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SANFORD — After five years of flat or decreasing revenues, the City of Sanford has passed a tipping point and must recognize it has a serious revenue problem.
That was Budget Committee Chair Robert Stackpole's message last week before he presented the committee's recommendation to the Sanford City Council.
The council tabled a motion to take action at its April 16 meeting on the budget committee's recommendation for the 2013/14 municipal and school budget. Some councilors said they wanted more time to look at the information presented by the committee.
The council will take action on the proposed 2013/14 budget next Tuesday, April 30. The meeting begins at 7 p.m.
The budget committee has recommended a total combined budget (city and school) of $57,598,983, which is an increase of $967,112 over the current budget (2012/13) and would mean a 3.5 percent increase in the property tax rate. The county tax of $856,817 brings the total proposed appropriation to $58,455,800.
"A zero increase in taxation is no longer achievable," Stackpole told the council in his introduction, "because the reductions will be so draconian that this will not be a Sanford that we will want to live in."
Stackpole said that the city is "now in a cycle of higher taxes for fewer services — you pay more, you get less.
"We must recognize that Sanford-Springvale has a serious revenue problem that needs everyone's immediate attention," he said.
Part of the problem is that about 80 percent of Sanford's tax revenue comes from residential properties (homeowners) and 19 percent comes from business or commercial properties, said Councilor Brad Littlefield.Also contributing to the problem is Governor Paul LePage's proposed state budget that significantly reduces state funding to municipalities and schools. The governor has proposed eliminating state revenue sharing payments to municipalities, reducing state aid to education and eliminating or changing some tax exemptions. Because the state legislature has not yet signed off on the budget, municipalities still do not know how much state funding they can expect.Due to a lack of revenue and continuing increases in operating costs, a zero-percent increase is not really zero, Stackpole and fellow budget committee member Thomas Cote pointed out."We're not moving ahead, we're not remaining status quo, we're moving backward," Stackpole said. He urged residents to "look beyond the boundaries of Southern Maine and New England to find solutions" to the city's revenue problem. The budget committee was initially presented with a proposed budget that $3.1 million more than the 2012/13 budget and would have resulted in an 11.25-percent increase in the tax rate, Cote said. During the course of its deliberations with city and school officials, the budget committee pared the anticipated increase down to five percent, then to 2.5 percent. Committee members felt that the resulting cuts (to get to 2.5 percent) were too severe and eventually arrived at the proposed 3.5 percent increase. They asked school and city officials to revise their budgets to meet that goal.The current proposal reflects a 2.03-percent increase in the municipal services budget, a 1.87-percent increase in the school department's eduction services and a 1.10-percent increase in the municipal and school (combined) capital improvement projects (CIP) budget.


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Everyone's favorite Reggaeton group, Calle 13, released their second album on Tuesday. Residente O Visitante packs as much of a punch as their first release, with many collaberations with other artists. Working with Calle 13 on this release are Tego Calderon from Puerto Rico, La Mala Rodriguez from Spain and Orishas from Cuba. By far the most interesting pairing is Calle 13 with Bajofondo, the electro-tango group from Argentina. If you can imagine Kanye West, Luny Tunes and The Gotan Project getting together to make a song, then you get an idea what the song "Tango Del Pecado" is like. Check it out for yourself:
I know the infamous Viola Galloway, Amoeba Hollywood's world music buyer and Tango enthusiast, is just going to love the new Calle 13! She has been rallying for Reggaeton to fuse with Tango for the last three years!

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An entire city is involved into an experiment, unique by it's scope, as a result of which the government expects to build the Communism all over the world. The objective of experiment was to create superhumans, genuine Communists. But the results of experiment went unexpectedly horrifying. Now you have to survive into a huge Soviet city and do your best to improve the situation.
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Optimizing code is an important performance step in the overall life-cycle of an application. But with so many JVM-compatible language, have you ever wondered if one language performs better than another? In this post, Berlin Brown tries to answer the question using a series of performance metrics and tests using Scala, Clojure, JRuby and just Java Read Berlin Brown's entire post 'JVM Notebook: Basic Clojure, Java and JVM Language performance': http://berlinbrowndev.blogspot.com/2009/07/jvm-notebook-basic-clojure-java-and-jvm.html
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STRUTHERS, OHIO: Police in northeast Ohio say an investigation confirmed that a 44-year-old woman killed her 23-year-old son before shooting herself in the basement of their home last week.
According to Struthers police, Leslie Slaven used a .38-caliber revolver to shoot Justin Slaven in the head before shooting herself in the head March 20. They were found in the basement by Leslie Slaven�s husband.
The (Youngstown) Vindicator reports that Justin Slaven died that day and his mother died at a hospital on Tuesday.
Family members say support from the community has been overwhelming, with $5,800 raised in less than a week for Justin Slaven�s funeral expenses. His funeral was scheduled for Friday.
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Gift Ideas for Wedding Anniversaries!
Hi, and welcome to another edition of MemorableGiftsTV! In this video will be talking about anniversary gifts. Pictures were not enough to demonstrate the beautiful personalization that goes into a personal gift, so we had to make a video! The showcase includes two personalized 25th anniversary gifts, and one personalized 50th anniversary gift. We hope you enjoy the video, and feel free to leave us a comment below with questions or ideas!


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Adding Google Calendar to your website
This "How to" is for including your University of Alaska Google Calendars in your website. To get a UA Google Applications account apply hereCreating an Event
1) Log into your UA Google Applications for Education account
2) On the main page click "Calendar" which is located at the top left corner.
3) On the top left corner under "University of Alaska" logo click "Create event"
Changing Calendar Settings
a) Write the description, time, etc.
b) You can invite your peers by enlisting emails, they will be sent out after you click "Save and Send emails" (the guests don't have to have a Google account to view the event).
c) You can also create an event by clicking on the calendar itself.
Settings can be changed by clicking on the "Settings" link in the My Calendar box on the left.
You can import, export, and create new calendars. Additionally you can change your "Sharing" settings, select people to share this calendar with.
If this calendar is a department or event calendar other owners of the calendar should be set here by entering their email address and choosing "Make changes and manage sharing".
In this details area you can:
a) Set Notifications.
b) Browse for other calendars by selecting the "General" option (next to Calendars and Mobile Settings)
c) The General details area allows you to change the language, time zone, etc.
d) The "Mobile Setup" area is where you can set up notifications to be sent to your phone.
Inserting the Calendar into a Roxen page
In the "My calendars" box (under smaller calendar on the left side), click the down arrow and select "Share this calendar"
Go to "Settings" in the "My calendars" box and click "Share this Calendar". Click on the "Shared: Edit Setting" link for the calendar you want to edit.
Select "Calendar Details"
Click on the "Customize the color, size, and other options" link
1) Make choices on the colors, title, size, language, etc.
2) After making any changes click the Update HTML button.
3) Copy the HTML code from the text box
4) Log into your Roxen website and navigate to the page you want the calendar to appear in.
5) Enter edit mode, click the "Edit" icon and insert a RXML component.
Paste the code in the RXML text box, save the page and check if it looks the way you wanted, you can edit the code back in the Google calendar editing page and paste the new code if any changes are needed
Note: If you have multiple columns or if the calendar doesn't fit into your web page (the calendar is larger than the size of the area), change the width from pixels to percent and remove height.
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Day 1: 30 October 2013 (Wed)
Jetstar to Hong Kong
I went to Hong Kong for a short trip with my family last month. We took quite a late flight actually by Jetstar. The departure time was at 3:50pm and thankfully, the plane departed on time and we reached Hong Kong airport at around 7:40pm according to the schedule.
As it was already night time, we were quite anxious to get to the hotel soon. Unfortunately, things were a bit slow at the airport over here. First there was no connecting bridge from the plane to the airport and we had to take a bus to bring us there. After that, we waited for very long for our luggage. :(
Airport Express
As we were going free and easy, we took the Airport Express to Kowloon Station. After that, we took the free Airport Express Shuttle Bus Service K5 that would drop us directly at our hotel. This complimentary airport express shuttle bus service stops at quite many major hotels in Hong Kong. So if you are travelling on your own, it is quite a good idea to stay at the hotel which is connected by this service.
Do check out any on-going promotions. We managed to get the group tickets at HK$220 for a group of 4 adults to Kowloon. The usual single journey ticket cost HK$90 per adult and HK$45 per child. You can get the tickets from the Airport Express Counter in the airport. We got our Octopus cards there as well.
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The Airport Express was a very comfortable ride and took us to the city in just about 30 minutes.
After that, we transferred to the shuttle bus. Our hotel was the last stop - Royal Plaza Hotel.
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Beaufort SC, a paradise for fishing and shrimping, a playground for those who love nature and wildlife, walking on the beach or cruising in the boat, a chance to step back in history and tour the historic churches, tabby forts and antebellum homes or just relaxing on a swing at the waterfront park watching the boats, dolphins and birds in harmony with each new tide.
The Beaufort SC Area
Beaufort County is made up of more than 200 islands, nestled between Charleston SC and Savannah GA, and includes well known towns and communities like Beaufort, Port Royal, Parris Island, Hilton Head Island, Hunting Island, Lady's Island and St. Helena Island, just to name a few.
Beaufort Films, Movies and Military
Movie makers have also discovered Beaufort, and some of the biggest block busters in Hollywood were filmed here. Forrest Gump, The Prince of Tides, The Big Chill and GI Jane, just to name a few. Many retire in the Beaufort area after visiting the area or their prior contact with the areas three military stations, MCAS, the Navy Hospital or Parris Island, which is one of the nations finest and well known Recruit training depots. The military presence is a proud and honored tradition in the Beaufort area, and it is here the sounds of freedom can always be heard.
The Beaufort Aura, Nature and Wildlife
Beaufort visitors and residents are drawn to the magic of the area's abundant nature and wildlife. Fishing, shrimping, oysters and boating are a popular recreation for residents and visitors alike. Hunting Island State Park and beach is one of South Carolina's most popular parks. Take a guided tour or self discover the historic churches and forts, antebellum homes. Spend lazy days shopping the unique shops, stores and galleries and enjoy dining at it's best, from seafood to gullah. There is always time to enjoy the giant oaks, graceful egrets and herons, the dolphins and the endless maze of islands that form one of the most beautiful and serine places in America, the place we call the LowCountry and the LowCountry is Beaufort SC. Please enjoy our guide to the area!


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A video view from the International Space Station shows SpaceX's Dragon cargo capsule in the grip of the station's robotic arm, with Earth below.
Astronauts used the International Space Station's robotic arm to grab SpaceX's Dragon capsule on Sunday after the unmanned spacecraft made a dramatic recovery in orbit. The grapple operation reached its successful climax an hour ahead of schedule, proving that the unmanned capsule had fully recovered from a post-launch glitch that affected its propulsion system.
NASA and California-based SpaceX decided to go ahead with Sunday's rendezvous after the Dragon made a series of orbital maneuvers that demonstrated the craft's thrusters were operating normally. When the Dragon closed in to a distance of 33 feet (10 meters), the Canadian-built robotic arm reached out and latched onto an attachment on the cargo ship.
The robotic-arm grapple was originally scheduled to take place at 6:31 a.m. ET, but it occurred instead at 5:31 a.m., as the station was flying 253 miles (407 kilometers) over Ukraine.
NASA's Mission Control and the space station's astronauts exchanged congratulations. "That was a brilliant capture," NASA astronaut Kate Rubins told space station commander Kevin Ford from Mission Control.
Ford passed along his thanks to NASA's controllers in Houston as well as to SpaceX's mission control at the company's headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif. "It's not where you start, but where you finish that counts, and you guys really finished this one on the mark," Ford said. "You're aboard, and we've got lots of science on there to bring aboard and get done. So congratulations to all of you."
As the crew watched, the robotic arm's remote operators in Houston issued commands to pull the Dragon in for a hookup with the station's Harmony module. "The Dragon is ours!" Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield wrote in a Twitter update. "Maneuvering it now on Canadarm2 to docking port, will open hatches. Look forward to new smells."
The capsule was berthed at 8:56 a.m. ET, and within a few hours, the station's astronauts hooked up the electrical connections, opened up the hatch from the Harmony module and took their first look inside the Dragon.
"Happy Berth Day," SpaceX exulted on Twitter.
How a glitch was fixed
The cargo craft was launched on Friday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, atop SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket. The ascent to outer space was trouble-free, but minutes after the Dragon reached orbit, SpaceX's controllers noticed that only one of the craft's four thruster pods was working. The thrusters control the Dragon's position in space, and at least three of the pods had to be operational to get NASA's clearance for the berthing.
It took several hours to resolve the glitch and get full thruster functionality. That caused SpaceX to miss its opportunity for a Saturday rendezvous. SpaceX's billionaire founder, Elon Musk, said it looked as if there was a stuck valve or a blockage in the thruster's oxidizer lines. Recycling the valves and sending a blast of pressurized helium through the line cleared the system, he said.
The maneuvers that followed gave NASA and SpaceX the confidence to go ahead with the hookup on Sunday. "The station's Mission Management Team unanimously agreed that Dragon's propulsion system is operating normally along with its other systems and ready to support the rendezvous," NASA said in a statement Saturday.
NASA said SpaceX voiced "high confidence there will be no repeat of the thruster problem during rendezvous, including its capability to perform an abort, should that be required." Fortunately, not a single hitch arose during the Dragon's approach.
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Sub-Saharan Africa provides a backdrop for SpaceX's Dragon capsule in a photo taken from the International Space Station during the cargo ship's approach.
A video view from the International Space Station shows the SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule coming in for Sunday's berthing.
A view from one of the International Space Station's cameras shows the Dragon cargo capsule berthed to the Harmony module.
What's in the Dragon?
The Dragon is carrying more than 2,300 pounds (1,050 kilograms) of cargo, including experiments to study the growth of plants and mouse stem cells in zero-G. There are also spare parts for the station's air-recycling system, grapple bars for the space station's exterior, and a research freezer for preserving biological samples. The crew is getting clothing, personal items and food, including fresh fruit from an orchard owned by the father of one of SpaceX's employees.
The Dragon also is bringing the first copy of "Up in the Air," a single recorded by the band Thirty Seconds to Mars. That song will figure in a public-relations push later this month.
Once the space station's astronauts have finished unloading the cargo, they'll fill the Dragon back up with more than 3,000 pounds (1,370 kilograms) of stuff destined for return to Earth. The cargo craft is due to be set loose on March 25 for its splashdown in the Pacific.
This is the second of 12 resupply flights to be conducted under NASA's $1.6 billion contract with SpaceX. The first flight took place last October. SpaceX and another company, Orbital Sciences Corp., were granted the contracts to help fill the gap left by the space shuttle fleet's retirement in 2011. Orbital's cargo delivery service is expected to start later this year.
SpaceX is one of three companies receiving support from NASA under a separate program to develop crew-capable spacecraft for the space agency's use beginning in 2017 or so. SpaceX is working to upgrade its robotic Dragon capsule with extra safety equipment for crewed flight. The other two companies — the Boeing Co. and Sierra Nevada Corp. — are developing completely new spaceships. In the meantime, NASA is paying the Russians about $60 million per seat for rides to and from the space station.
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2009 Goal Setting For Your Business
Image via Wikipedia What is one thing that makes a successful person, successful? Personally, I think it's that that person takes action, instead of waiting for something to happen and reacting. I've heard so much about the economic downturn and I'm seeing a lot of people 'waiting' to see what happens before they will commit [...]Read more


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Yes Virginia, I Really AM a Radical
[Note: I originally wrote this entry back in June 2005, when the original Supreme Court nomination debates were occurring. I was advocating for Janice Rogers Brown, who was considered a "radical extremist" by the left-wingers. I was reminded of this post reading Chris' bio today, and thought I might cross-post it here. Enjoy.]
When I posted a few days ago about the new byline, Lucy Stern asked me whether I really wanted to call myself a "radical". I had to think about it for a millisecond or so, look around at what our government has become, and determined that "radical" is a perfect term to describe me.
I was watching Fox News a few hours ago (Brit Hume's show, I think), and they were talking about extremist appeals court nominee Janice Rogers Brown. I've picked up a few quotes on other blogs about Brown:
Of all the extremist positions judicial nominee Janice Rogers Brown has taken, her stated agenda to undo all progress on social justice since the New Deal may be the most striking. These are her own words:
"The New Deal, however, inoculated the federal Constitution with a kind of underground collectivist mentality. The Constitution itself was transmuted into a significantly different document…1937…marks the triumph of our own socialist revolution."
Janice Rogers Brown's extremist legal views are completely at odds with working families' interests and values. Even ultra-conservative columnist George Will calls her "out of the mainstream." She compares enactment of New Deal legislation such as the minimum wage and the 40-hour workweek with a "socialist revolution." She compares "big government" with "slavery" and an "opiate." She says the First Amendment protects racial harassment in the form of slurs in the workplace. She says leased employees shouldn't expect to participate in employers' pension plans because they are part of a "new labor paradigm" that is "simply a matter of personal choice and private agreement" in which courts should not interfere.
Wow. We need to keep her off the federal bench.
Janice Rogers Brown believes that the Constitution is the guiding law in our land. Specfically, she reads the Constitution literally, and believes that whatever is not in there shouldn't be done by our federal government. And she's an extremist. An extremist isn't by definition wrong, or bad. It simply means that she is out of the mainstream.
There's a good reason for this. The mainstream has been moving more and more left for the last 92 years (I use 1913, when the Sixteenth Amendment was passed for that calculation). Someone who views the New Deal as a socialist program and openly states so is not in the mainstream. Someone who believes that private property rights may include the right of discrimination is not in the mainstream (even though it is obvious she doesn't approve of discrimination). Someone who has the view that coerced redistribution of income is a mild form of slavery is not in the mainstream. It is her view that this country is ruled by laws, as enshrined in the Constitution, and if the "mainstream" wants to change that law, it requires Constitutional amendments, not judicial activism.
So am I a "radical"? Am I an "extremist"? Yes. It is obvious that compared to the mainstream thought in this country, I am nowhere near the average Joe. The average Joe believes that the rule of the majority is just. The average Joe believes that government exists to promote his agenda, not protect individual rights. The average Joe views taxation and regulation as tools for social engineering. The Republican and Democratic parties are full of average Joes looking not to further American ideals with their votes, but to get "their guys" holding the reins of power.
So yes, I am a radical. I'm not afraid of that label, because the government I envision is radically different than the one we have. And yes, I am an extremist. Because I believe that we should be much closer to the extremes of personal liberty and personal responsibility than we currently are. I make no claims that the rest of the country thinks the same way I do. But the principles I believe in don't require them to. They can live they way they want, and I'll live the way I want. They don't offer me the same courtesy. My beliefs put me well outside of the mainstream. But with such folks as Janice Rogers Brown out here with me, I can at least claim good company.


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Bluestem's Blue Cheese and Spiced Nutty Corn
As always with our Cook the Book feature, we have five (5) copies of Bluestem: The Cookbook to give away this week.
Stinky, zingy cheeses love sweet stuff—honey, fruit, preserves, and the like but before coming across this recipe for Blue Cheese and Spiced Nutty Corn from Bluestem, we never would have dreamed of giving popcorn a place in the cheese course. This sweet-salty-nutty caramel corn is an incredibly complimentary partner for the biggest, headiest blue cheese you can find.
Of course, if you're not ready to take the blue cheese plunge, it's a pretty great caramel corn recipe on its own, filled with toasty nuts, orange zest, and a cardamom spiked caramel.
Why you should make this: Really, why not serve caramel corn and blue cheese together? It's just so much fun.
Next time we might think about: This recipe inspired us to see what other high-low snacky combos we can break out with our cheese. Époisses and Chex Mix? It just might work.
Adapted from Bluestem by Colby Garrelts and Megan Garrelts. Copyright © 2011. Published by Andrews McMeel. Available wherever books are sold. All Rights Reserved.
Read more: Cook the Book: 'Bluestem: The Cookbook'
- Yield:Serves 18 to 20 â¨
- Active time: 30 minutes
- Total time:30 minutes
- Spiced Nutty Corn:
- ½ cup almonds, coarsely chopped
- ½ cup roasted unsalted peanuts, coarsely chopped
- 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
- ¾ cup popcorn kernels
- ¼ cup water
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 tablespoons heavy cream
- Seeds scraped from 1 split vanilla bean
- Finely grated zest of ½ orange
- ¾ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1½ teaspoons freshly grated nutmeg
- ⅛ teaspoon ground cloves
- ¼ teaspoon ground cardamom
- ½ tablespoon kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- Great Hill Blue cheese, for serving
Preheat the oven to 325°F. Spread the almonds and peanuts on a baking sheet and lightly toast them in the oven, stirring them at least once to prevent them from burning, about 6 minutes. Remove the nuts from the oven and set aside to cool.
In a large stockpot with a tight-fitting lid, heat the oil over high heat. Add the popcorn kernels and cover the pot. Once the kernels begin to pop, shake the pot constantly until all the corn stops popping. Uncover and remove from the heat.
Heat the water and sugar in a large stockpot over high heat until the sugar dissolves and the syrup comes to a boil. Let the syrup cook until it reaches a golden amber color; you'll notice the bubbles getting bigger and forming more slowly. Watch it carefully, as once the sugar starts to turn yellow it can burn very quickly. Swirl in the cream—the caramel will sputter. Remove from the heat and stir in the vanilla, zest, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, cardamom, salt, and pepper.
Using a wooden spoon, stir the popcorn and nuts into the hot caramel until all of it is well coated. It helps to vigorously shake the stockpot up and down and rap it against a sturdy work surface between stirs to get the popcorn at the bottom to move to the top. You'll want to work as quickly as possible since the caramel will stiffen as it cools, making it harder to work with.
Spread the caramel-coated popcorn on a large baking sheet lined with a nonstick baking mat (or parchment paper sprayed with nonstick cooking spray). Allow the popcorn to cool completely before breaking it into bitesize pieces. Store the popcorn in an airtight container. It will keep for up to 1 week. Serve with wedges of the blue cheese, 1 to 2 ounces per person.
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This week in the Big Easy, NaVorro Bowman plans to finally make good on the steak dinner he owes pal Patrick Willis.
Bowman is only a couple of months behind. In late November, he promised his teammate a night out after signing a five-year contract extension worth $45.25 million, with $25.5 million in guaranteed money. Willis' request: surf-n-turf, with a medium-plus steak, lobster tail, mashed potatoes, vegetables. Vanilla ice cream for dessert.
Arguably the NFL's most-feared linebacking tandem, these two have understandably been a little bit busy lately leading the San Francisco 49ers back to the Super Bowl on Sunday against Baltimore for the first time in 18 years.
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"It will probably happen in New Orleans," Bowman said with a grin.
Why not just bring Ahmad Brooks and Aldon Smith along for the fun, too? They've certainly done their part to earn a little reward.
The 49ers have quite a luxury with ball-hawking inside linebackers Bowman and Willis wreaking havoc on opposing offenses — and Smith and Brooks doing the same on the outside.
"I think that's one of the main reasons we're in the situation we're in, getting ready to play in the Super Bowl, is you've got to have good players," All-Pro defensive lineman Justin Smith said. "And that linebacking corps is probably one of the best in the league, if not the best."
They take pride in their come-at-you-from-all-angles pass rush and in being stingy run-stoppers. Members of this close-knit unit push each other on the practice field and consider themselves family off it. Just take Bowman's decision to make Willis the godfather of his twin daughters born last year, Stoni and Cali.
Aldon Smith finished with a franchise-record 19½ sacks in 2012 — falling three shy of Michael Strahan's single-season mark set in 2001 for the Giants. Yet he didn't have a single one over the final three games, most of that stretch with Justin Smith sidelined because of a partially torn left triceps.
"They make a lot of guys' jobs easier by doing what they do," safety Dashon Goldson said.
While Willis is the captain and one of the faces of the franchise, he is always quick to point out he wouldn't be making the plays he does without the rest of this hard-nosed defense that remained intact from last year's playoff run.
"I say it all the time, I'm very fortunate to be a part of the defense and alongside the linebackers and to be playing with those guys," Willis said. "People can make it about me and say what they want to say. I wouldn't be nearly the player I am today if I wouldn't have had those front seven or the linebackers setting the edges and making plays as well. I'm fortunate to have those guys. I hope we can go out there and play our best football Super Bowl Sunday and be able to wrap it all up and say, 'We did it.'"
A big reason Bowman decided to stay put through the 2018 season is that Willis will be around through 2016 — keeping one of the best duos together for years to come.
"They're good on film," 49ers quarterback Alex Smith said. "Week in, week out, you don't see anything like that as far as their blitzes and playmaking ability — the ability to play the run the way they do and also cover is just very unique."
The 24-year-old Bowman, a third-round draft pick out of Penn State in 2010, had 149 tackles, two sacks, an interception and a forced fumble this season as a second-year starter. As a rookie, his 20 special-teams tackles ranked third in the NFL.
Willis, 28, is wrapping up his sixth NFL season after making 120 tackles with two interceptions and a pair of forced fumbles.
"That's a young lion, man, that I talk to a lot," said retiring Ravens star Ray Lewis, whose No. 52 is worn by Willis. "Since he has come into this league, I've always been (talking to him) — since we met each other at the Pro Bowl and I knew his story and why he wears 52 and all that. It's a special story to become close with him like that. I always try to throw the smallest tidbits out to help his career out, to help him (know) how to get better, 'You should do this, you should do that.'"
Bowman and Willis were All-Pro picks together in each of the past two seasons. Aldon Smith joined them on this year's team.
And they have plans to do a lot more for the two-time reigning NFC West champion Niners (13-4-1).
Brooks is signed through 2017 and Smith through '15.
"Not just football, they're all great guys. I enjoy being around all of them," Bowman said. "We all can run. We all can do a lot of great things. Some teams only have one guy that can do certain things. I think that's what makes us unique. We have a chance to do something special, and we're going to prepare as if our lives depend on it for this game."
Last February, Brooks signed a six-year, $44.5 million contract extension with $17.5 million guaranteed. He has more than delivered on the new deal this season, his second as a full-time starter. Brooks had 46 tackles, 6½ sacks, two forced fumbles and an interception he returned 50 yards for a touchdown in a Nov. 25 win at New Orleans — so he should be plenty comfortable in the Superdome.
In fact, defensive coordinator Vic Fangio recently reminded Harbaugh just how important Brooks is to this group of linebackers.
"Vic Fangio made the comment the other day that smartest thing we did as an organization was pay Ahmad Brooks and keep him as a 49er," Harbaugh said. "And we would all concur with that. He's done it with very little fanfare, in terms of how he talks about himself. But, he's been a tireless worker. Go back to the first days of the offseason program, don't know if he ever missed a day."
Fangio believes this bunch can still play better — and he hopes that performance comes Sunday at the Superdome.
"I think it'd be pretty hard if we compare it to the other 3-4 teams in the league to find a better unit," he said.
Yet Fangio remains cautious in his praise. He has coached some mighty talented linebackers in his day, including the New Orleans group considered among the best ever — Sam Mills and Vaughn Johnson on the inside, Rickey Jackson and Pat Swilling outside.
And Fangio is not ready to rank the current 49ers unit that hasn't been together that long.
"I've ducked answering that question yet. These guys have been together two years, and only one year as a full-time starting unit because Aldon didn't start last year," Fangio said. "But I do think, eventually, if they stay humble and hungry, I will have a positive answer to that question in due time. ... The sky's the limit with our guys."
Outspoken safety Donte Whitner has no problem stating it:
"I believe that our linebackers are the top linebackers in the National Football League," he said, "and we have to go out there and prove it next Sunday."


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A Newport man was arrested this week and charged in connection with a string of vehicle break-ins in a Morehead City subdivision.
A Newport man was arrested this week and charged in connection with a string of vehicle break-ins in a Morehead City subdivision.
Gavin Lee Everett, 21, of Wesley Lane in Newport was charged Tuesday by the Carteret County Sheriff�s Office with three counts of breaking and entering a motor vehicle, four counts of larceny, three counts of possession of stolen goods and two counts of attempted breaking and entering of a vehicle.
Investigators say a resident in the Brandywine Subdivision in Morehead City was alerted at 3 a.m. Tuesday by his dog barking at a window. He discovered his vehicles had been entered and found Everett underneath a vehicle, according to a CCSO press release. Responding Deputy Reid Long took Everett into custody and recovered stolen property that linked him to several other car break-ins in the area, according to the release.
The sheriff�s office says more arrests are expected in connection with the rash of break-ins, all of which were committed on unlocked cars, according to the release. The CCSO recommends that residents lock their vehicles, even if they are in a driveway, because thieves typically will skip locked cars.
Everett was taken to the Carteret County Jail on $10,000 bond and already has had his first court appearance.


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There's a great deal of alarmist talk these days about the fact that Social Security won't be adding to its surplus this year. Instead it will call in some interest payments (and possibly other monies, too) on the money Uncle Sam borrowed from its fund. (When a rich person retires on interest income they're called "lucky" or "successful." When the rest of us do - however indirectly and slightly - it's called a "crisis.")
Those who claim to be so gravely concerned about the financial stability of Social Security should consider this: If our government had put ten million unemployed Americans back to work, Social Security would have added to its surplus this year.


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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis, laying out his hopes Wednesday for the just-begun year, urged people to work for a world where everyone accepts each other's differences and where enemies recognize that they are brothers.
"We are all children of one heavenly father. We belong to the same human family and we share a common destiny," Francis said, speaking from his studio window overlooking St. Peter's Square, jammed with tens of thousands of faithful, tourists and Romans.
"This brings a responsibility for each to work so that the world becomes a community of brothers who respect each other, accept each other in one's diversity, and take care of one another," the pope said.
Setting aside his prepared text for a moment, he expressed impatience with violence in the world. "What is happening in the heart of man? What is happening in the heart of humanity?" Francis asked. "It's time to stop."
He told the crowd this reflection was inspired by a letter he received from a man — "maybe one of you" — who lamented that there are "so many tragedies and wars in the world."
"I, too, believe that it will be good for us to stop ourselves in this path of violence and search for peace," Francis said.
In his remarks to the often-applauding crowd, he also expressed hope that "the gospel of brotherhood speak to every conscience and knock down the walls that impede enemies from recognizing that they are brothers."
Earlier, during his homily at New Year's Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, Francis spoke of humanity's journey in the year unfolding and invoked what he said were "words of blessing," explaining that they are "strength, courage and hope."
"Not an illusory hope," he added, "based on frail human promises, or a naive hope which presumes that the future will be better simply because it is the future."
In his first year as pope, Francis has charted a path for what he calls a "poor" church attentive to the needy. While offering new year's wishes to the crowd in the square, Francis pressed his campaign on behalf of the downtrodden.
"We are also called to see the violence and injustices present in so many parts of the world, and which cannot leave us indifferent and immobile," Francis said. "There is the need for the commitment of all to build a society that is truly more just and united."
Hearing "the cry of peace from peoples who are oppressed by war and by violence," Francis prayed that "the courage of dialogue and reconciliation prevail over the temptation for vendetta, arrogance, corruption."
The Catholic church dedicates Jan. 1 to the promotion of world peace, and St. Peter's Square, just as the pope appeared, marked the end of a peace march by thousands of people.
The marchers included Lula Teclehaimanut from Eritrea.
"The pope is truly our hope, not just for the Eritrean population but for the whole world, I believe," she said, recalling Francis' call for refugees to be welcomed and treated humanely. The refugees who risk their lives to flee to Europe, many of them by boat, include some from her homeland.
Among the many national flags waved by the peace marchers was that of Syria, with several Syrians among the participants expressing hope that peace reaches their country.
AP's Trisha Thomas contributed to this report from Vatican City.


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Delaware Economy & People
Chief Products:
Agriculture — broilers, soybeans, corn, milk.
Fishing Industry — crabs, clams.
Manufacturing — chemicals, food products, paper products, rubber and plastics products, primary metals, printed materials.
Mining — sand and gravel, magnesium compounds.
2017 Population Estimate – 961,939; 45th among the states; Density: 460.8 persons per square mile. For additional information, go to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Office of State Planning Coordination or the Office of Occupational and Labor Market Information.


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As Tron: Legacy cools off at movie theatres, the sci-fi franchise is starting to heat up for an animated version.
Called Tron: Uprising, the show will be written by Tron: Legacy scribes Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis and will feature the vocal talents of Bruce Boxleitner, Mandy Moore, Lance Henriksen and Elijah Wood as the lead character Beck.
The show is set between the first Tron film and Tron: Legacy.
"Over the years of developing this movie [Tron: Legacy] , we developed all these mythologies and all these back stories and all little tangential things [we want to tell in the series] ," says Horowitz. "So we hope it adds to the depth of the movie."
Tron: Uprising will air on Disney XD starting next year.


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Oneida Public Library $375,872 budget vote March 5
ONEIDA >> Oneida Public Library goes to the voters in the library's special district on March 5 with a proposed budget for 2013-14 and a slate of three candidates running for three seats on the library's Board of Trustees.
Current trustees Patricia Albaugh and Robert Wilkins are seeking re-election, while Lillian White is in the running for the seat being vacated by George Miller.
On the March 5 ballot, the OPL board proposes an overall increase in the library's operating budget of 2.36 percent for a total of $375,872. Of this, the proposed library tax levy is $326,872, an increase of 2.56 percent, which is within the limits set by New York state's tax cap legislation.
"The proposed library tax on property in the city of Oneida valued at $100,000 would be about $44.55, a total increase of about $1.05 over this year's library tax," said Albaugh, the OPL board vice president.
Of the proposed budget, $49,000 or 13 percent would come from public and private funding, individual donations and library fees. Not included in the proposed operating budget is funding for special programming and the OPL's adult literacy services, both of which depend on grants from private foundations for support.
"Staying within the tax cap was our No. 1 budget priority for our upcoming fiscal year," said Carolyn Gerakopoulos, OPL director. "However, we are facing some real concerns this year in regards to the uncertainty of future Madison County funding and Gov. Cuomo's proposal to increase the minimum hourly wage from $7.25 to $8.75 in July 2013. We are carefully planning ahead for these possibilities."
"Every year the library board faces the challenge of making the operating budget as spare and cost-efficient as possible while maintaining the high level of service that we expect of our community's library," said OPL Board President Eileen Kinsella. "The proposed budget for 2013-14 is really bare bones, with the tax levy increase needed just to cover a modest 1 percent staff salary increase, the rising costs of building maintenance and items that we have no control over like employer-paid Social Security tax.
The Oneida Library Special District, established by the state Legislature and a voter referendum in 1997, has the same borders as the Oneida City School District. It covers the city of Oneida, Oneida Castle, Durhamville, Wampsville, most of Sylvan Beach and sectors of the town of Verona.
Registered voters in the Library District can cast their ballots for the budget vote and the election of officers to the board March 5, between the hours of noon and 9 p.m., in the OPL's Meeting Room, 220 Broad St., Oneida. If voters will not be in town that day, they can get an application for receiving an absentee ballot in the mail from Gerakopoulos or by calling her at the library, 363-3050.
Board Candidates
Three Oneida City residents seek to win places on the Oneida Public Library Board of Trustees: Patricia Albaugh, Lillian White and Robert Wilkins; the position is unpaid.
Albaugh, who retired from the OCSD in 2007 after 32 years of teaching sixth grade at the Oneida Castle School, is seeking her fourth consecutive five-year term on the OPL board, on which she currently serves as vice-president. She is excited about working on the board at a time when it is endeavoring to build a new library: "I am happy to be involved in such a worthy and important project that will benefit the entire OPL service area."
Bob Wilkins, who is seeking a second term. He would like to see the OPL expand its services in adult literacy tutoring and access to eBooks, particularly for people who cannot afford reading devices. Wilkins and his wife, Gloria, moved to Oneida in 1970. He retired as a school counselor in the Rome Schools in 1999 after 30 years there and then opened up his own computer technician business.
Lillian White moved from New York City to Oneida with her husband Jeffrey and their son Philip in the summer of 2009. White was born in Brooklyn and grew up on Long Island. After attending Briarcliff College, she started her career in an accounting department at a Time Warner subsidiary. A few years later, she began working at JP Morgan Chase & Co., N.Y.C., and eventually became an executive director at the bank. After 26 years with JPMorgan Chase, she retired in order to devote herself to her family in Oneida.
Voters are free to write-in other candidates. Those elected will serve five-year terms, starting July 1. The OPL board currently consists of Patricia Albaugh (vice-president), Jim Bacher, Charles Chambers, Eileen Kinsella (president), George Miller (treasurer), Diane Roy (secretary) and Bob Wilkins.


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'Anchorman 2′ is Now a Reality, Ron Burgundy Announces on Conan [VIDEO]
With a dramatic entrance consisting of one of the best flute solos I've ever heard, Ron Burgundy made his presence known in a big way on Conan tonight on TBS. And as part of the entrance, the leader of Action 4 News Team had an amazing announcement.
Ron Burgundy is back.
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I have a fact table in UAT Phase. Objective to load 5 yrs of data in Prod (expected size 400 Mn records). Currently it has only 2 years of data in Test.
Table Features:
- No of Dimensions ~ 45
- Measures ~ 30
- Non-additive measures and other columns~ 25
- Current data size ~ 200 Million (2 years data)
- Time View: 3 different Month views: Fiscal/Calendar/Adjusted (i.e same row can fall in different months based on which view one is looking for)
- Only One view will be required at a time by a user. (ie. only one Month Column will be used in the query, it's stopping us to do partitioning on time view)
- Indexes: 1 Clustered Index on the Natural Keys (8 columns).Created 3 covering Non Clustered Indexes one on the each Month column including few Dimension SKs (FKs) and all the measures).
- Indexes are huge(total 190 GB) because of this.
- Space is not constraint (1 TB allocated)
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Queries on this Fact table should give result within 30 seconds (General queries select sum(measure) joining few Dims group by Dim Values). Reports are directly done on top of this Fact table.
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On July 27, 2010, real-time strategy game StarCraft II is going on sale in over fifteen countries. There are more than fifteen countries on Earth.
According to the game's developer, StarCraft II will hit stores in the United States, Canada, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Mexico, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, countries in Europe and the regions of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau.
You might live in one of these countries. I do not.
StarCraft II is not launching in Japan. And Blizzard tells Kotaku that there are "no plans" to release a localized version of the game with Japanese servers. So what does that mean for those in, say, Japan who want to play the game?
One option is to buy the US version of StarCraft II as a direct download and play on North America servers, says Blizzard. Or if you bought a European version, you could play on their servers.
No word on when Blizzard will localize the game into more languages.
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Reuse Centres are generally either community-based not-for-profit organsiations or 'tip shops'. They are great places too look for just about anything, including materials used in arts, crafts, home renovations and education. Some reuse centres also run educational workshops.
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- REmida Creative Reuse Centre (West Perth)
- The Bower Reuse and Repair Centre Co-operative (Marrickville, Sydney) collects and repairs donated household goods then resells them. It also offers a Reuse Referral Service - if the Bower is unable to take your goods, they will search their database of other enterprises in Sydney that deal in secondhand goods.


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James Henry Austin's legacy for the average county resident may be the road that bears his name, a north-south artery east of Highway 99 that runs from Mariposa Road in Stockton through Ripon.
James Henry Austin's legacy for the average county resident may be the road that bears his name, a north-south artery east of Highway 99 that runs from Mariposa Road in Stockton through Ripon.
For the men who gather for monthly club meetings on Powers Avenue, Austin was a patron, one of 13 men who formed Tyrian Lodge No. 439, the Masonic Lodge of Manteca in 1913 and its first master, or president.
The group celebrated its 100th anniversary in August, complete with visits by officials from the Grand Lodge of Masons for the State of California. It was a tremendous undertaking and worthy of note. Just as noteworthy, though, is the fact that the lodge continues to attract young, new members.
As with most service organizations, the Tyrian Lodge's heyday was in the 1950s, when men returning from World War II settled down, started families, and joined service clubs. Membership in all clubs has waned, but this men's-only organization retains its appeal.
One day last month, 20-year-old Dylan Law spent time in the lodge meeting room, where the floor is covered in the original carpet that was installed when the building opened in 1957.
"People I knew were in it," Law said. "I live a couple of blocks away and see the building all the time. I was an Eagle Scout and my scout master and assistant scout masters were members."
He asked them the right question to become a member.
The fraternal organization hasn't sustained itself worldwide this long because of an ever-growing need for stonemasons or through recruiting campaigns.
Masons wait for someone to ask, "How do I join?"
In the case of Adam Karim, the Tyrian Lodge No. 439's current junior warden, an office that puts him on the road to lodge master in two years, the process took a while.
"My grandfather's a member of this lodge and his brother is a member, in Kansas," said Karim, 31, who was born and raised in Manteca and moved back with his wife and three young children in 2007 after 10 years in the Bay Area. "He talked about Masonry for year's and years and I (said), 'OK, Grandpa,' and it went in one ear and out the other. A few years ago I thought maybe I should go through that and he got me an application and it sat in my drawer. Then, my grandma passed away (in 2010) and the secretary of the lodge called to offer his condolences. He said we'd talked about a year (before), and (I) was going to turn in an application. I brought it down, and that was that. If not for the secretary calling, I wouldn't have joined."
Now, Karim is at the lodge building almost every day. He lives nearby and keeps an eye on it. He's also an adviser for the DeMolay, a Masonic organization for boys 12 to 21. It's one of three lodge affiliate organizations, along with Eastern Star for women and Rainbow Girls for those 11 to 20.
John Shaughnessy III, like Karim, joined because of his grandfather.
"My grandfather on my dad's side, my name sake, on his deathbed told me I should check out the Masons," Shaughnessy said. "He had a friend in the Marines who was a Mason. When they came back he was going to go down and introduce him to his brothers. He never made it back and my grandfather never pursued it. He finished his Marine career, became a blacksmith and never got into it. I worked for the federal government and had guys who worked for me who were Masons. I checked it out. I'm a life member of Norfolk Lodge No. 1 in Norfolk, Va., George Washington's Lodge."
That Washington and other founding fathers were Masons is well known, and even has given rise to questions about the Masons' influence on early American life, a feeding frenzy for conspiracy theorists.
The so-called controversial nature of Masons makes David Bricknell, 72, a Mason since 1978, laugh.
"It's a fraternal organization. We claim to take good men and make them better, and there are rituals for going from first degree Mason to second degree Mason and second degree Mason to third degree Mason," Bricknell said. "The big secret is there is no secret. ... We're a boys club that doesn't want girls in it. We have three handshakes, but I could do them in front of you and you'd never know it."
"Freemason" referred to highly skilled stonemasons who were hired as free agents to build castles and cathedrals in the British Isles during the Middle Ages. They formed local organizations, called lodges, to care for men who were sick or injured on the job, and to care for widows and orphans of those killed working. The first fraternal organization of Masons formed in London in 1717. The first lodge in American was established in 1733 in Boston and the first lodges in California formed in mining towns during the gold rush.
The one rule for Masons - besides being male - is that they believe in God. Members need not be Christian, though. Karim said the Manteca lodge has Jewish members and Muslims, and is fairly representative of the community.
It's a group committed to service. It helps with food drives and creates identification cards for children. Parents can have a photo and fingerprints taken of their children, then are given the card in case of emergency. In years past, the lodge gathered shopping carts that ended up all over town, and returned them to their stores a couple of times a month. They also purchased maps for Manteca classrooms, a program started when Bricknell was master of the lodge, in 1998.
Some programs have ended, mostly for lack of funds.
The lodge has a membership of about 160, with 30 to 40 of them active. Those who do attend are equal, even if some have roles as officers.
Yes, there are secrets Masons won't share, but they happily share their time and work to help, and that's a lot more important than a handshake or password.
Contact columnist Lori Gilbert at (209) 546-8284 or email@example.com.


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Google Inc faces another grilling over its tax affairs from a committee of British lawmakers on Thursday who have called the company back after questions were raised about testimony given in an earlier hearing.
Corporate tax avoidance has become a major issue in Britain, where there are concerns over rising government debt and accusations from lawmakers that the UK tax authority has adopted a light touch approach to taxing big businesses.
Google's Northern Europe boss, Matt Brittin, was called to testify to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) in November about Google's low UK tax bill.
From 2006 to 2011, Google generated $18 billion in revenues from the UK, according to statutory filings, and paid just $16 million in taxes.
Brittin told the PAC Google was not taxed on the profits of its core advertising business in Britain, because all UK sales were conducted from Ireland.
Reuters revealed that the Internet search giant had described its London offices on its website as a base for sales teams and advertised dozens of London-based sales vacancies.
Committee chairwoman, Margaret Hodge said the company had questions to answer.
"When Google appeared before the Committee last year we were told they were not selling in the UK. There appears to be a clear discrepancy between that and the evidence that has now been uncovered by Reuters," she said.
"This hearing is their chance to explain themselves."
Google is just one of a raft of companies including Apple Inc., Microsoft, Starbucks and Amazon.com, whose tax affairs have come under scrutiny.
All the companies say they follow international tax rules.
On Wednesday, Amazon.com Inc, which was also called to testify at the November PAC hearing, attracted criticism from politicians over its tax bill for 2012.
Accounts published on Wednesday showed Amazon.co.uk Ltd, Amazon's main UK unit paid $3.7 million of taxes on its 2012 income. Amazon Group had UK sales of $6.5 billion (4 billion pounds) in 2012.
Google's auditor, Ernst & Young, and representatives from the UK tax authority are also being called to answer questions.
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Cyclist injured, driver detained in crash
San Antonio police detained a man who may have been intoxicated when he crashed into a 30-year-old cyclist just south of downtown Sunday evening.
Just before 7 p.m., a 52-year-old man driving a pickup was headed south on South Alamo Street when he attempted to turn left on South Presa, police said. He had a green light, but reportedly failed to yield while turning to two cyclists, who were riding north on South Alamo Street.
The front of the pickup struck one of the riders, who wasn't wearing a helmet, said police Sgt. Jim Prendergast. Police detained the motorist, who refused to give a breathalyzer test.
"He will be given a blood draw, based on the totality of the circumstances," said Prendergast, adding that the cyclist suffered life-threatening injuries. The cyclist was taken to San Antonio Military Medical Center.
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Vascular Designs, a San Jose-based medical device company, just announced that its new IsoFlow Catheter got marketing clearance from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to deliver medicine directly to a targeted area of the body. The IsoFlow, therefore, becomes the latest medical device to try and tackle diseases like cancer in the most direct way possible.
Vascular Designs claims the new catheter will let doctors send more medicine directly to an affected area. By targeting a disease more directly, there's a chance that a patient can be cured more quickly. It's an idea we've seen before with larger medical devices, like the "Cyber Knife" from AccuRay, also based in the Silicon Valley. By targeting a tumor - and just that specific area - with a laser, a once-complicated operation can turn into an outpatient procedure.
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Last Wednesday, the "doctah" attended the screening of "Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story.� In viewing the film, I was especially, moved by it, because I know the people involved in it personally. And, in knowing the story, I am aware of the history behind it. So, if you would allow me -- I would like to take poetic license and add my own subtitle to 'Fire and Rain,' and call it: "Can One Man Ever Forget? - Will One Family Ever Forgive?� After finally meeting Benny Paret Jr., one of the sons of the fighter that died after Griffith knocked him out, Emile knew he was forgiven. The son told Griffith that there were no hard feelings or malice toward him from either his mother, family or himself. Now forgiven, one knows neither Emile, or the world will ever forget. "Ring of Fire� validates that.
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Boxing genius Marion Boykin, host of the legendary and most renowned cable boxing show ever, 'Boykin On Boxing' and the current host of his own show on the Rainbow Soul channel of "Sportsbox� on BlakeRadio.com always states: "When a fighter kills another fighter in the ring, you lose both of them."
The core of the story lies in the tragedy that evolved in a trilogy between two of the games' elite fighters. Griffith won the welterweight championship defeating Benny "Kid" Paret, in Florida. Then fighting on his home turf at Madison Square Garden in New York, Griffith lost a fight that his corner thought he let get away. Along, with the defeat, went his welterweight championship. The blessing of knowing those in the know allows me to add this note. Griffith whose waist was a mere 26 inches, discovered his waist was too small to wear the belt when he won the title. "They had to put a boxing glove on the back for the belt for it to fit him," claimed Harold Weston Jr. Weston, you may remember, won the Madison Square Garden welterweight world championship. He also was a fighter Sugar Ray Leonard avoided.
It is known by those within the game and by those who know the history of the game, that Griffith knocked out Paret to regain the welterweight title in their third and tragic battle. After the fight, Paret lapsed into a coma and died days later. At the weight, prior to the bout, Paret had taunted Griffith calling him in Spanish a "maricon,� a term used back then meaning ' faggot'. Back in the day, people didn't use the work homosexual as they do today. This enraged Griffith and added fuel to the fire. Paret had previously taken a savage beating in his prior fight. One which he not only lost but had increased in weight to do so. Middleweight champion, Gene Fullmer, who attended the screening has often remarked that the beating he administered to Paret was the worst he had ever inflicted on anyone.
Paret had some negatives haunting him, one among them was his money hungry inhuman manager, Manuel Alfaro. It is he whom Lucy Paret, the widow of Benny "Kid" Paret, blames for her husband's death. Another factor I learned by watching this outstanding film is Paret didn't want to fight the fight. He was suffering from headaches as part of the aftermath of his bout with Fullmer. But his manager wouldn't stop the fight. Alfaro also remarked coldly after Paret's death that now he would have to go out and find another boy."
Griffith, like Boykin states, was never the same fighter after Paret's death. He did win another world title and beat some outstanding fighters. In fact, Griffith was a three-time world champion in three different weight classes. He was the first man ever to win the junior middleweight championship. He won the title in Venice, Italy against Ted Wright. <o:p></o:p>
"Ring of Fire� is a must see film for fight fans, historians and sports fans in general.
Emile Griffith asked his wife to marry him the very first time he met her on their very first date . He was a Golden Gloves and National AAU champion, as well as a winner of the '�Boxer of The Year� Award awarded by the Boxing writers association. A three-time champion, Griffith had over 100 pro bouts. A more tragic moment in his life was when he was severely beaten and left at deaths door while out at a club one night. By the grave of GOD he survived. I can hear Gloria Gaynor singing somewhere "I Will Survive." That reminds me also that the music in the film was great. Also, I enjoyed seeing the vintage old black and white footage.
A special thanks to Ms. Veronica Buenrostro, Project manage, of MyCinemaAccess.com.,for her aid and professionalism in aiding the Black Star News. Thank you once again and GOD bless.
Are the Mets doing it or what? In six home engagements they had 3 sellouts already. Manager Willie Randolph has his club running, stealing and never giving up. The Mets can come from behind, but the bullpen has got to do better. "Hey, Willie, I know the season is just beginning and it is early but ..wow! On Opening day, three Marines threw out the first ball. Do you want to know whose idea that was? It was the idea of another Marine. The greatest right-handed hurler of his time(And maybe all-times) Tom Seaver. There's another reason to call him terrific! Here's a salute to all our Armed forces heroes.
It seems the Yankees can't catch a break. It's still early in the season, and they are 4-8 yet the papers are acting like they are 10 games out of first and it is mid September. The Boss can always blow off steam after all, it's his team. Then, when the Yankees scored 19 runs against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, the cry is - they should beat up on the Devil Rays. Must be – Your damned if you do and damned if you don't! Class acts those Yankees! Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera and Joe Torre made classy remarks at the Red sox ring ceremony. Then, how about Alex Rodriguez, saving the little boy from getting hit or killed by a car and simply playing it off.
On April 22nd, the Negro League Players were saluted at Shea Stadium. Director of promotions, James Plummer, had his crew back out at Shea. Bob Scott, Jim Robinson, Armando Vasquez to name a few. Lost over the years, are the likes of Max Manning, Bo Wallace and Charley Bioet. It was at Shea Stadium I met the great Buck Leonard.
Speaking of Legends, Frank Robinson is doing some job with the Washington club. I know it's early. Robinson was responsible for the discovery of Dennis Erkersley who just last year was inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame.
DID U KNOW?: Sugar Ray Robinson also killed a fighter in the ring? He remarked after that tragic incident, that from then on he only fought good enough to win. Hank Aaron NEVER hit 50 home runs in a season. Barry Bonds has only struck out 100 times once in his career. And last year, he hit more home runs (45) than times he struck out(44). Bonds also had a record shattering 232 walks, 120 were intentional.<o:p></o:p>
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(in German Die Freudlose Gasse)
Before I discuss the two films by GW Pabst let me put the film in proper context by briefly touching upon hyperinflation, that existed in Weimar Republic.
Germany had to inflate its currency to pay the war reparations required under the Treaty of Versailles, but this didn't cause hyperinflation. The German currency was relatively stable at about 60 Marks per US Dollar during the first half of 1921. But the "London ultimatum" in May 1921 demanded reparations in gold to be paid in annual installments of 2,000,000,000 gold marks plus 26 percent of the value of Germany's exports. The first payment was paid when due in August 1921. That was the beginning of an increasingly rapid devaluation of the Mark which fell to less than one third of a cent by November 1921 (approx. 330 Marks per US Dollar). The total reparations demanded was 132,000,000,000 gold marks which was far more than the total German gold or foreign exchange. An attempt was made by Germany to buy foreign exchange, but that was paid in treasury bills and commercial debts for Marks, which only increased the speed of devaluation.
During the first half of 1922 the mark stabilized at about 320 Marks per Dollar accompanied by international reparations conferences including one in June 1922 organized by U.S. investment banker J. P. Morgan, Jr. When these meetings produced no workable solution, the inflation changed to hyperinflation and the Mark fell to 8000 Marks per Dollar by December 1922.
Although reparations accounted for about one third of the German deficit from 1920 to 1923, the government found reparations a convenient scapegoat. Other scapegoats included bankers and speculators (particularly foreign), both of which groups had, in fact, exacerbated the hyperinflation through the normal course of their profit-seeking. The inflation reached its peak by November 1923, but ended when a new currency (the Rentenmark) was introduced.
A medal commemorating Germany's 1923 hyperinflation. The engraving reads: "On 1st November 1923 1 pound of bread cost 3 billion, 1 pound of meat: 36 billions, 1 glass of beer: 4 billion."(wikipedia)
"It's strange how you can get booze on credit but not bread."This quote is from Pandora's Box(1929), which tersely encapsulates Germany's Weimar Republic. The Joyless Street is also set during this tumultuous post-war Vienna. The city as Pabst saw was 'a head that has no torso'. Plagued with skyrocketing inflation, the Austrian metropolis becomes the domain of every scurrilous form of profiteering. In such maledictory circumstances profiteers prosper.
In 1921 in the poverty-stricken part of town called Melchiorgasse in Austria inhabited by impoverished gentry and blue-collar workers, there are only two wealthy people: the butcher Josef Geiringer and his wife. Mrs. Greifer (literally her name means grasping) runs a fashion boutique and a nightclub patronized by the wealthier class of Vienna. Annexed to the nightclub is "Merkl" hotel, a by-the-hour establishment, in which the women of the nightclub prostitute themselves in order to pay back their debts to Frau Greifer. The supporting characters include a poverty-stricken professor, his beleaguered daughter, an idealistic American Red Cross worker and a slinky harlot. Each character is photographed in a symbolic manner underlining his or her basic personality: the domineering butcher is photographed from a low angle, emphasizing his corrupt power, while the professor is lensed in long shot, highlighting the bareness of his apartment-and by extension, his life'.(Hal Erickson-allmovieguide.com)
Where despair rules can brothels be far behind? Every pfenning that a client put out was like thirty pieces of silver betraying some hopeless girl sunk low in the economic mire.
The Joyless Street was the third film of Georg Wilhelm Pabst. The film is notable in the history of silent era film for a number of reasons. It made Greta Garbo an international star. Soon after this film was completed, Garbo was brought to the shores of the USA to star in films for MGM in Hollywood. It is also a film that marked the fame of Pabst as a creditable film-maker.
The film was directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst and it is one of many films concerning the plight of women in German society. The other films are Geheimnisse einer Seele (1926) with Lili Damita, The Loves of Jeanne Ney (1927) with Brigitte Helm, Pandora's Box (1929), and Diary of a Lost Girl (1929), the last two starring American actress Louise Brooks.
The Joyless Street tells the story of two women whose lives take different routes during the period of hyper-inflation in immediate post-war Vienna. One is the poverty stricken Marie (played by Asta Nielsen), who stumbles into prostitution while attempting to raise money for the man she loves. The other is Greta, the daughter of a struggling middle class bureaucrat, who resists the temptation of the easy money that prostitution offers.
At the end of the film, a sick and impoverished Else kills the butcher because he won't give her any meat and the poor in the neighborhood, hearing the sounds from the nightclub, begin a stone-throwing revolt against the rich. In the ruckus, the building goes up in flames, killing a pair of beggars. In the end, only Grete seems to have any hope of someday rising out Melchiorgasse, because of her relationship with an American Red Cross officer.
Nielsen and Garbo
Asta Nielsen portrays Marie as a slightly "lost", faded beauty, face caked with too much make-up and in love with the much younger Egon. Not fully comprehending what is happening to her, she drifts into prostitution to raise money for the man who shows no interest in her.
The role of Marie is played by the 35-year-old Nielsen was one of Scandinavia and Germany's premier actresses and this was one of her last films while the other actress was the 20-year-old Garbo who had just made Stiller's The Atonement of Gösta Berling (1924) and was on the brink of stardom. In rather fortuitous circumstances Pabst found Garbo and the director in Berlin and signed her up for the film.
Garbo plays the daughter of a bureaucrat who loses every penny of his pension on the stock market. The loss forces them, at first, to take in borders. Their first tenant is the son of a wealthy American in Germany to study. The elder of the two daughters and the young man fall in love at once. The affair is doomed, however, because the girl, seeing the harm their lessened social status causes the father and her sister, is forced into becoming a chanteuse in a brothel. She is saved from the fate of many of the other girls at the last minute.
Pabst drew a very different performance from Garbo to the one he garnered from Nielsen. Greta, the character, although placed in much the same situation as Marie – unable to obtain meat during a food shortage, in dire need of money, tempted by prostitution – is a younger, more privileged woman. Garbo's performance, in contrast to Nielsen's, imbues her character with great vitality… When the American officer agrees to rent a room so that the family will be capable of paying its living expenses, the pores of her body seem to pulsate with a contagious exhilaration. As Louise Brooks, another actress who was touched by Pabst's genius, said of Garbo, "she gave him the purest performance of her career."(quoted from by Michael Koller)
The war was over, defeat its German portion. The social changes were about to push the stolid mercantile class known as Kleinburger ever lower. Self-pity of this class one might see in films like The Last Laugh, New Year's Eve and The Street. "Die Strasse" of brothels has been a favored milieu for German film makers. Pabst was ' the humanitarian, and not the "psychologist," in the "freudlose GassGasse" (the street without Freud). His sensitiveness placed this picture of the stricken above…the more typical German directors: he was not moralistic. His Viennese origin substituted delicacy for delikatessen; he did not compound the pathos on the recipe of "Mehr! Mehr !"( "Pabst and the Social Film," by Harry Potamkin, originally appeared in Hound and Horn in 1933)
The present film has a ring of truth and brilliance of a genius in the making all of which owe to his own experiences in post-war Vienna. It helped him to provide a vivid document in charting the moral and economic collapse of a recently great society. Pendant upon this are films like Pandora's Box and The Blue Angel(1930). The cabaret in which Lola Lola had men panting for more, in this film has a brothel instead. The madam also controls the adjoining night-club and clothes shop. Who keeps her in business? The needy and the curious obviously. Among the latter are the military officials of the American Relief Fund, as well as a sleazy foreign investor who visit the night-club to experience what Viennese women are 'really' like. The economic collapse has taken the kid gloves off from the wealthy and they are shown as grasping as ever. They feed on those less fortunate than themselves. If the madam should be as grasping it comes as no surprise. For every prospering madam there shall be those who have given up the will to succeed. Marie is one such. Her love for Egon merely is one way street and he is more interested in two other women; an older one who supplies him with the means to raise money and the younger Regina, the woman he truly loves, who wants it. Regina tells her suitor, Egon, that only money can make her happy. And she is happy for him to prostitute himself to get money for her. Love as you can see still makes the world go round even in such desperate times.
When completed the film was ten thousand feet in length…. France accepted the film, deleting two thousand feet and every shot of the 'street' itself. Vienna extracted all sequences in which Werner Krauss appeared as the butcher. Russia turned the American Lieutenant into a doctor and made the butcher the murderer instead of the girl.
(Ack:allmovieguide,senses of cinema-Michael Koller, June 2004)
With: Asta Nielsen, Werner Krauss, Jaro Furth, Einak Hanson, and Veleska. Gert.
Notes: Script by Willy Haas from a book by Hugo Bettauer. Cinematography by Guido Seeber and Robert Lach.
Original running time: 145 mins
(Original length: 12,264 ft.) Premiered 18 May 1925 in Berlin, Germany. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Asta Nielsen's character was edited out of early USA release prints. Rereleased in 1937 with synchronized music and sound effects as The Street of Sorrow. The film was restored by the Munich Filmmuseum in 1999.
Survival Status: Print exists in the Munich Filmmuseum film archive; also in private film collections [16mm reduction positive].
* The name "Frau Greifer" literally means "Mrs. Grabber", a metaphor for the stranglehold that poverty and prostitution have on women who fall into that way of life.
* The actress playing Elsa is Hertha von Walther (1903-1987), who looks very much like Marlene Dietrich, giving rise to the false rumor that Dietrich has a bit part in this film.
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Les Bas-Fonds (1936, Jean Renoir)
The Lower Depths (1957, Akira Kurosawa)
Na Dne (1952, Andrey Frolov)
Austeria (1983, Jerzy Kawalerowicz)
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Ninotchka (1939, Ernst Lubitsch)
Diary of a Lost Girl (1929, G.W. Pabst)
Geheimnisse einer Seele (1925, G.W. Pabst)
Westfront 1918 (1930, G.W. Pabst)
Paracelsus (1943, G.W. Pabst)
Romance (1930, Clarence Brown)
Inspiration (1931, Clarence Brown)
Don Quixote (1933, G.W. Pabst)
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"The memories you create, good or bad, are the memories that make you the nurse you are and the person you become."
When you ask a child what they want to be when they grow-up, their answer can range from astronaut to Spiderman. When Kristy Marchese was a child, her answer remained constant – she wanted to be either a teacher or a nurse. Then, at the young age of 14, Kristy tragically lost her mother to cervical cancer. It was at that point in her life that she realized her true calling was nursing.
When her mother passed away, Kristy took on the responsibilities of caring for her two younger sisters. She took on the role of a mother while her father often worked multiple jobs to provide for the family and pay the medical bills. Kristy's teenage years passed not as one would imagine. Instead of going out with friends and worrying about boys, she spent her time cooking dinners, doing laundry and helping with homework. Kristy took on her mother's role and lived by a unique motto "What would my mother do?" This motto inspired her to pursue her nursing degree and after graduating from high school, she worked and paid her way through college ultimately earning her BSN from Widener University.
Fresh out of college she applied to nursing positions at Cooper Health. During her first interview she met with the oncology nurse manager for a position in the same unit where her mother had passed away 10 years earlier. Her interview started as any interview would – the nurse manager asked her why she was interested in oncology. Kristy remembers this conversation like none other; she started to explain that her mother passed away from cervical cancer 10 years prior and as a young girl, Kristy was left to care for her two sisters. Before she could say more, her interviewer jumped out of her seat and started to cry. The nurse manager recognized Kristy and remembered her mother. Unbeknownst to Kristy…"
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