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| The Pennsylvania Outdoor Life Team - Biographies - WNEP-TV 16 Posted: 10 Nov 2009 05:16 AM PST Don Jacobs While in college, Jake started an internship at WNEP-TV in the summer if 1982. Throughout his internship, he learned to appreciate and love television and news. He responded, "I guess you could call it being in the right place at the right time. I graduated from college on a Friday. The same day my internship ended, a full time position opened up. I started my television career the next Monday afternoon." Jake spent eight years in charge of the Assignment Desk in the newsroom. Much to his surprise, he was approached one day by WNEP-TV's General Manager and offered the position of Producer for Pennsylvania Outdoor Life. Being an avid outdoorsman, he took the job without hesitation. After three years of producing the only local outdoor show in the area, he was asked to co-host Pennsylvania Outdoor Life. Today he is a recognized as a popular on air personality for WNEP-TV. He also write stories for WNEP-TVs Home & Backyard, he Emcees the Muscular Dystrophy Telethon , the St. Joseph's Telethon and he sits on numerous boards in the community. When Jake is not at work or out in the community representing WNEP-TV, he is busy spending time with his wife and two daughters. Besides hunting and fishing, his other hobbies include cooking, wine making, canning, mushroom picking and nature walks. Jake was born in West Pittston, Luzerne County and graduated from Wyoming Area High School. He has lived in northeastern Pennsylvania all his life. While at Kutztown, Brian interned with WNEP and was assigned to work with Pennsylvania Outdoor Life. He immediately fell in love with the show and, through his appreciation of the outdoors, decided that working on the show is what he wanted to do. Brian spent two years in the news department as a photographer until the fall of 2002 when the position he dreamed for opened. Since then Brian has been the guy behind the camera on everything from deer hunts, bass fishing trips, along with a variety of other outdoor activities. When Brian is not enjoying the outdoors while on the clock, you can pretty much bet that he'll be enjoying them with his friends and family. He is and avid hunter and fisherman to which he thanks his grandfather and father for instilling in him. He is a member of the Trevorton East End Rod and Gun Club located in Weikert, Pennsylvania. Brian was raised in Shamokin, Northumberland County and graduated from Shamokin Area High School. He now resides in the Wyoming Valley. Dave simply enjoys hunting with black powder firearms. "I love to hunt for anything with a flintlock firearm. It can be squirrels with a 40 caliber or deer with a big bore, wing shooting for pheasants to cottontail rabbits in the snow. I love it all. A flintlock or shotgun can add a whole new dimension to your hunting experience." Dave's bow of choice is the longbow and he would pick fly-fishing as his favorite angling sport. Dave and his wife, Mary Lou, live in Laurelton, Pennsylvania. They have two daughters and a grandson. E-mail Dave at: flintlockfanatic2003@yahoo.com
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| Pownal library book sale to be held Saturday - North Adams Transcript Posted: 10 Nov 2009 06:13 AM PST
POWNAL, Vt. -- The fall book sale at the Solomon Wright Public Library will be on Saturday, Nov. 14, from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., at the library at 97 Main St. According to the news release announcing the sale, mysteries, biographies, cookbooks, crafts/ painting techniques, health, art history, romance, children's books gardening, travel will be available at bargain prices. Volunteers are busy sorting and donations are still welcome. For further information, call the library during regularly scheduled hours, at (802) 823-5400. This content has passed through fivefilters.org. |
| Posted: 10 Nov 2009 04:04 AM PST She's Back!Ayn Rand is bigger than ever. But are her new fans radical enough for capitalism?Ayn Rand, the Russian-born novelist and philosopher, died in 1982. But in this Bush-Obama season of fantastical government growth and encroachment into all areas of human activity, Rand has become a Banquo's ghost at the banquet of politics, an antistate spirit haunting politicians and commentators who thought her free-market worldview was safely buried by the fall 2008 financial collapse. Signs of the Rand revival abound. The surprisingly large anti-government Tea Party protests have been chock-a-block with signs such as "Atlas Is Shrugging" and "The name is Galt. John Galt." Sales of Rand's classic Atlas Shrugged have soared in 2009, above a level that was already extremely impressive for a 1,000-page, critically unloved, 52-year-old novel. Two major publishing houses brought out new biographies of Rand almost simultaneously this fall. And after decades of Hollywood development limbo, Atlas Shrugged may finally be hitting the screen soon in the form of a cable mini-series starring Charlize Theron. Rep. John Campbell (R-Calif.), who gives out copies of Atlas Shrugged to departing interns, and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), who says Rand inspired his political career, both have said recently that the age of Barack Obama reminds them of the statist dystopia portrayed in the novel. Ryan—who stresses that, as a Catholic, he is not a full-fledged adherent to Rand's philosophy of Objectivism, which embraces atheism as well as laissez faire—says that as he looks around Washington these days he can't help but think he's seeing a lot of Wesley Mouch, the sleazy lobbyist in Atlas Shrugged who rises through his connections to become a de facto economic dictator. "What's happening now is Americans are awakening to see [that] this enduring principle of self-government and individualism is being taken away," Ryan says. "I really believe the entire moral premise of capitalism is being shaken to its core because of the acceleration of government right now, and that's waking people up." Ed Hudgins, director of advocacy with the Atlas Society, an organization that promotes Rand's philosophy, says that when he looks at House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and federally owned mortgage lender Freddie Mac, he thinks of another Atlas Shrugged character: banker Eugene Lawson, who in Hudgins' words "destroys his bank and a good part of the state of Wisconsin because he's making loans based not on sound business practice but on the basis of need." Many political bloggers this year have preferred to invoke one of Rand's heroes by spreading the idea that more and more people may soon be "going Galt"—that is, following the example of Atlas Shrugged hero John Galt by going "on strike" against an overly statist America. And it isn't just Rand devotees who are seeing her shadow across the landscape. As The Economist noted in February, "Whenever governments intervene in the market…readers rush to buy Rand's book. Why? The reason is explained by the name of a recently formed group on Facebook, the world's biggest social networking site: 'Read the news today? It's like 'Atlas Shrugged' is happening in real life.' " To Rand's fans, the U.K. Guardian explained in March, "the Obama administration's support for beleaguered homeowners and banks…smacks of tyrannical socialism, forcing the strong and successful to prop up the weak, feckless and incompetent." Everyone seems to agree: Ayn Rand is back, and more relevant than ever. But will those who are freshly encountering or rediscovering Rand really embrace her radicalism? As important as she remains to the post–World War II American political and intellectual scene, Rand comes with baggage that slows the spread of her ideas, making it difficult for an explicitly Randian political/intellectual movement to gain traction. More than ever, Rand's uncompromising and unconservative (though hyper-free-market) vision rubs violently against the realities of contemporary American politics of both right and left. That her ideas are spread mostly via novels, and not nonfiction or polemics, renders reader reaction to her hard to replicate. Despite the obvious signs of a Rand resurgence, from Congress to Tea Parties, from biographies to political chatter, from Main Street to Hollywood, it remains highly unlikely that the author's ideas will become remotely as successful in politics as they are in publishing. The American Atlas may be grumbling, but he isn't shrugging yet. Atlas Shrugged portrays a world reduced to terrifying dysfunction by a government fanatically dedicated to managing and manipulating the economy in the name of fairness and helping the needy. It's a scenario that many see as scarily similar to America in 2009. As in Atlas Shrugged, the U.S. is suffering through a shrinking, staggering economy. One of its major transportation industries is falling into the calcifying hands of government management (trains in Atlas, autos now). Pull and connections in the nation's capital are often more important than productivity in determining whether a business will thrive. The most heeded political voices are calling for one-sixth of the economy to be subsumed by the state in the name of universal health coverage. The political leader of the United States identifies "selfishness" as his own greatest moral failing and says that the country's biggest sin is not caring enough for the "least." For millions of readers worldwide, Atlas Shrugged has generated more than just fondness for a corking and unusual tale; the book commonly inspires a life-changing adoration. But from the beginning it also has met widespread intellectual contempt, even from sources that might be expected to endorse Rand's free market views. In National Review, for example, Whittaker Chambers famously argued in 1957 that Atlas Shrugged was suffused with "a voice…commanding: 'To a gas chamber—go!' " Also in 1957, Time slammed the novel as a "weird performance…not so much capitalism as its hideous caricature." More recently, a character on South Park declared, after reading Atlas Shrugged, that "because of this piece of shit, I am never reading again." The joke works because Atlas Shrugged is widely understood as a cultural totem of bizarre, cultish unreadability, often by those who have never tried to get through it. While complaints about Rand's prose and character development are perennial, the nub of Atlas hatred isn't literary: It's the idea that Rand's work is positively evil, celebrating a raw selfishness and glorying in a lack of compassion for anyone who fails to be a heroic producer, or even so much as disagrees with any aspect of Rand's complicated system of epistemology and ethics. As Gore Vidal wrote in Esquire back in 1961, Rand's " 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous." When The New York Times made one of its contributions to the copious body of journalism branding 2009 as the Year of Rand, the paper hooked its story to Rand fan John Allison, chairman of a successful Southern bank, BB&T, which had been forced to take federal bailout money. The article went straight to where Rand's moral rhetoric hits America square in the gut. Allison complained to the Times that if a child fights to defend what's his against another kid, he's apt to be told to share rather than defend his property. "To say man is bad because he is selfish," he concluded, "is to say it's bad because he's alive.' " Right there is the Rand her enemies love to hate: the woman who named one of her books The Virtue of Selfishness, who allegedly championed the haves against the have-nots. This year in The New Republic, Jonathan Chait slammed Rand as the fountainhead of the idea that the rich deserve their wealth. This caused him to turn what was supposed to be a review of two serious new books about Rand into a disquisition on the theme that sometimes luck rather than accomplishment earns people wealth in the modern world, which is not a point that Rand would dispute. Neither is it at all relevant to her belief that people deserve whatever they earn, so long as they are not robbing others. This content has passed through fivefilters.org. |
| Stressing Over the Perfect Thanksgiving Feast? High-Def How-To Videos ... - Newsblaze.com Posted: 10 Nov 2009 05:52 AM PST NEW YORK, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Everyone looks forward to celebrating Thanksgiving with friends and family, but the holiday can be a high-anxiety time for those who struggle with putting together the perfect feast and family gathering. Verizon FiOS TV subscribers are well-armed for a stress-free holiday, with high-definition how-to videos from Howcast on Video on Demand (VOD). These helpful and often-humorous videos cover everything from cooking the perfect turkey to snagging the best bargains at the after-Thanksgiving Black Friday department store sales. "Howcast videos are a wonderful antidote to holiday stress," said Shawn Strickland, vice president of FiOS product management for Verizon. "When you're up against the gun to put together a massive family dinner, a short, informative hands-on demo can save the day. The good-natured humor in many Howcast videos also helps lighten the mood, which is really the key to enjoying the holidays." Thanksgiving-related videos from Howcast include "How to Host Your First Thanksgiving Dinner," "How to Solve the Most Common Thanksgiving Dinner Disasters" and "How to Make Homemade Thanksgiving Stuffing." To help FiOS TV customers create the highlight of the Thanksgiving meal, there are a variety of tips on how to carve or fry a turkey or "How to Cook a Quick and Easy Perfect Turkey." Other Thanksgiving videos now available from Howcast for FiOS TV subscribers cover how to make a pilgrim costume and how to cut the post-Thanksgiving dinner cleanup in half. And for shoppers, there's a video on "How to Snag the Best Bargains on Black Friday." The how-to videos are available on FiOS TV at no extra charge. The Thanksgiving tips are among hundreds of Howcast videos on FiOS TV Video on Demand, which are available by simply pressing the "VOD" or "On Demand" button on the FiOS remote control, by using the menu on FiOS TV's Interactive Media Guide, or by selecting the VOD channel. Verizon FiOS TV is the leader in bringing the best of the Web to subscribers' home-entertainment systems. In addition to offering Howcast videos in HD, Verizon has worked with social media innovators Facebook Connect, Twitter, ESPN, Veoh, blip.tv and Dailymotion to create a truly converged Internet-to-television experience that lets FiOS TV subscribers connect with others while watching TV, plus search and view on their TV screens a variety of online, personal PC-based videos. For the latest news, updates and information about FiOS TV, visit www.verizon.com/newscenter and www.verizon.com/athomeblog. About Howcast From How to Write a Resume to How to Jump-Start Your Car, Howcast provides the answer to any how-to question and engages consumers to watch and share free, useful how-to videos and guides produced in-house at Howcast Studios, as well as by innovative media partners, trusted brands, and individual contributors. This content is distributed across a growing network of web, mobile, and cable partners, including such notable destinations as YouTube, MySpace, Hulu, AOL, Yahoo!, Comcast, Apple, TiVo and Verizon. In just over a year, Howcast been named a top web site of 2008 by both TIME and PC Magazine, nominated for two Webby Awards and has had its iPhone app featured in an Apple iPhone commercial. About Verizon Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ), headquartered in New York, is a global leader in delivering broadband and other wireless and wireline communications services to mass market, business, government and wholesale customers. Verizon Wireless operates America's most reliable wireless network, serving more than 89 million customers nationwide. Verizon also provides converged communications, information and entertainment services over America's most advanced fiber-optic network, and delivers innovative, seamless business solutions to customers around the world. A Dow 30 company, Verizon employs a diverse workforce of more than 230,000 and last year generated consolidated revenues of more than $97 billion. For more information, visit www.verizon.com. VERIZON'S ONLINE NEWS CENTER: Verizon news releases, executive speeches and biographies, media contacts, high quality video and images, and other information are available at Verizon's News Center on the World Wide Web at www.verizon.com/news. To receive news releases by e-mail, visit the News Center and register for customized automatic delivery of Verizon news releases. . SOURCE Verizon This content has passed through fivefilters.org. |
Pennsylvania Outdoor Life co-host Don Jacobs (Jake) joined the WNEP-TV team in 1982 right after college graduation. He graduated from East Stroudsburg University with a degree in Speech Communication and Theater.
Pennsylvania Outdoor Life producer Brian Hollingshead joined the WNEP-TV family in 2000 right after graduation from college. He graduated from Kutztown University with a bachelor's degree in telecommunications.
Dave Wayne Aucker is a member of the National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association (MLNRA), The National Rifle Association (NRA), and the Pennsylvania Federation of Black Powder Shooters. Dave and his wife Mary Lou are also 18th Century reinactors. They are partial to the French and Indian War time period and are members of the 3rd Pa. Battalion, Augusta Regiment, which was the provincial regiment funded by the Pennsylvania Government.
Dale Butler is the President of the Red Rock Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation (NWTF), a member of the National Rifle Association (NRA), A Life Member of the North American Hunting Club and a member of the Pennsylvania Deer Association. He also belongs to the Bowman Creek Watershed Association and is a Charter member of the Sunrise Farm Rod & Gun Club in New York.| You are subscribed to email updates from Biographies - Bing News To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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