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Samsung Galaxy S3 Review: ParanoidAndroid ROM Brings KitKat Goodness
We review the Samsung Galaxy S3, the Android device that is the successor to our 2011 phone of the year
The Samsung Galaxy S3 is now over two years old and now shares the market with its Galaxy S4 and Galaxy S5 brothers, as well as a multitude of other Galaxy variants aimed to plug every conceivable gap in the space. It's still a viable device choice, however, with a competetive spec and, these days, a more affordable price tag.
While the Galaxy S2 was no oil painting, its slim profile and big screen impressed us no end. While the Galaxy S3 is a bit fatter and has a bigger screen, the profile is still relatively slender, making it slide into your pocket with ease and fit comfortably in the hand. Those of you with small hands may find it a bit unwieldy, and that's a valid argument. Not everyone wants such a large smartphone, but the combination of lightweight materials, smooth plastic and a slim waistline ensure the feeling of size isn't emphasised unnecessarily.
Our review sample came in white, which actually looks less cheap than the pebble blue ironically. Coated in Hyper Glaze, a swanky marketing term for the plastic used, the white hides finger smudges nicely – although it does seem to attract fluff from clothing. It does look very smart especially with the understated silver Samsung logo adorning the backplate.
A matt silver surrounds the device, with what little edging there is around the 4.8-inch screen. We actually had to check that number twice because the form-factor is incredible. Next to the Nokia Lumia 900 or the Motorola Razr Maxx, it looks about the same size but the display is much larger, which is an impressive feat.
Samsung has decided to keep a hardware home button, which makes it easier to locate if you aren't looking at your phone or it's dark. On the right is the back button, which lights up in bright white when pressed. On the left is a button for bringing up options. The search button you get on some Android phones is gone, but a Google search bar on the home screen makes this a non-issue. Sadly, there's no dedicated button for the camera, which is a shame given the quality of the camera, but the lack of extra buttons does add to the Galaxy S3's minimal appeal.
The Samsung Galaxy S3 is available in a whole range of colours, including brown, black and silver, red on T-Mobile and even pink in Samsung's native Korea.
The Galaxy S2 was a powerhouse and the Galaxy S3 follows in the same footsteps. A quad core Exynos 4212 processor clocked at 1.4GHz ensures it's lightning quick. In fact, it's proven faster than the mighty Qualcomm Snapdragon S4, which was the current benchmark standard. Suffice to say, no task will pose it a problem and games like Shadowgun looks an absolute treat. Frame rates remain high and constant, ensuring nothing detracts you from the action on-screen.
1GB of RAM and a number of storage options right up to 64GB ensures you have plenty of speed to back up the processor, and enough storage space for all your songs. A Mali 400 GPU provides the aforementioned oomph in the visual department, and it proved more than capable for the job. One negative of all this power is heat. Playing games does make the back of the device rather warm, but it's not unconformable. At worst, you might get sweaty palms.
A 4.8-inch display is certainly not small, but as we said the Galaxy S3 manages to house it exceptionally well. In typical Samsung style, you get Super AMOLED technology, which means colours are vibrant and everything has a warm colour about it.
For fans of colour remaining at less saturated levels, there are four modes you can choose from to adjust them. Dynamic proves to be as vivid in colour as you can get, and Movie at the other end of the scale makes things look more natural. Testing all four, we found the middle two options (standard and Natural) to be the easiest on the eye.
Thanks to a 720x1280 pixel display, the detail is superb. We're talking a pixel density of 306ppi (pixels per inch), which is incredible on a display of this size. Make no mistake, HD quality video looks fantastic and so do photos.
Shadowgun, Epic Astro Story and Muffin Knight look almost as enticing on the Galaxy S3 as they do on the fantastic Sony Xperia S Bravia screen.
In summary, the display is top-notch but some members of the team have commented it could be a little brighter and the clarity isn't quite up there with the Sony Xperia S's display.
Camera and video
Once again, the Galaxy S2 was excellent in the video and camera stakes. Samsung has maintained these elements in the Galaxy S3 with the inclusion of an 8-megapixel camera and 1080p video recording.
There's excellent reproduction of colour when filming in 1080p quality, and the autofocus adapts quickly to quickly moving objects. Over-exposure and bluriness seems to be avoided with relative ease, although a steady hand definitely rewards you with better results, like with any digital camera.
The digital zoom does work well but going in too close means you see quite a lot of pixels. Zooming is also jerky, making it a bit pointless if you are trying some advanced shots for a school project or whatever.
Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich skimps somewhat on the built-in camera features. You can edit shortcuts, exposure value, and adjust some of the effects but you'll need something like Instagram or Photo Editor (which you are prompted to download if you try editing any photos on the device) to add more advanced filters or crop images.
A burst shot mode allows you to rapidly take lots of photos in succession, helping you to get the best shot.
It's a bit hit and miss but you would expect that - it's a very subjective thing dealt with by a crude algorithm so the human eye is still the best judge. Even so, Best photo did seem to favour eye contact and smiling when of a person.
We are definitely impressed with Android 4.0's camera features because the layout is simple and easy to use, making it accessible, and thanks to the camera on the Galaxy S3, the results are really impressive.
Operating System
We were never averse to TouchWiz 4.0 found on the Galaxy S2 - it was actually much less cluttered than HTC's Sense equivalent at the time, but nowadays we favour a more simple approach. Thankfully, Android Ice Cream Sandwich is much simpler and easier to navigate, although you will want a dedicated file manager app like Solid Explorer if you plan on moving stuff around.
From the touch screen you can swipe to a shortcut directly, although it's not immediately obvious how this works. We kept trying to drag our finger onto the camera icon in a swipe, but actually you are meant to swipe from the camera icon upwards to access it (and this is the same for the other shortcuts: phone, ChatON and browser).
At the bottom of each home screen is a permanent row of buttons, which link you to (from left to right) phone, contacts, messaging, internet and the apps draw. You can put whatever you like here, which makes them perfect for your most used tasks.
Above them on the seven screens can be whatever you like. The middle page default is the Google search bar, a rather attractive weather and time widget and a few other shortcuts. It's simple, easy on the eye and as with all Android phones, you can change just about anything with something like Launcher Pro.
Samsung made it very clear at the Galaxy S3 unveiling that it focused on being a natural experience. While the watery unlock screen and the accompanying sound effect is refreshing, there's little else to show for it. This isn't a bad thing - we like Android 4.0 enough to want it left alone, so we commend Samsung for staying away for the most part.
That doesn't mean there is a total lack of Samsung additions. One of our favourites allows you to bring your phone to your ear to ring someone if you were just becoming fed up of texting them. Little additions such as this may not sound exciting but it's the sort of thing that makes sense and pleasantly surprises you when you realise it's there.
Smart Stay, another Samsung addition, is meant to keep the screen from dimming and then locking when you are looking at the Galaxy S3. A little eye indicator appears at the top to remind you it's working, which is handy because it seemed to ignore us.
We could close our eyes or have them open and the screen would remain bright. Other times, Smart Stay seemed to ignore us completely. Given the unreliability, it's definitely more gimmicky than it is useful, which is perhaps why the default setting is off.
S Voice provides ample proof Samsung likes to copy Apple. Or, at least, borrow ideas. Sadly, S Voice is even more useless than Siri, which we never found ourselves using. Asking to Google something like 'Ray Ban sunglasses' ended up in 'Radium sunglasses'. Accents seemed to prove even more challenging, rendering its use to nigh-on pointless. You can't even ask it for your appointments - at least, we couldn't.
The last big addition is window-in-window. This allows you to watch a video while looking at your home screen or browsing the web. Only locally stored videos can use the feature, so YouTube videos are out of the question. But if you need to multitask with video it may prove useful, and we hope it can be improved on at a later date to allow for having two tasks side by side, Windows 7/8 style.
The Samsung Galaxy S3 is now upgradeable to Android 4.3 Jelly Bean. It's been a long time coming, with a few botched attempts in the past, but Android 4.3 is now avaliable. It's not the most up to date Android, considering 4.4 KitKat is out but it's a vast upgrade from the 4.2 it was running. So what comes with the upgrade?
Quite a bit as it goes:
- Support for the Galaxy Gear smartwatch
- A refreshed user interface
- Better microSD support
- Bluetooth low energy support
- Autocomplete feature on the dial pad
- Multi window enhancements
- Improvements to the photo sphere
- A load of bugs and fixes for various areas
@Android jellybean 4.3 is awful really not good makes my galaxy s3 so slow
— Ciaran Harkin (@ciaranharkin) December 23, 2013
@OrangeUK I updated my s3 to android 4.3 now it keeps crashing. The screen just keeps flashing this up. tbc pic.twitter.com/UtdHCngHGR
— Andrew Jakeman (@andyjakeman) December 23, 2013
No Android KitKat For Samsung Galaxy S3
Samsung is about to unleash Android KitKat for a load of its older handsets, but sadly the Galaxy S3 is not one of them. Sam Mobile broke the news by leaking an apparent internal Samsung memo, which listed all the legacy Samsung devices about to be updated to Android KitKat. You can see the document below:
To make matters worse it appears the LTE version of the Galaxy S3 will receive be receiving the update. The UK version is the one above with N/A listed in the status box. According to the report the update was cancelled due to "unsolved problems" – whatever that means.
According to sources close Sam Mobile, Google has urged Samsung to upgrade the Galaxy S3 as the handset is still very popular and was launched within under 18 months before the release of Android KitKat and should, theoretically, be supported. Whether Google has any sway in this regard, however, is another thing entirely.
And The Reason?
Samsung's Galaxy S3 and the Galaxy S3 Mini variant are reportedly staying stranded on Android 4.3 and 4.2 Jelly Bean respectively, rather than upgrading to 4.4 KitKat as expected. And the reason why is to do with RAM.
This is specifically for the international variants, however, as carrier specific models for US networks Sprint and Verizon have already been upgraded to KitKat successfully. Samsung officially stated that the Galaxy S3 international model, the i9300, will not be upgraded further as it lacks sufficient RAM to "effectively support the platform upgrade while continuing to provide the best consumer experience."
"Samsung has decided not to roll-out the KitKat upgrade to Galaxy S3 and S3 mini 3G versions, and the KitKat upgrade will be available to the Galaxy S3 LTE version as the device's 2GB RAM is enough to support the platform upgrade," the company said in a statement.
Apparently 1GB isn't sufficient, despite the fact that Google specifically made KitKat with lower-end devices in mind and with support for as little as 512MB of RAM. Samsung already sells newer devices with 1GB or less that have KitKat pre-installed. The finger of suspicion points at Samsung's somewhat hefty TouchWiz user interface which it bundles in with Android; although again, it already ships handsets with the same low memory that are capable of running this software, so we're not entirely sure what's going on here.
Android Headlines proposes an interesting theory, suggesting that "it looks like the 2GB of RAM put into American versions of the Galaxy S III to make up for the dual-core CPU, versus the quad-core in the i9300, has made all the difference when it comes to longevity of the device."
But with all that said, perhaps we shouldn't be too damning of Samsung. The company has a reputation for keeping devices up-to-date for much longer than many of its rivals (we're looking at you, HTC) and the Galaxy S3 has gone from Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich all the way up to 4.3 Jelly Bean over quite a long period of time – on Android, pretty much the only manufacturer which outperforms here is Google itself on the Nexus line.
Android 4.4.4 KitKat Via ParanoidAndroid ROM
So it's dissapointing that Samsung no longer officially supports firmware updates on the Galaxy S3. For the brave users out there who still want to update their phone come hell or high water, there is another way. It's not without its risks, as you can brick your phone in the process and will void the warranty either way, but you can now update to KitKat via the ParanoidAndroid ROM, which has just been released as a final stable build for the Galaxy S3 international variant I9300.
The process involves rooting your phone and flashing the firmware onto it with a PC using a USB connection and some specially downloaded files.
Check out our guide on how to get the firmware on your handset here:
Everyday Usage
Apart from the size of the device, which will seem huge to ex-feature phone users and anyone who used to own an HTC Hero, the Galaxy S3 is easy to live with. Pockets - from a man's perspective, anyway - seem to accommodate it without any bother, and the device is strong enough to not feel like it's going to end up in bits. Apart from removing the flimsy back panel we had no damage, random lock-ups or other issues.
Android Jelly Bean has come on leaps and bounds, so we would definitely now recommend it to smartphone newbies as well as the tech-massive who love tinkering. And, of course, Google Play (formerly the Android Market) has an obscene amount of apps and games to enjoy, which means you will keep you occupied for the duration of your contract.
We did find the large screen was more prone to picking up reflections, especially when the sun comes out, and the smooth back panel is quite slippy, though. We also still secretly hoped for casing like on the HTC One X. You can't beat a bit of metal on a premium device.
Call quality was great and we experienced less signal drop-outs on our commute than we are used to. Depending on your network, you should find the Galaxy S3 capable in the actual phone department.
Unlike the quad core Nvidia Tegra 3 processors, Samsung has managed to keep the Exynos nicely efficient. Even with lots of gaming, video and music we could manage a day of use easily, sometimes two if we were a bit more sparing. For a smartphone as powerful as the Galaxy S3, it's a big achievement to see a reassuringly good battery life.
So what's our overall verdict? Well, we don't want to give it back, which is exactly how we felt with the Galaxy S2. Once again, Samsung has proven itself as the king of Android kingdom and there's no doubt the Galaxy S3 will fly off the shelves, even if it's not quite as game-changing as its predecessor.
It's not quite perfect and we feel a lot of the Samsung-added functionality is a little gimmicky, plus more could have been made of the natural theme, but it really doesn't matter when the rest of the device works so well.
Wrapped up in Android 4.0 is possibly the world's most powerful smartphone, a bastion of smartphone design let down only by the use of plastic. Fitting a screen of that size in a device of that size was no easy feat, but it really does pay off.
The only real barrier is the price, and that's still the case if you want the device SIM-free, but with so many competitive contracts out there you are getting a whole lot of smartphone for around £31 a month, which is surprisingly cheap.
If you want the best of the best of Android, the Galaxy S3 should be in your list of possibilities alongside the Sony Xperia S, HTC One S and the One X. You really can't go wrong with any of them.
In August 2013, The American Customer Service Index discovered more Americans are happy with the Samsung Galaxy S3, even if it is an old model, in comparison to the much fresher iPohne 5. That certainly tells us something, doesn't it?
The Samsung Galaxy S3 In 2014
Despite being abandoned on Android 4.3 the Galaxy S3 has still not yet been retired completely, and you can still pick one up either SIM free or on various contracts. Why might you consider grabbing this older handset in 2014?
Well it's not as pricey as it used to be, for one thing. Samsung now lists the handset with an RRP of £299, which might seem a little steep. While some retailers still follow this, there's a lot of scope for saving a bit of cash to grab what still amounts to a quad-core phone with good display, camera and performance qualities.
While some retailers such as Very are offering a temporary cut-price of £249, the likes of Clove and Expansys sell the 16GB model for £246 and £225 respectively. Meanwhile, over at Carphone Warehouse you can get a fairly affordable 24 month contract with O2 for £17 per month and no upfront charge for the handset - although to be honest you'd be better off in the long run going to one of the aformentioned retailers and picking up a SIM-only contract.
If you shop around a bit you can pick up similar price tags elsewhere. It's a pretty good deal in its own right, but it also makes it appealing as an affordable, decently specced device to grab for the purpose of rooting it and loading custom or stock Android builds onboard.
|Typical Price
|UK Launch
|May, 2012
|Phone Style
|Candy bar
|Built-in Memory
|16/32/64 GB storage, 1GB of RAM
|Additional Memory
|Up to 64GB via microSD card slot
|High-speed Data
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|4.8-inches, 720x1280 pixels (306ppi)
|Screen Colours
|16 million
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|8-megapixel, Simultaneous HD video and image recording, geo-tagging, touch focus, face and smile detection, image stabilisation
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|1080p @ 30 frames per second
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|Music Formats
|MP3/WAV/eAAC+/AC3/FLAC player
|Song Storage
|Up to 64GB via microSD card slot
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Neil Ernst blogged about Chinese astrology, so I thought I'd look my sign up as well. My father and I were both born in the Year of the Boar, which has just cycled around. I was born in the year of the Water Boar, 1983. The Wikipedia entry on water says, "Water is representative of intelligence and wisdom; however, an overabundance of the element is said to cause difficulty in choosing something and sticking to it." The Pig, however, is supposed to be a conservative creature of habit that dislikes having to travel far from familiar surroundings... and I'm halfway around the world! =)
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I'm a little uncertain about the prospects of living off peanut butter sandwiches for the next few weeks. My mom told me stories of managing it when she was in college, though, so it can't be *too* bad for me. I'm looking forward to having a proper kitchen, though! I will be very slow and very careful about buying things, but I'm looking forward to properly doing once-a-month or once-a-week cooking.
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Toronto Technology Week will be from May 28 to June 1, and I am *so* excited about it! With the Mesh Web 2.0 conference and the best of BarCamp and DemoCamp lining up, it's going to be an amazing week. I know about it, and you know about it, but every geek in Toronto has to find out about it in time to make it to all the parties!
It'll be my personal mission to spread the world and to nudge interesting people to organize events around then. =D Can't wait!
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To my surprise, there's a copy of the Battle Royale novel. That wasn't there before. And it's great reading foreign papers. From The Guardian, I learn that the British are upset about friendly fire from US soldiers (which naturally gets hushed up in US news). From Haaretz Weekly, I learn that the tiny community of Samaritans (who can trace some 126 generations of high priests) has relaxed prohibitions against marrying outside the community and taken to importing brides from Ukraine in order to address inbreeding (there you go, the up side of mail order brides). The Wall Street Journal is, of course, the Wall Street Journal.
Ah, to rediscover this the month before I leave... I'm sure the Toronto Public Library will have something similar, even if I have to make myself reading dates at the reference library branch. =)
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The right way to provision storage
Provisioning storage is mostly a manual job. But you can still tune your storage for greater performance and higher disk utilization.
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task. Each vendor has its proprietary tools and recommended approach. And the task keeps getting harder due to the increasing complexity of enterprise storage environments.
Storage provisioning is the process of logically carving up physical disk space to meet an organization's need for storage capacity, performance, security and efficiency. It encompasses the assignment of servers/hosts to appropriate storage, specifying network paths between hosts and storage, and masking servers and zoning the network to ensure access by the right servers. The entire task involves dozens of individual steps.
When done correctly, provisioning results in storage that performs well and scales nondisruptively. When provisioning isn't done correctly, application performance can degrade, security is compromised, scalability is inhibited and capacity utilization is low, resulting in wasted storage space (see "Storage provisioning pitfalls" sidebar below).
Complicating the provisioning challenge are today's widely heterogeneous enterprise storage environments: more storage, additional arrays, different types of array devices, multiple storage tiers, more RAID levels, increasing complexity, and many best-practice provisioning guidelines or standards. "Some day there will have to be a standard way to deal with storage provisioning, but there isn't now," says Rhoda Phillips, research manager, storage software at IDC, Framingham, Mass. And, she adds, that day won't be coming anytime soon.
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To get a better handle on storage provisioning, try to figure out who actually takes charge of provisioning. "With provisioning, there are a lot of handoffs," says Robert Stevenson, managing director, storage practice at TheInfoPro, a New York-based research company. Stevenson is a former storage manager at Nielsen Media Research, where he supervised the provisioning of 1,000 LUNs.
At Nielsen, Stevenson would begin the provisioning process by huddling with the DBA whose system needed the storage. Before the job was done, however, provisioning would involve system and network administrators in addition to the storage team.
The DBA knew the performance and capacity requirements, while the system administrator would make sure the hosts could find the newly provisioned storage. The network team handled the zoning, while the storage team did the actual carving up of the capacity. Even within the storage team, different groups might have a hand in the process. "The engineers would carve up the disk arrays. The operations group would do the LUN mapping and masking," explains Dan Weinstein, senior consultant at storage research and consulting firm GlassHouse Technologies Inc., Framingham, Mass.
Effective provisioning requires a coordinated effort (see "Provisioning best practice" sidebar) with good communication among all team members. In smaller organizations, "the storage team or maybe just one person would do it all by hand: allocate the storage in the array, configure the connections and point the hosts at the storage," says Jason Anderson, storage architect at Datalink Corp., a storage integrator in Chanhassen, Minn. Even then, you still need information about the application and its performance, capacity and protection requirements, which will involve input from other people.
Requirements gathering
"The first thing you need to do before you start provisioning the storage is to understand what is needed," says Weinstein. That means defining the application's service-level requirements in terms of storage capacity, protection, performance and resource management. Without knowing this information, administrators can't make the provisioning decisions that will be required almost immediately.
Stevenson would kick off the provisioning process by sitting down with the storage administrator and the DBA. Using a standard spreadsheet, they'd translate the application capacity and service requirements into a list of possible LUNs and their associated I/O performance. "This is a lot easier for existing applications that need more storage and have a history of what they have used before," says TheInfoPro's Stevenson. With a new application, the team would make their best estimates based on similar applications. The information on the spreadsheet would then become their guide when they began provisioning storage.
You should also "know the criteria and process by which requests for storage get approved in the first place," says Tim Arland, principal consultant at independent storage integrator Forsythe Solutions Group. Without firm criteria and an orderly process, storage provisioning quickly descends into chaos, with LUNs being carved out willy-nilly any place there seems to be physical capacity and without regard for the performance characteristics of the storage system or storage service requirements of the applications.
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Corker: Tax Hike on Wealthy Could Give GOP an Edge
Dems, GOP Still Tussling Over Fiscal Cliff
By Julian E. Barnes and Andrew Ackerman
Sen. Bob Corker said a growing number of Republicans realize they can get the upper hand in budget negotiations with Democrats if they agree to raise tax rates on the wealthiest Americans.
In an interview on Fox News Sunday, the Tennessee Republican said he was inclined to support the tax rate increase on wealthy Americans, arguing it would raise about $400 billion to $800 billion in revenues, less than the tax increases Democrats have previously sought.
"There is a growing group of folks who are looking at this and realizing we don't have a lot of cards as it relates to the tax issue before year's end," Sen. Corker said. "So a lot of people are putting forth a theory, and I think it has merit, where you go ahead and give the president … the rate increase on the top 2%, and all of a sudden the shift goes back to entitlements."
Sen. Corker said that if the GOP grants Mr. Obama the tax increase, they can then use the looming vote on raising the debt ceiling to force cuts to entitlement programs. Mr. Corker did not specify what entitlements he was referring to. But Republicans have been talking about cuts to Medicare, including raising the age when retirees can enroll in the health care program. Others have been talking about adjustments to Social Security to curb costs of that program.
Mr. Corker said wealthy Americans already bear an unduly large tax burden, and over the long term he support tax reform to make the system more balanced. But in the short term agreeing to the Democratic proposal on raising tax rates will allow the Republicans to shift the debate to cuts in entitlement programs.
"Republicans know that they have the debt ceiling coming up right around the corner," Sen. Corker said. "The leverage is going to shift to our side. We are going to do the same thing we did last time; if the president wants to raise the level by two trillion, we get two trillion in spending reductions."
Democrats have pushed for raising the debt limit as part of the debate over averting the so-called fiscal cliff, the combination of tax increases and spending cuts scheduled to go into effect in January.
Mr. Corker said Republican House Speaker John Boehner would only agree to raising the debt limit if Democrats agree to cut entitlement spending.
"The only what the debt ceiling is given up is that the president comes to the table, talks to Speaker Boehner about real entitlement reform," Sen. Corker said. "Without that there is no way the debt ceiling is going to be given up."
Rep. Tom Cole (R., Okla.) delivered a similar message Sunday in an appearance on CNN's State of the Union.
Mr. Cole said his constituents understand that their taxes are going up automatically early in the new year unless Congress acts, "and they would like to be taken out of the line of fire," he said.
"They expect me to continue to fight for everybody's taxes not going up," he said. "But if I can get a deal that protects 98% of them and leaves me free to continue fighting for them, they would say, 'Take that deal, that's progress, that's maybe working together across the aisle a little bit, and get it done.'"
In late November, Mr. Cole privately urged his Republican colleagues to extend middle-class tax cuts. On Sunday, he said Republicans would gain leverage if the issue was taken off the table, because Democrats would not be able to blame the GOP for increasing middle-class tax rates.
Despite the comments by Sen. Corker and others, the House leadership, at least publicly, remains staunchly opposed to higher rates and willing only to embrace increased tax revenues by eliminating or reducing tax deductions and other so-called loopholes. On NBC's Meet the Press, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.), the House Majority Whip, said raising rates "doesn't solve the problem."
"If the president is asking for higher rates, he is asking for more revenue," Rep. McCarthy said. "Most economists the best way to get that [revenue] is by closing special loopholes. When you close those it makes for a fairer tax process."
Mr. Cole's arguments were also met with skepticism by a GOP House colleague, Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R., Tenn.), who also spoke on CNN.
"I'm not sure there's support for the rate hikes, there is support for revenue by cleaning up the [tax] code," she said.
Related: WSJ Reporters discuss the fiscal cliff on this week's D.C. Bureau.


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OAKLAND -- More than most, the teachers and students at Life Academy of Health and Bioscience know the agony of Oakland's violent streets, which claimed 110 lives last year.
In November, students were told during class that a recent graduate, Luis Garibay-Ornelas, had been shot to death outside a friend's house. Then in December, the younger brother of a Life Academy student was shot and killed on International Boulevard.
Julio Magaña knew something had to be done quickly at the small, 275-student school in Oakland's Fruitvale district. He came up with an idea that would help students channel their grief into a cause: fasting, one day at a time, in an effort to raise awareness about the violence in their community.
"The school was kind of paralyzed" after the killings, said Magaña, whose work at Life Academy is funded through the community nonprofit Alternatives in Action. "Teachers like me said we can't just move on; we need to acknowledge that these kids had been killed and that something had to be done about it."
From those modest beginnings, the memorial fasting has spread to a half-dozen schools and hundreds of kids. Most importantly, it has helped the students at Life Academy shed their feelings of powerlessness in the wake of tragedies they can't control.
"We wanted to show that the youth do care, that we're tired of having our best friends die," sophomore Christian Cox-Diaz said.
When Garibay-Ornelas was shot to death Nov. 6, he became the school's fifth current or former student to be killed since 2005, joining Raymen Justice, Jose Rocha, Nancy Nguyen and Marco Casillas.
But that wasn't the end of the heartbreak. Just weeks after Garibay-Ornelas' death, a gunman shot and killed 5-year-old Gabriel Martinez Jr., the younger brother of Life Academy junior Gabby Martinez.
Eva Oliver, a rookie teacher who was helping out a substitute when the principal told the class about Garibay-Ornelas, saw the face of heartache.
"I just sat and watched the kids' faces," Oliver said. "There were students who went straight to tears, students who went into deep shock and students whose faces went cold. I didn't know what to do."
Magaña, who supervises a boy's round-table group at the school, decided to take a page from Cesar Chavez and Gandhi -- he proposed that students and teachers take turns fasting to show that they were willing to make sacrifices to bring peace to Oakland streets.
The boys group and a corresponding girls group, led by Oliver, took the lead. For 74 straight days, from Martin Luther King Jr. Day to Cesar Chavez Day in March, at least one student or teacher from Life Academy went 24 hours without food.
In all, more than 200 people, including students at six schools, fasted, and more than 1,000 people signed a corresponding peace pledge.
Fasting for peace
The fasts began and ended every day at 12:30 p.m. Students from the boys and girls groups would gather in a circle to recite a peace pledge and commemorate the school's fallen youths. The last day's faster would then get an apple to break the fast, while the new faster was given an arm band to wear during the fast.
The armband meant that for better or worse everyone in school knew who was fasting. Fasters got support from some classmates, but they also got plenty of teasing or outright hostility. Edwin Roque, a sophomore, said students mocked him or put food in his face.
Occasionally hecklers taunted the students while they huddled together during the lunchtime ceremony.
Linda Alecio said one girl laughed at her when she tried to explain why she was fasting, but that her fast was empowering nonetheless. "I felt like I was doing something good to get revenge for what they did to (Garibay-Ornelas)."
Growing support
Several students spread the word to other schools about what they were doing. The Bay Area School of Enterprise, an Alternatives in Action-affiliated high school in Alameda that is home to many Oakland students, also united for weeks of fasting. After Life Academy students visited Skyline and McClymonds high schools in Oakland, students there took turns fasting for one school week.
"What got me was that they were actually taking initiative," said Eddie Chao, a Skyline junior who helped organize the fast. "Everybody is aware of the violence in Oakland, but they were doing something very personal to try to stop it."
Several students said their parents or grandparents fasted along with them. Life Academy sophomore Ashley Hunter said several members of her church also fasted in solidarity.
About 60 people fasted on the project's 74th and final day, including Oakland Councilwoman Desley Brooks and Gabby Martinez, who often spent lunch at a table within earshot of the fasters' lunchtime circle.
"I'd sometimes look over at her and wonder if she approved," Magaña said. "Every day, we said her brother's name out loud. I hoped in her heart of hearts she knew that at least we were not forgetting about him."
Also present for the final fast were the parents of several slain students, including Julia Perez, whose son Eric Toscano, a Skyline student, was killed in a drive-by shooting two years ago.
"I really admired them fasting," she said. "All these kids coming together to support parents like us, I wish it would have been bigger than it was."
Future plans
Magaña and the students called their project Season of Peace Building.
The name reflected their feeling that while they couldn't immediately halt the indiscriminate violence that claimed 5-year-old Gabriel, Garibay-Ornelas and so many other Oakland youths, their dedication over time could make Oakland a more peaceful city.
"I think it was important to let people know that we will sacrifice to make peace in our communities," Life Academy senior Ricardo Sevilla said.
Magaña said the effort helped bring together students and teachers and humanize the campus. "These kids, they're not going to be the kids that do the violence," he said.
Magaña is planning on doing something similar next year and hoping that the campus and the city take one more step away from the path of violence.
"Peace is not an immediate thing," he said. "It's a process and it takes a long time."
Contact Matthew Artz at 510-208-6435


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The (Lancaster) Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era (http://bit.ly/1299qfs ) says an autopsy Monday on the body of 20-year-old Eric Phillips was inconclusive.
Franklin County Coroner Stephen Diamantoni said the autopsy revealed "some things" that may have contributed to the death of the Franklin & Marshall College sophomore early Sunday.
But he said he will await the results of toxicology tests before ruling on the cause and manner of death.
Officials said Phillips, who was from Oakland, Calif., say he was hanging out with friends in a common area of the dorm when he collapsed.
Franklin & Marshall is a small liberal arts college serving about 2,300 students in Lancaster.
Information from: Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era , http://lancasteronline.com


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The North Korean Purge That Didn't Happen
Call it a helpful reminder that much of what you hear about North Korea is probably not true.
A senior North Korean military official close to dictator Kim Jong Un reemerged in state media on Friday after disappearing from public view for a few weeks. Speculation had been building that Choe Ryong Hae might have been purged after a report from a radio station operated by North Korean defectors that Mr. Choe was arrested on Feb. 21.
The report said Mr. Choe had fallen short in his duties to keep troops sufficiently devoted to Mr. Kim, among other failings.
Mr. Choe reappeared on Friday, where he was shown on state television with Mr. Kim attending an air force drill. The footage showed Mr. Choe appeared to have a limp.
A purge of Mr. Choe would have been particularly dramatic because he is viewed as one of Mr. Kim's closest aides and was one of the main beneficiaries of the power shuffle in the wake of the execution of Jang Song Thaek, Mr. Kim's uncle, late last year. Mr. Choe is the head of the political bureau of the military and was sent as an envoy to China in June last year, where he met Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Another high level purge could have added to speculation of instability at the top of the North Korean regime. Instead, the return of Mr. Choe serves as a reminder of the impenetrability of the inner workings of the North Korean elite.
Rumors about developments in the regime are relatively common in South Korean media but almost always impossible to confirm. Many appear to originate from South Korea's intelligence agency, which has a patchy record in reporting developments in North Korea.
Its stock went up last year when it correctly reported the purge of Mr. Jang before North Korea's confirmation.
One of the most eye-catching errors in North Korea reportage was a front page story in South Korea's largest circulation daily in 1986 of the assassination of then-dictator Kim Il Sung. That Mr. Kim died of natural causes in 1994.
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25 April 1933
"Writ of protection" issued by SA squad leader Wagner to Heinrich Katz
The "writ of protection"—consisting of the simple sentence "From noon today all actions are prohibited"—was written on the back of a subscription form for the Nazi newspaper Hessenhammer. It was signed and stamped by the squad leader of the SA assault unit "III/115 Wagner." The group's office was located next to the shoe store, which Heinrich Katz had taken over from his stepfather, Israel Rubin, in 1932.
When sales dropped by 50 percent in 1934, Katz was forced to close his business. In August 1935 he emigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine together with his wife. There he first worked as an employee in the shoe industry before opening his own shop in Tel Aviv in 1948.
In the 1950s Katz told the lawyer representing him in a restitution case about the money he had paid to the SA. However, he asked his lawyer "not to mention this incident"—probably because he was afraid the German authorities would not believe him.
Jörg Waßmer
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From noon today all actions are prohibited.
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tbw_10130 wrote:Thanks Chase for posting what happened. It has obviously gotten a lot more difficult to try and get tourneys scheduled to everyone's liking (and will continue to do so).
And, I think you may be right about it not being on the PDGA site. I think it showed up there relatively late (and therefore well into your discussions with the PDGA).
Hopefully, both tourneys will be great and we'll have better luck next year!
Saddest part for me is I have been wanting to play down there for awhile. Much like Hamilton, these are tourneys I never make it to.


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MOUNTAIN VIEW -- Google's (GOOG) same-day delivery service will make its public debut to most of the Bay Area on Wednesday morning, as the search engine giant becomes the latest tech company to deliver online purchases to customers' homes just hours after they click the purchase button.
The public launch makes Google's once-exclusive service available to everyone who wants same-day delivery from San Francisco to San Jose, and signals that the Internet company may have found the formula to solve one of the most challenging problems in retail. Shopping Express is a Web and mobile site -- which goes live online at 7 a.m. -- where customers can shop from more than 15 Bay Area retailers including Walgreens, Nob Hill Foods, Staples, Blue Bottle Coffee, Target and Palo Alto Sport Shop and Toy World, and Google will deliver the purchases that day within a three- to five-hour window. The cost is $5 for each store pickup.
"This new service brings the speed of the Web to the real world by helping you shop your favorite local stores online -- in a single place -- and get what you need delivered the same day," Tom Fallows, who heads up Google Shopping Express, wrote in a company blog.
With this week's launch, Google wraps up more than six months of testing on Shopping Express, which was spent revising algorithms and delivery routes, and crunching data to predict product departure and arrival times. The service started last year as an experiment with Google employees, and in March launched as an invitation-only service to a select group of people who applied. Google struggled with some of the logistics in its early testing, and was forced to cancel some deliveries after making mistakes with store inventory, Fallows said in an interview in August with this newspaper.
"This has been a long time coming," he added Tuesday.
Google on Wednesday will also announce the Shopping Express applications for Android and iOS smartphones, which can be downloaded from the Google Play Store and the Apple (AAPL) App Store. And the company added a few more retailers to the mix -- including Guitar Center, REI and Whole Foods, for any shoppers who want hiking boots and quinoa delivered to their front door.
The East Bay isn't yet covered by the delivery service: "We want to bring in as many people as possible," but the company is starting with San Francisco and the Peninsula, Fallows said.
Google joins eBay (EBAY) and Amazon in the race to win the local commerce market by connecting consumers with neighborhood retailers for everyday shopping needs. Nationally, this is a $2 trillion-a-year market, which includes cleaning products, groceries and health and beauty items, according to J.P. Morgan estimates. Same-day delivery also opens the door to selling advertising and other technology to retailers, and building a loyal following of consumers who see Google Shopping Express as their one-stop daily shopping destination.
Contact Heather Somerville at 510-208-6413. Follow her at Twitter.com/heathersomervil.


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Walmart opponents question defenders' ties to city
Published: Monday, February 25, 2013 at 6:46 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, February 25, 2013 at 6:46 p.m.
SARASOTA - Opponents of the proposed Walmart on Ringling Boulevard say the people defending the company — including a state senator and local NAACP leader — could have undue influence on commissioners.
What: Walmart plans to build a 98,000 square foot Supercenter at the Ringling Shopping Center plaza on Ringling Boulevard. Walmart calls it a small Supercenter, with a full grocery and general merchandise.
Where: The 9.7-acre property fronts on Ringling and backs up to School Avenue, across from Payne Park and adjancent to the Alta Vista neighborhood.
What's the timetable?
On Nov. 14, Sarasota city planners approved the plan, and Walmart said it would open in about a year.
What's happened since?
In November, Alta Vista residents appealed the Planning Board's vote, saying Walmart doesn't fit the zoning code and the company's plan should have gone before the full Sarasota City Commission to get approval.
The commission held a public hearing Feb. 19, and will continue that hearing today.
What do residents say?
• Some residents and businesses support the Supercenter..
• Some say a 24/7 Supercenter is too busy for the adjancent Alta Vista neighborhood.
• Some residents are concerned about so much traffic next to Payne Park, and want Walmart to build a sidewalk to the park.
State Sen. Bill Galvano, R-Bradenton, is representing Walmart as it attempts to shoot down an appeal from members of the Alta Vista Neighborhood Association and others. And Trevor Harvey, president of Sarasota's NAACP chapter, wrote a letter calling the business a "win-win."
Meanwhile, some neighbors say the store planned for the current location of the Ringling Shopping Center does not comply with zoning requirements.
Commissioners are supposed to act as impartial judges during the quasi-judicial hearing which began last week at City Hall and will reconvene Tuesday at 6 p.m.
If the commission sides with the neighborhood association and Walmart sues, Galvano would help represent the company.
Kelly Kirschner, Sarasota's former mayor who has helped lead the appeal against the business, questioned whether commissioners would be inclined to side with Walmart because they need Galvano to champion local government issues when the Legislature convenes next week.
Galvano — who was previously a state representative — has years of experience balancing legal work with his role as an elected official. He said there are no rules preventing him from providing legal counsel before a local government board.
"My role is that of a lawyer, to argue on behalf of my clients, to apply the facts of the law. And that's where it ends," Galvano said of the Walmart case, adding that his Senate district does not include Sarasota.
The decisions he makes in Tallahassee are based on what he believes are the best policies for Floridians, Galvano said.
"It's separate and apart from my legal practice," he said.
But Candy Spaulding, president of the Alta Vista Neighborhood Association, said Walmart's decision to use Galvano as their litigation counsel was meant to intimidate commissioners.
"I think it's a big issue that they're involving politics," said Juanita Rawlinson, past president of the association. "They're a big conglomerate. We're a little neighborhood fighting for our rights, and they want to strip them from us and they're pulling every big gun they got."
The appeal began last week and ended up going late into the night. City officials decided to reconvene Tuesday to hear from citizens and affected persons and make a decision. Galvano said he will not be at Tuesday's hearing.
Vice Mayor Willie Shaw said the commission will focus on the facts — not Galvano — when it determines whether to allow Walmart to proceed at the site.
"It doesn't matter who's out in front of us, we still have to make the decision based on the facts," Shaw said.
If they decide Walmart should be allowed to pursue its plan, Rawlinson said the appellants are ready for a "long, nasty fight" in court.
"Do we just lay down and roll over?" she asked. "We've come this far, how do you stop at this point?"
Members of the local NAACP chapter are concerned that a letter from the group's president in support of Walmart could influence the commissioners.
Harvey emailed the letter to the commission Feb. 17, two days before the first appeal hearing. It was also presented to the commission when the Walmart appeal began last week.
Harvey's letter had the NAACP crest across the top.
"The NAACP works tirelessly across our community every day to protect our civil rights and ensure that all citizens have equal opportunity. I spend many hours with leaders of our community exploring opportunities for the betterment of our region, for our residents," Harvey wrote.
"In all my years working with Wal-Mart they have always stepped up to the plate, they are always willing to listen and often help, with little fanfare and very little thanks from the community in which it resides," continued Harvey, who did not return calls for comment Monday.
At a NAACP meeting last week, members Valerie Buchand and Fredd Atkins, a former Sarasota mayor, adamantly disagreed with the letter.
Buchand said some members of the group are against Walmart's low wages, and Harvey should have consulted the group before issuing a statement.
"My whole concern is the fact that he disregarded that he represented a body of people," Buchand said. "He made that decision all on his own."
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Although the most plentiful creatures on Earth are invertebrates, not all species of spineless creatures are abundant. In fact, some are endangered. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service lists 105 U.S. species and subspecies of snails, clams, crustaceans, insects, and arachnids as endangered, and 25 more as threatened.
Many are threatened by habitat destruction, including the California freshwater shrimp, a small crustacean that has declined after streamside vegetation was removed by livestock grazing and erosion clouded the stream waters in which it lives. School children have been instrumental in trying to save this species, raising money and public awareness, and working with farmers to replant some of the native plants lost from the shrimps' remaining hideaways.
What lives in the Chesapeake Bay and was decribed by author William Warner as a "beautiful swimmer?" The answer to this would have to be the blue crab, Callinectes sapidus.
The blue crab is one of our area's greatest seafood interests and source of recent conservation efforts in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, the largest estuary in North America.
Blue crab means "beautiful and tasty swimmer" in Greek. This unique crustacean (related to other crabs, shrimps, and lobsters to name a few) ranges along the Atlantic coast from Maine to Florida, along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, and into the Caribbean Sea. These crabs are truly a colorful species, with shades of red and opal blue shell coloring developing as they grow.
As they age, crabs undergo a process known as molting, whereby they shed their old shell in order to make room for the growth of a new shell forming underneath. After a crab has molted and shed its shell, or exoskeleton, it is termed a "soft-shelled" crab, and is vulnerable to everything from larger marine predators including fishes and other crabs, to human dinner plates, as they are prized at this point in their growth cycle as a valued food source.
These crabs, which live up to about three years, undergo numerous molts throughout their lives, after starting out in seven different larval, or floating planktonic body forms, until they progress into miniature versions of their adult form.
Right around the period of achieving this first true crab stage, the juvenile crabs seek out the shelter of sea grass and plant beds throughout the Chesapeake Bay or other estuary grounds where they are found. These beds of vegetation are referred to as SAV, or submerged aquatic vegetation, another source of conservation measure in the bay's ecosystem.
Upon maturing, which occurs at roughly 12 to 18 months of age, males and females mate. Then, males typically head for the lower salinity waters of the northern Chesapeake Bay, and females l head for the more salty waters in the south where the Bay flows into the Atlantic Ocean. Once the females are in these higher salinity waters, they lay an egg mass otherwise known as an "egg sponge," which harbors up to about eight million eggs. As these eggs hatch out, the process begins again.
From a conservation standpoint, blue crabs are being fished to their capacity in the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem. In some years, too many females were caught in the harvesting of crab pots, and over the long period of time, the population was unable to replenish itself to its previous numbers. There have been numerous crabbing regulations organized by local state governments and advisory committees which aim to curtail these population declines so this amazing animal will be around for years to come.
Regulations do not just apply to the crab itself, however. There are several major areas in need of further conservation efforts with regards to the entire Chesapeake Bay watershed. As earlier mentioned, the submerged aquatic vegetation that provides shelter for juvenile crabs has been under great decline this past century as a result of lower water quality and murkier waters as a result of soil and agricultural runoff, which spur the growth of unwanted algal blooms, and thus do not allow enough sunlight to be available to the growing aquatic plants. As the SAV declines, so does the capacity for the Chesapeake Bay to deal with nutrient input from these sources, but this also leads to dramatic declines in the amount of dissolved oxygen supporting other life in the bay waters.
Riparian buffer zones are under increasing threat as urban development continues. As more trees are removed from areas around the bay watershed, the prevailing soil becomes looser and less stabilized, thus causing greater runoff into streams and ultimately into the bay.
There are 3,600 plants and animal species that call the Chesapeake Bay home. The bay itself constitutes a watershed about 64,000 square miles in size, ranging from New York to Virginia. We all benefit from the health of this expansive and valuable ecosystem.


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A trio of local football players earned honors on the Missouri Football Coaches' All-State teams. In Class One: Dakota Lewis of Marceline earned Second Team as a Linebacker (top left). Austin Moudy earned Third Team as a Defensive End (top right). Trent Hoover (left) earned the lone Class Two honor as a Third Team Offensive Lineman. Congratulations to these football players on a high post-season honor.
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HI everyone,
I have a problem I'm trying to solve on my system. Every time I try to play a .mkv file it will freeze as the file starts to load and it will hang my network streaming player so that it will need to be power cycled to start responding. Everything was working well on PMS 1.72; I uninstalled 1.72, installed 1.81 and no files will play. I'm able to browse my files and select them; the player will start it's loading animation, the animation will freeze for a moment, then resume for a few seconds and then freeze and become unresponsive. I've tried uninstalling and reverting to 1.72, 1.80, and back to 1.81; ensured that I have the latest version of java, and that none of my network has changed. I've used both mencoder and tsmuxer and both produce the exact same effect. I've even reset my DLNA client with no avail.
My setup: Linux server that houses the files, all files are still readily visible on all my devices and no settings have changed here. My renderer/DLNA server is my primary desktop computer, Core i3-2100 3.10Ghz, 8gb ram, Windows 7x64, Java 7 ver21 installed, fully patched, same av and firewall with no changes. My DLNA client is a Sony SNP-N200 media renderer which up to this point had worked well without any problems.
I've attached both my standard debug log and my trace debug log in hopes that it can help in the discovery of what is going wrong. I've tried to hunt through the forums/google and I didn't find anything that seemed to help; if there's something I've overlooked I'd be glad to try it. I tried to follow the steps in this article and it didn't seem to help at all. viewtopic.php?f=6&t=16700.
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TRUCKEE, Calif. — Sacramento area firefighters invited all sworn firefighters to participate in Sacramento's annual 9/11 Memorial Climb. This event is being held to honor the 343 Firefighters of FDNY who paid the ultimate sacrifice at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.
Members from the Squaw Valley Fire Department will travel to Sacramento to participate.
"For most people, 9/11 is about a day of incredible tragedy due to terrorism. But for me, it is about the sacrifice, bravery, and courage of the FDNY. They lost 343 members in the collapse of the towers. We see images of all the people running away from the towers, meanwhile, firefighters are willingly advancing into the buildings, not just because 'it is our job,' it is because we are willing to put ourselves between danger and the people who need help, even when facing impossible odds," said Squaw Valley's Travis Smith, firefighter and paramedic. "As a firefighter, I think we all want to pay our respect to our fallen brothers and their families on this day and I think this event in Sacramento is a great way to honor them."
This year's Climb will be held at the "Renaissance Tower" located in downtown Sacramento at 0800, Tuesday, Sept. 11. Participants will place the name of a fallen brother (over their own name) on the back of their turnout coat and carry it 110 floors to the roof. All proceeds from this event will benefit the FDNY Widows and Orphans Fund.
Visit www.sac911climb.com for more information.
This year's 9/11 Memorial run will be a 5K run walk and 10K, starting at 9:11 on Sunday, Sept. 9, and wind through downtown Sacramento. Firefighters, law enforcement officers, friends, family, everyone is invited to register for the 9/11 Memorial 5K Walk run and 10K. For more information visit www.sac911run.com


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A former office manager accused of stealing more than $100,000 from his employer will go to trial.
A judge decided Thursday there is enough evidence to move the case forward against Wayne Michael Balcom of Potterville. Investigators say he embezzled more than $130,000 from the Holt Family Practice in Ingham County's Delhi Township.
The investigation started last August after owners of the clinic noticed the missing money.
Balcom has a prior conviction for check fraud. He could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted on the embezzlement charge.
We spoke to his family in March when charges were issued. They maintain his innocence. The doctor's office declined to comment.


text: Known affectionately as "the Duck Man," Carl Barks wrote and drew hundreds of memorable stories about Donald Duck and his various relatives (most notably Uncle Scrooge, whom Barks created) in comic books from the 1940s to the early 1960s. In retirement, Barks created a number of oil paintings and lithographs featuring the Disney duck characters that achieved high value among collectors. Inducted 1987


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SAN JOSE -- In an affluent Almaden Valley enclave amid a placid park of trees and hiking trails, police on Wednesday found the city's seventh homicide victim of the year: a young man who had been stabbed to death.
Officers were called to Guadalupe Oak Grove Park shortly before 4 p.m. on reports that a person was on the ground in an area not known for trouble. They found the victim, believed to be in his early 20s, with what appeared to be multiple stab wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
San Jose police spokesman Sgt. Jason Dwyer said they didn't know when the victim was stabbed, but "it looks like it happened today."
"We believe he was in the park with another person earlier, but what happened to lead up to the stabbing is under investigation," he said.
There are no suspects or witnesses at this point, and no weapon has been found, Dwyer said. There are no signs that it was gang-related, although Dwyer said investigators will look into that as well as the possibility that the body was dumped at the park, although "indications are that he was killed there."
The park is in an area of large, single-family homes with professionally manicured front yards. A real estate listing in front of a nearby four-bedroom house had a price tag just shy of $1.6 million.
"I suspect that residents are going to be scratching their heads because something like this does not happen often around here," Dwyer said.
Michael Kirkley and Jessie Jimenez, both seniors at nearby Pioneer High School, agreed.
"It's crazy," said Kirkley, who said they don't know of any gangs at their school or in the neighborhood.
"We're teenagers, we hang out with the kids from around Almaden and everyone's really chill with each other," Jimenez said.
The area where the body was found is adjacent to a park named after Jeffrey Fontana, a San Jose police officer gunned down while on duty on a quiet cul-de-sac less than half a mile away in 2001.
Residents said that was the last time they could recall a homicide in their neighborhood.
"The biggest thing that happened at the park was when someone said they saw a mountain lion," said longtime resident Sundeep Dugar. "That was a big deal."
Dugar said the park, which is open from 8 a.m. to sunset, is popular with residents in the morning, evenings and weekends but it can be fairly empty during the day. But he added that it's not known to attract any sort of criminal activity at any time.
Wednesday evening, residents gathered on sidewalks near the park in small groups, talking about what happened but also asking one another how their kids or parents were doing.
"It's so nice and wonderful here," said Jimenez, 17. "Everybody knows everyone."
Anyone with information about the case can contact homicide detectives at 408-277-5283, or leave an anonymous tip with Silicon Valley Crimestoppers at 408-947-7867 or http://tipsubmit.com.
Contact Eric Kurhi at 408-920-5852. Follow him at Twitter.com/erickurhi.


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BERWICK, Maine — Tim and Sonya Turcotte of Berwick, Maine are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Jennifer Turcotte, to Brian Guptill, son of Ed and Diane Guptill of North Berwick, Maine.
Jennifer Turcotte graduated from the University of Maine- Orono She is currently employed as a Member Services Supervisor with University Credit Union.
Brian Guptill graduated from Universal Technical Institute, Houston Texas. He is currently employed as a Auto Detailer at Andy's Auto Detailing.
A wedding is planned for October 5, 2013.
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February 10, 2006
A South Carolina bill would make deadly force legal when defending private property. The bill, now headed to the senate, has some homeowners more at ease when a decision has to be made about defending their property without the fear of prosecution.
North Augusta homeowner Mark Wise will not hesitate to use deadly force if someone breaks in on his family.
"In my opinion if somebody enters my home when they have been told to leave or uninvited with obvious intentions to rob or harm then that's when it comes into play," Wise said.
Lawmakers say citizens should not be required to surrender to a criminal nor should they feel threatened in the face of an attack.
Sharon Yazzie agrees with the South Carolina bill that passed the House on Thursday allowing people to defend their property including businesses and vehicles.
"We work hard for what we've got. We don't want anyone taken what we've got," Yazzie said.
The bill allows homeowners to protect property without the fear of being prosecuted or sued.
"Hopefully this will give the law abiding citizens that have firearms in their homes a few more rights to their own property," Wise said.
"I think everybody should have the right to defend themselves when the circumstances provide for them to do so," said Kevin Hayes, North Augusta Public Safety.
And with some home invasions on the rise, would-be criminals may have to think again.
"Hopefully it will give more thought to somebody that may be breaking into somebody's house," Wise said.
There are instances where deadly force is not justified. For example, it can't be used against a law enforcement office performing official duties. It also can't be used by a person who unlawfully enters someone's home or vehicle. The senate still must approve the bill.


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they say linux is the safest OS ever. virus threats are less than windows. and it's free? where can i download the OS for free? but they also say that some (or many) programs dont work on linux. So, i still wanna have my windows os for running important program, and have linux for the internet. can i have 2 different OSs in my laptop? how? tell me the details please? how do i make another partition for os with partition magic? guide me step by step. Im sick with this sucky windows where i always get spywares and viruses, i have to scan it over and over again, reformat, it's really frustrating and f-u-c-k-i-n-g annoying (sorry). i always wanna crush my laptop every time it gets slower and slower because of viruses. i want linux. please help me.
windows and linux in my laptop???????


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weedy420 wrote:
isnt that really all it takes in any form of authority, just a bad apple and then everybody is miserable
Zoe wrote: bluntedinmichigan mentioned that usa were poorly considered by other countries... he's actually quite right for sure. No attack nor critics against you. I'd be interested to know your feelings about the film Bowling for Columbine. I'm a foreigner, I saw this film and couldn't help laughing from the beginning to the end. Everybody I know had the same reaction. When I saw it, I couldn't hear all that was said because everybody were laughing so hard... There was a guy from the US who saw the film in Switzerland, and he was really shocked by us because he lived some things that happen in the picture and still kept marks of that. How did people like you in the US actually react??
Again, no attack, no despising, nothing like that, just interest!!
August Spies wrote: Actually I disagree. Its often said that communism and anarchism would work if people were angels.... thre are actually forms that discourage curroption and such, it would be more accurate to say the present system would work if people were angels.
People would not exploit their workers, companys would not pollute the enviorment or interfere with the political process, politicians would not lie, secret organizations like the CIA would not assasinate anybody we didn't like.
Human nature is a complex thing. There are many facets to it. Do we really want a system (capitalism) that mainy promotes the negative aspects of human nature (greed, self-interest, hiearchy)?