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OAKLAND -- Dennis Allen is scratching and clutching to save his job. He's off to a fast start, mostly because he has something in his second season that he never found as a rookie head coach last year.
That would be a fully engaged group of players.
Allen doesn't have a great team, or maybe not even a good team, but he has an energetic team -- the kind that responds to the coaching staff.
The conversion from the seemingly apathetic and emotionally brittle 2012 team to a squad exhibiting fury on every down was evident once again Sunday in Oakland's 19-9 victory over Jacksonville at the Coliseum.
Understand, please, that as one of the worst NFL teams of the post-merger era, the Jaguars are not a credible means by which to measure progress. On the basis of talent, the Raiders still are among the league's weaker teams.
But what rang clear throughout this game, as it did last week at Indianapolis, was Oakland's commitment. That's a change that even the players have to acknowledge.
"The difference, watching us play the last two games, is the fight we have," said long snapper Jon Condo, operating under his fourth head coach in seven seasons as a Raider.
"We have a lot of guys ready to do whatever it takes to finish," said Lamarr Houston, the longest-tenured defensive lineman. "We come ready to play for four quarters."
If effort alone can't overcome this team's very obvious shortcomings -- glaring weaknesses across the board, an absence of Pro Bowl talent and a paucity of depth -- it ought to be enough to deliver improvement over last season.
And any improvement would force general manager Reggie McKenzie and owner Mark Davis to be more careful in their deliberations over Allen's future in Oakland.
One of the crucial indicators of a new coach's impact is the response of his players. The Raiders had a tendency to flat-line in 2012, when coaches and players seemed to exist in different universes. Indeed, there were times when Allen appeared overmatched, which may have led some to lose confidence in management.
If that created a defeatist or indifferent attitude throughout the roster, it's now dramatically diminished, if not altogether gone.
The new pluck was visible last week, when the Raiders quickly fell behind 14-0 to the Colts and actually cranked up the passion. Determination was visible as they came back to take a lead in the fourth quarter before fading.
"When that happened in the past, you could feel it; like a gust of wind would take it out of us on the sideline," said veteran offensive tackle Khalif Barnes. "It was like, uh-oh, here we go again.
"But in Indy, we got behind and didn't bat an eye. It was continuous fight. That's how it was today, and I think it'll be that way every week."
If it is that way every week, it'll be the result of a professional approach by the coaches and players. It'll be the byproduct of effective leadership, of youngsters taking cues from veterans and going full blast on every snap.
A good example Sunday came midway through in the second quarter, when Jaguars running back Maurice Jones-Drew swept around left end from the Oakland 7 and appeared headed for the end zone, only to get hijacked by a flying tackle from a rapidly closing Charles Woodson.
The play saved a touchdown, dialed up the crowd (49,400) and sent a wave of electricity along the Oakland sideline. The defense held, forcing a field goal.
Allen called it as an "effort play," which is like referring to Usain Bolt as a fast guy.
Such plays weren't seen last season, as Allen and his staff were trying to get comfortable in their new roles. It was the kind of play that illustrates why McKenzie and Allen felt the need to revamp the roster.
"We brought in a lot of guys from other teams -- C-Wood, Usama Young, Mike Jenkins -- who brought some of their culture over here," Condo said, noting that Woodson and Young have won championships. "And we're a closer team now, with a lot more of a family atmosphere. There's good peer pressure because no one wants to let down anybody else."
Said Barnes: "We're accountable to each other. We're not polished, but it's a step in the right direction."
Well, yes. And nobody needs it more than Allen. He has taken some ferocious hits from fans, sometimes deservedly.
This is his chance to mount a comeback, perhaps his only chance to prove he can be a quality head coach. So far, he's doing about as well as can reasonably be expected.
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Definition of dilution in English:
1The action of making a liquid more dilute.
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- Strangely, this chimes with homoeopathic beliefs about the way that remedies become more active by increased dilution in polar solvents like water.
- The isotope dilution or spike approach was a major advance in measuring small amounts of parent and daughter isotope in a sample.
- In birds, the process of urinary concentration involves dilution of glomerular filtrate by the reabsorption of sodium chloride in the thick ascending limb of looped nephrons.
1.1The action of making something weaker in force, content, or value: he is resisting any dilution of dogma
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- 'In these circumstances, the nature and structure of public funding will have a pivotal role in underpinning both total content funding and preventing dilution by the commercial networks,' says the report.
- Although the band features players from the UK, Cameroon, France, Sierra Leone and Senegal, each member shares their musical foundation: open to influence, but without any dilution of content.
- It presents law to psychology students in a manner that respects both its complexity and its depth; the use of a range of experts helps to prevent dilution of its content.
1.2A liquid that has been diluted.
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- Cells from new zygotic colonies were resuspended in 1 ml water and appropriate dilutions were made.
- It seems like salicylic acid might be a good thing for him to try or maybe a gentle dilution of tea tree oil.
1.3The degree to which a solution has been diluted: the antibody was applied at a dilution of 1:50
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- The instructions recommend various dilutions of the stock solution for different films, so it will be necessary to do some experimentation to see what works best with the formula below.
- All 26 dung samples provided correct results (true genotype) before dilution and at a dilution of 1 in 5.
1.4A reduction in the value of a shareholding due to the issue of additional shares in a company without an increase in assets.
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Remember the government shutdown in October?
We all know what a political disaster that was, right?
Still, there's something about the aftermath of the shutdown you may not have noticed.
But Brian Beutler has NOTICED:
[A]mong elected Republicans, and particularly GOP leaders, �repeal� has become a purely rhetorical posture. Since the end of the government shutdown fight, House Republicans have taken zero repeal, defund, or delay votes. The one bill it has passed � the Keep Your Health Plan Act � wasn�t intended to be constructive. It was a poison pill. But it was also a strategic blunder, and ...
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New information about the man whose body was found Monday in a trash container in downtown Augusta.
Officers know who he was, but they're not saying until they notify his family.
Investigators think the family may live in Wisconsin.
The man lived in Augusta, with a last known address at the Salvation Army on Greene Street.
In an alarming trend that News 12 uncovered today, some local business owners say the area in which the body was found is a hotspot for crime.
Dealing with crime near his business is nothing new for Bill Prince. He says he sees it all the time behind his liquor store, which shares the same back area as William Murrell's limo service, where the body was found.
"I've been told there's drugs being sold back there, prostitutes back there," says Prince. "I've called the police a bunch of times to have 'em run off."
The Richmond County sheriff's office got eight complaints for that small patch of land over the past several weeks, including loitering, suspected prostitutes, panhandlers, and drug deals.
Deputies came out each time...and one of those complaints led to the arrest of a man named John Watkins. The incident report for that arrest says a deputy "recovered a plastic baggie and it contained approximately 3 grams of cocaine."
We asked Richmond County police lieutenant Scott Peebles about a possible link between those complaints and this potential homicide.
"It would be pure speculation. It's just too early to figure out what links may or may not exist," Peebles says.
Yesterday's crime scene looks a whole lot different the day after. All the garbage, and the garbage can, have been cleaned up.
William Murrell found the body in a trash can behind his business. He says the body would be hard to recognize even for people who knew the victim.
"Oh, it was totally shocking," Murrell says. "Something you don't see every day."
Investigators say they're going to continue contacting people who may have known the man and work to find out how he ended up in the trash.
"I don't know if he was killed there or brought there or left there...I just don't know," says Prince.
Those are the same questions that many in that area still have.
We spoke to a half-dozen other business owners near yesterday's crime scene. Many said they also notice a lot of loitering and possible illegal behavior going on.
And investigators say they have talked with the victim in the past. They wouldn't say anything more than that at this time, but we should know more in a few days.


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ACUSHNET — The Acushnet Fire & EMS Department joined with the Bristol County Fire Chiefs Association and firefighters from across the county in collecting items to be distributed to victims of Hurricane Sandy.
Residents of Acushnet stopped by Fire Station #1 all last week dropping off paper towels, diapers, soap and other items. The items collected were picked up from the Acushnet station and delivered to fire stations in the impacted area. From there they will be distributed to the people in need.
"Every time we have asked the residents of Acushnet to help those impacted by a disaster they have responded," said Acushnet Fire Chief Kevin A. Gallagher. "Good people do good things."
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Headlines for Wednesday:
- Aftermesh 02:15
- Can I Crash 17:54
- Tagging places, and the power of stories 18:22
- Agile methods for building communities 18:34
- Genetic engineering and individuality 18:52
- The world is changing 18:53
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|@1900 Mush, the anti-mesh party
|Improv night with Simon, Leigh, Ali(?), and others
1. Aftermesh: 02:15
What did I learn from mesh? I loved the keynotes by Dr. Michael Geist and Tara Hunt for both content and presentation style. I enjoyed Phillip Smith's whirlwind discussion of grassroots movements and the Web 2.0. I was fascinated by the not-quite-successful social experiment of a projected backchannel chat in Michael O'Connor Clarke's session on engaging the blogosphere.
But all of those things paled in comparison to corridor chats and afterparties. Those were totally, totally cool, and I'll tell their story after I wake up.
Here are, I think, a few of the reasons why this conference was a spectacular experience for me:
- Barcamp and other tech gatherings meant that I already knew a few people there, which made it much easier to meet others.
- Volunteering at the registration desk meant that I could say hi to all the people I knew and make an impression (positive, I hope!) to the organizaton.
- Smiling certainly helped.
- Oh, and of course writing down notes in my little black Moleskne notebook. =) That way, I can remember a little bit.
Mentors? Everywhere I turned, I found someone who was not only doing exactly what I want to do but was also happy to help me learn more about it.
I'll blog more some other time, as my eyes are closing of their own will. Maybe when I wake up tomorrow...
(*) Well, not so starving thanks to the fellowship...
Random Japanese sentence: 犬は猫を追いかけようと木に登ろうとしたが、うまくいかなかった。 The dog's attempts to climb the tree after the cat came to nothing.
2. Can I Crash: 17:54
See someone's blog post about Can I Crash?, too.
3. Tagging places, and the power of stories: 18:22
Good stuff! That totally makes sense now. I needed his story to figure out how the pieces fit together.
Random Japanese sentence: ウサギの耳は猫の耳よりも長い。 The ears of a rabbit are longer than those of a cat.
4. Agile methods for building communities: 18:34
- barcamp, ad-hoc gathering where people can share whatever they're passionate about
- mashpit, day-long hackathons
- coworking, or creating places where geeks can work and hang out
Good stuff!
5. Genetic engineering and individuality: 18:52
I thought that was an interesting idea. <grin> Along the lines of self-modification: I probably wouldn't hack anything externally, but a better memory would be really cool.
Random Japanese sentence: 大まかに言って、犬は猫より忠実だ。 Broadly speaking, dogs are more faithful than cats.
6. The world is changing: 18:53
Random Japanese sentence: 私たちの子供は犬が好きだが私は猫の方が好きだ。 Our children like dogs, but I prefer cats.
I'd love to hear about any questions, comments, suggestions or links that you might have. Your comments will not be posted on this website immediately, but will be e-mailed to me first. You can use this form to get in touch with me, or e-mail me at [email protected] .


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When Natalie Ng received the call late Tuesday that she had been selected as a finalist for the Intel Science Talent Search 2014, she couldn't contain her excitement.
"The person on the other line must have thought I was crazy because I couldn't get a coherent word out," she said. "I could only mouth the words 'thank you' over and over."
Natalie, 17, a senior at Monta Vista High in Cupertino, worked for more than a year developing a diagnostic tool to help doctors identify breast cancer patients who are at a high risk of developing metastasis -- the spreading of cancer from one organ to another.
She was one of eight Bay Area students on Wednesday who were named finalists in the Intel search, also known as the nation's "junior Nobel Prize." They are among 40 young researchers selected as finalists in the contest, which seeks out the nation's most promising young scientists.
Five finalists, all seniors, are from the South Bay. The other four are Vishnu Shankar of Monta Vista High, Angela Kong of Lynbrook High in San Jose, Charles Liu of Gunn High in Palo Alto and Sreyas Misra of The Harker School in San Jose.
Three finalists are from San Ramon: Kathy Camenzind and Esha Maiti, both from California High School, and Emily Pang from Dougherty Valley High.
Angela, 17, is also at the forefront of breast cancer research. One of her relatives had breast cancer, which sparked her interest in combating the disease. She joined Shang Cai, a post-doctoral student at the Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, in furthering the research team's breast cancer project.
"I realized I couldn't find a cure for breast cancer, but I could target a specific part of the cells that relate to breast cancer," Angela said. "That was the stem cells."
Cancer stem cells can avoid death at the hands of chemotherapy by becoming inactive and entering a dormant stage, only to reactivate some time down the line. Angela said currently there is not enough research into how or why these stem cells are able to remain in these stages of inactivity.
When she joined Cai in the lab, his team had identified a gene responsible for making cancer stem cells dormant, but the gene's mechanism was still unclear. Angela helped the team decode that mechanism.
Cai said he became impressed with Angela's work after her first month with the team.
"She's an excellent student, and one of the best I've ever mentored," Cai said. "I really thank her for her efforts in this project."
He said her work was essential to wrapping up the project and that it is promising for the future study of utilizing this gene to tackle cancer relapse.
"Now they can all be targeted by the chemotherapy," Cai said. "This has the potential to prevent the cancer from coming back."
Among the finalists, 11, or more than one-quarter, are from California, the most of any state. Among the 300 semifinalists, 48 came from California. This year the contest attracted nearly 1,800 entries.
Once sponsored by Westinghouse and now by Intel, the Science Talent Search is one of the oldest national science research contests.
The finalists will gather March 6 to 12 in Washington, D.C., to undergo judging, meet leading scientists, display their research at the National Geographic Society and meet with national leaders.
The first-place winner will receive $100,000 from the Intel Foundation. In addition, the foundation will award $530,000 in runner-up prizes.
Angela said she isn't concerned with her placement in the competition or the money, but instead can't wait to receive critiques and advice from the judges and her peers on where to take her research next and how she can further apply it.
"I'm looking forward to getting to meet these super-talented and smart people who are scientific researchers from across the nation," she said. "Being in that environment where everyone is interested in the same science ideas -- I'm really looking forward to that."
Monta Vista senior Vishnu, 17, has been working in a CalTech lab where he helped calculate the structure of a protein that could help scientists design drugs to target cardiovascular disease and allergies.
"This honor is a testament to how good my mentors have been in terms of tailoring my ideas and making them more lucid for the paper," Vishnu said. "This opportunity provides a venue for my idea and other people's ideas to be exposed to the public so that they can see what the future of science will be."
Intel Science Talent Search finalists
Natalie Ng of Monta Vista High: Developed a prediction model for long-term breast cancer survival.
Vishnu Shankar of Monta Vista: Calculated the 3-D structure of a molecule involved in cardiovascular disease.
Angela Kong of Lynbrook High: Determined the role of a specific protein in the spread of breast cancer.
Charles Liu of Gunn High: Found a genetic relationship between lupus and systemic sclerosis, a connective tissue disease, that may lead to new therapies.
Sreyas Misra of The Harker School: Developed a low-cost medical-imaging scanner the size of a hand-held tablet.
Kathy Camenzind of California High: Build inexpensive optical tweezers using a low-power laser and microscope in an undergraduate laboratory.
Esha Maiti of California High: Developed a math simulation to predict secondary tumors in cancer patients.
Emily Pang of Dougherty Valley High: Verified the role of certain molecules in the growth or suppression of malignant tumors.


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Hello, here's my experience of a new Cad user...
I purchased QCAD Pro and Andrew's book almost two years ago. I have been using the program quite succesfully since. These last few days, I decided to go through the book again, I was amazed to discover a lot features and tools that I had overlooked and that I could have used in some situations!
So, after you've become proficient enough with QCAD, it is time to review the manual again, you might discover a few useful tips. (The drafting board is gathering dust now).
Thanks to all.


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The Hercules High football team scored two touchdowns in each of the final two quarters to pull away from San Lorenzo 31-9 in a nonleague matchup Friday at Hercules.
Senior running back Marquis Davenport scored on a 24-yard run in the early stages of the fourth quarter and added a 55-yard punt return with 3:17 left in the third quarter to help the host team pull away in the second half.
Senior quarterback Damon Dixon fired two touchdown strikes, the first a 43-yard effort to Armani Reynolds with 11:39 left in the first half and the second in the waning seconds of the game on a 17-yard hookup with Jayson Fort.
The teams left for the intermission tied 3-3 on field goals. San Lorenzo scored the first points of the game on a 35-yard field goal by Oscar Bernal and Hercules answered back in the second quarter on a 23-yard boot by junior Loran Fonseca.
Fonseca was good on four PAT attempts.
The defense for the Titans (2-2) limited the Rebels (1-4) to 62 yards of total offense. Hercules had 197 yards on offense. San Lorenzo quarterback Kevin Mosi was sacked for 47 yards by the Hercules defense.
Hercules 31, San Lorenzo 9
Hercules 3 0 14 14-- 31
SLZ -- Bernal 35 FG
H -- Fonseca 23 FG
H -- Reynolds 43 pass from Dixon (Fonseca kick)
H -- Davenport 55 punt return (Fonseca kick)
H -- Davenport 24 run (Fonseca kick)
H -- Fort 17 pass from Dixon (Fonseca kick)
SLZ -- Jones 93 kick return (kick blocked)
Rushing: SLZ -- Moore 5-39, SanchePerez 13-39, Davis 4-24, Mosi 12-(-47). Totals 34-54. H -- Davenport 8-46, Bustos 7-32, Roberts 3-12, Michael 3-7, Booker 1-2, Dixon 9-(-17). Totals 31-72. Passing: SLZ -- Mosi 1-7-1 7. H -- Dixon 9-13-0 118, Prowes 0-1-1 0, Michael 1-1-0-7. Totals 11-14-1 125. Receiving: SLZ -- Jones 1-7. H -- Reynolds 3-79, Simmons 2-22, Fort 1-17, Davenport 5-7. Fumbles/lost: San Lorenzo 2/1; Hercules 3/1. Records: San Lorenzo 1-4, Hercules 2-2.


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SAN JOSE -- Of the two important City Council runoff contests this fall, the race in District 10 to replace Nancy Pyle will be decided by subtle but important differences in the way the two candidates would implement Measure B, Mayor Chuck Reed's controversial push to trim soaring employee retirement costs that was passed overwhelmingly by voters in June.
Sportscaster Robert Braunstein, who has been endorsed by the police officers' union, is pushing to restore pay cuts to police as one important step toward improving the bitter relationship that's grown between the union and the city over the measure.
While his opponent Johnny Khamis also would like the officers to receive a raise, the financial adviser questions how Braunstein could make that happen when the city is facing multimillion-dollar deficits, and Braunstein is proposing neither tax increases nor cuts to other programs. Moreover, Khamis believes the police union endorsement will undermine Braunstein's long-term support for the measure, which still must be approved by the courts before the city can implement it.
As the two men knock on doors seeking support throughout Almaden and Blossom Valleys and Vista Park -- the district boasts the city's highest median household income at slightly more than $100,000 -- it's evident that many voters are still weighing their options.
After all, each candidate has spent much of his life in the district, and each has his own base of supporters in the nonpartisan race: Braunstein, a Democrat, is recognized for his work running Cal-Hi Sports Bay Area, which televises weekly high school sports games. Khamis, a Republican businessman, is known for his work with a variety of neighborhood associations and service clubs.
Both men say they want to see San Jose's economy grow, to ensure that the city remains a safe place to live and work, and to implement the controversial pension reform measure that advocates say would strengthen the city's budget.
Measure B was supported in the district by 74 percent of voters, the highest percentage of any district in the city, where it passed with a 69 percent vote. The measure would make all city workers either reduce the retirement benefits they earn for their remaining years on the job or pay more for their current plan. The savings generated from the plan would boost the city's general fund, allowing the city to hire more workers and enhance city services, such as keeping libraries and community centers open.
Employee unions vehemently opposed the effort, calling it an illegal maneuver that erodes negotiated contracts.
San Jose Police Officer Rob Harris, a District 10 resident, is so disgusted over the issue that he says he may follow the stream of angry officers who have fled San Jose for greener pastures.
If the courts don't block it, Harris said outside his home last weekend, "I want to go somewhere else."
Braunstein believes he can help stop the bleeding by promising to restore the 10 percent pay cut the police had to take before the measure passed.
Braunstein made clear, though, that he's not advocating spending money the city doesn't have. Instead, he argued, the money will become available as the economy improves, property taxes rise and the benefits from Measure B kick in.
Khamis said Braunstein is ignoring a harsh reality: The city is facing a $22.5 million shortfall next fiscal year, with more to come in future years, largely due to rising employee retirement costs.
The first thing Khamis said San Jose needs to fix -- before making promises to anybody -- is its bloated pension system, whose costs have tripled in the last decade. Only after the savings from Measure B kick in, he said, would he focus on reversing the public safety cuts.
Khamis said Braunstein "wants to be the nice guy." But more than ever, Khamis said, what the city needs is a pragmatist like him on the council.
"I'm the one who says: We don't have the money to pay you back, and we might not have it for several years, especially because we're spending so much money and time fighting with the police officers' association over pension reform."
Both candidates say their histories of running their own businesses has helped them understand budgets and finances, knowledge they say can help them tackle the city budget.
Both men oppose Measure D, which would raise the minimum wage in San Jose from the statewide floor of $8 an hour to $10 with inflation adjustments. And both men also oppose Santa Clara County's Measure A, a one-eighth cent sales tax that would raise $500 million over 10 years.
Braunstein founded Cal-Hi in 2002, which in addition to himself, now employs five people. The Emmy award-winning program covers schools all over the Bay Area.
Khamis, meanwhile, is a founder of Western International Securities, a financial brokerage firm, where he works as a financial adviser; he also owns Johnny Khamis Insurance, where he is a broker.
Both candidates say that if elected, they would have others help them run their businesses.
While Khamis' campaign literature touts his "financial leadership," property records show that he once filed for a foreclosure.
Khamis said the incident stemmed from a home he signed over to his first wife when he was in his 20s after they divorced. He said that in order to keep the home, she agreed to make the mortgage payments but never did. The home went into foreclosure, a mistake he said he regrets and which happened before he became a financial adviser.
Meanwhile, Braunstein said the caustic relationship between the city and its employee unions in the aftermath of the bitter fight over Measure B requires a more collaborative nature that he brings to the table.
Khamis calls that disengenous, pointing to his own years on the Santa Clara County Human Relations Commission where he navigated sensitive issues between opposing sides.
What's more, Khamis believes Braunstein's endorsement by the police union threatens the future viability of Measure B.
"When you're beholden to somebody,'' Khamis said, "you will compromise your principles.''
Braunstein disagrees. If elected, he insisted he "will not be co-opted" by any group that has endorsed him, whether it's the police officers' union, the Democratic Party, or the Chamber of Commerce.
"This is the toughest way to run, from the center, like I am, with people endorsing you from both sides," Braunstein said. "I'll do what's in the best interest of the district and the city."
Standing on the sidelines at a recent Leland High School football game, Almaden Valley resident Jim Greer said he's torn over whom to support.
"I know them both, and like them,'' said Greer, who is retired from the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Department. "But I haven't made up my mind.''
Contact Tracy Seipel at 408 275-0140.
NAME: Robert Braunstein
OCCUPATION: President and executive producer of Cal-Hi Sports Bay Area
CIVIC BACKGROUND: Former member of the San Jose Small Business Development Commission
EDUCATION: B.A. in radio, television and film, San Jose State University; Masters Degree in Journalism, University of Missouri
FAMILY: Married, two grown children
KEY ENDORSEMENTS: San Jose Police Officers' Association; San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce; Sierra Club of California; San Jose City Councilmen Sam Liccardo, Don Rocha, Ash Kalra and Xavier Campos.
WEBSITE: www.voterobert2012.com
NAME: Johnny Khamis
OCCUPATION: Founder and CEO of Western Benefit Solutions
CIVIC BACKGROUND: Chairman of the San Jose Small Business Development Commission; former member of the Santa Clara County Human Relations Commission; former member of San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed's transition team, business and economic development committee
EDUCATION: B.S. in business management and communication, San Jose State University
FAMILY: Married, two young sons
KEY ENDORSEMENTS: San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce; Silicon Valley Taxpayers' Association; San Jose City Councilman Pete Constant; Santa Clara County Supervisor Mike Wasserman and Santa Clara Valley Water District Board member Don Gage.
WEBSITE: www.johnnykhamis.org
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Guide to Olympic Diving
Welcome to our armchair guide to diving at the Olympics. You'll find insights from top GB divers, a diving jargon buster, Olympic diving facts at a glance, an Olympic diving timeline, and a ones-to-watch calendar so you can plan your Olympic viewing.
Looking for an introduction to diving for the Olympics? Then let our athlete videos guide you.
- The first event in St Louis in 1904 (see timeline right) comprised a platform dive and plunge for distance where competitors would aim to travel as far as possible without moving after a ground-level start.
- By 1928 Games the Olympic diving competition had evolved into how we know it today: a high diving event (now known as the 10m Platform) and a fancy diving event (now known as the 3m Springboard).
- Synchronised diving for 3m and 10m Platform events weren't added to the Olympics until the 2000 Sydney Games.
- Diving has been dominated by two nations - USA and China. The Americans won 44 of the 60 Olympic diving golds available between 1924 and 1988 while the Chinese have won 26 of the 36 golds up for grabs at the last six Games.
- In individual events dives are marked from one to 10 by seven judges. The highest and lowest marks are discounted before the sum of the remaining five is multiplied by the degree of difficulty then by 0.6.
- In synchronised events, two judges mark the execution of the one diver, two judges the execution of the second diver while three mark the synchronicity. The total score is then calculated in the same way as for individual events.
Planning a little TV or internet time watching the Olympics? Then use our calendar to help you find the diving events that interest you.


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Roger cruised into the semifinals in Madrid today with a 6-4, 6-4 win over David Ferrer.
Both Ferrer and Roger proved they are in good shape, but Roger was in control of the match most of the time. He secured a break in each set to eventually seal the victory after 80 minutes.
Roger will play tomorrow's semi-final against Janko Tipsarevic who defeated Novak Djokovic today. Our champ leads the head-to-head 4-0.
Dear Roger,I'm waiting and waiting and waiting,hope It's your turn to have a good year.A year really belongs to you.In my eyes, you deserve to win more champions than the other two because you are playing better than them.So beautiful and wise and brave playing.Dreams will come true quite soon,I believe.All the best for you
Congratulations Roger! Well Done!
Amazing match Roger. Ferrer was in form but you managed to give him a sound thrashing. You were moving extremely well. Excellent shots at the net. It is an amazing win to boost your morale. Next up is Tipsarevic who is really a dangerous player on his day. You can easily defeat him in superb fashion. Look at Verdasco. He beat Nadal but got thrashed by Berdych the next game. Hope you are still fresh after 3 games on the trot.With Novak out of the way, the title is virtually yours.
Good luck champ
Good luck champ
Good luck tonight against Tipseravic. I will stay up to cheer you.
It's a pleasure to watch you play!!!! :-))) Congratulations for yesterday and good luck for today!!!!
ps. the blue clay didn't seem to be bothering Ferrer either. Djokovich really annoyed me this week - like a big sulky kid.
Sublime once more gorgeous man. With all Nadal and Djokovich's whinging about the surface, it doesn't seem to be bothering you at all. Clearly it is more slippery and thus a little dangerous but you have adapted as you always do and have been playing with your usual grace. I like Ferrer, he's a real fighter, but sadly for him again, no match for you. I believe the title and the No.2 spot is yours so good luck and love always to our wonderful champ, xxxxx
Only one comment is possible, Fantastic!!!!!!!!
can any one tell me at what time and at which channel SF will be telecasted in India..?
Brilliant! Can't wait for the semi final. It's such a pleasure to watch you play. x


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The Super Bowl on Sunday between San Francisco and Baltimore is extending to a battle of the books between the two cities' libraries, officials announced Thursday.
The San Francisco Public Library announced a friendly wager with the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore over the 49ers-Ravens game in New Orleans.
If the 49ers win, the CEO of Baltimore's library will have to recite the George Sterling poem "The Cool, Grey City of Love" in Baltimore's Central Library Main Hall while wearing a 49ers jersey.
But if the Ravens win, San Francisco City Librarian Luis Herrera will have to recite Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" in the atrium of the Main Library while wearing a Ravens jersey.
The losing city's effort will also be videotaped and posted on YouTube, officials said.
"As a huge sports fan, I am thrilled to support our football team while spotlighting two great library systems and two great literary cities," Herrera said in a statement.
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PARKERSBURG - West Virginia's tradition of storytelling and poetry came to life Friday during the Smoot Theatre's Kids' Club "Happy Birthday, West Virginia" program.
Marc Harshman, poet laureate of West Virginia since May 2012, spoke about his writing and a selection from his long poem "A Song for West Virginia."
"This was commissioned by the Wheeling National Heritage Area and was first read publicly in Charleston on West Virginia Day and was later with the Wheeling Symphony," he said. "Tonight I will also be sharing from some of my children's books."
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Ali Evans of Washington, W.Va., left, has Marc Harshman, right, autograph a copy of one of his children's books. (Photo by Jeffrey Saulton)
Overall, Harshman has written 11 books for younger readers.
"I will talk to them about how I became a writer, how these particular books came to be created and tell the actual stories of those books," he said. "One book, 'Rocks in my Pockets,' is an original Appalachian story told to me by its co-author Bonnie Collins, who was from Doddridge County."
Harshman told the children that many of the stories like those he has written may have their roots in older stories that are told in new ways and at times may be interwoven with the author's own experiences.
Harshman, as poet laureate of West Virginia, said he is a representative of artists in the state. In that role he said he represents not only writers and poets but those in the visual arts.
Harshman was introduced by Debra Conner, as Margaret Blennerhassett, who is regarded as West Virginia's first poet. As Blennerhassett, Conner said after leaving the area she published a book of poems about the area and her times on the island, both happy and sad.
Conner said Blennerhassett had leisure time, something not many women in the early days of Wood County had. She said Blennerhassett would walk through the area, at times walking to Marietta and back to the island, and used those experiences, along with her imagination, as a basis for her poetry.


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FABONGRASSS FABONGRASSS May 19, 2013 18:20 Flag
St Totteringhams....
(Excuse, i'm p1ssed and most ecstatic!).Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
Whilst your in such an ecstatic mood you can even dream of of bringing BALE to the emiratrs.
Sweat dreams!
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FABONGRASS FABONGRASS May 20, 2013 17:20 Flag
Bale is a wonderful player and could walk into ANY team. A rare talent.
I won't be dreaming of him at the Emirates though. I know Wenger will be unearthing yet more Arsenal gems!
Well, it's getting closer Fab. It wasn't a foregone conclusion as it turned on either side yesterday was it? I was resigned to getting a draw at one point.
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FABONGRASS FABONGRASS May 20, 2013 17:18 Flag
Getting closer and no, it wasn't 'inevitable'. Fantastic turn around for Arsenal and I was always quietly confident.
My neighbour is a Spurs fan (his mrs is Arsenal!) and he was most confident after Spurs beat Arsenal. Can't wait to bump into him next!
My brother is a Spurs fan too. After the game I sent him a text consisting of just one word 'NICE!', he sent be back a flaming essay!!!


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Algal biofuel production can reach the ocean, study says
Ocean algae can be grown as economically for biofuels as freshwater algae, according to a study by San Diego scientists.
If the research holds up in practice, production of algae biofuels can expand from tanks and ponds to the vast ocean. And by using non-potable ocean or brackish water for petroleum substitutes, increasingly scarce fresh water can be conserved for people.
The study was published last week in the journal Algal Research.
The scientists genetically engineered marine algae to make valuable industrial enzymes in addition to oil. This feat had been performed in freshwater algae but not in marine species, said UC San Diego researcher Stephen Mayfield, who led the study.
They experimented on a species of algae named Dunaliella tertiolecta, which has a high oil content. They inserted five genes, allowing production of five kinds of industrial enzymes.
"What we showed is that we could do the genetic engineering that's going to be required to really get costs down," Mayfield said.
San Diego has become a major center of algae biofuel research. It includes companies such as Sapphire Energy and Synthetic Genomics, and researchers such as Mayfield, also a scientific founder of Sapphire Energy.
A report from the San Diego Association of Governments found that 466 people in San Diego work in the algal biofuels industry, providing more than $41 million in payroll and $80.9 million in economic activity for the region in 2011. In 2010, 410 people worked in the field, and 215 in 2009.
The potential market for any petroleum substitute is huge. But prices for natural petroleum fluctuate greatly, and the existing supply is vast. And while algal biofuels have been made for years, the infrastructure to scale up production does not exist.
Algal biofuels must compete not only against fossil fuels, but against other crops, including corn and nonfood "cellulosic" plant material for ethanol, and the jatropha bush, which produces oily seeds. All of these biofuels face limitations that prevent their large-scale adoption anytime soon.
The key to making algae more competitive as a biofuel is to get more value out of all the algae, Mayfield said. Oil constitutes just 30 percent to 40 percent of the total mass of the algae.
"One of the ideas that people had for monetizing (the remaining part) was to make high-value proteins in it," Mayfield said. "We've shown we can do that by expressing industrial enzymes."
Industrial enzymes are used in all sorts of manufacturing products. One of the best-known categories are cellulases, used to soften "stonewashed" jeans. Producing this cellulase demonstrated proof of principle, Mayfield said.
The genetic engineering technology can also be used to increase the value of biofuels made by the algae, Mayfield said.
"That's not what we showed in this paper; we simply showed we can make industrial enzymes," he said. "But if you can do those, you can do the other."
In addition, the rest of the algae could be used as a supplement to animal feed, the study stated.
Cultivation of ocean algae can take place over a much wider area than freshwater algae, Mayfield said, including land unusable for other crops because it has too much salt. Algae cultivated on such land wouldn't compete with food production, and would not use fresh water, which has become increasingly scarce as demand rises.
Mayfield said a recent report from the National Academy of Sciences on the sustainable development of algal biofuels highlighted the problems with using freshwater algae. The need for fresh water for people and agriculture could outweigh the public's concerns over energy, the report said.
"If the algal biofuel industry relies heavily on freshwater resources, it could face a considerable setback as the increased use of freshwater resources becomes less acceptable to the public ..." the report stated. "Therefore water recycling and use of non-freshwater sources are important to ensuring the social acceptability of the large water requirements for algal biofuel production."
The study's first author is D. Ryan Georgianna, also of UC San Diego, along with others from the university, Sapphire Energy and the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, in Brazil. The research was funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the State of California Energy Commission.


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A little history here first. This was the Amici's East Coast Pizzeria delivery map from a decade ago:
As you can see, the project-y parts of the Western Addition and Potrero Hill were no-go areas 24-7, while the Uptown Tenderloin / Twitterloin / 6th Street Corridor areas were no-go areas after dark.
Back then and even now, this kind of map is nice and legal, believe it or not. So, in Frisco, if a cabbie refuses to take you to The Projects (or even to The Avenues), s/he is guilty of a misdemeanor called Failure to Convey, but if a pizza deliverer refuses to bring food to the projects, well, that's A-OK. Moving on….
To this, the map that's been used for most of the past decade – it's pretty much the same thing:
And now here are the current maps – first for the Mission Bay location on King Street:
Wow, this is much improved. The 6th Street part of the Twitterloin is back on the map as well as Potrero Terrace and Potrero Annex (those are per Jay Barmann – I am not familiar with these terms as I've never really been to the Potrero PJ's area, the place where former Mayor Art Agnos got shot).
Of course it could be that Amici's never delivers to these places – maybe it's up to the individual drivers who are working at the time, IDK. Anyway, there's nothing wrong with this map, you know, per se.
And now we come to the current map for the Marina District Amici's:
Realize that there are smaller federal housing projects included in this map, but the areas carved out still include a broad swath of the Western Addition and, of course, the SRO-laden Northern Twitterloin containment zone.
So there you have it – redlining in San Francisco circa 2015.


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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Madison Bumgarner cruised through his second spring outing Tuesday, appearing not even to break a sweat on a sunny day at Salt River Fields. Afterward, Bumgarner said he would spend the next month working on what he's "not good at," in preparation for his first opening day start.
What exactly can the 24-year-old get better at?
"That's a good question," veteran right-hander Ryan Vogelsong said. "I don't think you can put a limit on him right now. It seems he can do whatever he wants to do. For him, that has to be exciting."
It's even more exciting for the Giants, who appear to have a left-handed ace capable of matching strides with reigning Cy Young Award winner Clayton Kershaw of the rival Los Angeles Dodgers. Bumgarner was 12-7 with a 2.77 ERA in 2013, and for the fourth consecutive season he lowered his WHIP. The opposition hit .272 off Bumgarner during his rookie year, but he's chipped away at that number, too, lowering it to .203 in 2013.
The Giants think there's room for improvement, and Bumgarner is off to a good start. He threw three scoreless innings against the Colorado Rockies on Tuesday and has given up just three hits in five innings this spring, walking none and striking out three.
Bumgarner was pleased with his command, but he's not the only Giants starter pounding the zone. Vogelsong followed with three strong innings, giving up a lone run on a single and double.
"It was good today," Vogelsong said. "The ball is doing what I want it to, pretty much."
In 14 innings this spring, Giants starters have given up one run on eight hits. They have walked just one.
"Usually early in camp and the first couple of games, the command is not where you want it," Vogelsong said. "I'd take one walk just by myself. You have to be excited about the way everybody is throwing."
Vogelsong has about a half-dozen opening day starts in the minors but never has gotten that call in the big leagues. Bumgarner will take the ball March 31 in Phoenix, and the Giants are excited to see where it all leads.
"He tinkers a lot because he always wants to get better," Vogelsong said. "He wants to do things different, and it's showing up."
Bumgarner is chasing the game's best left-hander, but the rivalry with the 25-year-old Kershaw is a friendly one. The two have developed a bond, one seen every time the Giants and Dodgers square off. Bumgarner and Kershaw are both famously hard workers and often cross paths hours before night games, when they tend to be two of the only players on the field.
Because the Dodgers open the season in Australia, Bumgarner and Kershaw are unlikely to face each other when the Giants visit Los Angeles in early April. Through three head-to-head meetings, Bumgarner has the edge, two to one. Few in baseball can match Kershaw, but the Giants feel Bumgarner is headed to that kind of success.
"It could be a pretty interesting matchup for a long time with those two," Vogelsong said.
For more on the Giants, see Alex Pavlovic's Giants Extra blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/Giants. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/AlexPavlovic.
early returns
With opening day starter Madison Bumgarner's three scoreless innings Tuesday, the Giants' likely starting rotation continued a solid spring training. Here's a look at their statistics:
Starter G IP ER H SO BB ERA
Madison Bumgarner 2 5.0 0 3 3 0 0.00
Ryan Vogelsong 2 5.0 1 4 2 0 1.80
Tim Hudson 1 2.0 0 0 1 0 0.00
Tim Lincecum 1 2.0 0 1 1 1 0.00
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Julia Roberts' half-sister died last weekend of an apparent drug overdose, her family announced Monday.
People.com reported that Nancy Motes, 37, was the youngest sister of Julia and actor Eric Roberts.
She was found dead Sunday in Los Angeles, the family said in a statement.
"It is with deep sadness that the family of Nancy Motes ... confirms that she was found dead in Los Angeles yesterday of an apparent drug overdose," the statement said. "There is no official report from the Coroner's office yet. The family is both shocked and devastated."
Roberts, 46, nominated for a supporting actress Oscar for "August: Osage County," skipped Monday's Academy Awards nominees luncheon to be with family, her representative told E! News.
Motes, who once reportedly weighed close to 300 pounds, told the New York Daily News in August 2013 that she was "incredibly hurt and very sad" over "not-so-nice" comments Julia Roberts allegedly made to her over the years about her weight. Gastric bypass surgery in 2010 brought her weight down by almost half. In the interview, she described her relationship with her famous half-sister as "a work in progress."
"It's not going to be fixed overnight, nor do I think it's going to be fixed at this point by me just getting skinny," Motes said. She also said, "I love Julia absolutely, and I have no doubt she loves me."
Motes, who worked as a production assistant on "Glee," was supposed to marry John Dilbeck, a film and TV locations manager, in May, the Daily News said.
Contact Tony Hicks at Facebook.com/BayAreaNewsGroup.TonyHicks or Twitter.com/insertfoot.


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Hello and welcome back! (Talking to myself).
I was trying to remember what the NHL on Versus theme sounded like, even though it's only been a month since it disappeared from television. That led to a sports theme song link-jumping spree that lasted for so long that the constant exposure to '80s TV graphics briefly gave me the ability to taste shapes. I've gone on sports TV theme benders before, but never like this. I mean it drove me here for fuck's sake, I was in the zone. So in the zone that the words "Turn that annoying shit off or I'm leaving you" didn't faze me one bit, and it's because of that extreme apathy toward getting married one day that I bring this to you: The Top 20 Sports Network Theme Songs of All Time. And by "All Time" I mean "my lifetime" because I'm not convinced yet that everything pre-1986 wasn't just a dream Larry Murphy had. (Seriously, explain slavery. PEOPLE OWNED PEOPLE. That is fucked up.)
Before beginning, I will lay out the seemingly arbitrary criteria used for compiling this list: In no particular order of importance, each song had to carry some measure of nostalgia, originality and actual quality. So to the both of you still lost out here in our neck of the woods, buckle up for an adventure through time so exciting you'd swear LeVar Burton was reading about Ted Lindsay shitting a giant rainbow over Joe Louis Arena.
#20 ~ NHL on ESPN 2
What a terrible song. (Good start to the list.) As far as TV themes go, it pretty much fails at being anthemic or memorable or catchy in any possible way. If I were to hum it to you and say, "Is this the NHL on ESPN2 theme, or is it the sound that naked Ed Olczyk makes when he's piecing together his Joel Quenneville mustache hair doll?", you would be thoroughly confused. But it signified a greater purpose. I remember the exact moment that I discovered ESPN 2; it was a Blues/Maple Leafs game during the 1996 playoffs. ESPN 2 had been added to our cable package just in time for the playoffs, and that shitty music rang in the joy as a second all-sports-all-the-time channel existed in my household. Stick Stickly and his afternoon of fun couldn't hold a candle to multiple channels of playoff hockey. He just couldn't. He was a popsicle stick. He didn't have hands.
#19 ~ Golf on NBC
I like golf, so right there I've said a sentence that has caused you great anguish and really there's no point in finishing this thing because everyone is gone now. Fuck you, I like golf. I like that song. You know what gets me pumped for watching stuffy white guys (and the really good Blasian guy who cheated on his hot wife) on the Sunday evening of the U.S. Open trying to delicately roll a small white ball into a little hole while a crowd of thousands has to sit on their hands and be quiet? This song. It does the job, man. And if you don't like watching golf on TV, then show me how you do that because I feel kind of weird enjoying it.
#18 ~ NFL on NBC (1993)
I didn't link the actual song. Instead, I linked the pinnacle of NFL coverage on NBC during that era: O.J. Simpson playing Mike Ditka in a game of Madden. It's riveting as fuck. Let's break it down:
A) This took place during the pregame of Super Bowl XXVII, January 1993. I was 6 years old and it's the first Super Bowl that I truly remember watching, not just the game itself, but the entire day's worth of pregame festivities. The Cowboys beating the Bills 52-17 was only the 3rd biggest highlight of the night behind Michael Jackson's bewildering halftime performance and this video game matchup between Ditka and the Juice.
B) It's inexplicably called "Computer Bowl '93" even though they are playing Sega.
C) At the 1:05 mark we see clear evidence that this is the first time in O.J.'s life that he has ever picked up a video game controller. He's holding it as if he's trying to set a clock radio. As a video game player, it is quite embarrassing to watch. The fact that the producer chose to cut to the camera directly focused on O.J.'s clumsy hands shows that he did not have the respect of his peers, and that my friends was the first domino to fall that led to the killing of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
D) At 3:35, O.J. pulls out a late touchdown to take the lead and absolutely loses his shit. A man who once won the Heisman Trophy was now celebrating on his couch as he was about to win something inaccurately called "Computer Bowl" using a gaming device he probably thinks is capable of printing out money. I feel it is necessary to point out that during this video, O.J. yells the words, "IT'S A BOMB" and "THERE'S A GOD IN HEAVEN AND HE LOVES THE BILLS". But mainly "IT'S A BOMB!"
#17 ~ NFL on CBS (1986)
While this did take place in my lifetime, technically, it was not on the air long enough for me to actually experience it. But as you can hear, the song is too brilliant for me not to include it on this list. It's much further down than it's capable of being, but without the nostalgia factor it will have to settle for 17th. It's a near masterpiece, though. You could swap this song out with any song in Rocky IV and it would still work. Rocky would still miraculously beat the Russian, end the Cold War and bring Apollo back to life at the end with the help of his robot maid. (I'm assuming that's what happens; every time I see it I'm crying and doing pushups at the end so I just assume the resurrection happens while the final credits are rolling.)
Basketball makes it's first appearance with the NBA on CBS, which provided the soundtrack to the Bad Boys era Detroit Pistons. And when I think of the Bad Boys, my first memory is my mom pounding on the walls in celebration after winning the 1990 NBA title as a means of communicating to our neighbors that she was either ecstatic that the Pistons had won their second straight championship or that she was a raging alcoholic and oh my god who are we trying to kid it was both.
#15 ~ Olympics on NBC
For lack of a better word, it is truly epic. No other theme song fits as well with its sporting event than this one. It tricks me into believing that events like dudes running on skis for 3 miles and then stopping to shoot guns or whatever is a big deal. By certain definitions that should put it a lot closer to #1, but #15 isn't bad. Brandon Inge wears #15, and that guy's terrible. (Wait, I'm doing this wrong.) Brandon Inge wears #15 and he's not terrible? (Well this is just stupid. I can't lie, lying is bad. God dammit I should have just let this blog lay dormant.) Nick Lidstrom has 15 testicles, one for each Stanley Cup he plans on winning before he retires. There -- at least I didn't lie.
#14 ~ American Gladiators
Not a real sport? Get dicked, I say. Try looking directly into the bulge of Nitro and speak otherwise. Nostalgia points are huge here as I loved American Gladiators so much that I was irate the day my sister was born because she made me miss an episode. That whore. Also: it was composed by Bill Conti, who created the Rocky theme, the score for The Karate Kid, and wrote the theme song for Life Styles of the Rich and Famous. Bill Conti's face should appear on our currency.
#13 ~ NHL on FOX
I don't have any idea where people stand on this one. In 1995, the NHL debuted on FOX and the music hasn't changed to date, remaining the same as it has transitioned from a national broadcast theme to the local FOX Sports theme you still hear today. You hear it probably a thousand times each hockey season and while you very well may be completely sick of it, I obviously think that it still holds up. If they were to change it at this point it would just feel weird and forced. Longevity is a hard thing to accomplish in the world of network theme songs; if FOX can keep the same theme song for an entire lifespan of one sport's coverage before the world ends later this year, I say we should all chip in and give them a plaque or something.
#12 ~ WDIV Sports Final Edition
A surprise for the #12 spot, it's the local sports news brought to you by Scott Wahle. Just listen to that intro. It builds to a cavalcade of tumbling psychedelic synths and percussion that is almost unmatched by any other song on this list. Before I had cable, this was it as far as sports coverage went -- waiting for the sports segment of the local news. So of course they're going to complement it with an apocalyptic keyboard tune that for some weird reason includes video of a pro wrestler performing a remarkably awkward knee wobbling dance (0:28 mark). By the way, how amazing was it that pro wrestling highlights used to be included in local sports recaps? Holy shit the 80s were great.
#10 ~ Coach's Corner
Hate him or hate him, this is an old-school, joyous romp of piccolos and xylophones and trumpets. I don't actually know if any of those instruments are in that song, but they sure are fun to say out loud. Say "piccolo". Go ahead say it, your dog doesn't know what the fuck it means, he won't be that confused. Yeah, that's it. Don't you feel a thousand times happier now after saying "piccolo"? Piccolo. Piccolo. This is stupid.
#3 ~ Hockey Night in Canada
Is #3 too low? For you, perhaps. For many, it was a big enough of a deal to be considered Canada's second national anthem. It has a Wiki page. It has a Facebook page. It probably has a Jimmy Page. It's a big deal. Seriously, read this sentence from CTV president Rick Brace after CTV acquired the rights to the song in 2008:


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Why sometimes we cannot see the custom errors in IE ?
By Wing-Yip Walter Lee on Sep 24, 2008
Sometimes, you have configured the web server to return custom errors, e.g. in obj.conf,
Error fn="send-error" code="404" path="<path>/error404.html"
Error fn="send-error" code="401" path="<path>/error401.html"
Error fn="send-error" code="403" path="<path>/error403.html"
Error fn="send-error" code="405" path="<path>/error405.html"
Error fn="send-error" code="500" path="<path>/error500.html"
But you can see the above custom error pages ok in Firefox and telnet test,
apple:> telnet localhost 61801
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '\^]'.
GET /nono1.html HTTP/1.1
Host: apple
HTTP/1.1 404 Not found
Server: Sun-ONE-Web-Server/6.1
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:02:35 GMT
Content-length: 44
Content-type: text/html
this is a customer error page, crowded.html
But you will see IE showing its standard error, e.g.
But not the custom error page, why ?
This can be because of the IE option "Show friendly HTTP error messages" in the Advanced tab in Internet Options.
See below,
This will force the IE to show its friendly HTTP error messages in 404, 401, 500 status code, instead of the custom errors sent out by web server. This is why you can see the custom error ok in Firefox and telnet test, but not in IE sometimes. If you uncheck this option, then restart IE, then you can see the custom error page in response to a 404 Not Found.
If you really want your custom error page shown in IE, then one possible workaround (although I do not recommend, because changing status code is not a good idea/practice in general).
You can add this below in obj.conf to change from , e.g. 404 to 306 which is unused.
(see http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10.3.7
10.3.7 306 (Unused)
The 306 status code was used in a previous version of the specification, is no longer used, and the code is reserved.
" )
Service method="TRACE" fn="service-trace"
<Client code="404">
Output fn="set-variable" error="306 Not Found" noaction="true"
Error fn="send-error" path="/export/home/iws6.1sp8/docs2/crowded.html"
Error fn="error-j2ee"
Then, IE can see the new custom error page because now we change its status from 404 to 306. IE does not have a friendly error page for 306, so it will show our custom error page now. However, I have to say again - I do not recommend this. It is shown here just in case you really need to workaround this IE option to show your custom error page.


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Volunteers sought to join in cleanup at Oak Grove Cemetery
March 15, 2013
Oak Grove Cemetery is in dire need of some tender loving care, according to Marietta Councilman Roger Kalter....
Why can't the city workers clean that stuff up, manual labor not in the contract?? Rakes do fit the hands that work there....
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in viewing the damage after the storm, it was massive, with lots of trees down - unbelievable!
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Why don't Kalter grt a real job.
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Waiting for the city workers to do anything is like waiting for paint to dry when there's 100% humidity. BUT, this is a trickle down effect. The workers in the maintenance department don't make the decision of where they will work, and none of them are afraid of hard work in my experience. Even Mr. Kunz cannot make the decision, although he is perfectly capable of doing so. This department falls under the Safety Service Director, Mr. Hupp. He is a micro-manager who does not allow long time employees who know their jobs, to make even the smallest of decisions.
Our courts allow people who are given sentences that include community service hours to work with the Marietta's parks department. There are many, many people who would welcome the chance to do this but the city seems to resist this. Oak Grove Cemetery could have been cleaned up immediately after the storm, if the city would have contacted the probation departments to request those people.
Failure to communicate!
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Let some of these nodders work off there fines/jail time....it's weekend work.
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I got a great idea...get some of these bums in town that are on welfare...or food stamps or some form of public assistance to get off their lazy******and do something for their handouts. Love the ones that can smoke 3 packs of cigs a day but can't work?
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Gov. Rick Perry, left, bows his head for the invocation during the annual Boy Scouts Parade and Report to State in the House Chambers at the Texas State Capitol, Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013, in Austin, Texas. Perry says he hopes the Boy Scouts of America doesn't move soften its mandatory no-gays membership policy. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)


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Madea, everyone's favorite wise-cracking, take-no-prisoners grandma, jumps into action when her niece, Shirley, receives distressing news about her health. All Shirley wants is to gather her three adult children around her and share the news as a family. But Tammy, Kimberly and Byron are too distracted by their own problems: Tammy can't manage her unruly children or her broken marriage; Kimberly is gripped with anger and takes it out on her husband; and Byron, after spending two years in jail, is under pressure to deal drugs again. It's up to Madea, with the help of the equally rambunctious Aunt Bam, to gather the clan together and make things right the only way she knows how: with a lot of tough love, laughter…and the revelation of a long-buried family secret.
Tyler Perry – screenwriter, director and two-time star (as Madea and her brother, Joe) – returns with another tender and hilarious look at love and family ties with MADEA'S BIG HAPPY FAMILY, also starring Loretta Devine, Shad "Bow Wow" Moss, David Mann, Cassi Davis, Tamela Mann, Lauren London, Isaiah Mustafa, Rodney Perry, Shannon Kane, Teyana Taylor and Natalie Desselle Reid. Lionsgate and Tyler Perry Studios present a Tyler Perry Studios/Lionsgate production, a Reuben Cannon production.


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Foster G. Simpson, 80, Monroe, Texas, died Wednesday morning, March 6, 2013, in Magnolia, Texas.
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 9, 2013, at Klein Funeral Home Chapel, Magnolia, Texas, with Rev. Steve Yates officiating.
Forest was born February 28, 1933, in Linneus.
Survivors include his wife, Peggy Ann, of the home; sons, Jeffrey Glenn, Michael Webster and Benjamin Allen Simpson; a daughter, Deborah Ann Gullo; eight grandchildren; 6 great-grandchildren; a sister, Amy Almond, Brookfield; a sister-in-law, Oudima Simpson, Troy, Mich.; and numbers other relatives.
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PiTiVi 0.13.3 Released
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The PiTiVi team have recently announced the release of version 0.13.3 of the popular open source source non-linear video editing tool. PiTiVi is built with Python on top of the GStreamer framework.
This latest version features the following updates:
- Fix Rendering Failures
- UI beautifications
- Switch to themeable ruler
- Speed optimisations
- Show the project name in the window title
For more information regarding this release, including dependencies, contributors and a long list of bugs fixed, checkout the release notes page.
Version 0.13.3 of PiTiVi can be downloaded here.
Categories: PiTiVi, Video Collabora Multimedia, Gstreamer, PiTiVi


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SNOWMASS VILLAGE --Sales tax revenue was down 5.6 percent in November over the same month the year before, according to a report from the Snowmass Village Finance Department.
With only December revenues left to report, that puts revenue in 2012 at 6.18 percent over the year before. November was Snowmass' first month since March to see a drop in sales.
Lodging was down 4.04 percent, restaurants 20.4 percent, sports equipment and clothing down 40 percent, food, drug and liquor stores 8.2 percent, and utilities 1.4 percent. General retail saw an increase of 12.7 percent in sales this November.
As of November, lodging had brought in the most revenue in 2012, accounting for 40.1 percent of sales. However, in November, the industry with the biggest portion of sales was utilities at 32.4 percent.


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The Texas A&M – Corpus Christi Baseball Team will conclude fall practice on Tuesday afternoon with a game at 2:30 p.m. at Chapman Field. The team rescheduled the third game of the Navy/White Fall World Series after weather forced its cancellation on Sunday.
The series is tied at one game apiece after a pair of one-run victories in the first two. On Friday, it was the Navy Team that prevailed with a 3-2 win. Saturday, Team White rallied from a deficit to take a 7-6 win and even the series at 1-1.
Game three will pit Weston Montgomery (White) and Daniel Minor (Navy) against each other on the mound in the decisive third game.
Admission to the game is free to all spectators.
For all the latest on Islanders Baseball, like the team on Facebook (Islanders Baseball) and follow them on Twitter (@CorpusBaseball).


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I emailed the corps to ask when the gate was opening. I received this:
"With the snow we just had, it will not be this week. Check back in a couple of weeks. We usually don't open the gates until there is no more chance of snow."
Kathy S. Atkinson, Administrative Officer
US Army Corps of Engineers
I'm excited. I walked in Saturday before the snow and had a good, albeit muddy round.


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Hundreds of people brought a bevy of items to an appraisal clinic at the Campus Martius Museum on Saturday in Marietta.
"We have seen some very interesting things," said Glenna Hoff with the museum. "There was a wood-carved deer head that was really amazing."
Many people brought in paintings and drawings as well as furniture and other trinkets.
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David Baker, of Marietta, shows a memorial urn from the early 1850s to Campus Martius Museum volunteer Lynne Johnson on Saturday during an appraisal clinic.
David Baker, of Marietta, brought a memorial silver urn made in the early 1850s with information about Nahum Ward's death.
"Ward was a landowner in the area and responsible for building the Unitarian Church," Baker said. "The urn was given to his widow after his death."
Baker said he found the urn wrapped in paper and hidden in a basement rafter of his father, jeweler Norman Baker's, home.
"It was given to my father by a client as payment at some point in time, but we don't know who or when," Baker said. "I guess I'll have to do some more research on that."
Baker said he decided to bring the urn to the appraisal clinic because he did not know what it was or how much it was worth.
"Growing up with my dad a jeweler, we had seen a lot of engraved items, but I had never seen anything like this, so I wanted to know more about it," he said. "Now I have to figure out what to do with it."
Hoff said the appraisals were performed by Andrew Richmond and Kristin Crump of Garth's Auction House in Delaware, Ohio.
"We brought in experts because we want people to get the correct information," she said. "Garth's Auction House is world-renowned for their expertise and we are very privileged to have them here."
Not only did people from Marietta and the surrounding area attend the event, but Hoff said people from the Chillicothe and Cincinnati areas have contacted the museum for information.
"Having an appraisal clinic allows people from the area to not have to drive a long distance to get something they may have wondered about for years looked at," Hoff said.


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(Yes, yes, I promised another article about an Emacs-based PIM, but I wanted to write about this instead. I'll write about PIMs eventually.)
What does it mean to be more productive? I love reading about productivity tools and tips. I could spend hours just going through the discussions at http://www.43folders.com . However, all of this has to translate into concrete benefits. How can I improve my productivity? Improvements include:
- Keeping better track of tasks
- Keeping my goals firmly in mind
- Making it easier for me to work on something than to procrastinate
- Finding ways to see the big picture
Why do I want to be more productive? Well, I've got my Big, Hairy, Audacious Goals:
- Get people hooked on computing by offering highly individualized, experiential learning characterized not only by strong technical content but also excellent delivery.
- Help people totally rock through personal information management. I want to listen to people describe how they plan and how they want to plan, and I want to help them figure out how to support those methods through software or whatever.
With my BHAGs firmly in mind and a critical approach to trying out new tools, I've found that I can successfully resist the urge to migrate everything to the whizzy new PIM app of the day. This is important; otherwise I'd spend forever playing around with this stuff. I still love finding out how other people are doing things, though! =)
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Essay; American Beauty (Circa 1955)
By Richard Ford
Published: April 9, 2000
As ''Revolutionary Road'' approaches its 40th year in print, it seems odd to imagine readers opening it for the first time. So primary and forceful have been this novel's appeal and effects upon two generations of us that to not already know Richard Yates's great book seems incongruous, and handing it over cold feels clumsy, a bit like introducing a sage old friend to a precocious new friend: we almost would rather not, for all the crucial things that cannot be thought and said again. And yet of course we must, since great books, like great friends, are to be shared.
Suffice it to say that among readers of American fiction since the beginning of the 1960's, ''Revolutionary Road,'' published to acclaim in 1961, has become a kind of cultish standard. And this is especially true among writers, who have kept its reputation burnished by praising it, teaching it, sometimes unwittingly emulating its apparent effortlessness, its complete accessibility, its luminous particularity, its deep seriousness toward us human beings -- about whom it conjures shocking insights and appraisals. We marvel at its consummate writerliness, its almost simple durability as a purely made thing of words that defeats all attempts at classification. Realism, naturalism, social satire -- the standard critical bracketry -- all go begging before this splendid book. ''Revolutionary Road'' is simply ''Revolutionary Road,'' and to invoke it enacts a sort of cultural-literary secret handshake among its devotees.
Richard Yates was born in Yonkers, N.Y., in 1926, and died in 1992 in the Veterans Administration Hospital in Birmingham, Ala. He did not attend college after high school; served in the Army during World War II; was twice divorced and was the father of three daughters. For a time after the war he worked as a publicity writer for the Remington Rand Corporation, and for a brief period in the late 60's served as a speechwriter for Senator Robert Kennedy. But for the most part Yates was solely a writer, only occasionally supplementing his income by teaching and by writing for the movies. During his writing life he wrote seven novels (including ''Revolutionary Road'') and two books of short stories, many of which have been anthologized and are richly admired by readers as models of the form.
Yates -- who was both famously decorous and famously plain-spoken -- once remarked to an interviewer that he felt he had written too little in his life, and that his was the misfortune to have written his best book first. And although over his 30 years of public life as a writer Yates's reputation rose, then fell, then rose again, ultimately distinguishing him as that ambiguous thing, a ''writer's writer,'' one who does not make it (as did his contemporaries Cheever, Updike, Walker Percy) into the permanent, big-money main arena of American literary fashion, it is also true that nothing he wrote came near the achievement and acclaim of ''Revolutionary Road,'' which ''lost'' the 1961 National Book Award to Walker Percy's novel ''The Moviegoer.''
The story line of ''Revolutionary Road'' can be summarized succinctly:
In the spring and summer of 1955, in the western Connecticut bedroom community of Revolutionary Hill Estates, the lives of the young Wheeler family -- April, Frank and two minor children -- become essentially and violently unglued, never ever to be as they were.
To a casual passer-by, the Wheelers' lives might not seem so different from their neighbors' -- the pleasures and anxieties being the available, expectable ones: participation in the community theater group, tipsy, twilight dinners with other like-minded home-owners, easy shots to and from the commuter line, the comfort of being indistinguishably in the culture while staying solidly in command of life's fundamental choices; and -- less cheerily -- a wan inability to keep the frustrations of youth's passage precisely at bay, the fatigue of the workplace grind, the puzzlement of keeping life interesting and vigorous while maintaining the nuclear unit intact.
But into the Wheelers' lives comes much that is not good, even if no single visitation seems exceptional enough to render the whole unsurvivable. Frank and April regrettably harbor little affection for each other. Each dislikes the suburbs and talks about it too much. The children provide the standard trials. Frank's work in the city is, he admits, ''the dullest job you can possibly imagine.'' And April, with too little to do, embarrassingly and publicly fails as a little-theater actress. On top of it all the Wheelers drink too much, are bored stiff by their neighbors, feel vaguely fearful of being cliches, and as a consequence view their future as indistinct but unpromising.
Still, April Wheeler proves resourceful and devises a romantic solution to her and Frank's growing malaise. They will sell their house and move to Paris. There Frank can ''find'' himself; she can join the secretarial pool at NATO, and the kids can learn French. After that, the future can take care of itself on the cheap, while they gain confidence that life is not being played out in cloying ways.