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Before putting Cal basketball back on the map, winning two Olympic gold medals or etching his name throughout the NBA record book, Jason Kidd was a basketball force of nature at St. Joseph Notre Dame High in Alameda.
"You just knew it then how special a player he was going to be," Jon Barry, who played at rival De La Salle High, said on ESPN. "As a ninth-grader, he was chiseled, he was a man among boys already."
Now 40, Kidd announced his retirement from the NBA on Monday after 19 seasons during which he realized the spectacular promise he displayed as a prep star.
He is the most accomplished basketball player to come out of the Bay Area since Bill Russell in the 1950s and ranks among the handful of greatest point guards in NBA history.
Warriors coach and former rival point guard Mark Jackson wrote on Twitter, "1 of the best to ever do it! Well done bro!!!"
"Amazing career,'' tweeted Dirk Nowitzki, with whom Kidd won an NBA championship on the Dallas Mavericks in 2011. "He always put the team and winning first."
Kidd had two years remaining on his contract with the New York Knicks but steps away from the game after failing to make a field goal in his final 10 playoff games with the team.
Kidd's achievements are stunning:
Bay Area fans saw it all coming. Kidd led St. Joseph to back-to-back state titles, snapping Southern California's dominance, and he did it with flair that captivated everyone who saw him play.
Already 6-foot-4 and 200 pounds as a high schooler, Kidd had unmatched open-court skills, delivering no-look passes and half-court lobs to the rim that made St. Joseph such a popular attraction that some of its games were moved to Cal State Hayward or the Coliseum Arena.
A native of San Francisco who grew up in Oakland, Kidd stayed home to attend Cal, which hadn't made noise on the national scene since the Pete Newell era four decades before.
"Back then, Cal wasn't in the picture. He came in and changed the landscape of the whole program," former Bears teammate Monty Buckley said. "It's something that's hard to explain unless you've actually been on the floor with him."
Kidd led the Bears to back-to-back NCAA tournament appearances, including a stunning upset of two-time defending champion Duke as a freshman in 1993 that landed him on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
"You're talking about the defending champs, but Jason Kidd rises to every occasion," said Todd Bozeman, who coached Kidd at Cal. "He's as competitive as anyone I've ever met. An unbelievable basketball mind. So aggressive."
Kidd averaged 14.9 points, 5.9 rebounds and 8.4 assists in two seasons at Berkeley, where his impact was such that Cal eventually rebuilt Harmon Gym into Haas Pavilion.
Taken No. 2 overall by Dallas in the 1994 draft, Kidd was a star in the NBA from the outset.
Asked by ESPN.com to identify the highlights of his career, Kidd said, "The two things that are probably tied for first are winning a championship with the Mavericks and also being able to win a gold medal -- two gold medals with Team USA.
"And then underneath that will probably be sharing Rookie of the Year with Grant (Hill)."
Coincidentally, Hill announced his retirement Saturday.
Barry said Kidd had the whole package.
"He was one of the fastest players you ever saw. He was the ultimate teammate, a top-five point guard in the history of this league, without question.
"He made everybody better and he thought three, four plays ahead," Barry said. "He had the greatest basketball mind I ever played against."
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Helen E. (Beatty) Etter, age 85, of South Carlisle Street, Greencastle, Pa., died at 10:25 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012, in the Quincy Retirement Home, Quincy, where she had been a resident since Dec. 30, 2011.
Born Sept. 8, 1927, in Mercersburg, Pa., she was a daughter of the late Dwight and Mildred (Walker) Beatty. Helen and her husband Ray C. Etter were married April 26, 1946. He died on Jan. 17, 2006.
She was a homemaker and had attended the Antrim Faith Baptist Church of Waynesboro. She attended school at the former Lemasters High School. Helen enjoyed watching Orioles baseball, working with flowers and spending time with her family and grandchildren.
Surviving family are one son Donald E. (wife Mary Jane ) Etter, Ephrata, Pa., one daughter Gloria Ann (husband Thomas W.) Hendrickson, Stafford, Va., five grandsons, 12 great-grandchildren and two stepgranddaughters.
In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by a sister Isobel Mongan and a brother Marshall Beatty.
Funeral services will be held on Friday, Oct. 12, at 11 a.m. from the Harold M. Zimmerman And Son Funeral Home, 45 S. Carlisle St., Greencastle, with Pastor Herb Busick officiating. Burial will be in the Browns Mill Cemetery Kauffman. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Thursday evening from 6 to 8 p.m. Online condolences may be expressed at:
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What good is life if you have no one to spend it with?
Christina Pagliarulo
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Always have a song on your heart and you will be on a good note.
Growing old is inevitable, growing up is a choice.
Life is what you make it will your story have a peak, a conflict, suspence, action, a climax, and a conclusion? Or will you live your life keeping it safe and never taking any risks? Ask yourself: if your life story were written, would you read it?
A warm breeze blew through my window like a gentle wave lapping the sandy shore in summer at low tide, and as I took in a breath of air that blanketed my body like tall grass in a field I felt for just that moment in time, like I did when I was a child. I felt that I had not one worry, not one burden, nothing was on my mind accept that breeze that made the curtains swell like balloons.
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Sometimes we guard people from the truth to protect them from being hurt, but by doing that we only hurt them more in the long run.
When ever your heart grows weary, know that there is always a heart grieving much more then yours.
You kiss the back of my neck
I'm spinning to the ground
You run your strong fingers down my back
I can't hear a sound
You whisper things to me
So sweet I can taste your words
You're so close to me
I can feel our souls touching
You draw circles in my palm
Your love warms me to my toes, this I will never forget.
You loved me even if it was only for a minute
I hold onto that minute every night
You needed me even if only for a moment
I still hold onto that moment inside.
If you look at the map you're only an inch away!
You don't always need what you want, and you don't always want what you need.
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After more than 50 years of playing together in a confounding variety of settings on a daunting array of instruments, string wizards Jody Stecher and Eric Thompson still find ways to surprise each other.
They join forces again Sunday afternoon at Lafayette's Mighty Fine Guitars in a trio known as Guitars Without Borders. The third musician is Scott Nygaard, who came up on the Seattle folk scene in the mid-1970s studying Stecher and Thompson's seminal bluegrass guitar albums. The triumvirate spun off Thompson's stylistically insatiable quintet Kleptograss when the band's fiddler and bassist couldn't make a gig.
"I said let's do it and (everyone) play guitar, and surprisingly, it really works," said Stecher, whose latest album "Wonders & Signs" focuses on his original songs. "It's not Eric's band. We all choose repertoire equally, and though they're not known for it, both Scott and Eric sing a lot. Eric spent 40 years being a non-singer. He's not just pretty good for a guitar player. He's really enjoyable, which is great to see develop."
While Nygaard's primary Kleptograss responsibilities were on guitar, the band's instrumental concept kept Thompson and Stecher moving between various string instruments. When they played their first Guitars Without Borders gig, they didn't work out arrangements, a risky proposition that could have turned into chaos with less accomplished and accommodating musicians.
"We didn't really think about it until we started," Nygaard said. "The three of us listen really well, and we're pretty comfortable with letting someone else take the lead. You find who's leading the way and make it work, though we have our fair share of train wrecks."
"We do practice quite a bit for a gig, but there are borders to each song," Stecher added. "We agree on the key and the speed, and then every solo is improvised. How we accompany each other too: It's two guitars accompanying a lead guitar, and that is not discussed. It just happens."
A listener may not realize that Nygaard, Thompson and Stecher are essentially creating arrangements and orchestrations on the fly. What's immediately striking about Guitars Without Borders is the stylistically encompassing repertoire implied by the band's name. A typical set will range between blues and bluegrass, Irish reels, field hollers, old-time fiddle tunes, ragtime, Swedish waltzes, Caribbean hoedowns, jug band ditties and country-western numbers.
Each player has his own strengths and interests, but the band's foundation in blues and bluegrass goes back to Thompson and Stecher's first encounter in New York City in the early 1960s. The Palo Alto-raised Thompson had already moved to Berkeley and was visiting the Big Apple, when an encounter with Stecher left them both "astonished," as Stecher put it.
"We'd been listening to similar things and played very similarly," he recalled. "In each of our little worlds, we were the only ones who played that way. Our styles have diverged some, but doggone it, we know what the other is going to do."
Stecher and Thompson ended up starting the Asphalt Mountain Jungle Boys with Jerry Garcia in the mid-'60s, and by 1968, Stecher had taken up permanent residence in the Bay Area (he now lives in San Francisco). Nygaard, who lives in Fairfax, arrived in the Bay Area in the mid-1980s, and before long, started accompanying Thompson on rhythm guitar.
While Thompson plays in half a dozen different bands with his wife, fiddle, vocalist, guitarist and accordionist Suzy Thompson, Stecher has more time these days since coming off a five-year run with Peter Rowan. And Nygaard is slowly returning to the performance circuit after many years working as an editor at Acoustic Guitar magazine.
They don't come together for Guitars Without Borders often, and each concert seems to multiply the musical possibilities. Ultimately, what sparks the creative frisson in the trio flows as much from their differences as from their shared musical interests.
"Scott's a little younger, and he has more jazz influence," Stecher says. "I've played North Indian classical for a very long time and some Middle Eastern music. I love listening to Eric and Scott, because they've heard stuff I haven't I heard."
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The mountain bike trails at Cuyuna Country State Recreation Area in Crosby opened for the season on Friday, May 10. The area features 25 miles of single-track trails for bikers of all skill levels, from beginners to experts. The trails wind through 800 acres of deep-red soil, birch and aspen forests and scenic vistas overlooking turquoise mine lakes.
"Because of the late spring, we're getting a later start than we would like, but our volunteer work crew has done a fantastic job of getting the trails in shape, and the riders are excited to get out there," said Park Manager Steve Weber. "We are entering our third season, and it just gets better every year."
The Portsmouth Campground is open for primitive camping, but the shower building and drinking water sources will not be available until later in May. The campground has 18 electric and seven nonelectric campsites that are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
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Sharp looks to push the limits on rock wallBy Janice firstname.lastname@example.com Hanging from his fingertips in a cave arching over Clear Creek is an experience Will Sharp seeks - regularly.Yet, rock climbing is not always an adrenaline rush, the 12-year-old climber says. "The experience (of being on the rock) is the weirdest thing to describe. You've been there, you know it. ... But it's hard to explain. You might not get that adrenaline rush (all the time)," he said. The 12-year-old is ranked No. 1 in the nation for his age group for bouldering, the art of climbing with nothing but shoes, chalk and crash pad on an unprotected rock face, with skill being typically tested in indoor rock gyms. He reached the No. 1 position after the Oct. 20 competition at Breckenridge Recreation Center - and after just a year-and-a-half of climbing. But Sharp is also an outdoor rock warrior, conquering climbs ranked as high as his age - a prestigious feat for anybody, let alone a 12-year-old. "It's fun to push the limits, I find - because it's easy to do in climbing," Sharp said. He plans to "climb his age," meaning he's aiming to be able to climb 5.13-rated sport routes when he's 13 and so on until he tops out of the rating system. This summer, he and his father, Kent Sharp, conquered Crystal Ball, a 5.12b on House Rock outside of Montezuma. Will is a bit of a daredevil (he started his adventure career on the ski slopes as a racer and continues to race in winter, when the snow flies and climbing competitions wane), enjoying skipping his last two bolts at the gym and taking a whipper, or jumping off the top of the wall at Chizzled to be caught by the rope. Beth Sharp, Will's mother, introduced her son to the sport through a home-school physical education opportunity. She had long since forgotten that her husband, Kent, was an avid climber during his college years in Boulder. Intrigued by climbing, Will reawakened the love of climbing in his father. It's an ongoing joke in the family, that Will and Kent participate in a harrowing sport, and that Beth was the cause of it all. She says it's strange and surreal to watch her husband being belayed by her 12-year-old son. After the initial introduction to the sport, the climbing team came around. Will participated in a competition, where he was offered the opportunity to join the team. Again intrigued, he jumped at the opportunity. But climbing indoors is different than climbing outdoors. "It's almost like a different sport," Will said. "Inside, it's going to be controlled. Outside, you can use everything that's there." Will looks forward to the days he can compete not just on the bouldering wall but also on ropes - which his mother says is his strength. "I think it's less scary outside than it is inside," Will said. Will heads to Fort Collins in a month to test his skill against fellow regional climbers. He aims to travel to the divisional competition in Arizona and, he hopes, the national gathering in Colorado Springs in March. He estimates there are 200 kids his age competing nationwide.
Competitions can be intimidating, particularly when your only support is your family. When Will headed to The Spot in Boulder, the youth without a team T-shirt of his own was faced with herds of youth who knew each other, had team unity and were versed in competition. Enter another of Will's strong points: "He is calm and collected naturally," his mother said. "He doesn't worry about it." Will has gone through his share of coaches, which have moved him between Chizzled Fitness & Climbing Club and Breckenridge Recreation Center. His sixth and latest coach is Audrey Gawrych in Breckenridge, but Will is quick to say he's more a fan of the Chizzled rock wall. He also says his best coaching so far came at Chizzled from Martin Trtailak and Brady Kendrick. Now with a new coach, Chizzled may lure Will back. When Will began climbing year-round, it's when he began improving in the sport and making it more of a focus. And this summer, he was able to tackle something like Crystal Ball. "I had been working on it all summer," Will said. "I felt really excited (to finish it) with all the little crimps and really big moves." Father and son pilgrimaged to the rock daily for a week until they practiced and memorized enough of the moves to complete the climb without relying on ropes (though the ropes were there). Beth Sharp said climbing 5.12b routes is a level few of her husband's Boulder friends reached, but Kent Sharp tells his wife he's perfectly comfortable climbing with his son. "He says that in the middle of an intense climb, Will trusts his judgment - or blows Kent out of the water and does something he doesn't expect him to do," Beth Sharp said. "To make such decisions at this age develops a sense of trust and responsibility."


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North Andover rallies around boy who lost leg in NH boating accident
On Sept. 5, Tommy Cox, 10, was out boating with his father John and three siblings, Johnny, Rachel and Charlie, in New Hampshire when he fell off the ship and into the water. Although he survived, he was seriously maimed.
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PHOTOS: Madness on Dayton campus after Sweet 16 win
University of Dayton right now, everyone (via @Rich_McLoughlin) pic.twitter.com/J3lhRIN10R— Alex Felser (@afelser) March 28, 2014
NOW: #Dayton Students Flood Campus Streets Celebrating Sweet 16 Win -No. 11 Dayton ... - http://t.co/F9NkHmHHK6 pic.twitter.com/n32dfRiVDK— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) March 28, 2014
It's #MarchMadness in #Dayton pic.twitter.com/8Aaq3TZQXn— AP (@APowers11) March 28, 2014
University of Dayton campus right now #Flyers pic.twitter.com/0sfzIIvJaJ— Life Pro Humor (@BestProHumor) March 28, 2014
Here's a video of the madness.
"@Smoothsmith8: Dayton!!! Elite 8 https://t.co/43g6uXoN9w" good lord— Makavelli✊ (@Sippin_sizzurp_) March 28, 2014
The University of Dayton celebrating their March madness win tonight. Riot police on scene. pic.twitter.com/0euZUD0yiZ— PzFeed Top News (@PzFeed) March 28, 2014


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Life is what you make it will your story have a peak, a conflict, suspence, action, a climax, and a conclusion? Or will you live your life keeping it safe and never taking any risks? Ask yourself: if your life story were written, would you read it?
Christina Pagliarulo
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What starts out as dancing school just for Dad quickly turns into a ballet class for Nancy's whole family. Fans of Fancy Nancy will delight in learning to plié, pirouette, and jeté with Nancy as she demonstrates all of the positions she's learned in ballet class.
From the New York Times bestselling team Jane O'Connor and Robin Preiss Glasser, who have entertained millions of girls and boys with the Fancy Nancy series.
Ballet has never been fancier!
Fancy Nancy loves going to ballet class with her best friend, Bree. But when she realizes that her dad and the rest of her family have a lot to learn about ballet, she has a fabulous idea! What if she opened her own ballet school?
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City to stick with original bond referendum
Published: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, September 23, 2013 at 5:35 p.m.
The city of Hendersonville has researched the feasability of allowing everyone who pays property taxes in the city to vote in November's bond referendum, which could raise property taxes, but has found that type of referendum for bonds is not an option under North Carolina law.
Following suggestions from several citizens, city staff looked into using a type of bond that would allow all city property taxpayers to have a vote in the upcoming bond election instead of only those who reside in Hendersonville, according to a news release from the city Monday.
Councilman Steve Caraker asked the city Friday if the bond in the referendum slated for November was a general election bond, which would be decided by all property owners who would be taxed to pay the debt on the bonds next year. The answer was "no."
"Legal counsel has determined that this is not an option under North Carolina law," the release says. "City Attorney Sam Fritschner and bond counsel Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge and Rice have advised that the referendum must pass by a majority of eligible voters who vote on the bond question in the referendum. Only registered voters for the city of Hendersonville are permitted to vote."
The release said the advice given by counsel was based on the state's constitution, which provides that bonds subject to voter approval must be approved "by a majority of the voters of the unit (of local government) who vote thereon."
The referendum will ask citizens whether or not to approve a bond sale for improvements to Berkeley Mills Park in an amount not to exceed $6 million. A tax increase of at least 3 cents will be needed to pay the debt service of $500,000 a year on the bonds if they total $6 million.
After receiving recommendations from a steering committee who solicited public input, City Council adopted a master plan for Berkeley Mills Park, according to the release. The City Council, by majority vote, agreed to a referendum to allow the voters to decide on whether to fund the park improvements with bond funds.
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The University of North Dakota medical school plans to ask the Legislature next year for $124 million for a new building.
Dean Joshua Wynne tells the Grand Forks Herald (http://bit.ly/St2nXR ) that a new building would help the school cope with enrollment growth, eliminate long-term maintenance costs associated with the existing 60-year-old building and potentially bring in more federal funds.
The school also has two other, less costly options that call for an expansion rather than a new building.
During the 2011 session, the medical school unsuccessfully sought $29 million for an expansion. UND ended up getting $1.8 million to train more doctors and other health care workers.
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Jerry Jones was quite humble in last night's 60 Minutes interview. To be fair, his team is going to miss the playoffs and he - by his own admission - would be fired if George Steinbrenner was his boss.
However, it was fascinating to see where the showman / businessman came from. Jones made his money as a ruthless oil tycoon, but grew up the son of a grocery owner in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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Mike Bleech: Reason for hunting is difficult question
From time to time I hear the question: Why do I hunt?
Answering this is extremely difficult, maybe impossible, when the person asking the question is not a hunter, which usually is the case. We do not speak the same language, in effect.
Primal feelings are within all people, I believe, but to various degrees. Some people who do not hunt, and who oppose hunting, like to believe that they answer a higher calling for not having any desire to hunt. More likely, I believe, is that those primal urges to hunt have not surfaced in people who have never hunted. Just a guess.
For me, I was raised by a hunter, and hunting was presented in a positive way. I vividly remember hunting when I was just 4 years old, taking my bow and arrows into the overgrown fields bordering the yard where I lived to hunt for anything. Thoughts of eating what I hunted had not yet entered my mind. I was simply answering a natural instinct to hunt.
The main difference between myself and kids who would grow up to become opponents of hunting was opportunity.
And of course the adults around me had influences. I cannot recall ever hearing any adult express opposition to hunting while I was very young. This, I believe now as an adult of advancing years, is part of the great divide between rural America and urban/suburban America.
Humans are omnivores. We would not be what we are today if meat were not a big part of our diet. The high protein of meat in our diet allowed our brains to develop. This is fact, not opinion.
Some people who have been hunters will quit hunting for various reasons: because they get too old, because they do not find the time, because they have not seen enough game. But it is highly unlikely that these people will ever be opposed to hunting.
Much more likely, people who oppose hunting will become hunters. I have known a few. This might not happen often, but answering a natural instinct is more likely than turning against it.
These are just beliefs. I do not think I have all of the answers. I do not think that what is right for me is right for everyone. Sharing, trying to share, anyway, that which gives so much pleasure is something I must do, nonetheless.
So I can only reply to anyone who asks why I hunt, the answer is simply because I love it. There is no point in discussing the matter any further.
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W.Va. senators praise Kerry's confirmation
January 31, 2013
PARKERSBURG — West Virginia's two U.S. senators have praised the confirmation of John Kerry as the next Secretary of State....
Just as I figured Denver.....no response.
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Denver you ask for other people's background so why don't you give people a synopsis about yourself???
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no denver i do not believe a "right wing" group you obviously didnt read my entire post as i said i heve no political leanings or offiliations. i did something called research, not sure if you have heard of it. i directed you to their site only because they have links to the department of defense records that shows he did not accurately portray the truth. and yes i have 1 purple heart and i treasure it right next to my bronze star thank you very much
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Denver this is the second time you have asked the question " how many Purple Hearts do you have". I think it's best if you stay away from that question first of all because its disrespectful and second seeing that your a supporter of Kerry you should know that his Purple Hearts are very questionable to say the least!
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drnver: No purple hearts, I was lucky, but I kept all my ribbons and medals that I earned. How about you
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Guy007, were you there? Did you witness atrocities that Kerry testified to? Did you commit atrocities? Why didn't you stop them if you witnessed them?
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MadAsHeck,did you serve in Vietnam where you were always witness to the atrocities and veteran indignation that senator Kerry truthfully speaks?
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And the disrespect for Vietnam veterans still goes on today!
You were right "Tassie" "people who attack his military service should be ashamed."
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Kerry LIED about supposed atrocities that he claimed US soldiers committed in Vietnam. He's a despicable human being.
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So "Valhalla" your saying that you believe a "right wing" political group formed for the purpose of opposing John Kerry's candidacy for the presidency over Vietnam veterans who served alongside Kerry or under his command?
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Swift Vets and POWs for Truth, formerly known as the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (SBVT), was a political group (527 group) of United States Swift boat veterans and former prisoners of war of the Vietnam War, formed during the 2004 presidential election campaign for the purpose of opposing John Kerry's candidacy for the presidency.
SBVT asserted that Kerry was "unfit to serve" as President based upon his alleged "willful distortion of the conduct" of American servicemen during that war, and his alleged "withholding and/or distortion of material facts" as to his own conduct during that war."This claim caused tremendous controversy during the election, particularly because these veterans, {most of whom had not been in a place to assess Kerry}, challenged the legitimacy of each of the combat medals awarded to Kerry" even though most of the {"Vietnam veterans who served alongside Kerry or under his command disputed the criticisms and support
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no thanks necessary Denver, and to answer your question John Kerry claimed to have awards he didnt earn, if you google "swift boat veterans" you will find their sight where they document it. in the interest of disclosure i am neither a democrat nor a republican i have no political affiliation, i was as mad about George W. Bush taking a pass when he could have served in Vietnam as well
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By the way, thanks for your service "Valhalla"
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"Valhalla" who said John Kerry lied about his service?
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Well said Tassie!
I wonder if Rush Limbaugh, Hank William Jr, and Ted Nugent volunteered to serve in Vietnam?
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you say I should be ashamed? i beg to differ with you. John Kerry should be ashamed. I feel I have earned the right to call it how I see it, and the fact remains he lied about his service. dont fool yourself he knew military looks good on a resumee when you run for office this is his reason for "volunteering" not a selfless motive to serve his country
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There are valid complaints against John Kerry, but you people who attack his military service should be ashamed. Complain about what he did after the war, but he volunteered to serve in Vietnam and then volunteered to be a Swift Boat captain.
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one of the worst offenses to those of us who served in uniform and were in combat is wearing or claiming awards and medals you didnt earn. when this is done it is a slap in the face to every one of us who went through the trials of combat. in full disclosure i will list my awards but only once: army achievement medal(5 times), army commendation medal(3 times) distinguished service medal, bronze star, purple heart. to add any i did not receive would be unbearable to me and it is also a felony level offense under the uniform code of military justice. this alone should be enough to have Sen. Kerry serving in the gray bar inn but when you have the money and the right family even an affront to us veterans is tollerated. disgusting
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"concernedtaxpayer" Hanoi John to who? And how many Purple Hearts do you have?
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Manchin never served in the military either. Kerry will always be Hanoi John along with his friend Hanoi Jane .
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Ted Cruz Dad from Cuba ,he was born in Canada went to Ivy League colleges,never in military ,new in the senate,then votes against the senators who have knowen Kerry for years.I wonder if he went to the front of the line to become a citizen here?
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Did anybody notice, that not a single republican, brought up the Swift Boat accusations to oppose the Kerry nomination?
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With five days until Christmas, Greg Tornes, 41, of Waterford was a man on a mission-a finding-a-Christmas gift for his wife mission, that is.
Leaning over the glass topped counter at Marietta's Kay Jewelers in River's Edge shopping center Thursday, he checked out the diamond wedding bands gleaming inside.
"My wife, Heidi, lost her wedding band and she's wanting a new one," said Tornes.
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Sales associate Rob Florence helps a customer at the new Kay Jewelers' store in Marietta Thursday. The store had its grand opening Thursday.
And Mrs. Tornes has made sure her hubby knows what's at the top of her Christmas wish list this year.
"She's been leaving very good hints, saying 'You know what I want for Christmas,'" Tornes laughingly said.
Brady Campbell, 19, of Waterford didn't have to worry about his mother's Christmas list, just about picking up her gift at Kay Jewelers Thursday.
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"My dad picked it out a week or two ago, and asked me to pick it up when I came down to Marietta," Campbell said of the diamond cross pendant from the jewelry store's Open Hearts by Jane Seymour collection.
Asked if he'd like the present gift wrapped for free, Campbell was quick to accept the offer. Minutes later, his golden gift-wrapped package was slipped in a Kay's bag and his Christmas "shopping errand" was done.
"I'd come here again if I had other jewelry needs," said Campbell. "It's close and convenient."
The Kay Jewelers store opened Oct. 19, and celebrated its grand opening Thursday.
The convenience of a Marietta location for Kay Jewelers was not lost on Andy Coleman, city of Marietta's development director, who was attending the store's grand opening celebration Thursday.
"It's the convenience of having it here locally and not having to go to the mall," said Coleman.
Marietta's location matters to Kay Jewelers, too, according to David Bouffard, vice president of public relations for Kay Jewelers' parent company.
"Marietta is important to us because we try to locate our stores, especially at this time of year, where it is convenient for our customers to access the range of unique and differentiated product assortments they may see advertised on television," he said.
Kay Jewelers is an important addition to the variety of jewelry stores in Marietta, said Charlotte Keim, president/CEO of the Marietta Area Chamber of Commerce.
"We lost a jewelry store a couple of years ago when Mel's Diamond House shut down," she said. "It's nice to have another jewelry store in town, particularly that side of town."
With a fourth jewelry store now open for business in Marietta, there is much to offer area residents in the way of unique sparklers and other jeweled treasures.
"It offers people more choices," said Keim, referring to Baker & Baker, Goldline Jewelry and Jewelry by Design.
"The stores all will have diamond rings, but they will all have different types of diamonds," she said.
Kay Jewelers' inventory includes Open Hearts by Jane Seymour, Neil Lane Bridal and Neil Lane Designs, LeVian, The Leo Diamond, Tolkowsky and Charmed Memories, Bouffard said.
Keim said she sees the arrival of Kay Jewelers in Marietta as an indicator that Marietta's economy is improving.
"Any national or regional store looks very closely at the markets to try to anticipate whether there is the demand and demographics that would support their business," said Keim.


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ASR Engineering has been removed as a vendor
ASR Engineering is no longer a supporting vendor at BimmerBoost. There are several reasons for this and this is being brought to your attention in order to prevent our members from incurring losses. There have been several issues with ASR that are simply inexcusable and we can no longer in good conscience endorse their business. The only reason ASR ever was a vendor here in the first place is due to a pre-existing arrangement with two members on the staff before this site came into existence. This arrangement was honored in good faith but simply, enough is enough, and the reasons why are below.
You may have seen recently where user George Smooth posted his experience with ASR. This is just a bad situation in which Abid simply has shown no heart, doing absolutely nothing to resolve it. There is $3320 that Abid took for an exhaust that he did not deliver. If this was not bad enough, it has caused issues for George in his home country of South Africa. These issues prevent George from taking his family on vacation out of the country or ordering certain parts from overseas. All it would take to correct this is $100 and Abid won't even do that. To put it simply, Abid has no conscience. If it isn't bad enough he has stolen over three grand, he does not even have the decency to put up $100 to help George resolve his banking situation. Low class, despicable, and something we will not tolerate.
We wish this was the only story, but it isn't. Some users may be familiar with GT3 Ranger who in good faith sent Abid his M5 to do a twin turbo project. Well, we have been in contact with GT3 Ranger from the beginning of the project and warned him that Abid could not deliver something so complex. Ranger pushed ahead anyway and now can not even get a hold of Abid after spending... well, not our place to say. We won't go much further as we do not wish to violate Ranger's confidence but obviously the twin turbo has not been completed and he ended up having to buy another M5 while this one collects dust. Abid promised him the world and did not deliver and Ranger simply has no choice but to eat the cost that Abid pocketed and has lost complete faith in this ever being completed or even getting any money back.
ASR has been removed from M5board for scamming people on exhausts. ASR takes deposits, and does not deliver the product. Abid refuses to answer phone calls, return e-mails, or communicate in any fashion with those he has scammed or even anyone else for that matter. If you are in the Florida area you are likely safe as you can meet him face to face. But as you just read with George, if you are overseas, forget it.
ASR Engineering is not to be trusted, they simply can't be. The customer service is poor, they have scammed our members, and simply are a bottom tier BMW shop if even that. Installing nitrous on a car does not make you a world class tuner capable of doing custom twin turbos on a BMW M5 S85 V10. I pointed out on M5board that I would not trust Abid to tune my radio and that this V10 project was beyond his abilities. For that, I was temp banned as Abid forced Gustav to do so ($) and I'm sure Gustav is preparing his apology. History has shown ASR's true colors and ASR will not be endorsed here. BimmerBoost will also pony up the $100 to resolve George's situation and if Abid has even a single honest bone in his body he will do the right thing. He has had since January of this year to do that though, so no one hold their breath.
This article was originally published in forum thread: ASR Engineering has been removed as a vendor started by Sticky View original post99 Comments
alpinedevil335 - 11-11-2010, 11:40 AM
Big ups to BB for hooking up Georgesmooth
George Smooth - 11-11-2010, 11:48 AM
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oddjob2021 - 11-11-2010, 11:07 PM
i talked with abid today, once you guys hear the real story it may all make sense. it will probably never change your (anyone on here's) opinion of the company though, it never does really. especially for people who have never heard of asr, first impressions matter. i wont try to explain it myself as abid may have left out crucial details or i may not convey the right message or what not. i dont want to be the middle man. but the cliff notes are the funds were returned a while ago, the money is being held up somewhere in bank limbo.
There is much here I can not post. Namely things involving GT3 Ranger. This is not simply a mistake. This is a repeat pattern with many people and we are not talking about small money here. There is no excuse, none, for what George in particular has gone through. There is no excuse for not getting back to people and all the customer service issues that have existed for YEARS, not recently.
I believe you have gotten a good product from ASR. I believe their nitrous kits are solid. I even believe their exhausts are well made. A good product does not excuse terrible customer service and ripping off members. It does not excuse taking people's money and leaving them out to dry for an extended period. There simply is no justification for it and clearly there are issues.
We would like to see all these issues resolved, ALL OF THEM, and until they are, we simply can not support ASR. I hope Abid does the right thing, he certainly has the opportunity to do so.
oddjob2021 - 11-12-2010, 12:15 PM
^Thanks and good post Sticky. I hope so too. The products do speak for themselves, and like you mentioned, you need good customer service in order to sell and have happy customers, that's a given and abid has come up short on a few occasions already, especially exhausts from what I've heard.
Unfortunately, yes I'm still waiting for my refund. Last I heard from Abid is on March 2010. He has told me countless times that a credit was being issued, but I receive none. If he is really having issues with his bank, why only the international customers have not received the refund? It sounds more deliberate than coincidence.
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Expect changes, as always..
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Does anyone else find .26 unusable? It scrolls far too fast regardless of settings.
Version .25e works reliably except for the odd time it starts scrolling hyper fast (after reboots and sleep/wake I suppose).
Tip: To see if your Mac is supported, put two fingers on the trackpad and move them around. If the mouse pointer goes crazy, or moves normally, you are not supported. If the mouse doesn't move, and nothing happens, iScroll will work for you. If it scrolls the page, then you either have it, or don't need it.
I have experienced the scroll speed issue Bruno mentioned and wonder if it isn't a memory leak issue. I have noticed that over time, the scroll speed slows down. After a reboot, things are speedy again.
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To the chagrin of their competitors, GoogleMail seems to have become almost as synonymous with webmail as Google has with search engine (recently my six year old was explaining to me how he Googled for something at school). GoogleMail is a useful tool and has a lot of advantages over traditional client-server mail accounts, particularly if you are on the move. To be honest those sorts of advantages are present in pretty much any webmail setup: I'm just concentrating on GoogleMail because it's by my experience the most popular. But GoogleMail has one disadvantage, all your messages are stored on Google's servers. If you lose access to Google service or to your account then you lose your e-mails. Fear not oh free software lover, help is at hand in the form of the very useful getmail.
Getmail is a command-line tool for retrieving e-mail from remote servers and delivering into a local mailstore. That mailstore might be an mbox file or a Maildir directory. Personally I prefer the latter because it means I'm no longer relying on one ever-increasing file for my mail.
To be honest I'm not sure why I still include this section in these types of articles, installing software on modern GNU/Linux systems is such a breeze and I'm guessing most of you are using one. Search your usual package manager for getmail and install from there. You can download the source and build it from the getmail homepage if you want to. Me, I just ran
apt-get install getmail from a shell. There are few dependencies for getmail. It's a python script, so Python (2.4) is a requirement but that's about it.
Configure GoogleMail
For getmail to retrieve your GoogleMail you'll need to tell Google to permit access from outside of their systems. Getmail supports POP3, POP3-over-SSL, IMAP4, IMAP4-over-SSL, and SDPS mail accounts either as single or multi-drop accounts (where several e-mail accounts end up in one inbox). For this tutorial I'm going to use POP3 but GoogleMail supports IMAP as well.
Getmail supports POP3, POP3-over-SSL, IMAP4, IMAP4-over-SSL, and SDPS mail accounts either as single or multi-drop accounts
- First log into GoogleMail and then go to the
Settingssection (there should be a link on the top right for this)
- Now goto the
Forwarding and POP/IMAPtab
- Select
Enable POP for all mail. Later you can go back and change this to
Enable POP for mail that arrives from now onbut for now we want to back up all your GoogleMail. (see note below)
- Choose an appropriate option under step 2. For mine I leave it as
keep GMail's copy in the Inbox
- Click
Save changes
Configure getmail
You can have getmail retrieve your GoogleMail by passing it command-line parameters, but I'm guessing you'll want to do this again sometime, so it's best to use a getmail config file. Unless you provide a full path to the config file, getmail will presume it is within its default directory. On most system this will be
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getmail -r <your config file>.
You can have getmail retrieve your GoogleMail by passing it command-line parameters, but I'm guessing you'll want to do this again sometime, so it's best to use a getmail config file
For now create a file called
~/.getmail/getmailrc and enter the following into it, substituting your GoogleMail address as the username where required:
[retriever] type = SimplePOP3SSLRetriever server = pop.gmail.com username = YourGoogleMailAddress [destination] type = Maildir path = ~/gmailBackup/ [options] verbose = 1 message_log = ~/.getmail/gmail.log
message_log line is optional but can be useful if you want to keep track of what getmail has done. There are some other options you might like to consider here. The type setting can be Maildir or mbox if you prefer and the path setting can be any directory/file the user running getmail has write permissions for. the
verbose setting dictates how much information is sent to the terminal while getmail is running. Setting this to 1 will echo the messages it is retrieving as it goes. Other options are 0 for only warnings and errors and 2 for pretty much everything. 1 seems a happy medium to me.
Running it
That's all there is to the config file so once it has been created you can run getmail. Open a terminal and enter
getmail followed by Enter. If you have given the config file another name you'll need to tell getmail what it is with
getmail -r filename. if the file is not in the default directory you should also give the full path
getmail -r /path/to/your/config/file. When you run it, getmail will ask for your GoogleMail password. If you don't want to type this every time you can put it in the retriever section of the config file. Below the username line add
password = YourGoogleMailPassword. Personally I don't like to do such things as somebody getting access to my laptop could then access my GoogleMail account, but if you run getmail as a cron job (scheduled event) then you might need to add the password line.
Each time you run getmail, it retrieves the mail it has not seen before. GoogleMail is setup so that mail you have sent is in the same mailbox as mail you have received. This means getmail will retrieve the
All mail folder from GoogleMail. It will not retrieve anything from the Spam older. Once you have your GoogleMail on your local machine, you might want to read it. You can point pretty much any mail client at the backup file/directory. Personally to keep things simple I use the excellent mutt as it provides fast and simple access without needing to set up accounts and the like that some of the desktop mail clients require you to.
Automating it
If you use your GoogleMail a lot you'll probably want to perform this backup quite regularly. You can of course remember to run it every so often but you can also use the cron tool in your Unix-like system to automate the backup. This isn't a tutorial on cron, but for now here's a few simple steps. Type
crontab -e into a shell and your cron file will open in a text editor. This is where you add commands you want to run at scheduled times. Move to the end of the file and add the following line:
10 10 * * 1-5 /usr/bin/getmail -r /full/path/to/your/config_file >/dev/null
The format from cron commands is
minute hour day-of-month month day-of-week command so this will run at 10:10 AM every weekday of every month (* is a wildcard). Note that you must include the full path to any config file you give, shortcuts like "~" won't always work in cron environments. Of course you don't need to specify one at all if you are using the default config filename but I always think it's better safe than sorry. The
1>/dev/null bit on the end means that any output from the command will be discarded. This is fine because getmail is logging everything anyway, and if we didn't do this the system would likely send you an e-mail with the list of mail that was retrieved. Errors from running the command (for example if you've not entered the command properly) will be sent to you but you can discard them by changing
> /dev/null to
2&1> /dev/null.
Notes and caveats
- Leaving POP access on your GoogleMail account open does make it less secure than closing it. Someone would still need to either know your password or be able to crack it but the risk is there. If you want to be extra careful you can always go back and reverse these steps once getmail has done its thing.
- Getmail can be used on any remote mail account that supports the protocols it supports. This means you should be able to use it on other webmail services, but I can't guarantee that as I've not tried.
- Getmail as the name suggests is for mail only. It won't help you backup Google calendar or docs. To backup Google calendar you can export it similarly with Google docs.
- I'm not responsible for your e-mail. if you follow these steps and something goes wrong I can't responsible as things change and I can only report what works when I try. That said, I hope this helps.
Cool. I need this.
You know, this is something I've been increasingly concerned about -- I've been using Google mail for awhile now, and it's starting to represent a significant amount of my correspondence record, which is not so easy to download using the standard web interface.
Thanks for letting me know about a very useful tool!
You're welcome
You're welcome!
One thing I forgot to mention is that Google seems to put a limit on the number of messages you can download via POP in any one attempt. This is largely undocumented but for me it seems to be around 400 messages.
You can workaround this by running getmail again afterwards at which point it retrieves the next 400 messages. Of course this will only be a problem if you leave it so long between POP downloads that you have in excess of 400 messages to download. In my case that's probably longer than a week. A regular cron job would resolve this also.
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Can you put the mail onto / access from a private server?
Thanks for a very informative article!
Once you've backed up your mail from GMail what format does it have. I.e. can you upload it onto a private webserver and still access it with the usual client from there? How read, search etc. the mail you've just backed up?
Hi, As I say in the
As I say in the article, the mail is in MailDir format. that means each message is a separate textfile and they are in turn stored in cur. new and tmp directories. To read it locally I use Mutt in a shell which is probably the simplest way to do it as you just run
mutt -f <path to maildir> in the shell.
Putting the archive into another mailserver is possible but the method you use will depend upon which server (MTA) you are using. If you are looking to read your GMail via another account, Google provide a forwarding service which will save you downloading the messages as I explain here.
hope this helps
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I had to manually create the /new /cur /tmp directories in the destination folder.
Hmm interesting, I've not
Hmm interesting,
I've not encountered that before. Getmail should create the for you. What distro are you using?
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I'm using a brand new
I'm using a brand new installation of Ubuntu 10.10.


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Alex Ross sometimes thinks of how her younger sister would have turned out as an adult. She imagines she would have been a lot like her — outgoing, fun and sometimes goofy. But she usually remembers her as the 11-year-old little sister who wrote in her diary about Halloween costumes and the boy down the street.
"There are a lot of things I can't remember about her, though. They've been overshadowed by what happened to her," Ross said. "I can't remember her smile or her laugh. I should be able to hear that. But I tell myself that this is life, and that everything happens for a reason."
Ross, now 23, had just turned 13 when her life changed forever. The highly publicized disappearance of her sister, who was found dead three years later, caused her family years of heartache.
"It has been a rough 10 years," said Beth Lowery Thompson, the girls' mother. "A rough, rough 10 years."
It was late summer 2003 when Shae Ross disappeared during a rainy Tuesday morning walk to the bus stop at Willowbrook Trailer Park in Northport. Monday marks the 10-year anniversary of her disappearance.
Members of the community closely followed what's likely the most high-profile criminal case in Tuscaloosa County's history. Volunteers searched property across the county. Individuals and businesses donated to a reward fund that quickly reached $70,000.
People who never met Shae or her family joined them in mourning the sad, but long-suspected, outcome when her remains were found under an abandoned house in Holt three years later.
"This is one of those cases that the entire community was invested in," said Northport Police Investigator Terry Carroll, who led the search for Shae. "Nobody wants to see a child hurt. It just kind of touched everybody to some degree."
It's been seven years since that grim discovery and investigators are still searching for her killer.
"I'm at peace with her death," Alex Ross said. "I've been at peace since they found her. But I want to know who did it and why."
Thompson, 44, moved to Foley less than a year after Shae's body was found.
"I didn't want to be there anymore," she said during a phone interview last week. "I couldn't be there anymore."
She said has photos and belongings of her youngest child around her new home. Shae's photo is the first thing she sees when she wakes up, and the last thing she sees before going to bed.
"I have dreaded this year. I did not want to see this year come," Thompson said of the Monday anniversary.
This year has turned out to be more difficult than Thompson expected. She was diagnosed with cervical cancer about six weeks ago and is recovering after a full hysterectomy. The 21-year relationship with her husband Kevin Thompson ended around the same time. And she's still mourning the recent deaths of her stepfather and an 18-day old grandson.
Thompson's cancer diagnosis made clear that she may never know what happened to her daughter.
"I don't want to be another Patsy Ramsey," she said. Ramsey died in 2006 with the 1996 murder of her daughter JonBenet still unsolved. "I don't want to die without knowing what happened to my kid."
Alex had left the trailer at 6:50 a.m. on the morning of Aug. 19, 2003, just a few minutes before her younger sister. Shae left around 6:55 a.m. Their stepfather Kevin Thompson heard a thunder clap and decided to drive the girls to school and left at 7:01. Shae somehow disappeared during that narrow window.
"I took a lot of blame for it when it first happened." said Alex, who also goes by her first name Jamie. "What if I had just waited for her? And why did they grab her? Why didn't they grab me, too?"
Police response to the missing child report Thompson filed that morning became more serious when Shae didn't show up once school hours had passed.
An AMBER alert was never issued because police had no evidence that Shae was in danger.
A team of law enforcement agents, including some from every agency in the county and the FBI, descended on the trailer park and went door-to-door. They reviewed video from a nearby Steve's Grill & Billiards, which yeilded no clues. The response from the community was swift and massive.
On the third day of her disappearance, Winn-Dixie donated yellow ribbons that teams of searchers pinned to their shirts. Buddy's Food Mart immediate offered a $5,000 reward. Olive Garden sent food, Kmart sent snacks and Kinko's, Office Max and Kwik Copy ran off 33,000 missing fliers with ink jets donated by Home Depot.
Law enforcement agents saturated the neighborhood and worked at a command center set up at Northport police headquarters. Members of local, Birmingham and national media camped out with family and friends under tents at the trailer park, waiting for any kind of update. Search teams from out-of-state showed up, but no leads ever surfaced.
Thousands of tips were called in, many of them outlandish. A truck driver saw a wolf on U.S. Highway 82 and suggested that Shae had been attacked. A psychic said that a childless woman had taken Shae because of her mild-mannered disposition. One man said that he could find Shae by using a device that would track her aura.
"We checked out every lead," said Tuscaloosa County Sheriff's Office Division Chief Loyd Baker. "You never know if someone is giving you a good lead under a guise because they don't want to incriminate themselves or someone else."
The relationship between the family and volunteers disintegrated as the case dragged on without a resolution. Lowery accused the head of a volunteer group of stealing $500 donated by a church and police were called to the volunteer center to resolve a shouting match that erupted between family members and volunteers. Many volunteers withdrew their support after a September 2003 fire in Shae's room that destroyed most of her belongings. The fire was ruled suspicious. Some members of law enforcement, volunteers and the public suspected that Shae's parents knew more than they let on. Lowery said at the time that the scrutiny of her family was likely because she and Thompson were an interracial couple, and because they lived in a trailer park.
Alex Ross said that the attention directed at her family, along with losing her sister, was difficult for her as a teenager.
"I feel like I wasn't able to be a teenager," she said. "I'd be allowed to go to the mall or maybe two hours. I couldn't do anything."
Ross said that she experiences occasional anxiety that she blames on what happened to her sister. She doesn't like to be in a home with the door unlocked and sometimes overreacts when she hears strange sounds in her house.
She suspects that would stop if investigators are ever able to make an arrest in the case.
"I feel sorry for whoever did this. There's no way that whoever did this hasn't thought about it every day for 10 years, unless he or she is a real cold-hearted person," she said. She's thought about it a lot, but has no theories about who killed Shae.
"I honestly don't know. It could have been someone with a hatred for our family," she said, "or just a sick bastard."
Beth Thompson said that it's painful to think about her little girl who didn't have a chance to grow up.
"I love her. I miss her. I miss her so much. I've missed knowing what she would have been like. I've missed raising her, teaching her," she said. "Sometimes this is all too much to bear."
Shae was a tomboy who wasn't afraid to get muddy playing in the nearby creek. She played trombone and dressed as a cheerleader for Halloween. Her diary is full of entries about how much she loved her sister. She only wrote in it for a few months, but several of the blank pages she intended to fill are numbered in her messy 10-year-old script.
Paige Battle, the girls' first cousin, was 11 when Shae disappeared.
"Now I have kids of my own," said Battle, now 21. "Any little thing that might happen triggers it back up."
She worries about her kids when they're not in sight. She has butterfly tattoos in honor of Shae, who decorated her room with them.
"I think if we actually knew who did this, our family would feel better. It's been hard," she said. "It's torn our family apart."
Frances Taylor, Shae and Alex's aunt, believes that someone knows.
"Secrets get told," she said.
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