump Fred Flintstone in with that type of behavior."
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ST. LOUIS – Twenty-eight student-athletes were named to the 2014 Preseason All-Pioneer Football League Team, announced Wednesday, and as selected by the league's head coaches.
A trio of returning standouts for the Stetson Hatters were recognized as members of the preseason squad.
The PFL will host its preseason coaches teleconference at 11 a.m., Thursday. The league released its preseason coaches poll, Tuesday.
Returning players who were selected to the league's 2013 All-PFL Teams were placed automatically on the 2014 Preseason All-PFL team in order of voting. Nine preseason selections were first-team honorees last season, 14 earned second-team honors with the remaining six players were honorable mention picks.
Dayton redshirt-senior quarterback Will Bardo is the signal-caller on the PFL's preseason squad after tossing 13 touchdowns and running for nine more while racking up 2,434 total offensive yards. Each member of the three-man wide receivers group recorded 1,000 yards receiving in 2013. It is led by San Diego redshirt senior Reggie Bell (65 receptions, 1,050 yards, 9 TDs) and Jacksonville senior Andrew Robustelli (51 receptions, 1,063 yards, 11 TDs), who were both First Team All-PFL selections in 2013. Davidson junior wideout William Morris (67 receptions, 1,090 yards, 5 TDs) rounds out the trio. Drake sophomore tight end Eric Saubert (47 receptions, 549 yards) returns after earning First Team All-PFL honors in his rookie campaign.
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On the other side of the ball, the league's four-man defensive line is led by Dayton redshirt senior Pat Dowd (37 tackles, 12½ TFL, 11½ sacks), who is the lone returning First Team All-PFL pick in the group. Drake redshirt senior Matt Acree (32 tackles, 5½ TFL, 5 sacks) is the other returning upperclassmen on the line. The offensive line also features two underclassmen as Jacksonville sophomore Maroa White (55 tackles, 12 TFL, 5 sacks) and Campbell defensive lineman Ugonna Awuruonye (44 tackles, 14 TFL, 7 sacks) round out the unit.
A pair of returning First Team All-PFL picks lead the league's linebacker corps: Drake junior John Hugunin (113 tackles, 11 TFL) and Marist redshirt senior Paul Sakowski (62 tackles) each return after impressive campaigns. Davidson senior Matt Casey (106 tackles) and Jacksonville redshirt junior Mike Klein (76 tackles) were Second Team All-PFL selections at linebacker last season.
Stetson landed a pair of student-athletes on the five-man defensive back squad, with sophomores Donald Payne (113 tackles, 16 TFL, 4.5 sacks) and Chris Atkins (6 interceptions, 14 passes defensed) returning to lead the second-year squad. Three upperclassmen round out the defensive backfield: Marist senior Zach Adler (5 interceptions, 10 passes defensed), Drake junior Brad Duwe (3 interceptions) and San Diego redshirt senior Troy McClelland (50 tackles, 8 passes defensed).
The league's special teams unit will see two First Team All-PFL honorees return for their sophomore year: Dayton placekicker William Will (10-12 FG, 41 PATs, 71 points) and Drake punter Cam Bohnert (50 punts, 39.8 yards per punt). Morehead State redshirt senior Brandon Bornhauser (36 total kick returns, 7.8 yards per punt return, 26.7 yards per kick return) picked up the nod as the league's preseason pick as return specialist.


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WASHINGTON � Anyone who�s had a hospital stay knows the beeping monitors, the pagers and phones, the hallway chatter, the roommate, even the squeaky laundry carts all make for a not-so-restful place to heal.
Hospitals need a prescription for quiet, and new research suggests it may not be easy to tamp down all the noise for a good night�s sleep.
In fact, the wards with the sickest patients � the intensive care units � can be the loudest.
�It�s just maddening,� says Dr. Jeffrey Ellenbogen, sleep medicine chief at Massachusetts General Hospital. He pointed to one study that found the decibel level in ICUs reaches that of a shout about half the time.
Patient satisfaction surveys are packed with complaints that the clamor makes it hard to sleep. Yet remarkably little is known about exactly how that affects patients� bodies � and which types of noises are the most disruptive to shut-eye. So Ellenbogen and researchers from Harvard and the Cambridge Health Alliance recorded different kinds of hubbub in a community hospital in Boston�s suburbs to try to find out.
Since it wouldn�t be appropriate to experiment on sick people by disrupting their sleep, 12 healthy volunteers were enlisted. They spent three nights in Mass General�s sleep lab, slumbering as recorded hospital sounds blared from nearby speakers at increasing volumes.
Sure, a toilet flushing, voices in the hallway or the ice machine woke people once they were loud enough. But electronic sounds were the most likely to arouse people from sleep � even at decibel levels not much above a whisper, the researchers reported last week in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine.
What electronic sounds? Particularly troublesome was the beep-beep-beep from IV machines that signals someone needs more fluid or medicine, one of the most common machines in a hospital. They�re just one of a variety of alarms.
Those alarms are meant to alert hospital workers, of course, so the finding raises a conundrum. But some hospitals are testing ways to make at least some monitors flash signals at the nurses� stations rather than sound loudly at the bedside.
The other surprises: The sleepers� heart rates temporarily jumped as much as 10 beats a minute as they were aroused, the researchers reported. And they didn�t remember most of the disruptions even though brain recordings clearly showed their sleep was interrupted, which suggests that patients� complaints are underestimating the problem.
�My God, we delivered 100 sounds to this person and woke them up 40 times and they�re reporting to us just a couple� of awakenings, Ellenbogen says with disbelief.
If healthy young adults had a pronounced change in heart rate, imagine the stress of alarms sounding all night long in an ICU full of frail, older patients with weakened hearts, he says.
�It clearly has a big impact,� agrees Dr. Ivor Berkowitz of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He�s a pediatric ICU specialist and wasn�t involved with the research but calls it compelling and would like to see children studied in the same way.
Regularly getting too little sleep plays a role in a number of health troubles, from drowsy driving to high blood pressure, obesity, depression, memory problems and a weakened immune system. There�s been far less research about how much sleep disruption interferes with recovery from illness. But some studies show patients in noisier wards require more medications and sedatives. Delirium � a dangerous state of confusion and agitation � is linked to sleep deprivation and the loss of normal sleep-wake cycles during certain hospitalizations, especially among older people, Ellenbogen notes.
Noise isn�t the only challenge. He says sometimes patients are awakened for a blood test or blood pressure check simply because the overnight nurse assigned the task goes off duty at 7 a.m.
Acoustical engineers from Johns Hopkins helped sound an alarm about hospital noise several years ago, reporting that the average level at night has risen dramatically through the last few decades. Now, a number of hospitals have begun taking steps to muffle the noise.
Hopkins recently opened a new building constructed for quiet, and Berkowitz says the difference in the new pediatric ICU is stunning. Before, eight children�s beds were grouped together in two rooms linked by an opening � the sound of ventilators and machine alarms and conversation all bouncing around the area, he recalls. Now, every patient room is private.
Sound-absorbing materials line ceilings. There�s a rubber floor in the neonatal unit. There�s no overhead paging � workers� phones vibrate when they�re needed.
�People have a sense, I think, of being calmer,� Berkowitz says. He doesn�t have any medical records to show it, but �my gut sense is that it�s better for patients.�
Existing hospital buildings, especially those without private rooms, require different techniques. For example, Mass General has posted �quiet hours� in the afternoon and at night on certain wards. The lights are dimmed, patients� room doors are closed wherever possible, overhead paging is minimized, and health workers lower their voices and try not to enter rooms unless it�s really necessary, says Rick Evans, the hospital�s senior director for service.
In his office sits a gadget that looks like a traffic light, flashing yellow or red when the decibel level gets too high. Evans says the hospital is evaluating whether to start using some type of noise sensor for further help.
Until hospitals dampen more noise, Ellenbogen advises families to advocate for quiet:
If an IV alarm repeatedly sounds, �tell the nurse this has got to stop,� he says.
Ask if it�s OK to close the room door.
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Wher you are having sex and right before you come (either oral or insertion) you pull out and aim at the womans neck making your sperm form a neckalace.
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People from outerspace. Generally peace loving and wise, they've come to Earth because we've got velcro and they love that shit
I've got some Aliens living in my basement
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2. An extra-terrestrial being.
2. An extra-terrestrial being.
Paco is an alien
Oh my god is that an alien?!?!
Oh my god is that an alien?!?!
by PhatDawg August 01, 2005
Being not of this planet earth.
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"I think it may be both, it's Al Gore son, just stay away from it."
"I think it may be both, it's Al Gore son, just stay away from it."
by Ike b September 23, 2005
Something that stupid people say don't exist
Out of over 1 billion planets in the universe I would think more than one has aliens on it.
by Spikesy July 18, 2006
Film made in 1979, Directed by Ridley Scott. This takes place in the year 2037 onboard the vessel Nostromo. The crew is made up of Ripley, Dallas, Brett, Parker, Lambert, Kane, and Ash. The vessel recieves a message from an unidentified craft that was in distress on LV-426. The Crew answers the call, but while on the planet, Kane finds thousands of eggs, and one hatches and a creature attachs to his face. Later on the creature falls off, but implants an embryo which births an alien. The alien bursts through his chest, running off into the ship. Later on the Alien picks off the crew one by one until only Ripley is left. She then destroys the ship, and defeats the alien.
That movie Alien was excellent!
by 1337 Fork July 30, 2005
1. In terrestrial terms, those who come from another country, a.k.a. immigrant.
2. Usually refers to any being that isn't from the planet earth, a.k.a. extraterrestrials (E.T.)
2. Usually refers to any being that isn't from the planet earth, a.k.a. extraterrestrials (E.T.)
by Loki August 04, 2003
An excellent science fiction movie series. Features a race of insect-like aliens called Xenomorphs, which have acidic blood and a collective mentality. They lay eggs like normal insects, but the larvae can only mature into adults by leaping onto a host organism's face and injecting themselves dow into the digestive tract. The adults burrow themselves out of the host, killing it in the process.
Basically, if you have an alien Xenomorph on your planet, your species is doomed.
Basically, if you have an alien Xenomorph on your planet, your species is doomed.
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I had recently seen samples of the DR the D800 can produce on several websites and it seems to be a fair improvement over the 5D III. Has DxO been giving me the wrong ideas?
Quote from: plutonium10 on May 04, 2012, 08:27:59 PMI had recently seen samples of the DR the D800 can produce on several websites and it seems to be a fair improvement over the 5D III. Has DxO been giving me the wrong ideas?The D800 and more generally, newer Sony sensors have delivered big performance improvements at low ISOs. This is only relevant if the performance of the Canon sensor at ISO 100 is not good enough for you. If you do a lot of your shooting at ISO800 or higher, the difference is largely academic.In particular, if you don't keep your ISO set to 400 or less (make that 200 if you're using an APS-C body) for fear of degrading the image quality, those differences are largely academic. I'm not dismissing the DxO results or trying to say that there's anything wrong with them, just that they get blown way out of proportion, and people jump on the numbers too quickly without looking at what the implications are to realistic shooting scenarios.
Actually, I do shoot all of my landscapes at ISO 100 or 200 except on the rare occasion where the light isn't good enough and I haven't brought a tripod. That gives you an idea of how bad a pixel peeper I am!
I am starting to think the 'high ISO' has become the new megapixel war.
This would make sense, seeing that the aps-c/lens combination is about to be maxed out sooner or later when it comes to mp. The improvement potential on noise (low or high iso) is still large. And marketing needs something to distinguish products.
Yes. I'm excited to see what effect Digic V will have on APS-C image noise.


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Locally elected and appointed officials voted on the following matters in the past week: County • Lycoming County commissioners awarded contracts for maintenance of county vehicles and for food......
But forcing criminals to work is cruel and unusual punishment!
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now see, this is where they could save bucks. the nonviolent criminals could be the ones washing, servicing ( if they are qualified) changing tires or learning how to do this,, at less cost to us..just like acrman said, the company take care of their own city owned vehicles.. as much as some people get paid, they should wash their own city, govt vehicle. save some money
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when i worked for the old city bus garage, now river valley transit, we took caew of all the city owned vehiclesplus all the buses.
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Prep Time 10 minutes |
Cook Time 0 minutes
15 ounces Eden Navy Beans, 1 can drainedor Eden Cannellini (White Kidney) Beans
1/4 cup red onion, chopped
1/4 cup fresh parsley, mincedor fresh cilantro
1 clove garlic, mincedor 2 cloves roasted garlic
1/4 cup lime juice, freshly squeezed
1/2 tsp Eden Sea Salt, or to taste
1 whole avocado, peeled, pitted and chopped
14 1/2 ounces Eden Diced Tomatoes w/Green Chilies, 1 can drained
2 or 3 sprigs fresh parsley, for garnishor fresh cilantro
Place beans, onion, parsley or cilantro, garlic, salt and 3 Tablespoons lime juice in a blender or food processor. Pulse 8 to 10 times to create a chunky mixture. Scrape down sides of blender. Add the avocado in chunks. Pulse 6 to 8 more times until evenly distributed but still in small chunks. Place in a bowl. Stir in tomatoes and extra lime juice, if desired. Garnish with cilantro or parsley sprigs. Serve with Eden Brown Rice Chips or organic corn chips.
Appetizer, Beans, Condiments, Gluten-Free, Good/High Fiber, Good/High Protein, Mexican/Spanish, No Sweetener Added, Tomatoes, Vegan, Wheat-Free