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George D. Maziarz and Amy Hope Witryol are battling for the State Senate seat in the 62nd District in the Nov. 6 election, just as they did in 2010.
However, the battleground has changed somewhat, as this year's redistricting process has added the City of Niagara Falls, represented by Buffalo-based senators for the last 20 years, to Maziarz's district, which already had all the rest of Niagara County, all of Orleans County and a slice of western Monroe County.
The nine-term Republican incumbent from Newfane had a sliver of Niagara Falls in his district in the 1990s, but this is the first time since Maziarz's days as Niagara County clerk two decades ago that he has been on the ballot in the entire city.
"I have no problem with Democratic voters," said Maziarz, whose newly configured district, because of the presence of Niagara Falls, contains about 3,000 more Democratic voters than Republicans.
In Niagara County, the Democrats have an enrollment edge of about 11,000 voters, but in Orleans County, the GOP has a nearly 2-to-1 advantage. In the two towns in western Monroe County, there are about 50 percent more Republicans than Democrats.
Witryol, a Lewiston Democrat who received 32 percent of the vote against Maziarz in 2010, has held several news conferences in Niagara Falls and has pounded Maziarz regarding his attitude toward the city, accusing him of interfering with its economic-development plans.
"He's been the only elected official subject to a unanimous City Council resolution [in April 2011] calling on him to stop disparaging Niagara Falls," Witryol noted.
But her larger theme has been what she calls the "pay-to-play" political system Maziarz has mastered, which in her opinion puts political fundraising ahead of actually working for the benefit of the district.
"The three counties in the 62nd District have the worst property tax-to-value [ratio] in the whole United States," Witryol said. "What do they have in common? The same state senator for the past 18 years."
Maziarz says that public financing of campaigns is wrong because it forces taxpayers to, in effect, spend money on candidates they may not like.
Witryol said, "Incumbents like Maziarz are fighting the governor's call for public financing while spending millions of taxpayer dollars on 'constituent' mail that looks like campaign mail. If incumbents split that budget with challengers, there would be no increased cost to taxpayers, and we'd save billions of dollars in senseless spending by legislators pandering to big campaign donors."
Witryol, a former Fleet Bank senior vice president, said Niagara Falls development should be governed by the city's 2009 comprehensive plan, which she said is supported by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo through the state economic-development office in Niagara Falls, as well as by Mayor Paul A. Dyster and the Council.
"The pay-to-play system is distracting politicians from focusing on economic development," Witryol said. "My opponent has been the only one I know to propose projects that are incompatible with the plan and, in my view, do more to destroy value in the City of Niagara Falls rather than create value. One could argue that his policies create value only for a few very wealthy special interests."
Since 2000, Maziarz's largest source of donations has been Niagara Falls Redevelopment, owned by Manhattan billionaire Howard P. Milstein.
Milstein, his brother, the chief executive officer of NFR and the company itself have given Maziarz a total of $79,346 since 2000. The company owns large amounts of vacant land in downtown Niagara Falls.
Maziarz's second-largest donor over the last decade, with a total of $52,674, has been Tuscarora Indian businessman Joseph "Smokin' Joe" Anderson, who also has been a player in downtown Niagara Falls with a year-round snow park that became a retail store.
Milstein, who has given Cuomo $75,000 in political donations, was named chairman of the state Thruway Authority last year.
Maziarz said, "I think those people contribute to the people who get things done, and they do it across the aisle."
Maziarz had $788,879 available as of earlier this month, according to his filings with the state Board of Elections, while Witryol had $2,527.
Since mid-January, Maziarz has raised more than $356,000. Witryol has raised $24,000, but the reports show that many of those "donations" actually were Witryol's own, paying campaign expenses with her credit card. Her campaign has spent about $21,500 through early October, while Maziarz's spending has topped $296,500.
Differences on Wallenda walk
Maziarz said he played a key role in clearing the way for permission for daredevil Nik Wallenda to take his nationally televised wire-walk above the Falls on June 15, an event he called one of his greatest accomplishments in office. Wallenda has recorded radio commercials endorsing Maziarz.
Witryol said Maziarz has "mischaracterized" the impact of the Wallenda walk, citing a Niagara University survey of visitors that day. Only 52 percent said they came to the Falls on June 15 primarily because of Wallenda, and only 41 percent were from out of the area.
However, Maziarz pointed to the same study, which estimated a $3.3 million economic impact for the event, as proof of its success. Witryol said the impact was for that day, not all of which could be ascribed to the wire walk.
She accused Maziarz of trying to make the city and Dyster look bad by publicizing the $25,000 in overtime costs that the city sought to get Wallenda to pay.
She said Maziarz sought to get the Niagara County Community College culinary institute built somewhere else in the county and proposed an Off-Track Betting facility that she said would be incompatible with the city's plans.
Maziarz said he wanted other localities to have a chance for the NCCC project, but after owner David S. Cordish donated the old Rainbow Centre Mall for the project, that settled the issue.
Anderson proposed the OTB parlor in March as part of a larger development. Maziarz denied having anything to do with it, although his close ally, former Niagara County GOP Chairman Henry F. Wojtaszek, is now chief counsel for Western Regional OTB.
Maziarz contended that even though Witryol is a Democrat, he doesn't think she could work with Cuomo.
"She doesn't seem to be interested in anything the governor's interested in," Maziarz said. "She seems to be focused on one particular issue, campaign finance reform, and personality issues within the City of Niagara Falls."
"I'm not limiting my campaign to anyplace," Witryol said. "We have Democrats and Republicans throughout the district who are tired of last place."
Maziarz said he and Cuomo, a Democrat, agreed on imposing the 2 percent property tax cap on local governments and school districts; the Tier 6 pension plan for newly hired public employees that is aimed at reducing pension costs; and ReCharge NY, the replacement for the old Power for Jobs program that allows businesses to obtain reduced-cost electricity allocations for as long as seven years.
Maziarz said Cuomo called him, as chairman of the Senate Energy Committee, to promise that Power for Jobs would be reformed. Maziarz said he replied, "With all due respect, Governor, you're the fourth governor who's told me that."
Cuomo then promised that the revised law would be signed in Maziarz's hometown of North Tonawanda. He kept that promise in April 2011, and Maziarz said 104 companies in Western New York now have taken advantage of ReCharge NY allocations.
Witryol said ReCharge hasn't resulted in job creation within the 62nd District, while local residential electric rates remain among the nation's highest.
In an Oct. 20 appearance in Brockport, Witryol criticized Maziarz because the tax cap wasn't coupled with mandate relief for localities.
"It's not as important to alter the cap as it is to alter the state spending that requires schools and local municipalities to tax under it," Witryol told The Buffalo News last week.
Working 'to get things done'
Although Cuomo is publicly backing a couple of Republican senators in tight races, including Mark J. Grisanti of Buffalo, he hasn't endorsed Maziarz. But Maziarz said he believes that Cuomo has no problem if the Republicans maintain their narrow control of the Senate.
"I think balance is a good thing. I see the Assembly as being very heavily weighted toward the City of New York, and the Senate as the representative of upstate and the rural and suburban areas, like the district I represent," Maziarz said.
"I think it's an accomplishment to work with the governor to get things done."
Although Maziarz is the archenemy of the Niagara County Democrats, he attributes that to the Republicans' success in winning almost all local offices despite the Democrats' enrollment advantage, and their 2010 success in bumping Maziarz's longtime foe, Francine DelMonte, out of her Assembly seat.
"I have no problem working with Democrats in Albany. There are some highly partisan political people here in Niagara County who simply refuse to work with me," Maziarz said. "The Republican Party is more organized, and the leadership is better than the Democratic Party, and that's been true for years."
Raising the Aronow issue
Witryol denounced Maziarz's "Soviet-style control" of many local governments and agencies such as the Niagara County Industrial Development Agency.
She has sought to make campaign capital out of the case of former Niagara County legislator and Maziarz aide Glenn S. Aronow, who was sued for sexual harassment by a female colleague at the Senate majority office in Buffalo.
The case, stemming from incidents in 2007, was settled this month with a $90,000 state payment to the plaintiff. Aronow did not admit wrongdoing.
Witryol released an Oct. 15 letter from the state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics, which she had asked for an investigation into Aronow's doings. The letter said the matter is under review, but state law requires the commission's work to remain confidential.
Witryol said she received no response to her previous complaints about Maziarz's campaign material, so she believes this was not a form letter.
"He didn't work for me when any of these incidents took place," Maziarz said. But he declined to answer on whether he got Aronow the state job in the first place.
Aronow later joined Maziarz's district staff. Maziarz said that he didn't know about the suit and that when he found out, he told Aronow he'd have to resign if settlement talks started.
"He hasn't worked for me in over a year," Maziarz said. "He's not going to work for me [in the future]."
Asked why not, Maziarz repeated, "He's not going to work for me."
The candidates will participate in a forum in the Niagara Falls Public Library, 1425 Main St., at 6 p.m. Tuesday. The event also will include Rep. Brian Higgins, D-Buffalo, and his challenger, Michael H. Madigan, R-Grand Island, and Assemblyman John D. Ceretto, R-Lewiston, and his opponent, Robert M. Restaino, a Niagara Falls Democrat.
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The year is almost over, and 2012 had no shortage of compelling sports stories – nationally and right here in Aiken and the CSRA. Here's a look at the top 10 local sports stories from the past 12 months as determined by the Aiken Standard Sports Department.
1. Augusta National admits female members
Normally the highlight of the golf calendar is the playing of the Masters Tournament, and this year was no exception with Bubba Watson winning in a playoff. But the biggest news to come out of Augusta National Golf Club this year was the addition of former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and South Carolina financier Darla Moore as the first female members since the club was founded in 1932.
It has been a touchy topic that reached a boiling point a decade ago when Martha Burk and her women's advocacy group first challenged the club over its all-male membership. The debate returned this year when IBM, one of the top corporate sponsors of the Masters, appointed Virginia Rometty as its chief executive. The previous four CEOs of IBM had all been members. Before the change, announced in August, women were allowed to play the golf course as guests, including on the Sunday before the Masters week begins.
2. Aiken boxer Paul "The Punisher" Williams is paralyzed in a motorcycle crash
Former world champion boxer Paul Williams, and Aiken native, was paralyzed from the waist down after being involved in a June motorcycle crash in the Atlanta suburbs. Williams might not walk again after damaging his spinal chord. The accident most assuredly ends his career, which was highlighted when he won his first major welterweight title in July 2007 with a decision over Antonio Margarito. The 30-year-old southpaw struggled to land fights with the sport's biggest stars because of his pronounced size advantages, a high-volume punching rate and his relative anonymity, but was considered one of the world's top pound-for-pound stars.
3. Aiken-trained Alpha runs in Kentucky Derby
Alpha, broken and trained in Aiken by Tim Jones, had a banner 3-year-old campaign which included four first-place finishes and saw the bay colt run in two of the biggest races of the year – the Kentucky Derby and the Breeders' Cup Classic. Although the 2012 Aiken-trained Horse of the Year finished 12th in both of those races he had an overall great year and has five wins and two second-place finishes 11 lifetime starts, and has bankrolled $1,270,000 in his career.
4. North Augusta golfer Matt NeSmith has banner senior year
It was a stellar senior year and accompanying summer for recent North Augusta High School graduate Matt NeSmith. Now one of the top players for the University of South Carolina team, NeSmith had one highlight after another this year. He won the Class AAAA state championship, the Azalea Invitational, three tournaments that factor into the Polo Golf Rankings – in which he held the top spot for the final nine weeks of his time as a junior. One of those wins, in the FJ Invitational, earned him a spot in the PGA Tour's Wyndham Championship and he played on another top PGA course at Bay Hill when he competed for the victorious East squad in the Wyndham Cup.
In addition, to all of his wins, NeSmith also tied for second place in the prestigious Junior Invitational at Sage Valley Golf Club, finished fourth in the Players Amateur Championship and tied for seventh in the Palmetto Amateur. If that wasn't enough, he also appeared on The Golf Channel's "Morning Drive" program, was one of the recipients of the Byron Nelson International Junior Golf Awards and was named an American Junior Golf Association Rolex All-American and then the AJGA Rolex Player of the Year.
5. Three area high school football players fail to qualify academically at Clemson after signing with the Tigers
It was a banner day for Aiken-area high school football players on Feb. 1, when three members of the 2011 All-Aiken Standard team signed letters of intent to play at Clemson University. South Aiken defensive end Josh Brown put pen to paper on National Signing Day, as did quarterbacks Cordrea Tankersley (Silver Bluff) and Marty Williams (Fox Creek), who both figured to play in the Tigers' secondary. But none of them played for the Tigers this season. Brown, Tankersley and Williams all failed to qualify academically.
While Tankersley spent the fall at Hargrave Military Academy and looks to enroll at Clemson in January, Brown and Williams have gone in different directions. Brown was looking at enrolling at Marshall while Williams plans were unknown.
6. USC Aiken women's basketball team achieve several milestones for first time
The USC Aiken women's basketball team spent the entire 2011-12 season ranked in the top 25, the first time in program history the Pacers have accomplished the feat. It was one of many firsts for the team which posted a 27-4 record, marking the most wins, fewest losses and best winning percentage (.871) in school history. The season was punctuated by the USCA women's first-ever Peach Belt Conference title and the team playing host to the Southeast Regional of the Division II NCAA Tournament for the first time.
7. Strom Thurmond opens high school football season with thrilling game against national powerhouse
It's possible the best game of the 2012 high school football season was played in Week Zero. That was when Strom Thurmond played host to Eastern Christian Academy, a team out of Maryland that boasted 14 Division I college commitments. Although the Rebels lost a back-and-forth affair 39-35, it was a game that propelled them on a 12-game winning streak and a berth in the Class AAA Lower State championship game. There were several other noteworthy contests, achievements and performances this season, but the game when Strom Thurmond nearly knocked off a national powerhouse was the top story of another compelling high school footballs season.
8. Aiken High sends boys' tennis team and volleyball squad to state finals
The Aiken area high schools didn't produce any state championship team in 2012, but Aiken High School delivered some of the best performances. The boys' tennis team won its first 22 matches of the season, including a Lower State championship over crosstown rival South Aiken. The Hornets were pushed to the brink in the state title match against J.L. Mann, and came up just short – losing 4-2 with the decisive match determined in a 10-7 tiebreaker. The Aiken High volleyball team returned to the state title match for the third consecutive season, but also fell just shy of a second state title in the past three years. The Hornets lost to Hillcrest after knocking off Wando in a wildly competitive and entertaining Lower State championship match that was celebrated by Aiken because it was somewhat unexpected after losing the core of the past two year's teams to graduation.
9. Area golfers Kevin Kisner and Scott Brown spend season on PGA Tour
This past year, two golfers with connections to Aiken – Kevin Kisner and Scott Brown – played on the sports biggest stage by competing on the PGA Tour. It was the second season in a row on the top tour for Kisner, a South Aiken and Georgia product, while Brown – North Augusta and USC Aiken alum – made his debut as a PGA regular.
The fun spring and summer had a tough end when neither finished high enough on the money list to retain their tour cards. Both made it to the final stage of Q-School and while Brown fell out of contention early, Kisner missed retaining his card by a single stroke on the final of six rounds.
10. Longtime Palmetto Golf Club pro Tom Moore retires
After more than three decades of service as historic Palmetto Golf Club's longtime head professional and general manager, Tom Moore retired. The man known around the world as "Mr. Palmetto," had a huge impact on the historic course, its restoration and growing its reputation globally. Moore won't be leaving entirely, he now moves into the role of pro-emeritus and should still be a fixture at the oldest, continually operated 18-hole golf course in its original location in the Southeast.
Noah Feit is the sports editor for the Aiken Standard and has been a professional journalist for more than a dozen years after graduating from Syracuse University.
A Silver Bluff school-record four football players from the same senior class signed to play in college. Pictured, from left, is Blake Robbins, Andre Washington, Jimmy Holmes and Cordrea Tankersley. Photo by Noah Feit×
Kayla Harris #24 of the Pacers fights off the the challenge of a Jaguar defender. Staff photo by Mike Adams×
Kevin Kisner watches his tee shot on the 18th hole during the first round of the St. Jude Classic golf tournament Thursday, June 9, 2011, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)×
Scott Brown during the third round of the PGA Byron Nelson Championship golf tournament Saturday, May 19, 2012, in Irving, Texas. (AP Photo/LM Otero)×
Javeer Hammond, of Strom Thurmond breaks a Honeybadger tackle for a big gain Friday night. Mike Adams photo.×
Photo by Mike Adams Aiken Standard Coach of the Year Rick Knight reads "The Night Before Christmas" to the 2010 All-Aiken Standard football squad. Pictured are (front, left to right) Telimothy Daniels, Tevin Nuckles, Rick Knight, Marty Williams; (standing, left to right) Andrew Smith, DeMarcus Rouse, Vinny Miller, Kendall Rogers, Ricky Cervantes, Benny Timmons, Trevor Beard, Chris Herrin, Robert Holmes, Devon Johnson; (back, left to right) Montez McGuire, Josh Brown, Jimmy Holmes, Loranzo Hammonds, Darryl Salley, Marcus Bates, Kendric Salley and Tray Roberts. Not pictured are Jessie Pernell, Jaylon Myers, Octavious Brown and Dexter Staley.×
Matt NeSmith reacts to missing a putt on No. 18 in the Southern Cross. The North Augusta golfer tied for third place in the tournament for the second year in a row. Photo by Noah Feit×
Staff photo by Noah Feit Retiring Palmetto Golf Club general manager Tom Moore laughs as he speaks to a crowd of about 300 spectators on hand for a ceremony held in his honor at the club Tuesday.×
Staff photo by Jeremy Timmerman Aiken's players gather as Hillcrest's players, coaches and fans celebrate a state title in the background.×
FILE - In this May 27, 2006 file photo, Paul Williams smiles after being awarded the NABO welterweight boxing title belt after defeating Walter Dario Matthysse, in Carson, Calif. Williams has been transferred to a rehabilitation facility following a spinal cord injury he sustained in a motorcycle accident on May 27. (AP Photo/Daily Breeze, Scott Varley) NO MAGS NO SALES×
Exercise rider Rob Massey takes Kentucky Derby entrant Alpha for a workout at Churchill Downs Tuesday, May 1, 2012, in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Garry Jones)×

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SALEM — Salem Police Chief J.T. Panezott said citizens can expect more aggressive enforcement of all offenses and more prioritizing of calls under his watc....
I for one, am thrilled to see our new Police Chief taking this stance or some could call it strategy to be aggressively "proactive" instead of reactive. That change alone, with the cooperation of local officials and with public support it can make a huge impact on the drugs and crime in this community. There are so many programs that can be implemented for the public that will work effectively.
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"He also supports the Second Amendment and said his officers will do what they can with what they have."
Supporting the 2nd Amendment honorable, accepting officers will do what they can with what they have. UNACCEPTABLE
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Glad to see JT in there. A good man and a good plan. Kind of curious how any one can expect the men to do more then they can with what they have?PattiHannah Want more vote for more. I would like to see 25 police. Population climbs, people demand more and no one wants any tax. What kind of sense does this make?
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"PattiHannah Want more vote for more."
What exactly would I be voting for Viper1?
Let me throw this in before you respond. Salem's population isn't growing. The crime amongst the population is what is growing. That is because of complacency not money issues, sry J.T, that finger is pointed at not just Chief Floor but City leaders.
The Salem Police Department already has plenty of resources available, they just don't utilize them. To be on the safe side of this argument, since I am on the outside looking in. My best guess is to say 50% of the problem is because this agency struggles with...A.P.E. and the 3D shop. Those two contributing factors is what will define J.T.'s leadership if he is going to make an impact on this community.
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Until those two contributing factors are corrected, 20 police officers or 25 police officers are not going to make a difference.
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Not trying to be stupid, but I need to know, what is the 3D shop? I voted for the full time drug task force officer this year and also to replace him with another full time officer. I support increasing the force whenever possible. It is just a start. But need to know what factors you believe hurt our ability to fight crime. If you don't want to post publicly. Give me a call.
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"But need to know what factors you believe hurt our ability to fight crime."
Councilwoman, it would a privilege to discuss this with you. How about you leave me a convenient date and time that would suit your schedule. I would be more than happy to give you a call.
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What an amazing season for P/T! Congrats. They've been underrated for so long, and it's great to see them getting the recognition they deserve.
Rather unfortunate for S/S though. This really has been an underwhelming season for them.
What an amazing season for P/T! Congrats. They've been underrated for so long, and it's great to see them getting the recognition they deserve.
Rather unfortunate for S/S though. This really has been an underwhelming season for them.
That 4S was such a disaster. Yuko didn't even come close to landing it. It stinks that you can get so much credit for an element like that. And 2 judges gave them a +2 on their twist. At least one judge had some sense and gave them -1. Actually, a few teams with twists where the girl collided somewhat with the guy or didn't land so well (Dube and Davison) got some +GOE. Oh well.
Are the judges listed on the protocol sheet in the same order for each skater? If yes, one judge gave Mukhortova/Trankov a -3 on their 3T-2T (she two footed the 3T and singled the 2T)... and gave Denney/Barrett a -2 on their 3T when he fell and she doubled! Even if this wasn't the same judge, how do you justify giving a -2 to that? How much worse did they need to be on this element for you to give them the -3 they were supposed to get?
I can't look at the protocols. They sometimes make me nuts. But luckily, most of the results make sense. The only issue I have is K/S's placement.
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Congrats to Pang and Tong very happy for them. Aliona and Robin skated a great program too.
K/S made the podium they must be happy after placing 4th in Vancouver. I have to say
when their score came up I was very surprised. I thought the Zhangs were undermarked.
Totally agreed. Yes, P/T didn't repeat their OLY performance this time, which is a bit disappointing. But they never won because of "a strong federation" (this works better for K/S) or any favors. They fought so hard for so long to improve their standing in the judges' minds. S/S happened to do well on their long program this time, but they are not consistent skaters at all. That's why they always faltered whenever S/Z, the true dominant pair, is in the same competition.
Well done to Pang & Tong, not as good as their Olympic performance but still enjoyable. S/S bounced back well, they rightly got the silver but I think they will regard this season as very dissapointing. On Eurosport Steur said they were going to continue, I can't seem them going on to Sochi.
K/S were overmarked, I feel bronze should have gone to M/T (I wonder if that is the last time they compete as a couple). Z/Z technichally as usual were top drawer but everything else was just ok. Impressed with D/D, I think this romantic style is their strenght, way better than their short. B/L have come on a lot this season, she need to work on the jumps still but the have got huge potential. Liked both amercians, the Italians and the French.
Why have to cut the final round to 16? Can't see why they have cut it down.
Congratulations to P/T and S/S! S/S finally skated the program almost clean from visual effect, at least that double did not disturb the program that much. P/T had a fantastic season, and good for them finally being recognized. IMO they have had very complex chereographs for quite a few years but never got the TR that they should have until now. And to be able to do what they do they have to have great SS, I'm not saying that they are perfect, I know there is still room to grow, basic stroke wise and her posture sometimes. Z/Z is the only pair that skated completlely clean in both programs. Good for them. Hopefully that's a good start point for next cycle, they need to rebuild reputation and work more on their presentation to be back on the podium which I think they might just deserve this time already. I really don't think M/T should split, they could work on connections, especially she and could be really good. V/S would make a better pair to me.
yeah S/S have better basics than P/T, they can really work on stroking and edging.......in the last warmup group u can really see the difference between stroking of Aliona vs. Qing....i'd like to see S/S get higher SS marks too.
Yaguti and Smirnov had their best skate here, imo, if one ignores the wicked throws, but they continue to be a mismatch for me. Nothing more than ballet-like arms with little feeling.
Pang and Tong could have been better but I agree to their medal winning.
Savchenko and Szolkowy seem to have lost their glitz. Their stunning moves are no longer stunning.
However, my biggest complaint is the music so many Pairs use. There is no change in rhythm. It all seems like background music to prevent mishaps with the tricks.
P/T won the free at the Olympics and the silver so now the judges think they are best which is kind of annoying. Then again I do like P/T a lot. They have really improved their performance level. They project more and it makes a better impact for sure but I still think S/S were and are better. It's okay though.
Top Ten Pairs in TES :
1 Dan ZHANG / Hao ZHANG CHN 66.82
2 Aliona SAVCHENKO / Robin SZOLKOWY GER 65.86
3 Qing PANG / Jian TONG CHN 65.55
4 Yuko KAVAGUTI / Alexander SMIRNOV RUS 65.39
5 Maria MUKHORTOVA / Maxim TRANKOV RUS 62.75
6 Caydee DENNEY / Jeremy BARRETT USA 59.19
7 Vera BAZAROVA / Yuri LARIONOV RUS 59.18
8 Amanda EVORA / Mark LADWIG USA 58.5
9 Jessica DUBE / Bryce DAVISON CAN 57.63
10 Maylin HAUSCH / Daniel WENDE GER 51.28
I agree with the Zhangs being first here. Technically when they're on they are really ON.
Top Ten Pairs in PCS :
1 Qing PANG / Jian TONG CHN 70.56
2 Aliona SAVCHENKO / Robin SZOLKOWY GER 69.36
3 Yuko KAVAGUTI / Alexander SMIRNOV RUS 67.28
4 Maria MUKHORTOVA / Maxim TRANKOV RUS 66.16
5 Jessica DUBE / Bryce DAVISON CAN 60.08
6 Dan ZHANG / Hao ZHANG CHN 59.76
7 Vera BAZAROVA / Yuri LARIONOV RUS 54.08
8 Caydee DENNEY / Jeremy BARRETT USA 53.76
9 Anabelle LANGLOIS / Cody HAY CAN 50.88
10 Amanda EVORA / Mark LADWIG USA 50.72
I'm Ok with PangTong being first too. CH, PF and IN are better IMO. The Germans have better skills and transitiosn but I guess I'm in the minority who believes transitions are not the new quads and definetly not most important thing in skating like they are being held recently lol
Kavaguti and Smirnov were sooo overscored, it's not even funny. Ok, they do have nice lifts, better than some of the other top teams, but come on, there were TWO FALLS. M&T and Z&Z were robbed. You could even make a case for placing D&D ahead of K&S in the free skate!!
Disappointed for L&H, and that Canada doesn't get three spots next year.
Btw, I wonder if S&S will retire. I heard the Zhangs aren't, M&T might be breaking up, and I doubt K&S will because she just got Russian citizenship. I could see S&S staying in though because they are a relatively new team. I heard rumours of P&T retiring but I'm not sure if they're true.


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SAN MARCOS, Texas - - Due to cold temperatures and freezing precipitation, Friday's Ball State softball action in the CenturyLink Classic hosted by Texas State has been cancelled.
The Cardinals will now open the 2014 season Saturday, with games versus Texas State (1:15 p.m ET/12:15 p.m. CT) and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (3:30 p.m. ET/2:30 p.m. CT).
Ball State closes out the now two-day tournament Sunday with contests versus Southern Illinois (10 a.m. ET/9 a.m. CT) and Stephen F. Austin (Noon ET/11 a.m. CT).Check BallStateSports.com or the CenturyLink Classic Tournament Central for any future updates to the tournament schedule.


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Oct. 30, 2012 -- If you're trying to clean up a house flooded by Hurricane Sandy, be aware that you're in a race against mold and bacteria, which can grow quickly in damp environments.
Mold is especially dangerous for people with breathing problems caused by allergies or asthma. But high levels of mold can also cause problems for people who are relatively healthy. Symptoms of mold exposure include wheezing, shortness of breath, sore throats, flu-like aches and pains, and fatigue.
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Safety tips for those facing power outages, flooding and other issues from Superstorm Sandy.
Mold isn't the only threat from flooding. Bacteria may also be a problem if your house was soaked by sewage. Bacteria can cause dangerous gastrointestinal and skin infections.
That's why it's important to stop these pathogens before they take hold of your home.
"You've really got 24 to 36 hours to work with," says Rebecca Morley, executive director of the National Center for Healthy Housing, a nonprofit organization that wrote a guide to help residents clean up flooded homes after Hurricane Katrina.
The good news is that the faster you act, the more you may be able to save.
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The first thing to do is to pump out or soak up any standing water. But be careful: If you've got several feet of water in a basement, where fuse boxes and other electrical circuitry may be submerged, have emergency workers clear the space before you get to work.
If you have a lot of water in the house, Morley, who has been through two floods herself, says hiring help can be a good investment.
"I had water up to my ankles. My carpet was floating when I got home," Morley says. "These restoration companies have all the heavy equipment that's needed to dry out a place quickly. They bring in their big fans, their big dehumidifiers."
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I am planning to upgrade my Canon 40D to a more advanced camera. 40D isn't bad at all but it doesn't come with video shooting features at all. I can save up to around $1K or a little bit more in a few months' time. A friend of mine from Asia said that she could buy me a new 7D (grey market) for US$880 and bring it to me when she visits me some time early summer.
Then it's the new Nikon D7100 coming with a lot of interesting features.Which one should I pick ?I know lens would be an important consideration. For the time being, I mainly borrow my dad's canon lens. If I switch to the other brand, I can use my brother's lenses.


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Mutagenesis experiments allow researchers to modulate protein activity and characterize structure- function relationships, which enriches our understanding of basic cellular processes and disease mechanisms and fuels discoveries in new therapies for complex diseases such as cancer. Site-directed mutagenesis is the method of choice for altering a gene or vector sequence at a selected location. Point mutations, insertions or deletions are introduced by incorporating primers containing the desired modification(s) with a DNA polymerase.
Today's conventional site-directed mutagenesis methods, first introduced in 1995 (see Strategies 9(1): 3-4 under "Resources"), typically utilize a three-step, one-day method to introduce point mutations, amino acid substitutions, deletions, and small insertions in virtually any double-stranded plasmid template with high rates of efficiency. The success and prevalent adoption of these conventional methods can be attributed to the high rate of efficiency (>80% colonies with desired mutation) of such assays and the relative ease of use. Continued improvements in these assays in the following decade led to enhancements in fidelity, robustness, and the number of sites that can be mutagenized simultaneously.
Site-directed mutagenesis methods such as the QuikChange method have a number of advantages over PCR-based approaches. For example, the frequency of unintended errors is higher in PCR strategies (copies are copied), which increases the amount of sequencing and error correction required downstream. In contrast, site-directed methods may employ a linear amplification approach (only parental strands are copied) in addition to high-fidelity Pfu polymerases, to minimize the number of clones with undesired mutations. This is reflected downstream, by the need for less diagnostic sequencing of clones and correction of clones with incorrect mutations. Additionally, PCR-based strategies have been hampered by laborious cloning steps and low efficiencies (e.g., long range PCR of vector backbones); a contrast to the site-directed method's >80% efficiency and three-step one-day protocol. Finally, robustness, or the ability to introduce mutations in larger templates, has been improved through the introduction of ultra-high-competency cells.
While the site-directed approach described above represent a marked improvement over PCR-based methods, within the last five years, new methods were introduced to address the demand for faster workflows and increased productivity. What distinguishes some of the newer methods from their predecessors was the introduction of a new enzyme, Pfu fusion DNA polymerase. Pfu fusion's secret: tighter binding and increased processivity through the presence of a C-terminal DNA binding domain, in order to enable faster PCR cycling. In addition, optimized protocols and reagents reduced the length of the PCR and DpnI selection steps, providing up to a three-fold reduction in overall mutagenesis turn-around time.
In addition to the improved site-directed mutagenesis method described above, a newer approach was developed with the ability to create mutations at multiple sites simultaneously. While error-prone PCR-based methods are typically limited to two simultaneous mutational sites, by employing a unique multi-enzyme polymerase blend, it is possible to introduce mutations at up to five sites simultaneously. Conventional techniques to perform site-directed mutagenesis at five sites (along with accompanying miniprep and sequencing reactions) can take up to 15 days to complete. With multi-mutational methods, it is possible to reduce this time to about three hours.
The efficiency and ease-of-use of site-directed mutagenesis methods have facilitated engineering of promoter and coding regions of numerous genes. Continuing improvements to Pfu polymerase have led to enhancements, permitting protocols with higher fidelity, longer length-capability, multi-site targeting, and significantly faster time-to-completion. Looking forward, leading the drive for continued innovation in the area of mutagenesis means embracing novel technologies, which may yield new enhancements in speed, efficiency, fidelity, or throughput. One such area, synthetic biology, may enable broad scanning mutagenesis approaches and permit the sequential adding of mutations through a domain in order to understand the role of each amino acid in a protein, find improved variants, and outline structural linkages. Synthetic biology approaches allow the scaling up of mutagenesis experiments with accompanying significant reductions in time and cost for large-scale assays.
For more on mutagenesis, be sure to check out "From Conventional Mutagenesis to Complex, Rationally Designed Mutant Libraries: Enabling New Opportunities in Scalability".
Holly Hogrefe, Ph.D., is NGS R&D Director at Agilent Technologies.
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We almost didn't hook up last night but then Tiffany pulled out the rally rag; it was was messy but amazing!
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Jon Udell: A talk with Marty Collins about blogs, architectural guidance, and technical marketing
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Marty Collins is senior marketing manager with the solution architecture group responsible for msdn.microsoft.com/architecture and skyscrapr.net. She wanted to interview me about the relationship between blogs and technical marketing, and I wanted to hear her thoughts on the same subject, so we wound up interviewing each other.
She was interested to hear my take on how professionals -- not only in the field of software, but also much more broadly -- can and should use blogs to communicate their public agendas.
I was fascinated to hear from her about an upcoming marketing initiative to monitor blog discussions and address questions and concerns by injecting responses directly into blog comments. It's a radical but, I think, clueful strategy for 21st-century marketers.
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Vijay Gajjala on the Geneva Server
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Really enjoyed this one from Vijay - the Idenity Delegation aspects are very interesting.
Makes we wanna go play with it just now but should watch the other vids first i guess.
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From the earliest days of dining out, eaters have ambled into restaurants with essentially the same set of expectations: They're looking for a safe, dry place to sit; hot food; cold drink; and elbow room to carve up their meals without jabbing the next guy over.
For the better part of restaurant history, though, they've also counted on finding somewhere to spit.
That's reportedly what Leon Banov, the legendary public health crusader who headed up Charleston's health department for decades, assumed he'd encounter on an inspection visit to James Tellis' coffee shop. But Tellis bucked the custom of providing spittoons when he opened Olympia Restaurant at King and Columbus streets in 1922.
"Dr. Banov said, 'Mr. Jim, where's your spittoon?'," Tellis' daughter Vera recalls. "And my father said, 'Don't you see these people eating?' "
Tellis, a Greek immigrant who would later operate Uptown Chili and the long-lived Tellis Pharmacy, firmly believed it was a filthy habit to keep a spit receptacle near food.
Yet many contemporary health professionals stood up for spittoons, reasoning it was better to collect patrons' spit than give them an excuse to expectorate on the floor.
Their evolving stance on the spittoon question helped shape the interior of restaurants, just as public health concerns today subtly determine the design of commercial dining rooms and layout of their menus.
Restaurant safety
"Modern restaurants are built the way they are to protect consumers from the disasters we've seen in the past," says James Hodge, a College of Charleston alum who now teaches health law and ethics at Arizona State University's law school, where he serves as associate dean.
Hodge points out that the number and location of exhaust hoods, hand washing sinks, doors, seats and bathrooms were, in most cases, legislated to reduce the risk of deadly fires and food-borne illnesses.
But while fire and salmonella are universally acknowledged as harmful, Hodge allows that at least a few of the ordinances influencing a restaurant's built environment have a definite moral dimension, such as state laws segregating restaurant bars from areas where minors are permitted.
Although those boundaries simplify liquor law enforcement, they're at least partly rooted in the theory that "not having kids see adults have alcohol is good," he says.
Societal values also are likely to decide the fate of electronic cigarettes in restaurants, a topic currently so contentious that a recent CNN blog post defending the practice of e-lighting up during dinner generated nearly 1,000 comments.
The latest round of laws bound to change the look and function of restaurants springs from the point where public health and moral concerns overlap, Hodge says.
In response to the national obesity crisis, state and local governments have begun cracking down on trans fats and ordering restaurants to disclose more nutritional information on their menus, much to the consternation of culinary libertarians who aren't keen on politicians making dietary choices for them.
"You get to that point where you're going to have significant public fights," Hodge says of public health officials' ongoing efforts to make daily life less hazardous. "We're probably going to have to go there with the restaurant industry, because, without question, their portions are contributing to the obesity epidemic. You're going to start seeing real limits on what restaurants can serve."
Banov took an early interest in restaurant service, devising a sanitation scoring system during World War I that penalized restaurants for faulty refrigeration, inadequate sinks, flies, cockroaches and rats.
What Banov doesn't mention in his 1970 memoir is whether he marked restaurants down for missing spittoons.
The spittoon story
Tellis maintains her father's civil disobedience resulted in a municipal ban on restaurant spittoons, but it's not clear from the historical record whether Charleston ever ruled either way on the issue.
Researchers at the Charleston County Public Library, Addlestone Library and the South Carolina Department of Health & Environmental Control couldn't find any references to the city requiring or prohibiting restaurant spittoons.
Other than a 1929 code entry pertaining to spittoons in bakery kitchens, the receptacles, also known as cuspidors, are absent from official documents.
But from the mid-19th century until the 1930s, spittoons were found just about everywhere else.
Spittoons, which acquired an air of elegance when chewing tobacco and snuff became fashionable, were so ubiquitous that an African-American newspaper in 1911 joked that the pro-business leader Booker T. Washington would solidify his support by forming a National Negro Spittoon Cleaners' Association.
Spittoons were fixtures of train cars, courtrooms and saloons; an inordinate number of accounts of 19th-century bar fights end with someone getting rapped on the head with a brass pot.
"I kind of get the feeling spittoons were used more in male-dominated environments," says North Carolina Historic Sites chief curator Martha Battle Jackson, who recently organized an exhibit of the Duke Homestead's spittoon collection, believed to be the world's largest.
The Anti-Tuberculosis League was a particular fan of spittoons, although the medical community slowly started to favor personal versions of the device.
In 1915, Dr. W.A. Evans, professor of hygiene, approvingly quoted from a Kentucky Board of Tuberculosis Commissioners' manual in a column published by The State: "Never spit on the ground or anywhere else, save in a sputum box or pocket spittoon."
It's likely that Banov, whose sister suffered from tuberculosis, believed in the usefulness of spittoons until, like his peers, he didn't. The 1918 influenza epidemic marked a turning point in spittoon thought, as medical professionals began urging citizens to just stop spitting.
They didn't need much prodding: With more women entering the public sphere, the behavior came to be seen as unnecessarily coarse. And the wide availability of commercially made cigarettes meant folks no longer needed to chew.
"They went the way of the dinosaur," says Jackson, who speculates that many surviving spittoons are being used as flower pots.
Yet waging public health battles over what restaurants stock and serve is far from a quaint relic.
"We're chasing restaurant items that are cumulatively killing people," Hodge says. "How far we go in regulating that will be the question of the next decade.
Reach Hanna Raskin at 937-5560.
Societal values are likely to decide the fate of electronic cigarettes in restaurants.×
The Charleston Museum has two spittoons (from left) one is an 1880s-era Rockingham American Ware and the other is an 1850s-era Edgefield Pottery.×
This is an 1850s-era Edgefield pottery spittoon from the Charleston Museum.×
Vera Tellis holds a photograph of her father James Tellis who refused in 1922 to provide spittons in the Olympia Restaurant at the corner of King and Columbus Streets. (Brad Nettles/postandcourier.com) 10/7/13×
Vera Tellis holds a photograph of her father James Tellis, who refused in 1922 to provide spittoons in the Olympia Restaurant at the corner of King and Columbus Streets.×


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quote: I wonder if the "Climate researchers" refuse to drive cars, use plastic, operate computers or even buy imported food. Because you know, all those create the "terrifying" CO2 that they a fearful of.
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12 Things to Watch For in Sunday's Colts-Rams Game
Another Missouri Clemens comes to entertain the locals this week.
Last week, the Colts rallied to top the Texans. Now with a firm two-game lead on the AFC South, they return home to take on the Saint Louis Rams. Here's what to watch for.
1. Watch some bad receivers. After rewatching tape of Sunday's win, the biggest take away was just how terrible Indy's receivers are without Reggie Wayne. Obviously, T.Y. Hilton can play in this league, but we knew that already. After watching Mssrs. Heyward-Bey (-21.8 percent DVOA), Whalen (-30.1 percent) and Brazil slap at balls and bat them to the ground, it became obvious that the Colts don't have an answer on their roster. Whalen made a huge catch late to convert a third down, but he reminds me far more of Blair White than of Austin Collie. This team needs to make a serious investment in the wideout position in the offseason and has to stop signing retread veterans as if they were a fix.
2. Watch for signs of progress. Andrew Luck is amazing, ok. No one is saying otherwise. What's troublesome, however, is the lack of statistical development in his game. His sack rate has actually gotten worse. His YPA is flat. His completion percentage has dipped under 60. Now, I get that his receivers drop passes. I know how bad his line is. But we all saw the passes he left high last week. There were points left out on the field. His major point of improvement is in the area of turnover avoidance. That can be highly volatile and I don't know that he's really going to lead the NFL with the lowest interception percentage all season. The receivers aren't getting better. The line isn't going to get better. Luck is going to have to do it on his own.
3. Watch for the ball in space. We saw Trent Richardson get a couple of passes last week. That was cool right? Pagano made a point this week to mention they want to do that more. The bad news? You know how Richardson's DVOA of -14.5 percent sucks right? Well, his receiving DVOA is actually way way worse. He's fifth-worst in the NFL among qualified backs with a -39.1 percent and a catch rate of 52 percent. So…pass blocking? The numbers say he's about the same as Donald Brown since he joined the Colts, but a little worse if you add in his Cleveland time. I'm not really sure how he should be used at this point.
4. Watch the alternate reality. In January of 2012, the Colts were looking for a new coach. Jeff Fisher was the popular name, but never materialized as a major candidate in Indy, in part because Jim Caldwell was still employed at the time. Instead, the Colts went with Chuck Pagano. Fisher has done a nice job in Saint Louis, taking a 2-14 team to 7-9-1 and had them looking back toward .500 this year before Sam Bradford got hurt. We obviously know what the history has been with Pagano here in Indy. The biggest difference is that Pagano has overseen real improvement defensively. Indy has gone from 27th against the pass in DVOA in 2011 to 14th this year. The Colts have a credible, but below average defense. The Rams are still bad.
5. Watch the clone. When I watch Zac Stacy run, I see shades of Marshall Faulk. They have similar body types, and Stacy has been terrific this year for the Rams. He's averaging 4.6 yards per carry and has started to break out with hundred-yard games each of the last two weeks. The Rams have to be kicking himself he didn't play more in Week Two against Atlanta in a winnable game. The Colts struggle against the run, so Stacy could have a huge game. He's also a fifth-round pick. Interesting, huh? Can you imagine? A fifth-round pick having a good year at running back? Unheard of.
6. Watch the bounce back. Robert Mathis was shut out of the sack column against the Texans, but look for him to pick up one or two this week to get back on pace. Kellen Clemens has an astronomical sack rate. He's gone down once for every ten pass attempts on the season. Jake Long (another big what if for the Colts) has been fantastic, but the rest of the line hasn't. Right tackle Rodger Saffold (another what-if guy) is a poor right tackle, so Mathis should be able to get a good rush on.
7. Watch the press. The Rams have one of the lowest yards per completion marks as a team. They average only 10.6 YPC on the year, and Clemens has been worse than Bradford was. The Rams don't have the protection, receivers or quarterbacks to go long. The Colts corners need to be up in the grills of the receivers this week. If they get beat deep, so be it. Throwing long is not this team's game. Clemens is just 2-for-7 on long balls this year, and on passes over 10 yards, he's just 9-for-24. Chris Givens has the best yards per reception on the team, but he's only cuaght two passes over 20 yards in the air all year.
8. Watch the Oregon Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Ol' Kellen Clemens is a spinner of yarns who has taken up residence along the banks of the mighty Mississippi. He much for fence paintin' or adventurin', but he'll get a team or two to believe in whatever outlandish story he's peddlin' that day. You might be more familiar with his work under his famous pen name "Brady Quinn Twain". Ok, so the whole Sam Clemens thing is crumbling around my ankles, largely because making fun of Clemens is unnecessary. It would have been easier just to post his career stats as my obligatory absurdist humor reference of the week.
9. Watch for the AFC Central. Can anyone explain to me why we can't have Saint Louis, Tennessee and Indy in a division together? This should be a regular rivalry. Indy got screwed out of a division with Cincy, Cleveland and Pittsburgh (move Baltimore East and Miami to the South, duh), but the next best thing would be a home and home with the Rams. I call it the AFC Central. For this to happen, we move KC to the Central, Houston to West and the Jaguars to L.A. and put them in the NFC. This all makes way too much sense not to happen. Instead, the Colts won't play what could be a perfect natural rival again until 2017. But hey, at least we get two games a year with the Texans!
10. Watch for the chip. The Rams have the top pass rush in football. Did you see that coming? They lead the NFL in adjusted sack rate, and defensive end Robert Quinn already has 10 sacks through eight games. Anthony Castonzo is the Colts' best pass blocker, and he'll have his hands full. Indy didn't do a great job with J.J. Watt last week up the middle, and now they'll have to contend with one of the game's best edge rushers. If Luck has time, he'll find a man, but with Quinn and Chris Long coming at him, that won't be easy to ensure.
11. Watch the difference a QB makes. The Rams and Colts have nearly identical special teams ratings. They have virtually the same defensive ratings. They both have issues at wide receiver, and Saint Louis is better at running back right now. Want to find the reason Indy is 6-2 and the Rams are 3-6? It's quarterback play. Bradford and Luck were having similar years, but since he went out, the Rams have lost three straight games, and all were fairly close. Bradford and Luck were two statistical peas in a pod. He's gone now, and the Rams are back to being the Rams. It's a cautionary tale, people. Do you feel appropriately cautioned?
12. Watch for professionalism. Through the years, Colts fans have grown accustom to a team that never seems to lose games it's supposed to win. This a chance for the New Colts to prove they have the same ruthlessness as the Old Colts. Last week, they had a gut-check win. Now it's time for them to have the kind of win that shows they are contenders. Colts 24 Rams 13.


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Wednesday, March 6, 2013
A man of the cloth?
I get into moods when it comes to my clothes. These moods last about a minute and a half because I don't put a lot of thought into what I wear.
As long as I'm zipped-up, not button crooked, and with no shirttails sticking out of odd places, I'm good.
During the winter I often go for the black and gray lecturing professor look – whether I believe I can pass for a visiting lecturing professor or not.
I have this "Man in Black" look. Black sport coat, black mock turtleneck, black trousers, black socks, right down to black boxers.
I wear black because black is supposed to be slimming, and combined with my silvery hair and closely trimmed beard, it makes for what I hope to be an alluring site for the ladies.
I'm not trolling when I get all trussed up in black because in all seriousness I don't see myself as the trolling type. Oh, I belong on a lake bottom somewhere but I digress.
On Thursday I had the MIB look working nicely.
I'm standing in a Barnes and Noble perusing the contemporary fiction section looking for something to read when an attractive woman approaches. While she too is perusing the contemporary fiction section of books, I can tell her attention is more on me than what may be on the bookshelves.
I'm thinking "Yahtzee!"
Somebody's about to score.
She stands there regarding the bookshelves, cutting the furtive side glance my way until finally she says to me, and listen closely: "Father, that was something else today in the Vatican, wasn't it?"
This was the day Pope Benedict XVI became the first pontiff in more than 600 years to retire his Vatican post as head of the Roman Catholic church.
That's when I regard my MIB Look reflection in the store window. I don't look anything like Johnny Cash, but more like Spencer Tracy's Father Flannigan in "Boys Town." The only thing missing was the clerical collar.
She thinks I'm a priest.
I give it a One-and-a-half Mississippi and note my all-black attire; and kudos to me for thinking quickly on my feet because quick thinking is not included in my skills sets.
I reply in an introspective and spiritual tone, "These are transitional times, my child."
I figured – quickly thinking mind you – that it would be less embarrassing for her and less awkward for me to just play along than to say she was mistaken because of the way I was dressed.
I thought about doing the sign of the Cross but since I'm left handed I would have done so as a Southpaw and I'm not real up to date on any potential dark side ramifications for making ceremonial theological hand signals with the left hand.
I surely didn't want my inadvertent faux pas to open some mysterious portal into a dark dimension and rain fire and brimstone down upon the Earth.
So, I buy my book and beat a trail for the parking lot wondering how much trouble a person can get into for impersonating a man of the cloth.
Now, before dodging the lightning I did take into account that I am an ordained minister duly sworn. I consider my five-minute ordination period as an introspective time of my life.
But Lord, have mercy. You can't make this stuff up. Or maybe you can.
There, that should hold up in court.
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The Free Soup Program of Hollidaysburg, known as Soup Saturdays at five Hollidaysburg churches - St. Mary's Catholic Church, St. Michael's Catholic Church, Hollidaysburg Church of the Brethren, St. John's Reformed Church and First Presbyterian Church - kicked off recently, and some of its organizers agreed to share some of their soup recipes with the Altoona Mirror.
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Helen Singel stirs a pot of beef noodle soup at a Soup Saturdays event Jan. 11 at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Hollidaysburg.
Each church covers three consecutive Saturdays from January to April (except the Saturday before Easter) and serves a meal from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. There is typically a variety of five soups served, Snyder said.
St. Mary's and St. John's also serve sandwiches on their days. All of them serve bread and butter, dessert and a beverage with their soup.
A free-will offering is collected. Money either goes back into the program, or, if a profit, goes to help church or community members, Snyder said.
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St. Mary's Catholic Church, Mulberry and Clark streets - Saturday (the church had its first two Saturdays on Jan. 5 and 12).
St. Michael's Catholic Church, Montgomery and Spruce streets - Jan. 26 and Feb. 2 and 9.
St. John's Reformed Church, 906 Maple Ave. - Feb. 16 and 23 and March 2.
Hollidaysburg Church of the Brethren, Penn and Hawthorne streets - March 9, 16 and 23.
No soup is served on Easter weekend.
First Presbyterian Church, Penn and Walnut streets - April 6, 13 and 20.
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The Soup Saturdays have grown popular over the years. The first year, one or two people showed, the next year it jumped to 30; in 2004, it grew to 90; and now, they serve about 120 to 150 people each Saturday.
Snyder said those in financial need and those seeking Christian fellowship come out. Leftover soup is sometimes given to shut-in members or to church members after Sunday morning worship.
"We've been very happy with the turn-out," she said. "The volunteers are terrific, the churches are terrific with doing it."
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Stuffed Pepper Soup
5 pounds of cooked ground beef
8 to 10 cups of diced cooked green peppers
2 No. 10 cans (107 ounces total) spaghetti sauce
2 or 3 49-ounce cans chicken broth
2 pounds (about 8 cups) of cooked rice or al dente orzo
Brown the beef in a separate pot with the green peppers. Place the ingredients in a roaster.
Add spaghetti sauce, chicken broth, rice or orzo. Simmer for a half hour to 45 minutes, add more chicken broth, if needed.
Makes about 16 quarts
Potato Soup
20 pounds cubed, cooked white potatoes
3/4 cup shredded, cooked carrots
3/4 cup chopped, cooked onions
3 to 4 49-ounce cans of chicken broth
Milk, enough to cover potatoes
Parsley, a sprinkle for color
Cut up potatoes and bring to a boil until they can be pierced with a fork. Mash half of the potatoes for a creamy texture.
Saute carrots and onions until the carrots are soft and the onions are translucent. Drain the carrots after cooking so as to not make the soup orange in color.
Place the potatoes, carrots and onions in the roaster. Add chicken broth and enough milk to cover the potatoes. Add parsley.
Serve with bacon bits or chives (optional).
Makes about 16 quarts
(Old Fashioned) Beef Vegetable Soup
3 to 5 pounds beef short ribs and stewing chuck
Beef knuckle bone
Salt, pepper to taste
1/2 teaspoon celery salt
4 bay leaves (remove before serving)
4 all-spice balls (remove before serving)
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
1/2 cup fresh parsley chopped or 1/4 cup parsley flakes
1 pound great northern beans (Boil two minutes then let set for an hour, or soak overnight. Drain & rinse before adding.)
6-8 pieces of chopped celery
6-8 sliced carrots
1 small chopped onion
1/2 head of cabbage sliced in strips
1 large can stewed or crushed tomatoes
2-4 pounds of frozen vegetables, depending on how much you are making. Get Vegetable Soup veggies already packaged that way with corn/carrots/string beans/lima beans.
1 bottle or can (48 to 64 ounces) of tomato juice (Campbell's suggested) (add more or less to taste)
1/2 cup barley (optional)
1 cup rice (optional)
1 cup shell noodles or alphabet noodles
Cut meat into small pieces. Brown onions in a little oil in a large kettle. Remove onions, then brown meat. Add about 2 quarts of water, onions, bones, tomatoes, cabbage, carrots, celery, parsley and seasonings.
Simmer covered for about 1 1/2 to 2 hours. Remove bone(s), skim fat from top of soup. Cool quickly and lift off hardened fat. Wipe sides of kettle with a paper towel to remove fat/grease. (This step isn't necessary if you don't mind a little fat).
Put back on heat and add Great Northern Beans (that have soaked and been rinsed); frozen vegetables, rice, barley and noodles. Add water and tomato juice as needed.
Remember to remove the bay leaves and allspice before serving. The longer you cook, the better it tastes. Refrigerate or freeze leftovers. Makes about 10 to 12 quarts.
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Last night I had dinner in San Francisco with J.D. [3], his lovely wife, and Cap [4] and we somehow got on the topic of how JD made the fantastically not awesome decision to buy Sharper Image [5]. Cap lamented about how he was poor and didn't invest in stocks (to be honest, I forgot what he said so I put in a typical Cap comment :)), I chimed in about how I erroneous Worldcom (I said Enron earlier but I got the two mixed up [6]) on bad news but that it was a good lesson for me.
That got me thinking to something my father told me many years ago. He said, and I'm paraphrasing, that you either learn a lesson in the classroom or you learn it in real life, the one in real life is far more expensive (in both time and money) and dangerous. The best analogy I can think of were the "fights" I saw on the fraternity quad in college. Ever see two "tough guys" step up to each other, bump chests, and challenge each other? That, in part, goes back to when people would fight for territory and weakness meant someone else was going to swoop in on your livelihood.
On the fraternity quad of a private engineering school, you probably didn't learn the lessons of the street growing up and probably didn't realize that if you bumped up against the wrong chest, you'd be floored. In the fraternity quad of a private engineering school, the chest puffing stopped at just that, chest puffing.
Then my friend Howard from New York City showed up, a real cool Asian kid who stood all of 5′ 7″, but he had street smarts; where he came from, chest puffing and "go ahead, hit me" statements were soon followed by the very thing you asked for. One night he had a run in with some punk, there was shouting, some "go ahead, hit me"s were thrown around, and he swung. The guy didn't fight back, but bless his bravado, he said "hit me again!" And he did. And again. Until the guy ran. (He later returned with five of his fraternity brothers, at which point we called him a [not nice name] and told him to [go home])
That other guy, he got a lesson he should've learned in the classroom – don't pick a fight if you aren't going to fight. Howard used his fists, depending on the street and the circumstances, it could've been clubs, knives or guns. The other guy got off cheap.
After that little trip down memory lane, it struck me, losing money on Worldcom was very good for me. At the time it was catastrophic, a loss of a thousand dollars in a Roth IRA that had only three or four; but it taught me that I really need to do a lot more due diligence before I'd be ready to invest any money in individual stocks. Due diligence is not an hour reading news stories, due diligence is poring over financial records, understanding how markets price stocks (biggest lesson is that it's about growth, not intrinsic value; don't quote me though because I'm terrible at investing), and a whole pantheon of factors I can't even begin imagine, let alone enumerate. That's precisely why I like index funds (though I'm waiting for the research that says index funds suck, you know it's coming!).
That thousand dollars has probably saved me countless dollars over the years since and it definitely was the main reason why I didn't buy Bear Stearns [6] this past month.
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MARTINSBURG - After four years of offering a place for local youth to skate, bike and scoot, the Berkeley County Parks and Recreation Center will be closing the doors on its BMX/Skatepark facility.
Parks and Recreation opened the BMX/Skatepark in November 2009 after receiving a $100,000 monetary donation from the Beth Jacob Synagogue. After being open for approximately six months, the park began experiencing financial troubles.
Steve Catlett, executive director for Parks and Recreation, asked Tim Parker and his wife Ann, owners of 180 Skate Shop, to move their shop into the facility, pay rent and operate the park. At the time Parker was considering closing his skate shop, but he decided to move into the facility and operate the park.
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Tim Parker, owner of 180 Skate Shop, will be closing his business May 31, coinciding with the closing of the Berkeley County Parks and Recreation BMX/Skatepark facility, which has been open since 2009.
Parker first began selling skate equipment as a fundraiser for one of his sons, who was invited to participate in a $5,000 trip to England and Scotland through the People to People Student Ambassador program when he was 11.
Since all three of their kids skated, Parker saw it as an easy way to raise funds through their children's interest. The business quickly took off and Parker maintained a skate shop through nine years and three locations within Berkeley County.
"There were good and bad months. Last summer, we had to go to Parks and Rec and tell them that the summer (months) were so bad that we're not going to be able to pay rent for the next couple of months, so they paid the rent for us," Parker said.
Although closing 180 Skate Shop is something that has been on Parker's mind for some time, the decision was still several years in the future. It was not until the BMX shop also operating within the skate park suddenly left that Parker's decision to close became immediate.
"We're trying to make $1,200 a month on a $5 admission fee. And that's to pay the rent, no profit," Parker said.
Parker's decision was solidified after a conversation with Catlett, who announced that Parks and Recreation would not be renewing its lease with R.M. Roach & Sons Inc. for the property because the ROCS convenience store, which resides directly in front of the skate facility, will be expanding.
A call to Parks and Recreation was not returned by press time.
"It's going to be hardest on the scooters, because scooters have nowhere to go. They need ramps. Skaters can find something on the streets, the bikers can find stuff on the street, but it's just hard to find a place to scoot. They need ramps," Parker said.
Parker and his wife plan to move to Texas.
"We're going to leave with a lot of cool memories," Parker said. "It's meant a lot to a lot of kids. We've been surrogate parents to a lot of the kids and skaters that came around, and we were what they had. We became like their mom and dad."
Within the next two weeks, Parker plans to begin selling his equipment and wooden ramps. The last day 180 Skate Shop will be open is May 31.
Before deciding to close, Parker was trying to organize a monthly concert series featuring local bands. After talking with the bands scheduled for the June performance, he decided to host one concert the day 180 Skate Shop closes.
"We're going to go out with a band. It was fun, it's just time for us to go, so we're going to celebrate," Parker said.
- Staff writer Samantha Cronk can be reached at 304-263-8931, ext. 132, or twitter.com/scronkJN.