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We all have differ- ent abilities, too. Some folks can run fast as lightning, or climb a cliff in seconds flat. Other folks need wheelchairs or specially trained dogs to help them get around. Ev- erybody has a unique way of look- ing at life, too. That’s what makes our world so fascinating. Can you imagine a world where everyone looks the same, and has the same point of view? Yikes! That would be pretty boring. R-E-S-P-E-C-T Name: Christopher LaFuria Place of employment: Times Publish- ing Company Occupation: Newspaper in Educa- tion coordinator Typical work day: Each day, I con- nect students in grades K-12 across the Erie region with what’s going on in the world. Whether it’s current events, language arts or math and sci- ence, there is something to be learned in the Erie Times-News. My job is to provide educational sup- port to students and teachers through the print and digital newspaper. Favorite part of job: My favorite part of the job is meeting new people in the community. I have met hundreds of students and teachers — all who share a passion for education and the Erie region. It’s excit- ing to know that we are all in this together — helping each other reach our goals. Education: B.A. in Communication and Media Stud- ies from Penn State Behrend, PA Teaching Certifica- tion (Grades 4-8 English, Language Arts and Read- ing) from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. Why education? It has always been a goal of mine to dedicate my life to helping others. Working in the newspaper industry, I am able to help inform the general public about current events. As a teacher, I am able to help students grow and reach their edu- cational goals. How college prepared you to be successful: Through my journalism and media classes at Penn State Behrend, I was able to learn how to effectively com- municate important ideas to the general public. A hands-on education helped me gain the experience I needed. Edinboro helped prepare me for a career in education by providing the guidance and knowl- edge needed to be prepared for an ever-changing educational world. Get together with a few friends at school and tell each other about your family, and about where you live. When everybody has told their stories, talk about what’s similar and different about your ex- periences. Please send written responses and artwork to: Erie Times-News in Education 205 W. 12th St., Erie, PA 16534 E-mail: [email protected] Responses can be electronic or handwritten. In- clude your name, school, grade and teacher’s name. Career Corner Activity: Sharing Stories Jaime was 12 years old when she got her first guitar. It became her constant companion, and at night she laid it down on the floor next to her bed. After a few months she had taught herself a few songs she knew from the radio. After a year she had a long list of tunes that she played very well. Jaime found some friends who played other instruments, and they formed a band. They practiced every afternoon in her parents’ garage. Each summer, Jaime’s parents went vacationing for a month, and Jaime went to live with her Nana and Poppa far away. Jaime never liked going to her grandparents’ house, because it meant leaving her home and her friends behind at the most exciting time of the year. This summer Jaime was especially dis- appointed, because she had to stop practicing with her band. “Oh, do I have to go?” Jaime plead- ed with her parents. “Yes,” they said, “But you’ll be back in a month.” So Jaime packed her clothes, her guitar and a few favorite CDs. She put on a permanent frown and sat silently in the back seat of her dad’s car. She was determined not to enjoy herself at Nana and Poppa’s. When she got there, she spent most of her time in her bedroom, playing her CDs loudly, or playing angry songs on her guitar. One Saturday, Poppa knocked on Jaime’s door. “Jaime,” he said, “I’ve got to go downtown to pick up a few things. There’s a music store you might want to check out.” Jaime dragged herself off the bed. “Well,” she said, “I do need some new guitar picks.” Poppa told a few jokes on the way to town, but Jaime refused to laugh, or even smile. But when they got to the music store, Jaime’s eyes grew big as stars. There were rows and rows of guitars, drums and key- boards. A man who worked there said “Hello Rayburn!” to Jaime’s grandfa- ther. Jaime asked Poppa how the man knew him. “Oh,” Poppa replied, “I’ve lived in these parts a long time.” Jaime walked over to a display of new electric guitars. Suddenly she heard the most beautiful sound. Someone was playing a violin. It sounded incredible! She turned around and to her great surprise, discovered it was Poppa playing. He played a few songs, one slow, one mid–tempo and one amazingly fast! Soon a crowd gathered around Pop- pa. Jaime was impressed. She had a new respect for her grandfather. On the ride back home, Jaime asked Poppa, “How come you never told me you played music?” “Oh, I’ve mentioned it a few times,” Poppa said, “But I don’t think you were ever really listening.” That summer turned out to be the best one of Jaime’s life. Every after- noon, Jaime and Poppa played music on the back porch. She taught him a few new songs, and he taught her a few old ones. They came to love and respect each other, and a special bond grew between them. When her parents came to take her back home, Jaime didn’t want to leave. “Do I have to go?” she pleaded. “Yes,” they said, “but you can come back again next summer.” Listening to Poppa’s old violin By NED SOLOMON Contributing writer THINKSTOCKPHOTOS.COM Whether it’s a family member, classmate or co-worker, you should always respect one another. Christopher LaFuria ENTERTAINMENT Comic celebrities turned out for David Let- terman’s late-night fare- well — and so did his big- gest audience in more than 21 years. The Nielsen company said Thursday that 13.76 million viewers saw Let- terman end his 33-year career as a late-night TV host with a final show on May 20. The last time Letter- man had so many view- ers was in February 1994, when his show aired after CBS’ telecast of the Winter Olympics. More people watched Letterman than anything else in prime time on May 20. Letterman’s final show started at 11:35 p.m. and lasted more than an hour as CBS let it run long. The show featured a final Top Ten list with ce- lebrities like Jerry Sein- feld, Bill Murray, Tina Fey, Barbara Walters and Pey- ton Manning with “things I’d like to say to Dave.” Letterman is being re- placed in September by Stephen Colbert. Jay Leno’s farewell in February 2014 was seen by 14.6 million viewers. Both exits couldn’t come close to Johnny Carson’s final show, which attracted 41.14 million viewers in 1992, a different television era. Letterman’s showing helped the “Late Late Show” with James Corden that followed him attract a record 4 million viewers. Letterman’s last show nets 13.7M viewers ASSOCIATED PRESS David Letterman Comedy might still be a desired staple of prime- time TV, but broadcast- ers haven’t found much to laugh about for the upcom- ing season. Burned by a high num- ber of sitcom flops in re- cent years, programmers have decided to stop trying to bring the funny. NBC, onetime home to generation-defining hits “Friends” and “Sein- feld,” has exiled comedy to the dead zone of Friday nights. CBS benched “2 Broke Girls” until midsea- son and decided to take a flier on the drama reboot of “Supergirl,” setting up a su- perhero battle on Mondays with Fox’s young-Batman epic, “Gotham.” Here’s a telling fact: This will be the first time since 1949 that CBS hasn’t kicked off Mondays with a comedy. Can programmers be se- rious? Well, yes. Serious, sober and guarded are the bywords of the day. Add, perhaps, risk-averse and even fearful. Ratings keep plunging and viewers are fleeing to cable smashes such as “The Walking Dead” as well as stream- ing critical darlings such as Netflix’s “Orange Is the New Black.” Programmers’ aver- sion to new comedy also makes more sense when one takes into account that many teenagers and twen- tysomethings never watch any network sitcoms. “Young viewers in par- ticular cruise YouTube for hours looking for funny content,” said Jeffrey Mc- Call, a TV expert and me- dia studies professor at DePauw University. “Sit- coms are working in a very crowded arena these days.” So broadcasters have decided to tread carefully, nurturing what modest successes they can point to while avoiding the big, crazy swings. Some whole blocks of prime time will be left untouched next season. No. 3-ranked ABC is returning its Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday schedules with- out a single change. Such non-maneuvers left more than a few observers feeling underwhelmed. “It’s a very conservative season and surprisingly humble,” said Tom Nun- an, a producer and former president at UPN (now The CW), who teaches at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. “The most exciting programs and most exciting risks are being taken on cable and in streaming, and this year it’s as though the networks simply admitted it and laid down their arms.” The network chiefs aren’t putting it that way, natural- ly. ABC chief Paul Lee told advertisers his team’s new battle plan delivered “real ambition,” with sprawling dramas such as the Texas soap “Oil” and the FBI pro- cedural “Quantico.” Ambition has its limits, though. ABC is also reviv- ing “The Muppets” — the puppet characters whose roots stretch back to the 1950s — and “Uncle Buck,” an adaptation of the 1989 feature comedy. NBC is pitching a miniseries about 69-year-old country icon Dolly Parton and a live re- make of the 1970s musical “The Wiz.” The networks have little choice, according to some experts. DVRs and on-demand platforms such as Hulu and Amazon have made viewers much less reliant on the network schedules that have governed prime time since the late 1940s. Young viewers in particu- lar expect programs to be available whenever they want to see them. TV networks eschew comedy in prime time By SCOTT COLLINS Los Angeles Times CBS Melissa Benoist and Mehcad Brooks star in “Supergirl,” debuting this fall on CBS. Follow us Get latest news tweets at Twitter.com/GoErie Call (814) 456-7021 A V A I L A B L E 7 D A Y S A W E E K A V A I L A B L E 7 D A Y S A W E E K AVAILABLE 7 DAYS A WEEK or stop by the Erie Times-News for details on how to share your good news. Large Announcement 2 col. X 3”= $50 Small Announcement 1 col. 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There’s an old song that was a big hit for a great singer named Aretha Franklin. The song was called R–E–S–P–E–C–T, and in it, Ms. Franklin sang this famous line: “All I want you to do for me is give me a little respect.” Ask your mom or dad, or grandfather or grandmother to sing it for you sometime. It was a very popular song, because every-one knows how important it is to
be respected, and to show respect for other people. The easiest way to show respect is to treat other people the same way you like to be treated. I’m sure you appreciate it when peo-ple speak nicely to you, and do nice things for you. Isn’t it great when you have something exciting to tell somebody, and they really listen? I bet you like to be treated fairly, too. Well, so does everybody else.
The world is filled with billions of different kinds of people. All of us have different colored skin and
hair. We are different shapes and different sizes. We all have differ-ent abilities, too. Some folks can run fast as lightning, or climb a cliff in seconds flat. Other folks need wheelchairs or specially trained dogs to help them get around. Ev-erybody has a unique way of look-ing at life, too. That’s what makes our world so fascinating. Can you imagine a world where everyone looks the same, and has the same point of view? Yikes! That would be pretty boring.
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Name: Christopher LaFuriaPlace of employment: Times Publish-
ing CompanyOccupation: Newspaper in Educa-
tion coordinatorTypical work day: Each day, I con-
nect students in grades K-12 across the Erie region with what’s going on in the world. Whether it’s current events, language arts or math and sci-
ence, there is something to be learned in the Erie Times-News. My job is to provide educational sup-port to students and teachers through the print and digital newspaper.
Favorite part of job: My favorite part of the job is meeting new people in the community. I have met hundreds of students and teachers — all who share a passion for education and the Erie region. It’s excit-ing to know that we are all in this together — helping each other reach our goals.
Education: B.A. in Communication and Media Stud-ies from Penn State Behrend, PA Teaching Certifica-tion (Grades 4-8 English, Language Arts and Read-ing) from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania.
Why education? It has always been a goal of mine to dedicate my life to helping others. Working in the newspaper industry, I am able to help inform the general public about current events. As a teacher, I am able to help students grow and reach their edu-cational goals.
How college prepared you to be successful: Through my journalism and media classes at Penn State Behrend, I was able to learn how to effectively com-municate important ideas to the general public. A hands-on education helped me gain the experience I needed. Edinboro helped prepare me for a career in education by providing the guidance and knowl-edge needed to be prepared for an ever-changing educational world.
Get together with a few friends at school and tell each other about your family, and about where you live. When everybody has told their stories, talk about what’s similar and different about your ex-periences.
Please send written responses and artwork to:
Erie Times-News in Education205 W. 12th St., Erie, PA 16534E-mail: [email protected] can be electronic or handwritten. In-
clude your name, school, grade and teacher’s name.
Career Corner
Activity: Sharing Stories
Jaime was 12 years old when she got her first guitar. It became her constant companion, and at night she laid it down on the floor next to her bed. After a few months she had taught herself a few songs she knew from the radio. After a year she had a long list of tunes that she played very well. Jaime found some friends who played other instruments, and they formed a band. They practiced every afternoon in her parents’ garage.
Each summer, Jaime’s parents went vacationing for a month, and Jaime went to live with her Nana and Poppa far away. Jaime never liked going to her grandparents’ house, because it meant leaving her home and her friends behind at the most exciting time of the year. This summer Jaime was especially dis-appointed, because she had to stop practicing with her band.
“Oh, do I have to go?” Jaime plead-ed with her parents. “Yes,” they said, “But you’ll be back in a month.” So Jaime packed her clothes, her guitar and a few favorite CDs. She put on a permanent frown and sat silently in the back seat of her dad’s car. She was determined not to enjoy herself at Nana and Poppa’s.
When she got there, she spent most
of her time in her bedroom, playing her CDs loudly, or playing angry songs on her guitar. One Saturday, Poppa knocked on Jaime’s door. “Jaime,” he said, “I’ve got to go downtown to pick up a few things. There’s a music store you might want to check out.”
Jaime dragged herself off the bed. “Well,” she said, “I do need some new guitar picks.” Poppa told a few jokes on the way to town, but Jaime refused to laugh, or even smile. But when they got to the music store, Jaime’s eyes grew big as stars. There were rows and rows of guitars, drums and key-
boards. A man who worked there said “Hello Rayburn!” to Jaime’s grandfa-ther. Jaime asked Poppa how the man knew him. “Oh,” Poppa replied, “I’ve lived in these parts a long time.”
Jaime walked over to a display of new electric guitars. Suddenly she heard the most beautiful sound. Someone was playing a violin. It sounded incredible! She turned around and to her great surprise, discovered it was Poppa playing. He played a few songs, one slow, one mid–tempo and one amazingly fast! Soon a crowd gathered around Pop-pa. Jaime was impressed. She had a new respect for her grandfather.
On the ride back home, Jaime asked Poppa, “How come you never told me you played music?”
“Oh, I’ve mentioned it a few times,” Poppa said, “But I don’t think you were ever really listening.”
That summer turned out to be the best one of Jaime’s life. Every after-noon, Jaime and Poppa played music on the back porch. She taught him a few new songs, and he taught her a few old ones. They came to love and respect each other, and a special bond grew between them. When her parents came to take her back home, Jaime didn’t want to leave. “Do I have to go?” she pleaded.
“Yes,” they said, “but you can come back again next summer.”
Listening to Poppa’s old violinBy NED SOLOMONContributing writer
THINKSTOCKPHOTOS.COM
Whether it’s a family member, classmate or co-worker, you should always respect one another.
Christopher LaFuria
ENTERTAINMENT
Comic celebrities turned out for David Let-terman’s late-night fare-well — and so did his big-gest audience in more than 21 years.
The Nielsen company said Thursday that 13.76 million viewers saw Let-
terman end his 33-year career as a late-night TV host with a final show on May 20. The last time Letter-man had so many view-
ers was in February 1994, when his show aired after CBS’ telecast of the Winter Olympics.
More people watched Letterman than anything else in prime time on May 20. Letterman’s final show started at 11:35 p.m. and lasted more than an hour as CBS let it run long.
The show featured a final Top Ten list with ce-lebrities like Jerry Sein-feld, Bill Murray, Tina Fey, Barbara Walters and Pey-ton Manning with “things I’d like to say to Dave.”
Letterman is being re-placed in September by Stephen Colbert.
Jay Leno’s farewell in February 2014 was seen by 14.6 million viewers. Both exits couldn’t come close to Johnny Carson’s final show, which attracted 41.14 million viewers in 1992, a different television era.
Letterman’s showing helped the “Late Late Show” with James Corden that followed him attract a record 4 million viewers.
Letterman’s last show nets 13.7M viewersASSOCIATED PRESS
David Letterman
Comedy might still be a desired staple of prime-time TV, but broadcast-ers haven’t found much to laugh about for the upcom-ing season.
Burned by a high num-ber of sitcom flops in re-cent years, programmers have decided to stop trying to bring the funny.
NBC, onetime home to generation-defining hits “Friends” and “Sein-feld,” has exiled comedy to the dead zone of Friday nights. CBS benched “2 Broke Girls” until midsea-son and decided to take a flier on the drama reboot of “Supergirl,” setting up a su-perhero battle on Mondays with Fox’s young-Batman epic, “Gotham.”
Here’s a telling fact: This will be the first time since 1949 that CBS hasn’t kicked off Mondays with a comedy.
Can programmers be se-rious? Well, yes. Serious, sober and guarded are the bywords of the day. Add, perhaps, risk-averse and even fearful. Ratings keep plunging and viewers are fleeing to cable smashes such as “The Walking
Dead” as well as stream-ing critical darlings such as Netflix’s “Orange Is the New Black.”
Programmers’ aver-sion to new comedy also makes more sense when one takes into account that many teenagers and twen-tysomethings never watch any network sitcoms.
“Young viewers in par-ticular cruise YouTube for hours looking for funny content,” said Jeffrey Mc-Call, a TV expert and me-
dia studies professor at DePauw University. “Sit-coms are working in a very crowded arena these days.”
So broadcasters have decided to tread carefully, nurturing what modest successes they can point to while avoiding the big, crazy swings. Some whole blocks of prime time will be left untouched next season.
No. 3-ranked ABC is returning its Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and
Saturday schedules with-out a single change.
Such non-maneuvers left more than a few observers feeling underwhelmed.
“It’s a very conservative season and surprisingly humble,” said Tom Nun-an, a producer and former president at UPN (now The CW), who teaches at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. “The most exciting programs and most exciting risks are being taken on cable and
in streaming, and this year it’s as though the networks simply admitted it and laid down their arms.”
The network chiefs aren’t putting it that way, natural-ly. ABC chief Paul Lee told advertisers his team’s new battle plan delivered “real ambition,” with sprawling dramas such as the Texas soap “Oil” and the FBI pro-cedural “Quantico.”
Ambition has its limits, though. ABC is also reviv-ing “The Muppets” — the puppet characters whose roots stretch back to the 1950s — and “Uncle Buck,” an adaptation of the 1989 feature comedy. NBC is pitching a miniseries about 69-year-old country icon Dolly Parton and a live re-make of the 1970s musical “The Wiz.”
The networks have little choice, according to some experts.
DVRs and on-demand platforms such as Hulu and Amazon have made viewers much less reliant on the network schedules that have governed prime time since the late 1940s. Young viewers in particu-lar expect programs to be available whenever they want to see them.
TV networks eschew comedy in prime timeBy SCOTT COLLINSLos Angeles Times
CBS
Melissa Benoist and Mehcad Brooks star in “Supergirl,” debuting this fall on CBS.
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