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FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 2014

For a review of “Transformers: Age of Extinction,” see Page 3

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District 24 Little League All-Star 11-12Year-Old Tournament

Who will be the next Schuylkill County Idol?

See Page 2

From left, Chloe Demcher, Emily Koinski and Carly Demcher, all of Saint Clair

Danny, left, and Luke Marmas, New Philadelphia For more photos from the game, see Page 5

In the spotlight

Schuylkill County Idol XII to begin Tuesday

BY ERIC PEDDIGREE COPY EDITOR

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epeddigree@republicanherald.com

ingers from Schuylkill County will take the stage next week to claim the title of idol.

Schuylkill County Idol XII will begin at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Schuylkill Mall, Frackville. Deadline to register to enter the annual singing competition is 5 p.m. Sunday. Participants should return a registration form, song selection form and a photo of themselves to the Schuylkill Mall Customer Service Center.

Dana Baker, mall marketing director, said a rush of registrants is expected over the weekend. She said the contest draws in about 20 singers annually.

“Every year there is more talent.

It shows there is so much talent in

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If you go

What: Schuylkill County Idol XII When: 6 p.m. every Tuesday through July 22 Where: Schuylkill Mall center court, Frackville.

Schuylkill County,” she said.

Baker said the competition will run for four weeks. On Tuesday, the singers will perform a song they selected. All songs will be screened by mall management prior to the contest. Baker said the singing competition is a family friendly event and they don’t want the singers to perform songs with inappropriate language or content.

Three judges will score the singers on a scale from one to 10 in four categories — stage presence, technical ability, showmanship and overall performance.

Baker said the judges will tally up the scores and the Top 10 highest scores will be announced Tuesday. The 10 singers will be paired up for duets on the second week of the competition, July 8.

Each round will begin at 6 p.m.

Tuesday. Every week the results will be posted in center court or on the mall’s website, www.shopschuylkillmall.com, at 3 p.m. Wednesday.

Following duets, the field will be slashed to six contestants for the semifinals. Baker said singers will have the songs chosen for them, either by judges, a potluck or some other surprise way.

“We definitely challenge them as the contest progresses,” she said.

The Top 3 scorers will advance to the finals on July 22. The winner will be announced on stage

NICK MEYER/STAFF PHOTO

Robert Mills, 25, of Mahanoy City, performs “Don’t Stop Believin’ ” by Journey during the first round of last year’s Schuylkill County Idol competition at the Schuylkill Mall. Schuyklill County Idol XII will begin at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the mall’s center court. LEFT: Elizabeth Smallwood, 18, of Hegins, performs “A Moment Like This” by Kelly Clarkson during last year’s competition. that night at 8 p.m.

The winner will get a prize package that includes a $1,000 shopping spree at the Schuylkill Mall, $100 gift certificate courtesy of The Bon-Ton, a makeover courtesy of the Beverly Carlton Salon, professional photo shoot courtesy of Michael’s Photography, Frackville, and a performance at the Schuylkill County Fair on Aug. 2.

Baker said in addition to the singing competition, the Schuylkill

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United Way will be promoting its “Stuff the Bus” campaign to collect school supplies that will be distributed to families who cannot afford necessities like pens, pencils, notebooks and backpacks. She said people will receive a raffle ticket for prizes for every item donated. Baker said those who donate during the first hour of the Idol competition will be entered for a chance to win tickets to a Reading Fightin Phils game.

“They do really well,” Baker said.

“It really does make a difference.”

Now in its 12th year, Baker said the competition continues to draw in singers from around the county who want their time in the spotlight.

“They all want that title. That’s what they are all vying for, that title and they love to sing,” Baker said.

For more information on Schuylkill County Idol XII, visit the mall’s website.

‘Age of Extinction’ runs on and on The special effects are sharper, less blurred, and the robots far more defined in “Transformers: Age of Extinction.” Four films into this series and the giant thinking, wise-cracking, lecturing alien robots have a look that finally suggests weight and metallic wear and tear.

Stanley Tucci and T.J. Miller come in as human comical relief, and John Goodman and Ken Watanabe provide new voices, sometimes used for comedy, as new Autobots.

And if “Age of Extinction” makes you feel dumber just for having watched it, well, that’s the price of popcorn these days. If it keeps Michael Bay out of trouble for years at a time (this is the start of a new trilogy), we’ll just grit our teeth and bare it.

Five years since “The Battle of Chicago,” the Decepticons have been wiped out, their metal salvaged by a rich industrialist (Tucci). But an alien robot bounty hunter named Lock Down has come in and teamed with a rogue CIA megalomaniac (Kelsey Grammer) to try and wipe out or capture the last of the Autobots. All aliens must go.

Meanwhile, in rural Texas, inventor/scrap collector Cade Yeager (Mark Wahlberg) is trying to save the farm and his hotsie-totsie daughter’s virtue by salvaging a crashed semi he found stuck in an abandoned cinema. When he and his partner Lucas (T.J. Miller of “She’s Out of My League”) resurrect the old truck and it burbles to life as an outraged Optimus Prime (voiced by Peter Cullen, the luckiest man in show business), their world gets complicated. And deadly.

Middle age has not dulled Bay’s passion for photographing nubile starlets from the midriff down. Thus does Nicola Peltz take on the Megan Fox role of hottie-du-jour.

MOVIE REVIEWS Her character, Tessa, spends the movie in heavy make-up and Daisy Duke cut-off shorts so skimpy her dad (Wahlberg) urges her to wash them in “cold water, and AIR d r y. ” B e c a u s e t h e y ’ r e “shrinking by the minute.”

Jack Reynor plays the beau that high school senior Tessa is not supposed to be dating.

Luckily for everybody, this Irish-accented lad is a rally driver, and in the film’s best chase, saves father and daughter’s bacon hurtling through the Texas cornfields.

That doesn’t mean Dad’s not calling him “Lucky Charms” as an insult.

The humans and their gathered robot teammates crash from Texas to Chicago, Beijing to Hong Kong, transfo r m i n g f ro m C a m a ro Pagani/Bugatti etc. into Autobots as they battle Lock Down’s metallic minions and trash assorted those cities as they do.

The wisecracks are pretty worn out by now. But Goodman, as a portly Autobot sergeant chomping an electronic cigar, spits out a few in between gunfights.

Which are plentiful in this “Transformers,” a movie with a staggering, mostly unseen body count. The language is rougher, but it’s the mayhem that boggles the mind. Thousands must be dying as all this real estate and transit is squashed. We almost never see people, even in the Winnebago crushed on an Interstate brawl.

They’re running out of lectures for Optimus to give us about our treacherous, violent nature, running out of ways to transform (digital disinte g ration in some scenes, here), running out of Transformers to be turned into toys (metal dinosaurs?

Space ships?).

Yet “Age of Extinction” runs on and on, popcorn piffle without end. Two hours and 45 minutes is a pretty steep price to pay for keeping Michael Bay at bay.

“Transformers: Age Of Extinction,” a Paramount release, is rated PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action, language and brief innuendo. Running time: 165 minutes. ★★

“They Came Together” Amy Poehler and Paul Rudd are such reliably funny actors that you’d be safe betting they could perform an instruction manual and still be amusing doing it.

Which is kind of what “They Came Together” is — a How-to-Make-a-Romantic-

Comedy primer.

Think of it as a self-aware 80-minute R-rated “Saturday Night Live” sketch — more than a few laughs, more than a few sharp observations about the conventions/cliches of the genre, more than a few “SNL” and “The Office” alumni as stars or co-stars.

Molly is the “cute, kinda klutzy” one, a bubbly goof who runs a sweets shop named “Upper Sweets Side,” a gal who can say “New York City was almost like a boyfriend for me.”

Joel is her “just Jewish enough” date, an office drone at the “faceless, evil conglomerate,” CSR (Candy Systems & Research).

And “They Came Together” is them telling the story, in long

flashbacks, about how they met in that “typical, corny, romanticcomedykindof way.”

Bill Hader and Ellie Klemper are the dinner-date couple who insist hearing the tale.

The Michael ShowalterDavid Wain script almost blinds itself with its knowing winks. There’s the revelation that, just as in such films as “You’ve Got Mail” and its antecedents, Joel’s company is a threat to Molly’s shop, and “disclosing this information was a huge turn of events.”

Kenan Thompson of “SNL” plays the one friend who urges Joel to propose to Molly: “Being married is great.

That’s the point of view I (his character) represent!”

That shtick wears thin quickly, but throw-away

moments and the odd zinger really goose this farce.

Every so often, some R-rated jolt rattles the sketch-comedy cage this is trapped in — Joel’s acrobatic sex scene with his ex (Cobie Smulders), Molly’s thank-you kiss to her obligatory black best friend/assistant (Teyonah Parris), a kiss that goes on a little too long.

But Poehler and Rudd riff and banter like old marrieds.

They make even the cheesiest lines funny, make even the cliched dating montages set to syrupy pop music feel —if not fresh and new — at least funny enough to mock.

“They Came Together,” a Lionsgate release, is rated R for language and sexual content. Running time: 83 minutes. ★★½

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Big winnings are traceable

Dear Mark: I saw your column about getting a tax form whenever you win $1,200 or more. Does that also apply to sports bets? I am thinking it is easy to win more than $1,200 on a sports bet, or a 6-team NFL parlay. It would seem wise to make sure that your bet doesn’t pay more than $1,200.

Don C. The technical answer here, Don, is that any winnings, from whatever form of gambling worldwide, are taxable and must be reported as “Other Income,” on Form 1040, of the U.S. Individual Tax Return.

This includes a sports bet, slot jackpot, even beating

er legal or illegal —is taxable unless specifically excluded by statute. So, yes, even when Uncle Louie Deal Me In eventually pays you from the Super Bowl bet you had with him last year, “technically,” you must report that as income.

In spite of what I just statUncle Louie at a game of tid- ed, we live in the real world. dlywinks. Failure to correct- Reality says that 99 percent ly report your haul can of people who win a few result in serious penalties bucks here and there never and headaches, that, believe report it. me, you don’t want any part Furthermore, I haven’t of. Never, Don, underestimet a person in the 35-plus mate the desire of the IRS to years that I have been in the get its hands on your business that declares every moolah. nickel that dribbles out of a It is a settled point of tax slot machine. Of course, law that all income —wheth- there are individuals who

Mark Pilarski

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player, in any one given day.

So how do you completely avoid taxes? Stop gambling!

Wait! Hold that thought. I just noticed that the current odds on the Detroit Tigers winning the World Series are 10/1. I’ve got to get me some action on that.

Gambling wisdom of the week “The pure sensuality of the betting moment... It is a neurological jolt made up of greed, lust and excitement mixed together with a strong dose of fear.”

— Edward Allen, “Penny Ante” (1992) (Pilarski can be reached at pilarski@markpilarski.com)

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bingo or slot machine win is above $1,200, or the net proceeds from a keno win are greater than $1,500, less the cost of the tickets bought on the winning game.

Not all gambling winnings in the amounts above are subject to IRS Form W2G. W2-Gs are not required for winnings from table games such as blackjack, craps, roulette, baccarat, pai gow, etc., even if you won a decent chunk of change.

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keep meticulous, verifiable records to support their winnings and losses pertaining to gambling. This, by the way, is imperative if the IRS serves you with an audit.

So, Don, what size of a gambling win triggers traceable paperwork? According to Uncle Sam, the payer must issue you a W2-G form if your winnings are $600 or at least 300 times the amount wagered. This would be representative of winnings from sports betting, dog racing, horse racing and state lotteries.

Casino winnings are treated a little differently, as a W2-G must be issued and filled out by the casino if a

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Schuylkill County Collaborative Art Show

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Friday, June 27,2014

6:30pm to 9:30 pm Proceeds benefit The Arts Barn: a non-profit arts & education gallery

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In Association with Pottsville Gymnastics and Theatrical Center, Inc. Lil’ Bits of Broadway Sunday, July 13, 3:00 p.m. & 6:00 p.m.

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THIS WEEKEND’S EVENTS TODAY

BLOOD DRIVE — 2 to 5 p.m., Susquehanna Bank, 1251 Centre Turnpike (Route 61), Orwigsburg. Conducted

by Miller Keystone Blood Center. Call 570-366-8640.

COLLABORATIVE ART SHOW AND AUCTION — 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., Walk In Art Center, 110 Columbia Ave., Schuylkill Haven. Entertainment by The Gabriel Chamber Ensemble, catered

by Ruby’s Kitchen. Tickets $20 in advance, $23 at door.

Tickets available at The Arts Barn, 570-366-8736, Ruby’s Kitchen or the Gabriel Ensemble. Benefits The Arts Barn.

EXHIBIT — “The Life of the Mahantongo Dutch,” on display through Aug. 30, Schuylkill County Historical Society, 305 N. Centre St., Pottsville. Hours 1:30 to 6 p.m. Wednesdays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Saturdays. Display of folk arts and crafts, photographs, architectural pieces, clothing, furniture and music. Call 570-622-7540.

FOOD PANTRY — Hosted

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by New Life in Christ Ministries, 3:30 to 5 p.m., 217219 Market St., Cumbola.

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Emergency food pantry available by appointment only, call 570-277-6041.

SMOKE-FREE BINGO — 6:45 p.m., doors open 5:30 p.m., Summit Station Fire Company, 88 Firehouse Road, Summit Station. Food available.

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VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL — 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. today through Friday, Saint Clair Wade United Methodist Church, 23 N. Front St., Saint Clair.

SATURDAY AMATEUR RADIO FIELD DAY — On-air demonstrations begin 2 p.m. today and ends 2 p.m. Sunday, West Penn Archery Club, 147 Archery Club Road, New Ringgold. Sponsored by Schuylkill Amateur Repeater Association.

BOUNTIFUL BLESSINGS — 9 to 11 a.m., First United Methodist Presbyterian Church, 200 N. Ninth St., Ashland. Distribution of nonfood, personal care items for struggling families. A valid driver’s license or photo ID for adults and children required. Nonprofit Christian group comes to the church on the second and fourth Saturday of every month.

CAFE COVENANT AND KIDS NITE — 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Covenant United Methodist Church, 215 E. Main St., Schuylkill Haven. Music by Debark Ministries with Doug Koch. Bring lawn chairs.

CAR WASH — 9 a.m. to noon, Washington Hook and Ladder Fire Company, 35 E. Mahanoy St., Mahanoy City.

Cost $5 for exterior or $15 for exterior and interior.

CHICKEN BARBECUE — 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., in front of Boyer’s, West Market Street, Pottsville. Sponsored by Pottsville Rotary Club.

CONCERT — The Pickerings, a southern gospel group, 7 p.m., Church of the Nazarene, 2879 Fairgrounds

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CONCERT SERIES — Andrew Malanowicz, concert pianist, 7 p.m., St. Mary Church of Branchdale, State Road, Branchdale. Admission $10 at door and $10 for dinner at 8 p.m.

CATFISH DERBY — Sponsored by South End Field and Stream Association, today and Sunday, Whippoorwill Dam, Morea Road, near Frackville. For tickets or more information, call Joe C. at 570-874-1108.

FOOD AND BAKE SALE — 11 a.m. to sellout, Blessed Teresa of Calcutta Roman Catholic Church courtyard, 22 S. Catawissa St., Mahanoy City. Menu includes barbecue, bean soup, bundukes, chicken pot pie, halupkie, halushki, pierogies, stuffed shells, baked beans, pulled pork, chicken barbecue, cold red beet soup and chili. Chances on $100 worth of lottery tickets.

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SPAGHETTI DINNER FUNDRAISER — 5 to 7 p.m., First United Church of Christ social hall, 110 Route 61 South, Schuylkill Haven.

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POOL PARTY AND FREE SWIM — 6 to 8:30 p.m., Frackville Memorial Pool, Spring and Pine streets.

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Hello there, my long lost loves. I’m finally back and we have so much to talk about.

This week, I’ve decided to do some of you fellas out there a kindness and give my advice on proper and improper ways to approach a lady.

I’ve stated before, I’d make a horrible feminist, so following along with that theme, it should be no surprise I don’t have a problem receiving attention from men.

Generally, I welcome it and deem it as innocent fun.

However, once in a while, I get some real doozies barking up my tree. Some of the tactics the male species use baffle me. I often wonder if there are women who are actually buying this stuff.

Don’t get me wrong, I understand women are difficult to read and deal with. I am one and, personally, I can’t comprehend some of the decisions I’ve made when it comes to suitors. Perhaps that’s why some men have such a hard time.

One day, we’re all gung-ho and onboard with everything you’re putting out there, the next, we don’t know what we want. No doubt, we should come with a manual.

It’s been said, “Nice guys finish last,” but, ultimately, I

are meant to be the protectors. As a female, all hope is shattered if a man lacks conJenna fidence. We all doubt ourselves from time to time, but Wasakoski a healthy confidence is an attribute which weighs in heavier than any other quality a man can possess.

Confidence isn’t just effective in the hunt, it’s also don’t think that’s true. I think nice gets you far in life. healthy for the soul. Remember, unless you are truly hapWe need more nice people.

There is, however, a fine line py with yourself, you won’t truly be happy with someone between nice and passive.

You can be nice and still be a else. Confidence will be a byproduct of that happiness. confident male.

Obviously , there is also that Nice is also negated by constant self-pity and projec- fine line between being confident and being a tool bag, too. tion of guilt. Remember, True confidence will guilt is a useless emotion exude with a positive energy. whether we’re putting it on False confidence usually ourselves or others. Please comes by the bucket instead do not use guilt to get anyof the glass and, for most of where in life. It’s a terrible us, is easy to recognize as thing used too often as a phony. Those who constantly weapon in relationships. need to remind the world I’m obviously no expert, how great they are likely are but I am blatantly honest. doubting that very thing What some women may be deep down. It comes down to afraid to tell you, I’ll gladly this: Don’t be afraid to tell a share if it helps to understand how we work. Whether gal what you’re good at, but don’t toot your own horn so you are approaching a hard you blow a blood vessel. female in person, on a dating site or via Facebook, keep Coal Mine the following in mind:

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Gentlemen who I would have never given a shot have single-handedly won my heart with laughter. People who laugh together stand a far better chance than those who do not.

You aren’t very funny? I don’t know what to tell you.

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For me, it’s all part of feeling protected. I want someone who should not be messed with who, at the same time, isn’t too worried about his image to be sweet to me and treat me right.

Bad boys are not incapable of having manners. That’s an unfair generalization.

Surrender

Finally, girls may be hard to read, but deep down you know when she’s not interested. There is no need to get rude and irrational or switch into complete desperado mode.

The thrill of the chase is fun and so is a little hard-toget, but when she breaks out into an all-out sprint and pushes a pile of cardboard boxes in your path, take the hint and stop running.

(Wasakoski, an assistant editor at The News-Item, can be reached at jenna_ w@newsitem.com)

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get me wrong, I know there are females who fall so far away from the definition of a lady it’s incomprehensible, but there are still real ladies who wear bras, do their hair and get dressed out of their pajamas at least six days a week who appreciate courtesy.

Those who don’t bother likely do as well, but I get so disheartened with what has become acceptable for public female appearance, I take no issue with excluding them when I refer to “ladies.”

Anyway, opening doors, saying please and thank you and carrying heavy things for a lady goes a long way.

Some women may be above having a man do certain things for them, but there are those of us who truly appreciate an old-fashioned approach to courting.

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INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATION — Greater Shenandoah Area Senior Citizens, 1 to 5 p.m., senior center, 116 E. Washington St., Shenandoah. Music provided by DJ Dave. Cost $10.

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MEETINGS — Alcoholics Anonymous, noon and 7 p.m.

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BY JOSH MCAULIFFE STAFF WRITER

jmcauliffe@timesshamrock.com

Three acts whose songs continue to hold sway over classic rock radio playlists will celebrate America’s birthday at the Pavilion at Montage Mountain next week.

Arena rock stalwarts Styx and Foreigner, along with former Eagles lead guitarist Don Felder, will bring their “The Soundtrack of Summer” tour to the mountain at 8 p.m. July 4 as part of the Rock 107 Fourth of July Bash.

Tickets range from $10.07 to $85, plus fees, and can be purchased at the pavilion box office, all local Ticketmaster locations, online at Ticketmaster.com or by phone at 800-745-3000.

“The big thing is tickets starting at just $10.07, plus fees,” said Mark Hoover, promotions director/evening disc jockey for Rock 107, a Times-Shamrock Communications-owned radio station.

“We worked hard with (pavilion concert promoter) Live Nation to be able to do that.”

Hit music All told, the show will feature more than four hours of

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music between the three acts, Felder said during a recent phone interview.

“It’s just hit after hit after hit,” Felder said. “And everyone in the audience knows the words to nearly every song.”

“We do some fresh things as well. But there’s certain songs you have to do. It’s pretty fun to see the audience react to them,” Foreigner bassist Jeff Pilson said in a phone interview done before the tour. “The band is really strong and really running on all cylinders. We’re really in a good place.”

Felder said he’s had nothing but a blast thus far on the tour, which kicked off in May. “There’s no drama, no egos, no hissy fits,” he said.

“We have big dinners together. On the days off, we go golfing together. It feels like a lot of friends who have a great time and go out and play great music together.”

Asked whether he and the members of Styx and Foreigner will join forces on stage at some point during the concert, Felder said with a chuckle, “We have some surprises I don’t want to disclose.”

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