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When the internet kills a big box retailer, Gordon Brothers is the undertaker.
"They're stuck with selling the things that are inside the box," says bankruptcy lawyer Steve Jakubowski.
Gordon Brothers specializes in retail liquidations. When a store dies, they put on a suit, greet the guests and sell them whatever remains. And that means everything — not just books and clothing and DVDs, but shelves, lighting fixtures, even the chairs.
The liquidators can make a lot of money off the stuff inside the box. Jakubowski says when Borders was liquidated, liquidators bought the merchandise at 72 percent off inventory cost to Borders.
"But remember when they sell it at retail, let's just assume that everybody marks it up double, " says Jakubowski.
Any deals that the store was already offering, the liquidators erase that and start from the top. As the days tick by to closing, the price is methodically slashed.
One thing the liquidators don't have is their own staff to run the store or their own accounting department to pay out the last checks. They use the staff of the store that's closing.
Sym's is a sister brand of Filene's Basement, and they're going out of business together. Teresa Soto worked at Sym's in Secaucus, NJ for 23 years. Here last day was a week ago, and she told me there was one thing she wanted to get at her store's liquidation sale.
"I think I'm going to buy my chair, " said Soto. Soto worked in the store's accounting department, and she sat in the same chair for decades.
Right now is a perfect moment for a liquidator. The economy is bad enough that big companies are going out of business, but good enough that customers will come and buy the stuff that's for sale. Of course, it's not a perfect moment for anyone to be out of a job.
Sears has it rough, but it's still in business. This year, we've seen a string of major retailers going bankrupt - among them Borders, Blockbuster and Filene's Basement. It's been especially hard for retail businesses that couldn't keep up with changes in the way we shop online. Borders, for example, never offered a tablet or an E-reader to compete with Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
But this economy is a gold mine for one kind of company. All week, we're running a series on who's had a good year, and Zoe Chace of NPR's Planet Money team tells us that that group includes the liquidators.
ZOE CHACE, BYLINE: When the Internet kills you, Gordon Brothers is the undertaker.
STEVEN JAKUBOWSKI: The undertaker shows up when the company's professionals realize the game is over. There's no other options, let's call in the liquidators.
CHACE: Steven Jakubowski is a bankruptcy lawyer. He's worked with Gordon Brothers. They specialize in retail liquidations.
JAKUBOWSKI: They're stuck with selling the things that are inside the box.
CHACE: So that's CDs, books, clothes, DVDs. Listen, somebody dies, it's awful. But it would be worse if there were no undertaker, the sole discretion who handles the death of a business in a practiced, systematic fashion. That's what liquidators do. They put the suit on and greet the guests. I met Leti Rad(ph) in a wet, grey parking lot outside a Syms Department Store in Jersey.
LETI RAD: I got some bras, and I got a belt and seven pairs of sunglasses.
CHACE: Why did you need seven pairs?
RAD: They're 70 percent off.
CHACE: Syms is a sister brand of Filene's. They're going out of business together. You've seen these, the big, neon going-out-of-business posters on the windows, shoppers running in and out the door after rooting through $5 blazers.
Did you see the wedding dresses?
AIESHA GULGOU: I know. It's crazy cheap. It's - I want to get married again.
CHACE: Aeisha Gulgou(ph) bought a black cocktail dress, instead, for 30 bucks.
What do you think of the job that the liquidator is doing?
GULGOU: What do you mean by - I don't know what liquidator means.
CHACE: A liquidator is supposed to be invisible. But they are actually running this business. Syms sold all their inventory to Gordon Brothers. Gordon Brothers, along with another firm Hilcois, is running this sale, and the liquidators are the ones making money off it. That's why in a going-out-of-business sale, you'll also see the shelves for sale, the lighting fixtures, the chairs.
GULGOU: They even sell those shopping baskets for $30. Who's going to buy this? I don't know.
CHACE: Our bankruptcy lawyer, Steven Jakubowski, says take the case of the Borders liquidation, so major the five biggest liquidation firms in the country went in on it together.
JAKUBOWSKI: The liquidators came in and bought the merchandise at 72 percent of Borders' cost.
CHACE: So, like, 72 cents on the dollar.
JAKUBOWSKI: But remember when they sell it at retail, let's just assume that everybody marks it up double.
CHACE: Sure, Borders couldn't afford to keep the stores running. But that doesn't mean the actual books are valueless. In fact, any deals that Borders was already offering, the liquidators erase that and start from the top. So how do they figure out what people will actually pay for this stuff?
JAKUBOWSKI: The liquidators have a database, a retail database.
CHACE: A database with millions of barcodes in it. The liquidators have a secret book with all the prices you would ever see in a store.
JAKUBOWSKI: A nine-ounce bag of Lays Potato Chips, a basketball by Wilson for a child's size, every single variation of an item.
CHACE: So everything is priced by the book, and then they start cutting. Sunglasses that were $30 become five. As the days tick by to closing, the price is methodically slashed.
Is there a point where you would just burn everything?
JAKUBOWSKI: Oh, yeah. Absolutely.
CHACE: It's a pretty small bonfire. The liquidators know better than anyone that there's a market for almost everything.
Here's one thing the liquidators don't have: Their own staff to run the store, their own accounting department to pay out the last checks. So they use the staff of the store that's closing.
CHACE: Yup, that's what a newly fired accounting department sounds like. I stopped by the Feelgood cafe, in downtown Secaucus, where the Syms was closing. The ladies were eating apps(ph) and drinking margaritas. For the past few weeks, they've been let go basically one at a time. Teresa Soto worked at the Syms for 23 years.
TERESA SOTO: When is going to be my day? Maybe today, maybe tomorrow. And, you know, last Friday was my day.
CHACE: She sat in the same chair for decades.
SOTO: And I think I'm going to buy my chair. It's a good idea. You know, I think it's a good idea to buy.
CHACE: You're going to buy your chair?
SOTO: Yes, I'm going to buy. I'm going to go - tomorrow, I'm going to buy my chair. I'm going to take it with me home.
CHACE: Right now is a perfect moment for a liquidator. The economy's bad enough so big company's go out of business, but good enough so that customers will come and buy the stuff that's for sale. Of course, it's not a perfect moment for anyone to be out of a job. Zoe Chace, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Another possibility is to fix the bike I have - Schwinn Frontier GSD. But this will require replacing pretty much everything - fork, breaks, deraulers, pedals, probably bottom bracket. Plus mechanical work, and I am in no way an experienced mechanic. I am willing to learn though. Good idea/bad idea?
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Longtime Red Sox broadcaster Jerry Remy will return to the airwaves for the 2014 season, he announced Monday.
Longtime Red Sox broadcaster Jerry Remy will return to the airwaves for the 2014 season, he announced Monday.
Remy had been absent from Red Sox broadcasts since the August 2013 arrest of his son, Jared Remy, who is charged with the murder of Jennifer Martel in Waltham.
The former second baseman said in a Twitter post that it had been a "difficult off-season," but he appreciated the support of fans and said he was looking forward to spring training.
"I've never been a quitter, and I don't intend to be one now. I've been in professional baseball in some capacity for 40 years," Remy told reporters Monday, according to Wicked Local news partner WCVB. "It's where I feel I belong and where I feel that I'm going to continue to do so for as long as possible."
Jared Remy pleaded not guilty to fatally stabbing his girlfriend, Martel, 27.
"I must say that I hope in no way that my decision to come back to do games has a negative impact on the Martel family," Remy said.
In an interview with NewsCenter 5, Remy said the pain of Martel's death will remain with him and his family for as long as they live.
"We're not going to get over this," he said. "But you do have to carry on and that's one thing that my friends and family convinced me of."
When asked about what would happen if the Martel family objected to his return, Remy said he would likely "walk away" from his job.
"But I don't think that's going to happen," Remy said.
Martel's family said Tuesday it had no comment on Remy's announcement.
"The Martels' sole focus is on the custody proceeding (for the couple's daughter) and therefore they have no opinion on Mr. Remy's return to work," family spokeswoman Nancy Sterling said in a statement, according to WCVB. "While they cannot give specifics about the pending legal case, Patricia and Brian and Brian Jr. and Andrea have filed petitions for guardianship of Arianna in the hope that they will eventually be granted custody of her."
The Remys have also filed a petition for guardianship.
The child has been in state custody since her mother's death and subsequent arrest of her father.
Remy anticipated that some may not agree with his decision to return.
"I'm sure there will be people out there who will be very upset with me, and I'm sure there will be people that are happy I'm coming back," he said. "I have no way to predict right now what the response is going to be."
Last year, Jerry Remy revealed that he underwent treatment for a relapse of lung cancer before the start of the 2013 season.


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Experience World War III in your living room with Tom Clancy's EndWar, a revolutionary new war game built to maximize next-generation gaming consoles and completely controllable by voice.
A chillingly relevant storyline pits superpower against superpower in all-out war—with you in command. You'll take control of the US-led Joint Strike Force, the European Enforcers Corps, or the Russian Spetsnaz Guards Brigade in a single-player campaign or online against friends in a persistent-world Theater of War mode. EndWar goes beyond other war games by letting you use your own voice to control your units, offering you true control of the action at the speed of thought.
Instead of the traditional top-down view, EndWar uses a unique third-person camera that puts you in the heart of the battle. Watch the devastation unfold as hundreds of units engage the enemy on fully destructible battlefields.
Cover, suppression, morale and many other elements of combat are taken into account as you battle your way across Europe and the United States.
True to the Tom Clancy legacy, EndWar offers a wide range of vehicles, weapons, and equipment based on real-world military research, giving you unprecedented access to the cutting-edge technology of tomorrow's wars.
Key Features
- Wage war without ever picking up a controller with the revolutionary voice command system.
- Experience a chillingly realistic vision of World War III in the fashion of the best techno-thrillers.
- Explore 40 stunningly realistic real-world battlefields set in Europe and the United States, including Washington D.C., Paris, and Moscow.
- Deeply customizable armies featuring unit ranks and hundreds of upgrades add up to endless replay value.
- Go to war online in a persistent multiplayer campaign with fully-customizable battalions and units.
- Watch the destruction unfold in spectacular detail in massive battles featuring hundreds of units and fully destructible environments.
Nuclear terrorism in Saudi Arabia kills 6 million and cripples the world's oil supply. The world is seized by an energy crisis of catastrophic proportions that sees many governments struggling to maintain civil and economic order. "Energy security" becomes the explicit priority of governments around the world.
The historic S.L.A.M.S. (Space-Land-Air Missile Shield) treaty is ratified by the United States and Europe. The Joint US-European missile shield goes live.
Strategic nuclear war has been rendered impossible. On both sides of the Atlantic, crowds celebrate the advent of a new age of peace and security.
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Now the world's number-one supplier of crude oil and natural gas, Russia pours its flooding petrodollars into its greatest arms buildup since the Cold War.
In response to the ongoing energy crisis, nearly all of the European Union's member states ratify the European Constitution and unite as a single national entity known as The European Federation (EF), with a population and GNP greater than the United States. The United Kingdom declines federation, but retains close economic and diplomatic ties.
The international community – Europe in particular - responds with outrage when the U.S. launches its first kinetic bombardment satellites in orbit. The European Federation starts launching its own weaponised satellite systems. Both superpowers are locked in a spiraling arms race in space. By the end of 2019, each has put a dozen ground-effect weapons satellites into orbit.
The United States begins assembling the "Freedom Star," a military space station to house a battalion of rapid-response "orbital marines". International reaction to this "American Aircraft Carrier in Space" is very negative. Despite international protests, the US vows to go forward with the launch of Freedom Star modules as scheduled.
Tom Clancy's EndWar is scheduled for release on NDS, PSP, PS3, Xbox 360 in fiscal year 2007/2008.
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BANGKOK (AP) — A positive start to U.S. corporate earnings season helped boost Asian stock markets Thursday.
Major regional benchmarks rose on the heels of a handful of better-than-expected results that also lifted Wall Street.
Consumer products maker Helen of Troy, whose brands include Dr. Scholl's and Vidal Sassoon, reported a 15 percent profit increase. Electronic payments processor Global Payments said its fiscal second-quarter earnings rose nearly 15 percent, beating Wall Street expectations.
After markets closed Tuesday, Alcoa Inc. predicted rising demand for its aluminum this year and topped revenue expectations for the fourth quarter. Earlier in the day, agricultural products giant Monsanto said its profit tripled and raised its guidance for 2013.
Japan's Nikkei 225 index rose 0.9 percent to 10,677.74. Hong Kong's Hang Seng gained 1 percent to 23,439.46. South Korea's Kospi added 0.7 percent to 2,005.39 and Australia's S&P/ASX 200 advanced 0.4 percent to 4,725.80.
The European Central Bank will meet later Thursday to set monetary policy for the 17 countries that use the euro. It is expected to keep its benchmark interest rate unchanged at the record low of 0.75 percent even though the eurozone economy as a whole is back in recession. Investors are also awaiting the release in the U.S. of weekly jobless claims.
On Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial average rose 0.5 percent to close at 13,390.51 on Wednesday. The Standard & Poor's 500 rose 0.3 percent to 1,461.02. The Nasdaq composite index rose 0.5 percent to 3,105.81.
Benchmark crude oil contract for February delivery was up 33 cents to $93.44 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell 5 cents to close at $93.10 per barrel on the Nymex on Wednesday.
In currencies, the euro fell to $1.3047 from $1.3053 while the dollar rose to 88.05 yen from 87.75 yen.
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Have you ever looked at a remarkable photo and wished you could hear the story behind it? Good. Keep reading.
Trying to find the year's best photos is a bit of a fool's game. The world never stops producing moments that are exciting, terrifying, morbid, heartbreaking and awe-inspiring. And photographers never stop capturing those moments. You could fill countless magazines with breathtaking images. Maclean's dedicated an entire issue packed with 2012's finest photography. Below are the stories behind five of those photos. They come from all over, just like the photographers who shot them. Enjoy.
Sicamous, B.C.
Jonathan Hayward, who lives in Vancouver, got the call to cover flash floods near Sicamous, B.C. on June 24. The next day, after a six-hour drive that got him to within minutes of the flooded area, Hayward found Highway 97A—a road washed out in two places—blocked to traffic. The friendly Newfoundlander didn't give up easily. The self-proclaimed "inquisitive little guy" chatted up locals about how to get to the scene of the floods. Eventually, Hayward found a man willing to get him there by boat—but it came at a cost.
"It's funny. You ask how much is a boat ride to see the damage," he recalls. "The guy's like, 'Well, would a two-four of beer work?'"
Hayward couldn't turn down that offer, and off they went. Once the boat docked, he wandered around the area and, before too long, came across the house teetering into a riverbed. He was the first photographer to get the shot.
Before he was posted in B.C., Hayward spent 10 years in Ottawa—a much more benign assignment, as far as natural disasters go. "It was quite eye opening," he said.
Pamplona, Spain
Daniel Ochoa de Olza tries to shoot the Running of the Bulls every year. De Olza is a native of Pamplona, and knows the terrain intimately—he ran with the bulls when he was a teenager, and eventually started taking photos.
This year, De Olza perched on a balcony that overlooks the final stretch of the run, a narrow space where, he says, inexperienced tourists can't escape the charging beasts as they round a tight corner. That can make for astounding images.
"As soon as I realized the Japanese guy [in the photo] was not really that fast, I thought the bull might chase him and gore him, so I shot a series of photos," de Olza said. "I was lucky enough to get some pictures, and the Japanese guy was lucky enough not to be gored."
That particular tourist got lucky, only suffering minor injuries. De Olza sent him emails afterwards, trying to send him some photos—all to no avail. "I think he was a bit ashamed of all the exposure," said de Olza. "But he was really lucky to be only a bit ashamed, and nothing else."
Niagara Falls, Ont.
Frank Gunn stood on top of the Skylon Tower as Nik Wallenda crossed Niagara Falls on a tightrope. He was part of a gaggle of photographers tasked with shooting photos of the daredevil's long walk. They all shared the same vantage point on that clear evening, and Gunn wanted his photos to stand out. So he got creative.
"You needed to show the power of Niagara Falls. I shot it a bit like a nature photo," he said, explaining that he shot with a two-second exposure that captured the movement of the waterfall. "Whenever you shoot a picture of water, you typically try to do a long exposure so the water paints. That's why it's all billowy, as opposed to being crisp."
Wallenda never stopped moving, so Gunn slowly panned his camera throughout the exposure, following Wallenda and keeping his frame intact. No one else captured it the same way.
The photographers atop the tower were so far from the action—hundreds of metres, by Gunn's estimate—it was almost like watching the stunt on television, he said. "It was very much like theatre."
New York, N.Y.
John Minchillo was in Lower Manhattan when Sandy's storm surge raced ashore. He was standing on a bridge overlooking the flooded Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel, when Governor Andrew Cuomo showed up beside him.
So Minchillo followed him around.
"[Cuomo] probably has more information than me on things that are happening, because he has a whole crew of people who are trying to figure out where to take him next," he said.
A few minutes later, when Cuomo entered the World Trade Center site, Minchillo followed and started snapping photos of the flooding. "I wasn't photographing him at that point, because the story is the storm, and not politics," he said. "I had to be very focused on getting that shot. I had maybe 15 seconds to make a photograph in darkness."
Minchillo guesses he worked over 20 hours when Sandy hit the city. "It had to be. You don't leave the story," he said.
For his part, however, Minchillo doesn't want to be known as "the guy who took the crazy photograph and defied the odds." Far from it. "I'm just a journalist like everybody else," he said.
Caracas, Venezuela
Rodrigo Abd was riding on the back of a motorcycle when, out of nowhere, he spotted a man's head peeking out of a deep puddle at the side of the road. As it turned out, that man was a city worker attempting to repair a burst pipe. Abd saw more than a piece of crumbling infrastructure, however.
He'd been sent to Caracas, Venezuela's capital city, to cover the election campaign for the Associated Press. He witnessed quite a bit of tension: Hugo Chavez's reelection was in doubt, and his supporters were anxious; the election campaign had dragged on; and, to top it off, the economy was sputtering.
"In a way, [the photo] was a good metaphor of what Venezuelans were facing at that moment," he said. "Even the most hardcore Chavistas … really feared that their leader was going to be defeated."
Abd had no assignment in particular that day, and was only a few blocks from the AP office in downtown Caracas when he stumbled upon the burst pipe.
"I jumped from the motorcycle and started taking pictures," he said, adding he had no idea the picture would make its way around the world.


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HEBER SPRINGS, Ark., Feb. 20 (UPI) -- Singer Mindy McCready was never a suspect in her fiance David Wilson's January gunshot death, authorities in Arkansas say.
McCready, who had long battled addictions to drugs and alcohol, shot herself to death Sunday, just weeks after her live-in partner was found dead of a gunshot wound in their Heber Springs home.
While authorities immediately classified the faded country music star's death at age 37 a suicide, they have said Wilson's death remains under investigation and the cause as-yet-undetermined.
McCready had denied any involvement in Wilson's dying before she took her own life.
Cleburne County Sheriff Marty Moss told TMZ Tuesday McCready was never considered a suspect and was consistent in her accounts of what happened the day Wilson died.
"Mindy never changed her story," Ross told the celebrity news website.


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Medications to avoid include over-the-counter pain pills such as ibuprofen, naproxen and some supplements that can damage kidneys.
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New Latter-day Saint Missionary
Sister Melissa Palmer, a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, returned home to Idaho after finishing her 18- month mission. Sister Jennifer Swensen has joined Sister Whitney Egbert in serving the Hancock Ward.
Sister Swensen, from St. Anthony, Idaho, spent the first 10 months of her mission for the church in Kent Island and Damascus. She has one older brother and four older sisters, all married.
Swensen earned an Associate's degree in business from Brigham Young University – Idaho. She worked in the customer service department of Artco, a stationary printing company. At Excellence in Everyone, a developmental agency, she helped clients set and achieve goals.
While at home, Swensen plays piano, flute, and saxophone and enjoys anything musical. She likes to read and put together puzzles and, because she takes pleasure in anything having to do with the arts, she loves going to concerts and plays.
Upon completion of her mission, wensen plans to go to cosmetology school so that she can open up her own shop.


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Happy New Year! I stayed up late with Tammy watching the Twilight Zone marathon and a few of the ball dropping programs near midnight. And that's where today's prompt is coming from…
For today's prompt, write a weird poem. Maybe it's a twist ending or a person on another planet (or another time). Maybe it's a land in which weird people are those that look just like us. Or whatever floats your boat.
Here's my attempt at a weird poem:
I'm awake;
the children are sleeping–
explosions outside.
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Here are a few other poetry-related posts:
- Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 247.
- 5 Favorite Poetry Collections: Bruce W. Niedt.
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STOCKTON - Mayor Anthony Silva and at least two members of the City Council can't agree on how to jump-start Stockton's search for its next city manager.
STOCKTON - Mayor Anthony Silva and at least two members of the City Council can't agree on how to jump-start Stockton's search for its next city manager.
The council, after a failed attempt last week to hire a replacement for retired City Manager Bob Deis, formally announced Thursday that Stockton will start its nationwide search from scratch.
But Silva balked, saying that in total 63 people applied in the first round, and some of them were "pretty good candidates." There's no need to start anew, he said.
"Instead of moving two steps forward, we are moving three steps back," said Silva, calling a new effort a waste of taxpayers' money and a potential delay of six months.
Deis, who retired Oct. 31, managed the city through three years of its financial recovery, including the plunge into bankruptcy. Deputy City Manager Kurt Wilson is filling that role in the interim.
The search began this summer, and culminated recently when the council offered Coachella City Manager David Garcia the job. He withdrew in the middle of confidential contract negotiations.
Silva had released Garcia's name before the deal was finalized, revealing that Garcia had left two previous cities under controversy. Garcia reportedly said that Stockton couldn't pay him enough.
On Tuesday, the City Council met behind closed doors to decide how to resume. On Thursday, the city announced it was reopening the search.
Councilman Elbert Holman said he was surprised to hear Silva's opposition.
The city needs to press restart, Holman said, because Stockton today is a different place from when it launched the process just three months ago. Most notably, voters Nov. 5 approved Measure A, putting another $28 million in the city's bank account each year to hire more police and bring Stockton out of bankruptcy, he said.
"A few more dynamics have changed that might draw better candidates forward," Holman said. "When we first did the recruitment, things were still up in the air."
It remains unclear if the next go-around will include Bill Mathis, a Napa-based headhunter who netted Garcia. The council hired Mathis in August for $23,475.
City spokeswoman Connie Cochran said the recruiter is one of the details that have yet to be finalized.
Silva declined to comment on Mathis' potential role. The mayor promised to comment more today on the search, after consulting with his advisers.
Next time, Silva wishes to exclude city department heads from the interview process.
He doesn't want them to have a say in hiring their own boss, Silva said.
"I'm not in favor of spending any more money," Silva said. "Just because we just won $28 million a year doesn't mean we can return to the same spending habits that this city has had in the past."
Councilman Moses Zapien, who also wishes to start the search fresh, said this is one of the most important decisions the council will make. The next city manager's influence on Stockton will be felt for decades, he said.
"This process does not deserve to be rushed," Zapien said. "One would think that the mayor had learned the lesson of patience judging from his inappropriate and premature announcement last time around."
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What are the roles of each individual hardwares that increase the overall performance of a system?
Newer games, operating system and applications are requiring more and more power from the system faster processor and more memory. Why is nowadays applications(games, os) need a better hardware setup to run on? Is it the games/application/os are more sophisticated and complex therefore more complex instructions are programme into the applications, therefore only a faster CPU would be able to run/launch the programs at ease?
Can someone explain to me the roles of L1, L2 cache, frontside bus and clock speed in improving the performance.
Basic requirement of the software also request for a better ram. Here's a question came to mnid that SD, DDR, RD ram and the cas-latency increase the performance. Why do most people suggest that video editing usage system should be well equipped with a 1GIG ram ?
And why it is you have a big amount of ram in your system, disable of virtual ram is alright?
Buying tips for getting a hard disk most people would say get a bigger disk cache ones and bigger RPM ones they would give you a better performance in read/write/access of your data.
What's the tips to get a graphics card? get a faster mem/clock speed ones?
Can anyone explain to me that when a application like MS Office launch by the user, how would each individual hardware like cpu,ram,hdd responds to the launching of the program?
For gamers why a good gfx card is needed? It is because of the intensive graphics rendering of the games? i.e a 4x/8x difference?
How would you go along choosing your components like cpu,ram,hdd .. etc.
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(Reuters) - New Jersey's towns badly hit by superstorm Sandy may raise property taxes to finance their rebuilding efforts, Governor Chris Christie said on Wednesday.
A 2 percent state cap on annual increases can be ignored by local governments if there is a natural disaster, he said in an interview with CBS radio.
If towns "need to spend some money to get themselves going," a property tax is possible, Christie said.
Christie has campaigned for months on a "Jersey Comeback," a plan that includes tax cuts to boost the state's shaky economy. Earlier this week, he said he would wait to see what Sandy's impact on local finances would be before deciding whether to press ahead with more tax cut requests, local media reported.
Areas badly ravaged by the storm, which tore through the U.S. Northeast at the end of October, will need repairs in housing, businesses and critical infrastructure systems like transportation.
The federal government and insurers are expected to pay for many recovery costs, but the reimbursement process can be long.
Local governments, whose funds are stressed by immediate damage repair costs, are also losing sales taxes and other revenues.
New Jersey, the seventh-largest state economy, has not yet provided estimates on economic damage by the storm, but Christie said he hoped to have a figure by the end of the week.
Neighboring New York State plans to ask the federal government for $30 billion in disaster aid to help with the recovery for New York City, Long Island and other devastated areas.
In February, Christie proposed a 10 percent across-the-board income-tax cut. The Democrat-led Legislature cut a deal with Christie for a plan to provide property-tax credits on residents' income tax returns for those earning less than $400,000 a year.
But state lawmakers, concerned about lagging revenues, didn't include the proposed cuts in the $31.7 billion budget for fiscal year 2013, which the governor signed in July.
(Reporting by Hilary Russ; Editing by Bernadette Baum)


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Top Executives Gather at SEMICON Japan to Speak about Technologies, Business and the Future
The semiconductor industry and its supply chain are facing technical and business challenges today. In this uncertain economy, each company is required to make its own decisions on resource allocation for challenges such as 450mm, EUVL, 3D-ICs, printed electronics and new transistor architectures, and the decisions may eventually determine the future of the company. At SEMICON Japan 2013 (December 4-6 at Makuhari, Japan), global executives around the world will gather to share their opinions and expertise with you — indispensable in helping you make strategic decisions for your company.
Views on Industry-wide Growth Strategies by Top Executives from Japan, the U.S. and Europe
On December 4, SEMICON Japan 2013 will start with the Opening Keynotes featuring three global executives to speak about the industry growth into the future. The first speaker, Ryoji Chubachi, president at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technologies, will present a scenario for Japanese semiconductor industry to recover the brilliance it had in the past. He sees the total strength of entire semiconductor supply chain from materials and equipment to device still exists in Japan and facilitating open innovations will lead Japan to resume the position in the global semiconductor industry.
The second speaker, Ajit Manocha, CEO at GLOBALFOUNDRIES, will examine the evolution and future of the foundry model, the technical and business drivers reshaping the landscape, and how fabless and IDM companies must change their perspective on what has worked in the past, regardless of how you define leading edge.
Win-Win Collaboration and Partnership Success Stories Given by SMIC and CSR
With the acceleration of technology innovations and diversification of customer needs, semiconductor value chain players are required to optimize their research and development activities besides improving productivities. For this, effective and "win-win" collaborations among the partners including foundries, IDMs, fabless, equipment and materials suppliers is indispensable.
On December 4, the GSA Forum, cosponsored by SEMI and the Global Semiconductor Association and chaired by Shozo Saito, executive advisor at Toshiba, will deliver presentations on "win-win" collaboration and partnership strategies by two GSA directors, Tsu-Yin Chiu, CEO at SMIC and Joep van Beurden, CEO at CSR plc. SMIC has expanded its foundry business through collaborations with fabless companies in China and Europe. CSR has sold its cellphone technologies to Samsung in 2012 to focus on its more profitable core businesses. The presentations will be followed by a panel discussion with the above speakers and executives from ATREG, Tokyo Electron and JSR.
450mm Updates in the Face of Industry Adoptions
SEMICON shows in key semiconductor manufacturing regions have been served to the industry as a venue for information exchange and sharing for an efficient transition to 450mm production. At SEMICON Japan 2013, you will find critical information both on the show floor and in the technical sessions, but reserving your seat at 450mm Executive Forum on December 5 is a "must."
In this forum, Paul Farrar, general manager at G450C will talk about how the IC makers and the Equipment suppliers are working together to reduce the cost of the transition through the G450C consortium activities at CNSE and the current status of those activities, key milestones and schedules. Roger De Keersmaecker, imec's EVP, sees how a chip cost reduction by 30 percent can follow from transitioning to a 450mm wafer due to an increased manufacturing efficiency, but he also recognizes major innovations needed to achieve this cost reduction.
ARM Japan President to Speak at SEMI Market Seminar
With improved ASPs, Flash and DRAM companies are increasing investments for advanced technologies and capacity expansion in 2014. In addition, spending by pure foundry players will also dominate the 2014 equipment spending outlook. At 2013 year-end, the SEMI Market Seminar will examine the semiconductor supply chain market for the next years. As a keynote to this session, Yuzuru Utsumi, president at ARM K.K., will talk about market trends, the ARM vision for the future and the latest technologies from the stand point of semiconductor IP market leader with a more than 95 percent share of the smartphone and tablet market.
IHS Global's Japan office representative, Akira Minamikawa, will then give the electronics market trends in the next ten years and how these will affect the semiconductor market growth. Hiroshi Kusama, the chairman of WSTS Japan Chapter, will present the organization's autumn 2013 forecast that is scheduled to be press released just before SEMICON Japan 2013. Finally, Daniel P. Tracy, senior director of Industry Research and Statistics at SEMI will discuss the SEMI 2013 year-end semiconductor equipment forecast and the latest materials market forecast.
SEMICON Japan SuperTHEATER will Present More Executive Programs
While comprehensive, this summarizes only some of the executive programs offered at this year's SEMICON Japan. The above mentioned programs (except the Market Seminar) will be presented at SEMICON Japan SuperTHEATER, which will have nine such high-level programs in total during the three days. To learn more about the SuperTHEATER and other SEMICON Japan's over 100 hours of presentations and content, visit the SEMICON Japan website at www.semiconjapan.org/en.
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CANNES, France (AP) — Cannes doesn't in any way resemble the site of roiling class conflict. It's a French Riviera playground for the 1 percent, a sun-dappled land of velvet ropes.
Yet at this year's Cannes Film Festival, which came to a close Sunday after 12 days of cinema and glamour, the films that flashed across Cannes' grand theaters coursed with the conflict of rich and poor, navigating the wide distance between the two. Inequality often propels big-screen dramas, but the 67th annual Cannes fest was striking for its global view of haves and have nots, from Pennsylvania to Russia, Argentina to France.
The fest's top honor, the Palme d'Or went to Nuri Bilge Ceylan's "Winter Sleep," a slow burning, three hour-plus drama thick in class tension set on Turkey's wintery Anatolia steppe. An arrogant, unaware landlord sits high above his village tenants, oblivious to their struggle even after a child of a family behind in their rent throws a stone against his passing truck. Ceylan dedicated the award to "the young people of Turkey" and Turks that had died over the past year, referencing the anti-government protests that have raged in the country — including in recent days after a coal mine disaster killed more than 300 workers.
In the powerful Russian satire "Leviathan," which won best screenplay, a small-town family is ruined when a corrupt mayor (a portrait of Vladimir Putin looms in his office) dispossesses their home. "Two Days, One Night" by the Dardenne brothers (longtime filmmakers of working-class struggle), stars Marion Cotillard as a woman who strives over a weekend to convince her co-workers to vote against a pay raise that will terminate her job. Each is faced with the choice of taking less to help another. David Michod's lean thriller "The Rover" imagined a near-future Australia after the total collapse of its financial system. (Hint: It's not so nice.)
Economic disparity is also the backdrop to Bennett Miller's "Foxcatcher," a true-life psychological drama about two elite athletes — Olympic wrestling champs Mark and Dave Schultz, played by Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo — and a wealthy but strange benefactor (Steve Carell in a striking dramatic role) who lures them to train at his Pennsylvania estate, with tragic results. Miller took best director at Cannes for the film, which is expected to be an Oscar contender come December.
"What happens when everything is for sale? What happens to talent when it's for sale?" Ruffalo reflected on the film. "What happens to people when they're in a system that values almost everything at a price?"
In "Wild Tales," the most raucous film of the festival, those people go berserk. In it, Argentine director Damian Szifron stitches together six outlandish, comic tales of revenge. Road rage between a speedy luxury car and plodding truck ends in a fireball; a man outraged by an unfair parking ticket spirals out of control. Szifron called his unhinged characters the anxious products of Western capitalism.
"We're constantly overwhelmed by ads, by pressure. We're a bit like a (caged) dog who goes crazy," said Szifron. "People live very stressful lives."
The British director Ken Loach, the grandfather of social realism, premiered his record 11th film in competition with "Jimmy's Hall," a based-on-a-true-story drama about 1930s Irish communist James Gralton, whose dance hall angers local authorities and the Catholic church. Loach saw contemporary relevance for modern institutions.
"Jimmy would absolutely be in there in that fight," said Loach of today's social battles. "He'd be trying to build a movement against the big corporations and the way they are determining every facet of our life now, beyond democratic control."
Cannes, of course, asserts its own class system, and not just in its myriad levels of press-badge access and rigid red-carpet decorum. Its cacophonous mass of media and industry professionals form a giant Roman emperor-like thumbs-up or -down that — while a judgment far from foolproof — declares a film a masterpiece with marathon standing ovations or sentences it to the dust bin with resounding boos.
This year, Ryan Gosling's directorial debut "Lost River," the opening night Grace Kelly melodrama "Grace of Monaco" with Nicole Kidman, the Chechen war drama "The Search" by "The Artist" director Michel Hazanavicius, and Atom Egoyan's kidnapping thriller "Captives" were chewed up and spat out like stale macaroons, casualties of high standards.
But Gosling's film, a theatrical fable about a Detroit family living in poverty, may have provided the line of the festival, one in which so many characters struggled in unjust economies. As a predatory mortgage broker, Ben Mendelsohn presses a single mother into performing at his underworld club. Quoting the Ol' Dirty Bastard lyric he hisses: "Everybody's got to shimmy shimmy ya."
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Patricia Ann Fender, Age 61
Patricia Ann Fender, 61, of Poland, Indiana passed away at her residence Saturday, December 11, 2010. She was born February 17, 1949 in Louisville, Kentucky to James and Grace (Farris) Hiter. She was a 1967 graduate of Spencer High School. Patricia was a homemaker, spinner, weaver, and farmer but loved her family above all. She was also a member of Garrard Chapel.
Mrs. Fender is survived by her husband of 43 years, Russel Fender; her mother, Grace Hiter of Spencer; a son, Terry Fender and a daughter, Michele Fender both of Spencer; two brothers, James Hiter of Lafayette and Garry Hiter of Montana; four sisters, Delphine Bowers of Springville, Linda Query, Charlene Pendleton and Lisa Hiter Kay all of Spencer and five grandchildren, Ashley Fender, Betheny Wimsatt, Jonathan Fender, Catrinna Wimsatt and Isabella Wimsatt.
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Allah, the Everlasting Sustainer of all. ( Surat al-Ikhlas, 112:2)
In the entire universe, all power belongs to Allah, the only One Who can remove a person's troubles and difficulties, and meet his needs. Sometimes people forget our Lord and take other guardians for themselves, who they believe can provide them with power, honor, and help. But this is a delusion, for there is no other deity other than Allah. Unless He wills otherwise, no one can help or harm anyone else. This fact is related in the Qur'an, as follows:
Do those who take the hypocrites as protectors, rather than the believers, hope to find power and strength with them? Power and strength belong entirely to Allah. ( Surat an-Nisa', 4:139)
Our only refuge from distress is Allah, the Lord of power and honor, for He answers all of His servants' prayers and eases, or fully removes, what is causing them hardship. Allah describes this, as follows:
He Who responds to the oppressed when they call upon Him and removes their distress, and has appointed you as inheritors of the land. Is there another deity besides Allah? How little you pay heed! ( Surat an-Naml, 27:62)
This verse states that some people fail to recognize or forget Allah's compassion and mercy and become ungrateful. However, as Allah states in "Say: 'Allah rescues you from it, and from every plight'…" ( Surat al-An'am, 6:64), only He saves us from every distress. In return, He expects us to notice this answer, ponder over its importance, submit to Him, and become His grateful servant.


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Nashua school staff see tests as key to tracking student growth
By BARBARA TAORMINA
Union Leader Correspondent
.Preparing for future: i-Ready thought of as useful tool as lead up to upcoming Smarter Balanced tests.
— Students within the district have made some significant strides in math and reading, but a troubling percent of children, particularly those in middle school, remain below grade level.
Teachers and staff from Elm Street Middle School and Birch Hill Elementary School presented the 2013-14 results from the i-Ready assessment tests pilot program to the Board of Education this week. Students in grades 1 through 9 take the 45-minute, online tests, which are based on the Common Core Standards, in the fall, winter and spring while kindergarteners are tested in November and May.
"The tests are a diagnostic tool for teachers, not an accountability measure," said Superintendent Mark Conrad.
Test results, which are available immediately, not only show if a student is on grade level, they also pinpoint specific areas in math and reading where individual children need help.
"It's real time data used to drive instruction," said Elm Street Principal Mike Fredericksen. "The data is used for student placement, math and reading intervention and to find out who is eligible for eighth grade algebra."
Conrad stressed that i-Ready tests are meant to track student progress over the course of the school year.
The tests, developed by Curriculum Associates of Billerica, Mass., also lets teachers compare the improvement, or average point growth of Nashua students with the expected point growth of all students.
For example, reading test scores for second graders are expected to increase by 39 points over the school year. Nashua second graders boosted their average reading test scores by more than 43 points.
According to the i-Ready program, first graders should see a gain of 41 points on math tests. Nashua first graders had an average gain of 42 points.
However, as BOE member Robert Hallowell pointed out, increases in points and averages can look impressive when students are starting out at skill levels well below what is expected at their grades.
And the i-Ready test results show that most Nashua students are below grade level in math, and many are behind their peers in reading. According to i-Ready, 94 percent of the district's seventh graders, and 96 percent of Nashua's eighth graders are below grade level for math.
According to reading test results, 63 percent of students in the seventh grade are not reading at the appropriate level, while 48 percent of eighth graders are below their grade level.
In order to be on grade level, students must demonstrate on the tests that they have at least half of the skills expected to be acquired during a given school year.
Despite some troubling numbers, teachers and administrators believe the i-Ready tests are a valuable tool that will help them address each individual student's academic strengths and weaknesses. And they believe i-Ready will help prepare students for the Common Core-based Smarter Balanced assessment tests which start in the spring of 2015.
But some members of the board saw problems ahead.
"What this tells me that the further along students go, the further behind they get," said BOE member Sandra Ziehm. And that trend is major concern as schools continue to transition to a Common Core Standards-based curriculum which will introduce higher stakes and standards for all students at all grade levels.
For BOE member Dotty Oden, i-Ready is part of a shift in education that emphasizes an unproven reliance on uniformity, standardized test scores and data-driven teaching.
"Our kids are a lot more than data points," said Oden. "To me, we are looking at the ultimate of teaching to the test."


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DEVASTATION WROUGHT BY DEATH Long after an unforgettable photograph captured Sgt. Ken Kozakiewicz's reaction ?to loss of his friend, the West Seneca resident is still paying for his service to his country
Down in Ken Kozakiewicz's basement is an impressive shrine to manhood.
A Buffalo Sabres banner hangs along the stairs. NASCAR memorabilia - mostly featuring his favorite driver, Dale Earnhardt Jr. - adorn the walls and shelves.
Knickknacks with a testosterone motif are arranged about. Gnarly skulls and snakes are mixed in with sports items. He keeps rows of heavy metal and alt-rock cassettes: Ozzy Osbourne, Rush, Krokus, Love and Rockets.
On the east wall, spaced apart from the collectibles and trinkets, are a group of items with special meaning.
A large lithograph honoring the 24th Mechanized Infantry Division's service in Operation Desert Storm holds a place of prominence next to four framed pictures of a memorial at Fort Stewart, the division's home base. The photos represent duty, honor, valor, victory.
Anyone familiar with Kozakiewicz's military service would be curious about another photograph.
Where does he keep the unforgettable image that shows his life being wrecked forever? There it is on the basement floor. It's creased and leaning against a wall, practically wedged between a stereo speaker and the TV cabinet.
That's where Kozakiewicz wants the photo and where he prefers to keep his memories about Iraq and the devastation he experienced and witnessed there.
Tucked away.
"It's not something I'm proud of," Kozakiewicz said in the kitchen of his West Seneca home. "It's not something I want to look at."
Kozakiewicz's heartbreaking reaction to the death of a friend touched people around the world. The image, taken by David C. Turnley of the Detroit Free Press, is regarded among history's most important war photos. It won the World Press Photo of the Year Award for 1991.
Sgt. Kozakiewicz is the photo's most compelling figure. He cries while seated on the floor of a medical helicopter. His left arm is in a sling, and he's looking away from a blood-stained body bag. Kozakiewicz has just learned his Fort Stewart roommate, Pvt. Andy Alaniz, was killed in battle.
Cpl. Mike Tsangarakis, his head wrapped in a white bandage, adds another haunting element in the center of the picture. Two medics, still unidentified 21 years later, are automatons amid the grief.
Life Magazine ran the shot in its March 1991 issue with a notation:
"If one experience could summarize the pain of war, it was the death of a friend; if one photograph could contain war's horrors, it was this one. ... It was Kozakiewicz's grief-stricken face that looked out from the front page of scores of newspapers, robbing the allied victory of its innocent blush and confirming once again that no war is without its horrors."
The Buffalo News displays the photo in its lobby alongside photographs such as "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima," "The Kissing Sailor" and "Tet Execution."
Kozakiewicz saw the photo in Stars and Stripes while he was recovering from his injury in Germany. Again, he cried. He said that was the final time.
The photo initially made Kozakiewicz a celebrity. He became a symbol of war's sacrifice. He made the national interview rounds and returned to a hero's welcome at Buffalo Niagara International Airport. There were cheers and banners and a horde of supporters. Strangers hugged him.
Since then, life for Kozakiewicz hasn't been bouquets and Mylar balloons. The same can be said for Tsangarakis or Alaniz's widow and daughter, who never got to meet her father and would love nothing more than for Kozakiewicz to call her. Kozakiewicz knows this, but he has been emotionally paralyzed by the idea.
All four met with The Buffalo News to discuss how their lives have unfolded.
"We're seriously messed up. Psychologically, physically," said Kozakiewicz, who at 44 has been deemed 90 percent disabled by the Department of Veterans Affairs and stopped working at Home Depot because of a bad back.
"I'm not the same kid that was over there. You go over there young and innocent and then experience losing a buddy. I'm completely different. I don't feel that I'm all there."
> 'I lost a lot over there'
Turnley's photo was taken in the Euphrates Valley on Feb. 27. That's the date President George H.W. Bush set for the Persian Gulf War cease-fire. The allied forces already had chased Saddam Hussein's forces from Kuwait.
But the 24th Mechanized had one more job to do. Hussein's elite Republican Guard was dug in at Jalibah Airfield in Iraq. They needed to be cleared out and their equipment destroyed.
Kozakiewicz, a gunner who never had to fire his M-60 the six months he was in Iraq, was in a unit of Bradley Fighting Vehicles. After a barrage of heavy artillery essentially wiped out Jalibah Airfield, their job was to mop up the area.
He recalled riding across the desert and toward the airfield for about 10 minutes when his Bradley got smoked by two armor-piercing rounds.
"Somebody made a very grave error," Kozakiewicz said, his voice dropping into a low rumble. "I'm still angry to this day that the incident occurred. There's no rhyme or reason for it."
Two words got stuck in his throat.
"Battlefield confusion," Kozakiewicz said, slowly rapping his ring against the handle of a coffee mug.
A commander's inquiry examined what happened at Jalibah Airfield. "Battlefield confusion" was the verdict. The Bradleys had been scotched by friendly fire.
An American tank unit was supposed to protect the Bradleys, but it mistook them for enemy targets. Three Bradleys were bombarded with 120 mm sabot rounds, rockets made of radioactive, depleted uranium and 2½ times denser than steel.
Two U.S. soldiers were killed, eight wounded. Two survivors had severed legs; another lost an eye. Kozakiewicz was lucky. He escaped with a broken left wrist - but a lifetime of scars.
"I still haven't totally adjusted," said Kozakiewicz, who returned home and developed a drinking routine that escalated to a case of beer a day - every day - until he stopped in 1994. "I lost a lot over there."
> Daily struggles
Kozakiewicz and Tsangarakis talk regularly. Each understands what the other has been through. Nobody else really does. They meet in Baltimore every two years for depleted-uranium checkups. The Department of Veterans Affairs wants to make sure exposed soldiers aren't toxic. They've both been divorced and don't have children. They've both had financial troubles. They're both on anxiety medication. They've both admitted to contemplating suicide in the past but insist they're way beyond that now. They both see psychiatrists for post-traumatic stress disorder.
And they both went through debilitating mental funks after revisiting their time in Iraq for this series.
"The interview is tearing me apart," Kozakiewicz said over the phone last week. "This is something that we live with but don't talk about."
A few days after Kozakiewicz's initial interview, he tested himself in a dramatic way.
His experiences in Iraq made him terrified of open spaces. In a restaurant, his back must be against the wall. He struggles with mall parking lots. He gravitates toward tree lines when he's near a field. Rural driving causes panic attacks. He's unable to drive down Route 16 to Delevan, where his fiancee's parents live.
"When you hit that open, country area?" Kozakiewicz said. "I can't do it. I've tried. I have to pull over, and she has to drive."
Despite those potential predicaments, he and his fiancee drove cross-country to visit his father in Tucson, Ariz.
As expected, Kozakiewicz had problems when the landscape expanded on the other side of the Mississippi River.
He climbed into the backseat of their new Ford Escape, the tinted windows helping him hole up. But he still needed to mentally prepare each time they drove over a bridge. His anxiety intensified when they reached the desert Southwest.
"Wow. This kid is really messed up," Dan Kozakiewicz said. The Vietnam veteran and former Army recruiter hadn't seen his son in eight years. "There are a lot of things he's being cheated on in life because of what he's dealing with.
"It's sad to see him like that. It's awful, actually. It hurts me a lot."
During the visit, Ken tagged along when Dan walked his border collie-lab mix. Their path took them to a bridge that spanned a 7-foot-deep desert wash. Dan thought Ken was next to him, but turned around to see his son frozen at the foot of the bridge.
"I said 'It's not that high, man.' And he said 'I can't,' " Dan Kozakiewicz said. "It shocked the hell out of me.
"I didn't realize it was that bad. He still has all that baggage."
> Struggling to reach out
Andee Alaniz is on a desperate quest to know her father. She's 21 now, older than her father was when he died in Iraq.
She wants Ken Kozakiewicz's help.
He'd love to give it to her, but right now he's incapable.
"Talking to Ken Kozakiewicz has always been a big goal of mine, because he was there," Andee said in her mother's home in Noble, Okla. "He was my dad's roommate. He got to hear him talk about a lot of things."
Andee has learned all she can from her mother's perspective. Andee craves insight filtered through someone else.
Andee's relationship with her father's family in Corpus Christi has been contentious and unrewarding. She insisted she'd like to be closer to her grandparents, but she's torn. She called them "fake" but expressed guilt for feeling that way.
The last time Andee visited her grandparents, she said, they were more interested in showing her off like a trophy than helping her understand her roots.
Andee routinely Googles her father's name in hopes that new information will pop up from an old classmate or Army buddy. What she sees most frequently are her mother's in-memoriam blogs and Turnley's famous photo.
She sees Kozakiewicz crying for her father and badly wants to speak with him, but her efforts have been fruitless so far. For years, she couldn't locate Kozakiewicz. He has had her number for about a month, but he has been too anxious to call.
"I want to know more," Andee said. "I just always thought Ken would be a big help with a lot of things. And maybe I can make him feel a little better about what happened."
Perhaps more than reopening the wounds of Iraq with a reporter, finding out Andee wants to talk to him has freaked out Kozakiewicz. He doesn't know what he would say to her. He's afraid of what she will ask him. He's concerned that what he can tell her won't be enough. He doesn't want to disappoint anybody.
Kozakiewicz doesn't open up easily. He said he and his fiancee never have spoken about his time in Iraq or about the photo in the 10 years they've known each other. And he only gives her first name, Cindy, because he doesn't want her involved in the story.
"It's scary. Very scary," Kozakiewicz said upon hearing Andee was searching for him. "I can't do this. There's no way in hell I can go through this. I'm having problems going through my feelings."
But, in a flash, Kozakiewicz switches to a different mindset, illustrating his inner conflict.
"I have to call her," he said. "I will call her. I can't ignore that she wants to talk. But when? I can't give you a certain date."
Kozakiewicz's father and fiancée have urged him to reach out to Andee. They say that if he had died in Iraq, then he would want Alaniz or Tsangarakis to speak with his children.
Kozakiewicz agrees with them, but following through is not that easy. The timing plagues him, too. The interviews and the long drive to Arizona have put him in a volatile mental state.
But once he gets himself together, Kozakiewicz insisted, he'll take care of his obligation.
"They're looking at it from the outside in," Kozakiewicz said. "I'm inside, and I can't see out.
"This is messed up."
> Mixed feelings, raw emotion
Atop the TV cabinet in Kozakiewicz's basement is a replica of the leg lamp from "A Christmas Story." In the movie, the father exclaims, "It's a major award!" Yet there's no sign of Kozakiewicz's Purple Heart.
The photo that made him famous is a crumpled afterthought. It means more to other people than it does to him.
"To me, this photo captures the tremendous burdens that our fighting forces bear when they go into harm's way," President George H.W. Bush told The Buffalo News in an email. "They understand the risks, yet they go into the breach anyway. I can sum it up in three words: duty, honor, country."
Kozakiewicz's late mother, Marcy, was proud of the photo, because it showed her son's valor at a vulnerable moment.
Dan Kozakiewicz proclaimed, "That picture sucks, actually." He didn't know his son had been wounded in combat when he first saw the photo on a Buffalo News rack at the corner store.
Ken Kozakiewicz begrudgingly conceded the photo has value, but he added that "people think I look like a p--y." That would seem an outlandish sentiment, but this is the son of an Army recruiter who Dan said "wanted to be Rambo" when he graduated from Orchard Park High.
"It shows that people have emotion," Ken Kozakiewicz said while looking at a copy of the photo. "This is the reality of finding out somebody has died. This is raw emotion. To me, it shows people there is humanity in war over a fallen comrade."
Kozakiewicz shrugged and slipped the picture back across his kitchen table.
"With or without that photo, I would live with it every day," Kozakiewicz said. "The feelings are still the same as they were that day."
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Mount Oliver borough loses another council member, council seeks answer to Church Avenue problem
November 23, 2010
The November meeting of the Mount Oliver Borough Council began with the council accepting the resignation of Sara Kudasick from the council.
Council has 30 days from accepting the resignation to appoint someone to fill Ms. Kudasick's unexpired term. A replacement must be named by December 15.
Borough residents interested in serving on council should submit a Letter of Intent care of JoAnn Malloy, borough secretary, at the Mount Oliver Borough Building, 150 Brownsville Road, before December 6 between the hours of 8 a.m. and 3 p.m.
A Church Avenue resident spoke before council concerning the cracks in the sidewalks and curbs on the street. The resident had appeared before council on multiple occasions with the same request and the same result.
Council President James Cassidy said he still didn't have an answer for him on the problem, but that they have been seeking a solution.
Solicitor James Perich said the complaint was "still active on my desk."
"We're having trouble finding out who's responsible," Councilwoman Billie Michener said. "We, as a borough, what are we supposed to do?"
Mr. Cassidy said the resolution may be the same as a problem they had on William Street. The situation was only resolved after two years of investigation and negotiations and ultimately resulted in the borough having to add money to the road program to fix the problem.
However, he said they may have to first go after the contractor for the gas company who did the work originally and hold them responsible.
Under the Public Safety report, Councilman Patrick Malloy reported there were nine incidents in the borough in the prior month.
Mr. Malloy continued, Tom Plietz, the borough's code enforcement officer, was given a three percent increase in salary. Two percent would be for his wages as code enforcement officer and one percent as the fire marshal. Mr. Malloy added, Mr. Plietz is certified in all aspects except electrical inspection.
The councilman also reported police Corporal Daniel Grossman has resigned. While Cpl. Grossman was a K-9 officer, the dog will remain in the borough.
In the borough last month, the police answered 1,242 complaints, put 7,632 miles on their vehicles, made 10 drug and two DUI arrests. Mr. Malloy emphasized the number of drug arrests pointing out it's "a lot for this little area of the county. Our officers are out there doing their job."
He said next year the police department has budgeted for 12 police officers: fulltime officers include: one chief; three sergeants; two corporals; and, four officers. The budget also includes money for two part time officers.
Mayor Jeff Repasky said there was "money in-house" for a surveillance system. The money was from a grant applied for two years ago with the assistance of State Rep. Harry Readshaw's office. He said the grant was to be used for surveillance cameras only and didn't know how many cameras the grant would buy.
In the Public Works report, Councilman Dennis Obeldobel said work needs to be done on the department's one-ton truck. The rear end yolk is leaking and needs to be taken to a garage to be evaluated.
He said because of the colder weather, only a few yellow lines have been painted throughout the borough, but no white lines. Time is running out for the lines to be painted because of the approaching cold weather.
There will be a Zoning Hearing to consider converting a single family home on Freemont Street into two apartments. The hearing will be at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 8 in the Borough Building, 150 Brownsville Road.
As part of the Hilltop Economic Development Corp. (HEDC) report, discussion included realtor Rick Sikora, a member of the HEDC, asking if the borough would consider forgiving the taxes on a building. A buyer is interested in a property in the 200 block of Brownsville Road.
Mr. Perich said currently there is approximately $30,000 in back taxes owed on the building, $10,000 to the borough. Real estate taxes haven't been paid on the building since 1997 and a jury trial has been scheduled.
"Our position is, whatever the city and county will do, we'll do," he continued. However, he pointed out the county and the school board usually don't forgive back taxes.
The HEDC is also interested in buying properties in the borough, renovating them and selling the houses at a reasonable cost to first time homebuyers to get them back on the tax rolls. To be able to begin the program, they are asking the borough to extend or guarantee a loan for the renovations.


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Music History 102:
The Twentieth Century
The years spanning the end of the nineteenth century and the earliest part of the twentieth were a time of great expansion and development of, as well as a dramatic reaction to, the prevailing late Romanticism of previous years. In music, as in all the arts, expression became either overt (as in the early symphonic poems of Richard Strauss (1864-1949), the huge symphonies of Gustav Mahler, or the operas of Giacomo Puccini), or was merely suggested (as in the so-called "impressionist" music of Claude Debussy. The previous century's tide of Nationalism found a twentieth century advocate in the Hungarian Béla Bartók.Arnold Schoenberg and his disciples germinated and flourished for a time. Experimentation and new systems of writing music were attempted by avant-garde composers like Edgard Varèse and although none gained a foothold with the public, these techniques had a profound influence on many of the composers who were to follow.
Twentieth-century music has seen a great coming and going of various movements, among them post-romanticism, serialism and neo-classicism in the earlier years of the century, all of which were practiced at one time or another by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. More recently, aleatory or "chance" music, neo-romanticism, and minimalism have been in vogue by a handful of American composers. With the commercial dissemination of music through the various media providing music as a constant background, the general populace has largely dismissed much of the music produced using bold, new, or experimental styles, preferring to turn to the forms and genres (and often the composers) with which it is most familiar. Many of the greatest and best-known composers of this century, including Russian composers Sergei Rachmaninoff, Sergei Prokofiev, and Dmitri Shostakovich, and British composer Benjamin Britten, have been those who have written music directly descended from the approved models of the past, while investing these forms with a style and modernistic tone of their own.
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Scouting the Class 7A football championship game
Class 7A football championship
Lincoln-Way East (13-0) vs. Glenbard West (13-0)
Game time: 4 p.m. Saturday at Memorial Stadium, Champaign
TV: Comcast SportsNet
Road to the championship: Lincoln-Way East, the top seed in an eight-team southern regional bracket of Class 7A, beat No. 8 Plainfield Central 47-22, No. 4 Providence 24-14, No. 2 Edwardsville 40-10, and No. 2 Benet 37-13. Glenbard West, the No. 1 seed in the northern regional 7A bracket, beat No. 16 Elk Grove 49-21, No. 9 Libertyville 38-10, No. 5 Wheaton North 3-0, and No. 6 Lake Zurich 19-13.
Coaches: Lincoln-Way East coach Rob Zvonar has been the Griffins' coach since their first varsity season in 2001. Starting with a 6-4 record his first year, Zvonar's teams never have missed the playoffs. He enters his second state title game with a 12-year record of 115-26, including a 14-0 record and Class 8A title in 2005. In nine years Glenbard West coach Chad Hetlet never has missed the playoffs. Following a one-year stint at Johnsburg and two years at McHenry, in 2007 Hetlet inherited a Hilltoppers program that hadn't qualified for the playoffs since 2003. Entering his second state title game, Hetlet carries a career record of 82-23, including a six-year mark of 64-10 with the Hilltoppers. After guiding Glenbard West to a 7A runner-up finish in 2009, Hetlet's goal is to add to Glenbard West's 1983 5A title.
Starting offenses:
Lincoln-Way East Glenbard West
Name Ht. Wt. Yr. Pos. Name Ht. Wt. Yr.
Tom Fuessel 6-3 180 Sr. QB Henry Haeffner 6-2 185 Sr.
Nick Colangelo 5-10 195 Sr. RB Devante Toney 5-10 200 Jr.
Chris Pierie 6-1 170 Jr. WR/RB Scott Andrews 5-8 170 Jr.
Austin Winkler 6-0 160 Jr. WR/RB Joe Zito 5-9 185 Sr.
Justin Corbett 6-2 205 Sr. WR Luke Domask 5-11 170 Jr.
Josh Maholovich 5-8 180 Sr. WR/TE Nathan Marcus 6-5 220 Sr.
Nick Allegretti 6-4 280 Jr. C Jack Manzella 6-0 195 Sr.
Nick Cocorikis 6-2 230 Sr. G Nick Garland 6-2 230 Sr.
Mitch Arvidson 6-0 200 Sr. G Jake Brodner 6-2 245 Sr.
Tom Plunkett 6-3 270 Sr. T Max Bruere 6-4 235 Sr.
Ryan Weitendorf 6-0 210 Sr. T Eric Shute 6-5 280 Jr.
Anthony Sciarini 5-10 150 Jr. K Hayden Lekacz 6-1 175 Jr.
Starting Defenses:
Lincoln-Way East Glenbard West
Name Ht. Wt. Yr. Pos. Name Ht. Wt. Yr.
Adam Hould 6-0 210 Sr. DE/DL Ruben Dunbar 6-3 255 Sr.
Curt Olbrich 6-0 205 Sr. DE/DL Jack Wheeler 6-1 215 Sr.
Mike Stachowicz 6-2 210 Sr. DT/DL A.J. Smith 6-0 215 Jr.
Scott Kresal 6-2 230 Jr. DT/LB Joe Marconi 6-0 190 Sr.
Mitch Murphy 5-11 180 Sr. LB Jordan Hassan 5-10 185 Jr.
Adam O'Grady 6-0 200 Sr. LB Grant Greeno 6-2 195 Jr.
Kyle Langenderfer 5-8 150 Sr. LB Tyler Dayton 6-1 205 Sr.
Jarrett Lecas 5-11 160 Sr. DB/LB Contrell Silmon 6-0 190 Sr.
Sean Doherty 5-11 170 Sr. DB Keeshawn Matthews 5-10 170 Sr.
Moe Almasri 5-11 165 Sr. DB Charlie Sweeney 5-11 170 Sr.
Brendan Sleeman 6-1 180 Sr. DB Hayden Carlson 6-0 180 Jr.
Tom Fuessel 6-3 180 Sr. P Richard Johnson 6-0 205 Sr.
When Lincoln-Way East has the ball: Fuessel's stellar season was known heading into last week, but his 80-yard touchdown run against Benet opened eyes to his explosiveness. The Griffins still run the four-receiver set that's caused teams fits for years, but with a different emphasis. As opposed to a quick passing game, it's about Fuessel's play-making ability. He's thrown for 1,070 yards and rushed for 1,502, joining Colangelo as a 1,000-yard rusher. Lincoln-Way East's 3,200 rushing yards dwarf what it's done with the pass, although Corbett has 27 catches. While Fuessel is probably the best quarterback Glenbard West has faced, the Hilltoppers have faced similar quarterbacks in Hinsdale Central's Brian Owens and Lyons Township's Zach Mahoney. Swarming to the ball and stopping the run is the strength of Glenbard West's defense, evidenced when it held Lake Zurich to 38 rushing yards. Every level of Glenbard West's defense is solid starting with Wheeler and Dunbar up front and continuing with linebackers Marconi and Dayton, and Carlson at safety. While susceptible to the pass, the Hilltoppers have negated that threat with fierce quarterback pressure.
When Glenbard West has the ball: Andrews has struggled with a sprained ankle in the playoffs, but coach Hetlet says he's getting better every day. Andrews, who leads a 3,000-yard rushing attack with 1,250 yards, could have played in the second half last week but didn't. That allowed powerful Toney to take over with his fullback dives behind a dominant line anchored by Brodner and Garland. Zito, with 746 rushing yards, is the third member of the three-headed rushing monster. Vanderbilt-bound tight end Marcus, who has 51 catches for 884 yards, remains the obvious No. 1 option for Haeffner, but last week the crafty quarterback hit speedster Nate Hokenson for a 73-yard touchdown pass on the game's second play. The Griffins need to contain Marcus, but they can't let Hokenson, Domask or Andrews slip away. Lincoln-Way East has surrendered more points in the playoffs than during the regular season, but the offense has outscored opponents. You'd be hard-pressed to find a better group of linebackers than Murphy, O'Grady and Langenderfer. The Griffins aren't huge on defense but, like Glenbard West, they're extremely quick.
Intangibles: Since the start of the season these teams have been considered the best in 7A. Now that the showdown's finally arrived, which side will better handle the big-game pressure? Glenbard West's defense is a clear team strength, but the Hilltoppers have played short-handed all season due to injuries to linebackers Erik Strittmater and A.J. DellaPolla, who returned to special teams action last week. Strittmater, recovered from a broken leg, may actually start this game. If he does, that'd be a major emotional boost to the entire team.
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