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The Indonesian Gummy Bear
Times Mrs. Frantz’s English IV Class
17 Nov 2011
Winter Blast Weekend!
By Jasmine Watts
The youth at H2 Church are going on a trip to
Camp Orchard Hill in Dallas, PA. This trip will take place on January 13th and the kids will be coming home January 15th. The Winter Blast Weekend was put together for the kids to have something fun to do, get away for a weekend, and learn at the same time. This camp also helps them learn who they are as a person and helps them make better decisions. The H2 Church started this trip last year and it was a big success; many of kids went and they had a blast. This trip is for the youth at H2 Church and friends of the youth if they would like to bring someone along, ages 7 to 17. The cost for one person is $125.
The kids will have lots to do; they can have a movie night (where they all get together and decide on one movie and they sit together and have some snacks while watching a movie). They can have a night of camping out by a campfire, singing and eating some snacks with each other. Other activities include wall climbing, karaoke, a beach party, and Camp Orchard Hill’s famous talent show. The kids can play games like football, volleyball, soccer, snow dodge ball, ping pong, foosball, show off their pool skills, and lots more.
To find out more you may go to www.CampOrchardHill.com or to
www.H2Church.com. If you are interested in coming to join the H2 youth group on their trip to Camp Orchard Hill you can contact John Messner or you can just go on the website and someone will assist you. Here are some quotes from some or the kids: “Excellent! Committed, caring, knowledgeable; wise strategy for teaching the Word!” “It led me closer to God than I have ever imagined and showed me that just because you're a Christian doesn't mean you can't have fun.”
Logo courtesy of Google Images.
Feature
The World Wide
Computer Scandal
By Austin Reed
Chances are, you’ve bought your computer
from a store and you have no clue what’s inside/have the slightest care of what is. Well, you should. We all know the name brand “Intel” and that it’s in near every store bought computer, but why is that? It’s not because it’s a good product, heavens, no, the real fact is, until now, no other company could sell their products, until recently, to the big name brand computer manufacturers. How is this possible? Through illegal and unfair market competition. Illegal rebates, discounts, and deals with companies like dell, paying them over six billion dollars to not use other products, sealed out all the other companies. If you ask, any sane personal computer maker or gamer what the brains of their computer are, they’ll tell you anything but Intel, in fact, most go with AMD. So, how does this affect you? Well, your electric bill is indefinitely higher, if you want to upgrade, you have to replace your motherboard, and you have to pay for a product that’s manufactured to kick off in about three years. It’s all part of the worldwide computer scandal by Intel, it makes me sick. What happened to companies that weren’t in it for the money, they were in it for the greater future of computing! I found my answer with the beloved AMD. For those who care about performance, let’s talk some technical savvy. For the multi-tasking
person and the gamer, you need the processor that can handle more than just one core at a time, you need one with dedicated threads, a good design for heat reduction, and one that’s not going to require a huge budget to buy a new motherboard to run it, new fans because the motherboard can’t support your old one or stock fan, and a new operating system to even run it all. When you begin using anything over half the power of the Intel processer’s power (MHz or GHz) the entire computer slows down to a crawl. This is because of non-dedicated threads, and the processor fights over the available resources, and it drawls massive amounts, for a processor, of electricity to run it. Then the stock fans that come with it are cheap, loud, and most of the time, fail to keep it cool in stressful situations, like using more than half its power. So when using a c computer for anything more complicated the web surfing or Microsoft word, don’t use an Intel. Before Steve Jobs passed away he said “We tried to help Intel, but they don’t listen much. We’ve been telling them for years that their graphics suck… They wanted this big joint project to do chips for future iPhones. There were two reasons we didn’t go with them. One was that they are just really slow. They’re like a steamship…Second is that we just didn’t want to teach them everything, which they could go and sell to our competitors.” Hearing this from a massive computer company should open your eyes to the truth of how awful Intel is. So if you’re wondering why your computer or smart phone is slow and refusing to work, just look down at those stickers telling you what’s inside and see, “Intel inside” and you’ll know what the issue is.
So, Andrew Grove, looks like being paranoid has allowed you to survive, but it’s made your product one of the worst, and you’ve become the most hated, enjoy being paranoid.
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AE
By Clark Kratzer
Logo courtesy of Google
Images.
Editorial
Sandusky is to blame, not Joe Paterno!
By Joshlyn Keister
Is it right that Joe Paterno might be getting
fired, for not getting more people involved with Sandusky’s scandal? Is Joe the one that did wrong? Or is it both Sandusky and Joe that did wrong doing? Didn’t Joe do enough for his own responsibility? Would he be in the same situation, if he would have done more to get Sandusky in trouble? Is it right that everyone is acting like Joe did so wrong and is not even mentioning anything about the scandal Sandusky did? Well I personally think that Joe Paterno did nothing wrong! He could only do so much. Since it was one of his good friends that committed a crime, it is going to be hard to go against him. Joe was probably devastated and confused with the overwhelming news that a close friend was sexually harassing little boys. I think even if Joe would have done more to get Sandusky in trouble, they would have found something else to get him in trouble for. I strongly disagree with those who believe Joe Paterno should get fired; it was Sandusky who did wrong not Paterno! Sandusky did wrong and got caught. If he would not have done something so wrong and disgusting he would not be in the situation he is now. He chose to do it, so I think that any consequence that he gets is okay. He does not deserve to get away with what he did. Joe really could not have done that much considering he did not have complete proof of the roomers he was hearing.
It is wrong that anyone would even consider Joe Paterno should be fired for doing nothing wrong. He was not one of the kids that were in the horrendous situation, so he would not know for a fact what really happened. The kids that were in the scandal should have come forward sooner and should have been the ones to tell someone. They were the victims not Joe Paterno! Joe did all that he could with the information he was told. Joe deserves to coach until his actual retirement day, so let him enjoy his last year with his boys and get the bad guy who did the crime. If you personally think Joe Paterno did wrong, think more about your opinion because he was not the criminal who committed such a nasty crime. Joe is a good man who did all what he could with the information he had about the scandal. Joe deserves to have his job and get to enjoy his last year. He is the football legend and always did a good job coaching. Without Joe, the team will not be the same; he has been with them for so long.
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Picture courtesy of the Google Images.
Joe Pa-Fired
By Joshlyn Keister
Logo
courtesy of
Penn State.
Editorial
Marcellus Shale Drilling
By Dylan Kratzer
The question is should the natural gas drilling company’s continue to keep drilling? The answer is yes. The Marcellus Shale company’s should continue to keep drilling because natural gas and oil is very effective and is a more efficient way of heating. In the Marcellus Shale Region there is roughly about 489 trillion cubic feet of natural gas through its extent. In New York they use about 1.1 trillion cubic feet per year. There is plenty of natural gas for many years to come. Citizens of the surrounding drilling sites are complaining that they are having water problems. They say that there are toxic chemicals in their drinking water and this could be a very difficult situation. All of these problems can and will be fixed so the citizens have nothing to worry about. Marcellus Shale companies have been drilling oil and natural gas in Pennsylvania since 2003. The benefits of natural gas drilling are that it is clean, abundant, affordable, safe, useful and economic. The natural gas industry employs 622,000 people directly and helps to create over 2.2 million American jobs. A study was done by Penn State and by 2020 the state could have 250,000 jobs supported by natural gas drilling. Natural gas drilling has been become more and more popular and the more people are informed about it the better they will understand it. The process of drilling is very difficult. First the company’s drill for natural gas then years later they will drill again for oil. Extracting natural gas from the Marcellus shale involves drilling down to the depth of the formation, using new horizontal drilling technology that extracts more of the shale. Once the formation is reached, millions of gallons of water, sand, and a long list of man-made chemicals are injected into the well under high pressure in order to fracture the pores of the shale rock and stimulate the gas to flow. This process is known as “hydraulic fracturing.” Natural gas drilling is a great addition to efficient way of heating and is very demanding. It also boosts the economy in jobs and economic problems.
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Diagram
courtesy of
Marcellus
Shale.
By Austin Reed
News
SUBWAY is coming to
Selinsgrove
By Kelsey Comfort
Eat Fresh! $5 FOOTLONG! Everyone
should know that saying. Come and stop by for some
fresh subs every day of the week.
Subway is going to be located on Market
Street, Selinsgrove. We will hopefully be opening it
sometime in the
beginning of the
year 2012. We want
people of the town
and the college students from Susquehanna
University to come enjoy the new opening. Greg Reid
and his fellow Brothers are going to be the owners.
They own a couple other local Subways around the
area. This will be the 5th Subway they own. They plan
on remodeling the place at the corner, right across the
street from Emma’s Food for Life located in
Selinsgrove. It is opened till 12p.m. - 11p.m. Monday-
Sunday. Come enjoy the new, fresh building that’s
coming to town real soon! We will keep you updated!
Elysburg Haunted House
By Joselyn Cosme
For $10.00 you can go to a haunted house.
You’ll be scared for your life but you’ll want to come
back next year! And for the fact every year it changes
so it won’t be the same. “It’s the scariest one then all
the local one’s. – Kelsey Comfort-Rivera. If you go
you will help us help the fire companies. This is a
fundraiser to help the firemen and their family.
Where to go? Rt. 487, Elysburg PA at the Elysburg
Valley Gun & Country Club
Gates open AT 7:00pm
Last day is October 28th & 29th
Hurry up if not you’ll miss it and then have to wait a
year.
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Photo courtesy of Google Images.
Logo courtesy of subway.com.
News
School News
By Alex Hostetler
The school newspaper takes place at the
Selinsgrove Area High School. Anybody can be
involved in print journalism for the newspaper. Mr.
Myers, the person that is in charge of the newspaper
said that he was not sure who started the newspaper.
Mr. Gruenberg from Selinsgrove Area High School
was in charge of the school newspaper at one time.
The school newspaper affects the students at
Selinsgrove because they try to write about things that
interest the students. The students that write about
things in the newspaper helps them express their
feelings about the topic. Also it gets the students used
to different kinds of writing. The school newspaper
happened because they felt that the students needed
to be better informed about what is going on in the
school.
The Claude Monet Project
By Rebecca Haynes
The National Art Honor Society at SAHS is
working on a project which involves enlarging a work
by Claude Monet and each member draw one block
of it. After the blocks are finished, they will be put
together so that the completed project will be an
original copy if his work, however, no two blocks will
be alike due to contributions of the members. The
NAHS will work on the project during meetings at
Resource in the art rooms. The leaders of the NAHS
want to do this project because they think it will look
awesome when it’s completed and it’s something
interesting to do.
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Clip art courtesy of Google Images.
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courtesy
of Google
Images.
Opinion
Editor-in-Chief Mrs. Shannon Frantz
Editorial Writers Joshylyn Keister
Dylan Kratzer
Family Writers Brittany Henshaw
Feature Writers Jasmine Watts
Austin Reed
News Writers Joselyn Cosme
Kesley Comfort-Rivera
Alex Hostettler
Rebecca Hayes
Editorial Cartoons Clark Kratzer
Joshlyn Keister
Austin Reed
Rebecca Haynes
Opinion Writers Clark Kratzer
Jerrod Millyard
Matthew Kratzer
Briana Berge
Brittany Henshaw
Sports Writers Tyler Klink
Briana Berge
Newspaper Logo Alexander Galloway
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The Indonesian Gummy Bears Times Staff
Supernatural Review
By Clark Kratzer
Supernatural in my opinion is a great show.
It follows the lives of two “Hunters” who are
brothers. The story begins with the search for their
father who has been away on a “Hunting” trip and
hasn’t returned for some time. Dean goes to
college to find his brother Sam who was trying to
get away from their family “business”. Shortly after
they leave they pick up on their dads trail using a
journal he had left behind. They encounter
creatures of legends as well as spirits in their
search. One of the first of these creatures is the
Wendigo. There are also other famous legends
such as the Hook man and Bloody Mary. They
hunt these creatures to save innocent people’s
lives. Eventually they reunite with their father and
both are nearly killed. The season ends with the
opening of the gate to hell.
The show has all the makings of a truly
great storyline. Each episode has the potential to
hook anyone new to the show. It has everything
from blood and gore to romance and plot twists.
The actors also do a phenomenal job as each
expression seems real from the feelings between
the characters to the sudden moments of fear. The
characters being so well developed that they
become a bit predictable as they always stay on the
path that protects others. The creatures they use
are also very well researched such as the Demons
which according to their Christian background are
vulnerable to holy water and various charms can
ward them off they also go as far as to look up the
actual Latin incantations and various symbols such
as a devil’s trap. This all together makes for a great
and captivating show.
Logo courtesy of Google Images
Opinion
SB1
By Brittany Henshaw
Governor Jay Nixon, signed the Senate
Bill 1 late October. This bill revised the state
testing system and the academic standards to
better track academic success in students. It also
changes the way that students are evaluated and
monitored in the classroom. Personally, I do not
think that a test can determine a student’s
academic achievement. Everyone has our bad
days and some students are not able to test well.
The schools that do not make a certain level on
this test will qualify for an opportunity
scholarship. This opportunity is for the low
income students and the students that do not do
well on these tests, which they will be entered into
a private school. These private schools do not
have to make a certain yearly progress. To me,
that means that these schools do not have to have
any artistic or musical classes and are able to teach
the bare minimum in each class.
This doesn’t give the students a better learning
experience. Also, these private schools do not
have to accept the mentally disabled. About five
to eight thousand dollars are spent on each
student in Pennsylvania. This bill made
Pennsylvania now spend about two to three
thousand dollars on each student. I think that it
gives less money to be able to meet those
academic standards, which can force a school to
qualify for the opportunity scholarship. This bill is
going to make a lot of low performance school
and low income students change schools and
receive less money to make these standards.
Personally, I think that this bill is not going to
make any changes in the academic ability in
students.
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Clip art courtesy
of Microsoft
Word
Soldiers Died for What? By Rebecca Haynes
Opinion
Review of the movie Tales from Earthsea from Studio Ghibli
animation and Hayao Miyazaki
By Jerrod Millyard
Tales from Earthsea is as of 11/8/11 the most
recent release from Studio Ghibli. Some preceding
movies were Ponyo, Howl’s Moving Castle, Castle in the
Sky, and Princess Mononoke. These movies show a
unique style of animation that is rarely seen any
more in movies. This style is Miyazaki’s art. Hayao
Miyazaki, a major artist and animator at Studio
Ghibli, draws each scene in their movies by hand
and uses his amazing works of art for the
animations. His detailed drawings can be seen in
every Studio Ghibli movie. Tales from Earthsea is a
story of a princess who has lost himself and
embarks on a journey with a powerful sorcerer
named
SparrowHa
wk.
On this
journey he
encounters
dangers
such as
slave
traders and
soldiers
that are led
by an evil
sorcerer as
well as making friends such as Torou, a free spirited
girl who loves all life. Another movie created by
Miyazaki was
hNausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. This movie was
the founding creation for Studio Ghibli, created in
1982. The movie shows the adventure of a small
village princess and her strife against insects and
soldiers to save her village from destruction. This
movie shows images of pure beauty and perfect
storyline. Hayao Miyazaki was born in Tokyo, Japan
in 1941. He started his animation career in 1963
and was involved in four animation companies
before his success from making Nausicaä of the
Valley of the Wind which led to the founding of
studio Ghibli. One major point in his films is flight,
where either the characters fly or something in the
movie involves flight. The film Tales from Earthsea is
and proof of Miyazaki’s masterful artwork, careful
attention with detail, and his childlike view on the
movie are just the start of this work of art’s quality.
Though, I may be reviewing this marvelous film
only seeing it with your own eyes will you then see
the truth of its perfection and uniqueness. See the
movie I guarantee you’ll love it.
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courtesy of
minitokyo.
net.
Photo courtesy of floridawriters.wordpress.com
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courtesy of
my.opera.com
Opinion
Bruce Almighty
By Matthew Kratzer
Alright, if you’re interested in watching a boring/lame movie, then don’t watch Bruce Almighty. Bruce Almighty played by Jim Carrey, God played as Morgan Freeman, Grace Colonway played by Jennifer Aniston. If you ever watch Even Almighty, this movie is kind of similar, just without the animals. Other movies that Jim Carrey is in are; In Living Color, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Mask, The Cable Guy, Man on the Moon, Yes Man, etc… Jim Carrey is a known actor across America for mainly his humor.
This is a story about a man that goes through some unlucky situations and circumstances. What does anyone do when something doesn’t go the way they want it to go or something bad happens to then? We get mad/upset, which is what happens to Bruce. He gets mad at not just anyone though he gets mad at God! God then makes Bruce meet him and makes a deal with him. That deal is something you will have to find out for yourself by watching this movie.
One of my favorite parts is that when Bruce
begins to drive along and asking God for signs of what to do, he completely ignores that fact that there’s a truck with signs on it saying to stop, yield, and caution ahead. In the process of ignoring this sign he ends up crashing. To me if someone is that arrogant to ignore something they want after asking for it, then maybe that person doesn’t really need it. It’s a pretty funny part, but there is definitely meaning behind it.
Of course like any movie that has a story line
like this, everything always turns out good in the end. Still though there is far much more in this movie then what I discussed. For an attention grabber, while watching the movie, think to yourself. What would you do if you were in Bruce’s predicament? How much are you willing to go through, just to make your life better? Take into consideration though; you get to see what Bruce goes through due to the misuse of God’s powers. So would you want to go through What he goes through?
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Photos
courtesy of
seal-pa.org
Sports
2011 Football Season
By Tyler Klink
What started as a hopeful season to make playoffs
soon took a turn for the worst. The season started
high because the team was pumped up and ready for
an exciting season. The first game showed good
things in a lost to Mount Carmel. The second game
against Danville went bad as the opening kickoff went
for touch down and lost. The third came as the seals
had a great second half game against Manheim
Central Where the offense scored 2 touchdowns and
a field goal in the third quarter. The game resulted in
a loss but the seals showed they weren’t going to give
up. The only win this season so far came against
Shamokin, where the seals offense scored 2 quick
rushing touchdowns in the 1st quarter. Many Players
said that after the Shamokin game was the turnaround
of the season and we would go on a winning streak.
The hopes were high again at the Berwick game.
Could the seals win back to back games?
The game was ugly and the seals lost 45-0 to Berwick.
The 6th game of the year which was homecoming was
a close game. The seals offense had some good plays
which made a good game. The score at the end was
14-12 Shik. The 7th game was against Milton which
was a playoff battle. The game went to overtime and
Milton scored the winning touchdown. Player’s
reactions after the game were that “we should have
beaten them and have clinched a playoff spot.” Moral
was down now because this not how seniors wanted
their season to go. The 8th game was against Jersey
shore where the seals took their opening possession
for a touchdown. The seals lost 10-7. The 9th game
was against Mifflinburg where the seals offense
struggled all night. The defense played strong all night
but came up short in the 19-0 loss. The season has
been a bad year but the players continue to work hard
to try and get the second win of the season against
Southern Columbia which is senior night.
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Skate Tournament
By Alexander Galloway
On Saturday, November 5th, there was a skate tournament held in the Lewisburg Skatepark. Top prizes for this contest were $20 for 3rd place, $35 for 2nd place, and then $50 and an Almost Deck for 1st place. Among the winners were JR Isenburg for 3rd, Alex Galloway for 2nd, and TK for the 1st place prize, winning the match with a nollie 360 flip. “All in all, the competition was a great experience, and I hope we can do it all again really soon before the weather gets too cold,” said TK after being awarded his 1st place position.
Photo courtesy of seal-pa.org
Logo courtesy of seal-pa.org
Sports
Discrimination toward Football Player
By Briana Berge
Selinsgrove Area High School Football Team
has had a pretty bad start to a year, losing football players due to disorderly conduct then most quit just
because they were sick of being scolded for something other players did. As for one specific boy in 10th grade he was told he was not allowed to play due to being
overweight and they did not want to purchase proper clothing and gear for him to be able to play with the rest of the football team.
Long hot practices he tried his hardest to
show what he could do and to prove to the coaches he was able to play along with the rest of the team. Little did he know they had something else in store for him to do? The rest of the team did their practices the way that they should but not this one player he was to just do laps around the football field while he watched the others actually practice with the ball. The coaches pointed him out from the rest of the team and said he was overweight and needed to change that so they thought making him run every practice without practicing what plays he was in. Did they think if he lost weight right away he would just be able to hop into any game and play the proper way?
They didn’t think this one through enough.
He is not only a big boy but his heart and soul is into football and he would do anything just to be able to be with the rest of the team and be like all the others.
They had a meeting with not just him but his
father too, they said there was something he should do to lose the weight, go to a gym, take diet pills, run more often but he has been to the gym a lot over the past couple years and has already been on diet pills and the running part how is he supposed to lose the weight that they want him to, to be a “perfect” player like they want him to. He started to take more and more diet pills just to see himself be on that field and running people over which was what he was supposed to do. He was to block the ball from any opponent trying to tackle his team.
He was very upset with not only himself but
the way the coaches treated him. For me being a Selinsgrove Area High School student it hurts me to hear the way that the coaches are putting people down they say they want more people to come out and join a team but when it comes to someone being heavier than the “normal” sized kid they should be in preparation of a bigger uniform and bigger pads. With them refusing to purchase other gear that is discrimination against the kid they’re saying this to and to me that not only makes our coaches look bad but it is also making our school look bad in a way that shows they are too “cheap” to order ONE uniform for ONE kid.
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