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Suspect Appears in Court in 1979 Disappearance of Etan Patz
The suspect in the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz appeared in court Thursday for the first time since he was indicted on charges of murder and kidnapping in connection with the infamous missing-child case.
Pedro Hernandez, 51 years old, walked slowly into a Manhattan criminal courtroom with his head shave and his hands cuffed behind his back as the district attorney's office formally produced the indictment against him.
The judge set an arraignment date of Dec. 12.
"Just so there is no question in anyone's mind, the plea in this case will be not guilty and we will be fighting this case right along the way," said his attorney Harvey Fishbein.
Hernandez, who told authorities that he strangled Etan after using a soda to lure him into a convenience store basement, was indicted by a grand jury on charges of second-degree murder and kidnapping Wednesday — a day before the legal deadline for the Manhattan district attorney's office to file charges or drop the case.
He was remanded to jail Thursday, with his next court appearance scheduled for Dec. 12. His wife, Rosemary Hernandez, and daughter sat in the first row behind him but were whisked away by about a dozen court officers after the appearance.
Fishbein said authorities have little evidence against Hernandez, an unemployed resident of Maple Shade, N.J., other than his confession, which came 33 years after the 3-foot-4-inch first grader vanished while walking to school.
Hernandez gave a three-hour, videotaped confession to officers in New Jersey, leading to his arrest on May 24. While he has no prior criminal record, Hernandez has a long psychiatric history. He was found fit to stand trial, but his attorney said Hernandez made a false confession because of his mental illness.
Fishbein said he will work to have the case dropped at every stage, challenging the sufficiency of the evidence for the indictment and the admissibility of his statements, which he called "not reliable."
"They are what we term false confession," he said.
Hernandez is the latest in a series of suspects in the disappearance of Etan, who became one of the first missing children featured on a milk carton. He was arrested a day before the 33rd anniversary of the disappearance, after a brother-in-law told detectives that Hernandez spoke openly decades ago about killing a boy. Authorities had been excavating a SoHo building at the time for evidence against a different suspect.
In a 2004 civil trial, convicted pedophile named Jose Ramos was found legally responsible for the child's death. He was released from Pennsylvania prisons on Nov. 7, only to be rearrested after authorities said he failed to register his whereabouts under Megan's Law.


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Hitting the road to Vietnam, I didn't know what to expect; the journey began in Southern Vietnam in Ho Chi Min City, formerly known as Saigon. We started off exploring the city, with our pro globalization cyclo driver kept saying "Got mouth to eat, Got no mouth to speak".
We then traveled to Cao Dai temple, in which the temple was like going through some mad alice in wonderland dream. The architecture was like nothing I have ever seen before, it was modern with lots of exquisite art and detail everywhere. The religion is a combination of teachings from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Confucianism, Christianity, Islam and other religions with the intention to promote peace.
Another highlight was visiting the Cu Chi Tunnels, which is an ingenious invention of seeing how resilience the Vietnamese during the American war. The Vietcong controlled under the grounds while Americans controlled the sky and land. The tunnels were tiny and it was amazing to realize that people lived there, cooked, slept, used the bathroom and even had children. The visit was quite emotional because our tour guide was quite the opposite of our cyclo driver, he was a Vietcong fighter during the war. As we watched movies of how Vietcong rewarded brave soldiers that fought the evil Americans, it took me back to realize how symbolic nationalism was during that time.
We were then transferred to a parallel world to have a dinner in a completely different world of westernize vietnamese food before dancing the night away to fusion of the francophone culture.
Next destination to the midlands, in which we hoped on an internal flight to Danang, which was quite an adventure sort of like being on a busy public bus in a rural towns. The only thing missing from people's luggage were the chickens, they had their things huge plastic bags. The flight was noisy and for three girls who got less than three hours of sleep it was quite the nightmare.
Our next destination was taking a cab to Hoi Ann, which was a 45 minute drive. We negotiated with our cab and after five minutes of driving, the cabbie stopped opened the trunk and there was a black car behind us. Once we realize what happened, Vimal tried to open her door, and it was locked. My immediate reaction is like I am not going to have my things robbed from me. It wasnt going to happen to me so I jumped to the passenger seat of the car, rushed to the trunk and pushed the driver aside, not sure what I was yelling. We all took our bags and walked back to the airport. The driver kept saying it was cheaper to take a private car but after hearing the horror stories of backpackers in Vietnam we werent going to find out.
An hour later, we eventually made it to Hoi Ann, which is a UNESCO Heritage Site where we spent the day cycling the city indulging in Vietnamese coffee, tea and cuisine while the city poured around us. The city was magical, it made me realize how this haven had so many settlers. It was protected and because it was hard to get, spared the horrors of the Vietnamese war, the pagados, the old houses, and the atmosphere. We had loads of fun singing at the top of our lungs while cycling the rice paddies. We also go to experience the fabulous world of tailored clothes.
A couple of days letter, we set off on what is a common mode of transport a sleeping bus, the travel agents promotional posters made it looked like it was spacious and luxurious with full length beds. It was amazing to see the three rows of beds on a regular bus customized for the Asian body. The bus driver was quite hilarious as he took a 20 min break to stop and shop for some jackets on the way. As we set off to Hue, another unbelievable UNESCO Heritage Site, we rented bikes again and ventured to the old fortress, temples, and even played football with a group of young Vietnamese girls, in which we realized how badly we were.
My final stop was to Hanoi.. the second biggest city in Vietnam, which was a bit overwhelming after enjoying the peaceful countryside.The highlight was the water puppet show which is definitely a must see for anyone going to Hanoi. This was a great way to see Chinese aspect of Vietnamese culture.
Vietnam surprised me with its beauty, charm and friendliness of the people.
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On 28th Sep, 2011, carrying the eager to explore the grandeur of nature, the first travelers together with ATA's product manager – Mr. Tony Tran had launched the discovery to Son Doong Cave, the biggest cave in the world.
Accompany with the group is Mr. Ho Khanh who found the Son Doong Cave as a tour guide. The first meet with Mr. Ho Khanh really impressed everyone. Just a warm smile, a strong handshake from him is enough to make everyone feel warm at heart. At Ho Khanh 's house, the group had the moments of relax with green tea, a simple lunch with steamed rice cake and salted peanut and an open conversation. All of that was promising for a memorable journey.
Mr. Ho Khanh in old costume of troop
The first obstacle for the group is leaches. They are everywhere and all in hungry for blood. It was really a nightmare at first but as time passes, the scare was fade when everyone got used to them and they weren't the obstacle anymore. In the deep jungle under shade, the expedition team followed jungle trails that on limestone Mountains to the Swallow Cave.
As planned, the expedition team would camp at the Swallow Cave. But "Man proposes, God disposes", everything weren't going as planned, it was dark so quickly so the expedition had to camp at a clear ground that is 30 minutes walking to the Swallow Cave. The tents were pitched up, dinner was also cooked and everyone had a good time to eat dinner together. Camping in the deep jungle, it was indeed an interesting experience!
Everything was not easier on the next morning. Although the sky seemed so bright, no rain and the ground was dry, the obstacles was still waiting for them. This time was the torrential river bank. If the expedition team couldn't cross the torrent, that meant they wouldn't be able to get to Son Doong Cave. This case forced everyone had to discuss and find the way to cross the torrent and after that decided if they could go any further or not.
In the torrential river bank....
Ho Khanh proved himself as a local guide with many years of experiences. At the hard times, his skill is very essential. He swam to the other side with a rope, he tied it to a tree then he led them crossing the river one by one. After much effort, finally, the group crossed the river safety. With the hope "After a storm comes a calm", everything would be smooth but the obstacle has passed, another comes. A lake blocks the way to Son Doong Cave. To cross the lake at that time was impossible and instead of risking themselves, it was better to take the photos of Swallow Cave then head back to the other side of the cave using rope to cross the river again.
The trek back is so nice with not climbing and great view. Crossing over shallow stream, walking through banana forest and spending sometime for hot green tea in Doong Village. All of that little things made a memorable tour.
Due to bad weather, the expedition might not succeed as planned but everyone was all happy with what they experienced. Son Doong - We will come back soon.
Clip about the first expedition to Son Doong Cave
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There was a big fire right next to our house. We all got out safely, including the pets.
In the meantime, check out Peppy's narrative at http://www.livejournal.com/users/ninjapeps/130624.html for pics.
I need to learn how to be the keeper of stories. My dad told me some interesting ones. Keywords:
- Traffic's silver lining
- Insights into crowd management: shock, authority
- Insights into crisis management: people, pets, stuff
- Food better than cash
- Household help more worried about Mom
- Possible reasons why: if I can't have it, neither can't you
- Fireworks incongruity
- Ollie bath
- Camera and batteries
- Window, silicone, Swiss kife
- Household help packed clothes
- Drinks: Dr. Pepper, cranberry juice
- Cooking: mixing viands
- Second fire
- Arroz caldo: third helping
- Can you teach me photography? Not tonight!
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At Build-A-Bear Workshop, we know there are many important causes that our Guests want to support. One of the ways we can help support the causes most important to our Guests is by listening to them in our stores and through our many channels of interaction – email, letters, social media, surveys, etc. Making a difference close to home is very important to us and to our Guests. That's why we are partnering with DonorsChoose.org for the month of August.
DonorsChoose.org is a website dedicated to teachers and students. It allows donors to find educational causes that are important to them and donate directly to teachers all over the United States. If someone wants to support art in schools, they can find a teacher who needs art supplies for a special project. If someone wants to find a classroom in their local grade school in need of assistance, they can search for specific schools and areas to find a classroom that needs their help right in their own community.
After receiving a thank you gift card from a company where she shopped, Maxine Clark, Chief Executive Bear and Founder of Build-A-Bear Workshop, went online to the DonorsChoose website and was hooked.
"I knew so many teachers who needed this type of platform to help provide needed supplies for their classrooms," she said.
Taking a note from the educators it assists, DonorsChoose also encourages teachers and classrooms who receive donations to provide updates to the donors.
"For a busy mom, DonorsChoose makes it super easy to choose a project and then keeps you involved in the progress of the project and the success stories that result [from it]," said Samara Reiter, Manager of Store Opbearations. "When you give to DonorsChoose you're not just giving to our future, you're actively choosing to be a part of it."
"Our Guests are children who benefit from a great education, so our relationship with DonorsChoose is a natural fit for us," said Maxine Clark. "Many parents, aunts, uncles and family members of our Guests are also teachers, and it helps them, too."
You can make a donation to DonorsChoose when you check out in our stores or online throughout the month of August. You may also visit DonorsChoose.org to find a project that inspires you.
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Orquestas allí hay como mil
(Machito, Tito Puente, Rodriguez)
Y a todos los tendré que oir
A un baile voy con Moncho Leña,
Y me voy si no toca
bomba puertorriqueña.
They have bands by the thousand
over there. (Machito, Tito Puente, Rodriguez)
I will have to listen to all of them.
I am going to a dance played by
Moncho Leña.
But I won't stay if he doesn't play
the Puerto Rican bomba.
excerpt "Que Rica Es" (Lito Peña)
Translation Frank M. Figueroa
Being cited in song lyrics ranks up there with imitation as the sincerest form of flattery. Moncho Leña may not have been known especially for his bombas, but even being casually mentioned in the context of "Los Tres Bravos" of New York's Palladium Ballroom in a song recorded by Ruth Fernández in the 1950s tells us something both about his music and his audience. During a June 1995 visit to Orlando, radio producer David Carp spent an afternoon studying both of the aforementioned in a singularly enjoyable classroom environmenthome of timbalero/drummer/bandleader Moncho Leña. The following article is taken from that interview.
Moncho Leña made his debut on June 24, 1919, in the town of Añasco, Puerto Rico, under the name of Juan Ramon Delgado. In the early 1920s his family moved several miles to the Dulces Labios sector of Mayaguez, the largest city on the east coast of Puerto Rico. Some of Moncho's first memories center around the silent Westerns and other American movies shown with Spanish subtitles at El Teatro Yaguez, which were accompanied by a musical group including piano, violin, flute, bass and trumpet. This was his early exposure to forms of light classical music, played by the likes of Balbino Trinta, Fermin Guzmán, Juan Madera, and some of the finest "music-stand musicians" of Mayaguez. Ironically, the arrival of "talkies" coincided with the arrival of the economic near collapse caused by the Great Depression. Moncho Leña recalls, "They used to have something they called the P.R.A., that was the federal government, you know, assistance. They used to give to families two dollars a week and some food. In those days you could buy a pound of rice for two cents and then you could buy a pound of lard for three cents and you could buy ham for three cents, you could buy coffee for three cents. But you had to work from six to six, you know, cutting the sugar cane to make sixty cents a day."
Working class residents of Dulces Labios and the other barrios of Mayaguez anticipated every Sunday with eagernessnot only was it a day off and a chance to drink cañita (illegal homemade liquor), but an opportunity to sing, dance and play the Afro-Puerto Rican music known as bomba and plena. Outstanding pleneros of Depression-era Mayaguez included Felipe "El Tuerto," "Joey," "Guizi," "Valentin" and, above all, Ramón Rivera Alers, remembered by many older Puerto Ricans as the father of Efrain "Mon" Rivera. A maintenance man at the Mayaguez College of Agriculture, he was the composer of popular numbers that exemplified the plena tradition of "newspaper in song." Moncho loved bomba and plena from day one and began his musical life with a time-honored Caribbean tradition by making his own panderetas (the jingle-less tambourines used in the most typical forms of plena) out of the tin cans used to pack margarine. By the early 1930s he was playing bongos. Moncho reminisces, "Whenever we have a little gig, we got about fifty or sixty cents in those days. So I go to this man and I rent one pair for twenty-five cents. I make fifty, so I pay him twenty-five cents, so I get twenty-five cents for myself." Always good with his hands, Moncho was soon making his own bongos (homemade Puerto Rican bongos of the 1930s often had crude but effective tuning keys, contrary to any misconceptions about tunable bongos being a product of the 1950s). It was during this period that Juan Ramón Delgado got both a bad case of malaria and his moniker. His sickly appearance inspired the comment, "Moncho, estas hecho leña!" (More or less translatable as "Moncho, you look like a pile of kindling wood!) He's been known as "Moncho Leña" ever since.
By the late 1930s Moncho was playing bongos in a local group led by Chuito Nadal that played guarachas, rumbas, sones and boleros at birthday parties and at the small dances known as "vacilones." Moncho remembers an experience that he and his colleagues shared. "Sometimes Arsenio Rodriguez was on the radio at 10 o'clock at night and when I used to play in the Sexteto Borinquen we always used to wait until 10 o'clock to listen to him. We copied a lot of numbers from Arsenio that we used to playI'm talking about 1939 and '40." The frequency of traveling theatrical companies performing los bufos cubanos and the ease of picking up Cuban short wave radio broadcasts made Cuban genres a given in the musical consciousness of most Puerto Ricans in the 1930s. (Catching weekly radio broadcasts of Arsenio Rodriguez is a cherished memory for singer El Boy, bassist Leo Fleming, and many of their peers.) For Moncho Leña, Cuban music (although derided by Hispanophile Puerto Rican writers of the period as a corrupting influence on the ostensibly pure Puerto Rican forms such as danza) is as basic as typical Puerto Rican music. A third source of influence was American popular dance and swing music (not surprising considering Puerto Rico's status as a U.S. possession). By the 1940s Moncho Leña had graduated to the orchestras of Mayaguez, led by the likes of William Manzano, Abdías Villalonga, Frank Madera and Celso Torres. The popularity of American music created a demand for groups with full saxophone and trumpet sections able to recreate the sounds of Glenn Miller, Jimmy Dorsey, and Count Basie. "We had to play not only Puerto Rican music," says Moncho, "we had to play 'In the Mood' or 'Jumping at the Woodside' from American stocks. Then we had to play samba, we had to play paso doble, we had to play tango, we had to play corrido Mexicano. You're a drummer, you have to play any kind of music."
From 1943 through 1946 Moncho served in the U.S. Army, where he taught himself the fundamentals of solfeo and of snare and dance band drumming. He utilized these new skills in two ways upon his return to the William Manzano orchestra. First, he became the trap drummer. Second, he was able to copy arrangements for Manzano who reimbursed him by providing him with a set of timbales. A rare 78 rpm William Manzano recording of the Mon Rivera composition "Puerto Rico y Santo Domingo" (Rosas 301) features an impressive, although short, Moncho Leña timbal solo. Or so I thought. Moncho confessed to me that he tuned his tom toms to one high and one low pitch to create a timbale-like effect since he didn't own timbales at the time the recording was made. Likewise, he was able to capture the baqueteo normally executed on the tops of the timbales for performing danzones by loosening the snare of his snare drum. Matching musical sound to musical style with the means at hand is the hallmark of a truly accomplished percussionist.
By 1952 Moncho Leña, Mon Rivera and a number of other musicians left the William Manzano orchestra. They jettisoned the saxophones and ended up with a four trumpet conjunto. The recordings of New York based leaders such as Tito Puente and Tito Rodriguez had given this style of conjunto tremendous popularity. Pianist Hector Pellot came from New York to join the new band and brought parts for some of Puente's and Rodriguez's most successful numbers. The new band's first engagement was at a dance club called the Coconut Hut, located in the Guanajibo barrio of Mayaguez. It wasn't long before broadcaster Gilbert Mamery baptized them with the name "Los Ases del Ritmo" and began to feature them on the air and in live stage presentations. They were soon performing at the Escambron Beach Club and Caribe Hilton Hotel in San Juan and at dances and theaters throughout the island. 1952 was the year of Tito Rodriguez's first tour of Puerto Rico. His band was booked to play alongside Los Ases del Ritmo at Bayamon's Las Tres Palmas. When Rodriguez realized that the audience already knew many of his hits, courtesy of Moncho Leña and company, and that there was very little fresh material for the audience, he was absolutely furious.
It wasn't long before Los Ases del Ritmo realized that no matter how well they could copy numbers like "Abaniquito" and "Mama Guela" they were ultimately advertising Tito Puente and Tito Rodriguez more than themselves. They began to feature plena heavily, but plena as arranged by Mon Rivera, lead trumpet player Jose "Chiquitín" Morales and other band members. This was plena with a mambo section inserted, with a conga in the rhythm section (two of Cesar Concepcion's innovations) and with harmonized parts for four trumpets. The percussive sounds that Moncho Leña had been hearing ever since childhood were expressed in his timbale playing; capturing the rhythms of la plena puertorriqueña without panderetas was a major innovation. Both traditional and original plenas were sung by Mon Rivera with improvisations in a style known as trabalengua (a kind of tongue-twisting scat singing introduced by Mon's father). The music of Los Ases del Ritmo combined tradition and innovation; this heady musical fusion was taken to the people through their constant traveling. This made it possible for Puerto Ricans to identify with Moncho Leña, Mon Rivera, Hector Pellot and their compueblanos in a way that would have been impossible for established orchestras such as Rafael Muñoz who had steady hotel engagements and who essentially played for Puerto Rico's upper crust.
It wasn't long before promoter Catalino Rolón heard about the sensational new conjunto from Mayaguez. After receiving round trip tickets and a contract from Catalino, Los Ases del Ritmo departed for "El Babel de Hierro" and arrived Thursday, November 19, 1953. Friday, November 20, marked their opening at La Bamba, a basement club underneath New York's Arcadia Ballroom and around the corner from the Palladium. Early in 1955 the group moved on to the Palladium where they soon achieved the status of a house band. During the summers Los Ases del Ritmo could be seen alternating with Vicentico Valdés; from fall through spring they shared the bandstand with Machito, the "two Titos" and more typical Cuban, Puerto Rican and Dominican bands. It's only fair to mention at this point that the band was usually advertised as "Hector Pellot y sus Ases del Ritmo con Mon Rivera y Moncho Leña" or words to that effect.
The relative lack of familiarity of plena among Anglo dancers didn't stop Moncho Leña from playing the legendary Wednesday nights at the Palladium, which catered to a heavily Jewish and Italian crowd. On certain Wednesdays Los Ases del Ritmo were known to break into "Hava Nagila" (arranged by Mon Rivera)! Moncho kept his book stocked with mambos, cha chas, merengues and whatever was needed to fit the ethnicity or taste of his audience on any given night. The popularity of Moncho Leña's band inspired Federico Pagani to new heights of zaniness (although almost anything inspired Federico Pagani to new heights of zaniness). The success of Ramón Rivera Alers' "Alo, Quien Ñama?," one of numerous hits for Ansonia Records, was exploited by Federico in the form of (what else) the "Alo, Quien Ñama?" contest. This was a contest held at the Palladium to see who could do the best imitation of Mon Rivera's rendition of this number. Needless to say, all contestants had the thrill of being accompanied by Moncho Leña's conjunto. A celebrated photograph of Los Ases del Ritmo (made famous by its use on the cover of the Ansonia LP entitled A Night at the Palladium) was selected by Federico for reproduction on matchbook covers; these matchbooks were given away at the Palladium. (If any of our readers has the good fortune of owning one of these matchbooks, please contact Moncho Leña immediately c/o Descarga Newsletter.) Dominican promoter Virgilio Dalmau, closely associated with Federico Pagani at one point, organized a special homenaje to Moncho Leña for a Christmas Eve dance on Monday, December 24, 1956. Moncho was awarded a silver trophy and crowned "El Rey de la Plena."
The mid-1950s was a heady period for New York timbaleros. The Latin trap drummers of the 1940s used a setup that usually included snare drums, various cymbals, bass drum, tom toms, and timbales. Following the example of Tito Puente, drummers began to abandon their bass drums, cut down on the size of their drum kits and feature more timbal solos. Moncho Leña did his share of soloing, particularly in numbers tailor-made for solo space such as "Moncho Timbalero." Drum battles between Moncho and Tito Puente were good promotional efforts for shows at El Teatro Puerto Rico. Maxwell Hyman was in the audience for one of these events and brought the concept to the Palladium.
Moncho Leña's house band status at the Palladium was over by the late 1950s. The plena had lost much of its novelty by then. Moncho had no eyes for the pachanga, the hottest new dance of the early 60s. Frustrated by the change in popular taste and general changes in the music business, Moncho broke up his band in 1963 and went to work as a contact lens technician. He took advantage of skills acquired during his boyhood and eventually got a government job as a carpenter. Although Moncho has never been willing to discuss the downfall of Mon Rivera for the record, it's obvious to all that know him that Mon's drug-related problems, departure from the band and time spent in prison were very painful to Moncho and at the very least reduced his will to continue in the business. Moncho continued to play club dates with pickup groups and was retired in Orlando, Florida by the late 1980s.
Moncho Leña's love of music is unabated to this day; the onset of arthritis has reduced his facility, but doesn't stop him from sitting in with bands. He's known locally as a distinguished musical figure and is recognized as such at public events oriented to the Puerto Rican community. He's in close contact with his children and fondly remembered by most people who ever worked with him. And he's still collecting royalties from his hit records for Ansonia, which bring beautiful memories to eyewitnesses to the Palladium era and bring new thrills to contemporary Latin music fans too young to have experienced this special period firsthand.


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TAHOE, Calif. - Are you looking for something to do on Thanksgiving Day this year? Why not plan to volunteer and attend the Tahoe Community Thanksgiving Potluck Celebration at the North Tahoe Event Center in Kings Beach.
Thanksgiving Day can be an emotionally difficult time for many people. They might have memories of better times or even thoughts of less than successful family gatherings. Holiday histories run the gambit from joyful to depressing and from fabulous to awful. "It's time to create new memories and new traditions," said Meera Beser of United for Action, a community collaboration of nonprofit agencies and faith-based groups.
Webster's Dictionary defines gratitude as "the state of being thankful." Wouldn't you love to live in that state?" Beser thinks those who live at Tahoe get to live in the "State of Thankfulness" 24/7.
"Just look around," she said. "This is a community where hundreds of people will gather together to support a friend in joy or sorrow, in need or in abundance and it has beautiful views as well."
Beser decided that with a little help she might be able to encourage the members of this community in a big way and so the Tahoe Community Thanksgiving Potluck Celebration was created. "The title is a little long," she opined. "But what else could we call it?" This event is an opportunity to get to know your neighbors better, meet new friends and build strong relationships. "There is much written about the mental and physical health benefits of strong community ties," she said.
It is unusual for an event to have a successful first season. But, according to organizers, the inaugural Tahoe Community Thanksgiving Potluck Celebration was a big hit last year. "It certainly exceeded our expectations," said event organizers. This was due to the wonderful, hardworking volunteers and to the incredible community support. About 275 people attended the event and another 200 meals were sent home to people who could not attend. Apparently, everyone had such a great time that repeated requests for a second annual event could not be ignored.
In light of the demand for more food and fun in typical North Tahoe style, the second annual Tahoe Community Thanksgiving Potluck Celebration will be held on Thursday, Nov. 22, 2012 Thanksgiving Day, at the North Tahoe Event Center. It is open seating so guests are welcome anytime between 2 and 6:30 p.m.
According to organizers it is a family friendly event with food and fun activities for everyone. Entertainment will include live music from the "Truckee Roundabouts" and the possibility other local musicians on stage. The dance instructor from last year's event is not able to attend but she is looking for a substitute. The big screen TV will be plugged in for sports fans and the children's corner will be open with games and art projects to help keep the kids amused.
According to the event coordinator Beser, this is a community celebration, not a soup kitchen. However, she likes to tell people the event is "an outreach to the hungry, homeless or lonely cleverly disguised as a community party because no one really wants to admit to being hungry, homeless or lonely."
Beser said of last year, "We entertained people from all walks of life and several different cultures; everyone had a great time."
Admission is by donation and the options include one or more of the following: 1. Being an active volunteer before, during or after the event; 2. Bringing non-perishable foods for Project MANA; 3. Potluck food to share; 4. Cash donations of $2 per person or $5 per family; 5. New unwrapped toy for the local Toys for Tots.
Elaine Durazo is the coordinator for the U.S. Marine Corps Toys for Tots Tahoe Truckee program. She said teenagers are the ones who are most often forgotten. Elaine can be reached at 530-583-5581 or 800 308-2463 if you have questions about the toys.
If you want to help, but can't attend on Thursday there are opportunities on Wednesday to help set-up, decorate and cook. There is no need to call ahead, just go to the Event Center between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. If you are going on Thanksgiving Day itself, volunteers are advised to arrive early or stay late, but take big appetites and plan on having a good time.
The Second Annual Tahoe Community Thanksgiving Potluck Celebration will be held on Thursday, Nov. 22 Thanksgiving Day, at the North Tahoe Event Center, 8318 North Lake Blvd. in Kings Beach. Dinner is open seating and the festivities will start at 2 p.m. Guests are welcome anytime between 2 and 6:30 p.m. If you have any questions call Meera Beser 775-230-1066.


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Q My wife and I dined at a restaurant in Los Angeles where the menu noted that it pays a living wage. But I was unsure how much to tip. Without the living wage, I would have tipped my usual amount. I favor the custom in most countries we visit, where there is no tipping, but the staff is adequately paid and has benefits such as health insurance.
A The topic of tipping is fraught with emotion, never mind political overtones, economic and sociological implications and, perhaps above all, confusion.
At the federal level, the minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. In some places, if you are a tipped employee, the federal wage is $2.13 an hour and has been since the 1990s; tips are supposed to make up the difference. (California does not have a tipping wage, so the state minimum of $8 an hour applies.)
In in some communities, a "living wage" is mandated. That wage is calculated based on what it would take to "cover the basic housing, food, transportation and other key essentials," said Linda Bradley, an assistant professor with the department of family and consumer sciences at Cal State Northridge.
The living wage probably does not take into account how many people are in the family, Bradley said. A living wage indicator developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology suggests that a person living in Los Angeles County would need $11.37 an hour for that amount to be a living wage, but would need $22.95 if the household included two adults and two children.
Other issues you might need to consider in tipping: Does the food server split the money with the rest of the restaurant staff? Does the restaurant operate on "postage stamp" pricing -- that is, are menu items uniform throughout the country, as they are in some chains? (The postage stamp reference comes from the notion that it costs the same to mail a letter from Los Angeles to Sacramento, as it does to Chicago.) If it is postage stamp pricing, are you tipping adequately for your area?
Head spinning yet? If not, consider this from Holona Ochs, co-author of "Gratuity: A Contextual Understanding of Tipping Norms From the Perspective of Tipped Employees." "About 90 percent of Americans tip and in many more circumstances and a larger percentage than anywhere in the world," said Ochs, an assistant professor of political science at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa.
We do leave tips because we want to reward for good service or make up for economic differences, right? Those may be reasons, but the "primary reason is because it's expected," Ochs said. "It's a really high rate of conformity to a social norm. People ... don't want to be seen as a jerk."
To keep yourself out of the jerk category, you may have to ask hard questions of your food server to determine what's right. That can be tough, but it does give you the opportunity, if you're a traveler, to interact with someone on the local level. "Part of the joy of traveling is eating the food, but the other joy is getting to know people," Ochs said.
If your comfort level doesn't involve having discussions in person, call ahead and ask.
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JACKSON - Military veterans will soon be receiving special attention from Hospice of Amador and Calaveras, the organization announced.
The local hospice is joining the We Honor Veterans campaign developed by the National Hospice and Palliative Care organization in collaboration with the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Hospice officials said that although the agency serves many veterans, caregivers are sometimes unaware of their clients' military service.
Joining the national campaign means that local hospice caregivers and staff will be trained in how to improve care to veterans and recognize any specific needs connected to military service and combat.
"Now it is time that we step up, acquire the necessary skills and fulfill our mission to serve these men and women with the dignity they deserve," said J. Donald Schumacher, president and CEO of the national hospice organization.
To learn more about We Honor Veterans, go to wehonorveterans.org
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If you've ever watched The Biggest Loser, seen a weight-loss commercial or an interview of someone who's lost a significant amount of weight, you've probably heard them say, I'm never going to be heavy again! Personally, I'm too afraid to utter those words. Rather than test fate, I know that I still have to take things one day at a time. 2012 has taught me many things – mainly, that nothing in life stays the same. Never before have I been more aware of that than the past few months.
I spent the majority of this weekend working at Patty's house, removing the last of her belongings and saying goodbye to the one remaining thing that linked me together with her – her home. I'd been dreading Saturday and Sunday, becoming increasingly agitated as last week drew to a close, but attributed my emotions to a host of other, unimportant things. With my anxiety building, I found myself wanting to reach for copious amounts of comfort food before the weekend even arrived.
This time I tried to think ahead and made a plan to busy myself with painting instead of eating. By the time Thursday arrived I was furiously working in my studio, finishing three watercolors before the day was over (quite a feat for me.) All three paintings had themes that were specifically chosen to give a calming, zen-like feel. Here are two of the three that I finished:
Thursday came and went and I climbed into bed exhausted. I wish I could report that I didn't give in to numbing my grief with food, but I'd be lying.
On Friday, I woke up determined to not only begin, but complete a very tedious art project. Working solely with cut paper and glue, I pushed myself for over 12 hours until I finished this:
I regularly post photos of work in progress on my Facebook art page (which you are invited to 'Like' if you're a Facebooker) and I love receiving comments and ideas from people. On this particular project I had several comments from some very wise people who saw things that I didn't. Well, not until it was pointed out to me: one – she's a young Patty (who used to wear a red hat every time she went out) and two – she is me. Two people combined to make a self portrait.
Well now, that ought to make a good topic for a therapy session, no?
Again, when I was finished I'd hoped that the anxiety I was feeling would be gone and that I could wake up on Saturday and put myself into full work-mode. The weekend came and went, leaving me feeling completely drained, both emotionally and physically. I didn't binge (I didn't have time), but I did make extremely poor choices and ate without regard to any consequence.
Today, I'm feeling disappointed in myself; I really wish I'd been able to channel my emotions strictly into my work – to completely lose myself in distraction. After seven+ years in maintenance, you would think that I'd have worked out this part by now.
If anything, this experience has shown me that I will most likely always be a work in progress. Now that the crisis has passed all I can do is pick myself up and try again next time. Until then I'll just keep reminding myself that at least I haven't thrown in the towel. I'm still fighting to figure things out and hopefully, one day, I'll be able to say that food and I have a very healthy relationship with one another.
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NEWBURG — A draft horse was rescued from an icy pond at 10389 Newburg Road Sunday morning.
Crews from the Newburg-Hopewell Volunteer Fire Department — the primary responder — arrived on scene at 11:05 a.m. and found five or six draft horses standing on the ice with one that had fallen through.
Firefighters used rope to pull the horse out of the water and food to lure the remaining horses off the ice and onto land. They were on the scene until 11:17 a.m.
The horses were to be examined by a veterinarian after the incident.
Other fire departments that assisted were Pleasant Hall, Fayetteville, West End and Cumberland County technical rescue operation and animal rescue teams.
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Found a Star Beast on the woods to the right on #18. It has what looks like the Thundercats logo dyed on top.
Name and number on the back. Called the number, guy who answered said the person whose name is on it no longer has the phone and he did not know how to contact him.
Tell me the name on the back and I'll do my best to get it back to you.


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ARLINGTON, Texas - The Texas A&M - Corpus Christi women's tennis team was down a player on Sunday when they took on the top team in the Southland Conference in a 7-0 loss against No. 58 UT Arlington.
The Islanders fall to 8-5 overall and 5-4 in league play while the Lady Mavs improved to 15-4 on the year and 9-0 in conference matches.
Doris Kuselj was unable to play in the match so each team member moved up a position in singles and LeAnne Mascall replaced Kuselj on the No. 2 doubles team.
In doubles, Mirna Cicak and Sandra Burges lost an 8-6 at the No. 1 position while Mascall and doubles partner Bianca Discordia lost an 8-5 match at the No. 2 spot. No. 3 doubles was another battle with Mia Matuszak and Stefania Nicolae coming up short by an 8-6 score.
In singles, Cicak won her first set but was unable to pick up a win against the No. 1 player from UTA as she lost a 3-6, 6-1, 6-0 final. Burges also battled for three sets before falling 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 at the No. 4 flight.
Discordia lost 7-6, 6-1 at No. 2 while Nicolae fell 7-6, 6-0 at No. 3 singles. Matuszak played No. 5 in the match and lost 6-2, 6-1 while Mascall played well but came up short in a rare singles match for her, falling 6-3, 6-2 at the No. 6 position.
With the six-match road swing completed by Texas A&M - Corpus Christi, the team will return home for the final two matches of the season. The Islanders are scheduled to face Stephen F. Austin next Saturday, April 16 at 2 p.m. while they will face off against Sam Houston State on Sunday, April 17 with another 2 p.m. start.
Tennis Match Results
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi vs UT Arlington
4/10/2011 at Arlington, Texas
#58 UT Arlington 7, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 0
Singles competition:
1. Daiana Negreanu (UTA) def. Mirna Cicak (AMCC) 3-6, 6-1, 6-0
2. Linda Aqvist (UTA) def. Bianca Discordia (AMCC) 7-6, 6-1
3. Maria Martinez (UTA) def. Stefania Nicolae (AMCC) 7-6, 6-0
4. Natalia Mayuk (UTA) def. Sandra Burges (AMCC) 4-6, 6-2, 6-3
5. Katarina Mlcochova (UTA) def. Mia Matuszak (AMCC) 6-2, 6-1
6. Giada D'ortona (UTA) def. LeAnne Mascall (AMCC) 6-3, 6-2
Doubles competition:
1. Daiana Negreanu/Linda Aqvist (UTA) def. Mirna Cicak/Sandra Burges (AMCC) 8-6
2. Maria Martinez/Nikola Matovicova (UTA) def. LeAnne Mascall/Bianca Discordia (AMCC) 8-5
3. Giada D'ortona/Natalia Mayuk (UTA) def. Mia Matuszak/Stefania Nicolae (AMCC) 8-6
Match Notes:
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 8-5, 5-4 Southland
UT Arlington 15-4, 9-0 Southland; National ranking #58


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Wednesday, October 9, 2013 - 3:00pm
"I am interested in long-term humane solutions to manage our horse populations. Our land is precious to the Navajo people as are all the horses on the Navajo Nation. Horses are sacred animals to us." – Ben Shelly, president of the Navajo Nation
Phenomenal news! Horse-welfare advocates just gained an important new ally in the fight to stop the brutal practice of horse slaughter. As reported earlier this week in The New York Times, Ben Shelly, president of the Navajo Nation, announced that the Nation opposes the practice of horse slaughter and has stopped all horse round-ups on the reservation.
This statement follows two important developments for horses on Navajo lands. In September, a coalition of Navajo elders and medicine people passed a resolution to oppose horse slaughter, and a Navajo Nation chapter opted to suspend round-ups in its territory for fear the horses would be sent to slaughter.
The ASPCA applauds President Shelly's announcement, which underscores the fact that the inherently cruel practice of horse slaughter is never an acceptable end for a horse.
This declaration comes at a critical time: Congress is considering budget bills that could prevent the opening of horse slaughter plants in the U.S., and a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which also seeks to hamper the opening of plants, is pending in federal court.
President Shelly's message on behalf of the Navajo Nation confirms the building momentum for the Safeguard American Food Exports (SAFE) Act, which would forbid the slaughter of horses in the U.S. and end the current export of American horses for slaughter abroad.
Please be a voice for horses TODAY: Urge your members of Congress to cosponsor the SAFE Act to end this horrific threat to American horses.


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Eugene C. Gift, 76, of Greencastle, Pa., died at Waynesboro Hospital on Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012. He was the husband of the Doris (Ettinger) Gift with whom he observed their 29th wedding anniversary on Oct. 30, 2011. A funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Monday, Oct. 15, 2012, at the Etzweiler Funeral Home, 1111 E. Market St., York, with Pastor Robert Stone, his pastor, officiating. Burial with Military rites by the York County Veterans Honor Guard will be in Susquehanna Memorial Gardens. A viewing will be held one hour prior to the service. In lieu of flowers, contributions to help defray funeral expenses may be made to: Blairs Valley Church of God, 13722 Blairs Valley Road, Clear Spring, Md. 21722. www.etzweiler.com
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The Wings now need a win against the Blackhawks in the final game of the season as well as a Nashville regulation loss in order to finish 4th. Otherwise this will be the 2nd instance that they've started the playoffs on the road since Jesus times.
I don't know if I'm more troubled by the loss or how boring this game was. There have been a number of just flat out boring games lately. I don't know, maybe I'm a tool. I'm probably a tool.
- I honestly thought that New Jersey's backup keeper Johan Hedberg died like three years ago from natural causes. I was wrong. Keep on keepin' on, Johan.
- Zach Parise was named MVP of the Devils by his teammates this season. (MVP stands for "We'll miss you when you're playing for the Red Wings next season" in Hebrew, or something.)
- Realistically, I don't even know what the odds are of Parise signing with us in the offseason. He's one of my favorite hockey players ever, really, just a joy to watch. So naturally my brain assumes to put this dream in the "Too good to be true" file and not get too excited about it. But if he does come here, we're renaming the blog after Mr. Parise. I don't know what it would be called, but my initial thought is "The Triple Deke presented by Zach Parise", or "Zach Parise's No Pants Zone", or "Sanford & Son" (because if it happens I might have a stroke and turn completely nonsensical.)
- When the Red Wings record 4 shots on Martin Brodeur through the first 19 minutes of a game against the Devils, it's really hard to have a firm grasp on what decade you're in.
- I wish it were legal for Babcock to put a shock collar around Bertuzzi's neck to be used when Bert skates into an offensive zone corner and looks to throw a blind pass back toward his own blue line. But nevertheless, he'd just find a way to let the collar loosely dangle down to his chest.
- Franzen took the majority of the faceoffs for the Franzen/Datsyuk/Bertuzzi line. IS DATSYUK OKAY??!?
- I enjoyed Hudler's setup of Holmstrom's power play goal in the 2nd period. But come on, Brodeur -- you looked awfully silly. Hudler has taken 12, maybe 13 shots in his entire career. Yes, by the book he did the right thing by playing the shooter and leaving Homer to be covered by one of his defensemen, but you don't use fancy things like "books" when it comes to dealing with Jiri Hudler. Jiri has read one book in his whole life, and even then it was just to impress a studious-looking chick in his American history class and he thought a few vocab words like "carpetbagger" and "abolitionism" might do the trick. You need a Halloween bag full of angel dust and vile of unicorn blood to out-think Jiri Hudler -- not a fucking hockey book.
- Oh my god, Bryce Salvador is still alive too? Do other people know this?
Only one left. This regular season flew by. Go Wings.


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When it comes to our products, it's the stories behind them that inspire us. You'll find them woven into the details of our designs, the artwork on display in our stores and the journeys we take in our catalogs. When it comes to helping out in our communities, it's no different. We're moved by the stories behind each and every one of our partners—the people and nonprofits whose individual missions vary, but who all work to improve the quality of life for our planet. Through hundreds of charitable events hosted by Anthropologie stores throughout the year, we are helping to spread the word and grow the communities where we live, work and play.
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Event challenges eaters with 20-foot bratwursts
Published: Sunday, March 23, 2014 at 5:30 p.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, March 23, 2014 at 5:30 p.m.
YPSILANTI, Mich. — A fundraising event for children's art in Michigan has pitted participants with big appetites against 20-foot-long bratwursts that weigh close to 6 pounds.
Twelve competitors and hundreds of onlookers turned out Thursday night for the Wurst Challenge, raising about $7,000 for the FLY Children's Art Center.
Jesse Kranyak is a co-owner of The Wurst Bar and says he was excited to host the event at his restaurant.
He says the restaurant contributed the bratwursts, two of them vegetarian and the others pork and beef mixes. New Holland Brewing Co. donated a keg. Blogger Mark Maynard helped organize.
The proceeds benefit FLY's Creativity Lab in Ypsilanti (ihp-sih-LAN'-tee), a city of 19,000 that's home to Eastern Michigan University.
Among the brat-biting competitors were Mayor Paul Schreiber and university President Susan Martin.
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Serena Williams Defeated In Fourth Round Of Wimbledon
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(London) -- Serena Williams has been knocked out of Wimbledon. Williams was beaten in the fourth round by Sabine Lisicki of Germany. Williams was ahead 4-2 in the final set before losing 6-4. She was the defending women's singles Wimbledon champion.


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OAKLAND -- Britt Tennell went to bed March 25 intent on finding someplace safer to live than Oakland's Adams Point neighborhood.
He had been walking to a market near Lake Merritt earlier that night when two men in hoodies approached. One asked to borrow his cellphone, Tennell said, so he could "call my peeps to let me in."
Tennell kept walking. But as he looked back to check if the men were going to jump him, he saw them dart toward another man who was getting into his car at the corner of Lee Street and Van Buren Avenue.
"They pulled him out and just pummeled him," Tennell said. "A couple seconds later, I heard 'pop, pop, pop, pop.' I was terrified."
Tennell watched the two robbers disappear into darkness and tended to the victim, who had noncritical gunshot wounds to his hand and knee.
It was, remarkably, the second robbery-related shooting in less than a year at the intersection, which is near well-kept apartment buildings that are home to many young professionals.
In September, an off-duty San Francisco Sheriff's Department deputy shot a 17-year-old attempting to rob him and his girlfriend.
"I thought, 'I need to move tomorrow,'" Tennell said. "I've lived in this neighborhood for a dozen years, and I don't feel safe anymore."
But he had a quick change of heart. Two days after the incident, Tennell helped organize a show of solidarity at the intersection that drew 75 residents.
Last month, Tennell, along with neighbors Mary Boergers and Maura McLoughlin, organized the first walking patrol in Adams Point in several years.
Twenty-five people showed up at Lee and Van Buren shortly after dusk and walked the neighborhood north of Lake Merritt for an hour hoping to make robbers look elsewhere for victims.
Neighborhood walking patrols have come and gone in Oakland as robbery and burglary rates fluctuated. But with the city facing its worst robbery surge in two decades, the patrols are starting to make a comeback.
On the other side of Lake Merritt, in Haddon Hill, a core group of about 10 people have been doing walking patrols every Wednesday for nearly three years. Another walking group has formed in the Temescal district.
One neighborhood near Mills College is considering having residents escort neighbors home from bus stops after dark, after a woman last month was mugged after getting off at her stop.
There's no evidence that community patrols deter robberies, said Hoang Banh, an Oakland neighborhood services coordinator, who walked with Adams Point residents.
But the gatherings have helped neighbors get to know each other and serve as eyes and ears for police, she said.
The Haddon Hill walking group has been handing out fliers to residents on the south side of the lake either commending them for keeping their properties well lit, or asking them to improve outdoor lighting as a deterrent to robbers and burglars.
"We feel like we're doing something positive for the neighborhood and the city," Francesca Austin said.
The Adams Point walkers are modeling themselves on Austin's group. They plan to press property owners to improve lighting and build relations with police.
Robberies in Adams Point have doubled from about 50 in 2006 to 100 last year, Banh said. The biggest hot spots are the roads leading to the neighborhood's Whole Foods.
Will the patrols help in Adams Point? Tennell is convinced that if people get organized and come together, crime will drop.
And he said the neighborhood that won his heart 12 years ago was still too good to abandon.
"I'm not going to hide in my apartment. I'm not going to pack my boxes, and I'm not going to move," he said. "I'm staying."
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December 16, 2004
Sometimes people ask me why I bother carding, blending, and spinning my own yarn. "Why go to all that trouble when you can just buy a skein at a store?"
The reason is so much about touch and feel that it's hard to express in words. But I just discovered an artisanal yarn that both shows the power of hand preparation and eliminates the need for you to do any of it.
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News 12 First at Five / Thursday, March 28, 2013
AIKEN, S.C. (WRDW) -- After 23 years as an active-duty Marine, Robert Murphy now works at the University of South Carolina Aiken, his alma mater. It's the school he wants his son to attend, too.
"My son, as we speak, is just being discharged from the military after eight years in the military and two tours in the Middle East," said Murphy, the program lead of the Veteran Student Success Center there on campus.
However, there's a problem. After so many military moves, his son's not a South Carolina resident. That means his G.I. Bill won't cover the out-of-state tuition rates here in Aiken or anywhere in South Carolina.
"He would either have to wait a year and find something to do, or he would have to make up the difference out of his own pocket just to go to school at my own school, where I graduated from," Murphy said.
Murphy, along with others, is pushing for a change. He wants immediate in-state tuition for all veterans who have served honorably.
"It's absolutely the right thing to do," he said.
"It's just in my mind, a no-brainer," said Dr. Gemma Frock, the vice president of education and training at Aiken Technical College.
There's a bill in both the House and the Senate that would get this done. Leaders at both USC Aiken and Aiken Tech are hoping it makes it to the governor's desk, not just for the vets themselves, but for the entire community.
"They're not only bringing themselves, they're bring their family, they're going to buy or rent homes, they're going to shop at the local markets, they're going to use the medical facilities," Frock said.
However, big schools like USC Columbia and Clemson are pushing back. Leaders there say the bill would cost the state $7 million a year.
The Aiken Warrior project says that thinking is very short-sighted.
"$7 million in this economy is a lot of money; however, when you're talking about veterans, and you're talking about 1 percent of the nation that serves to protect all of our freedoms, it's not a lot," said Executive Director Jim Lorraine.
"Most importantly, we're growing and recruiting a valuable entity that would be a tremendous asset to the State of South Carolina," Frock said.
"I want my son to be able to come to South Carolina today and enroll in this semester coming up this fall and be considered a state resident," Murphy said.
Lorraine says either the House or Senate bill would be good, but he says the Senate version is slightly better. That bill is having some problems, though, because of the fiscal impact concerns. Sen. Tom Young of Aiken is the primary sponsor.


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If Dan Dierdorf could beam himself into the press boxes of NFL stadiums around the country, he might keep calling games a few more decades.
But with two artificial knees, two artificial hips and a bad back, the travel required by his analyst job for CBS just became too much.
The 64-year-old Hall of Famer and Glenwood High School graduate announced Wednesday he would retire after this season — his 43rd straight involved with the NFL.
Dierdorf played offensive line for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1971-83, earning All-Pro honors six times. He then headed straight for the broadcast booth. His three decades as an analyst marked the longest current tenure on TV.
"I've just never done anything else in the fall other than be in an NFL stadium," Dierdorf said in a phone interview.
Now he hopes to spend some time in a college football stadium. Dierdorf estimates that in those 43 years, he's attended just five games played by his alma mater, Michigan.
"I want to go tailgate with some of my old buddies," he said.
All those years of practicing on artificial turf in St. Louis wore down his joints, and walking through airports got harder and harder. Using a cane, he'd have to sit down every 100 feet.
Dierdorf said he still feels mentally sharp, a serious concern among retired NFL players. In some ways, the physical limitations made the decision easy; he really had no choice.
Dierdorf considered retiring after last season. The hardest part was "breaking up" with play-by-play announcer Greg Gumbel and their production team, he said with a chuckle.
Making the announcement now will allow Dierdorf to thank all the team personnel who helped him over the years as he calls his final few games. This Sunday, he'll work the Jets-Ravens game in Baltimore.
CBS Sports Chairman Sean McManus called Dierdorf "a consummate professional both on the field and in the broadcast booth," in a statement released by the network.
Dierdorf first starred in football at Glenwood in the 1960s, helping the Eagles win the Federal League title as a senior in 1966. He also was a standout thrower on the track and field team. He held the county shot put record from 1967-2000. Dierdorf entered the Stark County High School Football Hall of Fame in its inaugural class in 2002.
Dierdorf went on to become a two-time All-Big Ten tackle at Michigan, where he was named to seven All-American teams as a senior and inducted into the school's hall of fame. Dierdorf was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2000.
He began his NFL broadcasting career in 1984 as a color analyst for KMOX's radio coverage of the St. Louis Cardinals and NFL games for CBS Radio Network. He was a play-by-play announcer for CBS in 1985 before switching to color analysis in 1986. In 1987 Dierdorf joined ABC's Monday Night Football for 12 years, before returning to CBS in 1999.
Page 2 of 2 - Gumbel said in statement Dierdorf has "a unique combination of knowledge and experience that few others can match."
"There has never been a day I've worked with Dan when I didn't learn something about the game of football."
Dierdorf still may do some broadcast work in St. Louis or radio that doesn't require much travel.
Dierdorf was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1996, and in 2008, he was recognized with the hall's Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award. Frank Gifford, John Madden and Len Dawson are the only others to receive both honors.
His most memorable moment is the 1994 Monday night game between John Elway's Denver Broncos and Joe Montana's Kansas City Chiefs, when Montana led a last-minute comeback in his final season.
But January's AFC divisional round playoff game, when the Ravens stunned the Broncos in two overtimes after tying the score on a 70-yard touchdown pass in the final minute of regulation, came close.
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Sufficient gallons of water are being lost each year by the Rolla Municipal Utilities water department that a leak study was commissioned this summer.
"Our losses are higher than industry standards," said RMU General Manager Rodney Bourne, who added that he's started to think such studies ought to be conducted annually, at least for a few years.
The leak study conducted by ADS Environmental Services began July 8 and was expected to take at least three weeks.
Bourne said no final information is available yet, but should be soon, perhaps in time for the next meeting of the Board of Public Works.
"We did it three years ago," Bourne said of a leak study, so this is the second such study.
One problem discovered at that time was the copper service lines, so "we're thinking the quality of copper might not be up to par."
Bourne said ADS will look at every water main in the city. Once the study is completed, RMU workers will begin making repairs.
Although the study will cost around $25,000, Bourne says it's worth it. Finding all the leaks and repairing them will cut losses and "it will pay for itself."
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Today: Fears of political gridlock in Italy send euro tumbling with worldwide ripple effect. Also, HP sells webOS, Zynga gains over gambling hopes, and Tesla says it lost $100 million over NY Times brouhaha.
Italy economic fears drag down markets
Stocks sank sharply Monday, with all three major indexes falling more than 1 percent, as investors feared that signs of political gridlock in Italy could hurt the stability of the euro.
The Standard & Poor's 500 dropped 1.83 percent, or 27.75 points, its worst loss since early November. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 216.40 points, or 1.55 percent; the tech-heavy Nasdaq declined 45.57 points, or 1.44 percent; and the Silicon Valley 150, consisting of the area's biggest tech companies, fell 20.21 points, or 1.57 percent.
Election results in Italy on Monday indicated a deeply divided Parliament, which could make it more difficult to pass reforms needed to stabilize its economy and reassure markets. That sent the value of the euro tumbling, impacting financial markets around the world.
"Europe hasn't gone away as an issue," Stephen Massocca of San Francsico's Wedbush Morgan told Reuters. "It puts them in a real quandary here because their financial support, their monetary support is all stipulated by the fact that these austerity programs are going to be in place."
Wall Street, which posted its first losing week of the year last week, are especially jittery this week as $85 billion in U.S. government budget cuts -- known as the sequester cuts -- could take effect Friday unless a last-minute agreement is reached, throwing the financial markets into deeper turmoil. "Sitting out there is the one-thousand-pound gorilla -- the sequester issue -- and certainly nothing is happening there," Tom Ghriskey of Solaris Group told Reuters.
Around the valley: HP sells webOS, Zynga surges, Tesla takes a hit
-- Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) said it would sell its webOS operating system to South Korea's LG Electronics. Palo Alto-based HP bought the software, which powered Palm smartphones, as part of its $1.2 billion purchase of Palm in 2010. LG said it would use the operating system on its TVs, and possibly on smartphones in the future. While LG will get the guts of webOS, HP will keep its cloud services, app catalog and patents, which could provide room for enterprise growth by HP. "We see this as an opportunity to broaden our reach in delivering services to customers on a variety of plaforms," HP Chief Operating Office Bill Veghte said, according to The Verge. "We can use this very broadly in our enterprise services organization." A purchase prices was not announced. HP shares fell 13 cents,or 0.68 percent, closing at $19.07.
-- Zynga shares shot up nearly 8 percent, as investors bet that the San Francisco gaming company would cash in on Nevada's decision last week to legalize online gambling. Zynga already runs a large online poker service, and hopes that real-money gambling will provide a lucrative new source of revenue. "As states legalize some form of online gaming, you're likely going to see Zynga positively impacted," Edward Williams, an analyst at BMO Capital Markets, told Bloomberg News. The company also announced it was closing its Baltimore office, and consoldating three other studios -- effectively a 1 percent reduction to its workforce. Zynga shares closed up 25 cents, or 7.84 percent, at $3.44.
-- Palo Alto-based Tesla Motors (TSLA) said Monday it lost up to $100 million in market value in the past couple of weeks after a spat with the New York Times over a review of its flagship Model S electric car. "We did actually get a lot of cancellations as a result of the New York Times article," Tesla CEO Elon Musk told Bloomberg TV. "It probably affected us to the tune of tens of millions, to the order of $100 million, so it's not trivial." Musk said "there were probably a few hundred" canceled orders. Tesla is counting on increased orders and deliveries of the Model S this quarter to finally make a profit. Tesla shares fell $1.73, or 4.79 percent, closing at $34.38.
Silicon Valley tech stocks
Up: Facebook, Zynga
Down: Apple (AAPL), Google (GOOG), Oracle (ORCL), Intel (INTC), HP, Cisco (CSCO), eBay (EBAY), Yahoo (YHOO), Gilead, Juniper, LinkedIn
The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index: Down 45.57 , or 1.44 percent, to 3,116.25.
The blue chip Dow Jones industrial average: Down 216.40 or 1.55 percent, to 13.784.17.
And the widely watched Standard & Poor's 500 index: Down 27.75, or 1.83 percent, to 1,487.85.
Check in weekday afternoons for the 60-Second Business Break, a summary of news from Mercury News staff writers, The Associated Press, Bloomberg News and other wire services.


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Congress spent so much time breaking down the affordable care act that they didn't actually do anything with the budget. We need to clean house, and get representatives in who listen to the people rather than party politics and special interest groups,
What issue that was neglected during the government shutdown would you place highest on Washington's agenda?
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The most important issue not being worked on is to Impeach Obama for Treason.
The fact that we do not have budget and continue to just kick the can for hard decisions down the road. We must address Entitlement reform as well as our deficit or we become a second rate nation with someone else holding all the purse strings.
It's way past time to put politics aside! I realize it's a little more involved than a house-hold budget; however, the basic's apply. You have x-amount of money coming in/X-amount of money going out. Balance the check-book, you a##-holes. Drop most of the foriegn aid, it's going to people who hate our guts, don't just give lip-service to the health care system in this country, figure out a fix. (Not on the backs of the middle class that's left)Figure out how to replace the money "robbed out" of S.S. over the years, Fix Medi-cade/medi-care, if you uncover fraud, put the offender away for hard time, not so country club! I guess I'm saying "use what little common sence you have among you to FIX some issues and not just kick it down the road!! I doubt there are enough balls in the whole group to get any thing meaningful done but I guess we give them the chance. ( sooner or later I see very bad things happen to our elected officials)
The first thing that needs to be done is to get them out of the back-pockets of all the PACS that feed them - followed by cutting all the pork that goes out there for most often non-sensical programs just to keep the votes coming.
The fact that U. S. Army Sgt. Bowe Robert Bergdahl is still being held since June 30, 2009 as a POW by Taliban forces is truly disheartening. There is never any news reports about this soldier. I can only imagine how his parents feel every second of the day. I realize this has nothing to do with our governmental situation, but we should never leave anyone behind. I pray for his release.
Why wasn't there any commitment to reducing the deficit so we don't add more debt for our descendants to pay.
Veteran's fought for "We the People". Current elected congresspeople fight for "We the Rich". Until we elect people who will fight for "We the People", we will be stuck with "We the Screwed".
We as a country have got to elect persons that WILL draw the line on spending & live on what we take in. Simple rule of thumb,get a budget & STAY WITHIN IT. How absurd it is to have to borrow funds that you will never pay back.
The economy is still the biggest problem facing government and citizens. The legislative and administration branches of government need to put politics aside. Just solve the problems, the public is tired of the political in fighting that doesn't solve problem but does create them.
Put a lid on the comments, this is not the place for your political comments. Go get a job and quit waiting for a veteran's handout.
You need to check your browser or quit hacking the web site. Your browser must have given you a bum re-direct.
EVERY vet who posts on this site has earned every dime this Govt. sends them. Some of these vet's served their country and still can't get the "sign up" promises fulfilled. I'll hope you learn to appreciate the people who have saved your right to make un-informed comments.
Just like Social Security checks, our pension is NOT a handout. It was earned for 20 plus years of service. Oh yeah, I do have a job, have had one since retiring 13 years ago, thank you very much.
Veteran's handout!!! What are you some kind of stupid jerk? What do you mean handout. Obviously you were never in the military. Veteran's earned everything they get.
Yes you have earned everything you get. I tried in 1968. Didn't even finish boot. Thank you and all other REAL vets for serving our country!!!!!!!!!
The fact that they forgot to close Obama's golf club.
I was due a check ride on the 1st from the FAA. Which i of course did not get. And now they are so backed up they can not get me in for a while. I have lost 24 days pay and counting.
How about all the cover ups . It's the old deflection game. Not to forget the veterans getting paid.
How about the fact that almost 6 Million Veterans were not going to get paid on November 1st due to the government shutdown. Anyone wanna take a bite at that one?


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- Nov 5:
- Contra Costa Times editorial: BART leaders didn't just cave -- they got rolled
- Nov 1:
- Contra Costa Times editorial: Careful what you wish for. BART strike ban could be worse the than the disease
- Major BART unions approve contract that ended strike
- Oct 31:
- Coroner releases cause of death for BART workers
- Oct 29:
- Legislature to hold special hearing on BART worker safety
- Oct 28:
- Barnidge: There's a good reason BART wanted control of overtime expenses
- Oct 27:
- Barnidge: Visiting 44 BART stations on the way to an Assembly seat?
- Oct 26:
- BART raises follow similar pay bumps for Bay Area workers, especially in government
- Oct 25:
- Borenstein: BART upped offer on salary and benefits 48 percent in the final hours of negotiations
- Oct 24:
- Two arrested for graffiti at BART's Richmond yard during strike
- Oct 23:
- BART suspends 'simple approval' practice after fatal accident
- BART deaths investigation to halt service Wednesday afternoon between Pleasant Hill, Lafayette
- Man hurled hammer at striking BART workers, DA says
- Roadshow: Should BART workers be allowed to strike?
- Oct 22:
- Two trainees were being prepared to shuttle commuters during BART strike, feds say
- BART strike deal: how it happened and who gets what
- Contra Costa Times editorial: BART negotiators sold out riders and taxpayers
- Oct 21:
- BART tragedy: Trainee was operating train that struck and killed workers, NTSB says
- Barnidge: BART riders have spoken, and they're not happy
- BART strike: Calls for law to ban transit strikes pick up steam
- Oct 20:
- National Transportation Safety Board takes over BART tragedy investigation
- Oct 19:
- Two BART workers killed during maintenance work as strike moves into third day
- Oct 16:
- Barnidge: Worker demands weren't the only ridiculous thing about BART labor negotiations
- Jul 2:
- Data Center: Current and projected average BART wages
- Jun 9:
- BART's top-paid worker of 2012 never worked a day
OAKLAND -- In a move expected to cause longer and more frequent train delays for commuters, BART said Thursday it will eliminate the controversial practice of making track workers largely responsible for their own safety after two employees were struck and killed by a train Saturday.
BART assistant general manager Paul Oversier told the BART Board of Directors the decision to eliminate "simple approval" was made in the "last 48 hours" and after the transit agency immediately suspended the practice when 58-year-old Christopher Sheppard -- a BART employee -- and 66-year-old rail consultant Laurence Daniels were killed Saturday inspecting a reported "dip" in the track between the Walnut Creek and Pleasant Hill stations.
Trains will now have to be routed around, or "single-tracked," through work sites, and speeds reduced to a maximum of 25 mph in those areas. Nighttime construction work will likely increase, too, Oversier told the board, saying the changes will create a "degradation in service" for commuters.
The announcement came after a passionate exchange among labor unions, the public and the board during a hearing where the directors passed resolutions honoring the two men. Critics blamed the agency and board for their deaths and called the resolutions "offensive."
The elimination of "simple approval" will create a logistics nightmare for BART, which had relied on the system "hundreds of times a month" to perform routine maintenance on its 104 miles of track, Oversier said. Under that policy, workers would communicate their position over the radio but then be largely on their own while working on the tracks. Workers would work in pairs, with one acting as the lookout.
"Given the circumstances, it has to be done," Oversier said, but it will create a challenge on how to "preserve reliability."
"Unless something else is put in, that's going to be an enormous, herculean task trying to go ahead and schedule routine activities that otherwise would have been off the radar," Oversier said. "It's gonna have one heck of an impact."
The only other process to enter wayside, the area along BART's tracks, is through "work orders" that are planned six weeks in advance and require significant safety assurances by BART to keep trains away from the construction area. In the past, those were solely for large-scale construction projects.
"I don't want to raise alarm bells with you, but I want you to be aware of the complexity and multiplicity of the trade-offs we have to consider on how we go forward," Oversier told the board. Simple approval was "the primary mechanism that people use for traveling by foot along the trackway."
Despite those difficulties, the rules and regulations surrounding the practice -- which has been around for BART's 41 years of existence -- had become too restrictive, he said. Oversier called simple approval "the No. 1 issue surrounding this incident."
Directors applauded the decision and others asked whether there were technology improvements that could help in the future, such as arm bands that alert workers of an oncoming train.
In 2008, after BART worker James Strickland was hit and killed by a train while working under simple approval, the agency looked into such technology, Oversier said.
"At the time, the decision was made that we didn't think it would add to the level of safety that existed then," the assistant general manager said, adding improved technology could change that decision.
Directors also expressed concerns over a prolonged investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board. Trustee James Fang worried the board would suffer public criticism similar to when it stayed mum during investigations following the officer-involved shooting of Oscar Grant.
"It compounded the situation of how people, or certain elements, perceived BART," Fang said, urging the agency to conduct its own independent investigation.
The national president of one of BART's largest unions called for a criminal investigation Wednesday into BART's decision to allow a trainee to operate the train that struck the two men during Saturday's strike. BART police Chief Kenton Rainey said it was too early to determine whether his department would pursue such a case, as the National Transportation Safety Board continues its probe.
"We'll wait to hear from (the NTSB) and then go from there," he said.
"This was no accident," an emotional ATU 1555 president Antonette Bryant told the board, surrounded by labor representatives. "We told everyone what would happen if untrained people were operating a train. ... These two men should be with us."
Director Gail Murray, who asked for the resolutions to be added to the agenda, told the crowd, which attempted to shout her down: "This should be their time. This was done to memorialize their passing."
Contact Matthias Gafni at 925-952-5026. Follow him at Twitter.com/mgafni.