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Police say Jason Landes-Caballero, 21, of Pleasanton, came into the pub with friends but then became separated from them. At some point in the evening, he began acting strangely, pacing back and forth. Shortly before 1 a.m., he took out a silver handgun and fired over patrons' heads, according to a statement from Pleasanton police Sgt. Maria Munaye.
Several of the bullets hit the restaurant's ceiling, but one struck a patron in the buttocks; that man did not realize he had been hit until friends saw that he was bleeding. The victim was taken to St. Eden Medical Center with superficial wounds and released after a couple of hours.
Waiters chased Landes-Caballero through the streets but could not catch him. They turned to social media to inquire about the customer then passed along the information to the police, resulting in an arrest, according to Mary Kennard, owner of Redcoats British Pub & Restaurant at 336 St. Mary St. in Pleasanton.
"This was a troubled young man," Kennard said. "I want to give credit to the staff. It's shocking, but we're happy that it wasn't more serious."
Landes-Caballero was arrested Sunday afternoon on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and negligent discharge of a firearm. He was also charged with possession of a controlled substance after methamphetamine was found on him.
Kennard described her pub as a family establishment that turns into a fun bar in the evening.
"Nowhere are we immune from a troubled young man with a gun," she said. "I guess it's just the price we pay for living in a free society."
Contact Karina Ioffee at 650-576-9626. Follow her at Twitter.com/kioffee.


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Growing up in Melbourne, Australia, Anna Funder wanted to be a writer from the time she was 6 years old.
"We went to live in Paris, and I started school there. I had to learn French fast, and I realised that language was a magic curtain - things happened differently behind the different languages, emotions could be expressed that had no name, or a different tone, in English."
Eventually she wove her way through life to writing, though she was an international lawyer for the Australian government first. The two careers aren't as different as you might think, though.
"I'm deeply concerned, in both my books at some level, with human rights and freedoms, and what we owe one another," said Funder, who now lives in Brooklyn with her husband and children. "That's what I was doing in international law, and in a way I'm still doing it."
Funder's first book, "Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall," has been translated into16 languages and in 2004 it won the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize, the most prestigious nonfiction award in the United Kingdon. "All That I Am," her first novel, won Australia's most prestigious literary prize, the Miles Franklin Award, and has also been longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Award. The book is based on true events. It follows a close group of friends who become outlaws after Hitler comes to power in 1933.
"One of our booksellers read an early copy and loved 'All That I Am,'" said Nicole Magistro, co-owner of the Bookworm of Edwards where Funder will speak tonight. "Based on our love for World War II historical novels, we felt this would be a good fit for our store and our customers, so we invited Anna for the paperback release. Her work is based on a real cast of characters during the German resistance. For us, there are so many questions-about what really happened, what part of the story is left to creative license, and what inspired Anna's amazing story - we can't wait to meet her."
Funder answered a few questions for the Vail Daily.
Vail Daily: Tell me how you got the initial idea for "All That I Am."
Anna FuNder: I was writing a novel about a dysfunctional family (which is to say a completely ordinary family) and I was going to have a character like my friend Ruth as the grandmother - a take-no-prisoners, truth-telling kind of person who would puncture everybody else's denial. I got stuck. Research is always good if you're a bit stuck. So, I started to look into my friend Ruth's life. I thought I knew all about her activities against Hitler, about her being betrayed and about her imprisonment as a Jewish political prisoner under the Nazis. What I didn't know about was how life was for the refugees from the Third Reich while they were in London, 1933-1935. That's when I found out about Dora Fabian - so sexy and smart and brave - and then I was in love and gone for all money. I went to the cemetery where she's buried in London and there's not even a gravestone. I thought: someone has to find out what happened here.
VD: It's based on real people and events, but how did you find the story?
AF: LIke I said, it started from researching my good friend Ruth Blatt's life. The story I had to make up, because the real verdict in the events was 'suicide by reason of unsound mind due to romantic disappointment.' Who would believe that - then or now? But I didn't make up any piece of evidence in making my story - it might have been as I have it.
VD: Tell me about your research and writing process. How long did it take?
AF: I spent about 18 months researching the book - though the research and writing phase overlap a lot of course: you keep finding things and having ideas long after the characters have started to take shape on the page. I spent a little over five years full-time on the book. At the beginning I went to London for six weeks one summer, and walked the streets where Dora and Ruth walked, I went to the archives looking for the coronial file (gutted, rather curiously now - just an empty folder), I actually got into the flat in Great Ormond Street where my characters lived and died. To be in a state of excited admiration, of curiosity and exploration is like being in love. It's a good place to write from.
VD: What are you working on now?
AF: I'm working on a keynote speech for the Perth Writers Festival next month, and a piece of long-form fiction I've been wanting to do for a long time that's a kind of follow-up to my first book, "Stasiland." I'm also woolgathering for a novel. I have a studio in an old can factory with a long desk in it, and I have my materials set out in there for each piece, reminding me of what my year looks like.
VD: What are you reading right now?
AF: I'm reading Vassily Grossman's incredible "Life and Fate," his startling and masterful account of Stalingrad. When I need to, which is pretty often, I re-read Jonathan Franzen's essays in "Farther Away," and in "How to Be Alone." I go to Sebald if I need to get a sense of what is possible in writing. I recently read "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," which makes you ask the question that is the question of all good writing - is this the most important thing you can be doing? It keeps you honest.
VD: What can people expect from your event at the Bookworm of Edwards on Thursday?
AF: I'm going to give people a kind of 'DVD Extras' experience, you know - you press the button and you get 'the making of' the movie, or in this case, the behind the scenes of the novel. The novel contains in it this strange, unresolved case, which looked like political murder - a Gestapo assassination - of an extraordinary woman. Where do you go with that, as a novelist? I'm going to ask myself that question in public and see where it leads.

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Gang graffiti sprayed at three locations in northern Spartanburg County
Published: Friday, December 28, 2012 at 9:52 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, December 28, 2012 at 9:52 p.m.
A former fire department, convenience store and home in northern Spartanburg County were vandalized in recent days.
Doors at the former fire department at the corner of 4th Street and Park Road were spray painted with the words "Blood135" — with stars replacing the "o" letters — "WSG," "Folks" and other symbols, according to a Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office incident report.
Inman Community Volunteer Fire Department rents the building from Startex, Jackson, Wellford, Duncan Water District, according to the report.
The vandalism happened between noon Wednesday and about 1:30 p.m. Thursday, the report states.
In another incident, a man reported that his deceased father's house on Dickson Road in Campobello was broken into between 3:50 p.m. and 4:20 p.m. Wednesday. The suspects forced open a rear door and spray painted what appeared to be "gang-type graffiti" on walls inside the house, an incident report states. A witness reported seeing male subjects, but could not provide detailed descriptions. The witness also was unsure what vehicle they left in.
In another incident, "Bloods" was spray painted on the hood of a vehicle parked outside Lake Stop convenience store at 2421 Compton Bridge Road in Inman. Stars were painted, rather than the letters "o," according to an incident report. The store also was painted. That incident occurred between 8 p.m. Wednesday and 7 a.m. Thursday.
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Morgan Andrews speaks: Notre Dame star undeterred by U.S. U-20 World Cup snub
Last month, Notre Dame midfielder and New Hampshire native Morgan Andrews received shocking news: After years of callups and even a stint as the team's captain, she was left off the United States' final roster for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.
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The Camden Clark Regional Wound Care Center celebrated its 5th year anniversary by adding a fourth Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber on Tuesday, Nov. 13.
"We are fortunate to have the opportunity to add a fourth hyperbaric oxygen chamber to our Regional Wound Care Center," said Dr. Steven Richards, Medical Director of the Center. "We are caring for more patients than ever before, and this center has been able to keep pace with this growing need. Camden Clark remains at the cutting edge of wound care, and this fourth chamber will allow more patients access to some of the most powerful tools in wound healing."
The Camden Clark Regional Wound Care Center treats approximately 600 wound care patients per month as well as an average of 300 patients that use Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy as part of their treatment.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is a thoroughly tested, completely safe and painless medical treatment that enhances the body's natural healing ability and strengthens the body's immune system. By dramatically increasing the oxygen content level in blood and compromised tissue, hyperbaric oxygen provides the ideal environment to promote improved wound healing through its direct bacteriostatic effect and the growth of new blood vessels and skin.
Used as a primary and adjunctive therapy for many non-healing wounds, this noninvasive therapy acts as a catalyst to reduce healing time, improve healing rates and prevent possible limb loss. Patients who have suffered from chronic wounds for months, and even years, are routinely restored to health in a shorter time than they ever thought possible.
The Camden Clark Regional Wound Care Center has a multidisciplinary team of specialists and wound care certified RN's using the latest, state-of-the-art healing techniques. In addition to Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, we provide advanced wound care treatments such as skin substitutes, negative pressure therapy and advanced dressings.


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Dr. Miren Intal
Introduction to new administrators and faculty members
New dean of SOH, Dr. Beni New dean of JGSOM, Mr. Ang Dean of SOSE, Dr. Dayrit Dean of SOSS, Fr. Cruz Altarap, registrar Cardenas, orp de los Santos, OSA galvez, assistant to JGSOM Fr. Dan, college chaplain Olave, CMT Sumpaico, OAS Vilchez, school forum Rosales, ADAA Dr. Gus Rodriguez, faculty development coordinator Dr. Garcia, college guidance asst director Fr. Que, CMO, OAA Mr. San Andres, ADSA Ms. Banson, MIS Office Mrs. Chit Conception, placement director, guidance director Mrs. Cherry Franco, assistant to the president
How do we become more competitive with regard to universities in other countries?
What are you deeply passionate about? What can you be very good at, even the best in the country or the world? What generates the necessary financial and other resources?
1. Have a stop-doing list : 10:23
2. Reflections : 10:25
I think my hedgehog concept is computer science education.
I can drop wearable computing for the moment. If it's really important, I can go into it later.
Part of being a great computer science teacher is doing research. I can start doing research on computer science education first.
IT integration into education, yes, that makes sense too.
I want to get in touch with introductory computer science teachers in other schools, find out what they have problems with, and develop tools to help them.
3. Dr. Intal's talk : 12:35
Ground floor cafeteria, faculty lounge.
Off-shore degree programs?
4. Dr. Dayrit : 12:39
DISCS enrollment: 730 768 816 770
5. Dr. Dayrit SOSE planning session : 14:52
Off-shore degree programs?
I want to focus on computer science education. My objectives are:
- Develop interactive, up-to-date learning materials for
student-centered learning
- Monitor, experiment with and disseminate pedagogical advances in
computer science and education
- Contribute to the body of knowledge of computer science education
I need to learn
- more effective communication skills, preferably with a mentor or
by videotaping my sessions
- technical writing
- presentation skills
I want to work on compiling learning materials and teaching notes for teachers of introductory computer science from different schools around the Philippines. I want to meet and work with intro teachers from other schools.
Ask Dr. Cuyegkeng about SMIT-Ed!
6. Thoughts : 16:29
7. Ideas : 17:18
Personal software process? http://interactive.sei.cmu.edu/Features/1999/June/Background/Background.jun99.htm
8. more thoughts : 17:19
(p.s.: Everything is all right now.)
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Advances have been made in the understanding and effective handling of quality issues in the manufacture of pharmaceutical products in the past decade. Sources of quality deficiencies are largely a result of manufacturing processes that lack sufficient risk mitigation, intended and unintended changes in process, inadequately planned equipment budgeting, changes in quality of active and inactive ingredients or their suppliers, and human error. All factors, individually or together, may result in variability in quality, even in routinely manufactured products.
Understanding the major sources of variation is essential to the design and control of robust processes. Over time, a component of a process may drift from its target because of intrinsic or extrinsic factors. These factors may be either unknown initially or considered to be insignificant during development and manufacturing.
Pharmaceutical manufacturing companies must be prepared to face internal and external audits and, most importantly, withstand rigorous regulatory audits without notice. Often a firm will use audits to gather information to correct unknown errors and shortcomings in routine operations to meet cGMP requirements. It is possible, however, that even with careful monitoring and good training, deficiencies in products may occur due to changing regulatory requirements, unknown ingredient changes, modifications in process, equipment changes, increased scientific awareness, and unintended employee negligence. A pharmaceutical manufacturer that lacks quality control may face difficult regulatory issues with unpleasant ramifications, including recalls and FDA Warning Letters. This article highlights some of the key issues that may impact a company that does not ensure quality.Consumer safety
Complaints by wholesalers, distributors, pharmacies, or consumers often occur upon noticing products with faulty appearance. Such a product may be defective and result in unnecessary adverse reactions and inadequate efficacy that may lead to direct risk to the well being of the consumer. The obvious inadequacy of the product could be due to one of many reasons (e.g., inadequate formulation characterization or optimization, change in grade of active or inactive ingredients, foreign contaminants, inadequate packaging or manufacturing controls, poor maintenance, manufacturing process changes, and packaging issues such as faulty container–closure system).


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- Apr 24:
- Officials: Dead bomber name in terrorism database
- Apr 23:
- Boston bombing suspect's wife is 'nice,' 'sweet' American convert to Islam
- Boston bombing victim Martin Richard, 8, laid to rest privately
- Older Boston bombing suspect frequently visited jihadist websites, U.S. officials say
- Boston Bombing Suspects: Who Do We Think They Are?
- Crowd funding for Boston's Dave Henneberry and his shot-up boat goes through the roof
- Apr 22:
- Boston bombing suspect Tsarnaev charged with using WMD, could face death penalty
- Boston bombings edge into immigration debate
- Feds ask to interview wife of suspected Boston Marathon bomber
- Apr 21:
- Governor: Video shows Boston bomb suspect placing backpack
- Police: Boston bomber may have been killed by his own brother
- Apr 20:
- Doctor: Boston suspect had so many wounds he couldn't tell which was fatal
- Authorities arrest two in town where Boston bombing suspect may have lived
- Boston bombing suspect hospitalized following arrest
- Apr 19:
- Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev's mother-in-law sickened by attack
- Mercury News editorial: Marathon bombers raise important questions for American society
- Boston Red Sox, Bruins postpone games during manhunt
- Boston bombings: Television can only 'hurry up and wait'
- Boston bombing suspect's U-Mass Dartmouth classmates: He was 'calm,' 'cool,' 'laid back'
- Boston bombing suspects' sister says she doesn't know what got into them
- Boston bombings: TV networks plan prime-time coverage
- Media chasing Boston images, information in massive manhunt
- Chechnya: What its militants are fighting for
- Boston bombing suspects' uncle, 'ashamed,' asks nephew to turn himself in
- Boston bombing suspects spent night in Honda before carjacking a Mercedes
- Boston manhunt: MIT police chief says slain officer Sean Collier was dedicated, well-liked
- Boston manhunt: Chronology of chaotic search for suspects in marathon bombing
- Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev captured alive, police say
- Boston bombing suspects: Who are the two brothers?
- Police: Suspect who killed MIT cop is dead; second suspect tied to Boston bombing
- Apr 18:
- Boston bombing suspects shown in photos, video released by FBI
Boston's police commissioner says investigators believe the suspects in the marathon bombing were likely planning other attacks.
Commissioner Ed Davis told CBS' "Face the Nation" on Sunday that authorities found an arsenal of homemade explosives following a gun battle between police and the suspects last week in Watertown, Mass.
Davis says authorities have reason to believe 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-KHAR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) and 26-year-old brother Tamerlan "were going to attack other individuals."
He says the scene of the gun battle was "loaded with unexploded improvised explosive devices that actually we had to point out to the arriving officers and clear the area."
He said on "Fox News Sunday" authorities cannot be positive there aren't more explosives that haven't been found. But he says the people of Boston are safe.


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Harold Douglas Graves,90, of Oroville died at his home with his wife at his side on April 11, 2012.
He was born Aug 13, 1921 in Reed Springs, Stone County, Missouri. He moved to Oroville in the Spring of 1926 and has been a resident here for 86 years. He has worked as a logger and miner and a welder in in the Kaiser shipyards in Richman during WWII. He also worked 33 years the Wyandotte Olive and Growers Plant, Lindsey Olives and Calif Canners. His position at Wyandotte Olives was Plant manger and industrial engineer and he was always willing to help others with his skills. He also had a 160 acre ranch and grew olives, rice and prunes. He had a busy life and was well known for his mechanical abilities. He also loved hunting, fishing and dancing with his wife and friends.
Harold is survived by his wife of 69 years Esther; nephews, Bill Graves, of Colorado, Ron Graves, of Oroville, Cleo "Red" Steele, of Redding, Kenny Ray and Kevin Owen, both of Gridley, Monte Graves, of Oregon, Rob Graves, of Oroville and Brian Graves, of Arizona; niece, Cathy Graves Martin, of Oroville and great nieces and nephews.
Harold is preceded in death by his last brother William Kenneth Graves who died on November 24, 2011 Thanksgiving Day. A visitation was held at Scheer Memorial on Sunday, April 15, 1 to 5 p.m. A funeral service was also held at Scheer on Monday, April 16 at 10 a.m. followed by interment at Memorial Park Cemetery. Memorial contributions can be made to Y.M.C.A., Oroville Library or to your charity of choice.
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text: Something to try and make up for that drunken crap I posted...Oh summer days, where have you been,Still burnished from your winter sheen?Do you quickly hide from fat old men,Who shirtless, drink their tepid beers,To sounds of barbecues and cheers?Oh summers lost, where did you go?I knew a person long ago,Who bounced on pogo sticks till late,Then climbed a tree, too tall by farAnd fell and laughed with boyhood aches.Oh summer nights, oh starry fields For you I cannot think, but feel, Those hazy staggers home so late, To bumble clumsy at my gate,Such happy wordless silly groans. Who knows what summer now will yield...? Me? Like you? Like that?!?


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By Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Although no longer considered a leading candidate to become pope, Italian Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini still is expected to exercise substantial influence within the conclave to elect Pope John Paul II's successor.
Cardinal Martini, 78, retired as archbishop of Milan in 2002 and began living most of each year in Jerusalem where, he said, he continues his Scripture scholarship and prays for peace.
The cardinal is known as a strong pastor and administrator. He once was seen as a leading voice for wider discussion and dialogue on some delicate and controversial church positions, but Biblical studies, Catholic-Jewish dialogue and praying for peace in the Middle East have become the focal points of his retirement.
Cardinal Martini's decision to move to Jerusalem and the fact that he has purchased a burial plot there are concrete reflections of the main points he makes in the speeches and messages he has written in retirement.
In a September 2004 message to a symposium on the Holy Land and interreligious dialogue, the cardinal wrote that Christians who visit Jerusalem should suspend judgment on the political situation there and simply pray for both sides. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has become so complicated and painful that even an expert would have trouble sorting it out, he said.
At a November 2004 speech at Rome's Gregorian University, he told Catholics they could not understand their faith unless they understood the Jewish faith practiced by Jesus and his disciples.
"It is vital for the church not only to understand the ancient covenant (between God and the Jewish people) which has endured for centuries in order to launch a fruitful dialogue, but also to deepen our own understanding of who we are as the church," he said.
"It is not enough to be 'anti' anti-Semitism," he said. "We need to build friendships, recognizing our differences, but not allowing them to lead to conflict."
Cardinal Martini also said Christians and Jews must work together on concrete projects of charity, justice and peace, creating mutual trust and fulfilling their religious obligation "to give witness to God's love for humanity."
"Where there is conflict, like in the Middle East, we must be in the middle, promoting dialogue and helping each side to learn the pain of the other," the cardinal said.
Cardinal Martini's leadership as president of the Council of European Bishops' Conferences for six years and as a member of the Council of the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops has made him a familiar face among many of his fellow cardinals.
Cardinal Martini has made news with his openness to the possibility of allowing married Latin-rite priests under certain circumstances, ordaining women as deacons and allowing Communion for some divorced Catholics in subsequent marriages not approved by the church.
Priestly celibacy is a "historical decision which could be changed, but I don't think it will be wise to change the decision but to adapt it to the situation of different people," he said in a 1995 interview with the British Broadcasting Corp.
On women's ordination, he said in 1996 that a future Vatican council of the world's bishops "could consider the problem, rethinking the whole question."
At the 1999 European Synod of Bishops, he made waves when he proposed a new churchwide council or assembly to unravel "doctrinal and disciplinary knots" like the shortage of priests, the role of women, the role of laity and the discipline of marriage. His carefully worded remarks reflected his belief that the church would benefit from a wider exercise of collegiality. The idea of a new council was not taken up formally by the synod, but was debated privately among participants, with some supporting the proposal and others dismissing it.
During that synod, Cardinal Martini said he was convinced that the church can best evangelize in the West through dialogue, not demands.
"We cannot force anyone to come to church. We can try to show that, even in a technological and modern society, it is possible for a community to live the Gospel with simplicity and joy," he told Catholic News Service.
Born in Orbassano, near Turin, Italy, Feb. 15, 1927, Carlo Maria Martini entered the Society of Jesus in 1944, was ordained a priest July 13, 1952, and took his final vows as a Jesuit in 1962.
The cardinal, a biblical scholar, never held a parish post. With doctorates in theology and biblical studies, he was a seminary professor in Chieri, Italy, 1958-1961; professor and later rector at the Biblical Institute in Rome, 1967-1978; and rector at Gregorian University from July 1978 until his December 1979 appointment to Milan.
Cardinal Martini became the first Jesuit in 35 years to head an Italian archdiocese when he was named archbishop of Milan. Pope John Paul II ordained him an archbishop Jan. 6, 1980, in St. Peter's Basilica.
The Archdiocese of Milan, with more than 5 million inhabitants and more than 1,100 parishes, has given the church two popes -- Pius XI and Paul VI -- in the last 83 years.
When Cardinal Martini took possession of his new archdiocese, he made a "walk of prayer" through the city, stopping several times to pray for the work of man, for the power of Christian love and for peace.
"Walking through the city, I can imagine so many sufferings behind the walls of the houses," he said. "But in so much sorrow I also see an immense core of generosity."
Cardinal Martini eventually came to be trusted enough that in 1984 a group of northern Italian terrorists turned over three suitcases full of weapons and ammunition to him, in an attempt to encourage mediation between their organization and Italian authorities.
Named to the College of Cardinals in 1983, he was immediately appointed to four different Vatican bodies instead of the one or two on which most new cardinals serve.
The widely traveled Cardinal Martini speaks French, English, German, Spanish, Portuguese and modern Greek in addition to his native Italian and the ancient languages of Latin, Greek and Hebrew.
As president of the Council of European Bishops' Conferences from 1986 to 1993, he played a major role in the 1991 Synod of Bishops for Europe, and he greatly expanded cooperative efforts with Protestant and Orthodox church bodies on the continent.
U.S. bishops have looked to him for guidance when, for example, he was named spiritual director of their 1986 spring meeting in Collegeville, Minn. In that role, he conducted a day of recollection on the first day and presented a series of reflections during morning prayers throughout the meeting.


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It was the fizzled drizzle. The little storm that couldn't. Or wouldn't.
A howling storm that forecasters said would drop up to an inch of much-needed rain on the South Bay actually delivered more wind than wet when it slithered out of town by midday Wednesday, leaving a cotton patch of clouds and little hint of the gully-washer to come.
Now we turn our faces to the skies and await Friday morning, when another storm could bring up to an inch of rain to San Jose. No fooling this time, according to meteorologist Jan Null of Golden Gate Weather Services.
Following Wednesday's disappointment, the city was still parched after getting only 0.16 of an inch during what turned out to be a dud downpour. That piddling puddle left San Jose slightly ahead of last year's drought-level total, with just 59 percent of normal rainfall. "This one ended up going through fairly quickly, which is why the rainfall amounts were fairly minimal," Null said. "I think we'll be looking at more significant amounts of precipitation with the next storm because it's much broader in width."
Friday's coming event is barreling down from the Gulf of Alaska, a more typical track for a winter storm than the Wednesday wipeout, which rode an "atmospheric river" from the southwest. "These are the types of storms that leave San Jose out of the mix," Null said. "They produce a lot of rain up in the Santa Cruz Mountains, but descending air warms up and dries out when it flows into the Santa Clara Valley."
All over the Bay Area the rain totals were built up quickly and then the downpours slowed and stopped suddenly. In many areas afternoon sunny skies made it seem as if no storm had occurred at all. Totals were a varied scattering: San Francisco: 0.31 inches; downtown Oakland: 0.23 inches; Berkeley: 0.33 inches, Richmond: 0.68 inches; Livermore: 0.43 inches; Concord airport: 0.24 inches.
In Santa Cruz County the weather forced Highway 17 to close completely for a while, and the backed-up afternoon rush-hour traffic was nightmarish. There were also downed trees. "We heard there were some power outages in mountain communities," Ben Benjamin of the National Weather Service said about the storm that came in from the west. He said mountain communities absorbed more rain than others lower down. Ben Lomond, for example, got 1.13 inches while downtown Santa Cruz saw only 0.39 inches and Watsonville caught 0.46.
But assuming the next storm inaugurates what one hyperventilating TV anchorman predicted would be the "sandbag season" that was supposed to arrive Wednesday, forecasters expect it to fill San Jose's thirsty water table.
"By the end of the weekend," Null said, "I wouldn't be surprised to see San Jose pretty close to normal -- if not above -- by Monday morning."
Never happened
On the heels of Hurricane Sandy's massive media mobilization on the East Coast, local TV news organizations dispatched reporters fitted out in foul-weather gear and had them standing by on camera, ready to cling to light poles when the fierce storm hit, just like their network counterparts.
But it never happened.
At one point early Wednesday, a reporter for one TV station was reduced to forlornly pointing to a few raindrops on her windshield from a brief shower that had already passed.
For much of the Bay Area, strong winds were the hallmark of Wednesday's storm. Gusts peaked at almost 80 mph on Poverty Ridge in Santa Clara County and neared 70 mph on Mount Diablo in Contra Costa County. At the site of the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge, workers got the day off -- but not before a flurry of activity to secure construction equipment ahead of the blustery storm.
"We have battened down the hatches out here on the project," said Caltrans spokesman Bart Ney.
People out for a stroll during a break in the downpour in downtown San Mateo welcomed the rain after last winter's dryness. Kate Parina, 63, of San Mateo, smiled at the falling drops as she headed to work, saying it's good for plants and will mean snow for skiers.
Paltry powder
Conditions at area ski resorts remained marginal after Wednesday's warm storm. Most of the day, the snow level remained above 7,000 feet at Truckee and other ski runs around Lake Tahoe, and what fell was wet and heavy. "If you want powder," Null advised, "go to the Rockies."
Sally Gunter, spokeswoman for Heavenly Mountain Resort, said the resort's upper base at 9,100 feet means they expect to see the white stuff and not the wet stuff at the higher slopes.
"We're very excited about this storm," she said. "It was good today, raining at lake level, but we had snow falling up top."
Amelia Richmond, of Squaw Valley, said they're hopeful, and "7,500 we can do."
"It's good news for us in terms of the upper mountain, where there's better skiing," she said.
Delays of almost four hours were reported for arriving flights at San Francisco International Airport on Wednesday morning, according to the Federal Aviation Administration, as winds surged in coastal areas. The late arrivals also caused departure delays. No major delays were reported at San Jose or Oakland airports.
PG&E crews were in place throughout the Bay Area to repair fallen power lines. The largest outage was in Pacifica, where more than 1,000 customers were without power; service was restored to most customers by 11 a.m., just as the storm was scooting out of the area.
While the storms will pack a lot of rain, they aren't expected to trigger the conditions needed for the Mavericks big wave surf contest off the San Mateo County coastline, organizers said.
Staff Writer Eric Kuhri contributed to this report. Contact Bruce Newman at 408-920-5004; follow him at Twitter.com/BruceNewmanTwit.


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ALAMEDA — Safety Charles Woodson was one of the younger players on the team the last time the Raiders played in a Super Bowl. The infusion of older, experienced players to this year's team has Woodson dreaming big once again.
"We're trying to bust through the ceiling," Woodson said Monday. "I look at the team and I feel like I have what I need from a team standpoint to get all the way there."
All the way there, of course, means winning a Super Bowl. The Raiders last won a Super Bowl at the close of the 1983 season. They last appeared in a Super Bowl in the 2002 season, when they got clobbered by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
That Raiders team was led by well-traveled veterans such as quarterback Rich Gannon, safety Rod Woodson and wide receiver Jerry Rice, among others, that were added to complement players such as Charles Woodson.
Raiders general manager Reggie McKenzie employed a similar approach this offseason, when he traded for veteran quarterback Matt Schaub and signed older free agents like running back Maurice Jones-Drew, wide receiver James Jones, and defensive linemen LaMarr Woodley, Antonio Smith and Justin Tuck.
"I see a lot of similarities," Woodson said.
Upon signing with the Raiders last season, Woodson was cautious in his assessment of how many games he thought the Raiders would win and never mentioned the Super Bowl.
Already, Woodson said, he can see the changes in the way the Raiders practice. He said the communication is "intense" among the veteran players.
"You can tell that you got guys that have been in the game before and know how to win and know what it takes to win," Woodson said.
For a while, Woodson said, he wasn't sure if he was going to be asked back for another season in his second stint with the Raiders — his first go round lasted from 1998-2005.
Woodson, who turns 38 early this season, didn't receive any calls from other teams, as he did last season, when he met with the Denver Broncos and 49ers before he signed with the Raiders.
"My heart was set on coming back here," Woodson said. "If that didn't happen, then I would have had to weigh those options whether or not something else could turn up."
Woodson said he also contemplated the possibility that his long, illustrious NFL career might have ended.
"I was getting a little bit nervous, sitting at home, trying to figure out what's going to happen," Woodson said, "because, the reality was, if it didn't happen here, that could have been it."
One thing is certain, Woodson doesn't feel as if his age is a detriment. His body also feels great despite a 16-year career to this point.
"I'm not looking at this being the last year," Woodson said.
Instead, Woodson is looking at the Raiders returning to the playoffs for the first time since he initially donned a silver-and-black uniform.


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Maryland Says It Has 326 Enrollees in Health Exchange
The state of Maryland says it has thousands of people interested in buying health insurance on its new state-run exchange, but only 326 so far have actually enrolled in new coverage.
That number is one of the few trickling out about enrollment in the new health-insurance exchanges created by the 2010 Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. The federal government, which is operating exchanges on behalf of 36 states, hasn't given enrollment numbers yet for its HealthCare.gov exchange, which, as The Wall Street Journal reported today, has been plagued by design and software problems.
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Maryland is one of 14 states running its own exchange. With a Democratic governor and Democratic-dominated legislature, the state's commitment to making the law work was never in doubt, but it ran into considerable technology problems early on. (This Washington Post story has more details.)
On Monday, the state said it is still working through technical issues and conceded that MarylandHealthConnection.gov "may be inconsistent, especially during periods of peak usage."
Those problems are reflected in the Maryland numbers released Monday, the first of what the state said would be regular data releases. The state said 13,532 accounts with verified identity were created as of Sunday evening, and it has seen 170,000 unique visitors to the website. But only 326 people were actually enrolled in new health-insurance plans.
The state has about 600,000 people without health insurance, according to the Census Bureau, so it has a long way to go to make a dent in its uninsured rate. Officials say there's still plenty of time, so long as people aren't deterred by website problems. Open enrollment continues through March 31.


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- Am I guaranteed an on-campus job?
- Where is the Student Employment Office (SEO) located?
- What services are provided by the Student Employment Office?
- Do I qualify for an on-campus job?
- How do I apply for an on-campus job?
- What additional paperwork do I need to complete once employment is obtained?
- What kind of documentation do I need to present as an International Student once employment is obtained?
- What types of on-campus jobs are available?
- Who hires student assistants for on-campus jobs?
- How many hours per week can student assistants work?
- How do student assistants get paid?
- Can student assistants work during breaks?
Q: Am I guaranteed an on-campus job?
A: On-campus employment is competitive; and the Student Employment Office does not guarantee job placement.
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A: We are located in Langdale Hall (first floor, back entrance) north of Palms Dining Center.
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A: Resources available within our office will assist students in finding and applying for on-campus employment.
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A: Current students who are attending Valdosta State University 6 credit hours or more are eligible for on-campus employment. If a student takes a leave of absence, withdraws, or is dismissed for academic or disciplinary reasons, he or she will no longer be eligible to work on campus as a student assistant.
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A: As a student assistant, you are required to complete state and federal paperwork, and information for Direct Deposit or CashPay, on or before the first day of work.
The following forms must be completed in conjunction with your hiring department and submitted to the Student Employment Office before you can receive your first payroll. (Note: These forms will be given to you during the hiring process by the Student Employment Office.)
- Direct Deposit Enrollment Form (PDF Format) or Cash Pay Enrollment Form (PDF format)
- Drug Free Policy & Drug Policy Acknowledgement: You must print a copy of the Drug Free Policy and complete the Drug Policy Acknowledgement Form indicating that you have read and understand the policy.
- Federal Form 8233 - To be completed by Non-Resident Aliens when applicable.
- Federal Form W-4
- Georgia Form G-4
- I9: The employee will need to present the proper identification in order to complete this form. The most commonly used forms of identification used by students are: Passport, Photo ID and original social security card , Photo ID and original or certified copy of the birth certificate
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- State Security Questionnaire Form
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- VSU Tax Information Form for International Students
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A: International students will need to complete all applicable state and federal forms in additional to presenting and completing the following:
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A: Different academic, administrative and support service departments employ student assistants in a variety of jobs. On-campus job opportunities may include: tutor, lifeguard, resident assistant, web design, front desk worker, and library aide.
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Out against Robredo
Roger lost 6-7(3), 3-6, 4-6 to Tommy Robredo of Spain on Monday night in round four of the US Open.
"I kind of self-destructed, which is very disappointing, especially on a quicker court. Your serve helps you out. You're going to make the difference somewhere. I just couldn't do it. It was a frustrating performance," Roger said. He had enough opportunities to find his way into the match. Roger level to 2-2 after trailing 0-2 in the opening set. And he did so once again as Robredo broke his serve to 4-5, then matching the break and taking the score to 5-5 and finally taking the set into a tie-breaker. But over the two hours and 24 minutes of play, our champ accumulated 43 unforced errors and managed to convert only these 2 of 16 break points.
Next up for Roger is the Shanghai Rolex Masters in October.


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"How I Met Your Mother" (8 p.m., CBS):
Here's the episode where we really get to know the Mother (Cristin Milioti) as we learn what has been going on with Ted's (Josh Radnor) future wife the past eight years.
"Herblock: The Black & the White" (9 p.m., HBO: The compelling new documentary traces the life, times and influence of celebrated editorial cartoonist Herbert Block. His career spanned over 50 years and earned him a Pulitzer Prize.
"Castle" (10 p.m., ABC): In an episode titled, "Dressed to Kill," Castle and Beckett (Nathan Fillion, Stana Katic) investigate the murder of a fashion magazine editor's assistant. Frances Fisher guest stars as the intimidating editor.
Also on Monday:
Contact Chuck Barney at Facebook.com/BayAreaNewsGroup.ChuckBarney, or Twitter.com/chuckbarney


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Open Movie Editor How-To: Fade to Black Transition
After my previous overview of Open Movie Editor (OME), I decided to create a small How-To regarding an easily obtainable piece of functionality that's not yet standard within OME.
Open Movie Editor natively contains only one transition between clips – a simple cross fade. However, one of the most used transitions in video editing is a fade to black. By adding a black still image, between two clips on a single video track in OME, it is possible to generate exactly what you need.
Here's how by following the steps below:
1. Open your favourite image editor, in this example we've used the GIMP.
2. Create a new image with a solid black background, at the same size as your video clips. We've used PAL 720×576.
3. Save the image as a PNG, although JPG will also work.
4. Switch to Open Movie Editor and navigate to your footage in the Media Browser window. We've previously downloaded two QuickTime clips from stock footage supplier BBC Motion Gallery, to use in this example.
5. Add the first clip to video track one.
6. Add the black still image to the same video track.
7. Add the second video clip to the same video track.
8. Now, overlap the beginning of the black still image with the end of the first clip. A blue area with a red cross through it should appear – this is the length of time that the fade will occur.
9. Adjust the length of the black still image to suit the speed of the fade to black required.
10. Now, drag the beginning of the second video clip over the end of the still image, so that another blue box and red cross appears.
11. Move the timeline marker before the first blue box and test your fade out to and in from black.
Easy! Move the clips, and adjust the length of the black still image until you are happy with the fade.
To make is even easier, we've created a screen cast for you to watch, complete with a couple of extra fades created in OME. Don't adjust your volume, there is no sound.
Get Flash Player 9 to see this movie.
var so = new SWFObject('https://stream0.org/flash/flvplayer.swf','player','640′,'500′,'9′);
so.addVariable("screencolor", "0x000000");
so.addVariable("autostart", "false");
so.addVariable("shownavigation", "false");
so.addVariable("overstretch", "fit");
This screen cast was created with RecordMyDesktop, edited with Open Movie Editor, and transcoded into an x264 file, using a custom Perl script to control FFmpeg.
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Beck's Sapphire Beer Has a Bright Flavor With a Hint of Citrus and Biscuit
Published: Monday, February 11, 2013 at 1:39 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, February 11, 2013 at 1:39 p.m.
Anheuser-Busch InBev
Beck's Sapphire
Beck's Sapphire is far removed from Beck's original. Both beers now belong to the juggernaut known as Anheuser-Busch InBev, which has sexed up two of its leading brands — Budweiser and Beck's — with hip, new marketing campaigns touting bolder flavors and higher alcohol content.
Sapphire, which curiously features a ruby on its label, takes its name from German saphir hops, known for a floral aroma and mild citrus flavor. The new recipe produces a juicier, brighter flavor with a hint of citrus and biscuit.
Missing is the sharp, metallic tang of its brethren, Beck's. Sapphire has a slightly fuller body, and it's 6 percent alcohol by volume, a bit stronger than the original.
Eric Pera can be reached at 802-7528 or email@example.com.
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Houma bridges to close for repairs
Published: Thursday, October 31, 2013 at 11:02 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, November 1, 2013 at 10:51 a.m.
The Houma Navigation Canal Bridge will close for repairs on a schedule that starts Tuesday.
The state Transportation Department revised earlier plans that had called for the bridge to close starting today.
Now, the bridge will close to vehicular traffic from 8:30 a.m. Tuesday to 4 a.m. Wednesday and again from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Friday, Nov. 8. Workers will install underwater cables and perform electrical work.
The Bayou LaCarpe Bridge, a drawbridge just east of the Navigation Canal Bridge, will close from 7 p.m. Friday through 5 a.m. Monday. Also:
-- The Bayou LaCarpe Bridge will close nighty from 7 p.m. to 5 a.m. next week aside from Thursday.
-- The bridge will close nightly from 7 p.m. to 5 a.m. Nov. 11-27.
-- The bridge will be open during the day Nov. 27 but will close from 7 p.m. to 5 a.m. nightly until Dec. 2.
Alternate routes for both bridge closures are the Houma Tunnel and downtown twin spans.
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Q At the end of a recent column, you agreed with a reader suggesting a tourist could use a relative's FasTrak in a rental car. Unless FasTrak has changed their policy, this will not work. A couple years ago I tried to use my FasTrak in a friend's car that didn't have one. It was a mess. I got billed and my friend got one of those "you didn't pay" letters from FasTrak since the transponder and the license plate didn't match. I think they do not allow sharing between cars because it might somehow contribute to fraud.
James Schinnerer
A But they do. Read on.
Q Three years ago my sister used my transponder in her car for the Bay Bridge. She received a ticket in the mail. Could be that my transponder wasn't working correctly (my tolls would have been charged appropriately based on my license plate number). This may be an exception, and I'm sure I'm not the only commenter on this topic.
Suzanne Lassen
A You most definitely are not.
Q In regards to the question about loaning someone else your transponder, I have no doubt that John-the-MTC-Bridge-Man knows what he's talking about when he says it's OK to do so. However, that assumes that both the transponder and the reader at the tollbooth are working correctly.
Bob Solotar
A That it does.
Q If for some reason there is a problem with either one, a photo is taken as you pass through the tollbooth. The license plate is then matched with FasTrak's database, and if the plate is not in the database, a bill and violation notice is sent.
I know this because a few years back, when my wife got a new car, we passed through a tollbooth with our transponder, which was not read properly. We later got a "pay or else" notice in the mail. That's when we realized we needed to register the new license plate with FasTrak and take the old plate off our account.
Bob Solotar
A It is OK to lend your FasTrak transponder to someone else, but problems can occur if the transponder is not read properly for a variety of reasons -- cheating, a dead battery in the transponder, forgetting the toll tag, equipment problems, etc.
When you loan your tag to someone who is not a FasTrak customer, a tag that does not get read cannot be matched to anything, and the driver will then receive a violation notice.
Q If FasTrak can be loaned for use in another vehicle on state bridges, what about the toll express lanes where FasTrak is used?
Chester Gabriel
A This is OK, as no cameras are in use on express lanes. That will change in a few years, but for now with no cameras there is no way to detect who owns a transponder.
Q I drive from the Vallejo area to the Pinole/Richmond area three to four times a week during the late morning hours. I notice many drivers confuse the Interstate 80 number sign with the speed-limit sign. Does the CHP have an educational program planned, including black and white cars with flashing red lights, to help drivers understand the difference between the two signs? I spend as much time looking in my rearview mirror as I do looking ahead. At times I-80 westbound between Crockett and Pinole looks like the backstretch at Daytona International Speedway!
I will wait for another day to discuss the number of single passenger cars in the HOV lane eastbound in the afternoons.
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3 MR RAMPTON: I misunderstood. I thought what we were being
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8 MR JUSTICE GRAY: You hear that, Mr Irving?
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14 MR RAMPTON: Yes, I am then going back to Irving stuff.
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MENLO PARK -- Susan Wojcicki, a low-key and highly respected senior Google executive, is taking over YouTube with the hope of leading Google's video subsidiary to a new level and, most importantly, higher revenue.
Wojcicki, 45, met Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin 15 years ago when she rented them her Menlo Park garage for $1,700 a month to create what would become the giant search company. She became Google's 16th employee a year later, its first marketing manager and, more recently, one of Google's most senior executives in charge of its moneymaking ad business.
Wojcicki confirmed her new job in a tweet Wednesday that said, "Excited to join #YouTube - wonderful team, amazing community & inspiring creators. I look forward to watching a lot more videos during work."
While Google does not release any revenue figures for YouTube, eMarketer estimates YouTube generated $5.6 billion in gross ad revenue in 2013 and netted the company $1.96 billion after paying back ad partners and video content creators. This year in the United States alone, YouTube's ad revenues are expected to reach $1.22 billion, representing 21.1 percent of all U.S. video ad revenue, according to eMarketer.
"YouTube is a powerful asset for Google," said Colin Gillis of BGC Partners. "They would like YouTube to be a primary content source, ultimately. Let's see if Susan can help drive that. She's got a long history with the company and is well-regarded. The pieces are now in place. It's time to monetize the asset at a more rapid rate."
Martin Pyykkonen of Wedge Partners called Wojcicki's move "certainly a positive for YouTube, which is attractive to teens and young adults and is generating more professionally produced content over multiple channels.
"She's pretty well-regarded across the board," Pyykkonen said. "Putting her in this role is saying, 'YouTube is coming to fruition.' Advertisers have been noticing it, and Nielsen is putting out metrics this quarter for YouTube viewership. It's now at that point, 'Let's make a real business out of this.' "
In a 2011 profile for this newspaper headlined, "The most important Googler you've never heard of," Wojcicki (pronounced Whoa-jit-ski) said she was the first person in her family to go into business but makes it a priority to spend time with her family.
"My kids know I'm home every night for dinner," she said.
Wojcicki grew up at Stanford, where her father chaired the physics department, but she went on to study history and literature at Harvard and later got her master's in economics at UC Santa Cruz and MBA at UCLA.
In 2006, Wojcicki was in charge of a struggling unit called Google Video that was getting killed by a startup called YouTube.
She convinced Google's board to buy YouTube for $1.65 billion.
"I knew it was going to be really hard for us to catch up and that this was a real phenomenon," Wojcicki said in her 2011 interview.
Staff writer Brandon Bailey contributed to this report. Contact Dan Nakaso at 408-271-3648. Follow him at Twitter.com/dannakaso.


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Date: 5/3/2013
Start Time: 10:30 AM
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Join us for a special storytime in partnership with Frederick County Infants and Toddlers Program. Meet new friends and share books, music, activities, and more. Ages birth - 3 years with an adult. Registration opens two weeks before the storytime event.Library: C. Burr Artz Public Library
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EAGLE COUNTY, Colorado - The post offices in Vail and Avon have an answer to the old question: Where do I tell (company X) to send this package?
Some companies send everything they ship through a private delivery service, which don't deliver to post office boxes. Some use the U.S. Postal Service. Others mix it up, so you never know whether to put in your mailing or physical address on the order form. Then, of course, there's the issue of whether to have a package sent to work or your home.
Now, the up-valley post offices have rolled out a service called "street addressing," in which everything you order will come to the post office you use.
Here's how it works: Use the physical address of the post office in Vail or Avon, as well as your post office box number. People at the post office will then put the packages in a secure parcel locker, and customers can pick them up at their convenience.
The service came first to Vail, where former postmaster Mike Kervin said it's been "hugely successful."
Since the post office provides home delivery in Vail, the private delivery companies use postal carriers to get packages to doorsteps. Still, there had been confusion when a package came to a post office box, resulting in a lot of returned items.
The new service cut down on those returns, Kervin said.
Kervin is the brand-new postmaster in Avon, and the service has just started there. Kervin said about 50 people so far have signed up, and he expects many more to do so, and soon.
The street addressing service started this year. U.S. Postal Service spokesman David Rupert said about 6,800 post offices nationwide now offer it. Rupert said street addressing is being used elsewhere as a way to encourage customers who might move around frequently in cities to consider using post office boxes - which are a source of revenue for the postal service.
Rupert said postal officials will evaluate the success of the service before deciding if and when to expand street addressing.
For now, though, the service is available at the busiest post office in the valley, and one of the busiest in the state - Avon.
The post offices in Vail and Avon are have also introduced a new service that will send people who pay for their mail boxes an e-mail or text when new mail is received. Kervin said that service will be handy for people who live in outlying areas, or those whose work schedules might make it inconvenient for them to make frequent trips to the post office.
Kervin said new services are part of a new approach he wants to take at Avon's post office.
"Avon calls itself the 'heart of the valley' and we're going to make sure the post office is the heart of Avon," Kervin said.
Parcel lockers have been repaired or replaced, Kervin said, and employees have had refresher courses in customer services. Kervin said he's added a person to the package pick-up window at busy times to shorten lines. And, he said, the post office is offering a "baker's dozen" - 13 months for the price of 12 - for anyone signing up for a paid post office box.
"We're trying to inject new energy here," Kervin said. "And we're doing a lot of painting and cleaning, too."
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Party Now and We'll Celebrate Later First of all, thank you! More than 100,000 Insider subscribers have helped get us where we are today -- very close to passing an energy bill that will actually move us into a clean energy future and help solve global warming. You've signed petitions and faxed, called, e-mailed, and snail-mailed your Senators and Representatives.
Now we're asking you to host a house party.
Scuttlebutt is that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Harry Reid want the vote on this energy bill to happen by November 16th -- that's when Congress leaves for its Thanksgiving break. So we're asking you to host a party on November 8th or 14th for your family and neighbors. Together you can watch a short documentary (Kilowatt Ours) about electricity, coal generation, and its true costs (sign up now and we'll send you a free DVD of the movie; or you can watch it on-line). Then you and your guests will call some friends and neighbors to ask them to call their representatives on Capitol Hill. (To make this easy, we've put together a complete tool kit you can download). After so many years playing defense, we finally have the opportunity to throw long -- to pass an energy bill that raises miles per gallon standards for the first time in 30 years -- to 35 mpg -- and that will require that 15 percent of our energy be generated by renewable fuels like solar and wind power.
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Jay Inslee: Live on the ApolloOne member of Congress who's ready to flip the switch for clean energy is Washington Representative Jay Inslee. Rep. Inslee has championed an initiative in Congress called the New Apollo Energy Project, which is designed to marshal the resources of the federal government to support the development, manufacture, and deployment of new clean energy technologies. Together with coauthor Bracken Hendricks of the Center for American Progress, he has just published Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy, a book that offers, as none other than Sir Richard Branson says, "the compelling, bold vision in energy the world needs to beat global warming." Congressman Inslee is currently on a book tour -- so if you'd like to hear firsthand about real solutions, find out whether he's appearing near you.
Scary MonstersThank goodness for Halloween -- the one day of the year when getting scared is all just in good fun. But no tramping trick-or-treater or cleverly costumed coworker can compete with certain threats to our planet when it comes to real scariness. Usually, we prefer to concentrate on how to make the planet better -- but in honor of Halloween, we bring you five monsters that give us the heebie jeebies.
Which one would you least like to find hiding under your bed?
The Fires This Time The terrible fires in Southern California produced the usual misguided finger-pointing at environmentalists (see Carl Pope's blog for more on that), but this time around the winds and drought that helped fuel the conflagration have also focussed attention on the possible role of climate change. As columnist Bonnie Erbe wrote this week: "Remember Greece's aberrational forest fires in June? Remember Texas' record floods? Have you lived through, as I have, the mid-Atlantic's devastating and costly drought this summer, or this summer's Southwestern U.S. drought?
"None of these bizarre weather events, nor the California wildfires, can be pinned specifically on climate change. But the more weather 'acts up' the more we have to wonder what's going on."
Erbe isn't the only one wondering: Representative Edward Markey, the chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence & Global Warming, sent this letter to his colleagues. The committee will hold a hearing this week on "Wildfires and the Climate Crisis."
In the meantime, the Sierra Club continues to call for a responsible forest protection and restoration policy that puts the safety of communities first.
Making WavesRemember when the California Coastal Commission voted unanimously to turn down a proposed liquefied natural gas terminal off the Santa Barbara coast? How about that ambitious on-line photo documentation of California's coastline -- aimed at preserving it from development? Sierra Club California Coastal Program Director (and surfer) Mark Massara is the man to thank for both.
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I'm using Java 1.6.0. Will it be better with another Java version ?
I asked the question on Mandriva's forum, and anybody answer me.
I don't know if the problem comes from Java, Mandriva Spring or PS3 Media Server.
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Dear Hatpeople, may I have the pleasure of introducing you to Crab Nebula?
As everybody who shares with me the sprawling Umdloti pile of Hatman Mansions knows, I like my photography. And I like my space.
So it behoves (cool word, hey?) me to share with you a stunning photograph of Crab Nebula. Which is not the name of an American baseball player but of something that inhabits Space. Er, that's the space around Umdloti and the rest of our planet. Out there. Among the sun and the moon and the stars and the other stuff which floats and whizzes aimlessly around and gets people in anoraks staring through very long lenses. But, as I never paid much attention in Science class because they didn't bother to teach us really interesting shit such as stuff about Crab Nebula and all the other sky-crawly things, I'll stop my preamble right here.
Stop. And stare. In wonder. At this.
How cool is that? That would easily beat Mrs Cawthorne-Blazeby's latest pic of her roses into second place down at the Umdloti Camera Club, wouldn't it? Yes. I think it would.
OK. So because I sat at the back of Science class and talked with my chinas about soccer, surfing and the very short skirt worn by Cyrenna in 5B, I can't tell you much about the background to Crab Nebula. Except that it's dark. I just like looking at the pictures. But I can steer you over to The Astronomical Picture of The Day where a designated boffin, who clearly knows much more than my old science master Mr Gray, will get you quickly up to speed.
"The mess left behind after a star explodes," he says. Nice. I like that. Even I can understand that. It's exciting. Mr Gray never excited me about science like that. But what do you expect from a bald oke who wore a light-blue safari suit to school every day?


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Upcoming presidential debatesIt was the vice presidential candidates' turn to shine Thursday night. After the first presidential debate left viewers chattering more about Big Bird than the issues, Vice President Joe Biden and challenger Paul Ryan tried not to stray from the general issues in their first and only debate before the election.
"Well I thought they both stood up well, and I did not see any stumbles particularly," said Robin Bozian, 60, of Cutler.
However, more time for each talking point would have allowed the candidates to get deeper into the issues.
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Vice President Joe Biden and Republican vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin gesture after the vice presidential debate at Centre College, Thursday, in Danville, Ky.
"I was disappointed that we never did get the cuts that they keep talking about," said Bozian in reference to how Ryan and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney would fund their proposed 20 percent tax cut.
Moderator Martha Raddatz of ABC News asked Ryan if he had a specific plan in place that would account for the tax cuts.
"What we're saying is here is our framework. Lower the tax rate by 20 percent. Deny those loopholes to higher tax brackets," he answered.
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Upcoming presidential debates
- Each debate will be broadcast live on C-SPAN, ABC, CBS, FOX and NBC, as well as all cable news channels, including CNN, Fox News and MSNBC among others.
- Oct. 16, 9 p.m.-10:30 p.m., a town meeting format in which undecided voters selected by the Gallup Organization will be able to ask questions which each candidate has two minutes to answer. Will include topics on both foreign and domestic policy.
- Oct. 22, 9 p.m.-10:30 p.m., a foreign policy debate moderated by Bob Schieffer, host of CBS's Face the Nation. The format will be identical to the first presidential debate.
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Though Ryan did not give specifics when pressed by Raddatz, he did guarantee the math adds up.
"Everything I have read says you can not do that without being pretty catastrophic to social programs," commented Bozian.
Beyond proposed tax plans, Ryan and Biden tackled issues ranging from foreign policy in Iran and Afghanistan to domestic policies such as Medicare and Social Security.
The candidates struck very different stances on the nuclear capabilities in Iran.
"What would be worse, another war in the middle east or a nuclear armed Iran?" asked Raddatz.
In response, Ryan said even the possibility of nuclear weapons in Iran would lead to a nuclear arms race in the middle east, a situation that could lead to war in the long run.
Biden, however, said that war should always be the last resort. He maintained that Iran is nowhere close to having nuclear capabilities.
Marietta resident Sharon Farnsworth, 65, said the conversation was eerily reminiscent of previous president George W. Bush's comments Iraq.
"When I heard Paul Ryan talking about Iran, it reminded me of George Bush talking about Iraq. It just brought me back to that whole business of weapons of mass destruction," said Farnsworth.
When the topic turned to domestic policy, Biden fought hard to defend the Affordable Care Act, which Ryan said has forced thousands of Americans to give up health care plans which they preferred.
"The American Medical Association, American Association of Retired Persons endorsed what we did. It extended the life of Medicare to 2026," argued Biden.
If Romney and Ryan repeal Obamacare like they have promised, it would make Medicare insolvent in 2016, added Biden.
Ryan said his plan would not change Medicare benefits for Americans over 55, and would give the younger generation the freedom to make their own decisions.
Marietta resident Mary Finley, 61, felt Biden did a good job bringing up some of the points that Obama skimmed over during last week's debate.
"I was really happy Vice President Biden point out that GM is alive and well. Governor Romney was, of course, willing to let Detroit fail," said Finley.
Biden said Romney had no commitment to the automobile industry.
"He said let it go bankrupt. I've never met two guys who are more down on American," said Biden.
Ryan painted a picture of an economy that is still not where it needs to be.
"We need real reforms for real recovery. This is not what recovery looks like," said Ryan.
He pointed to his hometown of Scranton, Pa., where the unemployment rate has risen from 8 to 10 percent since President Barack Obama took office.
Biden interrupted saying that number contradicted the national average, which actually shows the unemployment rate at its lowest point in nearly four years.
Biden's frequent interruptions were disrespectful, said Marietta resident Anita White, 50.
"Joe Biden seemed extremely condescending and rude, with his chuckling and his smirk," said White.
Conversely, Ryan handled the interruptions well and remained even tempered throughout the night, added White.
When Biden brought up Romney's comment that 47 percent of Americans feel entitled to government help, Ryan defended Romney, quipping, "As the vice president very well knows ... sometimes the words don't come out of your mouth the right way."
Ryan also gave a more compelling closing statement, said White.
"President Obama had his chance. He made his choices. It has failed to create the jobs we need," Ryan said in closing.
The presidential debates pick back up Tuesday with a town hall style debate. The final presidential debate will take place Oct. 22 and will closely follow the format of the first presidential debate.


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Exel Trust, a San Diego-based real estate investment trust, recently purchased the Tracy Pavilion shopping center in Tracy from multiple sellers for nearly $32 million, according to Lucescu Realty, a Newport Beach brokerage representing the sellers.
It is Excel's second major investment in San Joaquin County retail real estate. It acquired Park West Place off Eight Mile Road and Interstate 5 in Stockton in 2010 for a reported $92.5 million.
At Grant Line Road off Interstate 205, Tracy Pavilion offers more than 400,000 square feet of retail space and is anchored by The Home Depot, Winco Foods, Marshalls, Ross Dress for Less, PetSmart and Staples. Home Depot and Winco, are both tenant-owned and not a part of the sale.
The center was developed by Kornwasser Shopping Center Properties, a Los Angeles development firm. The sellers were all affiliate companies of Kornwasser.
"It's an institutional quality piece of real estate built by one of the premier real estate development companies in the Western U.S.," said Mark Lucescu, president of Lucescu Realty. "Excel should do well with this acquisition as they continue their pursuit of high-quality retail centers throughout the Central Valley."
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