| Briefly in Tompkins
The 14th annual conference on depression, "Resiliency Across the Lifespan," is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 9 in the BorgWarner community meeting room at the Tompkins County Public Library, 201 E. Green St. Keynote speaker will be Ellen deLara, who'll discuss her research in adolescent development and school violence, with expertise in bullying from a systemic perspective. .
Man falls from skyscraper, lives to tell the horror
Doctors say they have never seen anything like it: A window washer who fell 47 stories from the roof of a Manhattan skyscraper is now awake, talking to his family and expected to walk again. Alcides Moreno, 37, plummeted almost 500 feet in a December 7 scaffolding collapse that killed his brother. Somehow, Moreno lived, and doctors at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center announced Thursday that his recovery has been astonishing. He has movement in all his limbs. He is breathing on his own. And on Christmas Day, he opened his mouth and spoke for the first time since the accident. His wife, Rosario Moreno, cried as she thanked the doctors and nurses who kept him alive. "Thank God for the miracle that we had," she said.
Apple stock flirted once again with $200 close
With rumors of a new sub-notebook Mac to be announced there next month, many are speculating that Apple's stock will continue to rise through 2008 as high as $300 per share and beyond. Despite overall disappointment in holiday sales this year, the quarter ending on December 31 could be a banner one for the Cupertino company. .
CLINTON: Not who she wants you to believe
On Sept. 14, 2001, Hillary Clinton, New York's junior senator, visited Ground Zero. You might not have read it in the New York Times, but many of New York's finest, the police officers and firemen, refused to shake her hand."Did you know: "On Oct. 20, 2002, she was literally booed off the stage at Paul McCartney's benefit concert for New York? The boos were substantially edited out when the tape was sold to the public." (from http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/818364/posts)Did you know even though she sits on the Senate Committee on Armed Services, that under her watch, "James J. DiGeorgio and Carl Steubing died in ways no war veteran should. They were subjected to illegal drug experimentation by employees of the Stratton Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Albany, N.Y.; killed by servants of the very government they fought to protect." (from http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0828-24.htm)As with all of the Republican candidates running for president, Hillary Clinton takes contributions and donations from several Political Action Committees (PAC) toward her campaign.That money goes into her pocket for her election just as the PAC's go into her pocket for "favors" later toward legislation.Barack Obama, on the other hand, takes money only from the American public -- they are the ones to whom he will be indebted and obligated.The question becomes, do you want a president who owes PACs favors, or one who owes the American public? I believe it's time we made that decision for the presidency as well as all members of the United States House and the Senate.
Carl Junction to consider new turf for football field
Carl Junction is a member of the Committee for Educational Equality, one of the groups suing the state over its funding formula for education. The committee was dealt a loss by Cole County Circuit Court Judge Richard Callahan, who dismissed all of the committee's claims earlier this year. .
Pat McKee: High School Q&A
Answer: The way the tournament is set up, Ben Davis and North Central would meet in a girls basketball regional game if each wins its respective sectional. Thus, only one of them could reach the semistate and become a final four team in Class 4A. As of now, the favorites to be the final four teams in Class 4A would be South Bend Washington, Fort Wayne South, Ben Davis and Terre Haute South.
Question: Has there been any talk of Franklin Central's Patrick Bade possibly being recruited for both football and basketball at any school? What level do you think he should play at in both sports? (Ethan from Indianapolis)
Answer: I checked with Franklin Central coaches Mark James and Lance Scheib. Coach James told me that Patrick Bade is being recruited at the Division I level for both football and basketball, but that he is unaware of any school recruiting Bade for both sports.
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