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Harriet K. McBee (KuyKendall), 98, of Fredonia, N.Y., and formerly of Hancock, Md., died Monday, June 17, 2013, at the Chautauqua County Home in Dunkirk, N.Y., nine days short of her 99th birthday.
McBee was born June 26, 1914, in Keyser, W.Va., to the late William KuyKendall and Nannie Miller KuyKendall.
She graduated from Berkeley Springs (W.Va.) High School and attended Rhode Island State College.
On Nov. 18, 1939, she married her husband, Ira G. "Mac" McBee. They were married 51 years at the time of his death in May 1991.
McBee worked as a school secretary for the Hancock Elementary and Intermediate schools from 1952 to 1976.
She was a member of the Hancock Presbyterian Church, Hancock; the Washington County School Secretaries' Association; and involved for many years with the Hancock Christmas Basket Program.
She is survived by her daughter, Margaret "Peggy" (David) Tiffany of Fredonia; her grandson, David (Michele) Tiffany Jr. of Greencastle, Pa.; her granddaughter, Katherine Tiffany (Martin Bogardus) of Clementon, N.J.; great-grandchildren, Sheena, Zachary and Abigail Tiffany of Greencastle; a niece, Jane Lee Sachs of Penfield, N.Y.; a nephew, John Charles KuyKendall of Hanover, Pa., and sister-in-law, Marian Lee KuyKendall of Penfield, N.Y.
Besides her husband, "Mac" McBee, and her parents, William and Nannie (Miller) KuyKendall, she was preceded in death by her sister, Charlotte E. KuyKendall; and her brother, William J. KuyKendall.
Family will receive friends at Grove Funeral Home, 141 W. Main St., Hancock (301-678-6178), Sunday, June 23, 2013, from 6 to 8 p.m., where funeral services will be held Monday, June 24, 2013, at 10 a.m., with the Rev. Carol A. Davis officiating. Interment will be in Johnson-Greenwell Cemetery, Reese's Mill, W.Va.
The family extends their deep gratitude to friends in Hancock; the caregivers at the WCA Home in Fredonia; and the Chautauqua County Home in Dunkirk, N.Y., whose help and loving care eased Harriet's last few years.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions in McBee's memory may be made to the Hancock Presbyterian Church, 17 E. Main St., Hancock, MD 21750.
Online condolences may be made at www.larsontimkofuneralhome.com.

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The Bears entered the offseason with a serious need to upgrade their offensive line, leading them to sign Jermon Bushrod away from the Saints to man left tackle this season.
Bushrod is definitely better than what the Bears had before, but that doesn't do them much good if Bushrod isn't able to get on the field because he's injured. That made his absence from Monday's practice and the walking boot on his right leg quite noticeable, although the tackle said that the calf injury that led to both developments wasn't causing him much worry.
"We just want to see how it's feeling," Bushrod said, via Mark Potash of the Chicago Sun-Times. "It's nothing crazy. Just got to rest it and do what I can do to get back out there. I didn't want to make it any worse. I need my calf. So I didn't want to push it too much. It'll be OK."
There's no MRI scheduled, which suggests the Bears medical staff has a similar level of confidence that Bushrod's calf injury is a minor one that should resolve itself quickly. Anything other than that would leave the team with Jonathan Scott or J'Marcus Webb (currently at right tackle) manning Jay Cutler's blindside and that would feel a little to close to last season for anyone's comfort.


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We've got a great guest post today from Johanna Lynn, who's going to show you how we set up the mobile version of the BlackBerry® Management Center site! – Ed.
"Rules can be broken, but not ignored" – a truism that most assuredly applies to mobile web design. In this post I'm going to use the BlackBerry Management Center site as an example of how we revisited the mobile user experience of one of our websites, and how (I hope) you can learn from our reorientation of BlackBerry Management Center.
First, some background: BlackBerry Management Center is a web-based mobile device management service for small businesses. It has a website for use by both an administrator and device (handheld) user. Our requirement was to design a mobile version for BlackBerry smartphone users, targeting WebKit browsers, specifically BlackBerry® 6+ OS browsers on handhelds. The following are the design heuristics and the decisions we made.
Use a Separate Mobile Theme
We approached the mobile site as a theme separate from the website, making a conscious decision to not scrape the website and directly translate UI elements to fit them into a mobile screen. Instead, we created a new, more compact CSS for the layout. We opted for minimal JavaScript® and no third-party JavaScript libraries, which resulted in a smaller client-side download.
Make it Simpler
We knew from the beginning that the BlackBerry Management Center mobile site should have a simplified design and functionality. Starting from a blank slate, we asked what goals the user needs to achieve on a mobile device, and then designed the information architecture, thought through the interactions and UI elements, created the layout, and mapped the navigation. We removed menus, eliminated graphic elements, and cut most of the verbiage. With minimal JavaScript and no third-party libraries, the UI became simpler and the user did not have to download large JavaScript libraries over a cellular connection. Short and simple was our mantra here!
Limit the Number of Links
The rule of thumb is to limit links to 10 per page since too many links make it difficult to navigate and read content. We also placed links flushed left for a better experience by ensuring that the eye scans the page in two directions (top/down) only instead of four (top/down/left/right).
Optimize Navigation
To avoid zooming in every time a user wants to click on something, we made all fonts two points bigger than the website version of BlackBerry Management Center. Trying to click on tiny, barely-visible links is a real pain, so we also added extra padding for our links to make the clickable area greater.
Limit Scrolling to One Direction
Most users find it annoying to have to scroll in multiple directions on a page when on a desktop, and it's easy to accidentally scroll the wrong way (horizontally or vertically) when using a touchscreen or a trackpad. We eliminated this hassle by fitting the content so that the user is limited to scrolling vertically whether in portrait or landscape mode on the mobile device.
Don't Use Pop-Ups or Open New Windows
The website uses modals to display more detail or to display confirmations to the user. Pop-ups and new windows interfere with the browsing experience, so we got rid of this completely on the mobile version. Instead, we give user feedback by providing confirmation text inline.
Minimize the Use of Images
The BlackBerry Management Center website has a very rich UI with graphics, which means more processing and rendering that could be taxing to the system. A quick test of the mobile version versus the website (with minimal images and no pop-ups) showed a 60% performance improvement. This is significant since mobile devices have smaller bandwidth on cellular networks. We decided to leave the BlackBerry logo and eliminated images that served no added purpose other than to look pretty.
Provide the Option of Visiting the Standard Site
We decided against this option because switching from mobile to the full site would limit the UI on the phone. Unlike most sites, the BlackBerry Management Center device user experience is a flow from one state to the next as the user enters information about their device. There is also no value gained by switching to the full site from the mobile version because it already covers a majority of the functionality.
Use a Separate Domain or Subdomain
We did not register a separate domain for the mobile version. Once a mobile client is detected through its user agent, it is served the mobile version within the same domain. As mentioned above, the mobile version has full user functionality and the user would not need to switch to the full site.
Conclusion and Lessons Learned
From the beginning, we should have designed for the mobile device in parallel with the standard website. If we had the mobile version in mind from the get-go, the user experience would be more seamless and less jarring. Testing was quite a challenge, despite focusing mainly on BlackBerry browsers 6 and above. Creating a flow diagram and click stream helped during the design process; prioritizing content and deciding on what is essential proved to be an important exercise as well. Finally, a clean, semantic markup, along with separation of our content and presentation with CSS provided a solid foundation for a usable mobile site. Once the framework was set, we were off to a great start.
Good luck to you on your next mobile web design project! Let us know how it goes.


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Project Self-Sufficiency will sponsor the seventh annual local celebration of the internationally-acclaimed "Open That Bottle Night," an event created for wine-lovers which traditionally takes place on the last Saturday evening in February. This year's event will be held on Saturday, February 22nd at 6:00 p.m. at the Hudson Farm Club, a 3,000 acre private hunting preserve located in Hopatcong. The occasion will include rare wines, sumptuous food from Chef Kirk Avondoglio of Perona Farms, and the opportunity to purchase artwork from local sculptors, artists and photographers. Musical entertainment will be provided by the "Meant to be Jazz" trio. Participants are required to bring their own bottle of wine along, so that they can share their story about its origin with the other invited guests. Additional rare and unique wines will be available to supplement those brought along by participants.
"Open That Bottle Night" was created in 2000 by Dorothy Gaiter and John Brecher, former authors of the Wall Street Journal's "Tastings" column. The concept encouraged those who had been saving a special bottle of wine to gather together with other wine-enthusiasts to share their own bottles and create a memorable wine-tasting experience. The bottles of wine brought along to the occasion did not have to be particularly expensive. The popular event is now celebrated around the world, in places as far flung as Antarctica and Hawaii.
"'Open That Bottle Night' is an important component of our annual campaign, and one whose message reminds us that we need not wait for a special occasion to celebrate with family and friends. Every day give us the opportunity to create new memories," commented Deborah Berry-Toon, Executive Director of Project Self-Sufficiency
The affair will be held at the Hudson Farm Club in Hopatcong, a 3,000 acre private hunting preserve originally owned by railroad magnate John P. McRoy who operated a dairy farm on the property. The farm features a twenty-room estate house designed by New York architect Clarence Curter. In 1920 the property was donated to The Hudson Guild, a charitable organization located in New York City. The property was purchased by a private owner in 1997 and the home has been carefully restored to reflect the original design.
The evening will be catered by Kirk Avondoglio, owner of Perona Farms. The menu for the evening will feature a sumptuous multi-course meal suitable for the festive occasion, including hors d'oeuvres, salad, fish, pasta, a meat course and dessert. Avondoglio commented on his desire to be involved with Open that Bottle Night, "Perona Farms is heavily invested in helping out people in our community who need assistance, and Project Self-Sufficiency does a great job of helping out people in need."
Beverly Gordon, President of Project Self-Sufficiency's Board of Directors, notes, "At Open That Bottle Night, the experience of trying so many different and rare wines is amazing. And listening to the stories of how, where and why these wines mean so much to the owners is just great. Of course, the best part of the evening is the opportunity to raise funds for Project Self-Sufficiency."
Project Self-Sufficiency is the only organization in Sussex County whose mission is to provide the services necessary for single parents, teen parents, displaced homemakers and two-parent families to improve the quality of their lives and those of their children by attaining economic self-sufficiency and family stability. Since 1986, over 19,500 low-income adults and more than 30,000 children have participated in one or more of the programs offered by the organization.
Project Self-Sufficiency offers a supportive family-centered environment where life issues are addressed through a combination of individual counseling, peer support groups, case management services, parenting skills training, life skills management training, home visits, childcare and early childhood education, family activities and health education.
To raise additional funds for the agency, artwork will be available for sale at Open that Bottle Night. Sponsorship packages are available at a variety of levels, ranging from "Reserve" at $1,500 to "Oenophile" at $10,000. Tickets for Open That Bottle Night are $300 per person or $500 per couple. The Hudson Farm Club is located at 270 Stanhope Sparta Road in Hopatcong. For information about the event, to purchase tickets, or to inquire about sponsorships, please call 973-940-3500.


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The input of EU experts in agriculture allows the EU to make a valuable contribution to the OECD's work in this policy area.
What is the OECD and what does it do?
The OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) is composed of 33 countries sharing the principles of market economy, pluralist democracy and respect for human rights.
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The OECD provides a forum in which governments can work together to share expertise and seek solutions to common economic problems.
The OECD:
- works on understanding what drives economic, social and environmental change
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- makes market forecasts,
- sets mutually agreed international standards in a wide range of areas, from agriculture and tax to the safety of chemicals.
What is the EU involvement in the OECD?
While the EU enjoys a special status in the OECD, the competence of EU experts in the policy areas dealt with by the OECD allows the EU to make a valuable contribution to its work.
EU experts attend and give oral and written submissions in all OECD working groups in the agricultural domain, which number around 30 meetings per year.
What work does the OECD do on agriculture?
OECD analyses and policy recommendations aim to promote knowledge and provide guidelines for governments to make progress in a globalised economy.
EU experts are particularly active in the work on:
The OECD's Global Forum for Agriculture and outreach to emerging economies is also key in bringing major actors to discuss common challenges.
How do different international organizations work together in agriculture?
The OECD has official relations with many other international organizations (IO) and bodies, of which the EU is also member. In the agriculture domain, organizations such as the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) are particularly relevant. Strengthened cooperation in recent years between OECD and FAO has improved the agricultural market outlook and work undertaken by then OECD and other international organizations resulted in the recent report to G20 on food price volatility and agricultural productivity.
>> Read the report on food price volatility
>> Read the report on agricultural productivity


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A Truth Journal: LSU Saw The Light To Keep Coach Les Miles. Political Pressure and Fan Pushback Brought It About: From Denny: What a game tonight as Coach Les Miles led his much tighter team to a great win against Texas A & M. This was a must win game for our coach to be considered to remain as head coach. Just 20 seconds after the game AD Joe Alleva came out and announced that Les Miles will stay on as head coach. It was Coach Miles' first hearing of the decision just moments after the game.
The past few weeks a group of boosters have tried to orchestrate his firing. What a bunch of divas, thinking a bunch of angry rich old white guys could throw their weight around and force his firing without even consulting the fan base of thousands of fans across the nation who follow LSU football. Coach Miles is the very picture of "grace under fire," something those boosters did not mirror.
The attitude of AD Joe Alleva and his booster posse have greatly angered the state of Louisiana and the city of Baton Rouge in particular. Political pressure started coming to bear when the LSU fans loudly and bitterly complained about this nasty and unprofessionally handled situation...
A Truth Journal: LSU Saw The Light To Keep Coach Les Miles. Political Pressure and Fan Pushback Brought It About
Check out this article I wrote yesterday criticizing LSU admin. It really was unbelievable how this all flared up and pissed off the fans:
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Classic curricular trad here this Sunday.
Can't really tell there but that is a Hanauer bow in a BB1 stripe in red, white, and blue (in honor of the US hockey team who is currently locked in overtime *edit, never mind, they just lost*).
If you care to see some decidedly un-trad pictures, check out a new post on my other blog, The Strayaway Child (warning, contains denim and tattoo content)


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YORK, PA – The 18th ranked York College men's lacrosse team avenged one of their 2013 losses in emphatic fashion on Saturday as the Spartans downed Haverford 13-4 in non-conference play in York.
The Spartans improve to 5-1 overall as they have won five straight games. The Fords fall to 0-3 with the loss.
The teams traded goals in the opening five minutes of the game as the two teams got into the rhythm of the game. The Spartans took their first lead of the day when James Lowe (Monrovia, Md./Urbana) scored a man up goal off a Tyler Davis (Finksburg, Md./Westminster) pass at the 6:04 mark. The final 25 seconds of the quarter featured a pair of goals as Andrew Gamble (Easton, Md./Easton) scored off a Davis feed with 21 seconds left. Haverford's Jack Bodine took the ensuing face off and scored seven seconds later, cutting the York lead to 3-2 after one quarter of play.
The Spartans took control of the game in the second as Davis and Tyler Hutson (Westminster, Md./Winters Mill) scored in the first four minutes of the quarter, pushing York's lead to 5-3. Haverford's Geoff Geppart temporarily stopped the bleeding with a goal at the 8:29 mark but York closed out the quarter with goals from Hutson and Lowe to push the lead to 7-3 at the intermission.
York poured it on in the third quarter as they ripped off four goals to push the lead to 11-3. The final goal of the quarter came from defender Kevin Braun (Chadds Ford, Pa./Saint Mark's) as the Green and White was clicking on all cylinders. York has outscored their six opponents by a combined margin of 18-5 in the third quarter this year.
Hutson opened the fourth quarter with York's seven consecutive goal before Tav Hafner ended York's run with an unassisted tally with 7:37 left in the game. Hutson closed out the scoring with his fourth goal of the game.
Hutson led the Spartans with his four goals while Lowe and sophomore Joseph Joseph (Hollywood, Md./St. Mary's Ryken) each added two. Joseph also had two assists for four points. Senior Seth Krolus (Westminster, Md./Loyola Blakefield) contributed a goal, an assist, and five ground balls in the win.
Jake Katchmark (Centreville, Va./Westfield) was outstanding at the X as the freshman won 14-of-18 while he scooped up six ground balls in the win.
Jack Bodine scored twice to lead the Fords' offense.
Caleb Abney (Forest Hill, Md./Fallston) earned the win in net as he played 52:17 in cage. He made seven saves and allowed four goals. James Anderson (Pasadena, Md./Annapolis Area Christian) recorded one save in 2:38 of work while Christian Koch (Sykesville, Md./Centry) notched two stops in 5:05 of action.
Eric Caliendo went the distance in net for Haverford as he recorded 13 saves during his 60 minutes in the pipes.
York outshot the Fords 43-28 while they also held a 32-23 edge in ground balls. York was 19-of-20 on clears while the Fords went 12-for-19.
The Spartans return to action a week from today when host the University of Mary Washington in York's Capital Athletic Conference opener. First face off from Kinsley Field is set for 3:00 pm.


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Not breaking news that Katherine Heigl, 31, and husband Josh Kelley, 30, have love for the Beehive.
The pair married up in PC in '07 and quickly closed on a spread in nearby Oakley and frequently get spotted browsing at Dolly's or dining at Adolph's (or at Equus Tack and Supply in PC).
But now it's official, musician Kelley this week spilled the beans to UsMagazine.com that the couple plus adopted daughter Naleigh, 1, will eschew LA for Utah and Nashville.
An excerpt from Kelley's interview:
Us: Now that you've gone country, are you going to move to Nashville?
JK: I lived in Nashville before I met Katie. That's how Lady Antebellum (brother Charles is in the country trio) kind of started. I bought I house out there in 2005, the first house I ever bought. I told Charles [and his band] they could come live there, so Nashville has been in my heart for years.
Us: Are you in Los Angeles now?
JK: We live up in the mountains in Utah now. Katie rides horses, I do a lot of fishing and golfing, it's a lot of fun.
Us: How did you find Utah?
JK: Just kind of randomly. It was a dream of Katie's for years. We got married out there and I just fell in love with it. It's amazing and one of my favorite places in the world. What we'll probably do is put our time between Nashville and Utah. When we were in L.A., we were never in the scene. We don't really leave the house. I stay in my studio and write music all the time.
Heigl's interest in Utah might have started on the Wasatch Front, actually closer to the Oquirrhs when she starred with Danielle Harris in Wish Upon a Star 14 years ago - filmed at Hunter High School in West Valley City.
Alexia Wheaton (Heigl) spends her days finding ways to be popular, living by the rules of fashion and never keeping a boyfriend for more than a month.
Sister Hayley (Harris) wishes she could be more like her sister and not the geeky science nerd she became.
Hayley wishes to become Alexia when she sees a shooting star, and the next morning she is. The rest of the story follows close to Freaky Friday or Vice Versa, but probably better.
Hunter High's commons area became the film's lunchroom (not sure why they didn't just use the lunchroom), and all the students in the movie parked in the faculty parking lot.
Alexia's boyfriend Kyle lived in my neighborhood (Yes, the one I'm living in right now).
It's pretty close to the school, so I'm not sure why he needed her to drive him.
In any rate, hopefully I'll Katie and Josh will save a seat for me at next year's Oakley Rodeo.


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DailyDirt: Really Tall Buildings in China
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- A 74-story building in China isn't finished yet, but the locals are already complaining that the huge archway looks unflatteringly like a pair of giant pants. The British-designed skyscraper was supposed to be the largest gate-shaped structure -- representing a "Gate to the East", but Chinese bloggers have nicknamed the building "Giant Underpants" instead of "Arc de Triomphe of the East". [url]
- Buildings more than 152 meters tall can be considered skyscrapers, and four of the ten tallest buildings are located in China. There are now hundreds of skyscrapers in China, outnumbering those in the US, but there are concerns about how sustainable these towers will be with low occupancy rates and questionable safety and building management. [url]
- The Sky City project is expected to be complete in January 2013, taking the title for the world's tallest building away from the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. The more impressive feat, however, is that this building will be fully constructed in just a few months. [url]


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I personally found that opinion rather counterproductive to someone who was making their living off of the business of selling books. I held the opposite opinion and felt what we needed was MORE books and that many good ones were being passed over because there were only so many open slots that were available through a relatively small number of publisher's finite capacity. Of course that was all before the ebook revolution.
With the advances in technology (Print on Demand and ebooks) the ability to put out more books has exploded. During the Gaithersburg Book Festival a panel of publishing professionals was discussing the Future of the book. Jed Lyons noted that a trend of selling less copies of more titles was changing the nature of publishing. He cited the following statistics: (04:25 in the video found here).
- Ten years ago 50,000 books were published per year
- Five years ago 180,000 books were published per year
- Last year there were 1,000,000 books published
- There are now more than 17,000 publishers
As progressive as I have been in my own publishing company, I found that even myself, fell into a trapping that many publishers do, which is limiting the output of authors. When I first started putting out Michael's books, I planned for them to be released one every six-months. My thought process was to have an event that would trigger a "shot in the arm" for sales that would help reverse a decline that was started to appear at this time as the initial bubble of sales started to slow down.
I've now changed my opinion on that front and believe that books should be released as quickly as possible. I think it was John Locke (ebook best seller) who mentioned that each book was like a sales agent who went out into the world on an evangelic mission to bring readers to the author's body of work and that makes a lot of sense to me.
But the shift from scarcity to abundance will have major repercussions to the publishing industry and authors ability to make a living writing. In an article entitled Scarcity to Abundance: E-books and the pain of the Digital Revolution, Steven Lyle Jordon says:
The state of our world, after the full adoption of the Digital Revolution, will likely be as unrecognizable to those of us alive today as the Industrial Revolution would have been to the farmers of the fifteenth century.And I think he's correct. One of the last posts I was commenting on before being banned from Absolute Write was with a poster who actually made the following statements:
I also think your "new model" and "old model" is pretty indicative of exactly the type of thinking I find a little faulty in the first place. I'm sure you'll disagree with me on this, but the model is changing and it's a lot more amorphous than that. We saw tape players turn to cds turn to mp3s and there was no major collapse of the record industry.Seriously? How deep is the hole that those clinging to traditional publishing models live in? We are not talking about a mere "change in format". Nor a trend that only effects self-published authors. What we are seeing is a whole new publishing paradigmn. Here are some comments from my rebutal that I think bears repeating:
Truth be told, my own thought is that I expect there to continue to be paradigm shifts in self-publishing, with commercial remaining largely the same.
The toothpaste is out of the tube and there is no going back. From this point on the number of books will continue to proliferate at an unprecedented speed. I think this will offer both opportunity and challenges, but putting your head in the sand and ignoring that it has occurred is definitely not the correct approach.
If you believe this is about a new format than you are missing the importance of the monumental shifts.
a) Authors selling in the tens and hundreds of thousands without publishers
b) The collapse of bookstore chains
c) A required shift of marketing from chain store buyers to individual readers
d) infinite shelf space of online buying
e) the re-introduction of hundreds of thousands of out of print titles that can now be reintroduced into the market place
f) A huge proliferation of titles (ten years ago 50,000 titles a year were released last year there were 1,000,000 (Source)
g) long tail economics as books can remain "in print" forever through POD and ebooks
h) an end to publisher monopolies as a sole gatekeeper to getting a book to market.
i) a new publishing model (Thomas and Mercer) where a major publisher has access not only to consumer emails but also their buying habits.


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The New York State Builders Association 2013 fall board meetings will be held Thursday, Sept. 19, and Friday, Sept. 20, at the Conference & Events Center Niagara Falls. The Niagara County Builders Association looks forward to hosting the event and its participants.
A highlight of the event is a speech Thursday by Elliot Eisenberg, Ph.D., a nationally acclaimed economist and public speaker. He will address the group during an 11:45 a.m. luncheon. Eisenberg holds a B.A. in economics with first class honors from McGill University, as well as a master's and Ph.D. in public administration from Syracuse University. Eisenberg was formerly a senior economist with the National Association of Home Builders in Washington, D.C. He created a multifamily stock index and has authored more than 65 articles, while speaking to hundreds of business groups and associations, frequently as keynote speaker.
For more information on Eisenberg, visit www.econ70.com.
Paul Game of Paul J. Game Construction in Lewiston will be honored at the Conference Center on Friday evening.
Other events include a cocktail reception hosted by the NCBA, the Empire Cup Golf Tournament, a tour of Niagara Falls-area sites, and the NYSBA board meetings.
For more information on the New York State Builders Association 2013 fall board meetings, visit http://www.niagaracountybuilders.com/Page_10.html.


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Buffalo man charged in murder
A 23-year-old Buffalo man was arraigned Friday on murder and robbery charges in the Nov. 10 shooting death of a Lockport man in Buffalo's Riverside area.
Charles Tubbins of Kenmore Avenue was arrested Thursday night, prosecutor Gary W. Hackbush said.
Rashiene T. Carson, 24, of Lockport was a rear-seat passenger in a car parked in a Getty gas station lot at 595 Ontario St. at about 12:50 a.m. when he was shot, police said.
Tubbins fatally shot Carson during the course of a robbery at the gas station, according to the Erie County District Attorney's Office.
Tubbins faces two counts of second-degree murder, two counts of first-degree attempted robbery and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon.
Tubbins, who appeared before State Supreme Court Justice Russell P. Buscaglia, was sent to the Erie County Holding Center without bail.
He faces 25 years to life in prison if convicted.
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An acquaintance of mine, a loyal reader of the DSN (I hope), makes a good point about Halloween etiquette. Rhonda pointed out recently that there are some here in Sunnyside who do not believe in or enjoy this particular holiday. She notes it can be severely annoying to have to turn off all the lights inside the house, only to hear the doorbell ring incessantly all night long.
"Turing out the indoor lights, to make it appear that nobody is home, just doesn't work any longer," Rhonda says.
Hence, Halloween etiquette.
Rhonda suggests (and rightly so) that the basic trick-or-treating rule should be...if the porch light is off, then move on to the next home. I agree with her. It's an easy rule to follow, one that allows trick-or-treaters to collect their candy from those wanting to participate in Halloween, yet doesn't inconvenience those who do not want to take part in the fun.
So, all you little ghouls out there, please do not bother ringing the doorbell of a house if the porch light is off.
For those families who do elect to trick-or-treat this Halloween, there are a few other rules you should follow, too. The tips are provided by the Teachers' Insurance Plan:
• Trick-or-treaters should always be accompanied by an adult or travel in a group. (There are real boogie men out there on our streets.)
• Children should be told not to eat any unwrapped candy or treats until their parents can check out the goodies. (Remember the razor blade scare from a few years back?)
• Parents should incorporate reflective tape in costumes or add bright colors to increase visibility to aid motorists. Also, make-up, rather than masks, should be worn to help ensure that children have an unobstructed view of their surroundings, as well as the flow of traffic.
• Children should stay on the sidewalk, or if one isn't available, walk facing the lane of traffic. Trick-or-treaters are also advised to carry a flashlight so motorists can easily see them.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - After helping MIT capture its first ever New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Field Hockey Tournament Championship on Sunday, Cheryl Silva was rewarded with the conference's Coach of the Year award, as voted on by the league's coaches. In addition to Silva's accolades, four Engineers were named to the All-Conference Team. Keri Dixon, Molly McShane and Anna Teruya picked up First Team plaudits while Kimberly Barker made the Second Team.
This is the second Coach of the Year honor for Silva, who helped the Cardinal and Grey capture the NEWMAC Championship for the first time in the league's 12 year history while also securing the program's first-ever bid into the NCAA Division III tournament. She also received the award in 1994. Under Silva's guidance, MIT has already set a new program record for wins in a season, with 17, while rattling off two separate win streaks of at least seven games, including its current eight-game run.
Dixon has developed into one of the league's top goaltenders, leading the NEWMAC in both goals against average (1.40) and shutouts (seven) while playing every minute in net for MIT the last two seasons.
McShane has been solid all season at midfield for the Cardinal and Grey, finishing tied for fourth on the team in scoring with seven goals and six assists on the year. The freshman recorded a pair of crucial assists in the NEWMAC title game win over Springfield.
Teruya helped anchor a defense that surrendered the fewest goals in the NEWMAC, just 1.40 per game. The sophomore was also third on team in scoring with 12 goals and 29 points while earning two defensive saves.
Just a freshman, Barker was Tech's most prolific scorer all year. She set an Institute record for goals in a season (19), a mark that had stood since 1980. She also finished second in the league in goals and fourth in points.
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The control of electrons and photons in artificially structured materials at the nanoscale by quantum and electromagnetic design has opened unique opportunities for major advances in science and technology. I will present a tutorial account of some these developments. From the design of the electronic resonances and their coupling to light in nanometer thick materials a new class of light sources (quantum cascade lasers) has emerged that now cover almost the entire infrared and far-infrared spectrum, leading to an explosive growth in applications. By structuring surfaces at the sub-wavelength with nanoscale optical resonators and nanometer thin layers, "metasurfaces" have emerged that have led to powerful generalizations of the laws or reflection and refraction, new thin film interferences and new ways to generate light beams and surface optical waves with "arbitrary" wavefronts. Applications of this new "flat optics" will be presented. Finally, I will show how quantum fluctuations at the nanoscale can be designed to control macroscopic quantum electrodynamical phenomena such as attractive and repulsive Casimir forces and their interaction with micro/nanomechanical structures.
Federico Capasso is the Robert Wallace Professor of Applied Physics at Harvard University, which he joined in 2003 after a 27 years career at Bell Labs where he did research, became Bell Labs Fellow and held several management positions including Vice President for Physical Research. His research has spanned basic science and applications in the areas of electronics, photonics, nanoscale science and technology including plasmonics, metasurfaces and the Casimir effect. He pioneered bandstructure engineering of artificially structured materials and devices and invented the quantum cascade laser. He performed the first measurement of the repulsive Casimir force. He and his group recently discovered powerful generalizations of the laws of reflection and refraction applicable to metasurfaces and demonstrated that the latter can be used to design new planar optical components (flat optics). He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His awards include the King Faisal International Prize for Science, the American Physical Society Arthur Schawlow Prize, the Wetherill Medal of the Franklin Institute, the IEEE Edison Medal, the SPIE Gold Medal, the European Physical Society Quantum Electronics Prize; the Berthold Leibinger Zukunftspreis (the future prize), the Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics, the Jan Czochralski Award of the European Material Research Society for lifetime achievements in Materials Science; the IEEE D. Sarnoff Award in Electronics, the IEEE/LEOS Streifer Award, the Optical Society of America Robert Wood prize, the Rank Prize in Optoelectronics, the Material Research Society Medal, the Welker Medal, the Duddell Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics (UK), the Newcomb Cleveland Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the "Vinci of Excellence" LMVH Prize and the New York Academy of Sciences Award.
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Third annual book festival offers a variety of treats
by Ken Horner
Many have said that books are food for the mind, and if you are a hungry resident of Chestnut Hill, fear not, because there will be plenty of sustenance to go around early next month.
On July 9 and 10, Chestnut Hill will play host to the Third Annual Chestnut Hill Book Festival, sponsored by the Chestnut Hill Business Association, Valley Green Bank and the New York Times.
What started as an idea in the mind of Greg Welsh, owner of the Chestnut Grill, president of the Chestnut Hill Business Association and avid reader, the Book Festival's success over the past two years has built its reputation as an excellent event for the residents of the area.
For Kate O'Neill, program director of the Chestnut Hill Business Association, the success of the Book Festival has mainly been founded upon one thing.
"It's all about the authors," she said.
And if what you're salivating for is author appearances, don't worry, because this year's installment promises more of the same.
The two days will feature readings and appearances by 36 locally and nationally recognized authors from all genres.
The long list of authors includes George Anastasia, veteran Philadelphia Inquirer crime reporter; Dr. James Zogby, Middle East expert and president of the Arab American Institute; Dr. Arthur Caplan, University of Pennsylvania Professor and bio-ethicist; Michael Capuzzo, New York Times bestselling-author, and Lorene Cary, the critically acclaimed author of Black Ice.
In addition, multiple free events will be offered at various locations, including Stagecrafters Theater, 8130 Germantown Ave.; Roller's Restaurant at the Flying Fish, 8142 Germantown Ave.; the Chestnut Hill Hotel's Bombay Room, 8229 Germantown Ave.; Buckley Park, 8201 Germantown Ave., and Jenks Playground, 8301 Germantown Ave.
These events will include panel discussions, a singer/songwriter slam and a performance by the Chestnut Hill Improv Group to name a few.
If you're looking for something for the kids, you're in luck.
Between 10 a.m. and noon on Sunday, July 10, at Jenks Playground, a special Kids Festival will take place featuring music, food, well-known children's authors and illustrators like Ponder Goembel, Matt Phelan, Jason Deeble and David Lubar, as well as a special appearance by Kathy O'Connell of WXPN's Kids Corner.
While nearly all of the events will be free of charge, there are a select few that will cost a small fee. The Venetian Club, 8030 Germantown Ave., will host a special pre-event First Person Story Slam on Friday, July 8 between 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. From 4-6 p.m. on July 10, Chestnut Hill Academy will feature a panel discussion sponsored by the Chestnut Hill Historical Society that will be free for members and will cost $15 for non-members. Finally, there will be various 90 minute writers' workshops in association with Philadelphia Stories offered at $10 each to be held at the Chestnut Hill Hotel's Bombay Room.
Overall, this year's Chestnut Hill Book Festival is shaping up to be quite an exciting event.
"It's why you live in Chestnut Hill," O'Neill said. "It's everything you want to happen in your neighborhood."
"Where else can you walk outside your home and be so near to these nationally-recognized authors?"
The Chestnut Hill Historical Society's program for the third annual Chestnut Hill Book Festival will take place on Sunday, July 10, from four to six pm in the lobby of Chestnut Hill Academy on West Willow Grove Avenue. Featured speakers this year include David Contosta, Carol Franklin and Eugene Stackhouse. Contosta and Franklin have recently published a monumental work on the Wissahickon Valley and will discuss the architectural history of that area. Mr. Stackhouse has recently written a book on Germantown and the Civil War, that will be the topic of his talk.
The Chestnut Hill Historical Society is dedicated to preserving and nurturing the historical, physical, and cultural resources, and the character of Chestnut Hill.
For members of the CHHS, there is no charge; for non-members a $15 fee.
Philadelphia Stories workshops
Philadelphia Stories will be hosting the following Festival events for writers in the Bombay Room at the Chestnut Hill Hotel:
SATURDAY, JULY 9: Workshops are $10 and open to the public.
Getting Started (12-1:30) This hands-on workshop will offer tips and strategies to wake up that muse and get writing! Moderator: Elizabeth Mosier
The Art of Revision (2:30-4) This workshop will discuss how to polish the language, characters, and structure of your story. Moderator: Alison Hicks Shaping a story (4:30-6)
This hands-on workshop will explore the writing process and help you shape your characters, plot, and voice into a dynamic story. Moderator: Susan Barr-Toman
Local Literary Voices (7-9) – Can we do this in the Bombay Room? We expect about 50 people. Meet the publishers and authors from Philadelphia's wide variety of Local Literary Magazines at this free event.
SUNDAY, JULY 10: Workshop is $10 and open to the public. (We focused more on poetry this day since it sounded like out panel discussions were similar to some other events you had on the schedule)
11:30-1: Poetry & Performance workshop: Deconstructed Breath with Bonnie MacAllister, editor of Certain Circuits.
1:15-2:30: Lunch w/Contributors and Board of Philadelphia Stories (If Greg approves)
3:00-4:30: Poetry Performance featuring the hosts, organizers, and editors of local series/pubs/workshops. Followed by an open mic.
Meet the authors
George Anastasia
George Anastasia, a veteran reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer, is the author of five books of nonfiction, including Blood and Honor, which Jimmy Breslin called the "best gangster book ever written."
A graduate of Dartmouth College, he is the grandson of Sicilian immigrants who settled in South Philadelphia. He has been writing about organized and disorganized crime for thirty-five years, covering casino gambling in Atlantic City, mob hits in Philadelphia and criminal prosecutions throughout the country.
He has worked as a consultant on projects for ABC, the Discovery Channel, the History Channel and National Geographic. He is co-host of a radio show, "Crime Guys," on WPHT every Sunday night from 8 to 10 p.m. and is featured on MyFoxPhilly's MobTalk, a regular Friday segment of the Channel 29 newscast.
He also does a weekly video report called "Mob Scene" for philly.com., the website of The Inquirer and Daily News.
Elijah Anderson
William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Sociology
Elijah Anderson is the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Sociology at Yale University. He is one of the leading urban ethnographers in the United States. His publications include Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City (1999), winner of the Komarovsky Award from the Eastern Sociological Society; Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community (1990), winner of the American Sociological Association's Robert E. Park Award for the best published book in the area of Urban Sociology; and the classic sociological work, A Place on the Corner (1978; 2nd ed., 2003). Anderson's most recent ethnographic work, The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life, will be published by WW Norton in March 2011.
Dr. Anderson has served on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Political and Social Science and is formerly a vice-president of the American Sociological Association. He has served in an editorial capacity for a wide range of professional journals and special publications, including Qualitative Sociology, Ethnography, American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, City & Community, Annals of the Society of Political and Social Science, and the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. He has also served as a consultant to a variety of government agencies, including the White House, the United States Congress, the National Academy of Science and the National Science Foundation. Additionally, he was a member of the National Research Council's Panel on the Understanding and Control of Violent Behavior.
Michael Capuzzo
Michael Capuzzo is the author of the New York Times bestseller Close to Shore and a former feature writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Miami Herald. His stories have appeared in Esquire, Sports Illustrated, and Life. He lives in the suburbs of Philadelphia.
Lorene Cary
Lorene Cary's critically acclaimed memoir, Black Ice, was heralded by Arnold Rampersad as "probably the most beautifully written and moving African American autobiographical narrative since Maya Angelou's celebrated I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings." The New York Times Book Review praised Cary, in her debut novel, The Price of A Child, as "a powerful storyteller, frankly sensual, mortally funny, gifted with an ear for the pounce and ragged inconsequentiality of real speech and an eye for the shifts and subterfuges by which ordinary people get by." With her latest novel, IF SONS, THEN HEIRS (Atria; April 19, 2011; 978-1-4516-1022-2; $24.00), Cary illuminates yet another iconic American story, largely untold: that of African-American land ownership and its tragic loss. Along the way, this novel explores the power of family secrets and the complex legacy of lynching and segregation while a thoroughly contemporary love story unfolds between a man and a woman—and a boy and the father he adopts.
Allen M. Hornblum
Allen M. Hornblum was born and raised in Philadelphia and has become a noted chronicler of some of the more contentious and hair-raising chapters in the city's history
For more years than he cares to admit, however, he had more footballs, tennis racquets, and track shoes than books. That would eventually change. A product of the Philadelphia Public School System, he would go on to attain degrees from Penn State, Villanova, and Temple Universities and develop a healthy appetite for good books, solid research, and respect for investigative journalists and chroniclers of American history. Before devoting all his time to researching and writing about the people and events he felt had been neglected over the years, Allen was more the public activist than solitary scholar. Between these polar opposites was an eclectic professional life that included stints as a prison literacy instructor, congressional staffer, advocate for the dispossessed, with additional turns as a transit lobbyist, cable television host, law enforcement administrator, and college lecturer.
He made contributions in each of these positions, some of them substantial. In the criminal justice arena, for example, he would champion many reform policies and procedures while serving as the Chief-of-Staff of the Philadelphia Sheriff's Office, a member of the Pennsylvania Crime Commission, and the Pennsylvania Commission for Crime & Delinquency amongst others. Crime and punishment, and the history of imprisonment would be become permanent interests of his and he would go on to visit such infamous institutions as Strangeways, Mount Joy, and Le Sante, and Regensdorf Penitentiaries.
His years as a prison worker and political organizer helped nurture a pronounced distaste for injustice and interest in the plight of the downtrodden. Much of Allen's research and policy interests would focus on the exploited and leveling the political and economic playing field. It was his passion for revealing social inequities and instances of outright abuse that resulted in his leaving his position in the Sheriff's Office to research and chronicle the history of the Holmesburg Prison medical experiments, which he had personally witnessed earlier in his career. Acres of Skin, Allen's groundbreaking investigation of this dark chapter in American medical history – and the complicity of many penal systems across the country – has now become the classic work on the subject and a recipient of considerable media attention. The book has been featured on a host of national news shows including, Good Morning America, the CBS Evening News, CNN, the BBC, and the front page of the New York Times. His other books have also garnered extensive print and electronic coverage.
In addition to teaching at Temple and Drexel Universities, Allen has also lectured widely and to a diverse audience of scholars, physicians, and average citizens. He has presented his research to the National Institutes of Health, the British Medical Association, the Fox Chase Cancer Center, and a host of medical schools including Temple, Drexel, and East Carolina. He is often asked to give presentations at colleges and universities and has addressed students and faculty at many universities including Columbia, Brown, Penn State, St. Josephs, and Villanova.
Andy Waskie
Born and raised in Bloomsburg, Columbia County, Pennsylvania., Dr.Waskie pursued a German/Russian major, History minor in college at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, and studied abroad in his junior semester at Salzburg, Austria; Waskie also studied at the University of Marburg, Germany; and received a government scholarship to study Slavic Linguistics at Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic). He received an M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from New York University. He had experience with the U.S. State Department as a Foreign Service officer; and saw duty with the U.S. Army Reserves specializing in language interrogation and interpretation. Andy became a teacher of languages and history at Pennsbury School District in Bucks County and spent 31 years there as teacher, curriculum supervisor and Department Head.
Retiring in 1999 from public education, Andy is now a professor at Temple University. He also served as an adjunct professor at Rider University/Westminster Campus and Holy Family University in Philadelphia and Bucks County, teaching Civil War history in the Civil War Institute that he helped to found.
Andy is a Civil War historian, published author and extremely active in Civil War history, research and preservation. He is a specialist on the life and career of Gen. George Meade whom he portrays in a "1st person" style Living-History performance.
Andy also is knowledgeable on the history of Philadelphia and does history tours there. As a tour director since 1982, he enjoys principally history orientated touring and travel.
He has traveled extensively both here and abroad, speaks several languages and possesses (four) 4 university degrees
Dr. Waskie has received a number of prestigious awards and recognition for his teaching and history oriented projects; and serves on a number of Boards of historical organizations (including: Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) Civil War Museum & Library, Philadelphia; Laurel Hill Cemetery; Frankford Historical Society, Philadelphia; Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Association (G.B.P.A.), of which he was elected Vice President, etc..) and maintains active memberships in a variety of historical societies, including: Historical Society of Pennsylvania; etc.. He is a member of a number of Civil War Round Tables, and helped to found: Union League CWRT, Philadelphia; Camp Olden CWRT, Trenton, NJ; Bucks County CWRT, Doylestown, PA; G.A.R. CWRT, Philadelphia; Delaware Valley CWRT, Philadelphia.
Active with the Philadelphia Consortium for Civil War History, he is part of the group seeking to promote the access to Civil War History in the city of Philadelphia; and the foundation of the new Civil War & Underground Railroad Museum of Philadelphia, for which he serves on the Advisory Board. He is a charter member of the Philadelphia Civil War History Consortium. He was elected to membership in the Union League of Philadelphia in 2003.
He is the founder and current president of the General Meade Society of Philadelphia, an organization that seeks to promote the services and contributions of the noble hero of Gettysburg.
Presently, Dr.Waskie is engaged in researching and writing the Regimental History of the 110th Penna. Volunteers. He has completed a new book on the Washington Brigade of Philadelphia, First Volunteers to the Front. He has also collaborated on a Guide Book for Civil War Sites in Philadelphia with his colleague, Dr. Rick Sauers.
He was a founder of the A.M.A.R.T. (Association of Mid-Atlantic Civil War Round Tables) Collaborative and has served on the Planning Committee since 1994, and acted as Chair of the 1998 Symposium. In 2004, he was moderator of the symposium at Princeton University. He has also lectured at many of the conferences.
An active participant and founding member in the 'Civil War Home Front' Project at Temple University, a Civil War & Emancipation Studies Center.


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I like good food, but I am kind of a lazy cook. I prefer things that taste good, but didn't take me a long time to make. Usually when I find something that is labor intensive, even if it's good, I won't make it again because the final product wasn't SO good that it justifies how long it took to make.
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Eggplant Parmesan
1 lb. eggplant, cut into 1/4 inch rounds
1 1/2 tsp. salt
Peel and slice the eggplant. I prefer to peel mine, but you don't have to. The skin is edible, it's just a little tough for my taste. Place in layers in a colander and sprinkle each layer with salt. Place over an empty bowl. Let stand for 30-45 minutes until the eggplant has released at least 1 tablespoon liquid. The eggplant will change color, but it's fine. Rinse the slices, lay on a paper towel or clean kitchen towel. Press firmly to release as much liquid as possible. This process prevents the eggplant from becoming mushy.
After about 20 minutes, place a cookie sheet in the oven and heat to 425.
Meanwhile mix together:
1 cup bread crumbs (I use Italian flavor, but you don't have to)
3/4 cup Parmesan cheese (grated fresh or in the can, doesn't matter)
pinch of salt
Set aside
Beat three large eggs and put in a bowl. Then combine 3/4 cup flour with 1/4 tsp. pepper in a large zip-loc bag. Add the drained and dried eggplant and shake. Then dip the eggplant slices in the egg and
bread crumb mixture. Set aside.
Remove the cookie sheet. Add 3 tablespoons olive oil to the sheet and tilt to coat. Place the eggplant slices on the cookie sheet and place back in the oven for 30 minutes (turning once at 20 minutes).
While the slices are baking, you make the sauce.
2 cans diced tomatoes (or 30 oz. fresh chopped tomatoes)
1/2 medium onion, chopped
1 T. olive oil
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/4 tsp. red pepper flakes
1/4 cup fresh basil leaves, coarsely chopped
Salt and Pepper to taste (if you use fresh tomatoes, you'll need more salt)
Blend half the tomatoes until smooth. Add pepper, garlic, onion and olive oil to a skillet and saute over medium heat 3-5 minutes. Then add the pureed tomatoes and chopped tomatoes and increase heat to bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer 15 minutes. Add chopped basil and salt and pepper.
Spray a 2 qt. casserole dish, or lasagne pan with Pam. Pour in some of the prepared sauce. Add eggplant in layers, putting sauce and mozzarella cheese between each. You should have two layers, with a few slices making a third. Top with remaining sauce and more cheese. Bake at 375 for 15-20 minutes, until cheese is melted and dish is bubbling.


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Banish the Breed Ban: Rockville Centre Board of Trustees, get ready for howls from the dog world. When it comes to monitoring dog bites and irresponsible owners, judge the "Deed not the Breed." Seems you didn't do your legal homework before slipping through a law forbidding your Village residents from owning Pit Bulls or Rottweilers. Not only is Breed Specific Legislation (BSL) misguided, unfair and unenforceable, it is illegal in New York State.
Rockville Centre already had sufficient, existing local statutes to deal with designated dangerous or vicious dogs- dogs that had bitten someone; yet last week the LI Herald reported that the Rockville Centre Board voted to ban two breeds. Supposedly they were not targeting Rotties and Pits already living in the Village. However, those owners would still have to register their dogs at the Village Hall.
It seems complaints from residents and the police about problems at a few houses with many Pits and Rotties prompted the breed ban. Hmm…over and above the illegal ordinance, do you see flawed logic? The alleged houses that are causes of the controversy are grandfathered in.
Breed specific legislation (BSL) is the overall term for laws that discriminate against breeds completely in hopes of reducing dog attacks. According to the ASPCA, one Maryland county spent a quarter of a million dollars a year to enforce a Pit Bull ban, only to find public safety had not improved and that all owner/dog transgressions were already covered under generic Animal Control law such as leash laws. Furthermore there is no evidence that BSL makes communities safer for people or other pets. After studying fatalities from dog bites, even the U.S. Centers for Disease Control decided not to support BSL, citing the inaccuracy of dog bite data, the difficulty in identifying breeds (especially mixes) and the likelihood that determined dog exploiters will substitute new breeds, not regulated, to make aggressive for dog fighting or intimidation.
BSL causes tons of problems. Breed bans penalize good owners and their trained, socialized dogs, which pushes model citizens away. Bad owners of the "No No" dogs tend to ignore the law or go underground. When they hide contraband canines, foregoing outdoor exercise, vaccines, and spay/neuter, these owners jeopardize public safety and the health of the dogs even more. Where do officials draw the line as the list of unwelcome breeds expands to Shepherds, Dobies, Chows or even piranha Chihuahuas? Who decides which dogs are singled out? The breed labeled "Pit" can be subjective with many variations on the theme. Will the trustees be dusting for paw prints or swabbing dogs for DNA?
Most important, New York is one of 13 states that prohibit BSL. "The ban the Rockville Centre Board of Trustees recently passed is illegal as per NYS Agriculture & Markets Law, Article 7, Section 107 (5) which says municipalities cannot pass a law that disciminates toward any specific breed," states LI attorney, Amy Chaitoff, an authority on animal legislation.
Come to the Pooch Protest: The targeted breeds need your support. On June 29, the LI Coalition of Dog Fanciers will address the Village Board trying to have this breed ban repealed under state law. All dog lovers, no matter your breed preference, are asked to show up at this very important meeting at Rockville Centre Village Hall (1 College Place) by 7:30 pm. Collective growls will create a stronger impact. If you can't attend, call Mayor Mary Bossart at 516-678-9260 to explain why this ruling is counterproductive. Leash laws, anti-tethering rules, guidelines to deal with individual dangerous dogs, plus responsible pet ownership classes will do more to protect the community. I have tickets to see Denzel on Broadway that night, so would someone please stuff this column inside a Kong and deliver it to Rockville Centre Village Hall?
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Last Hope will be supplying the shots, tags, necessary paperwork and several vet techs, while additional medical staff and Dr. Tricia LaSala the clinic's supervising veterinarian will come from Aldrich Animal Hospital, part of the VCA network. VCA is kind enough to donate super raffle prizes for participating pet owners. Gift certificates are redeemable at any of their ten VCA hospitals on LI. Besides getting a free rabies vaccine, your lucky dog may win a Best Care Package worth $199 (which includes exam, blood work, heartworm test, urinalysis, fecal exam) or five days' free boarding for a dog/cat; or walk away with one of the Advantage or Revolution gift packages.
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Thanks for the reply but, when looking at the pad with the naked eye, you can see the "cast surface" of the pad. Pad's I've seen that have been decked,leave swirl tool marks on pad. Thisis what I have, and I'm leaving it like this. Car has gone thru a frame-off restoration. This may be my last post here.....it seems like you have to have a perfect car to chat here. Later......
Kurt, I dis-agree!!!! I talked to Jerry McNeish and he said back then anything was possible. Does everything have tobe "ganged" or be 100% straight tobe correct? I say no. I've seenalot of stampings that are not straight or ganged on many cars over the years and all these owners claim to have correct blocks. I say more research needed on this topic.


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Having recently had a discussion with a friend regarding our experiences contributing to various charities, I was especially interested in Eileen Ambrose's column on the subject ("What's next after Black Friday and Cyber Monday?" Nov. 25).
I contribute to several local, national and religious charities, and I have experienced problems with most of them. The fundraisers for many charities are relentless. How can bi-weekly solicitations by mail be justified?
When a charity inundates me with solicitations ,it makes think I would be better off contributing to charities that have a business model I can live with. It seems extremely wasteful to send multiple solicitations to the same donor.
At that point it appears that the fundraising arm of the charity is simply trying to justify its existence. Guilt trips really don't help charities in the long run.
Of course, I realize that there will be administrative costs. But I still want most of the money I contribute to go to the cause for which the charity was established, so that contributors retain a belief in the integrity and soundness of the organization.
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4. HCR 161 – Study regarding the full cost of an education at state institutions of higher education in West Virginia. – Report on tuition data. • Dr. Angela Bell, Vice Chancellor for Policy & Planning, West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission (HEPC)
5. Funding for all scholarships contained in provisions of HB 2738 (2013 RS). – Discussion of bill amendments – Expanding program eligibility to include dentistry and pharmacy: • Ms. Laura Boone, Director of Health Sciences Programs, HEPC • Dr. Jason Roush, State Dental Director, Office of Maternal, Child and Family Health, West Virginia Department of Health & Human Resources • Mr. Richard Stevens, Executive Director, West Virginia Dental Association and West Virginia Pharmacists Association • Dr. Kevin Yingling, Dean, Marshall University School of Pharmacy Discussion of bill amendments – Coordination of medical student financial aid resources: • Physician Representative, West Virginia Academy of Family Physicians
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7. Adjourn.


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