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The NY Eagle News | July 11, 2013
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E
very year since 2005,
the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School
of Marine and Atmospheric
Science has hosted an underwater photography contest for
amateurs. Here are a few of
this year's winning entries:
— Austin Gallagher of Florida won third place in the student category for a portrait of
an oceanic white tip shark that
was spotted near Cat Island in
the Bahamas.
— Marcello DiFrancesco
of Italy earned second-place
honors in the Fish or Marine
Animal Portrait category for
his image of a greater blueringed octopus that he encountered near Malapascua
Island in the Philippines.
— Pietro Cremone, also of
Italy, had the third-best wideangle shot, showing raccoon
butterflyfish and angelfish
on a reef in the Red Sea near
Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
— Kyle McBurnie of California took the photo judged
to the best overall in the competition. It shows a harbor seal
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Annual Contest Brings Striking
Photos To The Surface
Kyle McBurnie of California won best overall in the photo competition with his picture
of a harbor seal at Cortes Bank near San DIego. (Photo credit: Kyle McBurnie.)
PHOTOS PAGE 15
Companies Actively
Recruit Disabled to
Broaden Diversity,
Gain Loyalty
By Jeanna Smialek
Bloomberg News
By Eli Saslow
The New York
Eagle News/The
Washington Post
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A
ngela Mackey says
she struggled to
land a job, even with
a master's degree earned
with top grades, as employers focused on her cerebral
palsy instead of her qualifications.
So Mackey, 37, who once
sent out 250 resumes without
success, regards her current
job as a personal triumph. She
holds a managerial position
at Walgreen Co.'s Anderson,
S.C., distribution center, hiring and performing human
Driving Away Hunger:
Food Bank Tries
Delivering Lunches
“Working at Walgreen’s lets me show what I can accomplish. I am not just a woman
with cerebral palsy,” say Angela Mackey, career outreach coordinator, shown last
month at the company's distribution center in Anderson, S.C. (Bloomberg News
photo by Michael Schwarz).
resource work for the 500-employee workplace.
"Growing up having a disability, I was not an athlete, I
never was a beauty queen, the
playing field was not equal,"
said Mackey, who landed her
role in 2006. "Working at Wal__________________
DISABLED PAGE 10
t was the first
day of summer
in a place where
summers had become
hazardous to a child's
health, so the school
bus rolled out of the
parking lot on its newest emergency route.
It passed by the
Kids make their way off the bus after eating lunch on the Lunch Express bus. Scores of poor
church steeples of children are served lunch each weekday in the areas around Greeneville, Tenn. as The Lunch
downtown Greenev- Express bus visits trailer parks and housing developments in the summertime. (Washington Post
ille, Tennessee and photo by Michael S. Williamson.)
curved into the blue
gravel. On the dashboard of den," it read, and this bus had
hills of Appalachia. The high- the bus, the driver had posted been dispatched to find it.
way became two lanes. The two an aphorism. "Hunger is hid__________________
lanes turned to red dirt and
HUNGER PAGE 5
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Honeoye Lake Rotary Events, BIG Scissors on the
Graduation, Awards & More
Move!
Noyes Health and Arc of Livingston-Wyoming Team Up
to Help Make the Opening of a Small Brooklyn Healthcare Education Non-profit a Special Event
By Marilyn Matteson
The New York Eagle News/HLRC
H
oneoye Lake Rotary's yearend celebrations ended with
a “bang” this year with two
major meeting events, two graduating
student memorial awards, and four
students recognized as Students of
the Month.
Although the club is small, their
impact on the community is large. At
graduation each year, the club awards
$500 to two student seniors who
practice Rotary International's motto
“Service Above Self ” in their everyday lives. The choice was especially
difficult this year, as eight worthy
candidates applied. After conducting interviews, the club chose Jessica
Frost and Hannah Orman to receive
the award. Both girls exemplify the
qualities that represent Rotary International values.
At an earlier meeting in June, Ross
Ochs, Jordan Manley, Alexis Faraut, and Breanna Leonard were each
honored as Student of the Month
for February, March, April and May
respectively. All four are exceptional
students of the junior class at Honeoye Central School. The students
were chosen by their teachers and
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aybe you have heard of Livingston CARES, the collaborative county-wide partnership housed at SUNY Geneseo that
has sent over twenty-five work groups
to Harrison County, Mississippi to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina, or their
“Tools for Red Hook” project which
Here’s another story of a stranger
connecting with organizations in Livingston County and, of course, things
started to happen!
Cynthia Oswald, Director of the
Foundation and PR for Noyes Health
in Dansville received a call last May
from a stranger, Jessica Coxall, President and founder of Coxall Health
Information Center, Inc. in Brooklyn, New York. It seems Jessica, in
Honeoye Lake Rotary's Students of the Month for February through May are shown above with their
guidance counselor (l to r): Sharon Greenwood, guidance counselor, Breanna Leonard, Ross Ochs,
Jordan Manley, Alexis Faraut.
received a certificate of recognition as
well as a gift certificate for use at the
local bookstore, Mackerel Sky. As a
special honor, three Honeoye Central
School guests attended the meeting.
Sharon Greenwood, Linda Witte, and
Betsy Shaw, who are instrumental in
the operation of this program, were
guests at this meeting and thanked
for their support of Rotary's Student
of the Month program.
Ross Ochs, son of Jim and Tina
Ochs, was a belated honoree as Student of the Month for February. Ross
is active in Student Council, Odyssey
of the Mind, and Drama Club. He
also mentors underclassmen by participating in the LINC crew. He is interested in film, art, and photography
and plans to attend RIT upon graduation in 2014.
Jordan Manley, son of Todd and
Barb Manley of Honeoye, was named
Student of the Month for March. He
participated in Odyssey of the Mind
with his team and achieved third
place in this highly acclaimed competition. He also participates in Student
Council, National Honor Society, soccer, and tennis. This summer, Jordan
will attend Boys State. His interests
include writing, reading, and acting
and he hopes to attend SUNY Albany
or Alfred after graduation next year
to major in psychology.
Alexis Faraut, daughter of Philippe
and Charisse Faraut, was honored
Student of the Month for April. She
enjoys drawing and design and has
designed the sets for plays at Honeoye
Central School. She is active in Art
Club, Youth 2 Youth, and works with
the kindergarten classes during the
school year. Alexis has received scholarships from FLCC and RIT, and will
attend Girls State this summer. After
graduation she hopes to attend RIT to
major in graphic design.
Breanna Leonard, daughter of Robert and Olga Leonard, was chosen as
Student of the Month for May. She is
active in cross country and indoor
track. She participates in Student
Council, and is on the robotics team.
Her interests include running, sports,
and music. She plans to attend college
after graduation.
One of the last two meetings of the
Honeoye Lake Rotary Club was especially significant as the club celebrated its 45th anniversary. The forty-two
people in attendance included current and former members and their
spouses, many of whom were charter
members of the club. Also in attendance were the current and past district governors and their spouses and
the current assistant governor. The
menu included baked potatoes with
all the fixings and chili, with brownies and a birthday cake for dessert.
Those in attendance celebrated past
achievements which included all the
improvements to the Sandy Bottom
Park (including the facility where
the celebration was held), the tennis
courts at school, the Junior Baseball
League field, and the town benches.
Former members shared stories with
pride from their years in Rotary, and
current members shared their reasons for choosing Rotary, and suggested new projects to be explored for
the upcoming years.
The last meeting for the club,
known as “Pass the Gavel Night,” was
celebrated the last week in June and
found Jeanne Hamele honored as the
newest “past president” and Marilyn
Passer recognized as “current president.” Twelve members received a
Paul Harris Foundation Award for
serving the club and Rotary International with honor. Don Alhart and
Tracy Main were on hand to help
award the pins and medallions to
each recipient. A group picture will
soon be posted on the club's Facebook website. ■
Big Scissors were made for and sent to Coxall Health Information Center, Inc., to help this Brooklyn,
NY non-profit with their Grand Opening ribbon cutting, by Arc of Livingston-Wyoming. Shown (l to
r) : Jeff Thomas, Arc of Livingston-Wyoming PR Director, Chris Peterson, Executive Director, Arc Work
Team: Jim Bradley, Fred Ferrainolo, Mark Hathaway, Brandon Pepin, Jaun Padilla, Heather Bump, and
Cynthia Oswald, Noyes Health Director of PR/Foundation. (Photo provided)
sent a large box of much needed tools
to devastated businesses in Brooklyn
after Hurricane Sandy, or their partnerships with many countries around
the world, such as Ghana, where residents and business people have trav-
preparation for the “Grand Opening” of her new nonprofit community
healthcare information center had
been surfing the net and came across
a picture of a ribbon cutting at Noyes
Health showing a pair of “BIG” scissors. She thought how lovely it would
Coxall Health Information Center, Inc., a Brooklyn, NY non-profit celebrated their Grand Opening with
a ribbon cutting using the Big Scissors supplied to them by Arc of Livingston-Wyoming. Shown (l to r):
Italia Guerrero-Granshaw, Deputy Director of Policy & Planning at Brooklyn Borough President’s Office;
Johnie Owens-Turner, Vice President; Sejjghina Williams, Board Member; Maliyka Muhammad, Board
Member; Luisa Coxall, Treasurer; Jessica Coxall, President and Founder; and Kenneth Mbonu, Director
of Economic Development, Bride Street Corporation. (Photo provided)
eled to form positive partnerships
and learn from each other. Livingston
County has a history of caring and
reaching out.
be to have a pair of these scissors for
the opening of Coxall Health Information Center and possibly Noyes
Health would let her borrow theirs.
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Grade 7: Alexzander Baader, Evan
Bay, Timothy Brautigam, Griffin
Brown, Jake Cratsley,
Annamarie Dallas, Ethan DeTurk,
Bryce Hazlett, MaCauley Kastner,
Vincent Leta, Emma Lincoln, Paytan
Mann, Julia Mark, Zackery Miller,
Alison Moore, Nicholas Moore,
Hayden Myers, Abigail Northrop,
Austin Northrop, Sophia Northrop,
Alicia Quarterman, Claire Radak,
Sequoia Simons Folts, Sophia Sirvent,
Zachariah Tyree, Lia Vangellow, Jarrett Wagner, Ashley Wight, Maeya
Yeatman
Grade 8: Luke Ash, Noah Ball, John
(Jack) Brautigam, Adrianna Clearman, Zachary Dormer, Emmett
Felton, Genevieve Ferguson, Alison
Fisher, Autumn Fisher, Alexandra
Gerstner, Samantha Gordon, Ashton Kastner, Chloe Louthan-Green,
Stefan (Max) Maczynski, Alexandria
McGory, Nathaniel Moore, Samuel
Pergolizzi, Devon Pernicone, ZachBIG SCISSORS FROM PAGE 2
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Jessica picked up the phone and made
a call to a stranger, Cynthia.
“Because of the distance between
us, at first, I thought it was an odd
phone call, but working in nonprofits most of my life I have gone after
some pretty crazy leads myself.” said
Cynthia Oswald. Jessica explained
that she was opening Coxall Health
Information Center, Inc. a community-based non-profit formed for
the purpose of providing health care
education, health promotion, disease
prevention and self-care health management. Jessica went on to say there
is overwhelming need for higher
quantity and quality health resources
in Brooklyn.
Livingston County already has a
relationship with Brooklyn through
the SUNY Geneseo alumnus, developer and businessperson responsible
for the Red Hook renaissance, Greg
O’Connell. Much of the revitalization of Mount Morris Main Street,
where Arc of Livingston-Wyoming
is located and storefronts in other
Livingston County towns, including
Dansville, where Noyes Health is located, is due to Greg. Cynthia had just
been in Brooklyn this past March to
support Greg and Red Hook at the
grand re-opening event for Fairway
Market, which had been destroyed by
Hurricane Sandy. Jessica had no idea
of this relationship prior to her call to
Cynthia.
“As I listened to Jessica I was impressed with this young woman’s goal
to support her community and make
it a better place to live through healthcare education and information and
I wanted to help.” Cynthia expressed.
ary Rocha, Chloe Shearing, Michaela
Sheedy, Skyler Slack, Andrej Stegne
Grade 9: Alexander Arsenault, Matthew Barkley, Mitchell Bay, Jeremiah
Burgos, Brendon DeClerck, Spencer
Fisher, Andrew Fleischman, Elizabeth Friend, Cameron Hotchkiss,
Avril King, Moriah Kunes, Skyler
Matthews, Mikayla Metzger, Amei
Polimni, Grayden Ross, Tate Vangellow
Grade 10: Andrew Baader, Emily
Blake, Matthew Cotton, Connor Dormer, Dane Hoselton, Dana Pernicone,
Nicholas Phillips, Mary Kathyrn Riesenberger, Carington Stuber, Genevieve Walsh
Grade 11: Jasmine Angelo, Jessica
Angelo, Mitchell Baader, Christopher
Barkley, Nichole Bradley, Ann (Lissa)
Brautigam, Taylor Chapman, Andria
Denome, Emily Fisher, Loran Fleischman, Alexandra Goff, Jessie Gorcica, Chloe Hamman, Halie Hotchkiss,
George Kotlik, Brenna Kunzler, Karli
Mulford, Chad Plante, Jordan Shearing, Katherine Sprague, Karli Stekl,
Kayla VandeSande, Skyler Yeatman
Cynthia thought immediately of
her friends at Arc of LivingstonWyoming. They were the ones who
had made her “BIG” scissors when
she was president of the Livingston
County Area Chamber of Commerce
and had made her another pair when
she moved to Noyes Health. She told
Jessica she would contact Arc and see
if they would be willing to make Jessica a pair of her own “BIG” scissors.
Sure enough Arc Executive Director Chris Peterson was onboard.
Along with Public Relations Director,
Jeff Thomas and Director of Day Services, Kellie Kennedy coordinating
the effort the scissors were completed
in no time and Arc volunteered to
mail them off to Jessica and the new
Coxall Health Information Center in
Brooklyn!
Noyes Health and Arc of Livingston-Wyoming are major employers
in Livingston County and as notfor-profits have similar missions of
service to the community. Helping
people is what they both do every day
so it just made sense that Noyes and
Arc would partner to help another
organization across the state.
The bond of friendship has now
been formed. There is an open invitation from Jessica for her new friends
in Western New York to visit Coxall
Health Information Center the next
time they are in Brooklyn. The new
friends here hope Jessica will have a
chance to travel to this area and learn
more about Noyes Health and Arc of
Livingston-Wyoming. There may be
many other ways in the future that
these parties can partner and learn
from each other. ■
FREE Family Fun
in North Cohocton
A
n afternoon of FREE Family
Fun will be offered in North
Cohocton (at the corner of
routes 371 and 21) on Sunday, July
28th from 3 to 6 p.m.
There will be a bounce house, music, games, activities and food (MoJo's Tacos). All ages are welcome! The
event is sponsored by Cohocton Assembly of God. For more info: (585)
384- 9113 or 5952.
Grade 12: Jacob Ball, Jennifer Betts,
Adrian Black, Smantha Davis, Hayley
Derus, Carly Deusenbery, Theodore
Fisher IV, Tiaonna Gray, Adam Halladay, Paige Hobart, Drew (Randon)
Hoselton, Emily Jackson, McKayla
Johnson, MacKenzie Kansco, Amanda King, Henry Liebentritt, Maranda
Martz, Scout McLoud, Dakota Miller,
Emily Moore, Benjamin Pulver, Benjamin Spaid, Luke Spaid, Kathryn
Swank, Caitlin Taylor, Nikolas Tilley,
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Ferro, Kaitlynn Grevell, Zachary Hall,
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Amber Woodhams
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Northrop, Conrad Rathbun
Grade 10: Victoria Bell, Jared Bradley, Jericho Cervantes, Tessa Cratsley,
Matthew Jackson, Kayla Kobus, Tessa
Parker, Astyr Peterson, Jason Pulver,
Madeleine-May Vest
Grade 11: Thomas Ashmead, Jacob
Burns, Anna Fals, Molly Fiero, Isabella Galgano, Mitchell Hanggi, Lukas Iverson, Kyle Johnson, Cassandra
Moore, Lydia Simonton, Tyler Smith,
Autum Snyder, Tanner VandeSande
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Health & Science . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
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Obituaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
Recipes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24-25
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Allan Walker Saxby
Bloomfield, NY - Allan Walker
Saxby, age 92, formerly of Cannan
Rd., died peacefully at Horizons in
Canandaigua on July 4, 2013.
Mr. Saxby was born in Canandaigua and was the son of William
and Helen (Walker) Saxby. He was a
lifelong resident of Bloomfield. Mr.
Saxby owned and operated Saxby
Fur and Poultry Farm and employed
many of the area's young people. He
was a US Army Air Corps. veteran,
serving in WWII, as an airplane line
chief working with P-51 Mustangs.
Mr. Saxby was a dedicated education
advocate and served on the Bloomfield School Board and BOCES
Board for many years, also serving
as president. He cared deeply for his
community and his family.
Allan is survived by six children,
Sue (Neil) Belcher of West Bloomfield, Peggy (Michael) Paar of
Wisconsin, Nancy (Richard) Markwardt of Ohio, Dorothy (Georges)
Kleinbaum of Oregon, David
(Sherry) Saxby of Ontario, NY and
Edward (Cheryl) Saxby of Bloomfield; 13 grandchildren; 9 greatgrandchildren; niece, Barbara Hackel
of Canandaigua; extended family
members; and many dear friends. He
was predeceased by his wife Priscilla
(Moody) Saxby, and sister, Mabel
Woodard.
A funeral service was held July
9, 2013 at the First Congregational
Church of East Bloomfield. Interment was set for East Bloomfield
Cemetery. Memorial contributions
may be made to the Bloomfield Public Library, 9 Church St., E. Bloomfield, NY 14443. Arrangements were
Dean G. Steiner
Bloomfield, NY - Dean G. Steiner,
75, died June 28, 2013. He is survived
by children, Randy, Dean, and Rita;
11 grandchildren; sisters, Donna of
Avon, Dorothy of Honeoye Falls and
Darlene of Henrietta; brothers, Dale
and Danny; nieces and nephews, including Edward; and friend, Gilbert.
Services were held July 9, 2013 at
Kevin W. Dougherty Funeral Home,
Inc. in Geneseo.
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Branchport
Joseph E. Beauchemin
Branchport, NY - Joseph E.
Beauchemin, age 79, passed away at
home surrounded by his loving family on June 29th, 2013.
Joe was born in Saranac Lake,
NY on February 24, 1934, the son
of the late, Oscar and Celia (Gates)
Beauchemin. Joe was employed
as the Director of Administration
for CH Stuart Inc. in Newark from
1959 to 1980. He also worked for
Sarah Coventry (a division of CH
Stuart) from 1959-1969. Joe retired
in 1991. He had served as an officer
for Jaycee's where he was awarded
the "Outstanding Young Man of the
Year" award in 1969. He was also a
member of the Rotary Club and St.
Patrick's Catholic Church in Prattsburgh for 22 years. Joe authored
and published five books including
his autobiography, "My Struggle for
Survival". Joe was very well known
for his wonderful sense of humor.
St. George-Stanton Funeral Home
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585-728-2100
Todd and Jill Forsythe
Bud and Sue St. George
Joe is survived by his loving wife of
56 years, Judith A. (Swartzenberg);
his sons, Scott (Krystal), Benjamin
M. (Joan), and Timothy (Rose); his
daughter, Tammy Johnson; 14 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren;
brother, Benjamin (Ann); brother-inlaw, James (Bonnie) Swartzenberg;
sisters-in-law, Dorothy Dickinson
and Rita (Larry) Casey; and many
nieces, nephews, and very close
friends. In addition to his parents,
Joe was predeceased by his daughter
and son-in-law, Josette and Jeffrey
Crane; son-in-law, Orville Johnson;
brother-in-law, Lesley Dickinson;
and his half sister, Lillian Dorn.
Joe's Mass of Christian Burial was
celebrated July 2, 2013 at St. Patrick's
Church in Prattsburgh, with the Rev.
Jack O'Connor as celebrant. Burial
followed at St. Patrick's Cemetery.
Memorial donations may be made in
Joe's memory to the Ontario-Yates
Hospice c/o Finger Lakes Visiting
Nurse Service, 756 PreEmption Rd.,
Geneva, NY 14456. Arrangements
were made through Bottoni-Wood
Funeral Home, Prattsburgh.
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Canandaigua
Vera B. Campbell
Canandaigua, NY - Vera B. Campbell, age 94, passed away July 2, 2013
at F.F. Thompson Hospital.
Mrs. Campbell was a former resident of 40 Wilcox Lane, Canandaigua and Vienna Gardens in Phelps.
She retired from the VA Medical
Center in 1981 after many years
there. Mrs. Campbell attended the
Chapin United Methodist Church.
She enjoyed Bingo.
Vera is survived by three daughters,
Mary Anne Bell of Canandaigua,
June (James) Gage of Lake Helen,
FL and Barbara (John) Parsons of
Norfolk, NY; nephew, Raymond
(Linda) Tuttle of Florida; grandchildren; great-grandchildren; greatgreat-grandchildren; and several
additional nieces and nephews. She
was predeceased by her husband,
Roy Campbell in 1991, and two sons,
Donald and David Campbell.
There will be no calling hours. A
memorial service to celebrate Vera’s
life will be held Saturday, July 13 at 1
p.m. at the Chapin United Methodist Church, 2339 Rte. 21, Chapin.
Interment will be in Gorham Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial
contributions may be made to the
Chapin United Methodist Church,
c/o 3081 Smith Rd., Canandaigua,
NY 14424 or the Vienna Gardens
Activities Fund, 144 Main St., Phelps,
NY 14532. Arrangements are by
Johnson-Kennedy Funeral Home,
Inc., Canandaigua.
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Richard J. Egan
Canandaigua, NY - Richard J. Egan,
age 63, passed away July 4, 2013 at
Strong Memorial Hospital. Rich was
born in Canandaigua, the son of the
late Eugene and Katherine Egan.
Rich is survived by his wife Gloria,
brothers Roger and James Egan, and
sisters Barb (Neil) Pearcy and Cindy
Thomas.
Friends may call Thursday July
11th from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. at the
Fuller Funeral Home, 190 Buffalo St.,
Canandaigua, followed by a Memorial service at 1 pm. at the Funeral
Home. Burial will be in Woodlawn
Cemetery. Contributions may be
made in Rich’s name to the Canandaigua V.F.W., 93 South Main St.,
Canandaigua.
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Russ was predeceased by his
parents, John and Eva Thompson;
and his step mother, Leona Thompson; and his wife, Patricia (Parsons)
Thompson. Russ is survived by his
stepdaughter, Jennifer (Daniel) Jacob; a brother, Roger Thompson; and
several aunts, uncles and cousins.
A graveside memorial service was
held July 2, 2013 at Union Cemetery,
Scottsburg. Arrangements were
with the Chamberlin-Baird Funeral
Home, Dansville.
***
Conesus
Ruth W. Meyer
Caneadea
Conesus, NY - Ruth W. Meyer, 91,
died July 4, 2013 at her home. She
was predeceased by her husband
Glenn “Red” Meyer in 1998 and
brother Robert E. Wood in 2011. She
is survived by her children Sandra
(Richard) Elliott of Canandaigua,
Michael (Kathy) Meyer of Dansville,
and Gregg (Gale) Meyer of Dansville;
9 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; and sister Joyce Wester of
Conesus. Ruth was a member of the
Conesus Community for many years
and retired from the United States
Post Office in Conesus.
Family and friends are invited to
call Thursday, July 11, 2013 from 2-4
& 7-9 p.m. at the Kevin W. Dougherty Funeral Home Inc., 21 Big
Tree Street, Rte 15 & 20A, Livonia.
Funeral services will be on Saturday
morning, July 13th, at 11 a.m. at the
Conesus United Church, 6199 South
Livonia Road, Conesus. Rev. David
Hotchkiss will be the celebrant.
Burial will be in Arnold Cemetery,
Conesus. Memorial contributions
may be made to the Conesus United
Church, 6199 S. Livonia Rd., Conesus, NY 14435.
***
Russell P. Thompson
Conesus Lake, NY
Caneadea, NY - Russell P. Thompson, age 60, passed away peacefully
June 27, 2013 at St. James Hospital in
Hornell.
Russ was born May 2, 1953 in
Dansville, a son of John P. and Eva H.
(Rowe) Thompson. He was a graduate of Dansville High School. He was
a former welder/fabricator at Stone
Construction in Honeoye. Prior to
working there he was a caretaker at
Greenmount Cemetery in Dansville
and also sold headstones for Gibney
Monuments.
Russ enjoyed drag racing and
working on muscle cars. He drag
raced for several years at NY Raceway Park in Leicester. Russ also
enjoyed music and playing electric
and acoustic guitar. He loved his
dogs, especially "Mandy Sue" and
"Cindy Sue". He also enjoyed being
outdoors, hunting, camping and going for walks.
Jeannine F. Helfrich
Jean M. (Glauser) Meyer
Canandaigua, NY - Jean Meyer, 88,
died peacefully at her home July 3,
2013 of cancer. She was born December 9, 1924 to Mary and William
Glauser.
Jean was an avid bowler, who also
volunteered at F.F. Thompson Hospital. She was Chief Daughter of the
Daughters of Scotia.
Jean was predeceased by her
husband, Frederick Bruno Meyer;
and granddaughter, Adrienne Meyer
Cahill. She is survived by sons,
Thomas (Barbara) Meyer and F.
Bruce (Janice) Meyer; grandchildren,
Jennifer (Russell) Deardorff, Kirsty
(Erik) Heller and Dirk Meyer; and
seven great-grandchildren
A funeral service was held July 8,
2013 at Fuller Funeral Home Inc.,
Canandaigua. In lieu of flowers, contributions in Jean’s memory may be
made to: Ontario-Yates Hospice, 756
Pre-Emption Rd, Geneva, NY 14456.
***
Conesus Lake, NY - Jeannine
F. Helfrich, 72, of Conesus Lake,
formerly of Greece, NY, died June 30,
2013. She is survived by her fiancée,
John Gillette; children, Raymond
(Carolyn) Helfrich of Rochester and
Penny Klimchuk of Rochester; and
grandchildren, Nicole, Daniel and
Kailee.
At Jean’s request, there will be no
public arrangements. Memorial
contributions may be made to Teresa
House, 21 Highland Rd. Geneseo,
NY 14454. Arrangements are with
Inc. Livonia - Honeoye.
***
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The World
Fracking Looms for London's "Stockbroker Belt"
By Nidaa Bakhsh
Bloomberg News
T
he rolling country south of
London is called the stockbroker belt for the residents
who pay 50 percent above the British
average to live in pristine villages. The
advent of shale oil under their lawns
may shatter the idyll.
Two areas of Surrey and Sussex
hold 700 million barrels of recoverable shale oil, or more than a year's
supply for Britain, the U.S. Energy
Information Administration estimates. The advent of drilling near
mansions in the Wessex and Weald
basins may widen the nation's shaleenergy debate, which has focused on
gas in northwest England, hundreds
of miles from London.
"The rock in the Weald is splendid,
it's extremely good for shale oil," said
Fivos Spathopoulos, a visiting lecturer of petroleum geology at London's
Imperial College who studied the basin for about seven years. "If it works,
it'll be big but we won't know exactly
how big until we drill."
Celtique Energie Ltd., backed by
U.S. private-equity firm Avista Capital
Partners, is among companies seeking to pump shale oil in a geological
area that's similar to France's Paris
Basin, where fuel reserves have been
found. They're attracted by British
government plans to give tax breaks
to stimulate a shale industry that can
HUNGER FROM COVER
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The bus was empty except for a
box of plastic silverware and three
oversize coolers that sat on green vinyl seats. Inside each cooler were 25
sack lunches, and inside each sack
was what the federal government had
selected on this day as the antidote
to a growing epidemic of childhood
hunger — 2 ounces of celery sticks, 4
ounces of canned oranges, chocolate
milk and a bologna sandwich, each
meal bought with $3.47 in taxpayer
money.
On the outside of the bus, the familiar yellow-and-black design had been
modified with the bold lettering of
the U.S. economy in 2013: "Kids Eat
FREE!"
Here, in the rural hills of Tennessee,
is the latest fallout of a recession that
officially ended in 2009 but remains
without end for so many. More than 1
in 4 children now depend on government food assistance, a record level
of need that has increased the federal budget and changed the nature of
childhood for the nation's poor. First,
schools became the country's biggest
soup kitchens, as free and reduced-
Employees maneuver a drill pipe slip at Cuadrilla Resources Ltd.'s shale gas exploration site in
Singleton, Britain, in 2011. Fracking has generally been confined to an area hundreds of miles
northwest of London, where two years ago it caused earth tremors that led to an 18-month
moratorium on the practice. But the capital's suburban “stockbroker belt” in Surrey and Sussex is now
being eyed as a potential source of up to 700 million barrels of recoverable shale oil. (Bloomberg News
photo by Paul Thomas).
buoy domestic supply as North Sea
output dwindles and imports rise.
Celtique plans to drill a well next
year at Fernhurst in West Sussex,
where the average house price tops
471,300 pounds ($722,000), property
website Zoopla shows. While hydraulic fracturing, the water-intensive
drilling process known as fracking,
isn't initially planned, Celtique may
apply for such a license should it find
shale oil, according to a presentation.
"The reason why we're excited by
this position is it has multiple objectives for both conventional and unconventional" drilling, Chief Executive Officer Geoff Davies said in an
price lunch programs expanded to include free breakfast, then free snacks
and then free backpacks of canned
goods sent home for weekends. Now
those programs are extending into
summer, even though classes stop,
in order for children to have a dependable source of food. Some elementary school buildings stay open
year-round so cafeterias can serve
low-income students. High schools
begin summer programs earlier to offer free breakfast.
And late last month came the newest iteration: a school bus retrofitted
into a bread truck bouncing along a
potholed road near the Blue Ridge
Mountains. It parked in a valley of
30 single-wide trailers — some rotting in the sun, others swallowed by
weeds and mosquitoes alongside the
Nolichucky River. The driver opened
his window and listened to the utter
silence. "It feels like a ghost town," he
said.
A 5-year-old girl saw the dust trail
of the bus and pedaled toward it on a
red tricycle. Three teenage boys came
barefoot in swimsuits. A young mother walked over from her trailer with
an infant daughter in one arm and a
lit cigarette in the other. "Any chance
there will be leftover food for adults?"
she asked.
It was almost 1 p.m. For some, this
would be the first meal of the day. For
others, the last.
The driver opened the bus door and
made the announcement he would
repeat at six more trailer parks on this
day.
"Lunch is served," he said.
The driver's name was Rick Bible,
and his 66-mile route through the
hills of Greene County marked the
government's latest attempt to solve
a rise in childhood hunger that had
been worsening for seven consecutive
years.
Congress had tried to address it
mostly by spending a record $15 billion each year to feed 21 million lowincome children in their schools, but
that left out the summer, so the U.S.
Department of Agriculture agreed
to spend $400 million more on that.
Governors came together to form a
task force. Michelle Obama suggested
items for a menu. Food banks opened
thousands of summer cafes, and still
only about 15 percent of eligible children received regular summer meals.
interview in London. "It's a new geological idea."
While the Weald and Wessex basins aren't virgin territory for drillers
— companies including IGas Energy
already produce crude from conventional wells — drilling deeper layers
of rock and exploring shale deposits
may "significantly" increase the area's
potential resources, Davies said.
The British government said June
27 that shale-gas fields in northern
England are twice as large as previously estimated, potentially big
enough to meet demand for 47 years.
It said explorers have promised incentives including a 1 percent share
of production revenue to communities where shale gas is pumped.
Proponents of fracking say the benefits could mirror the United States
where the exploitation of shale formations helped the country overtake
Russia as the biggest producer of natural gas in 2009 and boosted crude oil
output.
Yet the drilling technique, which
involves blasting a mixture of water,
sand and chemicals underground
to release fuel from rock, has raised
the ire of environmental groups and
residents who fear ground-water contamination.
"I have grave concerns about our
water supplies," said Anne Hall, a former county councilor in Balcombe in
West Sussex, where driller Cuadrilla
Resources plans an exploratory well
and "No fracking" signs are widespread. "The possible impact on sur-
So, earlier this year, a food bank in
Tennessee came up with a plan to reverse the model. Instead of relying on
children to find their own transportation to summer meal sites, it would
bring food to children. The food
bank bought four used school buses
for $4,000 each and designed routes
that snake through some of the most
destitute land in the country, where
poverty rates have almost doubled
since 2009 and two-thirds of children
qualify for free meals.
"We got ketchup?" Bible said now,
loading supplies onto the bus before
heading out for the day.
"Yes," said Morgan Anderson, a
food bank employee who worked on
the bus with him.
"Ice? Hand sanitizer?"
"Yes. Yes."
Bible and Anderson were beginning their second week together on
the route, which made seven regular
stops in five hours, Mondays through
Fridays, delivering 66 sack lunches
with 750 calories each. Government
rules required them to stop for 15
minutes at each trailer park to make
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HUNGER PAGE 10
rounding towns and villages would be
catastrophic."
The concern is echoed in other
villages in southeastern England,
where house prices averaged 208,479
pounds ($317,450) in March, compared with a national average of
138,150 pounds across nine counties
excluding London, according to the
Land Registry.
Cuadrilla, chaired by former BP
CEO John Browne, says it isn't initially planning to frack at the Balcombe site. The company has previously fracked in the northwest county
of Lancashire, where two years ago it
caused earth tremors that led to an
18-month moratorium on the practice.
Cuadrilla and Celtique reject suggestions drilling in the Weald will be
disruptive. The noise will be quieter
than bird song, according to Londonbased Celtique. Cuadrilla's site, no
bigger than a soccer pitch, will be
screened by woodland, the Lichfield,
England-based company said.
While shale drilling in Lancashire
has also faced opposition, the need
for jobs in that region, traditionally
a more industrial area, is a counterbalance to the protest, according to
Imperial College Professor Richard
Selley.
"By analogy with the U.S. shale-gas
experience, shale-gas production will
be a big boost to employment," Selley,
of the Department of Earth Science
and Engineering, said. "This will be
of greater benefit to Lancashire than
in the Weald due to far higher unemployment in the north of England."
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Health & Science
Patients Go Online To Raise Money and Morale
By Caroline Mayer
Kaiser Health News
E
ven with Stage IV lung cancer, there are moments when
32-year-old Chip Kennett feels
blessed. Over the course of two weeks
in April, those moments were many,
as 325 friends and family members
contributed $56,800 over the Internet
to help defray his out-of-pocket medical costs.
Kennett's wife, Sheila, says she was
overwhelmed by the generosity. We
"kept saying how lucky we were!"
she wrote in her blog Team Kennett.
"Now just how messed up is that?"
The Kennett family of Alexandria,
Va., is one of thousands turning to
the Internet to raise money for medical bills. The sites that host these
campaigns operate much like online
business fundraising sites such as
Kickstarter. It takes only a few keystrokes for a family to set up a Web
page, where they tell their story and
state a fundraising goal; later, they can
spread the word on social media sites
such as Facebook. Donations can be
made with credit cards or via PayPal.
The contributions, which can be
given by name or anonymously, typically range from the very small (as
little as $5) to the extremely generous
($1,000 and up). In the Kennetts' case,
donations ranged from $10 to $2,000.
Most sites are for-profit and charge
a fee, between 3 percent and 12 percent of the money donated, to cover
processing costs and the expenses of
thinning injection that Chip, who
works for a defense firm, needs
daily and $480 a month for a
bone-strengthening injection.
There are also the travel expenses for Chip's overnight trips
to Philadelphia, often weekly,
where he is enrolled in a clinical
trial. Since Sheila accompanies
him, there's the extra cost of child
care for their children, Joe, 3,
and Crosby, who was born seven
months ago.
The Internet fundraiser has
helped alleviate some of those
concerns. But perhaps more significant, it has boosted the family's morale.
"I could be having a bad day
and be really down," says Chip,
who was caught off guard by his
Lung cancer treatment has been a financial burden for diagnosis since he had not been a
Chip Kennett and his family _ wife Sheila, son Joe and
infant daughter Crosby. An online campaign has helped smoker. "I'd go check the Web site.
them pay those bills. (Alison Hathaway/Red Shoes
It was inspiring to check the dollar
Photography.)
figure and the notes from friends.
running the Web site. GiveForward, I'd find new notes from friends I
the site the Kennetts used, charges 7 hadn't talked to forever. It provided
percent.
emotional comfort that was extremeThe Kennetts acknowledge they ly uplifting."
are lucky to have good health insurMedical fundraising sites are growance. (Sheila has a federal employee ing in number and profitability. In
policy through her job at the Senate.) the first 12 months after it launched
Even so, the Kennetts have paid thou- in 2008, GiveForward raised $225,000
sands of dollars in out-of-pocket ex- for 359 campaigns; this year, it has alpenses, including the insurance plan's ready raised more than $20 million
co-pay requirements and its $5,000 for more than 15,000. Company offiannual deductible ($7,000 for out- cials said GiveForward had more than
of-network doctors) for both 2012 $1.4 million in revenue in 2012 and
and 2013. They also face large bills has raised more than $47 million for
for their share of medication costs, families since it began.
including $485 a month for a blood-
Other sites have sprung up over the
past five years, including GoFundMe.
com, YouCaring.com, FundRazr.com
and Indiegogo.com. Unlike GiveForward, these sites also raise money to
help pay for tuition, travel, disaster
relief, pets' medical care and funeral
costs.
Some medical institutions and associations are joining in. The nonprofit Rare Genomics Institute, for
example, was created two years ago to
help families raise money to sequence
genes of patients with rare genetic
diseases, a process that generally costs
about $10,000 and is rarely covered
by insurance.
When it launched, GiveForward
also raised money for other causes —
"scholarships, art projects, whatever,"
says co-founder Ethan Austin. But
the "hugbacks" — calls or messages
from users — from medical fundraisers were so appreciative, "we decided,
'Why do anything else?' "
Austin says he is not surprised at the
rapid growth of crowd-funding for
medical costs, citing a 2011 National
Bureau of Economic Research study
that found that half of American
adults say they would not be able to
come up with $2,000 in the event of a
medical emergency. This, taken along
with another recent study showing
that the average cancer patient incurs
as much as $8,500 a year in expenses
not covered by insurance, further explains why so many ailing Americans
are seeking outside help to pay their
expenses, according to Austin.
Crowd-funding for medical costs,
supporters say, is fast and efficient.
Still, it may not be a solution for every
patient.
"People think the money magically flows in, but it doesn't happen
like that," says Jimmy Lin, president of the Rare Genomics Institute.
The institute has raised more than
$300,000 for 30 projects, with four
more campaigns in progress. "There
is a lot of work involved. Putting up
a page is just the beginning. Families
need photos and personalized stories
to help people connect, they need to
think about how to leverage the people they know to raise funds, and they
need to use social media to stimulate
support."
"It's not intuitive," Austin says. "You
can't just send out a mass e-mail and
be done with it." To be successful,
there's a sophisticated strategy, he explains, including asking close friends
and relatives to contribute first. They
are more likely to make a larger donation, say $50 to $100, prompting
others who follow to make similarly
sized contributions.
"It's the law of 'monkey see, monkey do,' " Austin says. Persistence is
also required. "If you stop asking, you
won't keep getting donations."
Fundraisers looking for a quick influx of funds may also be surprised.
Although some Web sites pass on the
money, minus the fees, as soon as a
donation is made, several hold on to
all donations until the fundraiser is
over. (An end date is usually set when
the campaign is launched.) In some
instances, no money is turned over
if the goal stated at the outset is not
met. In that case, contributions are
credited back to the donors.
There are also privacy issues. An
Illinois freelance writer says she became concerned after friends created
a fundraiser to help cover the costs of
her chronic illness. Prospective employers, she worried, might stumble
on the site while searching for her
name on the Internet. She believes
this is the reason she didn't get a job
she applied for.
"I don't mind if they know I'm sick,
but I don't want them to think I'm
so sick they can't hire me," says the
writer, who declined to be named for
this article. "I found the whole process humiliating and would have preferred for people to donate privately,
through checks."
For people on Medicaid or other
programs that serve only people who
are low on assets and income, there
may be financial consequences. Donated funds could affect a person's
eligibility for assistance, so it would
be wise to check with the appropriate
officials before raising money.
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CROWDFUND PAGE 7
Dance for
Parkinson's
Disease: Movement
as Medicine
The New York Eagle News/The
Washington Post
T
he first thing you notice at
Lucy Bowen McCauley's dance
class for people with Parkinson's disease is the range of symptoms among the 15 people seated in
a wide circle around the room. There
is a guy with the severe hand tremors that I associate with the degenerative neurological disorder. But
there's also a woman who moves with
a stiff, awkward gait, a woman confined to a wheelchair and another
man who shuffles and suffers from a
pronounced, repetitive twitch of his
mouth.
A few people appear to have nothing
wrong at all. Most of them are friends
and relatives there to support Parkinson's sufferers, I would find out later,
but one is a fellow who has calmed his
symptoms with a deep-brain stimulator implanted in his head.
That is Parkinson's — a range of
terrible, idiosyncratic, life-altering
symptoms caused by the loss of various neurotransmitting chemicals in
critical parts of the brain.
And then the music starts, and it is
clear these people are united by more
than just the bad break they share.
Their brains — all our brains, actually — love music, rhythm and dance
in some primal way that creates joy
and nourishes the body. Especially a
body wracked by tremors or slowed
by herky-jerky arms and legs.
"We just trump the disease while
we're here," McCauley says after the
class at Maryland Youth Ballet in Sil
CROWDFUND FROM PAGE 6
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For donors, too, there are also drawbacks to donating via crowd-funding
sites. For one thing, most such contributions are not tax-deductible since
virtually all the campaigns are being
staged by people, not nonprofit organizations.
Perhaps more important, there's
the issue of accountability on the use
of funds since donors have no control over how the money is spent,
notes Tony Dale, founder of the Karis
Group, an Austin firm that provides
patient advocacy and bill-mediation
service to help resolve medical billing
issues.
"I would hate to think people are
giving up their hard-earned money
to help a friend, family member or
even a stranger and then discover
that the patient hadn't done the necessary homework to make sure he or
Reviewing PTSD
Claims for
Sexual Assault
Congresswoman Chellie Pingree asked the
Department of Veterans Affairs to review PTSD
claims that had been turned down, claims submitted by survivors of sexual assault while in
the military. The VA agreed, but dragged its feet
about notifying victims of a change in policy.
If you're a survivor of military sexual assault,
here are some things you need to know:
Many of the responses to sexual assault can
lead to PTSD if untreated: trouble sleeping,
trouble with attention and memory, abusing alcohol and drugs, feeling numb and more.
If you have PTSD due to sexual assault and
filed a claim for benefits, your initial claim was
no doubt turned down.
You should have received a letter by now from
the VA saying it will re-evaluate your claim.
However, many veterans were not sent this
letter. It's up to you to ask for a re-evaluation.
Review the information on Pingree's site (pingree.house.gov/mstclaims) first.
In many cases, the VA ignored "secondary
markers," which are evidence an assault occurred. These include records from law enforcement or rape crisis centers, tests for sexually
transmitted diseases, episodes of depression or
anxiety, and substance abuse.
You can ask for a re-evaluation of your denied
claim by calling the VA at 1-800-827-1000.
Also on Pingree's site are links to VA Form
21-4138 and VA Form 21-0187A, statements in
support of your claim.
Meanwhile, you don't have to wait on the VA's
decision to get counseling for PTSD. Get more
information at www.ptsd.va.gov.
Pingree also wants to hear from you about
your experience with the review process of your
claim. Scroll to the bottom of her web page and
leave your comments. If you prefer to send a
letter, call her Washington, D.C., office at 202225-6116 for a mailing address. She really does
want to help.
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Choosing the
Right Medicare
Drug Plan
Choosing a drug plan through Medicare
(called Part D) can be something of a guessing
game. If you want to change plans or are just
about to sign up, the choices can be confusing.
Here are a few things to know:
Your regular pharmacy might not be in a "network" that your plan covers. You'll have to go
to another pharmacy for your drugs to be covered, a "preferred" pharmacy that has agreed to
charge less, per your plan.
Even if your drug is on your plan's list, it
might not be in the future. Plan providers have
60 days to notify you that it won't be available.
You'll need to have your doctor ask for an exception, or you'll need to change drugs, or you'll
need to pay more to keep taking them.
The drug plans are broken into four categories, or tiers:
Lowest co-pay: generic drugs
Medium co-pay: preferred brand-name prescription drugs (Preferred means that it's what
Medicare prefers you take.)
Higher co-pay: non-preferred, brand-name
drugs
Specialty tier: highest co-pay, unique, highcost drugs
Before you sign up for any drug plan, get all
your information. Go online to medicare.gov,
click on Forms, then Publications, then type
11136 in the search box for the drug plan fact
sheet. Then do another search for "Part D" for a
long list of publications.
Best bet: If you can afford a plan that lets you
use your regular neighborhood pharmacy, do so.
If it has a pharmacist that you trust, he or she
can keep an eye on all the drugs you are taking,
to make sure there are no interactions.
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ver Spring. "It's the perfect antidote."
"Lucy has us moving in ways we
have to move," says Bob Frey, 67, the
man with hand tremors. We are "moving our feet in certain ways. I have
difficulty with that, but I wouldn't be
able to do it at all" without the class,
he said.
I've written many times that movement is medicine, powerful preventive stuff that keeps your arteries clear
and your muscles strong. Here, exercise is therapy, perhaps no match for
Parkinson's disease over the two decades that it generally inflicts misery
on its 1 million victims, but certainly
a dose of nonprescription relief in the
short term.
In a 2009 review of the relatively
scant medical literature on dance as
therapy for Parkinson's, researchers
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found it as effective as other
forms of exercise and noted
additional advantages: Music may serve as an external
cue that facilitates movement;
dance involves stopping and
restarting movement, something that is difficult for some
people with Parkinson's; dance
requires multitasking; and
dance is social — an activity
that fosters relationships and
keeps people with Parkinson's
from withdrawing from communities.
Dance instructor Lucy Bowen McCauley, right, leads a Dance for Parkinson's Disease class at the Maryland Youth
"It's like Miracle-Gro for Ballet Studio in Silver Spring, Maryland. (Washington Post photo by Ricky Carioti.)
your brain," says Joyce Oberdorf, president and chief executive of low on dopamine, as people with Par- dents through dance steps while they
hold onto barres and, finally, through
the National Parkinson Foundation. kinson's are."
Music and rhythm also appear to some moves around the floor. The
"Exercise literally produces chemical
changes in your brain that are ben- benefit people with dementia in some music, "Mack the Knife," "Memories" and the like, is decidedly from
eficial, especially when you're a quart similar ways.
Calling for more study, the Parkin- the past, but even that has a purpose.
son's researchers nevertheless con- According to Oberdorf, it cues up a
she was paying a fair price" for medi- cluded that "the benefits of dance for time when these people moved more empathy, of support that is impossible
cal services, Dale says. And that often those with PD appear to be of large freely, helping them visualize a body to miss. Then they all bow once more,
takes a lot of work, given the increas- enough magnitude to be clinically that once was able to do more.
together, toward the center of the
To end the class, they hold hands circle and head outside into the rain.
meaningful."
ing complexities of medical bills.
Parkinson's sufferers and their ad- in a circle and, one by one, each bows
Additionally, because crowd-funding Web sites do not verify the le- vocates long ago decided that is true. theatrically to the person next to him.
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gitimacy of every fundraiser, there is The movement started in Brooklyn It is a wordless gesture of thanks, of
ample room for fraud. Crowd-fund- in 2001, when the organizer of a Paring executives say that's rare, adding kinson's support group persuaded
that their sites are similar to eBay the Mark Morris Dance Group, an
and Craigslist, which rely on users to internationally known professional
police the sites and report suspicious troupe, to offer dance instruction to
activity. That's why most sites caution people with the disease.
Since then, it has spread to more
donors to give only to people they
know or to friends of friends. Even than 100 communities in the United
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Hospitals Exploring The Potential And Pitfalls
Of Becoming Health Insurers
By Sarah Kliff
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though, no
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ployees. Patients would be limited to
MedStar-affiliated providers, and as a Evolent Health, in Arlington, Va., offers treadmill desks, used here by Dave Dunn and Evolent has
no offices,
result, pay lower premiums. In time, Michelle Schneider. (Photo for The Washington Post by Lexey Swall)
not even for
MedStar could compete with the AetNow, a growing number of large its top executives. Glass conferencenas and Blue Crosses of the world, ofhospital systems are betting that, with room walls are covered in scribbles
fering insurance to the public.
"By putting in the new health plan, a little help, they can do that just as from red, blue and green markers.
"We wanted a sort of Steve Jobs
we had the ability to give them an op- well — or even better.
"These organizations believe that feel," Evolent co-founder and presition that actually allowed savings,"
said Eric Wagner, a MedStar vice they're really good, can capitalize on dent Seth Blackley said, explaining
president. "People who enrolled in their brand and get people to enroll the open landscape.
With Frank Williams and Tom PeMedStar Select got a lower premium in it," said Paul Ginsburg, president of
the Center for Studying Health Sys- terson, Blackley launched the compathan they had the year before."
All of a sudden, the health system tem Change. "They see a different way ny two years ago while they worked
at the Advisory Board, a hospital condid not just send out insurance claims to capture these gains."
Seeing health insurance companies sulting firm. As legislators on Capitol
— it also received them. This was, for
the health industry, revolutionary. In- as the middlemen, these hospitals are Hill were debating health reform,
Blackley was flying around the counsurance plans and hospitals are typi- only too eager to squeeze them out.
To do so, hospitals are turning to a try, hearing from hospitals what they
cally at loggerheads. They squabble
over claims that the hospitals submit small start-up named Evolent Health. thought the future of medical care
It promises to teach them everything would look like.
and insurers sometimes deny.
"I had spent a lot of time talking to
"They make their money by not they need to know about building
paying for health care to be deliv- a health insurance plan from the health systems and provider groups
that were looking at their role in the
ered," Wagner said of health insurers. ground up.
Across the Potomac River, the Ar- future, given the cost pressures of the
"We make our money by delivering
care. There's always been a natural lington, Va., offices of Evolent Health health-reform law," he said.
That's where the idea of helping
could be a movie set for a Silicon Valtension."
For years, hospitals have accepted ley start-up — the kind that starts hospitals launch their own health
that tension as a cost of doing busi- with millions in venture capital fund- plans started. If hospitals could colness. Insurers have decades of experi- ing, not in a founder's grungy garage. lect premiums directly from patients,
An immaculate micro-kitchen, the thinking went, they would have
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"The biggest advantage for hospitals
ing how much care patients will need a lounge with a plush white couch and
big-screen TV. Two treadmill desks is that they can take all the premium
in the coming year.
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scare away consumers. If it sets the
price too low, it could come up short,
with revenue not covering the medical bills.
At the time, Blackley didn't know
much about running a health insurance company. But he did know that a
growing number of hospitals wanted
to get into the market.
With health insurance premiums
growing by 8 to 10 percent annually, employers have begun to look
for less expensive options. Restricting
patients' choice to a small number of
providers affiliated with one health
system is one way to bring down
costs.
President Barack Obama's healthcare law has also pushed large systems in this direction. In 2011, it
began funding "accountable care organizations," in which a big network
of doctors accept a flat fee to care for
Medicare patients.
If doctors do a good job of managing care, the hospital and the health
insurer — in this case, Medicare —
share the amount left over as profit.
More than 400 hospitals have signed
on as accountable care organizations,
or ACOs.
Hospitals such as MedStar are
pushing the model even further;
some health care consultants describe
these hospitals as "ACOs on steroids."
Instead of sharing the profits with
insurers, they think they can run the
plan themselves and keep all the profits.
"Some hospitals are saying they
don't see much upside in the ACO
model," Ginsburg said. "Instead,
they're saying, let's create our own
plan where we have a much greater
upside if we do a good job. That's the
big change, this big opportunity for
plans to be built around a health system, that did not exist before."
In 2014, the health law will create
another big incentive for hospitals to
get into the insurance business: Millions of Americans will begin buying
health insurance coverage using federal tax credits.
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a co-owner of Evolent. Currently, 18
percent of hospitals own such insurance companies.
"Particularly for hospitals where the
systems have a prominent name and
prominent physicians working for
them, this will be attractive to them,"
Ginsburg said.
Three years ago, Blackley was crisscrossing the country, looking at the
handful of hospitals that ran health
plans successfully.
"We went around and studied a
number of the health delivery models
that exist, from Kaiser Permanente in
California to University of Pittsburgh
Medical Center," he recalls. "These
folks have taken on full risk, meaning
they have big upside and downside
for making this work."
University of Pittsburgh Medical
Center's plan stood out. Launched in
the early 1990s, UPMC Health Plan is
the nation's second-largest hospitalowned health plan.
Perhaps most impressive, though, is
its ability to hold down medical costs.
Among UPMC's employees, most of
whom use the hospital-run health
plan, the cost of medical services has
increased annually by about 2 percent. The rest of the country, meanwhile, typically sees increases of 5.5 to
7 percent each year.
"This might sound mundane, but
a lot of what this comes down to is
building the right technology," says
Diane Holder, president and chief
executive of UPMC Health Plan. "The
health-care system is so fragmented.
Most of the time, doctors don't know
where their patients have been. We're
in the hospitals, and we're able to follow patients."
Over two decades, UPMC went
from a tiny start-up to the dominant
health plan in western Pennsylvania.
It, in many ways, proves that a hospital can successfully launch its own
insurance product.
UPMC Health Plan and Advisory
Board co-founded Evolent in 2011,
investing $20 million in the venture.
UPMC Health Plan had proprietary
software that it could license to other
hospital-run plans, alongside the infrastructure to run a health plan.
Advisory
Board,
meanwhile,
worked with a network of potential
customers. Over the past two years,
Evolent has signed up 14 hospitals
across the country as clients.
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clients and came on board after exec__________________
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Data Scientists
are Most Sought
for Century
By Aki Ito
Bloomberg News
J
obs centered on data have been
falling into Ana Bertran Ortiz's
lap since she finished her electrical engineering Ph.D. in 2007.
The jobs all come from her command of statistics, making her a beneficiary of the growing demand by U.S.
employers for so-called data scientists
who can analyze and manipulate the
mountains of information generated
and stored in the Internet age. Harvard Business Review last year called
this profession "the sexiest job of the
21st century."
One measure of demand: Hours
billed for work in statistical analysis
grew by 522 percent in the first quarter compared with the same period in
2011, according to data compiled for
Bloomberg by oDesk Corp., which
runs an online service connecting
employers with remote freelancers.
Time billed on oDesk for all categories of work in the same time span
grew by 135 percent.
"In most areas of the modern economy, math and statistics have never
been more important," said Susan
Athey, an economics professor at the
Stanford Graduate School of Business
near Palo Alto, California. "As firms
get more and more data-driven, there
become fewer and fewer careers that
don't require those skills."
Bertran Ortiz got her start designing algorithms for a NASA lab to
measure sea levels from outer space
and orchestrate the landing of the
Mars rover. She's researched how to
design flight paths to get more information from radar signals, and
helped hone a mobile application
that forecasts weather in 10-minute
increments. She's now working on
software that automatically diagnoses
glitches in the networks that house
the world's ever- expanding trove of
information.
"I knew that in electrical engineering, it was very important to understand the randomness of data," Bertran Ortiz said. "But I didn't think it
would become so important outside
of my field."
Unlike statisticians of a previous
generation, data scientists work with
information sets so big — far too
large and unwieldy to fit into an Excel
spreadsheet — that they need to write
extensive computer code to extract
the right segments.
Often, this data is on a scale that requires multiple servers to even access
the numbers. After that, the analysts
run calculations — correlations, regressions, t-tests, machine learning
algorithms — to discover the patterns
they're looking for.
The scope of data collection is
widening in the private and public
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“In most areas of the modern economy, math
and statistics have never been more important,”
says Susan Athey, economics professor at the
Stanford Graduate School of Business.“As firms
get more and more data-driven, there become
fewer and fewer careers that don’t require those
skills.” (Bloomberg News photo by Marc Perrier).
sectors, a shift that was highlighted
recently when the Guardian and
Washington Post disclosed the existence of secret U.S. government
programs that collect data on U.S.
residents' telephone calls and foreign
nationals' Internet activity. James R.
Clapper, the director of national intelligence, subsequently confirmed
the existence of the programs.
The national security industry is
among the biggest employers of bigdata professionals, according to an
analysis from Burning Glass, a Boston-based job-matching company.
One of the best-known companies
specializing in big-data analysis is
Palantir Technologies Inc., which
made its name offering terrorism
analysis software to the Pentagon and
the Central Intelligence Agency.
Douglas Puett runs pattern analyses
for Pulse, a news aggregator that was
acquired by Mountain View, California-based LinkedIn Corp. in April.
Every day, the 25-year-old peers into
the mobile application's logs to track
figures, including which news outlets
are keeping readers most engaged.
Armed with those numbers, Puett helps Pulse's product team make
decisions such as how to tweak the
algorithms that suggest news stories.
He also helps design, run and analyze
experiments to make sure product
changes lead to positive results.
He didn't even know a job like this
existed until he was halfway into his
master's program at Columbia University in New York in applied statistics, a degree which he completed in
2012. Today, data analysts are among
the most commonly advertised positions in the technology sector, according to an analysis of online job
postings from May this year by San
Francisco-based Bright, a website that
matches employers with workers.
"I was thinking I'd want to do research in sociology or political science," said Puett, who said he chose
to study history over math or physics
for his undergraduate degree because
he became "disengaged" with the abstractions of the quantitative fields.
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utives took a trip to Pittsburgh to get
a better sense of UPMC's plan.
"We spent the whole day with the
group there," Wagner recalled. "We
left very excited."
Two hospital systems in Atlanta,
Piedmont and WellStar, were also
among the company's first clients.
Since they cover different parts of the
city, the two are partnering to launch
a insurance product together in 2014.
At first, they tried to engage local
health insurance plans.
"We evaluated partnerships with
national health insurers in our local
markets to see if we couldn't work
closer together," WellStar chief financial officer Jim Budzinski said. "In our
conversations, almost all payers were
not interested in having those kinds
of relationships."
Together, Piedmont and WellStar
could blanket most of the Atlanta region. They brought on Evolent to help
them handle the back end of running
a health insurance plan.
"You can have the right strategy,
but you also need the right tools,"
Budzinski said. "That's where Evolent
comes into play. We had a choice to
create our own infrastructure, hire
staff and build out the system. That
would take a longer period of time
and you'd have more risk."
The new health plan will launch by
year's end. Unlike MedStar's, it will
immediately become available to the
public and may soon be offered on
the Affordable Care Act's health insurance exchanges.
Not everyone is confident that these
hospitals will succeed. Insurance
plans are especially skeptical that hospitals have the know-how to compete
against plans that have been in this
business for decades.
"I always take pause when people
talking about doing something better
that they've never done before," said
Karen Ignagni, president of America's
Health Insurance Plans. "Maybe that's
just the mother in me."
Ignagni's trade association includes
hospital-owned health plans that successfully transitioned into a new busiNow at Pulse, "the patterns I see will
inform the decisions we make that
will get into the product, and millions
people are affected by it."
The challenge for employers is that
there aren't enough Douglas Puetts
out there, with the multiplying trove
of information likely to further exacerbate the shortage of these analysts.
By 2020, all the digital data created,
replicated and consumed in a single
year will grow to 40,000 exabytes, or
40 trillion gigabytes, according to a
December study by technology research firm IDC. That's a 300-fold increase from the 130 exabytes in 2005.
By 2018, the U.S. may face a shortage of as many as 190,000 people with
deep analytical skills and 1.5 million
managers and analysts who know
how to use big data to make deci____________________
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ness segment. But she's also familiar
with the hospitals that have failed
because they did not set their premiums quite right or have a big enough
network of doctors to meet patients'
needs.
"There is a very significant regulatory structure, and they have to meet
all those requirements," Ignagni said.
"They need to make sure that they
are able to offer an array of services
and have an adequate network. How
do you approach that in a providerbased system?"
At a recent American Hospital Association conference in Washington, Kylanne Green echoed a similar
sentiment. As the chief executive
of managed-care services at Inova
Health Systems in Northern Virginia,
she had also explored the possibility
of launching an insurance product.
In the end, Inova settled on partnering with an existing health insurance
provider, Aetna, to build a hospitalbranded health plan.
"We were not an insurance company," Green told hundreds of hospital executives attending her panel
on hospital and health insurer partnerships. "We needed to get closer
to being an insurance company, but
we didn't need to reinvent that wheel
ourselves."
Hospitals have especially worried
about how patients will react to a
more limited network. Many hospital-run health plans folded in the
mid-1990s, when patients revolted
against the bureaucracy and the special authorizations necessary to see a
specialist or go outside the network.
At MedStar, Wagner acknowledged
those pressures but contended that
his hospital system would penalize
patients only when they sought care
that wasn't necessary or could have
been provided within the MedStar
network.
"You can't ignore them," he said.
"If you don't need to go to the emergency room, but you go, and they
send us a bill, we're going to deny that
bill. Every payer will, and we can't be
different from other payers. It's not
good for your health to get your care
through the emergency room. That's
part of the signal we need to send
people."
Overall, Wagner describes MedStar's experience working with Evolent and launching a health plan as
positive. While it has only a small
fraction of MedStar's employees enrolled now, they're expecting higher
takeup in the open-enrollment period this year. The plan may soon sell to
the public or enter the new insurance
marketplace under the Affordable
Care Act.
"We're not going to do it in January
2014 since the waters seem way too
unsettled," Wagner said. "We're continuing to look at that."
Evolent, meanwhile, is quickly expanding. It expects to grow from 150
employees to 450 by year's end. One
challenge Blackley expects to tackle
is how hospitals can communicate to
their employees, and the public, as an
insurer.
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Cross, they know what that is," he
said. "This is a new concept and that
tends to require a huge communications effort."
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insurance market, however, Evolent
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concern: Taking over another floor of
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green's lets me show what I can accomplish. I am not just a woman with
cerebral palsy."
Deerfield, Ill.-based Walgreen is
among employers including Hershey
and AMC Entertainment actively recruiting workers with disabilities as
a way to gain a loyal work force, tap
overlooked talent and add diversity.
Such efforts could be crucial as
more people with physical and mental challenges who attended school
after the 1990 passage of the Individuals with Disabilities Education
Act reach adulthood. Students who
took advantage of expanded educational opportunities know they have
skills and expect to work, said Randy
Lewis, who retired in February from
his job as Walgreen's senior vice president of supply chain and logistics.
"The expectation is rising, which is
great," said Lewis, who has an adult
son with autism and led the push for
disabled hiring at Anderson. Opportunities aren't keeping pace, though:
disabled people have been leaving the
labor force in greater numbers following the 18-month recession that
ended in June 2009 as competition
increased for jobs.
"Is it going to get better fast
enough?" Lewis said. "No, probably
not."
In May, 17.9 percent of people with
disabilities had jobs compared with
64.3 percent for those with no impairments, based on unadjusted data
from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The ratio is down from its high of
21 percent in September 2008, during the first year data was kept, and
has fallen 0.2 percentage point from
a year ago, even as employment improved for the non-disabled population.
"There are a lot of companies getting
on the bandwagon, but I also think
we have a long way to go," National
Governors Association Chairman
Jack Markell, the Delaware governor
who is heading a yearlong initiative
to spur hiring of disabled Americans,
said in an interview. "There are a lot
of people with disabilities who would
love to work but who are not given
the opportunity."
Mackey said she had 65 interviews
before the Anderson-based vocational rehabilitation center where she had
interned hired her in 2000. After six
years, she hadn't been promoted to
the supervisory role she wanted.
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Then a colleague introduced her
to Lewis, who wanted to establish a
distribution center that would hire a
30 percent disabled work force. They
would be supported by technology,
including individualized computer
monitors at each repacking station
to track progress and give directions.
They would be held to the same standards as other workers and receive
comparable pay.
"He said he felt that people with disabilities were just as capable as those
without," Mackey said. "In my experience as a person with disabilities, I
had never heard anyone say that."
Mackey signed on before the plant
opened and helped to shape its workforce, now made up of 42 percent
disabled employees. She performs the
same role at a nearby Pendergrass,
Ga., center, which opened later and
has a labor force of 25 percent disabled workers.
On a late June afternoon, Mackey
chatted amiably with workers at the
Anderson center as they labored in
a cavernous warehouse. They kept a
quick tempo while transferring toiletries from whizzing conveyor belts
into cardboard boxes.
Efforts like Walgreen's are catching
on, said Jill Houghton, executive director of the U.S. Business Leadership
Network, an Alexandria, Va.-based
advocate for including the disabled
in the workplace. The group talks to
about four new companies weekly,
Houghton said.
AMC also ranks among companies actively seeking people with
disabilities for a variety of jobs. The
movie theater chain began recruiting
workers with disabilities in late 2009,
starting with a pilot program in collaboration with the Bethesda, Md.based Autism Society. The program
has expanded and gained additional
partners since.
"You end up being a healthier
company from a lot of different perspectives: innovation, engagement,
morale, productivity," said Keith Wiedenkeller, chief people officer.
Hershey is also benefitting after
taking a page from Walgreen's playbook, said Victoria Zefran, a human
resources generalist at the Hershey,
Pa.-based confectioner.
"It supports our diversity inclusion,"
said Zefran. "We find a pipeline of talent that we haven't gone after before."
Of U.S. workers reporting a disability, 32.2 percent are in management,
professional and related occupations,
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compared with 38.1 percent for the
population without a disability, according to Current Population Survey
data from 2012.
Advocacy groups and political leaders are promoting inclusion as a business choice. The National Governors
Association plans to release a report
in August that will show governors
and states how to find more employment opportunities for people with
disabilities, Markell said.
Employment statistics for those
with disabilities have not improved
even with such efforts. Job competition has grown as 11.8 million
Americans in the labor force remained jobless as of May, according
to Department of Labor data. Companies that once hired mentally and
physically impaired workers as part
of normal recruitment may now pass
them up.
"When the labor market is very
slack, as it has been for the past five
years, employers start to say, 'Why
should I settle for someone with just
a college degree when I can have a
PhD?' " said David Autor, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in Cambridge, who studies disability benefits. "Why should I
hire someone with a disability?"
Work-force participation dropped
and unemployment climbed for the
disabled during and following the
economic downturn, so that today
only about one-fifth of the disabled
population is active in the labor market. Of those, 13.6 percent couldn't
find jobs in May, according to BLS
data.
Many companies shy away from
disabled workers out of concern that
they will require expensive accommodation, Lewis said. Others view
impaired employees as charity cases
and hold them to lower production
standards, he said, so they're first to
be cut.
"That did not happen to us," he said.
Walgreen analyzed performance
differences between distribution centers with disabled and non-disabled
work forces. Employee turnover over
three years was 48 percent less for
those reporting a disability and productivity was roughly equal, according to a report.
More than 200 companies have
toured Walgreen's Anderson facility,
Mackey said.
Visitors see that the workspaces,
with buzzing conveyor belts and
thudding sounds of repacking, look
simply like a high-tech warehouse.
They meet people like Violet Gentry, 40, who has cerebral palsy and
had never had a job before last year,
rapidly reshuffling items, practically
indistinguishable from those working
nearby.
Lewis's book on his experiences,
titled "No Greatness Without Goodness," was released in April. His own
son, Austin, 25, benefits from Walgreen's latest undertaking: a program
training disabled employees to work
in retail stores.
"My son drives, and that was like
graduating summa cum laude from
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sure children ate their lunches on the
bus. Anderson, 22 and pursuing her
master's degree in dietary studies,
tested the temperature of the coolers
every hour and kept inventory of food
in a color-coded binder. Bible, 58 and
laid-off from a furniture factory,
sneaked extra fruit cups to the kids
and told stories as long and winding
as their route.
Their job on the bus included enforcing a long list of rules from the
USDA: No giving out seconds, because the federal government reimburses only 2 percent of their value.
No extra milks. No children taking
food home. No free meals for adults
over 18 unless they are disabled. On
Anderson's first day, she had watched
three men come on board, sweaty and
unshaven after a morning working in
the strawberry fields. "Are you under
At the third stop, a high school football player pleaded for extra milk; at
the fourth, teenagers fired rifles at
cans up the road; at the fifth, always
the most crowded, kids, parents and
dogs waited in the shade under the
trailer park's only tree.
"Finally!" one of them said as the
bus pulled in. He was a 12-year-old
boy, shirtless and muddy with half of
a cigarette tucked behind his ear, and
he barged onto the bus and grabbed
his lunch. "Bologna again?" he asked,
studying his sandwich.
"I'll take yours then," another boy
said, grabbing for his bag.
"No fighting," Anderson said, as
she handed out 15 meals and walked
toward the back of the bus, where a
young mother in a tank top and pink
slippers was sitting with her 2-yearold son. The mother opened the toddler's fruit cup and, a minute later,
the little boy stood up on his seat,
Austin Davis, age 1, munches on a piece of wheat bread on The Lunch Express bus in Greeneville, Tenn.
He later ate some peaches fed to him by his aunt Helen Mattix who was on the bus with her children.
(Washington Post photo by Michael S. Williamson.)
18?" she had asked them. "Yes," one
had said, even though she suspected it
was a lie. The men had eaten quickly
and left, never returning to the bus on
subsequent days, and lately Anderson had begun to worry about them,
blaming herself for their absence. Had
she scared them away? Were they going hungry because of her? Why had
she bothered to ask about their age?
"You learn that there are rules, and
then there's the reality of the people
you see on the bus," Anderson said.
On this day, what she saw at the
first stop was five siblings arriving
in clothes still stained from the pizza
sauce they had been served on the bus
the day before. "Did you get a chance
to change today?" Anderson asked
one of them, a 10-year-old girl. "Into
what?" she said.
Next, at the second stop, a 7-yearold whose parents were both at work
arrived carrying his 1-year-old sister in nothing but a diaper, spoonfeeding her juice from the bottom of
his fruit cocktail cup. "She can't eat
chunks yet," he said.
MIT," Lewis said. "A job, that's like
winning a Nobel Prize."
His son marks each month's paydays on a calendar Lewis got him to
track his work schedule. "So yes, a job
is important to him, too."
laughed and tossed the fruit cup out
the school bus window.
"How dare you?" the mother said,
turning to the toddler, slapping his
bottom hard enough for the bus to go
quiet, then pulling her arm back to
slap him again.
"It's okay," Anderson said, hurriedly
reaching into another bag for a replacement cup of fruit, breaking the
rule about seconds.
"It is not okay with me!" the mother
said. She turned back to her son, who
was wailing, and yanked him back
into his seat. "Sit on your butt," she
said. "What did I tell you about wasting?"
Anderson watched the mother for
a few seconds and wondered if this
would be one of the times when she
needed to call child protective services to make a report. It had happened three times on buses already in
the past two weeks, once for possible
child abuse and twice for possible
neglect. Stress, anger, desperation —
these were behaviors she had been
told to anticipate on the bus at a time
when a record 10 percent of children
live in homes unable to provide adequate, nutritious food. "Low-income
families are being pushed to the very
edge," one of her training manuals
had warned. But now Bible walked
back from his driver's seat and put his
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OBITUARIES FROM PAGE 4
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Frances V. Smith
Conesus Lake, NY – Frances V.
Smith, 80, died July 3, 2013 at her
residence. She was born August 4,
1932 in Bradford, PA, the daughter of
Charles and Doris Pritchard Burdic.
She was predeceased by her husband,
Clifford, and brothers, Michael and
Clifford.
Frances was a beloved mother and
grandmother and will be missed
and loved by her sons, Rodney and
Daniel Smith, both of Rochester;
daughter, Sharon Lee Smith of
Fairview, TX; granddaughters, Cyndi
(Kevin) McGuinn, Elise Barr and
Rhonda Hyatt; grandsons, Max, Sam,
Jamie and Jeremy Smith; many greatgrandchildren; and several brothers and sisters including, Margaret
Greathouse of Avon. Our hearts are
with you Grandma Smith.
Funeral Services were held July 7,
2013 at the Rector-Hicks Funeral
Home, Geneseo. Memorial contributions may be made to the American
Cancer Society, 1120 South Goodman St., Rochester, NY 14620.
***
Fairhope, AL/Geneseo, NY
in White Haven. Memorial contributions may be made to Ontario
County ARC, 3071 County Complex,
Canandaigua, NY 14424.
***
Karin F. (Bender) Watt
Ossian
Fairhope, AL/Geneseo, NY - Karin
F. Watt, 70, died June 28, 2013 at her
residence in Fairhope, Alabama.
Karin was formerly of Geneseo. She
was predeceased by her husband
Donald J. Watt in 2002.
Karin was born August 21, 1942
in Germany, the daughter of Joseph
and Erna Bergmiller Bender. She
was a retired electroencephalograph
technician.
Karin is survived by 2 daughters, Kristina (Bernhard) Grote of
Phoenix, AZ, and Catherine Watt
of Fairhope, AL; son, Mark Watt of
Daphne, AL; grandchildren, Ava
and Lukas; sister, Ursula Herendeen
of Fairhope, AL; brother, Michael
Bender of Vancouver, British Columbia; and several nieces and nephews.
Private Funeral Services were to be
held in Fairhope, Alabama. Interment was set for Lakeview Cemetery
in Groveland. Local arrangements
were with the Rector-Hicks Funeral
Home, Geneseo.
***
Martha L. (Wood)
Cramer
Geneseo
Nancy L. (Willard)
Cooper
CROWDFUND FROM PAGE 7
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if Chip was suddenly driving a new
car. . . . But we clearly jest. . . . Please,
please know we respect your generosity so very much that we promise to
use the funds exactly as intended and
will do our best to make it stretch as
far and long as possible."
The Kennetts say they were buoyed
by all the support they received during the fundraiser — from gradeschool friends, parents and teachers
at their son's day care center, people
they worked with 10 years ago (as
well as more current ones), even the
nurse in the maternity ward where
their daughter was born.
"Not only was it therapeutic to rid
our minds of this financial stress we
were starting to come under, but it
also was just downright fun watching
names pop up," Sheila wrote in her
blog. "It was a trip down memory lane
for us both. Some gave a little and
some gave a lot, but the dollar amount
didn't matter. What mattered was that
the reach was just so far and wide, you
were most likely also saying a prayer,
sending positive energy, feeling good
vibes or at least thinking of us. Wow.
That is so incredibly humbling and
invigorating."
— Kaiser Health News is an editorially independent program of the
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, a
nonprofit, nonpartisan health policy
research and communication organization not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente. ■
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Geneseo, NY - Nancy L. (Willard)
Cooper, 78, of Geneseo, formerly of
Lakeville and Avon, died July 2, 2013.
She was predeceased by her first husband, Leonard J. Willard and son-inlaw Sam Finocchario. She is survived
by her husband, Irving Cooper; children, Terry (Bill) Selner of Webster,
Karen (Ken) McGee of Avon, Donna
Finocchario of Geneseo, Chris (Sue)
Willard of Avon and Jeff Willard of
Webster; 11 grandchildren; 13 greatgrandchildren; brothers, Barry (Pam)
Gilson of Lima and Richard (Peg)
Gilson of Greece; and many nieces,
nephews and dear friends.
Services were held July 6, 2013 at
Livonia. Private family burial was set
for St. Michaels Cemetery, Livonia.
Memorial contributions may be
made to the American Heart Association.
***
Ossian, NY - Martha L. Cramer,
age 70, passed away June 29, 2013,
at Noyes Memorial Hospital in Dansville, after a two year courageous
battle with cancer.
Martha was born in Nunda, on
May 31, 1943, a daughter of the
late Clifford and Marion (Stevens)
Wood. She was also predeceased
by a granddaughter, Katie Stanley,
and her siblings, Marge Hinz, Fritz
and David Wood. On November 21,
1965, Martha was married to Gerald
R. Cramer, who survives.
Martha was a therapy aid at the
former Craig Colony in Sonyea and
had also worked as a nurse's aid at
Noyes Memorial Hospital in Dansville. Martha was extremely devoted
to her family and friends.
Surviving Martha, in addition
to her husband Gerald, are her
daughters, Tanya (Jim) Stanley of
West Sparta, Karen Cramer of Ossian
and Tiffany Strobel of West Sparta;
grandchildren, Stacey (Joseph)
Coburn, Dillis Strobel, Scott, Jesse
and Jay Stanley; and three greatgrandchildren, Carter Coburn and
Emma and Joshua Stanley.
There will be no prior calling
hours. A graveside service will be
held at the convenience of the family
in Ossian Center Cemetery, with the
Pastor Gregory White officiating. In
lieu of flowers, please make memorial contributions to the Cancer
Services of Steuben County, 411
Canisteo St., Hornell, NY 14843.
Arrangements are by the Hindle
Funeral Home, Inc., Dansville.
***
Spring, Texas
Honeoye, NY/Pahrump, NV
Thomas L. Ashmead
Paul D. Watkins
Honeoye, NY/Pahrump, NV- Thomas L. Ashmead died June 24, 2013.
He was predeceased by his mother
Virginia G. Ashmead and brother
James Ashmead. He is survived by
his father Thomas G. Ashmead; and
brothers, Richard, John, and Robert
Ashmead.
Funeral arrangements will be
private under the direction of
Kevin Dougherty Funeral Home, Inc.
Honeoye - Livonia. Burial will be
Spring, Texas - Paul D. Watkins, age
76, of Spring, Texas, formerly of Buffalo and Arcade, New York, passed
away peacefully at the Park Manor
Nursing Home in The Woodlands,
Texas, on Sunday, June 30, 2013.
Born on April 23, 1937 in Buffalo,
as Paul Douglas Wilson, he was
given up for adoption by his natural
parents, the late Orin and Helen Jane
(Williams) Wilson, when he was ten
days old. On February 9, 1938, he
was formally adopted by James and
Margaret (Dietz) Watkins of Buffalo,
and the child’s name was legally
changed to Paul Douglas Watkins.
Paul was raised in Buffalo and
attended school there. On December 31, 1956, Paul married the
former Shirley Vinson in Clovis,
New Mexico. Following his service
to his country in the U.S. Air Force,
when he was stationed in Texas,
Nebraska and at several other bases,
Paul moved back to the Western
New York area and worked at the
Chevrolet and Trico plants in Buffalo
and also worked in Springville as an
assistant pharmacist. He retired in
1974.
In 1959, at the age of 21, and newly
discharged from the Air Force, Paul
was told by his adoptive father that
he had a sister who had been born
two years after he was. He tried to
locate his sister. All he gained for
his efforts, which had become quite
a task because of the years that had
passed, was a copy of his sister’s
adoptive mother’s death certificate.
It took another 20 years before
anything else happened. On December 17, 1990, after over half century
of separation, Paul was united with
his biological sister Rebecca Wilcox
Barnhoorn. The reunion was made
possible by the persistent research of
Rebecca’s son, Stephen.
For enjoyment, Paul was an avid
fisherman. A self-described “Master
Angler,” Paul won the Genesee Fishing Contest eight times.
In addition to his loving wife Shirley, Paul will be missed by daughter
Carey Murray of Spring; a son, James
P. Watkins of Buffalo; grandchildren
Shannon (Steve) Fox, Kyle Cunningham, Catelyn and Connor Murray,
Dylan and Nicholas Watkins, all of
Spring; his sister, Rebecca Barnhoorn
of Canandaigua, NY; and paternal nephews, Michael and Daniel
Barnhoorn of Scottsville, Stephen
A. Barnhoorn of Honeoye and Bart
Barnhoorn of Lima; and niece, Toni
Sloan of Lima; maternal nephews
Terry, Christy and Robbie Vinson;
and great-grandchildren, Bailey and
Riley Fox.
Paul was predeceased by his
daughter, Colleen Jane Watkins on
September 4, 2009, and paternal halfsister Thelma J. Wilson on July 12,
1944. Funeral arrangements are being handled by Calvary Hill Funeral
Home in Humble, TX, and were
incomplete as of press time.
***
Wayland
Marjorie E. Clark
Wayland, NY - Marjorie E. Clark,
age 90, passed away peacefully July
2, 2013 at her home, surrounded by
her family.
Marjorie was born February 23,
1923 in Huntington, IN, a daughter
of Edwin and Opal Shroyer. She
married Donald H. Clark on July
31, 1943; he predeceased her on
April 28, 2011. Marge was a former
teacher's aide at Wayland-Cohocton
Central School.
In addition to her parents and
husband, Marjorie was also predeceased by a daughter, Donna Ellis;
her brothers and sister-in-law, Jack
Shroyer and Wallace and Betty
Shroyer; as well as her brother-inlaw and sister-in-law, Jack and Helen
Clark.
Marge was a devout member of the
Wayland United Methodist Church,
where she was an active member
of the church choir. She also was
a member of the "Waylandaires"
singing group, where she sang in
the choir and in the quartet "Three
Misses and a Hitt", the Wayland Red
Hat Society and the Eastern Star.
Marge enjoyed singing, playing
piano and organ for family holidays,
sewing, her flower garden, computers
and sitting on her front porch with
neighbors and friends, cherishing the
small town life, but most of all she
loved spending time with her family
and friends.
Marge is survived by her children,
Pat Lander (Skip Onyan), Ed (Lisa)
Clark, Nancy Clark-Gonyea and Deb
Moore; 9 grandchildren; 2 greatgrandchildren; and several nieces,
nephews and cousins.
Funeral services were held July 8,
2013 at the Wayland United Methodist Church. Burial was set for the Village Cemetery, Wayland. Memorial
contributions may be made to the
Wayland United Methodist Church,
Lackawanna St., Wayland, NY 14572,
or Care First Hospice, 11751 East
Corning St., Corning, NY 14830 or
to any cancer support organization.
Arrangements were with the Walter
E. Baird & Sons Funeral Home,
Wayland. ■
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The Other Sage of Monticello
By Adrian Higgins
Washington Post
W
hen the press of Monticello became too much
for him, Thomas Jefferson
decamped to a smaller architectural
jewel of his own making, a country
house named Poplar Forest.
I am thinking of this when I observe Peter Hatch pull beets from his
new garden near his family home in
Albemarle County. Hatch decamped
from Monticello last year, where
he was the director of gardens and
grounds for 35 years.
Over a long career, he directed the
cultivation of one of the grandest vegetable gardens in the world — a twoacre, 1,000-foot-long plateau below
Jefferson's Palladian palace. When a
hurricane came through, he would
organize the estate's preparations and
the cleanup. After a winter blizzard,
Hatch orchestrated a soundscape
of rumbling snowplows and waspish chain saws. On a routine day, he
could be seen riding a tractor or pulling weeds.
"I liked the nuts and bolts of it,"
he says. But to think of Hatch as a
groundskeeper alone would be to
regard Jefferson merely as a rosycheeked country lawyer from Charlottesville. As a close observer of the
agrarian Jefferson and as an author,
Hatch has probably done more than
anyone else in defining the third
president as a gardener, a farmer, an
orchardist, a viniculturist. A Founding Father literally grounded in the
American soil.
Hatch has capped his career with
a book, "A Rich Spot of Earth," in
which we find the curious and multifaceted Jefferson with a curious and
multifaceted garden: a personal garden, a community garden, a national
collection of plants from the Lewis
Jefferson
recorded
planting 330
varieties of
99 species of
vegetables
and herbs.
He grew Indian corn but
also turned
his garden,
Hatch says,
into "an Ellis Island of
i nt r o d u c e d
vegetables."
In
coming to terms
with
the
First Foodie
(Hatch's label), we are
lucky to have
Jefferson's
garden not
just on paper
Peter Hatch, former director of gardens and grounds at Monticello, Thomas
but rebuilt on
Jefferson’s Virginia estate, harvests cabbage from his own garden in Albermarle
the side of his
County, Va. (Washington Post photo by Adrian Higgins.)
perch in the
Blue Ridge.
and Clark Expedition — a garden The terrace is held together with a
as miscellaneous as America itself. stone wall with 5,000 tons of rock —
Hatch links Jefferson's endeavors to it took a crew of slaves three years to
the political, social and environmen- create the garden in advance of Jeffertal currents now swirling around the son's retirement, and it took another
three years, in the early 1980s, to
garden-to-table movement.
After years of not just studying old reconstruct it after careful archaeoplanting schemes, but also replicating logical inquiry led by Monticello's
them in a rank of square plant beds, now-retired architectural historian,
Hatch argues that Jefferson discarded William Beiswanger, and archaeolothe Colonial model of a formal gar- gist William Kelso.
When Hatch arrived earlier, in
den and embraced new veggies that
would flourish in the Virginia heat 1977, the rough contours were evi— tomatoes, squash, okra, eggplant, dent, but not the structure of the garpeanuts, peppers and lima beans. Jef- den. The wall had been partially disferson introduced his fellow garden- mantled or buried in earth, part of the
ers to a veggie smorgasbord that reso- garden was a parking lot, and much of
nates still, though he also tried the it was used as a cut-flower garden for
more obscure sea kale, winter melon, arrangements in the house.
The restoration featured the imposorach and black salsify.
ing wall, rising to 12 feet, a fruit orchard, a wooden fence and a replica
of Jefferson's garden pavilion. Hatch
laid out the planting beds based on
Jefferson's records and directed the
planting and cultivation. Along the
way, he wrote a book on Jefferson's
tribulations with fruit in "The Fruit
and Fruit Trees of Monticello."
Today, 450,000 people from across
the United States and around the
globe visit the garden each year.
I have known many estate gardeners over the years, but Hatch's duality
as head gardener and Jefferson scholar sticks out as being remarkable and,
frankly, odd.
Monticello's retired executive director Dan Jordan worked with Hatch
for 24 years. "There's no way to overestimate his contributions to our understanding of an important part of
Jefferson's legacy," Jordan told me.
"The fact that Peter was so connected
physically and emotionally to Jefferson's garden gave him insight that no
one else has had."
At my bidding, Hatch plonked himself down on a soft, red chintz sofa
and told me his story.
He was raised in suburban Detroit
but spent most of his life in the South.
This has served to soften his voice and
project a folksiness that doesn't quite
succeed in masking his erudition or
sense of irony. Sometimes his wry observations end in a soft, rich, endless
chuckle.
Hatch graduated in 1971 as an
English major from the University of
North Carolina, dreaming of becoming a poet. "It was the Age of Aquarius, I went west and lived with my girlfriend in Southern California. I was
reading poetry and drinking tawny
port at 4 in the afternoon. I read John
Berryman and Robert Bly."
When it came time to find a job, he
applied for a teaching post (English
and ice hockey) at a prep school in
Massachusetts. His mother, aghast at
his hirsute state, took him to a hairdresser, who cleaned him up. Hatch
has famously unruly hair, and he appeared at the job interview nervously
chatty and with "a Prince Valiant
haircut." He didn't get the job.
Around the same time, he discovered the joys of organic gardening
and enrolled in a horticultural program in North Carolina. "I thought:
Wouldn't this be a great career while I
read poetry on the side?"
He went to work at Old Salem, a
historic Colonial settlement in Winston-Salem, N.C. After three years, he
came to Monticello. He found a place
that had none of the sophistication
or professional marketing and donor
cultivation that goes today with a ma-
jor house museum (and World Heritage Site). "By Old Salem standards, it
was kind of crude. It was Mr. Jefferson
this and Mr. Jefferson that, hostesses
in the house. Very Southern."
Although Hatch has amplified the
idea of Jefferson as a gardener, he recognizes that this is just one facet of a
complex man.
In the 21st century, people struggle
to reconcile how the author of the
Declaration of Independence could
also have been a slaveholder. Hatch
views Jefferson as a sphinx of sorts. "A
very difficult figure to pin down. You
search forever to find him." This is
part of his greatness, Hatch believes.
Hatch has been promoting "A
Rich Spot of Earth" since its publication last year and thinks he can
"ride the book" for another year. He
is intrigued by the fact that although
Jefferson meticulously logged his garden varieties and planting dates over
many years, he didn't really recount
the details of their cultivation.
"His ultimate contribution was not
as a gardener but as a champion of
gardeners," he said.
He is gripped by the idea that when
Jefferson died on July 4, 1826, it may
have been from indulging in his own
produce. "A family tradition held that
Jefferson never recovered from eating cucumbers a few days before his
death," writes Hatch.
Hatch grows peppers, tomatoes,
cabbages, beets, squash and more in
his own little garden on the other side
of his house from a gushing creek. It
is an ordinary vegetable garden that
anyone around here might grow, except that Hatch is quietly aware that
his prosaic and practical little patch
flows directly from the mind of
Thomas Jefferson.
Like his spectral boss, Hatch has
moved on to another, more placid
phase of his life. His work at Monticello "sounds like a dream role in life,
but it was still a job.
"It's easy to write books about
Thomas Jefferson, but it's a lot harder
to keep the deer from eating the cabbage."
New Word
Definitions
- Adult: A person who has stopped
growing at both ends and is now
growing in the middle.
- Beauty Parlor: A place where
women curl up and dye.
- Chickens: The only animals you
eat before they are born and after
they are dead. ■
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Finding a Safe, Practical
Play Yard
By Mari-Jane Williams
Washington Post
A
portable play yard that acts
as a combination playpen and
bassinet is not an absolute
must when it comes to baby gear. But
it definitely makes traveling easier.
Whether it's a quick afternoon trip to
a friend's house or a week at the beach,
play yards give babies a comfortable
place to sleep and play.
"Often when parents leave the house
they don't have access to a safe crib at
a hotel or the grandparents' house,"
said Inez Tenenbaum, chairman of
the U.S. Consumer Product Safety
Commission. "Play yards are a very
popular alternative to a crib. It's a safe
option."
New safety regulations governing
the manufacture of play yards went
into effect in February, Tenenbaum
said. The updated standards ban play
yards with side rails that make a sharp
"V" when the unit is folded; require
stronger corner brackets to prevent
collapsing; and strengthen the attachments that keep the mattress from
moving around, Tenenbaum said.
Safety Tips
— Bare is best. Just as with any crib,
you should have only a snug fitted
sheet over the mattress, said CPSC's
Tenenbaum. Do not use any pillows,
quilts, blankets, stuffed animals or
other soft items. Babies can wear
footed pajamas or sleep sacks to help
them keep warm in cooler weather,
Tenenbaum said.
— Follow the manufacturer's instructions. Make sure your child is
within the weight and height recommendations for your model, including any attachments such as bassinets
and rocking seats. Most play yards
are intended for children who are less
than 35 inches tall, Tenenbaum said.
— Do regular inspections. Check
your play yard often to make sure no
parts are damaged, loose or missing.
Make sure there are no holes in the
mesh or cracks in the plastic. Visit the
CPSC's Web site at www.cpsc.gov or
www.saferproducts.gov to find out
about product recalls.
Care Tips
— Keep it clean. Wipe your play
What Love
Means to a
Child
• “Love is when my mommy makes
coffee for my daddy and she takes a
sip before giving it to him, to make
sure the taste is OK.”
Danny - age 7
• “Love is like a little old woman and
a little old man who are still friends
even after they know each other so
well.”
Portable play yards make traveling with a baby easier; here, play yards at three different price points. From left, Pack ’n Play Playard with Reversible Napper and Changer,
$99.99; Pack ’n Play Playard with Newborn Napper Station DLX, $169.99; and Pack ’n Play Playard with Cuddle Cover Rocking Seat, $199.99. (Photo credit: Graco.)
yard with soap and water and allow
it to drip-dry, said Ashley Mowrey, a
spokeswoman for Graco, a manufacturer of baby gear. Never use bleach.
You can machine wash the carrying
bag in lukewarm water, and if your
play yard has a rocking seat, machinewash it separately in cold water on the
delicate cycle, then drip-dry.
— Be careful in the sand. Remove
sand from all surfaces before packing
your play yard into its bag after a day
at the beach, Mowrey said. Sand can
damage the top rail lock, making the
play yard unsafe.
Low, Medium and High
We asked Graco to recommend
three play yards at different price
points. Here are its suggestions:
— Pack 'n Play Playard with Reversible Napper and Changer. It has
a space that can be used for newborn
napping or changing, with reversible fabric (a soft side for sleeping
and fabric that can be wiped down
for diaper changes). It has a full-size
removable bassinet and an organizer
with a wipes case and diaper stacker.
It comes in one pattern. $99.99.
— Pack 'n Play Playard with Newborn Napper Station DLX. This
model comes in four patterns and
is equipped with a microfleece napping station for newborns. It also has
built-in storage shelves. It plays music
or nature sounds and has two-speed
vibration in the napping station.
$169.99.
— Pack 'n Play Playard with Cuddle
Cove Rocking Seat. It comes with a
removable vibrating rocker with handles, so you can carry your baby from
room to room. The rocking seat and
the bassinet vibrate gently to soothe
babies. The cover of the rocking seat
Tommy - age 6
• “During my piano recital, I was on
a stage and I was scared. I looked at
all the people watching me and saw
my daddy waving and smiling. He
was the only one doing that. I wasn't
scared anymore.”
Cindy - age 8
• “My mommy loves me more than
anybody. You don't see anyone else
kissing me to sleep at night.”
Clare - age 6
• “Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken.”
Elaine-age 5 ■
is removable and machine-washable.
It comes in five patterns. $199.99.
Shop Smart
Play yards range from a basic folding crib to a fully equipped baby care
station to a sleek piece of furniture
that fits into your decor, said Kerry
Strzelecki, director of marketing for
Graco. She offered several suggestions for determining what best suits
your lifestyle.
1. How will you use it? If you are
looking for a full-service care station
for your baby outside the nursery, a
model with more features such as a
rocker, a changing table and storage
may best suit your needs, according
to Strzelecki. But if the play yard is
primarily for travel, those added features could make it more difficult to
fold and take with you. A base model
might be better for parents who travel
a lot, she said.
2. Where will you use it? Similarly, if
you plan to use the play yard at home
and be moving it from room to room,
look for a model with wheels, and
check its size when open to make sure
it will fit through doorways. If you are
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your car.
3. Consider your storage needs.
Many play yards now come equipped
with integrated or removable storage
for diapers, wipes, clothes and other
baby supplies.
Facts
— $122 million in total play yard
sales in the United States in 2011
(Source: juvenile Products Manufacturers Association)
— 50+ fatalities related to play
yards in the United States have been
reported to the CPSC since 2007.
— 1.4 million play yards have been
recalled since 2009 (Source: Consumer Product Safety Commission)
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Girl-group Handshakes Push Japanese
Music Sales Past U.S.
By Mariko Yasu
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R
itsuhiko Tajima has about
100 CDs by his favorite artist,
Japanese girl-group AKB48,
many of them copies of the same disk.
The attraction? The CDs often include
tickets to events where he can briefly
meet his idols.
"I don't think I'll ever get tired of
them," the 28-year- old nursing assistant said as he waited in line at the
group's Tokyo theater for a monthly
sale of limited-edition photos of its
members. "They're pop stars I can
come visit."
Fans like Tajima helped consumer
music revenue in Japan grow 3 percent last year to $4.3 billion, topping the United States to become the
world's largest market, according to
the Recording Industry Association
of Japan. Music sales in the country
rose for the first time in five years, led
by tunes delivered on CDs and other
physical media, bucking the trend in
developed markets as cheaper downloads gain ground. Physical media
made up 82 percent of Japanese music sales last year, versus 37 percent in
the U.S., the recording industry group
says.
Erika Ikuta, a member of Sony Corp.'s Japanese girl group "Nogizaka 46", second right, speaks while
fellow members Chiharu Saito, from left, Mai Shiraishi and Yumi Wakatsuki listen during an interview
in a studio at the Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc. headquarters in Tokyo. (Bloomberg News
photo by Kiyoshi Ota).
Much of Japan's strength can be attributed to acts like AKB48, which
has boosted sales of music in physical
formats through innovative marketing such as CDs packaged with tickets to the handshake events and ballots that let fans vote online for their
favorite singers.
AKB48's miniskirted members
perform in three groups of about 20
each at the 250-seat theater. Formed
in 2005, AKB48 is the nation's topselling girl band, spawning three sister acts in Japan and two abroad. Sony
Corp., which has the second- largest
share of Japan's music market, started
a rival group called Nogizaka 46 last
year to compete with AKB48, a Sony
artist before leaving in 2008 for closely held King Record Co.
"Sony Music is betting its future
to grow this idol group," Yasushi
Akimoto, the lyricist and producer
for Nogizaka 46 — and producer of
AKB48 — says on the Nogizaka website.
Behind the success of Japan's girl
groups is "a drastic change in the
relationship with fans by involving
them in the star-making process,"
said Hideki Take, a music commentator and disc jockey in Tokyo. After
being chosen in amateur auditions,
prospective new group members perform in small theaters where fans vote
on which members will be featured.
"Unlike most stars selected by executives at recording companies, it's a
fan-centered system," Take said. "The
fans feel they are part of the success."
AKB48's singing and dancing teens
are divided into three teams — A, K
and B — that rotate performances
every evening in a theater above a
discount store in Tokyo's Akihabara
district. Several times a year, they also
hold events where tens of thousands
of followers gather at convention halls
across Japan for a chance to briefly
meet their girl-band idols.
Nogizaka 46 is following a similar
script, part of an effort by Sony to
shore up domestic sales that have fallen in spite of the industry's strength.
Sony says its Japan music sales
dropped to 167 billion yen in the year
ended March from 174 billion yen a
year earlier.
That decline helped bump Sony
from the lead in Japanese music sales.
The company had a 14.4 percent
share of the country's music market last year, 0.5 points behind Avex
Group Holdings Inc., according to researcher Oricon Inc. Sony's troubles
in entertainment have prompted in-
vestor Daniel Loeb to propose selling
as much as 20 percent of its music and
movie business.
Analysts say the strength of Japan's
music market could be short-lived.
Sales of CDs and other physical media to consumers dropped 6 percent
in the first five months of 2013 from a
year earlier, according to the recording industry association. And the U.S.
still accounts for more total musicrelated revenue when including subscription and streaming service fees
and licensing for films and ads.
"We may appear to be in better
shape than other markets, but music companies here aren't feeling
optimistic," said Yusuke Nakagawa,
president of Asobisystem Co., a talent
agency.
The challenge for Japan's music
industry is creating similarly intense
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PHOTOS
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in a kelp forest at Cortes
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Austin Gallagher of Florida won third place in the student category in the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine
and Atmospheric Science photo contest with this portrait of an oceanic white tip shark, top; Marcello DiFrancesco of Italy
earned second-place honors for his image of a greater blue-ringed octopus, bottom. (Photo credits: Austin Gallagher;
Marcello DiFrancesco.)
Pietro Cremone of Italy won third-best wide-angle shot for his picture showing raccoon butterflyfish and angelfish in the Red Sea.
(Photo credit: Pietro Cremone.)
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24 Hours of LeMons: An Amateur Car Race
and a Party Collide
By Dave Sheinin
The idea was end that saw team Vicious Regress
intriguing on its limp the Monza valiantly around the
face: The cen- racetrack 108 times, despite all sorts
tral concept of of mechanical calamities and her inLeMons is that herent unfitness for such labor, finisheading west out of metro
your car cannot ing 86th out of 97 entries before her
Washington early that Fribe worth more engine died a noble death in a haze
day morning, they were just
than $500 - be- of white smoke and backfires — did
four friends with nothing more than a
fore mandatory Bartlett's post-race accounting arrive
$500 car and a dream of racing. Well,
safety upgrades, at a total financial outlay of $9,174.43?
plus a loaded RV, a cargo van, a U-Haul
Well, you can start with the rave
tires and brakes.
trailer, a pickup truck, a spare motor,
You race for 10 party.
an engine crane, a jackstand, a full set
From a single race in 2006 at Alhours on Saturof $150 high-performance racing tires
day and another tamont (Calif.) Motorsports Park —
(plus two spares), four fireproof rac41 / 2 on Sunday, the brainchild of a local auto journaling suits and helmets, assorted power
and the car with ist named Jay Lamm — the 24 Hours
tools, a couple of laptop computers, a The 1980 Chevy Monza (31) raced by team Vicious Regress stays (briefly) ahead of the other cars during the 24 hours of LeMons
the most laps of LeMons circuit has grown to inWiFi hotspot, a barbecue grill and a race in June in Summit Point, W.Va.. (Washington Post photo by Jonathan Newton)
at the end wins clude, in 2013, a total of 19 events in
cooler full of steaks, chicken, eggs and
W. VA., each of the four members of away, the interior gutted and all un- the grand prize of $1,500, paid out in 12 states.
thick-cut bacon.
In that inaugural race, there were
Oh, and also: a standalone bar, three team Vicious Regress — ringleader necessary parts, such as the catalytic nickels.
Picture a junkyard full of aban- 33 cars and 165 drivers, most of
kegs of Fat Tire Amber Ale, one keg- Matt Bartlett, 43, of Washington; his converter and muffler, removed —
erator, 3 1/2 cases of canned beer (in girlfriend, Barbara Hale, 42, of Alex- and race for some 14 1 / 2 hours that doned junkers. Now, picture those them Lamm's buddies. But by 2012,
case the kegs went dry), two cases of andria, Va.; his Washington neighbor, weekend against another hundred or cars brought back to life, wearing Hal- the LeMons races attracted around
Fireball cinnamon whiskey, a stereo, a Max Self, 33; and Dale Cruickshank, so fellow amateurs with similarly dis- loween costumes and racing around a 2,900 cars and 8,900 drivers. (At $500
laser-light-show system, a dance cage, 57, of Broadland, Va. — had to be posable cars on a real 2.2-mile racetrack hundreds of times. And if you to register a car at each race, plus a
get "black-flagged" for any impropri- $100 fee per driver, with a minimum
some neon spray paint and magic wondering, to varying degrees, just track with 22 turns?
eties,
such
It certainly appeared so.
markers, several strands of outdoor what in the holy creation they had
Across this great land, on splendid as bumping
lights, one men's scuba suit (complete gotten themselves into.
Were the four of them (none of weekends such as this, there are NAS- another car
with snorkel and mask), assorted
passing
neon wigs and various rave-party- whom had ever raced a single lap, CAR races full of $300,000 ground- or
whether in a racecar or any other mo- rockets, hospitality tents, jam-packed during a yelthemed costume paraphernalia.
But leaving all that aside, they were torized vehicle, in their lives) actually grandstands and network TV cam- low flag, you
get hit with
just four friends with nothing more going to take turns getting behind the eras.
And then there is the race our four any number
than a $500 car and a dream of racing. wheel of their stripped-down, raveSome 90 minutes later, as the cara- painted, 90-horsepower, four-cylin- intrepid heroes were heading to — of assorted
van pulled into the paddock area of der 1980 Chevy Monza — or what "24 Hours of LeMons" (yes, that's hokey penalSummit Point Motorsports Park in was left of it after half the roof was cut LeMons with an "o," pronounced like ties — from
to
the fruit), which is essentially what having
NASCAR would be if you stripped make a repaway all the money, the pretensions lica of your
and the fans, and added copious car out of Wile-E-Coyote rides a rocket around the pit area after the first day of racing in the
24 hours of LeMons race in June in Summit Point, W.Va. (Washington Post photo
amounts of twisted humor and spot- Play-Doh to by Jonathan Newton)
being driven
weld ingenuity.
This certainly seemed like a good around the
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humiliation, LeMons has pretty much
taken the sting from it."
LeMons races have become so popular, in fact, that Lamm — whose official title is Chief Perpetrator — and
his staff have to be selective in regards
to whom they let in. The racetracks
can only accommodate so many cars.
So what gets your application past
the organizing committee and your
hooptie to the starting line? Creativity and fun. Which is to say, a good
theme.
Somewhere along the way, the
LeMons circuit became a traveling
Halloween show, where, that weekend at Summit Point, a 1993 Mitsubishi Eclipse decorated to look like a
turtle (team name: "Turtle Eclipse of
the Heart") might go wheel-to-wheel
with a 1971 Sea Sprite boat mounted
to a Chevy S-10 pickup chassis and
a 1999 Subaru Forester done up as a
school bus.
Matt and Barbara quickly decided
on their theme: a rave party. The
Monza, purchased for $200 from a
group in Charlotte, N.C., that had
raced it once in a 2011 LeMons race,
would be painted with wild, bright
colors. Their paddock would morph
at night into a rave, complete with a
dance floor, a handmade dance cage,
a fully stocked bar, a laser-light system and loud, pulsating music. Oh,
and - somewhat incongruously — a
scuba suit.
"I was at a rave once," Matt explained, "and some guy was wearing
a scuba suit. I thought it was the funniest thing I'd ever seen. Once we decided to do this, I knew I had to get a
scuba suit."
Their team name would be Vicious
Regress, an obscure philosophy concept the meaning of which Matt defines as "the solution to the problem
is the problem itself." For example,
"the solution to a hangover is to keep
drinking."
Their application sailed through.
As for their utter lack of racing experience, that was hardly viewed as a
negative.
"Beginners aren't as bad as guys that
know enough to get in trouble," explained rules official "Judge" Phil Greden, who serves as "Chief Justice of
LeMons Supreme Court." "The worst
drivers are the ones with enough
skills to get going really fast before
they wipe out."
From a starting point of $200, the
price of the Monza, the costs soon
started to rise exponentially.
Matt is an occasional car-tinkerer
who, in 2002, rebuilt a 1973 Land
Rover Series-3 109. He paid $305 for a
Holly carburetor and installed it himself. The sign-up costs for the LeMons
race came out to nearly a grand. Since
the Monza had been raced in a LeMons race before, he thought he had a
free pass on all the safety equipment.
But the organizers had recently
toughened the safety standards, so
Matt had to get a new roll-cage and
racing seat installed. Add new brakes
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Team Vicious Regress, Matt Bartlett, Barb Hale and Max Self with other spectators, watch the engine
of their Chevy Monza smoke after it blew up during the 24 hours of LeMons race in June in Summit
Point, W.Va. (Washington Post photo by Jonathan Newton)
and tires, and the safety add-ons
came out to $3,400.
On the Friday of each race weekend, cars must pass two inspections
— a tech inspection for safety, and
an under-the-hood "B.S." inspection
to make sure you didn't go over the
$500 limit. Violators are docked one
lap for every $10 over the limit. Having gone $5 over — with his $200 car
and his $305 carburetor — Matt knew
enough about LeMons culture to
know the inspectors could be bribed,
preferably with a bottle of alcohol,
to look the other way at minor cost
overruns.
As team Vicious Regress pulled in
for inspection, Matt wore, per LeMons tradition, his scuba suit and Hale
wore her rave-appropriate miniskirt
and neon pink wig. Drivers from
other teams gathered around to check
out the Monza, part of an ill-fated
Chevrolet line that lasted from 1975
to 1980. Its Iron Duke engine is widely ridiculed in auto circles as one of
the weakest ever built.
"Is that a Monza?" one fellow competitor marveled.
"Is that an Iron Duke?" another
chimed in. "Holy crap."
But the Monza passed her B.S. inspection — thanks in no small part to
the bottle of Fireball whiskey that was
passed along to Judge Phil — and was
a faulty brake light shy of passing the
tech inspection. Just get that fixed by
the 10 a.m. Saturday start time, Judge
Phil said, and team Vicious Regress
would be good to go. That wasn't
going to be a problem. Matt may
not have been the best mechanic in
these paddocks, but by gosh he could
change a busted brake light.
To a man — and a woman (Barb
being one of about a dozen females
out of a total of around 400 drivers in
the race) — the members of team Vicious Regress had one goal: to finish
the race. But in hindsight, that faulty
brake light was like a sign from the
racing gods that very little that weekend was going to go as planned.
Before the Monza had even hit
the track, someone noticed one of
the brand-new $150 tires had a flat.
("You gotta be kidding me," Matt
said. "These tires have zero miles on
them!") Off came the flat tire, on went
one of the spares.
They took the car out for some
practice laps on Friday with the brake
light still dark. She ran fine, except for
the fact the brakes felt very unresponsive.
For three of the four drivers — everyone but Matt — it was their first
time driving the Monza. ("I was trying to come off [the track] at the end,"
Barb reported afterward, "and I kept
trying to reach for the turn signal!")
And for one of them, it would be
the last time behind the wheel. Dale,
older and burlier than the rest, decided after his practice run that his
size made it too uncomfortable, and
he would relinquish his racing laps to
the others. It worked out well in the
end, because one of the kegs needed
some carbon dioxide, so Dale soon
headed off in search of some, returning an hour or so later as a conquering hero.
While Barb lit the grill and Max
began assembling the dance cage
that would be the centerpiece of that
night's rave, Matt went to work on the
brake light. It was shortly after 7 p.m.,
but by 8:30, when he finally paused
to eat a steak, it still wasn't fixed. He
changed the bulb, checked the wiring.
Nothing. He took a look around the
paddocks at all the hard-core mechanical work going on.
"Those guys are over there swapping
out an engine," he lamented, "and I
can't get the brake light to go on."
This being LeMons — and not, say,
LeMans — it took nothing more than
swallowed pride for Matt to walk over
to the paddock next door and ask for
help. Luckily for him, that paddock
happened to belong to Scott Glenn, a
master auto mechanic from Ashland,
Va., and his brother Stacy, an electrician. It was also their first LeMons
race.
After some flashlight-powered investigating, they determined that the
brake switch had failed. Scott could
get the brake light lit if he could get
his hands on another brake switch
or even a clutch switch. Matt went
around to the other paddocks in
search of one.
"Would a door switch work?" he finally came back and asked.
And so, a guy racing a 1984 Toyota Celica GT-S took a door switch
bummed off a 1987 Mazda RX-7 and
rigged it — using a ziptie and a hose
clamp — into a brake switch for a
1980 Chevy Monza.
"At no other race could you walk
up to the guy next door and say, 'I
need help,' " said Stacy Glenn, shak-
ing his head. "Anywhere else, they'd
be like, 'Naw, man, I'm trying to beat
you.' "But the trials and tribulations
for team Vicious Regress were only
getting started. As the music started
thumping and the laser-lights blinked and danced and an assortment of
characters from paddocks near and
far climbed into the cage one by one
to the hoots and hollers of the swelling crowd of grease-stained ravers,
the Monza sat there and rested, as
if steeling herself for the Herculean
tasks she would be asked to perform
the next day.
At 9 a.m. Saturday, an hour before
the green flag would drop at Summit
Point Motorsports Park, this was the
state of the Monza: She was up on
jacks, the hood open, the two rear
tires off. A Starbucks cup sat on the
roof and a plastic fork in the wheelbed. Matt was underneath the car,
cursing.
"Drama," Barb explained succinctly.
As it happened, the Monza's brakes
had bigger problems than just a faulty
light. The pressure valve in the rear
brake line had failed, causing all the
fluid to leak out. Turns out, they had
run those practice laps on Friday with
essentially no working rear brakes.
And so, back to the paddock next
door went Matt, looking for some
more help from Scott Glenn, who
— as the sound of revving engines
roared all around them, the race having started at 10:03 a.m. — eventually
rigged up some working brakes by
plugging the brake line and bypassing
the valve.
At 10:21 a.m., 18 minutes late to the
starting line, the Monza was finally on
the track, with Matt behind the wheel.
At 11:16 a.m., Matt came off the
track for a driver switch. "Man," he
exclaimed, "I got passed by a boat!"
At 11:27 a.m., Max hit the track.
At 12:02 p.m., Max came back with
a problem: The gear shifter was completely loose from the transmission. "I
tried to downshift into third," he said,
"and the shifter went right up into the
dash."
And so it went. Scott tried to spotweld their shifter to the frame, but
it soon came loose again. Matt went
off in search of a piece of steel to reinforce it and Scott spot-welded it
again. This time it held, but by that
time, they had lost nearly three hours.
"This car," Max said at one point
to no one in particular, "is a piece of
crap."
Barb got her turn behind the wheel
— "I just don't want to wreck the car
or get black-flagged for being too
slow," she said — and returned with
everything, including herself, in one
piece.
But then, calamity struck. At 7:46
p.m., 14 minutes before the end of Saturday's 10-hour session, Matt limped
her back in, white smoke pouring out
of the hood and the sound of backfires pop-pop-popping. "It won't shut
off," Bartlett said.
It was pretty much over at that point
for team Vicious Regress. The engine was blown, and while Matt had
gone to great lengths to bring along
an extra, it would have taken him all
night to get it in, if he could do it at
all. And that would eat into the rave
time. When Sunday dawned — following an epic rave that lasted until
3 a.m. - our four intrepid heroes had
conceded defeat.
Matt had no regrets. And secretly,
he had already started making plans
to do another LeMons race in Charlotte in September.
"Next time, it will be 100 times easier. We'll know what to bring, what not
to bring, and we won't have to shell
out so much money up front," he said.
"The racing out there was so exhilarating. You can go pay 300 bucks for
the 'NASCAR experience' and drive
a racecar around a track three times.
But that's nothing compared to being
out there with 100 other cars and racing around a track for two days - even
though I was terrible at it."
Even after the mysterious flat tire
and the faulty brake light and the
busted brake-line valve and the
shredded gear-shifter and the blown
engine - even after all that, there was
still one last indignity that would befall team Vicious Regress and their
valiant little Monza.
Late Saturday night, they were
pushing her toward Scott Glenn's
paddock next door, in desperate
hopes — futile, as they turned out —
that he could get the engine running
again. Matt was outside the driverside door, leaning in, his hand on the
steering wheel, guiding her in.
All of a sudden, the steering wheel
snapped off in his hand, column
and all. Everyone else just gasped or
stared blankly, wondering the same
awful thing: What if that had happened on the track?
But Matt just looked at the steering
wheel in his hand, smiled and made a
mental note: Next time, make sure the
steering wheel is on right.
MUSIC FROM PAGE 15
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fan loyalty outside Japan, said Damian Thong, an analyst at Macquarie
Group Ltd. in Tokyo. AKB48's backers have launched groups in Shanghai
(SNH48) and Jakarta (JKT48) to extend the franchise.
"AKB48's innovation was not, in a
sense, making new music, but in creating a new kind of immediacy and
new kind of connection to the fan
base," Thong said.
Nogizaka 46 still has a long way
to go before catching AKB48. Sony's
group sold 303,474 CD singles of
its biggest hit, "Seifuku no Mannequin," or "Mannequin in Uniform,"
in the first half of this year. That
was dwarfed by AKB48's "Sayonara
Crawl," the No. 1 release, which sold
1.9 million copies.
Sony auditioned 38,934 girls to select 33 members for the group. The
company is adding 13 new members
this year after a second round of auditions in May. Among the members
fans can meet is 16-year-old Erika
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in sports. He
didn't play Little
League or Pop
Warner, but his
parents could
hear him calling
e come to you from
games from his
the Palmetto State,
bedroom.
Fort Mill, South Caro"He was allina, just across the border from North
ways
sharp
Carolina. Game three of a four-game
and so quickset between the Charlotte Knights, the
witted,"
Rob
Triple-A affiliate of the White Sox, and
said. "He had
the Syracuse Chiefs, the Triple-A affilia better grasp
ate for the Washington Nationals.
of the English
"With Kevin Brown inside network
language by 6
headquarters, Jason Benetti here along
than I probably
with you. . ."
do now. He was
Jason Benetti, 29, scanned over his
just a gifted orascorecard to read the day's lineups.
tor."
His deep, booming voice is not apBenetti mempropriate for a nice restaurant, but
orized
every
it's perfect here, this old radio booth, Jason Benetti, the voice of the Syracuse Chiefs, prepares his notes prior to a game against the Charlotte Knights last month in Fort
Hill, S.C. (Washington Post photo by Jonathan Newton)
statistic
posbarely bigger than a walk-in closet.
sible. In junior
Ever since he first sat behind a radio microphone in high school, this is By now, in his fourth season calling ing to him, it's the last thing anyone high, he ran the school's NCAA tournament pool, and in high school he
Chiefs games, Benetti walks through cares about.
where he's felt most comfortable.
"He has no crutches whatsoever," discovered radio.
"Nobody sees me," he said. "The in- the team's clubhouse and no one even
Homewood-Floosmoor High owns
Syracuse Manager Tony Beasley said.
hibitions, whichever existed, they're looks up.
"He fits right in with the rest of the "I see a young man that's very intel- and operates a 1,500-watt station, one
all gone."
Benetti shuffles through Class AAA guys here," outfielder Corey Brown ligent, that's very into what he does. of the largest high school-run operaBut at the same time, he doesn't want tions in the country. Benetti learned
ballparks flat footed, his knees point- said. "Just like family."
the ins and outs of radio there, broadBenetti's gait might be the first any help. He's very independent."
ed in the wrong direction, each joint
"The 2-2 pitch. Fouled away. That casting sports updates and providing
awkwardly negotiating with the next thing anyone notices, but after talkball just fell short of the P.A. booth to play-by-play of the school's sports
— the lasting effects of cerebral palsy.
our right. That same window was shat- teams.
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Benetti's approach hasn't changed
much since college. He's a perfectionist but works best without a script. "I
figure if I'm enjoying it, maybe the
listeners are, too," he said.
He notices every detail of every
game. Next to his scorecard, eight colored pens sit side-by-side. The orange
one is for strikeouts. Walks are noted
in green, runs in blue.
Benetti finished college in 2005 and
after a couple of seasons as the Chiefs'
No. 2 broadcaster he moved to Salem,
Va., to call games for what was then a
minor league affiliate of the Houston
Astros. He enjoyed baseball, but still
felt tugged by something bigger.
In 2008, he enrolled in law school
at Wake Forest, juggling scorecards
with legal briefs. After returning to
the Chiefs in 2009, he took a side job
with the Burton Blatt Institute at Syracuse, helping with disability policy
research.
"It was something I cared about,"
he said, "something that's obviously
close to my heart."
Broadcasting more than 120 baseball games a year — in addition to a
full schedule of high school football
and an assortment of college basketball games — forced him to study
his law texts and complete online
coursework at odd hours. He took a
toxic torts exam from the team hotel
in Scranton, Pa. The morning of Stephen Strasburg's first start for Syracuse in 2010, Benetti, who doubles as
the Chiefs' media relations director,
missed a half-dozen calls about Strasburg's media availability.
By the time he graduated from law
school in May 2011, Benetti decided
to postpone taking the bar. Something else had popped up, something
he never could've imagined when he
was younger: a budding television
career.
"McDade with a shot, hooking down
the line. Will it stay fair? Yes. A home
run for Mike McDade to tie it up. . .
. Quite a ballgame we have here. The
remaining question: How will it end?
Also, when will it end? That could
be the slogan for the 2013 Syracuse
Chiefs."
Benetti served as an adjunct professor at Syracuse last semester, teaching
television broadcasting. He told his
students to remain confident speak__________________
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Athletes' Steroid Use May Encourage
Teens, Baseball Hall Study Says
By Erik Matuszewski
Bloomberg News
A
National Baseball Hall of
Fame- funded survey found
66 percent of Americans believe that hearing about steroid use
by professional athletes encourages
adolescents to take performance-enhancing drugs.
The Hall of Fame had one of its
most scrutinized votes this year, with
Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds both
snubbed, adding Major League Baseball's two most-decorated players to
the list of retired All-Stars bypassed
because of links to doping. Cyclist
Lance Armstrong was stripped of his
seven Tour de France titles last year
after acknowledging he used performance enhancers.
Results of the Hall of Fame's study
released May 2nd showed that while
94 percent of the public believes using steroids without a prescription to
get ahead in sports is cheating, only
19 percent consider steroid use a "big
problem" among those under age
18. That compares to 55 percent for
alcohol use, 52 percent for bullying,
50 percent for obesity, 46 percent for
marijuana use and 27 percent for eating disorders.
"In addition to believing that steroid use is about enhancing athletic
performance, the public also believes
that professional athletes play an
important role in influencing adolescents' decision to use steroids," according to the study. "The majority of
BENETTI FROM PAGE 18
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ing in front of the camera, something
that didn't always come easy to him.
On radio, he's just a voice. But on
television, Benetti felt he had to try
harder to make sure fans focused on
his words.
He does 20 Chiefs games on TV for
Time Warner Sports, plus high school
football games on Thursday and Friday nights. The past couple of years,
ESPN has called on him to broadcast
college games for ESPNU and ESPN3
online.
"Jason got the job because of his
ability," said Chris Farrow, coordinating producer for ESPNU and ESPN
Regional Television. "I like his voice,
the energy, passion. He has a great attitude."
Benetti tells his students that first
impressions matter, even as he spends
a lot of energy on- and off-camera
focusing on second impressions. In
stores, employees treat him like he's
lost or hard of hearing. In airports
they thrust canes and wheelchairs on
him.
"It used to get me mad," he said.
"But now, I understand, I need them
the public believe that hearing about
professional athletes using steroids
encourages use among adolescents;
the public does not believe it discourages use."
The Hall of Fame, the Taylor Hooton Foundation and the Professional
Baseball Athletic Trainers Society
joined with the Center for Social Development and Education and the
Center for Survey Research at the
University of Massachusetts Boston
on the study, which they said was
the "most comprehensive national
opinion survey to date to assess the
public's knowledge, perceptions and
beliefs about the use of performanceenhancing drugs among adolescents."
Of the 1,002 adults surveyed nationwide by telephone in an unspecified
timeframe, 17 percent believe that
steroid use is a big problem among
high-school athletes, versus 46 percent among college athletes and 63
percent among professional athletes,
according to the study.
The Hall of Fame said in its summary that it is "concerning" that little
attention is paid in the media to steroid use among teenagers.
"Even if every single player in Major League Baseball used steroids,
that would be approximately 1,300
users, when in contrast, considering
that there are about 16 million private
and public high-school students in
the U.S., between 350,000 to almost
a million are using steroids illegally,"
the Hall of Fame said in its summary,
citing statistics from the U.S. Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention.
to go home and think about the next
time they see someone who looks different, just talk normal, have a regular
conversation, don't make assumptions."
"Two to one, the final score here.
Charlotte with the victory to bump
the Knights' record to 31-42, Chiefs
are now 28-42. And we'll do it again
tomorrow. . . . For Kevin Brown inside
network headquarters. Jason Benetti saying see ya later from Fort Mill,
South Carolina. The Charlotte Knights
pull it out, 2-1, on the Syracuse Chiefs
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is important for educational efforts
to try to solve the steroid problem
among adolescents. Researchers
called for more investigation of motivations and patterns for steroid use,
when teenagers might start using steroids, and the awareness of negative
health effects.
Ninety-seven percent of those surveyed said they believe there are negative health effects from using steroids.
Seventy-five percent of the public
said they support mandatory testing of high-school athletes to reduce
steroid use. When given a choice,
however, 56 percent said they prefer
educational programs over mandatory testing (44 percent).
The survey sample had an average
age of 52.6 years, with 52 percent
male.
This year was the first since 1996
that the Baseball Writers Association of America didn't elect anyone
to the Hall of Fame, with eligible
candidates needing to receive at least
75 percent of the vote. Some baseball writers, fans, players and Hall of
Fame members such as Reggie Jackson have argued that those tainted
by performance-enhancing drug use
should be kept out of the shrine in
Cooperstown, New York, while others maintain the 1980s and 1990s was
simply an era of widespread steroid
use in baseball.
1. Who was the last Detroit Tigers player
before Miguel Cabrera (2011-12) to lead the
American League in batting average in consecutive seasons?
Clemens, who won a record seven
Cy Young Awards as the best pitcher
in his league, was accused of using
steroids and human growth hormone
in a 2007 report by former U.S. Senator George Mitchell. He was acquitted
by a federal court jury in Washington
of lying to Congress about steroid
use. Bonds, a record seven- time Most
Valuable Player and baseball's all-time
home run leader, was also identified
by the Mitchell Report as a steroid
user and was convicted of obstructMUSIC FROM PAGE 17
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Ikuta, a front-line performer who
says she enjoys shaking thousands of
hands a day.
"At these events, I learn my fans are
paying so much more attention to me
than I could ever imagine," Ikuta said
before the group's dance practice at
Sony Music's Japan headquarters. "It
gives me a supportive push."
Fans like Yuka Kimura love it, too.
Kimura traveled more than an hour
from Tokyo for an AKB48 handshake
event in Chiba prefecture with 10
tickets, which she got by purchasing
10 identical CDs at 1,000 yen each.
Those allowed her to line up multiple
times to meet her favorite singers —
though each encounter lasts less than
2. In 2012, the Angels' Kendrys Morales became the third major-leaguer to homer from
both sides of the plate in the same inning.
Name the first two to do it.
3. Who has the longest tenure as the Cincinnati Bengals' head coach?
4. How many times has Louisville's men's
basketball team reached the Final Four?
5. Name the last time the current Winnipeg
Jets franchise reached the NHL playoffs.
6. Who is the only player to score in every season of soccer's English Premier League?
7. In 2013, light heavyweight Bernard Hopkins, 48, became the oldest boxer to win a major
title. Who had held the age record?
ing justice in a grand jury investigation of drug use in sports. Clemens
received 37.6 percent of the vote this
year, while Bonds was named on 36.2
percent of ballots from the BBWAA.
The BBWAA ballot includes the
sentence: "Voting shall be based upon
the player's record, playing ability, integrity, sportsmanship, character, and
contributions to the team(s) on which
the player played."
© 2013, Bloomberg News. ■
five seconds and no photos or autographs are allowed.
"It's worth paying the price," Kimura said. "Even just for a few seconds, I
get to meet my favorite member, and
that's fun."
— With assistance from Masahiro
Watanabe, Naoko Fujimura and Kyoji
Iwai in Tokyo.
Old Guys
I pointed to two old drunks sitting
across the bar from us and told my
friend, "That's us in 10 years".
He said, "That's a mirror you idiot!”
■
Answers
1. Ty Cobb, 1917-19.
2. Cleveland's Carlos Baerga (1993) and
Mark Bellhorn of the Chicago Cubs (2002).
3. Marvin Lewis has coached the team for 10
seasons (2003-12).
4. Ten times, winning the championship in
1980, 1986 and 2013.
5. It was 2007, when the franchise was based
in Atlanta.
6. Ryan Giggs, who has had at least one goal
in 23 seasons.
7. It was also Bernard Hopkins, who won the
WBC light heavyweight title in 2011 at age 46.
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What's the Deal?
By K.C. Summers and
Andrea Sachs
Washington Post
T
his week's best travel bargains
around the globe.
— Abercrombie & Kent
is offering savings on select 2013
small-group journeys to destinations
around the globe. For example, save
$1,000 per person on the Sept. 21 departure of its Highlights of Costa Rica
tour. The trip, now $2,560 per person
double, includes seven nights at four
properties; 14 meals; land transportation; sightseeing tours and guides;
transfers; and taxes. International air
and $590 for regional flights are extra. No booking deadline, but promo
is based on availability. Info: 800-5547094, www.abercrombiekent.com/
travel_specials.
— G Adventures is celebrating the
launch of the newly acquired and refurbished 32-passenger Queen Violeta with 40 percent off its Amazon
Riverboat Adventure cruises. The
eight-night trip starts at $1,500 per
person double (a savings of $1,000)
for four departures in July and August. Price includes two nights' lodging in Lima; round-trip flight between
Lima and Iquitos, Peru; six-night
cruise on the Amazon, Marañon and
Ucayali rivers; airport transfers; shore
excursions; and taxes. Request code
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— Book Crystal Cruises' new
Christmas and New Year's cruise to
Antarctica by Aug. 30 and save $600.
A deluxe stateroom on the Crystal
Symphony starts at $9,740 per person
double (down from $10,340), plus
fees of $530. Returning Crystal guests
receive an extra $230 off the fare. The
18-day cruise departs Buenos Aires
on Dec. 21 and sails around Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, the Falkland Islands, Drake Passage, Cape Horn and
the Chilean Fjords, plus three days of
cruising Antarctica. Info: 888-7994625, www.crystalcruises.com.
— Tourism New Zealand and Air
Tahiti Nui are offering free land extras
in two countries. Book round-trip
air from Los Angeles to New Zealand on Air Tahiti Nui and receive a
three-night stay at the Radisson Plaza
Resort Tahiti (normally about $200
a night) or a seven-day compact car
rental in New Zealand (about $323),
plus a stopover in Tahiti. Book by July
18; travel Oct. 15-April 30. Flights
start at $1,298 round trip, including
taxes. (Promo fare is sold out Dec.
15-Jan. 15.) Seven-day minimum
stay required. Call 877-824-4846 to
book departure, return and stopover
dates; reserve the hotel within 10 days
of flight booking. Info: www.airtahitinui-usa.com/tahitistopover2013/
default.asp.
— AirTran Airways has sale fares
to Mexico and the Caribbean. For example, fly round-trip from BWI Marshall to Aruba from about $366; fares
on other airlines start at about $540.
Travel Aug. 20 through Dec. 18 (except Nov. 26 through Dec. 3). Some
dates are sold out. Purchase by July 11
at www.airtran.com or pay $15 more
by calling 800-247-8726.
Correction - In last week's issue, this
column listed an incorrect Web site
for one of the businesses participating
in a Hotel Week Caribe special. The
correct Web site for the DoubleTree
San Juan is http://bit.ly/11SoeLa
- Prices were verified at press time
last Thursday, but deals sell out and
availability is not guaranteed. Some
restrictions may apply.
Travel Q and A
Q
: I'm planning a quick jaunt
to St. Augustine, Fla., with my
mother, who likes old towns.
Any suggestions on where to stay?
Casa Monica looks very historic, and
it's right in town.
A: If you like old towns, you can't
do much better in North America
than St. Augustine. It's the nation's
oldest permanently occupied European settlement. I really like your
choice of the Casa Monica, which is
also fittingly historic. You might also
consider the Hilton St. Augustine or,
if you're looking for a bed-and-breakfast experience, the St. George Inn.
— Christopher Elliott
Q: I'll be in Vancouver in August
and want to do a side trip to Victoria.
Can I do it all in one day or should I
spend two? I want to see the Butchart
Gardens, but I also want to spend
time downtown. What else should I
see?
A: I'd do two days. You can spend
several hours at the gardens, which
are also a nice place to have a relaxing
afternoon tea. If you can, see about
renting a car, because you'll be able to
experience more of the island's spectacular scenery. Heading up Highway
1 (the Trans-Canada Highway) also
takes you through beautiful country,
and there are various towns you can
stop in along the coast. Vancouver
Island is also prime wildlife-viewing
territory, and you can look into a
bear- or whale-watching expedition.
— Becky Krystal
Q: My husband and I are planning
to spend a day and a half in Amsterdam in October. Could you give us a
list of attractions that we can cover
in a day? We'd like to avoid art museums.
A: Really? Some of the best art in
the world is in Amsterdam! But here's
a list of non-art-museum attractions:
the Anne Frank House, the Rembrandt House Museum, a canal boat
tour, the Jewish Historical Museum,
the red-light district (yes, it's a tourist
attraction), the Amsterdam Museum
(city history).
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A: I would avoid the group tour
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for everyone on the bus to shop, use
bathrooms, etc., so it's a slow-go.
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the heat. The ruins in Tulum, for example, open at 8 a.m., but most of the
tour buses don't get there till later.
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Q: I'll finally get a taste of Paris next
month on a 36-hour visit. On my
main day, I plan to walk around to
see the main sights: the Eiffel Tower,
Notre Dame and the Arc de Triomphe. Any other must-sees?
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Lisa" and "The Winged Victory of
Samothrace"! I also love Sacre Coeur
in Montmartre — the view from the
top is wonderful. And the Hotel des
Invalides (Napoleon's Tomb) and the
Pantheon (tombs of other greats).
And I'd send you to the Rodin Museum, but it's so popular now, you
might not get in.
— Zofia Smardz
Q: I'm meeting a beau for a July
weekend in New York and am desperate for something fun that will get us
out of the sweltering city.
A: Perhaps I've been watching too
much "Royal Pains" lately, but a trip to
the Hamptons could be fun. Or take
the ferry from Montauk to Rhode Island's beautiful Block Island. Or head
to the Hudson River Valley.
— Becky Krystal
Q: My wife and I are taking our four
young-adult children (ages 25-31) to
Europe for Thanksgiving week. We'll
rent a house to serve as a base from
which to explore, preferably with
public transportation. Do you have
suggestions for a location? The issues
are November weather and enough to
keep us busy.
A: I'd probably go to Spain, maybe
Barcelona. The weather should be
pretty decent then, and young adults
would have fun there.
— Carol Sottili
Q: We've always wanted to take a
cruise through Alaska but currently
have a 20-month-old toddler and are
wondering whether we'd be better off
waiting until she's older.
A: Cruise lines in Alaska are doing
a better job of catering to children,
but I'd probably wait just because the
most interesting shore excursions
might be a bit much for a toddler.
— Carol Sottili
Q: I have the opportunity to join
a relatively cheap week-long tour of
Beijing and Shanghai this fall. The
one thing I'm dreading is the time in
the plane. I'll check to see if there are
any "expanded leg room" seats available in coach. How long is a direct
flight from JFK to Beijing?
A: A nonstop flight to Beijing from
JFK apppears to be about 13 to 14
hours. Quite long, but not unbearably so. An economy-plus seat would
make a huge difference, though; I'd
highly recommend that you try to get
one.
— Zofia Smardz
Q: In our minds, my husband and
I and our 12-year-old are headed to
Hawaii on July 31 for 12 days. In reality, we've done nothing to make
this happen! We have a vague idea of
three nights in Oahu to see a friend
and then eight nights in Maui. We just
want to do all the usual touristy things
and stay in a luxury property. We're
trying to keep it at around $15,000.
Can you offer some guidance?
A: With that kind of budget, you
should have no trouble putting together a vacation. You could go
through a travel agent — Hawaii's
tourism office offers a service where
you plug in your Zip code and you'll
see a list of travel agents who specialize in Hawaii. Or look at tour operator offerings: Pleasant Holidays and
United Vacations are two that offer
packages.
— Carol Sottili
Q. Is there a "bad" time to visit Costa Rica? How does October-November sound to you?
A. It gets pretty rainy in September
and October, the height of the rainy
season, which ends mid-November.
You might try pushing into November, and make sure that you check
the weather in the particular regions
you're visiting, because there are
some major differences.
— Joe Yonan
Q. My mother is spending a few
days in Amsterdam this fall. She's in
her 70s, in good health and pretty
sophisticated in her tastes. The Rijksmuseum and the Anne Frank House
seem obvious sites to visit. She'd want
to stay far from the marijuana and
prostitution scene. Where else should
she visit?
A. Would she be up for a canal boat
tour? They're really interesting and
pleasurable. I'd hit the Van Gogh Museum and maybe the Stedelijk if she
likes modern art. Also the Rembrandt
House. And the Jewish Historical
Museum.
— Zofia Smardz
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The Impossible "Literacy" Test Louisiana Gave Black Voters in the 1960s
By Rebecca Onion
Slate
T
he recent Supreme
Court decision in
Shelby County v.
Holder overturned Section
4(b) of the 1965 Voting Rights
Act, which mandated federal
oversight of changes in voting procedure in jurisdictions
that have a history of using
a "test or device" to impede
enfranchisement. Here is one
example of such a test, used in
Louisiana in 1964.
After the end of the Civil
War, would-be black voters
in the South faced an array of
disproportionate barriers to
enfranchisement. The literacy
test-supposedly
applicable
to both white and black prospective voters who couldn't
prove a certain level of education but in actuality disproportionately administered
to black voters-was a classic
example of one of these barriers.
The website of the Civil
Rights Movement Veterans,
which collects materials related to civil rights, hosts a
few samples of actual literacy
tests used in Alabama, Loui- Take the impossible “literacy” test Louisiana gave black voters in the 1960s. The 3 page test was to be taken in 10 minutes flat, and a single wrong answer meant a failing grade. Above are shown the first and third pages of
siana, and Mississippi during the test. (Louisiana Voter Literacy Test, circa 1964, via the Civil Rights Movement Veterans website.)
the 1950s and 1960s. In many
cases, people working within the
But this Louisiana "literacy" test has
movement collected these in order to nothing to do with citizenship. Deuse them in voter education, which is signed to put the applicant through
how we ended up with this documen- mental contortions, the test's questary evidence.
tions are often confusingly worded.
By Linda Childs
Most of the tests collected here are If some of them seem unanswerSpecial to The New York Eagle News
a battery of trivia questions related to able, that effect was intentional. The
civic procedure and citizenship. (Two (white) registrar would be the ultifrom the Alabama test: "Name the at- mate judge of whether an answer was
Dear Father in Heaven,
torney general of the United States" correct.
As I have been enjoying our daily walks together, I have found myself singing
and "Can you be imprisoned, under
Try this one: "Write every other hymns spontaneously—they just come into my head and often then out of my
Alabama law, for a debt?")
word in this first line and print every mouth! I used to think of hymns as just a part of the weekly church service, or in
third word in same line (original type celebration of Christmas or Easter, something to round out the service nicely, but
smaller and first line ended at com- not something that really had any meaning. Now these hymns are coming into my
ma) but capitalize the fifth word that mind often, and they feel like a natural expression of the joy I feel in being with
you write."
You daily, like musical prayers. I am finding that not only does singing my favorite
Or this: "Write right from the left to hymns add to my joyfulness and give me new forms of expression, they also serve
to help keep You foremost in my mind and life, which is as it should be. As I sing
Sunday after church, a Mom asked the right as you see it spelled here."
There was little room for befuddle- old favorites or learn the words to hymns that I had never committed to memory
her very young daughter what the lesment. The test was to be taken in 10 or even heard before, I am often amazed that the words, to which I had never paid
son was about.
The daughter answered, "Don't be minutes flat, and a single wrong an- much attention in the past, so closely mirror the feelings I have in my heart and
swer meant a failing grade.
soul for You Lord, and for our ever closer relationship. This reminds me that I am
scared, you'll get your quilt."
There was little room for befuddle- not alone in this “closer walk with Thee”, and that many have experienced this
Needless to say, the Mom was
perplexed. Later in the day, the pas- ment. The test was to be taken in 10 miracle for themselves. I pray that many more people who haven’t already, will
tor stopped by for tea and the Mom minutes flat, and a single wrong an- discover the Living God within them, and partake of all the joy, peace, love and
so much more that is to be found there with You. I pray too, that when people sing
asked him what that morning's Sun- swer meant a failing grade.
- Onion contributes to Slate's history hymns of praise, love, thanksgiving, and a relationship with You, that they will
day school lesson was about.
pay attention to the words and sing them with heartfelt meaning and joy. Thank
He said "Be not afraid, thy comfort- blog, The Vault.
You Lord for this most wonderful blessing, and so many others as well.
er is coming." ■
© 2013, Slate. ■
Amen
Prayerful Thoughts
Holy Humor
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hand on the young mother's shoulder.
"It's hot. We're hungry. Nobody is in
a good mood," he said. "So I'd like to
tell a joke. Have you heard that this
bus has 2050 air conditioning? That
means 20 windows down and 50
miles an hour."
The mother appeased him with a
smile. The 2-year-old went back to
eating his sandwich. The meal ended,
and the bus emptied out.
"We got them through it," Bible
said.
"Thank goodness," Anderson said.
"Fifteen minutes and 750 calories,"
Bible said.
"And again tomorrow," Anderson
said.
The bus pulled away.The mother
in pink slippers took her 2-year-old
back to a trailer with no air conditioning. The 12-year-old boy walked
away cursing about bologna. This is
what the bus left behind at every stop
along the route: children who were
not quite satisfied, and whose appetites would build for 23 hours and 45
minutes until the bus returned.
At Cedar Grove, the first stop, all
five Laughren siblings returned to
their single-wide trailer, back into
the vacuum of their summer. Their
mother usually took the family's
only car to work, leaving the children
stranded in the trailer park. Admission to the nearby swimming pool
cost $3 per person and they only had
$4.50 among them. The cable company had cut off their service, and
they had already spent the morning
watching a DVD of "Fast & Furious"
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sions, McKinsey Global Institute said
in a report in 2011.
"It's so cross-functional and you
need multiple skills — you need programming, you need statistics, you
need visualization, you need database
skills," said Harpinder Singh Madan,
co-founder and head of product and
marketing at Slice, a Palo Alto-based
startup that helps consumers track
and analyze their e-mailed receipts.
"The bottom line is that there's no institution that trains for this."
Businesses are improvising, pulling
people from all kinds of backgrounds
that require an understanding of statistics. They're former nuclear physicists to neurosurgeons and marine
biologists, many of whom hold doctorates in their previous domains.
The educational fields of freelancers who listed data analysis as a skill
ranged from computer science — the
most common at 11 percent — to
business, math, economics, industrial
engineering and psychology, figures
from Redwood City-based oDesk
show.
"There are a lot of people who have
experience in statistics, and people
need to look outside the traditional
places" to hire more analysts, said
Bertran Ortiz, the electrical engineering Ph.D. who earns more than
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twice.
"I am so freaking bored," said
Courtney Laughren, 13, walking
over to their refrigerator 21 hours
before the school bus was scheduled
to return. Inside she found leftover
doughnuts, ketchup, hot sauce, milk
and bread. "Desperation time," she
said, reaching for a half-eaten doughnut and closing the door.
Desperation had become their permanent state, defining each of their
lives in different ways. For Courtney,
it meant she had stayed rail thin, with
hand-me-down jeans that fell low
on her hips. For Taylor, 14, it meant
stockpiling calories whenever food
was available, ingesting enough processed sugar and salt to bring on a
doctor's lecture about obesity and
early-onset diabetes, the most common risks of a food-stamp diet. For
Anthony, 9, it meant moving out of
the trailer and usually living at his
grandparents' farm. For Hannah, 7, it
meant her report card had been sent
home with a handwritten note of the
teacher's concerns, one of which read:
"Easily distracted by other people
eating." For Sarah, the 9-month-old
baby, it meant sometimes being fed
Mountain Dew out of the can after
she finished her formula, a dose of
caffeine that kept her up at night.
And for Jennifer, their mother, 32,
desperation time meant the most
stressful part of her day began when
she arrived home at 6 p.m., after
another 12-hour shift as a cook at a
nursing home.
"I'm back," she said now, dropping
her keys onto the floor of the trailer,
collapsing onto the couch.
She had spent her day preparing
$100,000 at Virtual Instruments, a
San Jose-based company that monitors the health of data storage networks. "You need some theoretical
background but you also need to be
able to apply it" in "the real world,"
she said.
Booming demand allows Aaron
Merlob to now bill $100 an hour for
his contracting side-job on oDesk's
online freelancing platform. The
27-year-old has a full-time position as
director of data analytics at Activate
Networks.
At the Newton, Massachusettsbased company, he determines which
physicians are the most influential
in their communities, crunching
records pulled from medical and
pharmaceutical claims to see which
high-prescribing doctors are the most
likely to interact with each other.
When promoting their products,
drug makers use that information to
prioritize physicians.
"I definitely feel very well-positioned in today's job market," said
Merlob, who in May 2009 received
a combined bachelor's and master's
in finance and a minor in statistics.
"The big companies started this, but
now the little companies are starting
to think they need to do this too or
they'll fall behind."
meals for $8 an hour in an industrial
kitchen at the nursing home: 50 servings of breaded pork chops, rolls and
macaroni salad — unless, of course,
residents requested something else,
in which case she cooked to order.
She prepared chef salads, chicken
soup and sweet-potato pies until the
leftovers filled the refrigerator and
stacked on the counter. A few weeks
earlier, a boss had spotted her taking some of those leftovers home and
threatened to put her on probation.
So now Jennifer had returned to the
trailer empty-handed, with five more
dinners left to make for her children.
She always worried about the basics
of caring for her family — "Home.
Job. Food. I never hit that jackpot all
at once," she said — but only in summer did their situation become so
dire that she regularly asked her children to rate their hunger on a scale of
1 to 10. When her kids were in school,
they ate a total of 40 free meals and 20
snacks there each week — more than
25,000 government-sponsored calories that cost her nothing. Her $593
in monthly food stamps usually lasted
the entire month. They ate chicken
casserole and ground beef for dinner. But now, with school out, she was
down to $73 in food stamps with 17
days left in the month. "Thank God
for the bus," she said, but even that
solved their problems for only one
meal a day.
She walked into the kitchen, collected what items remained in the pantry
and set them on the table for dinner. "Buffet's ready," she announced.
The children ate corn chips, Doritos,
bread, leftover doughnuts, Airheads
candy and Dr Pepper.
"I'm still hungry," Courtney said a
few minutes later, 14 hours before the
bus returned.
"Me, too," Jennifer admitted.
Her food stamps could be used for
cold food but not hot food, and the
nearby grocery store sold pre-made
sandwiches for half-price after 8 p.m.
She loaded all five kids into the car
and drove a mile to the supermarket.
They chose three subs from a case
that glowed under fluorescent lights.
They shared two, mushing pieces of
bread for the baby, and then Jennifer
wrapped the third sandwich to take
home.
"For breakfast," she said, and they
drove back to the trailer and went to
bed.
The kids awoke at 9, two on the
bed they had found at Goodwill and
two more on the box spring. They
watched "Fast & Furious." They ate
the leftover sandwich.
At 11 a.m., Courtney stood by the
window, rocking the baby and watch-
ing for the bus. Three other children
from the trailer park were already
waiting outside, picking rocks off the
road and throwing them at a nearby
tree. They heard the bus before they
saw it, big tires crunching gravel.
"Food's here!" Courtney yelled, alerting her sisters. Before they were ready
to leave the trailer, Bible, the driver,
walked over to find them. By now he
knew the regulars on his route, and he
always made sure they were fed.
Bible had lived in Greene County
his entire life, but the trailer parks
on his route reminded him of Belize,
where he had traveled on a mission
trip a decade earlier. He had spent a
week there building a basic shelter
for a homeless man while 70 other
homeless people watched, wondering if Bible might build them houses,
too. What he had experienced then
was the same combination of fatigue
and helplessness he felt now, looking inside the Laughrens' dilapidated
trailer. In this part of the country, in
this time, no amount of sack lunches
would ever be enough.
He knocked on the door. Courtney
and her siblings opened it.
"We have turkey, crackers and pears
today," he said. "You hungry?"
"Always," she said, and they followed him back to the bus.
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Pasta With
Lettuce, Peas
and Ricotta
Salata
garnish (optional; may substitute
crumbled feta cheese)
Directions:
Bring a large pot of salted water to
a boil over medium-high heat. Add
the pasta and cook according to the
package directions, leaving it slightly
undercooked (just shy of al dente).
Drain, reserving 1 cup of the pasta
cooking water.
Meanwhile, pour the oil into a
large skillet fitted with a lid, set over
medium heat. Once the oil starts to
shimmer, add the garlic and onion,
cover and cook until tender, about 4
minutes. Stir in the lettuce, peas and
scallions; cover and cook until the lettuce has fully wilted, 5 minutes. Season with salt to taste. Reduce the heat
to low, keeping the vegetables warm
until the pasta is ready.
Ingredients:
• Kosher or sea salt
• 8 ounces dried cavatappi, farfalle
or other short pasta
• 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive
oil
• 2 cloves garlic, thinly sliced
• 1 small onion, thinly sliced
• One 8-ounce head romaine lettuce, cored and cut crosswise
into thin ribbons
• 3 cups freshly shelled peas (may
substitute
frozen/defrosted
peas)
• 4 scallions, trimmed and cut
crosswise into thin slices
• 1/3 cup grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
• 1/4 cup chopped mint leaves, for
garnish
• 2 ounces ricotta salata, shaved, for
By Joe Yonan
Summary: By late spring and early
summer, markets are awash in lettuce
and peas, and mint is threatening
to take over gardens. The commonsense response in the kitchen is to
cook that lettuce in the manner of
the classic French side dish, quickly
braising it with peas and tossing in
some of that mint, but making it a
meal by turning it into a pasta sauce.
A French-Italian hybrid is born.
Zucchini
Garden
Skillet
Uncover the vegetables and pour
the pasta into the skillet, tossing it
with the vegetables. Add some of
the pasta cooking water as needed to
moisten the vegetables. Transfer the
pasta and vegetable mixture to a large,
shallow serving bowl, toss with the
Parmigiano-Reggiano, then sprinkle
with the mint and ricotta salata, if using. Serve immediately. Makes 3 or 4
servings.
NUTRITION Per serving (based
on 4): 420 calories, 17 g protein, 62 g
carbohydrates, 11 g fat, 3 g saturated
fat, 5 mg cholesterol, 210 mg sodium,
9 g dietary fiber, 10 g sugar
-Washington Post Food editor Joe
Yonan, author of the upcoming "Eat
Your Vegetables: Bold Recipes for the
Single Cook" (Ten Speed Press, August
2013).
GROCERY
By Healthy Exchanges
Summary: If the gardens in your
area are anything like ours, then zucchini is beginning to take over the
world! This is one tasty way to begin
to tame it.
Ingredients:
• 1/2 cup chopped onion
• 2 cups diced unpeeled zucchini
• 1 (10 3/4-ounce) can reduced-fat
cream of mushroom soup
• 1 (8-ounce) can tomato sauce
• 1/2 cup water
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Summary: The Apricot UpsideDown Cake is a great dessert for any
summertime get-together!
Ingredients:
• 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
• 8 ripe apricots, each cut in half
and pitted
• 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1/4 cup cornmeal
• 1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 3/4 cup low-fat buttermilk
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fold with a spatula until just blended.
Pour batter over apricots and spread
to cover evenly.
3. Bake 35 to 40 minutes, or until
toothpick inserted in center of cake
comes out clean. Let cool in skillet
on wire rack 10 minutes. Run knife
around side of skillet. Place platter on
top of skillet and carefully invert cake
onto platter. Remove skillet. Cool
cake slightly to serve warm, about 30
minutes. Serves 8.
NUTRITION Each serving: About
290 calories, 8g total fat (1g saturated), 62mg cholesterol, 365mg sodium, 49g total carbs, 2g dietary fiber,
5g protein.
Good Housekeeping Recipe
• 2 large eggs
• 2 teaspoons margarine or butter,
melted
• 2 tablespoons canola oil
• 1 teaspoon freshly grated lemon
peel
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Steps:
1. Preheat oven to 350 F. Spray 10inch cast iron or ovenproof skillet
with nonstick cooking spray. Sprinkle
brown sugar evenly over bottom of
skillet. Arrange apricot halves, cut
side down, over brown sugar.
2. In large bowl, whisk flour, granulated sugar, cornmeal, baking powder,
salt and baking soda until blended. In
small bowl, whisk buttermilk, eggs,
margarine, oil, lemon peel and vanilla
extract until blended. Add buttermilk mixture to dry ingredients and
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Hot Cars: The
Sequel
DEAR PAW'S CORNER: I read in a column
of yours that the inside of a car can heat up
to more than 100 degrees even on a day that's
not too hot. I just don't believe that, especially
when the windows are cracked. The airflow
from that can keep temperatures low. And can't
a dog just pant to cool off? -- Greg in Pittsburgh
DEAR GREG: It's true. On an 80 degree
Fahrenheit day, the interior of a car can heat
up to 109 F within 20 minutes, according to
nonprofit RedRover.
But you don't have to take my word for it.
Veterinarian Dr. Ernie Ward recently posted a
video where he sat in a car with a thermometer
1. Disc jockey Alan Freed, Jimmy Clanton,
Sandy Stewart and Chuck Berry starred in
which 1959 rock 'n' roll movie?
2. Who had a hit with "When I Need You,"
and when?
3. Which group had "Take It on the Run"
on their "Hi Fidelity" album?
4. What was "Mr. Spaceman" about?
5. Name the song that contains this lyric:
"eating on a raisin, grape, apricot, pomegranate, bowl of chittlin's, two bananas,
three Hershey bars, sipping on a RC co-cola
listenin' to her transistor"
Answers
1. "Go, Johnny Go!"
2. Leo Sayer, in 1977. One section of the
chorus is a duplicate of Leonard Cohen's
song "Famous Blue Raincoat." (Trying singing both songs and swap lyrics!)
3. REO Speedwagon, in 1981. The song
was parodied by Steve Dahl, a radio personality, with "Better Get a Gun" about the mayor
moving into public housing.
4. The Byrds' 1966 song was about extraterrestrial life. Their manager released
a faux announcement about taking out an
insurance policy against being kidnapped
by aliens.
5. "Ahab the Arab," a novelty song by Ray
Stevens in 1962. "Arab" is pronounced "ayrab" to rhyme with Ahab. The song describes
Fatima, a dancer in the sultan's harem.
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and a timer for 30 minutes on a hot summer
day -- with the windows cracked. For pet owners, the results are chilling (not in a good way).
Watch the video at http://www.ebaumsworld.
com/video/watch/82689781/.
Dogs pant to cool off because they don't have
sweat glands. Panting alone won't displace the
heat they have to deal with in an enclosed car.
And their body temperature can rise dangerously in a short period of time.
I wrote about this topic at the beginning of
summer. But as we enter the hottest period
of the season, I can't repeat it enough. Don't
leave your pet in a parked car, not even for
a few minutes. Not even with the windows
cracked. Leave them at home in a comfortably
cool area with plenty of water to drink.
Send your questions, comments or tips to
ask@pawscorner.com.
The Final
Exam
At a university, there were four
sophomores taking chemistry and all
of them had an 'A' so far. These four
friends were so confident that the
weekend before finals, they decided
to visit some friends and have a big
party. They had a great time but, after
all the hearty partying, they slept all
day Sunday and didn't make it back
to the university until early Monday
morning.
Rather than taking the final then,
they decided that after the final they
would explain to their professor why
they missed it. They said that they visited friends but on the way back they
had a flat tire. As a result, they missed
the final. The professor agreed they
could make up the final the next day.
The guys were excited and relieved.
They studied that night for the exam.
The next day the Professor placed
them in separate rooms and gave
them a test booklet. They quickly
answered the first problem worth 5
points.
Cool, they thought! Each one, in
separate rooms, thought this was going to be easy. Then they turned the
page. On the second page was written...
For 95 points:
Which tire? _________
■
ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Don't be Sheepish about asking questions and demanding answers. You not only gain needed information,
but also respect for your steadfast search for
the truth.
TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) A money problem that shows up early in the week is expeditiously resolved by savvy Bovines who know
how to turn a momentary financial lapse into a
monetary gain.
GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) It's a good time
to shed negative energy-draining forces and de-
1.Is the book of Jude in the Old or New Testament or neither?
2. What king of Judah built up the defenses of
Bethlehem and other cities? Rehoboam, Omri,
Hiel, Nimrod
3. Where did Saul massacre 85 persons (priests)
who wore a linen ephod? Ramah, Tyre, Petra, Nob
4. How many years did it take Solomon to build
his own house (palace)? 7, 13, 20, 40
5. Whose water ration was the sixth part of a hin?
Isaiah, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, Matthew
6. Who shut the door of Noah's ark? His wife,
Noah, The Lord, Abraham
ANSWERS: 1) New; 2) Rehoboam; 3)
Nob; 4) 13; 5) Ezekiel; 6) The Lord
The Collar
A little boy got on the bus, sat next
to a man reading a book, and noticed
he had his collar on backwards. The
little boy asked why he wore his collar
backwards.
The man, who was a priest, said, " I
am a Father . ."
The little boy replied, "My Daddy
doesn't wear his collar like that."
The priest looked up from his book
and answered, "I am the Father of
many.”
The boy said, "My Dad has 4 boys,
4 girls and two grandchildren and he
doesn't wear his collar that way!"
The priest, getting impatient, said "I
am the Father of hundreds", and went
back to reading his book.
The little boy sat quietly thinking
for a while, then leaned over and said,
"Maybe you should wear your pants
backwards instead of your collar." ■
velop a positive approach to handling current,
as well as upcoming, personal and/or professional situations.
CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Your urge to do
your best on a current task is commendable. But
don't let it become all-consuming. Spend some
spiritually restorative time with those who love
you.
LEO (July 23 to August 22) This could be a
good time for all you Leos and Leonas to take
your bows for your recent achievements and
then go off to enjoy some fun times with your
prides and joys.
VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) A negative response to a well-intentioned suggestion
could communicate a sense of distrust you
might later find hard to refute. Think carefully
before reacting.
LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) Your
loving attention comforts a family member who
is feeling a bit out of sorts. But be careful to
prioritize your time so you don't neglect your
work duties.
SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) Your
curiosity might be resented by some. But those
who know you will support your penchant for
never settling for less than the truth. So stay
with it.
SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December
21) A pesky situation from the past recurs, albeit in an altered form. Deal with it promptly
before it can go from merely irksome to decidedly troublesome.
CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19)
Don't wait too long to submit your proposals
after giving them a last look-over. If necessary,
you should be able to defend any portion called
into question.
AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) A bid
to use your workplace dispute-settling skills in
another situation is tempting. But be careful:
You might not have all the facts you'll need if
you agree to do it.
PISCES (February 19 to March 20) That
sense of self-doubt is so untypical of you, you
should have no qualms in shaking it off. Remind
yourself of all you've done and can do, and then
do it again.
BORN THIS WEEK: Your ability to charm
others without sacrificing sincerity is what
makes people want to follow your leadership.
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