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Today the US, nay, the world remembers Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the inspirational African-American civil rights lead that was assassinated in April 1968. He would have turned 83 this year if he hadn't been finished off.
I think it was in 2001. The Americans had just moved in their new embassy fortress in the outskirts of the Uganda capital, Kampala. I was invited together with one of the most sharp-tongued-and-penned female journalists in Uganda, the deceptively petit Lilliane Barenzi. Our task was to mark Martin Luther King essays, and pronounce the winner of the competition.
The question was whether by advocating for non-violent resistance to racial segregation and injustice, Martin Luther had done the right thing or not.
In Uganda at that time, many young people were still drunk on revolution. So there were many essays denouncing Martin Luther King as a sell-out, a wimp who didn't have the stomach to meet the brutality and abuses of racists with fire, the only language bigots understood.
Some essayists argued that the fact that racism thrives in parts of America today is because King didn't "confront its foundations". Instead he became a stooge, who played along with non-violent revolution, and legitimised a racist order.
It was rousing and passionate, but not new.
I can't remember the name of the writer, but I do the subject of the winning essay.
If I had to write the same essay, I would entitle it "Martin Luther and the case for enlightened cowardice". The young man wrote that no entrenched power will respond and make changes without being challenged. So Martin Luther and the civil rights movement deserve credit for standing up.
Secondly, he argued that timing was important. By taking to protest when African-Americans were few, poor, shabbily educated, the threat level they posed to the racist establishment was low, so the authorities didn't respond with the full firing power they had.
Because of that, the civil rights movement was not a fight to the death – and relatively few people died. Most lived to keep the struggle alive.
Furthermore, because of that and the low lethality, white liberals and other "good Christians" joined King because the risk was manageable, thus broadening the movement beyond America's black tribes.
In all, King's genius was knowing to win a little today, spare his troops for another fight tomorrow so they might win another piece, and still have men and women left to carry on the cause.
Not everyone has to die. If the enemy outnumbers you hopelessly, you don't fight him on his terms. Not every war must be like "300", where all the Spartans die.
Again, these points had been made in one or the way. It's just that it was rare to find a young man, who hadn't been mellowed by the setbacks of life, embracing them.
When African-Americans finally started burning down cities in the Chicago riots, they were more of them than in King's time. The civil rights movement had also partly contributed to a moral order in which, although the US state was more heavily armed, it could no longer kill as many protestors as it would have in past racist years and got away with it.
Also, the spread of TV meant that the protests and black grievances were amplified more.
These days rappers like 50 Cent sing about "die rich or die trying". That goal is probably only possibly because 50 years ago African-Americans fought the small but definitive fight – for a seat in the front of the bus. If you can't be allowed a seat on the bus, you can't be allowed to become rich.
The anger and angst of inner city black America today can sometimes be frightening. Not just to America, but I guess to the rest of the world because its vehicles, like rap, have made it chic. Rap is the global anti-system and state anthem.
There is a part of me that thinks that it is this extremely radicalised black America that makes it possible for someone like Barack Obama to get elected president.
Maybe deep down, America feels that the only way to clip the anger is to show that there is another way to being a person of colour or minority and finding greatness – and Obama is proof of it.
Martin Luther King's cowardice has been ennobled. You can't argue against that. There is still no job like being President of America.
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It happens every year.
Harrisburg police consider a department reorganization, often shuffling officers to fulfill various roles.
But Lt. Robert Fegan recently acknowledged that rumors have been floating around that the city might disband the department's foot patrols and funnel more cops into patrol cars.
"It's certainly possible," Fegan said, adding that discussions haven't started.
But a source close to the department said it might be happening, as officers — including officers on walking patrols — have started signing up for next year's patrol car schedule.
Disbanding walking patrols could help maintain three shifts of patrol car platoons with 26 officers on two daylight shifts and 27 officers on night shift, according to the source.
The source wished to remain anonymous out of fear of being fired.
Fegan said it would be premature to comment further and that discussions have yet to reach the table, adding that rumors are common this time of year.
It's been a particularly trying time, defined by eight homicides and scores of violent crimes this year.
To some, it would be a mistake to get rid of the foot patrols.
Jerry Ratcliffe, research adviser for Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey, said foot patrols are one of the most effective policing tactics.
Research in Philadelphia in 2009 showed that foot patrols reduced violent crime by 23 percent in high-density cities with a large mix of commercial and residential buildings.
And Ratcliffe said the reduction in crime doesn't account for the other benefits of foot patrols.
"There's a peripheral element within the community," Ratcliffe said, adding that city residents tend to feel safer when they see police officers walking the streets.
But Ratcliffe, who served as a police officer with the Metropolitan Police in London for 11 years, said he understands the pressure police are under to maximize resources.
"Police departments have to be sensitive to the public's need to have police respond to calls as quickly as they can," Ratcliffe said. "And there's always a pressure to put officers into cars."
In 2010, Harrisburg employed 20 foot-patrol officers, a two-officer drop from 2009. A total of 101 police officers were employed by Harrisburg in 2010, according to city personnel documents.
A city police source said there were only seven officers working the late shift Dec. 4, when a man was shot to death outside The Cafe on Derry Street. Officers stayed at the scene for three hours, waiting for a forensics officer to arrive, the source said.
The source added that there have been, on multiple occasions, a backlog of at least 30 calls to police, some of which did not receive attention until eight hours after the caller dialed police.
"It's important that police get to calls quickly," Ratcliffe said. "But there have been fewer and fewer officers available."
If it were up to him, Ratcliffe said he might reduce the foot patrols but not eliminate them.
"Once you get rid of an effective technique," he said, "you become reactive."
Public opinion on the possible reorganization seems to be mixed.
Jane Allis, president of Capital Area Neighbors, said having more police in cars would be a good thing, but she's unsure if getting rid of police walking the streets would be a good idea.
"I don't want to second guess the police force, but I have heard very positive things about the foot patrol," Allis said. "I guess an increased number on shift would be a positive."
During her campaign, Mayor Linda Thompson repeatedly called fighting crime a top priority, saying foot patrols would be a major tool in the effort. In January, she attributed a 20 percent decline in violent crime to increased police presence, the reopening of substations and a specialized street-crimes unit that focused on violent crime.
In March, 13 officers started walking neighborhood beats — the foot patrol.
The last time the department had permanent foot patrols was in the 1980s. They eventually were phased out to place officers in specific neighborhoods. In November, police strengthened foot patrols amid a wave of muggings in the midtown neighborhood.
Patrols increased 40 percent in the midtown and south Allison Hill areas in response to reports of drug activity. Mike Ennis, a member of Capital Area Neighbors' steering committee, said the city will lose something important without foot-patrol officers: a visible, protective force.
"When people see police walking through their neighborhood, it has the general effect of reducing crime," Ennis said. "My preferences would be to have more foot patrols."
He added that cops on foot are more necessary in areas such as Allison Hill and Hall Manor, where violent crime tends to happen on the street more often.
City Controller Dan Miller said he didn't have any details regarding the police force but said he isn't surprised things are changing.
"If you look at our budget, that's where it has to give," Miller said. "Public safety."
Miller said the city's budget for public safety is more than $30 million, more than half of the proposed operating budget of $55.5 million.
Patty Kim, a City Council member serving as Public Safety Committee chairwoman, said she is strongly in favor of walking patrols in the city.
Kim said she asked police Chief Pierre Ritter about the possible reorganization on three occasions at a recent meeting.
"He said the walking patrol isn't going anywhere," Kim said.
City officials, including the mayor and the police chief, wouldn't comment on possible changes.

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Franciscan Father David Jaeger is one of the Roman Catholic Church's most authoritative experts on the Middle East. Until a few weeks ago, he was the delegate of the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land in Rome. A convert from Judaism who became a Roman Catholic priest in 1986, he is a noted canon lawyer. He was part of the Vatican team that negotiated diplomatic relations with Israel in 1994 and is part of the Vatican team that is still ironing out the final subsidiary details of that accord. He spoke to Reuters and Reuters Television about the upcoming Mideast synod in the atrium of Antonianum University in Rome. Here is a transcript of parts of the conversation.
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Iraqi Christians flee homeland even as war fades
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Bassam Hermiz has slashed prices to clear his stock of electrical appliances, close his shop and join many thousands of other Iraqi Christians abroad. Once numbering some 750,000 in this mainly Muslim country of 30 million, Christians have been trapped in the crossfire of sectarian strife ignited after the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein's secular dictatorship in 2003.
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It is hard to imagine a gesture that would make Russian President Vladimir Putin look more impotent than he did yesterday, when he announced economic sanctions against nine American leaders, including our own U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez.
The best response came from Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), another one of the nine targets. "I guess this means my spring break in Siberia is off, my Gazprom stock is lost, and my secret bank account in Moscow is frozen," he said.
The comic relief comes as tensions were rising in eastern Ukraine, where ethnic Russians are pressing for closer bonds with Moscow, and in Crimea, which is being absorbed into Russia in the wake of a gun-point referendum last weekend.
The challenge now is to send Putin a message that is hawkish enough to deter a Russian invasion of eastern Ukraine, and dovish enough to avoid a resumption of the Cold War.
That has to start with a clear-eyed recognition that Crimea is lost, as Menendez has essentially conceded. Russia's military now controls the peninsula, including Ukraine's military outposts there, and Putin's determination to hold the territory has fervent support among of most Russians.
In Crimea, ethnic Russians make up the majority of the population. And while last weekend's rushed referendum was entirely bogus, no one disputes that most Crimeans want to be part of Russia. That was the case until 1954, when Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev ceded it to Ukraine.
The hard fact is that Crimea is much more important to Russia than it is to the United States. We are not about to come to blows over it.
The real danger is that Putin could continue his march into eastern Ukraine, which is not a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's not clear what his intentions are, but he has spelled out a rationale for an invasion by accusing Western powers of stirring up anti-Russian sentiment in Ukraine, potentially endangering ethnic Russians in the region.
If that sounds familiar, it's because Adolf Hitler used the same rationale to justify his invasions of Germany's neighbors at the start of World War II.
Putin calls the breakup of the Soviet Union "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century" — a remarkably perverse view given the two world wars that were fought in that century. He is alarmed that NATO has expanded to include several nations that were in the orbit of the Soviet empire, including Poland, Lithuania and Latvia. He sees Western fingerprints on the popular protests that led to the downfall of Ukraine's former president, the kleptocrat Viktor Yanukovych. So we are dealing with a dangerous man, whose worldview is shaped by the trauma of Russia's decline on the world stage.
Menendez, in a big test as chairman of his committee, has been a leading voice in the effort to impose sanctions on Russia's elite over the Crimea invasion.
"Today our concern is for Ukraine," he wrote in the Washington Post. "Tomorrow it could be for Georgia again or perhaps Moldova, two nations waiting to finalize their association agreements with the European Union."
Some have called for a military build-up, or at least a halt to the gradual demobilization after the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. That would be pointless. Who believes that having another aircraft carrier battle group would make a difference in this kind of standoff?
The answer is to impose sanctions, while trying to talk Russia off this ledge through unrelenting diplomacy. And Western sanctions, focused on Russia's elite and a bank that serves them, have more bite. They include travel bans to several Western countries and possible seizure of bank assets.
Putin will swing back. But let's face it: His only real economic muscle is Russia's huge reserves of natural gas. And if he cuts supplies to the West, he will also be depriving his own treasury.
So until then, the only real damage he can do is to block those Siberian vacations. So have at it, Mr. Putin. We'll manage somehow.


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Pakistan, Islamabad News : According to the latest updates negotiations Starts between the Dr Tahirul Qadri and Government Committee in Islamabad in front of the Islamabad Long March.
Qadri wants his four demands from the government and negotiations will be starts in front of all the media and protesters.
Earlier, Qadri had given the government a 'last deadline' of until 3 pm to meet his demands which he had later extended to 3:45 pm. At the time, he had also stated that talks could only be held with President Asif Ali Zardari. However, the government had constituted a committee to hold talks with the TMQ chief.
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Jeff Haste didn't ignore the elephant in the room. Instead, the chairman of the Dauphin County commissioners gave his recipe for addressing Harrisburg's financial crisis.
Jeff Haste didn't ignore the elephant in the room.
Instead, the chairman of the Dauphin County commissioners gave his recipe for addressing Harrisburg's financial crisis.
First, bankruptcy for the city "has to be off the table," Haste told a crowd of around 400 gathered at the Hilton Harrisburg for the annual State of the County program Thursday night.
"To me, that's a bad strategy," he said.
The blame game also must cease, he said. "Stop the finger-pointing. This also goes for the media," Haste said.
He said persistent rancor must be replaced by cooperation among city, Harrisburg Authority and county leaders to tame the $282 million city incinerator debt, of which the county is a partial guarantor.
Selling city assets would generate money toward debt relief and must be seriously considered, he said. Hopes of a bail-out from some other governmental source are in vain, he said.
Leaving bondholders on the debt hanging shouldn't be an option, either, because they all aren't faceless fat-cats, Haste said.
"These people who have invested in these bonds are our neighbors," he said. "These are the people we're talking about sticking it to."
Still, Haste conceded he is "underwhelmed" with the progress of the city's state-sponsored Act 47 financial recovery effort.
The main problem the commissioners face in trying to spur action on the debt is "we don't know who to deal with" in a city government with so many competing interests.
"Unfortunately, city government is dysfunctional," he said. "And I'm blaming no one."
In such circumstances, he said the county has little choice but to repeatedly sue the Authority and city over debt payments it has made to avert defaults. That's done to protect the interest of all county taxpayers, he said.
Mayor Linda Thompson wasn't there to hear Haste's observations, nor did it appear that any other city leaders were present.
The city's woes, while interwoven with the county's fate, weren't the sole topic of the program, which was sponsored by an array of businesses.
At times, the tone was like that of a campaign rally, not surprising since Haste, fellow Republican commissioner Mike Pries and Democratic Commissioner George Hartwick III are up for election this year.
Pries touted the 2011 county budget as the sixth consecutive one without a property tax increase.
Even including county guarantees of the incinerator debt, the county's total debt load is $299 million, equivalent to the county budget's bottom line and therefore manageable, Haste said.
"That will be going down this year by $15 million. So we are trending in the right direction," he said.


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FURNAS, Cynthia M. and Christopher R., of Jackson, a daughter, Sydney Lilian, born January 3, 6 pounds, 4 ounces at Allegiance Health. Grandparents are Susan and David Furnas of Jackson, and Karen and David Lukasik of Jackson. Great-grandparents are Pat and Herb Furnas of Jackson, Mary and Ernest Kwaske of Jackson, and Richard Lukasik of Jackson.
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RILEY, Shar'Nita A., of Jackson, a son, Dayceon Lamont VonSell, born January 4, 8 pounds, 7 ounces at Allegiance Health. Grandparents are Barbara and Edward Riley of Jackson. Great-grandparents are Willie Smith of Lansing, and Arlene Smith of Jackson. Great-great-grandmother is Leora Edward of Pickens, Miss.
THORREZ, Samantha Q. and Henry R., of Concord, a son, Calvin Frederick, born November 21, 8 pounds, 10 ounces at home. Grandparents are Anne Marie and Camiel Thorrez of Concord, and Becky and Ted Cartwright of Jackson. Great-grandparents are Phyllis Thorrez of Concord, Dee Cartwright of Jackson, and Gwen Twachtmann of Lakeland, Fla.


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Lindsay, Colin, McQuaid, Ronald W and Dutton, Matthew (2007) New approaches to employability in the UK: combining 'human capital development' and 'work first' strategies? Journal of Social Policy, 36 (4). pp. 539-560. ISSN 1469 7823Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)
This article analyses recent developments in policies to promote the employability of unemployed and economically inactive people in the UK. It discusses the extent to which these policies reflect the dominant approaches of 'Work First', where programmes focus mainly on
compulsory job search and short-term interventions to facilitate a quick return to work, or human capital development (HCD), where programmes tailor services to promote longerterm skills and personal development. Specifically, the article reports on case-study research
into two recent pilot initiatives:Working Neighbourhoods (which targeted a range of intensive services in neighbourhoods characterised by high levels of inactivity) and Pathways to Work (which combines employability services and cognitive behaviour therapy-type approaches to
help clients to manage health problems). While both pilots have retained strong Work First features, they potentially represent a shift towards a more HCD-oriented approach, through the delivery of more holistic 'coping and enabling' services. However, there remain concerns
that, as with previous progressive policy initiatives, the positive lessons of these pilots will not be fully mainstreamed. We conclude that, if the UK is to balance Work First compulsion with high-quality services delivering progress in the labour market and HCD, a strengthening of 'coping and enabling' interventions is required, alongside a renewed commitment to training.
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Fewer than four months before he leaves office, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin has signed three-year extensions of controversial garbage-collection contracts held by Metro Disposal Inc. and Richard's Disposal Inc.
The companies' original contracts began Jan. 1, 2007, and were to run through 2013. The extensions, signed Jan. 14, take the contracts through 2016.
Nagin spokesman James Ross said Wednesday night that the contract of the city's third garbage contractor, SDT Waste and Debris Services, "is in negotiations."
SDT collects trash in the French Quarter and Central Business District. The other two companies handle the rest of the city.
The three pages of amendments to the Metro and Richard's contracts tie the change directly to the city's decision to reduce the companies' 2010 compensation by 10 percent as a money-saving measure. Ross confirmed that, saying the extensions were "necessary to reflect the 10 percent reduction requested during the budget process."
However, Chief Administrative Officer Brenda Hatfield told the City Council in November that the three trash vendors had agreed to the 10 percent cut for 2010 without being promised anything in return, such as additional payments or contract extensions. "At this point, there is no quid pro quo," Hatfield told the council on Nov. 13.
Company officials denied at the time that they had agreed to absorb the cut.
"We are not done with discussions of a proposed amendment on this contract yet," said Daniel Davillier, the attorney for Richard's and Metro. "This is a serious issue for the companies."
The 10 percent cut was expected to reduce the companies' 2010 payments to $14.3 million for Richard's, $7.8 million for Metro and $5.6 million for SDT.
The trash contracts have been controversial since Nagin awarded them. Critics, such as Councilwoman Stacy Head, said they were more expensive than the city could afford and the city had not insisted on adequate means of checking the number of addresses at which each company actually collects trash.


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The report says the network has asked for a pilot order of the new sitcom, which will be called "Mission Control." The show is set in 1963 and follows a group of male and female astronauts duking it out to see who can get to the moon first.
The show would be produced by Ferrell as well as "Anchorman" director Adam Mckay.
"Anchorman 2" pulled in a total of $26.8 million in its opening three-day weekend, according to Los Angeles Times. The original film made $28 million in its opening weekend.
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FootLocker.com has marked down over a dozen styles of the Nike Free Shoes. Men's and women's styles are as low as $59.99 while kid's are as low as $39.99. Some specifically exclude using coupon codes but others do not (we have a 15% off $75 coupon code). The $59.99 is tied for the best deal yet - though shipping and tax is a little steep. If you pick two $59.99 pairs that allow you to use the 15% off coupon code that is the best deal. Here is a rundown of Nike Free prices.No longer available


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Concerts to look forward to this spring
The year is still young, but if Milwaukee's spring concert calendar is any indication, 2013 looks as if it might be the year of country music.
Milwaukee has been a recurring stop for big country tours for years. But the genre continues to grow: Of all types of music, country had the biggest sales gains in 2012, up 4.1%, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Consequently, demand for Nashville's biggest stars seems to be getting stronger in Milwaukee. »Read Full Article(1)
Milwaukee Art Museum will be free this weekend
The Milwaukee Art Museum's admission will be free on Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. This is to mark the opening of "30 Americans," a multi-generational art exhibit featuring the work of African American artists.
Many of the artists in the exhibit address issues of race and cultural identity in very direct ways, and the show is one of the first in the museum's featured exhibition space to explore such issues so directly. The museum has also placed "Wisconsin 30" an exhibit of 30 African American artists from the state on view. »Read Full Blog Post
New DVDs for release June 18
Milwaukee movies off the gridn June 14-20
Bike and a movie
The Milwaukee Bike-In Movie Series returns Friday with the 1989 John Candy comedy "Uncle Buck." »Read Full Article
Outdoor films return to lakefront
The Fish Fry and a Flick outdoor movie series returns to the lakefront Aug. 30 with a showing of the Marvel superhero action film "The Avengers."
The series will also show two adult-themed films, "Ted" on Sept. 6 and "Django Unchained" on Sept. 13. »Read Full Article
Kohl's hosts style session with Lauren Conrad for three Children's Hospital teens
Lauren Conrad, fashion designer, style expert and best-selling author, teamed up with Kohl's to treat three teens from Children's Hospital of Wisconsin to a celebrity styling session Wednesday night in Milwaukee.
The event took place prior to Conrad's book signing for the launch of Infamous: A Fame Game Novel, the finale to her The Fame Game series, at Boswell Book Co. »Read Full Blog Post(1)


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HASTINGS, MI -- When police arrived at a Hastings house to check for a possible meth lab, residents told officers they had used meth in a "last hoorah" before starting Narcotics Anonymous.
The residents denied making meth, but a day later police found a "meth dump" near the Superette that was linked to one of the residents of the East Madison Street home.
Hastings police were called Feb. 2 to the home on a report of a possible meth lab in the basement. Police found several meth-making components in the house and ended up contacting Department of Human Services authorities because children lived in the house.
Despite denials from the residents about making meth, the next day police found a bottle and a white rag in a trash can near the Superette. It had a strong chemical odor.
State police troopers were called to clean up the meth. The case has been referred to the Barry County prosecutor's office for review.
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Close win for St. Charles
Christopher Clancy and Jordan Kearney combined for 15 points and Andrew Talvy hit a clutch shot down the stretch as St. Charles edged St. Clare's 18-16 in a Catholic Youth Organization boys' Rookie A contest.
In the same division, Ryan O'Neil scored five points and Sean Kalikas hit a jumper with 20 seconds to go to put Sacred Heart up for good en route to a 7-4 victory over St. Joseph/St. Thomas.
Thomas McLaughlin and Richard Greaves combined for 12 in Our Lady Star of the Sea's 18-8 Rookie A victory over Blessed sacrament.
Harry Gumb and Vincent Vitacco teamed for 13 points in St. Clare's 27-19 Small Fry A win over Our Lady Queen of Peace.
Dominick Santa Croce scored 27 points and Jeffrey Karteron added 11 as Blessed Sacrament defeated St. Clare's 49-38 in a JV A contest.
In girls' action, Meredith Gerrish scored six points while Katie Schermerhorne and Kerry Byrnes excelled defensively as Our Lady Queen of Peace downed Holy Child 15-2 in a Gidget C game.
In Cadette A play, Mary DiSpirito scored seven points and Megan McEwan added five as Blessed Sacrament downed St. Joseph/St. Thomas 14-10.
Reds advance
Jerry Huntzinger pitched five innings of shutout relief and Joe Vitacco had two RBI as the Staten Island Reds advanced to the Cal Ripken Fall Ball Major A championship with a 4-3 win over the Richmond County Bombers.


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The best offense is a good defense. Or is it the other way around?
When the high-flying New England Patriots, whose offense is running like a combination of a Swiss-made watch and a steamroller – both perfectly timed and frighteningly powerful – host the defensive-oriented Baltimore Ravens on Sunday, the debate will be on full view.
When the Patriots dismantled the Denver Broncos last weekend, quarterback Tom Brady put on a display that seemed at times to be more showcase than contest. All the hype in the week leading to the game was about Broncos' quarterback Tim Tebow, the media sensation of the moment.
Until Brady waltzed onto the field and played like a three-time Super Bowl champion who was twice the game's MVP.
Any conversation about the best of the best among today's QBs – whether on ESPN, in the sports pages, or among friends – has got to include Tom Brady at or near the top of the list. Some like to sing the praises of certain others, but just one little statistic lends a great deal of perspective: Aaron Rogers of the Green Bay Packers, Drew Brees of the New Orleans Saints, and Payton Manning of the Indianapolis Colts – three of the darlings of the pontificating set – have, together, as many Super Bowl rings as does Brady.
In football, more perhaps than in any other sport, peaking at the right time is essential. No one who has been watching the Patriots in recent weeks could reasonably argue that they haven't been peaking. And we've only been focusing on the quarterback. Add in the other offensive weapons and the increasingly apt defense, and you are looking at a most formidable team.
Looking past Sunday to the Super Bowl is understandable.
Editorial: Looking to Super Bowl as Patriots hit stride
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CHICAGO -- The day after hitting a grand slam and driving in six runs, Wilmer Flores will start at shortstop for the Mets against the Cubs. Since Flores came up last month, Terry Collins has rotated starts for him and Ruben Tejada in packs, trading off positions in the lineup for games at a time.
That formula has worked just fine for Collins and he has little intention at this point to pick just one to be his full-time starting shortstop.
"I hope not," he said. "I hope they keep swinging the way they're swinging. Give them a day off, keep them fresh, get Ruben back in there, possibly tomorrow. Kid had six RBI last night. Pretty hard to take him out even though the guy he hit the grand slam off is not Cliff Lee. I want to run him back out there again. Sometimes two days in a row are beneficial. Ruben's played very, very lately, very, very well, and it may be the fact he's fresh."
Tejada has start 13 games since Flores was called up May 9 and Flores will have started 12 with tonight's game. Tejada has hit .294 with an .822 OPS in that time, including a .410 on-base percentage. Flores is hitting .240 with a .603 OPS.
Collins will give Dan Murphy a day off sometime this week, though he would not say when exactly, he did say that Flores and Tejada will start together in two days. Though Collins wants to play the favorable matchups for each and it goes into deciding who will play, he says "Unfortunately in two days I'm going to play them both and one of them doesn't hit the guy on the mound particularly well. One of my coaches said today, he's due."
The Mets face Cubs starter Travis Wood in two days, and Tejada is 1-of-11 against him lifetime.
Matt den Dekker – CF
Daniel Murphy – 2B
David Wright – 3B
Curtis Granderson – RF
Chris Young – LF
Lucas Duda – 1B
Wilmer Flores – SS
Travis d'Arnaud – C
Zack Wheeler – RHP
Emilio Bonifacio - 2B
Junior Lake - CF
Anthony Rizzo - 1B
Starlin Castro - SS
Luis Valbuena - 3B
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The NFL Is Turning Everything Pink For Breast Cancer Awareness
ESPNOctober is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and the NFL always goes pink in honor.
That pink-fest started last night during Monday Night Football and it showed us that the league and the players are coming up with new and inventive ways to bring awareness to Breast Cancer and Breast Cancer research.
On the next few pages we will take a look at some of the items that the NFL has turned pink.
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Elliot Yeo will join a long and decorated list of AFL footballers produced by East Fremantle when he makes his debut for Brisbane against North Melbourne at Etihad Stadium tomorrow.
Described by Sharks coach Steve Malaxos as the latest product of the club's "factory", Yeo was the Lions' third pick and No.30 overall at last year's national draft.
The 18-year-old ended up at the Lions in a complicated trade deal which saw Justin Sherman leave Brisbane for the Western Bulldogs, Jarrod Harbrow leave the Bulldogs for Gold Coast and the Lions taking the Suns' compensatory first-round pick for Harbrow.
Malaxos said he wasn't surprised Yeo had joined a group of Sharks to line up in the AFL including Brownlow medallists Simon Black, Ben Cousins and Shane Woewodin.
Black, one of five players to have achieved the "triple crown" of Brownlow, premiership and Norm Smith medals, was a member of the Lions' premiership teams in 2001, 2002 and 2003, winning the Norm Smith in 2003 and the Brownlow a year earlier.
Malaxos said Yeo had the tools to succeed at the elite level.
"Elliot's a pretty good decision maker, he's got good poise when he's got the ball and he can use the ball off both sides of his body," Malaxos said yesterday.
"We mainly saw him in the midfield and wing at East Fremantle but he played a bit of half-back in the State under-18s.
"He was a pretty good player in the colts last year. He started training with us in the pre-season and was looking pretty good so I wasn't surprised when he was drafted.
"I believe he has got all the makings of a good AFL footballer."
Hailing from the Attadale juniors, Yeo averaged 22 possessions and seven marks in 13 colts games for East Fremantle last year.
Lions national talent manager Rob Kerr said Yeo had plenty of potential.
"With a couple of years in the system he could develop into a good wing/half-forward/half-back, a bit Nathan Fyfe-like we think," Kerr said.
AFL national talent manager Kevin Sheehan said Yeo's outstanding draft combine and athletic ability would hold him in good stead.


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- 2011 FinOvation Awards
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- Combine, Class 8 and higher: Claas Lexion 770
- Combine, Classes 6 and 7: AGCO Gleaner S7
- Tractors, High-horsepower, 4-wd: Case IH Steiger and New Holland T9
- Row-crop tractors: John Deere 8R/8RT series
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- Grain handling: Brandt Auger Max Bin Sensor
- Tillage: Salford RTS XT
- Seed treatment: Monsanto Acceleron
- Seed treatment: Valent Inovate
- Crop protection, herbicide: Bayer CropScience Capreno
- Corn seed trait: Pioneer Drought I Tolerant hybrids
- Sprayer: Hagie STX10 self-propelled sprayer
- Precision communication: Raven Slingshot
- Precision navigation: Ag Leader and AutoFarm Integra display/Paradyme system
- Planter: Kinze 3600 planter
- Alternative energy: BTI Wind Energy turbines
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#Trending In Entertainment: Kesha's Lawsuit & NPH Is Hosting The OscarsThis week, a pop star files a lawsuit, the Oscars are already on the road to success, and television is breaking new ground (sort of).
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Opinion: Black-on-Black Racism During The Presidential CampaignWhile it is reported that 94% or more of African-Americans support President Barack Obama over Mitt Romney in the upcoming national presidential election, the rarely-spoken question is: Are many African-Americans only voting for Obama because he's black?


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With seven people in jail, law enforcement officials from two counties say they've caught the primary culprits in the theft of 200 firearms from a Sanford gun dealer.
"We have the main players," Midland County Sheriff Jerry Nielsen said. "If others are involved, we will deal with them as we find them."
Some of the guns stolen in the Midland County heist remain missing.
Sometime after the gun shop closed Feb. 6 and reopened Feb. 7, someone cut the burglar alarm wire and forced open the door to Joe Gun, 152 E. Saginaw, and made off with the cache -- about 130 rifles worth $80,000, 70 handguns valued at $12,000 and several thousand dollars worth of ammunition, police said.
Saginaw County sheriff's deputies arrested four suspects Monday and Tuesday and recovered a half-dozen firearms plus drugs and burglary tools they said the burglars used in the break-in.
Midland County sheriff's deputies arrested three people and recovered 150 firearms while executing three search warrants between midnight Tuesday and 10:45 a.m. Wednesday. They also searched another home with permission from the occupants.
Midland County deputies seized about 90 percent of the recovered guns from a residence in Greendale Township where no one was home. They also used warrants to search homes in Jerome and Lee townships. They arrested one man at each place and found guns at the Lee Township home.
Deputies also went to a Mount Haley Township home, arresting a man there and recovering some firearms.
While Saginaw County District Judge Terry L. Clark has arraigned a Chesaning couple and a Saginaw man on charges of stealing or possessing stolen firearms, the Midland men -- a 20-year-old and two 23-year-olds, from Midland, Sanford and Mount Haley Township -- are awaiting arraignment dates in their home county.
Clark on Wednesday conducted video arraignments for Michael A. Louchart, 33, and his girlfriend, Geri L. McClure, 22, both of Chesaning on multiple felony charges. Court records show that Louchart and McClure live at 156 Meadowood, an apartment complex in the village's north end.
The judge set bonds of $1.4 million for Louchart and $850,000 for McClure.
Clark said the bonds are high because of "the serious nature and danger" the pair pose to the community.
During the hearing, Louchart, attempted to minimize McClure's involvement.
"Ms. McClure didn't have anything to do with this," he said. "I'm not saying nothing that's not true."
Clark interrupted Louchart and reminded him that prosecutors could use anything he said against him.
Clark also arraigned Wayne F. Parcham, 20, of 613 Cleveland on charges of receiving or concealing three of the stolen firearms. The judge set a $375,000 bond for Parcham.
The three suspects will have a Wednesday, March 5, preliminary examination before Clark.
Prosecutors charged Louchart and McClure with continuing a criminal enterprise, receiving or concealing stolen firearms, possessing burglar's tools and three counts of possessing a firearm while committing a felony.
Louchart faces an additional charge of possessing a firearm as a felon.
The fourth person arrested, Matthew J. Soule, 32, of St. Charles Township has not faced arraignment yet.


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Sometimes I love blogging. Everyday I read some art news, it is normally about business type issues and who is going where and increasingly - lawsuits. Sometimes while reading you get the chance to see a new artists work. While reading Modern Art Notes about the St. Louis Art museum I was introduced to Angelina Gualdoni who is having an interesting show there. I started looking at this artwork and noticed how many similarities there were with my own aesthetic. I love the muted colors, the urban decay, and the aggressive paint work. The paint work becomes a language all her own.
One painting is titled "The Reclamation" How awesome of a title is that? It is a cool image too, urban sprawl in decay being overtaken by the weeds and the dirt. I think of this image like it is a fossil in the making. Like a crayfish that has died in a stream and is being slowly covered in sediment. It will turn into a fossil and be discovered in a few thousand years as a relic of the past. People will see the cigarette butts in the cracks of the pavement, the gum wads, the fast food wrappers and coffee cups. People will see them and say - this is how our ancestors lived.
See more of Angelina Gualdonis work here.
I used to go to the St. Louis Art Museum a good bit back in my College days. That place has some knee quaking work and I was introduced to a lot of artists there. (It is free to get in which always amazes me.) I saw my first Anselm Kiefer there, my first Elizabeth Peyton, and my first Tom Huck prints. I also saw a Vija Clemins woodcut of water, a group of us students marveled in front of it for timeless span. The SLAM continues to provide even if I am no longer the recipient of such wonder, I always kind of hope that museums exist just for me. Whenever I go to a museum the rest of the world disappears and I am left in a sort of rapture.
I might not have come across this artists work if the SLAM didn't have this series of shows. I wouldn't have known about it if Tyler Green didn't keep track of things like that. I doubt I would have ever come across this information without easy access to the internet. My world is a slightly bigger place now because of it all and it makes me wonder - where in Angelina Gualdonis paintings is the computer world? I see the decay and depravation of city planning - do I exist near these places? What about the internet and blogging in general? How will Iridescent Art News be fossilized for the future?


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On this week's Talking Michigan Politics podcast, Press political editor Jeff Cranson and editorial page editor Ed Golder discuss:
00:48 Pleas in two high-profile marijuana cases: Press sports columnist Dave Mayo, who returned to work this week after entering a plea to growing marijuana, and the plea last week of an Ottawa County sheriff's deputy on charges of reckless discharge of a firearm after he unintentionally shot a Grand Valley State University student during a raid. Is this the best use of law enforcement time and resources?
8:30 Amtrak. Faced with a mounting budget shortfall, both chambers seem poised to cut state funding for Amtrak rail service. Opponents of funding for Amtrak argue the service should be self sustaining. Supporters of Amtrak and other forms of rapid transit argue there is no such thing as non-government funded transportation, including the nation's highways which are supported by tax dollars.
15:50 The 2010 Michigan governor's race. U.S. Rep. Peter Hoekstra and Attorney General Mike Cox keep their names in the news with frequent press releases detailing their stands on issues. This week, Hoekstra touted a letter he sent to the Michigan Department of Transportation criticizing the department for dumping dirt to keep drivers from using a new service drive connecting I-75 to the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit. MDOT said the privately owned bridge company made changes to the design of the bridge plaza that could threaten federal funding for freeway approaches to the bridge. MDOT said the newly paved lane should not be used until the bridge company corrects the changes to conform to designs approved by the U.S. government.
Cox on Wednesday proposed a plan for a Michigan Office of Medicaid Inspector General to investigate Medicaid fraud. Cox based his plan on estimates that up to 10 percent of Michigan's $10 billion Medicaid budget is tainted by fraud, waste or abuse.
Ann Arbor businessman Rick Snyder, exploring a GOP run for governor for the past few months, will announce by the end of the month that he's running. He's gearing up with new videos like this one.
29:22 Conversation Starter: What cars are truly American made? The answer is surprising.
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|By PLEASE!!! on Monday, December 02, 2002 - 02:44 am: Edit
Ok, a few questions:
1. Does anyone know the formula that Berkeley uses for automatic admission (something like GPA times 100 plus SAT plus 2(SatII)=????)
2. Is Cal generally considered as prestigious as top tier private schools?
3. Does it look good to just take the SAT's once and do well or do colleges not care if you take it more than once?
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1. The formula was used in 1996, so I don't know if it's still used now. It's (GPA * 1000) + SAT I + SAT II. A sum of 7360 or above was accepted.
2. Yes, Cal is just as prestigious as top tier private schools.
3. It's okay to take the SAT twice, but more than that is probably too much.
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Red-light cameras likely cause as many problems as they solve ("A closer look at red-light cameras," editorial, April 3). If they were not in large part a revenue-generating device, warning signs would be posted on the arm with the traffic light over the roadway to clearly alert and remind drivers that a camera is there.
Instead, the warning sign is typically on the side of the road, where it is easily missed — especially at night or in bad weather.
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Jaileen Panger and Peace of Mind Pet Sitting are sponsoring the first annual Pet Poetry Contest.
All poems must relate to pets. The pets may be living or deceased, or even imaginary pets, but the poems must be about a pet or pets.
The contest began midnight April 1 and continues for the entire month; deadline is midnight April 30. Poems will be submitted online only, at www.peaceofmindsitter.com. Winners will be notified by phone and e-mail on or before May 19.
Peace of Mind Pet Sitting will award prizes. A panel of judges has been chosen to score the contest.
The contest also features an evening of poetry, in which all entrants will be encouraged to participate if they wish. The first- and second-place winners are the only entrants required to read their poems to each claim their prize. Winners and all other entries that have given permission to publish will be archived and available online following the contest for all to see on May 19.
To be declared a winner and collect their prize, entrants must read their winning poem at the Doctor's Office, 85 Front St. from 6-8 p.m. on May 21.
"With National Poetry Month beginning April 1, I thought it would be fun to let people's pets inspire them to write poetry," Panger said. "I've been pet sitting here on the island for almost 15 years now, and this has been a hard winter for a lot of folks. We thought we should do something fun for this Spring, and celebrate our pets through poetry."
Resources for poetry may be found at www.poets.org and the San Juan Island Library.
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TRENTON — The amount of toxic chemicals released in New Jersey in 2012 decreased 23 percent from the previous year, according to new data from federal government.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said the drop was largely because of a 40 percent reduction in releases by DuPont Chambers Works in Deepwater, which stopped accepting waste from outside facilities.
DuPont is one of 382 facilities that released toxic chemicals to New Jersey's land, air or water during 2012. The amount of toxins released fell from about 11.2 million pounds in 2011 to about 8.6 million pounds in 2012.
The figures are part of the EPA's Toxics Release Inventory, which is published in an annual report.
"The Toxics Release Inventory allows the public and policymakers to better understand the pollutants released into our air, water and land each year," EPA Regional Administrator Judith A. Enck said in a statement. "This powerful tool helps people better understand pollution problems in their communities and take action to protect their health and the environment."
The state Department of Environmental Protection said the downward trend was a good sign and suggested it was, at least in part, a result of smart policy.
"In addition to insisting on tough environmental standards, the state has implemented stewardship and alternative chemical strategies that help protect our environment, public health and safety," spokesman Larry Hajna said.
Jeff Tittel, the executive director of the Sierra Club in New Jersey, said the reduction may be attributed more to DuPont and the shaky economy.
"Even with the reductions, New Jersey is still emitting 8.6 million pounds of toxins that have a major impact on health and the environment," Tittel said in a statement. "Too many people in New Jersey still live near polluting facilities."


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End of US highway 50
View a map showing this route.
Additional research and/or photo credits: Nathan Edgars; Chris Elbert; Andy Field; Alex Nitzman; Eric Rosenberger; Dave Strong; Marion Warren; Kansas Historical Society
|Approx. time period
|East terminus
|West terminus
|Annapolis, MD
|Sacramento, CA
|Annapolis, MD
|Hayward, CA
|Annapolis, MD
|San Francisco, CA (Market)
|Annapolis, MD
|San Francisco, CA (Harrison/Bryant)
|Ocean City, MD
|San Francisco, CA (Harrison/Bryant)
|Ocean City, MD
|San Francisco, CA (I-80)
|Ocean City, MD
|Oakland, CA
|Ocean City, MD
|Manteca, CA
|Ocean City, MD
|Sacramento, CA
|Ocean City, MD
|West Sacramento, CA
I suppose just about every American child is taught about the "golden spike" at Promontory Point, Utah. Placed in May of 1869, the story goes that it marked the final link in the country's first transcontinental railroad. However, virtually no one is taught that railroad was actually not "transcontinental" at the time: the Central Pacific went only as far west as Sacramento, and the Union Pacific didn't have a permanent bridge across the Missouri until 1873. (Meanwhile, in 1870, the first permanent, uninterrupted chain of railroads connecting Atlantic and Pacific ports was completed at Strasburg, Colorado.)
Kind of reminds me of US 50, one of the better-known transcontinental highways. It was among the original 1926 routes, and at the time of its birth it was already nearly 3000 miles in length. However, many people don't realize that both ends fell short of reaching an ocean port. Also, some sources indicate that it was either in poor condition or completely impassable between Ely NV and Thistle UT for the first two or three years. Regardless, it wasn't until 1948 that US 50 became truly "transcontinental".
The original east end of US 50 was in Annapolis. Traffic came into the city on West Street, shown below:
Warren, Mar. 1965
The church in the distance is situated in the middle of Church Circle, and some early maps indicate that was where US 50 ended. Beyond that you can see the Maryland State House, which sits within State Circle. According to the state highway map below, US 50 negotiated both of those circles, and then continued on East Street:
MD State Roads Commission, c. 1938
The photo below is at the end of East St, at King George Street:
Google Maps Street View, Sep. 2012
East is now one-way heading the opposite direction, but originally US 50 traffic came to this point and turned right here on King George. Today that movement won't get you very far, because that's now an entrance to the Naval Academy. But the ferry to the Eastern Shore used to dock at the end of King George.
The photo below was taken looking south on 16th Street in Sacramento:
Google Maps Street View, 2008
This was westbound US 40 and southbound US 99E. US 40 continued to the right on L Street, and that was also northbound US 99W. To the left on L was southbound US 99, and it was also the west beginning of US 50. (Those two routes turned south on Alhambra Boulevard, but then US 50 split off almost immediately onto Folsom Boulevard.)
In 1931 the US 50 designation was extended west to Hayward CA (you can view a photo of that junction on my US 48 page). In 1935, the route was extended west again. It joined with US 40 in Oakland and crossed to San Francisco via the Bay Bridge - you can view photos from there on this page.
In the 1940s, another Bay Bridge was planned - this one was at the other end of US 50, and it would span the Chesapeake. So in 1948, in anticipation of the new roadway, the US 50 designation was extended eastward from Annapolis to a new endpoint in Ocean City MD - you can view photos from there on this page.
In 1971 the US 50 designation had a couple transitionary truncations, and by 1973 its west end had been cut back to Sacramento. I-80 used to follow what is now Business Loop I-80 (or the Capital City Freeway) through the city, so US 50 ended at what is now its junction with BL-80:
Field, Aug. 2003
In fact, since there are no "West US 50" signs beyond the interchange shown above, it would be easy to believe that still marks the west end of US 50. But in 1982, when I-80 was changed to its current route (around the north and west sides of downtown), the US 50 designation was extended ahead, along the old I-80, ending where the freeway merges with modern I-80 in West Sacramento:
Field, Aug. 2003
Heading west on I-80, the west beginning of US 50 looks like this...
Field/Nitzman, Sep. 2005
...and heading the opposite direction, the beginning of US 50 is announced thus:
Field/Nitzman, Sep. 2005
Note how US 50/BL-80 is actually the mainline here; I-80 traffic has to exit to continue westbound. That's because today's BL-80 was the original I-80 through the city. Not far ahead, the sign shown below used to be posted:
Thanks to Milton John Kleim Jr. for setting me straight on the location: that was actually at the west beginning of US 50/Business I-80, just past the interchange where I-80 splits off. What a cool thing it would be if similar attention were given to other grand old highways...
...but anyway, I guess that sign was stolen. Here's what replaced it:
Rosenberger, Dec. 2002
Notice the transposed 7 and 3 digits in the mileage to Ocean City; that was fixed not much later:
Field/Nitzman, Sep. 2005
More info about this sign and its historic predecessors - as well as just about anything else you want to know about US 50 - can be found at this site.
As I said, today's westernmost segment of US 50 used to be I-80, so the US 50 designation didn't begin until a few miles ahead, where I-80 turned to the north:
Google Maps Street View, 2009
That was the west beginning of US 50 from 1973-1982.
From the beginning in 1926 and for the next 30 years, US 50 had a significant split route in Kansas. At today's junction of US 56 and US 59 just west of Baldwin City, US 50-N followed today's US 56 all the way to Larned, then K-156 (former US 156) to Garden City. US 50-S went south via US 59 to Ottawa, and then west essentially along modern US 50, rejoining US 50-N in Garden City. Below is an interesting photo taken during that timeframe:
unknown photographer, c. 1940s, courtesy Kansas Historical Society
Incidentally, the 1925 US highway plan had US 50 following what actually ended up being commissioned as US 50-N the next year. US 50-S was marked as US 250 in the 1925 plan.


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Virginia M. 'Ginny' Passanita
Virginia M. "Ginny" Passanita, 89, Ebensburg, formerly of Ashville, died Friday at the home of her daughter, Marilyn Passanita.
She was born in Chest Springs, daughter of the late Charles and Olive (Burke) Basal. She was preceded in death by her husband, James L. "Buster," on Feb. 22, 1982; and a brother, Robert.
She is survived by her children: Marilyn, with whom she resided, and Randy (Anne Salony) of Ebensburg; grandchildren: Danielle Lane (Thom), Chad (Becca Panek), Kristian (Patrick) and Neil (Allison Columbus); great-grandchildren: Sam and Colton Lane and James and Gino Passanita; several nieces and nephews; brother and sisters-in-law: Ann and Pat Passanita and Mary Louise Eckenrode; and a special friend and college roommate, Graceann (Rhodes) Ferrier. She was the last member of her immediate family.
Ginny taught school at Cresson/Penn Cambria for more than 20 years and later taught and served as principal at St. Patrick's Parochial School, Gallitzin, for 13 years. Ginny had a zest for life that centered on her faith, family and friends. She shared her gifts as a teacher for many years.
She enjoyed spending time with family and friends and playing cards.
Along with Buster and their children, their home was a haven of hospitality, humor and companionship that through the years made friends know they were part of their extended family. Though she'll be missed terribly, it's with gratitude for her life and rejoicing in the knowledge that she has entered her eternal home.
She was a former member of St. Thomas Catholic Church and the Altar Rosary Society, Ashville, and Holy Name Catholic Church, Ebensburg.
Friends will be received from 2 to 9 p.m. Monday at Gibbons Funeral Home, Ashville, where a vigil service will be held. A funeral Mass will be celebrated at noon Tuesday at Holy Name Catholic Church, Ebensburg, Monsignor Arnold Gaus, celebrant. Committal will be at St. Thomas Cemetery, Ashville.
In lieu of flowers, please make contributions to Bishop Carroll Catholic High School, Ebensburg, in Ginny's memory.