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SOURCE: Catalyst Repository Systems, Inc.
January 30, 2013 11:01 ET
DENVER, CO--(Marketwire - Jan 30, 2013) - Catalyst Repository Systems, Inc., a pioneer in cloud-based document repositories for e-discovery and other complex legal matters, today announced that it has partnered with Proofpoint, Inc. (NASDAQ: PFPT), a leading security-as-a-service provider to provide innovative cloud-based technology that spans the entire e-discovery lifecycle, from information governance to review and production.
This partnership will enable corporations and their counsel to manage the full spectrum of legal, investigative and regulatory e-discovery, from collection, identification and archiving through search, review and production. Because the process is managed entirely in the cloud, the combination of Catalyst's and Proofpoint's offerings can enable organizations to save an average of 35% over the total cost of on-premises archiving, search and review platforms. By seamlessly aligning their powerful, scalable, grid-based technologies, Catalyst and Proofpoint empower legal teams to achieve greater productivity with fewer headaches and hassles.
"Cloud platforms provide companies with tremendous efficiencies in cost, time and resources. However, identification, preservation and collection of data in the cloud have been problematic until now," said John Tredennick, CEO of Catalyst. "The Catalyst-Proofpoint partnership provides companies with a fast and secure alternative to on-premise technology platforms."
Recently names as "Leader" in the Gartner 2012 Enterprise Information Archive Magic Quadrant, Proofpoint's Enterprise Archive™ offers a proven enterprise information archiving system specifically architected for the cloud and designed with the features required for e-discovery and corporate compliance.
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It's caused by drinking water or eating food that has bacteria, viruses, or parasites. Most traveler's diarrhea is from bacteria. Diarrhea from viruses and parasites is less common. Food and water can be infected by people:
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You're also at increased risk if you:
The main symptom is loose stool that occurs suddenly. The stool may be watery. Other symptoms may include:
In most cases, symptoms last less than a week.
The loss of body fluid from diarrhea and vomiting can lead to dehydration. This can be serious. Contact your healthcare provider if you are not urinating as much as usual.
A small number of people can develop post-infectious irritable bowel syndrome. This can cause symptoms such as:
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Enabling compression on your database can save you a lot of space – but when you have a lot of varchar(max) or nvarchar(max) data, you may find the savings to be limited. This is because only data stored on the data and index pages is compressed, and data for the (max) data types is generally stored on other, special-purpose pages – either text/image pages, or row overflow data pages. (See Understanding Pages and Extents in Books Online). This is from the SQL Server 2008R2 Books Online, but it is still valid in SQL Server 2012 – but apparently, this page has been removed from newer Books Online editions).
So why does SQL Server not compress the data that, perhaps, would benefit most from compression? Here's the answer.
SQL Server currently supports two compression methods for data in the database (backup compression is out of scope for this post).
- Row compression: This is a simple algorithm to save storage space for individual rows. It has two elements. The first is a more efficient way to store the per-row metadata, saving a few bytes per row regardless of layout and content. The second element is storing almost all data types, even those that have a fixed length, as variable length. This mainly has benefits for the larger numerical types (e.g a bigint with a value of 1,000 is stored in two bytes instead of eight – only values that actually need all eight bytes do not gain from this, and will instead take up more space because the actual length has to be stored somewhere) and for fixed-length string types with lots of trailing spaces. For Unicode data, the SCSU algorithm is used, which saves 15% to 50% depending on the actual content of the column. (According to Wikipedia, the SCSU standard has gained very little adoption because it is not as effective as other compression schemes).
See Row Compression Implementation and Unicode Compression Implementation in Books Online.
- Page compression: When enabled, page compression is done after row compression. As the name implies, it's done on a per-page basis. It consists of two steps:
- Prefix compression. Within each column, the longest common prefix is used to build the "anchor record". All columns than only indicate how many characters of the anchor value they use as prefix. So for example, if we have a first name column with the values Roger / Hugo / Hugh, the anchor value could be Hugh, and the data values would be stored as {0}Roger / {3}o / {4}. (Here, {3} is stored as a single byte, and {3}o means: first three characters of Hugh, followed by an o).
Dictionary compression. Accross the entire page, columns that are now stored with the same bit pattern are replaced with a single value that points to the dictionary entry. Let's assume that the same page I use above also has a Lastname column, with values Plowman / Kornelis / Ploo. Here, Plowman would be the anchor value, and the data after prefix compression would be {7} / {0}Kornelis / {3}o. The dictionary encoding would then see that there is a {3}o in the population of the Firstname columnm and a {3}o in the population of the Lastname column. It would place {3}o as the first entry in the dictionary and replace both {3}o values with the reference [1].
See Page Compression Implementation in Books Online.
All elements of page compression save space by eliminating repeated data between different column values, so they will only work when multiple values are stored on a page. For all LOB pages, the reverse is the case: a single value spans multiple pages. So by definition, page compression can never yield any benefits.
For row compression, the more efficient storage of per-row metadata naturally only affects pages that have per-row metadata stored – data and index pages, but not LOB pages. And the conversion of fixed length to variable length data types also doesn't affect LOB pages, since these can only be used for varying length data.
Based on the above, it is obvious why SQL Server does not compress varchar and varbinary data stored on LOB pages – there would be zero benefit from any of the implemented compression methods. But how about Unicode compression for nvarchar(max) and overflowing nvarchar(nnn) data? Wouldn't that save some space?
To answer that, I now have to go into speculation mode. And I see two possible theories:
- Because the SCSU standard saves less spacing than other algorithms, the SQL Server team deliberately made this choice in order to encourage people to compress these large values in the client before sending them to the server, thereby reducing not only storage space (by more than SCSU would have yielded), but also network traffic. The down side of this is that cool features such as Full-Text Search and Semantic Search don't understand data that was compressed at the client – at least not without a lot of extra effort.
Since all compression algorithms work on a per-page basis, they had a choice between either first breaking the LOB data into pages and then compressing (which makes no sense, as the rest of the page would remain empty and the amount of space actually used remains the same) or creating a separate algorithm for LOB data to first compress it and then split it over multiple pages. That would of course have cost a lot of extra engineering hours, and if my understanding of SCSU is correct, it would also have a big adverse side effect on operations that affect only a part of an nvarchar(max) value (like SUBSTRING or the .WRITE method of the UPDATE statement). That is because SCSU works by traversing the entire string from left to right and can't handle operating on only a subset of the string.
Bottom line: When you have to store large values and you want to save on storage size, your best course of action is probably to compress and decompress the values on the client side. But do beware the consequences this has for Full Text Search and Semantic Search!
Final note: I didn't spend as much time on this blog post as I normally do. That's because this actually started as a reply to a question on an internet forum, but when I was busy I realized that the reply was long enough to be promoted to a blog post.
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I think a much simpler answer is: "because the SQL Server team didn't implement the feature due to it not meeting some internal priority bar." It absolutely could be done — there's no major technical barrier — and it probably would by very useful for a lot of people. But they just didn't do it.
@Adam: Of course it can be done. But can it be done without having a big adverse effect on performance?
All the algorithms I know for effective compression of a single stream of bytes work on the basis of either a dictionary that is explcitly stored as part of the compressed data (e.g. Lempel–Ziv–WelchHuffman), or that is kept in memory only and can be reconstructed from the compressed data (e.g. Lempel–Ziv–Welch). Both categories have problems with SUBSTRING and chunked updates (the .WRITE method of the UPDATE statement).
The first category always needs to read the dictionary in addition to the pages where the required data for a SUBSTRING lies, so more IO is needed for a SUBSTRING. It might even be necessary to read and decompress everything to the left of the substring, because I don't think it's possible to predict where exactly the 80,000th character of a compressed varchar(max) starts. For .WRITE, the same problem exists. And after too many .WRITE updates, the compression ratio will drop unless the dictionary is recalculated and the entire string is de- and then recompressed. Plus, what happens if I use .WRITE to replace a few character, but the replacement data doesn't compress as well as the original data?
In the second category, it is even completely impossible to decompress a substring without first processing all the preceding bytes. And changing a chunk changes the dictionary, so any change would force the engine to de- and recompress everything that follows the changed part. Using .WRITE to replace a few characters near the start of a 750MB string can become very costly that way!
@Peter excellent idea. Combined with fast algorithm, e.g. LZ4 (http://code.google.com/p/lz4/), can yield substantial I/O savings.
@Hugo I think compression is not for everybody. If you have an app that often updates 750MB row of data, then of course it's best to avoid compression. But SQL should support compression in scenarios where .WRITEs are used rarely or not used at all.
So, we have cloud backup in SP1 CU2, may I expect LOB compression in SP1 CU3? 🙂
The fact is that some scenarios would be conveniently addressed by being able to turn on a much stronger compression scheme that also works for LOB data. The disk space, buffer pool efficiency and IO savings can be worth the (enormous) CPU cost.
SQL Server doesn't have this feature today but I hope they someday get around doing it. Maybe they are waiting until they have variable page size implemented so they can compress 1MB chunks at once.


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We've confirmed that photos were taken back in 1992, when Davis was 27, by her then-guy Eric Stapelman. Eric was a chef in New York at the time and is now executive chef at Trattoria Nostrani in Santa Fe. We're told Stapelman was pissed at Kristin and sold the photos to a third party. That guy then had the pics stolen from him -- classy all around.
We've also learned there's no video (sorry, dudes) and there aren't quite 20 pics, as had been rumored. Her rep still maintains that it isn't Kristin in the snaps.


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This Disney Studios attempt at entering the horror genre is a British production based on the chilling novel by Florence Engel Randall. An American family, headed by composer Paul Curtis (David McCallum) and his wife Helen (Carroll Baker), is renting an old mansion in England.
The mansion's owner is Mrs. Aylwood (Bette Davis), who lives in a small guest house on the property. The mansion is surrounded by dense, forbidding woods. The Curtis children, Jan (Lynn-Holly Johnson) and Ellie (Kyle Richards), explore the forest. Mrs. Aylwood is continually searching the woods for her daughter -- whom she lost there 30 years ago.
Over time, the children come to be haunted by the spirit of the daughter, Karen (Katherine Levy). The film was originally released in 1980 with an ending that included a huge alien from another planet.
The studio pulled back the film after test audiences laughed at the special effects, and re-released the movie in 1982 with a new ending that circumvented the alien.


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As was mentioned in Part 1 of this series on the life of the late E.B. "Red" Etter in connection with what would have been his 100th birthday this past Monday, he was named head football coach at Central High School on a temporary basis in 1943.
At that time, of course, many coaches and others were being sent off to fight in World War II, and this happened to his Central predecessor, future City Commissioner Dean Petersen.
Coach Etter was only 28 when Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941, but his son, Gene, thinks he was physically unable to serve due to burns suffered on his legs after a freak service station fire accident in 1940.
While coach Etter initially thought coach Petersen was to return to Central after his war service, he actually went to Chattanooga City High as head coach, so coach Etter was able to remain at Central for 27 seasons.
During coach Etter's first season, with the help of assistants James Lester Newton, Charles Millsaps and Ernest Owens, the Purple Pounders finished 8-3-1, which included a 28-0 win over rival City in front of 10,000 at Engel Stadium.
Coach Etter never lost to City High, and beat the Dynamos 81-6 in 1945. Though the teams were big rivals in the early years of coach Etter's tenure, the teams quit playing throughout much of the 1950s.
Another team coach Etter played his first year – and would be a big local rival for a number of years – was Baylor School, where he would later coach. Coach Etter apparently had a 7-6 record against Baylor while at Central and a 6-5 record against the also-capable Red Raider coach, "Humpy" Heywood, who relied a little more on emotion than the cerebral coach Etter.
That first year, coach Etter's Central team lost to Baylor 12-0 after losing two fumbles deep in Central territory.
Often the two teams would meet at Chamberlain Field, and the crowds for those and other Central games there would likely surpass those of the University of Chattanooga Mocs on the same weekends. The school's Frawley Field, where Parkridge Medical Center is now located, was popular initially for home games, but over the years Central played its local games at places like Chamberlain Field.
Coach Etter apparently never played McCallie while at Central, despite the fact the two schools were right by each other.
For Central during much of the "Red" Etter era, the highways of Tennessee and other states were actually almost as familiar as Dodds or McCallie avenues, as the Purple Pounders often traveled far and wide to schedule games. This was in part to schedule good competition, but also because many local schools realized they would likely not have a chance.
"They were afraid they would get stomped, and he had trouble getting a schedule," remembers younger son Bob Etter.
A glance at coach Etter's yearly schedules over the years is almost like following a travelogue program on the Southeast. For example, that first year of 1943, the team traveled to such places as Kingsport, Columbia (TN) and Atlanta.
Other towns the team would frequent during the "Red" Etter years were Birmingham, Memphis, Asheville, Louisville, Nashville, Knoxville, Miami and Jacksonville.
Among the players for some of those out-of-town teams were two future Heisman Trophy winners – Paul Hornung of Louisville Flaget and Steve Spurrier of Johnson City Science Hill.
During his 27 seasons, Coach Etter's teams were crowned state champions in at least one poll in 1946, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1957, 1962 and 1965, with a state runner-up finish in 1958. Ironically, during coach Etter's lone year at Central when he finished undefeated – 1962 – Oak Ridge was actually voted the state champions in the old Litkenhous poll, which was used by the TSSAA at the time to crown its official state champion.
Older son Gene Etter thinks his father was so successful in football at Central, and at Baylor, because he was willing to try new ideas.
"When he started, all the schools were using the single-wing box" (offensive formation), he said. "He was one of the first to change to the T.
"And he was one of the first to use films," he added, saying that he remembers that films of the old Central-City games on Thanksgiving Day were filmed in color.
However, with all the tough competition and the constant uncertainty of how many good athletes were coming along, coach Etter did face occasional adversity on the football field. The 1947, 1948 and 1963 teams finished around .500, and, in 1956, he had his only losing season at Central when the team had a 4-5-2 record.
Like most outstanding high school programs, Central had a lot of good football players over the years, and occasional stars. In an interview a number of years ago, the late coach Etter said that his two best players at Central were Bob McCoy in the mid-1940s and Bobby Hoppe in the early 1950s, both of whom are now deceased.
He also had a number of other great players, whose reputations did not last quite as long for whatever reasons. Oldest son Gene Etter said Leon Henry – who was also a state 100-yard dash champion -- was one such player.
Among the other assistants coach Etter would have at Central over the years were Jake Seaton, John Karwoski, Gordon Atchley, Jack Archer, and, beginning in 1947 as line coach, Stanley T. Farmer.
A rah-rah, get-tough coach whose style complemented well coach Etter's more cerebral emphasis on strategy and game preparation, Coach Farmer is beloved among Purple Pounders from that era. In fact, according to one Central High history website, former Central player and well-known local attorney Jerry Summers is compiling a book on coach Farmer.
While at Central, coach Etter did plenty else besides coach winning football. He taught applied mathematics, which included teaching students how to balance a checkbook.
His son Bob said he does not remember seeing his father ever having to prepare for class, but yet he was able to more than adequately cover the material. The same was true later at Baylor, where he taught math as well as Latin, even though he had not been exposed to the latter subject since his own school days.
Coach Etter also coached other sports, and successfully.
"While he was there, he coached track," said Gene Etter. "He got some of the top football players to come out. He took four guys to the state meet and either won it or came in second in the early 1950s.
"And he coached baseball and was there when I was there (in the mid-1950s). He coached for six years and won two state championships in baseball."
As in football, coach Etter used his mind to try to gain an advantage. Gene remembers that his father had a strategy for a runner on second base that Gene did not hear used by anyone else until Gene began playing in the Chicago Cubs organization.
Coach Etter also coached the boxing team, including the great local fighter Archie Slaten, and used innovative oxygen tanks to help his boxers recuperate between rounds. It likely helped the fighters physically and it definitely did psychologically against the out-of-breath opponents no doubt watching from across the ring during breaks.
Wrestling was another sport he coached, and he also found a little time to be an adult athlete himself as a highly touted fastball softball pitcher in the days when it was a popular sport in Chattanooga for men, Gene Etter said.
During most of his years at Central, coach "Red" Etter and his wife, Helen, continued to live at 114 Fair St. in Red Bank before moving up to 1036 Sunset Drive on the side of Signal Mountain beginning in the mid-1960s.
Also living with them and their two sons in Red Bank were coach Etter's mother, Etna, and Verney Etter, coach Etter's older half brother, the latter of whom lived in a small, shed-like building behind the main home.
As Gene and Bob were growing up, the two relatives were there all the time, Gene remembered.
"Since he was there all the time when I was growing up, I was more exposed to him than Dad," said Gene. "For example, he would read me the comics."
Verney Etter, a World War I veteran who was a short-wave radio enthusiast, died in 1957, while Etna Etter, a retired schoolteacher who taught briefly at Central after being at White Oak, died in 1961.
She was hard of hearing in later years, Gene recalls. As a result, coach Etter once again used his intuitive skills to hook up a makeshift headset for her to be able to hear the TV. This was at a time when the Etters were one of the first local people to have a television, and in the days when the closest station was in Atlanta.
Gene also remembers that his parents during the Central days would often go to the Tennessee or Georgia games when he and his brother were playing, even though "Red" Etter was no doubt tired from his own game ending late the night before.
Gene Etter graduated from Central in 1957 and went on to play at Tennessee as a back, lettering in 1958-60.
After playing professional baseball in the Cubs' minor league system, he began coaching at Baylor. After dreaming in his early teaching years of following his father as a high school head football coach somewhere, Gene has been the head baseball coach at Baylor since 1975, although he has retired from classroom teaching.
In recent years he has won two coveted state Division II championships, joining his father as a head coach of a state champion team.
Bob Etter was Mr. Central High in 1963 and went on to be a kicker at Georgia, helping the Bulldogs win several close games during Vince Dooley's early years as coach. He kicked briefly in the NFL and taught math at Sacramento State in California for several decades until his recent retirement. He also enjoys fishing, a hobby he picked up from being with his father, and is an accomplished bridge player.
As the youngest son, Bob Etter came of age when his father had already reached legendary status as a local football coach.
"I was with him all the time," recalled Bob over the telephone recently. "I got to hear all his theories, so I grew up totally immersed in all sports."
He also vividly remembers coach Etter driving his Corvair van to Central daily, and aboard it would be Bob and several of his school friends who also lived out of the district.
Bob Etter also recalls his father driving his own body and mind to help his team be as good as it possibly could.
"He spent hours and hours at home watching film, and I would watch with him," Bob said. "And every week he would change the game plan for that particular team, to take advantage of what they were doing.
"Each week it was a different set of plays, and you just couldn't predict what he might come up with. But the other teams would almost always do what he thought they would do.
"He was smarter than the other coaches, but he was also willing to put in the time at home."
Although coach Etter kept Central at the same high place of success in football through most of his 27 years there, the school itself moved – literally. In 1969, it moved out to Highway 58.
After the move, Coach Etter enjoyed an 8-3 season in 1969. The most memorable game that year was probably a loss at Brainerd, when the contest was moved to a Friday afternoon because of unrest at Brainerd over protests by black students against the Rebels' nickname and Confederate flag symbols.
When coach Etter's team botched a late field goal attempt later that season and lost an out-of-town bowl game in the last few days of high school bowl games, few people likely knew he had coached his last game at Central.
As coach Etter recalled in an interview a few years ago, he was not enjoying as much driving a lot farther each day to a new school. And Central's school district to draw football players had no doubt shrunk considerably.
At the same time, Jim Worthington was leaving as Baylor's coach and would eventually join the football staff at UTC.
Rumors were swirling that he might be the new coach at Baylor, which was then an all-boys school, but neither he nor the school had contact with each other until he decided to contact them one day.
He was soon hired in the middle of the year, and what soon followed was a second blaze of glory for the 57-year-old football wizard.
After going 5-5 in 1970, the 1971 team went 9-1, and the Red Raider faithful knew happy days were ahead. With such players as running backs Andy Rutledge, Clay Gibson and Mike Shuford, quarterback Bobby Worthington, defensive back Scott Price and some lineman big on talent and others big on heart, the Red Raiders were state runners-up in 1972 and state and mythical national champions in 1973.
Baylor students at the time will likely say they have never seen as much excitement about the school's football team as during those two years, when the Tennessee playoff system was still in its infancy.
Plenty of other good seasons would follow for coach Etter. The 1975 and 1978 teams were undefeated during the regular season before being upset in the first round of the playoffs, and the 1977 team reached the state championship game before losing on a late trick play to Christian Brothers at Memphis' Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium.
The coach who caused the 1975 upset of Baylor was another future legend, Benny Monroe, who was then at McMinn County before becoming coach at Cleveland.
"We were always good friends and we became even better friends over the years," said the now-retired coach Monroe, who admittedly holds coach Etter in high respect.
Bill McMahan – who joined the Baylor varsity coaching staff toward the end of coach Etter's tenure at Baylor and became a multi-year assistant along with people like Fred Hubbs, David Longley, Maj. Luke Worsham, Gene Etter and Sib Evans Jr. – remembers that coach Etter was still a master on top of his game.
"He had an uncanny ability to watch a play," he said. "For example, on offense he seemed like he knew what everybody was doing."
Coach McMahan, who is still on staff at Baylor, also said coach Etter was great at developing plays or schemes that would exploit an opponent's weakness.
As did other people like longtime Baylor trainer Eddie Davis, Coach McMahan also enjoyed observing and being around coach Etter away from the football field. This was in part because coach McMahan thought he was knowledgeable about nearly every topic under the sun.
Unfortunately for coach Etter, his last three or four years at Baylor were not the high point of his coaching career. Other schools like McCallie under former Brainerd coach Pete Potter were catching up, and coach Etter reached the playoffs only one time – 1981 -- during his final four seasons.
However, coach Etter was still treated like royalty, as many thought he deserved to be, when he announced plans to retire after the 1983 season at age 70. School supporters gave him a car and even a trip to the Super Bowl, where he watched former Baylor player Charles Hannah and the Raiders upset the Washington Redskins.
Retirement was spent being involved in his church, Red Bank Baptist Church, and its Gloryland Singers. Always the thinker, he managed to figure out how to record compact discs that had music for all the singers to practice with at home.
The consummate Christian, he was always trying to help others when he could.
He also enjoyed going with wife Helen to see Gene's Baylor baseball team play, with then-athletic director Austin Clark reserving a place for them to watch the games without having to get out of their car.
Gene said he was surprised one time in his father's later years when he realized coach Etter still followed sports so closely and was up on the statistics of players for his beloved Atlanta Braves and other major league teams.
In later years, Helen began developing dementia-related issues, so they moved down to Summit View on Runyan Drive at the foot of Signal Mountain. They sold the house, and an estate sale was held, with coach Etter's scrapbooks his wife had kept and other memorabilia drawing much interest.
Coach Etter continued having a sharp mind, compassionate manner and trademark dry sense of humor into his 90s, but he died suddenly on Feb. 8, 2006, at the age of 92.
Helen Etter, now 94, continues to live at Life Care Center of Red Bank, also on Runyan Drive.
Slightly more than three years after coach Etter's death, when Baylor installed an artificial playing field at Heywood Stadium before the 2009 season, the school decided it needed a name – E.B. "Red" Etter Field.
Central High's field is also named for coach Etter, so this unique coach's name now adorns the stadiums of two schools.
But maybe that is appropriate, as he figuratively made a positive mark at both schools – on and off the field.
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So I've been making treks out to Pond A4 out in Santa Clara. There are a couple threads on here on the spot, this being one of them.
A guy at my company was kind enough to volunteer to help me get the water tested.
The company called on Friday and told us it tested positive for E. Coli. Now, unfortunately they only left a message, we don't know what strand of it is. For all we know, it's just from the bird crap that's probably in every single pond in the area, or it could be something more serious. We get the full results back sometime this week and I'll post them here.
However, considering the kiters I see out there on a consistent basis, I figured it might be worth putting it out there, just in case. I guess the Bay probably isn't much better, but at this point better safe than sorry.
Full results are here:
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The recordings are all a great listen, but he's even better live, where his wit and whim result in performances that are never less than great fun and often revelatory.
Equal parts folk and pop, Olmeda's in-concert performances have been rare in recent months as he preps new tunes, making his appearance at Java Joe's on Oct. 12 a "must" for longtime fans or anyone who enjoys acoustic music.
Olmeda grew up in the Thunder Hills neighborhood of Oceanside, but his first public appearance was on a public-access television show filmed in Spring Valley. Olmeda is a now a seasoned and confident veteran of the stage, the latter a trait that goes back to his first set.
"I was sure that I was a star," said Olmeda, laughing. "I even gave up my A&W burger-flipping job because the little old couple [who owned the place] refused to give me the day off to tape the show."
While today Olmeda is known for his eloquent fretwork, he said he was initally drawn to music by the rhythms. It was his mother who steered him toward guitar.
"My mother chose the guitar because I was always drumming on something, and she said, 'I'll be damned if I'm gonna put up with your drumming day and night on a set,'" he recalled.
Ironically, for this event, Olmeda will be joined by his brother, Tico Rivera, best known as a percussionist with Jason Mraz. However, Olmeda performs mostly solo. The choice for this format comes down to past experience.
"I used to be a pain-in-the-butt band director," Olmeda said. "I demand too much of my musicians in terms of originality and that's not the easiest way to make friends if you're not paying much. I had an awesome band called Supermice! for about 36 minutes, though. They were super awesome but I rode 'em too hard."
Olmeda has toured around the world, but it hasn't all been smooth sailing.
"The weirdest thing was playing for Jerry Adams in Ireland in 1997 at a local parade in Belfast. [I was] singing "Tramp the Dirt Down" by Elvis Costello and the microphone did this weird sway because the stage was pretty rickety and it came back and hit me right in the mouth and chipped my tooth ... [Still,] I didn't miss a beat," he said.
A veteran of pretty much every venue in town that welcomes acoustic music, Olmeda said San Diego's music scene is healthy — to a point.
"It's not the San Diego scene that's stale," he said. "It's the state of music as an appreciated art form that merits monetary compensation that is killing the art of songwriting. I'm gonna get a T-shirt printed up that says 'Free Music Sounds Cheap!'"
In the meantime, he said he'll continue working toward an eventual new album, with new songs appearing regularly.
"I usually get a hook or a chorus or one line of lyrics stuck in my head and I grow songs from them," Olmeda said. "I make music for the same reason some people breathe. I really get annoyed when people ask, 'Are you still writing songs?."
After decades playing music around the world, Olmeda maintains that performing is still his driving force. "Music means more to me now than ever — just not as a dependable income," he said.
• Carlos Olmeda performs at 9 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 12 at Java Joes, 4976 Newport Ave. All ages. $10. www.javajoessd.com.


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HAVELOCK � Lt. Gov. Dan Forest said that North Carolina does not have an image problem despite criticism in the national press and weekly demonstrations in the state capital.
HAVELOCK � Lt. Gov. Dan Forest said that North Carolina does not have an image problem despite criticism in the national press and weekly demonstrations in the state capital.
Forest joined about 350 people at the 20th annual God and Country Banquet Monday night at the Havelock Tourist and Event Center.
�We�re improving our image to large groups of the populous all over America,� he said prior to the event. �People will write us and email us every day and tell us what a great job that we�re doing and encourage us to keep up the great work. You just don�t hear that in the national media. It�s obviously not what they believe, so we�re doing a great job and people are responding.�
Forest said conservatives in North Carolina are not looking for the national press to agree with them.
�If we were, we�d probably be on the wrong side of the aisle,� he said. �There�s a lot of good legislation that�s going on in North Carolina. I think the people that got elected in North Carolina are doing what they got elected to do. You take the hits in the media for doing that and you move on and you keep leading the way that we believe that you are supposed to lead in this country, so I think we�re doing a lot of great work.�
Forest said it doesn�t at all bother him that North Carolinians have come out to demonstrate in Raleigh and other places across the state in opposition to the Republican-held legislature.
�Actually, I enjoy the demonstrations,� he said. �People ask me about it all the time. I say that this is a visual example about what�s great about America, about our First Amendment, about our right to petition, about our freedom of speech, about your ability to get out and speak about the things that you are passionate about without getting put in jail for doing it, so the demonstrations that you see on Mondays are just an example of that. It�s an example of being American. You can get your voice heard.�
The event, put on by the Craven-Pamlico Christian Coalition featured a number of conservative state leaders. The main speaker was Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, an organization dedicated to electing candidates and pursuing policies that will reduce and eventually end abortion.
Some in the state and across the nation criticized what they said was anti-abortion legislation approved this past session in the General Assembly.
N.C. Rep. Michael Speciale, R-Craven, said he doesn�t put a lot of stock into criticism of North Carolina because of where it�s being generated.
�The Wall Street Journal is applauding North Carolina. South Carolina is applauding North Carolina,� he said. �Some of the other states wish that they could have accomplished what we have accomplished.�
Speciale said he is not at all concerned about the weekly demonstrations in Raleigh.
�Those folks are used to things being done a certain way,� he said. �For 140 years, this state was run by Democrats. It�s run by Republicans now. It�s now as much in my mind about what we�re doing up there as it is about the fact that we are there.�
N.C. Sen. Norman Sanderson, R-Pamlico, said time would vindicate the actions of the General Assembly.
�I think that if we give the things that we�ve done a few months, six months, whatever it�s going to take, that I think all of that is going to play out and they�re going to see that we�ve made the right decisions for our state,� he said. �Nobody likes a frontrunner, and I think that we are a frontrunner in some of the things that we�re trying to do.�
Sanderson said the demonstrations don�t bother him.
�We�re all North Carolina citizens and they have their right to come,� he said. �I�m disappointed because I think that you can protest and make your feelings known without having to be arrested. I think that�s going a little bit too far, but other than that, they have just as much right as if this group went to Raleigh tomorrow and marched on the mall. That group that�s been there the whole session has just as much right as these folks do.�
House Speaker Thom Tillis, R-Mecklenburg, said prior to the event that predictions of the demonstrators of bad outcomes haven�t come true.
�We�ve balanced our budget. We�ve been able to reduce taxes,� he said. �It�s a natural part of the process. It�s just a group of people who are really just yearning for the days of old when they were in control and taking the state in the wrong direction, and we�re not going to allow them to do that.�
Tillis dismisses criticism of the state.
�I think it�s part of the liberal narrative,� he said. �The decisions that we�ve made in North Carolina are very similar to other southeastern states and laws that they have had on the books for years, and the Southeast continues to be one of the most attractive places for job growth and population growth.
�I just view it as a part of their tired old playbook, trying to come back with the same old liberal positions that aren�t working. That�s why we won in 2010. That�s why we added to our numbers in 2012. That�s why Romney carried this state. They need to come up with a new message and they need to recognize that where they wanted to take this state is not generally where the citizens wanted to go.�
The God and Country Banquet regularly draws state politicians, and Speciale called the event a place to meet constituents.
�People like to be around like-minded people,� he said. �This is a good forum for the Christians. You don�t have to be a conservative to be here, but generally when you look around that�s who you�re seeing. It�s just a great way to share some camaraderie and be around people that think the way you do.�
Tillis was attending the event for the first time.
�I live clear across the other side of the state, but this gets really the foundation of our party together,� he said. �They are the ones that are usually out there helping us with campaigns. They are the ones that actually make our party better, so it�s a good event. It�s something that I would like to come to more often.�
Bill Harrison drove from New Bern to attend the banquet.
�I think people once a year want to come to an event that�s very positive,� he said. �They want to learn a little bit about not just the rest of the country but the rest of the world, and it�s an event that allows that to happen.
�It�s not a partisan event. It�s based on issues. I think people grasp for that. But the big issue though is not what we do here. It�s what we do afterwards.�
Drew C. Wilson is a reporter for the Havelock News.


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Texas awards $60K in contest to kill hogs
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — State agriculture officials say more than 7,150 feral hogs were killed as part of a competition to curb their numbers and limit the hundreds of millions of dollars in damage caused to crops and ranchland every year.
The Texas Department of Agriculture said Wednesday that Sutton County in West Texas won the $20,000 first-place prize in the Hog Out Challenge. The contest ran from October through December.
Five other counties will share the remainder of the $60,000 in awards.
The results were based on a formula that considers the number of animals killed and participation by ranchers and others in educational programs.
Since the challenge began in 2010, 23,684 hogs have been killed.
An estimated 2.6 million hogs cause $550 million in damage annually in Texas.


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Hindu Goddess Parvati - Daughter of the Mountain
The Story of Parvati
After the death of Shiva's first love Sati, Shiva isolated himself into a dark cave buried amongst the snow covered peaks of the Himalayas. He rejected the world outside, so distraught was he by the lose of his first true love.
Meanwhile the demons lead by Taraka, rose from the netherworld and drove the devas, gods, out of the heavens. The gods sought a warrior who would help them regain the celestial realm.
"Only Shiva can father such a warrior," informed Brahma.
Yet Shiva, immersed in meditation, was oblivious to the problems of the gods. As he performed tapas, meditations that produce great heat and energy, his mind was filled with great knowledge and his body became resplendent with energy. But all this knowledge and energy, bottled within his being, was of no use to anyone.
Birth of Parvati
The gods invoked the mother-goddess, who appeared before them as Kundalini, a coiled serpent. "I will coil myself around Shiva, wean out his knowledge and energy for the good of the world and make him father a child," said Shakti. Shakti took birth as Parvati, daughter of the Himavan, lord of the mountains, determined to draw Shiva out of his cave and make him her consort.
Priti and Rati
Everyday Parvati would visit Shiva's cave, sweep the floor, decorate it with flowers, and offer him fruits hoping to win his love. But Shiva never opened his eyes to look upon her charming face. Exasperated, the goddess invoked Priti and Rati, goddess of love and longing, to rouse Shiva out of his mediation. These goddesses entered Shiva's desolate cave and transformed it into a pleasure garden filled with the fragrance of flowers and the buzzing of bees.
Death of Kama
Guided by Priti and Rati, Kama, the lord of desire, raised his sugarcane bow and shot arrows dripping with desire into the heart of Shiva.
Shiva was not amused. He opened his third eye and released the flames of fury that engulfed Kama and reduced his beautiful body to ashes.
The death of Kama alarmed the gods. "Without the lord of desire man will not embrace woman and life will cease to be."
" I shall find another way to conquer Shiva's heart. When Shiva becomes my consort, Kama will be reborn," said the daughter of the mountain, Parvati.
Not Even a Leaf
Parvati went into the forest and performed rigorous tapas, wearing nothing to protect her tender body form the harsh weather, eating nothing, not even a leaf, earning the admiration of forest ascetics who named her Aparna.
Aparna matched Shiva in her capacity to cut herself from the world and completely master her physical needs. The power of her tapas shook Shiva out of his mediation. He stepped out of his cave and accepted Parvati as his wife.
Shiva married Parvati in the presence of the gods following the sacred rites and took her to the highest peak of the cosmos, Mount Kailasa, the pivot of the universe. As the world revolved all around them the two became one and Kama was reborn.
Hermit to Householder
Parvati melted Shiva's stern heart with her affection. Together they played dice on Mount Kailas or sported on the banks of Lake Manasarovar, discovering the joys of married life.
The goddess awakened Shiva's concern for the world by questioning him on various issues. As he spoke, he revealed the secrets of the Tantras and the Vedas that he had gathered in eons of mediation.
Inspired by her beauty, Shiva became the fountainhead of the arts, of dance and drama. He sang and danced to the delight of the gods who were pleased to see his enchantment with the goddess.
The Birth of the Celestial Warlord
Parvati gave Shiva's aura to the gods. "From this will rise the warlord you seek," said the goddess. The gods gave Shiva's aura to Svaha, consort of Agni, the fire god. Unable to bear the heat of the auro and the god Agni for long, Svaha gave the aura to Ganga the river goddess who cooled it in her icy waters until Shiva's aura turned into a seed.
Aranyani, the goddess of the forest, embedded the divine seed in the fertile forest floor where it was transformed into a robust child with six heads and twelve arms.
Six forest nymphs called the Krittikas found this magnificent child in a lotus. Over come by maternal affection they began nursing him. The six headed son of Shiva, born of many mothers, came to be known as Kartikeya.
Parvati taught Kartikeya the art of war and turned him into a the celestial warlord called Skanda. Skanda took command of the celestial armies, defeated Taraka in battle and restored the heavens to the gods.
Kali drinks Raktabija's Blood
Skanda, guardian of the heavens, went on to destroy many demons who opposed the reign of the gods. But he could not defeat the demon Raktabija. Whenever this demon's blood touched the ground, a thousand new demons sprang to life. He seemed unconquerable.
To aid her son in his endeavor to rid the three worlds of the demon, Parvati entered the cosmic battlefield as the dreaded goddess Kali - dark as death, gaunt with sunken eyes, gaping mouth, with long disheveled hair covering her naked body.
Kali spread her tongue over the battlefield and licked the demon's falling blood catching on her long, outstretched tongue before the drop could find its way to the ground springing a demonic life anew. Raktabija, without his multiplying numbers was left powerless. Skanda was able to dispatch Raktabija and all his remaining duplicates with ease.
Skanda thanked his mother for her timely help. To celebrate her victory, Kali danced wildly on the battlefield, bedecking herself with a garland of served heads and a girdle of severed hands.
Shiva Calms Kali
Intoxicated with Raktabija's blood, Kali ran amuck across the three worlds, destroying everything and everyone in her sight.
To restrain her, Shiva took the form of a corpse and blocked her path. As the goddess, blinded by bloodlust, tripped on his lifeless body, she was jolted out of her frenzy. She wondered if she had killed her own husband. She placed a foot on Shiva's chest and brought him back to life.
Shiva then took the form of a little child and began to cry, stirring maternal love in the heart of Kali. This forced her to shed her fierce form; Kali became Gauri, the radiant mother, bestower of life.
Parvati's Son
Guari told Shiva that she wanted a child. Yet, Shiva was not interested in a family. He turned away from her and went into to the forest to perform tapas.
Determined to be a mother, Parvati decided to create a son for herself without the aid of her husband. She scrubbed her skin with sandal paste, scrapped off the dead skin, mixed it with clay and molded out of it a beautiful doll into which she breathed life. She ordered her newly created son to keep watch over her cave and keep out all strangers.
Guardian of Thresholds
When Shiva returned to Kailas, Parvati's son failed to recognize his mother's consort and prevented him from entering the cave. Irritated by the child's insolence, Shiva raised his trident and cut off his head.
When Parvati saw her son's headless body she wept and out of her tears came her fierce handmaidens, the Yoginis, who threatened to destroy the whole world. To placate Parvati, Shiva resurrected the child by placing an elephants head on the severed neck. Shiva also accepted Ganesh as the first of his sons.
Ganesh, who had prevented Shiva from crossing the threshold of his mother's cave, became keeper of thresholds, an obstacle to all that is undesirable. He who seeks access to the wisdom, bounty and mystery of Nature worships Ganesh beloved son and sacred doorkeeper of Shakti.
The Divine Homemaker
With Parvati by his side, Shiva became a family man. But he did not abandon his ways as a hermit: he continued to meditate and immerse himself in narcotic dreams. His carefree attitude, his refusal to shoulder household responsibilities sometimes angered Parvati. But then she would come to terms with his unconventional ways and make peace. The consequent marital bliss between Shakti and Shiva ensured harmony between Matter and Spirit and brought stability and peace to the cosmos.
Parvati thus became Ambika, goddess of the household, of marriage, motherhood, and family.
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Staying On Track With Your Fitness Plan
March 13, 2015
Hosted by Coach Michael Merlino
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If it was that easy all of us would be in tip top shape. Sticking to a fitness plan continues to be a tough challenge for the average person as we all juggle work, family and life with fitness many times becoming a second priority way too often. During Fitness Momentum show #12, Fitness Trainer and Running Coach Michael Merlino discusses some ways to re-assess your fitness every few months and use his top 10 tips to get back on track and get that fitness momentum rolling again.
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Since the 1990s the popularity of running has exploded with more people than ever embracing the sport by training for and participating in road races world-wide from the 5K to ultra-marathon distance. The once elusive 26.2 mile marathon has now become one of the most popular physical and mental challenges in the world for those looking to go the distance and conquer a huge lifetime goal.
In Flight Running the radio show celebrates the great sport of running and welcomes listeners who are hungry to be the best runner they can be. Running coach and fitness trainer Michael Merlino and his guests offer training tips and an insider's view of the coaching techniques and tools he uses to help runners train for and reach the finish line. Get expert advice on training, improving running form, injury prevention and treatment, nutrition strategies, race preparation and more. Tune in for some fun and engaging running discussions all designed to help take your running to new heights.
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Fitness trainer and running Coach Michael Merlino can speak from experience when it comes to the challenges of getting in shape and staying in shape. After leaving a ten year career in corporate human resources with a world renowned medical college and a Fortune 500 energy company, he traded his suit and tie for warmups and running shoes. He has taught thousands of runners and fitness clients how to get in shape and reach the finish line with sound run coaching advice and fitness and nutrition strategies that get results.
Michael owns Houston Texas based In Flight Running, a run coaching program that trains and prepares runners for races from the 5K to marathon level. He also owns Merlino Fitness, a fitness training business that offers both one on one and group strength training programs. He has been a running coach since 2000 and a fitness trainer since 1997. Coach Michael trains runners and clients at Houston area parks and running trails and his private fitness training studio.
He spends his time coaching and training others on the sport of running, improving athletic performance, getting in shape, maintaining fitness, weight loss and strength training. Michael is also a fitness and wellness consultant, speaker, blogger, writer and radio host for the Voice America Radio Network's Health and Wellness Channel.