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Louis Columbus, Contributor
I cover CRM, Cloud Computing, ERP and Enterprise Software
The latest round of cloud computing and enterprise software forecasts reflect the growing influence of analytics, legacy systems integration, mobility and security on IT buyer's decisions.
Bain & Company and Gartner have moved beyond aggregate forecasts, and are beginning to forecast by cloud and SaaS adoption stage. SAP is using the Bain adoption model in their vertical market presentations today.
Despite the predictions of the demise of enterprise software, forecasts and sales cycles I've been involved with indicate market growth. Mobility and cloud computing are the catalysts of rejuvenation in many enterprise application areas, and are accelerating sales cycles. Presented in this roundup are market sizes, forecasts and compound annual growth rates (CAGRs) for ten enterprise software segments.
Key take-aways from the latest cloud computing and enterprise software forecasts are provided below:
Great overview. Like any technology cloud computing only makes sense for a business if the organization has a working understanding of its needs. VMWare and HP offer a needs assessment that can serve as a great tool and get SMBs on the right track.
Nicely done article. 3-4 years ago SaaS/Cloud Computing couldn't get a seat at the table. Circumstances have changed and the best aggregation point for a variety of activities is best achieved outside the firewall.
I struggle with the idea that cloud adoption maturity can be described generically across an entire enteprise (as in the Bain model). Across cloud platforms and services (SaaS, PaaS, public and private IaaS), an enterprise can be both an early mover in one area, and a laggard in another. Adoption patterns within an enterprise can vary widely by use case, department, geography and buyer type. Given the rapid pace of market evolution, enterprise adoption patterns need to be described and understood for the bottom up, as that's how most of the buying is being driven today.
Thank you Louis, this was a very good and actual state of the art report of cloud computing status. What I hope to see more in future, are some articles about the change of the roles of professionals in IT deparment when businesses are moving to the cloud.
During the years I have seen many changes and they always start slowly and finally the speed of the change is always faster that we expected – in cloud technology I think that we are on the beginning of the fast move of the roles and knowledge of professionals in IT deparments.
This is a great overview and forecasting of cloud-based applications, whether these are SaaS, IaaS or PaaS. The projected growth of cloud computing applications in a SaaS-based model for the next 5 years or so indicates its massive usage in the coming years. Services like these will add value to the profits of the businesses and organizations using such advanced technologies in the future. Because of such expansion, services like GroupDocs are being employeed more and more in organizations looking to revolutionize their business with efficient document management solutions. As time will bring value to cloud computing applications, more businesses will be moving towards SaaS-based model for documents and records management.
Thanks for such a thorough and concise review of where Cloud Computing and Enterprise Software is now and where it may be in the near future. Most important to me is one conclusion that "customers will continue to have mixed environments for a long time".
I'm a seasoned integration expert with a great hopes for the cloud. My experience tells me that this migration will continue to present me with challenges of keeping highly productive and cost efficient legacy platforms functioning in concert with this great migration to the cloud.
Joe Johnson
This is a great article summarizing some great work by Gartner, Bain, and others. I am currently developing a enterprise software startup, and this article provides some great support for cloud applications, something I have been pushing for.
Thanks for the great info!


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By CHRIS AGEE
Lee Downs, who works as a service officer with Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2399, was recently honored with a statewide award.
"I was nomiated by a gentleman names Michael Southern," Downs explained. "His family lives here in Mineral Wells."
Southern's father was one of the many veterans to whom Downs has provided assistance in securing military benefits.
"He wrote a beautiful letter," Downs said. "I didn't know he knew that much about me."
Serving the needs of about 100 vets and widows each month, Downs said he feels he was recognized "because I put in so many hours helping veterans."
Southern described Downs in his nomination letter as someone who "will help veterans and family members weed through the paperwork and bureaucracy of government in order to get the benefits and medical care deserved."
He expressed gratitude for the help Downs provided his World War II veteran father, James Curtis Southern.
"Now he is in the process of assisting my mother in obtaining her veteran survivor benefits," Southern wrote.
As the statewide winner of the Salute to Senior Service award, presented by Home Instead Senior Care, Downs is now entered in the national contest. Already, Downs has earned a $500 donation toward the charity of his choice.
"I'm donating it to the VFW Flag Account," Downs said. "The national winner will get $5,000 for the charity of their choice."
He said volunteering is his passion and he enjoys being able to help veterans understand the benefits they are due. Being recognized for that service means a lot, he added.
"I was impressed when I read that letter [Southern] wrote," he said, "and doubly impressed so many people appreciate what I'm doing that they voted for me."
For more information about the contest, visit salutetoseniorservice.com.

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|32 oz
|bag of frozen O'Brien style hash browns, defrosted , rinsed and patted dry
|1 lb
|sausage, bacon or ham (or any combo you like)
|1 medium
|onion, diced
|bell pepper, diced (use whatever color you like best)
|3/4 c
|milk, 2%
|3/4 c
|sour cream
|1 tsp
|dry mustard
|1 tsp
|garlic powder
|salt and pepper to taste
|2 c
|cheddar cheese, shredded
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Kim's notes for this recipe:
Make the night before when you have a house full of company staying the night. It'll be ready when you wake up in the morning. All you'll have to do when you get up is make some coffee.
This is a really flavorful breakfast. I think the addition of peppers and onions to the O'Brien potatoes makes it really good.
We all know potatoes + anything = wonderful!
We all know potatoes + anything = wonderful!
Cook meat, drain and crumble. Set aside. Save a bit of the oil and add onion and peppers. Cook until onions are soft.
Spray 6 qt. slow cooker with non-stick spray or use liner for slow cooker.
Put in half the potatoes, meat and vegetables in the slow cooker. Sprinkle with half the cheese. Repeat.
Mix together eggs, milk, sour cream and seasonings. Pour this mixture over the top of ingredients in crock pot.
Cook on low for eight hours.
I make this for our family when we are up at the cabin for holiday weekends. It's nice to not have to prepare a huge breakfast in the morning. Just turn it on before you go to bed and it's ready when you wake up. Hope you enjoy!!
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what a great idea Kim! This would be good to use at Christmas when I make breakfast for the whole family!
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I've never seen this recipe done in a slow cooker.....I can't wait to try it! There is nothing better than waking up and NOT having to make breakfast after a long week :)
Kim Cleaves KC2633 - Jan 20, 2012
Just be careful that you don't cook it too long. The outside of it (that touches the crock) can burn if cooked over the eight hours.


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Lillias MacGregor Tufts
Lillias MacGregor Tufts, a longtime resident of Lewiston, NY, died peacefully at the Belle Haven Nursing Home in Quakertown, PA, on Thursday, February 21, 2013. She was 88. Her daughter and youngest son, Joan Tufts Metter and Roger Wallace Tufts, were with her.
Born on July 21, 1924, in Niagara Falls, NY, she was the second of three children born to Lillias and Wallace MacGregor, both of Scotland. She received her under graduate degree in chemistry and biology from William Smith College in 1945. Upon graduation, Lillias returned to Niagara Falls and worked in a research laboratory at Hooker Chemical Corporation. There, she met her future husband, Lewis Everett Tufts. They married on December 27, 1947 at her home on Buffalo Avenue in Niagara Falls. Shortly thereafter, she left the research laboratory to raise a family. They settled in Lewiston in 1949.
Lillias belonged to First Presbyterian Church of Lewiston for more than 50 years and was a member of the Tattler Club. In their retirement year, Lillias and Lewis very much enjoyed traveling around the United States and spending winters in Nokomis, Florida, where they formed cherished memories of visits by family and friends. Lillias also traveled with traveled with family and friends, to Scotland, England and continental Europe.
Lillias will be lovingly remembered by her four children, Scott A. Tufts of Austin, Texas, Joan Tufts Metter of Coopersburg, Pennsylvania, Alan L. Tufts of Lewiston, New York, and Roger W. Tufts of McLean Virginia. She is also survived by seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Lewis Tufts, Lillias's husband of 61 years, passed away in 2008.
A Memorial Service in the couple's honor and their interment will take place in June in Lewiston.
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Noah Waddell started playing the piano at age 7 and has already amassed several accolades, including first prize in the Justine Lebaron Young Artist Competition and first place in his age division at the Southwest Florida Jillian Prescott Music Awards. He uses his gift for healing purposes, playing weekly in the lobby at Lee Memorial Hospital in Ft. Myers. This weekend, he'll play classical and impressionist pieces by Bach, Mozart, Chopin and Debussy, among others.
The performance starts at 3:00 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 20, at the Longboat Island Chapel, 6200 Gulf of Mexico Drive. Tickets are $20. Contact Pat Joyner at 383-6491.
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Did you have any "menopausal" symptoms after the original surgery (hysterectomy) or did you start HRT shortly after? Women your age and even older typically feel the effects of ovary removal fairly quickly after surgery as ovarian hormones have many essential functions even after menopause. I didn't have hot flashes right away but sleep issues kicked in almost immediately.
Did you have the same pain before your appendectomy? What workups were done to indicate your appendix was the culprit? Many appendectomies are done without appropriate workups and the appendix wasn't the problem at all. Adhesions (scar tissue) develop after any type of surgery and these can cause pain so it's possible those are the source of your pain. Were your ovaries and tubes removed with the last surgery under the premise that removing them would resolve the pain?
It would be a good idea to get all your medical records and pay particular attention to your imaging (MRI) and surgical reports. In my opinion, I'd be looking for new doctors (ones affiliated with a different hospital) although doctors can be hesitant to "clean up" others' messes.
Yes, there is something called ovarian remnant syndrome. Here is a citation about this from the National Library of Medicine site:
Gynecol Obstet Fertil. 2009 Jun;37(6):488-94. doi: 10.1016/j.gyobfe.2009.03.027. Epub 2009 May 19.
[Ovarian remnant syndrome: diagnostic difficulties and management>.
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Fat BC, Terzibachian JJ, Bertrand V, Leung F, de Lapparent T, Grisey A, Maillet R, Riethmuller D.
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The ovarian remnant syndrome is a rare condition after unilateral or bilateral oophorectomy, with or without a hysterectomy. This syndrome occurs when a fragment of ovarian tissue is left behind and becomes functional and cystic. The purpose of this study is to report the cases of patients treated surgically for an ovarian remnant syndrome during the last 10 years and to recall the diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties.
A retrospective, observational study was carried out between 1997 and 2006. Seven patients were treated surgically for an ovarian remnant syndrome. Perioperative data analysis (history, surgical techniques, and postoperative follow-up) was carried out.
The mean age of the patients was 46 years (36-55). The number of previous abdominal surgical procedures ranged from 2 to 5. The syndrome appeared after a mean period of 4 years and 4 months (range 5 months-12 years) after oophorectomy. Among the 7 patients, 3 had had a previous hysterectomy. Pelvic pain was found in all cases. Gonadotropin-releasing hormones agonists were used in 1 patient without success. Aspiration was performed in 2 cases before surgical treatment. Two patients underwent a laparotomy in the first place. Laparoscopy was performed in 5 cases and laparoconversion was necessary in 1 case. Intraoperative difficulties and anatomic variations were found in all cases. Ureteral catheters were placed in 2 cases. Radiotherapy was performed in 1 patient who had a recurrent ovarian remnant.
The ovarian remnant syndrome is a rare complication. Surgery, either by laparoscopy or by laparotomy, is the recommended treatment. These operations are often difficult and associated with a high risk of complications. Histologically, remnant ovarian tissue associated with hemorragic corpus luteum cysts is the most common finding. The prevention of the ovarian remnant syndrome is based on rigorous surgical treatment during the oophorectomy so as not to leave behind ovarian tissue.
As you can note hbutterfly, neither ovaries nor tubes actually regenerate. But a tiny fragment of residual ovary, under the influence of the stimulating hormones from the pituitary, can grow cysts (some of them full of blood--"hemorrhagic cysts"). Some risk factors include: scar tissue from prior surgeries or infections, and endometriosis.
In terms of the continued pain, it is hard to know if the left sided mass is the sole culprit. There can be many reasons for left sided pain including entrapment of a nerve. I concur with Anon_6061's suggestion that you may want to seek a second opinion. Be sure they can get copies of your surgical reports and all imagining studies.
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Cryan's Beef and Ale House, the popular South Orange bar and restaurant that was a South Orange mainstay for 30 years, announced it had closed its doors effective Jan. 1, according to a recent Twitter posting.
The tweet from Cryan's said in part, "due to the recession and economy we have closed our doors for business" effective Jan. 1, 2013.
As of Wednesday, Jan. 2, Cryan's window and doors bear "Closed" signs.
Cryan's tweet continued, "We take with us 30 years that will never be forgotten and a lifetime of memories. We know that all of you have many Cryans SouthOrange memories too. Keep them close to your heart. It's farewell for now but look for a new Cryans coming somewhere in the near future."
Cryan's management was not immediately available for comment.
In December, state officials from the Alcohol Beverage Control announced pending charges against the bar and restaurant, after the October arrest of six underage patrons and two staff members.
In addition, Cryan's also released surveillance video from that night showing a table had been set up just inside the entrance of the bar to collect money for an open bar promotion. Those types of promotions are not permitted under ABC law.
Reaction to the news of Cryan's closing came swiftly via social media.
Facebook and Twitter saw messages of regret posted shortly after the announcement. "Hate to bearer of bad news but #Cryans is officially closed. Sad day for South Orange, the #SHU Community," read one.
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Bounty grows to $1,000 for Gazette race
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After defending NASCAR Whelen All American Series National Champion and South Boston Speedway points leader Lee Pulliam thwarted all of the bounty hunters at the last event, South Boston Speedway officials are upping the ante.
South Boston Speedway General Manager Cathy Rice has announced that a $1,000 bounty will be put on Pulliam for Saturday night's Gazette-Virginian Late Model Twin 75's racing program
The first of Saturday night's five NASCAR Whelen All American Series events will get the green flag at 7 p.m.
Saturday night's featured attractions will be a pair of 75-lap races for the drivers in the NASCAR Whelen All American Series Late Model Stock Car Division.
Pulliam scored his 11th win of the season at South Boston Speedway on July 20. Prior to that event, Rice announced that a $500 bounty would be awarded to the driver who could score a victory over Pulliam.
The Semora, N.C. resident won that race in exciting fashion, therefore, the bounty will grow to $1,000 for the first 75-lap event.
Rice noted that Pulliam must still be competing at the end of the race for a driver to claim the bounty. She added that Pulliam can claim the bounty if he elects to start from the rear of the field and attempt to work his way to the front to score his 12th victory of the campaign.
Pulliam holds a commanding lead over division rookie, Bobby McCarty of Summerfield, N.C.
in the NASCAR Whelen All American Late Model Stock Car
Division standings at South Boston Speedway.
McCarty is 42 points ahead of Austin Thaxton of Cluster Springs. Dustin Storm is fourth in the standings and is just 10 points behind Thaxton. Former multi-time NASCAR Whelen All American Series national champion Philip Morris rounds out the top five in the standings. He is six points behind Storm.
Also scheduled Saturday night are races for the Limited Sportsman Division, the Budweiser Pure Stock Division and an event for the drivers in the touring Legendary Ford Flatheads Racing Association.
Danny Willis Jr. of Cluster Springs has opened up a comfortable lead in the chase for the Limited Sportsman Division crown. Garrett Bunch is second in the standings, and is 16 points ahead of third-place Blake Stallings.
Tommy Peregoy is fourth in the Limited Sportsman title chase. He is 13 points behind Stallings and seven points ahead of fifth-place Michael Maresca.
In the Budweiser Pure Stock Division, Joe Allred, who is coming off a pair of wins, owns a 32-point advantage over second-place Stuart Crews. Austin Milam is third in the standings. He is 22 points behind Crews.
Randy Hupp of Halifax sits in fourth place in the Budweiser Pure Stock Division standings. He is 12 points ahead of fifth-place Bruce Mayo of Halifax.
Pit gates will open Saturday at 1 p.m. and practice for all divisions will be held from 3 p.m. until 4:30 p.m. Grandstand gates will open at 5 p.m. and qualifying time trials to set the starting grids for the night of racing will roll off at 5:30 p.m. The first race will start at 7 p.m.


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More on Libranet 2.7
After reading the product review of Libranet on this web site, I decided to give it a try. $100 and two weeks later I feel I have something more to say.
I was about to leave on a trip to the Caribbean and had decided not to try the install until I returned. I intended to take my Fujitsu laptop with SuSE 8.0 on the trip and be done with it.
But I had a few hours to kill the night before the I left, and I was frustrated by SuSE 8.1 not dealing correctly with APM on my IBM Thinkpad. This surprised me because 7.3 had worked fine. As SuSE 8.1 wasn't working, I hadn't loaded any user files on the Thinkpad--so I decided to see what Libranet 2.7 would do.
About an hour later I had the answer. It loaded flawlessly and recognized the video, sound and APM. So the Fujitsu came out of my bag and the Thinkpad went in.
We already did a product review, so that isn't my focus. Rather, I want to talk about the future of Linux on the desktop and how Libranet fits in.
I have been living in Costa Rica since January of this year. Besides a cultural change, there is a difference in which Linux distributions are popular. In the US, I saw more Red Hat and SuSE boxes than anything else. SSC, the parent company of Linux Journal, runs on Debian and seemed to be the exception. When I got here I saw servers running Debian, Slackware and Mandrake. Desktops were primarily Mandrake.
I wondered why there was this difference. Now I see two reasons for it, and the first is money. With a lot less disposable income, people are more likely to go for what is available for free. The second thing is marketing. With Linux vendors spending virtually no marketing dollars here, adoption depends a lot on word of mouth. Once someone picks something, they will spread the word. This fact, to me, is good. It doesn't make us any advertising revenue, but it does mean people talk to each other as in the early days of Linux.
Now, on to my personal prejudice--I like Debian. I have always liked it for a number of reasons. The sense of community is a big one. That is, there is a lot of overlap between the Debian developer and the Debian user communities. Thus, changes tend to address users' needs.
In addition, I have watched the RPM-based distributions add things that existed in Debian a long time ago. Real dependencies and on-line updates come to mind. I described Debian as "easy to install" in an LJ article about five years ago, and although it has remained at that same level of easiness, other distributions have raised the easiness bar.
When Corel Linux came out a few years ago, I had high hopes that it could be "desktop Debian". For a number of reasons, many of them political, it didn't happen. Thus, Debian has remained the first choice for many of the hard-core users, but it didn't make a serious dent in the desktop market.
Enter Libranet. It doesn't have all the glitz of, for example, a SuSE system, but it installs very easily. It reminds me of Mandrake--less fancy but very functional.
Where would I recommend Libranet? Well, if my neighbor wanted a desktop Linux distribution, I would be comfortable recommending it. Or if a company had Debian servers, Libranet could be just the ticket for moving desktops to Linux.
The future? I had thought the RPM vs. Deb war was over. Now I must reconsider. There are a lot of Deb packages out there, and with Libranet making it easy for a novice to get to them, I see a future. I see this as a chance for the hard-core Debian geeks to embrace new users without having to learn about that which they don't use.
Go Libranet. You might be "community Linux" for the desktop.
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LEWISBURG — Lewisburg businessman Trey Casimir has joined 600 small-business leaders across America, signing a petition indicating that they believe the federal government ought to end tax cuts for wealthy Americans and use the money to reinvest in America.
When the first Bush tax cuts passed in 2001, Casimir noted, the nation had a budget surplus and Americans were told the tax cuts would pay for themselves by boosting economic growth and job creation.
"That hasn't happened," Casimir said. "Anyone who didn't realize that should know it by now. These tax breaks didn't pay for themselves, didn't strengthen our economy and didn't create jobs, at least not here in America. Where are the jobs?"
In the six years between the 2001 Bush tax cuts and the Great Recession, employment grew just 4.8 percent compared with 16.2 percent in the six years after President Clinton's 1993 tax increase.
The vast majority of small-business owners have less than $250,000 in taxable income and receive the middle-class tax cuts, not the extra tax cuts for the wealthy. Less than 3 percent of households with business income are above the $250,000 threshold, and that includes hedge fund managers, corporate lobbyists, big business CEOs paid to sit on the boards of other big corporations and wealthy people renting out their vacation homes.
"We need to restore taxes to the level needed to invest in our economy and our people," Casimir continued — investments that strengthen productivity and lead to more jobs.
Trey Casimir Acupuncture is a self-owned business operating in a storefront on Market Street.


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Best settings for tidal-sail generators
In the search to find new sources of clean, low-cost power, slow and steady might win the race – slow-moving currents and tides, that is. Just as wind turbines tap into the energy of flowing air to generate electricity, hydrokinetic devices produce power from flowing water.
In a paper appearing in the American Institute of Physics' Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, a team led by Spain's University of Malaga performed a computer simulation to determine the optimum configuration of one such system to enable it to extract the maximum amount of energy from any given current.
The system, developed in Norway, consists of a string of submerged blades or sails, connected via wire ropes and angled into the oncoming current.
The current generates large lift forces in the sails. As they are pushed through a continuous loop, they drive a generator to produce electricity.
The researchers found the maximum amount of power could be generated using blades positioned at about a 79-degree angle relative to the oncoming current, and which move about one and half a times as fast as the current. American Institute of Physics
Live webcam coaching helps struggling readers
A literacy webcam coaching strategy, developed by researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill, has been shown to significantly help struggling kindergarten and first-grade readers in rural classrooms keep pace with their peers. Targeted Reading Intervention webcam coaching also achieves this at low cost by eliminating geographic barriers and reducing the need for special education.
TRI webcams use in-place classroom teachers to deliver enriched instruction. Literacy coaches, who can be located far off-site, provide state-of-the-art coaching to teachers in classrooms as they work in 15-minute one-on-one sessions with the youngsters.
Teachers use laptops with webcams so that they can see and hear the off-site coaches' real-time feedback and the coaches can see and hear the teachers as they work with children.
The study was published in the Journal of Educational Psychology. UNC News
Artwork's 'health' diagnosed
Scientists and conservators have developed a new method to diagnose painting canvases from the back, without disturbing a single fiber, to see whether they can withstand the stress of handling and travel.
Scientists assessed the "health" of 12 paintings by surrealist Salvador Dalí. Canvases degrade with time because of acidity and environmental conditions. Once a canvas is brittle, expensive conservation is required.
The method is similar to the way doctors measure blood sugar without needles. By shining invisible near-infrared light on the canvas through fiber optics, scientists obtained information about the "health" of the painting from the reflection of the light. Since canvas is the carrier of paint, any tears or other mechanical degradation could lead to loss of the image if the canvas is too brittle. Dali's canvases were shown to be in good condition.
The method was developed by collaborating researchers and conservators at five European universities and The British Library. The research is published in the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Analytical Methods. ucl.ac.uk


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Aug. 25, 1939 - June 19, 2013
FULTON, Ill. —Nancy Geerts, 73, of Mercy Living Center North – Clinton, IA formerly of Fulton, IL, died Wednesday, June 19, 2013 at Mercy Living Center North – Clinton, IA.
A funeral service will be held at 7:30 P.M., Friday, June 21, 2013, at the Fulton Chapel of the Bosma-Renkes Funeral Home with the Rev. Donald Batz - Pastor: St. Mark's United Methodist Church – Camanche, IA, officiating.
Visitation will be held from 4:30 - 7:30 P.M. until the time of the service on Friday, June 21, 2013, at the Fulton Chapel of the Bosma-Renkes Funeral Home.
Private family interment will take place at Lower York Cemetery in Thomson, IL. Memorials have been established.
Nancy was born on August 25, 1939 in Moline, IL to Ned R. and Mary Louise (Rister) Spencer. Nancy was educated in the Argo Fay Grade School and was a 1957 graduate of Thomson High School – Thomson, IL
She married Larry Lee Geerts on August 11, 1957 in Chadwick, IL; he died February 24, 2012.
Nancy was employed by the former Clinton Corn Processing Company and most recently Agri-King Inc. – Fulton, IL. Nancy was member of First Lutheran Church – Chadwick, IL and later the Thomson United Methodist Church – Thomson, IL
Nancy enjoyed cooking, baking, reading, puzzles and gambling at the casinos. She enjoyed spending time with her family, especially her grandchildren and "granddogs".
She is survived by her two daughters, Lauri (Jerry) Biederman of Thomson, IL and Lisa (Paul) Mitchell of Geneseo, IL, her son Greg (Sue) Geerts of Clinton, IA, her eight grandchildren: Melissa Biederman, Kendra Biederman and Scott Biederman; Damon Mitchell, Derek Mitchell; Sarah (Tom) Schwarz, Erica Geerts and Nicole Geerts and seven great-grandchildren: Jasmine Wilson, Kesi-Ann Wagner, Ariah Endersbe, Keagan Fox, Maren Schwarz, Cael Schwarz, Elena Mitchell.
Nancy was preceded in death by her parents, husband Larry, sister, Susan Handel and brother, Bill Spencer.
To send online condolences go to www.bosmarenkes.com.
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By GARY POPP
Jurors are expected to reach a verdict Friday, deciding whether or not William Clyde Gibson III is guilty of murdering Christine Whitis — a crime he admitted to committing the day after his arrest in April 2012.
Gibson's defense began its brief argument this morning and called only one witness, New Albany police Detective Ken Fudge, before resting its case.
Lead, court-appointed defense counsel J. Patrick Biggs showed photographs of Gibson's garage, after Whitis' body had been removed, during Fudge's testimony. Biggs attacked a theory previously offered by Floyd County Prosecutor Keith Henderson earlier in the trial that Gibson had planned to use trash bags and a chain saw to remove Whitis' body from the garage.
Henderson had showed photographs Wednesday of Whitis' contorted body on the garage floor, where an opened box of trash bags and a chainsaw lie near by.
"We believe by the placement of the Glad trash bags near the body of Mrs. Whitis as well as the location of chain saw suggest evidence he [Gibson] was going to dispose of the body," Henderson said. "We know from his own statement that he was going to have to dispose of the body in some way, shape or form."
Biggs used the photographs Friday morning to show the jury that additional boxes of trash bags and a second chain saw were in Gibson's home and garage, in an attempt to minimize the possible criminal intent of the saw and trash bags found next to Whitis' remains.
During a break in the trail after the defense had rested, Henderson explained that in this phase of the trial jurors are only being tasked with determining whether Gibson is guilty or not, not his possible penalty.
"They [the jurors] are simply asked to return a verdict, guilty or not guilty, on one count of murder," Henderson said. "If the jury comes back guilty, they will immediately be instructed there will be phase two."
With a guilty verdict, the trial will proceed to a penalty phase, Henderson said, at which time the jury will decide to sentence Gibson to death, life in prison without the chance of parole or a term in prison.
If the jury decides to sentence Gibson to death or life in prison, presiding Judge Susan
Orth is required to hand down the punishment. If the jury chooses a term of years in prison, Orth has the discretion to determine how long Gibson will be placed in the Indiana Department of Correction.
"I am confident that there is sufficient evidence for the jury to come back guilty," Henderson said.
Biggs has denied making any public comment about the case throughout the trial, which began in Floyd County Superior Court No. 1 Monday.
During the defense's argument, no reference was made to Gibson's admission of murdering Whitis the day after his arrest April 20, 2012.


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CONWAY — Speaking by phone after his Coastal Carolina basketball team edged out Longwood in its Big South Conference opener Saturday, coach Cliff Ellis warned he was going to start sounding like a broken record.
The Chanticleers had won thanks to a combined 66 points from their three starting guards, and Ellis used the opportunity to again say – in what is indeed becoming a familiar refrain – that the team is ultimately going to have to find more inside scoring if it hopes to be a contender in the conference.
Until that happens, though, the Chants will just have to hope for more Warren Gillis.
The sophomore guard had a breakout performance in the win at Longwood with a career-high 21 points, well exceeding his previous high of 14, as he hit 10-of-16 shots and more importantly took some of the defensive pressure off senior guards Anthony Raffa and Kierre Greenwood.
"We need him because there's a lot of teams keying on me and Kierre," Raffa said. "... He did that last game at Longwood."
And Coastal (6-6, 1-0 Big South) will hope he can do it again Wednesday night against Presbyterian (3-12, 0-1).
Raffa had a game-high 26 points in that win over Longwood and ranks second in the league at 19.5 points per game, but earlier in the season opponents found that if they could shut down the 6-foot-1 senior sparkplug, they could shut down Coastal. Boston did it twice, holding Raffa to eight and 10 points, and College of Charleston managed to hold Raffa scoreless while rolling to a convincing win. The Chants were simply lacking reliable scoring options beyond him and Greenwood (13.4 points per game).
The hope all along was that Gillis could be that kind of contributor, and if Saturday was any indication, well, maybe he can. The 6-foot-3 sophomore scored 13 of his points in the second half against Longwood in a game that remained tight until the final minute.
"I think I can step into that role a lot more," Gillis said. "The past couple games I [hadn't] been able to play the whole game because of foul trouble or injuries, so I was just waiting for the opportunity to be aggressive the whole game."
Gillis sustained a foot strain early in the season and admitted it's still not 100-percent healed, "but it's as close as it's going to get."
The second-year player from Philadelphia saw some meaningful playing time as a rookie last season, averaging 15.3 minutes while making three starts and playing in 30 games. He averaged a modest 3.7 points in his first taste of Division I college basketball, and at times earlier this season, he looked uncomfortable with his shot. That seems to be changing, though, as he's shooting 62.5 percent (15-of-24) over the last two games.
"I knew I could do it because I did it before in prep school," Gillis said of piling up the points. "So it was just basically getting back to the fundamentals because I lost that the beginning of last year."
Ellis said he noticed a more confident player as soon as Gillis returned to the team this summer and reiterated that it's all part of the natural progression from one year to the next for a young player.
"I think the fact that Warren has had a year, he's gotten confidence, he's in the starting lineup, he's used to the system, I think we see a difference in a guy [from] being a freshman to being a sophomore," Ellis said. "He's a lot more confident, and he's worked on his game. In the summer time, he spent a lot of time on his shot and it's paying dividends."
And until the Chants find a way to collect a few more points in the paint, well, they'll just have to hope the sophomore's stock continues to rise through the course of Big South play and a conference race that appears to be wide open.
Contact RYAN YOUNG at 626-0318, or follow him on Twitter at Twitter.com/RyanYoungTSN.


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Ron Lawson
I confess. I don't have much experience racing ATVs. I've raced every weekend of my life on two wheels, but before this week, my four-wheel resume totaled two events. One was 20 years ago when I raced the Blackwater 100 on a Suzuki Quadracer 250 to prepare for the following day's motorcycle race. The other was an ITP QuadCross a few months ago.
Last week, Kawasaki invited me to do race number three. It would be the Glen Helen round of the WORCS series. Nice. That would make me well-rounded, with one GNCC, one WORCS and one MX. The point was to test the 2010 Kawasaki KXF450R in a race environment. The Kawasaki is a very unusual machine. It's billed as Kawasaki's flagship performance quad. In stock form, it's geared toward cross-country trail riding with EPA blessing, a quiet muffler and a narrow-ish track. Of course it's the same machine that Josh Creamer and the Monster Kawasaki race team use to race the MX Sports National MX series. For details on how that machine is modified for motocross, check out the dirtwheelsmag.com story from a few months ago by clicking
. But the bottom line is that the race machine is wider and has a full race tune motor. I would get the KFX in stock trim aside from the required dead-man's switch (a Motion Pro item) and full DG nerf bars. I had concerns.
CONCERN NUMBER ONE: I've done enough stories on race quad to know that no one races one in EPA stock form. I didn't even know if it could climb Mt. St Helens in an 84 dB state of tune. And the narrow axle and A-arms are designed for trail, not track.
CONCERN NUMBER TWO: I had no idea what I was doing. I had never been around the track, I had never ridden the machine and I had no idea if I could hold on for a one-hour race.
CONCERN NUMBER THREE: I told Gary Jones what I was doing. "Great! I'll do the same race!" he said
"No, I don't think you can," I said, my panic probably showing. "It's an Industry race. Kawasaki won't have another KFX for you."
"I'll race a Honda. They'll let me in."
He was right; they always let him in. His main purpose, of course, was to make life difficult for me. But he didn't write that on the entry form.
My first concern was for nothing. The KFX turned out to be plenty fast in stock form. Gary rode our Honda TRX450R with a full race pipe and airbox modification and we drag raced side-by side off the line. He shifted much earlier than me and instantly bolted ahead. "I learned that a long time ago," said Gary later. "Quads will suddenly hook up if you make your first shift a little early, then you'll have a good drive all the way to the turn." He did. near the first turn a loud Suzuki passed me, but I was a solid third in a mixed field.
The next few turns were an education. The Kawasaki's power was not an issue. Mine was. The sheer strength required to muscle a quad around an unknown track at race speed amazed me. I had only a vague sense of where the track went, and I was going there at full speed. Gary had ridden another class, so I just followed him and the Suzuki while trying to learn the traits of the Kawasaki at the same time. I think I was holding on way too hard. My arms ached within a few turns. Even my thumb hurt from the throttle. The race had only been underway for a few minutes and I had gone completely anaerobic and was already exhausted. The only good news was that Gary Jones was in front of me and couldn't smash me in any way.
In the next half lap I resorted to plan B. That's where I slow down, figure out what I'm doing wrong and then to learn something. I'm really not in terrible shape, honest. I ride bicycles, like, a zillion miles a week and race motorcycles all the time, yet I was wrecked almost immediately. I had been concerned that the KFX would be too slow, but I was completely incapable of holding on. I must have been doing something wrong
I was. It turns out that the Kawasaki has pretty good suspension in stock form, but you can't blitz whoops and ride the main groove on a rough course like Glen Helen. It's all about the entry line in every turn. When you set up early and roll the throttle on, you don't have to work so hard on the exit of the turn. The KFX does the work.
Another education came on the infamous Glen Helen bridge. This is a steel spectator bridge that crosses over two sections of the track. The course went up one set of stairs and down the other. But some of the lower, widened race quads didn't have the ground clearance that I did. So the first time I came to the bridge, the rider in front of me high-centered. I was so close behind him that he couldn't get a second try "You've got reverse," a course worker shouted at me. "Use it!"
Oh, yeah. The KFX does have reverse. It's the only Japanese race quad that does. I pressed the button, shifted down and what do you know? I went backward and the bottleneck cleared before it started. People who say that you don't need a reverse gear during a race have never ridden a very difficult race.
Without a doubt, the most difficult section of the course was the sand whoop section in the wash outside Glen Helen's main gate. It seemed like you should be able to lift the front then and slam through them. But as soon as I tried, the quad would aim itself toward one bank or another. Then I would have to stop, set down the front end long enough to re-aim the machine, then do it again. It wasn't a very fast technique. Near the end of the race, I thought I was doing it better, but several of the leading Pro Am class riders lapped me. They were doing long wheelies where their front wheels barely touched the top of each whoop, and somehow steering with their rear wheels. I never quite figured that technique out. That might take one or two more races over the next 20 years.
One of the great things about WORCS races is that you can see your lap times on line within a few days of the race. It gives you lots of time to sit back and launder the number until you have a completely fictitious version of what happened. My lap times, as it turned out, got better on every lap. On the last lap, I had the second fastest time in the class. That was the good news. The bad news was that I was still sixth and finished a good six minutes behind the leader. But I did learn a lot about the Kawasaki in ways that I would never learn by just going out and practicing. The importance of sheer power is over rated; a stock KFX is plenty fast enough to win the non-expert classes. Likewise, the benefits of wide axles and A-arms is over-rated. I had a distinct advantage when the track got rutted and I could hit smooth lines that wider machines couldn't fit through. The Kawasaki really is a race ready machine that just happens to be trail legal. That's a combination that I didn't know existed.
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By Benjamin Pimentel, MarketWatch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Technology stocks took it on the chin Tuesday, joining in a broad market retreat, with shares of Teradata falling sharply on a weak business outlook and the budget impasses continuing in Washington, D.C.
Teradata /quotes/zigman/480716/delayed/quotes/nls/tdc TDC +0.12% shares sank more than 18%, to close at $42.91, a day after the company cut its full-year adjusted earnings outlook to $2.70 to $2.80 a share. Wall Street analysts had forecast Teradata to earn $2.85 a share.
Teradata was the top decliner on the S&P 500, which fell 0.7%. The Nasdaq Composite Index /quotes/zigman/12633936/realtime COMP -0.39% shed 21 points, or 0.6%, to close at 3,794, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average gave up 133 points.
Facebook /quotes/zigman/9962609/delayed/quotes/nls/fb FB -0.40% gave up its mild gains to shed a penny a share and close at $49.50.
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Evercore Partners analyst Ken Sena raised his price target to $60 from $45, citing "massive pricing momentum" and signs of a strengthening online ad business.
"We see better targeting by Facebook as driving additional pricing appreciation over several years for Facebook," Sena told clients in a note.
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Shares of Demand Media /quotes/zigman/3620702/delayed/quotes/nls/dmd DMD -3.31% shed almost 9% after the company announced that Chief Executive Richard Rosenblatt was stepping down.
The government shutdown continued to be a key concern among investors and analysts.
In a note, ISI Group analyst Brian Marshall pointed to NetApp Inc. and VMware Inc. as two tech players with sizable exposures to U.S. federal spending, noting how both stocks have declined since the shutdown began.
"In our view, this underperformance during the shutdown is an overreaction," he wrote, arguing that NetApp, VMware and Cisco Systems "are already entrenched in federal programs."
NetApp /quotes/zigman/109935/delayed/quotes/nls/ntap NTAP -0.77% shares ended the day down 2.5% in Tuesday, while VMware /quotes/zigman/464645/delayed/quotes/nls/vmw VMW -1.04% was off almost 3% and Cisco /quotes/zigman/20039/delayed/quotes/nls/csco CSCO -0.91% gave up 0.7%
Microsoft Corp. /quotes/zigman/20493/delayed/quotes/nls/msft MSFT -0.70% eked out a gain of 4 cents a share, to close at $34.49, and Apple Inc. /quotes/zigman/68270/delayed/quotes/nls/aapl AAPL +0.55% shares rose $2.64, to $498.68 on news that the iPhone maker has hired Angela Ahrendts to lead the company's retail division.
The Morgan Stanley High Tech 35 Index /quotes/zigman/6015481/realtime MSH -0.17% and the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index /quotes/zigman/1468249/delayed SOX +0.37% both closed in the red.
Shares of Yahoo Inc. /quotes/zigman/59898/delayed/quotes/nls/yhoo YHOO -0.53% fell almost 2% ahead of the company's earnings report due after the market closes. Intel Corp. /quotes/zigman/20392/delayed/quotes/nls/intc INTC -0.43% which was also scheduled to report results Tuesday, fell by 6 cents a share to close at $23.39.


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The Reno County Sheriff's Office is investigating a rollover accident that injured a 17 year-old girl Wednesday afternoon.
It happened at the intersection of Pretty Prairie Road and Fairview Road south of Arlington shortly after noon. The Sheriff's office says Sarah Pike of Arlington lost control of her 1997 Dodge Intrepid and rolled the vehicle twice.
She was ejected and the vehicle landed on top of her. Passers-By spotted the accident and pulled Pike free.
She was transported to Hutchinson Regional Medical Center with undetermined injuries according to Sheriff's Captain Wayne Baughman. Her passenger, 20 year-old Stana Pike was wearing a seat belt and was not seriously hurt.
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Groundwater Levels in Northern Texas High Plains: Baseline for Existing Agricultural Management Practices
New groundwater policies are being debated for the Northern Texas High Plains because of Ogallala Aquifer depletion. These policies should be evaluated using a calibrated groundwater model for assessing their impact on subsequent groundwater levels. The objective of this study was to calibrate and validate a regional groundwater model for predicting the impact of existing agricultural management practices on groundwater levels beneath 4 counties located in the Northern Texas High Plains. Results indicated that the MODFLOW-2000 groundwater model was calibrated and validated satisfactorily based on reproducing and comparing groundwater levels with coefficients of determination of 0.97 and 0.98, root mean square errors of 28.0 meters (91.9 feet) and 15.5 meters (50.9 feet). The model showed normalized root mean square errors of 6.9% and 4.3%, for calibration and validation, respectively. Analysis of prediction results indicated that 2 zones would become depleted if the current level of aquifer exploitation continues with no modification for the next 50 years. The calibrated model should assist water managers in evaluating alternative agricultural management policy scenarios.
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The Texas Water Journal is an online, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the timely consideration of Texas water resources management and policy issues from a multidisciplinary perspective that integrates science, engineering, law, planning, and other disciplines. It also provides updates on key state legislation and policy changes by Texas administrative agencies.
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I cover technology with an emphasis on social and digital media.
Say you're a conservative radio host who's losing advertisers left and right for saying some deeply misinformed and misogynistic things about the lifestyle of a highly-educated single woman, and now you need to change the conversation. How do you do that? If you're Rush Limbaugh, you do it by attacking a different woman on the basis of her singleness, youth and education.
Limbaugh spent the entire first hour of his program today discussing "The American Way of Eating," a new book by journalist Tracie McMillan, who logged almost a year working low-paying jobs at Wal-Mart, Applebee's and other places to learn about the food industry. Despite the backlash he's faced for branding law student Sandra Fluke a "slut" and "prostitute," Limbaugh didn't shy away from the matter of McMillan's sex. On the contrary, he referred to her as an "authorette" and attempted to tie her to a broader trend of "all these young single white women" who are threatening Americans' freedoms.
Here's the context of that latter quote, according to the show's official transcript:
What is it with all of these young single white women, overeducated — doesn't mean intelligent. For example, Tracie McMillan, the author of this book, seems to be just out of college and already she has been showered with awards, including the 2006 James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism. Social justice journalism. This woman who wrote the book on food inequality, food justice, got an award for social justice journalism.
McMillan was in San Francisco on her book tour when Limbaugh set her in his crosshairs. She had no advance warning that her book was going to be featured on "The Rush Limbaugh Show," and only became aware, she tells me, when someone tweeted at her to say he was talking about it. "It's totally bizarre," she says. "I had no idea that Rush Limbaugh knew that I existed. My grandmother would be thrilled, because she's a fan of his."
Less thrilling to her was Limbaugh attacking her for being female, single and educated. "It just didn't really occur to me that my being single would have any bearing on whether whether my book was valid," she says. "It seems to be a way to dismiss my intelligence or capacity to do the work."
McMillan grew up working class in a rural area outside Flint, Michigan. It was Limbaugh country, she says.
"It's interesting — I grew up listening to Rush Limbaugh and we actually watched his talk show in my high school [back when it was televised] for a class on current events. So I'm familiar with the politics. I certainly don't think they're foreign or alien or weird.
"But this really intense dismissal of women by someone like Rush Limbaugh, who's considered an authority by a lot of people — that, to me, is distressing. I just wasn't expecting anybody to say flat out that my work wasn't valid because I'm a single woman."
She also takes exception to Limbaugh's calling her "over-educated." "I only have a B.A. I don't have an advanced degree," she says. "Maybe he thinks women shouldn't go to college at all?"
Sorry, the University pays the bill, not her.
I'm pretty sure that someone (or a GROUP of people) who is publicly and maliciously attacked REPEATEDLY by an individual because of their sex is a HATE crime…. Where's the FBI on this? Or at least the two guys with a Straight Jacket…
It's not a crime in the US; the First Amendment protects even stupid, hateful speech. However, the way he worded the attack on Fluke could be slanderous, and subject to civil damages. She should be talking to her lawyer about that. All said, Rush might have to live with a little less waking-around money the next time he visits the Dominican Republic.
I would LOVE to see Fluke sue Rush. She hasn't got a case for slander any more than Sarah Palin has against people in the media who have said scurrilous things about her. I would welcome her attempt to make the case and be cross-examined by a lawyer that Rush could afford.
First off, Fluke's not a public figure. But Limbaugh said several things about Fluke that were flat-off false:
1) That she wants other people to pay her birth control (false); 2) That she needs lots of birth control for all the sex she is having (false); 3) That she wants to be paid for having sex (false). And I haven't even listened to the full rants, in which Limbaugh impugns her motives and lies some more about her. Demonstrably false statements + clear malice + not a public figure = clear slander. And I can only imagine how a trial will go, with the soft-spoken Fluke up against the bullying Limbaugh.
"And I haven't even listened to the full rants, in which Limbaugh impugns her motives and lies some more about her."
Why would you say you haven't listened to them, and then tell people what Rush does as though you had? I'm just saying, if you're going to argue something, don't give yourself any room to look biased.
If Fluke wants to sue Rush I say go it girl. I am not au fait with American law but I am with English including what's known as the tort of defamation which on this side of the pond means the burden of proof is on the DEFENDANT.
Here we go again.
Most all of Rush's critique was about the content of this woman's book. Rush was not personally attacking her so much as the overwhelming number of left wing authors that fit the description.
How much education should a woman have? As much as she wants. Just remember that educated does not mean intelligent.
Rush, like me, dropped out of college when we discovered that we were far more intelligent than the so-called teachers. I went on to a computer engineering career after teaching myself electronics, computer science, computer programming and IT management. My boss knew, but my co-workers were shocked when they learned I had not one single degree beyond high school.
To me, someone who went to college is educated, but what they do with that education tells me if they are intelligent.
"When did it become a bad thing to be educated?"
It is not a bad thing. Its more that the educated person abuses the knowledge gained.
Apparently the woman took offense and how the exchange is viewed will be entirely in the eye of the beholder.
With that said, the rest of the diatribe about education is obviously pure opinion. College is extremely useful for a lot of people and absolutely necessary for some- doctors for example. However, that doesn't mean it's for everyone, and for both sides the denigration is self-defeating.
Hmmm. I think the point is that Rush seems to feel compelled to insert commentary regarding her educational status. Frankly she couldn't win on that point regardless. If no degree, she would be unqualified to comment and if a BA makes her over-educated, an MA or PhD would make her a soviet agent.
Rush has played a dangerous game with glee for many years. Instead of focusing on any of the legitimate intellectual arguments of conservatism he tends to play off the more visceral nonsense. So now he may have finally crossed a line. I have been happy to ignore him for years and consider him part of the pantheon of extreme voices both right and left that I'm pleased to see protected by the first amendment. However, free speech does not mean hate speech, nor does it mean it can happen in a vacuum where others who tire of the empty diatribes can't express a little free speech back and encourage those who pay for his platform to reconsider.
Maybe he can go exercise his right to speak on a street corner and make a little room for some smart conservatives that have something to contribute to the conversation.


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Amid the disappointment of another mistake-filled loss at the end of a tough season, Washington State baseball coach Donnie Marbut found a chance to smile after Friday nights 4-3 loss to rival Washington at Gesa Stadium in Pasco.
It came when he was asked about the contingent of Cougars from the Tri-Cities.
Richlands Brett Jacobs, Kennewicks Trek Stemp and Southridges Matt Mendenhall are on the Cougs active roster, and former Suns standout Bryce Jackson is red-shirting after recovering from a shoulder injury.
Jacobs is a red-shirt junior who has turned into a pretty good first baseman for WSU.
Hes been steady eddy his whole career, Marbut said, noting he is looking forward to getting a fifth year out of the former Bomber star after Jacobs missed last season with a wrist injury.
Hes a confident Coug and hes been great this season.
Marbut said he anticipates writing Stemps name at the top of the lineup for three more seasons after a strong freshman year.
He has a chance to have an unbelievable college career, Marbut said, noting that Stemp basically has been playing on one leg because of a hip injury.
He never complains, just grinds it out.
Mendenhall, also a freshman, has been caught up in a numbers game trying to get playing time. But, Marbut said, college is a four-year career.
Matt is a solid player, and hes working extremely hard, he said. With the work hes put in, hes going to do things.
Marbut added that the trip to the Tri-Cities is good for the players, perforning in front of a couple thousand enthusiactic fans who celebrate the annual event.
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by Bruce Levine
When this blog's editor invited me to name the ten best books on the Civil War, I blanched and took a pass. There are far too many really fine ones, and too many that I still haven't read, for me to presume to make up that kind of list. But I do welcome the chance at least to recommend some of the really excellent books on the subject. A few of these are newly published while others have been in print for quite a while.
The best (okay, in this case I will crawl out on that limb) one-volume treatment of the war remains James M. McPherson's Pulitzer Prize winner, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford University Press, 1988). It's extremely well-informed, its judgments are sage, and it's clearly and smoothly written. It's a masterpiece. If you're going to read only one book on the subject, read this one.
No aspect of the subject receives as much attention (by far) as the war's military history. A couple of books are especially useful to anyone seeking a general grasp of that story. In Civil War Command and Strategy: The Process of Victory and Defeat (The Free Press, 1992), Archer Jones uses key battles to illustrate some of the principal strategic and tactical principles that shaped the war's conduct. Richard M. McMurry's Two Great Rebel Armies: An Essay in Confederate Military History (University of North Carolina Press, 1996) provides eye-opening answers to a question that jumps out at any student of the Civil War: Why did Confederate armies do so well in the war's eastern theater and so badly in the western one? J. Tracy Power, meanwhile, offers a deeply researched and illuminating account of life in Robert E. Lee's army during the Confederacy's final year in Lee's Miserables: Life in the Army of Northern Virginia from the Wilderness to Appomattox (University of North Carolina Press, 1998). And in a collection of essays entitled Controversies and Commanders: Dispatches from the Army of the Potomac (Mariner Books, 2000), Stephen W. Sears brings wisdom, enormous erudition, and considerable writing skill to bear on a series of the war's key military episodes and colorful figures. (My favorite is his rehabilitation of "Fighting Joe" Hooker.)
David Blight's Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (Harvard University Press, 2001) presents a masterful account of the way in which Americans remembered (and chose to forget about) the bond between the Civil War and African-American slavery during the first half-century after Appomattox. Historians have explored that linkage with great energy and effectiveness during the last forty years. The results include James L. Roark's revealing portrait of how slave-owners reacted to slavery's destruction: Masters without Slaves: Southern Planters in the Civil War and Reconstruction (W. W. Norton, 1977). The breakdown of slavery under the blows of war – and of the slaves themselves – can be followed in a dramatic documentary collection entitled Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom and the Civil War, edited by Ira Berlin, Barbara J. Fields, Steven V. Miller, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie Rowland (The New Press, 1992). And the late Armstead L. Robinson, with whom I went to graduate school, argued that slavery itself was the chief cause of the Confederacy's defeat in his posthumously published Bitter Fruits of Bondage: The Demise Of Slavery And the Collapse of the Confederacy, 1861-1865 (University Press of Virginia, 2004).
Robinson's subject – the reasons for the Union's victory – has once again become the focus of a lively and thought-provoking debate among professional historians, with some emphasizing the Confederacy's internal weaknesses (including but not limited to slavery) while others focus on what occurred on the battlefield. A good, readable introduction to that debate is Gabor S. Boritt, ed., Why the Confederacy Lost (Oxford University Press, 1992). Drew Gilpin Faust's lively study of the war's impact on women of the planter class spotlights that group's waning loyalty to the Confederate cause: Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (Random House, 1996). Gary W. Gallagher's The Confederate War: How Popular Will, Nationalism, and Military Strategy Could Not Stave Off Defeat (Harvard University Press, 1997) emphasizes the Confederacy's success in maintaining its citizens' loyalty down to the wire. William W. Freehling replies to Gallagher and others in a short but spirited volume entitled The South vs. the South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War (Oxford University Press, 2001).
I could very easily triple this list from the baker's dozen I've given here and not come close to running out of excellent recommendations. And tomorrow morning I imagine that I will kick myself for not doing just that. Oh, well…
Bruce Levine is the author, most recently, of Confederate Emancipation: Southern Plans to Arm and Free Slaves during the Civil War, just published by Oxford. One of his previous books, Half Slave and Half Free: The Roots of Civil War (Hill & Wang, 2005) has just been released in a revised edition.
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This is great–some of these are definitely going on my "books to read" list. Will this "best books" become a running series? I hope so.
Thanks! We do indeed plan to do more "best books" lists. Tell us what you'd like to see and we'll try to write them for you.
My only issue is with the now almost standard nomination of J McPherson's "Battle Cry of Freedom" as the singular best work. Although for lack of a substitute, I cannot disagree with this choice, it must be highlighted that Dr McPherson is anti Southern in his bias. He continually stresses slavery as the central issue of the war and proclaims that defense of this institution was the primary motivation for southerners. He treats Southern policy, perspectives and attitudes in a very disparaging way. While broad based and extremely well written, this book is not a balanced history or completely accurate portrayal.
Thanks for the list and the comments. Helped me with my reading list.
Must disagree with Mr. Lechner regarding McPherson's Northern (or anti-Southern) bias. Although not completely finished with the book, I find it very even toned even with the author's family history of service to the North.
I would imagine it's as balanced as a Civil War historian could be.
As Mr Rogers will see upon completion of the book, McPherson's demonstration of his anti Southern bias comes at the end of the work. That why its important to read all the way to the summary, not just the narrative, when reading history. McPhersons conclusions are the most flawed aspect of his professional analysis. I will also add that with the exception of the concluding chapters of the book, this is one of his more mild anti southern works. Read his other works and especially listen to his candid radio and television interviews and the true anti southern "colors" come out. Also important in reading history is to not only read the complete work but to use other sources. He is entitled to his opinions but lets not parade northern propoganda as history.
Mr Rogers will find the anti Southern bias in the summarizing chapters when he completes the book. McPherson is admittedly anti southern if you read his other works and listen to interviews. Always important to read the summary in a historical work and just as important to use other sources.


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At home, but still at warNovember 14,2013It was Veterans Day, far from the parades, and Michael Schoenbaum was standing on the stage of the library in Dorchester that honors a war hero and president named Jack Kennedy, explaining something that all Americans need to hear.
Schoenbaum works at the National Institute of Mental Health and has compiled the definitive study on why soldiers are killing themselves at alarming rates. Last year, more American soldiers died by their own hand than by the enemys.
Almost every day, he said, combat veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are killing themselves. Between 2004 and 2008, the suicide rate among active service soldiers doubled.
The problem has not improved, Schoenbaum said. If anything, its getting worse.
Sitting in the audience, Tom TJ Brennan could only nod in rueful recognition. His service dog, Luke, sat at his feet.
I worry about this, he said. I worry about my Marines.
TJ Brennan grew up in Randolph and joined the Marines when he was 17. By the time the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were raging, he was ready to lead. He was a squad leader, but experience cant avoid rocket-propelled grenades and the one that landed next to him in Afghanistan knocked him out.
He realized he had a traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress long after his visible wounds healed. He told his Marines first, and they hugged him because theyre Marines. He told his commanders next and they said all the right things to his face and talked about him behind his back.
I wasnt as upset about what they said about me compared to what message that sent to the junior Marines, who were just preparing for combat, TJ Brennan said. The command was basically telling them, if you need help, youre weak.
Last December, two years after a general pinned a Purple Heart on him in Afghanistan, TJ Brennan retired after nearly 10 years a Marine, and he entered a dark place.
I felt completely worthless, he said. My identity was being a Marine. Now it was gone.
He wanted to be gone. He swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills. Then he lay down and waited to die. As he waited, he imagined his daughter living with the shame of a father who killed himself. And then TJ Brennan ran to the bathroom and the same fingers he had used to kill the enemy he used to save himself. His trigger finger went down his throat and he threw up.
His journey through the mental health care system, as porous for our vets as it is for everybody else, was worse than combat.
We can do better for our vets, he said. Weve got to do better for our vets.
The day before TJ Brennan was sitting at the Veterans Day forum at the Kennedy Library organized by Home Base, the program established by the Red Sox and Massachusetts General Hospital to treat the invisible wounds of war, he was standing with me on I Street in South Boston. The Quencher, an old neighborhood pub in Southie, is closing and held a block party. I knew it would be the biggest gathering of Marines since Fallujah. Besides, it was the Marine Corps birthday.
I figured TJ would get a kick out of meeting all the old Marines, including the Quencher owners, Dodo Nee and Nino Sances. Dodo and Nino told him he was with his brothers now.
Semper Fi, Dodo said, shaking TJs hand.
Semper Fi, TJ said back to him.
TJ Brennan smiled and took it all in, but I noticed he was preoccupied. He regarded the crowd and wondered if he should have brought Luke. But it was more than that. He kept looking around, as if he had lost something. And then he told me.
I lost one of my Marines two days ago, TJ Brennan said. He had a wife. He had a little girl, 4 months old. But he had his demons and they wouldnt leave him alone. He killed himself.
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The Social Security Administration is cutting back its hours of operation for the second time in as many years, the agency confirmed to Federal Times.
Mary Glenn-Croft, deputy commissioner for operations, said in an email to employees that SSA offices will close to customers 30 minutes earlier. The agency also announced in August 2011 that it would reduce its office hours by half an hour each day.
An SSA spokeswoman told Federal Times the decision was made due to reduced funding in the continuing resolution that President Obama recently signed. The agency will receive "significantly" less funding than it requested, the spokeswoman said.
In her email, Glenn-Croft said the change will reduce the number of overtime hours that employees work, leading to savings.
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