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Team GeoBlast
Joined: 29 Dec 2007
Posts: 14
Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 12:30 am
Post subject: National Parks and Recreation Geocache Seminar in St Paul
Aloha Everyone,
You may or may not remember me, but I go by the Geocaching moniker of Team GeoBlast and I am from Honolulu Hawaii. With the invaluable assistance of some very talented local Minnesota Geocachers I put together anl event in downtown Minnesota a few years ago called The Great Race. I am confident in saying that everyone had a great time and enjoyed the creative hides, human caches, and most of all the camaraderie of like minded individuals getting together in the dead of winter for some outdoor fun.
Last February, I presented Geocaching in front of a very large group of Park and Recreation Professionals at the NRPA (National Park and Recreation Association) in Salt Lake City Utah. The feedback was amazing and they have requested a more involved program in St. Paul in 2010.
In my own evaluation and ignoring all of the the very generous accolades, we could have done in better in Salt Lake City. We could have actually had people with a GPS in their hands Geocaching. This is where you come in Minnesota Geocachers! I would like to put together a Geocache hunt to end all Geocache hunts in St Paul this October 2010. If we could hold an event that paired local Geocahers with people who influence park and recreation programs all over the US, we could spread the wonderful world of Geocaching to INFLUENCERS, it would be a huge jump for our mutual pastime.
I'm looking to put together a committee of Minnesota's best Geocachers and blow our group of new cachers away.
It's early and I am just trying to access interest. Please respond here or to me personally at
if you would like to help out.
Mahalo and Best Regards,
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King Boreas
Joined: 16 Dec 2002
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Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 2:01 am
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What date(s) in October?
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Boreal Walker
Joined: 14 Aug 2008
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Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 6:14 am
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This sounds interesting. It is a ways into the future, but if I am not working on that date I would be glad to help out.
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Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 10:50 am
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I too am interested but need dates. Turkey and pheasant hunting seasons are in October.
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Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 2:02 pm
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I'd be glad to help if I can. I don't yet know what October will bring with work.
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Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 3:25 pm
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I am also intrested but need dates also, that is the bussiest time at work makeing the turkey loads for the hunters.
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Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 3:31 pm
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We would be willing to help, too. Just need to know the dates.
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Team GeoBlast
Joined: 29 Dec 2007
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Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 4:55 pm
Post subject: Re: National Parks and Recreation Geocache Seminar in St Pau
Hi Folks,
Pretty amazing that I could ramble on like that and forget to post the dates eh?
Here's the link to the convention:
As someone already mentioned, this is a ways off still and I am not even sure exactly what day we will present yet. It will more than likely be on 10/28 or 10/29.
Right now, I would like to start a conversation with some local cachers about this and get a feel for what you think. Maybe tap into a few local resources that we would never locate without your help.
The main objective after the seminar is to present Geocaching in a positive light and show off your great state a little too. Our attendees are Park and Recreation professionals from all over the country. These are folks that we want on our side. These are essentially the people that work with us or work against us in every community in the US.
Some things that we kicked around in our evaluation in Salt Lake:
1. Hold a CITO event and offer instructional assistance on local caches or temporary caches.
2. Place a special cache or series of caches near the convention center and offer the opportunity as an alternative to a happy hour.
3. Hold an event similar to the Great Race and pair local cachers with folks from all over.
We have submitted a request to make Geocaching an official convention activity in addition to our seminar and expect to hear back in the few months on that. If this is accepted, then we will have a lot more resources at our disposal, transportation for example. If this happens, we will probably work through a convention coordinator but we still feel pretty strongly that we need local cachers assistance and to tell the story of Geocaching in their own way.
This is just a piece of clay right now but I envision different levels of involvement depending desire and time available. I'm obviously in Hawaii and appreciate all the help I can get.
Any and all thoughts are welcome.
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Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 5:36 pm
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Sounds perfect for Halloween Hoopla, one of Minnesota's most popular events.
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King Boreas
Joined: 16 Dec 2002
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Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 5:56 pm
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bflentje wrote:
Sounds perfect for Halloween Hoopla, one of Minnesota's most popular events.
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Team GeoBlast
Joined: 29 Dec 2007
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Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 6:34 pm
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bflentje wrote:
Sounds perfect for Halloween Hoopla, one of Minnesota's most popular events.
Now, that sounds interesting. Can you tell me who is in charge of that event? Heh..they can all come as muggles!
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Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 7:07 pm
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Team GeoBlast wrote:
bflentje wrote:
Sounds perfect for Halloween Hoopla, one of Minnesota's most popular events.
Now, that sounds interesting. Can you tell me who is in charge of that event? Heh..they can all come as muggles!
The King has already spoken..
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Boreal Walker
Joined: 14 Aug 2008
Posts: 303
Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 12:05 am
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Marked the dates on my calendar. So far they are free. My two cents are that it is a good idea to pair up a cacher with a person from the convention. Take them out and show them what geocaching is all about, and stress that we like the environment.
Talking with some buddies of mine in the DNR their biggest complaint is the cacher trail that we tend to create and the misunderstanding that we leave garbage in the woods and ruin their WMA and WPA. I set them straight on the garbage, but there is a lot of misinformation out there.
I would say that the caches we take them to or direct them to should be "safe" and represent the best that we have to offer as far as stewards to the land. That is going to be the parks' biggest concern.
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Joined: 13 Apr 2006
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Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 8:11 am
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Ahhhh! My team placed in the Great Race! I've been waiting for you to pop up with something new! I'd enjoy being involved!
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Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 2:10 pm
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I would be willing to help with anything needed.
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Perhaps they found their perfect spokesman then. North broke the laws of a nation that he, as a United States Marine officer, swore to uphold. We're continually reminded that servicemembers are foremost loyal to the Constitution, not necessarily their commanding officers, particularly commanders-in-chief of a different political party. Though North claimed his actions in selling arms through an intermediary to an enemy of the nation—Iran, mind you—were known and authorized by his superiors, he lacked the moral code to refuse to carry out actions that benefitted a hostile nation and specifically broke a law passed by our Congress. He is a disgrace as both an officer and a public servant and anyone who looks up to him is a fool who believes liars.
Black Ops II may wish to flatter itself by aspiring to a realpolitik story in which you must make decisions that are right but not necessarily legal. After seeing how the original Black Ops handled its singleplayer campaign story, I have little confidence it can deliver anything that sophisticated. The first Black Ops was a noisy, facile, confusing stroll through a series of set pieces and quicktime events that reduced the intrigue of the Cold War's pivotal events to a couple of panels in a G.I. Joe comic book. If we're going to be peering into the future—into any future influenced by consultation with Oliver North, we'll likely get a self-serving acquittal of his conduct that sings directly from the GOP hymnal.
He is a celebrity. And his presence creates what every marketer wants. A "conversation." Or "buzz" in more mercenary terms. Obviously, I'm writing about North and Call of Duty and a controversy that has two sides, and the net effect may be to recruit partisans to the cause, or even opponents out of curiosity. Robert McNamara, the defense secretary in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, cameoed in the first Black Ops. I'll confess to a morbid interest in seeing him on the screen. When I phoned Dad about it, his response was not so much disgust as it was fascination that this man, who sent the best and the brightest of his generation to die in a war known by its planners to be pointless and unwinnable, would ever be in a video game.
We got here by expecting nothing of Call of Duty, by giving it a pass on offensive hype trailers like this, for World at War, and for the unbelievably stupid "F.A.G.S." Internet promotion for Modern Warfare 2. LOL so what, everyone said. Just a video game. Stop being so offended. And I bought into it a little, knowing that there are, basically, professional victims out there in a culture that is constantly seeking to be offended.
Still, in 2009 I lived with my grandfather—like North, a Marine colonel—helping him recover from a head injury and stroke. Before I moved in, I sold off my copy of Call of Duty: World at War. There was no way in hell he would ever see me playing that in his home. My grandfather was, literally, in a World War II first-person shooter in his youth—in one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific campaign. And it wasn't entertainment. And he was also in Korea, where he damn near died. If Activision really wants to impress me with its steely-eyed understanding of the lawless reality of war, it can try to interpret that in a video game.

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Even though its officially spring, cold weather is lingering and has north country vineyard owners wondering whether a winter full of prolonged deep freezes will affect their fall harvests.
Gary L. Davis, co-owner of Bella-Brooke Vineyard in Edwardsville, said some of the vines on his eight-acre vineyard suffered damage from the cold. But he said its nothing that cant be fixed with careful pruning.
Mr. Davis said the vines he grows are bred for this kind of climate.
Originally grown in Minnesota, the vines Mr. Davis purchased came from SUNY Fredonia, and he said they are meant to survive temperatures as low as minus 40.
When it gets to 30, 35 below, youre at natures mercy, he said.
Although he hasnt yet pruned the entire vineyard, Mr. Davis said he doesnt think the plants have suffered any irreparable damage.
These have been planted since 2008, he said. This was probably the coldest (year). Weve had 30 below before, once or twice, but not this cold for this length of time.
Philip J. Randazzo, owner of Clayton-based Coyote Moon Vineyards and president of the Thousand Islands-Seaway Wine Trail, said that below-freezing temperatures this winter could have caused a bud loss on vines up to 50 percent. The temperature at the vineyard dropped to a low this winter of minus 33.6 degrees on Jan. 22.
When temperatures drop below minus 30 degrees, buds of cold hardy grape varieties are affected, Mr. Randazzo said. As vines bud over the next two weeks, he will assess how many buds survived during the winter. His will adjust his strategy for pruning buds on the vines accordingly.
The winerys 18-acre vineyard produced about 30 tons of grapes last October, and Mr. Randazzo said he hopes to achieve similar results this harvest.
Were going to have some bud loss, and its going to take some special pruning this year to get more buds than normal to make up for the lost buds, he said. We still expect to have a normal harvest in the fall, but it might be lower than last year.
During an average year, vineyards are pruned down to 40 buds per plant in the spring so that grapes are grown the most effectively. But more buds might be left on the plants this season, depending on the percentage that survived.
Next week well be out doing samples and pruning to see which ones are alive and dead, Mr. Randazzo said. If half of the buds are dead, we might leave 80 buds per plant to make up for buds that were killed.
However, at the Cape Winery, launched in 2013 at Deerlick Farm in Cape Vincent, owner David B. Fralick isnt expecting any damage whatsoever. The proximity of the vineyard to Lake Ontario, which moderates cold weather, kept temperatures from dropping low enough to kill buds, he said. The lowest temperature recorded at the vineyard was minus 22 degrees in late December.
We went out and did a sampling of about 80 buds the other day, and for the varieties we would keep there was no loss that I could see, Mr. Fralick said. Some of the other vineyards had it worse, and I think Im lucky compared to the rest of the state. Were close enough to the lake that we didnt get hurt so bad. People in the Finger Lakes region got clobbered.
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Here is my Q&A with Pirates blogger Brian McElhinny of Raise the Jolly Roger to try and get a sense of how Pittsburgh fans feel about their team heading into tonight's game against the Mets:
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Vinny Cartiglia: Even though the Pirates are a couple of games below .500, they are only 3 games behind the Division leading Cardinals. Thus far, are Pirates fans happy with the play of the club? And, do they believe the team can finish above .500 for the first time since 1992?
Brian McElhinny: All things considered, I think fans have to be OK with where the Pirates are in the standings today. The NL Central has been terrible and the Bucs have been able to hang close despite facing a brutal schedule in the early part of the year. That said, the season has still been quite frustrating up to this point because of the absurd disparity between the Pirates' pitching and their offense. The pitching has been phenomenal (3rd in NL in runs allowed, 4th in ERA entering Sunday) and the offense has been beyond abysmal (last–by a lot–in almost every significant category). If they even had a league-average offense–or even slightly below average–they'd be above .500 and possibly in first place. Instead, it still seems like .500 will be difficult to accomplish unless the pitching can avoid regression and the offense can pick it up. That's possible but doesn't seem all that likely, and fans are especially wary after the Pirates built our hopes up for three months last year and then collapsed.
Vinny Cartiglia: There Pirates have some nice young talent on their club. Am I right to believe that fans are happy about what the future could hold for this team?
Brian McElhinny: You are, but only to a degree. Andrew McCutchen is as good as it gets, but besides him the Pirates really have nothing in terms of a bat they can really count on for years to come. Pedro Alvarez has shown flashes of brilliance, but hasn't been able to put it together for more than a few weeks at a time. Neil Walker has emerged as a good player, but he probably won't be anything more than a slightly-above average second baseman. On the mound, James McDonald is looking like a potential top-of-the-rotation guy this year and the Pirates' management has shown the ability to build a strong rotation and bullpen. The Bucs also have some top draft pick pitchers in the low minors (Gerrit Cole and Jameson Taillon) that have performed up to expectations so far, but they're going to need to find more hitters by the time those two reach Pittsburgh. There aren't many encouraging hitting prospects anywhere in the system, and the major league team doesn't have much beyond McCutchen.
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Cmdr. Sean Kearns, right, assumes command of USS Constitution from Cmdr. Matt Bonner.
Cmdr. Sean Kearns - a native of Hampden, Maine - is the new commander of the USS Constitution, also known as "Old Ironsides," with is still afloat in Boston harbor, and still serving after more than 215 years. Cmdr. Kearns speaks with Maine Things Considered host Tom Porter.
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It was a bittersweet night for the Watauga High men's and women's basketball teams on Saturday in Taylorsville.
The WHS women (7-6 overall; 2-1 Northwestern 3A/4A Conference) grabbed sole possession of third place in the NW3A/4A as they knocked off Alexander Central, 67-44. And a pair of sophomores turned in stellar efforts in the win.
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Dave Duncan wants a multi-year contract
Cardinals manager Tony LaRussa told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that pitching coach Dave Duncan is looking for a multi-year deal.
According to the report, La Russa expects his coaching staff to be finalized 'in a matter of days.'
Earlier this week, Duncan said this to the Post-Dispatch:
"The ideal situation would not be to coach in St. Louis for one more year then find another place for two more years," Duncan said. "The ideal situation would be to coach three years in the same place."
The word in baseball is that Duncan is 'dissatisfied with the Cardinals,' not just because of how they treated his son, Chris Duncan, but also in how they have 'valued his opinion.' Basically, Duncan wants more of a say in the organization's overall pitching philosophy, from top to bottom, kind of like Nolan Ryan is bringing to Texas, or what Leo Mazzone once had in Atlanta.
In talking to people in St. Louis, it sounds to me like Duncan is likely to return to the Cardinals, so long as they give him more money, a long-term commitment and more say in how the franchise prepares its pitchers before they get to the big leagues.
That said, despite Dan Warthen's strong relationships with Mike Pelfrey and Jon Niese, if a deal between the Cardinals and Duncan can't be worked out, the Mets next GM will have to seriously consider meeting Duncan's demands. His track record and respect around the game cannot be ignored by a team like the Mets, who's future, thanks to Citi Field, will have to always be built on home-grown pitching.


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GOUVERNEUR The closure of Kinney Nursing Home is on the horizon, but employees of the cash-strapped facility have not been kept in the loop about how soon it could happen.
The closure has been part of a reorganizational plan for health care in Gouverneur for some time, but St. Lawrence Health System is keeping mum on whether a closure plan for the facility has made it to the desk of the state Department of Health.
I can neither confirm nor deny that rumor, said Rebecca J. Faber, spokeswoman for St. Lawrence Health System, the parent organization of both Gouverneur Hospital which is affiliated with the nursing home and Canton-Potsdam Hospital, Potsdam.
Mrs. Faber declined to answer other questions about the nursing home, and a state Health Department spokesman was unable to confirm Tuesday whether a petition to close the nursing home had been filed.
St. Lawrence Health System officials have previously said an analysis of the nursing homes operations was being conducted.
It is not known whether that analysis has been concluded. The hospitals proposal last fall to the state Public Health and Health Planning Council about the reorganization of E.J. Noble Hospital into Gouverneur Hospital included its plan for the nursing home.
It is anticipated that Kinney Nursing Home will cease operations under a soon-to-be-submitted plan of closure, the proposal said. The nursing home is not a subject of this application.
With the approval of the Health Department and state Supreme Court, Gouverneur Hospital came into existence Jan. 1, taking over the financially troubled E.J. Noble Hospital. Kinney Nursing Home leases space from Gouverneur Hospital. The nursing home and Gouverneur Hospital have the same board of directors, but are separate organizations.
When Gouverneur Hospital began Jan. 1, it opened with about the same number of employees as E.J. Noble had, sharing a number of staff with the nursing home. The effect of the nursing homes closure on employees is unclear.
Kathy M. Tucker, vice president of Service Employees International Union Local 1199, which represents about 100 workers at Gouverneur Hospital, said she was anxious to hear the official word on the nursing homes future.
I have no idea how this will impact the work force, she said. It would be a big blow to this community.
The nursing home has 40 beds, but its census has been declining.
It would be a shame for the people who have lived at Kinney Nursing Home, Ms. Tucker said. Who knows where theyre going to end up?
Like E.J. Noble, Kinney Nursing Home has suffered crippling financial losses in recent years. The nursing home owed E.J. Noble $2.3 million as of Oct. 31, and its unaudited losses for the first 10 months of 2013 were $239,000.
As part of the hospitals reorganization, E.J. Noble purchased the assets of the nursing home in exchange for its debt. Gouverneur Hospital took over the assets of E.J. Noble.
The nursing home building, which is attached to Gouverneur Hospital, needed significant improvements, including a sprinkler system that was mandated to be in place by last year.
The nursing home was cited recently by the Health Department for having an inadequate sprinkler system.
According to the citation, in an interview with the maintenance director on Nov. 5, he stated the facility was only partially sprinklered. He stated he was aware complete sprinkler coverage was required as of August 2013, and the sprinkler project was currently on hold by administration. He stated a small area of the basement and the laundry room was sprinklered.
The citation continued, the administrator was interviewed and stated he was aware complete sprinkler coverage was required. He stated field work for the sprinkler system had started, and was then stopped, approximately two months ago. He stated the sprinkler project was very costly and disruptive to residents. At the time of the interview, he stated one-fifth of the sprinkler project was paid for, and he did not know when the project would be completed.
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Sep 6, 2011, 4:05 a.m.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Newly retired General David Petraeus is well aware that his swearing-in as the next director of the CIA, expected on Tuesday, might stoke concerns about the "militarization" of the U.S. spy agency.
It was one of the reasons the storied battlefield commander hung up his uniform last week after a 37-year career in the Army. It may also be why he appears so intent on fulfilling a pledge to leave his military entourage -- "braintrusts" as he calls them -- behind when he arrives at the CIA's Langley, Virginia, compound.
But even as he surrounds himself with civilian advisors, a process sources say is well under way, questions remain about the influence Petraeus might have on the CIA, both analytically and in its use of lethal force against al Qaeda.
Petraeus cannot be expected to divorce himself from a view shared at the highest levels of the U.S. military that the Afghan war is broadly trending in the right direction and that the Taliban's momentum has been reversed. The CIA has been more cautious in its assessment of the decade-old conflict than the military.
How Petraeus will reconcile those visions of the war effort he commanded until July, and reassure CIA analysts of his objectivity, could be one of the biggest challenges facing the Army general in this transition.
Then there are larger questions about the blurred lines between covert CIA operations and military ones in the battle against al Qaeda -- including the CIA's armed Predator drone campaign in Pakistan, a program which appears to have scored a major victory with an August 22 strike that killed al Qaeda's No. 2.
Petraeus attempted to address the issue head-on at his confirmation hearing in June, saying one of the reasons he was retiring from the military -- even though no law compelled him to do so -- was to allay concerns about the militarization of the CIA. He also said he would seek to represent the "Agency position" on matters including the war in Afghanistan.
"Beyond that, I have no plans to bring my military brain trust with me to the agency," Petraeus said at the time.
"There is no shortage of impressive individuals at the agency, and I look forward to interacting with them and populating my office with them."
"If confirmed, I will, in short, get out of my vehicle alone on the day that I report to Langley."
To that end, sources tell Reuters that a longtime CIA insider -- not one of Petraeus' "guys" -- has been named as his new chief of staff. One person familiar with the matter identified him as Rodney Snyder, who has previously worked on the White House national security staff. But U.S. officials would not immediately confirm that name.
A U.S. official close to the general said Petraeus remarked recently to a friend that he believed every member of the existing CIA leadership team was a "strong swimmer."
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CANTON The town, village and Waterfront Advisory Committee will have a public meeting Tuesday on pursuing feasibility studies for two pedestrian bridges to enhance the communitys trail system, make it easier to cross between two downtown island parks, and bring sewer and water lines to Maple Hill Properties.
The Canton Community Action Plan identified waterfront development as one of its first objectives. This is being done in fulfillment of that and the waterfront revitalization plan, Supervisor David T. Button said. This will move it from dream stage to planning stage.
One of the proposals is for a pedestrian walkway under the downtowns Route 11 bridge that would connect Heritage Park to Canton Island Park, which is also known as Willow Island.
If youve ever watched the way people cross, they do not go to either crosswalk, Canton Director of Economic Development Linda M. McQuinn said. Theyre always making a beeline for right across the road.
A bridge for walkers and bicyclists would make crossing safer and probably increase the use of both parks, she said.
A second pedestrian bridge would connect Bend In the River Park with Maple Hill Properties on Route 11.
In addition to connecting Maple Hill more to the rest of the village, the bridge might carry sewer and water pipes underneath it. Maple Hill is a 72-acre residential and commercial development in the village that does not have municipal water and sewer services. Bedrock has made the private installation of some utilities difficult and expensive.
I think we would see a lot more business development there, Ms. McQuinn said. They just dont have access to water and sewer.
The meeting will take place at 7 p.m. at the Best Western University Inn. Consultants Barton & Loguidice will make a presentation.
The emphasis really is to bring the project to the public, Ms. McQuinn said. If folks have ideas, wed like to hear those.
The Department of States Division of Coastal Resources provided the money to hire Barton & Loguidice to see whether the pedestrian bridges are feasible. If their work is favorable, the community will seek construction funding, likely through the state Department of Transportation.
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Jefferson County Sheriff John P. Burns is seeking to replace Dr. David F. Rosner as jail physician, according to an email that Mr. Burns said was sent to county administrators and legislators in confidence.
I never knew anything about this, Dr. Rosner said Monday afternoon. Its embarrassing to just be blindsided like this, but I just dont know why.
The email, which was included Friday with the agenda of the Board of Legislators Finance and Rules Committee meeting tonight, is brief and outlines complaints that Mr. Burns had with Dr. Rosners service.
I have had some issues as of late with Dr. Rosner such as not seeing inmates, not coming to the jail, and also referring inmates to other doctors outside of the jail. Dr. Rosner was hired for one to perform minor surgeries in the jail so we would not have to send inmates out this is not being done, the email reads in part.
This is a 100 percent surprise to me, said Dr. Rosner, who works for the county jail on a contract basis.
As a replacement for Dr. Rosner, Mr. Burns has recommended Dr. Collins F. Kellogg.
Dr. Kellogg is willing to take over as the jail Physician and oversee the nurses and P.A.s Physicians Assistants that we have in the jail, Mr. Burns wrote.
Mr. Burns said the content of the email concerned a personnel matter and should not have been released. Doing so violated Dr. Rosners employment rights, he said.
He said he received assurance from Deputy Administrator Michael E. Kaskan that the email would be kept private.
Mr. Kaskan said that the email was included in the agenda as evidence of the sheriffs recommendation and that it did not include any explicit request for confidentiality.
The sheriff does not have the authority to change the jail physician.
Only the board has the power to remove him, Mr. Kaskan said.
Mr. Burns said he thought the email was distributed with the agenda, which is a public document, so that the ultimate responsibility for the decision would rest with him.
I think that what they did was, they didnt want to be the bad guy, he said.
Mr. Burns said that he stands by the comments he made in his email but that he doesnt want to embarrass the guy.
Calling Dr. Rosner an excellent surgeon, Mr. Burns said that he was not happy with the work he was doing at the jail and that it was time for us to part ways.
Again calling the matter a personnel issue, Mr. Burns said the email never should have gone out to the public.
The Finance and Rules Committee will vote tonight on whether to recommend the resolution to the full board. The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. in the Board of Legislators chambers, 195 Arsenal St.
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Every spring the Professional Tennis Management program at Ferris State University hosts a world class tennis conference for students within the program and for the PTM alumni from around the world. The 2013 PTM Tennis Conference on April 5-6th was once again a showcase of why the PTM program at Ferris State is second to none and continues to be the leader in training students for outstanding careers in the tennis industry.
This year's event featured keynote speaker and tennis legend Roy Emerson. Roy Emerson is a former #1 player in the world, who won 12 Grand Slam singles titles and 16 Grand Slam men's doubles titles. He is the only male player to have won singles and doubles titles at all four Grand Slam tournaments. His 28 Grand Slam titles are an all-time record for a male player. His 12 Grand Slam singles titles stood as a men's record until 2000, when it was surpassed by Pete Sampras. He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1982.
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A Watertown man faces three years in state prison for trying to sell cocaine in the city in July.
Quintel E. Flowers, 26, whose last known address was 232 W. Main St., Apt. 51B, pleaded guilty to third-degree attempted criminal sale of a controlled substance as a result of one incident and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon as a result of a second. He also admitted violating probation.
He admitted that he tried to sell cocaine July 26 and that on Nov. 27 he possessed three daggers that it was illegal for him to have because he previously has been convicted of crimes. At the time, he was serving five years probation imposed in December 2011 for convictions on two counts of third-degree burglary for breaking into two Watertown buildings. He admitted violating probation by committing the new crimes.
He is expected to be sentenced Feb. 22 to three years in prison, followed by an additional two years of supervision upon his release.
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Daniel D. Renvill, 19, Bronx, pleaded guilty to third-degree attempted criminal possession of a controlled substance. He admitted that on Nov. 21 he possessed heroin with the intent to sell the drug. He was a passenger in a vehicle halted on Interstate 81 in the town of Ellisburg in which police said 50 packets of heroin were found. He is expected to be sentenced Feb. 22 to 1� years in prison, followed by two years of post-release supervision.
Tristan K. Wilson, 30, Bronx, admitted violating probation and was resentenced to a year in prison, with credit for an unspecified amount of time served, followed by a year of post-release supervision.
He was serving five years probation imposed in February for guilty pleas to two counts of fifth-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance, having been accused of selling cocaine within the county in December 2010. He admitted violating probation by not reporting to his probation officer. His supervision was to be transferred to New York City, but probation officials refused the transfer because they could not locate him. Also, he was charged with second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument in New York City.
Ryan J. Childers, 30, Carthage, admitted violating probation and was resentenced to 11 months in the Metro-Jefferson Public Safety Building, with credit for time served. He was sentenced to three years probation in October 2010 for a fourth-degree attempted -grand-larceny conviction, having admitted he tried to steal two long guns from his father. He admitted violating probation by continuing to use cocaine while under supervision.
Bridget A. Finley, 41, Copenhagen, formerly of Black River, pleaded guilty to fourth-degree attempted grand larceny. She admitted that from July 2010 to November 2010 she filed recertification forms containing false information with the Department of Social Services to obtain benefits. She is expected to be sentenced March 26 to three years probation and be ordered to pay $1,940 in restitution.
Mark D. Eastman, 43, of 126 N. Orchard St., Apt. 2, had his bail set by Judge Kim H. Martusewicz on a third-degree burglary charge at $30,000. Mr. Eastman was charged Thursday with breaking into Gold Star Deli, 343 Arsenal St., and stealing several items.
In setting bail, Judge Martusewicz noted that Mr. Eastman has two prior felony convictions. One of those is for attempted second-degree murder stemming from a 1999 fatal accident in Oswego County in which he was driving while intoxicated. He was released from prison in August on the charge.
He also served about 4� years in prison for second-degree burglary and attempted third-degree burglary convictions in 1991 in Jefferson County.
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A bill has been introduced in the state Senate to delay the closure of inpatient psychiatric facilities across the state until the spring of 2015.
A sponsor for a companion bill in the Assembly has not come forward yet, according to a spokesperson from the office of state Sen. Patricia A. Ritchie, R-Heuvelton, though attempts are being made to find one. Mrs. Ritchie is a co-sponsor of the bill with Deputy Senate Leader Thomas W. Libous, R-Binghamton.
The one-house bill delays implementation of plans by the state Office of Mental Health to consolidate inpatient psychiatric services. Under the plan, adult inpatient beds will be moved from the St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center, Ogdensburg, in state fiscal year 2014-2015 to Hutchings Psychiatric Center in Syracuse. Childrens inpatient beds currently at St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center will move to Mohawk Valley Psychiatric Center, Utica, in state fiscal year 2015-2016.
According to the bill, The office of mental health is authorized, on and after April 1, 2015, to close, consolidate, reduce, transfer or otherwise redesign services of hospitals, other facilities, and programs operated by the office of mental health.
The bill cites the loss of inpatient services for people dealing with severe mental illnesses and the lack of a detailed plan for community support services to fill the gap as the main reasons for the moratorium.
A news release from Mrs. Ritchies office said the bill is designed to give state leaders more time to ensure New Yorkers receive quality mental health care in the community as inpatient facilities are consolidated from 24 centers currently to 15 in the future.
The changes envisioned by the state are too drastic, and they come too quickly for communities and the mental health care system to adjust, Mrs. Ritchie said in the release.
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Joel Hodgson, the genius creator of the Peabody Award-winning Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K) and Cinematic Titanic, comes to the Alamo Drafthouse for an undeniably special engagement -- his brand new one-man show: "Riffing Myself."
The mastermind behind movie riffing opens up about life and the origins of his comedic career, beginning with a quest to find the ultimate ventriloquist dummy.
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Even the Pope has a few pet peeves. Mostly because he's human. No one likes every person, place or thing that comes their way.
The Pope may not like sardines. Me, I don't like broccoli, armadillos or semicolons.
Personal peeves can range from bad manners to cold grits to high opera.
But certain dislikes are widely held. At least among Americans. Recently, Raleigh, N.C.-based Public Policy Polling set out to find out how well people liked the 435 Representatives and 100 Senators that comprise the U.S. Congress.
Since members of Congress are always on TV talking about how hard they work and how good they look and how wonderful they are, they must think they are a swell bunch. According to Public Policy Polling (PPP), they couldn't be more wrong. Or more disliked.
The latest survey by PPP showed that only 9 percent of Americans had a favorable opinion of Congress.
How bad is that? Consider this: According to the poll, Americans have a higher opinion of cockroaches, root canals, used car salesmen and even head lice.
The survey was developed from a telephone poll taken January 3-6. The poll was not paid for or authorized by a political party or campaign, according to PPP officials.
"We all know Congress is unpopular," said Dean Debnam, President of Public Policy Polling. "But the fact that voters like it even less than cockroaches, head lice and Genghis Khan really shows how far its esteem has fallen with the American public over the last few weeks."
Congressional favorability was measured against 26 things. The findings were only surprising for the woefully misinformed. Here are some of the results showing how well Congress fared when compared to other things:
People preferred head lice to Congress by a rating of 67 to 19.
Brussels sprouts outscored our lawmakers by a 69 to 23 score.
Colonoscopies won by a 58 to 31 margin.
Speaking of medial procedures, root canals were voted more popular than Congress by a 56 to 32 margin.
Used car salespersons have always ranked low in popularity polls, especially the sellers who scream on late night TV. They outscored Congress 57 to 32.
Citizens from coast to coast complain about bad traffic. Guess what? Traffic jams are more popular than Congress by a 56 to 34 margin.
Even France outscored Congress, 46 to 37. Ooh, la-la.
To be fair, some of the contests were squeakers. Donald Trump barely edged out Congress by a 44 to 42 margin.
The universally-reviled cockroach was voted more favorable than Congress, but only by 2 points, at 45 to 43. The roaches probably won because they aren't seen as often.
You may be wondering just who the 9 percent are that actually have a favorable opinion of Congress. PPP officials said that in the latest poll, women viewed Congress more favorability than men and Democrats considered Congress more likeable than Republicans.
By the way, the group with the most favorable view of Congress—with a 35 percent favorable rating—described themselves as "very liberal." Draw your own conclusions.
And to Congress' credit, they did score more favorability that some things they were measured against.
Congress was voted more popular than telemarketers, the Kardashians, the Ebola virus and meth labs.
Must make their mamas proud.
Best of all, Congress was actually voted more popular than gonorrhea.
Can't wait to see a campaign poster saying: "Vote for me. I'm better than VD."
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Confluence 4.1 Release Notes
13 December 2011
With great pleasure, Atlassian presents Confluence 4.1. With numerous improvements for content presentation, it delivers the extraordinary new Autoconvert feature, along with attractive new image effects, find and replace, new icons, improved translation features and global PDF stylesheets.
Highlights of Confluence 4.1:
Thank you for your feedback:
More than 35 requests implemented
Over 185 votes fulfilled
- Read the Upgrade Notes for important information about this release.
- See the full list of issues resolved in this release.
Highlights of Confluence 4.1
Autoconvert for Pasted Links
When you paste URLs into Confluence, Autoconvert will now analyse what you are pasting and automatically convert it into something that will display well in Confluence. Examples include YouTube videos, JIRA issue queries and Google Maps; many other content types are supported.
YouTube URLs
Create the widget below with Autoconvert, simply by pasting the YouTube URL onto the page.
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JIRA Issues URLs
Create the JIRA list below with Autoconvert, simply by pasting the JIRA query URL onto the page.
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Google Maps URLs
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Other supported content types:
- Confluence page, blog, comment, status, user links,
- Shared screenshot links from Skitch,
- Google search results links,
- Confluence shortcut links: when pasting these, just the name of the link content (minus the URL prefix) will be used as the link display name.
Image effects
Enhance the presentation of your images and screenshots with slick new border effects.
Click Effects to apply taped style, instant camera style, drop shadow style, captions and more.
See the documentation for more details.
Quick find and replace
Updating your wiki content is now easier with the new find and replace feature. Using familiar conventions, automatically find and replace specific text strings within your Confluence page or blog. It's also accessible with a keyboard shortcut Ctrl-F (Windows) or Cmd-F (Mac OS).
See the documentation for more details.
Follow Your Network On the Dashboard
See recent updates from just the people you follow in Confluence, with the new network tab on the Confluence dashboard. With this, following a few people in different parts of your company to make a quick filter of the main events happening outside your immediate team.
Space attachments macro
The new Space Attachments macro allows you to show all the attachments in the current space on your page. You can even filter them by file extension. Previously, you've only been able to show the attachments on the current page, using the Attachments macro.
Simply type {space-attachments} into a page to use it.
Global PDF stylesheets
Set your custom PDF stylesheets at the global level, as with custom layouts. When there is no specific individual space stylesheet defined, PDF space exports will fall back to this global stylesheet. This means that users won't have to re-apply the same stylesheet to all their individual spaces. This is an efficient way of achieving one look and feel.
See the documentation for more details.
Use any character in page titles
Confluence now allows "special" characters in your page titles, such as semicolons and exclamation marks. This allows more descriptive page names and generally removes restrictions when creating page titles and naming your content.
New translation feature
For those customers working on creating translations of the Confluence user interface, the 4.1 release has a new feature that will help. After opening the Confluence dashboard, you can simply add this text to the end of your Confluence URL, like so:
Then press Enter.
This will then cause each element of the user interface to display its special key name while Confluence is still in an interactive mode. This makes it easier to find the essential context for each key, which can then be searched on http://translations.atlassian.com where you can enter an appropriate translation for your custom language pack.
The key names are displayed with a "lightning bolt" graphic between elements of the names. For example, the buttons will show up with elements shown like so:
For the Browse menu, you can find its associated
system.space.menu key on http://translations.atlassian.com. When you use this new translation feature, you can see the full context of the user interface elements. By understanding where a feature appears on the interface, for example the Browse menu, you can write a more meaningful translation for your users.
To turn off the translation view, use this:
Other improvements
As always, we have made various small improvements to Confluence.
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- Favourites have been refined
You'll now see a newly named and cleaner Favourites tab in your personal space. Additionally, the list of favourites is now paginated and you can click the stars to remove favourites.
- Global plugin & macro timeout setting
There is now a globally configurable timeout setting. This will stop pages going into a permanent loading state. In the past, this could lead to instability issues.
- New JSON RPC
Confluence now has a JSON RPC library. This offers a way for Javascript developers to more easily access the Confluence API. For more details, see the documentation.
Editor improvements
- Copy and paste table improvements
You can now copy and paste multiple table rows and entire tables. There are also new keyboard shortcuts. You can now use Alt+Up Arrow or Alt+Down Arrow to add a row above or below the current row.
- Copy and paste list improvements
If you copy and paste list items from one list to another, the list content will now be joined together as expected.
New icons
Based on customer feedback, this version of Confluence has a number of redesigned interface and installer icons. These new designs add more of a contemporary look and feel and are aimed at improving icon consistency and ease of use in Confluence.Installer icons
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Helping you transition to the Confluence 4.x generation
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Upgrading from a previous version of Confluence
We strongly recommend that you back up your Confluence Home directory and your database before upgrading. Follow the normal upgrade instructions to upgrade your test instance to this release.
When upgrading from a previous version of Confluence, if you have customised your cache settings (as documented in Cache Performance Tuning) then you may run into memory problems during the wiki to XHTML migration. We are working to fix this in a later release, but in the meantime you can revert your
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Removed functionality
Features removed from Confluence
Personal labelsThe ability to create personal labels is being removed in Confluence 4.1. You will still be able to access any personal labels you have created previously by going directly to http://<confluence_url>/users/viewmylabels.action
- Mail archiving
This feature is being disabled by default in Confluence 4.1. However, it is still bundled as the Confluence Mail Archiving plugin, and easy to restore. Current users of the feature will not suffer any interruption, as the feature will be automatically kept in an operational state if you are using it. See details.
- The SVG graphics library Batik
Any plugins that previously relied on the Batik package being provided by Confluence will now have to bundle their own version of Batik into their plugin. See details.
A big thank you to everyone who helps us ensure that Confluence keeps getting better and better!
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Gerhard Müller, TNG Technology Consulting
Congrats to the release! Is there any special reason why the personal labels have been removed?13 Dec 2011
Thanks for the feedback, Gerhard! With our goal to continue to simplify the product, we removed personal labels due to their extremely low usage and additional complexity they added.13 Dec 2011
I created a new issue for this on the public issue tracker at https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-24143 . An enterprise support ticket on support.atlassian.com will also follow shortly.
In summary, I'm finding it very difficult to understand how features removed like this follows Atlassian's stated company values, at least without any prior gathering of customer feedback (at least not visible to most of us).
Please, please restore this feature with the next Confluence update.14 Dec 2011
I just upgraded from 3.5.5 to 4.1 manually and everything went well. I must commend the team as 4.1 looks very polished and appreciate retaining tar.gz version for power admins like myself as it makes my job so much easier.
Maybe I'm missing something, but shouldn't the release notes or documentation note that there are new startup and shutdown files being used? See my comment on the manual upgrade.15 Dec 2011
Anatoli Kazatchkov [Atlassian]
Hi Tin,
Thanks for the compliments. I seem to remember that we modified documentation to include the description of startup and shutdown scripts. I will find out and answer your comment on the manul upgrade page.15 Dec 2011
So far it looks very good. Is there any reason why the tooltip on linked images are not working anymore? I entered that as a question on Answers and on Confluence bug tracker (with screenshots).
CONF-24161 - No tooltip over images with link on Confluence 4.1 Resolved
I tried entering as wiki markup or macro browser and I am still not able to activate the image tooltip. It shows just the name of the picture instead of the page name or custom tooltip...
ouch! I found this today CONF-18668 - Links Browser: Editing a link will remove existing tooltips Resolved19 Dec 2011
These release notes don't tell me what I need to know.
Has the bug that causes broken links been repaired? I entered a CS case for this issue CSP-73403. It got consolidated into CSP-73402 and, after much conversation, remains unresolved.13 Jan 2012
Susan, you'll find a link to Issues Resolved in Confluence 4.1 at the top of the page. You may also want to check out the Confluence 4.1.2 Release Notes13 Jan 2012
Thanks Matt, I did eventually find the link on my own.
The bugs that are really bothering me didn't get addressed and, after blithely installing 4.0, I am gun-shy. Think I'll wait for a few more updates.
I'm so sorry to be expressing these hard words about 4.0, but you used to be a great product, and I still grieve for 3.x.13 Jan 2012
Is there a page tree alternative to the old 'View in Hierachy' option? Just upgraded from an early 3.x version...so far so good but as we move a lot of pages around would be great to be able to see the tree structure while doing this...06 Feb 2012
Hallo Anonymous
The "View in Hierachy" option has moved to the "Tools" menu. It would indeed be a shame to lose it!
Cheers, Sarah06 Feb 2012
Thanks! Will log-in next time I promise!07 Feb 2012
Heh heh.07 Feb 2012
The plain text editor is still not back. With the current editor I can not even copy paste my entire page and get it back the same way it appears on the source page. This happens in my case for a crossed out bulleted list. Yes, this is very specific, but I did not look at any other probably existing bugs. This is simply a prove that we are in urgent need of a plain text editor. The current "great feeling" editor simply does not do the job that the most basic editor should have, i.e. copy and paste in a consistent manner.07 Feb 2012
Anatoli Kazatchkov [Atlassian]
Hi Anonymous,
You might want to read about our approach and about steps we are taking to address some of the common concerns with the new editor.07 Feb 2012
This page talks about image captions:
Click Effects to apply taped style, instant camera style, drop shadow style, captions and more.
Yet I've tried to do this on our Confluence 4.3 instance, and dont' see the option. Is this page wrong? What am I missing?
Thanks10 Aug 2012
Hallo Chris
Thanks for making this comment!
It is possible to add a caption, and it's just taken me half an hour to figure out how to do it. You need to add a comment to the attachment in the 'Attachments' view of the page, and use the 'Instant Camera' image effect when displaying the image on the page.
That's not exactly intuitive. Also, you'll need to re-do the comment each time you upload a new version of the image.
I'll update the documentation right now.
Cheers, Sarah11 Aug 2012


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Jefferson County is in good financial health, despite a dismal prognosis for local governments issued Friday by the states chief fiscal officer, according to Scott A. Gray, chairman of the Board of Legislators Finance and Rules Committee.
Many local governments have nearly exhausted their resources in an effort to avoid severe fiscal stress began a Friday press release from state Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli.
The New York State Association of Counties calls that stress the looming county fiscal cliff, evincing a fondness for topography-tinged metaphors shared by federal legislators. But its not a vertical edge Jefferson County has to worry about at least not yet according to Mr. Gray.
The county has enjoyed budgetary security thanks in part to nearly $11 million in reserve funds.
A cache of such funds is one of the hallmarks of fiscal fitness according to Mr. DiNapolis fiscal stress monitoring system unveiled in September.
Its a reserve that legislators guard carefully.
We try to restrain ourselves here, said Mr. Gray. When you have reserves, theres a natural tendency of people to spend those reserves.
Mr. Gray is particularly wary of institutionalizing costs by adding employees or programs to the countys budget, which can creep, by short increments, into great burdens on tax revenue.
Were very stingy in that regard, he said.
Keeping a strong reserve fund is viewed as a prudent strategy for a time of great economic uncertainty on both the local and national levels.
In his press release, Mr. DiNapoli cited years of decreasing, stagnant or slow economic growth, as the reason that local governments have depleted rainy day funds in an effort to avoid further cutting vital services.
According to a statement from the New York State Association of Counties, a major source of the financial strain on local governments is the ever-increasing number of state mandates supported by local tax revenue.
Its a sentiment shared by Mr. Gray.
Its a constant tug-of-war; a struggle between the state and counties over whos paying what, he said.
According to Mr. Gray, local governments are expected to contribute more and more money to keep up with enhancements to programs, especially social services, where changing income eligibility standards have broadened the pool of applicants.
If counties are on the edge financially, this exacerbates it, Mr. Gray said.
According to the 2013 budget, 82.90 percent of Jefferson Countys property tax revenue goes toward state-mandated costs. The county pays more than $41 million to state programs.
A line in the budget asserts Without the state-mandated costs, the tax levy could theoretically be as little as $1.12 per $1,000 of assessed value.
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Jul 26, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 42 • By DAVID GUASPARI
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Baseball Stars of the 1970s and 1980s Talk About the Game They Love (The Baseball Oral History Project, Volume 3)
It is no criticism to say that the third installment in Fay Vincent's oral history of baseball cannot compete with the classic that inspired it, Lawrence S. Ritter's The Glory of Their Times. Ritter, a professor of finance at NYU, spent the first half of the 1960s tracking down players from the early decades of the 20th century and recording their stories—capturing a wonderful slice of American history that would otherwise have been lost.
In those early days, the business of baseball was not yet rationalized. Independent teams and leagues flourished. There was no panopticon of sports media to scour elementary schools for talent, no conveyor belt to trundle boys to the majors through youth teams and a system of captive minor leagues. Sixteen-year-old Rube Marquard hopped a freight train and, five days later, presented himself to the Waterloo club in the Iowa State league, where a friend of his was playing. "Keokuk is here tomorrow," the manager said, "and we'll pitch you." (He won the game and then hopped a train back when they wouldn't immediately give him a contract.)
Off-season, players barnstormed; and during one tour the mayor of Oxnard, California, insisted that Hans Lobert, reputedly the fastest man in the majors, put on a postgame show by racing a horse around the bases. (The horse won, but cheated.) The trainers, said Wahoo Sam Crawford, "didn't know any more about health or medicine than the man in the moon." One had a single all-purpose remedy, a rubdown with a mixture of Vaseline and Tabasco sauce, which he called "Go fast."
Roger Angell, the most celebrated of baseball essayists, has said that an interview with an athlete consists basically of one question: What is it like to be you? The baseball lives recounted here—from the 1960s, '70s, and '80s—seem an awful lot like those of today. The romance of the world that Ritter uncovered could charm anyone with a fondness for Americana, but the baseball gossip of What's Inside the Lines is for fans: Juan Marichal's "incident" with Johnny Roseboro, Earl Weaver's never‑ending grudge match against the (now-dead) umpire Ron Luciano, Ozzie Smith's first back flip, Bobby Richardson's positioning when Willie McCovey lined a screamer at him to end the 1962 World Series. Which is not to say that these stories lack insight into the human condition. The umpire Bruce Froemming, for example, brilliantly and succinctly defines the point at which an argument crosses the line: "Profane is anything with 'you' in front of it."
Seven of Vincent's subjects are in the Hall of Fame: Willie McCovey, Juan Marichal, Tom Seaver, Ozzie Smith, and Cal Ripken as players; Earl Weaver and Dick Williams as managers, their careers validating the conventional view that marginal players make the best skippers. Bruce Froemming will be there soon, joining nine other umps. Marvin Miller, first executive director of the Baseball Players Association, should be—in the category "Executive/Pioneer"—but won't. The selection committee seems to have been gerrymandered to keep him out. The tenth entry, completing the lineup card, is Don Baylor, an excellent player and successful manager, though not quite one of the game's gods. (Miller, who may be unknown to non-fans, has had an enormous impact on the game and on the most conspicuous difference between then and now: money. The average salary of a major league ballplayer in 1965, the year before Players Association was formed, was a bit more than $14,000. The average salary in 2010 is a bit over $3 million.)
Like many fans, I've taken a marginally informed, plague-on-both-their-houses stance toward the players and owners during strikes and drug scandals. (Two years before he died, Lawrence Ritter, presumably better informed, told the New York Times, "I don't like the players, I don't like the umpires, I don't like the owners. But I love the game.") There is no doubt, however, that before their union was formed, players were little more than chattel. Team owners colluded to sign every player to a contract containing the so-called reserve clause that bound him to a single team until it chose to release or trade him. Years of turmoil produced the current system—too complex to summarize here—that allows players with a certain seniority to become "free agents" and shop their talents around. Hence the multiyear multimillion-dollar contracts.
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