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Despite a furious second-half rally, the Penn State football team came up short against Georgia in the TaxSlayer Bowl, losing 24-17. The Nittany Lions dropped four consecutive games to finish the season at 7-6./Page 16

January 7-13, 2016

Volume 8, Issue 1

Researchers: Online privacy fosters selfish decisions

WELCOMING THE NEW YEAR

By ALEXA LEWIS

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BELLEFONTE — There’s no hiding Democrat Mark Higgins’ excitement to step into his role as the only newcomer to the county’s board of commissioners.

“You know, I’m a turnaround guy. I do the near impossible on a dayto-day basis, so I decided to run for county commissioner and I’m going to make sure we talk about things MARK HIGGINS like how do we bring businesses to the region and how do we grow businesses that are already in the region,” Higgins said.

After talking to more than 11,000 people in the county in the months leading up to the Nov. 3 election, Higgins received 23 percent of the vote, second to incumbent Michael Pipe.

Republican Steve Dershem took the last spot on the board after finishing ahead of former commissioner Republican Chris Exarchos and newcomer Independent Todd Kirsten.

Higgins said he was inspired to run for commission after he analyzed other county budgets with the local chamber of commerce and learned that many counties spend upward of $8 million on economic development, while Centre County spends about $25,000 of its $80 million annual budget on the same thing.

While Penn State President Eric Barron is expanding the university’s support for economic development and entrepreneurship, Higgins said the county currently lacks the infrastructure needed to keep many new startups in the area once they outgrow the university’s support.

Higgins said he is advocating for graduate facilities to help encourage successful startups that are too big for an incubator but cannot afford downtown rent to stay in the area.

Higgins has already met with major economic development groups in the county to discuss funding, location and structure of a such a facility. To offset taxpayer costs, there are many grants and charities that help counties fund economic development.

“In Centre County, we spend nothing, so we have nothing,” he said.

In 2006, three Penn State students started the now successful web-hosting service Weebly, but the company moved to its current headquarters in San Francisco. OrderUp, the online food ordering franchise, was also started by Penn State students, but the company is now located in Baltimore.

Not only would startups create jobs in and of themselves, but they also stimulate the local economy, creating jobs across other sectors, according to Higgins. For every startup job, there is between two to five spinoff jobs, he added.

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FAMILIES TAKE IN the ice sculptures as part of the First Night State College celebration on New Year’s Eve. The First Night celebration has become a tradition in downtown State College.

Winter weather finally arrives in Centre County

By CHRIS MORELLI editor@centrecountygazette.com

STATE COLLEGE — Face it; we’ve been spoiled.

When temperatures sailed into the 60s on Christmas Eve, most Centre County residents wondered if the warm forecast would continue into the new year.

The answer, quite simply, is no.

The weather took a stunning turn over the past seven days as temperatures dipped into the single digits during the first full week of January.

According to AccuWeather senior meteorologist Tom Kines, the fact that winter weather is finally here shouldn’t surprise anyone.

“It’s January; it does get cold,” Kines said with a laugh. “We have to keep that in mind.”

Kines said the warm December temperatures were a little out of the ordinary.

“The jet stream really guides weather systems across the country. It also separates the cold air masses in the North from the cold air masses in the South. For the past several weeks, the jet stream has not only been north of us, it’s been unusually far north of us. That’s been putting us in a very mild weather pattern,” Kines explained.

However, once the jet stream dipped south, Kines said, the cold air pushed southward across the Northeast.

Within less than a week, temperatures went from the 60s into the single digits.

“In the overall scheme of things, temperatures getting down into the single digits at night is not that huge of a deal. But the fact that it’s been so mild … we’re just not accustomed to it. It is a huge shock to the system,” Kines said.

Temperatures were in the single digits overnight Jan. 4.

“This is our coldest air mass since early March of last year, when it got down in to the single digits at night,” Kines said.

As for the forecast for the remainder of winter, Kines said not to expect temperatures in the 60s anytime soon.

“To get it as mild as it was in December … to have that happen again for such a

Education ............................... 8 Community ...................... 9, 10

UNIVERSITY PARK — It’s no surprise we’re still hearing about online privacy and how online platforms foster a much different set of rules and morals.

“As social media makes data increasingly interconnected, preserving one’s own privacy while ignoring the privacy rights of others may make everybody’s data more vulnerable,” said Jens Grossklags, an assistant professor in Penn State’s College of Information, Science and Technology, in a press release.

On Dec. 14, a team of Penn State researchers reported at the International Conference on Information Systems in Fort Worth, Texas, that people are more concerned about sharing their own personal information with third-party app developers than they are about sharing their friends’ information.

The problem, Grossklags said, is known as interdependent privacy. It means that the privacy of individual consumers depends not only on their own online decisions, but the decisions of their friends.

Third-party apps are applications that are created by a developer other than the manufacturer of the device. So, iPhone users, that means any application that Apple doesn’t make is developed by a third party.

According to a Penn State press release, the researchers found that participants valued data in their own social media profiles at $2.31 and valued their friend’s social media data at $1.56, when the information was irrelevant to the app’s function. When the data was necessary for the app’s function, the economic value of their own data dropped by $.27, but the value of their friends’ data dropped by $.58.

“It turns out they place very little value on their friend’s privacy,” said Yu Pu, a doctoral candidate in the College of IST, in a Dec. 14 statement.

That’s a problem, though, when some of these apps misuse that information — a decision completely out of the friend’s control.

Many of these apps request access to users’ social media accounts, such as Twitter, Facebook or Google. If users agree to the prompt, Privacy, Page 4

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BUNDLED UP: Penn State student Kristen Albright walks down Fairmount Avenue on her way to work on a cold Tuesday afternoon.

prolonged period would be highly, highly unusual. Having said that, I think we will have some more mild spells during the month of January. I don’t think we’re going to see temperatures in the 60s, but I certainly think we’ll see some days that are up in the 40s. With some kind of luck, we might get in the 50s.”

According to Kines, normal highs for this time of year are the low to mid 30s.

“If you’re getting temperatures up into the 40s, that’s 10 to 15 degrees above normal,” Kines said. “That’s pretty significant.”

Winter, Page 4

Start the New Year Right ..... 11 Holistic Living directory 12, 13

Sports .............................. 14-17 Around & In Town ............... 18

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PLAYING IT SAFE: A recent Penn State study reveals that people are more concerned about sharing their own personal information with thirdparty app developers than they are about sharing their friends’ information.

What’s Happening ............... 19 Puzzles .................................. 20

Business .......................... 21, 22 Classified .............................. 23

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SOUTHERN COOKIN’: The Penn State wrestling team won at the Southern Scuffle once again, winning its sixth consecutive title. The No. 1 Nittany Lions dominated the field.

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GOOD OL’ DAYS: Millheim resident Ralph Gray, a retired Penns Valley Area High School teacher, has a new book out. “The School on the Hill” tells the 200-year history of the Bellefonte Academy.

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PLENTY TO DO: Are you looking for some arts and entertainment offerings in the New Year? If so, Gazette columnist Kristin Consorti has a wide variety of things for you to choose from.

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STATE COLLEGE — For the first time in over a month — and the first time in the new year — there is some action in the Paterno lawsuit filed against the NCAA. The Paterno estate, along with former Penn State football coaches Jay Paterno and William Kenney, are suing the NCAA, NCAA President Mark Emmert, former NCAA Chairman Edward Ray and Penn State for alleged breach of contract and defamation. They are seeking damages related to the defamation charge, which the coaches argue has hampered their careers and job opportunities.

In the most recent smattering of court filings, motions and briefs, of which six were filed Jan. 4, the NCAA continues to demand discovery from the Paterno estate, particularly related to its “Critique,” which is essentially a counter argument to the Freeh Report and a defense of Joe Paterno’s actions.

NCAA attorney Thomas Scott wrote in a filing that the NCAA has made a number of unsuccessful attempts to resolve the discovery issues, putting in a “good faith effort” without involving intervention of the court.

However, Scott said the time has come for the court to urge the Paterno estate along in releasing documents related to the Critique, including the Thornburgh Report, the Clemente Report and other Paterno arguments against the Freeh Report.

Scott said the Paternos’ arguments against complying with the NCAA’s discovery requests are in direct contradiction with the requests they have made of the NCAA and law firm Pepper Hamilton, which has acquired Freeh’s firm. In other words, Scott and the NCAA believe the Paterno estate is being hypocritical in its handling of pre-trial discovery.

“At the same time the NCAA has been seeking discovery related to the estate’s Critique, plaintiffs have waged an aggressive campaign to obtain all documents relating in any way to the Freeh Report, based on arguments that are flatly inconsistent with their refusal to provide the

NCAA its request discovery,” Scott said.

He went on to point out that Pepper Hamilton has produced approximately 161,381 pages of material in response to discovery requests related to the Freeh Report, while the estate has produced only 332 pages related to the Critique, not including any internal emails, drafts or interview notes.

In response to the Paternos’ arguments, Scott said the Critique documents are not covered by attorney-client privilege because none of the attorneys retained were being used for legal advice, but rather being retained to assist in creating a public report.

“The estate and the authors of the Critique have made no secret of the fact that their work was prepared with the express intent that it would be made public,” Scott said.

Scott went on to quote the Critique’s introduction, which explicitly states that “(the Paternos) committed to complete transparency of our findings and those of the independent experts.”

The Paternos also made a request of their own Jan. 4, asking for a 60-day extension on all discovery requests as a result of the court’s ruling on documents designated as “highly confidential — attorneys’ eyes only” by Pepper Hamilton. The court ruled that the blanket designation was improper, releasing 22,399 documents Nov. 12.

The plaintiffs have determined that additional depositions are necessary based on these documents, and considering they will be undergoing depositions of their own, the estate feels it needs the additional two months to fulfill discovery requests.

“An extension is warranted to allow plaintiffs time to pursue discovery with the benefit of key documents that have just become available to them in the past month after a lengthy effort to obtain them,” attorneys for the Paterno estate wrote.

The NCAA has already scheduled a deposition with Penn State’s director in the Office of Trademark and Licensing, and is in the process of scheduling depositions of Scott Paterno, Jay Paterno and Sue Paterno.

Barron to launch new blog

By ALEXA LEWIS news@centrecountygazette.com

UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State president Eric Barron will start Penn State’s first blog on Jan. 12 just in time for the spring semester.

“I’m excited to be able to talk with Penn Staters in another format,” Barron said in a statement.

The blog is named “Digging Deeper,” inspired by Barron’s background as a geologist, and is a platform for him to share issues affecting Penn State, the nation and the world. “‘Digging Deeper’ will be an outlet for me to roll up my sleeves and offer a deeper view of what’s happening at Penn State and beyond,” he said.

Several monthly posts will give readers an insight into what’s going on at the administrative level and what Barron does in his day-to-day activities.

Barron will become part of the 46 percent of higher education leaders using social media in a professional way. About 14 percent of these leaders use social media as their means reaching followers.

“As I make my rounds, I’m witnessERIC BARRON ing thrilling examples of our research prowess, witnessing inspiring efforts by our students in the classroom and beyond, and hearing touching stories about what this university means to so many people,” Barron said. “I want readers to see what I see on a regular basis. I want them to hear the accolades I hear on a regular basis. I think a blog is exactly the platform I need to better tell the Penn State story.”

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U.S. appears free of bird flu; PSU still urges caution

By ALEXA LEWIS correspondent@centrecountygazette.com

UNIVERSITY PARK — The outlook is looking much brighter for the bird flu that devastated flocks in 21 Midwest and West Coast states this year, but a team of Penn State poultry experts warns the battle might not be entirely won.

The highly pathogenic strain of the H5 avian flu emerged in wild, captive and commercial flocks in early 2015. To preserve healthy bird populations, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and infected farms destroyed an unprecedented 48 million birds since the virus first reached the U.S. After outbreaks began to subside in the late spring as warmer weather set in, experts predicted the virus could return. In the fall, cooler weather and migrating waterfowl provide a natural reservoir for the less infectious strains of the disease, which can mutate into deadly forms in commercial chickens.

However, according to the USDA, it has not found any outbreaks of the highly pathogenic avian influenza since June, despite southward waterfowl migration coming to its end. As a result, the bans that some states placed on poultry exhibitions and bird gatherings starting at the height of the outbreaks have since been lifted.

Minnesota announced Dec. 15 it had dropped its ban in light of lifting the last of the quarantines placed on the 108 farms infected with HPAI in 2015. With no new confirmed cases of HPAI, many states, including Ohio, lifted their bans months ahead of schedule.

“The outbreaks in June were contained because of all the efforts put in place to make sure it didn’t move around anymore,” said Patricia Dunn, an avian pathologist at Penn State.

In addition to the many statewide bans among affected states and other measures on behalf of the USDA, including increased biosecurity, the virus stayed contained to the Central, Mississippi and Pacific migratory flyways, according to the USDA.

Experts had expected the HPAI virus to reach the Atlantic Flyway in the summer when waterfowl began migrating north for the breeding season. But, Dunn said her team and other researchers have found no evidence of HPAI in the resident wild poultry populations in the Atlantic Flyway, which is a good thing for chicken and turkey farmers in Centre County.

However, the avian influenza could still reach the flyway sometime in the next four years.

“Not all the birds have intermingled on the different flyways,” Dunn said. “It takes almost four to five years for a new strain to infect a large number of wild waterfowl.”

According to the USDA, the decrease in outbreaks the country saw starting in June was a result of summer heat. Warm weather helps quell the virus, Dunn said, so it begs the question whether the warm fall weather is temporarily subduing it.

“It’s probably a couple thing.” said Dunn. “The waterfowl are at the end of the migrating season; the warm weather and all the efforts to clean up the virus on farms,” said Dunn.

The virus strains that some waterfowl might carry with them as they migrate north again in the late winter could interact with other subtypes of the virus, which could lead to HPAI outbreaks in commercial populations, according to a Dec. 18 press release.

Dr. John Takekawa, Audubon’s director of bird conservation, said the combination of winter weather and waterfowl migrating north is a breeding ground for a virulent virus.

If there is an outbreak this year, Takekawa said he predicts to see it in the winter or spring. He said the strength of that outbreak and locations of the outbreak are hard to predict because so much is still unknown about bird migration.

Takekawa encourages farmers to stay on the lookout for any increased deaths among their flocks, which might indicate the presence of infection. Farmers should also follow good biosecurity practices and

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Autoport closes following sale

By ZACH BERGER StateCollege.com

STATE COLLEGE — The Autoport’s owners have been fighting off foreclosure and auction since last year, declaring bankruptcy in April to have a fighting chance to save Pennsylvania’s oldest motel.

Eight months later, Gregory and Lynda Mussi have sold the motel nearly a decade after they purchased the landmark business in 2006.

Pennsylvania’s oldest motel was sold to South Atherton Real Estate 1 for $2.1 million, according to documents filed with the United States Bankruptcy Court of the Middle District of Pennsylvania.

That company has an address listed as 356 Laurens Road in Montoursville, which is the location of Gregory Welteroth Advertising. The company was not able to com-

ment on the sale, but court documents do show that they purchased all physical property — including food equipment, furnishings and the liquor license — as well as the “Autoport” name, so it stands to reason that the motel might just remain a motel under the new ownership.

“I can confirm that the Autoport is closed and secured as of today,” said Kevin Kassab, health officer with the borough. “As to when it might reopen or if it will reopen, I’m not sure.”

On Jan. 4, people could be seen tearing items off the walls within the motel, which now appears to be closed for business. The attached restaurant, Clem’s, and the attached bar, Toast, also appear to be closed.

The sale agreement states that “closing and settlement shall take place on or before April 30, 2016,” leaving some ambiguity as to the timing of the Autoport’s potential reopening.

County welcomes government officials

By ALEXA LEWIS STATE COLLEGE — The 2015 municipal election culminated with newly elected officials taking office on Jan. 4.

State College Borough Council met for a reorganization meeting at noon on the first Monday of the month to thank council members James Rosenberger, Sarah Klinetob and Peter Morris for their time serving on council.

“Many times we disagree on issues and, frankly, we aren’t usually far apart, but we still discuss and oppose each other and vote against each other,” said Rosenberger, who has served on council for eight years, “but we always walk out friends and committed to our community.”

After dismissing council, Mayor Elizabeth Goreham called another meeting to order with the three newly elected members of council, Jesse Barlow, David Brown and Janet Engeman.

“Now we need to learn the ropes,” Engeman said in a separate interview about her new position.

The new council members will continue to attend orientation sessions during the weekend. However, Engeman said attending council meetings for the last couple years has made her relatively confident that she will adjust well

to her new position.

After the new council members took their seats, council unanimously voted for Tom Daubert to serve as president of council. Daubert has served as president for two terms.

The Ferguson Township Board of Supervisors also met on Jan. 4 for a reorganization meeting to swear in Peter Buckland, Laura Dininni and Colleen Unroe.

However, Unroe declined to serve on the board at the swearing in light of a lawsuit the township brought against her.

Unroe admitted that she wasn’t eligible for office when she defeated incumbent Drew Clemson because she does not meet a township charter that states that a candidate must live in the township for at least one year prior to election, according to the Associated Press.

The township dropped the suit when Unroe declined the position on Jan. 4. According to the AP, Clemson claims in his lawsuit against Unroe that he should take the position; however, Unroe said she thinks the board should chose her replacement.

On the same day, judges Thomas Kistler, Pamela Ruest and Jonathan Grine swore in other county officials including newly elected commissioner Mark Higgins, who replaces former commissioner Chris Exarchos.

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As for the winter sports enthusiasts who are waiting for snow? Kines said they might be waiting for awhile.

“It doesn’t really look like we’re going to see anything anytime soon,” Kines said. “Significant means 5 or 6 inches. We do think that there’s a possibility, as we head into February, there might be enough cold air around to give us some snowstorms.”

The month to watch, Kines said, is February.

“If we’re going to have a ‘tough month,’ it’s probably going to be February. That could be a month where we get normal snowfall, maybe even above-normal snowfall if everything pans out.

“If you’re a skier and you’re bummed out because there hasn’t been much snow yet, hang in there. It could happen in February.”

Higgins said he has spent more than 200 hours preparing for the position, including meeting with economic development officials and attending the conference that the County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania hosts each year.

The CCAP Newly Elected Officials Workshop and Fall Conference, which was held Nov. 21 through Nov. 24, gave newly elected commissioners in the state a chance to meet with experienced commissioners and attend seminars.

“It was very intense, but I learned a whole lot,” Higgins said.

Higgins has met with and read resources provided by Denise Elbell, deputy county administrator, and Commissioner Pipe. He is reading through the county budget and had watched the last three months of commissioners meetings on CNET. And, Higgins also attended a program through Leadership Centre County, which he said taught him a lot about the county.

In light of the ongoing state impasse, Higgins said that during his first days as commissioner he is going to focus on the county’s finances.

“The county is going to take out a $10 million loan within the first couple days of January so that the county can keep writing checks,” he said.

Higgins said the loan is likely to last through February, but then the county will be in the same boat as many other counties across the state and could be forced to look at service cuts.

“But, I enjoy helping people solve problems; it’s what I’ve done my whole life,” he said.

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BEFORE SHARING personal information online, the public should be aware that some of the information is used for data collection.

Privacy, from page 1 the third-party developers are granted access to that account, which may also include access to the users friends’ accounts, depending on the type of permission requested.

“It’s reasonable for a birthday app, which serves as a reminder of friends’ birthdays, to collect birthday information of either users or users’ friends,” said Pu in an email.

However, Pu said, some developers insist on accessing users’ accounts even if that information is not necessary to the functionality of the app. The incentive for the developers can be the ability to monetize the users’ information.

“The Wall Street Journal reported that popular apps may transmit users’ personal information to various advertising and data tracking firms,” she said.

In the birthday app scenario, developers may honestly want access to their users’ account to improve the user experience. But, in other instances, it might benefit developers to sell more sensitive information, such as location and photos, to other parties including advertising or data tracking firms.

“Such data collection practice significantly breaches people’s privacy,” Pu said. “These parties may use such information for socially undesirable activities, such as targeted ads, price discrimination and so on.”

That is not to say that all apps are out to sell users’ and their friends’ personal information, according to the researchers. According to a different group of researchers, which includes Gergely Biczok and Pern Hui Chia at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, about 2 percent of apps request friends’ personal information and about 17 percent request users’ information.

Pu said that she still recommends that people carefully read terms in each individual request before granting that app permission.

“If we find there is certain information that we do not want to share with the app, we may simply give up installing it,” she said.

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Consider the public In those days, we had Township. Her school teacher today and our assigned teacher and, views and opinions the many roles and hats he also in the building, were do not necessarily reflect those of Penn or she has to wear. In addithe principal and usually State. tion to being able to teach one or two school secretara subject in such a way that ies. (I’m not forgetting the students can grasp the material and janitors or the staff who made our regurgitate it for a state-mandated lunches). I’m sure there were guidstandardized test, the teacher of ance counselors in the elementary today must be schooled in theories of schools but, in those days, they folearning to meet the needs of what we cused on the troubled kids. We had now know is a multitude of learning music teachers and art and gym styles. Teachers have to be versed in teachers who would come into our technology, social work, psychology, classrooms or take us to the gym once pharmacology and must be sensitive or twice a week to augment our classto diversity. room learning. We had recess. We As mandated reporters, they have had a school nurse who managed our to stay on top of the signs and sympscrapes from the playground or if we toms of children who may be experifelt ill enough to go home. encing mistreatment outside of the In most classes, the material was school hours. There are helpers in presented by a single teacher who dethe classroom to manage behaviors livered the material one way. If you and parents, nipping at their heels, didn’t get it, you had to work harder. demanding that his or her student In middle school and high school, is getting exactly what is needed (if it was pretty much the same. Teachnot more). There are enrichment proers teaching subject material, giving grams, special needs programs, disasus homework and trying to keep the ter drills, conflict management, secucrowd in control. They had assistance rity in the buildings and mandates from a few additional principals

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Not all words are created equal By the Chicago Tribune “All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.” — Ernest Hemingway Leilen Shelton, a middle school teacher in Costa Mesa, Calif., might translate that famous dictum from the famously plain-writing Hemingway this way: “All you have to do is write one illuminating, ineluctably verifiable sentence. Author the most perspicacious sentence that you comprehend.”

Shelton wrote “Banish Boring Words,” a crusade against milquetoast words like “good,” “bad,” and “said.” Some of her disciples also eschew “go,” “run,” “walk” and “see.”

“There are so many more sophisticated rich words to use,” Shelton told The Wall Street Journal. Instead of “said,” for instance, she recommends bark, howl, cackle, demand.

We salute Shelton’s campaign against lifeless language.

But we worry that the admonition to gussy up writing by jettisoning short, common words in favor of allegedly more expressive terms could go awry in the hands of the average seventh-grader. Sometimes people do say things.

They don’t aver them. Or assert them. Or declare them.

Some writers pursue the perfect word to show off their test-ready vocabularies, which is egotistical. Others pursue the perfect word because they want their writing to be lively, which is admirable, to a point. Still others pursue the perfect word because it will bring clarity, precision of meaning, to their thoughts, their sentences, their paragraphs, their essays, their books.

To be crisply effective, writing has to efficiently communicate what the writer wants to say.

So remember, we beg, that words are tools, not bludgeons. Avoid obscure polysyllabic words that no one else can read, spell or ... understand. Because your readers may just stop reading. For them, nothing is easier.

Once you know all the fancy terms, you can choose to wield the simple ones with greater force.

In time, a skilled teacher will mention that understatement often is more powerful than overstatement.

Clarity of purpose, precision of word choice, not letting readers stray from the journey, tools not bludgeons, the power of understatement. Now you’re getting somewhere.

Writing a true declarative sentence, Hemingway said, is “a good and severe discipline.” In other words, it’s a lot of fun.

that cupcakes for a school birthday party don’t meet national standards for healthy eating in school.

Likewise, I’ve been teaching at Penn State for almost 24 years and have seen an evolution in the university climate. With research and the advance of most fields of study, the content of what we teach has certainly changed but perhaps not as drastically as the environment in which we teach. It’s no longer just about the subject matter. Universities now use words like “recruitment,” “retention” and “student success.” We have to pay attention to what students tell us and show us in their classroom behaviors lest someone might need emotional or mental support outside of the classroom.

Departments have “safe words” to help alert others to a potentially explosive situation at a reception desk or in an advisor’s office. University resources in the areas of counseling services, student affairs, student conduct and so on have expanded, just as the mission of the university has evolved to a more customer-focused, in loco parentis, model. Universities are seeing greater parental involvement as well as a greater “consumer focus” from students, some of whom have grown up without learning that ability and effort sometimes do mean different outcomes. Like our public school colleagues, universities are required to provide many more support services outside of the classroom that would have been unheard of in prior generations.

The cost of providing an “education” goes beyond reading, writing, and ’rithmetic. Perhaps if our legislators spent some time in a classroom, they might be more motivated to compromise.

In our bubble of Happy Valley, we are fortunate that, based on financial strength, both the State College Area School District and Penn State rely only limitedly on state dollars, although the dollars we do count on are very important. Step out of the bubble of the Centre Region and schools and smaller universities are hurting — while our legislators and our governor squabble like children in a school yard over who gets to be the team captain.

We know that an educated society is a healthier, happier and more productive society. It’s time for legislators to get this budget passed and in it, make sure that we are being smart with our education dollars.

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HEALTH & WELLNESS

Using healthier ingredients can be a tasteful solution HERSHEY — Chocolate cupcakes made with black beans. Tuna salad mixed without mayo. Mashed cauliflower instead of potatoes.

They may sound strange, but healthy swaps such as these are becoming more common not only in restaurants and cookbooks, but also in Food Services at Penn State Hershey Medical Center.

In 2013, the department introduced a “Great Living” menu for patients that focuses on heart-healthy options with minimal fat and sodium and no trans fats.

Brian Ulshafer, executive chef for Morrison Healthcare, Penn State Hershey’s food service provider, said that of the 650 accounts his company manages nationwide, the medical center’s Rotunda Café is one of only 80 health care retail venues to be named a center for excellence. “There is a lot of pressure to maintain wellness criteria,” he said.

Subbing whole-wheat hamburger buns for white bread is one thing, but replacing rice and potatoes with items such as quinoa, couscous and bulgur wheat can be tricky in the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch Country, known for its stick-to-your-ribs homestyle meals.

“If we take pot pie, shepherd’s pie and mashed potatoes off our menu, it’s not going to be a good thing,” Ulshafer said.

Instead, the department has found ways to cut down on fats, sugar, sodium and carbohydrates in such recipes. “We don’t want to remove the unhealthy items, but rather we de-emphasize them while promoting the healthier ones.

“We’ll mix broccoli and cheese into the mashed potatoes to add vitamins and nutrients, and we use all raw vegetables, not frozen,” he said. “All our soups are made from scratch and we always have wraps, fresh fruit and salads available.”

Ulshafer said the changes have been well-received. “I think people are becoming more intelligent about what they eat.”

But parsnip puree? A salad made from feta cheese, garbanzo beans, shallots and cucumber? The concoctions may look

pretty, but for some, unfamiliar combinations and flavors can seem frightening.

Retail staff members engage in active sampling and suggestive selling, offering tastes to customers who want to see if they like an item before purchasing it.

“Nine times out of 10, they think it’s delicious and they buy it,” Ulshafer said. “It’s about letting them educate themselves and enjoy things they would never have thought they would eat.”

Chelsea Miller, a certified dietary manager in food services, said the changes focus on lowering the amount of carbohydrates, sodium, sugar and fats, while adding protein and fiber to keep you full longer.

“One way in which we do this for patients is by serving all sandwiches on whole wheat thins instead of white bread or rolls, which offer little to no nutritional value,” she said.

Ulshafer said the emphasis is not just on getting rid of the bad stuff, but also adding fresh items for layers of flavor. “We might take the mayo out of our ready-toeat tuna or chicken salads, but then we add fresh herbs or citrus juices, maybe jazz them up with apples or raisins. It keeps us creative and on our toes.”

Here are some healthy substitutes that anyone can try: Canned black beans for flour Swapping out flour for a can of black beans, drained and rinsed, in brownies and cupcakes is a great way to cut out the gluten and add an extra dose of protein.

Unsweetened applesauce for sugar Using applesauce in place of sugar can give the necessary sweetness without the extra calories and, well, sugar. While one cup of unsweetened applesauce contains only about 100 calories, a cup of sugar can pack in more than 770 calories. This swap is perfect for items such as oatmeal raisin cookies. Pro tip: You can substitute sugar for applesauce in a 1:1 ratio, but for every cup of applesauce you use, reduce the amount of liquid in the recipe by 1/4 cup.

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THERE ARE many ways to eat better in the new year, including substituting healthier foods when cooking.

They’re both fats, albeit very different fats, and have nearly the same consistency at room temperature. The creaminess and subtle flavor of the avocado lends itself well to the texture of fudge brownies and dark chocolate flavorings. It can take some experimenting to get this swap perfect, but generally, using 1 cup of avocado puree per cup of butter works.

Vanilla for sugar Cutting sugar in half and adding a teaspoon of vanilla as a replacement can give just as much flavor with significantly fewer calories. Assuming the recipe originally calls for 1 cup of sugar, that’s already almost 400 calories cut out. You can’t sub this one in equal ratios, but next time you’re whipping up some cookies, try cutting 2 tablespoons of sugar and adding an extra 1⁄2 teaspoon of vanilla extract.

Mashed bananas for fats The creamy thickening-power of mashed ripe banana acts the same as avocado in terms of replacing fat in baking recipes. The consistency is ideal, and the bananas add nutrients such as potassium, fiber and vitamin B6. One cup of mashed banana works perfectly in place of 1 cup of butter or oil.

Greek yogurt for sour cream Half the fat and calories, yet the taste and texture are virtually identical. Plus, nonfat Greek yogurt offers an extra dose of lean protein.

Greek yogurt for mayo (in tuna/ chicken salad) Add some herbs and a squeeze of lemon juice, and they’ll taste almost identical.

Plus, this swap will save on calories and fat, and provide an extra dose of protein.

Office of Rural Health honors rural health champions UNIVERSITY PARK — During October and November, the Pennsylvania Office of Rural Health presented six awards to honor organizations and individuals who took leadership roles in rural health causes.

The awards were presented in venues throughout the commonwealth by Lisa Davis, director of PORH and outreach associate professor of health policy and administration at Penn State.

On Oct. 22, Davis presented state Sen. Gene Yaw, R-Williamsport, with the 2015 Rural Health Legislator of the Year Award, which recognizes a Pennsylvania legislator for outstandingwork and support of rural health initiatives that address an identified need in their district or across the state.

Yaw was honored for the substantial con-

tribution he has made to rural health in Pennsylvania in his role as chairman of the Center for Rural Pennsylvania. Specifically, he organized and hosted a series of public hearings in July and August 2014 on the heroin epidemic facing Pennsylvania.

The 2015 State Rural Health Leader of the Year Award was presented Nov. 3 to Gary Tennis, Pennsylvania’s secretary of drug and alcohol programs. The award recognizes an outstanding leader who has organized, led, developed or expanded an exemplary multidimensional rural community health program or initiative and who has demonstrated leadership to a rural community health program.

To address the drug overdose crisis in the commonwealth, Tennis led efforts to increase the availability of the drug nalox-

one to police and first responders. Naloxone is an antidote that reverses the effects of a drug overdose. Because of Tennis’ efforts, training in how to administer naloxone is now available to every Pennsylvania family whose loved one is at risk.

The 2015 Rural Health Program of the Year Award, which recognizes an exemplary health program that addresses an identified need in a rural community, was presented Nov. 13 to Project Bald Eagle.

Based in Lycoming County, PBE is a collaborative, multidimensional, integrated approach to addressing the public health epidemic of opioid addiction and the related deaths from overdose.

The mission of PBE is to reduce deaths due to opioid and heroin drug overdose in by increasing awareness, strengthening

coalitions, reducing fragmentation of services, maximizing community resources, increasing community engagement, monitoring and evaluating surveillance data, and facilitating training.

Pennsylvania Rural Health Week (Nov. 16 to 20), which encompasses National Rural Health Day (Nov. 19), offered the backdrop for three additional awards.

The 2015 Community Rural Health Leader of the Year Award was presented Nov. 16 to Perry County Commissioner Brenda Benner for her efforts to improve health outcomes for all Perry County residents, especially the most vulnerable, through her leadership with the Perry County Health Coalition.

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Mount Nittany Medical Center honors staff

New program works to alter lung cancer outcomes

STATE COLLEGE — The medical staff of Mount Nittany Medical Center recently presented the sixth annual Patient C.A.R.E. Awards and the Allied Health Professional Excellence Award to non-physician staff members nominated by physicians for their outstanding performance and commitment to making people healthier.

The Patient C.A.R.E. Awards honor excellence in patient care and services in four categories: clinical, administration, research and education.

Honored in the clinical category was registered nurse Susan Maynard, stroke coordinator at Mount Nittany Medical Center.

Registered nurse Charlene Diehl, administrative director of cardiology services at Mount Nittany Medical Center, was recognized in the administration category.

Honored in the research category was registered nurse Courtney Sneath, director of quality at Mount Nittany Medical Center.

And, David Braucht, application specialist at Mount Nittany Medical Center, was recognized in the education category.

The Allied Health Professional Excellence Award honors an allied health staff member who upholds the standards of clinical care through excellence, service, citizenship and innovation. The recipient was Lorella Thomas, a certified registered news practitioner at Geisinger.

STATE COLLEGE — Mount Nittany Health has announced the development of a lung nodule program aimed at transforming the outcomes of lung cancer.

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths among both men and women, with approximately 220,000 newly diagnosed cases and nearly 160,000 lung cancerrelated deaths yearly.

The Mount Nittany Health Lung Nodule Program is dedicated to optimizing the quality of life for adults in central Pennsylvania through the early detection of lung cancer and by providing evidence-based best practices using a multidisciplinary approach.

The program will have a two-stage rollout. During the first stage, which is currently underway, the program will work to address the growing number of patients diagnosed with pulmonary nodules. If a chest X-ray or CT scan finds a growth, or nodule, in the lung, then a patient may be referred to Mount Nittany Health’s Lung Nodule Program for further evaluation by a pulmonologist.

The second stage of the rollout, scheduled to begin in the spring, is to offer at-risk patients low-dose CT lung cancer screenings. Those at risk include smokers and former smokers age 50 and older, individuals with a family history of lung cancer and/or those who have had occupational exposures, including radon or asbestos.

For more information, visit www.mountnittany.org/ specialties-and-services/lung-nodule-program or call Janet Cady, lung nodule program coordinator, at (814) 231-6881.

PAGE 7 Honors, from page 6 State Sen. Joseph Scarnati, R-Brockway, was recognized Nov. 17 for his efforts to advance rural health issues in Pennsylvania, specifically his support of the state’s 14 Critical Access Hospitals. CAHs are small, rural hospitals that serve large Medicare and Medicaid populations.

On Nov. 19, Drs. Rarnzi Khalil and Saad Tabbara, cardiologists at Cardiology Associates in Kittanning, received the 2015 Rural Health Hero of the Year Award for the volunteer services they have given since 2014 to provide free care to heart failure patients at a Kittanning-based free clinic.

The clinic, under the direction of Dr. George Sokos, program director of the Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Fellowship program at Allegheny Health Network in Pittsburgh, provides cardiology services to patients in Armstrong County one day per week.

PORH was established in 1991 to enhance the health status of rural Pennsylvanians and strengthen the delivery and quality of care in the communities in which they live. Each year, the organization presents awards to recognize rural health programs and individuals who have made substantial contributions to rural health in Pennsylvania.

For more information, visit www.porh.psu.edu.

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Lab gives students chance to think from the ‘red cell’ UNIVERSITY PARK — Anticipating security threats, analyzing disaster response and thinking critically about how to better evaluate and manage threats — these are all things that Penn State’s Red Cell Analytics Lab students do every day.

But, while the kinds of critical thinking involved in RCAL are integrated into the classroom, many of the students involved do so outside of class time, as part of their extracurricular activities.

“I found the club my first year during the annual IST (Information Sciences and Technology) Connections Day,” said RCAL officer Mason Northrop. “The first meeting hooked me after hearing about all of the cool past and future projects.”

Housed in the College of Information Sciences and Technology, but open to any active Penn State student, the RCAL student organization provides hands-on experience using structured analytics to examine real-world problems — from cyber threats to natural disaster response and everything in between.

THINKING LIKE THE ADVERSARY

The term “red cell” refers to teams of military personnel, often called “red cells,” that are trained specifically to test the effectiveness of American military tactics.

“The notion of the red cell,” said Col.

Jake Graham, professor of practice in information sciences and technology and director of the lab, “is to study threats from an adversarial point of view.

“What the adversarial point of view does is approach from the blind spot. So, we’ve got to think like the adversary to identify those blind spots, those gaps.”

ADDRESSING THREATS

One way students have honed their analytical skills is to work with THON committees to evaluate and test their security plan.

Outside of the university, social media monitoring teams have looked at social sentiment related to major world events.

This included work with the Pennsylvania State Police to monitor social media ahead of and during the Pope’s visit to Philadelphia earlier this year.

“We are threat agnostic,” said Graham.

“We’re not focused on a particular category of threat — be it cyber or physical, domestic or global. We want our students to be comfortable with analyzing threats across a broad spectrum.”

What students gain from their experiences in the RCAL is a kind of analytical thinking that doesn’t come from the classroom.

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mote: critical thinking and analytics,” Graham said. “We want to teach a methodology and a frame of mind and a thirst for critical thinking and reading. And then we communicate the judgments into sound analytical writing and briefing.

“So, we promote structured analytic techniques and apply those to a broad range of problems.”

And, these skills are setting them apart when it comes to talking with recruiters and landing jobs.

RECRUITING ADVANTAGES

“RCAL is a great talking point for recruiters,” said Samantha Small, RCAL’s communications officer and a senior pursuing a double major in security and risk analysis and music, with a minor in international studies. “I’ve spent many job interviews impressing recruiters with all that I have accomplished while still in college.”

“Companies are always surprised to see how much we really do and the various types of projects we get to work on,” said Northrop. “Everything we do in the club

can be transferred to the workforce, and employers see that.”

Many students involved in RCAL get jobs working for government agencies like the CIA, FBI or NSA, and others go into the information technology security field.

Still others work in security divisions in the financial sector; security and risk analysis student and RCAL director Meghan Graham, for example, exercised her red cell skills in an internship at Ernst & Young.

PARTICIPATING IN RCAL

RCAL is a student club perfect for security and risk analysis majors — or any student in the College of IST — but is also open to any active Penn State student.

“Previously, we’ve only scouted students from inside our own college, but this year we decided that there’s a lot to be gained from bringing in different majors and different perspectives,” said Graham.

“We tell people that they don’t have to come in with any prerequisite knowledge — just a fresh perspective and critical thinking skills.”

South Hills announces dean’s list STATE COLLEGE — The South Hills School of Business and Technology recently announced its dean’s list.

Those honored were: Aaronsburg — Ashley Garbrick.

Bellefonte — Bradley Antill, Bryan Butler, Melinda Cain, Steven Dannaker, Lauren Filipowicz, Jeremiah Hall, Jessica Hall, Abram Haupt, George Hoffman, Pamela Keebler, Jeffrey Lanning, Lauren Lewars, Courtney Lueth, Martin McGinley, Edward McMillin, Michele Miller, Kelsey Moore, Chelsea Musser, Tanner Potter, Aaron Struble, Jenean Sunday and Angel Warner.

Boalsburg — Petr Kolonin, Erika Mall, Deiadra Shanley, Samuel Vaughn and Rachel Wolf.

Centre Hall — Debra Cooper, Tyler Eberly, Marisa Heiser, Olivia Mele, Amanda Rider, Denise Smith, Kara Stoner, Cheyenne Swartz and Tanner Zaffuto.

Coburn — Asta Broskley Fleming — Ashleigh Turner.

Howard — Chelsea Lucas, Kady McKinley and Valerie Morgan.

Julian — Mary Nichole Brown, Hunter Hall, Kourtney Vermillion, Justin Vining and Jessica Wellar.

Lemont — Kayla Benner, Elli McKenna and Natalie Torretti.

Milesburg — Brian Fayman, Christine Newman and Joshua Torres.

Millheim — Makayla Luse and Zane Spahr.

Pennsylvania Furnace — Dawna Flasher.

Pine Grove Mills — Alexander Herr and Cayla Hockenberry.

Philipsburg — Emily Ammerman, Brittany Boston, Leo Cleveland, Jammie Flood, Wesley Gill, Brianna Heichel, Kimberly Hester, Danielle Kephart, Erica Long, Banjamin Lukens, Brooke Luzier, Katelyn Luzier, Stephanie Pickett, Craig Ramage, Tiffany Smeal, Eric Steffan, Lydia Stiles, Pamela Strickler, Natsha Sweed and Alexis Turner.

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Local author to release book on Bellefonte Academy

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MILLHEIM — Millheim resident Ralph Gray, a retired Penns Valley High School mathematics teacher, is putting the finishing touches on his second book in as many years. His new offering, “The School on the Hill,” tells the nearly 200-year history of the Bellefonte Academy, a prestigious prep school located in Bellefonte.

Gray derived much of his historical data for his book from local historian Harry Breon, who had done extensive research on the school’s history. Gray’s book contains a history of the academy, with a focus on its excellent athletic programs, particularly football.

Gray said the academy was originally constructed in 1805 on land donated by Bellefonte founders James Dunlop and his son-in-law John Harris. The two-story building was erected on a bluff overlooking the Big Spring. In 1806, the state granted $2,000 toward its construction with the provision that six children from poor families be given a free two-year education each year.

Additions were added in the 1840s, and again in 1873. Fire destroyed the upper floor in 1904, but restorations were made in time for the fall term. The structure was completely destroyed by fire in 1913, and was rebuilt and expanded to 200 feet long using stone from the hill where it sat. The academy reopened six months later for the

1913-14 school year.

In 1912, the school opened its athletic complex on East Bishop Street. The complex featured ball fields, a cinder track, tennis courts, a skating rink and a huge 300-by-80-foot swimming pool, which was the largest in the state.

In 1921, another fire erupted in the building’s attic, and could not be extinguished by the Bellefonte fire companies due to lack of water pressure, but was saved from total destruction by firefighters from the Lock Haven Fire Company who arrived with a pumper truck. Damages far exceeded insurance coverage, and the school struggled to stay afloat, finally closing in 1933. It was purchased in 1934 at a sheriff’s sale, and remained empty until 1939, when the Bellefonte High School used it for classes for two years after a fire in that school. In 1946, the building was converted into 33 apartments by its owner, Harry Tanney, and served until its final demise by fire in 2004, nearly 200 years after its beginning.

Gray’s book contains a list of prominent attendees and chronicles the school’s sports program, introduced by headmaster James P. Hughes in 1890, and its rise to national prominence under the leadership of his son James R. Hughes.

Gray said the Bellefonte Academy football team won national prep school championships three consecutive years from 1924 to 1926. The 1924 team outscored its nine opponents by a 456-0 margin, the

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THE BELLEFONTE ACADEMY football team won national championships in 1924, 1925 and 1926. greatest number of points scored by a college, normal, prep or high school that year.

Their 25-yard line was not crossed by any opponent all season. In those three years, the Bellefonte Academy football team outscored its opponents 1,362-56 while coached by Carl G. Snavely, who later coached at Bucknell and Cornell universities.

Gray said the Bellefonte Academy football team played against large high school teams, such as Williamsport and Altoona,

as well as college freshman and reserve teams, and in 1908, played — and defeated — the Penn State varsity team.

“This was the varsity, not the freshman team,” said Gray. “That’s in the record books — they beat Penn State.”

Gray said he plans to send the book out to be printed in February, and has scheduled a release and book signing event for Friday, April 15, at the Centre County Library and Historical Museum.

The Blonde Cucina: New year, new you, new diet How many of you made a New Year’s resolution to have a new year and a new you?

Beach bodies are made in the winter, and since January has officially started, you have no more excuses to eat those Christmas cookies or nibble on that gift basket you were given. It’s easy to make a promise to yourself to buckle down and eat healthfully and work out, but even if your intentions are good, you have to put those intentions into play.

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Working out, however, is only about 20 percent of achieving your “new year, new you” goal. The other 80 percent is a four-letter work no one likes: diet.

Now, I’m not going to talk to you about the newest diet fad or give you a 30-day diet plan.

I’m here to tell you that you have to choose a diet that will work for you and not against you.

You can choose low-carb, low-calorie, low-fat or anything. Any diet where you modify what you are taking in will eventually work, but it has to continually work so you don’t fall off that wagon.

I found that people don’t really know how to diet. According to my gym guru, knowing when to eat is the hardest thing. You need to eat within 45 minutes of waking up to jump start that metabolism and then you need to eat every three hours thereafter.

Now, I don’t mean eating large meals every three hours. I’m talking about staggering meals with snacks. A protein shake and a piece of fruit, followed by a protein bar three hours later, then a chicken salad for lunch, then another protein shake, then dinner and, finally, a snack.

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THE STATE COLLEGE Sunrise Rotary Club of State College hosted Santa’s Mailbox during the month of December. Pictured, from left, are volunteers Larry Walker, Pam Ferguson, Sharon Barney, Dina Liberatore, Marce Pancio, Carol Baney and Ron Beyer. Not pictured: Gail Kamon, Tom Eakin, Tara Banerjee and Jean Pytel.

Santa’s Mailbox answers local children’s letters

STATE COLLEGE — The State College Sunrise Rotary Club and The Corner Room helped make the Yuletide bright for area children by managing Santa’s Mailbox during the 2015 Christmas season.

Santa’s Mailbox, a repurposed U.S. Postal Service mailbox, was located outside The Corner Room from Nov. 27 to Dec. 20.

A second Santa’s Mailbox was placed at the Centre County United Way’s Festival of Trees at the Central Pennsylvania Institute of Science and Technology. Children also could mail letters to Santa Claus in care of the State College Rotary Club. Children who deposited letters to Santa received personal letters back from Santa.

The Rotary Club’s elves met during

two evenings to read and reply to the 383 letters Santa received. Carol Baney handled all the last-minute letters, making sure all children who participated received their letter from Santa before Christmas.

The Corner Room provided postage for the return letters.

The State College Sunrise Rotary Club was founded in 2006 and provides an opportunity for fellowship, networking and philanthropy for professional men and women in State College. It meets each Wednesday at 7:15 a.m. at the Hotel State College. The State College Sunrise Rotary Club’s other philanthropy efforts include Rotary Exchange students, the prevention of polio and the support of local nonprofit agencies.

New recycling location opens STATE COLLEGE — The Centre County Recycling and Refuse Authority recently placed a new recycling container for corrugated cardboard in State College. The container is located next to the large red recycling contain-

er in the Nittany Mall parking lot, adjacent to McDonald’s.

Centre County residents are reminded to place clean, dry flattened corrugated cardboard in this new container.

Here is a list of snacks that will prevent you from being hungry, keep that metabolism going and won’t break the calorie count bank: About 30 grapes 1 cup of berries with 2 tablespoons whipped topping 6 ounces skim milk mixed with 2 teaspoons chocolate syrup 1 cup mixed berries (raspberries, strawberries, and/or blackberries) tossed with 1 tablespoon freshly squeezed orange juice 1 4-ounce container fat-free pudding 1 small apple, cored, filled with 1 teaspoon brown sugar and 1 sprinkle cinnamon, baked until tender 2 graham cracker squares with 1 teaspoon peanut butter About 6 animal crackers with 1⁄2 cup skim milk 2 pretzel rods with 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard 38 Goldfish crackers 5 Wheat Thins dipped in 1⁄2 tablespoon Nutella or other hazelnut spread 2 cups raw baby spinach with 1 cup sliced strawberries and 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar Here’s a recipe for a delicious dinner that will keep you satisfied and will confuse your taste buds about that four-letter word, “diet.”

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Start to finish: 25 minutes Servings: 1 1 6-ounce boneless skinless chicken breast, halved lengthwise 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 teaspoon minced garlic 1 teaspoon minced raw onion 1 ⁄3 cup each sliced red, yellow and orange peppers All-purpose flour for dusting chicken 3 baby red potatoes Salt and pepper to taste In skillet on medium-high heat, heat the olive oil.

While oil heats, dust chicken breasts with flour on both sides.

Bring a small pot of water to a boil for potatoes.

Once oil is ready, put chicken in the pan and sauté for about 4 minutes. After 4 minutes, flip chicken over and turn heat back to medium.

Add onions, garlic and peppers and sauté all for 10 minutes.

Add potatoes to boiling water for 10 minutes. Drain potatoes and place on your plate.

Smash potatoes with a fork, then pour chicken and peppers over potatoes.

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My most memorable New Year’s Day The dawning of a new year spawns a dichotomy of simultaneously looking forward and backward in time. We embrace the promises of the future, and we relive memorable times of the past.

New Year’s Day is typically a rather laid-back holiday.

Around here, we eat pork and sauerkraut, watch the Rose Parade and a ton of football games, and fall asleep on the recliner. But, one particular New Year’s Day in my life long ago was anything but relaxing. It was one of the most exciting days of my life.

In 1968, I was an engineering student at Penn State and was a member of the marching Blue Band. That year, we marched and played our way through the football team’s undefeated season of 11 wins. Soon the news arrived that Penn State was going to the Orange Bowl in Miami to play against the University of Kansas on New Year’s night, and the Blue Band Sam Stitzer covers was going along. The icing on the cake Penns Valley for was that we were going to fly to Miami, the Centre County which was great news since we had Gazette. Email him endured a rather unpleasant train trip at pennsvalley@ to Jacksonville, Fla., for the Gator Bowl centrecounty a year earlier. gazette.com.

For about two weeks, we rehearsed our halftime show with vigor, driven by our directors Jim Dunlop and Ned Diehl, and when we finally boarded the buses at Beaver Stadium, we were ready for the big event.

The buses took us to the airport in Pittsburgh, where we boarded a Boeing 727 headed for Miami.

The bus trip to Pittsburgh took longer than the flight to Miami. This was the first time I had ever flown on any aircraft, and I was excited about it. I remember the captain saying we were flying at something like 35,000 feet at 525 miles per hour, and I was amazed. It was about 20 degrees and snowing when we took off, and I remember being a little scared looking out the window and not seeing the ground. But a minute later, we broke through the clouds into brilliant sunshine and a sea of fluffy clouds below us,

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JB Griffin Foundation announces donations STATE COLLEGE — Two area nonprofits will continue to provide shelter and support for Centre County residents in need due to recent contributions raised at the 15th annual Shaner and JB Griffin Memorial Foundation Golf Classic.

House of Care, a personal care facility for people with terminal illness and declining health, received a check for $35,000. The proceeds raised from the event, which took place in August, will be used for daily operations and to grow a cushion for future programming at the home, which is for people near the end of their lives who might otherwise not have a place to go.

Housing Transitions, which provides a continuum of housing-related services for Centre County residents in crisis, was presented with a check for $15,000. Centre House homeless shelter, one of Housing Transitions’ programs, provides a roof over the heads of men, women and children while guiding residents to a more stable and sustainable housing solution.

The funds will help repair and replace the roof at the unique facility, which is located in downtown State College.

The JB Griffin Memorial Foundation annually provides funding for local nonprofit organizations and accepts applications throughout the year. The deadline for 2016 funding is Thursday, Dec. 31.

For more information and to complete an application, visit www.jbgriffinfoundation.com.

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and it was beautiful. In a little more than two hours we touched down in Miami in 60 degree weather, and disembarked from the plane, clad in heavy overcoats and hats, drawing stares from the locals, who must have known we were Penn Staters from the north.

We rode buses to our hotel in Fort Lauderdale and checked in. The hotel was across a highway from the beach. We had some free time, so about 100 Pennsylvania boys hit the sand. It was the first time I had ever seen the ocean, and I was once again amazed.

On New Year’s Eve, we marched down Miami’s Biscayne Boulevard in the Orange Bowl Parade. When lining up, we walked by a float with the parade’s grand marshals, Lorne Greene, of the TV show “Bonanza” and pop singer Anita Bryant — a brush with celebrities. Part of Biscayne Boulevard had been painted white and illuminated by floodlights for the TV cameras. I was nervous as we passed through that area, since we were on national television.

New Year’s Day was relaxing, but as the evening game time approached, tension mounted. When we arrived at the Orange Bowl stadium, I suddenly realized that this was the big time, with a crowd of about 75,000 compared to Beaver Stadium’s typical 50,000 in those days.

As the game began, I had no idea that I would soon witness one of Penn State’s most fabled game finishes. The game was a low-scoring defensive battle, with Kansas leading by a 14-7 score in the final minute, feeling confident of a win. But the Lions moved the ball to the 3-yard line and, on third down, quarterback Chuck Burkhart rambled around the left end for a touchdown with just 15 seconds remaining. Since PSU had endured a disappointing tie in the Gator Bowl a year earlier, Paterno decided to go for the win and opted to try a two-point conversion. Rolling to his right, Burkhart tried to hit Campbell for the win but Kansas defenders swatted the ball away. By that time, all of us Blue Band members were gathered on the sideline, near the goal line.

Delirious Kansas fans began their celebration, cheering wildly and pouring onto the field. No one seemed to notice a penalty flag on the ground until a referee waved it over his head. It took several minutes for security people to clear the field so Penn State could try a second time for the

STATE COLLEGE — Citizens Bank football button fans have donated more than 4,000 pounds of food to area food banks as part of the 2015 Citizens Bank Football Buttons Program, which this year celebrated its 43rd season. Fans also raised $5,700 for The Food Bank of the State College Area Inc. by purchasing button sets.

Citizens Bank releases a new button each Wednesday throughout the Penn State football season at 26 branches in central Pennsylvania, including locations in Centre, Blair and Mifflin counties. To create a benefit for the community, fans were able to acquire buttons this year by donating non-perishable food items at a Citizens Bank branch. As in years past, the proceeds from the sale of 12-button sets benefited State College’s food bank.

“Lions fans are as passionate about the community as we are at Citizens, so it was great to be able to bring together the button tradition with that of giving back to the community,” said Steve Minnich, regional branch manager for Citizens Bank.

“We are moved by the generosity of the Community and Penn State Fans,” said Carol Pioli, executive director for The State College Food Bank Inc. “Together, we can provide food security, directly and indirectly, to our neighbors.”

Fans will have one more opportunity to get a button this season while helping their neighbors in need. Buttons bearing the slogan “Lions Walk the Dawgs” will be available at branches through Saturday, Jan. 2. Collection bins

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two-pointer. With my heart pounding, I watched as, just a few feet in front of me, Bob Campbell crashed over the goal line to seal a 15-14 win for the Lions. We went totally nuts. We jumped and screamed, laughed, and even shed a few tears.

I heard later that Burkhart was supposed to give the ball to Charlie Pittman, but changed his mind at the last second, handing it off to Campbell instead. It was the right decision, as Pittman was immediately swarmed under by several Kansas defenders.

KU defensive back Rick Abernethy will forever be remembered as the fabled “12th man” on that play. A substitution mix-up by Kansas created the situation which doomed them. I read that when game films were reviewed later it was discovered that Kansas actually had 12 men on the field for four consecutive plays.

College football history was made that night, and I was there to see it close up. Now that’s a memorable New Year’s Day!

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Start the New Year Right!

Food resolutions can help improve entire well being Improving one’s overall well being is often top-of-mind when New Year’s resolutions are made. Positive lifestyle changes are heavily rooted in the kitchen — start there and take simple steps to achieve better health.

FOCUS ON WHOLE FOODS

Fresh, unprocessed foods are the cornerstone of a healthful diet. Whole foods include fruits, vegetables, legumes, whole grains, nuts and seeds — all presented in

their purest forms, free of unnecessary additives such as artificial flavors, colors, preservatives, sweeteners and hydrogenated fats.

Build a recipe for success with an ongoing grocery list that incorporates natural foods you’re excited to try, and begin to make small swaps. If it seems like an adventure, you’ll be inspired to avoid highcalorie, low-nutrient foods, and stick to those that provide energy and key diseasefighting properties.

Excellent examples of power-packed foods include bananas, dark leafy greens, black beans, avocados, strawberries, peas, quinoa, almonds, chia seeds and rolled oats. When shopping, remember that these foods are typically located around the perimeter of the market.

MEALTIME MAGIC AT HOME

Take a few minutes each week to make meal plans. Preparing and consuming mostly home-cooked meals will train your palate to enjoy more healthful fare. And it’s worth the effort to know exactly what’s in each dish. Over time, you’ll learn to cook creatively with whole-food ingredients.

Heathy eating can be a breeze with a wealth of mealtime ideas that take 30 minutes or less to prepare. A high-performance blender makes it easy to whip up plant-

based concoctions like smoothies, soups and whole-food juices — even healthy sorbets made from nothing but frozen fruit.

STICK TO IT

Now that you’ve committed to a whole foods-centered eating regimen, ensure old habits stay in the past. Take a few moments to write down scenarios that might sidetrack you and how to avoid them. For example, partner up with friends or loved ones to form a support system and encourage each other to make healthy choices when getting together for occasional meals out. And lastly — it’s okay to indulge here and there. You will be successful if you are happy about your choices and don’t feel restricted.

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Directory (Editor’s note: This is the first part of a two-part series about holistic living. The first part is a directory for all things holistic in Centre County. Look for feature stories in the second part, coming next week.)

ACUPUNCTURE

An ancient Chinese practice that involves inserting needles into key points in the body to alleviate pain or other health issues. It has been especially recommended for those who suffer from chronic pain, arthritis and severe headaches.

Local practitioners: Fusion Chiropractic and Acupuncture Acupuncture clinic 233 Easterly Parkway, State College (814) 592-7529 Happy Valley Wellness and Acupuncture 611 University Drive, State College (814) 234-5271 Serenity Wellness Centre Health center 2011 Cato Ave., Building C, Suite 201, State College (814) 206-7624

CHIROPRACTIC

A treatment for back pain and discomfort that involves manipulation of the back and vertebrae by a specialized practitioner. The practitioner aims to realign the spine with his or her hands. Chiropractic treatment is recommended for those suffering from back pain and other back- related issues.

Local practitioners: American Chiropractic Spa & Retreat Health center 112 S. Fraser St., State College (814) 234-4383 Benner Pike Chiropractic Clinic Dr. Anthony Marrara 2820 Benner Pike, Bellefonte (814) 355-1119 Casteel Chiropractic of State College Dr. Joel Casteel 1411 N. Atherton St., State College (814)-235-9400 Centre Chiropractic Dr. Matthew Hertert 123 E. Boal Ave., Boalsburg (814) 466-2000 Diehl Family Chiropractic Dr. Thad Diehl 1315 W. College Ave., State College (814) 238-0232

Downtown State College Chiropractic Group Dr. Jon Masorti 112 Hetzel St., State College (814) 380-9049 Gehrig Family Chiropractic Center Dr. Renee Gehrig 233 Easterly Parkway, State College (814) 231-0717 Hamer Chiropractic Center Dr. John E. Hamer 3010 Maple Ave., Altoona (814) 940-8888 Hildebrand Chiropractic Inc. Dr. Russell J. Hildebrand 1460 Martin St., State College (814) 238-8540 Mikula Chiropractic Dr. David Mikula 1343 N. Atherton St., State College (814) 234-6699 Nittany Valley Chiropractic Dr. Roy Love 611 University Drive, State College (814) 234-5271 Silver Lining Chiropractic and Wellness Center Dr. Melissa Moyer (814) 954-0280 Simpson Chiropractic Dr. Jeffrey Simpson 2603 E. College Ave., State College (814) 235-2266 State College Family Chiropractic Center/ Integrative Health Care Associates Dr. John Scipione 1200 W. College Ave., State College (814) 238-0250 Summit Chiropractic Clinic Dr. David Passarelli and Dr. Constance Bliss 901 Benner Pike, State College (814) 237-2225 Wagoner Chiropractic Dr. Kayla Wagoner 454 Rolling Ridge Drive, Suite 4, State College (814) 954-4182

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A type of therapy that involves exposure to extreme cold in order to reduce swelling in the body and reduce pain. Cryotherapy is recommended for those with swollen joints, chronic pain, complexion issues and muscle soreness.

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Derived from Greek halos, meaning “salt,” it is a form of alternative medicine which makes use of salt. Numerous forms of halotherapy have been known and used for millenia.

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HOLISTIC NUTRITION

A dietary practice that promotes the consumption of raw and unaltered foods, especially organic fruits and vegetables. A healthier diet is suggested for those with chronic health conditions to alleviate some of their symptoms.

HERBALISM

A branch of holistic nutrition that is centered on plantbased herbal remedies and supplements.

Local practitioners: BellaDonna Herbs 921 Pike St., Lemont (814) 867-4700 BeWell Associates Nutrition specialist 233 Easterly Parkway, State College (814) 234-0785 Bill’s Holistic Health 120 Kettle Run Lane, Spring Mills (814) 422-5050

HOMEOPATHY

A philosophy and practice centered on the idea that the body can heal itself. Treatment involves the consumption of solutions containing trace amounts of herbs and minerals that would normally make a healthy person ill, but may improve the health of a sick person. Homeopathy is recommended for those suffering from allergies, arthritis and other internal ailments.

NATUROPATHY

A type of alternative medicine that discourages traditional medicines and surgeries, and emphasizes the implementation of the patient’s energy and holistic medicines to heal.

Local practitioners: Nittany Mountain Homeopathy Holistic medicine practitioner 123 Mount Nittany Road, Lemont (814) 867-3703

MASSAGE

A therapy that involves the manipulation of the body’s soft tissues in order to alleviate pain, or reduce stress and anxiety. Different types of massage are used to treat a wide variety of conditions. Many who play sports or are recuperating from an injury use massage regularly.

REFLEXOLOGY

A type of massage therapy that focuses on reflex or pressure points in the hands, feet, and head. Like massage, reflexology can aid in the treatment of chronic pain, stress, and other ailments.

Local practitioners: A Caring Touch Massage Therapy 1200 W. College Ave., State College (814) 235-1236 A Step Beyond Massage Therapy 431 E. Beaver Ave., State College (814) 441-9331 Antoine Danna, Certified Massage Therapist 113 Spring St., State College (814) 238-9355 Arbor Vitae Holistic Bodywork Massage therapy 111 S. Spring St., Bellefonte (814) 441-4610

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PSYCHOTHERAPY

Centre for Well Being 123 Mount Nittany Road, Lemont (814) 237-3042 Deborah’s Therapeutic Touch Massage therapy 149 Orchard Grove Ave., Lewistown (855) 232-1334 Designer’s Denn Salon & Spa Massage therapy 212 E. Calder Way, State College (814) 234-3366 Dragonfly Therapeutic Massage and Day Spa 1526 N. Atherton St., Suite 200, State College (814) 237-5220 EsSpa 100 Cricklewood Drive, State College (814) 380-9772 Morning Glory Massage Massage therapy 794 Runville Road, Bellefonte (814) 360-1738 Nittany Health Centre Health center 106 School St., Spring Mills (814) 364-9494 Simply Health Salt Spa Massage therapy 1760 S. Atherton St., State College (814) 954-7731 Tanya’s Massage Therapy Massage therapy 129 Nolan Drive, Lewistown (814) 937-0375 The D-Stress Station Health center 111 Boal Ave., Boalsburg (814) 466-1020 The Spa at Kenlee Massage therapy Kenlee Drive, Bellefonte (814) 353-4223 Tiffany Wilson Massage Therapy Massage therapy 2134 Sandy Drive, Suite 9, State College (814) 234-8900

The treatment of mental issues through psychological counseling. Psychotherapy can fix destructive behaviors, habits and emotions, as well as improve social relationships and interactions. Psychotherapists aim to improve the overall mental health of their patients.

Local practitioners: A Journey to You LLC Psychological therapy 1107 W. College Ave., State College (814) 325-0280 Beck Psychotherapy LLC Psychological therapy 103 E. Beaver Ave., Suite 2, State College (814) 409-7744 Changes Hypnotherapy Psychological therapy 3903 Penns Valley Road, Spring Mills (814) 422-8783 Serenity Wellness Centre Health center 2011 Cato Ave., Building C, Suite 201, State College (814) 206-7624

MIDWIVES

Women who are specifically trained and certified to assist pregnant women during birth. For women who do not want to give birth in a hospital setting, midwives can provide at-home services.

Local practitioners: Kelsey Martin, CPM Midwife/doula gentlemidwife@gmail.com

NEUROFEEDBACK

Computer-based therapy that tracks the brains activities via neurons. This method can be beneficial for those suffering from insomnia, narcolepsy or other brain-related disorders.

Local practitioners: Individual Family Choices Psychological therapy 2214 N. Atherton St., Suite 4, State College (814) 237-0567

REIKI

A form of therapy that focuses on the passage of energy from the practitioner to the patient in order to heal physical and mental complaints. Reiki has been especially successful for those suffering from anxiety, stress or emotional burden due to chronic illnesses and diseases.

Local practitioners: Inspired Holistic Wellness Health center 111 S. Spring St., Suite 3, Bellefonte (814) 883-0957 Nittany Health Centre Health center 106 School St., Spring Mills (814) 364-9494 Serenity Wellness Centre Health center 2011 Cato Ave., Building C, Suite 201, State College (814) 206-7624

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SPORTS

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JANUARY 7-13, 2016

Business as usual

Nittany Lion wrestling squad wins sixth consecutive Southern Scuffle

By ANDY ELDER For the Gazette

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — The 2016 version of the Southern Scuffle didn’t feature as strong a field as it has in years past. It did, however, give the nation’s top two teams a chance to get acquainted.

And what No. 1 Penn State showed No. 2 Oklahoma State is that the Cowboys have a ways to go to catch the Nittany Lions.

Penn State crowned five champions out of six finalists and rolled up 183 points to claim its sixth straight Southern Scuffle title Jan. 1 and 2 at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s McKenzie Arena. Oklahoma State had three champs (Dean Heil at 141, Alex Dieringer at 165 and Austin Marsden at 285) and 158 points. Lehigh finished third with 104.5 points, Cornell fourth with 98.5 and North Carolina was fifth with 97.5.

“You look at our finals, we had a sophomore and two freshmen win, that’s exciting for our program,” Penn State head coach Cael Sanderson told the Penn State Sports Network.

Senior Nico Megaludis (125 pounds), sophomore Zain Retherford (149), freshman Jason Nolf (157), freshman Bo Nickal (174) and senior Morgan McIntosh (197) all won titles. Nickal, who was the only champ in the tournament who wasn’t a No. 1 seed, was named Outstanding Wrestler, winning as a fourth seed.

Jordan Conaway was runnerup at 133. Zack Beitz (157) and Geno Morelli (165) both placed fifth, Garett Hammond (165) placed seventh and Kade Moss (141) was eighth.

“I think that, right there, just shows the depth that we have.

Every weight class we have multiple wrestlers who are just solid and competitive. It’s awesome to be in that environment in the room and have all of those training partners, on top of the training partners that we have in the

TIM WEIGHT/For the Gazette

PENN STATE’S Bo Nickal, left, shown here in action against Wisconsin, was named Outstanding Wrestler at the Southern Scuffle.

Nittany Lion Wrestling Club and our coaches, for sure,” Nickal told the Penn State Sports Network.

Megaludis won his second Southern Scuffle title, dominating Oklahoma State’s Eddie Klimara, 8-1. He went 5-0 with a forfeit, two major decisions and decisions over the Nos. 13 and 5 ranked wrestlers in the country.

“Nico is wrestling better and better. He beat some tough kids, some tricky kids. It seemed like he had three real tricky kids in this tournament, but he wrestled well. He got his shots off and won this tournament,” Sanderson said.

Retherford lay waste to the field at 149, going 5-0 with a fall and three technical falls, including his 16-1 finals win over Evan Henderson, of North Carolina, and a major decision.

“I don’t even know what to say about Zain. I just mention his name and I smile. I’m very excited about him,” Sanderson said.

“He’s just a great kid, just his effort, his attitude, his demeanor, his poise. Great leader. And he’s a sophomore; that’s the best part.”

Nolf was almost as dominant as Retherford in going 5-0 on his way to the title at 157. He rolled up two technical falls and then two falls before earning a 7-3 decision over Oklahoma State’s Joe Smith in the final. Smith, who is redshirting this season, is the much-heralded son of legendary Cowboy coach John Smith.

“He’s a guy that when he wrestles, the gym’s going to stop and watch him. Not the tournament, obviously, but the people in the stands. He’s fun to watch.

He wrestles at a relentless pace,” Sanderson said.

“He’s not real happy with his finals performance, but he did wrestle against a very tough kid in Joe Smith. He’ll learn from that. He needs that. He’s a kid that when he wrestles a match and he’s frustrated, he gets better. That’s what he needs. It’s not a bad thing.”

Nickal went 6-0 in his march to the 174-pound championship.

Among those six wins were two technical falls, a major decision and three decisions. One of those decisions came in the semifinals when he knocked off top-ranked Brian Realbuto, of Cornell, in a rollicking 14-7 decision.

“Especially the first two periods, it doesn’t get much more fun to watch than that. It was back and forth, against Realbuto. He does some amazing things. It was a fun match to watch. It kind of slowed down in the third, but I

guess that’s to be expected when they already had 20 points up on the board,” Sanderson said.

“But it was a great tournament for Bo. Probably one of the deeper weight classes. There were several deep weight classes. You had a lot of top guys there. For Bo to win convincingly, that’s a good thing. Obviously, again, he’s a freshman.”

Nickal talked to the Penn State Sports Network about his feelings for the tournament and for his team.

“It’s fun to compete at a great tournament like this. It’s an opportunity to see where I’m at and where I need to improve. It’s great to come out here and compete,” Nickal said.

“It was so much fun. It’s what I live for. What I was put on earth for. I believe that God put me out here for a purpose.”

In the finals he stayed a step ahead of Ethan Ramos, of North Carolina, 11-7, staving off several deep double-leg shots by Ramos.

“We just get in those positions in practice. Wrestling with the coaches, the Nittany Lion Wrestling Club and my teammates you get to wrestle a lot. You get into just about every position you could be in,” Nickal said.

“I would say just being comfortable there and not like freaking out or anything like that. On top of that, our strength program is really excellent. I would say it’s a little bit of experience and a little bit of strength.”

McIntosh went 5-0 in cruising to the 197-pound title. He had two falls, a tech fall and a major decision before edging fifthranked Brett Pfarr, of Minnesota, 3-2, in the final.

“Pfarr’s a guy you’ve got to beat to win the nationals. He’s a title contender. He’s tough and he’s real tricky, too. He’s a very good scrambler, hard to finish on,” Sanderson said.

“Morgan wrestled well. He was kind of in control. He scored Wrestling, Page 17

The planets align for the Pittsburgh Steelers It did not look good for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

A week after losing control of their own fate following a crushing loss to the Baltimore Ravens, the Steelers needed a win and some help to make the AFC playoffs.

The win had to come at 3-12 Cleveland, and the Steelers were more than a comfortable favorite. After all, the Browns had a whole other set of problems to deal with, including the imminent firing of head coach Mike Pettine, a missing quarterback (maybe spotted in Las Vegas) and an injury-riddled lineup.

It was close for a while, but Ben Roethlisberger and the Steeler defense were too much and Pittsburgh pulled away for a 28-12 win.

The other foot that needed to fall was far more troubling. The Buffalo Bills had to upset the N.Y. Jets to eliminate them from playoff contention Pat Rothdeutsch is a sports writer for and allow the Steelers to qualify as the The Centre County No. 6 seed in the AFC. Gazette. Email him Surely, the Jets, needing just a victoat sports@ ry over the 7-9 Bills and former coach centrecounty Rex Ryan to clinch their first playoff gazette.com spot since 2010, would show up with their A-game.

Wrong.

Jets quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick threw three fourthquarter interceptions — on the final three Jet possessions — and the Bills held on for a 22-17 win in cold Orchard Park.

The Bills won despite a depleted lineup that was missing numerous starters, including star running back LeSean McCoy, and despite coming into the game with four losses

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in their last six games. (Although, on Nov. 12, the Bills beat the Jets in New York by the exact same score, 22-17, so somebody should have noticed that.)

What all this shakes out to mean is that the Steelers are in as the No. 6 seed, and they will travel to Cincinnati for a third showdown against the division-rival Bengals this season — a game in which Bengals’ coach Marvin Lewis said his team needed to have an “exorcism.”

Apocalyptic references aside, it’s easy to see what Lewis was talking about. The Bengals have not won a playoff game since the 1990 season, and they have lost 14 of the 17 games they have played against the Steelers in Paul Brown Stadium since it opened in 2000.

The last time the teams played this season, the Steelers knocked out Bengals’ quarterback Andy Dalton with a thumb injury in the first quarter of a 33-20, fight-marred win. Dalton has not returned since.

Coming into that game, the Bengals were 10-2 and since, with replacement A.J. McCarron at the helm, they are 2-2. Besides the loss to the Steelers, Cincinnati lost at Denver, 20-17, and beat the 49ers, 24-14, and the Ravens, 24-16.

Whether Dalton can return for the Steelers’ game is up in the air, but he is still in a cast and it seems unlikely that he could return by game time.

Besides, McCarron has filled in capably. He has completed 79 of 119 passes (66 percent) for 854 yards and six touchdowns. Although he has averaged just 113 yards per game, he has been steadily improving with playing time.

Against the Ravens in the season finale, the 6-foot-3, 210pound rookie was 17-27 for 160 yards, two touchdowns and no interceptions.

McCarron also has a solid supporting cast. Running backs Jeremy Hill (794) and Giovani Bernard (730) have combined for 1,524 yards rushing and 13 touchdowns.

And, fifth-year wide out A.J. Green is having a stellar sea-

RON SCHWANE/AP Photo

DESPITE A TERRIBLE loss at Baltimore a few weeks ago, Ben Roethlisberger and the Pittsburgh Steelers are headed to the postseason.

son. He’s caught 86 passes for 1,297 yards and 10 touchdowns so far. In the two games against the Steelers, he caught a total of 17 passes for 250 yards and two touchdowns.

Steelers, Page 16

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Skoff stands tall for Penn State hockey team PITTSBURGH — The Penn State men’s hockey team found itself in an unfamiliar spot Dec. 29.

The Nittany Lions had just lost the previous night for the first time in nearly two months at the hands of Robert Morris. They found themselves trying to turn the page quickly as they played Clarkson in the consolation round of the Three Rivers Classic at Consol Energy Center.

The Nittany Lions struggled to find their game and were outworked and outchanced through Jim Meinecke covers Penn State much of the first two hockey for the periods. They were Centre County outshot 28-17 through Gazette. Email two periods and were him at sports@ headed for being centrecountygazette. outshot by their opcom. ponent for the first time this season. Yet they looked up at the scoreboard and found themselves with 3-1 lead after two periods. McKees Rocks native Matthew Skoff got the nod in the net, and played one of his best games as a Nittany Lion in front of his hometown friends and family.

A sequence in the second period saw Skoff make two point-blank saves on Clarkson players in the slot. On two other occasions, Skoff made diving saves as

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Clarkson players had wide open nets. He went on to stop 36 of the 37 shots he faced.

The performance did not go unnoticed by head coach Guy Gadowsky. “In the first two periods, Skoff was absolutely awesome,� Gadowsky said. “He stole a few sure goals and that gave us a chance to get our legs under us and I think we did (that).�

It was an important performance as it came on the heels of Big Ten leader Eamon McAdam giving up five goals to Robert Morris the night before. While that result was not solely on McAdam, Penn State needed a collective pick-me-up and Skoff provided that. He attended the Pittsburgh Penguins Prospect Development Camp in July, and he spent a good deal of time playing at Consol Energy Center. He looked very comfortable in net and with his surroundings. “The time I had with the Penguins (helped),� Skoff said. “Any time with guys at the next level (helps). You see the way they go about day-to-day and you learn little things. Working with Matt Murray, he was on my team, and he is obviously having a ton of success with the Penguins now.

Just seeing how he goes throughout his day as a pro, I just tried to be like a sponge.�

After a rough opening night game against Notre Dame to start the season, Skoff has really put together a strong stretch of games. He moved to 5-0-3 in his last eight starts with a .936 save percentage and 1.82 GAA in those starts. The Nittany Lions will need both him and McAdam to be on the top of their games as Minnesota comes to Pegula for a two-game

HEATHER WEIKEL/For the Gazette

PENN STATE goalie Matthew Skoff played one of his best games for the Nittany Lions in a victory over Clarkson during the Three Rivers Classic at Consol Energy Center. series. Minnesota is having a bit of a down year this season at 8-9-0 so far, but they are a hockey powerhouse and will not stay at the bottom of the pack for very long.

The Nittany Lions have struggled against

Minnesota, going 1-7-0 against them since joining the Big Ten. The puck drops at Pegula at 6:30 p.m.

Friday, Jan. 8, and then at 3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 9.

Lady Mounties put away Lady Wolves, 69-37

By PAT ROTHDEUTSCH sports@centrecountygazette.com

PHILIPSBURG — The Philipsburg-Osceola girls’ basketball team has been working on its pressure defenses, and it shows.

Taking on the Lady Wolves from St. Joseph’s Academy on Jan. 4 in Philipsburg, P-O sprung its full-court presses early on SJCA and forced numerous turnovers and mistakes. The Mounties went on a 12-2 run to start the game, built that lead to 21 by halftime, and then coasted out to a 69-37 win.

Senior guard Haylee Heyward, who led the charge for P-O both offensively and defensively, scored 27 points to lead the Mounties and freshman point Halle Herrington added 20 as P-O claimed its third victory of the season against five losses. “We’ve been running (pressure) a lot in practice,� Heyward said, “and I think that’s helped with our pressing.

Anytime you can press a team in the first quarter and get them a little worn out, it’s going to help you in the rest of the game.�

Which is exactly what happened against St. Joe’s. Philipsburg scored the first four points for the night, but SJCA’s Maeve McFeely cut it to 4-2 with a jumper. P-O, however, did not let the Wolves gain any traction, and baskets by Heyward, Cheyanne Bone, Lacey Potter and Herrington pushed the score to 12-2.

By the end of the first quarter, it was 22-8, and the Mounties were on their way. “We talked about that before the game,� PhilipsburgOsceola coach Doug Myers said. “We knew we had to come out and get a fast start. We have to learn to be more on the attack instead of letting teams attack us. “We’re trying to do that a little bit more at practice, and we’re trying to carry it into every game we play.�

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Comeback falls short for PSU

By MARK LONG AP Sports Writer

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — After watching Terry Godwin execute the trick play in practice, Georgia interim coach Bryan McClendon was having second thoughts about calling it in the bowl game.

His players and coaches convinced him otherwise.

It may have been the best decision of McClendon’s short-lived coaching career.

Godwin threw a 44-yard touchdown pass that got the Bulldogs going and caught a 17-yarder later, doing a little bit of everything in Georgia’s 24-17 win over Penn State in the TaxSlayer Bowl on Jan. 2.

“It’s why you have to trust the people that are around you,” said McClendon, tabbed to fill in after fired coach Mark Richt opted not to stick around for the bowl game. “They said it was there.”

It was. And it helped the Bulldogs (10-3) win their fifth consecutive game to close the season, send McClendon out a winner in his headcoaching debut and give the senior class its 40th career victory.

“There definitely was a lot of motivation,” Georgia linebacker Jordan Jenkins said. “We really felt for B-Mac. He was thrown into the fire, thrown into a situation that he didn’t expect to get thrown into and it was just something that we really wanted to ban together and fight for. He was in the same position we were.”

Incoming coach Kirby Smart was in attendance for part of the game and had to like what he saw. Despite a makeshift coaching staff — Georgia used different offensive and defensive coordinators — the Bulldogs turned in one of their most complete performances since September.

It helped that Penn State (7-6) played more than half the game without star quarterback Christian Hackenberg.

Hackenberg left in the second quarter with a right shoulder injury, hurt when linebacker Roquan Smith tackled him. Hackenberg stayed in the game and threw four more passes, but grabbed his shoulder between plays.

He headed to the locker room after an incompletion and returned for the second half in street clothes. He said he wanted to play, but team officials told him no.

Hackenberg declared for the NFL draft after the game.

“It’s been an awesome ride, tough way to end it today,” Hackenberg

High School Sports Schedule Jan. 7-13 STATE COLLEGE:

Boys’ basketball — Jan. 8, at Mifflin County; Jan. 9, Altoona; Jan. 12, at Carlisle Girls’ basketball — Jan. 8, Mifflin County; Jan. 12, Carlisle Indoor track and field — Jan. 7, State College Invitational Swimming — Jan. 12, Mifflin County Wrestling — Jan. 7, at Chambersburg; Jan. 9, at Central Dauphin; Jan. 13, Altoona

BELLEFONTE:

Boys’ basketball — Jan. 8, at Central; Jan. 12, BEA Girls’ basketball — Jan. 8, Central; Jan. 13, at BEA Wrestling — Jan. 8, at Virginia Duals

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PENNS VALLEY:

Boys’ basketball — Jan. 8, Clearfield; Jan. 12, at Tyrone Girls’ basketball — Jan. 8, at Clearfield; Jan. 11, Juniata; Jan. 13, Tyrone Wrestling — Jan. 9, at Juniata MARK WALLHEISER/AP Photo

GEORGIA RUNNING BACK Sony Michel finds some running room against the Penn State defense during the TaxSlayer Bowl. said. “It means the world to me. My family and I talked about it and we felt this was the best decision for me.

I felt my role here and my job here has been accomplished.”

A junior and the school’s alltime leader in passing yards (8,457) and touchdowns (48), Hackenberg completed eight of 14 for 139 yards against Georgia.

Trace McSorley replaced Hackenberg and threw a 17-yard touchdown pass to Geno Lewis on the first play of the fourth quarter and then a 20yard strike to DaeSean Hamilton with 6:14 to play. Hamilton’s leaping grab between two defenders made it close, a welcome change given many of the games on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. The Bulldogs responded with a 50-yard drive that could have sealed the victory, but they failed to convert a fourth-and-2 play at the 23. McClendon decided to go for it because kicker Marshall Morgan injured an ankle on a kickoff and backup Collin Barber missed a 48-yarder in the third quarter.

“If we had gotten a first down, you know, without anything crazy happening, then the game would be

Lady Mounties, from page 15 But Heyward and Herrington restored order with two baskets each, and after a breakaway by Bone, the Mounties restored their lead to 61-31.

“We’ve been working on getting our arms out and on our defense,” Herrington said. “We could have won a couple other games, but we’ll definitely get up there where (we can) beat those teams.”

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over,” McClendon said.

Penn State took over with 1:52 remaining and no timeouts. McSorley converted two fourth-down plays, but eventually ran out time. His final pass, a Hail Mary to the end zone, was batted down as time expired.

The Nittany Lions lost their fourth in a row to end coach James Franklin’s second season.

Georgia led 24-3 late in the third after Sony Michel carried 260-pound defensive end Garrett Sickels into the end zone. Michel started right, made a cut and then gave Sickels a 7-yard ride before stretching across the goal line.

Had it not been for Godwin that might have been Georgia’s top highlight.

Godwin accounted for two scores in the second quarter. He lined up in the wildcat, took the snap and then launched a high, deep pass to Malcolm Mitchell. Godwin was on the receiving end of a touchdown just before halftime.

“I think the coaches believe in me enough to put the ball in my hands to make a play,” Godwin said. “I believe that’s what they’re going to do in the future.”

Bone, Megan Winters and Julie Kephart pushed the score to 69-31 for P-O before Bella Bassett, Romero and Clark scored to make the final 69-37.

“We do play hard,” St. Joe’s coach Brenna O’Connor said. “The one thing that we like to pride ourselves on is that we don’t have quitters. We play hard from beginning to end.

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Boys’ basketball — Jan. 8, Huntingdon; Jan. 12, at Clearfield Girls’ basketball — Jan. 8, at Huntingdon; Jan. 11, West Branch; Jan. 13, Clearfield Wrestling — Jan. 9, at Juniata Duals; Jan. 13, at Tyrone

ST. JOSEPH’S:

Boys’ basketball — Jan. 11, at Bishop Carroll Girls’ basketball — Jan. 9, Linden Hall Steelers, from page 14 The Bengals’ defense, meanwhile, is one of the best in the NFL. They rank second in points allowed with 17.4 points per game and are led by linebacker Vincent Rey (98 tackles) and free safety Reggie Nelson, who has eight interceptions for the season.

Cincinnati holds opponents to under 94 yards rushing, and the Bengals have 21 interceptions and 42 sacks.

For the Steelers, it has been all about Roethlisberger and Antonio Brown and the offense.

Big Ben has thrown for just less than 4,000 yards this season and 21 touchdowns. He has had some down games, notably against the Ravens in Week 16, and has 16 interceptions, but when he gets time, he is among the best in the league.

Brown sometimes looks unstoppable. He has 136 catches this year for 1,834 yards and 10 touchdowns, with 25 catches of more than 20 yards and an average of 115 yards per game.

The only troubling area for the Steelers may be in the running game. DeAngelo Williams, who took over for the injured LeVeon Bell, put up 907 yards and 11 touchdowns for the year, but he was injured against the Browns and his status as of this writing in not yet known. No other player on the roster ran for more than a total of 100 yards.

The last time these two teams met, there were six unsportsmanlike and unnecessary roughness penalties and $140,000 in fines handed out by the NFL. It is an understatement to say that they are not the best of friends, but do not look for a repeat of the skirmishes and fights and penalties. In a playoff situation, a big penalty at the wrong time can be the difference in the outcome of the game.

Most of the attention, therefore, will likely be placed on the quarterbacks. Can Roethlisberger stay hot or can Cincinnati force him into mistakes? Or can the rookie McCarron, in his first playoff game ever and only his fifth start in the NFL, put up enough points against a good Steelers defense to pull out a win?

Steelers fans are pinning their hopes on the grit and experience of Roethlisberger, and it’s difficult to argue with them.

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So long: Hackenberg entering NFL Draft

By MARK LONG AP Sports Writer

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Penn State quarterback Christian Hackenberg had hoped to go out with a victory.

He certainly didn’t expect his college career to end in street clothes.

But Hackenberg spent the second half of his final game with the Nittany Lions on the sideline because of a sprained throwing shoulder. He declared for the NFL draft after a 24-17 loss to Georgia in the TaxSlayer Bowl Jan. 2.

“It’s been an awesome ride; tough way to end it today,” Hackenberg said. “It means the world to me. My family and I talked about it and we felt this was the best decision for me. I felt my role here and my job here has been accomplished.”

Standout defensive tackle Austin Johnson also announced after the game that he’s turning pro. Johnson, a junior who started every game each of the last two seasons, graduated last month with a degree in journalism.

Like Johnson, most outsiders expected Hackenberg to leave early.

Hackenberg left the bowl game in the second quarter after linebacker Roquan Smith landed on him. Hackenberg stayed in and threw four more passes, but grabbed his shoulder between plays. He headed to the locker room for tests and returned for the second half without a uniform.

Wrestling, from page 14 when he needed to score. He did a good job, scored bonus points throughout the tournament for us, which is what we need.

We needed leadership and he’s a senior.

He’s got the ability to score a lot of points for the team and that’s obviously what we need him to do.”

Conaway went 4-0 to reach the finals against Cornell’s Nahshon Garrett. The Big Red senior was too athletic and too talented for the Nittany Lion in a 14-4 major decision.

Starting 141-pounder Jimmy Gulibon went 1-2 and was eliminated early. Sanderson said he is still not fully recovered from the ankle injury that had sidelined him since the Nittany Lion Open on Dec. 6.

“If you watched the matches, he was trying not to put weight on the foot. He’s a kid who you ask, ‘Are you good? Are you fine?’ and he’s ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah,’ but then he’s trying to wrestle like Daniel LaRusso (from ‘The Karate Kid’ movie) on one foot,” Sanderson said.

“He needs to get healthy. He’s going to be fine. We’ve got a lot of time. Jimmy’s

He said he wanted to play, but team officials told him no.

“He just fell on it funny,” coach James Franklin said. “He was able to go. He actually made some plays there. He was going to try to finish that drive. Once he went inside, the trainers, doctors, didn’t feel like he was going to be able to go well enough to continue playing. He wouldn’t have the strength in that arm.”

Franklin said X-rays “came back normal.”

“It’s in that joint,” he said. “Once it gets inflamed, you’re going to lose strength and power.”

Hackenberg was “disappointed I wasn’t able to finish the game.” He said he made his decision to turn pro before the team left State College for Jacksonville.

Hackenberg, a junior, is the school’s career leader in yards passing (8,457) and touchdowns (48), as well as completions, attempts and total offense. He completed eight of 14 passes for 139 yards against Georgia.

Redshirt freshman Trace McSorley replaced Hackenberg and completed 14 of 27 passes for 142 yards and two touchdowns.

“Things are in good hands moving forward, and I’m proud about that,” Hackenberg said. “I did get emotional about it, had a little breakdown in the locker room, but all is good. We’re moving forward.”

After a slow start, McSorley found a

rhythm, throwing a 17-yard touchdown pass to Geno Lewis on the first play of the fourth quarter and then a 20-yard strike to DaeSean Hamilton with 6:14 to play.

“When you first come in, you kind of sort of have to get your feet wet a little bit,” said Penn State’s Chris Godwin, who caught six passes for 133 yards and became the third receiver in school history to top the 1,000-yard mark. “After the first couple throws that were completed, I think you saw a little bit of a confidence boost for him. ... I think that was really big.”

Hamilton’s leaping grab between two defenders made it close, a welcome change given many of the games on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. The Bulldogs (10-3) responded with a 50-yard drive that could have sealed the victory, but they failed to convert a fourthand-2 play at the 23. Georgia interim coach Bryan McClendon decided to go for it because kicker Marshall Morgan injured an ankle on a kickoff and backup Collin Barber missed a 48-yarder in the third quarter.

Penn State took over with 1:52 remaining and no timeouts. McSorley converted two fourth-down plays, but eventually ran out of time. His final pass, a Hail Mary to the end zone, was batted down as time expired.

The Nittany Lions (7-6) lost their fourth in a row to end Franklin’s second season.

And now they’ll likely turn to McSorley to replace Hackenberg.

“I definitely think (this game) has the potential to be big for him,” Godwin said.

“It’s just a matter of how he approaches the offseason. We’re all ready to get back to work. We’re going to watch the film, learn from our mistakes and then we’re ready to get back to work.

still Jimmy. He’s a guy who can win. He’ll be ready with a little bit of time.”

McCutcheon was 2-0 and into the quarterfinals before a back injury, which he had sustained earlier in the season, flared again.

“One-eighty-four was a deep class. I think he wanted to see where he stood right now. It’s kind of a deal where we want to win the Scuffle but it really doesn’t matter whether we win the Scuffle or not,” Sanderson said. “It’s about competing and making progress and building a reputation and obviously preparing for March. It’s more taking care of him. There’s no reason to wrestle him.”

Despite entering three wrestlers at 165 — Geno Morelli, Shakur Rasheed and Garett Hammond — in hopes of settling the weight, nothing seemed to shake out for Penn State.

“Shakur didn’t place, but he lost a 4-2 match to the guy who took second and the guy who placed (fourth). They’re two good guys. He was in those matches. He’s got a lot of upside. You see flashes of that. He had a couple of falls,” Sanderson said.

“Garrett had a couple pins as well. He and Geno (Morelli) wrestled. It was double

overtime. I almost fell asleep. Both of them are so worried about beating each other and it comes down to the end.

“Geno had a good tournament and we see his potential, too. He was right there and has ability to win matches. He’s just got to wrestle and go score points. He’s a little bit more conservative than we’d like him to be. He has tremendous upside as well.”

And, at heavyweight, Jan Johnson went 0-2 as he works his way back into shape after minor knee surgery.

“He lost two close matches. I think his confidence is a big thing for him right now. He’s a little uncertain with himself, committing to his attacks a little bit more. He wrestled for two weeks and then he was off the mat for five weeks.

Then he wrestled for a week,” Sanderson said.

“He really hasn’t had a lot of time to train yet. We’ll be patient and give him a chance. The potential is there, we just have to let his confidence build up.”

Kenny Yanovich (125) and Gary Dinmore (149) also competed, but did not place.

Penn State returns to action at 7 p.m.

Friday, Jan. 8, when it takes on Purdue in West Lafayette, Ind. At 1 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 10, the Nittany Lions travel to Bloomington, Ind., to take on Indiana.

“We go on a fun run here. You’ve got to enjoy it. You’ve got to enjoy competing.

Back to back, that’s part of the process,” Sanderson said. “Being tough and being consistent in Big Tens is a tough schedule.

History would show you that that tough schedule works and prepares you for what you need to do.”

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PENN STATE head coach James Franklin and athletic trainer Tim Bream check on injured Penn State QB Christian Hackenberg during the TaxSlayer Bowl.

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Ring in the new year with art, music, film There are plenty of arts and entertainment offerings to check out now that the new year is here. Some of the highlights include:

ative possibilities and is ever evolving. The dance style encompasses many genres of music, ranging from slow blues to modern rock and from hip hop to Brazilian zouk.

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ART

The HUB-Robeson Galleries present State College Area School District student artwork in Robeson Gallery through Thursday, Jan. 21. The gallery is open from noon to 6 p.m.

Tuesdays through Fridays and from noon to 4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays.

Also at the HUB-Robeson Galleries is “Coded Language,” beginning Friday, Jan. 22, in the HUB Gallery.

This exhibit will feature sculptural installations by Penn State School of Visual Arts graduate student Nicole Lau, and will tackle themes of microaggression, ethnogenesis and identity politics.

Kristin Consorti A public reception for this exhibis an arts and it will be held from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. entertainment intern for the Centre Tuesday, Feb. 9, and will include food, drinks and conversation.

County Gazette.

Email her at correspondent@ centrecounty gazette.com.

DANCE

Start off the new year with free West Coast Sing dance lessons hosted

by Fraleigh Dance at the State College Municipal Building every Thursday through mid-April. An advanced beginner lesson will be held at 7 p.m. and a beginner lesson at 8 p.m., with social dancing until 10 p.m.

West Coast Swing is a dance style that is rich with cre-

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Penn State faculty violinist James Lyon, cellist Elizabeth Lyon Hall and fortepianist Matthew Hall will present a program of music by Mozart and his contemporaries at 3 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 12, at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Centre County.

The program will celebrate Mozart’s January birthday and is a part of the fellowship’s music series.

For King & Country and Matthew West headline the Winter Jam 2016 Tour Spectacular, coming to the Bryce Jordan Center Friday, Jan. 8.

Tickets, which are $10, will be available only at the doors on the day of the event on a first-come, first-served basis. The show starts at 6:45 p.m., doors open at 5:45 p.m.

On Friday, Jan. 22, Guster will perform at 8 p.m. at The State Theatre. This concert offers a high-energy rock ‘n’ roll feel, and the performers expect the audience on the floor of the orchestra to be standing.

Advance-purchase general admission tickets for standing floor or seated balcony are $33, or $28 for students.

A dollar from each ticket sale will be donated to Reverb Charity.

FILM

The State Theatre will premiere “Run Free: The True Story of Caballo Blanco,” a feature-length documentary about ultra-running legend Micah True, at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 28.

True, better known as Caballo Blanco or “The White Horse,” was the focal character of Christopher McDougall’s 2009 best-selling book “Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen” about the Tarahumara Indians of northern Mexico.

Tickets are $11 for advance general admission and $15 for day-of-show general admission, plus ticketing fees.

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FOR KING AND COUNTRY will perform at Winter Jam 2016 on Friday, Jan. 8, at the Bryce Jordan Center.

Fetty Wap coming to Bryce Jordan Center UNIVERSITY PARK — Rap artist Fetty Wap, along with special guest Post Malone, will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 13, at the Bryce Jordan Center as part of the Monster Energy Outbreak Tour.

Tickets start at $39.50 and are on sale now at the Bryce Jordan Center, Eisenhower Auditorium, Penn State Downtown Theatre, www.ticketmaster.com or (800) 745-3000.

Students can receive $10 off regularly priced tickets, courtesy of the University Park Allocation Committee, with a valid Penn State student ID. Students can purchase up to four tickets per transaction — two student and two regularly priced tickets. Students must be able to present a valid Penn State student ID with their ticket upon entry to the concert.

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UNIVERSITY PARK — The Penn State School of Music will host the 2016 Single Reed Summit Friday, Feb. 12, and Saturday, Feb. 13, on the University Park campus.

The two-day event will include several “potpourri” recitals, featuring numerous performers and chamber ensembles. There will be featured artist recitals by Michael McDonald, of the U.S. Navy Band, on clarinet, and Robert Young, professor of saxophone at Crane School of Music, as well as a jazz performance and clinic by Andrew Bishop, professor of jazz saxophone at the University of Michigan.

Also featured will be a concerto performances by summit co-hosts Anthony Costa, on clarinet, and David Stambler, on saxophone, with the Penn State Symphonic Wind Ensemble, directed by Dennis Glocke; a jazz jam

session led by acclaimed saxophonist and jazz educator Rick Hirsch; and a seminar with composers James Grant and Daniel Dorff.

Outstanding staff pianists Kathy Cinatl and Yu-Lien The will be featured, and masterclasses and clinics will be offered. A variety of sheet music, reed, instrument and supply vendors will be on site, including Yamaha, Buffet (Mike Hammer) and Hickey’s Music, of Ithaca, N.Y. Performance proposals and masterclass applications from professional and student performers are currently being accepted. All are welcome to attend.

For more information, visit www.singlereedsummit. com, or contact singlereedsummit16@psu.edu or (814) 865-1252.

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AROUND & IN TOWN WHAT’S HAPPENING To be included in What’s Happening, submit your events by Wednesday one week prior to publication to community@ centrecountygazette.com or mail information to The Centre County Gazette, Attn: What’s Happening, 403 S. Allen St., State College, PA 16801.

ONGOING

Bookmobile — Centre County Library Bookmobile is a fully accessible library on wheels. Look for it in your community and join Miss Laura for story times, songs and fun. Visit the website at www.centrecounty library.org for days and times.

Meeting — Calvary Church hosts a Christian Recovery meeting every Monday from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at 1250 University Drive, State College. Visit www.life recoverystatecollege.com.

Club — The Schlow Knitting Club meets at 5:30 p.m. every first and third Monday.

Knitters of all skill levels are welcome. Visit www.schlowlibrary.org.

Club — The Centre Region Model Investment Club meets the second Monday of every month from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Mazza Room at the South Hills Business School, 480 Waupelani Drive, State College. Call (814) 234-8775 or contact cr20mic@aol.com.

Performance — The Nittany Knights perform at 7:15 every Monday night at South Hills School of Business and Technology, 480 Waupelani Drive, State College. Visit www.nittanyknights.org Safety checks — Mount Nittany Health sponsors free car seat safety checks from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at its Boalsburg location, 3901 S. Atherton St., State College. Certified car seat safety educators will check to make sure car seats are installed correctly. Call (814) 466-7921.

Meeting — The Centre County Advisory Council to the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission holds a meeting the second Tuesday of every month at 7:30 p.m. in the State College Municipal Building, 243 S. Allen St., State College. Meetings can also be broadcast to laptops and iOS or Android devices, or participants can join by phone. Call (814) 689-9081.

Meeting — The State College Sunrise Rotary Club meets every Wednesday at 7:15 a.m. at the Hotel State College, 100 W. College Ave., State College. Visit www. statecollegesunriserotary.org.

Support group — The Home Nursing Agency hosts a free grief support group from 2 to 3:30 p.m. the first and third Wednesday of every month at its Centre County office, 450 Windmere Drive, Suite 100, State College. Call (800) 445-6262.

Club — The Nittany Valley Writers Network meets from 7 to 8 a.m. every third Wednesday of the month at the Waffle Shop, 1610 W. College Ave., State College.

Email nvwn@yahoogroups.com.

Community meal — A free hot meal is from 5 to 7 p.m. every Thursday at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church Community Cafe.

Meeting — The State College Alliance Church hosts a Christian Recovery meeting every Friday from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at 1221 W. White Road, State College. Visit www. liferecoverystatecollege.com.

Performance — Jazz artist Jay Vonada and his duo play from noon to 2 p.m. every Sunday at The Deli, 113 Heister St., State College. Call (814) 237-5710

LIMITED-TIME EVENTS

Children’s activity — There will be a preschool story time from 10:30 to 11 a.m.

Mondays throughout January at the Centre Hall Area Branch Library, 109 W. Beryl St., Centre Hall. Visit www.centrecounty library.org.

Children’s activity — A variety of story time groups will be held throughout January at the Centre County Library and Historical Museum, 200 N. Allegheny St., Bellefonte. Toddler story time will be held from 10:30 to 11 a.m. Mondays. Family story time will be held from 6:30 to 7 p.m.

Tuesdays. Book Babies will be held from 9:30 to 10 a.m. Wednesdays. And, a preschool story time will be held from 10:30 to 11 a.m. Wednesdays. Visit www.centre countylibrary.org.

Children’s activity — A variety of story time groups will be held throughout January at the Holt Memorial Library, 17 N. Front St., Philipsburg. “Mother Goose on the Loose,” a baby story time group, will be held from 10:30 to 11 a.m. Tuesdays. Preschool story time will be held from 10:30 to 11 a.m. Wednesdays. There will also be elementary-level activities from 6 to 7 p.m.

Thursdays. Visit www.centrecountylibrary. org.

Children’s activity — “Make Your Own Magnet Maze” will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Saturday, Jan. 9, and from noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 10, at Discovery Space, 112 W. Foster Ave., State College. Visit www.mydiscoveryspace. org.

Children’s activity — “Design Your Own Gliders and Helicopters” will be held 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 13, through Saturday, Jan. 16, and from noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 17, at Discovery Space, 112 W. Foster Ave., State College.

Visit www.mydiscoveryspace.org.

Exhibits — The Community, Sieg, Tea Room and Jewelry galleries will be open from 1 to 4:30 p.m. through Sunday, Jan. 31, at the Bellefonte Art Museum, 133 N. Allegheny St., Bellefonte. Call (814) 3554280.

Exhibit — “Print Gallery” and “Dinor Bleu: The Vanishing American Diner” will be on display from 1 to 4:30 p.m. through Sunday, Feb. 28, at the Bellefonte Art Museum, 133 N. Allegheny St., Bellefonte. Call (814) 355-4280.

Film — Penn State assistant professor and filmmaker Pearl Gluck will present clips of her new film “The Turn Out” at 3 p.m. at Congregation Brit Shalom, 620 E. Hamilton Ave., State College. Call (814) 404-4470.

Event — A CD release party for Doug Irwin’s “The Bridges That I Burn” will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. at Webster’s Bookstore and Café, 133 E. Beaver Ave., State College. Call (814) 826-3278.

TUESDAY, JAN. 12

Workshop — “The First Step of Starting a Business” will be held from 3 to 4:30 p.m. at the Willowbank Office Building, 420

Holmes St., Bellefonte. Call (814) 863-4293.

Meeting — The Nittany Valley Writers Network will meet from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at Schlow Library, 211 S. Allen St., State College. Email Mark T. Shirey at mts@uplink. net.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 13

Performance — The State College Area School District Delta Program will perform “The Lion King Jr.” at 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. at The State Theatre, 130 W. College Ave., State College. Visit www.thestatetheatre. org.

— Compiled by Gazette staff

HOLIDAY SHOW

UPCOMING THURSDAY, JAN. 7

Event — Family history resources will be available courtesy of the Centre County Genealogical Society from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Foxdale Village Meeting Room, 500 E. Marylyn Ave., State College. Visit www. centrecountygenealogy.org.

Concert — Local musician Van Wagner will perform at 7:30 p.m. at Elk Creek Café, 100 W. Main St., Millheim. Call (814) 3498850 or visit www.elkcreekcafe.net.

FRIDAY, JAN. 8

Open house — An open house for children in grades kindergarten through eighth will be held from 10 a.m. to noon at the State College Friends School, 1900 University Drive, State College. Call (814) 237-8386.

Concert — Folk singer Dennis Cash will perform from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at St. John’s Lutheran Church, 120 N. Main St., Lewistown. Visit www.ortheyinstruments.com or call (717) 567-6406.

Concert — Blues band Miss Melanie & the Valley Rats will play from 9 to 11 p.m. at Otto’s Pub & Brewery, 2235 N. Atherton St., State College. Visit www.missmelanie andthevalleyrats.com.

SATURDAY, JAN. 9

Children’s activity — Saturday Stories Alive will be held from 11 to 11:30 a.m. at the Schlow Library, 211 S. Allen St., State College. No registration is necessary. Visit www.schlowlibrary.org.

Community meal — A ham pot pie supper will be served from 4:30 to 7 p.m. at New Hope Lutheran Church, 119 Cobblestone Court, Spring Mills. Call (814) 4228417.

Event — An “Owl Prowl” hike will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. at Greenwood Furnace State Park, 15795 Greenwood Road, Huntingdon. Call (814) 667-1800.

Event — “Sip and Paint, Happy Valley,” a painting workshop featuring artist Amanda Kunkel, will be held from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at Big Springs Spirits, 198 Match Factory Place, Bellefonte. Email Amanda Kunkel at amanda@mienakayetc.com or call (717) 321-4801.

Concert — The Doug McMinn Blues Band will perform at 8 p.m. at Elk Creek Café, 100 W. Main St., Millheim. Call (814) 349-8850 or visit www.elkcreekcafe.net.

SUNDAY, JAN. 10

Community meal — A pancake breakfast will be served from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Church of the Good Shepherd, 867 Gray’s Woods Blvd., Port Matilda. Call (814) 3214163.

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THE STATE COLLEGE Area High School Chamber Singers, directed by Erik Clayton, performed Dec. 14 at the State College Kiwanis Club Christmas party.

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Hotel Business magazine honors Penn State director UNIVERSITY PARK — Hotel Business magazine has named Penn State School of Hospitality Management director Donna Quadri-Felitti as one of 10 leaders to watch in the hotel industry.

“It is an honor to be associated with these other nine leaders and to highlight the great work happening in the Penn State School of Hospitality Management,” said QuadriFelitti.

Penn State named Quadri-Felitti hospitality director in July. Prior to joining Penn State, Quadri-Felitti served on the faculty of the Preston Robert Tisch Center for Hospitality and Tourism in New York University’s School of Professional Studies, where her most recent post was as academic chair of the center.

The annual end-of-year-list traditionally highlights hotel executives. However, for 2015, the magazine decided to broaden its list to include areas such as education, tech-

nology and government affairs.

“These all impact the hotel business, and we thought we’d spotlight the folks who could give us insight into where we, as an industry, stand and are heading,” said James Schultz, senior vice president, Hotel Business, in a Dec. 15 editorial about the list.

Quadri-Felitti’s main research studies involve improving consumer experiences within a wide range of tourism products from destinations to hotels. One of her research streams centers on the comprehensive tourist experience delivered in rural wine tourism by multiple hospitality and community stakeholders.

Her research has appeared in various professional outlets, including the International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development and Tourism Hospitality Research.

A portion of Quadri-Felitti’s research

on rural wine tourism was supported by a USDA-funded Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Grant.

Additionally, she authors a column for HOTELSmag.com and is a frequent speaker at hospitality and travel conferences on changing consumer preferences and expectations.

In 2012, Quadri-Felitti was recognized as one of the Top 25 Most Extraordinary Minds in Sales and Marketing by the Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International and received the President’s Award from the Food and Beverage Association of America.

An Erie native, Quadri-Felitti previously served as president of the Greater New York chapter of Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International and co-chair of the International Council on Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Education’s Annual Conference Career Teaching Academy.

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DONNA QUADRI-FELITTI is director of the Penn State School of Hospitality Management.

Stock market did not follow historical patterns in 2015 I started 2015 with great hopes for a terrific year in the stock market. After all, it was the fifth year of the decade, which historically is the best performing year per decade. And, it was the year before a presidential election, another plus for stock price performance. Thirdly, central banks around the world added monetary stimulus to the economic mix which created a bull market since the lows of 2008-2009.

The stage was set for an optimal year to be invested in stocks, but at some point the markets ran off of the expected track and left us with a pretty blah year. The stock market does not always follow its historical patterns.

Of the major averages, only the Dan Nestlerode NASDAQ managed to move higher, is the director but not by much. The S&P 500 average of research and the S&P mid-cap and small-cap and portfolio averages ended lower, with the Dow management Jones industrial average down and the at Nestlerode & New York Stock Exchange closing even Loy Investment lower. The Value Line Geometric avAdvisors in State erage performed the worst, indicating College. He can be reached at danielj@ that most stocks ended the year lower nestlerode.com. in price.

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According to MarketSmith and StockCharts.com, the average changes since Dec. 31, 2014, were: NASDAQ, up 3.95 percent; S&P 500 average, down 2.59 percent; the S&P Mid-Cap average, down 4.66 percent; the S&P Small Cap average, down 5.31 percent; the Dow Jones Industrials, down 3.9 percent; the NYSE average, down 8.04 percent; and the Value Line Geometric Stock average, down 11.71 percent.

Based on these market averages, even a good portfolio would have lost some ground in 2015. While there were areas that performed well in the markets, most stocks declined in price.

Before you decide to take it out on your investment adviser, keep in mind that the smartest portfolio managers can rarely move against the markets. It might be better to lower your expectations for your portfolio’s performance in 2015. There is little point to changing an adviser to one who beat the markets in 2015, because it is unlikely that he would produce the same result in 2016. Psychologists call this practice of changing advisers each year the error of “recency bias.” In predicting future performance, picking the best performers from last year rarely will get you another exceptional performance.

The main job of an investment adviser is to preserve your accumulated capital so that you never lose so much money that you are taken out of the game. With this thought in mind, you can start talking about relative performances. My performance standard is to beat the S&P 500 and the Value

Line Geometric stock average, while minimizing losses in down markets. I don’t always make my performance standard, but over the years we have had good performance.

Of course, historical performance is no guarantee of future returns. You still must pay constant attention.

What is in store for 2016? Going back to 1881, each decade’s sixth year has been up an average of 6.8 percent (versus fifth years’ average of 28.3 percent). Presidential election years are the second best of the four-year presidential election cycle, averaging a positive 5.8 percent. So, I have grounds to be optimistic for good investment results in 2016.

This is all tempered with the notion that Janet Yellen, chairperson of the Federal Reserve, just began a tightening cycle in monetary policy here in the United States, a generally negative indicator for year-ahead stock market performance.

Of course, nobody knows exactly how it will turn out next year. We watch the averages and lighten up on investments when averages are moving lower and add to portfolios if the averages are moving in an upward direction.

This isn’t rocket science; it is just following the trends and socking away nice profits when you get them. It bears noting that some investors have managed to find both growth and dividends in the realm of mutual funds. Sometimes investments other than stocks offer potential for growth.

Keep in mind, too, that nothing contained in this article should be interpreted as a promise or guarantee of earnings or investment results, nor a recommendation for the purchase or sale of any security or sector.

Researchers propose new oil extraction technique

By LIAM JACKSON Special to the Gazette

UNIVERSITY PARK — A proposed recovery technique for oil extraction developed by a Penn State-led research team not only outperforms existing drilling and recovery techniques, but also has the potential to sequester more carbon dioxide in the process.

The team estimated that companies using this new technique would greatly improve oil recovery rates. They developed a model that indicates the process could extract between 78 and 90 percent of the oil in a reservoir over several decades. Existing drilling techniques in use today extract a maximum of 50 to 60 percent of the estimated total volume of oil before production, and on average, that number is closer to 35 percent.

The model uses horizontal drilling, in which wells are drilled up to about 4,000 meters, or 13,000 feet, underground, parallel to the Earth’s surface, through known oil reservoirs. This differs from vertical drilling techniques, in which wells run perpendicular to the Earth’s surface.

Two wells, organized in a staggered line drive, form the basis of the model — one well in the top of the reservoir to inject supercritical carbon dioxide into the system, and

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Carbon dioxide normally behaves like a gas at room temperature and pressure, but when it is pressurized and heated past a certain point — the critical point — it becomes a supercritical fluid, which exhibits liquid density and gas viscosity. When injected at a continuous rate, supercritical carbon dioxide is an excellent solvent that is able to contact oil and form two hydrocarbon phases — one that is light, containing a significant amount of carbon dioxide, and one that is denser, containing more oil.

“The idea of our model is that, if you can inject carbon dioxide as a supercritical fluid into the reservoir, it will extract light components from the oil, such as methane.

This forms a less dense and less viscous fluid. Then, the reservoir is drained of water and oil, and the more buoyant, carbon-dioxide-rich fluid expands in a controlled way toward the lower well, where the oil can be extracted,” said

Russell Johns, professor of petroleum and natural gas engineering at Penn State.

The team used data from reservoirs in the Gulf of Mexico, and then developed a computerized simulation that ran 7,000 times to account for variations in reservoir properties that exist across the U.S. The team’s research suggests that this novel method of carbon sequestration would be much more effective and reliable than sequestration techniques currently being investigated, such as sequestration into deep saline reservoirs or water-alternating gas.

The only limitation of the model is that it requires a closed environmental system, in which carbon dioxide cannot escape from the reservoir and water and oil is drained from below.

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THE CENTRE COUNTY GAZETTE

The following property transactions were compiled from information provided by the Centre County recorder of deeds, Joseph Davidson.

The Gazette is not responsible for typographical errors. The published information is believed to be accurate; however, the Gazette neither warrants nor accepts any liability or responsibility for inaccurate information.

RECORDED DEC. 14-18, 2015 BELLEFONTE BOROUGH

Todd C. Fredericks by sheriff and Susan Fredericks by sheriff to Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, 1280 Summit Drive, Bellefonte, $9,191.53.

Rodkey Todd Hockenberry and Jill Denise Hockenberry to Federal National Mortgage Association, 370 E. Beaver St., Bellefonte, $5,543.85.

Diane L. Lomison to David W. Lomison Sr. and Diane L. Lomison, 128 N. Monroe St., Bellefonte, $1.

Heather K. Butler to Douglas A. Johnson and Sharon A. Johnson, 541 E. Linn St., Bellefonte, $1.

Douglas A. Johnson and Sharon A. Johnson to Douglas A. Johnson and Sharon A. Johnson, 541 E. Linn St., Bellefonte, $1.

Heather K. Butler to Heather K. Butler, 525 E. Linn St., Bellefonte, $1.

Guy E. Shaffer to Guy E. Shaffer, M. Melidene Shaffer, Sandrea Lee Breon and William Daniel Shaffer, 130 E. High St., Bellefonte, $1.

Guy E. Shaffer to Guy E. Shaffer, M. Melidene Shaffer, Sandrea Lee Breon and William Daniel Shaffer, 507 E. Bishop St., Bellefonte, $1.

Guy E. Shaffer and M. Melidene Shaffer to Guy E. Shaffer, M. Melidene Shaffer, Sandra Lee Breon and William Daniel Shaffer, 660 Forest Ave., Bellefonte, $1.

Habitat for Humanity of Greater Centre County Inc. to Habitat for Humanity of Greater Centre County Inc., 1155 Zion Road, Bellefonte, $1.

BENNER TOWNSHIP

Cecilia R. Moerschbacher, Cecilia R. Byerly, and Harry J. Byerly to Dustin Holt and Jenna Holt, 927 Valley View Road, $239,400.

DEED TRANSFERS

COLLEGE TOWNSHIP

Christopher J. Jordan and Jamie Jordan to Christopher J. Jordan, 137 Hillview Ave., State College, $1.

Stearns Boal LP to Ryan Burton and Julia Burton, 205 Mossey Glen Road, State College, $98,000.

J. Robert Veronesi to J. Robert Veronesi, 100 Scenery Drive, State College, $1.

John F. McDermott and Sally McDermott to Emily E. Dykstra and Molly E. McDermott, 1001 Evergreen Road, State College, $1.

Jesse J. Pelky to Mary Sue Sargo and Richard D. Sargo Sr., 100 Jefferson Ave., Suite 133, State College, $210,000.

FERGUSON TOWNSHIP

John E. McNitt and Kristen A. DiFranco to John E. McNitt and Kristen A. McNitt, 1959 Harvest Circle, State College, $1.

Edward A. Nicholanco and Patricia M. Nicholanco to Richard J. Marsh, 108 Raleigh Ave., State College, $224,900.

Jennette R. Sankey by sheriff, Jennete R. Sankey by sheriff, Jeanette R. Sankey by sheriff, Jeannette Sankey by sheriff and Jennette Sankey by sheriff to LSF9 Master Participation Trust, 207 Greenlee Lane, Pennsylvania Furnace, $6,099.38.

Brian B. Witmer and Nancy M. Witmer to Frank E. Koehl III and Jennifer L. Koehl, 1420 Circleville Road, State College, $550,000.

LL State College PA LLC to Southwest BOA LLC, 1101 N. Atherton St. and 117 W. Cherry Lane, State College, $6,250,000.

Paul Podwika and Terry Podwika to Rexon Property LLC, 1313 N. Atherton St., State College, $315,000.

Paul Podwika and Terry Podwika to Rexon Property LLC, 1315 N. Atherton St., State College, $315,000.

Thomas S. Hoy to Commonwealth of Pennsylvania DCNR, Route SR-0045, State College, $65,000.

GREGG TOWNSHIP

U.S. Bank and Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency to Seth Weaver and Michael Weaver, 1049 Runville Road, Bellefonte, $78,000.

Robert P. Friend, Sandy E. Friend, and Sandra Yorks Friend to Robert P. Friend Irrevocable Income Only Trust, 104 Serge St., Bellefonte, $1.

Ryan M. Zojonc and Jennifer L. Zojonc to Kelley L. Barron, 954 S. Eagle Valley Road, Bellefonte, $160,000.

Shela A. Spicer to Bradley E. Treweek and Kara L. Treweek, 353 Blue Ball Road, Centre Hall, $345,000.

Michael Dixon by sheriff to Secretary of Veterans Affairs, 144 Long St., Spring Mills, $6,511.98.

Joshua E. Cunningham and Jennifer C. Cornwell to Joshua E. Cunningham and Jennifer C. Cornwell, Long Street Extension, Spring Mills, $1.

Robert L. Smith and Alanna D. Smith to Alanna D. Smith, 159 Long St., Spring Mills, $1.

CENTRE HALL BOROUGH

HAINES TOWNSHIP

BOGGS TOWNSHIP

Donna L. Homan to Matthew P. Bardo and Kendra L. Bardo, 104 Second St., Centre Hall, $197,500.

Jean Y. Stover to Paul Frederick Stover and Eileen A. Stover, 886 Pine Creek Road, Woodward, $1.

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Paul D. Welch III and Mary Elizabeth Day to William Edward Smith and Marla D. Smith, 93 Marvin St., Port Matilda, $426,000.

Dennis Charles McElrath 2008 Trust and Dennis Charles McElrath to Dennis Charles McElrath and Kathy Ann Kimie McElrath, 405 Houtz Lane, Port Matilda, $1.

Matthew Shupenko, Kathleen A. Shupenko and Kathleen A. McDermott to Ellen Dougherty and Bryan P. Dougherty, 40 Buckhorn Road, Port Matilda, $277,000.

HARRIS TOWNSHIP

Kathleen A. Wise to Kathleen A. Wise Irrevocable Trust and Brett C. Wise, trustee, 419 Loops Road, Boalsburg, $1.

Wayne K. Ewalt by agent to Beverly C. Lucas, 926 Oak Hall St., Boalsburg, $1.

TOA PA IV LP to Probst Irrevocable Grantor Trust and Lynn Probst, trustee, 230 Beacon Circle, Boalsburg, $356,442.29.

HUSTON TOWNSHIP

Theodore A. Hanscom estate, Evelyn A. Reeder, co-executrix, and Andrew J. Hanscom, co-executor, to John E. Geisz and Doris M. Mack, 186 Whetstone Run, Julian, $32,500.

LIBERTY TOWNSHIP

Jason M. Brownson and Rebecca L. Brownson to Zachary J. Booterbaugh and Trista L. Custer, 204 Eagles Nest Road, Blanchard, $139,900.

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Kathy A. Beck by sheriff to Bank of America, 449 Clarence Road, Snow Shoe, $6,385.17.

Brian Strayer, Brian D. Strayer and Paula J. Strayer to Brian D. Strayer and Paula J. Strayer, 219 Elm Road, Moshannon, $1.

Brian Strayer, Brian D. Strayer and Paula J. Strayer to Brian D. Strayer and Paula J. Strayer, 225 Elm Road, Moshannon, $1.

Brian D. Strater, Paula J. Strayer and Paula J. Rebo to Brian D. Strayer and Paula J. Strayer, 231 Elm Road, Moshannon, $1.

SPRING TOWNSHIP

Molly A. Hetrick to Molly A. Hetrick, 125 Bigler Ave., Pleasant Gap, $1.

Jody L. Schnars, Jody L. Winkelman and Kenneth C. Winkelman Sr. to Prospect Capital Partners LLC, 126 Faust Circle, Bellefonte, $176,000.

STATE COLLEGE BOROUGH

Brian M. McManus and Laurel A. McManus to Robert P. Baney and Judith A. Baney, 2 Fredericksburg Court, State College, $124,900.

PHILIPSBURG BOROUGH

UNION TOWNSHIP

MARION TOWNSHIP

Robert H. Hedgecock and Jennifer M. Corl to Jennifer M. Corl, 127 Rabbit Hill Road, Bellefonte, $1.

PATTON TOWNSHIP

David A. Powell and Laura L. Powell to National Residential Nominee Services, 323 E. Hickory St., Philipsburg, $50,000.

National Residential Nominee Services to John R. Small and Shannon B. Dawson, 323 E. Hickory St., Philipsburg, $50,000.

Edward A. Dixon, Autumn L. Baker, and Autumn L. Dixon to Michelle E. Flood, 439 S. Second St., Philipsburg, $70,000.

PORT MATILDA BOROUGH

Gary L. Fisher to Steven E. Shuey Jr., 215 E. Oak St., Port Matilda, $20,000.

RUSH TOWNSHIP

Michael S. Metz and Emmylou R. Metz to Douglas E. Bennett and Chacea L. Stanton, 1959 Harvest Circle, Julian, $204,900.

WALKER TOWNSHIP

Guy E. Shaffer to Guy E. Shaffer, M. Melidene Shaffer, Sandra Lee Breon and William Daniel Shaffer, 1611 E. College Ave., Bellefonte, $1.

Ronald N. Lidgett estate and Ronald N. Lidgett, executor, to Troy E. Breon, 104 Hillrise Drive, Bellefonte, $185,000.

Bradley E. Treweek and Kara L. Treweek to Jeffrey S. Williams and Kathy L. Williams, 176 Meadow Lane, Bellefonte, $226,000.

Jacob R. Huntsman and Wendy G. Huntsman

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to Wells Fargo Bank, 158 Whitetail Lane, Philipsburg, $4,368.35.

Donald E. Krenitsky Jr. and Deborah F. Krenitsky to Donald E. Krenitsky Jr., Tomahawk Drive, Philipsburg, $1.

U.S. Bank and Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency to Brian Howell and Charity Howell, 449 State St., Philipsburg, $50,000.

Kathleen J. Bieschke and Daryl J. Gregory to Kathleen J. Bieschke, 1895 S. Allen St., State College, $1.

Jerry Wang and Joshua W. Wang to Bruce T. Bigatel, Martha L. Carothers, Alan J. Bigatel and Cynthia A. Kempinen, 522 E. College Ave., State College, $198,000.

Lawrence A. Peterson to Liliana M. Garces and John E. Roberts IV, 540 Orlando Drive, State College, $286,500.

Orlando C. Lobo and Catherine C. Almeida to David E. McCoy, 114 W. Lytle Ave., State College, $193,000.

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USED IHOME ID 844 used IHome Dual alarm clock radio for iPad, iPhone and iPod; charge or wake and sleep to either one, to a custom playlist, or to AM/FM radio.

The sync button syncs the clock to your iPhonew/remote, Asking $80 obo (814) 933-0502

Sports Equipment For Sale

COLLECTION of PENN STATE Bank buttons, 1972 to 2015 and button history book. $350 for all.

Call for information after 6pm. (814) 466-6853

MIXED SEASONED HARDWOOD For Sale Cut And Split Oak And Ash, Varying Length From 12” To 16” Dried 3 Months.

Ready To Burn Delivered $150.00 Cord & Ranked $175.00.

Call (717) 247-4667

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WANTED MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS Wanted to buy, musical instruments in any condition.

Mainly brass and woodwind instruments but would consider string instruments.

Sorry no interest in guitars or drum equipment.

Call/text 610-588-1884

BOXING EQUIPMENT I have some boxing stuff for sale including nice silver Everlast heavy bag, 2 sets of gloves/ wraps and bag gloves. Includes instructional DVD also.

Boxing with the heavy bag is a great workout. $85.00 (814) 933-6169

REGISTERED NU RSES Are you looking for a new challenge? Are you considering a new career path in the N ew Y ear? If so, then we at C entre C rest are looking for you. We are currently seeking individuals ho possess the follo in qualities to oin our tea . he qualified candidate should possess critical thinking skills; have strong clinical and assessment skills, along with effective leadership ability. L ong term care and or hospital supervisor experience preferred but not req uired, and must possess an active PA R egistered N urse license. We are also accepting applications for PR N and Part T ime R egistered N urses to complement our staff. Attend an informative introduction to long term care on J anuary 1 3 , 2 0 1 6 from 2 : 0 0 to 4 : 0 0 P.M . or you may complete an application and we will be setting up interviews for the N ew Y ear. If you wish to complete an application please visit our website at w w w .centrecrest.org or stop by at 5 0 2 E ast Howard S treet, Bellefonte, to complete an application at the front desk.

LICENSED PRACTICAL NU RSE We recently increased our wages at C entre C rest for the L PN ’ s to stay competitive in our field. f you are see in a ne opportunity and are talented dri en and a clinically stron leader; ability to multi task as well as work independently, then we would like to hear from you. If you wish to complete an application please visit our website at w w w .centrecrest. org . Attend an informative introduction to long term care on J anuary 1 3 , 2 0 1 6 from 2 : 0 0 to 4 : 0 0 P.M . or you may also complete an application. We are also accepting applications for PR N and Part T ime L PN ’ s to complement our staff. Please call us at 814-355-6 777 if you should have any q uestions on this position or other employment opportunities that are available.

NU RSE AIDE CLASSES C entre C rest is currently taking applications for individuals who are interested in our next N U R S E AID E C L AS S . If you are seeking a career in a L ong T erm C are setting, consider taking the N urse Aide C lass on C entre C rest, tuition paid and on job training during the course of the program. We are seeking caring, hardworking, loyal and dependable individuals who want to make a difference in people’ s lives. Attend an informative introduction to long term care on J anuary 1 3 , 2 0 1 6 from 2 : 0 0 to 4 : 0 0 P.M . If this sounds like you, please complete an application by visiting our website at w w w .centrecrest.org or stop in at 5 0 2 E ast Howard S treet, Bellefonte, to complete an application at the front desk.

NU RSING ASSISTANTS C entre C rest is currently taking applications for Part T ime positions on all S HIF T S . If you are a driven, hardworking, committed to q uality of care individual then we want to hear fro you. he qualified candidate should possess their ertification as a ursin ssistant.

Attend an informative introduction to long term care on J anuary 1 3 , 2 0 1 6 from 2 : 0 0 to 4 : 0 0 P.M . Please complete an application by stopping in to see us at 5 0 2 E ast Howard S treet, or by visiting or website at w w w .centrecrest.org

Centre Crest is an Eq ual Op p ortunity Emp loyer ( M / F/ D/ V )

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THE CENTRE COUNTY GAZETTE

JANUARY 7-13, 2016