Marcella Calderon, member of political dynasty and wife of Tom Calderon, dies of cancer

Jan. 02, 2012 by Ben Baeder

Marcella Calderon, a Montebello Unifed School Board member and part of a powerful political clan, has died from cancer, her family said Monday.

Marcella? s husband, Tom Calderon, released a statement:

?Last night, my wife Marcella Calderon passed away after a long and courageous battle with cancer,? he wrote. ?Marcella will be remembered as a committed community leader, relentless advocate for education, and a loving wife and mother. Our family would like to thank everyone for their prayers and well wishes. We are making arrangements for a public celebration of life to be held next week. Details will be forthcoming.?

Tom Calderon is running for the 58th Assembly District against Downey Councilman Luis Marquez.

Here?s some biographical information from a statement provided by the family:

Marcella Calderon was a product of the Montebello Unified School District and had been an active leader in local and state politics for over two decades. In 1986, along with her husband, former Assemblymember Thomas M. Calderon, she established Calderon & Associates, a Public and Governmental Relations firm credited with successfully electing over 75 local and state officials from throughout Southern California along with advocating on a number of complex local, state and national policy issues.

Marcella Calderon, was the first Latina to serve as Montebello Unified School District Board President, and had been active in our children?s schools for many years. As a parent volunteer, she played an integral part in helping obtain the largest school bond measure in the district?s history, generating millions of dollars for our kids and schools. As a Board Member, she was committed and dedicated to raising student achievement and making sure the School District continues to be fiscally solvent and accountable to the tax-payers of our community. During her tenure as a Board of Education Member, Calderon helped move the District forward towards excellent student performance.

Marcella Calderon lived in Montebello and is survived by her husband, Tom, and their two children, Cameron and Victoria.

Source: http://downeybeat.com/2012/01/marcella-calderon-member-of-political-dynasty-and-wife-of-tom-calderon-dies-of-cancer-48536/

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Invasive Species New Threats to California?s Ecology

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Four new non-native aquatic species have taken up residence in San Francisco Bay, according to a new report published by the Department of Fish and Game (DFG). The 2011 Invasive Species Report includes the first records of the appearance in the San Francisco Bay of four species previously found only in other parts of the coast. These organisms include:

? Caprella simia, a Caprellid, or ?skeleton? shrimp, which was first discovered in California?s Long Beach Harbor in 2000. C. simia is a Japanese species, probably introduced by fouling or ballast water and considered likely to spread north. It is now widespread in San Francisco Bay.
? Nicolea sp. A Harris, an undescribed polychaete worm, was first found in California in 2000 in San Diego Bay and Los Angeles/Long Beach Harbor. Possible vectors include ballast water and fouling on ships or recreational boats.

? Grateloupia lanceolata, a red alga native to Japan and Korea, has been found for the first time in the Port of Oakland and in Richardson Bay. This species was previously found at Santa Catalina Island, Port Hueneme and Moss Landing. It has been working its way up the coast.
? The collection of Amphibalanus eburneus (ivory barnacle) from Richmond and San Francisco marinas confirmed new distribution records for the San Francisco Bay. Although one specimen had been collected from a ship?s hull around 1938, no other occurrences were documented in the Bay during the intervening time. More recent California observations of this North Atlantic native had been limited to Colorado Lagoon (Long Beach) and Huntington Harbor.

DFG?s Marine Invasive Species Program (MISP) conducts biological surveys to monitor California coastal and estuarine waters to determine the level of invasion by non-native aquatic species (NAS). The triennial report covers July 2008 through June 2011 and describes results of field surveys for NAS in the San Francisco Bay Area, as part of long-term monitoring efforts of its ports, harbors, estuaries and the outer coast.

MISP, housed in DFG?s Office of Spill Prevention and Response, employs a variety of programs with partners to gather report data. Programs include:

? A survey of 50 sites in 2010 and molecular analysis of NAS in the Bay
? A two-year pilot program to detect NAS using a ?next-generation? sequencing process to analyze the DNA extracted from samples collected from artificial settling plates
? A collaborative study with Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) to examine the transfer mechanisms (vectors) likely responsible for marine introductions to the state
? An MISP-funded genetic study of the difficult-to-identify ?Breadcrumb? sponges by Moss Landing Marine Laboratories Genomics Lab.

MISP monitors coastal and estuarine waters of California for new introductions of NAS that could have been transported into state waters in ballast or as hull-fouling. Research with SERC shows that of the 290 NAS (excluding fish and vascular plants) with established populations in western North America, 81 percent were first recorded in California. Of the 257 NAS established in California, 61 percent were first recorded in San Francisco Bay and 57 percent are known from multiple estuaries, suggesting secondary spread. Ballast water and hulls of ocean-going ships remain the primary mechanisms responsible for bringing species to California in recent years.

NAS affect the structure and function of ecosystems through declines of native and commercial fisheries, parasite interactions with native species and humans, and physical habitat alteration. Non-native species can compete with native species; approximately 42 percent of the species on the federal threatened or endangered species lists are at risk primarily because of predation, parasitism and competition from non-native species. Approximately 40 percent of the species forced to extinction in aquatic ecosystems are due to biological invaders.

Find the report can be found at https://nrmsecure.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=40420 and the appendix is located at https://nrmsecure.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=40422.

The data from the monitoring efforts can be viewed at http://www.dfg.ca.gov/ospr/Science/invasive_species.aspx.

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Stopping Time

Using a stroboscope to generate extremely brief bursts of light, Massachusetts Institute of Technology electrical engineering professor Harold Edgerton photographed this splash made by a drop of milk in 1957. Edgerton?s stop-action pictures, created as scientific experiments, made it possible to observe movements and interactions too fast to be seen by the human eye. By studying the milk-drop images, Edgerton learned, for example, that the shape of the coronet was determined by the size of the drop, the height from which it fell, and the thickness of the film of milk on the surface from a previous drop.

Image: Harold Edgerton/Photo Researchers, Inc.

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Android Remains Top Mobile Platform in the U.S. (NewsFactor)

Web metrics firm comScore reports that 234 million Americans above the age of 13 were using mobile devices during the three months prior to Thanksgiving. The Web metrics firm's new survey of more than 30,000 U.S. mobile subscribers also demonstrates that Google's Android remained ahead in the mobile OS platform race with a 46.9 percent market share.

In the U.S. mobile handset market overall, Samsung was the top device maker with a 25.6 percent share. Second-place LG achieved a 20.5 percent share, and Motorola Mobility came in third with a 13.7 percent share.

Apple's share of the market overall rose from 9.8 percent in August to 11.2 percent in November, driven by pent-up demand for the iconic device maker's new iPhone 4S. By contrast, Research In Motion's BlackBerry sales slipped from 7.1 percent in August to 6.5 percent in November.

During the three months through Nov. 24, 72.6 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers used text messaging on their mobile devices -- a rise of 2.1 percentage points from last August, comScore reports. And 44.9 percent of all U.S. mobile subscribers downloaded applications during the latest survey period -- up 3.3 percentage points.

Smartphone Ownership Climbs

According to comScore, 91.4 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones at the end of the firm's latest three-month survey period. Smartphone ownership rose by a robust 8 percent between August and November.

Android's share of the smartphone market segment rose 3.1 percentage points between August and November. Though Apple's iOS remained in second place with a 28.7 percent share, the platform's 1.4 percentage point rise did not keep pace with Android's steeper growth trajectory.

RIM ranked third in comScore's latest survey with a 16.6 percent share -- down 3.1 percentage points from August. Microsoft's Windows Phone platform also lost one-half of a percentage point during the same period.

Though Microsoft's new Mango release hit the U.S. market during the survey period, the Windows Phone platform trailed behind the market leaders with a 5.2 percent share. Additionally, Nokia's Symbian platforms still held on to a 1.5 percent smartphone market share.

Mobile Browsing Growth

The number of handset users accessing social-networking sites or blogs on their devices grew 2.1 percentage points to 33 percent of all U.S. mobile subscribers, comScore said. Moreover, 29.7 percent reported mobile gaming activities, while 21.7 percent said they listened to music on their handsets.

On the browser front, comScore said 44.4 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers were surfing the Internet on their handsets -- up 2.3 percentage points since August. According to Net Applications, Apple's Safari mobile browser for smartphones and tablets led the field with a 55 percent share at the end of November, while Android's browser ranked third (16.4 percent) behind the Opera Mini mobile browser (20.1 percent).

More than 80 percent of U.S. mobile users 18 to 22 years of age access the Internet outside the home, with 67 percent using the mobile Internet at least monthly, Forrester Research reported last month. Still, U.S. adults 23 to 31 years of age have the highest uptake of smartphones and are most likely to use the mobile Internet on their mobile device.

"They use their mobiles for a wide range of activities, from playing games and listening to music to looking up directions," wrote Forrester Research analyst Gina Sverdlov in a blog post. "Two in three online 'Gen Yers' fall into our SuperConnecteds Mobile Technographics segment."

By contrast, only 33 percent of U.S. residents between the ages of 46 and 55 own a smartphone. Additionally, only 20 percent of Americans 56 to 66 years of age use the mobile Internet regularly, Sverdlov noted.

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Stocks end Thursday trading with healthy gains

By msnbc.com staff and wire

Stocks, already posting gains earlier in the day assisted by positive employment and housing news, pushed steadily higher in late-afternoon trading to finish with tidy gains.

According to preliminary calculations, noon on Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial average ended up 135.55 or 1.12 percent, to 12,286.96. The S&P 500 was 13.31 higher, or 1.07 percent, to 1,262.97. The Nasdaq rose 23.76, or 0.92 percent, to 2,613.74.

The Labor Department said?seasonally adjusted initial claims rose 15,000 to 381,000 in the week that ended Dec. 24, up from a revised 366,000 the prior week. But the four-week moving average, considered a more accurate gauge of labor market trends, fell 5,750 to 375,000.

Pending sales of existing homes surged to a 1-1/2 year high in November, an industry group said on Thursday, offering more signs of a tentative recovery in the housing market.

The National Association of Realtors' Pending Home Sales Index, based on contracts signed in November, increased 7.3 percent to 100.1 ? the highest level since April 2010.

Economists polled by Reuters had expected pending sales to rise only 2 percent. Pending sales lead existing home sales by a month or two. Recent data on home sales and construction have been fairly upbeat, suggesting an improvement in the sector, but prices continue to trend lower.

Rising Italian bond yields may be checking stocks? gains.

Italian yields fell from recent record highs at a short-term debt auction, but yields for 10-year paper remained near 7 percent, a level near where other euro zone governments have been forced to seek bailouts.

"The only thing impacting trading right now is Europe. Everyone is watching Italy," said Wayne Kaufman, chief market analyst at John Thomas Financial in New York. "It's the situation that won't go away."

Concerns over the euro zone sovereign debt crisis, which had receded recently, resurfaced Wednesday, sparking a 1 percent decline in major indexes. S&P 500 gains for the year were erased and the index pulled back below its 200-day moving average.

The selloff followed the euro's slide to an 11-month low against the U.S. dollar, prompted by worries over the debt crisis. On Thursday, the euro sank to its lowest since September 2010 against the dollar while the European Central Bank moved to support Italian bond markets.

"It's encouraging to see that yields have come in a bit, but it isn't indicative of a complete easing of the crisis in Europe," said David Katz, principal in charge of Weiser Capital Management's asset management division in New York.

"In a normal environment this would be having a bigger impact, but with volume so low I don't expect a lot to happen (in equity markets) until the end of the year."

Recent economic data, including reports on the housing market, have been largely positive, contributing to Wall Street gains over the past month and the view that economic growth is picking up steam.

Before Wednesday's selloff, the S&P had risen for five straight sessions, and some traders saw the index as overbought. Many investors were not expected to make large bets until after the New Year, and trading volume has been low because of the holidays.

U.S. stocks fell more than 1 percent on Wednesday putting the brakes on a hefty year-end rally. With the decline the S&P is now down 0.6 percent for the year, while the Nasdaq is down 2.4 percent. The Dow is up 5 percent.

Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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