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Monday, January 17, 2011 – Daily News – 7A SEWER Continued from page 1A on creating an assessment district before the project is implemented. By law, the sewer authority does not have the power to levy the assessment or impose it on property owners without their approval, Nichols said. The supervisors will meet 10 a.m. in board chambers at 727 Oak St. The council will meet 7 p.m. at City Hall, 555 Wash- ington St. ——— Tang Lor can be reached at 527-2153, Ext.110 or by e-mail at tlor@redbluffdailynews.com. ART Continued from page 1A Some of his vast accomplishments include time as a digital sound musician and an assistant art curator. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Suffolk Uni- versity at Beacon Hill in Boston. "Being a portrait painter has been a chal- lenge for me these last few decades, growing up," he wrote in a recent email. "I'm trying to find good support and returning to my roots." His mother was a nun in the Cistercian order before Fabbri was born, he said. His father was also a distant cousin to Father Bernard. In coming to the abbey, he found many connections. Fabbri’s pencil draw- ings of Thomas Merton and William Randolph Hearst are on display in the New Clairvaux Vine- yard’s wine tasting room. Merton, a source of inspi- ration for Fabbri, is quoted in a large panel on the opposite wall of the room. "In a world of noise, confusion, and conflict it is necessary that there be a place of silence, inner dis- cipline and peace," it reads. Fabbri hopes that what people will remember most about his work at the abbey are the abbots' smiles, he said. Andrea Wagner can be reached at 527-2153, extension 114 or awagner@redbluffdailyne ws.com. Sargent Shriver hospitalized in DC BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — A medical center spokes- woman says former Peace Corps director and vice- presidential nominee R. Sargent Shriver has been hos- pitalized outside Washington. Ronna Borenstein of Suburban Hospital in Bethesda said Sunday evening that she could not comment on the 95-year-old Shriver’s condition or say when he was admitted. Shriver announced in 2003 that he had Alzheimer’s disease. He served as the first Peace Corps director in the administration of his brother-in-law, President John Kennedy. He also was Democrat George McGovern’s running mate in 1972. Shriver’s wife and Special Olympics Founder Eunice Kennedy Shriver died in 2009 at age 88. He is the father-in-law of former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is married to former NBC reporter Maria Shriver. KING Continued from page 1A Arizona, but this is hap- pening to people all over the world every day in one form or another.’’ Many use the King hol- iday to celebrate King’s life and struggle for human rights. Some choose to honor King by following the Baptist preacher’s example of ser- vice to their fellow man. For others, the holiday is equal to Presidents’ or Columbus Day: Just an excuse for a long week- end, to take a short vaca- tion or do nothing. Martin Luther King III, head of The King Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, said the Arizona tragedy is a grim reminder that the country has not yet achieved his father’s dream of a peaceful soci- ety. ‘‘When incidents occur like what we saw in Ari- zona, it shows us how much work we must do to create the kind of nation where nonviolence is embraced,’’ King said. A national remem- brance of the civil rights icon is an opportunity for the country to renew its commitment to King’s cause. Absent that, it’s unclear how his legacy would be remembered, said Rice University histo- ry professor Douglas Brinkley. ‘‘The holiday brought the freedom struggle into the main narrative,’’ Brinkley said. ‘‘The day is meant to be a moment of reflection against racism, poverty and war. It’s not just an African-American holiday. The idea of that day is to try to understand the experience of people who had to overcome racism but in the end are part and parcel of the American quilt.’’ An AP-GfK poll shows that Barack Obama’s term as the nation’s first black president has not shifted views on the nation’s progress toward King’s dream of racial equality. According to the poll, 77 percent feel there has been significant progress toward King’s dream — about the same percentage as found by a 2006 AP- Ipsos poll (75 percent). Overall, 30 percent interviewed for the AP- GfK poll say they will do something to commemo- rate the King holiday this year, up from 23 percent in 2006. About three in four respondents said King is deserving of a national holiday. King, who was born Jan. 15, 1929, was killed at age 39. He has now been dead longer than he lived, and each commem- oration adds more distance between his generation and those who came after and directly benefited from his life’s work. ‘‘The struggle that the holiday itself has is to not just be a day off,’’ Brink- ley said. ‘‘We have trouble with that. We have to con- Cancer survivor aims to raze barriers with app SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In the selves. late 1990s, Marty Tenenbaum was a hotshot e-commerce entrepreneur rid- ing high on the dot-com boom when he noticed a lump on his body. His doctor told him it was nothing, but when he finally had it removed, he learned he had melanoma, the dead- liest form of skin cancer. He beat the disease, but he never got over the sense of frustration he felt as he clawed his way through the maze of treatment options, clinical trials and research in search of a way to survive. Now 67, Tenenbaum still believes he would not have made it if he hadn’t had personal connections at the National Cancer Institute who guided him toward cutting-edge experimental treatments that saved his life. The experience convinced him that the key to advancing cancer treatment and research is forging connections on as large a scale as possible. On Tues- day, he plans to launch a Web applica- tion to bring together patients, physi- cians and scientists regardless of where they work, live or went to col- lege in hopes that the so-called wis- dom of the crowd can lead to the best therapies. ‘‘I’m just trying to pull together all the pieces that are needed to do a real, rational attack on cancer,’’ Tenenbaum says. The way to do that, he says, is to pull people out of their individual labs, offices and hospitals to collaborate in a way not possible before the Web and mobile technologies made it easy to pool vast amounts of information. ‘‘How much of cancer could be turned into a manageable disease if we only knew what we knew?’’ Tenenbaum is one of a growing number of supporters of the so-called open science movement, which calls for greater sharing of research and the lowering of institutional, financial, legal and geographical barriers to bringing the best minds and data together to solve science’s toughest problems. In its fledgling form, the Cancer Commons app integrates the existing data on different forms of melanoma and the most promising experimental treatments. Patients or their doctors input how far the disease has pro- gressed, where it started and whether tests have discovered any specific ‘It’s to empower that doctor with the same information we have access to’ Dr. Keith Flaherty, Harvard University genetic mutations believed to con- tribute to the cancer’s spread. From that information, the app tells patients what specific cancer ‘‘sub- type’’ they have as determined by an expert panel. They also learn what drugs have shown the most promise in treating that specific form of the dis- ease and where clinical trials are being conducted that could allow patients access to that treatment. The app itself was built by Col- labRx, Tenenbaum’s for-profit health care startup. It’s free for doctors and patients. The company would make money through pharmaceutical com- pany sponsorships of different apps, though Cancer Commons does not endorse specific drugs. The data itself generated by the Cancer Commons project will be free and available for anyone to use, Tenenbaum says. At Harvard University’s Massa- chusetts General Hospital, Dr. Keith Flaherty studies melanoma treatments and sees patients with the most advanced forms of the disease. He volunteered to help lead the Cancer Commons melanoma project, which he says lets doctors and patients plug into a complex collection of data dis- tilled into a simple set of treatment options. Though Flaherty treats only melanoma, oncologists across the country are called on to treat all kinds of cancers. They don’t have time to troll through obscure journals or web- sites to become experts on every vari- ation of the disease, Flaherty says. An app like Cancer Commons lets those physicians plug into the knowledge of researchers like himself directly, he says. ‘‘It’s to empower that doctor with the same information we have access to.’’ The hope is that patients also will be better able to advocate for them- As the service expands, Tenen- baum also plans to make it possible for physicians and patients to add their own data on what has worked and what hasn’t. While researchers cannot rely on one person’s experience alone as a measure of success or failure, Fla- herty says researchers could sift a large enough collection of anecdotes for leads. The ease of sharing information among scientists and between nonsci- entists and professional researchers are two key developments made possible by the Internet that open science advo- cates say could speed discoveries. ‘‘We have a chance at a new kind of digitally enabled collaboration,’’ says Joseph Jackson, organizer of the Open Science Summit at the Univer- sity of California, Berkeley last sum- mer. ‘‘But the hardest thing to do is change human behaviors and prac- tices.’’ Jackson is also working to help open a community biotech lab in Sili- con Valley intended to provide space for ideas and research to take place outside traditional academic and cor- porate venues. The San Francisco-based Science Commons project helps research insti- tutions and scientific journals find ways to make valuable scientific data more widely available. The group sees bright spots in their effort, such as the National Institutes of Health’s mandate that all NIH-fund- ed research be made available free to the public within a year of being pub- lished. But big challenges remain, both technological and in the culture of how science is done, says Alan Ruttenberg, principal scientist at Science Com- mons. Ruttenberg focuses on solving the problem of ‘‘data integration’’: how to put different scientific databases together to enable researchers to find new connections. Part of that effort involves developing a common lan- guage for data that Ruttenberg hopes someday will make possible a search engine for science. ‘‘We ought to be able to ask a sci- entific question about anything that’s been done and get a straight answer to that,’’ he says. stantly be vigilant not to let that happen.’’ Legislation calling for a federal King holiday was introduced in Congress by Rep. John Conyers of Michigan just four days after King’s April 4, 1968, assassination. Later that same year, Coretta Scott King, his widow, started The Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Social Change in the base- ment of the couple’s Atlanta home. She was also commit- ted early on to Conyers’ proposal — an ironic trib- ute to a man who usually didn’t make much of his birthday. It would be another 15 years before Congress warmed to the idea and passed it into law. President Ronald Rea- gan signed the bill estab- lishing the third Monday in January as the Martin Luther King National Hol- iday on Nov. 3, 1983, and the first observance was Jan. 20, 1986. That year, 17 states also had official King holidays, including Illinois, which recognized King with a holiday in 1973, the first state to do so. Arizona established, then rescinded, a King holiday in the 1980s, but finally joined the federal observance in 1992. New Hampshire was the last state to honor King, in 1999. Today, the King holi- day also is observed in more than 100 countries, according to The King Center. In 1994, the meaning of the holiday shifted as Coretta Scott King called for less of an emphasis on his life and more of a focus on his legacy. The mission was expanded to include volunteerism, interracial cooperation and youth anti-violence initia- tives. More than a million Americans are expected to participate in 13,000 pro- jects around the country on the King Day of Ser- vice, said Patrick Corving- ton, head of the Corpora- tion for National and Community Service, the federal agency charged with administering service projects on the King holi- day. The focus on service makes the holiday more inclusive, Corvington said. Corporate America has been slower to respond. A survey of 300 businesses by the Bureau of National Affairs showed three in 10 will give all or most of their workers a paid holi- day on Monday. The legal and business publisher reports the figure is a sig- nificant increase over the first 11 years of the feder- al holiday observance. According to the BNA survey, only 14 percent of surveyed businesses made the King Day a paid holi- day in 1986, and figures stayed in the teens until a 1993, when the number rose to 24 percent. Since 2003, the number has hov- ered around 30 percent of employers. ‘Social Network’ leads Globes with 4 prizes BEVERLY HILLS (AP) — The Facebook tale ‘‘The Social Network’’ has won top honors at the Golden Globes with four prizes, including best drama and director, solidifying its prospects as an Academy Awards favorite. Winning the dramatic lead-acting prizes Sunday were Colin Firth for the British monarchy saga ‘‘The King’s Speech’’ and Natalie Portman for the psycho- sexual thriller ‘‘Black Swan.’’ Lead-acting honors for the Globes’ musical or com- edy categories went to Annette Bening for the lesbian- family story ‘‘The Kids Are All Right’’ and Paul Gia- matti for the curmudgeon tale ‘‘Barney’s Version.’’ The boxing drama ‘‘The Fighter’’ earned both sup- porting actor Globes, for Christian Bale and Melissa Leo. Oscar nominations come out Jan. 25. Man accused of shooting 4 with pellet gun in SoCal GOLETA (AP) — A man believed to be a transient shot four people, including two Santa Barbara County sheriff’s deputies, with a high-powered pellet gun, and was later wounded when the officers returned fire, authorities said. Charles Peart Quinn, 42, was hospitalized in stable con- dition, sheriff’s spokesman Drew Sugars said. One deputy was hit in the face with pellets, another in the forearm, Sugars added. Both were treated and released from Goleta Valley Hospital. They responded to reports Saturday of an aggressive panhandler in Goleta who was holding a handgun and caus- ing panic among shoppers and diners at Camino Real Mar- ketplace in Goleta. Andre Rhodes, 18, of Santa Barbara, said the man approached him and three friends to ask for change, then pulled out the gun when they said they had none. ‘‘I didn’t know if it was real or fake, so I turn around and run 50 feet,’’ Rhodes told the Santa Barbara News-Press. ‘‘I turn around and see it’s a BB gun.’’ Rhodes’ two friends did not run, and were each shot with pellets in the face. Both suffered minor injuries, Sugars said. Their names were not released. Deputies found Quinn in a vacant lot holding the gun and ordered him to drop it, but he instead began firing, hit- ting two of them, Sugars said. Three deputies returned fire, and hit Quinn multiple times, Sugars said. The deputies were placed on administrative leave as required by department policy, Sugars said. Their names have not been released. Authorities have been unable to find an address for Quinn. Deputies reached Sunday did not know if he had hired an attorney.