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1974 Topps StampsTopps released this 240 stamp issue in 1974. These 1 by 1 1/2 stamp are unnumbered and feature a color photo with the player's name, team and position inside a colored oval at the bottom of the stamp. Very similar to their 1969 Topps Stamps issue, the 1974 Topps Stamps were issued in panels of 12 stamps. Alomg with the stamps, Topps also issued a set of 24 stamp albums, one per team, to store the stamps. Due to double prints and different combinations of stamps on panels there are actually 24 different 12-Stamp panels. The stamps were not inserts but a totally separate issue and were sold in packs containing one 12-Stamp panel along with one stamp album.
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Burdick steps down after temporarily filling city post - for 26 years
New London - Twenty-six years ago, the city manager asked Reid Burdick to fill in as emergency management director until someone could be named permanently to the post.
On July 1, Burdick will give up the $10,000-a-year position, which he has held since 1987, and emergency management duties will be shifted to the deputy police chief.
"I'm happy to trot off into the sunset,'' Burdick said Tuesday. "For 2½ decades, I've done the best that I can. This wasn't designed to be a career."
Deputy Police Chief Peter Reichard will assume the duties of emergency management director, Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio said Tuesday.
"My desire since I took office was to put emergency management into the hands of a professional emergency management personnel who is a full-time, paid city employee,'' Finizio said.
Burdick, who also will give up his duties as hearing officer for disputed parking tickets, said he always believed emergency management should be a professional, paid job.
"There's a right way to do it, and there's a better way,'' Burdick said. "It really should be done in a more comprehensive manner."
The duties originally were going to be shifted to the deputy fire chief, Finizio said. But Deputy Chief Henry Kydd was appointed chief last month, and the deputy fire chief position was eliminated in the 2013-14 budget.
Reichard will work closely with Tammy Daugherty, who also is the director of the Office of Planning and Development, Finizio said.
Although Reichard lives about 40 miles from the city, Finizio said that would not be a problem because the office is more about planning for an emergency rather than directing an emergency. Finizio said that in an emergency, he is on duty along with the police chief and the fire chief.
The city spends $20,000 a year on the emergency management department, which includes Burdick and two firefighters, who each are paid $5,000 annually. Burdick said $10,000 of the department's funds come from grants. The money will be merged into the police budget, Finizio said.
He praised Burdick for his dedication to the city.
"I thanked Reid ... and I continue to thank him,'' Finizio said. "He did a good job for the city when no one else was ready to do that. We genuinely thank him for his hard work."
Burdick's last day of hearing parking ticket complaints is today.
It is a volunteer position he has held for more than 20 years, when former City Manager Richard Brown added the duties as part of emergency management.
Finizio said he will be looking for a lawyer to take over the position. "Hopefully, we will find an attorney to act pro bono,'' he said.
The magistrate, as he or she would be called, also would hear civilian police complaints that already have gone through the Police-Community Relations Committee, the mayor said.
In the old form of government, the city manager heard those complaints. Two years ago, the city changed to an elected mayor form of government.
"The system of government has changed and we want to streamline emergency management to fit the new government,'' he said.
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LIBERTY TWP, Mercer County — An auto repair garage was destroyed Tuesday night in a large fire that seven fire companies responded to.
The fire at Myers Auto Repair and Towing on Browntown Road just north of the Butler County line started a little before 7:45 p.m.
The Pine Township Engine Company arrived on scene first.
"It was pretty much fully involved when we arrived," said Chief Chris Holmes.
The Slippery Rock Volunteer Fire Company arrived soon after and was the lead fire company.
The 30-foot-by-60-foot wood garage, owned by Clarence "Sonny" Myers, had two vehicles inside, one that belonged to a customer and one that belonged to Myers. Both were destroyed.
A vehicle outside the garage that Myers was restoring was heavily damaged, and the garage's tow truck also was damaged.
A mobile home where Myers and his wife live as well as a camper that Myers' son lives in both caught fire, but fire crews were able to save both.
"(They were) scorched a little bit, but not too bad," said Slippery Rock Chief Dave Taggart.
Myers and his wife were not at home when the fire started, but their son was, and he reported it.
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A company-led search continued today for a worker still missing after an oil platform caught fire Friday about 25 miles off Grand Isle.
A company-led search continued today for a worker still missing after an oil platform caught fire Friday about 25 miles off Grand Isle.
Search crews with Black Elk Energy, the Houston-based company that owns the platform, found the body of one crewman Saturday evening.
Meanwhile, doctors said one of four men burned in the blaze is improving and is now in fair condition at Baton Rouge General MedicaCenter's burn unit.
"To my relatives, to my family, and to my country, I am alive and in good health," the worker, Wilberto Ilagan, 50, said in a statement. "I am burned, but my heart and lungs are healthy.
Two remained critical and one in serious condition, doctors said.
Three dive boats were working today around the burned platform, and Plaquemines Parish sheriff's deputies were checking beaches, Black Elk Energy said in a statement. Helicopter companies flying in the area have been asked to keep an eye out, and a search-and-rescue dog was expected to be brought to the platform.
"We remain focused on the victims and their families, including those injured," the statement said.
Of the 11 workers, all but four were treated and released Friday from local hospitals, including Terrebonne General Medical Center in Houma and Our Lady of the Sea in Galliano. All four men are natives of the Philippines and employees of Galliano-based company Grand Isle Shipyard.
The Coast Guard suspended its own search Saturday evening after checking 1,400 square miles of the Gulf of Mexico near the oil platform.
Mark Pregeant, Grand Isle Shipyard's CEO, said the company would not release more information about the workers involved until it got approval from family members
The Coast Guard said the explosion and fire erupted Friday morning as workers were using a cutting torch on a 75-foot pipe on the platform.
Pregeant's statement, however, says the cause of the fire and explosion is unknown and that "initial reports that a welding torch was being used at the time of the incident or that an incorrect line was cut are completely inaccurate."
Separate from the explosion, Grand Isle Shipyard is facing a lawsuit by a group of former workers from the Philippines who claim they were confined to cramped living quarters and forced to work long hours for substandard pay. The lawsuit was filed in late 2011 in a Louisiana federal court and is pending. Lawyers for the company have said the workers' claims are false and should be dismissed.
The workers recently obtained conditional class certification for allegations that Grand Isle Shipyard didn't pay them properly for overtime and may have violated other fair-labor standards, said attorney Joseph C. Peiffer. He said a notice will go out soon to let other workers know they might be able to join the lawsuit. He said he was not representing the injured workers but didn't rule out the possibility that he might do so.
Meanwhile, Black Elk said no oil was leaking from the charred platform, which hasn't been operating since August.
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Facsimile Autograph - a simulated autograph printed on a card designed to show what the player's actual signature looks like. These are NOT the player's "real" autograph.
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Graded Card - a card which has been assessed for condition by an independent source and given a ranking, with 10 being the best. The card is then placed in a hermetically-sealed plastic holder with the grade designation and player name, card company, card number, and serial number printed on the encasement.
1952,1953,1954,1955 Red Man TOBACCORed Man Tobacco issued baseball cards in 1952, 1953, 1954 and 1955, making them the only tobacco company to do so since 1920. The cards are very attractive with a large, painted portrait and a short player's bio on the front. On the back is company advertising. 1/2" tabs at the bottom of each card could be exchanged for a prize. The exchange rate was 50 tabs for one free Big League style baseball cap. Thus, cards with the tabs still intact are much, much, harder to find making them more valuable.
Without the tabs it is difficult to determine which year certain players were issued. It is usually easiest to determine the year by looking at the expiration date on the back. Subtract 1 from the expiration year to determine the year of the card.
Each set is made up of 25 players from each league all personally selected by Editor J.G. Taylor Spink of the "Sporting News". Managers from each league were included in the 1952 and 1953 sets. The 1954 set had four different variations. If you ignore the many variations of the expiration dates, that brings the total to only 208 cards to complete your Master Red Man Tobacco Baseball Card Set !!! Start collecting now !
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The 1962 Topps Bucks test issue was sold in it's own 1 cent wax packs and was not an insert in 1962 Topps wax packs. Most examples exist with a fold line but it should not be overly noticeable. Player selection was great as the set is packed with numerous Hall-of-Famers including MICKEY MANTLE, Willie Mays, Sandy Koufax, Roberto Clemente, Carl Yastrzemski, Stan Musial, Al Kaline, Brooks Robinson, Don Drysdale, Ernie Banks, Hank Aaron and more !!!
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Market Street in Trona will be renamed Jones Street when it is dedicated Feb. 5 at 1 p.m.
The street is being named in honor of the late longtime resident and San Bernardino County Sheriff's Sgt. Norris Eugene Jones.
Cpl. Ryan Smith said Jones served 27 of his 31 years with the department in Trona. He moved to Trona in 1966, where he served as a deputy with the sheriff's department. Jones advanced from deputy to detective to sergeant, and he was active with the Trona Community Services Council. He left Trona in 1993 and completed his last four years of service in Victorville.
Norris enjoyed hunting, trap shooting and gun collecting. He was a 20-year member of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, which recently named him Volunteer of the Year and Man of the Year. He was a member of the Trona, China Lake, Barstow and Lone Tree trap clubs.
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Nearly 300 of Citigroup's 4,200 New Jersey employees will be laid off in the company's plan to close six Garden State branches, a spokesman said.
According to Citigroup spokesman Mark Costiglio, the banking giant will lay off employees at branches in Nutley, Brick, East Hanover, Roseland, Springfield and Bayonne, which will close within two weeks and reduce the company's New Jersey footprint to 25 locations. Costiglio said Citigroup also will eliminate operations and technology positions that support those branches, cutting its total state work force by 7 percent, or 294 jobs.
The job cuts and branch closings fall under a nationwide consolidation plan announced Wednesday by Citigroup CEO Michael Corbat to lay off more than 11,000 employees, roughly 4 percent of its work force. Corbat expects the move to save the company approximately $900 million in 2013, and more than $1.1 billion a year beginning in 2014, though he anticipates the action will first incur about $1 billion in pre-tax costs in the fourth quarter of 2012.
Citi will slash 6,200 positions at its consumer banking unit; eliminate 2,300 operations and technology jobs that support its corporate services, real estate and holdings businesses; and lay off 1,900 workers at its institutional clients group. To further reduce its expenses, Citi said it will increase its use of automated banking processes and move "certain positions to lower-cost locations," though it did not disclose those sites.
In a statement, Corbat said Citi "has come a long way over the past several years" and the cuts are "logical next steps in Citi's transformation."


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An inadequate credit history could be a tough hurdle for those people intending to get a vehicle with a great finance deal. Reduced scores are never ever adequate to destroy the opportunities of success for a lending candidate, yet loan providers will certainly not really feel able to provide the most effective terms. Leaving credit report out of the equation would be more effective, which is why car lending with no credit checks are so prominent.
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Yorkshire on top in Roses clash
Title-chasing Yorkshire made light of losing the toss and clearly held the upper hand by the close of the first day of the LV= County Championship Division One Roses match at Emirates Old Trafford.
Andrew Gale's bowlers dismissed Lancashire for what seems a below-par total of 278 before openers Adam Lyth and Alex Lees added 61 for no wicket in 19 overs by close of play.
Ryan Sidebottom, Jack Brooks and Adil Rashid all took three wickets on a day which did nothing to ease the home side's relegation fears.
Ryan Sidebottom took three wickets in a dominant Yorkshire performance
Warwickshire kept their hopes of a treble very much alive by reaching 338 for six against Middlesex on the opening day at Lord's.
Put in on a pitch offering assistance to the seamers, Warwickshire were lifted into command by Rikki Clarke who ended the day unbeaten on 93 off 134 balls.
He frustrated a Middlesex side which several times had their opponents vulnerable - notably at 99 for three and 205 for six - but never induced the sort of collapse which could shape the match.
They have not beaten the Bears in 16 attempts in the championship but have a chance to end that barren run here on a result pitch. But Warwickshire batted with collective defiance.
Every batsman from one to eight reached double figures and then in the last session seventh-wicket pair Clarke and Keith Barker (60 from 102 balls) added an unbroken 133.
Alex Barrow's career-best 88 helped Somerset recover from a poor start to post 314 all out on the opening day of the match with Northamptonshire at Taunton.
Having lost the toss, the hosts plunged to 70 for four after David Willey had removed both openers cheaply. But 22-year-old Barrow then counter-attacked with 18 fours in sharing a fifth-wicket stand of 153 with Nick Compton, who made 79.
Seamers Willey (four for 64) and Azharullah (three for 69) capitalised on a green pitch, while the batsmen enjoyed the benefit of uninterrupted sunshine.
By the close Northants had replied with 39 for no wicket and were entitled to feel on top.
Bowlers were on top at Chester-le-Street as 14 wickets fell on the opening day between Durham and Nottinghamshire.
On a pitch offering some encouragement to the seamers, title-chasing Nottinghamshire had cause for satisfaction in dismissing their struggling hosts for 253 after losing the toss, but they then slumped to 66 for four in reply as Durham fought back.
In Division Two, Charlie Morris claimed his 50th first-class wicket of the season as Worcestershire edged closer to promotion against Derbyshire at Derby.
The seamer bowled with control to finish with impressive figures of 4 for 43 from 23 overs to undermine Derbyshire after half-centuries from Billy Godleman and skipper Wayne Madsen had put them in a strong position.
But the Division Two leaders hit back after lunch and secured two bowling points as the home side slipped from 153 for one to 262 for seven before an unbeaten 73 from from Alex Hughes steered Derbyshire to 323 for eight at the close.
Angus Robson hit a century as Leicestershire got off to a good start against Hampshire at the Rose Bowl in Southampton.
The visitors won the toss and elected to bat first but lost Greg Smith early on before his fellow opener claimed his ton from 216 balls in 263 minutes - including 15 fours - before he was caught by Sean Ervine for 115 as Leicestershire went on to post 301 for nine at stumps.
Chris Cooke scored a superb maiden first-class century to keep Kent's attack at bay and guide Glamorgan to 329 all out on the opening day at Canterbury.
The 28-year-old South African-born batsman was last out for 171 after holding Glamorgan's first innings together against a Kent team still with an outside chance of promotion and aiming to win three of their last four championship games.
At stumps, Kent were one without loss in their first innings, after four overs.
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By Ed Patino
HILLSDALE � One mission accomplished for the Hillsdale High School girls basketball team.
Behind another strong performance by Hayley Maystead, the Hornets rolled to a 58-36 victory over the Erie Mason Eagles in a Lenawee County Athletic Association game Friday evening.
Hillsdale (11-8, 6-7 LCAA) clinched a winning record with the victory. The Hornets had consistent scoring throughout the game, putting up double-digit points in each quarter.
"We knew that this would guarantee a winning record, and that's huge for us," Hillsdale coach Nick Langston said.
The Hornets scored 19 points in the first quarter en route to building a nine-point lead. Hillsdale remained hot in the second quarter and extended its advantage to 33-19 by halftime.
Erie Mason matched baskets with the Hornets in the third quarter, but was outscored 13-7 in the fourth quarter as the Hornets prevented a comeback.
Maystead once again eclipsed the 30-point mark, scoring 35 points to lead the Hornets. She remained in the lineup until fouling out with 0:00.4 remaining in the game.
"She was one 3-pointer away from tying the school record, which is way we left her in," Langston said.
Maystead also grabbed seven rebounds and forced five steals. Sarah Maple added seven points, while Jamee Thompson scored five points and forced four steals. Alana Thayer grabbed six rebounds and Whitney Hodge had five steals.
Julia Skaggs had 11 points to lead the Eagles, while Paige Stark finished with nine points.
The Hornets will host Ida for the final LCAA game of the season Tuesday.
"We have a tough one on Tuesday, and we welcome that," Langston said. "The idea now is to get ready for tournament time. We feel we have a good draw in our district, and we have to take advantage of it."
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Members of the Granite Falls Utility Commission as well as a representative of city bond consultant, Ehlers and Associates, of Roseville, attended Monday's city council meeting to discusss the feasibility of replacing a pair of turbines at the Granite Falls Dam. A final decision on the expenditure is expected to be made at the council's meeting on April 2.
Members of the Granite Falls Utility Commission as well as a representative of city bond consultant, Ehlers and Associates, of Roseville, attended Monday's city council meeting to discusss the feasibility of replacing a pair of turbines at the Granite Falls Dam. A final decision on the expenditure is expected to be made at the council's meeting on April 2.
In February of last year, the city contracted with Barr Engineering, of Minneapolis, to perform a detailed inspection and evaluation of the dam's two primary hydroelectric turbines as well as related equipment at a cost of $5,000. In those inspections it was determined that the pair of turbines were in imminent need of either replacement or repair, although the latter has proved to be less cost effective.
According to City Manager Bill Lavin, the Utilities Commission reviewed the report by Barr, which estimated the replacement of turbines to run $1.2 million for the set, and expressed concerns as to whether the payback on the investment would be worth it if the hydropower efficiency was not increased. The life of the units is said to be about 40 years.
The city's power purchasing agent, Central Minnesota Municipal Power Agency (CMMPA) was asked to complete an economic feasibility study relative to repairs. This was completed and presented to the Utilities Commission on December 26 of last year.
During that presentation it was shown that the replacement of the turbines was economical except at low cost Midwest Independent System Operator (MISO) price forecasts. At MISO's medium price forecast, the breakeven payback period was to be from 20 - 30 years, but the low forecast scenario projected a payback period to be greater than 40 years––or, more than the expected lifespan of the units.
In a letter by CMMPA Senior Engineer Shankar Karki, it was stated that a main factor causing the low MISO price scenario to be unviable was high operations and maintenance (O&M) cost projections that are based on existing O&M expenses.
As a result, CMMPA suggested that since fixed costs would remain the same, only marginal O&M expenditures should be included. In this scenario, based on a low MISO rate and low marginal O&M costs, a payback period of 30 years is projected wherein the net revenue from energy sales after 40 years would be $302,000.
If the revenue is supplemented by market capacity sales as well, however, the breakeven payback period is reduced to 23 years and the net revenue from both capacity and energy sales after 40 years becomes a projected $720,000.
Ehlers and Associates' Senior Financial Analyst and Vice President Todd Hagen informed the city council that bond rates were still very favorable and that by adjusting the bond to be bottom heavy, it would only increase the city's yearly debt obligation by $45,500 per year, meaning the city could possibly avoid raising electrical rates in order to pay for the turbine replacements.
Based on the CMMPA's analysis, and a recommendation to move forward by the Utilities Commission, the council looks set to go ahead with the purchase. However, the city representatives stopped short of voting on the subject in order to inquire into the costs of replacing its existing Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) Systems. The current SCADA system utilized by the city has become obsolete after recent upgrades made to software utilized by city hall. It is important because it collects data needed from various substations, the diesel generating plant and hydro plant.
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Street Improvements
Hagen's time in front of the city council was split between discussing the turbine financing as well as the proposed utility and street improvement projects, for which the city council held public hearings at the previous council meeting.
During the hearing there was a small degree of opposition expressed toward storm sewer work in the industrial park, which according to Lavin was supplemented by additional opposition that, after conversations with affected parties, has led to the council dropping a component of the improvements.
In order to meet statutory requirements, this required that council also postpone a water main looping project.
Changes to the utility project eliminates the portion of the industrial park storm sewer project north of Winter Drive, while the 9th Street watermain loop project is expected to be included in a future project.
Total costs of the utility projects was reduced from $585,000 to $405,000, with $109,500 of the project being assessed to impacted property owners.
A vote by the council to change the city's existing assesment policy allowed for this particular cost split. Council members voted unanimously to change storm sewer project assesment rates for commercial and industrial as well as governmental properties from 90 percent to 60 percent of the total cost.
Again, Hagen said that the bond market remained very favorable and that the city should expect incur approximately $20,000 in additional yearly debt obligation, which would be offset to a degree by assessments.
The council moved ahead and called for plans and specs that will allow it to call for project bids.
In other news:
•Property owner Ted Thull addressed the council and requested that the city consider different options for contacting property owners regarding possible violations of city ordinances in reagrd to the clean up of property.
Thull was cited for refuse on his property, which was later thrown out in court.
Thull said that he did not receive letters mailed to the property in a timely manner as it is not his primary residence and at times he might go significant lengths of time without checking his mail.
The city pushed back and asserted that other ways of reaching out to property owners would potentially be expensive and overly arduous––and if the property had been maintained in the first place there wouldn't be an issue. Plus, it was said that it is his responsibility to check his mailbox in a timely manner.
Thull said he had no ill will toward the city and just wanted to bring up the matter so that another individual did not have to experience the inconveniences and expenses that the citation caused him.
He suggested that if he had been alerted to the issue a bit sooner he could have addressed the property complaints before it became a more cumbersome issue.
•Council renewed a dog kennel lease agreement with Nancy Aus. Originally Aus was paid $40 per month, plus a daily charge of $12 per day for dogs or cats, and $15 a day or rabid animal holds. Changes made to agreement increased the monthly rate paid to the kennel owner to $50 and the daily charge to store animals to $15, regardless of rabies.
•Council members approved the renewal of city building inspector Darin Haslip's contract at rates unchanged since the original contract he entered into in 2007. The amount earned varies depending on the nature and amount of work performed for the city.


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The Augustinian complex in Santo Spirito is one of the great religious and artistic monuments of Florence. The museum is located in the ancient Cenacle of the Convent, decorated by a grandiose fresco depicting the Crucifixion and the Last Supper by Andrea Orcagna.
The sculptures donated to the city of Florence by the collector and antique dealer Salvatore Romano in 1946 are arranged in this vast room. It is a small but well chosen collection of works that begins with Pre-Romanesque examples and goes up to XV century art.
This nucleus of Romanesque sculptures constitutes one of the most important example of this period in Florence. Among the most significant works shown are the Caryatides and the Adoring Angel by Tino di Camaino, the Virgin and Child by Jacopo della Quercia and two bas-reliefs by Donatello portraying San Prosdocimo e San Massimo, from the Basilica of Sant'Antonio in Padua.
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In a series of reports this week, NPR's Quil Lawrence looks at some of the most pressing challenges facing America's nearly 2 million female veterans. Like men, they often need assistance in finding jobs, dealing with PTSD and reintegrating into their families. And all too often, women say their military experience included sexual harassment or sexual assault.
Alyssa Corcoran experienced combat on her first patrol in Afghanistan. After she walked seven miles through the hills with 70 pounds of gear on her back, Corcoran and her platoon arrived in a mud-brick village in Logar province.
But they stayed too long in one place. Leaving the village, Corcoran heard for the first time the noise of bullets passing way too close.
"We were pinned down for about 20 minutes. We didn't exactly know where the gunfire was coming from," she says. "It actually sounded like firecrackers above your head."
Over the yearlong deployment, she stopped counting the number of times she was shot at — and the number of rounds she fired back.
Women like Corcoran just laugh at the mention of a Pentagon rule against female troops in combat that was recently lifted.
The Pentagon spent 10 years bending that rule in Iraq and Afghanistan. Infantry patrols and Special Forces units have learned the value of having women on their missions, as they started picking up a trove of intelligence from female soldiers' interaction with Afghan women.
"I think that we quickly realized how effective these women were," says Mike Hall, who served as the command sergeant major of U.S. forces in Afghanistan from 2009 to 2010.
Women make up nearly 15 percent of the U.S. military's 1.4 million active-duty personnel and 18 percent of guard and reserve forces. In the last decade, wars with no clear front lines blurred the distinctions between combat and supporting jobs, which put women under fire as often as most servicemen.
The Department of Veterans Affairs estimates there are 1.8 million female vets currently and an estimated 50,000 more will join the group in the next five years. Women have also expanded into the ranks of the fallen: 152 female soldiers have died in Iraq and Afghanistan so far.
A Difficult Homecoming
Acknowledging they've been fighting these recent wars may be the first step toward aiding female veterans through the transition back to civilian life. But veterans' advocates say they're hard to find — and, therefore, harder to help. It's easy to spot a male veteran at a college campus or at the mall — they often keep the same crew cut and boots.
But female vets don't wear it on their sleeves as much. When they get out, many vets say they're eager to drop the masculine clothes and tight ponytails, and return to looking more feminine.
Just like men they need help: getting jobs in a tough economy, dealing with post-traumatic stress and reconnecting with family members left behind on deployment. That can be harder for women, who feel the guilt of having left their husbands or children behind, says Jane Grimes, a U.S. Army reservist.
"It's not acceptable for a woman to go," she says. "It's acceptable for men to go because they are men. 'My mom is not supposed to go do this stuff.' "
Divorce is higher among female veterans than male, and many complain that deployment has caused them to lose child-custody battles. Despite a push to build women's health clinics, the VA still looks like a men's club; many facilities lack everything from female doctors to women's bathrooms.
That lack of care, or reluctance to seek it out, hits female veterans hard: They're the fastest growing group among homeless veterans. Even for the women who don't make it back from war, things are different: Grieving families say women are often forgotten when Americans talk about fallen soldiers.
Betrayal From Within The Ranks
For all their success at new, higher-level jobs, the darkest side of women's military service persists. The Pentagon estimates that 1 in 5 women is sexually assaulted during her military career.
Women in the military are at an increased risk of rape compared to the general female population, and a high number are raped more than once. Sexual assault is the leading cause of PTSD among women.
Many servicewomen describe a workplace atmosphere of constant sexual harassment, and a culture that sees women as weak and subservient.
Sabina Rangel is a Navy veteran who left a successful career behind after her commanding officers refused to investigate her rape by a senior non-commissioned officer.
"We were seen as providers — medical providers, food providers. We're also seen as sexual providers," she says. "It hasn't changed."
Reporting the crime brings on an ordeal nearly as bad as the sexual assault, according to dozens of women interviewed for this series. While the accused rapist is rarely detained, the victim faces the threat of retaliation by a chain of command that prosecutes only a small fraction of complaints.
Less than 10 percent of rape cases result in jail time — more often, the charges are downgraded to a misdemeanor like adultery, with both the victim and the rapist punished. The Pentagon has pledged, not for the first time, to tackle the problem.
"Sexual assault has no place in my Army, and no place in my military," says Maj. Gen. Gary Patton, who directs the Pentagon's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office. "It is an affront to the values that we defend and it erodes the cohesion that our units demand."
But a case just last month cast the Pentagon's most recent promise in doubt.
In November, a military jury handed down a rare jail sentence to an Air Force pilot for sexually assaulting a sleeping houseguest.
But last month, exercising a power allowed under the military code of justice, his commanding officer simply dismissed all the charges against the pilot. Female veterans say they doubt they will ever see real equality in the service with the military code and culture stacked against them.
This year, the U.S. military made a big change. Pentagon officials decided that they will no longer keep women out of ground combat roles, to which women already fighting in Afghanistan said you're a little late, we're already in combat. The debate revealed just how little is understood about what women serving in the U.S. military are living through. All this week on MORNING EDITION, we're going to hear the stories of women troops - stories of war and their very unique take on balancing work and family. NPR's Quil Lawrence has reported this series and he's with us now to talk more about what he learned. Good morning, Quil.
QUIL LAWRENCE, BYLINE: Good morning.
MARTIN: So, let's start with Afghanistan, Quil. You covered the war there for years. Did you see women doing combat jobs?
LAWRENCE: Well, first off, the definition of combat has kind of changed with these wars. There's never really been a clear frontline either in Iraq or Afghanistan. So, lots of people, men and women, were getting rocketed and mortared along with everyone else. That said, there are groups of women who've become a very important part of counterinsurgency combat in Afghanistan, and we'll feature some of them this week - members of female engagement teams.
MARTIN: Those were the teams created to reach out to local Afghan women, right?
LAWRENCE: Yes, that's how they started. But soldiers started to notice that they were picking up lots of actionable intelligence that the men couldn't get access to, 'cause they couldn't talk to Afghan women. So, even the special forces units started requesting to have some of these female soldiers go out with them on their night raids where they get dropped miles and miles from a target in the dark. So, there were women carrying out some of these very complicated raids.
MARTIN: Those were dangerous missions. I mean, there were firefights.
LAWRENCE: Absolutely. We spoke to one woman, Sergeant Alyssa Corcoran. She said she was scared the first time she got in a gun fight but it sort of became routine for her.
SERGEANT ALYSSA CORCORAN: I was a gunner up in the turret. If we were able to have eyes on the enemy, we would then fire back. They fired upon us first, so we would always return fire.
MARTIN: And, Quil, another difference between what men and women in the military experience is the issue of sexual assaults, even rape. What did you learn about this problem?
LAWRENCE: That's been all over the news lately - hearings last week in the Senate and the Lackland Airbase scandal. But the statistics really are staggering. The Pentagon's own estimate is 19,000 sex crimes within the military a year, most of which aren't reported. When they are reported, the victims end up facing retaliation, and they say it ends up ruining their careers. And that's what we found. Some of the women we talked to said that they were in an atmosphere that was so full of harassment, they felt that men act as though they were almost entitled to sex. We can hear from one of them, Sabina Rangel, who she was hosting a support group at her house when we met her.
SABINA RANGEL: I was assaulted while in Army boot camp, and I was raped when I was in the Navy. It was almost like the men thought that they could say and do anything to me. Women were seen as medical providers, food providers, things like that. We're also seen as sexual providers.
MARTIN: How did you find women who were willing to share their stories, who were willing to talk about this?
LAWRENCE: Surprisingly, in some ways, it was easier than I expected. I covered this story almost 10 years ago and it was very hard to find women to talk about this. I think it's been somewhat destigmatized. And we first reached out to women through support groups on this subject, but before long there were some that were just volunteering their stories. I would call them on a different subject, and they would say, without me asking, that they had been sexually assaulted in the military. And the prevalence was just shocking. I think one day I made six calls and every single of them had been raped in the military.
MARTIN: I'm wondering about other attitudes, especially among military families. I mean, people comfortable with the idea of their daughters or mothers or wives fighting in a war zone? Is it different than if it were a son or a father?
LAWRENCE: Yeah, I think there are questions that we started to ask in the series and we realized we would never have asked a man how do you balance your commitments to your family and your commitments to the military? It just goes without saying; men are men and they go off to war. Women have all of these other issues that, well, American society asks them about. And when they come back, if they've got the same sort of famous thousand-mile stare from PTSD, for me, again, that's expected; for women, why are you being so numb? Why are you unable to relate with your family? And some women don't make it home. We talked to Cedric Gordon, who's a police chief down in St. Petersburg, Florida. And he saw his daughter go off to war but it never really hit home how much danger she was going to be in.
MARTIN: What happened to her? What was her name?
LAWRENCE: Specialist Brittany Gordon was working as an intelligence analyst in Kandahar and she was killed by a suicide bomber in October. Now, Chief Gordon's got photos of her all over his house, including one that she sent him for Father's Day. Here he is describing the picture to us.
CEDRIC GORDON: She has a big smile on her face. She's sitting there with her rifle and all her gear on - 'cause I had never seen her in uniform like that, you know. And I thought, oh gosh, my baby daughter. It hit home again about how much danger she probably was in.
LAWRENCE: Chief Gordon told us this story about going up to Dover Airbase to receive his daughter's remains. And, of course, he wasn't alone. He was on a bus out to the hangar and there was a young family on there - a new young widow and her children. And he said it was the saddest thing he'd ever seen. For a moment, he forgot his own grief because he realized that they'd lost their protector. And he started to understand that his feelings were different. Even though Specialist Brittany Gordon had her flak jacket and her rifle and never would have said she needed protection from anyone, he was her father, and he said he'd always feel that way about a daughter, that he was supposed to look out for her.
MARTIN: NPR's Quil Lawrence. You can her Quil's series on women combat veterans all this week on MORNING EDITION. Quil, thanks so much.
LAWRENCE: Thanks, Rachel.
MARTIN: And you're listening to WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Extended Set - Also frequently called Update Set or Traded Set.
Facsimile Autograph - a simulated autograph printed on a card designed to show what the player's actual signature looks like. These are NOT the player's "real" autograph.
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1959 Fleer Ted WilliamsTed Williams was one of the greatest hitters ever to play the game ! The 'Splendid Splinter' played from 1939-1942 and 1946-1960 all with the Boston Red Sox. He missed 1943 thru 1945 due to military duty when he was a pilot during the wars. For his career he hit .344 with 521 home runs. Ted Williams was one of the biggest stars baseball has ever seen, and his baseball cards remain very popular and valuable.
Ted's rookie card was in 1950 Bowman and he was exclusive with Bowman from 1950 thru 1954. In 1954 he also allowed Topps to make his cards which they did from 1954 thru 1958.
In 1959 Fleer signed Ted Williams away from Topps and assumed the star Ted Williams would be retiring, put out an entire 80-card set of cards highlighting Ted Williams and illustrating his life both in and out of baseball. Williams decided late in the fall to resign for another year perhaps damaging the sets impact. Today these cards remain extremely popular with most of the cards in teh set still quite affordable.
There is one very rare card in this set, #68 picturing Ted with Bucky Harris.
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1963 Fleer BaseballIn an attempt by Fleer to circumvent Topps exclusive rights to baseball cards, Fleer issued their 1963 baseball cards with cookies instead of gum. It is commonly thought that the 1963 Fleer baseball card issue was intended to be a much larger set issued in multiple series but Topps sued Fleer after their first series was released stopping further production. Due to Topps deep pockets Fleer soon pulled the set from the market and cancelled their plans for the remaining series leaving this very, very popular set at just 66 cards plus one unnumbered checklist.
But what a 66 cards !!! The 1963 Fleer Cards are attractive and feature an extremely high percentage of stars. Some of the top stars in the 1963 Fleer baseball card set are Brooks Robinson, Willie Mays, Carl Yastrzemski, Sandy Koufax, Roberto Clemente, Don Drysdale and Warren Spahn.. The set also included 2 very scare Short Prints, Joe Adcock and an unnumbered checklist.
The most interesting card in this set is the Maury Wills Rookie card. Even though Wills started his major league career with the Dodgers way back in 1959 quickly becoming a superstar, his 1963 Fleer card is considered his rookie card ! How is this possible ? Well, back in 1959, 1960 and 1961, Topps did not consider Wills worthy enough to have a baseball card.
As hobby lore has it: Needless to say, Wills was very upset at this slight from Topps. After Wills won the 1962 N.L. MVP award, Topps quickly came a courting but Wills answered with a large "NO". From 1961 thru 1966, Wills prevented Topps from making any of his baseball cards. Wills and Topps finally made up making his 1967 Topps high number short print his first Topps card and also his most expensive card. Adding interest to the Wills baseball card story, Post Cereal released a Maury Wills card in their 1962 set making that the earliest Maury Wills rookie card. Wills was also pictured on a special 1960 Topps card featuring the 1959 World Series. The card features Luis Aparicio stealing 2nd base with Wills pictured trying to make the tag.
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Norman D. "Norm" Mills, 80, retired Wichita Public Schools science teacher, passed away Monday, Dec. 10, 2012. Service is at10:30 a.m., Friday, Dec. 14, at Aldersgate United Methodist Church. Graveside service will follow at 3 p.m. at Iuka Cemetery.
He was preceded in death by daughter, Cindy Jo Mills; brother, Robert Dean Mills; twin sister, Norma Lee Mills.
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Blank-backed and unnumbered, these standard size cards were called "Stand-Ups". "Stand-Ups" refers to a type of card that was die cut around the player's picture. The background section then could be folded in half, so the card could stand up by itself while the player's picture stood alone. Directions for folding are on the background and when folded only the green background remains. 1934-36 Batter Up and the 1951 Topps All-Star sets are 2 other popular standup issues.
Thanks to the green and yellow borders and the likelihood that most cards have been heavily folded, 1964 Stand-Ups are extremely difficult to obtain in top grades.
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"To love another person is to see the face of God."
If you had to sum up the theme of "Les Misérables" in one sentence, that line — which appears at the end of the film — would probably come the closest to capturing the essence of the story. The well-loved musical and now feature film is a tale about compassion and forgiveness, and how even those who have fallen from the light (or been pushed from it) are not beyond redemption.
The story begins with Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman), a man who was forced to spend 19 years in prison for the seemingly minor crime of stealing bread. Full of anger and bitterness at his unfortunate turn of fate, Valjean commits another crime soon after his release. Yet when he is caught by the authorities, he is freed by a selfless act of kindness from a bishop. Touched by the bishop's compassion, Valjean decides to make a new life for himself, burying the name and legacy of "Jean Valjean" in the past.
However, he is hunted by the relentless Inspector Javert (Russell Crowe), who wants to bring Jean Valjean to justice for breaking parole — even though Valjean is now a well-respected man who has dedicated his life to helping others. As he endeavors to avoid Javert's capture, Jean Valjean crosses paths with a variety of characters, including a doomed prostitute named Fantine (Anne Hathaway), who entrusts her daughter Cosette to Valjean's care. The characters all are eventually caught up in one of the French revolutions, and the film culminates in a final confrontation between Valjean and Javert, in which Javert must choose between justice and mercy.
"Les Misérables" has proven to be a bit divisive in Hollywood. Although it's been nominated for a "best picture" Academy Award, some critics have been tough on the film. How you feel about the movie probably will depend on your thoughts about the original stage play, and how you feel about musicals in general.
I think the stage play and the film both have their strengths. There's something magical about watching live theater; there's a certain energy that comes from being in the same room as the performers and watching the story unfold on the stage in front of you. Yet film as an artistic medium also has its advantages; the director is able to give us close-ups of the actors' expressions and use more elaborate sets.
Like the original play, almost all the lines in the film are sung, similar to an opera. It does take a few minutes to get used to this. It's tough to pull off on film a script consisting almost entirely of singing, but I think it works, thanks to the line-up of talented performers.
The strongest actors here are Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway, who pour their heart and soul into their performances. I was excited to see both were nominated for Academy Awards for their roles. Jackman sings with confidence and emotion, and you can sympathize with his character's struggles. Hathaway's rendition of one of the musical's most famous songs, "I Dreamed a Dream," is truly heartbreaking, and was one of the highlights of the film for me. Some of the stand-out newcomers were Eddie Redmayne as the earnest and idealistic revolutionary Marius and Samantha Barks as the tragic Éponine.
Russell Crowe has received some criticism for his performance in the film, though I think the critics have been a bit too tough on him. While out of all the lead actors, he seems the least comfortable with the singing aspect of the film, I believe he was a good choice to capture the persona of Javert. It was perhaps unfair of the film makers to ask him to sing all the lines since he doesn't have as much music theater experience as Jackman.
My favorite part of the film was the music; it's gorgeous and sweeping, and the major musical set pieces from the original play are well-represented here: the revolutionaries' rousing call-to-arms "Do You Hear the People Sing?"; Hathaway's gut-wrenching "I Dreamed a Dream"; and the epic ensemble piece "One Day More."
In short, "Les Misérables" may not be a flawless film, but I genuinely loved it, and I left the theater feeling inspired. Although I wish director Tom Hooper would have relied a little bit less on close-up shots and had maybe featured more spoken dialogue, this is a stirring, faithful adaptation of the musical, and it's easy to see how sincere the director and the actors are about the source material. It's a movie I'd definitely recommend film fans watch before Oscar night.


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SYDNEY (AP) — Australia's famed "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin knew he was dying after a massive stingray stabbed him in the chest hundreds of times, the only witness to the fatal 2006 attack said in his first detailed public account of the beloved conservationist's death.
"We're saying to him things like, 'Think of your kids, Steve — hang on, hang on, hang on,'" Justin Lyons, Irwin's longtime cameraman, told Australia's Studio 10 morning show this week. "And he just sort of calmly looked up at me and said, 'I'm dying.' And that was the last thing he said."
In the nearly eight years since Irwin's death, Lyons has said little publicly about how the fatal encounter with the stingray unfolded. Now, he said, he wants to clarify exactly how Irwin died, including dismissing reports that his friend pulled the stingray's barb out of his own chest.
"The stories at the time of Steve's death — none of them were accurate because no one else was there," Lyons said in an interview Wednesday. "And that always bothered me."
Lyons is also speaking out now because he has just finished producing a documentary, "E-Motion," which examines the impact that repressing negative emotions can have on the body.
"I thought that it was a great way to illustrate my experience with Steve; holding onto these traumatic events can be very, very bad," he said Wednesday. "I'm happy that I've finally spoken about it publicly. It has been, I guess, a weight on my shoulders."
Lyons still vividly remembers the day he lost his friend, who rose to fame via his TV series, "The Crocodile Hunter." The two were shooting a wildlife documentary in the Great Barrier Reef when they spotted an 8-foot-wide stingray.
They had been filming the creature for several minutes in chest-deep water and decided to try and get one final shot of the stingray swimming away. Suddenly, the animal began wildly stabbing Irwin with the barb on its tail — hundreds of strikes within seconds, Lyons said. The barb went through his chest "like a hot knife through butter," piercing his heart, Lyons said.
"It probably thought that Steve's shadow was a tiger shark, which feeds on them very regularly," Lyons told Studio 10. "I didn't even know it had caused any damage. It wasn't until I panned the camera back that Steve was standing in a huge pool of blood that I realized something had gone wrong."
Lyons and his crew threw him into their boat and put pressure on the gash over Irwin's heart, which was seeping blood, and Lyons performed CPR. But the damage was too severe. The 44-year-old died later that day, leaving behind his wife, Terri, and two young children.
The fact that Irwin — who was notorious for his extremely close encounters with crocodiles, sharks and other potentially lethal animals — died after a run-in with a normally docile creature shocked the public. But Lyons said he always had a sense his friend would meet an unusual end.
"It was never going to be a croc or a shark," he said Wednesday. "He was so good with animals."