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WASHINGTON - Bernard Goldstein of Carlsbad, Calif., was indicted by a federal grand jury for conspiracy to defraud the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), filing false tax returns and failing to file Reports of Foreign Bank or Financial Accounts (FBARs), the Justice Department and IRS announced today. All the charges are related to Goldstein's hiding hundreds of thousands of dollars of assets in several Swiss bank accounts held at UBS AG. The indictment was returned Nov. 16, 2010, and unsealed today. Goldstein was not present in court today and, according to the indictment, fled the United States shortly after UBS entered into a Deferred Prosecution Agreement with the United States government.
According to the indictment filed in San Diego federal court, Goldstein, a Canadian citizen and lawful permanent resident of the U.S., kept assets in bank accounts with UBS from at least 1992 through at least October 2008. In 1992 he opened a UBS bank account in his own name that held assets totaling more than $2 million at the end of 2000. In 2000 Goldstein, with the assistance of UBS and other co-conspirators, opened another UBS account under the name of a sham Panamanian corporation named Kasler Management Corp. Goldstein then transferred funds from the UBS account in his own name to the UBS account held in the name of Kasler. Goldstein also maintained an account at UBS Cayman Islands Ltd. until 2002, when he transferred assets from the Cayman Islands account to the Kasler account. By the end of 2003, Goldstein's UBS accounts held assets totaling more than $2.5 million, almost all of which were in the Kasler account. Further, in 2004, Goldstein transferred funds to an account at another large global Swiss bank headquartered in Zurich, also held in the name of Kasler.
Goldstein, the owner and operator of MG Export-Import Inc., a California-based company that exported oil pipeline products to Russia, concealed from his tax return preparer the existence of these numerous offshore accounts. Further, he failed to report his ownership of these accounts and failed to report any income earned in these accounts on his tax returns. He also failed to file FBARs relating to the accounts.
A U.S. taxpayer who has an interest in, or signature or other authority over, a financial account in a foreign country with assets in excess of $10,000 is required to disclose the existence of the account on Schedule B, Part III of his or her individual income tax return. A U.S. taxpayer must also disclose the existence of the account by filing an FBAR with the U.S. Treasury.
To further conceal his ownership of the Kasler account, Goldstein's co-conspirators signed IRS forms and UBS's equivalent forms falsely stating that his sham corporation was the owner of his account, when in reality, Goldstein was the owner. Goldstein and his co-conspirators also withdrew cash and transferred assets from and between Goldstein's UBS accounts in order to conceal these assets from the IRS, including the withdrawal of cash from one account after UBS disclosed that it was under criminal investigation by the U.S. government.
Goldstein is charged with one count of conspiring to defraud the IRS, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison; five counts of filing false federal income tax returns, each of which carries a maximum penalty of three years in prison; and three counts of willful failure to file an FBAR, each of which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison.
An indictment merely alleges that a crime has been committed, and a defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
"The IRS and Justice Department continue to work cooperatively to combat international tax evasion," said IRS Deputy Commissioner Steven T. Miller. "Individuals who hide income and assets offshore, and those banks and advisors who help them cheat, will find themselves increasingly at risk."
In February 2009, UBS entered into a deferred prosecution agreement under which the bank admitted to helping U.S. taxpayers hide accounts from the IRS. As part of their agreement, UBS provided the U.S. government with the identities of, and account information for, certain U.S. customers of UBS's cross-border business, including Goldstein.
Acting Assistant Attorney General John A. DiCicco and U.S Attorney for the Southern District of California Laura E. Duffy commended the agents from IRS Criminal Investigation who investigated the case and Tax Division trial attorneys Timothy J. Stockwell and Joseph A. Rillotta, who are prosecuting the case.
Additional information about the Justice Department's Tax Division and its enforcement efforts is available at http://www.justice.gov/tax/.


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In the NBA Finals, every decision, good or bad, is amplified as every play could be a gamechanger. Obviously, most important during these games (which look like they will be competitive for the duration of the series) is fourth quarter decision-making. Today we are going to look at decision making late, both good and bad. First, we are going to look at a fantastic pass made by Chris Bosh, and second, we are going to look at a poor defensive play made by Jason Terry:
Chris Bosh's Assist
With about six minutes to go in the fourth quarter, Chris Bosh found himself defended by Jason Terry, getting the basketball at the elbow. Instead of trying to back his man down and force something, he stayed patient and made a terrific play.
This possession all starts with a LeBron James post-up. Dallas decides to double it with Jason Terry, allowing Udonis Haslem to become open. James does a good job of spotting the open man, making the pass, and forcing a rotation that results in Jason Terry picking up Chris Bosh.
Haslem takes the shot with Jason Terry still on Bosh. As the Heat secure the offensive rebound, there is no time to switch back, meaning Terry is stuck trying to defend Bosh.
The Heat immediately get Bosh the basketball on the elbow and clear out, giving him space to work against the smaller man. Bosh could try to simply back Terry down, forcing the possession and putting himself in a position where he could get double teamed easily.
Instead, Bosh stays patient and simply faces up. He doesn't drive, but he holds the ball, forcing the defense's hand and waiting for a double team to come. Eventually, Tyson Chandler steps up to help Terry defend Bosh. The second that he does, his man, Udonis Haslem, seals Dirk Nowitzki off in the paint and looks for the basketball.
Bosh makes the pinpoint pass and Haslem makes the catch in perfect position, right in the middle of the lane.
Haslem goes up quickly, gets fouled, and finishes for the and-one. Here is the play in real time:
If Chris Bosh rushes this and tries to take advantage of the mismatch by forcing things, the result could be a missed shot or a turnover. Bosh stayed patient, waiting for the opening to show up, and took advantage.
Jason Terry's Poor Positioning
With about three minutes left, LeBron James brought the basketball up, crossed his defender over, and drove the lane for a big dunk. This was a fantastic play by LeBron James, but he was allowed to make it by poor positioning from Jason Terry.
As LeBron James crosses half court, he starts to take the basketball to Dwyane Wade, who is cutting towards James looking for the dribble handoff.
However, once James gets to the point where he is supposed to hand off the basketball, he notices something. What he notices is Jason Terry playing on the wrong side of his man, Mario Chalmers, in a position where he can't help on any dribble penetration.
With Terry in no position to help properly, James is able to get all the way to the rim before the defense steps up, fouling him, but not preventing him from getting the big-time dunk. Here is the play in real time:
Why is Terry playing defense like this? In the two sets before this one, Chalmers set a rub screen for Chris Bosh who then set a screen for Dwyane Wade. This time down, Terry got on the other side of Chalmers to try and prevent him from setting the rub screen for Bosh. As soon as James notices this, he crosses over a flat-footed Shawn Marion (who was expecting the dribble handoff as well) and drives the lane:
The two times down the court, the Miami Heat ran the same action twice in a row, with LeBron James bringing up the basketball, handing it off (or at least trying to) to Dwyane Wade and then letting Wade work off of a pick-and-roll. Also, looking at the action away from the basketball, Mario Chalmers set a rub screen for Chris Bosh both times. Terry wanted to prevent this action and got on the other side of Chalmers. It's a poor decision because that rub screen wasn't really effective, so there was no need to try and prevent it. Just a silly decision by Terry taking away something so minimal by giving up the penetration by LeBron James.
As you can see the team that can make the smarter decisions will be able to give themselves an advantage in these games, especially when they are so close. Until next time.

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In the early 1980's, Jake's Finer Foods was expanding and found that its supply chain technology no longer met all of its needs. The company required a way to print multi-part invoices used as proof of delivery. It was important to the company that the technology selected eliminate the process of collating the multi-part forms.
As the company continued to grow, Jake's Finer Foods required printers that printed pallet labels, picking tickets and more. After careful research, executives at Jake's decided that the best choice was Printronix for its reliable, heavy-duty line matrix printers and sturdy thermal bar code printers. The Printronix printers were the only ones able to meet both the duty cycle and temperature requirements of the Jake's Finer Foods. In addition, Jake's Finer Foods required a printing solution that would easily integrate with existing printers and supply chain management software.
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Line matrix printers print shipping labels and multi-part invoices which also are used as receiving documentation for their customers. Printronix offers Jake's the flexibility to design labels to include exactly the information needed for each operation in the supply chain.
Thermal bar code printers print labels for pallets in several sizes. In addition, the thermal bar code printers print shelf labels for the distribution center. These labels help the Jake's Finer Foods operations run smoothly with accurate receiving, replenishment, pick and ship functions.
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I always want to snap some underwater portrait shot. In Fact I don't have a krab or underwater camera than allow me to do this theme. After that, I found that Jetnz81 - a lomography from Tawau, Sabah, has taken a diving course, and took a lots of underwater shot during he went to diving. So I approach him with this theme. No doubt, he agreed with this idea. We choose to use LCW for this double. It is because we bought this super wide camera together during the big sales of lomography, and yet the easy focus point of LCW can let Jet have a clear and nice underwater shot. First shot done during Jet when to diving & I shot on second at Dance Factory, Thanks Kim for the crazy performance & Tan Theng for the lighthing. It always fun to try something different. Thanks Jetnz81 for the good shot! http://www.lomography.com/homes/jetnz81
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The number of deaths in Tennessee from the outbreak remains at six. That's according to an update posted on the state Department of Health website. Nationwide the number of cases increased to 170 cases, including 14 deaths in 11 states.
ASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Department of Health officials say the state's death toll from an outbreak of fungal meningitis has risen to six.
Dr. John Dreyzhener, Tennessee's health commissioner, said Tuesday the total number of cases in the state has increased by four and now stands at 39. The cases all stem from steroid injections for back pain and officials say evidence points to contaminated medicine as the cause of the rare disease.
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, almost 33 percent of the nation's students have been in a physical fight, one or more times in the last twelve months.
Tennessee students fared only marginally better. The CDC says about 31 percent of the state's high schools students were involved in a fight in the previous year.
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Citing statistics from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, The Tennessean reports that such crimes have more than doubled since 2005. But the real story isn't necessarily in places like Nashville or Memphis.
Statistics show the state's small towns are becoming incubators of gang violence. The TBI's Kristin Helm says there's a couple of reasons for the change.


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In his remarks recorded by the Vatican Information Service, the Holy Father alluded to the theme of the papal visit, "Christ our Hope." The U.S. visit will last from April 15 to April 20.
In his greeting to English-speaking pilgrims, the Holy Father said, "This Tuesday I leave Rome for my visit to the United Nations and the United States of America. With the various groups I shall meet, my intention is to share our Lord's word of life."
"In Christ is our hope! Christ is the foundation of our hope for peace, for justice, and for the freedom that flows from God's law fulfilled in his commandment to love one another," the Holy Father said.
"Dear brothers and sisters, I ask you all to pray for the success of my visit, so that it may be a time of spiritual renewal for all Americans. Upon each of you present, I invoke the protection and guidance of Jesus the Good Shepherd," he concluded.
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Washington, DC - Apr 15, 2008 - The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB) and HD Digital Radio Alliance are launching a series of efforts to underscore the broadening versatility of radio content, the its technology and the continuing relevance of the medium in Americans' lives. According to a release from the group, the multiyear initiative is expected to "turn up the volume on radio's reemerging presence in a digital world."
"The sleeping giant has awakened," said David Rehr, NAB president and CEO. "For close to a century, radio has had a ubiquitous and integral presence in our nation's life, and today more than 235 million Americans turn to radio each week to be informed and entertained. Despite its universal presence, or perhaps because of it, radio's abiding impact has been overlooked and underappreciated. The medium, however, has a bright future, and Radio Heard Here will help showcase radio's robust advances, particularly in harnessing new technology and expanding and enhancing the diversity of its content."
Radio Heard Here includes promotional and educational initiatives. Among them:
An advertising campaign aimed at consumers. The overarching theme of the campaign will be "Radio Heard Here," which will underscore the ubiquitous nature of the medium.
- An initiative that connects industry players online to the most up-to-date information, that creates a series of blogs to more effectively engage and inform radio insiders and consumers alike, and that helps teach the creative community within advertising agencies and universities how to successfully write and place radio advertising.
- An effort to reach key influencers and other targeted audiences with information about the resurgence and impact of radio.
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The effort is a continuation of the Radio 2020 campaign that was launched at the 2007 NAB Radio Show. This work specifies some of the actions that are planned, particularly those aimed at younger consumers. This younger audience is finding greater interest in forms of media other than radio.
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Today is National Men Make Dinner Day! Any Froggyland guys going to be in the kitchen? Let us know on the Froglines at 941-98-98 or 1-800-255-98-98...or here on Facebook.
Top 10 Reasons To Participate In "NATIONAL MEN MAKE DINNER DAY'
10. While cooking, you can still wear your tool belt, simply replace the hammer with a whisk.
9. Several recipes include beer as a legitimate ingredient.
8. The blender, the electric mixer and the food processor are loud enough to drown out anyone in the house who is learning a musical instrument.
7. Whoever is cooking always gets the most attention from the dog.
6. Whatever recipe you choose, you can name it after yourself. Example: tonight's dinner is called 'Doug's Surprise'.
5. Discovering that '250 ml' is the same as '8 ounces' AND '1 cup' is half the fun.
4. Since YOU choose the recipe, it can be a turnip-free night.
3. Some desserts, such as crème brulee, require the use of a propane torch. How much fun is that?!
2. Since other husbands in your neighborhood are also cooking dinner, ironically this could be the ultimate male bonding experience
1. Participating in 'National Men Make Dinner Day' gives you optimum points with your wife. Use those points wisely.


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In the West, in Idaho's arid, high desert, the drought has a mixed effect. There's a big divide between farmers with deep wells and irrigation and those without.
Hans Hayden is a rare find: a talkative farmer. He likes to explain things. But when it comes to the wheat he planted this spring, there's not much to say. This field needed rain. It didn't get it.
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Earlier this week, a few coworkers and I made a trip to the Target sort-of close to our office. While our office is located in one of the sketchiest parts of the DC area, we are fortunate enough to have a fairly nice and well-kept Target that is just ten-minute drive away. And perfect for a lunchtime escape from the cubicle.
I really did not need anything specifically during this particular trip so I wandered around the store and ended up placing a few random items in my baskets. One of these items was a sparkly white picture frame that was so perfect for an image that I have been wanting to frame. And its $4.99 price tag was appealing as well.
When it came time to check-out, the cashier scanned all of my items but held the picture frame for last. She pushed a few buttons on the cash register and then turned to me and said, "This picture frame is part of the Halloween line and I am not allowed to sell it to you."
To be honest, I thought she was kidding.
Then she called a manager over who physically took the picture frame away, leaving me standing there jaw sort of flopping in shock and uttering the words "you mean I cannot buy it?"
No one offered any explanation and four days later, I still have no clue what on earth happened. I have a few theories:
- A fellow Target employee really wanted that frame and thought they were sold out and asked her/his coworkers to set it aside if they saw it.
- The frame contained government secrets.
- The frame was being recalled for awesome sparkliness.
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Dear Candidate
Thank you for taking the time to review the information in respect of our senior management vacancy, Director of Community Regeneration.
Community Gateway Association took the stock transfer of over 6,000 homes from Preston City Council in November 2005. We were the first social housing organisation in the UK to be set up as a 'community gateway' and we remain the only such social landlord in the North of England. This means tenants and communities are at the heart of our decisions, and as such we enable local people to have the maximum opportunity to influence our work.
Over the past eight years we have successfully delivered our Improvement Programme, and firmly embedded and delivered our Community Empowerment Strategy. With a turnover of £20 million per annum our plans for continued growth are both interesting and challenging!
CGA has an ambitious development programme which will have completed approximately 120 new affordable homes by the end of 2015. CGA is well regarded by its partners and stakeholders in Lancashire and is financially stable. Our surveys of our residents and service users reveal high levels of satisfaction with our housing and support services.
The successful applicant will join an experienced senior team and will work with a high-performing Board of voluntary members. You will need the skills, experience, energy and commitment to support our continued growth and diversity. You will be joining the organisation during exciting times in our Gateway journey as we continue to firmly integrate our repairs service which transferred to the organisation in April 2013 and the Grounds Maintenance Service which transferred in March 2014.
This role provides you with an opportunity to help us continue on our journey to become an employer of choice and an excellent housing provider. With our plans for the future I genuinely believe that this is a superb time to be joining the organisation.
If you feel you can deliver an outstanding service to our tenants and provide the visionary leadership to ensure CGA maintains its leading edge then I look forward to receiving your application and hopefully to meeting you in the future.
Yours sincerely
Chief Executive


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October 31, 2004
Hear it? It's called Oscar buzz, and it's buzzing around the performance of Jamie Foxx in "Ray," in which the stand-up comic-turned-television-funnyman-turned-recording-artist-turned-dramatic-actor portrays the late Ray Charles.
For the role, Foxx, 36, lost more than 30 pounds and allowed director Taylor Hackford's makeup team to seal his eyes shut for 14 hours a day. The classically trained Foxx also played the piano in the movie, which opened this weekend.
Despite his comic background, the Texas-born Foxx has been turning heads in Hollywood since he played a quarterback in Oliver Stone's "Any Given Sunday," following that auspicious debut with dramatic turns in "Ali" (he played the boxer's colorful cornerman, Drew "Bundini" Brown), the recent Tom Cruise film "Collateral" (a kidnapped cab driver) and the TV movie "Redemption," in which he portrayed a real-life gang banger serving a prison term for murder.
It's hard to believe that this is the same Jamie Foxx who starred in the big-screen embarrassment "Booty Call," and who was best-known previously for his comic impressions and outrageous characters on "In Living Color" and "The Jamie Foxx Show."
When we met with the actor in his Beverly Hills hotel suite, he discussed the Oscar buzz, how his portrayal of Ray Charles changed his life and why Will Smith threatened to kick his butt if he didn't get it right.
Q: Do you remember the first time you heard a Ray Charles song?
A: Nobody remembers the first time they heard Ray Charles because there has always been Ray Charles. He's always been a part of the culture and the society. It's like walking on the grass. You can't remember the first time you walked on the grass. All you know is that it was always there.
Q: Let's put it another way. When did you really become aware of Ray Charles?
A: I used to play the piano in church when I was 5. I would sneak in Ray Charles' chords from "I Got a Woman" in the middle of a gospel hymn, but I don't think I was aware that I was playing his music. It just was a part of me.
Q: Do you understand why people called him the Genius?
A: Of course. But it's not just about the music, although the music is a big part of it. It's also about the courage he showed at a time when people were being killed for the color of their skin. He jumped over those racial obstacles. Through his music and his actions, he helped to bring black and white people together.
Q: Did you believe that you could play an icon like Ray Charles because you watched Will Smith play another icon, Muhammad Ali?
A: Absolutely.
Q: Did Will offer any advice on how to play such an revered figure?
A: About eight weeks before we started filming, I was at a club. One of Will's friends saw me and called him in Vancouver where he was shooting "I, Robot." The friend told him I was playing around and not preparing for the role. Will called me at the club and told me to go home right away. He said, "This is going to be one of your most important tests, and you can't blow it." He said he wasn't going to let me blow it. He said he would kick my tail if I blow it. And I appreciated that call because you don't get many calls like that in this business, particularly from people at the top of the food chain.
Q: Why did he make that call?
A: I think he just wanted to make sure that I protected this man's legacy.
Q: Tell me about your first meeting with Ray Charles.
A: It was at his recording studio here in L.A.
Q: Were you scared?
A: No. I'm never scared. Well, that's not true. I was scared of my grandmother. After her, everything is easy.
Q: So, what were your emotions when you met him?
A: There was an excitement to see that smile, and to get that hug. He put his head on my chest and I could feel him giving me his energy. It was our moment. But I realized that I was already being tested. He said: "Man, what are you worried about? If you can play the blues, you can do anything."
Q: Then what happened?
A: We sat down at side-by-side pianos and started playing the blues. Then he started playing some really complicated Thelonious Monk. I felt like I was in the water with sharks. I didn't know how I was going to move my fingers that way. I was surprised how well he played jazz. Then I hit a wrong note and he stopped. "Why the hell did you do that?" he said. I felt like a band member about to have his pay docked. I was feeling insecure. Then he said, "The notes are right there underneath your fingers."
Q: What was he telling you?
A: That I should simplify my life. I used that as a metaphor throughout the movie; that life and the notes are right there underneath my fingers.
Q: What was the essence of Ray Charles?
A: His essence was love and beauty. He embraced all that was good.
Q: How did playing that kind of man affect you in your real life?
A: Every day, I wake up and I am Ray Charles. I put a list of all the good things in my life on top and the bad things on the bottom. I think: "I can see, I can move, I have my family, I have all these great things." By the time I get down to the negatives, they don't mean that much.
Q: Is that what he did?
A: In every aspect of his life. Even with the heroin, he looked back and concentrated on the recovery, not the sickness.
Q: Did he object to any of the negative things in the movie, like the drugs and the womanizing?
A: Not at all. He embraced everything. He believed that the bad things in his life led to the good things in his music.
Q: How special was Ray Charles?
A: Let's put it this way: There are billions of people on the planet. There were billions of people who lived before us. There are billions of people about to be born. And yet, only one Ray Charles in all those people. That's pretty special.
Q: Have you given up comedy for drama?
A: I know Bernie Mac's out there watching and wondering. I know Cedric the Entertainer's out there watching and wondering. I know Chris Tucker and Chris Rock are out there watching and wondering. They're wondering if I've left comedy behind.
Q: And have you?
A: Hell, no.
Q: Why not? The dramatic career is going so well.
A: That's just one aspect of what I do. I love acting, but I also love comedy and music.
Q: Which gives you the biggest kick?
A: They all give me a kick. They're all part of the same thing to me.
Q: Aren't you worried that by doing all three, you won't be taken seriously as an actor?
A: You can't live your life to please studio chiefs.
Q: There's a lot of talk about an Oscar nomination. Which would you prefer: To be nominated for an Oscar, an Emmy or a Grammy?
A: I want to be nominated for them all.
Q: Are you thinking about the possibility of an Oscar?
A: I think about it, but I've talked to Denzel (Washington) and some others who have won and they all gave me the same advice: Don't change. Be yourself.
Q: Did you ever dream you'd be in this position?
A: Did you ever see that Judy Garland movie "A Star is Born"? She was asked that question and her answer was that she didn't dream big enough. That was my problem; I didn't dream big enough.
Ray Charles' life
Major events in Ray Charles' life, some of which are portrayed in ''Ray'': 1930: Ray Charles Robinson born Sept. 23 in Albany, Ga. 1936: Develops glaucoma. Within two years, he's completely blind. 1947: Moves to Seattle at age 17, wins talent contest, forms Nat ''King'' Cole-style jazz trio. 1949: Release of first R &B hit, ''Confession Blues.'' First tries heroin. 1952: Atlantic Records buys Charles' recording contract for $2,500; begins recording album. 1953: First Atlantic single, ''Mess Around.'' Starts band with longtime friend, saxophonist David ''Fathead'' Newman. 1954: ''It Should Have Been Me'' is Charles' initial hit for Atlantic, followed by ''I Got a Woman.'' 1957: Debut album ''Ray Charles'' issued. 1959: Self-penned gospel rave-up ''What'd I Say'' is his first million-seller. 1960-62: Pop chart-busters: ''Georgia on My Mind,'' ''Hit the Road Jack,'' ''Let the Good Times Roll'' and ''I Can't Stop Loving You.'' 1961: Wins string of trophies at third annual Grammy Awards ceremony. First drug arrest. 1962: ''Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music'' released; album blended soul and country for the first time. Fined by Atlanta court after refusing to perform at segregated dance. Georgia bans Charles ''for life.'' 1964: Arrested at Boston's Logan Airport for heroin and marijuana possession. He quits cold turkey. 1967: Records theme for ''In the Heat of the Night.'' 1977: The Georgia state legislature issues a formal apology to Charles, declares ''Georgia on My Mind'' the official state song. 1980: Appears in ''The Blues Brothers'' film. 1986: Inducted by Quincy Jones into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 1992: Sings touching version of ''America the Beautiful'' at the opening of the giant Mall of America in Bloomington, Minn. 2004: Dies June 10 at age 73. Source: Los Angeles Daily News
Music at the movies
Rock 'n' roll biographies from the big screen:
''The Buddy Holly Story'' (1978): Gary Busey's performance and Joe Renzetti's Oscar-winning score highlight one of the best rock biographies ever.
''Sid and Nancy'' (1986): The true-life relationship between punk rocker Sid Vicious (Gary Oldman) and groupie Nancy Spungeon (Chloe Webb).
''La Bamba'' (1987): Ritchie Valens (Lou Diamond Phillips) rises from poverty to rock 'n' roll fame before his premature death.
''Great Balls of Fire!'' (1989): Jerry Lee Lewis (Dennis Quaid) sees his career take a tumble when he marries his 13-year-old cousin (Winona Ryder).
''The Doors'' (1991): Val Kilmer stars in Oliver Stone's vivid biography of ill-fated poet-rocker Jim Morrison's rise to fame in the late '60s.
''Selena'' (1997): A celebration of Tejano princess Selena Quintanilla Perez (Jennifer Lopez), who was gunned down by the president of her own fan club in 1995.
''Ray'' (2004): Jamie Foxx generates significant Oscar buzz with his portrayal of Ray Charles coping with racism, blindness and heroin addiction.
''Beyond the Sea'' (2004): Kevin Spacey directs and stars as ''Splish Splash'' singer Bobby Darin. Kate Winslet plays his wife, actress Sandra Dee. Scheduled for December release.
''Walk the Line'' (2005): Chronicles Johnny Cash's career from 1955 until 1968. Joaquin Phoenix portrays the Man in Black; Reese Witherspoon is June Carter Cash.
''The Gospel According to Janis'' (2005): Pink plays Janis Joplin from the time she was a 19-year-old student at the University of Texas to her death at age 27.


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Originally published Tuesday, November 29, 2011 at 7:11 PM
Poll: Vet visit a pricey trip for many pet owners
How much do pet owners spend on veterinary care for their animals? A new AP-Petside.com poll looks at average expenditures and how people feel about the care their animals get.
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Your local source for news and tips about dogs, cats and other critters, featuring fun videos, reader photos, Q&As and more. Read the entries now!LOS ANGELES — Vet visits cost pet owners an average of $505 dollars last year, according to a new AP-Petside.com poll, with those whose pets faced serious illness spending more than $1,000 on average.
Eight in 10 pet owners took their animal companion to a veterinarian in the past 12 months. And cost was an obstacle for a third of those who did not visit the vet.
But most pet owners trust that vets are not suggesting unnecessary treatments, and the bulk of pet owners faced costs below the average. Sixty percent of those who did take a pet to the vet spent $300 or less on their animal's care, the average expenditure was boosted higher by the one in eight (13 percent) who spent $1,000 or more.
About one in six pet owners say their pet faced a serious illness during the year, and those pet owners spent an average of $1,092 on vet care. One percent say they took their pets to the vet and spent no money.
Thomas Klamm, 76, of Boone, Iowa, says he and his wife Beverly spent $3,000 on their two Chihuahuas, sisters Kati and Keli, and he would have spent more if necessary, even though his annual income is under $50,000.
The biggest bills resulted from a spinal condition Kati had, but Klamm says he has a lot of confidence in the vets and senior students at Iowa State University's Veterinary Teaching Hospital in nearby Ames, where the little dogs have been going since they were pups.
According to the poll, most pet owners have faith in the treatment vets recommend. Overall, 52 percent say vets do not often recommend excessive treatment, 26 percent say that happens moderately often, 17 percent extremely or very often.
Those whose pets had been seriously ill in the past year were no more likely than others to say that vets suggest treatments that go beyond what is reasonable and necessary.
Among those who did not take their pets to the vet last year, 52 percent say they only take their pets to the vet "when they're really sick" and a third say they can't afford it at all.
Luis Calderon, 56, of El Monte, Calif., couldn't afford to take Buddy, his 3-year-old German shepherd, to the vet last year. Buddy was given to Calderon when the dog was 6 months old. "We have become best friends," he says.
Calderon, a self-employed handyman, has a wife and two kids and says work is scarce. If Buddy needed a vet, Calderon says he would have to go through public services or use credit. "We would have to get him help."
How much would be too much? It would depend on what was wrong and what the vet said, Calderon says. "At that point I would have to consider whether to keep him or let him go, put him to sleep," he says.
He hates the idea of putting limits on Buddy's health. "But we have to survive. At this point, my mortgage is No. 1. This month is really close to the edge," Calderon adds.
Fifty-eight percent of those who did not take their pets to a vet in the past year said they "have a type of pet that doesn't need much veterinary care." Among them, 52 percent have dogs, 52 percent cats, 10 percent fish, and 5 percent birds.
Not surprisingly, higher-income pet owners (household incomes over $50,000) were more apt to take their pets to the vet than those with incomes below $50,000 — 90 percent versus 74 percent. Forty percent of those with household incomes below $50,000 who didn't take their pets to the vet say they can't really afford to do so.
Art Jones, 62, of Alameda, Calif., says two of his family's cats died in the last year. He estimates he spent $600 on vet bills — half of that to euthanize one of the cats. The other cat died at home.
"But we are not so wealthy we can spend thousands on a house pet. That's unfortunate, but that's the truth," Jones says.
He says he has family friends whose dog is getting cancer treatment and the cost is nearing $10,000. "To me, that's insane," Jones says.
Over the past few years, Jim Salsman, 51, of Las Vegas, paid for several $500 trips to the vet for his neighbors' cat, Mau, after the declawed feline got in fights with other animals. Last year, the neighbors left and gave the cat to Salsman. He ended up paying another $400 in vet bills, but says he didn't mind because his neighbors were in foreclosure and struggling, and the cat became an important member of the family.
"He means everything to us," Salsman said.
According to the poll, dog owners were a bit more likely to take their pets to the vet than cat owners — 85 percent of dog owners compared with 79 percent of cat owners. But dog owners spent a bit less — an average of $537 — than cat owners, who spent an average of $558.
The AP-Petside.com Poll was conducted Oct. 13-17, 2011, by GfK Roper Public Affairs and Corporate Communications. It involved landline and cellphone interviews with 1,118 pet owners. Results among pet owners have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.6 percentage points.
AP Global Director of Polling Trevor Tompson, Deputy Director of Polling Jennifer Agiesta and News Survey Specialist Dennis Junius contributed to this report.
How the poll was conducted
The Associated Press-Petside.com Poll of pet owners on veterinary care was conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Corporate Communications from Oct. 13-17. It is based on landline and cellphone telephone interviews with a nationally representative random sample of 1,118 pet owners.
Digits in the phone numbers dialed were generated randomly to reach households with unlisted and listed landline and cellphone numbers.
Interviews were conducted in both English and Spanish.
As is done routinely in surveys, results were weighted, or adjusted, to ensure that responses accurately reflect the population's makeup by factors such as age, sex, education and race. In addition, the weighting took into account patterns of phone use — landline only, cell only and both types — by region.
No more than one time in 20 should chance variations in the sample cause the results to vary by more than plus or minus 3.6 percentage points from the answers that would be obtained if all pet owners in the U.S. were polled.
There are other sources of potential error in polls, including the wording and order of questions.
For more information, see http://www.ap-gfkpoll.com or http://www.petside.com/vetcost2011.


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On a day when a massive round of layoffs at Nokia has just been announced, we think it's appropriate to lay out the case for our commitment to investments in the Nordic region.
We use the term Nordic rather than Scandinavia because traditionally Finland is not considered Scandinavian, even though there is a sizable minority of Finns with Swedish names like Mårten Mickos who speak Swedish bilingually with Finnish. Further muddying the waters is the Baltic country Estonia, which shares cultural and linguistic links with Finland, and is sometimes included in the Nordic club. It also doesn't hurt that's its capital Tallinn is only 90 minutes by ferry from Helsinki.
Our friends at Creandum have previously done an interesting data-driven analysis on the performance of the Nordic region and the punchline is this: with a combined population of only 25m out of a European population exceeding 850m, Nordic startups produce about a third of the billion dollar exits in Europe and nearly a tenth of the billion dollar exits worldwide (measured from 2005-9).
Attending the Arctic15 event last week in Helsinki I was struck by how much of a global aspiration the teams had (both inside and outside of the conference) and how unique each of their offerings were. Far from the Silicon Valley caricature of Europe as a clone-factory, Nordic startups think big. Their ability to execute the sales and marketing plan to match the inventiveness of their value proposition and design may be still be a work in progress, but they have ambition. This is a strength forged out of a weakness: a tiny home market. Nordic entrepreneurs know that being the #1 clone of Hot Imported Business Model of the Month in Norway is not going to make anything meaningful. Even being the pan-Nordic category winner may not be enough. Nordic entrepreneurs take on huge entrenched foreign competitors and industries like the telecommuncations industry, the music industry and the enterprise software industry and they often win.
We're proud to count Neo Technology as FGPE's first marker in the Nordic region. Neo's roots and R&D team are in Sweden, even if rockstar founder Emil Eifrem is now based in Menlo Park. Mårten and the team at MySQL already did the region proud taking on Oracle's closed source RDBMS software model with an open-source RDBMS alternative, winning over a huge amount of the last generation's web 1.0 businesses. Of course, MySQL's billion dollar exit to Sun led eventually to being part of Oracle, but in the NOSQL race things might well turn out different. Just like in the last generation, web businesses have led the use of innovative database technologies like Neo4j, MongoDB and the rest. Interestingly, Marc Andreessen was quoted yesterday that not a single one of his firm's portfolio companies use Oracle. Not one. Oracle has lost the web, and now NOSQL startups are gunning for the enterprise.
And about those Nokia layoffs: it wouldn't surprise me in the least if some of those 3500 departing (or the ones that may jump before they are pushed) harbor aspirations for greatness of their own. We can't wait to meet them.


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Remembering Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Oscar Hijuelos, Dead at 62
Posted: October 15, 2013 | Author: jwheeler1967 | Filed under: Authors and Poets, Awards, Books, Books & Movies, Obituaries | Tags: mr. ives' christmas, newshour, NPR, Oscar Hijuelos, pulitzer prize, the mambo kings play songs of love | Comments Off"Oh yes!…The sweet summons of God to man. That's when He calls you up to His arms. And it's the most beautiful thing, a rebirth, a new life. But, just the same I'm in no rush to find out." ― Mr. Ives' Christmas by Oscar Hijuelos
Oscar Hijuelos, who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1990 for his novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love , died yesterday of a heart attack while playing tennis, according to his agent, Jennifer Lyons. Hijuleos was 62.
Hijuelos was the first Latino writer to be awarded the coveted prize. The novel traces the journey of two Cuban brothers who leave Havana for a life in New York to pursue a career in music. In 1992, the novel was adapted into a film starring Armand Assante and Antonio Banderas.
Although the Pulitzer brought the author fame, it also brought hardships. Hijuelos felt labeled as an "ethnic" writer. In an interview on NPR's Newshour in 2011, Hijuelos discussed his memoir Thoughts Without Cigarettes. He told interviewer Ray Suarez that he
sometimes felt like a freak, simply because the level of my success and traveling around the world as — quote — "a Latino writer" as much as anything, was sort of wonderful and also very strange for me at the same time, because, indeed, I'm — I came up as but one version of many potential versions of Latinos that there could be.
And I have never — as I say in the memoir, I have never intended to represent myself as a spokesman for anybody but myself. And yet I would be in a roundtable in Sweden, in Stockholm, Sweden, at a live television show, and the host would come on and look around trying to figure out who the Latino guy was in the group. That kind of thing was both interesting and alarming at the same time.
Here is the complete interview. Rest in Peace, Mr. Hijuelos.
Happy 87th Birthday, Harper Lee!
Posted: April 29, 2013 | Author: jwheeler1967 | Filed under: Authors and Poets, Awards, birthdays, Books, Books & Movies, Teachers & Teaching, Young Adult | Tags: atticus, atticus finch, haper lee, pulitzer prize, scout, scout finch, to kill a mockingbird, to kill a mockingbird film | Comments OffLast night, I found my sixteen-year-old daughter in bed a full hour early. In her hands was Harper Lee's classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird. "I want to see what is happening with Scout. I'm worried about her," she explained.
My daughter, like millions of other readers, has become enthralled by the coming-of-age story of Scout Finch as she navigates the racially-charged world of Alabama in the 1930s.
Yesterday, April 28, 2013, marked the 87th birthday of Harper Lee, the novel's author. To Kill a Mockingbird was immediately popular and has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. It was an instant critical success as well, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1961. In 2008, London's The Telegraph named To Kill a Mockingbird "the greatest novel of all time."
The novel, Lee's only published work, may not have ever been. She was struggling to make ends meet in New York, working as a ticket agent for Eastern Airlines. While in the city, she became friends with the composer and lyricist Michael Brown and his wife, Joy. The three became very close. In December, the Brown's gave Lee an astonishing gift: a years' salary with a note that read, "You have one year off from your job to write whatever you please. Merry Christmas." Within a year, Lee had completed the first draft of Mockingbird.
Hot on the heels of Lee's Pulitzer was the film being made of her work. The movie was released in 1962 starring Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch. To Kill a Mockingbird won three Oscars and was nominated for five more. In 2003, AFI named Atticus Finch the greatest movie hero of the 20th century.
Want more? How about some trivia?!
Five Quotes from To Kill a Mockingbird
- Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.
- I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.
- Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.
- Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.
- You really never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view…until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
Seven Quotes: On Reading & Writing
- More than a simple matter of putting down words, writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they're quite different from people who must write.
- There's no substitute for the love of language, for the beauty of an English sentence. There's no substitute for struggling, if a struggle is needed, to make an English sentence as beautiful as it should be.
- I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career, that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.
- Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself…It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.
- It was like being hit over the head and knocked cold. I didn't expect the book to sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of reviewers but at the same time I sort of hoped that maybe someone would like it enough to give me encouragement. Public encouragement. I hoped for a little, as I said, but I got rather a whole lot, and in some ways this was just about as frightening as the quick, merciful death I'd expected.
- Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books. Instant information is not for me. I prefer to search library stacks because when I work to learn something, I remember it.
- You must come to terms with yourself about your writing. You must not write 'for' something; you must not write with definite hopes of reward. (Source).
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The pub has a very upmarket feel to it with no expense spared in the furnishings and decor, also the kitchen and brewery is quite impressive and if the service is as good as the appearance then the pub is sure to be a sucess. So far all reports from patrons are good and the locally brewed ale is proving to be very popular The photo (right) shows the dining area of the Flyng Horse which looks into the brewery area.
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Now and Then A nostalgic look back on some of the regions fine old buildings and how they have survived the transition into the 21st century - this week we take a look at at some of the century old buildings in Kepler and Timor streets in Warrnambool


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To gain acceptance and remain competitive in international markets, aquaculture producers benefit substantially when their products are accepted by a recognised certification scheme. Statistics suggest that the majority of Asian aquaculture farmers are small-scale producers, but this is the group that finds it most difficult to comply with increasingly stringent production and trading standards. The WorldFish Center is working through an FAO Technical Cooperation Programme project to analyse the current aquaculture certification programs in Thailand's aquaculture industry and identify recommendations for certification approaches and systems that are inclusive of and benefit small-scale farmers.
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