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From The Files Of September 10, 1992
Two McConnellsburg area residents were killed in a one-vehicle accident early last Saturday, September 5, along U.S. Route 30 in Brush Creek Township. Police said that Michael Strait Jr., 20, McConnellsburg, operating a 1985 Pontiac Trans Am, was traveling west on Route 30 at an apparent high rate of speed Saturday when the car began to slide sideways on the roadway just past the intersection with Route 915 south. The Pontiac travelled off the roadway and the passenger side of the Trans Am struck a tree. Police said that both Strait and his passenger, Karen Gress, McConnellsburg, were thrown from the vehicle and apparently died instantly.
A $61 million agribusiness complex proposed to be built near Town Hill in Brush Creek Township by a Washington, D.C., based corporation would initially mean 150 new jobs for the county. Dr. John Lee Sr. of Bethesda, Md., announced plans for the new agribusiness complex at a press conference. The proposed complex would include a cheese factory, an alcohol plant, a greenhouse operation, a feedlot and a cannery.
Kelly Weaver was named the 1992 champion golfer at Great Cove on Monday after the final round in the three-round tournament of stiff competition.
Deaths: Karen Gress, McConnellsburg; Mary Helman, McConnellsburg; Michael Strait Jr., McConnellsburg; Lester Sheffield, Fort Littleton; Judith Jones, Needmore; Nannie Gaster, Waterfall; Myrtle Fleegle, Hancock.
Births at the Medical Center: a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Philip Everts of Hustontown on August 28; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer Grove Jr., Orbisonia, on August 28; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Zimmerman of Newville on August 29.
Marriage licenses: Guyowen Hall Jr., Big Cove Tannery, and Loretta Cassell, Big Cove Tannery; Darius DeShong, Hustontown, and Lauri Traxler, also of Hustontown; Glenn Schriver, Warfordsburg, and Debra Miller, Warfordsburg.
30 Years Ago
From The Files Of September 16, 1982
Rep. Charles Dietz and House
Majority Leader Sam Hayes Jr. cut the ribbon over the new Maddensville bridge last week. The old bridge was destroyed in an ice jam in 1978, and Hayes and Dietz both told tales of the bureaucratic red tape they had to wade through to get to the ceremony on Friday.
Last year's planned expansion of the Waring Products plant is once more in the works thanks to a $50,000 state site-development grant, but several other factors must fall into place before work can actually begin. The expansion, if it does occur, is expected to provide about 60 additional jobs in the county.
Specials at the IGA: bananas, 29 cents lb;. IGA tomato soup, 4 for $1; Helman's mayonnaise, $1.49; round roast, $1.89 lb.; beef liver, 69 cents lb.; Crispy Wheat'n Raisin cereal, $1.09.
McConnellsburg's Tom Peck chalked up two racing victories last week. He won the 50-lap Outlaw Late Model special at Bedford Speedway last Monday night and then on Sunday won the 25-lap feature for Super Stock Late Models at Hagerstown Speedway.
Birth at the Medical Center: a son to Mr. and Mrs. Roger Strait, McConellsburg, on September 6.
Deaths: Raph Johnston, McConnellsburg; Allen R. Grissinger, Virginia Beach,Va.
Mr. and Mrs. Lindy DeShong celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary on August 25.
Marriage licenses: Chandra Carbaugh and Timothy Elmes, both of McConnellsburg; Wynetha Guessford and Ronald Briggs, both of McConnellsburg; Dora Golden, Warfordsburg, and Richard Ridgeway, Great Cacapon, W.Va.; Jennifer Lucas, Waterfall, and Edward Sharpe, McConnellsburg; Connie Souders, Warfordsburg, and Mark Mellott, Needmore.
40 Years Ago
From The Files Of September 28, 1972
A barn on a farm two miles south of McConnellsburg, just off Route
522 along the Thomastown Road, was almost completely destroyed by fire on Sunday afternoon. Lack of a good water supply contributed to the loss, which was estimated at approximately $8,000. The barn is on the farm property owned by Mrs. Russell Thomas and tenanted by James Chamberlain.
Following a decade of service as an important nuclear research, development and training center, the Saxton reactor in northern Bedford County will be retired.
Friends and fans are now making plans to build a memorial chapel in the Broad Top Cemetery to honor the late Elton Britt, star of the country and western music field. An estimated 25,000 persons gathered last Sunday at Lake Compounce Park, America's pioneer playground at Bristol, Conn., for a memorial service for the singer, who died near McConnellsburg on June 23 and was buried in the beautiful cemetery in the Broad Top mountains he loved so well.
The detour around the construction work on the Cape Horn Curve on Route 30, two miles west of Fort Loudon, went into effect at noon on Monday, and the heavy machinery, which will cut through the mountain to eliminate the dangerous curve, is in the process of being moved onto the construction site.
Engagements: Mr. and Mrs. Howard A. Stains of Orbisonia wish to announce the engagement of their daughter, Jody R., to Mahlon L. Shimer, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. Hiley Shimer of McConnellsburg; Mr. and Mrs. Hollis K. Mellott wish to announce the engagement of their daughter, Beth, to Seaman Jack Mason, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Mason of Cranford, N.J.
Wedding vows were exchanged by Debbie Shives, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Reed Shives of Big Cove Tannery, and Lonnie Palmer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Palmer of Warfordsburg, on September 9 at Pleasant Ridge Church of the Brethren, Needmore.
Death: J. Edward Simpson, Chambersburg.
Air Force Sgt. James A. Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Miller of North Meyers, Fla., was recently promoted to his present rank. Sgt. Miller is stationed at Clark Air Force Base in the Phillippines and is expected to return home in December.
Births at the Medical Center: a son to Mr. and Mrs. David Thomas of Hustontown on September 16; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Hildebert Smith Jr. of Hancock on September 19; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Crouse of McConnellsburg on September 20.
Major Harold P. Knepper, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul H. Knepper of McConnellsburg, has been selected to participate in the U.S. Air Force's "William Tell" fighter-interceptor weapons meet at Tyndall AFB, Fla., September 18-29.
50 Years Ago
From The Files Of October 4, 1962
Government-owned feed grain has been made available to county farmers at reduced prices to supplement feed shortages caused by the severe drought.
An Everett man was fined for public intoxication following an incident on Route 30 west of McConnellsburg last Thursday night when he threatened U.S. Senator Hugh D. Scott of Philadelphia with bodily harm. The car in which Scott was travelling had broken down, partly on the highway, and was struck by the car in which the Everett man was a passenger. The driver of this car was charged with hit-and-run and drunken driving.
Plans for a ski resort in the Blue Knob area of Bedford County have been announced.
At the borough council meeting on Monday a letter was read from Dr. R.E. Riggs requesting "the city fathers look kindly on the matter of providing a parking space in front of my office to avoid discomfort in proffering professional services in emergencies." The request was granted.
The McConnellsburg soccer team played and won its first game of the season against Smithburg on Sunday with a 6-1 score. Winning goals were scored by Bob Kendall, Dick Ray, Jack Sipes, Earl Mellott and Gerald Wible.
A marriage license has been issued to Lloyd Ray Fahnestock and Rosella Jennie Pittman of McConnellsburg.
"The Mail Must Go Through" – this famous slogan was borne out on Monday when Richard Miller, local mail carrier, ripped the seat of his paints but continued to deliver mail without taking time out to get his pants fixed.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Reeder, Mc- Connellsburg, will celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary on October 11.
Mrs. Harold Lockard, McConnellsburg, fell from a moving truck on the courthouse square on Monday when the door flew open throwing her to the road. She was admitted to the Medical Center.
The second accident in a little over a week occurred at Ladies Turn on Sideling Hill on Friday when a truck pulling a 50-foot mobile home apparently skidded on the turn and hurtled over a 30-foot embankment, demolishing both vehicles. The driver was admitted to the Medical Center with severe injuries.
Hazel Lloyd of London, England, is spending a three-week vacation with Mrs. John Greathead. Both women served together in the Women's Royal Naval Service during World War II.
News of men in service: Carl B. Mellott, Harrisonville, is serving aboard the USS Amphion out of Norfolk, Va.; Army Specialist David C. Koontz of Needmore has completed a six-week combat engineer noncommissioned officer course in Marnau, Germany.
At the IGA: chuck roast, 49 cents a pound, longhorn cheese, 49 cents a pound and potatoes 33 cents for 10 pounds.
Births at the Medical Center: a son to Mr. and Mrs. Gail Sheffield, McConnellsburg, on September 28; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Omps, Warfordsburg, on September 29; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Jack Kendall, McConnellsburg, on September 30
Mr. and Mrs. Clair Fix have moved into their new home at the "Y" purchased from Max Snyder.
James Sheffield, Fort Littleton, and Elaine Eichelberger, Wells Tannery, were married on Saturday.
Bard and Cisney's Grocery advertises frying chicken at 33 cents a pound and coffee at 59 cents.
Deaths: Mrs. Rhoda (Truax) Layton, Breezewood, formerly of Fulton County; Miss Susan A. Orth, Fort Littleton; Clarence S. Foster, Wells Tannery; Mrs. Elsie Mary Hall, Johnstown.
60 Years Ago
From The Files Of October 2, 1952
Donald F. Lynch, supervising principal of the Orbisonia Schools, is one of eight Huntingdon County educators who are attending the annual Education Congress in Harrisburg this week. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Mc- Cauley Lynch of town.
Mr. and Mrs. Houston Johnston of Mercersburg have rented the Ross Hamil farm in Ayr Township and will take possession on November 1.
Mrs. Herbert Helman returned to Chambersburg Hospital on Monday for observation and treatment.
Mrs. Robert E. Lodge of McConnellsburg is a surgical patient in Chambersburg Hospital.
Births: a son to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Fox of Knobs-ville on September 24; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Brinton D. Miller of Three Springs on September 28; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Pine of Mercersburg on September 29; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. DeShong of Harrisonville on September 30.
Cloyd R. Mellott and Lois Miriam Williams were married on August 16.
Death: infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Layton of Warfordsburg.
Bruce "Bubbles" Becker, his orchestra and floor show will return to the local Legion home next Wednesday night.
Announcement has been made of the engagement of Elmo Laidig to Charles E. Lorah.
A total of 2,050 doe licenses will be placed on sale in Fulton County on Monday by county Treasurer Guy Oakman.
Donald W. Mellott, engineman fireman, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rankin Mellott of Webster Mills, has graduated from the basic submarine course at New London, Conn.
Alan, 5-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. E.C. Fraker of town, is a patient in Chambersburg Hospital with a broken leg. Mrs. Fraker scrubbed the kitchen floor on Saturday, and Alan went "scooting" across it, fell and broke his right leg below the hip. His father returned from the same hospital the day before, having been a patient there with virus pneumonia.
P.J. Waters of Burnt Cabins received a telegram that his brother, Isaac Waters, had passed away in California on Friday. He left this county 47 years ago.
Cadet Forrest R. Mellott, son of Mrs. Amy Mellott of town, recently enrolled in the senior division of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps at Massanutten Academy, Woodstock, Va.
Grissinger Bros. Store in McConnellsburg will be closed all day Monday for remodelling.
Pictured in this issue is Miss Shirley Ann Duvall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Orville W. Duvall of Crystal Spring, who graduated on September 12 as a nurse from Harrisburg Polyclinic Hospital. She received a special award at the graduation exercises for efficiency in orthopedic nursing.
Mrs. John Powell of Warfordsburg remains very ill in Berkeley Springs Hospital.
Mrs. Melvin Fischer of Wells Tannery fell last week and broke her nose. Her grandson also fell and cut his head, which required three stitches.
Deaths: Mrs. Laura May Marshall of Mc- Connellsburg; David Grant Hershey of Hustontown; Miss Rheue Cleona Barmont of McConnellsburg.
The Fulton County News publishes a statement of circulation in this issue which shows that 1,200 copies are printed each week.
70 Years Ago
From The Files Of October 1, 1942
Automobile drivers are warned by
T.P. Garland, chairman of the Fulton County War Price and Rationing Board, to cease driving their cars for purposes other than those for which the supplemental ration as granted.
Deaths: Lemuel Gordon Divens of Knobsville; David Knepper of Taylor Township.
Clarence M. Bender has been promoted to the rank of corporal at Fort Meade, Md.
Pfc. George C. Elvey is now stationed at Santa Anna, Calif. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Elvey, have received a letter from his commanding officer which states, in part: "It is with great pleasure that I notify you that your son has been selected by the classification board for pilot training in the United States Army Air Force."
Pvt. Donald D. Downes, son of Mrs. Myrtle Downes of McConnellsburg, has graduated from the radio school of the Army Air Forces Technical Training Command at Scott Field, Ill.
Western Union's EFM service started in Mc- Connellsburg this week. The EFM service allows the customers to send messages to servicemen overseas by means of code, each code figure representing one of 103 fixed-text messages. Miss Frances Exline of Hancock was the first customer to use the new service at the local office.
Miss Frances Alexander marked her 16th birthday on Thursday.
Howard B. Knepper, son of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Knepper of Taylor Township, has accepted a position on the national staff of the Boy Scouts of America.
Effective today, Governor James has set a wartime speed limit of 35 miles per hour for Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Matilda Booth is seriously ill at the home of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Guy Clark of State College.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hamil observed their 47th wedding anniversary on Thursday, September 24.
Sgt. Herman C. Garland is now stationed at Victorville, Calif.
Apprentice seaman Melvin Cutchall, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cutchall, and Darel Sipes, son of Mr. and Mrs. Scott Sipes, have returned to the Great Lakes Training Center after spending a furlough here.
Mrs. Herbert Zilch of Fort Littleton entered the hospital at Everett on Thursday for treatment.
80 Years Ago
From The Files Of September 29, 1932
Deaths: Watson C.
Lynch of Mc-
Connellsburg; Ralph Glenn Shafer, Waterfall; Chester McKinley Cavender of Homestead, Pa.; Harrison Grely Wagner of Hustontown.
Arnold, son of Mr. and Mrs. N.J. Bard of near Mc- Connellsburg, had his arm broken last Wednesday when it was caught in the cylinder of a lime drill.
W.H. Knepper of Waterfall suffered a dislocated shoulder last Wednesday when he fell through a hay hole in his barn.
The local ministers gave a farewell supper at Seylar's Tuscarora Mountain on Friday evening in honor of Rev. and Mrs. R.A. Parvin, who are leaving this community.
David, little son of Mr. and Mrs. Nhyle Morton of town, received a very painful injury last Wednesday when he cut his foot with a hatchet.
Two rural roads in Fulton County, Route 29024 in Wells Valley and Route 29020 in Todd Township, were completed and opened to the public last week. Both roads have oil-bound stone surfaces.
Richard McClain left on Wednesday to resume his studies at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
A son was born on Monday morning to Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Winters of Big Cove Tannery.
Fred Charlton of Warfordsburg has registered in the freshman class at Albright College in Reading.
The old stork flew over here on September 21 and left a big boy at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar L. Gress. He has been named James Lamar.
Dr. J.A. Watson was called to the home of Charles Stahley in Buck Valley on Saturday to see his wife, who is seriously ill.
Mrs. Walter Palmer of Dott has returned home from the hospital and is getting along nicely.
Mrs. Howard Warsing of Wells Tannery is a typhoid fever patient in Roaring Springs Hospital.
At the A&P: flour, 24 pounds for 49 cents Bokar coffee, 27 cents lb.; pea beans, 3 lbs. for 10 cents; Camay soap, 4 cakes for 91 cents; Iona corn, 3 cans for 25 cents.


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What?!? Is Tim Hortons having a clearance sale?
No, but if you talk to the management of the Detroit Red Wings, that's the investment they made in acquiring the heart and soul of four Stanley Cup championships. That's the price they paid to secure Kris Draper from the Winnipeg Jets.
On June 30, 1993, the Red Wings picked up Draper from the Jets for future considerations. Kris had played 20 games through three seasons in Winnipeg, but had spent most of that time with the AHL Moncton Hawks.
The future considerations? "We ended up giving them a buck," laughed Jimmy Devellano, Senior Vice President of the Wings.
The investment, unknowingly, helped cement the foundation of a dynasty. And to repay the money spent, during a Stanley Cup celebration one year, Kris handed a dollar bill to team owners Mike and Marian Ilitch. "Here you go. Investment paid in full!" Today, that dollar bill is framed and hangs in their offices.
On Friday and Saturday, July 11 and 12, Kris showed that same commitment and passion as he enjoyed his days with the Stanley Cup.
Preened and polished, the Stanley Cup arrived at the West Hill, Ontario home of Kris and Julie Draper at 8:00 on Friday morning. The quiet suburb, part of Scarborough in Toronto's eastern extremity, is very close to the home in which he grew up. Kris and Julie are a wonderful couple, having been married for ten years, but can count a total of twenty years together. They have three kids they absolutely adore Kienan, Kennedi and newborn Kamryn. In fact, in the team photo, sprawled on the ice in Pittsburgh with the Stanley Cup, Kris has the two eldest kids with him as they celebrate their newfound victory.
Joined by family and friends, the coffee flowed for the adults while the kids got to hold their own Stanley Cup celebration. The bowl of the Cup was filled to overflowing with Timbits (small bite-sized bits of donuts), and the kids dug in as they looked for Daddy's name on the trophy. "Here it is, Kennedi," said an excited Kienan, looking very much like a miniature version of Kris. "I found one. 1998." After some time, the two got frustrated. "Daddy, I can only find your name three times, but you've won the Stanley Cup four times, right?" Kris chuckled. "Yeah, but the fourth time won't be added until September," he explained. The kids nodded, their mouths filled with sweet baked dough.
At 9:30, Kris, his father Mike and assorted friends took the Stanley Cup by limousine to Toronto's Sick Kids Hospital. The first stop was on the fourth floor, a supervised recreational area called Marnie's Lounge. Youngsters undergoing treatment congregated there, amongst computers, video games, a TV monitor showing movies, a pool table and a bubbletop hockey game. While the children played and examined the Stanley Cup, one terrific, outgoing boy engaged Kris in some hockey talk. The two enjoyed a brief conversation, and then Kris asked who he had cheered for in the Stanley Cup final. "Pittsburgh," came the reply. About an hour later, as Draper and the Cup were leaving, the young lad stopped Kris and said, "Thanks a lot for bringing the Stanley Cup!" After a pause, in a near-whisper, he slyly added, "Go Wings go."
Not every child was able to meet in Marnie's Lounge, so Kris made the rounds to meet other children. "I'm amazed at how mobile these kids are in spite of being attached to an apparatus. They don't let anything slow them down!" Also noted was the tenderness in the attention of the nursing staff, who cut bandages into playful shapes for the amusement of the children. It was an emotional stop for Kris, but one he had planned to include from the moment the Cup was won in early June.
Then, it was off to a clothing manufacturer, who had created special t-shirts for the occasion. After a few pictures, with each member now in matching Team Draper Stanley Cup 2008 attire, the limo drove off to The Danforth, a predominantly Greek area of Toronto that is renowned for its great restaurants and bars.
Among the great restaurants on The Danforth is the Detroit Eatery. The owner, a Detroit Red Wings fanatic, has his restaurant decorated in red and white, filled to the street in Red Wings memorabilia, and a place perfectly conducive for Red Wings fans to come to watch games during the season. Some years back, word filtered to the Drapers that, should the Wings ever win the Stanley Cup, Kris would be more than welcomed at this establishment. In 1997, Kris surprised them and dropped by with the Stanley Cup, and in what has become a tradition, visited the eatery for the fourth time on Friday. The limousine pulled up to the curb and the entourage disembarked, with Kris cradling the Stanley Cup. The establishment, shoehorned with Wings fans, cheered exuberantly to see their hero return once again. With fans getting photos of the Cup, Draper and his party enjoyed great burgers, seated amongst the autographed sticks and photos. Best in town, as its reputation states? "Mmmgtfnjk," said Kris, attempting to answer with his mouth full.
From Danforth Avenue, the Cup returned to Kris's house, where some close friends and their kids waited. The youngsters knew what was next as promised, the bowl of the Cup was filled with ice cream, and each kid was given a spoon. They gobbled it up like they hadn't eaten for weeks, leaving the trophy a sticky mess. But part of the bargain was that the kids would also clean the Cup, which they did enthusiastically, taking the garden hose and some elbow grease to the inside and outside of the Stanley Cup.
The boys at the local firehall were recipients of the next visit, and after some photos, said, "Kris, let's shake up the neighbourhood!" To the astonishment of residents in West Hill, a convoy of three bright red firetrucks drove Kris and the Stanley Cup to the home of his parents, where neighbours and friends were invited to stop by to see Kris and the Cup.
Now, firetrucks attract attention at the best of times, but when one includes a champion holding the Stanley Cup, the scrutiny grows much larger. And as Kris's parents, Mike and Mary Lynne, found out, 'much larger' should actually read: 'Oh my God, where did all these people come from?!?'
Explaining why he chose to share the Cup with the West Hill neighbourhood, the amiable Red Wings forward said, "I couldn't even imagine if I was a kid and the Stanley Cup was in someone's backyard and I could go see it when I was eight, nine, ten years old. That's why I do it. It's something I can give back to minor hockey, to kids."
When Kris spotted an infant wearing a Toronto Maple Leafs sleeper, he asked whether the parents would like a picture of the baby in the bowl of the Stanley Cup. As Kris lifted the child, it let out a scream of terror that didn't diminish. The photo was taken as the baby bawled, and Kris quipped, "Guess it knows it's wearing the wrong sweater!"
With the last of the pictures taken, the exhausted but still smiling Wing retreated to his own home nearby to freshen up for the evening's events.
With close friends and family, the Stanley Cup entourage loaded into a limo bus, making the first stop at Murphy's Law in The Beach area of Toronto. The Irish pub is housed in a former bank building at the junction of Queen and Kingston roads. Kris and the gang were taken to the rooftop patio, but through the night, Lord Stanley's mug was taken downstairs so patrons could drink out of the Cup.
They closed the pub and departed for home, but encountered a police spotcheck along the way, as is often the case at that time of night. RIDE (Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere) is a sobriety testing program used by police forces across Canada. Roadside spotchecks are set up, randomly stopping vehicles to see whether drivers have been drinking. All was fine, of course, with the driver of the limo bus, but when the officer noticed Kris Draper and the Stanley Cup in the vehicle, that set off a different type of spotcheck. "Hey guys, I've spotted the Stanley Cup. Check it out!" Police officers scrambled to their cars, hoping to find a camera. Stopped cars began to get backed up as the process briefly paused for pictures with hockey's glorious prize.
The night ended back at Kris and Julie's home, sitting on the patio in the middle of the night, savouring the special accomplishment.
Twenty-three friends then joined Kris and the Stanley Cup at the exclusive Magna Golf Course in Aurora, Ontario, just north of Toronto. Appropriately attired in matching red shirts and blue shirts, the golfers played a round of golf while the Stanley Cup was kept company by course staff, who took the opportunity to get pictures with the Cup. Rain curtailed the final hole, so the duffers returned to the clubhouse and enjoyed a beer and (appropriately) a clubhouse sandwich.
The bus then took the gang to Pier 6 on the Lake Ontario shoreline, where the Matthew Flinders, a ship that cruises the Toronto harbour, was in wait for Kris and the invitees to his floating Stanley Cup party. What ensued was a spectacular evening partying on Lake Ontario with the Toronto skyline in the background. A fabulous dinner preceded a brilliant sunset on an evening that couldn't be much more perfect.
Kris took the opportunity to thank everyone for their continued support through the year. But his speech may very well have been eclipsed by the toast proffered by Julie. The entire Draper family is very close, and Julie spoke of the special relationship Kris enjoys with his children. One example she cited was Kris's routine when returning from western roadtrips. Exhausted, jetlagged and often battered and bruised, Kris makes certain that he is there to take the oldest two to school the next morning. It's special time that he doesn't want to miss, and the kids love that their Dad is there to hear their stories. After the toast, Kris and Julie cut the massive congratulatory cake. For a few minutes at least, Kris was thinking about a different sort of icing than the kind he usually encounters.
The cruise ended at 10:30 Saturday night, and Kris insisted on saying goodbye to each guest. As he carried the Cup from the boat, he was immediately swarmed by New York Yankees fans who had come to Toronto from the Big Apple in order to watch their beloved baseball team play the Blue Jays. Surrounding Kris and the trophy, the fans began chanting, "Draper! Draper!" It certainly was a pleasant surprise for the New York ball fans, who left Toronto with a win (9-4 on Saturday) and two losses going into Major League Baseball's All-Star Break.
It had been an exceptional couple of days for Kris Draper, but likely moreso for those with whom he shared the experience. Truth be told, those numbers reached into the thousands.
The bus pulled up in front of the Draper home. It was 3:30 in the wee hours of Sunday when Kris took a lasting look at the Stanley Cup which will soon be engraved with his name for a fourth time. "I want to give the Cup one last hug and a cuddle."
With that, the Stanley Cup was readied for its next adventure.
We'll flip the pages of the Stanley Cup Journal over to the entries for Derek Meech in Winnipeg and Darren Helm in Kenora when we next get together. Make a date for Friday!
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F1 driver's have concluded they are happy with the new layout at the 'Singapore sling' after the old chicane was replaced by a faster left hander.
The previous layout saw a triple-apex chicane with high kerbs and was hated by most of the drivers as it disrupted the flow of the circuit.
Now in a bid to quicken up the circuit, the chicane has gone. The new left hander is set to drop lap times by a second around the Marina Bay circuit.
"I think it will be good," Mercedes' Nico Rosberg told Brazil's Totalrace, after seeing the new solution during his track walk on Thursday.
"I can't say if it is safer or not, because the speed has been increased, but I think they've done a great job," he added.
One man who claims he will miss the old chicane is Adrian Sutil.
"I usually like a lot of fast corners, but I liked the chicane. It's now a fast corner which should be in third gear," said the German.
"I think it's a very fluid circuit now, for a street circuit."
Fernando Alonso said he was pleased with the reconfigured layout at turn 10.
"I think it's better now. The chicane was a bit dangerous.
"If everything went smoothly there, no problems, but if you had problems you could take off on the kerbs. I think we have improved the safety a little bit.
"The lap will be a second faster, but it will be as fun and challenging as it was before," he added.
The old chicane in it's five years of existence had gained quite the reputation for flying cars and even caused Kimi Raikkonen to crash out of the inaugural race back in 2008.
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By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service
BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, Aug. 19, 2012 – The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said he will visit Iraq to check the status of security cooperation between the United States and Iraq.
Army Gen. Martin Dempsey will meet with the commander of the U.S. Office of Security Cooperation in Iraq, Army Lt. Gen. Robert Caslen.
Dempsey will also meet with his Iraqi counterpart, Gen. Zebari Babakir, and get his insights on how the transition is working. "How's that campaign going?" Dempsey asked. "Do they have the resources they need?"
Dempsey said the stop will give him a general idea of security environment in Iraq. There has been some violence in the country recently recently, including a series of attacks timed to the end of Ramadan that killed 92 people.
The chairman said he may or may not meet with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. "If I do I will take the opportunity to renew my friendship with him, but also get his insights on Syria," he said. "We'll see how that goes."
There are indications that Iran is helping set up a Shiia pro-regime militia in Syria, the general said. "You can tell which forces are conventional military and which are militia," he said.
The conflict in Syria has been going on for 18 months, and Dempsey said the conventional Syrian military is losing capabilities. "I've actually been watching to see if they would go the route of creating a militia to take some of the pressure off the conventional military," he said.
The general said he will express the U.S. military's concern about Iranian influence in Syria, "but it's a message being delivered not as a matter of policy but as someone who has invested quite a bit of their life in Iraq."
Acting Iraqi Defense Minister Sadun Farhan al-Dulaymi Babakir has visited Washington looking to establish more security cooperation, joint exercises and professional development. Dempsey said he has the impression "that after seeing what the last eight months without us looks like – and I don't mean we are coming back to Iraq – but their capabilities may require yet additional development and they are reaching out to us to see if we can help with that."
Iran absolutely seeks economic influence in Iraq, and they seek to influence the direction that Iraqi government takes, Dempsey said.
"My judgment is that if Iran's position erodes in Syria, they will try to increase it in Iraq," he said.


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EDMONDS, Wash. — The North Sound SeaWolves FC continued to shore up its roster, signing Joao Fonseca, Buba Findi Jammeh and Nasyir Rodriguez for the upcoming Premier Development League season.
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The signings give the SeaWolves an international flavor. Jammeh won the African Youth Championship playing for the Gambia U-17 team in 2009, Rodriguez played in the Trinidad & Tobago youth system and Fonseca played for clubs in his native Brazil.
"I think it's a good experience for everyone when you can have players from different parts of the world," SeaWolves coach/owner Alex Silva said. "You can learn a lot, everyone has different styles, personalities. But first, they have to be good players, and these guys are."
Jammeh represented his home country in the 2009 U-17 Africa Championships in Algeria, helping Gambia to win its second title in that tournament. The left back/left midfielder went on to play for the Steve Biko FC in the Gambia first division.
"He's a physical player and that's what we're looking for in the back," Silva said. "He has great experience playing at a very high level and I'm excited to see what he can bring to our team."
Rodriguez played for the Trinidad & Tobago youth program and the midfielder/forward has gone on to play in that country's professional leagues.
"He's good with the ball, very quick and knows the game really well," Silva said. "He's going to help move the ball and will get it to guys in good positions."
Fonseca trained with several Brazilian clubs, including Esporte Clube Bahia in Brazil's first division. The midfielder played at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M and transferred to Belmont College where he will play in the fall.
"He has a lot of the qualities we know about Brazilian players," said Silva, himself a Brazilian. "He's creative and physical and works very hard on and off the ball. He likes to attack and has a lot of style. He's going to be fun to watch."
The SeaWolves are a member of the Northwest Division of the PDL, the highest level of amateur soccer in the United States. Their 16-game season begins May 20 at Fraser Valley. They will play eight home games at Edmonds Stadium, starting on June 1 against the Washington Crossfire.
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This is kind of... Well, good news, I suppose? It depends on where you allegiances lie, but it seems like Ubuntu is warming up to the idea of using Qt to develop applications. It's no secret that Qt is a far more advanced development framework than Gtk+, so it only makes sense for Ubuntu - a GNOME/Gtk+ distribution - is looking at it.
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The problem with NVidia _is_ with the propritary NVidia driver. The new open source drivers works fine. First the binary driver had a long range of performance problems slowing KDE down, and now with most of performance problems solved (as long as you use OpenGL composition at least), all the latest versions have had large memory leaks in the GL driver
That is unless you want to unlock nVidia's 3D and support compositing.
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Now that it's official that Brandon Powell will be transferring from the University of Florida, most likely to Marshall where he will play for former UF assistant Donnie Jones, the big question is do the Gators go after one more commitment or two? The Gators have nine on scholarship for 2007-08 and they have three committed to the recruiting class of 2008 so conventional wisdom would say one and done. However, this might be a good time to defy conventional wisdom.
The scholarship limit is 13, so a class of four to go with the nine on ship and you should be able to call it a day but that doesn't take into account how rapidly Marreese Speights is developing. Everybody that has seen his workouts recently has been wowed by how much he has improved since April in nearly every facet of his game. He's always had the explosion and that ability to go get the ball, but now he's adding some polish to his game and the product, while far from finished, is quite impressive.
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This illustration shows an asteroid over 500 kilometers across catastrophically colliding with the Earth. An asteroid of this size would wipe out all life on Earth. Its possible such an asteroid collided with the Earth in the past when it was young, but there are none of this size in the Earths vicinity today.
This artist's representation is another view of the asteroid that crashed into the Earth and may have led to the fourth mass extinction in Earths history. (Image: Don Davis/NASA)


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The poverty, violence and collapsing public institutions pervading American cities received almost no attention during a presidential campaign so never-ending that it would seemingly have had time to cover any subject imaginable.
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan both visited Philadelphia recently to ask rich people for money.
"It's a good thing if people are successful in life," Ryan said, stroking the egos of 120 such people at the Republican Union League for one of two fundraisers aimed at raising $4 million. "We take pride in that. We don't resent that."
Things seemed less optimistic outside, where protesters formed a "human red carpet" to remind the super-rich about Philadelphia's human-scale catastrophe: 40 percent of children living in poverty, resource-starved public schools facing mass privatization, and 324 people murdered in one year.
Indeed, the Union League feels much farther than its three-mile distance from the parking lot near my apartment where lines of people wait each Wednesday to pick up free produce, or the community health center down the street where neighbors face months-long waits for an appointment. It seems a world apart from the nearby courtrooms that send thousands of Philadelphians, often black and poor, into state and federal prisons each year.
When candidates did visit cities it was to court the super-elite, whether from Wall Street or Hollywood, in between bouts of deep-fried retail politics at rural state fairs. The poverty, violence and collapsing public institutions pervading American cities received almost no attention during a presidential campaign so never-ending that it would seemingly have had time to cover any subject imaginable. Yet it didn't.
Poverty entered the campaign lexicon only in response to the most outrageous denigrations of poor people, from Newt Gingrich's persistent "food stamp president" insults to Romney's infamous February declaration, "I'm not concerned about the very poor." (He did add, in an important but entirely misleading bit of context, "We have a safety net there.") Though Obama's policies certainly do more to protect and support the poor than Romney, neither candidate said much about them.
A disproportionately high 20 percent of city residents live in poverty nationwide. And that's according to a measure that describes a single mother of two children making just over $18,106 as not poor. Some 1.6 million New York City residents are poor. The Bronx is the nation's poorest urban county, Manhattan its most unequal.
It's no coincidence that poverty, visible on street corners from North Philadelphia to Detroit, has gone almost unmentioned in a campaign fueled by rich people debating whether or not Obama is sufficiently enamored with rich people.
"The divisive, polarizing tone of your rhetoric is cleaving a widening gulf, at this point as much visceral as philosophical, between the downtrodden and those best positioned to help them," billionaire hedge fund manager Leon Cooperman remonstrated in an open letter to the president that would make for great humor were it not written by an inordinately powerful man. "It is a gulf that is at once counterproductive and freighted with dangerous historical precedents."
None of the four debate moderators asked a single question about poverty, phenomenal in a country where an astonishing 46 million people-plus live in it. More than half of Americans have experienced poverty before reaching age 65.
The presidential campaigns mirror the racial and economic segregation pervading American cities and their suburbs: Poor people in the greatest need of help are pushed into cities and towns least able to provide it; the better off keep the poor out of mind, and away from the municipal budget.
We've come a long way since 1980, when it still seemed like a problem worth discussing.
During one of that year's presidential debates, Oregonian reporter William Hilliard asked Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter whether "the decline of our cities ... hastened by the continual rise in crime, strained race relations, the fall in the quality of public education, persistence of abnormal poverty in a rich nation and a decline in the services to the public ... point toward a deterioration that could lead to the establishment of a permanent underclass in the cities."
Today, the horse-race obsessed media is so blind to poverty that CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley had no idea what to talk about after Romney's February "gaffe" brought the subject into the headlines. "All this talk today about poverty got us wondering just how many people in America live below the poverty line," Pelley mused, before moving on to something else.
In September, progressive media watchdogs Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting released a report analyzing six months of coverage by nine major outlets, ranging from NBC Nightly News to The Washington Post. "Just 17 of the 10,489 campaign stories studied (.2 percent)," they found, "addressed poverty in a substantive way."
It's abundantly clear that Mitt Romney - who declared that 47 percent of Americans are hopelessly "dependent upon government;" "I like being able to fire people;" "I have some friends who are NASCAR team owners" - is an out-of-touch super-rich buffoon. But an astute campaign-watcher from outer space would never know that the people who should be most revolted by his car-elevator-and-dressage-loving antics are the 46 million Americans living in poverty.


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Horn of Winter is a Death Knight skill that was added in a recent build. Much like the Shaman's Strength of Earth Totem, this skill will give a strength and agility buff to nearby party or raid members -- 155 at the highest rank, to be exact.
It has advantages over Strength of Earth to be sure. It lasts 2 minutes like the totem, but unlike the totem, it's quite a bit more mobile, being a straight-up buff. If there's one drawback to the skill, it's finding the time to cast it.
A Death Knight nearly never sits idle while DPSing. Every global cooldown is precious as you strive to use your runes as soon as they refresh and shed runic power as soon as you have enough for your chosen runic power dump. Some Death Knights think that shoehorning Horn of Winter into there might be asking a bit much, and want it to, at the least, not cost any runic power.
Still, it's a very nice "upgraded" version of the Shaman's Strength of Earth totem, and 20 runic power (10 with a glyph) isn't that bad a cost, so if you're in a physical DPS heavy group or raid, and any Shamans aren't putting out that specific totem, it's worth using it. Any slight hiccup in your damage rotation is probably worth all the nice extra AP and melee critical strike rating you'll get from the buff. Just skip a couple Rune Strikes and cast it already!


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Didn't the A's roster activity seem unusually quiet in recent days? That ended today, as first baseman Tommy Everidge was optioned to Triple-A and outfielder/second baseman Eric Patterson was recalled.
It's a bit of a surprise considering indications were that Everidge and Daric Barton would split time as the A's evaluated both first base prospects. But Bob Geren pointed out that Patterson provides a versatile option off the bench, especially w/left fielder Scott Hairston nursing a sore quad and center fielder Rajai Davis playing with a fractured thumb.
The big-picture impact is that the A's want Barton to get the majority of at-bats at first. Asked if Barton is the primary guy at first base for the rest of the season, Geren responded, "Yeah." He left the door open to Everidge returning when rosters expand, but it's clear the A's want to give Barton a hard look. … I wouldn't read too much into this as far as the A's plans for next season, because you figure Chris Carter, Sean Doolittle and possibly Brett Wallace will all be in the first base mix in spring training. But Barton gets his chance to leave a strong imprint heading into the offseason, much like Cliff Pennington at shortstop.
Patterson split his latest stint in Sacramento between center field, left field and second base. I see center being his best chance for playing time up here, as Davis could probably use a little rest for his thumb.
–Other newsie bits: Bobby Crosby said his calf feels good after running sprints yesterday. He's taking today off from running but looks like he could be ready Wednesday, when he's eligible to come off the DL. … Geren reiterated that Edgar Gonzalez is his preference to start Tuesday at Kansas City, which would set into motion a six-man rotation.
–I've mentioned this before about Brett Tomko, who starts tonight: It's unusual to see a starter, on the day he's pitching, hang out on the field w/the rest of the team when it comes out to stretch. Starting pitchers typically hole up in the clubhouse until they're ready to start their pregame throwing. But Tomko seems to enjoy being w/the team. I'll have to ask him about it …
The lineups:
Kennedy 3B
Davis CF
Suzuki C
Cust DH
Hairston LF
Sweeney RF
Ellis 2B
Barton 1B
Pennington SS
Tomko RHP
Figgins 3B
Abreu RF
Hunter CF
Guerrero DH
Rivera LF
Morales 1B
Aybar SS
Kendrick 2B
Mathis C
Bell RHP


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Words by Gina Michael, Photos by Control Alt Delight, Philip Mendoza 2012
These days, everyone from your best friend to your neighbor's gardener's barber is making music. In the overly-saturated electronic music world, there are a few heavyweights who stand alone—virtuoso music-makers who seem to have the Midas touch that turns anything and everything they work on to gut-wrenching gold.
The Bloody Beetroots a.k.a. Sir Bob Cornelius Rifo, undoubtedly has claimed a rightful place among the titans of electro music (even he would hate to be classified into just one genre)…
So there I sat, at the restaurant bar of the Standard Hotel in downtown LA, anxiously awaiting the arrival of the masked legend. To my surprise, and delight, Sir Bob was unmasked and without any airs. On stage he is larger than life, but in person, he exceeded his persona—simply because he is an incredibly down-to- earth person.
It felt as if I were catching up with an old friend—an old friend who happened to be interrupted multiple times during our conversation to exchange words with other industry wave makers, too many to mention, who accurately referred to Rifo as the most viral artist in electronic music. And so he is, and will continue to be, infecting us all with his conception of what it means to be an artist.
GM: Coming from performing all over Europe from France to Germany to Belgium, and then Puerto Rico last night, to being here in LA and tomorrow you're off to Canada– your tour schedule is absolutely insane! It's exhausting just thinking about it. What do you do to maintain while traveling and still manage to put on a high-energy, kick-ass show every time?
SBCR: You just don't drink too much or do drugs and it's not so bad. I've been doing this for a long time now, so the jet lag isn't really jet lag, it's just lag. But every night is a different experience. Each crowd has a different energy so my job is to connect with the crowd and their energy. If it's there, I play to that. If it's not, then it's my job to give them the energy to want to stay and dance the whole set. I mean, in Europe there were some shows where it was raining, like really raining. And you know, they don't want to be out but they are out there through it all but I just try to create a space so they will want to be there and have a great time anyway. Because of that, man we got some incredible shots of people going nuts in the rain and that makes it worth it for me, like I did my job.
GM: Can you tell us a little about your creative process? Do you get into the studio and stay there until you've made something, or do you only head to a studio after inspiration has struck?
SBCR: I try not to get stuck in the studio all the time, but yeah sometimes I do have to just go and work. But with a song, it's all about the title. Once the title is there, there is a story waiting to be told. I don't really know why it's like it but that's how it happens for me. The title comes to me and after that, it's done. I know the beat, the chords, everything, it's been composed.
GM: So if it starts with the title, is that how you make all of your music?
SBCR: Yes, every time. I mean I remember with Cornelius that was exactly what it was. The title came to me and I wanted to tell the story of Cornelius. He was a character that needed his story to be told.
GM: Well, it's obviously working–your latest single "Rocksteady" is incredible. From the rock-infused electro beats to that insane video Wyatt Neumann dreamed up, "Rocksteady" seems to strike that perfect balance between garage punk rock and roll and the electro dance we've all grown to love. What is your personal definition of Rocksteady?
SBCR: With Rocksteady, once I had that title I knew it had to stay true to its rock 'n' roll roots. I wanted it to be reminiscent of the 60s and 70s and have the essence of that time but at the same time, I wanted to redefine what rock is.
GM: With the fairly recent explosion of EDM into mainstream media, it seems there is a massive influx of new music producers and DJs trying to get their material out and gain a strong following. Any advice you would give to someone out there trying to make a name for him or herself?
SBCR: Yeah, it's true, electronic music is exploding, particularly in America – maybe too much. You know, there's a lot of material out there now. Some people think that "electro," if that's what you want to call it, is cheesy. I know who I am and what I want to bring to the music world, so more than anything I want to make sure the music has content and has substance. For me, that is my main goal and that's what I focus on regardless of what I'm working on. Of course I have to make a living and be able to stand on my own two feet, but I'm not making music so it can become something or get airplay on the radio. At the end of the day, it has to be about the music and making a connection. If you are doing it for any other reason it won't work. Music is meant to be felt, nothing else.
GM: Is there anyone that you look up to or aspire to be like?
SBCR: It's kind of stange, me personally I never really had any idols growing up. I think that's why I can work with all different types of people. Some of them, are huge in their scenes, superstars, but I don't think of it. I guess in my mind, I don't like to weigh people. People are just people which I guess is why I can get along with anyone.
GM: Do you still keep in touch with Dennis? (Lyxzen of Refused and International Noise Conspiracy)
SBCR: Ah, I like to but now, he's ridiculously busy, touring all over the world, way busier than me!
GM: You definitely aren't afraid to branch out, encompassing everything from photography and fashion to politics and cinematography into your musical arsenal. What should we be on the lookout for next? A new album? Or maybe something completely different—a novel perhaps?
SBCR: I don't think I'm so good with words and writing and talking, that's why I do music and photography to be honest. But I do want to make a movie. That is my next goal. Not like some long full-length feature or anything like that. Just a short, f***ed up story that can maybe explain a little bit about me and how this all came to be.
And with that Sir Bob went off to HARD Summer in LA to put on one of the most insane sets I've ever seen—crazy enough to pull us from backstage and into the crowd so we could really get rowdy and experience what the Bloody Beetroots DJ Set is all about. With his latest single "Rocksteady," a stacked tour schedule spanning from Europe across North America and down under to Australia, and a possible movie in the near future, it seems The Bloody Beetroots' reign is far from over, but in actuality, is just getting started.


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I noticed this tree growing along the side of a railway in Somerset. I looked like an Ash to me but the 'fruit' was somthing I had not seen before.
Any ideas?
you were right in your identification of Ash. These masses are the male flowers. Each little red blob within the mass has two pollen producing anthers. This website (if you scroll down slightly) has good close-up images of male and female flowers.
Ash generally have either male or female specimens and so will only have male and female flowers respectively. Occasionally a specimen will have both male and hermaphrodite flowers or female and hermaphrodite flowers.
This specimen obviously has male flowers, if you wished to find out if this tree also has hermaphrodite flowers you could return in late summer to see if any ash keys have set on this tree or not.
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Kenneth Cole continued his solid campain on the mound for Erie-Prophetstown, spearheading a 4-2 victory over Kewanee on Friday at Ashford Field in Clinton, Iowa.
Brandon McCullough doubled and drove in two runs in a four-run second inning to lead the Panthers to a Three Rivers victory.
Cole (3-0) went the distance for E-P (11-6, 7-0), striking out five and walking two while allowing two earned runs and seven hits.
Dixon swept in Ottawa: The Dukes dropped a pair of NIB-12 West decisions on the road, falling to the Ottawa Pirates 12-0 and 12-1 in two five-inning games.
Dan Pultorak's RBI in Game 2 accounted for the lone run, and Kelson Spinden and Brandon Jagitsch had doubles in the nightcap. Pultorak (3-3) and Ryan Dixon (1-3) took the losses on the mound for Dixon (5-14, 1-7).
Geneseo 4, Sterling 3: The Golden Warriors lost another close NIB-12 West game to the Maple Leafs at Gartner Park. They fell 1-0 to the Leafs on Thursday in Geneseo.
Forreston-Polo 11, Orangeville 1, 6 inn.: Ethan Groom struck out six and walked three in four no-hit innings, and the Cardinals used an eight-run third inning to cruise to a NUIC East road win.
Jordan Ludwig ripped two doubles and drove in three runs for Forreston-Polo (8-5, 5-1), and Andrew Beasley added a pair of singles and two RBIs.
Dakota 14, AFC 0, 5 inn.: Graye Freeman's double and Troy Mairs' single were the only two hits the Raiders could muster in a home loss to the NUIC East-leading Indians.
Freeman (1-1) took the loss for AFC (3-6, 1-5), but only one of the seven runs he allowed in 2 2/3 innings was earned.
Aquin 7, Milledgeville 2: Kameron DawTyne had the Missiles' lone RBI in a NUIC East loss at home. Zach Herin took the loss.
Friday's stars
Jordan Ludwig, Forreston-Polo, 2 2Bs, 3 RBIs
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On February 10th we lost a dear friend by the name of Chester Brandlin. You will recognize the name being the same as our Brandlin Cabernet and here is why: Back in 1998 we were informed that a very special property was for sale in the Mount Veeder district of Napa Valley, which was owned by Chester Brandlin. We knew it was special due to the incredible Zinfandels from the site, which were produced by Peter Franus. We negotiated with Chester for many months but it wasn't about price; he wanted to make sure we would protect the environment that his family had nurtured since the 1920's when the 10 acres of zinfandel were first planted. Once purchased by Cuvaison, we planted 38 acres to Cabernet, Cabernet Franc, Malbec and Petit Verdot, while maintaining the old vine zinfandel.
Once we heard the rich stories about the Brandlin family, which dated back to their arrival to Mount Veeder in the 1870's, we knew we had to do something to bring homage to this great family. They had grown wine grapes that entire time but never had their name on a label. While they made wine, it was only for their personal use with the rest being sold to wine producers. Chester told stories of his family taking grapes by wagon all the way to San Francisco before there were motorized trucks. 2003 was our first vintage of Brandlin Cabernet and I'll always remember handing Chester that first bottle with his family name on it. We were all a bit teary that day.
You can read Chester's obituary here.
Everyone says that harvest is a lot of work, but you don't really understand it until you live it. Take it from first-time harvest intern Adam Gordon.
Twelve-hour days, 7 days a week, is a whole lot easier said than done. Often young interns are attracted to the wine-industry for the romance of winemaking or the glamour of wine country. They are passionate, educated, and eager to dive right in and get dirty. The physical demands are grueling, but the payoff is worth it.
Adam is a 24-year-old graduate from Purdue University whose passion for wine was sparked when he attended lectures taught by the Court of Master Sommeliers. Bit by the wine bug, he acquired Level I Certification from the Court of Master Sommeliers and founded a wine club at Purdue called the Purdue Wine Appreciation Society. While earning his BS in Hospitality and Management, he dreamed of moving to Napa to truly experience the famous wine and food culture. He set his sight on the prestigious Advanced Culinary Arts program at the Culinary Institute of America, located in Saint Helena, California.
During the program, he became the president of the CIA wine club. He experienced high-end aged wines and gained the knowledge of pairing food and wine. After completing the program, he worked as a line cook at Bottega restaurant in Yountville, thinking he wanted to work in the restaurant industry. But after a while, it was the upcoming harvest that naturally piqued his curiosity.
Adam heard about Cuvaison Estate Wines from an advisor at CIA who recommended Cuvaison as one of the best wineries to work for and learn from. After interviewing with the Winemaking team, he was very excited to be offered a position as a harvest intern for 2012! Along with three other interns -- Karan from India, JP from South Africa, and Elise from France – Adam was about to discover firsthand how much work goes into making wine…
What made you want to work harvest?
What's the most interesting thing you've learned?
What is your most favorite or most challenging task?
If you could have any job in the wine industry, what would it be?
What surprised you the most about harvest and about the wine-making process?
What was the high and low of harvest?
Would you work another harvest?
Meet the latest addition to Cuvaison; Carrie-Anne Kunkel. Carrie-Anne will support domestic sales in addition to international sales, which includes export, cruise-lines and airlines. We asked Carrie-Anne to share what she likes about Napa, where she's from and what she's most excited about in respect to her new Sales Coordinator role. Read on!
"I really enjoy waking up to the beauty of Napa Valley; Rolling hills, Redwoods, Oak trees, and the occasional hot air balloon are all in my drive to work. I also enjoy immersing myself in the Napa wine community. Everyone is really interesting and comes from all places and backgrounds to pursue their passion for wine.
I grew up in Half Moon Bay. In high school, I was a surfer, competitive swimmer, and water polo player. I was also in a couple of musicals including 42nd street. I traveled a lot at a young age with my sister and mom because she was a Pan Am flight attendant, so I was privileged to see world.
B.S. in International Business from SF State. My continued thirst for culture shock and travel was my trigger to develop an international dimension to my career.
I am most excited about learning the global wine marketplace and developing lasting relationships with our importers and brokers abroad. I am also interested in learning more about all aspects of the Cuvaison's operations as I interact with other departments."
Stacy De Fino, the Diva behind the WinoBee blog, has highlighted Cuvaison in her recent post featuring wineries applauded for producing ethically responsible wines.
Read this nice article by Paul Franson on "Building for Visitors and Sustainability," and watch the accompanying video below!
These days our vineyards are like a gentle flowing carpet of deep velvety green. The days are long and despite the higher temperatures found in most parts of the Napa Valley, our Carneros Estate remains comfortably cool with breezes off the bay. We simply could not resist hosting a spontaneous summertime event for our wine club members.
We had over 190 Club Cuvaison members RSVP. Most of them hailed from the San Francisco Bay Area, a few from Chico and Los Angeles and even some from as far away as Chicago and Iowa.
Let's start with the food. The food was … delicious. For meat eaters, the highlight was hand crafted sausages made special by Napa's artisanal charcuterie, The Fatted Calf. These sausages were infused with our very own 2008 Carneros Pinot Noir wine and were amazing!
Fresh seasonal fruit salad and roasted potato salad with whole grain mustard also made for a nice accompaniment to our Carneros Estate flight of wines being poured.
The evening was filled with cheery conversation while guests sipped and swirled our Vin Gris, Sauvignon Blanc, Zinfandel, Carneros Chardonnay and Carneros Pinot Noir. New and old friends mingled while the sun slowly slipped towards the horizon, casting an almost ethereal golden hue across the landscape.
It was stunning. For those who were not able to make it this time, we hope to see you on your next visit to Napa Valley!
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Sensible Shoes Advised
Let's face it, most people who visit Wine Country stay on the beaten path. The closest they get to the grapevines is viewing them as a blur through a car window.
If you like to stray from the confines of the tasting room, and have a hankering to wander through our luscious rows of vines for a closer look, we encourage you to take a closer look at our all new Carneros Estate Vineyard Walk and Tasting program.
This program includes a walking discussion of our vineyards, followed by tasting through our Carneros Estate flight of wines.
Walking shoes are advised. We also advise dressing in layers, as conditions change frequently in Carneros.
The Carneros Estate Vineyard Walk and Tasting is offered Friday through Monday at 9:30am. Cost is $30 per person or $20 for Club Cuvaison members. Reservations are required. Groups are limited to a maximum of 8 guests.
Kelly J. Hayes: WineInk
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Aspen Times
That comment from Jay Schuppert, president of Cuvaison Estate Winery, best sums up a valuable life lesson he learned as a young man. Schuppert has, in the last three-plus decades, followed his passions through a career that has taken him from the Crystal Palace's kitchen sink to the helm of one of Napa Valley's most respected wine estates.
This past weekend he returned to the roots of his career, pouring Cuvaison's wines in the tent at the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen. He is a frequent visitor and remains fast friends with many locals he met during a 12-year stint in Aspen's restaurant community.
Jay's journey in the wine world began in 1972 when he came to Aspen, fresh from college graduation. There were no stoplights from Independence Pass to Glenwood Springs at the time, and the living was easy. Provided you could make a living.
Mead Metcalf gave him a job washing dishes at the then-thriving Crystal Palace restaurant and dinner theater. In four short years he ...Read more here ...
Phone calls are so 2005 - and snail mail, what's that? Everyday our world is communicating less through traditional mail and phone calls, and more through text messaging and emails.
People are ditching their perfectly serviceable cell phones to upgrade to "smart phones" that do everything short of bringing you breakfast in bed. (Think iphone, Droid and Blackberry)
Why are we bringing this up? Good question. Cuvaison has recently developed a special site that makes navigating cuvaison.com from a smart phone easier.
The next time you visit our website from a smart phone, you will enjoy your experience and won't have to scroll a million times in order to see the breadth of a specific page.
Say you're on a Princess cruise or flying Singapore Airlines and happenchance upon a Cuvaison wine you like. All you have to do is visit our mobile site and buy wine remotely. Tell us that's not cool!
We are convinced the smart phone users of the universe will find our new mobile site friendly to navigate and easy to shop on. We'll see you on the World Wide Web!
Take home a 6-pack and save 30%
Retail Bottle | 30
Retail 6-Bottle set | 180
Promo 6-Bottle set | 126
Cuvaison has partnered up with the Carneros Wine Alliance to be apart of a special Online Auction to benefit the Carneros Land Stewardship Foundation!
A great deal for a great cause...
Join us for a private tour and tasting with our Winemaker Steve Rogstad. Walk through our organically grown Block F5, tour through the cellars and taste our line-up of Estate Grown Carneros wines in our new Carneros Tasting Room where you will be surrounded by views of the rolling waves of vines.
Take home a mixed six pack of Cuvaison Estate Grown and Bottled Pinot Noirs.
Check out other great auction lots from Carneros wineries:
Everyday, the energy produced from the solar panels on top of our Carneros Winery is reported directly and instantly to our website! Since installation in 2007, we have avoided putting 827,010 lbs of CO2 into the Earth's atmosphere!
Our solar panels have produced enough energy to: operate a TV for 4,635,532 hours; power 5,131 computers for 1 year; or power 36 homes for 1 year! And these panels have saved as much pollution from entering the atmosphere as an average passenger car emits over 83 years!
Solar isn't the only way Cuvaison is giving back to the environment.
Read more about our Green Initiatives>>
Visitors have always enjoyed Cuvaison's beautiful picnic grounds in Calistoga, but now we can provide your picnic lunch!
Give us 24 hours notice and your
basket lunch will be waiting!
Choose from a delicious picnic lunch menu that includes a split bottle (357ml) of Cuvaison wine!
Lunch paired with 375ml Chardonnay - $25 per person.
Lunch paired with 375ml Pinot Noir - $29 per person
Choose from: Turkey, Roast Beef, or Grilled Vegetable Sandwich, or a Chicken Caesar Wrap. Each lunch is a complete with fresh fruit, a side salad, a cookie, and utensils.
Call 707-942-2468 or click here for details and to make your reservation!
Experience timeless traditions and elegant pagentry
along the enchanting Danube
on the newest Uniworld ship, the River Beatrice
Join Winemaker, Steven Rogstad and cruise Europe's Danube River aboard Uniworld's newest ship, the River Beatrice-November 28 - December 6, 2010. Join Steve and fellow club members while traveling through Hungary, Slovakia, Austria, and Germany. From the large Holiday Markets of Vienna to the more intimate Holiday Markets of Bratislava, Passau, and Salzburg—each combines timeless traditions with elegant pageantry. 7 nights aboard a river-view stateroom with 7 guided shore excursions, a private Cuvaison wine tasting reception, & more.
Special Pricing from $1,849. For more information call Doctor Travel at 800-466-2784.
For more informatioin visit www.cuvaison.com/club
No need to leave your dog home alone,
both of Cuvaison's Tasting Rooms are Dog Friendly!
Just don't forget the leash!
Meet Kelli, the well behaved dog of one of our dearest club members,
checking out the wonderful view from our Carneros Tasting Room terrace.
Who could leave such a great dog at home?
Kelli, you are welcome back anytime!
Question: What's left in your cellar?
a) sticky floor from popping all those corks
b) few broken glasses that need to be replaced
c) bottle of who knows what from Uncle Jim
Answer: All of the above!
Mix and match from select wines and receive 25% off a case or 30% off 2 cases or more to Restock Your Cellar!
Click here to see which wines are included in this special offer!
*Special Club Member Only Offer
This article appeared on page M - 6 of the San Francisco Chronicle - 11/15/2009 - By Janny Hu, Chronicle Staff Writer
From the parking lot at Cuvaison Estate Wines' new tasting room in Napa, there are few hints as to what awaits inside - which is a good thing. It heightens the shock factor of walking in and discovering floor-to-ceiling windows that offer stunning, panoramic views of the estate's vineyards in the heart of Carneros.
The tasting room opened in May and is 85 percent solar powered in keeping with Cuvaison's commitment to sustainability (both its winery and land were certified Napa Green in 2008). Despite its size, the service remains remarkably personal thanks to a slower-paced, sit-down format.
The vibe: Open, airy and full of natural light, the space is gorgeous. The north- and east-facing windows are retractable, so you can enjoy fresh air during warmer days and protection during inclement weather - all while gazing at the estate's vineyards and central lake.
Tabletops and chairs are made from recycled aluminum, and the building is finished with teak and cherry wood, lending a warm vibe to an otherwise modern-looking structure.
The team: Winemaker Steve Rogstad joined Cuvaison in 2002 and crafts Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Syrah and Merlot from 400 acres across the Carneros estate. The winery's separate 140-acre Mount Veeder estate specializes in Cabernet Sauvignon.
The wines: Two tasting flights of four wines are offered for $15 each, though we were able to mix and match wines from both lists. Among the choices are two Chardonnays, two Pinots and the 2006 Mount Veeder Cabernet Sauvignon.
The experience: If you're short on time, think about coming back on a more leisurely day. All tastings are seated, so you sit either indoors or outdoors and the wines are brought one at a time. It makes the process longer but nets you individual attention.
Our host gave a brief history of each wine and pointed out where the grapes were grown - in one case, the Pinot vines were a few feet away. The map he referenced was even detailed enough to show our exact table.
Throughout the visit, we never felt rushed or pressured, and on our way out, we snagged a bonus taste of their 2006 Espiritu dessert wine.
The extras: Cuvaison has a second tasting room in Calistoga on Silverado Trail, with shaded picnic grounds.
Nearby: Domaine Carneros, 1240 Duhig Road, Napa, (707) 257-0101. Madonna Estate, 5400 Old Sonoma Road, Napa, (707) 255-8864. Artesa, 1345 Henry Road, Napa, (707) 224-1668.
If you go: Cuvaison, 1221 Duhig Road, Napa, (707) 942-2455. Open daily, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.Go To Article: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/15/TR3D1AGHMT.DTL Photo: Brant Ward / The Chronicle
Bid & Buy through Saturday, November 14 -- http://auction.carneros.com
A Unique chance for wines, magnums, holiday gifts, and shared experiences for family and friends. Beneficiaries are the Carneros Land Stewardship Foundation and the CWA's Cru Carneros educational and training program for early stage wine and food professionals.
Cuvaison's Auction Lot:
Join us for a private vineyard tour followed by a wine paired luncheon for four in the gallery room of our new Carneros tasting room. You'll be surrounded by views of the rolling waves of our estate vineyard as you settle in to enjoy your meal. The experience continues as you take home a 6 bottle selection of our finest Estate grown wines including the limited release 2007 S Block Chardonnay and 2007 Block F5 Pinot Noir. - An Estimated $400 value!
"The Carneros Wine Alliance is an association of wineries and growers in the Carneros AVA (American Viticulture Area). One of the most rural of wine regions, Carneros ("the Ram" in Spanish ) is known for its natural beauty, its commitment to community and to the preservation of our environment."
Just thinking about Thanksgiving makes one hungry for their family's tried-and-true favorites. As we were planning the upcoming Thanksgiving offer we thought we would share our favorite family recipes with you! So try out some of these delicious offerings from our family to yours.
Try Mary's Nebraska styled smoked turkey, Joelle's New England oyster stuffing, Kristen's southern twist on sweet potatoes, and Jamie's Californian cranberry sauce!
Share your favorite family recipes with us and we will post them on our blog! (Either comment on this post or send us an email at firstname.lastname@example.com)
Mary's Smoked Turkey, Nebraska style
Some pointers for smoking a turkey:
Charcoal smokers have two pans - one for charcoal and one for liquid. Fill the pan for liquid with water, Cuvaison wine, apple juice or the liquid you desire. Fill the charcoal pan with of course charcoal. Light the charcoal and place the cover on the smoker. When the smoker has reached an internal temperature of 250° F to 300° F, place the turkey on the smoker rack and replace the cover. Replenish charcoal and/or liquid, as necessary, to maintain 250° F to 300° F.
Smoking time depends on many factors: the size and shape of the turkey, the distance from the heat, temperature of the coals and the outside air temperature. Estimate 20 to 30 minutes per pound if using a smoker. Always use a food thermometer. The whole turkey is done when the food thermometer, placed in the inner thigh, reaches 180° F. The breast is done when the internal temperature reaches 170° F.
Joelle's New England Oyster Stuffing
(Serves 8 – 10)
Kristen's Sweet Potato and Two-Cheese Gratin
(Serves 8)
Jamie's Cranberry Sauce with Cherries, Marsala, and Rosemary
Combine Marsala and dried cherries in deep saucepan. Boil until mixture is reduced to 2/3 cup, about 8 minutes. Mix in remaining ingredients. Bring to a boil, stirring occasionally. Reduce heat to medium, cover pan and simmer until cranberries burst and mixture thickens, stirring occasionally, about 8 minutes. Transfer to bowl. Refrigerate until cold, about 3 hours. (Can be prepared 1 week ahead. Cover; keep refrigerated.)
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i'm a voracious reader, a prolific writer, a terrific listener, a dedicated people watcher (windshield psychology), a good friend, a photographer, a singer and guitar player, a music and wine appreciator and a lover of cats. Odin, my kitty co-pilot, is a sepia snow-marble Bengal, which is a domesticated exotic breed: a cross between an Asian Leopard and an Egyptian Mau.
i trade my time for money as a genius waitress and by completing odd contract jobs in freelance writing and photography. I consider myself a photographer hobbyist who enjoys nature and shoots primarily digital. i spend much of my time in Maryland and Virginia stomping through the woods, chasing butterflies, combing grass, lifting leaves and getting muddy. Though i prefer to be out in the field, i also enjoy event photography, portraiture and photographing pets (particularly my beloved Bengal cat, Odin).
The goal in my photography is not only to document life as i see it through my eyes and the eye of my camera, but to achieve vibrancy in color and tone, to highlight the minute and the sublime, to capture the most concentrated and simplest essence of the subject, and to perhaps show you something in the world that you may not have seen before or have never seen in quite that way.
Most of the photography i do is for pleasure: family events, weddings, and nature photography, though it has included some minor, but nice local recognition: as an Honorable Mention winner of the 2005 Maryland Natural Resources Photo Contest and was included in the Maryland Department of Natural Resources 2006 Calendar.
i was also a finalist in the 3rd Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest in the Altered Images Category.
i believe in the barter system and everything is fine so long as i eat, the bills get paid, i continue my education, live relatively stress free and enjoy my life.


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Heartburn affects about 60 million Americans once a month and while it is a very common medical condition, people often choose the wrong techniques to treat heartburn. While there are natural heartburn cures that a person suffering from frequent heartburn may use as a heartburn home remedy; more and more sufferers are considering a popular and expensive GERD treatment called nissen fundoplication. This is a surgical treatment that is recommended for people suffering from GERD or gastroesophageal reflux disease.
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Toulouse murders: a pivotal moment?
For the past two weeks, France has been fixated on the murders of three soldiers, three children and a teacher in the south-west. Debate has focused on the killer, his family, his support, as well as the police and intelligence work. Politicians have tried to look dignified, but are also trying benefit. So has Toulouse totally changed the campaign, or will it merely be a ripple? In any case, far-left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon, is surging in the polls. How high will he go?
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- Philip Turle, Journalist, RFI;
- Jean-Marc Gonin, Senior Writer, Le Figaro Magazine.


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We've been living in a much-lauded "golden age" of great TV for what, about a decade now? There's a wealth of formidable options in essentially every genre, which is wonderful, of course. But at the same time, you can't possibly watch every single show that you've "heard good things about" without ending up like the "Sloth" victim in Se7en, strapped to your own bed with slowly decaying muscles as a punishment for your sedentary lifestyle. So, rather than run down every Emmy-nominated episode of every show you've already been guilted into DVR-ing or whatever, instead, let's take an arbitrary look back at the 10 best televised moments of the year, as chosen by a person who may or may not actually own a TV.
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Tide Nation, it's apparently safe to take a deep breath and exhale.
Starting quarterback AJ McCarron suffered a knee injury in the third quarter of No. 1 Alabama's win over Missouri Saturday and, after a brief reappearance, watched the remainder of the blowout from the sidelines. Head coach Nick Saban said after the game that the program's medical personnel would reevaluate the junior in 24 hours; during the unveiling of the first BcS rankings Sunday night, Saban allowed his starter was "doing fine."
At his weekly Monday press conference, Saban reiterated that stance.
"AJ's OK," Saban said. "He has a bruised knee. He's still sore. He will try to do some things in practice today."
The Tide will travel to Tennessee Saturday looking to extend its winning streak to 11 games dating back to last season.


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CHELSEA — Roll over, Ace Ventura — there's a new pet detective in town.
Skylar the Shih Tzu was returned home after being snatched off the streets in September by an alleged dognapper — thanks to the intervention of an ex-cop now working as a "pet security consultant."
The 7-year-old pooch's owner, Maria Vazquez, said the dog was brought back to her Fulton Houses home on Nov. 12, nearly two months after he was stolen of the street.
The black-and-white pooch was taken after she tied him up at West 19th Street and Seventh Avenue on Sept. 21, leaving Vazquez heartbroken and postering the neighborhood with missing fliers.
That's when Angel Nieves, an ex-NYPD detective who now specializes in pet-related crimes, stepped in.
"He had an ongoing investigation, and I don't know if I would have gotten my baby back without him," she said of Nieve's pro-bono help.
Using his NYPD contacts and experience helping pet-owners find their lost animals, Nieves managed to get security footage of the thief snatching Skylar. He then used stills from the footage to create a poster that was plastered on nearly every block in Chelsea.
"I got a call from a man from New Jersey who said he had my dog," Vazquez said. "He said he had seen the ads. I sent out my sister, and she picked him up. It was Skylar."
Nieves said he does not believe the man who turned Skylar over was the same person who snatched him up off the street, but that he likely either unknowingly bought the dog or received it as a gift.
The 20-year NYPD veteran, who has worked as a private animal security consultant since 2007, gave his leads in the case to his contacts at the 13th Precinct.
Nieves said he could not identify the person who returned Skylar or any potential suspects in the dognapping case.
"This person, he's picked up dogs before, casually, and then run away when he was seen," Nieves said. "So he did have intent to take this dog."
Police said the investigation is ongoing, but could not confirm any additional details about the case.
Vazquez, who suffers from depression and osteoarthritis, searched far and wide in the hopes of finding Skylar, a therapeutic dog who also helps Vazquez's mother, who suffers from dementia.
Nieves, who added that he was angered upon seeing the security camera footage, said that helping Vazquez out was not about the money.
"For me, it's a reward seeing people happy with their animal," he said. "The most important thing to me is that she got the dog back."
For Vazquez, the search for her dog wasn't all bad. While at a shelter in Brooklyn that had found a Shih Tzu that turned out not to be Skylar, she came across a four-week-old black kitten set to be euthanized that she adopted and named Midnight.
For his part, Skylar has largely ignored the mischievous new addition to the family.
"My baby is back home," Vazquez said. "That's all that matters to me."


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Find hotels in Saint Stephens using the list and search tools below. Search for the cheapest discounted hotel and motel rates in or near Saint Stephens, SC for your upcoming personal or group trip. Discover the best Saint Stephens, South Carolina motel and hotel rooms. Browse the Saint Stephens area hotels to find the perfect lodging! Please use the provided map of the Saint Stephens hotels. Booking 5+ Rooms? Find Saint Stephens Group Hotel Discounts
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OverviewRexx/Curses provides Rexx programmers with an interface to the curses library, enabling the writing of portable text-based user interface programs in Rexx. The Curses library is available on most platforms. On Un*x like operating systems, such as Linux, Solaris, AIX etc, the curses library used is usually ncurses. This provides an interface within a terminal such as xterm. On systems that run X11, Rexx/Curses can be used with the X11 port of PDCurses. This provides an interface as a native X11 window.
On other platforms such as Windows, OS/2, DOS, PDCurses is the curses library to use.
DocumentationOnline documentation as a single HTML page can be found by clicking on the Documentation button on the left.
SupportWith Rexx/Curses on SourceForge, support resources for Rexx/Curses. such as mailing lists, discussion forums, bug reporting and feature requests are available.
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STOCKTON - Police said they had few leads to pursue after a young man was shot and killed Monday night in southeast Stockton.
STOCKTON - Police said they had few leads to pursue after a young man was shot and killed Monday night in southeast Stockton.
The victim, identified by the San Joaquin County Coroner's Office as Francisco G. Martinez, 21, of Stockton, was shot about 7:30 p.m. in the 1600 block of East Eighth Street, police said.
When officers arrived, they found Martinez suffering from one gunshot wound, authorities said.
Martinez was transported to a hospital, where he died from his injuries, police said. A group of people standing in front of a home on East Eighth Street on Tuesday, including one who identified himself as the victim's brother, declined to comment.
Investigators were still trying to establish a motive for the killing and had no description of the killer, said Officer Joe Silva, a spokesman for the Stockton Police Department.
Anyone with information about the case is encouraged to call the Stockton Police Department at (209) 937-8377, the Investigations Unit at (209) 937-8323 or Crime Stoppers at (209) 946-0600. Crime Stoppers pays cash rewards up to $10,000. Callers can remain anonymous.
Cellphone users can text information to 274637 (CRIMES) by entering the keyword "TIPSPD" followed by their tip. Internet users can visit the Police Department's Facebook page and click "Submit a Tip."
Contact reporter Jason Anderson at (209) 546-8279 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him at recordnet.com/crimeblog or on Twitter @Stockton911.


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On Saturday, March 29 Monmouth Park will welcome racing fans at 9:15am for international simulcast racing from the final day of the Dubai World Cup Carnival. Tellers will be ready for wagering by 9:30am as the third race readies for post at Nad Al Sheba Racecourse.
With total purses of $27,000,000, the day's racing is highlighted by the $10,000,000 Dubai World Cup (UAE-I) with expected entry of former U.S. based Ron the Greek as well as Grade I winners Hunter's Light, Ruler of the World, and Red Caudeaux.
Also on Saturday, Derby hopefuls in the U.S. will be competing in the Grade I Florida Derby at Gulfstream Park and the Grade I Louisiana Derby at Fair Grounds.


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"Well, that's exactly what Raspberry-Pi for."
I suspect it's harder and less rewarding than learning to program applications on computers as we did. Never the less I'm sure the raspberry pi is a fine device to learn the niche of embeded programming. In the context of our discussion though, can a kid program a raspberry pi with a stock ipad (*)?
On a related note, there still aren't any US distributors carrying the Raspberry Pi. Farnell's website will ship internationally with a ~50 day lead time. Alliedelec shows zero stock, which as far as I can tell has been the case since the Raspberry Pi debut. Supply hasn't kept up with demand.
* Edit: If yes, I'd be interested in reading a link about that!
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OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - May 28, 2014) - Good nutrition and patient convalescent care are linked. Yet each day thousands of hospital patients' meals are left uneaten and wind up in the trash.
In the United Kingdom, where over 82,000 patient meals a day are wasted, Alex Jackson, with a group called Sustain, is trying to change the kind of food patients in the UK are served.
Jackson will be in Ottawa for a media conference tomorrow, Wednesday, May 28, 2014 at 10 a.m. at the Royal Canadian Legion Montgomery Branch 351, 330 Kent St, Ottawa. He'll share the experiences of Sustain's The Campaign for Better Hospital Food, which aims to get the UK government to introduce mandatory nutritional, environmental and ethical standards for food served to patients in hospitals in England.
Ontario hospitals, nursing homes, schools and universities should be serving locally grown food that's cooked in-house. "More and more, they're not," says Louis Rodrigues, a former hospital chef and regional vice-president of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU). Rodrigues led a local hospital food campaign in Kingston to keep patient meals in-house at the Kingston General Hospital (KGH). Ultimately the hospital contracted out patient food to a multi-national factory food operation west of Toronto. Prepared food is now trucked down Hwy. 401 to the Kingston hospital.
"The problem is that provincial policies encourage the contracting out of food and dietary programs to factory food operations when patients would benefit most from nutritious fresh local food, cooked in the hospital kitchen," says Rodrigues.
More information on The Campaign for Better Hospital Food is available at www.sustainweb.org/hospitalfood/.
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A few months ago, Google open sourced the VP8 video codec as part of the WebM video project, to create a truly Free/free unencumbered video format for the web as an answer to the non-Free/free patent-encumbered H264 format. Today, Google launched a new image format for the web, WebP, which aims to significantly reduce the file size of photos and images on the web.
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Oh, it's perfectly correct and normal English. It's just that when you think about what you're really saying it's a bit odd. It's like when someone says "here goes nothing" before doing something. Quite obviously, they aren't about to do "nothing," but that's what they say. There are plenty of common phrases out there that are pretty silly when you actually think about what they mean literally, and yet they're perfectly common and correct English.


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WEST CHESTER Ś The Chester County District AttorneyÆs office has four new deputy attorneys.
Michelle Frei, Thomas Ost-Pricso, Renķe Merion and Mark Conte are all prosecutors who were promoted to the position of deputy district attorneys, according to a press release.
ōThe new deputies are dedicated and experienced prosecutors,ö Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan said in the release. ōThey all have distinct areas of expertise. The District AttorneyÆs Office just made a strong leadership team even stronger.ö
Frei has been a prosecutor for 12 years, according to the release. She was a part of the team that convicted Laquanta Chapman of first degree murder in a death penalty case and she is the head of the domestic violence prosecutions for the county.
Ost-Prisco is in charge of the arson and explosives investigations in the county and has been a prosecutor of 15 years, the release said. He is an acting liaison to the county fire departments and arson investigators.
Merion is the head of the countyÆs District AttorneyÆs Juvenile Unit where she handles all aspects of juvenile prosecutions, according to the release. She has been a prosecutor for 19 years.
Conte is assigned to the courtroom of the Honorable James P. MacElree II, who is the President Judge of Chester County, the release said. He is in charge of trial advocacy training for the District AttorneyÆs Office and he has been a prosecutor of 13 years.


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A Polar Bear is 'rescued' from Sydney Harbour by 'surf life-savers'. The Polar Bear is there to demand immediate global action to protect the Arctic from destructive oil drilling and holds a banner reading "#Save The Arctic". The Sydney Opera House is one of many global landmarks being visited at dawn as part of a phased Arctic Rising that will follow the sunrise across the planet.06/21/2012
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The Other L.A. Noir
As it happens, one of our New Year's resolutions was to read more noir. And while we weren't looking, the clever folks at Vintage Crime have obliged us.
Back in December, they let loose a crop of four previously out-of-print Ross MacDonald novels that will be enough to keep us busy well into February. He's not as literary as Chandler, but he casts the same eye towards an even stranger West Coast scene—roughly speaking, hippies and runaways instead of oil men and gangsters.
In other words, they're the detective-novel equivalent of a Neil Young album, dressed up in a winding plot and a pulpy cover. Count us in.


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Valve has revealed 13 new games that have been approved for Steam via the Greenlight process, bringing the total to 50 since the project was launched in August. Also getting the greenlight were the first six non-gaming software titles.
"In just three months, the community has helped us identify 50 new titles for us to offer via Steam," said Alden Kroll of Valve. "With the help of Greenlight, the indie games market share of games sold on Steam has increased by 50 percent for a third consecutive year. That's a stat we are proud of, but one we also hope to increase as we learn more about Greenlight and continue to refine it in the new year."
The new game titles, chosen through positive votes by Steam users, were:
- Primordia (Wadjeteye Games)
- Darkfall: Unholy Wars (Darkfall Unholy Wars)
- Dragon's Lair (digitalleisure)
- StarForge (Hatchling)
- Blackspace (PixelFoundry)
- The Light (Ekonom)
- Dawn of Fantasy (Reverie World Indie)
- Euro Truck Simulator (SCS Software)
- Waking Mars (geminiradio)
- Gear Up (Doctor Entertainment)
- Kinect Void - Space Adventure (LumberingTroll)
- No Time to Explain (tinyBuild)
- Sang-Froid - Tale of Werewolves (Artifice Studio)
The software titles were Action! Screen Recorder, Bandicam: Game Recorder, Construct 2, Display Fusion, HitFilm 2, and You Need A Budget 4.


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The article by Melody Burri in your Oct. 23 newspaper made it easy for me to support two candidates for East Bloomfield government.
I am a Republican, and I have no hesitation to endorse Dianne Crowley for town supervisor and Margaret Gochenaur for town clerk. I urge both Democrats and Republicans to vote for these two candidates. I feel they are both well qualified for the positions they seek.
David A. Merkel
East Bloomfield