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Gordon regretted being popped as soon as he appeared.
The ruins were frozen and uncomfortable. He was the de-facto leader of the barbarians there, and yet their camp was still miserable.
They'd been hoping to get a warlord to pop this turn, but Gordon was a Thinkamancer. He gave barely any bonus to the stack of stabbers there. If it wasn't for the gems that popped with him, they'd have to try to forage for rations this turn.
And there were no animals in sight, just endless hexes of frozen fields and ice. Ice as far as Gordon could see. He supposed that this was supposed to be adjacent to a water hex, but this unbearable cold was enough to freeze it.
But, it could be worse...
He heard the rumbling of the units before he saw them: a pack of 5 Heavy Siege units, with a team of archers.
When they entered his hex, he got their stats immediately.
Hits: 12
Attack: 25
Defense: 20
Move: 30
Special: Heavy, Armored, Siege, Mount, Ranged
Upkeep: 220
They were black, groaning things, spewing dirty smoke into the air. And each seemed to carry an archer.
They were also very ugly.
The leading Tonk lurched up to his forces, bearing a Chief warlord.
He was a bearded man, in grey uniform, a Noble, by his stats... Unlike Gordon's stack, he actually seemed to have suitable clothes for this Titanless place... "Alright you unaffiliated miscreants. You popped in our territory. That means we're getting each and every one of you into our stack."
Gordon blinked at the man, "So you're planning to hire a team of newly-popped units?"
The warlord laughed, "You could say that. We're capturing all of you as of this moment to be inducted into the Imperial forces."
Gordon frowned at the warlord, "What if we refuse your offer? Will you croak us?"
"No need for that, Caster. The nation of Icebox has a master-class Turnamancer. We can easily make any of you join our side. You're all level ones." The warlord grinned, "You are to get in our Tonks immediately."
Gordon sighed and led his stabbers into the tonk. He'd been alive for one turn, and already someone had forced him into an alliance.
He was right, It COULD get worse.
At least it was warm inside the Tonk.
Chief Warlord Rockin-Bak was pleased with himself. He'd secured eight stabbers and a Thinkamancer. Icebox would finally have the ability to link casters! Of course, he had no idea what a Thinkamancer, a Dollamancer, and a changeamancer would be able to do together... but that was one more caster!
Icebox loomed ahead, a frozen assortment of buildings behind a great frozen wall. Nobody ever came this far north... Well, except Charlie.
The Tonks rolled into the courtyard, And the Emperor strode out to meet the Warlord.
"My lord, our mission was a success. we have captured the barbarian units and recruited their leader. How are our holdings?"
"Please, you can try to drop formalities. We're all freezing out here. I expected you to do well, and our holdings are fine. Our mine is yielding gems, Fridge is making Tonks, Cooler is still frozen over, so it's farming..."
"I see. Well then, we should hire the remaining barbarians, and turn them to our forces within the next few turns."
"Indeed so. Come, let us get inside before we end up croaking from the cold." The Emperor coughed and nodded towards the door.
The two turned and headed into the tower, as the stabbers were led into the dungeons below.
Gordon found himself standing in a level 5 city with new clothes suitable for the environment. Shaking off a feeling of uncertainty, he dashed into the warm glowing tower doorway.
It was there he met the Turnamancer. He was a big man, rippling with muscle. A level 10.
"Out of the way, little man..." he growled, "I know you are the new Thinkamancer, but you have a lot of leveling to do... good luck with that..." He smirked and strode below, leaving Gordon with the urge to go the opposite direction.
He stumbled into the situation room by chance, the Emperor turning to face him.
"Aha! there's the new recruit! Welcome to Icebox!" The Emperor grinned. He was clearly a Royal, the entire attitude about him said nothing less, "I was wondering when you'd arrive. Now, I'm Emperor Paten. You are?"
"I'm Gordon, Sir, a Thinkamancer."
"yes, our scout units managed to-" The emperor was interrupted by a shattering explosion. "Blast, he's here..."
The three strode onto the balcony to face a burly metal-clad man on Dwagonback. Behind him were a stack of four yellow Dwagons, and a massive pink gummy ship, floating in the air.
"Titans Disband! Hans, you incompetent buffoon! You're breaking alliance?!" Rockin-Bak roared at the dwagon-riding warlord.
"You stole that caster from us! We saw him as soon as he popped! We had dibs!" Hans growled, "Weremany alliance state that you cannot steal from our territories!"
"It was on the border, no alliance broken. Those ruins are open to who gets there first." Emperor Paten frowned at the Weremany warlord, "And we got there first."
"Because you just had to drive your tonks over the water! We had to cross mountains!"
"You could've broken stack from the Dwop Ship there..." Rockin-bak smirked at Hans, who was starting to turn red.
"Ever since the water froze, they're all we can produce! We don't have a Dollamancer to turn siege engines into Tonks! All we can build is ships, and turn them into Dwopships!"
"You have a changeamancer, change your ships into Tonks." Emperor Paten sighed, "There's no need to break our turns of peace over a level one thinkamancer..."
"Ships take longer to pop than Tonks!" Hans spat in disgust, "And your turnamancer speeds your Tonk pops. When you break alliance, then you'll overwhelm us with Tonks. This isn't about just the Thinkamancer. We want you to stop building Tonks, or there will be a reckoning!"
The chief warlord of icebox looked towards his ruler, an eyebrow raised, "So, you are telling us to surrender?"
"Yes! Argh, if you can't figure out such a simple-"
"I thought so. Tonks open fire on the Dwop Ship." Three powerful hits landed on the gummy flyer, causing it to drop from the sky in a pink goo, a stack of it's crew, about ten stabbers, swarmed out of the molten remains.
"TREACHERY!" Hans roared, "You'll all croak this turn!"
"Says the warlord in the air above a garrison with 500 archers..."
Hans tried to retort, but his words died in his throat, "what?"
"You always were a stupid warlord Hans, Goodbye." Rockin-Bak turned away as the barrage of shots knocked the Dwagons (and Hans) to their croaking. "We should double production of Tonks, milord, they'll be back for revenge."
"Of course..." Paten frowned, "A pity. I was enjoying our turns without conflict. I'll miss them dearly."
"Wait, what's going on?!" Gordon ran after the two, "Who is coming?! Wasn't that the chief warlord?"
"No, Thinkamancer. Their chief warlord is Imrich. Hans was just one of many warlords that Weremany has... They were our allies until this turn. Things look grim now. They outnumber us, because our units pop better, but are more expensive. They also took half the land from the old nation that stood between our areas. This weather is a result of a powerful shockamancy scroll. They have a shockamancer, a changeamancer, and a lookamancer on their side, and possibly ten warlords." Rockin-bak explained.
Gordon paled, but maybe, he hoped, Icebox was better than weremany, "What do we have?! how many warlords are in Icebox?"
"Counting me?" Rockin-bak asked, smiling at Gordon.
The Thinkamancer nodded, "Yes. How many?"

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---- — The Twins have invested two years in turning Eddie Rosario into a second baseman.
Now it appears that effort may not have been necessary.
Even as the 21-year old Puerto Rican sharpened his defensive skills at the keystone in the middle levels of the Twins farm system, Brian Dozier was emerging as a Gold Glove candidate. Even as Rosario continued to impress scouts with his ability to hit line drives — the so-called hit tool — Dozier, 26, transformed into power threat in the major leagues.
So the Twins have what appears to be a surplus at second base. Dozier, of course, is already in the majors; Rosario finished the season at Double A and isn't far from being major-league ready.
Which means decision time is approaching.
The two are, or project to be, different players. Rosario, converted from the outfield, may never be as good with the glove at second as Dozier. Dozier is unlikely to hit for average; there is some thought that Rosario will not continue his power production as he climbs the ladder.
Assuming that Dozier's power production (51 extra base hits this year, 26 since the All-Star break) is real and not a small-sample mirage, he fits in the bottom half of a contender's lineup. (It speaks to the problems of the Twins lineup that he's spent most of this season hitting first or third.) Rosario has a higher ceiling as a hitter but also a lower floor.
I see three options here for the Twins front office:
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■ Return Dozier to shortstop.
I rule out the third immediately. Dozier established in 2012 that he simply doesn't have the arm for shortstop. That caused him to play too shallow; that, in turn, reduced his range. Dozier is either a second baseman, or he can't play.
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Tonawanda News — The New York State Working Families party is weighing in on a "stalking horse" candidate's shenanigans in the 62nd District state Senate primary contest.
On Wednesday, state party co-chairman Paul Schuh blasted Timothy Moriarty, a party member whose name appears on the Working Families primary ballot today. Voters will choose Moriarty or Amy Hope Witryol, whom the statewide party endorsed months ago.
Moriarty is a "Republican stalking horse (who) did not walk his own petitions, did not respond to press inquiries, and did not even respond to the invitation to a respected candidate forum. He hasn't run a campaign at all," Schuh said in a press release from the party. "(Moriarty is) only in the race to derail the Working Families Party from being able to select our candidate."
Jesse Lenney, who was a member of the endorsing committee that interviewed Moriarty, said Wednesday that he questioned Moriarty's true interest in running for state Senate. He claimed that Moriarty openly said he was pursuing the party line upon the encouragement, and request, of a friend — North Tonawanda Mayor Rob Ortt, a Republican.
Moriarty "didn't seem very interested in the Working Families (platform). ... It was clear to us in the interview (that) he wasn't interested in the seat, he was doing a favor for a friend," Lenney said.
Ortt flatly denied asking Moriarty to run.
"I've never had a discussion with Tim about running for any office. He's certainly not running as a favor to me," Ortt said Wednesday night. "I know Tim, but not real well, certainly not well enough to have encouraged him to run for office. The only person I support in this race is Senator Maziarz."
Moriarty did not return a call seeking comment on his candidacy and the WF endorsement interview. He hasn't returned any phone calls from Greater Niagara Newspapers, or seemingly any other media, since he became a candidate.
The origin of Moriarty's campaign, such as it is, came into greater focus this week with the emergence of several pro-Moriarty mailers to party members earlier this week. The unsigned letters used the Working Families and UAW logos "falsely," a party official said. Witryol also is endorsed by the UAW New York State Region 9 CAP.
Moriarty is one of several potential candidates for 62nd District state senate who were interviewed by a Working Families endorsing committee earlier this year, according to Lenney, the party's upstate political coordinator.
Like all interviewees, Moriarty was asked for his pledge to not challenge the endorsee if he wasn't selected. Lenney said Moriarty made that pledge — and then broke his word by filing petitions to fight Witryol for the party line.
If Moriarty wins today's primary he would likely sap votes away from Witryol's overall tally in November.
Working Families officials again raised the suspicious circumstances under which Moriarty's designating petitions were passed. None were carried by Moriarty himself or any fellow Working Families party member, they were carried exclusively by notaries public and commissioners of deeds who all happen to be Republican party functionaries or associates.
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Witryol, who spent time "door knocking" at Working Families homes Wednesday, trying to undo misinformation contained in the unsigned, pro-Moriarty campaign literature, said she would not comment on Ortt's alleged connection with the race.
However, of Moriarty and the GOP — which has a 62nd District senate primary of its own today, between Maziarz and Niagara Falls attorney Johnny Destino — she had plenty to say.
Witryol doesn't believe Moriarty personally had anything to do with the anonymous mailers, she said; instead they seem to be another example of "dirty politics" by GOP operatives. Moriarty appears to be a candidate in name only, she added.
"Based on what I've heard, I don't think he's doing anything: He's not campaigning, he's not answering questions from the media ... . Clearly this is a candidate that's being backed by the Maziarz machine," Witryol said.
There's "good news and bad news" in the hyper-political story that's being played out at the polls today, she added.
"If their polls are telling them this race is close enough that they have to manipulate the public's choices ... the bad news is, manipulating the public's choices is harmful to democracy. If there's a silver lining, it's that George Maziarz is worried about my candidacy," Witryol said. "And that's good news for the public. It means they really have a choice this time."


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After serving a 3-1⁄2-year stretch in a federal penitentiary, Brian Christensen decided to change his ways.
Actually, Christensen worked at a prison — Alcatraz, to be exact — as a visitors' guide, until he gave notice earlier this month. But let's start at the beginning: 2008.
"I was living in Pasadena and working at Panavision in Hollywood as a technician servicing motion picture cameras," he says. "My wife, Jennifer, who is a school counselor, got a great job offer up here, and in August 2008 we moved to Petaluma. She is now a college counselor at Marin Academy. This all happened within a year of us getting married."
Christensen's film degree was of little use in the Bay Area. "I interviewed at Kerner Optical (a now-defunct spun-off division of George Lucas' Inudstiral Light & Magic) and they were going through the same transition from film to digital as Panavision," he recalls. "When I left Panavision, there were 12 people in my division; now there's four."
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Then Christensen spotted a job posting on Craigslist for a visitor services representative with the Golden Gate National Park Conservancy.
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Christensen was hired. His duties included supervising the audio tours, manning the information kiosk, and leading behind-the-scenes VIP tours.
"I showed (Giants pitcher) Ryan Vogelsong and his family around one day, and I chatted with Cate Blanchett, who took the audio tour on her own," he recalls. "She was in the middle of filming the latest Woody Allen movie in San Francisco, and she came back again a week later with her two kids."
Not a bad perk, hobnobbing with the stars.
However, "one day at breakfast, Jennifer asked me, 'If you could do anything, what would it be?' And I immediately said, 'Own a comic book store.' To which she said, 'Why don't you?'"
Christensen was up for the challenge, and began researching the pros and cons — "especially in this economy" — and decided to take the plunge. He acknowledges the risks, especially since comics come out digitally on the same day the paper versions are released. Might this be a repeat of the film to digital dilemma he experienced, if electronic versions of the paper comics take over?
"No," he asserts, "paper still has a strong collectability factor, especially with the Iron Man, Avengers and Batman franchises, and now 'The Walking Dead' and 'Game of Thrones' from television."
Christensen, who is 40, is a prime example of a typical collector with some 700 comics in his personal collection, which started in 1976, when he was just 4 years old.
"It was an Action Comics, No. 463, given to me by my grandfather," he recalls fondly. "It stars Superman, and it has a 1776 theme. I read it so many times the cover fell off over time."
Christensen advises that if someone is going to start collecting comic books, Superman is the ideal title with which to start. He says, "Superman continues to be a steady top seller, the gold standard. Batman comics have overtaken Superman as the best-selling title, probably because there have been more Batman movies. Also, Superman has superpowers, while Batman is an everyday man trying to do good, and people can better relate to him."
While action heroes are a staple, he predicts there will eventually be Harry Potter comics in our future and that they will be big. Currently, he recommends the Owly graphic novels for the very young.
"Owly is a little owl and he has a friend named Wormy. It has no words in it, only pictures, but it teaches great lessons, like overcoming fear and building friendships," he says.
On Nov. 15, Christensen got the keys to a 1000-square foot space in the basement of the McNear building at 1 Fourth St., where The Comic Book Box (now located in Rohnert Park) first opened years ago. He expects to open Brian's Comics in mid-December.
And if by some cruel twist of fate, his dream doesn't work out, he says, "I always have Alcatraz to fall back on. My bosses told me that I will always be welcomed back. There were a handful of prisoners who served two terms at Alcatraz. I could be one of them."
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The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan final consumer sentiment index for the U.S. decreased to 73.2 in October, the weakest this year, from 77.5 in September, the group reported. The index averaged 89 in the five years prior to the recession that began in December 2007, and 64.2 during the 18-month slump that ended in June 2009.
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Fridays report showed bookings for commercial aircraft increased 57.5 percent in September after a 5.4 percent gain. Chicago-based Boeing said it received 127 aircraft orders in September, up from 16 the previous month.
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ELIZABETHTOWN — Lines in a handwritten letter dash across pages consumed quickly by their measure.
Words and phrases pressed in ink trace tight-woven paragraphs as crisp and tangible as homespun cloth.
In bright cursive, historian and journalist Marjorie Lansing Porter described to her daughter, Betty Millington McNamera, the early chores of building the Adirondack Center Museum here.
Her "rooms" were laid out in the vacant high school closed a few years before.
Porter, then 64, was Essex County's historian and, at last, her collection of newspapers, manuscripts, recordings, hand tools, farm implements, wagons, quilts, sleds, pots, pans and the myriad stories she wrote of early frontier life had a home.
Margaret Gibbs, the museum's director and current Essex County historian, read a few sections of Porter's letter out loud.
She couldn't help but smile at the piquant voice packed in a small charge of words.
"And so it goes," the letter closed.
Other letters described Porter's ongoing work to build a museum, a task she took on with support from local beneficiaries.
"Writing dozens of letters in connection with plans for the Adirondack History Center at E'town, as actual working out of plans seems to be up to me," Porter wrote to her daughter.
"Heat is turned on in building, plaster repairs (where water leaked in) are supposed to be done this week, and I have set a work meeting for April 2.
"We will paint cupboards, walls of halls on first floor, etc. I have set up plans for four exhibit rooms on the first floor, which is all we can do this season, besides put auditorium in order for special programs and put up art and crafts exhibit in hallways.
"Next step will be to choose colors for halls and Room 4, which will be used for my newspaper file, and heavy wallboard panels, painted bright colors will be set on chalk trays of blackboards on two sides of room, for photo mounting.
"Room 1 will feature the land with exhibits by mining companies, etc.; Room 2 will feature Indian occupation and our forests; Room 3 will tell the story of early settlement, with walls of log cabin (old logs) set up and my farmer's museum stuff to furnish it …"
Porter had finally begun to sort her vast collection.
"This must be Room 4," Gibbs mused, sitting in the room that has since become the Brewster Research Library.
This dispatch from 1955 is just a fragment of untold volumes written by Porter, the mother of five children who became a roving journalist, historian, editor, tea room hostess, library worker, Frontier Town player, log-cabin builder, chronicler and folk collector through the early and mid-19th century Adirondacks.
She had already spent years serving as historian for both the City of Plattsburgh and Clinton County by the time she came to settle again in Essex County.
Historian Morris F. Glenn of Westport has been researching the myriad of Porter's written work, scattered as it is through weekly editions of at least 10 newspapers and magazines and across two counties that transect the Adirondack's drop to Lake Champlain.
She wrote for an early version of the Press-Republican and for the Essex County Republican, Plattsburgh Sentinel, North Countryman, Valley News and the Chateaugay Record, among others.
Her work likely appeared as early as 1929 in unnamed stories, though Glenn says Porter claimed her entrance to journalism in 1940.
By then, she would have been nearly 50 years old.
Glenn first dug into 26 boxes full of Porter's written work several years ago. Along with hundreds of recorded folk songs and spoken stories, the papers are housed at SUNY Plattsburgh's Feinberg Library.
Another several boxes of Porter's work remained in Elizabethtown.
A member of the Adirondack History Center Museum Board of Directors, Glenn set about sorting.
"It was like a hyper-explosion," Glenn said of the first adventure into Porter's work.
"My first time through, I walked away kind of wondering what I had just read."
In an overview he published in 2010, Glenn captured the essence of Porter's work in her own words, planned originally as a book she tentatively titled "Adirondack Portfolio."
"How can all the remembering be told — that laying out in words, as if on platter, meaty sections of life, great chunks of experience, held together by the tendons of association with other times — other places, other people?" Porter asked in January 1968, introducing an "Old Timers" series in the Essex County Republican.
How can all the remembering be told?
It's the question that founded what is now known as the Adirondack History Center Museum.
Among Porter's papers, Glenn found that the devoted mother of five was, first and foremost, a newspaper reporter.
"And all of her collection reflects that fact," he wrote in his overview.
Her debut was heralded officially in 13 short lines placed at the top of the Essex County Republican on Feb. 23, 1945.
Helen Margarette "Marjorie" Lansing Porter had taken the helm as editor of the newspaper that her great-grandfather Wendell Lansing founded in 1839 — 105 years prior.
Born in Port Henry in August 1891, Marjorie Porter was 53 when she took the lead role at the paper.
Her father, grandfather and great-grandfather all toiled with ink and presses. (Their actual machine is at the History Center Museum).
And Porter's mother, Helen Prescott Lansing, ran a newspaper in Keeseville after her husband, Charles, had come home injured from gassing in World War I.
Gibbs suspects that Porter fell in love early with the world of stories, the pounding presses and smell of freshly printed news.
But it was Marjorie Porter who expanded the family penchant for storytelling beyond the printed page.
The volumes of Porter's written work have been largely upstaged by her collection of SoundScriber Dictaphone recordings of folk songs and oral history gathered from meetings around the North Country.
She recorded more than 450 Adirondack ballads, logging songs, miner songs, sordid and tall tales from Adirondack farmers, miners, lumberjacks and jills and any rural folk she found who wanted to talk along the way.
In an interview with the Press-Republican in Dec. 22, 1964, Porter described the recording device as "wartime equipment."
Her antiquated blueish-green vinyl discs were to be copied at that time onto tapes with support from the Newport Folk Foundation.
"My recorder transcribed the songs on plastic discs. It was wartime equipment, and the fidelity wasn't very good," she told the reporter in 1964.
Originally part of the Adirondack Center Museum collection, the recordings were conveyed later to Feinberg Library at SUNY Plattsburgh, Porter's alma mater.
Debra Kimok, Special Collections librarian, said Porter's 245 SoundScriber discs were digitized by SUNY Plattsburgh communications professor Dr. Tim Clukey, beginning in 2009.
Kimok couldn't find evidence in Feinberg's files of any grant from the Newport Folk Foundation.
"But there is some correspondence that indicates two sets of reel-to-reel tapes were made," she said in an email.
One set was made from the original discs by the Library of Congress in 1981.
"They sent the tapes to our Special Collections and also kept a set in the Library of Congress Archive of Folk Culture," Kimok said.
The recordings captured Adirondack voices for nearly two decades, from 1941 to 1960.
Porter's early folk research likely began, Glenn says, with a project she took on for the Work Projects Administration Federal Writer's Project, which offered grant funding between 1935 and 1943.
Porter won one of those grants.
"It seems obvious that this one two-year project exerted a major influence on her later writings and sharpened the focus of her research more directly on ... folk history," Glenn wrote.
As Porter's collection of newspapers and artifacts blossomed between 1935 and 1954, Glenn says, "it became too large and bulky to store as a single entity in either of her (Red Barn) museums, office or her log cabin (on Rugar Street) in Plattsburgh.
"It seems that she saw an opportunity to store and bring some order to her large and varied collection at the new Adirondack Center Museum, which was in 1954 under her management with its 'yawning' empty classrooms, closets and even an auditorium."
The complete set of her family's newspaper archives moved there, along with original manuscripts of history books and volumes published in series.
Historians have known that for nearly 60 years now, the quiet of Porter's folk collection continues to capture public interest, drawing perhaps from the rampant sense of adventure that she labeled "vagabonding."
"A lot of what did come here was all in her Red Barn museum in Keene," Gibbs explained of the Elizabethtown museum's founding collection.
"Vagabonding, she called it," Gibbs laughed. "She would get in her car and drive around and see what she could find."
Lee Knight, a folk musician originally from Saranac Lake, was friends with Porter through the last four years of her life.
A letter she sent to him in 1971 reveals the tenacity of her curiosity.
"This is vagabonding season (autumn) in the Adirondacks," Porter wrote to Knight.
"When sunny days come, I feel I must get out here 'n there, combining business calls with just meandering to favorite spots: Tahawus, Lake George, Route 3 to Saranac Lake, Loon Lake, Owls Head, Keene Valley."
In spring of 1973, Porter had planned a folk-music concert with Knight. But the octogenarian newswoman died at Elizabethtown Community Hospital on April 14 that year, at age 82.
Obituaries mention that Porter donated her body to science at the University of Vermont Medical School.
Her gravestone at Evergreen Cemetery, in Keeseville, Clinton County, is carved with prose:
"I shall put off this Girth / Go Glad and Free / Earth to my Mother Earth / Spirit to Thee."
It was Porter's instinctual ability to collect and curate the fragile human story that pulled centuries of frontier life into focus.
But it was her love of the everyday that built a history museum in Elizabethtown, Gibbs said.
And that story is still being told.
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Adirondack History Center Museum Director Margaret Gibbs and historian Morris Glenn created a program based on Marjorie Porter's written work, in cooperation with the music series produced this summer by the Traditional Arts in Upstate New York (TAUNY), based in Canton.
TAUNY's "Songs to Keep" project has brought Porter's music collection back to life through live folk performance.
The final two performance events happen next weekend.
The museum in Elizabethtown is hosting an evening of music and storytelling with folk musician Lee Knight, Keeseville musician Speedy Arnold, and family members of Marjorie Porter's five children.
The event will also feature stories by longtime Adirondack newsman Jack LaDuke and others who were inspired by Porter's work.
Vagabonding: Reminiscences, Songs, Stories and Poems of Marjorie Lansing Porter takes place on Friday, Sept. 20 at 6 p.m.
The ticket price $5 for museum members, $8 non-members. The museum is free and open to the public before the concert to view the Marjorie Lansing Porter traveling exhibit on Court Street in Elizabethtown.
For reservations, contact the museum at 518-873-6466.
"Songs to Keep"
Arranged by TAUNY, "Songs to Keep" will have a final summer performance at Giltz Theatre, in Hawkins Hall, at SUNY Plattsburgh on Sept. 21, starting at 7 p.m.
The evening of folk music features songs Marjorie Porter preserved in her recordings.
The will be performed by several folk artists, including her granddaughter June Millington, Dave Ruch, Jamie Savage and Sue Grimm, Dan Berggren, Colleen Cleveland and Lee Knight.
Tickets are $10 and available at Angell College Center and at the door.


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River Ridge Development Authority hosted its last meeting of 2012 in what River Ridge Development Authority Board President Mark Robinson called it an "exceedingly productive year."
River Ridge Executive Director Jerry Acy said the year end results showed revenues from land sales totaled about $1.8 million, with another two sales pending.
"That will be another million [dollars] plus, and potentially one other land sale to add to that, hopefully in the early part of next year," he said.
Along with the land sales, new tax assessments on lease property boosted revenues for River Ridge. Acy said the development authority is looking at generating another $330,000 in Tax Increment Finance revenues associated with the new property tax assessments.
There has also been an uptick in interest at River Ridge Commerce Center that is likely to roll into next year. Acy said there are more businesses looking for sites with 15 distinct projects and six active projects. During Monday's board meeting, he was granted approval to negotiate another deal to bring a new tenant to the commerce center.
Acy said the new project that the development authority is working on would sell 25 acres at a site off of Trey Street — behind Amazon's distribution center and north of two sites recently approved for development with Mr. "P" Express Inc. and America Place Business Park.
"It would be a stand-alone company, a manufacturing company," he said.
However, Acy would not name the company as he said River Ridge is bound by a confidentiality agreement. He added that hopefully, a purchase agreement on the property will be in place by the spring when the company could begin construction.
Of course, the major project completed in 2012 at River Ridge was the development of the Amazon.com Inc. distribution center that opened this fall. The location of Amazon at River Ridge has spurred business interest in the former Indiana Army Ammunition Plant, along with the approval of plans to construct an east-end bridge that will cross the Ohio River just south of the commerce center.
With the bridge locating near the commerce center, infrastructure continues to be a main focus for the board.
Board Member Kim Matthews asked about a connector road planned in River Ridge that connects to the proposed Interstate 265 crossing and whether or not it will be open by the time the east-end bridge is set for completion in 2016.
"I think we'd be hard pressed to have it done," Acy said. "We will need some assistance. I think that is part of our planning, especially for next year."
He said additional TIF funds may be able to finance a new bond to start the road and connect it to target-rich sites, and River Ridge is looking into possible assistance from state and federal transportation funding sources.
"It seems to me that would be one of our major priorities," Matthews said. "We would want that road there as soon as we can get it done."
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The Black & Blue wrestling team got off to its best start in years at the Northeast Conference tournament held Saturday at Beverly High School.
The team beat Salem 33-30, for its first dual meet victory of the season. The meet against Salem was filled with highlights: Stephen Hopkins, an 8th grader wrestling at 106 pounds, pinned his Salem just opponent halfway through the first period. That pin, in what was Hopkins second bout ever as a varsity wrestler, was among the many bright spots on the day.
"Very exciting to have Hopkins as the first ever 8th grader to wrestle in the program's history," said head coach Mike Stamison. "It'll be a learning year for him, and he's sure to take his lumps, but he is very eager to contribute, and I love having him on the team."
Another newcomer to the team, Ben Grant, wrestling at 160 pounds, recorded his first-ever pin at the halfway point of the 1st period.
Junior Maleek Newsome, wrestling at 170, pinned his opponent at the 34-second mark of the first period. And Sean Taylor, a Marblehead senior and co-captain, earned three points with a 3-1 victory for the Swampscott-Marblehead co-op wrestling team.
The team lost to Peabody 33-27, but it was a closely fought meet that felt like a win. Pins by Jake Powell, a Swampscott senior and co-captain, and Taylor helped the cause. Among the highlights of the meet against Peabody, Bazarov, a freshman who is an experienced Sambo wrestler, pinned his opponent with one second remaining on the clock in the second period. Ali Atallah, a Marblehead junior and a three-year veteran, grabbed three points with a 4-3 scramble-filled win.
Perhaps the best match of the day featured Cam Budrow who, like many wrestlers on the Black & Blue team, showed a great deal of grit and determination. Down 13-6 heading into the third period, Budrow battled back, almost pinning his opponent at one point, and won the third period 8-6. Though he lost 19-14, Budrow's match revealed a certain toughness that could become a hallmark of this year's team.
"Both Ben and Max had great mat awareness and actually did things I shouted out from the corner," said Stamison. "The first match, especially at an event such as this, can give a rookie a bit of sensory overload. They both, as well as the other newcomers handled themselves maturely. I'm very impressed."
"Cam's match was tough, as he was so close to pinning the Peabody wrestler," said Stamison. "With all of them, we have to stress basics and body positioning. We left a lot of points and wins out there, and need to tighten up that at practice this week."
The team lost to Beverly 51-12. Captains Taylor and Powell recorded pins against the Panthers. And though he lost 8-2, Newsome reminded his teammates of what it takes to go three periods in a varsity wrestling match.
Newcomers to the varsity team Brett Resnick, Ben Grant, and Taylor Negron also wrestled well. Also worth noting is this: Swampscott-Marblehead wrestled as part of the annual NEC tournament which features teams from Beverly, Salem, Danvers/Hamilton-Wenham, Saugus, and Peabody. The NEC tournament is a double elimination tournament.
The team, though some of its wrestlers fared well during the post season last year, didn't record a dual meet win. "While it's an individual sport, it's always nice to get a team win like that," said Stamison. "We haven't had many lately, and it was nice that it came against an always tough Salem squad."
Stamison, now in his fourth at the helm, noted the positives. "With such a young squad, you expect some nervousness from the kids," he said." They didn't exude that Saturday. The upperclassmen wrestled well, and the younger guys showed me that they are willing to take the next step. We have a lot of work to do, but I saw some boys become wrestlers on Saturday, which has my staff and I excited and ready to get into the meat of the schedule."
The team travels to face Shawsheen Tech on Dec. 12 and then will wrestle on Saturday in the annual Tyngsboro tournament.


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University of Notre Dame is a private institution that was founded in 1842. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 8,475, its setting is urban, and the campus size is 1,250 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. University of Notre Dame's ranking in the 2014 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, 18. Its tuition and fees are $44,605 (2013-14).
Notre Dame is located in South Bend, Ind., just 100 miles outside of Chicago. Only freshmen are required to live on campus, but most students choose to remain on campus in one of the 29 single-sex residence halls. The halls serve as the centers of social life at Notre Dame, as there is no Greek life on campus. Legends, an on-campus restaurant and pub, is a popular spot for watching sporting events. The Notre Dame "Fighting Irish" boast more than 25 varsity NCAA Division I athletic teams and are well known for their consistently strong football program. Over half of students study abroad for at least one semester.
Notre Dame is divided into eight schools and colleges, the largest of which is the College of Arts and Letters. Notre Dame's graduate and professional programs include the highly ranked Mendoza College of Business and Law School in addition to a well-regarded School of Architecture, which offers undergraduate and graduate programs. Notable alumni include former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, talk-show host Regis Philbin and Hall of Fame football player Joe Montana. The 1993 film "Rudy," ranked one of the top 25 sports movies of the past 25 years by ESPN, was filmed on Notre Dame's campus and depicts the true story of Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger, who overcame many obstacles to play football at Notre Dame.
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Notre Dame offers undergraduate students an educational experience that is second to none in quality and, at the same time, distinctly Catholic. Faith informs learning at Notre Dame, and the University's students are urged to turn their learning to the service of others. The community life of the highly residential campus is distinctive, but Notre Dame also ranks sixth in the percentage of its students who study abroad. Its graduation rate is among the top 5 in the country and its alumni are celebrated for their loyalty.
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University of Notre Dame has a total undergraduate enrollment of 8,475, with a gender distribution of 53.5 percent male students and 46.5 percent female students. At this school, 80 percent of the students live in college-owned, -operated, or -affiliated housing and 20 percent of students live off campus. University of Notre Dame is part of the NCAA I athletic conference.
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Florida panther killed in Golden Gate Estates
A panther was killed Friday in Golden Gate Estates after a collision with a vehicle, becoming the 19th recorded panther to die in Florida this year.
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in Australia were reinforcing their faith at a Twins of Faith conference.
The Melbourne conference, whose name refers to the twin concepts of "faith" and "good deeds" -- was hosted by Mercy Mission.
The conference attracted an international guest list, greeting Richmond footballer Bachar Houli, the first practicing Muslim to play in the AFL, like a rock star.
International speakers included young US speaker Omar Suleiman and young Canadian performance poet Boonaa Mohammed, who tried to use his poetry to speak of injustices and to "bridge the gap between communities".
Sheikh Suleiman from New Orleans said Muslims had become "the new Boogie man", but associating a terrorist with
was as unjust as associating the Ku Klux Klan with Christianity.
"I have seen people strung and burned on crosses, crosses burned on people's lawns, hatred that is supposedly done in the name of Christ (peace be upon him), but I know that is not Christ, I know that is not what Christianity preaches," he said.
"Ignorance can do so much harm. We are just like anyone else. We are trying to live family lives, we are trying to be prosperous and enjoy a day in the park with our families, we are trying to be good citizens and if people see that and interact with us and we build those bridges, we can eradicate that, we can overpower the sense of hatred."
Sheikh Suleiman spoke to a large audience of Muslim men and women about the "paralysis" that comes of focusing on the negative.
He said what caused people to resort to terrorism and extremism was not faith, but "their ignorance of the faith".
Sheikh Alaa Elsayed, a member of Canadian Council of Imams, and public relations director for the Mercy Mission, said ignorance was the "No 1 enemy" of Islam.
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A program for fixed-income or impoverished seniors throughout the Big Bend. Each month, ASHBB provides bags of supplemental food and grocery items for more than 430 of our community's elderly. All types of food are included, from canned goods, fresh bread and pastries, and produce when available.
Our Brown Bag for Seniors agencies include:
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Thanks to Walmart State Giving Program for feeding our hungry seniors by funding the Brown Bag for Seniors Program.


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TODDSVILLE — Craig Scott Meyers, 27, of Toddsville, died Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013, after a long and courageous battle with cancer.
Born Nov. 30, 1986, in Cooperstown, the son of David G. (Jr.) and Adele Meyers, he graduated from Cooperstown High School in 2005.
He was employed as the Assistant Produce Manager at TOPS in Hartwick Seminary.
He enjoyed building model airplanes and playing the guitar. He derived his greatest joy from his 4-year-old son, Joseph Scott Meyers, with who he spent countless hours. When Joseph smiled and laughed, Craig was always at his happiest.
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He was fundamentally and always, a loving father to Joseph; a much loved son of Adele M. Meyers; a loving brother to Patrick M. Meyers (and Patrick's fiancee Tammy Jean Wildey); a loving uncle to Evey Rose Meyers; and a best friend of his uncle Bob Daniels. He is also survived by his uncles, Steve and Richard Daniels; his aunt, Shirley Roberts; and his cousins, Cory, Brandon and Koreen. He was greatly loved and will be missed more than anyone can imagine.
A memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Monday, Sept. 16, 2013, at the Tillapaugh Funeral Home, 28 Pioneer St., Cooperstown, with Pastor Jack Klosheim of the Community Bible Chapel in Toddsville officiating. The family will be present from 1 p.m. until the time of the service to receive friends.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests that those who so desire make contributions in Craig's memory to the Cancer Institute at Bassett Medical Center, 1 Atwell Road, Cooperstown, NY 13326.
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NHPCO reports focused advocacy and Congressional sign-on letters have brought some results but not yet a halt to the Medicare Part D hospice policy.
Alexandria, VA (PRWEB) July 02, 2014
July marks the entry into the third month of implementation of a new policy involving Medicare Part D and hospice patient medications, reports the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.
The new policy issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, with a May 1, 2014 implementation date, established a pre-authorization process for hospice patients seeking medications under their Part D plans. The policy was designed to prevent duplicate payments on medications for hospice patients.
The unintended result of this policy is causing many dying Americans to forgo necessary medications that should be covered under Medicare Part D, reports NHPCO.
In a letter to CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner from Senator John D. Rockefeller, IV and Senator Pat Roberts (PDF) signed by 73 Senate colleagues they write, While well-intentioned, the prior authorization process you have established for the medications of Part D beneficiaries who have elected hospice could result in delayed access to medication for a population that, by very definition, does not have time to spare. At a minimum, this Guidance has resulted in confusion among both providers and patients.
A similar sign-on letter from the House of Representatives circulated by Representatives Reed and Thompson (PDF) emphasized the call for CMS to act.
Through the efforts of NHPCO and Hospice Advocates across the nation, both Congress and CMS have heard what this policy is doing to the patients and families being cared for by hospice providers.
Coordinated advocacy efforts have brought some positive results but not a halt to the implementation of this policy, said J. Donald Schumacher, NHPCO president and CEO. Yet, even one patient at the end of life who suffers needlessly from this policy is one too many. Its heartbreaking that CMS has failed to recognize the urgency of protecting these vulnerable patients.
In total, the Congressional letters were signed by 75 Senators and 202 Members of the House of Representatives. Nineteen out of 24 Members of the Senate Finance Committee, which has jurisdiction over hospice in the Senate, and 26 out of 39 Members of the House Ways & Means Committee, which has jurisdiction over hospice in the House of Representatives, signed on to these letters.
Additional measures calling on CMS to stop implementation of the Part D policy include:
Additionally, last week, even the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission commented on the guidance (PDF), and suggested that the guidance be suspended until a streamlined process, that does not impact the Medicare beneficiary, can be implemented.
For more information on this issue, please visit the Hospice Action Networks Hospice & Part D webpage at hospiceactionnetwork.org/partD.
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While holiday spending is expected to remain level or even increase slightly compared to 2011, many people are looking for ways to reduce the impact on their wallet or the environment by buying gifts at thrift or secondhand stores. Handcrafted gifts are another alternative to traditional holiday gifting (and not just for kids anymore)!
Businesses where you can paint your own pottery, fuse a glass sculpture, design a piece of beaded jewelry or even stuff a plush toy animal are located all over Maryland, including Montgomery County.
Learn how to make your own beaded jewelry:
Rockville – Accents Beads, 12112 Nebel Street, Rockville, MD 20852
Silver Spring – The Bead Warehouse, 2740 Garfield Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20910
Takoma Park – S & A Beads, 6929 Laurel Avenue, Takoma Park, MD 20912
Try your hand at painting pottery:
Color Me Mine has locations in Rockville and Silver Spring
My Pottery Place, 11325 Seven Locks Road, Potomac, MD 20854
All Fired Up has two locations – one in Bethesda and one on Washington, DC
Craft a plush animal:
Build-A-Bear has three stores in the area – The Mall in Columbia, Westfield Montgomery and National Harbor.
Explore your own creativity in glass, ceramic or printing:
Amazing Art Studio – 205 Boardwalk Place, Gaithersburg, MD 20875
Know of a place locally in Prince George's County? Add it to our comments section with a link to the business.