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Siemens Plant in
Charlotte Offers Lessons
as Obama, Romney Talk
Job Creation
By Lori Montgomery
The New York Eagle News/The Washington Post
A
s President Obama
and Mitt Romney debate whether lower
taxes or targeted investment
would do more to create jobs,
they would benefit from a trip
to a brand-new manufacturing plant a few miles from
the Charlotte arena where the
Democratic National Convention was held.
The factory opened last year
after German engineering giant Siemens AG chose this
North Carolina city as a hub
for making gigantic gas turbines needed to power new
electric plants under construction around the globe.
A few years ago, the factory
and its 825 jobs might have
gone to India, China or another low-wage country. This
time, American workers won
out. And that victory could be
instructive as the candidates
pledge to energize an economy
Estevan Torres, 18, an apprentice at Siemens, measures a cut made in a generator rotor
at the factory in Charlotte, N.C., last month. (Photo for The Washington Post by Nanine
Hartzenbusch)
struggling through its fourth
straight year above 8 percent
unemployment.
Ask Siemens executives
why they placed their bet on
Charlotte and they talk about
public investments such as
the state-funded rail spur that
runs through their facility and
the city's international airport,
which recently added a fourth
runway using $132 million in
federal funds.
They talk about the ExportImport Bank, an independent
federal agency that in January
approved a $638 million loan
to finance the sale of turbines
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LESSONS PAGE 2
Antietam's Bloody, Defining Day 150 Years Ago
By Michael E. Ruane
A
spine of gray limestone runs north and
south through the
legendary cornfield here, just
breaking the surface and leaving a path where no corn can
grow.
For a century and a half, the
elements have scoured the dirt,
and crops have come and gone.
But the stone has remained,
scarred and smoothed by the
plow and the weather.
On the morning of Sept. 17,
1862, the feet of thousands
of desperate soldiers hurried
across the ancient rock. Some
men fell and bled on it. Bullets and shells flew over it. And
somewhere nearby toppled the
Lone Star flag of the 1st Texas
Infantry Regiment.
In this stony cornfield, the
doomed 1st Texas lost, along
with its flag, 82 percent of its
men. Here, the Civil War's
Battle of Antietam exploded
in fury, and here, a crucial,
bloody step was taken toward
the end of slavery in America.
"Of all the days on all the
fields where American soldiers
Debate Erupts Over CrossShaped WWI Monument
By Miranda S. Spivack
T
Thousands of vehicles pass the Memorial Peace Cross each day in Bladensburg, Md.
(Washington Post photo by Mark Gail)
a religious image on public
land violates the constitutional
principle of the separation of
church and state.
"There are no words on it
that say 'war memorial,' " said
Fred Edwords, who brought
This Kurz & Allison lithogragh, “Battle of Antietam_Army of the Potomac: Gen. Geo. B.
McClellan,” is from a Sept. 17, 1862 original and is in the collection of the Library of Congress
Prints and Photographs Division in Washington. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Division)
have fought, the most terrible
by almost any measure" was
here at Antietam, historian
Stephen W. Sears wrote in his
classic 1983 study of the battle.
In the late summer and fall of
1862, as the Civil War moved
through its second year, it had
reached frightful new levels of
violence, which would grow as
the war went on.
But the fight along Antietam Creek, 150 years ago this
month, would endure as its
bloodiest single-day battle,
and its horrors would haunt
the soldiers who fought there
for years.
Packed into 12 hours of conflict that began under the stars
before dawn and that ended
around sunset were three different phases — morning,
midday and afternoon — and
more than five different subbattles.
Six generals were killed,
three on each side. Almost
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ANTIETAM PAGE 20
Raiders of the Lost Text
By Mark Schrope
Special to The New York Eagle News/The Washington Post
M
he 40-foot-tall cross
rises above the nearby shopping centers
and neighborhoods, a local
landmark that for more than
80 years has served as a gateway to the Maryland communities of Bladensburg
and Hyattsville.
The Memorial Peace Cross
honors 49 men from Prince
George's County, Maryland
who lost their lives during
World War I.
Now the monument, which
sits on state property, is the
subject of a fight itself. The
American Humanist Association, a Washington-based
group that represents atheists
and others, is calling for the
cross's removal, arguing that
the cross to the attention of
the humanist organization. "It
stands out there . . . like a very
strong religious symbol."
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DEBATE PAGE 3
ichael Toth points at
a computer screen
filled with what
seems to be a jumble of Arabic
and Greek letters.
To get to this jumble, he has
traveled from Washington to
an isolated, fortress-like monastery in the middle of the Sinai Desert, home to the oldest
continuously operating library
on the planet.
He has helped assemble a
global team of scientists that
arrived with cutting-edge technology at this spot, three hours
by taxi from the nearest commercial airport.
The image he has paused to
appreciate is one of a steady
stream coming from the room
next door, where a high-definition camera is focused on one
This manuscript is called a palimpsest, an ancient parchment on which the original text was
scraped away to recycle the page. The original writing was revealed using a high-definition
camera that uses special lights and filters to enhance the hidden text. It is in the collection of
the Sacred and Imperial Monastery of the God-Trodden Mount of Sinai, in Mount Horeb, Egypt,
and is known as St. Catherine’s for short. (St. Catherine's Monastery of the Sinai).
of the monastery's rare and
priceless ancient manuscripts.
The manuscript rests in a cradle that looks like a chair tilted
back at an angle, but with hy__________________
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to Saudi Arabia, helping Siemens beat
bids from companies in Germany,
South Korea and Japan.
And they talk about the quality of
the workforce in Charlotte, where
local leaders are retooling the public
education system to churn out the engineers and skilled technicians needed to operate one of the most efficient
gas-turbine plants in the world.
"A lot of things that were offshored
in the past were offshored because of
lower-cost labor, but that's no longer
the most important factor," said Eric
Spiegel, president and chief executive
of Siemens's U.S. subsidiary. "The reasons you bring a plant like this to the
United States are higher-skilled labor,
access to the world's best research and
development, and good, sound infrastructure. All those things together
make the U.S. a good place to invest."
A visit to one factory cannot fully
illuminate the complex matter of job
creation, and one company's choices
cannot be extrapolated to every industry and region in the country.
But the story of the Charlotte plant
highlights the benefit of investing in
essential services with long-term effects for a wide range of industries —
rather than primarily cutting taxes, as
Republicans propose, or showering
benefits on certain industries, as the
Obama administration has done with
the clean-energy sector.
While the public debate tends to be
cast as a choice between propping up
favored industries and getting government off the backs of business,
many growing companies say they
value policies that create a broadly
fertile environment for job growth.
Their wish list is specific: Good highways and modern seaports. High-level academic research. And, especially,
education programs tailored to turn
out skilled workers.
"What we're seeing globally is we
have a real opportunity to bring a
wide range of jobs back to this country — including manufacturing jobs
— because you see an acceleration
in labor costs in other markets," said
Dean Garfield, president and chief
executive of the Information Technology Industry Council, which represents 50 of the world's largest tech
firms. "To the extent we get the right
policy mix, we can do a lot to encourage locating as many jobs as possible
here in the United States."
Siemens is not unique. Michelin
North America is adding 500 jobs
at a new South Carolina plant that
produces 121/2-foot tires for giant
construction and mining vehicles.
Chairman Pete Selleck said the firm's
French parent likes the state's network of technical schools and the
proximity to seaports in Charleston
and Savannah, Ga.
Selleck said the most important
thing Washington could do to improve the economy is "get its fiscal
house in order" by adopting a debtreduction plan that would cut spending and overhaul the tax code to raise
more money. But he said he would
also like to see more funds plowed
into preparing ports for the superships expected to begin traversing
a newly expanded Panama Canal in
2014.
Smaller firms are desperate for
workforce development. Optimax, a
company just outside Rochester, N.Y.,
that made lenses for the Mars rover
Curiosity, has 25 open positions.
President Mike Mandina said Optimax's growth has been "absolutely
limited" by the number of skilled
workers emerging from local schools.
"Any region committed to developing a highly skilled workforce is going to excel," Mandina said, "whether
they're milking cows or making precision optics."
None of the executives interviewed
cited the level of taxation as an overriding issue, though they agreed that
the United States should simplify its
code and bring the corporate rate
— now the highest in the developed
world, at 35 percent — in line with
other countries. Both candidates have
proposed to do so, with Obama calling for a corporate rate of 28 percent
and Romney proposing 25 percent.
Meanwhile, Spiegel and others criticized the recent push by both parties
to create tax breaks explicitly tied to
hiring.
"You don't hire people just because
there's a tax credit there," he said.
"You hire people if there is demand . .
. to produce more."
Demand, of course, is the most fundamental factor in a company's decision to create jobs. For Michelin, Selleck said, the demand for giant tires is
driven by the demand for big vehicles
to extract raw materials, which, in
turn, is driven by rising wealth in India, China and Brazil, where millions
of people can suddenly afford cars,
air conditioners and other consumer
goods. For Siemens, Spiegel said, the
demand for gas turbines is driven by
a trend among electric utilities away
from coal and toward cheaper, cleaner natural gas.
But demand is not easy for politicians to create, particularly when the
government is low on cash. Obama
says he would spur growth by keeping
tax rates low for most Americans and
making investments in education,
infrastructure and clean energy, paid
for with higher taxes on the wealthy.
Spiegel, who attended a White
House event in January on bringing jobs back to the United States,
praised the president's focus on increasing exports and recasting federal
job-training programs. Obama has
made manufacturing a centerpiece of
his campaign, and he cited Siemens
worker Jackie Bray in his State of the
Union address as an example of the
power of investment in job training.
But Obama is proposing few new
ideas for increasing overall demand,
and analysts say manufacturing may
not be the kind of job engine he
sometimes suggests.
"Twenty years ago, the Siemens
plant probably would have had 5,000
workers. Now what does it have? Fif__________________
LESSONS PAGE 5
Young
Skateboarders Lost
to Afghan Violence
By Richard Leiby
I
t could be any skateboarding
park in the United States: Kids
whiz off ramps into midair, shoot
up and down half-pipes and spill frequently onto the floor after failed maneuvers.
What makes this one unique — and
tragically Afghan — is the pall that
hangs over some of the young skaters, who lost four of their friends two
Saturdays ago to a suicide bomber
their same age. The four skaters were
among the seven children and two
adults killed in the blast near NATO A suicide attack in Afghanistan killed four young
headquarters, an incident that dem- skateboarders who were distinguished by their sport.
14, died in last Sept. 8th’s bomb blast in
onstrated the Taliban's continued Khorshid,
Kabul. (photo courtesy of Skateistan.)
ability to penetrate the most wellguarded enclaves of Afghanistan's ing in several other nations, exposed
them to a world of new ideas, where
capital.
The victims' names were listed on a education mattered and boys and
chalkboard inside the cavernous han- girls were equals.
"It gave them goals," Tasmim said.
gar where an unlikely nonprofit organization called Skateistan, established "It gave them hope for the future."
On that Saturday, the forces of prohere five years ago, melds skateboarding, the arts and education for some gressive and regressive Afghanistan
collided on a street that houses emof Afghanistan's poorest children.
No coalition troops or foreigners bassies, intelligence services and othwere killed in that Saturday's attack, er foreign outposts. An intruder — a
but the loss of the children has reso- boy of 14 or 15, carrying a backpack
nated among Americans and other — made his way onto the turf held by
Westerners. These, after all, were the the scrappy Skateistan crew.
The Taliban later asserted responvery sort of children that the 11-year
war has been waged to protect and sibility for dispatching the bomber,
but claimed that he was much older.
uplift.
The children supported their fami- Kabul police said Thursday that they
lies by selling
chewing gum,
scarves
and
trinkets to military
personnel, diplomats
and aid workers in Kabul's
well-fortified
inter nationa l
zone.
Some
called
them
beggars
and Noorzai Ibrahimi, 16, considered one of Afghanistan’s best skateboarders, knew those
urchins, but at who died in a bomb blast in Kabul. (Washington Post photo by Richard Leiby.)
Skateistan they
believe he was almost 16,but they did
were success stories.
"They were all my students — not release his identity and had not
Khorshid, Nawaz, Mohammed Esa, determined his target.
Accounts vary about what hapParwana," Skateistan education coordinator Benafsha Tasmim, her voice pened that morning, but by most
catching and eyes moist, said Thurs- tellings there was an altercation. The
day. She recalled how the children, street children thought the boy was
ranging in age from 8 to 17, bonded horning in on their vending business.
over a distinctly American sport in a During the ensuing tussle, he detocountry savaged by an Islamist insur- nated his explosives — about 150 feet
from the blast-wall-protected headgency.
"Most of these kids spend all their quarters of the NATO-backed Interdays on the street," said Tasmim, national Security Assistance Force.
Although the gates to military and
23, who has a degree in psychology.
"Here they made a little society for other facilities are well secured, foreigners can travel by foot up and
themselves."
Skating wasn't just about fun: It down the road. Even if the children
built the children's self-confidence.
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And Skateistan, founded by an AusVIOLENCE PAGE 3
tralian skateboarder and now operat-
VIOLENCE FROM PAGE 2
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had no way of knowing the bomber's intent, they may have prevented
him from getting close enough to
the headquarters entrance to do any
harm.
"Many feel as though the children
saved them," said Rebecca Zimmerman, 35, a Rand project associate
who works in the international zone.
Foreigners and Afghans have been
tying scarves to a young tree at the
blast site that now serves as an impromptu memorial. They have been
trading photographs of the children.
"All they have is photographs. It is
much more touching in a way: They
only realized the fullness of those
lives once they were lost," Zimmerman said.
Four hundred children participate
weekly in Skateistan programs. About
46 percent of them are girls, making
it the largest female sports program in
the country, the group says.
When Khorshid, 14, got interested
in the skateboarding program, her
mother wasn't keen on letting her join
because it took time away from hawking, Tasmim said. But, eventually, her
mother saw how Khorshid was thriving. And one week ago Khorshid's
DEBATE FROM COVER
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Bill Burgess, the association's legal coordinator, said the cross is a
Christian image, one that "does not
represent the sacrifices made by nonChristian soldiers."
But veterans and some community
groups have vowed to fight to keep it
as is, arguing that it was built on what
was then private property at a time
when military memorials were often
overtly religious.
The controversy over the monument is the latest in a series of battles
across the country over the meaning
of the First Amendment's guarantee
that government will not endorse or
impede the practice of religion.
When the Supreme Court decided
a similar case in 2010, the justices
narrowly rejected a complaint that
a white cross in the Mojave Desert,
honoring World War I soldiers, violated the First Amendment's ban on
endorsing one religion over any other.
The majority said that the cross could
be viewed as a more neutral symbol
that honors heroes. A recent settlement allows a land swap that will put
the property in private hands, where
the First Amendment's prohibitions
would not apply.
Within the past year, the high court
refused to review two other cases,
letting stand lower-court rulings invalidating crosses anchored on public
land in Utah and California. In the
California case, involving a San Diego
cross in a public park honoring veterans, a judge suggested that while the
cross is illegal, there may be ways to
modify the setting, similar to the Mojave Desert land swap.
Barry Lynn, a minister who heads
Americans United for Separation of
Church and State, said disputes over
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little sister Parwana,
8, became Skateistan's
newest enrollee.
Both of them died
that Saturday.
"Right now Khorshid would be zipping around here,"
said Duncan Buck,
28, a Scottish skater
and program staffer,
gesturing to the teenager's portrait, set in a Students and instructors at the Skateistan indoor skateboarding park in
Kabul practice jumps. Four hundred children participate weekly in Skateistan
bright-green frame on programs. (Washington Post photo by Richard Leiby.)
a classroom shelf.
He answered in fragile English:
"She had a radiance. She told us her
name meant 'happy,' " he said. "But "With the Taliban, they don't get an
then we found out her name means education. The one thing good they
'radiant sun,' and it was such an ap- study is the holy Koran, but they have
propriate name. She wore the bright- nothing like this school. . . . If someone is in school, they learn to write,
est colors."
Downstairs, 16-year-old Noorzai they learn things."
In the hangar, the clamor of wheels
Ibrahimi, considered one of Afghanistan's best skateboarders, sat at a desk on wood continued into the afterdoing homework. He knew those noon as more and more students arwho died and 14-year-old Navid, who rived. While some children soared,
others lost their balance and watched
was seriously injured.
"We are very sad about them all," he as their boards skittered away.
They fell, and it hurt, but the only
said.
Why would a kid his age blow him- thing to do was get back on and keep
self up in the name of religion? Ibra- going.
(c) 2012, The Washington Post ■
himi was asked.
religious symbols in public spaces
show no sign of abating.
"This happens a lot all over the
country," Lynn said. In the past few
weeks, his organization helped negotiate removal of religious symbols with officials in Dugger, Ind.,
where a large cross with the words
"Jesus Saves" was on publicly owned
land, and in King, N.C., where a flag
adorned with a cross was flying in a
public park where veterans are honored.
Eleanor Roosevelt, an ardent civil
libertarian, had said the battles over
the wall between church and state
may have to be refought in each succeeding generation, Lynn said.
"Sadly, this has been true," he said.
Despite years of legal wrangling,
there has been no clear-cut highcourt ruling on the issue. The jurisprudence "is a mess," said Jamie
Raskin, a Democratic state senator
in Maryland and a constitutional
law professor at American University. "Both conservative and liberal
justices have said there is no way to
know in advance what the rules are."
And the Supreme Court rulings
haven't done much to refine the
boundaries, with the justices preferring to view the issues on a case-bycase basis.
The Memorial Peace Cross in Bladensburg was dedicated in 1925 by the
American Legion, and it has stood
there ever since. But when Edwords,
who lives in nearby Greenbelt, Md.,
drove by it a few weeks ago, it made
him uncomfortable. He called the
American Humanist Association,
where he formerly worked, and the
group asked the Maryland-National
Capital Park and Planning Commission, which owns and maintains the
memorial, to remove it.
Edwords, the national director
of the United Coalition of Reason,
which helps promote atheist and agnostic groups, said the cross "leaves
the wrong impression."
"My government should be religiously neutral," he said.
From a distance, the concrete and
pink-tiled cross, made of colorized
aggregate concrete by John J. Earley
looks like a purely religious symbol,
something that could easily be mistaken for an entryway to a church or
cemetery, Edwords said. It is only on
close inspection, when one is near
enough to read the inscriptions, that
it is clear that the cross is also a monument to the war dead. But getting
close enough to understand its full
meaning can be difficult. The cross
sits on a grassy circle surrounded by
state roads that are traveled by more
than 50,000 cars a day, according to
Maryland highway officials.
When it was first erected by local
veterans, the cross stood on private
property. But as traffic intensified, the
state, which owns the nearby roads
that encircle the monument, redesigned the intersection, and the cross
was transferred to the park and planning commission in 1960.
Veterans groups said they will fight
to preserve the monument.
"There are thousands of these
around the country, mostly in the
shape of a cross," said Joe Davis, a
Veterans of Foreign Wars spokesman.
He said the VFW would fight just as
hard for a memorial in the shape of
other religious symbols, such as a Star
of David or Crescent. "We obviously
support preserving these national
memorials," he said.
Meanwhile the park and planning
commission is researching the legal
issues.
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Automobiles/Mini Vans: 2009 Chevrolet Impala; (2) 2002 Chevrolet Impala;
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Venture van; 2000 Chevrolet Caviler; 2000 Hyundai Sonata; 1998 Oldsmobile
Achieva;
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miles; (2) 2006 Ford E-150 Club Wagon, 140K and 112K miles; (2) 2006 Dodge
Grand Caravan, 135K and 162K miles; 2005 Ford Freestar minivan, 68K miles;
Pickup Trucks: 1999 Dodge 2500 4x4 with plow; 2001 Chevrolet 1500 2wd;
Leer 7 ft. truck cap; 2001 Chevy S10, ext. cab, 4x4 pickup;
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Salvage Vehicles: 1989 Nissa Maxima; 1987 Mercury Cougar; 1984 Ford F-150
pickup;
Equipment: 1997 J&J 105 yd. walking floor trailer; (2) Ariens 992028 ZeroTurn
mowers, one good, one for parts;
Bath Electric & Gas: 1993 International bucket truck, 56K miles with Teco
body and boom;
Village of Bath: 2006 Ford F-250, 4x4 pickup with plow;
Penn Yan School Buses: (226) 2004 IH DT466, Allison trans., with Blue Bird 65
pass., 128,000 miles; (220) 2003 IH DT 466, Allison trans., Blue Bird 65 pass.,
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(#217-137,000 miles; #216-146,000 miles);
Town of Hornellsville: Stihl HT 75 pole saw; 2-50 gal. fuel tanks; Ammco tire
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p.m. Sale items and property supervised and patrolled by Steuben County
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draulic lines and strange lights attached.
One more room over, in the makeshift command center, specialists are
scrutinizing the day's results, and the
monastery's head librarian, a wispy
gray beard to his stomach, waits in a
red velvet chair for the next request to
turn a fragile manuscript page.
"This is the first time since the 9th
century that anyone has seen this,"
Toth says of hints of text below the
more visible words.
The first time since the era of Viking invasions and Charlemagne.
The more prominent legible words
are 1,200 years old and are interesting enough, but they are not what
the scientists are here for. The team is
really after the overwritten text from
centuries earlier, last seen by the person who scraped it away to recycle the
precious animal-skin parchment.
Such erased texts are known as palimpsests, and until their pages enter
the imaging room, no one alive now
or, in many cases for more than a millennium, can say for sure what has
been hidden. The work is tedious,
like carefully brushing away sand at
a traditional archaeology dig, but the
promise of what can be found is a
powerful motivator.
This is Toth and his colleagues'
most ambitious project to date, and
it is just one component of a major
transformation under way in the desert. The team is working within the
stone walls of the Sacred and Imperial Monastery of the God-Trodden
Mount of Sinai — St. Catherine's for
short.
For 17 centuries, the Greek Orthodox Christian monks here have
protected an unparalleled trove of
manuscripts. Now the monastery is in
a multimillion-dollar push to physically and digitally protect its treasures
and make them easily accessible, in
most cases for the first time, to scholars around the world.
In the process, the monks will establish a model for the preservation
of irreplaceable ancient manuscripts
in a world where more and more of
them are threatened by the chaos of
war and revolution.
"Working with this stuff is an amazing privilege," Toth says.
St. Catherine's head librarian, Father Justin, came to Washington in
2008 to learn whether Toth and his
colleagues might be able to offer some
help. Father Justin had been work-
ing to digitize the monastery's huge
manuscript collection using standard
photography for 10 or so years. But
the time had come to explore the archaeology of the palimpsest subset
of the collection with hidden words
standard photography can't reveal.
Toth was managing a group that had
made a global name for itself in this
sort of imaging detective work, an endeavor he entered by accident.
In 1999, Toth, then a policy director at the National Reconnaissance
Office, which designs spy satellites
and imaging systems, read in The
Washington Post about an interesting project at Baltimore's Walters Art
Museum.
An anonymous bidder had paid
$2 million at auction for what, on
the surface, was a prayer book handwritten in Europe in 1229. But the
value came from what the prayers
obscured: 10th-century copies of key
works by the famed Greek mathematician Archimedes, including the only
known copies of some.
Scholars had discovered the hidden text in 1906, but they couldn't
read much of it. After the new owner
— still known publicly only as Mr. B
— took possession, he agreed to lend
the palimpsest to the Walters to try to
reveal the rest using advanced imaging techniques.
Toth saw connections between
high-tech surveillance imaging and
what it was going to take to pull off
proper imaging of the palimpsest. On
a whim, he emailed the museum's director and offered his services. Soon
enough, Toth was volunteering as a
project manager, working with Will
Noel, a Walters curator overseeing the
project, to build the necessary team of
scientists.
The 10-year project pushed the
limits of existing technologies, photographing pages using special lights
and filters in ways that allowed computerized enhancement of the lost
text. It was wildly successful, and by
eight years in, Toth had retired from
the government to pursue this new
passion full time. He is now 55.
Techniques the team developed, not
only for imaging but also for managing the massive volume of data such
work generates, became standards in
the field, and the group began receiving requests to take on new projects
involving palimpsests or text lost in
other ways, such as through water
damage.
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gt. Deirdre Aguigui had been
dead less than three months
when a police officer alerted
the Army and FBI: Her widower was
stockpiling high-powered firearms.
The officer reported that Isaac Aguigui, a private on leave, bought 15
weapons at a store in East Wenatchee,
Wash. His wife's battered body had
been found in their home at Fort
Stewart in Georgia, and the autopsy,
noting the couple had "marital problems," said how she died was undetermined. He received $500,000 in life
insurance benefits.
A relative alarmed by the purchases
and unnerved by the unexplained
death tipped off police, the officer,
John Kruse, said. Still, Aguigui didn't
break any laws in buying the guns,
and was free to return to Georgia —
where prosecutors say he amassed
more firearms and committed murder.
The 21-year-old Aguigui and two
other soldiers were charged Aug. 10
with killing two teenagers to conceal
a plot to use $87,000 worth of munitions to blow up a fountain in Savannah, bomb a dam in Washington,
overthrow the government and kill
the president. Indictments four days
ago widened the alleged conspiracy to
a total of 10 people, eight of them current or former soldiers.
"The Army painted over something," said Brett Roark, whose son
was one of the victims, shot in the
head as he knelt in a south Georgia
swamp. "If they knew, it's very wrong.
If they didn't know, they're very stupid. Either way, a lot of people are
dead and many lives are ruined."
Michael Roark, 19, and his 17-yearold girlfriend, Tiffany York, were
killed Dec. 5 by four soldiers who
were members of a band of would-be
anarchists called FEAR, for Forever
Enduring, Always Ready, according
to the capital murder charges filed in
rural Long County. The new indictments accuse a fifth soldier of tampering with evidence in the case and
three former soldiers and a civilian
of committing crimes to help finance
FEAR.
The murder defendants had troubled histories that included petty
crimes and violent threats documented in civilian court records, military
files and a social-networking website.
The Army took no action to discharge
any of them before the murders.
That fit a pattern in which the military, desperate for manpower to fight
prolonged conflicts in Afghanistan
and Iraq, accepted more recruits
with criminal records and discharged
fewer who behaved badly while in
uniform.
Prosecutors in Long County, Ga., accuse Sgt. Anthony Peden, clockwise from top right, Pvt. Christopher Salmon
and Pvt. Isaac Aguigui of murdering Michael Roark, 19, and his 17-year-old girlfriend Tiffany York while trying to
conceal a plot to use $87,000 worth of munitions to blow up a fountain in Savannah, bomb a dam in Washington,
overthrow the government and kill the president. Pfc. Michael Burnett, top left, pleaded guilty to voluntary
manslaughter and agreed to testify against the other defendants. (Long County Sheriff’s Department).
Normally, one felony or two serious
misdemeanors bars a prospect from
the Army. In 2006 alone, the Department of Defense issued 30,615 special
dispensations that diluted that standard, more than double the total a decade earlier, amounting to 17 percent
of all enlistees. That year, the military
also reduced by 30 percent the number of troops discharged for misconduct and poor performance, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
More sketchy recruits helped explain why violent crimes committed
by active-duty soldiers at home and
abroad rose 31 percent between 2006
and 2011 to 399 per 100,000 troops,
according to an Army report issued
in January. It found a crime is committed in the Army every six minutes,
and a homicide every 63 hours, and
cited growing "high-risk behavior
with increasingly more severe outcomes."
"We saw this in Vietnam — you get
these substandard troops and pretty
soon you're screwed," said Barry McCaffrey, a retired four-star general
who is a military consultant and analyst. "This put the military at risk."
Assistant District Attorney Isabel
Pauley said Aguigui was FEAR's ringleader, an Army intelligence analyst
who "actively recruited new members
at Fort Stewart and targeted soldiers
who were troubled or disillusioned."
One of his co-defendants in the
murder case is Sgt. Anthony Peden,
a 26-year-old veteran of three combat
tours, two in Afghanistan. Peden was
sent home from Iraq in August 2010
after threatening to shoot a fellow
soldier, according to military records.
Once back at Fort Stewart, he aimed a
loaded rifle at his wife, she said in one
of three complaints she filed with the
police in Hinesville, Ga., before they
divorced.
The third murder defendant is Pvt.
Christopher Salmon, 25, who was
demoted from specialist in August
2011 for reasons not made public. In
the year before Salmon's 2006 enlistment, he was charged with 12 misdemeanors, including one for marijuana
possession, police records show. That
background would have disqualified
him from service without one of the
special exemptions, known as a moral
conduct waiver.
The fourth soldier charged in the
teenagers' deaths, Pfc. Michael Burnett, 26, pleaded guilty Aug. 27 to
manslaughter and illegal gang activity. He said FEAR members saw
themselves as revolutionaries who
would "give the government back to
the people."
The accused soldiers "are indicative
of a military that has turned a blind
eye to organized and violent groups
within its ranks," said Matt Kennard,
author of "Irregular Army: How the
U.S. Military Recruited Neo-Nazis,
Gang Members and Criminals to
Fight the War on Terror."
With the exception of Burnett, the
defendants haven't entered pleas.
Their lawyers either declined to comment or didn't respond to telephone
calls.
Army and FBI officials declined to
comment on the tip from the police
officer in East Wenatchee.
"We do everything we can with
local, state and federal law enforcement to prevent crime," said George
Wright, a spokesman at the Pentagon.
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sures. There are times criminals outwit law enforcement."
The Army Criminal Investigation
Command had been familiar with
Aguigui since he reported finding his
wife's body on July 17, 2011, one or
two hours after the couple had sex,
he told authorities. A linguist who
spoke Arabic and had served in Iraq,
she was 24 and five months pregnant.
The autopsy inventoried "blunt force
injuries" to her head, arms and back.
The postmortem "did not detect an
anatomic cause of death."
Her death is under investigation,
said Chris Grey, a spokesman for the
command in Quantico, Va.
Aguigui, the son of a career soldier
who moved frequently, had been
going on anti-government tirades
for years, according to a childhood
friend, Phylicia Hanson.
"He was paranoid that they were
corrupting us and taking over the
world," Hanson said. Aguigui had
wanted to be the center of attention
since they were kids, she said, talking
about how important it was to "do
something big."
In March 2009, he posted on his
MySpace page a threat to an unnamed person, writing that "nothing would please me more than to
personally finish you off " and that
"prison sounds lovely to me." Pauley,
the assistant district attorney, said he
described himself on a recording discovered after his arrest as "the nicest
cold-blooded murderer you will ever
meet."
In July 2009, Aguigui was accepted
into the U.S. Military Academy Preparatory School, a program that put
him on a track for officer training at
West Point in New York.
He was kicked out in November for
breaking the rules by dating his future
wife, a fellow cadet who also had to
leave, according to her father, Alma
Wetzker. They married in December.
At Fort Stewart, Aguigui assessed
whether soldiers were fit to join
FEAR by watching their reactions to
a trailer for a video game in which a
vigilante group acts as judge, jury and
executioner on behalf of victims of
economic inequality, Pauley said. She
said he called this test "the awakening."
The Saturday before the murders,
Anthony Peden showed up at a bar in
Savannah where his ex-wife worked.
"We're involved in some really bad
stuff," Landri Peden said her former
husband told her. "I could tell he was
scared. He was acting crazy."
She said she and two friends drove
him back to the base, about an hour
away. He was ranting, she said, saying,
"If you find out anything that's going
on, they'll kill you."
That Monday night, the four FEAR
members rolled into an alligatorinfested swamp of cypress and oak
trees known as Morgan Lake, in a tan
Jeep Cherokee loaded with handguns
and several boxes of ammunition, according to state investigative records.
Roark and York followed in a black
Nissan Altima.
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teen hundred?" said Peter Coclanis,
director of the Global Research Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "Our manufacturing output is the highest it's ever been,
but we do it with fewer workers."
Coclanis said the 825 new Siemens
jobs in Charlotte are dwarfed by 2,500
positions being created at two new
poultry plants near Rocky Mount,
N.C. Sanderson Farms said it chose
the location because of the area's 13.4
percent jobless rate, which guarantees
it can find workers at $11 an hour.
Siemens's new hires make twice that,
on average.
"One could make a plausible case
for either the classic Democratic vision for investing in education and
human capital or the Republican fix
of cutting taxes and regulation — creating a, quote unquote, good business environment," Coclanis said.
"If you're a poultry processing plant,
you're not going to want to move to
Charlotte. You're going to want to
move to the eastern part of the state,
where you can pay workers next to
nothing."
Romney's plan for growth centers
on slashing government spending
while cutting tax rates sharply for everyone. Romney claims his approach
would create 12 million jobs over the
next four years, a conclusion that relies heavily on research by Alan Auerbach, an economist at the University
of California at Berkeley.
Auerbach, who has studied the economic effects of tax cuts, said lower
taxes on savings and investment do
cause people to plow more money
into new investments, which "should
lead to faster economic growth." But
"how much, how fast" is harder to say,
Roark had received a less-thanhonorable discharge from the Army
four days earlier for drinking and
disciplinary issues, according to his
father. York, a high school junior, had
been dating him for a few months,
her mother said.
The occupants of the two vehicles
communicated with walkie- talkies,
navigating inlets filled with water
moccasins and rattlesnakes where
they often went to practice targetshooting, according to the records
and interviews.
The teenagers had $500, money
they planned to use for a West Coast
trip, Roark's father said. He said his
son had agreed to help Aguigui set
up a private security company in
Washington but was having second
thoughts. The company was to have
been a front for FEAR's criminal activities, according to prosecutors.
At an isolated turnout, Aguigui allegedly directed the vehicles to stop
and pressed the soldiers into action.
Peden shot York in the face as she
sat in the Nissan, took her pulse, and
then shot her again, according to Burnett's testimony in court. Peden then
handed the Taurus Judge .410 caliber
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Harley Alrwan, a crane operator, lifts one of the final components onto a gas turbine in the final assembly area at
the Siemens plant in Charlotte, N.C., last month. After working on contract most of his career, Alwran said, he was
grateful to land a steady job with full benefits. (Photo for The Washington Post by Nanine Hartzenbusch)
Auerbach said. And that approach is,
in any case, less likely to be effective
in a sluggish economy, he said, when
businesses are holding back on new
investments not because they do not
have the cash but because they are
"looking first at whether they can sell
stuff."
"If the question is what would
[Obama and Romney] do right now
to spur economic activity," Auerbach
said, "I'm not sure either platform is
particularly well designed for that."
Meanwhile, the austerity budgets
favored by the GOP would cut government spending in the very areas
that do seem to matter. In his most
recent budget, Romney's vice-presidential running mate, House Budget
Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (RWis.), proposed spending 25 percent
less on transportation over the next
decade than Obama and 31 percent
less on education and training.
As part of their campaign to shrink
the size of government, House Republicans also tried to kill the Export-Import Bank, which encourages exports by financing the foreign
purchase of U.S. goods and services,
turning a profit for taxpayers. Spiegel
said the bank was a critical factor in
Siemens's decision to build turbines
for export in the United States.
The battle over job creation has
come to define the 2012 presidential
campaign, as well as politics in North
Carolina. Obama narrowly won the
state in 2008; this year's race is a tossup.
In the state's gubernatorial campaign, GOP candidate Pat McCrory,
former mayor of Charlotte, is leading
in the polls. With the nation's fifthhighest jobless rate, North Carolina
is "being diminished by high taxes,
excessive regulation and broken state
government," McCrory says on his
website.
His Democratic opponent, Lt. Gov.
Walter Dalton, contends that the
GOP's prescription for smaller government would erode some of the
state's most important weapons in the
battle for new jobs.
"I think we are losing our competitive edge," Dalton recently told the
Raleigh News & Observer. "But I
think it's because of the cuts we have
seen this General Assembly make to
economic development and to education."
Local economic-development officials are reluctant to take sides.
"Sometimes you may rely more on
[government] incentives and worker
training and things like that," said Jeff
Edge, who helped negotiate the Siemens deal for the Charlotte Chamber
of Commerce. "But if an administration gets in with a philosophy to cut
a lot of taxes, people might flock here
because the tax rate is lowest."
"We're kind of on the receiving end
of whatever policy is implemented,"
Edge said, "so we have to make it
work as best we can."
As the nation's second-largest financial center, Charlotte was hit hard
by the 2008 banking crisis. The metro
region's jobless rate peaked at 12.8
percent in early 2010. Through the
gloom came an email from a lawyer
in Detroit: Siemens was considering shutting down a union plant in
Hamilton, Ontario, and building a
$350 million factory in right-to-work
North Carolina.
Project Cardinal — code-named
after the state bird — was the biggest
expansion of manufacturing in Charlotte since the late 1970s, Edge said,
"a once-in-a-quarter-century opportunity."
It was a dramatic turnaround. Siemens first came to Charlotte in 1997,
taking over an aging factory as part
of its purchase of Westinghouse Electric's power generation unit. Siemens
laid off 350 people, slashed benefits
and considered closing the plant and
moving the remaining work to India.
Instead, it brought in a new manager, Mark Pringle, an old hand from
Westinghouse. By introducing "lean
manufacturing" techniques and asking workers to identify unnecessary
steps, Pringle said that he cut the cost
of building a generator by more than
30 percent without eliminating jobs
or squeezing compensation.
In the meantime, Siemens came to
see the United States as a promising
market for the gas turbines it was
making in Germany and China. A
third of the nation's coal-fired power
plants are more than 50 years old, and
many are being replaced by natural
gas. North Carolina's Duke Energy
would be a big customer.
Charlotte had other advantages.
The state-funded Central Piedmont
Community College added a mechatronics program aimed at producing
a stream of technical workers. Duke
Energy helped finance an energy program within the engineering school
at the University of North Carolina at
Charlotte, to which Siemens contributed $4 million.
State and local officials kicked in
millions of dollars in tax rebates to
land Project Cardinal. The state also
offered $3 million to provide customized training to workers at the new
plant.
More than 9,000 people applied
for the jobs; 4,700 were evaluated at
state expense, starting with a career
readiness test that measured math
and reading skills. Those who needed
extra help were offered free classes at
the community college.
Crane operator Harley Alwran, 35,
was among the hires. After working on contract most of his career,
Alwran was grateful to settle into a
steady job with full benefits, including a Christmas bonus.
"I've never had paid vacations, holidays off or a company willing to put
my whole family on health insurance
in my life," he said during a recent
break.
With the plant fully staffed, Siemens
is taking advantage of Charlotte's revamped education system to build
a pipeline of workers for the future.
Estevan Torres, 18, once had plans to
become a dentist. But a high school
counselor steered him toward a
three-year apprenticeship at Siemens,
which is paying him $9 an hour and
financing his two-year degree at Central Piedmont.
For Spiegel, the Siemens chief executive, job creation is not as complicated as rocket science but it does
require a public commitment.
"If you read all the studies about
what it's going to take for the U.S. to
grow, it's really about two things," he
said. "Modernizing the infrastructure
and retooling the education system.
Those are the two big keys to creating more-productive, higher-paying
jobs."
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Naples Rotary Guest
“Talks” to Chimpanzees
B
By Jamie Tyrell
ased on DNA studies, we humans are 98.7% chimpanzee.
With this statement Jack Jones
introduced his friend Stany Nyadwi to
the Naples Rotary. Jack is researching his next book which is tentatively
called "My Brother Chimpanzee."
Stany is a co-founder and manager
of the Ngamba Island sanctuary for
orphaned chimps in Uganda. The
preserve is on a 100 acre island in the
middle of Lake Victoria in Uganda.
The non-profit sanctuary, now an independently operated wildlife refuge,
was established by The Dr. Jane Goodall Institute. Dr. Goodall is the world
leading authority on Chimpanzees.
Dr. Goodall is being honored this
month by the United Nations for her
work. She invited Stany and Jack to
NY to be her guests at the U.N. on
Sept. 21 for the annual International
Day of Peace ceremonies, after learning that Jack and his friends were
bringing Stany to the U.S. in September. Jack took the opportunity to
introduce Naples Rotarians to Stany,
one of only five people in the world
who can actually “talk” to Chimpanzees, according to Dr. Goodall.
Jack has spent much of his journalism career writing about prisoners
and forensic issues. He has written
books on the Son of Sam, the man
who murdered John Lennon and other high profile killers. He is interested
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handgun to Salmon, who shot Roark,
Burnett said.
The four soldiers stripped off clothes
splattered with blood and brain matter and burned them in Peden's backyard, according to a Georgia Bureau
of Investigation search warrant.
That Saturday, they were called to
an unscheduled formation at 6 a.m.
and arrested by military police in
battle gear, said Long County Sheriff 's Lieutenant Thomas Sollosi. "It's
the most sinister case I've ever been
involved with," Sollosi said. "It shocks
the conscience of anyone with morality."
Later that day, Landri Peden said
a social worker called her to pick up
her 3-year-old son, who was visiting
her ex- husband. When she went to
collect his clothes, she said, she saw
Stany began his Rotary
presentation by sharing with
the Club the Chimp’s morning greeting. It is amazing.
Stany explained during an
interview that, like the orphan chimps, he also has
survived
life-threatening
trauma and loss of family. A
member of the Hutu people,
he lost his parents and 6
siblings to a Tutsi murder
squad while out of his native country, relocating 20
members of a besieged Jane
Goodall Chimp colony in
Stany Nyadwi, co-founder and manager of the Ngamba Island
Burundi. Besides talking to
sanctuary for orphaned chimps in Uganda, speaking to the Naples
Rotary Club recently.(Photo provided.)
Chimps, Stany is the Founder and Executive Director
of
a
Christian
mission to aid human
in the connection between chimpanorphans. On the evening he spoke to
zee behavior and human violence.
Orphaned Chimps have experi- the Naples Rotary, he was wearing his
enced extreme trauma. A baby Chimp Chimp hat and described our closcommands $20,000 on the black mar- est primate relatives as being strong,
ket. To capture a baby requires killing smart and curious.
Stany also explained that Ngamba
the mother. A baby chimp can run
and hide, but cannot feed itself with- Preserve is in need of a new fence
out adult help. Seeing the need to nur- to contain them. In the wild, chimps
ture these victims of extreme trauma, need about 75 acres per animal to asDr. Goodall maintains several centers sure an adequate food supply. Having
for orphaned chimps throughout Af- 48 Chimps on a hundred acres presrica. There is no one better able to as- ents real challenges. The Naples Rosist Jack in answering his questions tary Club voted to give the preserve
about trauma and Chimp behavior $500. These sanctuaries are becomthan Dr. Goodall and no better place ing even more important, as habitat
to experience a traumatized Chimp destruction had reduced the wild
population by 90% in under 30 years.
colony than Ngamba Island.
Less than 100,000 chimps survive in
the wild. ■
loaded firearms, boxes of ammunition and gun racks throughout the
house near the base, including in her
son's bedroom.
- With assistance from Michelle Cortez in Minneapolis, Sharon L. Lynch in
New York and Anita Kumar, Michael
Novatkoski, Nick Tamasi and Michael
Weiss in Princeton, N.J.
Bath Rotary Club
Recognizes Little
League Team
By Elaine Tears
ians undertake to improve the quality
t a recent luncheon of the of life for all people within the club’s
Bath Rotary Club, Dick Mc- territory. Community Service is one
Candless, member of the of the five Avenues of Service which
Bath
Rotary
Club’s Board of
Directors, recognized the manager and coaches
of the Bath Little
League
team
sponsored
by
the local club.
He
presented
plaques of appreciation to Brent
Hockaday, team
manager; John Above, the Bath Rotary Club Little League Team placed third in the Bath Little League
Smith,
team 2012 Season. Below, the Bath Rotary Little League manager and coaches were
recognized at a weekly luncheon of the Bath Rotary Club on August 30, 2012 (left
coach; and Sean to right): John Smith, coach; Sean O’Neil, coach; Brent Hockaday, manager; Dick
O’Neil,
team McCandless, Bath Rotarian.
coach. Hockaday
in turn presented
the local club with
a team picture
and expressed his
appreciation for
the club’s continual support. He
also proudly announced that the
Rotary team finished in third place in represent Rotary’s philosophical
cornerstone and the foundation on
this year’s Bath Little League season.
The local club’s sponsorship reflects which club activity is based. ■
the projects and activities the Rotar-
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Prattsburgh's Leslie Darrin
Wins 50th Match
(c) 2012, Bloomberg News ■
The Prattsburgh girl's tennis team’s Leslie Darrin, (above, left) won her 50th match on September 11, 2012. The team’s overall score is now 7 wins and 1 loss. Above, right, The
Prattsburgh girl's tennis team with their coach, Bill Stollery, who is justifiably proud of these hard-working young ladies! (photos provided.)
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Dansville
Jack E. Leitch
Craig A. Cady
Bloomfield, NY - Jack E. Leitch,
age 47, passed away September 9,
2012 at F.F. Thompson Hospital, after
a long illness. Jack was born in La
Pier, Michigan on December 2, 1964
and resided in West Bloomfield, NY.
A gathering to celebrate Jack’s life
was held September 13, 2012 at the
East Bloomfield/ Holcomb Fire Hall,
Bloomfield. Arrangements were
made through Johnson-Kennedy
Funeral Home, Inc., Canandaigua.
***
Dansville, NY - Craig A. Cady,
age 67, passed away unexpectedly
September 10, 2012 at his home.
Craig was born July 31, 1945 in
Scottsville, a son of William and
Grace (Niessen) Cady. Craig was a
proud veteran of the US Army, serving during the Vietnam conflict from
1969 to 1971. Craig was a former
employee at Coca-Cola for 25 years,
before working for Pepsi for 12 years,
then at Tucson Restaurant Equip. &
Supply Co. in Arizona.
Craig was an avid animal lover,
especially cats, birds and squirrels;
he even once had a prairie dog as a
pet. He also enjoyed guns and was a
collector of trains, not the children's
toy trains, but the working engines
and tracks.
Craig is survived by his sons, Adam
Cady (fiancé Stephanie LeBar) and
Zach Cady; grandson, Adam Cady
Jr.; 2 nephews; 3 nieces; several cousins; and friends. In addition to his
parents, Craig was predeceased by a
brother, William "Bill" Cady.
A graveside service with full
military honors was held September 14, 2012 at Union Cemetery,
Scottsburg. Memorial contributions
may be made to any humane society
in memory of Craig. Arrangements
were with the Chamberlin-Baird
Funeral Home, Dansville.
***
Canandaigua
Irma Contant
Canandaigua, NY - Irma Contant, 86, passed away September, 8
2012 at FF Thompson Hospital.
A funeral service was held September 13, 2012 at Fuller Funeral Home,
Inc. Canandaigua. Interment was set
for Palmyra Village Cemetery.
***
Mary Lee Reese
Canandaigua, NY - Mary Lee
Reese, age 87, of Cty. Rd. 1, passed
away unexpectedly September 12,
2012 at F.F. Thompson Hospital.
Mrs. Reese served with the US
Army Nurses' Corps and lived in the
Sonnenberg Mansion in Canandaigua, while caring for World War II
veterans at the VA Medical Center.
She also worked as a registered nurse
at F.F. Thompson Hospital and Clark
Manor House. Mrs. Reese enjoyed
gardening and maintaining her
lawn. She loved spending time with
her family and grandchildren. Mrs.
Reese accepted Jesus Christ as her
Lord and Savior.
Mrs. Reese is survived by five children, Terry (Chris) Rogge of Raleigh,
NC, Dean Reese of Orlando, FL,
Daniel Reese of Rochester, Mary Ann
(Tom) Whipple of Canandaigua and
Stephen (Lyssa) Reese of Honolulu,
HI; daughter-in-law, Pamela Reese
of Cleveland, OH; 20 grandchildren;
four great-grandchildren; two sisters,
Frieda Bellm and Irene Simmoens;
and several nieces and nephews. Mrs.
Reese was predeceased by her husband of 51 years, Max A. Reese, in
2001; and son, David Reese, in 2012.
There will be no calling hours. A
celebration of Mary’s life will be held
Saturday, September 22 at 4 p.m. at
Calvary Chapel of the Finger Lakes,
1777 Rte. 332, Farmington. In lieu of
flowers, memorial contributions may
be made to Calvary Chapel of the
Finger Lakes, P.O. Box 25099, Farmington, NY 14425. Arrangements are
by Johnson-Kennedy Funeral Home,
Inc.,
***
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Dansville, NY - Betty J. Green,
age 84, formerly of Ossian St., in
Dansville, passed away September
10, 2012, at the Livingston County
Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation in Mt. Morris.
Betty was born in North Cohocton,
on May 11, 1928, a daughter of the
late Ernest and Genevieve (Lyon)
Burns. On May 23, 1947 she was
married to Albert Green, who predeceased her in 2006. She was also
predeceased by her brother Merlin
Burns.
Betty worked briefly at FA Owen
Publishing Company of Dansville.
She was a stay at home mother
devoted to her family. She enjoyed
going to church and was a longtime member of the Dansville Free
Methodist Church. She also enjoyed
walking around Dansville, sewing
and going to the steam pageants with
her late husband Albert, and spending time with family.
Betty is survived by three sons,
Howard I. Green of Wayland, Harold
(Nina) Green and Clyde (Barb)
Green, both of Dansville; a daughter,
Audrey (Pat) Harrington of New
Hampshire; ten grandchildren; three
great-grand-children; and several
nieces and nephews.
A funeral service was held September 13, 2012 at the Dansville Free
Methodist Church, with the Rev.
Mark Weber officiating. Interment
was set for Clear View Cemetery,
North Cohocton. Contributions
may be made to a charity of the
donor's choice. Arrangements were
with the Hindle Funeral Home, Inc.,
Dansville.
***
East Bloomfield
Helen (Matz) Jordan
East Bloomfield, NY - Helen
(Matz) Jordan, 87, avid horsewoman, renowned artist, animal
lover, motorcyclist, music and sports
enthusiast, passed away September
4, 2012.
Helen was born in West Hartford, CT and was the daughter of
George and Helen (Mohn) Matz.
She graduated from Fairport High
School in 1942 and received her
bachelor of arts degree in Fine Arts
from RIT in 1946. Helen retired from
Eastman Kodak Co. after working 33 years in the color control
division. While working at Kodak,
Helen and her husband ran a 210
acre Arabian horse breeding farm.
An accomplished western artist, at
the age of 15 Helen drew portraits
of musicians performing with the
Rochester Philharmonic and went
on to provide the artwork for a book
published on Arabian horse breeding
and the logos for several Arabian
horse associations. Helen had also
done paintings for people throughout the country, including Theodore
Roosevelt's daughter, Alice Roosevelt
Longsworth. Helen was a founding member of the Empire State
Arabian Horse Association. In 2000,
Helen's many accomplishments were
recognized by her alma mater, when
she was inducted into Fairport High
School's Alumni Wall of Fame. Helen
took up motorcycling in her 50's and
rode her Yamaha into her 70's. As
Helen said, "Everyone has their one
way of going crazy. I just had more
than one." Helen and her zest for life
will be missed by all who knew her.
Helen is survived by her dear
friend, Larry Casey; two sisters, Jane
Bell and Margaret Smyth; and many
nieces and nephews. Helen was
predeceased by her husband, Edward
Jordan; and two brothers, George
and David Matz.
A celebration of Helen’s life will
be held at a later date and time to
be announced. Memorial contributions may be made to Lollypop Farm;
The Humane Society of Greater
Rochester, 99 Victor Rd., Fairport,
NY 14450; or Happy Tails Animal
Shelter, 2976 Co. Rd. 48, Canandaigua, NY 14424. Arrangements were
by Johnson-Kennedy Funeral Home,
Inc., Bloomfield.
Hopewell
John A. McDonough
Hopewell, NY - John A. McDonough, age 54, of Crabapple Dr.,
passed away September 12, 2012,
at home. He is survived by his son,
Zachary Burgess; two sisters, Dovie
(Richard) Gavette and Cathy (Ron)
Guckert; and several nieces and
nephews.
There will be no calling hours.
Services are private. Inurnment
will be in Overackers Cemetery,
Middlesex. Arrangements are by
Johnson-Kennedy Funeral Home,
Inc., Canandaigua.
***
Linwood
Howard is survived by his children,
Carol (Gary) Corcimiglia of Kansas,
Cindy (Charles) Bishop of Leroy,
Gary (Linda) McKeown of Wadsworth, Robert (Debby) McKeown
of FL, Barry (Roberta) McKeown
of Pavilion, and Tracy Weaver of
Wyoming, 10 grandchildren; several
great-grandchildren; sister in law,
Mary McKeown of Geneseo; and
nieces, nephews and cousins.
Visitation was held September 13,
2012 at the Rector-Hicks Funeral
Home, Geneseo. Funeral services will
be private. Burial will be in Temple
Hill Cemetery in Geneseo. Memorial
contributions may be made to the
York Fire Department, PO Box 92,
Retsof, NY 14539.
***
Penn Yan
Howard McKeown
Linwood, NY - Howard McKeown, 87, of Cowan Rd., died
September 10, 2012 at the Livingston
County Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation in Mt. Morris, NY.
Howard was born January 8, 1925
in York, NY, the son of James and
Mary Gordon McKeown. Howard
owned and operated McKeown
Farms in York. He was a 17 year
member of the Pavilion Central
School Board, where he served as
President. Howard was a member of
the York Fire Department, and was
an avid bowler and trap shooter.
Howard was predeceased by his
wife, Evelyn Pringle McKeown; son,
Thomas McKeown; grandson, Todd
Corcimiglia; brother, Gordon McKeown; sister, Hazel McKeown; and
son in law, Jeff Weaver.
Gladys Wigden
Penn Yan, NY - Gladys Wigden,
95, was called Home by the LORD
September 1, 2012. She was the
youngest of the ten children born to
Jehiel and May (Bryant) Wigden of
Prattsburgh, NY.
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Canning & Preserving Cookbook
Roundup: Lids, Rings and Pings
By Bonnie S. Benwick
S
ome of the most accomplished
cooks around — the ones willing to scout the best ingredients and splurge on the really good
pots — have never put up food in jars.
It's not all that difficult to identify stumbling blocks. No family role
models. Memories of seasonal family
servitude. Misperception or laziness.
Fear.
The fact that canning and preserving in America has been trending
for a decade is both a blessing and
a curse. For every enthusiast with a
blog and a jar lifter, there's an essayist
bent on exposing the posers among a
genuinely interested, growing population.
Yet the activity continues to empower home cooks. Talk about rewarding:
You can sail past the produce department's rock-hard tomatoes, extend
the shelf life of your farmers market
favorites and reduce your household's
food costs and waste; and when was
the last time you turned down a gift of
DIY dilly green beans? Jarden Home
Brands, which manufactures Ball
products in Indiana, has enlisted an
army of can-do types at state fairs and
through its online newsletter. Classes
fill quickly and cyberspace facilitates
bonds from coast to coast.
Is the person who makes freezer
jams in July less committed than the
cook who wields a pressure canner
and pickles through the seasons? It's
not a contest. After spending lots of
time with the recent crop of canning
and preserving cookbooks, though, I
can say that jammers and picklers can
both come out ahead.
There is a higher level of engagement in these guides. They provide
technical information packaged with
meaningful bells and whistles: bright
images of every step or relatable
stories or unexpected flavor combinations or recipes that incorporate
what's gone into the jar — and, in
some cases, all that and a bag of tips.
The biggest of the bunch seems like
a bargain. Canadian cookbook author
Pat Crocker's "Preserving: The Canning and Freezing Guide for All Seasons" (William Morrow, 2011; $30;
220-plus recipes) functions the way a
Sears catalog used to, as a "wishbook."
Its large type is easy on the eyes.
Crocker shot all the photographs,
which capture the beauty of raw ingredients and plated dishes as well as
points of preparation. Her advice on
best varieties for canning looks to be
well researched, and the how-to-useit recipes show depth and creativity.
If I'm allowed one quibble, it's with
the page referrals to general processing directions at the front of the book
(in fact, a common characteristic
among most of the books). Understandably, the volume would be at
least a third longer than its 525 pages
if each canning recipe was written in
full. But there's incentive and value in
being able to read through what's entailed, start to finish. I suspect people
who know the genre have perfected
their bookmarking techniques.
Some of the most interesting flavor
profiles can be found in "Jam On: The
Craft of Canning Fruit," by Laena McCarthy (Viking Studio, 2012; $35; 68
recipes). A white nectarine jam with
kaffir lime leaves and ginger. Pink
peppercorns and dried hibiscus flowers in a brine for watermelon rind.
The author's customizing and pairing
suggestions are equally inspired, and
small-batch recipes are less intimi-
Born with a one-way ticket south
In mid-September, winds coming from the
north create good conditions for observing
dragonflies migrating south. Watch for
them on light breezy days in the early
afternoon, before thermal updrafts lift
the insects out of sight. Even when floating
just above the treetops, a big dragonfly
presents only a subtle profile, that of
a darning needle held aloft by four
transparent wings.
Of North America’s 331 dragonfly species,
only nine regularly make long trips down
the continent. The most abundant of these
is the widespread common green darner.
Young adults, which recently emerged
from their stage as underwater nymphs,
prepared for migration by packing on fat
— a third of their one-gram weight.
Migrating only during daylight hours,
darners can fly more than 60 miles a day,
often following shorelines. They regularly
stop over for several days at a time to prey
upon mosquitoes, gnats, flies and bees
until falling temperatures urge them on.
But it’s not all dining and sailing for the
big-eyed insects. They have predators to
reckon with; American kestrels, small
falcons that follow the dragonfly swarms,
picking them off to fuel their own
migration.
If falcons don’t get them, the clock will.
Adult darners live for only a few months.
The lucky ones making it to Florida, Texas,
Mexico or the Caribbean will enjoy a few
weeks of breeding before they die. Their
progeny will be the ones heading north in
the spring.
Sources: Mike May, Rutgers University; Biology Letters; The Loon; University of Michigan; Migratory Dragonfly Partnership
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is simple — and not
to be missed. More
than half of the book
is given over to complementary
menus
and recipes, and they
sound tasty.
For a more homey
and decidedly savory
approach, there's "The
Pickled Pantry: From
Apples to Zucchini,
150 Recipes for Pickles, Relishes, Chutneys & More," by Andrea Chesman (Storey
Publishing,
2012;
$19.95; 150 recipes).
Its charming illustrations and fonts evoke
old times. This book
is a good choice for
beginners and geared
for small batches. The
Canning and preserving continue to empower home cooks. Top row from
one-page chart of proleft, Pear and Chocolate Jam, Spiced Pickled Fennel, Curried Summer Stone
Fruit Preserve. Second row, Aviation Pickled Pears, Thai Me Up Jam. Third row,
duce yields is worth
Sweet Honey Corn Relish, Cinnamon Vanilla Sunflower Butter, Summer Herb
photocopying and afBrown Mayonnaise. Bottom row, Peach Saffron Jam, Pickled Cauliflower With
Pomegranate Molasses. (Photo for The Washington Post by Deb Lindsey.)
fixing via magnet to
a kitchen appliance.
dating. In 2009, McCarthy elevated Notes on storage and substitutions
a passionate pursuit into a Brook- are helpful. In addition to the welllyn-based, artisanal business called curated standards, there's Pickled
Anarchy in a Jar. She has earned de- Cauliflower With Pomegranate Moservedly good press, in part for us- lasses and fermented cabbage of seving local producers and for working eral cultures.
Last but not least, another: "Food
with less or no sugar. Even if you are
not moved to create, you can buy her in Jars: Preserving in Small Batches
products online and in a lot of New Year-Round," by Marisa McClellan (Running Press, 2011; $23; 110
York stores.
Handsome and cozy in a soft cover, recipes). Beginners could start here,
"Homemade Preserves & Jams: Over and the conversation could continue
90 Recipes for Luscious Jams, Tangy through the Pennsylvania author's
Marmalades, Crunchy Chutneys, and blog. (While you're there, check out
More," by Mary Tregellas (St. Martin's the list of canning books she likes.)
Press, 2012; $24.99; 90-plus recipes), McClellan's voice is friendly and reoffers a European sensibility, owing to assuring; the batches are manageable.
the author's upbringing. Recipes are True to its name, this recipe collecgrouped by categories such as Tangy, tion covers territory beyond the ping
Aromatic and Intoxicating. In addi- of a sealed lid, such as salts, syrups,
tion to the subtitle's roster, you'll find granolas, stocks and butters.
teas, cordials and flavored vodkas.
Make the Speedy Pear and Chocolate
Tart with her Pear and Chocolate Jam
and your life could change.
A Chicago restaurant chef 's weight
is behind "The Preservation Kitchen:
A little boy opened the big family
The Craft of Making and Cooking Bible. He was fascinated as he finWith Pickles, Preserves, and Aigre- gered through the old pages. Suddendoux," by Paul Virant with Kate Leahy ly, something fell out of the Bible. He
(Ten Speed Press, 2012; $29.99; 134 picked up the object and looked at it.
recipes). The "aigre-doux" ("sour- What he saw was an old leaf that had
sweet"; fondly described in the book been pressed in between the pages.
as "preserves for cheese snobs and
“Mama, look what I found,” the boy
wine geeks") alone hints at a certain called out.
level of sophistication. Who else
“What have you got there, dear?”
might conjure a Thanksgiving stuffWith astonishment in the young
ing with pickled leeks, or a milk jam? boy's voice, he answered, “I think it's
However, Virant's Peach Saffron Jam Adam 's underwear!” ■
Oh, Those Kids!
With Drought,
Football
Snack Prices
Take Wing
By Tony C. Dreibus
A
by the United Nations jumped 6.2
percent in July, the most since November 2009.
Americans eat about 25 billion
wings annually, industry data show.
"You're not going to see the 99-cent
wing promotions like you used to,"
said John Davie, president of Bostonbased Dining Alliance, which represents about 10,000 U.S. restaurant
companies. He predicted the price of
wings will probably reach $2 a pound
this year.
"People are still out and restaurants
are still busy, but revenues still
may go down because people
are more conservative about
how much they're spending and
how much they're going out,"
Davie said.
The price of wings sold at restaurants and supermarkets usually falls after the Super Bowl in
February and the NCAA basketball tournament in March,
said Tom Super, a spokesman
for the Washington-based NaChicken wings and other snacks popular during football season tional Chicken Council. That
are rising after the worst drought since 1956 damaged crops
didn't happen this year because
and increased the cost of feeding livestock. Poultry producers
producers cut output to limit
have cut output, boosting prices for buyers as the NFL starts
its season. A patron is shown in a Chicago bar in 2001.
losses from surging feed costs.
(Bloomberg News photo by Tannen Maury).
Buffalo Wild Wings, a chickabout 1,200 pounds of them when the en-and-beer dining chain based in
Bills play, 50 percent more than most Minneapolis, said the cost of its wings
in the quarter starting July 1 will be
days.
Food items popular during the 68 percent higher than a year earlier.
football season, from corn chips and That compares with 3 percent for all
burgers to nachos and wings, are ris- other commodity costs.
While the U.S. chicken industry
ing after the worst drought since 1956
damaged crops and increased the cost returned to profit in January after
of feeding livestock. Tyson Foods months of losses amid a supply glut,
and other poultry producers have cut production declined in the first half
output, boosting prices for buyers as of 2012 and rising feed costs threaten
the NFL starts its first full weekend of to erode profit margins, according to
Stephens Inc., an investment bank in
games on Sunday.
"Chicken-wing prices are high, but Little Rock, Ark.
Deep-fried chicken wings were
they're going to get worse," Kinecki
said in his Buffalo-area restaurant. dubbed Buffalo wings because they
"A bunch of our vendors said they're were first served in 1964 at the city's
expecting rises in chicken and beef Anchor Bar, according to the Nationprices. We're pretty worried about it." al Chicken Council. Teressa BellisWholesale wings were at $1.855 a simo, the bar's owner, would fry leftpound as of September 6th, up from over chicken wings in hot sauce for
90 cents a year earlier, and in March her son and his friends and they were
reached $1.90, the highest on record so popular she put them on the menu.
Kinecki, at Duff 's Famous Wings,
at the Department of Agriculture. Kinecki said he is paying $2.12 a pound said suppliers haven't told him the
price of wings for the rest of the year.
compared with $1.09 a year ago.
"You know everything's going up,
Ingredients for nachos are up 20
percent in the year through July and but the problem is how do you plan
near an all-time high reached in for it if you don't know how much,"
March, according to an index com- Kinecki said. "You're trying to keep
piled by Bloomberg of monthly prices the customer happy, but you have to
for corn chips, beef, processed cheese stay in business."
Another unknown is how the Bills
and pinto beans tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Corn and will fare: The success of the team,
soybeans reached records in the past which has never won an NFL chammonth, and global food costs tracked pionship, will determine how many
six-minute drive from Ralph
Wilson Stadium, home of the
Buffalo Bills, Duff 's Famous
Wings partner Phil Kinecki is worried
by two things: the team's performance
and the price of chicken.
An eighth straight losing season for
the Bills, who haven't made the playoffs since 1999, would hurt the restaurant's sales, and the cost of chicken
wings, a game-day staple, has almost
doubled in the past year. Bars in Buffalo, N.Y., popularized deep-fried
wings in the 1960s, and Duff 's sells
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Toth and the team — all independent specialists — worked with the
Library of Congress to reveal hidden
aspects of Thomas Jefferson's copy
of the Declaration of Independence,
such as the fact that the founding father had erased the word "subjects"
and replaced it with "citizens." As
requests for help piled up, they went
global, working in Europe and the
Middle East.
In every project, Toth and his colleagues handled the technical side:
getting the images. Scholars had to do
the analyses. And the team was adamant about making the data public to
benefit as many people as possible.
By 2008, Father Justin was one of
the people looking them up. The challenge he presented would be nothing
like any of the group's previous projects. Besides the difficulty of getting
equipment to the desert and obtaining proper approvals, there was the
size of the collection. At that point, all
told, Toth and team had imaged perhaps a couple of hundred pages. St.
Catherine's had thousands.
Since at least the 4th century, monks
have lived in a valley at the base of
Scientists are working at the Sacred and Imperial
Monastery of the God-Trodden Mount of Sinai, in
Mount Horeb, Egypt, also known as St. Catherine's,
to uncover hidden text on ancient documents.
They take 31 photos of each manuscript leaf, using
different light wavelengths and from different
angles. The layers of writing respond differently
to the light. The team uses these differences to
create processed images that make the erased
layer legible. (Photo by Mark Schrope for The
Washington Post).
Mount Horeb, which leads up to what
long tradition says is the Mount Sinai of biblical fame. They came to be
close to what they believed, and many
today believe, is the burning bush
people visit the restaurant, he said.
The Bills lost all four preseason games
this year, after winning six of 16
games last year and tying for last in
the American Football ConferenceEast.
"The better the Bills do, the more
people want hang out with fellow
fans," Kinecki said. "You'd like to be
optimistic, but then the preseason
comes and they look crummy."
This manuscript is called a palimpsest, an ancient parchment on which the original text was scraped away
to recycle the page. The original writing was revealed using a high-definition camera that uses special lights
and filters to enhance the hidden text. It is in the collection of the Sacred and Imperial Monastery of the GodTrodden Mount of Sinai, in Mount Horeb, Egypt, which is known as St. Catherine’s for short. (St. Catherine's
Monastery of the Sinai).
from which God spoke to Moses, as
described in the Old Testament.
In the 6th century, the Emperor
Justinian I called for construction of a
monastery at the site. Today, pilgrims
and tourists encounter the 60-foothigh fortress walls and basilica built
to fulfill his decree. There are plenty
of camels, but visitors who expect to
see the rolling sand dunes of movie
deserts find instead massive granite
cliffs.
Visitors expecting monks with long
beards dressed in black robes rising
before dawn to recite ancient prayers,
however, find that stereotypical vision completely fulfilled. The monks'
lives resemble those of their forebears
closely because they consider preservation of those traditions one of their
most sacred charges. They've just
added a few iPads and PowerBooks
to the mix.
Just about everything in this place is
of historic interest to someone, from
the unparalleled collection of religious icons to the graffiti — crusaders
carved their names and coats of arms
during visits around the 12th century.
"It's a very contemplative place,"
Toth says. "It's a place where you gain
a new perspective on yourself and on
history."
There is an impressive collection of
printed books, but one of the monks'
most recognized successes has been
in preserving what many experts
consider to be a collection of ancient
manuscripts second in significance
only to the Vatican's huge collection
in Rome.
Most of the library's texts are religious, but other writings are here as
well, such as a 9th-century copy of
Homer's "Iliad," complete with grammar and vocabulary notes. "I've been
fascinated by this," Father Justin says.
"Obviously, someone came here centuries ago and brought his homework
with him, and it's still here."
For scholars, working with the Vatican's collection is akin to conducting
research at a zoo. Those manuscripts
were intentionally gathered, and in
most cases they've been cleaned, taken apart and rebound. Much can be
learned from subjects in captivity, but
if the Vatican is the zoo, then working
at St. Catherine's is to venture into the
wild — ancient manuscripts in their
natural habitat, there in most cases
because someone was using them.
"That's something that is so important about the library," says Father
Justin, a Texan first attracted to Greek
Orthodoxy by a love of Byzantine
history who joined the monastery in
1996. "Because it was built up by the
living community here, it's still in its
original context, and that's an added
dimension to every manuscript."
The monastery holds at least 130
palimpsests, all from medieval times.
One of the richest sources of palimpsests has been a collection known as
the New Finds — "new" being a relative term in a place so old.
Across the monastery from the imaging room, there is a small wooden
door that could once be reached only
by ladder — and few apparently made
the climb. Behind that doorway and
through two more is a storage space
probably untouched from the 18th
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Fighting the Asian Tiger Mosquito
By Adrian Higgins
The New York Eagle News /The Washington Post
T
he talk at the community
garden in late summer is not
about the tomato harvest, or
the need to clear beds for fall greens.
It's about those little black mosquitoes that have made life outdoors such
a pain.
A pain for us, that is, not the mosquitoes. They are after our limbs for a
little sip of blood, which gives them
the protein to develop eggs for even
more mosquitoes and gives us an itch,
a welt and the risk of catching a nasty
disease.
For now, this particular parasite —
the Asian tiger mosquito — is more a
nuisance than a public health threat.
The blood-sucking adults typically
appear in June, peak at this time of
year and then die off in October. It
is not the species associated with the
spread of West Nile virus, though
that could change, entomologists say.
But the imported pest has become so
widespread and numerous that it is
changing the way we live.
As my gardening neighbor proclaimed as he stalked off the other
day: "The best DEET is the inside of
my home."
We started to become a nation of insiders between the world wars, when
public health authorities urged us to
live behind screens as they sought to
eliminate malaria. And then air conditioning served to draw us inside
even more.
But before the advent of the Asian
tiger mosquito, our main periods of
summer retreat were at dawn and
dusk, when native mosquitoes tend
to bite. Now, the day-feeding Asian
species has sort of sealed the lid. We
lished today in at least 30
states and the District of
Columbia.
It is called the tiger
mosquito for its stripes:
white markings on its
legs and body that also
give it its scientific species name, Aedes albopictus. It is so unlike other
mosquitoes that standard
strategies to beat it back
have been ineffective.
A female Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) sups on human blood
Mosquitoes lay eggs
for the sake of her eggs. The bug is named for its distinctive white
near
water, and the larmarkings. (Alliance Images / Alamy/ Washington Post)
vae develop aquatically,
might think of ourselves as masters of pupate and fly off as adults. Many
the universe, but in the human-bug species do this in broad marshes
equation, we are the ones in the glass and swamps, but the tiger mosquito
evolved to grow in little pockets of
jar.
As entomologists continue to seek rainwater trapped in tree trunks and
ways to fight the Asian tiger mosqui- leaf joints.
When it made its switch from the
to, they warn that there is no magic
bullet to make it go away. Instead forest to the city, it found its human
we can reduce its nuisance value if victims had given it an unbelievable
we collectively adopt an approach array of breeding locations: birdcalled integrated pest management. baths, empty soda cans, tires, creases
It sounds fancy, but many of its prin- in tarpaulins, plastic toys, wheelbarciples are basic, such as removing rows, anything that could trap water,
flowerpots that trap water and clear- if only for a week or two. It needs
ing your gutters, especially in spring so little water to breed, it can reproduce in upturned bottle caps and the
at the start of the breeding season.
Like so many invasive exotics, the little depressions in black corrugated
Asian tiger came to us by way of glo- drainage pipes. Scientists call all these
balization: It was discovered in Texas various reservoirs containers and the
in 1985 and traced to a shipment of pest a container-mosquito.
Its behavior was different, too: Many
used tires from Japan, according to a
scientific paper in the Journal of Med- native species feed at night on sleeping birds. The tiger mosquito prefers
ical Entomology.
Unchecked, the species soon got to feed on mammals, and during the
a foothold in the Houston area and day. It lies in wait and ambushes its
spread north and east, and is estab- victims. It is a weak and low flier and
tends to favor the nether parts of the
mammal human, biting our ankles
and lower legs.
The obvious ways to counter the
insect are to remove all sources of
standing water on your property and
urge neighbors to do the same; wear
clothing that covers the body; and
put some repellent on exposed skin.
But as with everything else, it's more
complicated than that.
With this mosquito, eliminating the
containers isn't that easy.
Joseph Conlon, an entomologist
with the American Mosquito Control Association, said he went to a
house near where he lives in Florida
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to see an owner who said she had diligently removed all standing water. In
her yard, he counted 123 containers
where tiger mosquitoes could breed.
"Cans dumped in bushes and stuff,"
he said.
Clothing? I would not dream of
gardening in the summer without
long pants, socks, shoes, a shirt and a
hat, and, for much of the toil, gloves.
Looking around at others, I ask myself if I'm not some sort of kook. I see
men, women, and children in shorts
and flip-flops. Why not add a tattoo
across your forehead: Diner Open.
This brings us to repellents. The
most effective, still, is DEET, developed for troops to use in the jungle.
But in rare cases, DEET has been
linked to skin injuries and even poisoning, especially for children, and a
lot of folks are leery of it.
The EPA says registered brands
are safe if used as directed. For prolonged protection, the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention recommends products with at least 20
percent DEET but says anything over
50 percent is overkill. The American
Academy of Pediatrics doesn't recommend its use on children younger
than 2 months old. You must follow
the directions, which say keep it out
of your eyes and don't put in on the
hands of young children, who tend to
stick their fingers in their mouths.
If you don't want DEET, the EPA
says other repellent compounds are
also safe and effective when used
properly: namely Picaridin, a synthetic version of pepper plant compounds; lemon eucalyptus oil, and a
compound named IR3535.
"The best repellent is the one you'll
use religiously," said Jorge Arias, a supervisory entomologist at the Fairfax
County Health Department in Virginia.
In my little veggie garden, I have
used a repellent with 98 percent
DEET (this was before I read the
CDC advice) and it seems to work
for several hours, though it leaves you
feeling like an oiled salmon. I have
asked visitors to try lemon eucalyptus
oil, and that also seems to keep the
mosquitoes at bay. I also purchased a
citronella oil candle in a tin, but the
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Clothing: Loose-fitting garments
will minimize skin exposure and
feeding sites. Tuck pants into socks;
the tiger mosquito loves ankles and
lower legs. Light colors are less of a
draw. Clothing sprayed with a repellent or an approved insecticide will
add protection, but don't apply pesticides to the skin.
Repellents: DEET is still considered
the gold standard, use concentrations
between 20 and 50 percent. The EPA
has approved these other repellents as
safe and effective, sold under various
brand names: picaridin, IR3535 and
oil of lemon eucalyptus.
Remove standing water: Tiger mosquitoes can develop in an ounce or
less of water. Flush out birdbaths at
least every week. Police your yard to
remove all sources of standing water, including creased tarpaulins and
clogged gutters. Urge your neighbors
to do the same.
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Citronella: Candles, torches and
wicks containing oil of citronella are
less effective than repellents and of
little use in a breeze.
Insecticide sprays: Pyrethroid
sprays will bring a temporary respite
from adult mosquitoes, but they'll
be back. The sprays can kill bees and
fish. Many experts consider automatic misting systems to be environmentally irresponsible.
Traps: Traps based on luring mosquitoes through attractants are somewhat effective but won't stop you
from getting eaten.
FUGGEDABOUTIT
Purple martin and bat houses: Both
bird and mammal eat many insects
on the wing, but mosquitoes represent a fraction of their diet.
Bug zappers: These draw and electrocute nocturnal insects but relatively few mosquitoes. They kill beneficial insects without alleviating the
mosquito problem.
Diet: Eating garlic or taking Vitamin B12 will not naturally repel mosquitoes, as is widely believed.
Sources: American Mosquito Control Association; Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention; EPA; Rutgers University.
wick got damp and I couldn't get it to
light again.
In addition, I bought a pack of
five mosquito sticks, each about a
foot high and impregnated with a
repellent. Once I got them lighted
and smoking, which took several attempts, they did seem to keep the
area free of the mosquito, but they
were done after three hours. At $4.50
a box, they might be affordable for the
occasional barbecue, but not an afternoon's gardening.
Homeowners can also buy sprays
that kill adult mosquitoes — or, increasingly, hire pest control applicators to do it for them. The pesticides
consist of compounds called pyrethroids, which are considered of low
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wavelength range, from ultraviolet to infrared. Each color
After graduating from Franklin
interacts with ink and paper Academy, Gladys took to the road
in different ways, allowing the with her brothers. A self-taught
camera to capture a series of piano player, she sang and accomslightly different images.
panied them for more than 30 years.
Next there's back and side The Wigdens preached salvation
lighting. Sometimes the un- through Christ and sang Gospel mudertext ink is gone, but in- sic in churches, city-wide campaigns,
finitesimal grooves remain and Bible conferences throughout
where the ink ate into the ani- the United States. During this time,
mal hide. These etchings can they also operated the Naples Gospel
be illuminated because the Tabernacle.
grooved parchment is thinWhen she had no more brothers
Father Justin, a Texan who in 1996 joined the Sacred and Imperial
ner,
allowing
more
backlight
to
travel with her, Gladys went to
Monastery of the God-Trodden Mount of Sinai, in Mount Horeb,
Egypt, is the head librarian at the monastery, which is also known to shine through. This techBible college and learned Spanish,
as St. Catherine’s. It is the home of a treasure trove of ancient
nique had never been applied but decided to live with the Seminole
documents and considered the world’s oldest library. (Photo by
Mark Schrope for The Washington Post).
to palimsests. The side light- Indians in Florida as a missionary
ing works similarly, creating and Christian worker. She ministered
Soon after Father Justin's fact-find- tiny shadows in grooves and irregu- the Bible with a grace-filled life for
ing mission to the Walters Museum, larities on the pages.
35 more years, when she moved to
Finally, there's fluoresence — a Penn Yan a decade ago.
Michael Phelps, founder and executive director of the Early Manuscripts favorite of both real and TV crimeGladys is survived by two sistersElectronic Library in Los Angeles, scene investigators. Whether deal- in-law, dozens of nieces and nephsigned on to lead the St. Catherine's ing with blood at a crime scene or ews, and hundreds of friends still on
palimpsest project, including fund- parchment, fluorescence works the this earth. Thousands more greeted
raising. After months of discussing is- same way. When light of some wave- her on Heaven's shore, where she
sues such as whether the monastery's lengths hits certain organic materials, heard the LORD say to her, "Well
electrical system could support all the their molecules absorb the light, then done, good and faithful servant."
needed equipment and whether the re-emit it at a different wavelength.
We'll say more wonderful words
project would be too disruptive to the Filters bring out the resulting glow. about Gladys and the LORD she
25 or so monks in residence, Phelps With manuscripts, the organic mate- served during a Memorial Service
and two Greek colleagues managed rial is the animal-skin parchment. Ink celebrating her life. That will be on
to secure approval for a limited test blocks some of its fluorescence, mak- Sunday, September 23rd, starting at
run. It sampled pages from 16 manu- ing it appear visibly darker in photo- 2:00 PM, at the Italy Naples Baptist
scripts and found buried text in nine graphs.
Church. All are invited; call (585)
"Probably nothing we do is unique," 374-5430 for more information. Arlanguages, a Hippocratic medical text
500 years older than anything previ- says Bill Christens-Barry, the team's rangements are with Phillips Funeral
ously known, and evidence to sup- electronics guru, who works as an in- Home, Corning.
port new theories about connections dependent contractor based outside
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between Europe and the Middle East Baltimore. "But we've found ways of
optimizing each of these techniques."
that predated the Crusades.
Watkins Glen
Under some of these imaging conIt was a convincing showing. His
Eminence Archbishop Damianos of ditions, undertext shows up more
Ronald W. Tears
Sinai was on board. "This is the last prominently. Computer programs
frontier in the Sinai library," he says. essentially subtract the difference
Watkins Glen, NY - Ronald W.
"This is the last repository of infor- between images where both types of Tears, 65, of Watkins Glen, passed
mation that hasn't been clarified and text are prominent and those where away Friday, September 7, 2012 as a
mainly overtext is visible. The dif- result of a motorcycle accident.
claimed."
As important in the agreement was ferences are converted into color: In
Ron was born January 14, 1947
the Arcadia Fund, a British-based some processes, undertext becomes in Hammondsport, the son of Roy
nonprofit focused on protecting cul- remarkably legible in an artificial red, (Peck) and Stella Pizura Tears. Ron
tural knowledge. In 2010, it agreed to and overtext is suppressed in a muted worked for Rural Metro in Corning
provide $2.1 million for five years of gray. If that technique doesn't work, for the past 22 years. He was a memthe team can perform more compli- ber of the Big Flats and Watkins Glen
imaging.
Late last year, the team returned to cated analyses and digital manipula- Fire Departments, past Chief of the
tions to bring out the text.
Sinai to begin its work in earnest.
Pulteney Fire Department, past SteuSo far, the technological chal- ben County Fire Investigator, former
It's about 8 a.m., and the imaging
team is standing in a circle in the lenges at the monastery have proved Boy Scout Leader, and past President
command room. They're not pray- surmountable. But one hurdle be- of the Savona Rod and Gun Club. He
ing, though the timing of this daily sides a multiyear workload remains. loved his job, and was an avid hunter,
ritual is dictated by the monks' morn- Some of the manuscripts are now fisherman, hiker and loved camping
ing prayers. The standing is a man- so fragile that they can't be handled and spending time with his family.
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agement trick Toth advises to keep
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a group on track. Knowing that you
can't sit until everyone has aired concerns and reported on progress offers
a powerful push toward brevity.
At times they cover glitches, like
the fly whose unfortunate landing
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We also service business accounts,
and hairy legs in excruciating digital
fundraisers, festivals and special events
detail while obscuring a couple of
manuscript images. But mostly they
discuss how to keep a steady stream
of images flowing, the files properly
organized.
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room can bathe a manuscript page
century until 1975. It was then, while
cleaning up damage from a nearby
fire, that the monks ended centuries
of procrastination and inventoried
the nearly forgotten storage area.
The space was miserably dusty,
but one monk soldiered on and discovered a lost trove of damaged ancient manuscripts whose significance
scholars are still probing.
With the chance to study the monastery's palimpsests, the experts hope
to better understand whether there
are discernible patterns in the decisions people made about what texts
they scraped away. Sometimes monks
brought in parchment that was already scraped; sometimes they did
it themselves. Pages might have been
chosen because the material on them
wasn't considered important, but selection could just as easily have meant
that the monks thought they had
enough copies of a particular text.
In some cases, a single manuscript
leaf might include three or more layers of text, all from different centuries. And sometimes pages from one
scraped manuscript were taken apart
and used in multiple other manuscripts, creating puzzles to be pieced
back together.
Before this project, only three palimpsests had been studied at St.
Catherine's, and not with advanced
imaging. The most famous is called
the Syriac Sinaiticus, which two intrepid Scottish sisters uncovered in
1892. The overtext was stories of female saints, but the undertext, some
of which they glimpsed by steaming
pages apart over a tea kettle, proved to
be a late 4th-century copy of the four
canonical gospels. It was written in
the language Old Syriac and offered
scholars new information about what
the gospels might have looked like in
their original form.
In the 1990s, scholars worked with
the only two known manuscripts
written in a lost language called Caucasian Albanian, deciphering the language for the first time.
It's difficult to conceive of a better
naturally occurring place than this
desert monastery to preserve ancient
documents. Mold and insects are the
main foes of book preservation, but
neither is an issue. Humidity is so
low that, despite the summer heat, a
culture emerged that still favors long
thick robes and head wraps without a heatstroke epidemic. There are
months or even years between rainstorms. And in this dry place, there
are no rats to chew through pages.
The library's isolation further aided
the documents' preservation, though
it has also severely hampered access.
It doesn't take two weeks by camel to
get there anymore, but it's still a long
way to travel for research.
And even under the excellent natural conditions in a place where time
seems to have proceeded more slowly,
time still leaves unwelcome marks.
Ink fades; pages eventually crumble.
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Surviving Ron are his wife Priscilla
Tears; children Rosie (Ann Remchuck) Tears and Renee (Terry)
Erway; grandchildren Blaine, Brandi
Erway and Blair Reed; great-grandson Colton Reed; stepchildren
Heather (Chris Dudgeon, Sabrina
(Michael) Scharborough, Sarabeth
(Angel) Espinosa, and Linck (Samantha Lewis) Grover; step-grandchildren Cortney and Karlee Dudgeon,
Michael and Naomi Scharborough,
Angel II and Cienna Espinosa, and
Deegan and Caleb Grover; sister Patricia and Leon Williams of Clayville;
twin brother Donald and Rhonda
Tears of Adamsville, TN; brother
John and Connie Tears of Pulteney;
sisters-in-law Edna Tears of Pulteney,
Janet Tears of Deatsville Al, and
Vivian Geyer of Savona; brother-inlaw Allen Culbertson of Addison;
ex-father-in-law Hulbert Culbertson
of Painted Post; 1 uncle; many aunts
nieces, nephews and cousins; and
many, many friends. Ron was predeceased by his parents; son Ronald
(Rocky) Tears; brothers William and
James; sister-in-law Kathy Culbertson; and brother-in-law Mike Geyer.
A funeral service took place
September 11, 2012 at the Hammondsport Fire Dept. Interment was
in Glenview Cemetery, Pulteney, followed by a luncheon at the Pulteney
Fire Hall. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Big Flats,
Watkins Glen, Hammondsport or
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Aging Baby Boomers Face Losing Care
as Filipinos Go Home
By Kanoko Matsuyama
S
tephanie Chan spent four years
at Manila Doctors College
qualifying to work as a nurse
overseas. She never left the country.
Instead, she switched careers and now
earns almost as much monitoring
people's finances.
Chan is one of thousands of Filipinos each year who study to become
health workers to boost their chance
of a higher income overseas. She's
also now part of a growing trend of
workers who are opting not to go.
Chan now works at a call center in
Manila, where she reminds Macquarie Bank credit-card holders to make
payments.
"I'm thankful this career opportunity opened up for me," said Chan, 23,
who works the night shift at a business-process outsourcing company
and lives at home with her parents. "If
I can maintain a relatively high standard of living as a customer- service
representative, why go overseas to
work as a nurse?"
Developed countries that rely on
Philippine nurses and Indian doctors
to hold down costs in the $6.5 trillion global health-care industry face
greater competition for talent just as
baby boomers in the United States,
Europe and Japan reach the prime age
for medical care.
Economic growth in emerging
economies, despite some signs of recent slowing, is stoking investment
in hospitals and creating job opportunities in other industries that mean
a growing number of health workers
choose to stay at home.
Angelica de Guzman Tabora, a nurse from the Philippines, right, speaks to a charge nurse at the nurses'
station of Kameda General Hospital in Kamogawa City, Japan. The supply of health workers in developing
countries faces a squeeze as faster economic growth in the Philippines and other source countries creates more
employment opportunities at home. (Bloomberg News photo by Kiyoshi Ota).
The growth and investments should
help reduce an imbalance that has
caused a severe shortage of healthcare workers in developing nations.
Japan had 2.2 doctors and 9.5 nurses
per 1,000 people in 2009, while the
U.S. had 2.4 doctors and 10.8 nurses,
according to the OECD. In Indonesia,
the proportion was 0.2 doctors and
1.4 nurses, while in India it was 0.7
and 0.9.
Philippine President Benigno Aquino, for instance, plans to build and rehabilitate more than 2,700 hospitals,
clinics and community health centers
next year as part of $9.7 billion investment in infrastructure. The nation's
$225 billion economy expanded 6.1
percent in the first half, and the peso
is the best performer against the dollar among Asia's 11 most-traded currencies this year, advancing about 5.5
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"If you are taking more, somebody
is losing, unless you put in place a policy that increases the overall supply,"
said Kamalini Lokuge, a researcher at
the Australian National University in
Canberra, who has advised the World
Health Organization on improving
health care in developing countries.
"There's a shortage everywhere because of that."
The world is short more than 3 million health workers, including at least
1 million community nurses and doctors, according to Westport, Conn.based Save the Children.
In New Zealand, 34 percent of doctors and 21 percent of nurses are from
abroad, the highest among developed
countries, while in the U.S. 27 percent
of doctors and 5 percent of nurses are
foreign, the WHO said in its 2006
World Health Report. More than half
of the health workers in the Persian
Gulf states are foreign-trained, according to the Geneva-based agency.
Philippine and Indian nationals
lead the supply, each making up 15
percent of all immigrant nurses and
doctors respectively in the 34-member Organization for Co-operation
and Development. About 3 percent,
or 89,000, of the 2.9 million registered
nurses in the U.S. are Asian, Native
Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, according to MinorityNurse.com, Westford,
Massachusetts-based resource portal.
The health-worker deficit has
reached a crisis level in 57 countries,
according to the Global Health Workforce Alliance, a partnership created
in 2006 by the WHO. Thirty-six of
those countries are in sub-Saharan
Africa, which has a quarter of the
global burden of disease and only 3
percent of the world's health workers,
it said.
For countries that can afford to
pay, the cost of health- care workers
is likely to rise. That means migrant
workers stand to more than double
their pay from landing a job in an advanced economy. Full-time registered
nurses in the U.S. make about $57,000
a year, according to MinorityNurse,
while in Australia they earn as much
as A$75,000 ($78,000). In the Philippines, an entry-level nurse at a public
hospital earns about 8,000 to 13,500
pesos ($195 to $325) a month, according to the Bureau of Local Employment website.
Indonesian Wahyudin lifted his pay
2,900 percent by moving to Japan
from a clinic in East Java.
To get the job as a caregiver in one
of the world's fastest aging nations,
the 30-year-old nurse, who uses one
name, had to study Japanese language
and script day and night for three
years to pass the country's challenging examination.
Wahyudin sends most of his salary home to his parents, who sold
rice paddies to pay for his education.
With the money, they have bought
a coffee plantation and built a twostory house in the mountain village
in Lampung, Sumatra. Wahyudin's
earnings pay for his younger sister's
schooling.
"I cried when I first got my salary,"
said Wahyudin, who earns 185,000
yen ($2,390) a month — the equivalent of more than two and a half years'
pay as a nurse back home. He is one
of 80 Indonesian and Filipino nurses
at Kenshokai Group, which operates
114 nursing homes and daycares in
Tokushima, southwest of Tokyo.
The shortage of caregivers in Japanese hospitals and nursing homes is
worsening as the population ages.
About one in three Japanese will be
over 65 by 2025, from one in 4.4 in
2009, according to government data.
"We need to do whatever it takes
to find workers," said heart surgeon
Takaaki Kameda, chairman of Kameda Medical Center in Chiba, east of
Tokyo. "Demand for medical care will
be much higher when baby boomers
in urban areas get older. We definitely
need to fill the shortages with immigrants."
The hospital opened a university
for nurses in Japan and is considering
setting up Japanese classes at colleges
in China to help people there pass the
test to work in Japan.
More than 40 percent of the population will be at least 60 years old in Japan and South Korea by 2050 and almost 35 percent of the population in
Europe is projected to be 60 or older
by 2050, from 22 percent in 2009, according to the United Nations.
The prospect of more, better-paid
jobs back home appeals to migrant
worker Angel Claudio, who went to
Singapore in January to work as a
staff nurse at Khoo Teck Puat public
hospital.
"If the economy gets better and the
salary gets better, I think fewer Filipinos will work abroad," said Claudio,
25, during her break in the hospital
cafeteria. "Who wants to be far away
from their family?"
The biggest losers in the talent
battle may be the poorest and most
disease-prone countries. A billion
people worldwide lack reliable access
to basic health services, the Global
Health Workforce Alliance said.
Three quarters of doctors trained
in Mozambique are working aboard,
mostly in Portugal, South Africa, the
U.S. and Britain, the Alliance said.
HIV treatments that require administration by physicians are being carried out by environment officers with
six weeks' medical training in Zambia, said Lukuge at the Australian National University.
To address the challenge, the WHO
adopted a Global Code of Practice in
May 2010 — the first such use of the
organization's constitutional authority in 30 years — to provide a framework to regulate aggressive recruitment. It recommends countries aim
for self-sufficiency of workers and
developed nations provide poorer
economies with technical and financial assistance.
Meantime, nurses like Chan, who
said she earns about 25,000 pesos a
month at her call center, increasingly
find opportunities elsewhere, often in
related industries.
Vackie Jonn Licudan, who qualified
to work as a nurse in the U.S., said he
had wanted to move to America since
he was a boy. While he was waiting for
an immigration pass to work in Vermont, he took a job at an outsourcing
company in Manila. Now he earns
more than 80,000 pesos a month running a team of other nurses who review medical insurance claims.
"I belong to an industry that is
growing and given the career path
and opportunities I have and will
have, I no longer want to move," said
Licudan, 31, who bought a 3.9 million-peso apartment, goes clubbing
twice a week and eats out almost every day. "I can build my future here."
— With assistance from Karl Lester
M. Yap, Norman P. Aquino and Sharon Chen.
(c) 2012, Bloomberg News. ■
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Acupuncture Can Ease Kids' Pain
By Laura Ungar
A
t age 17, Victoria Rust came
down with pancreatitis, suffering waves of terrible pain
that kept her hospitalized for much of
last year.
When the only medicine that was
helping her caused stomach bleeding and had to be stopped, a doctor at
Children's National Medical Center
suggested an unconventional treatment: acupuncture.
Rust and her mother agreed to let
a physician at Children's Hospital
place thin needles into her stomach
and other spots; within minutes, the
West Virginia high school student felt
much better.
"I was mellowed," she said. "The
pain didn't come." The needles turned
out to be no big deal.
Children and needles may seem
an unusual pairing, but doctors say
a growing number of families are
choosing acupuncture, in which thin
needles are inserted into specific
points on the body and manipulated
by hand or with electrical stimulation
with the goal of restoring and maintaining health. It's often performed
when standard medicines or therapies don't work, have too many side
effects or need a boost.
Acupuncture is increasingly being
prescribed and performed by physicians in such traditional Western hospital settings as Children's. Last year,
an analysis in the journal Pediatrics
concluded that acupuncture was safe
for kids "when performed by appropriately trained practitioners."
Officials at pediatric hospitals estimate that at least a third of U.S. pain
centers for children offer acupuncture
alongside traditional treatments. The
federal government's National Health
Interview Survey, which last asked
about acupuncture in 2007, estimated
that about 150,000 children were receiving the needle treatment annually
for conditions such as pain, migraine
and anxiety.
"People will often bring it up before
I bring it up," said Jennifer Anderson,
an anesthesiologist at Children's who
is also a licensed acupuncturist. "I often treat patients with chronic issues"
such as nausea and abdominal pain.
"It's very helpful."
The American Academy of Pediatrics acknowledges that more young
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toxicity when used correctly, though
in the wrong hands they can kill fish,
bees and other beneficial insects.
The problem, apart from the cost if
you contract with a company — typically $400 to $700 for regular sprays
between late April and late September
— is that spraying the adults alone
isn't going to keep the mosquitoes
away: New ones keep hatching. Damien Sanchez, owner of the Mosquito Squad of Greater D.C., said the
When the only medicine that helped Victoria Rust’s pain had to be stopped because it caused stomach bleeding,
a doctor at Children’s National Medical Center suggested an unconventional treatment: acupuncture. (Children’s
National Medical Center.)
patients are undergoing acupuncture
and other alternative therapies, and
an article in its journal, Pediatrics,
says a growing number of pediatric
generalists and subspecialists are offering these services. It also urges
doctors to seek information on such
practices when families express interest, evaluate them on their scientific
merits and pass information to parents.
Anderson and other doctors said
acupuncture is an important and
safe adjunct to traditional treatments
for children. A 2008 review of studies published in the Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology cited
evidence that acupuncture is effective
for preventing nausea after surgery in
children and for alleviating pain. It
said there's some evidence that it can
help children with allergy symptoms
but pointed out that more study is
needed.
Anderson said she often does two
to three treatments a week at first
on a child, eventually tapering visits
to once a month. Stephen Cowan, a
New York pediatrician who is also a
certified medical acupuncturist, said
Western medicine is great for acute
problems that often afflict kids, such
as ear infections. But he said acupuncture can be extremely helpful
for such chronic or difficult-to-treat
problems as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and asthma.
He related the case of a year-old boy
who came to the hospital at 3 a.m.
with an asthma attack. A nebulizer
treatment wasn't working, Cowan
regular sprays reduce adult numbers
by 80 to 90 percent. His workers use
backpack sprayers to treat more than
1,000 area homes weekly.
The secret to managing this pest is
for everyone to engage in a concerted
effort to deny the overwintering eggs
a chance to develop in the spring
when rains fill every potential container, said Dina Fonseca, an associate professor at the Rutgers Center for
Vector Biology in New Brunswick,
N.J. She and her colleagues at the center have been studying tiger mosquito
said, so he decided to try acupuncture. The boy reacted calmly, and his
pulse-oximeter readings went up to
95 percent, which is within the normal range.
"I'm not advocating replacing Western treatments. I'm asking: Where
can [acupuncture] serve best in the
system of medicine pervasive in
our culture?" said Cowan, author of
the ADHD book "Fire Child, Water
Child." "Acupuncture doesn't cure
infection. But I find it very useful in
preventive care," such as alleviating
stress, he said.
Sarah Rebstock, clinical director
of the Pediatric Pain Medicine Outpatient Clinic at Children's Hospital,
said she prescribes acupuncture as
an adjunct to other traditional care
mainly for pain that seems disproportionate to the condition or that lasts
for more than about six weeks. Anderson often performs the treatment,
and children get medications or other
Western therapies as well.
Acupucturists say needles are the
biggest concern among parents and
children; Cowan said some children
are so resistant when the process is
described that they won't go forward
with treatment.
"Some constitutional temperaments
are more apt to be afraid of needles,"
he said. "These children require a lot
of time and trust before they're willing to try it."
Acupuncturists often develop ways
to ease children's fears about the needles. "It's all in the way it's presented
to a kid," Cowan said. "I describe
management in an agreement with
the federal Agricultural Research
Service. "The population is reset every winter. We can try and develop a
program that controls them right at
the start of the season. By not letting
the population go crazy, you may not
have big problems later. That really is
the enlightened approach."
And get some long pants.
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them as little hairs. Sometimes, I ask
kids to do it to me first. "
Angela Gabriel, a licensed acupuncturist at the Center for Integrative Medicine at George Washington
University Medical Center, said some
young children are fearful of needles,
but "by 8, 9 or 10, a lot of kids think
it's cool."
Rust, who travels 2 1/2 hours to
Children's from her house in West
Virginia, said needles were not an issue for her, since she has suffered from
gastroinestinal issues her whole life
and has endured many needle sticks.
She was nervous about acupuncture
needles going into her stomach and
ears, but she was eager to get some
relief and decided to try it.
Her mother, Paula Rust, said acupuncture reduced her daughter's
pain and allowed her to relax. "It was
the one thing she would totally relax
with," she said. "To me, that's kind of
incredible."
The only problem is that the relief
didn't last.
"While the needles are there, it's
wonderful," Victoria Rust said of the
treatments, which lasted about half
an hour. Then, the pain gradually returned, sometimes as soon as half an
hour after a treatment.
Some studies and acupunturists
suggest that such short-term relief
isn't typical and that the effects of
acupuncture usually last weeks or
more. According to the American
Academy of Medical Acupuncture,
initial treatments may bring only
short-term relief, but effects of treatments are cumulative and the aim is
a thorough resolution of the problem,
or at least a reduction of discomfort
over the long term.
But Anderson said acupuncture
doesn't work at all in some patients.
She estimated it helps about 70
percent of the patients she treats. For
some, it may not reduce their pain,
though it may decrease stress or anxiety.
While relatively few acupuncture
complications have been reported
to the Food and Drug Administration, there have been some from inadequate sterilization of needles and
improper delivery of treatments. The
FDA requires needles to be sterile,
nontoxic and labeled for single use by
qualified practitioners.
Physician acupuncturists, in addition to their medical training, get instruction in acupuncture.
Non-physician practitioners lack
medical degrees, but many have training validated by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture
and Oriental Medicine.
Stephen Barrett, a retired psychiatrist who runs the Web site Quackwatch.org, said there has been very
little research on what happens
physically when someone undergoes
acupuncture. He also said there's a
danger that patients may be misdi-
West Nile Virus
We're experiencing a seasonal epidemic for
West Nile virus, brought on by infected mosquitoes, according to the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention. West Nile virus can cause serious
illness for some people, even leading to death in a
small percentage, especially those who have other
medical conditions and those who above the age
of 50.
In 2011, the total number of cases of West Nile
virus for the whole year was 712. So far in 2012 the
CDC has logged 1,590 cases and 65 deaths. In other
words, it's getting worse, and we need to know how
to protect ourselves.
A fact sheet from the CDC gives some good advice.
Outside your house: Empty any containers that
can hold standing water. This can include saucers
under flower containers and any pots or buckets.
Empty water in birdbaths weekly. It recommends
emptying a pet's outdoor water bowl weekly as
well, but I would suggest doing it daily. You don't
want your pet to drink water that might have mosquito larva in it.
Inside your house: Make sure all your screens
are tight to the window and do not have holes.
When you go out: Taking care that you don't get
bit by mosquitoes is probably the most crucial of
all the preventions. Wear long sleeves and pants if
you're out when the mosquitoes are most active,
which is dawn and dusk. Use an EPA-registered
insect repellent.
If your community decides to spray for mosquitoes as a way of controlling West Nile virus, take
care not to be outdoors when they spray. Keep
windows closed.
For more information, especially the symptoms,
go to the CDC site (www.cdc.gov) and search for
West Nile virus, or call it at 1-800-232-4636.
Matilda Charles regrets that she cannot personally answer reader questions, but will incorporate
them into her column whenever possible. Write to
her in care of King Features Weekly Service, P.O. Box
536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475, or send e-mail to
[email protected].
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agnosed if they seek help only from a
non-physician acupuncturist.
Many health insurance plans don't
cover acupuncture, because it is nontraditional, although some do. Fees
vary widely and can be more than $65
a visit.
West Virginia's Medicaid program
paid for the treatments for Victoria
Rust, who went to Children's for her
underlying illness because her family
doctor felt Children's would provide
the best care. Paula Rust said she is
glad that acupuncture was also available and that it was performed by a
physician in whom "you feel there's
that trust factor."
- Ungar is the medical writer at the
Courier-Journal in Louisville.
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Do Virus Outbreaks of Recent Years Signal Epidemic
of Epidemics? Yes & No
By Joel Achenbach, David Brown and Lena H. Sun
e are swimming in a sea of
West Nile toll is rising
viruses. A hundred times
smaller than bacteria,
West Nile virus has infected more than 2,600 people in
these tiny things are little more than
45 states and the District this year. The number is
stripped-down packets of genetic maexpected to increase through October.
terial with some protein padding. By
Cases reported
strict definition, they aren't even alive.
in thousands
High: 9,862 cases
But viruses are robust and promiscuous in their ability to invade organ8
isms and hijack cellular machinery
in order to replicate. The latest virus
2012:
to seize the country's attention —
2,636 cases
6
and create a run on bug spray — is
as of Tuesday
the mosquito-borne West Nile virus,
which usually has little effect on its
53% have been
4
human hosts but can sometimes be a
neuroinvasive,
affecting the
killer.
brain and
The Centers for Disease Control
nervous system.
and Prevention reported last Wednes2
Low:
day that this year's West Nile epidem21 cases
ic is on track to be the deadliest since
the disease first showed up in New
0
York City in 1999, perhaps inside a
Year
’99 ’00 ’01 ’02 ’03 ’04 ’05 ’06 ’07 ’08 ’09 ’10 ’11 ’12
stowaway mosquito on a transatlantic
Deaths 7
2 10 284 264 100 119 177 124 44 32 57 43 118
jetliner. There have been 2,636 ofTHE WASHINGTON POST
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
ficially reported cases nationally and
118 deaths.
So far this year, the West Nile virus has infected more than 2,600 people in 45 states and the District of Columbia.
People get the virus from mosqui- The number is expected to rise through October. (Washington Post graphic)
toes that have bitten infected birds.
Most people don't become sick, but
some have a mild fever. One out of warned that they may have been ex- where viruses lurk. Most dangerous
150 develops serious symptoms, such posed this summer to rodent-borne viruses are "zoonotic," finding a pathas brain inflammation or polio-like hantavirus. Of the eight people way to leap from an animal populaparalysis of the arms or legs. A small known to have contracted the virus, tion into humans; the most notorious
example is HIV, originally a disease of
three have died.
number die.
The appearance of another rare but chimpanzees.
The outbreaks of so many viruses
Five centuries of global trade and
in recent weeks, years and decades — potentially deadly mosquito-borne
including hantavirus, swine flu, bird virus, one that causes Eastern equine transport have effectively put the
flu, SARS, ebola and the great global encephalitis, has spurred Massachu- planet's life forms in a blender. After
scourge of HIV — raise an obvious setts officials to ask residents in some 1492, smallpox and measles wiped
question: Are we seeing an epidemic communities to cancel evening out- out untold millions of people in the
door events until the first hard frost. New World who lacked immunity to
of viral epidemics?
The experts give a complicated, nu- And two men in northwest Missouri those Old World diseases. Smallpox
anced answer: yes and no. The bottom were hospitalized in 2009 with a virus has been eradicated through relentline is that virologists are hardly in a never before seen and possibly car- less vaccination and monitoring, and
ried by ticks. Scientists named it the polio is almost gone, but there are
panic.
"I think it would be over-exaggera- Heartland virus, after the hospital countless other viruses that exploit
the globalized economy to travel the
tion to think that there are millions of where it was identified.
The broader picture is one of threats world, perhaps inside an insect in a
viruses ready to jump on us and bring
us back to the 14th century," says and triumphs. Viruses evolve — but soggy shipping container.
Scientists can't quite decide if viAnthony Fauci, director of the infec- so do the medical techniques that can
tious-disease center at the National identify and stop them, particularly ruses should be considered alive.
Institutes of Health. "That would be in highly developed countries with They aren't like bacteria, which cause
resources to monitor disease out- tuberculosis, strep pneumonia, E. coli
looking over a ledge that isn't there."
intestinal infections and hundreds
But Fauci is hardly sanguine — and breaks.
Viruses have been part of the planet of other ailments. Bacteria are onehe's the first to say you should use insect repellent before gardening in a since long before humans appeared cell organisms that can repair themon the scene. They can infect plants selves, reproduce themselves, defend
mosquito-infested yard.
Lyle Petersen, director of the CDC's or animals. When Tom Ksiazek, a themselves. They have a metabolism,
division of vector-borne diseases, said virologist at the University of Texas a self-sustaining chemical interaction
this year's West Nile season is on pace Medical Branch in Galveston, is asked with the world. That's also true of
for a record number of severe infec- if there are more viruses these days, more-complicated microbes, such as
tions, such as brain inflammation. he says, "The short answer is no, be- the amoebas that cause diarrhea and
These infections are considered the cause I don't think any of these things the protozoa that cause malaria.
Viruses do none of those things.
best indicator of the epidemic's scope have been dropped off by a flying sauThey have a few genes, providing
because they are most consistently cer recently."
But there are now 7 billion people instructions, and a few molecules of
reported to health authorities. Most
people who are bitten by infected on the planet, collectively creating machinery, the equivalent of a pull
mosquitoes don't develop symptoms, a meaty target for pathogens. We're starter on a chain saw, all packaged in
also an invasive species, probing ex- a tough envelope. They sit, do nothand their cases are not reported.
Meanwhile, thousands of Yosem- otic habitats and clearing rain forests ing, eat nothing, don't reproduce and
wait for something living to come
ite National Park visitors have been
W
March to a
Million
Money is tight everywhere, but there is one
group that truly deserves any holiday donations
you'll make this year. I want to get first dibs on
at least 15 of the dollars you have earmarked for
charity.
Operation Gratitude (www.operationgratitude.
com) recently reached a milestone of 800,000
packages sent to service members stationed far
away. Started by Carolyn Blashek at her diningroom table in 2003, OpGrat's efforts have been
constant, ever expanding and heartfelt. Here are
the stats since 2003:
--6.4 million pounds of donated product
--$8 million in shipping expenses
--40 million items
--$80 million worth of product shipped
The number and type of corporate donations
are proof positive that OpGrat is an organization
worth getting behind. That 800,000th package was
a special one that contained a week's vacation,
a web cam, a DVD player, a digital camera -- and
the keys to a custom-built American Chopper
motorcycle.
along. When that something is the
right type of cell — viruses are choosy
— they can invade, spilling the directions and the starter cord into the cell.
They use the cell's machinery to
make copies of themselves, and then
they take some of the cell's membrane
— like stealing coats from the hall
closet — to wrap the new crop of viruses in before they head out to look
for new targets.
This parasitic lifestyle creates a
challenge for anyone trying to create
an antiviral drug. Antibiotics work on
bacteria — living organisms. But you
can't easily target a virus without killing the cell that it has hijacked.
Better than treating viral infections
is preventing them. The first successful vaccine (against smallpox in 1796)
and campaigns against other scourges
(such as polio, measles, mumps and
hepatitis B) all had viruses as their
targets.
There are clinical trials underway
for a West Nile vaccine, though it remains to be seen whether companies
will find it profitable to develop a
vaccine for a disease that is relatively
rare and usually benign. Once you get
West Nile, you have immunity for life.
West Nile is not a global health
problem like malaria, HIV and schistosomiasis, so big donors aren't likely
to give lots of money for developing
and testing a vaccine. And it's not a
"biodefense threat" like smallpox and
anthrax, so the federal government
isn't willing to underwrite a long and
expensive vaccine program.
"A disease like that just sort of slips
through the cracks," said Peter J. Hotez, dean of the National School of
Tropical Medicine at Baylor College
of Medicine in Houston and president of the Sabin Vaccine Institute.
Of course not all of the 100,000 packages sent
every year contain the keys to a vehicle, but each
one, addressed individually to a service member
by name, is packed with at least $125 worth of
excellent products, as well as individually written
letters and cards.
That $15 I mentioned? It's for postage. In spite
of all the donations from corporations, OpGrat
can't get any kind of deal on mailing the packages.
It costs $15 to send each box.
If you want to donate, the address is:
Operation Gratitude
16444 Refugio Road
Encino, CA 91436
A bonus, too: Those who donate at least $15
before Oct. 31 will receive a special limited edition "March to a Million" dog tag that reads "I am a
part of Operation Gratitude History." If the $15 is
out of the question, check the website. There are
other ways you can help.
***
Write to Freddy Groves in care of King Features
Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 328536475, or send e-mail to [email protected].
© 2011 King Features Synd., Inc. ■
So for now, "put on mosquito repellent" is about all that public health
officials can offer as a West Nile preventative.
Still, in the past, if you came down
with a fever or a mysterious cough
and visited a doctor, "the physician
would say to you, 'It's probably a virus,' " said W. Ian Lipkin, director of
the Center for Infection & Immunity
at Columbia University's Mailman
School of Public Health. Now, virologists have tools to identify viruses
down to the genetic level. Viruses are
more likely to have a name.
The new Heartland virus was found
when researchers were looking for the
organism that causes Rocky Mountain spotted fever, which is transmitted by ticks. It hasn't been proved yet
that this new virus is tick-borne, but
from a public health point of view,
the message is the same: Wear longsleeved clothing when you go outside.
The hantavirus associated with the
Yosemite outbreak is the same virus
first identified in 1993 in the Four
Corners area of New Mexico. Scientists believe that earlier outbreak was
triggered by heavy spring rains that
led to a bumper crop of pinion nuts,
which allowed deer mice, which carry
the virus, to proliferate.
"In the evolution of the world there
has always been emerging and reemerging infectious diseases," Fauci
says. "Some are threats, some are curiosities, but viruses are continuing to
emerge. And that's going to be that
way essentially forever."
Katherine Spindler, a virologist at
the University of Michigan, says: "It's
like with any threat — you have to use
the right precautions. . . . And then
you have to live your life."
Medicare Bills Rise as
Medical Pros Shift to More
Lucrative Codes
By Fred Schulte, Joe Eaton and David Donald
T
The New York Eagle News/Center for Public Integrity
housands of doctors and other
medical professionals have
billed Medicare for increasingly complicated and costly treatments over the past decade, adding
$11 billion or more to their fees —
and signaling a possible rise in medical billing abuse, according to an investigation by the Center for Public
Integrity.
Between 2001 and 2010, doctors
increasingly moved to higher-paying
codes for billing Medicare for office
visits while cutting back on lowerpaying ones, according to a year-long
examination of about 362 million
claims. In 2001, the two highest codes
were listed on about 25 percent of the
doctor-visit claims; in 2010, they were
on 40 percent.
Similarly, hospitals sharply stepped
up the use of the highest codes for
emergency room visits while cutting
back on the lowest codes.
Medical groups say the shift to
higher codes reflects the fact that seniors have gotten older and sicker, requiring more complex care. "I rarely
have a person who comes to me for a
cold," said Brantley B. Pace, who has
practiced family medicine for more
than a half-century in Monticello,
Miss., and whose bills were among
the highest in the sample of claims.
Although patients at individual
practices such as Pace's may be older
and sicker, many health-care experts
say the age and health of Medicare
beneficiaries as a group has not
changed, and research supports that
contention.
The Center for Public Integrity's
analysis shows no increase in the average age of patients during the decade.
Medicare billing data do not indicate
that patients are getting more infirm,
as their reasons for visiting their doctors were essentially unchanged over
time. And annual surveys by the federal Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention have found little increase
in the amount of time physicians
spend with patients.
That suggests that at least part of the
shift to higher codes is due to "upcoding" — also known as "code creep" —
a form of bill-padding in which doctors and others bill Medicare for more
expensive services than were actually
delivered, according to health experts
and the data analysis by the Center.
"This is an urgent problem," said
Mark B. McClellan, a physician who
ran the federal Centers for Medicare
and Medicaid Services during the
George W. Bush administration. He
said that CMS should demonstrate
it "won't stand by and do nothing" as
payments climb.
Doctors, hospital emergency rooms
and many other providers are paid by
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Medicare based on a series of billing
codes that are designed to reflect the
complexity of the treatments delivered and the time required. For doctor visits, the lowest code, which pays
about $20, is for minimal problems
requiring a few minutes' time. The
highest code, which pays about $140,
is for more serious cases that typically
require 40 minutes of face-to-face
contact.
Providers could be deliberately inflating their bills, or simply doing
their best to comply with a complicated system. Either way, the aggressive
push to electronic medical records is
likely fueling the trend toward higher
codes, analysts say.
Medicare, which covers 49 million
elderly and disabled people and spent
more than $500 billion in 2011, has
emerged as a potent campaign issue,
with both parties vowing to tame its
spending growth while protecting
seniors. But there's little talk about
some of the arcane factors such as
billing practices that drive up costs,
even though they hurt both seniors,
whose co-pays rise along with higher
bills, and taxpayers.
Medicare fraud is nothing new,
and the Obama administration has
trumpeted its stepped-up efforts to
fight it. But the Center's investigation
underscores the difficulty of cracking
down on coding inflation. Not only is
it hard to prove, but pursuing it might
not be cost-effective.
The average overcharge costs Medicare about $43, according to federal
estimates. But it costs the government
$30 to $55 to review a medical claim.
To conduct its analysis, the Center
examined a representative 5 percent
sample of Medicare patients and
their claims submitted by more than
400,000 medical practitioners and
7,000 hospitals and clinics, starting
with the year 2001. It found that the
move up the coding scale by doctors
and other medical professionals cost
Medicare $11 billion, adjusted for inflation.
More than half of that$11 billion
stems from doctor visits. The rest is
from other services, including treatment in nursing homes and hospitals. From 2001 to 2008, the number
of doctors who billed at least half of
their office visits at one of the two top
codes more than doubled to at least
17,000 practitioners, the Center's
analysis showed. Those who stopped
using the two least expensive codes
rose 63 percent, to more than 13,000
in 2008.
Medicare officials don't generally
review the billing codes before reimbursing providers. While the Department of Health and Human Services
inspector general said in a report
in May that the coding system was
"vulnerable to fraud and abuse," it's
impossible to determine the precise
extent of the problem without examining patient records for each of the
370 million claims Medicare pays annually.
Medicare officials declined numerous requests for interviews. However,
in an e-mail response to written questions, officials said that while they
believe most doctors and hospitals
are "honest and try to bill Medicare
correctly," they are also "keenly aware
that certain Medicare providers and
suppliers seek to defraud the program."
Jeremy A. Lazarus, president of
the American Medical Association,
which developed the codes, acknowledged in a written statement that doctors are using more high-reimbursing
codes. But the "contributing factors
are unclear," he said, adding that
more analysis is needed.
Many doctors and hospitals say
that computerized medical records
encourage the move to higher codes
because the software makes it easier
for providers to quickly create documentation for charges. One electronic
medical records company predicts on
its Web site that its product will result
in an increase of one coding level for
each patient visit, potentially adding
$225,000 in new revenue in a year.
More than half the doctors who
treat Medicare patients now use electronic records, according to HHS,
and more are expected to follow.
The federal government is spending
billions of dollars to encourage the
switch, hoping to cuts costs and reduce medical errors and waste.
Thomas Weida, a family physician
in Hershey, Pa., said that as a result
of his switch to electronic records,
he typically spends an additional five
minutes with patients reviewing their
medical information and prescribing treatments. That alone could justify higher billing codes in many instances, said Weida, a medical coding
expert for the American Academy of
Family Physicians.
The codes at issue are called Evaluation and Management codes, and
while they were developed for and by
physicians, they also are used by hospitals for Medicare emergency room
visits and other outpatient services.
Like doctors, hospitals have moved
to higher-paying codes, bolstering
revenues in the process. From 2001
through 2008, the use of the two most
expensive codes for Medicare ER visits nearly doubled to 45 percent. That
increase added at least $1 billion to
Medicare's costs, according to the
Center's analysis.
Shift to higher-paying codes
Doctors bill Medicare for 200 million visits every year using codes
to reflect the complexity of the treatment and the time required.
Over the past decade, doctors have increasingly used higherpaying codes while cutting back on lower-paying codes, according
to a year-long investigation by the Center for Public Integrity.
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. . . charged at higher-paying codes
40%
. . . charged at lower-paying codes
50%
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20
Highly complex,
moderate to severe
40 min.
10
Low to moderate
15 min.
Minor
10 min.
Minimal
5 min.
or less
10
0
0
’01
’03
’05
’07
’09
’01
’03
’05
’07
’09
* “Face time” is the amount of time a patient typically spends face-to-face with the doctor;
visits of five minutes or less can also be with an employee of the doctor.
Source: Center for Public Integrity/Palantir Technologies
from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services data
THE WASHINGTON POST
Doctors bill Medicare for 200 million visits every year using codes to reflect the complexity of the treatment and
the time required. Over the past decade, doctors have increasingly used higher-paying codes while cutting back on
lower-paying codes. (Washington Post graphic)
Medicare has not developed uniform standards on how hospitals
should use the codes. Instead, the
program relies on hospitals to set
their own rules.
Donald M. Berwick, an Obama appointee who headed CMS until December 2011, said he believes that
only a small portion of the upswing
in coding is the result of fraud. In
most cases, he said, the hospitals have
learned "how to play the game," and
are targeting the vulnerabilities of the
Medicare payment system.
"If you create a payment system in
which there is a premium for increasing the number of things you do or
the recording of what you do, well,
that's what you'll get," Berwick said.
In 2008, nearly 500 hospitals, or
roughly 10 percent of the nation's
total, used the two most expensive
codes to bill for 60 percent or more of
their ER claims for Medicare patients,
according to the Center's analysis.
Some went well beyond that. In 2008,
Baylor Medical Center in Irving, Tex.,
billed the government at the two
highest-paying codes for 80 percent
of the patients it treated and released
from its ER.
Baylor Irving's president, Cindy
Schamp, said in a written response
to questions that the hospital's billing
"did not align with industry trends,"
but added that the hospital voluntarily reined in its charges in 2009.
Schamp said the Medicare agency
never questioned the hospital's billing
and the hospital concluded that it did
not overcharge.
By 2001, members of a government
panel were so fed up with the payment codes because of billing mistakes and other factors that they recommended junking them. Two years
later, Congress passed legislation that
called for studies to consider alternatives. But Medicare officials could not
get an agreement with medical professionals on how to improve them,
so they stuck with the existing codes.
Today, high rates of billing mistakes
persist, according to Medicare audits. Medicare contractor Trailblazer,
which audited office visits in early
2010 in Virginia, found mistakes in
half the records it reviewed. A similar audit in Colorado, New Mexico,
Oklahoma and Texas reported errors
in91 percent of the billings sampled.
In a critical review of Texas and
Oklahoma hospital ERs in March,
Medicare auditors concluded that
$45.14 of every $100 billed "was paid
in error."
Medicare officials don't appear to
have an aggressive strategy for cutting
down on medical coding abuses.
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ACC Gets Short End
of the Stick in Notre
Dame Deal
By John Feinstein
L
et's give credit to Notre Dame
where it is due: When it comes
to deal-making no one does it
better than the Irish.
When Notre Dame and the Atlantic
Coast Conference announced their
new partnership early this month,
there wasn't a shred of doubt who got
the better end of the deal: The ACC
gets Notre Dame football — sort of,
kind of, but not really. Notre Dame
gets the stability it needs going forward in all other sports, most notably basketball, and gives up nothing
— repeat nothing — financially in
return.
This was the college athletics version of Frank Robinson for Milt Pappas or Lou Brock for Ernie Broglio.
Notre Dame got Robinson and Brock
— both Hall of Famers — and the
ACC got Pappas and Broglio.
Of course the ACC isn't spinning it
that way. Even though Notre Dame
will play only five conference teams
a season — which, for the record, is
one more than it will play this season if you count incoming member
Pittsburgh as an ACC team — one
might think the ACC had just gone
from a mediocre football conference
to a top-drawer football conference.
Guess what? The ACC just went from
being a mediocre football conference
to being a mediocre football conference — with a tad more glamour attached.
There is no arguing that Notre
Dame is still one of the names in
college football. You can talk all you
want about Notre Dame's fall from
football grace in the last 20 years:
the 2-10 record in bowl games since
1994; the irrelevance on the national
stage since 1993. It's all true and yet,
Notre Dame is still as big a TV draw
as there is and undoubtedly has more
rabid fans who are not alumni than
any school in the country.
Notre Dame hasn't hung on to football independence because of scheduling, it has hung on to it because of
money. And that is the crux of this
deal.
Notre Dame would never commit
to a full slate of nine ACC games a
season because that would make it
very difficult to schedule the seven
games that are part of its NBC TV
deal each year. How much of the NBC
deal does the ACC get? Zero. If Notre
Dame is invited to a Bowl Championship Series bowl game — or beginning in 2014 to one of the new playoff
games — the ACC gets exactly the
same percentage of the money as it
gets from the NBC deal: zero.
Will the ACC's deal with ESPN be
improved by Notre Dame's presence?
Slightly. Notre Dame already appears
once or twice per year on ESPN's ACC
package. Now it will appear twice or
three times. You can also bet that in
most years that Notre Dame is scheduled to play three ACC road games,
one of those games will be moved to
an NFL stadium and, even though it
will technically be the ACC school's
home game, much of the crowd will
be wearing green and gold.
In short, Notre Dame gives up
nothing in football and is guaranteed
to be part of the ACC's bowl package in years that it doesn't reach the
playoffs or a BCS game. With the Big
East in disarray, thanks in large part
to the ACC constantly raiding it for
teams (Notre Dame now makes six:
Miami, Virginia Tech, Boston College, Syracuse and Pittsburgh previously) Notre Dame will be part of a
stable bowl package without having
to commit to a full schedule.
Additionally, the way the deal is
written, an ACC team will need two
more wins than Notre Dame to not
get leap-frogged by the Irish in the
bowl pecking order. In other words, if
Maryland and Virginia finish 9-3 in a
given season and Notre Dame is 8-4
and it is the Gator Bowl's turn to pick
the No. 3 ACC team, it can — and will
— pick the Irish. One more bonus for
Notre Dame: If and when it does return to national prominence, it won't
have to deal with playing in a conference championship game against a
quality opponent in order to wrap up
a playoff spot or a BCS bid.
The Big East has been the best and
deepest basketball conference in the
country in recent years. But with
Syracuse, Pitt and now Notre Dame
moving to the ACC; Connecticut in
flux with the retirement of Jim Calhoun; and schools such as Houston,
SMU and Central Florida replacing
the departing schools, the profiles of
the two conferences have changed
considerably.
One can bet that Notre Dame basketball Coach Mike Brey will have
a considerably easier time selling
recruits on playing games against
North Carolina and Duke than on
games against SMU and UCF. What's
more, it is entirely possible that the
Big East hybrid, which will eventually
include football-only members Boise
State, San Diego State and Navy, won't
survive.
The simple fact of it all is this: The
ACC was so desperate to improve
its football profile in any way pos-
Sports
NHL-Union Battle Leaves
Fans in the Cold
By Katie Carrera
A
s the NHL hurtled toward its
third lockout in 18 years Saturday night, there was little
recourse for fans. Some held protests
in various North American cities,
others simply sought to commiserate
with like-minded souls about having
to start fall without hockey — again.
Roughly 100 people, most of them
Washington Capitals fans, gathered
at the Front Page in Arlington, Va., to
rock the red and dampen their disappointment that the NHL and players'
union failed to reach an agreement
that would allow training camps
and the 2012-13 season to proceed
as scheduled. Disappointment especially when considering that the sport
and fans are only eight years removed
from the lockout that caused the cancellation of the 2004-05 season.
"The last time, when the entire season got put on the shelf, you at least
thought, 'Well, all right, they're nuking the season but they're doing it
with a purpose,'" said Capitals season
ticket holder William Stilwell, who
is known as "Loud Goat" for leading
booming cheers at Verizon Center.
"They're going to lay the groundwork for a stable system that's going
to make sure that this doesn't happen again. . . . You kind of expected
that the reason they pulled the rug
out from under us that time was that,
well, if you hold tight, hold with us,
it's going to be better. And now, there
goes the rug again."
Stilwell, 37, was a season ticket
holder during the 2004-05 lockout
and admits that he doesn't have the
same vitriol toward the labor dispute
this time around. Part of it is the realization that aside from canceling
tickets, fans have few options to make
their voices heard and that, for better or worse, he will return to hockey
whenever the season starts up.
Love of the sport doesn't change
fans' frustration with the bickering
and rhetoric between the two sides,
though, as they listen to owners ask
for rollbacks on large contracts they
promised and the players — whose
sible that it accepted Notre Dame's
ludicrous terms just so it could claim
to now have a relationship with the
marketing and TV monolith that is
Notre Dame football. The real football conferences: Southeastern Conference, Big Ten, Big 12, Pacific-12
would never have taken Notre Dame
under these terms. As bad as the Big
Ten appears to be this year, it is still
the Big Ten.
So let's all cheer, cheer for old Notre
Dame. The Irish climaxed their week
This is the third work stoppage during Gary Bettman’s tenure as NHL commissioner. (Mary Altaffer/Associated
Press)
average salary is $2.4 million — talk
about what they lost in the last lockout.
"I have very little sympathy for the
players. They're making a minimum
of six figures, most seven. I'm in
debt," said Matt Parker, 23, of Washington. "But at the same time, if owners agree to a contract, they better be
ready to pay it. . . . Don't get mad at
the players because you have no self
control about what you're spending."
On Sunday, the first day of the lockout, the owners and players opted to
lobby for public support rather than
return to the bargaining table. The
NHL released a message on its Web
site stating that it is "committed to
negotiating around the clock to reach
a new CBA that is fair to the Players
and to the 30 NHL teams." Several
teams — Dallas, Edmonton, Florida,
St. Louis, San Jose, Minnesota, Vancouver and Phoenix — sent out specific messages to their fans, as well.
A few hours later, the NHLPA released a video directed to fans that
included players Sidney Crosby, Jonathan Toews, David Backes, Gabriel
Landeskog and James Reimer explaining the union's position.
"It's kind of a sad thing that you look
at the history of our game and the history of our league and how so often it
keeps coming back to the same thing,"
Toews said in the video. "I think the
with a win at No. 10 Michigan State to
go to 3-0 for the first time since 2002.
They still have the best fight song out
there and much of the world still buys
into the myth that the school is somehow different than all the other money-chasing big-time football schools.
In the meantime, Notre Dame
laughs all the way to the bank. Cheer,
cheer indeed.
goal here, especially from the players'
standpoint, is to find something that,
like I said, is fair, reasonable and is
something we can instill for years to
come, where we're not going to have
these problems down the road."
No formal, in-person negotiations
were planned as of press time, and it's
unclear how long the labor dispute
might last. In the meantime, players
have already started signing elsewhere.
Among those who have already
announced deals to play in the Eastern European Kontinental Hockey
League are Pittsburgh's Evgeni Malkin, Ottawa's Sergei Gonchar, Detroit's Pavel Datsyuk, Philadelphia's
Ruslan Fedotenko and Winnipeg's
Alexei Ponikarovsky.
Several prominent Czech players
have already committed to play in
the Czech Extraliga as well, including
Jaromir Jagr, Tomas Plekanec, Pavel
Kubina and Ondrej Pavelec.
Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin
said previously he will play in the
KHL, but did not announce where
and when he will sign.
Dynamo Moscow, the team Ovechkin played with for three seasons as a
teenager, and CSKA Moscow, which
currently has his former Washington
teammate Sergei Fedorov as general
manager, are believed to be the frontrunners.
As players find work overseas, fans
are devising ways to watch the European leagues to get their hockey fix
during the lockout.
"At this point, the players are right.
As they say, I cheer for them," said
Alison Tweedie-Perry, 42, of Washington. "I'm not out there saying, 'Go
Ted Leonsis.' Ted's great, but I'm not
there cheering for him."
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Bugatti's $2.5 Million Vitesse
Zooms to 233 MPH
With Top Down
By Jason H. Harper
oncentrate on the road. Look
for unexpected stop signs
nestled among leafy trees.
Ignore a few salient facts that are
knock-knock-knocking at your consciousness.
For instance, don't dwell on the
whooshing eruption from the quadturbo-charged engine, which sounds
ominously like a full-throttle jet. That
is the noise of a 1,200-horsepower
engine that wants to take you to a top
possible speed of 255 mph.
Focus instead on your driving technique. You don't want to get sloppy
and hit a stone at the side of the road
or slip-slide into a telephone pole.
Definitely try not to think about
this: Depending on that day's eurodollar exchange rate, the car you're
piloting is worth some $2.5 million.
Especially since you're driving it like
you stole it.
The car is the Bugatti Veyron
Grand Sport Vitesse and it is the
world's fastest convertible, warping
to 60 mph in 2.5 seconds, and capable of as much as 233 mph with the
polycarbonate roof off.
Those rare buyers able to pony up
the money for the Creamsicle-orange
Vitesse I'm driving today (the only
one currently in the United States)
will also have to ignore a few salient
facts. The foremost is they will probably never find a road to approach
that top speed.
More likely they'll find themselves
ambling through Monte Carlo's
famous tunnel or streaking down
desert roads in the United Arab
By Chris Richcreek
1. When Atlanta's Craig Kimbrel set a rookie
record in 2011 for saves in a season (46), whose
mark did he break?
2. Name the last major-league team to have an
ERA below 3.00 for a season.
3. Carolina's Cam Newton had 14 rushing TDs in
the 2011 season to set an NFL record. Who was the
former record holder?
4. Who recorded the highest points per game
average as a freshman for Duke men's basketball
team?
5. In 2011-12, Tampa Bay's Steven Stamkos set
the record for most overtime goals in a season
(five). How many other players had been tied with
Stamkos?
6. What school has won the past two championships in NCAA women's bowling?
7. In how many weight classes did boxer "Sugar"
Shane Mosley win world titles?
ers interested it released a convertible
version, the Grand
Sport, and then
"special
edition"
models with funky
paintjobs.
The Veyron Super Sport model
then got a bump
in power to 1,200
horsepower.
The
new
Vitesse
is
the
The Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse is not a car. It’s the world’s most
expensive rollercoaster ride. (Bloomberg News photo by Scott Eells).
convertible version.
Odd thing about
Emirates, or, like me, rolling down the Veyron: It is the least sexy exotic
Connecticut lanes outside of Green- on the market. There's something
cold and clinical to its shape and stylwich, which has a Bugatti dealership.
There are some good roads out here, ing. But the Vitesse gains several new
trust me, but none that will brook the air intakes on its front, the better to
Vitesse's might. After all, second gear suck in oxygen to aid the turbochargers. They also serve to give the Vitesse
will send you past 90 mph.
Why is the car so expensive, why a face with more vital personality.
Take off the targa-style roof and
would a car company make a car with
such a top speed, why would anyone its look improves. (Roof removal is a
manual process. It's bulky and heavy
buy it?
and has to be stored someplace else,
The answer is hubris, all around.
The Veyron is the only model cur- like a garage.) I found myself warmrently offered by Bugatti, part of the ing to the appearance of the Vitesse
Volkswagen Group, which also owns in a way I haven't with other Veyrons.
The interior is so simple and elegant
Audi, Porsche, Bentley and Lamborghini. The company wanted to cre- that I love it. The center dash has only
ate a car so fast, so powerful, that it a couple of knobs to control the temwould be a shot heard around the au- perature and radio, and no navigation
or infotainment screens.
tomotive world.
The steering wheel is round and
In 2006, we saw the first 1,001-hp
Veyron, which was so technology- with no controls on it, a far cry
laden it seemed better suited to from the latest Ferraris, which are
launching into space than rolling out crammed with them.
Put the Vitesse's gear shift into
on the highway. Bugatti promised to
limit production, but to keep buy- drive, and you'll slide easily through
city streets. No heroics or histrionics,
no flames shooting out of the tailAnswers
pipes.
1. Neftali Feliz had 40 saves for Texas in 2010.
But you buy the Veyron for the di2. The Los Angeles Dodgers had a team ERA of
rect link from the accelerator to your
2.95 in 1989.
3. Steve Grogan had 12 rushing TDs for New endorphin receptors. And like the
mouse in an experiment who returns
England in 1976.
4. Johnny Dawkins averaged 18.1 points per again and again to the trigger that releases cocaine, it's hard to stay away
game in the 1982-83 season.
from the gas pedal.
5. Nine others.
So go ahead and trip the light fan6. Maryland Eastern Shore.
7. Three -- lightweight, welterweight and light tastic. G forces deform your face, and
your brain stutters, trying to process
middleweight.
faraway objects suddenly rushing at
you. There are no pauses as the gears
Handicapping the
Chase
Attempting to pick the winner of the Chase for
the Sprint Cup is a hazardous proposition. The format is designed more to create an exciting process
than to produce a just winner.
Jeff Gordon, right, joined Kasey Kahne in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship with a strong finish at
Richmond. With 12 drivers ready to take on 10 races, it's still safe to say Jimmie Johnson has the best odds to win it
all again. (John Clark/NASCAR This Week photo)
No one would suggest that Tony Stewart's spectacular 2011 championship -- not to mention the
breathtaking competition with Carl Edwards -- was
undeserved, but Stewart somehow managed to
step up his game in a way that few, including him,
could have anticipated. After going winless in the
season's first 26 races, Stewart won five of the final
10. Edwards lost by a tie-breaker after compiling
the best average finish (4.9) in the history of the
Chase. Edwards finished second in each of the final three races. Stewart won three of the final four
and was third in the other.
"I couldn't predict it last year," Stewart said. "I
wasn't good enough to predict it then. I'm not sure
I'm going to be any better at predicting it now.
"All 12 guys have a shot, and a good shot, I think."
Here's one modest attempt to set the odds.
Each driver has a one-in-12 shot.
in the past three races is 2.33.
--Clint Bowyer 15-1. The most recent winner
must avoid the occasional disaster. He finished
outside the top 25 four times during the first 26
races.
--Matt Kenseth 20-1. In spite of claims to the
contrary, he's slipped since he announced he was
leaving Roush Fenway at season's end.
--Kasey Kahne 20-1. Oh, he could win the championship, but it's hard to see him as better than the
fourth seed at Hendrick Motorsports.
--Martin Truex Jr. 30-1. Maybe it won't require a
victory, but his most recent one was in 2007.
--Kevin Harvick 35-1. In the last 13 races, he has
two finishes better than 10th. That won't cut it.
shift, just a seamless crush of relentless forward motion.
This is not a car. It's the world's
most expensive rollercoaster ride.
Several years ago I tested the regular Veyron Grand Sport, with 1,001
hp. So I was somewhat prepared for
the speed. That car, though, under-
whelmed me as far as actual handling.
It felt bulky and unwieldy in turns.
The Super Sport and Vitesse got reworked suspensions. Since my roads
will not allow high-speed runs, I concentrate instead on negotiating the
corners with maximum smoothness.
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Retail Sales Rise 0.9 Pct. in
August on Auto Demand
By Lorraine Woellert
R
The New York Eagle News/Bloomberg News.
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cents since the
start of July, according to AAA,
the nation's largest
motoring organization.
Demand
at
building-material
establishments
rose 1 percent.
Today's
report
Customers are cheered by employees as they enter a new store in Torrance, Calif.,
showed core retail
Wednesday. The government reported Friday that retail sales increased in August
sales, the category
by the most in six months. (Bloomberg News photo by Patrick Fallon).
used to calculate
the 0.4 percent gain forecast in the gross domestic product that excludes
survey. Seven of 13 major categories sales at auto dealers, building material stores and service stations, deshowed an increase last month.
Purchases increased 1.3 percent at creased 0.1 percent in August after a
automobile dealers, the most since 0.8 percent rise.
Consumer spending, which acFebruary, after a 0.1 percent gain the
prior month, today's report showed. counts for about 70 percent of the
Retail purchases excluding autos economy, rose at a 1.7 percent anclimbed 0.8 percent, today's report nual rate in the second quarter, the
showed. Economists in the Bloom- weakest pace since the third quarter
berg survey projected a gain of 0.7 of 2011, Commerce Department data
show.
percent.
Spending fell 0.1 percent at clothing
Cars and light trucks sold at a 14.5
million annual rate in August, the in- stores and 0.3 percent at general merdustry's strongest month since 2009, chandise stores. Purchases at restaucompared with a 14.1 million pace in rants and furniture outlets increased.
In a bid to stimulate the economy
July, Ward's Automotive Group data
show. Among U.S.-based carmakers, and reduce unemployment, the Fedsales rose 10 percent at General Mo- eral Reserve last Thursday said it
will continue to buy mortgage debt
tors and 14 percent at Chrysler.
"Economic fundamentals remain and hold interest rates low at least
modest but stable," Jenny Lin, a se- through mid- 2015.
The economy added 96,000 worknior U.S. economist at Ford, said during a Sept. 4 conference call. Ford car ers in August, fewer than the 130,000
and light-truck sales rose 13 percent projected by the median forecast of
last month, more than estimated. economists surveyed by Bloomberg.
"Consumer confidence is stable as The unemployment rate fell to 8.1
compared to July. The housing sector percent after 368,000 Americans left
the workforce. Last week, the number
shows signs of revival."
Service-station sales, driven by of people filing first-time claims for
higher gasoline prices, surged 5.5 unemployment benefits rose to their
percent in August, the most since highest in almost two months.
Sales of home products still trying
November 2009. The Commerce Department's figures aren't adjusted for to recover from the recession that
inflation. Regular-grade gas prices ended in June 2009. Industry sales
have climbed to an average of $3.87 have yet to return to their 2005 peak
despite population gains, said Jim
Black, chief financial officer of Mattress Firm Holdings Co. in Houston.
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for Berliner Volksbank, Joerg Bauske has long been
dismayed at the amount he spends on
software. Now, he says, he's found an
easy way to cut costs dramatically: by
buying used programs.
Bauske plans to upgrade the regional savings bank's copies of Microsoft's
Windows Server with second-hand
copies purchased from a broker
called Preo Software.
The move was eased by a July ruling from the European Union's highest court paving the way for sales of
previously owned software. Bauske
had some experience in the matter,
having bought second-hand copies
of Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop in 2006 and 2007, when the
legality of such deals was less clear.
"We've had to be certain that the
savings outweigh the legal risks,"
Bauske said. "Now there's less reason
to be concerned."
On July 3 the European Court of
Justice ruled in a case brought by Oracle seeking to prevent Munich-based
UsedSoft GmbH from reselling software licenses. The court said developers can't forbid resale of programs
and updates downloaded from the
Internet, expanding earlier case law
permitting the sale of second-hand
software delivered on disk.
"Software vendors have every reason to worry," said Ray Wang, chief
executive officer of Constellation Research, a technology adviser whose
client roster includes Microsoft and
Adobe Systems.
Companies spend $250 billion to
$275 billion on business software annually, Wang estimates. The total potential value of programs that might
find buyers could exceed $1 trillion,
Wang said, though the market today
is much smaller. In Germany, one
of the biggest markets, less than 100
million euros ($131 million) of corporate software was resold last year,
according to traders.
UsedSoft, which had sales of about
5 million euros last year, has seen demand triple since the July decision,
said Chief Executive Officer Peter
Schneider. The verdict "will make the
market explode," he said.
— With assistance from Chris Middleton and Shobhana Chandra in
Washington.
© 2012,Bloomberg News. ■
Also fueling the resale business is
an injunction from a Hamburg court
last month forbidding Microsoft from
warning potential buyers of used programs that such deals were illegal
unless the software maker approved
them.
Chemical and pharmaceuticals
company Bayer, car-parts maker
Magna International and German
retailer Edeka Zentrale AG & Co. are
among companies that have tapped
the used software market, according
to the customer reference lists on the
resellers' websites.
Bayer Business Services, Bayer's IT
branch, says it is re- evaluating the
use of second-hand software following the ECJ verdict. Magna declined
to comment. Edeka didn't respond to
requests for comment.
Trading used business software isn't
quite as seamless as selling secondhand video games on eBay. Sellers
contact companies like UsedSoft with
the programs and number of licenses
they want to sell. Buyers similarly
contact brokers with requests for specific programs. If brokers have the
licenses, they quote a price, typically
30 percent to 70 percent of the original cost. The buyer can then use the
license information to download the
program from the software maker's
Website.
The intermediaries usually take a
cut of about 30 percent of the deal,
said Boris Voege, co-founder and
sales chief at Preo. A notary's certification testifying that the programs
have been deleted from the seller's
computers is often required to complete a deal.
Since not all companies want the
latest versions of programs, the process helps sellers monetize an asset
that would otherwise be discarded.
"When Microsoft introduced Office 2007, demand for Office 2003
was skyrocketing because companies
were used to it," said Dirk Lynen,
CEO of 2ndsoft GmbH, a used software broker in the German city of
Aachen.
In the United States, most software
contracts forbid resale, and there
haven't been any decisive challenges
to such clauses in court, said Eben
Moglen, a Columbia Law School professor and founder of the Software
Freedom Law Center.
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Soy Rally Pushes Amazon Growers
to Sow Record Crop
By Matt Craze and Mario Sergio Lima
L
eonildo Bares, a soybean grower near the Amazon farming
frontier town of Sinop, said
he's so confident prices for the commodity will stay near record highs
that he'll extend his crop to neighbors'
boggy cattle pastures.
Confined by Brazil's crackdown on
logging in the Amazon, the farmer
talked his neighbors into growing soybeans on their cleared land
and sharing the profit. Bares, whose
420-hectare (1,038-acre) farm in the
center-western state of Mato Grosso
extends on what was untouched rainforest in the 1970s, plans to boost
planting to 650 hectares. About 1 million hectares of the state's pastures,
an area the size of Jamaica, probably
will be converted to soybean crops in
coming years, he predicts.
"The pastures of Mato Grosso can
be turned into soybean plantations
and probably will," Bares, who's also
the president of Sinop's farmers association, said in a telephone interview from the city. "Anyone with the
knowledge and money who's willing
to come here and do it, can do it."
South American farmers like Bares
have become the counterpoint to the
worst drought in the Midwest in 76
years as they sow record crops during
a global shortage of the oilseed used
as animal feed in Asia. Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia and Uruguay
will boost output by 34 million metric tons to 148.5 million in the 20122013 season, more than offsetting a
decline of about 11.5 million tons to
71.7 million in the United States, the
Department of Agriculture said last
week.
"Everyone is hoping that the South
Americans in general have a bumper harvest," Sal Gilberte, who helps
manage more than $100 million at
Brattleboro, Vt.-based Teucrium
Trading, said in a phone interview.
"They are going to plant every square
inch with soybeans."
Soybeans futures have jumped
45 percent this year on the Chicago
Board of Trade, reaching a record
$17.89 a bushel on Sept. 4, as the U.S.
drought triggered concern that China-led demand will outpace supplies.
Brazil, which will surpass the U.S.
as the top producer for the first time,
is leading the South American soybean boom as growers next month
start planting a record 81-million-ton
crop, a 23 percent jump from the previous harvest, the USDA said. Most
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Workers chat at the end of a day harvesting soybeans near Ines Indart, Argentina, in April. With drought
depressing the U.S. soybean crop, South American farmers are planning to boost output by 34 million metric
tons, according to the Department of Agriculture. (Bloomberg News photo by Diego Giudice).
harvesting in Brazil starts in February.
Cargill, the biggest U.S. agriculture company, built its $20 million
Santarem grains loader on the Amazon River to receive shipments from
places such as Bares's home city of
Sinop, a clearing in the Amazon that
lies 1,600 kilometers (994 miles) from
Sao Paulo.
In Argentina, where drought damaged the past harvest, soybean growers are also expanding into pastures
as soil benefits from rain caused by
the El Nino weather pattern this year.
The country, which is the biggest producer after the U.S. and Brazil, is set
to increase output 34 percent to a record 55 million tons, the USDA said.
"The world has become more dependent on Brazil and Argentina to
raise soybeans," said Douglas Carper,
the principal of Omaha, Neb.-based
DEC Capital Inc., a commodity trading adviser and hedge-fund consultant.
Soybean growers in Paraguay, a
country the size of Texas located
southwest of Brazil, will turn vast
cattle ranches in the country's central
region into crops, said Luis Cubilla,
a researcher for growers association
Capeco. The country's next soybean
harvest will double to 8.1 million
tons, according to the USDA estimates. Neighboring Uruguay's will
climb 19 percent to 1.9 million tons.
Bolivian farmers, who don't have
to contend with Brazil's stricter forestry laws, have been slashing trees
to cash in on the soybean boom, Tito
Choque, a farmer and representative
of growers association Anapo, said
in a telephone interview from San
Pedro, an Amazonian town in the
country's southeast. The drive means
output will rise 4.5 percent to 2.3 million tons, according to the USDA estimates.
The soybean shortage caused by the
U.S. drought is so severe that China
may have to cut consumption "to accommodate this loss in supply," said
Jeffrey Currie, commodities research
head at Goldman Sachs. The shortage
has sparked fears of a repeat of the
food crises between 2007 and 2008,
the United Nations said Sept. 4.
China will continue to consume
more meat and dairy products, defying an economic slowdown in the
country, Christopher Langholz, a
China-based executive for Cargill,
said in a Sept. 3 interview.
South America can ease the shortage of corn and soybeans caused by
the U.S. drought, Alberto Weisser,
chief executive officer of Bunge Ltd.,
the world's second-largest oilseed
processor, said in a July 25 call with
analysts.
The biggest challenge facing South
American soybean exporters and
their buyers is infrastructure that's
relatively insufficient and expensive.
A lack of capacity at Brazilian ports
may delay the delivery of the country's bumper harvest to world markets, Hinsdale, Ill.-based agriculture
consulting company Soybean & Corn
Advisor Inc. wrote Sept. 5 on its website.
"One thing is the reality of supply and demand and the other thing
is the perception of supply and demand," Tim Andriesen, managing director of agricultural commodities at
the CME Group, said in an interview
in Sao Paulo on Sept. 11. "It will take
months before the South American
crop actually gets to the market."
The lowest U.S. soybean inventories
in four decades also means that forecasts for a South American harvest
that is still being planted won't allay
concerns that supply will fall short
of demand in coming months, DEC
Capital's Carper said. The shortage
may cause soy futures to reach $20
per bushel in coming months, he said.
"We will not have enough U.S.
soybeans left by the time we get to
the start of South America harvest,"
Carper said. "We have a long time to
wait to solve the supply shortage."
In Brazil, the expansion of soybean
output is also limited by increasing
restrictions on deforestation.
The government has forced traders
such as Cargill and Bunge to embargo
farmers who cleared forest to grow
crops after 2005.
Fires and logging cleared 6,418
square kilometers (2,478 square
miles) of the country's rainforest last
year, a swath of land more than five
times New York city's area, down
from 7,000 in 2010 and about a third
of the 18,165 destroyed 10 years earlier, according to data from Brazil's
Science and Technology Ministry. In
the past 10 years, about 153,000 kilometers have been cleared, an area
larger than Greece.
Brazilian lawmakers are set to vote
this month on laws to grant an amnesty to overdue deforestation fines,
while seeking to simplify the enforcement of new penalties. President
Dilma Rousseff in May vetoed a proposal to reduce the area farmers are
required to preserve, while lawmakers are under pressure from producers to maintain the reduction.
Bolivian farmers are waiting for the
government to lift a ban on exports
caused by a dispute over supplying
the domestic market that has suppressed local prices and left silos operated by Cargill and Archer Daniels
Midlands Co. with no room to spare,
Choque said.
"We are just waiting for the government to empty the silos," Choque
said. "In this area there will be not
even one ounce of poverty if people
can take advantage of soybean prices."
- Craze reported from Santiago,
Chile. Contributors: Rudy Ruitenberg
in Paris, Jeff Wilson in Chicago, Lucia
Kassai in Sao Paulo and Maria Luiza
Rabello in Brasilia.
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the simplest correction made, especially
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mortgage. You'll appreciate a new federal
government agency now in place: the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
The CFPB is now gearing up to oversee
those credit-reporting agencies, and not
just the big three. They'll be supervising 30
companies of the 400 reporting agencies
that are in business. Those agencies issue
3 billion credit reports per year and make
36 billion updates to files. Counted among
the 400 agencies are the resellers of information. The CFPB will supervise those
that gather information on consumers of
residential mortgages, payday loans, private college loans and more. It will make
on-site examinations, review compliance
systems and issue reports. Where necessary, it will write additional laws.
The CFPB does more than oversee the
actions of the credit bureaus. Later this
year, it will issue a report on its findings
about debt collection and will no doubt
issue new rules and regulations. The bureau recently proposed new rules about
mortgage servicing that will include billing statements that are easy to read and
understand, more notice before interest
rates rise on adjustable mortgages, faster
error resolution and more.
The CFPB also examined mortgage
origination procedures to ensure they
complied with laws. Those who originate
mortgages -- lenders, brokers, servicers
and others -- will now be under federal
supervision. Among a lengthy list of findings, a proposal has been made to clarify
loan points and fees to make it easier to
compare loans between lenders.
If you need to dispute an error on your
credit report, understand foreclosure,
make a complaint about a debt collector's
tactics, or any number of other financial
concerns, the bureau's website is likely to
have the answer. To explore everything it
offers, go online to www.consumerfinance.
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Ask CFPB to get answers to financial questions.
Remember that you're allowed to get
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4,000 men were killed outright and
17,000 more were wounded. Of those,
thousands would succumb to their
injuries in the following months. Still
more were reported missing.
There was at least one suicide, one
Union officer who fled from his command in terror, and one dog slain beside its dead master, a Union officer.
A Union regiment, the 15th Massachusetts, lost many of its 606 men to
friendly fire.
The more than 23,000 killed,
wounded and missing from both
sides "were the highest casualties of
any one-day battle in our entire nation's history," said historian Tom
Clemens, a retired professor at Hagerstown (Md.) Community College
and a student of the battle.
About three times as many Americans were casualties outside Sharpsburg as were killed or wounded in the
landings in Normandy on D-Day in
1944.
The battle of Antietam, (pronounced an-TEE-tam) took place
about 19 miles west of Frederick, Md.,
just north of where the creek flows
into the Potomac River, 54 miles
northwest of Washington.
The clash pitted Gen. George B. McClellan's roughly 86,000-man Union
army against Gen. Robert E. Lee's
roughly 40,000 Confederates.
It is considered by many historians
to be a tactical draw but a vital, strategic victory for the North.
The battered rebels were forced to
retreat back across the Potomac, ending a string of triumphs and their first
major incursion into Union territory
in the East.
President Abraham Lincoln seized
on Antietam to issue his preliminary
Emancipation Proclamation, which
declared millions of slaves in the
South free and elevated the war to a
new moral plane.
And the victory probably denied
the Confederacy coveted recognition
by European countries who were on
the verge of such action.
It was "a game changer," Clemens
said.
For the soldiers who fought there,
Antietam was a nightmarish struggle
that made such place names as "the
cornfield," "the Sunken Road," "the
Dunker church" and "the Burnside
bridge" infamous.
The roller-coaster terrain, with dips
and hills and patches of woods and
cultivated fields, resulted in opposing
soldiers colliding at extremely close
range, with deadly consequences.
In one part of the battlefield, the
tide of fighting swept back and forth
— across the turnpike to Hagerstown,
around the tiny whitewashed Dunker
church and in the trampled scrabble
of the cornfield.
Washington photographer Alexander Gardner, who was there two
days after the fighting, took grisly
pictures of a line of dead Louisiana
soldiers in rigor mortis strewn along
the turnpike fence. He photographed
the bodies of others gathered near the
Dunker church, and still others scattered around a rocky outcrop near the
30-acre cornfield.
Elsewhere, the contest was more
stubborn. South of the cornfield, rebels hunkered in a sunken lane called
Hog Trough Road and blasted away
at waves of Yankees who came over
a ridge 50 yards away. The Federals
blasted back.
Gardner captured the aftermath
of that, too — the road, forever after
called Bloody Lane, littered with what
one Union soldier called a "ghastly
flooring" of the dead.
And then southeast of town, in
some of the battle's later phases,
Union soldiers spent much of the day
trying to cross the placid creek in the
face of Confederates who were hidden on a bluff across the creek and
shot them down in midstream.
"Antietam stands among the foremost of all Civil War battles for the
intensity of its combat," said historian
James M. McPherson, author of a
2002 study of the campaign, "Crossroads of Freedom."
"Soldiers who experienced several
battles — Antietam, Gettysburg and
many others in the eastern theater —
often looked back upon Antietam as
by far the most horrible," he said.
Sears, the historian, quoted a diarist from the 9th Pennsylvania, who
wrote, "No tongue can tell, no mind
conceive, no pen portray the . . . sights
I witnessed."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, who went
to the battlefield while searching for
his wounded son, remembered: "It
was like the table of some hideous
orgy left uncleared, and one turned
away disgusted from its broken fragments."
And years later, Rufus R. Dawes,
who had been a 24-year-old major
with the 6th Wisconsin, reflected on
all the battles he had witnessed:
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were all mentally compared by me,"
he wrote. But the scene at Antietam's
Hagerstown Turnpike "surpassed all
in manifest evidence of slaughter."
It had drizzled the night before, and
the two sides had jousted in the dark
until they wound up facing each other
on Sept. 17 along a zig-zag, four-mile
front that ran north and south parallel to the creek.
Lee, the Confederate commander,
had decided to invade Maryland after
his rout of a befuddled Union army
at the Second Battle of Bull Run two
weeks before.
Aware of upcoming elections in the
North and the prospect of European
recognition of the Confederacy, Lee
believed the South could demonstrate
its power and demand its independence, McPherson wrote in his book.
Lee also expected a warm welcome
in Maryland, a slave state that had
not seceded, and proclaimed that the
Confederates would help throw off
the "foreign yoke."
But his enterprise stumbled from
the start. He wrote later that thousands of his men — some from exhaustion, some from "unworthy motives" — absented themselves.
As a result, he recounted, his invading army consisted of fewer than
40,000 worn-out soldiers.
In addition, the ragged Confederates were greeted coldly by local
Marylanders, who had few slaves and
a strong loyalty to the Union.
"Dirty, lank, ugly specimens of humanity," a woman in Frederick wrote
of them. "Shocks of hair sticking
through the holes in their hats, and
the dust thick on their dirty faces."
Finally, Lee fell prey to one of the
biggest intelligence blunders of the
war. Days before the battle, a copy
of his marching orders — wrapped
around three cigars — was discovered
in a field by an alert Yankee corporal.
Upon receipt of Lee's orders, McClellan, the Union commander, reportedly exulted: "Now I know what
to do!"
But in the end, most historians
agree, the hapless "Little Mac" didn't
know what to do.
The battle opened around dawn
with a series of back-and-forth
thrusts on the northern end of the
field, as the sides fought over woodlots, the Dunker church — named
for its full-immersion Baptist congregants — and the cornfield.
The corn in those days was far more
scraggly than the lush crop that grows
there today, notes the National Park
Service's chief Antietam historian,
Ted Alexander. This made for less
cover and deadlier shooting.
One Union commander wrote later
that most of the stalks were cut so
close to the ground that it looked as
though they had been chopped down
with a knife.
"The bullets began to clip through
the corn, and spin through the soft
furrows — thick, almost, as hail," recalled Maj. Dawes, whose regiment
chased the rebels into the field.
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Enders Arms
EADS with BAE
to Wrestle
Aerospace Crown
from Boeing
By Andrea Rothman and Robert Wall
The New York Eagle News/ Bloomberg News
E
uropean Aeronautic, Defence
& Space Co. Chief Executive
Tom Enders, who beat his
counterpart at Boeing three years ago
in a horse race in Wyoming, now has
his eyes on a bigger prize: supremacy
in global aerospace.
The 53-year-old German former
paratrooper is seeking to combine
EADS with British defense company
BAE Systems to marry the largest
maker of civil aircraft with Europe's
biggest defense contractor. EADS
Arnauld Lagardere, made headlines
posing with his supermodel girlfriend
in a video shoot. Some 50 percent of
company shares are tied up with the
core shareholders with veto power
over major decisions.
Enders has been an outspoken critic
of the shareholder structure, saying a
plan by Daimler to move shares under German government control is
a "step in the wrong direction." The
proposed BAE merger would dissolve
the agreement, freeing the sharehold-
Intensely competitive EADS CEO Tom Enders, seen here in 2010 posing with a model of an Airbus A350, has set
his sights on global supremacy in aerospace with a proposed merger with Britain’s BAE Systems. (Bloomberg
News photo by Michele Tantussi).
would own 60 percent and BAE the
rest of a group that would topple Boeing from its pinnacle.
Melding civil aviation and defense
would let Enders fulfill a 15-year-old
aspiration to consolidate the European aerospace industry and loosen
the shackles of political interference.
Enders, who plotted the merger even
before becoming CEO in June, must
appease governments and sell the
merger to investors who drove EADS
down 10 percent yesterday.
"People have been trying for decades to create a unified European
aerospace powerhouse," said Richard Aboulafia, vice president of Teal
Group, a Fairfax, Va.-based aviation forecaster. "If he pulls this off,
he earns a place in history and may
finally sidestep the issue of national
control."
Since its creation in 2000 from the
aerospace assets of France, Germany
and Spain, EADS has been the subject of government meddling, pitting
French against German executives
in battles for control of the company
and its assets. Passports trumped industrial logic.
It also saddled EADS with reluctant
shareholders in the form of German
carmaker Daimler and French media
conglomerate Lagardere, whose CEO,
ers and creating a company with a
true free float.
"He's a tough customer for most
politicians, knows what he wants and
isn't afraid to ruffle feathers," said
Michael Fuchs, the economic-policy
spokesman for Chancellor Angela
Merkel's party. "This is a tremendous
coup for Enders who has just broken
the mold of political influence at the
company that was such a thorn in his
side."
Combining with BAE would hand
Enders a powerful springboard into
the U.S. market, the world's largest
for military sales, where EADS now
ranks as the 100th largest supplier to
the Pentagon. By contrast, BAE is No.
4 and generates 50 percent of sales in
North America.
Enders, a pilot who knows how to
shear sheep after growing up as the
son of a shepherd, has endured setbacks in his quest to win U.S. business. Airbus won a $35 billion contract in 2008 to provide refueling
tankers to the Air Force, in a major
upset for Boeing, which later managed to successfully challenge the victory and win a rematch.
On the civil aviation side, Enders
has fared better in the United States.
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Airbus won a contract to supply single-aisle jets to American Airlines last
year, prying an exclusive Boeing customer from its arch-rival's hands. In
June, Airbus announced plans for an
assembly line in Alabama for singleaisle jets, advancing Enders's quest to
derive more business from the U.S.
The rapprochement with BAE
comes just three months into Enders'
tenure as EADS CEO. Enders made
clear from the get-go that he would
shake up EADS, telling employees in
a memo that he'd travel the company
to "fuel changes in strategy, structure
and organization."
Even before Enders took the top
job, EADS and BAE were plotting a
combination, seeking to overcome
two decades of frustrated ambition
to create a European champion. Preliminary talks took place in April, and
by early June the two had engaged
in more serious discussions about a
merger, people with knowledge of the
negotiations said.
Enders's career in the industry
spans more than two decades, rising through the ranks of Germany's
Deutsche Aerospace to become
head of strategy under CEO Juergen
Schrempp, the former Daimler CEO
and Enders's mentor.
In 1998, Schrempp sought to merge
his company with BAE- forerunner
British Aerospace. While the two
were already partners within Airbus
and on the Eurofighter combat jet,
British Aerospace ditched Dasa and
eloped with Britain's GEC Marconi,
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without specialized facilities that the
monastery doesn't yet have. But if
all goes well, a $4 million renovation
will soon transform one wing of the
monastery to fill this and other needs.
The St. Catherine Foundation, an organization Britain's Prince Charles
launched after a visit in 1995, is raising money.
There will be a library offering access to key manuscripts and storage
space for others. The facilities will
have advanced fire suppression systems and two sets of doors to prevent
wind from blowing in granite dust,
which scrapes away at pages and is
the desert's greatest conservation
challenge.
There will also be spaces dedicated
to document conservation and study.
This will include equipment for temporarily humidifying brittle pages to
prevent damage during research or
imaging. Without this, some pages
would crumble on contact. The space
will be long enough to allow scholars
to work with entire scrolls. Two more
imaging stations will be added for Father Justin's digitization work, done
with an assistant from the local Bedouin tribe, with which the monastery
has strong relations.
The foundation has supported interim upgrades to storage facilities
now filled with bar-coded storage
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driving the Germans into the arms of
the French.
The Anglo-German split in the
European industry along civil and
defense lines became final in 2006,
when BAE sold its 20 percent stake
in Airbus back to EADS. BAE used
the proceeds to beef up operations
in the U.S., while EADS battled cost
overruns on its A380 superjumbo and
management upheavals.
Attempting another marriage half
a decade later underscores Enders's
willingness to seize a chance, said
John Leahy, the Airbus sales chief
who has been instrumental in the
manufacturer's rise to the top.
"Tom is very focused but not afraid
to move quickly when he sees an opportunity," said Leahy, who was elevated to the executive board of EADS
by Enders last week.
One thing Enders is famous for besides his drive is his temper. Disapproval of Germany's abstention from
the Libyan liberation campaign last
year led him to quit Angela Merkel's
political party in a public split. Enders
rattled politicians on the other side of
the negotiation table with his takeno- prisoners demand for more funding on the A400M troop transporter,
eventually getting his way.
Much of his energy is poured into
sports. At past Wyoming gatherings,
Enders has distinguished himself at
knife-throwing contests and horse
races that left Boeing CEO Jim McNerney in the dust, according to people who attended the private events.
Enders' sporting prowess has on occasion left him worse for wear. At this
containers Father Justin scans with
his iPad to check contents. Such work
already stands as an example of what
can be done — and what should be
done — to protect ancient manuscripts.
Though the group hopes construction can begin this year or next, a date
hasn't been set. Major work in such a
place takes extensive planning. And
maintaining the historic integrity
of the monastery, a United Nationsdesignated World Heritage Site, adds
challenges. It's best not to use a jackhammer when you're working next
to a 1,500-year-old wall, for instance.
Political uncertainty is forcing caution, as well.
None of the political turmoil in
Egypt has posed a direct threat to the
monastery, which has survived other
upheavals. "They've been there since
the 6th century," Toth says. "How
many of these things have they gone
through?"
Several tourists have been kidnapped en route to or from St. Catherine's by Bedouins seeking attention
during the government's transition.
These events, while taking a heavy
toll on tourism, have remained relatively peaceful, with captors treating
prisoners like guests and releasing
them physically unharmed.
But preservation protects against
trouble in many forms — including
the accidental variety such as fires
SOFTWARE FROM PAGE 18
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Still, American companies can tap
the market via European subsidiaries.
The European decision confirmed the
rule across the region that a vendor's
right to control what happens to software expires with the first sale, much
as is the case with physical goods.
While the most commonly traded
programs have been Microsoft's Windows and Office and Adobe's Photoshop, makers of specialized business
software have also fought resellers.
A Dusseldorf court ordered SAP AG
in 2009 to stop telling a prospective
buyer it would violate the law by purchasing pre- owned licenses.
"This model is seen as very critical
by SAP," SAP's chief financial officer,
Werner Brandt, said on a July 24 conference call. "We do not want to see
this second market of our licenses
evolving."
Officials at Microsoft and Oracle
declined to comment on used software.
The decision could also threaten the
ability of software developers to sell
servicing agreements for their programs, a high-margin business that
week's Berlin Air show, Enders had
to greet German Chancellor Angela
Merkel with his arm in a sling following a hang-glider accident. The incident also forced him to scrap a trip to
meet Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao.
When not in business attire, Enders
comes across as a hands-on aviator,
sporting leather flight jackets and
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and water damage. Once digital images of documents are sufficiently
distributed around the world, the information they contain becomes exponentially safer.
As Doug Emery, an independent
database handler in Baltimore whom
the team calls its Lord of Minutiae,
puts it: "We believe the way to protect
books is you hold them close, and the
way you protect digital data is you
give it away."
Just what information the palimpsests hold remains to be seen. To date,
the team has imaged hundreds of
they count on for long-term revenue.
Maintenance companies such as
Spinnaker Support and Rimini Street
are seeing growing sales of software
maintenance contracts that don't include the programs' writers.
In 2010, Oracle filed a lawsuit in
U.S. District Court in Nevada against
Rimini Street, a Las Vegas company that provides software support.
Oracle argues that Rimini's business
violates Oracle's intellectual property.
The case has yet to be resolved.
The original vendors could counter the threat of resellers by offering
software on a rental basis rather than
selling it, said Christian Czychowski,
who specializes on copyright and media law at Boehmert & Boehmert.
They could also sell larger license
packages, which would be tougher
to trade because the European court
ruled that such bundles cannot be
broken up and sold piece by piece.
While it may take years, Czychowski
said, it's likely that software companies will ultimately deliver most of
their programs as an ongoing service
rather than a one-off sale.
"In the future we will market software less and less like a physical
good," Czychowski said. "Instead it
will be sold like electricity, priced according to how much you use it. Then
used software would no longer be an
issue."
— With assistance from Karin Matussek in Berlin, Susan Decker in
Washington and Joseph de Weck in
Frankfurt.
pages from 14 palimpsests. Ultimately, these images will go to a team of
18 scholars with expertise in an array
of languages, led by Claudia Rapp, a
medieval text specialist from the University of Vienna.
Eventually, the images will be available to all scholars around the world
through an online database overseen
by the monastery.
No one can say what the group will
find — there could be key biblical or
scientific texts or more forgotten languages.
CODES FROM PAGE 15
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CMS acting administrator Marilyn
Tavenner said in a May report that the
agency planned to contact as many as
5,000 doctors who have been identified as billing outside normal ranges,
but said that it might cost the agency
more to investigate suspicious claims
than it could collect. The agency,
Tavenner wrote, "must take into account" the "return on investment of
medical review activities."
Medicare's audits also are running
up against physician resistance. In
December 2011, California Medical
Association President James T. Hay
wrote to federal officials that planned
audits of as many as 11,000 California
doctors have "caused great consternation," and might induce physicians to
stop seeing Medicare patients.
Hospitals, like doctors, say some of
the rise in reimbursements could be
the result of treating sicker patients in
their ERs.
But Dr. Stephen Pitts, an ER physician who has studied the issue, disputes that. Pitts, an associate professor in the Emory University School
of Medicine, examined data from
the CDC's National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, a wellestablished nationally representative
survey of emergency department visits. He found that between 2001 and
2008, emergency patients did not appear to be getting sicker.
"It's total nonsense," he said of hospital claims that the patients were
sicker. ■
"There are vibrant communities
that made major intellectual, artistic
and spiritual contributions, but their
voices have largely been lost from history books," Phelps says. "The hope is
that we will recover these voices to fill
in blank chapters in our shared history and allow these communities to
speak to us again today."
- Mark Schrope is a freelance writer
basedin Melbourne, Fla.
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Toll Fees for Rental Cars Add Up,
and Up
By Christopher Elliott
I
t cost me $27.10 in tolls and fees
to make the round trip between
the Orlando airport and my
home in Winter Springs, Fla., in a
rental car last month.
If that sounds like a lot of money for
a half-hour drive, it should.
There are no expensive bridges or
tunnels between the airport and my
house, just suburban sprawl connected by a flat toll road. And technically,
I paid only $3.50 to Florida's turnpike
authorities; the rest went to a company called PlatePass.
PlatePass is one of several businesses that offer electronic toll payments
through an onboard transponder or
a system that photographs license
plates. These little-known businesses
are at the center of a growing number
of complaints from car rental customers, and a look at my bill offers a few
clues as to why.
PlatePass, which works with car
rental companies such as Advantage and Hertz, charges customers
an "administrative fee" of $2.95 per
day, with a maximum of $14.75 per
month, starting as soon as you incur
your first toll and continuing whether or not you pass through another
tollbooth during the course of your
rental. Because I rented a car for more
than 30 days and I went through a
tollbooth on the first day, driving to
the airport, I was charged for a full
month plus several days of PlatePass
as well as tolls.
Something similar happened to
Dave Medin, an electrical engineer
from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, when he
rented a car for a 12-day vacation in
Houston. He paid cash for tolls, not
realizing that the license plates were
also registering a charge. "We were
billed the minuscule toll, plus a $10
administrative fee," he says. "I was
asked to produce toll road receipts to
show that I'd paid by cash, but to be
honest, who asks for toll receipts on a
family vacation, expecting to defend
oneself against a bogus electronic
charge?"
Medin protested the charge, copying me on his email. I objected to my
bill as well, because I already own a
Florida SunPass transponder and
thought that I had arranged to pay my
tolls with it. PlatePass appeared to be
double-billing me.
PlatePass says that it offers a valuable service to car rental companies
and their customers. Before the system came online six years ago, it
points out, car rental companies had
to reconcile toll violations them-
What's the Deal?
By K.C. Summers and Andrea Sachs
T
his week's best travel bargains
around the globe:
— The Waldorf Astoria Park
City in Utah has an early booking
deal on winter rates. Get 25 percent
off rooms, plus a $50 resort credit per
night. For example, a one-night stay
in early January drops to $419 from
$559. Add $78 in fees and taxes. Book
by Dec. 31; stay Jan. 5-April 8. Info:
435-647-5500, www.parkcitywaldorfastoria.com.
— Jewel Dunn's River Resort & Spa,
an adults-only all-inclusive in Ocho
Rios, Jamaica, is offering up to 50
percent off rooms, plus buy-one-getone-free excursions and spa credits
(based on $100 spent). For example,
book at least three nights in an Emerald Lanai room for $269 per night
(was $489) or a Sapphire Mountain
View room for $278 (was $509) and
receive a second Ocho Rios shopping
tour for free (valued at $51), plus a
$20 spa credit. With the Sapphire
Ocean View (now $302; was $549) or
Diamond Ocean View ($329, down
from $599), receive a second Dunn's
River Falls tour for free (worth $35)
and a $40 spa credit. Deal also applies
to suites, which include a Negril tour
and a $60 spa credit. Taxes included.
Book by Oct. 14 and stay through
Dec. 23. Use code FFLING. Info: 800587-1854,
www.jewelresorts.com/
dunnsriver.
— A Scottsdale promotion is offering a free night at 11 Arizona properties for stays between Nov. 18 and Jan.
12. Free night offer varies by property.
For example, book two nights at the
Hotel Valley Ho (866-882-4484,
www.hotelvalleyho.com;
mention
code 3RDNTFREE) and receive the
third night for free; a three-night
stay in early December goes for $570
(plus $85 taxes), down from $855.
Other deals include free third night
at Sanctuary Camelback Mountain;
free fourth night, $50 spa credit and
$50 dining credit at the Montelucia
Resort & Spa; and free fifth night and
$100 dining credit at the Westin Kierland Resort & Spa. Info: www.experiencescottsdale.com.
— Crystal Cruises has discounts on
a dozen 2013 Europe voyages, with up
to $1,500 in savings. For example, the
10-day Miami-to-Lisbon trip leaving
March 31 is now $2,210 per person
double; pre-sale rate is $3,210. Add
$335 in port charges. For all deals,
selves, a tedious and expensive process. Car rental customers who blew
through a tollbooth could face fines
plus punitive surcharges from their
rental company.
"PlatePass is a win-win-win," says
PlatePass spokesman Charles Territo. "It's a win for a consumer who
now has the option of using toll lanes
without having to enroll in a program
prior to renting a vehicle. It's a win
for rental car companies, because it
alleviates the effort involved in processing toll violations and invoices.
And it's a win for the toll authorities,
because they receive timely payment
of all tolls from Hertz and Advantage
vehicles."
But some are winning more than
others. I spoke with current and former car rental employees about electronic toll payments, and I learned a
few things. First, billing fees are set by
the agencies — not the toll-payment
companies, which collect the money,
pay the toll authorities and give the
rental agencies a cut. If it wanted to,
a car rental agency could charge only
for the tolls, with a modest surcharge
for handling the transaction; instead,
the industry standard is to start the
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book by Oct. 31. Info: 888-722-0021,
www.crystalcruises.com.
— European Waterways has a fall
offer of up to $2,000 off select cruises
in France, Italy and Scotland. For example, on the six-night trip through
the Scottish Highlands aboard the
Scottish Highlander, two passengers
pay $5,180, down from $7,180. Price
for the Oct. 14 cruise includes local
transfers, 24/7 open bar, excursions,
admission fees, use of bicycles, and
taxes and fees. Info: 877-879-8808,
www.gobarging.com.
— Virgin Atlantic has sale fares to
London for travel through the end of
the year. For travel through October
and after Dec. 12, fare starts at $950.
Book by Oct. 11. Minimum Saturday
night stay required. Other airlines are
matching for nonstop service. Info:
www.virgin-atlantic.com.
— South African Airways has low
seasonal fares on flights from Washington Dulles to South African cities. Round-trip fares start at $1,179
to Johannesburg and from $1,181 to
Cape Town, Port Elizabeth and East
London, including taxes. Travel Monday through Thursday from Oct. 1 to
Dec. 13 and Jan. 14 to Feb. 14. Sevenday advance purchase required. By
comparison, fares from September
to early December are more than
$1,300. Book by Feb. 28. Info: www.
flysaa.com/us/en.
Travel Q & A
Q: Are shared bathrooms very common in European hotels anymore, or
are they primarily a thing of the past?
Where they still exist, are the savings
worth the sacrifice of a private bath?
A: If you ask me, nothing is worth
the sacrifice of a private bath! Shared
baths definitely still exist in Europe.
Whether the savings are worth it depends entirely on you. If it's more important for you to save your pennies
than to have a bathroom to yourself,
then you probably won't mind sharing.
— Zofia Smardz
Q: I'll be in Quintana Roo, Mexico,
toward the end of October, which is
still technically hurricane season.
What do you think my chances are
for hitting bad weather? Also, any advice on what to see and do?
A: Your chances are much better for
no hurricane. I'd go. Quintana Roo
is a big place, so what to do depends
on your location. I like the snorkeling
on Cozumel. And if you haven't done
cave snorkeling, it's lots of fun. Many
like to go to ruins, but don't sign up
for an all-day tour; take a cab and go
early.
— Carol Sottili
Q: I wear a pressure sleeve because
of lymphedema. Will that be a problem going through the security check
at the airport?
A: The TSA has special procedures
for passengers with disabilities and
medical conditions. That said, it can't
cover every scenario. Even though
the TSA's website contains rhetoric
about being more compassionate
with their screening, the screeners'
practices can leave something to be
desired. Show up early for your flight,
and if you're asked to do something
you feel uncomfortable with, ask for a
supervisor — politely.
— Christopher Elliott
Q: I'll have one day and night in
London next month. Is there anything special that I should see in the
post-Olympics glow?
A: Maybe you should go see Olympic Park, now that it's empty. The city
was hoping it would become a tourist attraction. Especially the Orbit,
the huge, twisted observation tower;
a tour guide told reporter Andrea
Sachs, when she visited, that the city
hopes it will become as well known
as the London Bridge or the London
Eye.
— Zofia Smardz
Q: I am lucky enough to be going to
San Juan in December. Any beaches,
sites or activities that I should be sure
not to miss?
A: I love Vieques, an island accessible by ferry or island-hopper plane.
The west coast has amazing beaches
with a cool surfer vibe, and the central area is lush with coffee plantations. Closer to the city, check out
the shops and restaurants of Old San
Juan, which is a tad touristy but still
enjoyable. Save time for the myriad
museums, including Museo de Arte
de Puerto Rico and Pablo Casals Museum, and forts.
El Yunque rainforest is definitely
worth a side trip, as is a kayak excursion to the bioluminescent bay. For
beaches with the best scenes, try Isla
Verde and Condado.
— Andrea Sachs
Q: I have a chance to visit Scotland
in late October. What is the typical
weather? Any must-sees? Was thinking of flying to London and taking the
train to sight-see along the way, but
would that be wasting time?
A: The weather in Scotland is always
iffy, and in October it's only more so.
The high temps average in the low 50s,
and lows are about 10 degrees less. It
rains about half the month, so bring
your brolly and galoshes. It's a long
train ride from London, so I would
fly if I were you. As for must-sees,
why, you must see the castle and the
Royal Mile in Edinburgh. You could
do a castle tour around the country,
in fact. Or a whisky tour.
Q: I plan to take my mom to Disney
World next year for a milestone birthday. We both have hectic work schedules, so we probably can take only two
days off. When would be the best time
of year to go?
A: In the fall, school crowds are
gone. You probably won't have nippy
nights, as I've experienced in December down there. Plus, maybe Mom
would like the annual food and wine
festival.
— Becky Krystal
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Fall TV 2012: The Season's Best New Shows
By Hank Stuever
Nashville
Wednesday, Oct. 10, 10 p.m., ABC
Easily this season's most promising
debut, "Nashville" has the potential to
be the perfect drama, even for people
who don't give a spit about country
music. Created by "Thelma & Louise" writer Callie Khouri, with expert
musical choices from her husband, T
Bone Burnett, and some top-notch
direction from documentary-maker
R.J. Cutler, "Nashville" won me over
mainly with its strong sense of grace
and heartache.
The reliable Connie Britton
("American Horror Story," "Friday
Night Lights") stars as Rayna Jaymes,
a chart-topping country music queen
who's hitting a dry spell, hitwise. Her
record company strong-arms her into
touring with Juliette Barnes (Hayden
Panettiere), a conniving up-andcomer who knows all about Eve and
then some. "Nashville" nicely juggles
the backstage back-stabbery with
Rayna's growing marital distress, as
her husband (Eric Close) is coerced
into running for political office by her
manipulative father (Powers Boothe).
Yet "Nashville" never strays too far
from its real story — the ups and
downs of glitzy stardom, with Britton and Panettiere performing their
own vocals. Near the end of the first
episode, an unknown songwriter and
a waitress (Sam Palladio and Clare
Bowen) sing a duet at a waterin' hole's
open-mike night that is far and away
the loveliest thing you'll see on TV
this year. I half expect that "Nashville"
may well be lured down the path of
eye-rolling melodrama soon enough
(like NBC's "Smash"), but until then,
I'd like to bask in its tender perfection.
Grade: A+
Call the Midwife
Sunday, Sept. 30, 8 p.m., PBS
A huge hit in Britain (with a second
season already on order), this absorbing and inspiring six-episode miniseries about young nurses in London's
East End deserves top priority on
your crowded Sunday-night schedule. (It's also welcome relief for anglophiles who can't wait for "Downton Abbey" to hurry up and return in
January. )
Based on the late Jennifer Worth's
memoirs, "Call the Midwife" follows
Jenny Lee (a luminescent Jessica
Raine) as she begins work as a midwife in the late 1950s. She lives in a
convent of Anglican sisters and other
nurses who've devoted themselves to
providing top-notch aid to impoverished women and the elderly in the
nascent days of Britain's national
health-care system. The cast is marvelous, the gritty, post-war set pieces
are meticulously recreated and, even
with all the warm-water enemas and
Andrew Rannells, left, and Justin Bartha star in “The New Normal” about a male couple who hire a down-on-herluck, single-mom surrogate to carry their baby. The show premiered Sept. 11 on CBS. (Trae Patton/NBC)
splattered afterbirth, the story always
has its eye on uplift and good cheer.
The American audience will be
greeting "Call the Midwife" amid an
election-year climate that has disparaged women's rights and all but
demonized the idea of governmentassisted health care, so it's understandable that you might watch it
with a feminist zeal. Another possibility is to see the show as a yet
another subversive bit of socialist
propaganda brought to you by your
public broadcasters. But if you can
get past the present-day angst, I suggest you simply lose yourself in "Call
the Midwife's" belief in pure charity,
which means doing our best for the
least of our sisters and brothers.
Grade: A
The Mindy Project
Tuesday, Sept. 25, 9:30 p.m., Fox
It's a farewell sheet cake for Kelly
Kapoor, as Mindy Kaling segues effortlessly from the time she's logged
at NBC's dwindling "The Office" as
a writer and ensemble player to her
big chance at creating and starring
in her own show. In her new gig, she
scores all 5's on her employee evaluation. Everything about "The Mindy
Project" is so very Kaling and happily
spot-on, starting with the strength of
the jokes and dialogue.
Drawing a bit from the tales she
shared in her best-selling memoir,
the fictional Mindy is a self-aware but
also neurotic central character — a
good Indian daughter who went to
medical school and became an OBGYN, even though all she ever really
wanted to do was splay on the couch
and watch Nora Ephron-style romcom movies from 1990s. In a moment
of self-loathing, she resolves to undertake a "Mindy project" of renewed
discipline, revamping her social life
and choices in men. It's a losing proposition but a winning show.
Grade: AThe New Normal
Airs Tuesdays at 9:30 p.m. on NBC
Ryan Murphy's relentlessly strong
(and even hyperactive) instinct for
TV concepts and characters is always a pleasure to watch at the start
— think of those initial episodes of
"Glee," "American Horror Story"
and "Nip/Tuck." Then, soon enough,
some viewers tend to peel off from his
shows until only diehard fans remain.
(Raise your hand if you're still willing
to admit to being a Gleek.)
Murphy's "The New Normal,"
which premiered Sept. 11, is an ensemble comedy about a male couple,
David and Bryan ("The Hangover's"
lost groom Justin Bartha and Broadway's "Book of Mormon" star Andrew
Rannells), who hire a down-on-herluck, single-mom surrogate to carry
their baby. It's an idea whose time
should have come a while back. Bartha and Rannells's characters display
yin/yang neuroses that keep their
characters interesting, but as Goldie,
the would-be surrogate, Georgia King
is unfortunately bland.
Ellen Barkin saves the day with
a deliciously acid standout performance as Goldie's disapproving
grandmother, Jane, who comes on
like a cruel hybrid of conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly and "Absolutely
Fabulous's" Patsy Stone (with Calista
Gingrich's hairdo). Jane is a classic
Ryan Murphy invention, giving the
show a fresh twist without feeling too
much like another item on the gay
agenda.
Grade: B+
Elementary
Thursday, Sept. 27, 10 p.m., CBS
Sherlock Holmes gets his zillionth
update, this time with Jonny Lee Miller ("Eli Stone") playing Arthur Conan
Doyle's timeless sleuth as a recovering
addict whose British tycoon father
ships him off to Manhattan for rehab.
Lucy Liu plays Dr. Joan Watson, a
disgraced former surgeon who's been
hired to act as Sherlock's 24-hour
sober-living companion after his detox. In almost no time at all, they are
working together on a murder case
after Sherlock is asked by a New York
homicide detective (Aidan Quinn) to
examine a tony, uptown crime scene.
In a way, CBS is honoring its present-day success as crime-procedural
central with this twist on the daddy of
all detective serials. "Elementary" exhibits enough stylish wit in its mood
and look to quickly distinguish itself
from the latest British "Sherlock" series (seen on PBS), in which Benedict
Cumberbatch plays a far icier version
of the character. Miller's Sherlock is
just as ludicrously smart and socially
callous, but he's scruffier and more
vulnerable. And as Watson, Liu seems
to know exactly what's she's doing.
There's no reason this show can't succeed, so long as the writers find a way
to deal out more complex mysteries
that are worth Sherlock's time.
Grade: B+
Revolution
Monday, Sept. 17, 10 p.m., NBC
NBC throws in with J.J. Abrams
(of "Lost" and so much else) for this
adventure drama set 15 years after
all the lights, engines and electronics
have gone out and life went medieval.
Notions of world dystopia continue to
strike a nerve. We see chaos, violence,
government collapse — but also community gardens in cul-de-sacs. It
can't help but be interesting.
After a militia troop kills her father
and kidnaps her brother, a young
woman with oh-so-trendy archery
skills (Tracy Spiridakos) sets off for
a kudzu-covered Chicago (it's always Chicago) in search of her uncle
(Billy Burke), who might help her
and her friends unlock the secret of
the power outage and perhaps fix it.
They are pursued by none other than
Giancarlo Esposito ("Breaking Bad's"
baddest baddie, Gus Fring) who plays
a former insurance adjustor turned
cruel enforcer. In the meantime, no
one seems particularly interested in
steam engines.
Grade: B
666 Park Avenue
Sunday, Sept. 30, 10 p.m., ABC
The potential for haunted-house
fun abounds in the Drake, a luxury
Upper East Side prewar apartment
building that's owned by a Mephistopheles type ("Lost's" Terry O'Quinn
as Gavin Doran) who claims the souls
of unlucky tenants whose terms of
lease come due. An ambitious (but
broke) young couple (Rachael Taylor
and Dave Annable) answer Doran's
want ad for new live-in managers,
and they're instantly thrilled with the
square-footage, original moldings
and free rent.
And here is where the show becomes a handy metaphor for all real
estate transactions. Doran and his
mysterious wife (Vanessa Williams,
nibbling the scenery's edges with her
pearly whites) make it seem like life
in the Drake is heavenly — but the
vanishing and otherwise desperate
pallor of some of the residents would
suggest otherwise. "666 Park Avenue"
will have a little of what "American
Horror Story" is having, obviously,
even if its frights aren't nearly as
jumpy. Still, I think the pilot episode
has just enough things going bump in
the night. The only bummer is when
Taylor's character, Jane, starts NancyDrewin' in the basement and it becomes clear that the actress (last seen
in that god-awful "Charlie's Angels"
reboot) can't quite carry the load as
an interesting lead.
It's worth waiting for another few
episodes to see if the story clicks. If
"666 Park Avenue"makes it that far,
then expect it to get a whole lot more
convoluted. Maybe the Dorans aren't
demons at all, right? Maybe they're
holding off a larger, Manhattan-swallowing evil by sacrificing their tenants
one by one? Or something like that?
Grade: B
The Neighbors
Wednesday, Sept. 26, 9:30 p.m.,
ABC (moves to 8:30 the following
week)
Some viewers (and certainly other
critics) may well expectorate a DayGlo goo all over this ABC comedy
about aliens in the Stepford-like exurbs — and I admit the story line is
as old as Coneheads and crop circles.
But what redeems "The Neighbors"
is that it's not confused about what
it wants to be — or the sort of fun it
wants to have.
The Weavers (Lenny Venito and the
always-welcome Jami Gertz) decide
to pack up their three kids and move
from their New York apartment to a
tract house in the strange outer realm
of Hidden Hills, N.J., with its manicured lawns, big garages and conformity.
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his mate, Jackie Joyner-Kersee (Toks
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almost every way (including naming
themselves after star athletes).
Once the Weavers get over their initial shock, the lazy metaphor can do
its thing, letting us know that we're
all a little bit weird when viewed
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from the other side of the fence. "The
Neighbors" means you no harm; it
is merely offering buoyant, slightly
creepy entertainment for anybody
who doesn't take sci-fi or satire too
seriously.
Grade: B
Vegas
Tuesday, Sept. 25, 10 p.m., CBS
The twin disasters of the "Pan Am"
crash and "Playboy Club" fire are but
a memory now, making it somewhat
safe for CBS to dial back to 1960 with
this attractive effort at a crime drama
set in Las Vegas's emerging years as a
glittering metropolis of sin.
Based on the real-life stories of lawman Ralph Lamb's efforts to preserve
order amidst the city's growth and
the encroaching mob rule, "Vegas"
stars Dennis Quaid, who brings everything he's got to the role of Sheriff Lamb. Michael Chiklis co-stars as
Vincent Savino, an ambitious Chicago thug (it's always Chicago), who
comes to town to run the Savoy, Fremont Street's snazziest casino. (The
strip as we presently know it is but a
wild rumor and fantasy at this point;
lavish attention, in the form of recreated streetscapes and CGI neon, help
transport the show back to a simpler,
seedier Las Vegas.)
A large supporting cast — including "Terra Nova's" Jason O'Mara as
Ralph's loyal brother/deputy, and
"The Matrix's" Carrie-Ann Moss as
an assistant district attorney — helps
"Vegas" appear to be compelling and
classy. And then CBS lapses into its
old habit, as Lamb and company
squander all this intriguing potential
trying to solve their first of many cases: The governor's niece has turned
up murdered in a ditch near the
nuclear proving grounds. I say nuke
the sleuthing and find the courage
to focus more on the characters and
drama.
Grade: BLast Resort
Thursday, Sept. 27, 8 p.m., ABC
From "The Shield" creator Shawn
Ryan comes this complicated and
frankly outrageous saga of a U.S.
nuclear sub called the Colorado, with
"Homicide: Life on the Street's" Andre Braugher at the helm. The Colorado goes rogue when they get a surprise launch order from the brass and
suspect it isn't legit. No sooner have
they defied command than Washington launches a missile at them.
Meanwhile, Pakistan gets nuked
three times. The crew barely escapes
and surfaces at a remote island (and
NATO listening outpost), where
Braugher's Capt. Marcus Chaplin issues a worldwide ultimatum, warning
of a White House coup and threatening to launch his sub's arsenal if the
island is attacked.
As a demonstration, he detonates a
nighttime nuke off the mid-Atlantic
coast, where everyone from Washington to New York can see. (In which
case I'll take a pass on the she-crab
soup for a few years, thanks.) "Last
Resort" is a real stretch for those of us
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Cold War babies who were raised on
horrifying doomsday dramas, where
the prospect of one bomb launch
meant instant annihilation and permanent winter.
It's an adrenalin-doused premise
that is handsomely executed, but it
feels like we get to Defcon 2 way too
fast. It's as though Tom Clancy has
been asked to reimagine "Lost." Isolated in their new antihero paradise,
the crew and islanders have to figure
out what happens next. It already feels
like the writers are also locked in an
unwinnable standoff.
Grade: BArrow
Wednesday, Oct. 10, 8 p.m., the CW
The Green Arrow, a bit player in
the DC Comics universe, gets a sleek
revamp in this CW action-adventure
adaptation, which has at least two
things going for it: archery, which
might already be so last year to finicky teens, and lead actor Stephen
Amell, who will definitely make some
viewers, um, quiver.
Amell plays Oliver, a party-boy heir
whose yacht sinks and leaves him
stranded on an island for five years,
where he picks up archery, martial
arts, parkour, fantastic abs and a
wicked "Dark Knight" complex. "Arrow" is as much about back story as
present-day action, as Ollie returns to
fictional Starling City (why not Chicago?) and works to uncover some
sort of criminal plot that involved his
father.
There is absolutely nothing new
about anything seen here — including Ollie's "Hamlet"-like oedipal issues about his mother's remarriage
and the pomposity that lurks on every parapet in comic-book movies
and TV shows — and yet "Arrow" has
nice aim.
Grade: BGo On
Airs Tuesdays, 9 p.m., NBC
Matthew Perry's new comedy, in
which he plays a man who joins a
grief support group, got a whole helium tank of hype during the Olympics in August — and some inflated
ratings to match — but the initial
episode was, you know, just okay. After a wandering period, Perry seems
older yet sharper and more at home
in this role as Ryan King, a hotheaded
sports-radio host whose wife died in
a car crash while attempting to text
him a reminder to pick up coffee at
the store.
The dark humor here isn't terribly
dark — and occasionally just cloudy
gray. The show's fate hinges on min-
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shades. Behind the macho persona is
a pragmatist and thoughtful listener,
according to Gerard Blanc, a former
head of operations and programs at
Airbus. Blanc said Enders, a defense
expert, accepted an invitation to hear
his views on commercial aerospace
even after Blanc had left the organization.
"He was really listening, not just
pretending," Blanc said. "I think this
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meter at the first use of a tollbooth,
setting off a daily charge for the administrative fee.
It wasn't always this way. Hertz, for
example, originally authorized PlatePass to bill its rental car customers for
only the days they used the service
to pay tolls. In February 2009, Hertz
changed that policy, levying the administrative fee for every day of the
remainder of the rental period. Customers complained that they weren't
clearly informed that they would be
charged the fee even for days when
the PlatePass was not being used;
after an investigation by the Florida
Attorney General's Office, the car
rental company agreed to improve its
disclosure and offer refunds to some
drivers.
Some say that the agreement gave
other car rental companies a green
light to start the meters on their tollpayment services and to keep them
running; a Hertz representative disputes that, pointing out that other
rental agencies had similar price
structures in place before Hertz did.
"We believe Hertz's pricing to be the
most consumer-friendly in the industry," she said.
Another important, but unsurprising, fact: Electronic tolling services
are "immensely" profitable, according to several people with knowledge
of these systems. I asked the largest
provider of car rental tolling services,
Highway Toll Administration, about
the success of its transponder-based
product, which is used by several
large car rental companies, including
Alamo, Avis and Enterprise.
David Centner, the company's
president and chief executive, said
that his company doesn't publicly release its earnings because it's privately
held, and although he didn't deny
that business is brisk, he was quick
to add that consumers are benefiting
from the technology, too. "Everyone's
winning," he said. "We've had tens of
millions of satisfied customers. Our
ing Ryan's fellow group grievers for
comedy. I realize NBC wants "broader" comedies that get away from the
rarified weirdness of "Community"
and "30 Rock," but they're going to
have to ramp up the oddness for "Go
On" to go anywhere.
Grade: B-
ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Someone has
some suggestions to offer regarding your new
project. You might find them helpful. Remember to
avoid speculation and to stick with just the facts,
Lamb.
TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) An old friend suddenly reappears. Whether this proves to be a boon
or a bane in the Bovine's life depends on the reason
for this surprising reappearance. Be cautious.
GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Vital information finally emerges, allowing you to make that important
personal decision. You can now move your focus to
an upcoming professional development.
CANCER (June 21 to July 22) You might not like
seeing so many on-the-job changes. But some of
them could open new opportunities for the Moon
Child's talents to shine to your best advantage.
LEO (July 23 to August 22) An apparently solidgold opportunity beckons the Lion. But check to
see if all that dazzle isn't just a sprinkling of surface
glitter. Check it out before making a commitment.
VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) A close
friend could offer advice on how to handle a difficult family matter. But in the end, the decision has
to be made based on what is best for you and those
you love.
service is extremely desirable, and the
price is right."
But he acknowledges that electronic toll payment systems such as his
aren't without their critics. "With any
service that's offered, there are going
to be people who think they didn't get
the value for it," he said.
Centner and other car rental insiders say that the anger is misdirected.
Neither the car rental companies nor
the electronic toll services control the
burgeoning number of toll roads in
the United States. Also, they have no
influence over the new tollbooth-less
"open road" tolling that authorities
are adopting, which tends to run up
charges for drivers who don't realize that they're on a toll road. And
they say that things could be worse:
Instead of paying $10 or $20 in extra
fees, motorists without a transponder
or pre-registered plates who incur unpaid tolls could face fines of hundreds
of dollars if those systems weren't in
place.
Customers like Medin are in fact
upset by the prevalence of toll roads.
At the top of his list is E-470, a 47mile toll road east of Denver that
tourists often use by accident, either
because their onboard navigation
system guides them there or because
they aren't aware that it's a toll road.
Drivers are also bothered by older
highways that have been turned into
toll roads, ensnaring travelers who assume that they're still free.
"Rental car companies and their affiliates shouldn't be treating toll roads
as another revenue source, period,"
says Medin. "They should charge only
for tolls plus the actual administrative
costs."
I agree. At the very least, they
should bill only for tolls that we incur.
Medin's charges were reversed almost
immediately. Mine? A review of my
SunPass records shows that it didn't
charge me for the four tolls, even
though I had registered my rental's
plates. So I'm probably stuck with my
PlatePass bill.
- Elliott is National Geographic
Traveler magazine's reader advocate.
Email him at [email protected].
very much helped him build a career
within EADS."
Enders had briefly held the EADS
CEO title before, when he shared the
role with a French counterpart. He
stepped down in 2007 to lead Airbus,
as part of a wider shakeup aimed to
defuse Franco-German tensions over
the distribution of power.
"Many people would see that as demotion, but he had a long-term plan,"
said Zafar Khan, a London-based an-
LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) Family
problems are best worked out with all those concerned contributing suggestions that will ease
tensions. Stay with it until a workable solution is
found.
SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) Expect
to hear more about an offer that has piqued your
interest. You earn respect for insisting on solid
facts, not just a fancy talk about potential opportunities.
SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December
21) What seemed to be a reasonable workplace request might need to be defended. Don't fret. You
have both the facts and a surprise ally on your side.
CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) A
bit of capriciousness might be just what you need.
Plan to kick up your heels in a round of fun and
games with family and friends this weekend.
AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) Although some of your plans might have to be put on
hold, things do begin to take a turn for the better by
midweek. Your financial crunch also eases.
PISCES (February 19 to March 20) Your financial picture begins to brighten by week's end.
There are also favorable changes in your personal
life. Someone you care for has good news to report.
BORN THIS WEEK: You seek balance, but not
at the expense of justice. You would make a fine
judge.
alyst at Societe Generale. "The irony
is that back in 1998, when he was negotiating for Dasa with British Aerospace, his side was the junior partner.
Now that's turned around."
— With assistance from Brian Parkin in Berlin and Chris V. Nicholson
in Paris.
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I marvel over my self-control. The
car sings through the turns and I keep
a light touch on the gas.
Then I approach a straightaway
and something comes knock- knockknocking into my consciousness.
I'm probably never going to get this
chance to drive a Veyron again.
I floor it.
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"Shells burst around us, the fragments tearing up the ground, and the
canister whistled through the corn
above us," he wrote.
"Our lines on the left now came
sweeping forward," he recalled. "I ordered my men to join in the advance,
and commanded: 'Forward — guide
left — march!' "
He could see the little church of the
pacifist Dunkers in the distance, but
as the Yankees approached, a long
line of rebels who had taken cover on
the ground jumped up and fired.
"Men, I can not say fell; they were
knocked out of the ranks by dozens,"
Dawes recalled.
Then the Confederates counterattacked. The depleted Federals fled —
"back to the corn, and back through
the corn," Dawes remembered.
As they ran, they left behind the
fallen commander of the regiment's
F Company, Capt. Werner Von Bachelle, a former officer in the French
army.
Von Bachelle's Newfoundland dog
would not leave his body, though, and
two days after the battle the dog was
found dead atop the captain, Dawes
wrote. "We buried him with his master."
Now it was the rebels plunging into
the shredded corn, with a brigade
made up mostly of regiments from
Texas — the "Ragged Old First," carrying a red, white and blue Lone Star
regimental flag.
"I entered a corn-field and soon
became engaged with a force of the
enemy, driving them before me to the
farther side," Lt. Col. Philip A. Work,
commander of the 1st Texas, reported
after the battle.
"As soon as the regiment became
engaged . . . in the corn-field, it became impossible to restrain the men,
and they rushed forward," he recounted. But they quickly got too far
ahead and became isolated.
Work was unable to slow his men
until they had reached the far side of
the field and became exposed to intense Yankee gunfire from his flank
and rear.
Work realized his precarious position, and with only a "handful of
men" left, he ordered retreat.
As they did, the regimental flag
bearer was hit. Another man grabbed
the banner, but he, too, went down. In
the chaos, no one noticed. Work reported that when they emerged from
the corn, he realized they'd lost the
flag.
No one knew where it had fallen.
The corn was dense enough that no
one could spot the banner. And a
Federal counterattack was closing in.
"I entered the engagement with 226
men, [and] officers . . . of which . . .
170 are known to have been killed
and wounded," he reported. Twelve
others were missing "and, doubtless,
also killed or wounded."
The 1st Texas, historians say, sustained at Antietam one of the the
highest casualty rates of any regiment
on either side on a single day during
the war.
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Company F was wiped out, historian Jerry W. Holsworth wrote in a
1996 study of the Texans in Blue &
Gray magazine. Only one man was
left from Company A, two from Company C and three from Company E.
"It is hard to imagine Col. Work's
feelings as he gazed at what was left of
his regiment," Holsworth wrote.
Work was further dismayed by the
loss of the flag — the white star is said
to have been made from the wedding dress of the wife of its first commander, the rabid secessionist Louis
T. Wigfall.
"It is a source of mortification . . .
that . . . our colors were not brought
off," Work lamented.
"Some degree of odium must attach
under the most favorable circum-
stances," he wrote afterward. "And
although such are the circumstances
surrounding the conduct of this regiment, the loss of our flag will always
remain a matter of sore and deep regret."
After the rebels retreated, Samuel
Johnson, a Union private from the
9th Pennsylvania Reserves, found the
Texas regimental flag, and another
flag, in the cornfield, according to
Holsworth.
And in an account penned 40 years
later, an old rebel who had been captured in the battle heard Johnson
say that 13 dead Confederates were
sprawled around the lone star flag
when he found it.
(In 1905, the flag was returned to
Texas by President Theodore Roos-
evelt and today resides in the state archives building in Austin.)
Despite all the bloodshed in the
cornfield, it was still only about 7:30
a.m. The thunder of the battle rolled
south to the church, the Sunken Road
and the bridge in what one veteran
called a "carnival of death and suffering."
In the end, the Federals seized the
Sunken Road and eventually got
across the bridge, only to be stymied
by late-arriving rebel reinforcements.
More than 12 hours after it started,
the fighting finally ceased, in a stalemate.
"As the sun sank to rest . . . the
last sounds of battle along Antietam
Creek died away," Francis W. Palfrey,
a historian and a wounded veteran of
the battle, wrote in 1889.
"The corn and trees, so fresh and
green in the morning, were reddened
with blood," he wrote. "The blessed
night came, and brought with it sleep
and forgetfulness . . . but the murmur
of the night wind . . . was mingled
with the groans of the countless sufferers of both armies.
"Who can tell?" he wondered. "Who
can imagine, the horrors of such a
night, while the unconscious stars
shone above, and the unconscious
river went rippling by?"
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Family
Lasagna
Summary: This lasagna is meatfree and loaded with veggies. It tastes
great leftover, so make it ahead of
time and serve later in the week.
Ingredients:
• 2 medium zucchini or yellow
summer squash, thinly sliced
• 2 teaspoons olive oil
• Salt
• 1 bunch Swiss chard, tough stems
discarded, thinly sliced
• 1 small (4- to 6-ounce) onion,
finely chopped
• 2 cloves garlic, crushed with press
• 1 teaspoon fresh thyme leaves,
chopped
• 1 pound plum tomatoes, cored
and thinly sliced
• 4 no-boil lasagna noodles, rinsed
with cold water
• 2 carrots, shredded
• 1 cup part-skim ricotta cheese
• 2 ounce provolone cheese, finely
shredded
Directions:
1. Arrange 1 oven rack 4 inches
from broiler heat source and second
rack in center. Preheat broiler.
2. In large bowl, toss zucchini with
1 teaspoon oil and 1/8 teaspoon salt.
Arrange on 18- by 12-inch jelly-roll
pan in single layer. Broil 6 minutes
or until golden brown, turning over
once. Set aside. Reset oven control to
425 F.
3. Rinse Swiss chard in cold water;
drain, leaving some water clinging to
leaves.
Ingredients:
• Cheesecloth (see Tip)
• 8 cups whole milk
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 3 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
Directions:
1. Line large strainer with 4 layers
cheesecloth and place lined strainer
in large bowl; set aside.
2. In heavy-bottom 4-quart saucepan, heat milk and salt to boiling on
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2 teaspoons oil on medium. Add onion; cook 3 minutes or until soft, stirring occasionally. Add chard, garlic,
thyme and 1/8 teaspoon salt. Cook
6 to 7 minutes or until chard is very
soft, stirring frequently. Remove from
heat and set aside
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half of tomatoes, lasagna noodles,
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Begin massaging the oil and salt into
the kale leaves. Massage the leaves
until you feel them become soft and
pliable, about 2 to 3 minutes.
2. Tear the kale into small pieces or
cut into ribbons. Pour off any liquid
that may have accumulated in the
bottom of the bowl. Place the kale
back into bowl. Add in the syrup or
honey, 2 tablespoons vinegar and
the lemon juice to the kale to start.
Continue rubbing the kale, until all
surfaces are coated and shiny, about
2 minutes. Taste a leaf and add the
remaining vinegar and 1/2 teaspoon
salt, as needed.
3. Add pepper, avocado, bell pepper, carrot and almonds, and toss to
combine. Serve cold or at room temperature. Serves 4.
• 2 to 3 tablespoons apple cider vinegar or Ume plum vinegar
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1 tablespoon maple syrup, agave
syrup, or honey
• 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground
black pepper
• 1 avocado, peeled, pit discarded,
and sliced
• 1 red bell pepper, stem, ribs and
seedpod removed, diced
• 1 large carrot, peeled and diced
• 2-3 ounces slivered almonds,
toasted
Directions:
1. Wash your hands thoroughly.
Rinse and pat the kale dry with paper
or kitchen towels. Tear kale off the
stems (leave them in large pieces) and
place leaves into large bowl. Add olive oil and 1 teaspoon salt to the kale.
can prepare the salad in advance for a
stress-free side dish. The leaves freeze
well and actually taste sweeter and
more flavorful after being frozen.
Kale is a member of the Brassica
family, which also includes collard
greens, cabbage and Brussels sprouts.
All of these hardy greens contain
sulforaphane, a chemical believed to
have potent anti-cancer properties
and phytonutrients, including powerful anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties and alkalizing effects
on the body. Kale is very high in beta
carotene, vitamin K, vitamin C and
lutein, and fairly rich in calcium.
Ingredients:
• 1 bunch kale, about 1/2 pound
• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 1/2 teaspoons coarse sea salt
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Proper Leash
Training Can
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DEAR PAW'S CORNER: Last week a really
tragic accident happened just down the street. Our
neighbor was walking his 1-year-old German Shepherd, "Champ", on a sturdy leash. The dog tended
to tug on his leash or jump away from his owner
when something grabbed his attention. Sadly, when
the owner paused to let his dog sniff at a tree on
the curb while he waved to a neighbor, Champ suddenly darted into the busy street. Before his owner
could tug him back on the curb, Champ was struck
by a car and killed almost instantly.
Please warn your readers to keep their dogs
under control and on the sidewalk, even while on
a leash, and to pay attention to their dogs during
their walks. My neighbor is suffering terrible grief,
and I hate to think of anyone else, or their pets, suffering from preventable accidents.
-- Sharon in Utica, N.Y.
DEAR SHARON: You're right: While accidents
do happen, many can be prevented by knowing how
to correctly walk your dog on a leash. Reinforcing
your dog's basic obedience training, including sit,
stay and heel commands, is an important daily task.
If you're having trouble controlling your dog on
the leash despite following common leash-training
techniques, contact a professional dog trainer for
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learn to walk together safely.
***
Send your questions, comments or tips to ask@
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1. Is the book of Goliath in the Old or New Testament or neither?
2. From Exodus 10, who made a false confession to Aaron and Moses? Herod, Malachi, Satan,
Pharaoh
3. Who was bespoken by an angel to save Israel
from the Midianites? Ishmael, Job, Gideon, Philip
4. From 1 Samuel 9 and 10, who was the first king
of Israel? David, Saul, Solomon, Jehu
5. Who laughed on hearing she would have a
child in her old age? Sarah, Ruth, Lydia, Esther
6. From John 8:44, what is Satan the father of?
Sin, Lust, Scepters, Lies?
ANSWERS: 1) Neither; 2) Pharaoh; 3)
Gideon; 4) Saul; 5) Sarah; 6) Lies
The Older Set & Modern
Technology
When I bought my Blackberry, I thought about the 30-year business I ran
with1800 employees, all without a cell phone that plays music, takes videos,
pictures and communicates with Facebook and Twitter. I signed up under duress for Twitter and Facebook, so my seven kids, their spouses, 13 grandkids
and 2 great grand kids could communicate with me in the modern way. I figured I could handle something as simple as Twitter with only 140 characters
of space.
That was before one of my grandkids hooked me up for Tweeter, Tweetree,
Twhirl, Twitterfon, Tweetie and Twittererific Tweetdeck, Twitpix and something that sends every message to my cell phone and every other program
within the texting world.
My phone was beeping every three minutes with the details of everything
except the bowel movements of the entire next generation. I am not ready to
live like this. I keep my cell phone in the garage in my golf bag.
The kids bought me a GPS for my last birthday because they say I get lost
every now and then going over to the grocery store or library. I keep that in a
box under my tool bench with the Blue tooth [it's red] phone I am supposed to
use when I drive. I wore it once and was standing in line at Barnes and Noble
talking to my wife and everyone in the nearest 50 yards was glaring at me. I had
to take my hearing aid out to use it, and I got a little loud.
I mean the GPS looked pretty smart on my dash board, but the lady inside
that gadget was the most annoying, rudest person I had run into in a long time.
Every 10 minutes, she would sarcastically say, "Re-calc-u-lating." You would
think that she could be nicer. It was like she could barely tolerate me. She would
let go with a deep sigh and then tell me to make a U-turn at the next light. Then
if I made a right turn instead. Well, it was not a good relationship.
When I get really lost now, I call my wife and tell her the name of the cross
streets and while she is starting to develop the same tone as Gypsy, the GPS
lady, at least she loves me.
To be perfectly frank, I am still trying to learn how to use the cordless phones
in our house. We have had them for 4 years, but I still haven't figured out how
I can lose three phones all at once and have to run around digging under chair
cushions and checking bathrooms and the dirty laundry baskets when the
phone rings.
The world is just getting too complex for me. They even mess me up every
time I go to the grocery store. You would think they could settle on something themselves but this sudden "Paper or Plastic?" every time I check out just
knocks me for a loop. I bought some of those cloth reusable bags to avoid looking confused, but I never remember to take them in with me.
Now I toss it back to them. When they ask me, "Paper or Plastic?" I just say,
"Doesn't matter to me. I am bi-sacksual." Then it's their turn to stare at me with
a blank look. I was recently asked if I tweet. I answered, No, but I do toot a lot.."
P.S. I know some of you are not over 50, but trust me when I say that we senior citizens don't need anymore gadgets. The TV remote and the garage door
remote are about all we can handle! ■
Kids In Church
After the christening of his baby brother in church, Jason sobbed all the way
home in the back seat of the car. His father asked him three times what was
wrong. Finally, the boy replied, “That preacher said he wanted us brought up in
a Christian home, and I wanted to stay with you guys.” ■
1. Who released "Let Me Take You Dancing,"
and when?
2. What stage name did Susan Janet Ballion
take?
3. Name the group behind "A Little Bit More"
and "When You're in Love with a Beautiful
Woman."
4. Which group sounded like the Beatles in
their song "Lies"?
5. "Life on Mars?" appeared on what album?
6. Which female singer released "Wonderful
Summer," and when?
Answers
1. Bryan Adams, 1979. To turn it into a disco
song, producers speeded up the tempo, which
also changed the pitch of Adams' voice.
2. Siouxsie Sioux. She was lead singer for
the rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees. Their
single "Hong Kong Garden" climbed into the
Top 10 in 1978.
3. Dr. Hook, in 1976 and 1979 respectively.
Until 1975 they were called Dr. Hook and the
Medicine Show.
4. The Knickerbockers, in 1965. They released
"One Track Mind" the following year.
5. David Bowie's "Hunky Dory" album in 1971.
Three years later, Barbra Streisand released it
on her ButterFly album along with other contemporary songs.
6. "Robin" Ward, in 1963. Her real name was
Jackie, and while "Robin" was thought to be a
one-hit wonder, Jackie was busily carving out a
successful career singing for television shows
and theme songs, films and commercials.
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