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Analysis of 2010 Mid-Term Elections
The mid-term elections will create change in the Nation's capital in the 112th Congress. Below is a brief analysis of what the election results will mean for the myeloma community. Of course, how this will all settle out will evolve over the coming weeks as some congressional races are not even decided yet. Below is a quick first look at what the changes mean.
Republicans needed a net gain of 39 seats to reach the 218 seat majority for control of the House. With 7 House races to be finalized at the time of writing this article, the Republicans picked up more than 60 seats to bring their majority to 239. The House Democrats have 189 seats. Current Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) is expected to become Speaker with current Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) likely to become Majority Leader. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has announced her intention to run for Minority Leader in the 112th Congress. Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) is expected to become Minority Whip.
With Republicans regaining control of the House, look for them to take steps to try to roll back portions of health care reform and other Democratic agenda items. But without control of the Senate, House Republicans will need Democrats there to vote with them to get bills passed. Additionally, they will need the signature of President Obama who opposes at least parts of that agenda.
Republicans made gains in the Senate but came up short of the 10 seats they needed to win control. With one seat still to be determined, the seat count in the Senate is 53 Democrats to 46 Republicans. Important Senate results include Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) fending off a challenge from a Tea Party candidate while Senator-Elect Rand Paul (R-KY) pulls off an upset for the Tea Party in Kentucky. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) appears to be winning a write-in campaign to keep her seat though it will be weeks before all of the write-in ballots are counted. If victorious, she would be the first Senator elected by write-in vote in more than half a century.
Health Committee Membership
With respect to the Appropriations Committees, both the House and the Senate will need to appoint several new members due to retirements and election losses in the coming weeks. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) will remain as Chairman of the relevant Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education (LHHS) Appropriations Subcommittee. In the House, both LHHS Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman David Obey (D-WI) and Ranking Member Todd Tiahrt (R-KS) are retiring at the end of this session. Both Republicans and Democrats will likely figure out full Committee membership seniority before finalizing the LHHS Appropriations Subcommittee leadership posts.
With respect to authorizing committees with jurisdiction over health legislation, four Republicans are expected to vie for the chairmanship of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Current Ranking Member Joe L. Barton (R-TX) has made it clear that he wants to take back the gavel he wielded when Republicans last controlled the House—in spite of the caucus rule on Committee leadership term limits. Other potential contenders for the gavel are Representatives Fred Upton (R-MI), John Shimkus (R-IL), and Cliff Stearns (R-FL).
Representative Dave Camp (R-MI) will take the gavel as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. Current Chairman Sander M. Levin (D-MI) might face a challenge for the Ranking Member spot from Richard Neal (D-MA).
In the Senate, Senator Harkin will remain as Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee. Senator Charles E. Grassley (R-IA), who has a close working relationship with Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) and traded the gavel with him multiple times over the past decade, will step aside as Ranking Member because of term limits imposed by Senate Republicans. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) will take over as Chairman of the Finance Committee in the 112th Congress.
Lame-Duck Session Begins November 15th
Congress will return on November 15th for a lame-duck session, probably lasting just two or three weeks. A "lame-duck session" is one that occurs after an election but before the new Congress is sworn in. The election results make it much less likely that the lame-duck session will address much substantive legislation—even though funding for government agencies, expiring tax cuts, the Medicare physician fee fix, and other important issues are hanging in limbo. Most of these issues will be dealt with next year. Our sources on Capitol Hill have indicated that the delay of final Congressional decisions on fiscal year (FY) 2011 funding levels will result in another short term continuing resolution (CR) through early next year with Republicans then pushing a year-long CR at FY 2010 levels.


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Rule 5 Draft Update
The Toronto Blue Jays have designated RHP Randy Wells for assignment.
Wells was selected by the Jays from the Cubs AAA Iowa roster in the Major League phase of the MLB Rule 5 Draft last December, and although he pitched well enough in Spring Training to earn a slot on Toronto's Opening Day 25-man roster, he finally got caught in a numbers game
The Jays now have ten days to either trade or outright Wells, although they actually have to do something with him within eight days because it takes two days for a player to clear waivers.
If the Blue Jays trade Wells to another club, the new club assumes the Rule 5 obligations (player must remain on the club's 25-man roster for the entire 2008 season).
If the Jays can't find a trading partner, they will place him on Outright Assignment Waivers, and if he goes unclaimed, the Cubs will have the opportunity to reacquire Wells for $25,000 (half the Rule 5 Draft price). If the Cubs choose not to reclaim Wells, the Blue Jays get to keep him, and he is automatically outrighted to the minors.
But the Cubs historically always take back Rule 5 players if they get the chance (Dubois, Szuminski, Hagerty, Mateo, Holdzkom, and Campusano), so if they are given the opportunity to reacquire Wells, they almost certainly will.
Also, RHP Tim Lahey was Designated for Assignment by the Phillies last Saturday, and the Phils will need to trade Lahey by this weekend or else place him on Outright Assignment Waivers.
Lahey was the #1 pick in the 2007 Rule 5 Draft, as the Tampa Bay Rays selected the big right-hander from the Minnesota Twins AAA Rochester club. Then immediately after the draft, the Rays sold the rights to Lahey to the Cubs for $100,000 (twice the Rule 5 Draft price).
The rubber-armed Lahey showed some flashes of upside in Spring Training, but he is still a bit raw (a converted catcher, he's only been pitching for two years), and the Cubs didn't have a spot for him on the 25-man roster. So he was placed on Outright Assignment Waivers two weeks ago, just before the start of the regular season.
Lahey was claimed off waivers by Philadelphia (with the Phillies assuming the Rule 5 obligations), but got into no games with the Phillies before being Designated for Assignment last Saturday to make room on the 25-man roster for Brad Lidge, who was reactivated from the DL at that time.
Just as with Wells and the Jays, the Phillies have 10 days to either trade or outright Lahey, but if they don't trade him, they have to place him on Outright Asignment Waivers within eight days, because it takes two days for a player to clear waivers. If Lahey does clear waivers this time, then he must be offered back to the Twins.
And if Lahey was in fact the tentative PTBNL in the Craig Monroe deal, then the Twins will certainly opt to reclaim Lahey, and if that happens, then he can be traded to the Cubs.
One thing to remember about MLB Rule 6 (the rule that governs the disposition of Rule 5 players who are not retained on a 25-man roster) is that if the player clears waivers and his original club takes him back, he is automatically outrighted back to the AAA club from which he was drafted. He is NOT placed on the club's 40-man roster.
So if the Cubs do reclaim Wells from TOR and/or reacquire Lahey from MIN, both would initially be assigned outright to AAA Iowa, and would not have to be added to the Cubs 40-man roster. However, both Wells and Lahey (if they were to be reacquired by the Cubs) would be candidates for recall later this season, and both would likely be added to the Cubs 40-man roster by the end of the season.
It would be nice to have arms like Wells and Lahey at Iowa to provide the Cubs some additional middle-relief depth for later in the season.
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I'm more interested in Wells. Hopefully, we'll get him back.
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Lahey and Wells should be welcome additions/re-acs to the organ-I-zation at this point.
Are all free agents after this season. As the Sox's signings of the immortals Dotel/Linebrink show us. The cost of Relief pitching on the Free Agent market is beyond prohibitive at this point. I do imagine that Dempster and Howry will be Type A free agents at season's end. Wood will probably be a type B free agent. If enough of the Piggy,Ceda,Roquette,Mateo,Lahey,Wells,Petrick could make the jump next year. Then the cubs could theoretically get a HUGE boost of high level talent into the farm system next summer.
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Of that list, I only see Howry as leaving against our wishes, to a team that may promise him a closer job. I think Wood will resign, I would not miss Eyre and Lieber much. And lord knows what the valuation for Dempster will be.
But you're right on the point--middle relievers are better made, not bought.
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It would be good to have both. Both of them have potential. As a converted cacther, Lahey, it seems, is a victim of this rule. Too raw to be on a major league roster but too much minor league experience to be parked in AA or AAA. I hope his travels end soon, it cannot be good for his development to be shuttled around like this. Of the two, however, I think it's possibly Lahey could get claimed off waivers by yet another team.
Here is an interesting take on the Roberts non-trade:
"For all the names we heard bounced around, it doesn't appear there was ever a time when each club had its "best" offer, or even a viable offer, on the table and the other side said no."
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looking at the utter nonsense speculative CRAP that came outta both the santana and bedard trade rumors i'm not really surprised.
the santana ones got so absurd and out-there that once he finally was traded people were screaming about how the twins got ripped off...then the whole "oh yeah, someone's gotta turn around and pay this guy 1/10th billion dollars to retain him after getting him" sunk in...
OFF TOPIC: Someone, anyone, EXPLAIN THIS MOVE
5th inning, Reds have just tied the game 1-1 on a Paul Bako double. Runners on 2nd and 3rd (Hatteburg) with one out. The pitcher (Harang) at the plate with hot hitting (4 HR) Corey Patterson due up next.
Dusty Baker calls for a squeeze bunt/double steal.
What was he thinking?
0-1, Harang misses the 83 mph slider down and away (0-2) and Hatteburg is a dead duck. Bako safe at third. Harang then strikes out to end the inning.
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Paul Bako's still in MLB? Wow.
Re: OFF TOPIC: Someone, anyone, EXPLAIN THIS MOVE
i think that's called a squeeze. it's pretty common.
its harang at bat...a guy who's majority of BP that's taken seriously is bunting.
he's an automatic out...it's a manager's gamble to figure out how to use it.
i'd be willing to bet a lot of money the infield wasn't in or expecting it.
Re: i think that's called a squeeze
I stipulated that, stop being such a condescending asshat
Re: i think that's called a squeeze
stay on subject...
"OFF TOPIC: Someone, anyone, EXPLAIN THIS MOVE"
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It's Dusty! Common sense need not apply. He obviously brought the dice with him to Cincinnati.
Re: It's Dusty! Common sense need not apply
Sure doesn't. Dusty managed the Reds out of at least two runs today with some strange moves as noted by the broadcast crew.
In the end it didn't matter. The Reds won.
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The Bako!
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Dusty's greatest managerial success came at the same time, in the same city as Billy Beane was rising to prominence. You know it had to really dig at Dusty personally that some "schmuck" that wasn't half the ballplayer he was. Was all the sudden stealing his Bay Area limelight. I always suspected that this is why Dusty did/does try so hard to go against the modern baseball grain so vigorously. I imagine Dusty was probably a better manager in the late 90's before he had such an old school baseball way of doing, axe to grind.
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i still believe its players that make a team and the overpaid babysitter is just a guy.
i dont think dusty tried hard to go against the grain, its just that the limelight in the media of the "new kinda baseball" goes against what dustbag's always done.
for all the talk of pitchers he ruined...he sent 1 to surgery his tenure in SF, a reliever.
for all the talk of kids he didnt play...you dont hear much about the ones he did play and the ones that didnt that went on to play regularly...well, you dont hear much about them either cuz most never did.
for all the talk about elderly men in suits who dont even pick up a bat or ball...meh...
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In San Fran you may have a point. Sabean has never really gotten around to building a farm system. In Chicago though. It seemed like Hendry/McFail were always building teams around "Dusty guys". Fast,versitile,good bunting middling vets. Maybe if Dusty were a little more open to playing kids. We would have a better idea of what kind of future was in store for the Cedeno's, Theriot's,Murton's of the world.
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dusty's the guy who actually played murton. he got 1/2 the AB's last year and is in AAA this year.
dusty's the guy who "let theriot in" at the end of his tenure and besides, its theriot...he hits singles, he occasionally walks, he plays average D...he's "good enough"
and cedeno...dusty played him a full season.
i just don't get all the piling on dustbag that don't hold up to history. his career is full of criticism that just don't add up looking at results.
hell, i'm glad he's gone, but he don't deserve most of the hell he gets.
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In all fairness. None of those things really happen if Hendry didnt take Hollandsworth,Neifi,walker,Hairston and Tony Womack out of the equation.
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hendry put those guys in the equation.
hell, hairston was actually a bright spot on the club compared to the production of the rest aside from some baserunning. if todd "ow" walker could have managed to not miss 2 months a year that would helped.
when you got a choice between neifi, bynum, and cedeno you're never gonna win as a manger. he played "the kid" and still "lost". he could play a vet and still lose the mental game of the fans, too. its flavors of suck...
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If Hairston was a bright spot then Walker was a star. Virtually same nubmer of at-bats in 2005 and Walker's OPS+ was 112, compared to Hairston's 82. And what I remember most about Hairston was that he thought he was fast but wasn't. 8 SB with 9 CS is atrocious.
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End o'subject?
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Cubs fans still talkin' about Dusty, funny shit!!! Hey guys move on, you got the next greatest old school manager at the helm right now...:)
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I agree with you, at least on the Dusty part.
Dusty was the Cubs' manage 2 years ago. I am not really sure how he is relevant to the Cubs now, unless the Cubs are actually playing the Reds.
Getting updates of Dusty's boneheadedness is getting old.
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God, I'm sick of hearing about Dusty f'ing Baker. I dislike him as much as the next Cubs fan, but I'm going to stab myself in the eye with a spork if I keep reading analysis of every move he makes. Can we at least save that for when we're actually playing his team?
Weather don't look good...
our weather widget says 30% chance of rain
map shows a huge green blob approaching
Re: Weather don't look good...
Rain-out, or rain-shortened, wouldn't be the worst thing after a 15 inning game where you used all of your good relievers.
Would like to have a whack at Matt Morris, though.
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Maybe we can all agree that Dusty did the monster managerial suck of all time during the playoffs vs. the Marlins. My wife still remembers me screaming at the TV screen, pleading with Dusty to please go out to the farkin' mound and calm Prior down (not to mention telling Alou to keep his panties from twisting into a knot as well). You know, do something of value in that situation, which is what would usually be expected from a decent manager in a critical moment. But Dusty's ass stayed planted to the bench - unreal. His apologists came out in droves after that game, intimating that hey, you can only go with the players you have, and they're professionals and should be able to figure it out for themselves - but what the heck is a manager's job in the end?
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I personally can never forgive batting Neifi 2nd becasue he was a "contact guy" --- a contact guy who had one of the worst OBPs in baseball..
However -- Dusty did manage a team that had Simon/Karros at first base (neither did anything afterwards), was mediocre at 2B, SS and catcher and had a nothing bullpen to within 5 outs of the WS. Best anyone has done in a long time.
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Come on man, we all know we won in spite of Dusty and Hendry deserves the kudos. Get it straight man!!! :)
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Hopefully Pirates don't call up A. Lincoln.
j.buchanan going friday...should be...baseball...or something like it.
Wow. I didn't know they could do that.
Nice for Willson, not so much for Addy.
Game is officially called...also officially a tie.
Stats count, no make-up date of course.
Yeah -- seeing the weather -- I hope KB and Rizz are inside, wrapped in blankets and drinking hot chocolate.
rain delay...thanks obama.
Thanks again Phil. We actually were in Mesa and drove around. Hopefully, I am back for some Fall League. If not I have all of spring training (like the smart people who move here!)
What Rob G said. I can't speak for Piittsburgh, but the other end of the state has had absolute crap weather for two days. Perfect day to take it easy.
tarp came off 10 minutes ago...let's do this.
He will not pitch another game for Cubs
/Unless injury in playoffs
Today is bullpen day
10/450 if they win WS
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Even though Hammel is missing start, don't assume he'll not be on #Cubs postseason roster. Maddon says elbow problem isn't that bad
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Maddon on #Cubs postseason rotation: "I don't want to announce anything. We haven't talked to anybody yet"
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Maddon hopes Soler can take BP in Cincy, play in sim game Tue. "All of that should give us some kind of indication of where he's at"
tarp on the field 40 minutes before gametime...meh.
travel day + rain in Pittsburgh. Why risk injury?


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on March 15, 2013 - 10:13 PM
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The shoes are carefully crafted by young mothers, grandmothers and other Native American women who live in the region's urban areas. Under the guidance of elder Vivian Bradley, participants in the Native American center's Healthy Generations Project learn a simple, useful skill and, along with it, the more important lessons that come from finding a supportive community, gaining an appreciation of their own culture and being able to transfer those gifts to their children.
"We're small, and we're diverse – that's a challenge, but it's also a blessing," said Michael Martin, 39.
A Buffalo State College graduate, he is executive director of the Grant Street center, which provides assistance in matters of economic support, family services, Medicaid coordination, alcohol abuse, health and wellness, and cultural development.
"We can see things in a holistic way – we see the whole family, the whole life," Martin said.
In a nutshell, that is the mandate for everyone at Native American Community Services and one they hope to share with other helping agencies. Except for two programs – workforce development and healthy generations – the Native American center works with all populations, native or not. The belief is that the more people who have been disenfranchised know and value about themselves, the better their chances for improved lives, whether it be finding a job, escaping addiction or making healthier choices for themselves and their families.
To that end, the center – on the second floor of a renovated school building at 1005 Grant St. that also houses a YMCA and apartments – is expanding to three days its training program on Native American Cultural Competency, which is March 26-28. Western New Yorkers working in prevention services, social services, health care, law enforcement and mental health are among the many invited to attend.
It could be eye-opening for them.
The programs each day will correspond to the past, present and future of the Haudenosaunee (ho DEE no SHO nee). Once known as Iroquois, they are the people of the Six Nations – Seneca, Cayuga, Oneida, Mohawk, Onondaga and Tuscarora – who controlled the lands between Lake Erie and the Hudson River for centuries.
The first day of the training will cover "Ongwehonweh: kah," or traditional teachings – the creation story, the Great Law of Peace, and an understanding of the two-row wampum belt, which helps explain why many Native Americans, though in Western culture, still remove themselves from it.
The training on March 27 will be of particular interest to those in various helping agencies because it focuses on "The Impact of Historical Trauma" on the native population.
"We see so many problems related to historical trauma," said Terri Lyn Summers, coordinator of the Healthy Generations Project. The trauma for the first Americans goes beyond the violence of being pushed from, or into corners of, their native territories. Starting more than a century ago, many families also were torn apart when their children were taken away to Indian boarding schools to be "civilized." Martin quotes the infamous policy of "kill the Indian and save the man," credited to Col. Richard Pratt, who founded one of the original schools at a military barracks in the late 1800s and ran it for 25 years.
The impact of this federally mandated obliteration of native culture continues to reverberate, even though the government itself eventually reversed course on its treatment of Indians. Some of the center's funding comes from government programs to help restore what was lost and to attempt to repair the damage caused.
"There is a lot of inaccurate information out there," said Pete Hill, Native American Services director of health and wellness. "There is not a lot in the American and Canadian education systems that talks about Native American history, so we approach those issues as well."
But they do it in a positive way.
"We realize that [those attending] are here with good purpose," he said. "We don't use the history to blame anyone – it's to try to explain and understand, and to create a safe space to ask questions."
Following the native principle of looking ahead, rather than only honoring the past, the program on March 28 is "Clearing the Path for the Seventh Generation," a nod to native teachings that every generation must consider how its actions will affect descendents far into the future.
Already the past and future are coming together for students in Brandon Martin's Mohawk language classes. The group meets once a week at the center for two intensive hours of "conversational Mohawk," in anticipation of qualifying for a federally funded Mohawk language immersion class set to start in May. Those who make the cut – they must have a fundamental understanding of the root words of the language – will meet for 30 hours each week for about eight months to achieve at least a moderate fluency.
The loss of native speakers – due to both the Indian schools policy and to Native Americans' natural assimilation into mainstream culture – can be devastating from a historical perspective.
As Michael Martin explains: "When we try to pass on our teachings in another language, much of the meaning gets lost." Concepts get buried, oversimplified or just plain erased. He gives a simple example. In English, people call their children's children their "grandchildren." In the language of Martin's ancestors, those same people are more accurately referred to as something like "my legacy," describing a connection far deeper and more spiritual than the mere biological.
The mood at the center these days is optimistic, and the feeling is one of greater connection with the region's 14,000-plus Native Americans, in Buffalo and through its office on Main Street in Niagara Falls.
"It's coming together," Michael Martin says. "It's the right time."
The Native American Cultural Competency training sessions are March 26, 27 and 28 from 8:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at 1005 Grant St. Cost is $100 for all three days; $40 for each single day, and includes all materials and lunch. For training content information, contact Pete Hill at firstname.lastname@example.com; to register, contact Laurel Mark at firstname.lastname@example.com, or call 874-2797, Ext. 334. Deadline to register is Wednesday.
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Do you feel the population of the Eastern Panhandle is healthier now than it was 10 years ago?
Let's see, we just hit #5 on the fattest cities in America when paired with Hagerstown, also up there for unhappiest city in a similar ranking. Plus, most of our educated younger population leaves if they get a chance, the same folks who tend to lead healthier lifstyles. NO, there is no way we are more healthy than 10 years ago.
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To celebrate YouTube's Geek Week, Internet duo Rhett and Link created a "middle school musical" to recap the first five seasons of Breaking Bad, which returns to AMC Aug. 11.
They're all there – a hooded Jesse (Logan Prince, yo), a pregnant Skyler (Delaney Joy) – even chicken entrepreneur/drug lord-with-half-his-face Gus (Kyle Villalovos) – singing with sweet-faced sincerity how Walt "has cancer and he's breaking bad."
In this wonderfully inappropriate and sure-to-offend someone incarnation, however, Walt (Logan Gould) and Jesse are making "rock candy" instead of meth.
Watch Walt transform from mild-mannered teacher to drug lord – or as Gould sings, "I used to be Kenny G now I'm hard rock." At least, do it for the singing and dancing bag of blue meth – er, candy.


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on March 16, 2013 - 10:34 PM
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Villages in Niagara County will look to the polls on Tuesday – paying special attention to the challenges of attracting new revenues and holding the line on costs.
Contested mayoral elections will draw voters to the polls in Wilson and Barker. In Middleport, an incumbent mayor and trustees face no challenge.
Polls will be open from noon to 9 p.m. in all three village halls.
There are no village elections planned for Youngstown or Lewiston this year.
In Wilson, Deputy Mayor Bernard "Bernie" Leiker is running against Trustee Gerard "Jerry" Kadryna.
In Barker, Mayor Herbert "Herb" Meyer faces competition from Trustee Aaron Nellist.
Also in Barker, political newcomers Mark Wilson and Gregory Kerth are running unchallenged for two available trustee spots.
In Middleport, Mayor Richard Westcott and Trustees Wayne Blumrick and Rebecca Hinkson face no opposition at the polls, for terms of two more years in office.
Here is how the village races around the county shape up.
Kadryna and Leiker have been running the village as a two-man board since former mayor Patrick Kelahan resigned last fall to move with his family to Newfane.
Now, they are facing off in a bid for mayor to lead this village of 1,300 residents. One will win and one will lose – and will likely stay on as a trustee.
Kadryna is backed by the Republican, Independence and Wilson Taxpayer parties. Leiker is running on the Democratic and Wilson Community party lines.
Leiker, 64, and his wife, Colleen, moved to Wilson six years ago from Williamsville, after he retired as an English teacher and administrator in the Williamsville School District. They have one son.
Leiker currently serves as president of the Wilson Lions Club and has been active in numerous organizations, including Watch Wilson Grow and the Wilson Business and Professional Association.
"I don't think of the job of mayor as part time – it takes a full-time commitment," Leiker said. "I strive to make the village safer and better."
Leiker said he's been in touch with the Empire State Development Corp. to try to secure funding to fix up the village's main street, Lockport Street, and local parks. He said the state encourages multi-use buildings on a community's main street, and the village's Planning Board is currently working on rezoning to allow for this. The village and town also are close to adopting a Master Plan, he said.
"State money looks very promising for us to help fix up some of these buildings," Leiker said. "We're looking at new facades for buildings along the main street, new streetscapes, sidewalks and lighting. ... I'm pretty excited because I think we're on the threshold of something, and it could really help tourism here."
Leiker also pointed to a number of initiatives, like providing sidewalks from Lake Street to Krueger Park, and the establishment of a Welcome Center and dog park in Krueger Park, as well as the planned construction of a Dollar General store in the village.
"We are partnering with all of the local organizations to make the village better, but a lot more work has to be done," he said.
Helping find creative ways to fund the dredging of the harbor and reducing village costs – perhaps through shared services with the town – are two important issues facing the board, Leiker said.
"When I became a trustee, I developed a foundation to become mayor," he said. "I worked hard as a trustee and as the deputy mayor. The ability to partner with people to make things happen – that's the key here."
Kadryna, 64, has been employed as the store manager at Wilson Lakeside Market since 1990.
A Buffalo native, he moved to Wilson more than two decades ago. He and his wife, Gail, have five children. He has served as the announcer for Wilson High School football and basketball games for more than 10 years and also has coached baseball for many years.
Kadryna is heading the Wilson Sports Boosters' Wall of Fame golf tournament and has long been involved in other community fundraisers. He also is a past president of the Wilson Lions Club.
Kadryna said rising sewer rates brought on by the departure of Pfeiffer Foods in November 2009 – which erased 150 jobs – weighs heavily on residents' minds, as does keeping the tax rate down.
"We lost a big user when we lost Pfeiffer, and we're working to get someone in there and get it working again, and we hope shortly to have someone in there," he said.
"We need to get new businesses into our area," Kadryna said. "We have to upgrade our main street and our Planning Board is working right now on rezoning some of the district to help people who may want to have businesses in their homes."
"Wilson is a summer-type place, but my goal is to make it a destination year round," Kadryna said. "Look at the Woodcock Brothers (Brewery) – the time and money they invested in that is unbelievable, and it's probably the jewel of Wilson right now."
"We need to push – and push hard – to get our harbor dredged because our community thrives on that, and once people stop coming here because they're afraid their boats will get stuck, trying to get them to come back here is the hardest thing in the world," Kadryna said.
Kadryna said he's "proud of Wilson and I believe in its potential. We need to hold government accountable to our neighbors and I want to be an independent voice in our government."
Kadryna was elected to a four-year trustee term last March. Leiker was elected a trustee in March 2010. The new mayor is expected to appoint someone shortly for a one-year term in order to restore the full three-person board.
Meyer is finishing his first two-year term as mayor of this village of 540 residents.
A retired master sergeant in the U.S. Air Force and Air National Guard, Meyer, 78, served 17 years on the Planning Board before joining the Village Board as a trustee in 2010. He was elected without competition to succeed Mayor JoAnn Greenwald when she retired in 2011.
Meyer and his wife, Janet, have four children and have lived in Barker for 20 years. Meyer has served as an emergency medical technician for 20 years for the Barker Fire Department. He's also treasurer of the Somerset Conservation Club and a member of the Somerset Masonic Lodge.
Meyer counts his oversight of the completion of Phase II of the water line replacement project as among his proudest accomplishments as mayor. By replacing 100-year-old lines, the project has also boosted the pressure and volume of water available for volunteer firefighters.
Last May, the Village Board awarded a $749,721 contract to Milhurst Construction to complete the project begun in 2010. The village had received a $743,491 state grant for Phase I of the project in 2009, bolstered by federal economic stimulus money.
Meyer also said the village is "moving forward" on redeveloping the former Birds Eye processing plant land. In 2007, the village purchased a seven-acre portion of the property and has been trying to market it for redevelopment ever since.
Within the past year, two parcels have been sold on the property, Meyer said. While the plans for one of the parcels are on hold, the other is being cleaned up to make way for a micro-brewery, he said.
"Our Planning Board chairman, Bob Longstreet, is working on a long-range plan for that property and there are several possibilities, including a senior living complex," Meyer said.
Nellist, 34, is finishing his first term as a trustee.
An employee of the State Canal Corp. since 2001, Nellist and his wife, Heather, have two children in the Barker schools. He has lived in the village since 1997, but attended Barker schools. He is a youth baseball coach and vice president of Local 527 for the State Canal Corp.
"We've been able to work through our differences on this board for what's in the best interest for the community," Nellist said. "The biggest thing has been to see the water line project through to completion – that was a long process, but we're starting to reap the benefits."
"I think the village's relationship with the town could be better," he said. "We lost our police contract with the town last year, and I think it's redundant to have police in the town and in the village, and we could sit down and hash something out. I think we can share costs with the town on some other things, too."
A year ago, the Somerset Town Board voted to sever its 22-year contract for coverage with the Barker Police Department. It subsequently created a constabulary to provide coverage for town residents.
Nellist also said he's been courting different agencies who might be interested in establishing assisted living or senior housing units in the village. He said there's a need to redevelop the Birds Eye property.
"The village is constantly changing, and we need to build on that success," he said. "I'm ready for the next challenge."
In addition to the mayoral race, two political newcomers know they will secure seats on the Barker Village Board Tuesday.
Gregory Kerth, 65, retired three years ago as a produce manager for Tops and continues to work part time at the Wine and Liquor Outlet in Lockport. He and his family moved to Barker in 1991. He's running on the Better Government Party line.
"Trying to keep costs down but still maintain services" is on his list of priorities, he said. "As a retiree, we have to control costs in our own house – and we need to do that in government, too."
This is also the first time Mark Wilson, 29, has run for public office. An employee of Sunrise Door and Woodworks in Gasport, he has lived in the village the past year, but attended Barker schools. He and his girlfriend, Samantha, have a toddler son.
"We moved to the village because we planned on raising our family here," said Wilson. "I like a smaller community and I like to have a say in what's going on. I've been going to the board meetings since I moved into the village. People want to know where the money's going, what it can be spent on and what it shouldn't be spent on."
Westcott, 63, a Delphi retiree, took office as mayor in April 2011. He is unopposed once again in this election to head the government for this village of 1,840 for the next two years.
He served as a Middleport trustee from 1990 to 1996 and then was elected again as a trustee in 2008 and 2010. With a year left on his second trustee term, he was uncontested in his bid for mayor in 2011 when Mayor Julie Maedl chose not to seek a sixth term. He is running on the Action Party ticket.
Westcott is a Middleport native and 45-year member of the Middleport Fire Department, where he served as president and chief.
He and his wife, Vonda,have two children. He's treasurer for the Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus, St. Joan of Arc, and served a decade on the Community Advisory Panel and Middleport Advisory Group.
"Maintaining the levels of service is the hardest part (of village government), with the economic burden of unfunded state mandates for retirement and health care," Westcott said. "Where do you absorb these costs? We have limited ways. It's a pretty good balancing act to make sure you get the most for your dollar."
Blumrick, representing the Middleport First Party line, and Hinkson, backed by the Village Party, are also unopposed in their re-election bids for their second two-year terms Tuesday.
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I hope that everyone is doing well. I know that I usually post on a Monday following a weekend game, but I am not traveling to Toronto this weekend, so I figured I would send a blog out today is preparation for the weekend. Even though I bummed that I am not traveling to Toronto, I am a little happy because I get to have a weekend in Bmore for the first time in a while. We have been practicing pretty much every weekend since the first weekend in November. It is going to be nice to catch up with some friends that I haven't seen or hung out with in a while.
Even though I am not going to be busy with travel this weekend, I am still going to keep myself busy. After school today I am going to take the dog to the park, go to the gym, eat some dinner and go out for a little. Saturday is a big day, I am going to go to my first yoga class at 930 in the morning. I have heard nothing but good things about it for athletes and I figured with the weekend off, why not torture my body giving it a shot. After that I will probably relax for a little before heading out to Christie's little sister Molly's 16th birthday party. Let me tell you how much I am looking forward to that…..
Sunday is a big day. The Terps are going to upset another top team in Duke this weekend (I cant stand Duke basketball). Its also a big night, the new Wire is on and I cant wait. I am addicted to the Wire. I never got into it until Matt Striebel started talking about it a few months back. He kept going on and on and wouldnt shut up about it, so I decided that I would check it out. Luckily HBO was playing all of the seasons over OnDemand in preperation for the last season. I watch four seasons of the Wire over the next 3 months getting ready for this final season.
Lastly, I wanted to give a shout out to Justin Berry aka THEFASTESTHANDSINTHEGAME? I am siked to see that he is getting back into shape and giving the MLL another run. He was hands down one of the best FOGO's, and I mean FOGO, that I have ever seen. Justin, good luck getting back, but for your sake, work on bending over and picking up a ground ball….
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FRENCH JOHN HILL, Idaho (AP) - It was a winter whim.
My wife and I took the dog, jumped in the car and headed out of the Treasure Valley past Marsing on U.S. 95 toward the Southwest Idaho high desert.
Where? Who knows?
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Outdoor writer Pete Zimowsky and his dog, Phoebe, head out along a gravel road in the lower Owyhee Mountains in southwest Idaho near Marsing, Idaho. In the vast, high desert straddling the Idaho-Oregon border, you'll discover hidden gullies with castle rocks and other strange rock formations, painted hills, verdant stream canyons and craggy chalk-like badland bluffs.
The high desert landscape in southwest Idaho is shown off U.S. Highway 95 going over French John Hill near Marsing, Idaho.
When you climb up U.S. 95 to French John Hill and start winding through black rock canyons, the views immediately hit you. Where you stop and take a stroll is your choice.
These areas don't have glitzy trailheads and manicured trails. You're on your own.
It boils down to whatever looks intriguing. There are dirt roads going every which way.
This is not a hiking story. This is a story about taking a winter stroll to get out of the Valley's inversion or to relieve cabin fever.
Most of the time in the winter, the lower Owyhees are out of the fog and snow is minimal.
As we drove along, we got to thinking that motorists driving U.S. 95 south of Marsing are so intent on getting to their destinations, they don't realize the magnitude of the wild country just off the pavement.
To many, it's a stark, gray landscape they have to get through to reach the casinos of Nevada or relatives in California.
Hiking experts appreciate the area because there's no one out there, and the geology is wild.
"I particularly enjoy these locations in the winter because of the ice formations," said Sandy Epeldi, author of "Boise Backcountry Adventures."
Stream crossings at the bottom of canyons can be easier because the pools are usually frozen, he said.
"It's amazing country," said Leo Hennessy, nonmotorized trails coordinator for the Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation.
Hennessey loves the wide-open terrain and views of the Treasure Valley.
Sometimes he likes to hike to some boulders on a ridge and have lunch. The boulders are nature's seat warmer. They absorb the sun's heat and make comfortable places to perch, he said.
If you follow the advice of experts, you'll just pull off the pavement a little ways and stroll along a dirt or gravel road through this vast high desert straddling the Idaho-Oregon border. You'll discover hidden gullies with castle rocks and other strange rock formations, painted hills, verdant stream canyons and craggy chalk-like badland bluffs.
No kidding. That stuff is really out there.
The cool thing is it's only about an hour from the Valley, and hiking areas (oops, strolling areas) can be accessible on foot in the winter, depending on the weather.
The choices for a stroll are open because most of the land bordering U.S. 95 from Elephant Butte (near the state highway weigh station) to the Oregon border is public under the administration of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
If you look on a BLM map, you'll see intriguing places such as Wildcat Canyon, Elephant Butte, Skull Spring and Dead Horse Creek.
And you don't have to stay in Idaho. There are plenty of places to explore right off the highway in Oregon, too, like along the roads going to Succor Creek State Park and Leslie Gulch, to Silver City or Antelope Reservoir.
Just don't venture too far down the roads with wet and muddy conditions and in bad weather.
We ended up parking on a road about 7 miles inside Idaho, and we walked a main road and then a secondary road.
We came to a little swale with juniper trees.
Black rimrock above the swale seemed to separate the blueish-white sky from the pastel-colored carpets of gray-green sagebrush.
The subtle rays from the low-lying winter sun painted the swales and gullies with soft golden colors.
You'd never see something like this unless you strolled off the pavement of U.S. 95.


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One of today's most popular literary and cinematic genres, Detective Fiction was born 170 years ago. It is hard to believe but "Detective Fiction" first appeared in the April 1841 issue of Graham's Magazine, with the publication of Edgar Allan Poe's short story, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue." This was the first of three of Poe's tales to feature C. Auguste Dupin, the very first fictional sleuth. What to call this new literary genre? Poe called these stories "Tales of Ratiocination" after all, the word "detective" had not yet entered the English language,
The impact of Poe's development of the idea of a story with a plot that revolves around a highly intelligent character's ingenious solution to a mystery can be found in Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Adrian Monk, and even Scooby Doo. We might never have heard of these characters if it were not for Poe! Poe developed a number of popular detective story subgenres as well, including True Crime ("The Mystery of Marie Roget"), the "Locked-Door" mystery ("The Murders in the Rue Morgue"), the treasure hunt mystery ("The Gold-Bug"), and the comic detective story ("Thou Art the Man"). Poe was so acclaimed for his inventive contributions to the genre that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, wrote, "Where was the detective story until Poe breathed the breath of life into it?"


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Great people and things have come out of East Liverpool over the course of the city's history.
Take football coaching legend Lou Holtz or the world renown pottery made by Homer Laughlin for instance, but not often can the city brag they produced someone who would go on to help solve a puzzle that has baffled scientists for eight decades.
East Liverpool township native Dr. Jason A. Smith has done just that, working as part of a research team at the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Science to identify a fungi responsible for nearly driving Florida's Torreya Tree to extinction.
According to Smith, the Torreya tree is now one of the world's rarest trees, and is found almost exclusively in Torreya State Park in Liberty and Gasden County, Florida.
Unfortunately, according to Smith, it may be too late to save the Torreya. "The impact on that species is likely extinction within the next couple of decades," said Smith.
The 1995 East Liverpool High School graduate is determined to apply the lessons learned from studying the Torreya to prevent more tree species from suffering a similar fate.
"Unfortunately, new exotic diseases and insect pests threaten both food production and natural resources in the U.S. with greater intensity every year," said Smith.
While most Ohioans have not even heard of the Torreya tree, which grows several hundred miles away in the Florida panhandle, Smith explained that the pathogen identified by he and his team could potentially infect Fraser Fir and Red Spruce in the Appalachian Mountains.
"In our tests these species were actually more susceptible than the Torreya," said Smith, explaining the danger posed by the fungus spreading to other species.
Part of the potential for the pathogen to spread stems from people who Smith refereed to as "citizen scientists" or environmental activist planting Torreyas in the southern Appalachian Mountains to help the species avoid going extinct.
"It may be that the relative isolation of Torreya in the panhandle of Florida kept the pathogen from affecting these other species, but that is just a hypothesis," said Smith.
When questioned if the fungus he helped identify could pose a threat to Ohio's trees, Smith stated that the threat is "unknown" adding Ohio's forests are "currently under threat from several other devastating insects and diseases including the emerald ash borer and Asian longhorned beetle."
Hearing Smith talk about Ohio's trees, it is clear that Smith's love of the outdoors comes from growing up in the area. "Can you imagine Ohio without sugar maples and ash in the fall? Beaver Creek State Park without black walnuts and hemlocks?" said Smith, speaking to the dangers facing the Ohio valley's tree population.
Smith, who now holds a PHD in Plant Pathology and works as a associate professor at the University of Florida, is proud to say that he spent his childhood in a way that is becoming increasingly rare these days: outdoors.
"I was fortunate to have a 'tech-free' childhood and spent my time playing in the woods, going on hikes with my dad and brothers and learning about gardening and plants from my Pappap and mom." said Smith.
Today, his passion for the outdoors and love of science has translated into a successful and fulfilling career. "I'm lucky to have been able to find a career doing what I love," said Smith. "I now get to travel the world learning about trees and helping to figure out why they are sick and what to do about it."
When he's not helping solve decades' old scientific mysteries, Smith has more than enough to keep him busy with teaching, research, work for his university's extension office and of course spending time with his 5-year-old son, Ranger, who he says is displaying an early interest in the natural world much like his father.
Part of Smith's passion as an educator is to educate coming generations on the importance of ecosystem health. He has recently teamed up with an environmental education professor to develop a K-12 curricula focused on teaching students the importance of forest health. "Many of these kids have never heard of a fungus or thought about the importance of keeping forests healthy, so we hope to significantly raise awareness of these issues in future generations - our own livelihood, sustainability and survival may depend on it."


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