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Residents invited to experience county meals, farms
June 22, 2013
CHARLES TOWN — The farmland in Jefferson County is sacred, so much so there is a board designed to protect it....
Why do people always assume that farmers have a ton of disposable income? Tabbs are good people, either way.
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Including this one, there are now 41 comments attached to this story. Of that, less than a handful come close to even being remotely related to the story itself. Instead of name-calling and left vs right attack posts, why can't this group limit the discussion to the topic of the "Fresh Feast on the Farm" event? Although you all have made it one, I really don't see this as a Dem vs Repub story. Consider that Jane Tabb has been promoting this event even while not an elected official.
Two very valid points have been raised: (1) Where is the lion's share (80%) of the ticket price going, and (2) Why is the price of a ticket well out of the budget of much of the County? Personally, if the goal is to "for people to discover local farms, meet farmers and taste the freshness that is grown locally", this event certainly only does that to the County's elite.
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"no one respects you or your opinions."
Not true, unlike you I have several Dems who post here that the respect is mutual. You do not garner respect from anyone but a very small group of two or three. You may want to look at a poster like CountaryOne who has commanded respect and always is willing to provide ANSWER's when questioned. Even as partisan as I am, and UNLIKE you, I have apologized when I have made mistakes. All we get from you is snitty backdoor references that you want to PRETEND is not name calling. I play that game well when necessary,
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"miserable hypocrite nutjobs"
Looks like name-calling to me. Unless and until you can control yourself when posting, I suggest you take up a different hobby. Your posts make you appear to be unstable and childish and no one respects you or your opinions. Get a grip.
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Talk about sore losers, WAIT until the next Jefferson County Commissioner election, the last do nothing fraud will be removed.
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"More name calling from a sore loser".
No name calling, just accurate description's of several posters who have nothing better do do then smearing someone because of their political membership. Why was it ever brought up? And why did you decide to stick your nose into a post that was not in response to anything you said. If you can't stand the heat stay out of the kitchen.
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More name calling from a sore loser. Time for him to pout now. Typical reaction from "needsarealitycheck".
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WVVet25, the Tabbs are good people. My first comment was responding to a miserable nutjob whose only mission in life is to attack ANY Republican even though the article had nothing to do with politics. Then other miserable hypocrite nutjobs put their two cents in.
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most of the comments had nothing to do with the article. sad they'd rather attack one another...the Tabbs don't need ANYONE'S money..they have more than everyone here, guaranteed. they earned that money, working hard everyday...yes, even before most knew where Jefferson County was located.
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Amberg how many cats exactly do you feed or own? Don't get me wrong I like cats. I was just curious.
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I hope she atleast has a library card and a regular doctor so she can get out amongst other people. Do they have free bus transportation up in the Martinsburg Charlestown area?
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See reality just like I said. Lol She sounds almost like joe Kidd. What you said did not even register with her. What do you expect with no family and no friends people like her kind of go a little bonkers. Poor hag and her cats.
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Larry and Curly sure are sounding quite desperate. I can tell I hit a nerve and they are both beside themselves with anger. You can tell when reality is mad, he starts his usual name calling routine. And IQ38 drops more IQ points and the misspellings and poor grammar get worse. Don't worry, Moe will be along later tonight to commiserate with you. Nyuk nyuk nyuk!
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Reality I know. What you have to understand is you did draw Amberg in hook line and sinker,but she is so dense and ignorant that we won't even understand.
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IC38, a better way think of Amberg, totally irrelevant !!! Let's all have a good laugh.
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"thinking I'm going to do your homework"
No chance of that happening, AS I said, I knew there was no chance of you looking at those comments. I already did my "homework", it was just a matter of further exposing you for what you are,a total fraud and hypocrite. You fell for it, hook line and sinker.
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Amberg and your obviously the lost stooge. Curly had a female cousin her name was lonely. She was the homely stooge with no personality that nobody liked.
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IQ38 is obviously Curly, the dumbest one.
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Amberg isn't a hopeless case,she is more of a nobody could "careless" case.
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There ya go again reality, thinking I'm going to do your homework for you. If you want to cut and paste things to make a point go right ahead. Of course it doesn't mean anyone is going to look at what you post.
In the meantime, are you Moe, Larry or Curly?
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Amberg, You are officially FIRED as the board police person due to your overt political bias and lack of critical discernment. I knew you would not review the June 12th Mary Edgar letter comments. You are a hopeless case.
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Amberg why not Rey lola. Laugh out loud alone.
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Ooops, my friend just corrected me. SME, IQ38 and reality are the Three Stooges. LOL!
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Well, lookie here. All three of the posters we laugh at most posting right in a row. Talk about broken records and here are the three worst. MajorSME who hasn't said anything new in years, IQ38 showing he hasn't gotten any smarter (and actually appears to be regressing), and reality demonstrating his closed mind and inability to learn. Why, it's the Three Amigos!
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Container gardens filled with nectar-rich blooms can transform any balcony, patio, porch, deck or small yard into a culinary haven for butterflies. But not just any nectar flower will do. The nectar must be easily accessible.
A butterfly feeds by sipping nectar through its uncoiled, tubelike tongue, known as a proboscis. Some butterfly species have long tongues, while others have short ones. The length of the tongue will ultimately determine the type of flower a butterfly visits. As such, you'll attract more butterfly species by growing a smorgasbord of nectar-rich flowers of different floral shapes. Best choices are plants with daisylike blossoms -- such as cosmos, chrysanthemum, rudbeckia and zinnia -- as well as penstemon, salvia and other blooms with bell-shaped or tubular flowers.
Keep in mind that the amount of nectar a flower produces can vary within the plant species. Sometimes more fanciful double-flowered varieties are bred to impress the eye and not so much the appetite. For best success, go with simple, single-flowered versions instead. Likewise, go with species plants whenever possible, rather than cultivars.
Just about any nectar-rich flowering plant, shrub, vine or small tree will grow in a container as long as the container has holes in the bottom to provide adequate drainage. Options include plastic, wood, metal, stone, glazed pottery or clay, as well as lightweight planters made of polyethylene, fiberglass resin or other materials.
Pots as small as 10 inches in diameter are fine for single-plant displays, but 18 inches or larger is best when growing shrubs, trees or multiple plants. Larger containers are also less subject to temperature changes, and because they hold more soil, plant roots stay moist longer.
Whatever container you use, be sure it drains well. If a pot lacks adequate drainage, add holes to the bottom. Elevating containers on pottery feet, bricks, stones or even an upside-down pot also helps improve drainage.
Plants arranged at varying heights also draw a diverse crowd of butterflies because they offer nectar flowers at different levels. One way to do this is by staggering your containers of butterfly plants by using bricks or concrete blocks as well as plant stands, pedestals, wood stools, chairs or even pots turned upside down.
This can also be achieved by mixing plants with trailing, bushy and upright growth habits -- either by grouping pots, each containing a single species, or by planting several species in one container.
For instance, grow a butterfly buffet featuring a chaste tree (Vitex agnus-castus) with catmint (Nepeta) and trailing verbena (such as 'Homestead Purple') underneath. Feature spring-blooming snapdragons (Antirrhinum majus), dianthus, wallflower (Erysimum cheiri; E. x allionii) and sweet alyssum (Lobularia maritima). Plant a perennial display with nectar favorites such as coreopsis, a dwarf scabiosa and liatris, fronted by a trailing sedum or creeping thyme. A container filled with summer phlox (Phlox paniculata), evergreen candytuft (Iberis sempervirens) and trailing geraniums (Pelargonium) also makes for an attractive combination.
Remember that a butterfly container garden isn't limited to patios, decks and entrance areas. Use potted plants to fill in bare spaces in a newly planted perennial bed or garden border. Use them along the edges of steps, to encircle a tree or to line a walkway or path.
However you decide to display your butterfly container gardens, one thing is certain: A group of containers in a bright, sunny area can go a long way to providing habitat for butterflies -- and a beautiful oasis for you.
There's a certain charm about window box butterfly gardens that sets them apart from other types of container plantings. They heighten a home's beauty by placing an enticingly gorgeous display of colorful nectar flowers right up on the house, and can also be attached to the inside railing of a patio or porch.
Plants that are appropriate in hanging baskets and smaller containers generally work well in window box gardens. Yet the options don't end there. Taller and larger specimens that might overpower a hanging basket become dazzling performers in a window box display.
Annuals work especially well as you can leave them in their original pots and simply pop them right in the box. As each annual ends its performance, take out the pot and replace it with another for a display that lasts through the seasons.
Background (large plants and vertical growers)
Astilbe (Astilbe)
Cardinal flower (Lobelia cardinalis)
Columbine (Aquilegia)
Chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum)
Crocosmia (Crocosmia)
Delphinium (Delphinium)
Dwarf sunflower (Helianthus)
Flowering tobacco (Nicotiana)
Heliotrope (Heliotropium arborescens)
Gayfeather (Liatris spicata)
Penstemon (Penstemon)
Sky lupine (Lupinus nanus)
Snapdragon (Antirrhinum majus)
Foreground (low-growing or bushy plants used as fillers)
Amethyst flower (Browallia)
Candytuft (Iberis)
Dianthus (Dianthus)
Dwarf aster (Aster)
Dwarf zinnia (Zinnia)
Floss flower (Ageratum houstonianum)
Gazania (Gazania)
Geranium (Pelargonium)
Impatiens (Impatiens walleriana)
Marigold (Tagetes)
Nasturtium (Tropaeolum majus)
Salvia (Salvia)
Sea pink (Armeria)
Speedwell (Veronica)
Wallflower (Erysimum cheiri; E. x allionii)
Trailing (species that spill over the sides and front)
Creeping Jenny (Lysimachia nummularia)
Creeping zinnia (Sanvitalia procumbens)
Dwarf periwinkle (Vinca minor)
Ivy geranium (Pelargonium peltatum)
Parrot's beak (Lotus berthelotii)
Petunia (Petunia)
Prostrate or trailing rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis)
Rose moss (Portulaca grandiflora)
Scaevola (Scaevola)
Sedum (Sedum)
Verbena (Verbena)
-- Garden writer Kris Wetherbee is the author of "Attracting Birds, Butterflies & Other Winged Wonders to Your Backyard"


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Man charged for intimidating robbery victim in Erie
An Erie man released on $100,000 unsecured bond after he was arraigned in late August on charges in a robbery and shooting was jailed today on charges of intimidating the robbery victim on Friday and Saturday.
Dionne L. Jordan, 30, of the 1100 block of East 25th Street, was arraigned by Erie 1st Ward District Judge Sue Mack on a felony count of victim/witness intimidation and was placed in the Erie County Prison on $50,000 bond.
Police accuse Jordan of going to a business owned by a woman on two occasions "for the purposes of intimidation." Police said he pulled into the business and covered a video surveillance camera in an attempt to get into the business and contact the victim in reference to charges he faces in the robbery case.
Jordan is accused of breaking into a westside residence on Aug. 9 and demanding money. Police charge that Jordan fired a shotgun next to the female victim, injuring her hand and hearing, according to the criminal complaint filed in that case.
See Tuesday's Erie Times-News and GoErie.com for more coverage.


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Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University whose eloquent departing lecture about battling pancreatic cancer drew international acclaim, has died.
Pausch, 47, delivered the lecture in September 2007. It was videotaped and posted on the Internet, where it was widely viewed and led to a bestselling book.
Pausch, who was diagnosed with incurable pancreatic cancer in September 2006, died at his home in Virginia, said Carnegie Mellon spokeswoman Anne Watzman.
A professor of computer science, human-computer interaction and design, Pausch was known for his flamboyance and showmanship as a teacher and mentor. He also was recognized as a pioneer in virtual-reality research.
But it was his popular last lecture at Carnegie Mellon in September that garnered international attention.
Millions went online to view the complete or abridged version of the lecture, titled "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams." In it, Pausch celebrated living the life he had always dreamed of instead of concentrating on impending death.
In book form, "The Last Lecture," written with Jeffrey Zaslow, leaped to the top of the best-seller lists after its publication in April.
Pausch and his family moved to Chesapeake, Va., in the fall to be closer to his wife's relatives.
He is survived by his wife, Jai, and their three children, Dylan, Logan and Chloe.


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Featured Golf News
Jacobsen Recognizes Father's Influence in His Love for the Game
Peter Jacobsen is one of golf's most likable players. He also enjoys one of the most diverse golf-related careers of perhaps anyone in the game.
The Portland, Ore., native, who splits his time between homes in the Rose City and Bonita Springs, Fla., has his own golf course architecture firm, Jacobsen Hardy Golf Course Design; a management company, Peter Jacobsen Sports, a sports-marketing firm he created in 1988; he's been an on-course reporter for NBC and The Golf Channel; had cameo appearances in two popular movies, "Dead Solid Perfect" in 1988 and "Tin Cup" in 1996; and has co-authored two books about his life on tour, "Buried Lies: True Tales and Tall Stories from the PGA Tour," and "Embedded Balls: Adventures on and off the Tour with Golf's Premiere Storyteller."
In addition, Jacobsen created the Fred Meyer Challenge, a pro-pro, team best-ball event in Portland that drew such luminaries as Arnold Palmer (his partner), Greg Norman, Fred Couples, Paul Azinger and many other PGA Tour stars. The tournament was held from 1986 through 2002. One of its annual highlights was the performance by Jake Trout & the Flounders, a band Jacobsen formed with Mark Lye and Payne Stewart in the mid-1980s and played until Stewart's untimely death in a plane crash in 1999.
The event, locally known as "Peter's Party," went on hiatus in 2003 when Fred Meyer withdrew its sponsorship, but it's returning this year. The revived event is now called the Umpqua Bank Challenge and will be held August 28-30 at historic Portland Golf Club. Among the players Jacobsen has enlisted are Palmer, John Cook, Mark O'Meara, Jay Haas, Ben Crenshaw, Tom Lehman and Fuzzy Zoeller.
On Thursday, Jacobsen was named the winner of the 2012 Old Tom Morris Award by the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America, the organization's highest honor. The award will go next to the Francis Ouimet Award Jacobsen received from the Francis Ouimet Scholarship Fund in 2006 for his lifelong contributions to golf.
On Thursday, "Jake" met with reporters at Inverness Club, site of this week's U.S. Senior Open. One of the biggest thrills of Jacobsen's career was his 2004 victory in that USGA championship.
In the following Q&A, Jacobsen describes how he was brought up by his father, Erling, to always love and respect the game. Also on hand was GCSAA president Bob Randquist, who officially notified Jacobsen of the Old Tom Morris Award.
Here's what the 57-year-old Jacobsen had to tell reporters.
MODERATOR: Okay, we'd like to welcome Peter Jacobsen to The Senior Open media center. Peter is the 2004 U.S. Senior Open champion, playing in his eighth Senior Open. Way too young to play in that many Senior Opens. Peter, you've had quite an experience playing USGA Championships, and I'd like to get your assessment of how your game's going and then a little bit about what you see at Inverness.
PETER JACOBSEN: Well, thank you. It's a pleasure to be back to Inverness, first of all. This was the site of my first USGA Championship back in '73. I qualified for the U.S. Amateur. I've been a part of the landscape of golf since I was a junior player. I played in the U.S. Junior, U.S. Amateur, and U.S. Open, and now the U.S. Senior Opens. Let me just say it's a pleasure to compete in any USGA Championship because they're always the most well-run and most fiercely contested championships because it is -- USGA is the governing body and they're always our national championship. So it was fun for me to play back in my first USGA Amateur here at Inverness. Then I came back for two PGA Championships here in '85 and '93, so it is a pleasure to come back here.
I think one of the great things about coming back to a unique golf course like Inverness is when we're gone for a period of time, you lose sight of the fact that these courses are some of the best golf courses in the world, and I think that's true with Inverness. These greens here are so unique. They're small, they're undulating. There's no green -- they're not like each other. They're all different unto each other. Some slope from left to right, some right to left, back to front. I played this morning with a couple of players, and yesterday we played, and we all commented about how unique each green was and how memorable each hole was. So it's a pleasure to be back here. My game right now, it's actually getting better. I've had a few physical setbacks in the last few years, which has really set my game back. I'm certainly not where I wanted to be the last few years with the way I played. But I fondly remember winning the 2004 U.S. Senior Open at Bellerive in St. Louis, and that was really the highlight of my career so far.
MODERATOR: And at Bellerive, you were not exactly in the best condition either.
PETER JACOBSEN: No, I think I had just had one of my first of my three hip surgeries, and I endured 36 holes on Monday -- no, Sunday, Sunday. I didn't know if it was Monday or Sunday. 36 holes in some searing heat. I remember walking to the first tee, walking with Walter Driver, and I said, Walter, I'm not sure I can play 36. He said, What do you mean? You're leading the tournament. I said, I understand that, but this is my first tournament back after having hip surgery three or four months earlier, and I just want you to know I may not be able to finish. But I got it. I won by one, and that was a lot of fun.
Q. How is your health right now? You've had a little better play lately.
PETER JACOBSEN: I've been playing a little better. Thank you. I'm feeling pretty good, actually. This week marks a one-year anniversary since my last back surgery, which I hadn't gone more than eight months since I turned 50 without having some sort of a major surgery. I think since I turned 50, I think I've had like 13 or 14 surgeries, knee replacement, hip replacement, shoulder, back. So this is kind of a milestone. It's one year. But I'm feeling better. The problem with when you go through surgeries, and everybody that's in here knows what I'm talking about, when you try to play at a level, this high level, you end up just trying to make a swing to get the ball in the hole and you create compensations in your golf swing. So right now I feel physically good, but I'm trying to erase those -- eliminate those compensations that I've been working with. I'm hitting better shots, more quality shots, and I'm working hard at it.
MODERATOR: Given your fondness for USGA events and fondness for a place like Inverness, does that significance to you get you a little more juiced up to play better? Do you feel like you can play better because of that?
PETER JACOBSEN: One of the things that is the highlight of my career, you see that little badge, whenever you get that USGA badge with your name on it, it gets you pumped up. That means that it's very special to be able to play in any USGA Championship. But playing the Champions Tour is fantastic. They call it the mulligan in our career. We have a chance to past the age of 50 go out and continue to chase the little golf ball, and chase our dream of playing professional golf. But playing in the USGA championships and playing in the U.S. Senior Open specifically this week for me gets your adrenaline pumping and gets your adrenaline flowing.
MODERATOR: You said something about the greens and the uniqueness of each green on each hole. Does that make your preparation more difficult? Do you spend more time on putting than you normally would based on that?
PETER JACOBSEN: Yes. I played with Nick Price, Jay Haas, and Jeff Sluman this morning, and we were all putting to the different quadrants. And we were very impressed, having a chance to see this again after having not been here for so many years, with all the nuances and the little folds of the earth, how there are so many different hole locations in a lot of the greens. I don't know what the USGA's going to do. I don't know how difficult they'll make it. They could make it very difficult by hiding certain pins, not just behind bunkers and bunker faces and bunker eyebrows, but by putting it into little folds of the green. It's a thrill. I think the older we get, the more we like to be tested. We all still want to believe that we have our best golf ahead of us, when sometimes clearly our best golf is behind us. But you can't convince any of us of that.
Q. When you talk about when you haven't been to a place for a long time can you sort of lose sight of it, are there other courses that come to mind that you put Inverness in a class with in that?
PETER JACOBSEN: Yeah, I played my last U.S. Open was Winged Foot. I think that was '06. I think I played three or four Opens at Winged Foot. But every time I go back to Winged Foot, I'm just absolutely blown away with the uniqueness of Winged Foot. I would put Oakland Hills in that. Now I haven't played Oakland Hills since they redid the greens, but I always loved Oakland Hills. Any time the USGA goes to a golf course, whether it's the U.S. Junior, U.S. Amateur, or U.S. Open or the Senior Open, Women's Open, you know those golf courses have been vetted. You know those are great championship golf courses. They're very selected. I know the courses like Inverness are very selected by what championships are tested here, and they should be. It's a unique golf course; it's a championship golf course. To win a U.S. Open or to win a USGA Championship, certainly the U.S. Open, Women's Open or Senior Open, you can't fake your way around it. You've got to have your nerves under control. You've got to be a great ball striker. And I think this week you'll see the guy that wins is the one that gets it up-and-down the most, makes the most five-, six-, seven-footers, and a lot of them for par.
Q. Can you give us your thoughts on what Bernhard Langer did last year by winning the British Open and coming to America and winning the Senior Open, and what Russ Cochran's going to face this week?
PETER JACOBSEN: I think a lot is made about the jet lag. One thing that people can't measure is adrenaline. And I think when you come from the Senior British to the Senior Open and you've won or you've had a good tournament, I think that adrenaline will carry you through this week. I think if you ask Bernhard Langer or Russ this week how do you feel, they're going to tell you they feel great. Where it's going to hit them is the week after. If they play next week on the Champions Tour at the 3M Championship up in Minneapolis, whether they play that or not, they're probably going to feel the effects of the jet lag and the adrenaline rush when they win the Senior British and come and win the U.S. Senior Open as well. So there is an adrenaline high. And all of us playing in this tournament and playing on the Champions Tour know that adrenaline can sustain you for two or three weeks at a time, oh, yeah. But then when you take a week off, that's when you hit the wall. I'll bet you Russ Cochran, when he comes in here, what time is his press conference -- he's going to float in. I guarantee it.
MODERATOR: You played the golf course this morning. Can you evaluate the condition for us?
PETER JACOBSEN: Yeah, played yesterday morning and the greens improved a great deal in one day. I think that's the genius of the superintendent, too. The superintendents around the country at these golf courses, they understand what they need to do to bring the golf course to championship condition. It was Tuesday morning, and that's obviously two days before the championship. So from yesterday to today I noticed the green speeds increased by probably a foot. The greens were cut down. In fact, Nick Price on the third hole today mentioned that these greens are in perfect shape right now. They're beautiful, and they are. The golf course is in exquisite shape. I love the bunkering here. Yesterday, Olin Brown, we played yesterday, and Olin Brown after five or six holes, he turned and said, now, why can't the architects build bunkers like this? These are fantastic. And I said, I don't know why. But I know everybody tries to emulate bunkers like Inverness. But I expect the golf course to be in perfect shape for the next four days.
Q. I don't know if you ever imitated Old Tom Morris's swing, but how does it feel to get an award in his name?
PETER JACOBSEN: Well, I'm honored to be able to receive this award from the GCSAA. My first job was working on the crew at Waverly Country Club on the greens crew. So I know how to -- it's appropriate. I know how to mow collars. I know how to mow greens. I know how to do a quick coupler when we do some hand watering. But that's one of the most important assets we have at golf courses and country clubs is the golf course. This week you'll be talking about great players, but what stands out to me is the common denominator here is the great golf course.
So I'm honored by this award, and I know Old Tom Morris was a great champion. He's a four-time British Open champion, but he was also one of the first greenskeepers in the history of the game over in Scotland. So I feel like I've benefited in all aspects of the game, not just from the great heros that came before me and played the game, like Arnold Palmer and Byron Nelson, and Ben Hogan, and Gene Sarazen, but by all the great greenskeepers and superintendents and anybody that's ever mowed a green or hand-watered a tee or hand-watered a hotspot on a green during a championship or used a blower to blow off the tree limb that's blown on to the green on a windy day during the U.S. Open.
MODERATOR: The cat's out of the bag, but we want to make it official, and for a very special presentation from the GCSAA, I'd like to bring up the president, Mr. Bob Randquist.
BOB RANDQUIST: First of all, it's a real pleasure to be here today, and we appreciate the USGA allowing us to make this announcement today about our most prestigious award from GCSAA. Toledo is a special city for us. The first superintendents' organizational meeting of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America occurred at Toledo at Sylvania Country Club 85 years ago this September, so it's a special time for us and a great time. It was a treat to hear you mention this was one of your first USGA events here to play at Inverness. So thanks to the USGA. We really appreciate the relationship that we've been able to enjoy over the years with the USGA, their support for golf course superintendents everywhere with the USGA greens sections and the agronomists that help us. I can't tell you what a valuable tool that is for us.
So thanks to Jim Hyler and Mike Davis and other folks at the USGA that allowed us to do that. As you've already discovered from reading the press release, we are announcing that we are awarding our Old Tom Morris Award to Peter Jacobsen this year. He'll be officially presented that award at our educational conference in Las Vegas in February of next year, and we're looking forward to a very enjoyable time there with you, Peter. Let me be the first to officially say congratulations for accepting that award. I'd also like to tell you a little of the reason why Peter was selected in our minds, and I know this may sound a little different, but we love Peter's sense of humor. He was a keynote speaker at one of our conferences a number of years ago, and we were all in stitches the entire time that he was up there. And you say well, what does that have to do with golf? Well, let me tell you, Peter has a very clear understanding even as we chatted yesterday, that golf is about having fun, and sometimes we forget that.
We know that people at every level of competition, whether it be at a U.S. Open or at any other level of competition, that one of the great lasting things about this game is how much fun it can be. We appreciate seeing someone enjoy the game so much all the time. We also appreciate the fact that Peter is a true champion. He's accomplished himself very well on the golf course over the years. We recognize that. And I will tell you we are biased. He has been very clear over the years about his support and his praise of golf course superintendents, and we appreciate the level of appreciation that you've extended to us over the years, Peter. I want to ask you one question, and then we'll kind of wrap this up, hopefully. Can you share with us some of your comments about what the game itself really means to you?
PETER JACOBSEN: Well, my father was an unbelievable guy. He was a serviceman. He was a Navy flier off the Intrepid and the Enterprise aircraft carriers in the war. So there was no slacking off in our household when we learned how to play the game. We had to be serious about it and we had to learn how to do everything right. But he always said at the end of the day, remember it's a game and you're supposed to have fun and enjoy yourself. I think that's the one thing that when I first got my card and came out on the Tour, I pinched myself. I had to pinch myself that I was actually playing the game with these heros that my father admired and that I watched on TV at the CBS Golf Classic and Shell's Wonderful World of Golf.
But as I was growing up playing the game and dreaming of being on the Tour, I never lost sight of the fact of those that made it possible for me to be able to do what I do. And it was all the professionals that I worked with at the club, and all the teaching professionals that helped me, and a lot of those teaching professionals came through the PGA of America. But also, when I got my first paying job, which was working on the greens crew at Waverly Country Club in Portland, I developed a healthy appreciation for how difficult it is to maintain a golf course and keep it in championship shape day-in and day-out. People seem to forget that when we come to Inverness for one week of great golf, this golf course is in beautiful shape, but there are 51 other weeks that the superintendent here at Inverness and all the golf clubs that we play, they've got to maintain that golf course for the membership and for the public to come and enjoy that golf course. So I understand how this machine works, and I appreciate it, and I don't take it lightly.
I'm serious about my golf, but I'm also serious about the enjoyment of golf. That's why I've always tried to look at myself. I don't take myself too seriously. I take my golf seriously, but I don't take myself too seriously. Golf's a game, and I still have to pinch myself thinking that I get to play it for my living and have fun doing it. I want to win, I want to beat everybody every time I play. I hope to win this week and capture my second U.S. Senior Open Championship, but I'm going to have fun doing it along the way. There is no question about that.
BOB RANDQUIST: We look forward to seeing you in February.
PETER JACOBSEN: I look forward to it, Bob, thank you.
MODERATOR: Thank you.
The transcript for the above interview is courtesy of ASAP Sports.
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Samsung series 9
You've got to admire Samsung for having the gumption to take on Apple at its own game. Its Galaxy series smartphones now outsell iPhones, and with the new Series 9 13-inch laptop, the Korean manufacturer has a contender in the hotly contested ultrabook vertical market, currently ruled by Apple's MacBook Air.
Our test unit was a lightweight (1.16kg) brushed aluminium clad notebook with possibly the slimmest profile (12.9mm) in the market today. Samsung hasn't gone overboard with the design – the Series 9 is sleek and looks expensive.
The beating heart of Samsung's new notebook is a third generation Intel Core i5 processor, with 4GB of RAM and 128GB hard disk. Thanks to Samsung's dominance of the TV market, the laptop also boasts a superb 13" LED HD screen. The Series 9, which runs Windows 7, is quick to boot up.
The keyboard is flat and its keys are somewhat reminiscent of the MacBook's. However, the touchpad is not the greatest – it still doesn't quite have the finesse of the ones on the MacBook. In conclusion, the Series 9 is a good-looking ultrabook that scores on most counts. What's the downside? It still runs Windows. Dh5,299, at leading stores
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The BlackBerry Music Gateway seems like a desperate attempt at injecting some coolness back into the somewhat beleaguered smartphone brand. The Gateway allows you to wirelessly stream music from your BlackBerry device (or any Bluetooth-enabled device or mp3 player) to a sound dock or audio system via a 3.5mm audio jack.
The Gateway is a compact, matchbox-sized device, which weighs only 20g and has just two connections – a headphone jack and micro-USB charging port, as the device doesn't use a battery. While most modern speakers come with inbuilt Bluetooth, the Gateway is ideal for those who want to play their music wirelessly on older audio systems.
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WASHINGTON - There is still no clear path out of the political gridlock as the debt clock ticks and the pressure mounts on the nation's leaders to get the job done.
Republicans have been forced to reconsider their opposition to the plan put forward by House Speaker John Boehner, a proposal that had to be reworked after falling short of promised savings.
"Cut, cap, and balance, that was the touchdown pass, unfortunately, it was batted down by the Senate," Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, said.
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But Senate leaders insist that plan is dead on arrival if it passes the House. The problem isn't just the lack of support from Democrats. The speaker's plan hasn't won over Republicans who think it doesn't go far enough.
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The people have a message they want Republicans to hear loud and clear -- hold the line on fiscally conservative values.
Stephen Latchford, along with his wife and son on vacation, decided to drop in on their way back home to Tampa. Fla.
"We're down in Florida where the housing market is in the tank. Unemployment is very high," he explained. "And, we're seeing more desire to tax and spend, and it's like they're not getting it here."
Those at the rally support the "cut, cap, and balance" agenda that passed the House last week. They believe Washington needs to tackle out-of-control spending to solve its debt problem once and for all.
"We don't need to revisit this every few months or every few years. We need to solve the problem and if we don't solve it soon, immediately, now we are not going to have the opportunity to solve it," one woman said at the Tea Party rally.
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Musical fans looking for a "Great White Way" experience without the New York City hassle can experience some of their favorite theater hits live this week, as composer and producer Neil Berg brings his "Broadway Holiday" revue to Williamsport 7:30 p.m Thursday at the Community Arts Center, 220 W. Fourth St.
Berg most recently composed "Grumpy Old Men," based on the 1993 movie, and also is the producer of "100 Years of Broadway," a touring revue that has played more than 120 cities in the past two years.
"Broadway Holiday features five of Broadway's finest stars, as they recreate some of their best-known roles they helped make famous on Broadway," he said.
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Neil Berg's "Broadway Holiday" will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Community Arts Center, 220 W. Fourth St. The production mixes classic Broadway showstoppers with holiday standards, for a three-act evening featuring about 25 numbers. The show will feature five Broadway stars: Lawrence Clayton, Rita Harvey, Grant Norman, Andrea Rivette and Danny Zolli. Tickets are $40, $35 and $25, and can be purchased at the door or by calling the CAC box office at 326-2424.
The five stars slated to perform in Williamsport are Lawrence Clayton, Rita Harvey, Grant Norman, Andrea Rivette and Danny Zolli.
Although "Broadway Holiday" is in its third season, the cast is largely new to the touring group.
"We have a lot of new material this year," said Elizabeth Schwartz, publicity director. "Because our shows are built around the performers, this will be an almost entirely different show than we did in 2010."
The production mixes classic Broadway showstoppers with holiday standards, for a three act evening featuring about 25 numbers.
Clayton most recently played Jean ValJean, the lead in "Les Miserables," in the musical's newly revamped 25th anniversary production. His performance of the part was called "strong" and "imposing" by the New York Times.
Harvey played Christine, the female lead in Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera," for five years on Broadway and on national tour. She also performed in the 2004 revival of "Fiddler on the Roof" that featured Rosie O'Donnell and Harvey Fierstein and her performance as the damsel in distress in "Sweeney Todd" was accorded praise by the "Chicago Sun-Times" for her "silvery soprano."
Norman's most notable roles have come in playing mutilated men. He played the title characters in national touring productions of "Phantom of the Opera" and "Beauty and the Beast," earning two National Theatre Awards for the latter part.
Rivette has played opposite David Hasselhoff and Chuck Wagner as Emma Carew in "Jekyll and Hyde," both on Broadway and the national tour, and also has performed in a national production of "Miss Saigon."
Zolli has played every major role in "Jesus Christ Superstar" in a number of productions, including national tours and Broadway revivals.
In addition to songs from musicals in which the stars have played, the audience can expect tunes from "Wicked," "Jersey Boys," and "Cabaret," as well as Paul Simon and Joni Mitchell.
The backing band is led by pianist and musical director Eugene Gwozdz, who has played on Broadway for productions of "The Full Monty" and "Oklahoma!" and on the tour for "West Side Story." Bassist Abe Saenz and drummer Jon Berger complete the on-stage ensemble.
Besides the music, the "performers will directly address the audience with personal anecdotes," said Schwartz. Attendees will get a glimpse at the "behind-the-scene experiences" of the Broadway stars.
Tickets are $40, $35 and $25, and may be bought at the door or by calling the CAC box office at 326-2424.


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Letters to the editor: Bump-outs back up Erie traffic
After reading your editorial recommending that Erie Mayor Joe Sinnott and the Erie Metropolitan Transit Authority staff ride the "e," I thought that you should have included the city engineer's office as well ("Mayor, EMTA staff should hop on 'e,'" Erie Times-News, May 31). EMTA is right in saying something needs to be done with the "congestion" on State Street. Though the solution is wrong, EMTA is not the problem with traffic flow on State Street.
Since the city of Erie built those bump-outs into State Street at several intersections, I have noticed how the traffic slows down considerably during the workday hours. With those bumps, a 45-foot bus cannot stop parallel to the street curb without having the rear of the vehicle stick out into the traffic lane.
When traffic is moving in both lanes each way, the outside lanes get congested because they cannot pass the bus while it is taking on passengers. Did the engineer's office do a study of this, such as working with model buses on a table to see how this design would work? I travel often to Buffalo, Cleveland and Pittsburgh and, unless I am not in the right part of those cities' downtown districts, I have never seen the bumps at their intersections. Citizens cross six or more lanes of traffic, and successfully make it to the opposite side, without the need for those bumps.
Just as you suggest that EMTA give the public the chance to see these changes in advance, maybe the city engineers should do the same, and include the EMTA in the process. Citizens may not have a degree in engineering, but many do excel in common sense. Before EMTA spends lots of taxpayers' money to make a change all will regret, they should hear what the people think.
Dennis Mead/Summit Township
Millcreek district leaders ignored
Wonders never cease. When William Hall, assistant superintendent of the Millcreek Township School District, recommended the "buying time" option for the coming school year's budget deficit, I know that I and other parents took a moment and felt relief. We didn't let that relief stop us as we continued to research and seek out solutions we could share.
To think the Millcreek School Board would not take the recommendation of Hall and the administration and say, "No, we don't think you're correct, we want to close schools," is bizarre. Why pay people if you do not trust them to do the job? In essence, the School Board just said, "Mr. Hall and other school leaders, we appreciate the hours you have spent on this issue but we think you are wrong."
This is a mistake, and closing Ridgefield and Vernondale elementary schools was not necessary. No one on that board knows for certain what the plan is. They are just hoping this works. Today, I am not proud to say I live in Millcreek Township. Today, the lack of planning has affected the stability of my child's education, and I will not forget that easily.
Leigh Ann Gigliotti/Millcreek Township
'Corporate greed' defines GE dispute
After reading Michael Towner's Guest Voice column "GE must be 'biggest, strongest cat,'" I must comment on it (Erie Times-News, June 3).
I have worked for GE Transportation for 35 years. I was here when the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors was the big cat. We, the union workers, made GE Transportation No. 1 and put EMD out of business. GE Transportation made $1 billion after taxes last year. This figure represents the most profits ever!
The union is battling General Electric over pure corporate greed. The workers at GE make a decent dollar and have a good lifestyle, but the company is now trying to take it away. To do this just to pad GE's books or the chief executive's pocket is wrong in any society. Mr. Towner clearly does not know what happens inside the gates at GE in Lawrence Park. I am here to tell you that the locomotives that produce the massive profits for this company are not built without the skilled labor of Local 506 of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America.
I am a proud member of this union.
John Ednie/Mill Village
GE let cat out of bag
I would like to comment on Michael Towner's column that likens General Electric to big cats and nature's laws of survival of the fittest ("GE must be 'biggest, strongest cat,'" Erie Times-News, June 3).
I believe Mr. Towner was trying to convey the point that, as a corporation, GE must adapt and evolve in order to remain competitive and viable. This concept is well understood by the public; to write an article that attempts to explain the obvious is an insult to the intelligence of the readers. To use the plight of big cats as it relates to big business is also ludicrous.
Here is a brief lesson in the laws of nature. The most important is that animals kill to survive. They take only what they need and they eat until their hunger is satisfied. There is balance.
The corporate world is far different than nature. The food is profit and there is never enough to satisfy corporations' hunger. No matter how much they make, they only seek to make more! With profits of $1 billion, GE Transportation states that it needs to be more productive and more efficient to be competitive.
I'm sure there is room for improvement in all areas of the company. I'm equally sure that GE would be making the same statement if its profits were $2 billion or $3 billion. You see, it's the hunger. When hunger exceeds the need, it's no longer hunger, it's greed.
R.O. Sonoff/Millcreek Township
Don't blame crimes on gun owners
This is in response to Mark Amatangelo's letter ("Gun responsibility is crystal clear," Erie Times-News, May 11).
No house is impenetrable and no responsible gun owner just "drops" and "loses" his or her weapon. They do not "loan" guns to "irresponsible" others. Responsible gun owners do not act irresponsibly on the street; Amatangelo does not have to protect himself from them. He only has to protect himself from the criminals.
No one wants to have to use a gun to defend themselves, but as long as people like Mr. Amatangelo do not want to hold criminals accountable for their actions and put and keep them in jail, we will have this dilemma.
What Amatangelo wants to do is put people in jail if they are the robbery victims. If someone breaks into your house, manages to steal your gun, even though it may be locked in a safe, then they use the gun, you would go to jail. According to the letter writer, if your gun is stolen, you are the criminal and go to jail if the stolen gun is used in a criminal act. No mention is made of what to do with the criminal who stole your gun and used it.
If Amatangelo has his way, you will serve more time than the person who stole and used your gun. What is wrong with this picture?
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Motorist beaten by mob still in critical condition
DETROIT -- As Steve Utash lies in a Detroit hospital bed, with his brain swollen and a gash in his head, he appears to remember the brutal beating that a neighborhood mob inflicted days earlier.
"He wakes up and his arms start struggling and he says, 'Help me! Help me!'" said Terry Emerick, a family friend.
Utash remained in critical condition Friday -- two days after accidentally hitting a 10-year-old boy with his company pickup on Detroit's east side and being pummeled by at least six people after stopping to check on the child.
The mob left the 54-year-old tree trimmer from suburban Detroit on the pavement outside a gas station.
No arrests had been made Friday, and police officers continued to canvass the neighborhood looking for witnesses who can identify any suspects in the beating, Sgt. Michael Woody said.
A grainy surveillance video from the gas station camera shows the boy, David Harris, with a group of friends as he steps from a curb into the truck's path Wednesday. Woody said investigators don't have video of the attack on Utash.
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan said Friday that Utash did "the right thing by stopping to check on the boy" and that anyone who can identify his attackers should step forward.
"This senseless vigilante style attack is not the essence of who we are as Detroiters and will not be tolerated," Duggan said in a joint statement with City Council President Brenda Jones.


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The Power of Perception
Progressive Studies Program Hosts Discussion with Michael Tomasky
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The Progressive Studies Program hosted a Progressivism on Tap event this week with editor of Democracy and American editor-at-large of The Guardian, Michael Tomasky. He discussed his essay "Against Despair," featured in the summer issue of Democracy, where he argues that progressive history—primarily during the Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson eras—has too quickly and inaccurately been used as a "bludgeon" to suggest that the Obama administration is inadequate and to create an atmosphere among progressives of "toxic despair."
Tomasky contends that if one correctly reexamines the political history of the 1930s and 1960s, change was messy then, too. FDR may have given fiery speeches, but he too had to make compromises and moderate from his initial version of a policy when it came to building a coalition to enact change.
And it is not just progressive emotional health that is suffering from this environment of "despair." Tomasky contends that that progressive despair is in fact bolstering conservatives, who, with the rise of the Tea Party, are clearly not in need of extra excitement for the coming 2010 midterm elections.
Tomasky argues that the basic problem is that there is no true mass left movement today akin to the civil rights or antiwar movements of earlier decades. There simply is not a unified modern progressive movement. The people who elected Barack Obama have already either disengaged or splintered off into different factions.
There is nothing wrong with thoughtful criticism of proposed legislation, but Tomasky reminded progressives of always remembering what the end game is. Progressive change—while not certain—is much more likely under a President Obama than a conservative president.
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The next best thing to a practice merger then is to purchase an existing practice in another area and operate it as a satellite office.
You are either ready to graduate from dental school, or you have recently graduated, and now it's time to think about what you should do for the rest of your life. You have probably talked to a lot of other people in the dental business for advice, and have gotten a plethora of answers, and some for questions that you may not have known to ask! This type of advice that you get is usually as good as the price you pay for it. People can tell you what they think based on their own experience, but t
There is an old maxim, "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail." No one knows just how long they will practice dentistry. It could be one year, ten years or fifty years, no one knows. A normal practice lifetime for a dentist is usually around thirty to thirty-five years, and we each like to think that this applies to ourselves. However, the vicissitudes of life are such that no one would even try to predict this; we just have to leave things to fate. We can't do anything about the number of years
"You can't judge a book by its cover" is a well known adage that acts as a warning to look deeper into an advisor's hidden agenda before buying into their advice. Usually free advice is worth exactly what you paid for it because the advice may or may not apply to you, your life or your objectives.
There are some dentists and their advisors who worry more about the seller benefits, and lose sight of the immediate and long term benefits for the purchaser. Dentists have turned down buying a practice because their advisors told them it was overpriced by as little as ten or twenty thousand dollars, and they lost the millions of dollars of income they could have made over the next twenty to thirty years of practice.
Many of us have lived long enough to know that there are times that can be good… and times that can be bad. Some people have made as much money in bad times as they have made during the good times. It is often just a matter of perspective. Is the glass half-full… or half-empty? Are you looking for opportunities or excuses? The difference can make all the difference in your life, and your Quality of Life.
There's an old maxim, "There are two ways to get rich in this world, either be born rich or marry rich". If you are rich you don't need to read this article, but if you count yourself among the less fortunate millions (not dollars but people), then this article is for you.
Don't listen to the doomsayers… dental practices are selling for higher prices than ever. It's all a matter of knowing how to market a dental practice in this environment.
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TrustPower, Siemens to Build $460 Million Wind Farm in Australia
TrustPower Ltd., a New Zealand electricity retailer, appointed Siemens AG as a development partner for a A$439 million ($460 million) wind farm project in the state of South Australia.
The Tauranga-based company awarded Siemens the contract to engineer and build supply infrastructure for the 90-turbine farm near Adelaide, it said in a statement today. The project, to be called Snowtown II, will be capable of powering about 180,000 homes in the region, the company said.
"The wind farm will be built with the most advanced renewable energy technology on the market," TrustPower Chief Executive Officer Vince Hawksworth said in the statement.
Siemens will develop infrastructure that connects the wind farm to the grid, according to the statement. The project will be capable of generating 270 megawatts of energy and is expected to be operating by the end of 2014.
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Miss Hospitality
Years in the hotel industry were fine preparation for supporting cancer patients
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The phone rings, and Sharon Lee Parker's friends can never guess where she's calling from today. She's in Greeley, Colo., accepting an award from her alma mater, the University of Northern Colorado. She's in Mobile, Ala., at an art gallery promoting Boehm porcelain sculptures — she's CEO of the venerable Trenton studio. She's in Kansas City, Mo., riding a camel with her 5-year-old grandson at the local zoo.
But more often than not, she's in a doctors' waiting room or a chemotherapy suite, squeezing someone's hand.
Nearly eight years ago, Parker was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma and thyroid cancer (plus a brain tumor, benign) and beat them both. Since then, this grandmother of four has fashioned herself a "cancer coach," providing nonmedical support to more than 1,000 patients for free. Her phone rings constantly: How do I know if this doctor is the right one for me? I'm not getting along with some of the members of my healing team. What should I do? My spouse/child/best friend doesn't understand what I'm going through.
It's hospitality of a sort, understanding someone's needs and making sure they are met. It's something she learned when she married George Parker, whose family owned the Concord Resort Hotel, in Kiamesha Lake, N.Y, the grandest of the Borscht Belt getaways. She became the hotel's official hostess, greeting hundreds, often thousands of guests each night at dinner. It's a talent she's passed on to her son, John, who is general manager of the Hotel Phillips in Kansas City. "I was the luckiest kid in the world," he recalls. "There's always the business side of it, 60, 70, 80, 90 hours a week, and you don't even think twice about it. It's sort of ingrained in our DNA to just go. We don't stop."
Pat Mistretta, a librarian in Palm Beach, Fla., met Parker when Parker worked for the Jewish Braille Insitute in Boca Raton about 10 years ago. When Mistretta's sister was diagnosed with breast cancer and had to have a biopsy, Parker — who had never met the woman — spent the whole day with her.
"She has a way of making you feel you're important, that you're an important part of the universe and you have something to offer, and that means a lot to someone who's not well," Mistretta says. "What she touches turns to gold. It's not just gold. It's gold dust. It gets spread around."
Many people say, "Call me if you need me." Sharon Lee Parker means it.
Her phone number is (561) 706-3239.
Proactive stance
In April 2002, bothered by a nagging cough and phlegm, Parker, then living in Florida, visited a doctor in Washington, D.C., where she and her husband, George, were spending time with their daughter, Amy. The doctor dismissed it as bad allergies, and though she purchased some Allegra, she had a nagging suspicion that something else was wrong. That would become a tenet of her coaching: "No one knows your body better than you."
She insisted on a chest X-ray, which revealed a shadow on her lungs. A CT scan appeared to show lymphoma. The next day, she took the train to New York, where a biopsy showed Hodgkin's lymphoma. Less than three weeks after she bought allergy medication, she was on her way to the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, where her son and his wife then lived. Her New York doctors recommended lymphoma specialist André Goy, who greeted her with this news: "Mrs. Parker, you don't have one cancer. You have two. But don't worry, you will be fine."
Goy believes that a healthy attitude is key to recovery, and Parker complied with that prescription, continuing to sing and play piano, buying brightly colored hats and pretending her chemo infusion was a tasty cocktail served up between spa treatments at the Ritz-Carlton. He believes patients should be proactive about their treatment, so she filled a notebook with every report and test and started educating herself on cancer.
Through chemotherapy, she cultivated a close circle of doctors, nurses, friends and family to support her. "It's important that everyone has a healing team," Parker says. "You need to surround yourself with positive people, no matter what you're facing in your life."
Parker soon started reaching out to other patients she met during chemo cocktail hour, cheering them up, helping them manage their symptoms, answering their questions. "She was running the waiting room," Goy recalls. "I told her, 'Get a job, get out of the palm trees, do something with this.' "
Love of life
When Goy moved to New Jersey to become deputy director and chief of lymphoma at Hackensack University Medical Center's multidisciplinary John Theurer Cancer Center, Parker followed him. She established the Life Lover Foundation, which funds cancer research, including HUMC's tumor bank, which stores and studies tumor specimens to determine which treatment course is best for patients with similar cancers. (She also wrote a book, "Look Out Cancer, Here I Come" (Addicus Books, $19.95), proceeds of which go to the foundation.)
Though she and her husband maintain a home in Florida, she lives part of the time in an airy Hackensack high-rise, a short ride to hospital. That's where she met Maddy Zozzaro, a breast cancer survivor from Emerson, who had been referred to Goy after a biopsy turned up mucosa-associated lymphatic tissue, a kind of lymphoma. She faced chemotherapy and radiation, and was devastated, convinced that somehow she was to blame for cancer's return.
Goy gave her Parker's number. Parker was by her side the next week.
"She gives you such hope," Zozarro says, wiping away tears. "She gives you hope when you don't think there is hope. She just is there all the time. Your friends are also there, but a lot of them couldn't handle cancer. They didn't know what to say. Sharon knows what to say, and that's a gift."
"It's important that everyone has a healing team. You need to surround yourself with positive people, no matter what you're facing in your life."— Sharon Lee Parker
Taking the reins
Last year, Parker's life took another unexpected turn. A longtime collector of Boehm fine porcelain, she had commissioned the Trenton studio to create a coral Hope Rose and a fuchsia Life Lover Lily, the proceeds of which would go to the Life Lover Foundation.
One day, Parker called Maria Ristaino, the director of gallery sales, to tell her she'd be stopping by to pick up some gifts. She could tell from Ristaino's voice that something was wrong. The new owners of Boehm were talking about closing or selling the company, perhaps moving the shop overseas.
Founded in Trenton in 1950 by sculptor E.M. Boehm and wife Helen, the studio produces hand-painted, true-to-life and quite expensive porcelain sculptures that can be found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the White House and the Vatican.
Parker called her husband in Florida, and by the time she left the studio that day, she decided to buy the business herself.
She travels to galleries and art shows across the country on behalf of Boehm, and when she's in town, she's often in the studio directing head decorator Jackie Rednor: "I want the eyeballs to pop! Make sure they pop!" Rednor says that Parker has pulled items off the shelf in the shop and asked her to redo them. "She wants to be sure the perfection stays here."
For the record
Sharon Strauss was raised in Oceanside, N.Y., on the south shore of Long Island, though she spent summers with her grandmother in Danby, Vt., in the shadow of the Green Mountains.
At 10, she won a radio contest and landed a recording contract with ABC-Paramount. She sounded a little like Ethel Merman, with a distinctive crack in her voice like '50s pop singer Teresa Brewer, and made several records (which she'll dust off, she says, only after downing a couple of glasses of wine).
She met her future husband when she was 9. Her father, then the winter sportswriter for the New York Times, drove up to the Concord to write a story about the resort's new artificial snow maker, and she went along for the ride. She spotted George Parker skiing down the lawn. He took her on a tour and she thought what a fun place this would be to live. She wrote in her diary that she was going to marry him.
She did, 10 years later, in 1963. She gave up singing at George's father's insistence. "If I was traveling around the country, I'd never stay married to his son," she explains. "It was hard enough to be married to a man who has 1,000 bedrooms."
Meet and greet
Parker's official title was director of guest relations. "She was that woman who greeted almost every table every night, as many tables as she could — the dining room could seat 3,000 — with a lot of grace and with a constant smile," John remembers. "She can talk to anybody; you feel as though you've known her for years."
By the late 1990s, the glory days of the Catskills was long past and a bill to legalize gambling in upstate New York was dead. The hotel filed for bankruptcy, and it was later sold to developers who planned a major renovation, though construction has stalled.
"I had a life that was really sort of a fantasy for a long time," Parker says. "And if the Concord didn't teach me anything else, it taught me that you enjoy what you have, no matter what it is, because you may not always have it."
Good genesSharon Lee Parker's father was Michael Strauss, believed to be the oldest working sportswriter in the world when he died last year at 96. A half-century veteran of the New York Times, who covered five winter Olympics and reported on 60 sports, he "retired" by moving to Florida and taking over the sports section at the Palm Beach Daily News, where he worked until shortly before his death.
Comping rooms
Her uncle Raymond Strauss, a nonegenarian living in Chapel Hill, N.C., says he always wanted to pay his own way at the Concord Resort Hotel, but Parker wouldn't let him, so he took to checking in under a false name.
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Senator Barack Obama may look to have the Democratic nomination all but locked up, but Senator Hillary Clinton says she's far from finished.
Meanwhile, as the Democrats continue to fight it out, Republican candidate John McCain is looking for a running mate.
Florida and Michigan - Mission Impossible?
Fresh off a resounding win in Kentucky, Clinton is turning her attention to what promises to be a much more difficult battle.
Click the play button for comments from Dr. Charles Dunn of Regent University.
Clinton is pushing for the Democratic Party to count the delegates from her victories in the Florida and Michigan primaries.
"I will consult with Floridians and the voters in Michigan because it's really their voices that are being ignored and their votes that are being discounted, and I'll support whatever the elected officials and the voters in those two states want to do."
The party had punished the two states for holding their primaries early by discounting their delegates.
Both Clinton and Obama initially agreed to abide by the decision, with Obama even taking his name off the ballot in Michigan. But Clinton has had a change of heart.
"I believe the Democratic Party must count these votes," she said. "They should count them exactly as they were cast."
Democratic Party officials plan to meet about whether to count the Florida and Michigan delegates. Nationwide, Clinton currently trails Obama in delegates, super delegates and the popular vote.
However, if the results from Florida and Michigan are counted, Clinton would take the lead in the overall popular vote.
But with Obama moving ever closer to the magic number of delegates needed to secure the nomination that may not matter.
The McCain Veepstakes
In the meantime, McCain will host three potential vice presidential candidates at his Arizona home this weekend.
Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal, Florida governor Charlie Crist and former GOP candidate Mitt Romney will all be in attendance for what the McCain camp is calling a "purely social" event.
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The Russian government has so far "defied" the requests of the United States to help them retrieve Edward Snowden, and the country's official stance is that there is not much it could do.
"Overall, we have no information about him," a press secretary for Russian President Vladmir Putin told Reuters early Monday.
Snowden, the former NSA contractor that leaked sensitive information about domestic surveillance programs to news outlets, is thought to have stayed overnight in Moscow's airport. But the seat on the flight to Havana, Cuba, booked in his name was empty when the plane took off Monday.
A tweet from AP photographer Max Seddon confirms the widely reported notion that Snowden was not on the flight to Havana.
Standing next to Edward Snowden's seat on flight to Cuba. He ain't here. pic.twitter.com/NVRH3Pzved— max seddon (@maxseddon) June 24, 2013
Havana was thought to represent one more stop on Snowden's way to Ecuador, where he has requested asylum from the South American nation's government. The latest report from the Associated Press said Correa was "analyzing" Snowden's request.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says it would be "deeply troubling" if Russia or Hong Kong had adequate notice about Edward Snowden's plans to flee to a country that will grant him asylum and still allowed him leave.
Hong Kong miffed
Before arriving in Moscow, Snowden had been holed up in Hong Kong. The United States had filed an extradition request with that country, but Hong Kong officials denied it, saying it "did not fully comply with Hong Kong law." Soon after, Snowden left for Russia.
On Monday, the Associated Press confirmed that, officially, Snowden was able to leave Hong Kong because U.S. authorities made a mistake in their arrest request, but the semiautonomous Chinese city also indicated displeasure over Snowden's revelation that the former British colony had been a target of American hacking.
Before denying the extradition request for Snowden, Hong Kong officials say they asked for more information about the U.S.' hacking efforts, according to AP.
'He was very cautious'
Albert Ho, a lawyer in Hong Kong, revealed a few more details about Snowden's life in hiding in Hong Kong on Monday, saying he had been living in a "private place" after he was forced to check out of the hotel where he was staying once he was discovered by journalists.
"Most of the time he did not leave the place where he was living, though once or twice he changed locations," Ho said.
"He only left at night, very carefully. He didn't want anyone to see him. He was very cautious."
Ho said Snowden lived in a "very small place. Fortunately he had a computer. He could contact anyone in the world."


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MSI GTX750Ti Gaming Review
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Published: 11th March 2014 | Source: MSI | Price: £114.99 |
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To the surprise of precisely nobody the GTX750Ti Gaming looks exactly as you would expect it to. Despite the compact dimensions of the GTX750Ti, the Twin Frozr cooler doesn't look out of place or designed for another PCB entirely. Perhaps best of all the power input is exactly where one would expect to find it. We've always loved the Gaming range and today's model does nothing to diminish that attractiveness.
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In the specifications we noted that the MSI has three different modes. As you can see from the pictures below there is quite a difference between the options with nearly 100MHz spread across them. Useful for those who are still wary of manually overclocking their graphics card.
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The latest of our looks at cards with the latest nVidia Maxwell architecture is the MSI GTX750Ti Gaming.
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I don't think it would do so well on a cheaper motherboard... If I was in MSi's position I would have put in the 6-pin as PCI-e power is notoriously unreliable.
Thankfully youre not though matey.... It not being there is so much better than it being there like the asus one. Watch the video and I explain why.
My point was not that the asus one was good, rather than that the lack of a pci power connector could be an issue with some setups due to the motherboards having inadequate power delivery to the pci slot.
Btw Tom, general performance between this and gtx 560 se? Equal or worse than the 560?
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Graham W.Beattie, MD, joined the Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics effective July 1, 2013 as an Instructor in the Department of Medicine. Dr. Beattie received a Bachelor's of Science Degree in Biochemistry Cellular and Molecular Biology from the University of Tennessee in 2004. He then graduated with his Medical Degree in 2010 from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Dr. Beattie completed his Internal Medicine Residency here at MUSC, and joined the Hospitalist program in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics.
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