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The NY Eagle News | March 19, 2015
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These Planes Could Someday Replace
the Warthog
By Dan Lamothe
The New York Eagle News/ The Washington
Post
T
he impending mothballing of the A-10
Thunderbolt II attack jet has prompted
outrage among its advocates in the activeduty military, hand-wringing on Capitol Hill and
questions from analysts about whether the new
F-35 Joint Strike Fighter can be operated cheaply
enough to support ground troops on a regular basis.
But it also has sparked a question: Which plane
could the U.S. military adopt if it ultimately decides it needs a new, designated plane to provide
close-air support?
The mission has been handled by a variety of aircraft in recent years, but it is the A-10, nicknamed
the Warthog, that is beloved for its ability to loiter
over a battlefield and target enemy fighters, tanks
and vehicles. Even as its heads into retirement, it is
carrying out about 11 percent of the combat sor__________________
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The Beechcraft AT-6 could become a replacement for the A-10 Warthog, which is being mothballed by the Air Force. (Photo credit: Beechcraft)
Robots Can Build
Cars; Now They're
Learning Not to
Crush You
By Alex Webb
By Rachel Feltman
The New York Eagle News/
Bloomberg News
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The Washington Post
I
R
obots
long
ago
earned a place in factories, where their
pneumatic pumps and steel
welding arms help manufacture everything from
cars to planes. Now, they're
learning to behave around
people, bringing them one
step closer to the Jetsonsesque dream of automated
servants that might one day
serve you coffee or iron your
shirts.
While today's robots are
more agile than ever, they
typically require a safety cage
to keep them from harming
the humans working around
them. The world's biggest robot makers — Switzerland's
ABB, Japan's Fanuc and Germany's Kuka — are rolling
For Pufferfish,
Motherly Love Means
Slathering Babies in
Deadly Toxins
A Plen.D robot kicks a ball during a demonstration at an event hosted by DMM.
Com Ltd. in Tokyo. Robots are learning to behave around people, bringing them
one step closer to becoming automated servants that might one day serve you
coffee or iron your shirts. (Bloomberg News photo by Tomohiro Ohsumi).
out new machines with a new
generation of sensors that dramatically cut the risk of injury
and help them better interact
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f you've ever heard of fugu
-- that fish so dangerous
to eat that Japanese sushi
chefs need special certification
to prepare it -- then you know
that some pufferfish use seriously deadly toxins to protect
themselves from predators.
But according to a new study,
these fish might benefit from
their species' predilection for
poison long before they're mature enough to produce it for
themselves. A nice coating of
deadly toxins might be Mom's
parting gift to her babies.
Writing for her blog Science
Sushi at Discover Magazine,
Christie Wilcox explains that
pufferfish poison is no joke:
Pufferfishes in the genus
Takifugu are known for their
poisonous nature. Any predator
To avoid being eaten, baby pufferfish rely on mom’s castoff toxins. (Washington Post
photo by Bill O’Leary.)
that messes with these toxic fish
learns the hard way that their
tissues are loaded with tetrodotoxin, one of the most deadly
poisons on the planet. It can
kill a wide diversity of species,
from fish to mammals, because
it's a potent paralytic that shuts
down ion channels vital for
nerve functioning. Humans are
not immune: tetrodotoxin killed
179 people and poisoned another 467 in Japan alone from
1974 to 1983, where the flesh of
these fish, fugu, is considered a
delicacy perhaps because of the
danger involved.
In fact, the toxin is 120,000
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he February Rally in the Valley
at Naples Elementary was held
on March 6th. The theme for
that month’s rally was anti bullying
and cyberbullying.
Mr. Liebentritt’s 5th grade students,
led by Mrs. Kelsey Harrington, did a
skit with tips about what to say or do
if being bullied, and a group of five
6th graders did a skit about Cyberbullying. They also showed students the
Stop, Walk and Tell actions to help
them remember what to do if they feel
they are being bullied. 23 Students
and 4 adults received Bucket Filling
Friends Certificates for good deeds
during the month of February. ■
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Ms. Amanda Vallet, music teacher, with 5th grade students Jessie Gordon, Chris Giovine and Owen
Gentner singing the school song. (Photo provided.)
uzanne W. Barnhoorn Beardslee of Bloomfield, serving with
the 3rd Special Forces Group
(Airborne) at Fort Bragg, N.C., as an
ammunitions specialist, has been promoted to the rank of Specialist. The
promotion became effective March 1.
Specialist is the 4th rank in the
United States Army, ranking above
Private First Class and directly below Corporal. The jump from Private
First Class to Specialist means Beardslee may increasingly be called upon
to manage lower ranked soldiers and
take on more responsibility.
Beardslee, a 2013 graduate of
Bloomfield Central School, is the
daughter of Becky Dunn and stepdaughter of Larry Dunn, both of
Bloomfield, and Michael J. Barnhoorn of Scottsville. She is also the
ROBOTS FROM COVER
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with workers.
The latest robots in the $29 billiona-year market are targeting the electronics industry, where factory automation lags behind businesses such as
carmaking due to the intricate assembly process. The same sensors which
ensure that a machine doesn't crush a
circuit board or co-worker bring the
prospect of robots serving customers
even closer, according to Kuka Chief
Executive Officer Till Reuter.
"We will have a time where there are
far more robots at home — not just
washing and cleaning robots, but other functionalities," the executive said
in an interview.
Above, Bucket Filling Friends (l-r) front row: Caitlin McDonald, Kennedy Schutz, Janel Sackett, Hazel Bell, Mallory O’Bryan, Alyssa LaFave, Livia Reed, Abby
Miller, McKinley Burke and Bella Andrews. 2nd row: Abby Betrus, Julia Allen, Luke Giovine, Caitlyn Jones, Cameran Mann, Brianna Erb, Grayce Pierce, Jesse
Gordon, Sydney Hamman and Alex Flugel. Back row: Diann Payne, Laurie Spencer and Trisa Harvey. Absent: Owen Rademaker, Joshua Gleason, Abigail
Hall and LaDonna Goodwin. Below, 6th Grade students Ava Sheedy, Carolelyn LaPrairie, Angela Marks, David Voss and Ally Dombroski finishing up the
Cyberbullying Skit. (Photos provided.)
Suzanne W. Barnhoorn Beardslee of Bloomfield,
has been promoted to the rank of Specialist.
(Photo provided.)
granddaughter of Rebecca Barnhoorn of Canandaigua and the late Bart
J. Barnhoorn, and Joyce Barnard of
Canandaigua and the late James E.
Barnard. Spc. Beardslee and her husband, Patrick E. Beardslee, reside in
Spring Lake, N.C. ■
The key is sensors that improve a
robot's awareness of its surroundings.
Take YuMi, the torso-sized, dualarmed robot which Zurich-based
ABB will start selling in April. Its
built-in camera and pressure sensors
allow it to mimic human movements
to assemble small components for a
watch or mobile phone, then physically hand them to a person alongside
on the production line. ABB CEO
Ulrich Spiesshofer predicts robots
will even soon be able to learn from
humans.
"There's a fantastic opportunity,"
the chief of ABB, which also makes
power grids, said on Feb. 5, when the
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Gary Chapman
and
Doris Chapman
of Naples, New York were married on March 19, 1965
in Hanau, Germany
Doris’ maiden name
is Parsell and they have
been married for 50 years.
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They have three children,
Monica Chapman
Ambeau of Ontario, NY;
Kevin Chapman of
Naples, NY; and Michael
Chapman of Canandaigua, NY. They have 7
grandkids and 2 greatgrandkids.
Congratulations!
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Honeoye Valley Clean Up Day
April 18th
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he Honeoye Valley Association
(HVA), a volunteer group that
works to further lake and tributary cleanliness and beauty, will be
holding its 21st annual spring roadside cleanup on Saturday, April 18th,
from 8 a.m. until noon.
The event will begin at 8 a.m. at the
United Church of Christ, located at
8758 Main Street in Honeoye. There
will be a free breakfast. Bags for
cleanup efforts and orange bibs will
be available in the Church parking
lot from Bill Woods from 7:30 AM
until noon. Many local organizations
take part. You can participate as a
member of one of them, or as an individual. Come to the UCC parking
lot on April 18th and check in for a
road assignment if you don’t already
have one. For more information call
Bill Woods at 585-229-7626 or 585520-2967.
Every year volunteers scour the
many roadsides to pick up trash and
debris that collects during the winter. “We usually gather quite a large
amount of various materials which
will be prevented from getting to
the lake or its tributaries,” said Bill
Woods, a member of the HVA Board
of Directors. “This, of course, also
presents a nicer, cleaner community
appearance to our visitors during the
summer months,” he added.
Over the years, concerned citizens
have formed organizations to improve the environment of the lake
and surrounding lands, according
to the HVA website. Some of those
groups are the Honeoye Lake Watershed Association (1950-66), Genesee
Valley Trappers (late 1950s to present), Honeoye Fish and Game Club
(1947- present), Honeoye Lake Cottagers Association (1966-67), and
the Honeoye Environmental Action
League (1970-88). These organizations often focused on specific areas
of interest such as: weeds in the lake,
bacterial contamination, hunting,
fishing, flooding, etc.
Two organizations, currently working to maintain and improve the water
quality are the Honeoye Valley Association (HVA) and the Honeoye Lake
Watershed Task Force (HLWTF).
The HVA works on a number of
projects on a regular basis to improve
the quality of life for residents and
lake users of Honeoye Lake.
These include:
• Acts as a citizens advocate on lake
issues with governmental agencies
• Performs water quality sampling
of the lake
• Conducts survey of aquatic vegetative growth to detect any new invasive plants
• Installed and maintains a lake level monitoring system
• Coordinates an annual roadside
cleanup
• Provides volunteer workers for
HLWTF projects
• In cooperation with FLCC, presents a monthly “Speaking of Nature”
lecture series
• Publishes a quarterly newsletter of
HVA activities
• Maintains lake information center
in Honeoye Public Library
• Maintains a website (http://www.
hvaweb.org/) ■
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SCS&WD Announces
Trees Sales
The deadline for Steuben County residents wishing to order trees
through the county Soil & Water District is March 20. Coniferous, transplants and tree and flower pacs are
available in a variety of quantities and
prices, with pick-up slated for 8:30
a.m.-4:30 p.m. Apr. 24 and 9 a.m.noon Apr. 25 at the district’s Maintenance Building on Mt. Washington
Road (County Road 113).
The deadline for fruit tree orders
was March 13.
For more information, or to place
orders, call (607) 776-7398, ext. 3.
Mental Health Program
Offers Hopes to County
Residents
A mental health program in Steuben County for those receiving continuing services in the county is proving to be a great success, according
to Scott Kesel, county mental health
program coordinator.
The program, “Personalized Recovery Oriented Services (PROS)”
focuses on:
* The individual’s life goals and
needs.
* Encouraging participants to maximize their choices.
* Helping participants build skills.
* Offering hope in the possibility of
change – and growth.
PROS absorbed clients from the
county’s continuing day treatment
program, which dissolved some three
years ago, and now has 75 people on
its rolls.
Located at 115 Liberty St. in Bath,
the program’s11-member staff serves
residents 18 and older from all walks
of life, ranging from people with disabilities to professional workers.
Modeled on a 2006 state program,
PROS is designed along the lines of a
college campus – with classroom instruction, group meetings and field
work, Kesel said. Participants work
for area employers, or may volunteer
at nearby agencies, he said.
The program also offers the option
of up to five meetings between participants and their families and close
friends.
The ability to choose goals and
achieve them has had a profound
effect on those enrolled in the
18-month program, Kesel said.
“We can see success,” he said. “They
can see success, they see it in each
other. And somebody can say ‘That’s
working for him or her. Maybe it can
work for me.’ Success builds on success.”
- For more information on the Steuben County’s “Personalized Recovery
Oriented Services,” call (607) 6642255.
Steuben County Balancing Incentives Program
Steuben County senior citizens and
their loved ones soon will have access
to unified information about longterm services and support in their
communities, according to county
Office for the Aging Director Patricia
Baroody.
Baroody recently told the county
Legislature’s Human Services Health
and Education Committee the federal
“Balancing Incentive Program” (BIP)
tinues to Grow!
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T
he 2015 Naples Youth Expo
will be held Saturday March
21st, 10 am - 2 pm at the Naples High School. The event, which
is free and open to the public, allows
area residents to find out what services and programs are available from
over 30 businesses and organizations
providing opportunities for youth 0
-18 in and around Naples NY.
Job applications will be available for
many Naples businesses. Sports team
sign up and info will be offered, as
well as a variety of live demos....robots
and thrown pots!
This year more vocational opportunities will be offered!
- Several local business will be on
hand to accept employment applications: Lynnie Lou’s Ice Cream, Reserwill strengthen and expand the current state program, “NY Connects.”
The federal program provides access to “NY Connects,” which provides information, enrollments and
referrals and is now operated by local
offices for the aging.
The total federal BIP award to the
state was $599 million. Steuben’s
share of additional state expenses is
$268,000, Baroody said.
The new system is expected to
streamline the process of serving the
Steuben’s aging population, and to
provide a single point of information
on all services available to seniors in
voir Creek Golf, Neapolitan Pizzeria
and Naples Summer Rec.
- Other organizations will be there
to offer career advice and information: Sam Samanta, FLCC Technology & Engineering; and Marsha Foote,
Ontario County Work Force Development
- A list of businesses that offer “Day
in the Life/One to one” opportunities
will be available for youth too.
- If you’re looking for "service opportunities/resume builders”, they’ve
got you covered: Jr. Fireman training,
life guarding information, Naples Rotary “Inter-act” and Boy Scouts!
- Looking to connect with “Outdoor Fun”? 4H Camp Bristol Hills,
Gell Center (Writer’s & Books) Hunger Games program, and Rochester
Folk Art Guild
- This year they’re also offering a lot
of information on “Wellness”: Naples
own Monica Kastner will provide information on counseling and stress
the county.
Individuals looking at long-term
services and supports also may receive comprehensive information,
counseling and help in enrollment
through the new program.
The new system in New York is expected to be fully functional by the
end of the year.
Electronics Recycling
Law in Effect
All New York State residents are
now required to recycle electronic
equipment, separated from other
household wastes and recyclables, ac-
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Arts & Entertainment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Comics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Etcetera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Economy & Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Food/Groceries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24-25
Going Out Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Health & Science . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Horoscopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Legal Notices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Lifestyle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Obituaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
Real Estate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Back cover
Recipes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24-25
Regional . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
Senior News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Travel & Leisure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Veterans Post . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Wheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 16
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
relief; and Jodi Simons will offer
Open Arms Yoga.
- Ontario County Representatives
will be on hand to provide connection to many services: Nutrition
Education, Poison Prevention, Head
injury awareness and much more.
For more information visit their
Facebook page “Naples Youth EXPO”
or call 585-698-5635. ■
cording to county Public Work Commissioner Vincent Spagnoletti.
Spagnoletti said the state Electronic
Reuse and Recycle law, first enacted
in 2010, included a phased-in process, first requiring businesses to recycle electronics beginning in 2011,
with residential electronics recycling
taking effect Jan. 1, 2015.
Steuben residents may recycle their
electronics free of charge during
normal business hours at the county
landfill and three transfer stations in
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com.
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David O. Reamer
Bath/Avoca, NY - David O. Reamer,
74, passed away Mar 6, 2015. He was
born April 3, 1940.
Services will be held at 1 pm on Mar
20, 2015 at Bath National Cemetery,
in which interment is set to take place.
Arrangements were with the Bishop
and Johnson Funeral Home, Inc. To
light a candle please visit http://www.
bishopandjohnsonfuneralhome.com.
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Canandaigua, NY
Ferne P. Fires
Canandaigua, NY - Ferne P. Fires,
90, passed away peacefully March
11, 2015 at Ontario Center. Born in
North Bloomfield, NY, Ferne was a
resident of Canandaigua for over 50
years and worked at Labelon Corp.
She was predeceased by her husband of 40 years, Alfred Fires; grandson, Adam Fires; and 10 siblings.
Ferne is survived by her children
Doug (Debbie) Fires and Diane (David) Miller; grandchildren Stacie
(Jeff) Miller-Allington, Amy (Brian)
Bonanno, and Roger (Vanessa) Miller; seven great-grandchildren; and
several nieces and nephews.
A graveside service in Boughton
Hill Cemetery will be held at the convenience of the family in the spring.
Ferne’s wishes were for gifts in her
memory to be directed to: Happy
Tails Animal Shelter - Ontario Humane Society, 2976 Co Rd 48, Canandaigua, NY 14424. Arrangements
were with Fuller Funeral Home, Inc.
To express condolences or the share
Eva (Lyttle) Holcomb
Canandaigua, NY – Eva (Lyttle)
Holcomb, age 93, of Quail Summit,
passed away March 10, 2015. She is
survived by several nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her
husband, Francis Holcomb; brother,
Robert "Stog" Lyttle; and sister, Elizabeth Lonneville.
Mrs. Holcomb was born and raised
in Canandaigua. She attended Canandaigua schools and was a graduate of
Canandaigua Academy. Mrs. Holcomb worked as a beautician for
many years.
A graveside service will be held
Thursday, April 16, at 2:00 p.m. at
Woodlawn Cemetery, 130 N. Pearl
St., Canandaigua. Memorial contributions may be made to the Alzheimer's Association, 435 E. Henrietta Rd,
Rochester, NY 14620. Arrangements
are by Johnson-Kennedy Funeral
Home, Inc., Canandaigua. Condolences may be offered at www.johnsonkennedy.com.
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Ruby (Jones) Kunes
Canandaigua, NY - Ruby Kunes, 92,
died, March 14th at Thompson Hospital. Ruby was born in Bristol on Feb.
13, 1923 to the late Charles and Loula
Simmons Jones. She attended Bristol
rural schools and Canandaigua Academy and had been a member of the
Canandaigua Moose Lodge and the
First United Methodist Church. She
retired in 1988 after 38 years with Labelon.
Survivors include her sons Vernon
(Lori Stahlecker) Kunes of Canandai-
St. George-Stanton Funeral Home
St. George Monuments
Wayland, New York
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Todd and Jill Forsythe
Bud and Sue St. George
gua and John (Pam) Kunes of Pennsylvania; grandchildren John Kunes,
Jr. and Summer Robinson; greatgrandchildren Chloe Isabella Kunes
and Margaret Elizabeth Robinson;
and, at last count, over 100 nieces,
nephews and great-nieces and nephews.
Friends may call at Fuller Funeral
Home, 190 Buffalo St., Canandaigua
on Friday March 20, 2015 from 3:00
p.m. to 7:30 p.m., where funeral services will be held on Saturday morning at a time to be announced. Rev.
Sue Forsyth will officiate. The family
suggests that memorial contributions
be directed to Ontario County ARC,
3071 County Complex Drive, Canandaigua, NY 14424 or to Serenity
House, 1278 Brace Road, Victor, NY
14564.To share a memory or express
condolences online please visit www.
fullerfh.com
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and his church.
Survivors include his sister Barbara Cunningham of Canandaigua;
two nieces, Michele Cunningham
of Rochester and Lisa Cunningham
of East Rochester; cousins Kathy
(Tom) Gilbert and Amy Cato, both of
Canandaigua; several second cousins;
and his close friend Kris Northrup of
Canandaigua.
John's Funeral Mass was celebrated
March 16, 2015 at St. Mary's Church.
The family suggests memorial contributions be directed to St. Mary's
Church, 95 North Main St., Canandaigua, NY 14424. Arrangements
were with Fuller Funeral Home, Inc.
To express condolences or the share
a memory please visit www.fullerfh.
com.
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Mary Y. Lofton
Canandaigua, NY – Raymond R.
"Sonny" Rodney, Jr., age 74, was called
by the Lord on March 11, 2015. He is
survived by his wife of 52 years, Linda
(Markes) Rodney; four daughters,
Coleen (Terri) Rodney-Brown, Seana
(Stuart) Reber, Susan (Tom) Benson
and Jennifer (Gordon) Jones; nine
grandchildren, Jake Rodney-Brown,
Sydney, Henry and Reilly Reber,
Nicholas and Marie Benson, Alex,
Griffin and Olivia Jones; sister, Mary
Anne Knopf; brother, Richard M.
(Kay) Rodney; and five nephews. He
was predeceased by his brother-inlaw, Bernard Knopf, in 2012.
Sonny was born in Canandaigua and was the son of Raymond R.
Rodney, Sr. and Elizabeth (McCarthy) Rodney. He was a graduate of
St. Mary's School, class of 1954 and
Canandaigua Academy, class of 1958.
Sonny proudly served with the US
Marine Corps from 1958-1961. He
was a member of St. Mary's Church,
Knights of Columbus (3rd Degree),
Elks Club, American Legion Post 256
and a former member of the Veterans
of Foreign Wars. Sonny was an avid
bowler and golfer and a longtime
member of Canandaigua Country
Club. In his younger years, he was
a coach for the Canandaigua youth
boys and girls basketball program
and active with Frank Baker Football.
Sonny was employed by Windsor
Technology in Rochester, for many
years. He enjoyed spending time with
his family and attending his grandchildren's school and sporting events.
Sonny loved going to his Florida
home. He will be fondly remembered
and sadly missed by his family and
friends.
His funeral mass was celebrated
March 16, 2015 at St. Mary's Church,
Canandaigua. Interment was set for
Woodlawn Cemetery, Canandaigua.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to St. Mary's
School, 16 Gibson St., Canandaigua,
NY 14424. Arrangements were with
Johnson-Kennedy Funeral Home,
Canandaigua, NY – Mary Y. Lofton,
age 94, passed away March 9, 2015, at
Elm Manor Nursing Home in Canandaigua. She is survived by her son,
Michael (Rosemary) Lofton; three
grandchildren, Annie (Frank) Cutri,
Brendan (Nicole) Lofton and Caitlin
Lofton; and four great-grandchildren,
Jack, Cole, Jude and Finn. She was
predeceased by her husband, Barney
L. Lofton in 2001.
Mrs. Lofton was born in Wales and
was raised in London, England. She
met her husband Barney when he
was an American soldier in England
during World War II. They were married in London in 1944. She moved to
the United States shortly after the war
ended. Mrs. Lofton was formerly of
Memphis, TN, where she lived most
of her life. She was a member of St.
Anne's Parish there and worked as a
manicurist at Gould's Beauty Salon.
Mrs. Lofton enjoyed dancing, gardening, her pets and spending time with
her family.
Her memorial mass was celebrated
March 14, 2015 at St. Mary's Church,
Canandaigua. Interment will be with
her husband, at West Tennessee Veterans Cemetery in Memphis. In lieu
of flowers, memorial contributions
may be made to St. Jude Children's
Research Hospital, PO Box 1000,
Dept. 142, Memphis, TN 38148. Arrangements were by Johnson-Kennedy Funeral Home, Inc., Canandaigua.
Condolences may be offered at www.
johnsonkennedy.com.
***
John W. Rizzo
Canandaigua, NY - John Rizzo, 70,
died March 8, 2015 at Strong Memorial Hospital. John was a graduate of
Canandaigua Academy and attended
CCFL (now FLCC). He later graduated from Nazareth College and retired
after 30 years as a registered nurse at
the VAMC in Canandaigua. John was
dedicated to his family, his profession
Raymond R. "Sonny"
Rodney, Jr.
Inc., Canandaigua. Condolences may
be offered at www.johnsonkennedy.
com
***
Mabel Ann Stuart
Canandaigua, NY - Mabel Stuart,
59, passed away peacefully March 10,
2015 at Strong Memorial Hospital.
She is survived by her husband,
David; children, Kimberly Noragong,
Thomas (Katherine) Stuart, Gary
Luckenbach and Michelle (Joshua)
Schmiedlin; five grandchildren;
brothers, sisters; and many nieces,
nephews, cousins and dear friends.
She loved gardening with her husband and creating various family
meals with him in the kitchen; together they created some wonderful
food.
A funeral service was held March
16, 2015 at Fuller Funeral Home,
Inc., Canandaigua. A contribution
in Mabel’s memory may be made to:
Happy Tails Animal Shelter - Ontario
Humane Society, 2976 Co Rd 48,
Canandaigua, NY 14424. To share a
memory or express condolences online please visit www.fullerfh.com
***
Cohocton, NY
Ernestine M.
(Fairbrother) Schubmehl
Cohocton, NY - Ernestine M. Schubmehl, age 91, passed away peacefully
March 7, 2015 at the Steuben Center
in Bath.
Ernestine was born April 11, 1923
in Cohocton, a daughter of Daniel and Murella Fannie (Stryker)
Fairbrother. She married Edward
Schubmehl on May 14, 1948; he predeceased her on April 26, 2013. She
graduated from North Cohocton and
Atlanta Union High School in 1940,
receiving special mention as a member of the Daughters of the American
Revolution. She worked several years
at Moore-Cottrell in North Cohocton
prior to her marriage. Her first love
was her family and home in Cohocton.
In addition to her parents and husband, Ernestine was predeceased by
brothers and sisters, Gerard "Bud"
Fairbrother, Betty Gonyea, Joyce
Guerette, Laura Emmons, Kathleen
Zeh and Don Fairbrother.
She is survived by her son Timothy
(Donna) Schubmehl of Brevard, NC;
her siblings
Donna (Jay) Flint, Glenn (Donna)
Fairbrother, Charles (Shirley) Fairbrother, Geraldine Bolster, Wilma
Gibson; brother in-law, Maurice
Guerette; and several nieces, nephews
and cousins.
Per Ernestine's request, there will
be no calling hours. Services will be
held at the convenience of the family.
Burial will be at Clearview Cemetery,
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The World
New Marriott is Latest Milestone in
Haiti's Post-Quake Rebirth
The New York Eagle News/ The
Washington Post
A
quarter of the country's people live on less than $1.25 per
day. About three-quarters are
unemployed or subsist on their own.
More than 50,000 people are still living in displacement camps, five years
after their homes were destroyed.
When one of the world's strongest
earthquakes in recent years ravaged
one of the globe's poorest countries,
Haiti, in January 2010, the images of
suffering and the staggering fatalities
prompted $10 billion in aid commitments from around the world.
There are signs of rebirth, and one
of the most prominent was highlighted February 24th when Haitian leaders, former president Bill Clinton and
actor Sean Penn joined executives
from Marriott International and a
Caribbean telecom provider in opening a $45 million, 175-room hotel
outside the capital of Port-au-Prince.
Tourism, along with agriculture
and light manufacturing, is among
the industries the Haitian government and international supporters
are betting on to drag the country's
economy into a sense of stability so
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North Cohocton. In lieu of flowers,
memorial contributions may be made
to: EARS Lifeline Program, Noyes
Memorial Hospital, 111 Clara Barton
St., Dansville, NY 14437. Those who
wish to light a memory candle for
Ernestine may do so at www.bairdfuneralhomes.com.
***
Conesus/Camden, NY
Clifford John Finch
Conesus/Camden, NY - Clifford
John Finch, 93, died peacefully at
home in Conesus, NY on March 9,
2015. He is predeceased by his parents William and Maugerite (Chase)
Finch and siblings Beverly, Howard,
Floyd and Carl Finch.
Clifford will be dearly missed by
his entire family, including his wife of
73 years, Arlene Finch; son Stephen
Finch (Fran Whitney) of Vernon,
NY; granddaughters Reneé Finch and
Erica Edwards; and grandson-in-law
Robert Edwards. Clifford will also be
missed by his great-grandson, Chase
Finster; sisters-in-law Maxine and
Kay Finch; as well as several nieces,
nephews, great-nieces and greatnephews.
Clifford John Finch was born on
Haitian leaders, former president Bill Clinton and actor Sean Penn joined executives from Marriott
International and a Caribbean telecom provider in opening a $45 million, 175-room hotel outside the
Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince. Here, Clinton shakes hands February 24th with Haitian President
Michel Martelly as Digicel Group Chairman Denis O'Brien, center, looks on. (Washington Post photo by
Ricky Carioti)
water access, sanitation, electricity
and other services can be expanded
to rural parts of the country.
Clinton said aid would continue
from the Haiti Action Network, put
together by the Clinton Global Initiative.
"If the members of that network
keep the commitments they have already made over the next three years,
collectively they will invest more
than $500 million in Haiti to help put
people to work, keep children healthy,
educate children and create jobs,"
Clinton told a gathering of media at
a ceremony welcoming the new Marriott.
The international efforts have made
some critical improvements in living
conditions in Haiti since the earthquake in which 220,000 people died,
1.5 million were displaced and the
country's central government buildings, hospital and port were all destroyed or damaged.
Only 4 percent of those forced into
settlement camps remain there, according to the World Bank. School
participation among children is up
to 90 percent, from 78 percent before
January 18, 1922 in Camden, NY to
William and Maugerite Finch. Clifford graduated from Camden High
School in 1939 and met his wife-tobe, Arlene Parker, shortly thereafter.
The couple was wed on October 29,
1943 at Trinity Church in Camden.
Cliff and Arlene adopted their son,
Stephen, three years later.
During WWII, Clifford volunteered
for naval service where he studied
diesel mechanics and served honorably as a water tender until his discharge in 1946. Clifford supported his
family over the next twenty-five years
using his diesel mechanic skills as the
owner-operator of a freight transport
company based in Bernhards Bay,
NY. During this time, Cliff also enjoyed gardening, crossword puzzles,
building projects, tinkering with
things and camping. Clifford became
“Grampa” in 1975 and again in 1977.
Over the next years, Cliff and Arlene
toured the United States on camping vacations, often with their young
granddaughters.
Upon retirement, they moved to
Bouse, AZ and enjoyed life socializing with numerous friends, gardening, camping and exploring the
desert. Their close family visited
often and everyone greatly enjoyed
their times together under the blue
desert sky. In their later years, Cliff
and Arlene moved back east, first to
Greeneville, TN where they lived for
five years, and then to Conesus, NY
to live with their granddaughter and
grandson-in-law. Clifford enjoyed his
final years visiting with family and
gardening, even building a rock wall
when he was 88 years old. He enjoyed
crossword puzzles until he lost his
sight in 2013, after which he enjoyed
petting the family German Shepherds
and rocking in his chair. Cliff was delighted to become “great-grampa” in
August of 2014. Clifford wished to
remain at home, with family, until
his final breath. It was our honor to
make that possible and we could not
have done so without the unwavering commitment of close friend and
caretaker Lynn Stotz of Avon. Special
thanks also to everyone at Hospice
of Livingston County. Clifford leaves
behind a legacy of love. He will be
greatly missed by all who knew him.
Funeral services will be held privately. Memorial contributions may
be made to the Livingston County
Hospice, 2 Murray Hill Drive, Mt.
Morris, NY 14510 or the Springwater
Center for Meditative Inquiry, 7179
Mill Street Ext., Springwater, NY
14560. Arrangements were entrusted
to the Kevin W. Dougherty Funeral
Home Inc., Livonia-Honeoye. To
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Erwin, Hornell and Wayland, Spagnoletti said.
Electronics such as personal computers, laptops, televisions, printers,
DVD players, cell phones, and video
game systems are accepted, limited to
five pieces per vehicle. Anyone with
more than five devices is asked to call
the landfill at (607) 664-2465 to make
special arrangements.
Items such as microwaves, typewriters, toasters, batteries, and large
copiers are not accepted as part of the
electronic recycling program.
According to the county Public
Works Department, consumers throw
away 400 million units of electronic
equipment each year in the U.S. Recycling electronic waste protects human
health and the environment by preventing toxins such as lead, mercury
and cadmium from contaminating
the air, water and soil. ■
founder, Denis O'Brien, the hotel is to
employ 200 people and make use of
Haitian-made coffee, soap and produce. Haitian metalwork and papiermâché artwork will be on display. The
hotel's general manager relocated
from the same job at the Paris Marriott Champs Elysees.
Arne Sorenson, chief executive of
Bethesda, Md.-based Marriott, said
he agreed to open and operate the hotel after discussions with Clinton and
O'Brien. He said he hoped the hotel
would serve as an "open-for-business
sign" for Haiti but also predicted it
would be a financial success by catering to business travelers.
"There is enough volume that I
think the hotel will be successful," Sorenson said. "The longer term question for Haiti is can a tourism market
develop of any sort of size. There are
obviously some beautiful locations in
Haiti and some small hotels, but it is
still very much on the adventurous
edge to take a vacation in Haiti."
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the earthquake. About 24 percent of
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on less than $1.25 per day — down
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"Haiti has made a lot of important
gains, but it's fair to say it's still battling with poverty and inequality,
particularly in rural areas," said Mary
Barton-Dock, of the World Bank.
She cautioned that the economy
needed to stabilize as international
donations wane: "As aid starts to
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hotel brand to open in Haiti since the
earthquake (a Best Western opened
two years ago) but its investors said it
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Health & Science
New Rules on Narcotic Painkillers Cause Grief
for Veterans and the VA
By Emily Wax-Thibodeaux
The New York Eagle News/The
Washington Post
N
ew federal rules that make it
harder to get narcotic painkillers are taking an unexpected toll on thousands of veterans
who depend on these prescription
drugs to treat everything from missing limbs to post-traumatic stress.
The restrictions, adopted last
summer by the Drug Enforcement
Administration to curb a national
epidemic of opioid abuse, are for the
first time, in effect, forcing veterans
to return to the doctor every month
to renew their medication, although
many were already struggling to get
appointments at overburdened VA
health facilities. And even if patients
can get appointments, the new rules
pose an additional hardship for many
who live a good distance from the
health centers.
While the tighter regulation applies
to everyone on opioid painkillers, it's
hitting veterans especially hard because so many are being treated for
horrific injuries sustained during the
long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
and have become dependent on the
VA's beleaguered health-care system
for medical care.
The rules come at a time of turmoil
for the Department of Veterans Affairs. The agency's widespread problem with patient backlogs burst into
view last year with revelations that
Pentagon
and VA
now say
that the
use of the
painkillers contributes
to family strife,
homelessness
and even
suicide
among
veterans.
A study by
Craig Schroeder, shown on February 6, was injured in 2006 while serving with the
Marines in Iraq and suffers from traumatic brain injury and pain, for which he has
the Amerbeen on a steady regimen of opioids. (Photo by Ted Richardson for The Washington
ican PubPost)
lic Health
employees had covered up how long Association in 2011 also showed that
veterans had to wait for care, even for the overdose rate among VA patients
such pressing matters as cancer and is nearly double the national average.
But some veterans say they have
suicide prevention.
In dramatically curtailing access come to depend on these painkillers
to the highly addictive painkillers, to function and now, unable to get a
the government is trying to roll back timely renewal of the prescription, are
what the Centers for Disease Control suffering withdrawal symptoms that
and Prevention has termed "the worst feel like a panic attack and the flu at
drug addiction epidemic in the coun- the same time.
Craig Schroeder was injured in
try's history, killing more people than
heroin and crack cocaine." The rules a makeshift-bomb explosion while
apply to "hydrocodone combination serving as a Marine corporal in the
"triangle of death," a region south of
products," such as Vicodin.
More than half a million veterans Baghdad. He suffers from traumatic
are now on prescription opioids, ac- brain injury, which has affected his
hearing, memory and movement, and
cording to the VA.
Pain experts at the VA say that in from pain related to a broken foot and
hindsight they have been overmedi- ankle and a herniated disc in his back.
cating veterans, and doctors at the He has been on a steady regimen of
opioids.
But after the DEA regulations were
put in place, he was unable to get an
appointment to see his doctor for
nearly five months, Schroeder recalled. He stayed in bed at his home
in North Carolina much of that time.
"It was a nightmare. I was just in
unbearable, terrible pain," he said.
"I couldn't even go to the ER because those doctors won't write those
scripts."
His wife, Stephanie Schroeder, said
getting him a VA appointment turned
into a part-time job and her "main
mission in life." While part of the
problem was a shortage of doctors,
she said she also noticed that the VA
had become hostile toward patients
who asked for painkillers.
"Suddenly, the VA treats people on
pain meds like the new lepers," she
said. "It feels like they told us for years
to take these drugs, didn't offer us any
other ideas and now we're suddenly
demonized, second-class citizens."
Officials at the Disabled American
Veterans (DAV), a veterans service
organization, said the VA needs to be
more compassionate and help veterans through the changes.
"We're hearing from veterans with
life-long disabilities, who never had
a problem with addiction issues. They
have been on these drugs for decades
and then all of sudden it was boom,
a total change in attitudes," said Joy
Ilem, the group's deputy national legislative director.
Gavin West, a clinical operations
chief at the VA, said there has been a
systematic effort since the fall to contact veterans to explain the new rules,
broader concerns about opioid use
and alternative options for treatment.
At the same time, he said the agency
is working to ensure that veterans get
the access to medical care that's required.
"The DEA did a good thing here for
opioid safety," he said. But he added,
"How do you balance the sensitivity of
patients and the new rules when all of
a sudden a veteran, who's been treated with this medication for 15 years
or 20 years has everything change?"
To help them adjust to the changes,
Rollin Gallagher, the VA's national
director for pain management, said
staff are meeting personally with patients. "There is the real anxiety of being in pain and losing control of that
pain. We are aware of the fact that we
need to pay attention to this," he said.
The agency recently set up a Choice
Card program for veterans, which
would allow those facing long wait
lists or who live more than 40 miles
away from a VA hospital to use private clinic visits. Veterans say the initiative is complicated and confusing.
VA officials acknowledged last month
that veterans have been using this
program at a lower rate than anticipated.
DEA officials declined to comment
on the specific challenges that the
new rules pose for veterans. Barbara
L. Carreno, a DEA spokesperson, said
in a statement that everyone, including "practitioners employed by the
U.S. Veterans Administration," have
to follow the new regulations. The
officials said the rules are a response
to multiple medical studies that have
showed that the opioid overdose rate
is higher in the United States than
anywhere else.
DEA officials offer some flexibility,
allowing doctors to write prescriptions for up to 90 days by post-dating
them. But many VA doctors will not
do that because of concerns over
fraud or fatal overdoses and are telling patients they need to come back
every month, medical staff say.
Half of all returning troops suffer
chronic pain, according to a study in
the June issue of the Journal of the
American Medical Association. So a
new generation of pain doctors are
pushing for alternative ways to help
veterans cope with chronic pain, from
acupuncture to bright light therapy to
medical marijuana. As part of a $21.7
million initiative with the National
Institutes of Health, the VA is looking
for therapies that could substitute for
opioids.
"Our hospitals are doing some really exciting things to combat chronic
pain and take of our care of veterans.
There are VA hospitals that are using alpha-stimulation devices to treat
pain and depression," McDonald
said. "That's only going to continue
and keep getting better. And we are
getting there."
In the meantime, however, veterans
say they continue to bear the burden
of the new restrictions on narcotic
painkillers.
A retired staff Army sergeant who
served in Iraq, who spoke on the
condition of anonymity for medical
privacy reasons, can't drive because
of shrapnel in his femur and pelvis.
So now he has to take the bus nearly
two hours for "a one-minute consult"
to get his medications. He's been on
them for more than nine years and
never had an addiction problem, he
said.
Mike Davis, a retired Army corporal, said he shattered his left arm from
the elbow to the fingertips when he
fell off of a Pershing missile during
maneuvers in Germany in 1979. Over
the years, he has had six surgeries.
After the last one, in 2003, he was
prescribed opioids and said he has
been on them since. Davis, who now
works as a social worker in Illinois,
said he feels lucky to have found a
combination of painkillers that works
for him after years of pain.
"It's just insulting to the veteran to
assume they are abusing these drugs,"
said his wife, Linda Davis, who works
as his personal patient advocate. "I'm
fully aware that people doctor shop,
some docs overprescribe. But I think
they need to realize that there's a real
difference between addiction and dependence."
But Andrew Kolodny, president of
Physicians for Responsible Opioid
Prescribing, called the new DEA rules
"the single most important change
that could happen. The best way to
treat any disease, whether it's Ebola
or opioid addiction, is to stop creating
more people with the disease."
At the same time, he said, the VA
needs to do far more to help veterans
through the rocky transition.
"Unfortunately, veterans are the
victims here," Kolodny said. "The
VA created this mess by aggressively
jumping onto pills as the solution.
But it's not something you can just
abruptly stop."
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formation please visit: www.doughertyfuneralhomes.com
***
Dansville, NY
Evelyn (Reid) Holbrook
Dansville, NY - Evelyn “Eleanor”
Holbrook, age 79, passed away March
9, 2015 at Strong Memorial Hospital
in Rochester.
She was born on October 27, 1935, a
daughter of the late Frank and Evelyn
Burkhart Reid. She was also predeceased by a daughter, Marianne McCallister; a son, Elmer Dawley; a stepson Michael Holbrook; and siblings,
Betty, Frank and Benjamin Reid.
She is survived by her husband,
Raymond Holbrook; daughter, Marie
(Willard Norton) Slack; stepchildren,
Jeanie (Gary) Cartwright, Mark (Linda) Holbrook, Terry (Theresa) Holbrook, and Timothy Holbrook; many
grandchildren, great-grandchildren;
and nieces and nephews.
Services will be held March 13,
2015 at the Hindle Funeral Home,
Inc., Dansville. Interment was set for
Greenmount Cemetery. Evelyn had a
love for flowers so if you wish to send
them please do. Online remembrances may be left at HindleFuneralHome.
com.
***
Justin W. “Juddy” Vogt
Dansville, NY – Justin W. “Juddy”
Vogt, age 94 years, passed peacefully on March 4, 2015 at St. John’s in
Rochester.
Juddy was born August 12, 1920
in Dansville, the son of Frank and
Anna (Schults) Vogt. He grew up in
PUFFERFISH FROM COVER
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times deadlier than cocaine -- deadlier even than cyanide. Just a few
milligrams can kill a human adult.
That's why preparing the fish for human consumption is such a dangerous game: Patrons often want to taste
just the tiniest tingle in their mouths
from the poison to remind them how
adventurous their meal is, but it only
takes a small miscalculation to wipe
your customers out before they can
get to dessert.
By all appearances, however, larval
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Wayland, graduated from Wayland
Central School in 1940 and Rochester
Business Institute. On September 4,
1948, Jud and Marianna Didas were
married at Holy Name Church in
Groveland. Together they celebrated
over 66 years of marriage. Jud and
Marianna resided on William St. for
the next 61 years until they moved to
Rochester in March of 2011.
Some of Jud’s fondest memories
were from growing up on the Vogt
homestead farm located on the Dansville/Wayland hill. For over 41 years
he worked at Foster Wheeler Energy
Corporation in Dansville and retired
as a Supervisor of Scheduling in 1984.
One of his favorite past times was his
second job as bartender at Brae Burn
for over 45 years. Jud enjoyed playing golf, woodworking, bowling and
especially playing pitch, rummy and
euchre. He had many wonderful, dear
friends both in the Dansville area and
from the Meadows where he resided
in Rochester. Jud was a member of
the Moose Club, the Protective’s Fire
Company, 25 Year Club at Foster
Wheeler and the Retirement Club
of Foster Wheeler. He was a church
usher, member of the financial committee at St. Mary’s School and was a
devoted member of St. Mary’s Church
for 61 years. He and Marianna were
partners delivering Meals on Wheels
for many years.
Juddy was the master of kisses and
hugs, a true gentleman, had an extremely kind soul and loved by everyone who met him. He is now serving
cocktails in heaven.
Jud was predeceased by his parents
Frank and Anna Vogt. He is survived
by his adoring wife Marianna Vogt
of Rochester; surviving to cherish
his memory are his children James
(Ann) of Clermont, FL, Julie (Jopufferfish are just as helpless as any
other baby fish. Quickly abandoned
by their parents, they're not able to
puff themselves up to visually intimidate predators quite yet, and they
haven't accumulated enough toxins in
their body to deter anyone who takes
a bite.
In a paper published this month in
Toxicon, researchers showed that larval pufferfish have more tetrodotoxin
than they should. But it's not coming from the inside out; it's spread all
over the surface of their skin. It turns
out that extra tetrodotoxin is stored
seph) Morrissey of Pittsford, NY, Joseph (Sherry) Vogt of Sahuarita, AZ,
Joanne (Michael) Kelly of Tully, Mary
Jeanne (Keith) Lundy of Spencerport
and Annette (Michael) Battaglia of
Fairport; 12 beautiful grandchildren;
siblings Father Otto Vogt of Rochester and Lois Ann Vogt of Webster;
sister-in-law Vesta Corcoran of Chili;
and 4 nieces.
A Mass of Christian Burial was
celebrated on March 5, 2015 at St.
Mary’s Church in Dansville. Committal prayers and internment was
set for St. Joseph’s Cemetery in Wayland for immediate family. Memorial contributions in Juddy’s memory
may be made to the Vincent House,
310 Second Ave. Wayland, NY 14572.
Arrangements were with St. GeorgeStanton Funeral Home. To send a remembrance to the family or to light
a candle please visit http://www.
stgeorgefuneralhome.com.
***
George O. Webster
Dansville, NY - George O. Webster,
67, passed away unexpectedly on
March 11, 2015 at his home.
George was born on August 4, 1947,
the son of Oliver and Helen Webster.
He was a veteran of the US Army
serving in Vietnam.
He is survived by children Adam
Webster, Kyle Webster, Heidi
Vazquez, Thomas Eldridge and Denise Gordon, and many other relatives and friends.
A military funeral was held March
16, 2015 at the Bath National Cemetery in Bath. Contributions may be
made to the children, c/o Chamberlin-Baird Funeral Home, 73 Main St.,
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where female pufferfish keep their
eggs. When she lays them, she also
releases some of the toxin -- and it
sticks to the babies once they hatch.
It's not enough to kill a predator,
but the researchers found that fish
who tried to eat the babies would
soon spit them back out. The predators may have been getting that same
tell-tale tingle that human restaurant
patrons pay through the nose for. But
unlike foolhardy humans, fish are
smart enough to take that toxic tingle
for what it is -- a warning.
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Summer Sports Clinic
The 2015 Veterans Summer Sports Clinic
is coming up soon. According to a Department of Veterans Affairs newsletter, all eligible veterans are being encouraged to sign
up and participate.
The clinic will be held Sept. 13-18 in San
Diego and is for veterans with traumatic
brain trauma, poly trauma, loss of limb and
spinal-cord injuries. Call it rehab or call it
recreation therapy -- lives are changed at
these clinics when injured veterans learn new
skills that lead to a more active lifestyle.
Sports and activities at the clinic will include kayaking and cycling (hand and tandem), track and field, sailing and surfing.
Locations for the events include Mission Bay
Yacht Club, U.S. Olympic Training Center in
Chula Vista, La Jolla Shores and others. Even
the accommodations sound posh: the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego.
The deadline to sign up is May 1, 2015.
Don't be a Sucker
The FBI website has a list of scams that are
aimed at seniors. Many of these swindles have
been going on for years, and the scammers still
are finding plenty of victims.
Why do they target seniors? Because they
think we have money. Because they think we
won't report the crime. Because we were raised
to be polite to callers. Here are some examples:
• Medicare and insurance fraud: Scammers posing as Medicare representatives call to
try to get personal information. Or, even more
brazen, they set up fake mobile clinics and entice seniors to provide their Medicare information.
• Reverse mortgage scam: Seniors can
lose all their home equity to scammers or even
be conned into aiding the scammers in stealing
See www.summersportsclinic.va.gov for
more information and the full application
packet. (You'll need a medical exam, so don't
forget that form.) Be sure to get the checklist,
because it has to be sent in as well.
The webpage also includes videos from
previous events, as well as a communitybased adaptive sports program directory,
broken down by state and city.
If the clinic isn't for you but you want to
participate in other adaptive sports, see
the 2015 national events schedule at www.
va.gov/adaptivesports. There are Golden Age
games for older veterans, creative arts festivals, TEE (Training-Exposure-Experience)
tournaments that include kayaking, horseback riding and other adaptive sports workshops), wheelchair games and valor games.
For adaptive sports clubs around the country, including Paralympic sports clubs, see
www.va.gov/adaptivesports/va_clubFinder.
asp and search by state or ZIP code.
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equity from a flipped property. Beware reverse
mortgages, and don't sign anything without
expert advice. Be wary of investment seminars,
even those hosted by churches.
• Funeral and cemetery scams: Scammers
read the obituaries and pounce on the spouse
to try to collect money that the deceased didn't
even owe. Or, shady funeral-home operators
will try to pad the bill.
• Telemarketing: Seniors make twice the
average number of purchases over the phone,
so we're a handy target. Don't buy anything
from anyone who calls you. If you want something, make the call yourself.
• Charity scams: Especially after a natural
disaster, the scammers are looking for money.
If you want to donate to an organization, make
the call yourself.
Clip this column and share it with your
friends the next time you get together. Maybe
you'll keep one potential victim away from the
scammers. To read about more senior scams,
go online to www.fbi.gov/scams-safety/fraud/
seniors.
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Economy & Business
Pandora Q & A
By J.D. Harrison
The New York Eagle News/The
Washington Post
T
im Westergren and his
team had spent years
building a technological
masterpiece — a software
program that could learn your taste in
music and recommend new songs you
might like. It worked, too.
What wasn't working was their
business model. They had been trying to sell the software to companies
in the music industry, such as record
stores, but it wasn't catching on. So in
2004, they tried something new. Using their algorithms and technology,
they tinkered with a consumer-facing
product that would help listeners
create personalized, online radio stations.
"I remember the first time I saw the
beta version of it, I thought, 'Oh, we're
home,' " said Westergren, the founder
of what would become Pandora Media, now a $3.6 billion company. "
'This is what we should have been
building all along.' "
Pandora is one of the world's most
popular music streaming services,
with more than 250 million users
in the United States, Australia and
New Zealand who listen to billions of
hours of music every year. Revenue
was up to $920 million in 2014, with
a profit of $412 million, up from $250
million in 2013.
In an interview, Westergren talked
about the early years at what was then
an ambitious but cash-strapped startup in San Francisco. This has been
edited for length and clarity.
Q: What were you doing before
Pandora?
A: I was a musician. I spent about
10 or 12 years after college trying to
make a living as a performer. I'm a
jazz-trained piano player, and then
played in rock bands for a long time.
I spent a while living out of a van and
being part of this sea of working musicians. Then I spent four or five years
writing music for films. So I had no
formal business training, though I
think being in a band is a lot like being in start-up, so I felt well-prepared
for Pandora.
Q: How did you come up with the
idea?
A: It started when I was in bands.
I spent years watching talented musicians try to find an audience and
having no easy way to do that. As a
film composer, you basically spend all
your time trying to figure out what a
director wants. So I would interview
a film director and play songs for
them, and I would use their feedback
on those songs to glean their musical
taste. It's kind of like a musical MyersBriggs interview. What I was really
doing in my head was developing a
taxonomy of their taste.
So musical discovery was in my
head, and I read this news article
one day and it crystallized. I thought,
"Wow, if I could codify this whole
profile thing, and marry it with math,
the Web could be this great discovery
tool."
Q: How did you get started?
A: I sat on it for a while. My then
fiancé — now wife — encouraged me
to investigate it, and I shared the idea
with a former college classmate, Jon
Kraft, who had some entrepreneurial
success. He said, "Hey, this is an interesting idea, why don't we see if we
can form a company." In a matter of
weeks it went from 'we have an idea'
to 'we have a business plan and we're
pitching it,' to a couple months later
and 'we have a million and a half dollars of seed financing,' and bam, we're
off to the races.
Q: When did you raise the money?
A: We began the process in 2000,
when the first big dot-com wave was
cresting. It was about to fall off a cliff.
We closed our Series A round two
weeks before the end of the dot-com
boom. It was just a matter of calling
everybody we knew and asking if they
knew people, networking, getting
as many introductions as we could,
then pitching and practicing the pitch
and refining it, and then cobbling together enough people to put together
a round.
Q: Where were you working?
A: We were working out of our
homes. When we raised the money,
we rented a small studio apartment in
South San Francisco with thick black
shag carpeting and we got some tables
and chairs and a white board. It was
in a neighborhood called Petreo Hill,
and it was probably a 20-by-10 room,
looking out over the city. It had some
nice views. We were joined shortly
thereafter by Will Glazer, who was
a friend of Jon's. But when you start
from scratch, you buy some computers, get a whiteboard, colored markers and just begin brainstorming sessions.
We had to figure out how to go from
this informal taxonomy that I had in
my brain to a product. So that's what
we did for a few years, and we brought
in the smartest people we knew —
mathematicians, computer scientists,
musicians, musicologists. It was a big
brainstorm.
Q: What were you looking for when
you hired people?
A: We certainly hired for skill, and
one nice thing about Jon and Will was
they had a good network of people,
certainly on the software side. So they
were able to cherry pick their favorite engineers. That part was pretty
straightforward. On the music side, I
ran into a fantastically talented fellow
named Nolan Gasser, a musicologist.
We hit it off.
And then we hired musicians who
had good music theory chops to do
the music analysis piece, and that
team grew to about 70. We were looking for smart, talented people and
folks looking for an adventure, because we didn't know how this was
going to go and we needed folks who
had a strong stomach. It turns out we
hired pretty tenacious people to help
us through the hard times.
Q: The company wasn't originally
named Pandora, right?
A: Right, our first name was Savage
Beast Technologies. We were looking
for a name that would make us stand
out, because there were so many startups back then. We wanted something
memorable. It's an allusion to the
lyrics "music hath charm, so soothe
the savage breast," (a line from William Congreve's play "The Mourning
Bride") so there was a musical connection. Savage breast became Savage
Beast. But we realized that probably
was not the right name for a consumer-facing product.
Q: How did you pick Pandora?
A: We all sort of threw ideas around.
Our then-CEO, Joe Kennedy, had that
idea, and when we heard that name, I
think we all thought it was compelling. We liked the myth behind it.
And it was an available URL, which
was in and of itself a small miracle.
Q: What were the biggest challenges
during those first years?
A: We had the typical euphoria of
raising money and then all of a sudden we had a company and that was
exciting. But because the dot-com
thing had passed and the investment
community basically shut its doors to
start-ups, and especially music startups, by the end of 2000 we could see
that it was going to be hard for us to
continue to finance the company.
We began asking our employees to
defer an ever greater share of their
salary beginning in 2001, and by the
end of 2001, we weren't paying our
employees at all. So, about 50 or 55
people worked without getting paid
for over two years during that time.
Not all of them full-time, but a lot of
them.
So there was one big challenge we
faced: just a complete lack of financing. I racked up enormous credit card
debt, personal debt, we borrowed
money from everybody we knew. But
we managed to hang on through 2003
and then raised our second round of
financing in 2004.
Q: During those first few years,
what was your revenue model?
A: Our original idea was that we
were going to build a technology that
we would license out to other companies. So if you were a portal or a music retailer, you could take what we
called the Music Genome Project and
embed it in your Web site, and that
would allow you to help your own
consumers navigate catalogues. So we
thought of ourselves as a B2B license
technology. We chased after that business plan for years, really.
Really, what we were doing was
looking for lily pads — someplace
to keep us going, some partnership,
some sign of progress that would help
us raise our next round of financing.
So we improvised all sorts of things.
Q: When did you pivot to the personalized music streaming service?
A: In 2004, we raised our second
financing round, and when we did
that, we basically had the time to hit
the pause button and say, "Okay, we
have this Music Genome Project, this
really big piece of intellectual property, but we haven't figured out the
business model yet. Let's sit down and
figure out what we want to do with
this thing." What we realized was that
radio was a healthy part of the music industry, and lo and behold, this
thing we had been building was perfectly suited to personalized playlists.
So we peeled off a team of engineers
and built what we called One Click
Custom Radio.
Q: You didn't stay small for long.
What helped it take off?
A: I think we had good timing, in
the sense that broadband connectivity had gone mainstream. So you
could listen to streaming audio, it was
high quality and reliable, and that had
become a mass consumer proposition. I think our product was just the
right answer for a big need everybody
had, which was "I want to hear music,
the stuff I know and love, and discover things that I don't know that I'll
love. And it needs to be easy."
Q: So were you out advertising Pandora?
A: Our growth for the first, gosh,
five or six years was without a dime
of marketing. Someone would use it
and get so excited about it that they
would send it to their friends. Again,
I think it was the right product at the
right time.
Q: Looking back, what was the biggest mistake you made?
A: In those down years, I spent a
lot of time trying to raise money. I
pitched Pandora 348 times before we
got our second round of financing. I
think, in hindsight, I was pretty darn
inefficient about that. A lot of that
energy could have been better spent
working on the business itself. It's
hard when you're bankrupt and people are working for nothing to not be
trying to look for money all the time,
but I think I could have been much
more efficient.
Q: What advice would you share
with up-and-coming entrepreneurs?
A: The best piece of advice I ever got
was from my wife, which was "Don't
be self-conscious about being an en_________________________
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She Diligently Built a Nest
Egg as a Freelancer. Will It
See Her Through?
By Jonnelle Marte
The New York Eagle News/The
Washington Post
B
arbara Southworth, 61
The photographer and
teacher is in the process of
transitioning into retirement.
Financial advisers: Dallas Salisbury,
chief executive of the Employee Benefits Research Institute, and Bill Moran, a financial adviser with Merrill
Lynch.
———
As a freelance photographer and
teacher, Barbara Southworth has a lot
of flexibility with her schedule.
But with her income fluctuating
from year to year, Southworth isn't
sure if she is saving enough to afford
a lighter workload as she transitions
into retirement and makes more
room for environmental activism.
Southworth, 61, hopes to have
more time for writing letters, lobbying congressmen and petitioning to
stop regional fracking efforts. The Alexandria, Va., resident also wants to
cut down on her teaching responsibilities during the warmer months so
that she can snap more photos while
kayaking and hiking around Virginia.
"For me, it's about providing
enough work," she says.
We shared details of Southworth's
finances with two financial experts:
Dallas Salisbury, chief executive of
the Employee Benefit Research Institute, and Bill Moran, a financial
adviser with Merrill Lynch. They offered feedback on what Southworth
should consider as she moves into
retirement.
———
Southworth's income varies from
year to year. Now she makes about
$20,000 a year, after business expenses, which she tallies at close to
$10,000. Several years ago she was
making about $30,000.
Still, the money has been enough
to cover living expenses and add to
her retirement savings. She paid off
her mortgage five years ago, and her
monthly bills — about what she expects to have in retirement — are fairly low. She lives with a partner who
helps her cover utilities. Southworth
also expects to pay off her car soon.
Having freelanced for decades,
Southworth hasn't had access to a
workplace savings plan for much of
her career. Instead, she has stashed
savings in traditional Individual Retirement Accounts as well as Roth
IRAs — enough (even with no investment growth) to cover about 25 years
of expenses if she can stick to her
modest budget and is spared any major health surprises. Southworth also
has enough savings in her emergency
cash fund to cover at least a year's
efits, depending on her age.
"That additional income could
create a taxable event for her
Social Security benefit, or a
portion of it," Moran says.
If she starts collecting before
reaching full retirement age, it
may deduct $1 of every $2 she
earns above the annual earning
limit. (For 2015, it's $15,720.)
Those deductions would stop
at age 66. Some people receiving "substantial" income in
retirement from wages, investments and self-employment
may have to pay federal income
taxes on up to 85 percent of
their Social Security benefits.
If Southworth's retirement
Photographer and teacher Barbara Southworth, 61, is in the
process of transitioning into retirement; she is concerned whether is anything like her father's, she
her savings will see her into her 90s. (Washington Post photo by may need to stretch her savings
Matt McClain.)
for 20 to 30 years. Because of
that, she worries that her savings
worth of expenses. "She's done a good
may be depleted if she faces health
job for herself," Moran says.
Southworth wants to put off collect- issues because she doesn't have longing Social Security as long as she can. term care insurance — something
But she wonders how those payments Salisbury and Moran say she should
would be affected, once she starts col- consider.
"If she becomes disabled, it's going
lecting, if she takes freelance work.
As a freelancer, Southworth is on to be harder for her to do photograher own when it comes to buying in- phy," Moran says. "The cost of any
surance. She was covered with a cata- nursing care facility are definitely gostrophic health plan a few years ago ing to be greater than her expected
when she was diagnosed with breast expenses in retirement."
But she may not be too late. Some
cancer and had to dip into her savings to cover the cost of treatments. deferred annuities, also known as
(She also got help from family and longevity annuities because they
friends.) With the cancer now in re- don't start paying out until a person
mission, she receives a federal sub- reaches age 80 or 85, can be used to
sidy to buy insurance through the pay for assisted living or long-term
exchanges created by the Affordable care costs, Salisbury says.
Southworth has enough saved that
Care Act and she plans to stay covered in a similar plan until she can she could use a third of her retirement
funds to buy that kind of an annuity,
enroll in Medicare at 65.
However, Southworth hasn't bought he says. Depending on how long she
long-term care insurance, something lives, it may deliver more income
she might need to cover housing costs than if she spends down the money
and medical care if she lives as long as over time, he says.
As for housing, Southworth will
her father, who is 95. There's also the
question of where she should live in have more flexibility if she rents an
retirement. Southworth would like to apartment while in Maine instead
spend months at a time in Maine and of buying a second home, Salisbury
is considering buying a house there, says. She may even consider selling
but she isn't sure if it's worth the cost. her home in Virginia — which would
Southworth's most recent projec- more than double her retirement savtions from the Social Security Ad- ings — as a way to pad her nest egg
ministration estimate that she would and cover rental payments, he says.
"Be happy you are in such good
receive about $1,350 a month if she
began collecting at 66, her full re- financial condition," Salisbury says.
tirement age. That would increase to "And don't mess it up."
about $1,800 if she waits until age 70.
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"Waiting as long as you can makes a
lot of sense," Moran says.
If those projections hold true and if
her expenses stay roughly the same,
most of Southworth's bills in retirement would be covered by Social Se• Those who say, “There’s no such
curity, Moran says. That means she thing as a stupid question,” have never
would need to draw only a few hun- worked in customer service.
dred dollars a month from her sav• I wished the buck stopped here, as
ings to see her through.
I could use a few.
Taking the occasional freelance job
• I started out with nothing, and I
could affect her Social Security ben- still have most of it. ■
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Ronald J. Waide
Geneseo, NY - Ronald J. Waide, age
76, died March 6, 2015 at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, NY. He
was predeceased by his parents, Albert and Jean Waide, and daughter,
Katrina Ann Waide.
He is survived by his daughters,
Monica (Steve Mackencie) Morris
and Charmae Kemler, both of Geneseo; grandchildren, Dylan Nourse,
Angel and Nicole Kemler, and Emma
Gurney; great-grandson, Nicolas; sister, Shirley Carney of Victor; and several nieces and nephews.
Ronald was born November 18,
1938 in Lima, NY, the son of Albert
and Jean McKeown Waide. He graduated from Geneseo High School in
1956. Ronald was a US Army National Guard Veteran. He was a heavy
equipment operator for the Town of
Livonia Highway Department.
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2015 at the Rector-Hicks Funeral
Home, Geneseo. Funeral Services will
be private at the convenience of the
family. Memorial contributions may
be made to Hearthside Cats, PO Box
282, Geneseo, NY 14454 or the Livingston County Humane Society, PO
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Genevieve “June” (Cole)
D’Apice
Hornell, NY - Genevieve “June”
D’Apice, age 90, passed away on
March 14, 2015 at Hornell Gardens
where she had resided for the past 3
years.
Genevieve was born in Elmer, PA
on June 3, 1924. She was the daughter
of Charles and Jenny (VanPelt) Cole.
June grew up in the Canisteo –
Adrian area and was a graduate of
Canisteo Central School. She had
been employed for several years at the
former Dunn’s Drug Store where she
served as manager of the fountain.
She later worked in many capacities
at Woolworth’s Department Store
where she especially enjoyed decorating the Easter Candy. June had
been employed at Modern Cleaners
in Hornell and for about 14 years
ran the Snack Counter at the Hornell
Bowl. Most recently she helped out at
D’Apice Market, which was located on
the corner of River St. and John St. in
Hornell.
As an avid animal lover, June enjoyed feeding the neighborhood dogs
and cats and also loved feeding the
birds.
June was married on October 24,
1945 to Robert D’Apice, who died December 2, 2008. She was also preceded in death by 2 grandsons, Matthew
Luke D’Apice and Randy D’Apice; 2
brothers, Charles Cole and Walter
Cole; and 3 sisters, Marie Howland,
Virginia Cotton and Maple Cole.
Surviving are 1 daughter, Anna
Baker of Hornell; 3 sons, Robert (Pat)
D’Apice of Arkport, Randy (Connie) D’Apice of Hornell and Andrew
D’Apice of Arkport; 4 grandchildren,
Peter Persichilli, Crystal (Rob) Henshaw, Deanna D’Apice and Daniel
D’Apice; 2 great-grandchildren, Jacob
Henshaw and Chloee Henshaw; several nieces and nephews including
her “special niece”, Sue Campbell.
Funeral services were held on
March 18, 2015 at the Dagon Funeral
Home, Hornell where Deacon Robert
McCormick officiated. Burial was set
for VA Cemetery, Bath. June’s family
request that memorial contributions
in her name be made to the Hornell
Humane Society, 7649 Industrial Park
Road, Hornell, NY 14843. To send a
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Hornell, NY- George P. Huffsmith,
96, former Hornell Police Officer and
Public Safety Commissioner, passed
away March 11, 2015 at Highland
Hospital in Rochester.
Born in East Stroudsburg, Pa. on
Feb. 28, 1919, he was a son of the
late William and Alta Lee Huffsmith.
On Dec. 8, 1945 he was married at
the First Baptist Church in Hornell
to the former Gertrude “Gert” Partridge, who predeceased him on June
14, 2014 after 69 years of marriage.
Besides his parents and wife he was
also predeceased by his sister, Clara
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Charlotte, N.C., Mark (Mary Helen)
Huffsmith of Moorhead, MN, Susan
(Matt) Dwyer of Albany, Rev. Dr.
George (Joanne) Huffsmith of Kalamazoo, MI, Sarah Knickerbocker of
Hopewell Junction, NY, Sandra (Ted)
Hillman and Peter (Debi) Huffsmith,
both of Hornell; his 18 grandchildren
and 19 great-grandchildren; and his
nieces and nephews.
A funeral service, with military
honors, was held in his memory Mar
14, 2015 at the First Baptist Church
in Hornell; his son, Rev. Dr. George
Huffsmith and Pastor Cedric Cooper,
M. Div. officiated. Interment will be in
the Howard Cemetery at the convenience of the family. In lieu of flowers,
those wishing may contribute in his
memory to the First Baptist Church,
28 Church St., Hornell, N.Y. 14843.
Arrangements were with the Bishop
and Johnson Funeral Home, Inc. To
light a candle please visit http://www.
bishopandjohnsonfuneralhome.com.
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Alice L. (Amidon)
Salvagin
Hornell, NY - Alice L. Salvagin, age
100, passed away March 13, 2015 at
McAuley Manor in North Hornell.
Alice was born in Hartsville January
2, 1915, the daughter of John T. and
Alma Razey Amidon. She had resided
most of her life in Hartsville before
moving to the Town of Hornellsville
in 1967. She had been employed with
ACES at Alfred State College for 18
years prior to her retirement in 1983.
She was a 25 year member of the former Hartsville Grange.
Alice was predeceased by her husband Edwin M. Salvagin on January
25, 1980; her sisters Theresa Smalt,
Delma Edwards, Elsie VanCampen
and Clara Edwards; as well as her five
brothers, Elton, Otto, Walter, Theodore and Murray Amidon.
Alice is survived by her daughter
Veola ( Harold) Coller of LeRoy; her
sons Edwin J. (Bonnie) Salvagin of
Indiana and Gary (Kathy) Salvagin
of Hornell; 8 grandchildren, Harold
(Lori) Coller, Norman Coller, Jo Ann
Coller, Edwin J. Salvagin III, Ricky
Lee (Darlene) Salvagin, Tina Marie
(David) Frankenbery, Jeffrey (Mallorie) Salvagin and Andrew Salvagin;
7 great-grandchildren, Paul, Matthew (Sloane ) and Shaun Coller, Samantha, Christopher, Maverick and
Evan Salvagin; and several nieces and
nephews.
Funeral services were held on
March 16, 2015 at the Bender - Brown
& Powers Funeral Home, Hornell
where, her son-in-law, Rev. Harold
Coller officiated. Burial was set for
Heritage Hill Cemetery, Arkport. To
send a remembrance to the family
or to light a candle please visit www.
brownandpowersfuneralhomes.com.
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Donna L. (Gordon) Spike
Hornell, NY - Donna L. Spike, age
68, passed away March 10, 2015 at
her home, surrounded by her loving
family.
Born in Hornell, May 11, 1946, she
had resided in Hornell all her life and
was raised by her grandparents, Frank
and Harriet Woolever Gordon. Donna was a graduate of Bath-Haverling
High School, was a certified nurse’s
aide and had done home health care
for many years. She was employed
at the Hornell Gardens for 13 years.
Donna enjoyed boating, traveling,
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Donna was predeceased by her father, grandparents and her uncle Miland Gordon. She is survived by her
husband James Spike, to whom she
was married in 1963; her daughters
Lindsay (Joseph) Haynes of Hornell,
Amber (Kevin) DuBois of Canisteo,
Carolin (Michael) Campbell of Hornell and Christina (James) Rawleigh
of Hornell; her sons Leonard James
(Kim) Spike of Hartsville and James
Alan Spike of Nebraska; her mother
Marilyn Gordon of Hornell; her uncle
Laverne Gordon of Hornell; 14 grandchildren; 7 great-grandchildren; and
several aunts, uncles and cousins.
Funeral services were held on
March 13, 2015 at the Bender - Brown
& Powers Funeral Home, Hornell
where Rev. Donald Maynard officiated. Burial was set for Rural Cemetery,
Hornell.
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Memphis, TN 38105 or to Care First,
11751 East Corning Rd. Corning, NY
14830. To send a remembrance to the
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Livonia/Bloomfield, NY
William E. Brizzee Jr.
Livonia/Bloomfield, NY - William
E. Brizzee Jr., 44, lost his courageous
battle with cancer on March 12, 2015,
at home with his loving family by his
side. Bill was predeceased by his maternal grandparents John and Eleanor
“Ellie” Kennedy; great-grandmother
Rose Kennedy; and paternal grandparents Elton and Lois Brizzee. He
is survived by his loving wife Christine (Taylor) Brizzee; his parents
William (Nancy) Brizzee Sr. and
mother Karen Brizzee, all of Livonia;
children Brooke Brizzee, Amanda
Perry-Brizzee, Tyler Finley, Savanah
Buschang, Celeste deKramer, and
Danielle White; grandsons Jacoby
and Remington; and Aunt Donna
Parmele.
Bill was born on December 23, 1970
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in Geneva, NY. He grew up in the
Bloomfield-Ionia area, and worked
at several local farms. He later moved
to Livonia where he was a devoted father to his daughter Brooke. Bill was
a very active father that was involved
in every aspect of Brooke’s life. His
greatest joy was coaching her cheerleading squad. Bill was active in the
community and around Conesus
Lake. He was an avid hunter and had
a great love of the outdoors. Bill had
one of the biggest hearts, throwing
a benefit for one of his cheerleaders
and doing Secret Santa every Christmas for someone in the community.
Bill was a man of faith and believed in
God Almighty and that the soul departed in the Lord does not die, it returns to God, who is the Giver of Life.
He will be greatly missed and forever
remembered and loved by his family
and many friends.
Friends may call on Saturday, March
21st, from 10am-12noon at the Kevin
W. Dougherty Funeral Home Inc., 21
Big Tree Street (Rte. 15 & 20A), Livonia, where services will follow at 12
noon. To send a condolence and for
further information please visit www.
doughertyfuneralhomes.com
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Penn Yan, NY
William J. Mickelsen
Penn Yan, NY - William J. Mickelsen, age 86, formerly of Geneva,
NY, passed away March 6, 2015 at the
Penn Yan Manor Nursing Home.
William was born on March 2, 1929
in the Town on Benton, the son of
the late Jens and Marie (Christensen)
Mikkelsen. His mother had moved to
Denmark, where he grew up during
German occupation.
He drove truck for 29 years for Penn
Yan Express and CEX and retired in
1989. William enjoyed stock car racing and up until a few years ago. He
would travel with his sons to stock
car races every weekend. To him, his
family and spending time with them
was most important.
He is survived by his sons, Dale and
David (Donna) Mickelsen; grandson
Gary Mickelsen; stepgranddaughter,
Stephanie (Dave) Randolph; stepgreat-grandchildren, Kylie Johnson,
Kaylin Randolph and Kody Randolph; sisters-in-law, Dorothy Mickelsen, Frieda (Ron) Cramer, Wilma
Bishop, and Janice Newby; and several nieces, nephews and cousins.
In addition to his parents, he was
predeceased by his wife of 59 years,
Gladys E. Mickelsen, on May 26,
2006; brothers, Arthur and Clarence
Mickelsen; and mother and father-inlaw, Oliver and Mary Newby.
A celebration of his life was held
March 14, 2015 at the TownsendWood Funeral Chapel, Penn Yan.
Burial will be at Bellona Cemetery at
the convenience of the family. In lieu
of flowers, memorial contributions
may be made in William's memory to
the Humane Society of Yates County,
1216 State Route 14A, PO Box 12,
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Penn Yan, NY 14527. Friends and
family may also sign the guestbook at
www.townsendwoodfuneralchapel.
com.
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Retsof, NY
Joan E. (MacIntyre)
Christiano
Retsof, NY - Joan E. Christiano, age
78, a resident at the Avon Nursing
Home and formerly of Retsof, died
March 8, 2015 at Highland Hospital
in Rochester. She was predeceased
by her husband, Louis Christiano Jr.,
and grandchildren, Aaron and Adam
Christiano.
She is survived by her children,
Richard Christiano of Avon, Ronald
(Debra) Christiano of Fairport, and
Catherine (Paul DeMaine) Carson
of Retsof; grandchildren Summer,
Eric and Jenna Carson, and J.C. and
Cory Riggione; brother, Fred (Kathy)
MacIntyre of Mt. Morris; sister, Sally
(Harold) Smith of York; sisters-inlaw, Josephine Savino and Rosemary
Giordano, both of Geneseo; and
many nieces and nephews.
Joan was born August 1, 1936 in
Geneseo, the daughter of Fred and
Mary Ann Linton MacIntyre. She
was retired from Specialized Printed
Forms in Caledonia.
Funeral Services were held March
13, 2015 at the Rector-Hicks Funeral
Home, Geneseo, with Deacon George
Spezzano officiating. Burial was set
for St. Mary's Cemetery in Geneseo.
Memorial contributions may be made
to the Alzheimer's Association, 435 E
Henrietta Rd., Rochester, NY 14620.
To light a candle please visit http://
rector-hicksfuneralhome.com.
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Sparta, NY
Virginia (Hart) Sheflin
Sparta, NY - Virginia E. Sheflin, age
91, passed away in the ER at Strong
Memorial Hospital in Rochester, with
her family and friends by her side, after being stricken at home.
She was born in Rochester on May
4, 1923, a daughter of the late Truman
and Ruth Andrew Hart. She was also
predeceased by her siblings, William
Hart, Marshall Hart, Mabel Evans,
Alice Sanford, and her very good
friend, Dorothy Bailey.
Virginia was a Registered Nurse,
graduating from the Alfred State College of Nursing in 1969. She was a RN
at the former Craig Colony in Sonyea
from which she retired. After retiring,
she was a dedicated volunteer for the
Livingston County Hospice.
She was a longtime faithful member
of the Sparta Center United Methodist Church, where she was known for
baking cookies, pies and cream puffs
for church dinners and receptions.
On Sundays after church, she would
host gatherings around her dinner
table for her family and friends at her
home.
She is survived by her children
Ronald (Bernadette) Sheflin of AL,
Timothy Sheflin of VA, Shirley (Gary)
Kreiley and Elaine Lathan, both of
Dansville, and Frances (Julie) Sheflin
of MA; grandchildren Kevin Sheflin,
Holly Woodley, Cliff Smith, Beth
Sieglinger, Virginia Sheflin, Kellie
Schuster, Chris Kreiley, Heather Mahany, Mathew Sheflin, Andy Sheflin
and Jennifer Sheflin; fifteen greatgrandchildren; a sister, Shirley Carr
of Ontario NY; and many nieces and
nephews.
A funeral service was held March
12, 2015 at the Sparta Center United Methodist Church with the Rev.
James Stevens officiating. Interment
was set for Kiehle Cemetery, Sparta.
In lieu of flowers, please make memorial contributions to the Sparta
Center United Methodist Church or
Livingston County Hospice Fund.
Arrangements were with Hindle Funeral Home. Online remembrances
may be left at HindleFuneralHome.
com.
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Springwater/Bath, NY
Rita O. Stuart
Springwater/Bath, NY – Rita O. Stuart, age 58, passed away on March 5,
2015 at her home in Bath.
Rita was born in Dansville February
6, 1957, the daughter of Herbert and
Ruth (Whiteman) Stuart. She grew
up in Springwater but also resided in
several different areas throughout her
life, including Birdsall, Hornell, Bath,
North Carolina and eventually settling back in Bath in 1985. Rita was
a high school graduate and attained
her Bachelor of Nursing degree from
St. James School of Nursing. She was
a Nursing Supervisor at Soldiers and
Sailors Hospital in Penn Yan for the
past several years. Rita enjoyed cooking, canning, sewing and her job
working in healthcare. Rita also loved
her dogs and cats as she always had
them around her home.
Rita was predeceased by her parents, Herbert and Ruth Stuart, and
an infant sister, Mary Alice Stuart.
She is survived by her children Brent
Proctor (Samantha Fisher) of Bath
and Sally Goodman Proctor of Bath;
her grandchildren Mialee Goodman,
Jaxon Saltsman and Connor Fisher;
her sister Deanna (Michael) Hackett
of Spencerport; nieces; nephews and
great-nephews; her animals Kester,
Valentino, Dolly, Mister Babe and
Chucky Cheese; many caring neighbors; and her nursing family at Soldiers and Sailors Hospital.
Rita’s Celebration of Life will take
place Sunday March 22, 2015 at
1:00pm at the Springwater American
Legion, 7998 School St., Springwater,
NY. Memorial contributions in Rita
O. Stuart’s memory many be made to
The ALS Association, Upstate New
York Chapter, 890 7th North Street,
Suite 108, Liverpool, NY 13088. Arrangements were with St. GeorgeStanton Funeral Home. To send a
remembrance to the family or to
light a candle please visit http://www.
stgeorgefuneralhome.com.
***
Wadsworth, NY
Loraine F. "Honey"
(Bachman) Gates
Wadsworth, NY - Loraine F. "Honey"
Gates, age 86, died March 14, 2015 at
the Livingston County Center for
Nursing and Rehabilitation in Mt.
Morris. She was predeceased by her
husband, Merton; brother, Ed Bachman; and sister, Lucille Fox.
She is survived by her children
Steve (Barb) Gates, Bonnie Myers,
Sandy (David) Sliker, and Renee
(Bill) Young, all of Wadsworth, Melody Overs of Getzville, NY, and Mike
Gates of Piffard; grandchildren Steve,
Kristy, Heather, Bethany, Dawn, Jamie, Ronnie and Kyle; great-grandchildren Jake, Cody, Amber, Abby,
Cora, David, Olivia and Isaac; sisterin-law Mildred Melfi of Himrod, NY;
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Lifestyle
Kids and Money: The Bucks Start Here
By Amy Joyce
The New York Eagle News/The
Washington Post
W
e fret about teaching our
kids how to use the potty,
why they should eat vegetables and why good manners matter. All of those things are important,
necessary and pretty consuming for
parents who are trying to do the right
thing. But money is one topic that
slides by many of us parents (guilty),
or we purposely put it away to discuss later, because it's hard and might
seem insurmountable. However, it's
probably one of the most important
things we can teach our kids if we
want them to have a good life.
How many of us have suddenly realized that our school-aged kid doesn't
understand that the XBox they're asking for will put a ding in the monthly
budget? Or that the dollar you gave
them to put into the basket at church
isn't just to entertain them for 30 seconds, it's a commitment to trying to
make the world a teeny bit better? Or
that the hours you sit trying to figure
out summer schedules also include
time spent trying to decide whether
the $400 camp is worth it, or whether
that money would be better spent
elsewhere?
So when do you start this talk? And
perhaps more difficult, how?
When?
"Your kids are going to start talking about money before you start
talking to them about it," says Ron
Lieber, author of the book "The Opposite of Spoiled: Raising Kids Who
Are Grounded, Generous, and Smart
About Money" and a personal finance
columnist for the New York Times.
That talk started for Lieber and his
family when his daughter noticed that
some people have basements, often
with lots of toys in them. She wanted
one. They live in an apartment.
Now you try to explain to a small
child why a house in the suburbs with
We
all
use debit
cards now
to buy ever ything
from
a
pack
of
baseball
c a r d s
to
$300
worth of
groceries.
It's good
to try to
Right after the arrival of the tooth fairy is a good time to start talking to your kids
use cash
about money. (Washington Post illustration by Susana Sanchez-Young.)
s o m e a basement might cost a fraction of times and explain that "we trade this
what you would pay for an apartment money stuff to get" something in rein Brooklyn. That can be mind-bog- turn, she says. When children see
you pay with hard cash, they may
gling even for us grown-ups.
"They cut right to our core," he says. be able to better visualize the easy"It's highly emotionally charged. And come-easy-go truth we grown-ups
you don't get to dictate when it starts." talk about.
But the fact is, they won't really
Don't wait for them to learn about
learn about money until they have
money at school, Lieber says.
"It's essential enough that we want some of their own and feel the disapto own it in our household, and par- pointment when it's gone. Or when
ticularly important to seize the reins they experience the joy of working
on money," he says, because there are hard to save it so they can buy somedirect connections between talking thing they really, really, really wanted.
Gilboa and Lieber are both propoabout money and teaching values.
"I don't think we should outsource nents of giving children an allowance
from a young age — think tooth fairy
that."
A good time to start really teaching — and having them divide the money
about money in earnest, he suggests, into three jars: One each for spend,
is right after the first tooth fairy visit. save and donate. This can also work
Children understand that the money for any monetary gifts they receive,
is theirs but don't yet have a firm unless you are depositing that directly
grasp on what they can do with it, or into a college fund.
The jars are a stand-in for a grownhow to get more. This is your chance
to discuss money, investing and fi- up budget, Lieber says. Most of us
nancial responsibilities. And this is spend a good chunk of what we make,
where you might introduce three jars: but "if we're behaving ourselves" and
save, spend and donate. (More on that saving at least 10 percent (hopefully
more) and have a little left over for
later.)
charity, we are able to represent the
How?
Deborah Gilboa, a family physician values we want to imprint on our
in Pittsburgh who focuses on parent- children. The donate jar shows gening and youth development, says she erosity, the spend jar teaches modesty
started talking about money with her and prudence, and the save jar reprefour boys when they started asking sents delayed gratification.
"Give them a little bit of money
for stuff. (So, like, birth?)
The key, she says, is to show chil- within your value system" for the aldren what's actually happening. lowance, Gilboa says. Her family's
system is to put 10 percent of that
amount into the donate jar, and divide the rest between a spend jar and
a save/invest jar. You can talk about
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cares about. Use this as a time to teach
him about the greater good.
They can use the money from the
spend jar as they desire, including,
she says, for "something you wouldn't
want them to buy." But let them fail a
little. Maybe there will be tears when
they realize they spent that $5 on total
junk.
"It's better they make money mistakes when they are small and there's
a cushion than when they are older,"
she says.
Finally, the save/invest jar is for the
larger items on their wish list that
they can't afford right away. This jar is
a big step toward teaching a kid what
it means to pinch pennies and spend
wisely.
Should allowance be connected to
chores?
This is a big question for my family and has been the discussion at
more than one night out with friends.
(We're exciting people.)
"Chores are really important, but
they should be used to teach" kids
how to help out, Gilboa says. If you
connect chores and money, "then it's
a job, and you can quit. . . . Also, I
don't get paid for my chores around
the house. You have to do them because you're a member of the family
and that's what we do."
And, she points out, if her sons are
punished and don't get an allowance,
they still have to do their chores. Or if
they are at summer camp and not doing chores, they still get an allowance.
Lieber agrees. "Grown-ups aren't
paid for chores. That's not how the
world works," he says.
Use chores as a lesson about work
ethic and allowance as a means to
teach kids how to save themselves
from financial ruin when they are
older.
Think about teaching them about
money from a much bigger view —
not just in $2 allowance increments,
advises Lieber. You don't want your
children's first major decision about
money to be choosing a college. Help
them build up to that by figuring out
where money comes from, where it
goes and how to think about the best
investment.
"All of a sudden, [college is] the
most important decision and most
important financial decision they will
make in their lives. . . . We have teenagers making this decision, and it's a
six-figure decision.
"Because they are facing this down,
albeit with a little bit of help from us,
that can't be the first moment they are
confronting financial decisions. We
just have to be teaching them much
earlier on what it's like to wrestle with
big, grown-up money decisions."
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Italian Innovations Move Tiles from
Bathroom to Rest of Home
By Katherine Salant
Special to The New York Eagle
News/The Washington Post
F
ifty years from now, historians
of the decorative arts will likely describe the current era of
tilemaking as "The Great Revolution."
Combining advances in the manufacturing process with the wonders
of digital photography, ceramic tile
manufacturers today routinely produce tiles that were unimaginable in
size, application and appearance only
a few years ago.
The 4-inch-square tiles that still
cover the walls in most American
bathrooms have given way to tiles
that are now measured in feet. Threeby 8-feet tiles with only a ¼-inch
thickness are widely available. The
palette that was once limited to pastels and black and white has exploded
to include every hue and shade in the
color spectrum. By adding digital
photography to the mix, tilemakers
have been able to produce tiles that
so closely mimic wood, marble and
granite that even the experts can be
fooled.
With all these developments, tile
has migrated from the bathroom and
kitchen, where it was valued for its
water resistant properties, to every
room in the house.
All these developments were on
abundant display at Cersaie, the annual trade fair for the European tile
industry, which was held here this
fall. There were many captivating new
tiles, but the Italian tilemakers, the
group that pioneered most of the advances in the tilemaking industry, led
Ascot's "Game of Fifteen" series reproduces images created by American pop artist Keith Haring.
(Courtesy of Ceramiche Ascot)
— big enough that one or two sheets
can supply all the material needed for
work surfaces in a typical American
kitchen, including counters, backsplashes and the large islands that are
increasingly popular.
At the same time, the huge tiles
have all but eliminated the grout lines
that have caused tile's use in a kitchen
to be a challenging maintenance issue for many homeowners. With tiles
that mimic more than 50 marbles
and granites in more than 120 colors, there is a "Rex" tile to suit every
homeowner. It will be available in the
United States in early 2015.
* Ascot's new "Game of Fifteen" series offers tiles that re-create iconic
works of art, but not the ones you'd
expect of a firm whose cultural heritage includes the likes of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci. Instead,
the first artist to be featured is the late
Keith Haring, an American pop artist.
His simple, animated black-lined
figures first appeared as graffiti on the
streets of New York in the early 1980s,
Ascot's "Game of Fifteen" series reproduces images created by American pop artist Keith Haring.
(Courtesy of Ceramiche Ascot)
the pack.
Among the Italian tile manufacturers' offerings, these were the high
points:
* Upping the ante on size, Florim's
new "Rex" line features tiles that are
5 feet, 6 inches wide by 11 feet long
eventually became feted in museum
exhibitions and for the past decade
have been favored by skateboarders
and youthful T-shirt wearers. Asked
about this choice, Frederic Ades, Ascot's vice president for sales said: "We
started with the idea that the iPhone
and iPad are beautifully designed
functional objects that have brought
art to everybody and made it a part
of everyday life. This led us to think
about other kinds of art in everyday
Refin's "Fossil" tiles were created by Polish
designer Kasia Bareba, who coined the name
because the wavy patterns remind her of the
markings of plants and animals that appear in
ancient fossils. (Courtesy of Ceramiche Refin)
life like pop art and Keith Haring,
who made art for everyone."
The firm had a second reason to
debut its "Game of Fifteen" series
with an American. "It's our tribute
to America to remember Americans
and what you did for Europe in World
War II," Ades said.
* Some of the Italian tile manufacturers displayed an entirely new tile
category, which I dubbed "collaborative design." The tiles are designed so
that a homeowner can create a unique
pattern. Although mixing and matching have always been possible with
tile, it has never been possible to produce this kind of result. The best examples were Lea's "Nest" and Bardelli's "Arianna."
Lea's "Nest" is based on a deceptively simple idea. There are only two
tile shapes, a Pac-man-like one that's
actually a hexagon with a triangle
notched out and the triangle. There
are four possible ways to create a pattern — interlocking Pac-men with no
triangle, Pac-men with three triangles
and a pinwheel effect, Pac-men gobbling up single triangles, and Pacmen with two triangles that could be
chirping bird beaks.
But add the 30 available colors to the
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unusual for the tile industry as the tile the creative artistic spectrum, a lone
itself. It was created for Lea by Valerie artist who works with ceramic tiles
Greer, Kristyn Borden and Jessica Ti- to create one-of-a-kind installations
cas, three American architects with and art works. The name of his stuHOK, the world's largest architecture dio — "Aesthetic Sabotage" — says
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Europe, Asia and the Americas.
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Lea invited the designers to experi- tile or porcelain tableware that are
ment and come up with something instantly recognizable in England
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ers wanted something that could in startling ways that make the viewer
satisfy the color preferences of their reconsider the familiar.
clients who come from many differWith "Arianna," Dawson's first
ent countries and cultures. The tiles project with a commercial tile manualso had to suit HOK's wide range of facturer, he again started with a comprojects that runs the gamut from air- mon Victorian fleur-de-lis tile patports to hospitals to housing. The un- tern, but this time he extrapolated it
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it their own" — the feature that will find the results intriguing.
captivate a homeowner — was "an
For "Arianna," Dawson has created
important intention from the begin- a set of 16 black or white 8- by 8-inch
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Crosby, Stills & Nash's Vocal Friendship
Transcends Specter of Mortality
By Chris Richards
The New York Eagle News/The
Washington Post
I
t's easy to sound callous when
pondering the Woodstock generation's not-so-distant future,
so let's just pass the microphone to
62-year-old Chrissie Hynde of the
Pretenders:
"Because all of the greats are now in
their 60s and 70s," she recently told
the New York Times, "they're going to
start dropping like flies."
That's a harsh little thought-bubble,
but not an unreasonable one. So don't
feel bad if it's ever bloomed over your
head while weighing your summer
concert options. Life is temporary,
we're reminded, and so is summertime, the season when our veteran
troubadours take their legacies out
for another spin.
At their worst, these career victorylaps can feel warmed over, phoned in
or tossed off. At their best, they feel
urgent and wise, charged with an
awareness that nothing lasts.
Last July at Wolf Trap in Vienna,
Va., felt like the latter, with Crosby,
Stills & Nash delivering some of the
sturdiest harmonies in the American
songbook. Opening their two-set, 24song performance with 1970's "Carry
On," they were three pillars of rockand-roll doing exactly that.
At the time of the July concert,
Stephen Stills was 69. Graham Nash
was 72. David Crosby turned 73 last
August. Since these three first teamed
up in 1968, some have walked closer
to the edge than others. In August
1994, after a three-night stand here at
Wolf Trap, Crosby was whisked off to
Johns Hopkins, the hospital where he
was told he would soon die without a
new liver.
Three months later, he got one.
Twenty summers later, here we were.
Up on stage, Crosby looked great
(almost regal), sounded great (almost angelic) and seemed pleased to
be present (despite suffering a cold).
But the night gravitated around Nash,
Stephen Stills, Graham Nash and David Crosby of Crosby, Stills & Nash performed two sets with 24
songs last July at Wolf Trap in Vienna, Va., delivering a memorable concert and some of the sturdiest
harmonies in the American songbook. (Photo for The Washington Post by Kyle Gustafson)
perhaps as his reward for keeping the
group together through decades of
turbulence, but more likely because
his voice was in the best shape.
Nash stood between Stills and
Crosby (and in front of their backing
band), as poised and political as ever,
making his protest anthem "Military
Madness" sound tragically evergreen,
and dedicating the eerie-sweet "Just a
Song Before I Go" to outgoing House
Majority Leader Eric Cantor.
Nash also sent a song out to the late
Levon Helm — a handsome, newer
tune called "Back Home." When it
dovetailed into the harmonized refrain of Helm's "The Weight," the trio
sounded strong, but mortal.
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$113,796 with options and a $925
inland transportation fee — that a
buyer can't get in a Cadillac Escalade
or Jeep Grand Cherokee SUV for substantially less. But I am missing the
point, said de Nysschen, seemingly
arguing against his own best interests.
The nature of luxury — in automobiles or anything else — is to exclude,
he said. It is to offer the best of the
best, which often means the most expensive, which usually means availability only for the few who can afford
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has become too common, often sold
on the same lots with Buicks, Chevrolets and GMC trucks, de Nysschen
said.
It is hard to impart the notion of exclusion, or "special," for a brand "in an
environment in which the customer
has to pass three rows of GMC trucks
to get to Cadillac," de Nysschen said.
To that end, de Nysschen said he
would like to see fewer Cadillac
stores, of which there are 928 in the
United States. Of that number, 200
exclusively sell Cadillac products.
De Nysschen wants to "re-brand"
Cadillac, to make it more exclusive,
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the brand's image as the world's standard of automotive excellence. Land
Rover and its British-marque sibling
Jaguar want to do the same thing, as
do Aston Martin, Bentley, Bugatti,
Lamborghini, and other car manufacturers vying for the purses of the
super-rich.
But there is the matter of numbers.
Cadillac exists primarily because it
is a part of General Motors, which
thrives on its sales to Everyman via
the likes of Buick and Chevrolet.
Bentley, which tried to one-up British marque Aston-Martin here with
the show-off of its super-exclusive
EXP 10 Speed 6 concept coupe (about
$177,000 if it ever goes to production), would not exist were it not
owned by one of the world's greatest
purveyors of people's metal — Volkswagen. Something similar is true for
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t was the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time — a two-segment
parcel on the Catholic liturgical
calendar, the first being the Monday
following the Baptism of Christ up
to Ash Wednesday, the second being
Pentecost Monday to the First Sunday
of Advent.
O rd i n a r y
Time is the
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Catholic calendar, about
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in all, and in
the absence
of celebrations such as
The 2015 Toyota Yaris gets you where you want to go — with little notice, fuss or
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and Easter, it
Driving and living with this one
sort of lives down to its name.
But that is a secular, cynical view. is easy, assuming that your primary
Ordinary Time can also be a period concern is reasonably safe and effi____________________
of reflection on the essence of things,
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the opening of the 85th Geneva International Motor Show.
"Luxury is not democratic," de Nysschen said. "Luxury is for the few."
His comments were in response to
my printed assertion that technology,
especially as used by South Korean
automobile manufacturers Hyundai
and Kia, is rendering traditional notions of automotive luxury — especially the concept of exclusion marked
by exorbitant pricing — obsolete.
Nothing could be further from the
truth, de Nysschen said. And many of
the purveyors of high-priced wheels,
including Land Rover, which lent
me a Range Rover Supercharged V-8
sport-utility vehicle ($114,000 in
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Delphi Plans First Coast-to-Coast
Driverless Auto Demonstration
By Keith Naughton
The New York Eagle News/
Bloomberg News
D
elphi Automotive, a supplier
of automotive electronics, is
undertaking the longest test
of a driverless car, going coast to coast
with a specially outfitted Audi Q5
sport-utility vehicle.
The SUV will cover about 3,500
miles (5,600 kilometers) from San
Francisco to the New York City area
starting March 22, said Jeff Owens,
Delphi's chief technology officer.
Company engineers, including a
trained driver, will be in the Q5 the
whole trip, he said. Arrival is planned
for early April, to coincide with the
New York Auto Show.
"We will gain more miles experience than anybody else has been able
to achieve so far," Owens, who plans
to ride part of the way, said at a March
11 briefing in Troy, Michigan. "I'm
excited for the drive. We're going to
learn a lot."
Automakers are racing to put autonomous cars on the road as a solution to global gridlock expected as
more than 9 billion people move to
large megacities within the next 25
YARIS FROM PAGE 16
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cient transportation. That is what it
does. It gets you where you want to
go — with little notice, fuss or bother.
And it will do it every time in almost
every kind of weather, assuming you
aren't dealing with a snowfall of more
than four inches.
The Yaris stands 4 feet 11.4 inches
from tire treads to exterior roofline. It
is likely to be the first thing buried on
the street or plowed into oblivion in a
heavy snowfall.
With this one, you've got to take
severe weather warnings seriously.
Put it in a garage or other off-street
parking spot in winter storms. Leave
it there until the weather clears.
And be open to pleasant surprise.
The Yaris still runs with an outmoded
four-speed automatic transmission in
a world of six-speed and even more
fuel-efficient continuously variable
automatics. But it runs well.
Think of it as an urban scooter —
it's almost small enough to fit scooter
category. You can park it almost anywhere in good weather. It is nimble
years. The market for autonomous
technology will grow to $42 billion
by 2025 and self-driving cars may
account for a quarter of global auto
sales by 2035, according to Boston
Consulting Group.
Delphi will take a southern route
before completing its journey at either the George Washington Bridge
in Fort Lee, New Jersey, or Liberty
State Park near the Statue of Liberty.
Self-driving cars that move in harmony like schools of fish are expected
to one day ease traffic congestion
while improving safety on the road.
They will also let commuters multitask while traveling, improving productivity.
Ford Chief Executive Officer Mark
Fields said in January that an automaker probably will introduce a
self-driving vehicle within five years.
General Motors Co. said in September it will introduce hands-free highway driving technology on a Cadillac
in two years.
Daimler's Mercedes-Benz already
sells a system that can pilot a car
on the freeway, as long as the driver
keeps a hand on the wheel, and by
2016 will have a hands-free system,
according to Boston Consulting.
Mercedes this year unveiled a selfenough to move easily through congested city traffic. Crash safety? Let's
be real. The Yaris has nine air bags.
But it is a tiny, 106-horsepower car in
a land of motorized giants.
I follow the logic of my Louisiana
farming relatives when driving the
Yaris. To wit: Look at any farm —
chickens, cows, mules, horses. How
do the chickens live with those bigger animals? It's simple. The chickens
have enough common sense to stay
the heck out of the way of the horses,
cows and mules.
It is the natural order of things,
which is the kind of thing you think
about in Ordinary Time. You don't
buy a Yaris to beat everybody to the
finish line. It was not engineered or
designed for that use. It is a fourwheeled transportation appliance.
It does that job exceedingly, reliably
well. It will get you to church, or
wherever else you want or need to go.
And the likelihood is that, once there,
you won't have to waste time and energy hunting for a parking spot.
And there's this: If you have a
smartphone, with the Yaris you have
driving concept car, with seats that
can face each other, rather than the
road. Six screens let passengers monitor information about the vehicle and
the outside world, using technology
that responds to eye movements and
gestures.
Delphi's self-driving concept SUV
has 20 sensors and cameras that constantly read the road, traffic and the
surrounding environment, Owens
said. High-speed computing technology from Ottomatika and Nvidia, as
well as cameras from Mobileye, help
the vehicle to instantly make complex
decisions, such as timing a highway
merge or calculating the safest way
around a slow-moving vehicle.
Delphi engineers will capture all
the data the Q5 generates as it rolls
through a variety of highway situations.
"We're going to understand what
the sensors can do and can't do in
multiple conditions, multiple weather
conditions, multiple traffic and construction," Owens said.
Delphi expects to capture 2 terabytes of data, the equivalent of "about
25 percent of all printed material in
the Library of Congress," he said.
Delphi offered 5-mile test drives
in the same vehicle at the Consumer
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That's because this is music that
starts with the body — three very specific bodies (or four when Neil Young
decides to show up). And though
the trio's harmonies occasionally derailed, they still embodied Nash's idea
that vocal harmony is "the epitome of
friendship."
It felt most tangible during "Our
House," "Love the One You're With"
and a particularly delicate rendition
of "Guinnevere," after which Crosby
an electronically modern automobile.
All Yaris models — L, LE or SE, twodoor or four-door — are Bluetoothcapable. That means your phone can
stay in your pocket, purse, briefcase,
wherever, and you can still access its
many communications and infotainment wonders from your Yaris.
The car is four-wheeled proof that
ordinary can be extraordinarily good.
I like this one. It works.
- The author's opinions are his own.
© 2015, The Washington Post. ■
Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January. Owens said it operated "flawlessly," including when two revelers
walked out in front of it.
"We had PBS in the car filming,
going down the road at night and a
couple of guys that were slightly inebriated on the sidewalk decided they
were going to step out and fell right
in front of the car," he said. "The car
performed exactly as you would expect and braked to a stop. Everything
was just fine."
The cross-country test will measure only how the SUV performs in
highway driving. When the Q5 exits
to surface streets, the engineer behind
the wheel will take over, Owens said.
The SUV will be driven as many as 8
hours a day, he said.
Delphi's previous longest test was
from San Francisco to Los Angeles,
said Glen De Vos, vice president of
global advanced and product engineering. That's about 380 miles.
"We had great success testing our
car in California and Las Vegas," Owens said. "Now it's time to put our vehicle to the ultimate test."
© 2015, Bloomberg News. ■
explained the trio's presence with a
smirk: "You're supposed to creep off
and die, but we just didn't feel like it."
It was funny, bittersweet and affirming — a reminder that the truest
friendships last lifetimes. The truest
music lasts even longer.
- Crosby, Stills & Nash’s 2015 tour
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Boston on May 19; Atlantic City, NJ
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Land Rover and Jaguar, also showing
off their exclusive wares here. Neither
would exist without the financial acumen of their corporate owner, the
Tata Group of India.
I thank Tata for the loan of the Land
Rover Range Rover Supercharged
V-8. It is a scrumptiously fine vehicle.
It ought to be for $114,000. But, maybe, the folks at Tata — and Cadillac,
for that matter — ought to consider
investing in Hyundai and Kia. Those
two South Korean companies offer
very fine vehicles for a lot less money.
Just saying . . .
- The author's opinions are his own.
© 2015, The Washington Post. ■
Ponderisms
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• To me “drink responsibly”
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• Sometimes in work-out class I
pretend to work out, when really
I’m using every muscle in my body
to keep from farting.
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the Basketball Icon,
Reinvented as Culture Vulture
By Geoff Edgers
The New York Eagle News/ The
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"Y
ou are the man, Mr.
Jabbar,"somebody shouts
down what is normally a
quiet, long hallway in the Department
of Justice.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who is, in
fact, the man, having scored more
points than anyone in National Basketball Association history, even Michael, Kobe and LeBron, nods but
doesn't break his stride. He's on a
tight schedule.
First, the retired star will interview
Attorney General Eric Holder for a
documentary he's making on race.
Next, a visit to FBI headquarters, final edits on his column for Time and
a hustle to the White House, where
Abdul-Jabbar has been asked to stand
with President Barack Obama to announce his $215 million precisionmedicine initiative. Diagnosed with
leukemia in 2008, his cancer has been
in remission thanks to targeted treatments.
What else? In the calendar just this
winter: Dissing Bill O'Reilly on "Meet
the Press." Promoting his new children's book. Crooning "We'll Meet
Again" next to country star Toby
Keith and inventor Dean Kamen on
Stephen Colbert's lauded send off.
After years of grumbling that he
couldn't get a head coaching gig,
Abdul-Jabbar has emerged as much
more than an ex-jock diagramming
an inbounds pass on a clipboard. He
has become a vital, dynamic and unorthodox cultural voice.
about the Lakers' epic
victory in the 1984-85
finals. He talks of his admiration for the city's late
detective novel master,
Robert B. Parker, author
of the Spenser series. Ask
him about Morales, his
unorthodox choice for a
manager — she's white,
Jewish and had no idea
who he was when they
met — and he'll invoke
the name of Gertrude
Berg. Gertrude who?
You know, the writer and
actress who earned an
Emmy as the matriarch
of the pioneering, 1950s
sitcom, "The Goldbergs."
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar gets teased about his bow tie by Attorney General Eric Holder during an interview for a film
Abdul-Jabbar is making. “He’s the AG’s hero,” says Margaret Richardson, Holder’s chief of staff. (Washington Post photo by Abdul-Jabbar watches
lots of TV, loves "True
Marvin Joseph.)
Detective," "The Wire,"
"Kareem has something to say, has master shoot a patented skyhook over and "Breaking Bad," and is a lifelong
found a way to say it, and it's not the hated Boston Celtics. By now, el- jazz lover who won't hesitate to hand
what you would expect him to say," bow room is at a premium.
over his headphones when he thinks
"He's the AG's hero, and he revo- you just need to hear Cuban pianist
says Mike Nizza, the former editor
of Esquire Digital who worked with lutionized the sport," says Margaret Ernán López Nussa on his iPod.
Abdul-Jabbar before he moved his Richardson, Holder's chief of staff,
"You know what they say," Abdulregular columns to Time. "He's a new smiling as she watches the scrum.
Jabbar smiles. "Once shared, twice
A day with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is enjoyed."
kind of public intellectual."
That morning, as the cameras roll, nothing like you would expect.
And then there are the movies.
Forget that he's one of the greathe and Holder talk fluently about
Abdul-Jabbar might be 7-foot-2,
voting rights, hate crimes and the est athletes of all time, a player so notoriously shy, and so recognizable
Supreme Court. It's only when the in- dominant that the NCAA banned the he laments that he once got swamped
terview ends that the scene shifts into dunk for nine years. It's his mind that by fans when visiting Mecca. But he is
moves faster than a Showtime-era fast no recluse.
something more familiar.
Staffers stream into the room, break.
As a kid growing up in Harlem,
Abdul-Jabbar is not a name drop- his mother, Cora, took him to see
clutching iPhones. They gather, in
shifts, for photos around the iconic per; he's a fact-dropper. References Westerns, particularly anything with
star. Deborah Morales, Abdul-Jab- dart across history, pop culture and William Holden. As an adult, he still
ber's manager and the key adviser the special life he's lived. Mention prefers a packed theater, a Hebrew
in promoting his public voice, hands Boston and he doesn't reminisce National hot dog and a cherry freeze.
Holder a signed glossy showing the
Oh, and no hiding in back. AbdulJabbar likes a seat in the center.
"I want my eye-line to be right in
the middle of the screen," he says.
"It's wonderful. To be in a huge, dark
room with strangers. It's a shared experience."
All of this would make sense except for one thing. For years, Kareem
Abdul-Jabbar was considered one of
basketball's most unpleasant personalities. Moody. Aloof. Taciturn.
"He was a jerk," says Jackie MacMullan, the veteran sportswriter. "I
have sympathy for Kareem because
I've been around Bill Russell a bit.
People always wanting a piece of you.
I just always felt Kareem could have
managed it better."
In MacMullan's 2009 bestseller
"When the Game Was Ours," coauthor Magic Johnson recounted
watching uncomfortably as AbdulJabbar turned away a boy seeking an
autograph during a Lakers practice.
Johnson smiled and signed.
And MacMullan's take is echoed by
an unexpected source. Abdul-Jabbar.
"It's true," he says. "I should have
dealt with everyone better."
It's a subject Abdul-Jabbar, 67,
bared in one his most revelatory pieces for Esquire, "20 Things I Wish I'd
Known When I Was 30."
His top wish: Be more outgoing.
"My shyness and introversion from
those days still haunt me," he wrote.
"Fans felt offended, reporters insulted. ... If I could, I'd tell that nerdy
Kareem to suck it up, put down that
book you're using as a shield and, in
__________________
2. Name the last College World Series game
to go 15 innings before Virginia and Texas
Christian did it in 2014.
3. Who was the first tight end to be named an
NFL Offensive Player of the Month?
4. In 2014, Oakland's Travis Bader set a Division I record for most career 3-point shots made
(504). Who had held the mark?
5. Who was the last defenseman in the 20th
century to score four goals in an NHL game?
6. In 2014, Austrian Mario Matt became the
oldest alpine men's skier (34) to win an Olympic gold medal. Who had been the oldest?
7. Who are the three male pro golfers to win
three major titles by age 25?
Answers
1. The Royals won 14 in a row in 1994.
2. Southern Cal and Florida State, in 1970.
3. New Orleans' Jimmy Graham, by the NFC
in 2013.
4. Duke's J.J. Redick, with 457 made.
5. Edmonton's Paul Coffey, in 1984.
6. Norway's Kjetil Andre Aamodt, who was a
younger 34 when he won the 2006 Olympic super giant slalom.
7. Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy.
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1. When was the last time before 2014 that
the Kansas City Royals had a winning streak of
at least 10 games?
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KAREEM FROM PAGE 18
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the immortal words of Capt. Jean-Luc
Picard (to prove my nerd cred), 'Engage!' "
If only it were that simple.
"Sometimes there's that sense that
he's unapproachable," says NBA
Commissioner Adam Silver. "But
having been around the world with
Kareem, it's clear he's incredibly shy
and that his shyness gets mistaken for
aloofness."
He is comfortable when a conversation starts naturally, with a police officer walking beside him or a driver
taking him to his next appointment.
He struggles when a stranger approaches, beaming, to tell him how
much he admired his career on the
court.
Abdul-Jabbar has been determined
to engage more. In the old days, he
would decline to sign an autograph,
fearing it would lead to a frenzy. Now,
he carries a stack of signed basketball
cards in his bag, handing them out
when a fan approaches.
There are limits. On a bitterly cold
day in January, Abdul-Jabbar stood
on the sidewalk outside the Department of Justice, filming a stand-up for
his race documentary. A man walked
straight into the scene, as the camera
rolled, to ask for a photo.
"I'm doing something right now,"
Abdul-Jabbar said, curtly and with
good reason.
In the car a few minutes later, he
talks about how he's tried to make
peace with celebrity. He remembers
meeting former Brooklyn Dodgers
slugger Duke Snider at the baseball
star's Hall of Fame induction in 1980.
"What a wonderful guy," he says.
"And that really made me start thinking, 'Have I been that wonderful guy?'
That's what changed my attitude. I
bled Dodger blue when I was a kid.
When they left Brooklyn, I cried. I
had heard someone else tell me a story about Carl Furillo. That he was a
real a------. I don't want to be remembered like that. That's not me. I've got
that much graciousness in me."
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The writing is not a way to make
amends. It's a passion, dating back
to high school, when he worked as a
journalist for a community publication in Harlem, and UCLA, where he
graduated with a degree in history.
Abdul-Jabbar, who lives in Los Angeles, typically starts in the morning,
after breakfast, and writes cursive on
a yellow legal pad. He's not only open
to editing, he embraces it.
"Any writer is actually a rewriter,"
says Abdul-Jabbar. "You've got to have
a structure that's logical and explains
the issue of your story."
Why does he write? That's easy.
"You get to be a storyteller," he says.
"And you get to share information
in a way that can sometimes change
people's minds and at least make people open up and expand what they
know to be true. I think that's pretty
neat."
He's now got almost 1.7 million
followers on Twitter. He also has a
following among the big names who
knew him in his previous incarnation.
"This is not somebody writing a little column," says Jerry West, the Hall
of Famer who served as Lakers coach
and general manager. "His language
is unparalleled. It doesn't surprise
me. There is no athlete I've ever met
brighter than Kareem."
To hear Abdul-Jabbar tell it, he always had ambition. He just needed
help. That's what he found when Morales became his manager a decade
ago.
His friends, he admits, do sometimes call her a "yenta," the Yiddish
word for busybody.
When fans approach Abdul-Jabbar, she shoos them off aggressively,
sometimes to the point that her client, sitting nearby chomping a slice
of cheese pizza, looks down with the
mischievous smile of a schoolboy
who has gotten a rival in trouble. She
also likes to nudge.
At FBI headquarters, Director
James Comey gives the star a baseball
cap with the agency's acronym.
"Put it on your head," Morales nags
as photographers ready their cameras. "It'll look nice."
Abdul-Jabbar, dapper in a dark
suit and white scarf, resists. The cap
would spoil that distinguished look.
"Come on," Morales nudges repeatedly. "Put it on."
The two met, by chance, in 1994 in
Los Angeles International Airport.
That led to a friendship. Eleven years
later, Abdul-Jabbar replaced his management team.
"No one was stealing from me, but
I was dying the death of a thousand
cuts," he says. "I had an accountant
and a guy who repped me. All he did
was sit around and wait for the phone
to ring. Deborah's proactive. And she
has a greater grasp of what I can do
and what I should avoid."
She doesn't take no for an answer,
whether pushing for five more minutes to interview Holder, moving
Abdul-Jabbar from Esquire to Time,
or raising money for "On the Shoulders of Giants," an acclaimed 2011
documentary adapted from AbdulJabbar's book about the Harlem Rens,
a talented, all-black basketball team.
Morales also directed the film.
"She can be very hard to get along
with," says Amir Abdul-Jabbar, 34, an
orthopedic surgery resident in Louisiana who is one of his five children.
(Abdul-Jabbar had three children
with his ex-wife, Amir with onetime
girlfriend Cheryl Pistono and a fifth
with another woman. He now lives
alone.) "But I think it may be good for
my dad to have someone who is very
aggressive and in your face and is very
protective of him."
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John Wooden, one of Abdul-Jabbar's
mentors.
"Coach Wooden told me it was my
responsibility to make sure Kareem
was OK and that he was treated well
by mankind," she says. "He told me
how Kareem has been treated because
he's so big and how they approach
him and how sensitive he was."
After his whirlwind D.C. tour, Abdul-Jabbar hops an Amtrak to New
York. Late on Friday afternoon, he
interviews NBA Commissioner Silver
for the race program and meets HBO
Sports President Ken Hershman for
dinner. The network has commissioned a film about Abdul-Jabbar.
Then it's back to the yellow pad. Abdul-Jabbar follows a Time column on
sexual assault on college campuses to
an analysis of Kanye West's Grammy
disruption, arguing against the attack
on Beck. "It does a disservice to the
very real struggle for racial equality to
cry racism at every disappointment."
That kind of fresh take is part of
why Abdul-Jabbar headed off to Sacramento early in February. Mayor
Kevin Johnson, the ex-NBA star, had
asked him to speak on a panel about
race and sports.
"You know what, coaching, I don't
think that was his calling," says Johnson. "His calling is exactly what he's
doing now. He's writing a new chapter for America."
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DEAR PAW'S CORNER: I think I have the
most beautiful cat, and I'd like to enter him
in a cat show to see if he'd win. How can I get
"George" into a show? --Tracey B., via email
DEAR TRACEY: The first thing you should do
is study: Read up on cat shows, how they're conducted, what breed groups are typically shown,
what judges look for, and so on.
Don't worry if you're not sure of George's
breed: Many shows have a "Household Pet
Class" that doesn't have a specific breed standard.
Where's the best place to start studying?
The Cat Fanciers Association (www.cfa.org)
1. "Reach Out I'll Be There" was the signature song for which Motown group?
2. Who released "Can't Get Used to Losing
You" in 1963?
3. Name the trio that released "Don't Pull
Your Love."
4. Who was the other half of the duo who
released "Mockingbird"? Carly Simon and ...
5. Name the song that contains this lyric:
"The others were untrue, But when it came
to loving you, I'd spend my whole life with
you, Cause you came and you took control,
You touched my very soul."
Answers
1. The Four Tops, in 1966. After two weeks
at the top of the charts, it was bumped by "96
Tears."
2. Andy Williams. In 1980, The Beat came
out with a reggae version.
3. Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds, in
1971. Years later, the Glen Campbell single
had a typo on the cover sleeve, leaving out
the R in "your."
4. James Taylor.
5. "You've Made Me So Very Happy," first
released in 1967 by co-writer Brenda Holloway and two years later by Blood, Sweat &
Tears. Holloway's version only reached No.
39 on the charts, but the BS&T version went
to No. 2.
nyeaglenews.com
has a website with lots of good information on
the basics of cat shows, like how to enter, rules
of competition, tips on caring for and grooming
your cat, and a list of upcoming events. The International Cat Association (http://tica.org/) is
another good resource, with lots of information
and a robust show calendar.
It's important to be sure that George is up to
the stress of being shown. Is he a friendly, wellsocialized cat who is OK with being petted and
picked up by strangers? Can he stay relaxed in a
strange, noisy environment near several other
cats? Is he in good health? Are his vaccinations
up to date?
Finally, attend one or two cat shows near you,
without George, to see how they are conducted
and decide if you'd like to make your cat a competitor.
- Send your questions, comments or tips to
[email protected].
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Never Anger
a Nurse
A big shot attorney had to spend
a couple of days in the hospital. He
was a royal pain to the nurses because he bossed them around just
like he did his staff.
None of the hospital staff wanted
to have anything to do with him.
The head nurse was the only
one who could stand up to him.
She came into his room and announced, "I have to take your temperature."
After complaining for several
minutes, he finally settled down,
crossed his arms and opened his
mouth.
"No, I'm sorry," the nurse stated,
"but for this reading, I can't use an
oral thermometer." This started
another round of complaining but
eventually he rolled over and bared
his behind.
After feeling the nurse insert the
thermometer, he heard her announce, “I have to get something.
Now you stay JUST LIKE THAT
until I get back!"
She left the door to his room open
on her way out. He cursed under
his breath as he heard people walking past his door, laughing.....
After about 20 minutes, the man's
doctor came into the room. "What's
going on here?" asked the doctor.
Angrily, the man answered,
"What's the matter, Doc? Haven't
you ever seen someone having
their temperature taken?"
After a pause, the doctor confessed..... "Not with a Daffodil." ■
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ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Disappointed
about something that didn't go your way? Cheer
up. Look at the reasons it happened, and you
could find a valuable lesson about what to do (or
not do!) the next time.
TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) It's a good
time to do some reassessing of plans and
goals -- even how you considered redoing your
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1. Is the book of Damascus in the Old or New
Testament or neither?
2. What did Paul's writings say that those who
refused to work should be kept from doing? Worshipping, Speaking, Eating, Marrying
3. From Matthew 27, the "potter's field" also
was known as the field of what? Blood, Sorrows,
Pagans, Idols
4. What priest of Midian was the father-in-law
of Moses? Jethro, Melchizedek, Eleazar, Nadab
5. From Jonah 1, who were afraid and threw
their wares into the sea? Slaves, Mariners,
Zealots, Carpenters
6. Jesus called Himself the bread of "what"?
Salvation, Hope, Love, Life
ANSWERS: 1) Neither; 2) Eating;
3) Blood; 4) Jethro; 5) Mariners; 6) Life
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The Nun
A cabbie picks up a nun. She gets
into the cab, and notices that the
VERY handsome cab driver won't
stop staring at her. She asks him why
he is staring.
He replies, “I have a question to ask
you but I don't want to offend you.”
She answers, “My son, you cannot
offend me. When you're as old as I am
and have been a nun as long as I have,
you get a chance to see and hear just
about everything. I'm sure that there's
nothing you could say or ask that I
would find offensive.”
“Well, I've always had a fantasy to
have a nun kiss me.”
She responds, “Well, let's see what
we can do about that:
1. You have to be single
2. You must be Catholic.”
The cab driver is very excited and
says, 'Yes, I'm single and Catholic!'
“OK,” the nun says. “Pull into the
next side road.”
The nun fulfills his fantasy, with a
kiss that would make anyone blush.
But when they get back on the road,
the cab driver starts crying.
“My dear child,” says the nun, “why
are you crying?”
“Forgive me but I've sinned. I lied
and I must confess, I'm married and
I'm Jewish. ”
The nun says, “That's OK. My name
is Kevin and I'm going to a fancy
dress party. ” ■
bathroom. The point is to be open to change if
change can improve things.
GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Take some time
to learn who is the right person (or persons) to
approach and discuss your ideas with for your
new project. Also, reserve time to prepare for an
upcoming family event.
CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Dealing with a
demanding situation, as you recently did, could
drain much of your own emotional reserves.
Take time to relax and indulge yourself in some
well-earned pampering.
LEO (July 23 to August 22) The regal Lion
might feel that she or he is above emotional dis-
Kids' Maze Puzzle can be found on page 27
plays. But showing your feelings can be liberating for you, and reassuring for someone who
has been waiting for you to do so.
VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) An
emotionally needy person might make more
demands than you can cope with. Best to ask for
some breathing space NOW, before resentment
sets in and makes communication difficult.
LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) An
unexpected spate of mixed signals could cause
serious schedule setbacks. Best to focus on
straightening everything out as soon as possible and get everyone back on track.
SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) Be
aware that someone in the workplace could try
to use a disagreement with a colleague against
you. If so, be prepared to offer your side of the
story with the facts to back you up.
SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December
21) An unexpected challenge to a previous
decision can be unsettling. But your reservoir
of self-confidence -- plus your loyal supporters
-- should help carry the day for you. Good luck.
CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19)
While the idea of making some sort of major
move in the near future continues to interest
you, don't overlook a new possibility that could
be emerging closer to home.
AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) Be
careful not to base an upcoming decision on
gossip or anything you might hear if it can't
meet provable standards. That's true regardless
of whom the source might be.
PISCES (February 19 to March 20) You might
still need to do some solid reassessing early in
the week before you can close that sensitive
situation. A new job-related opportunity could
present itself later in the week.
BORN THIS WEEK: You are extraordinarily
sensitive to people's feelings, and you're always
ready to offer comfort if necessary.
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: There used to be a website
where you could see various
airline food per flight through
photos and feedback by customers
but I can't seem to find it. All I see
is business class or higher trips. Any
thoughts? I have been fairly happy
with European airlines offerings on
economy class, but I am flying to London with USAir next week and I am
not sure if I should eat at the airport
instead. I am not expecting fancy,
but simply edible, and I've heard that
most American airlines offer inedible
food, not sure if it's changed.
A: Yes, you're thinking of AirlineMeals.net. Yum!
- Christopher Elliott
Q: I am going to Uppsala (just outside of Stockholm) Sweden for a few
days. Any suggestions for interesting
places to visit in the Stockholm area?
A: Stockholm is only around 40
minutes from Uppsala by train, and
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bit closer to the centre.)
Otherwise you could try Birka (a
preserved Viking settlement) or Artipelag, an excellent art gallery that's
set out among the islands.
- Steve Vickers
Q: Is there any advantage to adding
"cancel for any reason" to a travel insurance policy? My biggest concern is
an elderly parent getting sick. However I noticed there is an additional fee
for the upgrade. Is it worth it?
A: A "cancel for any reason" policy
costs more, but you'll get a percentage
of your trip back. You don't need to
have a covered reason, like a flight interruption or a death in the family, in
order to file a claim. If you think you
might have to file a claim, it might be
worth it.
- Christopher Elliott
Q: We're heading to Norway in early July for seven days. We know where
we'd like to go, but are having trouble
trying to figure out what will still be
snow-covered, how to travel between
destinations, and whether it's really feasible to squeeze it all in. We've
never used a travel agent before, but
think it may be useful for this trip.
How do we find one? Should they be
local or Norwegian? Any other tips
or guidance for the trip would be appreciated. Our focus is getting out to
see the country's natural beauty, less
so urban culture. Food is always important!
A: I don't think you'll need to worry
about snow — even the northernmost
parts of the mainland should be nice
and mild by July, and up there you'll
have the benefit of round-the-clock
daylight.
If you're planning quite long journeys (e.g. Oslo-Trondheim), then
your best bet is to take the train. The
government-owned train company
NSB has a handy Web site and journey planner in English.
Tour companies are probably only
worthwhile if you want to squeeze in
a lot of outdoor activities that might
be hard to arrange at short notice. It's
also worth bearing in mind that most
operators will take a cut on tours —
and Norway is pretty pricey as it is!
- Steve Vickers
Q: My wife and I will have about
24 hours to spend in Johannesburg
before catching a flight home. Does
anyone have any thoughts on where
to stay and what to see? And, we have
some 16-hour flights ahead of us. I
was curious what people do (other
than sleeping, movies, reading) to
stay entertained on long haul flights?
A: I would stay at a hotel near the
airport, so you don't have to stress
over making your connecting flight.
There is an InterContinental and Protea nearby. Make your life easy and
book a hotel with an airport shuttle.
To fill your layover hours, definitely
check out Soweto and the Apartheid
Museum. Book a tour in advance
(check Viator for ideas), or ask at your
hotel. J-burg, unfortunately, is not the
kind of city where one can freely walk
around.
I think most people engage in those
three activities. Others work or knit
or do crossword puzzles. But really
this is your time to relax. The time
flies, literally!
- Andrea Sachs
Q: I get regular e-mails from
Friendly Planet Travel offering some
deals that seem really good (too
good?). Do you have experience with
them?
A: Yes, I've known them for a long
time and have never had a complaint
about them. Friendly Planet has a
good reputation — not too good to be
true. But if you run into any kind of
trouble, please let me know.
- Christopher Elliott
TILES FROM PAGE 13
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be rearranged; what differs is the interpretation and reaction of each
person who looks at her deceptively
simple design. There are five 20- by
20-inch tiles, each one with a slightly
different pattern made with rows of
closely spaced, hand-drawn lines that
create an overall sense of movement;
each row is about one-inch wide.
Zareba said that she saw the markings of plants and animals in ancient
fossils in the patterns she created,
hence the name "Fossil."
"Everyone sees something different
in it," she said. "You can make anything out of it and each person gets
a completely different answer. Each
person has a different feeling and
association with it because each observer has a different background and
experience.
"Some people say, 'It looks like hair'
others say, 'It looks like natural stone.'
" (My reaction: Against the back-
wall tiles, each with curving lines.
The tiles can be combined to create
completely regular patterns like interlocking circles or crisscrossing wavy
diagonals.
You can add a humorous touch to
a regular pattern by randomly positioning wavy lines or loops. Or, you
can abandon the idea of a pattern
altogether and arrange the 16 interchangeable tiles to create your own
meandering labyrinthine design,
hence the name "Arianna." It is Italian for Ariadne, the mythical Greek
maiden who helped Theseus escape
from the labyrinth after he had killed
the flesh-eating Minotaur who inhabited it.
* The element of personalization in
Polish designer Kasia Zareba's "Fossil" tiles for Refin is not in the colors
or number of ways that the tiles can
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Cooperstown, New York. The Cooperstown Springs to Life special starts
at $289 a night (normally $319) and
includes accommodations for two
travelers, with daily breakfast; choice
of two tickets to the Fenimore Art
Museum, the Farmers' Museum or
the National Baseball Hall of Fame
and Museum; 20 percent off at the
Farmers' Museum gift shop, a 10 percent discount at Cooperstown Distillery; parking; and taxes. Valid April
22-May 31 (holiday blackout dates
apply). Info: 800-348-6222, www.otesaga.com.
- Victoria Cruises is offering discounts on Yangtze River sailings and
shore excursion packages. On the
Three Gorges Highlights cruise — a
four-night itinerary from Yichang to
Chongqing, China, or a three-night
cruise for the reverse trip — has twofor-one pricing from $880 per couple.
You must book the cruise with a shore
excursion package, which costs $90
per couple. Also, save 40 percent on
the Grand Yangtze Discovery cruise
between Chongqing and Shanghai.
The trip starts at $966 per person
double (a savings of $644) for the
eight-night upstream or six-night
downstream itinerary. Shore excursions are $144 each. Book by March
31; travel through 2015. Info: 800-
ist based in Sweden. He has worked on
more than a dozen guidebooks about
Europe and Asia and is the founder
of routesnorth.com, an independent
travel guide to Sweden.
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ground of a precise, machine-made
product, I sensed the comforting
presence of a human hand at work).
Zareba also likened the movement
in her design to that of animals in
prehistoric cave paintings, a particular interest of hers, and suggested that
this also accounted for her work's
broad appeal. Just as the cave paintings touch something very basic in
our natures, "this pattern lies close to
your primal feelings and needs," she
said.
Zareba's work was selected as the
winner from more than 1,200 entries
for a competition sponsored by Refin's DesignTaleStudio, a small creative research laboratory within the
company that produces experimental
products. "Fossil" is available in three
color schemes — charcoal or brown
lines on a white background and
brown lines on a beige background.
An additional fact about all the
348-8084, www.victoriacruises.com.
- Martinhal Beach Resort and Hotel, a luxury beachfront property in
Portugal's Algarve region, is offering
a four- or five-night package in April
and May. The Early Summer package
starts at $1,020 for a family of four
and includes four nights in a beach
room; buffet breakfast; daily lunch or
dinner with three-course menu; access to pools, activities (soccer, films,
etc.) and the Kids' Club; and taxes.
Priced separately, the room and meals
would add up $1,276. Five nights
starts at $1,294, down from $1,617.
Info: www.martinhal.com.
- The St. Lucia Tourism Board has
teamed with 17 island hotels to offer
the Saint Lucia Rocks This Summer
promotion, with discounts of up to
50 percent. Savings and restrictions
vary by property. For example, stay at
the Coconut Bay Beach Resort & Spa
between June 1 and Aug. 31 and pay
from $407 per night (including taxes)
for an ocean-view room — a savings
of $272. Info: 800-397-9952, www.stlucianow.com/summerrocks.
- China Spree has discounted its
Timeless Beijing tour, with rates from
$968 per person double. The trip includes round-trip airfare from New
York's JFK to Beijing; six nights at
the Traders Hotel by Shangri-La or
an equivalent property; nine meals;
three full-day tours; airport transfers;
and taxes. Priced separately, airfare
and hotel cost about $1,699. Lowest price applies to select December
and January departures and a cashpayment discount of $50 (final payment 75 days before travel required).
Info: 866-652-5656, www.chinaspree.
com/2015/specials/escorted-chinatours.aspx.
- Prices were verified at press time
last Thursday, but deals sell out and
availability is not guaranteed. Some
restrictions may apply.
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tiles — and one that often goes unremarked — is the vision of the Italian
tile manufacturers whose perspective
clearly differs from their American
counterparts.
It is hard to imagine U.S. tile manufacturers, who seem to believe that
Americans are more conservative in
their taste than is actually the case, offering such innovative products that
bring art into the house in such a totally unexpected way.
- Katherine Salant has an architecture degree from Harvard University. A
native Washingtonian, she grew up in
Fairfax County, Virginia and now lives
in Ann Arbor, Michigan. If you have
questions or column ideas, she can be
contacted at salanthousewatch@gmail.
com or www.katherinesalant.com.
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Etcetera...
Prayerful Thoughts
By Linda Childs
Exclusive to The New York Eagle News
Dear Father in Heaven,
It seems that tolerance, or lack thereof, and tendency towards judgement are
in the news more than ever these days. People are being judged, mistreated,
hated and even killed because of the color of their skin, their gender, heritage,
spiritual beliefs, sexual orientation, and sometimes even for perceived differences that don't actually exist. Seems humans have been doing this forever. Hill
people versus flatlanders. Hatfields versus McCoys. Cool kids versus nerds.
Year ‘round residents versus summer people. Haves versus have-nots. We humans often excel in finding some reason why the next person is inferior, to be
mistrusted, feared, shunned, avoided, excluded, hated or worse.
I believe, Dear Lord, that we all have grains of this in us. If we honestly examine our hearts and minds, I think we can all find examples wherein the thoughts
that first occur to us when we see someone may not be in keeping with Your
command that we love one another and leave the judging to You. Some examples:
- You see a gray-haired couple at the store, and find that they are buying snow
skis or bicycles. Does it occur to you that those items could be for their own use
and not assume that they must be gifts for someone else?
- You see an obese person. What are the first thoughts that come to mind? Do
you see this as a fat person, a weak person, or just a person?
- You see a sour-pussed man in town. Does your mind immediately go to,
“he seems cranky and mean,” causing you to avoid him, or do you smile and say
“Hi” anyway?
- Your new coworker doesn't perform a certain task exactly as you would, but
they get the same or better results. Where does your mind automatically go—to
thinking that they did it wrong and perhaps got lucky, or that they might have
a better way of doing something and perhaps you should try it?
- Your child wants to color the trees purple and the people green. Are they
doing it incorrectly or are they being creative?
- You were late getting out of work, have to rush to grab some groceries on
the way home, thinking of all you have to do when you get home. Just as you
are about to get to your turn at the checkout, you realize that there is a trainee
working, who keeps asking questions and making mistakes. Do you think “oh,
this is going to take forever,” or do you tell yourself a few minutes won’t make
any difference, and thank God that you are well able to stand there and wait. Do
you tap your foot and very obviously look at your watch, letting out a big sigh,
or do you ask the Holy Spirit to give you patience? Do you remember back to
when YOU were a trainee somewhere?
- You are struggling with some heavy packages when you notice a group of
neighborhood teens in hoodies, with long straggly hair and piercings, heading towards you. When they come upon you, they offer to help you with your
boxes. Are you surprised that they are kind and thoughtful?
- You walk past a person in a wheelchair or with a visible disability, going in
the opposite direction. Do you look them in the face, smile and say hello as you
would anyone else, or do you feel uncomfortable and look away?
There are so many opportunities like these every day, that afford us choices
to be open-minded or judgmental, tolerant of someone else’s ways and beliefs,
or sure that ours is the only way. Small bad habits have a way of morphing into
larger, worse habits. This is why I think that the key to putting an end to the
kind of behavior and thought processes that can lead to intolerance and unChristian thoughts is for each and every one of us to start within our own hearts
and minds. We need to look at our own first impressions and judgments—are
they in line with what we say we believe as Christians? If we pay attention to the
thoughts that come into our minds then we can find flaws in our thinking, of
which we had been unaware, and choose to think or respond differently than
we have in the past. Just because a thought pops into our mind doesn’t mean it
has to be OUR thought. We don't have to embrace it or take ownership of it if
we don't agree with it. But it takes a lifetime of practice to be ever aware of our
thoughts and to make choices regarding them. Holy Spirit, please help me to
be ever aware of Your promptings in these and all things, that I may be the best
child of God that I can.
Amen
John 8:7 And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let
him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.”
Ephesians 4:2 With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with
one another in love,
Matthew 7:1 “Judge not, that you be not judged.
Matthew 7:12 So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to
them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
1 Peter 3:8-11 Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love,
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company said demand for its robots
contributed to a 10 percent increase
in orders last year. "A robot looks at
you, sees what you're doing and he
copies you. Robots also become more
intelligent in terms of understanding
what he has in his hands and selecting
what to do."
Kuka promotes its LBR iiwa robot,
introduced last year, as an "intelligent, industrial work assistant" whose
built-in protection mechanisms and
safe torque sensors in every axis allow
it to safely work next to humans on
the factory floor.
Kuka shares rose to the highest level
in 19 years on February 11th as rising demand helped the company to
exceed its own forecast for sales and
profitability. Revenue surged 18 percent to 2.1 billion euros while earnings before interest and taxes gained
18 percent to 142 million euros.
The electronics industry, currently
dependent on as many as 10 million
factory workers in Asia alone, could
need 500,000 robots by 2020, Reuter
OBITUARIES FROM PAGE 11
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and many nieces and nephews.
Loraine was born September 10,
1928 in Rochester, NY, the daughter
of Henry and Annabelle Lewis Bachman. She retired from the Craig Developmental Center in Sonyea. Honey
was an avid card and bingo player.
She was a long time member of St.
Lucy's Church in Retsof.
A Funeral Mass was held March
18, 2015 at St. Lucy's Church in Retsof, with Father Edward Dillon and
Deacon George Spezzano officiating. Burial was set for Pleasant Valley
Cemetery in York. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society, Team Joey, 2363
Peoria Rd., Leicester, NY 14481. Arrangements were with the RectorHicks Funeral Home in Geneseo.
To light a candle please visit http://
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Wayland, NY
Marjorie C. (Beebe)
Aylor
Wayland, NY – Marjorie C. Aylor,
age 89, passed away peacefully March
7, 2015 at F.F. Thompson Hospital in
Canandaigua.
Marjorie was born December 25,
estimates. There are currently about
1.3 million industrial robots in operation globally, according to the International Federation of Robotics.
The growth of the industry has attracted new players, ranging from
software giant Google to online retailer Amazon.com and Chinese Web
firm Alibaba Group.
Robots present a "great opportunity" in the next 20 to 30 years, Alibaba
chief Jack Ma said Feb. 2 in Hong
Kong as he pledged "significant" investment in artificial intelligence.
Google has snaffled up at least seven
companies since 2012, ranging from
the robot imaging systems of Industrial Perceptions, to Redwood Robotics' humanoid robotic arms and
to Boston Dynamics' walking robot
armies.
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt
said in March that the Mountain
View, California-based company is
experimenting with automation in
ways that will "replace a lot of the repetitive behavior in our lives."
Still, Kuka's Reuter doesn't see
Google as a threat as the U.S. software
1925 in Wellsville, a daughter of Marshall and Della (Ackerman) Beebe.
She was a well-known house keeper
and caretaker for many residents in
the Wayland area for many years. She
was also known by many children in
the area as a babysitter and lovingly
known as "Grandma Marge," who
watched over them for many years
as they grew up in the Wayland area.
She will be missed by all who knew
her loving and caring heart. She was
predeceased by her faithful companion of over 30 years, James Radtke, on
Dec. 1, 1991; and her husband Howard Aylor on Sept. 22, 2008.
Marge was a member of the Wayland Methodist Church. She enjoyed
fishing, hunting and her dogs, as well
as helping others.
She is survived by her children
Bonnie L. Tripp, Connie L. Russell
and Thomas Dale Baker; six grandchildren; seven great grandchildren;
six great-great grandchildren; and
many dear friends and neighbors.
Funeral services were held March
12, 2015 at the Walter E. Baird & Sons
Funeral Home, Wayland. Burial was
set for Village Cemetery, Wayland.
Memorial contributions may be made
to the Wayland Methodist Church.
Those who wish to light a memory
candle for Marge may do so at www.
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a tender heart, and a humble mind. Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for
reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may
obtain a blessing. For “Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him
keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit; let him turn away
from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it.
Ephesians 4:30-32 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you
were sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness and wrath and anger
and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind
to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave
you. ■
company lacks the 40 years' mechatronics experience of ABB, Kuka and
Fanuc. He says the likes of Google
could be business partners, fusing
their software expertise with the traditional players' hardware experience
to offer consumer robotic solutions.
Bot & Dolly, a company which
Google acquired in 2013 and which
provided robotic technology for the
2013 Oscar-winning film "Gravity,"
already uses Kuka machines.
An immediate competitor is Amazon, which bought Kiva Systems Inc.
for $775 million in 2012, and has used
the robotmaker's technology to start
automating its distribution centers.
Amazon's Kiva robots can pick up a
shelf and transport it through a warehouse to an employee who then adds
or removes the necessary objects. A
similar logic lies behind Kuka's December decision to buy Swisslog, according to CEO Reuter.
"The next step will be not only to
have a warehouse system, but a robot which can sort products," he
said, adding that Kuka's robotic arms
could fulfil that role.
While Reuter predicts the consumer market will ultimately outgrow industrial robotics, the current cost of
machines made by Kuka, ABB and
Fanuc — starting at about 35,000 euros — makes that unlikely any time
soon. Until that time, the companies
will try to fill repetitive jobs in electronics manufacturing with their machines.
"Most big companies producing
electronics today, they can't find
enough people," said ABB's robots
head Per Vegard Nerseth. "It's not
cost arbitrage — more and more it's
about finding people to do the difficult, delicate and dull jobs."
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Pork Chops
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Rhubarb And
Sauce
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Summary: Rhubarb is the star of
this recipe for Pork Chops with Spicy
Rhubarb and Golden Raisin Sauce.
The tartness of the rhubarb combined
with the sweetness of the raisins is the
perfect complement for the richness
of the pork chops.
sauce
• 1 teaspoon plus 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1/2 cup finely chopped onion
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 1/2 small jalapeno, with ribs and
seeds, diced
• 8 to 10 ounces rhubarb, ends
trimmed, cut crosswise into
1/2-inch pieces (2 cups)
• 3 tablespoons sugar
• 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
• 1 1/2 teaspoons ground pepper
• 2 tablespoons poultry seasoning
• 4 pork loin chops, (each 1/2 inch
thick and 6 to 8 ounces)
Ingredients:
• 1/2 cup golden raisins
• 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
• 1 tablespoon Worcestershire
Steps:
1. In a small bowl, combine raisins
with vinegar, Worcestershire sauce
and 1/4 cup hot water; let stand 10
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and Gina Harlow
minutes to soften.
2. In a small saucepan, heat 1 teaspoon oil over medium-low heat.
Add onion; cook until softened, 3 to 5
minutes. Add garlic and jalapeno and
cook for another 3 minutes, stirring
occasionally.
3. Add the rhubarb and sugar; and
bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer
until rhubarb has softened, 5 to 8
minutes. Stir in nutmeg; season with
1/2 teaspoon of the salt and pepper.
Remove from heat; keep warm.
4. Generously season both sides
of pork chops with the remaining
teaspoon of salt and pepper, and the
poultry seasoning.
5. In a large skillet, heat remaining
2 tablespoons oil over medium-high
heat. Cook pork (in two batches, if
necessary, to avoid crowding the pan)
until browned and cooked through,
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3 to 4 minutes per side. Serve topped
with the warm Spicy Rhubarb and
Golden Raisin sauce. Serves 4.
TIP: The golden raisins can be replaced with other dried fruit, such as
cherries or currants and softened as
instructed.
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and Angela Shelf Medearis
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DoubleChocolate
Bread
Pudding
Ingredients:
• 2 cups heavy or whipping cream
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup whole milk
• 6 ounces semisweet chocolate,
chopped
• 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 6 ounces day-old French bread,
cut into 3/4-inch cubes (about
4 cups)
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• 1/4 cup semisweet chocolate
chips
• Whipped cream (optional)
Steps:
1. Preheat oven to 300 F. In 2-quart
saucepan, heat cream, sugar and
milk over medium heat until sugar
dissolves, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat.
2. Add chopped chocolate, stirring
with wire whisk until mixture is
smooth and chocolate melts completely. Gradually whisk in eggs and
vanilla until well-combined.
3. Place bread in shallow 1 1/2-quart
or 8-by-8-inch glass or ceramic baking dish. Pour chocolate mixture
over bread. Cover and refrigerate 30
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minutes, stirring occasionally.
4. Sprinkle chocolate chips on top
of bread mixture. Bake, uncovered,
40 to 45 minutes or until set. Cool
10 minutes to serve warm, or cover
and refrigerate to serve cold later.
Serve with whipped cream if you
like. Makes 8 servings.
Nutrition: About 440 calories, 6g
protein, 35g carbohydrate, 33g total
fat (16g saturated), 2g fiber, 136mg
cholesterol, 150mg sodium.
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Beef Tamale
Pie
Summary: This family-friendly dinner takes just 25 minutes to make.
Ingredients:
• 1 log (16 ounces) precooked
polenta, cut crosswise into 8
slices
• 1 package (17 ounces) fully
cooked beef roast au jus
• 1 can (14 1/2 ounces) diced tomatoes with green chiles
• 2 teaspoons chili powder
• 1/2 cup loosely packed fresh cilantro leaves
• 1 cup frozen corn kernels
• 1/2 (8-ounce) package shredded
Mexican cheese blend (1 cup)
Steps:
1. Preheat broiler. Place polenta slices
on cookie sheet. Place cookie sheet in
broiler at closest position to source of
heat and broil 10 to 12 minutes or until polenta is golden on top.
2. Meanwhile, drain beef jus into 12inch skillet. Add tomatoes with their
juice and chili powder; heat to boiling
over high heat. Boil 4 to 5 minutes or
until sauce thickens. While mixture
boils, shred beef with 2 forks. Coarsely chop cilantro.
3. Stir frozen corn and beef into tomato mixture; heat through. Remove
saucepan from heat; stir in all but 1
teaspoon cilantro. Arrange polenta
over beef mixture; sprinkle with
cheese and remaining cilantro. Cover
skillet; let stand 2 minutes or until cheese melts. Makes 4 main-dish
servings.
TIP: To add something fresh and
crunchy to the menu, serve with carrot and celery sticks or a chunky iceberg lettuce salad.
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Irene “Almeda” (Fox)
King
Wayland, NY – Irene “Almeda” King,
age 95, passed away March 8, 2015 at
Conesus Lake Nursing Home, where
she has resided for the last two years.
Almeda was born September 16,
1919 in Kanona, the daughter of William and Mary Alice (Dieter) Fox. She
grew up and resided in several different areas throughout her life including Kanona, Canaseraga, Wayland
and New Jersey for many years and
back to Wayland in the late 1980’s.
She was the wife of the late Harry
King.
Almeda’s
employment
career
spanned a couple different areas. She
worked for The Gunlocke Company
in Wayland, Picatinny Arsenal in Dover, NJ and she retired from Howmet
Corporation in Dover, NJ. Upon her
retirement and following her love of
helping those in need, Almeda became a home health aide for many
years. Her love of helping others also
enabled her to be the guardian of
Richard Fox, Patricia Schubmehl and
Dorothea Mahoney. Almeda’s hobbies were many, as she enjoyed her
flower gardens (as evidenced by being a member of a garden club) and
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trepreneur." I think most successful
companies go through some kind of
trial by fire. During that time, you're
borrowing — you're borrowing people's time, you're borrowing goodwill,
you're borrowing money. You're begging and borrowing. And that can begin to make you feel self- conscious,
feel like you're failing or that you're a
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she enjoyed travelling throughout the
years and it didn’t matter where. She
just liked to get up and go! She also
enjoyed going to The Gathering Place
in Hornell, a senior day care, while it
was open.
Almeda was predeceased by her
parents William and Mary Alice Fox;
her husband Harry King; her brothers
Jacob and Robert Fox; and her sisters,
Sister Mary Alicine, SSND (School
Sister of Notre Dame) and Sister Marie Xavier, SSJ (Sister of St. Joseph’s).
She is survived by her daughter Emily (Thomas) Bowers of Wayland; her
grandchildren Daniel Steneken (Julia
Burke) of Litchfield, AZ and Kimberly Steneken (Jeff Herrick) of Bath; her
great-grandson Jack Thomas Steneken; along with many cousins, nieces
and nephews.
A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated for Almeda on March 12, 2015
at St. Joseph’s Church in Wayland.
Committal prayers and internment
was set for Sacred Heart Cemetery
in Perkinsville. Memorial contributions in Almeda King’s memory may
be made to the Vincent House, 310
Second Ave., Wayland, NY 14572
or to the Hornell Humane Society,
7649 Industrial Park Rd, Hornell, NY
14843. Arrangements were with St.
George-Stanton Funeral Home. To
send a remembrance to the family
or to light a candle please visit http://
www.stgeorgefuneralhome.com. ■
leech.
It takes a lot to stay committed, and
I think a big part of that is accepting that, "Okay, I signed up for this.
I'm building a company, and part of
building a company is that I have to
borrow." I think that's one of the big
hurdles for entrepreneurs, to stick
with it when you feel like you made
a big mistake.
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ties against the Islamic State militant
group, Air Force Secretary Deborah
James said in January.
Air Force Gen. Herbert "Hawk"
Carlisle, the commander of Air Combat Command, left open the possibility on March 6th that the service
could eventually need another plane
to fill the close-air support mission.
He called it the "A-X," with the "A"
meaning its primary mission would
be attacking enemy forces on the
ground. (As opposed to fighter jets,
which get the "F" prefix.)
But the Air Force isn't planning to
pay for that anytime soon. Rather, it
plans to retire the A-10 and rely on
other existing planes like the F-15
Strike Eagle and F-16 Fighting Falcon to carry out close-air support.
Defense officials want the F-35 to
eventually take the mission over, but
it isn't clear how long that will take.
Getting rid of the Air Force's 283
A-10s will save $3.7 billion over five
years, senior defense officials said.
Carlisle said that questions about
"capacity" leave the door open to an
"A-X" plane." Each variant of the F-35
costs more than $30,000 per hour to
fly, according to Pentagon estimates
that some critics consider conservative. The cost to fly the A-10 is closer
to $11,500, according to an analysis
by The Atlantic.
The A-10 and possible successors
wouldn't fare well in dogfight with
other advanced fighters. But against
the variety of militant groups that
have seized attention in the last year,
they'd still be effective, and at a fraction of the price. Here are a few planes
analysts discuss in the close-air support mission:
A-29 Super Tucano
The U.S. military thought enough
of this turboprop aircraft to purchase
a number of them for the nascent Afghan air force, which the Pentagon
is funding and training. The first 20
arrived at Moody Air Force Base in
Georgia in September, as the service
prepares to train Afghan pilots there.
The Super Tucano, called the A-29
by the Air Force, is made by Brazilian
aviation firm Embraer, and has been
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troduced in
2013,
and
recently
reached 300
hours
in
flight testing,
company
officials said. It
costs about
$3,000 per
flight hour,
and has been
pitched by
the
company as a
Capt. Richard Olson gets off an A-10 Warthog after his flight at Kandahar Airfield, cheap option
Afghanistan in 2011. The Air Force is looking at other planes that can support
to perform
ground troops. (Photo by Senior Airman Corey Hook/U.S. Air Force)
maritime seused by militaries across the world. It curity, close-air support and surveiltypically costs about $1,000 an hour lance missions.
Carlisle left open the possibility that
to fly. It could be outfitted with a variety of bombs and machine guns, the Air Force might pursue the Scorand has drawn interest from a variety pion when asked about it March 6th.
of African
militaries
facing insurgencies. The
Afghan version is made
in the United States by
Embraer
and Sierra
N e v a d a Above, Air Force Capt. Matthew Clayton flies an A-29 Super Tucano on March 5 over
Corp.
Moody Air Force Base, Georgia. The A-29 is one option to replace the A-10 Warthog.
A f g h a n i - (Photo by Senior Airman Ryan Callaghan/U.S. Air Force). Below, The Textron
Scorpion is a small jet that has been pitched by the company as an option for the
stan won't kind of close-air support now provided by the A-10 Warthog. (Photo credit: Textron)
receive its
first Super
Tu c a n o s
until
December,
Gen. Joseph
Campbell,
the top U.S.
commander
there, testified two
weeks ago. The fact that the plane will But he said other planes also are in
not be available for fighting season play, without naming any.
"We have to keep thinking about
this year is considered a setback for
those things because, frankly, we
the Afghan military.
haven't been very good at predicting
The Scorpion
The Scorpion jet has been devel- the future and what it's going to look
oped by Textron, which includes Bell like," the general said.
The aircraft has drawn interest
Helicopter, Cessna and other major
aviation companies. It was first in- from militaries across the world, and
was displayed at an international airshow in Abu Dhabi, the International
Defense Exhibition and Conference
(IDEX), last month.
The AT-6
Beechcraft's AT-6 has been used by
A professor is about to give his
the Air Force as a trainer plane for
final exam. "You must turn in your
years, and used by a variety of milipaper before 2 PM. I won't take it a
taries abroad, including Iraq's and
second later."
Mexico's. The single-prop plane can
2 PM comes and all of the stucarry a variety of weapons on stadents turn in their papers and the
tions mounted on its wings, and has
professor begins to walk to his ofcompeted with the Super Tucano for
fice. One last student jumps up and
contracts in the past.
approaches the professor. "I'm sorThe American version is sometimes
ry I'm a few seconds late! You have
known as the Texan II. Raytheon
to take my paper!"
is integrating the 44-pound Griffin
The professor says, "Nope, I
"mini-missile" onto it in the future,
made it very clear."
upping its firepower. The Griffin has
The student snaps at him, "Do
been used on other U.S. aircraft, inyou know who I am?"
cluding the KC-130 gunship, which
He replies, "No I do not."
is equipped with a powerful Harvest
So the student grabs the stack of
Hawk weapons suite.
papers, puts his in the middle, and
© 2015, The Washington Post. ■
runs off. ■
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