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Browns vs. Lions live …
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Akron trounces Howard to reach .500
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Seven players added to Tribe’s 40-man roster
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Robiskie, Harrison inactive
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Kent State blown out in second half, loses to Temple 47-13
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OSU – Michigan college football rivals meet in Baghdad
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Four area football teams play tonight
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Blog of Mass Destruction:
Will Health Care Reform Pass?
Akron Law Café:
Health Care Financing Reform: (69) The Brookings Institute Study on "Bending the Curve" – Four General Strategies
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Vintage Chic
Car Chase:
TIME TO GET YOUR COLLECTOR CARS WINTERIZED
Let's Talk Real Estate:
Silverdome Potentially SOLD!
Ohio Travels with Betty:
George is looking for a Thanksgiving buffet in Akron.
Sound Check:
Steely Dan Plays "The Royal Scam" at E.J. Thomas Hall
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A Random Rant on Testing
Akron Gamer:
Nintendo's Mario endures even as games come and go
By Rich Heldenfels
Beacon Journal popular culture writer
Published on Saturday, Jan 03, 2009
The HeldenFiles has had to reluctantly cast aside its 2008 Dewey Cox calendar as it enters its fourth calendar year of providing you . . . well, stuff like this:
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Runaway Python. The New York Daily News reports that on New Year's Day, ''the panicked owner of a 7-foot python called cops . . . when he could no longer charm the snake he kept in his pal's Queens apartment.''
The young man, who was staying in the apartment while his friend was in the Army overseas, ''was apparently worried the snake might escape. . . . Police captured the python before it could and turned it over to Animal Care and Control.''
The owner of the unnamed snake ''was charged with unlawful possession of a wild animal, a misdemeanor,'' the Daily News said. ''Under city law it is illegal to keep anything other than a domestic dog, cat or pocket pet such as a small bird or hamster.''
He's also in trouble with the apartment's superintendent, since the place has a no-pets policy.
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Who Is Victoria Prince? That's the question People.com is asking about the 6-foot-tall blonde seen out and about with Kevin Federline.
For those of you asking who is Kevin Federline, he is the best-known ex-husband of Britney Spears.
Anyway, the newshounds at People.com say that Prince has played volleyball in college and on the beach-volleyball circuit. With a partner, she once competed against (and was beaten by) Olympic stars Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh. She is a year younger than Spears, but both were born on Dec. 2.
And a source told People that Prince is ''really normal and low-key, a regular girl.''
And a bowler.
''A bowling source says Federline 'always pays' after their games,'' the site reports. '' 'They are definitely a couple — I have seen them kiss,' says the source. 'But they both seem focused on the bowling.' ''
Good to know that. And that one can find a ''bowling source.''
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The Perils of E-Mail. The New York Times not long ago had to acknowledge that a letter it printed had not, in fact, come from the mayor of Paris.
As noted on Regrettheerror.com, the Times said: ''This letter, like most letters to the editor these days, arrived by e-mail. It is Times procedure to verify the authenticity of every letter. In this case, our staff sent an edited version of the letter to the sender of the e-mail and did not hear back. At that point, we should have contacted [the mayor's] office to verify that he had, in fact, written to us. We did not do that. Without that verification, the letter should never have been printed.''
Fortunately, the Times' vetting stopped the e-announcement that they had won the British lottery.
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Reasons To Be Glad the Holidays Are Over. I am a Dick Clark loyalist on New Year's Eve, but that was just barely enough reason to put up with Kellie Pickler's segments during New Year's Rockin' Eve. The next morning, I was almost recovered from Pickler's screaming interviews when I had to endure Jann Carl's seemingly overcaffeinated commentary on HGTV's Tournament of Roses Parade coverage.
Made the whole thing feel as if even once a year was too much.
Rich Heldenfels writes about popular culture for the Beacon Journal and in the HeldenFiles Online blog at http://heldenfels.ohio.com. He can be reached at 330-996-3582 and rheldenfels@thebeaconjournal.com.
The HeldenFiles has had to reluctantly cast aside its 2008 Dewey Cox calendar as it enters its fourth calendar year of providing you . . . well, stuff like this:
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Grove City, Oh
Posted 08:43 AM, 01/03/2009
I see that you seem to be a non-Kellie Pickler fan, am I right?
I am trying to figure out what seemsto be the problem. I mean is it because you are jealous of this small town girl making the best of it? Do you wish it was you? or just the fact you like her and don't realy want people to find out your true feelings of her?
She is sweet, she gives and gives and gives. Never asking for much in return.
If that was your mother, sister of wife, would you bash them?
So respect.
Sutton, WV
Posted 09:20 AM, 01/03/2009
Yeah, it's obvious that this guy needs to have an attitude adjustment by his superiors. I wonder what his claim to fame is. Has he been on national tv in front of millions of viewers like Kellie was New Year's Eve? I wonder what his annual salary is? I'm sure it compares to Kellie's. It's very frustrating to me to see a guy like this making negative comments about Kellie. What gives him the right? This is absurd. Get a life, Rich!
