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Ryan Bizzarro voted in as PA State Representative

Bizzarro talks focus going forward, including animal abuse bill, education By Dakota Palmer the federal means in order to get more funding Voices Editor for the region. I’m looking to enhance the overall health and well-being of our area, and Democratic State Representative Ryan that’s why I’m running. Bizzarro was re-elected Pennsylvania’s third I’ve got a great track record and people can district representative Tuesday, beating out see what I’ve done for the district and what I’ve Republican challenger Greg Lucas. accomplished and I want to continue to do it at Being an Erie native, Bizzarro graduated least for another term. from McDowell High School in 2004 and Q: What do you hope to accomplish? graduated from Edinboro University of A: I want to continue to focus on my Pennsylvania in 2008 with an associate degree priorities that I’ve been working on since I’ve in political science and a bachelor’s degree in been elected. Literally in 2013 when I took criminal justice. Additionally, he has a master’s office, we hit the ground running. No other degree in public administration from Gannon legislative office has come close to northwestern University. Pennsylvania with the type of constituent Before becoming state representative of the services that we provide here. Just from Jan. 1 of third district in 2013, Bizzarro was a victim/ 2015 to now we’ve taken care of almost 20,000 witness coordinator and advocate for the Office people and helped them with state related of the Erie County District Attorney and the issues. And that’s just the people we have on Crime Victim Center. Additionally, he worked record. as a behavioral health specialist at McKinley We let the people know we are their Elementary School and created a partnership gateway to Harrisburg and I want to make my between the school and the Big Brothers Big legislative office a one stop shop for all your Sisters program. state government needs. I want to take care Bizzarro worked as a liaison for the local and of people; that is exactly why I’m here and I national campaign offices for Hillary Clinton want to keep focusing on that. Not only do I Photo: Pahouse.com/Bizzarro when she ran for president in 2008. help on the human element of things, but I’m Erie native and McDowell graduate, Ryan Bizzarro, was re-elected as Pennsylvania’s Currently, Bizzarro is a board member for also passionate about animal abuse. I have a third district state rep. He defeated Republican challenger, Greg Lucas. the Northwestern Pennsylvania Big Brothers piece of animal abuse legislation out there that Big Sisters program, a member of the Erie made national news and has come to national County Industrial Development Authority, a attention and I want to get that across the finish with the other side of the aisle in order to get the PASSHE schools additional funding this committee member of the Erie County Truancy line too, but I need a little bit more time to do the job done and I’m proud of delivering for the year and we were successful at doing that. Any Task Force and co-chairman of the Young Erie that. people of this region. It’s way easier to under investment in human capital is investment in Professionals civic engagement committee. Q: During your time as representative, promise and over deliver 100 percent of the our future and you (college students) are our In the days leading up to the election, The what did you accomplish that you are most time than to give somebody your word and not future. be able to fulfill that promise, so that’s why I We have to have a skilled and educated Spectator’s voices editor, Dakota Palmer, proud of? never make a promise that I don’t keep. workforce that can meet the demands of the spoke to the now winner. This story originally A: I would definitely say on the legislative 21st century workforce. appeared on EdinboroNow.com. side of things, bringing attention to a national Q: What is your vision for education in Q: Why did you run again? problem that we’re having that is the abuse of Pennsylvania? Q: Do you support the Fair Funding A: I have a genuine interest in public service animals. It’s something I’m passionate about. I A: I’ve been a big proponent of public Formula for the commonwealth? Why or and people. I want to see this region be at the had no idea that when I introduced this bill it education and what we’ve seen in the past few why not? forefront of Pennsylvania. Erie is the hidden was going to cause this much of a ruckus here in years is a $1 billion cut to public education. If A: It’s an equal distribution of the funds gem of Pennsylvania and is an untapped PA and really start an animal rights movement. you look at that, it’s had devastating effects on that we have; it’s fair to school districts across resource for all intents and purposes. I’m really proud of that and I’m proud of ending classrooms across Pennsylvania. the commonwealth and we’re not so blatantly We need someone down there [Harrisburg] the budget impasse. I’m a big supporter of education and getting who has innovative ideas and who can I was one of 13 Democrats to break ranks to the appropriate funding that we need. We’re supplement what’s going on here locally with stop the 9 and a half month budget impasse and looking at not only K-12 but also higher See State Rep, A2 state funding and try to find state means into I’m very proud of that. I’m proud of working education. I fought tooth and nail to try to get University student involved in McDonald’s hit and run Student victim speaks up about Halloween weekend incident By Macala Leigey she wanted to look ‘tough’ in front of people or News Editor she was just really angry and took it out on me. Either way, not okay. There is no reason to hit Nearly two weeks ago, an Edinboro University me, or anyone, with a car. ” student was hit by a car in the Edinboro Several witnesses, and friends of Cymone, McDonald’s parking lot during the early rushed to her aid after the incident occurred. morning hours of Oct. 29, following a physical Cymone was able to stand after the incident and altercation. was transported to UPMC Hamot for treatment The victim of this collision, Dominique of her injuries. Cymone, was struck by the front end of a car, “The [hospital] experience was terrible. They and rolled over the top of the hood before (hospital staff) did not clean or bandage my making contact with the ground. After striking wounds, [or] check to see if I had a concussion; Cymone, the unidentified driver left the [they] refused to write a prescription for pain McDonald’s parking lot at a rapid speed in an medication, and gave me two Tylenol tablets unknown direction. after I was discharged because I asked, again, for “I don’t know what caused it (the physical something for the pain I was in,” Cymone said. altercation). I was just making sure my friends Edinboro Borough Police responded to the were okay, [and] a big altercation broke out. incident, and charges being filed against the Then when everything de-escalated, she (the driver are not known at this time. driver) left, came back and hit me from behind “It’s still under investigation,” said Chief while I was walking to my ride,” Cymone said. Police Officer Jeff Craft of the Edinboro Police Photo: Macala Leigey She continued, “I do not know her [the Department. Craft was unable to release any An Edinboro University student was struck by a car in the Edinboro McDonald’s parking driver]; she does not know me. This was the further information regarding the incident at lot on Oct. 29. The situation is still under investigation, according to Edinboro police. first time I ever saw her in my life. I assume this time.

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website and everything I do country and particularly in the State Rep is transparent. I think we’re a commonwealth.  at 9 and a From A1 fairly transparent state. Are we half month budget impasse — Sociology classes host perfect? No, but if you look I’m not even kidding — was picking winners and losers. at us in comparison to some the worst 9 and a half months We’re not giving all the of the others, we have the of my life. I didn’t run for disability expo and dinner suburban districts the money, transparency laws in place. I’m o ce to make people’s lives which I have the suburban not trying to hide anything more di cult and I thought school districts, so obviously I [and] I make things easily that the legislature was in fact love to see them be successful, accessible; you can see what I doing that. It was almost at but we can’t just give them all spent my money on, you see a point where I wasn’t sure the resources and forget about how I vote, I put it all out there if I was going to run for re- the urban areas. It’s not fair and I have nothing to hide. election or not, because I just and it’s got to be fairer and Q: e 2016 presidential had such a bad taste in my we’ve got to be on a more even election has divided many mouth. playing eld. citizens on issues and  at being said, I was one  e Fair Funding Formula discouraged bipartisanship. of the 13 Democrats to break has tried to right the ship by party ranks and vote with Additionally, the state had doing that. It’s not a be-all and the Republicans to end the an extremely hard time end-all for education funding impasse, so I have a fairly problems, but it’s a start and compromising over the good relationship with my it’s a marking point to where state budget last year — colleagues on the other side we need to move in the future. how do you aim to repair [of the party lines]. I’m a Q: How would you that relationship between pretty moderate Democrat: I increase transparency? parties? work from the center because A: I think we’re a fairly A: I think that what the that’s where real compromise transparent state. I’m one public doesn’t understand is is. People need to understand of the most transparent that we get along far more the art of compromise; not legislators out there, because than they see.  ey see us everybody should be able to I put out a weekly email blast going at each other on the get what they want 100 percent and every time that I put up hot button issues, but most of the time. When both sides a vote, I make it public so the of the time we’re on the same walk away feeling like they public doesn’t have to join any page. We’re voting on things lost, that’s real compromise Photo: Hannah Webster right-to-know requests and of unanimous consent or and that’s what I want to do. I The Edinboro University ʻSociology of Disabilityʼ class hosted an expo and dinner for they don’t have to search for putting up votes where it’s very want everything obviously, but students, faculty and community members to take part in on Nov. 2. what I’m voting on. bipartisan in nature. I’m realistic about it. We’ve got fellow students’ needs. I put it out there for the  e political divide has to be realistic about what we By Hannah Webster Gleason added in regards to the experience, public to see; I put it on my gotten extremely rough in this can and cannot do. Social Media Editor “I want people to just enjoy themselves while Last Wednesday, Nov. 2, students from learning something.  e point is to make it fun Edinboro University’s Sociology of Disability and entertaining but at the same time you’re APSCUF coaches agree upon class hosted two events on campus. One group learning something.” held a disability expo and another hosted a He continued, “I think it’s something that we disability dinner at Van Houten Dining Hall. need to bring awareness to. I think we need to According to the course catalog, SOC 275 is do something to give people the urge to listen tentative contract with state system a course designed to introduce students to the and think of these issues. I think doing it in a sociological study of disability.  is is a critical fun way and [making] it entertaining is the best deconstruction of social, cultural, moral and way to do it, especially with this generation of By Macala Leigey He continued, “The coaches will have to political meanings that are associated with the p e op l e .” News Editor vote on the agreement first. It will be up modern day understanding of disabilities. Aside from hosting various activity stations, to the union to schedule that vote. I would  e students who ran the disability expo the group also planned a Chinese auction The Association of Pennsylvania State assume it won’t take place for at least several were Shanell Davis, Christine Vasui, Patrick and ra ed o gi cards.  e money the team College and University Faculties (APSCUF) weeks. Once the coaches vote, it would Dewey, Haley Sulahian, and Bobby Gleason. coaches recently followed in the faculty then go to the Board of Governors for final Each person within the group has some form raised went to bene t the Muscular Dystrophy union’s footsteps, when they reached a approv a l .” of disability. Association (MDA). tentative contract with Pennsylvania’s State Gump shared that APSCUF’s coaches and In regards to choosing this particular event Following the disability expo, a second System of Higher Education (PASSHE) on the state system were able to come to an for their class project, Davis explained why group, from Dr. Lee Williams’ Sociology of Oct. 27. agreement on a wage package and a payment they chose to host this particular event. Disability class, decided to put on a disability The tentative contract will run the normal plan for the health care package PASSHE “I think we kind of noticed on campus that dinner. four-year contract course, expiring on June offered. people don’t fully understand what it’s like.  e group consisted of Jordyn Parmenter, 30, 2019. Specifics included in the tentative "I join my fellow coaches in appreciation So we thought it would be a good idea to try Emily Parolari, Annie Dayich, Audrey Kline, contract have yet to be released. for the hard work of our team and for the it out for themselves. Even though we have Josh Guarriello, Rachel Pierce, and Makaela “It's been a long, and at times, difficult time they put into this process. I am also challenges, we can do the same things everyone Rust. Members of this group are sociology, process, but I'm very pleased with the deal grateful to the state system for recognizing else can do, [but it’s] just a little harder,” Davis social work, psychology, or human services we have reached," said APSCUF Coach the important contributions our coaches said. majors. Executive Leader John Gump in APSCUF’s make on our campuses," Gump said. Vasui added, “People have their own “We thought it would be nice to open press release. APSCUF President Dr. Kenneth M. Mash judgments on what they think a disability is people’s eyes and their perspectives on people Gump continued: "It provides reasonable also commented on the coaches reaching a and what they think our challenges are, so they with disabilities, because they can choose to salary increases for our members while tentative contract. just can see it for themselves instead of just have one (a disability) tonight, but the people keeping the costs of our healthcare plan “The conditions were good in that seeing us and making judgments.” who have disabilities can not,” said Pierce, a affordable. Now, we can get back to doing everybody wanted to get things settled. The Dewey also commented on why the class senior human services major. what we love — coaching our teams and coaches' team worked very hard in their own chose to do the expo. Guarriello, a junior social work major, “I think for me personally, it was an working with our student-athletes.” right," Mash said. explained that many people responded opportunity for people to see what we go State system spokesperson Kenn Marshall He continued, "The most important thing positively to their assigned disability, and to the through on a daily basis and our challenges, but also commented on the coaches reaching a is that faculty and coaches get back to doing event as a whole. also gain insight on how we get through those tentative agreement. what we love to do and put this behind us. Upon arriving to Van Houten Dining “The agreement was reached through a Next we need to find ways to improve our and ultimately make our disability into less of a barrier — less of a de ning characteristic — Hall for dinner, students were greeted with series of negotiating sessions that were held negotiations process with the state system so these individuals and asked if they wanted over the last, nearly two years, just like the that students don't get caught in the middle." and just be the unique people that we are.” Gleason, a senior social work major, to experience what it was like to eat with faculty agreement. Collective bargaining Like the faculty union’s tentative contract, a disability. While others declined, many can be a long, difficult process, [but] we’re the coaches’ tentative agreement now moves explained that he wanted people to become more aware of the disabilities that he and his students took the plunge by accepting a certainly pleased to get to this point and look to be ratified by coaches, and then by the peers experience. disability to have throughout the entirety of forward to the final conclusion,” Marshall Board of Governors, before it goes into “ e purpose is to give people a taste of what their meal. said. effect. it’s like to have these disabilities and to illustrate Disabilities that were assigned ranged some of the challenges that we have. Like some from blindness, loss of hearing, loss of a limb, of the ne motor skill issues, some things with conjoined twins, and a variety of speech verbal communication, dyslexia, and all those disorders. sorts of things that people don’t really think of Williams explained that he simply assigned or aren’t really aware of,” Gleason said. his students an activity that would raise Events at the expo included a dyslexia consciousness, public awareness, and social puzzle, where students had to look in a mirror action. and follow a path; a ne motor skills game, in “I really tried not at all to in uence them which students had to pick up three small items and just turned it out there,” Williams said. “I with gloves; and a speech activity that involved thought both were masterful and wonderful putting marshmallows in your mouth while things for students to be doing on our campus.” trying to present a speech. A er hosting an in-class review session “I’m hoping people will see what of both events, Williams and his students challenges we face everyday, not even people concluded that both events produced a good in wheelchairs, but people with learning disabilities. People who can’t see as well as outcome.  e class’s only critique was to others. It’s a new experience for them,” Davis do more outreach throughout the campus said. community in preparation for the event. Stasia Lesoski, a junior early childhood “In a class like this, this wasn’t the skill set and special education major, expressed that the students thought they were going to help she felt it would be very di cult to live with a pick up when they came into a sociology disability. of disability class. I felt like it really did go “I guess our campus isn’t that disability ultimately well and I think our momentum is friendly, like we could be more friendly,” just heading in the direction of regularizing Sebusch said a er re ecting on adapting to our these types of events,” Williams said. News [email protected] - Volume 116 | Issue 10 - EdinboroNow.com - (814) 732-2266

Thursday, November 10, 2016 Section A n Page 3 Pediatric cancer advocacy officially National survey recognized as campus club by SGA analyzes student

By Jenna Giordano The club is allotted 20 members and have Staff Writer 16 spots filled at the time. When the club substance consumption receives an increase in credits, then the At the Edinboro University Student number of members that can enter the club By Rosanna Xia On the days that full-time college students Government Association’s weekly meeting, will increase. Love Your Melon members Los Angeles Times do drink, the average number of beers, the Love Your Melon Campus Crew asked also dress up as superheroes and deliver cocktails and shots of liquor consumed on a SGA for recognition as a club. Love Your hats to children personally, and make There's a lot more going on at U.S. colleges typical day was about four. Melon is an apparel brand that is dedicated hospital trips, as well as organized home these days than just studying. Marijuana was the most widely used illicit to giving hats to children battling cancer visits. On any given day, 1.2 million full-time drug, but there were many others, according in America, as well as being a supporter of The Love Your Melon crew becoming students are drinking alcohol and more to the report. About 11,300 full-time college nonprofit organizations who lead the fight an official club would give them the than 703,000 are using marijuana, according against pediatric cancer. opportunity to request rooms for meetings students used cocaine on an average day, to a report released Thursday by the U.S. The brand’s partners include Cure and attend club rush. The organization 9,808 used hallucinogens such as LSD or Search, Pinky Swear and Be the Cure. Fifty would also like to get the word out about Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services ecstasy, and more than 4,500 said they percent of the net proceeds go to these pediatric cancer, raising awareness. Administration. used heroin. These figures included 447 nonprofit partners in the field of pediatric Anyone can request a hat for an More than 2,100 of these students are first-time cocaine users and 649 who tried oncology, funding cancer research and also individual battling cancer by visiting drinking for the first time, and about 1,300 hallucinogens for the first time. providing immediate support for families loveyourmelon.com. Hats are free, and are getting their first taste of weed. The authors of the report also noted that, of children battling cancer. all products are made in the USA. When An additional 239,000 part-time college on an average day, 559 full-time college To date, over 75,000 hats have been you buy a hat, you can select Edinboro students drink alcohol on a typical day, and students abused prescription pain relievers donated to children battling cancer, and University Crew to give direct credit to the 195,000 of them use marijuana. for the first time, and 415 tried stimulants over $1.1 million has been donated to campus. The estimates come from data collected immediate family support and pediatric As a result of the meeting, SGA recreationally. cancer research. In the Erie region alone, motioned to recognize Edinboro University between 2011 to 2014 by the National Survey "I think it's important to remind folks 2,875 hats were donated. Love Your Melon Crew as an official club. on Drug Use and Health, which tracks that these are still substances that get used substance use among Americans. About by college students," said David Dean, a 25,400 college students participated in the SAMHSA behavioral research scientist who survey, representing about 9 million full-time specializes in adolescent and young adult students and 2 million who take classes part health. time. Although college students may be legal The results suggest that roughly 60 adults, their brains are still maturing, noted percent of full-time college students drank Dean, who didn't work on the new report. alcohol at least once in the past month. "There's still a great deal of That includes the 39 percent who engaged neurophysiological development that's in binge drinking which SAMHSA defines going on in the early 20s," he said. "What we as consuming at least four drinks on one know is that using substances like alcohol, occasion for women and at least five for men marijuana and any of the other illicit and the 13 percent who said they had been drugs captured (in the survey) can affect binge-drinking at least five times in the last both short-term and long-term health and 30 days. behavior.

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Contributed Photo EU art professor Dietrich Wegner’s art is on display at the Erie Art Museum. By Kimberly Firestine provoking images,” according performers of serious Arts Editor to a press release from the art music with an emphasis on museum. composers and performers, On Sunday, Nov. 13, the “Discuss the ‘Cumulous and a popular, annual two-day Erie Art Museum will be Brand’ photographs Blues & Jazz Festival. featuring babies covered with hosting its monthly Second Along with Second Sundays Sundays educational program multicolored logo tattoos is free admission to the Erie from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. The free and learn about the artist’s Art Museum from 1 to 5 p.m. program features a new exhibit inspiration, selection and on display in the museum, a process for the artwork,” stated with tours and exhibit-based tour in the gallery, and hands- the release. Visitors can also art making from 2 to 4 p.m. on crafting. go to the Special Events Room The Second Sundays Edinboro professor to draw their own temporary program is supported by Erie Dietrich Wegner is showcasing tattoo design on carbon Arts and Culture and the PA his solo exhibit, “I Think transfer paper. Cyber School. I Found It Upside Down,” The Erie Art Museum They also offer free through November 20, offers a variety of educational admission every Wednesday, including works previously programs and artists’ services while children under 5 and displayed at artist Banksy’s including interdisciplinary and members are free everyday. “Dismaland.” interactive school tours and The Erie Art Museum, Attendees of Second a wide variety of classes for Sundays can follow a guide the community. Performing café, and gift shop is open “to examine his large-scale arts are showcased in the Tuesday through Sunday. For sculptures, photographs, and 25-year-old Contemporary additional visitor information, paintings filled with playful, Music Series, which represents go to erieartmuseum.org or contradicting and thought- national and international call (814) 459-5477. Erie Art Museum: Hours Tuesday – Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Admission Members – Free Adults – $9 Seniors Citizens & Students – $7 Children under 5 – Free Free every Wednesday and Second Sunday.

‘Sausage Party’ a surprisingly meaty story

By Gabe Hypes bought at the grocery store, wise. Staff Writer they aren’t worshiped; they The main point of the are tortured and eaten alive. story had a very obvious “Sausage Party” lives up This leads to Frank leading religious theme that I was to its name. There aren’t a group of other food from not expecting after watching too many words to describe various food groups — trailers. Also, the switching an R-rated animated movie voiced by various actors, of the worlds was a change of where the main cast consists such as Jonah Hill, Kristen pace, going from the point of of talking grocery store Wiig, Edward Norton and view of the food, the view of food. But, if I had to say the a lot more — on a quest to the human, and finally when first two words that come to take back the grocery store the two worlds collide. my mind, it would be “line and convince the rest of the Go into “Sausage Party” stepping” and, trust me, that’s foods that being bought isn’t like any other comedy; sport in a good way. actually a good thing. an open mind that can tune This comedy and There’s not one Seth adventure follows the actions Rogen film I have not out the ridiculous plot line of Frank (Seth Rogan), a enjoyed at least a little for the whole 90-minute run sausage, finally getting the and “Sausage Party” is no time. Watch out for the many chance to get picked in the different. It had me laughing references this movie makes, grocery store and taken home the entire time with more as they go by quick and often with one of the “Gods,” the than just sexual, food-based are some of the best parts. humans, to be worshiped for pun jokes. “Sausage Party” is easily all eternity. Frank quickly For one, it was relatively one of the funniest movies I finds that out when they are surprising plot and theme have seen this year. [email protected] - VolumeArts 116 | Issue 10 - EdinboroNow.com - (814) 732-2266 Thursday, November 10, 2016 Section A n Page 5 Former ‘Top Gear’ hosts speed to The Asia Project brings spoken-word Amazon Prime with ‘The Grand Tour’ poetry to Edinboro’s Scot Cinema By Charles Fleming to confirm that number, or The three men have Los Angeles Times much of anything else. Conrad capitalized on their “Top Gear” By Roman Sabella Riggs, head of unscripted celebrity with books, DVDs, Staff Writer The three men who anchored programming for Amazon video games and even playing the massively successful “Top Originals, said in an email, cards. Asia Samson is not your Gear” automotive TV show will “The response from customers The teasing among the three average spoken word poet. bring their large personalities was overwhelming and is a hallmark of the show. He speaks with sincerity, the back to the small screen Nov. 18 extremely exciting.” Loud, bullying Clarkson the likes of which only someone when Amazon Prime premieres Those who have seen bits of Moe to May’s and Hammond’s who has experienced it the new series “The Grand the footage shot there describe Larry and Curly, or perhaps all truly can. Along with Tou r.” it as epic, entertaining and very the Groucho to their Chico his brother in law, Jollan Starring Jeremy Clarkson, expensive to film. and Harpo is relentless in Aurelio, they together form James May and Richard The anchors hinted that a attempting to shame his two the spoken word duo: The Hammond, the first season will large portion of the show’s total younger colleagues. Asia Project. Their name include 12 one-hour episodes, budget, which has been put Referring to an accident that is derived from Samson’s shot in exotic locations, where at north of $200 million, was caused May a broken shoulder, mantra that everyone is a the three men drive, discuss spent on that first sequence. he said, “The old lady had a bit constant work in progress. and destroy various motor “The opening is quite big,” of a tumble, as we say of elderly On Nov. 2, Edinboro was vehicles to comic effect. Hammond said. p e op l e .” given their first opportunity As in “Top Gear,” which “A couple of professional But despite the apparent to experience The Asia ended a 12-year syndicated people, film people, said even camaraderie, the men do Project, and for the small run when the BBC declined Marvel would balk at the disagree on certain points. May group in attendance, they to renew Clarkson’s contract scale of what we put on in the and Hammond share a keen were greeted with an after a series of friction- desert,” Clarkson said. interest in electric vehicles. intimate affair. causing incidents involving “Getting rid of a large part of Clarkson does not. Directly following a the outspoken former auto the (budget) was quite easy to “God filled the deserts with short introduction from the Photo: Roman Sabella journalist, “The Grand Tour” achieve,” May said. oil,” he said dismissively. “Let’s University Programming Asia Samson of The Asia Project performed in the features globe-trotting high Other episodes take place use it up.” Board, Samson hopped on Frank G. Pogue student center Scot Cinema on Nov. 2. jinks laced with boyish jibes. in South Africa and Britain, None believes that the stage, gathered the mic and It will be different from “Top but filming also was done in pending arrival of self-driving immediately started into one Gear,” the men said during a Portugal, Italy, Morocco, Jordan cars will put an end to the of his poems. This first poem parents separated, causing Samson is not afraid of and elsewhere. auto-mania on which they’ve visit to The Times but not spoke to the insecurities of him to turn to drugs and who he is or what he was or much. The stars were coy about based their careers. Automated the average person, wanting alcohol; and his brother even what he will become. “Well, it has us three hosting exactly which vehicles they cars, Clarkson said, won’t end so much to merely be became his sister when she He is accepting of his fate it,” Clarkson said. would test or torment in the driving any more than cars someone he or she is not, a came out as transgender. because he does what he “And we are what we are,” series, beyond identifying one eliminated horses. message fit for a show that Any one of these events loves. Hammond added. episode in which they road- “The horse didn’t go away ultimately had the purpose could be a defining moment To the crowds of “(May) is slow and lost and ravaged a Ferrari LaFerrari, it just became a young girl’s of eliciting, as Samson joked, of one’s life, but these were college students that he (Hammond) is short and I am Porsche 918 and McLaren P1. toy,” he said. “We could beam mere stepping stones for has performed for since bombastic and tall, and fat,” Some of the episodes “barely ourselves somewhere, but I’d a complete day’s worth of him. he started the project in Clarkson concluded. “It’s like have a car in them,” Clarkson still own a car for the sheer joy emotion. Beyond Samson’s 2009, he exudes a message shepherd’s pie and cottage pie said. “It’s just us three, falling of driving it.” Samson lives by many immensely talented of self-confidence, hope the same thing, with different ov e r.” If automated driving does mantras, but the one spoken word poetry, this and perseverance, which is elements.” Others feature vehicles that become the norm, May added, that seemed to directly “The Grand Tour” does would not qualify as supercars. “We will still use cars as coordinate with his stage performance differs vastly something that we all could differ in two ways: It’s funded “We have much more fun pleasure things, like long boats, intensity is his idea of “3000 from others due largely use a little bit of from time by American backers, not driving really terrible old cars or Airstreams, or horses. It’ll or 3.” This is the ideology in part to the unique to time. British, and it’s a road show. than new fast ones,” Clarkson be more fun, because the only that no matter what the implementation of live music The Asia Project has Each episode is based in a new said. people doing it are the people situation, one should always provided by the second two albums available for city, where a huge tent serves as “Never happier,” Hammond who want to do it.” give it his or her all, because half of The Asia Project, purchase on iTunes and for the show’s studio. Half of each said. And what, many “Top Gear” life is fleeting. Aurelio. Aurelio implements streaming on Spotify. episode will be filmed with a “If you take a terrible old car fans want to know, will become Samson has quite a minimalist style of ambient For more info on similar live audience, inside the tent, and put it somewhere really of “The Stig,” wthe mysterious, honestly experienced guitar and an array of effects events brought to campus with the other half made up inappropriate,” Clarkson said, helmeted character who did almost everything. He’s pedals to create soundscapes by the UPB, check out of vehicle-centric films shot “that is when we’re happiest.” some of that show’s more fought testicular cancer and that complement Samson’s their Facebook page and in exotic locations. The first May said enjoying the show, dangerous driving? won; he lost his sister to an emotionally draining, download the Edinboro installment takes place in Los and the making of the show, Clarkson said there will aneurysm-induced coma; his intense poetry to great effect. Special Events app. Angeles, with the tent sequence was “the only reason to do it” be something “similar, but and some opening elements because they apparently banked different.” May said, “equivalent, filmed in the Mojave Desert. a fair amount of money from but better.” A reported 1million fans “Top Gear,” which was named The “Grand Tour” team said supposedly have tried to get by Guinness World Records filming on Season 2 of three, tickets to be part of the live as the most-watched factual to which they are committed audience in the Mojave tent. television show, globally, in would begin as soon as filming Amazon Prime declined history. on Season 1 was completed.

Barry Jenkins’s ‘Moonlight’ exceeds high expectations By Colin Covert He hides in a long abandoned apartment. The Star Tribune frightened, silent boy is found and informally adopted by the intimidating looking but kindly The haunting human quest to belong, Juan (Mahershala Ali). Little’s rescuer is the to accept others unconditionally and be neighborhood drug lord, his caring attention accepted in return, is the bedrock foundation of limitless myths in countless forms. It’s is much richer than his crack-addicted mother the focus of Disney’s “Bambi,” as well as Paula’s (a horrible and wonderful Naomie Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” artworks Harris). such as Rembrandt’s interpretation of the As a tall, rangy high school teenager biblical parable “Return of the Prodigal Son” (played by Ashton Sanders), he still keeps and ballads such as Rihanna’s “We Found personal secrets. He locks down his own L ov e .” rising physical power, and quietly explores his “Moonlight” presents that story along lines deeper understanding of his own sexuality, that are touching and disturbing, avoiding parallel choices that lead to a deep, conflicted cliches, shattering stereotypes and succeeding relationship with a childhood friend. from every angle. Writer/director Barry When we meet him years later as a man Jenkins presents timeless issues of kindness (played by Trevante Rhodes), he is calling and sensuality, anxiety and tears, through a himself Black. He has trained himself to lens that is entirely new. become as physically imposing as his father The film is a tryptic portrait, three figure Juan, but it’s a sham identity. 40-minute chapters that episodically span Jenkins’ filmmaking is simple, poetic and 15 years in the life of a young man from a strikingly effective. He allows us to linger on poor, predominantly black section of Miami. telling glances among the cast, all bringing He’s called different nicknames, but his given exceptional levels of compassion, sensitivity name is Chiron. It’s not made an issue that he shares that name with a character from Greek and empathy to characters almost never mythology, the most intelligent and gifted half- represented in cinema. horse man among the Centaurs, but it’s not With its recurring baptismal imagery of a coincidence. We meet him as a vulnerable Chiron being submerged in water, the film grade-schooler taunted with the nickname is a coming-of-age story about a character Little (Alex Hibbert). repeatedly reborn. He may appear new each Little finds it hard to have honest time he bobs up to the surface, but deeper in conversations with other kids or adults alike. his story is universal. [email protected] - Volume 116 | Issue 10 - EdinboroNow.com - (814) 732-2266 Thursday, November 10, 2016 Section A n Page 6 STRFKR embraces pop, bounces Kenny Chesney earns prestigious back with latest release CMA award, releases new album By Britton Rozzelle By Mikael Wood Executive Editor Los Angeles Times

It’s been three years since Kenny Chesney didn’t Portland’s STRFKR released particularly stand out when he “Miracle Mile,” a somewhat strolled into a Malibu cafe last disappointing album that week and plopped down at a hid what was great about the corner table with a view of the band — dark lyrics set to water. bombastic electro pop and Wearing a tight T-shirt that synth; a sense of style wholly read “Kennebunkport” and unique to the band. minus his signature straw “Being No One, Going cowboy hat the 48-year-old Nowhere,” thankfully, is a country star could’ve been return home for the band just another muscular, well- and proves to be one of their tanned guy with no reason to more enjoyable outings in be trapped in an office on a years. Monday afternoon. Starting with “Tape But you can bet he’ll turn Machine,” the album sets its heads Wednesday night at tone as one of excitement the annual Country Music and cautious introspection. Association Awards, where The band’s instrumentals are track about companionship layered experience that Chesney is set to receive the A: I spent a lot of time here Q: Your last album had “Wild Nashville trade group’s highest as strong as ever, with heavy and accomplishment. was kept on loop for hours. last year, and it was such a Child” with Grace Potter, about honor, the Pinnacle Award. creative atmosphere for me your appreciation for a woman basslines scoring soaring “Open Your Eyes” is by It leads perfectly into the Presented only twice before such a needed atmosphere. with “a spirit that can’t be synths that accentuate the far the strongest song on the more reserved, technically (to Garth Brooks and Taylor You can get in a rut creatively tamed.” vocals of singer Josh Hodges. album, with a clear message impressive dance track, Swift), the prize is meant to when you work in the same It’s a welcome return from and sound to it that sets A: I’m attracted to that free “When I’m With You.” recognize an artist “who has room, driving down the same the gloom of “Miracle Mile,” it miles above everything spirit who loves really hard and “Dark Days” and “Being achieved global prominence road. But when we came out and feels more true to form else present. It manages to has this certain I don’t know, No One, Going Nowhere” through concert performances here it was a whole new energy. for the band. meld their old sound with what’s the word? a certain round out the album and record sales at levels unique I didn’t want to go back East. “Satellite” is probably one modern-pop sensibilities, inner beauty. I mean, they can expertly, holding on to that in country music,” according to Q: You also sing about trying of the most single-worthy making it work incredibly be gorgeous. But the way they sense of dark electronic the CMA. to focus and be present, which songs on the album, and effectively, all the while walk through the world I’m pop music that underlays The new album offers deeper, strikes me as very L.A. one I expect to eventually being a great example of the very attracted to these kind this album, the latter being more nuanced thoughts on the A: We communicate at be picked up by alt radio songwriting prowess of the of women. And you’re right: a moving and powerful distractions of the Instagram such a fast pace now, and if stations, with a sound similar band. There’s not a lot of songs out instrumental track that eases era (in “Noise”), the small you don’t, you’re left behind. to Wilco or current Beck. “Interspace” calls directly there lifting them up instead the listener back into reality. comforts of home (“Jesus and With all that, I felt I’d lost this The guitar and bass blend back to the interludes found of objectifying them. But I do With “Being No One, Elvis”) and even the stagnation certain sense of intimacy on think that trend’s going away a perfectly with more reserved in their self-titled record, of the American dream (“Rich Going Nowhere,” the band every level of my life: I wasn’t little bit. electronic elements to create using spoken word to and Miserable”). creative; I was a bad friend; I has decided to embrace pop Q: The objectifying trend? a dark, rhythmic song that transition cleanly into the It also includes “Setting the was a bad boyfriend. I wasn’t — creating songs that aren’t A: Yeah. But that comes with stuck out. heavy-electronic track “In World on Fire,” a duet with communicating or I was, but it as “out there” or conceptual getting to a certain spot in your “Never Ever” feels slightly the End,” a song that further Pink about being “drunk on was too shallow. life. I mean, I couldn’t have generic and forgettable, plays with the ‘80s dance as some of their earlier La Cienega Boulevard” that You take that along with written “Wild Child” when I with basic hooks and verses synth that permeates the rest works. While it works as a follows several earlier numbers everybody on TV trying to get was 28. I’d be saying, “What that don’t seem as creative of the album. whole, it does have some Chesney recorded with another their message across and it all up? / Get in the truck,” just like or exciting as some of their “Maps” is another track flaws. gutsy female singer, Grace just becomes white noise. You contemporaries. Thankfully, with an excellent sense Overall, be you a fan of Potter. can’t hear a damn thing. everybody else. “Something Ain’t Right” of self, relying heavily the band or not, “Open Your “There are songs my Q: When you look out from Q: Other older country stars manages to not fall prey to on electronic arpeggios Eyes,” “Maps” and “Satellite” audience is going to expect the stage during one of your put across ideas about male the same issues and shines as and the tenor of Hodges’ are certainly worth checking from me,” he said of the album, shows, I assume you see more sensitivity, but usually they’re an ‘80s-inspired, feel-good voice, producing a deeply out. parts of which he recorded in phones than faces. family men like Brad Paisley, Malibu at producer Rick Rubin’s A: This year at MetLife who’s singing about his kids. Shangri-La studio. “And there’s Stadium in New Jersey, I A: I haven’t written family a few where I’m taking them reached down to shake a girl’s songs because I don’t have somewhere new.” hand to personally thank her a family; it’s not my truth. Over sweet tea, Chesney for coming to the show and Hopefully one day I can write and I discussed how the album she never saw my hand because a song about it. But that’s not squares with those expectations. she was staring at her phone. I me yet. These are excerpts from our stood there for literally four or Q: Why’s that important? conversation. five seconds, had my hand out. A: There’s kids out there. I Q: You refer to Los Angeles She probably still doesn’t know. think it’s a product of where I more than once on this record. It’s terrible, but that’s my point. grew up. Games [email protected] - Volume 116 | Issue 10 - EdinboroNow.com - (814) 732-2266

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Football unable to hang with Cal, remain seventh in region

By George Schmidt unanswered points through the game. Staff Writer Edinboro had plenty of chances but could not capitalize on them. Sisson had 18 The Fighting Scots football team would completions on 46 attempts for 145 yards. fall short of their PSAC West title claim He was intercepted twice, sacked once and after their loss to California University Of simply couldn’t get into a rythm against the Pennsylvania on Saturday. Cal would lay stingy Cal secondary. a 52-7 shellacking on the Fighting Scots, An injury to Sisson following the lone controlling both sides of the ball and proving sack of the game brought in relief with deserving of their NCAA AFCA Coaches backup quarterback Jake Wallman. He would ranking at sixth in the country. go 4-9 passing for 34 yards. Cal quarterback Michael Keir struck Every time the momentum would swing the first blow as he found wide receiver into Edinboro’s favor, it wouldn’t take long Tom Greene on a 7-yard pass, resulting in for Cal to gather themselves and gain it back. a touchdown. Keeping it close early, the Whether it was a dropped pass by a receiver Edinboro defense would shut down Cal for on a crucial down, or an offsides penalty the remainder of the quarter. giving Cal a new set of downs, Boro simply During the first half and first quarter, couldn’t do enough. Edinboro was able to quiet Cal’s star wide On offense, Boro was able to move the Photo: Kimberly Firestine receiver Garry Brown. The Edinboro defense ball against Cal, managing 12 first downs Cal’s Jimmy Wheeler extends to the goal line as Mike Shansky forces him out of bounds. continued to get in the face of quarterback throughout the game, although the majority Keir, making him uncomfortable. would come in the first half. 10 times for 90 yards, while Cal was flagged would currently qualify them for the Answering back early in the second, The real tale of the game can be told by Edinboro quarterback Jake Sisson would looking at one statistic: penalties. Going into nine times for a total of 65 yards. And those playoffs. call his own number and find the end zone this game, Edinboro was the least penalized Edinboro penalties were often untimely. The Fighting Scots face Cheney this on a 4-yard scamper. From there, though, team in the PSAC and Cal was the most Following the loss, Edinboro still holds Saturday at home for Military Appreciation the tables would turn, as Cal notched 45 penalized. But here Edinboro was flagged the seventh overall region ranking, which Day and Senior Day

Photos: Kimberly Firestine Left: Ta’Nauz Gregory looks to work upfield. Right: Safety Aaron Rogers brings down the Cal ball carrier. The Fighting Scots fell to 8-2 on the season. XC qualifies for national meet

By Mike Lantinen Sports Editor

The Edinboro men’s cross country team joined elite company this past Saturday after placing third overall in the NCAA Division II Atlantic Regional. The finish will send the team to the national meet in St. Leo, Florida where they will compete against an elite level of competition that includes teams like Colorado Mines, Grand Valley and Adam’s State. Photo: MCT Campus Photo: Jen Geehrer Leading the way for the Scots Bills running back LeSean McCoy runs through Richard Sherman’s arm tackle. once again was Bryan Geehrer, Runners move up a hill on Slippery Rock’s course in the beating all other freshman in regional competition. The Fighting Scots finished third. the race by nearly a minute. region. the way. Refs blunder Bills on Monday Finishing sixth overall, Geehrer Gusew would be the last Following up from before, ran a time of 32:57, averaging to represent the Scots as an Foster continued, stating, “Our By Mike Lantinen “I think they need to be held accountable 5:24 per mile. all-region finisher, narrowly goal was to consolidate our Sports Editor for that, [and] at least give some The next two to cross the line making the top-25. After position as a top three team explanation.” would be junior Corey Wefing battling a nagging injury in the region and we did that Monday Night Football. No stage has It’s true, and there’s no avoiding it. And and Gene Baritot, placing 10th throughout the past few weeks, today. We showed a lot of garnered more attention since its beginnings he wasn’t alone in the post game press and 12th. Rounding out their Gusew managed to continue determination on one of the on Sept. 28, 1964 when a matchup between conference when letting the league know season well, Wefing and Baritot his season, scoring the final hardest courses in the country.” the Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions that it just wasn’t right. were able to close the gap on team points for Edinboro (the The Scots will travel to would sell out. Not yet televised, the “One thing with the officials. I have to Geehrer, keeping them within top 5 score). Florida the weekend of Nov. 19 weekly game would only grow from there, give them credit, they have a hard job… I striking distance of nationally Rounding out the squad’s for competition on Saturday. continuing to represent an integral part of understand that things can get wack and you ranked Lock Haven. final competitors would start For more coverage of the the NFL, week by week. can make a mistake,” running back LeSean “The men took care of with Sheetz and end with team, check the next issue of This past Monday, the upstart Buffalo McCoy stated. business today and qualified senior Daniel Nowak, both of The Spectator where we will be Bills, led by the Ryan brothers, would take “It was just crazy… jumping offsides is for the NCAA championships,” which were able to help Boro, previewing the squad’s quest to the field against the former Super Bowl one thing, but to hit the kicker, that’s just coach Ryan Foster said during displacing competitors along nationals. champion Seattle Seahawks. Controlling crazy. I just think there should have been a an interview with Edinboro’s almost every aspect of the game, the Bills 15-yard penalty on that.” Sports Information Director still trailed thanks to two spectacular catches As much as Sherman is to blame for it, the Bob Shreve. by former New Orleans Saint superstar tight story itself lies elsewhere. Referees have been Separated by 10 seconds end, Jimmy Graham. under constant scrutiny this season and each, the next Scots to finish A final drive led by Buffalo quarterback their lack of any transparency whatsoever is would be Jared Hallow, captain Tyrod Taylor would prove to be inspiring, hurting the NFL as a whole. Jon Gusew and with a breakout as he instilled fear in a impressive defense, After total transparency was adopted performance, sophomore running for crucial first downs as the time by the NBA with its own referees, it was Steven Scheetz. Hallow led the ticked away. Unfortunately, he would come generally a success, leaving players, coaches, way amongst the three, placing up short when a pass into the end zone and fan bases with explanations behind Photo: Jen Geehrer fourth amongst the Scots would fall incomplete, and the Bills would missed calls and wrongly penalized players. Gusew trails Sheetz early as they work past ESU runners. competitors and 20th in the lose, 31-25. It’s no question that the NFL needs to find For the NFL, this game means more a common ground with players, especially than the final score, and for the NFL, the since they rely on them for their survival. aftermath could take a toll. Following “We feel like [the decline in TV ratings] multiple primetime disappointments, a is a direct result of the mistrust people game of this magnitude was everything they have for Goodell and others at the league needed to silence the doubters, improve headquarters,” New Orleans Saint Drew ratings, and put a superstar laden team back Brees told ESPN’s Mike Triplett. “I know the on top. players don’t have any faith in the way things One single play resonated with fans are conducted within the front office in the across the country and it came at the end of NFL — certainly when it comes to any type the first half, as with time almost up, Bills of investigation, when it comes to any type kicker Dan Carpenter would be leveled of commissioner discipline. It’s really kind of by cornerback Richard Sherman. Clearly a joke at this point.” offsides as he makes his move into the Brees and teammate Zach Strief agree backfield, no whistle is blown for a dead that 345 Park Avenue (NFL headquarters) ball and more importantly, no flag is thrown deserves all the blame for falling TV ratings for unnecessary roughness following the and last night’s game only further solidified collision. their point. “The refs were horrible at managing it. They made some horrible calls throughout Photo: Matt Durisko the game too, but it’s not a thing where we’re See Bills, B2 The men’s cross country team put their top five runners on the All-Region team. blaming the refs,” Tyrod Taylor said. Sports [email protected] - Volume 116 | Issue 10 - EdinboroNow.com - (814) 732-2266 Thursday,Thursday, SeptemberNovember 4, 10, 2014 2016 SectionSection B A n n Page Page 22 Cavs’ Smith getting respect Severo earns player of week, crushes Rock Rock fell to 12-18 and 4-12, from referees on defensive end respectively. The Fighting Scots have now committed turnovers on each of its last five By Jason Lloyd won five straight matches while Akron Beacon Journal possessions, but the biggest turnover was forced by Smith, whose game day routine got off to a looking to win the division. They are currently tied with The play that saved the Cavaliers’ one-point bizarre start. Gannon, although the Lady victory Saturday against the Philadelphia 76ers Smith, Kyrie Irving and Iman Shumpert had and salvaged their unbeaten record may not have to take an Uber from the side of the highway to Knights hold the tiebreaker happened at all last season. the arena Saturday after the team bus was caught thanks to a five-set win over the in Vice President Joe Biden’s motorcade. Biden Photo: Michael Lantinen Scots in October. In order for J.R. Smith to reach in and poke Scots await the start of a game during the national anthem. the ball away from Gerald Henderson in the was leaving a speaking engagement in nearby However, Edinboro will host game’s final seconds, he had to trust the officials. Bucks County and was headed for the airport, By Matthew Brancato .342 hitting percentage. Last its two local rivals this weekend. which stopped all traffic. Mercyhurst visits McComb That hasn’t always been easy for him to do. Bob Shreve week, Severo was named to the There was a time last season when Smith After Smith estimated the bus sat still for CoSIDA Academic All-District Fieldhouse on Friday, Nov. 11, 10-15 minutes, General Manager David Griffin_ EU Sports Information was so frustrated with officiating that he said team and has now been entered with Gannon and Edinboro another passenger on the bus_suggested the he stopped talking to referees. Smith has always For the third time this in the national ballot. meeting on Saturday, Nov. three players get in an Uber. felt that his reputation prohibited him from season, Edinboro University’s The Fighting Scots return 12 with the divisional title getting the benefit of the doubt on calls, but not While most of the regular players were on the first bus Saturday, Smith, Irving and Shumpert Victoria Severo (Meadville, Pa. to action tonight, hosting potentially on the line. The anymore. / Meadville) was named the Slippery Rock for a 7 p.m. top seed in the West will have “Probably up until last year I would be really were stuck on the second. They didn’t arrive at PSAC Northwest Volleyball match. Edinboro will wrap up the right to host the PSAC concerned, but I think obviously the referees the arena until about an hour prior to tip-off. Athlete Player of the Week for its regular season this weekend Championships. watch film as well and see that I’ve gotten a lot “I couldn’t stretch or nothing like that, so I her performance during the when they host Mercyhurst and Edinboro was unable to pull better defensively,” Smith said. “So I think a had to just get out there and pretty much get week ending on Nov. 6. Gannon on Friday night and lot of that has to do with it. I mean, the ref was in my routine,” said Smith, who thought Irving away in game number one Severo helped the Fighting standing right there. He had a great, clear eye on was most impacted by the delay. Irving shot just Saturday afternoon. Saturday’s before pulling out the win. The Scots go 2-0 over the weekend it .” 3-of-17 against the Sixers and scored eight points. contest against Gannon will Fighting Scots dominated the Rookie referee Brett Nansen indeed “[Irving] is very routine-oriented. He sticks to his to improve to 21-6 overall and also serve as Senior Night as second game, before pulling was stationed on the sideline and had an routine no matter what, and he wasn’t able to go clinch a PSAC Tournament the Fighting Scots honor five away late in the final game. unobstructed view of Smith, who reached out there and shoot the ball like he normally does berth with a 13-2 conference departing seniors, including Victoria Severo paced the across Henderson’s body to knock the ball away. in pregame.” mark. On Friday, Nov. 4, Severo Severo. Fighting Scots with 13 kills Henderson fell to the ground shocked he didn’t If Smith wanted to file a complaint, he had the finished with nine kills on Scots vs Rock and a .370 hitting percentage. opportunity Sunday. He appeared on stage with get the call and the sold-out home crowd booed 19 attempts for a .368 hitting When the final votes were Latoya Hutchinson added nine LeBron James campaigning for Hillary Clinton percentage in Edinboro’s 3-0 the officials and players off the floor. counted on Tuesday night, it kills, with the balanced attack during a rally in Cleveland. It’s just another new win over East Stroudsburg. “I got fouled, they didn’t call it,” Henderson was Edinboro 3 and Slippery showing Hannah Cantrill and chapter in the evolution of Smith: Defender, The senior also finished with a said. “And that’s the end of the game.” Rock 0, as the Fighting Scots Challen Litwiler with eight kills Smith has acknowledged he takes defense truster of referees and now political activist. The team-high three block assists. moved a step closer to the apiece. Sydney Trathen had 39 more seriously and has worked hard to become a most surprising might be his trust with officials. In Edinboro’s three-set title in the PSAC Northwest assists. Jordan Van Oss paced better defender since joining the Cavs. “We’ve put in enough calls [to the league] sweep of Kutztown on Saturday, Division with a 26-24, 25-14, the defensive effort with 21 digs The Cavs struggled badly to put away the trying to balance it out a little bit more,” Smith Severo totaled a team-high ten said. “And fortunately I think they took heed 25-20 win. Edinboro improved and a pair of service aces, while Sixers on Saturday, but came up with big kills on 21 attempts for a .381 with it.” to 22-6 overall and 14-2 in the Litwiler contributed 20 digs and defensive stops when necessary. Philadelphia hitting percentage, her third Northwest Division, while The two service aces. consecutive game with a hitting made another mistake, not Goodell, no precedent percentage upwards up .350 pct. Bills resetting the play clock due has been set, whether it’s She once again led Edinboro From B1 to an injury to Carpenter. pertaining to domestic abuse on the defensive end as well, finishing with a block solo and NFL vice president As much as the NFL would or illegal hits made on the two block assists. Dean Blandino did tweet like to make the issue about field. Severo leads the PSAC and immediately after the Sherman or the referees, the There is no question that ranks 20th in the nation with true problems lie in the front the league has seen growth non call for unnecessary a .371 hitting percentage. In office where controversy since he has joined the roughness, stating it should addition, she leads the Fighting have been called, but after controversy handled organization, but there comes Scots with 69 blocks and is honestly, too little too late. inadequately has led to both a time when change is the third on the team with 263 A delay of game would be fan and player distrust. With best possible option and that kills this season. The middle EU Sports Information administered following the majority of disciplinary time has past. That time was hitter ranks fourth all-time in Severo helped the team clinch a PSAC tournament birth. the play after the official power in the hands of long, long ago. program history with a career Boro wrestles back to back days in Virginia By Bob Shreve Sean Russell picked up a first place finish EU Sports Information in the open division at 125 lbs. The redshirt sophomore won all four of his matches, Virginia Tech Open three by bonus points. He won a 12-4 major The Edinboro wrestling team opened the decision over JR Wert of Rider. season with a 24-13 loss at sixth-ranked Patricio Lugo and Austin Matthews Virginia Tech on Saturday afternoon at finished third at 149 and 165 lbs., Cassell Coliseum. The Fighting Scots will respectively. Lugo went 4-1 with three remain in Virginia on Sunday and compete bonus point wins. He won a 15-2 major in the Southeast Open. decision over Mike Pongracz of Chattanooga The highlight of the match featured bouts in the third place match. Matthews won at 125 and 149 lbs. between two nationally- an 8-2 decision over Forrest Przybysz of ranked wrestlers. The 125 lb. match featured Appalachian State in the third place match. 18th-ranked Sean Russell against VTU’s He went 3-1 on the day. Heavyweight Billy Miller took home fifth place, while Chase Delande was sixth at 157 lbs. Miller went 4-1 on the day with a pair of falls. Delande lost his first match of the day, then won four straight before losing in the fifth place bout. In the freshman-sophomore division, true freshman Dakota Geer captured first place at 184 lbs. He went 4-0, including a 13-2 major decision over Maryland’s Jaron Smith in the EU Sports Information finals. Three of his four wins were by bonus Matthews sets up, analyzes the opponent. points. Redshirt freshman Andrew Shomers third-ranked Joey Dance. Dance prevailed placed second at 157 lbs., dropping a 5-2 by a 3-1 decision, thanks to a first-period decision to Hayden Hidlay of North Carolina takedown. The two exchanged escapes in the in the finals. That came after he won four second and third periods. At 149 lbs., Patricio Lugo was seconds away from upsetting seventh-ranked Solomon Chishko, who finished sixth at 141 lbs. a year ago. Following a scoreless first quarter, Chishko grabbed a 1-0 lead with an escape. A wild third period saw Lugo leading late in the period at 5-3, but Chischko recorded the tying takedown at the buzzer. The Hokie picked up the winning takedown early in sudden victory for the 7-5 decision. Edinboro picked up wins at 133, 165, and EU Sports Information 285 lbs. Ninth-ranked Austin Matthews Dalande takes control on top. was impressive in his first match at 165 lbs. after previously competing at 157 lbs. The straight decisions. redshirt junior won a 13-6 decision over Fritz Hoehn also went 4-1 to finish third at Mike Ciavarro. Korbin Myers made his debut 165 lbs, The redshirt freshman won an 18-3 in the starting lineup a successful one as the technical fall at 5:32 over Nathaniel Kale of redshirt freshman won an impressive 15-2 Gardner-Webb in the third place match. It major decision over Dominic Latona at 133 was his third technical fall of the day. lbs. Sixteenth-ranked Billy Miller won by Two more redshirt freshmen, Korbin forfeit at heavyweight. Myers and Dylan Reynolds, finished fifth at Southeast Open 133 and 197 lbs., respectively. Myers was 6-1 One day after opening the 2016-17 season on the day, with all six wins by bonus points. against Virginia Tech, the Edinboro wrestling Reynolds won four straight matches after team competed in the Southeast Open at the losing his opening bout. Roanoke Civic Center. In the open division, The Edinboro wrestling team returns five Fighting Scots placed, while five more to action on Sunday, Nov. 13, hosting placed in the freshman-sophomore division. Pittsburgh at 1 p.m. in the home opener. Sports [email protected] - Volume 116 | Issue 10 - EdinboroNow.com - (814) 732-2266 Thursday,Thursday, SeptemberNovember 4, 10, 2014 2016 SectionSection B A n n Page Page 32 Soccer gets NCAA tourney bid By Dan Graham and a 13-2-1 league mark. match and advanced to the EU Sports Information “It’s pretty awesome for the NCAA Sweet 16. After beating kids, it’s pretty awesome for the Golden Eagles, they upset INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. the program, pretty awesome top-seeded Gannon in the (November 7, 2016) – The for the school,” related head Atlantic Region semifinals, NCAA today announced its coach Gary Kagiavas on 2-1, again in overtime, but field for the NCAA Division II his team’s selection. “We’ve fell to East Stroudsburg, 2-0, Women’s Soccer Tournament. worked really hard to get to in the Atlantic Region finals, The Edinboro University this point. We were kind of hosted by the University of women’s soccer team received disappointed we lost last week Bridgeport. a bid for the 48-team [in the PSAC Quarterfinals]. “We’re hoping that the tournament as the sixth seed But I’m really excited we got game is shorter than it was last in the Atlantic Region. They this opportunity. Charleston year,” quipped Kagiavas about will square off against third- is a quality program. the rematch with Charleston seeded Charleston (W.V.) in a Hopefully we can hold our (W.V.). “But Charleston is first-round matchup, hosted own against them, but I’m a quality program. They’ve very, very excited to have this obviously earned the three by Kutztown University, on opportunity.” seed. They actually finished Friday, November 11 at 1:00 Tribune News Service West Chester earned the above Notre Dame [Ohio], p.m. Derek Carr has led the Oakland Raiders to a 6-2 record so far this season. number-one seed in the who actually won their Friday’s contest will be a Atlantic Region. The Golden conference tournament and rematch of last year’s NCAA Rams will host the first-round we thought was their number- Atlantic Region first-round match between fourth-seeded one seed coming out of their matchup between the Fighting NFL halfway point awards Notre Dame (Ohio) and conference. So, obviously Scots and Golden Eagles. In fifth-seeded East Stroudsburg they’ve done some things right prospects possess. He plays for a team that a match that featured three By Bob Glauber on Friday at noon, and will and it’s going to be a heck of a needs plenty of help around him, but Bosa is lightning delays, Edinboro Newsday play the winner of that contest game against them. And I’m a franchise building block. prevailed in penalty kicks, on Sunday at noon. The hoping we can at least get the Halfway through an NFL season with the ASSISTANT COACH: Bob Sutton, Chiefs 3-1, after a scoreless draw in Falcons and Warriors each same result as we did last year.” usual mix of drama, intrigue and -OK, way defensive coordinator. The Chiefs are a cold, windy, rain-drenched received automatic bids after The Fighting Scots are in too many boring matchups that have turned still without their best pass rusher, Justin contest at Gannon University. winning the MEC and PSAC the midst of their best season off television viewers - a look at the best and Houston, but Sutton has done terrific work The winner will go on to play Tournaments, respectively. since 2012. They earned the worst from 2016: in allowing opponents a combined 137 the second-seeded Golden Edinboro heads to its third seed for the conference MVP: Derek Carr, QB, Raiders: Tom points. He’s one of the least appreciated Bears on Sunday, November fifth NCAA Tournament tournament and hosted a Brady may wind up with the award by the assistants in the business, but the NFL 13 at 1:00 p.m. Edinboro is under head coach Gary quarterfinals contest against end of the season and Matt Ryan is making coaching fraternity knows how good he is. 13-4-1 overall and completed Kagiavas, marking their fifth sixth-seeded Gannon last a strong push, too, but Carr earns our nod Sutton is to the Chiefs what Rod Marinelli is the regular season 12-3-1 in appearance in the last six Tuesday. Edinboro fell to the at the midway point. He’s carrying the 6-2 the PSAC. Charleston finished years. The Fighting Scots look Lady Knights in overtime by Raiders on his back with 17 touchdowns to the Cowboys. as the runners-up in the to duplicate their run from a 1-0 score. Edinboro was and three interceptions and a bunch of IDENTITY CRISIS: The NFL’s flagging Mountain East Conference, last year, when they won their ranked fifth in last week’s clutch performances. Carr’s play is especially television ratings have been a huge story so holding a 14-3-3 overall record first-ever NCAA tournament NCAA Atlantic Region poll. noteworthy in light of the Raiders’ woefully far this season, with plenty of reasons put underachieving defense. forth for the drop: poor quarterback play, COACH OF YEAR: Bill Belichick, Patriots: poor prime time matchups, oversaturation of Sometimes we take Belichick’s brilliance for the product with games on Sunday, Monday granted because he has been so great for so and Thursday, protests during the national long. But getting to 3-1 without Tom Brady anthem, concerns about concussions and and setting the stage for Brady’s return from other dangers associated with the sport, and suspension could prove to be the difference the presidential election. The election will maker in a potential Super Bowl run, be over on Tuesday, and divisional races especially if the Patriots wind up with home- are beginning to heat up, so we’ll see if this field advantage in the AFC playoffs. is an anomaly or the start of a legitimate COMEBACK PLAYER: Matt Ryan, QB, downward trend. Falcons. After producing some of the weakest RISING STAR: Marcus Peters, CB, Chiefs. numbers of his career in 2015, including just The second-year defender leads the NFL 21 touchdown passes and 16 interceptions, Ryan has dominated so far this season with with five interceptions and is a big reason 23 TDs and just four picks. If the Falcons the Chiefs have survived the injury-related really are a different team than the one that absences of star pass rusher Justin Houston and running back Jamaal Charles. EU Sports Information faded to black the second half of last year, FALLING STAR: Darrelle Revis, CB, The soccer team received their fifth NCAA tournament birth in their past six seasons. then Ryan will be the difference. OFFENSIVE PLAYER: Ezekiel Elliott, Jets. At 31, he’s in severe decline and teams RB, Cowboys. He plays behind the best that once shied away from throwing in his offensive line in football, but Elliott has been direction are now targeting him as the Jets’ spectacular nonetheless, and might be the weak link. single biggest reason the Cowboys are in BIGGEST SURPRISE: Cowboys. With good shape for a playoff run. With 799 yards Tony Romo suffering yet another injury in seven games, he’s on pace for 1,825 yards, during the preseason, the Cowboys looked which would break Eric Dickerson’s rookie to be in trouble. But rookie quarterback Dak record of 1,808. Prescott has been terrific in Romo’s absence, DEFENSIVE PLAYER: Von Miller, LB, and the Cowboys may have found their Broncos. The successful transition from an quarterback of the future. aging Peyton Manning to an inexperienced BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT: Jaguars. Trevor Siemian is done in large part because of Denver’s great defense. Miller is a This was supposed to be the year team owner generational defensive player who makes it Shahid Khan’s patience paid off, but the all work. Jaguars have been total flops yet again. Blake OFFENSIVE ROOKIE: Elliott. Bortles has regressed, the offseason spending DEFENSIVE ROOKIE: Joey Bosa, DE, spree on free agents like Chris Ivory, Malik Chargers. A training camp holdout didn’t Jackson and Tashaun Gipson was a bust, and help, but it’s obvious Bosa has the kind the Jaguars will soon be looking to replace of speed and burst that only a handful of Gus Bradley.

Tribune News Service Dak Prescott is a leading candidate for rookie of the year, filling in for Tony Romo. Dak Prescott says Cowboys are still Tony Romo’s team

By David Moore said, I just come out and worry about the The Dallas Morning News chemistry this team has and what it’s doing right now. Dak Prescott has consistently said the “Today was to go out there and put our best Cowboys are Tony Romo’s team. effort out there on a Wednesday practice. It That statement evolved a bit Wednesday was a grind and something we embraced.” in the wake of Jerry Jones comments that OK, but how does he feel upon hearing indicate the Cowboys will continue to go with what the owner had to say? the hot hand at quarterback. “It really doesn’t change the way I think or “I mean, it’s Tony’s team,” Prescott said. “I’ll I go about my day,” Prescott said. “I mean, say that as long as I’m here and this season it’s the same regardless of whether he says is going. Tony does a good job of helping me anything, if the coach does or if one of you out, of controlling me, my mindset and help- (media) guys.” ing me after games. Romo is closer to a return, although he “It’s everybody. I really, it’s hard for me to didn’t take part in any individual drills say it’s Tony’s team, it’s my team or anybody’s Wednesday as he did twice last week. But the team. It’s a true team and everybody is play- ing their part in it.” rookie isn’t looking over his shoulder. Perhaps the only person who didn’t hear “No, it never goes through my head that Jones indicate the Cowboys will continue to I’ve got to do this or that or this is going start Prescott as long as this team continues to happen,” Prescott said. “It really doesn’t on its current path was Prescott. It turns out matter to me. the rookie quarterback didn’t spend much “I mean, that’s something I think they will time on Twitter Tuesday when Jones made his make that decision regardless of how my play comments. is if they want to make that. I just go in and “Yeah, that’s the first I’ve actually heard worry about these teammates, these guys that of that,” Prescott said Wednesday afternoon believe in me and I believe in and try to have when hit with the question. “As I’ve always a great day every day.” Voices [email protected] - Volume 116 | Issue 10 - EdinboroNow.com - (814) 732-2266

Thursday, November 10, 2016 Section B n Page 4 Our Viewpoint

Photo: Tribune News Service Thousands of people have protested at Standing Rock Indian Reservation and have been assaulted by tear gas, pepper spray and rubber bullets. North Dakota pipeline is disrespectful to Sioux tribe

A couple of weeks ago, one might remember seeing that a number of his or her friends had it and that it doesn’t matter. checked into the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota via Facebook. And as far as The usage of ancient burial grounds is not the only concern of the Sioux tribes’ people the Morton County Sheriff’s Department is concerned, let them believe it. though. They’re also concerned about the pipe going underneath the Missouri River, a main The reasoning for this mass influx of check-ins to the region is due in part to a massively source of water for the tribe, which they fear it could ultimately pollute. shared Facebook post claiming the Morton County Sheriff’s Department was using the While neither of these two things have come to pass yet, some more than suspect actions have check-ins to keep track of who was involved. The idea behind having everyone check into the been made by the sheriff’s department, already using pepper spray, tear gas and rubber bullets reservation was ultimately to confuse the department into thinking a mass arrival of people, on the protesters. Such actions have led to some well-founded speculation that the department from many areas, were now storming their region in solidarity with the natives of Standing is merely acting as goons for Energy Transfer Partners, the company responsible for the pipeline. Rock. Such a claim is not out of the question. There are a lot of people invested in this project, One might care to know why such an event is occurring, largely due to lack of coverage by which, according to the Dakota Access Pipeline’s fact page, would create 8,000 to 12,000 local media news outlets. In reality, though, this has been an escalating and newsworthy issue since jobs and increase state and local tax revenue by a massive $156 million, but the positives may the pipe was diverted through sacred lands of the native Sioux tribe. ultimately be outweighed by the negatives. The pipe, which is projected to span 1,172 miles and will run through four states, will cost In this case, it seems that we really have to ask whether the company is more worried about nearly $3.7 billion and will transport up to 570,000 barrels of crude oil a day, which is a massive the creating of local jobs, or making a quick buck. While their fact page states “Dakota Access move for the company. Yet, there’s one main problem with it all: if it is implemented in its Pipeline is committed to working with individual landowners to make accommodations, current stage, it will drive directly through a patch of land that holds ancient burial grounds of minimize disruptions, and achieve full restoration of impacted land,” it seems a lot like they just the Sioux tribes. want to bury the natives’ concerns and then subsequently build a pipeline through them. Why might one care? The Sioux probably haven’t used the burial grounds in quite some The company’s case of “minimizing disruptions” is not being made at this point, and it seems time, right? Well regardless of when it was last used, this is the equivalent of putting a 30-inch that in coming weeks it will only get worse. Here’s to hoping a compromise is made before the diameter pipe through Arlington Cemetery and then telling people they should simply live with burial grounds soon have some added guests. Store owner refuses to sell guns to Muslims, Clinton supporters By Dakota Palmer should be able to discriminate based on Islamophobia and is so quick to label each Voices Editor sexual orientation. Because of Chandler, the person who even resembles a Muslim as a newest debate is whether or not a store is terrorist. If you travel down the road on allowed to discriminate based on religious In addition to the ad in the paper, Interstate-79, you’ll encounter a gun shop or political beliefs. Chandler has a sign in his store that tells called Altra Firearms. The shop is owned by According to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, President Barack Obama supporters to go a man named Paul Chandler who placed an discrimination in public facilities based on to hell. ad in his local paper that reads, “Please NO the basis of color, race, religion or national Chandler’s reason for not selling to Muslims or Hillary supporters — We do not origin is prohibited. Although the gun Clinton supporters is because, “She’s clearly feel safe selling to terrorists.” shop isn’t a public facility, law also says that stated that she doesn’t think Americans While this initially is shocking, it the reason for discrimination must not be should have what she calls ‘assault weapons’ certainly is not the first time the nation has irrational and it cannot apply to just one or even guns themselves.” encountered some sort of discrimination in group of people. This election cycle has unfortunately stores. In 2012, gay couple David Mullins In my opinion, Chandler’s refusal to sell brought out the extremist in everyone. No and Charlie Craig wanted to order a cake to Clinton supporters and Muslims should one wants to compromise anymore; people from Colorado store Masterpiece Cakeshop be 100 percent illegal, in addition to just are just very quick to judge and assume for their upcoming wedding. The owner of ethically incorrect. Earlier this year, though, one’s character based off of stereotypes that the store, Jake Phillips, refused to sell the U.S. News reported on Andy Hallinan, society has constructed. Not all Muslims couple the cake because he does not believe a Florida gun store owner who hangs a are terrorists, not all whites are racist, not in same-sex marriage. “Muslim Free Zone” sign in his shop. He all Republicans want to prevent Muslim- “We would close down the bakery before defeated an illegal discrimination lawsuit in Americans from owning guns. we would complicate our beliefs,” he said. 2015. And the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, It’s very terrible that our society has come Eventually, a Colorado judge ruled that Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has said to a point where assumptions prevent us a business owner may not refuse service gun dealers have “broad discretion to deny from getting to know others. I have great based on a customer’s sexual orientation. sales.” So Chandler’s action is not without friends who have different opinions than Contributed Photo This caused Phillips to stop making precedent. myself and I can respect that because I don’t Altra Firearms owner Paul Chandler refuses to sell guns wedding cakes altogether. But again, that doesn’t mean it’s not believe discriminating against them is the to Muslims or people who support Hillary Clinton. This argument was and still is a ethically incorrect. After Sept. 11, our answer. complicated one: whether or not stores country has been so obsessed with I wish Chandler could say the same.

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I was 16 years old when I decided it was time to seek help. I’ve struggled with anxiety and depression for as long as I can remember, but I just always found a way to smile and push it aside, even as a child. My honor grades, many extracurricular activities and general bubbliness in school were a facade for how I was really feeling. While I was (and still am) an openly hardworking, loving and compassionate girl, I was strategic about hiding my struggles. Depression and anxiety forcefully smashed into my world between my sophomore and junior years of high school. I was grieving from loss of family, losing friends and feeling the pressure to be “perfect.” I lost motivation for everything. I lashed out at my loved ones and I was having episodes of anxiety on the daily. It was time to admit that I needed to open up. Looking back, I ask myself why I didn’t get help sooner? The thoughts I was having were almost parasitic; they just leeched off everything. Why did I let it get to that point? In a 2014 survey conducted by TIME Magazine, “Sixty-five percent of people with symptoms of depression were not getting help from a mental health professional.” Rejection is one of the scariest things, in my opinion. I think that’s a big reason people who struggle with mental health don’t seek help. It’s the thought of, “if they reject us, who else will accept us?” Personally, I was scared about what everyone else would think if they found out. I didn’t want anyone to see me as “broken” or different. I wanted my parents to still be proud of me. I didn’t want to let anyone down. I didn’t want to be labeled. The social stigma against mental health is that if you struggle with it, you are automatically seen as “psychotic.” It isn’t that way. I think the best things our society can do are to look at mental health with the same compassion as physical health. Mental illnesses are just as serious as any other health issue. We need to encourage one another to use resources available and inform each other about mental health as a whole. While preparing for this piece (it took a lot of courage to write), I talked to some brave college students who were so open and shared their stories with me. Some had strong support systems and sought help as soon as possible, but others were afraid to. I’ve found that one of the best medicines is finding people to connect with who have had the same experiences as you. It really puts into perspective how “human” we are; you don’t really know when someone is struggling. We shouldn’t wait until Mental Health Awareness Month to bring up mental illness. It happens everyday to billions of people. It could be happening to the person next to you right now. Graphic: Dakota Palmer If you or someone you know is struggling with mental health, don’t be afraid to seek the proper Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States. Statistics provided by assistance that’s best for you or the one you love. Someone will understand. Your mental health National Alliance on Mental Illness. doesn’t define you. You are your own person. ‘Vigilante’ app is short-lived, unnecessary By Rob Francis “Vigilante” and the hundreds of followers it Staff Writer had; the NYPD saw a rapid increase in racist and classist crimes. Living in a world of modern technology, Vigilantism — taking the law into one’s anything one could possibly need or want own hands — may seem cool when one sees to know is literally at the tips of his or her Batman or the X-Men running around town fingers. Apps have taken over the world and and beating up bad guys, but when put into re-established the way everything works. real world application, all it does is increase From telling one where to eat, who’s in the crime rates, raise casualty levels, and make area, how to save money while shopping, or excuses for racial profiling and bigoted just playing around for fun, there’s an app for behavior. Interpreting or creating situations that. based on biased opinions does not make you But what about crime fighting? a vigilante, it makes you a bully. The app, “Vigilante,” was over before it A quandary of ethics file directly behind started. It was until quite recently, a real-time vigilantism. What gives certain people the crime reporting app. Not only did it make right to do as they will and enforce their users aware of crime happening in their views on other citizens? Who has done this general vicinity, it also made them aware in the past? Hitler. Mussolini. Stalin. Castro. of “sketchy” neighborhoods and prompted And today they are not regarded as heroes, “average and ordinary” citizens to actually right? seek out the crime in progress and do Vigilantism is illegal nationwide because something about it. it stems chaos. When people think of Released only in New York City, vigilantism he or she thinks of superheroes. “Vigilante” has been banned from the Apple Was Batman a vigilante? Yes. But he was a App Store. criminal for that. Oh, and he is also fictional. Honestly, this app makes one wonder just Is a real world example of vigilantism Photo: Tribune News Service how stupid some people can really be. Don’t needed? Lynch mobs. Not such a The ‘Vigilante’ app is now banned from the App Store. call the police, whose job it is to handle such romanticized picture anymore, is it? tasks; by all means, gather up a mob and Civilians jumping into the fray with apps infraction to post online. That is activism. that “Vigilante” violated a clause in Apple’s head to a crime scene right away to fix it by like “Vigilante” is completely ludicrous. That is being a true hero. App Developer Review Guidelines, wherein yourself. Other apps, such as Watcher, encourage Though Apple does not usually speak out The app was banned not only for safety citizens to watch out for violations of as to reasons for deleting or banning apps, it does not permit apps that promote or concerns to the public, but also because of civil rights and safely record videos of the they released an official statement citing condone risk of physical harm.

Cartoon: Tribune News Service Technology Volume 116 | Issue 10 - EdinboroNow.com - (814) 732-2266 Thursday,Thursday, SeptemberNovember 4, 10, 2014 2016 SectionSection B A n n Page Page 62 Hovering aircraft thought to Facebook and Snapchat see be from Google co-founders video as the new frontier, look By Ethan Baron research firm Inrix, lifting off and cruising above The Mercury News snarled roadways has considerable appeal. to surpass TV in dominance Zee.Aero envisions our means of escape Even from a few hundred yards away, the from the bounds of gravity as “safe, quiet, and By Paresh Dave networking app aimed at those who would aircraft made a noise strikingly different from the efficient, as well as easy to control, (and) highly Los Angeles Times watch Food Network all day. roar of a typical plane. compact,” according to the patent submission The investments show greater foresight on “It sounded like an electric motor running, from Ilan Kroo, a Stanford University professor Facebook and Snapchat have overtaken the the part of media companies than during the of aeronautics and Zee.Aero’s founding CEO and just a high-pitched whine,” said Steve Eggleston, home pages of Yahoo and Google as the front YouTube wave, meaning they could capture assistant manager at an airplane-parts company principal scientist. Kroo brought in more than door to the Internet for hundreds of millions some of the profit that might otherwise go to with offices bordering the Hollister Municipal 100 aerospace engineers to work on the flying of people. Now, the two rivals are pursuing a Airport. cars, according to his LinkedIn profile. much bigger challenge: surpassing television venture capitalists. But it wasn’t only the sound that caught the The patent depicts a car-sized aircraft, wings to become the dominant gateway to video. “People understand it’s not a phenomenon attention of Eggleston and his co-workers at DK at the nose and tail, and along the top eight Tech firms see video as the next frontier or fad,” said Ynon Kreiz, the former chief Turbines. It was what the aircraft was doing. propellers, driven by eight motors, for vertical of their business. U.S. adults still spend four executive of Maker Studios, a digital video “What the heck’s that?” saleswoman Brittany lift. Two other propellers on the rear wing would times as much time watching TV as they do company that sold to Disney in 2014. “This is provide forward thrust. The aircraft seen at the Rodriguez thought to herself. “It’s just hovering.” digital video. And U.S. advertisers put seven in broad daylight. No one will be coming at That, apparently, was a flying car, or perhaps Hollister airport appears to showcase a change in times as many dollars toward TV ads as they the incumbents from the back door.” a prototype of another sort of aircraft under design but retains some features described and spend online. Still, enough uncertainty exists about what development by a mysterious startup called Zee. shown in the patent. The aging of millennials, and Gen Z Aero. The company, one of two reportedly funded Last week, an aircraft was spotted being towed behind them, naturally could close the gaps. approach to take that industry experts think by Google co-founder Larry Page to develop down the runway on two consecutive days, But app makers and video producers will anyone has a shot to succeed. revolutionary forms of transportation, has set although no hovering or flying was observed by have to make strides in creative and business Among unresolved issues is which service up shop in rural Hollister, far from its Mountain witnesses. Dual propellers in the rear fit with the concepts too. to focus on. Because Snapchat displays description and drawings from the patent, but View headquarters and the prying eyes of tech- Whether they stand a chance is being videos in full screen with sound, they obsessed Silicon Valley. the aircraft appeared to have a single main wing, tested in small studios and corners of offices must attract viewers differently from those The secretive company, in its quest for privacy, with pod-like structures beneath it, rather than around the world, including in Venice. appearing on the Facebook news feed, where has found allies in the small San Benito County the smaller wings at the front and rear shown in There on a recent Friday afternoon, town. the drawings. The means for vertical takeoff were makeup artist Amber Talarico brushed videos are silent until viewers click on them. “Can I help you?” a woman from the airport’s not visible from a distance, but Eggleston and his eyeliner onto Kristin Lai. As two digital Snapchat also lacks live-streaming, and administration office said, after popping out to colleagues said this was the same craft they’d seen cameras and a computer broadcast the scene videos disappear from the service after 24 investigate when a reporter and photographer hovering. to thousands of Facebook users, Talarico hours. And regardless of where companies In May, the city of Hollister approved a 34-year came looking for staff at the Zee.Aero building slowly and without commentary dressed start, they might have to expand quickly next door. “They’re not here,” she said curtly. lease with Zee.Aero for just under an acre of land Lai to resemble a creepy doll from a horror anyway. Sweet’s Ross said he’s considering Asked when they were typically around, she near the intersection of the municipal airport’s movie. the payoff of launching a print magazine snapped, “That’s private.” two landing strips. According to city documents, The transformation show “Becoming” has In Hollister, population 40,000, the first rule the company plans to build a 14,000-square-foot drawn almost 200,000 viewers an episode or a subscription box filled with featured about Zee.Aero is you don’t talk about Zee.Aero. hangar and office building, plus nearly 10,000 (3 seconds counts as a view on the social products. “It was known they wanted their privacy,” said square feet of employee parking and 16,000 network; TV’s Nielsen ratings require “Is being one platform only a limit on Hollister Mayor Ignacio Velazquez, who declined square feet of paved area for aircraft parking and one minute of viewing). “Significant,” Jon potential?” said Erin McPherson, a former movement. to provide much information about Zee.Aero and Handschin says of the viewership as he turns digital video executive at Yahoo and Maker its plans. “I just believe in people’s privacy.” During both Zee.Aero flights witnessed by around on a couch to watch Talarico work. Studios. “It’s too soon to tell. In my view, For a while, staff at one airport business said, a DK Turbines staff from several hundred yards “I don’t think the numbers have to be the real win ultimately would be developing guard was posted outside the Zee.Aero building, away in September and October, the aircraft millions,” said Handschin, president of content that can be used across platforms.” telling people who approached too closely to hovered about 25 feet off the ground, and landed online media company Moviepilot. back off. When Eggleston first attempted to take rapidly, straight down, according to the witnesses. If his guess is right in the long run, Early Snapchat investor Jeremy Liew of photos of the aircraft being towed, its handlers “My initial thought was it was some kind of Moviepilot and its roster of shows for Lightspeed Venture Partners said he’s looking took action, he said. experiment,” said Saul Gomez, who works in Facebook’s live-streaming service could turn for start-ups to provide “ambient” video, inventory and sales, and described the hovering “They pulled a truck right in front of me,” what it calls Super News into a must-watch things like ESPN, daytime talk shows and Eggleston said. craft as white, slightly smaller than a Cessna and channel for movie junkies (the company QVC that air as people move about their The company has issued no public statements “like something out of a movie.” describes it as the CNN for nerds). homes and jobs. Such programming would about its work. Bloomberg in June reported that Zee.Aero has built nine aircraft and registered For now, Moviepilot’s Super News division stand out from the more mentally intensive Page had invested more than $100 million in the them with the Federal Aviation Administration, is among the first attempts at designing a startup but had tried to keep his involvement according to FAA records. Two are electric- media business on Facebook’s or Snapchat’s video on Netflix, Hulu and Amazon.com. secret. Zee.Aero’s sparse website refers to “a powered gliders. Two are piston-powered, fixed- video systems. Hans Tung, managing partner at revolutionary new form of transportation.” wing, kit-built planes. The five remaining most Recurring shows are hitting Facebook investment firm GGV Capital, said closely match Zee.Aero’s patent for a “personal In a May letter to the U.S. Department of from cable companies such as E! and entrepreneurs could bring “offline” activities Transportation, the firm said it was building “an aircraft” with multiple motors — two of them business news provider Cheddar. Individuals to an interactive live broadcast, such as entirely new aircraft that will change personal are eight-motor “rotorcraft” and three are dual- are making it central to entertainment start- a game show revolving around “Truth or aviation.” motor, fixed-wing aircraft. But these aircraft are in ups, such as Holly Springs, Ga., resident fact electric-powered drones weighing 55 pounds Dare.” Another big opportunity is integrating A Zee.Aero spokeswoman said the firm is Brittany Sparacio, who three months ago or less and may be the company’s reported “currently not discussing (its) plans publicly.” started plucking pearls from oysters live on online shopping and two-way chat into prototypes. However, a Zee.Aero patent issued in 2013 Facebook and selling the jewels online. shows in a way never before possible, he said. Hollister Councilman Victor Gomez, who describes in some detail an aircraft capable of the “We have customers say they will drop Facebook is in the early stages of devising commutes to work in the Bay Area, would like to hovering seen by people working at the airport. their cable and Netflix for this,” Sparacio said a formal way for publishers to make money see Zee.Aero succeed. And the drawings showcase a vision of the future in a conversation over Facebook’s chat app. “Oh, man, how much I would love to find from video on its service. Snapchat doesn’t in which flying cars park in lots just like their “We go live four or five times a week, and we another route other than Highway 101 to get to have any revenue offering for third parties, terrestrial, less-evolved cousins. sustain 3,000 to 4,000 viewers every night.” work,” Gomez said. “It’s exciting to see something save for partners on Discover with whom it With traffic congestion costing the U.S. Facebook is adding perks that appeal to that’s so innovative. I’m thrilled about the splits ad revenue. That’s a significant concern economy more than $120 billion annually and those who treat its live video platform as a concept. It is something to be expected from Americans collectively spending 8 billion hours a business, announcing Tuesday that it will that’s led Sam Landman, a managing director Larry Page and people in that area.” year stuck in traffic, according to transportation allow producers to schedule streams in at Comcast Ventures, to hold off on backing advance. recent media start-ups he’s seen. But he’s A Snapchat spokesperson said the Venice optimistic that business plans rooted in a mix Make a mark when you travel company is focused on fostering video of selling ads, subscriptions and syndication channels through Discover, a featured rights will eventually make sense. section of its app where old guard media “We do believe people are willing to pay By Jen Leo touch. companies such as the Economist and young Los Angeles Times It’s a simple way to share travel tips before, standouts like BuzzFeed supply articles and for content, certainly if they are passionate during and after a journey. You can get a feel for videos. about the brand,” Landman said. Name: Stamp app the app and stamps in the Home section, where Snapchat has co-invested in two media Former executives at companies built upon What it does: The app posts “stamps” of travel brands exclusive to Discover. With Vertical YouTube said success came down to who there is a live feed. Use the “Explore” icon in the tips from around the world. Each stamp includes Networks, founded by veteran TV executive starred in and made the shows. Nurturing bottom navigation bar if you want to look for a photo, a description written by the traveler and Elisabeth Murdoch, it’s working on men’s people popular on a certain app and travel tips or “stamps” from a specific location. If channel Brother and more to come. With a pin on a map. Travelers can browse for travel integrating them into productions might be it doesn’t have one for the exact location, you’ll Hearst, the part-ESPN and A&E owner, it’s tips before a trip or from a current location. the best way to go. Available: In the App Store, requires iOS 8.0 see the next closest stamp with the number of backing lifestyle channel Sweet. At Moviepilot, Handschin has been or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod miles it is from your search request. “If Snapchat is this generation’s TV, then the brands that are being built there have satisfied with Talarico, a nine-year veteran a resonance for this generation that’s really of makeup and special effects, and the rest of Open Daily at 11am! powerful,” said Ross Clark, who was hired to the “Becoming” crew. run Sweet. “It’s a place where real businesses He chimes in at weekly production can be built.” meetings, lobbing questions about how they Clark said he draws inspiration from TV channel Bravo and magazines such as might involve guest stars, be more cost- Wallpaper and New York. Consumers have efficient or be more responsive to viewer Sunday Football been intrigued. About 15 million viewers comments on the Facebook stream. a month — a third in the U.S. —tune in to He passes on lessons, such as talk shows Sweet to learn about what’s hot in fashion, don’t seem to draw viewership on Facebook food and art. L’Oreal, Apple and Gucci have Live, but flying drones and playing games advertised on the channel. work well. Special!SpecIal! Investors say they want to see more When Moviepilot launched in 2012, co- entrepreneurs spin up video companies that founders Handschin and Tobi Bauckhage IAL emphasize Facebook, its Instagram image- IC F $10 deliberately tied the firm’s fate to heavy F sharing app, Snapchat and, to a lesser extent, O 10 Wings Twitch and Twitter. reliance on Facebook. They have no plans to

T The interest follows years of investment in back off. It’s one reason Handschin doesn’t U + Fries N companies anchored on YouTube, some of want to study or hire from traditional TV’s WING All Day which sold to media giants including AT&T, top ranks. RTL Group and Walt Disney. “It would corrupt us into something we Want discounts and YouTube has come closer than any video Free Stuff? Become a app to surpassing TV. But industry experts wouldn’t want to succeed at being,” he said. WingNut sign up on-line at say the service is flooded with competition, “I’m looking for the 22-year-old who can www.FatWilliesEdinboro.com associated with on-demand viewing and create the most astonishing Snapchat story.” set in its style. Facebook and Snapchat If anything, he worries about his producers represent uncharted terrain and potentially leaving to start their own online ventures 814-734-5187 more lucrative opportunities, so that’s where because he would if he were them. As the money is flowing. hourlong production of “Becoming” wrapped 205 Waterford St., Edinboro, PA 16412 Disney already has backed two young media companies from the post-YouTube up, producer Sarah van der Watt said wave: Naritiv, a marketing company now Facebook Live does have a unique perk. Under 21 welcome until 9pm! seeking to develop a consumer brand on “No need for editing,” she said. “We’re just Snapchat, and Nom, a live-video and social d on e .” Environment Volume 116 | Issue 10 - EdinboroNow.com - (814) 732-2266 Thursday,Thursday, SeptemberNovember 4, 10, 2014 2016 SectionSection B A n n Page Page 72

Photo: Tribune News Service The #MakeASplash movement aims to raise awareness and support for the Earth’s oceans and the aquatic life that lives within it. ‘Entourage’ actor makes a splash for the environment

By Ann M. Simmons They can sequester carbon from the atmosphere ... and they swim four strokes before I had to sit up and breathe normally, Los Angeles Times provide a lot of spiritual and mental benefits. If anybody’s ever because you have to have a very meaningful relationship with gone to the beach and had a good time, that’s a positive social your breath. There’s a meditative quality. The oceans are vast, When business magnate and environmental activist Richard benefit. If you’ve ever swam in the ocean and then felt rejuvenated, deep, dark and often scary, and the visibility isn’t always great, Branson challenged Adrian Grenier to a two-mile swim across the or if it’s relieved your stress, that is a positive social benefit. and the waves are strong, and the currents too. So there’s a lot to Strait of Messina between mainland Italy and Sicily, the actor- The reason why they’re so underserved is because they’re so overcome as a personal athlete. filmmaker was eager to comply. misunderstood. They’re so vast and mysterious ... so abstract and When I first accepted the challenge, I didn’t quite know how The feat was intended to highlight the importance of ocean complex, so one thing we’re hoping to do is demystify the oceans difficult it might be, but I quickly learned and over four months health, a key cause of Grenier’s Lonely Whale Foundation, which and make them more accessible to people. And one of the ways of concerted effort, I managed to get to a place where I could works to bring people closer to the world’s oceans through you can do that is by actually getting in and realizing that they’re complete the swim, but it wasn’t easy. education and awareness, and champions the well-being of not so scary. Q: Why was swimming the Messina Strait the way to get your marine wildlife. Q: How do humans affect the ocean? message out? “We want to inspire empathy with people through connection, A: We certainly fish a lot. Because of industrial fishing A: It was twofold. It was a personal challenge to overcome, practices, we’ve managed to fish 80 percent of the big fish out because if you can’t connect you can’t care, and the oceans have but (it was) also recognizing that it is possible to achieve things so much need for our attention and our compassion and our in the ocean. In the Strait of Messina where I just swam ... we’ve that are hard. When we look at what the oceans are facing, the empathy,” Grenier said. fished out 93 percent of fish in the Mediterranean. We’ve also put obstacles of the environment, it sometimes feels overwhelming Using the hashtag #MakeASplash to encourage people to share a lot of plastic into the ocean. Plastic doesn’t break down for a and daunting and we’re scared and we lack motivation. But we can how much they appreciate the ocean, Grenier, 40, and Branson, thousand years, so it subsists for many, many generations in the do it if we put in a little bit of effort every day. Just like I was able 66, completed the swim Sept. 27 in 1 hour and 24 minutes. ocean. Because of overfishing and because of the increased plastic to achieve my personal challenge of swimming in the open ocean, The actor, best known for his role as Vincent Chase in the HBO pollution, there will be more plastic than fish in the ocean in 25 series “Entourage,” shared some of his views about the health of years. It’s a horrifying thought, but it’s true. we as a society can overcome the challenges facing the oceans and the ocean and its marine life with the Los Angeles Times. His Q: Tell us one thing we can do to protect the ocean? the environment if we make an effort. comments have been edited for length and clarity. A: First and foremost ... find a partner. Find somebody that Q: Did you #MakeASplash? Q: Why should people care about the ocean? you can work with to inspire each other, to hold each other A: I’m proud to say we made a splash heard around the world. A: The oceans are fundamental to life. They create 50 percent of accountable. We can’t do it alone. We can’t take the weight of the (We got) at least 65 million (social media) impressions the day our oxygen. They provide food for billions of people. They are the world on our shoulders individually, but together we can actually of the event and several hundred since the beginning of the source of all life. If you care about any other issue, you have to care make big differences. campaign. We wanted people to share with us why the ocean is about the oceans because the oceans affect every other issue. Q: How was the swim? important to them and talk about what we need to do to show They are the most underserved aspect of our environment and A: Ocean swimming is very difficult. There are constantly that world that the oceans are important. And so what Richard yet 70 percent of our planet is ocean and they are perhaps the changing conditions. There are a lot of physical challenges, and and I did together was swim the Strait of Messina. I think it’s most important aspect of our environment, because if we can mental ones too. I look at ocean swimming as sort of the trifecta. important that we don’t just talk, that we don’t just hashtag and replenish them to a healthy state they can provide food, oxygen. It’s mind, body and spirit. Before I started training, I could barely post, but also get active and get out there and get wet. Calif. Condor survives long enough to take flight

By Paul Rogers Last year, for the first time The Mercury News since the recovery effort began, more condors were In a milestone for the born in the wild, 14, than died recovery of the California in the wild, 12. Scientists hope condor, a condor chick has to one day remove the birds hatched in the wild, survived from the endangered species and flown out of its nest at list, as has been done with Pinnacles National Park for other iconic species such as the first time since the 1890s. the bald eagle, gray whale and The bird, a female born in peregrine falcon. April, is not the first chick to Condors have successfully Photo: Tribune News Service be born in the 12 years since been born in the wild, and left According to researchers, 90 percent of ivory was taken from animals that died less than three years post-confiscation. condors bred in captivity were the nest, a process known as re-introduced to the 26,000- fledging, in Big Sur, Southern acre park, about 80 miles California, Arizona and Baja Elephant poaching returns to Africa with a vengeance south of San Jose. Mexico. But until last week, it But she is the first to survive had not happened at Pinnacles By Amina Khan dwindled or as political pressure ramped up. Out of 231 analyzed specimens, only one long enough to leave the in 120 years. Park officials are Los Angeles Times But some suggested that these seized had a lag time longer than six years, the nest and begin the path to keeping the location of the shipments might not be ivory from recently authors wrote. adulthood, a major step for nest confidential so visitors Elephant poaching is alive and well and killed animals, but old ivory “leaking” out of “That means all of the ivory that’s being North America’s largest bird as don’t disturb the birds. the elephants are not. A team of scientists government stockpiles. seized by customs is (from) very recently it continues a slow-but-steady “She is staying near the nest, examining seized shipments of elephant “Some people were saying, well, we don’t killed elephants,” Cerling said. “So indeed, path from near extinction. doing lot of practice flights,” tusks from Africa have found that the vast need to worry so much because there’s big the crisis is severe if we’re going to preserve “It’s significant,” said Steve said Rachel Wolstenholme, majority of the ivory came from elephants stockpiles of ivory, so we’re getting legacy this species on our planet.” Kirkland, a biologist and condor program manager at that died within the last three years. ivory into the market ... and other people There is a small silver lining: The findings California condor program Pinnacles. “Her parents will The sobering results, published in the were saying, no, no, no, these are all recent showed that “legacy” ivory was not leaking coordinator with the U.S. Fish help her learn how to fly and Proceedings of the National Academy of deaths,” Cerling said. out of sealed government stockpiles, as and Wildlife Service. “Self- where to feed and how to Sciences, reveal that the killing of elephants To answer that question, the researchers some had feared. sustaining reproduction in the interact with the other wild for their ivory is continuing at a disturbing analyzed 231 samples of ivory taken from 14 “So that’s a very positive finding, that wild is the primary goal.” birds out there.” pace even as elephant populations across the large caches (at least half a ton) confiscated we’re not finding government officials California condors, whose Of six condor eggs at continent are in sharp decline. between 2002 and 2014. They analyzed the selling old ivory or allowing that to happen,” wingspans can reach 9 feet, Pinnacles since 2010, some carbon-14 in the pulp cavity inside the ivory, didn’t hatch. While poaching had been easing Cerling said. once ranged from British for several years, it has returned with a using a sample taken near the base which Columbia to Mexico. But Lead poisoning remains Part of the problem is that while demand vengeance in the last decade or so, said lead would record the last two or three months because of habitat loss, the main threat to condors, for ivory in Europe and North America author Thure Cerling, a geochemist at the of growth before the elephant died. hunting and lead poisoning, scientists say. Condors eat has dropped, markets in increasingly University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Central Scientists can figure out exactly how the majestic birds’ population dead deer, wild pigs, ground prosperous countries in Southeast Asia, African forest elephants have fallen by an long ago an elephant died thanks to the dwindled to just 22 nationwide squirrels and other animals such as China, Vietnam and the Philippines, estimated 62 percent from 2002 to 2011. Cold War-fueled nuclear arms race. The by 1982. In a desperate that hunters or ranchers may have been growing. At the Selous Wildlife Reserve in Tanzania, U.S. and Russia’s spate of nuclear testing gamble to stave off extinction, have shot, ingesting lead savanna elephants have declined 66 percent in the 1950s and ‘60s nearly doubled the “So basically in 1989 in North America federal biologists captured all fragments. from 2009 to 2013. global concentration of a certain carbon and Europe, most people said OK, yeah remaining wild condors in Groups such as the “There’s been a staggering rate of elephant isotope, carbon-14, by 1963. That spike this is a bad thing and so ivory very quickly 1987 and began breeding them Ventana Wilderness Society, loss every year,” Cerling said. of carbon-14 is recorded in tree rings, in became something that’s not a desirable in zoos. The birds’ offspring a nonprofit organization Last year, in a study led by Samuel Wasser the bottom of the oceans, even in our own object,” Cerling said. “But that’s not true in have been gradually released helping to oversee condor of the University of Washington, scientists teeth. Because this isotope’s abundance has Southeast Asia and so when their economy back into the wild. reintroduction in Pinnacles analyzed the DNA locked in 28 large been declining at a well-known rate in the improved, it became a desirable object.” Wild condors live in Central and Big Sur, have handed seizures of ivory (at least half a ton each) years since, scientists can use the carbon-14 Educating potential consumers in these California, where 82 birds split out nonlead ammunition to made between 1996 and 2004, and matched concentration to tell when a living tissue countries is key, he added as is working their time between Big Sur ranchers and hunters. That, it to 1,350 DNA samples taken from dung first formed. with courts to ensure that they mete out and Pinnacles; in Southern said Kelly Sorenson, executive gathered at 71 spots across 29 different The researchers found that some 90 severe sentences for breaking national and California, mostly around director of the group, has countries. Now they could map the ivory’s percent of the ivory was taken from animals international laws on poaching. Ventura and Santa Barbara resulted in a decline in lead sources, and watch as patterns of poaching that died less than three years before the “We’ve got a lot to do,” Cerling said. “And counties; in the Grand Canyon poisoning deaths in recent changed as elephants in one country ivory was seized by government officials. we’ve got to do it fast.” and Utah; and in Baja, Mexico. years. Election 2016 Volume 116 | Issue 10 - EdinboroNow.com - (814) 732-2266

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Photo: Tribune News Service Trump wins shocker, will be next president By Noah Bierman economic changes. double-digit margin in the House. Tribune Washington Bureau Experts warned of dire consequences, to the economy and People on Trump’s own team questioned both his viability as to national standing, if voters in Britain chose to leave Europe a candidate, and a strategy that seemed off the cuff at best and The polls, prediction markets and political experts all or voters in the U.S. chose Trump. The same experts were sure self-destructive at worst. counted on a win for Hillary Clinton, whether they simply that voters would follow their lead. “He has absolutely no electoral reason to be in Wisconsin!” acknowledged Democrats’ many paths to the White House or Yet these voters scoffed at those elites as they raged against grumbled one despondent GOP official after a rally in Green predicted a sweeping victory that would shift the electoral map. globalization and immigration, deciding it was worth the Bay that seemed designed as much as anything to settle a score Donald Trump and the thousands of people at his rallies gamble to disrupt a system they saw as corrupt. with House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, the Republican from the were just as certain those same experts the very establishment “He has stood up for the people that don’t have a say,” said state who backed away from Trump after the 2005 recording they were running against were all wrong. Tammy Tavalsky, a 50-year-old who owns a printing company was made public. There was too much appetite for change, Trump and his with her husband and attended an especially raucous rally in But Trump plowed on, insisting that polls were supporters said. Clinton, in public life for four decades, was Johnstown, Pa. underestimating his support, either deliberately to depress too polarizing to capture a divided nation by acclamation, they Tavalsky, like many Trump supporters, expressed fear that turnout or because they failed to detect the enthusiasm he insisted. The media had become too disconnected to detect the people were coming into her city from elsewhere to collect saw at airplane hangars, convention halls and fairgrounds in signals, they warned. food stamps, welfare and other benefits at the expense of locals. Colorado, North Carolina and even Minnesota. (There is no “As I’ve said from the beginning, ours was not a campaign,” “The middle people are paying for it,” she said. evidence of poll manipulation.) Trump said in accepting victory early Wednesday after Even as Trump would seem to wound himself with As Trump struggled in the polls, Clinton tentatively Clinton called to concede, “but rather an incredible and great bombastic insults, racially charged rhetoric, revelations of past branched out beyond the states she needed to win, such as movement.” misdeeds, gratuitous airing of grievances, or ill-considered Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, in hopes of broadening The nature of the race may have come as a surprise to policy proposals, his supporters forgave, agreeing with him that the map to include Arizona. After building big leads in Virginia political analysts from both parties, but the signs were there the “dishonest and corrupt media” were stacking the deck to and Colorado in July and August, she pulled her advertising to all along. Trump’s defiance of political convention began on protect the establishment. More reluctant supporters joined in marshal resources elsewhere. the day he announced his presidential campaign and never because they worried about control of the Supreme Court or It wasn’t just cockiness, though that may have played a role: stopped. simply did not trust Clinton. Clinton and her team believed they needed to drive up support Trump spoke often of the June referendum in Britain, “There’s no perfect human being,” said Joyce Case, a in states with high Latino populations to counter Trump’s where a majority voted to leave the European Union. “Brexit 56-year-old cosmetologist from Fletcher, N.C. “He has nothing advantages with working-class whites. times five!” Trump said at a rally in Pennsylvania. But while compared to what the Clintons have done in office, both of By last weekend, hints emerged that Clinton’s gamble could a popular notion has taken hold that the polls did not predict them.” backfire. Though polls showed her with small leads or ties in that vote, that is not true; several predicted the outcome but At a low point last month, following the discovery of a 2005 most of the battleground states, she lacked the cushion that were ignored by the betting markets and pundits who played recording in which Trump bragged about groping women, Obama had four years earlier. up their preferred outcome. some of his party’s leaders began abandoning him. Polls started And Trump, left for dead only weeks earlier, began taking The similarities were clear. Both movements were fueled by to show Clinton pulling ahead by increasingly large margins, an even more aggressive posture. His campaign manager, working-class whites, who felt left behind amid cultural and a lead that threatened to spill into congressional races and Kellyanne Conway, insisted Sunday that the campaign had at endanger Republicans’ control of the Senate and even their least six combinations of states that could bring victory. December 2016 Graduates Supreme Court picks could set the pace for Trump Don’t Miss the presidency, change balance By Todd Ruger on key issues such as abortion rights. CQ-Roll Call But incoming Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer of New York and his fellow Graduation Senate Republicans held a Supreme Court Democrats have some political calculations seat vacant for the next president. Now to make if they face more than one vacancy that it’s President-elect Donald Trump and during the 115th Congress. If they filibuster a Republican majority in the Senate, what Trump’s Supreme Court pick, McConnell and Fair! happens next? Republicans could use the so-called nuclear The election results end the hopes for option to change Senate rules and eliminate Tuesday, November 15 and President Barack Obama’s long-languishing the filibuster for the high court. That would pick for the Supreme Court, Judge Merrick mean a simple majority instead of 60 votes Wednesday, November 16 Garland, since Republicans still control to allow for a confirmation vote. Democrats the Senate’s confirmation process. Donald eliminated the filibuster rules in 2013 for Frank G. Pogue Student Center Trump released a list of 21 potential Supreme lower court picks. 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