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CANONSBURG – Brett Haney had waited nearly 24 hours since Trinity upset Moon Thursday night to begin what would amount to a play-in game for the WPIAL Class AAAA boys basketball playoffs … and now this.
The junior varsity game goes to overtime, then down to the last shot. Senior Night. Total, about a 40-minute delay for the Big Macs' Section 4-AAAA finale against visiting Peters Township.
"I was pretty anxious," Haney said. "Senior Night is great and all, and I was pumped. But I wanted to play."
Play Haney did.
Remarkably well, too.
The senior had 26 points Friday, including 14 after halftime, to help Canon-McMillan defeat Peters Township, 62-49, and secure the No. 4 seed in the section when the WPIAL postseason begins next week.
"We came in tonight on a three-game losing streak, and like I just told them, we won a playoff game," Big Macs coach Rick Bell said. "It was like a play-in game. I'm just really proud of my kids."
Canon-McMillan (6-8, 11-11) pulled away by outscoring the Indians, 20-4, in the third quarter, part of that being a 15-0 run that lasted nearly five minutes.
"That was the difference right there," Peters Township coach Gary Goga said.
According to Haney, Canon-McMillan's zone defense sagged a bit in the first half, allowing the Indians to get several inside baskets.
That stopped after halftime.
"We fixed that in the third quarter," Haney said. "They had a tough time scoring. We shut them down and then started making shots. Everything was rolling."
That same zone defense helped limit Peters Township's best player, Gabe Pritz, to 11 points, more than eight below his season average.
Tim Swoope led the Indians (5-9, 8-13) with 13 points, and Dakota Norton matched Pritz (eight rebounds) with 11.
Seth Petras scored 12 points to complement Haney and made three treys. Jake Cadez added 11 points and six rebounds.
But despite the balanced scoresheet, no doubt this night belonged to Haney, a 6-0 guard who delivered a virtuoso performance that was equal parts slashing and shooting.
Haney made three three-pointers, then scored on three layups, a floater and a jumper from the elbow, each more demoralizing than the next.
"He's an amazing player," Petras said. "Whenever he starts hitting shots, you can just see the other team start to cripple because they're doing everything to keep the ball out of his hands. Whenever it goes in, it's just a big boost to the rest of us."
Peters Township took a 12-5 lead four minutes into the game on the strength of two three-pointers from Norton and one from Nick Parello.
But four Haney free throws and a Peters Township turnover that Cadez flipped into a fast-break basket cut the Indians' lead to 12-11 after one.
Haney had 10 of the Big Macs' 12 points in the second, including eight straight at one point, but the Indians carried a 27-23 lead into the locker room.
Pritz had only six points in the first half, often flashing near the foul line with guards stationed around the perimeter.
The prettiest play Pritz made was a pass: one-touching a feed inside – remember, he's an excellent volleyball player – to Swoope for an easy basket that gave the Indians a 21-19 lead at 2:34 of the second quarter.
The momentum would be short-lived, however, with Canon-McMillan's defense clicking on all cylinders and the offense outscoring Peters Township, 39-22, over the final two quarters..
"We knew we had a lot on the line, but we didn't expect anything different than what we got tonight," Haney said. "We were preparing like we normally would like it's another section game. We just knew tonight it was our last, so we had to go out there and play."
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Swallow Hill Road condition angers Scott residents
It appears as though drivers who regularly travel Swallow Hill Road in Scott Township have had enough, as several residents were at the Scott commissioners' March 12 agenda meeting to ask the board when they were going to fix the heavily traveled road.
Vito Cedro travels Swallow Hill Road every day from his home on Crosswinds; he called the road "a disgrace to the township." "It's a mess," he said. "And every year, it gets worse."
Scott resident Rita Manski, a school bus driver, said that the road is so bad that when buses are traveling on it, some of the elementary children bounce out of their seats.
Manski said the conditions on the road have gotten to the point where flyers about the road are circulating around the community. She gave the board a flyer she found that asked: "Do you think that Swallow Hill Road needs to be replaced?" along with information about attending the Scott agenda meeting.
Cedro asked the board what they planned to do about the road, to which board President Tom Castello replied that patching it was not the answer. Castello, who also travels the road daily, said the estimate to fix Swallow Hill is $1.5 million, money the township does not have on hand. He said the plan is to package Swallow Hill repairs with other roads and raise bond money to repair Swallow Hill and Kane Boulevard, and potentially the portion of Swallow Hill that goes to the middle school.
Second ward Commissioner Bill Wells, whose ward includes Swallow Hill Road, said, "This time next year we'll have a new road."
Cedro asked what the township was spending on road improvement annually, and was told that approximately $400,000 was budgeted each year.
Cedro commented that township taxes were low enough that the board should consider an increase for road improvements.
"I don't care if you raise my taxes $250 a year," said Cedro. "It's worth it if I don't have to pay for a front end alignment."
Wells said the township should be floating a bond in June or July, and the construction work would take about four to five months.
Manski asked the board to consider the timing of the project. She said Swallow Hill is a main road to St. Clair Hospital, and with the apartments, housing and shopping in the area, there is a lot of traffic on the road. She suggested that the board try to have most of the construction done during "pool season," when school is out and traffic is reduced.

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The framework I referred to talks about the compelling reasons for the organizations to adopt social or 'more social' business pattern i.e All employees , Customers and Partners
can collaborate in one realm as against the current trend of Employees on Intranet and emails, Customers and Partners on Hosted sites and emails.
A summary theme of the frame work is :
- Social business accelerates communication and collaboration across networks of employees, customers and partners
- Enterprises may use social content to capture and share expertise and best practices, making ad hoc processes more efficient and transparent
- Social business enables new business insights by analyzing social data to gain a better understanding of business situations and the decision-making process
With advent of social business paradigm, a enterprise can create a single platform for all the stakeholders to be collaborating seamlessly and also data so generated provides better information and
faster decisions .... The visual below provides the compositional view of social business framework .....
This whole scenario mentioned above is also reflected in Exceptional Web experience suite IBM has announced -
Consider a scenario where enterprise Portal service provides all mailing / collaboration, intranet and extranet integration and the social aspect is covered by extending IBM Connections on to the IBM Portal....
IBM connections brings in powerful concept of communities(& Sub Communities) , Blogs, Wikis, Member directory, forums, Activities, bookmarks and tag cloud as OOTB capabilities on the Portal.
All of these services put together with Communities can provide dedicated channels for business i.e A enterprise portal could host a company intranet, a dedicated community
for the suppliers/vendors of the organizations, a community for the business partners of the organization and yet each one of them would be exclusive in terms of security and
access controls. A user of vendor community will not have access or visibility of the intranet or the community for the business partners and vice-versa.
To accomplish something similar without these offering (available & under development) - organizations today have to deploy Portal and write custom web applications which are
multi-man year(s) worth effort, incremental and also not effective/compelling in terms of integrating collaboration capabilities (email, blogging, forums etc).
IBM connections is providing necessary out of the box templates for making this happen. Effectively what we are talking about is :
- Compelling Social Web Sites
- Keep visitors and turn them into engaged participants
- Exceptional Web Experience
- Portal customers add Connections to make their sites social
- Exceptional Work Experience
- Connections customers add Portal to for interactive employee web sites
Take a look at what it means in terms of possibilities :
If we were to look at another industry segment[BFSI] and the possibilities :
One of the key things demonstrated in the two demos above is integrating various categories of users i.e you could be a internal user (employee) of the organization or a
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- Portal sits in front of Connections, all users go through the portal UI, no direct use of Connections native UIsConnections integrated into WebSphere Portal at multiple levels: Connections Portlets integrated individually into portal pages: Forum, Blog, Profiles/Members, Files/Media
- Community Pages linked to Connections Commuinities service surface the larger social construct of a community in the web site, leveraging above Connections Portlets
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There's a wall of photographs over my bed. I call it my dead relatives gallery, and I'm not really joking, although some of my family and friends laugh nervously when I say it.
I'm using this journal to share information I have acquired over the past several years for surnames in my family tree. The journal is "tag intensive" to make it easier to locate information and photos about specific surnames. (Tags list is in the left sidebar of the journal.)
They say you can choose your friends, but not your family. Personally, I find my family fascinating, and even more so the older I get. Sure, we have our share of archetypes - shrill, bossy women...strong "silent type" men...and the requisite number of "crazies." But hey, this is the deep South, and as Julia Sugarbaker said in Designing Women:
"...we're proud of our crazy people. We don't hide them up in the attic. We bring 'em right down to the living room and show 'em off. ...no one in the South ever asks if you have crazy people in your family. They just ask what side they're on." Like Julia, mine are on both sides.
Primary surnames researched include Ashmore, Balding, Burris, Callaway, Chapin, Darter, Duvall, Grooms, Harkey, Hayslip, Herrington, Hill, Holder, McBrayer, Meek, Parrish, Pettit, Shinn, Wharton, Williams.
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The Lesbian & Gay Foundation and the Manchester Centre for Sexual Health are hosting a rapid HIV testing clinic at Number 5 Richmond Street (the home of the LGF) every Wednesday. The rapid HIV clinic means that you get your results within 30 minutes of taking the test. The rapid HIV testing clinic will also provide a test for Syphilis. The new clinic will take place between 12pm – 2pm and operates on a walk-in basis. Appointments will not be needed and you can bring your lunch and/or work on your laptop with our free Wi-Fi.


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WAYNESBURG – Several criminal defendants pleaded guilty Wednesday before Greene County Judge Farley Toothman. They included:
Josie A. Haring, 19, of 205 Ridge Road, Jefferson; offenses – arson, criminal mischief; pleaded no contest to recklessly endangering another person; on Nov. 9, Haring started a fire in a barn on property owned by Daniel Loma; she told police she lighted some hay on fire in the barn and when that failed to catch, she lighted some more hay on fire; she also admitted smashing a deer camera on the property that might be used to identify her; sentence – 7 years of probation, $25,000 in restitution to Loma, 250 hours of community service.
Kimberly Anne Spitznogle, 45, of 159 Little Shannon Run Road, Mt. Morris; offenses – tampering with physical evidence; she pleaded no contest to hindering apprehension or prosecution; Spitznogle attempted to conceal a note carried by a man who attempted to rob the Belko Foods Store in Mt. Morris on Jan.14; a store video surveillance camera showed her using her foot to push the note under a cabinet; the note was not recovered; she admitted concealing the note, telling police she believed the robber might have been someone she knew; sentence – 2 years of probation, $300 fine.
Tonya Lee Williamson, 38, of 263 Hunting Hills Road, Dilliner; offenses – three counts each of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and possession of a controlled substance, two counts of criminal use of a communications facility; Williamson twice sold controlled substances to a confidential informant working with the Greene County Drug Task Force; on March 15, 2012, she sold the informant two Suboxone strips and two Xanax pills; on April 10, 2012, she sold the informant three Suboxone sublingual films; sentence – open plea; sentence to follow preparation of a pre-sentence report.
Rocco John Iacovone, 27, of Washington, formerly of Fairmont, W.Va., and Glendale, Ariz.; offenses – fleeing or attempting to elude police, recklessly endangering another person, six summary traffic violation; on Feb. 13, Iacovone led police on a high speed chase on Interstate 79 after he allegedly robbed a convenience store near Fairmont; state police had use a pit maneuver, bumping Iacovone's vehicle to force him to stop; sentence – open plea, sentence following preparation of a pre-sentence report.
James Michael Ives, 32, of 33 Nottingham Drive, Belle Vernon; offense – disorderly conduct; a charge of resisting arrest withdrawn; Ives was arrested Jan. 3 after he refused to leave his wife's apartment at the Parkview Knoll apartments in Cumberland Township; he struggled with officers who attempted to handcuff him; sentence – no further penalty; the court noted Ives had already served six days in jail.
Stephanie Nocole Victor, 21, of 272 East Lincoln St., Waynesburg; offenses – retail theft, third or subsequent offense; on May 20, 2012, Victor stole two rings, a pair of sunglasses and three pairs of underwear from the Walmart Store in Franklin Township; sentence – 30 days to 12 months in jail $250 fine, 75 hours of community service.
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Massive sheets of moving ice have pushed ashore in Canada and northern Minnesota, damaging and even destroying some lakefront homes.
In Minnesota, viral video of the weather phenomenon shows an enormous "ice tsunami" slowly creeping forward from the lake, taking down trees and bushes in its path and pushing into some resort homes along Lake Mille Lacs, ABC News reported.
National Weather Service meteorologist Shawn Devinny told The Associated Press 30 to 40 mph winds pushed water from the lake into the ice and drove it ashore Saturday morning.
Winds were lighter Sunday, giving the communities bordering the lake a bit of a reprieve.
According to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, about 10 miles of shoreline are covered with the ice sheets.
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It's doubtful anyone around here will mind – or disagree – but you can put Aliquippa coach Mike Zmijanac in the category of those excited for the Washington High School football team to again be competing for a WPIAL title.
"Places like Rochester, Jeannette, Washington and Aliquippa, people there care about their football programs," Zmijanac said. "It's not like some schools where the only people in the stands are the parents of the kids. It's a community effort. I think it's great that they're back."
Wash High will meet Aliquippa at Heinz Field today at 5 p.m. in the WPIAL Class AA championship game. For the Quips, it could be title No. 15. Wash High will be vying for its seventh championship after winning in 1917, 1920, 1923, 1926, 1993 and 2001.
The matchup not only pits two similar, football-obsessed communities against one another, but the game is a rematch of the 1952 WPIAL Class AAA championship game, which Aliquippa won, 13-12, at Pitt Stadium.
It's been five years since Aliquippa did not play for a WPIAL title, winning two times during that span. The Quips (12-0) have been here seven of the past 10 years.
Wash High has been rejuvenated under fourth-year head coach Mike Bosnic, who took over a team that finished 1-8 in 2008 and promptly went 6-4 in 2009, 5-5 in 2010, 8-3 in 2011 and 12-0 this year, the first undefeated regular season for the Prexies since 2001.
"Aliquippa and Washington are two towns that have a great football traditions, and football means a lot," Bosnic said. "Here, there wasn't the recent success, but with us winning, it's really brought a lot of excitement out in the community.
"It's been very gratifying as a coach, and I'm sure for the kids, to see everyone get behind us."
Zmijanac joked this week that he'd gladly find an apartment in Aliquippa for Wash High running back Shai McKenzie, though it's doubtful McKenzie would enjoy the arrangement; last year, in a 36-6 win for the Quips that ended Wash High's season in the Class AA quarterfinals, McKenzie had zero rushing yards.
This year, McKenzie has 2,656 and 41 touchdowns – breaking school and area records for yards – and needs just 85 more to eclipse Rushel Shell's WPIAL mark of 2,740 from 2009.
Which, of course, will be easier said than done when playing a team like Aliquippa, one that's allowing only 39.8 rushing yards per game and features as many as five NCAA Division I prospects.
"It's hard to game plan for Aliquippa because they're solid everywhere," Bosnic said. "Usually, you can find a weakness or a matchup you like, but it's difficult with Aliquippa because they're good at every position."
There are at least 12 teams out there that would agree – those Aliquippa has throttled.
The Quips are not only averaging a WPIAL-best 52 points per game, but they're giving up 3.5 points per contest. Or, put another way, about a touchdown every two weeks.
"They're real physical," Wash High fullback/linebacker Jaylin Kelly said. "We have to come out and play just as hard as they do. We're as good as anybody. That's why we're here."
Aliquippa, like Wash High, relies on the run, as evidenced by the fact that nobody else other than these two teams rushed for more than 4,000 yards this season.
Dravon Henry is the team leader with 116 carries for 1,316 yards and 21 touchdowns. Terry Swanson gives the Quips two 1,000-yards backs with 91 carries for 1,028 and 17. Quarterback Malik Shegog has completed 53 percent of his passes for 526 yards and seven touchdowns.
In last year's quarterfinal matchup, Mikal Hall threw for three touchdowns in the first half to push Wash High out of its comfort zone and make the Prexies play catch-up.
The plan this time, naturally, calls for fewer big plays allowed and more McKenzie.
"I hope it's better this time around," McKenzie said. "They're still a really good team, and we're going to have to make some adjustments to get through that defense."
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In the aftermath of Wednesday's voting for the Baseball Hall of Fame, a number of current Hall of Fame members spoke out regarding the status of some of the so-called cheaters in the sport.
And it wasn't pretty.
"I think the steroids guys that are under suspicion got too many votes," Hall of Fame closer Rich Gossage told the Associated Press. "I don't know why they're making this such a question and why there's so much debate. To me, they cheated. Are we going to reward these guys?"
At this point, the answer would appear to be no.
This year, the media members who vote for the Baseball Hall of Fame didn't give any player enough votes to achieve enshrinement. It was just the second time in the last 40 years that no player received enough votes.
"I feel honored to be in the Hall of Fame," Detroit Tigers outfielder Al Kaline said to the AP. "And I would've felt a little uneasy sitting up there on the stage, listening to some of these new guys talk about how great they were."
Talk about sanctimonious.
After all, are we to believe that no player currently in the hall has ever stolen another team's sign, scuffed a baseball, thrown a spitball, corked a bat or did any of 100 different things that could be considered cheating?
That is highly doubtful.
Ty Cobb, one of the members of the original hall class, was by all accounts a despicable human being. Yet no one has an issue with him being in the hall.
Since the late 1980s, steroids and performance enhancers have been a big part of baseball, so much so that some estimates had well over half of the players in the game taking them at one point.
But that is nothing new.
Anabolic steroids were first synthesized in the 1930s. It wasn't until 1976, when they were banned by the International Olympic Committee, that they began to become illegal in sports.
So in 40 years between the time they were discovered and first made illegal by the IOC, steroids were ignored by baseball players?
That's a bit hard to believe, considering the use of anabolic steroids was rampant in the 1960s and '70s in Olympic sports, and yes, even football, where members of the Pittsburgh Steelers and other teams were taking them.
Because players such as Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, Roger Clemens and Mark McGwire started breaking records and later admitted to their use, they are not worthy of Hall of Fame induction?
The problem with that train of thought is no one knows for sure who was using and who wasn't.
Can we honestly say we know beyond certainty that some players were using and others were not? In the case of some of the players who were using, sure, we know. They have admitted it, or it has been proven in court.
For others, we just don't know, and probably never will.
McGwire, Bonds, Clemens and Sosa were some of the greatest players of their era. That's what the Hall of Fame is supposed to honor.
The latest era just happened to include the open use of performance enhancers.
Perhaps Hall of Fame third baseman Mike Schmidt said it best, "Curt Schilling made a good point; everyone was guilty. Either you used PEDs, or you did nothing to stop their use."
But are we going to go the next 20 years and not induct any players?
That's unlikely. In fact, the voters already have put other members of the "steroid" generation in the hall.
Treat them all the same. Either you look at all the players for what they did on the baseball field and enshrine them, or you don't enshrine anyone who played in the steroid era.
It's that simple.
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I certainly hope justice is done. But this seems to be a complicated case. As Harvey Klehr and John Earl Haynes (coauthors, with Alexander Vassiliev, of "Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America") write in a 2011 review of Ms. Moskowitz's book:
"Her troubles began with Brothman, a chemical engineer who had covertly supplied the Soviet Union with industrial information for years via Harry Gold. She and Brothman were lovers, even though 'he was devoted to his family.' Gold broke a cardinal rule of espionage tradecraft, going to work for Brothman after serving as his courier. And although Moskowitz insists that the only information Brothman supplied to Gold was his own intellectual property and was not secret, the KGB was livid at Gold, correctly surmising that Brothmans relationship with Elizabeth Bentley, a Soviet spy who had defected, would lead the FBI to him and then to Gold. When the two men were called before a grand jury in 1947, they concocted a story and lied; when Gold was arrested in 1950 and confessed, Brothman and Moskowitz (who had backed up Brothmans lies) were convicted of conspiracy to obstruct justice, for which she served two years in prison.
"[Moskowitz's book] reads as if it were written in the 1970s, the high tide of revisionism when, in the intellectual world, it became fashionable to hold that everything done in the anti-Communist era after World War II had been mistaken, fraudulent, hysterical, and destructive. None of the evidence that has emerged in the last 30 years appears to have intruded into Miriam Moskowitzs world."
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Washington Mall Cinemas has closed its doors.
A message on the website at the former eight-screen multiplex at the South Strabane Township shopping venue reads: "This location has closed. Thank you for your patronage. Dec. 18, 1987 to Jan. 20, 2013."
Washington Mall manager Debbie Schumacher said Friday she had no information on the closure.
She referred calls to the mall's leasing manager, Art DiDonato, who did not return a call seeking information about the theater site.
The 30-year-old theater, originally built for Cinemette Corp., was operated by Mall Cinemas since 2001. The group also operates a seven-screen multiplex at the Clearview Mall in Butler and the Winter Drive-In Theatre in Wintersville, Ohio, but no contact information for the operator was available Friday.
The clue to the closure may have been offered in an October story by the Observer-Reporter on how local movie theaters were adapting to the move to digital theaters.
A manager at Washington Mall Cinemas was quoted in the story, stating that he doubted the theater would make the switch to digital projectors, which costs about $75,000 apiece.
"We're going to stay open as long as we can until they make it mandatory to switch over," said manager Kevin Amos at the time.
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The editor's comments regarding Peters Township's three new pizza restaurants and a BP station were consistent with questions I receive frequently at the chamber. I commend Rick Raeder, Bethel Park Planning and Zoning Commission, for coming to the aid of his fellow planners at Peters. He was right on with his response in the Sept. 25 rebuttal entitled "Learn about role of government" regarding the role of the planning department in regulating new businesses. The Peters Township Planning Department and Board have worked tirelessly to maintain a balance between under and over regulation and we all should commend them as such.
As Mr. Raeder also noted, we, the consumers, will play an important role in the success or failure of these new businesses. I wish each of them the best of luck and thank them for spending millions of dollars to improve each of their locations. Remember the Valero eyesore? How about the former Ageless Beauty property between Arby's and Wendy's? The removal of overgrown vegetation and the new pavement have already made a huge improvement. Add the vacant Parkvale and Damon's properties to the mix. These new additions will help keep Peters Township the vibrant community that it is. I urge you to visit each of them and form your own opinion "Are three new pizza restaurants and a BP too much?" You be the judge.
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Only a minority of households and businesses in Bethel Park contribute to the volunteer fire company. A new tax is proposed as the only solution – but is it? A less contentious remedy might be for the fire company to adopt the insurance principle (a property owner without insurance has made a decision and knows that a loss will not be compensated). Several years ago, "60 Minutes" reported on the fire company in Scottsdale, Ariz., which protects only the properties of subscribers. The company responds to all alarms and assists building occupants, but does not act to save properties of owners who have declined insurance.
It may not be necessary for Bethel Park to change the home rule charter or create a new tax. The fire company needs only to know who is helping to pull the wagon, and to speak clearly to those riding in the wagon.
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NEW EAGLE – Ringgold School Board on Tuesday approved the purchase of 28 acres of property next to the district's high school in Carroll Township as it seeks professional advice on whether or not to use the land for a new middle school.
The board voted 7-2 to pay the estate of Rich and Nancy Gearing $150,000 for the land that wraps around the east and north sides of the high school, bordering Gearing Road. Directors Larry Mauro and Robert Smith cast the no votes.
In a separate resolution, the board agreed to seek professional advice on a solution to creating a middle school by either constructing a new building or rehabilitating existing structures.
A different majority on the board had voted last December to reopen closed elementary schools in Donora and Monongahela as middle schools, a move that resulted in many complaints about the plan from taxpayers in Union and Nottingham townships. It was set aside when newly appointed director Maureen Ott took her seat on the board in October.
However, the board Tuesday directed the administration to develop a comprehensive facilities plans on whether to build or renovate, based on professional opinions, and possibly have it ready for a vote in January.
"We need to resolve this issue for once and for all," Director William C. Stein Jr. said.
In other business Tuesday, the board reorganized and unanimously named Director Mariann Bulko president and Stein, first vice president. Directors also retained Timothy R. Berggren as solicitor, giving him a $10 raise, increasing his rate to $100 per hour.
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The shooting at the elementary school in Newtown, Conn., has left the world wondering why it happened and what could have been done to stop such a tragedy. Is the world really going to end, or is it just those dang guns?
Some people may not have caught the news of the knife assault in China at a school the same day as the Newtown shooting. The same number of kids were attacked. Should they impose knife control next? Search the Internet, and you will find a variety of items used in assaults and murders. Forks, trophies, poison, even an assault with a bratwurst.
Please dear God, don't get rid of bratwurst. Forks maybe, but not the sacred meat that sizzles on my grill regularly.
If one person had a weapon, the shooting during "The Dark Knight Rises" in Aurora, Colo., or the Port Arthur Massacre in Australia in 1996 could have ended very differently. Most of the time, there is no need to shoot someone to get them to stop; just the show of force will curtail the attack. What if the principal at Sandy Brook had a Taser or pepper spray? Or that Adam Lanza had more professional help?
We can play the what-if game all day, but you still end up with the same problem – how to see the signs and prevent or help someone before they do something terrible. You can put a ban on guns, but instead of getting them off the street, you just get them out of the home of the neighbor who just may have saved your life one day. A criminal, which may come as a shock, does not obey the law.
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A third teaser from the Bowmore Media Team regarding that special bottling they will unveil this month, according to the presser:
"Unlike any limited edition previously released, this Bowmore expression has been slumbering quietly in our legendary No.1 Vaults on Islay for many, many years. It has now been enveloped in liquid glass hand-blown and sculpted by two of the world's foremost glass artists."
With all this attention and money spent on the encasement of the spirit, I cannot help but wonder just how expensive this special Bowmore release will be?
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My husband called me at work last week to tell me we have a calf with a lump on its face. He asked me to look up what it could be and how we should treat it. Of course, the Internet is filled with things that could cause a lump, from being kicked in the face to an abscessed tooth to a bovine disease that will eventually cause the teeth to fall out. It was quite an education I received.
We then looked at the calf together, since I had seen a wide array of pictures of lumpy-faced cattle online, with the hopes that I could help narrow down our problem. Since how the lump feels also makes a difference in diagnosis, we decided to try to catch the calf.
I say "catch" because, while our adult cows will let you walk right up and do virtually anything you want to do to them, our calves don't really trust us yet. That is, other than Maisy and Daisy, twin nuisances, who follow us everywhere hoping for extra milk. If one of them needed checked over, it would be no big deal.
Alas, it was a different calf – a 120-pound bull calf – who has the lump. I decided to first try to sneak up on him and pin him down. My husband, who correctly asserted that this was a bad plan, hung slightly back, waiting to help me if I succeeded, and probably to laugh if I didn't.
I didn't.
My coat sleeves swished against me and my boots slurped and splashed through the mud. I knew that whatever the lump was, it was not affecting the calf's hearing, because I didn't get within 10 feet of him using that method.
I then decided that maybe I could lasso him. My husband dutifully brought me a rope, shaking his head all the while. I kept it coiled in my left hand with the loop in my right. I walked as close as the calf would allow and then tossed the rope toward the calf. About five feet from the calf, the loop closed and the rope fell flat across the calf's back. He skittered forward a few feet, as if unconcerned that I could successfully rope him from that distance.
I tried again. And again. And again. The last time I tried, I lost my balance and fell on my back. I lay there for a minute, waiting to see if I had pain anywhere, and listening for laughter from my husband. Just as I thought I could get up, two mother cows came over to me.
Want to feel small? Lie on your back while two 1,200-pound animals stand over top of you sniffing your face, knowing they could trample you with very little effort. You suddenly feel very petite.
I thought they were going to walk away when, suddenly, one bent down and licked me across the entire right side of my face. Holy sandpaper!
I jumped up, gathered my rope and what little dignity I had left, and walked past my husband, who was openly laughing by this time.
No, I still don't know how my calf's lump feels, but I have one to match on my hip. I guess we'll wait it out together.
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The video and the site sparked a large protest Saturday in Amsterdam.
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Dutch filmmaker Geert Wilders faced with possible removal by his ISP may seek possible alternate distribution means for his radical film
The Netherlands is becoming the surprising center of conflict over the extent of free speech, religion and allegations of racism. The debate centers around an upcoming film by a local politician, which expresses strong criticism against Islam faith.
Several Islamic government have sought to ban materials criticizing Islam. The most recent example of this was when
Pakistan blocked the website YouTube
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Nearby Denmark found itself in the center of a similar controversy when a Danish newspaper aired cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, the most important Islamic historic religious figure, in an embarrassing light. The cartoon led to protests worldwide outside Dutch embassies, death threats and at least one murder.
Now Holland is back in the limelight. Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders, head of a reactionary party which controls 9 seats in the 150-seat Dutch Parliament, promoted his new film which portrays Islam in an extremely critical light, only to find his website taken down amid a storm of criticism. The film was promoted on the site which formerly had a simple title image, the words "Fitna" ("Coming Soon"), and an image of a gilded Qu'ran.
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, and a note is posted stating that Network Solutions, the U.S. based service provider, is investigating whether the site violates its terms of service. The note about Wilder's site states, "Network Solutions has received a number of complaints regarding this site that are under investigation."
Network Solutions hosts the website of Hezbollah, a Lebanon-based organization labeled by the U.S. government as a terrorist organization.
While the company could not be reached for comment, its terms of service do include a broad provision banning, "objectionable material of any kind or nature." While the former website gave scant details about the upcoming 15-minute film, to be released on March 31st, it is certain to be found objectionable by some. Filmmaker Wilders says the film will underscore his belief that the Islamic holy book is "fascist."
Wilders prepared to distribute the video over the internet after being met with refusal from television stations unwilling to grant it airtime. Wilders, who lives under police protection due to death threats, refuses to be deterred, and was quoted Dutch news agency
on Saturday stating, "How many ways are there left for me to be worked against? If necessary, I'll go hand out DVDs personally on the Dam." The Dam is a colloquial name for Amsterdam's central square.
On Saturday protesters crowded the Dam to voice their distaste for Wilders. Amid sleet and heavy wind, between 2,000 and 3,000 protesters of mixed ethnicities assembled "Netherlands Shows Its Colors" in an advanced reaction against the film. Protesters carried signs such as "Standing Together Against the Right-Wing Populist Witch-Hunt."
One protester, Elisa Trepp, said, "I'm very much against Geert Wilders and racism in general. I think it's really important to show not only Holland but the rest of the world that there's a lot of people who do not agree with his ideas."
Hassan Iaeti, another demonstrator, traveled for hours to make it. He states, "The government could really do something. That's in the interest of the country - stop him, just stop him."
Dutch officials fear that the film may spark violent protests worldwide. Free speech in the U.S. is currently solely limited against making statements that would incite imminent lawless action (riots) as defined by the case Brandeburg v. Ohio. Similar limits to free speech exist throughout much of Europe, much to the chagrin of free speech advocates. As the video may spark worldwide lawlessness, the government may see it fit to block the video.
However the government remains relatively apathetic to the situation by all indications. No prominent politicians showed up at the protest. Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende has said previously that he did not agree with Wilders views, but supported his right to free speech. Balkenende did add that the video could threaten Dutch interests worldwide.
In Afghanistan protesters burned effigies of Wilders and demanded the withdraw of NATO-deployed Dutch troops from the country. A Dutch court will hear complaints against the film lodged by Muslim groups, on March 28th, however Wilders can elect to release the film before then.
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After reading the survey responses it was evident that wider questions about wardrobes were begging to be addressed. I wanted to squish them all into a neatly packaged series, but it got overwhelming so I decided to scrap the Work Your Closet series idea and turn it into a regular part of this blog. That way, we can cover topics like closet organization, finding your style, shopping for your body type, etc. over the long haul.
Today, I really want to start the posts on building a remixable wardrobe. Again, I'm not an expert. Remixing doesn't come naturally to me and I had to learn it (and am still learning). These are just some things I've learned so far.
What is "remixing"?
First of all, let's clarify the lingo. "Remixing" is basically another term for mixing-and-matching your clothes to use the same pieces to create a variety of different outfits. I think it was made popular by Kendi, who hosts a 30-for-30 remix challenge in which you create 30 different outfits using only 30 articles of clothing.
When I first tried to participate in a 30-for-30 before I had this blog was when I realized I had created a closet full of one-hit wonders. Like I wrote before, I basically had no concept of how to use one piece in more than one way, and even when I tried I didn't have the right pieces in my wardrobe to be able to do it.
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I was determined to figure it out, and after much closet analysis and studying people who did it well (aka stalking Kendi's blog like a creeper) I realized I needed to do a few things:
- Be able to reimagine garments and not just take them as is.
- Learn to shop for pieces that could be versatile.
- Add the right pieces that would serve as building blocks to create foundation for mixing and matching.
When I talk about reimagining clothes, I'm not even talking about crazy things like using dresses as skirts or altering a garment or anything like that. (Not yet, anyway.) I'm talking about simple things. I had such a limited view of a garment that the way I saw it on the rack was the only way I understood I could wear it. What I learned from my stalking escapade was that I had more control of the clothes than I thought, even without alterations.
Warning: This all might sound really dumb or obvious to some of you, especially if you've been reading style blogs for a while, but this is where I started! And I know that others are starting here too. :)
Okay...for example, I only ever wore this shirt like this:
Can you believe I stopped wearing skirts because I couldn't find shirts that fit with the skirts? To think, all it took was a little tucking! Here's another example:
Other things I learned you could do with shirts are to belt, tie, or partially tuck them. I wouldn't have bought this shirt because it's a little baggy and long, but after using those tricks, I can do a lot with this shirt.
I also learned I could roll up pant legs. I generally avoided rolling my pants for fear of cutting off my leg line and making my legs look shorter. Sometimes that happens, so it doesn't work. But sometimes, if I roll the pant leg at the right width, it works and adds a cute dimension to the whole outfit. It's all about experimenting!
Besides adding some dimension to my outfit, rolling my pant legs was important was because it opened up more shoe options. For instance, my beloved booties before rolling and after:
The booties looked funny with jeans, so I may have never worn them with pants. Rolling up the legs made it work! Other outfits where I roll my pant legs: (1, 2, 3)
And, don't even get me started again on how rolling up the legs revived this pair of jeans!
Like I said in a recent post, I learned I could wear a belt over a cardigan to give my outfit some shape. Here is the outfit with and without a belt:
What a difference, right?!
You can also button the cardigan first and then belt it:
Again, it's just about experimenting, and the point is that you have more control over the clothes than you think!
I tend to buy dresses with defined waistlines and therefore I never thought to wear a belt with them. Why bother, when the shape was built into the dress? But style blogs taught me that adding a belt anyway can change the look of the dress to make it more versatile. (Sorry, I didn't have time to take pics of that, but if you flip through my dresses label you can find a billion posts of me in dresses and belts, and often the same dress remixed.)
Adding a belt to a dress can also anchor the look:
This dress already has a built-in waist line, but it wasn't strong enough to combat the bagginess the cardigan created. Adding a belt anchors the outfit and pulls the look together.
Lastly, after all this talk about belts, I should say that I didn't own a belt before reading style blogs. I always bought pants that fit such that I didn't need a belt. Also, a belt typically used around my hips to hold up my pants would be way too long when used on my waist and excess belt would be hanging out like so:
It seriously sounds so silly that I never knew what to do with the excess. I didn't know I could just tuck it in place, so I never wore belts because I thought I had to get two different sizes of every belt--one for my waist and one for my hips. Finally, I discovered you could do a lot of different things with the excess belt:
A Note on Belts for Plus Sized Wearers - Update 9/15/12
I also want to add that many women have commented and emailed saying that belts do not work for them because of their larger frames. PLEASE do not discount yourself from being able to wear belts because of your size--that makes me sad to hear because it does not have to be true! If you need visual proof that belts might work for you as a plus sized wearer, please check out this guest post on Tips for Belting Your Curves. Also, check out two beautiful and stylish bloggers who have larger frames than me: Hems for Her and Animated Cardigan. I'm not saying it'll work for everyone, I'm just saying to give it a shot because you might be surprised.
Also, please keep in mind that belting is *not* the only way to give your wardrobe versatility. There are four other parts to this series for you to check out below that don't involve belting, and some can be done regardless of your size or shape.


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Scott sets 2013 goals high with new team
February 20, 2013, Kenny Bruce, NASCAR.com
If you're in the driver's seat, there's always pressure to perform. But along with the pressure comes opportunity.
"That's your job," Brian Scott, 25, said. "And it doesn't matter what team I am with. I know that my team is very capable. That doesn't add pressure; that adds excitement.
"It adds desire and peace of mind knowing that … if you perform, then you're going to be able to produce some really amazing things."
Scott, who produced back-to-back top-10 points finishes in 2011-12 while at Joe Gibbs Racing, will be surrounded by a new team and a new organization when the 2013 NASCAR Nationwide Series season gets under way Feb. 23 at Daytona International Speedway.
An offseason move landed Scott at Richard Childress Racing, where he will handle the driving duties in the organization's No. 2 Chevrolet. It's almost the same team that helped keep Elliott Sadler in title contention a year ago, earning four wins and a second-place finish in the point standings.
The "meat and bones of the team," Scott said, are still there. Former car chief Phil Gould has replaced Luke Lambert as crew chief, while Ben Bowden, a mechanic on the No. 3 team of teammate Austin Dillon last season, takes over as car chief for Scott.
A two-time winner in the Camping World Truck Series, Scott called his two years with JGR "frustrating."
"I put a lot of the blame on myself," he said of a 2011 season that saw him post two top-fives yet still finish eighth in the point standings.
"Being the first time with a high caliber team, I felt like I should be leading every lap and winning every race. Honestly just trying to get too much too many times, I ended up in a wrecked position or in bad position."
The 2012 season was a mixed bag of top-10 finishes and DNFs. Although his average starting position was just outside the top 10, his average finish was closer to 20th.
"I put a lot of the blame on myself."
-- Brian Scott, on his 2011 season
"When you have things like that, that are either out of your control or you don't produce like you should, people have to make changes," he said.
Team owner Richard Childress said he believes Scott has the potential to run up front and contend for wins.
"If you watch how good he ran last year," Childress said, "he's got plenty of speed. We're working with him on getting him to be able to finish these races.
"He's got a lot of experience and I see speed in him. If you see speed in somebody, it's easier to … tune them in to the racing side of it than to get them to go faster."
Scott said the team's goals will be high, but added that expectations "are always a moving target."
"We're going to start moderately because it's a new team," he said. "You've got to establish lines of communication and see how everybody works together. You really have to jell. The crew chief and the driver have to get on the same page; we're going to have to establish that relationship (and) really work on our communication.
"It's really hard to step into a role without a little bit of experience in that position and just go out there and produce. I think we're going to have to go out there and start working well together, and then we move our expectations."
Gould, 35, previously worked on the Sprint Cup side at RCR with driver Kevin Harvick, as well as Clint Bowyer and Casey Mears. A former racer, he was a crewman for driver Bill Elliott at Evernham Motorsports in 2001-02.
Gould said the team has tested twice so far and feels that Scott and the team are "a good fit."
"So far his feedback is really good, he has a good attitude," Gould said. "I've been impressed so far."
The level of competition in the series will likely be higher in 2013, but Gould feels his team is up to the task.
"Last year, if you had a bad day in the Nationwide race, you finished eighth or 10th," he said. "I think that's going to be bumped back a couple of positions this year. … I think it's definitely going to be tougher.
"I realistically think we can win a race or more … The goal is definitely to win multiple races, stay in the top five and stay in contention in the points."
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There's a reason Iran's foreign minister has been smiling—he finally got the world's great powers to sign a deal that lets Iran enrich uranium. For years the United States has pressed other countries to support and enforce U.N. Security Council resolutions that demand Iran stop all of its enrichment activities and enter negotiations. On Sunday morning in Geneva, U.S. negotiators signed an interim agreement that would tolerate "a mutually-agreed long-term comprehensive solution" for Iran, according to the text of the deal.
The agreement signed in Geneva says Iran and six world powers will negotiate over the next six months "would involve a mutually defined enrichment program with practical limits and transparency measures to ensure the peaceful nature of the program."
To be sure, the idea that Iran would be able to enrich uranium after a final status deal has been floated in negotiations for the last two years. But the offer represents a significant softening of earlier demands from the United States and even the Obama administration. During his first term, Obama offered Iran a deal that would have required Iran to import enriched nuclear fuel, but not allow Iran to make that fuel in facilities its government controlled.
The agreement in Geneva is meant to build trust between Iran, China, France, Germany, Russia, the United States and the United Kingdom as their diplomats hammer out a final agreement to end Iran's quest for a nuclear weapon. For now, the world is offering Iran modest sanctions relief in exchange for more transparency regarding its program and an agreement to cap its stockpile of enriched uranium during the talks.
Already this language has drawn fire from top Republicans. In a statement Sunday morning, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) said, "The text of the interim agreement with Iran explicitly and dangerously recognizes that Iran will be allowed to enrich uranium when it describes a 'mutually defined enrichment program' in a final, comprehensive deal. It is clear why the Iranians are claiming this deal recognizes their right to enrich."
On a phone call with reporters Saturday evening, senior administration officials said the deal did not recognize Iran's right to enrichment and that limitations on Iran's enrichment would be negotiated over the next six months.
David Albright, a former weapons inspector and the president of the Institute for Science and International Security, said the document does not explicitly acknowledge that Iran has a right to enrich uranium, the process for creating the fuel needed for a peaceful nuclear reactor and also a nuclear weapon. But he also said he was troubled that the language on enrichment was so vague.


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Name: Frank Fortunato
School: Canon-McMillan
Class: Senior
Sport: Baseball
Fortunato's week: Fortunato had seven hits in 11 at-bats during wins over Trinity, Brashear and Upper St. Clair last week to vault the Big Macs into a tie for first place in Section 5-AAAA.
It also continued Fortunato's recent hot streak, with hits in 15 of his past 22 at-bats.
"He's seeing the ball well," Canon-McMillan coach Frank Zebrasky said. "He's at the point where if he does make an out, he's really upset."
Being a leader/leadoff: Fortunato was supposed to be Canon-McMillan's No. 3 hitter, but when center fielder Jake Cadez shattered the radial bone in his forearm prior to the season, Fortunato voluntarily took over for Cadez as the team's leadoff hitter.
One reason was Fortunato knew he needed to see more pitches, which he would certainly do as a leadoff hitter. And he knew his team needed a spark.
"I enjoy batting leadoff, starting the game, hopefully getting up on the other team," Fortunato said. "I think it's made me more patient, and I've seen more pitches. I think it has made me a better hitter."
Besides the hitting – as of Tuesday he was at .500 (23-for-46) – Fortunato had nine walks for an on-base percentage of .610. He was also 9-for-9 on steals, with one double, one triple, a home run, and 15 RBI.
"I'm more patient, yet I feel like I have more confidence," Fortunato said. "I think I've matured. It's mental, too. I'm a senior, and I feel like I can hit anybody out there."
Fortunato has helped Canon-McMillan to a 5-2 record in Section 5-AAAA at the beginning of the week, 8-6 overall.
Not bad for a team that Fortunato feels many wrote off after injuries to Cadez and catcher Ryan Gillespie.
"We came in this year way under the radar," Fortunato said. "Nobody talked about us at all. We just want to go out there and prove everybody wrong."
Using the whole field: Fortunato has worked extensively with Canon-McMillan hitting coach Brandon Dittmar on spraying the ball to all fields, instead of trying to pull everything.
"He's learning to use the whole field," Zebrasky said. "He's much more patient as a hitter and more understanding of pitching concepts."
During certain rounds of batting practice, Fortunato won't be allowed to pull the ball.
"I feel like that has helped," he said. "I haven't tried to pull a lot of balls. That helps with two strikes also."
Grass (no roots) baseball: Fortunato lives next door to Big Macs first baseman Justin Davey, and the pair would often invite Cadez over to play baseball in the backyard when they were younger.
They dug out bases and a pitcher's mound. Pitcher's hand, ghost runners, the whole deal.
"Every day in the summer we'd get up early, play all day and wouldn't quit until it was dark," Fortunato said. "The grass still doesn't grow back there."
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How about those Harbaughs?
Prior to the Ravens and 49ers winning their conference championships, it seemed everyone in this area was rooting against them. People seemed to hate the idea of two brothers coaching against each other in the Super Bowl. What's wrong with this story?
Is it because John Harbaugh coaches the Ravens and Steelers fans hate everything about the Ravens?
That's understandable to a point, but this is one of the most amazing stories in the history of American sports.
What are the odds of two brothers coaching in the 32-team NFL at the same time?
What are the odds they would both be successful enough to even make the playoffs?
And what are the odds they would win their conference championships, when you consider all the scenarios and possibilities in the NFL postseason, in the same season?
I don't have the answer to any of those questions, but I'll bet there's a mathematician who could come up with the numbers. They're beyond astronomical.
Think of how many major pro championship games have been played in the United States.
Two brothers never managed against each other in the World Series or coached against each other in an NBA or Stanley Cup Final.
Maybe two brothers coached against each other in a high school state championship football or basketball game somewhere. I never heard about it.
We're talking about the biggest sporting event in the United States and one of the biggest, most watched events in the world. Two people on the planet get to coach in it every year. And it's brother against brother?
Come on. It's a great story.
That's not to say the media won't beat it to death by next Sunday to the point that you don't want to hear the name Harbaugh ever again.
• Could Tim Tebow have prevented some NFL coaches and general managers from being fired? Kerry Byrne of Coldhardfootballfacts.com thinks so. CHFF has devised what it calls a Real QB rating. Without getting into the gory details about how it's compiled, it's an improvement on the NFL's passer rating because it takes rushing, fumbles and sacks into account. Teams that won the Real QB rating battle were 218-37 during the 2012 regular season. In weeks 15-17, teams with the best Real QB rating were 45-3.
Tebow's career real QB rating is 81.1, which would have put him in the middle of the pack among this year's NFL quarterbacks. It's also better than any of the quarterbacks who played for the seven coaches who were fired.
Byrne calls Jets coach Rex Ryan's refusal to at least give Tebow a shot the worst coaching decision of the year.
What is it about NFL coaches and their fear of changing quarterbacks?
• I wonder if the fine citizens of New Orleans know they are about to be visited by the worst fans in the NFL. And that's saying something. Violence at Candelstick Park during 49ers games sets the standard for the rest of the teams in the league. And the fans bring their stupidity with them on the road. Last week in Atlanta, a guy dressed in a 49ers jersey was nice enough to stab a Falcons fan in the neck.
Who brings a knife to a football game?
CBSSports.com reported that before last year's NFC Championship game at Candlestick, the 49ers took out a full page ad in the San Francisco Chronicle that begged the fans to behave. The cops let it be known they would be beefing up security and including officers working undercover by wearing New York Giants jerseys.
And get this: The cops handed out cards to the fans wearing Giants jerseys that had a number for them to call if they felt they were in danger. Maybe the card should have suggested that they take off the jersey. Despite all that, 110 people were ejected from the game and 29 were arrested.
You have to wonder how much longer the regular human beings are going to want to wade into a scene that requires the kind of security you would expect for a Hell's Angels picnic. Keep in mind that, when the regular human beings stop coming, they'll be replaced by the drunken morons looking for people not wearing the same jersey they're wearing.
Where are the people calling for the two simplest solutions – the banning of visiting team jerseys and/or the elimination of alcohol consumption in the parking lots or inside the stadium?
Apparently not as ridiculous as expecting adult men to realize that stabbing someone in the throat is not a good way to show support for your team.
Good luck, New Orleans.
John Steigerwald writers a Sunday column for the Observer-Reporter.
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Meghan Dillie grew up in Amity and lives in Washington, and she has no plans to leave the area.
In fact, the 25-year-old is so committed to her community and making a difference that last summer she applied – and was accepted – to Public Allies, Pittsburgh division.
Public Allies is the signature national service program of AmeriCorps, a federal program operated by the Corporation for National and Community Service that provides grants to private nonprofit organizations and schools to contribute to the cost of stipends, benefits, training and other support for their volunteers.
Dillie began serving a 10-month apprenticeship in September with Community Action Southwest in Washington, where she has helped implement the nonprofit's strategic plan, recruited clients, promoted financial independence and prepared income taxes.
One of her favorite projects, however, has been helping to facilitate the "Getting Ahead" program that educates clients about developing a plan to escape poverty.
"There's a lot of discussion," Dillie said. "It's very thought-provoking. There's a lot of analysis about our economy, our community and ourselves."
The Public Allies program is quite demanding. In addition to volunteering at CAS four days a week, Dillie is required to attend weekly intensive skills training and leadership development seminars, plus coordinate a community-building team service project.
She and Pierce Marratto of Canonsburg, an AmeriCorps volunteer with TRIPIL, are planning a Community Share Fair. It will be held from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday at LeMoyne Community Center in Washington.
Those who attend can "bring what they can and take what they need," Dillie said, such as household items, clothing and toys. There also will be a skills exchange, whereby a hairstylist, for example, could offer a haircut for cupcakes.
"It's an effort to build a stronger community," Dillie said. "I grew up here. I live here. I want to effect change. I'm very invested in this project."
The highlight of her AmeriCorps experience, however, was a one-day trip to the White House and a roundtable discussion with President Barack Obama. Dillie, who writes the National Public Allies blog, was one of 12 AmeriCorps volunteers hand-picked by the Corporation for National and Community Service from its pool of 80,000 volunteers to make the trip.
"It's still unbelieveable," Dillie said. "It was an extraordinary experience that I would never have done in my lifetime."
She toured the Oval Office and the West Wing, admired the Emancipation Proclamation and heirloom plants from President Thomas Jefferson's term in office and ate mint off the plant in First Lady Michelle Obama's organic garden.
Dillie said Obama previously served on the board of Public Allies, and the first lady was a project director who helped build Public Allies, Chicago division.
"The president talked about community service and serving in your neighborhood," said Dillie, who was seated at the head of the table. "He reiterated how important what we're doing is."
When her apprenticeship with CAS ends, Dillie will resume online classes at East Tennessee State University to complete the required credits for her bachelor's degree in women's studies and social work. She is expected to graduate at the end of the year, and, ideally, she would like to take her experience with Public Allies to the next level by serving an internship.
"It's been a really exciting experience for me. It's kept me busy in a good way," Dillie said.
At the same time, she acknowledges that "Public Allies is not for everybody."
"It requires a lot motivation, dedication and love for community," Dillie said. "It's been wonderful to me. It's changed my life."
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