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He's one of San Diego's most recognized figures, thanks to 4,000 ads
Visions of medical school faded. Jerry began his undergraduate at San Diego State and finished it at USC, graduating from the latter school with a business degree in 1970. Visiting San Diego that summer, he worried that his father was working too hard.
"I'll move home and help you out for six months," Jerry said.
The son found that he liked buying and selling, enjoyed the straightforward attitude of his new colleagues, marveled that most deals were concluded with a handshake instead of a mound of legal documents. And he had some ideas.
"We should be open Sundays," he told his dad. "That's a great shopping day."
"Fine," the older Navarra replied. "But I'm not working Sundays."
Gradually, Jerome's became Jerry's responsibility.
"Six months," he says, "turned into 40 years."
While Jerry insists he has no regrets, long stretches of his life's road were charted by others. His father wanted Jerry to appear in Jerome's ads, but the son wanted to leave that job to professional actors. One day in 1972 or '73, father and son drove to XETV's Tijuana studio to oversee yet another commercial shoot. This time, the on-air talent didn't show.
After railing against unreliable actors, dad made a suggestion: "Why don't you appear in this one?"
To this day, Jerry has his suspicions about that "missing" actor: "My dad outfoxed me."
Since then, Jerry has been the business' living, breathing symbol. For decades, this clean-shaven, bespectacled, earnest spokesman has been a sort of Dorian Gray with a passion for mattresses and dinette sets. Except for the graying hair, Jerry appears ageless.
"We recently found a spot from 1990 or '91," said Sandy Jack, a producer for Satellite Video, the company that makes Jerome's ads. "Gosh, if he just wore the same clothes, he'd look exactly the same."
Being himself on-camera, though, takes work. Around the 10th take, Jerry is still trying to nail down the script's first 8.5 seconds.
"I think the cadence needs to be a bit slower," advises Jim, Jerry's son and Jerome's marketing director.
The next take, 9.25 seconds, has a more relaxed feel.
"Better," says Jim. "This time, why don't we try …"
If Jerry's father made him the company's face, his children help maintain that image. Adrienne, 36, manages the properties and supervises the safety and wellness programs. Mark, 30, directs the supply chain and buys the mattresses — and is married to Annie, daughter of U-T owner Douglas Manchester. All of Jerry's kids, then, followed him into the family trade.
"I never expected that," Jerry says.
Live, work, play
Furniture made Jerry successful — Jerome's sells one out of every four mattresses in San Diego County — but, outside of the viewing and listening public, it doesn't define the man. He still lives in Mission Hills but this passionate gardener also maintains a home in Mulegé, Mexico, where he tends olive trees. He fishes, plays handball, raises Australian grass finches, keeps bees and attends long, dull downtown redevelopment meetings.


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I see much information written in this and other forums regarding passports that is simply incorrect. To clarify. If you do not live in Italy and your passport was issued by a consulate in the USA, for example, you do not have to renew your stamp every year, whether or not you have been to Italy. If you bought a round-trip ticket in the USA with your American passport, you can depart Italy with your American passport as long as you're not an Italian resident.
And there are even exceptions for Italians who do live in Italy regarding this stamp. I recently returned from a cruise on the Italian cruise line, Costa. At embarkation in Italy, I presented my documents (Carta d'Identita and Italian passport) to Italian authorities and even though this cruise was stopping at ports of entry which were not in the European Union, nothing was mentioned about the stamp in my passport last renewed in 2009. I'm sure many of the mostly Italian passengers also had expired stamps but we all went ashore at ports outside of the European Union with no problems whatsoever.


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25 Innovations in 25 U.S. States
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In honor of Food Day 2012, Nourishing the Planet would like to showcase 50 state-by-state programs, projects, individuals, and organizations that are innovating to make the nation's food and agricultural system more sustainable.
Promoting safe, healthy and affordable food is only one aim of Food Day. The organizers also want to support sustainable, humane farming, and fair trading conditions.


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Mutual fund giants aren't just interested in publicly traded companies. Increasingly, they also want to own a piece of red-hot start-ups.» Read More
Do you have the best credit card in your wallet? Probably not—and that's a mistake that's costing you hundreds of dollars.
A small group of elite investors are behind Uber's latest fundraising effort and believe the company is set for a massive IPO.
About 95 percent of households donate to charities, averaging about $3,000 per household contribution. Sharon Epperson offers tips on how to give wisely.
Jim Cramer has learned something valuable about investing at almost every junction in his life.
Betterment Institutional hopes their cheap and automated personal investing platform will also catch on with financial advisors.
As the biggest ETF companies engage in a race to the bottom with fund fees, investors benefit—if they know how to win the fee war.
Citi's new Double Cash card offers a 1 percent bonus when you pay your bill. Can you double your money?
Rapidly expanding car-on-demand service Uber told CNBC Hong Kong was proving its fastest growing market so far, outside of the U.S.
Will Danoff of Fidelity's Contrafund warned of "elevated valuations" in the high-growth sector of the stock market.
Indonesia's tight presidential race spurred fears of a market selloff, but some say whoever wins will pursue the same policies to lure foreign investment.
Betterment is part of a growing number of investment start-ups that provide a technology-based alternative to traditional wealth advisors.
The online brokerage allows investors to build stock and bond portfolios based on themes and broad economic trends—and share them.
After snaring more venture capital, FutureAdvisor CEO Bo Lu talks about why online investment advisors are the future of mass-affluent investing.
Fidelity Investments is working with other asset managers to create a new trading platform aimed at lowering costs for its customers.
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Many baby boomers on the verge of retirement are facing nest-egg shortfalls and, given today's housing market, some might be considering downsizing.
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Europe's initial public offering market is on track for its busiest start to the year as private equity companies seek to capitalize on demand.
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SAN JACINTO, CALIF. (June 22) A determined Mike Dallas Jr. shined brighter than the desert sun that was beating down on the ring set outdoors at Soboba Casino Friday night. In his fourth consecutive fight on ESPN "Friday Night Fights" Dallas locked leathers with Javier Castro and displayed blazingly fast hand-speed throughout the title fight, which marked Dallas' first 12-round dance.
In round 6, Dallas caught his opponent with a heavy left and after seeing Castro stunned, unleashed a relentless assault forcing the referee to step in and stop the bout. Analyst Teddy Atlas was quick to comment on Dallas' maturing as a fighter and pointing out how he was displaying great boxing prowess as he switched to the body and avoided Castro's attempts to clinch.
The pride of Bakersfield, Dallas is trained by the 2011 Boxing Writer's Association of Americas (BWAA) Trainer of the Year, Virgil Hunter and managed by the "First Lady of Boxing" Jackie Kallen.. The "Silent Assassin" made plenty of noise on this night, becoming the WBO Latino Jr. Welterweight Champion and improving to 19-2-1, with 8 KO's in the process.
Talented trainer Virgil Hunter (who also trains WBA/WBC Super Middleweight World Champion Andre Ward) went 2-0 on the evening when he also called the shots for Sacramento's Brandon Gonzales in the co-main event for his impressive win over Elie Augustama (6-5, 3 KOs). Gonzales improved to 16-0, with 10 KO's in his 8-round unanimous shutout victory.
Augustama re-opened a cut above the left eye of Gonzales that he had sustained during training and almost forced him to withdraw from the bout. Gonzales was able to avoid stitches, allowing him to continue training and ultimately outclass his opponent to remain unbeaten.
The event, which was promoted by Goossen Tutor Promotions, also featured another talented young star from Sacramento in Guy Robb, who improved to 8-1, 4 KOs after a knockout victory over Rodrigo Aranda at 2:22 of round 5.
Former Olympian Javier Molina engaged in an all-out brawl with Octavio Navarez and scored a TKO3 victory, improving to 11-1 with 5 knockouts.
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PAYETTE COUNTY -- The Payette River continues to cause problems for those living near its banks in Payette County.
In New Plymouth, the Black Bridge Road has been closed due to water over the roadway.
The roads aren't the only thing flooded either.
There are multiple homes that have been flooded, both in the county and in the town of Payette.
It started to get this bad about 5 or 6 last night, said Devin Barker, who lives off of Black Bridge Road.
There s nothing you can do to stop it.
Barker says his property has been flooded three times before, so when his family saw the water starting to rise they jumped into action collecting valuables.
We started about 10 yesterday morning because we knew it was coming and we were just taking our last load out when it started to come into the driveway, said Barker.
The city of Payette also saw flooding Sunday afternoon. A neighborhood in the southwest corner of the county began to see water rising from the river around noon.
All of a sudden it just took off, it was a mess, said Tonya Goodman.
Goodman and her family moved into the house last month and Sunday they re packing up to leave.
We have some family we re going to stay with over in Fruitland. Loaded up all the animals and we re gone, said Goodman.
Across the street from the Goodmans, Allan Mulder and Lorinne Munn are keeping a watchful eye on the water edging closer to their property. They placed sandbags around their house and have moved valuables on top of furniture.
All you can do inside your house is move everything up hopefully three feet high is high enough and the stuff you can get out of here you get out of here as fast as you can and then you just have to stand back and wait for the damage and clean it up, said Mulder.
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There is some good news though.
The National Weather Service said the water has crested at 13.7 feet and is beginning to recede.
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The Old Testament records the accounts of women who obeyed God in situations of uncertainty and danger:
-Sarah and Ruth, who left their homelands.
-Deborah, who led her people to victory over the enemy.
-Rahab, Abigail, and Esther, who risked their lives to save others.
Throughout history, God has used women of different ages and circumstances to accomplish His will. In His Word He shows that He values women and uses them as vital participants in His story.
Used by God: Lessons Learned from Women of the Old Testament is an interactive and practical study of ten who allowed themselves to be God's means of accomplishing His will. The book leads the reader to a greater appreciation of the challenges these women faced and surmounted. It shows how God values women even when they may be thought of as worthless by their culture.


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Say I have a command line C program which is currently executing, and I want to read a file or execute another binary in the same directory - how can I find out what directory that is?
Note that I'm not looking for the current working directory. The user may have invoked my original program in any of the following ways (and possibly others I don't know about).
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The focus of our program is to prepare fellows for a career in academic critical care. Structured mentoring of fellows by research mentors and by Pediatric Critical Care faculty enhances the training experience while monitoring career progress. In addition, our fellows are provided support to attend one to two national meetings per year.
The Division of Critical Care has a broad array of conferences which provide educational opportunities for the fellow in training:
- Quarterly Professionalism conferences are interactive simulations designed to build fellows' professional competency.
- Bimonthly Critical Care Morbidity conference provides fellows with the chance to review recent ICU experiences with divisional faculty and staff.Bimonthly Critical Care Morbidity and Mortality conference is an opportunity to reassess and learn from recent clinical experiences in the ICU within the context of an interdisciplinary discussion.
- Monthly Critical Care Journal Club/Evidence Based Medicine series allows fellows the opportunity to learn to critically read and assess the most recent literature in Clinical Critical Care - these sessions are attended by fellows, faculty, and the divisional nurse practitioners.
- Biweekly didactic Critical Care Core Curriculum lecture series provides ongoing review of a broad array of critical care topics required to advance clinical knowledge and prepare for the subspecialty boards. Topics include all aspects of critical care from traumatic brain injury to repair and perioperative management of congenital heart disease to renal physiology and fluid management.
- Weekly didactic Department of Pediatrics Fellow Core Curriculum Seminar Series provides opportunities to enhance professional development, explore research options, advance teaching skills, and interact with faculty and other subspecialty fellows across the department of Pediatrics.


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Lantern Slide - 'Take Me Back to the Garden of Love', No.5, circa 1910-1920 Reg. No: MM 091158
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- Number 5 in a set of 12 lantern slides (possibly incomplete) forming the series 'Take me back to the Garden of Love'. This slide is titled 'To have you reassuring me in hope, I long for you'.
Appears to be related to the set of 4 slides in the series titled 'What is the world without you?', photogaphed with the same actors.
This lantern slide is part of the Francis Collection of pre-cinematic apparatus and ephemera, acquired by the Australian and Victorian Governments in 1975. David Francis was the curator of the National Film and Sound Archive of the British Film Institute as well as being a co-founder of the Museum of the Moving Image in London, which was operational between 1988 and 1999.
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- Standard format (3¼ x 3¼ inch square) lantern slide, comprising hand-coloured photographic image printed on glass with black paper rectangular mask against image under protective glass cover plate; sealed with paper binding tape around edge.
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- Tableau vivant ("living picture") narrative scene depicting a man and woman standing with arms touching at a right angle to each other. The man has his head bent towards the woman and she is looking up into his face. They stand in a field or communal green, with a picket fence and two cottages behind them.
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We love to read around here, so today we are kicking off a Fall edition of our Cover to Cover Book Club with selections from local authors! Our resident new day librarian Kelda Vath, from the Tacoma Public Library, filled us in!
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Joy For Beginners by Erica Bauermeister (Seattle author)
The Vault by Boyd Morrison (Seattle author)
Girl Wonder by Alexa Martin (teen book, Gig Harbor author)
Wake Unto Me by Lisa Cach (teen book, Seattle author)
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Lives on the edge are part of Golden Gate beat
SAN FRANCISCO As he shivered on a narrow iron bar 220 feet above San Francisco Bay, 22-year-old Kevin Berthia heard a voice. It did not belong to the old wounds, crushing worries and inner demons that had driven him to the Golden Gate Bridge.
This voice, calm and kind, patient and reassuring, belonged to California Highway Patrol Officer Kevin Briggs. And it was all that stood between Berthia and all-but-certain death. For more than an hour, Briggs kept talking as the younger man poured out his troubles.
"I know you think things are bad, but they can get better," Briggs said.
Berthia decided to believe him and eight years later credits him with saving his life.
On Wednesday, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention is recognizing the CHP with a public service award in suicide prevention in New York. The honor will be accepted by Briggs, who colleagues say has a gift for connecting with those thinking of killing themselves.
They say he has had only one of them jump during his 23-year career.
"They make the decision," Briggs, who was promoted to sergeant five years ago and now trains other officers on how to work with suicidal people, said of those he's influenced. "This is a huge decision, and when they come back, it starts a whole new life for them. I believe they are so stressed and so ready to go that when they step back over that rail, it takes a tremendous amount of courage."
The occasion will reunite him with Berthia, who is presenting the award. The two men last saw each other at San Francisco General Hospital, where Berthia was brought for treatment following his March 11, 2005, suicide attempt.
"He never made me feel guilty for being in the situation I was in," said Berthia, now 30 and a married father of two, recalled of the conversation with Briggs on the bridge. "He made me feel like, `I understand why you are here, but there are alternatives.'
"That an individual who doesn't even know me could listen to me and hear my story and show me compassion gave me another reason maybe to try again," Berthia said.
More than 1,500 people have killed themselves by jumping off the Golden Gate, making the bridge that opened in 1937 one of the world's most-active suicide spots. A less-known statistic is the much larger number of people who have been talked out of taking their lives by the CHP, U.S. Park Police and bridge security officers.
Last year, there were 33 confirmed and three unconfirmed suicides from the famous span. But the bridge district recorded 86 successful interventions. So it is not uncommon for veteran officers to have persuaded hundreds of people to accept offers of help.
Since the mid-1990s, when the bridge district was facing pressure to install a physical barrier to prevent jumpers from getting over the sides, the number of officers participating in anti-suicide patrols has increased along with the intensity and sophistication of their efforts.


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Where are they now: Former downtown restaurateur Terri Korom continues providing food for customers, animals and church ministry
Former downtown restaurateur continues providing food for customers, animals and church ministry
Terri Korom, former owner of the Crescent Moon restaurant in a basement off Church Avenue, is still very much into food preparation. On a 20-acre farm in East Knox County's Strawberry Plains community, she grows food for the menagerie of animals that live on the property.
There are collards and kale for the iguana, Sonny, who's six feet long and lives inside a cage in the house.
"He's a vegetarian," Korom said.
There is a carrot garden for the outdoor bunnies.
"They stay out of mine because they have enough food," she said.
The former restaurateur has containers and containers of lettuce. She uses them in her own household shared with partner Sylvia Whitehouse, sometimes shares with the residents of the YWCA through a ministry of St. John's Cathedral, and provides for a Kids in the Kitchen program she offers in homes or classes she teaches.
The grounds produce scads of other vegetables and fruits in abundance. She says a fig tree, which grows tall some distance from the house, is her favorite. Much of the property is still wooded, and she's built herself a place to sit and mediate on the edge of the garden.
"I like to hear the birds in the woods," she said.
Inside the house are her photographs. Some are artistically done and look more like paintings.
She maintains the house and yard and is in the process of remodeling. She's just finished refurbishing kitchen cabinets and painting the living and dining rooms.
And she golfs twice a week.
Korom grew up in Clearwater and Dunedin, Fla. She graduated from St. Petersburg Junior College and attended the University of Florida for a year. She worked in parks and recreation for the city of Dunedin.
She came to Knoxville 30 years ago — a place she just picked on the map — "to quit doing drugs," she said. "I put my cat, guitar and books in the car and a bike on the back. I never told anyone I was leaving," she said.
Her first job was cooking for an elderly woman and being her companion. She says she helped the woman and a daughter "work on forgiveness."
Before opening the Crescent Moon, she was a journeyman sign painter, graphic artist, photographer and event planner.
The restaurant was bought on a whim. Fortunately, she said, Michelle Berry, who had experience with baked goods, ended up initially in joining her in the venture and did the pastry work. Korom did everything else and developed a reputation for creativity with her fresh foods.
She was in the basement for seven years, during which time she won a Massachusetts Mutual Blue Chip award for healthy foods, one of two in the state. The insurance company published a book on the winners.
"It was a very proud moment," Korom said.
Then she moved to a location on Gay Street for 4½ years and left after a dispute with the landlord. Her next job was food coordinator for a weekend entertainment program of DIY Network. She did catering on the side and still does.
Korom got involved with St. John's partnership with the YWCA by knowing the clergy and staff. When a ministry called Friends of St. John's began having quarterly meals or cookouts with the women in the transitional housing program, Korom was there as a chef.
She continues in that role but also talks with the women about something she thinks may be of concern. At the group's most recent cookout in the YWCA's patio, her talk was on the need for balance in life. She made her point by having everyone stand on one foot and try different approaches to greeting or hugging the person beside her in the same situation.
Korom was raised by her mother and stepfather until she was 11. Her stepfather was a judge, and she said she would overhear him discussing law, which led to her own interest in the subject.
After she came to Knoxville, she studied to be a paralegal at Pellissippi State Community College but didn't pursue a career after getting into the food industry.
She's excited about having recently discovered her biological father, Joseph Korom, and a half-brother, Emmett Korom, as a result of Facebook.
The brother wrote her that he thought they were half-brother and half-sister, Korom said.
"We got in touch (through Facebook and email). Yep, we are," Korom said. They both like gardening and play golf, she said.
The father lives in San Antonio and the brother, in Round Rock. Korom plans to go to Texas in August for a visit.
"I expect to meet them both," she said.
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Condo, 1 Bedrooms, 2 Baths, 4 Sleeps
Enjoy the most spectacular and breath-taking views in Ixtapa from the 10th floor North Tower directly on the beach overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
Open up the sliding glass doors onto lanai and take in the sights and sounds of the beautiful 2 mile stretch of beach right before you.
Enjoy your morning coffee while watching the fishing boats go out to sea for the day or catch a glimpse of the whales in season, or dip into one of the two pool jacuzzies, or just relax with your favorite beverage for gorgeous sunsets - all from the lanai.
Bright, spacious and comfortable 960 square feet condo with open floor plan has all the amenities of home with lots of Mexican charm located in the newest and most elegant building in Ixtapa.
This condo has a full service kitchen with adjoining laundry room, king size bed in the master suite and large tiled shower with seat. Spacious living area with comfortable sofa bed for reading or gazing at the ocean. Large 42 inch flat screen TV, Blueray DVD player and Satellite TV for your enjoyment. Table and chairs along with chaise lounge for you to enjoy on the lanai.
Bay View Grand Marina offers all the luxury and amenities of a 5 star resort including: exercise room, health spa with massage therapists, steam room, Jacuzzis, tennis courts, game/pool room, mini theater, computer room, infinity pools, plenty of poolside lounge chairs, full-service poolside snack-bar with great food and prices, beach palapas, and tropical gardens.
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Ixtapa (officially known as Ixtapa Zihuatanejo) is a great place to relax and enjoy the sun and the sea (temperatures do not vary much during the year at around 25-30ºC/80-85ºF). Unlike Cancún and other resorts, it has fewer attractions and nightlife so has a more relaxing atmosphere. The beach is sandy and not usually too crowded. The bay is shletered so swimming in the sea is not a problem.
The town is well looked after by the Mexican Tourism Agency, with well-tended gardens along the boulevard and good roads. There are several good restaurants but more exclusive restaurants are to be found just outside Zihuatanejo, the fishing town some five kms. from Ixtapa.
Other good beaches are also in Zihuatanejo (La Ropa, Gatas) and further along the coast in Ixtapa (Playa Linda, a with a small crocodile sanctuary (but don't worry, there are no crocs to worry about in Ixtapa itself). Ixtapa also has a fine marina where other good restaurants are to be found.
Behind the beach area, Ixtapa has an inland lagoon with mangroves and a good activity is to rent a bicycle and ride throughout the 8km ecological park where water fowl can be seen at an observation point.There are two very good golf courses open to visitors
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- Refundable damage deposit $150.00
- 2 Days Cleaning $40.00
50% refund of the total cost if they cancel at least eight weeks before the start of the trip; or
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- Just walk across the street and you're in La Marina Plaza where you can find really good restaurants. La Marina golf course is right in front of the building and there is another Golf Course nearby, as well as the additional shopping, great restaurants (with unbeatable views), beaches, fishing, boating and sightseeing in Zihuatanejo. Or, take a water taxi to Ixtapa Island for the day to snorkel and feast on fresh seafood. Ixtapa is a safe and friendly paradise. We provide a guide of restaurants and activities as well as lots of information before you arrive to help you with any questions you may have about the airport, taxis, language, local favorite spots, or anything else you might need to make your vacation in paradise very special.


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PORTLAND, Ore. -- Killer Ward Weaver is selling lurid art online from an Eastern Oregon prison. Some of the drawings feature women naked or nearly so, and go for $75 each. The asking price for his drawing of a rose bush is $18.99.
Weaver is one of the most reviled killers in Oregon history. He is serving two life sentences at the Eastern Oregon prison after pleading guilty in 2004 for the murders of Ashley Pond, 12, and Miranda Gaddis, 13. Pond's body was found under a concrete slab at his home and Gaddis in a bag in a storage shed.
A Department of Corrections spokeswoman says there are no laws in Oregon that prevent Weaver from selling art. The work appears on a web site that posts art created by convicted killers.
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A crime victims' advocate says there is demand for "murderabilia," which can include anything from hair samples of a serial killer to Weaver's drawings.


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WASHINGTON (AP) -- High school dropouts are costing some $1.8 billion in lost tax revenue every year, education advocates said in a report released Monday.
If states were to increase their graduation rates, state and federal lawmakers could be plugging their budgets with workers' taxes instead of furloughing teachers, closing drivers-license offices and cutting unemployment benefits. While advocates tend to focus on the moral argument that all children deserve a quality education, they could just as easily look at budgets' bottom lines.
"This has huge economic implications," said John Bridgeland, president and CEO of Civic Enterprises, a public policy group that helped write the report.
That's part of the reason Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Monday introduced a three-year, $15 million effort to put AmeriCorps members in 60 of the nation's worst schools. About 650 AmeriCorps members are going to try to raise graduation rates, increase math and reading skills and prepare more students for college.
"Turning around our nation's lowest-performing schools is challenging work that requires everyone to play a part -- from teachers, administrators and counselors to business leaders, the philanthropic sector and community members," Duncan said.
Increased graduation rates might be the most lasting way to turn around struggling budgets.
Some 24 state budgets are smaller than they were in 2008 and states are still clawing their way back to pre-recession levels, according to the National Association of State Budget Officers.
Lawmakers in state capitols are making tough choices about whether to raise taxes to keep classroom lights on or to sell off state agencies to provide health care to seniors. Federal officials, meanwhile, are looking at some $85 billion in automatic spending cuts that are set to take hold at the end of the week.
Take Colorado, where the state cut $4.7 million from its higher education budgets between fiscal years 2012 and 2013, according to the budget officers' annual report.
If 90 percent of students finished high school, state and local governments would have $4.1 million extra, the education advocates said. The state graduated 74 percent of its students in 2011.
Or New Jersey, where the state cut $19.2 million from its public assistance budget that includes disaster relief and mental health services, the budget officers' said in their annual report.
Had the state graduation rate been 90 percent, the cuts could have been dodged through $19 million in added tax revenue these high school dropouts would pay in state and local taxes, according to the education advocates' report. Some 83 percent of New Jersey students graduated on time in 2011.
Or Washington, where the state cut $17 million from its primary and secondary education budget, according to the budget officers.
Had 90 percent of its students finished high school instead of 76 percent in 2011, state and local governments could be collecting $14 million more in taxes, the education advocates said.
Nationally, a 90 percent graduation rate would yield $1.8 billion in local, state and federal taxes based on $5.3 billion in higher wages, according to the Alliance for Excellent Education.
All told, the group sees a graduation rate at that level producing an additional $6.6 billion in economic growth.
The group reached those tallies by comparing the annual average earnings of a high school dropout against those of a high school graduate in each state and projecting over time. The calculations took into account the share of students who go on to college and projected workers' tax rates based on training.
None of their projections took into account government costs for those who don't finish high school, such as law enforcement, unemployment aid or job training.
Other groups that helped craft parts of the report included Civic Enterprises, America's Promise Alliance and Johns Hopkins University's School of Education.
While there's no doubt students who attain higher education earn more and likely pay higher taxes, the groups' methods for calculating deserves some scrutiny.
"They tend to take the numbers that they find and then extrapolate them. It's a very simple way of doing things," said Henry Levin, the co-director of the Center for Benefit-Cost Studies in Education at Teacher's College Columbia University.
"You have to be very careful with these," said Levin, who studies the economics of education. "It's like saying, if my 3-foot-tall child were 6 feet tall, my child would be able to do all sorts of things. But it doesn't make any sense to talk that way because it's not going to happen right now."


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Addressing the differences, CIR Executive Director Robert J. Rosenthal said: "The Shooter's version of events is not the only one out there. But we believe his version of events is the most credible."
The Shooter does not dispute Bissonnette's account that Bissonnette entered the third-floor room after bin Laden already was fatally wounded, and along with another SEAL, continued to fire shots into the al-Qaeda leader until his body was torn apart.
After the raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan, the Shooter served one more deployment in Afghanistan and then left the military, a few years shy of his pension.
"I wanted to see my children graduate and get married," he said. He hoped to sleep through the night for the first time in years. "I was burned out," he said. "And I realized that when I stopped getting an adrenaline rush from gunfights, it was time to go."
Now out of the military, the Shooter has separated from his wife, but the two still live together for financial reasons. Since the raid in Abbottabad, the story says, "he has trained his children to hide in their bathtub at the first sign of a problem as the safest, most fortified place in their house." He keeps a shotgun on the armoire and a knife on the dresser. The military provides no protection.
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With a unique three-part organization, this non-quantitative, carefully illustrated book introduces the scientific, historical, and personal safety aspects of earthquakes. It provides the basic scientific facts about earthquakes, explaining how the study of earthquakes has progressed through time, offering details on the development of earthquake instruments, and covering immediately practical aspects such as personal safety, building and living in areas prone to earthquakes, and earthquake geography. Earthquake prediction is discussed, including past and present attempts at prediction and the techniques available. A handbook for personal safety vs. earthquakes is provided, outlining the steps to take before, during, and after an earthquake. It assumes no scientific background. Earthquakes: Myths, Legends, and Logic; Measuring Earthquakes; Faults and Earthquakes; Earthquake Size and Location; The Earthquake Process; Plate Tectonics; Journey to the Center of the Earth; Earthquakes and Tsunamis; Earthquake Triggering; Great Historic Earthquakes; Earthquakes in the United States; Earthquake Prediction; What to do Before, During, and After an Earthquake; Building for Earthquake Safety. A useful reference for anyone interested in learning more about earthquakes.
Author Biography
Dr. David S. Brumbaugh received his Ph.D. from Indiana University with a specialty in Geophysics. He is Professor at Northern Arizona University and Director of the Arizona Earthquake Information Center. His research interests include the mechanics of normal and thrust faulting; earthquake source mechanics; Cenozoic tectonics of the southern Colorado Plateau and transition zone; earthquake studies of the North Anatolian fault zone, Turkey, and the Aleutian plate boundary.
Table of Contents
|p. vi
|Earthquake Basics
|p. 1
|Earthquakes: Myths, Legends, and Logic
|p. 3
|Myths, Legends, and Gods: Early Ideas on the Origin of Earthquakes
|p. 3
|The Natural World and Earthquakes
|p. 7
|The Age of Reason: The Eighteenth Century
|p. 9
|The Elastic Rebound Theory
|p. 12
|p. 15
|Measuring Earthquakes
|p. 17
|Intensity of Ground Shaking
|p. 17
|Development of Early Mechanical Seismographs
|p. 24
|Seismographs and Earthquake Waves
|p. 37
|Development of Modern Seismic Observatories and Networks
|p. 42
|Digital Networks and Arrays
|p. 46
|IRIS and ANSS
|p. 47
|p. 48
|Faults and Earthquakes
|p. 50
|An Introduction to Faults and Faulting
|p. 50
|Not All Faults Are Alike
|p. 51
|Fault Surfaces and Processes
|p. 54
|Fault Behavior and Time
|p. 59
|Faults and Topography
|p. 63
|Hidden Faults
|p. 68
|p. 69
|Earthquake Data Analysis and Its Contributions to Science
|p. 71
|Earthquake Size and Location
|p. 73
|p. 73
|Earthquake Location
|p. 73
|Earthquake Depth
|p. 79
|Earthquake Size
|p. 80
|p. 85
|The Earthquake Process
|p. 87
|p. 87
|An Important Clue: First Motion of the Ground
|p. 87
|The Fault Plane Solution: A Most Powerful Tool
|p. 90
|Focus Versus Fault: Earthquake Modeling
|p. 94
|Fault Plane Solution Versus Earthquake Modeling
|p. 98
|The Hidden Is Revealed
|p. 100
|p. 102
|Plate Tectonics
|p. 104
|p. 104
|Puzzles and Pieces
|p. 104
|The Engine That Couldn't
|p. 108
|Convection and a Mobile Seafloor
|p. 109
|Magnets, Poles, and Submarines: The Great Discovery
|p. 111
|Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics
|p. 114
|p. 119
|Journey to the Center of Earth
|p. 120
|p. 120
|Caves and Hollow Places Below: Ideas About Earth's Interior
|p. 120
|Solid As a Rock
|p. 121
|A Layered Earth: P-Wave Echos
|p. 123
|Structure of Earth's Interior
|p. 128
|X-Rays into Earth: Through a Glass Darkly
|p. 130
|p. 135
|Earthquakes and Tsunami
|p. 136
|p. 136
|What Is a Tsunami?
|p. 136
|Sumatra (2004)
|p. 139
|New Guinea (1998)
|p. 140
|Lituya Bay, Alaska (1958)
|p. 142
|p. 144
|Earthquake Triggering
|p. 146
|p. 146
|The Clues Were There
|p. 146
|Landers (1992): Earthquakes As Triggers
|p. 148
|A Record of Triggering
|p. 151
|p. 154
|Earthquakes, Earthquake Geography, and Safety
|p. 155
|Great Historic Earthquakes
|p. 157
|p. 157
|p. 157
|p. 159
|p. 161
|p. 162
|p. 163
|New Madrid
|p. 165
|Sonora, Mexico
|p. 168
|San Francisco
|p. 168
|p. 171
|p. 173
|p. 175
|p. 177
|Mexico City
|p. 178
|p. 180
|p. 181
|p. 182
|p. 184
|Earthquakes in the United States
|p. 186
|p. 186
|The Western United States
|p. 186
|p. 198
|The Eastern United States
|p. 199
|p. 205
|Earthquake Prediction
|p. 207
|p. 207
|Snakes, Yaks, and Cockroaches
|p. 207
|New Madrid: A False Alarm
|p. 208
|Earthquake Prediction: The Long and Short of It
|p. 209
|Short-Term Prediction: Precursors, Successes, and Failures
|p. 213
|The Dilatant-Diffusion Theory
|p. 214
|Parkfield: The Earthquake Prediction Experiment
|p. 217
|PRENLAB: An Interesting Success Story
|p. 218
|Fossil Earthquakes: Rocks Tell Tales
|p. 219
|California and the Big One
|p. 221
|Emergency Preparedness
|p. 222
|p. 222
|What to Do Before, During, and After an Earthquake
|p. 224
|p. 224
|Earthquake Hazards
|p. 224
|Preparation Before an Earthquake
|p. 226
|During an Earthquake
|p. 230
|After an Earthquake
|p. 230
|Case Histories: Luck Plays a Part
|p. 231
|p. 233
|Building for Earthquake Safety
|p. 234
|p. 234
|The Basics: What Is a Building?
|p. 235
|Site Selection
|p. 235
|p. 236
|p. 239
|The Role of Design in Safety
|p. 242
|Ornamental Design and Chimneys
|p. 243
|Mobile Homes
|p. 245
|p. 246
|Government Emergency Services and Geoscience Organizations
|p. 247
|Computer-Based Earthquake Information
|p. 250
|Suggested Readings
|p. 251
|p. 253
|Illustration Credits
|p. 257
|p. 261
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As the Occupy Wall Street protest enters its third week, with demonstrations popping up in more than 10 cities, the protesters are aggressively pushing a comparison to the Arab Spring. Some say the movement has channeled the zeal (or perhaps the naivete, others would argue) of the 1960s antiwar demonstrations. But it's not Tahrir Square or Chicago in 1968 that Occupy Wall Street most resembles. It's the protests for economic justice that swept Israel this summer.
Start with location. Like the J14—the catchy name for the Israel protests, taken from the date, July 14, when they began—the Occupy Wall Street activists have staked out their turf in the heart of the American banking industry. In Tel Aviv, hundreds of protesters railed against the high cost of housing by setting up tents in the area of the city that houses Israel's largest banks, specifically on Rothschild Boulevard, an exclusive street named after Baron Edmond James de Rothschild, member of the famous Jewish banking family and a patron of Zionist causes. In Lower Manhattan, the Occupy Wall Street protesters have made their base two and a half blocks from the New York Stock Exchange in Zuccotti Park. While there are no tents allowed, hundreds of protesters have made the park their temporary home, camping out in sleeping bags despite rain and the early autumn chill. Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv houses Independence Hall, the site where Israel's Declaration of Independence was signed in 1948, and Zuccotti Park has been rechristened "Liberty Park" by the protesters, and it is just a few yards away from Ground Zero.
Demonstrators are quick to explain that the movement, Occupy Wall Street, is leaderless. This same lack of leadership characterized the August protests in Tel Aviv. (Yes, Daphne Leef, a 25-year-old film editor, was credited with sparking the protests when she pitched a tent in a Tel Aviv square to draw attention to the price of rent in Israel. But she remained a symbol more than a leader.) This lack of real leadership has, at least so far, resulted in a fuzzy ideology and a dearth of concrete demands from the Occupy Wall Street crowd. In the small hours of Tuesday morning, to take one example, I watched as a 24-year-old protester named Chris from Brooklyn tried to explain the movement's goal to six of New York's finest:
"The reason is bigger than you can possibly understand," Chris said.
"So, explain to it to us," one of the cops responded. "I work this job because I have a pile of bills to pay. What's your side?"
"It's not about the small scale," Chris said, unable to articulate a better reply. "You don't understand."
"That's where the difference is—between reality and your side," the cop said. "It's time to move along."
This inarticulateness has provided lots of fodder for blistering satire. ("Because if there's one thing New Yorkers never ignore," Stephen Colbert quipped on his show, "it's people sleeping in a park.") At the same time, this big tent has served Occupy Wall Street, which has drawn a broad-yet-disparate coalition much in the way that the Tel Aviv protests did. Taking a lap through Zuccotti Park, you'll hear snippets of conversations about the environment, gay rights, police brutality, the Iraq War, Afghanistan, the drone program, tax cuts, foreign aid, and more. But the single overarching theme of the protests has been corporate greed. It is this one-note song of economic inequality that has so far allowed a collection of students, the unemployed, activists, anarchists, immigrants, and union members to form a coalition. They say they represent the 99 percent; the wealthiest 1 percent, they point out, controls 40 percent of the country's wealth.
Similarly, by avoiding divisive political issues such as settlements, the status of Jerusalem, the future of the West Bank, policy toward Iran, and financial subsidies for the ultra-Orthodox, and focusing on one issue—the untenable cost of living—J14 was able to unite Jews, Muslims, Arabs, Christians, Druze, gays, the religious, the secular, the left-wing, and the right-wing in common cause. In its final rally on Sept. 3, 2011, 400,000 people participated—roughly 6 percent of the country's population.
"We work for the richest retailer in the world," a man from upstate New York who works at Wal-Mart said in Zuccotti Park on Monday. "And yet their employees make jack shit." He wore a hoodie, which partially covered a neck tattoo of the Hebrew letters aleph bet gimel, which he claimed was an acronym for "everybody's equal." On the other side of his neck were four Hebrew words, which meant "God's earth, God's planet," bisected by a tree in the shape of a cross.
"There's a lot of love," an unemployed Occupy Wall Street protester named Donna told me. On Monday evening and in the early morning hours Tuesday, I saw what she was talking about. The sound of drums and guitars gave the space the feeling of a carnival. A quick tour of the plaza revealed a surprising abundance of provisions: Anarchists with logistical acumen! There was more food than could be eaten, and no one knew from where it had come: deli sandwiches, Pop Tarts, apples, bananas, coffee, and bottles and bottles of Poland Spring. There was talk of donating the excess food to homeless shelters. Countless supplies had arrived via UPS and from strangers dropping off supplies throughout the day. There were tarps to sleep under and aluminum and cloth blankets for campers. A compost station had been set up for leftover food. Two protesters sat rolling cigarettes from mounds of tobacco, offering regular or mint. I was offered a free umbrella. A similar camaraderie pervaded the Tel Aviv protests this summer.
In Zuccotti Park, a medical team roved the plaza giving out vitamins. A sanitation crew kept the square clean. Protesters used the bathroom in a nearby McDonald's. "They've been very nice to us," Anya, who came from Iowa for the protest, told me. "The workers are part of the 99 percent." At 1:00 a.m., a bounty of McDonald's cookies and coffee arrived.
I met a guy named Max, sipping McDonald's corporate coffee. "I work for the U.N. now, doing geospatial analysis," Max said. He was more than a little drunk, skeptical of the movement, and may or may not have been telling the truth. "I was watching the Russians today on the Internet. And they are following the protests closely." Max said he lived nearby and had just dropped by to check out the scene. "The protesters have … no mission," he told me. "It's like they are fighting a ghost."
The same could be said of the Tel Aviv protests, which nevertheless galvanized an apathetic Israeli generation into political engagement.
Leon Panetta says Israel is increasingly isolated. But the big problem is that Washington is running away from its influence in the Middle East.
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Simplicity is key for the lo-fi blend of folk/indie rock from San Francisco duo Two Gallants. Taking their name from a James Joyce short story, Adam Stephens (vocals/guitar/harmonica) and Tyson Vogel (drums/vocals) have been playing together as Two Gallants since 2002, sounding more like a dirty Southern folk act than their Bay Area origins may initially suggest. They released their debut, The Throes, in 2004 on Alive Records and followed up two years later with What the Toll Tells on Saddle Creek. In June 2007 the Gallants prepped their audience for their upcoming self-titled full-length (issued in September) with a five-song EP, The Scenery of Farewell, their first release since an October 2006 incident at a Houston club that led to Vogel spending a night in jail and an uprising in the indie music community.


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What might a Jew sailing from America to explore Jewish life in Europe and the Middle East in the nineteenth century likely have discovered in his travels? In this talk, Prof. Daniel B. Schwartz (George Washington University) will follow on the heels of Mendes I. Cohen's voyage to and through the "Old World," leading the audience on a tour of some of the major sites visited by Cohen from 1829 to 1835, and providing a mini-history of Jewish society in an age poised between tradition and change.
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