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[spent-brass]

Hikin :^)

[relevant-catnik]

Why yes, I am angry about how negligent corporate practice has impacted my home, my air, and my water.

[collidingworldstv]

Thomas Mahon Author of CHARGED BODIES - How was Farmland turned into Silicon Valley Gold?

How as Farmland turned into Silicon Valley Gold?

The full interview is available on iTunes, YouTube and other streaming platforms.

Thomas Mahon has a unique perspective on Silicon Valley. He was an insider when Wang was the rage and Apple was still a seedling. 

His book, CHARGED BODIES, originally published in 1985, is an insider's perspective of the semiconductor industry. Mahon interviewed 25 people whose goal was "to create technology and tools in service to humanity." In the Afterward to the 2024 edition, Mahon questions whether those goals were accomplished. 

The book explores what it took to turn rich farmland into a wealthy center of high-tech. He takes us into a world before personal computers, the Internet, or social media. He takes us into the emerging world of new technologies as seen by those inventors, bankers, artists, hackers, detectives, journalists, lawyers, scientists, and philosophers who helped shaped the Silicon Valley of today.

Whatever one's view of A.I., Social Media, the Internet, and all, this book is a reboot to our thinking of technology. Has it been a service to humanity or has it become the Master of humanity? Mahon now urges us all to "to rise up and rethink technology."

CHARGED BODIES, by Thomas Mahon, the 2024 edition is published by Pragmatic Stories. The book is available online. 

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Mahoning Valley Comicon 2023

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I am doing very well, and I am going to the Mahoning Valley Scrappers Fest at the Eastwood Mall . Yes, I am interested in this

[bearcreekhq]

It's September and that means that fall activities are either already starting or will be popping up soon, both around Bearcreek and other nearby towns and cities. We've compiled a list, along with some links with more information, to various activities that the locals may be interested in participating in this fall & Halloween season!

Being that we have a Halloween party event planned for the end of October, we didn't want to necessarily throw an event meme out there and instead took some of the ideas and put them in a list under the cut that your characters can either reference, mention going to/headcanon going to, or if you so wish you can discuss paras amongst yourself if you'd like to write any of them out! We just didn't want to overwhelm everyone with a para meme so soon after our last event or before the next event.

go on a hike looking at the fall foliage.

go apple picking.

visit a pumpkin patch.

walk through a corn maze.

make candy apples.

go to a bonfire.

go to a sunflower field.

go on a hayride. (haunted or not-haunted)

go to a haunted house.

visit a place rumored to be actually haunted.

watch scary movies together.

decorate for Halloween together.

carve pumpkins.

paint pumpkins.

go costume shopping.

make their own costumes.

tell scary stories.

Grim's Orchard & Family Farms - apple picking, sunflowers, pumpkin patch, corn maze Scholl Orchards - apple picking Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom - Halloween haunt other haunted attractions - Pennhurst Asylum, Lehigh Valley Scream Park, Halls of Horror, Lost River Caverns, Waldorf Estate of Fear, Hotel of Horror drive-in movie theaters with special Halloween events/movie showings - The Mahoning Drive-In, Shankweiler's Drive-In Theatre

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James Anthony Traficant Jr. (May 8, 1941 – September 27, 2014) was an American politician and convicted felon who served as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio. A staunch economic populist known for his flamboyant personality,[1] he represented the 17th congressional district, which centered on his hometown of Youngstown and included parts of three counties in northeast Ohio's Mahoning Valley.

He was expelled from the House on July 24, 2002 after being convicted of ten felony counts, including taking bribes, filing false tax returns, racketeering, and forcing his congressional staff to perform chores at his farm in Ohio and houseboat in Washington, D.C.[2] He was sentenced to prison and released on September 2, 2009, after serving a seven-year sentence. Traficant died on September 27, 2014, following a tractor accident at his farm in Green Township, Ohio.

Traficant was infamous during his time in Congress for his short, rambling, and often crude rants on the House floor, often decrying his key issues such as his opposition to free trade and the IRS. He usually ended his speeches with the phrase "beam me up", a Star Trek reference. He also became known for his flamboyant fashion sense - including cowboy boots and polyester suits - and his toupee.[1][15]

After his expulsion, Traficant ran as an independent candidate for another term in the House while incarcerated at the United States Penitentiary, Allenwood.[30] He received 28,045 votes, or 15 percent, and became one of only a handful of individuals in the history of the United States to run for a federal office from prison. Tim Ryan, a former aide to Traficant, won the election.

In September 2010, Traficant was certified to run for the same seat he held before his expulsion, and said that his platform would be to repeal the Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.[39] (The Sixteenth Amendment (Amendment XVI) to the United States Constitution allows Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states on the basis of population)

Traficant was injured in an accident at his farm in Greenford, Ohio, on September 23, 2014. A tractor he was driving into a pole barn flipped over and trapped him underneath. A subsequent medical investigation determined that Traficant had not had a heart attack or seizure before the accident, and was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol. In addition, he had not sustained any crushing injuries in the accident. The forensic pathologist who conducted the examination attributed Traficant's death to positional asphyxiation, stating that he had been unable to breathe because of the weight of the tractor on top of him.[50]

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#ThrowbackThursday We originally posted the top photo on October 14, 2015. The caption said only: “Chick Lind, disc jockey, WKBN radio (Youngstown, Ohio).” On May 8, 2023, we received more information from the “WKBN Reunion” page on Facebook. They found his real name was Charles Joseph Lindgren, born in Manhattan on April 9, 1917. He worked at KLZ in Denver CO, NBC in Rockefeller Plaza, WKBN in Youngstown OH, WSRS in Cleveland OH, then as Associate Director in Films, Radio, and Television for Fuller, & Smith & Ross in Cleveland OH. After Cleveland, he moved down to Miami FL, then moved back north to be near his family. He passed away on April 18, 1958, in Newark, NJ. Another commenter added, “The interesting thing about this picture is that the microphone pictured is a wooden prop used for pictures only so that the expensive broadcast mics stayed in the studio.” WKBN Reunion also shared the second photo of Chick Lind with legendary jazz singer Cab Calloway at the WKBN Studio. (Courtesy of the Business and Media Archives of the Mahoning Valley Historical Society.)

[unwelcome-ozian]

Follow-Up on the Odd Fellows Ask:

Firstly, thank you for your attention in this matter. Secondly, to answer your question: Yes. Pennsylvania.

Nothing really stands out or comes up. 

They are known for their skeletons. “Police have often been called to investigate multiple skeletons discovered hidden in Odd Fellows lodges which are used in the secret society’s initiation rituals. In 2001, the LA Times reported that the discovery of numerous “Jane Doe” skeletons at the order’s fraternity halls in recent years had sparked outrage and police investigations across the country, including Missouri, Indiana, Pennsylvania Oklahoma and Nebraska.” Source

“Two Odd Fellows skeletons found in Pennsylvania were auctioned off by the Mahoning Valley Fire Company in Mahoning Township on behalf of the Odd Fellows Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania in 2001. That practice has sometimes drawn criticism over the ethical nature of making human skeletons a commodity.” Source

Interesting, not certain of location.

Odd Fellows groups:

Independent Order of Odd Fellows

Grand United Order of Odd Fellows

Rebekah

Oz

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People across the Mahoning Valley — including those who live in Mahoning and Trumbull counties — reported smelling chlorine after Monday’s controlled release in East Palestine. Officials said it wasn’t dangerous, but one North Lima woman is skeptical about that statement.

Even though North Lima is a little more than 10 miles away from East Palestine, Amanda Breshears said the smell caused her eyes to water when she went to let her dog out. She believes it could be the reason why her birds are now dead.

Breshears was going to feed her five hens and rooster Tuesday morning when she discovered them all lifeless, practically in the same position, with no signs of a predator entering their enclosure.

“I’m beyond upset and quite panicked, ’cause this, they may be just chickens, but they’re family,” she said.

Breshears said her chickens were alive and well on Monday.

Dark stuff reported going on with the train chemical spill possibly including resurrecting chickens?

[shakespearenews]

Soriano sent an email to McCallum on May 30 that stated, “Rehearsals are underway and the cast is fantastic! I realized I neglected to mention that both Romeo and Juliet are being played by females. There is an LGBTQ+ theme to the production. As we had discussed before, we are keeping it family friendly.”

McCallum responded later that day, “I think we need to plan on meeting to discuss the going forth of the production so our visions align. Also to make sure the staging details are understood. When do you have availability this week?”

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Miss Ohio Class of 2023

Buckeye State: Marina DeNunzio Cincinnati: Alyssa Contreras Clayland: Caitlin Seifert Cuyahoga Valley: Mika Smith Greater Butler County: Caroline Trennephol Greater Cleveland: Autumn Kessler Greater Columbus: Stephanie Finoti Heart of Ohio: Bryn Hasenauer Lake Erie: Jaleen Davis Lake Festival: Grace Ellen Bison Mahoning Valley: Piper Lambert Maple City: Olivia Kentner North Central…

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Hiking in New Zealand’s South Island

Feb 11-18, 2023

I’d booked a trail racing week with Race2Adventure in New Zealand’s South Island so thought I’d do a week’s hiking and exploring first. I’d already just spent two weeks traveling around Australia so was almost in the right time zone. The last time I’d been in the South Island was over the New Year between 2014 and 2015 although I’d been in the north island more recently in 2017.

As on my previous visit to New Zealand’s South Island, I was immediately mesmerized by its beauty – a wilderness of glaciers, beech forests and alpine lakes, only the south coast of Iceland, another volcanic island, coming close. It’s easy to get blasé once you’ve been there a few days but make no mistake, mere words will never convey the shear magnificence of this place. I’d live there if it wasn’t so far away from everywhere else.  

My plan was to stay in Queenstown, rent a car and drive to the trailheads, while my hotel, the Holiday Inn, Frankton Road, was two miles from the town center, so some evenings I’d bus it in for dinner, other times I’d walk. Queenstown, with its low rise buildings surrounded by vistas of lakes and mountains in every direction, is one of my all-time favorite towns. It has the feel of a frontier town, bustling with restaurants and bars but unfortunately seems to have grown exponentially over just eight years since my last visit in 2014/15 – I sincerely hoped they were starting to apply the brakes on any further significant development. Pog Mahones, a friendly Irish bar with live music, became my go-to place for dinner and its fine Irish fayre.  

In between hiking the Big Hill Walkway, the Big Hill Loop and the Master’s Traverse Loop I explored a number of interesting small lakeside towns -- the drives alone were worth it for the panoramic views. Arrowtown was one of my favorites and I’d be here a few times during the week. A quaint old low level gold rush town like something out of the wild west. Settled from 1862 with the first discovery of gold in the Arrow River, a number of Chinese arrived shortly after. Wanaka, last visited on my 2014/15 trip, is a bustling ski and summer resort town on the shore of Lake Wanaka. It seemed every kind of outdoorsy adventure activity was going on here. I did start to wonder where the eight years had gone since my last visit there, and mused that although Wanaka had not changed much, in many ways my journey had. On the shore of Lake Wakatipu the much smaller towns of Glenorchy, famous for its Lord of the Rings filming locations, and Kingston, most notable for its renovated steam railway and station, were also worthwhile detours for a quick visit.

Big Hill Walkway

Normally an 8.8 mile out and back from Arrowtown, up and down, I extended it a tad by including the final ascent to the Big Hill summit at 3730 ft elevation. 

My favorite part was the mountain beach woodland – located about halfway to the summit, it extended for about a mile on a level section of the trail. 

Dark, dense, silent and mysterious with reddy colored bark and a mildly funky smell from the soft carpet of decaying leaves underfoot, there seemed to be magic about in here. Indeed, on the return leg through the wood, a New Zealand fantail seemed intent on getting my attention – a native, small black and white bird with an oversized fanned tail, it futtered around my head with a persistence about it, a sense of urgency. I’m always on the lookout for signposts from the connected universe and attempted to understand its purpose, but to no avail.  

Big Hill Loop

The first 4.6 miles of this 10.7 mile clockwise loop followed the Big Hill Walkway route to the summit of Big Hill.

Then a one mile open meadowland section along a ridge with amazing views followed by a 1.5 mile steep downhill to the Arrow River.

The last 3.3 miles, which followed the Arrow River back to Arrowtown, started in the upper reaches as a narrow stream in a small, steep craggy valley where I had to constantly fight my way through spikey bushes which scratched my arms and legs. As the river started to level out and widen there was a chance to cool my feet down in numerous shallow river crossings before a final section high up alongside an enormous gorge leading back in to Arrowtown.

Masters Traverse Loop

Normally a 7.3 mile anticlockwise loop from the Remarkable’s Ski Area, crisscrossing a 7000 foot mountain, I had to extend it by five miles due to the top 2.5 miles of road to and from the ski area being closed due to repairs.

Once on the ridge after a long, steep climb, the trail followed an ill-defined track along the top of a fine line of scree, no more than a faint outline of dust left by fellow crazies, just below the rocky outcrop at the very top of the mountain. I envisioned putting a foot wrong, sliding down the scree and off the steep cliff just below, and wondered how long it would take for someone to find me given the lack of other souls up here. At some point the track seemed to disappear, even my All Trails app not helping, and for some inexplicable reason I started to scramble up the rocky outcrop, almost to the very top of the mountain! Under normal circumstances I don’t consider myself afraid of heights but the close proximity to the sheer drop, just beyond the slippery scree, made my hold on life seem tenuous. I felt very exposed, clinging to terra firma for dear life on all fours. I’ve realized over the years that in situations like this I seem to have some kind of intuitive early warning signal that stops me taking one more step before getting into a much more serious situation. So I did stop and take a deep breath. Then the only sounds in this thin air were the tinkling of falling rocks under my feet, my heavy breathing and mantras spoken out-loud to stop myself making a mistake or freezing -- ‘stay focused Paul, stay focused Paul, stay focused Paul’ and ‘fuck, fuck, fuuuuuuuck’! And, as always, the universe immediately spoke and pointed me in the right direction, the trail magically materializing as a thin line in the scree 20 feet below. 

I breathed a sigh of relief as I scrambled back down to it, thinking there’s a parallel with life here – yeah, live life to the full and go headlong into the lion’s mouth by all means, but always stay alert to squeezing the brakes if and when needed.

The scary ridge was followed by a time consuming, gradual two mile descent through a vast bolder field – rocks between five and 15 feet in diameter were generally too large to jump over so required much scrambling around and over them. I wondered when it would end and remembered thinking this is the very first hike I’d ever experienced where it seemed impossible to estimate the time it would take.

The bolder field gradually gave way to a lower lying area where silence surrounded a still turquoise lake. Bounded by a grassy meadow it was a rare moment of serenity within the midst of the soaring, wild grey rocky landscape.

Just after spotting some rare wildlife, a pair of colorful, mating native paradise shelducks, I bumped into the only other humans crazy enough to hike in this area – two 20 something seasonal workers, Tom from Hungary and Christian from Argentina. They didn’t fancy walking the 10 miles back from whence they’d come, so, with my car being a bit nearer, we agreed to walk back to my car together, then I’d give them a lift back to their car. I was grateful for some fast company as we raced over yet another bolder field, bouncing from the top of one bolder to another back to the saddle of the ridge.

I was now on my way to do a week of trail racing on the island with the Race2Adenture crew, but I knew I’d be back sometime soon for some more extra serious hiking in these magnificent mountains.

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Thursday hearing set for Goshen Twp. dog breeder charged in alleged puppy fraud case

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News A 21 News Watchdog Report from March 7, 2024, detailed more than a dozen civil cases and a criminal investigation against Waidman after people from the Mahoning Valley to California accused her of taking their money but never delivering a dog. A hearing is scheduled Thursday morning in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court for […]

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