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FRIDAY, JAN. 10, 2014

For a review of “August: Osage County,” see Page 3

We saw you at...

Pottsville vs. Blue Mountain girls’ basketball game

Meet the contestants See Page 2

Kelsey Fanelli, left, Schuylkill Haven, and Jerry Bowers, Pottsville

Kira Nelson, left, and Breana Brennan, both of Pottsville For more photos from the game, see Page 4

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Shanna Rogers shows off her style during last year’s annual Greater Pottsville Winter Carnival Snowflake Princess Fashion Show at Pine View Acres in Pottsville.

This year’s event will be held at 7 p.m. Sunday at Mountain Valley Golf Course, Barnesville.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 2014

47th Greater Pottsville Winter Carnival kicks off this weekend with meet-and-greets, fashion show

BY ERIC PEDDIGREE COPY EDITOR

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epeddigree@republicanherald.com

irls from around Schuylkill County will begin their road to royalty this weekend as the 47th Greater Pottsville Winter Carnival begins.

Snowflake and Queen of the Snows contestants will get the pageantry started on Princess Saturday. The princesses will be available for meet-and-greets at the local malls and in downtown Pottsville, and the girls will be selling the 2014 Winter Carnival button featuring this year’s theme, “Once Upon A Time.”

Nancy Roberts, Snowdrop/Snowflake pageant chairwoman, said the Snowflake contestants will be at the Schuylkill Mall, Frackville, from 10 a.m. to noon and the Queen contestants will be stationed at the Fairlane Village mall, Pottsville, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. All the contestants will be in downtown Pottsville from 1 to 2 p.m.

The Snowflake contestants are juniors in area high schools, while the women vying for the title of Queen of the Snows range in age from 18 to 29.

Roberts said the event is a chance for the girls to meet the contestants with whom they will share this unique experience.

“It’s just a nice day to really get to know each other,” Roberts said.

She added that the buttons have been sold for $1 in previous years.

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Jessica Weiss, a Senior Princess candidate, introduced herself during last year’s Princess Saturday event. hold their fashion show at 7 p.m. at Mountain Valley Golf Course, Barnesville. In addition to showing off on the runway, the girls will face questions from the judges.

The contestants will perform for the judges again on Wednesday at the Snowflake costume fashion show. Held at 6 p.m. at Boscov’s auditorium in the Fairlane Village mall, the girls will wear costumes representing what makes them special or their future career goals. They will also perform a skit for the judges.

The Snowdrop contestants — girls in second and third grades — make their first public appearance Jan. 18 at their fashion show.

The show, scheduled for 2 p.m. at Boscov’s auditorium, is not a typical fashion show, according to Carole Lee, director of the Snowdrops.

Lee said there are no guidelines for how the girls dress. While some girls wear formal dresses, many contestants over the years have taken a creative approach to their attire. Lee said she has seen girls dress as Please see CARNIVAL, Page 7

Upcoming events

• Princess Saturday — Snowflake contestants, 10 a.m. to noon, Schuylkill Mall, Frackville; Queen of Snows contestants, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Fairlane Village mall, Pottsville; all contestants, 1 to 2 p.m., downtown Pottsville • Snowflake Fashion Show — 7 p.m. Sunday, Mountain Valley Golf Course, Barnesville • Snowflake Costume Fashion Show — 6 p.m. Wednesday, Boscov’s auditorium • Snowdrop Fashion Show — 2 p.m. Jan. 18, Boscov’s auditorium • Royal Tea — 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Jan. 25, Yuengling Mansion • Senior Princess Fashion Show — 7 p.m.

Jan. 26, Mountain Valley Golf Course • Senior Princess Yuengling Night — 9 p.m. Jan. 31, Humane Fire Company • Snowdrop/Snowflake Pageant — 7 p.m.

Feb. 1, Pottsville Area High School • Senior Princess Pageant — 7 p.m. Feb. 8, Pottsville Area High School; Queens Ball, 10 p.m., Hillcrest Hall

‘Osage County’ screams stage, not screen Tracy Letts’ prize-bedecked Broadway drama “August: Osage County” clatters onto the screen in hit-or-miss fashion, with a cadre of stars who go at each other like drivers in a demolition derby. Letts is a punishing, brazenly funny playwright whose work can ignite the screen: See William Friedkin’s diabolically effective adaptations of “Bug” and “Killer Joe,” films that walk the high wire between melodrama and horrific farce.

Here, despite honest efforts

by Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Ewan McGregor, Chris Cooper, Juliette Lewis, Benedict Cumberbatch and director John Wells, the film can’t transcend its theatrical, nonnaturalistic roots. An experience that should be shattering is merely battering.

The story is a three-ring tragicomedy of adultery, alcoholism, drug addiction, incest and poor table manners. It’s set in Pawhuska, Okla., at the funeral for Beverly Weston (Sam Shepard), a poet and semiprofessional drinker who has graduated from drowning his sorrows to drowning himself.

His passing reunites the family’s three daughters, their significant others and sundry relations in the sweltering family house. This provides what military strategists call a target-rich environment for Bev’s sardonic, serpent-tongued widow, Violet (Streep, in a performance both no-holds-barred and subtly controlled).

While she’s exultant at having outlived Bev, Vi’s bitterly aware that she’s next.

She has cancer of the mouth, no doubt caused by her venomous tongue. Despite being half-zonked on painkillers, she works overtime provoking the relatives she rarely sees. Vi calls her witty, shame-based verbal sadism honesty. She is a truth teller

MOVIE REVIEWS in the same way an operator of a wrecking ball is a home remodeler.

Her main quarry is her three daughters. Passive, clinging Ivy (Julianne Nicholson) has remained close to home, ostensibly out of dutiful concern but actually to be near her scandalous secret lover. Embittered Barbara (Roberts) abandoned a promising writing career, following her teacher husband, Bill (McGregor), into academic anonymity and an unraveling marriage. She’s called Barb, appropriately, the offspring best equipped for nostril-flaring, eye-blazing, fangbaring rumbles with mom.

Moonbeam optimist Karen (Lewis) arrives from Florida with a thrice-divorced lothario of a fiancé, Steve (Dermot Mulroney), who letches on Barb and Bill’s potsmoking 14-year-old daughter, Jean (Abigail Breslin.)

After two hours of mounting drama fatigue, the film’s fatal flaw arrives at the climax. You needn’t have seen the play to sense that something fishy has been tacked on the end, which follows a dire but dramatically valid finale with a hopeful fadeout.

It makes economic sense to send audiences home happy.

It doesn’t make dramatic sense to follow two hours in an emotional cement mixer with a preposterous coda designed to soothe us. If movies are going to be utterly illogical, they might as well be real life, right?

“August: Osage County,” a The Weinstein Company release, is rated R for language including sexual references, and for drug material.

Running time: 119 minutes. ★★½

“Her” The crafters of science fic-

tion have often speculated about what will happen when computers and robots develop consciousness, becoming as self-aware as their masters. In many cases, the results aren’t pretty. From “2001: A Space Odyssey” to the TV series “Battlestar Galactica,” and such lesser films as “Colossus: The Forbin Project” and “Demon Seed,” the coming era of artificial intelligence long has been seen as a time when machines will turn on their makers.

Director/writer Spike Jonze has a different idea. In the languidly enjoyable romantic drama “Her,” a lonely young man falls head over keyboard in love with his computer’s operating system. Mind you, it’s not just any operating system but one

designed to be empathetic with humans, and has Scarlett Johansson as its Siriwith-sex-appeal voice. Who could resist?

Certainly not Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix), a copy writer in a near-future where a smoggy, skyscraper-dotted Los Angeles looks suspiciously like a cross between a Chinese megalopolis (the film was partially filmed in Shangai) and the Apple corporate campus. Theodore earns his living writing poetic Hallmark-style homilies for an online service aimed at consumers who want to send a handwritten letter without putting in the emotional effort.

While Theodore can summon romantic notions for others, his own love life is

stuck in neutral since a split with his wife, Catherine (Rooney Mara). Enter the latest upgrade in artificial intelligence, a computer operating system that can take on a human personality and voice while interacting with the user as a friend, not an appliance.

Theodore’s OS takes the name Samantha, and while at first she does what a computer might be expected to do — reads his emails to him, for example — the two begin a subtle flirtation that grows into something more. What at first seems wildly improbable blooms into a sweet, warm and low-key love story.

Even though Johansson is never seen, she still manages to convey a sense of falling in love, no easy feat. Phoenix

delivers his least mannered performance, fully becoming a guy for whom life seems to be passing him by.

But the questions raised by those earlier nightmarish filmic visions of a society increasingly dependent on computers are still here in the more dreamy “Her,” whispering in the background. And this is where the film derives its tension and payoff.

Samantha may be more alluring and sexy than “2001: A Space Odyssey’s” HAL 9000, but that doesn’t make her any more compatible.

“Her,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release, is rated R for strong language, sexual content and brief graphic nudity.

Running time: 119 minutes. ★★★★

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We saw you at ... the game on Saturday

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Brandon Firestine, left, Pottsville, and Justine Carl, Minersville

From left, Jada Alexis, New Ringgold; Shauna Redanauer, Lake Wynonah; Taylor Zerbe, Orwigsburg

From left, Morgan Bruen, Alexandra Barr and Taylor Correll, all of Pottsville

Front, from left, Alyssa Bowers and Madelyn Tarconish; back, Sierra Watkins, Olivia Moran and Gabby Heimbaugh, all of Pottsville

Photos by David McKeown

From left, Jenna Williams, Emily Soubik and Taylor Gerchak, all of Pottsville

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EVENT — Princess Saturday, Snowflake, 10 a.m. to noon, Schuylkill Mall, Frackville, and Senior Princess, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Fairlane Village mall, Pottsville; Snowflake and Senior Princesses, 1 to 2 p.m., downtown Pottsville.

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CHINESE AUCTION — Shop and drop, 6 to 8 p.m. today, doors open at noon, auction starts 2 p.m. Sunday, East Norwegian Township Fire Company, 16 Sunshine St., Diener’s Hill, Pottsville. Admission $3. Kitchen open both days. Call 570-449-6354.

MEETING — Pottsville Open Writers, 11 a.m., Pottsville Free Public Library, 215 W. Market St., Pottsville.

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ANNUAL GREATER POTTSVILLE WINTER CARNIVAL EVENT — Snowflake Fashion Show, 7 p.m., Mountain Valley Golf Course clubhouse, Barnesville.

CHINESE AUCTION — 2 p.m., doors open at noon, East Norwegian Township Fire Company, 16 Sunshine St., Diener’s Hill, Pottsville.

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A photograph called “Trapped” will be one of more than 30 photos presented by Larry Deklinski at the Fine Art Gallery in Shamokin.

Deklinski’s photos to be featured at gallery FROM STAFF REPORTS

SHAMOKIN — The latest showcase at the Fine Art Gallery of the Northumberland County Council for the Arts and Humanities will feature the personal work of Larry Deklinski, a staff photographer for The News-Item.

The showcase, on display until Feb. 21, will feature a variety of photographs from Deklinski’s personal collection along with several vintage photos of Shamokin taken by the late Paul and Myron Thomas of the former Paul Thomas Studio in Shamokin.

Deklinski, 31, of Ranshaw, is a self-taught photographer. His interest in photography began midway through his senior year at Shamokin Area High School when he joined the yearbook club. He attended Millersville University, where he was four-year member of Touchstone, the university’s yearbook. He did not have access to a professional camera until he became a junior.

Deklinski could not take any photography courses but gained experience by taking photos at campus sporting and community events. He graduated in December 2004 with a bachelor’s degree in earth science.

It wasn’t until 2006 when he again had access to a camera after purchasing his first SLR camera. Over time, he purchased another camera, several lenses and accessories. On Dec. 15, 2008, he became a full-time employee of The News-Item.

In addition to hundreds of Thomas photos, Deklinski’s personal work can be viewed and purchased at www.daladophotography.com.

A public reception will be held from 6:30 to 8 p.m. today at the gallery on the first floor of the Northumberland County Career and Arts Center, 2 E. Arch St. Guests should use the lower handicap entrance near the Eighth Street entrance of the parking lot.

The gallery is open weekdays from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.

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BINGO — 6:30 p.m., doors and kitchen open 5 p.m., Coaldale Ambulance building. Call 570-645-2050.

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their favorite American Girl doll, Tinkerbell and even the Elf on the Shelf.

“It’s amazing how creative some of the girls and moms are,” Lee said.

The contestants will also have to answer questions as the show is a judged event.

“It’s a worthwhile little show to watch,” Lee said.

The Snowdrops and Snowflakes will gather together on Feb. 1 for their pageant at Pottsville Area High School.

Scheduled for 7 p.m., the Snowdrops will kick off the event followed by the crowning of the Snowflake Princess. Roberts said an intermission with entertainment is being planned.

Following Princess Saturday, the Queen contestants will hold their fashion show at 7 p.m. Jan. 26 at Mountain Valley Golf Course.

The girls will be judged again Jan. 31 at Yuengling Night hosted at 9 p.m. by Humane Fire Company, Pottsville. According to Dee Boris, coordinator of the Queen of Snows, the girls will have to answer situational or unique questions.

T.J. Fitzpatrick will serve as master of ceremonies.

Boris said one of her

favorite parts of the carnival is seeing the girls’ growth in self confidence.

“I always tell the girls, I think there are skills and the experience they gain really help them after Winter Carnival,” Boris said.

The carnival will conclude with the crowning of the Queen of the Snows on Feb. 8 at Pottsville Area High School.

A special event for all girls participating in Winter Carnival events is the Royal Tea on Jan. 25. Held at the Yuengling Mansion, Mahantongo Street, Pottsville, the girls will enjoy a tea party with the reigning princesses and queen. Two parties are scheduled for 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.

So far, Roberts said there are 30 Snowdrop and 25 Snowflake contestants. Boris said 18 girls have signed up for the Queen of the Snows competition.

Despite there being only one winner, Boris said the girls gain valuable experience and friendships from participating in the Winter Carnival.

“It’s a nice time to get away from the winter doldrums and have something fun to do,” Boris said.

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‘Polar Vortex,’ get over yourself, you’re just cold “Snowmaggedon,” “Snowpocalypse,” “Polar Vortex.”

What happened to just “winter?”

As a writer, I understand the tendency to be colorful and descriptive with words in order to increase the impact of the point one is attempting to get across.

But with weather, as well as many other media highlights, it seems a little extreme and exaggerated.

Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy a good exaggeration. I’ve been using that tactic for like 800 years now; I just don’t know if it’s the best idea to instill panic in a nation by calling a cold front an “polar vortex,” as if a secret portal is going to open up through which you can stumble into Eternia and hang out with He-Man and Skeletor.

Jenna Wasakoski

How about it’s just going to be cold — very cold? Watch your pipes, your pets, your heating oil levels, your extremities outside and all that good stuff. Take it seriously, but don’t make it into a Hollywood production. People throughout history have survived much harsher conditions.

On one hand, I find it amusing and delightfully ridiculous, but on the other hand, I think it has an underlying motive to work people

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up, cause them to panic and up the sales of milk, bread and eggs.

I’m not saying it’s a conspiracy; I hate conspiracy theories. I just recognize our world’s tendency to make a mountain out of a molehill and a vortex out of a cold front.

Yes, that is the proper meteorological term, but it seems it got a little sensationalized to me.

What’s next?

Spring showers turn into “Water droplets assault the region,” and May flowers prompt headlines like, “Angiosperms overrun area landscapes.” Hot summer days will be hyped up by such words as: “Gigantic fireball toasting the flesh of fairskinned human beings.”

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Weather is repetitive in a seasonal climate such as ours, and the cold blast we experienced this past week was brutal, but naming winter storms and using terms such as “polar vortex” over and over only adds fuel to an already paranoid and panicked society. Give us the facts, please. Should we build an ark or grab some sunscreen?

Nevertheless, I’m ready for the startling invasion of unseasonably mild temperatures on Saturday. Fifty degrees? Bring it.

(Wasakoski, a News-Item editor, is a graduate of Von Lee School of Aesthetics and is certified as a professional makeup artist.)

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Differences in ‘to one,’ ‘for one,’ broken down

Dear Mark: In gambling, the term “to one” and “for one” are often used. Any chance you can break down the differences with a few examples for us? I mostly play roulette and video poker.

Fred S. Anytime, Fred, you notice “for” in the middle of something for something, it indicates that you are NOT keeping your original wager in addition to your payback.

For example, when you see odds quoted as six “for” 1, it means you get a total of $6 back for every $1 wagered.

Your “net” win, Fred, is five units, or 5 “to” 1.

Another way of looking at it is, whenever odds are quoted “X amount for one,” and you win, you will “net” one unit less than X. In video poker, if you paytable pays 8-for-1 on a full house with one coin inserted, that coin is subtracted from the credit meter, then the full house adds eight credits when it hits. Your 8for-1 payback is actually a profit of seven coins.

Using “to” one with roulette as an example, if you bet a chip on a particular number, say for instance 22 black and win, you keep your original chip and receive 35

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more in winnings.

Here, you are paid 35 “to” 1. In a sense, Fred, the effect is the same, whether we call it 36-for-1 or 35-to-1. You have wagered one chip, and after your win you have 36 chips, 35 of which are profit.

Off strategy?

Dear Mark: As basic strategy advises, any time I have a 16 against a dealer 10, I take a hit. When the dealer is showing a seven (7), I panic and stand, even though the rules state I should be hitting. Mathematically, how off is my strategy?

Jeb G. Both hands, Jeb, are downright dogs. Yep, losers, and yet, one strategy is lighter on the wallet than the other.

Beginning blackjack players will usually hit 16 against a dealer’s 10, but most, like you, get gun shy with their 16 against a dealer 7. So, which of the two hands is tougher on your billfold? There is a

larger swing monetarily when you stand on a 16 against a 7 than against a 10.

Here’s the arithmetic, Jeb. Hitting that dog 16 versus standing pat against a 10 takes you from a 54¢ loser to a 52¢ loser. By hitting your 16 against the 7, you will go from a 48¢ loser to a 40¢ loser.

Overall, you gain more by hitting your 16 against a 7 than against the 10.

Worst dealer card

Dear Mark: In blackjack, which is the worst up-card that the dealer can possess?

Marty C. Although you would think it’s a six, the dealer will bust more often than not when showing a five (5). More than any other up-card, with a five, he or she has approximately a 42 percent chance of busting.

Gambling wisdom of the week Marie Antoinette owned a cue made of a single piece of ivory. She reportedly valued it so much that she wore the key to the cabinet in which it was stored around her neck.

— Mike Shamos, “Pool: History, Strategies and Legends” (1994) (Pilarski can be reached at pilarski@markpilarski.com)

Art classes to be held in Millersburg FROM STAFF REPORTS

MILLERSBURG — Adults and older teens age 15 and above will have an opportunity to explore their creative talents in watercolor, collage, drawing, acrylic or oil.

The new adult/youth art classes are forming at Gallery on the Square, Millersburg.

Those attending should bring their own supplies for the first class. Watercolor paper is available for purchase at the gallery.

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focus on drawing as well as assisting students with their projects. Students will enjoy a casual atmosphere while sharpening their ability to draw, depict light and shadow, and use color. Classes will be held in the upstairs classroom.

Crum is the art teacher at Halifax Area High School. He received his art and teaching credential at Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, Calif.

To register for the class call Yvonne at 717692-3204.

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Changes as a direct result of feedback received from our Readers and Shoppers: • Winter sale in January • Mass produced fiction grouped by the first initial of the authors last name.

• August sale dates made public earlier.

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