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Creating a Haven for Butterflies and Bees
By Adrian Higgins
The New York Eagle News/
Bloomberg News
I
f you plan to renovate or
rework parts of your yard
this fall, your plan should
include your hardest-working
partners in the garden, the insect pollinators.
They are not only industrious, fascinating and beautiful,
they are up against it. Bees and
butterflies are imperiled by
habitat loss and pesticide use.
Gardeners, collectively, can
throw them a lifeline.
"Basically, we have to convince the gardeners of this
country to convert their gardens in some manner for pollinators," said Chip Taylor, a
scientist and educator who
founded Monarch Watch to
raise awareness of the plight of
this wondrous insect.
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Sharon Metcalf relaxes in her townhouse garden in Bethesda, Md.; the garden has been reworked to create a habitat for monarch butterflies and other pollinators. (Washington Post photo by
Linda Davidson.)
Montana Towns
Struggling with Costs
of Bakken Oil Boom
The towns' new reality illustrates the tradeoffs that
come with the energy boom...
By Jennifer Oldham
Bloomberg News
T
tag: $14.4 million — five times
the city's $2.7 million budget.
"A town of 1,100 people just
doesn't run down to the bank
and write a check for that
kind of money," Mayor Bryan
Cummins said. "Our town has
Montana transformed over the
past 18 months into bedroom
communities for workers toiling in the Bakken oil patch.
Unlike North Dakota cities
that reap tax money from oil
production to help keep pace
ractor-trailer trucks
carrying oil, water
and sand to drilling
sites are lined
up at one of
two stoplights
in Fairview,
Mont., as the
mayor tries to
figure out how
to
squeeze
more people
into his town.
The prairie
c o m m u n i t y Trailers stand prepped for winter at a temporary worker housing site outside of Williston, N.D., the
epicenter of the Bakken oil boom. (Bloomberg News photo by Matthew Staver).
straddles the
state line with
North Dakota and needs a new eight times the traffic traveling with double-digit growth,
water tank, improvements to through it as it did five years Montana municipalities get
next to nothing. The towns'
its sewage treatment plant and ago."
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Fairview is one of a half-dozcurbs and gutters. The price
en farming towns in eastern
OIL BOOM PAGE 9
Scientists Create First
Carbon Nanotube
Computer
By Meeri Kim
Special to The New York
Eagle News/The Washington
Post
S
omeday we may look
back on today's iPhones
and laptops as huge,
clunky devices with outdated
chips made of silicon that was
long ago replaced by carbon
nanotubes. Tens of thousands
of the tiny tubelike structures
can fit inside a human hair,
and now scientists have created the first carbon nanotube
computer — a big step toward
miniaturizing our electronics
even further.
While it pales in comparison
to today's computers, the barebones machine works. It runs
a basic operating system and
can freely switch between two
programs — one that counts in
a loop and another that sorts
numbers.
"This is not a computer you
Max Shulaker, a graduate student at Stanford University, talks about the material
used to make a carbon nanotube computer on Aug. 19 at the Stanford School of
Engineering in Stanford, Calif. (Photo by Norbert von der Groeben).
would buy off the shelf at Best
Buy," said lead author and
Stanford electrical engineering graduate student Max Shulaker. "But the functionality is
still a complete computer." The
study was published online
September 25th in the journal
Nature.
Shulaker gave the computer
the pet name Cedric, a rough
acronym for "carbon nanotube
digital integrated circuit."
The achievement by Stanford
engineers marks the most
complex electronic device
ever built from carbon nanotubes, a man-made tubelike
structure created from a oneatom-thick, rolled-up sheet of
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carbon. Their remarkable electrical
and mechanical properties have led
researchers to explore their potential
applications in bulletproof clothing,
cancer therapy and electronics.
Currently, silicon is the standard material for manufacturing the chips
used in computers and phones. But
as our devices keep shrinking, silicon
circuits are reaching their limit.
"Silicon is great. It's very hard to beat,"
said senior author and Stanford electrical engineer Subhasish Mitra. "But
when everything gets so small, it's not
clear you can get high performance
and energy efficiency from silicon
transistors."
Like nerve cells to the "brain" of a
computer, transistors are the key active component in practically all
modern electronics, and a single chip
can contain billions of transistors. Using the minuscule carbon nanotube
instead of silicon could mean smaller,
faster and more efficient transistors.
Carbon nanotubes can be a single
nanometer wide in diameter. In comparison, a strand of human DNA is
2.5 nanometers in diameter and your
fingernail grows about a nanometer
every second.
Ever since the first carbon nanotube
transistor was built in 1998, "there
was a dream in people's minds that
we would have a new era of digital
electronics using these carbon nanotubes," said Mitra.
But researchers ran into a brick wall.
They found it extremely difficult to
manufacture nanotubes without glaring imperfections that would render
any transistor made from them dead.
A common way to make carbon
nanotubes is to grow a forest of them
on a semiconducting wafer baked in a
high-temperature chamber.
"Fancy chemical reactions will happen and, as a result, carbon nanotubes will sprout," Mitra said.
An ideal batch would sprout with
the carbon nanotubes parallel to one
another and without imperfections.
But Mother Nature often intervenes,
he said, and many a time they ended
up with a bowl of nanotube spaghetti.
They improved their technique, but
still wound up with a few defective
structures.
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Mitra and Wong had their breakthrough when they stopped trying to
make flawless batches of nanotubes
and instead focused on designing
computer circuits immune to imperfections. Using clever algorithms,
they arranged their circuit in such a
way that, even if a few nanotubes were
misaligned, their computer would
still function.
In total, the computer contains 178
transistors, each composed of 10 to
200 nanotubes. The device's footprint
is only 6.5 square millimeters, mean-
ing you could fit about 40 on the
head of a dime. But like modern-day
computers, the memory is "off-chip"
and not made up of nanotubes, said
Shulaker.
He said that the computer could be
faster, more powerful and smaller if it
was built in an industrial facility rather than in an academic lab. Shulaker
cited this as one reason they built a
more primitive, no-frills computer.
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Proposed Steuben County Charter Will
Be on the November 5th Election Ballot
Article Provided
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T
he Steuben County Legislature wishes to remind the
voters of Steuben County
that a County proposition is on the
November 5th Election ballot regarding the proposed Steuben County
Charter.
Please note there are six (6) statewide ballot proposals on the back of
the ballot. Steuben County’s Charter
proposal follows the statewide propositions.
If approved:
The management structure of the
County will be modernized:
• A County Manager, under the supervision of the County Legislature,
will have the authority required to
manage an organization with a $180
million budget.
• A Commissioner of Finance will
be appointed by the Legislature based
on qualifications in financial manage-
ment.
• The County Legislature will have
additional flexibility in implementing
State-required services.
• County Legislators will be better
able to manage some services based
on local needs, as opposed to statutory limitations passed in Albany.
• The county Charter will have no
financial impact on individual taxpayers.
• County legislators’ terms will
remain the same, four (4) years per
term, and the term limit for each legislator will remain twelve (12) consecutive years, maximum.
• County legislature districts also
remain unchanged at this time.
If turned down:
The County Government structure
will remain the same.
Contact your County Legislator or
the Steuben County Administrator’s
Office if you have any questions or
concerns regarding this proposition. ■
Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Article Provided
I
n our region, October brings out
the bright reds, oranges and yellows of fall leaves. Perhaps the
most important color in October is
purple; for Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
The Net shelter provides hope,
courage, strength and refuge to victims of Domestic Violence in all area
communities. Every new mother has
hope for her child; some may not be
what is expected. Take for example
the victim who has hopes that the
yelling will not wake her sleeping
baby; she hopes that tonight is not the
night she sings her last lullaby, but she
hopes most of all that her child will
never have to experience this lifestyle.
Many of our neighbors gather up the
courage and take on this battle every
day.
There is a new hope, though, and
that is by growing awareness. If the
community is more aware of the signs
of Domestic violence we can begin to
take a stand. Domestic Violence plays
no favorites; it doesn’t matter if you
are rich or poor; black or white; male
or female. Like diseases, it can attack
any one of us. The Net shelter is here
to help. The Net has been providing
strength to our friends, families, and
neighbors who have been victims of
domestic violence for over 20 years.
We are here to help 24 hours a day
with our domestic violence hotline;
our shelter is here to provide a safe
haven for those who fear going home.
Perhaps one of the most unsettling
things is the constant living in fear.
Not only do the victims live in fear
for themselves, but for their children
as well. We welcome victims and their
children to our shelter, many of which
spend birthdays and holidays within
its walls. Unfortunately, the statistics
show that there is no end in sight to
this epidemic.
In the month of September alone,
transitional housing was provided
for 6 families, the hotline received
94 calls, the shelter offered beds 239
times, and that was only a single
month. These statistics show there is
an issue. If you or someone you know
is in need of help call the Domestic
Violence Hotline number 1-800-2863407. 24 hours a day, someone will
be there to provide you with options.
The Net Shelter and Arbor Housing
and Development encourage you to
learn more about Domestic Violence
and what you can do to prevent it; not
only this month, but every month. ■
Dictionaries Promote Literacy at
Wightman Primary School In Bath
By Elaine Tears
Bath Rotary
T
he Bath Rotary Club has
joined with other Rotary
Clubs in New York State and
throughout the United States to improve literacy and the quality of life
in local, national, and international
communities through its Dictionary
Project.
October is National Information
Literacy Awareness Month. In today’s
digital world, people who are information literate know how to find,
access and critically evaluate information to improve their health, environment, education, and workplace
performance.
On October 10th Vicki Anderson,
Dictionary Project Co-Chair for the
local club, along with other Bath Rotarians, Becky Stranges, Dictionary
Project Co-Chair; Joe Rumsey, BathHaverling Central School Superintendent; June Bates, club secretary;
and Elaine Tears, club public relations
director, delivered copies of student
dictionaries to all third graders at the
Vernon E. Wightman Primary School
in Bath. The books will inspire the
students to learn and to sense a pride
Rotary members was thus
also beneficial to the students in that it allowed
them to meet successful
adults in their community who cared enough
about them to come to
their school to present the
books to them personally.
Hopefully, the students
will benefit not only eduBath Rotary Club presents dictionaries to all third graders at Vernon E. Wightman Primary School in Bath. Displaying
cationally but also will
their new dictionaries are the students in Mrs. Ford’s class. On the right kneeling is Mrs. Laura Ford and standing are
realize the importance of
Rotarians, Mrs. June Bates and Mrs. Vicki Anderson. On the left kneeling is Mrs. Becky Stranges and standing are
Rotarians, Miss Elaine Tears and Mr. Joe Rumsey, and Mrs. Deborah Barlow, Principal at VEW. (Photo by Al Johnson)
service in their community and around the world.
In a letter sent home to the parents
During the presentation Anderson
of ownership. Its usefulness extends
beyond the spellings, pronunciations, asked the students if any of them of all the third graders Anderson and
were Girl Scouts or Boy Scouts and Stranges wrote, “The Bath Rotarians
and definitions it lists.
The goal of the Dictionary Project had completed projects as part of
is to assist all students in completing their membership. She then called
their school years as good writers, upon the other local Rotarians presactive readers, creative thinkers, and ent to speak briefly about some of the
resourceful learners. The dictionary, service projects in which their club
a gift to each student to use at school has been involved. These included
and at home, is perhaps the first and Project Care Shopping for the Elderly,
most powerful reference tool that a scholarships awarded to graduating
student should own. In addition, stu- seniors in the area, construction of
Staff Article
dents benefit from an increased self- the playground at Steward Hill Park
reliance and resourcefulness since “The Point” in Bath, new flower bas-
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Comics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
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Lifestyle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
Obituaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
Recipes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24-25
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hope that you will take time to read
with your child and encourage the
use of the dictionary whenever an unfamiliar word should appear. A strong
vocabulary is a vital ingredient in the
recipe for success in life. Together we
can share the dream that all children
in the world may be afforded a chance
to become literate.”
In order to promote literacy further,
books are donated by the Bath Rotarians to the local library and other local institutions and community sites
in honor of the speakers at the club’s
weekly meetings. ■
Benefit Slated for
Prattsburgh Hospice
Patient
they can explore new words on their
own. Teachers benefit by knowing
that their students have consistent access to a tool for homework and inclass use.
kets and flowers in downtown Bath,
books for the Red Bookshelves, and
an ongoing project for the villagers of
Ko, Ghana.
Receiving the dictionaries from the
A
benefit will be held October
19th at the Prattsburgh Fire
Hall, to benefit hospice patient Victoria Wright.
The event will be held from 1-5
p.m., and attendees are asked to bring
a dish to pass. Scalloped ham and
potatoes, beans and beer will be provided. For more information, contact
Cassie Hey at 607-522-6506. ■
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Canandaigua
Obituaries
Arrangements were with the Fuller
Funeral Home, Canandaigua.
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Nancy J. Abbink
Canandaigua, NY - Nancy J. Abbink, 68, triumphed over her enemy
after a 10-year battle with cancer as
she entered into the presence of her
Lord and Savior on October 7, 2013.
“O death, where is thy sting? O grave,
where is thy victory? But thanks
be to God who gives us the victory
through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Nancy graduated from Phelps
Central High School in 1963. She
received a B.A., magna cum laude, in
English from Houghton College in
1967, and taught junior and senior
high school English in Victor and
Central Square, New York.
An active member of LifeSpring
Community Church in Canandaigua, Nancy taught Sunday school,
daily vacation Bible School and the
Wednesday evening children’s Awana
ministry. Nancy also served selflessly
within the church by cleaning and
groundskeeping.
Nancy was predeceased by her
parents, Russell and Catherine Facer
of Newark, NY.
Nancy is survived by her husband
Henry; daughters Amy, Emily and
Stephanie (Scott) Lasal; granddaughter Dakota Abbink; sisters Marcia
(John) Gifford and Susan FacerKreidler (Mark Kreidler); brother,
David Facer; and numerous nieces
and nephews.
A memorial service was held October 10, 2013 at LifeSpring Community Church, Canandaigua. Donations
in Nancy’s memory may be made to
LifeSpring Community Church or
The House of John, 14 Spring Street,
Clifton Springs, New York 14432.
Humane Society, 2976 County Road
48, Canandaigua, NY 14424.
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Bryan L. Barber
Laurence C. "Bud" Frere
Canandaigua, NY – Bryan L. Barber, age 53, passed away at home October 7, 2013. He is survived by his
wife, Susan Barber; three children,
Christopher, Heather and Amie Barber; six grandchildren; father, Elton
Barber; two sisters; and six brothers.
He was predeceased by his mother,
Kathleen Barber.
A memorial service was held October 11, 2013 at Johnson-Kennedy
Funeral Home, Inc., Canandaigua. In
lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Ontario-Yates
Hospice, 756 Pre-Emption Rd.,
Geneva, NY 14456.
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Canandaigua, NY – Laurence C.
"Bud" Frere, age 89, passed away
October 9, 2013 at F.F. Thompson
Hospital. He is survived by his wife
of 64 years, Clara Frere; three sons,
Laurence A. Frere, James (Geraldine)
Frere, and Richard (Jacqueline)
Frere; eight grandchildren; and
twelve great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be private.
Interment will be in Rushville Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial
contributions may be made to F.F.
Thompson Foundation, 350 Parrish
St., Canandaigua, NY 14424 or
Happy Tails Animal Shelter, 2976 Co.
Rd. 48, Canandaigua, NY 14424. Arrangements are by Johnson-Kennedy
Funeral Home, Inc.
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Angela Fisher
Canandaigua, NY - Angela Fisher,
36, passed away suddenly October 8,
2013 at Strong Memorial Hospital.
Angela worked at JC Penny in
Canandaigua for many years. She
was a unique individual who loved
animals. Very creative and crafty,
Angela was always making something. She enjoyed baking, board
games and Sabres hockey.
Angela is survived by her mother,
Janet (Gadomski); father, Ronald;
brother, Edward; two sisters, Deborah, and Carrie (Mark) Aston; as well
as nieces and nephews, numerous
cousins, aunts, uncles and friends.
A celebration of Angela’s life was
held October 12, 2013 at Fuller
Funeral Home Inc., Canandaigua. In
lieu of flowers, please make a donation in Angela’s memory to: Happy
Tails Animal Shelter, Ontario County
Linda M. Keeney
Canandaigua, NY – Linda M.
Keeney, age 66, passed away October
9, 2013 after a short illness, at Strong
Memorial Hospital, with her family
by her side. She is survived by her
husband of 44 years, The Rev. Canon
Albert Keeney; two sons, Andrew
(Christi) Keeney and Ryan Keeney;
her mother, Audrey Gerbac; and five
siblings. She was predeceased by her
father, Francis Gerbac.
Friends may call Friday, November
22, from 4-7 pm at Johnson-Kennedy
Funeral Home, Inc., 47 N. Main
St., Canandaigua. A celebration of
Linda’s life will be held Saturday, November 23, at 10:30 am, at St. Peter's
Episcopal Church, 3825 E. Henrietta
Rd., Henrietta. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to
WXXI Public Broadcasting, 280 State
St., Rochester, NY 14614.
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David S. Kelsey
St. George-Stanton Funeral Home
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Wayland, New York
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Bud and Sue St. George
Canandaigua, NY – David S.
Kelsey, age 91, formerly of Pittsford,
passed away September 22, 2013 at
Hospeace House in Naples. He was
predeceased by his wife of 64 years,
Lucille; and sister Virginia "Fay" Reddy. He is survived by three daughters,
Sheryl "Sherry" (Bill) Shaffer, Dayle
Quarfot and Laura Kelsey; nine
grandchildren; ten great-grandchildren; and nieces and nephews.
David was born in Fairport and
was the son of Grant and Ada (Cullen) Kelsey. He was a graduate of
Fairport High School and Hamilton
College. David served three and one
half years in the US Army during
World War II and attained the rank
of Technical Sergeant. He retired in
1983 from Utica Mutual Insurance
Company. David was a member of
the Canandaigua Yacht Club and
served as Commodore and was a
Board member of the Canandaigua
Country Club. He enjoyed sailing,
golfing, and woodworking. David
loved his family, his work, his hobbies, and his many friends.
David’s memorial service was held
October 13, 2013 at Ferris Hills at
West Lake, Canandaigua. In lieu
of flowers, memorial contributions
may be made to Honor Flight, 300 E.
Auburn Ave., Springfield, OH, 45505,
or the Wounded Warrior Project,
P.O. Box 758517, Topeka, Kansas,
66675. Contributions may also be
made online. Arrangements were
by Johnson-Kennedy Funeral Home
Inc., Canandaigua.
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vonia. Private burial was set for Oak
Ridge Cemetery, South Livonia. In
lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to School of
the Holy Childhood, 100 Groton
Parkway, Rochester, NY 14623-4589.
Arrangements were made through
the Kevin W. Dougherty Funeral
Home, Livonia.
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Dorothy E. Van Hall
Dansville, NY - Josephine A. "Josie"
Leven, age 79, passed away October
5, 2013 at the Conesus Lake Nursing
Home in Livonia, where she had
been a resident for the past several
years.
Josie was born in the Town of Dansville on July 26, 1934, a daughter
of John and Tillie Kline. On July 8,
1956, she was married to Richard
W. Leven, who predeceased her on
October 7, 2007. She was also predeceased by a son, Dennis Leven in
2003, and a sister, Barbara Last.
Josie is survived by her son David
(Nancy) Leven of Dansville; a daughter-in-law, Lisa (Roger Sick) Leven
of Wayland; grandchildren, Bethany
(Robert) Sick, Nicholas and Adam
(Penny Robin) Leven; great-grandchildren, Benjamin and Brody Sick;
a sister, Helen (John) Wearkley of
Wayland; sisters in-law Mary Leven,
Nancy Wyant, and Diane (Keith)
Griese; a brother in-law, James Bush;
and several nieces and nephews.
Services were held October 10,
2013 at the Hindle Funeral Home,
Inc., Dansville. Interment was set to
be with her husband Dick in Union
Cemetery, Scottsburg. In lieu of
flowers contributions may be made
to Conesus Lake Nursing Home,
Resident Fund, 6131 Big Tree Rd.,
Livonia, NY 14487. Arrangements
were with the Hindle Funeral Home,
Inc., Dansville.
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Canandaigua, NY - Dorothy E. Van
Hall, age 97, formerly of Crabapple
Dr., passed away October 7, 2013
at Newark-Wayne Community
Hospital. She is survived by her care
givers and dear friends, William and
Joanne Winburn; two brothers and
one sister; and several nieces and
nephews. She was predeceased by
her husbands Leland Masclee and
Ernest G. Van Hall; and son, Robert
Masclee.
A funeral service was held October 12, 2013 at Johnson-Kennedy
Funeral Home, Inc., Canandaigua.
Interment was set for Marion Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial
contributions may be made to Happy
Tails Animal Shelter, 2976 Co. Rd.
48, Canandaigua, NY 14424
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Conesus
Ronald L. Fugle
Conesus, NY - Ronald L. Fugle, age
53, died October 8, 2013.
Ron was a vice president of Fugles
Inc., Livonia, NY. He has been a
longtime and current member of the
Livonia Central School Board, of the
Marrowback Bowhunter’s Association, a Quality Deer Management
member, a member of the Wildlife
Turkey Federation and the NRA.
He was an avid supporter of the
Wounded Warrior Project.
Ron is survived by his wife Tracey;
children Ronald L Fugle II of Hilton,
Dakota Fugle and Hunter Fugle,
both at home; granddaughter Kellsy;
parents Francis and Rosemary
Fugle; siblings William (Leila) Fugle,
Gail (Jim) White, Roger (Norma)
Fugle, and Jeff (Eileen) Fugle, all of
Conesus, Gloria (Harold) Herring of
Canadice, Gary (John) Fugle of FL,
Roxanne (John) Johnston of Brockport, Kirk Fugle of Lakeville, Larry
(Karin) Fugle and Chris (Tony) Coniglio, both of Livonia, Jeanie (Fred)
Yates and Judy (Jack) Benedict, both
of Geneseo; nieces and nephews; and
sisters-in-law Jill (Jim) Jackson and
Jackie Wiseman. Ron was predeceased by his brother, Steve Fugle.
Funeral services were held October
12, 2013 at St Matthew Church, Li-
Dansville
Josephine A. "Josie"
(Kline) Leven
Farmington
Ann (Yarger) Cochrane
Farmington, NY - Ann (Yarger)
Cochrane, age 64, passed away
unexpectedly October 7, 2013, at
Rochester General Hospital. She is
survived by her husband of 44 years,
Stephen J. Cochrane; two children,
Scott (Tracie) Cochrane and Kelly
Cochrane; two grandsons, Marcus
and Benjamin; three sisters, Linda
(Wes) Utter, Charleen Johnson and
Gayle (Don) Hendershot; brother
Ron (Jean) Yarger; brother-in-law
Robert Lowenthal; and several nieces
and nephews. She was predeceased
by her daughter, Krista Cochrane,
and sister, Kathaleen Lowenthal.
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The World
Panel Links Underwater Mapping Sonar to
Whale Stranding for First Time
The New York Eagle News/ The
Washington Post
T
he mysterious stranding of
about 100 melon-headed
whales in a shallow Madagascar lagoon in 2008 set off a rapid
international response — a few of the
eight- to 10-foot marine mammals
were rescued, necropsies conducted, a
review panel formed.
Did they follow prey into the lagoon? Were they sick? Was it the
weather, or chemical toxins?
The panel recently gave its best
answer, and it is causing ripples of
concern. For the first time, a rigorous
scientific investigation has associated
a mass whale stranding with a kind of
sonar that is widely used to map the
ocean floor, a finding that has set off
alarms among energy companies and
others who say the technology is critical to safe navigation of the planet's
waters.
The independent review panel appointed by the International Whaling
Commission concluded Sept. 25 that
a high-powered, "multi-beam echosounder system" (MBES) was "the
most plausible and likely behavioral
trigger" for the stranding. About 75 of
the animals, which normally inhabit
deep ocean waters, died.
A contractor for Exxon Mobil was
using the sonar system — which
sends "ping" sounds from a vessel toward the ocean floor — in a channel
between Mozambique and Madagascar to determine where an oil and gas
exploration rig might be safely constructed. Computers use the returning echo from the pulses of sound to
map the ocean floor.
The panel of five scientists "systematically excluded or deemed highly
unlikely" nearly every other possibility before settling on the use of the
MBES, which previously was considered relatively benign, according to
the group's report.
The mysterious stranding of about 100 melon-headed whales in a shallow Madagascar lagoon in 2008 set off a
rapid international response. A few of the eight- to 10-foot marine mammals were rescued, necropsies conducted
and a review panel formed. Here, a volunteer examines a carcass on the Antsohihy dock. (Photo credit: Wildlife
Conservation Society)
"The evidence seems clear to us
that [the MBES] was pretty likely"
the cause, said Brandon Southall, the
panel's chairman and a marine biologist at the University of California at
Santa Cruz. He said he hopes the report will cause governments, regulatory agencies and private companies
to "realize that some of the types of
mapping sonars have the potential to
cause reactions in marine mammals
that can be detrimental."
Exxon Mobil, which helped select
the panel and partly funded the rescue of some of the whales in 2008,
rejects the conclusion, contending
that the evidence is too flimsy for a
determination that could have a farreaching impact.
"While Exxon Mobil is not accepting responsibility for the stranding
in light of the uncertainties in the
report, we did cooperate and provide
funding for the response effort in
2008 and the review panel because we
are working in Madagascar," spokesman Patrick McGinn said.
Another skeptic is Larry Mayer, a
professor at the University of New
Hampshire's Center for Coastal and
Ocean Mapping. "From my reading
of that report, it's not clear how they
could have come to that conclusion,"
Mayer said. "Any of the other possible
conclusions are just as likely."
The report could have significant
consequences for U.S. government
agencies and others around the world
that use the MBES to map ocean
floors. "If it endangers the ability to
use these sort of systems . . . it could
lead to all kinds of dangerous downstream consequences." Mayer said.
And Joseph Geraci, an adjunct professor of comparative medicine at the
University of Maryland who has studied cetacean strandings for 40 years,
said he was troubled by the strength
of the language in the panel report.
"I'm not sure on the basis of a single
event where there are two activities
that the words 'most plausible cause'
are the right ones," he said. "It's only
those three words that made me pay
attention."
But Howard Rosenbaum, director
of the Ocean Giants program of the
New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society, hailed the panel for
pushing the envelope on possible factors in the strandings and deaths of
marine mammals.
"I think what we would like to
see is the most effective regulations
that will minimize the risk [of mass
strandings] to sensitive whales and
dolphins," Rosenbaum said.
U.S. Navy sonar has been implicated in harm to whales and dolphins,
environmental groups contend. A
federal judge last month ordered federal biologists to reconsider permits
that could allow the Navy to kill or
disrupt marine mammals during antisubmarine warfare exercises off the
coast of the Pacific Northwest.
But in 2008, the Supreme Court allowed similar drills off Southern California to be held without protections
for marine mammals.
Other environmental groups are
skirmishing with energy companies
over the use of "seismic air guns,"
devices that send much louder blasts
of compressed air toward the ocean
floor to help find oil and gas trapped
below.
The noise from an MBES is better
compared to an industrial-sized version of the fish-finders widely used
by recreational anglers, Southall said.
That is part of the reason his panel's
finding is so controversial: the pinging sound is used so widely around
the globe, in so many forms, that
most involved have considered it relatively harmless.
But it may be time to adjust that
thinking, Southall said. He acknowledged that no study of whale strandings will achieve the kind of certainty
that Exxon Mobil and others would
like, but said this one provided a rare
opportunity to consider a wide range
of possibilities and disprove them.
Because the Wildlife Conservation
Society has a presence in Madagascar, it was able to quickly respond to
the stranding, rescuing some of the
whales and conducting necropsies on
the dead, Rosenbaum said. And because regulators, conservation groups
and energy companies were together
at a conference in Chile at the time,
they were able to put together a coordinated rescue response and later
work together to form the review
panel.
"It seemed to be a very uncommon
event," Southall said, "and we were
able to go through almost all the factors that we looked at and rule almost
everything else out."
A 2009 coup and later unrest in
Madagascar, an island nation in the
Indian Ocean that is off the southeastern coast of Africa, delayed the
study, which was resumed in 2012
and released late last month.
Exxon Mobil contends, among its
other objections, that the stranding began before its contract vessel
arrived off the shores of northwest
Madagascar. The company has provided satellite photographs of objects
on other nearby beaches before the
melon-headed whales fled into Loza
Lagoon, but the panel concluded they
most likely were small fishing boats.
Nevertheless, Exxon Mobile already
has changed its practices to prohibit
the use of an MBES near an underwater cliff face, because the panel raised
the possibility that the sound pulses
echoed off one in this case and had an
unusual effect on the whales, McGinn
said. Southall said the whales already
were in unusually shallow water for
unknown reasons.
The bottom line for the company,
McGinn said, is that "our contract
vessel happened to be there in that
time frame, but there are so many uncertainties in the area that we're not
sure it's us."
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A Pre-College Snooze
By Rebecca Lanning
Brain, Child
E
verywhere I went, people
asked me about my son Will.
They knew he'd graduated
from high school, and they wanted to
know what he was doing. Smiling politely, I told them that Will had been
accepted to his first-choice college.
But, I always added — in case someone saw him around town — that he
had deferred enrollment. He was taking a gap year, I'd say.
"So what's your son doing with
his windfall of free time? Traveling
abroad? Doing research?"
My cheeks burned as I played along,
offering sound bites. A start-up venture. A film project. Independent
study. Anything to avoid the truth:
that my handsome, broad-shouldered
son was, probably, at that very moment, home in bed with the shutters
drawn, covers pulled over his head.
Officially, Will was taking a gap
year. But after 13 years of school,
what he needed, what he'd earned,
was a nap year. Will has long suffered
from learning difficulties. It took
years to pinpoint a diagnosis — and
even when we did, figuring out how
to manage it wasn't easy. He needed a
break. So did I.
Will's problems began to surface
when he was in kindergarten. "He's
not where the other children are," his
teacher whispered to me one morning. I knew what she meant. Clumsy
and slow to read, Will rested his head
on his desk a lot. His written work,
smudgy from excessive erasing,
looked like bits of crumpled trash.
"You can do
this," I would
say as Will sat
slumped beside
me at the kitchen
table. We'd go
over math facts,
science terms and
spelling words
until they stuck,
and then review
them again. We
were like Lucy
and Ethel in the
factory trying to
wrap candy as it
sped ever faster
down the conveyor belt. Some
For the author’s son, Will, school was torture even though he had a superior nights, my own
IQ; to prepare for college, he took a “nap year.” (Photo credit: Frank Godwin.) head spinning, I
sent Will to bed
Still, his teacher's remark stung. I and completed his homework for
couldn't shake the image of 20 kids him, that old refrain taunting me: Just
on the playground, climbing on the get him through.
monkey bars, and Will alone on the
Occasionally, I could detach long
soccer field picking dandelions. Not enough to recognize the insanity of
where the other children are.
our situation. I kept thinking of that
Had I been the sassy sort, armed Einstein quote: "If you judge a fish by
then with the knowledge I would later its ability to climb a tree, it will believe
accrue, I might have joked with that its whole life that it is stupid." I knew
teacher, told her that Will had greater Will could swim with the fishes. But
aspirations. But I wasn't there yet.
how did we get him out of the tree?
School was torture for Will. He
Every morning I felt as if I was
couldn't take notes, failed to turn in sending Will into battle, and every
homework, forgot when tests were afternoon as if I were retrieving a solcoming up. Yet on standardized tests, dier with massive invisible wounds.
his verbal scores consistently exceed- Instead of whisking him off to sports
ed the 99th percentile. I wondered practice or piano lessons, I drove Will
why he struggled, when clearly he to occupational therapy. Then we
was bright.
went home, unloaded the backpack,
"Just get him through school," his and dived in to his homework.
first-grade teacher had advised. NeiEventually, we resorted to what
ther of us sensed what a long and doctors and teachers had been recpainful road lay ahead. But her ad- ommending for years: medication.
vice became my mantra: Just get him I'd read enough books and talked
through.
to enough parents to know that, for
Over the next several years, Will some children, medication is salvawas evaluated for learning disabili- tion. Maybe it would help Will.
ties. While he had a superior IQ, an
"It can take a while to find the right
excellent memory and a solid grasp drug at the right dose," his doctor
of complex linguistic cues, he fa- warned us. Will tried various meds
tigued easily and suffered from weak at various doses.: Adderall, Ritalin,
sensorimotor, visual perceptual and Concerta, Strateera, Focalin. When
language output skills. And because Will exhibited signs of agitation, the
he exhibited all nine symptoms of doctor added Zoloft to the mix.
attention-deficit hyperactivity disorWe were patient, but the meds ofder, ADHD-inattentive type, he was fered no benefit. In fact, they caused
slapped with that label, too.
horrible side effects including insomWhile these evaluations provided nia, weight loss, and finally, tics. Will
useful information, they never an- started licking his lips so much that
swered our more pressing questions. the skin around them grew red and
Is there a way to determine reason- raw. He blinked his eyes forcefully, his
able academic expectations? How do whole face contorting into a kooky
we know when to push, when to back jack-o'-lantern. Then he would open
off?
his mouth as if he was going to yawn
By the time Will hit sixth grade, I'd but he never yawned. His mouth just
reduced my work hours so I could be stayed open, sometimes for several
home in the afternoons to help Will seconds. When the tics continued for
with homework. Even with a master's weeks after we stopped the medicadegree and years of teaching experi- tion, I took Will to a pediatric neuence, I still struggled to reteach Will rologist.
everything he should have learned at
"When will the tics go away?" I
school.
asked, but she couldn't say.
That was the moment I knew something had to change. And it wasn't
Will.
For years I'd been lurking on the
Web site of a small Quaker school in
a town 2 1/2 hours away. While we
knew the school couldn't cure Will's
problems, its philosophy of tolerance
and inclusiveness gave us hope that, at
the very least, Will's problems would
not be compounded. Our friends
thought we were crazy to leave the
town where we'd lived for 14 years,
but it felt riskier to stay and push Will
through a system that could not, by
design, accommodate his needs or
celebrate his strengths.
Away from the assembly-line approach to education with its tyranny
of grades, Will flourished. For a while.
The school offered discussionbased classes, and students sat on
couches in wood-paneled rooms that
looked more like camp cabins than
classrooms. Will's subtle wit found a
warm reception. While differential
equations and the nuances of French
grammar eluded him, he excelled in
the analytical digging required of history, philosophy and literature.
Because he was gaining confidence
in his intellect and inspiration from
his teachers, he quickly weaned himself from my assistance. A request
for extra time to complete a test or a
paper was granted without a tangle of
red tape.
And when Will was re-evaluated by
a new psychologist during his sophomore year, we learned he did not
meet the criteria for ADHD. He had
not grown out of it. This new school
had not masked it. Will's inattention
was caused by another, primary issue. The formal diagnosis: Learning
Disorder NOS (Not Otherwise Specified). This type of learning problem
— loosely defined as a dissonance
between thought-processing speed
and higher-level verbal or visual reasoning — is fairly uncommon, affecting roughly 2 percent of the general
population, according to one expert.
And in Will's case, the extent of the
disconnect between intelligence and
the ability to process it was especially
unusual.
"If you were a car," the doctor told
Will, "you'd be a Maserati with two
blown tires." Finally, we found an
expert who made sense of Will's
puzzling academic performance. No
wonder the ADHD meds had not
worked. Sadly, we learned, there was
no cure for Will's problem. The only
way to deal with it was to give him extra time to get his work done.
The interactive learning environment of the Quaker school played to
Will's high-level reasoning abilities,
and he performed well until junior
year, when he registered for eight academic classes, a difficult load even for
typical students. The extended time
his teachers granted him now merely
extended his misery. Will believed
that when given more time to do his
work, that work had to be worthy of
the extension. No one could convince
him to focus his effort in a few classes
and just meet the basic requirements
in others. He tried to produce extraordinary work in every class, and
the effort nearly destroyed him.
He could not muster energy to
study, and eventually he couldn't get
himself off the couch to go to school.
Sometimes when I approached, he
growled. Other times I'd find him
sound asleep listening to his iPod.
When Will was younger, I could
coax him to forge ahead. But at
16, none of the tools in my arsenal
worked anymore. Not the proverbial whip. Not the promise of pizza
or Pokemon cards. I had run out of
strategies and incentives just as he'd
run out of steam. Will wanted to drop
out of school.
I'd been trapped in an elevator
once, and was now overcome by that
same desperate, claustrophobic sensation. I retraced our steps, berating
myself for doing too much, for doing
too little. Making too many sacrifices
or sacrificing the wrong things. I felt
a raw, aching regret for all the mistakes I had made. All the times that
I looked at Will and saw only a problem to solve.
As I found myself swallowed up by
regrets, I clung to memories of Will
before he entered school, a happygo-lucky kid who once tried to crawl
inside our television so he could hug
Barney.
During Will's spiral, I was enrolled
in a class on mindfulness-based stress
reduction. I began to realize that no
matter how deeply I longed for Will
to find the strength to finish high
school, the decision was his. I could
not undo whatever had caused his
learning disability, and I could not
take away his suffering. I could only
remain supportive, and so I talked to
him, matter-of-factly, about his career
options. We discussed the GED.
And then I let him go.
On his own, Will enrolled in a charter school that specialized in helping
kids who struggled in a traditional
school setting. He completed his
junior year there, attending classes
from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The shorter
day and lighter course load supported
his learning disability, as did the staff
of special educators who assigned
homework in manageable doses. But
by spring, he realized something: Just
getting through wasn't satisfying.
Though he was honored for his GPA
and passed the state end-of-course
tests, he didn't feel he'd really learned
anything. He did learn that he'd rather wrestle with open-ended questions
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SNOOZE PAGE 7
Prancercise,
a Celebration of
Self-Expression
By Vicky Hallett
The New York Eagle News/The
Washington Post
O
ne day in 1989, Joanna Rohrback was strutting along the
Hollywood Beach boardwalk
near her Florida home. "A really good
song came on my Walkman," says
Rohrback, who soon found her arms
and legs bouncing to the beat. As she
began to trot and then gallop, she
recognized what had been missing
in her exercise routine: some horsing
around.
That epiphany led her to create
Prancercise, a fitness concept inspired
by equine movements that took the
Internet by storm in May. Millions
have watched Rohrback hop around
in tight white pants and ankle weights
explaining the four basic steps in a
YouTube video. It's a nice introduction, Rohrback says, but anyone who
really wants to "cut the noose and let
it loose" needs more instruction.
As she explains in her book, "Prancercise: The Art of Physical and Spiritual Excellence," the overall Prancercise philosophy goes well beyond
footwork and shadow boxing. This
style of fitness is a celebration of selfexpression. She doesn't expect anyone
to mimic her exactly, but to find inspiration from her movements.
"If you were to look at horses, they
spring off the ground, using all four
limbs and their heads," says Rohrback, who's always had a fascination
with the animals. "But every horse
moves a little differently, too." Rather
than follow a choreographed routine
— "This is not Zumba," she vows —
Prancercisers are encouraged to explore what feels right for them.
There's no need to use ankle weights,
and people can choose their level of
intensity. They can do it anywhere.
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Joanna Rohrback created Prancercise, a fitness
concept inspired by equine movements that
took the Internet by storm; she has also
written a book about the exercise routine.
(Courtesy of Joanna Rohrback.)
("I've done it on mountains and in
cornfields," she says.) All that matters to Rohrback is that students tap
into muscles that are usually ignored
and improve their range of motion by
opening up their hips and shoulders
and blowing off some steam.
Rohrback credits that combination
with helping her reclaim her life last
year after more than a decade of setbacks. She developed Prancercise and
penned her book in 1994 but couldn't
find a publisher. Then she was forced
to shelve the project to be a caregiver
for her mother, and eventually she
had health troubles of her own. For
years, Rohrback was Prancercising
for only five minutes a day.
But in July 2012, she decided to give
the program another shot.
"I thought, 'I'm turning 60 years old.
It's time to do this,' " says Rohrback,
who self-published the book and began upping her Prancercise workouts.
Winter Looms
Large for Homeless Vets
Did you buy a new coat for winter? Is there
any chance you can buy another one? And maybe some good gloves and a hat? There are homeless veterans out there who could use them.
With temperatures dropping, here are a few
ways you can help homeless veterans this winter:
--Donate clothing and other basics: Call the
Department of Veterans Affairs medical center
nearest you and ask for Voluntary Services.
Most locations keep a clothing closet for homeless veterans who come in and need help, or
those who are moving out of rehab into a place
of their own. Maybe the clothing closet is good
to go on coats but has completely run out of
lined jeans and gloves. Maybe they need shirts
in a super large size, or even personal-care
items and a sports bag to carry everything in.
Ask if they need a transition package of household supplies, like soap, towels, toilet paper and
a laundry basket.
By the end of the year, she'd Prancercised a 5K and filmed that viral YouTube video that went live on Christmas Day.
It's been a wild ride since Rohrback
became a Web sensation. She's been
deluged with requests for appearances and classes and even a reality
show. Everything is building up to
her vision of a nation of Prancercisers, says Rohrback, who'd like to see a
network of studios where people can
experiment with moves together.
"It takes practice to fully enjoy it,"
Rohrback says. "When you're happy
with your leg work, work on your
arms and head."
Although the moves she shows off
in John Mayer's "Paper Doll" lyric
video are billed as "Advanced Prancercise," there's no such thing — yet.
"I've been working on something
that's a little more springy," Rohrback
says.
A few million people are waiting for
that video.
Exercise My
Way
- I drink while I work out- I call it
Bacardio.
- I find that toe-touches are much
easier if you do them sitting down.
- I got a treadmill. It’s quite a workout hanging all those clothes on it. ■
--Sign up to give rides: Voluntary services can
help you with that, too. Homeless veterans often have to get to doctor appointments the best
way they can, and in cold weather that can be
tough. Look into driving opportunities through
the Disabled American Veterans.
--Volunteer at a Stand Down: Go online to
VA.gov and see when there's an event near you.
They run from January to November, and this
time of the year the emphasis is going to be to
get homeless veterans warm and into housing.
Call and ask what you can do to help.
If you've a veteran in need of help, call 1-877424-3838, also known as 1-877-4AID-VET. It's
staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and
can help with health care, housing, mental
health, jobs and more.
- Write to Freddy Groves in care of King Features Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando,
FL 32853-6475, or send e-mail to columnreply@
gmail.com.
© 2011 King Features Synd., Inc. ■
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than take multiple-choice tests, and
he missed being engaged with purposeful coursework.
So he went back to the Quaker
school. Will had a successful senior
year, though not without bumps. He
cobbled together a support system,
took the SAT and applied to colleges,
but it was clear he was going through
the motions, uncertain of his goals
and weary.
When Will walked across the stage
to receive his diploma, I felt a mix of
pride, gratitude and relief. I was also
exhausted. So began our nap year.
In August, Will attended his first
college class. It wasn't at the liberal
arts college that offered him a merit
scholarship. He decided to ease into
higher education by enrolling in the
university transfer program at the local community college. He's taking
a reduced course load and is eligible
for accommodations through disability services. He's living at home and
looking for a part-time job. His nap
year was over. Though he's no closer
to knowing what he wants to do with
his life, thanks to Startup High, a program for budding entrepreneurs that
he worked with during his nap year,
he's more hopeful about options for
outliers like him.
When confronted by people who
ask what Will is up to, I still struggle
to explain his recovery from posttraumatic school disorder. But where
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Like it or not, winter is coming. Depending
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Adequate Lighting: Fading daylight can
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he is right now, at home with us, still
resting and resetting, feels right.
— Lanning, a former editor and advice columnist at Teen magazine, lives
in Durham, N. C. This is an edited
version of an article that originally appeared in the magazine Brain, Child.
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Lawsuit Claims NY Fed Fired Regulator Who
Raised Questions About Goldman Sachs
By Jake Bernstein
ProPublica
I
n the spring of 2012, a senior examiner with the Federal Reserve
Bank of New York determined
that Goldman Sachs had a problem.
Under a Fed mandate, the investment-banking behemoth was expected to have a company-wide policy to
address conflicts of interest in how
its phalanxes of dealmakers handled
clients. Although Goldman had a
patchwork of policies, the examiner
concluded that they fell short of the
Fed's requirements.
That finding by the examiner, Carmen Segarra, potentially had serious
implications for Goldman, which was
already under fire for advising clients
on both sides of several multibilliondollar deals and allegedly putting the
bank's own interests above those of its
customers. It could have led to closer
scrutiny of Goldman by regulators or
changes to its business practices.
Before she could formalize her
findings, Segarra said, the senior New
York Fed official who oversees Goldman pressured her to change her view.
When she refused, Segarra said she
was called to a meeting where bosses
told her they no longer trusted her
judgment. Her phone was confiscated
and security officers marched her out
of the Fed's fortress-like building in
lower Manhattan just seven months
after being hired.
"They wanted me to falsify my findings," Segarra said in a recent interview, "and when I wouldn't, they fired
me."
Last Thursday, Segarra filed a
wrongful termination lawsuit against
the New York Fed in federal court in
Manhattan seeking reinstatement and
damages. The case provides a detailed
ployees to freely express concerns about the institutions it
supervises."
"Such concerns are treated
seriously and investigated
appropriately with a high
degree of independence," he
said. "Personnel decisions at
the New York Fed are based
exclusively on individual job
performance and are subject
to thorough review. We categorically reject any suggestions to the contrary."
Dudley would not have
been involved in the firing,
although he might have been
Carmen Segarra, outside the Federal Reserve Bank of New York informed after the fact, aclast Thursday. In a wrongful termination lawsuit, Segarra says cording to a Fed spokesman.
she was fired by the Fed after she refused to change a finding
Goldman also declined to
that Goldman Sachs had inadequate controls over conflicts of
respond
to detailed questions
interest. (Photo credit: Nabil Rahman for ProPublica)
about Segarra. A spokesman
said the bank cannot discuss
look at a key aspect of the post-2008 confidential supervisory matters. He
financial reforms: the work of Fed said Goldman "has a comprehenbank examiners sent to more closely sive approach to addressing conflicts
scrutinize the nation's "too-big-to- through firm-wide and divisional
fail" institutions.
policies and infrastructure" and
Her case comes as the New York pointed to a bank document that says
Fed wrestles with mandates for Goldman took recent steps to imtougher regulation amid criticism it is prove management of conflicts.
too cozy with the Wall Street megaSegarra's termination has not prebanks it oversees.
viously been disclosed. In hours
Goldman is known for having close of interviews with ProPublica, the
ties with the New York Fed, its prima- 41-year-old lawyer gave a detailed
ry regulator. The current leader of the account of the events that preceded
New York Fed, William Dudley, is a her dismissal and provided numerous
former Goldman partner. At the time documents to support her claims.
of Segarra's firing, a former chairman
An experienced legal and compliof the New York Fed, Stephen Fried- ance expert, Segarra was hired in
man, led the Goldman board's risk October 2011 as part of a wave of
committee.
new examiners recruited to monitor
In an email, spokesman Jack Gutt systemically important banks. These
said the New York Fed could not re- "risk specialists" joined other Fed
spond to detailed questions out of staffers, dubbed "business line speprivacy considerations and because cialists," many of whom were already
supervisory matters are confidential. embedded inside the banks.
Gutt said the Fed provides "multiple
Segarra's team included examiners
venues and layers of recourse for em- at nine other too-big-to-fail institu-
tions, including Citigroup, JPMorgan
Chase, Deutsche Bank and Barclays.
As part of their first assignment,
New York Fed officials told Segarra's
group to examine how their banks
complied with a Fed regulation issued in 2008 that requires firmwide
conflict-of-interest policies and other
programs to manage risk.
Goldman had past problems with
conflicts. A year earlier, the bank had
received a drubbing from the Securities and Exchange Commission and a
Senate subcommittee over conflicts
related to a mortgage transaction the
bank constructed called Abacus. The
SEC imposed a $550 million fine on
Goldman for the deal.
Segarra was instructed specifically
to assess Goldman's conflict-of-interest policies, including how they
worked in a merger between two energy companies: El Paso Corp. and
Kinder Morgan.
Goldman had a $4 billion stake in
Kinder Morgan while also advising
El Paso on the $23 billion deal, which
was embroiled in a shareholder lawsuit.
Initial meetings between the New
York Fed and Goldman executives to
examine the bank's compliance policies did not go well, Segarra said.
When the examiners asked to see
the bank's global conflict-of-interest
policy, they were told one didn't exist,
according to Segarra's meeting minutes. Discussion turned to the name
of the team that oversaw conflicts at
Goldman: the Business Selection and
Conflicts Resolution Group.
The Fed's 2008 regulation requires
that staffers who police conflicts
must be "appropriately" independent
of business staff. But when Segarra's
immediate supervisor, Johnathon
Kim, asked if business selection and
conflicts were two different groups,
he was told they were not, Segarra's
minutes show.
"Business selection is about how
you get the deal done," Segarra said
in an interview. "Conflicts of interest
acknowledge that there are deals you
cannot do."
At one of the meetings, the New
York Fed's senior supervising officer at Goldman, Michael Silva, worried that the firm was not managing
conflicts well and that clients might
leave if it became public, according to
Segarra's notes.
At the regulators' request, Goldman
produced documents on the El Paso
deal and the firm's policies. Goldman
had told the regulators its conflictof-interest procedures worked well
in the merger, saying executives had
"exhaustively" briefed the board of
directors about Goldman's conflicts,
according to minutes.
Yet Goldman did not provide any
board presentations in response to
document requests, Segarra said.
Despite months of pressing Goldman executives for details about the
merger, Segarra said she and other
examiners learned only through news
reports that the lead Goldman banker
for El Paso, Steve Daniel, also had
a $340,000 personal investment in
Kinder Morgan.
Goldman did provide documents
showing how it had divided its El
Paso and Kinder Morgan bankers into "red and blue teams." These
teams were told they could not communicate with each other — what the
industry calls a "Chinese wall" to prevent improper information sharing.
Segarra said Goldman seating
charts showed that in one case, opposing team members had adjacent
offices. She also determined that three
of the El Paso team members had previously worked for Kinder Morgan in
key areas.
"They would have needed a Chinese
wall in their head," Segarra said.
On multiple occasions during
Segarra's examination, Goldman executives acknowledged that the bank
did not have a firmwide conflictof-interest policy, she said. Instead,
they provided copies of policies and
procedures for some of the bank's
divisions. One policy, for the private
banking group, stated that employees
shouldn't write down their conflicts
in "emails or written communications."
The Fed's policy, known as SR 0808, emphasizes the importance of
having company-wide programs to
manage risk at huge firms like Goldman that engage in diverse lines of
business, from wealth management
and trading to guiding mergers and
acquisitions.
The programs are supposed to be
monitored and tested by bank compliance employees to make sure they
are working as intended.
"The Fed recognized that financial
conglomerates should act like truly
combined entities rather than separate divisions or entities where one
group has no idea what the other
group is doing," said Christopher
Laursen, an economic consultant
who helped draft SR 08-08 while at
the Federal Reserve.
On March 21, 2012, Segarra presented her conclusion that Goldman
lacked an acceptable policy on conflicts to her group of specialists from
the other too-big-to-fail banks. They
agreed with her findings, according
to Segarra and another examiner who
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OIL BOOM FROM COVER
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vertising program to fill
out his seasonal work
force, Sidney Sugars
Inc.'s general manager,
David Garland, has
fewer employees than he
needs to process sugar
beets from October
through February. During these five months,
300 people work at the
factory.
"We're
finding
it
harder and harder to fill
those positions," which
used to be taken by locals, he said. "We can't
Fairview is just one of a half dozen bucolic farming towns in eastern Montana transformed over the last 18 months into
compete with oil wages
bedroom communities for workers in the Bakken oil patch. (Bloomberg News photo by Jennifer Oldham).
and there's no housing."
The company built a 50-site RV
half hour's drive from the epicenter state-of-the-art irrigation systems.
Like many eastern Montana towns park on its property last year and
of the Bakken boom in Williston,
N.D., raised residential sewer rates before drilling began in the Bakken plans to build a 42-person dormitory.
to help expand its system. The new in the late 2000s, Culbertson watched That facility will need to rely on walagoon was full the day it opened. new homes lose value the minute ter and sewer hookups to the city of
Now there's a waiting list for a second they hit the market, kids move away Sidney, which is struggling to figure
$1.5 million expansion being funded for college and never return, and out how to pay for improvements to
by Procore Group Inc. of Calgary, a schools close for lack of pupils. Today, those systems.
Running low on caffeine on a recent
company building a camp to house all three of Bainville Mayor Portra's
grown children live in their home- overcast afternoon — both the town's
workers nearby.
coffee cart and the local McDon"When this boom hit, our town town and work in the oil patch.
Yet inflated prices for gasoline, gro- ald's were closed for lack of workers
of 150 people went to 450 people in
a very short time," Bainville Mayor ceries and housing because of the — Sidney's director of public works,
Dennis Portra said. "Our school pop- Bakken boom are taxing residents on Jeffrey Hintz, lifted his ball cap and
scratched his head as he considered
ulation was only 76 kids and now it's fixed incomes.
"I have a big house and the prices his meager funding options.
in the 165 range. Everything is going
"We've got a $15 million cloud
people are getting for homes are high,
very fast."
The town with a two-pump gas sta- so it's a good time to sell," said Evelyn hanging over our head and $800,000
tion, two bars and an annual budget Casterline, 80, a retired high school in a fund to pay for it," said Hintz,
of $250,000, is likely to triple in size home economics teacher who's lived referring to wastewater facility upagain in the next few years as devel- in Culbertson since 1961. "But there's grades. "We promised to have the first
opers finish plans for two hotels, retail no place to go to get homes that are phase done at the end of the 2014 fiscal year."
shops, offices and condos and several smaller."
The town must also upgrade its
The need for housing is acute in
subdivisions.
About 15 miles west of Bainville, eastern Montana. School districts, water treatment facilities to serve
in Culbertson, waitresses at the Wild businesses and restaurants are unable an expected 1,100 new multi-family
West Diner serve hamburgers with to hire workers because there's no units and 386 new residential lots and
sides of mashed potatoes and gravy place for them to live. Home prices make other infrastructure improveas city officials recount how the town went from $60,000 to $300,000, driv- ments.
"We've identified $55 to $60 million
raised its residential sewage rates en up by demand from oil workers.
Hundreds of families are on a year- in real needs with a $13 million budfrom $5 a month to $60 to help fund a
long waiting list for federal Section 8 get and no oil or gas revenue stream,"
$6 million sewer upgrade.
"Last quarter we got $6,000 back housing assistance vouchers, said Bri- Sidney Mayor Bret Smelser said.
Located about 45 miles from Willisfrom oil revenue," said Mayor Gor- an Steffen, chief executive of Action
don Oelkers, who owns a service for Eastern Montana, a community ton, Sidney is the largest town in eastern Montana directly affected by the
station in town. "That has to change. organization based in Glendive.
Once someone has a voucher he or Bakken oil boom. In the city's center,
This is where the impact is and this is
she must find an apartment for no the 86-year-old court house is underwhere the funding should be."
The town grew from 700 to 1,000 in more than $505 per month, a near going a two-year renovation with new
the last two years and is expecting a impossibility in a region where rents sidewalks, landscaping and electrical
and plumbing systems. The improve140-unit subdivision currently under quintupled since 2008, he said.
"We're starting to see an exodus of ments to the building, which houses
construction, a 250-unit hotel and a
nearby man camp to increase its pop- the fixed-income elderly," said Stef- the Richland County Commissioners,
fen. "Either they're leaving the area or were funded with oil and gas revenue.
ulation by 30 percent.
City officials in Sidney say Richland
Oil helped rejuvenate the local moving into care facilities, which is a
County should share some of the mileconomy, Oelkers said, adding that huge hit to Medicare."
Local businesses are unable to find lions it collects in oil and gas taxes ansome farmers used proceeds from the
workers. Even after an expensive ad- nually with the town.
sales of their mineral rights to buy
"Of the $220 million the state colSegarra presented her findings a tion that Goldman had an acceptable lected last year in oil and gas revenue, 50 percent came from Richland
week later to Kim, Silva and his dep- firmwide conflict-of-interest policy.
Segarra quickly sent an email to her County," Smelser said. "The county
uty, Michael Koh, and they didn't object, she said. All three are defendants bosses to remind them that wasn't the gets 25 percent and the schools get 20
case, and that her team of risk spe- percent. We've been begging them to
in the lawsuit.
Silva and Kim did not respond to cialists was preparing enforcement help us."
The county helped the city purchase
requests for comment. Koh declined recommendations.
In response, Kim sent an email say- a new police car, funded two offito comment.
As the Goldman review moved up ing Segarra was trying to "front-run cers and paid $1.6 million for sewer
the Fed's supervisory chain, how- the supervisory process." Two days maintenance, said Richland County
ever, Segarra said she began to get later, a longer email arrived from Silva Commissioner Shane Gorder. The
pushback. According to her lawsuit, stating that "repeated statements that county, one of the fastest growing in
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the nation by percentage of populaa colleague told Segarra in May that
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tion, doesn't have money to spare as
Silva was considering taking the posi-
new reality illustrates the tradeoffs
that come with the energy boom and
how the drilling that showered riches
on its neighbor poses challenges in
Montana.
Jails are filled to capacity, prompting officials to consider freeing lessviolent offenders. Planners worry
overflowing sewers will force them
to ration building permits. School
administrators say they may need to
turn gymnasiums and hallways into
classrooms to serve an expanding
student body.
"We're looking at 32 possible developments with up to 1,700 students,"
Sidney Public Schools Superintendent Daniel Farr said. "That would
double my current student enrollment, resulting in the need to build a
new school system at a range of $24 to
$35 million."
A fraction of the drilling in the
Bakken is taking place in Montana,
which saw its last oil boom lose steam
in 2006. Production on wells in Montana isn't fully taxed for 18 months,
leaving towns to wait two years for
money to upgrade infrastructure.
When taxes do kick in, the state receives 52 percent, with about 47 percent divided between counties and
school districts. Cities get one-tenth
of 1 percent.
Montana will collect $800,000 less
from each new well compared to
North Dakota, even as continuous
drilling to increase productivity deepens the impact on cities and extends
it over long periods, said Mark Haggerty, an economist with Bozeman,
Mont.-based Headwaters Economics.
Gov. Steve Bullock, D, vetoed a bill
in May that would have provided $35
million for eastern Montana communities to build new facilities. Lawmakers say waiting until the next legislative session in 2015 to address growth
will force additional costs onto existing residents, many of whom live on
fixed incomes. A spokesman for the
governor couldn't be reached as of
press time.
"I'm very concerned that waiting
another year and a half is going to
put these communities in a tougher
spot," said state Rep. Austin Knudsen,
R. "You really have no choice but to
go to your ratepayers and ask them to
pay more. That's the situation were in
and I'm afraid it's going to get worse."
Eighteen-wheelers raise clouds of
dust on Bainville's dirt roads as they
pass its school and a white-steepled
church on the hill. The town, just a
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was present and declined to be identified because the person is not authorized to comment on confidential
supervisory matters.
Possible sanctions against the bank
were also discussed, but the final
decision was up to senior Fed staff.
A summary sheet from the group's
meeting recommended downgrading Goldman from "satisfactory" to
"fair" for policies and procedures, the
equivalent of a "C" letter grade.
9
Are You Spending More Than
You Make?
If you constantly run out of money and
have to scramble before the next paycheck
arrives, chances are you're not using a budget to manage your finances.
Here are six easy steps to create a simple
budget and put it to work:
1. If you have a computer, go online to
wikihow.com and search for creating a budget. You'll find a number of articles with basic charts and forms you can print out. If you
don't have a computer, pencil and paper will
do just fine.
2. Write down your regular expenses. This
will include mortgage payment, auto insurance and payment, credit-card payments,
tuition -- anything that's an expense every
month.
3. Make a list of expenses that vary from
month to month, such as food, utilities (this
is where being on a payment plan for utilities
can come in handy), shoes and car repair.
Estimate the likely cost if necessary. Don't
forget periodic expenses, such as yearly fees
for vehicles. Calculate how much you need to
set aside each month to meet that expense.
4. Track your spending for a month. You
need to know exactly where every dollar has
gone. This is not the time to pretend you
didn't really spend all that money on lattes
and lunches out. Save every receipt and write
down your expenses in a small notebook
when you're out.
5. Consider your long-term financial
goals, such as knowing you'll need another
vehicle next year and will need a down payment. Again, calculate how much you'll need
to save each month. While considering this
goal of a new vehicle (or another large item),
consider whether you'll be able to afford the
payment.
6. At the end of the month, total up your
figures and compare your outgo with your
income. If you've had to put things on credit
cards, chances are your outgo exceeded the
money that came in. If so, you need to identify areas where you can cut back expenses.
Start by looking at what you put on credit
cards and anything you labeled as miscellaneous expenses, such as snacks and coffee
out, and impulse items.
The hard part of budgeting comes the following month when you need to make those
cutbacks to your spending. But chances are,
if you follow your budget, you won't run out
of money before the next check comes in.
- David Uffington regrets that he cannot
personally answer reader questions, but will
incorporate them into his column whenever
possible. Send email to columnreply2@gmail.
com. © 2013 King Features Synd., Inc. ■
it struggles to maintain 1,200 miles of
roads battered by unrelenting truck
traffic, he added.
"We can't keep up with maintaining
our roads, they just fall apart," Gorder
said. "We've spent $30 million in the
last five years on road projects. It
seems like we're always behind."
© 2013, Bloomberg News. ■
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Successive generations of monarch
make an annual journey from Mexico
to Canada and back, but the butterfly
is losing ground. Taylor, who is a professor of ecology at the University of
Kansas, says that in the United States
as much as 6,000 acres of open land
is lost each day to development, territory that the butterfly relies on to feed
and reproduce.
In addition, he says, the widespread
planting of genetically modified crops
has allowed farmers to more effectively kill milkweed, the plant that
monarchs need as caterpillars.
In March, conservation groups reported the smallest overwintering
population of monarchs since their
colonies were discovered in Mexico
by scientists in 1975.
Taylor said he has so far persuaded
about 7,000 gardeners to establish
"waystations" for the monarchs. But
with the loss of almost 200 million
acres of monarch habitat over the past
20 years, he would like to see 7 million gardeners come to their rescue.
Mace Vaughan, pollinator program
director for the Xerces Society, a conservation group based in Portland,
Ore., agrees. "To me that's the core
of pollinator conservation. If we tie
enough [gardens] together, we can
have a significant benefit."
Providing nectar plants for monarchs, of course, will help other butterfly species. Other pollinators —
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the predators that eat them in the wild. (Photo credit: Sharon Metcalf.)
Monarchs
Sharon Metcalf lives in a cul-desac of townhouses in Bethesda, Md.,
backing up to a grassy hillside and
public woodland. She decided she
would come to the aid of the monarch
after watching the Imax film, "Flight
of the Butterflies," at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural
History.
She planted a bank of swamp milkweed across the hillside and then converted her little patch of lawn, adding
nectar-rich perennials to some existing shrubs and planting additional
milkweed among them.
She says the adult butterfly can detect milkweed plants from as far as a
mile away. The butterfly lays eggs on
the leaves, which hatch into hungry
worms. Chemicals in the leaf make
the caterpillars and adults distasteful
to birds, and the striking markings of
the caterpillar and the butterfly signal
the fact.
"I was noticing fewer hummingbirds. I was getting turtles at some
point, but they seemed to be disappearing. I was noticing in the lights
at night fewer and fewer insects," she
said. "I realized if I wanted to create
a healthier ecosystem, a good visible
place to start is with monarchs, particularly because of their decline."
Since she reworked her garden in
early spring, she says, "I'm seeing
things come back that I had lost."
Replacing a small lawn with wildlife-friendly plantings might be
enough for most of us, but a pair of
tent-like cubes, three feet by two
feet, attest to a greater effort: Metcalf
is currently raising a brood of two
dozen monarch caterpillars obtained
through Taylor's organization. They
arrived the day I paid her a visit.
Several small plastic cups each
held two or three caterpillars. Newly
hatched, they were tiny — maybe
a quarter-inch long and not much
thicker than a cotton thread. They go
through five molts before reaching
pupating size. If you looked closely —
she handed me a magnifying glass —
you could see the distinctive patterning of black, yellow and white stripes.
Metcalf took a milkweed leaf she
had harvested from the garden and
placed it in one of the cups. The tiny
creature went straight for it.
"I like to make milkweed sandwiches," she said, demonstrating the technique. She places a leaf with the un-
derside up. When a caterpillar crawls
on it, she places a second leaf on top
to allow it to munch away while covered. After a few minutes, the larva
has made a discernible hole in the upper leaf.
As the caterpillars grow, so do their
appetites, and Metcalf has to make
sure they have enough milkweed:
She sets a whole plant that she has
dug and potted, and places it in each
of the two zippered tents. Here they
can develop into big caterpillars and
then chrysalides without fear of being
eaten.
The larvae take about 10 days to
pupate and another 10 to 14 days as
a chrysalis before emerging as a butterfly. Metcalf already has raised one
brood this summer. She held a party
for its release, first attaching a small
identifying tag to each butterfly before its release.
The effort takes time, knowledge
and equipment, and the kit comes
with two full pages of single-spaced
instructions. Taylor says the rearing
program is an educational initiative
geared more to schools than home
gardeners, but there is little doubt
that Metcalf is helping the monarch
population.
For every 100 monarch eggs that
hatch in nature, only one makes it to
adulthood. Metcalf is counting on all
two dozen of her charges taking flight
toward the end of this month. "It
could be these butterflies will move
north or they'll decide it's time to fly
back to Mexico," she said.
Taylor also runs a tagging program
for folks who want to capture migrating monarchs in a butterfly net and affix a sticker to their underwing. Since
1992, more than 1 million monarchs
have been tagged, of which 16,000
have been recovered to provide scientific tracking of their migrations.
Running a kindergarten for butterflies and tagging them may be too
much for most of us, but anyone with
a bit of land can do something: "The
average gardener just needs to plant
eight or 10 plants to provide some
habitat for pollinators," Taylor said.
"You don't have to plant a whole garden."
Honeybees
The decline of the honeybee has
been one of the most publicized environmental disasters of the past
decade. The sudden die-off and disappearance of whole hives, known
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the action to whole experiences built
around branded characters. Recently,
Chipotle got a lot of attention for its
Scarecrow commercial and accompanying game/app, but examples are as
typical snack food commercial on
television
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a flash of color, cartoon animation, and
screeching noises —
and then it's gone.
But food companies
are increasingly turning to another form
of marketing called
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their wares.
As the name suggests,
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combine advertising
and addictive video
games in a way that
ensure kids bathe
in product spots for
as long as they click
on the keyboard or Cookiecrispcity.com is one of the latest in "advergames" created by
smartphone.
That snack food companies.
might mean anything from pop-up ads unrelated to
as colony collapse disorder, is a phenomenon noted mostly by commercial beekeepers who ship their honeybees around the country to pollinate
fruit and nut crops. But the hobby
beekeeper, too, has seen levels of
colony death unheard of in years past.
In May, a panel of scientists established to find the cause of CCD reported its finding: There is no single
cause. The honeybee is beaten down
by a number of viruses spread in part
by a parasitic mite, called varroa, and
by poor nutrition and pesticide exposure.
The panel said that honeybee colonies need more genetic diversity bred
into them, and that more study is
needed to determine the risks of pesticides.
Officials have said there isn't
enough evidence to follow a European Union ban on a class of systemic
pesticides called neonicotinoids,
which even in low levels can harm the
ability of bees to navigate and forage,
critics say.
One response by the home gardener is to keep bees, but this is a timeconsuming hobby beyond gardening.
Vaughan, of the Xerces Society, says
the gardener can do more for the
honeybee by providing plants rich
in nectar and pollen and by avoiding
pesticides.
Bumblebees
Unlike honeybees, which came
from the Old World with European
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numerous as your options for breakfast cereal. Sticking to just that aisle,
there's "Ice Block" from Froot Loops,
"Cap'n Crunch's Crunchling Adventure" and "Cookie Crisp City."
Recently, researchers at Michigan
State University analyzed more than
100 advergames to see whether any
patterns emerged about the products
being advertised. After looking at 145
websites, the researchers identified
439 products from 19 brands. They
then analyzed the nutritional content
of each of these products to see how
they measured up against health recommendations for children.
Of the products advertised, about
95 percent of the meals and 78 percent of the snacks exceeded total fat
content recommendations set by
the Agriculture Department and the
Food and Drug Administration. For
sodium, 95 to 97 percent of the meals
and 41 to 64 percent of the snacks
failed to meet guidelines (depending
on whether you're using the USDA or
FDA's recommendations). And when
it came to added sugar, 86.6 percent
of meals and 97 percent of snacks
exceed the USDA recommendations.
(The FDA doesn't make a recommendation for added sugar.)
In other words, advergames offer
up a smorgasbord of sugar and salt.
Probably not the most shocking thing
you've read today, but the findings
shed light on yet another way advertisers are skewing children's thoughts
about diet.
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There's also some crazy-powerful
lobbying at work. In 2009, a number
of government organizations were
tasked with defining nutrition principles for foods marketed to children.
It was aptly named the Interagency
Working Group on Foods Marketed
to Children, and it has failed repeatedly to stand up to the food industry.
In fact, its official recommendation is
for the industry to regulate itself.
Elizabeth Taylor Quilliam, one of
the Michigan State study's lead authors, says this was an interesting secondary takeaway from the research.
"The fact that the agencies were not
able to get together with one standard,
and that it's still up to the industry to
self-regulate is continuing to create
this confusing environment where a
lot of the messages getting through to
kids may not be the ones that parents
would want them to receive."
Clearly, advergames aren't going
to disappear anytime soon, though
a little bit of regulation could go a
long way. Other research in the field
has shown that when advergames
promote nutritious foods, kids make
more healthful food choices. Quilliam and her colleagues are also
working on another study using an
advergame they built to test how age
factors into the equation.
I can attest to the advergame's effectiveness. In high school, my friends
and I used to stay up late out-putting
each other on Candystand.com's miniature golf game and talking to girls
on AOL Instant Messenger. Each hole
was sponsored by a different piece of
junk, from Oreos to Lifesavers, and
I'm here to tell you, I still crave Creme
Savers when I think of Hole 16.
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you have made to me that [Goldman]
does not have a [conflict-of-interest]
policy AT ALL are debatable at best,
or alternatively, plainly incorrect."
As evidence, Silva cited a year-old
Goldman report that called for revamping its conflict-of-interest rules
and the company's code of conduct —
neither of which Segarra believed met
the Fed's requirements.
Before Segarra could respond to
Silva's email, Koh summoned her to
a meeting. For more than 30 minutes,
he and Silva repeated that they did
not agree with her findings, she said.
While Segarra detailed all the evidence that backed up her conclusion,
she said, Silva and Koh kept asking
her to change her mind.
Afterward, Segarra said she sent
an email to Silva detailing why she
believed her findings were correct
and stating that she could not change
them. Three business days later, she
was fired.
Segarra has no evidence that Goldman was involved. Silva told her he
had lost confidence in her ability to
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Ann was born in Canandaigua
and was the daughter of Charles and
Janice (Sleght) Yarger. She attended
Canandaigua schools and was a
graduate of Canandaigua Academy,
class of 1967. Ann worked as a care
giver for many years. She was a
member of Good Shepherd Lutheran
Church. Ann enjoyed cooking,
collecting bells and miniatures. She
loved spending time with her family
and grandchildren.
Ann’s memorial service was held
October 15, 2013 at Good Shepherd
Lutheran Church, Canandaigua.
Interment was set for Pine Bank
Cemetery, Cheshire. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may
be made to Happiness House, 731
Pre-Emption Rd., Geneva, NY 14456
or Victor-Farmington Volunteer Ambulance, 1321 E. Victor Rd., Victor,
NY 14564. Arrangements were with
Johnson-Kennedy Funeral Home,
Inc., Canandaigua.
***
Geneseo
Joan Martello Bellanca
Geneseo, NY - Joan Martello Bellanca, age 81, died October 4, 2013
at the Livingston County Center for
Nursing and Rehabilitation in Mt.
Morris. She was predeceased by her
husband Frank in 2004.
Joan was born December 11, 1931
in Mt. Morris, NY, the daughter of
John and Florence Bissell Martello.
She was the restaurant manager of
the Big N and later Ames Department Store in Geneseo. Joan was a
member of St. Mary's Church.
Joan is Survived by her daughter Jo
Ann (Gary) Valentino of Mt. Morris; son Michael (Carol) Bellanca of
take direction and not jump to conclusions, she said.
Today, Segarra works at another
financial institution at a lower level
than she feels her qualifications merit.
She worries about the New York Fed's
ability to stop the next financial crisis.
"I was just documenting what Goldman was doing," she said. "If I was not
able to push through something that
obvious, the Federal Reserve Bank of
New York certainly won't be capable
of supervising banks when even more
serious issues arise."
- ProPublica research director Liz
Day contributed to this story. ProPublica is an independent, nonprofit
newsroom that produces investigative
journalism in the public interest.
© 2013, ProPublica. ■
Spokane, WA; grandchildren Kristie
Valentino of Colorado Springs,
CO, Chad (Stephanie) Valentino of
Leicester, and Kathy (Blake) Avery of
Sweetwater, TN; great-grandchildren
Brooke and Brennan Valentino;
sisters Marie Rumfola of FL, Marlene
Peus and Diane Horr, both of Mt.
Morris, and Tina Argenna of Conesus Lake; brothers, Nick Martello
of FL, John Martello of Rochester,
and Tom Martello of Henrietta; and
many nieces and nephews.
A Memorial Mass was held October 12, 2013 at St. Mary's Church in
Geneseo. Memorial contributions
may be made to the Teresa House, 21
Highland Rd., Geneseo, NY 14454.
Arrangements were with the RectorHicks Funeral Home, Geneseo.
***
Hammondsport
Patricia R. (Hooker)
Wilkins
Hammondsport, NY - Patricia "Pat"
R. Wilkins, 71, died October 8, 2013
at her home, following a long illness.
Pat was born to the late Howard
and Ruth Hooker on September 10,
1942 in Hornell, NY. She graduated
from Hornell High School in 1961
and was married to Ronald Wilkins
on January 13, 1962 in Hornell,
where they lived together until relocating to Hammondsport in 1997.
Pat worked as an administrative
assistant for Marion Rohr in Hornell
after high school and in 1964 she
moved to Germany to be with her
husband, where he was stationed
with the U.S. Army. After raising her
three children, Pat worked with her
husband, owner of Wilkins Recreational Vehicles, Inc. helping to grow
the family business.
Pat was an avid gardener with
a passion for flowers. She was
President of the Alpha Zeta Sorority
and became a very dedicated fund
raiser for The Alzheimer's Association and other Alzheimer related
charities. Pat loved to travel as she
and her husband visited Japan, Israel,
Australia and parts of Europe. She
was a very devoted wife, mother and
grandmother and developed lasting
relationships with everyone she came
to know.
Besides her husband Ronald, Pat is
also survived by her three sons, Scott
(Barbara) Wilkins of Bath, and Brian
Wilkins and Kevin Wilkins, both of
Hornell. She is also survived by two
grandchildren, Kaelan and Emily
Wilkins; and three siblings, Virginia,
Robert and Roberta.
Pat’s funeral service was held
October 15, 2013 at Christ Episcopal Church in Hornell. Committal
prayers and interment followed at
the Arkport Heritage Hill Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests
donations be made in memory of Patricia Wilkins to the Alzheimer's Association, Rochester & Finger Lakes
Chapter, 435 E Henrietta Road,
Rochester, NY 14620. Arrangements
were with the Bishop & Johnson
Funeral Home, Hornell.
***
Leicester
Jon J. Jinks
Leicester, NY - Jon J. Jinks, age 61,
died October 6, 2013 at his residence.
He was predeceased by his parents,
Clayton and Frances Jinks, and his
sister, Janice Lee.
Jon was born September 3, 1952
in Warsaw, NY, the son of Clayton
and Frances LeFever Jinks. He was
a graduate of Pavilion High School.
Jon was an avid member of the York
Sportsman's Club and their 22 Rifle
Competitions.
Jon is survived by his wife, Marla
Laney; daughter Meghann (Ben)
Bernard of Stafford; grandchildren
Noah and Violet Bernard, whom he
loved dearly; brothers Duffy (Carlotta) Jinks of Pavilion and Jay (Joni)
Jinks of Knoxville, TN; brother-inlaw Joe Lee of Wyoming, NY; and
many nieces and nephews.
Calling hours were held October
10, 2013 at the York Sportsman's
Club. Private services were planned.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the York
Sportsman's Club, 2883 Craig Rd.,
Piffard, NY 14533.
***
Midland, TX/Pulteney, NY
Darcy Karl Conley
Midland, TX/Pulteney, NY - Darcy
Karl Conley, 40 years old, of Midland, Texas and formerly of Pulteney,
NY passed away peacefully October
7, 2013, surrounded by family and
friends at home. He was born February 26, 1973 in Urbana, NY, the son
of David and Donna Hoad Conley of
Pulteney.
Darcy was an active member of the
US Army from 1991-1995 during
which he served as a mechanic. He
later worked for Monroe Muffler in
Bath, NY, transferred to Lancaster,
Ohio and returned to work in Hornell and Dansville, NY. He enjoyed
working on cars, hunting and horses.
Darcy is survived by his wife of 21
years, Samantha Leavens Conley; his
three sons, Darcy Jr. (Rachel Thompson), Brandin (Mariah) and Jaycub; a
daughter, Kimberlee; and a grandson, David, all of Midland, Texas; his
parents; two brothers, Devin (Ofelia)
of Conesus and Daniel of Pulteney;
grandmother Illa Hoad of Pulteney;
and several aunts, uncles, cousins,
nieces and nephews.
Darcy was predeceased by his
grandparents Vernon Hoad and Melbourne and Olive Conley; and uncles
Kevin Hoad and Clarence, Gerald
and Joseph Conley.
Funeral services were held October 12, 2013 at the Bottoni-Wood
Funeral Home in Prattsburgh, NY.
Burial was set for Thomas Cemetery,
Pulteney, NY.
***
Wayland
Lorraine C. (Didas)
Meyers
Wayland, NY – Lorraine C. Meyers,
75, passed away peacefully at her
daughter's home on October 11,
2013.
Lorraine was born on March 25,
1938 in Wayland, the daughter of the
late Edward and Ruth (Kelly) Didas.
She is predeceased by a sister, Phyllis
Smith. Lorraine might be known
to most as the lady that always
walked-- she could be found walking
everywhere in the town of Wayland.
She also loved to do puzzles, animals,
especially her cat, and was a custodian in many places in town. She was
a member of the St. Joseph's church.
Lorraine is survived by her children Catherine (David) Stephens
and Norbert (Judy) Meyers all of
Wayland, and 2 sisters, Patsy Mark
and Yvonne Didas.
A graveside service was held October 15, 2013 at St. Joseph's Cemetery
in Wayland. Memorial contributions may be made to the Kitchen
Table Ministry, 109 East Naples St.
Wayland, NY 14572. Arrangements
were with the Walter E. Baird & Sons
Funeral Home, Wayland. ■
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Elementary Students Learn
Keyboard Typing Ahead of New
Common Core Tests
By Lyndsey Layton
The New York Eagle News/ The
Washington Post
T
he 7-year-olds in Natalie
May's second-grade class have
to stretch their fingers across
the keyboards to reach "ASDF" and
"JKL;" as they listen to the animated
characters on their computer screens
talk about "home keys."
"After 15 minutes, some of them
will say their fingers are hurting, so
we take a break," said May, a Phoenix
educator who began teaching typing
to second-graders this school year.
Of the major shifts taking place in
American classrooms as a result of
the new national Common Core academic standards, one little-noticed
but sweeping change is the fact that
children as early as kindergarten are
learning to use a keyboard.
A skill that has been taught for
generations in middle or high school
— first on manual typewriters, then
electric word processors and finally
on computer keyboards — is now
becoming a staple of elementary
schools. Educators around the country are rushing to teach typing to children who have barely mastered printing by hand.
The Common Core standards make
frequent references to technology
skills, stating that students in every
grade should be able use the Internet
for research and use digital tools in
their school work to incorporate video, sound and images with writing.
But the standardized tests linked to
the Common Core make those expectations crystal clear because the
exams — which will be given in 20142015 — require students to be able to
manipulate a mouse; click, drag and
type answers on a keyboard; and,
starting in third grade, write online.
Second-grade teacher Kimberly Blackert helps Cody Simpson with his touch typing assignment
on October 11, 2013 at Horseshoe Trails Elementary School in Phoenix, Ariz. Formal keyboarding
instruction at the school began this year for second-graders, and is being taught in other schools as
early as kindergarten. (Photo for The Washington Post by David Jolkovski)
Fourteen states have agreed to fieldtest the exams next spring to help
those creating the tests iron out the
wrinkles and make improvements.
Third-graders will be asked to write
three short pieces, according to Laura
Slover, who heads one of two consortia that are designing the tests. They
will read a nonfiction selection and a
literary passage and write about each,
and they will be asked to write a story
based on a real or imaginary experience, Slover said.
"Writing is a critical skill, and young
students should have the opportunity
to write frequently about meaningful topics," Slover said. And when the
writing tests are administered online,
that means the students will be using
a keyboard.
Those requirements are sending
tremors through the nation's elementary schools.
"All these elementary teachers are
dying, worrying how they're going
to get their kids to meet these new
requirements," said Jaqui Murray,
a California teacher who writes the
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"It's a huge deal. You can't have kids
go into these tests and not do well because they can't keyboard."
Most elementary-age children are
digital natives, comfortable with
smartphones and tablets. But they often operate those hand-held devices
with a swipe of a finger. They have a
much more difficult time trying to
compose text on a keyboard, according to their teachers.
Children must learn touch typing
— the ability to compose text without
looking at keys — so they can focus
on their writing, said Kathleen Regan, the director of curriculum and
instruction at New Jersey's Glen Rock
Public Schools. She calls it a "fluency
skill" akin to memorizing the multiplication tables in order to more
quickly perform complex mathematics.
Until now, typing was only taught in
middle school, Regan said. But next
month, Glen Rock Public Schools
will roll out keyboarding in its four
elementary schools.
"On the Common Core assessments, some of these writings are going to be document-based questions
or sorting through different types of
text," Regan said. "The last thing you
want is for the kids to be struggling
with the mechanical skills. "
The Common Core standards, written by governors and state education
officials in both parties, were designed to create consistent math and
reading standards from kindergarten
through 12th grade. Academic standards vary widely among states, and
that patchwork nature has been partly
blamed for mediocre rankings of U.S.
students in international comparisons.
The standards do not dictate curriculum. Rather, states decide what
to teach and how to prepare children
for standardized tests based on Common Core. Forty-five states and the
District of Columbia adopted the
Common Core standards in both
math and English and agreed to test
students beginning in the 2014-2015
school year. Minnesota adopted the
Common Core for English only. Alaska, Nebraska, Texas and Virginia have
not adopted the standards.
At an August planning meeting at
Horseshoe Trails Elementary School
in Phoenix, it dawned on May and
the other teachers that they needed
to start keyboard instruction sooner
than third grade to prepare for the
new tests.
"We were discussing how the new
(Common Core) exam required a
large part done on the computer,"
May said. "It just occurred to us that
maybe we ought to introduce this
earlier."
There is plenty of debate about the
appropriate age to teach touch typing
and whether the youngest learners
are ready to sit with two feet on the
floor, elbows bent, hands hovering
over keys and eyes on the screen. May
said educators don't know how young
such instruction should start.
"We thought we'd try it with second
[grade] and see how it goes," May
said. "But we just don't know whether
developmentally, if it's appropriate for
kids who are not even comfortable
with letter sounds and basic phonemic connection to the alphabet."
Virginia Berninger, a professor of
educational psychology at the University of Washington, said the Common Core's expectation that a 9-yearold will be able to write a page of text
as part of the standardized test is off
base.
"By third grade, if you have one
well-formed paragraph, you're lucky,"
Berninger said. "Kids don't write that
extended text. Paragraph formation
comes at about sixth grade, maybe
fifth grade. The current Common
Core is not developmentally appropriate."
It's still early in the school year, but
May's second-graders seem to enjoy
their weekly 35-minute sessions on
the computers, she said.
"For the most part, they're actually really into it, and they like the
fact that it's differentiated. They set
their own goals and get excited when
they reach them," said May, 30, who
learned to type in seventh grade.
In Glen Rock, elementary students
will spend about 40 minutes a week
on keyboarding. Students in kindergarten through second grade will
work with a Web-based software
program called Typing Pal, while the
third- through fifth-graders will use
Typing Agent. Typing software for
children has plenty of colorful games,
sound effects and cartoon characters,
a far cry from "the quick brown fox
jumps over the lazy dog."
While schools may be teaching
touch typing because of the Common
Core tests, the ability to use a keyboard is an important life skill, said
Cathy Turner, a technology teacher
at an elementary school in Greenville,
S.C., who runs the computer lab used
by 600 students every week at Welcome Elementary School.
"A lot of jobs out there require keyboarding," said Turner, mentioning
that many service-industry positions
require computer use. "They need it
for real life. We are becoming such a
computerized world, and technology
is changing constantly. For us to keep
up with other countries, we have to
get a move on it."
Students in some states may get a
little more time to polish their keyboarding skills. Two groups of states
are developing tests for the Common
Core, and one group said it will make
pencil-and-paper versions available
for at least the first year for states
needing more time to acquire enough
computers and broadband Internet
access to be able to test everyone
online. The second group says paper
versions will be available for as long
as three years after the initial digital
rollout.
In recent months, some states
have decided to craft their own tests
aligned with the Common Core standards, and it is unclear whether those
tests will be administered on paper or
by computer.
Murray, the technology teacher and
blogger, wonders how long it will take
for new technology, such as voice
recognition, to make typing obsolete.
She mentioned Siri, the voice recognition software on Apple's mobile
products, as an example.
"I use Siri on the phone and iPad,
but it's not good enough yet," Murray
said. "When that starts getting better,
look out. That's really going to change
things. Again."
Fall Fashion
Trends to Try
By Jennifer Barger
Washington Post
O
versize coats, gray hues, cobalt accents, chunky sweaters and leather everything
defined the runways of the fall/winter
2013 ready-to-wear shows last spring.
As the weather cools, Jennifer Barger,
fashion editor for Fashion Washington and Express; Paige Speyer, of
Wink boutique in Washington, and
Lauren Rothman, of Styleauteur.com
and author of "Style Bible" (October
2013), give their advice for wearing
fall's must-have items.
— Monochromatic neutrals, especially in shades of gray were a frequent sight on runways in New York
in February. Barger suggests pairing
multiple shades. "The key to doing
gray without looking dour is to layer
in different tones . . . inky, steely, pale.
And a pop of color," such as yellow or
purple, Barger said, "can spark things
up." Rothman says gray hues such
as those seen at Jason Wu's fall 2013
show are an extension of a trend of
menswear for woman: "The new suit
is the coordinated skirt set, the skirt
with the matching sweater or jacket.
Its not necessarily a suit but head to
toe is a monochromatic color."
— The sweater and skirt "new suit"
trend was also seen at Marc Jacobs,
as well as another big trend for fall:
shades of greens and emeralds. Rothman suggests jacquard pants and
jackets for a take on the classic menswear look.
— If a houndstooth coat, such as
a bold pattern from Michael Kors'
fall 2013 collection, seems too overwhelming, Rothman suggests a
houndstooth accessory such as a
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Band of Outsiders
similarly
showed a lot of
leather items during its fall 2013
show. "We're getting a lot of leather,
a lot of coated denim, leather-ette,"
says Wink boutique's Paige Speyer. "Leather tops,
leather accents, in
details on sweaters, skirts, leather
trim on dresses —
it's everywhere."
— Speyer says
she has also been
stocking a lot of
chunky sweaters,
Oversize coats, gray hues, cobalt accents, chunky sweaters and leather
everything defined the runways of the fall/winter 2013 ready-to-wear
including varieties
shows last spring. Here, an on-trend cobalt dress, left, and an oversize coat,
by Tibi, similar to
both from J. Mendel’s fall collection. (Photo credit: J. Mendel)
the ones shown in
the designer's fall
purse or large scarf.
— Oversize coats were also a big 2013 show during Mercedes-Benz
trend at runway shows, including J. Fashion Week in New York. Speyer
Mendel. But not everyone can wear also loves Mara Hoffman sweaters
such a large garment, Rothman says. for fall, including a leopard-print
"That oversized coat that was very pull-over similar to the prints seen on
cocoonlike [and] doesn't play so well the runway during the designer's fall
in everyday life," she says. "I'd really show. Barger recommends pairing a
rather go with a statement coat that big cardigan or pullover over breezy
will turn heads, whether that has a dresses or straight pants.
"Chunky knits look fresh layered
really big collar, it's belted, or maybe
you choose to go loud with a great with lighter florals," Barger says. Or
pattern, maybe a plaid color blocking try a graphic print, like the looks from
Tibi's fall 2013 runway.
or leather details."
— Cobalt is another fresh color for
— "Leather is everywhere, but what
I am loving is hybrids . . . a coat with fall, Rothman says, like the shade
leather sleeves, a skirt with leather seen on dresses from J. Mendel. Rothpanels," Barger says. "It tends to be man says she often urges clients to
cheaper and a bit less biker chick." incorporate trends with accessories
Adds Rothman: "I think it is one of instead of entire outfits, such as the
the 'it' accessories. It's very luxurious, cobalt shoes and bags seen at Rag &
and quilting especially is very luxuri- Bag.
ous. It gives that nod to Chanel."
A Married Woman's Poem
He didn't like the casserole and he didn't like my cake,
He said my biscuits were too hard, not like his mother used to make.
I didn't perk the coffee right, he didn't like the stew.
I didn't mend his socks the way his mother used to do.
I pondered for an answer, I was looking for a clue.
Then I turned around and smacked the crap out of him like his mother used
to do. ■
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now used extensively on plant-feeding pests. Among those registered
are imidacloprid, acetamiprid and
settlers, bumblebees are native species
that provide their own benefits
to the gardener. They are better, for example, at pollinating
tomatoes and blueberries than
honeybees, and do a great job
of pollinating squashes and cucumbers. They also can tolerate
colder temperatures than honeybees. In addition to providing sources of nectar and pollen, the gardener can help the
bumblebee by providing undisturbed, uncultivated areas
of the yard where the bees can A newly hatched butterfly that Metcalf raised in early
summer. The monarch’s distinctive green chrysalis can be
establish colonies, which may seen in the background. (Photo credit: Sharon Metcalf.)
number 40 bees. (A honeybee
hive can contain 50,000 bees.) Bum- clothianidin.
Targeted pests include turf-feeding
blebees may also nest in stone walls,
unoccupied birdhouses or compost grubs, termites, leafhoppers, lacebugs
piles. Although they can sting, they and aphids. Bees can ingest neonicrarely do. So if you find a nest, leave otinoids in nectar and pollen.
Separately, a study published July
it alone.
Pesticides
R e c e n t l y,
a landscape
contractor
in Portland,
Ore., sprayed
linden trees
against feeding aphids
and
managed to kill
thousands of
bumblebees.
T h e r e In addition to installing host plants for caterpillars, she has put in nectar-rich perennials such
are ways of as the Sedum variety Autumn Fire. (Washington Post photo by Linda Davidson.)
minimizing
the risk, by not spraying plants in 24 by scientists at the Agriculture Debloom and applying chemicals after partment and the University of Marybees have returned to their colonies land showed that when honeybees
at night. But the best way to conserve ingested pollen contaminated with
pollinators, according to the Xerces fungicides, they were more likely to
Society, is to avoid pesticides alto- get a serious gut disease called nosema.
gether.
"Overall, we aren't taking very good
Pyrethroids, which are commonly
used against mosquitoes, kill many care of the little critters out there,"
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the Youth Market, But Not the Youth Wallet
By Warren Brown
Special to The New York Eagle
News/The Washington Post
T
here are cars for the young and
those for the old. That is not a
politically correct assessment
of reality. But it is reality nonetheless.
Cars are time capsules reflective of
individual life stages — thus, the current battle among automobile manufacturers for those segments of the
market serving young, gainfully employed families.
Midsize family sedans and crossoverutility vehicles are hot. Two-seat
coupes and convertibles, by comparison, in terms of raw sales numbers,
are not.
That does not seem to be the case,
judging from the current run of automobile television commercials.
Fancy, fast cars being driven in ways
that would get most of us arrested or
lodged in a hospital are all the rage.
That's because most automotive marketing messages are designed to deflect reality. They are aspirational halo
notes, meant to appeal to the dreamer
in all of us.
Reality is something different. Consider the 2014 Nissan 370Z Touring
sports coupe. It is a powerful, compact, rear-wheel-drive two-seater that
drew rave street reviews from nearly
every spectator who, based on em-
The Nissan 370Z Touring sports coupe appears to be designed for the youth market, but it doesn’t have
a youthful price.. (Photo credit: Nissan)
pirical observation, appeared to be 30
years old or younger.
The young folks loved the 370Z
Touring's lines, which they thought
sleek and sexy. They marveled over
the car's advertised performance —
332-horsepower gasoline V-6, 270
pound-feet of torque, 0 to 60 mph in
a bit under five seconds — numbers
they seemed to know by heart. Some
of them chided me for being in an
"old man's Z" — the relatively tame
370Z Touring equipped with the optional seven-speed automatic transmission.
They would have preferred the
even more powerful 370Z Nismo
(350-horsepower gasoline V-6, 276
pound-feet of torque) attached to a
standard six-speed manual transmission.
But most of the young people expressing those opinions were still in
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that many, or any, of them could have
afforded the $35,270 base price of the
370Z Touring or the base $43,020
sticker of the 370Z Nismo.
Epiphany: The Nissan 370Z is a sports
coupe designed for young bodies and
libidos but not for young wallets —
not most of them anyway.
That revelation was highlighted by an
invitation to a Virginia event staged
by the Nation's Capital Jaguar Owners Club. I drove the Nissan 370Z
Touring to the Jaguar ceremony,
mostly attended by senior citizens
who have enough money to own two
or three Jaguar cars at prices ranging
from $47,000 to $174,000.
I love the Jaguar crowd because they
love cars and most of them have lived
long, hard and well enough to afford
any automobile they want to buy.
Most of them liked the "solid red"
370Z Touring coupe I was driving but
said they never would consider buying it.
"It is sexy eye candy, but most of the
women I know wouldn't want to go
on a weekend trip in it," said Michelle
Dawson, a longtime member and official of the local Jaguar club.
"Why not?" I asked.
"It's impractical," Dawson said.
"Women going out with a man who
can afford that kind of car want to
dress up. That means they want to
bring lots of clothes with them. There
is no place in your little red car to put
those clothes. We would have to go in
something else."
Other members of the Jaguar club
said they liked "my" 370Z Touring but
wouldn't consider buying it because
the car's low-slung body and steeply
raked roof mitigates against aging
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Chevrolet Spark: A Good
Argument for Plugging In
By Warren Brown
I
am sometimes a neighborhood
recluse, seldom moving beyond
the boundaries of my Arlington
community on days when writing duties tie me to my home office.
I take meal breaks and "soul breaks"
— and time for short errands, usually
traveling to local restaurants, shops
and churches.
It occurs to me that I need not burn
gasoline and further burden local air
quality with tailpipe emissions to do
those things. I am now convinced I
don't have to.
There are all-electric cars, reliable
and affordable with sufficient drive
range per
charge
to
allow
me
to go locally where
I want to
go without
running out
of juice. I recently drove
an excellent
The Chevrolet Spark demonstrates that the electric car market is getting better and
example of better. (Photo credit: Chevrolet)
the genre,
the
2014
Chevrolet Spark EV 1LT, and am se- mph before I need to recharge the
riously considering its purchase. The battery. In terms of driving range, that
is more than I need to get around my
little car makes so much sense.
With a full charge of its 21-kilowatt- home town and adjoining jurisdic____________________
hour lithium-ion battery pack, I can
SPARK PAGE 17
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Car After Lackluster Sales
By Tommaso Ebhardt
Bloomberg News
I
taly’s Aston Martin, the maker
of sports cars favored by Prince
Charles and driven by James
Bond, is dropping the Cygnet city car
following lackluster sales to refocus
on models more geared to their traditional customers.
"Cygnet production will end this
year," said Sarah Calam, a spokeswoman for the Gaydon, Englandbased manufacturer. The model is
based on Toyota's iQ subcompact.
The hand-stitched leather interior
and Aston Martin badge were not
enough to persuade customers to
pay 31,000 pounds ($50,000) for the
model, more than double the price
of the iQ, which provided the engine,
transmission and frame. Demand for
the model was about 250 a year, according to IHS Automotive. The carmaker's sales target was at least 1,500
annually.
Aston Martin, which unlike rivals,
isn't backed by a larger auto manufacturer, aimed to keep down development costs by working with Toyota
to bring the model, built in about
SPARK FROM PAGE 16
_________________________
tions. In terms of speed, there is no
where I can drive locally at 90 mph
without getting arrested and hauled
off to jail. Local speed limits range
from 25 to 50 mph, with severe penalties for significant violations.
Over the years, I've paid my share
of those fines. I have no desire to pay
one cent more.
Recharging the battery pack is easy.
The front-wheel-drive Spark EV
comes with a 120-volt power cord. I
plug it in to my home-voltage power
outlet overnight and am ready to go
the next day.
If the battery pack is near complete
discharge, it will take nearly 20 hours
for a full recharge using the 120-volt
charging system. Quicker recharging
is available, seven hours to full charge,
using an available 240-volt recharging system by Robert Bosch GmbH,
a multinational engineering/electronics company and the world's largest
supplier of automotive components,
An Aston Martin Cygnet in 2011 in London. Aston Martin, the maker of sports cars favored by Prince
Charles and driven by James Bond, is dropping the Cygnet following lackluster sales to refocus on
models more geared to their traditional customers. (Bloomberg News photo by Matthew Lloyd).
12 months, to market two years ago.
Since then, London-based investment
firm Investindustrial purchased a 37.5
percent stake and laid out plans in
January to spend 500 million pounds
in the next four years on expansion.
Aston Martin is seeking to double
sales by 2016 with new models and
widen its dealer network outside
Europe. The British manufacturer
may invest in a sport-utility vehicle
to broaden its appeal among wealthy
drivers, a person familiar with the
plan said last month.
"The Cygnet project was a failure
and it doesn't make sense to keep
on producing the model as the premium city car market in Europe isn't
performing well at all," said Pierluigi
Bellini, an analyst at IHS Automotive
in Milan. "Dropping the Cygnet while
planning an SUV to expand outside
Europe makes much more sense."
The super-car maker plans to appoint a new chief executive officer before the end of the year, while current
CEO Ulrich Bez, who has led Aston
Martin since 2000, will probably be-
headquartered near Stuttgart, Germany.
That means I will have to come up
with several hundred dollars more
should my wife, Mary Anne, approve
my intended purchase of the Spark
EV 1LT, the model I drove, which
comes with the seemingly daunting
price (for a small car) of $27,495. I
wrote "seemingly daunting" because
that price can be reduced by a $7,500
federal tax rebate.
Still, it is going to be a tough sell.
It always is when it comes to getting
Mary Anne to loosen her grip on the
family purse. But I have virtue and
common sense on my side.
Our house sits diagonally across the
street from a major school bus stop.
Two middle schools and one high
school are in our immediate neighborhood. During the school year,
mornings and late afternoons are
filled with the sounds of the comings
and goings of those children. They are
our future. They, at least, deserve to
breathe cleaner air.
I think I successfully can make that
argument to Mary Anne, a retired elementary-school teacher whose heart
has never left the classroom. If that
does not work, I can appeal to her severely practical mind with numbers.
To wit: It costs $6.72 to operate the
Spark EV 200 miles per week. A new
gasoline car of similar size traveling
the same weekly distance would cost
$31.65, according to research done
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come a non-executive chairman, the
person said.
Investindustrial Chairman Andrea Bonomi said earlier this year he
wants to expand Aston Martin's lineup while establishing partnerships to
limit the cost of developing models.
The carmaker signed a deal in July to
obtain engines from the AMG highperformance division of Daimler AG,
owner of Mercedes-Benz. Stuttgart,
Germany-based Daimler will receive
a 5 percent stake in Aston over time,
depending on the progress of their
technical partnership.
Aston has a target of boosting annual sales to about 7,000 vehicles in
2016 from about 3,400 cars in 2012,
with growth propelled by catering
to growing demand in Asia, North
America and South America, the person said last month.
© 2013, Bloomberg News. ■
by economists at General Motors, the
Spark EV's manufacturer.
I know that there are holes in that
argument, such as the Spark EV's initial purchase price, even with the federal rebate. And we drove the Spark
EV 1LT in splendid autumn weather,
not in the misery of an icy winter or
the sticky heat of the dog days of August. All of those conditions would
create an additional drain on the car's
lithium-ion battery pack.
But I remain convinced that the
Spark EV 1LT is worth the investment. It runs clean with lots of torque,
a remarkable 400 pound-feet. It has
decent oomph, the equivalent of 130
horsepower. It is small and easy to
park. It is so loaded with electronics,
such as Chevrolet's My Link system,
which turns your iPhone into an integral part of the automobile, the Spark
EV is a portal to the future.
I write none of this to suggest that
electric cars will dominate personal
transportation anytime soon, or to
ignore the fact that some pollution
somewhere is involved in the manu-
NISSAN FROM PAGE 16
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bodies. They have a point. Ingress and
egress via the 370Z Touring is a chore
for the less-than-agile.
Dawson, an accomplished woman
who has lived long and well, put it
this way: "It's cute. But it's for a much
younger body." She offered to drive
me home in her 2005 Jaguar XJ Van
den Plas sedan.
I respectfully declined. For all its
shortcomings — troublesome ingress
and egress, severely limited cargo
space, arrest-me "solid red" exterior
— the 370Z Touring was fun to drive.
But it also was frustrating as heck.
The car was happy only at extra-legal
highway speeds — hard to maintain
on perennially congested Mid-Atlantic roads and hard to get away with
under the watchful eyes of Delaware,
Maryland and Virginia law enforcement officials.
When my drive week ended, I parted
company with the 370Z Touring sans
regrets.
- The author's opinions are his own.
© 2013, The Washington Post ■
facture and operation of electric vehicles. All of us, apparently except
members of the U.S. Congress, are
aware that life well lived is a matter of
trade-offs.
I think the Spark EV and cars like it
are worth the trade-offs.
Keep moving in this direction, GM
and Chevrolet. Thumbs up!
- The author's opinions are his own.
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Sisters Roll to Acceptance, Athletic Glory
race. . . . It's
so
much
Wheelchair racing is not simply running on wheels. Runners get slower as distances increase; elite wheelchair athletes take longer to
fun,"
Tatyana
get up to speed, but then they can hold a fast pace. As in running, most wheelchair competitors specialize in short or long races, but
said in an
Paralympic superstar Tatyana McFadden excels at both. How running and wheelchair world records compare, in miles per hour:
interview. "I
Men:
Runner
Wheelchair
Faster
in
the
long
runs
wouldn't give
atyana McFadden whips
Women:
Runner
Wheelchair
it up for anyaround a track near her home
100 m
200 m
400 m
800 m
1,500 m
5,000 m
10,000 m
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thing in the
in Clarksville, Md., hunched
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world."
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over, focusing on the next move, the
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stage
for Tatydered strokes, propelling her racing
14.6
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11.6
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ana's
fight for
wheelchair.
10 mph
the right to
Her younger sister, Hannah, follows
Sprints: Runners start faster
Middle distance: Chairs catch up, pass
Long distance: Wheelchairs win
compete.
close behind, her arms hitting shortWheelchair racers can’t match runners in sprints
By 800 meters, the tables have turned and top
Wheelchair racers get faster in marathons
Ta t y a n a ' s
er, higher strokes on her wheelchair
because pavement causes less friction than
because it takes so much energy to get a wheelwheelchair athletes are faster than top runners.
rubberized track, and roads have fewer
chair started. McFadden starts extremely fast,
McFadden set the women’s wheelchair record
quest
for inas the two spin like dueling comets.
speed-sucking turns.
thanks to extraordinary upper-body strength.
of 1:44.44 in July.
clusion
on
"On that track . . . they are competiAtholton
tors," Deborah McFadden says from
Manufacturing: Each chair is custom-built to
Anatomy of a racing wheelchair
individual body measurements and abilities.
High School's
the sideline as her daughters, both
Average cost: About $3,000, plus wheels.
Early wheelchair competitors raced short distances in hospital chairs that
track team is
Paralympians, fly by.
weighed about 45 pounds each. Now, racing wheelchairs resemble regular
Weight: 17 to 20 pounds.
wheelchairs about as much as Formula One cars look like minivans.
familiar lore
These are heady days for the McLength: Frames average 68 to 74 inches. Front
wheels are 20 inches in diameter; back wheels
to followers
Fadden sisters. Tatyana, a soft-spoken
are usually 28 inches.
Helmet
Cage
of wheelchair
24-year-old with colossal shoulders
Durability: Chairs last about 3,000 miles,
Bicycle helmets are
Commonly includes
or about a year or two for elite racers.
racing. After
and an implacable drive to win, has
required because
shelf-like seat, knee
and foot trays. The cage crashes happen,
joining
the
earned a dizzying number of superparticularly in track
is aluminum and
races.
welded in place, and
team, McFadlatives and victories, including at
riders are tightly
Steering
Braking
den wasn't althis year's Boston and London marastrapped into it.
Tatyana
Small V- or
Racers slow and stop the
McFadden
lowed to comthons, less than a week apart, and the
U-shaped bars
back wheels by rubbing
sometimes include
their gloves on the tires
Wheels
pete with the
Chicago Marathon on Oct. 13th.
vertical tubes for
or handrings. A standard
Most elite racers use
riders to brace their bicycle brake will stop
team's ableBorn in Russia with spina bifida and
carbon-fiber wheels.
wrists on.
the front wheel if
Rear ones often cost
needed, but locking it at
bodied runadopted by her American mom, she's
more than $1,200
high speed can make it
each and are
ners.
Some
skid and go flat.
been fighting ever since — first for the
cambered 11 to 15
argued that
degrees so riders
right to race, and now to win.
don’t bump their
having wheelHer sister, Hannah, 17, adopted in
upper arms on the
fenders.
chair athletes
Albania, was born with a congenital
racing against
bone disease that led doctors to amTires
Chairs use regular
able-b o died
putate her left leg above the knee.
bike tires with
r u n n e r s
She competes at Tatyana's alma mabuilt-in tubes.
Athletes have to fix
raised safety
ter, Atholton High School, a public
their own flats in a
race, which can take
issues.
school in Howard County, Md.
several minutes.
McFadHannah is just breaking into the
den filed two
top ranks of wheelchair racers in the
lawsuits. In
United States, having already comCompensator system
Handring
Gloves
T-frame
Wheelchair racers can’t steer and
The aluminum ring is coated
Pushing technique is so individual
The long main tube
the first, she
peted at the 2012 Paralympic Games.
push at the same time, so this
with rubber, often tire tread,
that most riders make their own
and short axle
spring mechanism holds the front
to create friction. Athletes
gloves. These plastic-and-rubber
configuration is more
sought to be
But she will have to catch her sister to
wheel in a turning position
don’t grab the handring,
devices rest on the knuckles and
stable, easier to
allowed
to
get to the top of the sport.
temporarily when the rider flips a
they push it about half a
provide traction. Wet gloves can
control and more
bolt. This is most useful on a track
rotation with the base of
be disastrous, causing the
aerodynamic than a
compete
with
Doctors in Russia didn't even bewhere all turns have the same arc.
their thumbs and/or first
wheelchair equivalent of running
four-wheel chair.
knuckles.
on ice.
able-b o died
lieve Tatyana would survive her birth,
runners
at
according to her mother. The spina
Sources: Adam Bleakney, wheelchair track coach at the University of Illinois; Barry Ewing of Eagle
Sportschairs; Tatyana, Hannah and Deborah McFadden; Paralympic.org; Boston Athletic Association;
the
same
time
bifida left her paralyzed from the
Invacare Top End; U.S. Olympic Committee; IAAF; International Paralympic Committee
BONNIE BERKOWITZ AND ALBERTO CUADRA /THE WASHINGTON POST
on the same
waist down. Doctors at her orphanage Washington Post graphic with a comparison of wheelchair speeds versus running at various distances, and a breakdown of a racing
track, and the
in St. Petersburg waited three weeks wheelchair's components.
When McFadden met Tatyana, the second one sought to have her results
before they operated on her to close disabilities for the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services, had 5-year-old had already taught herself count toward team totals. The lawthe hole in her spine.
"It's a miracle she didn't die from traveled to Russia after the fall of the to walk on her hands. McFadden had suits resulted in Maryland's Fitness
Soviet Union, tasked with delivering seen thousands of children through and Athletic Equity Act for Students
the infection," McFadden said.
her work, she said, but Tatyana was With Disabilities, which mandated
McFadden, then a commissioner of humanitarian aid.
that schools include disabled students
something special.
"I couldn't get her out of my mind," in their athletics activities and allow
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She is dominating the sport at a
time when it has seen tremendous
change and is far more competitive
than it used to be, said Chantal Petitclerc, a renowned Canadian Paralympian who set one of the records that
Tatyana McFadden broke in the 2013
Paralympic World Championships in
Lyons, France.
"She has everything she needs to
make history in this sport," she said.
The sport barely resembles the one
in which Petitclerc started competing
25 years ago.
Racers needed to be dedicated, but
not totally committed the way they
need to be now, she said.
That changed after the Paralympic
Games "took off " in 2000, she said.
"Suddenly, it became a lot more serious," she said. "It required a lot more
work."
Adam Bleakney, Tatyana's coach at
the University of Illinois, said McFadden has an "inherent gift" for sprinting and accelerating. That, combined
with the thousands of hours she has
trained and her competitive drive, has
made her a formidable racer, he said.
"When [Tatyana] gets on the line,
she's like a greyhound; she will jump
off the line," he said.
Marty Morse, a wheelchair racing
veteran who was Bleakney's predecessor at Illinois, said that some of McFadden's strength comes from having
to learn to move around on her hands
as a baby.
"Tatyana, probably as a baby, crawling around, using her arms, she just
developed a bone density in her upper body that's off the scale. . . . The
triceps strength on someone like
that, . . . you can train in a gym all
you want and you'll never get there,"
Morse said.
McFadden's background as a
sprinter is another asset, Morse and
Bleakney said.
"Being blessed with the makeup of a
power athlete, being able to generate a
lot of force over a short time is hugely
beneficial," Bleakney said.
After Tatyana began racing longdistance competitions as well, her
sprinting background was an unusual
asset. Few racers take on such a wide
range of events or dominate them so
completely. At the championships in
Lyons, she won every event from the
100 meters to the 5,000 meters, taking
six gold medals in all.
"In many ways, wheelchair racing
is more like cycling, where a top tour
cyclist still has to be able to sprint
and generate enormous power over a
short period of time," Bleakney said.
She may be good enough to be earn
her living racing, Morse said. "She is
such a wonderful ambassador for the
sport. . . . I see her as our spokesper__________________
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son for a whole future generation, for
persons with disabilities trying to get
involved in sport," he said.
"That is my dream," McFadden said.
"I want to educate others, inspire others — [to show] there are no other
limitations in life. . . . I want to leave
that behind."
If she wins the Chicago Marathon
on Oct. 13, she would need only a
victory in the New York Marathon on
It won't be easy. McFadden will face
winners of past marathons and other
world champions. And the depth of
the competition at the two marathons
has improved dramatically over the
years, officials say.
"We probably have the best women's field we've ever had," said Bob
Laufer, the coordinator of the wheelchair race division of the ING New
York Marathon.
Asked in a recent interview whether she had an arch-rival, McFadden
1. How many consecutive full major-league
seasons did Stan Musial hit at least .300?
2. Earl Weaver is third on the list of most wins
by a major-league manager who never was
a major-league player (1,480 wins). Who are
the top two?
3. Which two teams, entering the 2013 NFL
season, had recorded the most victories on
"Monday Night Football"?
4. In the 2011-12 season, center Cody Zeller
recorded the second-highest field-goal percentage (62.3 percent) in Indiana Hoosiers history.
Who had the highest?
5. In the past 10 seasons (2003-04 through
2012-13), how many NHL teams won their first
Stanley Cup?
6. Who was the last NASCAR driver before
Jimmie Johnson in 2013 to win the two NASCAR Cup races in Daytona in the same year?
7. In 2013, Novak Djokovic and Juan Martin
Del Potro played the longest semifinal singles
match in Wimbledon history (four hours, 43
minutes). Who was in the previously longest
match?
Answers
1. Sixteen (1942-58).
2. Joe McCarthy (2,125 wins) and Jim Leyland (1,676 entering 2013).
3. Dallas and San Francisco, with 43 wins
each.
4. Matt Nover made 62.8 percent of his shots
in the 1992-93 season.
5. Four -- Tampa Bay, Carolina, Anaheim and
Los Angeles.
6. Bobby Allison, in 1982.
7. Boris Becker and Ivan Lendl played a semifinal match in 1989 that lasted four hours and
one minute.
7. Seven strokes, by Larry Laoretti (1992) and
Brad Bryant (2007).
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Wheelchair racers and sisters Hannah McFadden, left, and Tatyana McFadden train Aug. 21, 2013
in Clarksville, Md. Tatyana, 24, won gold in six events at last month's world championships for
wheelchair racing. Hannah, 17, qualified for the 100-meter final at last year's Paralympics in London.
(Washington Post photo by Linda Davidson)
Nov. 3 to achieve what her supporters are calling a "Grand Slam" — four
major world marathon victories in a
single year. Although other wheelchair racers have won as many marathons in a year, no one has won four
of the majors.
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day trips, you can venture out into
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the Diego Rivera murals at the Ministry of Education and the Frida Kahlo
house. Ride the boats along the canals
at Xochimilco.
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The 'Slow Photo' Movement
By Melanie D.G. Kaplan
Special To The New York Eagle
I
n an old shoebox, I have a Polaroid of my beagle and me, taken
in Lower Manhattan about a
decade ago. That was my last Polaroid print — until this spring, when
I was walking around Cleveland with
a camera shop owner and his friend
Tim.
Tim was using a Polaroid 250, which
he'd bought at an antiques mall, and
an old pack of Polaroid instant film.
He shot a picture of me, and in the
palm of my hand, I watched the image miraculously appear. Because of
the film's age (it expired five years
ago), the colors were a little off, giving it an artsy, dreamlike quality. And
because Polaroid will never make film
again, it was also a collector's item.
Polaroid, best known for its instant cameras, stopped making film
in 2008. That same year, rather than
watch Polaroid fade into extinction,
some former employees teamed up
to form the Impossible Project. They
saved the production machinery in
the Netherlands and were able to start
manufacturing new instant film for
old Polaroid cameras.
Today, according to the Impossible
Project, there are more than 100 million of these classic cameras that can
use Impossible's film, which hit the
market in 2010. Some are in our parents' attics; others are stuffed in boxes
at yard sales; and more and more,
they can be found — refurbished and
shiny — at retro camera stores across
the country.
Not surprisingly, says Cory Verellen, owner of Rare Medium, a photography store in Seattle, some of the
biggest Polaroid enthusiasts are teens
and young adults who have never
known a camera that wasn't digital.
"But then you also get folks my age
— I'm 39 — who grew up with instant
cameras and want to capture some of
the magic of their childhood," he says.
minutes to develop, and color experience with like-minded folks.
film can take a full half-hour. The walks are typically free, and some
"Impossible isn't Polaroid," shops lend or rent out cameras to
Verellen says. "They're mak- those who don't already own them.
I tried an informal version of this in
ing a more artistic product,
so the casual photographer Cleveland. The camera store owner,
can be disappointed. With Scott — who has a Polaroid camera
instant film, they expect it to tattooed on the inside of his forearm
develop in a couple of min- — lent me a camera. He set up a triutes before their eyes, and it pod, and I leaned over awkwardly to
look through the viewfinder, snapdoesn't."
In addition to setting ex- ping a picture of boys' and girls'
pectations for film process- bathroom signs at Lincoln Park, then
ing times, Verellen and other waiting for the chemicals to react and
analog camera merchants produce a photo.
Tim, who took my picture, is a crespend countless hours talking to customers about vin- ative director with an ad agency and
tage cameras and film. Many shoots digital all the time for work.
of these stores hold classes Shooting on his Polaroid has made
and workshops on how to him look at pictures differently. "I
use analog cameras, but more used to go out and shoot 300 photos,
than anything, the owners bam, bam, bam," he says. "With film,
spend time chatting about you can't do that. It's too expensive.
every aspect of photography You have to slow down. You have to
— from reminiscing about think before you shoot."
Slowing down forced me to notice
childhood cameras to debating the merits of various things I would normally have overlooked, like a chain-link fence paintTop left, a vintage car; top right, a local dog greets the photographer; bottom left, a residence in morning light; and types of film.
bottom right, a gate at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. All photos were taken in Washington
"We're enthusiasts here," ed lavender, in front of some purple
with a Polaroid SX-70 camera using the Impossible Project’s PX 70 Color Protection film. (Washington Post photos by Verellen says, "so people flowers. I spent minutes — eons in a
Nathaniel Grann.)
know they can come in and digital world — deliberating over how
hit us with the most bizarre to frame one shot, mindful that I had
But it's not all about nostalgia, says
"Every time I'd go to my grandma's,
she'd break out the same Polaroid Bias. "For us, it's showing that film has Polaroid questions, and we'll be able to ration my film. As we walked past
abandoned houses and old churches,
camera and shoot us to measure our a viable place in the modern world," to help them out."
At Studio Space Junk in Chatta- I was consumed with thinking about
progress. The Polaroid was ubiqui- he says. "People can have a real physitous in the U.S. I get a lot of customers cal photo — something they can nooga, Tenn., owner Diane Edwards the composition of my next picture.
That night, back at the hostel where
encourages people to stop by, and if
touch, something tangible."
who are nostalgic for that."
Last month, Impossible took the ul- she's not busy, she'll give them an in- I was staying, I put my instant phoThere's also a sense of backlash
against digital technology, and the timate step in the marriage of digital troductory lesson on Impossible film. tos in a safe place, already looking
emergence of what might be called a and analog when it released its first She calls her store an analog camera forward to showing them (physically
hardware device, the Instant Lab. convenience store. "I'm a one-stop handing them!) to friends at home.
"slow photo" movement.
"Our demographic is pretty young, Rather than taking instant pictures on shop," she says, "where you can get Then I walked up to the rooftop deck,
so we're talking about a generation vintage cameras, the portable Instant your Impossible film, talk about cam- looked out at the twinkling Cleveland skyline and pulled out my digital
who grew up in digital, and they see Lab allows users to transfer digital eras and have a cup of coffee."
Some of the stores host photo walks camera.
our film as a way to escape," says images from an iPhone onto instant
I snapped a dozen shots before I got
Dave Bias, vice president of Impos- Impossible film. It was demonstrated — casual strolls around a neighborsible America. Initially, Impossible Sept. 19th 29th at Photoville (www. hood that give photographers of all it just right.
— Kaplan is a freelance writer in
sold about 30 to 40 refurbished Po- photovillenyc.org), a pop-up village skill levels a chance to slow down,
carefully frame their shots, take pic- Washington.
laroid cameras a month — found in Brooklyn Bridge Park.
"Instant Lab means that we no lon- tures and discuss the minutiae of the
largely on eBay and through pickers
(people who find cameras at yard ger have to rely on these vintage camsales). Today, it sells more than 2,500 eras," Bias says. "It makes sense. You
each month and has standing orders go out on your travels, you want to
stay light, you carry your iPhone and
through the end of the year.
take thousands of pictures. Then you
By Linda Childs
get home and can still make analog
Special to The New York Eagle News
instant images without the clunky
camera. I see images all the time that
Dear Father in Heaven,
I think would look better on film than I have come to realize that no matter what has happened to us in life, no matter
on the iPhone screen."
what tragedies have befallen us, we will never be able to get past them and move
Impossible film is not exactly like on with our lives if we continue to think of ourselves as victims. This kind of menPolaroid film: The combination of tality takes our power over our own life and gives it to the person or circumstances
chemicals used to process the film is which victimized us in the first place, effectively allowing them to go on ruining
completely different. The intention our life as long as we allow it to persist. Some people spend the rest of their lives
was never to replicate Polaroid film in the victim mind-set, never again feeling true joy, love, peace or happiness. We
exactly, the company says; rather, it is mustn’t let what happened to us keep robbing us of all that God has for us. He canexperimenting. Verellen, the former not get through that wall of pain we have erected, to give us all the love, blessings
Microsoft engineer who opened Rare and favor He wants us to have. He truly wants to—each of us is his beloved child
Medium two years ago, says that he and He wants us to have a happy, loving, peaceful and fruitful life. He is ready, as
used to hear a number of complaints soon as we let go of the anger, hatred and bitterness, open our hearts and turn our
about the film, but he thinks that it faces to Him in love, faith and expectation. He is even willing to let us hand over
has improved. The chief complaint to- our pain to Him, and He will gladly take it from us. What joy there is in moving
day is that the film isn't really instant. beyond the pain, and not having to relive it every day!
Black-and-white film takes about five
Amen
Prayerful Thoughts
The Black Telephone
Author Unknown
W
hen I was a young boy, my
father had one of the first
telephones in our neighborhood. I remember the polished,
old case fastened to the wall. The
shiny receiver hung on the side of the
box. I was too little to reach the telephone, but used to listen with fascination when my mother talked to it.
Then I discovered that somewhere
inside the wonderful device lived
an amazing person. Her name was
"Information Please" and there was
nothing she did not know. Information Please could supply anyone's
number and the correct time.
My personal experience with the
genie-in-a-bottle came one day while
my mother was visiting a neighbor.
Amusing myself at the tool bench in
the basement, I whacked my finger
with a hammer, the pain was terrible,
but there seemed no point in crying
because there was no one home to
give sympathy.
I walked around the house sucking
my throbbing finger, finally arriving
at the stairway. The telephone! Quickly, I ran for the footstool in the parlor
and dragged it to the landing. Climbing up, I unhooked the receiver in the
parlor and held it to my ear.
"Information, please," I said into the
mouthpiece just above my head.
A click or two and a small clear
voice spoke into my ear. "Information."
"I hurt my finger..." I wailed into the
phone, the tears came readily enough
now that I had an audience.
"Isn't your mother home?" came the
question.
"Nobody's home but me," I blubbered.
"Are you bleeding?" the voice asked.
"No," I replied. "I hit my finger with
the hammer and it hurts."
"Can you open the icebox?" she
asked.
I said I could.
"Then chip off a little bit of ice and
hold it to your finger," said the voice.
After that, I called "Information
Please" for everything. I asked her
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for help with my geography, and she
told me where Philadelphia was. She
helped me with my math. She told me
my pet chipmunk that I had caught in
the park just the day before, would eat
fruit and nuts.
Then, there was the time Petey, our
pet canary, died. I called, “Information Please," and told her the sad story. She listened, and then said things
grown-ups say to soothe a child. But
I was not consoled. I asked her, "Why
is it that birds should sing so beautifully and bring joy to all families, only
to end up as a heap of feathers on the
bottom of a cage?"
She must have sensed my deep concern, for she said quietly, "Wayne, always remember that there are other
worlds to sing in."
Somehow I felt better.
Another day I was on the telephone:
"Information Please."
"Information," said in the now familiar voice. "How do I spell fix?" I
asked.
All this took place in a small town
in the Pacific Northwest. When I was
nine years old, we moved across the
country to Boston. I missed my friend
very much.
"Information Please" belonged in
that old wooden box back home and I
somehow never thought of trying the
shiny new phone that sat on the table
in the hall. As I grew into my teens,
the memories of those childhood
conversations never really left me.
Often, in moments of doubt and
perplexity I would recall the serene
sense of security I had then. I appreciated now how patient, understanding, and kind she was to have spent
her time on a little boy.
A few years later, on my way west to
college, my plane put down in Seattle.
I had about a half-hour or so between
planes. I spent 15 minutes or so on
the phone with my sister, who lived
there now. Then without thinking
what I was doing, I dialed my hometown operator and said, "Information
Please."
Miraculously, I heard the small,
clear voice I knew so well.
"Information."
I hadn't planned this, but I heard
myself saying, "Could you please tell
me how to spell fix?"
There was a long pause. Then came
the soft spoken answer, "I guess your
finger must have healed by now."
I laughed, "So it's really you," I said.
"I wonder if you have any idea how
much you meant to me during that
time?"
"I wonder," she said, "if you know
how much your call meant to me. I
never had any children and I used to
look forward to your calls."
I told her how often I had thought
of her over the years and I asked if I
could call her again when I came back
to visit my sister.
"Please do," she said. "Just ask for
Sally."
Three months later I was back in
Seattle.
A different voice answered, "Information."
I asked for Sally.
"Are you a friend?" she said.
"Yes, a very old friend," I answered.
"I'm sorry to have to tell you this,”
she said. "Sally had been working part
time the last few years because she
was sick. She died five weeks ago."
Before I could hang up, she said,
"Wait a minute, did you say your
name was Wayne ?"
"Yes." I answered.
Yellow Light
The light turned yellow, just in front
of him. He did the right thing, stopping at the cross walk, even though
he could have beaten the red light by
accelerating through the intersection.
The tailgating woman was furious
and honked her horn, screaming in
frustration, as she missed her chance
to get through the intersection, dropping her cell phone and makeup.
As she was still in mid-rant, she
heard a tap on her window and
looked up into the face of a very serious police officer. The officer ordered
her to exit her car with her hands
up.. He took her to the police station where she was searched, fingerprinted, photographed, and placed in
a holding cell.
After a couple of hours, a policeman approached the cell and opened
the door. She was escorted back to the
booking desk where the arresting officer was waiting with her personal
effects.
"Well, Sally left a message for you.
She wrote it down in case you called.
Let me read it to you. The note said,
‘Tell him there are other worlds to
sing in. He'll know what I mean’."
I thanked her and hung up. I knew
what Sally meant. ■
He said, "I'm very sorry for this
mistake. You see, I pulled up behind
your car while you were blowing your
horn, flipping off the guy in front of
you and cussing a blue streak at him.
I noticed the 'What Would Jesus Do'
bumper sticker, the 'Choose Life' license plate holder, the 'Follow Me to
Sunday-School' bumper sticker, and
the chrome-plated Christian fish emblem on the trunk, so naturally I assumed you had stolen the car." ■
It's a Frickin'
Elephant!
From the diary of a Pre-School
Teacher:
My five-year old students are learning to read. Yesterday one of them
pointed at a picture in a zoo book
and said, "Look at this! It's a frickin'
elephant!"
I took a deep breath, then asked,
"What did you call it?"
"It's a frickin' elephant! It says so on
the picture!"
And so it does... the caption reads "
A f r i c a n Elephant ".
Hooked on Phonics! Ain't it wonderful? ■
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Hearty Fish
Chowder
Summary: Cod, bacon and potatoes make this creamy chowder rich
and satisying.
Ingredients:
• 4 slices center-cut bacon
• 1 large carrot, chopped
• 1 medium (13-ounce) celery root,
peeled and chopped
• 1 large (12-ounce) all-purpose
potato, peeled and chopped
• 2 small (4 to 6 ounces each) onions, chopped
• 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 1 cup clam juice, bottled
• 1/2 cup water
• 1 pound skinless cod fillets, cut
into 1-inch chunks
• 1/2 cup reduced-fat (2%) milk
Slow-Cooker
Chicken Noodle
Soup
4. Add flour and cook 2 minutes,
stirring. Add clam juice and water
and whisk until smooth. Heat to boiling, stirring occasionally. Add cod
chunks, cover, and cook 4 to 5 minutes or until fish just turns opaque
throughout.
5. Stir in milk, 1/4 teaspoon salt and
1/8 teaspoon freshly ground black
pepper. Cook 1 to 2 minutes or until
hot but not boiling. Crumble reserved
bacon. Spoon chowder into shallow
bowls; garnish with parsley and bacon. Serves 4.
NUTRITION Per serving: Each
serving: About 310 calories, 7g total
fat (3g saturated), 64mg cholesterol,
595mg sodium, 35g total carbs, 5g dietary fiber, 27g protein.
Good Housekeeping Recipe
© 2013, Hearst Communications,
Inc. ■
• Salt
• Pepper
• Fresh flat-leaf parsley leaves,
chopped, for garnish
Steps:
1. In 6- to 7-quart saucepot, cook
bacon on medium 5 to 7 minutes or
until browned and crisp, turning occasionally. Drain on paper towels; set
aside. Discard all but 1 tablespoon
bacon fat.
2. While bacon cooks, in large microwave-safe bowl, combine carrot,
celery root, potato and 2 tablespoons
water. Cover with vented plastic wrap
and microwave on High 5 minutes or
until vegetables are just tender.
3. Keep saucepot with rendered bacon fat on medium. Add onion and
cook 6 to 8 minutes or until tender,
stirring occasionally. Add carrot mixture and cook 2 minutes, stirring.
• 1 whole (3 1/2-pound) chicken
• 3 cups egg noodles, uncooked
Steps:
1. In 4 1/2- to 6-quart slow-cooker
bowl, combine water, carrots, celery,
onion, bay leaves, thyme, 4 teaspoons
salt and 1/2 teaspoon pepper. Place
whole chicken on top of vegetables.
Cover slow cooker with lid and cook
as manufacturer directs on low setting 8 to 10 hours or on high setting
4 to 5 hours.
2. Transfer chicken to cutting board.
Discard bay leaves. Add noodles to
slow-cooker bowl; cover with lid and
cook (on low or high) 20 minutes.
3. While noodles cook, remove
and discard skin, fat and bones from
chicken; shred meat.
Summary: When making chicken
soup from scratch, a slow cooker is
the perfect cooking method. A long,
slow simmer time allows the ingredients' flavor to develop fully.
Ingredients:
• 8 cups water
• 4 medium carrots, cut into 1/4inch slices
• 4 medium stalks celery, cut into
1/4-inch slices
• 1 small onion, chopped
• 2 bay leaves
• 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
• Salt
• Ground black pepper
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SOUP FROM PAGE 24
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4. Skim fat from soup and discard.
Return chicken to soup to serve.
Serves 6.
NUTRITION Each serving: About
315 calories, 8g total fat (2g saturated), 112mg cholesterol, 1,764mg sodium, 26g total carbs, 3g dietary fiber,
33g protein.
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Lay the spinach leaves out on a large
shallow bowl or platter or individual
shallow bowls. Tear the prosciutto
into pieces about 2 inches long and 1
inch wide; distribute over and among
the spinach leaves. Sprinkle the walnuts over the salad. Spoon the vinaigrette over and toss to coat evenly.
Serve immediately. Makes 4 servings.
NOTE: Toast the nuts in a small,
dry skillet over medium-low heat
for a few minutes until fragrant and
lightly browned, shaking the pan as
needed to avoid scorching. Let cool
before using.
NUTRITION Each serving: 260
calories, 10 g protein, 15 g carbohydrates, 19 g fat, 3 g saturated fat, 10
mg cholesterol, 700 mg sodium, 3 g
dietary fiber, 8 g sugar.
• About 10 ounces fresh baby spinach
• 6 thin slices Prosciutto di Parma
(about 3 ounces total)
• 1/3 cup chopped toasted walnuts
(see NOTE)
Steps:
Heat the oil in a large nonstick saute
pan over medium-high heat. Add the
onion; reduce the heat to medium
and cook for 3 to 4 minutes, until the
onion just starts to soften, then stir in
the apple. Cook, stirring every minute or so, for 5 to 7 minutes, until the
apple softens. It's okay if the onion
browns a bit. Remove from the heat
and transfer to a small bowl.
Mix in the maple syrup, then season
with salt and pepper to taste. Let cool
for 15 minutes, then stir in the vinegar. Taste, and adjust the seasoning
as needed.
by a little maple syrup. I prefer just a
hint of maple, but if you'd like a stronger maple taste, increase the amount
of maple syrup you use.
MAKE AHEAD: The dressing can
be made up to a day in advance. Bring
it to room temperature before using.
You might need to mix in a tablespoon of oil or water, your choice, to
loosen it up.
Ingredients:
• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 small onion, finely diced (3/4
cup)
• 1 large tart apple, such as Granny
Smith, peeled, cored and cut
into 1/4-inch dice
• 1 tablespoon maple syrup, or
more to taste
• Kosher salt
• Freshly ground black pepper
• 3 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
By Stephanie Witt
Sedgwick
Good Housekeeping Recipe
© 2013, Hearst Communications ■
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AKC, USDA
at Odds Over
Breeder Rules
DEAR PAW'S CORNER: Is it true that the
U.S. Department of Agriculture is banning
professional dog breeding? -- Concerned Owner
in Iowa
DEAR CONCERNED: Nope, it's not true.
However, the USDA has implemented some
new rules that will bring Internet-based pet
breeders and sellers under the regulation of
the Animal Welfare Act. The rules narrow the
definition of a retail pet store and expand the
agency's oversight of pet breeders.
1. Who had a hit with disco song "Got to
Be Real"?
2. Name the group that released "Michael,"
a version of "Row the Boat Ashore," in 1961.
3. Who wrote "Girl, You'll Be a Woman
Soon"?
4. John Lennon wrote "Bad to Me" for
which group?
5. Name the song that contains this lyric:
"I never said you had to offer me a second
chance, I never said I was a victim of circumstance, I still belong, Don't get me wrong."
Answers
1. Cheryl Lynn in 1978. The song was copenned by master song craftsman and producer David Foster. He was the magic behind
dozens of artists and groups, including Rod
Stewart and Josh Groban.
2. The Highwaymen, a college quintet folk
group. Despite the coming British invasion,
The Highwaymen reintroduced solid folk
music to millions.
3. Neil Diamond, who charted with the
song in 1967.
4. Billy J. Kramer with The Dakotas
5. "My Life," by Billy Joel in 1978. Chicago
band members Peter Cetera and Donnie Dacus performed the backing vocals. The song
charted around the world and was used as
the theme song for the television series "Bosom Buddies" in 1980-82.
nyeaglenews.com
On the plus side, the new rules could make
it harder for notorious "puppy mills" to exist,
because breeders with four or more breeding
females, and those who sell puppies "sight
unseen," now have to be licensed through the
USDA.
On the negative side, argues the American
Kennel Club, the rules are nebulous in certain
areas. For example, determining which
females are truly "breeding females" can make
things harder for small breeders and hobbyists.
"The AKC remains extremely concerned that
the rule will make it difficult for individuals to
self-report, as they would not be able to know -without an APHIS inspection ... before applying
for a license -- whether they would be required
to obtain a license."
And new standards for facilities could
make it much harder for hobbyists and small
breeders to raise dogs in their homes. "It is not
reasonable to expect small breeders, who keep
a handful of dogs and make a choice to raise
dogs in their homes, to be able to meet exacting USDA kennel engineering standards that
are designed for large commercial wholesale or
research kennels," the AKC said.
So, dog breeders still will be in business
when the new rules take effect in November,
but they may have more work cut out for them.
Cat and rabbit breeders also are affected.
Send your questions, comments or tips to
ask@pawscorner.com.
Signs Your
Cat has a
Personality
Disorder...
- Couldn't muster up sufficient disdain if all nine lives depended on it!
- You've repeatedly found him in
the closed garage, hunched over the
wheel of your running Buick.
- Sits for hours in fascination while
listening to Bob Dole.
- Teeth and claw marks all over
your now-empty bottles of Prozac.
- No longer licks paws clean, but
washes them at the sink again and
again and again...
- Continually scratches on the door
to get in... the OVEN door.
- Doesn't get Garfield, but laughs
like crazy at Marmaduke.
- Rides in your car with its head out
the window.
- You realize one day that the urine
stains on the carpet actually form the
letters N-E-E-D T-H-E-R-A-P-Y.
© 2013, King Features Synd., Inc. ■
ARIES (March 21 to April 19) The high standards you set for yourself don't always translate
into the behavior you expect of others. That relationship problem can be resolved if you're more
flexible and less judgmental.
TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Not enough
party bids to satisfy the Bovine's fun-loving side
this week? Go ahead and throw one of your own.
Then prepare for some serious work coming up
early next week.
1. Is the book of 3 Kings in the Old or New Testament or neither?
2. From Revelation 12:9, what was the name of
the old serpent? The Devil, Aster, Nehushtan, Lucifer
3. Which book begins, "Now David was old and
stricken in years"? Numbers, 1 Kings, Psalms, Joel
4. From Psalms 114:4, what did the mountains
skip like? Rams, Lambs, Waves, Children
5. Written around 45 A.D. (C.E.), what's the oldest book of the New Testament? Titus, Hebrews,
James, Jude
6. Of these who was a son of David? Job, Isaiah,
Solomon, Amos
ANSWERS: 1) Neither; 2) The Devil; 3) 1
Kings; 4) Rams; 6) James; 7) Solomon
The Ten
Commandments
A Sunday school teacher was discussing the Ten Commandments
with her five and six year olds. After explaining the commandment to
“Honor thy father and thy mother,”
she asked, “Is there a commandment that teaches us how to treat our
brothers and sisters?”
Without missing a beat, one little
boy answered, “Thou shall not kill.” ■
- Has built a shrine to Andrew
Lloyd Webber entirely out of empty
"9 Lives" cans.
- Spends all day in litterbox separating the green chlorophyll granules
from the plain white ones.
- After years of NPR, Tabby is suddenly a Ditto-Puss.
- Sullen and overweight, your sunglass-wearing cat shoots the TV with
a .45 Magnum when it sees cartoon
depictions of stupid or lazy felines.
- Your stereo is missing, and in the
corner you find a pawn ticket and 2
kilos of catnip. ■
GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) A new and intensely productive cycle is about to kick in. Be
careful not to get too stressed out, though. Make
time to restore your energies by relaxing with
family and friends.
CANCER (June 21 to July 22) This could be
a good time to share some of your plans with
those closest to you. Their comments could give
you some added insight into how you might accomplish your goals.
LEO (July 23 to August 22) An attack of selfdoubt might be unsettling for the usually superassured Feline. But it could be your inner voice
telling you to hold off implementing your plans
until you've reassessed them.
VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) This is a
great time for you to reward yourself for all your
hard work by taking a trip you haven't spent
months carefully planning, to somewhere you
never thought you'd be going.
LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) Some
misunderstandings resist being resolved. But
your sincerity in wanting to soothe those hurt
feelings wins the day. By month's end, that relationship should begin to show signs of healing.
SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) A
hectic job schedule begins to ease just in time
to blow off all that work-generated steam on
Halloween. A family situation runs into an unexpected complication.
SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December
21) A cutting remark in the workplace needs to
be handled with finesse. Remember: How you
respond could determine the depth of support
you gain from colleagues.
CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19)
Once again, that Capricornean stubborn streak
sets in and could keep you from getting muchneeded advice. Fortunately, it lifts by week's
end, in time to make an informed decision.
AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18)
A surprise trip early in the week could lead to
other unexpected offers when you return. Word
to the wise: Avoid talking too much about this
until you've made some decisions.
PISCES (February 19 to March 20) Learning
dominates the week for perspicacious Pisceans,
who are always looking to widen their range of
knowledge. A series of important job-linked
commitments begins late in the week.
BORN THIS WEEK: Your sense of humor
generates good feelings and good will everywhere you go.
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