High School Wrestling in the Valley

Tis The Season!

High school wrestling in starting back up again in Lehigh County. Yesterday, Friday December 17th, 6 teams participated in the Gauntlet Duels at Blue Mountain High School in Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania.

There were five rounds, the first beginning at 4:30 PM and the last concluding at 9:30 PM.

Teams- Allentown Allen, Blue Mountain, Pleasant Valley, Southern Lehigh, Stroudsburg, and Tri Valley.

RESULTS

Round 1– Stroudsburg 35 Pleasant Valley 25

Tri Valley 54 Allentown Allen 24

Southern Lehigh 40 Blue Mountain 27

Round 2– Southern Lehigh 42 Pleasant Valley 33

Blue Mountain 46 Allentown Allen 24

Stroudsburg 37 Tri Valley 36

Round 3- Pleasant Valley 54 Allentown Allen 24

Tri Valley 41 Blue Mountain 29

Stroudsburg 44 Southern Lehigh 25

Round 4- Tri Valley 35 Pleasant Valley 30

Southern Lehigh 72 Allentown Allen 0

Stroudsburg 37 Blue Mountain 31

Round 5– Pleasant Valley 48 Blue Mountain 15

Stroudsburg 67 Allentown Allen 6

Tri Valley 43 Southern Lehigh 27

FINAL TEAM RANKINGS

  1. Stroudsburg 5-0
  2. Tri Valley 4-1
  3. Southern Lehigh 3-2
  4. Pleasant Valley 2-3
  5. Blue Mountain 1-4
  6. Allentown Allen 0-5

World Nooz

Right now in Antarctica there’s a Florida-sized glacier known as the “doomsday” glacier. Many sources are reporting about it, and no one is downplaying the seriousness of the possibility of its collapse. They say if it breaks off and slides into the ocean the sea levels will rise almost a foot during the next ten years.

4311 The House on Furnace Street Part 2

A work of fiction

By Francis J. LaManna

4311 Furnace Street remained vacant for the next 30 years. No members of the Ottenbury family showed up or called in to claim the property so it sat. Once or twice during the year employees from the Department of Public Works would show up and cut the lawn, that was in the beginning though. I don’t think anyone trimmed a bush or cut the lawn there in last ten years. People just avoided that place, it was like it didn’t exist. As a matter of fact, in all my years living in Scarlet, I’ve never even seen a For Sale sign on the lawn.

Old man Ottenbury died when I was in high school, I was a sophomore at Scarlet High, and I can remember walking past 4311 everyday on my way home from school. It felt strange-the whole area around his house was one big cold spot. It was eerie too like as if someone was watching me. Sometimes I would run home.

If you take Furnace Street all the way out until you come to the first cross street and cross over, Furnace became Gate Street. My parents and I lived at the end of Gate Street. Sometimes I would get that eerie feeling walking past Ottenbury’s and haul ass. A few years after I graduated Scarlet there was a series of stories in the local paper. Locals thought his house was haunted, and some people reported seeing the ghost of an old man standing in window. There’s a lot of people who think Ottenbury’s house was haunted at the time of his death, and that’s why he didn’t try to get help or leave. No one understood why he just sat there and bled out.

Well, I’m in my forties now, and I ended up buying a house of my own on Gate Street right across from where my parents lived. I don’t go near that house anymore, and here’s the weirdest thing. If I go out onto my front lawn at night when it’s dark and look in the direction of Furnace Street, the sky about that area looks like it’s on fire.

I wish there was a way of closing Gate Street-you know, completely separating our side from Furnace Street. In a sense it would be like closing the gate to the furnace; maybe make it a dead end or something.

Ceres

Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt, and the asteroid belt is located between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars.

Since its discovery on January 1, 1801, by Italian Astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi, Ceres has been referred to as a planet, then reclassified as an asteroid, and finally, a Dwarf Planet in 2006.

Piazzi was also a Catholic Priest. When he made the discovery of Ceres, he did so from the Palermo Astronomical Observatory in Sicily.

The name for Ceres was originally Ceres Ferdinandea. Ceres after the Roman Goddess of Agriculture whose earthly home and oldest temple is in Sicily, and Ferdinandea after King Ferdinand III of Sicily.

The astronomical symbol for Ceres is the Sickle. In 1973, Ceres was resurrected for astrological use.

4311 The House on Furnace Street

A Work of Fiction In Progress

By Francis J. LaManna

It was pouring rain and old man Ottenbury was moving frantically around his house trying to get the windows closed. It’s a good thing, however, not all the windows were open because a house that big could’ve been soaked by the time a man as old as old man Ottenbury got around to closing them. There was no Mrs. Ottenbury, she passed naturally more than a decade ago, and his three kids were grown with lives of their own.

That last window, the one in the living room area was putting up a fight again as it always had. It was near impossible to close; for old man Ottenbury at least. As he pressured down on the small handle, he steadied himself with his left hand pressed against the glass. And then it happened, the glass shattered underneath the pressure of his hand. The sharp glass cut deep into his arm from his wrist all the way up to his elbow.

Ottenbury pulled his arm free and sat on the floor beneath the window. It was still pouring rain, but the sound of rain was soothing. The carpet around the old man was soaked. He closed his eyes and let his thoughts flow, occasionally grabbing onto the memories of his wife. He loved and missed her.

The body of old man Ottenbury was found several days later when the rain stopped. A woman walking past the house noticed the shattered window. Upon closer examination she saw a head and called the police.

Nooz Now 12.13.2021

Good Afternoon!

🏀-With 10 players now in health and safety protocols because of a COVID-19 outbreak, the Chicago Bulls next two games are postponed; Tuesday, December 14 against Detroit, and Thursday, December 16 against Toronto.

🏈-The Jacksonville Jaguars are 2-11, and they were blown out and shut out by the Titans last week. As we get to the root of the issue, we’re beginning to find organization and locker room issues, and of course, trust issues with new coach Urban Meyer. Dysfunctional is the word that came up.

🤣🕹🎮- Check out the link below! Someone on EBAY is selling the entire NES Game Collection for $59,995.00. That’s a great Christmas gift-someone will be extremely happy.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/303728350933?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&itemid=303728350933&targetid=1262749492782&device=c&mktype=&googleloc=9006986&poi=&campaignid=14859008593&mkgroupid=130497710760&rlsatarget=pla-1262749492782&abcId=9300678&merchantid=116334769&gclid=CjwKCAiA-9uNBhBTEiwAN3IlNF9R_P0GVzWOfW9wDd22V70Jf_FGSdvFOSqAtAGH5GfwCyKTPpBgaRoC9WQQAvD_BwE

💭-I was sitting at my desk a few days ago looking at pictures of the planets in orbit around the Sun, and I said to myself; What if there’s way more planets than we’re shown? What if there was a planet in between the Sun and Mercury for example? I googled it, and sure enough, someone in the 1800’s thought the same thing, and they named it hypothetical planet Vulcan. Wouldn’t it make sense if planets overlapped in their orbits around the Sun? In my opinion, it kind of did. Unfortunately, it was somehow proved that Vulcan was non-existent.

👽Weird or Not Weird? Two years after WWII ended, an alien spaceship lands in Roswell, New Mexico, a city approximately two hours away from the site the first atom bomb was tested. Do you think our ability to create and successfully detonate an atomic bomb was of some kind of interest to extraterrestrials?

🎄- Christmas is 12-days away. This year, Christmas is on Saturday, December 25th.

🥅NHL- The Pittsburgh Penguins have been the hottest team in hockey for the last month! Since November 18th, the Penguins have gone 9-2-1 and turned their season around.

Have a warm evening, and a fabulous day tomorrow! Stay safe and healthy, and I’m going to finish watching Eclipse (Twilight Saga). 🤣💕

Exhaling Freely; Like Without Your Mouth Covered

https://www.airthings.com/what-is-carbon-dioxide

Carbon dioxide is a gas consisting of one part carbon and two parts oxygen. It is one of the most important gases on the earth because plants use it to produce carbohydrates in a process called photosynthesis. Since humans and animals depend on plants for food, photosynthesis is necessary for the survival of life on earth.

100% Fact -You will still get sick even if you’re wearing a mask.

Why are we still wearing them?

What Would You Do?

The title of this post is an actual question I’d like you to think about. The Twilight Zone was turned into a television series in the 80s, and it was the second episode I believe that was titled “Button Button” where a stranger wearing a suit shows up at a random home with a special box.

There’s an ordinary couple living there who seem a little squirrely to me, but that’s beside the point; Anyway, the stranger gives a box with a button inside it to the woman living in the house, and he explains to her that if she opens the box and pushes the button she’ll be given $200,000 by him, and at the same time, a random person who they don’t know will die.

She has, I think 24-hours to decide. She relays the story to her husband and they argue about it for while, but eventually, they end up pushing the button.

What would you do?

Would you press the button?

Smollett; Just SMH

F You SEE Kay EYE N G Loser, is the most fitting name for Jussie Smollett-in my opinion anyway. Obviously he was seeking attention, but there has to be something wrong with you to carry out a lie at that level.

If you’re not familiar with the case Smollett lied to the police, telling them he was the target of a racist who also hated gays.

False accusations concerning hate crimes should be taken serious, and Smollett, should undoubtedly face some type of consequences for his actions. And what happened to perjury?

The White House did call him a shame, but what if he actually won this case with his false accusations? Somebody would’ve been in a lot of trouble so it’s only right that he gets in a lot of trouble for lying.

I know, this seem really childish, but so were his actions.

Truth in a Different Direction; Astrology

The mainstream model of astrology most of us use is tropical geocentric. The tropical zodiac is the 12 zodiac signs we all use and are familiar with, and the 12 houses split or divided perfectly by 30 degrees. 12 houses x 30 degrees = 360 degrees. This is unchanging; was, is, and always will be since over 2,000 years ago.

But we don’t live in an unchanging world. At some point in time, astronomers discovered the precession of the equinox. Initially, they had no idea the earth wobbles continuously around its axis in 25,800-year cycle that’s caused by the Moon’s gravitational pull on the bulge at the earth’s equator.

The vernal equinox or the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere was marked by the zero point of the zodiac or the first degree of Aries; so as astronomers are looking out into the Heavens, the spring starts when the ecliptic, which is the path of the sun, intersects with the celestial equator.

Over the past almost three millennia, the intersection point shifted almost 36 degrees because of the wobble or precession, and this changes everything in terms of the dates of astrological signs. This is also why mainstream had almost no choice, but to “in a playful way” introduce Ophiuchus, the 13 zodiac sign back in 2010 or 2011.

The truth is that there is 13 signs, and your natal sun is most definitely in a sign that you’re not taking credit for.

SIDEREAL-that’s the zodiac that takes precession into account, and don’t worry about your birth chart because most websites that offer birth chart’s will give you the option of choosing tropical or sidereal (or Draconic, but that’s another story).

Capricorn January 20 – February 16

Aquarius February 16 – March 11

Pisces March 11 – April 18

Aries April 18 – May 13

Taurus May 13 – June 21

Gemini June 21 – July 20

Cancer July 20 – August 10

Leo August 10 – September 16

Virgo September 16 – October 30

Libra October 30 – November 23

Scorpius November 23 – November 29

Ophiuchus November 29 – December 17

Sagittarius December 17 – January 20