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The original thread to this sad case can be found here
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A fantastic article by veteran crime journo John Silvester, gives us a real insight behind the scenes as to how they caught the "Alleged" rapist and murderer, including the early speculation about why Jill's husband was checked out as a suspect in a case like this.
Police suspected Jill Meagher's killer might strike again and acted quickly, writes John Silvester.
At first it was just a missing person's case. A person who had a little too much to drink had not made it home – an event that happens every night across Australia
By Saturday afternoon Homicide Crew Four, the suspicious missing persons unit under Detective Sergeant Dave Butler, began to monitor the situation. Soon it became obvious this was not a matter of a night spent on someone's couch.
Jill Meagher's phone had gone dead and she had not attempted to access her bank accounts, which discounted thoughts she had engineered her own disappearance.
Public grief over Jill Meagher
So by late Sunday, more than 36 hours after she was last seen drinking with her ABC work colleagues in Brunswick, an inner-city Melbourne suburb, Crew Four moved in.
But, at least initially, this was not a normal murder probe, as police were not sure there had been a murder at all.
While the investigation had to remain measured, there was an unspoken urgency. What if Jill had been abducted and was still alive?
When homicide detectives arrived in Brunswick on Monday morning detectives did not even have a crime scene.
What they did have was a starting point. They knew she had left Bar Etiquette to walk to her home in Lux Way. They knew she had refused an offer from a colleague to accompany her for safety.
Eventually her handbag was recovered in Hope Street but police were convinced it was not there when they checked the area on Saturday afternoon. This meant it had been planted some time later.
This would have initially indicated the offender might have lived nearby. (The reality was a local found the handbag in the lane on Saturday morning then returned on Sunday evening to put it back as a result of the media publicity.)
The first step for police was to confirm she had not made her destination, which meant interviewing her husband, Tom.
He was told firmly, but politely, that the homicide squad begins with those closest to the victim and then work its way out in ever increasing circles.
The reality is that in the majority of murders the victim knows the offender, and in most cases involving females they are killed by their partners.
Meagher had fallen asleep in front of the television late on Friday night and missed a text from his wife saying, "Meet me at the pub."
Police were able to corroborate much of his story, which effectively removed him from the suspect list by Tuesday. He was as he appeared. An undeniably decent man subjected to grief beyond imagination
Detectives began to trawl through her personal life to determine whether she had a boyfriend, was under work pressure, or suffered depression or a medical condition that could explain her disappearance.
When these were discounted the strongest theory became the most ominous. That she had been abducted off the street. That someone seeing a pretty, isolated and vulnerable woman simply bundled her off into the night.
And in the void came the theories. The husband had not reacted as he should. Why had she made the last call to her family in Perth and not to Tom? Why had he said she had not gone out with her handbag when she had?
This reflected not so much on Meagher as our need to come up with acceptable alternatives to the awful possibility she was the victim of an opportunistic abduction.
On Wednesday morning the homicide detectives had to make some tough decisions. They had sourced some CCTV footage from a Sydney Road boutique, which showed Jill outside the shop at 1.43am – her last known sighting just 450 metres from home. It also showed a man in a blue hoodie talking to her.
From the moment the detectives saw these images he became their number one suspect.
There was some debate over whether to make to the footage public. Police knew that he would surely be identified once it was released, but if Jill was still alive the consequences would be disastrous.
The truth was police had concluded she was dead. There was further debate over whether releasing the vision could lead the blue hoodie man to destroy evidence, fabricate an alibi, flee or self harm.
Perhaps in a regular homicide investigation police would have waited another 48 hours before releasing the film. But this was anything but normal and they decided to call for a public appeal to find this man. They feared they were hunting a predator who could strike again.
The response from the public was overwhelming, with 550 calls made to Crime Stoppers. Disturbingly many of the calls reported similar abduction attempts in the area that were not initially been reported to police. This is now the subject of a separate police investigation.
The suspect was ultimately identified internally by the homicide squad and by late Wednesday they had a name: Adrian Ernest Bayley, 41, of Coburg.
The surveillance squad, known as "The Dogs", was called in to watch him for two reasons – to check if he acted suspiciously and to ensure he could not strike again.
By Thursday morning he was confirmed as the man in the blue hoodie.
Surveillance police observed him behave as if an average guy from the suburbs, heading to work and following his normal routine. But his past showed another side. He was, as they say, "known to police". He had a history that fitted the likely profile and the CCTV vision showed him talking to the victim just before she disappeared.
As he was followed on Thursday morning by The Dogs, Crew Four started to rehearse the interview they would conduct with him later that day. They spoke to police who had previously dealt with him and carefully prepared a strategy designed for his personality.
The interview room was arranged to be non-threatening. Gone was the desk, the notebooks and the straight questions of a formal record of interview.
This was to be a friendly conversation rather than the third degree.
On Thursday afternoon Bayley was apprehended and taken to the St Kilda Road homicide office.
At first he was friendly but insistent. He was not in Sydney Road early Saturday morning, had not spoken to the victim and was not the man on the CCTV footage.
After some hours police played their ace. They showed him evidence that he was the man.
Police will allege that he eventually told them the story, admitting he grabbed Jill Meagher and took her to a side street where he sexually assaulted her.
They will produce the videoed confession in which he says he drove to Gisborne, a town 55 kilometres north-west of Melbourne, and used his own shovel to dig a shallow grave to hide his victim.
After initially denying any involvement he finally took police to the site where the body was recovered.
Yesterday he appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates Court charged with rape and murder.
It took six days to catch him. It took six minutes to remand him.
UPDATE 1pm 28/09/12: THE man charged over the disappearance of ABC employee Jill Meagher sat with head bowed in court this afternoon, charged with rape and murder.
Adrian Ernest Bayley, 41, of Coburg, sat in the dock of courtroom one at Melbourne Magistrates' Court only metres from Ms Meagher's husband Tom and her brother Michael – both men sitting in the first row in the courtroom flanked by homicide squad detectives.
Nine hours earlier, detectives had uncovered Ms Meagher's body in a shallow grave beside a dirt track in Gisborne South.
Mr Bayley had appeared at an out of sessions court hearing about 2.30am, charged with rape and murder in Brunswick on September 22.
In court today, Tom and Michael did not look across at Mr Bayley throughout the short hearing.
Before the filing hearing started, Deputy Chief Magistrate Jelena Popovic greeted Ms Meagher's relatives and told them the matter would take only a couple of minutes.
Mr Bayley sat in jeans and a blue T-shirt, a tattoo prominent on his muscled arm.
His face appeared flushed.
His legal aid defence lawyer told Ms Popovic there were no custody management issues.
In a meek-sounding voice, Mr Bayley replied "Yes" when Ms Popovic asked him if he understood that she could not entertain a bail application due to the murder charge.
Tom Meagher shot a gaze at Mr Bayley as guards led him from the court, and then whispered something to Ms Meagher's brother.
Mr Bayley will re-appear in court on January 18 next year.
This thread is for discussion for after the arrest and beyond. This bloke is one dirty dog with plenty of form, including sexual violence! See below
IN the early hours of this morning, homicide detectives were led to a dark field on the edge of Melbourne, to the body of Jill Meagher.
Shortly afterwards, 41-year-old Adrian Bayley was charged with the rape and murder of the popular ABC Radio manager, who disappeared six days ago after spending an evening out with friends and work colleagues.
Mr Bayley did not enter a plea in the brief out of sessions court hearing, speaking only to say he understood the charges. He was wearing a navy blue shirt and jeans.
He is alleged to be the man in the blue hoodie police had been searching for since the broadcast of CCTV footage taken from within a bridal shop on a busy road in the north Melbourne suburb of Brunswick which showed Ms Meagher being beckoned to by an unidentified man.
Of all the possibilities that confronted police when Ms Meagher first went missing early last Saturday morning, this was the least likely; a genuinely random, opportunistic attack.
Police believe Mr Bayley did not know Ms Meagher, a petite, vivacious 29-year-old Irish woman who had been living and working in Melbourne for several years.
Ms Meagher's family, including her distraught husband Tom Meagher, were told of the tragic developments in the homicide and missing persons investigation yesterday afternoon.
When Mr Bayley was arrested in Coburg and brought to the homicide squad's St Kilda Road police headquarters, he at first refused to answer questions. Eventually, after several hours in custody, he helped police locate her body.
Ms Meagher's death will shock her family: her parents George and Edith McKeon, who live in Perth; her brother Michael, who arrived from Ireland in the days of uncertainty since she was last in the company of friends in Bar Etiquette, a regular haunt in her Brunswick neighbourhood.
The apartment she shared with her husband was just a five minute walk around the corner from the bar. Despite the offer from a friend to walk her home, she insisted on making the short trip alone.
The news will also devastate the tight-knit ABC Radio community at the broadcaster's Southbank studios, where Ms Meagher had worked since January.
In a job where broadcasters and producers and journalists and technicians work around the clock in shifts, Ms Meagher was a constant presence throughout the day.
She did the rosters, made the travel arrangements, solved problems. If anyone needed something done, they went to Ms Meagher. At other times she sat at her desk on the other side of a glass partition from one of the broadcasting booths, sharing in off-air jokes.
In the days after she went missing, broadcasters and others struggled to do their jobs. That was when they hoped she was still alive.
The emergence of CCTV footage showing Ms Meagher walking along Sydney Road in Brunswick at about 1:40am last Saturday appears to have been crucial to solving the case. Prior to then, investigating police were uncertain whether Ms Meagher had attempted the walk home, or whether she had left the bar in other circumstances.
The discovery of her handbag in a nearby laneway a day after police had combed the area perplexed detectives, who believed they would not have missed such an obvious clue. They suspected it may have been planted, but did not know by who.
The field where Ms Meagher was found lay off a dirt track near Gisborne South, a country town fast being absorbed by Melbourne's suburban spread north west of the city. As daylight broke this morning, police were continuing to scour the crime scene.
Mr Bayley was remanded in custody to appear before the Melbourne Magistrates' Court this morning.
HERE is everything we know about the disappearance of Jill Meagher:
Saturday 1.39am – A man in a blue hoodie is seen walking in front of Sydney Rd shop Duchess Boutique between 1:39 and 1:43am
1.43am – After leaving Bar Etiquette around 1.30am, the 29 year-old is last seen on CCTV speaking with a man wearing a blue hoodie. The footage captures her looking unsteady on her feet and checking her phone. Minutes later, Ms Meagher's brother Michael McKeon calls his sister several times, with no response.
2am – Ms Meagher's husband Tom Meagher tries calling his wife's mobile phone "non-stop" between 2am to 6am after she fails to return home.
4am – Mr Meagher heads out from their home on Lux Way to search for his wife. He contacts police after failing to locate her.
Saturday morning – Police commence the search to find the ABC worker.
Sunday – Police continue to search for the Brunswick woman. Posters are placed on Sydney Rd appealing for information.
12.30pm – A Facebook page is set up, urging the public to come forward with clues.
3.15pm – Police release a statement appealing for anyone who knows of Ms Meagher's whereabouts to contact Crime Stoppers.
Monday 6.30am – Police find Ms Meagher's handbag in a lane off Hope St, Brunswick. Police say they had previously searched the area and suspect the bag may have been "planted" after Sunday afternoon. There are no obvious signs of a struggle and her bag still contains her credit card. Ms Meagher's phone remains missing.
8.50am –Homicide squad takes over the case.
1.45pm – Forensic experts emerge from the alley way with two brown paper bags.
Monday 1pm – Mr Meagher is questioned by police as routine.
Monday afternoon – A Sydney Rd shopkeeper's security camera captures one man – possibly two – walking behind Ms Meagher. The shopkeeper also notices a car at the scene. The footage prompts police to seek other store footage. Police confirm Ms Meagher's phone and bank card had not been used since Saturday.
Tuesday 12.30pm – Police search Meagher's home and take away the Meaghers' car for analysis. They spend a total of five hours searching the apartment and leave with six bags filled with personal items. The apartment is so full with forensic specialists, Mr Meagher and his brother-in-law Michael sit outside on the balcony for more than two hours.
3.55pm – Police release a statement and footage of the 29-year-old Irish national walking north along Sydney Rd. Police release several minutes of footage in which a man in a blue hoodie can be seen walking in front of Duchess Boutique.
6.15pm – Police return to the Meaghers' apartment for a further search. They go back to the squad car to collect more evidence bags.
8.20pm – Police leave the Meaghers' apartment with more paper bags.
Wednesday 11.43am – Police release another statement urging other people in the CCTV footage to come forward to give details of what they may have seen on the night of Ms Meagher's disappearance. Prompted by the footage, women emerge with their own stories of attacks on Sydney Rd. The Find Jill Meagher Facebook page attracts more than 67, 000 likes and an outpouring of tributes. A witness claims to have seen the man wearing a hoodie running after Ms Meagher on Sydney Rd.
Thursday morning – Six days since Ms Meagher was last seen. One of six people seen on the CCTV footage released comes forward. Daniel Gregson says he did not see the man in the hoodie or Ms Meagher on the night she disappeared.
2.30pm – Police arrest a man at his Coburg home in relation to the disappearance of Ms Meagher. He is taken to St Kida Rd police complex to be interviewed.
3:15pm – Social media platforms are ablaze with news of the development, and tweets mentioning Ms Meagher's name hit almost 12 million Twitter news feeds. Hundreds flood to the Help Find Jill Meagher Facebook page to post their thoughts.
10pm – Police whisk away the man, Adrian Ernest Bayley, from St Kilda Rd police complex. He leads them to Ms Meagher's body.
1:45am – Police charge the 41 year-old man with the alleged rape and murder of Ms Meagher after discovering her body. They allege he is the man seen on CCTV footage wearing a blue hoodie and talking to Ms Meagher in the early hours of Saturday morning on Sydney Rd.
Friday 3am – Bayley is remanded in an out-of-sessions court hearing that lasts only 90 seconds at St Kilda Rd police station. The bail justice tells the accused he should not receive bail given the seriousness of the charges.
4am – After discovering Ms Meagher's body in a shallow grave on Black Hill Rd at Gisborne South, Coroner's Office staff put the body into a white van. Police complete a five-hour investigation at the scene.
11am – Ms Meagher's husband and brother arrive at Melbourne Magistrates' Court for the filing hearing of the accused.
Thug, 40, jailed for drunken king-hit
Karen Matthews | February 28th, 2012
A 40-YEAR-OLD thug, still on parole, claimed he was too drunk to remember king-hitting a Geelong man, breaking his jaw and rendering him unconcious, a court has heard.
Adrian Bayley, of Burgundy Dve, Wyndhamvale, pleaded guilty in Geelong Magistrates' Court yesterday to a single charge of recklessly causing serious injury.
Police Prosecutor Leading Senior Constable David Vanderpol said that, about 1.24am on August 12, last year, the 20-year-old victim was standing outside a cafe in Little Malop St having something to eat when Bayley approached.
"Bayley started yelling and abusing the victim, then punched him with a closed fist to the face," Sen-Constable Vanderpol said.
"The power of the blow lifted the victim off the ground and knocked him unconcious to the ground, striking his head as he fell."
The prosecutor said Bayley then ran off and the victim was taken to Geelong Hospital with a fractured jaw.
Sen-Constable Vanderpol said the entire incident was captured on CCTV footage and there was also footage which showed Bayley earlier at the Eureka Hotel.
He said police later arrested Bayley who claimed he was too drunk to remember but recalled being involved in some sort of altercation.
Michael Brugman, for Bayley, said his client was distraught that he had harmed someone else.
"He has been losing sleep wondering how or why and trying to remember," Mr Brugman said.
The lawyer said his client had spent most of his life in jail and was currently on parole until March 17, 2013.
"He stopped drinking on Boxing Day, is due to start a new job today and has no priors for violence," Mr Brugman said.
But Magistrate Ron Saines rejected Mr Brugman's claim that his client had no priors for violence.
"I have no alternative but to order an immediate custodial sentence," Mr Saines told Bayley.
"Your past history involves sexual violence and you have been jailed for other serious matters."
Bayley was convicted and sentenced to three months jail.
He was also excluded from entering Geelong's CBD for 12 months.


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I hope #66 has enough ethics within him to play like he always has but I have my doubts. I can only hope this was a "slip" on his part.
Peace & Yours in Black 'N Gold,
Many thanks to BR7 (Ron) for the sig and matching avatar
I am not saying he is going to tank on us for the year, I just think, based on what has been said, he might not take any risks that he would take otherwise.
Play conservatively, maybe 88% instead of 110%.
It is the day of the dollar for those with material values, and sometimes it causes some suprising people to do things we are not proud of.
"Like a midget at a urinal, I knew I had to be on my toes." - Lt. Frank Drevin
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Haven't posted in quite a while, but I just found this video from NAMM I thought was interesting.
I see the guy in the video end up actually strumming this instrument though which sort of makes me question whether or not it would even be worth buying. True you can emphasize tapping with it but in a normal rock band setting that would be somewhat limiting. Either way I don't have $700 to send of to Belgium anytime soon.
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I've actually seen a couple videos of people playing a Kelstone on YouTube and it seems to be pretty versatile.
If they don't go under, I could see Kelstones gaining some popularity (probably in indie music first). I'd love to hear some effects on one. Maybe a djenty pickup too... hmm...
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If you teach an aboriginal man (or woman) to make a cappuccino, can you feed his career for a lifetime?
That's the hope at Yaama Dhiyaan, a cooking and hospitality school for at-risk indigenous young people in Australia.
Students there are learning the skills to be cooks, restaurant and hotel workers, and caterers. The school is also helping to reconnect them to their culture, disrupted when many of their grandparents were kidnapped off the land, forced into missionary schools and denied the right to vote until the 1960s.
Aunty Beryl Van-Oploo is an aboriginal elder who heads the school. She is from the Gamillera tribe and grew up on a reservation about 500 miles from Sydney in New South Wales.
"They asked me to name the school," says Aunty Beryl, "so I thought I might as well say 'hello' in my own Yuwaalaraay language. Yaama means 'hello' and Dhiyaan means 'family.' So it's 'Hello family and friends' when you come here."
Among the skills the students learn at Yaama Dhiyaan is how to make cappuccinos and other specialty coffee drinks.
"A lot of aboriginal people wouldn't go near a cappuccino machine," she laughs. "Actually, we don't drink it. We were never brought up with coffee. ... We were tea drinkers."
The school takes about 20 students per session for the eight-week cooking and hospitality course.
"I've been cooking all my life. I'm from the bush," says James Wilden, a 20-year-old student who recently completed the program. "I've cooked kangaroo, goanna [a local lizard], yabbies [crustaceans]."
Wilden grew up in a family with 15 brothers and eight sisters. Times got hard. He and most of his brothers have been in and out of jail all their lives. While he was in the school, Wilden was incarcerated in a jail but was allowed to leave to take daily classes at Yaama Dhiyaan.
"When I was younger I made some bad decisions," Wilden says. "That's why I'm in this course: to make my life better."
"Most of the people in our class are aboriginal — boys, girls, mothers, fathers, cousins," says 20-year-old Molly Meribito. Her family is from the Bundjalung tribe from the border of Queensland and New South Wales. She got pregnant at 16, and since she hasn't had much to do lately, her family recommended that she go learn with Aunty Beryl.
"We're lucky if we get 12 to stay" in the program, says Aunty Beryl.
"Sometimes they can't cope," says Aunty Beryl. "When you're ready, you come back. And we've had that happen to one of our young lads. He went away for a year, and he came back and he said, 'Aunty Beryl, I'm ready to be a chef.' "
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Australia's history of racial discrimination against the Aborigines is a long one. And young members of this minority group who have criminal records and previous drug histories, or who got pregnant as teenagers, are not who people usually want to hire.
"Traditionally, the students that we train are classified as unemployable — that's what the society has labeled them as," says Dani Hore, who manages the Aboriginal Employment Program that oversees Yaama Dhiyaan.
The Employment Program also offers a carpentry and construction course downstairs from the cooking school. Aunty Beryl's students prepare lunch each day for themselves and the students studying to be electricians, carpenters and plumbers.
"So many young people don't even have a home to live in," Hore says. "One student, who we actually got employment for, was living in a tree. He had nowhere to live, and the tree was safe because it was up off the ground."
Bush Tucker
Just as many chefs and traditional cooks in Australia are interested in integrating traditional foods into modern-day cooking, the students are learning to prepare and eat Chinese stir-fry, French baguettes, Italian pasta.
The through line is cooking fresh, local and seasonal whenever possible. That, for Aunty Beryl, leads to bush tucker.
"Bush tucker is what we got off the land, and that is why we are introducing it again, connecting students to their culture through food," says Aunty Beryl.
"You have your fruits, nuts, yams," Aunty Beryl lists. "You have your meats — kangaroo, wallaby, wild buffaloes up north.
There's also lemon myrtle, quandongs (an indigenous peach), marigold (a native spinach), wattleseeds from the Acacia tree, and salt bush, a shrub that covers large areas of dry, inland Australia.
"You have your seafood like barramundi," she adds. "It's got a real bushy sort of flavor. It's got that woody, tart flavor. Wrap it in gum leaves and throw it on an open fire. Then it will cook in its own oils."
Another favorite of Aunty Beryl is the finger lime. "I call it the aboriginal caviar," she says. "When you split it and open it up, it's got little lime modules inside that look like caviar. They are really great on fresh oysters."
You Can't Eat Your Totem
The students are also learning to make emu prosciutto. But Aunty Beryl doesn't eat the ostrichlike bird that some say tastes like steak.
"My totem is an emu, so I don't eat it," she says. "It's an animal that we worship." A totem is a being, an animal or plant, that serves as a sacred symbol to an aboriginal clan or tribe. A totem connects people, ancestors and mythic past.
"Kangaroo, goanna, dolphins — whatever totem your aboriginal tribe has, you can't kill, touch or eat," says student James Wilden. "I'm an emu. If I kill an emu, it's like killing my brother, my sister or my mother."
Ricardo Golding's totem is a turtle. He has come to Yaama Dhiyaan just out of high school. "I had nothing to do," says the 17-year-old. "I'm not that smart, but I'm doing my work. I used to get picked on a lot at school, because of the sound of my voice. The way I act. I was very afraid to go into class. I missed out on a lot of lessons. Here, the cooking is the part I like the most."
"The biggest thing our students or anybody has to deal with," says Aunty Beryl, "is their self-confidence."
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The history of the treatment of native cultures in Australia is a dark one. Whole generations of children were taken away from their parents, forced into missionary schools, native language forbidden, traditional foods taken away, whole clans forced off their own lands and onto reservations, cultures denied the right to vote until the 1960s.
Jamie Rayburch works with Aunty Beryl, helping out with the hospitality and training program. "My grandfather was part of the 'Stolen Generation.' He was stolen away when he was 5 years old and put into a cattle ranch and then into an all-boys orphanage. He never knew his parents. My grandmother's the same."
"I'm 24 years old," says Jamie, "and I'm still trying to understand what that's all about and how that affected my family, my culture, myself. I think that this generation — the Stolen Generation — has kind of almost been forgotten, where our culture came from, where the food derives from as well."
Dani Hore from the Employment Program says the aboriginal teachers and mentors at Yaama Dhiyaan are providing important role models for the youth.
"Once these young people come to Yaama Dhiyaan," says Dani, "they know that they are in a caring, loving environment where they are going to be taught vocational skills. But they are also going to be taught about self-respect and self-esteem and life skills that a parent would normally teach about punctuality, cleanliness, how to talk to people, how to eat together. It's a very short period of time, but it's quite transformational."
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Along with learning to make lemon myrtle rose tarts, the perfect long black coffee and emu prosciutto, and how to card people and look for fake IDs to make sure people walking into a bar are old enough to drink — all skills required in Australia's hospitality and cooking industry — Yaama Dhiyaan is providing a vision for a future, and a sense of community.
James Wilden is preparing to graduate from his program in the next few weeks.
"I just love cooking," James says. "I love the smell. When I get out and get out of trouble, I want to be a chef."
James is eager to start his work, but he tears up at the thought of leaving the deep community of this Australian hidden kitchen.
Before he gets too broken up, Aunty Beryl speaks for her school. "We're looking at James going up into the Northern Territory and becoming an apprentice chef up there. I know James will be a success because his heart is in it. At the end of the day, it's James' journey now, once he leaves here. But, we're only a phone call away, because that's what Yaama's all about that. We're always going to be there as part of his journey."
You can find more Hidden Kitchen stories and Web extras, including bush tucker recipes, at kitchensisters.org.
Hidden Kitchens, this morning, takes us cooking with an aboriginal elder. In Sydney, Australia, Aunty Beryl Van-Oploo runs a cooking school for indigenous young people. Aunty Beryl trains her students for jobs, and she's also teaching them to cook with traditional aboriginal foods from their lands known as bush tucker. That's helping reconnect many young people to their indigenous culture, one nearly destroyed when parents and grandparents were forced off their land into missionary schools. The kitchen Sisters, Davia Nelso and Nikki Silva, bring us this portrait of Aunty Beryl and the Yaama Dhiyaan cooking and hospitality school.
AUNTY BERYL VAN-OPLOO: Hello everybody. At the end of the room, we have our kitchen - cappucino machine here. Students practice on the machine. They learn to make cappuccinos and lattes, piccolos, short black, and long black. A lot of aboriginal people wouldn't go near a cappuccino machine. Actually, we don't drink it. We were never brought up with coffee - it's only just recently. We were tea drinkers. I'm Aunty Beryl Van-Oploo. Our hospitality school is Yaama Dhiyaan. So yaama means hello and Dhiyaan means family in my own with. So it means hello family, when you come here.
JAMES WILDON: I've been cooking all my life. I'm from the bush. I've cooked a lot of kangaroo, (unitelligible) . My name's James Wildon (PH). I'm 20 years old. The place we're at now is Yaama Dhiyaan, and we're doing a hospitality course. We cook healthy food. We serve. We clean. We learn. I am from a big family. I've got 15 brothers and eight sisters. When I was younger, I made some bad decisions. I've been held in custody. I'm in jail at the moment. I get out in six weeks. That's why I come to this course - to make my life better.
MOLLY MERIBITO: Most of the people in our class are aboriginal - boys and girls, mothers, fathers, cousins. My name is Molly Meribito (PH). I'm 20. My family are Bundalong from the border of Queensland and New South Wales. I got, like, pregnant young. I was, like, 16. He'll be 3 in December. My grandmother is friends with Aunty Beryl. They go way back. So they were like, you have not much to do, so you should go and learn with her.
VAN-OPLOO: We normally take about 20, but we're lucky if we get 12 to stay. We allow for dropouts. Sometimes, they can't cope. When you're ready, you come back. And we've had that happen to one of our young lads. He went away for a year and then he came back and he said, Aunty Beryl, I'm ready to be a chef.
DANNY HALL: You know, traditionally, the people who we train would be classified as unemployable. That's what the society has labeled them as.
I'm Danny Hall, and I managed the Aboriginal employment program. So many young people don't even have a home to live in. One student, who we actually got employment, was living in a tree. He had nowhere to live, and the tree was safe 'cause it was up, off the ground.
KYLIE KWONG: OK, everybody, this is our celebrity guest today - Polly .
KWONG: Thank you. Today, we are going to cook a simple Chinese stir-fry. So let's start chopping stuff up.
My name is Kylie Kwong and my restaurant Billy Kwong is in Sydney, Australia. I came across Aunty Beryl's school at every farmers market. She's an aboriginal elder. She sells Australian bush tucker produce, jams and marmalade. She's got beautiful big hands and long fingers. She's really elegant. She's just got this lovely warmth and wisdom.
VAN-OPLOO: Bush tucker is what we got off the land. It's a native food. We're introducing it again. You have your fruits, your nuts, your yams, lemon myrtle, barramundi - a fish - real bushy, sort of woody flavor to it - Gum leaves - throw it on an open fire. Then it'll cook in it's own oils - kangaroo stir fly - kangaroo (unintelligible) you can stuff it with mushrooms. We also have (untillegible) prosciutto. So we're getting really clever. But my totem is an emu, so we don't eat it. It's an animal that we worship.
WILDON: Kangaroo - Dolphins - whatever totem your aboriginal tribe has you can't kill, touch or eat . I'm an emu .If I killed an emu, that's like killing my brother, my sister, my mother. You can't eat your totem. My totem is a turtle.
RICARDO GOLDING: You can't eat your totem. My totem is a turtle. My name is Ricardo Golding (PH). By tribe name is (unitelligible). We're doing a course here - a hospitality course. I'm 17. I just recently finished year-12 at school. And I had nothing to do. They just told me about Yaama Dhiyaan. I'm not that smart, but I'm doing my work. Is used to get picked on a lot at school. - the sound of my voice, the way I act. I was very afraid to go into class. I missed out on a lot of lessons. Here, the cooking part I really like the most.
VAN-OPLOO: The biggest thing our students or anybody has to deal with is the self-confidence and that they can do it. When I was growing up, it was limited. I grew up on a reservation. My mom died when I was 14-years-of-age. My aunt had seven of her own children - didn't want to separate us. So there were 17 of us. We were just all in a shack - four in the bedroom. But I always said that I would learn to read and write because my elders said that I needed to do that. And I did. I came to Sydney when I was 16 and got a job as a nanny. I finally got an education at 31-years-of-age.
From the day the first ships arrived, the foreigners brought with them enormous challenges to the country. People lived in tolerance of each other until people's resources were threatened. The aboriginal people's resources were threatened because their natural hunting grounds were taken over by farmers - who - their resource were then threatened when aboriginal people came to get some of the harvest or to kill a beast. You just had a cultural clash. But like all humans, everybody was just trying to eat.
WILDON: I love cooking. I love the smell. When I get out - stay out of trouble. I want to be a chef.
VAN-OPLOO: We are looking at James going up into the Northern Territory, becoming an apprentice chef up there. We know James will be a success because his heart's in it. At the end of the day, it's James's journey now, once he leaves here. But we're only a phone call away 'cause that's what Yaama's all about. We're always going to be there as part of his journey.
MONTAGNE: Hidden Kitchen, Australia was produced by the Kitchen Sisters and mixed by Jim McKee.
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"Instead of simply performing tasks upon request, we proactively manage lifestyles to help members achieve their personal and business goals," says Brian Taranto, director of sales and marketing for One Concierge. "We leverage the connections that we have spent years developing, some from fulfilling requests for our members, to help other Lifestyle members. For example, we might use a connection to get tickets to a Broadway show for one member, and that connection also knows someone who directs a Broadway show. So we leverage that connection to secure an audition for a member who always wanted to be in a Broadway show."
Taranto claims the company's Lifestyle membership can not only further careers but help create them as well. "If you are person A and you want to become person B, you purchase the Lifestyle membership," he says. "It's like opening a door to becoming someone else. We have a client from Russia who is launching a fashion brand, so we are coaching her through our connections on how to get that brand into the right people's hands.
"For another client, who is a globally known figure, all we do is manage her image." Taranto adds. "Then there's a client who came to us and she was really nothing in terms of celebrity status, and we raised her up into the celebrity jet-setting lifestyle. If the client wants to be a model, they buy a Lifestyle membership and we would be proactive about getting them to fit into a profile of a model. And it works."
Get to Know Your Resort Concierge
Even if you use a personal concierge service, it's worth cultivating relationships with resort concierges, especially if you repeatedly frequent certain resorts. Knowing the concierge can result in a level of service that extends far beyond the mere courtesies extended to casual travelers. One concierge takes such good care of her guests that they often invite her to their weddings, funerals and baby showers.
"We have guests who come three to four times per year, and we really get to know each other," says Pat Farman, one of two concierges at the Inn at Palmetto Bluff in South Carolina, a luxury resort featuring two- to four-bedroom homes and cottages.
Sometimes it's the nature of the destination that makes help from a local concierge invaluable. For example, Napa Valley, California, can be a daunting challenge, with its more than 450 wineries (many open only by appointment), exclusive restaurants and unique experiences.
"Napa Valley is complex because there are so many options," says Yahell Peralta, chief concierge for the Auberge du Soleil resort in Napa Valley. "It's overwhelming to plan an itinerary when the field is completely unknown. That's why guests lean on the concierge." Among "gotchas" that can hamper a visitor's plans, Peralta cites permitting issues at wineries and restaurants such as the world-famous French Laundry that require reservations weeks or months in advance. "We help plan [guests'] entire stay, from the moment they arrive, to organize the best experiences in terms of wineries, restaurants and rejuvenation." —K.R.
In Case of Emergency
If you become ill or are injured while traveling, you may need even more help than a personalized concierge can provide. For that, you can turn to suppliers of medevac insurance—companies that can arrange for care wherever you are and, if necessary, evacuate you to your home turf. Besides helping with medical emergencies, they can assist with evacuations in case of political instability or natural disasters. For more on these companies, see "Getting Home Sick." —Ed.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – In the final regular season game of the 2012-13 men's basketball season for MIT, the No. 22 Engineers jumped out to a big lead over visiting Wheelock College and never looked back in a 76-34 win. Senior Will Tashman (Atherton, Calif.) recorded his third straight double-double with a career-high 28 points and 19 rebounds to lead MIT to the win. Senior Bashir Hudson (Jamaica Plain, Mass.) also recorded a double-double for Wheelock, finishing with 13 points and 11 boards.
Already the school record holder for career rebounds, Tashman picked up his 1,000 career board midway through the second half when he grabbed a missed MIT shot and slammed it home for a dunk. He hit on 13 of his 15 shot attempts in the contest as he became the first player in MIT history to reach 1,000 points and 1,000 rebounds in a career.
Hudson gave Wheelock (3-21) an early 2-0 lead, but MIT (20-4) reeled off nine straight points to take a 9-2 advantage after a layup by sophomore Matt Redfield (Los Altos, Calif.). The Wildcats came right back, with Hudson nailing a trey and senior Daniel Higgins (Wakefield, Mass.) getting a jumper that had them back within a pair at 9-7.
MIT still led by a pair after another layin by Higgins when the Engineers took control of the game. Over the next five and a half minutes MIT outscored Wheelock 21-5, getting 12 points from Tashman and a pair of three-point shots from freshman Justin Pedley (Kennewick, Wash.) in the span to take a 32-14 lead. Higgins drained a three for the Wildcats to put hold on the MIT run, but it was the final points of the half for the Wildcats as the Engineers went on to a 40-17 lead at the half.
A three by senior Mitchell Kates (Colts Neck, N.J.) with 16:29 to play pushed MIT's lead out to 30 points at 49-19. Wheelock, which struggled with its offense and shot just 21.9 percent for the game, just could not find enough offensive punch to get the MIT advantage under 30 points the rest of the way as the Engineers picked up their 20th win for a fifth straight season.
MIT put its size advantage over Wheelock to good use, scoring 54 points in the paint and shooting 55.9 percent for the game. Redfield was the only other MIT player to reach double figures in scoring, finishing with 12 points and eight rebounds. He also tied Kates for game-high honors with six assists, with Kates adding eight points and seven rebounds in his final home appearance. Higgins matched Hudson for the scoring lead for Wheelock, hitting on three treys and netting a total of 13 points.
MIT will now move on to New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference Tournament action next weekend, which is being hosted by WPI. The No. 2 seed, the Engineers will face off against No. 3 Springfield on February 23 at 3 p.m. in Worcester.


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Grand County Clerk Diana Carroll told The Times-Independent last week that Danish Flats Environmental Services is $94,763.05 in arrears on its monitoring payments to the county.
At the same time, business activity at the site has dropped from $424,000 five years ago to $99,000 in 2013, according to Grand County Technical Inspector Lee Shenton.
"They're less than a quarter of the volume they had in 2009," Shenton said Aug. 14.
Open-air evaporation ponds at the facility process salty, hydrocarbon-laden water that is a byproduct of oil and gas exploration and production.
Much of that tainted water has been coming from oil and gas wells across Colorado's Western Slope: Garfield County alone has 10,780 active wells, according to the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.
Increasingly, however, rival companies are setting up treatment facilities within easier reach of major oil and gas operations in the Piceance Basin.
Shenton sees a correlation between the drop in business at the Cisco-area site and the rise of similar "produced water" treatment facilities on the other side of the state line.
"We know that there are competitors operating closer to the Western Slope, so it's not exactly a surprise," he said.
Truckers who serve the oil and gas industry now have the option of hauling produced water to Alanco Energy Services' Deer Creek disposal facility in Mesa County. And pretty soon, they will be able to access a second Alanco facility in Mesa County: that company says its Indian Mesa site is expected to be operational in early 2015.
Other companies, including Concord Produced Water Services and Black Hills Plateau Production, also hope to get in on the action in Mesa County.
While those latter facilities aren't in service yet, Shenton said he's talked to a number of truck drivers who would rather utilize them, if they had their druthers.
"They would prefer to go to a closer facility because they make their livelihoods doing that," Shenton said.
With fewer trucks going to and from Danish Flats these days, Shenton has noticed that most of the 13 active evaporation ponds appear to be somewhere between one-third to halfway full.
"In the last several months, I can tell you that it's pretty obvious their business is off substantially," he said.
Yet despite that reported decline in business, the company's operations are not a "de minimis," or minor, source of pollutants, Shenton said.
The company previously claimed otherwise, reporting in January 2012 that its annual emissions totaled one-hundredth of one ton, according to Shenton.
It came up with that figure based on measurements it took from activated carbon canisters that are commonly used to sample indoor air quality.
The Summa-process canisters may offer accurate representations of emissions inside enclosed spaces, according to Shenton.
"But sitting on a pole in inclement weather, they don't even come close," he said.
Accordingly, the Utah Division of Air Quality (DAQ) does not accept those measurements.
Actual emissions at Danish Flats were much higher than the company's estimates, Shenton said.
In 2012, its operations released an estimated 332 tons of volatile organic compounds and 106 tons of hazardous air pollutants, according to Shenton.
Until recently, however, it continued to operate under a small-source exemption from state air quality regulations.
However, a DAQ review found that Danish Flats no longer met that criteria.
The company ultimately agreed to pay the agency a $50,000 civil penalty to resolve allegations that it did not submit a notice of its plans to expand its operations.
The wide-ranging agreement also settled allegations that it did not obtain state approval before it began construction work on that expansion. In addition, the settlement cleared up claims that the company failed to apply for a state operating permit under Title V of the federal Clean Air Act within a one-year deadline.
Both sides had been working toward a resolution even before Shenton began to monitor oil and gas operations in April 2011.
In December 2012, he reported that both parties felt an approval order was imminent.
"And sure enough, it was issued on Aug. 4 (2014)," he said.
According to Shenton, state regulators were aware that the company no longer qualified for a small-source exemption long before they issued any notices.
"The DAQ first warned them that they were out of compliance in August of 2013," Shenton said. "But they had been in conversation with them many, many times and many months before that."
Under the terms of the DAQ's approval order, Danish Flats must install emissions-control equipment at the site within the next 18 months.
Shenton anticipates that the controls will lead to major reductions in emissions from the site.
"It doesn't absolutely eliminate (them), but it knocks (them) way down," he said.
Danish Flats Environmental Services Operations Manager Justin Spaeth did not return phone calls requesting comment, and a listed phone number for company CEO Jim Bradish is no longer in service.
But Spaeth told The Times-Independent in 2012 that the facility has always operated within state guidelines, and that it would continue to do so.
The company's website also says that its commitment to environmental compliance is "second to none."


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ORLANDO, Fla. - A member of the Orlando Magic Stunt Team fell off a teammate's shoulders during Tuesday night's game at the Amway Center, fracturing three vertebrae and breaking a rib, according to team officials.
Jamie Woode was in stable condition at a hospital a day after paramedics put a brace on her neck and carried her off on a stretcher between the first and second quarters of the Magic game versus the New York Knicks.
"She just fell right on her neck. It was horrible seeing that," said Marina Elliot, a spectator at the game. "I hope she's OK."
Woode appeared motionless for several minutes while sprawled out on the court, surrounded by paramedics.
"It was scary. She didn't get up a long time," said Megan Brown. "I was in dance. My friends were in cheer. I know how that is."
Woode, who is not employed by the Orlando Magic but was hired by a separate company, suffered no neurological damage and is expected to make a full recovery, according to team officials.
As the former University of Central Florida cheerleader was lifted onto a stretcher, fans cheered. Then, while Woode was being wheeled away, she waved her hands to the sold-out crowd at Amway Center.
Woode suffered no neurological damage and is expected to make a full recovery. She and her family respectfully ask for privacy at this time.
In 2003, Woode broke a bone in her calf and yet went on to help UCF's cheerleading squad win its first-ever national championship.
After the Magic's 89-99 loss to the Knicks, Magic head coach Jacques Vaughn spoke about Woode before discussing basketball.
"I think our thoughts and prayers should be acknowledged for the young lady who fell," said Vaughn.
Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.
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Eric and Lara Trump welcome first child
Eric and Lara Trump welcome first child
A new presidential grandchild will soon be roaming the halls of the White House.
President Donald Trump's second son Eric and his wife Lara welcomed their first child together. Eric "Luke" Trump was born at 8:50 Tuesday morning.
Luke's proud parents announced his birth on Twitter.
[Lara] and I are excited to announce the birth of our son, Eric "Luke" Trump at 8:50 this morning," Dad Eric wrote.
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AS A SENIOR IN 2007-08: Doubles: played with Jay Wong for a fall 1-2 record in the Bulldog Classic and the ITA Regionals where they defeated Saint Mary's rivals Youssef El Bouskouri and Andrea Zannoni, 8-1 in the first round. Singles: went 5-3 in the fall season in three tournaments ... played in the All-American Championships Pre-Qualifying tournament, defeating Clemson's Derek Difazio 6-2, 6-2 ... played in the Bulldog Classic defeating UC Davis' Justin Garcia 6-1, 6-3 followed by a 6-3, 6-0 win over University of Washington's Martin Kildahl ... competed in the ITA Regionals, beating San Francisco's Rainer Nachbauer, 7-6, 7-5 and a win against Xavier Barajas-Smith of Sacramento State 6-1, 6-3.
AS A JUNIOR IN 2006-07: Had one of the best years in program history, going 22-5 in singles for a school-record winning percentage of .815 ... had 15-2 mark in dual singles matches ... went 17-16 overall in doubles, 15-11 in duals ... named All-WCC Honorable Mention in singles and doubles ... Doubles: traveled to Oklahoma for Polo Ralph Lauren Championships with Kevin McQuaid and the pair lost 8-5 to Gubic and Vujaklija of Wichita State ... also played in Bronco Classic and ITA Regionals with McQuaid, going 1-2 ... earned 8-3 win with McQuaid on Oct. 1 in ITA Regionals Rd of 32 vs. McDonald and Pinot of Oregon ... on Jan. 14 at the Aztec Invitation beat San Diego State's Timu and Ceban 9-7 alongside McQuaid ... won second straight on Jan. 20 vs. UC Santa Cruz, defeating Seeberger and Vartabedian 8-4 at the No. 1 position ... lost six doubles matches in a row at No. 1 from Jan. 20-Feb. 9 ... won two straight with McQuaid on Feb. 10 and 14, knocking off Christen and Alcala of Arizona 8-3 and Heinemann and Weber of Hawaii 8-4 ... won final dual match of year with McQuaid on Mar. 11 vs. Cal Poly, beating Dewitte and Berger 8-5 ... went 10-3 with Robert Gallman in doubles, with 12 matches coming at No. 2 and one at No. 1 ... won first six dual matches with Gallman from Mar. 2-27 ... paired with Gallman for a victory over Strom and Yemm 8-5 of Portland on Mar. 2 ... the pair repeated the success with a victory over Saint Mary's Kusnierz and Christner 8-4 on Mar. 4 ... remaining undefeated, the Gallman-Shields pair defeated USF's Hart and Del Rosario 8-4 on Mar. 8 ... teamed up with Gallman in doubles to take the No. 1 position and earn a victory over Dybala and McDonald 8-5 vs. Montana State on Mar. 24 ... on Mar. 27 picked up a doubles victory alongside Gallman at the No. 2 position over Brigham Young's Hand and Sanchez 8-6 ... after losing two straight to Denenberg and Valkin of Harvard and Morrissey and Wire of Stanford, won three in a row with Gallman, beating David and Smith of Nevada 8-3 on Apr. 13, Oechel and Spector of UC San Diego 8-4 and Barajas-Smith and Van Dillen of Sac. State 8-5 on Apr. 15 ... lost 8-5 to Mouly and Wolmarans in WCC semifinals vs. San Diego on Apr. 21 ... defeated Kusnierz and Platonov of Saint Mary's on Apr. 22 by an 8-6 score ... Singles: reached the semifinals of the Bronco Classic Flight "C" with wins over Hugh McDonald of Oregon 7-5, 6-3, Marco Pineda of Gonzaga 6-4, 6-2 and Ramon Perez of Sac. State 2-6, 7-6 (5), 6-0 ... won first round match at ITA Regionals on Oct. 20, beating Nick Berger of Cal Poly 6-0, 6-1 ... also won three consolation draw matches at ITA Regionals, beating John Petit of Cal, 6-2, 6-3, Hague Van Dillen of Sac. State 6-1, 6-1 and Darryn Young 6-3, 6-4 ... won first eight dual matches of the season in straight sets, seven at No. 6 and one No. 4 ... at UC Irvine Shields earned first dual victory of the spring over Alex Sundling 6-2, 7-5 on Feb. 14 ... defeated Brent Hunter 6-1, 6-3 of Hawaii on Feb. 14 ... defeated Portland's Evan Schleining 6-3, 6-4 at No. 6 on Mar. 2 ... vs. Cal Poly knocked off Nick Berger 6-2, 6-4 on Mar. 11 ... at No. 6 defeated Cornell's Jonathan Fife 6-4, 6-2 on Mar. 23 ... on Mar. 24 posted a singles win over Montana State's Justin Hauck 7-5, 6-2 ... completed win streak on Mar. 27 with 7-6 (7), 6-1 victory over Michael Eraso of BYU ... bounced back from first loss with win on Apr. 4 against Paul Morrissey of Stanford, 6-2, 6-2 at the No. 5 position ... vs. USF on Apr. 5 earned a 7-5, 2-6, 6-1 singles win vs. Asaf Cohen ... finished season with five straight wins, including three at the WCC Championships ... on Apr. 15, swept to wins vs. Steven Oechel of UC San Diego 6-3, 6-2 and Warwick Foy of Sac. State 6-4, 6-3 ... in the first round of the WCC Championships defeated Nikola Petrov of Loyola Marymount, 6-2, 3-6, 7-5 on Apr. 21 ... in the semifinals defeated USD's Matt Ozurovich 6-3, 6-2, in the No. 6 spot on Apr. 21 ... finished season with win over Yury Platonov of Saint Mary's 7-5, 6-1 in WCC third place match on Apr. 22.
AS A SOPHOMORE IN 2005-06: Ended the season with an overall singles mark of 10-12, including a 2-2 mark in conference... occupied mainly the No. 4 and 6 positions during the dual match season... defeated Colin Mark-Griffin of UC Santa Cruz 6-1, 6-2 to secure Santa Clara's first dual match victory of the season... helped Santa Clara beat WCC rival San Francisco twice during the regular season by sweeping Rafael Corazza on both occasions... went 3-1 at the Wilson/ITA Northwest Regional Championships... reached the quarterfinals of both the Santa Clara Bronco Classic and the Baylor Intercollegiate... posted a 20-16 doubles record, playing primarily with Kevin McQuaid at the No. 1 and 2 spots... the 20 doubles victories is the most in program history for one season and second on the career doubles victories list... went 7-2 in the WCC with McQuaid, earning All-WCC Second Team honors... the pair advanced to the Round of 16 at the Wilson/ITA Northwest Regional Championships, Baylor Intercollegiates, and the Santa Clara Bronco Classic.
AS A FRESHMAN IN 2004-05: Competed in inaugural Bronco season as a doubles specialist...scored first career dual match doubles victory over University of San Francisco with freshman Chris Iwamura...paired with senior Eric Kochanski at the No. 1 doubles position...defeated No. 72 Portland which led Santa Clara to a 3rd place finish at the WCC Championships...participated in singles and doubles at the Pacific Tiger Fall Classic during the fall tournament season.
HIGH SCHOOL: A 2004 Graduate of San Marin High School in Novato, Calif... tallied a 36-3 singles record... voted team MVP three times... ranked as high as No. 5 in Boys 16s and No. 3 in Boys 14s in the Northern California tennis section... earned a USTA national ranking of 83rd in Boys 16s and 58th in Boys 14s... a three-sport athlete, also participating in basketball and baseball... an infielder/pitcher for the Mustangs and recipient of Sportsmanship Award... a two-time recipient of the Sportsmanship Award for basketball.
PERSONAL: Full name is Blane Ryan Shields... parents are Scott and Mary Shields... father played baseball at University of Illinois and Illinois Wesleyan... is an undeclared business major... enjoys sports, ping-pong and music.
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See what was happening in Redwood Falls 50, 25, and 10 years ago this week.
1964—50 years ago • Former Redwood Falls schoolgirl Ednah Race Capron, 75, whose father was superintendent of the town's schools from 1887-1906, was the plaintiff in the largest divorce settlement in U.S. history up to that time. Capron learned she had become $16 million richer when she divorced her husband and discovered he wasn't poor, as he had always claimed, but had $32 million tucked away in real estate. • A runaway 1961 Oldsmobile its owner thought he had left in "park" rolled down a Mill St. hill for a block and a half before hitting a utility poll that finally stopped it. • James Bond made his Redwood Falls debut when "Dr. No" opened at the 71 Drive-in Theater as the second half of a double bill. The lead movie: "What a Way to Go!", with Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman, Dean Martin, Gene Kelly, and Dick Van Dyke. • "It gets warm in our country, but never like this," said Joseph Atikoro, one of five farmers from the equatorial African nation of Uganda, visiting area farms as part of an international program. Apparently they don't have humidity in Uganda. • Due to a shortage of jars in local stores, the fair board issued an emergency decree changing the rules for jellies and jams for the 1964 fair, saying they would be accepted in jars up to half-pint size. 1989—25 years ago • Local bank presidents challenged each other to a water pistol shoot out contest in the streets of Redwood Falls as part of the annual Crazy Days celebration. • Local artist Gary Butzer painted a mural on the side of the VFW post club, based on the famous painting "The Spirit of '76". • The city's 125th anniversary celebrations included, among many other attractions, street dances with three bands, an FFA farm toy show, a Junior Miss contest, tournaments for volleyball and softball, and a fireworks show over Lake Redwood. • The public got its first look at the Ramsey Park zoo's newest residents: 12 prairie dogs in a pen next to the buffalo pen. • The DAC Enterprises recycling center processed about half a million pounds of materials in its first year of operation. 2004—10 years ago • Einer Roshaven and Sister M. Gladys Meindl were chosen 2004's outstanding seniors at the Redwood County Fair. • The lead attraction of the Redwood County fair was David Smith, of Missouri, getting shot out of a cannon several times a day and flying 150 feet through the air before landing in a net. • The Rotary Club announced its newest project: setting in motion plans for a new county animal shelter, which the club estimated would cost up to $90,000. • Celebrating their first days at their new jobs: Dr. Joshua Friese, and Fr. Michael Doyle. • The flag flying over the veterans memorial was taken down so it could be donated to area troops deployed overseas.


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