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Food, wine, art & classic boats: a fundraiser for the local Sea Scouts
Live music, wine tasting, food, local art and fantastic classic boats will be part of "Vessels & Vines," a fundraiser for the Sacramento Delta Youth Maritime Association (Sea Scouts) starting at 5 p.m. on Oct. 5 at the Sacramento Marina. For information, call Nate Eckler at 775-3732 or visit www.sacramentomarina.com or www.youthmaritime.com.
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Tryouts for West Sac semipro soccer
Sacramento Republic FC will hold player tryouts on Oct. 5-6 and Oct. 19-20 at the Davis Legacy Soccer Complex on the frontage road near Davis. Players 18 and up will receive "full evaluation" from Republic FC coaching staff. Lunch and a T-shirt provided. $200 registration fee for each tryout. Pre-register online; visit www.SacRepublicFC.com.
The new United Soccer Leagues (USL) professional team will play at Raley Field beginning next year.
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Still crazy for Cootabloodymundra
As much as I love the written word, it's the spoken word that has always fascinated me. I think it began with a college fraternity brother of mine who had been raised in the American South and had the slowest of slow drawls that I had ever heard. When I asked him why he spoke that way he smiled and said, "Well, if you've ever been down South in the summer time during all that heat and humidity, you would know how much effort it takes to just put a simple sentence together, so most of us Southerners learned early on that it's a whole lot easier to just take our time and speak very, very slowly."
I have often wondered if we really know what we sound like to those around us? I once heard my voice on a telephone answering machine and couldn't believe it was me. Interestingly enough, a recent study found that most of us actually prefer the sound of our own voice to the voices of others. But my favorite accent has always belonged to the Australians. I almost immediately fell in love with the way Aussies speak way back in 1969 when the U.S. Army let me take a whole week off from the Vietnam War and go to Sydney, Australia for my R&R. And what a lovely big modern city it was, right on the sea with pretty brick homes everywhere and very friendly people speaking English in what seemed to me the most wonderful way possible.
"I'm not exactly sure why it is," said an Australian friend of mine, "but I think it's true that most Americans generally quite like an Australian accent. But when I lived in Virginia for a few years I remember opening my mouth to speak and it was like biting into cake hot out of the oven and it falling into a thousand crumbs. It seemed messy and inelegant compared to the way you Americans speak English. To my ear, my voice sounded jarring, like shattering glass among the pebbly-smooth American accents. And those poor nice Virginians sure spent a lot of time saying `Pardon?' when I spoke to them."
As our conversation continued about some of the different ways Americans and Australians go about speaking English, I also learned that Aussies like to have fun with their language.
"We like to fiddle with our words," explained my friend from Down Under. "You know, kind of Australianize them and make them our own, although sometimes I think we just like to juvenilize them and make them sound cute. And so we have mozzies instead of mosquitoes, and cozzies instead of swimming costumes, and brekky instead of breakfast, and bickies instead of cookies, just to name a few. And our language is also full of understatements and overstatements, twists and subtleties. For instance, if your best mate called you a `total bastard', it's actually a compliment, but if he called you `a bit of a bastard', you should begin to run."
"Really?" I asked, smiling.
"Plus the Australian sense of humor is also embedded in the colorful way we use our language," continued my friend, "going all the way back to our convict heritage. And we have also been blessed with lots of beautiful Aboriginal words, although you have to live in Australia forever to properly pronounce some of our Aboriginal places like Woolgoolga, Woolloomooloo, Yackandandah, Upotipotpon, Manangaroo, Moolooloo, Wollongong, Koolyanobbing, and my personal favorite, Mamungkukumpurangkuntjunya, which, by the way, means `where the devil urinates'. And only in Australia would you find places with names like Boyland, Come By Chance, Banana and Orange, Doo Town, Foul Bay, Humpty Doo, Tom Ugly, Useless Loop, Rooty Hill, Nowhere Else, and Mt. Buggery."
"What I remember best about Australia," I said, "is that it only took about a 30-minute drive out of Sydney to be in a whole different place, with vast vistas and some of the most other-worldly scenery I had ever seen."
"One of my favorite places in Australia – both enjoyable to the tongue and the eye – is Cootabloodymundra, which I think you would call a `one-horse town'. And we have lots of Woop Woop towns, which is actually pronounced different than it sounds, something like a bird call. All Woop Woop places are wonderfully remote and isolated and backwards, like I guess being `out in the sticks' is in America. Actually, in Australia we can drive for many hours and hundreds of miles in a vast, paprika red and juiceless blood orange dustbowl under a massive blue dome of sky, and it all qualifies as Woop Woop. Anyway, I have always loved the way us Aussies have gone out of our way to have fun with our language and it continues to this day. I mean, where else in the world can you be happily driving along and come upon Curly Dick Road?"
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Wine & treats, for a good cause
The fourth annual "Wine & Art Faire" fundraiser held at the Old Sugar Mill in Clarksburg returns from 1-7 p.m. on Oct. 6. The event benefits the Lymphoma & Leukemia Society.
Over 50 authors, musicians, artists and craftspeople will gather at the site to show their creations. Wine tasting is provided by Delta-area wineries at the Old Sugar Mill, and there will be music by local groups. See the displays & taste the wares for $20 in advance or $25 at the door. The Old Sugar Mill is located at 35265 Willow Avenue, in Clarksburg. Visit www.Carvalho FamilyWinery.com or www.LLS.org/sac, email firstname.lastname@example.com, or call 744-1625 or 275-8719.
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One last column Don Schatzel, chronicler of West Sac youth sports
Time flies!
We all know that intellectually. But when your time zips by, and you wake up one day and you are 60 (yes, 60) and the AARP info starts coming and you get a copy of the Senior Resource Services Guide from Assemblyman Roger Dickinson in the mail. . .
Now, Roger is a good guy. But what are you telling me, Roger?
I remember the first Super Bowl, and a time when the United States Men's Soccer team struggled to make the World Cup Finals. Now they have qualified seven times in a row.
I used to be a member of the noon-meeting Rotary Club and am a proud past president of that chapter. Eighteen years ago, my older daughter Jordan would be asleep and I would put her in a kid carry-all and take her to the Rotary meetings to make sure I would not miss one.
That was 18 years ago, and now she is a college student. My younger daughter, Emily, and her friends are now freshmen at River City. Remember when they were 8-year old soccer and softball players?
My family and I are simply no longer involved in youth sports as we once were. I no longer coach the Hooligans Soccer team. Dale Calles does his usual great job in coaching them, and my family is just not around youth sports as much as we have been.
I have always thought there were great things happening in our community and school district and a lot of them were pretty much a secret. There were stories that needed telling and I tried to do that in this periodic column in the News-Ledger.
I now enjoy listening to the folks in surrounding cities and communities who are losing the economic battle to West Sacramento, and they still bring up our gang issues and our schools in a critical way. Nice try, folks. No room to criticize anymore.
Oh, by the way, have you seen our riverfront development lately? That really isn't a Delta breeze that's blowing — it is region's power and influence shifting to West Sacramento!
But, not being around youth sports as much as before, it is nearly impossible for me to get any information and write about it. So I guess this is the end.
I want to thank Editor Steve Marschke for giving me the opportunity to write about youth sports in town. I am not a "writer" (obviously) but attempting to highlight the great people in our community and their tremendous accomplishment is worth writing about.
These people can be very proud. I was very proud of them, even though (ironically) we occasionally found ourselves on opposite sides of the field. But no matter who won, I couldn't lose. If our youth sports team won, well we won. If our team lost to a West Sac team, and all went well, then, we eventually all became teammates at River City High School as the kids got older. It's a win either way for my family.
I also very much appreciated those of you who would catch me at the store and tell me you have read the articles and enjoyed them. I found that very gratifying and hope these columns gave some helpful information that made living in West Sacramento a little more fun.
Thanks for everything and a special thanks for reading this last article.
Time for me to go take care of my horse!
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Workers hurt in West Sac street project
Two men working for a PG&E subcontractor were badly hurt early last Wednesday in a pipe replacement project.
The accident happened at about 4 a.m. near Jefferson Boulevard and 15th Street – part of a major project in which old gas pipe is being removed and replaced.
Reports say a large metal part such as a plate to support a trench slipped from a lifting device and hit the men. One responding police officer reported:
"Two male workers had been injured by a steel piling that had come unhooked and fallen from the lift."
One worker had what appeared to be a broken and swollen leg, reported the officer. Another had "obvious head trauma" and was unconscious. Both went to nearby hospitals. At press time, there was no word of their condition.
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West Sacramento's council preps for 'action plan' on area homeless problem
By Steve Marschke
News-Ledger Editor
Tonight (Sept. 18), the West Sacramento City Council will discuss "next steps" for the prevention and treatment of homelessness in this town.
Using state grant funds, city officials (including City Councilman Mark Johannessen) have counted the local homeless, tried to analyze the reasons for their plight, interviewed "stakeholders" such as neighbors and businesspeople, and tried to point a way forward in dealing with the problem. This two-year effort has produced an informational report for tonight's city council meeting. They hope to pick up some reactions and return with more details on an "action plan" next month.
In a coordinated "snapshot" census across Yolo County, the counters found 165 homeless people living in West Sacramento, compared to 186 in Woodland, 114 in Davis and nine in rural areas, reports the city's staff report prepared for the council meeting.
West Sacramento is fairly unique compared to some places – like Sacramento – in that a lot of homeless people live near residential neighborhoods instead of downtown areas, the report added.
No "unaccompanied children" were counted among Yolo County's homeless in the January census.
"West Sacramento traditionally has by far the highest number of 'unsheltered' homeless in Yolo County," the report stated. "These are people primarily living in camps or on the street. . . While emergency shelter is available in Woodland and Davis, there is no emergency shelter available in West Sacramento."
And West Sacramento riverfronts offer a camping spot not too far from social services provided to homeless people from across the river in Sacramento.
"(Also), persons camping along the river in West Sacramento report that it is desirable because they can fish for food and the wooded areas are sufficiently secluded that they feel private and secure. Some of the campers have lived there for years."
126 of the 165 West Sacramento homeless reported they were "unsheltered" and living in tents, vehicles, garages or the like.
Over half of the West Sacramento homeless were also reported to be adult men, with the remainder made up of both women and children. Many "chronically" homeless people are mentally ill.
The cost of not treating these people for homeless and some of the conditions that can lead to – illness and injury – can be expensive in terms of "repeated costly ambulance calls and emergency room visits," argues the city report.
In one famous case, Reno police tracked the case of "Million Dollar Murray," the report adds. Murray was a homeless man who died in 2005. Whenever he was in a rehab program, "he was able to get jobs and do quite well." When not, he didn't.
"(Police) were able to document $100,000 in medical costs over a six month period and nearly $1 million in police, jail, fire department, emergency medical, hospital costs and substance abuse treatment over a ten-year period."
The staff report suggests that in addressing the homeless problem, such people must still be held accountable for their legal actions and impacts on the rest of the population.
West Sacramento's police had two officers working full time on homelessness, spending staff time taking apart homeless camps, often along the riverfront. In addition:
"Nearly hourly, regular patrol officers are dispatched to related issues, such as illegal camping, public intoxication, fights, public nuisance and other vagrancy calls for service. Confiscated property from camp clean-ups is stored in commercial containers at the police department, separate from other property "for health reasons."
Firefighters also answer hundreds of medical aid calls for homeless people each year. And each time a shopping cart is requisitioned for someone's personal use, that costs a store $150 to $450.
Aggressive panhandling is also a problem. Although asking for money is not itself illegal, "aggressive" panhandling isn't protected by the First Amendment.
The report calls for West Sacramento to partner with other agencies and with private parties, and to look for grant funds to help attack its homelessness problem.
A future plan might include having programs in place to help "at risk" people – such as those who just lost a job or suffered a health problem – from becoming homeless. It might include cracking down on aggressive panhandling, and fighting trespassing, littering and dumpster-diving.
The plan might also include finding more ways to offer food, water, shelter, mental health care, substance abuse care and medical care.
Tonight's (Sept. 18) council meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. at city hall, 1110 West Capitol Avenue.
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Casino dreams in Liberty; Plans for a 'right-sized' destination resort
Liberty, NY — Jeff Kay, the CEO of Muss Development, said several times that the impact of the proposed casino resort would be minimal, because the property was formerly the site of a resort hotel.
Of course, the same claim can be made of the proposed Empire Resorts/EPR casino project in the Town of Thompson, because that property would also be located on the site of a former resort hotel.
Further, the Nevele Investors are also proposing to build a casino on the site of a former resort hotel.
The impact on the environment is one of several factors the casino siting committee will be considering when they choose the locations of the four upstate casinos to be built in the near future.
There may be one, and at most two casinos built in the Catskills region, and the one proposed for Liberty was the topic of discussion at a meeting of the Liberty town and village boards and planning boards on February 10 at Liberty High School.
About 200 people turned out to see the presentation, which was anchored by Kay, whose New York City-based company has owned most of the land around Grossinger's for 30 years.
Muss has teamed up with Foxwoods, which operates the largest casino in North America, located in Connecticut. Kay said the proposed Liberty Casino, which would be called Foxwoods Catskill Resort Casino, would not be the largest in the nation. He said it would be "right sized" for the market.
While the Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut covers about eight million square feet, the casino in Liberty would be closer to one million square feet.
The casino would provide many amenities to draw in visitors, including not only the hotel, casino and restaurants, but also outdoor activities such as hiking, fishing, kayaking, canoeing, tennis, soccer, basketball and baseball. The plan also calls for a marina on the existing lake and an equestrian center. The resort will also offer camping and "adventure park trails."
Salvatore Semola, president of Foxwoods Catskills Resort LLC, said, "Our project would create hundreds of new jobs, starting with the construction and continuing for decades, as we operate what we're sure will be a premier destination resort with great amenities."
In selecting the projects that will be granted licenses, the siting committee will be considering support from the community. It's not known exactly how that support will be measured, because the requests for proposals that will go out to various developers have not yet been created.
However, Town of Liberty Supervisor Charlie Barbuti noted that in the election in November 2013 some 83% of the voters in the town voted in favor of Proposition One, which allowed non-Indian casinos to be created in the state.


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Re: I may regret this in the morning......
but then again, I used to think Jeff would win a championship every other year til he retires too.
Races, tracks, drivers and all the drama that comes along with it
jamo14 wrote:and yet, he is 2nd in points.
I would love for SHR to be 2nd in points instead of Jimmie
onerockindoc wrote:His post race commentary was something along the lines of...I don't know what happened to them(pit crew)....I work out with them, I spend time with them, who knows what was wrong with them. It made me think that maybe those guys are just not overly confident in their job security.
Now get your tomatoes ready....while I think JPM drives like a crazy man I find him incredibly sexy. Must be the Latin Lover thing. I could listen to him all day long.
onerockindoc wrote:Jimmie is a very humble person by all accounts and it is rarre to hear him say what he said on Sunday. I wonder if he was being a little passive/aggressive and saying aloud in a public forum what he has been thinking for a while. Maybe that little nugget will get some attention @HMS.
BevAnn wrote:jamo14 wrote:and yet, he is 2nd in points.
I would love for SHR to be 2nd in points instead of Jimmie
no six-time?
onerockindoc wrote:There is no "I" in team......no strike that
There is no "Chad" in team.....no stike that
There is no "team " in Chad......yeah, that's the ticket
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If you have some extra time (if you do, please share! ha!) before the holiday…I have a quick DIY for ya. Seriously the easiest craft I've ever attempted.
Lindsay and I set out to make some wreaths. We saw several of this style on Pinterest, and then added some of our own embellishments. Mine is on the front door; Lindsay's is over a mirror above her mantle.
To make this beauty, you need a standard wire wreath frame and burlap ribbon with wire…like this:
There are essentially 2 steps. You start by wrapping one end of the ribbon around the wire frame. The go around poking through from the back to the front.
And the fluffing the part you pull through.
Continue poking through and puffing as you work your way around the wreath.
Squish the little puffs of burlap together as you go.
And that is it! Seriously easy!
You can embellish with just about anything…any kind of flowers or berries from the craft store.
Lindsay and I decided to make holy and berries for ours. We cut some holy leaves out of felt, stitched them together with embroidery thread, stuffed them with a little fiber-fill. We attached them with a combo of stitches and hot glue gun, along with some big red "berries" from the craft store.
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On January 27th, 2014 at approximately 12:30 am, State Police at Liberty were contacted by a resident of Pond Eddy reporting that his 2003 Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck had just been stolen from his driveway on Church Road. Responding Troopers located the vehicle a short time later being operated on Shortell Road in the Town of Lumberland. The operator of the vehicle was taken into custody.
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Trying To Remain Calm / Not Who You Think It Is, Part 3
Just a couple of posts ago, at the start of Spring Training, I was, well, calm about the state of the Phillies. Of course, then I was blissfully ignorant of events that would transpire, and conspire to make me potentially lose my calm.
Then, Chase Utley was taking it easy because of some vague reports of "soreness". Now, Utley has been diagnosed with patellar tendinitis in his right knee, has received a cortisone shot in said knee, and has yet to appear in a Spring Training game.
Then, Domonic Brown was simply looking for his first hit of Spring Training. Now, although Brown finally got a hit over the past weekend, he broke a bone in his right hand in the process, something called the hook of the hamate bone.
A tiny bone, to be sure. Surgery was performed this morning to remove the bone, and the expected recovery time is 4-6 weeks.
[OK, if this bone can be totally removed, what possible purpose does it serve? Why do we have it? Must be about as useful as an appendix, tonsils, and wisdom teeth.]
I don't even want to get into the fact that yesterday, the offense appeared to still be trying to awaken from winter hibernation, and Roy Oswalt allowed two home runs in 2 2/3 innings of work.
Yes, I know, it's still early, sometimes pitchers are "working on things" and "getting their work in", and hitters are still trying to get their timing down and working out the kinks, yada, yada. So I will take a deep breath, and try to remain calm.
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For the final installment (for now) of "Not Who You Think It Is", did you know that the Phillies have had not one, but two legends of rock on their roster? Well, not really, just in name only.
Phil Collins the rock star rose to fame first as the drummer for Genesis, followed by a very successful solo career. But being British, he likely never played baseball.
Phil Collins the ballplayer pitched for the Phillies from 1929-1935. The Phils of this span were mediocre at best, just scraping above .500 once (78-76 in 1932), and really stinky at their worst (52-102 in 1930). Collins himself was 72-79 with a 4.67 ERA during his stint with the Phils.
Jim Morrison the rock star was the frontman for The Doors from their inception in 1965, through 1971, when he died of a supposed drug overdose in Paris. There are some who believe that Morrison never actually died, and that he faked his death.
Jim Morrison the ballplayer debuted with the Phillies in 1977, and during his two seasons in Philadelphia compiled a .174 batting average while appearing in 58 games. In 1979, he went to the White Sox as the "player to be named later" in a deal that brought the Phillies Jack Kucek.
Jim Morrison the ballplayer was last spotted managing the Charlotte Stone Crabs, a minor-league affiliate of the Rays.
Jim Morrison the rock star was last spotted with Elvis, buying Slurpees at a 7-Eleven in rural Georgia.
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So the Phillies have two rock stars among their legends? LOL. Somebody's been doing her research lately. As for the injuries, they're starting to mount already and it's disconcerting!
It's early, it's early…I think that's what every fan tells themselves when their spring doesn't start off as planned. As for Brown's injury, look at it this way: If the bone can be totally be removed, then he probably won't miss it and will return good as new. Hopefully.
Wish I was a fly on the wall at that 7-11…LOL! Where do you keep finding these? Funny stuff!
Two out of three ain't bad; I still have my appendix. I knew Jim Morrison the ball player before I found out about Jim Morrison the phantom rock star ~ priorities.
Yeah the Phillies spring training is going rough injuries-wise. Hopefully it's all out of everyone's system now. Brown should be okay after the surgery – Jim Thome and Dustin Pedroia have had the same surgery – but the downtime involved is a tough break.
Who knew the Phillies had such an impressive musical heritage?


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Employees with the city of Clovis will take a much-deserved break from tornado cleanup efforts this weekend, according to Clovis City Manager Joe Thomas.
Thomas made the announcement at two town hall meetings held Friday afternoon in Clovis.
"The city will not be working this weekend," Thomas said, "because they need rest and family time."
The town hall meetings, which were held at Lockwood and Parkview elementary schools, were organized so residents affected by the tornado could ask questions.
However, residents who attended the meetings had no queries following the updates city and county officials gave.
Thomas said 95 percent of the cleanup has been completed.
Clovis Police Chief Dan Blair said five of the 24 dogs and cats recovered after Friday's storm have been reclaimed from the Curry County Animal Shelter.
Salvation Army Captain Tammy Ray said the Disaster Relief Center would remain at the Curry County Fairgrounds through Friday and food service would continue through Tuesday.
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The Workshop on Research Opportunities on Human Neuroborreliosis, co-sponsored by the NINDS and ORD, NIH was held September 9-12, 2001, at Airlie Center, Warrenton, Va. The main purpose of this workshop was to evaluate the current state of the art in diagnosis, treatment and follow up of neuroborreliosis in the US, and to facilitate research by bringing together scientists in the field in an environment supportive for the presentation and discussion of cutting edge research. The discussion points in this workshop included basic research related to the spirochete (including antigens expressed in vivo, difference between species/strains and tissue tropism); animal models (including Lyme neuroborreliosis in the rhesus monkey); mechanisms of injury in Lyme neuroborreliosis (the role of the immune system, including humoral and cellular response, the role of cytokines, chemokines, and other mediators; and the role of auto-immunity); clinical manifestations of early and late disease (including association between different clinical manifestations and different species and strains of Borrelia burgdorferi, and pediatric neuroborreliosis); the status of laboratory diagnosis in neuroborreliosis (including the clinical value of CSF parameters, intrathecal antibody production, the use of western blot, PCR, culture, and immune complexes); the role of imaging in neuroborreliosis (including the use of MRI, SPECT, and PET); the use of other tests (neuropsychological testing); the treatment of neuroborreliosis and its follow up; diagnostic dilemmas in neuroborreliosis; and new developments. The synopsis of this workshop has been published in Vector Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, Volume 4, number 3, 261-272, September 2004, Research Opportunities on Human Borreliosis, Gelderblom H; Martin R; Marques AR
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Barack's Latest Magic Trick: Making One Million Workers Disappear
Investors Business Daily calls it, simply, "Unprecedented." I call it, eh, historic.
Initial jobless claims unexpectedly jumped by 24,000 last week to 399,000 as more workers lost their jobs, the Labor Department said Thursday. At the same time, the economy continues to lose workers.
In the 30 months since the recession officially ended, nearly 1 million people have dropped out of the labor force – they aren't working, and they aren't looking – according to data from Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics. In the past two months, the labor force shrank by 170,000.
This is virtually unprecedented in past economic recoveries, at least since the BLS has kept detailed records. In the past nine recoveries, the labor force had climbed an average 3.5 million by this point, according to an IBD analysis of the BLS data.
…According to the BLS, the "labor force participation rate" – the ratio of the number of people either working or looking for work compared with the entire working-age population – is now 64%, down from 65.7% when the recession ended in June 2009. That's the lowest level since women began entering the workforce in far greater numbers several decades ago.
If you adjust for this drop, the unemployment rate would be close to 11%, instead of the official 8.5%.
At this rate, the completely politicized Bureau of Labor Statistics should just remove a few more million workers from the labor force, so they can get the unemployment rate down to, say, 4.8%. Like it was during those nightmarish Bush years.
Related: Obama Labor Politburo Now Publishing Patently Bogus Unemployment Propaganda.
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Menard and the Rheem/Menards Team Salvage Top-10 Finish at Phoenix International Raceway
November 12, 2012
Start - 7
Finish - 9
Laps Led - 0
Points - 16
Paul Menard drove the No. 27 Rheem/Menards Chevrolet to a ninth-place finish in the AdvoCare 500 at Phoenix International Raceway despite being collected in a multi-car accident as the neon yellow machine took the checkered flag Sunday afternoon. Menard started the scheduled 312-lap event from the seventh position and immediately drove into the top five, where he remained for the first 166 laps of the race. Climbing to high as second, Menard reported that the car was handling well. During the lap-166 caution period, crew chief Slugger Labbe called the Eau Claire, Wis., native to pit road for four tires, fuel and a slight air pressure adjustment in anticipation of track changes as the sun began to dip in the Arizona sky. With teams following varied pit strategies, Menard restarted from the seventh position and began to fall in the running order citing a tight-center and loose-exit handling condition. The Rheem/Menards team lost additional ground following a two-tire pit stop on lap 236 and subsequent four-tire pit stop on lap 273, as Menard continued to battle handling challenges and fell to the 19th position. Persevering through a number of restarts in the closing laps, Menard climbed to the 11th position before a lap-311 incident required NASCAR to display the red flag and set the stage for a green-white-checkered finish. In the final dash to the checkered flag, the 32-year-old driver gained two additional positions before crossing the finish line and simultaneously being collected in a multi-car accident that caused severe damage to the No. 27 Chevrolet. The ninth-place result tied Menard's previous best finish at the one-mile Avondale, Ariz.-based race track.
"We had a pretty solid Rheem/Menards Chevrolet throughout the first half of the race, but made the wrong decision on a couple of adjustments and lost track position. We were able to make it back into the top 10 before the checkered flag. It was a crazy end to the race. I'll have to look at the replay to see what exactly happened, but I'm glad that everyone is ok. Thank you to the No. 27 team for a great car this weekend. We've been strong here the last three races and have made a lot of improvements."


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Re: Weekly Picks & The 1 Point Club
In Honor of my nephew serving our country out of Baumholder Army Base in Germany.
Races, tracks, drivers and all the drama that comes along with it
Mrs B wrote:Hey buddy, the dugeon is too good a place for you...I think we should stick you on Mount Washington with no outerwear, just shorts and a t-shirt...and even this may be too good a place for you.
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Sapolu: "We Will Die For Samoa"
In his letter that Samoa News Sports features today, the controversial Samoan fly half and center, Eliota Fuimaono Sapolu wrote to the leader of Samoa and chairman of the Samoa Rugby Union, Tuila'epa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi that the Manu Samoa players were willing to lay down their lives for the Samoan people.
"We will die for Samoa. Help us, not hinder us. Support us, not squash us. We need the support of a competent, skillful, Management. We need Management to question the turnarounds, the conflict of interest in referees that have been selected and to create a vibrant inspirational environment for the team".
He called on Tuila'epa to bring change to the top management of the Samoa Rugby Union and restore hope for the fans and players. He said that if the status quo was to continue at the top level of the SRU, then "we will go no-where (should things remain the same)".
"The RWC training camp and RWC was a shambles. If something is not done, we might as well not bother playing test rugby because it is all just an absolute waste of time".
Sapolu stirred things up in the 2011 World Cup when he used the social media to twit his frustrations against the International Rugby Board's scheduling of Manu Samoa games during the World Cup that was held in New Zealand recently. Eliota Fuimaono Sapolu accused the IRB of favoring the rich teams over the poor ones like Samoa and other second tier teams.
He was mad that the IRB gave preferential treatment to rich teams like Wales, New Zealand, and South Africa as these countries had seven to eight days to rest their players between each game while Samoa and other 2nd tier teams were given only four to five days to recover before they played again.
He labeled such treatment as slavery and compared it with the Holocaust. He used strong profanity to communicate his message and dared the IRB to suspend him but "give Samoa a fair deal".
The IRB did not impose any disciplinary action on Eliota's first outburst, but the Manu Samoa team management offered an apology. When Manu Samoa narrowly lost to South Africa, 5-13 in the last match of pool D, Sapolu lashed out at referee, Nigel Owens from Wales and called him a racist. He blamed the referee for Samoa's loss that killed any chances of Manu Samoa moving forward to the knockout rounds. He cited some unfavorable decisions that Owens made that he believed were biased.
His second outrage landed him before the International Rugby Board's disciplinary tribunal. He was found guilty of his remarks and was ordered to issue a public apology to referee Owens and perform 100 hours of community work in Samoa. Failure to do so would mean that Sapolu would be suspended from IRB sponsored rugby for six months. The controversial Samoan player will appeal his suspension on November 20. He has also been told to refrain from making public criticism against IRB or its officials.
However, over a week ago, Sapolu, was again in the news when he twitted disparaging remarks aimed at IRB officials and made fun of their disciplinary process. On Monday this week, November, 7 he was suspended for three weeks from rugby after he was found to have made "critical or sarcastic comments" in violation of the conditions of his IRB suspended sentence.
He also made insulting remarks against the owner of the Saracens Rugby Club in England, Owen Farrell, when Sapolu's team, Gloucester lost, 19-3, to Saracens ending his team's 22 game winning streak. However, the disciplinary panel dismissed the charges and did not fine him for those remarks.
Eliota was born in Samoa in 1981 but his family moved to New Zealand when he was four years old. He grew up here and attended the Auckland University where he earned his law degree. He is a member of the New Zealand bar association as well as Samoa's, but is putting his law career on hold as he concentrates on playing professional rugby in Europe.
Eliota, who is 28, plays for the Gloucester Rugby club situated in the South West region of England. His club and supporters voted him the Most Valuable Player of the 2010-11 season. He joined the Manu Samoa in 2005 and played his first test for Samoa against Scotland that year. Eliota started in all of Samoa's games as a fly half in 2007 and was awarded the MVP of the only match Samoa won in the 2007 World Cup tournament against the USA.
Eliota has set up a restaurant in Apia called the Apa'ula Heights. He also started a Sports Academy "Every One For Samoa" in Apia two years ago and according to him, other centers will be built around Upolu and Savai'i.
"This foundation is geared to benefit children under the age of 12 who want to pursue rugby as a career. It is centered in the village of Lepea but we will expand to rural areas in the coming years."
He says the objective of the academy is to teach those under 12 and over the art of rugby and to open opportunities for them, as they grow proficient in the game. He also stresses the importance of having good grades in school to further their education in the future.
Eliota's parents are from Fagaloa, Vaiala and Vailu'utai.
He advises those in his profession to spend their time wisely, save their money and look for alternative careers after rugby. "I want them to be successful Samoans — to grow up and become doctors, lawyers, accountants and other top careers as something to fall back to when their rugby days are over."
Eliota says he wants to spend his time in Samoa when he is done with rugby.
This is Sapolu's letter to Prime Minister, Tuila'epa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi who is also the chairman of the Samoa Rugby Union. He backs Manu Samoa captain, Mahonri Schwalger's report that was detailed on Monday's Samoa News Sports issue:
My name is Eliota Fuimaono-Sapolu and I write to you in support of Mahonri Schwalger.
He has shown great courage to speak up for the future of Manu Samoa and Samoa. What he says is true. For years we, Manu Samoa, have suffered in the hands of those we trust, members of our own Management and the Samoa Rugby Union.
Unprofessionalism, incompetency, corruption, theft and secrecy. Tough words to use but it's the truth unfortunately. If Samoa wants to be the best in the world, something needs to be done NOW because the way things are and have been, Samoa will NEVER be Tier 1! During the RWC 2011, the same issues that have plagued Manu for years once again reared its ugly head.
1) Again we had issues with money. During RWC training camp players were still trying to chase down reimbursements the Union promised from PNC, not only from PNC this year but previous years! We were unhappy with the level of payment considering the effort we were putting in and significance of the RWC. We sort [sic] answers but Manager would put it off to CEO, he puts it off to Deputy Chairman of the Board who puts it back on to Manager. We threatened to not train until someone at least met us! The Deputy Chairman did, with great aggression and blamed everything on poor communication between Manager and the Board. Subsequently, the Manager agreed and apologized for not following up with anything and still leaving the boys out of pocket. The boys asked for financial statements as to where the people's money was going. It was also proposed by one of the players that a player be allowed to sit in on Board meetings to avoid this problem again, a problem again created by poor communication between Management and the Board.
Furthermore, an article in a paper surfaced in Samoa about the discrepancies between the costs of living at Pacifika Inn and Le Alaimoana. We spent similar time at both yet Le Alaimoana charged over $200,000 tala more! Why couldn't we receive the small pay increase without a war then?
During the RWC again the Board tried to pull another one over us by paying $1000 a week, not a test match. We played two games in the first week and they told us that because it was all in one week, we were to receive only $1000, despite playing two test matches. Again we had to ask and demand to be paid per test match which is only fair.
The IRB provided occasional lunch and dinner money. Many of the boys did not receive this money. When providing allowances, Manager would sometimes 'forget' to give the players this extra money. Only when told about it did the players return to remind the Manager of the money.
There are also allowances for technical, physio and rugby equipment that apparently is missing. I would suggest an investigation into this also.
To this day we have yet to receive these financial statements the Deputy promised us. Transparency apparently. We have absolutely no idea where the millions of dollars the people of Samoa raised for us went to. It definitely did not go to the team. We have a right to know. Samoa has a right to know.
2) Scheduling was extremely poor. This was extremely frustrating. We couldn't understand how our Manager could not at the very least plan. We were constantly ambushed with appearances we did not need to do that would significantly compromise our training. We had to cancel training to make appearances the Manager had overlooked and would constantly apologize for.
This was unacceptable! Training is the most important thing in team sport and we were canceling them because our Manager kept going back on his word, not providing a detailed plan or changing the little plans he had made! Then there were the plans the Manager made for us that we could not attend. We heard from so many people that we were meant to be here and there, our Manager said we were going to this and that. What resulted is that members of the Management would attend which made us players look like stuck up Muppets for not attending but we did not know anything about it!
It just seemed far too much for him to cope with. He couldn't handle the job, particularly when it came to his '91 reunion. He was rarely at our team meetings. I remember asking after our team meeting and lotu, 'where's Tuala?' The answer was, 'the 91 team have another dinner'. I'm sorry but that is just not good enough. That is kicking us in the face. That is kicking the people of Samoa in the face. We were there to win the world cup, not to relive a past one. We needed our Manager to be on his game, clinical, precise and detailed, like the way we wanted to play. We needed him to put us first. He was far from it. He was completely out of his depth and it did not even seem he wanted to be there anyway which is probably why he never was. I felt sorry for the Assistant Manager Ryan because he did Tuala's work. I understand he may have struggled with some of it or had an unorthodox way of doing it but he tried. There was also the incident with regards to returning to Samoa which Mahonri is completely telling the truth. We were told nothing! The Manager was not there.
3) We always had small problems everywhere. We had issues with tickets. Many of the boys were given the cheapest seats whilst the expensive comps somehow went missing. We had to try and sort out ticket problems ourselves as late as game day! We were short on training gear yet members of the management were constantly asking us to sign their many pieces of Manu Samoa merchandise. There were times we would show up to training without Rugby balls or water bottles! Everyone pointed the finger. There were times Management and Board members would come to work out at the gym with us but would use the only available vans first and make the players wait for them to be returned. They laid out rules they couldn't even follow themselves. There were sponsors coming into the hotel threatening players to wear their boots and Board members siding with the sponsor, not the player. There was the drinking by members of the management and Board. There were so many distractions. It all seemed like a bad joke. A joke we've come all too familiar with.
This really must change. We will go no-where should things remain the same. The RWC training camp and RWC was a shambles. If something is not done, we might as well not bother playing test rugby because it is all just an absolute waste of time. Players first. We will die for Samoa. Help us, not hinder us. Support us, not squash us. We need the support of a competent, skillful, Management. We need Management to question the turnarounds, the conflict of interest in referees that have been selected and to create a vibrant inspirational environment for the team.
Our people deserve that. Our Samoan people sacrificed themselves for us to be here and compete with the best in the world because they believed in all of us, players and Management. We have to work together! The RWC unfortunately was Samoa vs Samoa vs IRB vs Opposition.
I have read Peter Fatialofa's "lose with dignity" article and am disappointed. This is the professional era, not the amateur days. You want to roll with the big boys of the professional era, you have to be professional! You have to be skilled! You have to committed! The game is far different than it was 20 years ago! Far faster, skillful and business orientated on and off the field. If we keep with this selfish self-serving style of Management, Manu Samoa will continue to self-destruct.
We need change, and I guarantee, if we create a unique system specific to Samoa, with people who will conduct business and rugby affairs with honesty and business and technical skill, we will be the best rugby-playing nation in the world.
Change must come first.
God Bless Samoa
Eliota Fuimaono-Sapolu


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Good neighborsNovember 14,2012
It is alarming, even weeks after the superstorm, to see the images of devastation across the New York-New Jersey coastline. For many of us, Sandys wrath is a sobering reminder of our own frailty and vulnerability to Mother Natures immense power. Tropical Storm Irene of August 2011 crippled much of our state, costing tens of millions of dollars in damage to homes, businesses and infrastructure. In all, 225 out of Vermonts 251 towns were directly impacted by the storm. The signs of its damage are still around us.
It is because of this unique perspective that so many Vermonters have been sympathetic to the struggles affecting New York, New Jersey and much of the eastern seaboard. The late-October storm spurred our citizens many of whom were grateful for the help they received after Irene to volunteer in order to reach out to Sandys victims.
There have been high-profile missions: Green Mountain Power and other utility companies deployed a small army of workers. Their work has helped clear streets of debris, repair downed wires and restore electricity. Many of those work crews have returned home with stories of grateful neighborhoods, new friendships, and freshly forged partnerships.
But there also has been an army of ordinary Vermonters taking action in amazing and inspiring ways.
Scores of Vermonters have brought non-perishable items and supplies to drop sites around the state, some of them hastily planned when a driver became available for a truck. Tons of food and supplies have been collected, and continue to be collected daily.
In Montpelier last Friday, one volunteers box truck was filled to capacity in fewer than three hours. He also packed (but did not pay for) his own fuel. It, too, was donated by generous benefactors. As he drove south, late comers to the impromptu donation rush coordinated another drop site for whoever might be making the next run.
At the annual Cabot Hosiery sock sale, one person is said to have purchased hundreds of dollars in socks all of which were then donated and moved south.
Rotarians across Vermont organized drop points and transport for supplies. The West Pawlet Fire Department adopted a section of the Queens borough called Meadowmere, which is also served by a volunteer department that has close ties to the volunteers of tiny West Pawlet. The Vermonters are collecting supplies and planning runs to Queens for relief. And a New Jersey resident and his son this week found solace in the hills of Southern Vermont during the youth deer hunting weekend, leaving the chaos of post-storm pickup behind.
Families across the state have offered their homes to displaced families, as have hotels across the state. Churches and schools also are overseeing collection drives and fundraisers. The Stoweflake put up a family of six for free until electricity was restored to their neighborhood this week.
Social media such as Facebook and Twitter have made calls for needs very specific. And in many of those instances, the needs have been met. Vermonters would seem to have many ties to the affected region, and have become adept in just a few weeks at getting supplies where they need to be. That closeness, those degrees of separation we proudly use to define Vermont as a small town, seem to extend to one of the largest cities in the world.
The response here speaks volumes to our states commitment to others.
In an annual national survey, Vermont usually ranks among the most stingy in the United States. According to The Chronicle of Philanthropy, in 2011 the most generous state was Utah, whose residents gave 10.6 percent of their discretionary income to charity. Next were Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee and South Carolina. The least generous was New Hampshire, at 2.5 percent, followed by Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
All evidence is to the contrary at least in Sandys devastating wake.
Vermonters have stepped up at every level, from our government leaders sharing what we learned from Irene to our school children collecting pocket change and cashing in returnables for strangers hundreds of miles away.
These are tough economic times, especially on the heels of the series of unfortunate events that bruised and battered our tourism industry (all Mother Nature-related), yet once again we have shown our compassion for neighbors and stood proudly as part of the valuable support network needed to get through a difficult time.
That hardly feels stingy. Vermonters should be proud of the way they have opened their hearts to the victims of Sandy and made a difference.MORE IN EditorialsProtesters converged on a bank in Montpelier early this week to show their solidarity with the... Full StoryPhil Scott will take office next month after winning with a margin of 51.11 percent to 43. Full StoryIdeologues and partisans work from the outcome backward. Full Story
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In 2003 my mother started to lose her memory. It was subtle at first. We would walk on Avenue U and she would fail to come up with the name of an acquaintance or two. Nothing alarming. After a while her shopping list started to look like an art project, with drawings of mushrooms and strawberries next to the words milk and bananas. Soon the drawings faded away. In the supermarket she would say to me, "I'm looking for those red things with a little green piece and they come all together." Sometimes it was obvious what she wanted; other times we left without the crackers or the American cheese.
Millie raged against the loss of her memory until she no longer knew the names of the foods in her refrigerator, until she no longer knew what the TV remote was, or could tell the difference between eyeliner and nail polish, between chicken and dirt. Until she no longer knew the names, or recognized her children, her grandson, even her dead husband. She went through all the stages: confusion over why she couldn't remember things; anger; then white-hot anger; then, when the disease took over more of her brain, a softening, a sigh, as she sank into uneasy resignation and disconnect.
I ceased to exist to her beyond the very present. She couldn't tell me where I was born or how old I was. She couldn't remember the schools I went to, including my elementary school down the block. She couldn't tell me where we took our family vacations, the street I lived on after I married, my husband's name.
After my sister and I moved her to an Alzheimer's home, in 2007, Mom said to me, "I think to myself how real I used to be." And that is the truth of it for me; she used to be a gregarious chatterbox; she used to be obsessive/compulsive; she used to be a great friend to dozens of women; she used to be the best mother she could muster; she used to be an amazing grandmother. She ended up living in a tiny world, with only a miniscule door opened to the outside, without a care, without a notion about world strife, or relatives who she thought wronged her in the past—all her cares gone forever.
I would visit her and then go home and write. I would cry as I wrote because she would never read these words; she would not remember what a word was or a book or a piece of art. She lived in a world of simple language which she repeated over and over again: "I love you, I love you, I love you." "Who are you?" "How is your house?" "Do you have children?" "Wonderful."
As I watched the slow erosion of my mother's brain, of her cognitive ability, of her independence, I learned to let go my expectations. She would never learn a new word, she would never be able to verbally communicate with me ever again. In time she "spoke" to me with a wiggle of her eyebrows or a grimace or a smile, or a look in her eyes that told me she was really my mom. She couldn't utter a sound, but she spoke volumes.


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By Sharna Johnson: Freedom New Mexico
Eastern Plains Council of Governments Interim Director Richard Arguello said Thursday the organization's failure to notify the public of an executive committee meeting was an oversight that won't happen again.
"I'm going to say that it's my fault on this," Arguello said.
"We had a little faux pas there … it was a miscommunication (and) I assure you that's not going to happen again."
The board met Wednesday in special session and adjourned into a near two-hour executive session to discuss personnel matters, according to an agenda.
Notice of the meeting, which was scheduled early last week according to board members, was not published in accordance with state open government laws.
Arguello said the procedure was misunderstood and staff thought since the meeting was outside the regular schedule, it was to be treated like an emergency meeting and thus did not have to be published.
"I discussed that with the staff member and there was a little confusion there," he said.
"In this situation we notified our secretary that we were going to have the special meeting and I thought she published it. She's just horrified and distraught … it was just an oversight."
Arguello said Wednesday's meeting was the only special meeting he is aware of committee having in the time he's been with EPCOG.
Arguello said as was done in November, the board adopts a resolution annually outlining its adherence to the Open Meetings Act.
The purpose of Wednesday's meeting was to discuss, "some personnel issues that we've been looking at going into," he said, adding, "There weren't any decisions made (at the meeting), it was just an informative session."
According to the New Mexico Open Meetings Act, "Any meetings at which the discussion or adoption of any proposed resolution, rule, regulation or formal action occurs and at which a majority or quorum of the body is in attendance, and any closed meetings, shall be held only after reasonable notice to the public."
Board Member Gary Watkins said Wednesday evening he had assumed EPCOG took care of public notification for the meeting and did not know the meeting was not held in compliance with open meetings requirements.
EPCOG is a consortium representing seven counties in eastern New Mexico and helps local governments with infrastructure planning and economic development. It includes Union, Harding, Quay, Guadalupe, De Baca, Curry, and Roosevelt counties.
The executive committee includes Curry County Commissioner Caleb Chandler, De Baca County Commissioner Pow Carter, Harding County Commissioner Mike Lewis, Watkins, a Portales City Councilman, and Arguello, who is also a Union County commissioner.


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April 29, 2011—WONC-FM 89.1, North Central College's student-run radio station, brought home two first-place awards in national competition from the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System (IBS).
The first-place Golden Microphone Trophy Awards were in two categories: Best Sports Play-by-Play and Best Documentary.
The Best Sports Play-by-Play award went to senior Ryan Piers of Washington, Ill., for his play-by-play announcing and to senior Lucas Mitzel of Aurora, who added the color. Their winning audio was from the Dec. 4, 2010, playoff game between the North Central College Cardinals and defending NCAA Division III national football champions, the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Warhawks (listen now). The football game was North Central's first quarterfinals playoff game in the program's history. Broadcast communication majors Piers and Mitzel beat out submissions from Goshen College and William Patterson College.
The Best Documentary award went to Piers as well, who produced and narrated "Religion in American Society," a 15-minute documentary that took a look at religion's current role in society from a political perspective, and how secular ideologies can affect those positions. Ryan bested two other competing documentaries by DePaul University.
WONC general manager and assistant professor of broadcast communication John Madormo has worked closely with both students.
About Piers, he says, "his delivery is smooth, steady and professional." He's been the voice of Cardinal sports and the station's sports director for the past two years.
Mitzel is WONC's station manager, the highest position held by a student. Madormo says, "He has led a 70-member staff this year and has done a superb job. And in sports, whether he's doing play-by-play or color, he gives a solid delivery." Mitzel is the College's 2011 Outstanding Major in Broadcasting.
The IBS is one of two national competitions available to college and university radio stations. The second is the Collegiate Broadcasters Inc. (CBI).
WONC is one of the most honored collegiate radio stations in America and has won national and state awards in commercial and collegiate competitions. In addition, the station has won 20 Marconi College Radio Awards. No other college or university radio station is the country has won more.
A student-run and staffed station, WONC has a station manager and directors of programming, production, promotions, music, news, sports, public affairs and underwriting. Since 1980, Madormo has overseen the station's operations and believes the most important thing for new students, whatever their level of broadcasting experience or interest, is to get involved in the station and on the air as soon as possible. Students who work at the station and choose to major in broadcast communication graduate as all-platform journalists ready to hit the ground running in radio, TV, Internet and social media venues.
With a 30-mile listening radius and potential listening audience of four million people, WONC's pure rock music format broadcasts a mix of news, sports, traffic, music and public affairs programming 24 hours a day, year-round. Listen live at wonc.org.