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The NY Eagle News | August 1, 2013
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Serving Avon, Bath, Canandaigua, Cohocton, Dansville, Geneseo, Hammondsport, Honeoye, Lakeville, Livonia, Mt. Morris, Naples, Penn Yan, Prattsburgh, Wayland and Neighboring Communities
By Stefanie Dazio
The New York Eagle
News/The Washington
Post
S
Misty? Deluge Better Fits This
Year's Chincoteague Pony Swim
ome had arrived before dawn last week
on Wednesday July
24th, staking out the best
spot where they might see
the famed wild horses of
Chincoteague make their
swim. But a freak thunderstorm, a full moon and a
high tide threatened to derail the annual celebration
and sent thousands to seek
shelter.
Thunder boomed and
rain soaked the marshland as thousands watched
about 130 ponies swim
from nearby Assateague
Island to Chincoteague Island. Many were forced to
watch the ponies cross the
channel with water pounding their backs and lightning crashing overhead.
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PONIES PAGE 3
Thunder booms and rain soaks the marshland as thousands watch about 130 ponies swim to Chincoteague Island. (Washington Post photo by Maddie Meyer)
Companies Starting
to Loosen the
Purse Strings
By Michelle Jamrisko
and Ilan Kolet
The New York Eagle News/
Bloomberg News
By Greg Stohr
C
ompanies in the
United States are
beginning to empty
their deep pockets and boost
capital spending as they look
past the specter of sequestration and global growth risks.
Orders for capital goods excluding aircraft and military
equipment — an indicator of
future business investment —
increased 1.5 percent in May, a
third consecutive advance and
the longest streak since October 2011. Chief executive officers are more optimistic about
the economy, based on the
Business Roundtable's quarterly outlook index, which rose
to 84.3 in the second quarter,
the highest in a year.
NY Town Prayers at Issue as Supreme Court
Takes Up Religion for
1st Time in 30 Years
Bloomberg News
O
Employee Jordan Kenyon works at a station on the eight-speed transmission
assembly line at the Chrysler Group transmission plant in Kokomo, Ind. (Bloomberg
News photo by Daniel Acker).
Spending on information
technology is up 4 percent
this year compared with 2
percent last year, according to
the median in a survey of 203
businesses by Computer Economics, a research company
in Irvine, Calif— helping businesses such as Microsoft Corp.
"Investment will pick up in
the second half of the year,"
driven by strength in housing
and the automobile industry,
said Yelena Shulyatyeva, a U.S.
economist in New York at BNP
Paribas. "For companies to
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COMPANIES PAGE 10
n a sultry July evening, Supervisor John
Auberger began the
Greece, N.Y., town board meeting in his usual way: He invited
a Christian minister to seek
God's blessing.
"Would you bow your heads
with me as I pray?" Nathan
Miller of Northridge Church
asked the audience. Auberger
and 14 other officials on the
dais listened silently as Miller
asked God to guide the meeting while invoking "your son,
Jesus."
The town's solemn prayers
are now the focus of a Supreme
Court fight that may reshape
Pastor Nathan Miller leads a prayer at a town board meeting in Greece, N.Y., on
June 16th. The prayers at the start of board meetings at the Greece Town Hall are
the focus of a Supreme Court fight that may reshape the legal limits on religious
expression at official functions nationwide. (Bloomberg News photo by Heather
Ainsworth).
the legal limits on religious
expression at official functions nationwide. The case, a
highlight of the nine-month
term that starts in October,
will mark the first time the
court has considered legislative prayer since upholding the
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PRAYER PAGE 10
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Regional
Bath Rotary Club Awards
$13,500 In Scholarships
Wayland Library
Hosts Detection
Canine
by Elaine Tears
Bath Rotary
By Darcie Velez
T
en graduating seniors from
five area schools were awarded
$13,500 collectively in scholarships by the Bath Rotary Club as
part of the organization’s continuing
commitment to help students further
their education.
On July 11th the students, accompanied by their parents and/or local school officials, enjoyed lunch
as guests of the local club and were
recognized for their outstanding
achievement and extraordinary involvement in school and community
activities.
Richard McCandless, Scholarship
Chair, introduced each recipient
and announced the scholarship each
had been awarded as well as the student’s high school and college plans.
He also introduced Rachel Nicklaus,
widow of Dr. Frank E. Nicklaus, and
her son, Roy Hepler; Terance Payne,
son of the late Rotarian, Wes Payne;
Tina Broderick, Haverling Central
School Guidance Counselor; and
James Derr, Hammondsport Central
School Guidance Counselor. Also in
attendance were Bath Rotarians Joe
Rumsey, Haverling Central School
Superintendent, and Tad Rounds,
Hammondsport Central School High
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Above, Bath Rotary Club And Interact Scholarship Recipients: Front row (left to right): Danielle Neu, Amelia
Flint, Brooke Clark, and Darien Olesen. Back row (left to right): Sheri Neu, mother of Danielle; Mike Flint, father
of Amelia; Nancy Clark, mother of Brooke; Steven Olesen, father of Darien. Below, Frank E. Nicklaus Memorial
Scholarship Recipients: Seated: Rachel Nicklaus, widow of Dr. Frank E. Nicklaus; Front row (left to right): JoAnna
Northrop, Elizabeth Wood, and Lauren Binnert; Back row (left to right): Mark Northrop, father of JoAnna; Karen
Wood, mother of Elizabeth; Veronica Hunt, grandmother of Elizabeth; Tom Binnert, father of Lauren. Absent from
photo: Connor Amsden and Sydney Farmer. (Photo by Al Johnson.)
arship ($1500 to each recipient)
• Connor Amsden, Hammond-
Wes Payne Memorial Scholarship Recipients: Terance Payne, son of the late Wes Payne; Sheri Neu,
mother of Danielle; Danielle Neu; Brendon Murray; Brenda Kirkum, mother of Brendon; Richard
McCandless, Scholarship Chair; Absent from photo: Pam Boileau, daughter of the late Wes Payne.
(Photo by Al Johnson.)
School Principal. The awards announced were as follows:
Frank E. Nicklaus Memorial Schol
sport Central School; University of
Tampa (Marketing)
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• Elizabeth Wood, Bradford Central School; Faith Baptist Bible College in Ankeny, Iowa (Secondary
Education and Music Education)
Wes Payne Memorial Scholarship
($1000 to each recipient)
• Brendon Murray, Haverling Central School; Corning Community
College (Chemical and Mechanical
Technology)
• Danielle Neu, Haverling Central School; University of Rochester
(Chemical Engineering)
Bath Rotary Club Scholarship
($1000 to each recipient)
• Brooke Clark, Hammondsport
Central School; Providence College
in Rhode Island (Biology)
• Darien Olesen, Avoca Central
School; The King’s College in New
York (Politics, Philosophy, and Economics)
Interact Scholarship ($1000 to each
recipient)
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SCHOLARSHIPS PAGE 3
he children at the Wayland
Library had a different kind
of learning experience June
19th as Chris Velez of CujoCop Inc.
stopped by with a couple of buddies
from work. What made Velez’s working partners more fun than himself
were probably the panting tongues,
furry skin, and wagging tails.
Chris Velez, a retired NYPD police
officer and Waterfront Commission
detective of New York City, is now a
Cohocton resident and volunteer canine trainer/handler for CujoCop Inc.
He and his wife founded CujoCop in
2006 and it is now a not-for-profit
company whose primary purpose is
to provide free to low-cost training of
working dogs which includes therapy
dogs, bomb detection canines, search
& rescue dogs, and household pets.
CujoCop’s other facet is providing
Chris Velez gives a demonstration for families
at the Wayland Library, of various abilities of
working dogs such as Ezra, a Belgian Malinois,
shown here quickly locating an explosives
training item that Chris hid in the library an hour
earlier. (Photo by Darcie Velez.)
therefore focused on work and not
play (a good lesson for children to understand about such dogs) he wasn’t
Chris Velez talks to families at the Wayland Library about working dogs and about about dog safety
and handling. (Photo by Darcie Velez.)
emergency response training for the
community and certifies students in
CPR/First Aid.
Many families with small children
showed up to learn about dog safety
and handling. They also got to see
Ezra, a Belgian Malinois, quickly locate an explosives training item that
Chris hid in the library an hour earlier. As Ezra is a large working dog, and
allowed to play with the audience. But
soon thereafter Magik, a loveable lab
mix, was brought in for them to see
the differences in working breeds.
Velez is very active in the Cohocton
area serving as the Scoutmaster for
Troop 35 in Cohocton, an EMT/Firefighter in Atlanta, a volunteer hunter
safety instructor with the DEC, and a
chaplain at Noyes Hospital. ■
Little Johnny
At Sunday School they were teaching how God created everything, including human beings. Little Johnny seemed especially intent when they told him
how Eve was created out of one of Adam's ribs. Later in the week his mother
noticed him lying down as though he were ill, and she said, “Johnny, what is
the matter?'”
Little Johnny responded, “I have pain in my side. I think I'm going to have a
wife.” ■
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Avoca Residents Now
Wayland Man
to Vote at Bus Garage Charged With Vehicular Manslaughter
from May 9th Hit &
Run Accident
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T
he Steuben County Board of
Elections recently changed the
polling place in Avoca.
In January just after the tragic
shootings in Newtown, Connecticut
the Avoca Central School District
contacted the Board of Elections to
discuss moving the poll site that existed within the school. They sought
to tighten security at the doors to the
school, and because that may hinder
the free access that voters are supposed to have on Election Day, the
district proposed to move the site to
the district bus garage meeting area
just a few steps away, across the parking lot.
“The school has a legitimate safety
concern for students, and we do not
want to ask them to compromise this.
The Board of Elections also has a duty
to make sure voters are able to get to
their voting location as unfettered as
possible,” said Joseph Welch, Democratic Commissioner of Elections, “so
this move is the right thing to do.”
“Our goal is to work with and accommodate schools while maintaining access and privacy for our voters.
It makes the most sense to move the
site to the bus garage. It is accessible,
has a good working environment for
Inspectors, and it is a good alternative
site given the security issues we now
face with our students”, said Veronica
Olin, Republican Elections Commissioner. “But we will keep an eye on
how the voting goes in Avoca and reassess the new site if the need arises
in 2014.”
Written notices were sent to all voters affected by the site change. The
new site at the bus garage will be used
in the September Primary and November General Elections. ■
The New York Eagle News/NYSP
T
he investigation into the hit
and run death of a Wayland
youth on May 9, 2013, on
County Route 36 in the Town of Cohocton has led to additional charges.
Kyle A. O’Neal, age 25, of Wayland,
was initially charged with Driving
While Intoxicated, in conjunction
with the death of James T. Mitchell,
age 18, also of Wayland. Mitchell was
riding a bicycle on County Route 36
when he was allegedly struck and
killed by a vehicle operated by O’Neal.
His body was found May 10th lying
on the roadside.
O’Neal has subsequently been
charged with 2nd degree Vehicular
Manslaughter, a class “D” felony, for
allegedly causing the death of Mitchell while operating a vehicle while
intoxicated. O’Neal was arraigned
before Village of Bath Justice James
Burns and released on his own recognizance. He is scheduled to reappear
in Bath Village Court on September
16, 2013 at 3 p.m. The case has been
forwarded to the Steuben Co. DA’s
Office for Grand Jury consideration. ■
PONIES FROM COVER
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But the horses kept paddling on.
"We had no idea whatsoever about
this storm," said Denise Bowden, vice
president of the Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Company. Some of the foals
are auctioned to raise money for the
department.
"It just seemed like it came out of
nowhere," she added.
The annual pony swim — this year's
was the 88th — is part of a week-long
series of events on Chincoteague and
Assateague designed to thin out the
herd of wild ponies. It culminates
with the auction of the foals, about 50
this year.
The event has seen rain before, but
nothing like that Wednesday's weather, Bowden said.
She was one of the fire officials on
hand closely watching radar and encouraging people crossing a marsh to
keep going.
"The mud will wash off," Bowden
yelled into a loudspeaker. "The memories will last forever."
The swim has been popularized
by Marguerite Henry's 1947 novel
"Misty of Chincoteague," which was
later made into a movie. Thousands
come from across the United States
and beyond.
The ponies began their five-minute
crossing of the Assateague Channel about 11:30 a.m., herded toward
Chincoteague Island by the Saltwater Cowboys — volunteers, many of
them firefighters.
The swim takes place during slack
tide, which is the period between
tides when there is no current.
This year, though, the ponies faced
a very high tide, according to Saltwater Cowboy Tom Clements, who has
been shepherding the ponies through
the swim since the 1970s. "This is as
high as I've ever seen.
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Pony fans watch the famed wild horses of Chincoteague make their swim, but a freak thunderstorm and a high tide threatened to derail the annual
celebration. (Washington Post photo by Maddie Meyer)
"It was a little dangerous," Clements
said after the swim, noting that he
wasn't sure which direction the storm
was moving.
No ponies were hurt, Bowden said,
but a few of the cowboys' horses suffered cuts on their legs from shells.
"Outside of the weather, it was a perfect swim," she said.
Andrea Iwanik, 39, of Silver Spring,
Md., came to the swim with her family for the first time this year. She said
she arrived about 8:30 a.m.
"We waited 2 1/2 hours for torrential downpour and a little bit of pony,"
she said.
Iwanik had hoped for a better view
of the crossing, but she said she would
return another year.
"I think we have a good story to
tell," she said.
Iwanik came from Maryland, but
others traveled across the country for
the swim and staked out their spots
beginning in the early hours of the
morning. Between 30,000 and 35,000
people came, Bowden said.
Poppy Hendrickson-Hoersting, 10,
convinced her family to fly from Oregon to see the swim. She's "wild about
horses," her dad, Leo Hoersting, said,
and is a big fan of Henry's book.
The family flew from Oregon to
Ohio, where they met up with more
relatives, and drove to Virginia.
Pam Richerson, 60, of Hutto, Texas,
grew up reading the "Misty" book
and has wanted to see the swim for
decades.
One of her husband's first gifts to
her was a first edition of the book.
"I'd say we've been planning it for
36 years," her husband, John Richerson, laughed.
"My bucket list is checked off," Pam
Richerson said.
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SCHOLARSHIPS FROM PAGE 2
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• Amelia Flint, Haverling Central
School; Wells College (Math Education)
• Danielle Neu, Haverling Central School; University of Rochester
(Chemical Engineering)
The members of the Scholarship
Committee included Rotarians Vicki
Anderson, June Bates, Al Johnson,
Richard McCandless, Ernie Peltz,
Becky Stranges, and Elaine Tears.
Rotary, an organization of business
and professional leaders, provides humanitarian service, encourages high
ethical standards in all vocations, and
helps build goodwill and peace in the
world. One of the commitments of
the organization is the awarding of
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Bloomfield
Everest D. "Marty"
Martell
Bloomfield, NY - Everest D. "Marty"
Martell, age 75, passed away July 21,
2013, at Leo Center For Caring in
Rochester. He is survived by his wife
of 38 years, Mary Lou (Pettinati)
Martell; two children, Vanessa and
Matthew Martell; and several nieces,
nephews and cousins.
Marty was born in Mount Clemens, Michigan and was the son of
Everest L. and Irene (McKinnon)
Martell. He was a US Air Force
veteran. Marty was an avid outdoorsman who enjoyed running, hiking,
mountain climbing, biking, kayaking
and spending time in the Adirondacks. He loved his Lord and Savior,
Jesus Christ, his family and his
church family.
A Celebration of Marty’s life was
held July 27, 2013 at Calvary Chapel
of the Finger Lakes, Farmington. In
lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Calvary
Chapel of the Finger Lakes, P.O. Box
25099, Farmington, NY 14425 or
Visiting Nurse Service Hospice, P.O.
Box 270441, Rochester, NY 14627.
Arrangements were made through
Johnson-Kennedy Funeral Home,
Inc., Bloomfield.
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Bloomfield/Canandaigua
Dolores Teamerson
Rayburn
Bloomfield/Canandaigua, NY - Dolores Teamerson Rayburn, 88, passed
away on July 23, 2013.
Obituaries
Dolores was born March 26, 1925
in Waterloo, Canada to Arthur and
Emma Pearl Teamerson. In 1940
the family moved to Rochester, NY
where she attended and graduated
from East High School. She then
attended and received a Bachelors
of Arts degree at New York State
College for Teachers at Albany. She
taught math at Bloomfield Central
School until her retirement in 1985.
She was a member of the Bloomfield
Retired Teachers Association and
served as their representative on the
Ontario County Retired Teachers
Association.
After retiring, Dolores volunteered
her time at Sonnenberg Gardens
and delivering meals for the Ontario
County Office for the Aging Meals
on Wheels Program.
Dolores was a member of St. Bridget’s/St. Mary’s Church, St. Bridget’s
Catholic Daughters, Bloomfield
Garden Club, Bloomfield Historical
Society, and Bloomfield Fort-nightly
Club.
After living in Bloomfield for more
than 50 years, Dolores moved to
Ferris Hills in Canandaigua in 2006.
She enjoyed playing cards and board
games and was fortunate to be able to
continue these activities with other
residents who became very special
friends.
Dolores was predeceased by her
loving husband, Floyd “Dutch” Rayburn; her brother Arthur Teamerson; and her daughter-in-law Mary
Knobel Rayburn. She is survived
by her 8 children Paul Rayburn,
James (Darlene) Rayburn and Mark
Rayburn, all of Canandaigua, Martha
Powers of Syracuse, Mary (Kirby)
Green of Hopewell, Floyd (Nancy)
Rayburn, Jr. of Gorham, Pamela
(Terry) Bauer of Webster, and Sheila
(Kalen) Kriesel of Eureka, Kansas;
16 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; her brother Robert (Doris)
Teamerson of Webster; sisters-in law
Marian Teamerson, Joan (Howard)
Rose, Dolores Roth, Joyce Rayburn
and Alice Rayburn; brother-in-law
Donald (Barb) Rayburn; and many
nieces and nephews.
A funeral Mass was held July
27, 2013 at St. Bridget’s Church in
Bloomfield. In lieu of flowers, donations in Dolores’s memory may be
made to St. Bridget’s Cemetery Association, 2 Church Street, Bloomfield, New York 14469 or to a charity
of donor’s choice. Arrangements
were with the Fuller Funeral Home,
Canandaigua.
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Canandaigua
Elsie B. Bartholoma
Canandaigua, NY - Elsie B.
Bartholoma , 87, of Quail Summit,
passed away July 19, 2013 at her
home.
Elsie is survived by daughters
Karen (Jim Brown) Bartholoma
and Sherry (Dave Kennedy) Laney;
grandson, Peter (Kim) Kraft; and
dear friends Edward and Marian Moeller and family. Elsie was
predeceased by her husband Richard
Bartholoma.
A Memorial service will be held at
Quail Summit Saturday, August 3,
2013 at 10 a.m. Contributions may
be made in Elsie’s name to Therapy
Dogs International, 88 Bartley
Rd., Flanders NJ 07836 or Good
Shepherd Lutheran Church, 320 S.
Pearl St., Canandaigua NY 14424.
Arrangements are with the Fuller
Funeral Home, Canandaigua.
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St. George-Stanton Funeral Home
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Wayland, New York
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Todd and Jill Forsythe
Bud and Sue St. George
Canandaigua, NY - Thomas J.
Dempsey, 68, passed away July 21,
2013 at Clifton Springs Hospital. He
is survived by his wife of 34 years,
Florence J. Dempsey; also nieces and
nephews and many great-nieces and
nephews.
A funeral mass was held July 25,
2013 at St. Mary’s Church in Canandaigua. Burial was set for Calvary
Cemetery. Arrangements were with
the Fuller Funeral Home, Canandaigua.
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Patricia M. DiStefano
Canandaigua, NY - Patricia M.
DiStefano, age 91, passed away July
25, 2013 at F.F. Thompson Hospital.
She is survived by four daughters,
Susan (Geoff) Carpenter, Joanne
(Mike) O'Brien, Patty (Scott) Erdeli
and Lisa (Tom) Cessna; 10 beautiful
grandchildren, Michael, Lisa, Jennifer, Adam, Josh, Alisha, Kayla, Geoff,
Cody and Emma; 16 beloved greatgrandchildren; brother, William
(Betty) Clark; and many nieces and
nephews. She was predeceased by her
son, Charles T. DiStefano in 2010.
Patricia’s funeral mass was celebrated July 30, 2013 at St. Bridget's
Church, Bloomfield. Interment was
set for Millers Corners Cemetery,
Ionia. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to
Embrace Your Sisters, P.O. Box 322,
Canandaigua, NY 14424 or Happiness House, 731 Pre-Emption Rd.,
Geneva, NY 14456. Arrangements
were by Johnson-Kennedy Funeral
Home, Inc., Bloomfield.
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Ernest D. "Doug" Salyer
Canandaigua, NY - Ernest D.
"Doug" Salyer, age 69, passed away
July 25, 2013, at Hospeace House in
Naples.
A memorial service was held July
29, 2013 at Johnson-Kennedy Funeral Home, Inc, Canandaigua. Memorial contributions may be made
to the American Cancer Society, P.O.
Box 7, E. Syracuse, NY 13057.
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Dansville
Louise A. (Goho) Alford
Dansville, NY - Louise A. Alford,
age 63, went home to be with her
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ July 18,
2013, at Strong Memorial Hospital in
Rochester after a short illness.
Louise was born in Dansville on
September 24, 1949, a daughter of
the late Garner and Kathryn (Daly)
Goho. She was also predeceased by a
daughter, Sue Ellen Alford. On April
10, 1970, Louise was married to Roy
Alford, who survives.
Surviving Louise, in addition to her
husband Roy, are her children Roy
John (Colleen) Alford of Wayland,
Robert Edward Alford of OK, and
Benjamin (Jamie) Alford of Dansville; her siblings Jim (Pam) Goho
of Canada, Michael (Paulette) Goho
of PA, Carol Flickner of Lakeville,
and Marilyn (Allen) Abrams of PA;
eleven grandchildren; two greatgrandchildren; and many nieces and
nephews.
A funeral service was held July 24,
2013 at the Dansville Free Methodist Church. Interment was set for
Greenlawn Cemetery, Dansville.
Arrangements were with the Hindle
Funeral Home, Inc., Dansville.
***
Honeoye
Alan A. Decker
Honeoye, NY - Alan A. Decker, 43,
died July 23, 2013. He was predeceased by parents Richard and Janice
Decker and brother, Randy Decker.
He is survived by fiancée Linda DiJames of Rush; sons, Leo Klimczak of
Avon and Justin Decker of Palmyra;
brothers, Richard (Vicki) Decker and
Robert (Iris) Decker, both of AZ, and
Robin (Patty) Decker of FL; sisters
Leslie (John) Strong of Victor and
Loren (Thomas) Garlock of Bristol;
aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces and
nephews, including Kelly Marciniak
and Peter Garlock; and many dear
friends.
Alan was a long time member of
Genesee Valley Kart Club in East
Avon.
Calling hours were held July 28,
2013 at Kevin W. Dougherty Funeral
Home, Inc, Honeoye. Memorial contributions may be made to Hillside
Family of Agencies, 1183 Monroe
Ave, Rochester, NY 14620.
***
Grace Hicks Mastin
Honeoye, NY - Grace Hicks Mastin,
age 83, formerly of Honeoye, NY,
passed away at Ontario County
Health Facility on July 22, 2013. She
was predeceased by her husband,
Harold “Mike” Mastin in 2003 and
her son-in-law, Andy Carney in
2006.
Grace was born on February 21,
1930 to Donald and Lucretia Hicks
in Rochester, NY. She graduated
from Irondequoit High School in
1947 and continued her education at the University of Rochester
where she earned her bachelor’s
degree. Grace met the love of her life,
Harold “Mike” Mastin, in Honeoye,
where she was employed at Honeoye
Central School as an art teacher. She
took time off to raise her children,
then went to the state college at
Geneseo to get her Master’s degree in
Education and returned to Honeoye
Central School where she was an
elementary teacher until her retirement in 1982.
The Honeoye-Hemlock American
Legion Auxiliary Post 1278 was an
important part of Grace’s life. She
was poppy chairman, and for many
years leading up to Memorial Day
you could find her around town with
her poppy can in hand. She held a
variety of offices, including president
and chaplain. Grace had over 500
hours of volunteer service to veterans
at the Veteran’s Administration Hospital in Canandaigua.
In retirement, Grace and Mike
enjoyed traveling and spent winters
at their home in Orlando, Florida.
She avidly followed sports, especially
the Buffalo Bills, Orlando Magic, and
the Atlanta Braves.
Grace is survived by her children
Cindy (Bob) Peterson of Wisconsin
Rapids, WI, Laurie Carney of Boynton Beach, FL, Penny (Don) Jones of
Bristol, and Lisa (Terry) Ward of Geneva; 10 grandchildren, Erik Peterson, Holly Powell, Sarah Rasmussen,
Adam Jones, Jamie Sitterley, Andrea
Jones, Matthew Carney, Wesley Peterson, Abby Sitterley, and Christo_________________________
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The World
In Egyptian Aid Debate,
U.S. Weighs Impact on Contracts
By Ernesto Londoño and
Holly Yeager
The New York Eagle News/ The
Washington Post
A
s U.S. lawmakers weigh measures to restrict aid to Egypt,
one crucial consideration is
being largely overlooked: Shutting off
the defense materiel pipeline to Cairo
would take several years and ensnare
the United States in an unprecedented
contractual quandary.
Since the early 1980s, the United
States has granted Egypt an extraordinary ability to place orders with
American defense contractors that
are worth far more than Congress
has appropriated for military aid, according to U.S. officials. Under the
mechanism, called cash-flow financing, Egypt can submit large orders for
equipment that takes years to produce
and deliver, under the assumption
that U.S. lawmakers will continue to
allocate the same amount in military
aid year after year.
Egypt — the only country besides
Israel that is granted such a privilege
by Washington — has effectively been
given a credit card with a maximum
limit in the billions of dollars, experts
say.
The complex financing arrangement is making a tough policy debate over the future of military aid to
Egypt far more complicated than is
publicly acknowledged. Lawmakers
reassessing Washington's $1.3 billion
in yearly military aid to Egypt in the
aftermath of the country's military
coup have been stunned to learn just
how difficult it would be to shut off
the pipeline.
"It has gotten us into a situation
where we are mortgaged years into
the future for expensive equipment,"
said Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee on the State Department, foreign operations and related programs.
"It is not a sensible way to carry out
U.S. policy toward a country of such
importance, where circumstances
have changed, our interests and needs
change, our budget is under stress,
and yet we've been stuck on autopilot
for more than 25 years."
During decades of autocratic rule in
Egypt, the arrangement worked like a
charm. The aid package delivered a
windfall for U.S. defense contractors
as Egypt-bound tanks, fighter planes
and missiles rolled off assembly lines
across the United States, gradually replacing Egypt's aging Soviet hardware
and deepening that nation's reliance
on U.S.-made gear. The Pentagon
cashed in on the bounty, getting expedited access for Navy ships across
the Suez Canal, overflight rights for
interest of
the United
The multibillion-dollar gap between military contract agreements States
to
and deliveries is one measure of the vast pipeline of U.S.-built
immeditanks and fighter planes earmarked for Egypt that would be
ately change
thrown into limbo if Washington cut aid to Cairo.
all of our
Total U.S. military sales to Egypt
a ss i st an c e
to
Egypt.
$2.5 BILLION
We are reviewing our
obligations
Sales
$2
under the
deliveries
law and are
consulting
Between 2008-2012,
with ConEgypt received $4.7 billion
gress about
in sales deliveries.
the way for$1
ward."
The potential
conThe Pentagon signed off
Sales
on $8.5 billion in military
t
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a
c
t
ual
agreements
sales agreements.
fallout from
suspending
2001
2008
2012
aid became
THE WASHINGTON POST
Source: Defense Security Cooperation Agency
a key conThe value of military sales to Egypt annually from 2001 to 2012. (Washington Post cern at the
graphic)
State Department in
military aircraft and plenty of face spring 2012 as officials were delibertime with Egypt's generals. Egypt, ating whether then-Secretary Hillary
meanwhile, developed one of the re- Rodham Clinton would sign a waiver
to override conditions imposed by
gion's strongest militaries.
From 2008 to 2012, Washington Congress that could have held up
signed off on more than $8.5 billion Egypt's aid package, two former adworth of military orders placed by the ministration officials said. It was
Egyptian government, even though only then that some officials began to
Congress appropriated $6.3 billion grasp the magnitude of the problem.
"Egypt is changing, and our relafor defense aid to Cairo in that period, according to the latest data pub- tionship with Egypt is changing," said
lished by the Pentagon. During those a former administration official who
five years, Egypt received equipment was involved in Egypt policy and who
spoke on the condition of anonymity
worth $4.7 billion.
The $3.8 billion gap between con- to express reservations about the way
tract cost estimates and deliveries is a the military aid program for Egypt
revealing but incomplete measure of works. "It's increasingly volatile, it's
the vast pipeline of items earmarked increasingly fluid. In a country where
for Egypt that would be thrown into there is so much unpredictability, belimbo if Washington were to cut off ing in a situation where we have our
hands tied fiscally seems to be a teraid to Cairo.
U.S. officials declined to offer a rible policy stance."
Last year, a draft memo prepared
more specific assessment of the value
of orders that have been authorized for lawmakers who were angry at a
but not delivered. They cautioned that crackdown on U.S.-funded pro-deseveral factors, including markups on mocracy organizations in Cairo that
the price tag of defense orders, partly was sanctioned by the Egyptian military highlighted the possible impact
account for the gap.
"The decisions we make about U.S. that a suspension of aid could have on
assistance to Egypt are based on our U.S. defense contractors.
"Without the exercise of the waiver,
national security interests and our
commitment to hastening Egypt's funds would not be available to conquick and responsible return to a sus- tinue payments on current contracts,
tainable, democratically elected civil- which would have a potentially devasian government," said Marie Harf, a tating impact on the current pipeline
State Department spokeswoman. "We of U.S. produced defense articles, an
do not believe it would be in the best impact that is not readily reversible,"
U.S. sales of military hardware to Egypt
the draft memo warned. The final
draft submitted to Congress flagged
the issue, albeit in less dire language.
Clinton ultimately signed the waiver.
The administration believes it
would have a number of options to
wind down contracts if it had to suspend aid, according to a senior administration official.
Egypt started acquiring U.S. defense equipment after it signed a
peace treaty with Israel in 1979, ending decades of enmity that included
multiple wars. Eager to forge a strong
bond with Egypt, which had been a
Soviet-allied state for decades, Washington spared no effort in a bid to use
military aid to cement its nascent alliance.
"They were disillusioned with the
Russians and kicked them out and
turned to the West," said Rep. Gerald Connolly, D-Va., a member of the
House Foreign Affairs subcommittee
on the Middle East and North Africa who worked on Egypt policy as
a Senate staffer during the 1970s and
1980s. "We embraced that and, oh my
goodness, what an opportunity."
Because Egypt could not afford
pricey military equipment, the White
House allowed it to use cash-flow
financing to place orders for jets,
air-defense batteries, antitank missiles and armored personnel carriers.
Congressional auditors warned in a
1982 report that the practice could
have unforeseen consequences.
Cash-flow financing "appears to us
to commit the Congress to large financing programs in future years to
ensure that signed contracts are honored," auditors with what is now the
Government Accountability Office
said in the report. State and Defense
Department officials at the time told
the GAO that Cairo understood that
cash-flow financing did not obligate
Congress to allocate money for years
into the future. But GAO argued that
"it would be difficult for Egypt to interpret it any other way."
GAO raised the issue again in
2006 in a report that warned that
policymakers had failed to "identify
the risks and impacts" of a potential
change in aid levels to Egypt. Defense
officials told auditors at the time that
they would consider a range of options if the money stopped flowing,
including halting new orders and reducing the scope of contracts. But, ultimately, the U.S. government would
be liable for a considerable portion of
contracts placed by Egypt.
In the wake of the coup in Cairo,
members of Congress have staked out
contradictory positions on whether
aid must be cut off under U.S. law.
Leahy and Sen. John McCain, RAriz., have insisted that it must. Sen.
Carl Levin, D-Mich., who heads the
Armed Services Committee, believes
that the U.S. law requiring a cutoff in
aid in the event of a coup "does not
apply to direct military-to-military
assistance," a spokesman said. His
position has drawn particular attention on the Hill because a General
Dynamics plant where Egypt's tanks
are produced is in his home state.
Lawmakers in the early stages of
drawing up next year's foreign operations budgets are contemplating various amendments that would place
further restrictions, or outright stop,
aid to Egypt. Sensing the growing
angst on the Hill, President Barack
Obama on July 24th decided to halt
a scheduled delivery of four F-16
fighter jets, a measure that administration officials hoped would buy
them some time to appease members
of Congress.
The Egyptians, meanwhile, have
been largely silent about the debate
over U.S. aid. Their embassy in Washington did not respond to requests for
an interview. A former administration official involved in Egypt policy
said the Egyptians may be confident
that the sturdiness of the aid structure
will weather the ongoing debate.
"Don't think the Egyptian military
doesn't know that how we provide the
aid constrains us from cutting it off
easily," the former official said. "They
know this stuff a hundred times better
than us."
© 2013, The Washington Post. ■
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Health & Science
No One Knew Why She Hurt
By Sandra G. Boodman
Special to The New York Eagle
News/The Washington Post
E
ven though she couldn't see
it, Jan Harrod could sense the
dismissive eye roll that greeted
her call to the orthopedic surgeon
who had been unable to treat the persistent pain in her shoulder.
On Inauguration Day 2009, Harrod, then 49, had undergone a total
shoulder replacement after two arthroscopic procedures had failed to
repair the severe cartilage tear she
suffered in a fall.
But instead of relieving her pain, the
surgery had left Harrod with an unexplained gnawing ache in her right
shoulder and upper arm. Despite numerous tests, months of potent antibiotics and painful procedures, her
surgeon found no sign of infection
or any other problem. Her physical
therapist was equally perplexed: Harrod's new shoulder had an excellent
range of motion — the ability to move
freely — a key barometer of surgical
success.
So why, Harrod kept asking, did it
hurt to put a teacup in the microwave
or pull laundry out of the washing
machine?
It was a chance question from her
brother that ultimately led to a reevaluation of her case, upending longstanding assumptions about what was
wrong and how best to treat it. In all,
Harrod underwent seven operations
performed by three specialists before
her shoulder worked and felt right.
"I never really realized before just
how important it is to be tenacious,"
she said. "I'm a dumpy middle-aged
woman and it's easy to feel intimidated by doctors" — especially surgeons
with a commanding presence.
In June 2007, while giving a presentation at a church in Northern Virginia, Harrod fell off a low podium,
ripping the cartilage in her shoulder.
When three months of physical
therapy and painkillers failed, the
first orthopedic surgeon performed
an arthroscopic procedure, which
allowed him to inspect the joint and
make some surgical repairs. He told
her that the tear, known to baseball
pitchers as a SLAP injury, was worse
than first thought and that more extensive surgery might be required.
In June 2008, after months of PT,
Harrod still had trouble lifting her
arm, and the pain remained strong
enough to require Vicodin, a narcotic
pain reliever. After a second arthros-
count; her sed rate, a measurement involving red
blood cells; and her level of
C-reactive protein, which is
produced by the liver. Both
her sed rate and CRP levels
were persistently elevated,
which signaled inflammation, but her white count
was normal. Subsequent
tests for Lyme disease, lupus
and rheumatoid arthritis
were all negative.
In November 2009, 10
months after surgery, her
doctor told her he suspected that a component of the
artificial joint might have
After her seventh shoulder operation, Jan Harrod can play
loosened, causing pain. He
golf, do water aerobics and kayak without pain. (Photo credit:
performed an arthroscopic
Virginia Harrod)
exploration to see if he could
copy revealed extensive arthritis, the spot a problem, but found nothing.
surgeon told Harrod she might need Harrod said that by this point the
a total shoulder replacement.
pain was waking her at night, and
When Harrod was no better af- one of her adult daughters, an EMT,
ter five more months of therapy, her was concerned about the Vicodin her
brother, a lawyer for a Seattle hospital, mother was taking routinely.
advised her to find a highly experi"I think if I had been 69 or 70, I
enced shoulder specialist, not a gen- might have said, 'Well, this is as good
eral orthopedist. Her new surgeon, as it gets,' " she said. "But I wasn't even
who practices in Northern Virginia, 50 and couldn't imagine living the
also recommended a total shoulder rest of my life like this."
replacement, using a prosthetic joint
The orthopedist and his staff
that Harrod understood would be seemed increasingly unsympathetic,
made of titanium. During the pre- as test after test failed to find anyoperative physical, she answered the thing definitive. "I wanted to say, 'I
standard questions about whether she know that to you I'm just 15 minutes
had any allergies, especially to drugs on your calendar once a month, but
and latex; she had neither.
this is my life,' " she recalled.
Her 2009 operation went well, and
In March 2010, her surgeon, conafter about a month in a sling, she templating removal and replacement
started a new round of PT. Although of the joint, sent her to Philadelphia
it soon became clear that Harrod's for a second opinion. Shoulder sperange of motion was much improved, cialist Gerald Williams recommenda deep ache had settled in her upper ed that her Virginia surgeon leave the
arm and shoulder, which felt different joint in place but culture its surfaces
from the pain she had experienced and the surrounding tissue to deterbefore the joint replacement. While mine if a smoldering infection was
she could now lift her arm above her present. Harrod's fifth surgery, perhead, the normal swinging movement formed the following month, found
of her arms when she walked hurt.
nothing amiss.
After six months of rehab exercises,
After that operation, Harrod met
she asked the surgeon why she was with an infectious-disease specialstill in pain; his tone turned chilly.
ist at the behest of her surgeon. He
"I haven't had a joint infection since didn't think her pain was the result of
2004," he said, referring to one of the an infection, but Harrod insisted that
most serious complications of the she "wanted something done" and
surgery, "and I don't intend to have pushed for stronger medicine. She
it now." Harrod felt chagrined, as got a month of intravenous vancomythough he was blaming her for not cin, one of the most potent antibiotgetting better.
ics available, administered through
Because infection was the most a central line that was surgically imlikely cause of the pain, the surgeon planted in her upper left arm.
prescribed the first of many courses
Her pain was undiminished.
of antibiotics and gave her steroid
In January 2011, Harrod's brother
injections. He also ordered monthly was in New Orleans on a business trip
tests to monitor her white blood cell and met a cousin, a rheumatologist
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who practices there. The conversation turned to Harrod's long-standing
shoulder problem, and her brother
asked whether it was possible that
Harrod's severe, lifelong allergy to
nickel might have something to do
with it.
Harrod's childhood rashes —
caused by cheap jewelry containing
the metal, which made her arm look
like she'd rolled in poison ivy — were
family lore. She'd been warned never
to wear anything with even a trace
of nickel; about 10 percent of adults,
particularly women, are allergic to
the metal. The cousin said he had
heard of allergic patients who'd developed bad reactions after receiving
metal implants.
Harrod initially dismissed the theory.
"I said to my brother, 'It can't be, because the thing is titanium.' "
But increasingly intrigued — and
desperate — she began researching
metal allergies in artificial joints. She
learned that they had been documented for about 20 years, mostly in
knee and hip replacements, and involved a variety of metals. The Food
and Drug Administration's Web site
recounted the case of a heart patient
who experienced a severe systemic
reaction to a stainless steel stent.
Although Harrod had been routinely quizzed about allergies preoperatively, she had forgotten to mention
her metal allergy. The FDA advises
that doctors and patients explicitly
discuss such allergies before surgery,
since "pre-procedure questions to
identify potential allergic reactions
are often directed [at] drug reactions
or sensitivities to latex."
During a March 2011 appointment
with the Virginia surgeon, Harrod
asked him if he thought she might
have developed an allergy to titanium. "He just pooh-poohed the whole
idea," she said, and looked askance
at the research she had brought with
her. Her shoulder joint was not entirely titanium, he informed her, but
was composed of many metals, including nickel.
Harrod was aghast. "I've had an allergy to nickel all my life," she said.
"I wish you'd told me." The doctor
looked frozen and was silent, then
suggested another six-week course of
the antibiotic she had just finished.
"Your way isn't working," she recalls
telling him before walking out of his
office for the last time.
A few weeks later, her primary-care
doctor helped her arrange a MELISA
blood test, which can detect metal
allergies; it is not widely used in the
United States. Of the 20 metals for
which Harrod was screened, her only
allergy was to nickel.
Armed with her research and test
results, she returned to Philadelphia
to see Williams.
An allergic reaction to a metal joint
is rare — Williams said he has encountered about four cases in approximately 4,000 shoulder replacements
— but he became increasingly convinced that Harrod's problem was not
an infection, although it was not clear
what it was. Pinpointing a metal allergy is difficult: Testing is imprecise
and other causes of pain — including
infection, loosening of the implant
and improper alignment of the device
— must be excluded first.
Williams proposed a two-stage surgery: He would remove the prosthetic
joint and put in a spacer device impregnated with antibiotics while waiting for a custom-made non-nickel
implant to be manufactured. Then he
would install the nickel-free prosthesis.
"I wasn't sure what to expect," recalled Williams, a professor of orthopedic surgery at Jefferson Medical
College, noting that the first implant
had been positioned perfectly, which
ruled out a misalignment problem. "I
was a little concerned about whether
she was going to get better."
After he removed the problem implant, the ache began to recede. But
the real test would come two months
later, when he installed the nickelfree device. "It was remarkable, like
someone flipped a switch," Williams
recalled.
Although she faced months of recovery and PT — again — Harrod
said she felt optimistic for the first
time in more than a year. "I kept getting better and better," she said. "And
I thought, 'Now, this is the way it was
supposed to be the first time.' "
In March 2012, seven months after
her seventh shoulder operation, she
was discharged from PT and postoperative care. Although she is careful
with her new shoulder, she can play
golf, do water aerobics, kayak and
walk her dog without pain.
So does Williams ask patients about
metal allergies before he operates?
"I should probably ask more than I
do," he said, adding that the standard
of care does not require such questions. "But it probably makes sense in
talking to patients, especially women,
to be a little more inquisitive and see
if they have a nickel allergy."
Harrod, who credits Williams with
"giving me my life back," believes
such questions are essential and could
have saved her three years of pain. "I
also learned about being your own
advocate and not just sitting there
and saying, 'Oh okay,' " she added.
During her final visit with Williams, she recounted her ordeal to
the orthopedics fellow accompanying him. "I said, 'I'm doing you a favor. You're learning about this, and
because of me you're not going to let
your patients go through this.' "
By Richard Harris
Special To The New York Eagle
F
Richard Harris’ affinity for hats is not a fashion
statement; rather, it has its roots in the
foolishness of youth when he got a severe
sunburn that came back to haunt him. (Family
photo.)
Sure enough, the test came back
positive for the slowest-growing form
of skin cancer, basal cell. Although
the doctor told me it rarely metastasizes and is seldom fatal, it needed to
be removed. And because the cancer
had covered a nearly two-inch square
portion of my scalp, I would need
Mohs surgery. That's the technique
that allows a surgeon to slice off one
layer of tissue at a time (conserving
as much tissue as possible) and then
test whether there is any more cancer
present. If there is, the next layer of
tissue is shaved off and tested. The
procedure keeps repeating until there
is no more evidence of cancer.
As you're scalped — you're alert,
but a local anesthetic numbs the top
of your head — you must wait until
the surgeon gets the all-clear that no
more cancer remains.
But that was just the beginning.
Once the cancer was removed and
my scalp had healed, I underwent a
cranioplasty to re-form the skull. This
was to ensure that skin transplanted from my thigh could be grafted
onto my scalp. Once the transplant
was done, there was the matter of a
bizarre-looking, one-inch-by-threeinch section of my scalp that didn't
grow hair. Think of it as the clearing
in the forest. I didn't care so much
how I looked when I gazed into the
mirror — okay, I did — but I really
didn't want to subject the outside
world, let alone my family, to the
medical-textbook exhibit that was my
scalp.
Punography
• I did a theatrical performance about puns. It was a play on words.
• They told me I had type A blood, but it was a Type O.
• Did you hear about the cross-eyed teacher who lost her job because she
couldn't control her pupils?
• When you get a bladder infection, urine trouble.
• How does Moses make his tea? Hebrews it.
• Jokes about German sausage are the wurst.
• A soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned
veteran.
• What do you call a dinosaur with a extensive vocabulary? A thesaurus. ■
Money for
Housing
In June, the Department of Veterans Affairs
announced that 9,000 veterans would receive
vouchers for housing when the VA teamed up
with Housing and Urban Development to spend
$60 million for Section 8 housing.
Now the help will be even bigger: $300 million
will put 120,000 at-risk veterans and their families into permanent housing in all 50 states,
plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and
the Virgin Islands. These dollars will be in the
form of grants to 319 non-profit organizations
that will assist veterans and their families
through the Supportive Services for Veteran
So began a rotating series of hats —
baseball caps mostly, but occasionally
a more somber, formal cap if I was attending a funeral or religious service.
Sometimes, the timing was awkward,
even at a ballgame when most of the
fans in the stands were also wearing
caps. When the public address announcer instructed men to remove
their hats for the national anthem, I
hoped those around me didn't think I
was unpatriotic when I kept mine on.
I also recall switching jobs during this
period and sending out an all-staff email, introducing myself as "the hat
guy" to pre-empt the inevitable question of why I'm always wearing a hat
to work.
The cancer surgeon didn't suggest
I'd ever be able to grow hair on that
newly transplanted scalp. So I was
resigned to wearing a hat until my
male-pattern baldness caught up with
my blank patch. But a reconstructive
surgeon later recommended harvesting hair from the back of the neck
and transplanting it, follicle by follicle, to the new scalp that supposedly
wouldn't grow hair. Painstaking work.
Worth a shot, I thought. The first attempt didn't quite cover the spot, but
a second round more or less did.
In the years since my diagnosis
and surgery, I've remained healthy
and cancer-free. I get my entire body
checked regularly, and there's no sign
of recurrence. It has probably helped
that my head has been covered virtually every day I've been in the sun
for the past seven years. I have been
through quite a few hats during that
time, and something else occurred:
Like many men in their 50s, my hairline kept receding. So now there are
many days when I go hatless. It has
actually been liberating to feel the
wind on the top of my head. Who
would have thought I'd miss that?
It's impossible to connect the dots
from that fateful Florida trip to my
subsequent basal cell cancer, but
among the risk factors for that disease
are bad sunburns in youth. (My other
risks, according to the American
Cancer Society: having light-colored
skin and being a man, which made
Families (SSVF) program. This number is up
from last year, when the same grant program
helped 50,000 veterans and their families.
Services available through SSVF include
health care, daily living, personal financial planning, transportation, fiduciary and payee, legal,
child care and housing counseling. Monies will
even be available in certain cases for payments
to moving companies, utilities and landlords if
it helps the families gain or keep some stability.
If you're a veteran who needs help providing
housing for your family, call 1-877-424-3838.
You might qualify for help if you're about to
become homeless, or if you've just gotten into
housing and need some support services to
make sure you and your family can remain
stable where you are. Don't wait until the last
minute.
Or go online to www.va.gov/homeless/ssvf.
asp and click on FY 13 SSVF Providers for a complete list of the grant-recipient organizations
that will run the programs. The list includes the
name of each organization, as well as contact
information and the geographical area each
one covers.
You've earned the benefits and the help.
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me twice as likely as a woman to get
basal cell cancer).
The episode did give me instant
respect for the sun. It also made me
smarter on all future excursions to
the beach, where I maintain a ritual:
Come armed with the highest SPF
sunscreen I can find, stick the umbrella in the sand at an angle that provides maximum shade, and cover up
any exposed skin. Once you've had
basal cell cancer, your odds of getting
it again rise by as much as 44 percent,
according to a 2012 study.
During my carefree youth, the dangers of the sun weren't part of the national conversation to the extent that
they are today. And there's now much
more focus on prevention. Case in
point: The policy adopted in June by
the American Medical Association,
which urges schools to allow a sunscreen exception to rules forbidding
Find Your Village
Do you have a built-in microwave above the
stove that's hard to reach? Or small area rugs
that aren't taped down? Are there parts of your
home that are a bit dark? Are there times you
can't get to the drugstore to pick up a prescription?
In many parts of the country, "villages" are
cropping up. A village is a volunteer effort that
allows seniors to ask for specific changes to
their homes to allow them to continue to live
there. That work is done at a discount by local
businesses that have been screened. Often village volunteers will do smaller household tasks,
such as watering the garden or downloading a
program on the senior's computer. Or maybe
a senior needs a ride to the doctor or to take
the cat to the vet. Sometimes the service is as
simple as having someone accompany you to an
event you'd like to attend.
Seniors pay an annual fee to be connected to
the available services, which can vary depending on the particular village. Some will include
a visit by a healthcare professional to assess any
safety fixes needed in the home. What they all
have in common is the ability to help seniors
stay at home longer.
At this point, there are more than a hundred
villages across the country. If you'd like to know
more about it, go online to the Village to Village Network at www.vtvnetwork.org. Be sure
to check the Village Map to locate a network in
your area. Click on the colored icons for a popup
with contact information. Some of the villages
are not in the VtoV Network and operate independently. Or call the main office at (617) 2999NET.
- 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,
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students from brining over-the-counter medications to class.
The AMA now "encourages all students to possess sunscreen at school"
without obtaining a note from a
doctor. And the association warns
that "even just a few sunburns can
increase a child's risk of skin cancer
later in life."
Hats off to the AMA.
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My Hats Offer a
Cautionary Tale for
Summer
or the past seven years, few
people have seen the top of my
head. I've been "the hat guy."
In fact, I'm typing these words wearing my Red Sox cap, probably my favorite from my burgeoning cap collection. The hat has become a virtual
appendage, more a part of my identity
than I had realized. When I updated
my Facebook profile photo recently
— the first without a hat — I was inundated with comments from friends
and former colleagues who had never
seen me without a hat or couldn't remember the last time they had.
My affinity for hats was not a fashion statement; rather, it had its roots
in the foolishness of youth, which
came back to bite me decades later.
As summer hits its peak, consider
this a cautionary tale for sun worshipers.
In the spring of 1975, what seemed
like a good idea turned out to be a colossal blunder. During a college-break
camping trip, a group of us decided to
abandon the Chicago chill and head
south. What possessed me, a fairskinned guy, to slather myself in baby
oil and lie out in the Florida sun, I still
can't say. But I was 21 years old, and
we know that a college student's judgment isn't always spot on.
Rather than golden brown, I turned
lobster red, sporting the mother of all
sunburns, one so bad, in fact, that I
spent the rest of the trip coating my
back, chest and head with various
ointments in a futile effort to lessen
the sting and keep sheets of skin from
peeling off — even from my scalp.
Thirty years later, I began noticing
reddish, scaly blotches on my scalp,
so I went to my dermatologist. He
believed I was suffering from eczema
and prescribed a topical cream. Even
as the blotchy area grew, he remained
convinced it was eczema. So my wife
— smart woman — suggested getting
a second opinion. It took all of five
seconds for my daughters' dermatologist to look at my scalp and determine
I needed a biopsy.
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Consumers Spend More Close to Home,
Pushing Hospitality Jobs to Record
By Jeff Green and Leslie
Patton
Bloomberg News
K
atie Nelson, general manager
at Bar Louie in Chicago’s
River North neighborhood,
recently called the chain's headquarters with some good news: Business is
booming. That bolstered her plea for
money to hire 20 employees.
"We're hiring a ton right now,"
Nelson said on a Friday evening as
her outdoor patio filled with diners
sipping Goose Island Matilda pale
ale and munching flatbread pizzas. "Whenever we get new people
trained, we still need more."
Bar Louie's newest dishwashers,
cooks and servers owe their jobs to
U.S. consumers who are spending
more on dining, amusement parks
and other close-to-home activities.
Fresh crews streaming into restaurants from Red Robin Gourmet
Burgers to Domino's Pizza lifted the
number of leisure and hospitality jobs
to a record 14.2 million in June, with
hiring 80 percent stronger so far this
year than in 2012. The sector now accounts for about 10.5 percent of the
U.S. work force, also a record since
the government started tracking the
jobs in 1939.
"We're definitely seeing that people
are coming out more frequently and
we're seeing a growth in transactions," said Charlie Morrison, chief
executive officer of Richardson,
Texas- based Wingstop Restaurants,
which this year is adding about 1,000
workers and 70 locations. "This is our
best year since the recession."
The looser spending that's lubricating date-night bar tabs and higher
traffic at casual-dining restaurants
also is paying off for investors. So
far this year share prices have risen
28 percent at Starbucks, 29 percent
“Whenever we get new people trained, we still need more,” says Katie Nelson, general manager at Bar
Louie, setting up a table in the Chicago restaurant this month. Bar Louie's newest dishwashers, cooks
and servers owe their jobs to U.S. consumers who are spending more on dining, amusement parks and
other close-to-home activities. (Bloomberg News photo by Tim Boyle).
at Dunkin' Brands and 52 percent at
Sonic, all outstripping the 19 percent
advance in the Standard & Poor's 500
Index.
Sales at U.S. restaurants and bars
will reach a record $461.3 billion this
year, a 3.8 percent gain from 2012, the
National Restaurant Association in
Washington estimates.
Even with the U.S. unemployment
rate stuck above 7 percent for a 55th
straight month in June, the economy
has regained 6 million jobs in recent
years. That's 6 million more people
who can afford to go out, said Michael
Montgomery, U.S. economist at IHS
Global Insight in Lexington, Mass.
"Discretionary spending is under
less stress," Montgomery said, adding
that there's also less pressure from the
price of gasoline, which ended June
about the same as two years earlier. "It
was harder for people to find money
for food away from home when gasoline prices kept going up."
That means more jobs for restaurant workers, amusement park employees and crews at golf courses, all
of which count as leisure and hospi-
tality industry jobs. The sector added
75,000 employees in June, including
52,000 for food service and drinking
places, leading all groups, according
to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
"Employment tends to drive a lot
of the overall picture for restaurants,"
said David Tarantino, a Milwaukeebased restaurant analyst at Robert W.
Baird. People with jobs "don't necessarily have as much time to cook."
Domino's Pizza is putting final
touches on its first-ever national hiring week, Patti Wilmot, executive vice
president of human resources at the
Ann Arbor, Mich.-based company,
said in an interview. The pizza chain
plans to advertise its hiring week on
television and set up tents outside
stores with hot slices of pizza and information about the company.
The chain so far this year has hired
3,000 to 3,500 workers at its U.S.
corporate-owned locations, which is
more than last year, she said
"We could easily add 7,000 team
members," Wilmot said. "Our stores
have never been busier."
It's a pattern repeated nationwide as
chains expand and other restaurants
spring up. Some 12,000 new restaurants were added last year, the most
since 2007.
Sonic, whose carhops serve food
to diners parked in their cars, is adding locations on the West Coast. The
Starbucks unit Seattle's Best Coffee
opened 10 drive-thru stores in Texas
in May, adding about 150 jobs. Red
Robin on July 1 issued a statement
seeking to hire 100 workers who
agree "the sizzle of burgers on the grill
is music to your ears" for a new location in Springfield, about 200 miles
southwest of Chicago.
Addison, Texas-based Bar Louie,
which sells dirty martinis and tempura shrimp, is opening locations
and looking to fill positions. In August, the 71-location chain will hold
job fairs in suburban Washington,
Greece, New York and Boston.
Steve Davidson, 52, said he decided
to open one of the 70 new airplanethemed Wingstop restaurants in January in Warren, Mich., after 32 years
in the industry working for other
people. He has 12 employees now and
may hire more later this year in time
for the U.S. football season when fans
gather in greater numbers for chicken
wings and beer, he said. Next year, he
said he plans to open a second store.
"I was encouraged by the economic
outlook," said Davidson, taking a
break from serving the lunch crowd,
many from the nearby General Motors technical center that is booming again after the automaker's 2009
bankruptcy.
"The last 30 days or so we've seen
another 10 to 15 percent improvement, and it's been kind of a steady
gain like that each week," Davidson
said.
The improving outlook is unleashing bigger spenders, said Scott Rick,
an assistant professor of marketing
at the University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross School of Business who
studies the emotional causes of consumer financial decisions. He classifies about a quarter of consumers as
tightwads who resist spending, and
another quarter as spendthrifts, or
enthusiastic consumers. The rest of
us, Rick says, fall in the middle.
"The spendthrifts are bouncing
back" after the last recession, he said.
"People are very willing to look for
positive signs and they can be influenced even by the idea that they are
going to earn more in the future."
While the number of jobs at restaurants is soaring, the wages trail other
industries. The workers in the sector
averaged about $13.46 an hour in
June, less than the $24.01 average for
all workers, according to BLS data.
The employees in the entertainment
sector also averaged about 26 hours a
week, meaning many don't qualify for
benefits, according to the data.
For now, everyone should benefit
from the expansion, said Jon Luther,
chairman of Roark Capital's Arby's
Restaurant and a director at Chili's
owner Brinker International and
amusement park operator Six Flags
Entertainment.
"There's still a work ethic in this
country, and extended unemployment only goes so far, and if opportunities come up that are $12 or $13 an
hour, people take them" until something higher-paying opens up, Luther
said. He retired in May as chairman
of Dunkin' and was on the board of
Roark's Wingstop before taking the
chairman spot at Arby's.
Employment at amusement parks
and arcades, like those at restaurants,
was at a record in May, the most recent month for that level of detail,
according to BLS data. The May total
was a 33 percent gain from the June
2009 recessionary low.
The improvement is evident to
Rick Iceberg, president at C.J. Barrymore's, a complex in Clinton Township, Mich., that bridges the world of
restaurants and amusement centers.
The sprawling venue with go-karts,
batting cages and bowling is adding a
6,500-square-foot arcade in October.
"This is my third recession at this
job, so I knew what to expect," said
Iceberg, who will have to hire more
workers for the expansion. "You can
tell it's getting better."
— With assistance from Alex Tanzi
in Washington.
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Health-Care Law is Tied to New Caps
on Work Hours for Part-Timers
By Sandhya Somashekhar
The New York Eagle News/The
Washington Post
F
or Kevin Pace, the president's
health-care law could have
meant better health insurance.
Instead, it produced a pay cut.
Like many of his colleagues, the
adjunct music professor at Northern
Virginia Community College had a
hefty courseload, despite his official
status as a part-time employee. But
his employer, the state, slashed his
hours this spring to avoid a Jan. 1 requirement that all full-time workers
be offered health insurance. The law
defines "full time" as 30 hours a week
or more.
"We work so hard for so little pay,"
he said. "You would think they would
want to make an investment in society, pay the teachers back and give us
health care."
Last month, the Obama administration delayed the employer insurance
requirement until January 2015. But
the state of Virginia, like some other
employers around the country that
capped part-timers' hours in anticipation of the initial deadline, has no
plans to abandon its new 29-hour-aweek limit.
The impact on Pace and thousands
of other workers in Virginia is an unintended consequence of the health
law, which, as the most sweeping social program in decades, is beginning
to reshape aspects of American life.
Under the law, companies with 50
or more workers will be required to
provide health insurance to all their
full-time employees, or face significant fines.
The decision to delay that requirement was welcomed by business
groups, which said companies needed
more time to adapt to the law. But the
delay has emboldened the law's critics, who say it is evidence the statute is
ill-conceived and should be repealed.
A new Washington Post-ABC News
poll finds that the country, which remains deeply divided about the law, is
similarly split about the delay in the
employer requirement. Fifty-one percent say they support the delay, while
For Northern Virginia Community College music professor Kevin Pace, health-care reform could have
meant better health insurance. Instead, it produced a pay cut. The state of Virginia cut his hours this
spring to avoid a Jan. 1 requirement that all full-time workers be offered health insurance. Pace now
supplements his income by giving guitar lessons in his Alexandria, Va., home. (Washington Post photo
by Matt McClain)
45 percent say they do not. The public
is also divided over whether the setback means the law is fatally flawed.
The poll, taken at a time of heightened criticism of the law, also finds
support has weakened among Democrats since last year. Just under six in
10 Democrats say they support the
law, the lowest point for Post-ABC
surveys since the law was passed in
2010.
When the law was written, advocates hoped the employer requirement would help reduce the ranks of
the uninsured. Some employers have
indeed said they would offer insurance to additional workers, but others
have gone in the opposite direction.
Virginia's situation provides a
good lens on why. The state has more
than 37,000 part-time, hourly wage
employees, with as many as 10,000
working more than 30 hours a week.
Offering coverage to those workers,
who include nurses, park rangers and
adjunct professors, would have been
prohibitively expensive, state officials
said, costing as much as $110 million.
"It was all about the money," said
Sara Redding Wilson, director of
Virginia's Department of Human
Resources Management. "If we could
cover everyone, we would."
It is unclear how many companies
have already cut staffing hours this
year in anticipation of the law. Mer-
cer, a human relations consulting
firm that regularly queries public and
private entities, found that 12 percent
of employers in a survey last year
planned to cut staff hours to avoid a
jump in costs under the new rules.
However, the numbers are higher
for the retail and hospitality industries, as well as for government, because those employers often rely on
a large number of part-timers but do
not already offer them benefits, the
firm said.
Obama administration officials say
there is no evidence that large numbers of businesses are cutting their
workers' hours this year. Rather,
they say, Bureau of Labor Statistics
numbers suggest full-time hiring has
grown despite the employer mandate.
"We are seeing no systematic evidence that the Affordable Care Act
is having an adverse impact on job
growth or the number of hours employees are working," said Alan
Krueger, chairman of the White
House Council of Economic Advisors, adding that "the law is helping make health insurance coverage
more affordable, which supports job
growth."
While a number of private businesses cut worker hours this year because of the health-care law, they have
been loathe to do it because of fears
of public blowback, said Jared Pope,
a Texas consultant whose clients include local governments and businesses. Governments have been more
open because they must make their
decisions publicly, he said.
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clients had capped hours and another
18 were considering it. Those that
took the difficult step of curbing parttime hours are not likely to reverse
course, only to have to reinstate the
limit next year, he said.
"They kind of somewhat [ticked]
people off already," he said. "They
don't want to undo it and become a
good guy now, only to do it all over
again to be the bad guy."
Part of the dilemma lies in the definition of "full-time," which diverges
from the industry standard of 40
hours per week. Advocates say the 30hour bar was supposed to discourage
employers from simply shaving a few
minutes off a full-time worker's hours
to skirt the law. But it turns out that
"an awful lot of people work less than
40 hours a week," said Timothy Jost,
a health policy expert and consumer
advocate.
Now, business groups and unions
are urging Congress to change the
rule to define full time as 40 hours,
but they face long odds, given both
parties' reluctance to tinker with the
law. Some Democratic-leaning communities, including Dearborn, Mich.,
and Long Beach, Calif., have imposed
caps on part-time workers to keep
them below the 30-hour threshold.
Officials in Utah's Granite School
District, which includes about 70,000
students in the Salt Lake City area,
said their new policy limiting parttimers to 29 hours per week affected
about 1,200 workers. Extending benefits to all of them would have cost
the district $14 million, officials estimated.
The biggest impact was felt by substitute teachers, said Gayleen Gandy,
president of the school board. The
best ones, she said, regularly work
more than 30 hours per week. The
administration's delay is unlikely to
cause the district to review the new
cap on hours.
"From what I understood, the
change simply extended the implementation timeline," she said. "That
really doesn't change anything about
what we decided. It just put us ahead
of the game for next year."
Pace, the music professor, said it
will be a challenge to make ends
meet, even with the odd jobs he does
to supplement his college income,
which has been cut to $17,000 a year.
He gives bass and guitar lessons in his
Alexandria, Va., home, plays live gigs
around the area and runs a nonprofit
called the D.C. Jazz Composers Collective.
He argues that the state should have
recognized the contribution of workers like himself and coughed up the
extra money to offer insurance. But
since that didn't happen, he said, he
would have preferred to keep the status quo, rather than to end up with
reduced hours and an $8,000 pay cut.
"We treat this as our job," said Pace,
34. "We devote all of our time and
Spending Up,
Savings Down
Consumers are feeling more confident
about spending. So says the most recent report on consumer credit by the Federal Reserve. Jobs rates are up more than expected.
Pay rates are rising. Home prices are going
up.
In May, the average household mortgage
debt was 8.67 percent, a small increase over
December 2012. Consumer debt, however,
which includes credit cards, was 5.07 percent, higher than it's been since the end of
2010.
A Gallup poll in June of the average daily
money habits of consumers across the country showed that the daily spending amount
of $90 is higher than it's been since 2008.
These figures don't include mortgage, vehicle or regular household bills -- only purchases at a store, restaurant or online.
Mint.com, an online money site that collects information from consumers, says that
since 2009, monthly household expenses
have gone up from $3,870 to $4,200. Included
in that is a rise in gas expenses from $110 to
$198 per month. In spite of extra expenses,
restaurant spending has risen from $192 per
month to $212.
Given the differing information (the more
you look, the more varied the information
you'll find) one item from the Federal Reserve report stands out: Consumer spending
is up ... but rate of saving is down.
The bottom line is that the experts can't
agree on the state of the economy, and therefore don't know what will happen in the future.
In spite of the appearance of more jobs and
income, the old rules from the past few years
still apply:
--Save, save, save. Put money away.
--Pay extra on credit cards and get them
paid off. Once paid off, don't use the cards
unless you find a sale for something you
need and can pay off the balance in three
months. Be sure the interest you pay doesn't
come to more than you'd save by not buying
on sale.
--If you're approved for a home mortgage,
don't spend up to the limit you can borrow.
Save the extra money for repairs or maintenance.
--If you'd like to buy a new vehicle, consider
whether yours will last one more year. Keep
the maintenance up on it. Shop for sales on
tires, and clip coupons for oil changes.
--Don't own too many gadgets, and if you
buy, don't get the best. One step down is often good enough, including refurbished. Get
a few dollars on buy-back programs when you
do upgrade.
- David Uffington regrets that he cannot
personally answer reader questions, but will
incorporate them into his column whenever
possible. Send email to columnreply2@gmail.
com.
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start really benefiting, to be profitable
in the future, they need to invest."
Discount retailer Family Dollar
Stores Inc., which operates solely in
the United States, is opening 500 new
outlets this year, and Rite Aid Corp.,
a U.S. pharmacy chain, is remodeling
400 locations in fiscal 2014. Pier 1 Imports Inc. plans $75 million in capital
expenditures, including on stores and
technology, Chief Financial Officer
Charles Turner said during a June 20
conference call.
"We've got to start investing in now,
so we can be ready for what traffic
we're expecting" in fiscal 2016, Alan
Graf, chief financial officer of Memphis-based FedEx Corp., said on a
June 19 conference call. The world's
largest cargo airline plans to spend
about $4 billion on capital goods in
fiscal 2014, including for facilities
and aircraft, while investments for its
ground-shipping subsidiary also will
climb for the "next several years" to
meet growing demand, Graf said.
Such increases are set to bolster
the U.S. expansion between now
and year-end as companies unleash
cash from their record-high balance
sheets amid a brighter economic
outlook. Job gains that beat expectations in June have helped firm market
projections of a September start for
the Federal Reserve to begin reducing its unprecedented $85 billion in
monthly asset purchases, indicating
confidence that growth is sustainable
without record levels of monetary
stimulus.
Shulyatyeva projects capital expenditures will accelerate at a 6.9
percent annualized pace in the third
quarter and 7.6 percent in the fourth
after growing 4.4 percent in the three
months ended June 30. The increase
was only 0.1 percent in the first quarter, as federal budget cuts and tax increases weighed on the private sector.
Gross domestic product rose 1.8
percent in January-March. BNP
economists estimate it will reach 2.4
percent in the final three months of
the year after 2.2 percent in the third
quarter and 1 percent in the second.
Technology stocks are starting to
reflect the optimism. The Guggenheim Standard & Poor's 500 EqualWeight Technology Exchange-Traded
Fund is up 23 percent this year compared with a 21 percent rise for the
Guggenheim S&P 500 Equal-Weight
ETF. The strong housing outlook has
helped push the S&P 500 Homebuilding Index up 37 percent in the past
year as the broader S&P gained 24
percent.
Increased spending on technology
equipment probably will prove a boon
for Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft, navigation device-maker Garmin of Switzerland and Cognizant
Technology Solutions Corp., which
reap the majority of their revenue in
North America. Microsoft boosted
investment by 24 percent and Garmin
by 102 percent during the past year.
Cognizant, a provider of technologyconsulting services based in Teaneck,
New Jersey, increased spending by 19
percent in the same period.
The Federal Reserve Bank of San
Francisco's Tech Pulse Index, which
tracks the health of the U.S. IT industry, is showing an improvement
in investment, consumption, employment, industrial production and
shipments, rising to 98.96 in May, the
highest since August 2008.
"A lot of these companies are sitting
on lots of cash and trying to figure
out what to do with it," said Richard
Gordon, a researcher of global ITmarket forecasting for Gartner UK in
London.
Businesses have been hoarding
funds in the aftermath of the recession, with nonfinancial liquid assets
reaching a record $1.78 trillion in the
first quarter.
Gauges of corporate confidence also
are climbing. The Morgan Stanley
Business Conditions Index jumped
to 71 percent in June, the strongest
since January 2011 and matching
the largest one-month increase. The
Conference Board's measure of CEO
confidence increased to 62 in the second quarter, the highest since the first
quarter of 2012, from 54 in the prior
three months. A reading above 50 indicates more positive than negative
responses.
Rising employment reflects the
improvement. Payrolls increased by
195,000 in June for a second straight
month, the Labor Department reported July 5, capping 12 consecutive months of gains above 100,000
— the longest such streak since the 33
months ended in May 2000.
Capacity utilization, a measure of
efficiency that averaged 74.5 during
the recession, was at 77.6 in May, indicating companies across all industries may be forced to spend more to
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Businesses will need to accelerate
the pace to surge above pre-recession
levels, however. Nonresidential investment, including in equipment
and software as well as structures
such as office space, fell by $376 billion between the fourth quarters of
2007 and 2009 and has since climbed
$308 billion.
Capital-goods orders slowed last
year, declining 4.7 percent in December from a year earlier after rising 9.2
percent in the 12 months ended in
January 2012. The outlook for 2013
is "OK, but not great," with orders
"trending along in the mid-singledigit range, which is not exceptional,"
said Michael Carey, chief economist
for North America at Credit Agricole
CIB in New York and the top forecaster of GDP growth for the two years
ended in May, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Carey sees the economy expanding
1.3 percent in the second quarter, 2.4
percent in the third and 2.9 percent in
the fourth.
For businesses to make bigger capital investments, they'll need to see
more strength in consumer demand
and sales, which have been "a little
uneven," Carey said.
Retail sales rose 0.4 percent in June,
less than forecast, as demand cooled
at building-materials outlets and restaurants. The gain followed a 0.5 percent increase in May that was lower
than previously reported, Commerce
Department figures showed July 15th
in Washington. The median forecast
of 82 economists surveyed by Bloomberg called for a 0.8 percent advance.
Some companies are sharing extra cash on hand with shareholders.
Atlanta-based home-improvement
retailer Home Depot Inc. said in February it would increase its dividend
to 39 cents a share from 29 cents.
Time Warner Cable in New York,
the second-biggest U.S. cable system,
announced in January a boost to 65
cents from 56 cents.
Another potential obstacle to corporate spending is the prospect for
budget gridlock as the U.S. Treasury
approaches its $16.7 trillion borrowing limit and Congress negotiates fiscal 2014 spending. World economic
growth is also a consideration. The International Monetary Fund trimmed
its forecast for a fifth consecutive time
July 9th to 3.1 percent this year, unchanged from the 2012 rate and less
than its 3.3 percent April forecast.
Even so, gains in the U.S. housing and auto markets that persisted
through a weak first quarter have
come amid rising consumer confidence, encouraging businesses to
spend. Consumer sentiment held
near a six-year high in June, according
to the Thomson Reuters/University of
Michigan gauge, and the Bloomberg
Consumer Comfort Index climbed in
the week ended July 7 to the highest
since January 2008.
Total new-home sales in May
jumped to 476,000, the fastest annualized pace since 2008, and permits to
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practice 30 years ago. Under Chief
Justice John Roberts, the court has
been receptive to efforts to bring religion into the public square.
Two residents of the Rochester suburb have waged a five- year campaign,
arguing that the town is going beyond
what the justices allowed in 1983, violating the Constitution by endorsing
Christianity.
"Government should be inclusive,"
said Susan Galloway, 51, one of the
country's founding — and not something that was called into question
when the First Amendment, adopted
in 1791, barred the "establishment
of religion" by the government. The
vast majority of state legislative bodies open the day with some kind of
prayer, as do both houses of Congress.
"It's part of our historical tradition
and the fabric of our country," said
Vince DiPaola, the founder of the
Lakeshore Community Church, an
evangelical congregation, who has
delivered the prayer at town meetings
The case in Greece, N.Y., a highlight of the nine-month term that starts in October, will mark the first
time the court has considered legislative prayer since upholding the practice 30 years ago. (Bloomberg
News photo by Heather Ainsworth).
women challenging the practice.
"There are people who don't believe,
and they're part of this country, too.
We all have a right to be part of it and
not feel excluded."
The dispute has turned bitter at
times. Galloway and her friend Linda
Stephens, a retired school librarian,
say they have received anonymous
letters warning them to "be careful."
Stephens woke up one morning to
discover someone had dug up her
mailbox and placed it on top of her
car.
The town rejects their complaint,
arguing that it hasn't shut out members of other faiths. Officials say the
opening prayer has been delivered by
a Jewish man, a Bahai leader and a
Wiccan priestess who invoked Apollo
and Athena.
"People from other faiths did volunteer, which is great," said one of
Greece's lawyers, Brett Harvey of
the Alliance Defending Freedom in
Scottsdale, Ariz. "The town has no
problem with any of that."
The case will test the impact of the
court's changed composition over the
past decade and the ideological shift
that has left Justice Anthony Kennedy
as the most likely deciding vote. The
justices will probably hear arguments
in November or December.
The court has taken up religion
cases only sparingly since Roberts became chief justice in 2005. In perhaps
the biggest ruling, a 5-4 decision in
2010, it revived a federal law designed
to protect a Christian cross erected
as a war memorial in a national preserve.
"The goal of avoiding governmental
endorsement does not require eradication of all religious symbols in the
public realm," Kennedy wrote in the
court's lead opinion in that case.
Supporters say legislative prayer has
been a widespread practice since the
at least seven times.
Critics say that tradition doesn't
mean government bodies can favor one religion over others. Ayesha
Khan, who represents the challengers,
says at least half the state legislatures
take steps to ensure the invocations
are nonsectarian.
"It's not unusual for legislative bodies to ask guest prayer-givers to pray
in an inclusive fashion, and that's exactly what we're asking for here," said
Khan, a lawyer with Washingtonbased Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
The prayer tradition is relatively
new in Greece, a 96,000- person town
about five miles from Rochester. Before Auberger became supervisor in
1998, the town began meetings with
a moment of silence. Prayers started
the following year, according to a
federal appeals court that ruled the
policy unconstitutional.
It wasn't until 2007 that the practice
became a public controversy. Galloway, a Jewish woman who has lived
in Greece since 2000, said she grew
uncomfortable after repeatedly hearing Christian prayers while attending
board meetings to show her support
for public-access cable television.
Stephens, 70, a soft-spoken atheist
who has lived in Greece since 1970,
developed similar objections after
attending meetings that touched on
various issues, including the creation
of a disc golf course in a public park.
The two women say they sought
to discuss the issue with Auberger,
only to find themselves meeting with
two staff members instead. Galloway
and Stephens say they were told at
the meeting that they could leave the
room during invocation.
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build one-family homes also climbed
to a five-year high.
Even as mortgage rates rise from
record lows, the economy is less
interest-rate-sensitive as households
have repaired their balance sheets and
home affordability has surged, said
Ted Wieseman, an economist at Morgan Stanley in New York. The average
for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage was
4.51 percent in the week ended July
11, the highest in almost two years,
compared with 3.31 percent in November, the lowest in records dating
to 1972, according to data from Freddie Mac.
Automakers that typically would
be closing shop this month for annual retooling are either shortening
or canceling the shutdowns because
of increased demand. Cars and light
trucks sold at a 15.9 million seasonally adjusted annualized rate in June,
the strongest since November 2007.
Most of Ford's North American assembly plants are idling for one week
this summer instead of two, increasing production by about 40,000 cars
and trucks, the company said May
22. Three of Auburn, Mich.-based
Chrysler's assembly plants and all
except one of its engine, transmission
and stamping factories are skipping a
summer shutdown this year, the automaker said.
The abbreviated and canceled shutdowns show automakers are "really
ready to invest in capacity, invest in
production," Shulyatyeva said. Capital expenditures at Ford, based in
Dearborn, Mich., already have surged
by 36 percent in the past year, based
on data compiled by Bloomberg.
Family Dollar executives plan to
spend between $750 million and $800
million on capital goods this fiscal
year, including on new stores.
"While the current sales environment remains challenging, I believe
that our future is bright and that we
are making the right tactical and strategic decisions to move the business
forward," Michael Bloom, president
and chief operating officer, said on a
July 10 conference call.
— With assistance from Rich Miller,
Kristy Scheuble and Shobhana Chandra in Washington and Craig Trudell
in Southfield, Mich.
© 2013, Bloomberg News. ■
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pher Carney; 2 great-grandchildren
with 2 more on the way; sister-in-law
Helen Mastin of Canadice; brotherin-law and sister-in-law Ivan and
Virginia Mastin of Springwater; and
many nieces and nephews.
A funeral service was held July 25,
2013 at the Honeoye United Church
of Christ followed by a graveside service and luncheon. In lieu of flowers,
memorial donations may be made
to the Honeoye-Hemlock American
Legion Auxiliary Post 1278, PO Box
288, Honeoye, NY 14471 or to the
Ontario County Health Facility’s
Activities Department, 3062 County
Complex Drive, Canandaigua, NY
14424. Arrangements were made
through the Kevin W. Dougherty
Funeral Home, Honeoye.
***
Lakeville
Robert C. Jesse
Lakeville, NY - Robert C. Jesse, 77,
died July 21, 2013. He is survived
by his wife Ruth; children, Scott
(Stacy) Jesse and Bryon Jesse, both of
Lakeville, and Lisa (Peter) Rouviere
of Greece, NY; and grandchildren,
Jennifer, Amanda, Michelle, Autumn
and James.
Friends are invited to graveside
services, Thursday, August 1, 2013,
10 AM at East Avon Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made
to Livingston County Hospice, 2
Murray Hill, Mt. Morris, NY 14510,
or Noyes Center for Kidney Disease
& Dialysis Center, 4616 Millennium
Dr., Geneseo, NY 14454. Arrangements are with Kevin W. Dougherty
Funeral Home, Inc. Livonia - Honeoye.
***
Lima, NY/San Angelo, TX
Duane August Englert
Lima, NY/San Angelo, TX - Duane
August Englert, age 73, a life-long
resident of San Angelo, Texas, was
called home to be with the Lord on
July 21, 2013, after a short-stay in
Lima, NY.
Duane was born on October 1,
1939, in Van Court, Texas, to August
and Lydia Bolf Englert. He graduated
from Wall High School in Wall, TX,
in 1956, then went on to work for
K.C. Sales Propane Company for 34
years. He later worked at Wal-Mart
in the automotive department for
13 years before retiring at the end of
2011.
Duane was a man of great integrity.
He believed in working hard and
doing everything with excellence.
He genuinely loved and cared for his
family and friends. He was a loyal
and faithful son, brother, husband,
father, uncle and friend.
Duane was predeceased by his parents, and he is survived by his loving
wife of 35 years, JoAnn of Lima,
NY; sons, Alan Englert, Nathan
Dale Ferguson, and Mark Englert,
all of San Angelo, TX; daughters,
Tonja and husband John Maholick
of Las Vegas, NV, and Mary Lou and
husband Jeremy Dosiek of Lima, NY;
granddaughters Haley Maholick and
Connelly and Amaris Dosiek; sister,
Arlene and husband Jerry Hoelscher
of St. Lawrence, TX; and brother,
Harvey and wife Patty Englert of San
Angelo, TX. Duane is also survived
by two special nieces, Paula and
husband Jerry Doyle of Round Rock,
TX, and Kimberly and husband
Darren Jost of St. Lawrence, TX; and
a special nephew, Kevin and wife
Lindy Hoelscher of Brooklyn, NY;
along with their families.
A memorial service to celebrate
Duane’s life was held Sunday, July
28, 2013 at the Stone Family Life
Center located at San Angelo First
Assembly of God Church. There will
be a private service for the immediate family in NY. In lieu of flowers,
memorial contributions can be made
to the Alzheimer’s Association; or
to Livingston County Hospice, 2
County Campus, Mt. Morris, NY
14510; or to the Wall High School –
Class of 1968 Scholarship Fund, Wall
Education Foundation, PO Box 259,
Wall, TX 76957.
***
Naples
Steven A. Ryan
Naples, NY - Steven A. Ryan, age
63, passed away peacefully July 23,
2013 at the Canandaigua VA Medical
Center Hospice.
Steve was born June 22, 1950 in
Nowata, OK, a son of Buddy and
Elaine Ryan. He was a veteran of the
US Army, serving from 1976 to 1979.
Steve is survived by his wife, Susan
(Northrop) Ryan; sons Brian A. Ryan
(Kenna Littlefair) and Christopher S.
Ryan; his grandson Max Steven Ryan
and Max's mother and a very special
friend, Theresa (Bellows) Monaghan;
Steve's mother and step-father,
Elaine and Albert Woodhead; sisters,
Cathy (Randy) Waggoner, Cindy
(Jim) Kirkpatrick and Kimberly
(Donald) Riesenberger; brothers, Michael Ryan, Don (Dawn) Ryan and
Michael (Nicole) Woodhead; and
many aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews
and cousins.
A celebration of Steve's life was
held July 27, 2013 at the Naples VFW
Post # 8726, Naples. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to
the Lupus Foundation of America,
PO Box 418629, Boston, MA 022418629. Arrangements were with the
Baird-Moore Funeral Home, Naples.
***
Penn Yan
Lyle B. Corey
Penn Yan, NY - Lyle B. Corey,
92, passed away July 25, 2013. A
Celebration of Life will be held Saturday, August 3, 2013 at 12:00 p.m.
at the Penn Yan American Legion.
Arrangements are with TownsendWood Funeral Chapel, Penn Yan.
***
Burton E. Fingar
Penn Yan, NY - Burton E. Fingar, 78,
of Penn Yan, passed away peacefully
surrounded by his loving family at
Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hospital
on July 18, 2013.
Burt was born in Penn Yan on
January 1, 1935, the son of Kenneth
and Mildred (Orr) Fingar. He was
a graduate of Penn Yan Academy,
where he was a standout member
of the basketball team, and in 2011,
Burt was an elected member of the
inaugural class of the Penn Yan
Academy Athletic Hall of Fame.
Burt worked as a union carpenter
for many years, and in 1985 established his own business, "The Wood
Doctor", which he operated until his
retirement.
Burt was a member of the Sons
of the American Legion, a lifelong
member of the B.P.O.E. Elks Lodge,
the Seneca Lake Duck Hunters, and
Penn Yan Moose Lodge #2030, where
he held several offices including
Governor.
Burt is survived by Gail, his loving
wife of 58 years; children Jeffrey
(Carla), Kimberly (Ric) Soares, Barry
(Karen), and Tamara Fingar Boulter;
his grandchildren Haley (Bill) Barrar,
Troy (Meghan Robinson), Megan,
Aaron, Adam, and Brittany, Taylor,
and Paige Boulter; his sister Bertha
(George) Havens; several nieces and
nephews; and many close friends.
Burt enjoyed following Syracuse
Orangemen basketball, loved the NY
Giants, and was a lifelong diehard
Boston Red Sox fan.
Per Burt’s wishes, there will be no
formal funeral services. A memorial
service was held July 27, 2013, at the
Penn Yan Moose Lodge. In lieu of
flowers, donations may be made in
Burt's memory to Keuka Comfort
Care Home at PO Box 107, Penn
Yan, NY. Arrangements were with
Townsend-Wood Funeral Chapel,
Penn Yan.
***
Catherine was born October 15,
1931 in Sewell, Rancagua, Chile and
lived with the beauty of the Andes in
her heart for all her life. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a Bachelor
of Arts in English from Cornell
University in 1953, and with a Master's Degree from SUNY Geneseo in
1974. She was married to Lawrence
N. Smith of York for more than 59
years. Catherine taught Spanish and
French to elementary, high school
and university students in Geneseo
and at Purdue University. She created
stained glass and arranged flowers as works of art, loved animals
and managed the York Opera, all
while faithfully providing spiritual
support to her family in their many
endeavors in life, at school, in their
chosen professions and on the farm.
She was a lifelong, faithful student of
Christian Science.
Catherine is survived by her
husband, Lawrence; her brother,
William A. Austin III of Boonton,
NJ; her three sons, Marc of Seneca
Falls, Andrew (Susan) of York, and
Adrian (Lee Weiskott) of New York,
NY; and four grandchildren and two
great grandchildren, all of whom she
loved dearly.
Funeral Services will be private.
A celebration of Catherine's life will
be announced by the Rector-Hicks
Funeral Home at a later date.
In lieu of flowers, gifts may be
made online in Catherine's memory
to the "Monitor Operating Fund" of
The First Church of Christ, Scientist: secure.qgiv.com/for/tfcocs
or to WXXI at members.wxxi.org.
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Make Summer the Season for
Saving Energy
By Margaret Ely
Washington Post
W
hether replacing light
bulbs or unplugging your
unused cellphone charger,
small changes can make a big impact
on your electricity bill this summer
and beyond.
Kristinn Leonhart, spokeswoman
for the Environmental Protection
Agency's Energy Star program, said
the average home has about 30 light
fixtures, together consuming more
electricity than a home's washer and
dryer, refrigerator and dishwasher
combined.
And because regular incandescent
light bulbs emit heat, she said, using
more-energy-efficient bulbs in your
home's most-used fixtures makes a
significant difference.
"Replace them with more-energy-
From left; CFL and LED lights produce 75% less heat than incandescent bulbs; every degree of change on your thermostat can make a 2% difference on your
energy bill; an air-conditioning system can account for 30% of an energy bill in the summer. Sources: EPA and Pepco. (Washington Post illustration by Allie
Ghaman.)
Cindy Olson, vice president of the
green energy consulting firm EcoCoach, said air conditioners are often
left on when no one is home and set
to temperatures lower than is necessary for comfort.
"It is something that is very personal," Olson said. "A lot of times, simply
air movement is enough to be comfortable, even with just a ceiling fan."
Test
how
you and your
family feel by
adjusting the
temperature up
by one or two
degrees at a
time. Every degree of change,
she said, can
make a 2 percent difference
Unused appliances such as toasters can make up 10-15% of your bill (left);
on your utilproperly selected and planted shade trees can save up to $80 annually on
ity bill. An airthe average electric bill (right). Sources: EPA and Pepco. (Washington Post
illustration by Allie Ghaman.)
conditioning
system can acefficient bulbs, which use less energy count for 30 percent of an energy bill
and produce about 75 percent less in the summer, according to power
heat," Leonhart said. "They're good company data.
Updates in technology have made
for cooling bills."
The two kinds of energy-efficient new central air systems, often with
bulbs Energy Star certifies are com- programmable thermostats, at least
pact fluorescent (CFL) and light- 15 percent more efficient than older
emitting diode (LED), both of which models. If you aren't ready to replace
have longer life spans than conven- your central air-conditioning unit
altogether — the EPA suggests dotional incandescent bulbs.
Another small change with major ing so if it is more than 10 years old
— regular maintenance will ensure
impact? Resetting the thermostat.
your unit is running as efficiently as it
can. A dirty air filter, for example, can
damage equipment and cause early
breakdown.
"Dirt and neglect are bad," Leonhart
said. "Check and clean your air filters
every month, and change them, at a
minimum, every three months."
Other big energy hogs are unused
appliances. Whether you're going on
a summer vacation or not, unplug
coffeemakers, toasters and hair dryers, or invest in power strips with
energy-saving features.
"My computer charger was pulling
a huge amount of energy," Olson said.
"Unused appliances make up anywhere from 10 to 15 percent of your
bill. It's not doing you any good to
leave anything plugged in if you aren't
using it."
Both Leonhart and Olson also
stressed weatherizing your home. If
it's drafty in the winter, Olson said, it's
still going to be drafty in the summer,
letting cool air escape unless cracks or
doors are sealed properly. And be sure
to seal up heating and cooling ducts
where air tends to leak, Leonhart said.
Olson suggested having a professional inspect your home's heating and
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Exposed ducts in crawl spaces, basements and attics are often fixed with
duct sealants or metal tapes.
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— Reduce the temperature of your water heater. Setting it
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or higher, according
to Energy Star) can
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— If you raise your If your raise your thermostat setting by only two degrees and use your
thermostat setting by ceiling fan, you can lower you cooling costs by up to 14% (top); as
only two degrees and much as 20% of the air moving through your home’s duct system is lost
through leaks, holes and poor connections. Sources: EPA and Pepco.
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The Camellia Loses a
Dear Friend
By Adrian Higgins
Washington Post
T
here was a time when guys
wore too much plaid, had too
much hair and drove cars the
size of tennis courts. It was called the
1970s.
It was also a period of wickedly cold
winters — this might seem a cruel
taunt in the midst of an infernal summer — but this frigidity brought its
own misery. William Ackerman was a
plant hybridizer at the U.S. National
Arboretum at the time, overseeing a
scientifically valuable collection of camellia species and varieties. Two successive harsh winters devastated these
big, lovely, evergreen shrubs. By the
spring of 1978, he was able to gauge
the full damage: Of 956 specimens —
many collected by explorers in Southeast Asia — only 15 had survived.
The calamity was to shape the rest
of his life: Ackerman died July 6 at the
age of 89, but he left the world with a
raft of new camellias bred to endure
temperatures down to 15 degrees below zero. Short of a new ice age, which
doesn't seem the prevailing climatic
trend, camellias are safe now, thanks
to Bill Ackerman. He has extended
the range of a flower associated with
the old South as far north as Nova
Scotia.
Thirty-five years ago, many gardeners thought they had lost one of their
most special plants: Camellias had
all the big-leafed evergreen beauty of
rhododendrons, hollies and Southern
magnolias, but with the added bonus of large, showy waxy blooms, in
shades of red, pink and white. They
like gardens with partial shade and
need a sheltered spot in winter to
very decorative, and
it is grown
in its native China
for its seed
oil.
Its
popular
name is
the tea-oil
camellia.
Ackerman also
used another species,
C.
hiemalis,
in his efforts. OfAckerman’s Ashton series: Top left, Ashton’s Ballet; bottom left, Ashton’s Prelude; on
his
the right, Ashton’s Highrise. In addition to winter survival, Ackerman wanted to create ten
c
r
o
s
s
es
camellias of different landscape habits and use. (Photo credit: William Ackerman.)
would be
avoid wind damage; thus the shade
as compligarden becomes an asset. Most of all, cated as he needed them to be to crethey flower at a time of year when ate the garden plant he wanted. For
much of the garden is bare.
example, a variety named Winter's
Varieties of a species called Camel- Snowman has as one parent Plain Jane
lia sasanqua bloom in the fall into and the other a seedling he raised by
winter. The showier, more iconic C. crossing C. sasanqua Narumigata and
japonica varieties flower in late winter C. hiemalis Shishi-gashiri.
into early spring.
This is nerdy stuff, but the point
If the plant has a fault — other than is that it takes four to six years for a
the fact that flowers in February can seedling to bloom, and thus to be
get zapped by a freeze — it's that evaluated. When you consider that he
a blossom that looks so fragrant is introduced some 50 cold-hardy variscentless. Sasanquas can have a per- eties, winnowed from thousands of
fume, but it is slight and musky to hand-pollinated seedlings, you get a
many noses.
sense of his passion for this quest and
Ackerman was working on breed- the number of years he spent on his
ing more fragrant varieties when the work.
freezes changed the focus of his work.
Ackerman grew up on a dairy farm
His breakthrough in cold-hardiness in New Jersey and attended Rutgers
came with a species named C. oleif- University, where he met his wife,
era. Two named varieties, Lu Shan Kitty. They were married for 64 years.
Snow and Plain Jane, survived the
In the early '50s, working for the
freezes at the arboretum in Northeast Agricultural Research Service, he
Washington. Oleifera's flowers aren't moved to the agency's plant intro-
The form and habit of his plants was
duction research station in Chico,
Calif., where he evaluated tree fruits particularly important to him, she
and nuts, including peaches and pis- said. Previously, when camellias were
grown in greenhouses for showing,
tachios.
It wasn't until he came to the agen- the focus was flower form, but Ackcy's research station near Beltsville, erman wanted his camellias to funcMd., that he began his work on cation as handsome garden plants and
mellias, along with Japanese iris and selected varieties for their leaf color
and gloss and the shape of the shrub.
other ornamental plants.
"He tried very hard to get people to
When he retired from the arboretum in the early 1980s, this merely al- appreciate camellias for their landlowed him to spend more time work- scape potential," she said.
He also collaborated with other hying on cold-hardy camellias at his
seven-acre farm in Maryland, where bridizers, notably Clifford Parks in
he had a few greenhouses to raise his Chapel Hill, N.C., who also worked
on cold-hardiness. "He concentrated
seedlings.
Most of his introductions bloom on oleifera and I concentrated on
in the fall and early winter, including varieties with japonica," he said. "He
his Winter series.
Winter's Beauty
is a compact, upright shrub with
soft pink blooms;
Winter's Dream
has a stronger
pink, semi-double flower and
is more vigorous and upright.
Winter's Snowman is white with
a n e m on e - t y p e
flowers, suited
for mass planting as a narrow William Ackerman, who died July 6 at the age of 89, left the world with a
raft of new camellias bred to endure cold-weather temperatures. (Photo by
hedge.
Richard Mohr.)
His later Ashton series included Ashton's Ballet, with rose-like was very enthusiastic about his work
flowers in two-tone pink; Ashton's and very anxious to communicate
Snow, with white semi-double blooms and to collaborate with people."
Margaret Pooler, who succeeded
that last from early November to
late January; and Ashton's Supreme, Ackerman and another prolific hywhich is covered in deep lavender- bridizer at the arboretum, Don
pink blooms in the fall. He was par- Egolf, said that "you can see the great
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Reunion
By Stephanie Green
Bloomberg News
"T
his is one of the most
stimulating times in my
life," says Robert Plant,
the Led Zeppelin front man who will
turn 65 this month.
The singer is on the road with his
Sensational Space Shifters. On Tuesday night July 22nd in suburban
Washington, D.C., he offers hope to
tracks. They still sing along word
for word, hands waving above their
heads, on "Going to California" and
"Friends."
Gone are the chest-baring vest and
low-slung jeans of the 1970s. Plant
sports a nondescript button-down
shirt, tosses his mane and swings the
microphone like a dance partner.
"Every night is different," he jokes
about his tour, which moves on to
Connecticut and Brooklyn. "It's like
being married. Welcome to another
sedate, middle-aged evening."
Robert Plant, center, performs July 22nd at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts in
Washington. The tour, playing nationwide, has raised hopes for a Led Zeppelin reunion. (Photo credit:
Griffin Harrington/Wolf Trap ).
fans who want his old band to reunite.
The amount of Led Zeppelin material satisfies many in the sweaty
crowd salivating for the thunder of
the 1970s British act that sold as many
as 300 million records. Led Zep is the
biggest-selling group in the U.S. after
the Beatles.
Plant knows that a reunion tour
would be one of rock's most lucrative,
easily outselling last week's gig at the
Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts.
He starts with the romance of "Babe
I'm Gonna Leave You" and signs off
with a climactic "Rock and Roll."
In between, Plant adds his personal
signatures: his passion for foreign cultures and American music from the
Delta, and a few numbers from his
solo career, like 1983's "In the Mood."
"Black Dog" features Juldeh Camara, an African musician who intensifies the Zeppelin standard with
his performance on the ritti, an exotic
stringed instrument. "Whole Lotta
Love" is blended with Bo Diddley's
"Who Do You Love?"
The crowd, a curious blend of teenagers and retirees, doesn't seem to
mind the new takes on the familiar
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Plant has been dogged with questions about a reunion since performing with surviving members Jimmy
Page and John Paul Jones in London's
02 Arena in 2007. The release of a
DVD of the concert late last year fueled the fever.
Page is set to release another album
and embark on a tour late this year,
while Jones has been working with
Seasick Steve and has solo projects.
Both have made optimistic noises
about a tour while waiting for Plant
to come back to the songs. The singer
will headline the Bluesfest 2013 in
London's Royal Albert Hall in October.
Tuesday evening, he leaves the
faithful with a hint of hope as he exits
the stage.
"Remember, it's never over," he says.
"See you soon."
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strides" they achieved. Egolf, who
died in 1990, is perhaps best known
for his work on crape myrtles. "They
took a plant and totally changed the
way we can use it," said Pooler.
D.C. Exhibit Examines
Capital Sights Through
Alien Eyes
By Jennifer Maas
Washington Post.
T
ired of the moons of Jupiter or
the rings of Saturn as a summer vacation destination?
Why not head to the home of the
famous "Oval/Triangle Pillar-Thing,"
or the "Really Big Pillar" — split into
a few pieces, despite successful repairs
circa 2013?
That, at least, is how artist Ellen
Harvey envisions galaxy-hopping
aliens deciding to travel to Washington some 10,000 years in the future.
Her exhibit, "The Alien's Guide to
the Ruins of Washington, D.C.," at
the Corcoran Gallery of Art offers a
glimpse into a version of the future
where the human race has long been
extinct, the Earth is populated only
by ruins, and aliens interested in the
"architectural legacy of the Earth's
former inhabitants" can take a tour
of what was once the capital of the
United States.
But who has 10,000 years to wait to
see all that? Not the Yugo family of
Chicago.
In the District of Columbia last
week for a visit, the family decided
to sightsee like aliens might, as part
of a scavenger hunt Wednesday night
that was organized by the Corcoran
in conjunction with the exhibit. More
than 50 people trekked around the
city and the National Mall, trying to
match Harvey's depictions of D.C.
in ruins with today's intact version
— and to track down an alien, hurl a
"flying saucer" and do a jig in front of
the White House.
Trish Yugo said she and her husband were planning to take their
three sons to see all these landmarks
anyway and was happy to get an
alien-themed-assist.
Her son Connor, 11, was enjoying
himself but didn't count himself as an
extraterrestrial believer.
"Aliens are like Bigfoot," he said.
"They always say they are gonna find
him but they never do. If they were
real, they would have found them by
now."
Not everyone at the scavenger hunt
was as skeptical. Emily Blevins, who
took part in the after-hours version
of the event — alien-inspired drinks
Ackerman, in his book "Beyond
the Camellia Belt," said that in plant
breeding "there are no guarantees.
Perhaps it is the failures that make the
successes so much sweeter."
Bill, we thank you.
Colin Best, center, dresses as an alien as he takes part in a scavenger hunt last week in Washington
as part of "The Alien's Guide to the Ruins of Washington D.C." exhibit by the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
(Washington Post photo by Marvin Joseph)
at downtown bars, among other activities — said she believes "there is
probably life somewhere else in the
universe. Whether it's in the form of
little green creatures, that's questionable."
Blevins thought the destruction of a
city as significant Washington would
be interesting to aliens, who never
knew what the city meant to its inhabitants.
"It's always fascinating to imagine
a symbol of power or of identity in a
state of ruin. What happens when the
very core of who we are as Americans
is destroyed? What's left? " she asked.
Those are the types of questions
that Harvey, a painter who is based
in Brooklyn, intended to explore with
the paintings, model souvenir stand
and guidebook that make up the exhibit. She imagines the aliens would
see the White House as the "Oval/Triangle Pillar-Thing" and the Library of
Congress, full of decaying books, or
cellulose, as once a giant food storage room. Aliens might see, in the
ruins of the capital city, a "lovely collaborative empire." The pillars — all
roughly the same style- might make
them think "we must have been a
radically egalitarian society." But not
everything would make perfect sense.
"Congress totally baffled them. What
was it for?" Harvey said.
She said she was inspired by the
neoclassical architecture in Washington and by time spent in London and
Rome. "It is so interesting all these
cultures think the perfect thing to
represent them is a building with a
whole bunch of pillars," she said. "So
I thought of, not knowing history or
about the Roman empires, colonial
empires, the Enlightenment, what
would you think of this?"
The exhibit imagines aliens traveling to Earth 10,000 years from now to
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Radical SR3 Racecar Rips Monticello Track
By Jason H. Harper
Bloomberg News
H
ow do you master dangerous endeavors except by
actually attempting them?
Mountaineers have to get on cliffs;
racecar drivers have to learn to push
the boundaries of speed and traction.
So here I am piloting a racecar at
140 mph.
It's a Radical SR3, an open-cockpit,
closed-fender missile and as I head
down a long, sloping straightaway all
of my senses are distilled, my attention so taut as to be brittle.
Even with ear plugs, the engine
scream is cacophonous. Still, I'm
breathing normally and my pulse is
steady. This is not the time to lose
your head or you really could lose
your head, seeing as it's sticking out
of a car which lacks a roof or windshield.
Rare is the opportunity to drive a
purpose-built racecar, a vehicle crafted with aerodynamics that make it
handle better at 150 mph than at 50,
and which has no need for airbags,
radio or even doors.
Radical Sports Cars, a brand based
in Peterborough, England, is devoted
to exactly this type of vehicles. Starting around $100,000 for a base model,
they are built with fiberglass and tube
chassis and powered by small, highrevving engines.
Big rear wings and special bodywork add aerodynamic downforce, so
the air itself keeps the car glued to the
fairly easy to drive."
Novack is one of
three instructors for
three students, a stellar ratio.
I've got an edge
since I often test cars
here and know the
track well. Still, the
car is foreign. I slip
into my Alpine Stars
fireproof suit, driving shoes and gloves,
and put on my fullface helmet. This
year has brought
a number of highRadical SR3 racecars on a Monticello track. The Radical's rear wing and special bodywork serves as an aid in aerodynamic
profile deaths in racdownforce, allowing it to handle better at high speeds. (Phto credit: Monticello Motor Club).
ing, including one at
the most recent Le Mans, a sobering
asphalt — provided you're going fast TurboTax. Same basic concept, totally reminder that safety equipment is essential.
heightened execution.
enough to make the physics work.
The Radical is surprisingly straight
"This is easily the cheapest and
I've seen various Radical models
idling on tracks from Spain to Ne- easiest way to try your hand with a forward. You sit in the left-hand side
vada, and I finally get a chance to genuine racecar," says Monticello rather than in the center like most
try one at a New York venue, Mon- operations manager Ashley Novack. claustrophobic open-cockpit cars.
ticello Motor Club, which is offering "Compared to most, the Radical is
a two-day Radical driving school for
$4,900. While MMC is a private club,
the school is open to the public, with
dates available into the fall.
While the price isn't cheap, neither
is the cost of running racecars. These
high-strung thoroughbreds require
on-hand mechanics, high-octane gas
and motors that frequently need rebuilding.
The payoff is an experience that a
regular sports car, even a Porsche 911
By Keith Naughton and
GT3 or Ferrari 458, can't provide. A
Craig Trudell
racecar is to a production sports car
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There's even room for a passenger
seat.
Drivers shift through gears effortlessly using behind-the- wheel paddles, manipulating a high-revving
1,340 cubic- centimeter Suzuki Hayabusa engine with some 200 horsepower. Since the vehicle weighs less
than 1,200 pounds, that's plenty of
oomph to hustle it along.
Radical also has more potent models, like the SR8, which has more than
twice the power and set an astounding lap record at Germany's Nurburgring.
Instruction by MMC staff is crisp
and efficient. While a novice could
take the class, it's clearly most beneficial for experienced drivers. Most
important from my perspective is the
actual number of laps I get on the 4.1mile course. (More than I can count.
By the end of the day, I am exhausted.)
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ler captured buyers at a rapid rate in
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automakers gained U.S. market share
for the first time in 20 years. Their
above-average deliveries are driving
industrywide sales to the highest rate
since 2007, up 9.2 percent in June to
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Even that superlative doesn't do justice to the job Detroit is doing, said
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historian based in Boston. Back in
1993, the last time the Detroit Three
collectively gained share in the year's
first half, many buyers came from the
Depression generation, which was
more forgiving of flaws in models
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DETROIT FROM PAGE 16
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from Motown than baby boomers, he
said.
"These are probably some of the best
products we've seen from American
manufacturers since the early 1970s,"
said Wolkonowicz, who believes a
new generation is embracing Detroit.
"Younger buyers are more prone to
buy American and one reason is they
want to be different than Mom and
Dad, who fell in love with Japan Inc."
U.S. carmakers have helped the industry pick up the pace throughout
the year. Automakers may sell 15.4
million cars and light trucks in the
U.S. this year, the most in six years,
according to a survey of 18 industry
analysts by Bloomberg News. Analysts have raised their projections
from an average of 15.1 million in a
survey at the beginning of the year.
Replacement demand and "historically low interest rates irrespective of
the conversations surrounding the
Fed" are fueling continued growth for
the auto industry, Ken Czubay, Ford's
vice president of U.S. marketing, sales
and service, said July 2nd on a conference call.
"The tailwinds continue to be
strong" and are "pretty forceful," he
said.
The new-generation buyers are
choosing the kind of car from Detroit
that their parents purchased from
Toyota and Honda. Sales of Ford's
Fiesta small car more than doubled
in June, leading the automaker to an
overall gain of 13 percent, exceeding analysts' forecasts. Chrysler's
Dodge Dart compact car had its best
month ever, as the automaker majority- owned by Fiat reported a 39th
straight monthly increase.
Sales of GM's Chevrolet Cruze
compact, which Automobile magazine praised in May for its "impressive build quality" and an interior
that feels "as though it belongs in a
more expensive vehicle," jumped 73
percent in June. GM's total June sales
rose 6.5 percent, three times more
than analyst forecasts.
"We live in a time where you can,
with a straight face, say the best
compact sedan that you can buy in
the marketplace is a Chevrolet," Ed
Kim, an analyst with AutoPacific Inc.
in Tustin, Calif., said of the Cruze.
"When was the last time anyone could
say that and not get laughed out of the
room?"
Detroit's deliverance from a time
when its cars were a laughingstock
came courtesy of its challenging 2009.
Government- backed bankruptcies of
GM and Chrysler and a self-financed
restructuring at Ford transformed the
business case on small cars from loss
leaders to reputation rebuilders. With
sedans no longer an afterthought, Detroit is offering stylish models such as
the Ford Fusion and Cadillac ATS.
"The Big Three look like they can go
toe-to-toe with Toyota, Honda," Eric
Noble, president of industry consultant Car Lab, said July 2nd on Bloomberg Television. "On the hybrid side,
Ford is actually cutting in on Toyota."
Rising demand for Fusion and C-
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And so, at the end of the very long
back straightaway I jam on the brakes
— there is no ABS or any type of traction control — and my torso snaps
against the safety harness. The next
turn is sharp and up a hill. On most
cars you carry the brakes up the incline.
The Radical's lightness and downforce changes the equation. I'm off
the brakes very early, still going really fast, bound up the hill and snap
through an extremely tight S turn —
holy cow! — and then I'm gassing it.
I can do that faster. I'm not racing
the car as hard as it's designed to go.
And so on my favorite part of the
track, a long sweeping uphill that demands a mix of patience and gumption, I push the car to its limit.
Actually I push the tires past their
limits, and suddenly the car is sliding,
seemingly out of control. My instinct
is to slow, but I do the opposite, gunning the gas and increasing speed
so that the aerodynamic downforce
comes into play. The car sticks hard
to the track.
The only way to learn is by doing,
even when it is a little terrifying.
— Radical Driving Experience,
$4,900 for two days. Monticello Motor
Club, 888-927-0597; monticellomotorclub.com/programs/radical-experience.
- The author's opinions are his own.
Max hybrids drove Ford to break its
previous annual record for hybrid deliveries in the first five months of this
year.
Ford, the second-largest U.S. automaker, increased its market share by
0.8 percentage points in the first half
to 16.5 percent, according to Automotive News Data Center. Market
share for Chrysler, the third-biggest
domestic carmaker, grew by more
than 0.1 point to 11.6 percent. GM,
the top-selling automaker in the U.S.
market, boosted its share by less than
0.1 point to almost 18.2 percent.
The Japanese are not standing still.
Toyota, offering interest-free loans
and other incentives, boosted sales
9.8 percent in June, more than its 6
percent gain for the year's first half.
The Prius and other Toyota hybrids
had their best June results. And after
four down months, Toyota sold more
than 35,000 Camry sedans, keeping it
the top-selling car in America.
"Camry's still the No. 1-selling car
in the segment, but it's been having
chunks taken out of its share from
a lot of these much more interesting competitors," Kim said. "Having
spent significant seat time in all of
these vehicles, by far and away, the
Camry comes off as the most underwhelming."
Nissan notched record sales in June
after cutting prices on seven models.
Its Altima family car, which had a
$580 price cut, jumped 23 percent to
26,904, as Nissan's total sales rose 13
percent, including its Infiniti luxury
brand.
2014 Ford Fusion
Energi Electric Hybrid:
It's the Future
By Warren Brown
Special to The New York Eagle
C
hange comes, albeit slowly.
Examples abound — smartphones, computerized note-
books.
I never thought I'd have to depend
on those things. I now find it difficult
to get though a day without using one.
The same thing will happen with
electrified automobiles. That's "electrified," as opposed to "electric" per
se.
Electric vehicles, battery-only
types, constitute a singular version
of electrified models, which include
cars such as the subject of this week's
column, the 2014 Ford Fusion Energi
sedan in its SE Luxury edition.
It is a plug-in electric hybrid, quite
similar to the Chevrolet Volt. Both
cars can run a certain number of
miles battery-only, freeing them from
the need to burn gasoline and exhaust
its fumes.
But both cars also come with extended-range technology — small
gasoline-fueled engines/generators
that take over when charged batteries
discharge.
"The Altima is a very strong value
that offers attractive styling, very
appealing price and very good fuel
economy," Kim said. "And the Fusion
is a looker. I don't think the Camry
can afford to be the way it is for that
much longer."
Similar sentiments were once
shared by critics of Detroit's automotive offerings, even when all three
companies were gaining market share
while slipping in quality back in 1993.
"This is a completely different landscape than in '93," said Kevin Tynan,
Bloomberg Industries auto analyst.
"This is much better share with much
better product and much better margins. The domestics, for the first time
since well before 1993, are legitimately competing."
The Focus ST is the first American
car for Amoth since his very first car,
a used 1988 Cadillac DeVille. "It was
awful," he recalled. "We didn't change
the oil so much as replenish it."
Now Amoth said his Ford doesn't
seem like "a gamble."
"In the past, all American cars had
to offer in my segment was cheaper
transportation," Amoth said. "Now I
don't feel like I'm sacrificing anything
to drive an American car."
— With assistance from Megan
Durisin, Tim Higgins and Mark Clothier in Southfield, Michigan, Alan Ohnsman in Los Angeles and Erik Schatzker in New York.
The Ford Fusion Energi sedan is a plug-in electric hybrid that can run about 20 miles battery-only. But
it also comes with extended-range technology — small gasoline-fueled engines/generators that take
over when charged batteries discharge. (Photo credit: Ford)
The essential difference is that the
Fusion Energi can carry you up to
21 miles battery-only. The Chevrolet
Volt offers a nearly 40-mile batteryonly range.
After several hundred miles, mostly
commuting, in the Fusion Energi,
I'm not at all certain that its shorter
battery-only driving range is a real
disadvantage. Here's why:
My regular commuting day — one
during which I run local errands only
— rarely involves more than 20 miles
of driving. It helps that I work from
home. At the end of one of those 20mile days, I plug in and charge up and
I'm ready for the next day's driving
free of the need to buy or burn gasoline.
I drove the Fusion Energi in this
manner for nearly 300 miles, buying gasoline only when I deliberately
drove the battery into its discharge
zone. I made it home after a 120-mile
highway run with a bit more than
three-fourths of a tank of gasoline
(regular grade) remaining. I was happy with that — decent gasoline-free
driving range, good fuel-economy
(41 miles per gallon on the highway) when gasoline was needed, allaround good highway performance
in an overall well-crafted sedan.
I don't expect a groundswell of consumer enthusiasm for the Ford Fusion Energi, not any more than I did,
in retrospect, for the Chevrolet Volt.
But both cars are necessary in a world
of rapidly changing energy needs and
growing challenges to meeting those
needs.
Both cars cost more than most of
us are willing to pay when perfectly
serviceable gasoline-only automo-
biles are available at lower prices. The
Ford Fusion Energi starts at $38,700.
The Chevrolet Volt Hatchback begins
at $39,145.
By comparison, a wonderfully
plush gasoline-only Ford Fusion Titanium sedan starts at $33,295. You'll
be driving for quite a while before you
recover, in lower gasoline costs, the
higher premium paid for the plug-in
electric Fusion Energi.
Why buy it?
Answering that question will require thinking beyond your bank account, which is a difficult if not impossible proposition for most of us.
I'll just say that the Ford Fusion Energi, Chevrolet Volt and similar automobiles all make sense for the world
we are in.
It is a world of increasing, dangerously competitive energy demands,
which is difficult for many of us to
see sitting comfortably in the United
States. But it becomes crystal clear in
places such as Africa, China, South
America and the Middle East.
Governments worldwide are pressuring their vehicle manufacturers to
help reduce that tension in the struggle for energy resources. Cars such as
the Fusion Energi and Volt can help
do that while simultaneously giving
consumers what they want and need
in automobiles.
Both will remain hard sells for a
while longer. But they will sell.
It's simple.
We need them, which is why we
eventually will buy them.
- The author's opinions are his own.
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Managing Yankees As She Liked It
Put Afterman in Baseball's Trio
he said in a telephone
interview that her legal
background has had
Bloomberg News
much more of an impact.
ong before she encountered
Afterman said there
George Steinbrenner across a
hasn't been a female
negotiating table, Jean Aftergeneral manager mostman was performing Shakespeare to
ly because of numbers.
hone the skills that would earn her
"I don't think it is sexthe respect of the New York Yankees'
ism," she said. "There
owner and lead her to a job in a Major
are only 30 of those
League Baseball front office.
jobs available and they
Afterman, one of only three women
rarely come up."
to ever hold the position of assistant
She said she doesn't
general manager for an MLB team,
want to be the first
was a lawyer and player agent before
woman to become a
joining the Yankees in 2001. Her first
general manager —
career was as an actress, and she says
who typically has the
that helped her break into the norNew York Yankees Vice President and Assistant General Manager Jean final say on player permally all-male bastion.
sonnel. Instead, she'd
"A part of any negotiation is act- Afterman is one of only three women to ever hold the position of
assistant general manager for an MLB team. She is shown in June in
prefer to follow the
ing, you have to act outraged or you Oakland, Calif. (Bloomberg News photo by David Paul Morris).
path of Pam Gardner,
have to pretend like they got the better of you," Afterman said in a dug- holding that post for the Boston Red president of the Houston Astros for
out interview before a Yankees game Sox from 1990 until being promoted 11 years until she resigned in 2012.
"I think my comfort zone is more
in Oakland, Calif. "And negotiating to vice president and club counsel in
in the business and legal side of our
with George Steinbrenner was one of 2002.
Ng, 44, was assistant general man- industry, and I think that today's
the highlights of my theatrical career."
Afterman, 56, a former character ager of the Yankees from 1998-2001 general manager is much more someactress with a preference for Shake- and of the Dodgers until 2011 before one who is comfortable in the player
spearean comedies and Cole Porter becoming MLB's senior vice presi- evaluation side of it," she said. "When
I came to the Yankees, Brian told me
musicals, has found herself part of a dent of baseball operations.
Baseball has never had a woman straight off he didn't want a talent
drama this season with the Yankees.
The team has lost more than half its general manager. Susan Nierenberg, evaluator, he had more than enough
starting lineup to injuries for most of vice president of global marketing scouts, and he said he needed somethe season; about 4,000 fewer people and corporate communications for body who would be his compliance
than last year are attending games Catalyst Inc., said she would welcome officer."
To Cashman, 46, who has been
at Yankee Stadium as the club has more women getting upper managesunk to fourth place in the five-team ment positions with sports teams. general manager of the Yankees since
American League East, and its high- New York-based Catalyst is a research 1998, Afterman provides the perfect
est-paid player, Alex Rodriguez, has group that promotes workplace diver- partner.
"She makes sure everything I do is
been under a drug- suspicion cloud sity.
"Leadership is leadership — it's not accurate and complete, and makes
while recovering from hip surgery.
Steinbrenner, the former Yankees gendered — and reflects the market- sure I see roadblocks before they ocowner who died in 2010, and General place and key stakeholders," Nieren- cur," he said. "The last thing we need
Manager Brian Cashman were so im- berg said in an email message. "As in as we put a club together is to step in
pressed with the negotiating skills of many other industries, we look to the potholes."
There have been plenty of injuryAfterman that they hired her to focus day where a women general manager
on contracts and compliance for the in sports is not the first or even the related potholes this season for the
Yankees, who have a value estimated
second, but the new norm."
27-time World Series champions.
Both Afterman and Cashman said by Forbes at $2.3 billion, fourth highAfterman got the job when Kim
Ng left to take a similar post with the they don't think gender has been a est in world sports behind European
Los Angeles Dodgers. Elaine Stew- factor in Afterman's career. Though soccer clubs Real Madrid, Manchesard is the third woman to have been Cashman called her "a very powerful ter United and Barcelona.
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The Miami New Times reported in
January that Rodriguez's name was
included on a client list at the nowdefunct Biogenesis of America LLC
clinic in Coral Gables, Fla., which
was selling performance-enhancing
drugs. ESPN reported in February
that Biogenesis founder Anthony
Bosch injected Rodriguez with
banned substances, and the network
said last month that MLB Commissioner Bud Selig would seek to suspend as many as 22 players without
Brown, to Stephen Sondheim's "Follies" as Sally, and moved on to dramas
such as William Shakespeare's "As
You Like It," performing the role of
Celia, in college.
Afterman graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in
1979 and went to London to pursue
a career in acting. When that fell
through, she tried acting in San Francisco and New York while supporting
herself by teaching English as a second language.
New York Yankees Vice President and Assistant General Manager Jean Afterman, right, speaks with
a baseball scout while watching a game in June in Oakland, Calif. The former character actress has
found herself part of a drama this season with the Yankees. (Bloomberg News photo by David Paul
Morris).
pay for their relationship with Biogenesis.
Rodriguez, who is fifth on baseball's career list with 647 home runs,
has said he wasn't a patient of Bosch
and otherwise declined to comment
on the Biogenesis case. He acknowledged in February 2009 that he took
banned
performance-enhancing
substances from 2001 to 2003 when
he was with the Texas Rangers. He is
making $28 million this season, according to baseball- reference.com.
Meanwhile, the Yankees are averaging 39,669 fans through 51 home
games this season — down more than
9 percent from 43,733 per game for
the entire 2012 season.
Afterman grew up a baseball fan,
just not of the Yankees. The San Francisco native attended Giants games
with her family at wind-swept Candlestick Park, so "the Yankees were
very far off and were the American
League."
She performed in high school musicals ranging from "Guys and Dolls,"
as Salvation Army missionary Sarah
She worked at Viacom Inc.'s Paramount Pictures in feature film production before attending law school
at the University of San Francisco.
Afterman was general counsel at
Oxnard, California-based Purepak,
a grower of organic fruits and vegetables, when she met Don Nomura,
who was representing Japanese baseball players seeking to move to the
major leagues.
That brought her to the attention of
Steinbrenner, and eventually to a job
that led Crain's to label her one of the
"Most Powerful Women in New York
2007."
"He was unafraid — unafraid of
anything and anybody," Afterman
said of her former boss. "He was always up for a challenge. We had
Japanese clubs threatening to sue any
baseball team that signed a particular player, and that was pretty much
an engraved invitation to Mr. Steinbrenner. He was not going to be intimidated by anybody."
The Devil
Two boys were walking home from Sunday school after hearing a strong
preaching on the devil. One said to the other, “What do you think about all
this Satan stuff?”
The other boy replied, “Well, you know how Santa Claus turned out. It's
probably just your Dad.” ■
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Greatest of the Bare-Handed Catchers
By James B. Jackson
Slate
I
n the first game ever played in a
professional baseball league, the
first player to get a base hit was
James "Deacon" White. He went on to
play for the next 20 years or so, well
into his 40s. More than one historian
has called him the greatest of the
bare-handed catchers. It was not until
the late 1880s, after Deacon White had
caught his final major-league game,
that the catcher's mitt came into popular use.
Last weekend, more than 70 years
after his death at 91, he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in
Cooperstown. White was the only
man being inducted as a player in this
year's class. No living players, including the allegedly drug-tainted Roger
Clemens and Barry Bonds, garnered
enough votes. Conveniently, the
long-dead White is above reproach.
He retired in the 1890s. Few have ever
heard of him.
I am not a baseball fan. I have little
interest in sports of any kind. But I do
know about James "Deacon" White.
He is my great-grandfather. I am
named after him by way of my Uncle
Jim Watkins, Deacon's first grandchild.
Deacon was, above all else, a fire
and brimstone Christian, a Jonathan
Edwards, sinners-in-the-hands-ofan-angry-God Puritan. He believed
that the world is flat, based on the
Biblical passage about how Jesus
"will send the angels out to the four
corners of the earth to gather God's
chosen people from one end of the
world to the other." He did not drink,
smoke, curse, gamble, or take performance-enhancing drugs of any kind,
as far as anyone knows.
"No one ever yet heard Deacon
White say dammit," reported the Detroit Free Press in May 1886, "no one
ever saw him spike or trample upon
an opponent; no one ever saw him
hurl his bat towards the bench when
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ask those questions. But it's possible
some eager extraterrestrial tourists
have already made the trek. On two
weekends in July 1952, multiple people reported UFO sightings over the
White House and Capitol.
Harvey believes such a visit could
have been possible. Humans can't
be the only ones in the universe, she
thinks. But aliens might not be making the trip again anytime soon.
"We're having trouble getting off
our planet. Maybe they are too,"
Harvey said. "Maybe they don't have
enough public funding for space travel either."
the end of the war. As a little
boy, I used to imagine him
peering through the trees at
a lost platoon of war-scarred
former soldiers playing ball
in the mist, like some outtake
from a 19th-century "Field
of Dreams." In those days,
Grandpa White was gazing on
the dawn of the national pastime.
The farm boy could hit the
ball. And he began to play the
game more in his scant spare
time. Pickup games in fallow pastures were the norm.
Amateur leagues formed and
afternoon games were played
in front of makeshift backstops. The hard-playing White
James "Deacon" White as a Boston Red Stocking in 1874.
began to stand out as a leader.
(Courtesy of the National Baseball Hall of Fame Library.)
Between games and chores he
he struck out; no one ever heard him found the time, as young men will, to
wish the umpire were where the wick- court a little dark-haired girl named
ed never cease from troubling and Alice who belonged to his church.
They were deeply in love. But the
the weary never give us a rest. And
think of it! Nineteen years of provo- girl's parents did not share their
cation! Will anybody deny that Dea- daughter's affection for White. Yes,
con White is a great and good man, he was a teetotaling, church-going,
as well as a first-class ball player." In scripture-quoting follower of the
1878, the Indianapolis Journal re- Lord. But he was still a ballplayer.
ported that an umpire had gone so And ballplayers were not coveted as
far as consulting with Deacon before potential sons-in-law in 1867, cerdecreeing that a base runner was out. tainly not by respectable people.
So Jim White moved on to CleveWhen the opponent complained, the
ump replied that when "White says a land and became the starting catcher
thing is so it is so, and that is the end for Forest City, a semi-pro team.
When Forest City joined with other
of it."
He was not a deacon as such, but Midwest and Eastern teams to form
taught Sunday school in churches
that belonged to a small, fundamentalist denomination, the Advent
Christian Church. Charles H. Porter,
the one-time president of the National Association's Boston ball club,
told the New York Sun that Deacon
received his nickname in 1873, the
year he "became church struck." Porter described meeting White in Corning, N.Y., and trying to convince him
to play for Boston. "I had never seen
Jim, but I had not been long in the
town before I met a clerical-looking
1. In 2012, Mike Trout set an Angels franman, with a tall hat. He had a pair of chise record for most runs scored in a season,
the hardest-looking hands I ever saw, with 129. Who had held the mark?
and one finger was badly smashed.
2. Which player led the National League the
I had decided that he was the man I
was after, and sure enough it was Jim."
The ballplayer was born in Caton,
N.Y., near Elmira, in 1847. The family lore, also attested to in an interview with the Sporting News, is that
he learned to play baseball from
local veterans of the Civil War. He
would have been in his late teens at
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When the National League formed
in 1876, Deacon moved to the Chicago White Stockings, the team that
went on to become the Cubs. He was
instrumental in that team's winning
the first National League pennant. He
had his best year in 1877, playing once
again for the Boston Red Stockings.
In that one glorious season White was
the National League leader
in batting (.387), hits (103),
triples (11), runs batted in
(49), and slugging average
(.545).
While in the National
League, he also played for
the Cincinnati Reds, the
Buffalo Bisons, the Detroit
Wolverines and the Pittsburgh Alleghenys. When
catching got to be too much
for him, he switched to
third base. Playing that position he helped the Detroit
Wolverines win the pennant when he was nearly 40
years old. After a brief stint
as a player-manager with
Elmira in 1891, his career
was over at age 43.
When Jim White started
playing ball in Cleveland,
James "Deacon" White as a Detroit Wolverine in 1888. (Courtesy
the catcher had no mitt,
of the National Baseball Hall of Fame Library.)
no mask or helmet, no
awarded the first-ever Most Valuable
__________________
Player award, not by the association
DEACON PAGE 22
the National Association of Professional Baseball Players, James L.
White led off the first game with a
stand-up double. It was May 4, 1871.
The National Association lasted
five years. Mismanagement killed it.
Heavy drinking and gambling were
rampant. Before the association died,
Deacon played for the Boston team.
While there, he batted .392 in 1873
and then .367 in 1875, the year he was
most times in both doubles and triples for a
season?
3. When was the last time a Big East football
player won the Heisman Trophy?
4. Who was the last NBA player before New
York's Tyson Chandler in the 2011-12 season to
have a field-goal percentage for a season of at
least 67.9 percent?
5. When was the last time before 2013 (New
Jersey) that a Stanley Cup finalist failed to
make the playoffs the next season?
6. Of the original 10 Major League Soccer
teams, how many have won an MLS championship?
7. How many years was it between George
Foreman winning a major heavyweight box
ing title for the first time and the second?
Answers
1. Vladimir Guerrero scored 124 runs in 2004.
2. St. Louis' Stan Musial led the N.L. in doubles eight times and triples five times.
3. Gino Torretta of Miami won it in 1992.
4. Wilt Chamberlain hit 72.7 percent of his
shots in the 1972-73 season for the Los Angeles
Lakers.
5. In 2007, both Carolina and Edmonton failed
to reach the playoffs.
6. Six.
7. Nearly 22 years (January 1973 to November 1994).
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What's the Deal?
By K.C. Summers and
Andrea Sachs
Washington Post
T
his week's best travel bargains
around the globe.
— Fairmont Hotels and Resorts is offering a free third night at
several Canada properties. The Everyone's an Original summer deal
features seven hotels, such as the
Fairmont Banff Springs, the Fairmont
Jasper Park Lodge, the Fairmont Empress in Victoria and the Fairmont
Tremblant. Sample pricing: In late
August, three nights goes for $458,
including taxes — a savings of $193.
Book before Aug. 9 and stay through
Sept. 30. Info: 888-270-0055, www.
fairmont.com/promo/summeroffer.
— Reserve a package with Universal
Orlando and receive two free days of
the Universal Dining Plan. With the
deal, book at least four nights at a
Universal Partner Hotel and receive a
three-day base ticket (one theme park
per day), the free meal plan, early park
admission to the Wizarding World of
Harry Potter (an hour before the park
opens) and, between Aug. 15-Sept. 2,
early admission to Transformers: The
Ride-3D. Prices vary. For instance, in
late September, four nights at the Ramada Convention Center I-Drive Orlando starts at about $851 for a family of four, including taxes. The meal
plan, valid at both Universal theme
parks and select locations at Universal CityWalk, covers one table service
meal (entree, dessert, beverage), one
counter service meal (entree, beverage), one snack and one beverage.
Book by Aug. 29; travel Aug. 15-Nov.
24 and Dec. 2-19. Info: 877-801-9720,
www.universalorlando.com.
— With European Waterways, the
luxury hotel barge operator, save
$2,000 per cabin on the Aug. 11 and
18 departures of the eight-passenger
Enchante. Rate now starts at $4,540
per person double for the six-night
trip on the Canal du Midi in Southern France. Price includes all meals,
soft drinks and most wines; onshore
transportation and admission fees;
onboard amenities; transfers; and
use of all equipment, such as bicycles.
Info: 877-879-8808, www.gobarging.
com.
— South African Airways has a
sale on fares to African destinations
including Johannesburg, Cape Town
and Dakar, Senegal. For example,
fly from Washington Dulles to Cape
Town or J-burg from $1,182 round
trip, including taxes; other airlines
charge from about $1,300 to Cape
Town. Book by Aug. 8; travel Sept.
13-Dec. 9. Info: www.flysaa.com.
— A seven-night Kenya in Style safari package from Lion World Tours is
now $3,899 per person double for the
April 10, April 24 and May 8 departures. Tour includes round-trip airfare from Washington to Nairobi on
Ethiopian Air; one night at the Sarova
Stanley Hotel in Nairobi; two nights
at Elephant Bedroom Camp in the
Samburu National Reserve; one night
at Mbweha Camp in the Congreve
Conservancy; three nights at Tipilikwani Mara Camp in the Maasai Mara
Game Reserve; most meals, including a dinner with a Nairobi family;
guided game drives; park entrance
fees; and taxes. Priced separately, the
package would cost about $989 more.
Info: 800-387-2706, www.lionworldtours.com.
- Prices were verified at press time
last Thursday, but deals sell out and
availability is not guaranteed. Some
restrictions may apply.
Travel Q and A
Q
: We'll be visiting family midAugust in western Massachusetts. We have a 2-year-old and
would like to find a one-night stopover to extend our trip a bit.
A: If your little one is at all familiar with "Sesame Street," then Sesame
Place in Langhorne, Pa., would be the
stop for you! It's a chance for your
youngster to meet all those wonderful "Sesame Street" characters in person. And if you love Big Bird and Oscar and Cookie Monster as much as,
ahem, some adults do, you may have
a grand time, too.
— Zofia Smardz
Q: I bought Allianz insurance for
the air for a trip to India. The trip was
canceled because the weather and
seas for a portion of it were dangerous. I expected Allianz to honor this
reason, but it wasn't a named peril in
the insurance agreement, so the company didn't. Be aware that except for
death, medical emergencies and similar issues, many of the general things
that can go wrong aren't covered.
A: Thank you for the warning. Unfortunately, this is a fairly common
problem. Travel insurance usually has
to say that something is covered (a socalled "named peril") in order for it to
work. But you can also buy a "cancel
for any reason" policy that pays a percentage of the cost of the trip.
— Christopher Elliott
Q: My wife and I are considering
driving to various national parks in
the West and Southwest for 10 days.
My wife is ambulatory but unable to
hike. Which parks would you suggest
for late September or early October?
A: Unless you want to spend a lot
of time driving, you should probably
limit yourself to one or two parks.
The Grand Canyon is a good choice
for those with mobility issues. Yellowstone also has many accessible
attractions, and it's close to Grand
Teton National Park and the town of
Jackson, Wyo.
— Carol Sottili
Q: How does "loss of use" work
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unused cars sitting on its lots, having
one in the shop isn't costing it any
revenue. What prevents the company
from pulling a car out of service for as
long as possible? Open-ended "loss of
use" seems like an invitation to fraud.
A: I've had long arguments with
car rental companies over "loss of
use." Basically, rental companies believe that they can charge you for the
days a car was in the repair shop, as
if it was rented. This assumes that the
car would have been rented the entire
time, and they don't need to prove it.
The good news: If you protest a lossof-use charge, a company will almost
always remove it from your bill.
Q: What type of bag or wallet do
you guys use to carry your money
and valuables when traveling? I like
the convenience of fanny packs but
always shy away from them because
I feel as if one makes me even more
of a target for thieves. I've seen the
belt wallet, too, which doesn't seem
friendly for women, and bra wallets
don't look that convenient, either.
A: I've spoken with security experts
who tell me (as a guy) that I can significantly reduce my chances of being
pickpocketed by carrying my wallet
in my front pocket. The back pocket
is called the "sucker" pocket. I've also
seen various kinds of money belts,
neckwear and undergarments that
purport to protect your valuables.
There are two problems. First, access.
Do you have to remove your clothes to
get your money or credit cards? Second, if you're being held at gunpoint,
the bad guy will find a way to remove
your valuables. One tip I like is carrying a "dummy" wallet or purse, with a
little cash and expired credit cards. If
it's stolen, no great loss.
Q: We're coming up on the 25th anniversary of the fall of communism.
Are there any East European sites
connected to these events that you
would recommend visiting?
A: Head to Berlin and the site of
Checkpoint Charlie — the former
crossing point between East and West
Berlin — which is now a museum of
the Wall and its ultimate fall. There's a
replica of the American guardhouse,
the original of which is now at the Allied Museum in Dahlem, also worth
a visit for its exhibits on the Cold
War. There's also the DDR Museum
in the former East German government district, and the Stasi Museum,
in the former headquarters of the East
German secret police. In Poland, the
Gdansk Shipyard is still a working
yard, but the gate that Lech Walesa
scaled to set off the Solidarity movement is a place of pilgrimage. So is
the Lennon Wall in Prague, the site of
dissident activities under the communists in the former Czechoslovakia.
— Zofia Smardz
Q: After Labor Day, are any of the
regular summer features (e.g. Jacob's
Pillow) still operating in the Berkshires?
A: Post-Labor Day is an excellent
time to visit the Berkshires, as the
crowds have lessened and the weather
is gorgeous. But the incomparable Jacob's Pillow is a seasonal dance festival, and this year it runs through the
weekend of Aug. 24-25. Tanglewood
wraps up Sept. 1. And the Williamstown Theatre Festival runs through
Aug. 18. But there's lots more to do
there than just the summer performing-arts festivals.
— Joe Yonan
Q: My family and I (which includes
two boys, 5 and 2) will be in Montreal next month. Any suggestions for
things to do with the little ones?
A: You can't beat the Espace Pour
la Vie (Space for Life) museums for
entertaining the little ones: Insectarium, Biodome, Planetarium, Botanical Garden. Walking around the Old
Port area can be fun with kids: There
are usually face painters, musicians,
magicians, etc. If the kiddos have tons
of energy, you might take everybody
up to the glorious Mount Royal park
for outdoor fun and great views.
— Joe Yonan
Q: Mom, Dad and tweenage daughter are going to Dallas in mid-August.
Our schedule is set for the first two
days, and we'll extend for an additional three. Mom wants to go to San
Antonio, Dad wants to go to Austin.
The tweenager is happy either way.
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The Government Tested a
Flying Saucer in 1956
By Rebecca Onion
The New York Eagle
News/Slate
I
n September of last
year, a National Archives blog devoted
to recently-declassified
documents published a
post about an intriguing
set of records from the
Aeronautical
Systems
Division of the US Air
Force. During the 1950s,
according to these documents, the USAF had
contracted with a Canadian firm, Avro Aircraft
Limited, to produce what
can only be described as a
flying saucer.
While the National Archives provided a few images from "Project 1794"
last year, the entire report
is now available online.
The report summarizes
Avro's work on its initial
contract with the USAF,
which financed a feasibility study to test the systems and principles that
would be necessary to
create what Avro called
"a flat vertical take-off
and landing aircraft." The
ship was to reach a top
speed between Mach 3
and Mach 4, and be ca- The government tested a flying saucer in 1956. (Graphic: Project 1794 Final Development Summary Report, National Archives.)
pable of flying at 100,000
feet and ranging 1,000
But the government decided to fund the ground. Pilots found it rocky and
nautical miles.
The document contains several work on a smaller and less grand sau- unstable in motion, even once it manschematics detailing alternative so- cer prototype, the "Avrocar," instead. aged to rise further into the air.
lutions to some of the engineering Like a helicopter (not yet available for
In the end, the vision of a U.S. govproblems that the flying saucer posed. combat use), this aircraft could hover ernment flying saucer on any scale
Avro described 500 hours of wind- near the ground, access tight spots, was scrapped. Avro closed its doors
By Linda Childs
tunnel tests done with a scale model, and help troops in need of reinforce- in 1962.
Special to The New York Eagle News
and included photos of that process, ment or resupply.
- Onion contributes to Slate's history
Plackett points to video of tests of blog, The Vault.
graphs of their results, and assessthe "Avrocar," in which the vehicle
ments of remaining issues.
Dear Father in Heaven,
At the conclusion of the report, doesn't get more than a few feet off
© 2013, Slate. ■
In the past, when I went to certain churches, I remember sometimes noticing
Avro asked for more than $3 million
the priests or ministers saying the standard prayers in a very rote manner, with
to complete testing and development.
White and several of his Boston monotone voice, like they were only saying words they had to say every week, but
As Wired's Benjamin Plackett pointteammates the first catcher's mask. not ascribing any meaning to them.
DEACON FROM PAGE 19
_________________________
ed out when the first saucer images
The approval of Deacon and his team- As I have been in my walk with You, I started out doing the same thing, as that
were released last year, that wasn't so
mates helped to popularize this novel is what I thought one was supposed to do. But as time went on I found that those
much money, by military standards shin guards or chest pad, no cup. He piece of equipment. Deacon himself prayers not only have real meaning that is applicable to life today, but when I am
(it would translate to about $26.6 mil- did not crouch behind the plate, but soon went home and, with the help of aware and thoughtful of every word as I speak it, the prayers seem to come alive.
lion, today).
stood back and caught the ball on the a blacksmith, fashioned his own mask They help me to feel closer to You too, Lord.
bounce. The only piece of equipment out of iron. It had no padding what- However, being human, I sometimes find my mind wandering to other things as
commonly worn by catchers in the soever and was held in place with a I say these words, and it feels like a temptation to return to rote recitation rather
than actual meaning. When I catch myself doing this, I go back and start over and
late 1860s was a "rubber," a primitive single strap.
In those early years, nearly all of the “do it right”. I thank You for helping me to be aware of this, and for being patient
tooth protector.
Gloves came first — one thin one big leaguers had off-season jobs. One with me when I am not paying proper attention to You and our precious time tofor each hand — and catchers had of Deacon's Chicago teammates had gether. I would never want You to think that I take either for granted, dear Lord,
to learn how to catch with one hand a little side business making uniforms for I most certainly do not!
Amen
and throw with the other, not an
_________________________
easy transition to make. In 1877, the
DEACON PAGE 23
catcher for the Harvard team showed
Prayerful Thoughts
DEACON FROM PAGE 22
_________________________
for the various athletic clubs. One day
that teammate approached Deacon
and asked if he minded if he made a
few catcher's masks to sell. Deacon
said he didn't mind at all, though
he doubted there would be a huge
market for them. And that's how Al
Spalding launched his sporting goods
empire. White never saw a dime of
that fortune, never dreamed that he
would deserve to and, by all accounts,
remained friendly with Spalding until the day he died. After all, he and
Spalding formed the first great pitcher-catcher battery in baseball.
Years later, one of my relatives,
probably Uncle Jim, contacted the
Hall of Fame and asked if they were
interested in a donation of Deacon
White's first catcher's mask. They
politely declined. They already had
the one Spalding gave them. At least,
that's what I was told when I was a
boy.
Grandpa White's younger brother,
Will, was a pitcher. Together they
were the first brother battery in major league baseball. Will played for 10
years and came away with 229 wins —
40-plus in three separate seasons. In
1879, he pitched 75 complete games
and 680 innings, both records that
still stand and will likely stand forever. Will holds the No. 10 spot on
the all-time ERA list at 2.28. He was
the first player to wear eyeglasses in a
game. His friends called him Doc. He
drowned in 1911.
Deacon was his younger brother's
mentor, and family lore states that he
taught Will to throw the curveball. I
was raised to believe that Grandpa
White invented the curve, but that
has never been proven. The story I
grew up with is that scientists and
professors of the day were adamant
that it was impossible to make a
sphere curve in any direction other
than a downward arc. Their contention was that a curving baseball was
an optical illusion.
Deacon would have none of that. He
hired a surveyor to place stakes in the
ground between the pitcher's point
— there was no elevated mound back
then — and home plate. The idea was
to pitch the ball between the stakes,
proving that it did indeed curve. The
press was alerted and they, along with
a throng of spectators, arrived at the
ball field at the appointed day and
hour. One can assume that gambling
took place at this scientific exhibition,
but I was also assured that Grandpa
White, steadfast and upright Christian that he was, refused to wager.
Deacon grabbed the ball and, after
appropriate pawing and squinting,
threw three or four balls in a row to
the catcher, all of which were well
wide of the plate. The crowd jeered,
the physicists smiled. The curveball
was a fluke and White was a fraud.
After the crowd had calmed, Deacon very deliberately threw three
perfect strikes, each of which curved
between the stakes. And much money
changed hands.
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PRAYER FROM PAGE 10
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Auberger declined to comment on
the prayer policy, referring questions
to the town's lawyers.
Galloway and Stephens sued in
February 2008, saying the town
was "sponsoring persistent sectarian — and almost exclusively Christian — prayers." Until that year, they
said in their complaint, the town was
selecting its monthly prayer- giver
from a list of 37 clergy members, all
from Christian churches. From 2004
to February 2008, more than threequarters of the prayers were explicitly
Christian, according to the lawsuit.
Did it happen that way? Probably
not. And yet, years after I first heard
that story, I read a similar account in
E.L. Doctorow's book "Ragtime." Of
course, that novel famously placed
real historical figures in fictional situations. Did Doctorow make it up? I
know I didn't. I'm not that good.
Doc White was the pitcher, but
Deacon was the first one to devise a
new kind of wind-up. I didn't hear
this from a family member — I first
read about it in an article written by
David S. McCarthy, an Advent Christian pastor. While with Forest City,
the young Deacon substituted for
the team's regular pitcher for several
games. Deacon had been watching
pitchers for years and thought there
had to be a better way. On his own
he had improvised a delivery that
allowed him to propel the ball with
greater velocity. The rules at that
time dictated an underhanded pitch
while maintaining a stiff arm and
wrist. Deacon did all that but first
whirled his arm overhead. A timeout was called after that first delivery
amid vigorous opposition from the
other team. Deacon prevailed and
continued using the wind-up. Later
the rules were changed to permit any
kind of underhanded motion. So it
is written, so it shall be. And so the
catcher helped pitching evolve into
what we know it as today.
Are you with me so far? James
"Deacon" White was the first player to
get a hit in a professional league. Later, he helped popularize the catcher's
mask and he was the first pitcher to go
into a wind-up. He received the first
MVP Award. He was in the first great
pitcher/catcher battery with Al Spalding and the first brother battery with
Will. He was in the first "Murderer's
Row" with Spalding, Ross Barnes, and
Cal McVey. He was one of the first
opponents of the reserve clause, famously stating, "No man is going to
sell my carcass unless I get half." He
helped found the first, if short lived,
player-owned league. And he believed with all his heart that the world
is flat, because the Bible told him so.
- James B. Jackson is a former soldier, journalist, restaurateur, and truck
driver who lives in the foothills between
the Santa Margarita and San Luis Rey
Rivers in Southern California.
© 2013, Slate. ■
"There's too much mixing of Christian conservative religion and town
politics," said Stephens.
Greece created its list largely by
culling names from local directories.
The town says it also accepts volunteers of any faith, and in 2008 nonChristians delivered four prayers: two
by the Jewish man, one by the chairman of the local Bahai congregation
and one by the Wiccan priestess.
Galloway and Stephens fault the
town for not publicizing its volunteer
policy. They say the result has been
that almost all the prayers in recent
years have been delivered by Christians.
The July 16 invocation lasted less
than a minute, including Auberger's
introduction. Miller thanked God
for "the many freedoms that we enjoy
here in America" and for "the freedom that comes from knowing your
son, Jesus." He spoke facing an audience of barely 20 people — including
Galloway, Stephens and a group of
uniformed police officers there to see
a new colleague take her oath.
As he spoke, four of the five board
members — all but Auberger — took
up Miller's suggestion to bow their
heads. As Miller ended with the word
"amen," many throughout the room
answered in kind.
Galloway and Stephens say that
in previous meetings, officials went
further in suggesting that the town
was adopting the prayer — and the
Christian faith — as its own. In their
lawsuit, the women describe board
members making the sign of the
cross, Auberger presenting plaques
to the "chaplain of the month," and
prayer-givers asking the audience to
participate by standing or reciting the
Lord's Prayer.
The two women also describe meetings attended by children, there to
lead the Pledge of Allegiance to fulfill
a school civics requirement.
The New York-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the town's
prayer practice "must be viewed as an
endorsement" of Christianity, violating the Constitution. The three-judge
panel said the selection process "virtually ensured a Christian viewpoint,"
faulting Greece for relying on clergy
almost entirely from places of worship within the town's borders.
The appeals court also said officials failed to explain that the prayers
weren't intended to affiliate the town
with a particular creed.
"The town had an obligation to consider how its prayer practice would
be perceived by those who attended
town board meetings," Judge Guido
Calabresi wrote for the court.
The town contends the "endorsement test" — a standard created by
now-retired Supreme Court Justice
Sandra Day O'Connor — doesn't apply to legislative-prayer cases.
Such a test "requires courts to parse
prayers' content and thus inevitably
forces courts to play the role of theologian, making judgments about the
prayers' validity based on the supposed religious effect they are likely
to have on observers," the town argued in court papers.
Greece says the 1983 Supreme
Court decision, Marsh v. Chambers,
permits legislative prayers as long as
the government doesn't discriminate
in selecting the person or use the
practice to proselytize or disparage a
faith.
The town has the backing of Robert Palmer, a Presbyterian minister
whose prayers before the Nebraska
state legislature were at issue in the
1983 case. In court papers, he said
his prayers were "more identifiably
Christian" than those in Greece.
"It's clear that the Constitution allows the government to open its
meetings by invoking divine guidance," said Harvey, the lawyer for the
town. "And once you do that, you
need to let people pray consistent
with the dictates of their own conscience."
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Ingredients:
• 1 lime
• 1/2 cup peach preserves
• 1 (1 1/4 pounds) pork tenderloin
• 2 bunches green onions
• 1 teaspoon olive oil
• 4 medium peaches, each cut in
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Italian
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4. Meanwhile, toss green onions
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Transfer to platter with green onions.
5. Slice pork and serve with peaches
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1. Prepare outdoor grill for cooking
over medium heat. From lime, grate
1 teaspoon peel and squeeze 1 tablespoon juice.
2. Make Peach Glaze: In medium
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• 1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley
• 1/8 teaspoon black pepper
• 3/4 cup shredded reduced-fat
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Steps:
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Italian dressing for about 5 minutes
or just until tender. Add corn. Mix
well to combine. Continue cooking
for 5 minutes or until corn is tender,
stirring often.
2. Stir in tomatoes, parsley and
black pepper. Lower heat, cover and
simmer for 3 to 5 minutes.
3. When serving, place hot corn
mixture on a plate and sprinkle 3
tablespoons mozzarella cheese over
top. Serve at once. Makes 4 (3/4 cup)
servings.
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By Healthy Exchanges
Summary: Can you even begin to
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Ingredients:
• 1/2 cup chopped onion
• 1/4 cup fat-free Italian dressing
• 2 cups fresh or frozen whole-kernel corn, thawed
• 1 1/2 cups chopped fresh tomatoes
NUTRITION Each serving: About
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lb.
lb.
3
$ 38
lb.
FARM FRESH EVERY DAY
California Extra Large
Green Seedless
Grapes
98¢
$ 68
Mini Carrots
Bi-Color Corn
Round or
Square
Bread
1
$ 19
20-22 oz.
Stroehmann
Hamburger
or Hot Dog
Rolls
2$5
for
1
Fresh
Broccoli
Crowns
1
$ 48
16 oz.
lb.
lb.
ears for
1 lb. bag
New York
1
3 $1
$ 28
15-18 oz.
each
13.5 oz.
Lebanon
Bologna
lb.
Always Fresh • Peanut Butter or Peanut Butter Fudge
No Bake
Cookies
for
8 oz.
Russer’s
“Sure Fine”
BUY ONE • GET ONE
FREE
Ball Park
Assorted
Fun Pack
Lunchables
Honey Mesquite
Pennsylvania
Peaches
Strawberry Swirl
2 ct.
for
Ripe & Juicy
Stroehmann
Dutch
Country
Bread
2
lb.
6.4 oz.
$ 99
pint
Always Fresh
$ 99
for
Oscar Mayer
Honeysuckle White • Deli Sliced
lb.
Traditional or
Mustard Style
Potato Salad
Ice Cream
Bars
FRESH BAKERY
Cheesecake
Slices
Plain, Brownies or
5 $5 $198
12 oz.
$ 58 $ 98 $ 98 $ 18
8-12.4 oz.
Klondike
Assorted
Ice Cream
Pork
Shoulder
Butt Steaks
COLD CUTS AT HOT PRICES
Sandridge • Deli Fresh
Shurfine
lb.
2 $5 2 $4 2 $5
3 lb.
Virginia Style or
Canadian Maple
ICE CREAM
Shurfine
Breakfast
Sausage
Margherita
7
lb.
Ham
for
Banquet • Brown’n Serve
Tender Casing Pillow Pack
Hot Dogs
or Stick
Pepperoni
Shurfine • Deli Sliced
2$4
3
19.2 oz.
$ 98 $ 99
Crescent or
Cinnamon Rolls
Original, Lite or Non Fat
3
lb.
Sirloin
Steaks
Shurfine
Sour Cream
Bob Evans
Links or Patties Links or Patties
Boneless Beef
$ 99
Shurfine
Assorted
Bagels
2
$ 48
lb.
$ 28 $ 98 $ 29
Cottage
Cheese
$ 99
Sweet or Hot
Fresh Lean
Breakfast
Ground Turkey Sausage
Fully Cooked
Water Added
Shurfine
Assorted
Egg Substitute
2
Italian Style
Pork Sausage
$ 68
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Ham Halves
2
Prima Porta
Lean
Ground Beef
Sugardale • Semi Boneless Honeysuckle White
32 oz.
Egg Beaters
Shurfine
$ 99
3
$ 99
21 oz.
80%
$ 68
7-8 oz.
Assorted
Coffee Creamer
$ 99
16.4 oz.
QUALITY YOU CAN DEPEND ON
Eye of Round
Roast or Steak
Coffee•mate
Philly Steak
Original or
Buttermilk
Pancakes
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Boneless Beef
$
* 67% - 70% of consumers
surveyed preferred the
taste of Shurfine!
NUTRITION Each serving: About
185 calories, 9g total fat (3g saturated), 7mg cholesterol, 60mg sodium,
27g total carbs, 1g dietary fiber, 1g
protein.
Good Housekeeping Recipe
MEAT
Assorted
Brick Cheese
For Best Results Always
Use Shurfine Brand
Products!
Return pop to cookie sheet. Repeat
with remaining bananas, chocolate
and toppings. Freeze at least 1 hour.
4. To serve, remove pops from
freezer and let stand at room temperature 5 minutes to soften slightly. If
not serving pops the same day, place
frozen pops in freezer-weight selfsealing plastic bag and freeze up to 1
week. Serves 12.
Crystal Farms
Assorted
Frozen Meals
$ 69
• 1 cup toppings, such as: toasted
sweetened flaked coconut,
chopped salted peanuts, toffee
bits and colored candy decors
Steps:
1. Line cookie sheet with waxed
paper. Insert an ice cream-bar stick,
about 1 inch deep, in one end of
each banana piece; place on prepared
cookie sheet.
2. In heavy, small saucepan, heat
chocolate chips with oil over low heat
until chocolate melts and becomes
smooth, stirring occasionally. Place
each topping on separate sheet of
waxed paper.
3. Holding 1 banana pop over saucepan, spoon some chocolate mixture
over pop to coat, allowing chocolate
to drip back into pan. Roll chocolatecoated banana in choice of topping.
Summary: Bananas make a sumptuous low-fat base for these frozen
pops. And you can get as creative as
you'd like with the toppings! Crush
your favorite candies, nuts or salty
snacks.
Ingredients:
• 12 wooden ice cream-bar sticks
• 4 large ripe but firm bananas,
peeled and cut crosswise into
thirds
• 1 package (6-ounce) semisweet
chocolate chips (1 cup)
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
Banquet
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New York Ripe
Extra Large
Tomatoes
1
$ 28
lb.
Fresh
Seedless
Cucumbers
1
$ 48
each
Fresh
Sno-White
Mushrooms
2 $3
for
8 oz.
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Include Your
Pets in
Emergency Plans
DEAR PAW'S CORNER: We're moving into
the height of hurricane season in the Southeast, and I'm wondering if you can remind
readers to include their pets in emergency
planning? Thanks. -- Dwayne W., West Palm
Beach, Fla.
DEAR DWAYNE: You've got it! Florida residents are encouraged to create a "hurricane
kit" before the season starts. This is an easyto-load collection of items that they can grab
quickly if they are evacuated from their homes.
nyeaglenews.com
Items include copies of important personal
documents (like home deeds and insurance),
contact numbers and other hard-to-replace
records. Extra medications, blankets, spare
clothing, diapers, a small amount of nonperishable food and so on also are recommended.
The truth is, everyone should have a version of this kit in their home, regardless of
its location, because natural disasters can
strike anywhere. And along with the family
documents, pet owners should have copies of
their pets' shot records, extra pet medications
and nonperishable pet food. A spare collar
and leash -- with ID tags attached -- flea and
tick preventative and heartworm medication,
as well as the veterinarian's phone number
should be included, too. And have a secure pet
carrier for each pet -- many evacuation shelters
will not allow your pet unless it is in a carrier.
If you'd like more disaster preparedness tips,
check my site, PawsCorner.com. In addition,
Petfinder.com has a page filled with tips for
summertime safety and disaster preparedness
information.
Send your questions, comments or tips to
[email protected].
One Smart
Cookie
1. Jimmy Page wasn't the first to have a
hit with a song entitled "Stairway to Heaven." Who was the first?
2. "Because the Night" first appeared on
which album?
3. Jimmy Jones (1960), Del Shannon
(1964) and James Taylor (1977) all had hits
with which song?
4. Which group released "Once in a Lifetime"?
5. Name the song that contains this lyric:
"When you left me all alone at the record hop,
Told me you were going out for a soda pop,
You were gone for quite awhile, half an hour
or more."
Answers
1. Neil Sedaka, in 1960.
2. "Patti Smith Group," in 1978. Smith rewrote the Bruce Springsteen song when he
wasn't happy with it.
3. "Handy Man." All versions of the song
were hits, but Taylor's version netted him
a Grammy for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance.
4. Talking Heads, in 1981. The song was
used in the film "Down and Out in Beverly
Hills" in 1986.
5. "Lipstick on Your Collar," by Connie
Francis in 1959. In this very early rock 'n' roll
cheating song, the lipstick on the boy's collar isn't the color his girlfriend wears, and
she learns he's been "smooching" her best
friend.
Jennifer's wedding day was fast approaching. Nothing could dampen
her excitement - not even her parent's
nasty divorce. Her mother had found
the PERFECT dress to wear, and
would be the best dressed mother-ofthe-bride ever! A week later, Jennifer
was horrified to learn that her father's
new, young wife had bought the exact
same dress as her mother.
Jennifer asked her father's new
young wife to exchange it, but she
refused. “Absolutely not! I look like
a million bucks in this dress, and I'm
wearing it,” she replied.
Jennifer told her mother who graciously said, “Never mind sweetheart.
I'll get another dress. After all, it's
your special day.”
A few days later, they went shopping and did find another gorgeous
dress for her mother.
When they stopped for lunch, Jennifer asked her mother, ”Aren't you
going to return the other dress? You
really don't have another occasion
where you could wear it."
Her mother just smiled and replied
,”Of course I do, dear.....I'm wearing it
to the rehearsal dinner the night BEFORE the wedding”. ■
© 2013, King Features Synd., Inc. ■
ARIES (March 21 to April 19) With new facts
to work with, you should feel more confident in
moving ahead. But continue to do so at an unhurried pace so you can spot details you might
otherwise miss.
TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Taking on that
new workplace project could be one of your
smarter career moves. Expect a surprising show
of support from someone who had always been
a critic.
GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) You might feel
1. Is the book of Shemaiah in the Old or New
Testament or neither?
2. What were the names of the two staves
(staffs) of Zechariah? Blessed/River, Scorn/Tolerance, Day/Night, Beauty/Bands
3. A loan to another Israelite who is poor by
thee shall be made at? No payback, Zero interest, The temple, A fast
4. How old was Eli when he died falling off
his seat backward, breaking his neck? 16, 98,
120, 201
5. Saith the Lord to Zechariah, what shall
Jerusalem be called a city of? Truth, Holiness,
Reign, Hosts
6. Who anointed David as King of Israel?
Saul, Salome, Samuel, Sargon
ANSWERS: 1) Neither; 2) Beauty/Bands;
3) Zero interest; 4) 98; 5) Truth; 6) Samuel
Innocence
One Sunday morning, the pastor
noticed little Alex standing in the foyer of the church staring up at a large
plaque. It was covered with names
and small American flags mounted
on either side of it. The six-year old
had been staring at the plaque for
some time, so the pastor walked up,
stood beside the little boy, and said
quietly, “Good morning Alex.”
“Good morning Pastor,” he replied,
still focused on the plaque. “Pastor,
what is this?”
The pastor said, “Well son, it's a
memorial to all the young men and
women who died in the service.”
Soberly, they just stood together,
staring at the large plaque. Finally,
little Alex's voice, barely audible and
trembling with fear asked, “Which
service, the 8:30 or the 11:00? ■
Pallbearers
An elderly woman died last month.
Having never married, she requested
no male pallbearers. In her handwritten instructions for her memorial
service, she wrote, “They wouldn't
take me out while I was alive; I don't
want them to take me out when I'm
dead.” ■
you're too busy to undertake a new responsibility. But check it out before making any decisions. What you learn could persuade you to
change your mind.
CANCER (June 21 to July 22) You feel quite
content enjoying all the comforts of home right
now. But the urge to travel grows stronger, and
by week's end, you could begin packing your
bags.
LEO (July 23 to August 22) A hectic period
begins to ease up, but that doesn't mean the
Fine Feline can do much catnapping these days.
You need to finish those old tasks and prepare
for new ones.
VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) Expect
to get some good news about your financial situ-
ation by week's end. But it could still be too early
to rush out with a long shopping list of things
to buy.
LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) Your
management skills make an impression on
some workplace VIPs who might be looking for
someone like you to take on an upcoming project. Good luck.
SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21)
Meeting a former adversary might be unsettling
at first. But time has softened hard feelings,
and you could be on the brink of starting a new
relationship.
SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December
21) A troubling situation close to home might
cause you to change your travel plans. But getting all the facts before you act might cause you
to reconsider.
CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19)
You might be quite alone right now in deciding to support a major workplace shift. But others will join you as new information supports
your bold move.
AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) A
former co-worker returns with news that could
persuade you to reassess recently made plans.
Be sure to consult with a trusted colleague before you act.
PISCES (February 19 to March 20) Your motives behind a recent decision could be called
into question by a rival. But once you present
the facts, all doubts will be resolved. Enjoy an
arts-rich weekend.
BORN THIS WEEK: While you love being the
center of attention, your generous heart allows
you to share the attention with others.
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