Mr. DiMauro to take new job as Human Resources director

After this year, Chris DiMauro will no longer be the principal of the high school. DiMauro will be taking the job of the director of Human Resources for Stow-Munroe Falls city schools.

Although DiMauro is sad to be leaving the high school, he is excited for his new position in the school district.

As the director of Human Resources, he will be a major component of the hiring process in the school district. This includes teachers, administrators, custodians, and secretaries. He will also be responsible for federal and state accountability for things such as insurance, time cards, school calendars and hours for the staff members.

District-wide programming and terms of staff development also include some of DiMauro’s new duties.

“It is very much a comprehensive job,” DiMauro said.

DiMauro will miss many things when he leaves the high school to pursue his new position. The thing he will miss most is interaction with students and staff. His new role is more centralized away from schools and he will spend more time in an office than in a classroom.

“I’ll still be in buildings, but not nearly as much as I am now,” DiMauro said.

He will also miss the pep rallies the high school hosts and big events he will not be as involved with now. Although he will not be as involved, he will still enjoy coming to football games and other fun events the school puts on. Through these events, he plans to stayed involved in student culture.

DiMauro is looking forward to many new opportunities in his new position and he is excited he will be able to institute change in all schools now instead of just at the high school. He will be working with all 700 employees in the Stow-Munroe Falls school district. He will have many relationships with many different people with his new job.

It is still not known who will be replacing DiMauro. The interviewing process for the principal of the high school will begin sometime next week.

DiMauro said, “My first major task as Human Resources Director is to replace myself.”

Apple working to fix new iPhone bug

Recently this week many students have discovered the iPhone text messaging “bug.” Many students have found a way for iPhone users’ phones to be shut down by sending an encrypted message containing Chinese characters and the phrase “effective. Power.”

According to CNN.com, “A text consisting of a particular string of characters, revealed on Reddit late Tuesday, exploits an inability of the messaging app’s preview feature to correctly render the characters, which are not the standard alphanumerics or emoticons one typically texts.”

Where this hack was found is unclear, but Apple is doing their best to try and resolve the issue.

CNN.com also states, “Apple wrote on its support site, under the heading ‘If Messages quits unexpectedly after you get a text with a specific string of characters,’ that the company ‘is aware of an iMessage issue caused by a specific series of unicode characters.’ The post said Apple will make a fix available in a software update.”

Until the problem is solved by Apple, there are a few things one can do to prevent the problems from arising and not have to block any contacts. First thing to try is asking Siri to “read unread messages.”

Also, use Siri to reply to the message. After the reply, the phone will be able to open Messages again. Lastly, in Messages, swipe left to delete the entire conversation, or tap and hold the message, tap “more,” and delete the message from the conversation.

If all fails and the phone continues to have problems, the last thing to do is block the people who send the messages and do a quick reset of the phone.

Lastly, hold the home button with the power button as if one was taking a screenshot. Hold them in for a few seconds and an apple should appear. This signals that the phone has closed down all the apps and refreshed its system. All the contacts, photos, and apps will remain on the phone.

Softball season ends after loss to Barberton in semifinal game

By: Lindsey Houck

The Stow-Munroe Falls softball team’s season came to a close after losing to Barberton 8-5 in a Division I district semifinal game May 21 at the Barberton Sports Complex.

With the win, the Lady Magics improved to 19-9 and reached their first district title game in school history. The Lady Bulldogs finished 24-6.

At one point, Stow had a 5-1 lead, but that advantage quickly ended in the sixth and seventh innings. Barberton scored seven runs in the final two innings. Alyssa Ingram had seven strikeouts in the first four innings, but things changed after the Lady Bulldogs built a 5-1 lead in the fifth.

In the sixth inning, Barberton scored four runs to tie the game. After a walk, and then a double by Lady Magics’ third baseman Kayla Rorrer, second baseman Makayla Okolish reached on an error.

Barberton then got its biggest hit of the game from its number eight hitter after having a bomb hit to the outfield player before. Barberton’s shortstop blasted a three-run homer over the fence in left field to tie the game.

Barberton then added a solo home run later in the inning for the final run. Ingram, despite pitching with the hip injury, went all seven innings. She allowed 13 hits and finished with eight strikeouts and one walk.

Stow tied the game again in the bottom of the third.

Ingram got the first of her two doubles and senior center fielder Erin Kolke added a run-scoring single. Sophomore Lindsey Houck, the courtesy runner for Ingram, scored on Kolke’s hit.

The Lady Bulldogs made the game 5-1 off Kaisk with four runs in the fifth.

Ingram led off the inning with a double and moved to third on a sacrifice bunt by freshman shortstop Brittany Hoopingarner. Kolke followed with a run-scoring infield single and junior second baseman Bekah Jones added a single. Then, senior first baseman Chrissie Vaughan reached on an infield error and junior catcher Landry Slider drew a walk which set up the biggest blow of the inning. Left fielder Kayla Esterle ripped a two-run single to make it 5-1.

Barberton’s pitcher got the win in the circle as she scattered nine hits in seven innings. She walked two batters and struck out one. Ingram finished with three hits and Slider reached base three times.

Stow lost the game 8-5, but finished the season with their heads up.

FIFA involved in soccer scandal

FIFA is a brand known by many and has recently been involved in a huge scandal. On May 27, in Zurich, Switzerland. Swiss police, on Wednesday, raided a Zurich hotel to detain top FIFA football officials as part of a US investigation into possible corruption the Simpsons may have predicted.

By: Ryan Stone

In Zurich, some police officers went into a massive hotel which was the site of this week’s annual meeting of FIFA, soccer’s global governing body. The officers got room numbers from the front desk, headed upstairs, and arrested six FIFA executives.

The Justice Department’s announcement primarily cites deals between FIFA, sports marketing groups and broadcast corporations for the television rights to air the World Cup and other international soccer tournaments.

This goes back to 1991; the indictment those involved conspired to receive bribes from marketing firms in exchange for exclusive television contracts to the cumulative tune of more than $150 million.

The Attorney General Loretta Lynch said, “It spans at least two generations of soccer officials who, as alleged, have abused their positions of trust to acquire millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks.”

All of this could bring big issues to the soccer world and more than likely everyone involved will be brought to justice. 

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