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Relay For Life of Tucker County and Canaan Valley Resort are finalizing plans for the inaugural "Hope On The Slopes," a ski and snowboarding event to raise funds on behalf of the American Cancer Society. The event is in conjunction with Canaan Valley Resort's annual "Wild Thing" weekend and will take place March 2-3.
The weekend kicks off with a buffet in the Hickory Room at the Main Lodge from 5 - 9 p.m. There will be a family friendly cakewalk and oldies dance beginning at 6 p.m. on March 2 in the Spruce/Balsam rooms and an adults only DJ for entertainment from 9 p.m. until 1 a.m. in the Laurel Lounge.
On March 3, "Hope On The Slopes" will begin registering participants who have not previously registered on-line at 8:30 a.m. The fee includes an all-day lift ticket, a two-hour tubing session or a two-hour ice skating session. Participants can compete for prizes as individuals or teams in both fundraising and the vertical challenge.
Several relay teams will set up booths in Bear Paw Lodge and sell s'mores, pizzas, funnel fries, popcorn, cake pops, cotton candy and much more. They also will sell Luminaria so that patrons can honor or remember their loved ones who have had cancer. A luminaria ceremony will take place as part of the closing ceremonies at 6 p.m.
This is the first and only event of its kind in West Virginia.
The "Wild Thing" weekend will feature many activities including lollipop races, airboard demos, saucer races, frozen T-shirt contest, Parade of Costumes, hot wings eating contest and the infamous Pond Jump. More details are available on the websites.
For a list of activities and to register for "Hope On The Slopes," visit www.acshopeontheslopescanaan.org or Relay For Life Of Tucker County at www.relayforlife.org/tuckerwv. Information also is available on the Canaan Valley Resort's web site www.canaanvalleyresort.com.
The 2012 Relay For Life of Tucker County is June 16, and will take place at R.H. Armstrong Field at the Class of 1984 Stadium.
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This critical new series of books by ENWorld staff reviewer and 3.5 rules guru John Cooper presents thoroughly revised and corrected stats for the myriad creatures in the v.3.5 SRD. Features of Cooper's Compendium of Corrected Creatures: OGL Monster Stats T – Z (Tarrasque – Zombie) include:
* Corrected stats for all the monsters in the L – S sections of the v.3.5 SRD, plus the appendices on Animals and Vermin, that address often-overlooked elements like skill synergy bonuses, size modifiers, and shapechanging abilities. Entries that have received especially painstaking attention in this volume include the various forms of Lycanthrope, skill points for which are almost universally incorrect in the SRD.
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U.S. U-20 MNT Head Coach Tab Ramos Adds Jerome Kiesewetter to Roster for 2013 CONCACAF U-20 Championship
CHICAGO (Feb. 11, 2013) – U.S. Under-20 Men's National Team head coach Tab Ramos added forward Jerome Kiesewetter to the team's roster as the group prepares for the 2013 CONCACAF U-20 Championship, which kicks off Feb. 18.
The U-20 roster now stands at 19 players and the USA will add a 20th player in the coming days for the tournament. Ramos announced an initial 18-player roster on Feb. 7 as the team traveled to Toluca, Mexico, to begin training for the tournament.
Kiesewetter, who just turned 20 on Saturday and holds dual citizenship in the U.S. and Germany, last year signed with VfB Stuttgart in Germany's third division, 3. Fußball-Liga, making his debut in September. For the U.S. U-20s, Kiesewetter played in two matches in 2012 and has seven career caps in this age group.
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GOALKEEPERS (3) : Cody Cropper (Southampton FC; Maple Grove, Minn.), Kendall McIntosh (Santa Clara; Santa Rosa, Calif.), Zackary Steffen (FC DELCO Academy; Downington, Pa.)
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Midwest loyalist Judy Schweikart, an Omaha lawyer, flies the airline whenever she can, and dreads the thought of a takeover.
As the USA's biggest airlines jostle to get bigger and more powerful, little Midwest Airlines is happy to be itself: an anachronism.
But things could soon change for Midwest as a result of an ongoing hostile takeover effort being waged by Orlando-based AirTran Airways, the USA's third-biggest discounter.
Milwaukee-based Midwest, which most East and West coast residents have probably never heard of, has no desire to get rich quick, swallow other airlines or be swallowed itself. It flies to cities in America's heartland that the major carriers would just as soon fly over.
Only Midwest, for example, flies non-stop from Omaha to Reagan Washington National, or from Kansas City non-stop to New York LaGuardia. Along the way, flight attendants bake chocolate chip cookies that are served free, still warm and fragrant. It recently completed its first full year of profit since 2000.
The airline "has built up an amazing love affair with its passengers that I've never seen the likes of," says Midwest's marketing chief, Scott Dickson. If AirTran succeeds, he says, "There will be no vestige of Midwest Airlines left."
Over its objections, AirTran has launched a $345 million tender offer to acquire Midwest's shares directly from shareholders in hopes of forcing the board to sell. AirTran undertook the offer after Midwest's management rejected outright an earlier offer to buy the airline.
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AirTran, which owns a few hundred Midwest shares, has gone to court to try to get Midwest's full shareholder list and is lobbying Midwest's institutional investors, who own up to half of Midwest's shares. Shareholders' deadline to tender shares is March 8, extended from an earlier deadline of Feb. 8.
"We think we're making progress with them," says AirTran CEO John Leonard.
Even if AirTran gains traction with shareholders, Midwest's board could launch a "poison pill," diluting its shares to make the deal too costly.
AirTran has offered $13.25 in stock and cash for every Midwest share, a 46% premium over the share price on Dec. 12, the day before the offer became public. That's up from an offer of $11.25 in December.
"It's nice to be wanted," Midwest CEO Tim Hoeksema says with deadpan wit. But Hoeksema, who has run the airline for 23 years, says the offer would take the company down the wrong path.
Midwest's directors decided unanimously that the offer was too low and that the airline doesn't need a partner to succeed. Because of cost-cutting in recent years, "We are in the strongest competitive position we have ever been in," Hoeksema says. "We think we have a lot of value here."
With US Airways' withdrawal of its hostile bid for Delta Air Lines last week, the AirTran proposal becomes the only proposed merger still on the table among domestic airlines. And it is much smaller than the $10 billion US Airways offer, which would have created the USA's biggest domestic carrier. AirTran is the 12th-biggest U.S. airline, and Midwest is No. 23.
AirTran flies mainly out of Atlanta, the world's busiest airport. It competes head on with Atlanta-based Delta, the USA's third-biggest airline. Aside from some of their airplanes -- both fly Boeing 717s -- the airlines have little in common.
Starting out on paper
What is now Midwest Airlines began in 1969 as a corporate jet service for executives of paper manufacturer Kimberly-Clark out of Appleton, Wis. In 1984, the company began scheduled service and went public in 1995.
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Excellence. I think I've read this one before some in my long life.
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No surprise: Cardinals O-line ranked as NFL's worst
No one has to tell you the Arizona Cardinals' offensive line has struggled this season.
You have eyes, after all.
Still, to see it so officially, so statistically true is a bit disturbing, but that's exactly what ProFootballFocus.com has done.
The site produced its "Offensive Line Rankings: Week 10 Update" story, and it should come as no surprise that the Cardinals rank 32nd out of 32 teams.
According to their metrics, Arizona is league-worst in both run and pass blocking, and 21st in penalties.
Yep things haven't got much better for the Cardinals who by some distance still have the worst offensive line in the league. Nate Potter got some action and it's unlikely we've seen the last of him as D'Anthony Batiste is still our worst ranked tackle in the league by some distance. How this line remains such a mess is in excusable.
The Cardinals, who were off this week, may be making a change at left tackle by replacing Batiste with Potter. However, it remains to be seen if that will be enough to fix what has become arguably the least-effective unit in the entire NFL.
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September and the LDS
Posted 03 October 2012 - 05:39 PM
Here are the September run differentials from the 44 teams that made post-season after 2000. The bars shaded in black are those of teams that lost in the first round:
Perhaps unsurprisingly, most playoff teams played well in September. This is not because "that's when it counts" so much as good teams usually play well. What really stands out is that the losers (in black) are clustered towards the left. In particular, teams that fell apart in September (say, the 2008 Cubs, Brewers and ChiSox) and post negative run-differentials tend to lose.
Of course, the game is not played in a vacuum: and if you have a hot team with a +60 run differential (RD) playing a hotter team with a +80 RD, well, then you might think that the +80 team has the better shot. (This has not happened in the last 11 years, but you get the idea!)
So, here's what we get when we look at the difference in September Run Differentials between the winner and the loser.
I've added the 3 Cubs series because, well, this is a Cubs site! The Cubs do not stand out in the slightest: the 2003, 2007 and 2008 LDS all were won by the team with the better September.
This is the only breakdown I can find that predicts significantly more than 50% of the winners. Basically, half the time the team with the most wins or greatest rund-differential for the entire season takes the series. Slightly more than half the time, the team with the best actual won-loss record wins: but the run differential (which predicts W-L with some error) does a much better job.
So, as a rule of thumb, bet on the team that had a better run-differential in September. Such teams win about 3 times in 4. Last year was a good example: the Cards, Tigers and Rangers won but the DBacks lost. Now, you say, what good is this if you cannot tell me which 3? Well, tough: probability does not work that way!
I will add this caveat: the new 1-game WC playoff might very well alter this by making a "hot" September team use up their Ace and thus getting him for only one of the LDS games. At this point, I'm not sure that the managers have decided how they will handle this game: it probably will take a few years before any tactic emerges as superior.
Any way, food for thought....
Posted 03 October 2012 - 10:40 PM
just sayin'
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Posted 04 October 2012 - 08:19 AM
It seems to be a poor predictor so far. However, the sample size also is half the size, so there has not been as big an opportunity for differences to emerge. Moreover, you often are getting LCS between two hot teams: and it's quite possible that after a certain point (say, +30 for September) it's really all the same.
Very interesting and illuminating. Am I correct that even the September run diffferential is not a good predictor of success after the first round of playoffs?
It's possible that what this really reflects is the tendency to cull teams playing poorly, and they do not make the LDS often enough to create the same effect. For example, the three teams with negative Sept. run-differentials who went on to the LDS all lost there: but that's not enough to really influence a pattern with 20+ examples.
The easiest way to get it is to download the standings data for the end of the season from ESPN or from MLB and the data on August 31s (or 4 weeks before the end; it won't affect things much), and just subtract the August 31 RD from the final RD. That is all I did!
Where can I find the run differentials for this September?
Posted 04 October 2012 - 09:21 AM
Tigers 19
A's 20
Yankees 50
Orioles 38
Rangers -20
Giants 26
Reds -3
Nats 23
Braves 18
Cards 20
The Reds are in pretty bad shape: just as in 2010, they played poorly in September given run differential (75 scored, 78 allowed). For what it's worth, the 78 runs allowed was pretty good: only the Nats allowed fewer. And that tells us a lot about how bad the Reds hitting is right now. As they are playing the +26 Giants (128 scored, 102 allowed), the Giants should be heavily favored.
The Nats played well, but so did the Braves and Cards. Still, the Nats did a little better, so all else being equal (and it's not: the Braves-Cards winner will be a little depleted), expect the Nats to win.
In the AL, the Yankees had by far the best September. What's a little sad is that the O's had the 2nd best September of the post-season: if they get past the Rangers (who were awful), then the Yanks will have the upper hand. Moreover, with this one game format, it probably is only a little better than a coin-flip that the O's reach the LDS! (That sucks, in my unhumble opinion....)
The A's and TIgers basically were the same.
In the AL, the Yanks were on fire this September. (In 2010 and 2011, they had very poor Septembers.)
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Posted 04 October 2012 - 11:28 AM
I agree. Love that they added a wildcard team, but HATE that it's a one game playoff. After 162 game season, I think it's crazy to decide things with a one game playoff. This system doesn't really favor the better team, but rather the team with the better ace.
I'm sure the length of the season played into things, and starting earlier in the year is most likely out of the question, but I still think there's got to be a solution. Maybe shorten the season and get the post-season back into October? I dunno, but April and November baseball is pretty rough in some cities when the temps start to drop (and I have attended a game at Wrigley in early April, brrrrr).
Not sure how you do it, and I wouldn't be crazy about a shorter season as I love my baseball. I just really, really dislike a one game playoff for a league that plays 162 regular season games. It just seems unreasonable to me.
Posted 04 October 2012 - 12:20 PM
I just really, really dislike a one game playoff for a league that plays 162 regular season games. It just seems unreasonable to me.
It's a little off-topic, but not entirely, as it could affect the tendency for "hot" WC teams to beat "cold" division winners: what is the best tactic here? On one hand, you lose and you go home. That says, go with your best pitcher if he's available. But, on the other hand, what is the point of winning this one game if you seriously hurt your chances of advancing to the LCS? In the end, you are (to paraphrase Doc Gooden from 1988) just like the Cubs: watching the rest of post-season at home.
I realize that this really is an old question: once you get to post-season, the point is to win the World Series, and you can take the view that this means do anything and everything to get there vs. trying to set it up so that you are in the best shape once you do get there. This just exacerbates the quandary.
I honestly have no idea if there is a right answer or how this is going to affect LDS outcomes. The only thing I can think is that it will favor teams with good 4th starters over other teams.
Posted 04 October 2012 - 04:56 PM
If the net RD were zero, then one would expect the probability of winning a series to be 0.5. I then conjectured that the probability of winning a series varies smoothly from 0.5 at a 0 net RD to something close to 1.0 at a net RD of 40----keeping in mind that we are taking a small sample and turning it into a minuscule sample. But that did not fit the data. Actually, teams with a smaller net RD advantage did better on average than teams with a larger, but less than 40, RD advantage. Because this is counterintuitive, it is probably due to the tiny sample size.
Thus, my conclusion is that having a net September RD advantage of 40 or more gives a team very good chances of winning, but advantages of less than 40 runs are less predictive, even though teams with such an advantage have won two-thirds of the series in the past. For this year's playoff teams, it implies that the Rangers' chances of beating any other AL team are pretty slim.
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Posted 04 October 2012 - 05:57 PM
I agree completely. Only time that I think you don't roll out your best pitcher, is when your best is kind of 'meh' and you have a deep enough bullpen to play the platoon match ups virtually all game. Most pitchers decrease in effectiveness their second time through the order, so why not switch it up if its potentially your last game of the season?
With regard to the tactical issue of whether to use one's ace pitcher in the one-game playoff, I come down hard on the side of "yes". You can win a 7-game series even if your ace loses one or even both of his starts---hard, but feasible. However, there is no such margin for a 1-game "series". That game is the highest leverage game of the potential 8 games; therefore, go with your best.
Posted 06 October 2012 - 06:57 AM
At this point, the single best bets are:
Yanks over O's
A's over Tigers
Giants over Reds
Nats over Cards
Most probably, 3 of those 4 will be correct! That written, only Giants over Reds has the making of a lop-sided series: the Reds are pretty awful right now whereas the Giants are playing well. All of the other teams are playing good baseball right now.
Posted 06 October 2012 - 07:15 AM
Now watch the Reds go out and sweep the Giants.
That written, only Giants over Reds has the making of a lop-sided series: the Reds are pretty awful right now whereas the Giants are playing well.
Posted 06 October 2012 - 08:33 AM
Now watch the Reds go out and sweep the Giants.
That written, only Giants over Reds has the making of a lop-sided series: the Reds are pretty awful right now whereas the Giants are playing well.
It's improbable, but not as improbable as the '06 Mets sweeping the '06 Dodgers. Similarly, the '06 Cards beat the '06 Padres. Those were two of the biggest upsets given September records, and both happened in the same week! I don't recall the details of the Cards-Pads series, but I did watch the Mets and Dodgers. Two of the games were decided on crazy flukey plays (including blown calls), with the games not dissimilar to the Braves-Cards game last night.
Incidentally, here is the breakdown on the number of series (out of 4) where the "better September" team won over the last 11 years. The number in parentheses gives the expected number of times we should have seen that given an expectation of 3 of 4:
0: 1 (0.0)
1: 0 (0.5)
2: 1 (2.3)
3: 6 (4.6)
4: 3 (3.5)
So, anything can happen: but not everything is equally probable.
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Peterson said the STEM practice proves important in Dilworth students eventually attending WCSD Signature Academies in high school. In the four years Peterson has been principal at Dilworth, she has made her presence known throughout the school, but she said that job remains important each new year.
"It is definitely important to have that presence in getting to know the new families and new students," Peterson said. "We started that last week in our back-to-school night and our open house. They (new seventh graders) worry about their lockers. They worry about being late to their classes, so we have to help them in that hierarchy of need and we have to help them through that fear so we can really get them to that important work and learning.
"We want them feeling comfortable and confident in the classroom so they are willing to take risks, express what they know and challenge what they know. That presence for me, and my whole administrative team, being out in the building is absolutely critical."
Martinez said there was plenty to be excited about this year throughout WCSD, however some challenges still remain with capital improvements projects and boosting graduation rates around the district.
"We have a lot of tough challenges that we are united on so right now we are trying to get more capital funding for our schools," Martinez said. "Sparks High School is a great example. It is one of our oldest schools and the building looks great but the reality is behind the walls you have systems that need to be replaced. We just recently replaced a lot of the windows because the winter was very harsh on the building.
"We have some challenges but I think we are all excited about the fact that when the community sees the results from graduation, I think they are going to be pleased, and we are going to build on that and make sure that our children are going to college."
The 2013-14 school calendar is a change from years past. Schools welcoming students back to class in early August is a change from the final week of August, as had been standard operating procedure in recent years. More than 63,000 WCSD students, elementary to high school age, saw their summers concluded Monday with the new start of school.


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Riverview Psychiatric Hospital is slated to lose $20 million in federal funding beginning Sept. 2. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services says the hospital does not meet quality standards, citing, among other things, correction's officers use of weapons to subdue forensic patients. Though Riverview has submitted proposed remedies in hopes of avoiding the loss of funding, those plans have been rejected. Now state lawmakers are scrambling to figure out what to do next. Patty Wight reports.
The concerns at Riverview (right) center around its forensic units. These house patients who have come to the hospital through the court system. They mave been found unfit for trial, or not guilty of a crime due to mental illness.
It was one particular event in March - when a patient attacked a mental health worker, hitting her and stabbing her with a pen - that sparked two inspections last spring. Inspectors found what they called serious deficiencies at Riverview, deficiencies so substantial that they were found to limit the hospital's ability to provide adequate, safe care.
Among the problems cited: low staffing levels, lack of documentation of restraints, and the role of corrections officers who sometimes use tasers and handcuffs.
"It's a very rare occurrence," says Mary Louise McEwen, the superintendent of Riverview. She says she was surprised that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS, deemed the use of corrections officers as unacceptable.
"Prior to having corrections officers on site, if there were situations where there was concern of life or limb threat to someone's safety, we would call for law enforcement to respond to our facility," McEwen says. "And by having correction officers on site, it allowed that response to be faster to prevent injuries."
Still, after the inspections, McEwen says she immediately took action to fix the problems, and submitted plans detailing the strategy. But the federal government rejected two different plans for being too vague. McEwen submitted another plan last Friday, but there is no guarantee it will be accepted, or prevent the loss of $20 million in federal funding starting Sept. 2.
That's more than half of Riverview's budget, and Republican Rep. Deb Sanderson, the ranking minority member on the Health and Human Services Committee, says the loss would have severe consequences for the state.
"That means is going to cost us $20 million more to fund Riverview, out of state taxpayer dollars," she says. "That's what it's going to mean."
Lawmakers passed a bill in the last legislative session that would allow the creation of a psychiatric unit at the Maine State Prison, alleviating some of the safety concerns at Riverview. But the Appropriations Committee didn't fund the bill, which has a price tag of about $3 million.
Democratic Rep. Peggy Rotundo is co-chair of the committee. "There was no sense or urgency or crisis conveyed," she says. "Certainly if the Appropriations Committee had been told that this kind of crisis was going to result, we would have solved that problem."
Rotundo says a legislative liasion from DHHS even advised Appropriations to wait to fund the bill till the next legislative session. Given the present circumstances, though, she says the Appropriations Committee plans to meet Thursday with Riverview's Mary Louise McEwen and DHHS Commissioner Mary Mayhew to figure out what to do next.
Democratic Rep. Mark Dion, co-chair of the Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee, says funding the Maine State Prison legislation would be a good start. "But that's a short term solution," he says. "I mean the long term is, if we believe the data at Riverview, there's a growing demographic of patients who are violent, and what do we do about that?"
That's a concern that former Maine Chief Justice Daniel Wathen has raised in recent years. Wathen oversees Riverview as part of a Consent Decree established over 20 years ago that requires the hospital to meet certain operating standards. He says there is a silver lining to the current situation, at least when it comes to fixing problems at the hospital.
"I mean you can't think of a much more effective remedy for dealing with state government than to say, 'Your funding is withdrawn,'" he says. "And they're not just withdrawing it for the forensic population, they're withdrawing it across the board. That's a pretty powerful incentive to address the problem."
Though Wathen says the issues that confront Riverview are serious, he says it's also important to recognize the challenge of operating a psychiatric facility with high-risk patients that can require 24-hour supervision. He says once the issue with CMS is resolved, the Maine Courts will consider whether to ratchet up hospital supervision under the consent decree.
Photo: Courtesy Maine Department of Health and Human Services


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Batman: Assault on Arkham animated movie based on the games gets a new trailer
Batman and the Suicide Squad try to stop Joker from detonating a dirty bomb in a new animated feature.
Batman and the Suicide Squad try to stop Joker from detonating a dirty bomb in a new animated feature.
Whatever it is, it's definitely not a mobile title.
Authored by John Shirley, //n/Dark Clouds will continue Watch Dogs' story in a techno-thriller novel.
The free DLC introduces the game's tenth fighter.
BioShock movie domain name registrations have been discovered.
PlayStation Store flash sale drops the prices of more than 30 games.
The other new Trials game is off to a fast start.
Slain MIT Officer Sean Collier had a lifelong passion for video games and competitive gaming. Best friend Brandon Kelly reflects on their friendship in life, and their love of games.
All used games under $20 are buy two, get one free this weekend.
The latest PS3 bundle comes to North America later this month for $269.
Editorial: Tom was having fun in Trials Frontier until the game asked him for money. Why would a developer push its players away?
Bungie's new first-person shooter will still feature the music of Marty O'Donnell.
Last year's lengthy Phantom Pain trailer has been redone from scratch using Grand Theft Auto 5.
The NPD released their monthly sales data, and Titanfall came out on top overall.
Origin is holding a big sale on its digital PC games, dropping the price of some by as much as 50%.
Justin and Tom predict which games and systems will sell the best in one of the most heated and interesting months in recent memory.
Australian retailer said to be cancelling Xbox One preorders for the new Spider-Man game, and Activision UK says release is indefinitely delayed.
PlayStation Vita owners can play the latest season of Telltale's adventure game series starting next week; episodes available individually for $5.
Producer Drew McCoy says getting worked up over specs is silly because, "that's a war that no one actually wins."
Wolfenstein: The New Order preorder incentives turn up on the Steam store.
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Mario maker reportedly had the chance to partner with Activision to make the first game a Nintendo-exclusive, but the company ended up passing.
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Business Homepage
Welcome to Visit Somerset's tourism trade site.
This site is currently under development but when complete will be designed to help both our existing and future members. You will be able to find information on advertising on the site and in the brochure, how to become a member of the Somerset Tourism Association (STA), useful tourism statistics and latest news.
The website is provided by the Somerset Tourism Association, a partnership of local tourism business owners and tourism ambassadors.


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LAKEFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. - Kathleen (Kay) VanZoeren, age 90 of Hart, Mich., and formerly of Lakefield Township, went home on December 4, 2012.
A graveside service will take place at a later date in East Lakefield Township Cemetery. Those who wish may make a memorial contribution to the Curtis Baptist Church in Curtis, Mich., or the Oceana County Medical Care Facility in Hart, Mich.
Condolences may be expressed at www.beaulieufuneralhome.com.
Beaulieu Funeral Home in Newberry is assisting the family with their arrangements.


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1.15 WR Mike Evans, Texas A&M
2.46 TE Austin Seferian-Jenkins, Washington
3.97c CB Philip Gaines, Rice
4.118 ILB Shayne Skov, Stanford
5.157 OT James Hurst, North Carolina
5.173c RB Jerrick McKinnon, Georgia Southern
6.192 CB Walt Aikens, Liberty
6.215c DE Deandre Coleman, California
7.230 NT Zack Kerr, Delaware
I don't think you realize how often we do this stuff. Mainly because it hasn't worked all that often this year. We can blitz all we want but if the opponent calls the right protection scheme and none of our guys are beating the one on one we are going to get burned in the secondary. That's what I think is happening this year.
When opponents have figured you out and have compensated you don't just tell players win your one on one match ups and it will be OK. The opponents are making sure you can't win those by adjusting. But we don't adjust, just more of the same.
Playing Fantasy Football does not qualify you to be the in the front office or on the coaching staff of the Pittsburgh Steelers. They are professionals and you are not!
2014 Draft
1. Eric Ebron, TE
2. Calvin Pryor, S
3 (Comp). Jaylen Watkins, CB
4. Justin Ellis, DT/NT
5a. Brandon Coleman, WR
5b. Brent Urban, DE
6. Prince Shembo, OLB
7a. Aaron Colvin, CB
7b. Storm Johnson, RB
I honestly don't care if they don't get another sack this year if they keep points off the board for our opponents and get off the field after third down.
I think the defense has played pretty well recently and doesn't at all seem vanilla to me. They are mixing things up well enough to keep the opposition off-balanced. I'll ride with LeBeau personally. I don't think age has much to do with being open to change or not. They are doing it without Polamalu and a less than 100% Harrison. Like less year, when the defense ranked No. 1 but was still roundly attacked, this No. 2 ranked defense is not getting enough credit. They may not be loaded with playmakers or getting a ton of sacks, but they have played good team defense for the most part. As usual, whomever they defeat, there are a lot of whines about the opposition stinking. NY Giants should be a good test, though.
will somebody please change the record?
this one is broken.
I've also seen more of looping the OLBs/DEs behind the crossing ILBs.


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Kern County Animal Control officers are still reeling after a discovery Monday morning.
In the freezing cold temperatures, they found three small dogs abandoned outside the shelter, with no blanket and icicles hanging all over their metal cage.
The good news is those dogs are going to survive. Workers found the cage in the nick of time over by the administrative offices. The bad news, their former owner got away with nearly killing the three dogs.
"They could have froze out there to death in these temperatures," said Lisa Paul with Kern County Animal Control. "I mean, think of it, sitting on a metal cage with no blanket filled with ice, very cold."
Animal Control workers took pictures of the three small, skinny dogs abandoned at the shelter Monday morning. Paul was among the first to find them.
"They were right here underneath this air conditioning unit," said Paul.
For hours overnight, long enough for the condensation to freeze to the bars, the former owner left the dogs in the cage along with a handwritten letter.
"Sorry for leaving the city. Cannot afford to take them," Paul read from the letter.
The letter goes on to say it was an emergency and they are sure Animal Control will find new homes.
A full day later, the dogs are warming up. Lea, a 4-year-old Maltese, is letting people hold her, but her hair is matted to her skin. The two chihuahuas, Fea and Diamond, won't leave each other's side, still huddled up from their experience.
17 News shared the photos with local veterinarian, Dr. Ann Hamilton, at Affordable Pet Hospital.
"Oh, my Lord," said Dr. Hamilton. "Were they brought outside? Oh, my."
Dr. Hamilton says some dogs and cats, especially in Bakersfield, can get hypothermia in frigid temperatures in half an hour.
"Their body fat level is not there," explained Dr. Hamilton. "Their coat level definitely is not there. Now, if they live in the Midwest and they are used to being outside, their coat is thicker."
Animal Control charges owners $20 to surrender their pets. It pays for food, shelter, and a medical evaluation. They say animals can get adopted out faster that way since they won't need the five-day stray hold. It's free to turn in strays and the shelter can opt to waive the surrender fee if the owner explains special circumstances. And, it's far safer than dumping animals.
"I mean, if you have to take your dog to the shelter, please do it during business hours so they don't suffer like that," said Paul.
The shelter is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. except on Wednesdays. Then it's open from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m..
It's important to note there are several security cameras. Officers are looking at footage to see if they can find whomever left those dogs. Officers say they could face abandonment and neglect charges.


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Academic Service-Learning at QCC
What is Service-Learning?
"Service-Learning is a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities." (Learn and Serve America)
Service-learning is not:
- Free labor
- Internships
- Volunteerism or community service (meet the needs of others and communities; do not emphasize learning and reflection)
- One-sided: benefiting only students or only the community
Why is service-learning important?
A growing body of research recognizes service-learning as an effective strategy to help students by:
• Promoting learning through active participation in service experiences;
• Providing structured time for students to reflect by thinking, discussing and writing about their service experience;
• Providing an opportunity for students to use skills and knowledge in real-life situations;
• Extending learning beyond the classroom and into the community; and
• Fostering a sense of caring for others.
Service-learning also strengthens both education and local communities by:
• Providing engaging and productive opportunities to work with others in their community;
• Building effective collaborative partnerships between colleges and community-based organizations;
• Developing a first-hand understanding of the social action skills required for active civic engagement; and
• Meeting community needs through the service projects conducted.
(Learn and Serve America)
The Service-Learner
The Service-Learner newsletter highlights our successes each semester.
Current Issue:
Spring 2014
Previous Issues:
Summer 2013
Spring 2013
Summer 2012
Spring 2012
Summer 2011
Academic Service-Learning at QCC
Service-learning supports the mission of Queensborough Community College. In 2006, QCC was selected as one of only eight colleges nationally to receive a prestigious grant by the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) to develop service-learning initiatives.
Service projects began on campus in spring 2007 and are now integrated into classroom learning in a variety of courses. Projects underway or under development allow students to apply knowledge or skills they are learning in their classes to projects that assist local community-based organizations. The projects must meet the college's general education objectives and the distinct course learning objectives. Faculty collaborate with a community partner to design a project based on the organization's specific goals and needs. Activities and assignments are then developed to meet these needs as well as the general education and course outcomes. An entire class or a number of students within the class may engage in a project. In some cases this component involves going "on-site" to the organization; in others, students do class projects that serve the organization's needs while spending little or no time at the site (e.g., a math class analyzing data for an immigrant-serving community health organization). The college's grant is part of the AACC's national initiative, Community Colleges Broadening Horizons through Service-Learning.
Two AACC publications highlighting the grantee college programs (including QCC) are available: a Project Brief which describes the Horizons colleges and "Improving Student Learning Outcomes with Service Learning". The second report reveals that students who participate in service learning score higher on institutional learning outcomes such as critical thinking, communication, civic responsibility, academic development, and educational success. Service learners also saw themselves as more competitive in the job market than those who did not have service learning experience. The Horizons project is supported by the Learn and Serve America program of the Corporation for National and Community Service.