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West Virginia's roster was supposed to be terrorizing the Atlantic 10. Now the 'Eers could be on their way to Indy.
MORGANTOWN, W. Va. -- From penicillin to Popsicles, accidental discovery historically has been the true mother of invention. Some of the great advances in the human condition have come completely by mistake.
The same also can be true with basketball programs.
Say hello to the West Virginia Mountaineers, America's accidental powerhouse. The first-place team in the nation's best conference is a motley amalgam of coaches and players who didn't arrive in these rustic hills as part of some inspired master strategy. In fact, it's taken some fortuitously fluky circumstances that led them into these hills at all.
The players who make up the guts of this team thought they would be toiling in the relative anonymity of the Atlantic 10, not riding a surreal streak of hot shooting and heady basketball to the cusp of the Final Four last March, then to the top of the Big East this February.
If the Dan Dakich domino had not fallen four years ago, when the Bowling Green coach was hired and then quit as the West Virginia coach in a span of eight days, John Beilein and three of his best players would be Richmond Spiders today. If a welding certificate had not destroyed the St. Bonaventure program three years ago, nobody would be talking about Mike Gansey as an All-America candidate. And if Beilein and his unique offense had never arrived, it's possible that Pittsnogle still would be a regionally recognized proper noun, not a nationally celebrated verb.
But all those things did happen. And the result has been a most excellent accident. It's been a "Eureka!" experience for a program that hasn't had days like these since Jerry West hung up his No. 44 jersey some 46 years ago.
The entire experience has been too grand for the Mountaineers to process.
"I think it'll take a couple years after we graduate and leave to figure out what it means," center Kevin Pittsnogle said.
But there is much more potentially to be accomplished before that time comes. Halfway through conference play, it's the Mountaineers -- not No. 1 Connecticut, not No. 4 Villanova -- who are the lone unbeaten in the Big East. At 17-4 and 8-0, No. 10 West Virginia is among the hottest teams in the country, one of the toughest stylistic matchups and one of the most legitimate Final Four contenders.
This sustained serendipity has been going on for almost exactly a year, by Beilein's reckoning. On Feb. 5, 2005 -- the coach's 52nd birthday, coincidentally -- then starting center D'Or Fisher came down with a cold, so Beilein inserted Pittsnogle in the starting lineup against Pittsburgh. He responded with 27 points in an upset victory.
The Mountaineers are 29-8 since then, including their upset-filled March runs to the final of the Big East tournament and the West Regional final in Albuquerque, where they fell an overtime short of the Final Four against Louisville.
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Dan Dakich doesn't regret leaving West Virginia days after accepting the job four years ago.
In fact, he's one of the Mountaineers' biggest fans.
In one of the stranger recent coaching moves, Dakich accepted the job at West Virginia only to return to Bowling Green after the news conference announcing him as the Mountaineers' new head coach.
"I made a decision based on what was there," said Dakich, who added there was more to the potential fear of NCAA sanctions at the time with the end of the Gale Catlett era. "I said at the time that this [was] the best move for me and for West Virginia and everybody involved."
"Because all that had happened [at WVU] and based on my life and the way I live it," said Dakich, clearly focusing on the culture that existed under the previous staff. Ultimately, the Mountaineers never received any NCAA sanctions. "I just felt like it wasn't something that was going to be in the best interests for me and for West Virginia, and obviously it worked out well for West Virginia."
The Mountaineers reached the Elite Eight last season under John Beilein, who left his post at Richmond to take the WVU job once Dakich resigned and returned to Bowling Green. Dakich was coming off his best season at BGSU, with a 24-9 record and an NIT berth in 2001-02, when he landed the Mountaineers' job. Since then, he has gone 13-16, 14-17 and 18-11, never finishing higher than third in the MAC. The Falcons currently are in last place in the MAC East at 5-7 (9-13 overall).
"They've done a great job there," Dakich said of Beilein and his staff. "John Beilein should be commended for a wonderful job. They're fun to watch. I root for them. I like the way they play. They play hard, guys like Mike Gansey and Kevin Pittsnogle. "It worked out fine for me," Dakich said. "I'd rather be in the Elite Eight and things like that, but I don't have any regrets. I live my life based on being able to say, 'This is how you do things honestly, not based on money.' I do what I think is right and that's what I did. I don't have any regrets."
-- Andy Katz
"It's not some genius plan," Beilein said. "D'Or got sick, so we had to go with Kevin."
None of it is a genius plan, going back to the April day in 2002 when Beilein was introduced as the new coach in Morgantown.
Some charitably call Beilein the third choice of athletic director Ed Pastilong, after Bob Huggins turned down the chance to coach his alma mater and Dakich had his bizarre come-and-go. (Since returning to Bowling Green, Dakich has been a disappointing 54-58, with zero NCAA Tournament appearances. His jilting of WVU has been among the best things ever to happen to Mountaineers basketball.) But third choice might be gilding the lily: Pastilong reportedly interviewed seven job candidates after Dakich, and several others withdrew from consideration before Dakich got the job.
This was nothing new to Beilein, however. He'd spent more than two obscure decades experimenting with unconventional basketball, rolling up 22 winning seasons in 24 years as a head coach at backwater locales like Erie Community College, NAIA Nazareth, Division II LeMoyne, Canisius and Richmond. He was his own guy: never serving as anyone's assistant coach, developing his own ideas about how the game should be played -- yet doing it without developing a Naismith Complex, like he invented the game.
"I don't want to come across as somebody who knows something about the game," he said.
Still, Beilein wound up with something of a cult following among those who watched his old teams dissect defenses with their back cuts, crisp passes and perimeter shooting. A small cult. Hardly anybody saw the guy's teams play.
Beilein enjoys teaching the game so much that he probably could have been happy continuing to do it at out-of-the-way schools. But eventually his success got him somewhere.
He took Canisius to the NCAA Tournament in 1996, whereupon the 13th-seeded Golden Griffins were quickly cashed out in the first round by Utah. Beilein's breakthrough moment, though, came two years later, his first season at Richmond, when his 14th-seeded Spiders shocked No. 3 seed South Carolina. That gave the world its first good look at Beilein's beautiful interpretation of the Princeton offense.
The Spiders never made it back to the NCAAs in four subsequent seasons under Beilein, but even that played a part in bringing him to West Virginia. His 2001 Richmond team -- which the coach firmly believed belonged in the Big Dance -- played the Mountaineers in the first round of the NIT and dismantled WVU, 79-56. Without that chance to make an impression, Beilein probably never would have gotten this job.
"He's been his own person the whole time," said Beilein's son, Patrick, the Mountaineers' sixth man. "He finally got a break when West Virginia called."
A literal roll-up-your-sleeves guy on the sidelines, the unpretentious Beilein has been a comfortable fit in Morgantown, where the belt buckles are big and the boots and Carhartt jackets are not affectations. This is an unvarnished place that appreciates its unvarnished team -- despite the strange way it came together.
When Beilein got that call from West Virginia, it echoed as far away as Germany. That's where Johannes Herber played basketball.
Not that America much noticed. A videotape campaign had gotten him a visit to Cal Poly and a few other scholarship offers. His only other recruiting visit was scheduled for Richmond in April 2002.
The day before Herber was to make that trip, Beilein canceled it.
"I'm going to call you in two weeks," the coach promised.
When Beilein called Herber again, he was the head coach at West Virginia.
"I didn't know anything [about West Virginia]," Herber said. "I didn't even know the conference. I had to look it up on the Internet."
Today, Herber has started all 116 games he's played at the college he didn't know existed four years ago. He's the perfect fit for the Beilein system: smart, skilled and versatile. He leads the Mountaineers in assists at 5.1 per game.
Herber was supposed to be joined by Patrick Beilein and J.D. Collins as freshmen at Richmond. Instead they followed the coach to a much tougher league and have lived up to the challenge. Beilein is the school's career leader in 3-pointers (by two, at the moment, over Pittsnogle), while Collins has climbed to seventh on the school's career assist chart and has a career assist-to-turnover ratio of 2.4 to 1.
Both perfectly fit Beilein's description of what it takes to play in his system.
"You've definitely got to be a good shooter, a good passer and a good teammate," John Beilein said. "The chemistry is so important to the success of this style. None of that [talent] means anything if the guy is not a good teammate."
How good are Pat Beilein and Collins at sacrificing for the common good? Collins is a four-year starter whose career average is just barely more than three shots per game. Beilein has been content to come off the bench in 115 of his 116 career games.
"A lot of college teams have me-first attitudes," Patrick Beilein said. "That's not us."
The fourth A-10 refugee comes with the same unselfish mentality -- and the most talent. That's Gansey, who somehow is averaging 18.5 points while taking fewer than 12 shots per game.
No player in America of Gansey's height (6-foot-4) comes close to him in field-goal percentage. He's the only sub-6-5 guy in the national top 50 in shooting accuracy, checking in at 16th at 59.7 percent -- a number normally associated with drop-step-and-dunk centers. Gansey also is hitting 47.7 percent from 3-point range.
That means, in a nutshell, he's mastered the art of knowing where and when to shoot in Beilein's motion offense, and how to get open for those shots.
And of course, his presence at West Virginia is wholly accidental. He was a standout freshman and sophomore at St. Bonaventure, but when that program went up in a mushroom cloud of academic malfeasance in 2003 (a junior-college transfer was admitted to school with only a welding certificate as his academic passport), Gansey was one of many who jumped ship.
Having played against him for a year in the A-10, Beilein recruited Gansey hard when he transferred.
The transfer didn't sit well with St. Bonaventure fans, who knew what kind of player they were losing. Some of them showed up to heckle Gansey when West Virginia played the Bonnies in Charleston, W.Va., last year.
"They were yelling, 'We hate you, Gansey! Quitter! Traitor!' It was bad," he recalled, then shrugged. "I tried to make a decision for myself [to transfer]. Sorry."
The decision has been a momentous one for Mountaineers basketball. Beilein had the program on the upswing his first two years, taking over an 8-20 team and immediately going 14-15, then 17-14. But when Gansey became eligible after sitting out a year, West Virginia took off last season.
Not that you'd look at the guy and expect much. He's a bundle of small quirks, from the multiple baggy T-shirts he wears simultaneously under his jersey -- two gray shirts during WVU's game last Saturday against Cincinnati -- to sleeping with a Scooby-Doo stuffed animal. Roommate Beilein also reports that Gansey eats tuna fish, right out of the can, before every game.
And then there are his legs. They're shaved smoother than a runway model's for every game. So are Beilein's.
"I at least got him using a razor," Beilein said. "He was using barber clippers before."
Who better to cap off this eccentric collection than tattooed, goateed Pittsnogle? He's a catch-and-shoot center from the catch-and-release hinterlands of Martinsburg, W.Va., and by now his story is well-known.
The product of a trailer park and a gravel basketball hoop became a state celebrity in high school and was a coveted final recruit by coach Gale Catlett. Beilein, who saw Pittsnogle in high school and knew he'd be perfect for his perimeter-based system, re-recruited the big man when he took over.
Since then Beilein has watched his center accumulate points, popularity, tattoos and, just before the season in 2004, a wife. The wedding was held in the auditorium at Martinsburg High, with Pittsnogle's uncle performing the ceremony. The reception was at a retirement home, with corn dogs, Domino's pizza, Big K soda and macaroni on the menu, with karaoke as entertainment.
"That's his style," Patrick Beilein explained.
His on-court style is equally unique. The sheer amusement of watching a giant biker-looking hoopster draining 3s led West Virginia fans to loudly inform opponents, "You've been Pittsnogled!" And the stands at West Virginia Coliseum are dotted with fans young and old wearing No. 34 jerseys.
The youngest at one recent game might have been 3-year-old Jared Stern. Asked his favorite player, Jared exclaimed, "Pittsnogle!"
The man-verb has been Pittsnogling defenses even more frequently this year, upping his scoring from 11.9 points per game to 19.5, while adding significant off-court duties as a new father. Kwynsie James Pittsnogle entered the world this past Friday, and dad scored a dozen on Cincinnati 20 hours later.
These are the disparate ingredients that have come together in mad scientist Beilein's beaker. Barraging opponents with 3-pointers, bedeviling them with backdoor passes and flummoxing them with an active 1-3-1 zone defense, they make the coach's unconventional style work.
"Not a smarter style," coach Beilein insisted. "A unique style."
WVU defies commonly held statistical measures of success. For instance, rebounding margin is a stat held dear by many coaches, yet the Mountaineers are routinely bludgeoned on the glass, being outrebounded by 9.4 per game. (Even that is too much for Beilein's comfort. He'd breathe easier with a minus-six margin.)
They make up for it by having outscored opponents by 249 points from the arc and 55 points at the foul line. (Beilein's teams do a great job of not fouling.) They have 202 more assists than turnovers, while opponents are 110 in arrears. Remember the program credo: good shooters and good passers.
Recite some of the numbers for Beilein and he humbly rebuts, "We're probably the team that's been dunked on the most, as well." But the coach plays to his strengths and reinforces the fundamentals.
Players shoot in practice with a special ball The Rock has produced, called the Beilein Ball. It has a black stripe that runs perpendicular to the seams, so players can make sure they have the proper rotation on their shots.
Players also spend 10 minutes before practice lofting jumpers at the backboard, to the right and left of the rim. The purpose: to check mechanics without worrying about makes or misses, and to make sure they release the ball using the seams.
When the Mountaineers had their public practice in Albuquerque before the Sweet 16 last year, Gansey said he could sense befuddlement from the fans when the players began shooting shots and missing the rim by a foot to the right or left.
"I think they were like, 'This team just beat Wake Forest and they're shooting off the backboard? What's going on?'" Gansey said.
What's gone on in Morgantown the past four years has been an excellent basketball accident. And at the rate they're going this season, the West Virginia Mountaineers might accidentally find their way to Indianapolis.
Pat Forde is a senior writer for ESPN.com. He can be reached at email@example.com.
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Stef~Wife for 7.5 yr,Mom to 4 angels &
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I am in my 15th wk! Yikes..not much to report my belly is quite the belly...I am starting to reallyshow..I boughta few maternity outfits...two pants and 2 shirts...
THis will probably be the most boring journal yet! I dont have much to report...
Stef~Wife for 7.5 yr,Mom to 4 angels &
Riley 6, Ryan 5, Adam 3.5 & Julia 2 !
First...we have a new baby girl!!!!!!
Her name is Cally(short for calico)
She was part of a litter that got abandoned under my moms friends trailer by its mom...she is 6 wks old was born end of July/beginning of Aug....we got her on wens day sept 16...she is a good kitten and is loved so much my my older son's...the one in the pic...my 2nd Son,Ryan,just adores her and holds her forever...she is spoiled and cries at night to be held all the time...since she is so young when its night time she is in the bathroom w/her box,toys,food and litter pan...
Anyways...had my appt on Tuesday the 15th...weight is 2+lbs in 4 wks,got more zofran,heart rate is in 150's and my big u/s is on Oct 13th...I am excited to see baby agian...it will be so different to see it after just seeing it at 8 wks!!
On a silly note...I hate the month of Oct...all my m/c's had something to do with oct....I see it as bad luck so I am hoping this u/s changes it all.
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Stef~Wife for 7.5 yr,Mom to 4 angels &
Riley 6, Ryan 5, Adam 3.5 & Julia 2 !
Never in a million years would I think I would ever get to say or type these words I had my big u/s today and "its a GIRL!!!!" She is 14oz's had a heartrate of 159 bpm and is active...dispite me not feeling it all due to a anterior placenta.
I have only gained 7 lbs(not what I thought I gained..)...so good... I am in shock/disbelief,happy but scared...bittersweet!
here SHE is JULIA MARIE S******
her face
shes waving at you!
3-d face..looks adorable lil her big bro's!
her back
3-d face agian
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Stef~Wife for 7.5 yr,Mom to 4 angels &
Riley 6, Ryan 5, Adam 3.5 & Julia 2 !
All is going good...got my hair cut really short it looks good..donated 2 10 inch long pony tails to locks of love...some one else can use that huge bush! On the bad end my mom has bad knees and cna barely walk,lately I have been having bad knee pains in my right knee...I have a feeling that I will be just like her in 30 yrs..
my hair
me and my fav baby boy!
my ponies!
Can't believe my pregnancy is going this far!
22wk belly shot!!
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Stef~Wife for 7.5 yr,Mom to 4 angels &
Riley 6, Ryan 5, Adam 3.5 & Julia 2 !
Here I am at 35 wks preggo! So much has changed ...well all but the important parts...I am almost all ready for her to come in 3 wks!
we had a u/s at great lakes college..here are her 25 wk pics
I had my last u/s at 30 wks...it showed her being normal with a nice weight of 3lbs2
here is some pics!
3-d bit of face
girly bits
we had a baby shower on dec 5th...
here is some pics..
opening gifts
my neice and my bff
belly pics
27 wks
32 wks
32 wks w/dh
34 wks..
More progress!
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Stef~Wife for 7.5 yr,Mom to 4 angels &
Riley 6, Ryan 5, Adam 3.5 & Julia 2 !
Well this is my last wk preggo ever!
Next wens is my c/s date!
my 37 wk belly...my last belly pic at home..
Stef~Wife for 7.5 yr,Mom to 4 angels &
Riley 6, Ryan 5, Adam 3.5 & Julia 2 !
So I knew of my babys birth day for 3 wks...I counted them days down till tues(the night before c/s) I was excited but sad as this my last pregnancy. I couldnt get to sleep knowing my baby would be born in a few short hours...the moment a woman has kids she waits for her daughter to be born...it was finally happening...I had my boys now it was time for my girl.
So at 4:45am I got dressed and by 5am I was ready...we left the house for the hospital by 510am,got there at 5:40 am (a nice quiet night drive). It was quiet at the labor and delivery and as soon as I came in they got me in my room and prepared for my c-section(iv,cath,acid reducing drink and shaved)
my last belly pic)
(was so tired)
(my dh in his baby uniform)
it all went fast and before I knew it I was getting in to the OR,getting my epi in(I had the epidoral shock this time...ekk) and they had started.one nurse asked "What is your name and what are you in here for today." Of course my tubal and a c-section.
My hubby came in and held my hand...at 731 am Julia was born with, as predicted a bush of black hair, and a fiesty cry...
(just born)
"It a GIRL." was cried by the nurses...I was in my own world of happiness and shock..
They asked me if I was sure I wanted a tubal...I was sure...later on they told me it was a good thing due to my thin uterus.
Once closed up they wheeled me in the post Opp/pre Opp room...I was super exhausted and couldnt keep my eyes open...Jewels was with grandpa and Daddy...she was safe..
I was put in my own room where all the nurses (due to me having one of few babies born that day) knew of Julia being my last and only girl of 4 kiddos...so she got blankies and other stuff for a girl
(1st bath)
...it was nice...to be honest I never had a kid at that hospital and didnt have good experiances there either...but it was a great birth there and all went better than planned.
Julia is a super calm,quiet baby unless she is dirty/hungry she has a zesty cry...she is a great nurser...what a way to complete my family!
coming home in carseat
holdin a paci
dressed 4 coming home...
Stef~Wife for 7.5 yr,Mom to 4 angels &
Riley 6, Ryan 5, Adam 3.5 & Julia 2 !


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"As a (new) Councillor, I would like to know what we are dealing with here."
Councillor R. Proctor.
"There were large sums of money involved ..... Now you know as much as I do that there were shady dealings with this. I did not agree with doing that. Why do you think I walked out of your Hagg Lane Group?
It was wrong, wrong, wrong. Well, that was entirely false, and I knew that at the time."
Councillor R. Chilvers
Source: Filmed and recorded at the Hemingbrough Parish Council Meeting.
September 2014
From HEMINGBROUGH PARISH COUNCIL to the The Big Lottery Fund
Breathing Places Application Form initiated by Councillor Kenny McCann (partly in his hand writing and partly typed)
We will be working in partnership with Hemingbrough Hagg Lane Green Conservation group ...
We certify that the information given in this application is true
(Constitution of Hemingbrough Hagg Lane Green Conservation Group provided by Parish Clerk from Council files:
"This constitution was adopted on the 13th day of October Two Thousand and five.
Steering Group Signatures:
Martin Senior, Chairperson
Denis Hails, Secretary/Treasurer
Glenis Harrison, Committee
Kenneth McCann, Committee
Sarah Noble, Committee
Neil Pickering, Committee
Mark Bell, Committee
Bernard Farrall, Committee"
(This bogus Constitution is dated exactly one week before a joint Grant application to the separate Heritage Lottery Fund – printed by that Fund on Thursday, 20 October 2005 at 2.48pm. A different application misled another Lottery Fund into believing "the land is owned Freehold or other type of outright ownership by the Parish Council.
The Application notes "The Hemingbrough Hagg Lane Green Conservation Group was set up in October 2005". (What a surprise.)
Martin Senior was not the Group's Chairperson until after 17th July 2007! Perhaps (Councillor) Pickering would like to confirm when he became a Member of that Group and accepted Committee responsibilities?)
From the Parish Clerk (B. Hopper) to Bernard Farrall, Committee Member of the Conservation Group
As the (Conservation Group) accounts are included within the Parish Council Accounts, being the "accountable body", and being audited by the External auditors I have assumed that the dealings of the Hagg Lane Green Conservation Group are subject to public scrutiny. I would have thought that the minutes should be displayed on the excellent website and that meetings be advertised and open to the residents to attend.
IT WOULD APPEAR NOT SO. However I find it surprising that some £50,000 of public money – whose pockets has it come from originally - can be spent without the local residents being able to look at the minutes and the accounts. This is more than the Parish Council has spent in the last three years.
To HEMINGBROUGH PARISH COUNCIL from The Big Lottery Fund
Addressed to home address of Mr. McCann (??? Why not to the Parish Council's registered address care of the Clerk?)
I am pleased to inform you that we have awarded a grant to Hemingbrough Parish Council for £10,000 on the terms and conditions you accepted as part of the application.
To HEMINGBROUGH PARISH COUNCIL from the Assistant Grants Officer
The items listed below are referenced in your End of Award report as grant expenditure bur are not a part of the budget in your application and no changes to the budget have been requested.
Mower £2,350
Photopaper/Ink Cartridges/Leaflets £631
Computer £571
Reference Books £250
What is not included in the extensive file of correspondence?
A copy of the letter mentioned by Councillor McCann at the September 2014 Council meeting declaring the Hemingbrough Hagg Lane Village Green has no legal owner. (It does!)
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I had the opportunity to dive 3 times on the Spiegel Grove. All 3 times the current outside the boat was of medium strength and the visibility was about 25 feet. I loved each of these dives as I was able to swim through many openings and explore the ship. This was my first wreck dive so I could be...
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Rev. Dr. Theodore S. Grant, longtime Hicksville resident and 32 year member of the Hicksville Fire Department passed away on April 16, 2014.
Rev. Dr. Grant joined Heavy Rescue Company 8 and the Hicksville Fire Department as Department Chaplain in 1982. Since then he has served tirelessly in this role. From the Annual Memorial Day Service to the wakes and funerals of members and their relatives, his presence has been a staple in the Hicksville Fire Department for the past 32 years. He has also been a member of the fire police since 1993.
Rev. Dr. Grant has been a source of invaluable advice and counseling to the fire department and the community for over 55 years having served as a minister at the Redeemer Lutheran Church, the Parkway Community Church as well as many other congregations. He also served on numerous county, community and professional boards and committees over the years, and was founder and chairman of the Ecumenical Consultation Center in Hicksville and founder of Wally's Circle providing innovative support to Alzheimer's patients.
In addition to Nancy, his wife of over 60 years, Rev. Dr. Grant is survived by his brother, 3 children, seven grandchildren and one great grandchild. He was deeply devoted to his family and the community and will be missed by all.
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Local veterans groups and residents gathered at Hicksville Middle School Veterans Memorial Park recently to honor brave servicemen and woman, past and present. William M. Gouse Jr. Post 3211 hosted Hicksville's annual Veterans Day ceremony on Nov. 11.
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On Nov. 10, a dedication ceremony was held to celebrate the completion of a beautiful new two-story house in Hicksville. However, while new dwellings are an ordinary occurrence on Long Island, this one was unique and special in a way that very few are.
The house at 77 Thorman Ave. was built in memory of Navy Lieutenant and posthumous Congressional Medal of Honor recipient Michael P. Murphy, a Long Island native who tragically died in combat while serving in Afghanistan in 2005. However, this house represents more than just the dedicated service of a man to his country; it represents the beginning of a new life full of hope for a brother-in-arms and his family as well.
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Football was Mike Torrellas' heart and soul. He also liked a good Turkey Bowl.
Unfortunately, the Hicksville Crusaders co-founder wasn't able to witness the program's inaugural event, which took place Saturday, Nov. 8.
Torrellas passed away suddenly last December due to a blood clot, but the spirit and drive of the man who wore the number 53 and tragically passed at that age still surrounds the Crusaders football program.
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The Long Island Fight for Charity will be hosting its 11th annual Charity Boxing Event on Nov. 24 at the Hilton in Melville. Among the 20 volunteers putting up their fists for funds will be Hicksville business owner Mell Goldman, who will be fighting under the nickname "The Kid."
Goldman is the President of All Boro Cleaning Services. He stated that he was enticed at the opportunity and wanted to contribute to charity.
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A love of nicotine unites all peoples across the globe, regardless of colour, wealth or creed. Where religion and politics have failed tobacco has succeeded, but at what cost? For over 50 years people have been knowingly paying for the pleasure of tobacco with their lives, making man's fatal tryst with the cigarette one of the strangest love affairs ever. But as smoking bans in the US and Europe abound, what is happening in poorer nations? Their love affair is still in its first flush – one third of the world's cigarettes are smoked in China alone. And globally the tobacco industry...Watch Documentary
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Fearne Cotton examines the ongoing trend for super-slim women and immerses herself in the worrying world of pro-ana websites who encourage anorexia and starvation as a life choice. As Fearne explores the diet and exercise regime of a pro-ana, shell try some of the extreme regimes that they endorse and meet other girls whove embraced the same lifestyle. She will explore the seductive nature of these support groups, examine the world of competitive dieting, and look at relationships that ordinary women have with each other when it comes to diet and body...Watch Documentary
Dana is eight years old and anorexic. Cutting Edge follows Dana as she embarks on an intensive 12-week programme at a specialist clinic, to examine why younger and younger children are developing eating...Watch Documentary
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Stephen Fry presents this documentary exploring the disease of manic depression; a little understood but potentially devastating condition affecting an estimated two percent of the population. Stephen embarks on an emotional journey to meet fellow sufferers, and discuss the literal highs and lows of being bi-polar. Celebrities such as Carrie Fisher and Richard Dreyfuss invite the comedian into their home to relate their stories. Plus Stephen looks into the lives of ordinary people trying to deal with the illness at work and home, and of course to the people studying manic depression...Watch Documentary
This documentary follows a small number of British people with an incurable genetic disease called Prader-Willi syndrome. Prader–Willi syndrome is a rare genetic disorder in which seven genes (or some subset thereof) on chromosome 15 (q 11-13) are deleted or unexpressed (chromosome 15q partial deletion) on the paternal chromosome. It was first described in 1956 by Andrea Prader (1919-2001), Heinrich Willi (1900-1971), Alexis Labhart (1916), Andrew Ziegler, and Guido Fanconi of Switzerland. The incidence of PWS is between 1 in 25,000 and 1 in 10,000 live births. The paternal origin of...Watch Documentary


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Scotland, northern England, the Midlands and the east will see the worst of the snow, with up to seven inches predicted over high ground, which is likely to cause more disruption for schools and travel networks.
Weather experts have warned of the risk of flooding tomorrow, as heavy rain moves in and rising temperatures spark a rapid thaw of the built-up snow and ice.
Temperatures will steadily rise from tomorrow to an average of 4C before reaching more than 10C in the south on Sunday followed by wet and windy weather next week.
North Yorkshire continues to battle the elements
- ITV Report
Today's school closures
Most schools in the North East are reopening on Wednesday, 23rd January, although some are remaining closed or opening for reduced hours.Read the full story ›
- ITV Report
Carers in Northumberland who will not let snow stop them
While some may be taking a 'snow day', carers across the North East will go to extraordinary lengths to reach people who rely on them.Read the full story ›
Lates roads report from Northumbria Police
It is currently snowing in some areas of Northumberland and there are difficult driving conditions, particularly on the A68 north of Stagshaw Bank.
All main roads in the force area are at the moment passable with care and the situation is being constantly monitored.
Officers continue to ask motorists to only travel if necessary, be aware of any snow and ice on the roads and to reduce their speed and drive according to the road conditions, keeping a safe distance from the vehicle in front.
Conditions remain difficult and police are asking motorists to take care on the roads during rush hour, particularly on secondary routes and side and rural roads.
Teenager in more stable condition after sledge accident
A teenager, who has been critically ill in hospital after a sledging accident, is now in a more stable condition.
16-year-old Liam Stafford from Middlesbrough, suffered head injuries when his sledge hit a tree, near Flatts Lane in Normanby on Sunday.
He was airlifted to the James Cook University Hospital where he remains in a critical but stable condition.
Igloo for sale in Harrogate
A group of friends who built an igloo on the Stray in Harrogate have put it up for sale to raise money for charity. They describe it as " beautifully presented and smartly appointed" and have managed to attract bids of over £100.All of the proceeds will go to Yorkshire Cancer Research.
You can see the latest bid here.
Northumberland school closures
Dr Thomlinson C of E Middle School
Greenhaugh First School Corbridge Middle School
Otterburn First School
Ellingham C of E Aided First School
Morpeth Stobhillgate First School
Barndale House School
Corbridge C of E Aided First School
St Michael's C of E First School
Haltwhistle Community Campus Upper School
Haltwhistle Community Campus Lower School
Gateshead school closures
Chopwell Primary School
Glynwood Primary School
Roman Road Primary School
Ryton Community Infant School
St Aidan's CE Primary School
Durham school closures
Annfield Plain Infant School
Annfield Plain Junior School
Beamish Primary School
Beechdale Nursery School
Belmont Community School
Benfieldside Primary School
Bishop Ian Ramsey CofE Primary School
Bowburn Junior School
Burnopfield Primary School
Castleside Primary School
Catchgate Primary School
Consett Academy Consett Infant School and Nursery Unit
Consett Junior School
Crook Nursery School
Crook Primary School
Delves Lane Infant SchoolDelves Lane Junior School
Elemore Hall School
Forest-of-Teesdale Primary
Greenland Community Primary
Leadgate Infant and Nursery School
Leadgate Junior School
Moorside Primary School
Our Lady and St Joseph's RCVA Primary School
Oxhill Nursery School
Rookhope Primary School
Shotley Bridge Infants' School Shotley Bridge Junior School
St Joseph's RCVA Primary School
Villa Real School