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Here is the latest San Joaquin Valley news from The Associated Pres
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) - A 20-year-old Bakersfield man is facing charges after police say he fired a gun at bouncers when he was asked to leave a bar. Officers arrested Jesus Murillo early yesterday morning on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon. Police say he pulled a gun and fired at three bouncers when he was asked to leave. No one was hit by the gunfire. The bouncers subdued Murillo until police arrived. BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) - Kern County supervisors will consider a proposal to increase by thousands of dollars a contract with an accounting firm that audits county departments. Supervisors are considering calling for an audit of all county departments every two years. They are also pressing for a backlog of department audits to be caught up by the end of June. During their meeting tomorrow, supervisors will consider increasing by nearly $175,000 a side contract with Brown Armstrong accountancy to help county staff complete the work.
The Chanifesto: TV takes Giants only so far
No spying needed for the Patriots to game plan for the Super Bowl. They just need to watch late-night cable TV. The past two Giants games have somehow been predicted in movies, with their victory over the Cowboys drawing remarkable similarities to the 1994 children's movie "Little Giants," and Eddie Murphy predicting the Giants' NFC championship over the Packers in the 1988 movie "Coming to America." Maybe there's even a prediction for the Super Bowl somewhere in TV land. "Little Giants" may be a movie about peewee football, but it really could have been a junior-sized version of the Giants-Cowboys playoff game. The Giants were heavy underdogs going up against the best players around — the Cowboys. The scores are similar: a 28-21 Giants win in the movie and a 21-17 final in real life.
Crisis? Only because the BCCI chose to make it one
Provided Steve Bucknor is allowed the dignified retirement he wants and deserves, at a time of his own choosing, the frequently villified ICC may be said to have come rather well out of the affair of Harbhajan Singh and Andrew Symonds. I am not sure that the same is true of the BCCI, whose muscles were flexed somewhat indecently throughout. One understands, of course, the particular sensitivity of matters pertaining to race, but either the BCCI, like all other national representative bodies, accepts the rules of the ICC and, in this case, the procedures that everyone has agreed, whatever the outcome, or there is potential anarchy. The row that erupted at Sydney when some of the Australian players accused Harbhajan of calling Symonds a 'monkey' was only a crisis so long as the BCCI chose to make it so.
Battling book fairs try to reach an accord
For the last two years, one of the brightest spots on the literary calendar has been the Brooklyn Book Festival, a bustling affair held in September at Brooklyn Borough Hall. One could attend appearances by Brooklyn writers like Colson Whitehead, Paula Fox, and Joshua Ferris or purchase books from the myriad small publishersUgly Duckling Presse, Hotel St. Georgethat have found refuge in this most literary of boroughs. Earlier this year, New York Is Book Country, a similar showcase of writers and publishers usually held in Midtown, announced its return after a three-year absence. This should have been welcome news, especially in the face of depressing statistics about declining reading audiences. But BBF organizers were astounded when NYIBC moved its next festival from their originally announced July date to September 14, so that the two festivals would fall on the same weekend.
Toe to Toe: Hodes versus Schmidley (Hodes)
Make no mistake, Johan Santana to the Mets is a huge deal. Epic, in fact. But does it make the Mets New York's team? Not even close. The Yankees are still tops in New York, and one pitcher, no matter how great, cannot do anything to change that. Historically, the comparisons scarcely need to be made. Then again, why not have some fun. World Series Titles: 26-2. Pennants: 39-4. Division Titles: 15-2. Need I go on? The Yankees are the most successful franchise in the history of professional sports. The Mets? Eh, not so much. Still, this isn't a historical debate -- it's an exercise in who will be the "it" team in New York in 2008. Article continues on TheDartmouth.com at: http://thedartmouth.com/2008/02/11/sports/hodes/ ?> .
Tim Goodman
The Writers Guild of America may find out very soon that even if its members "won," they also lost. And even viewers who have managed to get through the writers strike with a minimum of entertainment interruptus will likely feel the fallout as well. Why? Because change is coming. And for the next year, it probably won't be good for writers or viewers. Even with Writers Guild of America members starting to return to work today the landscape for both this season and next is irrevocably altered. Sources within the industry say there's no rule book on how networks will get back to business - nothing that can be predicted accurately because studios and networks will make decisions independent of each other and strategies for series will vary. But here's what's likely: -- Several writers will probably get pink slips.
Keep Father Time From Marching On: New Laser Treatments Offer Gentle And Effective Skin Resurfacing In A Flash
For most people, the significant downtime involved in undergoing an invasive laser resurfacing procedure to reverse the obvious signs of aging skin is not realistic given today's busy, deadline-driven lifestyle. Now, a number of new minimally invasive laser skin resurfacing technologies are delivering noticeable improvements for people looking to freshen up their look without spending weeks under wraps, as is common with their invasive counterparts.
Speaking at the 66th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology (Academy), dermatologist Jeffrey S. Dover, MD, FAAD, associate clinical professor of dermatology at Yale University Medical School in New Haven, Conn., shared his professional experience with three of the newer laser skin resurfacing procedures being used to treat fine lines, wrinkles, photodamage and uneven skin pigmentation.
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