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Five years ago, StoryCorps established a new national holiday, The National Day of Listening, as an "alternative to 'Black Friday' shopping sprees." That big shopping day is past, but it does not take a special day to encourage family members to take part in some of the activities recommended at http://nationaldayoflistening.org/learn-more.
One can listen to a variety of interviews by clicking on the Wall of Listening. For example, Yvonne talked to her Dad on his 90th birthday; two friends talked about the hurricane, Sandy. Perhaps listening to others' interviews can provide an inspiration to do likewise.
This website has lists of questions to ask family members and friends to encourage story-telling. In addition to questions for anyone, there are questions to ask grandparents and/or parents on a variety of topics, such as growing up, school, love and relationships, marriage and partnerships, working, religion, serious illness, family heritage, war, and remembering a loved one.
The four-page do-it-yourself instruction guide tells how to conduct an interview and also provides helpful recommendations on equipment as well as possible questions to ask. You may even wish to share your listening experiences on Facebook or Twitter. StoryCorps' mission is to "provide people … with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve their stories."
Mosler's diary
In recognition of the sesquicentennial of the Civil War, the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art has launched a digital exhibition at http://civilwardiary.aaa.si.edu of Henry Mosler's Civil War diary. Although the diary has only 37 pages, it provides a first-hand account of the suffering of that war.
Henry Mosler (1841-1920) had been in the 9th Indiana Volunteer Regiment during the Civil War and kept the diary in 1862. He had been an illustrator for Harper's Weekly. In his diary he wrote about being an aide-de-camp to General R. W. Johnson — his first professional position as an artist.
At the website one can read the transcription or the diary itself (which is sometimes faint and difficult to decipher) or download the entire document. The website allows one to "follow his trek on a historic map of Kentucky" (where Mosler and the army marched more than 275 miles), see more than two dozen of his published illustrations, note events of his life on the timeline, and read of more of his activities on the blog.
Mosler began his career in Cincinnati, Ohio, lived in Germany and Paris, and eventually settled in New York. At http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/henry-mosler-papers-9068 one can access Mosler's other documents that were digitized in 2009 and total more than 2,000 images.
Open house
The Illiana Genealogical & Historical Society will host a Christmas open house from 2-4 p.m. today at the Genealogy Library, 215 W. North Street, Danville. All members and supporters are invited. Light refreshments and holiday music will be provided as a "thank you" for supporting IGHS. Bring an appetizer for all to enjoy, and share the joy of Christmas.
Queries, as well as a general exchange of genealogical material that readers would like to share, will be printed in the column for free. Contact Joan Griffis by e-mailing firstname.lastname@example.com


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By Tim Graham
At the NFL owners meetings today in Phoenix, new Buffalo Bills head coach Doug Marrone delivered his first comments on the club's decision to release quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick.
Marrone didn't offer much:
"I have a lot of respect for Ryan, and really appreciate the things that he's done. For me, I like to focus in on the players that we have on the roster, and we really don't talk about the players who aren't on the roster. But I wish Ryan the best of luck.
"How everything went down, and decisions and everything, I'm probably not the best person to talk about that. I don't really know."
Marrone was even more sheepish on the topic of adding another quarterback. The Bills have Tarvaris Jackson and Aaron Corp on the roster:
Buddy Nix "would be a better person to talk to about that, to get everything. But there are a lot of situations, whether it's free agency, trades, draft ... There are still a lot of [options] out there, and on a daily basis you talk about what's going on, and you have communication and discussions and you go through the whole process."
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Mark Bennett
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WABASH — Wearing sweatsuits and smiles, they hold hands and briskly stroll the Wabash River Greenway on a crisp June morning.
The river greets their steps, rippling and rolling westward, just beyond the edge of the trail Ted and Phyllis Biberstine walk. The path hugs the Wabash for 2 1⁄2 miles from the heart of Bluffton to nearby Ouabache State Park. Flanked by wood carvings, trees, plants and flowers lining the riverside pavement, Ted and Phyllis — 85 and 84 years of age, respectively — cast an image fit for a Norman Rockwell postcard.
A few decades ago, skeptics figured such a scene could exist only in an artist's imagination, at least in this Indiana town of 9,897 citizens.
The doubters were incorrect. The scene, and the Biberstines, are quite real.
"There was a lot of skepticism, but I didn't have any. It's one of the great things in Bluffton," said Ted Biberstine, retired from the Indiana State Police and an insurance business. The Greenway, he added, "is heavily used."
Daily. Regardless of the season. Winter included. Residents insist.
"They want the Greenway plowed before the roads are plowed," said Bluffton Mayor Ted Ellis, giving two journalists an impromptu tour.
Skepticism gradually transformed into an embrace of the river as a bonafide cultural, economic and environmental asset in the region where the Wabash gets its name. More than a few locals scratched their heads, questioning the logic behind the installation of an asphalt trail on a brim of a river bank in the late 1980s. Still, after raising more than $1.4 million in funding in surprisingly rapid fashion, the work began amid the doubts.
"The hardest sell was to put the Greenway in place in the beginning," Ellis recalled of that era a quarter-century ago, well before his election in 1995. "A lot of people in the '80s said, 'Nobody will ever use that thing,' [but] they did. It's like the old phrase, 'If you build it, they will come,' and they did. You'll find people who'll say, 'I thought that was the stupidest thing ever, but I love it now.'"
Doug Sundling remembers anxious walkers hitting the trail the instant the final piece of heavy equipment finished the first phase of the Greenway in 1988. Bluffton's identity links to the Greenway now. "It becomes a destination for two things — to visit here, and to live here," Sundling said.
Two phases followed, extending the Greenway east to the state park. Future plans call for a westward extension, following the river through the city and beyond, connecting with Markle and other neighboring towns. The Wabash flows relatively narrow and shallow, typically, at this point in its nearly 500-mile course, but Bluffton — near the river's 66th mile in northwestern Indiana — accentuates the waterway in big ways.
"If you've got a waterway running through your city, it just needs to be the focal point," Ellis said. "Cities that recognize that thrive."
River creates amenities
In 2004, the Wells County Arts, Commerce and Visitors Centre opened atop the scenic bluff overlooking the Wabash, Kehoe Park and a privately built waterfront amphitheater, where Friday night movies and Sunday afternoon concerts unfold. A sidewalk snakes toward the shore. The State of Indiana constructed a footbridge in 2006 for safety reasons. In winter, plows covered the walking lane of the nearby vehicular bridge, and pedestrians crossed in the traffic lanes. The aesthetics of the footbridge — a utilitarian mix of hefty planks and black metal arches — remain a point of local controversy.
"There's still a lot of people who think it's the ugliest thing they've ever seen," Ellis said, with a laugh, "and people that come here [to visit] don't share that opinion."
Bluffton's gutsiest river amenity, though, is likely Pickett's Run Park.
With the Wabash and Greenway in sight, the park features paved paths, picnic tables, carvings of wildlife, and a "splash pad" where sprays of water offer cool relief to young and old. As Ellis recounted the park's history in June, a pair of twenty-something bicyclists sped past, followed by a guy running briskly. A couple sat on their porch at the rim of the park, and Ellis waved as he walked and greeted them by name. Two women jog by, then another cyclist who Ellis also recognized.
The view looked far different on the Fourth of July 2003. Pickett's Run was a flood-prone neighborhood a decade ago, and the Wabash once again inundated homes there on that Independence Day. "We had all kinds of people out here sandbagging," Ellis said. "It was all-hands-on-deck."
The situation was extreme, but not uncommon.
"In 2003, we got tired of going down there and sandbagging those houses," recalled Melanie Durr, a Bluffton City Council member. "So we bought them out and developed Pickett's Run." She credits Ellis' networking skills with the conversion of a chronically flooded neighborhood into a nature park. The mayor credits timing.
The river overflowed its banks to its second-highest level in Bluffton history, surpassed only by the 1913 flood. Two storms dumped 4 inches of rain, apiece, on the town in that two-day stretch in 2003. Standing beside a Federal Emergency Management Agency official, with houses submerged, Ellis was told that the moment was right for a buyout of the damaged properties through FEMA grants. All but one of 18 homeowners accepted a buyout. Seventeen houses were demolished, and Pickett's Run Park filled the void.
Two years later, the Wabash flooded the same spot at its third-highest level ever, but "there just wasn't that much of a problem," Ellis said. The park simply drains as high waters recede. "The best flood control is what nature already created," Sundling said.
Towns utilize waterway
Idyllic as the results appear today, Ellis emphasized the change "was not without a lot of pain." The securing of easements, navigating state regulations, and buyouts of damaged properties involved tough but worthwhile decisions in the mayor's view. The city most recently acquired the half-acre plot of land at the west end of the Greenway, now known as Wabash River Park.
The river's name graces roads, businesses, parks, buildings and churches throughout its northern-most sector. The honor fits. Bright limestone on the riverbed in this sector inspired the Miami tribe of Native Americans to call the river "waapaahsiiki," meaning "water over white stones." French fur traders translated the Indian word into "Ouabache," which the English spelled as "Wabash."
Those white limestone rocks remain visible in some spots. They're obscured, though, by the murkier water, muddied by the erosion of sediment from farm acreage. Twenty miles west of Bluffton lies Huntington Dam, the control dam on the entire length of the Wabash. From Huntington, it flows unimpeded all the way to its confluence with the Ohio River, 411 miles downstream. It's the nation's longest run of undammed river east of the Mississippi.
At the base of Huntington Dam, the limestone can be seen through the water, though its light-gray color now shares the milk-chocolate shade of the stream, thanks to the runoff of soil and nutrients. The tailwaters at the dam's base swirl and roll downstream. In the afternoon sun, two fishermen dropped lines near an eddy, where carp occasionally splashed. A young mother and a toddler sat in a picnic area up the hill along the rip-rap covered bank. A pair of snakes slithered along the concrete wall containing the Wabash's flow near the outset of the dam.
That scene emerged in 1967 with the dam's construction, creating the 900-acre J. Edward Roush Lake and another 7,700 acres of fish and wildlife area similarly named. Though it stands just eight miles from the northern-most point of the Wabash, the dam's mission is to reduce flooding far south in the Lower Wabash River region, as well as the Ohio River.
The Wabash grows at Huntington, too. Its first major tributary, the Little Wabash River, merges with the Wabash just south of this city. That confluence reveals the stark contrast in the water quality. A distinct line separates the green, algae-tinged Wabash from the brown, sediment-colored Little Wabash as they blend and flow under the bridge along Indiana 9. Ironically, the clearest water here comes from a combined-sewer overflow outlet running into the stream from the side, transparent enough to see a carp carcass clinging to the bottom about 10 feet from the bank.
Outside the Forks of the Wabash park and museum marking the spot, high school students spruced up the landscape as puffy seeds from cottonwood trees on the opposite bank floated through the air.
The town has its history and quirks. Remnants of the Wabash and Erie Canal, built here in 1834, linger. Vice President Dan Quayle grew up here. Indiana 9 bears the nickname "Highway of the Vice Presidents" because three of the five Hoosier VPs — Quayle, Thomas R. Marshall, and Thomas A. Hendricks — lived along its route. Downtown, trains rumbled through at a fast pace, breathtakingly close to the steps of the Huntington County Courthouse.
Small towns think big
Nineteen miles west, the Wabash River meets Wabash, Ind. The town shares the river's name unabashedly. At one corner of its steep-inclined streets, the word "Wabash" crops up seven times on six different signs. Its famous natives include country singer Crystal Gayle and industrialist Mark Honeywell, founder of the Honeywell Corp. Images of both are captured in a mural inside the modern Honeywell Center, a community complex operated by the late philanthropist's corporation. In the lobby hang banners depicting an impressive array of notables scheduled to appear this summer in the center's 1,500-seat Ford Theater. Those names include B.B. King, the Moody Blues, country singer Josh Turner, former Purdue Coach Gene Keady, Iconic Irish band Celtic Thunder and others.
The theater, added in 1994, lures visitors from across the Midwest to one of the river's more eclectic towns, population 10,666.
"I think it's something that definitely identifies Wabash as a destination," Ann Harting, the Honeywell Center marketing manager, said, standing in a hallway covered with paintings and photographs of international vistas by local artists.
Adventurous visitors interested in the river, itself, will find it maturing into a "more boater-friendly" waterway at this point, according to "riverlorian" Jerry Hay's definitive "Wabash River Guide Book." In addition to the Little Wabash, the Salamonie, Mississinewa and Eel rivers join the Wabash between Huntington and Logansport, before veering southwest at its "Great Bend" near Lafayette.
Still, even at its more diminutive levels, the Wabash attracts attention, as Bluffton exemplifies.
Ellis brought fellow mayors from cities, large and small, to Bluffton last year for a conference he organized in his role as president of the National League of Cities. He filled that position — lofty for a town of less than 10,000 — in 2012. "As part of the tour, we bused 'em right down to the Greenway, and they were impressed," he said.
The 65-year-old Indiana University graduate uses the Greenway trail recreationally, while his wife, "a physical fitness nut," exercises on it daily. They have four children and five grandchildren. Ellis' father was born in Darke County, Ohio, near the source of the Wabash River at Fort Recovery. On the walls of Ellis' office hang sketches of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, along with a framed photo of Ellis, a Democrat, standing beside President Obama.
On the walk back to his office, numerous locals waved, greeted and joked with Ellis. After taking a good-natured ribbing from one motorist, Ellis urged him to "move along. You're obstructing traffic."
Turning toward his interviewer, the mayor said, "You've got to love a small town."
Terre Haute Tribune-Star columnist Mark Bennett can be reached at 812-231-4377 or email@example.com.


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I believe it's time for district elections for San Mateo County Supervisors.
The key question for me is, how would district elections benefit the voters?
As I see it, the biggest benefit will be to bring the public closer to at least one member of the Board. Many people in our county don't know who their board members are, or what they do. That puts them at a disadvantage in terms of deciding whether or not they should be elected or re-elected.
Because our County is so big - more than 300,000 people - candidates for the Board are spread thin as they campaign up and down the county. That does a disservice to the voters of the district that they're elected to represent.
One argument that I've heard against making this change is that the current system allows us to hold all supervisors accountable, not just one. The reality, however, is that the public often only has one choice on the ballot. Once an incumbent, or even a popular challenger, starts rolling up endorsements and money, they end up going unchallenged. Additionally, the fact that no incumbent has lost a seat in more than 30 years bears that out.
My friends in Santa Clara County have told me that they are very happy with their system of electing supervisors by district. They feel connected to their supervisors, and feel that person really understands the issues of the district.
I think it's time for San Mateo County to give that a try as well.
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My Night With Saddam Hussein
I treated the Iraqi dictator after American forces captured him.
Ten years ago today, at around 8:30 p.m. Baghdad time, U.S. Special Forces pulled a cowering Saddam Hussein from a hole in the earth. By sheer happenstance, I wound up spending that night with him and an interpreter, engaging in a conversation that even now seems surreal to me.
I was privileged to wear the uniform of an Army flight surgeon with the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, the legendary "Night Stalkers." Our ambulance was a Blackhawk helicopter that didn't have any crosses on it and was capable of firing 8,000 rounds each minute; my patients were brothers and sisters in arms who had, like me, traveled to the other side of the globe in the cause of freedom.
Saddam wasn't the first high-value target I had treated. As the first weeks of December ticked by, Special Operations had moved closer and closer to him: first his girlfriend was captured, then his secretary, even his personal physician.
[See a collection of political cartoons on the Middle East.]
I treated each of them with respect, and my being a doctor seemed to relax them. Apparently relieved to meet the first of their captors whose mission wasn't to extract information, they opened up to me. It was an interesting dynamic, and it repeated itself with Saddam.
Early in our exchange, he asked the interpreter the direction of Mecca, but unlike every other Muslim I had observed, he didn't kneel to pray: he stood near his cot, spun an empty chair facing the direction the interpreter had indicated and merely bent slightly forward at the waist.
In Islam, it was an act of supreme arrogance, but by no means was it the only one I saw that night, as the former Iraqi dictator poured forth on everything from his earliest days to his twisted rationale for invading Iran and Kuwait.
At one point, he told me he had once dreamed of becoming a doctor. It was in 1956, when he was shot in the thigh attempting to kill Iraqi King Faisal II, the failed assassination that had catapulted him into senior leadership of the Ba'ath party.
Grimacing as he recalled the pain of it, he pointed to the wound area and described how he removed the bullet himself. The experience had attracted him to medicine but, he said, "politics had a stronger pull on my heart."
Saddam ascended to power the same way Vito Corleone negotiated contracts: by making offers his opponents couldn't refuse. History records that he put a gun to the head of Iraq President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr and offered him the choice of asylum or death.
[Read the U.S. News debate: Was the Iraq War Worth It?]
His own recounting of the story to me, not surprisingly, was different. al-Bakr was, Saddam claimed "a father" to him, but had grown "tired" of leading the nation.
Over time, Saddam claimed, al-Bakr delegated more and more of his responsibilities to Saddam and, in 1978, approached him about assuming the senior position. Speaking in a tone of voice that suggested a humble public servant, Saddam said he was reluctant to do so, but "had to put the people of Iraq first."
Some public servant: He committed multiple murders himself, besides having ordered the deaths of thousands and instigating unprovoked wars on both Iran and Kuwait. Those wars were justified, he told me, by the fact that since the first humans were placed by God in what is today Iraq, all human beings are, in essence, Iraqi. His assault on Kuwait didn't represent an attack on another country, but a repatriation of the Kuwaiti people – and, more tellingly, the Kuwaiti oil fields.
A decade has passed since that night, and looking back, the image I see isn't the Butcher of Baghdad extending his arm for me to check his blood pressure. Rather, it is the faces of Iraqi women proudly holding out their ink-stained fingers as proof of having voted for the very first time. Most vividly, though, I remember the guys I served with -- guys who stuck by me like glue. Their faces pass through my mind like address cards in a Rolodex.
Those soldiers, along with the ones whose wounds I treated – and those who I could not help – are what I will never forget.


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Art this weekend
I'm finally going to get myself out to see the In:Site installation along North Avenue between 34th and 37th streets this weekend. I have huffed and puffed quite a lot about the wonderfully flexible nature of temporary public art, as many of you will attest, and this group is experimenting and doing work that no one else is. Though I haven't seen it yet, I can recommend this project to you on those grounds alone.
May I also recommend that you consider a stop sometime soon at the Tory Folliard Gallery? As one of the most established galleries in town, it didn't have to expand its vision, as it has, to include a new gallery space devoted to emerging talent. I popped by yesterday and Doug Fath and Eduardo Villanueva are a nice counterpoint to the more veteran artists, Anna Kunz and Elizabeth Shreve. I'll write more on these shows in the coming days.
You might also consider one or both of the Dia de los Muertos shows opening this weekend at Walker's Point Center for the Arts and Latino Arts Inc.
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by Amy Moritz
As the Buffalo Bisons win and the Rochester Red Wings lose, the Herd finds itself still in the IL Wild Card race with 10 games left to play, including this afternoon's matchup with Lehigh Valley (1:05 p.m., Radio 1520).
The Herd has won two straight. Rochester has lost two straight. And so the Bisons are now just 2 1/2 games back of the wild card spot.
And, for good measure, in the next games, the teams play each other four times.
Drabek start: Righty Kyle Drabek will make his second stard and third appearance with the Bisons as he continues to work his way back from his second Tommy John surgery. He earned a win in relief on Aug. 14 pitching three scoreless innings. In his first start on Monday in Pawtucket, he took the loss giving up two runs in four innings of work.
Solid relief: Righty Jeremy Jeffress has not allowed an earned run his his last 8 1/3 innings. Opponents have just five hits against Jeffress since Aug. 6.
Today's Bisons' lineup:
Mike McCoy -- SS
A.J. Jimenez -- DH
Mauro Gomez -- 3B
Clint Robinson -- 1B
Brad Glenn -- RF
Andy LaRoche -- 2B
Ryan Lnagerhans -- LF
Sean Ochinko -- C
Blake Gailen -- CF


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Scott H. Biram offers up a unique blend of "real" country, old-school acoustic blues, and punk, with influences ranging from Minor Threat and Slayer to Bill Monroe and Mississippi Fred McDowell. Biram is a one-man band, playing all his songs on a 1959 Gibson hollow body, yet each song he plays differs vastly from one to the next, and Biram dishes out a rare sense of self-confidence and independence only rivaled by the originators of outlaw country music themselves. Biram's number one love is the blues. Next in line come punk, metal, country, bluegrass, Tejano, and zydeco. The one-man band was born and raised in a rural area in the Black Land Prairie region of Texas, a stretch of land characterized by tall grass and rich fertile soil that stretches from north Texas to the San Antonio area. Biram regards Lightnin' Hopkins and Doc Watson as two of his major musical influences. He was exposed to blues during childhood and has played guitar and other instruments since. He played in a punk band throughout high school and college called the Thangs, and later played in two bluegrass bands: Scott Biram & the Salt Peter Boys and Bluegrass Drive-By. He got a taste of life on the road by touring with Bluegrass Drive-By, but has been a one-man band since the late '90s. In 2003, Biram was nearly killed when his truck was involved in a head-on collision with a semi on a Texas highway. Less than two months later, Biram played a legendary show at Austin's Continental Club, performing on-stage in a wheelchair with IVs still dangling from his arms -- and that set has helped define his rebellious and relentless attitude ever since. Biram has released multiple albums independently, which he sells at his live shows. The Dirty Old One Man Band appeared in 2005, Graveyard Shift in 2006, and Something's Wrong/Lost Forever in 2009, all of them from Bloodshot Records. Biram returned in 2011 with Bad Ingredients, also on Bloodshot Records. ~ Megan FryePortions of Content Provided by Rovi Corporation.
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RALEIGH — Matt Corrente took a puck to the bridge of the nose Monday during the Carolina Hurricanes' practice, leaving a bloody gash.
Corrente was taken to the treatment room at PNC Arena immediately, but not for long. The team still was on the ice, preparing to take shootout shots. The defenseman got a quick repair and popped back out.
"They wanted to stitch me up, but practice was almost over and I asked if I could go finish it up before heading to the doctor," Corrente said, smiling. "They put some Vaseline on it to stop the bleeding. A cut on my nose isn't going to stop me from skating or whatever I need to do to play the game."
When trying to make an NHL roster, that's the approach. The Hurricanes have trimmed their training camp roster to 28 players, and soon it will be decision time on who stays with the big team to start the season and who goes down to the Charlotte Checkers of the American Hockey League.
Corrente, 25, was signed as a free agent during July on a two-way contract with no guarantees. But he still is in camp, battling for a spot.
"Coming into camp there's great competition," he said. "It hasn't changed. Everyone wants to make the team and everyone wants to play in the NHL. That's all I want in my life, so I'm not going to stop until I get there."
Corrente isn't the only one. Defenseman Brett Bellemore wants a roster spot, not a ride to Charlotte. Zac Dalpe, Brett Sutter and Jeremy Welsh are among the forwards competing for spots.
"You can't let up at all because they're always watching, always critiquing," Bellemore said of the coaching staff and management. "For myself I want to push myself to get better and be able to stay on this team."
Corrente filled up one part of the game sheet Saturday during a 3-1 victory over the Montreal Canadiens at the Bell Centre. His number was called often by the referees – five penalties in all for the Missisauga, Ontario, native.
Roughing, fighting major, roughing, interference, interference … Corrente was in the penalty box a lot.
"I play with a lot of aggression," he said. "It got a little out of hand on Saturday. I feel a couple of calls could have gone either way, (but) I feel good with my physical play."
For Corrente, it marked two fights in two nights. Friday, he traded blows with Canadiens tough guy Brandon Prust during a 6-0 loss to Montreal.
"I've always been a physical, feisty guy," Corrente said. "Stick up for my teammates, that kind of thing. If someone needs a hand, I'll be there for sure."
Corrente got a hand Monday from his teammates when he quickly returned to the ice after the puck to the face. And coach Kirk Muller took notice.
"That's the kind of guys we want to bring in," Muller said. "He's played hard since Day1. He's gotten two (preseason) games to prove something. He went out, he played hard, he fought.
"He got cut today in practice and comes right back out. He could have just called it a day, if he wanted. That's what I like."
Muller noted Corrente also has played some wing during his career. That could add to his potential value on the roster.
Corrente was a first-round pick of the New Jersey Devils and the 30th overall selection in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft. He played 12 games for the Devils during the 2009-10 season, then 22 the next, before spending the past two seasons with the Albany Devils of the AHL, missing much of last season with a shoulder injury.
The Canes will play their final two exhibitions Thursday at Columbus and Friday at home against the Buffalo Sabres. For players such as Corrente, it's the time when the stomach starts to churn and the pressure builds leading up to the final roster cuts of camp.
"You can't let it get in your head because that's going to throw you off your game," Corrente said. "Just go out and do what you do every time you get a chance on the ice."
Note: The six players placed on NHL waivers Sunday by the Canes all cleared waivers and were assigned to the Checkers. They were forwards Zach Boychuk, Aaron Palushaj, Nicolas Blanchard, and Jared Staal; defenseman Michal Jordan, and goaltender Justin Peters.
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My Berg LULU experience is over for now! It will be another two years before I have the opportunity of singing this again! I loved delving into the world of this incredible composer and had two very different but equally rewarding experiences--in London's Royal Opera House at Covent Garden and in the Teatro Real of Madrid.
It was the first time I had ever created the role "Geshwitz" and the experience was made all the more wonderful working with Christof Loy and Tony Pappano! My cast was stellar; fantastic colleagues, great acting/singers! In both London and Madrid I felt lucky to meet and work with such terrific people!
I look forward to singing this role again at the Bastille in Paris in 2012! Right now I'm learning the Berg "Seven Early Songs". Now that this world is open to me, I'm diving right in!
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Get out your exclamation points. Just announced is the birth of WOW! Works (SM), a new entertainment technology company, based in Clermont, FL. And it's not your everyday, run-of-the-mill entertainment technology company either. It is billed as "a diversified, all-encompassing special effects design, implementation, and management services company dedicated to the complete transformation of a creative vision into a tangible 'WOW' for its audience and clients. This transformation process includes consultation, conceptual design, continuity, and delivery of boundary-breaking effects."
And superlatives may be justified because WOW! is the brainchild of two very notable industry players, Bettina Buckley and Tyler Wymer, both of whom have long histories with the Walt Disney Organization. Buckley, WOW!'s chief effects orchestrator, produced four Super Bowl Half Time Shows for Walt Disney Entertainment and the opening events for three Disney parks, including Disneyland Paris. She was also heavily involved in the launch of Walt Disney Theatrical Productions with Beauty and the Best, and helped build the Walt Disney Entertainment division's first-ever planning and development department.
Wymer, the company's chief effects artists, was for over 20 years a designer and design director for The Walt Disney's Company's only live special effects group. Among his design credits are five Super Bowl Half Time Shows for Disney, the Fantasmic! Spectacle at Disneyland and Walt Disney World, the grand opening dedications of Epcot and Disney-MGM Studios, and opening festivities in New York for the films The Lion King and The Hunchback of Notre Dame at Radio City Music Hall, and Hercules at the New Amsterdam Theatre. He also worked in Italy on the show facilities and show designs for the Disney Magic and the Disney Wonder cruise ships.
Speaking of the launch, Buckley said, "We are so excited about the possibilities that will come from sharing our extensive entertainment and special effects experience with other industry professionals around the world. We bring special effects to a higher and more effective creative level by utilizing existing techniques in a unique way and by developing new products to deliver the creative vision." Wymer added, "There's more involved with special effects than just technical know-how. Our focus is on delivering strategic, never-been-done effects in a professional and innovative way that moves the audience, delivers the message, and creates moments that transcend cultures and form lasting impressions.
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some people think that they are holier than thou (you) or (me)
that some people pick at you and me
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i am swollen so much on the left side of my body
What is mi? Is that why you are swollen?
In case you have wondered if I was going to answer your reply post to me, I plan to do that now. This seems ok to let you know how I appreciate your compassion. I am a born-again Christian and I have a close relationship to the Trinity. I know that God sometimes allows trials in our lives to help us grow in our faith. I have faith that someday God will release me of this depression.
In the meantime I struggle a lot.
No one is cyb er bullying me or in general was i referring to anyone in cyber space but rather in real time, real life.
I guess it boils down to don't judge me lest you be judged.
It is nice to hear that you appreciate my compassion. Yes I am a very compassionate person! I didn't have a lot of that in my life so i like to give it to warm people such as yourself to enjoy! CUZ ITS TRUE!!
I think in God's time we will be healed.
You sound a lot like me. You try to help people with this illness!
I'm where you are as well. It's real tuff struggling with the vs. thoughts. mi is mental illness.
My shoulder is messed up and my left knee too. I'm wondering if some pain medication caused some swelling but how could htat be only in one arm/hand and one knee/leg foot?? weird
I also need lots of compassion. Both of my parents sexually abused me from 13months to age 9 (my father left) and my mother found ways to abuse me. She did a lot of psychology stuff and destroyed any happiness I could have had. She labeled me "fat, ugly, stupid, and worthless" AND I raised my younger sister and brother. I was left in charge every evening (making supper, monitoring home work, baths, etc) while she was working (RN), and I was responsible to get us all ready for school. That included making breakfast and leaving a clean kitchen.
When I was ready to attend high school, she sent me to a boarding school. She lectured the whole hour and a half trip mostly telling me that I CANNOT mention her negatively. And when I was all moved in and she was ready to leave, she said, "It's a shame your face looks so bad. You'll never have friends until you can fix your acne-covered face." And she drove away.
Needless to say, I crave attention and often make mistakes that can't be undone. I have been blessed so many times. My husband and I are going to celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary in February, 2014. My sons are awesome, they have beautiful wives and my four grandchildren (8, 9, 9, 12) are so wonderful to me.
Well that was probably TMI but it explains a lot of where I am now. Severe Depressive Disorder, Anxiety, PTSD, and Borderline Personality.
I drive my husband and my psychologist (Dr. crazy. My depression has never been helped ... I've tried so many depression meds that didn't help me except give me crazy with various side effects.
Thanks for listening. I hope I didn't bore you.
Mine certainly wasn't like what happened to you. my needs for clothing food and shelter was met. not much of anything else was!! i was only touched inappropriately by an uncle and almost raped twice as a teen (gang) and individually on seperate occassions.
lots of junk..... alcholic parents. lots of car accidents that were severe (headons when my mom was drunk driving and i was a passenger) hit by a horse with fiance at 19 in vehicle
hit and spun complete circles by a much heavier car than i
and a couple others...i've been jacked over by family all my life.. sis suicide a few years ago...
ptsd schizoaffective disorder and now this.....
its such a sucky thing having mental illness.....
i have chronic pain syndrom and it really sucks... i hate it!! almost as much as i hate having a mental illness!
i'm trying to figure out what our brains do so that i can understand myself better.
i think you are an amazing woman Mary!! as i mentioned i had a different identity that i can't divulge but nver the less this is workin out for me.
God speed and I"m glad that you were able to voice what happened!!
I hope to see more of you! YOU ROCK!!!
btw closer to your age than not
Hi. sometimes i can come up for the answers but can't figure out things for myself. I feel like what i wrote above wasn't as validating as it coul dhave been for you and i feel badly about that.
can you accept my apology!
I hope some day we can all be well and live happily ever after. that may be in heaven and that is ok.
i was hoping that you'd heard of what i wrote of???
I understand a lot sometimes i'm in a better spot of strength and write from that but that never means that i do not have a lot of compassion for ever anyone.
Today she is still in the nursing home. She doesn't know anyone, she doesn't know who she is.
My sister used to visit her several times a week but the dementia is progressing and my sister told me that there was no need for any visiting. Also, when my sister heard more about my younger years and how our mother helped our father abuse me, she stopped visiting. When my mother dies, my tears will be for that time in my life when she hated me. I don't understand how they could have hurt me. I've looked at a series of school pictures and I did not smile until 3rd grade and then it was a fake smile.
I'm tired today so I'll stop but I do want to tell you one more thing. I got married at 19. I had my breakdown at age 48. She never referred to the past so I doubt her apology means anything. She had 30 years to make amends and she didn't.
Thank you for your kindness. I really appreciate you.
Have a good day.
yes I get the part about your mother not making amends. sicko witch. sorry but I had to say that! because my parents were alcoholics I decided that because they were sick that was a pretty good excuse sometimes for what they did. because of my own illness' I can recognize it .... but can't forgive myself very easily.
that's interesting you married at 19. I was 20 when I did and have been married to the same man for over 3 decades. WOW! are we ageing mary??!!
My parents and bro never apologized to me either. Tho they didn't sa me they were in other ways very abusive. Neglectful parents, strict strict strict father, emotionally unstable mother which i'll always wonder if she most likely had a mental illness.
my brother is very manipulative and controlling and a braggart.
I have not been talking to him for 6 years. I talked to him recently for a very short time. It was ok. don't plan a long relationship with him. ick!
I'm glad you were able to spend the time and try to do the reach out. I think it's really rotten she never got it!!!!!
I'm about ready to fall asleep mary so I will go now. God speed
there were army helicopters close to my house today and it really has me bothered. i'm so sick of the hubbub in every day life.
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Screen Daily reports that Wirkola will return to Norway to direct Dead Snow: War of the Dead.
"Set to be released in both English and Norwegian, the new film follows the sole survivor of a Nazi zombie attack who battles an even larger army of Zombies with the help of the Zombie Squad, a professional gang of zombie killers from the US," Screen Daily said.
Wirkola is very positive about his return to the zombie genre.
"I am delighted to step back into the world of Nazi zombies yet again with Dead Snow: War Of The Dead, a world that is very close to my heart," Wirkola said.
"Ever since we premiered Dead Snow at Sundance 2009, I've been getting questions on a sequel, and now, after Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters has been released, the time is finally right."
"We have a script that I am super excited about, which is bigger, scarier, funnier, more action-filled and gorier than the previous one, and I can't wait to unleash another horde of undead Nazi zombies onto the world again."
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I never meant to breastfeed each child over a year and, what's more, for over three years each. I never even thought about it very much until I weaned my son in a time out, knowing, with heart heavy, tears in my eyes, we were done. That moment was filled with relief and yet anguish over closing the book forever on one of the most precious, reliable, loving exchanges we shared. Breastfeeding made everyone in my home feel safe and loved. It was our first act of trust and met a need beyond nourishment.
Our first was born four weeks early, at 3 lbs. 10 oz. He looked like the most handsome, skinny, wrinkled old man I ever met. He was also an excellent nurser. That's all he and I did the fourteen days he was in the NICU, until he weighed enough to go home.
Before he was born, Erich and I planned to try and nurse him. No pressure. There was always formula as a back up. We saw a video in our childbirth class showing a baby crawl his way up to the breast, unassisted, to nurse for the first time and I wanted us to try. Erich was 150% behind me.
The little guy knew right away what he was doing and, miraculously, so did my breasts. He knew what he wanted and what he needed to do to get his milk and my breasts accommodated. He cried. They soothed. I was soothed too.
He cried all the time unless I nursed him every twenty minutes. I got to either push myself into overdrive, with cleaning my home while nursing, or settle down with him and rest. He wet enough diapers, so I knew he wasn't hungry, but he had no qualms expressing himself. He also knew how to gaze into my eyes and hypnotize me. The hormones were also in his favor. And so, that's what we did.
Perhaps because of his low birth weight, something changed in me. Formula as a back up became a last resort. This kid was clear on what he wanted from me. He wanted his "susu" and all the time. He made life painful otherwise. My heart would tear in two, hearing him wail for milk and to be held. He would repair that broken heart as soon as he latched back on. I was in heaven over meeting his need on demand and, of course, the hormones continued to help me do this little love's bidding. Nature had it all worked out for this pair of newbies.
I knew I had something he needed and searched for that no one else could give him. That reinforced my confidence as a mother like nothing else did. It convinced me and my husband we could quit a lifestyle we thought we wanted, live out of a box if needed, as long as I could keep nursing him on demand.
Something inside me changed forever. I really cared nothing for traveling the world, living in a McMansion, or ever getting my Land Rover one day. I was even convinced, if we lived in our 700 square foot cottage forever, and even lost it, we were as rich as kings, as long as he got his milk.
Maybe nursing him those first few desperate days fulfilled my need to know I was doing okay as a mother. And that reassurance was addictive because Mommy guilt, and the fear I was doing everything wrong, always lurked around the corner. I even remember crying my head off when we first found out we were pregnant. I can still see myself desperately telling my husband I simply wasn't equipped to raise a child. I added sincerely, I barely meant to even get married, with the divorce rate at 50%, and being a divorcee kid myself.
But this little someone kept coming back to me as if I was doing something right those first few weeks, months, years... He helped me grow my confidence like no other words of assurance from my husband, pediatrician or mother could. Without words, just his simple insistence and happy suckling, breastfeeding was the gateway to a different world forever.
We nursed anytime and everywhere. I would nurse him when he woke, needed cuddles and to sleep. I nursed him at family gatherings, horrifying my brothers and wives, and amusing myself at that. I nursed him, despite misinformed concerns from caring folks that I could bruise and get breast cancer.
When I found myself in a circle of non-nursing moms unfriendly towards it, instead of shrinking away in embarrassment, I bowed out gracefully from the group and found a nursing circle. This nurser made me bold. My child had me convinced I wasn't crazy to nurse him on demand and was just meeting his needs. La Leche League was a Godsend and a lifeline. While many former co-workers looked at them with suspicion, I reached out to them, found out for myself whether or not we were a good fit, and never regretted it. There was something about nursing in numbers that normalized what we did, after a while.
Didn't everyone fall asleep at 8 p.m. at their own dinner party because they had to step out of the room to nurse their child to sleep? I thought everyone kneeled and nursed in the back seat of a moving car, hubby driving, me nursing while baby was still in his car seat. All this so we didn't have to pull over a fifth time and get the 'tisk tisk' at the family reunion for being that late again.
I thought everyone nursed her baby in a sling everywhere so she could not miss a beat in her working and social life. I left the corporate world to teach prenatal and baby and me and, inadvertently, a whole slew of mothers how to nurse while in pigeon, tailor and all the warrior poses.
I nursed while doing dishes, shaving my legs in the shower, taking the dog for a walk. What didn't we do while nursing? I am convinced it was what made teething a dream rather than a nightmare and what kept us out of the pediatrician's office, regardless what nasty bug was going around at our short lived daycare stint and everywhere else.
It wasn't a big production either. He was small. My breasts were small enough for discretion. He was easy to tow. My breasts already came attached and always the perfect temperature. I didn't have to sterilize or plug them into an outlet to warm their contents. All I had to do was lift up my shirt a bit, he would attach himself, and we expertly looked like a mother with sleeping baby in her arms. Those rude enough to get too close got a peek of what was really going on and, embarrassed as they were, got what they deserved.
As he grew, it comforted him when he got a boo boo, helped him to nap, to calm down and regroup after a long day and, even to feel loved, as I nursed his baby brother. He wasn't jealous but learned to share with his brother what he knew was a good thing. Sometimes he insisted on nursing first or getting this breast rather than that one and that was really weird and unamusing. What can I say? Without a mental thought over how long we were going to do this, this was our normal and then he was three! We just were, and that is how.
While he was a ten minute nurser and twenty minute napper, it helped that I didn't know other children nursed differently. I thought they all nursed this way. That made things easier on me mentally. I had no expectations from the beginning and my initial goal was to, "Get through the next feeding." That was it. "As long as it keeps working for both of us, we will let it happen."
I was very fortunate my new vocation allowed for us to nurse throughout it. I started my own business and nursed in the attorney's office, as I signed the papers. I took jobs and assured them we came as a pair and he came with the package. I expected no disrespect from anyone and that that the general public was educated enough to know nursing was normal. I had my kid, my body and those ever convincing hormones and supportive-of-breastfeeding husband and mom friends to prove it.
Nursing kept my baby and then toddler quiet and happy. It was immediate with him. Nursing was food and also hours of cuddling. He is almost nine and when he is upset these days, nothing can complete his calm down process like being held. He can live without it. He simply prefers it. He also remembers how special nursing was to us both. I attribute extra cuddly children, and deep rooted warm fuzzy memories from the experience, as an extension of the nursing gift. My arms are still the safety, the warm place, that connects our hearts back to peace.
Our second nursed much differently. By contrast, I doubted I was any good at nursing at all when he arrived, those first couple of weeks. He was more interested in sleeping than in eating. Not knowing what to do was very distressing as well as humbling. He nursed every five hours but only because our midwives insisted we wake him and feed him to keep his blood sugar levels up. He was barely past five pounds himself.
It was difficult and painful to have to wake him from his deep sleep with cold wash cloths and all kinds of other ways that would make him uncomfortable enough to wake up and nurse. However, the midwives insisted and we did what we had to do to wake him. He spent more time using me as a pacifier than as a meal, as he grew older, but, like his brother, he is still a giant cuddle monster at six. He also still loves his sleep. He would cry, "I need a nap!" and nursing was the only way that would bring him, me and his brother napping next to us, that sleep.
Again, we nursed everywhere. I didn't really consider it made others uncomfortable. Those reassuring hormones my body produced each time I nursed, whether indoors or out and about, still kept us confident and bold. Nursing made the world around us disappear and I was able to feel so good and cozy, it was easy to ignore the rest of the planet.
Every time we nursed, we got closer and closer. I felt our love for each other literally grow exponentially each time. I had no idea this was one of the benefits but I surely experienced the difference when I nursed vs. bottle fed them my milk. I didn't love them any less when I gave them the bottle, but, with nursing, there is a magic I can't explain.
Was it ever difficult? Yes. It was difficult around some family who would become uncomfortable or make comments about the dangers for my children not getting enough food, etc... and even for me. There were times the hormones malfunctioned, as no one is perfect, and I doubted myself as a mother anyway because only the few rebellious in my parents' generation nursed and, those who didn't, wouldn't hear of the benefits of nursing now vs. what they were told back then.
It wan't always rosy colored glasses throughout. There are times I truly envied non-nursing mothers who could put their children to bed way earlier than we ever could and keep them there. My sister in law even got to go to a concert when her baby was ten weeks old. I wondered what it might be like to get just a few hours of evening time with my hubby. Or, how freeing it must be to get out a long stretch with the girls and not have to hand express my breast milk into the sink in the public bathroom, because they ached from being away from baby for too long.
I lamented what it might be like to get the night out with my husband without worrying my frequent night nursing baby would wake up crying for me. I wondered what it might feel like to have a body completely free of a child attached to it more for often than less often. Nursing on demand, the way I saw it then, required me to leave my corporate job. While that was not a nightmare for me, this would not make every woman happy. All in all, there were difficult moments a non-nursing mother would never miss.
That is why it is important, as women, to respect all of our different walks, decision making and experiences and to gravitate towards those who parent similarly. And it is natural that this will happen. You will first find other women with children and then, as you self define your parenting preferences more clearly, secure your tribe.
I hung with the crunchies. I didn't mean to, but, apparently, I am one by today's standards. Nursing lead to producing milk as the main priority in our lives, to co-sleeping, to using a sling. It lead to everything "au naturel" including the pursuit of the very earthy and warm Waldorf education, the early years we could still afford it.
Having witnessed the magical wonders of breast milk and its health benefits, we 'pooh pooh-ed' medicine as a first resort, sought out holistic practitioners and naturopaths to balance out the allopathic medical practitioner's advice. We found it didn't always take into account a nursing child's health history, and would jump too quickly towards prescribing an anti-biotic as the first line of defense.
The nursing experience for my family was truly one of the most powerful and influential experiences in our life together. I always joke, what a contrast from having woken up to cigarettes and eating Doritos in my younger years. Nursing made me worry about every item that went into my child's mouth, eyes and ears.
Everything more natural was priority and simple and home made was better. We cloth diapered, made our own baby wipes and household cleaners. We shopped for organic foods, learned about and joined a CSA and grew our own garden. When we could no longer afford Waldorf, we became acquainted with homeschoolers and became homeschoolers ourselves. It seemed being our children's first teacher only lent itself to remaining their primary teachers moving forward.
If we were home more often and I were more talented at kitchen duty, rather than setting the fire alarm off at least once a week, we'd be making jams and jellies by the ton. If I were just a little bit more gifted at it, I would be knitting next year's Christmas gifts all year.
Really, what a change in me. This is the same woman who wore $400 Barami power suits and stockings to work in a high rise luxury hotel, above Grand Central Station and thought she owned a piece of the bridge and tunnel NYC nightlife in her former life.
This drastic change in priorities and lifestyle is neither one I planned nor the path of every nursing woman. Nursing mothers are still individuals and not all of us love it in the same way or, at times, even at all. We can all nurse our babies for a variety of different reasons and don't always do so without looking at the clock. Nursing for me was sometimes a mission and a war cry, "I know what I am doing! I can make choices that may not line up with the vast majority of you, but I know what my family needs because I have managed the impossible, meeting my kids' needs!"
Contrary to what you might think, I don't think nursing, and especially long term nursing, is for every mother and child. While often too quickly and misleadingly diagnosed, there are true circumstances in which nature doesn't always allow it. Sometimes babies themselves refuse to nurse before mothers are ready to wean them. Some mothers wouldn't be their best selves, had they and their partners made the same decisions we did about this and anything else for that matter. These families have their own unique and precious rituals that will stand out in their lives. They are no more, no less, a tight-knit loving family than ours, because they didn't nurse.
I am simply grateful that breastfeeding was in our cards. It was an unexpected gift our family has been fortunate to have unwrapped together. It made all of us overall very happy and, the memories that remain, will always be precious to us. Aging also enhances the good memories more profoundly and makes the challenges all the more too easy to forget. And so there it is. Breastfeeding was a wonderful part of the story we as a family have written together, will remember, find a sense of humor over and will always, always treasure.


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HORSESHOE BEND — Nicholas L. Garshelis, 33, was spotted driving a 2007 Ford F-350 pickup at a high rate of speed early Saturday when a Boise County deputy tried to pull him over on Idaho 55 south of Horseshoe Bend, Teresa Baker, spokeswoman for the Idaho State Police said.
Garshelis failed to stop and headed west on Pearl Road, which leads to a deserted mining town in Gem County. At that point, the deputy discontinued the pursuit.
A few minutes later, at about 1:28 a.m., Garshelis failed to make a curve, ran off the left shoulder of the road and overturned, Baker said. Garshelis died at the scene.
His passenger, Cayce M. Myers, 35, of Ada County was taken by air ambulance to St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise. Myers was listed in critical condition Saturday.
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The past month has been something in our country. Day by day up until the last hour we were played like a fine piano. It was Washington theatre at its best: A dance like no other.
The shutdown was the pingpong ball, the Senate the band, the House was the high school kids at the prom and the president was the firm principal of the high school. Love him or not, he stood firm.
We lost $24 billion as a nation in this mess. All I could think of was those beautiful national parks, all the workers, all the hotels, restaurants, souvenir shops, and airlines/car rental facilities and yet not one apology from anybody for this debacle.
I don't often thank Republican officials publicly, but credit should be given where credit is due. Senators Donnelly and Coats voted as any seasoned, rational leader would. Rep. Todd Young did as well.
He didn't get there easy either, but I have to say I respect the homework he did when he chose to vote with the majority. I remember seeing him late one night on the television; he looked exhausted. I called his office many times. So did a lot of people and I do believe he voted with the majority of his constituents. That is governance.
The minority has controlled for far too long at the expense of a reasoned approach to government. In a republic, government is necessary. It provides the obvious: governance; budget oversight; the creation and passage of bills and laws; and perhaps the most important thing, a sense of security for the people in the republic.
I have often disagreed with my elected officials, but rarely do I disrespect them. That only happens when no respect is shown from them or when they have blown any respect I have for them.
Congressman Lee Hamilton often voted on legislation I did not endorse but I always supported his position because I knew he had researched and thoughtfully come to a decision. Congressman Baron Hill and I definitely would disagree because he was a Blue Dog Democrat and I am as Yellow Dog as they come, but I always supported him because, again, I thought he worked hard and listened.
I was out to lunch on Rep. Young, because while his staff as always been polite and listened and visited the homeless shelter Haven House runs, I never really had any interchanges with him and he appeared to be untouchable. I want to thank him for taking the time to address the issues involved in this shutdown and ask that next time he take a more assertive leadership role to neutralize those who really don't believe in our government anyway.
In the early 1970s, I remember people angry and shouting at each other with words like: "if you don't like this country, go live somewhere that suits you better." You were ostracized if you practiced your constitutional right to assemble and if you dared to speak your mind you were considered a traitor.
Well, the shoe is on the other foot now, for those who do not love this country and who hate our government, I want to say: "There is another somewhere more suited to you ... love it or leave it!"
Whatever failings we see in our government it is our government and we should protect it fiercely. It is, after all, the nation that belongs to the world, and they wait with bated breath the decisions we make.
With that kind of awesome power comes an awesome responsibility. We must lead, govern, challenge our own people, and most of all support each other.
My father would often say when the election was over to put it aside. The president is the president and deserves that respect, and the same to be said for all elected officials as long as they respected their own offices.
This country is based on service, and that includes political service. Political service meant a lot at one time in this country and statesmen did as well. Growing up, my favorite movie was "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington."
That's pretty optimistic and idealistic, I know, but oh man, when Jimmy Stewart almost collapses from the filibuster, I am sobbing. That one man could believe so strongly and passionately and to fight so hard, that is what I thought the epitome of service was about — a regular citizen serving his country and fighting for it as hard as he could.
Maybe I watched too many movies, but because of that film I actually respected the filibuster process. Not now. Now I think of the cowardly efforts to hold a country hostage and I remember Stewart's face twisted in pain and his voice hoarse from speaking and I cry again for a lost innocence and a firm belief that we live in the best country in the world, and somehow we must once again remember that.
— Barbara Anderson, Jeffersonville, is executive director of Haven House Services Inc. Reach her at email@example.com
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Flower-filled gardens don't seem like quite the right place to discuss a topic as terrible as cancer. But amidst green foliage and quaint stone statues at her Utica nursery, Janet Hill speaks with surprising ease about her diagnosis.
Over time, she said, it has become easier to talk about her personal battle with breast cancer. Yet, with each word, one never gets the idea that Hill allowed the disease to change her positive outlook on life. Just as the birds chirped overhead, a spirit of hope rose in her unwavering voice.
"There was no doubt in my mind that it was going to be fine," Hill said.
And with that, the disease feared by so many lost a little bit of its darkness.
Hill is proof positive that a cancer diagnosis doesn't stop a person from fully living. Five years ago during a routine mammogram, the doctor spotted a lesion. In her no-nonsense way, the Illinois native knew what needed to be done. Get the cancer out, she thought, and the sooner, the better. Less than two weeks later, surgery had been scheduled.
"Everybody said get a second opinion. Well, I could see on his screen, I could see the mass," Hill said. "Why waste time getting a second opinion? Let's get this out of here. And that's what we did. We got it really quick."
Removing the stage 1 tumor was only half the battle. Chemotherapy soon followed to ensure the cancer wouldn't return. But there was a price to pay for the benefits of the strong medicine. Hill lost her energy. Even walking to the bathroom necessitated effort. Suddenly, the mother, wife and gardener required some assistance of her own.
That summer, Hill made a decision. She took people up on their offers to help, something she recommended that all cancer patients do. An old recliner was converted into a place of refuge as she took some time away from running the garden paradise.
Her two grown children returned home, each at a different time, to be with her during the chemo treatments. And her husband of 50-plus years, then-Courier-Journal columnist Bob Hill, always stayed close by her side.
"We just never ever believed for a second we wouldn't make 51 or 60," Bob Hill said.
While research may still be inconclusive on the overall effects of positive thinking on cancer patients, doctors credited much of Hill's success to her hopeful spirit.
Throughout her life, this attitude has withstood numerous tests. An automobile struck her. An airplane in which she was a passenger crashed. Survival became common for Hill. So did the positive attitude.
"Somebody was meaning I should survive… so I think God had some other reasons to keep me going," she said. "Go into it thinking this is going to be OK and it will be."
To her, there's no disputing the benefits of positive thinking. She called it a "must" alongside taking offers of help for anyone battling the disease.
"The doctor thought I came through it so well because I was physically active working here on the place all the time and I had a really positive attitude," Hill said. "Those two things combined, she thought, brought me through it really well."
Community support didn't hurt either. When her husband wrote of his departure from the newspaper business, Hill was naturally included.
"Janet Hill — my wife of 46 wonderful years — was recently diagnosed with breast cancer," Bob Hill said in his June 27, 2008, Courier-Journal column. "It was discovered very early. We've had excellent care and incredible support from family, friends and co-workers. Her prognosis is very good — but the cancer also gave new and sudden meaning to enjoying the rest of our lives."
That was that. Nothing somber or tragic were in his words, but only the truth of her illness delivered in Bob Hill's honest style.
With this announcement came well-wishes. Blankets and other gifts arrived at their old farmhouse from friends, family and even complete strangers. Two boxes have since been filled with all the cards and letters Hill received. Customers of the nursery still ask her how she's doing.
And the answer? After five years of being cancer-free, Hill's still doing great. Now in its 13th year, Hidden Hill Nursery continues to grow. Work around the grounds, something the girl from the country always loved, keeps her active.
Just this September, she celebrated her 70th birthday. Later this winter, the couple will journey to California and attend the Rose Bowl parade as a belated birthday present.
From the get-go, cancer never defined Hill. She wouldn't let it. Nor would she ever allow the disease to win. Much like a Farmer's Almanac, Bob Hill seemed to well be aware of this outcome when his wife's journey first started.
"We're going to be fine. We're going to be fine," he said to her on the day of her surgery five years ago.
"And, yep, we are," she said.
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Corsicana — A listing of meetings and events of interest from throughout Navarro County.
Sept. 6
The American Legion Auxiliary, Unit 22, 632 N. Beaton St., will hold its monthly meeting at 7 p.m. at the post. All members and prospective members are invited to attend. For further information call (903) 874-3938 after 2 p.m. or Like us on Facebook (American Legion Post 22 Johnson-Wiggins).
Sept. 7
Johnson-Wiggins American Legion Post 22 of Corsicana will host its Second Annual 9-11 Never Forget Memorial Service at 2 p.m. at the Post, 632 N. Beaton St. The memorial service will honor the victims of the attack on America and the American military service personnel who have died in the war against terrorism while other members of the service continue to fight. There will be a blood drive, the Veterans Tribute Motorcycle (www.veteranstributemotorcycle.com) will be on display, MeMaw's Misfits wil dance, there wil be a silent auction, several cook-off events, and vendor booths. For more information, contact the Legion at (903) 874-3938.
Sept. 8
The Kinsloe House hosts the September first Sunday luncheon on the second Sunday, due to the Labor Day holiday weekend, at the regular time, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The luncheon will consist of a spring fruit salad, entrée choices will be basil honey mustard chicken or French onion pork chop, creamy mashed potatoes and glazed garlic green beans, and chocolate heath trifle or French vanilla latte cupcake. This will be the first Sunday luncheon with our new caterer, Emily Hines. Please make your reservations and meet our new chef, and visit with friends.
Your reservations must be made by noon, Friday, Sept. 6 by calling the Kinsloe House at (903) 874-5791, giving your choices of menu and time of reservation or email your reservation and choices to email@example.com.
Sept. 9
Woodmen of the World Lodge 5 will have its meeting at 6 p.m. in the Lodge Hall at 200 W. Oak Lawn. All members, their families and guests are cordially invited.


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Are you scrambling to find tickets for the Ravens' playoff game this weekend in light of Ray Lewis' retirement announcement?
The Timonium Optimist Club is raffling off a pair of side-by-side playoff tickets tonight, Jan. 2 at the Green Turtle in Hunt Valley. The Green Turtle is located at 118 Shawan Road.
Ravens fans are invited to show up at 6 p.m. The drawing will take place around 8:30 p.m.
Are you ready for the good news? Only 500 raffle tickets are being printed. The better news? I'm being told that there are still close to 200 tickets left. The best news? The money raised from the fundraiser will benefit youth programs and scholarships for graduating high school seniors that are supported by the club.
Tickets are $5 and can be purchased at the Green Turtle tonight. Find out more, and other ways to enter here.
If the Ravens win this weekend, all of the names are placed back into the proverbial hat for a drawing next where the winner could take home $300. The original plan was to keep drawing for playoff tickets, although home field advantage proved too tall an order for beleaguered Baltimore.
The Timonium Optimists raffled off tickets to eight regular season games this year, culminating into the group's "biggest fundraiser," according to past president Bruce Robinson.
"The seats are in the upper level close to the center of the eastern end zone (Section 513, Row 14, Seats 1 and 2). The view of the field is good, plus the seats are on the Light Rail side of the stadium," according to the club's website.
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