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In a highly-anticipated press conference Wednesday morning to address gun violence in the United States, President Barack Obama called for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to renew scientific inquiry into the relationship between "video games, media images, and violence," and urged Congress to support a bill that would grant the organization $10 million to conduct this new research.
"We don't benefit from ignorance. We don't benefit from not knowing the science of this epidemic of violence." Obama said. "Congress should fund research into the effects violent video games have on young minds."
Due to the highly-politicized nature of the debate over gun violence and gun ownership in America, Congress has historically barred federally funded scientific organizations like the CDC from using their research in ways that might "advocate or promote gun control." Obama therefore called on Congress to pass a bill approving future research by the CDC.
"While year after year those who oppose even modest gun safety measures have threatened to de-fund scientific or medical research into the causes of gun violence, I will direct the Centers for Disease Control to go ahead and study the best ways to reduce it," the President said.
Hoping to work around the gun control argument, the White House argued in a Presidential Memorandum released Wednesday morning that "public health research on gun violence is not advocacy." Rather than offering specific policy proposals, the memo said that "the President is directing the CDC and other research agencies to conduct research into the causes and prevention of gun violence, and the CDC is announcing that they will begin this research."
The President's announcement this morning comes less than a week after Vice President Joe Biden met with members of the video game industry and related experts as part of his special task force's meetings to focus on curbing gun violence. At that meeting, Biden told industry executives from prominent companies like Activision Blizzard Electronic Arts, and Take-Two Interactive (creators, respectively, of "Call of Duty: Black Ops 2," "Medal of Honor: Warfighter," and "Borderlands 2," three of 2012's most popular and most violent first-person shooter games) that he had made "no judgment" about that medium or its influence on players. Rather, he wanted to present President Obama will as much relevant research as possible.
Chris Ferguson, a professor of psychology at Texas A&M International who met with Biden's task force last week and told the Speakeasy that he was "cautiously optimistic" about its outcomes said that his main concern with the President's announcement was that the CDC, an organization with "virtually no experience" researching video games, would face obvious political pressure in conducting any new research.
"More research is always better," Ferguson told the Speakeasy in an interview Wednesday following President Obama's remarks. But given the fact that any new research on gun violence is coming on the heels of the Sandy Hook shooting, Ferguson wondered: "Is there pressure on the CDC—whether it's direct or indirect, intentional or unintentional?"
"You'd really have to be living under a rock as a scientist not to know what everybody's hypothesis is," he added. "Scientists are human like anyone else."
Obama's press conference focuses primarily access to and control of real-world weapons, so the President did not make any sweeping statements about the need to limit or censor video game content. In its June 2011 rule on Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that video games are protected speech, which would make any proposal to ban certain games or types of content legally tenuous. That same month, Obama commented somewhat critically on the amount of time children spend playing video games, writing in a Father's Day essay for People magazine that "every father can encourage his child to turn off the video games and pick up a book; to study hard and stay in school."
In today's address, Obama did not respond specifically to the requests from many game industry organizations to balance any research about the negative impacts of gameplay with future research on the benefits that videogames could offer their players. In February 2012, however, the administration hired video game researcher Dr. Constance Steinkuehler to help craft its policy on how games might be used to improve presidential initiatives in fields like public health, education, civic engagement, and environmentalism.
Beyond the question of politicizing scientific research, however, Ferguson noted that the CDC's background in epidemiological research may not be the best way to review a psychological study like the effect of violent video games on their players. This type of research, he argued, would require a long-term, longitudinal study of a relatively large group of participants, and tend to only deliver new findings in "very tiny, very hard to find details."
"None of them would be easy, none of them would be short term," Ferguson said, chuckling. "And at the end of it, what do they have? They've got one more study to throw into the mix."
"Is the study likely to quote-unquote 'answer the question?'" he concluded. "Probably not."


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A Redwood City teenager, accused of fatally shooting two other men last year in what Fairfield police described as a "drug deal gone bad," made a brief appearance in Solano County Superior Court on Tuesday.

Double-murder defendant Marcel Rutherford-Chew, 19, appeared in court alongside his attorney, Vacaville criminal defense attorney Robert Warshawsky, where a date for a Feb. 13 probable-cause hearing was confirmed. Rutherford-Chew is suspected of the March 7, 2012, gunshot slayings of Vedell Jamar Chew, 24, of Fairfield, and 18-year-old Bernard Knight of East Palo Alto.

He has pleaded not guilty and remains in Solano County Jail custody without bail.

Authorities believe Rutherford-Chew, the two victims and 22-year-old East Palo Alto resident Darren Trahan, who was previously arrested as a co-conspirator but later released because of a lack of evidence, were involved in "a drug deal gone bad." The incident took place in the Parkway Gardens collection of townhomes in Fairfield.

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1Permanent and absolute tenure of land or property with freedom to dispose of it at will. Often contrasted with leasehold.
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- I understand it is the same in relation to freehold and leasehold, that you can be convicted of trespass.
- The Crown does not normally make grants to itself in freehold or by lease.
1.1 (the freehold) The ownership of a piece of land or property by permanent tenure.
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- The General Property Trust bought the freehold over the 104 square kilometres in December 1997.
- The county council has now agreed to transfer the freehold of land at Darlingscote Road to the district council.
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Held by or having the status of freehold.
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- On 14th February 1996, the freehold interest in the building was transferred to the claimant.
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- He submits that the evidence indicated that their continued presence was plainly tolerated and accepted by a succession of freeholders and that that amounted to an implied licence to occupy rather than trespass.
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Materials handling business: ISM Non-Manufacturing Index continues to show growth
Consistency appears to be the theme of late when it comes to the Institute for Supply Management's (ISM) monthly report on the non-manufacturing sector.
The ISM's index for measuring the sector's overall health—known as the NMI—was 55.4 percent in May for the third straight month. Like the ISM's Manufacturing Index, a reading of 50 percent or higher represents growth.
While the percentage did not improve on a sequential basis, ISM officials noted that the non-manufacturing sector is still growing. This sentiment was also apparent in the ISM's Non-Manufacturing Business Activity Index, which expanded by 0.8 percentage points to 61.1 percent and growing for the sixth straight month.
Of the four indices that comprise the NMI, employment at 50.4 percent, a 0.9 percent gain from April, was up for the first time after 28 months of contraction. Among the other indices are Business Activity (at 61.1 percent) and New Orders, down 1.1 percent at 57.1 percent.
"I am a little cautious about the employment index, because it is coming from such a low point and would like to see how it pans out over the next two or three months to ensure that job growth is taking place in the non-manufacturing sector," said Tony Nieves, chair of the ISM's Non-Manufacturing Business Survey Committee, in an interview.
Looking at the report overall, Nieves said there is nothing negative with only good news coming out of this data. And even with prices down 4.1 percent at 60.6 and dropping for the tenth straight month, inventories jumped 8.0 percent to 62.5 percent for the second straight month of growth.
And an increase of things like inventories and backlog of orders—up 6.5 percent at 56.0—bode well for positive signs of an economic recovery and growth, according to Nieves.
Comments in the report from purchasing and supply executives indicate growth is occurring, albeit tempered with a consensus of cautious optimism or a wait and see approach.
This feedback is to be expected, given how the economy was "battered and bruised" for a long period of time before signs of a rebound began to appear, said Nieves.
"Late last year and into early this year, we saw some signs of stagnant growth, and kept hearing about a jobless recovery, which results in a longer trend as far as the recovery goes…and people want to wait and see and we cannot blame them," said Nieves.
Looking forward, Nieves noted that a decline in consumer spending has the potential to impact NMI growth but to what level is hard to tell as consumer confidence and consumer spending are large drivers for the economy.
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- Armies made some use of lorries and staff cars, but practical cross-country vehicles, good roads and an associated infrastructure simply did not exist.
- The first cousin to the tank: an armed and armoured, wheeled military vehicle, with a good road and limited cross-country ability.
1.1Relating to or denoting the sport of running, riding, or driving along a course in the countryside, as opposed to around a track.
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- If he clicked on the sports section of college's website, he would see not aristocratic sons pounding along the cross-country course, but young women jogging on treadmills in a gym.
- The landscape around the centre provides 13 km of endurance tracks and tracks for cross-country riding.
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2Across a region or country, in particular.
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- Using information culled from her cross-country team of field reps, she can instantly determine what the market is like in virtually any city.
- Consider the sports agent who flew cross-country just for the chance to have a brief meet-and-greet with a potential client.
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- There is also an attractive cross-country route to the hall.
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2.2chiefly US Traveling to many different parts of a country: a whirlwind cross-country tour
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EDWARDS - Someone finally made a free throw.
And the good news for Vail Christian boys basketball was that it was Robby Bowles on the line twice with in the final 31.5 seconds of Saturday's game against Soroco at the Wheeler Athletic Center in Edwards.
On a day of atrocious free-throw shooting - before Bowles went to the line the Saints were 8-for-22 from the stripe - the senior knocked all four shots as the Saints hung on to a 51-45 win against the Rams.
"I could hear Nigel (Johnsen) saying, 'Just like practice,'" Bowles said. "We shoot free throws together in practice."
With Bowles' shots on the mark, the Saints bounced back from a tough loss at Hayden Friday night and raised their 2A Slope record to 3-1 and overall mark to 8-3.
Vail Christian coach Sheldon Kuhns' first remark in postgame was simply to wipe his brow.
The Saints and Rams ran and ran in the first half, and the second 16 minutes was a physical, half-court game that nearly blew the roof off the Wheeler Athletic Center. The result, while not pretty, may pay dividends down the road for Vail Christian.
"Credit to Soroco," Kuhns said. "They slowed us down. But the thing to remember is that, as this team progresses, we have not won a possession-style game. If we're running, we're fine. The guys stepped up and played defense and rebounded. That's the key. When we've lost at districts, it's been in slugfests, and we've been a bucket short."
If you think that Kuhns and the Saints have the district tournament on the collective brain, it's because that's 800-pound gorilla in the room. Vail Christian has never advanced past the second round of the that tourney, always losing on a Friday, one win short of regionals and possible berth in state.
"We've talked about our goals," Bowles said. "League is important, but getting to state is the goal. We've got to let go of tough losses and be able to come back if we're going to get to our goal."
The Saints led 42-35 going into the final eight minutes, but Soroco, without the services of Nic Paxton (flu), who has tortured Vail Christian in numerous sports, charged back to tie the game at 45 with 1:34 left in regulation. Meanwhile, the Saints were clanking free throws all over the place.
"Last Saturday (against Plateau Valley), we were 9-for-10 from line. We are a good free-throw shooting team," Kuhns said. "It one of those unexplainable things in high school sports."
But with the game tied, Saints guard Austin Ellsworth drove the lane and flicked an unbelievable layup on the run for a 47-45 lead with 54 seconds to go. That shot proved to be the game-winner.
In other housekeeping for the Saints, Bowles' layup at the end of the first half pushed him to 1,000 career points for Vail Christian. Jaryd Francis, Class of 2008, still holds the school record with 1,260.
The Saints host DeBeque Thursday at 5:30 p.m.
Lady Saints, fall
The Vail Christian girls basketball team lost its third game in four outings Saturday afternoon, bowing to Soroco, 46-37, but panic has not hit the Saints yet.
The first reason the sky is not falling is that Vail Christian is not healthy. Already short-handed in the guard department, the Saints are without Taylor Alexander, who is coming back from a concussion, the latest in a rash of injuries.
"At some point this year, we're going to have our whole team out on the floor," Saints coach Doug Bruce said. "We really haven't had that all year in 11 games. But I think everyone's going through that. ... I think we played better tonight that we did last night."
And the offense is showing signs of life. If you haven't head of Bruce's Rule of 40 - score 40 and keep opponents under that figure - the Saints are getting closer on the first part of that edict.
"The fact that we scored 37 is evidence we're headed in the right direction," Bruce said. "We even tried to slow down the game, and we still scored 37."
Paris Baker had a big game for Vail Christian (6-5, 0-3) with 16 points.
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So Sirious: iPhone User Sues Apple over Voice-Activated Assistant
Siri, the iPhone 4S's deadpan voice-activated assistant, is imperfect. She's stumped easily. Her command of English is only so so. In the U.K., she's a man. But is Siri a fraud?
A New York man represented by Robbins Geller is suing Apple for false advertising, alleging that the company's commercials convey a "misleading and deceptive message" about Siri's capabilities.
Frank M. Fazio, who bought his 4S in Brooklyn in November, is part of purported class of people who feel suckered. According to the lawsuit filed last week in federal court in California:
[I]n many of Apple's television advertisements, individuals are shown using Siri to make appointments, find restaurants, and even learn the guitar chords to classic rock songs or how to tie a tie. In the commercials, all of these tasks are done with ease with the assistance of the iPhone 4S's Siri feature, a represented functionality contrary to the actual operating results and performance of Siri.
Fazio claims Siri is far less responsive in real life. When he asked for directions to a certain place, or to locate a store, "Siri either did not understand what Plaintiff was asking, or, after a very long wait time, responded with the wrong answer." (Disclosure: We own an iPhone 4S, and Siri has been generally responsive to our requests for directions. Even in Midtown traffic.)
The lawsuit, which asks for unspecified damages, says Siri is "at best, a work-in-progress."
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When asked her whether her makers exaggerated her worth, Siri told Law Blog, "We were talking about you, not me."
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Jerri Ruckman pulled her minivan between orange cones at Jackson Park Saturday morning. She climbed out, got her two children out of the back and watched as experts tinkered with her kids' car seats.
Safe Kids Western North Carolina and MOMS Club of Hendersonville hosted the safety event. The idea came from MOMS Club member Tamara Betteridge. As she sat in car lines waiting on her children, Betteridge watched how children were put into cars.
She began to think about safety, and said driving distance doesn't negate the safety of children.
"The most accidents happen right around your home," she said.
Betteridge reached out to the Hendersonville Fire Department and was put in touch with Safe Kids. The event snowballed from there. Betteridge, other club members, members of Safe Kids and members of the fire department set up shop at Jackson Park to help ease parents' safety concerns.
By the end of the day, the group had secured 15 cars. They replaced one car seat and dealt with issues in others.
Beverly Hopps, an educator with Safe Kids, said 80 percent of car seats tend to have some type of misuse.
Vickie Killough, of Safe Kids, is what local firefighters call a "guru" in the field of child safety with her expertise in car seats. It was Killough who was not only securing the car seats, but helping parents learn how to put them in correctly.
"As a parent, you do the best you can, but you don't realize how complicated it is," she said.
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I am seeking information about the death of Jasper Green McWhirter b.1868 AL Marion Co and died 1902 Wood Co.TX as a result of walking on the RR tracks. He left 6 children to be reared by his sister, Mary Caroline McWhirter Harbin and spouse, George Washington Harbin.
Jasper Green's wife, Mary Silvania Harper Tucker, had died in 1901 Wood Co.TX.
I would greatly appreciate more information on the subject family.
I will remit or donate for the information.
They should be in the Wood Co.Quitman Tx cemetery records.
Louise Hanson
McWhirter/Harper descendant
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HAYWARD -- Don't plan anything for the day after this show because, warns Brian Copeland, "you will be exhausted and hoarse from laughter after seeing all these heavy hitters."
Brian Copeland and friends' "Stand-Up for Champions" is a star-studded lineup of Bay Area legends of comedy coming together for an evening of laughter to raise money for his alma mater, Moreau Catholic High School.
You'd have to go to six different comedy shows to see all of these headliners, Copeland says.
"There's not a weak link in this chain," he says of the talent, featuring the diverse styles of Chicago Steve Barkley, a $10,000 winner of ABC's "America's Funniest People"; political comedian Will Durst; Mark Pitta, who grew up in San Lorenzo and appeared on "The Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson and Jay Leno; Laurie Kilmartin, an Emmy award winner and writer for Conan O'Brien's show; Johnny Steele, a winner of the 17th annual San Francisco International Comedy Competition; and Bob Sarlatte, who has appeared on "Late Night With David Letterman."
The show will start at 8 p.m. Friday in the school's Teves Theater at 27170 Mission Blvd., Hayward.
Copeland, an actor, comedian, radio talk show host, playwright, author and stand-up comedian, grew up in San Leandro. After graduating from Moreau in 1982, he went to Tommy Thomas, his CYO baseball coach and owner of Tommy T's, to try his hand at stand-up comedy.
"Comedy chose me, and I got hooked," Copeland says. "I found my comedic voice and started to talk about things that matter."
The "instant gratification with no filter" is what Copeland says he finds the most appealing about his art form. "I know from moment to moment how I'm doing. I don't have to wait for ratings."
Comedy, Copeland says, "has always been to me a respite from the stresses and horrors of everyday life."
"To me, the best comedy is able to take a look at a very serious issue but make you laugh at it and think about it at the same time ... with that laughter being that spoonful of sugar," he says.
Copeland's comedy takes on racism in his highly acclaimed one-man show, "Not a Genuine Black Man," the longest-running solo show in San Francisco history, which he wrote in 2004.
In it he talks about growing up African-American in San Leandro at a time when the city was considered one of the nation's most racist. The 10th anniversary presentation of the show is schedule this spring at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre.
Copeland also found comic relief in his own battle with depression in "The Waiting Period," and attacks privilege and government regulation and the events around the Santos Linguisa Factory triple homicide in "The Scion," now playing at The Marsh in San Francisco.
"I find a way to find humor in these things and surrounding circumstances and turn the topic inside out to get people to think about these issues in a critical way," he said.
Everyone on Friday night's bill "will attack some of the sacred cows," he says.
"Comedians and the press, the Fourth Estate, we shine a light on the powerful and hold them accountable." That's not happening much any more, he adds.
Copeland's return to his old school is a fundraiser for the Moreau's Campaign for Champions to build a new athletic and student activities complex. The school plans a state-of-the-art, all-weather artificial turf football/soccer field to replace its almost 50-year-old grass field. The school also plans an all-weather, eight-lane track to replace its dirt track, and new bleachers to accommodate as many as 1,500 spectators.
"The football program has vastly improved over the last few years," Copeland says. "In order to further improve that program, you need a first-class facility."
While at Moreau, Copeland was involved in the theater and student government. He was freshman class president and student body vice president in his senior year.
Copeland's three children have also graduated from the school, which displays in its lobby his 2010-11 Emmy Award for outstanding achievement as talk show host of KGO's "7Live" talk show.
Copeland said he wants the students to know that "a little boy from San Leandro won it. If I can do that, you can do that."
To comment on this story, go InsideBayArea.com.
Brian Copeland comedy show to benefit Moreau Catholic High School's sports complex renovation featuring Copeland, Chicago Steve Barkley, Will Durst, Laurie Kilmartin, Mark Pitta, Johnny Steele and Bob Sarlatte. 8 p.m. Friday, Teves Theatre, Moreau Catholic High School, 27170 Mission Blvd., Hayward
Tickets are $45 general; $75 for pre-show reception and special seating, $130 adds post-show reception with Copeland and friends.
The show is recommended for age 14 and older.
Tickets available at the door or at www.moreaucatholic.org/standup.


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CUPERTINO -- Apple announced Monday that select car manufacturers will soon begin offering CarPlay, the tech giant's attempt to fully integrate the iPhone and its Siri voice-activation system into the dashboard of users' automobiles.
While many new cars and aftermarket stereos include Bluetooth capability that can connect to drivers' smartphones and pipe calls, music or map directions through the car speakers, CarPlay is a more integrated experience that more closely resembles Apple's iOS mobile operating systems and makes access to Siri automatic in a similar fashion to how users cue the female voice on their iPhones.
"CarPlay has been designed from the ground up to provide drivers with an incredible experience using their iPhone in the car," Apple marketing executive Greg Joswiak said in Monday's announcement. "iPhone users always want their content at their fingertips and CarPlay lets drivers use their iPhone in the car with minimized distraction."
CarPlay will roll out this week in cars from Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz and Volvo, Apple said, and 13 other car manufacturers expect to feature the technology in the future, including Ford, GM, Honda and Toyota. Silicon Valley's only automobile manufacturer, Tesla Motors, was not included in Monday's list of partner companies, despite recent reports of communication between the two companies.
CarPlay, originally announced at Apple's 2013 WWDC event in San Francisco as iOS in the Car, will be offered in select 2014 automobile models and will work with the iPhone 5 and newer models.
Drivers will be able to access several features through CarPlay, with notifications vocalized through Siri and drivers able to respond with voice commands. Apple's will highlight its own offerings in CarPlay instead of third-party applications; for instance, Apple's mapping application will be highlighted on the dashboard, but Google Maps will not be accessible.
Google, which recently announced its own similar initiative for the Android mobile operating system dubbed the Open Automotive Alliance, declined a request for comment Monday.
Apple will feature its iTunes Radio streaming-music platform in addition to offering integration with Spotify and iHeartRadio; noticeably absent from that list is Pandora Media, the Oakland streaming-radio pioneer that has made strong efforts for automobile integration. Pandora has been able to withstand the competition from Apple's iTunes Radio since the service launched last fall, announcing a growing user base and listenership.
In a statement provided by a Pandora spokeswoman via email, the company seemed to be holding out hope that future integration is possible.
"At this time, Pandora is not integrated with Apple CarPlay," the statement read. "As a first mover in the auto space, we continue to broaden our relationships with OEMs while also exploring other opportunities to expand our presence in the car. Apple has been and continues to be a valued partner."
Apple stock gained 0.3 percent to $527.76 Monday, as Wall Street indexes sank amid fears of Russia's intentions in Ukraine after soldiers entered the Crimean region late last week. Google declined 1.1 percent to $1,202.69 while Pandora rose 1.2 percent to $37.88.
Contact Jeremy C. Owens at 408-920-5876; follow him at Twitter.com/jowens510.


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When Bernice and George Bajada attended a fundraiser in July 2013 for the newly formed Cancer CAREpoint nonprofit, it was to support a good cause. It was an enjoyable afternoon party in the elegant Atherton gardens of high tech notables Carol Bartz and Bill Marr, and the Bajadas were pleased to be there and to donate.
"We went to the benefit in Atherton, never thinking we would be cancer patients," says Bernice.
It wasn't long after that, George says, when his arm started getting numb and tingling, and he thought he had a pinched nerve.
In fact, he says, "I had a tumor the size of a golf ball-and-a-half wrapping itself around my spinal cord. I had a 7½-hour operation, and I'm lucky I have no paralysis."
Radiation followed and chemotherapy was considered, but George's blood count was good enough to skip it.
"There were no signs of cancer, and everybody was so excited," he recalls. "They had one more test, and when they got my bone marrow they found I had multiple myeloma cancer."
The Almaden couple turned to Cancer CAREpoint, which Bernice says, has helped them physically, spiritually, psychologically and emotionally.
"There has been tremendous support by all the caregivers there. There's a great deal of hope that one receives in going through this process. It's not as scary and negative as it could be," she says. "It's an amazing, compassionate, caring program which anyone going on this journey could benefit from."
Cancer CAREpoint--with CARE standing for counseling, assistance, resources and education--was formed in 2010 by local community leaders Gay Crawford, Bill Piche and Dave Henderson. They recognized there was a need for non-medical support services for cancer patients that was not being met in Silicon Valley.
Prior to opening, they did extensive research and held many, many focus groups with current and past cancer patients, caregivers and others working in cancer-related areas.
Jan Willoughby, a Cancer CAREpoint board member, recalls, when Crawford and Piche called to see if she would be interested in joining this nonprofit, she had "no choice. I had the understanding, belief and knowledge that this was a need unmet in our community."
Willoughby has been touched by cancer many times. She dealt with it when it hit her husband twice, her mother, sister-in-law, father-in-law, stepfather and several close friends.
Then, she says, "When my daughter was diagnosed, I stopped my life and moved in with her."
Willoughby's daughter lives near Sacramento and has two boys who were 2 and 4 at the time.
At the end of May 2014, Willoughby says, her daughter will reach her five-year anniversary being cancer free.
"All these experiences gave me a background and understanding of how you can complement medicine with nutrition, exercise, massage--whatever it is that can make a person feel better," says the Los Gatos resident.
Willoughby served on the Cancer CAREpoint steering committee that hosted focus groups of more than 200 current and past cancer patients, caregivers and others involved in work related to cancer.
The groups helped determine the services Cancer CAREpoint would provide and its mission statement: "Cancer CAREpoint is dedicated to transforming support for cancer patients, families and caregivers in Silicon Valley through personalized one-on-one counseling, assistance, resources and education."
All services are free, and programs include nutrition seminars, massage therapy, guided imagery, yoga for cancer survivorship, healing partners for breast cancer, networking groups, stress reduction classes and more.
Allison Jones Thompson, who started her term as president of the Cancer CAREpoint board in January, says, "It's hard to find someone who has not been touched by cancer."
The Los Gatos resident lost her father to lung cancer when she was in high school, which resulted in her choosing a career in the health field, eventually working with the National Brain Tumor Foundation.
"I've referred people to Cancer CAREpoint and I've seen the direct outcome," Thompson says. "When you're dealing with a cancer diagnosis, everything is about the medicine and the disease and finding the best treatment.
She says that Cancer CAREpoint allows patients and family members and caregivers to focus on the person who so often gets lost in the cancer journey.
"By focusing on the whole person, we empower them to be stronger, and they come through treatments and the journey stronger."
Rob Tufel, executive director of Cancer CAREpoint, says when he first learned of it, he found the group's mission exciting.
"When someone is diagnosed with cancer, their whole world turns upside down," he says. "They have to figure out how to deal with the reality of the medical world, treatments, learn a new language and doctor visits. Then there is the reality of the non-medical impact of cancer--How does this impact my family? Can I still work? What about income? Do I have to eat different foods? How do I prepare for surgery?"
Tufel says Cancer CAREpoint is really a complement to the medical care patients are getting.
"Obviously, the doctors and nurses don't have the time to offer these kinds of services, but we can offer that emotional piece. We have support groups; we have practical nutrition classes, educational series, therapeutic massage and we just started a wig bank. We have both the practical and emotional side of things."
Since officially opening its new office in October 2013, Tufel says Cancer CAREpoint has served some 500 clients.
"For us, a client is anyone impacted by cancer--a patient, a caregiver, family members."
The agency has been seeing about 50 new clients a month, and Tufel says that number is bound to increase.
"We know in Silicon Valley about 10,000 people a year are diagnosed with cancer, so there really is a great need."
Client Sian Sanders has dealt with cancer twice.
"I was initially diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer in March 2011 and dealt with it, but it came back as stage four in my liver in June 2012," says the Rose Garden resident.
Sanders says her second diagnosis coincided with the point when Cancer CAREpoint was really getting off the ground.
"It wasn't there the first time around for me. We just battened down the hatches and got on with it. I did as I was told," she recalls.
"When it came back the second time, I knew I needed more support than the oncologist could give me. He would look after my tumors, but I needed more than that. I needed to talk to someone and have someone listen to me and point me in the right direction for anything not medical related."
She took advantage of everything--massage, image therapy, nutrition classes and also the collage art class.
"They offered everything and they offered a safe place where you could go and get advice," she says.
She's still involved, but she says she's starting to take on a role as a volunteer, rather than a patient.
Sanders says of all the help and support she got from Cancer CAREpoint, the one thing that stands out is the support they have given her children, three teenagers, two of whom have been going to the teen group.
"It's given my kids a much greater understanding and made it easier to talk about everything," she says.
Volunteers are crucial to Cancer CAREpoint and what allows it to continue offering services at no charge.
Mike Culcasi, a Willow Glen resident, volunteers at the reception desk.
"When they walk in the door, I want it to be a positive and warm experience for the people who avail themselves of the services," he says. "I make them know people are happy to see them when they walk in."
Lorien Neargarder, who leads some of the yoga classes at Cancer CAREpoint, has been a volunteer there since it started.
"Gay Crawford came to Breathe Los Gatos where I was teaching a cancer class. She told me about the programs they were looking to offer, and we agreed it would make a good partnership.
Neargarder now volunteers her time at two yoga classes a week, one at the Breathe Los Gatos studio and the other at Cancer CAREpoint.
"Working with cancer patients is not like anything else," she says. "There is no ego trip going on whatsoever. They're just open, so open and willing, and you see such a huge difference in their attitudes from class to class and week to week. The change is enormous."
"I teach a lot of different yoga for cancer programs, and one of the things I love about Cancer CAREpoint is whenever they're offering something new, they step back and say, 'How can we serve our patients first and foremost?' "
Cynthia McDonald, a certified clinical and medical hypnotherapist, volunteers her services for one-on-one guided imagery to clients to help them reduce stress and anxiety. She also leads a meditation group and does workshops on living with uncertainty and the unknown.
She's also a cancer survivor. "I was diagnosed at age 30 and now I'm 59. None of this existed then. I went through the medical treatments and I had nothing available to help me process what was going on with me," she says.
"The shaking of your life when you receive the diagnosis is so unexpected. The medical community does everything they can, but they're not geared toward non-medical needs."
McDonald felt she had a calling to get personally involved helping people with cancer, so she left her high tech corporate job and spent 10 years earning her doctorate and certifications.
"I sit one-on-one and spend an hour and a half with every person, and I customize the imagery for them." She says that it's most effective when she's using imagery coming from the person that is meaningful to them.
"Some people come in and are just diagnosed and they're extremely anxious and fearful, and we use imagery to empower them so they have the capacity to let go and relax. To let them know they haven't lost that ability, even if their world is turned upside down.
Another use is for insomnia. "I joke I put people to sleep with my voice, but imagery has helped people to wean off sleep medication and helped them with insomnia issues."
She says guided imagery is also effective to help people prepare mentally for the surgery they're going to face.
"Even the physicians will say, 'I don't know what you did, but they bled less, they needed less pain medication and they were discharged earlier.' "
McDonald says guided imagery is also used to help prepare for chemotherapy, radiation and many more treatments.
"I customize their application and I do a session for them with soft music. I use my voice to paint the picture for them that we discussed, and I invite them to go into their imagery as deeply as they can," she says.
At the end of the session she burns a CD with their imagery, and they can take it with them as a tool and use it anytime they want. They can play it at night before bed, play it during chemotherapy or right before radiation treatments.
"I helped one man get through neck radiation treatments. He was claustrophobic and he had to wear a tight mask."
Although McDonald, Neargarder, Culcasi and others volunteer their expertise and time, Cancer CAREpoint still requires funding. All services are offered free. Tufel points out that it doesn't matter where clients are getting their medical care or what their insurance status is.
Their primary funding is from donors in the community who want to see this type of local resource, but as they grow, they are reaching out to corporations like Xilinx, which he says, has been generous. They will also be reaching out to foundations and more donors to help support programs.
"We're local, we're filling a need that hasn't been met in the past and we rely on the community for support, both in kind and financial," he says, adding, "We're always looking for volunteers and we're always looking for donors."
Cancer CAREpoint Resource Center, 2505 Samaritan Drive, Building 400, Suite 402, San Jose, 408.402.6611, cancercarepoint.org.


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Hi, I am Danny Batson (Knouse) and I am a lifelong resident of the Chillicothe area. I was born in 1951 and graduated from CHS in 1969. I took over my dad's septic tank business that he founded in 1937. While I have been in every state (except Hawaii and Maine), there is no place like home! I love taking pictures of old and unusual things and sharing them. There is beauty in everything, if we look for it. I have three Facebook pages filled with local pictures that may be of interest: "Where Has Danny Been," Chillicothe Now," and "Danny Batson".
Hi, I am Gary Thomas and I was born just across from Central School in 1942. I graduated from CHS in 1960 and MU in 1964. After two years in Army, I completed a graduate degree at the University of Chicago in 1970. After working in software development for more than 40 years, I retired from Raytheon in 2007. I have an abiding interest in history and in researching past events, places, and people. My latest project is developing a history-based chronology for Livingston County from 1801-2000.
The life and times of the infamous Joseph Slagle has been recounted many times in Livingston County, Missouri history since 1886. As in all such research on events that occurred nearly two centuries past, many of my sources were in conflict and I had to make calls as to which is most likely true. Also I will make occasionally make some clearly-marked suppositions as to what may have occurred.
We likely will never know the full story about the man who instilled such fear and suspicion amongst his neighbors in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Along the way, I will provide context by speaking to what life was like on the Missouri frontier. My hope is that this account will be the most comprehensive and balanced of any such attempts to date. Ideally, it will generate dialogue that may eventually bring us closer to ground truth.
For the benefit of our apparently expanding readership by numerous other towns in our state, I will now summarize his life.
The History of Caldwell and Livingston County (1886) tells us:
Joseph Slagle was born in Augusta County, Virginia, on September 26, 1810. He was the youngest of twelve children from the marriage of George Slagle and Elizabeth Koiner. His father was a prominent businessman and landowner.
Joseph "succeeded in acquiring an education by no means limited." This publication goes on to say that he attended Charlottesville College to study for the ministry.
Joseph Slagle came to Missouri in 1839 and sold goods at Cox's Mill, which he bought soon afterward. The mill was on Medicine Creek, then the only water mill in Northwest Missouri.
In 1846, he was elected to the official bench of the county and was also justice of the peace for many years.
He was one of the largest property holders in the Livingston County during the 19th century, having in his possession some 1,400 acres of land.
Joseph Slagle married five times:
First wife, on January 27, 1832 he married Catherine Long of Ohio, but she died July 6, 1841, leaving a son, Columbus Genoa.
Second wife, on November 22, 1843 he married Miss Catherine Stone of West Virginia, but she died August 24, 1844.
Third wife, on May 5, 1845 he married Miss Sarah Littlepage, but she died in September, 1846, leaving a daughter, Susan Catherine.
Fourth wife, in 1848 he married Miss Crawford of Illinois, who died in 1849.
Fifth wife, in 1869 he married Mrs. Lottie Parent Ellis of Indiana. One son resulted from that marriage--Joseph Lee Slagle.
In 1853, Joe Slagle played a prominent role in the first recorded homicide in Livingston County. The dead man (Benjamin Collins) was a no-good-for nothing, drunken manager of a "Negro Show" that had repeatedly threatened poor old Joe's life. A jury of his peers deemed that his honor was entirely justified in shooting the unarmed banjo player twice with his shotgun at point blank range.
In 1886, seventy five year old Joe remained a respected member of the community.
The History of Caldwell and Livingston County was published in 1886 by the St. Louis National Historical Company from "the most authentic official and private sources."
I believe that there are flaws (some significant), omissions (some intentional), and a few outright lies in this account.
Unfortunately, these shortfalls have been repeated (unintentionally) in subsequent retellings of his life.
This comprehensive, 1200+ page history of the two counties most certainly provides us a wealth of information about our heritage. I am not implying that Joe's account is total myth. The first part of Joe's history has been supported well and is generally true. The school he attended was much more likely the University of Virginia (not a nonexistent Charlottlesville College). This anomaly will lead me to present for consideration some interesting possibilities that I will share regarding an American Founding Father.
Incidentally, this landmark history is now available free for download in PDF format from the online New York Archive. Because my wife Judy's family has deep Caldwell County roots, that section should be an interesting resource.
In reading the Preface I found some information that speaks "volumes." There appeared to be a general sense of frustration, embrassment, and unease from the St. Louis compilers in dealing with some Livingston County accounts. Two Livingston County-specfic paragraphs noted that certain contributor stories were in direct conflict wih one another; judgement calls had to be made as to which were included.
In my view, this 1886 account was reviewed and sanctioned by Joseph Slagle himself.
Now, consider these points to support my contention:
Personal bios were readily encouraged and assumed to be true, if you read some of these it is clear a positive spin was taken in almost all cases.
They acknowledged in the Preface that the book was already ten months late.
They wished to be paid (implied only.)
They knew that a still hale-and-hearty Joe Slagle knew where they lived!
Joe Slagle was clearly an early pioneer and key contributor. In my opinion, he was likely not the pariah as some have said. He has a rightful place in our history. He was powerful and feared by many; using "respected member" in the last bullet seems be overstated.
Joe killed a man in cold blood from my view. He had at least six wives and I think deliberately omitted some key facts and injected ambiguities.
Special thanks go to my Chillicothe: As We Remember blog cohort (and master storyteller) Danny Batson for his many excellent pictures of the Slagle Cemetery. At the moment, we cannot imbed photos into our blog entries. Hopefully that limitation will soon be removed.
So, I am moving forward and plan to relate old Joe's expanded saga in six relatively small "chunks" (titles and exact date spans are tentative):
Early Years and Context of the Times (1810 - 1832)
First Five Wives and Children (1832 - ?)
Dead Men Tell No Tales (1853-1854)
Batchelor Joe (? - 1869)
Last Wife (1869 - 1912)
He Haunts Us To This Day (1912 - 2012)
Incidentally, I intend to make dual use of this information. I plan to share these blog entries as a series of "Public Member Stories" on Ancestry.Com. I do this in hopes of soliciting support to "connect a few more dots" on one of the most interesting puzzles have found in many years. Ancestry pundits have already provided me much information; as a "rank amateur" genealogist...I still need lots of help.
Here are my key takeaways thus far on my personal journey through Joe's life:
Did he kill one or more of his six wives? Maybe So.
Did he kill one or more of his nine (not three) children? Likely Not
Is the Slagle Cemetery haunted? I Would Like to Say... No
Would I stay at his cemetery overnight by myself? Not on your Life!
What do you think?


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The team of Jacob Rapp, John Skelton and Blake Groves shot a 16-under par 55 to capture first in the Gene Reagan Scholarship Tournament Saturday at Hail Ridge Golf Course in Boonville.
The trio finished the tournament with a 28-27 to finish 16 under.
The team of Spaulding, Spaulding and Spaulding finished two strokes back with a 14-under par 57 while the team of Reagan, Reagan and Riehn and Hittner, Hittner and Hittner tied for third with a 13-under par 58.
Four teams, meanwhile, tied for first in A-flight with a 7-under par 64.
Tying for first were the teams of Ditto, Quinlan and Einspahr; Scott, Riley and Lilleboid; Smith, Taylor and Holsinger and Solomon, Brownfield and Dodson.
Meanwhile, in C-flight with a 4-under par 67 tied for first were the teams of Page, Harris and Fisher, Karrick, Hein and Dennison and Mullens, Burks and Keith.
A total of 28 teams took part in the tournament.
Tournament director Terry Davis said the silent auction raised approximately $1,500. "I thought it was a good turnout,"?stated Davis.
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Don't Piss Off Your IT Customers
By RickRamsey-Oracle on Mar 23, 2010
Did you just bring down the entire executive staff on your head because while you were eating a hot pastrami on rye your cell phone played Ina Gada Da Vida, the ring tone you reserved for that exotic DBA with the naughty look you met at the Thailand Oracle User Group last week while you were 'sposed to be talking to potential clients, you slacker, and in your haste to grab the call, you gripped the rye bread too hard, squeezing out a giant glob of mustard that landed square in your lap just as you were trying to say "Hey" all cool and smooth like you knew how to handle that kinda woman, so while she purred something innocuous but not, you lodged the cell phone between your shoulder and ear so you could reach for the only piece of paper on your desk, the copy of the presentation you have to deliver in 8 minutes, so you could try to clean off the mustard spot because IT guys tend to make a better impression on customers when they don't show up with a giant mustard stain in the middle of their dress slacks, but while reaching for the presentation you wound up smacking the Esc key with your elbow and canceling the installation of the software that takes 28 minutes to install that you were going to demo with the presentation you are going to make in what, 7 minutes now?
You need to read this article.
Ten Best Practices for a Successful Customer Solution Engagement
Edward Clay, the author, has distilled a career's worth of sound advice into one white paper. He begins by listing the typical errors that are repeated by unsuccessful customer engagements, such as:
- Confusion about tactical sales versus strategic sales
- Poor communication about the final deployed solution
- Scope creep
- Confusion about when to use a time-and-materials versus fixed-pricing engagement
- Regulatory or fiduciary requirements and security requirements not addressed or addressed late in the architecture design or deployment process
- Current internal IT practices (that is, IT maturity level) not addressed during the development of the solution nor for the final state
- And more
He then goes on to provides ways to avoid these problems in your customer engagements, with wisdom and techniques born of experience. I found the section on the risks and benefits of tactical vs strategic sales wicked interesting. And the section on the maturity level of a site's security infrastructure was terrific.
Complete contents are:
- The Sales Process: Product Sales Versus Solution Sales
- The Scope of the Project
- Communication During the Delivery and the Handoff
- Time-and-Material Versus Fixed-Price Delivery
- IT Maturity Level
- Security Maturity Level
- Pre-sales and Delivery Architecture
- The Role of Security Architecture
- The Pros and Cons of Using Partners
- Documentation and Customer Training for Products
This is a great read, whether you deal directly with customer's IT problems or not.
By the way, you should have dropped the sandwich, Mister Smooth.
- Rick


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SAN JOSE -- Major League Soccer fans have got it wrong when it comes to Earthquakes forward Steven Lenhart.
The league's most reviled player might be soccer's nicest guy.
The striker with wild blond locks has come to personify San Jose's get-under-the-skin grittiness that has led to a record season heading into the first leg of the Western Conference semifinals Sunday against the Los Angeles Galaxy.
But Lenhart, 26, also embodies the Quakes' egoless locker room by treating praise like an unwelcomed guest. His high school coach in Orange County saw the paradox years ago.
"You just want to hold him for a while and ask, 'Hey, are you sure you're the same kid?' " Kino Oaxaca said.
Yes he is.
It seems Lenhart never met a midair collision he didn't like, even when it leaves him sprawled on the grass reeling in pain. But he usually is the first one to check on an opponent.
"You always hate playing against him, but everyone wants him on their team," said FC Dallas' Andrew Jacobson, a former star at Cal and Gunn High-Palo Alto.
Earthquakes center back Jason Hernandez knows which forward strikes the most terror into defenders' hearts.
"There's no doubt in my mind that Lenhart's the guy," he said. "People don't want to see him on their schedule for the simple fact that he's going to try harder than you. He doesn't have a bone in his body that is going to relinquish anything to anyone."
Lenhart and fellow target man Alan Gordon have become known as the "Bash Brothers" for the thundering collisions inside the penalty area. Sometimes teams get so rattled they let down their guard just long enough to allow MLS Golden Boot winner Chris Wondolowski to strike.
Wondolowski (27 goals), Gordon (13) and Lenhart (10) became MLS' most prolific scoring force this year with a total of 50 goals. Only four teams outscored the trio, who each had career highs in 2012.
More than one coach left the field this year in abject frustration, claiming referees let the Bash Brothers play too aggressive. Lenhart tuned out the noise while continuing his wrecking-ball assault on defenses that helped the Earthquakes (19-6-9) win the Supporters' Shield and earn the top seeding throughout the playoffs.
"It's OK with me if people want to make judgments," he said. "I know refs don't think I'm dirty and cheat and the players don't think that as well."
Oaxaca said it's all part of a plan to distract defenders.
"A lot of times they don't get he's doing that on purpose to take the focus away from the game," the coach said. "Then he plays soccer he way he knows how to play."
Lenhart has blossomed in his fifth MLS season after taking one of the bumpiest roads imaginable to the professional ranks. He barely started at Esperanza High and is not in the school's hall of fame.
Heck, Lenhart even got replaced at second base in Little League by a girl -- the manager's daughter.
Lenhart attended Point Loma Nazarene College near San Diego because the school is located next to some of California's best surfing breaks, not because of soccer.
The surfer/snowboarder/skateboarder walked on to the team, then transferred to Azusa Pacific -- another small school in the soccer hinterlands -- after a year. Then-Azusa coach Philip Wolf didn't know what position Lenhart played.
"I just gave him a roster spot," he said.
Lenhart played well as a sophomore reserve. But Wolf tried to recruit a bona fide striker for the next year, until a spring scrimmage when Lenhart dominated in a game against highly regarded UC Santa Barbara.
The 6-foot-1, 190-pound forward also had a late growth spurt as he helped Azusa reach three consecutive NAIA championship games.
Yet Lenhart wasn't even following the MLS draft the day the Columbus Crew picked him in 2008. He was a part-time starter for the Crew for three years. By 2011 Lenhart wanted to return to the West Coast to be closer to his family.
San Jose snapped up Lenhart, who immediately gave the Earthquakes a tougher exterior. But the forward missed much of the season while taking a family leave after his father's death.
He returned ready to go from the moment training camp opened this season. Lenhart has rewarded Quakes management for their patience by giving everything he has.
"Most forwards like to be pretty and elegant but he does a lot of dirty work that helps the team a lot," said Jacobson, Dallas' midfielder. "His style is unlike anyone in the league."
That goes beyond the field for the free spirit who plays guitar and piano. Lenhart lives in Santa Cruz so he can surf and practice stand-up paddleboarding.
"If you tell him what to eat, when he has to go to bed or whether he should surf or not he won't execute as well," said Wolf, now Point Loma's coach.
Not a problem under coach Frank Yallop who rarely gets hung up on personalities as long as players work hard. Yallop even let his son go surfing with Lenhart.
This is a wave the Earthquakes hope to ride for a long time.
Contact Elliott Almond at 408-920-5865 and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/elliottalmond.


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Roger will open his quest for a sixth Wimbledon title against Taiwan's Yen-Hsun Lu (ATP 64) next week. The two players have not me before.
Our champ would meet Guillermo Garcia-Lopez or Augustin Calleri in the second round and Philipp Kohlschreiber in the third before he is due to face Robin Söderling - which would be a remake of the final at Roland Garros. Fernando Verdasco is a possible opponent in the last eight and Roger could play Serbian fourth seed Novak Djokovic in the semi-finals. Rafael Nadal pulled out of the tournament today.
London is Roger's next opportunity to mix up the statistics. He is aiming for a record 15th Grand Slam title, a record 7th consecutive final and a sixth Wimbledon victory (just one below Sampras' record).
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News 12 at 11 o'clock / Thursday, Jan. 30, 2013
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW) -- Cyber criminals are extorting residents of the CSRA through very frightening malware.
Just imagine your computer freezes, then what appears to be an FBI agent begins sending you messages and even gains control of your Web cam to tape you. That's exactly how a group of bad guys are getting money from people.
"It's kind of shocking. Kind of intimidating," said David Shaver about the ominous message on his laptop. "It looked legit. It looked legit definitely."
Shaver was paying a few bills online when what appeared to be an FBI warning popped up across his screen.
"It's like the real FBI symbol and label and it's worded very scholarly," Shaver stated.
Even more frightening, the so-called FBI page told him they were recording him through his Web cam, which suddenly turned on.
"Pay, I forget, $250 and send it to this address and we will remove it," he said about the warning.
It didn't take him long to figure out it was a scary combination of a scam and virus.
"What it does is it completely hijacks your computer. It's essentially called ransom wear. It kidnaps your computer," John Delgenio said.
The Computer Exchange employee says he sees at least half a dozen computers infected by the FBI virus a week.
"Once it takes control of your computer, it locks you out of everything you can do. In addition, it tries to scare you. It puts up all these scary warnings that are supposedly from the FBI," Delgenio said.
Unfortunately, many have fallen for the sneaky scary wording, mainly senior citizens.
"The trick is, it's just a scam -- once you pay the money, you're still infected, you're going to get hit again," Delgenio said.
The scam is so widespread that the real FBI sent out a warning about it.
"The Internet is just as dangerous as walking into Baghdad; you can get hurt on it," Delgenio said.
You can protect your computer by making sure Windows and Java are kept up to date. Also, you want install spyware on your computer and run it at least biweekly.
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PHOENIX — An "extremely relieved" Scott Sizemore showed up at the A's camp Monday morning, less than 24 hours after he was hit by a pitch on the back of his left hand and was forced out of the game.
Early morning X-rays taken of the hand showed no fracture or break and it should be just a matter of days and not weeks before Sizemore is back in the Oakland lineup competing again for the open starting job at second base.
``It's definitely a relief,'' Sizemore said. He needed this one, because last spring an ACL injury led to surgery and cost him the entire 2012 season. ``It's not broken so it's not `here we go again.' ''
Sizemore came to camp last year as Oakland's starting third baseman, got hurt on the first day and spent his season recovering from ACL surgery on his left knee as Josh Donaldson, a converted catcher, took over at third base and bloomed.
This year the opening is at second base. Trouble there exists in the form of a massive grouping of potential second basemen — Jemile Weeks, Jed Lowrie, Adam Rosales and Eric Sogard in addition to Sizemore — and the last thing the 28-year-old needs is to miss playing time this spring.
He'd gotten off to a 1-for-10 start at the plate, which wasn't helping his cause, but he'd had back-to-back hits to open the game before being hit on the hand to the Rockies' Tyler Chatwood in the top of the third. The bases were loaded at the time, and Sizemore was credited with one of the more painful RBIs of his career.
``I went out to play defense and that was OK, but when I came back in the dugout, I picked up a bat,'' Sizemore said. ``I couldn't hold it very well. I knew it was going to be a couple of days.''
Manager Bob Melvin said that the club would probably keep Sizemore quiet for a few days, including the day off Wednesday. The return is likely either Thursday or Friday.
He said he threw between 35 and 40 pitches and felt good in the process.
Balfour still hasn't started to run and he hasn't begun to face hitters, so he's a long way from being ready to go. But because spring training is extended from six weeks to seven because of the World Baseball Classic, Balfour said he hopes to be able to be ready to serve as the A's ninth-inning man when the season starts April 1 in Oakland against Seattle.
Wolff responded Monday in a statement released by the club, suggesting that he and majority owner John Fisher aren't interested taking the route of a lawsuit to break a four-year logjam that has blocked the building of a stadium for the A's in San Jose.
``We are part of the MLB partnership and will continue to respect the Constitution and agreements that govern our participation in MLB,'' the statement read. ``We seek our needed new venue based solely on the merits of the move and the benefits to MLB, the A's and our fans and sponsors.''
Straily was throwing strikes Monday against the Angels in his second spring start, but he wasn't particularly happy with them.
``I was throwing strikes and I didn't walk anyone, so that was good,'' Straily said after the A's 13-5 win over the Angels. ``But they weren't quality strikes.''
Straily didn't have the movement that he wanted on his pitches and the location wasn't up to specs, either. But that's what spring training is for.


text: By Douglas J. Gillert American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON -- To defend against the growing threat of missile attacks on foreign-based U.S. forces, DoD will accelerate development of a sea-based theater missile defense system. A perceived medium-range missile threat and past test failures of the Army ground-based Theater High Altitude Area Defense system provoked DoD into moving up the scheduled fielding of the Navy system from 2010 to 2007, according to Air Force Lt. Gen. Lester Lyles, Ballistic Missile Defense Organization director. DoD will continue funding the Army's THAAD system despite its repeated flight test failures. However, the Pentagon will pit it against the Navy Theater Wide system to determine which of the upper-tier defenses can be deployed first. "Tier" refers to a strategy of layered U.S. defenses. "Upper- tier" systems would intercept incoming long- and medium-range missiles during their flight in or above the outer atmosphere. "Lower-tier" systems defend at short to medium ranges against missiles in their late or final flight stages. "Because of the urgency in fielding an upper-tier system, we are going to continue flight-testing the THAAD interceptor missile and other elements of the system such as the radar," Defense Secretary William S. Cohen said at a Pentagon press conference Jan. 20. "Continued flight tests are going to provide data important for the upper-tier systems beyond the THAAD program." DoD will increase program funding of the Navy Theater Wide system by more than $500 million from fiscal 1999 to fiscal 2001, including funds added to the program by Congress last fall. The Pentagon will review both systems in late 2000 to assess costs, schedule, technical performance and risk, the secretary said. DoD then will determine the lead program. "Our goal is to have the lead system postured to deploy in the year 2007. Depending upon the results of the review, the other system might continue to be developed but at a much slower pace," Cohen said. The BMDO also will continue developing lower-tier defenses, including the Patriot Advanced Capability 3 and Navy Area missile systems. PAC-3 and Navy Area should be fielded by early fiscal 2001 and 2003, respectively, Lyles said. Both upper- and lower-tier systems work in conjunction with space-based sensors -- the same sensors that will be used for surveillance and early warning against missiles targeted at the United States, Lyles said. An airborne laser program, funded by the Air Force, adds to the array of defenses DoD wants to field. Battle management command, control and communications provides "the critical glue that holds all this together," Lyles said. "These lower-tier systems will provide effective defense capabilities against the shorter-range missile threats," Cohen said. "The threat to our forces is already extensive and growing, making it imperative that we field these important upgrades as soon as possible." The Pentagon also will reallocate $150 million originally slated for the Medium Extended Air Defense System, or MEADS. "We needed to focus initially on technologies that are relevant to the maneuver force protection that MEADS would have provided," Lyles said. That could be the PAC III or some other system already in the defense inventory, he said. The restructured MEADS money also could fund development of a mobile, 360-degree fire control radar and a mobile launcher, Lyles said. "We'll also make sure that we have the right kind of capability to address advanced threats like cruise missiles that the MEADS program was intended to address," Lyles said. "We need to have lower-tier systems, we need to have upper-tier systems, and we need to have multiplatforms on the land, from the sea and also from air," Lyles said. "We need to make sure that all of these systems work together and can be interoperable. That's formed the heart of our program for theater missile defense. "What has changed over the last year, however, is the growing urgency of making sure that we have an upper-tier capability to counter the growing medium-range threat," he said. Lyles said this threat comes from offensive missiles like the North Korean No Dong, Iranian Shihab III and Pakistani Ghari. "We need to make sure that we have the capability to negate those threats."


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Walsh University is seeking stories about growing up in Plain Township during the postwar years between 1945 and 1965.
The North Canton university is partnering with the Plain Township Historical Society for an oral history project, called "From Farmland to Suburb: Plain Township and Postwar America, 1945-1965." It will focus on the history and suburbanization of Plain Township during a time when the township's population quadrupled from 7,866 in 1930 to 32,031 in 1960.
"That (growth) has a significant impact on an area and its transformation," Walsh professor Will Cooley said in a news release. "We want to capture that lived experience first-hand via the interviews."
Cooley said the project needs roughly 15 more current or former Plain residents to share their experience of living in the township during the postwar years. The volunteers must be available to be interviewed in February and March.
The interviews, which will be conducted by Walsh students, will be transcribed by GlenOak High School students and then given to the Plain Township Historical Society, which plans to create a traveling display of images, key events and participant memories. A bound copy of the interviews also will be produced.
To volunteer, call Christy Walkuski, service learning director at Walsh, at 330-244-4758 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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It wouldn't be the holiday season without a musical duet from Jimmy Fallon and Rashida Jones! This year, the NBC colleagues were joined by Carrie Underwood on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on Thanksgiving night to perform holiday-themed parodies of the year's biggest pop hits.
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'Gossip Girl,' Season 6, Episode 6, 'Where the Vile Things Are': TV Recap
Even Blair's mom can't take her anymore. We can't understand why she turned over the fashion to Blair, she of the headband. Now that Blair has screwed up her mom's fashion line on "Gossip Girl," it looks like it's all over for the wanna-B.
No one is coming to Rufus and Ivy's party and they are sad. Chuck is still investigating his father in a thread that we tired of several episodes ago. Figure it out already, Junior. Wait, is Chuck wearing some sparkly blue glitter ball? Nate is helping him out by trying squeeze info from a banker.
Ugggh, is Dan and Serena a thing again? Dan is so full of himself, with his mushroomy hair and his Vespa. Serena, so full of herself and faux naive. They try and run from the mean photographers.
Blair's mom tells her to suck up to Women's Wear Daily and Blair tries to be nice to Nelly, but ends up trying to blackmail her. It backfires and Blair finds herself booted from mommy's business. So then she tries to blackmail Dan, and that doesn't work.
Nate is trying to find secrets in Lily and Bart's art when Serena comes home. Ooops. The one piece of art that Lily picked to sell at a live auction has all the secrets in the back.
Dan and Serena are having a fight over who is the meanest and worstest. Then they get stuck in an elevator. Didn't this happen before?
Blair apologizes to her mom in front of Nelly. Blair says she doesn't have any talent and that everything she has is from scheming and lying. Then Blair goes to sulk at the Met and Nelly finds her there. Nelly tries to be mean and tell Blair she's still stuck in high school, which somehow gives Blair an epiphany. She wants to create a uniform based on her high school uniform. Headbands for everyone!
Back at the auction, Lily, Ivy and Chuck are all bidding for the artwork. Rufus wins. Lily tries to buy the painting back. Rufus and Ivy say no because she should feel humiliated. Then they schmooch in front of Lily which is just gross. Ivy sells it to Chuck for double the price.
Serena and Dan end up back at her place, and they start kissing again. Because we're going to end up in the exact same place we were six seasons ago.
When the painting arrives at Chuck's, the envelope has disappeared… into Ivy's hands. Now she knows all the records of his oil deals. Chuck is sad.
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The Werks hit three20south tonight to play their latest CD release, a self-titled album that reflects both the band's origin and its current direction. An emerging national act, The Werks is lauded for an inventive style that fuses "shredding guitar with the screaming organ of jam and classic rock, the slap bass of funk and the more modern sounds of synthesizers and dance beats," promoters said, delivered in true jam band style with audience collaboration driving each show's direction. The group has worked and/or toured with acts including Perpetual Groove, Lotus, Railroad Earth and Sam Bush. This summer, it played Wakarusa, Summer Camp and the All Good Festival. It comes to Breckenridge fresh from The Werk Out Music & Arts Festival at Legend Valley, Ohio, which saw 3,5000 attendees and performances by Lotus, EOTO and Rusted Root among 40 other bands. "It's kind of surreal to help produce an event like that and be doing two roles at once (producer during day, drummer at night)," said drummer and vocalist Rob Chafin. "It feels really satisfying to see all the smiles all weekend long, and it makes all the hard work and sacrifices worth it." The Breckenridge stop is part of the band's Funemployment Tour, featuring selections from the 2012 release, "The Werks." Previous albums include "Synapse" (2009) and "Dig It" (2007). "We love Breckenridge so very much," Chafin said. "It's one of the first cities we ever played in Colorado and we have always been back. There are amazingly wonderful people in these mountains." Chafin calls The Werks' sound "jam rock funk electronic dance," and finds inspiration in "the amazing people/musicians that I meet on the road." Asked to comment on a funny tour experience, he said: "Uhh, this one time in Floyd, Virginia, people had sex right in front of my drums, right in the front row. It was hilariously awkward."Concertgoers can expect "a full blown dance party with great vibes," Chafin said. Info: www.three20south.com. Listen to the album: www.thewerks.bandcamp.com
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