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RUMFORD – With its top three Nordic skiers lost to injury or transfer, the Yarmouth High boys' ski team appeared to be in rebuilding mode.
Just last week, the Clippers lost to tiny Merriconeag in the Western Maine Conference championships, and in late January they managed only a tie for seventh in the all-comers Sassi Memorial classical race.
But when the boys in the bovine-inspired, blue-and-white-splotched suits burst forth from the starting line Thursday afternoon at blustery Black Mountain, their familiar magic returned.
Braden Becker, a junior, won for the second straight day as Yarmouth skiers claimed half of the top 10 spots in the Class B boys' freestyle state championship race to sew up the school's second straight Nordic title. Coupled with a successful morning in giant slalom, the Clippers carry a 51-point cushion over Maranacook into Friday's concluding slalom race for the overall crown.
"I guess we showed up to race," said Becker, who won Thursday's 5-kilometer freestyle by four seconds (in 12 minutes, 20 seconds) over Thomas Faraday of Mt. Abram, to go along with Wednesday's 14-second victory in classical, also over Faraday. "It was an amazing season. No one was expecting it."
The girls' Nordic team was similarly dominant, even with senior leader Sarah Becker out with the flu. Fellow captain Olivia Conrad led a 5-6-7-9-10 freestyle finish to give the Clippers the Nordic title, 52-69 over Caribou.
"It was tough not to have her, but I think we all skied for her," Conrad said. "We call it the Pain Cave. We were going to have to be in the Pain Cave (Thursday) to make up for not having her."
Sophomore Emma Torres, freshman Lucy Alexander and sophomore twins Caitlin and Ellie Teare followed Conrad into the top 10 of a field that numbered 54, all of whom battled a bone-chilling wind until reaching the sheltering woods.
"It was a very windy, cold Pain Cave," said Conrad. "It was not a very pleasant Pain Cave, not that a Pain Cave is supposed to be pleasant in the first place."
The Clippers were a close second to Mt. Abram in the morning giant slalom, and hold a virtually insurmountable 113-point lead over Maranacook after three of four events in the quest for their seventh straight overall title.
"That's a big shock and big surprise," Yarmouth Coach Bob Morse said of the twin Nordic titles. "I'm very pleased, but slalom is the equalizer. I've seen it go topsy turvy, so it's one big day coming up."
Backing up Becker's winning freestyle performance, junior Sam Alexander placed third, seniors Jackson Hall and Chester Jacobs were fourth and sixth, and junior Jasper Houston finished ninth of 52.
"Everybody had one of the best races of their season," said Hall, who was also fourth in classical after never before finishing among the top 10 in the WMC championships. "Black Mountain has been pretty good to us."
Maranacook senior Caroline Colan won the girls' freestyle race after also winning classical on Wednesday. Her time of 15:04 was 13 seconds better than runner-up Dana Hatton of Cape Elizabeth.
Earlier in the day, Maranacook junior Alec Daigle and Mt. Abram junior Elise Luce won giant slalom titles in blizzard-like conditions as snow whipped sideways across the Lower Androscoggin trail.
"The course was two seconds faster than normal, so I think that caught people off guard," said Daigle, the 2012 Class B slalom champ who trains at Black Mountain. "I almost fell in my first run. I was pretty out of control."
Daigle throttled back slightly in his second run, finishing in 45.23 seconds after his blazing 44.70 initial offering.
"I was going for it," he said. "I mean, it was cold, but other than that, (conditions were fine). It was really grippy, just hard-packed snow."
Noah Lobozzo of Gray-New Gloucester was more than a second back, with Cape Elizabeth's R.J. Sarka and Peter Higgins finishing third and fourth.
Fifth-place Matt Highland of Yarmouth was one of four Clippers to finish among the top 15, giving Yarmouth a 39-48 Alpine lead over Maranacook, with Spruce Mountain third at 59.
Even with top Alpine skier Drew Grout out following hand surgery and his brother, Tucker, falling on the first run, the Clippers stood tall thanks to Luke Lockwood (ninth), Ethan Masse (12th) and Matt Woodbury (13th). Two of Maranacook's top three skiers also fell, putting Yarmouth in the catbird seat for Friday's concluding slalom race.
In girls' giant slalom, Luce won for the third year in a row, following a two-year run by her sister, Emily.
The wind picked up for the girls' race, resulting in snow whipping across the course, obscuring patches of ice. Two racers — Courtney Burby of Caribou and Erin Guilmet of Maranacook — required evacuation by sled after crashing on the steepest part of the course.
"A lot of (skiers) had problems because they couldn't see the terrain, so they bobbled or fell," Luce said. "And it was really windy, so the gates were moving. It was OK that I couldn't fully see because I knew the terrain from slipping it (during prerace inspection) and from skiing here before."
Runner-up Lydia Morin of Camden Hills finished more than a second behind Luce, with Yarmouth's Chapin Dorsett five seconds behind in third.
Mt. Abram leads the girls Alpine competition over Yarmouth, 40-46.
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^^gte^-^v.-; i*..;. Central Ohio's Only Jewish JVewspaper XReaehini Every Home ^^ Devoted to American and ., Jewish ideals A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER FOR THE JEWISH HOME Volume XVII~No. 176 COLUMBUS, OHIO. MAY 7, 1937 Per Year $3.00; Per Copy loc Strictly Confidential By PHINEAS J. BIRON Social and Religious Work Needed Ainong Jewish College Students Whisper It Low There's a tiiovemcnt mitlcr way lo revolutionize the B'nai li'ntli.. .Dis¬ trict grand lodge presidents have re¬ ceived circulars propobiiig a plan to deprive tlte international president ot the right to appoint the executive .sec¬ retary.. .Under the new .setup thc secretary would he an elective officer responsible only to the board oC di' rectors...It is also proposed to iiml<e ' all elective officers hold office for one year instead of for three as at pres¬ ent .,. This would mean holding con¬ ventions annually instead o£ tricn- iiially, with interim rule by a new executive board .,. Maurice Bit-gycr, new executive secretary, who is a pcrbonal appointpeof President Cohen, will not take over his duties for sonic time yet...Recently, one of the best , known national Jewish organizations engaged m defending Jewish rights abroad—it was *not the Jewish Con¬ gress—had a ineeting with rcpn.- sentatives of the Polish government in this country.,,Thc latter insisted on addressing thc Jewish spokesmen as Jcw!,,,,Whereui>on thc spokesman for thc Jewish organization .indig¬ nantly rcparteed—"Wc arc not Jews. Please understand that we are Ameri¬ cans with Jewish sympathies". ..That rumor about a new scheme for co¬ ordinating thc 6ght against Nazisin and anti-Semitism in thi^ country will not down...'Tis said that leaders oi four national Jewish groups arc to meet unoBicially to lay thc ground¬ work ... We are reliably informed that the winner of thc Jewish Publi¬ cation Society's contest for the best American Jewish novel will be a woman...She may be the wife of a mid-West rabbi...The United Jewish Fund campaign of Pittsburgh has in¬ formed its prospective givers that no publicity will "be sought in the daily press... The Anti-Nazi Front Contributors to thc University in 'Exile, which was created to placri emigre scholars who lost their jobs in Germany for racial or political reasons, will be interested to know that Dr. Carl Brandt, professor of agronomics at the U. I. E,, is coii- ' tributing to Nazi papers in Germany .,.When reproached about this, he said hc refused to discuss his edi¬ torial attitude...Prof. Leo Frobenius, who is here from Gerniany on an alleged lecture tour, is a secret Na7t agent and propagandist...Officers ot the R. O. T. C. at City College and New York University have been in¬ vited to join the Rev. 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Citing the "particular lack of religious ana cultural Jewish organizations in schools which have from 25 to 500 Jewish students," Dr. Levinger said 'altogether, fully 10,000 Jewish stu¬ dents in such schools have no Jewish opportunities while pursuing theii education away fropi home. Twenty- seven colleges reported definitely that they ha\e no Jewish organization of any kiiid, cither religious, cultural or social. From 20 to 25 percent of all the colleges which have 2a Jewish students or more do not have Jewisii service of any kind, religious or social." DECLINE OF JEWISH DOCTORS CONTINUES UNCHECKED BERLIN (WNS) — 'The \irtual (iisappcaraiice of all Jewish physicians in the rural areas and sinall towns 01 Germany and a decline of more than oij% m all Jewish physicians practic¬ ing in Gcrinaijy as. reported by the Central Vcreiii Zeitung. The paper reveals that tlicrc arc now 3,000 Jew¬ ibh doctors as compared with 7,000 in 1033. In Berlin 23% or 1,471 of the practicing doctors are Jews as com¬ pared with 52.2/0 or 3,423 in 10.13. Only 830 Jewish physicians in Berlin are still permitted to treat i)atient5 carrying state health insurance, which is obligatory for all workers. Further btatibtics about Jewish doctors af" given hy the Berlin Fhjsiciaiis Maga¬ zine of thc Chamber of Doctors, in Silesia 12.8% of doctors arc Jews; in Hamburg 11.8%; Hcsscn-Nassau 10%; Baden 5.i7o; East Prussia 4.9%; Khineland 4%; Pomerania 3.4%; Brandenburg 3.0%; I.x)wer Saxony 1.9%. By race 1,017 or 26.1% of married doctors were Jews married to Jewesses; 276 or 7.1% of Jewish phy¬ sicians arc niarried to wives of Ger¬ man blood; 1,084 or 18.8% of unmar¬ ried physicians are Jews; 45.5% of thc divorced doctors are Jews; 33.0% of the widowed doctors are Jews. Of physicians permitted to treat state in¬ surance patients, 20.5% are Jews by race or related to Jews. Jn Silesia 13.3% of such doctors are Jews; 10,7% in Hessen-Nassau: f).^% in Hamburg; 7% in T3aden; 4.5% in Ba¬ varia ; Lower Saxony and Westphalia, 2%; and 3.0% in the Rhlneland. Confirmation Services to Be Held at Schonthal Center^ Sunday Annual Luncheon Meeting Of Temple Sisterhood to Be Held Tuesday Anti-Defamation League Opens Eastern Branch ^ NEW YORK (WNS)—Establi.sh- nient of an Eastern branch of the B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League in New York City was announced here >y Rabbi William F. Rosenblum in tjchalf of a committee of Eastern B'nai B'rith leaders. The new branch will be in charge of Leonard V. Finder, former assistant director in charge of student activities at the B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation at the University of Illinois. The annual closing luncheon meet¬ ing of the Rose E. Lazarus Sister¬ hood, whiqh will take place Tuesday, May 11, at 12;30 o'clock at thc Bry¬ den Road Temple, reports of the year's work of the various commit¬ tees will hc presented and the newly ejected board members installed. The reports will be embodied in an original musical s!j:it arranged by the siaterhood president, Mrs. Allan Gun¬ dersheimer, it\ which Mrs. Robert Levy and Mrs. Herbprt Wise will ap pear with the entire sisterhood board. Mrs, Marcus Burnstine will install the newly elected directors and Mrs. Jack Meyer will be in charge of the luncheon. Reservations at 50 cents per plate will be accepted at the Temple office until Sunday noon. The Schonthal | Center Sunday School will hold (ts confirmation ex¬ ercises tomorrow (iSiinday) May 0, at 0:30 A. M. Rabhi Hnrry Kaplan, Director of the B'nai B'rith Hillel l-oundatioii, will officiate. Dr. E. J. Gordon, President of the Schonthal Center Board, will present the Bibles itiul certificates. Fifteen students have uimplctcd the prj-scrihed curriculum in Jewish history, ceremonies, and cur¬ rent events. The Confirniatipn program is as follows; j Processional, CcAiiirmands; Opcmng Prayer, Zelda Bernice Kerstein; Serv- ite P. 173-178, Rhbhi and Congrcga- tifin; Floral OfFcl'ing, Carolyn Ruth Cohen; The Torah from Ark~Lecho Adonoy, Gilbert Marvin Zrscnuine; Reading from Torah in Hebrew, Pro¬ logue to the Ten Commandments, Isa¬ dore Berliner; First Cpmmaudnlent, Martin .Sowalsky; Second Command¬ ment, Morris Schlansky; Fifth Com- iiiandmciit, Sam Komcssar; Eighth Commandment, Ncal Callif; Return (if the Torah—"Etz Chayim," Adonoy, Adonoy, Vocal Solo~"Tllc Lord Is my Shep¬ herd," Reva Zuravsky Lipson, Ac¬ companist, Harry M. Rosen; Jewish Personalitics—Woinen in Israel, Goldie Center; Theodore Herzl, Norman Edward Green; Louis D. 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Fulton St.; Sarah Ite\.i Komessar (with honors), 322 17 Fulton St.; Harvey Paul Roland, 7SJ S. 18th St.; Bora Esther Uoseii- Md (with honors), 600 E, Rich St.; Morns Schlannky, G60 E. Fulton St,; Martin Sowalsky, 662 E. FuUoti St j Bernard Mnr- tin StrcKevaky, 281^4 E, LivinKnton Ave., I Oilbert Marvin Zisenwine; 609 S. 22iul St. I A reception in honor of the Con¬ firmands, parents, friends and teachers will be held at the Center from 3 to P. M. Sunday. B'nai B'rith Organizations Will Honor Mothers Monday Eve* The B'nai B'rith Au\niary, ttiHtthcr with Zion Lodge No 02, will honor tile niolhcrg of tliis land with appro¬ priate ceremonies at a "Mothers' Day Meeting", to be held next Monday e\cmiig, May lOth, in the Social Hall ut' the Broad St. Temple, at 8 o'clock. Dr. Donald H. Tippett, of'the Bexley AL E. Church, has aceepted thc invi tation tu deliver thc prhicipal address for this occasion. lie will speak on "Mothers and Ideals." Dr, Tippett is one of thc most able and respected members of thc ColumlAis clergy. As a personality in a cbss by himself, Dr. Tippett is bouiijHo set a new high mark in the cabl/cr of speakers who have addressey the B'nai -B'rith in tlie past. / Another featui'c of the evening's program will be a inenibership clas' known as thc "Mothers' Day liiitJatioii Class", which will be inducted into Zion Lodge on tliat night. Brother Ed Schlczinger, chairman, rciwrtb that the members of his degree team have now reached their best form of the year and expects them to i endcr an inspiring exemplification of the ritual¬ istic work oir thc order. Brother Aaron M. Neustadt will officiate as president of the degree tea^m, which also consists oi thc following; Broth¬ ers E^ Schlczinger, Dr. Sam, Swerd¬ low, Dr; Everett Blasberg, Edwanl Goodman ani Ben Ncustadt. The nieeting Monday evening is open to the public. A special invita¬ tion for this event is being extended to all B'nai B'rith members, their wives and friends, ' 51 Jewish Newspapers Establish Press Assn. What is no doubt a forwaul step in thc right direction, is thc announce¬ ment this week that 51 Jcwi-^h News¬ papers ha\c established the American Jewish Presb Association with Joseph Brainin,'actinR head, and headquarters ill New Vork City. Thc Ohio Jew¬ ish Chronicle is an A, J, P. A. mem¬ ber. ' Mr, Brainin is editor of the Seven Arts Feature Syndicate, which serves 16 papers hi the United States, four In Canada and one in South Africa. All newspapers served hy Seven Arts arc A. J. P. A, members. A. J. P. A. aims arc to broaden news-service, to stimulate commer¬ cial activities of cliartcr mcnibers, and to hold annual English-Jewish Press Week. A. J. P. A. is to be controlled di¬ rectly hy its member-publications, it is announced. ^ Abramson Perfects Medical Transmission Via Blood WASHINGTON, D. C, fWNS)- Elcctrical transmission of medicine in¬ to a patient's body by way of the skin is expected to become practical as the restilt of a n^w system of ionizing medicine developed by Dr. Harold A. Abramson of the hospital laboratories of Mount Sinai Hospital an New York. Reporting on his system to the American Physical Society, Dr. Abramson explained that this method would be valuable to medical science in cases where patients are unable to receive medication by mouth or injec¬ tion into the blood. Cent. Conference of Amer. Rabbis to Convene Here May 25-30 The Bryden Rd. Tt-mple \iill on May 25 through May 30 be host to the members of the Central Confer¬ ence of American Rabbis Jn their I8th Annual Convention for the first time in the history of the local comnnmity. The presence of this outstanding body of religious leaders should reflect great honbr and pride not only on the Temple, but Columbus Jewry as well. During its sessions this city will be "the center of national and international attention in the Jewish and non-Jewi.sh world. What will be reported by the committees and discussed on thp floor will be carried over the wires every¬ where. All the sessions of thc Conference will be open to the public. More particulars regarding this important conference will appear hi the forth¬ coming issues of the Chronicle. Jr. and Sr. A. A. Sisterhoods Mother-Daughter Dinner Tuesday Evening LaGuajrdia Gets Medal NEW YORK (WNS)-Affirniing his previous remarks about Nazism and Fascism, Mayor Fiorello H. La- Guardia said that "if I had deliberated I probably would not have said some of the things that I have said and do say and will continue to say, but what I have said I stand by," as he ac¬ cepted the 1936 American Hebrew medal for the promotion of under¬ standing between Christian and Jew. Expressing the hope that the time would come when medals would not have to be given for "doing something which is unnecessary," he pledged himself to continue the fight against bigotry and intolerance. Citing New York City as an example of a city whqre all races and creeds live to¬ gether in harmony, the Mayor de¬ clared that' the experience of New York is "proof that it is possible any¬ where." Asserting that "there is- no e.rsatz for justice," he said "persecu¬ tion of minorities anywhere in the world today is unnecessary," Other speakers included Henry Morgcnthau, Sr., who presided; Charies H, Tuttle, who m'ade the presentation; Samuel Unterniyer; Homer Rodehaver, evan¬ gelist; Mrs, Sidney A. Borg; Father Joseph N. Moody of Cathedral Col¬ lege ; and Louis Rittenberg and Joseph H. Biben, editor and publisher, respec¬ tively, of the American Hebrew. A Mother-Daughter Dinner will be given by the Senior and Junior Sister¬ hoods of the Agmdath Achim Cong, on Tuesday evening. May 11, at six o'clock in the social hall of the syna-* gogue. An elaborate program has been arranged by Miss Adeline Thall and Miss Jeanette Weisberg,^ co-chafrmen of the program, Mrs. S. Goldman, X>resident of the senior sisterhood will be toastmistress. The opening prayer will be given by Miss Adeline Thall. Mrs. M. Stetlc- man will render several vocal selec¬ tions. A Pantomime, coached by MisS Helen Gruber, will he presented. Meni'- bers ojE the cast include Misses Bessie Beckman, Eleanore Gordon, Elizabeth Rapenport, Norma Beckman, Rose Shenk, Esther Rosen and Dorothy Rapenport. An address will be given .by Allan Tarshish. Acqordion selections will be rendered by Master Stanley May¬ brook. The committee on the arrangements for the dinner includes the following: Mesdames E, M. Gordon, S. M, Erien, O. Berman, J. Modes, R. Wol¬ man, S. Ruben and S. Goldman. Res¬ ervations may bemade by calling Mrs. 1. Nutis. FA. 8887. or Miss Florence Erlen, FA. 7379. Weisskerz Re-elected Head Of Temple Brotherhood 6,000 Jews Ask King George. For Palestine Vi^s WARSAW (WNS)—Six thousand Polish Jews have signed a petition ad¬ dressed tp King George VI of Eng¬ land in which he is asked to celebrate his coronation by providing them with immigratioii visas to Palestine. The Polish War Veterans* branch in Soss- nowitz has excluded Jews from mem¬ bership. United Jubilee Producti6h Sunday Sr. Hadassati Board Meeting The Columbus Chapter of Senior Hadassah will hold its final board meeting of the season at the Schonthal Center on next Monday afternoon, at 2 o'clock, at which time the program and arrangements for the last regidar meeting will be discussed. Members of the board are urged to attend. J. D. C. Spent $3*000,000 on German Jews Since 1933 Over 150 members of the Bryden Rd. Temple Brotherhood attended the stag dinner party last Tuesday night at the Fort Hayes Hotel. It was a grand climax to the most successful season in the organization's history and resulted in thc re-election uf Sig L. Weisskerz, 800 Vernon Rd., president fpr a third term. Under Sig's'* leadership the officers and board members predict a membership of over 250 by the end of the year, Re-elected also were Max Herzberg, treasurer, Irwin Wolf, secretary, and Robert Schiff, Ben Newstadt and Robert Weiler, vice presidents. Two additional vice presidents, Lou Rosen¬ thal and I. W. Garek, also were elected. Members of the board of trustees are: Morris Cohen, Abe Dworsky, Dr, S. D, Edelman, Dr. Morris Goldberg, Leon J. Goodman, Dr, E. J. Gordon, Rabbi Samuel M, Gup, Al Harris, Dr. Lewis Harris, Sol Morton Isaac, Sid¬ ney Katz, Leonard Kohn, Sanford Lakin, Simon Lazarus, Robert Levy, Herman Licverman, M. M, Martlin, Lou Madison, Jack Myers, LeRoy Morris, L. S. Oppenheimer, Dr, Louis L. Praver, Dr. S, Rosenfeld, Milton Staub, Julius Steinhauser, Sam Shin¬ bach, E. J. Schanfarber, Abe Shu¬ stick, Dr. S. Swerdlow, Lester Thai; Herbert Wise, Marcus Wolf, Ken¬ neth Wasserman, Ahe Weinfeld, and Leo Yassenoff. PARIS <WNS)~The sum of $3,- 033,000 has been spent by the Joint Distribution Committee to i^id Jews in Germany and German Jewish refugees since 1033, it was announced here by Dr. Bernhard Kahii, European director. He also said that since 1933, 113,000 Jews have left.Germany, that 40,000 of those remaining are jobless and that an annual emigration of 12.- OOO to 20,000 per year js expected diiring the next four years. Jewish War Veterans to Meet Tuesday Evening Capital Post of Jewish War Vet¬ erans wiU^iold an important meeting next Tuesday, May 11, at 8 p. m., at Memorial Hall, Final plans for the dedication of the memorial plaque On which will be inscribed the names ol Pres. Roosevelt Awarded Gottheil Medal for Serv¬ ice to Jewry NEW YORK—The tenth award of the Richard J. H. Gottheil Medal for Distinguished Service to Jewry is to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The presentation will be made in Wash¬ ington at an early date to be fixed hy thc President, Thc announcement was made last night (Saturday) at ban- ipiets in forty cities throughout thc country, attended,by the alumni of the Zeta Beta Tan Fraternity to celebrate its annual Founders Day. In speaking for the Fraternity at its key dinner in the City of New York Harold Ricgetman, past presi¬ dent of the order and former special counsel to the Treasury Department, stated: "Our days are darkened by wide¬ spread acceptance in many lands of false and vindictive doctrines of hate, oppression and even extinction of minorities. When the chief executive of thc greatest of democracies, in suph times as these, repeatedly and unmis¬ takably affirms the right of free thought, free speech, free wOrship and repeatedly and unmistakably de¬ nounces intolerance aud bigotry in all places and in all forms, a great serv¬ ice is rendered all humanity, Of this service Jewry is the first but not the last or only beneficiary. Minorities everywhere throughout all time will have ciluse to remember that service with gratitude. And every individual is at some time in thc minority. ^ "Mindful of the transcendent im¬ portance of that service and that the sincerity of his heartening vindication of good will and human rights is at¬ tested by consistent conduct and prac¬ tice in his public and private life, the Trustees of the Richard J. H. Gott¬ heil Medal for Distinguished Service to JeWry^ announce the 1937 award to President FrankUn Delanb Roosevelt," The Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity, old¬ est and largest of the Jewish college fraternities, has a membership of fi,000 men and chapters on thirty-five cam¬ puses in thc United States and Canada. Its president is Herbert E. Steiner of New York City. The,a wards which are based on rec¬ ommendations of a i^ry^ of distin¬ guished American editors, none of whom are members of the fraternity, have included, among others, James G. McDonald, former High Commis¬ sioner for Refugees from Germany; Governor Herbert H. Lehman, the Reverend John Haynes Holmes,'Julius Rosenwald, Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Felix Warburg and the Pilgrimage Team of the National Conference of Jews and Christians, consisting of the Reverend Everett R. Clinchy, Father J. Elliot Ross and Rabbi Morris Lazaron. npOMORROW (Sunday) afternoon and night the United Jubilee will present the first all-Yiddish musical talkie ever to be filmed, "Yiddle With His Fiddle" at thc Hartman Theatre, As in the past, the proceeds will go for the benefit of the Columbus He¬ brew School. It's the same picture that thousands of followers of America's own dar¬ ling, Mollie Picon, flocked to New York to see when it had its premiere American -performance tiiere recently. Previously it had been shown in War¬ saw, Paris and Loudon. Although the dialogue features the stage's finest Yiddish, :Eiiglish translations will en¬ able everyone to glean the fullest measure of enjoyment from the pro¬ duction, . An added attraction of the Jubilcc'.s 1037 venture is the beautiful Valley Dale On Sunbury Road, which has been secured for the evening, and that admission would be free for those at¬ tending the Jubilee. Dancing will get under way at 10:30, arid both partici¬ pants iii the matinee performance, 2:30 Sunday afternoon, and thc evening fourteen Franklin County Jewish war showing at 8:00 o'clock, may attend dead, will be discussed. at no extra charge. Popeye, the sailor man, will be on deck for the kiddies' enjoyment, al¬ though the mighty spinach king could not be cajoled into speaking Yiddish for the occasion. "Gypsy Revels," blood-quickening extravaganza of stir¬ ring Russian choral, ballet, and instru¬ mental music, a history of motion pic¬ tures and a late edition of Paramount News, rounds out the program, A special surpriae is also promised. Reserved seats selling at $1.00 will be available at the Hartman' box oflice beginning 9:00 A. M. Saturday. Gen¬ eral admission will be 50c. The following organizations Itave tickets for distribution: Agudath Achim Senior Sisterhood, A. Z. A., B'nai B'rith Auxiliary, Bl. Z.B. Ezras Noshim Society, Gamma Tau, Hebrew School Board, Hillel, Ivreeyoh, Junior Hadassah, Tifereth Israel, Senior and Junior Sisterhoods, Voliner Society, Y. M. H. A- and many individuals. Everything has been done to make this year's United Jubilee one long to be remembered by Columbus Jewry. Obtain your reserved tickets to assure yourself of the best seats, and above all," hear in mind that "Yiddle With His Fiddle' 17 to Be Confirmed at the Bryden Rd. Temple May 16 Confirmation Services of the Bry¬ den Rd. Temple will be held on Sun¬ day morning. May 16, at 10:00 o'clock, in connection with the observance of the Festival of Shabuoth. The class, numbering 17, will consist of the fol¬ lowing pupils; Irvin Bayer, oG4 S, Champion Ave.; Jack Forman, 898 Berkeley Rd.; Bertha Fox, 1286 Wilson Ave.; Helen Friedman, 805 E. Fulton St.; Leon Goodman, 2175 E. Broad St; Irene Janice Grossman, 1550 E. Broad St.; Albert Gug|:gcnhetm, 33 S. Ardmore Rd.; Allen Gundersheimer, 42 Park Drive; Edwin Levin, C4 Bullitt Park Place; Sylvia Levison, 1613.Franklin .\vc.; Bobbette Levy, 78 S. Drexel Ave.; Majorie Levy, 78 S. Drexel Ave.; Harriet Lurie, 346 S. Drexel Ave.; Harry Miller, 594 Clark Ave.; Elaine Rosenthal, 2220 Collingwood Ave., Toledo, Ohio; Alene Ray Taus¬ sig, lo44 E, Broad St.; Richard G. Yali^an, 2662 E. Broad St. Norman Hapgood, Friend of East Side Jews* Dead NEW YORK (WNS)—Scores of distinguished New York Jews who were born and raised on the old East Side are mourning the death of Nor¬ man Hapgood, veteran liberal, social worker, editor and statesman, who as editor 6f Collier's Weekly was among the first writers to call general atten¬ tion to thc social problems of the East Side. Hapgood was an intimate friend of such East Side leaders as Morris Hillquit, Meyer London, Sophie Irene Loeb, Henry Moakowitz, Lillian D- Wald, Rose Pastor ^nd Emma (5old- man. In recent years he had been one of the leaders of the Pro-Palestine Federation. In a book he wrote sOrne neighborhood theatre! years ago he revealed that Dr, Charles will nol come to your i Eliot, president of Harvard, had urged I Louis D, Brandeis as his successor.
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'Maze: The treasure hunters' is revealed at ChangYou's media press conference in Beijing.
Maze is a FPS based shooting RPG and sets up battles between Relic Chaser and Treasure Hunter. Relic Hunter is the secret group trying to use the power of ancient relics for its own purpose. Treasure Hunter is the one who would stop them. The purpose of the game is adventuring through ancient ruins all over the world and defeating ancient monster to acquire treasures.
Users would fight against ancient monsters as well as disassemble traps that protect treasures. To achieve goals, a user needs to cooperate with other users.
The weapons and classes in the game are familiar with most FPS game users. Classes would be categorized as Scouter, Assaulter, Sniper, Heavy Trooper. However, characters gain experience points after killing monsters and improve his/her skills just like you have experienced in RPG.
'Maze: The treasure hunters' is developed by Dream Execution, the creator of online FPS game 'War Rock'.
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Rather than try to reinvent the solar cell, startup Thermata has engineered a high-tech mirror to cut the cost of solar power.
The company, incubated at Idealabs, has completed initial testing on a system executives say can cut the cost of sun-tracking mirrors, or heliostats, in half using cameras and other digital technologies. Thermata plans to start beta testing the heliostats this year with potential customers, which are concentrating solar power technology companies, and with Sandia National Laboratories.
Thermata typifies a new breed of green-technology startup which is targeting a specific niche in energy using technologies from other fields. Its system uses a camera to detect the angle of heliostats and a mesh network of microprocessors to position each mirror with the ideal tilt. In a concentrating solar power plant, thousands or even millions of heliostats concentrate light onto a tower to produce steam, which turns a turbine to generate electricity.
"Instead of using calculations and past knowledge to infer where the mirror is, we can physically measure the angle and control it explicitly," said CEO Terry Bailey. "We've use intelligence instead of steel."
Heliostats now used at concentrating solar power plants are heavy-duty pieces of equipment, mounted on pylons to withstand high winds and connected via wires to control their motion.
Thermata's system is designed to be smaller, lighter, and operate wirelessly. There are eight heliostats on a "pod" with the mirrors' motors operated by small, two-watt photovoltaic solar panels, explained Chief Technology Officer Brad Hines.
Each mirror is equipped with four small "diffusers," or small square mirrors raised above the surface of the heliostat. A camera placed at a distance and out of the glare made by the heliostat takes pictures of the diffusers. Based on the light pattern and intensity, it can determine its location and optimize the tilt, Hines said.
Each heliostat has a microprocessor with a Zigbee wireless chip in it. Those nodes create a mesh network to send information to a central computer which dispatches information on the best position.
"The fact that we can talk to these heliostats wirelessly is a big part of the technology and that technology has only really become available in the last three or four year," Hines said. "That, combined with the optical processing, is what enabled our invention."
Small is beautiful
Having a smaller heliostat means lower costs, which is significant since heliostats are about 40 percent of the cost in solar power plant.
The size means mirrors can be closer to the ground and require less-expensive mounting, Hines said. Gears can be made out of plastic, rather than steel, and the heliostats can be handled by two people, making installation simpler. "We've taken what was traditionally aerospace engineering and we've turned it into automotive," Hines said.
As for the camera and optics, Hines said that digital imaging has progressed so much, the company can get ample imaging processing for under $25 or $30 and built-in image stabilization means cameras can operate on poles which move in the wind.
It's still not clear that Thermata's system will satisfy concentrating solar power developers' demands, but those companies, such as BrightSource Energy and SolarReserve, do need to lower their costs.
The dramatic drop in the cost of solar panels has forced some plant developers to drop solar thermal systems in favor of solar photovoltaics. Thermata's heliostats can also be used for enhanced oil recovery, where steam is injected in used oil wells to stimulate more flow.
Thermata estimates its smaller, cheaper heliostats can take roughly $100 million off of a $600 million solar power plant construction cost, based on savings on heliostats, wiring, and labor. The key is making smaller, lighter devices, something which solar engineers have long desired but has been difficult to do.
"As you go bigger, you get taller and then the wind becomes a significant factor to the design. Then you need yet more precision, more weight, and stiffness -- it's an escalating problem," said Bailey. "This breakthrough allows us to go small and low."


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Archive for the 'Sam Says' Category
Sammy Says
I saw the new Nature Valley Nut Clusters at the grocery store today, and I thought they'd perhaps be good on oatmeal. Bought them, brought them home, and my older son found them and wanted to try them immediately.
He liked doing this quite a bit, though I think he got a bit mixed up about the difference between a review and a commercial. 😉 He'd love to do it again, so I may try to get his opinion – Live! From our kitchen! – on any new products or recipes on which he cares to give his opinion.


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22 Years After They First Met, Gay Dads and Their Four Children Fight DOMA To Keep Their Family Together
- At January 9, 2012
- By The DOMA Project
- In Current Cases, Mark & Frederic, News
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We are Mark and Frédéric.
After more than 20 years, four children, and three houses, we are still unsure of our future.
Like any other parents in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania where we live, we spend our days taking care of our family, making sure that our children are loved, happy, healthy and are learning the skills and values that will give them the most opportunities for a successful and fulfilling life.
And yet, as much as we have devoted our lives to our family and to each other, we do not enjoy what most families in America take for granted. Despite being legally married, and having become the parents of four wonderful children, our family can be torn apart at any time by my own government because of the Defense of Marriage Act and because of outdated immigration laws.
We are Mark, Frédéric, John, Claire, Jacob and Joshua.
Fred and I met in April of 1990 at a birthday party for a mutual friend. As I learned later, neither one of us wanted to attend the part on that particular night, but, somehow, we both were talked into it. I arrived with my friend Rebecca at the same time that Fred arrived with his friend, Steve. As we approached the entrance, Fred said hello to me in his thick French accent. I often joke saying that "he had me at allo." He held the door open for me that night.
After that, we spent most of the rest of the evening on the floor in the hallway simply talking about our lives. I found out that he had been in the country for the past year teaching at a university a couple hours away. By midnight, his crew was heading out. As we were saying goodbye, I leaned in and gently kissed him. I don't know what possessed me to do that. He looked shocked. After he left, I asked the host if Fred was gay, since almost everyone at the party was straight. The host responded "yes" and told me that Fred was planning on going into the priesthood. That didn't stop me from reaching out to him. I tracked him down at his university and sent him a card. We were able to meet again a few times before he went back to France two months later. And so began unbearable seven years of flying back and forth across the ocean as often as we could.
In 1997, Frédéric was hired at a local high school to teach French. We were finally together in the same country again, and we were both elated. In 1999, we stumbled across a house in Harrisburg that was condemned and boarded up. I fell in love with it. I had to convince Fred to buy it. We paid $1.00 for it and spent the next several months bringing it back to life. It was a labor of love. We literally built a home for ourselves. Ten years after we first met we were settling down and ready to start a family.
In April of 2000, we submitted our application to an adoption agency. They called us six days later to let us know that a boy was just born and asked if we would be interested. Nervously, we said yes. Our son, John, was born on April 20th, 2000. In July 2003, we were blessed again by the birth of our daughter, Claire.
In 2004, with Fred's work visa due to expire after he reached the limit of six years, he and his employer reached out to an immigration lawyer only to learn that they had acted too late to be eligible for any extension. We began to face the prospect, that we would be forced to leave the United States and move to France. It was very difficult for me to think of leaving my parents and my sister with severe MS, but we could not allow our children to be separated from one of their parents. Our highest priority was keeping our family together. So thinking that we were moving to France, we advertised the house for sale. We had a buyer within a couple of days. With only a few months to go, Fred was able to obtain a student visa to attend our local college. But it was too late to save the house. We moved into a rental. During this time, we experienced what so many gay binational couples come to feel: a growing sense of frustration with the blatant discrimination that prevents gay American citizens from sponsoring their partners, even when they are legally married. We were featured in the documentary, Through Thick and Thin, which profiled the experiences of a diverse group of binational couples. We felt then, as we do now, that we must stand up for our rights. We could not live on this roller coaster, without any way to plan a secure future for our family, and just sit on our hands and do nothing.
Also during that time, we found another condemned house and started renovations on that. We completed the renovations and moved into that in 2005. By 2007, with two kids in private school and Fred unable to work because of his status as a foreign student, money was running low. We decided that, once again, we had no choice but to sell the house into which we literally had poured our blood, sweat and tears. It was heartbreaking to lose our home. We sold the house quickly and purchased a much smaller house in a less expensive neighborhood so that we could keep going for as long as possible on one salary.
In 2008, we married in San Francisco, 18 years after we had first met. A French film crew came with us, and we became part of a film on gay life in America: This is Family.
On April 7, 2009, our 19th anniversary, we met our youngest sons, Jacob and Joshua who were four at that time. They easily blended into our family and overnight, we went from two children to four. We were a growing family, full of love and optimism about our future in every respect but one. A ticking clock grew ever louder, as we knew that Fred's student visa would eventually come to an end.
In the spring and summer of 2011, we were forced again to weigh our options. Now the proud (and sometimes exhausted) parents of four children, we were forced to look for a way to remain together in this country or else leave. We started to seriously consider moving to France. However, we quickly learned, that despite some advances in French law over the years, we were trapped. We could not stay in the United States (my country) and we could not move to France (Fred's country). We are unwanted by both. Although we are both the legal parents of four American children, and both the state and federal government recognizes our status as parents, it will not recognize our marriage because of the Defense of Marriage Act. According to the U.S. government, I am the father of our four children, and Fred is the father of the same four children, but we are legal strangers to each other. Our marriage, our nearly 22 years together, all of that amounts to nothing. Fred has no right to stay in the United States beyond the expiration date of his visa. And that day was rapidly approaching. At the same time, while France would recognize our relationship under its less-than-optimal Civil Solidarity Pact ("PACS"), and it may even permit me to reside in France legally as an immigrant on the basis of our relationship (but not our marriage), the French government refuses to recognize the adoption of our children, because under French law same-sex couples are prohibited from adopting children. We are trapped by U.S. law that refuses to see our marriage, and French law that refuses to see our children. We cannot continue to live this way, and we cannot be torn apart. .. so we decided to fight back.
Over the past years, we have built our entire lives in the U.S. All of our family and friends are here. Our children should not be put through the trauma of seeing one of their parents forced out of the country, nor should we be uprooted and turned into refugees searching for a third country that will take us in. It is an outrage that my own government has created this situation and allows it to persist, when it has the power to solve the problem both in the short-term with interim policy changes, and in the long-run by defeating DOMA. We are thankful that this administration is fighting DOMA in court alongside lesbian and gay couples. Those cases will hopefully bring an end one day to that law and its cruel, unnecessary impact. But we need the administration to help all LGBT families like ours today by putting in place policies that protect us.
This past summer we decided to join The DOMA Project and fight for full equality for our family. After many discussions with our lawyer, we decided that I would file a "green card" petition on behalf of Fred, as my spouse. We have done this because we cannot continue to exist from one visa to another, we cannot put our children through the stress, and we cannot allow the status quo, in which our future is so unstable, to continue. We believe that we must set an example for our children by living our lives in a way that assumes we are all equal.
On Wednesday, January 11, 2012, Fred and I will go to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Philadelphia to be interviewed in connection with the marriage-based immigration petition I filed last summer. We will go into that interview expecting to be treated equally. A USCIS officer will ask us about our marriage, review our evidence of cohabitation and commingled finances, and proof that that we have a marital relationship. We have dutifully compiled a pile of documents and photographs for review. We welcome the opportunity to be treated just like everyone else: to prove that our marriage is real. While we look forward to the interview, we have no illusions of what we are up against. We will prove that we are, in every way, qualified for Fred to receive a green card, but he will still be denied. And that is where the next stage of our fight will begin.
We have notified our elected officials and we will continue to fight for our case to be approved or, at the very least, held in abeyance, and not denied. We are painfully aware of the Obama administration's position that DOMA, despite being unconstitutional, must be enforced. We know that President Obama believes that DOMA prevents the Immigration Service from "recognizing" our marriage. Even so, there is no reason that our marriage cannot be respected and our family protected. We need bold leadership to create remedies that keep all families together. Our four children, John, Claire, Jacob and Joshua, deserve no less.
Mark Himes blogs about his family at Our Simple Lives…A Daddy, a Papa and their four children.
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Josphine Worrell
This is discrimination and not allowed in Britain. Move across the pond !January 9, 2012
Mary M
My thoughts and prayers are with you all, my common sense interceed I used to be one of the those gun hoe people always in the forefront of fighting for change now for health I would and do stay behind the scene so to speak yet at the same time creating awarness where ever I can and highlighting our issues because it is sad to say even in our GLBT community the issues of same-sex binational couples are not important to some. May all go wellJanuary 9, 2012
The world is fucked up. You guys…you deserve to have your marriage recognized and you should be able to keep your family in tack. Best of luck.January 9, 2012
julie parkinson
ur family look beautiful love is love no matter what much peace and happiness to u and urs for 2012 xxxxJanuary 9, 2012
Debbie Ross
My thoughts will be with you guys and your children. My partner and I potentially face the same situation. The choices bi-national couples face are sometimes difficult and yet with a simple stroke of his pen President Obama could issue an executive order and resolve this issue.January 9, 2012
Good luck to you and your family. My wife and I are also fighting DOMA. I am a 100% disabled Veteran. I have an appeal in to the Veterans Board of Appeals. I've been trying to get the VA to recognize my wife as my legal spouse and have her added to my claim. Of course, they have denied my claim because the legal definition of a spouse according to the Code of Federal Regulations is "a member of the opposite sex". I hate DOMA. It need to be repealed NOW!January 9, 2012
Beth Buccaroni
Lets fight for our brothers and their children.January 9, 2012
Victoria Difortuna
You are a beautiful family.
I hope one day to become a mother.
Why gay couples still discriminated in USA?January 9, 2012
Hi Mark, this is a powerful article. I'll be on your side on February 11, sending all the good thoughts I can your way.January 9, 2012
Renee fruiht
Your vision and your ability to create a life of joy makes us all stronger and more hopeful. Thank you!January 9, 2012
Robert Gordon
You have our full support! We hope and pray that your case will be approved and that your family will be able to stay together.
My husband (from Belgium) and I (American) have been going through very similar circumstances. We can not live in the US as our legal Belgian marriage is not recognized by the US government. So, we can only visit and never live in my home country where I was born and am a citizen. My new "home country" is Belgium where we can live with no worries of being deported.
Let's defeat DOMA!January 10, 2012
Thank you all for your kind words and support. We'll need it on Wednesday in Philadelphia. And I wish all of you, who are struggling too, the best of luck.
Your Friend, m.(Mark Himes)January 10, 2012
My prayers are with you and yours.January 10, 2012
Yiscah Bracha
Good luck in court tomorrow. You deserve it.January 10, 2012
Best of Luck today! I hope that your fight is a success! There is no good reason why anyone, in this country, or anywhere in the world, should be denied the right to the pursuit of happiness! While I feel all people have a right to their opinions, I do not feel they have a right to demand that everyone else live their lives according to those opinions. Everyone should have a right to live the way they feel is right for themselves. Your family looks safe, happy and loved and that's all that should matter to our government!January 11, 2012
Many thoughts, prayers and well-wishes from Idaho. I pray that your lovely family will be allowed to stay together – if you have to move away to another country the US is losing out.January 11, 2012
Ashley Carnes-Carelock
My thoughts and prayers are with your family! Mr. Deloizy was one of my favorite and most memorable teachers at McDevitt. You're absolutely amazing parents and it kills me to think that the government is tearing your beautiful family apart.
It's amazing to me how this country refuses to recognize a marriage based on love when it involves two people of the same sex. At the same time, it seems as though we praise the absurdity of fly-by-night weddings that end in divorce less than 3 months later. Good people, good parents who love their children and each other are suffering and DOMA is letting it happen. I wish you the best!January 12, 2012
Mark and Fred, a couple for over twenty years, married for two, epitomise everything that is good and wholesome, not only about a gay relationship, but about marriage itself. The only difference between them and a monogamous heterosexual couple raising children is that these parents are of the same gender.
Mark and Fred adopted four children who had all been discarded, for whatever reason, by their heterosexual biological parents. Such gay couples who might otherwise be childless are providing a hugely valuable social resource, because they actually want and love the children they care for, children who would otherwise languish, abandoned in orphanages.
So, let the holier-than-thou religionists turn such families away if that's all they're good for, they will drown soon enough in their own hypocrisy and vainglorious introversion. When it comes to the state however, it will have done its job properly when it grants equal status to all its parents.
As for adoption, we should remember that this is not about any "right to adopt", it is children who have the greater right – to have someone to look after them, someone to love, and someone to love them. The fact that there are so many homeless children in orphanages in the first place, shows that not all heterosexual parents have proved to be up to the task.January 12, 2012
My husband and I are working on our first adoption right now. Every story like this tugs at my heart strings. When we were getting married, we often remarked how unfairly easy it was for us because we happen to have different genders. I have, sadly, been reminded about the inequality for same sex couples almost every day since. Mark and Fred – all of my best thoughts are with you. I wish I could help more, but I offer this blog post in your honor – http://www.sweetlittlenest.com/2012/01/13/dad-challenges-green-card-status-to-stay-in-u-s-with-his-family/January 13, 2012
This story really touched me. You are so brave to continuously share your story with all of us. It's people like you that will eventually help to turn this world around and help people open their eyes to new alternatives, and to accepting everyone as an equal. I wish you and your family the very best on your journey, and meanwhile will continue to follow this story closely and do whatever I can to help spread the word…hopefully we will see a change soon. Much love and support to all of you.January 15, 2012
Please continue to stay brave and strong in your fight. Your story is so heartwarming and clearly highlights the need to address the injustice of the current policy.January 17, 2012
I am hopeful for a positive resolution and at the same time saddened to be commenting on this. It is hard to believe that in 2012 these are the issues that are threatening to brake a family apart. You have my support!January 19, 2012
We are in the same situation. We start and end our days with our love that gets stronger each day and the fear and the suffering we go through because of inequalty.
I cannot imagine what these religious christians pray about, these republican politicians feel when they watch situations like ours.
What was Clinton thinking when he signed these, what were the politicians thinking when they passed this? Where are they now? Are they laughing and celebrating and praying to God for our miseries?January 19, 2012
I see Mark and Fred's kids. Without prejudice to straight parents, these kids I can tell will be very stable and compassionate kids because of the love and the parenting passion their parents raise them with given the struggles and burdens they face.
The trails they face fuel their hearts to love their children more and hold on to them as Catholics, Christians,Muslims, and the many Religious people, Presidents and presidential candidates, republicans, prayerful people, NOM and the other God chosen parties try to tear them apart. These kids will be resilient kids, the future leaders of a country and people ruled by bigotry and money.January 19, 2012
I'll pray that you and your family can stay together. You are living proof why the DOMA needs to be defeated.January 20, 2012


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TOWN OF NEWBURGH — Dynegy will sell its Roseton and Danskammer power plants to separate buyers for a total of $23 million, according to papers filed Monday in the company's bankruptcy case.
Danskammer would be retired and demolished as part of one deal. The mostly coal-fueled plant — the No. 1 polluter in Orange County in 2010 — was rendered inoperable by flooding during Superstorm Sandy.
Dynegy has said the plant requires $375 million in environmental upgrades to comply with regulations. Even before Sandy hit, there were no bidders interested in operating it, said Dynegy spokeswoman Katy Sullivan.
Roseton, which runs mainly on cheaper, cleaner natural gas, will continue to operate.
It will be sold to Louis Dreyfus Highbridge Energy, headquartered in Stamford, Conn., for $19.5 million. The company, which in October was acquired by a number of private investment vehicles and independent investor groups, will pay the outstanding taxes on the property.
ICS NY Holdings, a division of Interstate Construction Services in Phoenix, will pay $3.5 million for Danskammer, and will be responsible for razing the plant and remediating environmental issues on the land.
ICS will be responsible for all taxes on the site that come due next year. Dynegy will pay all overdue taxes, Sullivan said.
ICS will likely sell whatever scrap metal it recovers from Danskammer, Sullivan said.
"I don't know what they're doing beyond that," she said.
ICS may be barred from building another power plant on the site, pending negotiations with LDH.
The vacant Danskammer site could be used as a terminal for a transmission line, helping ease energy bottlenecks in downstate New York, said Matthew Cordaro, an advisory board member of the New York Affordable Reliable Electricity Alliance. A transmission line terminal technically is not a power plant, he said.
In total, Dynegy is currently about $24 million in arrears to the Town of Newburgh, Orange County and Marlboro School District.
It is unclear when the money will actually be paid. It will take a couple of months for the sales to close, Sullivan said.
It is also unclear how the sales will affect Dynegy's pending legal challenges to its 2012 assessment. The power company filed papers this summer seeking to have its assessments for 2012 lowered 90 percent, claiming the plants had a market value of $64.9 million. Dynegy paid $903 million for the plants about 12 years ago.
LDH, the buyer of Roseton, agreed to honor the terms of Dynegy's expired contract with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 320, as modified by Dynegy's Nov. 7 contract offer. The union did not agree to that offer when it was proposed, and more than 100 workers have been on strike since then.
The union had hoped to work under its existing contract with Dynegy during the nearly month-long sales process, and then renegotiate with a new owner. IBEW President John Kaiser did not return a phone call before deadline Monday.
LDH will be responsible for any severance obligations for Roseton employees who are not rehired, according to the sale papers.
Marlboro residents have been organizing grassroots organizations, urging Dynegy to pay its overdue taxes and the school district to trim its budget.
Steven Markle, a founder of Marlboro Community Concerns, reeled upon hearing the sale price for Danskammer and Roseton. He's worried that future skyrocketing taxes will push residents out of Marlboro.
"Our town is going to turn into a ghost town," he said.


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Hey everyone! I just wanted to highlight a great project that the Guild Wars 2 artist community has participated in – the unofficial Wintersday calendar! Fans from GW2Guru and GWOnline have come together to create a themed advent calendar for the community. Each day a new piece of art is revealed so make sure to visit each day!
It looks like they're still taking submissions so if you'd like to participate, please contact Perynne by email and make sure to check out the thread here on Guru!


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The Influence of Water Quality Upon Recovered Diatoms
The focus of my research is the recovery and identification of diatoms from the sediments of three reservoirs located in the northwestern section of South Carolina. The quantity and types of diatoms recovered are used to assess differing water qualities. I am being assisted by Dr. John Hains at Clemson University.
Two of the reservoirs, the North Saluda and Table Rock Reservoirs are pristine impoundments entirely owned and operated by the Greenville Water System. They are totally off limits for any access or use by the public and serve as two of three water sources for the Greenville Water System.
The third reservoir, Lake Hartwell, is a federal impoundment managed by the Savannah District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Built between 1955 and 1963 and covering an area of 56,000 acres with a shoreline of 902 miles, the lake was initially constructed for the purpose of flood control. It is now used for the generation of hydro power, recreation (used by millions throughout the year), fish and wildlife management, as well as contributing to the local water supply. It is subject to both urban and rural intrusion.
Diatoms (a class of algae known as the Bacillariophyceae) are found in both freshwater and marine habitats. The diatom shells, known as frustules, are composed of two halves of highly silicified cell walls which overlap. The frustules can be found in an almost endless array of dots called punta, ribs called costae and fissures. These and other patterns of external ornamentation are used to separate diatoms into genus and specie. The basic configurations are the Centrales, which have a circular, pillbox‐structure and the Pennales which are ovate to elongate in their structures.
As diatoms die off, they sink and accumulate in the sediment. The accumulation of frustules is, in essence, a record of diatom activity in the life of the lake, over time. From the cleaned sediments recovered from the three different water sources, one can correlate the mix of diatom genus and species to water quality over time, including such factors as nutrient loading of nitrates and phosphates from rural and urban sources.
Lately, I have had the task of identifying the diatoms to name and specie. This involves a lot of textbook review and time, but is rewarding and enjoyable. The structures one sees at 1250 powers of magnification are phenomenally beautiful! With enough data, I should be able to draw conclusions about the effect of water quality on diatom populations.
Marion Freeman, RM(NRCM), Spartanburg, SC, was certified by the NRCM in 1979.
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When: Saturday, April 27, 2013, 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Beginning at 7:30 a.m. rain or shine, the annual Master Gardeners of Greene County plant sale attracts thousands of area gardeners. Most plants are priced from $2 to $5, and some extraordinary specimens are $20.In addition to perennials and vegetables, the inventory includes house plants, herbs, bulbs, grasses, vines, ground covers, shrubs and trees, potted up and donated from Master Gardener gardens.
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When: Saturday, April 27, 2013, 9 a.m. to 9:15 a.m.
This radio program is intended to educate viewers on a wide range of topics related to gardening in the Ozarks. Morris Westfall conducts the interview with Patrick Byers, MU Extension-Greene County regional horticulture specialist. The program airs several times on Saturday and Sunday on radio stations KWTO, KTXR, and KBFL.
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BET Awards 2013: Fashion Winners and Losers
Kendrick Lamar, Nicki Minaj, and Jamie Foxx were among the winners at last night's BET Awards 2013. The show included performances from Minaj, Miguel, Justin Timberlake, Robin Thicke, Chris Brown and others. But a lot of the attention, as with most awards shows, was on what people were wearing, with Meagan Good and Miguel among the celebrities setting Twitter abuzz with their fashion choices. Here's a look at the night's most glamorous, outrageous and courageous outfits. What do you think? Leave your thoughts about BET Awards fashion in the comments.


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Metascore®Mixed or average reviewsbased on a weighted average of allcritic review scores.
It's hard to sustain that cheeky meta humor, and the film seems to just give in and join its slasher brethren, devolving into a string of gruesome, but unoriginal, slayings.
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The generational mix of actors works well enough, although Campbell too often seems stranded with little to do until the climax.
Some of the riffs are really funny and/or expertly scary. Others have the feel of awfully snappy dialogue crafted by middleaged people trying a little too eagerly to sound like the young people from whose mouths the banter flows.
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Ghostface killer returns for more bloody slayings.
What Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that the long-awaited fourth installment in the popular Scream slasher series is ultra-gory but as smart and self-aware as the previous movies. There's tons of blood and gore (stabbings, visible intestines, and more) and lots of strong language (including multiple uses of "f--k" and "s--t"), and one sequence shows heavy teen drinking. There's also some flirting and almost kissing, but sex isn't a big issue. In one update from the original films, the movie's teen characters now spend a lot of time on social media (Facebook is mentioned once). Teens are quite likely to want to see this one, but parents should take the R rating seriously.
Messages: Most of the teens in this movie behave at least somewhat badly. They swear, drink, and flirt, and they spend too much time with social media. And even the grown-up characters seem to have used their bad experiences for personal gain.
Role models: Most of the movie's characters aren't intended to be role models, but Sidney continues to exhibit heroic tendencies and bravery. In one scene, she rushes into danger to try to save a teen. And Dewey is still a model citizen, showing bravery, leadership, and integrity.
Violence: Tons of blood -- pumping, gushing, gurgling, spraying, and splattered on walls. One victim even has her intestines on display. Many gory, vivid stabbings and a few shootings, and at least a dozen dead bodies. Also several fights, and characters are often tossed about, slammed, and battered.
Sex: The teen characters are aware of their sexuality, but it's not often discussed in detail or shown. Two teens flirt and almost kiss, but they're interrupted. Teens talk about romantic relationships, but without any physical or sexual details.
Language: Strong, frequent language includes many uses of "f--k" and "s--t" in various permutations, plus "bitch," "t-ts," "for God's sake," "t-ts," "a--hole," "douche," "eat me," "ass," "hell," "damn," "oh my God," "goddamn," and "d--k."
Consumerism: Facebook is mentioned in one scene.
Drinking, drugs and smoking: Teens are seen drinking hard liquor to the point of drunkenness during a party.
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I have historically had several servers at Layered Tech. They recently raised their prices, and the prices for several friends who have hosted servers there. The majority of our use is low volume, experimental sorts of things, and so we decided to go in together on a larger box that we could virtualize.
Enter Voxel, who offer a $199/mo dedicated server that includes:
- Quad XEON 2Ghz
- 320GB SATA disk (which are growing more standard among these providers, but a lot of options are still IDE
- SSH-accessible serial console access included
That last one is a serious nod to their foresight and a judo chop to other providers. Layered Tech overs a KVM solution as a $30 or $35/day rental. Voxel automatically includes it.
Anyhow, with this beefy box, we set about setting up Xen. Voxel's support was admirable when my initial xen install broke the serial console access. It turned out my /etc/grub.conf needed a change:
title CentOS (2.6.18-53.1.21.el5xen) root (hd0,0) kernel /xen.gz-2.6.18-53.1.21.el5 com1=9600,8n1 module /vmlinuz-2.6.18-53.1.21.el5xen ro root=LABEL=/ console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600 panic=100 module /initrd-2.6.18-53.1.21.el5xen.img
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Without the com1= line, it defaulted to 38400.
Anyhow, with that done, I got to work actually setting up Xen virtual server instances. The host box (aka the Dom0) is CentOS, and so the "easy" install should be another instance of virtualized CentOS, although any variant should be usable. I tried to use virt-install, but it failed miserably.
First, I had issues with networking. Even when I resolved those, halfway through anaconda installing packages, the system crashed.
Ultimately, I settled on doing it manually using this guide to installing CentOS DomUs on a CentOS Dom0.
Caveats for me included the fact that my bridge was virbr0 instead of xenbr0. I have a xenbr0, it just wasn't the correct bridge for RFC1918 going out...
Anyhow, aside from the networking problems, that went fairly smoothly. (Although the top of the guide has you selecting from i386 or x86_64, and the kickstart config just says i386, so I had to restart to correct that, since I was doing the x86_64 install.
Still on the agenda: getting a real IP address. Voxel offered a reasonable extra 8 IPs for $4/mo, and we'd like to ensure each VPS has its own IP address, not 192.168 addresses that translate.
Still, this has been a pretty fun thing so far. I've heard that Xen is what Amazon is using to provide AWS, and I've been learning a lot of new linux tools (like brctl; I'd never had a reason to do linux bridging prior to now, even though I've done it plenty with networking devices).


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Former Derry woman sentenced for setting three firesBy JAMES A. KIMBLE
Union Leader Correspondent
March 20. 2013 10:12PM
BRENTWOOD - A former Derry woman was sentenced to two to four years in state prison on Wednesday for setting three fires inside her condominium complex.
Cheryl Wheaton, 57, of Salem, Mass., pleaded guilty to three counts of arson in superior court, claiming she set the blazes so that police and neighbors would pay attention to other crimes - including a gun incident - that happened in the building.
Wheaton claimed on Wednesday she was abusing alcohol and suffering from bipolar disorder at the time.
The fires happened at the Hillside Estates Condominiums in Derry in July, August and October of 2011.
Judge N. William Delker said he could not ignore that Wheaton set fires during three separate occasions.
"You placed a lot of people in danger of their lives and property," Delker said. "You caused extreme havoc in this case."
Defense lawyer William Gilmore argued that his client was living in a "high crime area" and continued to be neighbors with a man who pleaded guilty to assaulting her. Gilmore described Wheaton's acts as a way to draw attention - and hopefully a police presence - to her building.
"These are fires that were very unsophisticated in their preparation," Gilmore said. "All three fires were actually extinguished prior to the fire department's arrival."
He said after the fires Wheaton was diagnosed as bipolar and now wanted to take responsibility for her actions.
Assistant County Attorney Brad Bolton argued for a three- to six-year prison sentence, saying the assault report arose out of an argument over gardening behind the condominium building.
The neighbor who assaulted Wheaton pleaded guilty in that case, but Wheaton began changing her details of her account while being re-interviewed by police, Bolton said.
Derry police also investigated an incident of a gun being fired at the complex in 2010.
"Given all that, that's not a rationale for setting fires," Bolton said. "People were on edge there for quite a while."
Members of the condominium association even hired their own private security detail in the wake of the blazes, according to Bolton.
Delker said it's unlikely that Wheaton, a grandmother of seven, would re-offend once she is released from prison.
But the judge concluded that a prison term was necessary to show others that such behavior would not be tolerated by the criminal justice system.
"One of the reasons you apparently felt that you needed to resort to this was because you thought criminal justice system did not effectively deal with these issues," he said.
Wheaton also received a pair of suspended sentences, both five to 10 years each, that will remain suspended over the next decade so long as she remains on good behavior.


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26 U.S. Code Subchapter E - General Provisions Relating to Distilled Spirits
A prior subchapter E, Industrial Alcohol Plants, Bonded Warehouses, Denaturing Plants, and Denaturation, consisted of part I, Industrial Alcohol Plants, Bonded Warehouses, and Denaturing Plants and part II, Denaturation, and consisted of sections 5301 to 5320 and 5331 to 5334, respectively, prior to the general revision of this chapter by Pub. L. 85–859, title II, § 201, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1313.
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We the people of the State of New York, both law abiding and free, being the whole of the Unorganized Militia of the State of New York do hereby demand the repeal of the New York Safe Act as well as any other state law infringing on our right to keep and bear arms. These laws are both repugnant to the spirit and intent of the US constitution and are unlawful. Each day these laws are in effect is another violation of our rights as citizens of the United States, and the State of New York.
These laws, especially the New York Safe act are a direct violation of the Second Amendment which specifically protects the right of the people to posess without restriction the standard shoulder arm of the United States Military (or the equivilent) . In order for the people as a whole to be as well armed and as capable as the average US Soldier. This amendement's entire purpose was to ensure that a standing army, motivated by political agendas contrary to the public good and the values on which this country was founded, may, by force of arms, or the threat thereof, be kept in check. This can only be done if the whole people have access to arms, ammunition and ammunition feeding devices similar, if not identical or even superior in quality and workmanship to that of the average US Soldier's issued service rifle. Know that we feel this liberty carries with it a grave resposibilty to assist in the defense of the State and consider this responsibilty to be as important and as legally binding as other such civic resposibilities such as Jury Duty.
We respect the right of those in office to hold opinions, even those contrary to the will of the people; however, it does not give officials, elected or otherwise the right to infringe on rights of the people. Therefore we the people will accept no less than the repeal of all of these laws as each one passed is a gateway to the next. They compound the affront to our liberties and our good character as law abiding American Citizens and and loyal citizens of the State of New York
In closing, we strongly urge you to give in to our demands at your earliest convenience.
The People of the State of New York
Shawn Merritt
This petition closed almost 4 years ago
The ability of the people to keep and bear arms is a civic resposibility, one that keeps our country free and safe from tyranny, foreign invasion and lawlessness. The New York Safe Act, and other...
The ability of the people to keep and bear arms is a civic resposibility, one that keeps our country free and safe from tyranny, foreign invasion and lawlessness. The New York Safe Act, and other gun control measures strip us of the ability to carry out our lawful function as members of the Unorganized Militia.


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Thursday, November 11, 2010
Forthcoming historical novels for 2011
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Hmm. well I hope there is more coming out this year than that or else its going to be a dull year for me. Hardly any Victorian stories, a ton of mysteries(which I dislike) and stuff that just doesnt interest me.ReplyDelete
There are a few I'll read but not the usual number.
Oh, how exciting, thank you! Subjects and locations that drew my attention and put the novels on my immediate Jan/Feb list: the Dreyfus Affair (seminal event in European history), 9th century Baghdad ("1001 Nights meets Sherlock Holmes"), the Pyrenees (too often overlooked except by mediaevalists interested in the Cathars)...ReplyDelete
I am grateful for HNS's addition of descriptions to the listing of titles and authors. It serves both as a time-saver and an inspiration.
Thanks, I appreciate all the comments, esp. as the list took a few days to pull together (way too many publishers' catalogs to sift through!).ReplyDelete
Funny you should mention the ones you did, Danielle, as the Dreyfus Affair and Pyrenees novels were ones I'd planned on highlighting!
That is a funny - and fun - coincidence, Sarah!ReplyDelete
Publishers like to publish novels about Tudor England as much (if not more so) as authors like to write about it. I just found your Poe blog, Undine - it's a great site. Good to hear about the Hart novel. A long time ago I read a novel about Poe's wife by Anne Edwards, Child of Night, which I recall being pretty dreadful.ReplyDelete
I like how Sourcebooks typesets older novels anew before they do their reprints, rather than using the old plates. It gives the books a fresh look on the interior as well. Not all places do that.
Cat, glad to hear you enjoy the list!
Wow! Thanks for putting the list together. There are a number of books on it that I'll be adding to my wish list.ReplyDelete
You're welcome, happy you find the list useful! Still working on a visual preview of selected titles and hope to have that up within the next week.ReplyDelete
I know, the covers are always a big enticement for me to buy!ReplyDelete


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KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia — Shaun White lost to a kid they call the "I-Pod," and now, he may never hear the end of it.
An Olympic shocker this was. How big? White, the best snowboarder of his era, didn't even win a medal. He finished fourth.
The 27-year-old American, who opted out of the Olympic slopestyle debut and put all his chips in the halfpipe, where he hoped to win a third straight gold medal, got knocked off by Iouri Podladtchikov, the Russian-born inventor of the trick that White could not master.
"He's incredible," American snowboarder Danny Davis said of Podladtchikov. "That run on that halfpipe. Wow."
The Japanese pair of Ayumu Hirano and Taku Hiraoka won silver and bronze, and the Americans were shockingly shut out on the halfpipe for the first time since the sport was introduced to the Olympics in 1998.
I-Pod's trick is called the "Yolo" — You Only Live Once — and when Podladtchikov, who now lives in and competes for Switzerland, landed it successfully at an event in Europe last season, White watched on his computer and knew what he had to do next.
He landed it twice in qualifying events leading up to the Olympics and was listed as the heavy favorite in sports books to become only the seventh person to win three straight in an individual event at the Winter Games.
But this has been a stressful few months for the world's most famous snowboarder, and when he pulled out of the inaugural slopestyle contest, saying he didn't want to risk injury for his historic quest on the halfpipe, the stakes were set.
It unraveled early.
White's first attempt at the Yolo ended with a fall straight on his backside. For some reason, he tried to pull off another of his double-cork tricks but missed that, too — his board and backside getting caught on the lip of the pipe in an awkward and certainly painful fall.
I-Pod had scored an 86.5 in his first run — clearly in medal contention — and then came the run that won it. The trick includes a total of 1440 degrees of spin — two head-over-heels flips and two 360-degree turns. Four years ago, it was unthinkable, but not anymore. He landed it and even though he only threw five tricks, when most riders were trying six in a supersized, super-slushy halfpipe, the judges liked what they saw.
As did I-Pod, who spiked his snowboard into the ground like a football.
It put huge pressure on White, whose final runs at the last two Olympics have been nothing more than pressure-free victory rides.
He didn't fall, but rather skittered down the pipe on his Yolo landing. The landing on his last double cork was less than perfect, too — his knees buckled and nearly touched the snow. White raised one finger in the air and raised his hands in victory. Yes, sometimes judges reward athletes for what they've done, not what they just did.
Not this time. White's fourth-place score, a 90.25, came up, and he broke into a big smile. He gave Podladtchikov a big hug and fatherly mussed his hair. That kid earned it. And the champion had nothing to complain about.


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On Wednesday, October 10, 1962, the New York Yankees took a 3 games to 2 lead over the San Francisco Giants in the World Series. The Yankees accomplished this by coming from behind to win Game 5 by a score of 5-3.
Game 5 was supposed to be played the previous day, but rain postponed it. This meant that both starting pitchers, Jack Sanford and Ralph Terry, would pitch with four days of rest.
Sanford had shut out the Yankees on 3 hits in Game 3, and he shut them out for three more innings on this day. Meanwhile, the Giants scored a run in the top of the third inning. Chuck Hiller knocked it in with a double that scored Jose Pagan.
The Yankees finally scored off of Sanford in the bottom of the fourth. Tom Tresh led off with a double and advanced to third on a Roger Maris groundout. From there he scored on a wild pitch.
But the Giants regained the lead in their very next plate appearance, a home run by Pagan. The shortstop had hit only 7 homers during the season, while batting a modest .259. However, he was now 7-12 in this Series.
The Yankees tied the game in home half of the sixth inning, again without the benefit of an RBI and this time without the benefit of a ball hit beyond the infield. Bobby Richardson led off with an infield single. Tresh bunted him second. Richardson moved to third on a groundout by Mantle, and scored on a passed ball by Tom Haller.
The score was still 2-2 when the Yankees batted in the bottom of the eighth. Both starters were still in the game. Yankee manager Ralph Houk allowed Terry to lead off the inning. Sanford struck out his opposite number, but then Tony Kubek and Richardson both singled to put runners on first and second.
With Tresh at the plate, Giants manager Al Dark kept the faith with Sanford. It was not rewarded. Tresh smashed a three-run homer. Yankees 5, Giants 2.
The Giants rallied in the ninth. McCovey singled to lead off, and after Felipe Alow struck out, Tom Haller doubled "Stretch" home. Now, the score was 5-3 and the tying run, in the form of the hot-hitting Pagan, was at the plate with one out.
Houk kept the faith with Terry, and was rewarded. Terry retired Pagan on a grounder and pinch hitter Ed Bailey on a line drive to right. As we will see, Houk was only scratching the surface of his faith in Ralph Terry.
The two runs scored by the Yankees without an RBI had made the difference. New York now needed to win only more game, and would have two shots to do it, as the Series moved back to San Francisco.