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Unfortunately, there's not much you can do except watch your credit card statement and report any suspicious transactions as soon as possible. — BEN POPKEN
How Waiters Steal Your Credit Card
i think this hapenned to me. but i'll never really know. i noticed someone attending single parent meetings on my credit card, so i had it cancelled and got refunded. i eat out alot and almost never carry cash.
One time on my card I saw two small charges at some Hebrew school up in New York (together with my own charges, the same day, here in Florida.)
I called, I explained that I can't be in two places at once and that I do not deal with Hebrew schools anywhere. They told me that according to their records my card was physically swiped in New York and it was not an Internet transaction.
They reversed the charges pending an investigation (which of course I "won"), they closed that account and gave me a new one.
Not sure how that ever happened but it hasn't happened since. It was all rather quick and painless but this just reinforces the fact that you must look at all your credit and debit transactions carefully every month and inquire about any charges that don't look familiar, no matter how small (that's how it starts.)
Just review your statements and dispute anything you don't recognize. It's easy.
Interesting that the report comes from the UK.
We spent a week there last year and were puzzled the first time a waiter brought the card reader to the table and handling the transaction there. After a few times we finally asked about the practice, and they told us that UK patrons don't want their cards out of sight.
I guess this explains why.
Unfortunately, there's not much you can do except watch your credit card statement and report any suspicious transactions as soon as possible.
you could pay in cash. just a thought.
It's a lot easier to do in the US. I was once a waiter for about 2 years and saw a lot of shady stuff go down.
Word of warning to you all, keep that slip the server gives you. Often, if you leave the restaurant's copy as well as your copy, the server can just give him/herself a bit of a bigger tip without you being the wiser. Try disputing an entire order once you check out your statement without a receipt.
Also, the server usually gets the credit card here. Leaving him/her all alone with the card without needing to do any swiping out in the open.
Legal Seafoods in Boston is trying a new method of bringing a little computer over to the table and swiping the card there. They started doing it at the test kitchen location last year, and will be rolling it out across the chain soon, they said. It certainly seems safer, although sometimes I wonder how secure their wireless is.
Having been a server (part-time for the past 9 years) for the past 17 years, I would submit the following:
It would be very, very easy to do. It's not really something I've thought of doing or would actually do, though.
Another topic regarding people who pay their server with a credit card, which is something I HAVE thought of doing, though never followed through, is: if you're a jerk or a bitch to your server, you may not want to pay with your credit card, since they will then have your name (and card number) and if they have skills using the internet to find people, it wouldn't be too difficult to get your address, find out what kind of car you drive, see if you have a record, etc, post the information to a blog and drag your name through the mud. Not that I would ever do that, mind you…I did wait on Dick Durbin (one of my senators), who treated me like a servant and left 10%…He only lost my vote.
Cash is a good thing.
Both restaurants where I've waited tables we take the card over to a computer and swipe it for the customer. It's possible that any of us could write down the card number and three-digit code on the back and use it online. If I trusted no one, I would use cash when dining out.
As far as tips, conedude, any restaurant worth dining in will have a manager check the tips, and if you notice and report a discrepancy to the manager later that server will be fired and you'll get your money back.
That entire video is pretty much irrelevent here in America because in the majority of places the server takes your card out of sight.
I've had two experiences. The first was at Friday's. They used to put all your pertinent credit card details right on the receipt because they couldn't add a tip otherwise if they didn't store the card number on the computer. I had my check card number stolen this way six years ago and had my entire checking account cleared out just before my Christmas shopping. Glad they don't do that anymore.
The second was recently. I got my dinner around 6 pm and tipped the waitress in cash, which is what I usually do. At about 8 o'clock she logged back into the computer and gave herself an extra $3. $3 doesn't sound like a lot, but how many people do you think she's done that to and they never checked? The manager didn't seem concerned at all though, even when I made the point that she had no need to even log back on and charge my card because I tipped cash.
I suggest intentionally getting one card with a limit as low as possible; give the thief have less of a margin…
A friend and I eat at a buffet-style restaurant once in a while and it is self-serve there. For some reason they have started adding a "Tip" line on the bottom of the credit card slip. I didn't think much of it and just put a line through it as I don't feel tipping is required when I am doing all the work (Getting my own food and drink, etc.) Well a couple weeks ago I noticed that a tip had been added to my charge. I called the bank and disputed it which was no problem. From now on when I eat at that place I will use cash or write "NO TIP" in large capital letters across the space on the slip instead.
I've been hit twice within a year. The last time was a week ago for $300. They also tried to charge $400 but the bank stopped that one. I'm going back to cash for the most part unless it's a large corporation. Cash only for food and gas though. It's a hassle but, I see no other choice. Just have to give myself an extra 10 minutes to stop by the bank.
happens all the time at Hooters.
…..There's also the method of walking up front to pay your check, and keep that card in sight the whole time. Granted, the cashier/hostess might have a photographic memory, and just take your account info mentally, but it's not likely! You'll get some funny looks in the nicer restaurants, but it's worth the peace of mind! I've even done this in places like Commanders Palace (New Orleans) and Spiaggia (Chicago).
got skimmed or double swiped @ Les Halles in Coral Gables, FL. Between me and my brother we got lit up for about $10k – we weren't responsible for any of it, but it was a pain and no prosecutions have come about from it so it makes me think that this isn't important to law enforcement or credit card companies.
If they cared they could prevent it would be to have waiters use the portable card readers like those used in Europe (they are much better about this than the US) and smart card chips that would "authenticate" the card. Both aren't foolproof but would probably decrease the amount of fraudulent use.
if anybody cared..
Who do you think replenishes the food, clears your table, and (at most places) brings your drinks?
Most people don't tip generously at buffets, because the servers generally do have an easier time of it, but 10% of the check or at least a buck a person is a pitifully small amount to make a good impression at an establishment which you indicated that you frequent. Just because the restaraunt is buffet-style doesn't mean the servers aren't making $3 an hour.
I always wonder how good the security is at restaurants. Were I a determined card theif I would hack the restaurants server and download it every night. That way I get 100s of cards rather than 10 or so during a shift as a waiter.
It's no more difficult, and hardly different than counting your change when you pay with cash.
In fact, it's easier for a clerk/waiter/cashier/whatever to short you a few cents or a dollar here and there without you knowing. And for particularly spacey people, it's easy to lose a ten-spot from time to time.
What's the solution? Highly encrypted RFID chips? Thumbprint sensors? Retinal scans? Barcodes tattoo'd on the neck? No.
It's the same answer it's always been:
Pay attention.
It's about time restaurants paid all their employees a living wage and allow consumers to tip for an exceptional job.
One of my cards was cloned and I got lucky. I noticed an ATM charge on my card from Eastern Romania! I've never left the US so it was an obvious case of stolen identity. Still, it took me 6 months to resolve the matter with Chase and get the charges dropped.
@poornotignorant: yeah but that "living wage" would mean that the base price of your regular meal would be increased by 20%.
Money doesn't come from thin air.


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|A well loved pie, reminiscent of those served at Shoney's restaurants, made with fresh sliced strawberries and set with the help of strawberry jello and a secret ingredient of good ole 7-up lemon-lime soda.
Fresh Strawberry PieIt's the season for strawberries, which makes me a happy person. I LOVE strawberries! And especially locally grown sweet Louisiana or Florida strawberries.
Strawberries are best purchased fresh when you need them because they just do not store well. Last year though, I discovered that the Debbie Meyer green bags and boxes kept them fresh in the fridge for much, much longer than any other storage method.
This pie recipe is reminiscent of a pie I used to love from my youth. Back then, a friend of mine was a waitress ... or I guess what would be called a 'server' in this politically correct day and age ... at Shoney's and since Shoney's was right on the beach, my friends and I would stop by to visit with her sometimes and duck the heat. Of course, we couldn't just occupy a space in a booth without buying something, so we would usually have something to eat too!
Their strawberry pie was one of my top favorites. It was made right there on site, and while the recipe was kept secret, she did tell us that it was made using 7-up. I set out to try to duplicate it over the years and this recipe is pretty darned close to what I remember. Now, in all fairness, I'm pretty sure they did the whole strawberries in their pie, but I find slicing them makes for a much easier pie to both cut and eat, so that is what I do.
When I eat this pie, it makes me think of those carefree days of youth {isn't it funny how food can do that?}, when the only thing we worried about was pretty much what was going on and where we would be over the weekend. Well, that and working on our tans all day every day at the beach so we would look good in whatever skin bearing outfit we chose to wear that weekend!
Hey, it is a beach town after all.
Recipe: Fresh Strawberry Pie©From the Kitchen of Deep South Dish
Prep time: 15 min |Cook time: 12 min | Yield: About 8 servings
- 3/4 cup of granulated sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon of kosher salt
- 3 tablespoons of cornstarch
- 10 ounces of lemon lime soda (like 7-up or Sprite - regular or diet)
- 1 (3 ounce) box of strawberry gelatin
- 1 pound of fresh strawberries, rinsed, sliced and drained
- 1 homemade or commercial pie crust (Pillsbury recommended), precooked and cooled
- Homemade whipped cream or non-dairy whipped topping
Place the sugar, salt, and cornstarch in a small saucepan and whisk until well blended. Add the 7-up and cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until mixture begins to thicken. Remove from heat and thoroughly whisk in the strawberry gelatin. Set aside to cool.
Clean the strawberries by removing the hull and rinsing them in a colander. Slice into 3 to 4 slices per berry and return to the colander. Run a quick rinse over the berries and let them drain completely.
If preparing a pie crust from packaged, preheat the oven to 450 degrees F or according to package directions. If preparing from scratch, you can find a recipe here.
Place the crust into an ungreased glass pie plate and fold the top edges under the pastry (not the pie plate) all the way around. Flute the top edges of the pie crust by taking one hand and barely pinch together a small section of the dough edge between your thumb and forefinger, while pressing the thumb of your other hand in between those fingers at the same time. Do this all the way around the top.
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Using a fork, dock the bottom of the pie crust by pricking it in multiple spots all along the bottom. This helps to vent the crust so that it doesn't buckle. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, or according to your package direction, until light golden brown. Remove, set aside and let cool for at least 10 minutes before filling.
Layer the strawberry slices in the precooked, cooled crust. Evenly distribute the glaze over the strawberries and chill 2 to 4 hours, until fully set and serve topped with a dollop of whipped cream or Cool Whip.
Tip: To speed the chilling time for the glaze, after thoroughly whisking in the gelatin, set the saucepan in a bowl filled with water and ice, stirring occasionally as it cools. Once cooled, evenly distribute the glaze over the strawberries as above.
Cook's Note: From my recollection, Shoney's made their pie with whole strawberries. While I find the pie much easier to cut and eat with sliced strawberries, certainly use whole strawberries if that is your preference.
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For one night only, this 2nd annual "Made in San Francisco" event will offer guests a spread of antojitos from some of San Francisco's best Mexican restaurants and food vendors (including several from La Cocina), handcrafted cocktails from fine tequila makers, and a choice of two Mexican beers.
Cinco de Mayo—a holiday that commemorates the Mexican army's victory over the French at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1892—is generally celebrated only in Puebla, Mexico and the US. Here it's been adopted much like St. Patrick's Day, as a day for all Americans to celebrate their mixed cultural heritage—but mostly (and most honestly), as an excuse to drink beer.
To celebrate San Francisco's rich culture of Mexican food and drink with intent, join us for this celebration benefiting CUESA and La Cocina. $55 will get you unlimited food and drink.
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Composer: Steve Reich
Choreographer: Val Caniparoli
Scenic and Costume Designer: Sandra Woodall
Lighting & Scenic Projection: Clifton Taylor
Music: Variations for Winds, Strings, and Keyboards
World Premiere: February 18, 2014—San Francisco Ballet, War Memorial Opera House; San Francisco, California
Ballets have stories, we often say, even when they aren't true narratives. But Val Caniparoli's new work for San Francisco Ballet, Tears, is best described as poetry. In making this abstract ballet, the choreographer fueled his creative process with the concept of water as a metaphor for the connections between everything, and everyone, in the world. Amplifying that idea, Caniparoli threads a quartet of men into Tears; the men form a visual through-line that links and counterpoints the choreography for three couples.
Caniparoli's concept of water has a twofold source. One is his choice of music, Steve Reich's minimalist composition Variations for Winds, Strings, and Keyboards, which "made me think of waves, water," the choreographer says. The other is a quote by California naturalist and conservationist John Muir: "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe." Caniparoli interprets that to mean that individual actions have consequences throughout the world. And what ties the natural world and its inhabitants together more than water, the source of life?
Caniparoli already had Reich's Variations and the image of water in mind when he stumbled on the Muir quote in a documentary called Connected: An Autobiography About Love, Death & Technology. The film explores how people are connected in this technological world; Muir, however, was talking about the natural world, and his sentiment fit perfectly with Caniparoli's idea of water as a metaphor for the interrelatedness of all things. From there, in brainstorming with Sandra Woodall, the scenic and costume designer who has collaborated with him on most of his ballets, Caniparoli began to look at images from around the world: flood and drought (the flip sides of water), and the damage being done to the oceans by fracking. The images were raw material to spur his imagination, Caniparoli says—droughts, floods, and oil suggest different kinds of movement to him—not to be used in a literal or visual way.
With a Bay Area–based choreographer, inspiration from Muir, and music that was commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony, Tears has a California pedigree of sorts. Variations for Winds, Strings, and Keyboards (1979) was New York City–born Steve Reich's his first commission (and his first orchestral work); previously he wrote only for his own ensemble, Steve Reich and Musicians, founded in 1966. Caniparoli is perhaps the latest choreographer to be inspired by Reich's minimalist music; others who have used his music include Wayne McGregor, Alvin Ailey, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, Lar Lubovitch, and Jerome Robbins.
If Caniparoli's ballet is poetry, so too is Reich's music. Variations is like a free-form poem whose subtle structure rides beneath the surface; unless you're listening for the three musical movements, they can easily go unnoticed. For a choreographer, says Music Director and Principal Conductor Martin West, the music provides "essentially a blank canvas. It's not a piece to dance to; it's a piece to dance on top of."
The flow of the music, with its whispered embellishments, provides an auditory background on which Caniparoli was free to paint his dance in any way he chose. Because of that, he worked in a way he hadn't before, in developing both structure and movement. He began his rehearsal process by working with Principal Dancers Lorena Feijoo and Vitor Luiz, exploring ideas for movement that would become the basis for the three couples. "I learned a lot about how he likes the movement to be done from within," Luiz says. "He would play and say, 'Move your liver, use your liver'—joking, of course."
Next came a period of structured improvisation with the four men who link the three principal couples together. Caniparoli knew he wanted to use a series of gestures that would serve as a choreographic through-line, adopted by all the dancers. He demonstrated what he had in mind to the four men and "let them play with it," he says. "I said, 'Now take whatever you want from [these movements] and do a series of them quickly.' I didn't know if the guys would go for that, but they did. We developed that movement together and had a blast." For example, at one point in the ballet, the men move downstage (toward the audience) in a horizontal line, each doing an individualized sequence of the movement. What had begun as structured improvisation—a process of allowing the dancers to sequence and interpret a designated vocabulary in their own way—became, through continual refinement, set and nuanced choreography.
In rehearsals, rather than working with the music as he typically does, Caniparoli set segments of choreography in silence, then fitted them to the score. The reason for doing this, he says, is that minimalist music has few "landmarks"—easily distinguished counts or instrumental voices that help the dancers know where they are musically while they're still learning the choreography. "There are landmarks," Caniparoli says, but "sometimes there are long periods where, even though the music is changing underneath, you can't quite hear it." With few noticeable landmarks, finding a particular moment is difficult "and you waste time," he says. "We'd never finish the ballet if I had to do that."
Because the music's meter never changes, Caniparoli could place each segment of the choreography anywhere in the score. He found a starting point "and then built around that," he says. "The process was not easy, but it was fun." He created movement he describes as compact, then placed it musically and "made it breathe, or not breathe, and textured it" to fit the accents in that part of the score. He worked by placing key portions of choreography, then "building the bridges in between," making sure to look at the work's overall arc and not merely the smaller arcs in each section of choreography. The ballet "is not a series of arcs, because the music isn't like that," Caniparoli says. "It's rolling, which I love." Toward the end, the music builds subtly, but he chose not to amplify that build choreographically, opting for a quieter end tone instead.
In exploring the concept of connectedness, Caniparoli couldn't have found a more apt metaphor than water. Water connects the earth's continents, permeates the cells and tissues of the body, serves as a unifying source of life. And in troubled times, water flows in the form of tears. With that idea in mind, Caniparoli created a ballet in which movements are sampled and shared. What one has, everyone has; that's clear in the gestures, many of which make gentle reference to nature. We see hands cupped as if catching rainwater. We see arms moving thickly, as if undersea. We see hands fly to the throat—a gasp—and to the head—a thought. There's urgency, a sense of need, of something broken. Most of all, we see a ballet that flows through its musical riverbed, carrying us to a point of realization. What that point is—beyond that we are individuals, and connected—the choreographer doesn't intend to say.
Program notes by Cheryl A. Ossola
Composer: Moritz Moszkowski
Choreographer: Alexei Ratmansky
Costume Designer: Colleen Atwood
Lighting Designer: Mark Stanley
Music: Suite for Orchestra "From Foreign Lands" Op.23
World Premiere: March 1, 2013—San Francisco Ballet, War Memorial Opera House; San Francisco, California
Pascal Molat in Ratmansky's From Foreign Lands (© Erik Tomasson)
Alexei Ratmansky exudes an air of gentleness and generosity, and both are as visible in his choreography as in his bearing. His work seems fresh and young-spirited, yet always there's a sense of honoring the past—the traditions, culture, and community of ballet. "I love his sense of humor, understatement sometimes— just pure joy," says Helgi Tomasson, San Francisco Ballet's artistic director and principal choreographer. "I watch his ballets and I see a master at work."
In 2013, Ratmansky brought his gifts to From Foreign Lands, his second commission for SF Ballet. His first was Le Carnaval des Animaux (Carnival of the Animals), in 2003; the Company has also performed his Russian Seasons, which premiered at New York City Ballet in 2006.
Ratmansky, a former artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet, is now artist in residence at American Ballet Theatre, where his Shostakovich Trilogy (seen this season on Program 5) premiered in 2013. For From Foreign Lands, Ratmansky chose German composer Moritz Moszkowski's Suite for Orchestra, "From Foreign Lands," for what he calls its "body movement." With such music, he says, it's like "you can almost switch your brain off and just let your body do [the choreographing], because it's so dansent." Danceable it is. Hinting at such national dances as the tarantella, fandango, and czardas, the music wraps traditions from Russia, Italy, Germany, Spain, Poland, and Hungary into a charming package.
"From Foreign Lands" is one of only a few Moszkowski works that have survived; it's his piano pieces—Etudes, Etincelles, and Spanish Dances—that are most known today. Ratmansky chose "From Foreign Lands" because he liked the orchestration—"It's delicate, but also it has the character [aspect]," he says—and structure. Its six well-defined movements have distinct personalities, a format that "gives you certain pluses," Ratmansky says. "It's not one mood throughout. It's a divertissement—a very old structure that still works."
The ballet begins in silence, with 12 dancers engaging in what seems like an invitation to the dance. Ratmansky's purpose for opening the ballet this way was more practical than interpretive, however. He had chosen to shape the ballet as a series of quartets (doubled, in the Polish dance, to an octet) with a full-ensemble finale, which meant that "structurally, it needed something," he says. A ballet made of a series of small groups "needs to start with the whole group and finish with the whole group," he explains—thus the silent ensemble opening. As the ballet unfurls, those fours and eights shift and flow, with solos, trios, and sextets flashing to the surface before disappearing back into the quartet baseline.
Ratmansky's Russian training and Western influences are both in evidence in From Foreign Lands. Transitions are critical to him, as is line. "Precision is very important. It's why I like [Rudolf] Nureyev's choreography so much—because it's full of energy and all things Russian, French, Danish, English," he says. "Of course, it's his very personal style, but you can read all these great influences in it." Ratmansky's use of épaulement (angles of the head and upper body) reveals his absorption of Bournonville style during his years at Royal Danish Ballet; the slower, more fluid form of the upper body often rides above the fast footwork, and vice versa. "I'm staying within the academic vocabulary, I think, because that's what I know, and also what I want to see," he says. "Can it still be alive and fresh? Can it look interesting?"
High-energy and playful, From Foreign Lands gently pokes fun at tradition. There are character dances heightened to the point of self-awareness, over-the-top romanticism, a touch of vaudeville, flirtations, rejections, capitulations, and successes. A whisper of sadness emerges in the Polish section, an intentional contrast to the rest of the ballet. "It's like how in Corot paintings there is always a red spot," Ratmansky says. "I think it's important structurally, which also might lead to certain themes. This is something that I don't analyze; I take it where it evolves."
Program notes by Cheryl A. Ossola
Composers: Joel Cadbury and Paul Stoney
Choreographer: Wayne McGregor
Scenic Designer: Wayne McGregor and Lucy Carter
Costume Designer: Wayne McGregor
Lighting Designer: Lucy Carter
Borderlands was made in collaboration with Nicholas Fox Weber and the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation.
World Premiere: January 29, 2013—San Francisco Ballet, War Memorial Opera House; San Francisco, California
San Francisco Ballet in McGregor's Borderlands (© Erik Tomasson)
Imagine a ballet based on the concept of dancers embodying paintings. Now imagine it happening in a non-literal way. That's Borderlands, Wayne McGregor's first commission for San Francisco Ballet, which premiered in 2013. The British choreographer's cerebral form of artistic vision yields technology-integrated dances that explore the human mind as equally as they do the body. In Borderlands' case, there's an abstract yet deep connection to the work of German-American artist Josef Albers.
McGregor's contemporary dance company, Wayne McGregor | Random Dance, has been offering viewers new ways of thinking about dance since 1992. For his first commission for SF Ballet, McGregor wanted to create a dance that would "fit the context of the work here," he says. He considered those works of his already in the Company's repertory (Eden/Eden and Chroma), he says, and "how I might be able to challenge myself on the dancers in a different way."
For Borderlands, McGregor wanted original music that would emerge through a prolonged "conversation" between dance and music—an electronic score, he decided, which, without the additional process of orchestrating, would permit quick exchanges. And so he turned to British composer Joel Cadbury and his collaborator Paul Stoney, whose music McGregor describes as "sonic architecture."
" 'Sonic architecture' is a very good way of describing the score," says Cadbury. McGregor's experimentation is a process Cadbury is used to, he says; he sees value in everything that's created, even if ultimately it's not used. "It's only when Wayne begins to make his choreography that we learn if what we are making fits," Cadbury says. "And it is only when we start putting everything together in context with the arc of the piece that these discoveries can be made." The goal is to "challenge preconceptions."
Like he has for 20 years, McGregor enlisted lighting designer Lucy Carter to help him create his visual world. "We wanted to do something very simple, a kind of light-installation piece [using LED lights], with a blank canvas in terms of the architecture," McGregor says. "Why? Because the point of departure for all of this is the work of Josef Albers, a Bauhaus-influenced artist who worked with rigorous shape and color to do amazing optical things." The Bauhaus movement has a place in the lineage of dance, starting with designer/ choreographer Oskar Schlemmer's translation of architectural principles onto the body (notably in his Triadic Ballet), which influenced dance-notation pioneer Rudolf Laban and later, says McGregor, choreographers such as William Forsythe.
If McGregor's new piece has an organizing principle, it's in Albers' Homage to the Square. Both music and dancing were created in four-minute segments, all in response to the Albers work—initially far more material than would be needed. Then McGregor refined and restructured the ballet.
When choreographing, McGregor goes into the studio with a well-defined concept but an open mind about its evolution. As he demonstrates the steps, he accompanies them with scat singing, an effective method of conveying movement quality and intent. Much of the music he worked with for Borderlands has minimal rhythmic drive—it's like a tapestry of sustained sound onto which he layers his movement. The result is a fluid pairing of music and movement to which he adds counts later, if needed.
To get the most out of McGregor's dances, it's best to arrive at the theater as he does at the studio: ready to discover the infinite potential of dance, the body, and the human mind. "Albers gets me on a visceral level," says McGregor. "This is rich information that no one will see in the dance, but it will be there. It makes you think about things in a different way."
Program notes by Cheryl A. Ossola


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Clinton and Eaton county fall among Michigan's healthiest, according to a new national study released Tuesday.
The county-by-county ranking from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is based on mortality data and measures how healthy people are and how long they live.
"We were ecstatic, very excited to see that we've moved from number six to number three," Health Officer Kim Singh, with the Clinton County Health Department said.
Three, as in the third healthiest county in the state. That's according to the national County Health Rankings. The study looked at mortality rates in more than 3,000 counties nationwide and other factors that impact health.
"Things like high school graducation rates, low violent crime rates, low number of children living in poverty," Singh explained.
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"Prevention pays, that's really the take home message," Dr. Donald Lawrenchuk, Medical Director with the Jackson County Health Department said.
At number 53, Jackson County falls considerably lower on the list.
"We do realize we have some challenges ahead of us," Lawrenchuk said. "The good news is we have a plan in place here in Jackson County."
Lawrenchuk says the county has rolled out programs focused on obesity, smoking and alcohol abuse, among other things. He feels the study helps Jackson find focus.
"It tells us what work needs to be done," he said.
Wayne, Saginaw and Genesee were among the least healthy. Ingham County ranked 32 out of the 82 counties measured.
The study, in its third year, is often used by communities to identify challenges and improve their residents overall health.
"The County Health Ranking show us that much of what influences our health happens outside of the doctor's office," Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, with the foundation said. "In fact, where we live, learn, work and play has a big role in determining how health we are and how long we live."
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Also, you'll be receiving the download link in your email on the 12th.
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End of QE a Worry for Sterling
Could the end of quantitative easing trigger a sterling crisis?
The Bank of England's confidence in the ability of its unorthodox bond-buying program to generate further growth seems to be wavering. Some of the recent comments from members of its policy-setting committee suggest caution about extending quantitative easing.
In part that's because they've taken heart from early evidence that the BoE's Funding for Lending scheme, in which it subsidizes bank lending, is managing to push credit into the system. And, no doubt, there's a desire to keep policy as stable and uncontentious as possible ahead of the change in the Bank's leadership this summer.
But there also seems to be a rethink of the ultimate costs of the BoE's hugely expanded balance sheet relative to the seemingly shrinking incremental benefits of more bond buying, not least because the policy-committee members are unsure about what the economy's sustainable trend rate of growth might be.
Unfortunately, whatever the trend rate of growth is, Britain still isn't hitting it. The latest industrial production and construction data for November showed manufacturing down 2.1% on the year, having slumped 0.7% in the three months to November compared with the same period to August. These numbers suggest the U.K. economy contracted in the fourth quarter of 2012.
No doubt there will be a slight rebound in the first quarter with a pickup in the global economy, if Chinese export and import data are anything to go by JPMorgan is forecasting an end to the euro-zone recession half way through this year, while Asian economies, not least China and Japan, are expected to benefit from stimulus. Should the U.S. resolve its fiscal cliff problems, the outlook for global growth shouldn't be bad.
But this too might be a negative for sterling.
The pound has been supported over the past couple of years by hefty capital inflows from fearful investors, not least those in the euro zone–one only has to look at prime London property prices and the proportion bought by foreigners for a sign of what's been happening. But as conditions stabilize elsewhere, these flight-from-risk flows will stop and turn around.
By contrast, the U.K. economy will look very drab indeed. Without safe-haven flows and offering a poor investment case, there's every likelihood investors will flee sterling.
Could it become a crisis? In 2007 and 2008, sterling fell by more than a quarter in trade-weighted terms as investors took fright at the economy's exposure to finance. Even so, the depreciation barely supported exports. The U.K. continues to run a significant current-account deficit, likely to be made worse by dwindling North Sea oil reserves.
It's not impossible that the pound could suffer another depreciation of a similar magnitude if investors start to panic. To the extent that it supports the economy, the BoE would welcome such a move. But it would also be inflationary. And given the chronic inflationary overshooting of the past five years, at some point the BoE will start to worry about price stability.
Lest the British pound starts to look more like the Egyptian pound.
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The Bethesda Foundation, 396 Cleveland Ave., North Hornell, has donated $3,000 to Family Service Society, Inc. for counseling session scholarships.
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Brooklyn Valley VFW Post 7790 would like to thank the Chase Avenue Stop & Shop manager and workers for their courtesy. We especially thank the customers who gave so generously to the Poppy Drive on Veterans Day weekend during hard economic times. It is people like them who make it easier to help our veterans in need.


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Put brakes on noise from big trucks
Published: Thursday, January 24, 2013 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 at 6:41 p.m.
Folks who live along Fanning Bridge Road should not have to put up with the machine-gun rattling of compression release engine brakes on big trucks late at night, and local and state officials should do what they can to put a stop to the noise.
Neighbors in subdivisions along Fanning Bridge complain that speeding, noisy truck traffic is jeopardizing safety, rattling their windows and waking their children. The problem seems to be compounded by truckers using Fanning Bridge to bypass scales on Interstate 26.
Patty Youngblood, who lives in Windsor Forest, said the noisy brakes shake her house and disrupt her familys sleep. Sometimes it goes all night, she told Fletcher Town Council last week.
Officials with the town and the N.C. Department of Transportation met Tuesday to brainstorm possible solutions. Mayor Pro Tem Eddie Henderson has lived on Fanning Bridge since 1978 and regularly fields complaints from citizens about speeding and noisy trucks. Yet he says: Theres just not a whole lot you can do. You just cant tell these truckers they cant come through here.
Many towns have passed ordinances and put up signs prohibiting the loud brakes, commonly known as jake brakes. Jacobs Vehicle Systems, which manufacturers compression release engine brakes as well as other braking systems, takes issues with signs singling out jake brakes, according to the website www.straightdope.com. The company says the loud noises are the result of poorly muffled or illegally modified exhaust systems, and notes that other companies also manufacture compression release engine brakes.
Whatever they are called, Fanning Bridge neighbors are tired of hearing them. Last week, the Youngbloods asked Town Council to consider passing an ordinance and erecting signs to prohibit truckers from using the loud brakes. DOT officials have expressed concern that this could create safety issues by discouraging truckers from using their brakes. But the speed limit on Fanning Bridge is 35 and the loud brakes are not effective below 40 mph, Henderson says.
Henderson said the truckers hes seen causing problems arent those driving to the quarry on Fanning Bridge or delivering trailers with well-known fleet names that can be traced. He described the offending trucks as having plain-Jane white trailers, and said they often cross the center line in curves.
Councilman Bob Davy suggested enforcing speed limits might be the most effective solution since the trucks wouldnt need to use the loud brakes at lower speeds. According to Fletcher Police Chief Erik Summey, officers have clocked speeding on the road and the average speed was maybe 40 mph. But much of the problem is occurring in the early morning hours, between 2 and 7 a.m., Youngblood said.
Police should stake out the road during the wee hours to determine what is going on. The Division of Motor Vehicles also should look into the issue of truckers bypassing the scales on I-26, a violation that poses other safety hazards. And the council should do as former trucker Stanley Harkins suggested and pass an ordinance prohibiting the use of compression release engine brakes on the road so that residents can have some peace and quiet.
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Many people have had a bad experience with goat milk or cheese. Wendell Crow has been a milk connoisseur since birth. In fact, he had to be given goat milk as an infant because of digestive problems. But that was the last time he had goat milk for many years. His family co-owned a cow dairy named Prescott Farms Dairy in Northern AZ. After he was taken off the bottle, cow milk was a staple in his life. It was, and still is, his favorite food in the whole world. After marrying Rhonda, she tried to get him to drink the milk from her goats. He would tell her, "No way! The only thing goat milk is good for is to raise calves." He had tried goat milk from the store and thought it tasted "nasty". Many years later while on vacation, he had the opportunity — peer pressure prevailed — to sample goat milk and cheese again. Guess what? He loved it! These products had been made from 100% Nubian milk by someone that knew about how delicate goat milk can be. Many things can affect the flavor of goat milk. Even the breed of animal can make a difference in the flavor. Because of the nature of its molecular structure, flavor can also be negatively affected by the collection and handling process. If collected carefully, chilled immediately and packaged gently, it tastes as good or BETTER than cow milk!
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It's time to hang up the ballet shoes and hammer down a business plan, according to board members of the Augusta Ballet.
"I will say the dip in ticket sales does have concern," says Tara Simkins, president of the Augusta Ballet Board of Trustees.
It's not necessarily music to the ears.
Ballet spokespeople announced that while they will stay open, they'll have to re-choreograph their marketing.
"We need to take a deeper look at our situation and see, what can we do better?" Simkins says.
She is convinced while tickets sales are down, it's nothing they can't twirl out of.
That's why board members will use the rest of this fiscal year to evaluate next year's budget.
Meanwhile, the ballet's venue, the Imperial Theatre, will be on the edge of its seat waiting to hear whether one of its main shows will go on or take a year off.
"[The ballet] has really developed the core of our programming and our audience core as well," says Lara Plocha, executive director of the Theatre.
"You need to know that there is a lot of pressure on the arts industry around the country," says Larry Read, president of the Augusta Symphony Board of Trustees.
Read's group is faring well financially, but he knows others aren't so lucky.
"Look at the Boston Pops; their attendance is down," Read says.
"We noticed a significant decrease in ticket sales to everything we did back in Augusta of '05 right about the same time we had Katrina come through," says Plocha.
So while audiences hope the board raises the bar next year, the board hopes audiences will find ways of stretching their extra dollars.
Wednesday they put a positive spin on creating a new, artistic product that fits the needs of the community.
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Linemen Who Restore Power After Disasters Deserve Thanks
Published: Tuesday, December 4, 2012 at 12:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, December 3, 2012 at 11:58 p.m.
The letter sent in from Keith Brown in regard to electric lineman who was beaten up in New York was fantastic ["Restroom Not Included," Nov. 29].
These linemen traveled for two days riding or driving in a rough-riding line truck just to get there and then worked 16- to 18-hour days, seven days a week to get power going for them? What was he doing just riding around in a fancy car, surely not helping out his own New Yorkers?
This is a very dangerous line of work and these linemen were doing their job over and above the line of duty. The linemen are not furnished any outdoor bathrooms.
Most of the New Yorkers were very appreciative of all they did, some complained loudly that they were not doing enough for them, but you can never please all the people all the time. These guys tried. But remember all these linemen from the power companies were in Florida eight years ago to help all of us out.
How I am aware of what these linemen went through is that my son who works for a Illinois power company drove a truck to New York. He and his crews worked to help the people out. The linemen all had to drive the trucks back home when they finished (not a smooth ride). Hats off to all the linemen who went to New York.
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Witness account of the Abilene Gold Exchange shooting seems to contradict police information
ABILENE, Texas - On Friday, a witness shared what he saw Thursday as police entered Abilene Gold Exchange.
Bill Adams has worked next door to the Gold Exchange location for eight years and told KTXS news he saw the entire scene unfold.
Adams said he's surprised at how police executed their search warrant Friday. His account of what happened is dramatically different than what police said.
"I couldn't see any markings on the the vest," Adams said. "I saw gun holsters guns coming out," Adams said.
"I couldn't see any markings on the the vest, right away saw gun holsters guns coming out," Adams said. "They went in the door in a rush and I expected to hear police, search warrant or freeze." "[then]All I heard was pop pop," Adams continued.
His account seems to contradict what police said in their affidavit outlining events.
They said detectives entered through the front door, and identified themselves as police to Charles Camp, and that he followed orders.
The affidavit says detectives then went to the back of the building to see if anyone else was inside.
Detectives say that's when Marcus Cass confronted them and ignored their commands. The affidavit says Cass pulled his gun from his holster and pointed it at them.
That's when a police detective shot and killed Cass.
Adams said he's struggling to connect the dots. "I don't understand why they would enter a place of business like that in that type of a confrontational manner," Adams said.
KTXS has learned there is security camera video from inside and outside Abilene Gold Exchange. KTXS News requested the video, but police have not responded to our request.
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"A fierce and lively book. . . .This is one of those rare books that could make people think about their intimate lives in a new way." — New York Times Book Review
"A rousing defense of imprudent ardor and romantic excess. . . . It's difficult to deny that [Nehring] is on to something." — Wall Street Journal
A thinking person's "guide" that makes the case for love in an age both cynical about and fearful of strong passion. Bold and challenging, A Vindication of Love has inspired praise and controversy, and brilliantly reinvigorated the romance debate. A perfect choice for readers of Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life and Pierre Bayard's How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read.
In the twenty-first century, political correctness, cynicism, prag-matism, and the commodification of sex have reduced romantic love to a discredited myth or a recreational sport—"a cause for embarrassment," says Cristina Nehring. In A Vindication of Love, Nehring wrests romantic love from the clutches of retrograde feminists and cutting-edge capitalists, thrill-seeking convenience shoppers and safe-sex moralists. With help from lovers ranging from Heloise and Abelard to Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Nehring celebrates the wild, irreverent, and uncompromising models of love we have inherited—as she rediscovers romantic love's fearless and heroic provenance, and challenges readers to demand partnerships that fully engage body, heart, and mind.
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"An eloquent plea for romantic daring and idealism…A bold, high-flying polemic which sets out to do nothing less than reclaim romantic love for our times." — Ingrid Norton, Open Letter Monthly
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MOUNTAIN VIEW -- Gov. Jerry Brown and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed a pro-business agreement Wednesday designed to strengthen economic and intellectual ties between Israel and California.
The agreement covers such issues as cyber security, water conservation, education, agricultural technology, health and biotechnology.
"Together we can solve these problems," Netanyahu said.
Brown said Israel has demonstrated how "efficient a country can be.''
"There's a lot we can learn, a lot we can share," he said.
During a joint appearance with Brown at the Computer History Museum, Netanyahu also condemned a shipment of Iranian rockets bound for Palestinian militants in Gaza as "weapons of mass death" that "reveal the truce face of Iran." The rockets, with a range of 1,000 miles, would have allowed Palestinian militants to "rain death and destruction on Israeli's cities," Netanyahu said.
Israel forces intercepted the ship, the KLOS C, and its load of dozens of long-range missiles bound to "cruel despots" in the Red Sea on Wednesday, he said.
Wednesday's visit follows Netanyahu's meetings with President Barack Obama in Washington, D.C., on Monday. He also planned to stop at Apple and have a meeting with WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum, a Jewish Ukrainian immigrant who sold his company to Facebook Inc. for $19 billion last month.
To applause, Netanyahu thanked Brown after California's state pension fund divested itself from Iranian investments while "investing in Israel."
Netanyahu also implored Brown to help create direct airline flights between San Francisco and Tel Aviv that he said would trigger "an explosion of creativity and inventiveness" between Israel and California.
"The future belongs to those who innovate," Netanyahu said.
California, which is suffering from a historic drought, would particularly benefit from increased cooperation with Israel because "Israel doesn't have a water problem," Netanyahu said.
Even though rainfall has dropped 50 percent since Israel's founding while its population has grown 10-fold, Netanyahu said Israel is the world's top recycler of waste water and a force in desalination.
"California doesn't need a water problem," he said.
Israel is also a world leader in cyber security, Netanyahu said. With cooperation from California, he said, "together we can solve these problems."
"The best brains in the world are in Silicon Valley," he said.
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Nancy C. (Barnhart) Minnick Dale, 73, of 13790 Molly Pitcher Highway, Lot 26, Greencastle, Pa., went home to be with her Lord and Savior Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013, in NMS Healthcare, Hagerstown, Md., following a short illness. Born Dec. 24, 1939, in Waynesboro, Pa., she was the daughter of the late John and Alice (Martin) Barnhart. Mrs. Dale was a graduate of Waynesboro Area Senior High School with the Class of 1958. She and her first husband, the late Mr. Larry E. Minnick, were married July 30, 1960. He passed away Feb. 1, 1973. She and her husband of over 33 years, Mr. W. Eugene "Gene" Dale, were married Oct. 5, 1979. In her early life, Mrs. Dale was employed as a day care nutritionist in the Carlisle, Pa., area and later as a teller for First Texas Bank in Texas. Prior to her retirement in 2011, she was employed as a teller at M&T Bank in the Waynesboro area. Mrs. Dale was a member of Antrim Brethren in Christ Church, Greencastle. She enjoyed photography, sewing, crocheting and gardening. In addition to her second husband, she is survived by four children, Clinton E. Minnick of Springtown, Texas, Daniel J. Minnick and Bruce L. Minnick and his wife, Laurie, all of Garland, Texas, and Koreen A. Smetzer and her husband, Rob, of Clear Spring, Md.; two stepchildren, Kerry E. Dale of Dallas, Texas, and Michael S. Dale and his wife, Margo of Maypearl, Texas; five grandchildren, Ashley Minnick, Jacob Minnick, Rachel Trivett, Brittany Smetzer and Ryan Smetzer; one stepgrandson, Jeremy Dale; one great-grandson, Joseph Trivett; one sister, Darlene Smith of Waynesboro; one brother, Paul Barnhart of Florida; and a number of nieces and nephews. In addition to her parents and first husband, she was preceded in death by two brothers, Erston Barnhart and Donald Barnhart. Services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, March 1, 2013, in Antrim Brethren in Christ Church, 24 E. Kauffman Road, Greencastle, with Pastor Ky Searcy officiating. Burial will follow in Green Hill Cemetery, Waynesboro. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service, Friday afternoon, in the church. Memorial contributions may be made to Antrim Brethren in Christ Church, 24 E. Kauffman Road, Greencastle, Pa. 17225 or John L. Grove Cancer Center, 755 Norland Ave., Suite 100, Chambersburg, Pa. 17201. Arrangements are by Grove-Bowersox Funeral Home, Waynesboro. Online condolences may be expressed at: www.bowersoxfuneralhomes.com
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A local committee has released findings in a report entitled the "Well-Being of the Capital Area Community."
The report shows Ingham County's number of reported cases of child abuse and neglect more than double those of Clinton and Eaton counties.
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The respite drop-off program at Lansing's Family Growth Center is one preventative measure aimed at decreasing the number of cases. It allows parents the opportunity to take a rest, relieve stress, and run errands, while their kids socialize with other children.
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- Oct 19:
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- Sandra Coke disappearance: Former boyfriend arrested as suspect in criminal investigator's killing
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DUBLIN -- Slain federal criminal investigator Sandra Coke and career criminal Randy Alana were a loving couple who shared a home, attended church together the day she went missing and had plans to wed, Alana, the person of interest in her killing, claimed Saturday in a lengthy, exclusive jailhouse interview with this newspaper.
Speaking by telephone from behind a glass partition at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, where he is being held on a parole violation, Alana said the pair met while she investigated a capital murder case two decades ago and started a relationship. He repeatedly denied harming Coke who disappeared Aug. 4 from Oakland. Her body was found five days later in Vacaville.
Alana paints a vastly different picture of the pair's relationship than Coke's family, who have said the two briefly dated more than 20 years ago. It also raises the question of why Alana received a parole stay-away order, revealed at his Friday parole hearing in Oakland, that attempted to prevent him from seeing Coke. He is accused of violating his state prison parole by having "numerous contacts" with Coke.
"We recently talked about getting married," said Alana, adding that her family and friends largely did not know of his criminal past. He was charged with two separate killings in the 1980s and was paroled from a 15-year robbery sentence in June 2012.
Coke's younger sister, Tanya Coke, disputes all of Alana's claims.
"This is a man with convictions for murder and kidnapping. He was the last person seen with my sister, but claims he has nothing to do with her disappearance and killing," she said in a written statement. "He is clearly someone who thinks nothing of lying and manipulating to serve his purposes. Why would we or anyone else believe what he has to say?"
Since his release last year, Alana admits to violating his parole at least five times, sending him back to Santa Rita where deputies said Saturday morning that Coke, 50, was a "regular visitor" of Alana.
During the interview, Alana said the pair occasionally attended Harmony Missionary Baptist Church in Oakland together on Sundays, including the morning of her disappearance. Interim Harmony pastor Germaine Anderson on Saturday confirmed both Coke and Alana were "visitors" not "members" of the church. He could not confirm that they attended the Aug. 4 morning worship and said he did not know them.
During a 30-minute interview Saturday, the 56-year-old Alana indicated several times by shaking his head that he did not harm or kill Coke and had nothing to do with her disappearance. He said his attorney advised him not to speak to anyone, but he wanted to talk: "I have nothing to hide."
However he declined to speak about what happened after Coke was last seen by her 15-year-old daughter about 8:30 p.m. Aug. 4 after leaving their home in the 600 block of Aileen Street in North Oakland.
"Sunday, Aug. 4 is the day I can't talk to you about for obvious reasons," he said. He declined to speak further on the matter.
Police have said Alana was the last person seen with Coke after she told family she was picking up a prescription and meeting someone with information about her missing dog. Sources said that video has been recovered showing Coke's Mini Cooper crossing the Carquinez Bridge after her disappearance. The car was later discovered in a West Oakland parking lot, and one of her cellphones was found in Richmond last week. Police have not said how she died or offered any more information on a possible link between her death and Alana.
Oakland police spokeswoman Johnna Watson was not available for comment Saturday on Alana's jailhouse interview, which ran the spectrum of emotions.
His eyes wet with tears, Alana jumped between anger over his perceived poor treatment since his arrest -- "I'm being treated like a suspect" -- to claims that he is thankful to even be alive at age 56, to a request for details on Coke's funeral and a copy of her obituary.
He also said he worries about access to his belongings if he's released because they were at Coke's house. "When I'm not here (in jail), I'm there," he said.
Oakland resident Jerry Pittman, 56, said his mother lives next door to Coke's home, and he had done handyman work at her house. He said Alana resurfaced in Coke's life three months ago.
One morning, Pittman said Alana was outside acting "peculiar" and hiding behind cars. "He looked real spacey," Pittman said, and Coke confronted Alana and said, "Face me like a man."
By all accounts, Coke was a loving mother, career woman, caring neighbor and friend.
She worked for the federal public defender's office in Sacramento as an investigator working on mandatory death penalty appeals. The pair met 20 years ago when she interviewed him while he was incarcerated as part of a death penalty investigation, said Alana, who is in solitary lockdown at Santa Rita because he is considered one of the jail's most dangerous inmates.
In 1983, Alameda County prosecutors charged him with beating a young woman to death with a hammer in her North Oakland apartment. He was later acquitted. While in custody awaiting trial for the slaying, Alana and a fellow inmate were accused of fatally stabbing another prisoner. A jury in Alana's trial deadlocked, and he later pleaded no contest to the killing and was sentenced to six years in prison. He is considered a high-risk sex offender, according to a state-run sex offender registry, which lists undated convictions for two counts of rape, kidnapping with intent to commit a sex offense and oral copulation.
Alana has not been named as a suspect in the killing of Coke but with his parole revoked, he stands to be in jail up to 180 days. Alana was arrested on Aug. 6 at a BART station in Pittsburg after a confrontation with officers and police dogs, which left him with large bites on his right thigh and left arm.
Reach Kristin J. Bender at email@example.com. Follow her at Twitter.com/kjbender. Staff writers Matthias Gafni, Harry Harris and David DeBolt contributed to this report.


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Published: Wednesday, April 16, 2014 at 1:00 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, April 15, 2014 at 7:58 p.m.
MANATEE COUNTY - A local commercial Realtor has purchased nearly 600 acres of vacant land in Parrish for $4 million.
Eric D. Howell pays $4 million, or
$6,722 an acre
FH Parrish 62 LLC, a Bradenton company managed by commercial Realtor Eric D. Howell, bought the land on State Road 62, east of U.S. 301, from a California firm that had assembled it near the height of the region's last real estate bubble.
The five parcels, totaling 595.1 acres, fetched $6,722 per acre.
FH Parrish 62 used a $4.5 million loan to finance the deal, court records show.
A Rancho Mirage, Calif., company managed by Reynold L. Glanz known as SR 62 Holdings LLC paid $31 million for the tracts and other land in March 2005.
The property is zoned for pastureland, but with the recent explosion in development in and around northern Manatee County, the buyer probably will eventually attempt to have it reclassified for home or other construction.
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