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U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., is known for taking courageous stands that do not agree with Democrat Party orthodoxy....
Manchin better not stop suddenly as he's closer to Obama than his own wife. He's GONE next election. He's as big a fake as Obama is.
And as for What....we are TRYING to talk to literate people; unfortunately you just aren't one of them evidently. What didn't you understand? We'll try to explain in a way that you can.
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The big thing to understand is, if you vote for a Democrat, you are going to get whatever Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi and their kook fringe collectivist supporters want. Doesn't matter what the name is or what they claim.
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He won't repeal Obamacare. Manchin was 'for it' before he was 'against it.'
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Yeah Pure....try talking to 'literate' people not What. HAHA...never thought I'd hear What 'admit' he's illiterate. Your turn now Elkins....
How dare Pure attempt to explain common sense to a liberal. Shame on you Pure!
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Democrats should start a campaign to call this mostly capitalistic private insurance based plan by its true name ,Affordable Health Care.Obama is the president of the USA ,not of Blue-Cross -Blue Shield. Many of the statements in opposition to him and to the Affordable HC Act border on the misuse of the Freedom of Speech right.Disagree with dignity and objectivity.
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Step 1: RECALL OBAMA!
Step 2: RECALL MANCHIN!
Step 3: RECALL ALL those involved in this massive fraudulent lying Madoff scam!!
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LOL. You're joking right? Manchin supported this lying piece of fraudulent scheming from the democrats. He's a democrat and he 'knew' just like all the rest of the democrats what this was and was not. He helped 'deceive' WV voters on this giant monstrosity passed as a healthcare plan but in reality a humongous taxation on citizens across the USA!
Now, today it's come out about how letters are being sent telling doctors they are dropped from our insurance rosters as being 'preferred' doctors to visit within the group plan. So not only can you NOT keep your insurance plan if you like it; NOW; Obama won't allow you to keep your own doctors if you like them!
RECALL Obamacare? Heck no.......Just simply RECALL OBAMA!!!! The rest will dissolve when we do that!
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AWENDAW OK, so just how do you chase down a runaway bald eagle?
Kite on site
AWENDAW A rare swallow-tailed kite, maybe the most graceful bird in the air, is now in residence and on display at the Center for Birds of Prey.The raptor glides for miles without flicking a wing, and can glide to a stop in midair. Its so keenly adapted to flight it almost never touches the ground. Its so mobile that after years of sighting reports, researchers still dont know enough about how many there are to know whether its an endangered species.Its a flagship species at the center, whose staff tracks sighting reports in the Lowcountry.Staff say the newly acquired kite, a captive-bred that cant survive in the wild, might eventually take part in flight demonstrations.Bo Petersen
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At the Center for Birds of Prey, they know the drill. One of their demonstration flight eagles took off during a recent Friday outing, spooked, maybe, by vultures circling overhead.
The eagle, an impaired bird that normally wont go above tree tops, flew up with the vultures, caught the thermal they were in and went for a soar. As trainers tried to call it back, the symbol of American freedom disappeared over the trees.
Go for it, you think. But no. This eagle has a neurological balance problem that leaves it walking in a wobble. It lacks that pinpoint accuracy it needs to dive and talon fish. It couldnt survive in the wild.
Center staff grabbed the antenna and hopped in the car in pursuit of the radio-collared bird. At the Wando River they lost the signal as they peered across the wide waters.
Staff know theres a risk of a runaway bird every time they take one out, and it puts a burden on us, said husbandry coordinator Audrey Poplin.
A spooked bird does flee every now and then. Usually, though, the bird doesnt go far.
But an eagle is capable of flying at highway speed, and in the wild ranges some 50 miles in a day.
The bird was virtually lost, said center director Jim Elliott.
There was only one more option: an airplane.
Sam Trost, a flight instructor at Mount Pleasant Airport, volunteered. Even for a veteran pilot, the job was unique, to say the least. But it was kind of cool, he said.
It was Sunday morning before they could get borrowed aircraft antennas in place and launch.
They circled the Marion-Moultrie lakes without success, looking for eagle hunting grounds. They were headed back when they picked up a signal over the Charleston peninsula and vectored in on Johns Island. Poplin, down in a pursuit car, spotted the eagle at Trophy Lakes, in among other eagles. It spooked again, to a yard pond in a nearby subdivision. When they caught up, the eagle was miserable and wary, with a badly bruised leg, soaking wet and muddy from a botched landing. The balance, you know.
Poplin lured it back by tossing it dead chicks.
I finally lunged and wrangled her, Poplin said. Safe and sound, the bird is being rehabbed in the centers medical clinic. It might eventually return to display flights, with the staff much more cautious about whats out there when deciding whether to take it out.
Now that I know she has it in her, Poplin said.
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CHARLES TOWN — The Jefferson County Commission discussed revisions to its bonding policy Thursday morning, which, if passed, could result in the release of lots from a planned community....
If you watch the meeting on the County Commission website, you learn that the proposed amendment was actually written by the developer's attorney, Crawford, and presented by the Engineering Dept.
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Thank goodness Eastern Panhandle residents have an organization like the EPOHOA looking out for them. How many of us understand this complex issue enough to realize that it could negatively impact our homes, neighborhoods, and communities if the developers are allowed to be the sole opinion the county commission hears. Keep up the good work EPOHOA protecting all Panhandle homeowners, not just those who live in developments.
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Here the cc goes again, looking out for the interest of the developer(s) "hard economic times", what happen to all the profits made in the boom past? I can see it now, "that lot isn't really marketable" so lets pull that one..."big picture view"...
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The 6 Most Ominous Trends in Video Games
#3. We're on the Verge of Creative Bankruptcy
Let's go back to my graphic at the beginning. The reason every major game (that doesn't involve dragons) looks the same is because of the Modern Warfare series. So far we have two games and a spinoff that each took in as much money in the U.S. as Avatar. We already know what the best-selling game of 2011 will be: Modern Warfare 3, which was shown for the first time at E3.
Don't get me wrong, what they showed us was cool as shit. You're thrown right into the action, starting out under water ...
... emerging to see that, holy crap, New York is under attack!
Boats are burning in the harbor!
Look! There's Lady Liberty on the horizon, as if to remind us of what's at stake!
I can't wait to play it. But Modern Warfare 3 has some serious competition in the marketplace. Just earlier this year, maybe the best-looking console game ever made, Crysis 2, hit shelves. In the first level of that one, you're thrown right into the action, starting out under water ...
... emerging to see that, holy shit, New York is under attack!
Boats are burning in the harbor!
Look! There's Lady Liberty on the horizon, as if to remind us of what's at stake!
Don't take this the wrong way. I'm not shitting on game developers. I have friends in the industry, and they're each smarter and more talented than I am. I'm the one who wrote a novel about a man with multiple-personality disorder who, in a twist ending, finds out he was his own rapist -- I'm no one to throw stones.
But this isn't about any lack of creativity among game developers, artists, writers or anyone else. It's about money, and the fact that the market has trapped games in a fucking creative coffin (and developers will tell you the same). Everybody complains about sequels and reboots in Hollywood, but holy shit, it's nothing compared to what we have in gaming right now.
For instance, each of the Big Three game console makers took the stage at E3 to show off their biggest games of the upcoming year. Microsoft led off with the aforementioned Modern Warfare 3, which is really Call of Duty 8 (game makers like to switch up the sequel titles so the digits don't get ridiculous). Next was Tomb Raider 10 (rebooted as Tomb Raider). Then we had Mass Effect 3, and Ghost Recon 11 (titled Ghost Recon: Future Soldier). This was followed by Gears of War 3, Forza 4 and Fable 4 (called Fable: The Journey).
"Seriously, we have no goddamned idea what number we're on now. Just start over."
Next were two new games, both based on existing brands and both for toddlers (Disneyland Adventure -- a Kinect enabled game that will let your toddler tour Disneyland without you having to spring for a ticket -- and a Sesame Street game starring Elmo).
Then, finally, we reached the big announcement at the end (they always save cliffhanger "megaton" announcements for last, Steve Jobs-style) and they came out to announce that they were introducing "the beginning of a new trilogy." Yes! Something fucking new!
Then this came up on the screen:
Confused? So was the audience. By "new trilogy" they actually meant that there would be three more Halo games. Did I mention that Halo 4 is actually Halo 7? Which means they intend to put out at least nine Halo games before they're done? Oh, wait, they also announced they were doing a gritty reboot of the decade-old Halo to make it an even 10.
Sony came up next and announced a sequel, another sequel and then a reboot. After that it went sequel, sequel, special edition of a sequel, new FPS, sequel, new FPS, sequel, special edition of a sequel, new game based on an existing property (Star Trek), sequel, sequel and sequel. Then they introduced a new system (the PS Vita) and showed it off with four sequels.
Nintendo's list went: sequel, sequel, sequel, sequel, sequel, sequel, sequel, sequel, sequel and (hold on, let me double check here) a sequel. And you already know what those were, even if you haven't played a video game in 15 years: Mario Kart, Mario World, Luigi, Zelda, Kirby, etc. Then they showed off their new system (the Wii U) with a demo reel promising that some day it would allow us to play sequels like Arkham Asylum 2, Darksiders II and Ninja Gaiden 3.
Think about the situation with Hollywood -- movies are expensive as hell, so studios are scared to death of taking creative risks and thus we get a new Transformers movie every two years. But now take that and multiply it times five, and you have the situation with video games. Literally. A video game costs five times as much as a movie ticket, and therefore customers are five times as cautious about experimenting with unfamiliar games that might wind up being shit. Game publishers respond accordingly.
And yes, we gamers are ultimately to blame. We don't even perceive how incredibly narrow our range of choices has gotten. For instance, every single gaming forum on the Internet right now is hosting at least one passionate discussion about which is better, Modern Warfare 3 or Battlefield 3.
Seriously, they almost come to blows over it. As a reminder, here are the two games, back to back:
I'm not going to even tell you which one is which.
This here is why all of the innovation in games seems to be about going backward, simplifying instead of pushing the experience further. They are trying to lower the barrier of entry for gaming as a hobby, because they don't know where else to go with it. So I guess what I'm saying is that one thing is becoming clear ...
#2. There is No Real Vision for the Future
As Epic Games president Mike Capps says, nobody has any goddamned idea what's coming next. Epic Games, by the way, are the guys behind the Gears of War series:
Via Joystiq
Yes, that's a chainsaw on his machine gun.
See, the reason Nintendo's next console promises to use state-of-the-art horsepower to let you play iPhone games ...
... is because for most people these days, gaming looks like this:
Via Yahoo News
Simple games, played on your phone or tablet computer, downloaded from the app store. They cost a dollar, or nothing at all. They can be played on a machine that the customer already owns -- no additional investment needed. They can be developed quickly and with a small team (or, you know, one guy). As the man from Epic says, "If there's anything that's killing us, it's dollar apps." Meanwhile, the most profitable game company right now isn't Activision/Blizzard or Nintendo or EA, it's Zynga, the makers of Farmville.
So what the hell are you supposed to do when you're trying to convince those customers to drop $400 on a game machine with all of the accessories (extra controllers, peripherals, online subscriptions) plus $60 for each game? The answer is game makers have no fucking idea.
It used to be so simple. For the first 25 or so years of video game consoles, the "next big thing" was to just make the games look more like real life. For instance, I mentioned earlier how long we've been waiting for a good Star Wars lightsaber game. Well, in 1983, lightsabers looked like this:
That is, like two erect pixel dicks about to fuck a snake wearing a George Lucas Halloween mask. But every player knew what it was trying to look like, because we had all seen lightsabers before. It was supposed to look like this:
So the makers of future Star Wars games had a clear, tangible goal. But we're pretty much there:
At this point game makers stopped, glanced awkwardly at each other and said, "Well, shit. Now what?"
Sony spent a lot of time at E3 talking about 3D gaming, and they kind of don't have a choice since the TV side of their company has invested so heavily in 3D sets. Now, I don't know what percentage of people can't play 3D games without getting a splitting headache (there are lots of reports, but no studies yet), but I know I made it about three minutes before I had to take the glasses off. Nintendo's portable 3DS managed glasses-free 3D, but you have to hold it at an exact fixed distance from your face at all times, or else the screen becomes a blurry mess and Nintendo was sure to give users the option of turning the 3D off. Oh, and it also causes headaches. This, by the way, is part of the reason why 3D movie ticket sales are falling and investors are trying to get some theater chains to scrap it.
"Fine," you're probably saying, "then what does the future hold for gaming, Guy Who Didn't Realize Until the Final Boss That Resident Evil 4 Had a 'Run' Button?" Well, here's the thing ...
#1. We Still Don't Know What a "Game" Is
Ask yourself: How does it make sense that earlier we had the guy from Epic -- someone who makes $50 million budget games about space marines chainsawing aliens in half -- complaining that his business was being stolen by iPhone Tetris and Angry Birds? That's like a cattle rancher saying all of his business is being eaten up by cotton candy manufacturers. The only thing they have in common is that they can both be consumed.
Now ask yourself why those Modern Warfare games essentially have two utterly different games on the same disc -- one is a five-hour-long action movie (the single player campaign), the other is a competitive electronic sport (the multiplayer).
In both cases, it's because we're combining a bunch of completely different experiences and art forms and calling them all "video games."
Via Farmville Farms
Though the ability to snipe in Farmville would have been an awesome feature.
That hasn't made sense for a lot of years now. The future is that what we're now calling video games will cease to be a thing, and will break up into several different art forms, each with their own medium. We'll have true "games" where we perform simple tasks to kill a few minutes or get a high score (Angry Birds, etc) that will cost a dollar or two. We'll have interactive stories that are less about "winning" and "losing" and more about relating to characters and following drama (LA Noire, Heavy Rain) and they will not be called games, because it never made sense to call them that.
Gaming has become a proverbial cotton candy cow.
Those titles should be priced like what they are: long rendered movies with some interactivity thrown in as a bonus, that the audience will only sit through once. Then we'll have competitive multiplayer games as their own thing -- those will probably be a subscription model, with no $60 game up front but with an infinite amount of shit for the most obsessed to blow their disposable income on.
The industry will realize those all need their own business models. And that would hopefully relieve some of this pressure to keep doing things the old way. They'll be free to stop trying to cram repetitive game elements (like fetch quests) into our interactive movies. They can stop thinking a series like Fable will work on the fucking Kinect. Console makers can stop imagining that people will some day be willing to pay more than a dollar for Monkey Shit Tower Defense.
But we would have no trouble paying that dollar.
And then, maybe somebody will invent a lightsaber game that fucking works.
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drug dealer; one who stores their cash tied by a rubberband
rubberband man, wild as the tailiban
by tha rubberman band March 25, 2004
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Can you define these popular missing words?
"I'm the Rubber Band Man. It's basically about being back in the Trap, like when we start our day, we might have two, three, rubber bands on our wrist. According to how much dope we had to sell. By the end of the day, if we sold all our dope we don't have any more rubber bands around our wrists cause they wrapped around money. So the Rubber Band Man is just my little way of holding on to that lifestyle just a little bit. I ain't selling no more dope, but I'm still wrapping rubber bands around money." - from a whudat interview with T.I.
But why the rubber band?
It representin the struggle man.
- Rubber Band Man, T.I.
It representin the struggle man.
- Rubber Band Man, T.I.
by dazzledlucky August 29, 2005
I used to be a "dancer" and I always had rubber bands for my money. So there you have it, people who deal with alot of cash, may use rubberbands to organize it.
If someone has some rubberbands and is using them to hold onto large wads of cash they may not get a regular paycheck. For example they may be a stripper, drug dealer or have some other unconventional career. They are a rubber band man, or woman!
by Manda_79 October 29, 2007
One who comes up through the struggle.
TI is the rubberband man most def...he hustled and now he's doin it big in the rap game.
by JSchweezie September 24, 2006
A person that represents his hood. usually a poor place like neighborhoods in the south and some in the north.
Why you wear Rubberbands? They show that i wont forget where i came from and what it made me. Thats why im RubberBand Man
by TjSwagg March 11, 2010
A person incapable of achieving or sustaining a sexually viable erection without using a elastic or other impromptu tourniquet employed as a means erectile enhancement.
If susan is able to hide all of the elastics and hair clips in the house by dinner , she will be spared the unpleasantness of sex with her "rubber band man of a husband" husband who cound'nt do more than chump up without a small constrictive ban squeezing the base of his cock.
by fishpaw February 19, 2009
(N.) one who is representing the struggle by keeping a fat wad of $ at their side and maybe also some bitches in rubber band thongs.
But why a rubber band? It representin' the struggle man.
-T.I., "Rubber Band Man"
-T.I., "Rubber Band Man"
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Bob Adams, the former principal of the new-defunct Creative Frontiers School in Citrus Heights, came one day closer Monday to finding out if child molestation charges against him will move forward to a trial.
During a preliminary hearing Monday, Adams sat restlessly in court as a prosecutor questioned a police officer about the evidence in the case, including Adams' own answers to questions the officer asked him about the girls who said he molested them at the school.
"I asked him why he did it," said Citrus Heights police officer Joe Rangel. "I asked him, did he do it to make them relax? He said he did not do it to make them relax."
But the officer testified that at one point during the interview, Adams did not answer a question about whether he believes the children are lying.
"And I repeated the question," Rangel said. "I asked him again, 'are they lying?' And again, there was a long pause."
Prosecutor Kevin Jones asked Rangel, "Did [Adams] ever answer the question?"
"No, he didn't," Rangel said.
It was Rangel's second day on the stand, and he testified for about 2 ½ hours, mostly answering questions from Adams' defense attorney, Linda Parisi.
Parisi questioned the credibility of others who police have interviewed, and asked Rangel questions about at least one student, one staff member from the school, and parents who have complained about alleged molestation by Adams.
Adams is charged with six felony counts of child molestation.
He is expected back in court Tuesday morning for a continued preliminary hearing.
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No woman wants to wait on the results of a mammogram – or any follow-up check that might reveal breast cancer. The staff members at Trident Breast Care Center understand the anxiety that comes with waiting. For several years now, they have sought to determine and deliver mammogram results quickly, typically the same day. The team will schedule any needed follow-up, for example, an ultrasound or biopsy, as soon as possible. "We work very hard to get that turnaround so our patients don't have to sit and wait and wonder," says Sandy Ariale, the center's manager of medical imaging. Because of their successful push, Trident Breast Care Center was recently recognized as a Certified Quality Breast Care Center of Excellence by the National Consortium of Breast Centers. Trident Breast Care Center is the only center in South Carolina to have this level of recognition from the NCBC through the National Quality Measures for Breast Centers Program. "Excellence" is the program's highest level. By achieving it, Trident Breast Care Center has earned a place with an elite group of centers from across the country. But what matters most to the Trident Health radiologists, technologists and other support staff is that they are delivering quality care to the people in their community. "Everybody's excited to know that the changes we've put in place are all working to make it a better experience for our patients," Ariale says. "We are very blessed to have a staff that truly treats every patient as a family member." Trident Breast Care Center was already designated as a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence by the American College of Radiology (ACR) in 2012 for achieving high practice standards in image quality, quality control procedures, quality assurance programs, personnel qualifications and facility equipment. That same year, the center completed an expansion to 9,000 square feet, along with renovations that create a soothing, spa-like atmosphere for patients with a soothing color palette, aromatherapy, soft music and a gourmet coffee station. Trident Breast Care Center provides digital mammography, stereotactic breast biopsy, breast ultrasound, ultrasound-guided breast biopsy and other services. The center is located in Trident Medical Arts Center at 9313 Medical Plaza Drive in North Charleston. Call 843-847-4883 to schedule a visit. Same-day appointments and walk-in services are available. Callout: "We work very hard to get that turnaround so our patients don't have to sit and wait and wonder." -Sandy Ariale, manager of medical imaging
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quote: ANDROID. Despite its impressive market performance, Android security and manageability are the lowest in the segment. The Google Android operating system is at its fourth commercial iteration and has recently seen some important security additions, such as device encryption support, however good Mobile Device Management APIs and a reliable control of the overall operating system versioning and application ecosystem are still conspicuous by their absence. The system is widely exposed to malware and data loss, and the platform fragmentation resulting from the rich OEM ecosystem has proved quite challenging for enterprise adoption. IT managers should definitely consider adding Android to their set of flexible policies but should probably limit its use to the least sensitive mobile roles.


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Alzheimer's Disease Health Center
Types of Dementia
In this article
Parkinson's Disease Dementia
People with the nervous system disorder Parkinson's disease get this type of dementia about 50% to 80% of the time. On average, the symptoms of dementia develop about 10 years after a person first gets Parkinson's.
This type is very similar to DLB. They have the same symptoms, and people with both conditions have signs of Lewy bodies in their brains.
Mixed Dementia
This is a combination of two types of dementia. The most common combination is Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia.
Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD)
If your loved one has an FTD, he's developed cell damage in areas of the brain that control planning, judgment, emotions, speech, and movement.
Someone with FTD may have:
- Personality and behavior changes
- Sudden lack of inhibitions in personal and social situations
- Problems coming up with the right words for things when speaking
- Movement problems, such as shakiness, balance problems, and muscle spasms
Huntington's Disease
This is a brain disorder caused by a genetic defect that's passed down through family members. While your loved one might have the gene for Huntington's disease at birth, the symptoms don't usually start to show up until he's between the ages of 30 and 50.
People with Huntington's get some of the same symptoms seen in other forms of dementia, including problems with:
- Thinking and reasoning
- Memory
- Judgment
- Planning and organizing
- Concentration
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
This is a rare condition in which proteins called prions cause normal proteins in the brain to start folding into abnormal shapes. The damage leads to dementia symptoms that happen suddenly and quickly get worse.
Your loved one might have:
- Memory and concentration problems
- Poor judgment
- Confusion
- Mood swings
- Depression
- Sleep problems
- Twitching or jerky muscles
- Trouble walking
Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
This type of dementia is caused by a buildup of fluid in the brain. The symptoms include problems walking, trouble thinking and concentrating, and personality and behavior changes.
Some symptoms can be treated by draining the extra fluid from the brain into the abdomen through a long, thin tube, called a shunt.


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How Ben Affleck & Jennifer Garner Are Making a Hollywood Marriage Work
Well, almost: "He's just like a child!" Garner lovingly joked to a friend as she tugged her still-schmoozing husband–who won the night's two biggest honors for his film Argo – toward the exit. Could an Oscar for Best Picture be his next stop? "This is a second act for me," he said in his London acceptance speech. "I am so grateful and proud." As he told PEOPLE recently, "I am very lucky. I have to knock on wood about my life."
Especially about the woman who's a lock for Best Supporting Spouse. After seven years of marriage and three kids – Violet, 7, Seraphina, 4, and Samuel, who turns 1 on Feb. 27 – Affleck and Garner, both 40, seem to have struck that rarest of things for a Hollywood couple: balance. It's an old-fashioned arrangement, with Garner handling most of the day-to-day responsibility for keeping the children's schedules humming while Affleck rides his Argo hot streak – including Screen Actors Guild and Golden Globe wins, despite a snub for the Oscar directing category.
"I've got a great family; I'm really inspired by where my career is," Affleck says. "I've seen a lot of different things rambling around in this business, and I'm just really, really happy to find myself where I am."
Several sources who know the couple well say that both stars are at ease in their "quite traditional roles," as a Garner friend puts it. Garner dialed back on her own career to commit herself to making the ballet-karate-playdate rounds.
"She blows my mind," says Affleck's Argo costar Clea Duvall. "She's such an amazing mom and such an amazing wife and so supportive of him. It's just . . . they're kind of the ideal." Although Affleck has made his share of school runs during a busy awards season, in many ways he's an old-fashioned dad.
Says a source who knows the couple: "Have you ever seen Mad Men? That's how he approaches [marriage and kids] – providing for your family is your priority, and raising the kids day-to-day is the wife's priority." But when he's not working, he's plenty hands-on, reading to the girls at bookstores and taking them to the farmers' market. "His wife and family are the best things that ever happened to him," says an Affleck pal. "They have always come first and always will."


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on September 9, 2012 - 6:00 AM
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The cavernous concrete silos of dozens of grain elevators and hollowed-out spaces of countless industrial buildings that dot the shores of the Buffalo River have stood vacant and crumbling for decades.
But on Saturday, the sprawling collection of elevators and buildings known as Silo City swelled with crowds as the city's cultural community converged on the site for a one-night festival of art, music and dance.
City of Night, an event conceived by the local organization Emerging Leaders in the Arts Buffalo spearheaded by artist Dana Saylor, was a de facto declaration that the long-empty buildings of Silo City were once again open for business. Or at least for art. In the Marine A elevator, where the silo floors were pooled with rainwater from the recent storm, more than a dozen artists presented installations custom-tailored to the circular spaces.
Just after the event began at 4 p.m., artist Tara Sasiadek, her face covered in paint, was reconstructing a meticulous 360-degree chalk drawing on a silo wall that was washed away by the rain the previous night. The piece, a religiously themed drawing called "Our Lady of the Lost Spaces," reflects Sasiadek's concern for abandoned structures like Marine A.
In another silo, Thomas Webb presented a 360-degree cityscape on pieces of cardboard hung from the a large metal chute just above visitors' heads. Elsewhere, trees installed by artist Kelly Gregory Tomasello sprouted from the elevator's enormous metal hoppers to create a striking picture and an elegant statement about new growth around Buffalo's old industrial core. In a dark silo illuminated only by a small fluorescent lamp, artist Fotini Galanes sat in an armchair hard at work on a small, painstaking drawing that she was aiming to complete by the time the festival ends at 2 a.m. Sunday morning.
In a space called The Malthouse, dozens of artists exhibited and sold their wares, and the adjacent Perot grain elevator hosted a photo exhibition curated by local photographer Christina Laing. She said the fact that people are finally being invited into spaces like the Perot elevator and others formerly off-limits has sparked the public's curiosity. "Because it's so old and decayed, and it's kind of like a forbidden space that you're actually allowed to go in, it's very alluring for photographers and everyone," she said. "Everyone wants to know what it looks like inside."
For Chris Hawley, a Buffalo city planner who was preparing to lead a group of wide-eyed photographers on a "shutterbug" tour to the top of a grain elevator, the revitalization of Silo City is a positive sign for the city.
"I think like a lot of post-industrial cities, our manufacturing legacy is being repurposed, and places that were used for transshipment, for manufacturing, are now being employed for cultural uses," Hawley said. "[Buffalo] has the largest number of them anywhere and also the largest concentration of such grain elevators. So it is a landscape unlike any other place on the planet, and it's something that folks in Buffalo are starting to realize exists and is now being seen as a resource for cultural and economic revitalization."
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Richard F. Lawson, Jr. - Chairman
Mr. Lawson is a Managing Partner, Co-Founder and the Chief Executive Officer of HGGC. He is also a member of the firm's Executive and Policy and Investment Committees and has extensive private equity investment and operational experience primarily in a broad range of technology-related industries.
Prior to the forming HGGC, Mr. Lawson was a co-founder and Managing Director of Sorenson Capital Partners, L.P. Prior to co-founding Sorenson Capital, Mr. Lawson served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Found, Inc., a Bain Capital portfolio company that provided e-commerce software and inventory management solutions to major retailers and manufacturers. Mr. Lawson began his investment career in the Investment Banking Division of Morgan Stanley. Mr. Lawson received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies from Amherst College.
Hudson D. Smith, Jr. - Director
Mr. Smith is a Principal of HGGC. Prior to joining HGGC, Mr. Smith was a Manager, Case Team Leader, and Consultant at Bain & Company. Prior to working at Bain & Company, he served as an Investment Banking Analyst and Associate at Lincoln International, L.L.C., where he specialized in mergers and acquisitions and private capital raising.
Mr. Smith received his B.S. in Business Administration, magna cum laude, from Washington and Lee University and his M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Douglas D. Troxel - Director
Douglas D. Troxel is the founder of Serena Software and has served on Serena's Board of Directors since April 1980. From June 1980 to April 1997, Mr. Troxel served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Serena. Mr. Troxel holds a B.S. in mathematics from Iowa State University.
J. Steven Young - Director
Mr. Young is a Managing Partner and Co-founder of HGGC. He is also a member of HGGC's Policy and Investment Committee and Executive Committees. Prior to his inception of HGGC, Mr. Young was a co-founder and Managing Director of Sorenson Capital and was a member in Northgate Capital, LLC, the general partner of Northgate Capital Partners, L.P., a fund of funds.
Mr. Young's professional football career spanned more than fifteen years in the NFL, primarily with the San Francisco 49ers, where he received numerous accolades, including Most Valuable Player of Super Bowl XXIX, Sports Illustrated and Sporting News' Player of the Year from 1992 - 1994, and the NFL's Most Valuable Player for 1992 and 1994. In 2005, Mr. Young was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the first left-handed quarterback to be so honored. Mr. Young is also the highest-rated quarterback in NFL history and has the distinction of being the only signal caller in league annals to win four consecutive NFL passing titles.
He founded and chairs the Forever Young Foundation which is actively involved in children's charities worldwide and is currently the broadcast host as well as the former International Spokesperson for the Children's Miracle Network which has raised over one billion dollars world-wide to benefit children's hospitals.
Mr. Young is a graduate of Brigham Young University where he earned a J.D. from the College of Law as well as a B.S. in Finance and Political Science.
Greg Hughes - President and Chief Executive Officer
Greg Hughes was named Serena's chief executive officer in January 2013. Prior to that, Mr. Hughes served on Serena's board of directors while an operating partner at Silver Lake Partners, which he joined in March 2011. Prior to Silver Lake, Mr. Hughes served in a variety of senior management roles at Symantec Corporation including Group President, Enterprise Products. Mr. Hughes joined Symantec through its acquisition of VERITAS Software, where he was Executive Vice President, Global Services. He joined VERITAS after a 10-year career at McKinsey & Company, where he founded and led the software practice. He currently serves on the board of LogMeIn.
Mr. Hughes received an MBA from Stanford University and a BS and MS in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT.
Bob Pender - Chief Financial Officer
Bob Pender is responsible for managing Serena's worldwide finance organization. Mr. Pender was SVP, Finance and CFO of Serena Software from 1997 to 2011 before rejoining the Company in June 2013. He has more than 23 years of management experience in corporate finance and administration in the software industry.
Prior to joining Serena Software, Mr. Pender served as VP of finance at Mosaix, Inc., an enterprise customer management and call center company, which was sold to Lucent. Mosaix was the result of a 1996 merger involving ViewStar Corporation, where Mr. Pender was chief financial officer. Before ViewStar Corp., he served as the controller for Versant Object Technology and began his career with Arthur Andersen & Company.
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MACON, Ga. – Stetson women's soccer senior Amber Grose was named to the All-Atlantic Sun Conference First Team, as announced by the league office on Thursday afternoon.
Grose is the first Hatter to earn first team accolades since 2010 and becomes just the ninth Stetson women's soccer player in history to be named to the A-Sun First Team.
"I'm really happy for Amber," Stetson head coach Manoj Khettry said. "She has been a joy to coach and she has really become a more disciplined and effective player through the course of the year. She has been our emotional leader on the field and with her play.
"Every coach has spoken about the overall quality of our midfield and Amber is one third of it along with Mara [Keomanivane] and Carmen [Bernecker]," Khettry went on to say. "They are our engines and they set the tempo of the game for us. I know we are going to miss her presence in the middle of the field next year, but I'm very happy that she can represent us as a first team All-Conference member. It is a well-deserved honor for her."
Grose leads Stetson with six assists on the season, which is also tied for the third most in the conference, and tied for the eighth most ever in a single-season at Stetson. Since joining the Hatters as a junior last season, she has led the squad from the center of midfield. As a senior she has added one goal for eight total points, which is tied for second on the team.
"All-Conference teams are always an interesting discussion," Khettry said. "I certainly feel that we have a couple other players who should have received strong consideration and so that's disappointing that they didn't, but sometimes it takes a while for opposing coaches to notice your quality as a player; so you have to play well each and every time you step onto the field and have faith that you will be recognized for your abilities eventually."
Stetson qualified for the A-Sun Championship for the first time since 2010, and will be the fifth seed in the upcoming tournament. The Hatters take on fourth seeded Mercer in Macon, Ga. on Saturday, Nov. 2 at 7:00 p.m.


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Just a few months ago, South Buffalo residents weren't sure who would represent them on the Common Council.
Michael P. Kearns had left the office following a March special election to an Assembly seat, and the remaining Council members couldn't seem to agree on his successor.
Since then, Christopher P. Scanlon, 31, has been appointed to the seat and to the top post on the Council's Finance Committee. He also has put together a roster of endorsements that is somewhat unusual in politically fractious South Buffalo.
But not everyone is thrilled with Scanlon's appointment, and three other men are vying in a Democratic primary Sept. 13. to finish the last three years of Kearns' term in the South District. Patrick B. Burke, 28, Kevin M. Lafferty, 32, and Anthony "AJ" Verel, 42, were all passed over for the seat by the Council prior to Scanlon's appointment in May.
"We've been given representation we did not ask for," Verel said.
Two of the candidates said they were asked during the interview process whether they would vote with the Council majority, which is friendly to the mayor.
Scanlon, a political newcomer whose father was a well-known figure in the administration of former Mayor James D. Griffin, has said he will be independent. He has endorsements from Kearns, Rep. Brian Higgins, City Comptroller Mark J.F. Schroeder and developer Carl P. Paladino.
"His father was one of the hardest-working people I met in my life," Paladino said last week. "He comes from a great gene pool."
Mayor Byron W. Brown stood beside Scanlon to announce improvements to a popular South Buffalo ice rink this summer and called him "an amazing advocate for his Council district."
Brown said later that he had nothing to do with Scanlon's appointment to the Council.
Asked about the timing of the ice rink announcement, three weeks before the primary, Brown said that he does events every week all over the city.
Scanlon, who was a bartender and assistant manager for Western New York Pub Group before he was appointed, is concerned about housing, specifically absentee landlords and bank-owned properties that are not maintained. His office, with help from the Old First Ward Community Center, submitted a state grant application to improve the look of Abbott Road.
In addition, Scanlon supported legislation to help golfers who had purchased motorized carts before the city courses had carts, but then were banned from using them after the courses started offering them. The legislation passed and is valid this season, he said. A long-term solution will need to be worked out in the winter.
Scanlon has been characterized as someone who has had things handed to him, a criticism he rejects, saying that his nine-member family lived in a three-bedroom house and that his dad worked for the city.
"I had a fortunate life - I have a tremendous family," said Scanlon, who is married.
His opponents noted that he did not circulate any of his own petitions.
"I didn't want to go out and collect petitions and have these people think this is the only time they were going to see me, so I decided not to," he said, adding that he has since been going door-to-door and to events to introduce himself to people.
In a resume he submitted to the Council when he applied for the vacancy, Scanlon stated he would finish work on a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University at Buffalo in August 2013. In recent interviews, he said that he won't be able to finish by then and did not return to UB after obtaining an associate degree from Erie Community College in August 2011, but that he plans to.
Burke, who is married and has three children, is running because he needs a job and because he is opposed to the way Scanlon was appointed, he said.
He said he was asked during meetings before his interview whether he would vote with the majority. He would not agree to that, he said.
"I can't stand blatant, corrupt, dirty stuff that's going on," he said.
Burke questioned Scanlon's hiring of Matthew J. Fisher, a longtime aide to Kearns who applied for the seat and was thought to be a tough rival. Following his hiring by Scanlon's office, Fisher said he wouldn't campaign for the seat.
Scanlon said he hired Fisher because of his experience working in the office and Fisher's support from community groups.
Burke founded a nonprofit organization when he was 21, Seneca Rising, and has since been an AmeriCorps volunteer and worked at United Way. He is a bartender at the Buffalo Irish Center. He has a bachelor's in political science from Buffalo State College.
Burke is in favor of creating municipal authorities for energy and broadband and establishing a municipal bank, which would leverage city assets to lend to small businesses.
Lafferty, who ran for the Board of Education in 2004 and lost, is a contract detention officer at a federal facility in Batavia and worked for two years as a city parking enforcement officer.
He has a bachelor's in political science from St. Bonventure University.
"I wanted to return independence back to South Buffalo, especially after the selection of Scanlon," he said. Lafferty, who is married, is concerned with "neighborhood sustainability," and said outlying areas need better maintenance.
Lafferty wants a law that says bank-owned properties have to be kept up, and wants the city to respond to resident concerns about problem trees, he said.
"It's a common problem throughout the city," Lafferty said. "How do you make your neighborhood economically viable and how do you make it sustainable to live?"
Verel, who is single and was a world champion kickboxer, said the Council wanted someone who would support the mayor.
"I found this disheartening and disconcerting," he said.
Verel is a human resources consultant and has worked on legislation to regulate the martial arts industry, he said. He has been a consultant with Strategic Management Associates, which has operated under various names, since 2005, he said. If elected, he would leave that position, he said.
Verel said he is also chairman for the Martial Arts Hall of Fame and Museum, which is in negotiations for a permanent location.
He said he is concerned with vacant properties and bringing businesses into South Buffalo. He thinks his experience in the private sector will help.
"I will fight for private-sector industry and unionized jobs," Verel said.
The primary is not the last word in this race, but it is seen as essential for maintaining a viable candidacy. On the November ballot, Verel has the Republican line, and Scanlon has the Conservative line.
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quote: This is an interesting prediction, considering many saw the iPad mini as being far too expensive for a 7-inch tablet
quote: What some people are ignoring is the iPad mini is actually cutting into the sales of the larger iPads and the mini is expected to have a lower profit margin than the larger ones. Its not like people are picking up the both the 8" and the 10" they are picking up one of the other. Sales will probably start stalling in the next several months as they reach their maximum market penetration you either have an iPad already or your getting the mini if your staying with Apple. There is little repeat customers because the new ones are incremental upgrades not generational.iPhone 5 sales are flopping in China. Chinese consumers think its not that much of an increase over the 4s. The idea that one size phone fits all is not flying everywhere. Its still a big seller for AT&T here in the states but not around the world.The Mini might save it another quarter but without any miracles in the pipeline its only a matter of time. The stock is already showing weakness.
quote: We don't really have an older product. We only have new products. We just announced the fourth generation iPad.The way we look at this is that we provide a fantastic iPod touch, we provide an incredible fourth generation iPad, iPad mini and iPad 2," Cook continued. "Customers will decide which one, or two, or three, or all four of them they would like and will buy them.We've learned over the years not to worry about cannibalization of our own product," Cook explained. "It's much better for us to do that than for somebody else to do it.And the far, far bigger opportunity here are the 80-90 million PCs that are being sold per quarter," said Cook. "There's still over 300 million PCs being bought per year. And I think a great number of those people would be much better off buying an iPad or a Mac. And so I think that's a much better opportunity for Apple.And so, instead of being focused on cannibalising ourselves, I look at it much more that it's an enormous incremental opportunity for us.
quote: I think a great number of those people would be much better off buying an iPad or a Mac.
quote: iPhone 5 sales are flopping in China.
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The Stetson women's soccer team (1-2-0) earned its first victory of the season thanks to the head of junior Alyssa Welsh. The forward scored both of the Hatters' goals on headers, including the golden goal game-winner in Saturday night's 2-1 overtime victory over Embry-Riddle (1-1-0).
"We make jokes because I used to not be able to head the ball, so getting two header [goals] is like the best day of my life," Welsh said after the game.
The five-foot-eight junior certainly used her height and newfound heading ability on Saturday, propelling Stetson to the victory against the Eagles with a pair of scores. Welsh was getting a number of chances in the contest, but she wasn't able to put the Hatters on the board until the 62nd minute when she headed the ball over Embry-Riddle's goalkeeper to give Stetson a 1-0 lead.
Welsh finished with five total shots, but her only two on goal were the ones that counted, as they both found the back of the net. Her first score came off of an assist by junior Alexis Trybinski. The transfer chased a ball deep into the left corner, using her speed to beat the Eagle defenders. The forward played a long cross into the box that found Welsh's head and eventually the goal.
The Hatters continued to press in the second half, outshooting the Eagles 9-4 in the period, and 18-13 for the game, but it was Embry-Riddle that connected next. Junior Valerie Orbita made a great individual effort to beat two Stetson defenders and found the back of the net to tie the game at 1-1 in the 77th minute of play.
After the final horn of regulation sent the two squads into extra time, Stetson went on the offensive quickly, totaling three shots in just under four minutes of overtime action. Soon sophomore Colleen O'Kennedy ran onto a ball deep in the right corner of the field. She served up a perfect ball into the box, Welsh ran onto, and put the game away with yet another header goal.
"Lex [Trybinski] has amazing speed," Welsh said of her new teammate after the game. "She's a great addition to the team. I try to find her anytime I can because I know she's going to beat anybody to the ball. And Colleen has amazing skill; can place the ball right on my head."
The Hatters totaled six corner kicks in the victory, all coming in the second half and overtime, while the Eagles only managed two first half corners. Stetson's Victoria Troccoli made four saves in goal to pick up her first win in net for the Hatters. Embry-Riddle's Lauren Gallant finished with seven stops in the defeat.
"It's a great win," Head Coach Julie Orlowski said. "We've played better every game. It's the first time we put a whole 100 minutes together, but from start to finish we played with a great deal of intensity."
Stetson will next play in the Trojan Classic at Troy University. The Hatters will take on Jacksonville State on Friday, August 31 at 1:00 p.m. and then play the host Trojans on Sunday, September 2 at 1:00 p.m.
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Hot Links: U.S. officials acknowledge misleading public about the availabililty of swine flu vaccine
Federal officials took some responsibility yesterday for widespread public anger over the distribution of swine flu vaccine.
"Whether we meant to or not, I think we led expectations of availability to be higher than they have been," said Anne Schuchat (right), who heads the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "And so that, I think, can lead to frustration."
Schuchat testified before the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which reported her acknowledgment in a news release.
Committee chairman Joseph Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut, said the CDC initially "estimated that almost half the U.S. population would be in a priority group to receive the vaccine. However, an advisory group also generated a secondary and more limited list of those who were most at risk in case vaccine availability fell short of what was planned.
"This is exactly what happened, but states, counties, and cities were allowed to target whatever population they chose for vaccination. This has led to understandable public frustration and anger, mixed with confusion over just who should get vaccinated…. I worry that we are undermining confidence, generally, in the public health system, and that people most at risk are not only not getting the vaccine but have stopped trying."
The New York Times covered the hearing but barely touched on this issue.
Dallas County's health department is trying a new vaccine-distribution strategy with pharmacies, The Dallas Morning News' Jeffrey Weiss reports today.
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Dallas Mavericks small forward Shawn Marion (0) scores against the Golden State Warriors during the second half, Friday April 20, 2012.
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NORTH RIVER MILLS - Long before the modern convenience of conditioned air, the residents of North River Mills in Hampshire County experienced a chilling effect on what is known as Ice Mountain.
For thousands of years, ice has formed naturally on the mountain late into the spring and early summer months through a refrigeration effect that takes place deep inside its talus - a sloping mass of sandstone boulders at the foot of the 1,500-foot-tall mountain. This mass of sandstone boulders - Steve Kite, head of the Geology and Geography Department at West Virginia University, estimates it at 60 feet thick - traps dense, cold air, and ice masses form inside. As the weather warms, the cooler air flows out of vents among the rocks at the bottom of the slope, allowing ice to form when conditions are right.
In the 19th century, residents of North River Mills harvested the ice for lemonade and ice cream, among other items. Local residents also believe Native Americans used the area extensively and that both Union and Confederate troops visited during the Civil War.
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West Virginia University geologist Steve Kite describes the geologic features of Ice Mountain as Rodney Bartgis, state director of the Nature Conservancy in West Virginia, looks on.
Along with offering cool air - during a tour of the mountain last week Kite measured the outside temperature at 55 degrees and the temperature coming out of a vent at 49 degrees - the unique features of Ice Mountain have spurred the growth of several plant species - twinflowers, dwarf dogwood and bristly rose among them - that usually flourish only in more northern climates. What makes all this even more interesting is that the vents are only about 750 feet above sea level.
The Nature Conservancy purchased 159 acres of Ice Mountain in 1989 to protect the mountain's vents and plant species. The National Park Service last week recognized the conservancy's efforts in officially dedicating Ice Mountain as a National Natural Landmark.
"Ice Mountain ... contains unique geological and biological features that contribute to the understanding of our nation's natural heritage," said Beth Johnson of the National Park Service. "Our hope is that the NPS can help foster a better understanding of the natural resource we have here."
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Rodney Bartgis, state director of the Nature Conservancy in West Virginia, thanked all those who have assisted over the years in preserving Ice Mountain. He said each summer, New York City youth travel to the area to assist with tasks such as trail preservation and halting the spread of invasive grasses.
"We're in debt to the many people who have helped to protect Ice Mountain over the years," Bartgis said. "And without what's been done here over the past 20 years that the conservancy has been owner, we would not have (this) today."
But even with the conservancy's work, the unique features of Ice Mountain are in danger.
During a tour prior to the dedication, Bartgis and Kite outlined the dangers facing Ice Mountain. Chief among them is an apparent warming trend.
WVU's Kite has been collecting air temperature data at several ice vents for the past nine years. Prior to this year, the earliest the temperature from a vent had gone above 35 degrees Fahrenheit was May 16, 2011. This year, he recorded a temperature of about 2 degrees Celsius, or 35.5 degrees Fahrenheit, on April 25.
"As Dr. Kite has found, for things all of a sudden to be happening three weeks earlier ecologically, that's a pretty significant event," Bartgis said. "That's based on what's happened in the last (nine) years. We really don't have the information to know what that long-term trend is. ... One event doesn't necessarily mean this is what's going to continue happening. But in light of everything else that is going on with this planet, there's reason to be concerned that we have a warming event going on here."
"The general trend is that the last three years have been warmer, but this year stands out as exceptionally warmer than any of the years before," Kite added. "Again, we can go back to the historical narrative saying that ice was here until September, if that is accurately portrayed and not a product of managing for ice. ... I do know that in the '60s someone came here in August with a thermometer and measured (at a vent) 3.5 degrees Celsius (38.3 Fahrenheit). I've never seen anything colder in August than 7 degrees Celsius (44.6 Fahrenheit). That's 6 degrees Fahrenheit colder in the '60s than any temperature I've measured in my nine years."
Bartgis noted warmer temperatures from the vents earlier in the year could affect the life cycle of many of the mountain's plants.
"If something is all of a sudden blooming in the second or third week of May, and it's pollinated by some butterfly that's not going to fly until the first week of June, then its reproduction is shot for that year," he said. "It's even probably more significant for other species a lot of things that are common in West Virginia are not able to survive up in the higher elevations because of the shorter growing season. But if the growing season gets longer here, those things that are already common here could start spreading into where the rare species are ... and start outcompeting the rare species."
"From a geologist's perspective, the fact you have an odd plant or two you could blame it on bird droppings, whatever. ... Here you have an assemblage of plants, and it's hard to argue an assemblage of plants would come together through accidental bird dropping. I think this community has been here since the Ice Age, and probably over time has lost a few members as climate changed. That means that this system has probably been working for at least 10,000 years," Kite added.
Bartgis said the Nature Conservancy is concerned with the warming trend being recorded around West Virginia and the nation. Along with calling for reduced emissions to address climate change, the conservancy is taking the following steps at Ice Mountain to reduce stressors on the environment:
- volunteer-led hikes - this ensures that rare plants are not trampled by visitors who may stray from the trail; - controlling and monitoring invasive species such as the Japanese stilt grass, which is gaining a foothold on the mountain; - surveying for harmful insects and diseases in native plants; - treating the area's hemlock trees to control the woolly adelgid bug that could kill the trees. Hemlocks provide shade to also help keep Ice Mountain's ecosystem in balance.
The effort to protect and preserve Ice Mountain is appreciated in North River Mills.
"We know Native Americans used Ice Mountain, and both the North and the South were here during the Civil War," said lead volunteer Terry Bailes, who with her her husband Steve live next to the trailhead. "Our daughter got engaged here, and we renewed our wedding vows. We are just very moved by this."
Tours of Ice Mountain are by appointment only. For more information, call 304-496-7359.
Ice Mountain is West Virginia's 15th National Natural Landmark, and the second managed by The Nature Conservancy. The other is Cranesville Swamp, which sits on the Maryland/West Virginia border in Preston and Garrett counties.
- John McCabe is the managing editor of The Intelligencer in Wheeling, W.Va.


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Adam: rippon lutz,
Caroline: pearl spin
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Mao: 3A
Yuzuru: 3A+3T, 3A+3A+3A.. seq
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Michelle Kwan: Rachmaninoff SP
carolina Kostner: Bolero? (and, as her signature move, the 3F+3T+2Lo at the beginning of her FS, even if she didn't land it clean a lot of times!)
Jason Brown: as TMC said, Riverdance!
Jeremy Abbott: Muse FS
Savchenko/Szolkowy: Pink Panther FS (and then SP )
Yu-Na Kim: Gershwin FS
Virtue/Moir: Mahler FD (the one they'll be remembered for)
Patrick Chan: maybe Rachmaninoff SP? Or POTO?
Daisuke Takahashu: probably Blues for Klook
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Javier Fernandez does a rocker entry into his 3A, with a choctaw and waltz jump to spread eagle prior to it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K9zFHe8U1o
Kovtun also does a counter entry leading up to his 3A. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIwK1zrJYEI
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Re: Youghiogheny River, Fayette/Sommerset Co. 9/08/2012
2009/11/4 22:06
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thats wasn't a joke or some dirty methaphor
Posted on: 2012/9/13 9:23
Re: Youghiogheny River, Fayette/Sommerset Co. 9/08/2012
2008/6/25 9:41
From Pgh
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Of course not. This site is rated PG.
Posted on: 2012/9/13 9:43
"I used to like fishing because I thought it had some larger significance. Now I like fishing because it's the one thing I can think of that probably doesn't." --John Gierach
Re: Youghiogheny River, Fayette/Sommerset Co. 9/08/2012
2007/5/21 10:47
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Posted on: 2012/9/13 9:56
Re: Youghiogheny River, Fayette/Sommerset Co. 9/08/2012
2009/11/4 22:06
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oh yeah... you got the extended stay plan
they just gave me couple bags of morphine and a note that said "don't do that again"
but back to the topic at hand
so after a day of catching chunky risers, you kicked up a few rocks above your butterfly net, coming up empty and you want to say the river is dead?
Posted on: 2012/9/13 10:01
Re: Youghiogheny River, Fayette/Sommerset Co. 9/08/2012
2011/1/15 18:21
Posts: 6
Ok, to go along with what Fishidiot observed, I have read reports in newspapers etc. calling the yough "infertile". Whats the deal? It is a pseudo tailwater, arent they typically "very fertile" due to the plankton and algae growing in the stillwater above the dam release? This then leads to an incredible population of filter feeding insects. However, the yough cant be a true tailwater, because of it mixing with a freestone WW stream. So, what is it?
I have never noticed or observed much bug activity on the river. Ive never seen a fish rise. I havent seen much in the way of bug life on rocks. I have only seen a decent amount of stonefly shucks. Still, they are never too abundant.
Now, with all of this observation, I still wanted to ask fishidiot why he said the river was infertile. I even typed up a decent response last night, but never posted it. Like him, I have never noticed much in the way of bugs, but unlike him, I have always observed tons of baitfish, and enormous crayfish. I assume it cant be infertile if it holds that quantity of baitfish.
Cant agree more with what everyone said about the river. Everytime I walk away from the river, I have a heart to heart discussion with myself on whether i would ever care to fish it again. The answer is always "no". I hate it. Wading it requires so much effort. You walk the damn trail for miles to reach accessible stretches. All of this would be forgivable if you had banner days, but they never come. My last outing I managed two river chubs and one 11" smallmouth. I had 4 trout on(one of them being a beefy 18" bow) and a smallie around 16-17". This always happens. I hook into some decent fish after 7 hours of fishing and they get off. It is salt in the wound. And still, i go back. I dont know if I do it out of stupidity or what, but I cant get enough of the yough. I find myself day dreaming about it while commuting, and live for the day I "crack it". I am not 100% this river is even crackable, but im borderline obsessed with it.
Posted on: 2012/9/13 12:07
Re: Youghiogheny River, Fayette/Sommerset Co. 9/08/2012
2008/6/8 19:45
From Pittsburgh
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Its amazing how many people say similar things about their experiences there. I've had the same thoughts that you posted almost verbatim. Yet we always go back.
Is the consensus that the lack of favorable spawning habitat and water from the Casselman River entering at Confluence the main hang-ups preventing the Yough from being a world class tailwater?
The Yough is an enigma but one thing that has been scientifically proven is that the Pittsburgh Pirates have completely tanked it since this picture was taken.
Carry on...
Posted on: 2012/9/13 13:10
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Re: Youghiogheny River, Fayette/Sommerset Co. 9/08/2012
2006/9/21 0:02
From Pittsburgh
Posts: 333
The yough is quite complex.
It is a tail water for sure - just have to check the 50 degree water flowing from the dishcharge all summer. But then it only flows for a mile or so , and in comes the combined flows of the casselman river and laurel hill creeks. Both of those streams get quite warm in the summer, and up the overall river temps quite a bit.
I've never seen much in the way of hatches in that first mile of outflow - and have also wondered why that is. Guess it's due to infertility from the lake.
Below the junction, there are some sparse hatches. Nothing like you see on the central PA limestoner's. But enough to get some fish rising for sure. You just have to look in the right spots.
As for wading it - some spots are a bear for sure. But there are also stretches that aren't that tough.
Overall, it's a river that definitely needs to be learned. I've been doing that for about 25 years now. And I gotta say, it's really well worth the time and effort.
Posted on: 2012/9/13 13:22
Re: Youghiogheny River, Fayette/Sommerset Co. 9/08/2012
2010/2/18 8:57
From SW PA
Posts: 77
There are plenty of others who know the river much better than I. But what I have observed; the fish rise pretty well if there is something, anything, on the water. They are also pretty quick to get back up and feeding, after the many rafters. So those are good things the river has going for it.
That being said I guess I need another 20 years to get a little better perspective.lol.
Regarding the "infertile" description. I personally read that in a report from Rick Lorson, PAFBC coldwater biologist. It was an older report. Maybe somone has a more recent one. The one point that seems evident; it is a better river now than it once was. Perhaps it will contunue that trend.
Posted on: 2012/9/13 17:16
Hatches come and go of their own accord, but work will wait for you to get back.
Re: Youghiogheny River, Fayette/Sommerset Co. 9/08/2012
2011/1/15 18:21
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Multiple guys with over 20 years on the river giving me similar reports doesnt exactly boost my confidence. I typically cant string days together on the yough, because i walk away feeling that humbled and disheartened. In a few weeks, I am going to give it another go. Its been 2-3 since my last hat handing.
Posted on: 2012/9/13 19:20
Re: Youghiogheny River, Fayette/Sommerset Co. 9/08/2012
2010/2/18 8:57
From SW PA
Posts: 77
Let say that, first off, I've been floating the river. In many instances, the riseforms are very subtle. Very subtle. And often times, they're mid-river, possibly unreachable to a wading angler.
That's not to say there aren't good spots that offer a wading angler a good shot at rising fish. But they're clearly are not all over the place.
I don't know how long you've been at this, but it does take time. Be observant, gather the help that some of the other guys here can provide. Its getting late already this year, but maybe next spring I can float with you down there and we can try to figure something out about this place.
Good Luck
Posted on: 2012/9/13 21:06
Hatches come and go of their own accord, but work will wait for you to get back.
Re: Youghiogheny River, Fayette/Sommerset Co. 9/08/2012
2011/5/26 10:12
From Dauphin PA
Posts: 24
I thought the "infertility" label was applied due to the ph levels. I fished it once 20-25 years ago. Too dangerous to wade but caught a few on clouser crayfish. I also think the infertile label is making reference to the lack of insect hatches. I understand the Yough below the dam in Md is an exceptional fishery. I'll make the drive out if you want to hit that section one day.
Posted on: 2012/9/14 7:19
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Re: Youghiogheny River, Fayette/Sommerset Co. 9/08/2012
2006/9/9 9:29
From Monessen, PA
Posts: 1658
I miss the Yough. I haven't fished it in a good while. But there are certain areas where the fish consistently rise. There are hatches, but rarely of the blizzard type. This has been improving in my opinion over even the last ten years that I've been sampling it with the long-rod.
I don't know if "infertile" is the perfect description, but it certainly shouldn't be thought of as "fertile" either. I suggest "relatively infertile" as an artful compromise.
Posted on: 2012/9/14 7:34
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Re: Youghiogheny River, Fayette/Sommerset Co. 9/08/2012
2007/5/21 10:47
Posts: 8
I've read that report, too. I wonder about the PFBC, though, and how accurate their reports are.
For instance, I ran into a guy from there this summer at a gas station in the morning. He saw the drift boat and came over to say hello and asked where we were fishing. I told him the Yough and he wanted more specificity because he'd been electro-shocking the river. I told him where we were putting in and he said to me that there were very few trout in that section of river. "Not a fishable population" were his exact words.
I thought he must have been joking or mistaken. But he wasn't. I was actually a bit worried. I hadn't been fishing this piece of river because of the low, warm water, but things had changed and I had decided to give it go. So I drove there thinking that maybe the heat or something else had caused a kill this summer. Needless to say, this PFBC guy who was in charge of counting fish on the river was absolutely wrong. Not even in the ballpark.
It was a bluebird day, but in spite of that, after seven hours of fishing, we still put over thirty trout ranging in size from 7-20 inches in the boat So any report that comes out of the FBC on the river is automatically suspect in my opinion. If anyone works for them and would like to comment, feel free. But that that information is going to come out in an official report and that someone got paid to be that incompetent is criminal. Is the whole organization that ineffectual?
As for fertility, if we're using that word to describe hatch density, then no, the river does not compare to some of the better hatch streams and rivers across the state. That being said, there are plenty of bugs, baitfish, crayfish, aquatic annelids, freshwater shrimp, and sowbugs in the river to maintain a nice population of trout and bass that grow to exceptional size.
There are hatches, and they generally come off like clockwork every day at the same time, and you can find trout eating every stage of that particular bug if you know when and where to look.
I don't know many people who've spent more time than myself chasing trout on the Yough. Is it a hard river to learn? Definitely. I learn new things about it constantly. And fishing being what it is, there are going to be tough days. But I personally haven't fished any other Pennsylvania trout water that is more productive in terms of quality fish on a day in, day out basis than the Yough.
That's all.
Posted on: 2012/9/14 9:35
Re: Youghiogheny River, Fayette/Sommerset Co. 9/08/2012
2006/11/2 8:50
Posts: 600
Regarding the fertility of the Yough. The pH readings are listed on the USGS gauge at Confluence. The current reading is 6.7.
Posted on: 2012/9/14 9:38
Re: Youghiogheny River, Fayette/Sommerset Co. 9/08/2012
2006/9/11 21:48
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It was a bluebird day, but in spite of that, after seven hours of fishing, we still put over thirty trout ranging in size from 7-20 inches in the boat So any report that comes out of the FBC on the river is automatically suspect in my opinion. If anyone works for them and would like to comment, feel free. But that that information is going to come out in an official report and that someone got paid to be that incompetent is criminal. Is the whole organization that ineffectual?
Hey YoughRG...
On these big rivers I would not put much weight into the PFBC reports. Shocking rivers of this size is very inefficient. The PFBC is use to shocking the many small freestone streams and when they are put to the task of shocking big trout rivers, they just aren't equipped to do it properly.
We have had the same issues on the Lehigh River. PFBC goes out and shocks and can't find a fish. Yet the same pool they shocked earlier, in evening there are dozens of trout rising. Go figure!!!
Any shocking the PFBC does on these big trout rivers is just a "snap shot" at any type of trout population and should not be taken as the "gospel" with regard to fishable populations of trout.
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Swan Hills Swimming Club
Thornlie Swim Club
Tuart Hill Swimming Club
West Coast Swimming Club
Discovering Inclusion (1 Star)
Arena Swim Club
Boddington Swwimming Club
Southlake Dolphins
Victoria Park Swimming Club
Westside Christchurch Aquatic Club
For the full list of results click here
Congratulations to all clubs who completed the workbooks.