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Myeloma Today: What is your professional background?
Matthew Robinson: After receiving my B.A. cum laude in Economics at Harvard University, I completed my MBA at London Business School. I then started my career as an investment banker in New York and London. Then I went to work for one of my clients, the Walt Disney Company, and stayed with them for five years. Ten years ago, I moved to Los Angeles to take a job with Warner Brothers, which is where I've worked ever since.
MT: How did you first learn about the International Myeloma Foundation?
MR: I met Susie Novis about three years ago. She is very passionate about the IMF mission of improving the quality of life of myeloma patients while working toward prevention and a cure. It was from her that first I learned about both the achievements and challenges of the myeloma community.
MT: When did you join the IMF Board of Directors?
MR: Susie approached me in the latter part of 2004. She was looking to diversify the Board by bringing on new Directors, and my international business experience was a logical fit with the Foundations continued global expansion. I am very pleased to be able to contribute my experience to the IMF Board of Directors, and to serve on the Board's Finance Committee and the ad hoc International Committee.
MT: How do you see the Foundations' priorities?
MR: We need to be where the need is. The IMF is committed to providing a broad range of patient and family services. We are here to help address the tangible needs of the myeloma community today, while striving toward the ultimate goal of a cure for this disease. The IMF's fundraising efforts support its myeloma research program, as well as the innovative Bank On A Cure® initiative. Clearly, the IMF's priorities are in the right place.
MT: What is your outlook for the IMF?
MR: It is very positive. With the continued expansion of the Foundation, we are striving to bring the IMF's programs and services to as many members of the myeloma community as possible. This is a very exciting growth period for the Foundation. And it's enormously rewarding for me to apply my business experience of the last 20 years to helping the IMF accomplish its goals and objectives.


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Rate increases and customer growth help bump profits at South Carolina Electric & Gas Co.'s parent by 7 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012 and by 8 percent for all of last year.
Also, SCANA Corp. increased the dividend on its common stock.
"We are optimistic about our growth in 2013 and look forward to another successful year as the economy in our service territory continues to show improvement," Jimmy Addison, chief financial officer, said in a statement.
Fourth quarter earnings were $105 million, or 79 cents a share. SCANA reported today. For the year, the company's profit was $420 million, or $3.20 a share.
The bulk of SCANA's profits are generated at SCE&G, where net income for 2012 increased 11 percent over 2011 to $352 million. The utility's fourth-quarter gain was $70 million, up about 8 percent from the year-earlier period.
SCE&G had about 670,000 electric customers and 323,000 natural gas customers at the end of 2012, year-over-year increases of 0.9 percent and 1.8 percent, respectively
Separately, Cayce-based SCANA said this week that it has raised the quarterly cash dividend on its common stock 2.5 percent to 50¾ cents a share. On annual basis, the payout will rise a nickel to $2.03.
The higher quarterly rate is payable April 1 to shareholders of record as of March 11.

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Many beautiful women have dominated the world of science fiction films over the years. Here's a look at some of them.
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An audit report released Thursday by State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli's office praised Orleans County Social Services for its timely and accurate processing of applications for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), but noted that there still was room for improvement.
Auditors said they found that 13 SNAP clients received duplicate payments – 27 of them, totaling $7,523.
"This was due to inadequate communication between social welfare examiners in two different county Social Services programs," the report noted.


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It was a night of smiles and sparkle as delegates competed for the individual crowns in the 2013 Miss Teen, Miss and Mrs. Pennsylvania International pageants inside the Jaffa Shrine Center auditorium Saturday evening.
Snagging the Miss Teen title was Miss Teen Hollidaysburg Ashlee Fagans, 17, who wore a flowing one-shoulder peach gown with crystal embellishment at the waist.
"I am feeling amazing right now," she said soon after she was crowned and given her sash. "It's unreal."
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Winners (from left to right) Rachel Syktich, Miss Pennsylvania; Marci DeGol McNair, Mrs. Pennsylvania; Ashlee Fagans, Miss Teen Pennsylvania; and Abigail Traxler, Junior Miss Pennsylvania, stand together after the 2013 Miss Teen, Miss and Mrs. Pennsylvania International pagent at the Jaffa Shrine Center on Saturday.
Ashlee is a senior at Hollidaysburg Area Senior High School. Her pageant platform is pediatric cancer.
She is hoping to raise money for Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, she said.
She was inspired to select her platform because of her cousin, Ryder McDermitt, 7, who was diagnosed as a toddler with adult leukemia, a type of cancer rarely found in a person under the age of 50.
Winning the Mrs. title was Mrs. Newtown, Marci Degol McNair, 35, who is a Hollidaysburg school district graduate.
She said she has friends who are pageant winners and winning meant a lot to her. She will get to help her platform, the Armed Forces Foundation, she said.
Miss DuBois Rachel Syktich, 23, won the Miss title.
"I'm feeling very blessed and grateful," she said, noting she could not have done it without her friends, family and fellow delegates.
Winners will go on to compete in the Miss Teen, Miss and Mrs. International pageants taking place in Chicago in July.
For the first time this year, a competition was held between 10-to-14 years old for the title of Miss Junior Teen Pennsylvania International. The youngest contestants competed through a written essay and the evening gown portion.
Abigail Traxler, 12, of Lewistown, won the title. This was her third pageant, but her first win, she said.
The Miss Teen pageant is open to 13-to-18-years-old; Miss, 19-to-29-year olds; and Mrs., 21-to-56-year olds.
The Miss Teen and Miss competed in interview, aerobic wear, fun fashion and evening gown. Those vying for the Mrs. title competed in all those categories except fun fashion.
For the first time this year, the Teen and Miss prize packages included $500 scholarships.
Becky Thoreson, Susan Botek, Jim Gregory, Kayla Rivera and Dawn Pellas served as judges.
The interview counts as half of the score for the Mrs. title, and 40 percent for the Miss and Miss Teen titles, said State Director Jodi Cessna, who celebrated her 10th years as director.
Mirror Staff Writer Amanda Gabeletto is at 949-7030.


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Water covers three-quarters of the globe and a staggering 80% of all life on Earth is found hidden beneath its waves. As the sea rolls across the planet it provides over half the oxygen we breathe, sustains billions of people with its resources and drives weather systems and natural flows of energy, which maintain life on Earth.
We need a healthy global ocean to survive. Yet our oceans are in crisis.
A healthy ocean has diverse ecosystems and robust habitats. But a myriad of human pressures – from overfishing to climate change – are causing ecosystems to collapse, the extinction of many marine species and the destruction of ocean habitats. Our own Pacific Ocean, one of the last relatively healthy ocean ecosystems, is being plundered at an alarming rate. Find out more
We need to change the way we fish and the way we protect our oceans. From the high seas to the supermarket shelf, Greenpeace works to replace destructive and illegal fishing practices with sustainable ones. We have a bold vision to end overfishing and establish a global network of marine reserves, which are vital to restore the health of our oceans. Find out more
For over thirty years Greenpeace has taken action to protect the gentle giants of the sea. Our work has helped end whaling in nearly every country and revived decimated whale populations. Yet whales are still not safe. Today we're campaigning to protect whales from the many dangers they face, from 'scientific' whaling to climate change. Find out more
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BURNHAM - Rande G. Jones, 60, of 206 Sixth Ave., Burnham, died at 6:30 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012, in Lewistown.
Born Dec. 27, 1951, in Columbus, Ohio, he was a son of the late Glen and Mary Jones. He is survived by his wife, Darlene (Rager) Jones, whom he married on June 3, 1978.
Also surviving are his son, Jason G.E. Jones and wife, Marci, and their daughter, Hannah, of Mechanicsburg, and a brother, Mike Jones and wife, Julie, of Columbus, Ohio.
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He was preceded in death by a brother, Theodore Jones, and a sister, Mary Ann Fannon.
Rande served in the United States Army during the Vietnam War. Following his service time, he joined the National Guard.
He was a retired locomotive engineer for Amtrak.
He enjoyed spending time with his family and especially his granddaughter. He also enjoyed running and was a sports enthusiast.
He was involved with the Gideon jail ministry. He was a former union representative for the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen.
He attended the Burnham United Methodist Church and Grace United Methodist Church.
A memorial service will be held in his memory at 11 a.m. Friday, Dec. 28, 2012, at Locust Grove Mennonite Church, with Pastors Max Zook and Kent Vanderbort officiating.
His family will receive friends from 9 a.m. until the time of the service Friday, at the church.
Burial will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, Dec. 28, 2012, at Juniata Memorial Park.
Should friends desire, memorial contributions may be made to, Stand Up To Cancer, File 1224, 1801 W Olympic Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91199.
Arrangements are under the care of Henderson Funeral Home Inc., 3812 W. Main St., Belleville.


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I was born and raised on the west side of Michigan in a town called Holland. I joined the United States Army in early 2008 where I attended Basic training and OCUT to become a Infantry Rifleman. After joining the Army I deployed to and stationed in Camp libery, Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom 2008-2009. After returning from the war I returned to Fort Benning, GA where I attended with 5 week long Sniper school and was award my certificate and sniper tab(which i wear proudly under my flap of my ACU uniform till this day. Shortly after attending sniper school I was sent to the promotion board and eventually was given the rank and title of Sergeant. I'm currently deployed in support of Operation New Dawn which has taken over OIF. I Am Married to my best friend and the most beautiful women of my dreams for over a year now and she has stuck with me through both deployements. Lets not forget that shes had to put up with me since middle school where we started off as best friends. I was born and raised a all detroit team fan, but after the age of 10 i was in ah of the detroit red wings when they won the back to back stanley cups in 97-98. Till this day hockey is in my blood and my favorite sport. The way i was raised was if the hockey games on and the wings are on, the football game gets shut off to watch the glorious winged wheel hand out ass whoopens. Which like I said i was born and its in my head that theres only one sport (HOCKEY) so after joining the service and 99% of the guys I'm around are all about football or basketball I was still confused and till this day I don't understand. LOL. For the rest of my days the red wings, Hockeytown, and the entire game of Hockey will have a place in my heart and will the be number one sport to be turned on in my house just as I was raised..... GOOOO RED WINGS
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The Velázquez painting of Mars in the Prado shows a disarmed, pensive warrior, lacking confidence: scattered armor suggests the loss of drive and assurance. It implies the limitations of military might, not its authority, by a vision matching the ruinous fate of Antony (or Othello and other Shakespearean generals). This sense of the futility of military honor links the painting with the other Velázquez study of the warlike temperament: the strange painting of "Il buffone don Juan de Austria"(above).
Velázquez's martial figures appear just as strangely among the Prado's more courtly paintings as that of the Bastard Don John in Shakespeare's Much Ado. For such a Spanish general of Anglophobic temperament to appear in an English Renaissance comedy is like Field Marshal Herman Göring joining the midnight party of George and Martha in Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.
Yet both artists use such a bizarre figure to similar ends. The Spanish court was obsessed by a need to balance pride by confronting its negative potentialities. That the clown's choice of the Don Juan role was favored by King Philip III shows his accurate sense that the tortured life of the illegitimate Don Juan warns more orthodox royalty to avoid the pathological personality which Shakespeare also evoked in another royal family: Richard of Gloucester, later Richard III. Courtesy of Museo Nacional Del Prado, Madrid: for educational use only.


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on February 7, 2013 - 12:01 AM
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By Jeffrey Freedman
Student loan debt, which topped $1 trillion last year, could be the source of this country's next financial crisis if changes are not made to current bankruptcy laws. After the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Press Release Protection Act (BAPCPA) took effect in 2005, consumers were left with virtually no options for managing private student loan debt.
Government student loans, funded by taxpayer money, are rightfully not dischargeable in bankruptcy, but they are a totally different animal from private loans. Government loans have lower interest rates, income-based repayment plans and options for deferment and forbearance. The interest on private student loans is frequently in the double digits, and income is not taken into consideration when repayment plans are set. Since BAPCPA, however, private loans have been treated the same as government loans.
New legislation proposed by Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., and Jack Reed, D-Ill., seeks to change that, returning to earlier policies in which student loans were dischargeable if the debtor had shown a meaningful effort to pay. Currently, medical bills and older taxes can be discharged in a bankruptcy, but unless a borrower can prove "extreme hardship" – which historically has been proven only in very narrow and rare circumstances – student loan debt remains.
At a time when student loan debt levels are second only to mortgage debt levels, it is essential the Fairness for Struggling Students Act be passed before defaults on private student loans reach crisis levels. One sign that the economy is headed to a crisis in this area is that while delinquencies on credit card debt sat at approximately 3.7 percent by the end of the third quarter of 2012 (the lowest since 1991), delinquencies on student loan debt climbed to 9.1 percent.
As a bankruptcy attorney, I have seen that even in the best economy, a segment of our population will be faced with overwhelming debts due to a job loss, divorce or medical crisis. We can still help today's debtors by developing plans to restructure their other debt, but with student loans taking a significant percentage of take-home pay, balancing a budget based on an average income is extremely difficult.
While I can't endorse the complete dissolution of student loans, I urge Congress to vote in favor of the Durbin-Whitehouse-Reed bill. I speak not only in the interest of debtors, but also in the interest of the overall economy. The last thing America needs is another financial disaster that mirrors the mortgage loan crisis.
Jeffrey Freedman is the founder of Jeffrey Freedman Attorneys, which has offices in Western New York and has assisted clients with bankruptcy filings for more than 30 years.


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|Getting to the starting point:
|Post bus from Urnäsch and Nesslau-Neu St. Johann to the Schwägalp
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|Aerial cableway from Kronberg, then train from Jakobsbad
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|May till October
People were indeed rather surprised when there was a near record-breaking 8 metres of snow on the trail just below the summit in April 1999. Mount Säntis is an unpredictable companion. An unspectacular 2500 metres high, due to its exposed location it nevertheless offers everything that is needed for the perfect alpine adventure.
Quite that high the Appenzell Alpine Trail does not however go, since we start on the 1350 metre high Schwägalp at the foot of Mount Säntis. But this most prominent peak of the Alpstein massif does dominate the two hour flower tour up the Kronberg. With brisk up and downs the trail first leads up to the Chammhaldenhütte, from where the view of the rock face of Mount Säntis is particularly impressive. Then it continues over charming moor and forest landscape across to the Schotzenälpli and up to Dorwees, from where it is only a short climb to get to the Kronberg.
A local story will have it that long ago a giant climbed over the Alpstein with a bag full of little houses. Of course, it was the peak of Mount Säntis that tore a hole in the bag. So the giant lost here a house and there a house from his bag, and that was how the Appenzell region got its typical scattered settlements.
Even today the region has lost none of its fairytale character, right up to the cable car ride from the Kronberg to Jakobsbad.
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The careful planning of a tour will ensure that you also derive the maximum pleasure and enjoyment from it. Please take the time to contact the local information centre and enquire about route and weather conditions before setting off. Your intended trail may be fully or partially closed, depending on the time of year and weather conditions.


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ENGLEWOOD � From illness to injuries, the Colorado Avalanche just can�t stay healthy early in this lockout-shortened season.
These days, there appears to be a revolving door into the training room.
Take Wednesday for instance: On the day Matt Hunwick returned to the ice from a torso injury, his partner on defense, Erik Johnson, was missing � out indefinitely after he suffered a head injury in a game against Phoenix earlier in the week.
That�s simply the way the season has gone for the struggling Avalanche, who have dropped three in a row heading into tonight�s game at Minnesota.
Coach Joe Sacco can�t explain the rash of injuries, and forward John Mitchell said he�s not seen anything like it.
The Avs already are missing captain Gabriel Landeskog (head) and defenseman Ryan Wilson (ankle), along with forward Steve Downie, who�s out for the season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament.
�This is unbelievable,� said Mitchell, who was at home for a 3-2 overtime loss to the Coyotes on Monday because of the flu. �Hopefully, these aren�t significant injuries and we can get over them relatively quickly � get this injury bug and whatever else it is out of the way.�
The loss of Johnson particularly stings since he was so dependable in front of young goaltender Semyon Varlamov. Johnson was injured on a hit against the Coyotes.
At least Johnson�s replacement was simple enough to find: Sacco will plug Hunwick into his place against the Wild. Hunwick just recently returned to the ice and quickly is getting back up to speed.
�Feel good,� he said after a more than hour-long practice Wednesday before the team flew to Minnesota.
As for how his team moves forward without Johnson, Sacco simply shrugged.
�Just like we�ve done with the previous guys,� he said. �There�s not much else to say. The situation is what it is.�
In addition to the return of Hunwick, the Avs also will have Mitchell on the ice. He said he�s fully over a case of the flu that was so bad he needed IV fluids.
�It came on so quick,� said Mitchell, who�s second on the team in goals with four. �I didn�t sleep at all. It was tough. I never want to miss a game. But at that point, I would�ve been completely useless as a hockey player.�
Although Matt Duchene skipped practice Wednesday for what the team described as a �maintenance day,� Sacco said the talented forward will be in the lineup. He�s been one of the team�s most productive players this season, scoring three goals and dishing out seven assists.
Colorado was banking on this type of season from Duchene, especially after an injury-marred campaign last year.
�It was a situation where (Duchene) left last season with a bad taste in his mouth,� said Sacco, who announced that Jean-Sebastien Giguere would start in goal against the Wild. �He didn�t like the way things ended up, and he vowed over the offseason to be better, to make more of a commitment. He�s done that.
�He�s pushing the pace. He�s got to push the pace. He�s got to be that type of player, and he�s been able to do that. We�re counting on him and leaning on him big time right now.�
Given all the injuries, Colorado certainly could use the offensive flair of Ryan O�Reilly, who is holding out because of a contract dispute. He led the team in points last season.
With O�Reilly�s status in limbo, the Avs are attempting to tune out all the rumors, even ones focusing on him being dealt.
Easier said than done, though.
�We hope that we can sign Ryan and get him back in the lineup,� Hunwick said. �He�s a homegrown guy. ... I�m sure the organization would love to have him. He loves playing here. Hopefully, things will work out. I guess that�s the business aspect of sports. It�s not the easiest.
�You try not to think about it for the most part.�
The same goes for all those ailments, too.
�You try to manage it as best as you can,� Hunwick said. �You just try to do the best you can.�


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|Radley Cramer
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B.S., Empire State College
|Radley Cramer became Director of the Marist College Fashion Program in early 2006, following a successful career in the fashion, home furnishing and cosmetics industries. His experience encompasses a vast range of industry-relevant positions ranging from creative product development, to providing marketing and advertising concepts to leading luxury brands and retailers in both the United States and Europe, to retail and e-business entrepreneurship. In addition to his administrative duties within the Marist Fashion Program, Professor Cramer serves as instructor for the Fashion Program's foundational Introduction to the Fashion Industry course, as director of various short term studies to Asia and Europe, and Producer of the annual Silver Needle Fashion Show and Awards. Professor Cramer also serves on the Board of Directors of the Arts of Fashion Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to the education and mentoring of international fashion design students.
|Fashion, travel and cultural studies.
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|Marist College Faculty of the Year Award for the School of Communication & the Arts, 2007-2008


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To provide relevant experiences for males that will ensure success academically, professionally and socially through development in the following areas:
-Social Justice Issues
-Community Involvement
-Cultural and spiritual Awareness
Social Engagement
BMI strives to make positive connections through volunteer opportunities, such as
reading to public school elementary students and engaging male students in activities
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Mid-term Pizza Study Break, which provides tutors during a study session where pizza is served; and
Real Talk…What Real Women Want in a Man, a convergence that allows free, safe and open discussions on relationships.
"Considering what this man has experienced, we thought he'd be a great speaker to address our young black men who have challenges of their own," said BMI director Michael Hutchinson. "Our motto is 'Think Justice,' and we want our students to learn how someone like Kwame Kilpatrick has fallen from grace and into the justice system, rebounds and publicly faces life's challenges. Our students read about him and want to learn from his mistakes as well as their own."


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on January 9, 2013 - 5:47 PM
A Buffalo man was sentenced Wednesday by Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny to 57 months in prison for selling prescription pills.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael McCabe said Deshawn McLorn distributed about 1,000 Oxycontin tablets at a location on Strauss Street in Buffalo in 2009 and 2010.
McLorn is the last of 34 defendants arrested and convicted as part of a long-term investigation into the illegal sale of prescription drugs in Buffalo and its eastern suburbs.
The sentencing is the result of an investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration, New York State Police and Buffalo, Cheektowaga, West Seneca and Lancaster police.


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DetailsChild-friendly restaurant close to Kinderland Aua Rara.
Important dates and events may be found on this link: www.calandagastro.ch
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on May 17, 2013 - 12:42 PM
JAMESTOWN – From a small front porch, on a warm, sunny day, one of Hamburg's own stood before a crowd of more than 2,000 and, once and for all, answered the question, who can claim him as its native son?
"It's great to be home," Chief Justice John G. Roberts told the crowd.
Roberts, who grew up outside Buffalo, attended schools in Orchard Park and later moved to Indiana, returned to his roots Friday to honor the last Supreme Court justice to call Western New York home.
In town for the 10th anniversary of the Robert H. Jackson Center, the nation's top judge gave the crowd of mostly students a brief history lesson on Jackson, the country lawyer turned legal giant turned war crimes prosecutor.
He spoke of Jackson's impact on the court, despite serving only 13 years, and of his sudden and then controversial decision to leave the court to serve as chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials after World War II.
"He understood the gravity of his assignment," Roberts said, "As he put it in his famous opening statement at Nuremberg, 'We must never forget that the record on which we judge these defendants is the record on which history will judge us.' "
Robert's speech, delivered 59 years to the day after Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark desegregation case that became part of Jackson's legacy, ranged from the serious to the humorous with more than a few self-deprecating references to himself and the court.
"At such a beautiful setting, on such a glorious day, it would surely be impossible for any speaker to detract from the occasion," Roberts said. "Well, do not underestimate me."
The chief judge didn't stop there.
"When a judge speaks in court, he almost always disappoints half of those present," Roberts told the gathering. "It is only on occasions such as this, outside court, that he has a fair chance of disappointing everyone."
His talk, filled from top to bottom with references to Western New York, focused on the differences between the court Jackson served on 60 years ago and the one Roberts now heads.
He spoke of the changes in the court's composition, most notably the addition of three women, and the ongoing rehabilitation of the U.S. Supreme Court Building, which was only six years old when Jackson took the bench in 1941.
At one point, Roberts took the crowd, which was 15-deep in spots, on a verbal tour of sorts, contrasting the life of justices then and now.
One of the few constants, he told the crowd, is the conference room where justices meet to vote on cases. He said the room remains as it was then but for one alteration – a portrait of Jackson now hanging on the wall, one of only four to adorn the room.
"His decisions reflect extraordinary insight," Roberts said. "They are and will continue to be lodestars of jurisprudence."
Roberts took a brief detour from his otherwise serious appraisal of Jackson's tenure to suggest that not all the changes that have taken place since his death in 1954 have been changes he would agree with.
A case in point, he said, is the court's public cafeteria, a place Jackson often frequented.
"What we have now are panini sandwiches and frozen yogurt," Roberts said, and "at steeply higher prices that would certainly have offended Justice Jackson's thrifty, Western New York sensibilities."
He also spoke of Jackson's love for the oral advocacy aspect of the law and his humble but sincere warnings to lawyers who appeared before the court: Don't waste time flattering the justices.
"He noted that we justices think well enough of ourselves already," Roberts said. "Now, I will have to leave it to others to decide whether that's changed since Justice Jackson's time."
Roberts' appearance at the Jackson Center is not the first by a Supreme Court justice.
When the center, located in an historic brick building just blocks from the city's downtown opened, then-Chief Justice William Rehnquist spoke at the event.
Rehnquist was once a law clerk to Jackson, just as Roberts clerked for Rehnquist.
It's a thread, a connection, that people in and around this Southern Tier city have come to appreciate.
"I was privileged to be here when Sandra Day O'Connor unveiled the original statue 17 years ago," Dudley Ericson of Lakewood said of the court's first female justice, "and I was here for William Rehnquist 10 years ago."
"It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity," said Randy Anderson of Jamestown. "When you get those chances, you gotta go."
For many of the students who attended – organizers say there were about 1,800 students from 24 area schools – it was a chance to witness history.
"It's definitely a historical moment," said Corrine Cardinale, a high school student from Bemus Point. "Justice Jackson was an amazing man who accomplished so many things."
Roberts arrived in Western New York on Thursday and was greeted by about 200 guests at a dinner at the Athenaeum Hotel on the grounds of Chautauqua Institution. Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny gave the opening remarks.
After his address Friday, Roberts appeared at a private luncheon of local judges and lawyers where U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara welcomed him.
"He's not aloof. He's not pretentious. He's just down to earth," said Arcara, who had met Roberts once before. "I've met a lot of judges at the higher levels, and several of them, believe me, are not people you want to go out and have a beer with. This guy, you could go out and have a beer with."
Jackson's grandchildren ended the ceremony by presenting Roberts a life-size bronze bust of Jackson.
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An Elkins man is being held on a $25,000 cash-only bond after he allegedly set fire to his residence.
The Elkins Police Department arrested Josue Mateo Bonilla, 29, of Elkins, Nov. 28 for first-degree arson following an incident during which he allegedly set fire to the trailer he was renting, along with a pile of clothes given to him by the woman with whom he was living.
According to the criminal complaint in the Randolph County Magistrate Clerk's Office, Patrolman B.D. Tice and Cpl. C.D. Cross were dispatched at approximately 8:45 p.m. to a trailer in Heavner Acres to investigate a disturbance. Upon arrival, Dave Ware, Bonilla's landlord, informed Cross and Tice that it appeared the trailer was on fire and that he had seen one of its occupants - Bonilla - carrying a pan of water outside to dump on the fire.
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Police entered the trailer, located Bonilla and performed a frisk search on him; upon conducting the search, they located a small pill container containing 2 mg of Clonazepam and a syringe in his left front pocket, police said.
When Tice asked Bonilla what items were burning behind the trailer, Bonilla replied, "My clothes that were given to me by (the alleged victim) as presents. I don't want any reminders; we're done," according to the complaint Tice submitted.
Ware showed the officers damages to the underpinning of the trailer that were allegedly caused by Bonilla "willfully and maliciously" setting fire to a pile of clothes, which contained a pair of women's underwear and an assortment of children's clothing. Ware said the fire spread from the clothes to the underpinning of the trailer, scorching and melting it, the report stated.
According to the complaint, police had issued a protective order against Bonilla following a domestic incident involving the female resident earlier in the day.
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Tale of Two Prospects
Thursday night I invited myself to the Triple A debut of Kyle Hendricks. He was neither exciting nor disappointing. He is a pair of blue jeans, not a tuxedo. He is a home cooked meal, not a night on the town. He is someone we could get used to.
The highly touted are said to have electric stuff and mound presence. Hendricks' repertoire is manually operated and he is not imposing. Maybe it works to his advantage that he strikes no fear. Subconsciously, maybe hitters' guards come down and, next thing they know, they've been TKO'd by the middleweight standing opposite them.
Hendricks is things like workmanlike, efficient and methodical. Unlike so many with perhaps livelier arms he appears in command of his arsenal and to pitch with a plan.
Thursday night he was the 18th man to bat in the game and the first to reach base when he drew a walk and later scored the game's first run. He almost robotically retired the first 12 Fresno hitters before a hit, a Mike Olt error and a barely nicked batsman resulted in the only unearned blemish against him in the run column.
As an aside, Hendricks' opposite number, the aptly named Mitch Lively, threw a quality start in defeat, and went about his business more a la Mark Fidrych than Kyle Hendricks. Most of the time he threw from what amounted to a stretch whereby, as he came set he'd pull his hands around behind his hip as though keeping the ball away from someone trying to grab it from him. But every once in a while he'd launch into a full-blown, old school windmill windup, rearing back with both arms sometimes once, sometimes twice or more before coming home. He was funner than Hendricks to watch but, as mentioned, he was also the losing pitcher when all was said and done.
Hendricks might last, like a good pair of boots.
And then there's Jake Arrieta.
He's listed only an inch taller than Hendricks but, pitching the game right after him, he seems bigger, maybe because he's heavier; stouter through the buns and thighs. On top of that he throws noticeably harder. Hendricks touched the low 90's; Arrieta sits at 94/95.
Where Hendricks looks and feels dependable, if unspectacular, just about anything might happen with Arrieta and just about everything has. In his two best I-Cub starts combined he's thrown 11 innings, allowing five hits, one run and fanning 20. In his three poorest, including last night, the totals are 12, 22, 13 (nine earned) and nine.
He breezed through the first last night with two swinging strikeouts. But he was gone before he retired anyone in the top of the 4th having allowed six hits, all singles, and walking as many (three) as he'd whiffed. Nobody hit anything hard off of him, he just stopped getting people out. He walked the pitcher leading off an inning, for chrissakes. How I hate when that happens. Kyle Hendricks would never do such a thing!
Arrieta reminds you of the old axiom about the kid with the million dollar arm and the ten cent head. So we'll see about him. If he pans out the Feldman deal really starts to glow. The upside is way high. The downside is way low. Somewhere in between, steadily, is Hendricks.
Two asides from last night's action: Denny McClain was on hand for some reason and they mingled him in with all of the birthday kids and civic hotshots tossing ceremonial first pitches. Ye gods, man! The poor old bastard, looking fat and mottled, wobbled out to the mound, drew in on the grass, and lollipopped one that barely managed to cover the remaining distance to the plate on the fly. Anyone there not old enough to remember when he was racking up 30 wins and 350+ innings per season must have had a hard time believing that this broken down shell was ever capable of such things.
The other thing I noticed as the players took the field and came to attention for the anthem was that the I-Cub outfielders numbered 2-5-3 from left to right. When's the last time you saw a team deploy an all-single digited outfield? Struck me as unusual...
"stouter through the buns and
"stouter through the buns and thighs"
makes me want to go all Tumblr on thee.
So basically, you have Nuke
So basically, you have Nuke LaLoosh and the kid Crash Davis wish he could have mentored?
Wittenmyer says Arrieta will
Wittenmyer says Arrieta will join the rotation for the rest of the season, probably during the upcoming homestand.
And because it is no longer
And because it is no longer possible for Jake Arrieta to accrue at least 86 days of MLB Service Time in 2013, he will NOT be eligible for salary arbitration as a "Super Two" post-2013.
arrieta's long had command
arrieta's long had command/repeatability issues. he's got the stuff...it can just come out of his arm different inning-to-inning/game-to-game. he loses his release point and angle seemingly randomly...constant self-correction in-game of technique and form.
he's got the stuff...he's got the ability...he needs some consistency in how he delivers it.
also, denny mclain shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a ballpark. his lack of class and respect far outweighs any crap people try to lay on pete rose.
Adam Greenberg has company...
Adam Greenberg has company....Thomas Neal to 60-day DL.
and darnell mcdonald called
and darnell mcdonald called from AAA...because the cubs have quit trying.
boscan back to AAA.
at least navarro is feeling better.
Yeah, hard to get excited
Yeah, hard to get excited about a 34-year old with a .653 OPS at AAA. I know we are closing in on the record for most players in a year or whatever, but I have to believe we have already set the record for most fringe outfielders in one season.
Bougesevic is rehabbing and I would assume would bump Darnell when he is ready. And Sweeney might be back in September depending on the how the recovery goes, but I haven't heard anything in a while.
Agreed all around. Hey! What
Agreed all around. Hey! What if he's the next Brian LaHair?!!
rays/longoria got uribe (LAD)
rays/longoria got uribe (LAD) out at 3rd with the hidden ball trick (set up on a throw around the field between pitches...3rd base coach + uribe didn't notice longoria had the ball and didn't get rid of it).
Video: http://wapc.mlb.com
s.feldman buyer's remorse in
s.feldman buyer's remorse in full effect.
he's slated to pitch monday (aug 12)...he last pitched aug 3rd. 9 days between starts to "clear his head."
5.70/1.32 era/whip in 6 games so far.
Whoops! Oh well...TheoJed got
Whoops! Oh well...TheoJed got 'er done. McFail revenge I hope.
One of the worst called
Damn is this 2 out 8th inning
Damn is this 2 out 8th inning rally fun to watch in St. Louis.
and d.barney helped with a 2
and d.barney helped with a 2 RBI double...and he needs to help more (.224/.229 ob%/slugging post-AS-break before today's 1-4 with a double).
also, welly 1-1 (HR) with 2 walks and a sac fly...he's getting it done recently.
Yes and yes! Boy it's really
Yes and yes! Boy it's really interesting to see when someone is as in a groove as Wellington is right now. The sport is so hard . . . and then you see these streaks where you know a guy is gonna give you a quality at bat. Fascinating. Confidence, talent, approach, magic .... Whatever.
add a HBP to welly's total..
add a HBP to welly's total...2nd in 2 games.
And then there is Castro. WOW
And then there is Castro. WOW was that a bad at-bat with Wellington on 3rd and one out in the ninth. Strikes 2 and 3 were closer to the Cards' dugout then his bat.
k.gregg hates cubs fans.
k.gregg hates cubs fans.
6-5...2 outs to go...c'mon gregg
and gregg gets the save. woos.
I think that is 13 losses in
I think that is 13 losses in last 17 games for the redbirds.
Also I can't help but wonder if they had a little regret about not offering much for Navarro as he sent that game winning missile into the right field corner. I hope the cubs keep him. Love that dude's game.
CARLITO: Dioner Navarrio is
CARLITO: Dioner Navarro is only 29 years old, so it really wouldn't be out of line for the Cubs to offer him a two or three year deal (with maybe a club option for the third year) to be the #1-B catcher to the #1-A guy (Welington Castillo). The Cubs have no catching prospects in the organization anywhere close to being MLB ready.
would it really be a good
would it really be a good idea to give a guy like him 3-4m a year, though?
he's making 1.75m coming off a .290/.305/.449 season (after not having a good season since 2008) and doubling that after this season wouldn't be hard. hell, i'd imagine a 2/8m contract wouldn't be too hard to find. he's not gotten his numbers off a hot month, he's been very consistent with his production.
as good as he's been all year, he'll still be quite lucky to get 250 PA this year (175 after today's game).
if they do decide to keep him i'd like the cubs to carry 3 catchers so they can actually fit him in at 1st/DH/PH when applicable/needed...if he can play 1st, that is...don't think he's ever played there. he's missed a few key PH spots this season because he's the only C left to do the job on the bench, which is a shame given the quality of his bat this season.
his lack of ball blocking quality aside...i wouldn't mind seeing him around at 3-4m a season...but if his bat is any indication, i'd like to see it in use more if they're going to pay him that much.
My bigger concern is one of
My bigger concern is one of timing. If the rebuilding is expected to start producing a team in 2-3 years, then yeah, no problem, sign him up at the right price. If it's going to take longer, I wouldn't bother.
Cubster -- Can you cast any
Cubster -- Can you cast any light on the surgery that Matt Guerrier is having? Patrick Mooney is calling it a "flexor mass injury". https://twitter.com/CSNMooney/status/3659608004242...
the surgery that Matt
the surgery that Matt Guerrier is having
The flexor mass (aka flexor-pronator muscle origin) refers to the origin of several tendons that are responsible for finger and wrist flexion and forearm rotation, that originate on the inside/medial side of the elbow. Specifically they attach to the medial epicondyle of the humerus (arm bone). Interestingly, the ulnar collateral ligament (UCL,Tommy John ligament when reconstructed) attaches very near and just under this attachment site, so often when they are doing flexor origin repair surgery they get as detailed/direct look at the UCL as can be obtained. If the UCL is damaged they will reconstruct it at the same time. I believe this is what Scott Baker had happen when his surgery was done last year. Here's the article I wrote back in November on this topic including some helpful diagrams of the anatomy of the UCL, Flexor-Pronator origin and the medial epicondyle.
Per my article, the flexor-pronator recovery is usually 6 months whereas the Tommy John surgery is typically felt to be longer at 12-18 months for recovery.
Guerrier should be good as new unless he goes all Chad Fox on us.
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Meh, I messed that up. Mets are in.
Cards and Giants can still tie though.
Kershaw gets hurt by his defense and gave up 2 more runs. Blach has 8 shutout innings.
Mets already won as did Cards.
tomorrow is gonna be helluva fun if Giants hold on. We're all rooting for a 3-way tie I presume.
good news is now 5 K's for Lester through 4 (in a quest for 200 for season). Bad news is he's already at 86 pitches.
be curious how long Maddon sticks with Lester to try and let offense get back into it and get him the win (4-2 as I type, was 4-0)
Fwiw, he needed 2.1 IP to cross 200 for season so he got that at least. He also needs 9 K's for 200K's on season and he has 4 through 3.
cubs score 2 runs thanks to predictable reds pitching and horrible CIN defense...cubs only down by 1 now. heyward even got a gift 2rbi double out of an easy popout. neat.
something named Ty Blach has outpitched Clayton Kershaw through 6 innings (1-0 Giants).
not that finishing 2nd place will matter much nor did this game, but have to think if Hendricks pitches well tomorrow, he could leapfrog Lester in Cy Young voting. Don't see anyway Scherzer doesn't win it regardless and it doesnt' look like Lester has any incentive clauses that matter. Also might give Cueto some votes.
Rather remarkable how many teams have really good 1-2 options this year.
Nats: Scherzer and Roark (and Strasburg was great before injuries)
Cubs: Lester and Hendricks (and Arrietta is still damn good just not as consistently lately)
pretty much what I'm gathering from this thread is that it doesn't matter who you play in 5-game series, but no one wants to have to deal with Cardinal fans if we end up losing.
I can respect that.
first game for lester giving up more than 2 runs since july 24th. hell of a run.
doh, yes...dunno what happened there. jake arrieta is all "bro wut?"
lester going for #20...cubs haven't had a LH (thanks jpep for the correction) 20 game winner since d.ellsworth in 1963.
fwiw, all the games are free on mlb.tv
Short rest for MadBum would be 2 days. WC game is Wed., Games 1 & 2 are Friday/Saturday.
A left-handed one...
J-Hey not finishing with an offensive onslaught.
If Geoff Blum could be a Playoff hero, there is hope still...
Giants scare me. I think you're wrong about Bumgarner, he would pitch on short rest for Game 2 and then full rest for Game 5. Cueto would go Game 1, then short rest in game 4. Add in some really tough outs in that lineup and I want nothing to do with them. With that rotation they can easily steal a series.
Cards are a tough matchup. The rivalry evens out their comparable lack of talent. And like someone said, they love HRs, which is how to beat the Cubs. The upside is that I would feel really good about Lester twice against STL.


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Cher, 67, revealed newly lightened locks on two different versions of the cover of her Closer to the Truth album, which is set for a Sept. 24 release.
Of the official version (above), she Tweeted, "Playboy Center -fold effects." Of another version (below), she wrote that it was too dark but a good image.
"Thought you'd find steps 2 Cover interesting," she added.
The star performer's latest collection of songs features writing by Timbaland and Pink.
Cher hasn't released an album since 2001's Living Proof.
Closer to the Truth has 11 songs on its standard version and 17 songs on its deluxe version, including "You Haven't Seen the Last of Me" from her film Burlesque. (You can see the cover of the deluxe version here.)
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But the actress, 23, who stars as Aria Montgomery on ABC Family's Pretty Little Liars, says that because of her strict Christian upbringing she used to be so sheltered she had to sneak around just to watch Britney Spears's "… Baby One More Time" video.
"I was like, 'Who is this really pretty girl in pigtails and why is her stomach showing? And what is she doing and why do I want to be like that?' " Hale tells Nylon magazine in its December/January issue.
Fast-forward more than a decade and Hale is now pursuing her own pop star dreams, but she's taking a different route than her one-time inspiration.
"It's absolutely terrifying," she says of recording her album, which she has said will be comprised of country songs. "You only get one album. You only get one single. You get one shot in music. But I have a million different dreams. Why can't I go out and try to achieve them all? Who are you to say I can't?"
Of her guitar-driven jams, she says, the music is "going to be me. It'll be raw. That's definitely the joy of songwriting."
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I cosplayed as Kanda from D. gray man at the last convention i went too. I'm getting a costum of one of the girls from Chaos Head next and I have just gone to kon in a japaneese dress and kimono before. I have a black kimono dress with these killer tall purple boots too. Go to a kon if you get a chance, so many cool costums out there.
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So glad that you're able to eat again! Clementines sounds so good. It's a very sweet nickname too :)ReplyDelete
You're so silly.ReplyDelete
I miss you. I hope you are feeling good enough to come out and play really soon. We ALL miss you.
Clementines are my all time favorite preggy food! Pregnant Erin could go through an entire crate unassisted in just a few days. :)ReplyDelete
You and your cravings! I remember the PJ breadsticks and especially celery.ReplyDelete
Clementine. I like that name!
You could always shorten it to Clem. That's good and neutral, you think?ReplyDelete
Glad you're feeling better! :)
Yummy I just love them! I have been away for a while and totally missed that you were sick! I am glad you are feeling better take care of yourself!ReplyDelete
I am glad you are feeling better! I am also looking forward to following your journey over the next 8 or so months. We just made our own little announcement - I am about seven weeks along! Thanks for the tip on the cute shirt!ReplyDelete
I have been here just not commenting much. Sometimes I get in a funk and just read. I'm so glad though you are feeling a little better and can eat...hang in there its just 9 months...ReplyDelete
Wow...so glad you're feeling better! My Zach could eat a whole box of clementines at once, he loves them so much!ReplyDelete
I wish I was craving clementines--I have a whole box of them at home and 2 sitting on my desk here at work. Instead, I'm craving beef, canned peaches, and cottage cheese. A friend asked me yesterday whether given the choice I would prefer a perfect fresh peach or the canned ones, and I have to say right now it's canned--weird craving, but at least it's fruit!ReplyDelete
I love the name Clementine, several friends' girlies have it. It would definitely make it to my list!ReplyDelete
Glad you're feeling better. I have been CRAVING cucumbers and olives. I literally cannot get enough. Keep yourself hydrated.ReplyDelete
I haven't even officially congratulated you yet, Steph. How exciting! Let me guess...you're hoping for a girl? :-)ReplyDelete
I'm so glad you're feeling better and actually craving something now.
With all of my kids I have craved tomatoes! It is just crazy. This time, I have craved vegetables in general, but especially tomatoes. My doctor really liked to hear it! I haven't been craving in a while, now, though.ReplyDelete
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15 ounces Eden Black Soybeans, 1 can, drained
2/3 cup organic rolled oats
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp fresh basil, finely chopped
1/4 cup green bell pepper, minced
1/2 cup onion, minced
1 tsp Eden Ume Plum Vinegar
1/2 cup organic cornmeal
1/2 cup Eden Safflower Oil, for deep-frying
Dipping Sauce
2 tsp Eden Shoyu Soy Sauce
2 Tbsp Eden Mirin
4 Tbsp water
3 Tbsp freshly grated daikon radishor red radish
Combine all ingredients except cornmeal and oil. Mash together between palms of hands or with a potato masher, and form into small, round croquettes. Roll each croquette in the cornmeal. Heat the oil in a large skillet. Fry croquettes for 2 minutes on all sides until golden, and drain on paper towels. These can also be made into patties, using less oil to fry on both sides.
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One of the first consequences of the 2008 Wall Street meltdown was the overnight disappearance of capital. At the time, many aircraft lenders still proclaimed that they were "ready to do deals," but often they lacked the financial horsepower to deliver on that promise.
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July 1, 2011
In the past couple of years, the recession has caused independent completion and refurbishment centers to compete for business the way mall shoppers vie for parking spaces in the week before Christmas.
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Cabin electronics options continue to expand and improve. At the National Business Aviation Association's annual convention last October, it seemed as though every other exhibit featured airborne high-speed Internet connectivity, e-mail access through BlackBerries or iPhones, wireless interfaces, Blu-ray players, high-definition screens or docks for MP3 players.
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When BJT's 2010 Buyers' Guide appeared a year ago, all signs suggested a shift toward an aviation insurance market characterized by increasing premiums, restricted coverage availability and more rigid underwriting criteria.
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One of the most heart-warming things I've ever seen occurred many years ago during a high school football game I was covering from the sidelines....
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Our Federal Government worrying about how to pay for something? You must be joking sir. As far as the Fed is concerned money grows on trees. Or in printing presses. Or comes out of someone else's pocket.
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Horse crap.
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Tim-may! Tim-may! He's our man. If he can't do it no one can!
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Sounds like he writes the script for what goes on with Charles Town City Council. The liberals like Poenessa, Slover and Bringetot waste our resources and do not improve the quality of our lifes. These Councilmen from NY, NC, Iowa and DC are what is wrong with our City, they never got to know it when they moved here and ran for Council right away. They keep trying to block growth, waste our resources and then at the last minute when they figure out it is going to pass, the hypocrites then vote for it so they cannot be accused on not voting for growth. No growthers and hypocrites, we don't need them in Charles Town. Now before you check that disagree button, how are the sidewalks in front of your house, how about your drinking water?
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2012: American Oglala Sioux activist and actor Russell Means, who appeared in numerous films, including "The Last of the Mohicans" and "Natural Born Killers," dies of esophageal cancer at age 72 in Porcupine, South Dakota. Means was noted for his libertarian political activism and became a prominent member of the American Indian Movement after joining the organization in 1968.
2010: The international space station sets the record (3,641 days) for the longest continuous human occupation of space. It had been continuously inhabited since Nov. 2, 2000.
2009: Comedian and TV personality Soupy Sales, best known for his local and network children's television show, "Lunch with Soupy Sales," dies of cancer at the age of 83 in The Bronx, New York.
2008: India launches Chandrayaan-1, its first unmanned lunar mission. The Moon Impact Probe would separate from the Chandrayaan orbiter on Nov. 14, 2008, and strike the moon's south pole in a controlled manner, making India the fourth country to place its flag on the moon.
1992: Actor Cleavon Little, perhaps best known for his role as Sheriff Bart in the 1974 Mel Brooks comedy "Blazing Saddles," dies of colorectal cancer at age 53 in Sherman Oaks, California. He also appeared in movies such as "Vanishing Point," "Greased Lightning," "FM," "Fletch Lives" and "Once Bitten."
1990: Actor Jonathan Lipnicki, best known for his childhood roles in films such as "Jerry Maguire," "Stuart Little," "The Little Vampire" and "Like Mike," is born in Westlake Village, California.
1982: The action thriller "First Blood," starring Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna and Brian Dennehy, premieres in theaters. The movie, which launched the "Rambo" series starring Stallone as the U.S. Army Special Forces Vietnam War veteran John Rambo, would top the North American box office for three weeks in a row and its $6.6 million opening weekend was the best October opening at the time.
1981: The United States Federal Labor Relations Authority votes to decertify the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization for its strike the previous August that was broken by the Reagan Administration.
1981: Aspartame artificial sweetener is approved for tabletop use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Its permitted uses included in candy, tablets, breakfast cereals, instant coffee and tea, gelatines, puddings, fillings, dairy-product toppings and as a flavor enhancer for chewing gum, among others. It had been first approved on July 26, 1974, but objections caused a stay on Dec. 5, 1975, and years of scrutiny followed. It would also be approved for use in carbonated beverages in 1983 before being approved for use in all foods in 1996. It would go on to be first sold under the brand name NutraSweet.
1976: Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs. The dye is still used in Canada.
1976: Bob Seger releases the album "Night Moves," his first with the Silver Bullet Band. The album hit No. 8 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart and featured three singles, two of which, "Night Moves" at No. 4 and "Mainstreet" at No. 24, made the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.
1975: The Soviet unmanned space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus. The orbiter was the first spacecraft to orbit Venus, while the lander (pictured) was the first to return images from the surface of another planet.
1973: Baseball player Ichiro Suzuki is born in Kasugai, Aichi, Japan. Originally a player in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball, Ichiro moved to the United States in 2001 to play in the MLB for the Seattle Mariners, with whom he spent 12 seasons before being traded to the New York Yankees during the 2012 season. The 10-time MLB All-Star won a Golden Glove Award in each of his first 10 seasons in the league and has established a number of batting records, including MLB's single-season record for hits with 262 and 10 consecutive 200-hit seasons, the longest streak by any player in MLB history. Between his career hits in Japan's and America's major leagues, he stands at third place all-time in top-flight hits, trailing only Pete Rose and Ty Cobb.
1969: "Led Zeppelin II" is released. The album, which featured the single "Whole Lotta Love," would become the band's first to hit No. 1 in the U.S., knocking The Beatles' "Abbey Road" twice from the top spot, where it remained for seven weeks.
1969: Filmmaker and actor Spike Jonze, whose work includes music videos, commercials, film and television, is born under the birth name Adam Spiegel in Rockville, Maryland. Jonze is best known for directing the movies "Being John Malkovich," "Adaptation," "Where the Wild Things Are" and "Her."
1968: Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission, safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times. Its 11-day Earth-orbital flight allowed the crew to check life-support, propulsion and control systems, clearing the way for the flight of Apollo 8 to orbit the moon just two months later.
1966: The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album, with "The Supremes A' Go-Go" knocking the Beatles' "Revolver" out of the top spot.
1964: French existentialist philosopher, writer and political activist Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but turns down the honor, saying that he always declined official honors and that "a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution." He was the first Nobel Laureate to voluntarily decline the prize.
1963: Figure skater Brian Boitano, the 1988 Olympic champion, the 1986 and 1988 World Champion, and the 1985-1988 U.S. National Champion, is born in Mountain View, California.
1962: Comedian and actor Bob Odenkirk, best known as the co-creator and co-star of the HBO sketch comedy series "Mr. Show with Bob and David" and for his roles on "Breaking Bad" and its spinoff "Better Call Saul," is born in Berwyn, Illinois.
1957: U.S. military personnel suffer their first casualties of the Vietnam War when 13 Americans are wounded in three terrorist bombings of military installations in Saigon.
1952: Actor Jeff Goldblum, known for his roles in "The Big Chill," "The Fly," "Jurassic Park" and "Independence Day," is born in the Pittsburgh suburb of West Homestead, Pennsylvania.
1946: Physician and writer Deepak Chopra, an advocate of mind/body spiritual healing who has written more than 70 books with 21 New York Times bestsellers, is born in New Delhi, British India.
1945: Argentine military officer and politician Juan Peron marries actress Eva Duarte. Peron would become president of Argentina in 1946, with Eva Peron, known as "Evita," as the country's first lady.
1943: Actress Catherine Deneuve, best known for movies like "Repulsion," "Belle de jour," "The Hunger" and "Indochine," is born Catherine Fabienne Dorléac in Paris, France. One of France's most renowned actresses, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1993 for her performance in "Indochine." She's seen here in 1995 at the Cannes Film Festival.
1942: Actress Annette Funicello, best known as one of the most popular "Mouseketeers" on "The Micky Mouse Club" and for movies in the "Beach Party" genre in the mid-1960s, is born in Utica, New York. She died on April 8, 2013, at age 70 of complications from multiple sclerosis.
1939: The first televised pro football game is telecast from New York, with the Brooklyn Dodgers defeating the Philadelphia Eagles 23-14 at Ebbets Field.
1938: Actor Christopher Lloyd, best known for his roles on the TV sitcom "Taxi" and in movies such as "Back to the Future," "The Addams Family" and "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?," is born in Stamford, Connecticut.
1936: Bobby Seale (left), the activist who co-founded the Black Panther Party with Huey P. Newton (right), is born in Dallas, Texas.
1934: In East Liverpool, Ohio, FBI agents and local law officers shoot and kill notorious bank robber Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd.
1926: A McGill University student, J. Gordon Whitehead, sucker punches magician Harry Houdini several times in the stomach backstage at the Princess Theater in Montreal. Houdini, who was known for being able to take a punch to his stomach, was not able tighten his stomach muscles to avoid serious injury. Although in serious pain and already suffering from appendicitis, Houdini continued to travel without seeking medical attention. He would die of peritonitis from a ruptured appendix nine days later, on Halloween.
1924: Toastmasters International, an organization that operates clubs worldwide for the purpose of helping members improve their communication, public speaking and leadership skills, is founded with Smedley Club Number 1 at the YMCA in Santa Ana, California.
1920: Writer and psychologist Timothy Leary, known for his advocacy of psychedelic drugs and for popularizing the catchphrase "turn on, tune in, drop out," is born in Springfield, Massachusetts. He died of prostate cancer at the age of 75 on May 31, 1996.
1917: Actress Joan Fontaine, best known for movies such as "Rebecca," "Suspicion," "The Constant Nymph," "Jane Eyre," "Ivy" and "Letter from an Unknown Woman," is born Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland in Tokyo, Japan. Fontaine won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Alfred Hitchcock's "Suspicion," making her and her older sister, Olivia de Havilland (Best Actress winner for 1946's "To Each His Own" and 1949's "The Heiress"), the only siblings to have won lead acting Oscars. She died at the age of 96 on Dec. 15, 2013.
1907: Hall of Fame baseball player Jimmie Foxx, the second player in Major League Baseball history to hit 500 career home runs, a three-time MVP and a triple crown winner in 1933, is born in Sudlersville, Maryland. He died on July 21, 1967, at age 59 after choking on a piece of food while dining out with his brother in Miami, Florida.
1906: French painter Paul Cézanne, whose work laid the foundations of the transition from late 19th century Impressionism to early 20th century Cubism, dies of pneumonia at age 67 in Aix-en-Provence, France.
1903: Actor and comedian Curly Howard (right), best known as a member of the slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges, is born under the birth name Jerome Lester Horwitz in Brooklyn, New York. He died of a massive cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 48 on Jan. 18, 1952.
1879: Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb. The bulb would last more than 13 hours before burning out.
1844: Millerites, followers of Baptist preacher William Miller, anticipate the end of the world in conjunction with Jesus Christ's return to the earth. When the prediction did not come true, the following day became known as the Great Disappointment.
1836: Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first president of the Republic of Texas. Houston, who had previously been the governor of Tennessee, would also be elected Texas governor in 1859, making him the only person in U.S. history to have been the governor of two different states.
1819: The first 15 miles of the Erie Canal from Rome, New York, to Utica, New York, opens with a trial trip and excursion by the canal boat The Chief Engineer with a contingent including New York Gov. DeWitt Clinton, state officials and 70 or so guests.
1811: Pianist and composer Franz Liszt, who became renowned in Europe during the 19th century for his virtuosic piano skills, is born in the village of Doborján in the Kingdom of Hungary.
1797: More than 3,000 feet above Paris, André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump, riding in a gondola underneath a silk parachute. Garnerin's parachute collapsed to resemble a closed umbrella while a balloon carried him upward. Once Garnerin severed the balloon from his gondola, the parachute opened and carried him to the ground.
1746: The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter. The school's initial enrollment totaled 10 young men, who met for classes in the Rev. Jonathan Dickinson's parlor in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
1734: American pioneer, explorer, and frontiersman Daniel Boone, whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States, is born in Pennsylvania, near what today is the city of Reading. Boone is most famous for his exploration and settlement of what is now Kentucky.
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When you compare ice-time numbers to the previous seven seasons of his NHL career, Thomas Vanek has seen a huge bump in his playing time.
When you compare them to the elite forwards in the NHL, Vanek isn't necessarily getting the kind of time you would expect. But Buffalo Sabres coach Lindy Ruff, who already has expanded his star's use in the first quarter of the season, is really starting to ride his red-hot winger.
Vanek played a season-high 23 minutes, 56 seconds in Thursday's shootout win over Montreal – his most ice time since Jan. 11, 2011 – and scored two third-period goals to tie the game. That came two nights after Vanek played 20:15 in a loss at Ottawa.
Vanek had not played more than 20 minutes in back-to-back games since December 2008. Last year, in fact, his ice time was over 19 minutes just once in the final 32 games as he was clearly battling a string of injuries.
If Vanek hits the 20-minute mark in tonight's game against the New York Islanders in Nassau Coliseum, it will mark the first time he has done that in three straight since October 2005. Back then, he was in games 3-4-5 of his career. Now, he's a 29-year-old veteran leading the NHL in goals (10) and points (21).
"I've always said I'm happy with what I get," Vanek said this week. "My ice time has been fine. I'm not going to demand more. You take whatever they give you and you go out there."
Early in his career, "when I got 12-14 minutes, you take those and make the most of it. Now if it's 22, then you deal with 22. Our line is getting plenty of ice time, plenty of chances. By upping the ice, it doesn't always mean more production."
Vanek has never averaged more than 17:21 per game for an entire season and his most even-strength time has been 14:01 (both figures came in 2010-11). So this year's numbers of 19:47 and 15:02, respectively, are quite a boost.
Still, they don't rate all that highly compared to other big-name players. Vanek is just 42nd in total ice time among NHL forwards and only 41st in even-strength time.
New Jersey's Ilya Kovalchuk is a runaway leader at 26:02 (no one else is over 21:52), and 35 others average at least 20.
Game situations often dictate ice time and there was quite an uproar after Sunday's loss to Florida when Vanek's 19:15 was nearly two minutes less than 35-year-old Jochen Hecht's 21:08; Hecht doesn't have a goal in 11 games. Ruff is in a situation where he's getting little scoring outside of his top line of Vanek, Cody Hodgson and Jason Pominville, so he knows Vanek's ice time needs to be higher than it's been in the past.
"There's no optimal amount," Ruff said. "I've tried really hard to put them in some situations that would really be to their advantage. I think that line has done a helluva job."
The difference in some cases with Vanek's ice time is the fact he has rarely killed penalties in his career. But Ruff is even trying to edge up that part of his game. Vanek totaled just 50 seconds of PK time the first five games this year, but has totaled 2:43 in his last four.
Still, there are inherent risks to more penalty-killing work. Vanek is pretty fearless and wouldn't be adverse to stepping in front of a shot while killing. That, of course, is a big injury risk.
And the Sabres have to be concerned about the beating he's taking in front of the net, especially on the power play. There were at least three blatant cross-checks to the back Vanek took Thursday night that were not called against the Canadiens, even as he was flattened on the play.
One issue about penalty killing is that Pominville and Hodgson do it regularly. So Vanek often needs to get ice time with other players immediately after Buffalo is short-handed while his linemates rest from work on that unit.
"I've been trying to stick him on right wing or left wing with another line right after a penalty kill to get him that extra shift," Ruff said.
"Maybe 5-6 years ago, I was pressing more to get on it," Vanek said. "But Lindy has been using me the shift after if I'm not PKing with a different line. It's not something I'm overly concerned about."
One thing that's clear is Vanek and Ruff are concerned about finding a point of diminishing returns, where Vanek's increased ice time leads to a sudden decrease in production.
"You've got to be careful," Vanek said. "There's a lot of games. If you overplay, you can get injured easier. There's times you'll ramp it up to using three lines and use some guys more often. Overall, I still like the idea of having four lines that can play."
"Part of being dynamic as a line is they've had real good energy and their shifts have stayed short," Ruff said. "They haven't got caught on the ice very many times. They make great plays and they still look fresh."
After canceling their scheduled practice in First Niagara Center, the Sabres left Buffalo on Friday morning in advance of the snowy weather and worked out for about an hour in the afternoon at the Coliseum. Defenseman Adam Pardy has been returned to Rochester on loan after Christian Ehrhoff came back into the lineup Thursday following a one-game absence.
Andrej Sekera is expected to return to the lineup tonight, meaning one of the six defensemen who played in the Montreal game could sit.
Another option would be for the Sabres to dress seven and use T.J. Brennan mostly as a power-play specialist. Patrick Kaleta (neck) also practiced fully and has been cleared to play.
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Great post Jane, thank you for sharing! I've checked out the site from Boundless and also the books they share and I'm very impressed.
Not to dash hopes, but the quoted response reads like this to me:
- Is it really free, and how do you make money?
- Yes, it is, and we do not. We hope to at some point by doing something you will pay us for.
I've never been a fan of freemium models, but I'm hopeful they'll work something else out, such as contract writing, adding on chapters as custom work for individual institutions' needs. Also, they might do well to partner with an on-demand printing service and make a little profit from those schools who need print materials.
Found my answer and withdrew my comment.