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When any Veteran voted for a man that doesn't understand honor, pride in our country, took the American Flag off Air Force one. Has removed all the American Flags off the walls in the White House in places it would be behind him during speeches. Don't you think we deserve the quality of Commander and Chief we have now? We continue to support all the attorneys in office that do what they think is best, and have stopped doing what the American people want! Why do we just bitch about how their doing their job, yet vote them back into office, time after time and again. Every Veteran reading this swore to uphold the Constitution of the United States. Just because oBBAMA ignores the Constitution does that mean we should? The man deserves a fair trial! If he is guilty he should sentenced and the sentence carried out? How doesn't matter to me. I think its pretty clear about his guilt or innocence so justice should be swift because it is in the Constitution of the United States! Not because were pissed off(And I am, just like you.) Garbage in, Garbage out ladies and gentlemen. If you don't believe ANY politician is not doing a good job, EVERY TIME, don't just vote the S.O.B. back in office and hope he does better. Did you forget the K.I.S.S. System. I could go on forever but don't act like you can't figure out what the game is about. Isn't it about time you hold your head up and your chest out, like it was a few years ago. (For the tards, that means get your head out your ass!) For one, I'm not selling my soul for an oBBAMA Phone. But you suit yourself...SP4 Scott 243rd ASHC.
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The alleged Ft. Hood gunman is representing himself in court and appears to want the death penalty. What's your take?
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I worked in a state prison system for over 35 years and during that time I learned never give a criminal what HE wants. Society will be better served if we give him life without parole in main population where he will live in constant fear from that unknown fellow inmate who may shank him. He will be allowed to request administration segregation and receive it only to have 1/2 hour outside his cell every 24 hours. That way, no guilt will be on any honest taxpaying, law abiding patriot.
I don't think he should be sentenced to death because it will make him a Jihad martyr. I think he should spend the rest of his life in Ft Leavenworth and be provided only 2 forms of reading material: the Bible and Playboy magazine. Go Army! (Army Retired)
Hell, I'd be glad to pull the switch on that evil SOB. B.H.Obama has delayed this crap way too long. That trial should have taken one day and the frying the next.
Force feed him raw pork until dead!
Give him the death penalty but hang him so he isn't a martyr and doesn't get his 72 virgins
The amount of time and money that has been devoted to this character is an embarrassing confirmation of how our military judicial system works. He was caught and shot down murdering those defenseless individuals. He should have been given a speedy trial the next week and put to death. Enough said. And if the Supreme Court intervened, they should do some soul searching on what patriotism is all about-to defend the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic!!
We should not make him a martyr. Unfortunately, the way the military justice system works that will be impossible to do legally. And I believe we have no leaders with the courage to even attempt to prevent that.
Without question, he deserves the death penalty so give it to him. I too can't believe he is still be paid. Hopefully, the Army will be able to get at least some of it back. He should be executed by a firing squad.
Hang him with a braided pig skin rope, along with the Mombasa-born, muslime, marxist, mulatto monkeyman in the WH!
Give him what he wants; he is competent to know what he is doing and wants. He is an American, free to decide for himself . . . .
Alleged? Please. There's no alleged about it. Finish the trial and hang the bastard.
I am disgusted it took this long to get this to trial. I feel there has been intense political pressure from the top of our government to drag this out so as to not offend the Middle East. This is now turning into a joke. Everyone with half a brain knows this was a terrorist attack and the DOD should admit to it and quit trying to coddle the radical elements within the Muslim faith. In 20 years of active duty I never saw a Courts Martial take this long to convene. This should have been over and done with in a matter of months not years. Shame on those who allowed this happen.
Give him what is wants--NOW! What the heck are they waiting for!
Why did we allow him to represent himself in the first place? Please tell me why we should care about Major Hasan's ability to wage an adequate defense and civil rights. If he is in the military and still drawing his salary why does he have beard. The more important take is why this is labeled workplace violence. Why is no one expressing outrage for his victims that have been denied benefits and special status based on their injuries or death.
The DOD should adopt the policy that Gen BlackJack Pershing used to quell a Muslim uprising in the Phillipines after WW1. They captured the hostage takers, found them quilty and then brought in pigs and slaughtered them and dipped their bullets in its blood and spread the rest of it in the slit burial trench and then executed all but one. They told him that the dead had all been defiled and would not go to see Allah and released the survivor to go and tell the rest of the tribe. No more uprisings!!!
Hang him, throw him in a ditch and cover him pig guts! a message for others of his ilk!
Make sure his body is smeared with pig fat and/or bury him wrapped in pig skin. That way those 72 Virgins won't be waiting for him in Never-Never Land and he won't be a Martyr. Thank you for your time. TSgt., USAF Retired.
If he is given the death penalty, he will never be put to death. Obama will not sign off on it. I say, give him life, no parole, and let the inmates deal out the justice.
Hurry the trial process, convict and execute him. I understand he is still drawing his salary, which I think is ridiculous, since we are in sequestration, and every dollar counts. Duh!


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The "World's Ugliest Woman" Takes on Online Bullying
Motivational speaker Lizzie Velasquez is working on a documentary on how to beat bullies at their own game
Velasquez has a rare genetic disorder that only affects three people in the world, and it causes her to be unable to gain weight and also prematurely age. She'd been bullied for most of her life because of her looks, but somehow Velasquez managed to turn her negative experiences into a positive. Now a motivational speaker, she's also launched The Lizzie Project, a Kickstarter-funded documentary about her experiences with bullying, with the aim of helping others in a similar situation.
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"My dream is to leave the online community better off than I found it. Or rather, better off than it found me," explains Velasquez in her Kickstarter video. "I want to work with online places to make them safe and supportive of each other." Sounds like a good idea to us. [USA Today]
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AUGUSTA, Ga. -- If at first you don't succeed, try again ... with a different company? We catch up with members of the Augusta Coliseum Authority who say they are ready to bring business to the new TEE Center.
Constructions crews will be moving out soon. Augusta's new convention center is done, but there is still no management agreement.
"Well," said Commissioner Corey Johnson. "We are in negotiations again."
Even though the new exhibit hall is surrounded by the Marriott towers, city leaders may be turning to managers at the James Brown Arena to get things on the good foot.
"That's our alternative," Johnson said. "If we can't get a deal closed out this week, then we are going to have to put Global Spectrum in there to manage it on an interim basis."
"Whatever we need to do," said Coliseum Authority Chair Cedric Johnson. "We will be more than happy to do it."
The center is expected to lose more than $900,000 in the first year.
"You are going to lose some," Johnson said. "But when you look at the benefits that you get on the other end, that is how you balance it out."
Money is not the only issue.
"One of the main issues was the terms," Johnson said. "Fifteen years for a new facility like this was a no-no."
Coliseum Authority members agree.
"I would not give anybody a 15-year contract," said respected business owner and Coliseum Authority Member Brad Usry, who notes many marriages don't pass the 15-year test.
"Thank God mine has lasted 30 years," Usry said. "But some marriages don't last 15 years."
The city is now pushing for a five-year agreement and controls on controversial planned bonuses. After the embarrassment of losing the Georgia Chiefs of Police conference, some feel it's time to play deal or no deal.
"We don't feel like we should be canceling shows," said Cedric Johnson. "We really feel if we can help stand in and help we are willing to do that."
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LEE VINING — The Crusaders picked up their first win in the last four years at Lee Vining.
The Immanuel Christian girls basketball team scored 34 points in the first half on its way to a 54-37 win over the Tigers on Friday in Lee Vining.
"We played pretty good," ICS Coach Bob Smith said. "It was one of those grey-area games that we haven't gotten this season. Lee Vining was fast, so we had to make adjustments on the defensive side of the basketball. We switched up from a loose 2-3 zone, to a man-to-man. We were down 6-3 early, then went on a 16-4 run to close the first quarter. From that point on, the closest Lee Vining could get was nine points."
Tara Henderson had another solid game for the Crusaders in the win and played an excellent first half. She had all of her 17 points in the first two frames in helping the Crusaders to a 19-point halftime lead at 34-15.
"Without Tara, we wouldn't be able to do the things we've done this season," Smith said. "She really turned the corner in the last four or five games. She is shooting 50-to-55 percent and is second on our team in rebounds. It took her a while to get back her legs after mission trip, but she's really playing well right now. Her effort is first-team all-league caliber."
Henderson also had 13 rebounds to finish the night with a solid, all-around performance.
The Crusaders came out of halftime and immediately put more points on the board with Elicia Hazlewood hitting at 3-point attempt to put the lead at 22 points.
Soon after, however, Hazlewood fouled out of the game, which gave the Tigers their opportunity to get back into contention.
"Their coach made some good adjustments at halftime," Smith said. "They played a box-and-1 against Jennifer (Mondragon) and that took away her driving lanes. With Elicia out, some one else had to step up."
The Crusaders were outscored 15-2 for the rest of the third frame after the 3 by Hazlewood.
"I told the team that we let them get back into the game, but we still have a chance to put them away," Smith said. "The girls came out on all cylinders in the fourth quarter and we opened up the lead again. Kassie Parsons did a nice job for us. Her minutes were really important late in the game. She was a nuisance for them under basket."
ICS finished the fourth quarter by scoring 15 points while holding Lee Vining to just seven. The Immanuel win is the team's fifth in a row and its seventh in the last eight games.
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Good morning and welcome to Summit Up, the world's only daily column that is a little annoyed by the recent trend of wedding websites (well, at least we think it's recent, it's not like we have very many friends that would consider inviting us to their special day).
Don't get us wrong, we're all for people locking it up, it's just that we can't really see the need to create a special website just to tell everyone about it.
Isn't it enough to just let everyone know on Facebook, pass out a few of those "save the date" magnets with cheesy pics of the betrothed and clutter everyone's mail boxes with thrice-folded, lavender-scented invitations?
Ah, how we long for a more simple time, when all one needed was a few cows and a holy man (cows for the dowry and the holy man for the thumbs up) to seal the deal.
We're pretty sure that every rice farmer wedded in ancient Egypt didn't insist that all his friends check out a special papyrus scroll chronicling the farmer's and his soon-to-be wife's time along the Nile and inevitably sappy way they fell in love. Now that we think about, that might not be such a bad read:
"Horus was raised in the heart of the Nile flood plain, tending to his father's grain concerns until joining Pharaoh's army following his 12th birthday. It was while in the service to the sun god at the Battle of Kadesh that Horus met his one true love, Nefertiti.
"Nefertiti was a full-of-life daughter of a Hittite grain merchant. When Horus took her as a spoil of war, he also stole her heart. By selling Nefretiti's two younger brothers, Horus was able to purchase his now-booming farm where the couple will reside."
MILLIONS OF SUMMIT UP READERS: Really, you think that's how it used to go down?
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That's about all we've got today. Get out there and enjoy this balmy weather, we hear it's supposed to get into the 20s today.


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The young contenders of the Golden Boy Promotions stable have been on an impressive run in recent weeks, a win streak that the Los Angeles-based company hopes to continue when Abner Mares challenges bantamweight titleholder Joseph Agbeko on Saturday.
Mares will be the fourth Golden Boy fighter to vie for a major title in the past 50 days when he takes on the formidable Ghanaian veteran in the final of Showtime's bantamweight tournament at Nokia Theater in Los Angeles.
The other three — Saul Alvarez, Robert Guerrero and Victor Ortiz — came through with flying colors, boosting the pride and stock of Oscar De La Hoya's promotional outfit, which was once criticized for focusing too much on established veterans of the sport.
It was often written that the company, which rose to prominence on the back of its superstar president, De La Hoya, and his legendary peers such as Bernard Hopkins, Shane Mosley, Marco Antonio Barrera and Juan Manuel Marquez, did not bother to develop young talent the way rival promoter Top Rank is famous for.
A Mares victory may finally put that criticism to rest.
"I think we've established that we have the best young champions and contenders in the sport," said Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer. "Having Victor Ortiz, Amir Khan, Robert Guerrero, Marcos Maidana and 'Canelo' Alvarez on our roster proves that. If Abner Mares wins on Saturday, that will be icing on the cake."
Actually, a title-winning effort from the 25-year-old Southern Californian, who represented Mexico in 2004 Olympic Games, would mean a lot to Golden Boy.
"It would be extremely meaningful," Schaefer told RingTV.com. "Mares began his career with us. He would become Golden Boy's first homegrown champion, which puts him in a very special place in our hearts."
Nobody on Golden Boy's staff would be as proud of Mares winning a world title as Eric Gomez.
"It would be special for Golden Boy but extra special for me," said Gomez, Golden Boy's head matchmaker. "He's been my little project over the years. I made all of his pro fights, and I've known him since he was 14. He used to visit our gym, the old Resurrection Gym in East L.A., when he was amateur. He would spar with talented pros like Jose Navarro and beat them up.
"To have signed him out of the amateurs and watch him blossom over the years has been very satisfying. I think we did a good job getting him to this point, and I think he's ready to be let loose. He proved it to me with the draw against Yonnhy Perez, which I thought he won. He proved it again by beating Vic Darchinyan. Who wins a fight after being knocked down and badly cut and docked a point from the ref the way Abner did? That shows you his mettle."
Mares (21-0-1, 13 knockouts) has indeed proven to possess world-class talent and heart in his last two bouts, the 12-round majority draw against Perez and his hard-fought split decision over Darchinyan in a bantamweight tournament semifinal last December. If he can get the job done against Agbeko (28-2, 22 KOs), a 31-year-old veteran who owns victories over both Perez and Darchinyan, he'll prove that Golden Boy can take a fighter from an 0-0 record to a world title.
Despite success in other areas of promoting, the jury is still out on whether De La Hoya's company can develop talent.
Most of the Golden Boy's standouts, including the recent trio of Alvarez, Guerrero and Ortiz, started out with other promoters. De La Hoya himself was guided to stardom in the 1990s by Top Rank, which has an excellent track record of developing titleholders from scratch.
Fans and members of the media who revel in the acrimonious rivalry between the two promotional giants often point this out as an example of Top Rank's superiority.
Schaefer bristles at the comparison.
"I never agreed with the criticism that we didn't develop young talent like Top Rank," Schaefer said. "Of course, Top Rank has developed more champions. They've developed more than any other promotional company because they've been in business for 40 or 50 years. We're still a young company.
"And while it's true that we signed a lot of experienced, name fighters, like Shane Mosley and Juan Manuel Marquez, we did some developing with them. They didn't come to us on top of the world. Marquez was coming off a loss to Chris John. Mosley was coming off two losses to Winky Wright. We built them back up, marketed them well, and they made record purses with us.
"But at the same time we were working with the legends, we were also signing new talent. It takes time to bring them up, and we're finally seeing our work and our considerable investment pay off. We don't crow about it, but we were focusing on the next wave of stars a few years ago when we singed guys like Seth Mitchell, Adrien Broner and Danny Garcia. We have another wave behind them with young fighters such as Frankie Gomez, Randy Caballero, and Fidel Maldonado."
Schaefer believes Mares will be Golden Boy's first "homegrown" titleholder but certainly not their last.
"Fans know we can work with older fighters," he said, "and they are going to find out that we know how to deal with younger talent, too."
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The person spoke on condition of anonymity Monday night because the deal had not been completed and the club had not made an announcement.
Several media outlets reported earlier that the sides had reached an agreement, which is reportedly for about $50 million over four years.
Jimenez went 13-9 with a 3.30 ERA in 32 starts for Cleveland last season. He turned down a $14.1 million qualifying offer from the Indians, so Baltimore would have to forfeit its first-round draft pick (17th overall) to sign him.
Orioles executive vice president Dan Duquette has been searching for a veteran starter for much of the offseason to help anchor the rotation. Jimenez is 82-75 with a 3.92 ERA over eight major league seasons.
The 30-year-old right-hander broke into the majors with Colorado in 2006. His best season was 2010, when he went 19-8 with a 2.88 ERA in 33 starts for the Rockies.


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A movement -- heroic and subversive -- is emerging in corners of the Bay Area: rescuing household appliances that were designed to die.
Faithful servants, our devices are destined for brief lives.
But a cadre of fix-it fanatics, disgusted with planned obsolescence and our throwaway culture, has embraced "creative caring." Valuing function and respecting the age of household objects, they strive to save them from death row.
They're awaiting your stuff at a Repair Cafe in Palo Alto on Sunday, a Fix It Clinic in Albany in March, a Santa Cruz-based gathering in May and across the nation, from Seattle to Brooklyn, N.Y.
Two basic rules apply: An item has to be small enough to carry -- no cars, dishwashers or clothes dryers. And what's too broke to fix can't be left behind -- recycle it.
"It drives me crazy to throw stuff away when I know it doesn't require much more than love and attention," said Palo Alto resident Peter Skinner, a tech entrepreneur who founded the nonprofit Repair Cafe.
At the Palo Alto event, experts, such as Stanford University-educated mechanical engineer John Eaton, will diagnose and repair items as varied as video games, toys, jewelry and furniture. Need a part? Palo Alto Hardware store employee Jocelyn Broyles will bike it over on her black Schwinn as part of the store's support for the event. The Santa Cruz clinic also will have experienced volunteers.
The Fix It Clinic in Albany embraces a do-it-yourself spirit -- "guided disassembly," joked founder Peter Mui, of Berkeley, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology-trained electrical engineer. The 45th clinic since 2009 will open like an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting -- "Hi, my name is Ted, and this is my toaster oven" -- and then make available tools, coaching and moral support.
The gatherings are also social events, with coffee and conversation that's rare in a big-box store. You can bring an item and then linger. Owners pay for the cost of parts, but there is no repair fee.
Don't have anything that needs fixing? Stop by and watch.
The Environmental Protection Agency said the volume of consumer electronics needing "end-of-life management" has doubled over the past decade. Nationally, only 25 percent of electronic waste is properly recycled; the rest goes out with the trash. (In California, it is illegal to toss electronics in the garbage.)
Distressed by the growing waste of easily repairable goods, Palo Alto's Skinner found inspiration in the Netherlands' highly successful Repair Cafe, created in 2010 when a few Amsterdam neighbors began helping out each other. Now the country has 30 groups and a Repair Cafe Foundation that has raised more than $500,000.
An environmentalist, MBA and veteran of several Silicon Valley startups, Skinner said he believes profound change can start "at the grass roots, bubbling up from below."
Berkeley's Mui found his inspiration in the joy of complex electronics and the disappointment of poorly made junk. As a child in Brooklyn, he took metal shears to his Lionel Train tracks to design the course to his own specifications.
"Why isn't there a market for a lifetime toaster?" Mui fumes. "Couldn't a manufacturer just say: 'This is the last toaster you will ever need to buy'?
"To squander our dollars buying poorly made crap -- that's not honoring our lives," he said.
They estimate a success rate of 60 to 70 percent and have fixed Geiger counters, binoculars, sewing machines, rice cookers, electric kettles, radios, a hair straightener, vacuum cleaners and a laptop's poorly attached graphic chip.
These are a few of their favorite things: broken lamp switches; bad bike cables; DVD players with off-track lasers; slipping belts on microwaves.
Here are the headaches: printers with quick-to-clog ink nozzles; toasters with faulty nickel-chromium heating elements; anything with easy-to-break plastic components, such as locking tabs or snap fits.
The trend toward miniaturization makes some electronics almost unfixable, the fixers concede. (Those coaxial wires on your broken earbuds? Good luck.)
The universal annoyance? Cellphones. They're tricky to pull apart and reassemble -- and companies are far more interested in selling upgraded contracts than offering repair service.
"I like my phone. I don't want a new one," said Eaton, who is devoted to his aging HTC Droid Incredible phone. "So I'm just limping along with it."
For the terminally ill product, where a small problem escalates into a wild-goose chase, last rites are offered.
Yet even that decision has value: salvaged parts for a future project.
And it yields a deepened respect for all that makes modern life comfortable.
"Let's extract that very last value," Mui said. "Understand why it broke, and learn from that."
Contact Lisa M. Krieger at 650-492-4098.
Palo Alto: 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday, Museum of American Heritage, 351 Homer Ave. Details: www.repaircafe-paloalto.org. Questions: email@example.com.
Albany: 1-4 p.m. Sunday, March 10, Albany Community Center, 1249 Marin Ave. Details: Fixit Clinic mailing list at www.bit.ly/znzWjH or Fixit Clinic Group Facebook page at http://on.fb.me/FOEVxi.
Santa Cruz: 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, May 4, California Grey Bears, 2710 Chanticleer Ave. Details: email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 831- 479-1055.
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OAKLAND -- The A's added depth to the infield Wednesday with the signing of veteran utility man Nick Punto to a one-year contract worth $2.75 million with a $250,000 buyout on an option for 2015.
Punto, who played for the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2013, is no threat to take playing time from third baseman Josh Donaldson or shortstop Jed Lowrie. But Punto could be in the mix at second with Alberto Callaspo and Eric Sogard, although it's not likely that all will be on Oakland's roster to start the 2014 season.
Punto, 36, is a switch-hitter who is revered around baseball for his willingness to go head-first into any base -- including first -- to help his team.
"Yeah, the head-first slide," A's assistant general manager David Forst said Wednesday. "We'll probably lead the league in head-firsts at first base. Actually, I'd like him to do it a little bit less.''
When he heard that, Punto chuckled.
"Diving into first base, that's definitely not something I think about when I hit a ball," Punto said from his Southern California home Wednesday. "But it's part of the way I play."
Punto is one of those hard-charging players who tends to maximize his talents playing the game. At 5-foot-9, 195 pounds, he doesn't have a lot of power -- two homers last season -- and it took him until the fifth of his 13 big-league seasons to get more than a quick look.
He's a career .248 hitter who averaged .255 last year with Los Angeles. He begins more games on the bench than in the starting lineup, but his ability to play above-average defense at three positions -- second, third and short -- and switch-hit has allowed him to play two-thirds of his team's games in the last decade.
There seems to be a reasonable chance that Punto will free up the A's to trade Callaspo, another switch-hitting infielder whose defense isn't as good and who doesn't play short.
More than anything, the A's picked up Punto because has a tendency to make a good team better. He did it with the Dodgers in 2013, he did it for years with the Twins, and he won a World Series ring with the Cardinals in 2011.
Punto sees some of that ring potential in the A's.
"This is a team that fits the way I play," Punto said. "I won a World Series with the Cardinals, and now I'm trying to find a way to win another one. You watch this team from the other side and they play hard, they play right, and they have good young pitching and a terrific manager.
"Bob Melvin being a great manager was a huge influence in my wanting to come here. His teams always play so hard; you have to love watching them play. Watching on TV and again in the playoffs this year, I saw those young pitchers. They have young, talented arms. I'm hoping to add what I have to that clubhouse."
Part of what he adds is a player others rally around. He's called "Shredder" for celebrating ninth-inning and extra-inning wins by tearing the jersey off that day's hero and shredding it.
"The shredding, that's never a planned thing," Punto said. "And every time I do it, it can cost me a little. Those shredded jerseys are $150 a pop."


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Free blood pressure screenings will be offered on June 28, July 26, August 23 and September 27 during the market.
"The previous farmers markets held at Robinson were popular with staff and the surrounding neighborhoods. The Auxiliary looks forward to offering fresh, local produce on the hospital grounds again at a new, convenient time during lunch," said Sandy Haskell, director of volunteer services and community relations at Robinson Memorial.
Local farms and businesses interested in participating at the markets can obtain an application at www.robinsonmemorial.org/farmersmarket or by calling (330) 297-2592.


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New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera throws against the Seattle Mariners in the ninth inning of a baseball game Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011, in Seattle. The Yankees won 3-2. Rivera earned his 600th save, moving within one of Trevor Hoffman's major league record, by closing out the New York Yankees' 3-2 win over the Seattle Mariners on Tuesday night. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)


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PALO ALTO -- Without warning, Katie Grace Groebner kicked up her right foot and bolted down the white, bright hallway back to her exam room. Just before she got to the door, she slowed to a walk, a smile twitching on her lips.
Though it was but a few feet, a sprint she has rarely before been able to do perfectly punctuates the 12-year-old's recovery.
"Good. I feel good," she said in her quiet, whispy voice.
Two months ago, Katie Grace was lying in a hospital bed, painfully fighting for each breath as she waited for new lungs and a new heart.
In June, she became one of fewer than 10 U.S. pediatric patients a year to receive a heart-lung transplant. Her surgery took place at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford, one of 34 facilities in the country that perform such transplants on children, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing.
"She's a completely different kid from when I saw her a month ago," said Dr. Jeffrey Feinstein, Katie Grace's transplant surgeon. "She's pink where she once was gray, she has energy when she once was tired. I can only imagine what she must feel like being able to breathe again."
Since her birth in Minnesota, Katie Grace suffered from idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension, which causes increased blood pressure in the pulmonary arteries and in the right side of the heart. It can cause heart failure if left untreated.
The first clue that something was wrong came when she was a baby and started having fainting spells. Her mom, Kathy Groebner, pleaded with doctors to check her daughter's heart. But Groebner said they insisted the baby might have asthma or was stubborn because she had a hard time breast-feeding. By the time Katie Grace was 5 and a clear diagnosis was made, the news was the worst imaginable: they were told their daughter wouldn't live to the end of that year, even with treatment. Her only hope was to have a heart and lung transplant.
"I was in shock," her mother recalled. "I just wanted to see my daughter and hold her. I wanted to forget I heard it."
Instead, she and her husband took action to find the best treatment facility for Katie Grace.
"I got on the computer, and I started making calls," she said.
Groebner said they found the right hospital at Lucile Packard, where consultants explained their services without pressuring them, respecting that she and her husband were the only people who could determine what was best for their daughter.
So the Groebners -- Katie Grace, her mother, father and three sisters -- sold their home and moved to Clayton in 2008. With treatment, including a multimedication routine, Katie Grace's health improved. The color came back to her face, and she was able to go to school and play with her American Girl doll, named Katie.
She could swim in a drysuit -- she's a fan of water parks -- and sing along to The Jonas Brothers, her favorite band. But by 2013, though, her condition worsened. Katie Grace could hardly stand, let alone walk a few feet, without becoming exhausted.
"All the things she was able to do became that much harder," Groebner said. "She couldn't swim because it would exhaust her just to put her suit on."
That's when doctors knew it was time for a transplant.
"We try to avoid transplants if possible," Feinstein said. "If you look at the survival numbers of pediatric patients with transplants, only about 50 percent are still doing well or are alive five years later."
Six months after being put on the waitlist for a transplant, Katie Grace underwent the 12-hour surgery, putting her in rare company: only 94 children ages 11 to 17 have had heart-lung transplants in the United States, the United Network for Organ Sharing reports.
The procedure left a long, pink scar down her sternum, and she'll have to live in an approved hotel room near the hospital with her mother for at least another month. Doctors then will determine whether it is safe enough and she is strong enough to go home.
But her fight won't end there. Along with taking more than a dozen medications, Katie Grace must find ways to strengthen her lungs, like blowing up balloons. And she'll be on at least three medications, including a medicinal steroid, for the rest of her life.
As her main post-op doctor, Dr. Carol Conrad, notes, having a transplant doesn't mean the 12-year-old is cured.
"A lot of people come into clinic thinking they are going to be cured, and it takes a long time for people to understand they're not," Conrad said.
There is no cure for Katie Grace's condition, and she can't have another transplant. Even the slightest cold can be deadly. So little is known about what treatments work in children, her doctors watch her reactions to medications and therapy in her transplant recovery to figure out what might help others.
But for now, she has what she needs to fight her illness. At a birthday party with friends Thursday at the American Girl doll store in Palo Alto, Katie Grace blew out all her candles in one breath, something she has never done before.
"For us, it means we have another chance to be with her," Groebner said. "She gets to have a longer life, graduate high school. We actually get to see her spend the night at a friend's house. All these things, she's never been able to do until now."
What is Katie Grace most excited about?
"Swimming without the suit," she told her mother before pausing and adding, "And climbing. And taking a bath. And running."
Contact Katie Nelson at 408-920-5006 and follow her at Twitter.com/katienelson210.


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Friday, 04/06/1990
El Dorado Café, Crested Butte, CO
Set 1: Cavern, YEMYou Enjoy Myself, Uncle Pen, Rhombus Narration > DividedDivided Sky, Ya Mar, Dinner and a Movie > Bouncin'Bouncing Around the Room, Oh Kee PaThe Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > SuzySuzy Greenberg > AntelopeRun Like an Antelope
Set 2: Carolina, La Grange, Esther > SlothThe Sloth, HoodHarry Hood, Caravan, Reba, IDKI Didn't Know, AlumniAlumni Blues[1] > LTJPLetter to Jimmy Page > AlumniAlumni Blues, GTBTGood Times Bad Times
Encore: JJLCJesus Just Left Chicago, Highway to Hell
[1] Additional lyrics.
Average Song Gap: 5.56
Performers: Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon
Notes: Alumni contained additional lyrics.
Song Distribution:
5 The White Tape
4 Lawn Boy
4 Junta
2 Stash
1 A Picture of Nectar
1 The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday
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This show was part of the "1990 Tour."


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FRISCO - Ahead of a construction season that will likely cause headaches for Interstate 70 travelers, particularly on the weekends, the town of Frisco launched a new webpage to ensure visitors are informed and prepared for the upcoming roadwork.
"We are trying to make your vacation smooth and safe the whole way through," said Frisco spokeswoman Suzanne Lifgren. "Our goal is honestly just to (help you) spend more time in Summit County and less time on the road."
The webpage, a no-cost addition to Frisco's website, is intended to help drivers avoid the worst traffic impacts of a road-widening project on I-70 at the Twin Tunnels that will shutter the highway in the eastbound direction and cause periodic stops for westbound drivers.
The webpage provides a summary of the project, links to the Colorado Department of Transportation's new update website for the project and, officials hope, regular alerts regarding blasting schedules.
Blasting will require full traffic stops in both directions but generally will be planned with very little notice.
Frisco staffers will also use social media to put out traffic updates.
The widening project will expand the two-lane eastbound side of I-70 at the tunnels located roughly 40 miles east of Frisco. The purpose of the project is to alleviate a choke point for the heavy traffic that frequently backs up on the highway on weekends during peak summer and winter travel times.
But before improving the situation, crews will have to make it worse, closing eastbound lanes from April to October to allow for the work, and rerouting traffic over an improved frontage road.
Frisco's online information push coincides with a massive CDOT public outreach effort to keep drivers and business owners in the mountains informed of what's happening on the highway.
"It's one of those projects that we know is going to impact traffic," CDOT spokesman Bob Wilson said. "Anything we can do to minimize that pain and be very clear that the highway is open, and Summit County and the mountain communities are open for business, that's the goal."
Frisco officials are also hoping to partner with businesses, including lodging, restaurants and bus and shuttle companies that provide transport between Denver and the mountains to provide opportunities and incentives for visitors to avoid the traffic.
"We'll try to figure out if the merchant community is into that," Lifgren said.
The webpage will be a pivotal tool ahead of Frisco's headline summer events, including the Frisco Barbecue Challenge and the Fourth of July festivities in helping visitors plan for the trip.
"We are very reliant on people having a very enjoyable vacation," Lifgren said.
The new webpage is located under the "Plan Your Trip" tab at the top of the town of Frisco's homepage, and then under "Getting There."


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OAKLAND -- Bob Melvin said the A's roster overhaul of the last 36 hours "was a lot to digest."
Left-handed starter Jon Lester tried to make it easy for his new manager. So did left fielder Jonny Gomes. The two former Boston players, coming to Oakland in the deal that sent Yoenis Cespedes to the Red Sox, were introduced on Friday and did their best to fit in as if this had always been the game plan.
"I'm going to go out here and perform for these guys and do the best I can to bring a championship here," said Lester, a two-time winner of a World Series ring and the new frontman for a deep starting rotation, coming in with a 10-7 record and 2.52 ERA.
"I got to see a few of these guys pitch against us from the other side and do really well. Obviously the numbers speak for themselves. I hope I can just fill my spot and do my job and get some innings and give these guys a chance to swing some bats and score some runs.''
Gomes, a right-handed batter who was the spiritual leader of a 2012 A's team that won the A.L. West by running down the Texas Rangers in the second half of the season, said he wasn't coming back "to be the new sheriff in town."
"These guys have done an unbelievable job last year and this year without me,'' Gomes said. "I'm here to add on to what this team has done. Six of them were in the All-Star game this year, and I haven't been to one. These guys are trumping me now. But I'll be ready when Bob Melvin calls on me.''
Lester will make his A's debut Saturday, meaning Melvin will be able to go right-left-left-right-right with his rotation: Sonny Gray, Lester, Scott Kazmir, Jeff Samardzija and Jason Hammel, who is the No. 5 man now with Jesse Chavez moving into the bullpen.
The Red Sox won the World Series in 2013, and Gomes knows he owes part of that championship ring to Lester, who went 4-1 in the postseason, including two wins in the Series. He allowed just one run in 151/3 innings for an 0.59 ERA.
"He's well-decorated and climbing the totem pole of left-handers in the game and in the postseason,'' Gomes said of Lester. "That's what (the media) sees. You don't get to see the work ethic, what goes into his championship pedigree.
"It's something to know that the best pitcher on the team is the hardest-working guy on the team. This is a pretty big piece to add to a ballclub. I've been blessed to play behind him, and I couldn't think of a better guy to toe the rubber in a big situation.''
The A's starting rotation already had a 46-27 record and 3.32 ERA -- the best in the American League -- before Lester joined them. "I was pretty happy with our club before," Melvin said. "To bring in another guy like this, who's used to being the No. 1 guy, it's pretty significant. It's exciting to be able to run out each and every day a guy your team feels will give you a great chance to win.''
To move Lester to the top of the rotation, Melvin and pitching coach Curt Young had to make a move at the other end. Hammel, who has lost all four of his starts since being traded from the Cubs a month ago, remains in the rotation with Chavez going to the bullpen, where he was effective for the A's last year.
In the A's clubhouse, the other players were ready when Lester and Gomes made their entrance at about 3:40 p.m. Right fielder Josh Reddick who was one of Gomes' disciples in 2012, had John Philips Sousa's "the Washington Post March" cued up and blaring out of the clubhouse speakers.
It was the kind of music you might hear on a fireworks night, which it was on Friday after the A's-Royals game at the Coliseum.
"This is a big deal, exciting," Reddick said. "This is a major move for us."
Sam Fuld, the center fielder picked up from the Twins on Thursday in a smaller deal that sent pitcher Tommy Milone to Minnesota, came in earlier in the day to less fanfare. But Fuld spent spring training and much of April with the A's before joining the Twins, and the A's were pleased to welcome back a player who had made a positive impression before a roster crunch forced him to find another club.
"It's exciting. It's why any of us play the game," Fuld said of joining a team with a solid shot at going deep into the postseason. "Especially as your career extends. I've had a taste. There's nothing that compares to that.
"I feel like I played well in Minnesota, but it feels like there was something lacking. The longer we were playing, the further out we got, and it's a little disheartening. Every player dreams of being in a playoff place like this.''
For more on the A's, see John Hickey's Inside the A's blog at ibabuzz.com/athletics. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/JHickey3.
With the acquisition of Jon Lester, the A's starting staff has three 2014 All-Stars (Jeff Samardzija, Scott Kazmir, Lester) and their opening day starter (Sonny Gray). Here are their 2014 stats:
Starter W-L ERA
RHP Gray 12-3 2.65
LHP Kazmir 12-3 2.37
LHP Lester 10-7 2.52
RHP Samardzija 4-8 2.92


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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Giants manager Bruce Bochy watched closely as Tim Lincecum threw a bullpen session at Scottsdale Stadium on Sunday, the second full day of spring training workouts.
"Free and easy, he was letting it go," Bochy said. "That's what I expect from Tim, that's him. It's like letting a horse out of the barn."
Actually, it was a warehouse.
Lincecum said he rented a small one in Seattle this offseason and installed a portable mound and a strip of field turf. A rotating group of friends played the part of catcher Buster Posey as Lincecum tried to get an early sense of comfort on a mound. While most pitchers regulate their throwing sessions heading into the spring, the famously resilient Lincecum, who showed no ill effects of a 148-pitch no-hitter last season, threw so often that he lost count.
"I felt like throwing would be the best thing that I could do for myself," Lincecum said. "Throwing with good mechanics, just getting a feel of the ball coming out of my hand."
That perfect feeling has flashed in and out over the past two seasons; Lincecum had a 5.18 ERA in 2012 and 4.37 ERA a year ago. But the peripheral numbers are encouraging for Lincecum and the Giants. His strikeout rate remains high, and he walked 3.5 batters per nine innings a year ago, sitting right at his career average. The Giants believe he's due for a big year and gave him a two-year, $35 million deal in October.
Lincecum is eager to immediately reward that faith, and said he wants to post strong spring numbers after years of slow starts in the desert. Last spring, Lincecum gave up 22 hits and 18 runs in 151/3 Cactus League innings.
"I'm shooting for keeping the ball down in the zone and limiting runners," Lincecum said, adding that he doesn't want to start the season "with a question mark," hoping that positive results will be there in April.
"I want to start here and work up," he said. "I feel strong. I'm pretty confident with the way I am now."
"He looked good," Posey said, smiling.
Posey said considerably more in the weight room, hitting Hudson with a series of questions to figure out how the veteran prefers to attack hitters. Hudson looked like his normal self while throwing alongside closer Sergio Romo and said the only time he feels anything in his surgically repaired ankle is when he runs side to side.
"It's the same delivery I've seen over the years," Bochy said. "He hasn't changed anything as far as I can see."
Bochy said Hudson remains on track to take his turn when Cactus League games begin later this month.
"You have to put a lot of stock in the job he did," Bochy said. "His stuff was crisp, and the breaking ball was better."
Petit came one out away from throwing a perfect game in a memorable September appearance.
"To have those types of games, you don't do that by luck," Bochy said.
"Overall, he looks quite a bit stronger to me," Bochy said.
"I hate it," Hudson said. "It makes me sick to my stomach. He's really worked hard to try to get back. It's sickening, honestly. You know what? Not a lot of people could have attempted to come back after five years away. It's just a testament to what kind of athlete he is and how good he is on the mound. It's a shame."
For more on the Giants, see Alex Pavlovic's Giants Extra blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/Giants. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/AlexPavlovic.


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These shows marked a turning point in the fledgling era of 3.0 Phish. Shows before we scatter-shot, and with do cause, as the band was still getting their improvisational bearings and musical foundation set beneath them after five years off the grid. When Down with Disease opened the first night, it had that *feel* ... you know what I'm talking about. The feel where something special was about to happen. It was intangible as much as it was sensory.
They smoked through Down with Disease, played (to my ears) the most unique Possum of 3.0, and dazzled with gems like an elongated Stash, Destiny, and a worthwhile early Ocelot. Phish then opened it all up. Using the Gorge itself as an amplifier, they played a first set, 18 minute Sneakin Sally that, I believe, is a top-10 jam of 3.0 Phish and the very best Sally played to date.
Moma Dance hit and then the glowsticks flew. I remember it so well, it was pure bliss. The fans were in full dance mode after setbreak, again, feeling now more than ever that we were experiencing a crux in the evolution of Phish. We just knew what was happening. We were riding the crest of a new wave, a new light... then Light itself came next. Wow. What a special and so unique calypso jam this evolved into. Island rhythms layered over vocal harmonizing created, much indeed, a light amongst the band and fans. A smooth segue into Taste provided another "wow" moment. Taste fades and Fluffheads hits. For those of you too immersed in more recent tours, it should be noted that Fluffhead was A REALLY BIG DEAL in 2009. At that point, it wasn't in "regular rotation" and after the Hampton run, the song itself embodied the reincarnation of Phish. Perfect placement. Joy followed with a smooth momentum that let us all absorb the feeling we were experiencing, but then, blastoff. Gin. This Gin. Had it not been for Summer of 2014, this Gin is easily the best of 3.0 Phish (and again in my opinion, still the best). Ripping through the normal Gin build, then breaking form into a driving open soundscape before trickling into a cascade of waterfall notes, this Gin has it all. Much the same, the Hood that comes next follows that same soundscape pattern Gin created 15 minutes before. Open space and serenity are thematic in this Gin. It is not fiery. It is peaceful and contemplative... beautiful even. What a combo to close a set... to close a show.
The next night picked up the pace in the first set. I mean Phish came out firing. Chalkdust, MOTR, Tweezer, Ya Mar (a jammed out Ya Mar at that!), 20 Years Later, and an absolutely ripping trifecta of Wolfmans > Zero > Antelope framed one of the best first sets I've ever heard... oh not to mention the Mango opener, first time played since IT. And of course a special Driver, even then the song carried so much weight for me... it was amazing to see live. The first set was complete, it flowed, it jammed, and it rocked. The feeling was growing. The light was getting brighter. The Gorge was opening itself up to the universe in a spectacular of light and sound and energy. When Rock and Roll opened the second set, I smiled beyond compare. The feeling. This song had it. 23 minutes of tension and release that flowed into nimble musical weaving that slinked into a full-band groove-fest that rocketed back into an incendiary 5-minute closing peak all before slowing down so very naturally and dissolving into Makisupa. The Policeman was especially playful that night. A broken down (in a good way) jam left lot of open space for Mike and Fish to do their thang. Then, because they are Phish, Mike and Trey decided to switch instruments - so cool. SO COOL! Wedge and Alaska provided an acceptable respite before a mid-set YEM hit us. To say the energy before the AHHHHH BOY build was volcanic would be an injustice. The band was raging and the crowd was furiousy dancing, Unfortunately, the YEM jam did not go anywhere special and the band seemed to sit back, almost a little *too* patiently for the rest of the show. Number Line and what-the-heck set-closing Piper rounded off the run, complete with Fish teasing that Llama drum beat multiple times, giving me multiple cardiac episodes, before settling down and serenading us with Grind.
Guys, if you want to see not just how far the band has come, but how good they were in 2009, listen to these shows. You too will feel what I am talking about. Some sort of magic that only the Gorge brings out in this amazing band. Enjoy.


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Definition of complement in English:
- And I'm going to start off a new occasional feature, a complement to my 'How Not to Do It' series of lab stories.
- Many retailers are also becoming more active in the seed business or are partnering with seed companies, so seed treatment as a whole is a great complement to and natural extension of the seed business.
- As a complement to the board's oversight, FDA will improve transparency by sharing drug safety information sooner and more broadly and conveniently.
- This will require a full complement of diplomatic, political and military efforts.
- The cell is then stretched and split into two halves on the framework of microtubules, each half containing a full complement of chromosomes.
- Tetraploids, inheriting a full complement of chromosomes from each parent, and thus having double the normal allowance, occur in nature or can be induced.
- Each ship will have a complement of typically 1,200, including 600 air crew.
- The ship's complement is 210 crew with 13 officers.
- Eliminating meals will also mean the normal complement of cabin crew can be cut from six to three.
- Likewise, in base 2, the complement of a number is obtained by subtraction from a row of 1's.
- Complement clauses are subordinate clauses that function as complements of a word: that they were too noisy in She told them that they were too noisy.
- Recall that a verb governs an object, and the head of a phrase governs the complement.
- For many people, 'feel like' has become a complex verb that takes sentential complements.
- An example is a transfusion reaction in which IgG and IgM anti-red-cell antibodies activate complement and cause cell lysis.
- Red blood cell susceptibility to complement was ruled out via a negative sucrose hemolysis test thus precluding a diagnosis of PNH.16
- The DAT is usually positive, confirming the presence of IgG antibodies with or without complement on the red cells.
verb[with object]
- This capability complements policy-based management features that allow automated or advised actions, based on conditions detected through advanced diagnostics.
- Riding last year's breakthrough, he's using slightly improved on-base skills to complement his power-speed combination.
- There was something about his personality that lent itself to New York, a stubborn quality that complements a stubborn city.
- The Nubira complements the already strong line up of Matiz, Kalos and Tacuma.
- Bosses at Pizza Pioneer, which in July will celebrate its 16th anniversary, have decided to open during the day to complement its already buoyant evening business.
- I am pleased to hear that a good variety of businesses have made the decision to locate here and this will complement the already thriving business community locally.
Complement and compliment (together with related words such as complementary and complimentary) are frequently confused. They are pronounced in the same way but have quite different meanings: as a verb complement means 'add to something in a way that enhances or improves', as in a classic blazer complements a look that's smart or casual, while compliment means 'admire and praise someone for something', as in he complimented her on her appearance. Complementary means 'forming a complement or addition, completing,' as in I purchased a suit with a complementary tie. This is often confused with complimentary, for which one sense is 'given freely, as a courtesy': honeymooners receive complimentary fruit and flowers.
in her complement
- Heraldry (Of the moon) depicted as full.Example sentences
- A moon in her complement or in her plenitude is essentially a roundel with a human face.
- Example sentences
- These distinctions between replacement and complemental were particularly marked at seven points.
- Of course, the question of how a dwarf or complemental male finds an appropriate host to house him still remains.
- The affinity between the mutually complemental antibody and receptor was described by a weighted affinity matrix.
Late Middle English (in the sense 'completion'): from Latin complementum, from complere 'fill up' (see complete). Compare with compliment.
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Film critics regard 1939 as the greatest year in Hollywood history, when more memorable movies were released than at any other time. Throughout 2014, the Kansas City Public Library recreates the movie going experience enjoyed by audiences 75 years earlier. Each week, the free series Hollywood's Greatest Year will present a movie from 1939.
In the Stanley H. Durwood Film Vault, Central Library, 14 W. 10th St.
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Ninotchka (NR; Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas)
January 4, 2014
Bachelor Mother (NR; Ginger Rogers, David Niven)
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Jack Roger Moore, 81, passed away peacefully at Pershing Memorial Hospital on October 10, 2012, surrounded by his family. He was born April 3, 1931 to Lee and Lula B. Moore. Jack graduated from Laclede High School in 1949 and a few short months later, he was united in marriage to his childhood sweetheart, Betty Chalfant, on August 19, 1949.
Moore Implement Company was established by Jack and his dad, Lee, in 1949 in Laclede, MO. The business began as a Massey-Harris dealership which later became a Massey-Ferguson dealership. Jack went on to work for Bess Implement of Brookfield and sold International Harverster equipment as well as Allis Chalmers equipment for Hahn Implement, also of Brookfield. Jack embarked solely on his own in 1970 primarily as a used equipment dealer, but he also employed in new equipment for various short line equipment manufacturers. Jack's business, though small in appearance, sold equipment to customers in nearly every state. In addition, Jack had the opportunity to assist buyers in Canada, Mexico and Central America. He counted business relationships with Disneyland and Kansas State University School of Agriculture. Jack's knowledge of the farm machinery industry was unmatched. He was known throughout North Missouri as an honorable business owner, who loved his trade and enjoyed the opportunity to teach others about the equipment he sold. He regularly attended area livestock and farm implement auctions and was frequently approached by those who sought out his opinion and advice.
Jack is survived by his wife of 63 years, Betty Moore; two daughters, Joy Turner and husband, Charlie of Lebanon, MO, and Diane Hatch and husband, Curt of Springfield, MO; one son, Roger Moore and wife, Pam of Blue Springs; a sister, Bea Stanley, Brookfield, MO; four grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; two nieces; one nephew; and numerous extended family and friends.
Preceding Jack in death were his parents and a brother-in-law.
Visitation will be held Sunday, October 14, from 9 a.m.-noon with the family receiving friends from noon-1:30 p.m. at Rhodes Funeral Home, Brookfield. Graveside services will follow at 2 p.m. in the cemetery in Laclede.
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Dave Mallett walked down a path toward the barn at Historic Johnson Farm Thursday. Flanked by his friend and assistant, Jimmy Powell, Mallet took in the land he has frequented for the past 15 years.
Each Christmas season, Mallett and his Belgian horses offer wagon rides to Christmas Festival at the Farm visitors.
On Thursday, the farm's advisory board and volunteers honored him for his service.
"It's one of the most iconic images of Johnson Farm," farm Coordinator Ingrid McNair said about the horses and wagon during the holiday season. "It's the most beautiful sight."
Mallett had told farm officials that he wouldn't be able to make it to the Christms Festival at the Farm this year, which will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dec. 1.
He later changed his mind, but the idea of a Christmas without him spurred the award, Advisory Board Chairman Kohlan Flynn said.
"If this might be the end of the road for him helping in this capacity, the board decided to honor him," Flynn said. The rides "have been the highlight for the kids. They have been such an asset to the farm."
Mallett smiles when he thinks about kids laughing as they ride in the wagon.
"We enjoy it," Mallett said. "We always have a crowd of people in line waiting for the wagon."
For Mallett and Powell, however, the wagon rides are about more than just bringing joy to children. The horses themselves are a symbol of history, he said. They're symbolic of a day when horses were laborers.
Mallett and Powell travel to Amish country in Ohio every year to buy horses, sell horses or just watch horses work.
"We like to see horses work like they did in the old days," Mallett said. "I love to go to Ohio and watch the Amish."
They enjoy working horses so much that they take the Belgians to Warren Wilson College twice a year to plow the fields, Powell said.
Mallett lives on his family's farm, which is more than 100 years old, in Hendersonville.
His house was built in 1884. He graduated from West Point and served in the Korean War.
He moved to Hendersonville for good in 1955 and started The Wine House in Asheville, a business his son now runs.
There's something about the laughter and excitement when Christmas rolls around that makes Mallett love working the festival at Johnson Farm.
"As long as I've got a good helper, I'll do it," he said.
"I want to do it as long as I'm physically able to do it."
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SAN JOSE -- The question follows Hillary Clinton wherever she goes, shadowing her more doggedly than her Secret Service retinue, and yet it's almost certainly the wrong question for this moment. When she takes the stage at San Jose State University's Event Center on Thursday evening, will she or won't she run for president again in 2016 is what supporters want to know. After all, Election Day 2016 is just 942 days away, the merest blink of an eye in the current perpetual campaign cycle.
But the question will likely remain the elephant in the room because the man conducting Clinton's Q&A -- Santa Clara County Assessor Larry Stone, a longtime friend of Bill Clinton's -- knows she wouldn't answer, and is already sure what she would say if she did blurt out her plans. "Of course she's going to run," Stone says. "There shouldn't be any doubt. But she's not going to make the announcement at San Jose State."
With a recent Zogby poll indicating Clinton would clobber potential Republican contenders such as Jeb Bush, Sen. Rand Paul and Gov. Chris Christie by a range of 18 to 23 points, and no plausible Democratic challengers in sight, the better question would be: Can anything derail Hillary Clinton's inevitability?
It happened once before, when Barack Obama used a superior organization to upend her "heir apparent" status in 2008.
Hoping to appeal to an audience that's expected to skew heavily female, Stone wants to keep the focus of his questions mostly personal, so her supporters get better acquainted with the former first lady of the United States, U.S. Senator and Secretary of State. But not too personal. "I'm not going to say, 'Well, if you're president, who are you going to put in charge of the interns?' " Stone joked, alluding to Bill Clinton's canoodling with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. "That would be a one-question interview."
At a time of almost unparalleled crankypants politics in Washington, D.C., a surprising consensus has formed around the notion that Hillary is a lock to win the Democratic Party's nomination, and that she's already running. She made two appearances before potential donor groups Tuesday in San Francisco, gave another speech that night in Portland, and will speak in Las Vegas on Thursday before appearing in San Jose. "She doesn't go anywhere now without there being a 2016 context to it," says Seth Bringman, communications director for the political action committee Ready For Hillary, which so far has collected more than $400,000 selling T-shirts and coffee mugs bearing her mug and the PAC's logo.
Calling this Clinton's "pre-campaign ground campaign," Melissa Michelson, professor of political science at Menlo College, believes the reported $200,000 speaking fees she's been collecting -- and the connections she makes with groups like trial lawyers at the American Bar Association convention in San Francisco -- reflect the undeclared candidate's determination not to run out of money this time.
"If she hadn't run short on funds in 2008, it might have been her turn then," Michelson says. "She mismanaged her funds, but it's less likely that her campaign will be mismanaged this time, and less likely that a scandal will emerge to derail her. It's kind of hard to imagine that there's some new scandal we haven't all heard about that might emerge after all these years in the public spotlight."
First-time voters in 2016 very likely weren't even born during the Lewinsky scandal, so that and other colorful episodes of the Clinton administration will be ancient history to a lot of voters. "The current image of Hillary Clinton is that of a very strong woman," Michelson says. "Not the adoring housewife who talked about baking chocolate chip cookies, and held her husband's hand after he lied to her about Monica Lewinsky. Older women who were of age when all that happened are just chomping at the bit to vote for a woman" to be president.
During this otherwise quiet period in the presumptive nominee's long march back to the White House, her only known opposition from within her party are Jeff Boss, a conspiracy theorist from New Jersey, and Robby Wells, the former head football coach at Savannah State University. But other candidates are likely, and Stone hopes for a primary challenge from either Vice President Joe Biden or Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley to stave off the lassitude of her last campaign. "If either one of them decided to run," he says, "they wouldn't do what the Republicans did in 2012, which is carve each other up."
In addition to the formidable name-recognition she would bring to a presidential bid, Clinton would have the likely advantage of facing any Republican challenger from behind the "blue wall" -- a phalanx of 18 states, and the District of Columbia, that have voted Democratic in at least six consecutive elections. If form holds in 2016, that picket line of blue states would give Clinton, or any Democratic nominee, 242 of the 270 votes needed in the Electoral College to win the White House.
In San Jose, Clinton will face a picket line of a different sort. A group calling itself Gilroy-Morgan Hill Patriots plans to protest her appearance here Thursday. They would like Clinton, who was then Secretary of State, to be held accountable for the 2012 fiasco at Benghazi, when U.S. ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed in a raid on the embassy compound. "This is not the type of person we want leading anything," the group says in a statement, "let alone our country. Our message to Hillary Clinton is simple: we don't want you, please go away."
For at least the next 942 days, that doesn't seem likely.
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The Dow's record high is almost here.
Stocks are at session highs, with the Dow up 71 points to 14146 and less than 20 points away from this watershed moment Hewlett-Packard Home Depot and DuPont are leading the blue chips higher as all but four of the Dow's 30 components are rising.
The level to watch is 14164.53, last hit on Oct. 9, 2007.
The market has been trickling higher for much of the day, following a raft of mixed earnings reports and economic data.
Just because the index is close to setting new highs doesn't necessarily mean it's a guarantee the milestone will be achieved today. The Dow initially crossed above 14000 on Feb. 1 and has been waffling around that level all month long.
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Volvo Trucks' New River Valley (NRV) plant, located in Dublin, Virginia, is the company's largest truck manufacturing facility in the world—and the plant's senior management aims to keep it that way. By embracing energy efficiency as a critical part of its business strategy, the company is realizing huge energy savings as it continues to expand and create local jobs.
Patrick Collignon, plant manager at the NRV facility, understood that the plant's energy use was intricately tied to its competitiveness and overall success. He saw the pursuit of greater energy efficiency as a critical component in the plant's strategy to stay healthy and grow during tough economic times. In December 2009, the company joined DOE's Save Energy Now LEADER initiative, which calls on manufacturers to reduce their facilities' energy intensity by 25% over a 10-year timeframe. Since becoming a LEADER Company, Volvo's NRV plant began tapping into the technical expertise of the Department's Industrial Technologies Program, as well as its own resourcefulness, to supercharge its energy efficiency efforts. As a result, not only did Volvo rise to its LEADER challenge, it far surpassed it—implementing a range of measures that helped to reduce energy intensity by almost 30% in just one year.
The investments Volvo made in energy efficiency have now paid impressive dividends in terms of the company's cost savings, jobs impact, competitiveness, and environmental footprint. Embracing common-sense, but often overlooked energy efficiency measures helped Volvo cut costs and keep operations—and jobs—for its truck manufacturing business here in the United States. Every Volvo truck sold in the United States is built by United Auto Workers-represented workers at the NRV plant. Volvo is now the largest employer in southwestern Virginia with 2,200 employees at its NRV plant. As such, its determination to keep operations—along with the paychecks from those operations—in the United States has helped to bolster the local economy. See the Energy Blog post.


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The Bay Area's frenzied housing market, marked by soaring prices, short supply and a scramble for homes, is showing signs of cooling.
Some buyers, fearful of a new bubble or worried about higher interest rates, are putting their plans on hold, while new listings of homes for sale have been increasing since March, which should put the brakes on spiraling prices.
"It's a welcome break in the trend, even if it ultimately means prices start to cool off a bit too," said ZipRealty CEO and President Lanny Baker.
Real estate agents in Silicon Valley, where homes have commanded offers hundreds of thousands of dollars over asking price, say bidding is less frenzied than a few months ago, although it's still one of the hottest markets in the country with a median of 10 days to sell a home.
"Some buyers are seeing that the market is so crazy they are stopping and catching their breath," said Mark Wong of Alain Pinel Realtors in Saratoga.
"I'd call it a little calming of the bubble," said Kerry McCarty of ZipRealty in Santa Clara.
Masa Shiohira and his wife, Jaime Abdilla, are among the Bay Area buyers who have hit the pause button. Concerned about a possible housing bubble, they have stopped looking and plan to rent for a while.
They're selling their home in Montclair and a condominium in Foster City and putting the money aside for a year or two. They bought at the top of the market in 2006-07, and while they aren't short selling, they are losing a little money on the sales.
"We're seeing something very similar to the situation we got burned in six years ago," Shiohira said. "I'd rather see what's happening first, and take my time."
For now they'll rent a house in Hayward halfway between her job as a teacher in Belmont and his as a lawyer in Alameda.
"We don't know if we're making a good move or not," Shiohira said, "but we want to operate in more measured way as opposed to getting caught up in a rush of people, competing for competing's sake."
Higher interest rates could also trim the ranks of eager buyers.
Brian and Denise Ballou are moving from New Mexico to Morgan Hill to be close to their children and grandchildren. They locked in a 3.125 percent rate for a loan on a $795,000 home two weeks ago.
"At 4.5 percent, which I guess is what the rate is right now, it would probably be a deal-breaker," Brian Ballou said.
Average rates for a 30-year fixed mortgage remained above 4 percent for the second week in a row, according to a report by mortgage giant Freddie Mac on Wednesday. The average rate was 3.35 percent in May.
Also helping to cool off the frenzy is an increase in the number of desirable homes for sale in the middle to upper price range. As sellers face more competition from other sellers, prices should stabilize.
New listings are up 8 percent in San Mateo County from a year ago, up 5 percent in Santa Clara County, 6 percent in Contra Costa County and 3 percent in Alameda County, according to ZipRealty.
While the steep climb in median sales prices for single-family homes in the East Bay, Peninsula and South Bay has made some buyers nervous, it doesn't necessarily mean there's a bubble, said Robin Dickson, president of the Contra Costa Association of Realtors.
"Clients say they are just not going to buy at the top of market, but really, how do you know this is the top of market?" Dickson said.
Investors are said to be a driving force behind the rise in sales prices, and they were still out in force in May, accounting for a quarter of all sales. But Glenn Polf of Diversified Ventures in San Ramon says it's harder to make deals work when prices rise too high.
At some price ranges, there's no sign of slowing demand.
The market for luxury homes is "red hot," according to Rick Turley, president of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in the Bay Area.
Sales of East Bay homes for more than $1 million were up 58 percent in May from a year earlier, according to Coldwell Banker, citing Multiple Listing Service figures. Silicon Valley homes selling for more than $1.5 million were up 28 percent compared with a year ago, Turley said.
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Interviews took up the bulk of a special meeting of the Palmyra R-1 Board of Education on Monday in the office of the Board of Education.
The board interviewed three architectural firms to do design work on the Booster Club Sports Complex project. Three more interviews are scheduled for Wednesday, May 8.
In regular business the board accepted resignations from Linda Reeves, elementary custodian, and Dee Leonardi, middle school/high school nurse.
The board hired: Jenny McAlister, elementary teacher, Catherine Labuary, middle school special education teacher, and Betsey Brass, high school biology teacher.
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After 14 seasons, Las Lomas High football coach Doug Longero is taking a break.
Longero, who won four North Coast Section titles and earned 113 victories with the Knights, said he is stepping down for at least the 2013 season, but he left open the possibility he could return after that.
"Right now is the right time for me to take a break and take some time away from football," Longero said.
He plans to stay on as a physical education teacher at the school and get his master's degree.
Longero said Mike Downing will take over as the Knights' head coach next year. Downing, a 1999 graduate of Las Lomas and a teacher at the school, has been with the program for eight years, most recently as the head freshman coach.
The Knights went 5-7 this past season.
All-Star football game: Some of the East Bay's top seniors will go head to head Saturday in the Holiday Classic all-star game.
The Contra Costa all-stars will take on their counterparts from Alameda County at 1 p.m. at Pittsburg High's Pirate Stadium.
The game will feature 82 players from 37 East Bay high schools.
The Contra Costa squad includes record-setting running backs Olito Thompson (Concord) and Joe Protheroe (Clayton Valley), as well as Washington-bound receiver Darrell Daniels (Freedom). Contra Costa also has some top defensive players in Pittsburg's Antonio Huey and Mote Maile.
The Alameda squad has a pair of outstanding defensive players in James Logan's Ryan Bua and Ansar Muhammad, who will try to slow Contra Costa's offensive stars.
The Contra Costa team will wear No. 9 on their helmets to honor Concord player Montreal Blakely, who was killed in San Francisco on Saturday night. Donations for Blakely's family will also be accepted at the game.
This game takes the place of the Sacramento vs. East Bay All-Star contest.
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James Logan 0, Newark Memorial 0: After starting the year with just one win and five losses in their first eight nonleague games, the Colts were in need of a fresh start.
They got it when Mission Valley Athletic League play started, and after a draw with league favorite Newark Memorial, the Colts (4-5-3, 3-0-1 MVAL) find themselves alone at the top of the league.
"I'm just happy we got the result we needed," Logan coach James Williams said. "It's not what we wanted, but it keeps us in position to stay where we are heading into the New Year."
The Cougars (6-1-4, 2-0-2) built up play nicely through large portions of the game but couldn't put a ball in the back of the net.
They nearly did in the 32nd minute, but goalkeeper Andres Marquez was just able to keep out a shot by Juan Verduzco that nearly broke the goal line for one of his five saves.
In the 67th minute, Joel Sandoval's free kick into the box nearly resulted in a Jacob Dougherty header for a goal, but it missed about a foot wide and hit the side netting.
"Any time you come to Logan and get a draw, it's a good result," Newark coach Rick Villa said. "I thought we played well with the turf and it being wet. We didn't finish our chances, but that's just the game."
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Capgemini report - Business Cloud: The State of Play Shifts Rapidly
By Javier Puerta-Oracle on Dec 04, 2012
Capgemini has published a recent survey on the state of play of cloud adoption. The report indicates "clear evidence that the business, rather than purely IT, is becoming involved in driving Cloud strategy, and pioneering its use for 'edge' growth initiatives."
Ron Tolido, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Applications Continental Europe at Capgemini, was one of the keynote speakers at our Exadata & Manageability Partner Community event in Istanbul in March. He is one of the drivers of this survey. Read his article "3 Key Cloud Insights for 2013".
You an download the full report here: "Business Cloud: The State of Play Shifts Rapidly - Fresh Insights into Cloud Adoption Trends"