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Blackshear, GA - Formerly of Chester, NY
Mr. Benjamin Freeman Garrett, 77 of Blackshear, GA, formerly of Chester, NY, passed away Friday, February 22, 2013, in Middletown, NY after a courageous battle with cancer.
Born in Sandersville, GA on May 5, 1935, he had lived in New York, New Jersey, Virginia, and had moved to Blackshear three years ago from Nahunta where he had lived for ten years. He was a 1954 graduate of Nahunta High School and was a U.S. Air Force Veteran. He was a retired Corp. Logistics Transportation Manager with Benjamin Moore Paint Company. A man full of life, he enjoyed golf, NASCAR, hunting, collectables and was a huge Georgia Bulldog fan. He was also a member of the American Legion Hall Blackshear, Post 181. Ben was a real people person and enjoyed having a good time. He was well respected and admired by all. He brought so much joy to his children and grandchildren's lives and will be deeply missed.
Ben's family would like to thank Dr. Dinsmore and the entire oncology staff at Orange Regional Medical Center for the care they provided to Ben and the compassion they showed to his family during his illness.
He was a son of the late Freeman Walker and Nellie Lorene Hall Garrett. He was also preceded in death by his maternal grandparents who helped raise him, Lonnie and Leasie Brantley Hall; his sister, Sylvia Smith; and a son-in-law, Max Durham Jr.
Survivors include two daughters and a son-in-law, Cathy Durham of Jacksonville, FL and Lisa and Joe Newlin of Middletown, NY; two sons and a daughter-in-law, Michael and Patricia Garrett of Farmindale, NJ and Stephen Garrett of Southbury, CT; ten grandchildren, Michael Garrett, John Durham, Daniel Durham, Elizabeth Garrett, Victoria Garrett, Joseph Newlin, Jeffrey Newlin, Patrick Garrett, Brian Newlin and Jack Garrett; two great grandchildren, Chandler Garrett and Troy Durham; his former wife, Barbara Garrett; his niece, April and Michael Markland of Nahunta, GA; a nephew, John Smith of Tampa, FL; and several other relatives and friends.
Visitation for Ben will be held Thursday afternoon, February 28, 2013 from 1 p.m. until 3 p.m. at the funeral home. Funeral services for Ben will follow at 3 p.m. at the Blackshear First Baptist Church.
Memorialization will be by cremation.
Memorials may be made in Ben's name to Orange Regional Medical Center Oncology Department, 707 East Main Street, Middletown NY 10940.
Sympathy may be expressed by signing the online register at www.pearsondial.com
Pearson-Dial Funeral Home, Blackshear, GA., is in charge of the arrangements.


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Russia has already annexed the Crimea. Its agents are reported to be fomenting rebellions across the Eastern Ukraine. Its troops are massing on the border, and President Vladimir Putin has talked admiringly of the old Soviet empire just as he appears intent on recreating it in purely Russian colors.
The world is quite right to be worried that Moscow has imperial ambitions across its region, just as it did through most of the 19th and 20th centuries.
But the last Russian Empire was undone by the weakness of its economy, and this one will be as well. Putin may act tough, but he has not put in the place the economic foundations for a bid for great-power status.
After a burst of growth based on development of its oil fields and other natural resources, it has run out of steam. Growth has stalled, and has now gone into reverse. If it annexes the Ukraine, the costs of the occupation will drain its resources.
A great power is an expensive thing to run — just ask the Americans, and before them the British. The Russians won't be able to afford it, and that means in the medium term they will fail.
How far Putin plans to push his ambitions in Ukraine is not yet clear. He may simply wish to put a pro-Moscow regime back in power. He may want to bring the country back under full Russian control, or at least its eastern regions. That remains to be seen. What is already clear is that the crisis is taking a toll on the Russian economy at a moment when it cannot afford it.
Russia has already slipped back into recession. Output shrank in the last three months.
The International Monetary Fund has cuts its growth forecast for 2014 to 0.2% from 1.3%, arguing that the estimated $100 billion that had fled the country since the unrest in Ukraine started has already hit output.
The ratings agency Standard & Poor's has cut its rating to just one level above junk. The ruble USDRUB, -0.0430% has dropped by 8% against the dollar, and the central bank has jacked up interest rates from 5.5% to 7.5% to defend the currency, and try to stem the money heading abroad.
That could hardly have come at a worst time. The Russian economy was already weakening, and its place among the BRICs — supposedly high-growth countries — looked more like a joke all the time. The decade up to 2008, the first since Putin took power, saw average growth rates of 7%. Between 2008 to 2012 that dropped to 4%. Now it is down to around 1%. Nor is it likely to pick up any time soon.
Oil and gas, along with a few other natural resources, are the mainstay of the Russian economy. Russia provides 24% of Europe's gas, and 30% of its oil. It is planning to export gas to China, but the pipelines have not been built yet.
But it does not do very much else. Russia has not managed to create any manufacturing industries that can export abroad, nor any retailers than can serve anything other than the domestic market. How many Russian companies has anyone heard of outside of the resources sector? China has created plenty, and so have Brazil and India, and much of Eastern Europe. But Russia under Putin's brand of oligarch-controlled, state-dominated capitalism has completely failed.
Worst of all, its demographic crisis has resumed — and it is worse than ever. Between 2005 and 2010 its working age population rose by 5%. Now it is falling by 1% over a five-year period. Between 2015 to 2020 it will drop by 6%. It is very hard to grow an economy when the workforce is shrinking — just ask the Japanese.
Putin's ambitions to expand his influence are only going to make the economy worse.
Ukraine has a basket-case economy. It has hardly grown at all since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The heavy industries it inherited from Communism were redundant and it has not been able to replace them with new ones. While Poland, its neighbor to the west, has boomed, Ukraine has stagnated.
If Russia takes responsibility for Ukraine, it will be saddling itself with huge liabilities at precisely the wrong moment. East Germany, with a population of 16 million, almost bankrupted wealthy West Germany after re-unification. Ukraine with a population of 45 million, could bring Russia to its knees.
Sanctions will make matters worse. When economies are closed off from the rest of the world, they lose their competitiveness — and Russia doesn't have much of that to start with. The grip of a small group of oligarchs will be strengthened, and the few genuine entrepreneurs Russia has will find the rest of the world closed off to them.
The reliance on energy and natural resources will only increase. And yet, in the medium term even that is at risk. Europe is sitting on vast reserves of shale gas, and only needs to find the political willpower to wean itself off Russian energy. The aggressiveness of Putin's foreign policy may well be the spur to make that happen. If oil and gas goes into decline, Russia may well face bankruptcy.
None of that, of course, means that Russian stocks are not worth buying at these levels. The economy is bad shape, but that is already in the price. The Moscow market MOEX, +0.00% trades at around four times earnings. Its natural resources are still valuable, even if they are poorly managed. If assets are being given away for practically nothing, there is no reason not to buy them.
But it does mean than Putin's imperial ambitions are futile. Empires are based on economic strength, not the other way around. The Russians can annex the Crimea and probably take control of Ukraine as well if it wants to. There is no sign that Europe or the U.S. will go to war to defend it.
And yet the weakness of its economy led to the collapse of the Soviet Empire — and the weakness of the Russian economy will lead to the eventual collapse of this one as well.
Also read these stories on MarketWatch:
6 economic consequences of a new cold war
Russia is corrupt, but its markets are bargains
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(RNN) - A Snickers ad might have made a few people snicker, but divided online reaction painted it as offensive and possibly sexist to both genders.
The 1:11 spot released Tuesday in Australia shows construction workers yelling complimentary things at women walking down the street, much to the surprise of the passersby.
"I appreciate your appearance is just one aspect of who you are!" one of the guys says.
The kicker is guys in construction don't act like themselves when they're hungry. Otherwise, complimentary remarks about the color of blouses would have been replaced with catcalls.
The ad has been viewed more than 1.2 million times on YouTube, and there are a considerable number of comments on the video and on Snickers' Facebook page.
Men and women expressed thoughts ranging from amusement at the turn on a common stereotype to promises of boycotts against the candy company.
"This is pretty epic," commenter Zachary Detton wrote.
On the other hand, Bryan Conn thought the minds behind it had "missed their chance."
"They could have easily made the reason men normally act vile is simply because we're hungry," he wrote. "Here, eat a Snickers, no more hungry, sexist men. They almost had it."
Twitter users also had a lot to say about the ad.
"Note to self: If women want to be treated well, men should not eat," @Cindy_Ritchie tweeted.
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The Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) released the Week 3 National Top-20 Poll on Wednesday, and the University of Redlands men's water polo team found itself at No. 18 in the nation. Amongst primarily Division I programs, the U of R is one of only two Division III schools ranked in the top-20, with Johns Hopkins tied for 20th.
This ranking follows the impressive undefeated weekend the Bulldogs experienced at the Lancer Invitational in Riverside. Redlands notched solid wins over Fresno Pacific (14-6), Occidental (18-7), Whittier (9-5), and University of La Verne (17-10) during the two-day tournament.
In addition to its national ranking, the Bulldogs are at the top of the Division III rankings, receiving 97 total points in the poll. Johns Hopkins sits in second with 93 points, while Pomona-Pitzer is in third with 90 points.
Redlands looks forward to the coming weekend when it travels to Davis for the UC Davis Aggie Shootout. The Bulldogs will match up with No. 4 UC Berkeley and No. 13 UC Davis on Saturday, before facing off with No. 15 Santa Clara and Fresno Pacific on Sunday.


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Police seek information on stolen Honda Civic
October 16. 2013 9:24PM
MANCHESTER — A 1998 Honda Civic, reported stolen Tuesday night from a rear parking lot on Beech Street, was found about 4:30 Wednesday morning on the railroad tracks at Mitchell Street and Brown Avenue.
Police said the vehicle was running and in gear, but had been stripped of its doors, hood and headlights.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact Manchester Police at 668-8711. Anonymous tips for cash rewards can be made through Manchester Crimeline at 624-4040, or at manchestercrimeline.org.
Playground equipment fire
Manchester Police responded to the Central Little League field at 380 Lincoln St. at about 7:20 Tuesday night for a playground equipment fire.
The Manchester Fire Department put out the fire that had engulfed a large plastic tunnel slide. The fire is suspicious in origin and witnesses reported seeing several juveniles in the area just before the fire.
One of the teens was described as a white male, riding a scooter, wearing a black sweatshirt and black "DC" sneakers with green laces. The other two teens were described as black males, wearing black hooded sweatshirts, riding on skateboards.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Olivia Wilde says she has "good problems" this year.
The "Tron" actress and her fiance, comedy actor Jason Sudeikis, have been engaged since January, yet it seems they've been too busy with their careers to do anything about it.
Wilde appears in the upcoming car-racing biopic "Rush." And so far this year, the actress has released two other films — "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone" and her most recent indie movie, "Drinking Buddies," a comedy about blurred friendships and perhaps some blurred vision from drinking a lot of beer.
Although Wilde started downing brew at a young age during her frequent trips to Ireland with her father, writer-producer Andrew Cockburn, she admits after shooting "Buddies" that she's become even more of a beer aficionado.
"Yeah I am now the really annoying person in the beer aisle at the supermarket who is taking way too long," Wilde said. "The person behind me is just trying to get to the Budweiser — like 'Move lady!'."
Also not moving are her wedding plans with Sudeikis. Wilde recently spoke to The Associated Press about simply enjoying being engaged and oh yes, busy careers.
AP: You are super busy. When in the world do you have time to plan a wedding?
Wilde: I'll just tell them we are getting married in Uganda. That sounds too likely. That's something I would do. I would totally do it!
AP: Do you guys have a date planned yet?
Wilde: No, I think being engaged is really fun and I am in no rush. I think it's really wonderful, I feel really lucky and happy. We're both really blessed to be very busy right now, so as actors, that's the dream — to be too busy to get married. That's fantastic.
AP: So is Jason a great drinking buddy?
Wilde: The greatest drinking buddy is a person who has a great sense of humor and can handle their beer. Because a bad drinking buddy is somebody who I guess falls over before you get to the fun part. Jason is a great drinking buddy.
AP: It's rumored you are returning to do another "Tron" movie. Is it true?
Wilde: I don't know, they know more than I do. I'm too old — what do I play, the mom? That would be great. Yeah, I don't know. I can't fit into that suit after "Drinking Buddies," that's for sure. I would like to bring the two films together somehow. "Tron Buddies," ″Drinking Tron," way better.
AP: Are you willing to do another "Tron"?
Wilde: Yeah, that would be fun. Those kind of movies, the opposite of "Drinking Buddies," which is so organic and improvised, a small crew, we had very little money, it's a passion project. Something like "Tron," what is extraordinary about that opposite experience is the enormous scale of the production. A crew of hundreds and people who are technically so proficient. So that's what I find really fascinating about that process, and I would be lucky that it's in my career I can continue to hang out on both sides of the spectrum.
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Seven illustrators, seven notebooks, seven brand new, hand-painted covers. To introduce a new color in the Cahier collection: grey, a soft shade that joins the four existing colors in this collection of journals with cardboard covers: blue, maroon, beige and black. The cardboard is perfect for decorations in watercolor, charcoal, pencil, pen or brush. Just like those done by Martin Haake (illustrator, Berlin), Francesco Bongiorni (illustrator, Madrid), Simonetta Capecchi (illustrator and Urban Sketcher, Naples), Laura Scarpa (illustrator, Rome), Luca Bogoni (illustrator, Berlin), Daniela Lucherini (illustrator, Treviso) and Odding (illustrator and analog blogger in China).
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Shia LaBeouf: Transformers 4 is 'really cool'
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Shia LaBeouf says 'Transformers 4' will be "really cool" and believes newcomer Jack Reynor will have a blast filming alongside Mark Wahlberg in Michael Bay's film
Shia LaBeouf thinks 'Transformers 4' will be "really cool".
The 26-year-old actor - who starred as Sam Witwicky in the first three instalments of the franchise - won't be reprising his role in new sequel, but thinks newcomer Jack Reynor and actor Mark Wahlberg will have a "lot of fun" filming Michael Bay's new flick.
He told Access Hollywood: "There's a lot of fun to be had there in terms of the action and what not. I'm sure they're going to make a really cool movie."
Earlier this year Michael denied rumours that 'Transformers 4' was a reboot, stating that the storyline will pick up from where it left off in 2011's 'Transformers: Dark of the Moon'.
He explained: " 'Transformers 4' is not a reboot. That word has been floating around on the net. This movie takes place exactly 4 years after the war in Chicago.
"The story makes a very natural transition, and reason as to why we have a whole new cast. This 'Transformers' will feel very different than the last three. We are embarking on a new trilogy."
In the meantime, 20-year-old Jack is preparing for his breakthrough role by undertaking "intense" training to bulk up his physique.
He explained: "I'm training very intensely at the moment. I'm going to keep that up until we shoot. I'm going to do some different courses, some different things I need to pick up for the film.
"My character seems to be a race car driver so I'm going to be doing a couple of driving courses and getting out on the track."
'Transformers 4' is rumoured to begin filming in May for a tentative June 2014 release.


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This 1st quarter moon will offer gorgeous telescopic views for those taking part in Astronomy Day. Then it'll conveniently set, leaving the sky dark for this weekend's Lyrid meteors.
Elizabeth Worthy Clark caught a 1st quarter moon as it was setting, in February 2018.
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Here's something else to look for on a 1st quarter moon. Aqilla Othman in Port Dickson, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia, caught this photo in May, 2017. Notice that he caught Lunar X and Lunar V. These are similar features on the moon that fleetingly take an X or V shape when the moon appears in a 1st quarter phase from Earth.
At first quarter moon, the near side of the moon – the part we see – is half-illuminated by sunlight and half-immersed in the moon's own shadow. In other words, we're seeing half the moon's day side.
We call this moon a quarter and not a half because it is one quarter of the way around in its orbit of Earth, as measured from one new moon to the next. Also, although a first quarter moon appears half-lit to us, the illuminated portion we see of a first quarter moon truly is just a quarter . We're now seeing half the moon's day side, that is. Another lighted quarter of the moon shines just as brightly in the direction opposite Earth!
The CUDA Toolkit targets a class of applications whose control part runs as a process on a general purpose computing device, and which use one or more NVIDIA GPUs as coprocessors for accelerating (SPMD) parallel jobs. Such jobs are self-contained, in the sense that they can be executed and completed by a batch of GPU threads entirely without intervention by the host process, thereby gaining optimal benefit from the parallel graphics hardware.
The GPU code is implemented as a collection of functions in a language that is essentially C++, but with some annotations for distinguishing them from the host code, plus annotations for distinguishing different types of data memory that exists on the GPU. Such functions may have parameters, and they can be called using a syntax that is very similar to regular C function calling, but slightly extended for being able to specify the matrix of GPU threads that must execute the called function. During its life time, the host process may dispatch many parallel GPU tasks.
For more information on the CUDA programming model, consult the CUDA C Programming Guide .
Source files for CUDA applications consist of a mixture of conventional C++ host code, plus GPU device functions. The CUDA compilation trajectory separates the device functions from the host code, compiles the device functions using the proprietary NVIDIA compilers and assembler, compiles the host code using a C++ host compiler that is available, and afterwards embeds the compiled GPU functions as fatbinary images in the host object file. In the linking stage, specific CUDA runtime libraries are added for supporting remote SPMD procedure calling and for providing explicit GPU manipulation such as allocation of GPU memory buffers and host-GPU data transfer.
The compilation trajectory involves several splitting, compilation, preprocessing, and merging steps for each CUDA source file. It is the purpose of , the CUDA compiler driver, to hide the intricate details of CUDA compilation from developers. It accepts a range of conventional compiler options, such as for defining macros and include/library paths, and for steering the compilation process. All non-CUDA compilation steps are forwarded to a C++ host compiler that is supported by , and translates its options to appropriate host compiler command line options.
nvcc assumes that the host compiler is installed with the standard method designed by the compiler provider. If the host compiler installation is non-standard, the user must make sure that the environment is set appropriately and use relevant nvcc compile options.
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The production staff – to date – for the JCT's production of "Willy Wonka" this November is Lisa Kerr, producer; Mary S. Wright, director; Patty Vandal and Walter Sage, music directors; A.G. Gutierrez, set designer; Lee White, costume designer; Deborah Murphy, Carol Hopkins and Mary Wright, choreography; Maia White, director's apprentice and Maryann England, director's advisor.
The techie crew is Madelyne Bessinger, Nathaniel Hopkins and Josh Brown.
Add to the cast of "Willy Wonka" Matt Gibbs, an Oompa Loompa named Nestles. Also, Steve Heath has assumed the role of Mr. Salt and Annie McIntyre will play Hilda.
Welcome to the island, Muffin and Boone.
Joan McCauley, who adopted Muffin from the Potter League for Animals, says the 9-year-brown tabby is the "absolute vision of loveliness and is the most talkative cat we've every had."
Also in the McCauley home is 12-year-old Ollie, a brown tabby adopted in California. Joan says they're getting along very well. When asked why she chose an older cat, she replied that younger cats have a better chance of being adopted. The Potter League has some 90 cats needing homes. Joan put in a plug for a male awaiting adoption named Kidden. "His markings make him look like a felon, but he's a sweetheart."
Boone, a 6-month-old shepherd and boxer mix, was adopted from the Potter League by Robert Mc- Cormack. Also in the household is Wyatt, a male border collie adopted from the league by Robert's roommate a year and a half ago. "It's working out all right. The Potter League is incredibly accommodating," Robert said. He added that he adopted his first dog from the Potter League when he was only 10 years old.
Island author Joseph Ciabattoni, Ph.D., MD, has announced the release of his new book, "Doctor C's Medical Guide," a practical reference manual for self-care. For more information, check out his Web site at www.doctorcsmedicalguide. com.
What was a green crab, the favorite bait this time of year for tautaug, doing in the parking lot at the Jamestown library? Perhaps it was hiding. But Andrea von Hohenleiten figured it wouldn't last long if it stayed there, so she took the crab down to the Creek and released it into the water out of sight of the bait shop crew.
Peter C. Pemantell asks, "Where was the Spa?"
The Kettlebottom crew boated a 165-pound blue fin tuna aboard the Stella last week. Stella and a boat from Snug Harbor were the only boats out of 35 fishing that hooked up.
The Jamestown Community Chorus is in rehearsals for its 60th anniversary concert in December. Instead of the traditional holiday fare, the chorus is preparing a retrospective of music and life from 1949 until the present.
Not only will there be favorite classical choral pieces, there will also be a great deal of popular music from radio, Broadway and television – all the way up through iTunes. The chorus started as the Jamestown Choral Group in 1949. Founded by Rita Murray, the chorus added men from the Men's Glee Club in 1953.
One of the songs to be performed has the lyrics: "Slide your feet up the street, bend your back, shift your arm, then you pull it back." What is the song?
Congratulations to 13-year-old Lawn Avenue School eighth-grader Riley Greene, who was named last week's Newport Daily News student of the week.
Note to NFL announcers: Let the coaches run the game. You just report it.
*** Who was Sgt. Bilko?
Boy Scout Troop 1 has determined its leadership assignments for the coming year. They are: Nathaniel Hopkins, senior patrol leader; Eric Archibald, assistant senior patrol leader; Brian Volpe, junior assistant scoutmaster; Jimmy Perry and Dylan Walsh, instructors; Kyle Wright, Mike Brendlinger, Tom Munro and Sal Morenzi, guides; Hayden MacLean, Josh Nolan, Ian Archibald and Jake Hanna, patrol leaders; Ben Normand, quartermaster; Truman Christie, historian; Finn Dwyer, librarian; Ryan Geib, scribe; Mason Kelly, chaplin's aide; Chris Waterman, den chief and Zach Neronha, bugler.
Kudos to all!
The full moon Sunday will be the Hunter's Moon and Harvest Moon.
A Snapple cap moment: Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
*** Be true!
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|Republican Era Portrait
Over the past months, I've been editing Killing the Hydra – Eagles and Dragons Book II. It's been enjoyable delving into a story again after having stepped away for a long time.
It's funny, but I had forgotten all the years of research that went into these books. I take for granted the world I immersed myself in to write them because now it all seems normal to me.
I've spent a lot of time with the characters – the good, the bad, the savage, the honourable, the beautiful, the mysterious etc. etc. One character that I had a difficult time dealing with was Lucius' father, Senator Quintus Metellus Anguis.
Quintus is a spiteful, hard man who is quick to anger and jealous of his son's successes. He is of a mindset that was born in the very early days of the Republic when there were no emperors, when kings were killed and when the father held supreme power in the family.
In some ways, Quintus Metellus could not be more out of place in early 3rd century Rome.
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As I've been reading through the book again, some of my research into family life has come back to me and I thought I would share it. In particular, I would like to look briefly at the father in ancient Rome and his role as paterfamilias.
First we should have a look at the word familia. In ancient Rome, a familia did not only include a father, mother and children. The word also referred to other relatives (by blood or adoption), clients, freedmen and all slaves belonging to the family. It included all the family houses, lands and estates and anyone involved with running those holdings.
The Roman familia went far beyond the nuclear family and the paterfamilias was the head of it all.
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During the early days of the Roman Republic, the role of the paterfamilias was largely determined by an unwritten moral and social code called the mos maiorum, or the 'ways of the elders'. These governing rules of private, social and political life in ancient Rome were handed down through the generations. Because these rules were unwritten, they evolved over time. Values and social mores change, as is natural, and successive generations come into their own with ideas different to their predecessors.
The generational differences form a large part of the conflict between Lucius and his father Quintus. Here is an excerpt from Children of Apollo in which Lucius speaks with his father after his years on campaign:
His father looked old, tired, beaten. Lucius had decided to reach out, extend to him an olive branch of peace. Then, a mistake. He pitied the proud Roman before him.
"Father, I know that you hated being in the army, that that's why you didn't want me to join. But, hear me when I say that I love it and I excel at being a soldier-"
Quintus Metellus jumped to his feet, his face suddenly red with rage, his anger swelling. "What in Hades do you know? You're nothing but an ignorant, self-indulged swine hiding behind your Emperor. The best place to serve your family is in the Senate, not the Legions. I will not be there to watch you in three days, for I have no son apart from Quintus. How dare you storm in here, dribbling virtue like a salivating cur! You know nothing of the world, of men, of character. You disgrace our family name and make our ancestors cringe from beyond. I suppose you would like to be called 'Africanus' for decimating Romans across the sea." Lucius stepped to the edge of the desk, his strong fists resting on the table.
"I'm a Metellus Anguis, father! And I know who I am and that our ancestors are proud. Can you say the same of yourself?" Lucius did not give his father a chance to retort. "The world changes and so men must change with it. You can't long for the days of a time that won't come again. Our ancestors lived in their time with honour and I live now, with honour. Unlike you I don't live in jealousy and bitterness of the past and present."
"Get out of my sight!" Quintus' fist slammed down on the table, scattering several scrolls. "By the Gods if ever you speak thus to me again I'll box your ears so hard you'll wish that-"
"Wish what, father? That I were dead? I'm not the little boy you used to beat around when I wouldn't do your bidding. You can't hurt me."
"You're a swine, an insult to the family…"
(Children of Apollo; Chapter XIV – Pater et Filius)
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Quintus Metellus, as a Republican, is against the Emperor Septimius Severus. He has had a vision of his son's social and political progress since before he was born. He has tried hard all his life to breathe life back into ancient name of Metellus, but without success. Now, all the pressure is placed upon his son whom he wants to become a senator of renown after he completes his minimum number of years in the military.
But Lucius has other ideas. He does not want what his father wants. Lucius has found success in the Legions and has been praised and promoted by Emperor Severus, a man he is happy to serve. Unlike many equestrian youths, Lucius Metellus Anguis is not interested in pursuing a political career. He wants to be a career officer in Rome's Legions – something that causes his father no end of embarrassment and frustration. In his opinion, it is not the way to further the family name and better their fortunes.
In the early days of the Republic, Lucius would have had to do as his paterfamilias dictated. There would have been no choice in the matter, no influence from his mother or older sister to help his cause. The paterfamilias' word was law within the familia.
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In ancient Rome, the paterfamilias had to be a Roman citizen. He was responsible for the familia's well-being and reputation, its legal and moral propriety. The paterfamilias even had duties to the household gods.
And this is where Quintus Metellus fails. He has lost faith in the gods that have watched over them. In fact, he fears them and their apparent favour of his son. Quintus clings to the archaic role of the paterfamilias like a dictator with power of life and death over the members of his familia. He forgets that the paterfamilias' role is also to protect his familia within the current world they live in, and to honour their ancestors and their gods through his behaviour, his example.
This is where Lucius fills the void in duties neglected by his father.
But it is never as easy as that. The Empire is large and all men are susceptible to corruption. Lucius fights for honour and goodness in a world that has no qualms about dismissing honour, virtue and family in the interests of greed and political advancement.
Quintus Metellus is the paterfamilias of their branch of the Metelli gens, but his own shortcomings and archaic notions are at complete odds with his son and the times they live in.
It is always interesting to compare previous ages and practices with those of our own. Certainly the role of the father has changed over the centuries, though it certainly varies from family to family and culture to culture.
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Fortuna smiled on me with my own father who, thankfully, bears no resemblance to Quintus Metellus. But it was interesting to write such a character as Quintus, to explore his relationship with Lucius and the rest of the familia.
By the 3rd century A.D. the paterfamilias' power of life and death over his family was restricted, the practice all but dead.
But old habits and ideas die hard, and for Quintus Metellus there are other ways to kill a member of your familia and maintain your power as paterfamilias.


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Cyclone Arthur pelted parts of far eastern Maine and southeastern Canada with heavy rain and strong winds on Saturday, as the storm that had been a hurricane swept away from southern New England.
Arthur, which weakened to a tropical storm on Saturday morning, had earlier reached Category 2 hurricane status and made landfall on North Carolina`s Outer Banks late on Thursday, snarling plans for tourists at the start of the Fourth of July holiday weekend.
North Carolina reported only slight damage from the hurricane, which quickly traveled northeast and on Saturday morning was centered about 50 miles (80 km) north-northwest of the Canadian town of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
"It has lost some strength, although it still has 65 mph winds," said Daniel Brown, a senior hurricane specialist at the U.S. National Hurricane Center. "Basically, it lost its tropical characteristics and has become more a wintertime type low."
The center of Arthur was expected to move near or over western Nova Scotia in the next few hours and over the Gulf of St. Lawrence on Saturday night.
The storm was moving to the north-northeast at about 23 mph (37 kph) at 8 a.m. Eastern Time and was expected to slow down and weaken over the next day or more, the center said.
Arthur was the first hurricane to hit the United States since Superstorm Sandy devastated New York and New Jersey in October 2012, causing an estimated $70 billion in damage.
In Maine, some communities reported power outages and trees down, but no injuries, said Dustin Jordan, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Caribou, Maine.
The Weather Service received unofficial reports of nearly 5 inches of rain (12.7 cm) in the eastern tip of Maine.
Arthur hit landfall with top sustained winds of 100 mph (160 kph), earning a Category 2 status on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale. It weakened to a Category 1 as it moved northeast into colder waters of the Atlantic Ocean with 90-mph (145-kph) top sustained winds.
The storm had lashed the popular Massachusetts summer resort island of Nantucket with powerful winds and heavy rain on Friday night. In Boston, the famed Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular, already moved up a day due to the weather, was cut short on Thursday by heavy rain and lightning.
Arthur cut power to almost 20,000 homes and businesses, downed trees and cut off barrier islands from the mainland after making landfall on North Carolina`s Outer Banks.
The tourist haven of Ocracoke Island was without mains power, but a generator was providing power on a rotating basis and officials said power could be restored by late Sunday.
A highway connecting Hatteras Island to the mainland had been blocked, but was expected to reopen by late on Sunday.


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Fujitsu Siemens Computers (FSC) is the latest hardware vendor to punt servers loaded with AMD's four-core Opteron processor chip, which finally hit the channel – following months of production delays – last week.
The firm said today that the quad job is available in its Primergy RX330 S1, BX630 S2 blade servers and its entry-level Econel 230R server.
A heap of computer manufacturers have already jumped on the Opteron bandwagon. HP said last month that it would load its beefy, new 8-socket x86 ProLiant DL785 G5 server with the chip. It's also spicing up the lower-end and mid-range parts of the ProLiant family.
Earlier this week,
AMD Dell announced that it had clasped the chip to its bosom by loading it on five of its server models.
Sun hasn't actually managed to produce an announcement for its Opteron boxes, although one can tell where the chip will go first. For example, Sun recently put the Sun Fire X4140 and X4440 servers on its site. This kit should receive the four-core parts as soon as possible. And, Sun's flogging the X2200 with four-core Opterons to education customers today. You'll find that system here.
Super Micro, Rackable Systems, and Appro have all also announced support for the processors.
AMD, which has seen its stock price half in value over the past year, will be hoping to turn its troubled fortunes around now that the chip is finding its way onto major computer vendors' systems around the world.
The shipping delays led to a hefty drop in market share which rival Intel happily swallowed.
Barcelona was supposed to begin shipping to OEMs in September last year. However, a major technical bug forced the firm to postpone mass distribution of the processor while the problem was fixed. ®


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Setting the stage for what could be the quietest Oscar weekend since 1929, the largely silent film"The Artist"was named Best Feature at the Spirit Awards.
'The Artist" is also favored to win the Best Picture Oscar Sunday. If that happens, it would mark the first time the Spirit and the Oscar have gone to the same film since 1986's"Platoon." It would also be the first silent film to win the Best Picture Oscar since "Wings" in 1929.
In what could be another precursor of things to come, Jean Dujardin won the Male Lead Spirit. He and George Clooney ("The Descendants") are favored in the Best Actor Oscar race.


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A well-orchestrated online campaign has raised awareness of technical and governance issues with anti-piracy legislation now pending in the House and Senate and has forced legislators to reconsider proposals to filter and block sites on the Internet.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) announced last week that he planned to remove blocking provisions for offending foreign Web sites contained in the Stop Online Piracy Act. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and a critic of the SOPA, announced that he had canceled a Jan. 18 hearing on the impact the bill would have on the Internet's Domain Name System.
"I am confident that flawed legislation will not be taken up by this House," Issa said in a statement. "The voice of the Internet community has been heard. Much more education for members of Congress about the workings of the Internet is essential if anti-piracy legislation is to be workable and achieve broad appeal."
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SOPA undercuts Internet security, experts say; lawmakers float alternative
Issa is offering an alternative bill called the OPEN Act that would not include blocking provisions.
The Internet community made itself heard through a combination of grassroots protests and corporate activism that culminated Jan. 18 in an online "strike" in which thousands of sites, including heavy hitters such as Google.com and Wikipedia.org, either took themselves offline or offered protest messages on their sites.
In the Senate, Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), sponsor of the equally controversial Protect IP Act, has said critics of the bill are wrong and defended provisions that would require U.S. service providers and search engine operators to block access to offending sites.
Leahy's Senate Web site and those of other Senators were offline Jan. 18. A spokesman for the senator said the outage was caused by a problem with the Senate server and did not appear to be related to protests against PIPA.
The bills, which are supported by major content providers including the motion picture and music industries, are intended to protect them from overseas sites that sell pirated content or counterfeit goods online.
If an offending site is deemed a "rogue" with no legitimate activities, U.S. Internet service providers could be required to block access to them, search engines could not return links in query results, advertising companies could not serve up their online ads, and financial companies could not process online transactions.
Critics object that this would put an undue burden on U.S. companies and that Internet filtering and blocking amounts to censorship that could inhibit innovation. Blocking sites also would interfere with the operation of DNS Security Extensions, a set of cryptographic protocols intended to help secure the Internet's Domain Name System. Agencies have been mandated to implement DNSSEC in .gov domains and it is being introduced in other domains across the Internet.
The argument against SOPA and PIPA should not be couched in terms of whether or not intellectual property needs to be protected, said retired ambassador David Smith.
"What's right about SOPA and PIPA is the motivation," said Smith, now a senior fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies. "Clearly there is a problem in protecting IP. What's wrong is the way they go about it."
Rather than reaching out to deal with offending overseas sites outside of U.S. jurisdiction, the bills rely on domestic service providers for enforcement. "It is not going to work and the collateral damage that would be done is considerable," he said.
He did not question the motives of the bills' sponsors, although the bills have become caught up in adversarial politics. "This is a new technology and it is poorly understood" by many in Congress.
Now that critics have gotten the attention of Congress, legislators need to go back to the drawing board, Smith said. "This is not the time for one side to declare victory."
Protecting intellectual property rights globally will require protracted efforts with multiple international partners who have differing law enforcement systems and standards for protection. Creating a framework for IP protection will be difficult, but he said legislators should resist the temptation to take a shortcut with technically flawed legislation.
Smith called the online campaigns that halted the current legislation part of the evolution of American politics that dates back to the printing press and the invention of radio and television.
"It gives the potential for every citizen to be involved and make their feelings known," he said. It will not necessarily eliminate corporate lobbying or special interests, but "you are going to see more retail politics in America," which will not be a problem. "America does very well with retail politics."
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Wake up & smell the freedom people!!!what?? U can't smell it??gee...wonder why??? It can't be because of our wonderfully compassionate & understanding polititions (inject heavy dose of sarcasm here)....
I am dismayed at how many people phrase this argument as Anti-SOPA equals Pro-Piracy. It isn't an either-or debate. IP needs to be protected, that is why we have Copyright Laws. SOPA doesn't protect IP or Copyright. That may be an oversimplification of the issue, but it hits near enough to the heart of the matter for me. SOPA isn't going to Help and has a very high probability of doing more harm than good. Kill SOPA and try again with something that might actually work.
You know the music industry themselves have cheated the public for years and now they cry when the public is getting back there share. Like everything we could always boycott the music industry and see how many of those big money makers can continue singing without public support. They could be back in the soup lines just like the rest of America. Careful what you wish for cause it can come back and haunt you. Our freedom is being taken away slowly by this anti-this, anit-that people. Too many human rights activist and lobbyist in Washington. Congress and Senators should not be alowed to recieve any type of donations whether it be money or gifts, just like the rest of the goverment employees. That is the only way that you will get them working for the people, not for themselves. They should only get retirement for what they put in, not a lifetme retirement on "TAX" money. Wake up America or we are going to drown in our own sorrows.
Truth, what are you sayin?
Well, Truth, you didn't read the article much, did you? The protest isn't about wanting to allow piracy. It is about flawed bills that is the wrong way to crack down on piracy.
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OK guys, listen up. At this rather late stage in our life, we have come upon moments of total peace.
Now guys, before you skip ahead to the next item, stay with us and read on.
During a discussion with a close friend, the subject of facials came up. They're not for us, we murmured, we're a guy.
The next thing we knew there was a gift certificate in the mail for a special facial at the Cathryn Jamieson Salon. So, with much reluctance we called and made arrangements.
On a Saturday morning we arrived a little early for our 11:15 appointment and while waiting we took the opportunity to meet the person faced with the unenviable task of closely examining and possibly removing parts of our face.
She is Nessa (Christien) Ferreira from Switzerland who spoke only her native French before coming to the United States nine years ago to learn English. She planned to return to her homeland after a year and enter the tourist and travel business, which requires fluent English. She acquired her English by visits to the library and reading childrens' books, watching TV and listening to the radio. Today her speech has just a suggestion of her native French.
During the past nine years she has also taught herself Spanish and sign language in the same way.
Nessa's plans changed and she didn't return home after a year. She met and married Rich Ferreira who is a former member of the Jamestown Fire Department and owns a tobacco store on Broadway in Newport. They live in the city's old fifth ward.
Nessa graduated from the Warwick Beauty Academy and a little over a year ago, while working as a nanny in Jamestown, was walking down Narragansett Avenue and stopped in the salon to see if any work was available. She was hired on the spot.
Nessa is an esthetician. She does waxing, body treatments, make up, various types of facials and tinting. On that Saturday she had us scheduled for a deep cleansing essential facial.
When the big moment arrived, she took us back to where we used to get haircuts. The focal point of the room is an examining table covered with a heated blanket. We were told to strip to the waist and get under the blankets. Nessa was concerned with our comfort and asked about possible allergies, whether or not the blanket was too warm and if we have respiratory problems that might be aggravated by steam.
With our eyes covered with patches against the glare of the overhead lights she started by applying a dry skin cleansing followed by an exfoliant that felt like little beads rolling around on our skin. Next was a hot towel to open the pores and to ease the extractions. Then the extraction itself, the longest of any of the procedures.
Following that was a toner that Nessa said, "brought back the right 5.5 ph renewing the skin's glow and radiance." The entire session took a little more than an hour. Nothing was rushed. It seemed like only half that time.
The highlight of the procedure was the facial massage. It seemed as though Nessa's fingertips barely touched our face, as if they seemed to float gently above the surface just grazing the skin. It was a most unusual experience.
The last procedure was the mask. "This opens the pores again and takes the impurities out and helps hydrate the skin," she explained.
At that point in the session we were almost asleep. We had to leave the mask on for the final 12 minutes.
With the lights down and the muted sound of meditation music in the background it was total stress free time.
We asked Nessa how many of her facial clients are men? We were surprised when she answered 25 percent and added that most were businessmen looking to relax. "Many say it's better than a massage."
We drank to that with a glass of water given us to rehydrate our body and end the experience.
And what a great experience it was.
Many thanks to the islanders who recently sent in their donations to the Rocket Dawgz for the big blast on July 4.
They are Marion and Bill Sheehan of Cole Street; Ann Zartler of Juniper Circle; Mr. and Mrs. James Wright, Clinton Avenue; John and Teddy Leyon, Conanicus Avenue; David and Sharon Michael of Seaside Drive; Fred and Barbara Reif, Emerson Road; and the customers of McQuade's who dropped their change in the donation can.
Only seven weeks to go and we're way behind this time last year. Send us your money so we can blow it up. Send it to Fireworks Fund, Box 1776, Jamestown, 02835.
Justice has come to Jamestown.
Welcome to this 1 1/2-year-old male Pembroke Welsh corgi who is living with Leslie Vanbeuren on Pemberton Avenue. Justice flew here from a farm in Iowa.
If any new critters of any species have joined your family recently contact this column and we'll announce the arrival.
Kudos to islander Mary Rafferty who will receive the Dean's Medal for Excellence in the McLaren College of Business for 2007 when she graduates from the University of San Francisco Saturday.
A letter from Dean Mike Duffy explains that the medal is presented to the graduating senior who has best exemplified in academic accomplishments, extracurricular work and personal life, the values of the University of San Francisco in its mission and goals.
Mary grew up on the island. She is the daughter of Lisa and Jim Rafferty. "We are very proud of her," her mom said.
We had three responses to last week's poser. Patty Vandal, Bob Kinder and Barbara-Ann Mac Intosh all e-mailed the right lyrics.
"I know a little bit about a lot of things, but I don't know enough about you,
Just when I think you're mine you try a different line and baby what can I do,
I read the latest news , no buttons on my shoes, baby I'm confused about you,
You've got me in a spin and what a spin I'm in, cause I don't know enough about you.
Jack of all trades, master of none, isn't it a shame.........."
We remember it well.
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There's a lot of plain old common sense involved with protecting your pet from harm says Dr. Joshua Hatch of the Jamestown Animal Clinic in his Pet Tip of the Week.
"Some of the injuries we see every year are just unfortunate accidents like sprained joints or stepped on paws. However, other injuries are preventable if simple precautions are taken. You would never drive off without buckling your seat belt, yet many people do not invest in a simple harness or carrier to keep their pet buckled up and safe in case of an incident while driving. Many people let their pets off their leash while on walks.
"If you walk Fluffy at night, why not invest in a vest or leash and collar with reflective patches and make sure to carry a flashlight so motorists can easily see you and your pet and give you a wide berth on some of these narrow, poorly lit roads. Please, take the same precautions with your pets that you would take with other loved ones and reduce the chance of an avoidable accident occurring."
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The Classroom Presenter activity is loosely based on the UW Classroom Presenter application for Windows, and we would be very eager to talk with teachers who have used Classroom Presenter for Windows and who would like to try Classroom Presenter for the XO.
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Sophomore Kyle Vinales hit the game-winning jumper with under six seconds on the clock as the Central Connecticut men's basketball team topped Quinnipiac 67-65 on Monday night in New Britain. The win is the second straight for the Blue Devils, who are now 12-15 overall and 8-8 in Northeast Conference play.
The win gets the Blue Devils into the NEC Tournament for the 15th consecutive season, the longest active streak in the league. At 8-8 in league play the Blue Devils have locked up a place in the tournament with two games to play.
Quinnipiac falls to 14-14 overall and 10-6 in league play with the loss. They are in a three-way tie for third place with Wagner and LIU Brooklyn.
Sophomore Malcolm McMillan finished the game with 16 points, six rebounds and a pair of assists. He was 8-of-10 from the free-throw line.
Senior Joe Efese had 14 points and eight rebounds and was 7-of-10 from the field in the win. He also added a pair of blocks. Vinales ended the game with a game-high 17 points, including his game-winner.
Central trailed by two at the half, but pulled ahead by as many as six points with 4:02 on the clock in the second half. They went cold from the field, however, and the Bobcats rattled off a 12-3 run over the next 2:20 to take a 65-62 lead with 1:42 left in the game.
Central responded by scoring the final five points of the game. The first two came on a jump hook from Efese in the lane with 57 seconds left to cut the Bobcat lead to one. Quinnipiac missed a shot on the other end of the floor and then the Blue Devils had their chance.
Vinales dribbled out most of the shot clock and then pulled up from about 28 feet, draining his second three of the game, and his 12th points of the half. A late attempt from Quinnipiac's Evan Conti was short and the clock ran out.
Efese's big night saw him shoot 7-of-10 from the field and he is now 26-of-34 from the field in his last four games and is averaging 14.5 points per game over that stretch.
McMillan's 8-of-10 from the line is a career-best. As a team Central shot 15-of-18 from the line and had only nine turnovers. It's the third straight game with under 10 turnovers for the Blue Devils.
Junior Matt Hunter had seven points and eight rebounds in the win. He also had three assists and Vinales had five.
With his five assists on the night, Vinales becomes the first player in CCSU history to post two seasons with 500 points and 100 assists in a single season. He has 596 points this season and 104 assists. He is four points shy of becoming just the fourth player in school history to score 600 points in a single season.
Central has clinched a spot in the upcoming NEC Tournament next Wednesday night. They have two home games remaining this season, Thursday night vs. St. Francis University and Saturday vs. Robert Morris. Thursday night's game will be televised live on CPTV Sports and online at NECFrontRow.com.


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Wall Street mostly edged higher on Monday, with the S&P 500 on track for double-digit gains for the year, as politicians bargained for a deal to avert the "fiscal cliff."
Equities are coming off a five-day streak of losses, driven by the growing concern that there wouldn't be a deal before the midnight deadline to avoid the combination of tax hikes and spending cuts that could force the U.S. economy into recession.
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Taxes were set to rise for many Americans this week unless U.S. lawmakers could cut a last-minute deal, an outcome that was possible but seemed unlikely even as the Senate reconvened to continue discussions on the fiscal cliff.
The last trading session of the year is expected to be volatile on low volume and as investors keep a close eye on headlines out of Washington.
"As long as markets think there could be a deal, we should stay higher. Any agreement will be received positively, even if the final agreement is watered down," said David Katz, chief investment officer of Matrix Asset Advisors, in New York.
Despite recent declines over the stalemated budget talks, the S&P 500 is up about 11.8 percent for the year, compared with a nearly flat performance in 2011. The Dow is about 6 percent higher and the Nasdaq is up about 14 percent.
The Dow Jones industrial average was down 9.59 points, or 0.07 percent, at 12,928.52. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index was up 3.39 points, or 0.24 percent, at 1,405.82. The Nasdaq Composite Index was up 19.47 points, or 0.66 percent, at 2,979.78.
The Dow was nearly flat as consumer discretionary stocks, including McDonald's Corp and Coca-Cola Co , fell, while industrial names like Caterpillar Inc and General Electric rallied more than 1 percent.
Gains in Apple Inc , the most valuable U.S. company, helped lift the Nasdaq. The stock rose 2.6 percent to $522.71, lifting an S&P index of tech shares up 0.6 percent. For the year so far, Apple is up 29.1 percent.
"People are starting to position themselves for 2013, and people are buying Apple now rather than risk a higher tax rate on it next year," Katz said.
Despite the concerns about the impact that going over the fiscal cliff could have on the economy in 2013, investors may be ready to take on more risk next year, in hopes of a greater reward.
Utility stocks were the weakest sector of 2012, with the S&P utility index dropping 4.2 percent for the year.
Bank stocks rose after a New York Times report that U.S. regulators are nearing a $10 billion settlement with several banks that would end the government's efforts to hold lenders responsible for faulty foreclosure practices.
Bank of America Corp was up 0.7 percent at $11.44.
Financial stocks were among the strongest of the year, with the S&P financial index surging 24.5 percent for 2012 so far. Bank of America is the top-performing Dow component, with its stock price more than doubling over the past 12 months.
While midnight is the deadline for a fiscal deal, the government can pass legislation in 2013 that retroactively cancels or moderates the impact of going over the fiscal cliff.
Investors have remained relatively sanguine about the process, believing it will eventually be solved. In the past two months, markets have not shown the kind of volatility that occurred during the fight to raise the debt ceiling in 2011.
Rather, equities have largely performed well in the last two months, buoyed by signs of economic recovery, an improving housing market and monetary policy designed to stimulate growth and lower unemployment.
However, U.S. stocks dropped on Friday, with significant losses in the last minutes of trading, as prospects for a deal worsened at the beginning of the weekend.
On Sunday, President Barack Obama said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that investors could begin to show greater concerns in the new year.
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A feel-good day for athletes, and downtown
By MARK QUIRK
New Hampshire Union Leader
Vicki Hopkins of Concord hugs Pete Schiller of Freedom Sunday after both completed the Manchester Half Marathon race Sunday. Mark Bolton/Union Leader
A marathon isn't good for just the runners; it's also good for the community.
The Anthem Manchester City Marathon, Half Marathon and Relay were once again a big draw and despite some chilly temperatures for the start, people lined the barriers down Elm Street as the racers took off just before 9 a.m. Sunday. There were more than 1,700 runners and probably just as many people cheering them on.
"From my perspective, I think things went great," said race director Jayne Cornell. "There's just something about a race that brings out a lot of energy."
That energy was evident in the runners' village set up at Veterans Memorial Park, where volunteers handed out food and water and runners could even get a massage. Athletes met up with their families and celebrated their times, lots of which were personal records.
"The whole thing is hectic," said Bob Dolan, a member of the race's board of directors who was in charge of managing the runners' village. "But it all seems to come together."Andy Schachat of Announcers on the Run called out the names of runners as they crossed the finish line with the help of race VIP Kathrine Switzer. Race staff draped thermal blankets and medals over the racers as they finished.
Runners said there was also good support along the course, which meandered throughout both the East and West sides of the Queen City. The biggest crowd by most accounts was right around Livingston Park at miles 5 and 6.
"I couldn't see anybody, but I guess they saw me and they were yelling my name," said Matt LaBerge of Manchester. "It was a big pick-me-up."
And it also injected some business into the veins of downtown businesses.
Scott Sylvester, the co-owner of Runner's Alley on Bridge Street, said customers were packed into his store about 8 a.m. People in the store were shoulder to shoulder and there was a line of people waiting to get in.
"This is probably the biggest year we've had," Sylvester said.
At the Shaskeen on Elm Street, a group of people were huddled at the end of the bar talking about the race. One runner was finishing up a coffee to warm herself after running in the cool weather.
"Anything that the city does for the people is good," said Nate Sheridan, the bar's co-owner.
Down the street at JW Hill's Sports Bar & Grille, the doors opened at 11:30 a.m. There was already a good crowd just after noon, especially considering the Patriots weren't playing until after 4 p.m.
Of course the bar has a prime location, just yards away from the finish line.
"It's always had an impact on (our business)," said manager JB Smith. "We usually have people waiting when we open the doors at 11:30."


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We featured Professor Stephen Knott's preview of his new book, Rush To Judgment: George W. Bush, the War on Terror, and His Critics, in this post last March. University of California Berkeley law professor and former Justice Department official John Yoo – a man much-maligned in all the right places – reviews Professor Knott's new book in the just-released Summer issue of the Claremont Review of Books (subscribe here).
Recounting his own part in this drama, Yoo presents the life-and-death questions confronting the executive branch in the immediate aftermath of the terror attacks of 9/11: How to define an enemy that includes American citizens? How to find an enemy that eschews uniforms and blends seamlessly into the very cities they seek to destroy? How to take the fight to them when conventional laws of war never anticipated such a conflict? For their blindness to the difficulty of these questions and resort to partisan bellyaching, Yoo – and Knott – take the American historical profession to task:
Knott finds frustrating not only that academics give Bush little credit for protecting the homeland, but also that they remain openly and notoriously inconsistent in their criticism. Bush may have ordered the waterboarding of three al-Qaeda leaders, for which some presidential scholars believed the heavens would fall. Obama, by contrast, has used drones to kill hundreds of al-Qaeda leaders and sometimes innocent family members and bystanders—a greater deprivation of the human rights of many more people. Bush's academic critics raised nary a peep in protest. Scholars claimed that Guantanamo Bay amounted to some kind of legal black hole, rather than a prisoner-of-war camp over which military, not civilian, rules normally apply. Several of these critics have served in an administration that has kept Guantanamo open and continued a policy of detention without trial for enemy combatants. Even the dreaded signing statements, by which Bush allegedly circumvented the Constitution, have been resurrected by his successor. The faculty lounges, somehow, are not abuzz this time.
It should be expected that extraordinary executive authority will provoke outrage—its very nature upsets settled expectations and understandings. Vigorous presidents from George Washington to Jackson to Lincoln regularly encountered cries of tyranny for their exercise of the office's independent authority. The academy's role may even render such criticism part of a democracy's healthy feedback loop.
But Knott's disappointment in his colleagues verges on anger when they insist on having it both ways: behaving like partisan hacks, while speaking with the authority of disinterested scholars. Not only have they undermined the nation's ability to evaluate its policies and leaders and, ultimately, to better understand itself; these ward heelers with endowed chairs have also ruined their profession's claim to rationality and objectivity. The war begun on September 11, 2001, has claimed many casualties. The American historical profession is among the most grievous, only in the sense that it was the least necessary.
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Look no further than the Deluxe Edition of Sugarland's Love on the Inside for the roots of The Incredible Machine. On the earlier record, Kristian Bush and Jennifer Nettles placed a cover of the Dream Academy's "Life in a Northern Town," which was originally recorded during the '80s; and the '80s are the inspiration for the duo's fourth studio offering co-produced with Byron Gallimore. The steam-punk cover art notwithstanding, the melodies, harmonies, textures, and dynamics for most of the album's 11 tracks are rooted in music from the early MTV-era. The set begins with the anthemic "All We Are," with its church organ and synth intro that give way to clipped, compressed rockist guitar riffs and a chorus that was influenced by hair metal and OMD. The title track borrows heavily from U2's Joshua Tree period and Simple Minds post-New Gold Dream era. The drum tracks are big: heavy clean, snare, hi-hat, and kick drums permeate. While the composition and arrangements of most of these songs borrow heavily from another decade, the production doesn't. Other than the drums, most of the sounds here are processed right from Nashville's studio system. The album's first single, "Stuck Like Glue," liberally employs Auto-Tune, and features a near-rapped faux dancehall (as in reggae) break in the bridge; it's backed by contemporary country's requisite acoustic guitars, mandolins, and accordion are in the foreground with Nettles' voice. The other "country"-sounding track is "Little Miss." "Every Girl Like Me" channels a breakbeat snare, a stiff, funky bassline, and something that attempts a soul groove. "Find the Beat Again" and "Wide Open" are open nods toward new wave. Sugarland have always engaged their love of earlier rock and pop in their brand of contemporary country; just never so blatantly. The bottom line is that after selling more than four million records, Bush and Nettles are writing songs they hope will crossover to the larger pop market. The Incredible Machine is a collection of competent songs, held together by slick production. ~ Thom Jurek, Rovi


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City barbershop shooting leaves one man wounded, prompts search for 3 menBy PAT GROSSMITH
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November 30. 2012 7:46PM
MANCHESTER - A 40-year-old man sitting in a barber's chair getting a haircut was the intended target of a gunman who opened fire Thursday afternoon, wounding the man in the leg several times, according to police.
Ismael Barreto was treated for gunshot wounds Thursday evening at Elliot Hospital and later released, according to Manchester police Capt. Nick Willard.
Police believe two other men were in on the shooting, acting as lookouts for the gunman.
The shooting happened about 5:20 p.m. Thursday at Andrew's Barber Shop, 262 Main St. Police said there were three other customers and the barber were in the shop when a Hispanic man in his late 30s or early 40s, entered and sat down to the left of the front door.
A second Hispanic man then entered, but stood in the doorway - almost "blocking it," police said. He kept his right hand over his chest, as if he had a weapon inside his jacket.
Then the shooter, also described as a Hispanic man, walked in with his face down and his head covered with a hoodie. He opened fire with a semi-automatic handgun.
"At that time, the man pointed the firearm at the customer getting a haircut and proceeded to fire it numerous times with several of those shots striking the victim in the leg. The barber and the other customers dove for safety," Willard said.
The gunman and the two men who entered before him all fled the shop after the shooting.
Barreto, the other customers and the barber waited for police.
Willard said witnesses believe the three men acted together.
He said witnesses told investigators the first man, who didn't speak, sat down and was "looking around suspiciously" when the second man entered the shop. That man, described as "big" and "muscular" didn't say anything either as he stood near the doorway with his hand over his chest.
The "skinny" shooter in the over-sized clothes, however, spoke "perfect" English, the witnesses reported. Police did not disclose what the gunman said.
Willard said the shooting was not random and it was not a robbery because there was no demand for money or anything else.
He provided the following descriptions of all three:
The first man was in his late 30s or early 40s and wearing a black leather jacket.
The second man was in his 30s, over six feet tall and "big" and "muscular." He was wearing a long, light gray puffy jacket and a winter hat.
The shooter was in his 20s, about 5-foot-9, skinny, wearing "big clothes" and had a hoodie covering his head.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call police at 668-8711.


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Protesters and supporters converged on an Arizona mountain town Tuesday morning in anticipation of the arrival of dozens of undocumented immigrant children who were expected to come by the busload later in the day, in a scene reminiscent of clashes in Murrieta, California, earlier this month. According to a local sheriff, who cited two "whistleblowers" at the Department of Homeland Security, 40 to 60 kids were anticipated at Sycamore Canyon Academy, a boys camp in Oracle, near Tucson.
However, Rep. Raul Grijalva, a Democrat from Tucson, said Tuesday that his office received a message from the Department of Health and Human Services stating that the buses weren't coming Tuesday. By midafternoon, most of the protesters had left.
"My belief is that these unaccompanied juveniles should be put on planes and returned to their country of origin and reunited with their families."Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu told crowds gathered in Oracle, who had started to dwindle by Tuesday afternoon. The activists stood in separate areas, holding signs for and against welcoming the undocumented immigrants. "Bienvenidos," "Hola," read some of the supporters' signs, while protesters' signs said, "Stop dumping your illegals here." Sycamore Canyon Academy's executive director said on Monday the facility is not taking a position on the immigration debate.
Arizona Protester: 'What if just one of them is bad?'July 15, 201400:39
Sheriff: Unaccompanied Minors Present Public Safety ConcernJuly 15, 201400:52
Migrant Children Spark Protests in ArizonaJuly 15, 201401:45
- Arizona Residents Protest Arrival of Undocumented Immigrant Children
- Boehner: Border Bill Coming 'By the End of This Week"
- Murrieta Protesters and Supporters Clash, With No Buses in Sight
— Bob A. Richardson and Elizabeth Chuck
NBC News' Alex M. Johnson contributed to this report.


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As a Manning School of Business senior, Samir ElKamouny started developing an idea for a bicycle-sharing business that would make it easier for people to pedal around Lowell to classes, stores, work or appointments. A longtime cycling enthusiast, ElKamouny worked with another business student to research bicycle makers, explore different business models, investigate potential partners and plan out other details for the venture.
ElKamouny, who graduated in May 2012, honed his proposal with help from the Merrimack Valley Sandbox, an initiative founded two years ago by the Deshpande Foundation to foster entrepreneurship in the region.
ElKamouny participated in Sandbox pitch contests, got feedback from successful entrepreneurs and met business and civic leaders at Sandbox-sponsored events. The guidance he got and the networking contacts he made have helped him advance his plans. He is on course to launch the business, called Green Bikes of Lowell, next spring.
"I don't think it would be happening without the Sandbox," he says. "It's unbelievable the support we are getting."
Based at UMass Lowell's Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Wannalancit Mills, Sandbox partners also include Middlesex Community College, Merrimack College, Northern Essex Community College and several local community organizations and businesses.
According to Assoc. Vice Chancellor for Entrepreneurship and Economic Development Steven Tello, more than 40 UMass Lowell student teams have participated in the Sandbox Campus Catalyst program, which awards grants for students to test out their ideas and facilitates networking with successful business people. The budding student-entrepreneurs participating in the program represent a cross-section of majors including business, community health, engineering and psychology. They have developed concepts ranging from Lowell Sprouts (a locally harvested food program for elementary school children) to Five Senses (a virtual reality experience for individuals with disabilities).
"The Sandbox Campus Catalyst program provides funding and supportive mentoring that encourages our students to explore real-world problems and develop creative solutions for them," says Tello.
For ElKamouny, one of the useful aspects of the Sandbox program has been getting to know key people in Lowell with whom he needs to collaborate on the bike-share venture.
"I grew up on the South Shore and Cape Cod. The Sandbox has helped me establish my network in Lowell," he says.
ElKamouny and his original partner, Manning School of Business senior Peter Cote, won about $1,700 from business pitch competitions to fund early-stage business development. Cote has since left the venture but ElKamouny is moving ahead, having been accepted into the Sandbox Winter Accelerator program, which offers mentoring from established entrepreneurs, work space, networking events and workshops. The program will culminate in a competition for $25,000 in prizes for the winning businesses.
"Not all projects result in the formation of a start-up company, but the experience helps our students to better understand what is involved in translating ideas into action, and this is a very important lesson," Tello says.


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The Boston Globe's Chris Snow and Gordon Edes report former Boston Red Sox SP Paxton Crawford said in an interview in ESPN the Magazine that he used steroids beginning in minor league camp in 1999 and continued with the Red Sox in 2000 and 2001.
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