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Hello to everyone.
After lot of time, I decide to write this few lines to say an huge "THANKS!" to all who are working at the translation of Himitsu, this gorgeous serie of Reiko Shimizu. ^-^
Because of I saw some chapter raw and I'm studing japanese, I can imagine how is difficult this work. The manga is poor of furigana and full of complex sentences and words.
So, to all of you, THANKS, for every release of this manga and Reiko Shimizu's ones in general.
I'll always wait for new release of this serie. Now even more, because of the future anime, broadcasting at April, 4th.
And, at last, sorry for my poor English.
Hey there Welcome to the forum ^^ I moved you post here instead of the feedback/suggestion section.
You're very welcome Thanx for sharing your thoughts ^^ And yeah, I'm really grateful for my jap translators! Himitsu really isn't easy to translate and involves sciencetific terms etc.
Yup, the Himitsu anime is coming soon (hope it'll be a good anime and not disappointing like so much else)~ I'm hoping to release the next Himitsu chapter before then, or at the very least on our upcoming anniversary, so stay tuned ^^_________________Thanx to Joanne Kuang for the awesome avatar!
Thank you so much!!1
i really love Himitsu . Please countinue release it >< . I'll always wait for the new chapter. I've read the raw of vol 5 but can't understand
I too would like to express my gratitude and a big thank you towards the people working on this series that make it possible for a lecher like me to enjoy this manga. Thank You for your hard work and I'll keep coming back for more updates, I'll pray everyday I get to see each chapter coming out.


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23 October, 2009
elevatingmy first U2 show--it was awesome. the heart shaped stage was right in front of us in the general admission area (the only way to fly). we were right at the point. highlights-- opening with elevation --with the lights on!, the fly, acoustic stay, until the end of the world, and just the general uphoric atmosphere! cheers and see at 360 in vegas:)

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One is taking over a technology titan. Another is tapping into San Diego's craft beer boom. One is leading the charge to allow California's community colleges to offer baccalaureate degrees. Another leads the Chargers. One is a new mayor and two are vying for that job. Sixteen in all, they are the ones to keep an eye on in the new year. Some are already famous, some will surely be. They are leading their fields and developing new ones, rewriting the rules and even writing a first novel. Together they'll move this region forward in 2014.
Jorge Astiazarán Orcí
Tijuana mayor
Can a doctor with a passion for volunteering find the cure for Tijuana's ills? Jorge Astiazarán Orcí is counting on it.
The city's new mayor said fighting crime is foremost on his mind for 2014, as he hopes to bring "a greater sense of security for Tijuana's residents and visitors."
Astiazarán, who launched his administration on Dec. 1, faces a range of challenges in this city of about 1.7 million residents. Tijuana is saddled with one of the highest municipal debts in Mexico. Unemployment levels remain high. Many streets are in dire need of paving.
"Three years is very little time for a city that's so vast and with so many problems as Tijuana. One can plant some seeds so that someone may harvest it in the future," said Astiazarán, a 51-year-old internist who is a longtime volunteer for the Tijuana Red Cross. He was referring to the three-year term for mayors in Mexico, who cannot run for consecutive re-election.
Tijuana has 2,190 police officers, but not all of them are available for routine patrols. (About 600 belong to the city's commercial police division, which deals with security for businesses.) In the coming year, Astiazarán aims to train 150 to 200 new cadets. By the end of his term, he hopes to have 500 additional officers in the police department.
For now, he said, "What's most important is a real coordination with state police and federal police. We've already begun joint patrols, and we've had some good results."
On the binational front, the mayor counts on continuing Tijuana's close relations with San Diego's government and business leaders. He wants to jointly lobby for resources to expand border crossings, which would bring economic benefits to both countries.
He also hopes to change overall attitudes about his city: "I want San Diegans to understand Tijuanenses," he said. "Most of us are decent people, and there are many good things about Tijuana."
Once he leaves office, Astiazarán said his chief goal "is to be able to keep walking peacefully through Tijuana's streets, that people recognize me as someone who was always accessible, and above all, that we were honest in everything that we did."
Mark Cafferty
CEO, San Diego Regional Economic Development Corp.
Convincing businesses to move to San Diego isn't always easy, despite the annual sunshine.
California has some of the nation's highest taxes, and some conflicting regulations. That makes it a tough sell when competing with other states like Texas that have no corporate or personal state income taxes.
But it's Mark Cafferty's job to pitch the region's research and defense-laden economy as one whose benefits outweigh its costs.
"Our goal is to be a magnet for investment, talent and innovation," said Cafferty, chief executive of the nonprofit San Diego Regional Economic Development Corp.
And starting in 2014, Cafferty, 42, will have some extra tools to pitch to companies.
Up until this year, Cafferty most of the time could tell businesses considering San Diego that it was a region rich with talent. But now, he'll be able to tell them about three state tax incentives, one that will even give credits to businesses that promise to create jobs.
The California Competes credit starts at $30 million in 2014, before eventually increasing to $200 million in late 2016. Companies will have to apply for the tax breaks through a Sacramento agency, created after Gov. Jerry Brown and the state legislature approved the new program last year, replacing enterprise zones.
"It's our job to promote pieces that are good and challenge things that could be better," Cafferty said. "We need a voice reminding the governor's office that some of the money has to come south of Los Angeles."
Cafferty's group will try to provide that voice, through relationships developed in Sacramento. Additionally, he'll be telling businesses about the two other new initiatives, which apply to everyone: no sales tax on manufacturing or biotech equipment, which can mean thousands of dollars saved on expensive purchases, and hiring credits for qualifying employees in areas of high poverty.
Constance Carroll
Chancellor, San Diego Community College District
Constance Carroll is leading the charge to allow California's community colleges to offer baccalaureate degrees in certain high-demand fields, potentially one of the biggest shifts since the state adopted its Master Plan for Higher Education in 1960.
The idea of authorizing community colleges to grant bachelor's degrees has been the subject of several legislative bills in recent years and appears to be gaining momentum, especially the proposal of allowing those schools to offer four-year nursing degrees. Another field that has been mentioned is automotive technology.
As chancellor of the San Diego Community College District, Carroll, 68, is serving on a statewide study group that has taken a deep look at the issue. She's championing the cause.
It wouldn't be the first time she helped bring about major changes. In 2006, she served as co-chair of a coalition that lobbied state lawmakers to establish more equitable funding for community colleges, revamping a formula that had provided uneven financial support for decades.
"I would say it could happen next year or the following, depending on how swiftly the approval process moves," Carroll said. "California is a very conservative state, and it takes a while for an idea to germinate and then be nurtured and fully realized. ... It would be a change of great significance."
Carroll, who has headed the San Diego Community College District since 2004, is optimistic that the proposal will become a reality. She said allowing community colleges to offer bachelor's degrees is about putting people to work, not simply expanding the mission of community colleges.
"As people go through the details, they find very little to question or oppose because it is so rock-solid practical," Carroll said.
Daniel J. Chavez
Executive director, San Diego Health Connect
Daniel Chavez has a mission for the new year: Get San Diegans to share their medical records with hospitals and health providers throughout the region.
The idea is to prevent medical complications by making medical records available to health organizations even if they aren't a patient's primary care provider.
For example, if a Scripps Health patient has a heart attack and is taken by ambulance to the nearest Sharp hospital, the emergency room doctor would be able to query Health Connect's secure servers and obtain a copy of his or her medical record.
Studies have shown that allowing doctors to access information across organizations can reduce cost, and decrease over treatment and medical error rates.
As Chavez makes presentations to local health providers, he is fond of calling Health Connect a utility. Though it was set up with a $15 million federal grant awarded to UC San Diego, the exchange is now going independent and plans to charge a small fee to health systems that participate.
Chavez scored a major victory in October, when he signed up Sharp HealthCare and Scripps Health, completing the list of major providers that also includes UC San Diego Health System, Kaiser Permanente San Diego, Rady Children's Hospital, VA San Diego Healthcare System, and most of the region's community clinics.
The next phase of outreach will focus on patients who must give their permission for their records to be available on Health Connect's servers.
The nonprofit is working to integrate patient permission into the registration process at hospitals and clinics that have signed partnership agreements. Outreach is also planned for public events like health fairs and immunization clinics.
Norma Chavez-Peterson
Executive director, American Civil Liberties Union of San Diego & Imperial Counties
Looking back on two decades as a community organizer, Norma Chavez-Peterson said her experience has been "on the ground in San Diego."
She was referring to past nonprofit work in the fields of affordable housing, charter schools, and drug and alcohol treatment. But the phrase could also describe the grass-roots viewpoint that will guide her forward in her new role as leader of the American Civil Liberties Union of San Diego & Imperial Counties.
She is the first Latina to hold that job.
"It feels good. It feels right," said Chavez-Peterson, 40, of being named the organization's executive director in September.
A San Diego State University graduate who was raised in the South Bay, she was hired by the ACLU in February 2012 as the group's organizing director. Less than a year later, she became its associate director.
In 2012, Chavez-Peterson led the group's voter-outreach campaign among Latinos in Escondido. The effort led to a 7 percent increase in voter turnout over the previous city election.
"We knocked on doors, we made phone calls, we led community education so that people understood what was at stake and why their votes mattered in the democratic process," she said. "That's not litigation, right? It's building community power."
Chavez-Peterson said that in the new year, the ACLU will continue to collaborate with other agencies to promote voter registration, civic education, as well as public health and safety. She said the group will pay special attention to the rollout of driver's licenses for unauthorized immigrants, and the Trust Act in California, which prohibits police from turning people arrested for minor offenses over to immigration authorities for possible deportation.
"Nearly 20 years of nonprofit community work, specifically with low-income (populations) and communities of color has prepared me to take on this role," said Chavez-Peterson, a married mother of three daughters.
"I'm ready," she said.
Peter Comiskey
Executive director, Balboa Park Cultural Partnership
It may not be on his official job description, but being congenial is a big part of what Peter Comiskey does all day.
As the Executive Director of the Balboa Park Cultural Partnership (BPCP), Comiskey juggles the ideas and concerns of 27 institutions, ranging from museums to youth arts groups, with an overall goal of making Balboa Park a better place for visitors.
"Our main interest is what's best for the guest," he said in an agreeable Australian accent.
That includes everything from working with the city to make the park more eco-friendly (they're aiming to have 10 LEED-certified buildings in the near future) to preparing for the 2015 Centennial Celebration.
But the BPCP and Comiskey's biggest project for 2014 is rolling out the Balboa Park Explorer.
The Explorer, an annual pass that offers unlimited admission to the park's 17 museums, officially launches this spring.
"Without that barrier of admission, the pass allows visitors to get wonderfully lost in all the different museums, which are all so interesting and amazing," he said.
The passes, which have been on sale since November, have already received positive headlines and generated a lot of social media buzz. Current prices range from $99 to $199 but may change after the official rollout.
Creating user-friendly experiences is something's Comiskey's been doing when he lived in his native Australia, where he helped launch the country's first regional science and technology museum.
He came to the United States in 1998 to work as the Vice President for Guest Services and Operations at the Discovery Science Center in Santa Ana. He held similar positions for an Israeli tourism company on the East Coast and at the Downtown Anaheim Association, before coming to Balboa Park just about a year ago.
"Balboa Park is such a unique place," he said. "And the Explorer pass is going to be a wonderful thing for San Diego. Visitors will be able to explore new museums, discover new interests or really dive into something they already like. It will allow people the option of having a little snack of culture or a full meal of the arts."
Adam Day
Policy maker
Adam Day, the precocious baby of former San Diego State University President Thomas Day's family of nine children, has earned a reputation for adult supervision in the partisan world of public policy.
"Adam has a heart of gold," gushes Peder Norby, a member of the county Planning Commission, which Day chairs. Though both are Republicans, Day and he can disagree on environmental issues, but there's never a moment when the more liberal Norby doubts Day's honest desire to get the policy right for as many of the seven commissioners as possible.
Beginning as a 9-year-old watching his father work a room, Adam Day has studied the mechanics of political power.
A graduate of San Diego State University (where else?), Day, 44, worked for U.S. Sen. Pete Wilson in 1990 as an aide and then for three county supervisors in the '90s: George Bailey (policy adviser); Greg Cox (deputy chief of staff); and Dianne Jacob (chief of staff).
In 2002, Day started working full time for the Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation. In a role akin to city manager, Day engineered a complicated 2,000-acre reservation expansion with 600 acres going to a land conservancy.
Eleven years ago, Supervisor Bill Horn appointed Day, who lives in Alpine with his wife and five children, to the county's Planning Commission.
In 2008, Gov. Schwarzenegger appointed Day to the Del Mar Fairgrounds board. (As if he didn't have enough to do.) Three years ago, the fairgrounds turned into a battleground with powerful forces, including the city of Del Mar, poised to buy the regional attraction against the board's will. Gov. Jerry Brown torpedoed the sale and jettisoned three board members, leaving it to the diplomatic Day to lead the return to normalcy.
Someday in the not so distant future, Jacob will yield her East County seat, either through retirement or term limits (in 2020).
It won't take long for it to dawn on this conservative district that her job could be a good Day's work.
Barry Edelstein
Artistic chief, the Old Globe
With his first-ever Old Globe directing project and a rethinking of the theater's annual Shakespeare Festival, Globe artistic chief Barry Edelstein is leaping into 2014 with both very fashionably clad feet.
Edelstein, you see, is a sock man, with a longtime habit of wearing some pretty colorful numbers over his toes.
It's gotten to the point where "people actually grab my trousers and pull them up" at public events to check his footwear, Edelstein says with a laugh.
Edelstein is even better-known as an expert in that playwright with legs: William Shakespeare, whose works have been a foundation of the Globe's nearly 80-year history.
In February, Edelstein will stage "The Winter's Tale," the complex Bard work he first directed as artistic chief of the off-Broadway Classic Stage Co. (Edelstein subsequently became director of the Public Theater's Shakespeare Initiative, before joining the Globe just over a year ago.)
"I have a history with the play, I love the play, and I'm really enjoying revisiting it 10 years later," he says.
Summer brings a revamped Shakespeare Festival that goes from three plays to two, produced end-to-end rather than in simultaneous "repertory" format (which had been the practice at the Globe over the past decade).
"I don't like characterizing it as some kind of revolutionary change," says Edelstein, who will direct "Othello" in June as part of the fest. "It just allows us to relieve the plays from the pressure of having to work in concert with the other two."
He's also sharpening the Globe's focus both on new plays and community involvement; those two efforts come together in a planned mayoral forum on housing issues, timed for the West Coast premiere of Laura Marks' "Bethany," a play dealing with that topic.
"Shakespeare says, 'Hold a mirror up to nature,'" as Edelstein notes, paraphrasing "Hamlet." "And that's what we've got to do."
David F. Hale
Chairman, Santarus
San Diego biotech veteran David F. Hale added yet another sizzling corporate sale to his list of accomplishments in 2013. So the obvious question for 2014: What's his next act?
The $2.6 billion sale of Santarus was announced in November. Hale has been chairman of Santarus since 2004. The company's shares rose more than ninefold in the last five years.
Over more than two decades, Hale, 63, has established a record of persistence. A former president of Hybritech, San Diego's first biotech company, Hale has invested in or help lead a series of biotechs, from pharmaceuticals to consumer products.
In 2012, Hale led Carlsbad-based SkinMedica to a sale to Irvine-based Allergan for $350 million upfront, and $25 million more if the company meets sales goals. Also that year, Micromet, of which Hale was also chairman, was sold to biotech giant Amgen for $1.6 billion.
The Micromet story marked a happy ending to one of Hale's failed companies, CancerVax. The Carlsbad-based company had tried to develop a vaccine for melanoma, a particularly deadly form of skin cancer. The vaccine failed late-stage clinical trials in 2005, and CancerVax was out of luck.
Micromet, a German biotech company looking for an American presence, bought publicly traded CancerVax. Hale, who had been president and CEO of CancerVax, became Micromet chairman.
Micromet established itself in Rockville, Md., and developed its own kind of cancer immune therapy, targeting blood cancers.
Hale had earlier gone through a similar experience with Gensia Pharmaceuticals, a San Diego biotech established in 1987 to develop heart medicines. He left Hybritech when it was purchased by Eli Lilly to become chairman and CEO of Gensia. But the company's lead product, Arasine, failed in 1992. Shares of Gensia plunged, and the company's future looked bleak.
In 1997, Gensia merged with another company, Sicor, to form Gensia Sicor. In 2003, Israel-based Teva Pharmaceuticals bought Gensia Sicor for $3.4 billion.
James Limjoco
If you've visited Sublime Ale House in San Marcos or Sublime Tavern in Del Mar, chances are you've rubbed shoulders with proprietor James Limjoco.
The married father of two is a hands-on guy, who started out six years ago hand-tossing his own pizzas and still spends 80 hours a week on the job.
"Quality control is very important to me," he said. "If I'm not in the office, you'll see me out on the floor at dinner time."
Limjoco was working unhappily as an investment manager in 2007 when he cashed out his investments with wife, Gail, and they opened a pizza place named Sublime in 4S Ranch. Taught to cook by his Filipino mother, Limjoco developed an everything-from-scratch menu with gourmet pizzas and 17 styles of baked mac 'n' cheese.
In 2011, he opened Sublime Ale House, a 180-seat family restaurant/bar with 46 taps. With at least 28 new brews on tap each week, it became the go-to place for craft brew aficionados. Last July, he debuted Sublime Tavern, a higher-end comfort food spot with 50 beers and 30 wines on tap.
In 2014, Limjoco said he'll begin the groundwork on his own beer label and he hopes to expand the Sublime restaurant brand to the Bay area, where he grew up.
Stone Brewing's Brandon Hernandez, author of the just-published "San Diego Beer News: Complete Guide to San Diego Breweries," describes Limjoco as someone with "limitless energy and enthusiasm" who works hard to make his restaurants stand out from the county's increasingly ubiquitous brew pubs.
"The degree of customer customization offered there is what sets the business apart," Hernandez said. "The beer list is reliable and James works directly with brewing companies to get his hands on specialty beers and secure the presence of high-profile brewers for special events."
David Alvarez and Kevin Faulconer
San Diego councilmen, mayoral candidates
One will be the next mayor of San Diego. The other will remain a force on the City Council.
But which holds what job won't be known until the ballots are counted in the Feb. 11 runoff election between Councilmen David Alvarez and Kevin Faulconer to replace disgraced former Mayor Bob Filner.
The winner will have great influence on the direction of the city emerging from scandal and financial difficulties.
Alvarez, 33, a Democrat, is striving to become the city's first elected Latino mayor in the midst of his first council term. Faulconer, 46, a Republican, is vying for City Hall's top job as he enters his final year on the council.
As the two San Diego State University alumni sprint to Election Day, they were asked what political advice they consider most relevant.
"Always ask questions," Alvarez said. "When you ask questions, you get the information you need to make the best informed decision."
Faulconer said staying true to himself is the maxim he lives by.
"There are always people who will try to tell you to do this or do that, but if you just be yourself, the rest will take care of itself," he said.
Each has a vision of greatness San Diego.
"I want to make people proud of city government again and make sure that we are focusing 100 percent on serving San Diego residents in a way that is accountable, transparent and responsive," Faulconer said.
"We really need to focus on reinvesting in our neighborhoods in infrastructure and in people," Alvarez said. "We have so much to offer in the realm of the arts, science and technology."
During the relatively quite holiday campaign period, they not only shared their aspirations for San Diego but more about themselves.
"I like to sing in the car with my kids, which they find very embarrassing," said Faulconer, whose wife, Katherine, runs a restaurant-related small business.
Alvarez, the father of one with a second child on the way with his wife, Xochitl, assistant principal at Nativity Prep Academy, said he never intended a political career.
"My degree is in psychology," he said. "What I always wanted to be was a teacher, but I started getting involved in politics by being a community activist."
Steve Mollenkopf
Incoming CEO, Qualcomm
At Qualcomm, Steve Mollenkopf has been mostly a chip guy. Now he's going to be more.
The San Diego wireless giant named Mollenkopf, 44, as new chief executive officer in December. He officially takes over on March 4, replacing Paul Jacobs, who will become executive chairman.
An engineer who joined Qualcomm nearly 20 years ago right out of graduate school, Mollenkopf had been the company's president and chief operating officer. Reports that he was a candidate to become CEO of Microsoft sparked Qualcomm's board of directors to promote him.
As COO, Mollenkopf worked with all of Qualcomm's myriad businesses. But mostly he has been responsible for the company's core semiconductor business.
How he deals with technology licensing challenges, Qualcomm's fledgling displays business, impatient shareholders, patent policy reform and other technology politics important to Qualcomm will be milestones to watch in 2014.
Mollenkopf's tenure starts with Qualcomm on a high note. It has a 95 percent market share in LTE radios that link the most sophisticated smartphones to high-speed 4G networks.
But as CEO, he will face rising competition as Broadcom, Intel and others enter the 4G radio market.
He also must navigate the growing importance of China. In the past, Qualcomm has struggled to collect technology licensing revenue from Chinese handset makers. The company expects that to change as Chinese mobile operators roll out 4G LTE networks.
But China is not always an easy place for foreign companies to do business. Chinese regulators recently began investigating Qualcomm over an undisclosed possible violation of that country's fair trade laws.
For the most part, however, analysts are confident in Mollenkopf's ability to lead Qualcomm. Wall Street knows him. He built his reputation on being a good operator who got things done inside the sprawling technology company.
Lambert Ninteman
Captain, Qualcomm Tricorder X-Prize team at San Diego State University
Lambert Ninteman rolls his eyes and says, "God, yes," when asked if he's a "Star Trek" fan.
"I was so into watching 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' when I was growing up on Coronado. One of my goals is to meet Brent Spiner," who portrayed the character Commander Data.
Ninteman's more immediate focus is to bring the popular sci-fi series to life by creating a real version of the medical tricorder used by Starfleet characters. He's a graduate student at San Diego State University, and he's also captain of a campus team that's trying to win the Qualcomm Tricorder X-Prize. It's a global competition in which the top three finishers will split $10 million for creating consumer-friendly devices that can collect and analyze enough data to diagnose at least 15 diseases.
The contest began with more than 300 entrants, a figure that has been reduced to 33 teams that have met certain criteria in developing a device that must weigh less than five pounds.
SDSU faces better-known, better-financed competitors, including a team from UC San Diego and a Silicon Valley startup backed by Yahoo cofounder Jerry Yang. Ninteman, 38, shrugs it off, saying, "We're one of the few teams that has a working prototype, and we did it for less than $20,000. We've mostly done it with off-the-shelf components that have (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) approval for diagnostics. We're drawing from every college on campus, and from industry. We've plundered the artificial intelligence talent here at SDSU."
School officials said Ninteman is thriving because he's a charismatic figure with a gift for getting people from different fields to collaborate.
Ninteman, who beat cancer as a child, draws his inspiration from "Star Trek."
"It's about a future where you don't have to worry about the day-to-day struggle of life," he said. "You use your imagination to reach for the stars. We're trying to do that by creating a tricorder."
Kelly Parsons
Urologist, UC San Diego faculty member, novelist
Kelly Parsons is a 43-year-old urologist on the faculty at UC San Diego, which means he's not just a doctor but also a teacher and a researcher. At home, he and his wife, Genevieve, a pediatrician, are raising a daughter, 12, and a son, 10.
He must not sleep much because he's also an author whose debut novel is getting some strong early attention.
The book, a medical thriller called "Doing Harm," is due out Feb. 4 from St. Martin's Press. Harlan Coben, whose own page-turners have topped The New York Times' best-seller list, calls the novel "compelling, gripping and terrifying."
The book's title is a twist on the ancient medical principle "first do no harm." Because it's a thriller, of course there's harm. It comes to hospital patients who succumb to complications that appear accidental but aren't.
Born in Connecticut, Parsons grew up in San Diego and went to The Bishop's School before heading to Stanford for a degree in history. He decided to follow his father into medicine and completed his studies at the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins.
He started working on the novel that became "Doing Harm" about 10 years ago. "In a way, doctors are trained to be storytellers, even if we don't always realize it," Parsons said. Doctors have to listen to a patient's story, he said, then "fashion it into your own narrative" to communicate with other physicians and come up with a diagnosis.
He sent a draft to many agents and got many rejections before a friend of a friend steered it to the desk of Al Zuckerman at Writers House, whose clients include Ken Follett and Michael Lewis.
"I do think, as with a lot of things in life, there's a little bit of luck involved in getting a book published," Parsons said. "You work hard and you work honestly and you hope to be in the right place at the right time. I consider myself very lucky."
Tom Telesco
General manager, San Diego Chargers
As he was talking to a couple of reporters at the NFL Combine in Indianapolis last February, the San Diego Chargers' general manager was approached by a man mistaking him for a PR spokesman.
The lost man's lack of awareness was understandable. Tom Telesco had been on the job for a little more than a month.
The anonymity endures.
Telesco, 41, isn't omnipresent in the manner of the Chargers' previous general manager, A.J. Smith. He's barely noticeable.
He turned 41 in December but hardly looks any older than 31. In shorts and a ball cap while watching practice, he was mistaken for a low-level staffer more than once by a visitor to Chargers Park.
Telesco is fine with that.
His reluctance to be party to the U-T's People to Watch was not just the machismo-driven promotion shyness typical of many behind-the-scenes NFL types but a sincere "Why me?" reticence.
The answer to that question is simple.
As the primary decision-maker on personnel matters for San Diego's greatest civic entity, the attention of a fan base starved for the franchise's first-ever Super Bowl title is always on the Chargers general manager.
So far, better than good.
And as much as, if not more than, quarterback Philip Rivers and the new coaching staff deserves credit for the Chargers' rapid turnaround, Telesco was the chief architect in the remodel of a roster widely considered a reclamation project. He signed perhaps the two best free agent bargains in the entire NFL in running back Danny Woodhead and left tackle King Dunlap. He also pulled off a prescient under-the-radar trade for defensive lineman Sean Lissemore and made some other minor (but important) moves to shore up cracks in the foundation after the season began.
"We feel good about the direction we've created for this team," Telesco said last week. "But we have a lot of work to do to win our ultimate goal: a Super Bowl trophy for the Chargers and San Diego."
He does that, he won't be able to go anywhere in this town without being recognized.


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It's the critically-acclaimed television drama that's been praised for its gritty and authentic depiction of life and policing in West Yorkshire.
And as the first episode of Happy Valley's second series airs this week to rave reviews, former police officer Samantha Manning is among those able to feel proud at the adulation it is receiving.
After a 32-year policing career serving in two Yorkshire forces, the mother-of-five from Holmfirth was asked to be a policing advisor to the show as producers aimed to repeat the success of its debut season.
Some 6.5 million people tuned in last night to see Sarah Lancashire play damaged but determined West Yorkshire Police Sergeant Catherine Cawood taking on personal and professional challenges in the Calder Valley.
Ms Manning, who retired from Humberside Police in 2014, joined former West Yorkshire Police officer Lisa Farrand as police advisor, offering help to Huddersfield-born writer Sally Wainwright with the plot and advice to the actors on producing convincing performances.
Using her experience as a senior officer, the 50-year-old helped Kevin Doyle, whose detective character is being blackmailed by his jilted lover, and Vincent Franklin, who plays the officer leading a murder investigation, to hone their portrayals of police officers.
We all have these frailties but police officers can't show them to the public. They take on these stressful situations and have to try and show the stiff upper lip that we are famous for in this country.
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She said: "Sally Wainwright starts with her ideas, and she has a brilliant mind in terms of this stuff. There is an element of 'this is what I am thinking' and Lisa and myself will put our views. That is why Happy Valley is, in my estimation, the best because it is so realistic.
"It is quite an in-depth process before you get to the production stage. We were involved in developing the storyline, when it is in production Lisa and myself have quite a bit to do with all the characters.
"It is not just about delivering the lines for the actors. Sally likes to get us on set speaking to them.
"They want to know how you would be, how you carry yourself. Police officers are human beings at the end of the day. People think they're different but they're not.
"They seemed really interested in getting into the psychology of it, as well as just delivering the lines."
After joining West Yorkshire Police as a Police Cadet at the age of 17, Ms Manning was initially based in Huddersfield but worked on projects in most areas of West Yorkshire.
She moved to Humberside Police in 2003 after being promoted to Chief Inspector, then served as head of community safety at the rank of Superintendent.
As a teenager she planned to be a barrister, and despite making a switch to policing, partially inspired by the TV series Juliet Bravo, she has also completed a law degree at what was then Leeds Metropolitan University.
Ms Manning was invited to interview for the Happy Valley role by Lisa Farrand, a former Huddersfield WPC and friend of writer Sally Wainwright who was awarded the Queen's Police Medal in 2002.
She said: "I know Lisa from the local gym just to say hello to, I got a message asking if I would be interested in going along for an interview. I know they wanted someone who had been a Superintendent and had recently retired.
"I was interested, people think 'it sounds really interesting, I wonder how these shows are made'. I went in and had a meeting with the boss at Red Production and the rest is history. I ended up on the team for Happy Valley Series Two.
"Lisa was involved from Season One, so she was well-established and had done a great job. It worked out really well."
Though some viewers have complained about not being able to hear the dialogue, with one suggesting that subtitles were needed to cover the Yorkshire dialect, critics have been full of praise for the first episode of the second series.
One critic described the show as "fabulous drama", adding: "It is refreshing and lovely to have people on television talking like people not on television."
Ms Manning said: "When I was approached I felt very privileged and excited about it. I watched season one and thought it was fabulous.
"I have worked 32 years in the police service, they work very hard and get a bad rap. We are all humans who make mistakes. It takes all sorts, and it's good if you can bring something to it in terms of a sense of realism.
"Watching episode one I felt privileged that I was able to help, even if it is just a little bit, to bring that to the general public.
"I have five kids and have had challenges in my life. In any organisation you get outstanding people, you get people having challenges and problems and people having a bad day.
"We all have these frailties but police officers can't show them to the public. They take on these stressful situations and have to try and show the stiff upper lip that we are famous for in this country."


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Other than monetary policy, no area of economic discussion is more confused than the one about government spending and budget deficits. Without defending heavy government spending for even a second, most everything readers are presented with about spending and deficits is embarrassingly wrong.
There are countless articles to point to as exhibits, but two recent ones crystalized the confusion. Addressing President Obama's "fiscal cliff" dealings, it was written that "he put no force behind solutions to the actual crisis facing our country, which is the hemorrhagic spending that threatens our future." Writing about the upcoming elections last fall, another column observed that the next president "may well suffer the Herbert Hoover-George Bush fate of being tarred in history with an economic cataclysm decades in the making. The disjointment between our spending and revenues is just that serious."
Back to reality, it must be stressed that applied to our present economic situation, whether government spending is in deficit, balanced, or in surplus is immaterial. Looking at deficits, a dollar is a dollar is a dollar, so whether the burden that is government is financed by incoming revenues or through borrowing is to make a distinction without a difference. The shame is the spending itself. When governments spend they're by definition extracting limited capital from the private sector, so the problem is the spending, not how the spending is made possible.
Thinking about the above, it shouldn't bother us that we have a $1 trillion dollar deficit, rather it should horrify us that our federal government allegedly constrained by a Constitution that enumerates few and defined powers to it collects $2.5 trillion per year. What the latter number signals to us is that our federal government collects way too much in the way of revenues, and in spending those funds plus $1 trillion, that it's foisting a cruel austerity on us. Yes, austerity. Not asked enough is what we've lost for the federal government annually consuming so much capital that, if left in the private sector, would support real economic activity (more Microsofts, Intels and Googles) that actually enriches us.
Thinking about the previous paragraph some more, would readers prefer a balanced, $2.5 trillion budget, or a $500 billion annual deficit on $600 billion in total spending? From an economic perspective the answer is pretty obvious, and it would be the latter scenario. Indeed, even the most ardent worshippers of big government would have trouble asserting that the Departments of Commerce, Energy and Labor add more to the economy than do Apple, Walmart, and Cisco Systems. Heavy government spending, whether through revenue collection or deficit financing means less capital for the companies that employ us, enhance our lives, and that we own as direct shareholders or through mutual funds and pension funds.
That deficits are exploited as signals of looming Armageddon is curious, and also easy to dismiss. The best thing to do is to go through the various objections to deficits one by one.
The most commonly abused assumption is that our budget deficits signal a nation that is "broke" or "bankrupt." Pundits are prone to say that thanks to our deficits, "we can't afford" various government programs. If only that were true. More realistically, and as evidenced by the U.S. Treasury's ability to raise trillions from investors, we're not broke, and as a result the burden that is government grows. The brutal paradox is that Washington can deficit spend precisely because the markets do not think we're Greece. Conversely, if we were Greece and headed for an "economic cataclysm" as pundits like to tell us, we couldn't deficit spend.
Taking the Greece angle further, those who say we're not Greece say we will be if we don't reduce our spending and deficits. Implicit in this reasoning is that tragedy awaits us when we become Greece. Really? Why?
Indeed, if spending and deficits are the problem, why would a scenario in which our government could no longer spend either in surplus or deficit be so bad? Greece's fiscal situation apparently means its government is going to have to cut back. Applied to the U.S., and assuming a "debt crisis", such a scenario would be undeniably good for our economy for the feds spending less, and the private sector keeping more; that is, unless you're willfully blind and think Bridges to Nowhere and new hospitals in Afghanistan are better for our economy than the creation of future ExxonMobils and Procter & Gambles.
In response, some might say that since U.S. Treasury rates serve as interest rate benchmarks, if our federal government runs into financial trouble then interest rates will rise for all borrowers. That's a nice thought, but also false. Indeed, the State of California is said to have a major debt problem, but does anyone think for a second that Apple or Occidental Petroleum would pay higher rates of interest on debt solely for operating in a state run by a profligate government? Going back to Greece, it as we know is in trouble at the moment, but if Apple were to move its headquarters there, can anyone say with a straight face that it would suffer financing difficulties in the way that its government is?
To this the deficit worriers might respond that "if our government defaults, a financial crisis awaits." Really, for whom? No doubt money managers exposed to Treasuries would suffer, but only insofar as they are not diversified. Higher interest rates? See above. Currency devaluation is the scariest scenario of all, in the currency sense we're already in default, but if it were to persist, American companies would do as non-American companies already do and finance their activities in money that markets actually trust. The real "crisis" here would be that our federal government, having defaulted on monies owed, would face higher costs of borrowing. If so, then far from a crisis we'd surely benefit from a federal default. Investors in our debt would be burned, and for having been burned they'd be less likely to invest in government debt. Less money for government, more for the profit-disciplined private sector. In short, the opposite of a financial crisis.
Despite this, we still hear from deficit-scared pundits on the right that our deficits signal a horrifying crack-up in our future. How sad, and it's sad for telling us that these same pundits don't believe their own rhetoric. Indeed, the right (I'm on the far end of the right spectrum – libertarian) talk a good – and correct – game about how government spending doesn't make us better off; that it makes us worse off. That's so true, and because it is, why should we fear a future in which our government will be put on a diet? Far from an "economic cataclysm", the day when our government is forced to spend less is the day we're made progressively more free.
Along the lines of the above, some contend about deficits that so big are they, that thirty years from now our children and grandchildren's taxes will only be enough to cover interest on the debt. The latter is probably a reach, but if so, can someone freeze me so that I can hibernate for 30 years? Indeed, how nice it would be to re-enter a U.S. where rather than wasting limited funds on democratizing the Middle East, studying the migratory patterns of bats in Austin, or employing millions of Americans in work that smothers their potential, the federal government would be so tapped financially such that it could only pay interest on debt. Wouldn't we be much better off than we are today at a time when the feds have access to trillions with which they can do serious damage? Lest the right forget its own rhetoric, government spending is mostly harmful.
And then when deficit worriers aren't shaking over interest paid on debt, they love to trot out the absurdity that "we're burdening our children and grandchildren with our prodigality." Rarely have so few words been so pregnant with so much misunderstanding.
For one, implicit in the above line is that we in the present are living high on the hog and leaving future generations the bill. Nothing could be more incorrect. In truth, all the spending of today is OUR burden for the economy performing at a much slower clip thanks to the political class extracting limited capital from the economy only to spend it in ways that make us worse off. Government spending is our economic ball and chain.
Considering future generations, they're lucky in that if what the worriers foretell is true, interest payments will gobble up limited federal revenues at which point the federal government will no longer be a source of employment for so many Americans, will no longer wreck the lives of other Americans with programs that make them dependent on handouts, plus our military will no longer have bases in 175 countries around the world. Assuming spending and deficits today wreck the ability of the federal government to spend irresponsibly tomorrow, we'll be doing future generations a favor.
As for the bill they'll be handed, that's not the burden. In truth, the burden left on future generations will be a much less evolved economy in terms of technology, the ability to cure fatal diseases, and the ability to employ them in as specialized a manner as possible. Deficits can be financed as we all know, but growth lost is just that. Future generations will inherit a less evolved economy because we let politicians from both political parties waste so much of our growth capital. Sorry, but the latter's true. If readers disagree, please find me an example of a vibrant company that became that way without investment.
Lastly, deficit worriers love to bring up how we owe $16 trillion, or $100 trillion, or $200 trillion, and that this will wreck us. Once again, no it won't. It will only wreck the ability of future governments to borrow and spend, along with the investment returns of those left holding debt that deficit worriers have for decades been telling us is worthless. California's financial troubles aren't impacting Apple's ability to borrow, and just the same, federal indebtedness will if anything make well run companies in the U.S. even more attractive relative to the federal government if the worriers are correct.
Put simply, if the deficit worriers are right, then the future is bright. Having run up massive debts that the worriers are ever certain can't be repaid, the federal government will not be able to borrow more money in the future. In short, our naivete about the good of federal spending and deficits ensures that future generations won't have to suffer in the way we are today.


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5 Years Ago: Phil Spector Convicted of Murder
Phil Spector remains in prison today, convicted on April 13, 2009 for the second-degree murder of Lana Clarkson — a blond actress who was found shot to death in the legendary producer's 30-room mansion. It was a tragic end to a music career that saw as many dizzying heights as it did truly bizarre twists.
Into the '70s, Spector built his professional profile around a now-trademark "Wall of Sound" technique in the studio, featuring layers of instrumental tracks, vocals and percussion. Among his biggest initial successes were the Righteous Brothers' 'You've Lost that Lovin' Feelin' and the Ronette's "Be My Baby," both '60s-era charttoppers. He later produced the Beatles swan song 'Let It Be,' and worked with John Lennon and George Harrison on huge solo hits.
But sessions for a Lennon oldies project that would eventually be released in 1975 as 'Rock 'n' Roll' found Spector becoming increasingly eccentric — and then violent: "You see the man come in one day dressed as a doctor, the next as a karate expert," Lennon's mistress May Pang once said. At one point, Spector disappeared with the tapes — forcing Lennon to complete the album himself.
He'd reportedly pulled a gun on Lennon, and it wouldn't be the last time. Similar incidents were also said to have happened with Leonard Cohen, Debbie Harry of Blondie, the Ramones and his ex-wife Ronnie — early signs, it seemed, of his propensity toward violence. Ronnie, lead singer of the Ronettes, detailed his increasingly cruel and erratic behavior in a 1990 autobiography. He'd even berated Tina Turner for exposing Ike Turner's brutality, while giving her ex-husband's eulogy.
As such, what eventually happened with Clarkson, an actress who'd had bit parts in 'Scarface' and 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High,' might have seemed pre-ordained. The only mystery, at least first, seemed to be whether he would be found guilty — despite all of that anecdotal evidence, and some shocking testimony surrounding the 2003 incident.
Spector's initial trial commenced four years later, with prosecutors laying out a grisly scene: Clarkson, they said, was working as a House of Blues hostess on the Sunset Strip when she met Spector. He asked her out for a night of drinking, and they eventually ended up at his castle-style mansion out of LA. There, when Clarkson spurned his advances, prosecutors said Spector shoved a gun in her mouth and pulled the trigger. Spector's own driver said he heard a loud noise on the night in question, then saw the producer fleeing his home — pistol in hand — saying: 'I think I killed someone.' Prosecutors also said the producer, who'd taken to wearing outlandish wigs, tried to clean up the scene. Five women took the stand and testified that Spector had threatened them with firearms, as well. The jury hung, however, causing a mistrial. They'd deliberated for 15 days, but remained deadlocked with 10-2 in favor of conviction.
A second trial began a year later, and this time — despite new Spector lawyer Doron Weinberg's counter claim that his DNA was not found on the murder weapon — Spector was found guilty of second-degree murder in 2009. Lawyers had also argued over the course of six years and two court proceedings that Clarkson was suicidal, to no avail.
Jurors deliberated during these subsequent proceedings for some 30 hours before announcing their verdict. The jury also found Spector, decked out in a trademark knee-length suit jacket and another of his whimsical lapel pins, guilty of illegally discharging a firearm. Judge Larry Paul Fidler denied Spector's bond as he awaited sentencing, citing the producer's years-long "pattern of violence" involving firearms. Spector is now serving 19 years in prison, making him eligible for parole at age 88.


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Grand County commissioners to discuss secession from Colorado
Grand County commissioners will discuss joining 11 other Colorado counties in forming a 51st state.
The discussion is slated during regular commissioner meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 27 at 1:30 p.m. The 51st State Initiative sent a letter to commissioners explaining the movement on Aug. 14. Commissioner Merrit Linke asked for a secession discussion to be added to the agenda, saying he hopes to initiate a conversation about the measure.
"What people are telling me and what I'm hearing, especially in eastern Colorado, is that they don't think there's adequate representation for rural counties," Linke said. "They seem to favor Front Range interests."
While Linke stressed that he's not taking a position one way or the other, he said it's important to see if the community has any support for the idea. In order for the measure to be added to the November ballot, it would need to be approved soon.
To form a separate state, the counties need approval from voters, the Colorado State Legislature and the U.S. Congress. But the 51st State Initiative is also exploring two other ideas: annexing into Wyoming or restructuring the State Senate so it allows for one representative per county.
"I get that most of the population is on the Front Range," Linke said. "But should we be a district with Boulder? I don't think that's adequate representation. Does that serve Grand County's needs?"
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Beefeater Gin 1.75 England
The making of Beefeater London Dry Gin begins with the production of the alcohol, made from only the choicest maize, harvested at the height of its maturity, and carefully blended with selected strains of barley to produce a pure grain spirit, which gives Beefeater its uniquely clean taste. Botanicals are then added -- juniper berries from Italy; coriander seeds from Romania, Russia and Bulgaria; orange and lemon peels from Spain; Angelica root and seed from Flanders; as well as other secret ingredients known only to the Burrough family.
Beefeater steeps its gin longer than any other gin-maker, infusing the spirit and botanicals together to produce a fully rounded flavour. During the distillation process each of the botanical flavours is released at a different stage. A distilled gin must, according to the law, be distilled in a gin still in the presence of botanicals or other natural ingredients, of which the dominant ingredient must be juniper berries. Beefeater has won the Gold Medal from the San Francisco World Spirits Competition in 2003 and was named #1 Gin by The New York Times.


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How reassuring it is that we are all singing from the same hymn sheet ;-) Thanks Rich
Yes,yes,yes, and yes...with you there all the way Loren
Why? I can think of two significant reasons why some people seek such forgiveness:
And that combination of ignorance and fear has driven more shit than I care to imagine ... and it's what makes them dangerous.
Nice! Looks like a motivational poster in the making!
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Thanks D.R.!
This is great D.R. We're having a prayer service this weekend at our church for the situation in Darfur. There's a national effort going on this weekend for churches to pray and act. I think www.savedarfur.org gives more details.
Off topic here D.R., but I appreciate your post on that Gay-Friendly thread at eSBCL. Let's show some support for folks what are sticking their necks out for "missional."
This seems to be the most recent info from IMB.
Unfortunately, it's over a year old.
This is also completely off-topic, but Bruce Prescott just closed the comments at his so-called Mainstream Baptist blog. I can only assume he did so because of my comments; it is apparently easier to turn off comments altogether than it is to defend his indefensible assertions about conservative Christians and Southern Baptist leaders in particular.
Perhaps we could continue the discussion here, where comments are less likely to be removed out of spite?
Thanks everyone for contributing.
Janalee, I hope your prayer service goes well and much attention is brought to the church regarding this serious matter. And thanks for the link. I will check it out.
Marty, thanks for your encouragement and for stopping by.
Anonymous, I don't want to continue the discussion here because I don't want to waste space discussing someone whose posts are generally negative. I don't want to stoop to that guy's level. I would be doing exactly what he does while he accuses others of doing so. I'm all for ending the vicious cycle and trusting God to honor His word and those who seek to glorify Him. I don't see a lot of negativity doing that. But thanks for stopping by and for being a voice of reason over there.
No problemo. :)
D.R. I wanted to let you know your attitude and effort here are a blessing to me.
D.R., thank you for your uplifting comments. Man, things have been weird in New Orleans lately and I've been stressing. Even when things seem like they might be progressing toward the end goal. Anyway, you've been an encouragement. I appreciate that.
And anonymous, if you're also known by the moniker Bruce Wayne, man, you gotta just give in and come out to the world as to who you are.
I'm off on my little adventure now. I hope to be back and at it again soon.
D.R., I'm going to Nashville in a few days to work with Jason Davis at his church plant, Grace Park Church. I added the link on my site if you want to check it out. I guess ya'll know each other. Anyway, I wanted to see if you knew how I could get in touch with Aaron at UNO. Liz Stewart and I were talking the other day and she explained that Jonathan Clark was just the interim BCM director. If you can email me, I'd appreciate it. Joseph.L.Kennedy at gmail.com. Thanks man. Peace.
Paul was not interested merely in the ethical principles of religion or of ethics. On the contrary, he was interested in the redeeming work of Christ and its effect upon us. His primary interest was in Christian doctrine, and Christian doctrine not merely in its presuppositions but at its centre. -- J. Greshem Machen.