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CLOVIS, N.M. (AP) - A former public notary has entered a plea in a fraud case involving hundreds of New Mexico driver's licenses, obtained for people living outside the country.
A defense lawyer says 38-year-old Veronica Diaz of Portales entered what is known as an Alford plea, in which she maintains her innocence but acknowledged the risk of being convicted at trial in light of the evidence against her. She was charged with 47 counts, including forgery and other crimes.
A judge placed her on five years of supervised probation.
Defense lawyer Eric Dixon says his client was not involved in any way with human trafficking and, as part of her plea agreement, she is under no requirement to cooperate with prosecutors. However, if she were to be subpoenaed to testify about what she knows, he says she would be legally obligated to do so.
Authorities say false affidavits were used to obtain New Mexico driver's licenses for foreign nationals from Mexico, El Salvador, Brazil, Guatemala, Uruguay and Honduras.


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The mission of the Division of Critical Care is to develop an educational program, which addresses the needs of both the patients and trainees. In order to support this educational mission, the program will encourage research initiatives and clinical practice improvements in order to promote excellence and address the challenge of providing care in the most effective and efficient manner to the critically ill patient.
The Fellowship in Critical Care Medicine is accredited by the AGCME and the American Board of Anesthesiology, and is one year to two years in duration. Entry occurs after completion of three years of specialty training in Anesthesiology. The fellowship may be combined with an additional year in cardiac anesthesia.
1. The Fellowship in Critical Care Medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is designed to maintain the general standards of accreditation of the AGCME and the specific requirements for accreditation of fellowship programs in Critical Care Medicine as defined by the American Board of Anesthesiology.
2. The Fellowship will ensure that by the completion of their training the fellows will be able to provide complete care of critically ill patients, function as a leader of a multidisciplinary health care team providing such care, have a working knowledge of the administration and management of a critical care unit, be able to critically appraise the literature as it pertains to critical care medicine, and have a basic understanding and facility with the principles of research in critical care medicine.
3. The trainee completing the Fellowship will also demonstrate the appropriate attitudes to provide effective care of the critically ill patient and his/her family, and function appropriately in the critical care environment.
The Fellowship in Anesthesia Critical Care at the BIDMC is an organized program of rotations and educational experiences, both mandatory and elective, designed to provide each fellow with the opportunity to fulfill the educational requirements and achieve competence in the specialty.
The fellowship in critical care is based in the surgical ICU's at the BIDMC with an external rotation to the Children's Hospital, Boston, for Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care experience. There are electives in the medical ICU', interventional pulmonology and to other subspecialty services. Successful completion leads to certification eligibility by the American Board of Anesthesiology. The fellows take an active role in teaching, conducting rounds, and participating in research projects. The purpose of the fellowship is to prepare individuals for a career emphasizing care of critically ill patients and the management of an ICU.
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One year of adult critical care medicine, including primary patient care, consultative, and administrative functions, at an appropriate level of seniority. During their training fellows will be provided with a graduated increase in responsibility appropriate to their level of competence for the evaluation and management of critically ill patients under appropriate supervision.
To effectively and efficiently manage all aspects of a complex critically ill patient.
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There are mechanisms in place to ensure the systematic collection and interpretation of evaluation data on each Fellow enrolled in the program, including participation in the national Multidisciplinary Critical Care Knowledge Assessment Program (MCCKAP). Fellows will have an evaluative interview with the Program Director monthly, and undergo written evaluation by all the Critical Care Faculty twice yearly.
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PFW associate editor Dan Parr presents a running meter that indicates the Bears' top MVP candidates through their most recent game:
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1. DE Julius Peppers (1): The attention defenses give Peppers has helped some of his teammates improve their numbers, and he's starting to pad his own stats a bit, making four sacks in the past two games. His sack of Michael Vick on third down from the Bears' three-yard line forced the Eagles to settle for a field goal when they could have taken the lead with a touchdown.
2. MLB Brian Urlacher (2): He's doing his best to keep Peppers from running away with the top spot. After becoming the leading tackler in franchise history against Miami in Week 11, Urlacher led the team in tackles in the win over the Eagles, making 10 stops, including nine solo tackles. He played a key role in stopping Philadelphia from making big plays.
3. QB Jay Cutler (3): After one of his best performances since being traded to the Bears before last season, Cutler is edging closer to Urlacher on the Meter. He threw four touchdown passes against the Eagles and was not intercepted. The Chicago offense seems to be improving as we head into the final five games, and this is a difficult team to beat when Cutler isn't turning the ball over.
4. WR Devin Hester (4): He didn't score a touchdown, but Hester played a major role in setting up the game-winning score in the 31-26 victory. On the opening kickoff of the second half, Hester returned it 46 yards to the Bears' 46 and Cutler connected with him for a 34-yard gain on the second play of the ensuing drive. Nate Allen was flagged for a horse-collar tackle when he brought down Hester, and the Bears had 1st-and-goal from the Eagles' nine. Cutler threw a TD pass to TE Greg Olsen on the next play, giving Chicago a 28-13 lead.
5. DE Israel Idonije (5): Peppers' top pass-rushing complement was credited with half a sack on Sunday, giving him 5½ sacks in the last seven games. Idonije had a team-high two tackles for loss against Philadelphia. His development this season has been a big boost to the Bears' "D."


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Seven of Riverside's student artists will have a public showing as winners of the 2009 Festival of Lights Holiday Coloring Contest.
Each year, all of Riverside 's K-6 grade students are encouraged to color and decorate the official Historic Mission Inn line drawing that is made available through the Riverside Monthly Newsletter. A student from each grade level with the most creative coloring is selected as a winner and awarded a $50 VISA gift card, a holiday stocking filled with great prizes, and a pair of tickets to check out the new Festival of Lights ice rink.
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The wine room has come a long way from that cobweb-infested space in the basement.
Well on the way to becoming a staple feature in any high-end house, the wine room — or closet depending on space — is growing in popularity.
How to build a wine room has been covered before in the pages of The Daily News. But even more important to the wine connoisseur than the room is what to put in it.
That's where Fawn Martin, product consultant at the Sahali Signature Liquor Store, comes in. But, before she can recommend the wine, she needs to know what the buyer plans to do with it.
If a wine is going to be stored and aged, then be prepared to spend some money, she said. A barolo, bordeaux, burgundy and port improves with age — lasting anywhere from 10 to 15 years — but they are expensive.
"Barolos do need to be aged," she said, adding 15 years is just right. "When you pour them, they come out like a brick colour."
Barolos can start at $20 a pop, but any bottle of decent, aged wine can go for $50 to $70. Most reds are best consumed two to five years after vintage.
"When aging a wine, you're looking for something with high tannins, high acidity and high in sugar because they all act as natural preservatives," she said.
Tannins are a family of natural organic compounds that are found in grape skins, seeds and stems and are a natural preservative.
High-alcohol wines will taste even more like alcohol after aging, as will acidic wine. If other flavours diminish over time, the acidity will be more pronounced.
Martin said an important thing to remember is a bad or cheap bottle of wine will taste even worse the older it gets.
"If you buy a crappy wine in 10 years it will be crappy times 10," she said.
When it comes to white wine, it's best to pop the cork and enjoy one to three years after vintage, said Martin.
A vintage wine is one made from grapes that were all, or primarily, grown and harvested in a single specified year.
Developer Doug Wittal built himself a one-metre wide by two-metre deep wine closet at his Sun Rivers home. Held within crossed dark-stained wood shelves are 350 bottles of wine.
"I'm a red wine kind of guy," he said of the majority of bottles in the room.
Half of the collection he intends to age 10 to 20 years; the rest is for general consumption. Wittal sees no point in holding onto all of the wine forever.
"Sooner or later you have to enjoy it," he said.
He built the cellar just off his home theatre room. Wittal had a refrigeration unit installed in order to keep the wine at a cool 10 to14 C, which is optimum for storing wine, he said.
Martin said it's important to maintain a cool temperature and relative humidity of about 60 to 70 per cent. Champagnes and white wines should be closest to the floor, where the air stays a few degrees cooler; red wines are best stored on upper shelves to maintain a perfect tasting temperature.
If the air is too dry, the cork seals will dry out, allowing air to enter the bottle and threaten the integrity of the wine, she said.
Wine should never be stored for any length of time standing up, said Martin. It only takes about a month for the cork to dry out in a standing bottle.
"Who needs expensive vinegar?" she asked.
It's also best to build a cellar away from vibrating washers and dryers, stereo systems or strong light. Martin said the best wine remains calm and quiet.
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Maison Kitsuné is a record label as much as it is a fashion brand. So when Gildas Loaëc and Masaya Kuroki brought their show to Pitti, they literally brought the show. They'd never presented their fashion collections live before, but they had plenty of experience putting bands onstage. So at the Palazzo Capponi last night, they just did what they knew best: They put bands onstage. This time, though, they happened to be wearing Maison Kitsuné.
The thing took the form of a classic TV variety hour, Ed Sullivan-style, with shticky emcees (the Tokyo-based duo Verbal and Yoon—left) and musical acts (the Swedish girl group Say Lou Lou, the French electro-pop chanteuse Yelle, the Franz Ferdinand-esque Brit rockers Citizens!). The whole was filmed by fashion's documentarian of choice, Loïc Prigent. "I grew up watching TV," Kuroki said backstage after the show. "I didn't grow up watching YouTube. We wanted to make it a bit slower. You can feel the moment." (Whatever he did or didn't grow up with, the Prigent video is soon destined for an online outlet near you.)
In keeping with the midcentury vibe of the format, the clothes, too, had a sixties spin. The girl-groupers wore silvery minidresses and Peter Pan-collared shirts. (A punky touch was added by Verbal and Yoon's jewelry line, Ambush.) The guys had patch-pocket suits and penny loafers. And Yelle? Well, her shortalls romper and sparrow-tailed twill parka didn't seem to fit the theme, but no use standing on ceremony about that. This was less a step onto the fashion runway than one toward Kitsuné's continuing global expansion (next up, their first Tokyo store, opening in February), and one in pursuit of a good time. "It was good fun," Kuroki said. "It was a pop experience."
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Families could get on the housing ladder in the Maldon district by building their own homes (From Maldon and Burnham Standard)
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Families could get on the housing ladder in the Maldon district by building their own homes
5:00pm Friday 31st January 2014 in Local News
A council is one of the first in Essex to support people to build their own homes.
Maldon District Council is backing the Government's Community Right to Build scheme, which allows local communities to undertake small, community-led building projects which could include homes, shops and businesses.
To get the go-ahead, the proposals must have the agreement of more than half of local people that vote through a community referendum and meet some minimum requirements, for example, they should generally be in line with national and local planning policies.
A spokesman said: "The council may not be one of the first but is certainly among the few and possibly the only one in Essex actively seeking to promote and enable this type of development since the government encouraged local authorities to do so through the National Planning Policy Framework."
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot by David Shafer
Mulholland • $26 • ISBN 9780316252638
Published August 5, 2014
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There's something ominous circling the three characters in David Shafer's debut novel, but quite frankly, I haven't been giving it much attention. I've been far too caught up in Shafer's unrelenting humor—which is wicked and dark, just how I like it—and his spotless characterization. That being said, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot also fulfills all the requirements of an outstanding technothriller, with pulsing strains of paranoia and those all-seeing technological powers-that-be.
The story centers around 30-somethings Leila, Leo and Mark. Leo and Mark were friends at Harvard, but Leo is now a bit of a loser, while Mark is a phony self-help guide who works for the Committee, a data collection agency that seeks to privatize all information. Leila is a disillusioned nonprofit worker on the other side of the world. The only thing keeping the Committee from its goal is a secret underground Internet called Dear Diary. With jabs at every political angle, a love story and plenty of cool tech, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is a pageturner of the highest order.
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There was no one even near Leo when he flew from his bike. His mind cast about for a culprit, for someone to blame other than himself. The bike just ceased its forward motion and he did not. How surprising, how nifty physics was. And as he trebucheted toward a four-inch curb, aware at once that his meeting with it would be physically calamitous, he remembered that he was wearing no helmet, and his surprised turned to fear. A month ago, at a party to which his friend Louis had brought him, Leo had heard (well, overheard) the host claiming that he wasn't afraid of death. That particular claim seemed to Leo to be demonstrably false. So, costumed as Jesus (for this was a Halloween party), Leo had decided to explore the man's reasoning. Not afraid of death, huh? My, that must make you a real psychopath. But he had seen almost immediately that he should not have told the man that he was like a Holocaust denier. "I said like a Holocaust denier. Like," he protested lamely when Louis escorted him out of the party and told him to enjoy the bracing walk home dressed as Jesus.
No, thought Leo, as he landed his right hand, fingertips first, on the cold nubbly of the curb, I am definitely more than a body, but I believe I am less than a soul.
Then, with a fluid agility that hadn't been his in years, Leo tucked his head and vertical body behind the leading edge of his rounded arm. Some latent muscle memory from five months of jujitsu at the McBurney YMA on West Sixty-Third Street from when he was ten? Leo seemed to recall that this YMCA had in fact served the adventurous class of men described in the song. Now, he felt a point beneath his stomach become the axis of his spinning mass, and he knew to use that dragony breath to take the hit when, after about 120 degrees, his trunk met the sidewalk, hard. Next was his hip and ass, which rolled over not just the concrete but also a busted padlock on the scene by chance. Then came his knees and feet, with a thwack. That was followed by his trailing left arm, which lay down gently, and his gloved palm, which landed and sprang back, the way a conguero lands a hand on the taut hide of his drum.
Leo stood up. He was fine. Just fine. Right as rain.
Leo stood up again, this time more carefully. Okay, maybe fine was an overstatement. But ambulatory and intact. A bit exhilarated, actually.
His bike lay twisted in the street behind him, its front tire still clamped in the groove of the new light-rail system tracks they were laying all over town. Only now did he notice the yellow-and-black warming signs that would have made him aware of the hazard his bike had to cross. The graphics depicted pretty much what had just happened: a bicycle with its front wheel caught in the maw of the track, the blockish pictogram rider hurtling over the handlebars. An honest piece of graphic art; a tiny, two-line picture poem, thought Leo, and he started to upbraid himself for his carelessness and lack of attention.
But wait. On one corner—the direction from which he'd come—the warning sign was there, but it was swathed in black plastic, taped up tight.
The thought came like a revelation: This was no accident. They obscured that sign because they want me eliminated.
Some part of him said, No, don't be ridiculous. But then why was only one sign shrouded?
What are you reading today?
Mary Kubica's startling debut thriller, The Good Girl, has been enjoying plenty of buzz and anticipation ahead of today's release.
Our reviewer has high praise for this "psychological puzzle that will keep readers on their toes" complete with an "especially satisfying" end reveal.
Mia Dennett, a 24-year-old art teacher, comes from a well-groomed family and seems poised to continue climbing Chicago's social ladder—until the day she vanishes without a trace.
Told from alternating points of view and timelines, this mystery is sure to keep you confounded until Kubica finally puts the pieces in order.
Watch the trailer below, but don't say we didn't warn you about the creep-out factor:
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Ravenous mystery readers know that crime isn't limited to big cities. It's not even limited to Amish farms, charming British villages or too-perfect suburbs. Revenge and murder even finds its way to paradise, such as in Mark Troy's new mystery, The Splintered Paddle. In a guest blog post, Troy shares his insight into the dark side of Hawaii.
Where do most fictional private eyes hang their fedoras? That's easy: New York City, Boston, Detroit, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Far down on the list is Honolulu.
You can name the Honolulu private eye series on one hand. Television gave us Tracey Steele and Tom Lopaka in "Hawaiian Eye," and Thomas Magnum in "Magnum, P.I." The list of Hawaiian private eye novel series begins and ends with Charles Kneif's John Caine. Some mainland-based eyes, such as Sharon McCone and Adrian Monk, have had adventures in the islands, but none have stayed. The most famous Hawaiian crime fighters are police detectives Charlie Chan and Steve McGarrett (both incarnations), but, even with their inclusion, the list is a short one. One gets the sense that there just isn't much crime in the islands.
In the minds of most people, Hawaii is a paradise of golden sands, sparkling waters, waving palm trees and gyrating hula girls. Where are the mean streets? They are everywhere, but, like the changes in seasons, they are easily missed until you have spent time there.
Although I love Hawaii, its beaches and mountains, what I love most are its people and culture. By culture, I don't mean hula dances and ukuleles, but the circumstances of history and geography from which the spirit of the people is formed.
One of the tenets of Hawaiian culture is a long tradition of resisting mistreatment of its citizens and of taking care of the weak and helpless. That tenet is stated in the Law of the Splintered Paddle—Kānāwai Māmalahoe in Hawaiian. The law was the first edict promulgated by Kamehameha I after uniting the islands.
The Law of the Splintered Paddle is basically understood to mean that citizens have a right to defend themselves against mistreatment by the government and that the weaker members of society can expect protection from the more powerful members. The state constitution makes mention of the law and the Honolulu Police badge bears an image of crossed canoe paddles in reference to the law.
Ava Rome, the private eye in my stories, is an outsider. She is not Hawaiian by birth or upbringing, so she brings an outsider's perspective to the culture. In that, she is like many other private eyes. What sets her apart from other private eyes is her mission. Ava believes in the Law of the Splintered Paddle. She believes in protecting the defenseless. She has adopted this basic tenet of Hawaiian culture and made it her mission in life. She doesn't require innocence to take on a client, only defenselessness.
Ava's belief in the Law of the Splintered Paddle is fueled by a burden of guilt over her failure, as a teenager, to protect her brother from bullying. She is determined not to fail anyone else. She takes on a prostitute who is being harassed by a high-ranking police officer and a troubled teenager who has fallen prey to her own bad decisions and to the predations of a marijuana grower. Ava's greatest challenge, however, arrives in the form of an ex-con, whom she had arrested when she was an MP. He is out. He is seeking revenge, and he harbors a secret from her past.
The Splintered Paddle is the story of a private eye, Ava Rome, and her personal foray down the mean streets of Hawaii to protect the defenseless in the dark side of paradise tourists seldom see.
Thanks, Mark! Readers, The Splintered Paddle is now available.
Celebrated author Deborah Harkness's All Souls trilogy comes to a thrilling conclusion today, when the final book in the series, The Book of Life, is released in bookstores.
Following a witch named Diana Bishop and her vampire husband, Matthew De Clairmont, and their hunt for an enchanted manuscript whose secrets contain the secrets to the survival of their species, the series has enchanted readers the world over and won Harkness millions of fans. Recently Harkness sat down with BookPage to talk about the release of The Book of Life; we wound up with more material than we could fit in our print interview, but these tidbits were too good to keep to ourselves!
On the appeal of alpha males: "I think there is a level at which [alpha males are] a fantasy that is just about being able to imagine, within the safe parameters of a fictional world and fictional relationship, that you could absolutely give up all control. I think what it really stems from is that so many of us are so very busy and pushed and pulled in so many directions. We're asked to make so many decisions and choices in a day, from what size your coffee is all the way up to putting food on the table and getting your kids to soccer practice in between your job and cooking dinner for six people. So there's this kind of sense that it would be nice if someone just walked in and said, 'Put down your purse, no questions, we're going to dinner.' You don't have to discuss it, you don't have to think, it would just be done. I think it's a fantasy, weirdly, of a deep breath."
On challenging traditional gender assignment for witches and vampires: "I never considered flipping the standard gender assignment of male vampire and female witch because with the character of Diana, I was committed to the idea of a female witch in large part because one of the things I wanted to really explore was there is this general sense that it would be great to be a witch and I've always thought, 'Really?! You would be unequivocally happy to have strange supernatural powers?' I don't really think having bizarre supernatural powers would necessarily be a 'thumbs up' experience. So, once I had Diana and she was a witch and she was a female then Matthew had to be a vampire.
I do think, though, that Stephen Proctor, Diana's father, has been much more of a presence than Rebecca, because I did want to have a male witch. In much the same way, I wanted to show a female vampire in Isabel and Miriam as two of the other creatures in this world."
On the importance of publishing her works under her own name: "[As a historian], I study a period where we say Anonymous was a woman and I think that's a double-edged sword, to protect yourself under a pseudonym. The number of cases of academics publishing popular novels rather than scholarly works is small, and most people who do publish fiction publish it pseudonymously. . . . One of the things that I think has been great is that I have seen an increasing number of academics writing under their own names."
On her favorite book in the All Souls trilogy: "Shadow of Night, because it was on my home turf. It was the world that I knew very well and had the great pleasure and joy to show to other people. It was so much fun to go through all of my research outtakes and know I could use them.
It is really hard to choose among them, because I'm fond of each one for very different reasons. In some ways, nothing will match the sheer pleasure and joy of writing A Discovery of Witches, or the fun of writing Shadow of Night, or the satisfaction of bringing the whole thing into port with The Book of Life."
On her favorite characters: "I am particularly attached to Philippe. He is my favorite character, because Matthew—for all his growling and moodiness—it's Philippe who is just basically is master and commander of everything. I find him fascinating because he is this character who watches and waits and maneuvers people around. He's very ruthless but very genial and he's kind of got the alpha male thing down to a science, so much so that you don't really notice that he's running the world and everyone in it. He's sort of the un-Matthew and that was very interesting to me to be able to explore that.
However, the character who is the most fun to write is Gallowglass. No question!"
On the greatest unexpected reward to arise from writing these books: "One of the things that I hear a lot and is such an enormous privilege is when people say to me that they read history now or go to museums now or have even started rowing or they want to go back to school to get their BA or MA. People whose love of learning has been piqued, now they're starting to travel when they never did before. To somehow be able to have people read these books and to get all of these things out of them is kind of unimaginable and is the gift that keeps on giving.
It's not probably as important to every author, but as a teacher, this is why I do what I do and to be able to do it on the scale of fiction is very rewarding."
On her favorite "big books" and long reads: "A series that has [really allowed me to inhabit a world] is an older series by a woman named Dorothy Dunnet. She first wrote the Crawford of Lymon series and then the House of Niccolo series, which was a prequel. I just adored those books!
I also remember buying Anne Rice's The Witching Hour, and it was the only book that I just simply couldn't go to sleep until I had finished it. Also, that was my introduction to Anne Rice, and it just transported me because I didn't really know where I was when I was reading it; I was in L.A., but I wasn't."
On whether she'd rather be a witch, a vampire or a demon: "Demon, no question! I think I'm most temperamentally like a demon—I'm a little bit like a maniac and I'm a lot disorganized; you can't even walk across the floor of my office right now! I think that really what the demons are in this story is the principle of chaos and creativity—that's what they are alchemically and that's where new things come from—and I think it's way more exciting to be there than to have the weighty responsibility of supernatural and preternatural power. I'll take creativity any day."
Read our complete interview with Deborah Harkness.
Read about the previous books in the All Souls Trilogy.
California native Karen Keskinen follows up her 2012 debut mystery, Blood Orange, with a new adventure for private investigator Jaymie Zarlin. In Black Current, the body of a local teen is found in a tank at the Santa Barbara Aquarium. It's ruled a suicide, but the girl's parents hire Jaymie to prove otherwise.
In a guest blog post for Private Eye July, Keskinen shares what it's like to be the featured author at book club meetings. It's no small job, that's for sure:
I've never been a chakra-and-crystals kind of girl. Sometimes I think a New Age is just what we need, but most of the time I find that this age we live in is—you know—good enough. And yet one night a few weeks back, as I walked home in the dark from a book club engagement, one of those New-Agey words popped into my head: shaman.
Yeah. As I walked home from a meeting right here in Santa Barbara, California, that's what I felt like: a shaman. Maybe I didn't exactly feel like one, but for the first time, I could sense the power those ancient storytellers wielded through their words.
This little city bristles with book club encounters every night of the week. Readers congregate in highbrow get-togethers and lowbrow get-togethers, well-heeled gatherings and run-down-at-the-heel gatherings, co-ed clubs, single-sex clubs and not-all-that-keen-on-sex clubs. But all these confabs have two characteristics in common.
One is food. Many so-called book clubs are actually misnomered: They are more accurately food and drink clubs. And huzzah to that! I've stuffed myself with full-on meals, nibbled at dainty noshes and, as a special tribute to my first book, taken part in a blood-orange-themed spread. You have not lived till you've tasted calamondin and blood orange pound cake. Yet, I digress.
Another feature these meetings have in common is that they encourage some feisty conversations, especially among my fellow Santa Barbarians.
Notice, I don't claim readers think Blood Orange and Black Current are the greatest reads since Ulysses. But here in our town, these books are proving to be provocative, flaring matches put to drought-dried kindling.
When I arrive at a book club meeting, I usually say that I'll stay for no more than an hour. I warn the members in advance that they might grow tired of me, and also that they might like to have time to say what they honestly think, once I leave. It makes no difference: I always seem to be driving or trotting home around 10:30, my mind roiling from the torrid and intense conversation, in no way ready for sleep.
The questions begin innocently enough. For example: Why is Jaymie Zarlin's office address, 101 W. Mission, in fact that of the Cat and Bird Clinic? But soon, minutia dispensed with, matters warm up.
Are the rich so awful? Are cops corrupt? Are people that mean? So we talk about the bad in good people, and the good in bad. We talk about the abuse of power and the power money bestows. About corruption, both personal and systemic. And we talk about that corruption right here in River City, not in some theoretical realm.
In every book club I've visited, somebody has had her cage rattled. At one recent gathering, people were debating in twos and threes when a young woman said loudly: "Jenny, I've never heard you talk like that!" The room fell silent. Flushed, the accused looked away. For maybe the first time in her life, Jenny had publicly dropped the f-bomb.
I've thought about shamans over the past few weeks. How did they work their magic? They were conduits, mediums, copper wires. The shaman had her ear to the ground, a nose for the news, she didn't miss much. And she let all that flow into her, through her, and on out to the ineffable, what we fear and don't understand. Then all that power, transformed into story, flowed back again.
The face of the fear doesn't matter: Once upon a time there were broken limbs that turned septic, and mountain lions that could flail open a man. Now we have terrorists, torturers, rapists. The bogeyman changes masks as the centuries pass, but never his nature, which is the ability to evoke dread.
The shaman's tools never change, either. She has only three, but what a three they are! People, places and things. Waving those three wands, she teases out her listeners' fears and dreams and heartbreak, then weaves all that chaos to make a map, a guide for survival. A story.
When book club members ask me questions about the settings, characters and special objects in Blood Orange and Black Current, I know their interest is piqued. But when they ignore my answers and insist on supplying their own, that's when I know I'm their conduit: The readers are redeeming my stories, remaking them into their own.
Recently at one local meeting, an older woman announced she knew the real life people I'd used to create two of my characters, Dr. Bruce and Cynthia Wiederkehr. In fact, Bruce and Cynthia were created from whole cloth, but I had the good sense to keep quiet.
My reader whispered their names to a friend sitting beside her, and the two women raised eyebrows and exchanged knowing smiles. The Sha-Woman reached for a slice of chocolate cheesecake, and felt good. She'd given it over to them, it was their story now.
Thanks, Karen! Readers, Black Current is now available!
The City by Dean Koontz
Bantam, $28, ISBN 9780345545930
On sale July 1, 2014
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Dean Koontz has long been known for providing thrills and chills to readers, but his new novel The City is something of an exception. Set in the 1960s and 1970s, it tells the story of Jonah Kirk, growing up as part of a close family in a nameless city and dreaming of becoming a "piano man." Jonah becomes a remarkable boy mostly thanks to his remarkable mother, who gave up her own dreams of attending Oberlin to have and raise him without much help from Jonah's ne'er do well father. Their close relationship is a highlight of the book, as shown in this excerpt, which takes place shortly after Jonah's mother has thrown his father out for good.
After school that day, I walked to the community center to practice piano. When I got home, all she said was, "Your father's no longer living here. He went upstairs to help Miss Delvane with her rodeo act, and I wasn't having any of that."
Too young to sift the true meaning of her words, I found the idea of a mechanical horse more fascinating than ever and hoped I might one day see it. My mother's Reader's Digest condensation of my father's leaving didn't satisfy my curiousity. I had many questions but I refrained from asking them. . . . Right then I told Mom the secret I couldn't have revealed when Tilton lived with is, that I had been taking piano lessons from Mrs. O'Toole for more than two months. She hugged me and got teary and apologized, and I didn't understand what she was apologizing for. She said it didn't matter if I understood, all that mattered was that she would never again allow anyone or anything to get between me and a piano and any other dream I might have.
What are you reading this week?
Tom Rob Smith is back with a new novel of "deep, dark family secrets, long-buried crimes and shocking revelations" in The Farm. Daniel's parents decide to sell their London home and relocate to a remote farm in Sweden for a leisurely, peaceful life.
Yet this ideal is quickly shattered when Daniel's mother suffers a mental collapse shortly after: She's delusional, and she's imagining truly horrific things. But soon Daniel's mother offers a different view, and she pins the blame on his father, whom she insists is part of a violent conspiracy.
Daniel takes on the task of investigating the farm himself, and Smith's thrilling, genre-defying page-turner brilliantly unfolds.
Smith's internationally acclaimed thriller, Child 44, has already been adapted for the big screen starring big-name actors Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace and Gary Oldman, and we're betting on Smith becoming a household name in no time.
Watch the hypnotising and haunting trailer from Simon & Schuster UK below:
What do you think, readers? Has The Farm made it onto your list of Summer reads?
You heard it here first, folks: The film version of Tom Rob Smith's gripping thriller, Child 44, will be hitting theaters in October. We got the news from the author himself, at Grand Central's BEA party last week.
Set in Stalin's Russia, the book is a nail-biting, gasp inducing thriller of the first order about a civil servant, Leo Demidov, who is investigating a serial killer. Problem is, in Stalin's perfect society, serial killers aren't supposed to exist.
With novelist Richard Price writing the screenplay and actors like Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) and Gary Oldham (aka Sirius Black), this is one book-to-film adaptation that I have high hopes for. Smith told us that he visited the set in Prague (filming in Russia being sort of tricky these days) and met with the cast—turns out Gary Oldman had read not only the book in question, but the entire series.
What book-to-film adapatations are you looking forward to this fall?
ALSO IN BOOKPAGE: Read our interview with Smith about Child 44, check out our other coverage of the Child 44 series or read our review of his brand-new standalone thriller, The Farm.
The title of Jeffery Deaver's new Lincoln Rhyme thriller immediately sends my mind into Silence of the Lambs territory:
The Skin Collector's title is an obvious nod to The Bone Collector, the very first Lincoln Rhyme novel and Deaver's 1997 debut, which was made into a movie starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie.
And with good reason: The new serial killer at large was inspired by the Bone Collector and has developed a way of murdering people through poisonous tattoos. Lincoln Rhyme is joined once again by Amelia Sachs, and they race to catch the bad guy as more and more people fall victim to his sadistic methods.
What do you think? Plan to check out Deaver's newest thriller? It's out today!
The 2014 Edgar Allan Poe Award winners—honoring the very best in mystery fiction, nonfiction and television published or produced in 2013—have been announced! The Edgars are awarded annually by the Mystery Writers of America. A few highlights:
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger (Simon & Schuster)
Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews (Scribner)
The Wicked Girls by Alex Marwood (Penguin)
The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War by Daniel Stashower (Minotaur)
One Came Home by Amy Timberlake (Knopf)
Ketchup Clouds by Annabel Pitcher (Little, Brown)
Cover of Snow by Jenny Milchman (Ballantine)
View the full list of nominees and winners here.
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Antelope Island 100K and 50K
October 11, 2014
6:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m.
Ok boys and girls, the Antelope Island 50K/100K is now on. Let the party begin.
Weather, hmmm, it could be pretty warm on that day. We could also have snow. The average high for October 11th is 67 degrees. That means it could be much warmer (or much colder). We'll have a bit more daylight as well.
Race –
This Antelope Island 100K will start at 6am on Saturday, October 11th at the White Rock Bay trailhead. The Antelope Island 50K will start at 8am at the same location. This is the same place as the Buffalo Run start. The time limit will be 16 hours for the 100K and 14 hours for the 50K. There will not be an early start option. The course is pretty easy.
Open entries this year. Yeah, no limit on the number of runners.
Registration -
Registration should be open around June 1. There will only be one way to register this year and that's electronically. Go to http://ultrasignup.com and sign up there. We cover the fee.
The cost for the 50K race is $62.37 through September 30th, then we raise the entry fee to $71.98. For the 100K race, the entry fee is $107.23 through September 30th, then we raise that one to $116.94. So get it in early. Why the odd entry fee amount? Mainly because the race director is kind of odd. BTW, it's the cheapest 50K around, The North Face wants $85 for their 50K the week before. You'll be able to register online until October 4th. Also, no day of race entry, too confusing.
State Park Waiver
You need to sign a Waiver with the state park at checkin, at the start.
Course –
The course will be one or two 50K loops. The water level of the Great Salt Lake is still up and there is no beach. We'll run the same course as last year. The neat thing about this race is that you will get to go out on the west side of the island and run where the general public isn't allowed to go. For those of you familiar with the Buffalo Run course, you'll be able to follow along. For those who have never run the Buffalo run, most of this stuff will make absolutely no sense without a map. Here's a link to the route. http://www.usatf.org/routes/view.asp?rID=488824
Basically the course goes like this. Start at White Rock Bay, just like the Buffalo Run. Go out and up the hillside, once you get to the switchback you go left. Then you keep running out to the Elephant Head aid station. This will be about 5.5 miles. Once past Elephant Head, you'll continue to follow the Buffalo Run route down Death Valley, then up the switchbacks. At the top of the switchbacks you'll head south following the old ranch road on to the west side of the island. There will be no course markings along this section of the route, however, no one has gotten off trail in this section yet. Continue to follow the old ranch road for the next few miles up the hillside. You gain about 1000' along here. You'll get to the north side of the Sentry trail. Guess what, there'll be an aid station here. From here you'll go behind Sentry peak, then down the dirt road to the ranch. We'll have an aid station just north of the ranch at a place called 9-mile gate. From the ranch you'll follow the Mountain View Trail north. You'll also find an aid station at the Lower Frary parking lot. Once you get to the fence, you'll bushwhack up along the fence to the paved road, then follow the dirt road next to the fence back to the start/finish area. Anyway, eventually you end up back at the race HQ, only to go out and do it all again if you're running the 100K. Won't that be fun!
Aid stations –
Some of the aid stations aren't real close together, so you'll need to plan accordingly
Elephant Head – This is a full service aid station about 5.5 miles from the start. Same place as for the Buffalo Run. You can have drop bags here.
North Sentry – Pretty much full service around 8 miles from Elephant Head. No drop bags here.
Nine Mile Gate – Once again, full service. This one is about 6.6 miles from North Sentry. We'll let you have a drop bag here.
Lower Frary – Full service. Roughly 3 miles from Nine Mile Gate. No drop bags here but we may have a porta-john.
Start/finish – Full service (obviously) about 6.6 miles from Lower Frary.
Time limits –
With a 16 hour time limit for the 100K, we'll plan the aid station cutoffs accordingly. For the 100K, if you get back to the start after 8 hours, you won't be allowed to continue because if you're like me, you just get slower as time goes on.
Dogs –
For this race I ask that you leave your dogs at home. The reason is that you'll be in the island backcountry and off of public trails. The park has asked that I not allow dogs for this race. Thanks.
Finish line stuff –
We'll have some sort of food for you to eat when you finish. My lovely wife will once again make buffalo chili for everyone. We'll do a vegetarian version as well. Soda, homebrew, cookies, maybe some other stuff.
We'll have a large canopy up and we'll see about getting some sort of heat in there at night to take the chill off. If you want to sack out in a sleeping bag before, after, or during the race, we'll see about setting aside an area for that.
Also, this year I'm combining the 50K/100K with the Mountain View Trail Half Marathon. They will start at the ranch and finish at White Rock Bay with you folks.


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We're slowly plunging into more and more darkness.
The dreaded "fall back" day is coming to clocks across the nation. Daylight Saving Time ends at 2 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 4.
The result: sunset will be more of an afternoon thing than evening an evening thing for a while. Well, until It begins again on March 10, 2013, when we spring forward once again. Until then, the upshot is your 7 a.m. commute to work will have light again.
Daylight saving time ... remember, you'll "fall back" and set your clocks back one hour. Many electronic devices automatically adjust when Daylight Saving Time begins or ends.
When you change your clocks in the fall and spring, it's also a good time to change smoke detector batteries and check to make sure device are in working order, says the fire department.
Arizona, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, U.S. Virgin Islands and American Samoa do not observe Daylight Savings Time. Weird.
Around the world, about 75 countries and territories have at least one location that observes Daylight Saving Time, according to TimeandDate.com. On the other hand, 164 don't observe the time change at all.
Brief History:
According to the Huffington Post:
Benjamin Franklin has been credited with the idea of Daylight Saving Time, but Britain and Germany began using the concept in World War I to conserve energy, the Washington Post observes. The U.S. used Daylight Saving Time for a brief time during the war, but it didn't become widely accepted in the States until after the second World War.
In 1966, the Uniform Time Act outlined that clocks should be set forward on the last Sunday in April and set back the last Sunday in October.
That law was amended in 1986 to start daylight saving time on the first Sunday in April, though the new system wasn't implemented until 1987. The end date was not changed, however, and remained the last Sunday in October until 2006.
Today, Daylight Saving Time begins on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November. The time change will precede the first day of spring and the vernal equinox, which is set to take place at 1:14 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, March 20.
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Doing the Nana Walk! Fight to end Alzheimer's! by Nana's Walkers - 9 months ago
"This is a team photo of our family and friends at the Northeast Division Alzheimer's walk in Andover, MA in September 2013. Our Nana passed away from Alzheimer's and we do this walk for her. We were all very close to her and it was very hard to see her fight this disease. We know she is with us every step of the way doing her "Nana Walk", while we try to keep up with her! Every year we continue to add to our team of friends who want to end Alzheimer's. This was our biggest team yet and we will continue to grow!"


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CABIN: Pretty large for cruise cabin. Colors in bathroom are terrible.
DINING: Food was delicious and of good quality. Buffet was decent with nice selections daily. Sometimes buffet area and surrounding tables were very crowded and it was difficult to get a table. They also had terrible plastic multi colored cups for water etc. Dinner in the restaurant was excellent. Waiter and assistant waiter were excellent and pleasant. Dining room decor looked like an upscale Greek Diner.
STAFF: Purser's Desk workers were very rude and nasty. Some of the Casino bosses were very nasty as well. Gift Shop employees were also nasty. They would not allow me to order a cake to my table without 24 hours notice. Sent me on wild goose chase to finally order cake and when they brought it to the table, it was the wrong flavor and had the wrong writing on it. The "bouncer" at the club was also nasty. They think their stupid nightclub in the middle of the ocean is in as much demand as the finest upscale clubs in Manhattan. Other then the wait staff and cabin stewards, no one went out of their way to make the vacation enjoyable. SO RUDE, NASTY and ARROGANT.
PORTS: Puerto Rico= Waste, St. Thomas= Nice, Tortola= Replica of St. Thomas.
CRUISE DIRECTOR: Lively and upbeat.
ACTIVITIES: Not enough. They play one game of BINGO per day with crappy prizes.
DECOR: Once again, looks like a diner. Urns everywhere. Very ornate and busy. Makes you dizzy.
OVERALL CRUISE: Food is great. Staff is nasty. Would not sail Carnival again. Cruised on Royal Caribbean in the past and Carnival has a far way to go to compare. Not so fun ship!


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James Clark is running for re-election to the Davis School District Board of Education and he has my support. Jim has served the Davis County residents with great distinction and accomplished a great deal. With many challenges, the Davis School (DSD) District remains one of the outstanding school districts in Utah and the Country. These challenges include large budget cuts, lowest per-pupil spending, and the highest class sizes in the country. In spite of these and other challenges, the DSD still enjoys high test scores and graduation rates. The Foreign Language Immersion program is the largest such program in Utah. The list of accomplishments goes on and on. Jim is a true leader and he has greatly influenced the success of the DSD. He understands the importance of setting wise and appropriate DSD policies and establishing a responsible and balanced budget. Jim is a fiscal conservative and is totally committed to providing a quality education for the students of the district. Jim is not afraid to make tough decisions and he is guided by their impact on families, students, county residents, and DSD employees. When making decisions he utilizes his successful business experiences, diligently researches each issue and relies on input from his constituents and district staff. Jim is totally committed to his responsibilities and serves with honor and integrity. I recently retired from the DSD after 41 years of service. I am proud of our district and the families I worked with and supported. Davis is great place to live. I had the opportunity to spend countless hours and days for the past 15 years to meet with Board members informally and in closed and open board meetings. With these experiences, I highly recommend James Clark for re-election.
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Town Square
Obama's Aides' Earnings Through the Ceiling: Do They Even Care about Average Amercans?
Original post made by The Answer is TEA on Mar 4, 2013
Deep inside a new Government Accountability Office audit of the 321 presidential appointees working for the government are details showing that the 94 who Obama works closest with earn a range of $120,000 to $172,000, a top paycheck that is more than double the median income in Washington, the nation's highest income region.
When education level, experience, and specific skill sets are added, Obama's appointees earn approx 1/6 of what their counterparts earn in the private sector. But these latters statistics are of no interest whatsoever except to those who would want to irrationally defend the President's penchant for assigning way totally high wages to his advisers and assistants.
on Mar 4, 2013 at 10:22 am
$99,712 is not an enormous salary...duh
on Mar 4, 2013 at 11:19 am
Look at what City of Pleasanton Employees earn, and they are not in charge of a nation. The $120K to $172 income range is not that outrageous for what they do, keeping in mind that they are probably exempt (i.e. salaried and not hourly so may not get OT) and put in well more than 40 hours per week. The salaries you sited are for a 40 hour work week without OT.
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I say look at the teachers salaries, they complain they do not make enough, however, when you break down their pay/hours worked in a year, they do damn well. They should be working 15 hours a day during the school year to make up for all the time they have off.
on Mar 4, 2013 at 12:25 pm
Hmmmm. The calculations of "anon" leave quite a bit to be desired. I'm glad my kids are getting the quality education that will put "anon's" kind of reasoning and inability to do basic math into the trash bin of backwater ignorance, where it belongs.


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16-year-old Damon has been all over the web telling how he's running from a father he says abused him and how a court system has failed to protect him. In an exclusive interview while still in hiding, Damon tells his story which he's been trying to tell for years, mostly through YouTube.
Damon's father adamantly denies allegations he molested or threatened the boy. He points out police have investigated the allegations, and family court found "no credible evidence" of abuse. Damon's dad and his attorney have agreed to meet with us for an on-camera interview.
Robin Sax also discussed more about this story and the spotlight it puts on family court.
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OCEAN PINES, Md. - There are more than half a million military veterans in the states which make up Delmarva. There were events going on all over the shore Monday, showing appreciation for servicemen and women.
One such ceremony happened at the Worcester County Veterans Memorial at Ocean Pines.
While folks around him thank Chief Master Sergeant William Wild III for his more than 30 years of service, Wild himself remembers his 21 year old son, Taylor, one of seven marines who died when a mortar shell exploded at a Nevada military base. His wife was at Arlington National Cemetery, visiting their fallen hero, while Wild spoke to hundreds at the Veterans Day Memorial in Ocean Pines."You never think that when you come and do a public speaking engagement that it would be about your son, and the sacrifices he made, but I'm not alone. There are families all over this country who are doing the same thing," says Wild, "it's hard. I said to someone earlier, I thank it's sometimes easier to talk about it than think about it, so to share the message I think makes me feel better."Others had their own stories to share."I was in World War II," says Leo Bateman of Ocean Pines, "I'm very proud of what I did and that's it!"Marie Gilmore, President of the Worcester County Veterans Memorial Foundation says, "We have a lot of retired servicemen. They carry their service whether it be in war or peacetime with them all of their lives."Sharing the stories and sacrifices of those who have served harkens back to what the mission of the Worcester County Veterans Memorial. "Remember Our Veterans, Honor Our Veterans, and Teach Our Children About the Veterans"
Monday, they also dedicated a new addition, Patriots Pathway, which has 15 displays with information on each of the major conflicts and wars in the country's history, which is now open to the public.


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Published in Flagpole Magazine, p. 5 (June 5, 1996).
Author: Donald E. Wilkes, Jr., Professor of Law, University of Georgia School of Law.
The whitewash in the police shooting of Edward Wright has now entered its second phase. The first phase occurred when the local DA issued his pitiful exculpation of everyone involved except Wright. The second phase occurred when the ACCPD investigated itself, the officer who shot Wright dead and the other officer who clubbed Wright, and found that all's right with the world and that the officers deserve no administrative sanction. The officer who fired six shots at Wright is now back on the job, the other officer is back on the job, no one has been or will be punished criminally or administratively, no one has been or will be disciplined or fired, and nothing more about the matter will be done by the government. Meanwhile, Edward Wright's punctured body lies in the grave. Is this justice?
The second whitewash is an 4-page "interdepartmental memorandum," dated April 15, 1996, written to the ACCPD police chief by five high-ranking cops and the county attorney. The six authors form what they euphemistically call an "Incident Review Panel" that supposedly "devoted many hours thoroughly reviewing" Internal Affairs Case No. 1995-20, i.e., the Wright shooting. (It would be interesting to know the facts and circumstances of the other 19 "investigations" of alleged police misconduct in 1995.)
One interesting feature of the report is that it reveals the alarming, ever-increasing propensity of the police to threaten and use force and violence against citizens. The police officer training procedures its refers to include "Officer Survival, Self Defense Techniques, Use of Force, Use of Chemical Agents, Use of Police Baton, and Use of Firearms." The report relies on lesson plans of the police academy and the policies and procedures of the ACCPD. Of course, since none of these documents or policies has been released to the public, it is difficult for the average person to independently determine whether applicable procedures were followed or whether those procedures are fair and reasonable.
The report also relies on an interview with the police academy instructor who taught the officers involved the techniques of "control and restraint." Of course, since the public is not told what the officers were taught or what the instructor said, it is again difficult for the ordinary citizen to judge the propriety of the teaching or the training. For all the public knows, that training may be teaching officers improper or unacceptable techniques.
It will be recalled that at the trial of the police who beat Rodney King one of the defense witnesses was an instructor from the LAPD police academy who testified under oath that what the officer-goons did there was perfectly acceptable and exactly what police officers were trained to do.
The April 15 report essentially accepts everything the officers involved claim as gospel truth. It does acknowledge that the cop who shot Wright had an unofficial, supposedly unloaded firearm in his patrol car and this was "a violation of [official ACCPD] policy." However, it does not recommend any punishment for this violation; nor is there indication in the report that anything was done about this violation. Why? What was this weapon? Was there ammunition for this unofficial weapon? How many other police violate this policy? Is anything ever done about it?
Like the DA's report, the April 15 report fails to mention facts that might raise suspicions. For example, it omits the discrepancy between the size of the shooting officer (6'2,'' 220 lbs.) and the victim (Wright was 5'8'', 155 lbs.). It says nothing about the officer's proficiency in the martial arts.
Like the DA's report, the April 15 report is not only conclusory and based on information not fully revealed to the public, but also leaves major questions about Wright's death unanswered. How far from the officer was Wright when he was shot? Were six shots necessary? Were some of Wright's injuries defensive wounds? What happened to the .40 caliber police bullets never found? Did the shooting endanger third persons? How far away were other vehicles and houses when the shots were fired? Do ACCPD regulations comply with state statutes regarding the duties of police who deal with persons they know are mentally ill?
Like the DA's report, the April 15 report recommends that we hire more police and give them more training in the use of firearms, a recommendation that, as the report says, will "impact on the police department budget significantly," i.e., will increase the amount of government money given to the police. Like the local DA, the Incident Review Panel actually thinks that the lesson of the Wright tragedy is that we hire more cops and give them more firepower!
In the matter of the gunning down of Edward Wright, the shameful behavior of the DA and of the ACCPD in handling the investigation is unworthy of the great State of Georgia or of a free people. If prosecutors and police can behave this way and get away with it, we no longer live in a free country. We live in a police state.


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Menston and Burley-in-Wharfedale MP Philip Davies has hit out at "too generous" benefits after watching controversial Channel 4 television documentary Benefits Street.
The Conservative MP for Shipley spoke out on the documentary – which shows benefits claimants smoking many cigarettes and watching satellite television – saying his hard-working constituents "cannot afford such luxuries".
Mr Davies also said benefits were clearly too generous, as it appeared the claimants featured in the documentary could also afford new tattoos.
The first episode was aired last week, showing residents on James Turner Street in Birmingham discussing their dependence on benefits as well as featuring shoplifting sprees and fraud.
Channel Five recently aired a similar programme called On Benefits and Proud.
Speaking in the House of Commons, Mr Davies said: "Has the Secretary of State managed to watch Benefits Street and On Benefits and Proud?
"If so, has he like me been struck by the number of people on there that manage to combine complaining about welfare reforms whilst being able to buy copious amounts of cigarettes, have lots of tattoos done and watch Sky TV on the obligatory widescreen television?
"Does the Secretary of State understand the concerns and irritation of many people who go out to work every day, pay their taxes, but who cannot afford those kind of luxuries themselves?"
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Iain Duncan Smith, said: "Many people are shocked by what they see, but the reality is that is why the public back our welfare reform package to get more people back to work to end these abuses."
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PEORIA, Ill. -- A drug to treat opiate overdoses is coming to rural volunteer rescue services across Central Illinois to provide a life-saving treatment before patients can get to a hospital.
It is thanks to one local mother, who lost her son to a drug overdose and is now trying to prevent anyone else from suffering the same fate.
Tamera Olt is the mother of Dunlap High School sophomore Joshua Olt.
He died as a result of a heroin overdose last April.
Since then Olt has worked to bring the life-saving treatment Naloxone to volunteer EMT services.
Naloxone, sold under the brand name Narcan, works within minutes to revive individuals suffering from an opiate overdose.
"After Josh died, the first ambulance that came to my house was a volunteer ambulance," said Olt. "They were not allowed to carry a Naloxone and I was shocked. Why wouldn't that be on every ambulance? The suburban and rural areas are the areas where the overdoses are increasing. That's where we are seeing the most of them."
Olt also wants teens to know about Illinois' Good Samaritan Law.
It protects those who help someone having an overdose, even if they are on drugs or have a small amount of drugs on them.
"When friends, acquaintances are with someone who overdoses," said Olt, "they are afraid they are going to get arrested so they run and leave the person and they die. The message is don't run. Call 911. You are protected by the Good Samaritan law in Illinois."
Olt, an OB-GYN in Peoria, is currently providing the training and supplies of Naloxone for free.
Tuesday kicks off the formation of the Peoria County Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition, which is being lead by the Coroner Johnna Ingersoll.


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Lea Salonga, Ramin Karimloo, Yu Shirota and Sierra Boggess Set for 4 Stars: One World of Broadway Musicals Concerts
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Umeda Arts Theater Co., Ltd and Kyodo Tokyo Inc. will present 4 Stars: One World of Broadway Musicals in Tokyo and Osaka in June.
The concerts will boast the talents of Tony winner Lea Salonga, Ramin Karimloo, Yu Shirota and Sierra Boggess, with direction by Daniel Kutner and music direction, supervision and arrangements by Jason Robert Brown. Performances are scheduled for June 15-23 at Tokyo's Aoyama Theatre and June 27-30 at Osaka's Umeda Arts Theater Main Hall.
4 Stars, according to press notes, is a "uniquely staged theatrical concert featuring four world-class artists from the four corners of the globe. Lea Salonga is a Filipino native, Ramin Karimloo is an Iranian-born Canadian living in London, Yu Shirota originates from Japan and has both Spanish and Japanese heritage, while Sierra Boggess hails from Denver, Colorado."
The concerts will feature tunes from Miss Saigon, Les Miserables and The Phantom of the Opera as well as songs from shows by Rodgers and Hammerstein, Kander and Ebb, Stephen Sondheim, Stephen Schwartz, Maury Yeston and Jason Robert Brown; Brown will also perform.
The production will also feature scenic design by Yukio Horio, lighting design by Toshiyuki Kasahara, costume design by Nobuko Miyamoto and sound design by Koichi Yamamoto.
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On Monday, the Jasper campus of Bevill State will be hosting its inaugural "puppy break" as a way to help relax students after taking their final exams of the semester. Grant Cockrell, interim director of student services for the Jasper campus, said the program Hand in Paw operates out of Birmingham and provides trained therapy dogs to assist people in many ways.
"This is a way to try and give the students something to de-stress with. I looked into it, and it's something that they've offered at Alabama, UAB [and] Montevallo," Cockrell said. "So, I contacted them and was able to get them here."
Students and faculty can enjoy the comfort and warmth radiating from the four-legged, furry friends this Monday between 9 and 10 a.m. located in the Harold Wade Math and Science Building. From dachshunds and collies to labradors and terriers, several different breeds will be on hand for students' enjoyment.
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"I think it's a great idea because I know, me personally, I love animals. They help take away the stress, majorly, and I've seen that in a lot of students," Hartley said.
Hand in Paw was founded in 1996 by Beth Franklin and has aided area hospitals, nursing homes, schools and rehabilitation facilities with its services. It is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that serves surrounding counties in Central Alabama. Its mission, according to its website www.handinpaw.org, is "to improve the health and well-being of children and adults by serving those with physical, emotional, educational or psychological needs through interactions with professionally-trained Animal-Assisted Therapy Teams."
Cockrell said based on the response BSCC receives from its students will let him know if it may turn into an annual or semi-annual event.
"I think it's just a good way to help them calm down before a test, kind of get their minds off of being so focused and concerned about their grade. [It will] give them a little moment to relax and focus on something different," Cockrell said. "We have some that, literally, have test anxiety. They get special accommodations for test anxiety, so it's just some way to help them and give them a little break from having to be so concerned."


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December 14, 2009
The U.N. Climate Change Conference entered its final week under a cloud of uncertainty as the Africa Group led a protest of the developing world against a perceived attempt to abandon the Kyoto Protocol. By the middle of the day, the Africa Group's displeasure had brought official talks to a halt.
December 14, 2009
Here in the frigid capital of Denmark, we continue our long and difficult work to achieve REPARATIONS NOW! for Afrikan and Indigenous nations and ascendants, women and girls, and everyone in our sacred earth.


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BURKESVILLE, Ky. — As Stephanie Sparks cleaned the kitchen, her 5-year-old son, Kristian, began playing with a rifle he was given last year. She stepped out onto the front porch, poured grease out of a frying pan for the dogs, and "heard the gun go off," a Kentucky coroner said.
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Experience Music from an Imaginary Landscape, Sunday, November 24, 2013, 2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m., at the Walters Art Museum, Graham Auditorium. Featuring two new musical works commissioned by the Walters, this free concert explores pieces of music that convey a strong sense of place. The Walters' current special exhibition Egypt's Mysterious Book of the Faiyum, which celebrates ancient Egypt's Faiyum region, provides the inspiration for an afternoon of music performed by Peabody Institute faculty and alumni.
The concert showcases premiere performances of Daniel Thomas Davis' Book of the Lake, written in response to the Book of the Faiyum, and Judah Adashi's Inner City, which evokes the sonic landscape of Baltimore. The program will also present Homeless Wanderer (1963) by Emahoy Tsege Mariam, an Ethiopian-Orthodox nun and composer now coming to international attention after sixty years in monastic life. Also performed will be John Luther Adams' ethereal Three High Places (2007) for solo violin. The concert will feature flutes (Rachel Choe; Nick Fitton; Grace Wang), violin (Lauren Rausch), percussion (Kramer Milan), piano/keyboard (Judah Adashi; Daniel Thomas Davis), bass (Joe Magar), and voice (Kristen Dubenion-Smith).
Daniel Thomas Davis offers these remarks on his new composition Book of the Lake: "Throughout my engagement with the ancient Egyptian Book of the Faiyum, I was struck by the ways in which a text so old, strange and seemingly unfamiliar might nonetheless ignite the imagination of a twenty-first-century viewer and listener. My musical response is one in which contemporary sounds resonate alongside intimations of other, older places – and, I hope, one in which ancient voices might somehow speak to life in the present. Scored for flutes, singer, strings, handheld percussion and harpsichord, the piece is divided into five movements – each one a kind of musical map of an imaginary and shifting landscape."
Composer Judah Adashi on his new composition Inner City: "Just as the 2000 year-old Book of the Faiyum vividly crystallizes the life of an ancient Egyptian town, Inner City strives to capture aspects of another metropolis on the water, my hometown of Baltimore. The piece is a kind of love letter, a sonic papyrus articulating some of the ways in which I experience and carry with me the singular spirit of this place. The epigraph to the score invokes one of the city's famous residents, F. Scott Fitzgerald: 'I love Baltimore more than I thought -- it is so rich with memories…'"
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Music from an Imaginary Landscape features the premiere performance of two musical compositions written in response to Egypt's Mysterious Book of the Faiyum. One piece, by New-York composer and ethnomusicologist Daniel Thomas Davis, re-imagines the Book of the Faiyum as a musical guidebook to the imaginary landscapes of the ancient papyrus. The second composition, written for the occasion by Baltimore composer and presenter Judah Adashi, recasts Baltimore as a magical and mysterious terrain.
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Date: 06/28/14 - 10/12/14
Time: 10:00 AM - 05:00 PM
This exhibition, composed of approximately twenty manuscripts and objects, will explore music in its relationship with philosophy, religion, and the arts during the Middle Ages. Musical harmony and dissonance were thought to mirror the perfection of heaven as well as the disorder of evil.
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Time: 06:30 PM - 09:00 PM
Firm Roots featuring Brad Collins performs. Experience the hybrid of jazz, blues, funk, and R&B inspired by the traditions of organic American music interpreted by Brad Collins, one of Baltimore's favorite saxophone players. Tickets are $25 (20% off for members of the Walters and WEAA 88.9 FM.)
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The women of Alpha Phi paid
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sorority house to honor the life of University of Virginia student Shelley Goldsmith.
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impacted so many lives. She was remembered as a go-getter and someone who was
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