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EAST WATERFORD - Paula D. Hockenberry went above and beyond her job title as personal care attendant to Randi Sheaffer, of East Waterford. On June 14, Hockenberry became her hero.
Hockenberry was home alone with Sheaffer that afternoon in the log-style home owned by Brad and Blairene Sheaffer, Randi's parents. Randi, 31, has cerebral palsy and neurodegeneration, and she needs assistance with her day to day activities, including walking, Blairene said.
On June 14, a tired Randi told Hockenberry she wanted to lie down for a bit. After Hockenberry helped her to her bed, she decided to sit down at the table with a book.
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Randi Sheaffer was rescued by her personal care attendant on June 14 when flames destroyed her East Waterford home.
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Randi Sheaffer, of East Waterford.
"I heard this 'Pop! Pop!'" Hockenberry recalled. "I looked over my left shoulder and saw flames shooting through the window."
Hockenberry reacted quickly but as calmly as she could, she said. She ran for Randi's room and woke the woman and told her they needed to get out of the house.
"She was cooperative," Hockenberry said.
Though she had gotten Randi into her wheelchair, Hockenberry could not simply push her out of the burning home.
"I had to have her walk down the steps out the door," which takes Randi a bit more time than the average person, she said.
While helping Randi out of the house, Hockenberry was on her phone dialing 9-1-1 and Blairene as well.
Blairene didn't get the message Hockenberry left on her cell phone's voicemail until two days after the fire, due to an apparent cell phone glitch. Fortunately, a representative of Hockenberry's employer, Consumer Resources for Independents in Lewistown, phoned Blairene and was able to reach her.
The fire moved quickly, Hockenberry said.
The personal care attendant said she looked behind her as she led Randi to the door and billowing black smoke was coming toward them. Randi told someone later she saw flames behind her as she tried to get out of the home.
Within five minutes of seeing the initial flames, Hockenberry said glass windows were breaking in the home.
It was a miracle, Blairene said, that her daughter was able to get out of there in such a short amount of time.
Once outside, Hockenberry helped Randi get to a safe spot. She then ran and grabbed one of the family dogs that was trying to head back into the house. In all, Hockenberry retrieved three dogs and put them in her Jeep. The family lost one smaller dog, Randi's pet Shih Tzu, as well as some cats in the blaze.
Hockenberry said she watched the roof of the two-story log home cave in. She said she felt helpless, but so glad she had gotten Randi out safely.
"I've always learned when there's a fire you get the people out everyone out and retrieve animals if you can. Things have to stay behind," she said
The Sheaffers said they are grateful to the fire company from East Waterford and all who responded to the scene.
"They did what they could to keep the rest of our property from burning," Blairene said, and they managed to save the family's barn which had some valuables inside.
In addition to all of their personal belongings, the family lost many treasured antiques, and special cross-stitched dolls Blairene made. The house was unique in that it had a hemlock tree in the home with stairs wrapped around it to go to the top floor bedrooms. What mattered most, however, was that their daughter was spared.
"She did above and beyond to help us," Blairene said of Hockenberry, who lives two houses away from the Sheaffers.
The cause of the fire has yet to be determined, the Sheaffers said. They are staying with family at the other end of the county until they decide what to do next.
Blairene said it was a mixed blessing that the call from Hockenberry did not show up on her phone until June 16.
"I received the original message sent to me as she was trying to get the wheelchair down the stairs with Randi in it. You can hear the fear and frustration in her voice that she couldn't save some of our animals ... I just cried and cried."
Randi no longer likes to talk about the fire. Knowing she lost her Shih Tzu still brings her to tears.
"We are so thankful that Paula did what she could do to save our child. Randi is so precious to us. She makes me laugh with her corny sense of humor and wit. She is a true gift from God," Blairene said.
Hockenberry, who remained with the Sheaffers, the fire volunteers and the fire marshal until 9:30 p.m., said she was just doing her job.
"When she got Randi out of the house she was no longer just a CRI aid," Blairene said, "She is my neighbor who cared. We can never thank her enough for her bravery."


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The FSF has (among other things) designed the GPLv3 to prevent tivoization. What do you think about this?
GPLv3 on tivoization: good or bad?
When designing the GPLv3 the FSF intentionally included measures to prevent Tivoization. Some people think that TIVO-like companies shouldn't be allowed to create hardware that only runs specific software, because doing so renders modified software useless. Other people feel that TIVO-like companies should be able to do so, that hardware and software are two different things, and that the GPL is stepping out of the software boundaries. What do you think about this? Good, bad, in between or neither?
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we have to make hardware free also. we need this. manufacturers must consider about. and i think that this is just a modest step forward.
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I think your question should include a clear definition of "tivoization".
Only time will tell
I voted "don't know", because the truth is that we're all speculating. There are a number of ways in which it can be argued that "tivoization" is irrelevant -- for example, as it becomes easier to make your own hardware and open hardware designs are available, then the move to hardware that fully supports free and open software will be driven by market forces.
On the other hand, there's the horror story of a totally locked-down society with highly-centralized (or monopolized) manufacturing. I do believe there are people out there who want this to happen, but I've never seriously believed that they will succeed -- not in the long run, anyway. It's difficult to create and maintain such a monopoly, and there are far too many motivated people willing to make up the difference. The only way it can really happen is if people are really, really passive (on the other hand, that part is not so far-fetched).
If market forces are such that tivoization will die anyway, then I think that the FSF made a mistake writing this language into GPLv3, because it very well may have unintended consequences. On the other hand, if tivoization and trusted computing were to become truly ubiquitous, then these provisions may be the only thing keeping us out of the fire -- and thus they would be essential.
Of course, as with so many things surrounding IP issues, we'll probably never really know, because we can't turn back history and repeat with a different input (no controls, so no experiment). We'll only know what we did do.
ISTM that GPLv3 is good enough, even if the anti-tivoization language was a bad idea. It'll take years of test cases, though, before we really understand what the implications of all the new language in the GPLv3 are.
After taking more time to read about and understand tivoization I realize I should have voted in fovour of the FSF doing the right thing.
So 87 people vote and your email declares:
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The Stetson men's basketball team (10-14, 7-6) gave away a 20-point second half lead and fell to ETSU (8-18, 6-7) by a score of 62-61 on Saturday afternoon at the Edmunds Center. The Hatters turned the ball over 14 times and shot just 30.4 percent (7-of-23) in the second half.
"It's incredibly discouraging and disappointing to let that game get away from us, and it's easy to point to the last possessions, but the last 10 minutes of the game was where the game was lost," Stetson head coach Casey Alexander said after the loss. "It was outrageous how inefficient we were offensively, and how they outhustled us for loose balls and rebounds. I told our team we got what we deserved."
The game didn't start out in such a disappointing fashion. A three-pointer by junior Hunter Miller gave Stetson a 3-2 lead, a lead it did not give up until the final moments on Saturday. The long range shooting continued to work against the Bucs' zone, as triples by freshman Tanner Plemmons and junior Aaron Graham gave the Hatters an 18-10 lead with 12:21 left in the first half.
It was about three and a half minutes later that a bucket in the post by senior Adam Pegg ignited an 18-6 run that gave Stetson a healthy 15-point advantage with just 1:24 remaining in the period. Pegg scored five points during the stretch, which also included a pair of threes by senior Joel Naburgs, and one triple apiece for Plemmons and Graham.
The two squads traded baskets before an ETSU three-pointer by Rashawn Rembert at the buzzer made it 38-26 in favor of the Hatters at the break. Stetson played extremely well in the first, finishing 14-of-29 (48.3%) from the floor, 8-of-16 (50.0%) from three, and turned it over only three times, while holding the Bucs to just 26 points.
Stetson continued the success early in the second, using a 10-0 run to increase its lead to 20 points at 54-34 with 12:10 to play. Back-to-back buckets by Pegg, and Graham's fourth three-pointer of the contest highlighted the run that could have put the game away.
It didn't. The Hatters went without a field goal for the next eight minutes and 57 seconds, recording just two free throws as ETSU cut the Stetson lead down six points, at 55-49, with 5:12 to play. A Pegg free throw preceded the aforementioned first basket since 12:10, a driving layup by junior Chris Perez that increased Stetson's lead back to nine points, at 58-49 with 3:13 remaining.
The Hatters turned the ball over 11 times in the final 11 minutes of play to allow ETSU back in the game. A layup by Hunter Harris and a traditional three-point play got the Bucs right back in the game, but it was a triple by Rembert that pulled ETSU within one-point, at 58-57, with 2:06 to play.
"They were more aggressive, and they trapped us on occasion, but who cares?" Alexander said of the second half. "We made two or three turnovers and then we got scared. We were timid to pass, catch, we quit playing offense, which means shots weren't as good, which means shots didn't go in. I give them a lot of credit, but you can't make 14 turnovers in a half and shoot 30 percent, and expect to be any good."
A huge three-pointer by Graham from the corner, his fifth of the night, put Stetson back up by four points with 1:29 left, but that was the last time the Hatters would score. Harris connected on a layup in the post on the Bucs' next time down court to cut their deficit down to two points.
With a pair of offensive rebounds by Perez and Graham, Stetson's next possession lasted nearly an entire minute, but a travel by Graham immediately after grabbing his rebound gave ETSU the ball with 16 seconds to play.
Similarly to the end of the first half, it was Rembert getting the last shot off, this time a three-pointer from the right corner that touched nothing but net to give ETSU its first lead since it was 2-0. Stetson's final attempt resulted in yet another turnover and the buzzer sounded to give ETSU the 62-61 victory over the Hatters.
"We were well aware of the many times they've already come back on teams this year," Alexander said of the Bucs' impressive track record in 2012-13. "Florida Gulf Coast was up 19 in the second half, and ETSU came back and beat them by 10. We talked about it, but you have to just keep playing. There's no excuse. It was equal parts good by them and bad by us."
Graham led Stetson with 15 points on 5-of-10 shooting from beyond the arc. It marked the seventh time in his career that the guard has made five triples in a game. He is now fourth all-time at Stetson with 156 career threes, trailing just teammate Naburgs (164), A.J. Smith (167), and Kerry Blackshear (170).
Pegg added 10 points, recording double digit points for the 19th straight game, and added six rebounds. Junior Willie Green led all players with 11 rebounds, tying his career high. Naburgs chipped in with nine points on 3-of-6 from beyond the arc.
The Hatters finished with 17 turnovers, which led to 21 ETSU points. Stetson shot 30.4 percent from the floor, and 30.0 percent from three-point range in the second half, recording its lowest outing in a period (23 points) since putting up just 22 in the first half at Virginia Commonwealth on Nov. 28.
Jarvis Jones led ETSU with 17 points, but it was Rembert's 16 on 4-of-7 from beyond the arc that proved to come at the right times. Harris added 12 points and 10 rebounds, while Walton totaled a game-high five steals in the victory.
Stetson will next head back on the road for its final road trip of the regular season. The Hatters play at Lipscomb on Feb. 14 at 6:30 p.m. local time, 7:30 p.m. Eastern, and then make their first trip to Highland Heights, Ky. to take on Northern Kentucky on Feb. 16 at 7:00 p.m.


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With spring training starting in less than two weeks, former Kula resident Kanekoa Texeira signed a minor league deal with the Cincinnati Reds today.
The former Kamehameha Schools Kapalama standout who has a 1-1 record and 4.66 ERA over 49 major league appearances with Seattle and Kansas City from the 2010 and 2011 seasons is surprised it took until today to sign. It will be the first time since 2009 that he will not be in a major league spring training camp - he was 0-3 with a 2.72 ERA last season for Louisville, the Reds' Triple-A team.
"I'm happy to have a job and continue to play," he said via phone from his Seattle home. "It was getting close, I was getting a little worried. Now, I'm excited and glad to keep going."
Texeira battled an oblique injury last season and said that may be the reason he did not get the call he expected earlier.
"I'm not going to big league camp for the first time in a while, a little weird, but it's also a wake-up call," Texeira said. "It's good just to have a job. I was pretty surprised, but it is what it is. It's a business, I guess that's just how it works. The goal for me this year is to stay healthy. I guess that's why it took forever to sign, I got injured a little bit last year."
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BERKELEY SPRINGS - Cumberland native John Douglas is known in Morgan County as being the longtime editor of "The Morgan Messenger" and "Hancock News" in Maryland. He joined the staff in the 1970s and became editor in 1999, retiring just months ago. He's also known for his books, including three mystery novels and "George Washington and Us" about the pre-president's days as a surveyor in the area.
Douglas has just released "A Fog of Ghosts" in time for Halloween. The compilation of true and strange tales stems from his research over the years. Berkeley Springs Books is hosting a book signing Saturday afternoon.
Many accounts of the strange or unusual he heard about from residents or legend. Some are fiction. There are 17 ghost stories. Others are never before published. The book is structured in sections.
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"One section has a sort of a memoir why I got interested in ghost stories," said Douglas. "People would tell me a place that was haunted or where a UFO was sighted. My dad told us ghost stories when we'd go camping. I'd tell stories to my kids when they were little."
"The Indian Sorcerer," said Douglas, is the reshaping of a story from the "Messenger" for Halloween 1978. A lot of Indian legends exist around the area. This one's about Cold Run Valley. It was originally titled "Lucious Landover and the French and Indian Treasurer." At the time, Douglas said he was influenced by Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
Some are based on the history of the area. The region is rich in colonial and Civil War fact or legend. Douglas said one of them has never before been published.
Civil War stories abound, like the slave girl whose appearance foretold of a Civil War death near Hancock, Md. It's supposed to be a true story.
Or read about the Devil Wind that ripped through Potomac Bends country. Delmont Harvey of Great Cacapon told him about a black dog in the 1980s. She had heard of the story from her uncle. The dog would appear and disappear in the blink of an eye, near what kids called Spook Bridge, west of Great Cacapon in Long Hollow. A man and his son once tried to catch the dog after they saw it let out a forlorn moan. They didn't have a dog and would make it a pet. But it became a mist in the boy's hands as he tried to touch it. He suddenly saw it in another spot. He tried to catch it again, and the same stranger thing happened. His fingers would clasp each other, not gripping any other flesh or hair.
They left, but later thought they hit the same dog at the bridge. Getting out, they found nothing. After that, the state took out the old bridge, put in a culvert and installed a sign to warn motorists to go slow-animal crossing. Was the black dog real or a ghost? No one knows for sure.
"Bombs and Visions" and "Belle Cross Sees a Ghost" first appeared in Marguerite DuPont Lee's "Virginia Ghosts." Douglas said she had the bare bones of the history related to them, and he filled in details from his familiarity of the area or research.
Some stories are true. The Redhead Murder Case is the story of a still unidentified woman whose nude body was found near the Potomac River in 1950. It includes photos and information he received from police.
"The Redhead case, which takes up the middle of the book, is my fullest account yet," said Douglas. "This one is expanded from my article in 'Goldenseal' in 2011."
"The Lynching of Dr. Samuel Crawford" is a true account of the only known lynching in the Berkeley Springs area.
He and his wife Samantha made up at least one, the sad Civil War story of Maggie Rose. General T. J. "Stonewall" Jackson and his men were through the area during the January 1862 Bath-Romney campaign. He camped near Unger.
"One night Samantha and I were on a one-lane bridge on Route 13. We'd heard weird noises when we crossed that bridge. We wrote of a little girl who was shot by accident when she went out trying to glimpse Stonewall Jackson passing by."
The fictional story took root. Douglas said a couple years after it appeared, a Michigan college professor called him to get directions to the bridge. The professor was bringing a busload of people on a Stonewall Jackson tour.
"This book's a mix of fact and fiction," said Douglas. "Different people told me stories. It is hard to know sometimes what is true and based on fact, or what's based on legend."


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Three plays, three stops, one punt. That's all it was, but nothing would ever be the same again in the world of Manatee High football.
The Hurricanes' ascent to the nation's top team can be traced back to Dec. 11, 2009, an unforgettable night that restored the luster to a once mighty program and served as the springboard to what it has become today.
In the state semifinals at Manatee High, the Hurricanes shocked St. Thomas Aquinas 28-20, and to dissect that win reveals the importance of the first three plays of the game.
Had they occurred differently, perhaps Manatee football does not become nationwide.
St. Thomas Aquinas came into the 2009 game with a 37-game win streak, including consecutive Class 5A state titles, and at the time was ranked first in the country.
When Manatee made the Raiders punt on the game's first series, the Hurricanes' confidence began to surge until it could not be stopped.
"That set the tone, because then they believed they could win that game and that game has set the tone for everything that has happened afterwards," said Manatee assistant coach Jim Phelan.
Manatee travels to St. Thomas Aquinas on Friday for the Class 7A semifinals, and the rivalry is now one of the most competitive in the state.
This will be the third time the schools have met in the playoffs where national championship hopes have been on the line.
As for the epic 2009 game, the pregame speech was even more chilling than usual with several former Manatee stars making appearances.
"I've never seen it so emotional," said assistant coach Dennis Stallard.
Prior to the game, St. Thomas Aquinas players ran to midfield and did jumping jacks in front of the Manatee players. Or at least it appeared as if the team was doing them.
"St. Thomas awoke every sleeping legend who ever played in this stadium that night and they had no idea they did it," said Manatee assistant Steve Gulash. "People still dispute it, but when we came out to stretch, St. Thomas came out from their goal line to the 50 and started talking trash and jumping on our emblem and it almost ended up a fight.
"Cris Carter (former NFL player) was right in the middle of it, running his mouth and not holding people back and that was it.
"For some reason the power was in the kids and they believed."
Aquinas' first play of the game was a screen that went nowhere. Manatee's Clint Heaven made the tackle. The next play was a run off tackle and Heaven made another stop for no gain. The third play was a second screen for a few yards and the Raiders were forced to punt.
"Right then our guys knew, 'OK, we've got a shot, let's play now,'" Phelan said. "The first three plays turned this program around. I really believe that."
What the win in 2009 did more than anything was put Manatee on the national radar.
Manatee went on to play for the state championship that year, and fell to Tampa Plant, 21-14.
But in a Kickoff Classic the next fall, Manatee pounded Plant in a rematch. It didn't count in the standings, but it was played with regular-season intensity.
ESPN televised the game, the first time Manatee had appeared on the network, and now fans across the country could see the 'Canes. Current Manatee quarterback Cord Sandberg made his first varsity start on ESPN and would go on to be one of the top quarterbacks in the country.
Manatee began the 2010 season 13-0 but lost to Aquinas in the state semifinals. Aquinas was named national champions that season.
Manatee has not lost to a Florida team since losing that game.
Manatee has played two out-of-state games since beating Aquinas in 2009, and was scheduled to play in Seattle this year until financial support fell through.
Manatee has become a very appealing opponent to out-of-state schools. Eden Prairie, a team in Minneapolis, was hoping to travel to Bradenton next season, but could not make the finances work, even though the Minnesota Vikings were said to be interested in helping out.
Largely because of the Aquinas win in 2009, Manatee struck a two-year apparel deal with UnderArmour in 2010. A new three-year contract was signed after Manatee won the state title last year.
"It was big," said Manatee coach Joe Kinnan of the 2009 win over Aquinas. "In the mid-90s, we had lost our luster until really when I came back (in 2004). And really, we still didn't have it until we beat them in '09."
Manatee stopping Aquinas on the first three plays of the 2009 game turned out to be a huge moment for the program, and eventually how it is perceived nationally.
It was kind of like the 2004 Boston Red Sox, when pinch-runner Dave Roberts stole second base in the ninth inning of Game 4 in the ALCS against the New York Yankees. Boston trailed the series 3-0 at the time.
Roberts went on to score the tying run, Boston won in 12 innings and it was the start of eight straight wins that led to the team's first World Series title since 1918.
Who knew a stolen base could amount to what it eventually did?
And who knew three plays could amount to what they eventually did?
"Those three plays I'll never forget," said Phelan.


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An off-duty Buffalo police officer returning to his Lisbon Avenue home Monday afternoon shot and killed a suspected burglar who apparently confronted the officer with a gun he had just stolen the home, the officer's attorney said.
"This is one case where a burglar picked the wrong house as a target," Police Benevolent Association attorney Thomas H. Burton told The Buffalo News.
Burton identified the off-duty officer as Duane Luchey, a 16-year veteran of the Buffalo Police Department who is currently on injury leave.
Neither Burton nor a Police Department spokesman would identify the dead suspect.
Officials said the suspect was a man in his early 50s with a long history of arrests and convictions.
Burton said he fully expected Erie County District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III to ask a county grand jury to look into the shooting. Burton said Luchey will waive immunity to talk to that panel.
"One would be hard-pressed to find a more legitimate use of deadly physical force" than the reported confrontation of the burglar, who was in a second-floor apartment in the officer's home, and the officer who had come back after being out of his house for some time today," attorney Burton said.
According to Burton, Luchey came home at about 1:30 p.m. Monday to his home on Lisbon Avenue in the University District and was shocked to find a previously closed – but not locked – dresser drawer open. Missing were one of the officer's semiautomatic handguns and some ammunition.
Then Luchey heard someone on the second floor. The officer yelled, "Stop. Police," as the burglar came downstairs.
The officer, who was armed with another gun, opened fire, and the burglar stumbled out of the house and fell dying to the sidewalk.
Police recovered the stolen service handgun and other property belonging to the police officer, inside a satchel found next to the dying man.
No one else was home at the time of the incident.
Burton said Luchey, whom he is representing, is cooperating fully with homicide detectives.
He also said that departmental officials would launch a mandatory departmental investigation of the shooting incident.
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WQED and Winchester Thurston School are partnering to provide cool new summer camps for students in grades Pre-K – 8, based on your favorite PBS KIDS and PBS KIDS GO! shows! There is something for everyone: programs focus on numerous topics including art, science, paleontology, cooking and nutrition, engineering, Spanish language and culture, reading and writing, animal behavior, and even superhero journalism just for girls! All camps are held on Winchester Thurston's North Hills and City campus locations. WQED members receive a 10% discount on all smart.squared camps. Learn more and register at smartsquared.org.
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Hello, music lovers.
The world has always produced great musical groups as well as great musical groups that never existed. The Greeks gave us the Sirens of Odysseus. From Rome we got Nero who didn't really fiddle but was a notorious Lyre player. Egypt gave us Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs - uh, well, maybe not. But, as generous as history has been with great examples of real musical groups, it is worth noting that history is also littered with musical groups that never existed, such as Alexander's Ragtime Band, Benny and the Jets, The Sultans of Swing, Willie and the Poor Boys. And that is what we are celebrating for the next eight weeks - some of the greatest bands that never were and in some cases it's probably better that they weren't.
Anyway, we will be meeting here, in the lavishly appointed MCPL Auditorium at 6:30 for the next 7 Wednesdays to explore this little researched phenomenon of Bands that never existed in film and the eighth week will be a live performance by a band that never (quite) was. Be there or be square.
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Wu Appointed to Editorial Board of Journal of Socio-Economics
Posted December 9, 2013
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Professor of Economics Stephen Wu has been appointed to the editorial board of The Journal of Socio-Economics. The journal publishes papers that deal with various economic topics but also involve issues that are related to other social sciences, such as psychology and sociology.
It accepts contributions in behavioral economics, economic psychology, experimental economics, socio-economics, and judgment and decision making.


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That trail of freckles, under his left eye, is in my top favorite things I've ever loved. And we have an understanding that I must kiss them every day. Sometimes over and over.
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Amelia has freckles all over her cute little nose too. SHe knows I love them oh so much and I also kiss them everyday. LOOOVE freckles.
Mostly because she gets them from me :)
oh-my-mom-heart. mine is my son's just perfectly stick-outness of his ear lobe. i have deemed it the softest place on earth. i have to tug it once every night when i tuck him in :)ReplyDelete
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Emma's just started popping up this year. They are so stinking cute...and totally kissable!ReplyDelete
One of our Prek students came back from Florida with an great tan and a bunch of freckles, which she called "frenkles". It was too cute.ReplyDelete
I love freckles :)
My boy's freckles just popped out this summer and I'm kissing them too!
I am missing you on Thursday's so I had to stop by and catch up.
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Not bad for a bunch of JV runners.
With an overachieving group of mostly underclassmen - with only one senior on each team - the Truckee girls cross-country team raced to a second-place finish at the Division I-A state championship in Boulder City on Saturday, while the boys finished fourth.
As she did all season, sophomore Skyler Flora led the Truckee girls in their bid for the team championship, finishing second to Elko junior Shelbie Dorsa.
The anticipated duel between the top two finishers did not disappoint, as Flora, the regional champ, remained on Dorsa's heels through much of the sandy, 5-kilometer course. But Dorsa, who sat out the regional championship with an illness, showed no ill effects from the previous week. She pulled away over the final half-mile to earn the individual state title in a time of 19 minutes, 36.9 seconds.
Flora crossed the line about 13 seconds behind, in 19:50.0. Ebonique Diaz of Sunrise Mountain was third in 20:21.0.
Another standout Truckee sophomore, Gabrielle Rinne, finished ninth in a time of 21:10.1, while freshman teammate Hannah Halvorsen was 20th in 22:09.2, senior Ruby Wood was 24th in 22:29 and freshman Kyla Burrill was 25th in 22:31 to complete the team scoring. Olivia Yale (36th, 24:07) and Michaela Welch (37th, 24:11) also raced.
The Wolverines' top five scores earned them a second-place team finish behind Elko, 41-53. South Tahoe's girls came in third with 77 points, and were followed by Faith Lutheran (81), Desert Pines (134) and Clark (135). A total of 52 girls participated in the race.
Andrew Clusserath made his first state experience a memorable one.
The Truckee freshman recorded a sixth-place finish in a field of 52 runners, as he hung in the back of the pack for the first half of the race before steadily passing competitors to the finish line. He posted a time of 17:22.4.
South Tahoe senior Connor Henderson claimed the individual title in a time of 16:37.8, while Martin Ponce of SECTA was runner-up in 16:50.8 and Kyler Simpkins of Elko was third in 17:08.8.
Truckee sophomore Noah Oberriter followed up his fifth-place regional performances with a solid eighth-place finish in 17:32.4, while senior Alex Kopytko finished 22nd in 18:06 and Nathan Ariza was 23rd in 18:06.3. Nick Morgan was 29th in 18:21.9 to round out the Wolverines' top five scores.
Simeon Murphy (45th, 19:37) and Colin Deurlington (50th, 21:19) also competed for Truckee.
Elko's boys won a close team competition over SECTA, 57-66, to give the Indians dual state titles. South Lake Tahoe and Truckee tied with 67 points, but the Vikings won the tiebreaker based on their sixth finisher.
With state in the rearview, Flora and Rinne plan to continue their seasons by participating in the Foot Locker Cross Country Championships West Regional at Mt. San Antonio College in Southern California on Dec. 1. The event is a qualifier for the Foot Locker high school nationals a week later in San Diego.


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Sitting down for their annual interview with PEOPLE Managing Editor Larry Hackett and Washington, D.C., correspondent Sandra Sobieraj Westfall, President and Mrs. Obama reflect on the year's difficulties, both in the political arena and the smaller challenges he encounters at home.
"I've got three opinionated, strong, tall women," says President Barack Obama. "If they get together, they can have fun about my ears or being too loud, or how I dress."
If only that genial ribbing was the worst of his year. The President, joined by Michelle Obama in the White House's Blue Room, also answered questions about the glitchy launch of healthcare.gov – yes, he tried to log on, and initially found it "frustrating" when he couldn't – and his awkward call to German Chancellor Angela Merkel after it was revealed that the U.S. National Security Agency was listening in on her conversations.
"Because technology is changing so fast and the information is out there, we have to make sure that just because we can do something, doesn't mean we do do something."
If you eavesdropped on a typical day at the White House, it might sound a lot like any home with young teens. The Obamas reveal that daughters Sasha, 12, and Malia, 15, weigh in on Mom's fashion choices and have tutored Dad in using Instagram and Vine. And, like any kids, they are occasionally embarrassed by their parents.
"Malia had friends over, and there was a question about whether she was going to even introduce them [to her dad], because sometimes he gets a little formal, asking them about school and interests," the First Lady tells PEOPLE. "She says, 'I don't know if my friends can handle that.'" Then she turns to her husband and says, "But she said that you actually did quite well."
"I acquitted myself well," notes the President. "I did not embarrass her."
To read the full story, pick up the latest issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday
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Promoting Transparency and Accountability
Koidu Town, previously a rebel stronghold during the war, is the center of Sierra Leone's diamond mining industry. Grantees are working to ensure that profits benefit the poor. Photo courtesy of Matthew Genasci, Revenue Watch Institute.
One key to improving
the lives of the world's poorest people is to see to it they receive
such basic services as education, health care and sanitation. Indeed,
delivery of these services directly translates into improved well-being
and has been shown to increase individual income. But getting services
to the people, particularly to the poor, often is hobbled by corruption
and inefficiency. For example, according to Transparencia Mexicana's
National Index of Corruption and Good Government, Mexican families
living on less than $5 per day lose nearly a quarter of their income to
corruption in the form of bribes to obtain essential services. In
Bangladesh, lack of oversight allows for a 74 percent absenteeism rate
among public health care doctors.
One solution to these problems and others like them lies in improving transparency and accountability in how public funds are allocated and spent. As a first step, the Global Development and Population Program makes grants to organizations that influence how national and local governments:
Collect Revenue. The focus here is on two primary sources of money for the delivery of basic services: revenue from the extraction of natural resources and foreign aid. Grant recipients like the Revenue Watch Institute work in resource-rich countries to assure revenue from the extraction of natural resources actually reaches government coffers by pushing for public oversight and by offering the technical assistance to evaluate whether extracted resources match income. The Program also supports efforts both to reform how donor nations distribute foreign aid and to improve accountability of aid use in the countries that receive it.
Allocate Money. The first step in the effective use of public funds is getting better access to information about how funds are being allocated in the national budget. The International Budget Partnership, a Hewlett grantee, works with watchdog groups around the world to advocate for more budget transparency, and then to analyze budget allocations to determine whether they are responding to citizen needs and priorities.
Spend Money. The Program also supports the work of local and international experts to track expenditures and ensure that funds make their way from the central government down to service providers at the local level.
Deliver Services. Even when funds make it to the agencies that provide services to the public, it is possible that the wrong services are delivered or they are delivered poorly. To curtail such problems, the Global Development and Population Program supports efforts to collect direct feedback on the quality of services from citizens who use them. In addition, Hewlett is a founding member of the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, which helps governments and development agencies analyze programs they currently fund to evaluate whether they are achieving the desired results.
See how the Foundation's Mexico City office is working to further Transparency and Accountability in Mexico.
The Global Development and Population Program does not accept unsolicited Letters of Inquiry for itsTransparency and Accountability grantmaking.


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quote: Yeeeah VW and "dependability" don't go in the same sentence sadly. Your experience has been extremely in the minority.
quote: VW got a bad rap because the Mexican assembled Jetta IV had bad reliability. Since that model they have been much better.
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Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z Announce Legends of the Summer Tour
(NEW YORK) -- It's official! On Friday, Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z announced their Legends of the Summer stadium tour. The North American tour will stop in 12 cities beginning July 17 in Toronto, Ontario before wrapping in Miami, Florida on Aug. 17.
Fans have several options to purchase tickets and VIP packages through Citicard, Facebook, Live Nation and VIP Nation. As of today beginning at 12 noon local time, Citi cardholders can access presale tickets that will be available on Feb. 27 through Citi's Private Pass Program. Also on Friday, various VIP packages through the website VIP Nation will be available for purchase. VIP options include front row seating, reserved parking, commemorative tour program, limited edition merchandise, and more.
To be eligible for presales, you can also RSVP now on Facebook or use the Live Nation mobile app by texting "LNAPP" to register, or "404040" to download the mobile app and access advance ticket sales as of Feb. 27. All presales end at 5 p.m. local time on Wednesday.
Tickets for all tour dates except New York will go on sale to the general public on Feb. 28. Details for the New York tour stop at Yankee Stadium will be announced separately.
Here's the complete list of tour dates:
July 17 -- Toronto, ON, Rogers Centre
July 19 -- New York, NY, Yankee Stadium
July 22 -- Chicago, IL, Soldier Field
July 26 -- San Francisco, CA, Candlestick Park
July 28 -- Los Angeles, CA, Rose Bowl
July 31-- Vancouver, BC, BC Place Stadium
August 4 -- Hershey, PA, Hershey Stadium
August 6 -- Detroit, MI, Ford Field
August 8 -- Baltimore, MD, M&T Bank Stadium
August 10 -- Boston, MA, Fenway Park
August 13 -- Philadelphia, PA, Citizens Bank Park
August 16 -- Miami, FL, Sun Life Stadium
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| A message from Al Qaeda
- Thirsty? Perhaps you were looking for 9-Eleven.
man, like me country that is hiding something is a country that is afraid of getting caught"
- ~ George W. Bush.
The September 11 attacks (also referred to as 9/11) were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks launched by a special unit of Osama bin Laden's TerrorCo upon the United States in New York City and Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. This is also the the date on which patriotism was invented. The attackers employed what appeared to be four commercial passenger jet airliners to accomplish one of the biggest life insurance scams, false-flag operations and inside jobs the world has ever seen.
On that infamous day, nearly 3,000 people died, four American airliners crashed, Tower One, Tower Two and Tower Seven of the World Trade Center in New York City collapsed, a section of the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia was destroyed and a thousand people's plane tickets suddenly became invalid. Billions worldwide were shocked by the incident and were deceived by the U.S. Government to believe that Al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden were responsible. What's worse, the majority of the world population still believes that Osama bin Laden was the mastermind behind the attacks.
People don't seem to realize that 9/11 was not planned a few months or even a few years prior to execution. 9/11 was planned decades in advance. It was planned and executed with military precision, and not just "any" military precision. What's even worse than that: that same majority does not care to know the truth and/or doesn't want to accept it (especially in North America). But you can uncover the truth about 9/11, my friend. Read on for more information.
Years prior to 9/11, members of the "Special Unit" infiltrated Al-Qaeda to make sure that Osama bin Laden was still alive and well and possibly still sending hideous statements against the United States of America. Those Special Unit members suggested to Al-Qaeda that some of its best men became sleeper cells in America and learned to fly airplanes so that terrorist acts could be performed in American territory. More than $100,000 was wired to Al-Qaeda through the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) so that terrorists could be sent to flying schools in the U.S.
Using the tax money paid by the American people, the Special Unit made sure that Al-Qaeda members could sleep under a roof, eat, and attend the best flying schools in America. Nineteen of those men were going to be used as scapegoats in the attacks of September 11 and some were completely unaware of the fact that the Special Unit was targeting them. Some were not even Al-Qaeda members. Their only fault was to be in an aeronautical school in America because they wanted to be pilots in their home countries.
But the Special Unit knew that if it wanted to convince the American people that the terrorists were responsible for the attacks, it had to choose terrorist-looking fellows who happened to attend flying schools in America, then label them as terrorists and plaster their faces in every newspaper and TV screen in the country. In other words, the Special Unit had the names and the faces of each single terrorist responsible for 9/11 even before the year 2001 had started.
The plan was simple: attack Tower One and Tower Two, the Pentagon and fake an unsuccessful attack to the White House. Obviously, the Special Unit had no interest in destroying the White House. But it would make sense that crazy kamikaze terrorists would want to destroy the most important political symbol in American territory and possibly kill the president inside. The plan was to destroy the airliner by means of a military airplane before it could hit the White House.
In the meantime, the boss of the bosses, "The Boss" of the Very Special Unit, was reuniting with his closest allies to excogitate one of the most disturbing attacks on American soil, a military operation of huge consequences and psychological impact, not only on American citizens, but on citizens around the seven continents, which would give the US Government total sympathy from any government and from its own people to do whatever it decided to do afterward. The reason behind this was basically one: to start a war. Why? To finally use the grand quantity of weapons amassed and never used during the Cold War era, to use the tax money to pay for more weapons so that American warlords were happily getting richer and richer, and to have an excuse to invade the countries with most oil reserves in the world: Iraq, Iran and Saudi Arabia. The ultimate goal of this people is to control the entire world the same way Nazis wanted to control all of Europe. It is all beautifully intertwined.
In sight of the attacks, the Special Unit was honing one of American most innovative technologies, a technology that would be the focal point in the 9/11 attacks and that would allow to remotely control an aircraft the size of a Boeing 767 and 757 from takeoff to landing (although engineers say that the landing would be very difficult, much more difficult than a normal one). That was absolutely not a problem since none of the four airliners were destined to land. The technology already existed as far back as the 1970s and it was called "Home Run," but it didn't have anything to do with baseball.
In April, 2001, five months prior to 9/11, Britain's International Television News announced to the world that the American military had the capability of flying unmanned aircrafts: "A robot plane has made aviation history by becoming the first unmanned aircraft to fly across the Pacific Ocean. The American high-altitude Global Hawk spy plane flew across the ocean to Australia, [defense] officials confirmed."
On September 10, 2001, an article from The Washington Times suggested that the Israeli military had the same exact technology.
The technology had to be installed into the airliners prior to the attacks (no shit); therefore, the Special Unit must have free access to the airplanes. The only way to assure that was to use American airplanes that were mostly flown over American territory. As a matter of fact, all four flights on 9/11, American Airlines Flight 11, United Airlines Flight 175, American Airlines Flight 77 and United Airlines Flight 93, were domestic flights departing from Boston, Washington and New York and going to California.
The Special Unit was obviously aware of the fact that the door of the cockpit is closed and locked at all times during an American Airlines flight. All it had to do was to remove the black boxes inside the cockpits, install the remote FMCS, which doesn't stand for Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Society, but for a fully integrated Flight Management Computer System, and also install another remotely-controlled system that would spray a venomous gas inside the cabin to kill or at least K.O. the pilots for hours. Without the black boxes, there would be no records of any pilot contemplating about a venomous or soporific gas been sprayed inside the cabin. Once the pilots were totally unconscious, the Special Unit could guide the aircrafts to their final destinations without any inconvenience.
However, because of unseen circumstances, the Special Unit was forced to leave the black boxes inside the cabins and manipulate them later when they were eventually found. Only two of them were found.
In the year 2000, Republican candidate George W. Bush and Democratic candidate Al Gore were vying to be the next President of the United States of America. Bush won because the Special Unit knew that it needed a moron/potential warlord who had ties with the Bin Laden family if it wanted to successfully attack the United States and blame Islamic terrorists. In the most controversial election in which the winning candidate received fewer popular votes than the runner-up., Bush became the 43rd President of the United States. Good, that much was done. Now America was in real deepshit.
During a series of fire drills in which the Twin Towers were completely evacuated or during the night and/or during a couple of weekends, the Special Unit –backed up by Bush's brother, Marvin P. Bush, who was member of the board of directors of DaleTech, the security company in charge of the Word Trade Center, from 1993 (year of the first attack) to 2000– put the thermite explosives that would later assure the collapse of Tower One, Two and Seven.
A few months before 9/11, the United States Air Force and the North American Aerospace Defense Command made sure that no military airplane would be near the Twin Towers during the attacks. Four war games far away from New York and Washington were going on during the attacks and orders to scramble jets did not come until after three of the four airliners had crashed into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. This is not surprising. If the airliners would have been intercepted, how could the Government explain the collapse of one of the towers that was never hit? The Special Unit had to make sure that both the South and the North Tower were hit before collapsing.
- "Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Whatever it is, it's heading straight for the Twin Towers"
- ~ Frankie Boyle on what he saw during 9/11
On September 11, 2001,
confused amateur pilots bloodthirsty terrorists crashed into the Twin Towers. The planes were lured towards the towers by a large electromagnetic field eminating from the buildings servers which were overloaded by SPAM sent by Osama bin Laden.
The Boeing E-4
While orders to land thousands of commercial airplanes were immediately issued by the Government after the South Tower began to collapse, two "Doomsday" E-4Bs remained airborne. In fact, witnesses said that they saw the military aircrafts flying over Washington prior to the Pentagon attack. How come the Government managed to have two big ass E-4Bs, which fly at 602 mph or 969 km/h, in the sky above Washington minutes before the attack, but did not manage to scramble jet fighters that fly at 1,500 mph or 2,414 km/h? That's two and half times faster than the E-4Bs.
Jet fighters are trained to be escorting any airplane that give signs of trouble in less than 10 minutes. How come the first jet fighter did not arrive at the scene of the attacks until after the first tower started to collapse (that's approximately 50 minutes, or five times slower than usual, and this was no ordinary situation). One would think that the sky above the East Coast on 9/11 must have been air-filled with F-16s. The Government blatantly denied that military aircraft were flying over Washington.
The Government denied that E-4Bs were airborne at that time because they were there to make sure that there were no obstacles preventing American Airlines Flight 77 from hitting the Pentagon bull's-eye style; also, to remote-control the airplanes (the real Doomsdays) into the buildings.
The Pentagon
Approximately 50 minutes after the first attack, a missile-made airplane that had wings and even had the logo of the American Airlines so as to make people watching believe that it was a passenger airliner, crashed into the Pentagon and made a big hole in the only section of the pentagonal building that was reinforced against such a possible attack and where important Naval and CIA files were destroyed. The terrorist who flew the airplane did all the effort to make a maneuver that professional pilots call "nearly impossible" just to destroy CIA files. There are two gas stations near the Pentagon. If the terrorist really wanted to cause a much greater disaster he might have taken one gas station with him on his way to the Pentagon. In fact, he made such a delicate steer that the airplane was on a 15-degree-angle dive and almost landing. Also, he could have flown nose-down on a much easier 90-degree angle toward the center of the building and cause much more damage and casualties.
There were no big, evident remains of a large aircraft inside the Pentagon. Only some small pieces of the aircraft, as stated by a firefighter interviewed after the incident, were found inside the building. The Special Unit put those "small pieces" of an aircraft before and after the attack.
National Crank Call Day
9/11 is also National Telephone the Operator and Drive the First Aid Squad Nuts Day, due to the national crank call number being 911. Many humorous crank calls were received in New York City on this day in 2001, all of which reported hellish carnage and unimaginable scenes of death. 9/11 dispatchers later thanked the numerous callers for sharing their sense of humor with them.
The U.S. Government told us right after the attacks, what seems to be the common assumption today, that 19 young men with a few years of training and maybe 40 flight hours, carrying a Leatherman knife and a few cans of pepper spray, carried out the most terrific and successful terrorist attack of all-time, bringing down two 110-story buildings that were between the most important, if not the most important, and secured in the whole United States of America, in less than two hours, causing nearly 3,000 people to die and without being hampered by any military intervention of any kind whatsoever. According to the government, the attack was part of a promotional stunt for the cancelled Space Ghost Coast to Coast film.
9/11 was the biggest terrorist attack on American soil ever, and it set a Guinness world record. 2,974 people were killed in the attack: 85% Christian, 6% Muslim, 3% Buddhist, 4% Hindu, and 2% Canadian.[1] Americans everywhere flew their flags at half staff to mourn their beloved killed by corporate greed and by the willingness to destroy two big buildings for advertisement.[2] Naturally, the attack backfired, and blame for it was wrongly placed on Iraq. The United States Congress, along with Bush and Cheney, declared the War on Terra (WAT) and passed the Patriot Act.[3] American security personnel concentrated their focus on Iraqistanians and deliberately ignored the mass immigration of Zionist Jews into the country.[4]
The American people bought the government's story with the assumption that "good things only happen in the movies. The FBI and the CIA are not really that good after all. We have to accept it. We have to accept the fact that we are naïve morons who could not forebode a catastrophe of such magnitude."
The event was never mentioned again in American politics. EVER. In fact, why are we talking about it right now? You will have a visit from the National Guard within the following hour.
In other countries
In many other countries such as Canada and the United Kingdom, the 9/11 attacks are recognized by the people as the 11/9 attacks. The reason is that Canadians and many other inhabitants of the world write the date as the day followed by the month. This has been stirring controversy, making the United States grant to United Airlines the name of the attack. Therefore, the airlines can now decide what the day is called, and strictly enforce this name among NAFTA and WTO trading agreements. The name United Airlines chose was, of course, the 9/11 attacks. However, in Canada and the UK, people still get confused, leading citizens of these countries to boycott United Airlines.
The well-known Hollywood movie director Oliver Stone later made a highly-successful movie about the Tragedy of the Twin Towers in order to, he said, quoting the Constitution of the United States, "cash-in on the problems of others." "It was decided," Stone said, "Spielberg gets D-Day and the Holocaust. Michael Bay gets Pearl Harbor and Lionel Richie. I get JFK and the Twin Towers." He continued, "I'm donating a portion of the profits to The Republic of Iranistan, so that they, with their primitive guns and bombs, may provide America with yet more delicious Hollywood film fodder." The film was the only one ever to win an Academy Award in every single category, including the new award for "Best Total Disregard For Anything Sacred That Might Be Left In American Culture."
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- World Trade Center
- Lessons of 9/11
- 9/11 conspiracies explained
- Nine Eleven
- Twin Towers
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Guthrie-Nail described as evil after being sentenced to 50 years in prison
Update at 12:45 p.m. Therisa Johnson, who was shot along with Craig Nail on Dec. 26, 2007, delivered a victim impact statement after the sentencing of Vera Elizabeth Guthrie-Nail.
Johnson said she and Nail met by accident and fell in love. She described him as an intelligent, romantic, talented and thoughtful man who was a wonderful and loving father to two girls.
"He's not here anymore because of what you did," Johnson told Guthrie-Nail. "I just don't know how you could do something so evil and so mean-spirited."
A letter was also read in court from Nail's oldest daughter. She was 16 when he was murdered. She was in high school and playing trumpet in the marching band. She was a straight-A student and was learning from her father how to drive a car. They were planning a trip to Europe for her as a foreign exchange student and looking at colleges.
When her father died, "my whole life turned upside down," she wrote. She eventually dropped out of high school and tried to commit suicide. "I stopped being me," she wrote.
Nail's mother, Elaine Sweetman of Rochester, N.Y., said her son's death "has been life-changing for all of his family." She said she never got to tell her son how proud she was of him and of his strong relationship as a single father to his two girls.
She told Guthrie-Nail that her belief in goodness in this world has been shattered.
"I know there is pure evil in this world," she told her former daughter-in-law, "and I am looking at it in you."
Update at 11:50 a.m.: Vera Elizabeth Guthrie-Nail has reached a plea agreement with prosecutors. She will plead guilty to conspiracy to commit capital murder and be sentenced to 50 years in prison with credit for the time she's already served.
The plea agreement drops the charge of capital murder, which carried a sentence of life without the possibility of parole.
Judge Mark Rusch is going over the terms of the agreement. Guthrie-Nail, 47, is answering in a shaky voice with replies of "Yes, sir."
Her plea means she waives her right to appeal. She would also be eligible for parole, though Rusch made clear that being eligible for parole does not mean it is guaranteed.
Rusch has accepted the plea deal and the recommended sentence.
Update at 10:25 a.m. The jury is expected to be back in the courtroom shortly to hear the testimony of Mark Lyle Bell. Prosecutors will be allowed to play the audio recorded from Bell's interview last year if his responses on Wednesday are any different.
Prior to Bell's guilty plea last year, prosecutors had been seeking the death penalty. A bullet casing found in his pickup truck matched the bullet casings found at the Frisco home where Craig Nail and his girlfriend were shot. Bell's DNA was also found on a beer can left in the yard across the alley from Nail's home. And Bell was captured on surveillance video at a McKinney Walmart purchasing minutes for a cell phone recovered at the home of Vera Elizabeth Guthrie-Nail's mother.
Bell pleaded guilty in July 2011 at his attorney's advice to avoid the possibility of a death sentence. His recorded interview in September 2011 implicated Guthrie-Nail, her mother, Shirley Guthrie, and Thomas Edward Grace in the shooting. Shirley Guthrie has not been charged.
Original:The first witness in today's capital murder trial of Vera Elizabeth Guthrie-Nail is her co-defendant, Mark Lyle Bell, who pleaded guilty to multiple offenses. He is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole for the capital murder of Craig Nail.
Guthrie-Nail is accused of arranging with Bell and another man to have Nail, her estranged husband, killed. Nail was shot 10 times. His girlfriend was shot twice.
But Bell is being less than forthcoming on the stand with his responses – including denying shooting Nail's girlfriend on Dec. 26, 2007 – so the jury has been removed from the courtroom while Judge Mark Rusch and the attorneys discuss the legal issues involved.
Gone is Bell's beard and long hair that he had when he was originally arrested in 2008. He appeared in court clean-shaven with short gray hair, and he was wearing a green jail jumpsuit and had black-framed reading glasses. Bell shuffled to the witness stand in shackles.
In addition to the capital murder conviction, Bell is serving a life sentence for unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon and 10 years for hindering the apprehension of a felon. That last charge came after he took Guthrie-Nail and her mother into the country with co-defendant Thomas Edward Grace to hide out after police started questioning them about Nail's fatal shooting.
Bell pleaded guilty last year, but when asked about serving time for the capital murder of Nail, Bell said it was "not by choice." Prosecutor Bill Dobiyanski asked if he shot a woman when he entered the house. Bell said that's what the reports said. Dobiyanski asked if he used a .22 Ruger handgun.
"That's what I'm accused of using," Bell said.
"Is it what you used?" Dobiyanski said.
"No," Bell said.
Bell entered his pleas in July 2011 and was interviewed by police and prosecutors in the presence of a judge in September 2011. During that interview, Bell said he used a .22 Ruger that had been provided by a co-defendant. Bell said Wednesday in court that he was heavily medicated and didn't even remember the interview. He said he had been taking medication for depression, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and heart ailments. Bell also said he has been on suicide watch for three years.
Defense attorney Richard Franklin asked whether that medication affected his thinking. "I would think so," Bell said. "I took quite a few."
That's when Rusch had the jury removed. He read over the transcript and said the judge at that hearing reviewed Bell's competency at the time. Rusch also said the record made it abundantly clear that Bell was competent. "There's nothing to indicate you were anything but focused, competent and clear-headed," Rusch said. "Don't jack with me."
"What are you going to do, give me a life sentence?" Bell asked.
Rusch told Bell not to assume that there was nothing else that could affect his sentence.
The judge and attorneys are discussing how to proceed.
Bell then mentions that his memory may be affected by a head injury he suffered when he was a child.
Dobiyanski is now questioning Bell outside the presence of the jury. When his answers differ from what he said last year, the audio interview is played.
Dobiyanski asks if Bell was paid anything. "I wasn't paid by anyone except Thomas Grace," he said. "Thomas Grace paid me $1,200."
So than the audio is played from last year. Bell is asked what the agreement was with Guthrie-Nail. "She was going to pay me. Thomas Grace paid me some. Her mother was going to pay me some," Bell said on tape. On the tape, Bell said he expected to get $5,000 to $7,000 for the killing.
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Dear Miss Manners: A few years ago, we got a panettone from a distant family member for Christmas. We said thank you enthusiastically.
The next year, we got one again. Receiving the gift, it didn't seem appropriate to say, "Oh, now that we've tasted this, we really don't see how marketing men managed to pass dry, tasteless bread off as a Christmas cake," so we said thank you again, and if with markedly less enthusiasm, it wasn't noticed.
Now, it seems, this has become a tradition. We see the gifter once or twice a year, and so the options seem to be keeping our mouths closed and getting a gift we don't appreciate, saying something right before Christmas when perhaps the miserable stuff is already bought, or saying something now, which would make it clear the gift was a failure.
What is the right thing to do?
Gentle Reader: Ah, a new version of the classic Fruitcake Problem. The difference is that a fruitcake can be passed around pretty much forever, while panettone has a limited life span.
The etiquette question is whether you can call off an unwanted annual present. The answer is that you probably cannot. It only gives the donors an unpleasant retrospective look at their continuing misjudgment. On the bright side, Christmas is an excellent time to make food donations to organizations that feed the poor.
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Dear Miss Manners: I am 14 years old and have very little money of my own. For the holidays, my dad usually gives me some cash to buy presents for family and friends, but I also enjoy giving handmade gifts, such as the socks I am currently knitting for my grandmother, and I try hard to avoid the commercial side of the holiday season.
Twice this December, my mother, who I do not live with, has mentioned that she wants me to buy her a food processor for Christmas. I think this is a highly unreasonable request to make of anyone, but particularly of one's teenage daughter.
How do you recommend that I handle such situations? My mother has never seemed to follow any of the etiquette guidelines I have been taught or, for that matter, be aware of them. I doubt she even realized that asking me to buy her a food processor was such an inappropriate request. What can I say when she mentions things like this?
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Ron Rolston walked along the Buffalo bench for the 31st time Friday. Whether he'll be back next year for a 32nd game is among the biggest questions for the Sabres as they enter the offseason.
Rolston has been carrying the tag of "interim coach" since taking over for Lindy Ruff on Feb. 20. He said he has not had any conversations with management about staying on permanently.
"Certainly, it's my dream to be an NHL coach," Rolston said in First Niagara Center. "I had an opportunity this year, and I want to continue that."
The Sabres were 6-10-1 when he took over. They finished 21-21-6 after the 2-1 shootout victory over the New York Islanders, giving Rolston a record of 15-11-5.
"I think we've made progress," Rolston said. "I'm not happy that we're not in the playoffs. We needed to do a better job there, but we made some progress I think as a team. We played better down the stretch in terms of the success that we've had."
Rolston, who previously worked for the Sabres minor-league club in Rochester and the United States National Team Development Program, was hired with a reputation for teaching young players. The Sabres are the youngest team in the NHL with an average age of 26.6, and they could get more inexperienced as they continue their rebuild.
"For me, that's one of the strong points I have in terms of helping players move on and get better in development situations," Rolston said. "It's been difficult with the lockout year with the time that you have. A lot of your time is just trying to get yourself back to preparation for the next game.
"I think a longer season gives you the opportunity for more development and more of the hands-on stuff that we need to be doing in the future."
The Sabres were eliminated from playoff contention last week, which gave them plenty of time to prepare their goodbyes. They are wasting no time making them official.
Buffalo will conduct its annual ritual of locker clean-out today. The Sabres usually gather for the last time two or three days after the season ends.
The team also announced that President Ted Black and General Manager Darcy Regier will conduct a season-ending news conference Monday in First Niagara Center. There was no mention of owner Terry Pegula attending.
Thomas Vanek reclaimed his title of Buffalo's top goal-scorer after finishing the season with 20 in 38 games. Cody Hodgson was second with 15 goals in 48 outings.
Though disappointed in the team results, Vanek was OK with his stats. He completed a hat trick of sorts, leading the team with 41 points and tied Tyler Ennis for the assist lead with 21.
"I felt like it was a solid season," Vanek said. "The guys I played with, mainly Cody, I was just trying to go out there and make whoever I played with better, make plays. For the most part, I think I accomplished that."
Vanek has led the Sabres in goals six times in the last seven seasons. Former captain Jason Pominville topped him last year.
Steve Ott recorded the most penalty minutes with 93. Forward Jochen Hecht had the top plus/minus rating at plus-7, while right wing Drew Stafford was the worst at minus-16. Enforcer John Scott failed to record a point in 34 outings.
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Now in its second year, the Worldwide Month of Service is a dedicated timeframe during which the company's locations around the world hold community service events to recognize the commitment and achievement of Alcoa employees who volunteer in their communities.
Under the theme of "Alcoa in the Community," participation this year was up nearly one third from 2006. Alcoa's senior management was actively involved in many of the more than 780 events held in 36 countries in 200 communities.
Alcoa employee volunteers partnered with local nonprofit organizations, neighbors, government officials, and family members to make maximum impact in their local communities. Volunteer efforts included service to nearly 37,000 community residents, planting of over 12,000 trees, and direct assistance to nearly 200 schools. Many events were held with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) where Alcoa employees volunteer year-round and where Alcoa Foundation grants complement their efforts.
"I am proud to congratulate all those employees and their families who make Alcoa's Worldwide Month of Service a true demonstration of the spirit of giving and community involvement has been a core part of Alcoa's Values since our founding," said Alain Belda, Alcoa's Chairman and Chief Executive Office. "We chose International Volunteer Day to announce these achievements as further recognition of the significant positive change these Alcoa volunteers make on a regular basis in their communities around the globe."
In 1985, the General Assembly of the United Nations designated December 5 for an annual celebration of all that is achieved by volunteers; International Volunteer Day is celebrated in more than half the world's countries. Details can be found at www.worldvolunteerweb.org
"Our Worldwide Month of Service extends and deepens our regular, day-to-day community involvement," said Meg McDonald, President of Alcoa Foundation. "The goal is to make a real and sustainable impact on Alcoa communities everywhere."Some highlights from the Month of Service:
Alcoa is the world's leading producer and manager of primary aluminum, fabricated aluminum and alumina facilities, and is active in all major aspects of the industry.
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