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WASHINGTON — Freeing companies from a U.S.- government mandate to offer employees health care is setting off a chain of events that may enlarge the pool of uninsured Americans. That may be good for President Barack Obama's health- care overhaul.
The success of the 2010 Affordable Care Act is largely dependent on how many people are willing to buy subsidized health plans through government exchanges. Most of the people affected by Obama's decision this month to delay the employer mandate to provide health care will now be eligible to use the exchanges when they open Oct. 1.
The law's creation of state-by-state marketplaces had targeted about 26 million of the more than 50 million uninsured Americans for coverage. "A few million" more may now be made eligible by the delay, said Larry Levitt, senior vice president at the nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation research group.
"This administration needs people to enroll in health insurance, and they want them to enroll in health insurance through the exchanges," said Chris Condeluci, a lawyer at Venable in Washington who helped write the Affordable Care Act while working as a Senate Finance Committee aide.
Obama has been stymied by Republicans in his effort to implement the law. The employer-mandate delay has emboldened Republicans, who have three House committee hearings scheduled this week on the Affordable Care Act, and have set plans to vote on legislation to scale back two major provisions.
"Each provision you delay continues to demonstrate that the entire law is unworkable," House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said in a July 9 letter to Obama.
Boehner demanded additional information about the employer- mandate delay, including estimates on "the change in the number of individuals receiving subsidies through" the exchanges.
The July 2 announcement by the Obama administration lets employers with 50 or more workers wait until 2015 to comply with a mandate to provide full-time workers with health insurance. Former Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean said increased enrollment in the exchanges will be "an unintended effect" of the employer-coverage delay.
"What this means is that if you don't have insurance, the exchange is your default position, not the employer," Dean, who is a medical doctor and served as Vermont's governor from 1991 to 2003, said in a phone interview. "This will drive more people into the exchanges, and that's good."
If the exchanges are to benefit, it will be as a result of many separate decisions by large employers affecting small numbers of workers. For athletic apparel retailer Foot Locker Inc., the delay may affect "a few hundred" people out of its 38,000-person workforce, said Ken Hicks, the New York-based company's chairman and chief executive officer.
"For larger companies, it's not that big a deal," he said in a phone interview.
In 2012, 95 percent of companies with at least 50 workers offered health benefits to at least some of their workers, according to Menlo Park, Calif.-based Kaiser, which has been tracking implementation of the health law.
That leaves a thin margin for exchange enrollment beyond what was already projected, said Kevin Counihan, the executive director of Connecticut's exchange. The effect of the employer- mandate delay is probably "more symbolic than substantive," and it's up to the exchanges to get word out that the programs are available, he said.
The affected Foot Locker employees work 30 to 40 hours a week. Instead of immediately reducing their hours to less than 30 — the threshold that triggers the health law's requirement for employers to offer health care — companies will see the delay as something that "allows you time to get them situated properly," Hicks said.
"We now have time to get them to the 30 hours or make a determination whether we want to make them full time," he said.
Wegmans Food Markets Inc., a supermarket chain based in Rochester, New York, said in a statement that the health law means "eligibility requirements will change" for part-time employees, though it didn't say if anyone would lose their company-sponsored coverage and be eligible for the exchanges.
At least 14 states are building their own exchanges, and the federal government is setting up the rest for the remainder of the 50 states.
About 7 million people are expected to get coverage through their state exchanges in 2014, according to the Congressional Budget Office, and the Obama administration has said at least 2.6 million of them would need to be young and healthy to hold down costs for insurers and in turn keep premiums affordable.
Any increase in enrollment, particularly by young people such as restaurant workers, will help the exchanges by making their pool of customers less risky to cover. That could lead to lower premiums starting in 2015, said Jay Angoff, a Mehri & Skalet law partner who had been director of insurance oversight at the Department of Health and Human Services under Obama.
"The insurance industry obviously has a huge economic interest in the exchanges working and getting people into the exchanges," he said in a phone interview. "I think you'll see the industry marketing aggressively and creatively to get young healthy people into the exchanges."
About 25 million people are expected to gain coverage from the Affordable Care Act by 2016, which includes the state exchanges, an expansion of Medicaid and reduced employer coverage, the Congressional Budget Office said in a May report. The CBO had projected when the law was signed in 2010 that 32 million uninsured people would be on a health plan within a decade, and a year later raised its estimate to 34 million.
Expectations for the $1.3 trillion health-care system overhaul are being pulled back as the expansion initially relied on governors to build the network of insurance marketplaces and expand Medicaid, the joint federal-state insurance program for the poor. At least 22 Republican governors have said they'll refuse to participate in the health exchanges and a Supreme Court decision lets them also opt out of the Medicaid expansion.
The Republican-controlled House has voted 37 times to repeal or defund all or part of the Affordable Care Act, which was enacted with only Democratic votes. Two legislative votes planned for this week include a delay of the employer mandate, which Obama is already doing, and a delay in the so-called individual mandate that requires most Americans to have health insurance by 2014 or pay a fine.
Two of the hearings, by the Ways and Means Committee on July 17 and the Energy and Commerce Committee on July 18, examine the administration's delay of the employer requirement. The third, by the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, will explore privacy concerns related to a computer system the government is building to support enrollment in new insurance programs.
"For the last three years, the Affordable Care Act — commonly known as Obamacare — has been plagued by broken promises, projected cost increases, delays, and missed deadlines," Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton, R-Mich., said in a statement last week. "It's clear we have no idea of the full scope of delays and disarray that may be coming."
— With assistance from Alex Nussbaum in New York and Mike Dorning in Washington.
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The Bachelor's Chris Harrison on Tierra's Much-Needed Exit and Lesley's Regretful Goodbye
Bachelor fans can be heard rejoicing as this season's villain Tierra is finally gone.
After getting the first impression rose on the first night, Tierra quickly became Sean's front-runner. But as she continued to butt heads with the girls and manipulate Sean so she could spend more time with him, viewers grew angry that he hadn't yet sent her packing. In Monday's episode, the 24-year-old had quite the meltdown, which caused Sean to say his final goodbye.
But perhaps even more shocking than Tierra's exit was that Sean let fan favorite Lesley go. What lead to her demise? Host Chris Harrison explains why she and Sean might really regret their "breakup."
We have to start with Tierra. She's finally gone!
Chris Harrison: She just lost control of her own game. This wasn't a big elaborate acting scheme. Her real emotion was in it, but it just got to be too much for her, and it all came to a head.
I'm surprised AshLee was the one she got into it with.
Harrison: Well AshLee opened up to Sean on their date. Everyone really respects AshLee -- she's older and wiser and like the Mother Hen of the house so when she starts speaking up and saying stuff about Tierra, Sean was like, "OK, something has got to be going on here." At this point he was pretty aware and a little worn thin by it all, so when he walked in on the meltdown he was like, "I'm done."
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Once Sean finally saw her lack of maturity, did he regret keeping her for so long?
Harrison: Maybe he would only go back one week and say, "I wish I kept Jackie on the two-on-one," but I don't think Jackie was the girl for him either. With this situation, I think as long as he did figure it out, it's fine. Yes, it took him longer than the audience because the audience was privy to everything that happened, but he figured it out in his own time and did the right thing by cutting her loose. As long as it was before he cut anyone that would've had a shot.
How much did his sister's opinion influence his thought process?
Harrison: Shay is awesome, she's an uber fan of the show so she had this great perspective of not only being a big sister, but watching the show. So she gave him good advice like if there's that girl on the show don't be that guy that falls in love with her, it never works. And it's true. It was the slap upside the head that he needed.
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Going back to AshLee's one-on-one date. She said, "I love you." Were you surprised?
Harrison: We were a little surprised. There was a little more to how she did it. The whole point was her getting up on her seat like that was that Sean was saying, "Let go, and I dare you to do something crazy." So when she got up on her chair and screamed, it was her being goofy. Then she screamed "I love you," it was part of her showing she could let go. So it was prompted by Sean.
Catherine, Desiree and Lindsay's date was awesome and they all get along so well.
Harrison: That date was brutal because Sean didn't get to bed until like 1 a.m. and had to be up at 4 a.m. to go over and see the girls for the sunrise. But a group date at this point sucks, so thank God these three girls like each other a lot. And the reason those three got the date was because none of them were in question of getting a rose.
Lindsay got the group date rose. Talk about a comeback.
Harrison: I thought Catherine was going to get the rose because his M.O. is to protect the girl, and Catherine opened up about her dad. But Lindsay is the comeback story of the year. I don't remember ever having a contestant make it to hometowns that was literally out the door on Night 1. For him to be really falling for her is pretty amazing and goes to show you have to leave yourself open because you never know.
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Leslie wanted to tell Sean she loved him, but couldn't. Was that her downfall?
Harrison: I'm really looking forward to and at the same time dreading talking to her at Women Tell All because when she watches back how much Sean liked her and when Sean watches how much she loved him and didn't say anything, they're both going to kick themselves and regret that breakup. Viewers know how she felt, but Sean didn't and what he saw was this awkward date with a very reserved Lesley who's never been like that. All she wanted to do was say, "I love you," that she [became] so nervous and it ruined their date. At this point Sean is splitting hairs and it's a very minute thing separating these girls, other than Tierra, so it was really regretful. I think when I talk to Lesley at Women Tell All I won't be surprised if she starts crying. Talk about missed love.
I was so confused at the end when Catherine was hysterical over Lesley's exit. What did I miss?
Harrison: I was sitting in the control room and saw her crying and I said, "Did I miss something? I don't understand why she's crying." When she started speaking about it, it made even less sense. It's hard to explain how emotional it is without getting cheesy, but it is such an intense thing that I think it set off this trigger. It was so weird.
What can you preview about next week's hometown dates?
Harrison: I'd say right now we have a four-way tie. We have four awesome girls, which is really scary. So now it's really a lifestyle choice and who he fits best with. Catherine has all women in her family, Lindsay's dad is a General who commands thousands of troops, AshLee obviously has an emotional backstory and even Desiree has talked about the problems with her family and her brother, so there's really no safe harbor for any of these hometowns. It's a make-or-break time for all the women.
What did you think about Tierra and Lesley? Which of the four women left are the best match for Sean?
The Bachelor airs Monday at 8/7c on ABC.
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Bill Anton was born in Chicago in 1957 and later moved to Prescott, Arizona. He graduated from Northern Arizona University. Later, after committing to painting full-time, he studied under Michael Lynch and Ned Jacob, who encouraged him to paint from life. "While the nature of my work necessitates much studio time, more and more of my painting is done outside." Anton s work has been published in Southwest Art, Architectural Digest, Art of the West, Equine Images, Western Horseman and Art-Talk. Corporate collections that include his work are Sears, Dupont, State Farm Insurance, Bank of America, Hewlett Packard, and Trust Company of the West. His award winning work has been displayed at the Prix de West at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Masters of the American West at The Autry Museum, The National Center for American Western Art, the Old West Museum, and The National Museum of Wildlife Art. In addition, his work is in the permanent collection of the prestigious Gilcrease Museum. "I do not see myself as a biographer of the cowboy. I know some artists feel they are recording history on the ranches as life there is today, but the focus of my work has always been mood and passion. If I m recording anything, I m recording how I feel about the west. I want the viewer to feel the drama of atmosphere and the mystery of a western night. I want the volume and portent of a cloud to be evident in the calligraphy of a brushstroke. The pack of muscle below a horse s shoulder should be energized by a gestural application of paint. "You see, I love to paint. And I love the American west. I was born in Chicago, but the Sierra Nevada, Sangre de Cristo, Sawatch and a hundred other ranges of our rocky mountains were the only "Big Shoulders" I was ever interested in. Walking thunderstorms, sunstruck cedars, rimrock and artfully abstract water patterns charge the landscape with impossible beauty. "Amidst this nobility is its caretaker: the rancher. With the natural ease of generations bred to the saddle, he is a powerful image further ennobled by a fine horse. An artist under the spell of the west has the privilege of marshalling the virtues of landscape, figure and equine painting into one supremely paintable subject: the American cowboy." - Bill Anton


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Commentary: Paul Ryan shows the 'Way Forward'
WASHINGTON -- To take the measure of this uncommonly interesting public man, begin with two related facts about him. Paul Ryan has at least 67 cousins in his Wisconsin hometown of Janesville, where there are six Ryan households within eight blocks of his home. And in his new book, "The Way Forward: Renewing the American Idea," he says something few politicians say, which is why so many are neither trusted nor respected. Ryan says he was wrong.
At a Wisconsin 4-H fair in 2012, Ryan encountered a Democrat who objected to what then was one of Ryan's signature rhetorical tropes -- his distinction between "makers" and "takers," the latter being persons who receive more in government spending than they pay in taxes. He had been struck by a report that 60 percent of Americans were already -- this was before ObamaCare -- "net receivers." But his encounter at the fair reminded him that, for a while, he and many people he cared about had been takers, too.
The morning after a night "working the Quarter Pounder grill at McDonald's," Ryan, 16, found his father, who had been troubled by alcohol, dead in bed. Janesville's strong sinews of community sustained Ryan and his mother; so did Social Security survivor benefits. When GM's Janesville assembly plant closed, draining about $220 million of annual payroll from a town of 60,000, many relatives, friends and constituents needed the social safety net -- unemployment compensation, job training, etc.
"At the fair that day, I realized I'd been careless with my language," he writes. "The phrase gave insult where none was intended." He has changed his language and his mind somewhat, but thinks the fundamental things still apply.
"Society," Ryan writes, "functions through institutions that operate in the space between the individual and the state," and "government exists to protect the space where all of these great things occur." Hence government has a "supporting role" as "the enabler of other institutions." Progressive government, however, works, sometimes inadvertently, but often deliberately, to subordinate or supplant those institutions. This depletion of social capital is comprehensively injurious to the culture. And "all the tax cuts in the world don't matter much if you don't get the culture right."
Progressivism aims to place individuals in unmediated dependency on a government that can proclaim, as Barack Obama does: "If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen." Meaning, people depend on government for what they are and have.
Few of today's progressives are acquainted with their doctrine's intellectual pedigree or its consistent agenda. Progressivism's founders, however, considered it essential that the nation make progress, as they understood this, beyond the Founders' natural rights philosophy, which limits government by saying (in the Declaration of Independence) that it is "instituted" to "secure" these rights.
Hence Woodrow Wilson, a progressive who understood his doctrine's premises, urged Americans to "not repeat the [Declaration's] preface." Progressivism preaches that rights do not pre-exist government, that they are dispensed and respected by government as it sees fit and to fit its purposes. Those purposes grow unconstrained by the Constitution that progressives construe as a "living" -- meaning infinitely elastic -- document.
Since 1999, when he became its second-youngest member, Ryan has been an intellectual ornament to the House of Representatives -- and a headache for risk-averse Republican Party operatives. They pay lip service to electing conservatives who will make the choices necessary to stabilize the architecture of the entitlement system and unleash the economic growth that must finance the system's promises. But they want to let voters remain oblivious about the choices required by that architecture's rickety condition.
Such Republicans are complicit with Obama, who demonstrated the self-destructive nature of his now-evaporating presidency by his contemptuous, and contemptible, treatment of Ryan on April 13, 2011. After he loftily aspired to teach Washington civility, the White House invited Ryan to sit in the front row at a speech in which Obama gave an implacably hostile and mendacious depiction of Ryan's suggestions for entitlement reforms. Obama thereby repeated his tawdry performance in his 2010 State of the Union address, when, with Supreme Court justices in the front row of the House chamber, he castigated them for the Citizens United decision, which he misrepresented.
Both times, Obama's behavior bespoke the insecurity of someone who, surrounded by sycophants, shuns disputations with people who can reply. Ryan, however, has replied with a book that demonstrates Obama's wisdom in not arguing with a man who has a better mind and better manners.
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"Speaking of Murder," by Tace Baker. Barking Rain Press, Vancouver WA, 2012. 178 pages. Paperback. $12.95
Professor Lauren Rousseau doesn't know when to say no, starting with her decision to indulge in an overnight tryst with her smartest, best-looking student Jamal Carter. Shortly afterward, the linguistics professor discovers Jamal's dead body on campus. Her feistiness is the driver here and before we've finished Chapter One, Rousseau has more than one mystery to mull. And once things get going, they don't let up.
Rousseau acts first and mulls later. She's young, single, smart and on the verge of major life decisions she doesn't really want to make. She likes jogging as a method of de-stressing and problem solving, so Rousseau takes a lot of runs that, in turn, take her down a number of dangerous and circuitous paths.
There's more than Jamal's murder to disrupt the routine at Agawam College on Boston's North Shore. Rousseau's department chair, Alexa Kensington, has morphed from merely bad tempered to downright threatening and evil. Before he dies, Jamal presents to Rousseau a document that accuses Kensington of child abuse. On top of that, Rousseau's best friend Elise goes missing and is likely using drugs again. Pascal Martin, a sinister and sadistic man, is clearly a bad guy, but where he fits in amid the drug abuse, murder and child molestation is unclear to Rousseau.
All of these are dire situations, not necessarily related. They consume Rousseau as she struggles to come to a decision about Zac, the man she loves but doesn't want to settle down with quite yet. Then there's the scholarly book she's writing, her teaching and her dog and beloved companion Wulu, who gets dog-napped at the same time her home is invaded and torn apart. Rousseau herself is threatened in varying degrees a number of times.
The local police are investigating the murder but they appear detached. Rousseau does not so much make up her mind to solve the mystery of Jamal's murder as she happens upon evidence that leads her from one clue to the next. This is a fun read but it does require your attention. There are a lot of suspicious characters, and for good reason. There's a lot going on in Boston's North Shore that bears investigation.
Natalia, Rousseau's sister's love interest, is the lead detective on the case. It's an interesting situation, since Rousseau gets in over her head repeatedly. At the same time, she does a service by providing Natalia with valuable clues. Rousseau doesn't think too deeply about how her disobedience of police warnings will impact her sister's domestic life just as she doesn't seem too worried about hopping into the sack with one of her students while seriously involved with Zac. These human failings make the book better than many procedurals and whodunits. There are lots of flawed and vulnerable characters in "Speaking of Murder" and their flaws add to the mystery.
Also fun are all the good meals Jackie serves to Rousseau and Natalia, beginning with a yummy Easter feast. You don't want to be hungry while reading "Speaking of Murder."
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Love Smart was one of 10 finalists in the 2007 Delete Key Awards contest, which recognizes the year's worst writing in books. Dr. Phil lost to Danielle Steel (grand-prize winner), Mitch Albom (first runner-up) and Claire Messud (second runner-up). This review appeared in February 2007.
Love Smart: Find the One You Want – Fix the One You Got. By Dr. Phil McGraw. Free Press, 283 pp., $15, paperback.
By Janice Harayda
Help me, please, with the math in Dr. Phil McGraw's relationship guide for women. First the talk-show host says that to attract a worthy man, you need to feel confident enough to take your "fair share of time in most conversations – 50 percent in a twosome, 33 percent in a threesome, and so forth." Then he says that when you're dating: "Self-disclosure should be used only 25 percent of the time. The other 75 percent should be listening." So which is it? Should you be talking 50 percent of the time or 25 percent?
I have no idea, because McGraw doesn't say how he got those figures, and his book is full of mush like this. Love Smart is one of those self-help guides that has LOTS OF LARGE TYPE. It also has exclamation points! More than two dozen in the first seven pages! That doesn't count the one in the first paragraph of the acknowledgments! But I'll say this for McGraw: He is equally patronizing to women and men. He reduces them both 1950s stereotypes given a 21st-century gloss with advice on Internet dating and quotes from celebrities like Dave Barry and Rita Rudner.
Much of his advice retools the kind of messages Bridget Jones got from her mother. First, stop being so picky. Of course, McGraw doesn't use that word. He urges you to settle for "Mr. 80 Percent." Then forget what you may have heard from other experts about how there are more differences between any one man and woman than between the sexes as a whole.
"I've got news for you: Men and women are different," McGraw says. A lot of men have a "caveman" mentality that requires a "bag'em, tag'em, bring'em home" approach. This method includes more of the kind of advice your mother – or maybe grandmother – gave you. McGraw doesn't come right out and say you should "save yourself for your husband." But he does suggest you hold sex "in reserve" until a man has made "the ultimate commitment": "Why buy the cow if you can get the milk for free?" It doesn't seem to have occurred to McGraw that some women might not appreciate being compared to cows.
The most bizarre section of Love Smart consists of its list of the "top 31 places" to meet men. No. 1 and 2 on the list are "your church or temple" and "batting cages." You might meet men at those batting cages. But the U.S. Congregational Life Survey found that the typical American churchgoer is a 50-year old married female. So what are the criteria here? Sheer numbers of the other sex? Or compatibility with your values? The list makes no more sense than most of the other material in Love Smart. Earlier in the book, McGraw begins an account of a disagreement with his wife by saying, "Now I may not be the sharpest pencil in the box …" Why didn't somebody tell Oprah?
Best line: The comedian Rita Rudner says, "To attract men I wear a perfume called New Car Interior." Love Smart also has some zingers that women have used to insult men, such as, "He has delusions of adequacy."
Worst line: McGraw never uses one cliché when he can use three or four, as in: "Now it seems time to step up and close the deal, get 'the fish in the boat,' walk down the aisle, tie the knot … you want to get to the next level."
Editor: Dominick Anfuso
Published: December 2006
To read more about the Delete Key Awards, click on the "Delete Key Awards" tag at the top of this post or the "Delete Key Awards" category at right. To read more about the creator of the awards, click on "About Janice Harayda."
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Now we see how, BHO's lack of loyalty down turns into a lack of loyalty up. There exists a category of no-talent clown who thinks that rank or office is what matters, and fundamentals like "never leave a buddy" do not. Au contraire, mon fine French frere. Sir Blames-a-lot may point a finger, but the information leaks are going to continue to point back at him. Obama really isn't anyone's buddy, and he's not actually getting left behind. At least not in the same sense as Stevens, Smith, Woods, and Doherty. Yet the same callous indifference Obama offered Americans in a real-world crisis is being repaid him in spades.
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Eagle County photo mysteries revealed
Editor's note: This is the second of two parts.EAGLE COUNTY – Wolcott as we know it today was originally called Russell. The documentation is limited, but in 1891, a John Holland was granted first rights from the public domain (the federal government and the state of Colorado) to the area known as Russell. In 1887, the railroad arrived at Wolcott (Russell) and its name was officially recognized in 1889 in conjunction with its first post office. A horse and wagon train trail existed out of Wolcott to Steamboat Springs dating from 1886 delivering mail, cargo, passengers and dry goods. From accounts in "Historical News of Wolcott," by Fern Eatmon, Wolcott was one of the largest shipping points on the Western Slope. At the height of this traffic, 2,000 carloads of cattle were shipped from here annually. For many years Wolcott was the only means for Steamboat Springs and other parts of the northwestern Colorado to get their mail and other supplies, Eatmon said. It all came here and was sent out by stage. The biggest transfer of supplies was here. It is claimed that daily for 20 years, from 1886 to 1906, a Concord stage, drawn by six horses, left Wolcott for Steamboat Springs. Thirty to 40 wagons loaded with supplies pulled up the long hill from the Eagle River everyday.Cattle, sheep, timber, potatoes, lettuce, red quarried stone, ice blocks made the rail yards of Wolcott a busy commercial center.There were two hotels in Wolcott for travelers, advertised with good rates ($1.50-$2.00 per night) and accommodations. One was operated by a Pete Peterson and the other by "JC Hawley & Mrs. Hawley." A good number of general stores existed along with a blacksmith shop, several livery stables, corrals for stock, a school but no church. Stone from Red Point quarry, just west from Wolcott, was used for the Wolcott bridge abutments across the Eagle and the red stone was shipped by rail to Denver in the construction of the Brown Palace. By the 1920s Wolcott had reached its apex and started its decline as the railroad by way of the new Moffet tunnel funneled more rail traffic more northerly out of Denver.Press reportsI was attempting to find clues about a glass-plated negative taken at the turn of the century, "Exhibit B." Upon magnification, "Hotel Hawley" is painted in black lettering on the sloping roof. There are tents and small buildings to the left of hotel and larger buildings, a Livery Feed Oats building at far right, and a telephone pole at upper left.The local press offered some evidence such as:• In 1903, a mention in the Eagle Valley Enterprise mentions the name Hawley Hotel in an advertisement.• An article taken from the Eagle Valley Enterprise, Mar. 11, 1904, is a major piece of evidence in the identification of the image. It states, "J.C. Hawley is laying a very substantial sidewalk from the hotel door to the road. The material used is large flagstones."• An article dated Jan 27, 1905, states, "Mrs. Hawley is gradually recovering from her recent illness and is now able to be up and around the hotel."• An Eagle Valley Enterprise article dated Aug 11, 1905, states J.C. Hawley and his son will purchase several vehicles to match the extra fine driving horses he already has in his possession, meaning J.C. Hawley had his own livery stable, stock and wagons.The Hawley Hotel was not referenced in the Denver Public Digital Collection. Countless hours were spent researching the archives. The above press statements needed further investigation. Foot work and chance encounters contributed further evidence. I contacted Jaci Spuhler, local history librarian at the Eagle Library. Her support and research contributed greatly to the identification of this negative. Time was spent looking into county records. The county cartographer, Ken Sexton, was helpful. Rick Spitzer, a fellow photographer who has worked diligently with me regarding the identification of the other negatives, contributed greatly providing further research material, confirmation and leads.At the chance suggestion of Jungle Fuhrman, a mechanic who was working on my car at the time who knows Eagle County, I called a Louis Fenno, an old timer who ranched up Squaw Creek who now lives in Silt. Explaining my need for information about a Hotel Hawley, he gave further support to my detective work and suggested Betty Carter (Carterville up Squaw Creek) and his cousin Edith Lederhause up the Colorado River Road. He said that Edith collected historical scrapbooks. Making an appointment with Betty Carter provided some information but not substantial. Her childhood memory was significant, but she had no documents.The next appointment was with Edith Lederhause and her husband, Mike. Calling Edith for an appointment, she said "noon hour, go to McCoy, down the Colorado River Road, past Antelope Road, into a hollow and as the road rises, the house on the right." Now a city slicker would have definitely been unable to follow those directions, but having a knowledge of the terrain, having travelled the Colorado River Road before, knowing the geography, I knew exactly were Edith and Mike lived. In 45 minutes time, I was driving up the Lederhause driveway. Mike, a retired Colorado State Patrol Officer, was putting the final restoration touches on a bright green, yellow-wheeled 1949 Model B John Deere tractor Edith wanted as a decorative piece at the entrance of her driveway.The missing cluesInviting me into their home, we spread out the documents, the photographs and studied the material Edith had assembled. We kept coming back to the glass-plated images Exhibit A and B. After several hours, we said, "Bingo," "Eureka!" When Exhibit A and B are placed side by side and with magnification, the following can be deducted. The missing clues came to light by viewing the photos as a twosome, not as independent unrelated photos. The flag stone sidewalk is identifiable in the photograph. Likewise, the three-board fence with the gate opened. A diagonal brace on the gate itself can be viewed from a distance and identified. The connectivity of the telephone/telegraph lines in both images creates further evidence. The bridge itself is common. The livery stables to the right of the Hotel Hawley confirm the newspaper article about J.C. Hawley's stable/livery. And the skyline in the distance matches today's skyline looking south. As an afterthought, the river offered clues as well. The larger boulders in the river may still lie in the river, as shown in the original glass-plated negative. Another piece of evidence is the photograph I took showing the rocks in the river, some of which are still located as they were at the turn of the century.Exhibit A, which shows the railroad station at Wolcott, is a glass-plated negative taken by an unknown photographer at the turn of the century looking north towards Steamboat Springs.Exhibit B, which shows The Hawley Hotel, is a glass-plated negative taken by the same photographer. The unknown photographer had photographed the railroad station from the Jouflas porch looking north towards Steamboat, then had walked across the bridge over the Eagle River, had gotten to the rail lines on the opposite side, turned around and photographed the Hotel Hawley, where he may have lodge for a night or two.The Hawley Hotel is the present Jouflas building in Wolcott at the corner of Route 6 and Route 131, north to Steamboat Springs! Fait accompli!Four out of the 11 glass plated negatives have now been identified, all here in Colorado. There are several other images which have potential identification, however, the photo detective work is becoming more difficult due to the lack of clues. Preliminary research has been done, but the next image for identification is a school house with two significant cupolas atop the two-story massive brick building, schoolchildren outside posing for the photographer, the date 1883 on the school house. This week my source in Virginia sent me an additional 15 glass-plated negatives. Perhaps further clues may exist in this secondary cache.Raymond A. Bleesz lives in Edwards.
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Union Market finally opened Wednesday on Avenue A and East Houston... a few readers stopped by to see what was what. Some passages from the EVG comments:
Anonymous said...
Prices are competitive with Whole Foods on premium items. Meat and Seafood, produce looked great. Staples and generics will still be bought at Key and the Associated. Nice addition to the hood, in my opinion.
Anonymous said...
I went there last night. It's a little confusing to navigate -- one guy was wandering around trying to find the checkout counters. The people who worked there were very friendly. Overall good selection, and a nice addition to the neighborhood.
RyanAvenueA said...
We went in last night to check it out and I have to say I loved it. Despite being a year behind schedule, the meat counter alone is worth it. Plus a great selection of pre-made food if you want to throw together a quick dinner. Definitely on the higher end with the prices, so I agree the staples can be bought elsewhere, but it's closer than Whole Foods.
Anonymous said...
"one guy was wandering around..." that's because zombies are and will be patronizing this.
For those looking for good meat, I say bring back mom and pop butcher shops. Personalize attention, my former butcher had a MFA in writing, and a poet. Not only he was knowledgeable about the cuts of meat, he often would recite a poem, in correlation to the type of cut that was purchased. Character.Soul.Personality. Try having that from this generic suburbanize, mallify, Duane Readeesque market. Catalog that for your thoughts.
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Crash-test dog dummies make cars safer for pets
To make the world safer for pets, Lindsey Wolko had to design an indestructible dog. Two years and hundreds of thousands of dollars later, her nonprofit Center for Pet Safety in Reston, Va., has a set...
To make the world safer for pets, Lindsey Wolko had to design an indestructible dog.
Two years and hundreds of thousands of dollars later, her nonprofit Center for Pet Safety in Reston, Va., has a set of crash-test dog dummies that were battered, throttled and sent flying to test several car safety restraints.
The rare study of travel products marketed to animal owners was released earlier this month and will be followed by tests of car crates, carriers and barriers. Lifejackets are on the short list of products to be tested as soon as funding is found.
Inspiration for the center and its inaugural test came nearly a decade ago.
Wolko's dog, Maggie, was seriously injured when Wolko braked to avoid a traffic collision. Despite a restraint, the English cocker spaniel smashed into the back of the driver's seat, spraining her spine and hip and getting her back legs tangled in the harness.
Once Maggie recovered, Wolko decided to sell dog products on her for-profit website, caninecommuter.com. She sold only products her dogs responded to positively.
Often, however, she found the safety equipment, toys and cleaning products were mostly untested and either failed to work as promised or fell apart.
"Because of the lack of oversight and the lack of testing in the industry — it is quite the 'Wild West' out there — you are consistently putting consumers and their dogs at risk," Wolko said.
Just as the popularity of pet products boomed, Wolko split with sales. She got her nonprofit credentials, officially opened the safety center in July 2011, met with engineers and started building a boxer dummy.
The 55-pound boxer is anatomically correct, stuffed with computer equipment and has the same center of gravity as the real animal. The model was used in the pilot project reviewing four products.
MGA Resource Corp., an independent lab in Manassas, Va., conducted all the crash tests using Wolko's dog dummies.
When the pilot results were released, Subaru of America Inc. signed on to fund the rest of the study.
The final tests included a 75-pound golden retriever, 45-pound border collie and a 25-pound terrier mix.
The Sleepypod Clickit Utility Harness was the only one out of seven that protected all the dummies in 30 mph crashes.
"This was the only brand that consistently kept the dog on the seat for every test. It prevented the launch of the dogs and prevented side-to-side and fore-and-aft rotation of the dog and helped keep the spine fairly stable," Wolko said.
The rest had hardware problems, construction issues, connection point failures, the stitching broke or there was catastrophic failure and the dog flew off the seat or out of the harness, she said.
Representatives from all the product manufacturers were invited to attend the testing, and four showed up, she said.
Consumer Reports magazine published the center's results.
It's not surprising that attention is being focused on safety because a huge number of car buyers want to drive with their pets, said Michelle Krebs, a senior analyst with Edmunds.com. "A pet that isn't harnessed in a car is really dangerous. That animal propels through a car like a missile."
Subaru, which markets its cars to pet owners, plans to feature the winning safety harness in a newsletter that goes out to 5 million people and to offer it for sale in its gear catalog, said Michael McHale, director of communications for the car company.
Wolko is an associate member of the Society of Automotive Engineers, with a bachelor's degree from George Mason University. She is CEO and heads the product research division of the center, which contracts with a few part-time consultants but otherwise is run by volunteers.


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Police & Fire: January 25, 2013
Warrant arrest
Chippewa County Sheriff Deputies report the Thursday arrest of Craig W. Doyle, 30, of the Sault on a Department of Corrections Parole Office warrant out of San Diego, California. Doyle was booked into the Chippewa County Jail and remained held pending contact with Golden State authorities.
Trespass complaint
Sault Police were called to the 300 block of W. Portage shortly after 1 a.m. today where an unwanted individual was refusing to leave the premises. Police spoke with the man telling him he needed to pack his belongings and depart which he promptly did.
No additional law enforcement action was required.
Barking dog
City police also report responding to a barking dog complaint in the 2500 block of Ashmun Thursday evening arriving to find no evidence of an animal making noise.
Officers made visual contact with the dog and spoke with two individuals at the owner's residence who denied the animal was doing any barking prior to the arrival of police.
Officers also noted in their report that they did not hear any barking.
All of the compiled paper work will be forwarded to the animal control office related to this matter.


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From HLS in Focus (describing the new student group working with the Project on Law and Mind Sciences (PLMS) at Harvard Law School and the fascinating talk that Stephen Pinker recently gave there).
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"SALMS" is a recently formed group whose acronym stands for: Student Association for Law and Mind Sciences. They are interested keeping the law school community informed about research in the mind sciences that has profound implications for law and policy making. The group is currently in the process of creating a journal that touches on the same topic. If they are successful, it will be the first journal of its kind in the country.
The event that I attended was a lecture by Harvard College Professor, Steven Pinker. The title of the talk was: "A History of Violence: How We Became Less Violent" Professor Pinker explained that research indicates that although public perception is that we live in a dangerous and violent society, the facts back up a different theory. Society is becoming less violent. This statement is made based on data that span hundreds of years. Over this period of time, there have been less murders and overall violent crimes, fewer deaths from all kinds of war and much less capital punishment for non-violent crimes.
Professor Pinker also offered some reasons for why people might think that we live in a more violent period than ever before. The first is the availability heuristic. We think that society is more violent now because when asked, more recent examples are easier to remember and news of violent crimes spreads faster and farther than ever before. The second is a tendency to think that society is in a state of moral decay. We idealize the past and think that the present represents a departure from morals and values. The third is the fear that saying that violence is declining will make us too complacent rather than proactive about our own safety.
The evidence presented suggests that our inclinations toward violence have not changed over time but that societal constructions keep us from killing each other. For example, most of civilized society no longer approves of killing for revenge or honor. People still feel like they want to kill for these reasons but there is less incentive to go through with it and the consequences and probability of getting caught are just too high. We also have ample opportunity to live vicariously through the violence we get from the television, movies and videogames. The final reason for the decline in violence may be that people have become more valuable to us alive than dead. This is especially true on the national scale where countries depend on each other for different trade commodities.
Sitting in on this discussion made me realize that I was mistaken before when I thought that my undergraduate major in psychology would be irrelevant. Understanding the mind sciences can be a great help when it comes to understanding people's behavior, the incentives they respond to and how we can shape law and policy in a way that helps enable the best outcomes. I really hope this group gets their journal off the ground. I can't wait to attend their next event.
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To read a sample of related Situationist posts, see "Steven Pinker at Harvard Law School," "Law Students Flock to Situationism," "The Student Association for Law and Mind Sciences," "Pinker on the Situation of Morality," "Another Century of Genocide?," "Steven Pinker's Ted Talks on 'The Stuff of Thought'," "The Situation of Violence," and "Time Changes Mind."


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Large old trees are rapidly declining in many parts of the world, which has big implications for ecosystems and biodiversity. The new study, published in the journal Science, finds that the loss of large old trees in many areas around the world poses a threat to ecosystem integrity.
Large, old trees play critical ecological roles, providing up to 30 percent of all vertebrate species with nesting spots or other shelter. In addition to shelter, they act as a source of food, attract pollinators, store large amounts of carbon, and play a crucial role in local hydrology. Even after death, large trees persist for decades or centuries, when they become standing dead wood or logs. Younger, smaller versions simply can't replicate the critical ecological roles played by large old trees.
The loss of these trees is a recognized concern in ecosystems worldwide. In intensively grazed landscapes such as California, Costa Rica, and Spain, these trees are predicted to disappear within 90 to 180 years. In southeastern Australian, millions of hectares of grazing lands are seeing a significant decline. Within the next 50 to 100 years, they're projected to support less than 1.3 percent of the historical densities of large old trees. Chronic livestock overgrazing, excessive nutrients from fertilization, and removal of trees to clear land are all contributing to these trends.
But the trend isn't limited to areas used for livestock. Forests around the world are seeing declines in large old trees as well. In Yosemite National Park, the density of the largest trees declined by 24 percent between the 1930s and 1990s. In Brazil, fragmented rainforests are likely to lose half of their originally large trees in the first tree decades after isolation. One of the planet's tallest trees—the mountain ash, a species of eucalyptus—is predicted to decline from 5.1 trees per hectare in 1997 to 0.6 trees per hectare by 2070. Logging, increasingly severe wildfires, and insects such as the western pine beetle are taking their toll on these forest giants.
Large old trees are keystone structures in many different environments. Yet like many other large species such as elephants, tigers and whales, they are facing an uncertain future. More research is necessary to better understand the key threats these trees face, and devise strategies to protect them.
Science, 2012. DOI: 10.1126/science.1231070 (About DOIs).


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In the news: A monkey that was on the lam for more than three years in Tampa, Fla., and reportedly attacked at least one person has finally been captured. The "Mystery Monkey" is a rhesus macaque monkey that officials believe escaped from a "small colony of monkeys" that live in Silver Springs, Fla. The monkey became a celebrity of sorts and even had his own Facebook page.
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This is the second post in my series on resurrection vectors and graveyard controls in Warcraft's battlegrounds. I should just go ahead and admit that this is going to be a series; it is. I don't have a catchy name for it yet, but why wait for a title? Let's just dive right on in and talk about Arathi Basin.
The resurrection vectors of Arathi Basin are to the nearest controlled graveyard, including the original spawn point. These vectors have tactical implications for skirmishes at individual nodes and strategic importance when dealing with troop movement. In this post I'll focus on the tactics at each node; we'll talk about the Iron Triangle in the next one.
Control of the node's flag gives your team control of the node's graveyard. Each node starts off uncontrolled, but clicking on the flag assaults the base, turning the flag grey. The graveyards come into play one minute after the initial assault, when the node is captured and the flag turns blue or red. From this point on, they work like a standard graveyard with rez waves at the spirit healer.
Each node's flags are on the other side of some object or building preventing the resurrection wave from knowing exactly what is happening at the flag while dead, and requiring them to run around the obstacle to get to the flag. There are thus two components to the local rez vector that have to be considered:
- Casualties/reinforcements are blind to the situation at the flag; they don't know if someone is assaulting it or not.
- Defenders will always have at least two routes to return to the flag1. The route chosen will determine how quickly they get it back in sight, as well as which side of the offense they can attack.
Because defenders have to run a route to get back in sight of the flag, attackers have additional time to allow attackers to assault the base. These lines of sight are important!
The above diagram is a general representation of each node. You might have to flip the orientation a bit, or change the building shape and add in chickens or undead horses or something, but it'll suffice for a discussion on graveyard control. The routes aren't equal length to run, but it's more important to get to where you can disrupt the attackers than necessarily get back to the flag.
From a tactical standpoint, the ideal placement for defense is near the flag to prevent capture, no matter where the attack comes from. Fight at the flag! is the rallying cry of introductory battleground manuals everywhere, but the real tactic is:
- Establish a buffer zone between the flag and the attackers. Engage them away from the flag to deny them opportunities to assault the base.
- Position so rez waves reinforce the flag first.
Creating this zone of control is important and takes practice. You don't want to stack on top of the flag, but you don't want to be too far away from it. Teams should get used to moving forward and engaging the enemy away from the flag without getting pulled off it.2
Furthermore, the direction reinforcements come will either help or hinder your flag defense. Having rez waves passing by the flag to get back into combat is far safer than having them never see the flag.
Let's take a look at a flag-side assault.
Attacks on the flag side of the node generally put the defenders in a good position. They are able to watch the flag and have a few people cluster near it while sending DPS off to meet the assault at a moderate distance. Lines of sight are usually pretty clear on both sides, and rez waves know which direction they need to be heading to get to either the flag or to battle quickly.
Flag-side assaults are often slugfests and death matches.
A more interesting tactic is to assault the graveyard side directly, with the intent to both pull defenders away from the flag and neutralize rez waves quickly.
Attackers can (and should) use the resurrection vector at the node to their advantage by drawing defenders into this kind of fight. Pushing towards the graveyard:
- Blocks line of sight to the flag for many defenders
- Focuses attention away from the flag
- Allows attacks on newly-resurrected characters, when they are unbuffed and unprepared
Establishing this kind of control allows attackers to really use the rez vector of the node against the defense. Remember, the whole point of using rez vectors is to send your opponents where they don't want to be, where they will be ineffective. Hitting the GY side allows you do shift all defenders away from the flag.
Shifting defenders away from the flag means you've opened up the Ninja Zone. The reason that people like me yell FIGHT AT THE FLAG! so much is because if you're not near the flag, not looking at the flag, not remembering that the flag is the really really most super important part of the entire node, then it's open for the enemy to take. Ninja: doesn't need to be a rogue!
One thing I like about Arathi Basin is how the resurrection vectors don't dictate the entire battleground's strategy. There are a lot of different ways to take a base. There are a lot of responses to which route you should take in which situation, depending on your class, role, and the position of your opponents. It's not wrong to assault flag-side! There are plenty of ways that it can work – one of my favorite strategies is "ride in and kill everyone in sight, take the node before they rez." Another one is "hit defenders with CC chains while standing/healing at the flag, click it often, steal the node while the defenders are still alive."
But I also like that I have to ask questions like: where are the reinforcements going to come from? How long do I have before the next rez wave arrives? Am I getting pulled off the flag? Is it worth it to get pulled off a little bit?
I think it's interesting how the answers change from battle to battle, from skirmish to skirmish.
Next time, I'll zoom out a bit and look at the strategic uses of rez vectors and graveyard control in Arathi Basin.
(1) Even the Gold Mine allows two ways to return to combat – the path down the mine, and the path to the mine roof. GM suffers a bit in that the second route doesn't put you on a radically different attack vector; ideally, you could turn right after leaving the graveyard and approach the flag from the Stables side. ↑
(2) In an earlier post, PvP Playbook: Pulling Defenders Off Flags, I talked about how you can pull defenders off a flag just by letting them engage you at maximum distance – basically goading defenders to fight in the road. Don't be that defender.↑


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Redskins rally for split
CAMDEN — The Camden-Frontier High School baseball team showed its resiliency.
After a tough 7-6 loss in the opening game, the Redskins battled back for a 9-6 victory in the second game Monday to split a Southern Central Athletic Association doubleheader with the Battle Creek St. Philip Fighting Tigers.
Camden-Frontier (6-5, 6-3 SCAA) kept pace with North Adams-Jerome in the race for the top spot in the league standings.
"We swung the bats really well and hopefully with can grow from this," Camden-Frontier coach Jason Holubik said. "We were disappointed to lose the first game, but it was good to bounce back in Game 2."
Gary Johnson led the offense for the Redskins in the second game with three hits including a towering solo home run. Ethan Riddell went 3-for-3 at the plate, while Calvin Conant was 2-for-4.
Johnson earned the pitching win, allowing six runs (four earned) on five hits while striking out six.
In the opener, Johnson had two hits and three RBIs to lead the Redskins. Wes Harrington added a hit and a RBI.
The Redskins will visit Jonesville for a doubleheader Wednesday.
Pittsford at Reading (DH)
The Reading High School baseball team posted a 4-2 victory in the opening game, but the Pittsford Wildcats rebounded for a 9-6 victory in the nightcap of Monday's non-conference doubleheader.
Justin Panarisi earned the win on the mound for Reading (9-5) in the first game, allowing five hits while striking out six. Devin Higley, Ryan Galloway and Trent Shafer each had a hit for the Rangers.
Hunter Mravec went 2-for-3 at the plate with a RBI to lead Pittsford (4-9). Lance Hoard and Levi Hollis each added two hits.
Bryce Meredith delivered the big blow for the Wildcats in the nightcap with a grand slam home run. He finished with two hits and four RBIs. Brad Betzer had two hits and a RBI, while Luke Smith also had two hits. Travis Wilson and Hoard both collected a hit. Smith recorded the pitching win.
Alex Simmons, David Fitzgerald and Higley each had a hit for the Rangers, while Shafer took the loss on the mound.
Reading will visit Concord today, while Pittsford travels to Camden-Frontier on Friday.
Prep Softball
Battle Creek St. Philip at Camden-Frontier (DH)
The bats came to life for the Camden-Frontier High School softball team Monday as it swept a SCAA doubleheader with 25-0 and 16-0 victories.
Kasey Follis, Marissa Curry and Kelsea McNeil each went 4-for-4 to lead the Redskins in the opener. Curry recorded nine strikeouts for the win.
Ellie Speith and Follis both went 3-for-3 to lead Camden-Frontier (5-5) in the second game. McNeil pitched the win, striking out eight.
The Redskins will visit Jonesville on Wednesday.
Pittsford at Reading (DH)
The Reading High School softball team swept Monday's non-conference doubleheader with Pittsford, winning 7-1 and 5-2.
Karissa Shay hit two doubles to lead Reading (8-8) in the opener. Taylor Coe added a triple while Brittany Marquart had a double. Marquart struck out seven for the pitching win.
Mikayla Bontrager had two hits to lead Pittsford (3-8). Morgan Schrom and Taylor Willis each hit a double. Ashley Culbert took the loss despite striking out nine.
Coe pitched the win for Reading in the second game, striking out four. Marquart hit a triple, while Shay and Allison Parker both hit doubles.
Meghan Schrom had two hits, both doubles, to lead the Wildcats. Mariah Natzke added a double, while Culbert was charged with the pitching loss, allowing five hits while striking out seven.
The Rangers visit Concord today while Pittsford travels to Camden-Frontier on Friday.


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