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Sat, Dec 01 2012 12:00 PM Posted By: Tom Basinski

In 1971 Chula Vista was a nice little town of around 70,000, a far cry from the 243,000 or so who reside here today. Violent crimes were few and far between. Working in Flint as a patrolman, I responded to my first homicide six days into the job. In Chula Vista, I don’t think I went to a shooting call for several years.

The late Lieutenant Hal King Sr. was forward thinking enough to know the peaceful days wouldn’t last forever. Even though we never had a violent situation involving a hostage, or a barricaded suspect, Lt. King knew it would happen eventually.

King and Sergeant (later Lieutenant) Jack Turner talked about forming a Special Weapons and Tactics team (SWAT). Turner was a former Marine and he thought that was a good idea. The late Sergeant (later Lieutenant) Dan Blackston became involved too. Blackston was a former Marine Corps Drill Instructor who carried over some of his Marine attitudes to the police department.

Always a stickler for detail, Lt. King put together a comprehensive plan for forming the SWAT team. King approached Bill Winters with his ideas. Chief Winters was always receptive to listening to new things. Because King’s plan was detailed enough (and didn’t cost anything for the moment anyway) Chief Winters agreed for the plan to proceed.
San Diego PD had a SWAT team and King tried to tap into their experience. For some reason, the counterparts at San Diego were cool to sharing information. That was sometimes the case in dealing with San Diego. It depended on whom you contacted. Some of their officers and command were excellent at sharing information and helping, and some had an elitist attitude that they were the big boys and everyone else was nothing. Apparently the elitist attitude was the case with San Diego’s SWAT commander in 1971.

Lt. King was no shrinking violet. He shrugged his shoulders, probably uttered an unprintable epithet, and went about forming Chula Vista’s SWAT team. The first order was to get bodies. Turner told me the process was “not very democratic.” Lt. King picked 15 officers and sergeants with whom he felt comfortable and asked them if they wanted to be charter members. Most agreed.

In today’s world the department would put out an announcement and interested parties would apply. King wanted people who would be cohesive and work together as a team, and follow orders. We were a small enough department that King knew everyone. The first contingent was made up of three teams. Later, when the television show “SWAT” starring Steve Forrest as Dan “Hondo” Harrelson came into being, everyone started calling Lt. King “Hondo.” He liked it.

The first training was held at Camp Pendleton with the cooperation of the Marines. Blackston and Turner were instrumental in getting this effort going. Some earlier training consisted of repelling from a tower, and later repelling at Otay dam. None of the team members had repelled before. Most didn’t care for the idea, but did it anyway. King himself had never repelled. The Marine instructor was screaming at the officers. Just before he went off the ledge King said, “You gotta die sometime.”

Over the years when the team learned of a local abandoned house that was slated for demolition, they would get permission to use it for training in arresting a barricaded suspect and practicing forcible entry.

The team was able to get .45 semi-automatic handguns to replace the six-shot revolvers, both for the number of available rounds and the extra stopping power. They also obtained the much more formidable MP-5s.

For one dollar the team purchased an old armored truck that was used for many years. As time went on, money was obtained through budget and grants to get more and better equipment. The initial SWAT team was only a shell of what was to come. But, it was a start.

Next week I write about the new and improved Chula Vista SWAT team.

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Converted Organics Inc. (NASDAQ: COIN) announced today that the Company received a re-order for its all-natural, organic fertilizers from Matosantos Commercial Corporation, the Company's exclusive distributor to Walmart (NYSE:WMT) in the Caribbean, which in January 2010 placed its initial order for Converted Organics' Lawn & Turf(TM) 8-1-4, Flower & Garden(TM) 4-1-8 and Indoor & Container(TM) 4-1-8 organic fertilizer products.

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U.S. Drillers Spike on Results

The pattern in the U.S. land drillers has been the same since October 2010 earnings season, when bears expected the pricing peak in the U.S. market to start to rear its ugly head. More heavily covered U.S. land drilling plays like Helmerich & Payne (BRNC) and Patterson-UTI (PTEN - Get Report) have followed the oil services chart straight up since last October.

An analyst who covers the U.S. drillers but not Bronco or Union specifically said that another point to consider in the strength of these stocks is that aside from deepwater-related stocks that tanked in the wake of Macondo, the U.S. land drillers were the subsector underperformer within the oil services sector in 2010.

"The story has been switched around and there is now greater confidence in the North American land drilling market, with continued strength in oil-directed activity," said the oil services analyst who couldn't be quoted in a story about stocks he does not specifically cover.

The analyst explained that concerns in 2010 focused on the natural gas market glut pushing rig counts in North America down and even as the oil rig count was expected to rise, it wouldn't be able to make up for the natural gas declines.

"People were expecting a flat market in 2011 but we are seeing continued growth, and the strength in the oil plays is outpacing the natural gas weakness," the analyst explained, adding that spending plans from drillers in 2011 have also added to the optimistic outlook.

The current unrest in Northern Africa and the Middle East has helped, too, pushing crude oil prices higher and driving up energy stocks, though at some point, the price of oil also will have the power to send energy stocks lower on fears of a global economic slowdown, especially with even the laggard U.S. land drilling stocks now testing 52-week high levels.

On Friday, oil was dominant again in market headlines, with the price of U.S. light sweet crude topping $104 and Brent crude back over $115.
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StarCite Inc., the leading provider of Web-based solutions to strategically manage corporate meetings and events, today announced the launch of StarCite Mobile Attendee , a groundbreaking new attendee management and communications tool for smartphones. StarCite will demonstrate its new Mobile Attendee solution in Booth #1205 at the upcoming annual convention of the Global Business Travel Association in Denver August 21-24, 2011.

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“Mobile apps can immensely improve the attendee experience and let planners instantly complete tasks that were once tedious and time-consuming, like making and sharing agenda or location changes,” said Connor Gray, Senior Vice President, Technology, StarCite. “StarCite Mobile Attendee will save time and resources while helping attendees have a more fulfilling meeting experience and driving better results for planners and companies.”

StarCite Mobile Attendee is compatible with a host of devices including iPhone, Blackberry and Android phones and will be available in fall 2011.

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Micro Power Receives UL 2054 Certification And CE Mark For IronWorks Iron-Phosphate Battery. (Photo: Business Wire)

Micro Power Electronics, Inc., a subsidiary of Electrochem Solutions, Inc. and the global leader in portable power solutions for mission-critical equipment, today announced UL 2054 Certification and CE Mark for the IronWorks ® battery, a patent-pending Iron-Phosphate battery solution, which serves as a drop-in replacement for Sealed Lead Acid (SLA) batteries.
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Manufacturers of mobile equipment can now achieve lighter weight, longer runtime and longer cycle life with the standard U1 format Lithium Iron-Phosphate battery. IronWorks is a 12 Volt, 44 Ah Lithium Iron-Phosphate battery with Smart Battery 1.1 compliant SMBus interface for delivering state-of-charge information. IronWorks provides equipment manufacturers with a drop-in replacement for Sealed Lead Acid (SLA) batteries, at a fraction of the weight and with exceptional cycle life.

UL 2054 is the safety standard for Household and Commercial Batteries. Compliance with this standard reduces the battery-related risk of fire or explosion during use, and reduces the risk of injury when batteries are removed from a product to be stored, transported, or discarded. The UL 2054 certification enables mobile equipment manufacturers to declare compliance with IEC 60601-1, the general safety and essential performance standard for medical electrical equipment, for their mobile or portable equipment.

“UL 2054 Certification confirms that Micro Power’s Lithium Iron-Phosphate battery provides the highest standard in product safety,” said Robin Tichy, Micro Power’s product manager for IronWorks. “IronWorks is one of the first Lithium Iron-Phosphate batteries to receive this esteemed certification.”

IronWorks also passed all tests and requirements to receive the CE Mark, which enables IronWorks to be sold in the European Community (EC). By qualifying IronWorks for the CE Mark, Micro Power ensures that IronWorks complies with all the requirements of the applicable EC directives.

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Best Buy Co Inc (BBY): Today's Featured Retail Winner

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Best Buy ( BBY) pushed the Retail industry higher today making it today's featured retail winner. The industry as a whole closed the day down 0.2%. By the end of trading, Best Buy rose $1.94 (15.9%) to $14.12 on heavy volume. Throughout the day, 43.9 million shares of Best Buy exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 7.4 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $13.70-$14.48 after having opened the day at $13.89 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $12.18. Other companies within the Retail industry that increased today were: J.C. Penney ( JCP), up 6.9%, Liquidity Service ( LQDT), up 5.1%, RadioShack ( RSH), up 4.7%, and Citi Trends ( CTRN), up 3.8%.
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TheStreet Ratings rates Best Buy as a sell. The company's weaknesses can be seen in multiple areas, such as its deteriorating net income, disappointing return on equity, poor profit margins, weak operating cash flow and generally high debt management risk.

On the negative front, Christopher & Banks Corporation ( CBK), down 6.8%, Cache ( CACH), down 6.1%, China Jo-Jo Drugstores ( CJJD), down 5.3%, and Shoe Carnival ( SCVL), down 4.9%, were all laggards within the retail industry with eBay ( EBAY) being today's retail industry laggard.

For investors not wanting singular stock exposure, ETFs may be of interest. Investors who are bullish on the retail industry could consider SPDR S&P Retail ETF ( XRT) while those bearish on the retail industry could consider ProShares Ultra Sht Consumer Goods ( SZK).

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Medtronic Inc. (MDT): Today's Featured Health Services Winner

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Medtronic ( MDT) pushed the Health Services industry higher today making it today's featured health services winner. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.6%. By the end of trading, Medtronic rose 52 cents (1.1%) to $45.78 on average volume. Throughout the day, four million shares of Medtronic exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 4.6 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $45.40-$46 after having opened the day at $45.50 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $45.26. Other companies within the Health Services industry that increased today were: Trius Therapeutics ( TSRX), up 11.9%, Spherix ( SPEX), up 11.3%, Vision-Sciences Inc (DE ( VSCI), up 9.5%, and ImmunoCellular Therapeutics ( IMUC), up 6.1%.
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Medtronic, Inc. manufactures and sells device-based medical therapies worldwide. Medtronic has a market cap of $45.74 billion and is part of the health care sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 14.6, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 10.3% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there are eight analysts that rate Medtronic a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 12 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Medtronic as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, growth in earnings per share, increase in net income, revenue growth and attractive valuation levels. Although no company is perfect, currently we do not see any significant weaknesses which are likely to detract from the generally positive outlook.

For investors not wanting singular stock exposure, ETFs may be of interest. Investors who are bullish on the health services industry could consider Health Care Select Sector SPDR ( XLV) while those bearish on the health services industry could consider ProShares Ultra Short Health Care ( RXD).

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4 Stocks Underperforming Today In The Insurance Industry

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Two out of the three major indices are trading up today with the Dow Jones Industrial Average ( ^DJI) trading up 15 points (0.1%) at 14,565 as of Thursday, April 4, 2013, 12:50 PM ET. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 1,512 issues advancing vs. 1,354 declining with 153 unchanged.

The Insurance industry currently is unchanged today versus the S&P 500, which is up 0.1%. A company within the industry that fell today was Aegon ( AEG), up 1.5%.

TheStreet Ratings group would like to highlight 4 stocks pushing the industry lower today:

4. Sun Life Financial ( SLF) is one of the companies pushing the Insurance industry lower today. As of noon trading, Sun Life Financial is down $0.43 (-1.6%) to $26.45 on average volume Thus far, 173,193 shares of Sun Life Financial exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 318,500 shares. The stock has ranged in price between $26.32-$27.01 after having opened the day at $26.89 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $26.88.

Sun Life Financial Inc., an international financial services organization, provides a range of protection and wealth accumulation products and services to individuals and corporate customers. Sun Life Financial has a market cap of $16.6 billion and is part of the financial sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 11.9, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 1.3% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there is 1 analyst that rates Sun Life Financial a buy, 2 analysts rate it a sell, and 6 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Sun Life Financial as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, compelling growth in net income, attractive valuation levels, impressive record of earnings per share growth and notable return on equity. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows weak operating cash flow. Get the full Sun Life Financial Ratings Report now.

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Xerox Reports Second-Quarter 2013 Earnings

Xerox (NYSE: XRX) announced today second-quarter 2013 adjusted EPS of 27 cents, which excludes 4 cents related to the amortization of intangibles. GAAP EPS from continuing operations was 23 cents. Revenue was $5.4 billion, up 1 percent.

Revenue from the company’s services business was up 5 percent, which includes 4 percent growth from business process outsourcing, 6 percent growth in document outsourcing and 13 percent growth from IT outsourcing. Services revenue represents 55 percent of Xerox’s total revenue.

“Through the breadth of our outsourcing services and innovative technology, today’s Xerox simplifies the way work gets done for organizations around the world,” said Ursula Burns, Xerox chairman and chief executive officer. “Our clients are increasingly expanding their partnerships with us to improve the effectiveness of their operations. As a result, the total contract value of services signings was up 40 percent in the second quarter, our pipeline grew 10 percent and our BPO and ITO contract renewal rate was 95 percent – strong indicators of a sound strategy that fuels the success of our business for the long term.”

Revenue from the company’s document technology business was down 5 percent year over year and improved sequentially from the first quarter of this year. The company benefitted from the full rollout of its ConnectKeyTM platform of printers and multifunction devices, expanded distribution through channel partners and increased demand for its digital production presses. During the quarter, Xerox signed and began installing its largest order ever for high-speed color presses, strengthening the company’s market leadership. Document technology revenue represents 42 percent of total revenue.

Second-quarter operating margin of 9.4 percent was up 2.0 points sequentially, down 0.5 points year over year. Gross margin was 31.4 percent. Selling, administrative and general expenses were 19.3 percent of revenue.

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MannKind Reports Positive Data From A Phase 3 Clinical Study Of AFREZZA In Patients With Type 1 Diabetes

The proportion of subjects achieving A1c target levels ≤7.0% or ≤6.5% at the end of the 24-week treatment period was less in the AFREZZA-Gen2 group than in the insulin aspart group; however, among patients who achieved A1c levels ≤7.0% and ≤6.5% at the end of the 24-week treatment period, the event rates for overall hypoglycemia (mild, moderate and severe) were all significantly lower in the AFREZZA-Gen2 group than in the insulin aspart group.

There was also a significant difference in weight outcomes. Patients in the AFREZZA-Gen2 group lost an average of 0.39 kg over the treatment period compared to an average gain of 0.93 kg in the insulin aspart group (p=0.0102).

The main safety objective of this study was to compare changes in FEV 1 (forced expiratory volume in one second) from randomization to week 24 between the AFREZZA-Gen2 and AFREZZA-MedTone groups. Over this period, there was an insignificant difference of 0.01 L in mean change in FEV 1 between the two AFREZZA groups (p=0.5364). Over the same 24-week treatment period, the decrease in FEV 1 seen in the AFREZZA-Gen2 group was slightly greater than that seen in the aspart group (0.03 L). After cessation of the treatment period, FEV 1 values in both AFREZZA groups increased, so that by the follow-up visit at week 28 there were virtually no differences in FEV 1 among the three treatment groups.

In general, treatment with AFREZZA was well-tolerated over 24 weeks by subjects with type 1 diabetes. The incidence of serious adverse events related to study drug was similar in the AFREZZA-Gen2 (2.3%), AFREZZA-MedTone (2.9%) and insulin aspart (1.8%) groups. There were no serious cardiovascular events reported in this study. The most common drug-related adverse event was cough, reported by 30.5% of AFREZZA-Gen2 patients, 20.8% of AFREZZA-MedTone patients and 0% of insulin aspart patients. Cough was predominantly dry, intermittent, and usually occurred within 10 minutes of inhalation. The incidence of cough was highest during the first week of the treatment period and diminished quickly thereafter. The discontinuation rate due to cough was low (AFREZZA-Gen2: 5.7%; AFREZZA-MedTone: 2.9%; insulin aspart: 0%).

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Jackson® Releases Investor Education Survey Highlighting Financial Perspectives Of Men And Women

Jackson National Life Insurance Company ® (Jackson), a leading provider of retirement solutions and educational resources for industry professionals and consumers, today released the results of the 2013 Jackson Investor Education Survey, a new study which gauged the opinions of pre-retirees (men and women investors between the ages of 45 and 65) with more than $200,000 in investable assets, on key topics relating to retirement, investing and financial education.

The survey, completed with the help of a third-party provider, polled more than 500 investors in this specific demographic on a variety of different topics focused on financial education. Results revealed that a surprisingly small number of responding investors, only 17.8 percent of men and 10.7 percent of women, said they felt they had the financial education needed to make important investing decisions. 1

Additional key findings from the 2013 Jackson Investor Education Survey include:
  • The top financial concern among 74 percent of women and nearly 76 percent of men respondents was “saving enough money for retirement.” 2
  • More than 42 percent of men and 55 percent of women who responded said they do not have enough financial knowledge to feel confident making investing decisions. 3 An additional 33.7 percent of women and nearly 40 percent of men who responded reported that while they have a solid level of knowledge about financial products, terms and methods, they would still benefit from professional advice to assist in making appropriate investing decisions. 4
  • Nearly half of the men (49.7 percent) who responded reported having “plenty of investing confidence,” compared to 35 percent of women. 5
  • The majority of those surveyed don’t believe Social Security will be a significant portion of their retirement income when they retire, with nearly 67 percent of men and 64 percent of women saying they think Social Security will be a small supplement to their retirement income, not a significant source of income. Even worse, more than 17 percent of women and nearly 14 percent of men who responded said Social Security would “not even be enough to purchase a pack of gum” when they retire. 6

Matt Gonring, vice president of corporate communications for Jackson, said that the identification of key constraints for investors in obtaining relevant financial education is an important first step in helping the financial services industry make a positive impact on investors’ confidence in years to come.

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Arizona State totaled 110.5 points, finishing behind second-place Boise State's 136.5 and champion Oregon State's 158.0

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Arizona State 2011-2012: Was one of the top freshman for the Sun Devils in his first season posting a record of 16-10 in the 184 pound weight class... Went up against nine ranked opponents throughout the season and had key victories over #18 ranked Max Thomusseit, #20 Matt Ryan of West Virginia, and #20 Erich Schmidtke of Oklahoma... Had five straight wins to close out the regular season... Advanced to the consolation finals in the PAC-12 Tournament before falling short of a win against Oregon State's Ty Vinson.

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Personal: Majoring in business... parents are Kevin and Sharon Radford... has two brothers: Jaron and Kenneth... born December 5, 1991, in Dayton, Ohio... hobbies include playing video games... has lived all over the world, including Japan, Germany and Turkey... full name is Kevin DeWayne Radford.

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Normally, I’d make fun of Taylor Swift for wearing bikinis from the 1950s, so I’m still going to do that but with the caveat that her body keeps looking more and more awesome even when dressed like the cast of Mad Men, so my penis would probably accept the following deal that Ed Sheeran apparently did. No one likes a hypocrite.

“So before I agree to a relationship, what do you bring to the table that constant sex with fans doesn’t?”
“I wear my grandmother’s swimsuits and don’t put out.”
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RIP, Jose Torres

BY Ron Borges ON January 20, 2009

Jose Torres could fight and he could write but most of all he could laugh. If you knew him well that is what drew you to him first.

The former light heavyweight champion passed away this week at 72 after suffering a heart attack at his home in Ponce, Puerto Rico, where he had returned to his island roots two years ago after an on-going battle with diabetes had begun to slow him down. It is difficult to think of Torres in that way for he was never slow, either in the ring where he was a quick-handed puncher and technically sound boxer or in a debate on almost any subject.

From the art of how to slip a punch and counter to the art of slippery politics in a great urban center like New York, where he grew up and grew famous first as a fighter and later as a writer and political operative in the Hispanic community, Jose Torres always had an opinion and a smile when he delivered it.

Fame first came to him in 1956 in Melbourne, Australia, where he won the silver medal at the Summer Olympics after having had only 25 amateur fights. Torres had joined the Army and there realized if he boxed there was much drudgery that could be avoided. Naturally gifted, Torres quickly took to the sport, reaching the gold medal round before being out pointed by one of the Olympics’ legendary champions, three-time told medalist Lazlo Papp of Hungary.

Torres would fight on as an amateur for two more years before making his professional debut on May 24, 1958, knocking out Gene Hamilton in Brooklyn. Trained by the legendary Cus D’Amato, who also handled future heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson at the time and later Mike Tyson, Torres didn’t lose a fight for five years, finally being stopped for the only time in his career by Florentino Fernandez in 1963.

That loss did not dissuade Torres, who came back to beat Don Fullmer, Skeeter McClure and Gomeo Brennan before stopping former middleweight champion Bobo Olson on Nov. 27, 1964 in one round. That knockout convinced the handlers of then light heavyweight champion Willie Pastrano to give Torres an opportunity he would turn into a landmark moment in boxing.

Torres desperately wanted that title shot but he told officials at Madison Square Garden he would not get into the ring unless the Puerto Rican national anthem was played along with the Star Spangled Banner. They agreed, making Torres a Hispanic cult hero around New York.

Lured to the Garden on March 30, 1965 by Torres’ popularity and drawing power, Pastrano ran into a 28-year-old opponent in the prime of his career. Torres battered Pastrano until he finally quit on his stool after the ninth round, making Torres the first Hispanic light heavyweight champion in history.

Instantly, Torres was a celebrity in New York, especially in Spanish Harlem. By then he had also become a cult hero to a group of New York writers led by novelists Norman Mailer and Budd Schulberg and newspaper columnists Pete Hamill and Jack Newfield. They loved him not simply for his acumen in the ring but also for his quick-witted personality, his celebrity and his growing array of interests outside the ring.

Yet D’Amato always believed Torres would have lasted far longer as a world champion had his focus been more narrow. In the end, Torres would hold the title for only 18 months, defending it three times including in the 1966 RING Magazine Fight of the Year, a 15-round decision over Eddie Cotton, But on Dec. 16, 1966, Torres dropped a disinterested decision to Dick Tiger and then lost a close, split decision to him again six months later.

“You could say Jose’s interests in staying a champion were compromised by the other interests he had,’’ recalled Teddy Atlas, who trained fighters under D’Amato and grew close to Torres over time. “He was a bright guy. A good writer. As those abilities got polished by Pete Hamill and Norman Mailer they began to draw Jose away from boxing a little bit.

“Cus always felt Jose expanding himself intellectually hurt him in the ring. Hurt him as a fighter because it took away the urgency to fight and it distracted him.

“Jose wrote a column for the New York Post and for El Diario (a large Spanish language newspaper in New York). He had an interest in politics and he hung around with writers more than fighters. That concerned Cus a little even though he loved his intelligence in the ring and out of it.

“After he was finished boxing Joe wrote two very good books (“Sting Like a Bee’’ and “Fire and Ice,’’ the latter an unauthorized 1987 biography of Tyson that seemed to capture him in all his ambiguity, contraction and fragility). But Cus felt Jose’s intellectual pursuits, his celebrity and his relationships with those kind of top writers made him aware of the things boxing can do to you that he should not be aware of to be a great fighter. The type of damage it could do to you.

“Unlike a lot of guys, Jose didn’t have blinkers on. He knew what the sport could do to you even if you were as talented as he was.’’

Torres’ second loss to Tiger in a 1966 rematch was a fight so close two judges had it 8 rounds to 7 for Tiger and the third saw it 8-7 for Torres. By then his interest in boxing was waning or perhaps it would be better say other interests were growing. Regardless, he would fight only twice more after the losses to Tiger, retiring at 32 after being dropped twice by a journeyman named Charley Green before he got up and KOd Green in the second round.

Clear in his mind that his best days in boxing were behind him but his best days in life were not, Torres quickly turned to the writers’ life. His biographies of Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson and his wealth of newspaper columns were as impressive to some as his work inside the ring. Same was true of his growing political power in the Spanish-speaking areas of New York.

Eventually he would serve as chairman of the New York State Athletic Commission from 1984-1988 and as a supervisor for the WBO but outside the ring perhaps his biggest moment came while serving as an aide to then New York City mayor David Dinkins in the 1990s. During a bruising campaign, Torres claimed Dinkins’ opponent, future New York mayor and presidential aspirant Rudy Guliani, appealed to the Ku Klux Klan element in New York.

It was the kind of hard-hitting comment you would have expected from Jose Torres, a guy who could fight, could write and most of all could think.

“Jose looked at things philosophically,’’ Atlas said. “He would look at things a little deeper than the average person. Cus loved the intellectual side of Jose even though he thought it maybe hurt his boxing career.

“He was a passionate guy who didn’t mind showing it. If he saw you he’d come up and hug you and have that big smile. You felt good to see him. And he was a fierce advocate for boxing, the positive sides of the sport and how it could save a kid if he bought into the discipline the sport demanded. He loved to delve into what a fighter had to deal with and he was one of the rare guys who could do it and also articulate it.’’

If ever there was a fistic renaissance man it was Jose “Chegui’’ Torres, fighter, writer and most definitely a citizen of the world and ambassador for a sport that could use one today. Boxing will miss him, but the world beyond it that Jose Torres became so fully engaged in will miss him just as much.

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At Research In Motion’s annual BlackBerry World conference, the troubled company uncorked the publicized BlackBerry 10 prototype and handed it out to developers in hopes of generating some apps for when the device is finally released later this year.

CEO Thorsten Heins unveiled the “BlackBerry 10 10 Dev Alpha testing device,” but RIM shares took a dip anyway and investors didn’t seem impressed.

The BlackBerry 10 devices are said to navigate with fewer keystrokes, with word suggestions and gestures moving things around. Heins demonstrated how various pieces of information, from emails to documents, could be moved around in and out from the edges of the screen. “It’s all about making things flow,” he said.

At RIM’s BlackBerry Jam conference, running this week in Orlando, the Waterloo company will be giving developers access to the BlackBerry 10 prototype. The device is based on the QNX operating system, which is compatible with a number of open source coding languages. RIM’s legacy operating system is set to become a thing of the past, which means that the company really is hedging its bets on BlackBerry 10 devices.

According to reports, RIM’s BlackBerry 10 developer device looks like a smaller PlayBook and has no physical keyboard. It has a “touch sensitive frame.” RIM says that the hardware of the consumer products set for launch will “bear little resemblance” to the prototype, however, so it’s probably not at all reasonable to judge the upcoming products based on the testing device.

“This device is all about getting developers off the ground and building on the platform,” Christopher Smith, RIM’s vice president of application platform tools, said in an interview via the Financial Post. “We are confident that the developers building on this platform will be able to take the work that they do and will be able to translate it to the launch devices as they hit, but it’s certainly not intended to be representative of the final hardware.”

RIM has taken a beating in the marketplace over the last while, dropping 70 percent over the last year. Tuesday, the company closed down 5.8 percent on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

“The bulls have disappeared from the scene as far as RIM is concerned,” said David Cockfield, managing director and portfolio manager at Northland Wealth Management. “There is no investor confidence in RIM at all. It will have to do something fairly spectacular to turn things around.”

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DNA samples from up to one million people who have not committed any crime will be retained – despite a government promise to bin them.

The Coalition have backtracked on proposals to get rid of all the records for innocent people and have instead pledged to keep them in ‘anonymised’ form.

However, it would still be possible for police forces to match the sample to individuals.

DNA samples are taken for everyone arrested in England and Wales and currently they are detained.

More than five million samples are currently held – including one million for people who have committed no crime. Under the reforms, if someone is not charged the sample will be scrapped unless it was a sex crime or violent offence.

The revelation has angered civil liberty groups after the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats pledged in their Coalition agreement to get rid of the samples.

James Brokenshire, a Home Office Minister, has told MPs that samples will be retained but will be ‘considered to have been deleted’, the Daily Telegraph revealed.

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Mr Brokenshire told MPs: ‘It is therefore theoretically possible that a laboratory could identify an individual’s profile from the barcode, but only in conjunction with the force which took the original sample, by giving details of the barcode of the force and asking for the individual’s name.’

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‘Despite paying lip service to freedom and civil liberties, this government is fast proving itself to be every bit as illiberal as its predecessor.’

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The newfound planet, called Kepler-186f, was first spotted by NASA's Kepler space telescope and circles a dim red dwarf star about 490 light-years from Earth. While the host star is dimmer than Earth's sun and the planet is slightly bigger than Earth, the positioning of the alien world coupled with its size suggests that Kepler-186f could have water on its surface, scientists say. You can learn more about the amazing alien planet find in a video produced by Space.com(see below).

"One of the things we've been looking for is maybe an Earth twin, which is an Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of a sunlike star," Tom Barclay, Kepler scientist and co-author of the new exoplanet research, told Space.com. "This [Kepler-186f] is an Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of a cooler star. So, while it's not an Earth twin, it is perhaps an Earth cousin. It has similar characteristics, but a different parent."

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There are two competing theories about germs and disease that have come through history.

The philosophy actually starts way back with Hippocrates and Galen and is really defined in the late 1800s by Louis Pasteur and Antoine Bechamp.

Pasteur said that germs cause disease, and Bechamp stated that germs live in a diseased terrain.

Lyme disease today is said to be caused by a bite of the tick and the patient getting infected by a germ called Borrelia.

Lyme disease has become totally epidemic now and is growing and spreading rapidly.

I have discovered that each patient that has a diagnosis of Lyme disease has a different set of symptoms, which does not fit the concept of the germ theory of disease. Upon taking the history of these patients, I discovered that many of them have had major surgery, usually within a year of diagnosis of Lyme disease. I, in my practice, look at the patient as if it were a eight-cylinder car built by God, and most of my Lyme disease cases were working only on four or five cylinders.

The greatest cause of loss of the cylinders was surgery. Cutting the body with a knife and throwing away the uterus or the gallbladder because it is not necessary have been major causes of the loss of three or four cylinders.

I also have a number of cases that were caused by vasectomies.

A man produces millions of sperm a day, and doing a vasectomy stops that up, and where do the sperm go?

I have found that the whole pelvic area becomes inflamed following things like vasectomies.

When I treat those areas using a concept called neural therapy, lo and behold, the inflammation disappears, and so does the so-called Lyme disease.

I have been studying the living blood for more than 30 years now, and I can follow the chronicity of disease by just studying the platelets. As we get acutely inflamed and ill, the platelets increase in size and number, and then as we get more chronically ill, they decrease in size and number.

Just by studying the platelets, I can tell how long and how ill the patient is.

That is very important because the law of biological medicine is to treat a person below his aggravation point.

Also in the live blood, there are number of things that are moving and living there that there is no name for in United States history, and that is because I am only the third American physician to look at the live blood in the past 100 years.

These little guys that are moving are called symprotites or “symbionts” by the French and the Germans.

They are the key to the immune system, and I can see if the immune system is over-reactive or running out of gas.

When I use my neural therapy, and my treatments are right, then the symbionts will change in number and become less active because my therapy is controlling the inflammation.

Also, when the activity changes because my treatments are right on the money, the physical body starts to work on more cylinders and now is less fatigued.

If I can take that eight-cylinder car that’s only working on four or five cylinders and make it work on seven or eight cylinders, then as a result, the Lyme disease dramatically disappears.

At the present time, I have cured a number of cases of Lyme disease, and modern medicine does not have a cure rate for that disease.

Just to give you my background, I am a trained medical doctor, and I was a trauma surgeon in Vietnam.

I gave up traditional medicine almost 40 years ago because I found that traditional medicine never cured a chronic disease but only suppressed it by using pharmaceutical medicine.

Pharmaceutical medicine not only suppressed symptoms but also has a number of “side” effects that were highly negative also.

I put quotes on side effects because side effects means things probably won’t happen. Yet, if I give you something to take orally, it will succeed on its primary goal, but there will be a lot of negative “direct” effects. You can look up my theories and philosophies on my website which is http://drbigelsen.com and that will tell you a lot about me and my work. For those of you who are frustrated with your Lyme disease, come to me, and I will figure out the real reason you are fatigued. Remember that I believe it is the terrain that is the problem and not the germ.

I will be giving a talk at the BriarPatch from 2 to 4 p.m. Feb. 23 on Lyme disease with questions and answers also.

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BEDFORD -- An Everett man is in custody and being treated for injuries after a crime spree that police say included a carjacking in Billerica, another carjacking in Concord, and an exchange of gunfire with police in Carlisle.

For a few minutes before the pursuit was ended by a state trooper who forced the suspect to crash in Bedford, state police were asking all local schools to delay dismissal until the suspect was in custody, according to police radio broadcasts.

The incident began early Monday morning in Haverhill, where police say Donald Hall, 28, of Everett, assaulted someone and carjacked a vehicle about 2 a.m., according to state police.

Hall then disappeared for several hours, until the vehicle, stolen from Haverhill, was found in Newton about 5:15 a.m., according to Jon Guilfoil, a spokesman working on behalf of police in Billerica, Bedford, Concord, Carlisle and Newton.

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Newton police said they spotted the Acura a short time later in West Newton Square, but police say Hall drove at two police officers who tried to stop him.

"At that time, the suspect is accused of aggressively driving toward the officer, causing him to draw his service weapon and fire. It is not known at this time if the suspect was struck," Guilfoil wrote in a prepared statement.

Hall drove around that officer and soon struck three vehicles, injuring an occupant in one vehicle, according to police. Police lost track of Hall as he fled.

It was about a half-hour later when the crime spree made its first mark in the Greater Lowell area.

Hall ditched the vehicle he stole from Newton and carjacked a Toyota Tundra pickup from 240 Nashua Road in Billerica before fleeing into Carlisle, according to police.

When police began chasing Hall, he opened fire on officers, first in the area of 915 Concord St. in Carlisle, and then again a couple blocks later in the area of 1140 Concord St., according to police. Police returned fire, according to Guilfoil. No officers were injured.

After crossing into Concord, Hall ditched the Toyota Tundra and carjacked a Ford Flex from the parking lot of a pharmacy at 91 Lowell Road, according to police.

Hall then drove toward Hanscom Air Force Base, making a quick U-Turn not far from the base's gate, and then he continued into Bedford with police in pursuit.

Bedford police were waiting at their town line with spiked strips that flattened the tires on the Ford Flex, and a short time later a state-police commander authorized troopers to cause the suspect's vehicle to crash, according to police-radio broadcasts.

Using a maneuver known as a "precision immobilization technique," which police train for but rarely use, a state trooper caused Hall to lose control of the Ford and crash into a utility pole and then a tree on Spring Road in Bedford, according to police.

State police arrested Hall at gunpoint and sent him for immediate treatment of serious but non life-threatening injuries at Lahey Clinic in Burlington. Police say they recovered a gun in the vehicle after Hall was arrested.

"This suspect clearly showed that he was willing to harm police and innocent people today, and the excellent work of all the police officers involved today ensured that neither of those scenarios came to pass," said Concord Police Chief William Chase.

Police said they are working with the Middlesex District Attorney's Office to sort out what charges Hall will face and in which jurisdictions. Prosecutors have yet to determine when and where Hall will be arraigned.

A spokesman for District Attorney Marian Ryan said she has comment until Hall is scheduled for arraignment.

"I'm proud of the actions of all the officers involved in the successful apprehension of an armed and dangerous suspect, and we are grateful that no one was hurt as this suspect tore through our community," said Billerica Deputy Chief Roy Frost.

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Genre: Furry
Date Added: 10 August 2009
Last Update: 25 May 2014
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Current Comic Ranking: 1063/23994
Views This Month: 722   (More...)
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"I woke up in a strange cell, naked, with people I know nothing about.
I don't know how I got there or why.
There's a monster in my hand.
I want to go home..."
-- Marianne

Current synopsis by: EthanQix
Current image by: EthanQix

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