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• ARREST: A Falls man was arrested following a report of an unwanted person at noon Friday at a casino in the 300 block of Sixth Street. David Grimaldi, 45, 462 Portage Road, was charged with third-degree criminal trespass after security personnel received a tip a man was asking players for chips. Security said Grimaldi has been asked to never return. It was Grimaldi's third arrest in the past week.
• ARREST: A Falls man was arrested after police were dispatched for an unwanted person report. Kenneth Hall, 23, 1822 Linwood Ave., was charged with second-degree burglary, second-degree criminal impersonation, third-degree criminal mischief, third-degree menacing, criminal possession of a controlled substance and resisting arrest after police arrived at the residence and announced their presence. Reports said a phone call from the residence revealed a man threatening to shoot someone. With police on scene, a man, later identified as Hall, fled on foot from the back of the house, through residence, eventually ending up 2000 block of 18th Street. According to a 51-year-old at the residence, Hall kicked down the door and threatened to shoot him. He said when police arrived and announced themselves, he fled out the back. Police reportedly searched a vehicle parked outside the residence and found four white pills in a door tray. A key allegedly found in Hall's pocket fit the vehicle, according to police.
• ARREST: An Ajax, Ont., man was arrested following a report of an unwanted person at 3:27 a.m. Friday at a casino in the 300 block of Sixth Street. Sudnir Sharma, 46, 66 Chatfield Drive, Ajax, Ont., was charged with trespass after security personnel informed police he was not allowed to be at the casino following a 2012 incident. Security said he signed documentation acknowledging his permanent ban, but according to police, Sharma said he had no recollection of doing such. Sharma's nephew told police he had no other means of returning to the Toronto area, so Sharma was released with an appearance ticket, according to reports.
• DWI: Samanatha Wyman, 34, of Oswego, was charged with felony DWI, first-degree aggravated unlicensed operation, driving without an interlock device and other vehicle and traffic violations on Friday, according to the New York State Police. Responding to a reckless vehicle call, troopers found Wyman in a store parking lot on Ward Road. She failed field sobriety tests and a resulting breath test revealed her blood alcohol content to be 0.15 percent. Police said she is currently on probation in Oswego County for a DWI conviction.
• THEFT: Niagara County Sheriff's deputies said a business on the 3400 block of Niagara Falls Boulevard reported Saturday that a large, $2,000 Indian motorcycle sign was taken. The sign was displayed inside the front window and was last seen on Wednesday. Entry was made through a front door and nothing else appeared to have been taken.
• ATTEMPTED THEFT: The owner of an e-cigarette business on the 2300 block of Niagara Falls Boulevard reported to deputies Saturday that sometime the night before someone had tried to break into the business. The store was burglarized last month and bars had been installed in the windows, which thwarted the most recent burglary attempt. A suspect also tried to gain entry through a rear door and broke a chain lock but was unsuccessful. The owner said the door has been tampered with numerous times in the past month. Video surveillance of the incident was provided to deputies.


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Maryam Namazie's Australian tour in the last week of August 2011 was a huge success, attracting a high media profile and hundreds who attended her various speaking engagements, which included a fundraising dinner in Sydney, a talk at the Wheeler Centre organised by Melbourne PEN and WISA, a talk at Melbourne Free University's open discussion …
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Aug 31 2011
DV8 physical theatre: Can we talk about this?
Lloyd Newson's latest work, Can We Talk About This? deals with freedom of speech, censorship and Islam. The production premiered in August 2011 at Sydney Opera House, and will be followed by an international tour. From the 1989 book burnings of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, to the murder of filmmaker Theo Van Gogh and …
Aug 17 2011
Veil, on no condition!
Conflict and dispute on the question of the veil among the factions of the Islamic regime in Iran is escalating. The paper of Iran supporting president Ahmadinejad, has called the veil "the worst kind of clothing" and attacked its black colour. The paper has even damned King Nasser al-Din Qajar (1831 – 1896) as the …
Aug 16 2011
Maryam Namazie in Australia for the next two weeks
I am leaving for Australia early tomorrow morning and will there for the next two weeks. Here are the events I will be speaking at: Dinner and Talk: Should Australia follow Britain in accommodating Islamic sharia law?: 6.30 pm Monday 22 August 2011 Description: Talk by Maryam Namazie and fundraising dinner for One Law For …
Aug 16 2011
Robert Spencer should be more honest and own up to his far-Right politics
Robert Spencer has responded to One Law for All's report Enemies not Allies: The Far-Right by saying: 'If Maryam Namazie's One Law For All claims to oppose the jihad while attacking anti-jihadists and supporting the genocidal jihad against Israel, then it is simply a false-flag operation. He links to a press release of the Left …
Aug 16 2011
Adam Barnett's response to Robert Spencer
Adam Barnett co-wrote One Law for All's Enemies Not Allies: The Far:Right report. Here he responds to Robert Spencer's statement on the report. Following the publication of 'Enemies Not Allies: The Far-Right', our new report which investigates his and similar organisations, Stop Islamization of America director Robert Spencer has invited One Law for All to …
Aug 15 2011
The Far-Right and Islamism are two sides of the same coin
Below is the conclusion of the new One Law for All report – Enemies not Allies: The Far-Right that was written by Adam Barnett and myself. It's an important piece of research proving the racism behind groups like the English Defence League and Stop Islamisation of Europe and America and revealing how similar these groups …
Aug 14 2011
New Report – Enemies not Allies: The far-Right
15 August 2011 A new report by One Law for All explores how the far-Right has attempted to hijack opposition to Islamism for its own ends. It focuses on the British National Party, the English Defence League and Stop Islamisation of Europe/America, and exposes how their activities, associations, opinions and intentions reveal a racist and …
Aug 14 2011
August update on One Law for All from Anne Marie Waters
Dear friend New Report – Enemies Not Allies: The Far-Right A new One Law for All report explores how the far-Right has attempted to hijack opposition to Islamism for its own ends. It focuses on the British National Party, the English Defence League and Stop Islamisation of Europe/America, and exposes how their activities, associations, opinions …
Aug 13 2011
Sharia-controlled zones not welcome
One Law for All Statement 13 August 2011 Recently, the Islamist group Muslims Against Crusades began what it called a campaign for "Islamic emirates" throughout Britain by putting up posters declaring areas of east London as "sharia controlled zones". The posters stated that alcohol, gambling, and music were banned and the group said it was …
Aug 12 2011
Australia must fight calls for Sharia law
Here is my op-ed in the Australian which has been published right before my visit there next week. To read, Australia must fight calls for Sharia law, click here. To see details of my speaking engagements whilst I am there, click here.
Aug 10 2011
The fight for free thought is a historical task and duty
Below is my speech at today's World Founding Congress of Free Thought in Oslo, Norway: I am very pleased to support the founding World Congress of Free Thought. It's particularly important in a world where religion, superstition, and archaic traditions and moralities are suppressing free thought and expression day in and day out. Today, we …
Aug 08 2011
World Founding Congress of Free Thought in Oslo on August 10th 2011
I am off to Norway tomorrow morning to speak at the World Founding Congress of Free Thought in Oslo on August 10th 2011. The event is organised by the International Liaison Committee for Atheists and Freethinkers and will be held at the Oslo Congress Centre from 9:00am to 5:30pm. Other speakers include: Marc Blondel, Jacques …
Aug 08 2011
Restrictions only seem to apply to atheist and secular groups not religious ones
As you know, the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain was recently refused charitable status. Below is our response to the refusal. You can also see the refusal letter from the Charities Commission following ours. Ms Caroline Jones Charity Commission Direct PO Box 1227 Liverpool L69 3UG August 8th 2011 Dear Ms Jones, Thank you for …
Aug 05 2011
This is what happens when you join the neo-cons
Ayaan Hirsi Ali says Muslim women who want to keep their belief in god should become Christian if they cannot leave religion altogether. How thoughtful of her. That's what happens when you mix with neo-cons and why you must keep as far away from them as possible. Mix with them too long and you start …
Aug 05 2011
Letter on Sharia Law to Justice Ministry
Ms Judith Evers Civil Justice and Legal Services Division Access to Justice Policy Directorate 4th Floor, Zone B 102 Petty France London SW1H 9AJ August 5th 2011 Dear Ms Evers, Thank you for your letter of May 24th 2011. In your letter you state "Sharia councils help the Muslim community resolve civil and family dispute …
Aug 03 2011
Never be afraid to doubt and voice dissent
Hassan Radwan, member of the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain's Executive Committee has made another brilliant video on the need to voice dissent. See it here:
Aug 03 2011
The Struggle for Secularism in Europe and North America
See the latest Women Living Under Muslim Laws dossier on the Struggle for Secularism in Europe and North America. I have an article in it entitled Religion is a Private Affair. Read it here.
Aug 03 2011
This is not about safety; it is about shielding the Islamic Republic of Iran
You can see a letter to DNA magazine about their excluding my quotes from their piece on the situation of gays in Iran by a reader of my blog, Martyn, and the response by the magazine below. Before you read it though I must say that I find it appalling that DNA magazine chooses to …
Aug 02 2011
If you're gay in Iran, please don't make too much noise (per 'gay rights' activists)
I just received an email from Nick Cook of DNA, the largest gay magazine in Australia, saying that I have been entirely removed from a (larger) piece on the situation of gays in Iran because – get this – 'Several of the other people [he] spoke to in the story convinced [him] to remove [me] …


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The 49ers will have to wait another year to open their new stadium in Santa Clara.
Team president Jed York said Wednesday the stadium's opening has been pushed back to 2015 because of problems securing financing. The team expected to start playing in the new stadium in 2014.
York said the Niners would not be able to get funding for the stadium from the NFL and other investors until the players' union and league agree on a new contract.
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With the win, the Pride even its record at 2-2 this season. Springfield will play the national-runner up, Johns Hopkins, at Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 pm.
After the Pride tacked on a run in the top of the seventh to take a 6-5 lead, Nick Saviano came into relieve starter Brayton Chase. Saviano pitched a scoreless seventh frame to keep Concordia at bay, but Springfield was unable to build its lead as it couldn't to put a run on the board in the eighth.
Concordia built some momentum as their first two batters in the bottom half of the eighth reached base. Head coach Mark Simeone then turned to reliever Mario Piscitelli, who came in to strike out the next batter. On the ensuing at bat, Piscitelli caught a hard line drive right back at him and tossed the ball to first to complete the inning-ending double play.
The Springfield offense then put the game away as it pumped in six runs in the ninth inning to take the 12-5 victory.
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At the plate, Zach Carhart went 1-2 and recorded three RBI and scored two runs, while Rob Malaspina went 2-4 with a pair of runs scored and two stolen bases. Mike Robilotto also had two RBI in the contest. Pete Calandra added two RBI on the day and hit the Pride's fourth triple in its past two games.


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CRYSTAL BAY, Nev. - Super Bowl Sunday was followed by a morose Monday in San Francisco when the city's resident political satirist spoke on a telephone."People are nursing psychic hangovers because they won five Super Bowls in a row, so they thought this one was a lock," Will Durst said, referring to Baltimore's 34-31 victory over the 49ers. "They were already planning parades."A native of the state called America's Dairyland, Durst moved to the city decades ago, smitten with its eccentric culture, crazy politics and sports teams. He swapped Wisconsin cheese for California wine. Or is it whine?"You talk about who was the better team, but it all comes down to whether or not the referee throws a flag," Durst lamented.Solace for the funnyman is the state of politics, which provides more satirical fodder than - dare we pile on? - the government does cheese.After all, in New Jersey, Geraldo Rivera is contemplating a run for U.S. Senate, where the majority leader, Harry Reid, backed off a filibuster showdown as his first move of the new session."Once again, they showed a lack of vertebrae," said Durst, who advocates stem cell research in order to create a spine for Democrats.Durst said he has new material for upcoming standup appearances, one at Crystal Bay and two in Reno. He wrote a one-man show targeting baby boomers, "Where's My Jetpack?""They are still doing drugs," Durst said about baby boomers. "Only now, there's a co-pay. One good thing about getting old is you only need nine books in your library. As long as you remember to read them alphabetically, they always seem new to you."A columnist for Lake Tahoe Action, Durst likely will return to South Shore in the late spring for a weeklong run at Harveys' Improv.
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LAS VEGAS— President Obama has no business asking Oscar Cuevas for his vote.
Since Obama assumed office, Cuevas, 23, lost his job as a cell-phone store manager when the shop went out of business. He spent the next two years unemployed. His parents lost their home and moved in with him. So did four of his siblings, one with a newborn child. Cuevas hasn't paid his own mortgage in months, and the bank has come knocking. He now has a job helping to register Latino voters, but he still can't make his house payment. Too many other bills have piled up.
Cuevas voted for Barack Obama in 2008, but he is undecided this time. "He's not doing a bang-up job," Cuevas said, flashing an infectious smile.
For 100 years, Nevada has been the quintessential presidential bellwether, siding with the victor in 24 of the past 25 campaigns (it missed only Jimmy Carter), more than any other state. And this year, both sides are pouring millions of dollars into ground operations and television advertising to frame the debate.
If the 2012 election is about the economy, then Cuevas—and Nevada—should be a lost cause for Obama. The state has topped the charts in unemployment (at 12 percent), foreclosures, and faded dreams. In some Las Vegas neighborhoods, more than eight in 10 homes are underwater, worth less than they were bought for. In the "best-off" ZIP code in the Las Vegas region, 42 percent of homes are underwater, according to Zillow, the real-estate tracking firm. The only construction work here these days seems to be boarding up abandoned houses.
And yet the president is not just competitive in Nevada, he is leading Republican Mitt Romney, according to most polls. It is not the 12-point margin he won by in 2008, but a slim lead is still a lead.
Vice President Joe Biden's July speech here to the National Council of La Raza crystallized the Obama campaign's strategy aimed at Latinos. Speaking in the foreclosure capital of America, it was 10 minutes before Biden mentioned the economy. Instead, he warned the crowd of nearly 2,000 Latino activists of the dangers posed by a President Romney.
"Close your eyes," said Biden, channeling his inner revivalist.
In the span of a minute, he asked them 10 times to "imagine" the horrors of a Romney presidency. Biden spoke of "self-deportation," Arizona's immigration law, and a veto of the Dream Act. Civil rights, voting rights, college scholarships, health care coverage for Hispanics—all are on the line. "Close your eyes and imagine," he repeated.
The Obama campaign's tactics here in economically ravaged Nevada were laid bare: Shoot the messenger (Romney) and change the subject (from the economy).
Just as Obama wants Latinos to close their eyes to picture a dark Romney future, Romney wants them to open their eyes to the hardships of their Obama economic present.
"Given the dynamics of what's going on [in the economy], it's tough to imagine the president could be as close in this thing as he is," said Sig Rogich, a GOP operative in the state who designed television ads for President George H.W. Bush's campaigns.
Latinos are a big reason why. Although Nevada voted for George W. Bush twice, the state's Hispanic population surged 81 percent between 2000 and 2010. Hispanics are now a quarter of the population and a muscular share of the electorate. They will grow stronger: The 2010 census showed that 39 percent of Nevada residents under 18 are Hispanic.
"You just don't make old white voters like you used to here," said David Damore, an associate professor of political science at the University of Nevada (Las Vegas). Despite a depressed economy that has disproportionately hurt Latinos, particularly those in the construction trades, they haven't fled Obama's coalition. Yet.
They are voters like Adriana Reyes, a 24-year-old who has a janitorial job at a mall and is still living with her parents. "Can't move out because the family is struggling," she said, as she walked through a shopping center where two discount markets compete with empty storefronts. "It's bad." She doesn't blame the president entirely, but she says, "He doesn't seem like he's done a lot."
A registered independent, Reyes voted for Obama four years ago. Now she's not sure. "I go for where it's going to help out the economy," she said. She still isn't sold on the idea that Romney is that candidate, though.
Reyes is not alone. In interviews with Nevada voters, political strategists, and politicians, it's clear that the state's financial collapse has moved many voters out of the president's camp and into the undecided column. But many have yet to migrate all the way to embracing Romney. The polls agree.
A major reason is Romney's image problem with Latinos. In a July NBC News/Telemundo/Wall Street Journal poll, only 22 percent of Latinos nationally viewed Romney positively; 44 percent held a negative view. (In contrast, 64 percent of Hispanics viewed Obama favorably.)
The Latino vote is critical well beyond Nevada. The Hispanic population tops 20 percent in the key swing states of Colorado and Florida, and is a burgeoning force in some Southern states such as North Carolina and Virginia. Even Iowa, long the subject of complaints about its lack of diversity and its central role in the presidential nominating gantlet, saw its Latino population boom 84 percent in the past decade (still only 5 percent of the population).
Romney's personal unpopularity among Latinos is partly attributable to the hard-line immigration stance he took during the GOP primary season. It was one of the few issues on which Romney could lap the field from the right, and he seized the opportunity, especially during the fleeting moments that Texas Gov. Rick Perry appeared to be a formidable foe; that's when Romney memorably embraced a doctrine of "self-deportation."
The issue has had a spillover effect. In the NBC poll, Latinos said that Obama would handle every major policy area better than Romney, including the economy, by at least a 2-1 advantage.
Romney is working to close the gap in the state. His campaign has hired a Nevada Hispanic outreach director, which it says is a GOP first. Romney's son Craig has cut Spanish-language ads that feature a fact that the candidate himself rarely mentions on the trail: Mitt Romney's father was born in Mexico. The campaign has dispatched its highest profile Latino surrogates to the state, including Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida and former Bush Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez.
Given Romney's stance on the Dream Act and his tough rhetoric on immigration, his campaign has focused its communications to Latinos (and almost every other demographic) on a one-size-fits-all message on the economy.
"Jobs and the economy—it trumps everything," said Ryan Erwin, a GOP strategist and top Romney adviser in the state. "You can't walk through a grocery store or a small business without hearing people talking about the economy. It is a pretty narrow focus if anyone thinks Hispanic voters aren't caring about the economy as much as anyone else."
The Obama campaign is doing everything it can to undercut Romney's credibility as the potential fiscal fixer-in-chief. A barrage of TV ads, in English and Spanish, has questioned Romney's character, portraying him as an out-of-touch millionaire with offshore bank accounts who can't relate to their financial woes. Romney's plans for a car elevator at his La Jolla, Calif., beach house, his wife's "couple of Cadillacs," and his friendship with NASCAR team owners have helped the Obama cause. "That has a real resonance in a state that's been hit as hard as we have," said Zac Petkanas, a senior strategist for the Nevada state Democratic Party.
The party has recent practice in demonizing the opposition to distract from a tepid economy. In 2010, unpopular Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid stood for reelection amid an even worse economic climate. The Democrat won by casting his GOP opponent, tea partier Sharron Angle, as an extremist who couldn't be trusted. Romney, calm and cool in his second presidential bid, is a far more difficult mark. But the strategy is much the same.
In the La Raza speech, Biden skewered Romney for his Swiss bank accounts, Cayman Island cash stashes, and hidden tax returns. Then, in a single line, he linked Arizona's controversial immigration law and Romney's shrouded personal finances.
"He wants you to show your papers, but he won't show us his," Biden said. The crowd thundered its approval.
Republicans say that Team Obama is simply trying to divert attention from the economy, especially among Latinos. "They cannot run on their record," said Hector Barreto, a former Bush administration official and now the cochairman of Juntos con Romney, the campaign's Hispanic-outreach effort. "They know it, and we know it."
(The Romney operation had hoped that Carlos Gutierrez, the former Bush Commerce secretary, could make a rebuttal speech at the four-day conference, but La Raza turned him down, saying that the request came too late. Instead of a spot at the podium, Gutierrez and Barreto were relegated to the hallways.)
Republicans complain that the president's June policy decree, which could allow hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children to stay and work without fear of deportation, is crass political pandering.
"Pigeonholing Latino voters into focusing entirely on immigration is an insult," said Pete Ernaut, an influential GOP strategist in the state.
But it appears to be working. The July NBC poll gave Obama a 44-point lead among Latino registered voters nationally, 67 percent to 23 percent.
With less than three months until the election, neither Romney nor Obama has skated a flawless performance in Nevada.
Since he has been president, Obama has made offhand remarks that disparage spending in Las Vegas. "You don't blow a bunch of cash in Vegas when you're trying to save for college," he said in 2010. It was a cutting remark for a city and state that relies so heavily on tourism, and at a time when the industry had cratered. Locals took offense, elected officials howled, and business visibly declined.
"Did it hurt us? It did," said Jan Jones, a former two-term Las Vegas mayor in an interview in her office at Caesar's Palace casino, where she's now an executive. Jones is a Democrat and supports Obama.
Romney's misstep came last fall. "Don't try to stop the foreclosure process," he said during a Las Vegas swing. "Let it run its course and hit the bottom."
In a state where the housing bust could take more than a decade to recover, that remark "went over like a lead balloon," said Eric Herzik, professor of political science at the University of Nevada (Reno).
But more than a poor turn of phrase, Herzik said, Romney's comment raised questions about what he would do as president to help Nevada. The GOP free-market philosophy of lower taxes and fewer regulations is largely a reality in this Western outpost. "We're a state built on gambling; the bars never close; we have legalized prostitution in 10 counties," Herzik said.
That laissez-faire approach had fueled decades of spectacular growth. And, in recent years, a staggering collapse. "If low taxes and regulations were the panacea, then Nevada should have led the nation out of recession," Herzik said. Instead, it has been among the laggards.
Erwin, the Romney adviser, said that Nevadans blame a growing federal bureaucracy under Obama for strangling the recovery. "Governor Romney's message of economic freedom is going to resonate well here," he said.
Still, nagging questions remain, even among Nevada Republicans, about what exactly Romney is promising. His campaign "is now, 'He did bad, and I can do better,' " Ernaut said. "At some point, voters are going to say, 'How?' "
The extent to which the Latino electorate will be motivated to come out for Obama remains one of 2012's great intangibles. To win here, Romney does not need to carry the Latino vote. But he must limit Obama's margin of victory. The state's GOP governor, Brian Sandoval, who is Latino, won election in 2010 despite garnering only a third of the Hispanic vote, according to exit polling.
The president faces some headwinds among Latinos nationally. Despite the June decree, Obama's overall deportation record has been a sore subject. His administration has set records, ejecting nearly 400,000 illegal immigrants in the last full fiscal year.
Obama also promised in his 2008 campaign to tackle a comprehensive immigration overhaul but then did little to advance such a plan, even as Democrats controlled all the levers of government in 2009 and 2010. Romney's campaign regularly reminds Hispanics of this. "Now you're getting around to it," Barreto said of the deportation freeze. "Why? Because you're running for reelection. Why? Because the enthusiasm is down in the Hispanic community."
Another wrinkle in November's Hispanic turnout is a local labor fight that could have national implications. The most potent union in the state, Culinary Workers Union Local 226, nearly half of whose 55,000 members are Latino, is threatening to sit out the election if contract and organizing disputes remain unresolved. If this key cog in the Democrats' Latino-turnout machine stays on the sidelines, it could cost the Democrats dearly. Still, most analysts expect the union to ultimately mobilize.
If Latinos are Obama's great demographic trump card in this desert state, Romney has a smaller one of his own: the Mormon vote. The community accounts for an estimated 7 percent of the population but votes at a far higher clip. Church members are expected to turn out in droves for Romney, the first presidential nominee from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and for the state's GOP senator, Dean Heller, who is also Mormon and is locked in a tough race.
Of course, the biggest wild card remains how the Nevada economy fares between now and November. Las Vegas, more than anywhere, depends on a confidence economy—visitors feeling flush and spending like it—and confidence has been on the decline.
The economy is a constant worry for Cuevas, whose family is living in his house that's on the brink of foreclosure. Sure, he said, he's still "looking" at both Obama and Romney, but that's not really the right word. He can only afford to glance at politics these days. He thinks about the election a lot, though, as he helps register voters. Election Day is when Cuevas becomes unemployed again.
"This job," he said, "ends Nov. 6."
This article appears in the September 1, 2012 edition of National Journal Magazine.
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TEMECULA, CA -- The father of a 15-year-old girl accused in connection with an alleged baseball bat beating in a park has also been implicated.
David Ray Mills, 35, of Temecula has been charged with attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and felony vandalism in the Jan. 13 attack, court records show. Mills is charged alongside Andre Dickerson Jr., 20, also of Temecula.
Dickerson and the teen girl were arrested Jan. 18 at the girl's residence following an initial investigation.
An arrest warrant approved Jan. 31 for Mills breaks down the events that led up to the alleged beating at Kent Hintergardt Memorial Park that left a 20-year-old man seriously injured.
Mills, Dickerson and the girl allegedly conspired to send a text message at about 10 p.m. Jan. 13, inviting the victim to the park. This occurred after the girl told them earlier in the day the victim had raped her twice in November 2012, Riverside County sheriff's Investigator David Gorlicki wrote. The girl told investigators she drank vodka prior to the alleged rapes, that she was "passed out" and that both incidents were "against her will."
The girl, a female friend of hers, and Mills and Dickerson walked to the park to meet the victim, who showed up at about 10:30 p.m., driving his mother's minivan, Gorlicki wrote.
The girls summoned the victim to the restroom area, and asked him to wait as they used the restroom, Gorlicki wrote.
At the prompting of the girl, Dickerson, who had been hiding nearby, began assaulting the victim with a wooden baseball bat.
The bat was brought by the girl to the park, Gorlicki wrote.
The victim told police he was hit approximately 10 to 15 times with the bat before Dickerson stopped and began smashing the windows of his mother's car.
The beaten victim drove home, where his mother found him sitting in the driveway. He was treated a short time later at Rancho Springs Medical Center in Murrieta for injuries that included five head lacerations, a torn left eardrum, a knocked-out tooth, a broken shoulder and a broken hand, according to the warrant statement.
In an interview on Jan. 18, Mills allegedly changed his previous story and admitted to hiding behind a dumpster, "where he watched the entire incident with the use of a scope," Gorlicki wrote.
The girl, and eventually her father, admitted to walking home from the park and "acting like nothing happened," according to the warrant statement.
Dickerson, who pleaded not guilty Jan. 23, remains jailed in lieu of $1 million bail. Mills has yet to be taken into custody, a search of sheriff's jail records on Friday revealed.
It was unclear if the girl's friend, also a minor, will be charged in the case.


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NORMAN — Sprouts Farmers Market is accepting job applications for its Norman store at 555 W. Main St.
The Norman store, representing the natural foods chain's third in Oklahoma and the first of two new Sprouts stores this year in the state, will open in late March and employ approximately 80 people.
The job fair is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Hilton Garden Inn, 700 Copperfield Drive in Norman.
Applicants are asked to complete an online application before attending the job fair. Positions and applications are available at Sprouts' careers portal. Click on "Job by location" and enter the ZIP code 73069 for the Norman store positions.
"It takes a special kind of person to work at Sprouts," said Doug Sanders, Sprouts president and CEO. "We seek individuals who demonstrate our values and keys to success: People with a customer-centric focus — always, hard-working people who still know how to have fun, people with a passion for their work as well as compassion for others and individuals with a creative and enterprising attitude to help Sprouts become the best it can be."
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Understanding the Podcasting Revolution
Ever heard of Dawn and Drew? The Godcast network? The Rock and Roll Geek Show? These names are synonymous with the "podcasting� phenomenon that has been sweeping the Internet in recent months.
Since podcasting first emerged as a form of mass communication, typical people - professionals, housewives, computer nerds, and teenagers – have been making digital recordings of themselves doing little more than talking. The subject matter ranges from anything in general to nothing in particular - life, romance, music, sports, gadgets, arts, computers, losing weight, politics, religion, the list goes on and on. They banter about their pet peeves, recount how their days went, and make fun of people. Podcasts give them a place to make their opinions known, without censure, rules or conventions. And there's no cost to listeners: it's all free via the Internet.
There's good reason to believe that podcasting will be even bigger than it is already. Google the word "podcast� and it'll turn up almost 1.7 million hits, even though podcasting did not exist one year ago.
What is a Podcast?
A podcast is an audio mini-program, in MP3 format, broadcast over the Internet. You can download and listen to the podcast on any MP3-compatible digital music player, preferably an iPod, hence the name. The key innovation is that subscribers can subscribe to lists of MP3 podcasts and choose when to download them, taking their recorded shows on commutes, treadmills or flights, unlike traditional Internet radio, where music or other audio content is streamed at particular times and is not always made available for free. You can either download a podcast once or subscribe to the RSS service for regular doses of your favorite shows. Your podcasting software checks for new content and begins to download when you say so. Ideally, you connect your iPod to your computer and have it automatically sync the latest feeds via iTunes.
The beauty of podcasting is that it's easy and generally free for listeners, while costing relatively little to producers. At least, this is true for listeners with unlimited broadband Internet access and large hard disks, since a 30-minute feed can mean a 20-Megabyte download. This means that podcasters also have to host large files. But podcasting means you, the listener, are your own radio program director: you can decide when, where, and how often to listen to an audio program.
How Podcasting Started
Podcasting is the brainchild of Adam Curry and David Winer. Curry, formerly of MTV Music Television fame, last year wrote iPodder software that could organize and download to his iPod newly posted audio files from websites of his choice. He encouraged others to improve on his coding, and volunteers from all over the world subsequently helped him perfect iPodder. He started his own half-hour podcast in the fall, "Daily Source Code,� featuring talk on new and interesting podcasts, tech news, and general chit-chat, with small bits of music in-between, and has attracted some 50,000 listeners.
Podcasting is a natural extension of the blogging phenomenon, which has continued to grow over the past few years. Many podcasters start out as bloggers, only to expand their platform further to the audio blog.
Listening to a podcast for the first time from the author of a blog you've been following religiously for months can be an almost surreal experience: suddenly you can match a voice to the name. This is how people must have felt when they first heard the voices of beloved actors after the silent movie era came to an end.
What You Need
What do you need to hear one of these audiocasts? All you need is a podcast software client that will download the feed via your Internet connection. Conveniently, there are multi-platform podcasting applications such as iPodder, which is Windows-, Mac-, and Linux-friendly. At the moment, Windows-only apps include NIMIQ, podfeeder, and Doppler, whereas on a Mac you can choose between iPoddumFeeder, PlayPod, and iPodderX.
Podcasters themselves also have it pretty easy. All they need is something to talk about, a microphone, a computer and some editing software. Upload it to the Internet and voila. Sounds easy, right?
Well, it does get a tad technical. In fact, many podcasters want to know how to get top audio quality, the right microphone to buy, how to use editing and MP3 conversion software to erase errant sounds, and how to get an RSS feed onto their blogs. Some have it easy. Most traditional blogging tools already automatically generate RSS files. Others have to do this themselves.
Getting the audio file into an RSS feed requires that you either copy and paste code already available from helper sites, adapting it to your needs, or, for the more savvy, write the code in HTML yourself, defining your content into "items� (title, description, links, language, date, etc.) and string these items into "channels.� The MP3 file is placed into an enclosure tag featuring the URL, duration of file in bytes, and type. Then you'll have to decide which RSS format or version to use (0.91, 1.0 or 2.0) and get your RSS file validated and syndicated. For details on all of these issues and more, see these links:
Making an RSS feed by searchenginewatch
podcast about podcasting
podcast how-to by podcast411
What is Podcasting Like Today?
The increasing popularity of podcasting can be attributed to the ubiquitous nature of the iPod. Tens of thousands of freshly baked iPod owners have been filling up their little babies with free podcasts, complementing their paid music collections.
So far, podcasters are not in it for the money, but rather for the idealistic nature of what they are doing – making their thoughts, noble causes, and rants available to a worldwide audience. And they are quickly becoming stars. Suddenly musicians previously unknown and unsigned are selling their music online after being featured on a podcast, and some websites running podcasts see their hits increase astronomically. It's like the proverbial word of mouth, spreading buzz in the virtual universe like wildfire.
Typically podcasters are known among themselves within the community and usually mention fellow podcasters, as well as up and coming podcasts – serving to spread the word. Even a bare mention on Curry's Daily Source Code is enough to increase your downloads exponentially. There are so many podcasts available on every imaginable topic that it has almost become difficult to find content you would be interested in, which has of course made the birth of podcast directories a necessity.
And the scope of podcasting is now growing outside of the US – there are a few Australian and European pioneers sending their message out over the airwaves, including the beer-based babblings of Australian Craft Brewers, one Polish feed, the German-language Wanhoffs Wunderbare Welt der Wissenschaft about science, the universe and insects; or a really fantastically named French podcast Bebop & Loola – a cultural voyage of discovery of architecture, festivals, clubs and bars in Berlin. There is even a podcast in Native American Mohawk.
The Future
Though it's already beginning to happen in the technology space with Internet-savvy broadcasters such as Your Mac Life and Leo Laporte, traditional non-tech broadcasters are likely to jump on the bandwagon too, making their shows available as free feeds, something that would not have been conceivable years ago. Big names will also want to be involved, corporations and celebrities alike – in a way to communicate with or influence their target audience or fans more effectively. And somebody is bound to find a way to make money out of it – hopefully at a reasonable rate for both producers and subscribers.
With more and more people getting into podcasting – both listening and scrambling to get their own podcasts together, the sky will be the limit for future possibilities. One area is video podcasts: Rocketboom is already one example.
And of course, the technology and software will become even more refined, making podcasting easier to enjoy and use. Podcasting is another phenomenon that shows that the iPod will continue to influence urban, suburban, and rural lifestyles all over the world, spawning parallel industries in its wake and creating novel uses for all of us.
Best Podcasts
With podcasting still in its teething stage, it's not easy to find criteria to judge the best out there. What do successful podcasts have in common? Interesting content and consistency. Generous doses of humor, a bit of good music, and a specific topic of conversation. And also regularity.
According to leading directories, the most popular podcasts are the Daily Source Code, the Dawn and Drew show, Rock and Roll Geek show, Coverville, Insomnia Radio and IT Conversations. Listeners can cast their vote on their choices for best podcast on the very handy Podcast Alley. iLounge has made two of its own podcasts available, as well, with plans for new editions in the near future.
You yourself will be the best judge of whether a podcast is worth a second and third listen. Yes, you may have to listen to many podcasts before you find the gem you're looking for. But it's a journey of discovery worth taking.
Best Sites for Podcasting Information
We recommend the following sites as great resources for both podcasters and podcast listeners.
Podcast Bunker
Podcast Alley
Podcasting News
The Podcast Network
Podcast Central
Engadget How-To: Podcasting
Want to Discuss Podcasting?
In addition to the comments thread below, definitely visit iLounge's new Podcasting Discussion Forum, available at this link. You'll find information on interesting new podcasts and podcasting there, as well as fellow podcasters to share tips and insights with. And maybe you'll even meet the author of this article there, too!
Portable Media Expo showcases the present and future of portable content with demonstration exhibits and conference sessions devoted to creating, editing, delivering, viewing and profiting from unique audio and video media. Visit the iLounge "lounge" booth November 11-12, 2005 at the Ontario Convention Center, California.
Alicia Bankhofer currently resides in Austria with her husband of 11 years and their three mischievous cats. She relaxes from her daily grind by answering multifarious cries for help in iLounge forums as a forum moderator ("ginalee"), and in general spends too much time surfing the net.
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it would be great if the ipodlounge reviewed some podcasting software. i would like to know more about each of the programs and their advantages.
Posted by StinkieDMB in Pittsburgh, PA on February 17, 2005 at 5:18 PM (PDT)
What does it mean to upload a podcast to the internet? Who hosts these podcasts? I am sorry if this is too rudimentary of a question…but this is the part that I am not getting. Thanks.
Posted by ask4isk in SoCal on February 17, 2005 at 8:24 PM (PDT)
Basically, since a podcast is not a streaming broadcast, it needs to be in mp3 form readily available for download…
So, we record our show, mix it down, etc, then move that mp3 file to a server, webhost, etc. Once this happens, the software such as ipodder goes out and brings that show right to your desktop….
If you have any more questions, hit me up…
Posted by Insomnia Radio in Central Coast of CA on February 17, 2005 at 9:28 PM (PDT)
THANK YOU for doing your homework. How refreshing to see an article about podcasting that covers the gamut in non technical language. Well written, well researched, and speaking for the podcasting community, we are thrilled to be written about on ipodlounge…
On a personal note, thanks so much for including my show alongside Rock and Roll Geek, Dawn And Drew, and Adam Curry….what an honor….
Jason/Insomnia Radio
Posted by Insomnia Radio in Central Coast of CA on February 17, 2005 at 9:29 PM (PDT)
Thanks for the kind words of support. We'll definitely feature more information for our readers about podcasting in future.
Posted by ginalee on February 17, 2005 at 11:19 PM (PDT)
good article alicia - very helpful and well written may have to ask some more questions one of these days…!?
Posted by yinyang on February 18, 2005 at 2:39 AM (PDT)
To bad this article wasn't a podcast itself!
Posted by iPodFed on February 18, 2005 at 8:59 AM (PDT)
Thanks for a great article and the GodCast Network mention. I also have a podcast called "Behind the Scenes" that covers topics of interest for people who want to create their own podcast at http://bts.godcast.org
Craig/The Godcast Network
Posted by Craig P. in San Diego, CA on February 18, 2005 at 11:24 AM (PDT)
I would like to see an all inclusive how-to on Podcasting. I have tried and tried, but am unable to figure out the Podcast client s/w.
Keep up the great work!
Posted by John C in Seattle WA on February 18, 2005 at 12:19 PM (PDT)
Just got a chance to read the article and it was great. Personally, I learned a lot about podcasting and the available podcast and sites I didn't know before. Thanks for the great informative article Alicia. You did a great job.
Posted by honeybee1236 on February 19, 2005 at 7:38 AM (PDT)
Good article!
Links removed - advertising
Posted by gw in UK on February 19, 2005 at 9:38 AM (PDT)
Pod2Go was not listed in the mac section as program capable of downloading podcasts.
Posted by StarTrekkie in TN on February 21, 2005 at 8:58 AM (PDT)
Thanks for the mention in the article, but you incorrectly linked my show, Insomnia Radio :-(
It points to [url=http://www.insomniaradio.com]http://www.insomniaradio.com,[/url] which is a far cry from what I'm doing…
The proper URL is http://hardcoreinsomniaradio.blogspot.com
Can you possibly insert a correction? I fear I have missed out on some traffic…
Thanks so much, greatly appreciated.
Link in article corrected - Admin
Posted by Insomnia Radio in Central Coast of CA on February 21, 2005 at 10:21 AM (PDT)
"it would be great if the ipodlounge reviewed some podcasting software. i would like to know more about each of the programs and their advantages."
I agree! And since, as this wonderful article (and many others) mention, that Podcasting is an offshoot of blogging and uses some of the same tools, I think it would also be helpful to have a review of some of the better Blog hosting sites out there! I haven't really been too interested in Blogging (text format), but this whole Podcasting thing has me excited!
- Eric
Posted by EricW in WI on February 22, 2005 at 6:47 PM (PDT)
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By Sarah Plummer
Register-Herald Reporter
The University of Charleston has received approval from the Higher Learning Commission to open new locations in Beckley and Martinsburg as well as offer technology-aided distance learning and online classes. Wednesday's announcement, made at the University of Charleston's main campus, gives the school the green light to dramatically expand its course offerings and enroll new students.
University of Charleston President Dr. Ed Welch said the school's academic programs will increase from 23 to 32 and Spring 2013 enrollment is expected to nearly double its existing student body.
Classes for the two new campuses, to be known as UC-Beckley and UC-Martinsburg, are expected to begin Jan. 14 and students are currently enrolling, he said.
Online classes will begin Jan. 7
Welch said he is proud of UC's ability to expand its offerings and locations in such a short amount of time, particularly during such unusual circumstances as MSU's planned closure.
The school has restructured for this massive growth in just over four months, working closely with Mountain State University after being named the primary teach-out partner for students left in limbo in August .
Welch added that students currently enrolled in the MSU/UC teach-out who can graduate in May now have a seamless way to transfer to UC, stay in Beckley and finish.
"This is a historic day for the University of Charleston. We are grateful that the HLC has faith in our institution to add network-based instruction and two new locations. It is vitally important for Beckley to have a four-year college, and we are pledging a long-term commitment to educate students for a life of productive work, enlightened living and community involvement," Welch said.
Katie McClung, a former Mountain State University student, attended the announcement Wednesday.
McClung was a junior in MSU's Culinary Arts program and then transferred into UC as a freshman because her program-specific credits could not transfer.
In the spring she will return to Beckley, proud to be a UC student, to finish her Culinary Arts degree in one or two years, she said.
"There has been a lot of stress and a lot of relief over the past year. I had a lot of bitter feelings and felt ashamed. Now the biggest burden has been released," she shared.
Dr. Paul Hill, chancellor for the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission, called UC's expansion "a momentous occasion."
"Foremost in our minds were concerns for MSU students. Where would they be placed? Where would they fulfill their dreams of having a college education?" Hill said. "This is a great outcome for our state, not only for students today, but for future students."
Commenting on the schools' merger, Sen. Joe Manchin stated, "I could not be more proud of the way the people in our state came together to continue educating the students who were enrolled at Mountain State University. This institution was vitally important to our community, and I am glad to know that it will continue to be a mainstay in the lives of the residents of Beckley, Martinsburg and Charleston.
Sen. Jay Rockefeller commended UC and the state Higher Education Policy Commission for helping to move students forward during a difficult time.
The University of Charleston has signed a master agreement with Mountain State University to lease space in Beckley and Martinsburg. UC-Beckley will operate out of several academic and administrative buildings and UC-Martinsburg will be located at 214 Viking Way in Martinsburg.
The University of Charleston has hired 65 former MSU faculty and staff members in Beckley and three in Martinsburg.
Dr. Jerry Forster will serve as president and direct operations at both locations.
While Mountain State University officials made a final appeal to the accrediting body on Dec. 4, Welch said the results of this appeal will not effect UC's presence on the MSU campus.
"Here is our path forward; they will need to make their own," he said.
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