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I ran my very first 5k July 3, and did pretty well... at least I'm happy with my results. My problem is that I don't know what to do now... I want to be able to run more 5ks and maybe longer distances, but before I was following a training program (similar to the Couch to 5k program) and now I don't know how to schedule my runs or even where to begin again. I feel like I just finished climbing a huge mountain and now I'm asking myself to do it all over again, and it's quite daunting... Any advice?
"I run because it's so symbolic of life. You have to drive yourself to overcome the obstacles. You might feel that you can't. But then you find your inner strength, and realize you're capable of so much more than you thought."
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7/3/2011- Firecracker 5k Fun Run- 33:02
Congratulations! I did the C25K and loved it. I know people have done the Bridge to 10 K. I just increased my milage and ran a 10K a few weeks ago without an official plan, but now I'm doing the Hal Hidgons 1/2 marathon program and I love it. I agree that having a training plan really helps. I'd suggest the bridge to 10K if you're looking for a next step and see if it works for you.
Completed Races:
3/19/11 Holy Grail 5K 36:20 (First 5K)
4/10/11 Wellness 5K 30:48
4/23/11 Stonyfield 5K 30:28
5/7/11 Dover 5K: 29:39
5/23/11 Get Fit in May 5K 29:44
5/29/11 Redhook 5K 29:32 (PR)
6/11/11 Market Square 10K 1:08:40 (First 10K)
8/18/11 Saunders 10K 1:07:35.49
9/5/11 St. Charles Childrens' Run: 29:54
9/10 Fox Point 5 Mile: 49:03
9/25 Holy Grail 5K: 32:33 (with bronchitis)
10/9 Great Island 5K 32:54.23 (still with bronchitis)
11/13 Seacoast 1/2 Marathon: 2:31:39 (1st 1/2 Marathon)
1/1/12 First Run 10K 1:4:45 (PR)
2012 Races:
2/19/12 Half at the Hamptons 2:28:18 PR
3/24/12 Holy Grail 5K 28:17 PR
4/21/12Whale of a 5K (first trail race) 30:24
3/30/12April Fools 4 Miler 36:39 (9:10mm)
6/12/12 Margaritas 5K 27:52 (9mm) PR
Hal Higdon has a novice 10k program that you would probably like on halhidgon.com.
I second the Hal Higdon novice 10K. I graduated to that from C25K and now I'm using Hal's Novice 1/2 marathon plan. Don't be afraid to edit a plan for your needs. They're just a good starting place. I moved the days around and added an additional rest day.
Congratulations on your achievement in running. I turn 60 on Saturday, July 16th. I lost 58 pounds last year and did not run at all. I ran in the early - mid-80's in my 30's. I did run off and on in the 2000's, but weighed too much and my body (knees) could go for about 8 months and that was it. I began again on Feb. 9, 2011. Wow. Without all that weight I feel like I did way back when, except I can't run near as fast. I had not idea I would be racing either, but have done 5 races already this year. I have learned so much after resuming running basically after 25 years (my body feels like Rip Van Winkle; woke back up in regards to being able to run like I did). I know one thing= I can run hard for 3 miles and no farther now. That is fine with me. I have run a 5K, 6 miler, and three more 5K races. 3 races with hills, 2 flat courses. My best times so far are 27:43 (1st 5K, hills). 26:14 (2nd 5K, flat). 30:15 (3rd 5K, cross country, lots of HILLS). 27:26 (4th 5K, flat). The 6 miler was 2nd race overall (goal 60:00; ran 56:01).
It all depends on your goals. Like I said, I have learned at 59 (5 more days), I can go all out for 3 miles period, so I feel running 5K's is just right for me. I have begun to do interval training (run fast for 1/4 mile and slow down 1/4 mile, repeat; can do this for 2 miles; then recover 1 1/2 miles and do 1 more in 4th mile). I run 4 miles a day 5 x's a week. I do some hill work. I made a mistake though. July 4th was the cross country 5K where I ran 30:15 and then July 9th (only 4 days between) I ran 27:26 (goal was 26:00). Won't run 2 races in 1 week again; 1 a month is good for me. But I was pleased I ran 2 minutes 49 seconds faster from the 4th to the 9th (the flat course was why). Hope you decide, then stick with it. Hope this helped. I live in southeast Iowa on the Mississippi River.
Plans and races can be supportive and fun. Another alternative: running for fun. Someday you just might find yourself thinking "Gee, if I don't get out of here and run for a while, I'll go nuts!" That's a good sign for your development as a runner. Meanwhile, try to enjoy as much of your running as you can. It's all good and good for you.
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...not maintaining this these days..
07/29/2012 Marsh Creek Raptor Run 10 Mile Trail Race
07/15/2012 Quadzilla 15K Trail Run, Trexlertown, PA 1:37 (2011, 1:49)
04/29/2012 Lehigh Valley / St. Luke's HM, 1:43:15 (2011, 1:54:20 )
03/19/2012 Kutztown Fool's Run 10 Miler, 1:18:15 (2011, 1:30:20)
02/26/2012 Ugly Mudder 7.2 Mile Trail Run, Reading, PA 1:20
11/27/2011 Dirty Bird 15K Trail Run, Birdsboro, PA 1:40
10/08/2011 Lehigh Gap Nature Center 10K Trail Run (6.38 miles), 59:20 (10/07/2012)
Started running (again) May 5, 2010
Its really a matter of your personal style, preferences and goals. Sometimes after reaching a goal (like running your first race) it is blissful just to "run for fun" for a while. On the other hand, you might be so psyched after your race, you can't wait to train for the next distance. Either one works - its just a matter of what motivates you. If reaching that first goal was really a stretch for you and you are daunted by the idea of taking it to the next level right away, then you can't go wrong by working on a base level of training for a while. You don't always be working on a training program for the next race distance, it is nice to have some down time when you run according to how you feel and push it harder some days/take it easier other days. When you are ready to move on to a 10K or do another 5K and try to improve your time, you will know it and begin to train accordingly.
Congrats on your first race and happy running!
Take a break. I always find that taking a few weeks to a month off to enjoy other activities (I like to hike, mountain bike, and play tennis in the summer) gives me a renewed love and sense of purpose with my running. To stave off boredom, you can also do more than just increase your distance. You can work on your speed and incorporate some fun things like intervals on the track, hill training, farlek, and pace runs. Once you decide, register for a race. Nothing like a deadline to create motivation for yourself.
12/5/09- Special Olympics Jolly Jaunt 5k- 27:29 (8:51 pace)
5/8/10- NECC 5k- results missing
5/30/10- Johnny Kelly 1/2 Marathon- 2:01:46 (9:18)
9/5/10- Swanzey Covered Bridges 1/2 Marathon- 1:57:50 (8:59)
10/30/10- Special Olympics Trick or Trot 10k- 53:01 (8:32)
2/27/11- Hyannis 1/2 Marathon- 2:21:42 (10:49)
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5/29/11- Johnny Kelly 1/2 Marathon- 1:54:21 (8:44)*PR*
7/10/11- Mad Marathon- 4:50:59 (11:06)
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McPherson has a rich business and industrial history, and researching that history is now much easier, thanks to a new resource created by the McPherson Public Library. The McPherson Historical Business Database includes information about businesses, industries, and professionals beginning with Harrison Bowker's general store in 1872. The database may be searched by name, business type, and street address.
The library fields a significant number of research requests — many of them from out of state — each year from people seeking information about local businesses and industries.
"We receive inquiries from people whose grandfather owned a business, for example, and they want to know more about it and its location," said Jennie Hall, Head of Adult Services. "Many people also want to know what businesses were in a particular building."
This new resource has been in development since 2010 and was originally intended as a tool for use by the library staff. But with the success of the other online historical databases, such as the MPL Obituary Index, Hall decided to use the same search platform, upload it to the library website, and make it public.
Library service desk staff created the database, which currently has over 3,500 entries, using information found in city directories, telephone books, early newspapers, gazetteers, atlases, and Sanborn fire insurance maps. Additional data from The Linn Peterson Collection and the archives of local historian David Nigh brought the Historical Business Database to a new level. Research and input work has taken approximately three years.
The new resource joins the MPL Obituary Index, which currently has over 30,000 records, and the McPherson Photo Album, which has more than 1,500 historic images of McPherson and the county. All are accessible via the library website.
"There are some large public libraries which may have an online historical resource similar to one of ours," said Library Director Steve Read, "but I have yet to see a public library of any size whose online historical presence even approaches the variety, depth, and functionality of these three resources."
Read said that the database is a work in progress and is not comprehensive. He encourages the public to not only use this resource but to let the library know if they can add additional information to any of the records.
The new McPherson Historical Business Database may be found on the library website at www.macpl.org. Click on the Local History & Genealogy option on the homepage and then on the link for the MPL Historical Business Database.
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Bottle Rockets part of double bill at Handlebar
Published: Thursday, January 17, 2013 at 1:13 p.m.
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When the Bottle Rockets take the stage Wednesday at The Handlebar in Greenville, S.C., they'll be settling in for double duty.
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Who: The Bottle Rockets and Marshall Crenshaw
When: 8:30 p.m. Wednesday
Where: The Handlebar, 304 E. Stone Ave., Greenville, S.C.
Tickets: $17 ($2 extra at door if younger than 21)
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Not only will the acclaimed roots rock outfit play a set of its own, but it will also perform as the backing unit for power-pop legend Marshall Crenshaw.
"It's so much fun getting to play (Crenshaw's) amazing songs," Bottle Rockets drummer and founding member Mark Ortmann said. "The songs are challenging, and they're always interesting. And it's just been a real blast getting to know Marshall."
Never mind that the Bottle Rockets have attained iconic status of their own in alt-country circles in the past two decades, Ortmann said that getting to play with Crenshaw is always a special thrill.
"There are times when my mind will wander, and I'm just thinking, 'Wow, I can't believe I'm doing this,' " Ortmann said. "The vibe is great on stage. Marshall is a very likeable guy, and he has a total rock 'n' roll approach."
Crenshaw burst onto the music scene in the early 1980s with his retro-tinged hit "Someday, Someway," and he famously played Buddy Holly in the 1987 Ritchie Valens biopic "La Bamba."
Several years ago, Crenshaw began covering Bottle Rockets songs, including "Kit Kat Clock," in his shows, which eventually led to collaborative tours between the artists.
Even without Crenshaw's involvement, a Bottle Rockets concert would be cause for celebration. The St. Louis-based group has been cranking out high-octane, country-tinged rock 'n' roll since the early '90s, developing a reputation as one of the greatest bar bands this side of NRBQ.
"If we're not enjoying ourselves, I don't think the audience will enjoy themselves, so we try to pour everything we have into it," Ortmann said.
But unbridled fun is only part of what makes the Bottle Rockets interesting; the band's songs are also filled with insightful lyrics and well-crafted melodies.
The songwriting depth of Bottle Rockets lead singer and co-founder Brian Henneman was perhaps best displayed on the group's latest album, "Not So Loud: An Acoustic Evening With," which was released in 2011 on Bloodshot Records.
"I think the band's always tried to have fun and a sense of humor as well as some intelligence at the same time," Ortmann said. "I think Neil Young is a great example of that, where he can do something as ridiculous as Crazy Horse and then at the same time have some amazing searing guitar solo or a caustic song of some sort; we kind of fashion ourselves after that."
The Bottle Rockets' lineup is rounded out by John Horton on guitar and Keith Voegele on bass.
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China & India Fuel Growth With Infrastructure Projects
By bobp on Sep 21, 2009
While the U.S. is still trying to stimulate spending of U.S. consumers with its economic stimulus programs, countries such as India and China appear to be making much better progress. On a recent trip in September to China and India via Singapore one can visibly see that Asia Pacific is not standing still and putting idled factory workers toward new infrastructure projects. Talking with customers and partners in China and India only confirms what could be described as a best practice for any nation looking for economic recovery.
Earlier this year Beijing announced a $585 billion (U.S. dollars) stimulus package (~13% of China's 2008 GDP). As part of this stimulus package China will spend this year $50 billion (U.S. dollars) alone on the ambitious worlds biggest high-speed (started in 2005 and expected to finish in 2020) railway which will connect Beijing, Dalian, Xuzhou, Lanzhou, Shanghai, Kunming and Guangzhou. Beijing's economic stimulus is directly targeted at the ~20 million idled workers in China due mostly to the 20% decline in foreign sales. Notable statistics of the new high-speed railway include:
The buttresses which carry the tracks will consume 117 million tons of concrete
- 16,000 miles (25,749 km) of new track will be built
- The Beijing to Shanghai line will consume enough steel to build 120 "Birds Nest" Olympic Stadiums
In addition to construction labor the railway will create jobs for engineers and lot's of them. The railway will be computerized and require a lot of IT spending and resources. You can be certain the large IT companies are looking to win this business and provide hardware, software, services and support. A great opportunity. Bill Powell wrote a great article in FORTUNE magazine with many more exciting facts which you can read here.
India's growth is equally impressive despite the global recession. India still needs to build massive amounts of infrastructure while China is already upgrading infrastructure previous built. I like to describe China as organized chaos while India is still dealing with unorganized chaos. In Beijing you see cars, buses, trains, people, bikes, motorcycles all in congested traffic in harmony with the traffic signals. In Bangalore you have the same as Beijing but with everyone only in harmony with themselves. Traffic signals get ignored, motorcycles are riding on the sidewalk and intersections, at rush hour, give no clear indication as to who has the right of way. It's simply something that every business professional should experience because you need to know the customer you are selling. Both are beautiful cultures and part of the solution of economic recovery in the world. India too will consume massive amount of engineers, software, hardware and services not only to fuel their IT outsourcing industry but to rapidly build their own nation, infrastructure and ultimately their own economy as a world leader.
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The graveyard on a hill just off Ohio 26 in Lawrence Township wasn't always known as Rake Cemetery.
Originally it was called Snodgrass Cemetery, named for a local family.
The cemetery is 189 years old and located on the property that was owned by the Snodgrass family, according to Millie Covey Fry, a descendant of the Snodgrass family, who still lives in the area.
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A plastic floral arrangement rests next to the grave marker of Hiram Snodgrass Thursday afternoon in Rake Cemetery. Snodgrass was the owner of the land that the cemetery is located on and one of the first people to be buried within the plot.
"Barbara Snodgrass moved to the area with her five children shortly after the death of her husband Charles in 1808," said Fry. "Her oldest son Hiram was a farmer and purchased the land that the Snodgrass Cemetery was located on."
During her research over the years Fry discovered that the first burial on the plot was one of Barbara Snodgrass's children.
"The first burial was Barbara's daughter and Hiram's sister, Margaret Snodgrass, who died on Feb. 27, 1824 at just 21 years of age," she said.
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Rake Cemetery is located on Ohio 26 in Lawrence Township about half a mile south of Dart.
It was originally known as Snodgrass Cemetery before becoming Rake Cemetery in the late 1800s.
The cemetery currently has 404 people buried there.
The earliest burial was in 1824, the most recent was January of this year.
Source: www.findagrave.com and Millie Covey Fry.
The oldest of Barbara's five children and owner of the land, Hiram, would also eventually be buried on the plot along with his sister after his death in 1879.
It was after his death that Snodgrass Cemetery began to be known as Rake Cemetery.
The transition occurred in the late 1800s and was due to a marriage between the Rake and Snodgrass families, according to Fry.
"The union between Hiram Snodgrass's daughter, Sarah, to Elijah Rake occurred on Dec. 23, 1858," said Fry. "After Hiram's death, Sarah and her husband Elijah moved into the home."
Fry said she wasn't certain quite how or when the land switched from primarily a place for family burials into a public cemetery.
Since the time of that transition however, Rake Cemetery has had a total of 404 people buried in it, the most recent just this January.
The past few years, care of Rake Cemetery and other local cemeteries has fallen to Lawrence Township.
"Lawrence Township doesn't actually own any of the nine cemeteries in our area," said David Lauer, Lawrence Township trustee. "We just try to help maintain these cemeteries by hiring someone to mow when it's needed."
The township has been helping keep the Rake Cemetery mowed for a number of years, but Lauer said the land around the cemetery actually belongs Gale DePuy, who is also a township trustee.
DePuy said he tries both as a landowner and a trustee to take good care of the cemetery because people visit regularly.
"Generally people come on the weekends to visit," said DePuy. "Holidays like Memorial Day also bring a large number of people."
Rake Cemetery is apparently one of the few cemeteries located in the area that still have open plots.
"Most of the ones we look after have no open burial plots left in them," said Lauer. "Rake still has some open. I know Edna Thomas was buried there about a month or two ago."
Both DePuy and Lauer said funding is the problem that the township trustees have run into when trying to pay for upkeep on the cemeteries.
"We don't receive any specific funds to take care of these cemeteries. We have to use general township money," said Lauer. "We have put out quite a bit of funds over the years trying to keep these cemeteries nice."
Lauer noted the township would like to do more, but as of right now they just aren't able.
"Fixing markers and tombstones isn't something we have been doing and I doubt that's going to change," said Lauer. "We will continue to help pay for the grass to be cut, but unless something changes that's about all we can do."


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May 18, 2011
DOE Funds U.S.-India Joint Clean Energy Research and Development Center
DOE announced on May 16 that it has committed $25 million over the next five years to support the U.S.-India Joint Clean Energy Research and Development Center. This first-of-a-kind effort is a key component of the U.S. and India's commitment to improve energy access and promote low-carbon growth by facilitating joint research and development of clean energy technologies. Teams of scientists and engineers from the United States and India will initially focus on research in three priority areas: building energy efficiency, second-generation biofuels, and solar energy. President Obama and India's Prime Minister Singh signed a comprehensive Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on November 24, 2009, for their nations to work together to accelerate the development and deployment of clean energy technology.
DOE will provide awards under each of the center's three initial priority areas. Funding will be matched by U.S. grantees, and the Indian Ministry of Science and Technology will provide another $50 million in public and private funds for research in India. Universities, national laboratories, private companies, and others are eligible to apply. Applications are due by August 16, 2011, with selections expected later this fall. See the DOE press release, the funding opportunity announcement, and coverage of the MOU in the EERE Network News.


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Belk gives back to Bruce Drysdale Elementary
Published: Wednesday, May 8, 2013 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, May 7, 2013 at 10:03 p.m.
Belk employees gathered at Bruce Drysdale Elementary in Hendersonville Tuesday afternoon to celebrate the company's 125th anniversary by giving back.
Employees painted squares that would be turned into a mural and built a picnic table and two bookshelves. They also brought handmade, soft floor squares for kids to sit on during story time that they dubbed "magic carpets."
Seventeen Belk volunteers and other volunteers from the school worked on the projects Tuesday.
Belk will also host a book drive at its store over the next two weeks to benefit the school, Store Manager Hugh Halpert said.
The drive, while employee-driven, is open to the public. Anyone can drop off children's books at the store in Blue Ridge Mall in Hendersonville.
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Cyclops is out of prison and back with his X-tinction crew (Magneto, Emma & Magik) on top of that he seems to have recruited two new mutants to his cause, all this appears to be shaping up in All New X men to have the story told in the new Uncanny X-men. It has also been told as if he isn't a villain as much as just the same man who was willing to protect the mutant race with fear, do whatever it takes to be the hero his people need not exactly the one they want. This isn't very different from the guy he was before AvX.
This brings up the question I want to ask, before AVX and even before he flipped out and went all dark phoenix on the avengers asses, many of the X men supported him and believed he was doing what was best, making the hard decisions that needed to be made. So my question is do you think any of the X men still stand by him after AvX, any of the people (regardless of if they join his team) support what he will be doing? Rachel? Nate? The New Mutants worked for him up till the very end, do they still agree with him? What about Cable and his X force team? Also what do you think his relationship with the School will be, in the note he left for Wolverine he said he supported the school and would do whatever was needed to protect it, so how do you think Wolverine, the students and the rest of the staff will feel about him and his team?


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LIVERMORE -- There were tears of joy at a Livermore Walmart on Friday as an anonymous couple played Santa, surprising shoppers by paying for their Christmas gifts.
Walmart employees say an unidentified man and woman selected at least five shoppers at random and paid their entire store bills at the register, mostly for toys and Christmas gifts. Twin girls were given baby dolls; another family had a cart full of at least $600 in merchandise covered by their benefactors.
"They said, 'Don't worry, there's no cameras; we just want to do something nice for people,'" said store cashier Joyce Short, who rang up several of the purchases. "There are so many nice people out there, you just forget about that with all the bad stuff going on," she said, adding that the couple hugged each other after their spree.
Store personnel manager Ronda Herrera was shopping in the store with her family when her 8-year-old daughter mentioned a toy sewing machine she wanted for an after-school class. The generous couple must have overheard her, Herrera said, because they handed her daughter the sewing machine on their way out, along with a simple "Merry Christmas."
"It was very thoughtful and nice of them," Hererra said. "It will come back to them someday."
Store manager Ed Pettigrew wasn't working at the time but said the couple paid for thousands of dollars in merchandise with their credit card. Pettigrew said he has seen similar random acts before, but nothing quite like this.
"This one was more personal," Pettigrew said. "There were a lot of tears involved. People were shocked. ... In the middle of the Christmas season, it was great to have a feel-good weekend."
The couple didn't give their names. Employees described the couple as Caucasian, in their 30s, the man had thinning brown hair and the woman was blond.
Herrera said if she ever sees them again, she would give them a hug of gratitude.
"There were a lot of families that night that were less fortunate," she said. "They probably did wonders for them out of the kindness of their hearts."
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News 12 at 11 o'clock / Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW) -- A new app may help keep you from texting and driving. AT&T launched "Drive Mode" this month. It works by sending an automated text message to incoming texts when your vehicle reaches speeds over 25 miles per hour.
Rarely will you ever catch Taylor McChensy without a phone in her hand.
"I text about every five minutes I'd have to say," the high school senior said.
McChensy, who sends a few hundred text message per day, admits it was hard putting the phone down when she first started driving.
"I was very guilty of texting and driving," she said.
She stopped texting and driving after a close call on the road.
"I'd go to turn right with the cars in front of me, and I'd have to slam on brakes really fast. I was right on that car's tail," she said.
McChensy didn't crash, but some of her classmates have because of texting and driving.
"We know with AT&T national there has been 100,000 accidents or deaths that have been attributed to texting and driving," said Matt Harvey with AT&T.
The phone giant is pushing its "It Can Wait" campaign in school. Now the company is taking another step toward preventing texting and driving in form of an app.
Drive Mode launched in January and it's a pretty simple concept. Your phone won't accept incoming texts when you reach speeds over 25 miles per hour.
"Once you hit 25 miles per hour while driving, it will actually reply to your text messages for you. It will keep your phone from going off and will reply to your emails," Harvey said.
The driver will receive his or her emails and texts once they stop the car.
A driver can either turn on the app every time they go to drive or program the phone to come on automatically when they drive. The option is under settings.
"Do you believe this app is going to to save lives?" asked News 12's Elizabeth Owens asked.
"I do. I honestly do," Harvey said.
McChensy decided after her scare years ago not to tempt fate.
"I don't see my phone light up, that's why I keep it in my purse and I put it on silent so I don't hear it either," the teen said.
She says the app will help a lot of her friends.
"It's an addiction you have and a lot of students my age can't put a phone down," she said.
Drive Mode app is available at the Google Play Store and BlackBerry World.
AT&T is working with vendors to get the app on other devices. It is free and comes pre-loaded.


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Jody Johnson is a 67-year-old emergency foster mom who takes in teenagers declared "at risk." She's a generous Scotts Valley woman who writes unusually well. The story she has to tell contains equal helpings of grief, pathos and outrage.
Usually, youths stay in her home for only 60 days or so. But the first girl to be placed at her house 3 ½ years ago stayed with Johnson for six months. When the girl was too old to remain any longer, Johnson stayed in her life.
"She was in my home for all major holidays," Johnson told me by email. "I lent her money, gave her motherly advice and provided love and encouragement as she struggled to find her way. I thought she was going to classes at UCSC."
What Johnson didn't know was that the girl, now 20, was a heroin addict. To support her habit, she regularly stole Johnson's jewelry, including a wedding ring that belonged to her recently deceased husband. The young woman even took the credit card of Johnson's mother in January.
Finally, "sick with disappointment and grief," as she puts it, Johnson called Santa Cruz County sheriff's deputies, who asked her to go to Santa Cruz Pawn to identify her jewelry. "All the inexpensive jewelry was there,'' she said. "The more expensive items were never recovered."
Jail time
Eventually, the thief did a couple of months in jail, and Johnson counted her losses at $15,000. But that wasn't the final insult. Johnson says that when she went back to Santa Cruz Pawn on Pacific Avenue, she had to pay $879 to retrieve the remainder of the inexpensive silver jewelry, based on weight.
"I know it wasn't worth that," she told me. "And I know they probably gave her much, much less. They knew I had been ripped off. I cried every time I came in."
Johnson suggests that in situations like this, where the thief pawns the stolen goods, the pawnshop should charge the rightful owner only what the shop paid out of pocket. It seems like common sense.
But Johnson says deputies told her that once a pawnshop buys an item, it becomes the pawnshop's property. But, no surprise, there are nuances.
State rules
After I called the California Pawnbrokers Association, I got a call back from Jan Schneider, the proprietor of R & J Jewelry and Loan in downtown San Jose. She told me that in cases where there is no prosecution, the law provides that victims can obtain items back at the pawnbroker's cost.
In cases where there is prosecution, Schneider said, it's up to the judge to say what happens. "There's a process that allows for the pawnbroker and victim to negotiate to allow the pawnbroker to be made whole," she said.
Meanwhile, at Santa Cruz Pawn, a helpful young man named Michael outlined a store policy that took a third tack. He told me that if an item is identified as stolen within 30 days after the pawnshop takes it in, Santa Cruz Pawn takes the loss. After that, it will sell items back for what it paid.
Did Johnson run into a clerk who didn't know the policy? Had too much time gone by? It's possible. If this piece can help right matters, I'll let you know. Otherwise, Johnson might indeed be right when she says, "I guess compassion takes a back seat to profit."
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Samsung Market Value Falls by $6.5 Billion After Outlook
Samsung Electronics second-quarter forecast slashed $6.5 billion off its market capitalization Friday as worried investors sent the company's stock down as much as 3.9%.
Concerns sales of Samsung's Galaxy S4 smartphone may fall short of estimates also rubbed off on shares of the company's Korean rival LG Electronics, which fell 1.1%.
Samsung said it expects second-quarter operating profit between 9.3 trillion won and 9.7 trillion won (US$8.2 billion-US$8.5 billion), which would be a record for the company. But analysts quickly homed in on the forecast falling below the market consensus of 10 trillion won.
"It's a big miss," said Lee Sun-tae, an analyst at NH Investment & Securities.
Mr. Lee estimates Samsung shipped 74.5 million smartphones in the second quarter. That would represent a 48% increase in shipments compared with the year-earlier 50.2 million units, based on data from researcher IDC. But Samsung's first-quarter shipments grew at a faster clip — 61% to 70.7 million units, according to IDC data.
Analysts say heavy marketing costs likely ate into Samsung's earnings as it began selling the Galaxy S4 in April. The world's largest smartphone maker by shipments faces more brokerage downgrades as concerns about sales remain, they add.
Samsung's decline Friday shows it's matching Apple in more ways than one. Earlier this year, investors also punished Apple shares as concerns emerged that iPhone sales might be tapering off.
But the pressure of slowing sales isn't unique to Apple and Samsung – as the high-end smartphone market reaches its peak, their competitors are likely to feel the pinch too.
Samsung didn't provide an estimate of its second-quarter net profit or provide reasons for its guidance. Actual results are slated for the end of July.


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The O'Carrolls go back to the third century King Oilioll Olum of Munster. Their name derives from Cearbhaill, who was the Brian Boru in 1014 at the battle of Clontarf. Cearbhaill means warlike champion and the O'Carrolls have lived up to the name.
Carvill and Mac-Carvill are anglicized versions of Carroll and are mostly to be found in Ulster. The O'Carrolls' senior septs were the chieftains of O'Carroll Ely (Tipperary and Offaly) and O'Carroll Oriel (Monaghan and Louth). They struggled to hold onto their land, which proved particularly difficult when it was illegal for Catholics to own land in Ireland. Ultimately the O'Carrolls came under the subordination of the crown in 1627, which marked the end of the Ely O'Carroll chieftains.
But that's not to say they were not wealthy and successful thereafter. The owners of Ireland's biggest tobacco company, P.J. Carroll and Company Limited of Dundalk in County Louth, are descendants of the Ely O'Carroll clan. Their cigarette brand is Carrolls No. 1 and is popular in Ireland.
The Carroll coat of arms displays, on a black background, a pair of yellow lions facing each other holding between them a sword. Translated from the crest, the inscription means: "In faith and war be strong." Throughout history, many Carrolls have been dedicated to both their Catholic faith and their proclivity to go into battle. Reluctant to convert from Catholicism, some Carrolls had to flee Ireland for Europe, where they fought in various armies and many of them settled in France over the years.
Daniel Carroll of Ballymooney, who lived in the early 1600s, took up arms to defend his lands in the warrior tradition of the family. He at times consented to meet the demands of the crown, and dropped the prefix O in his surname to sound less Gaelic. But in the 1650s, his land was threatened as Cromwell redistributed the bulk of it to Protestants. Not one to lie down without a fight, Daniel served as a lieutenant colonel in the rebellion against Cromwell. Although the battle was unsuccessful, the Carrolls of Ballymooney were spared reprisals from the English due to their ties to the prominent Irish-Jacobite family the Graces, members of the inner circle of the Stuart throne. The Carroll lands were restored to Daniel's grandson, Daniel Carroll of Aghagurty, who died in 1688.
He was father of Charles Carroll the Settler, the first of the Maryland Carroll dynasty. Charles Carroll the Settler (1660-1720) was born in Litterluna, King's County, Ireland. He came to the capital of the Maryland colony, St. Mary's City, in 1688. He had decided to emigrate based on the position he would have in the New World, that of Attorney General of the colony. Like his ancestors, he was forced to defend himself as a Catholic in a colony belonging to the Protestant monarchy. He was outraged when the Glorious Revolution brought about penal laws for the American colonies including a prohibition for Catholics to practice law, hold public office or vote. Stripped of his title of Attorney General, he focused instead on being a successful businessman.
His son Charles Carroll of Annapolis (1702-1782) continued forward with his father's ambition of a vast family fortune. Charles of Annapolis enlarged the family's businesses based on land, slaves, moneylending and mercantile pursuits. Charles Carroll of Carrollton (1737-1832) was Charles of Annapolis's only child and was the heir to the substantial Carroll fortune. Charles of Carrollton was the only Roman Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence. However, he was not the only Irishman. Fellow signatories James Smith, Matthew Thornton and George Taylor were all born in Ireland. When the great manifesto was read to the people on July 9, 1776 in the Philadelphia State House yard, it was delivered by Colonel John Nixon, son of Irish-born Richard Nixon. Charles of Carrollton also served on the Second Continental Congress, which appointed him to the Board of War, an appropriate position given his lineage. He served in the Senate, and later died at the age of 95, having lived the longest of all the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Charles of Carrollton was a second cousin to two other prominent American men. John Carroll (1735-1815) was the first Roman Catholic bishop in the U.S. and his brother Daniel Carroll II of Rock Creek (1730-1790) signed the U.S. Constitution. John's work as a bishop led him to promote religious education, and he founded a number of schools, the most famous being Georgetown University, which was established in 1789.
The story of the Maryland Carrolls is best explained in Ronald Hoffman's brilliant and detailed 2000 book, Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland: A Carroll Saga 1500-1782. In it, Hoffman argues: "As if in response to an inexorable nudge from conscious and subconscious cultural forces, each generation seemed to live out the unfinished lives and carry on the unfinished business of its predecessor. Thus the story of the Carrolls reveals a remarkable paradigm of reassertion in the face of conquest and devastation. The succeeding generations are moved, unawares, to complete the unfinished agenda of those who preceded them."


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2012 United States Barista Competition
Back here at VCR headquarters, things are humming along while we wait for Lizzy's performance at the USBC up in Portland. Aside from all the nervous energy and computers streaming the USBC, it feels like a pretty standard day around here. The coffeebar is firing off cappuccinos, Sean's cupping coffees, Ian's roasting, Jonathan's keeping the place in order, and the roastery production team is in a blur of bagging and shipping out coffee. But all this will come to a screeching halt at 3:16 when Lizzy hits the stage. If you're like us and don't want to miss it, here's the link to the live stream: usbaristachampionship.org
Here's the rest of the info to keep up with team VCR at this year's USBC.
Thursday, 4/19
3:16pm :: Lizzy Sampson
Friday, 4/20
2:57pm :: Chris Baca
Saturday, 4/21 — Semifinal Round
12:30pm :: Chris Baca
3:32pm :: Jared Truby (had a bye for the first round after winning SWRBC)
Sunday, 4/22 — Finals
TBD :: 6 competitors will advance to this round
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Justin / Aug 11 2012 1:00 am
Interesting blog. I think I will try and attend next years event. If you are ever in Panama and want to do a Boquete coffee tour, let me know.


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ORLANDO, Fla. -- It's not hard to pinpoint team strategies in Major League Baseball, whether you're talking about the big spenders or those who rely on their farm systems and bargains. When it came to the Giants, rival executives always knew the plan for success was pitching.
It's a path that has led to two World Series titles, but the Giants veered off course in 2013 en route to 86 losses. They ranked 13th among 15 National League teams in starter's ERA (4.37). The same group is coming back, with Tim Hudson expected to serve as an upgrade over Barry Zito, and the Giants are betting their 2014 season on the fact that things will get better.
"We all know what they're capable of," general manager Brian Sabean said. "Their arms are fine, and they've all had varying degrees of success, some bigger than others."
After his season-ending news conference in September, Sabean said it had become clear to him that the Giants' starters had fallen behind the rival Los Angeles Dodgers, as well as three N.L. Central playoff clubs -- the St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds and Pittsburgh Pirates.
How do the Giants stack up heading into 2014?
"These are certainly guys that, if they're pitching to form, are going to be reckoned with in our division and in the National League," Sabean said.
Though the Giants are confident, it's understandable that there are questions. Madison Bumgarner is the only member of the current five coming off a smooth season.
In a division that includes the Dodgers boasting the Clayton Kershaw-Zach Greinke duo, the Giants believe Bumgarner and Matt Cain will stack up fine. After a nightmare of a first half, Cain got a 10-day break and posted a 2.36 second-half ERA.
With just those two locked up, Sabean said he headed into October with "angst over how we may fill out our five." That led the Giants to offer $35 million over two years to Tim Lincecum, who according to a source close to the situation had planned to test the market until the Giants made that offer. The Giants believe Lincecum was better than his 4.37 ERA, and FIP (fielder independent pitching) supports that notion, putting Lincecum at 3.74 in 2013.
Hudson's two-year, $23 million deal followed, and the Giants believe he'll be fully healthy after ankle surgery. When the team committed $5 million to Ryan Vogelsong, the offseason starter shopping was complete. The total: just over $56 million for five pitchers being counted on to vastly outperform last year's numbers.
Burns, who was the Nationals' 2013 minor league Player of the Year, hit .315 with no homers and 37 RBIs in 121 games at Class-A and Double-A. He stole 74 bases and walked 72 times for a .425 on-base percentage.
"He's a true center fielder and one of the best runners in the minors," assistant general manager David Forst said.
Blevins, who was the longest-tenured A's player at seven seasons, was 5-0 in a career-high 67 games in 2013. Burns, 24, is ticketed for Double-A.
Staff writer John Hickey contributed to this report.


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September 26, 2006
The teenage years can be hard on parents and teenagers.
Columbia County kids are getting help from the law...before they end up on the wrong side of it.
Chief Magistrate Wade Padgett has apparently struck a nerve with his lecture series Teenage Years 101. Hundreds of teenagers came out again tonight to hear his message.
More than 350 kids packed the Columbia County performing arts building to hear Judge Padgett talk about drugs, alcohol, the internet, and sex. Nothing was off limits.
"I hope to learn what to do and what not to do," said participant Kristyn Coogler. "What's safe and what's not."
"I know a little bit," said participant Cory Barden.
Cory and Kristyn are only 13, but they heard all about sex, drugs, alcohol, and dangers on the internet from chief magistrate Wade Padgett.
"After 14 years on the bench, I decided I got tired of seeing kids go to jail and they claimed they didn't know what the law was," Padgett told News 12.
So now he is bringing the law to the people and laying it all on the line.
"I think it's a good idea," said participant Kevin Nelson. "It's a lot easier than talking to adults."
And kids aren't the only ones who are learning. Parents came two weeks ago for their own lesson.
"Little things you thought could be passed up as childhood pranks aren't that way anymore," said parent Douglas Nelson. "A lot has changed."
"I was absolutely shocked and appalled at some of the things I learned," said parent Shannon Walden. She returned tonight with her 14 year old son and 12 year old daughter.
"I'm scared that they may do something with another child and end up with a record for the rest of their lives and be put on a website for kissing or anything else like that that's actually illegal these days," she said.
Kristyn's mom, Brenda Coogler, doesn't think it's ever too young to learn.
"She's got her own free will, and if she chooses to go down the wrong path, then I want her to learn consequences and take responsibility for her actions," she said.
Judge Padgett also asked the Columbia County Sheriff's Office to bring in one of their inmates, hoping to drive the point home.
William Stulb spoke tonight to the hundreds of teenagers at the forum.
He shared what happened to him after he was arrested and convicted.
He talked about how he was in the same boat as many of the kids sitting in the audience tonight, and how he never thought anything bad would happen to him.
Stulb was sent to jail for having sex with a 14-year-old when he was 18.
So many teens came tonight that some had to be turned away. And Judge Padgett said he had the same problem two weeks ago at the parents' night.
Judge Padgett has been surprised by the response so far. He said you can't really picture the impact your vision is going to have when you are at home planning it out on the computer. But now, with the support he has received and the widespread interest, he hopes to take his message all across the state with a goal of saving at least one life.
Two classes have been added next month. The October 16 session will be for parents, and on October 18, teens are invited to come out. The classes will be held at Augusta Prep.


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Sexual Assault at Dartmouth Part 2: Victims face tough judicial process
During the Green Key weekend of her sophomore year, Winham went to a fraternity with two friends. While she had only a few drinks, Winham recalled feeling unexpectedly drunk.
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quasifoto wrote: and... yesterday when the new terror alert came on it didn't scare me this time, it really pissed me off. it's just such bullshit. they tell us to be on alert, but not of anything specific. what's a better way to freak people out? keep up with our current path and we'll have these more and more as the rest of the world gets fed up.
and during bush's union address didn't he say something about how he took care of the terrorists? asshole.


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UPDATE: Keith Wallace has been located. November 12th.
ROCKFORD (WIFR) – Rockford Police are asking for your help in finding a missing person. Keith Wallace of Rockford is 74 years old and was last seen on the 2900 block of Foilage Lane at 5 p.m. Saturday evening.
Wallace drives a green Dodge Van with the license plate 5275MM. He is further described as a white man, 5' 7" tall and approximately 175 pounds. Wallace suffers from Dementia and Diabetes and does not have the medication that he needs.
He is still missing as of 8 a.m. November 12th.
If you have any information on Keith Wallace please call Rockford Police immediately, 815.987.5824.


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First, love the program. It rocks the socks of TVersity.
Now, I've had little problems installing setting it up to my system at home. I've just run in to one issue. If I run DVD rips (Video_TS) I'm only getting 2.0 stereo sound sent to my reciever. (Older Yamaha version - no HDMI).
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My settings in the "common transcode settings" is 6 channels 5.1.
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"I continue to have serious questions about whether Chuck Hagel is up to the job of being our secretary of defense. I hope, for the sake of our own national security, he exceeds expectations."—Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., in a statement after a deeply divided Senate voted to confirm Republican Chuck Hagel to be the nation's next defense secretary, handing President Barack Obama's pick the top Pentagon job just days before billions of dollars in automatic, across-the-board budget cuts hit the military.


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CARMEL VALLEY -- Leon Panetta was still director of the CIA when his old buddy from Monterey made him an auspicious bet.
During a New Year's Eve dinner party in the wine cellar of the Sardine Factory, restaurant owner Ted Balestreri sat across from Panetta and pointed to a prized $10,000 bottle of 1870 Chateau Lafite-Rothschild. Then he raised his voice to his 26 guests, some of whom had been around since Panetta washed dishes in his father's Italian restaurant in Monterey and picked walnuts at the family farm in Carmel Valley.
"I'll tell you what," Balestreri said. "I'll open that bottle of wine when Leon gets bin Laden!"
Panetta jumped out of his chair and shouted out, "You're on!"
Five months later, in May 2011, Balestreri received a call from Sylvia Panetta with a message from her husband. Turn on CNN, she told him, "and get the wine opener ready."
Now, after making history by bringing down the most notorious terrorist on the planet, carving out a remarkably progressive agenda as secretary of defense and all the while being lauded as one of the most respected men in Washington, Leon Panetta the citizen is back home.
"Washington has always been a place I worked," Panetta said in an interview from the family ranch. "This has always been and will always be home."
Home is deep in the Carmel Valley, past horse farms and wineries and vegetable stands, just beyond the funnel of coastal fog. Here, his beloved golden retriever, Bravo, who sat in on many a top-secret meeting at the CIA and Pentagon, bounds across the winter clover. Here, an old metal mailbox at the end of the driveway still bears the name, in hand-painted red letters, "C. Panetta." It's a humble homage to his Italian immigrant parents, Carmelo and Carmelina, who bought these 11 acres in 1946 and planted the walnut trees themselves.
When Leon Panetta settles in at the single-story ranch house, the 74-year-old grandfather of six will put on his jeans and pull out the tractor.
"It's great therapy to get on that tractor and be able to drive through the orchard and swing it around trees, and every once in a while you whack a tree," he said. "You're watching the crows flying near you as you're digging up the soil. Gophers are running around, and the hawks are going after the gophers. You just feel like you're part of nature again."
Until Tuesday, when Chuck Hagel was finally confirmed as his successor after weeks of partisan controversy, Panetta was one of the most powerful men Washington. In the previous five weeks alone, he made bold moves by lifting the ban on women in combat and extending military benefits to same-sex couples. As a Democratic Central Coast congressman in the late 1970s to early 1990s, his legislation created the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, banning offshore oil drilling from Hearst Castle to the Golden Gate Bridge. His efforts turned Fort Ord into Cal State Monterey Bay. In the mid-1990s, he served as director of the Office of Management and Budget before becoming White House chief of staff to President Bill Clinton.
In 1997, he came home and established the Panetta Institute for Public Policy with his wife -- who had run his district congressional offices as a volunteer -- to teach young people that government service is an honorable profession. Then, in 2009, President Barack Obama called him back to Washington to lead the CIA.
Panetta has been respected by colleagues on both sides of the political aisle, whether they agree with him or not.
"It doesn't mean every decision was right or without controversy," said U.S. Rep. George Miller, D-Martinez, who used to share a home with Panetta in Washington during the days when Panetta would attend 6 a.m. Mass each day at St. Peter's Catholic Church just up the block. "But he gets the benefit of the doubt. He's developed a level of trust."
The Senate confirmed him unanimously for the defense chief job in June 2011. But that didn't stop Republicans, especially Arizona Sen. John McCain, from later grilling him over troop withdrawals in Iraq, the military's response to the Benghazi, Libya, attacks and what McCain called a lack of leadership during the Syrian crisis last year.
Still, McCain said in an interview last week, Panetta "knows the issues better than anyone in the room," and despite their disagreements, "my respect and admiration for him has only increased over the years."
Panetta is "old school," someone who may disagree but is never disagreeable, McCain said. "He is one of those people who is able to separate party loyalty from the national interests. Leon Panetta leaves Washington this time with a reputation of integrity, honesty and bipartisanship that in my view is all too rare."
In all his years in Washington, Panetta has never been associated with scandal. The closest he came was last year, when he was criticized that his frequent visits home on a military jet -- 27 round trips to Monterey in less than 10 months -- were costing the public too much money. At the time, Panetta said he regretted the expense, but it was "healthy to get out of Washington periodically just to get your mind straight."
Known for his easygoing nature, legendary laugh and startling humility, Panetta is one of the few politicians in Washington who doesn't like to talk about himself.
"That's the remarkable thing about Leon," said U.S. Rep. Sam Farr, who was elected to Panetta's congressional seat. "He doesn't need public attention."
Those qualities have endeared Panetta to locals, who often spot him waiting in line at the meat counter of the Star Market in Salinas or at Bruno's Market and Deli in Carmel. When Panetta goes to Mass on Sundays at the Carmel mission, he makes no grand entrance and stands discreetly in the back.
"It's exactly his MO," said Panetta's son Jimmy, 43, a Monterey County deputy district attorney. "That's how we were raised. Don't make a spectacle of yourself, no matter what you do."
Panetta instilled a strong work ethic in his three sons, all of whom had chores on the ranch.
"My friends would make fun of me. I'd be having to paint the white on the bottom of the walnut trees or cutting grass on the side of the road," Jimmy recalled. "My friends would drive by and honk."
Leon Panetta's oldest son, Chris, would also go on to become a lawyer in the Monterey area. Carmelo, the middle son, is a cardiologist in Minneapolis.
When Jimmy was deployed to Afghanistan in 2007 as a naval reserve officer, his father sent him off with these words: "Keep your head down, do your job, come home." Over the past four years, Jimmy said, his father followed his own advice.
Leon Panetta so seldom talked about politics or himself -- even at the family dinner table -- that his children often learned more about their father from those he helped.
Claudia Hevia, who owns Tico's Tacos in Salinas, recently ran into Jimmy and told him that the daughter she and her husband adopted from Mexico 26 years ago might have been deported if not for his father. Bureaucratic snafus held up the paperwork that should have sailed through, Hevia said. "I don't have connections or friends for things like that, but I asked him a big favor," Hevia said.
Panetta stepped in, and within a month, the problems were resolved.
"To this day, I want to cry," said Hevia, who often reminds her 26-year-old daughter, Danielle, "You're here because of him."
Even now, Panetta said some of his greatest satisfaction came from his days as a congressman helping people like Hevia. He credits the values of his parents and his Catholic education, including his years at the Jesuit-run Santa Clara University, for "giving me a sense of right and wrong and also the sense that it was important to give something back to the country."
An enduring lesson, he said, came in 1966 during one of his first jobs in the nation's capital as an aide to U.S. Rep. Thomas Kuchel, a Republican and minority whip from California. Panetta, then a Republican, would be tempted by people trying to gain influence, Kuchel told him.
"Remember one thing," Panetta recalled Kuchel saying. "In the morning, when you get up, you have to look at yourself in the mirror."
Panetta was tested just a few years later, when he was named director of the U.S. Office for Civil Rights and the Nixon administration wanted him to "go slow" in enforcing new civil and education rights in the South. Panetta wouldn't go along. "It cost me my job," he said.
When he was appointed CIA director, he knew what to expect about the intelligence aspects of the job -- he had served as an intelligence officer in the Army. "But I was not that familiar with the fact that I would be making life-and-death decisions," he said. "As a Catholic and someone who believes that it's important to do everything you can to protect life, suddenly these were not decisions that came lightly to me."
The hunt for bin Laden has been immortalized in the film "Zero Dark Thirty," in which Panetta is portrayed by actor James Gandolfini. The movie shows waterboarding and other "enhanced interrogation" tactics being used to gain information about bin Laden's whereabouts.
Panetta made clear, however, that when it came to torture, "all of it happened before I became CIA director." And he said he doubts the nuggets of information gained from the tactics in the early 2000s were critical in finding bin Laden.
By the time Panetta was running the CIA, Obama had already signed an executive order banning torture during interrogations. "I never had to face that problem, thank God," Panetta said. "We were always able to do it without having to resort to those enhanced-interrogation efforts that had been used in the past."
He said he never had to face a decision that "tested my conscience in terms of right and wrong. It doesn't mean there aren't tough decisions you have to make, but I've never had one like when I was in the Office of Civil Rights, saying I can't do what they're asking me to do."
He made a risky recommendation to Obama, however, when he urged the president to proceed with a raid on the compound in Pakistan, even though he wasn't 100 percent certain bin Laden was there.
"But," Panetta said, "I always had a test -- throughout my political career -- which was to ask the average citizen, 'What would you do knowing what I know?' And I really felt that if the average citizen knew this was probably the best shot we had at getting bin Laden that they would say, 'Do it.' I remember saying exactly that to the president. And ultimately the president, to his credit, made the same decision."
The night of the raid, Panetta and other top intelligence officials gathered in an operations room at CIA headquarters. The 20 to 25 minutes of silence as the raid was under way, as he waited for the code word "Geronimo" to signify the Navy SEALs had gotten bin Laden, "was probably the tensest time I've gone through throughout my career in politics," Panetta said.
When he heard the SEALs had returned safely to their base, he and his deputy, Mike Morell, embraced -- a moment captured in one of Panetta's favorite photos.
Later, Panetta called home, and his buddy Balestreri turned on the news. Then the Sardine Factory owner ordered shot glasses with CIA logos.
"I used to tease him when we played golf: 'Leon, you can't find your golf ball half the time, how are you going to find bin Laden?'" Balestreri said.
When Panetta accepted that New Year's bet, he later admitted, he had been tracking bin Laden for several months.
"I was set up," Balestreri said, laughing. "But I couldn't be any happier."
Months later, 72 guests celebrated with Panetta at the Monterey Peninsula Country Club, each getting a tiny taste of the fine wine in the shot glasses.
This time, Panetta hopes he's home for good. He can't think of a job that would tempt him back to Washington. "It wouldn't be half as exciting as anything I've already done," he said.
He plans to focus on the Panetta Institute, teaching the next generation that public service is a high calling, that civility and integrity matter in a democracy. And he will work on the ranch and "dig in" to whatever comes along.
He has already started. Walking across the loamy earth of the walnut orchard last week, he made plans for getting on his tractor and turning over the soil during Easter week.
"Usually between Good Friday and Holy Saturday, I'm out on the tractor," he said, looking out across the orchard at his dog sniffing along the far fence line.
"Bravo!" he called out with a whistle. "Come here, pal. Come on, Bravo."
Contact Julia Prodis Sulek at 408-278-3409. Follow her at Twitter.com/juliasulek.


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Sunday, November 21, 2010
Holiday Greeting Cards
I've also ordered photo books from them. (You'll notice a similarity.)
This year I'm helping my son and daughter-in-law spread their own family holiday cheer by placing this photo of their family on a Shutterfly holiday card. (Don't you just want to eat Gavin up?)
Perhaps this one?
Or maybe this one? What do you think?
I may even order a calendar.
Or a mug.
Stop me short if I order an apron.... but it can be done! (and you know what? It really would be appropriate since I do cook!)
Share your family warmth this year with a photo card from Shutterfly and know that you'll earn a place on your family/friend's refrigerator, underneath their favorite magnet (yeah, they have those too.)
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Disclosure: In exchange for writing this post, I will receive a promotional code for a package of 50 free holiday cards from Shutterfly. All opinions are my own.
9 comments:
- Julie said...
Love the card with you and hubby!! I love Shutterfly, too!
- November 21, 2010 at 7:57 AM
- Moogie said...
Great picture of you and Dave!!! And little cutie pie Gavin could be covered in mud and still look adorable.
- November 21, 2010 at 8:36 AM
- Megan said...
I ran out of time last year to get Christmas cards done. But I'm sticking to a schedule of getting our picture taken care of the week after Thanksgiving. (It's a little tough because I need to find someone with some patience to get a picture of us and the dog!) I love all the options Shutterfly has, but I have a feeling we'll stick with the traditional holiday card.
- November 21, 2010 at 10:13 AM
- PlumpNotFat said...
My brother makes a Shutterfly calendar every Christmas with his daughters in different poses for the month (that sounded bad - it's not Playboyish ;) ) It's a great gift for family.
LOVE your pics!!
- November 21, 2010 at 11:19 AM
- Abby said...
We got one very similar to the first you posted . . . but I'm so sad because they put out that offer after I'd already ordered and received my cards . . . that's what I get for getting things done early for once! =)
- November 21, 2010 at 2:30 PM
- All Our Fingers in the Pie said...
Cute, cute, cute!
- November 21, 2010 at 2:46 PM
- Velva said...
I am no stranger to Shutterfly myself. I have done many of photo books, and ordered have ordered lots of prints over the years. I am at the point in my life that it requires so much energy to get my family together for a holiday photo. I have two boys who could care less about family photos ( 13 yrs, and 21 yrs) (sigh).
btw, I could eat Gavin up! What a cutie.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family.
- November 21, 2010 at 6:19 PM
- The Mom Chef said...
You're so cute. I loved seeing the pictures of your family that way.
- November 21, 2010 at 8:49 PM
- Magic of Spice said...
What great pictures...That is an adorable little one, just look at that smile :)
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A lack of parking spaces on Front Street and a seemingly endless line of people in the First Congregational Church in Marietta Friday evening meant one thing: The Marietta Kiwanis Club's Pancake Days had kicked off.
Many of those in attendance said it's a tradition for them to partake in the event. For Marietta resident Margaret Groves, that tradition began about 50 years ago, when she was working at Uncle Bob Food King in Marietta.
"The boss - Mr. (Glenn) Weber - always bought our tickets and sent us over for lunch," said Groves, 86, who worked at the grocery store for 38 years. "I love the pancakes and all the people."
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The 57th annual Pancake Days event, which continues Saturday, is the Marietta Kiwanis Club's biggest fundraiser, drawing almost 2,000 people each year and raising about $20,000 for area groups and projects such as high school Key Clubs and public library programs.
The event began with lunch and dinner sessions Friday. Hundreds of people attended in the evening, but Louise Holmes, president of the club, said it wasn't quite as busy earlier in the day.
"I thought it was a little slower this morning ... but I think people will wait until (Saturday) when they can bring their families, because a lot of people work," she said. "But we had 50 takeouts first thing this morning."
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From left, Michelle Martin, her daughter, Taylor, 2, and Taylor's grandmother, Carolyn Barnes, enjoy pancakes during the Kiwanis Pancake Days event at the First Congregational Church in Marietta Friday evening.
While pancakes and sausage filled people's plates Friday evening, dozens of gift baskets to be auctioned off - filled with everything from Legos to gift certificates for local businesses - lined the walls.
Club president-elect and event co-chairwoman Sarah Drake said some of the items being auctioned off are worth hundreds of dollars, including a clock donated by Baker & Baker Jewelers valued at $600.
"A lot of the money we get is from the silent auction," she said.
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What: 57th annual Kiwanis Club Pancake Days.
Where: First Congregational Church, 318 Front St., Marietta.
When: 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday.
Cost: $6 at the door; children 5 and under are free.
Veto resident Janine Satterfield has been lucky enough to win a few of the gift baskets over the years, including a St. Patrick's Day-themed basket and a Cinco de Mayo-themed basket.
"I like that it's a good organization and they do good things with the money," she said. "I like the baskets in addition to the food, and you see people you know (at the event)."


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BIRTHPLACE: Cleveland, OH, USA
DRAFTED: NJD: 2000-76 overall
|Traded to Erie (OHL) by Windsor (OHL) for Jason Ward, January 6, 1998.Traded to Phoenix by New Jersey with New Jersey's 2nd round pick (later traded to Edmonton Edmonton selected Geoff Paukovich) in 2004 NHL Draft for Jan Hrdina, March 5, 2004. Signed as a free agent by Danbury (UHL), February 10, 2005. Traded to Columbus by Phoenix with Cale Hulse and Jason Chimera for Geoff Sanderson and Tim Jackman, October 8, 2005. Signed as a free agent by New Jersey, July 10, 2006. Signed as a free agent by Pittsburgh, July 1, 2009. Signed as a free agent by NY Rangers, July 1, 2011. Traded to Minnesota by NY Rangers for Darroll Powe and Nick Palmieri, February 4, 2013. Missed majority of 2013-14 due to knee surgery, October 1, 2013 and as a healthy reserve.
2010-11: Established a career-high in assists (eight) and tied his career-high in games played (81). ... Won the Baz Bastien Memorial "Good Guy" Award and the Edward J. DeBartolo "Community Service" Award. ... Ranked third on Pittsburgh and second among team forwards in hits (181), and second in penalty minutes (124) and fighting majors (12). ... Led the team with a plus-4 rating in the playoffs. 2009-10: Established a career-high in goals (13), points (19), games played (81), shots on goal (87), and plus-minus rating (plus-five). ... Led Pittsburgh in penalty minutes (120) and ranked second on the team with a career-high, 198 hits, marking the fourth consecutive season he eclipsed the 100-hit plateau. ... Skated in his 400th career NHL game on Mar. 6 at Dallas. ... Notched his first career hat trick on Nov. 30 vs. the Rangers at Madison Square Garden. ... Tied for fourth on the team in playoff hits (32). 2008-09: Established a career-high in penalty minutes (136). 2007-08: Skated in his 200th career NHL game on Oct. 6 at Florida. 2006-07: Notched the game-winning goal on Jan. 7 at Montreal, his fifth career game-winner. 2005-06: Missed 12 games from Jan. 16 to Mar. 2 due to a broken foot. ... Skated in his 100th career NHL game on Dec. 9 at Atlanta. 2003-04: Split the season between New Jersey and Phoenix. ... Missed nine games from March 10 to March 26 due to shoulder injury. 2002-03: Registered two goals while making his season debut on Jan. 13 vs. Florida. ... Notched four points in four playoff contests (one goal, three assists). ... Tallied the Stanley Cup-clinching goal, his first career playoff tally, added two assists for three points, and posted a plus-three rating in a 3-0 victory in Game Seven on June 9 vs. Anaheim. He is the only player in NHL history whose first career playoff goal was the Stanley Cup-clincher. His three playoff assists led all NHL rookies.
2005-06: Skated in three games for Syracuse (AHL), recording one goal and two assists for three points. 2004-05: Collected 10 points (five goals and five assists) and 30 penalty minutes in 14 games with Danbury (UHL). 2002-03: Skated in 47 games with Albany (AHL), recording eight goals and 11 assists for 19 points, along with 74 penalty minutes. 2001-02: Established a career-high in games played (78). ... Ranked fifth on the team in points (30) with 13 goals and 17 assists. 2000-01: Skated in 71 games in his AHL debut season with 10 goals and 10 assists for 20 points.
Played three seasons in the Ontario Hockey League with Windsor and Erie, collecting 127 point (70 goal, 57 assists) and 353 penalty minutes in 185 games. 1999-00: Ranked second on Otters (OHL) in goals (32), fourth in points (53), second in penalty minutes (134) and third in plus-minus (plus-4). 1998-99: Skated in 63 games with a career-high of 22 goals and 25 assists for 47 points. ... Ranked fifth on the team with 102 penalty minutes and tied for second in playoff assists (2). ... Led the team in playoff penalty minutes (25). 1997-98: Split the season between Erie and Windsor. ... Tallied four points in back-to-back games with Windsor on Nov. 13 vs. London and Nov.14 vs. London (two goals and two assists). ... Tallied a season-high, seven-game point streak from Dec. 17 at Plymouth to Jan. 1 at Owen Sound, registering 13 points (seven goals and six assists) over the span.
Is a big sports fan and lists basketball and baseball as his favorite sports to watch. ... If he wasn't a hockey player, he would want to play professional baseball. ... Is a fan of country music. ... Lists "Big Brother" as his favorite television show. ... Favorite candy is Mally's Buckeye Chocolates. ... Married: wife, Christi; children, Maddie, Mason and Max.
June 27, 1998 -- N.Y. Islanders first choice, No. 9 overall, in the first round of the 1998 NHL Entry Draft. June 24, 2000 -- Re-entered draft as an unsigned former draft pick and was New Jersey's seventh choice, No. 76 overall, in the third round of 2000 NHL Entry Draft. March 5, 2004 -- Traded by New Jersey with 2004 second-round pick to Phoenix in exchange for Jan Hrdina. Oct. 8, 2005 -- Traded by Phoenix with Cale Hulse and Jason Chimera to Columbus in exchange for Geoff Sanderson and Tim Jackman. July 10, 2006 -- Signed with New Jersey as an unrestricted free agent. July 1, 2009 -- Signed with Pittsburgh as an unrestricted free agent. July 1, 2011 -- Signed with Rangers as an unrestricted free agent.
LONGEST POINT STREAK: 3, (three times) (last -- Oct. 12, 2009, to Oct. 17, 2009) (two goals and one assist)
LONGEST GOAL STREAK: 2, (three times) (last -- April 8, 2011, to April 10, 2011) (two goals)
LONGEST ASSIST STREAK: 3 from March 13, 2008, to March 19, 2008 (three assists)
MOST GOALS, GAME: 3 on Nov. 30, 2009 (Pittsburgh at N.Y. Rangers) (Lundqvist)
MOST ASSISTS, GAME: 2 on April 2, 2008 (New Jersey vs. Boston)
MOST POINTS, GAME: 3 on Nov. 30, 2009 (Pittsburgh at N.Y. Rangers)
MOST PIM, GAME: 20 on Oct. 25, 2008 (New Jersey at Philadelphia)
MOST SHOTS, GAME: 6 on Jan. 29, 2008 (New Jersey vs. Pittsburgh)
FIRST NHL GAME: Jan. 13, 2003 (New Jersey vs. Florida)
FIRST NHL GOAL: Jan. 13, 2003 (New Jersey vs. Florida) (Luongo)
FIRST NHL ASSIST: Jan. 18, 2003 (New Jersey vs. Carolina)
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DETROIT -- The A's lost Scott Kazmir for the rest of the game, Yoenis Cespedes for perhaps a day or two and a three-run ninth-inning lead all in the same game Monday, a 5-4 loss to the Detroit Tigers.
What Oakland didn't lose was any confidence in closer Sean Doolittle, who has suddenly fallen on hard times, the hardest of which was Rajai Davis' walk-off grand slam in the bottom of the ninth.
Kazmir came out of the game in the sixth inning when he started to wince a bit after consecutive pitches to Nick Castellanos. Kazmir was taken out of the game, and while the A's said later he was fine, both Kazmir and manager Bob Melvin said a bit of cramping in the calf led to Kazmir's exit.
He is not expected to miss a start. The same cannot be said for Cespedes, who left the game after scoring the go-ahead run in the eighth.
"It's a left hamstring cramp or strain," Melvin said, adding that his left fielder, who extended his hitting streak to a career-best 14 games, was unlikely to play in the second game of the series Tuesday.
Doolittle, on the other hand, is fine except for the beating his ERA took, soaring from 2.08 to 2.97 with his second consecutive blown save. He gave up a run in the ninth inning Saturday, a game the A's went on to win against the Marlins.
"The other night in Miami, even though the results might not have been there and I blew the save, my stuff was a lot better," Doolittle said. "I just got beat. I was able to make every pitch I wanted to make that inning. (The Marlins) just made adjustments."
Monday saw Doolittle face four batters before Davis, giving up two singles and a walk -- his second of the season. Davis then socked the A's in the jaw with his third career slam.
"Tonight I was inconsistent, even walked a guy," Doolittle said. "For a lot of reasons this one is a lot more frustrating."
Jed Lowrie, who had two hits and drove in three of the four A's runs, said Doolittle's performance to date has earned him the right to have this spell overlooked.
"The guy has been so good pretty much all year," Lowrie said. "I think he's allowed a little bit of leash. It's a good offense. That's well-documented. Just like us, they aren't going to give anything away. You're going to have to earn everything you get from them.
"They battled down to the very end, and Rajai got a pitch to hit and did what he's supposed to do with it."
Davis, who played for the A's from 2008-10, has been a blister for the A's this season. He stole a base in the eighth inning of a tie game in Oakland on May 27 and virtually willed the Tigers to a 6-5 win. And then this.
"He makes stuff happen; he's a high-energy guy," Doolittle said. "Whether it's on base or at the plate or even in the outfield, he's making stuff happen."
The A's have had more than their share of blown saves this year, particularly for a team with a 51-31 record. This was the 13th in 32 tries. Some games the offense has been able to pull out, some not. But Doolittle has been at the top of his game for so long that the A's take his games Saturday and Monday as mere trifles.
He had, after all, gone 24 games and 261/3 innings without allowing a run before Saturday.
"He gave up a couple of hits the other night and ends up not getting the save there," Melvin said. "But you know any time you have a three-run lead, you feel great about him, no matter what. He just didn't get it done today."
The A's will look to the trainers to see if Cespedes will be able to go again in this series. The thickly muscled left fielder has had leg issues in the past, and the A's are likely to play it safe with him.
But if he can't go and catcher Derek Norris (back) isn't quite ready, Oakland would be going into Tuesday with a two-man bench unless the A's pull someone up from Triple-A, which seems unlikely but not out of the question.
The A's appeared headed for a win after a three-run eighth inning that broke a 1-1 tie. A wild throw from Detroit shortstop Eugenio Suarez allowed Cespedes to reach, and moments later Brandon Moss reached the 60-RBI mark with a double to left-center.
Joba Chamberlain relieved Tigers starter Anibal Sanchez and yielded a walk to Josh Donaldson and single to Stephen Vogt before Lowrie's second opposite-field single of the game chased two runs home.
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Tuesday's game
A's (Brad Mills 1-0) at Detroit (Rick Porcello 10-4), 4:08 p.m. CSNCA


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Obama pledges to fight for restoration of Voting Rights Act
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) WASHINGTON (NNPA) – President Obama has pledged that his administration will do "everything in its power" to repair the damage done by the United States Supreme Court on Tuesday when it struck down a key provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. "I am deeply disappointed with the Supreme Court's decision today," he said in a statement. "For nearly 50 years, the Voting Rights Act – enacted and repeatedly renewed by wide bipartisan majorities in Congress – has helped secure the right to vote for millions of Americans. Today's decision invalidating one of its core provisions upsets decades of well-established practices that help make sure voting is fair, especially in places where voting discrimination has been historically prevalent."