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Aiello's Pizza founder turned American Dream into Pittsburgh staple
Joe Aiello opened Squirrel Hill pizzeria in 1978
Giuseppe "Joe" Aiello, the beloved owner of Aiello's Pizza in Squirrel Hill, passed away Monday from lung cancer.
"I think there's a lot of respect, just for the amount of people I've seen coming in and asking about him," said Aiello's employee Tim Watts. "He was always in the window, and they would see him all the time."
City Councilman Corey O'Connor, a Squirrel Hill native, was one of many customers who stopped by on Tuesday to grab a slice in honor of Aiello.
"I remember I always put hot peppers on my pizza and he'd say, 'What the hell are you doing? You're going to burn your mouth off.' And he cared about the neighborhood," said O'Connor.
O'Connor told Channel 4 Action News' Shannon Perrine he's received calls from friends across the country planning to have pizzas shipped to them. "It's like that kind of support that he has everywhere, and his memory will never go away," said O'Connor.
Aiello came to America from Sicily 46 years ago with only $13 and a dream. From there, he turned that dream into a Pittsburgh staple that extends far beyond the doors of his pizzeria on Murray Avenue.
"Joe came to this country with basically nothing and look what he made: the ultimate American Dream," said customer Rob Unkovic.
"I think it captures the American Dream, in regards to whatever you want to make of yourself. Whether it be a businessman or you want a family, whatever you want, it's available here as long as you work at it," said fellow customer J.D. Macioce.
Aiello may not have known how to speak English when he first arrived, but he certainly knew how to make a pizza. After years of kneading dough, he finally opened his own pizza shop in April 1978.
"Aiello's is just like a landmark of Pittsburgh. If someone says, 'Where do you go for good pizza? You say, 'Aiello's,'" said customer Eric Carnivale.
For 35 years, Aiello tossed pizzas for his customers. His son, Mike, has never had a boss who wasn't his dad. "I've never worked for anybody else, and I wouldn't have it any other way," said Mike Aiello. "I've never worked anywhere else. This is only where I've ever worked, right here in Squirrel Hill."
If Aiello's dedicated customers had it their way, they probably wouldn't eat pizza from anyone else.
"I moved away to Ohio six years ago, and I'm here just for the day and this is where I came for lunch because it's the best pizza anywhere," said Melissa French.
For Joe Aiello and his family, the feeling is mutual. "He greatly appreciates the business and the fun times you gave him, and he's going to miss that," said Mike Aiello. "That's one of the things I'm going to miss is him yelling and screaming in Italian."
One of his father's favorite sayings? "If you got time to lean, you got time to clean."
A viewing for Aiello will be held on Wednesday and Thursday from 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. at McCabe Brothers Funeral Home. His funeral will be held at 11:30 a.m. Friday at St. Maria Goretti Liberty Campus. (SLIDESHOW: Fans share their Aiello's Pizza photos & memories)


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plebayo wrote:Do you actually do anything with your dogs?
I googled your kennel and you don't have any titles listed under your dogs, and their pedigrees have no titles. Other than a few 'PR' which just means the dog has a certain number of registered generations to its name.
I looked up "SYRUS THE VIRUS" who is the sire of one of your dogs and there is nothing sound structurally on that dog. From an outsiders perspective it looks like you're breeding for big head, wide body, bulky dogs. Not exactly breeding for health, nor trying to improve the breed by breeding conformationally sound dogs.
I'm just kind of confused, what is it that you do with your dogs other than breed them?
And I'm really not trying to come off like a jerk in this post, but there are sooooo many backyard breeders out there.
DemoDick wrote:No titles, a variety of body styles and head shapes, and a website that is out of date. If all this is accurate, there's no need for anyone to "assume" you're a backyard breeder.
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pitbullmamaliz wrote:This section is for intros only. If you want to discuss conformation or titles, please take it to the appropriate section. Please and thank you.
iluvk9 wrote:Don't flatter yourself. EVERYONE gets redirected if they chat too much in the intros about other stuff.
iluvk9 wrote:Don't flatter yourself. EVERYONE gets redirected if they chat too much in the intros about other stuff.
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Advanced Adapters Jeep CJ Power Steering Conversion Kit - Steer Gear
Installing Advance Adapters Power-Steering Conversion Kit
The steering system of early Jeeps equipped with the factory Ross cam-and-lever mechanism can be marginal at best. When new or freshly rebuilt, it performs adequately with stock-sized tires, but add a locker or bigger tires and you'd better hit the gym to turn the wheel. Once these systems get a little wear in them, there can be as much as a half-turn of play in the steering wheel. Sure, the bellcrank can be rebuilt, the drag link can be rebuilt, the steering box can be rebuilt, and so on down the line, but we can't see putting all that effort into a steering system that isn't going to make your Jeep easier to steer on the road and won't help you turn the wheels on the trail.
When it came time to upgrade the steering of our '71 CJ-6, we briefly considered rebuilding the stock steering system but then came to our senses. Our Buick V-6 already had a pump attached to it and we had an old Saginaw car box in the shed, so by using Advance Adapters' power-steering conversion kit (PN 716806 for early Jeep vehicles), converting our '71 over to power steering was easier and considerably less messy than fooling around with the stock manual system.
Advance Adapters has done its homework to make the conversion relatively painless. There is a little bit of fabrication required, but the Advance Adapters kit includes everything you need to complete the conversion except for a power-steering box, pump, and hoses. We completed ours in an afternoon and were rewarded with one-handed steering in any terrain.


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Jack Tatum, the Oakland Raiders football star who earned the nickname "The Assassin" for his devastating tackles, has died of a heart attack.
Tatum, an All-American at Ohio State before joining the Oakland Raiders, suffered a heart attack, according to 10TV.com. He had long battled diabetes and had his right leg amputated a few years ago. He died Tuesday in Oakland.
Tatum's 1978 tackle of Darryl Stingley left the Patriots wide receiver paralyzed. Another tackle of Minnesota receiver Sammy White during the 1977 Super Bowl sent the Viking's helmet flying through the air.
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"I play a hard-hitting game," Tatum said in an NFL Films documentary that named him the sixth hardest hitter in pro football history. "I just like to have the receivers think about me a little bit while they're trying to catch the ball."
Current Ohio State Coach Jim Tressel released a statement following Tatum's death,calling him "one of our greatest Buckeyes.
"When you think of Ohio State defense, the first name that comes to mind is Jack Tatum," Tressel said. "His loss touches every era of Ohio State players and fans."
Tatum, a North Carolina native who grew up in Passaic, N.J., was the 19th player picked in the 1971 draft. A three-time Pro-Bowler, he played in the NFL from 1971-80, finishing his career with the Houston Oilers. He helped the Raiders win the '77 Super Bowl under Coach John Madden.


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The Aftermath
From William Diamond's Drum, by Arthur Bernon Tourtellot:
Later on the morning of April nineteenth. Captain [John] Parker reassembled his Lexington minutemen, to march toward Concord. Some of the wounded, now bandaged, formed in awkward but determined lines. Among them was Jedediah Munroe, the old man who had fallen on the Common before he could shoot and who had brought along the old Scotch claymore as an extra weapon. William Diamond beat his drum again. The little company marched off toward Concord, the beat of the drum and the thin music of the fife echoing briefly after them. And this was perhaps Lexington's saddest and most triumphant moment of the whole day—the sun now high in the sky, the smell of British gunpowder still in the air, their dead brothers lying on the Common behind, and the company of minutemen, knowing now what they faced, marching off to meet the enemy again.
(Photograph from Joanne Rath's coverage of the reenactment at Lexington yesterday for the Boston Globe. Pictured are Quinn, Peter, and Joleen Ricci of Bedford.)


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Shabazz Muhammad is proving a good canary in the coal mine for figuring out if we've dispensed with the superstar-athlete-doesn't-care-about-team-play concern trolling as we've grown more sophisticated about the complexity of the NCAA and the intellectual laziness of humping tired sports cliches. We haven't, it turns out. The coal mine is still lethal.
From trumped up improper benefits scandals to a backpack so nice Pat Forde nearly called the cops, Muhammad, by his mere existence, has ruffled the easiest to ruffle feathers in the business. Now some sportswriters are literally demanding that Muhammad dive on a dog pile—prostrate himself out of sheer happiness—to prove he's not a Glory Boy. On Thursday night, Larry Drew II hit a game-winner to beat the University of Washington. Many of Drew's teammates dog-piled onto Drew, perhaps out of fear that they would be called frauds or have their very humanity questioned if they didn't. Muhammad, a college freshman, wasn't one of the players hugging Drew immediately after the shot, in view of the cameras. He explained that, and the fact that he was clapping for the ball on the final possession, to reporters after the game:
"Oh yeah, I wanted the ball. But Larry is such an aggressive player, and as soon as the ball went up I knew it was going to be good. Everybody was on him and attacking him and I knew Larry was going to have something broken or some scratches, so I was going to wait until he gets up to congratulate him. That was a big-time shot and we're all so happy that we won the game."
He also explained why he wasn't overjoyed in the moment. UCLA played like shit, and was lucky to escape with the victory:
"We definitely need another win where its solid and just to build off of our chemistry. The SC loss was so bad, and coming here with an ugly win — we'll take it, but we definitely need to look for a really solid win."
So: A kid with a good head on his shoulders and a reasonable perspective on a long season, or the surliest team cancer to ever exploit a university on his way to becoming a millionaire?
The latter narrative got rolling with this tweet from USA Today college football writer Dan Wolken:
From there, it was all some sportswriters could do not to call in the body language expert.
From "Drew's game winner can't mask UCLA's issues," ESPN:
And Thursday he showed that when the ball isn't in his hands, he will pout. As Drew dribbled the ball during the 10 seconds before hitting the game winner, Muhammad curled up to the top of the key and adamantly clapped his hands and stomped his feet calling for the ball.
After Drew's shot went in, most UCLA players dog-piled on top, but Muhammad casually walked past the pile with the look of a lover scorned, not even bothering to glance at the proceedings.
From, "UCLA Phenom Shabazz Muhammad Looked Irritated That His Teammate Made A Buzzer Beater", Business Insider:
After the game, some people began to notice that Shabazz Muhammad - one of the best freshmen in the country - looked a little less than excited about the whole thing.
He was clamoring for the ball at the beginning of the play. When the shot went in, he had no reaction, and he didn't join his teammates in the dog pile.
From "Reading into Shabazz Muhammad's reaction after Larry Drew II's buzzer beater," OC Register:
And less than 24 hours after the game, Muhammad's reaction before the bucket — calling, almost angrily, for the ball — and after — walking away without celebrating with his teammates — might actually have overshadowed the shot itself.
Muhammad's reaction to the play has made the rounds on ESPN, as sportswriters and regular onlookers alike have criticized him for his reaction. [...] "That was a big time shot," Muhammad said.
But was there a subtext in that final play?
From "UCLA's Shabazz Muhammad Sulked After Teammate Larry Drew's Buzzer-Beater Because Shabazz Muhammad Didn't Shoot The Ball," SportsGrid:
Here's what he said after the game:
"Oh yeah, I wanted the ball, but Larry is such an aggressive player. When the ball went up I knew it was going to be good. Everyone was on him and attacking him and I knew he was either going to have something broken or come up with some scratches, so I was going to wait until he gets up to congratulate him. That was a big-time shot and we're all so happy that we won the game. "
So happy! Such joy! Such conscientiousness! Shabazz Muhammad is all about risk aversion, what with his ties to financial planners and all.
Here are the rules for Shabazz Muhammad, one of the 400 or so most talented basketball players in the world: Play for free, because the NBA bars you from joining up until you've done so for at least a year, even though you're legally an adult. Don't take money from a family friend to visit any of the colleges that you're going to have to play for, even when the NCAA gives you permission. When you arrive, don't use any fancy accessories, because that will arouse suspicion. Look inconspicuous—poor, if possible. And when you win, smile and jump around and shit, or writers will dissect your actions in a way that may well hurt your livelihood. Got that? Great. Have fun out there.


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Profile: Birgit Kollmann
My profession:
Customer Service Manager
Employed with Trotec since:
October 1, 2015
My personal work motto:
Don't (just) dream - do something!
This is how I would describe my job to a friend
I manage the International Customer Service (abbreviated: CS) team and manage three branches myself (USA, Italy and Mexico), as well as South America and Latin America. All processes run through CS -- from the time the order is submitted until delivery. My area of responsibility also includes training (SAP order processing) and support for our colleagues in the branches.
I spend most of my work day...
...talking with my colleagues and on the PC.
The coolest thing about my job is
...that every day is different and you never know what's going to happen. The variety is what I like best.
The thing I appreciate most about Trotec is:
The cool, innovative products and the relaxed work environment, as well as the company philosophy.
Something personal about myself
I love to go on vacation, especially to far away countries. The countries I like the best are in Asia.


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The various loopholes and accounting maneuvers created by the rushed tax overhaul will make a follow-up bill with technical corrections necessary.
House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady confirmed on Monday that Republicans will likely have to work up such a bill.
"There are always technical corrections bills," Martin Sullivan of Tax Analysts tweeted Monday. "The difference now is that this rushed jumble of new rules will require the mother of all technical corrections bills."
The fixes would require 60 votes to pass the Senate, meaning Republicans will need to round up some Democratic support — and Bloomberg's Jonathan Bernstein says that might mean that the numerous mistakes and problems in the tax bill "will prove impossible to fix." Democrats may refuse to play ball in much the same way that Republicans used the filibuster to prevent technical corrections after the Affordable Care Act was passed.
Some Republicans might object to fixes, too, Bernstein suggests: "After all, if tax lawyers find loopholes that taxpayers can exploit, then closing those loopholes might be considered a tax increase. A lot of Republicans might hesitate to vote for that kind of tax increase, even if it just restored the law to what they thought they were passing in the first place."
Bernstein's bottom line: "We may be stuck with whatever mess Republicans are making right now for a long time."


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When: Sat 9th of February 2008
Where: Sapporo, Japan
The Toyota Big Air comp and the kicker have always been a little bit of a paradox. The event is sooooo huge in Japan, and yet the jump's dimensions have remained the same for the last, I don't know, hundred years. This year the organizers didn't want to have it anymore, and the scaffolding stadium jump of the Toyota Big Air was given its first major face lift in years. The jump was increased in size to try to grow to accommodate the level of today's riding. Happy Days!
The riders woke up to blue skies which is not the norm for the usually snowy Toyota Big Air. As the riders boarded the bus to the stadium all the talk was of the Vail Session which everyone had been watching on the live web cast due to the time change. Everyone seemed stoked with the sunny skies and motivated to put on a show.
The show started at dusk, and sixteen riders got two runs on the new jump to make it to the head to head knock out round of eight. In true Japan style the stadium filled with thousands of screaming fans and it was quickly apparent that the fireworks budget was stepped up in correspondence to the increased size of the jump. Kevin Pearce, the defending Toyota Big Air Champion, moved into the round of eight with a stylish cab 9 bs grab where he was joined by his Burton teammates. Nicolas Müller got in with a switch bs 7 and Toyota Big Air rookies Mikkel Bang with a cab 9, and Mason Aguirre with a fs 9. Ironically none of the teammates would go head to head with each other in the round of eight. A sharp contrast to Kevin facing Danny Davis and Nicolas Müller on the his way to the win last year.
In the round of eight Kevin moved on to the next round with another clean 9 against Iouri Padladtchikov, who somehow survived one of the worst crashes of the night and maybe Toyota Big Air history. Iouri slipped out before the take off and launched right onto the knuckle on his back but fortunately was not seriously hurt. Nicolas Müller had a sick switch bs 9 but was beat by Antti Autt'si fs 1080. Mikkel Bang's cab 9 was beaten by Masatake Yamamoto's cab 9, as Mikkel uncharacteristically was not able to hold his grab for the entire rotation. Mason Aguirre was not able to get the landing on his fs 1080, letting Risto Mattila advance.
Coming to the finals; Antti's fs 1080 took Kevin's fs 1080 because of a slight hand drag and Risto took Masatake with a switch bs 9 over a cab 9. In the last round Antti took the win with a fs 1080 over Risto who was unable to land two switch bs 1080 attempts. A glorious day for Flow, no doubt. Marketing 101!
Rockstar anyone? Aaah. He deserves it!
1. Antti Autti (FIN) Flow
2. Risto Mattila (FIN) Flow
3. Masatake Yamamoto (JAP) Rice28
4. Kevin Pearce (USA) Burton
5. Nicolas Muller (SUI) Burton
6. Mikkel Bang (NOR) Burton
7. Mason Aguirre (USA) Burton
8.. Iouri Podladtchikov (SUI/RUS) Santa Cruz