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Enrollment in Madison's 4-year-old kindergarten is up almost 7 percent from the previous school year, according to the school district's most recent enrollment figures.
The Madison Metropolitan School District stated 90 percent of 4-year-olds living in the district are now enrolled in 4-year-old kindergarten.
In 2011-12, 1,789 students were enrolled in 4K. This school year, 1,914 students are enrolled.
"Starting learning early is key to closing gaps, and this year, our 4K program will do that important work for more students," Superintendent Jane Belmore said.
The 4K program is in its second year.
The district's total enrollment is up slightly from 26,650 in 2011-12 to 26,925 this school year, according to district officials.
The district has enrolled between 24,000 and 25,000 students the last 12 years.
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Chinese company Onda is set to roll out its VX737 portable media player in the next few weeks. Staying true to its obvious inspiration, the 3.94″ x 1.97″ x 0.45″ device doubles as a classic NES simulator. That's right. Now you can get in some quality Mario time when you're bored with all your MP3, OGG, FLAC, and WAV tunes; AVI, MPEG4 SP, XviD, and DivX videos; and JPG, BMP, and GIF photos.
The VX737 sports a 2.5-inch TFT QVGA display (320 x 240), but the bigger news seems to be the Freescale MC9328MXL processing and Philips UDA1380TT audio decoder chips under its hood. The chips must score pretty high on the power-consumption scale because the player's lithium battery can provide 10 hours of music and 5 hours of video entertainment (though not much content can fit onto the pathetic 512MB built into the device). Other features include an FM radio, voice recording, text viewer, and integrated speaker.
There's no word on pricing or availability, but we don't expect to see it on U.S. shores anytime soon.

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How to Make Fall Centerpieces, Table Toppers and Citrus Garnishes
Making Orange Garnishes
Add a sugary sight to your after-dinner delight by garnishing it with easy-to-fix candied orange peel.
After washing and drying an orange, use a vegetable peeler to remove the peel. On a cutting board, cut away any white membrane and slice the peel into thin strips, about 1 to 2 inches long.
Mix 1-1/2 cups each of sugar and water in a saucepan and bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Add the orange peel; reduce the heat and simmer for 10 minutes. Remove from the heat and transfer peel to a sieve to drain.
Put a small amount of granulated sugar in a resealable bag and add a few of the orange peel strips. Shake until evenly coated. Remove the peel and place on waxed paper to dry.
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Mike worked for United Gas Pipeline for 34 years his retirement in 1981. He was a devout Catholic and a member of Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church.
Survivors include his wife of 70 years, Bertha Rodriguez Jaure of Beeville; two sons, Paul (Sarah) Jaure of Beeville and Jaime (Adela) Jaure of Beeville; three daughters, Estella (Armando) Lopez of Kenedy, Irma (Raymond) Rivas of Taft and Cindy (James) Guerrero of Helena, Texas; two nieces: Elsie (Joe Henry) Alaniz of Beeville, Ellie (Nick) Reyna of Houston; and one nephew, Juan (Dora) Camacho of Beeville; eleven grandchildren: Paul Jaure, Jana Jaure Kennelly, Noel Lopez, Hector Lopez, Teri Lopez, Roland Jaure, Omar Jaure, Lupita Jaure, Jenna Guerrero, James Guerrero and Jacylyn Guerrero; 21 great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his one sister, Tomasita Jaure Zuniga; one half-sister, Trinidad Jaure Aguirre; and one grandson, Jeffery Abraham Jaure.
Visitation was held on Monday, November 12, 2012 from 11:00 a.m. till 9:00 p.m. with a rosary to be held that evening at 7:00 p.m. at the Treviño Funeral Home Chapel. Funeral Mass was celebrated on Tuesday, November 13, 2012, at 10:00 a.m. at Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church with Rev. Luke officiating. Burial followed at the Pettus Cemetery in Pettus, Texas.
Pallbearers were Juan Camacho, Jody Alaniz, Edward Guerrero, Roland Jaure,Hector Lopez, James Guerrero II, Paul Jaure and Omar Jaure.
Honorary pallbearers: Sabrina Camacho, Noel Lopez, Raymond Rivas, Cruz Alaniz, Mike Rosales, former co-workers: Larry Sellers, Don Hessong, LB Proffitt, Hollie Ragle, Willie Rodriguez, Lupe Rodriguez Jr.
Special thanks to Dr. M. Ayman Ghraowi and staff at the Comprehensive Cancer Center of Calallen, and the staff and administration at Woodridge Nursing Center.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Coastal Bend College Foundation.
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"Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin & the Farm Midwives" Documentary Film
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James Madison University and the School of Media Arts and Design present the 2nd Annual Reel Change Documentary Film Festival. The festival exposes issues relevant to the JMU and greater Harrisonburg communities. It seeks to educate and engage audiences while celebrating the documentary medium as a tool for advocacy, activism and social change. Following the film screening, there will be Skype-in discussion with director Sara Lamm. For information, visit http://reelchangefest.com; free.


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Presented by the Walters and the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts, this exhibition will show the work of the finalists for the 2014 Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize. Artists will compete for top honors and a $25,000 fellowship in the Greater Baltimore area's most prestigious arts competition.
Date: Saturday, June 28, 2014–Sunday, October 12, 2014
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Composed of approximately twenty manuscripts and objects, Seeing Music
explores music in its relationship with philosophy, religion, and the arts
during the Middle Ages, when musical harmony and dissonance were
thought to mirror the perfection of heaven as well as the disorder of evil.
Date: Monday, July 21, 2014–Friday, July 25, 2014
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Sing it loud, write it down, design a comic book, and build a set! Campers will discover works of art that tell stories from all around the world. They will explore the elements of stories and share their own tales during an interactive exhibition!
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This print started out as a baseball card more than twenty years ago. Every aspect of it is designed to preserve the original look and feel of the card, from the printing pattern to the slightly worn edges. In fact, this print started by finding the actual card in our vault and then painstakingly re-mastering it with a team of designers. The authenticity extends to manufacturing; each print is made on high-quality, cotton fine art paper that measures 1/64 inches in thickness. Framed prints feature 2-inch flat wood or metallic frames with high-end, glare-resistant glass. And all prints are officially licensed by MLB and the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
STORYLonnie Smith spent three seasons as a Kansas City Royal and was a big contributor to the 1985 World Series team. After struggling in a diminished role in 1987, Smith was released. He would sign with the Atlanta Braves and have a career resurgence, also playing in two more World Series.
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Crystal became such a hit with audience members and viewers that he ranks behind only actor and comedian Bob Hope when it comes to most ceremonies hosted.
His advice to newcomers? "Look like you want to be there," he said. "Be good and enjoy yourself."
Crystal was so popular that when he returned from a three-year break from hosting duties in 1997, the audience greeted him with an overwhelming standing ovation. And you could tell that Crystal was genuinely moved by the salute.
Most memorable hosting quote: "For those of you who are keeping score at home, I just want to make something very clear: Martin Scorsese, zero Oscars; Three 6 Mafia, one."
No. 1: Bob Hope
Comedian and actor Bob Hope holds the record for hosting the Oscars more than anyone else: 18 times between 1940 and 1978, 10 of those as a solo host. That's a record that's unlikely to be broken.
As a well-respected actor and comedian, Hope often joked that he should receive an Oscar "just for attending." Although Hope was never nominated for an Oscar for his performances, the Academy honored him with four honorary awards as well as the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.
With his unforgettable charm and wit, Hope was able to put a smile on audience members and viewers as he made the three-hour show seem shorter.
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Edward G. Stephenson, 61, of Parkersburg, passed away Feb. 20, 2013, at Riverside Hospital in Columbus.
He was born to Nora and George Stephenson of Levittown, N.Y., on Aug. 18, 1951.
Ed found his way to West Virginia via Salem College and began teaching in schools in Doddridge and Wirt counties. He then became a Uniserv consultant with the West Virginia Education Association and retired to begin working in a similar capacity with the Ohio Education Association. His love of a good fight made his work a perfect fit.
Ed is survived by his brother, George of Pennsylvania, and three nieces. He is also survived by his lifelong friend, Kevin Whitby and his wife, Kathy, along with Spagna's and Harmar Tavern friends. He also is missed by longtime friends Brenda Brum, Sally Greathouse and many other education and social friends.
Ed had a love for cars, good food, travel and fun. He enjoyed the Florida Keys at Christmas and his ashes will be taken there.
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A Leggy Miranda Kerr Makes Getting Out Of A Limo A Sexy Affair (Photos)
Earlier this week we spotted model Miranda Kerr arriving at the Mr. C Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. She seamlessly made getting out of a limo look sensuous.
Photographers snapped away as the Victoria's Secret star slid out of the back seat and grinned for her fans. She showed off her long legs and slender body as she posed for the paparazzi.
The actress, who is married to Orlando Bloom, recently talked to UsMagazine.com about her son Flynn, who turns two this month and has expressed an interest in music. With a model mother and actor father, it's no surprise their offspring has a creative side.
"There were a whole bunch of different musical instruments around, a whole bunch of toys - different things that he could have gone to - and the first thing he went for was this little piano... And he sat right down and started, like, playing (it). It was amazing," she explained.
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Vt. economists deliver promising forecastBy Neal P. Goswami
VERMONT PRESS BUREAU | January 17,2014MONTPELIER Citing rising consumer and business confidence and improved conditions for economic growth, economists delivered optimistic news Thursday to Gov. Peter Shumlin and the Emergency Board.
Tom Kavet, an economist for the Legislature, and Jeffrey Carr, an economist for the Shumlin administration, said revenue forecasts for the coming year will not see any significant changes. They reported to the board, made up of the governor and the heads of the Legislatures money committees, that economic conditions are improving for more rapid growth in the near future.
Interest rates and inflation remain low, and energy prices are also low, allowing businesses to maintain productivity.
Things are starting to align in a way that might make things a lot better down the road, Kavet said. This is a hopeful forecast.
The state will see a drop in revenue after the closing of Vermont Yankee at the end of the year. But other revenue sources will improve, including taxes from the purchase of motor vehicles, an indication that consumers are more willing to purchase big-ticket items.
Consumer confidence is on the rise, but not as fast as business confidence, according to the consensus forecast offered Thursday by the two economists. Carr said confidence has been the missing ingredient for expanding the economy.
There are some surveys out there showing that business people are now feeling more secure about whats going on in the economy, about whats going on with policy, he said.
Still, although on the rise, confidence is still a good amount below where it was (before) the Great Recession, according to Carr. He said another round of dysfunction in Congress could scuttle gains.
Confidence is still a little on the fragile side, so another case of brinksmanship this spring surrounding the debt ceiling could be another bad development for the economy, he said.
Kavet reported a recent surge in new investments in nonresidential buildings.
This is saying the business community is putting their money where their mouth is, he said.
If youre building new buildings its probably to house people that youre going to hire and your output is going to increase, Kavet said. So, thats a really good early indicator of what might be happening.
And Carr said businesses are primed for expansion after squeezing as much productivity out of workers as possible and cutting back on costs during the recession.
Companies have done an amazing job of increasing their productivity, because thats how they have been boosting their corporate profits, Carr said. Now, what were hoping is that for the good of the labor market and for the overall good of the economy ... the way to increase their bottom line is to actually expand their capacity to produce.
Meanwhile, Vermont has nearly recovered the number of jobs lost during the recession. The state will be just the second in New England to so, behind Massachusetts.
Tempering that feat, however, is the fact that a large number of people are still unemployed for extended periods, Kavet said. And the states unemployment rate remains among the lowest in the country, but largely because so many have dropped out of the workforce, he said.
Shumlin said the states reserve funds were tapped in recent years and should be replenished as revenues rebound.
The first thing we should do is build our reserves, he said.
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Residents come together to display faith
MARTINSBURG – A faith-filled group gathered Thursday at the Martinsburg Veterans Administration Medical Center to celebrate the power of prayer and extend peace and healing into the community.
National Day of Prayer is held the first Thursday in May every year. Chaplain Ronald Faith, of the 167th Airlift Wing, gave remarks during the service. A minister at Evangel Baptist Church in Hagerstown, Faith discussed with those in attendance three things he has learned through prayer.
Faith told attendees the first thing he learned was to "show up" to pray – it "requires a people who are present." He told the story of a 72-year-old man named Bob who ran in the recent Tough Mudder. Faith, who was on Team Bob, said though Bob was unable to finish more than six miles of the race, he was present.
"(Bob) didn't pack up and go home," Faith said. "However long it took for the rest of the team to finish, Bob was there at the finish line. Bob was waiting on us at the finish line."
Declaring an intention of prayer is important, Faith said. In a caring profession such as his, Faith said, people tend to walk in, say what's on their mind and leave.
"There's other times that we need it to be focused and directed," Faith said. "That question is in my mind when I come to pray, that God is saying to me, 'What can I do for you today? What are you looking for from me?'"
Faith said healing from prayer is another aspect of faith he has learned. Prayer can provide solace for many, Faith said, and handing off one's burden or conflict to God can be done through prayer.
"The great physician of the universe many times hears those prayers, and he brings the healing that's either needed to our bodies or to our hearts and souls," Faith said.
Residents and local officials of Berkeley County also honored National Day of Prayer, through song and prayer in a ceremony in the courtyard of the Martinsburg-Berkeley County Public Library.
Voices sang clear and loud songs of patriotism and thanksgiving, and speakers led the crowd in payer for all aspects of the world including military, educations, the Church, family, government and the people.
The event was organized by the Martinsburg-Berkeley County Ministerial Association.
The origin of National Day of Prayer was initially a proclamation in the 1770s recommending "a day of public humiliation, fasting and prayer," according to the National Day of Prayer Task Force website. In 1952, a joint resolution was signed by Congress and President Harry S. Truman declared the day to be annual. Since 1988, every president has issued a proclamation encouraging Americans to pray for the United States, its people and leaders, according to the website.
– Staff writer Rachel Molenda can be reached at 304-263-8931, ext. 215, or www.twitter.com/rmolendaJN. Staff writer Samantha Cronk contributed to this story.


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How Social Media Can Help (or Hurt) Your Job Search
Do's and don'ts on using Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter
Remember the days when a glance at a paper résumé was all a recruiter needed to decide whether you were getting an interview? Today, social media have us connecting, networking and promoting ourselves in an instant, allowing prospective employers to do the once-over even quicker.
See also: 15 ways to improve your Linkedin profile
And that's a good — and bad — thing, too.
It's good because employers understand the power of social media to advance their businesses. If you're an active participant online, it's all the better to show how connected to the times you are. You can use these digital platforms to highlight your personality and qualifications to show what you could bring to a workplace.
But, as becomes clearer by the day, what you put out there can come back to bite you. Employers can use social media platforms to learn things about you that you'd rather they didn't know.
So if you're on the market for a new gig, your first task is to type your name in quotes into a search engine and see what pops up. If you get a photo, video or anything else that you wouldn't want a prospective employer to see, get to work on removing it from wherever it's posted.
Then focus on figuring out how to use social media in a positive way to lead you to your next opportunity. Here's a guide to the three most popular sites Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter — as well as tips for creating your own personal place online.
With 900 million users, Facebook is the shining star of social media. And boomers account for a growing number of its fans, using it to maintain connections with friends and family members. But being careless with the information you share on your personal profile could push your résumé to the bottom of the pile.
"At the end of the day, your profile is your life and it should be as public or private as you want," says Beth Carpenter, social communications and strategy manager at AARP. "But realize that once you put something out there to the public, it's out."
To be on the safe side …
- Do get to know and use your privacy settings. To get started, click on the drop-down arrow in the upper right-hand corner next to "Home" and find Privacy Settings. For example, under "Control Your Default Privacy," you can choose to make your account public (available to the whole world), make it available to only the people you "friend," or customize it. Ask yourself, "If someone were to Google my name, do I want my Facebook profile to appear?"
- Do choose a strong and unique password. Only use that password for Facebook.
- Say straight-out that you're on the market. Post a message that says you're looking, and for what. "Your friends can be an amazing resource," Carpenter says. "You never know who or what people know that could help you." Of course, if your current supervisor is one of your Facebook friends and is unaware that you are looking for a new job, you may want to reconsider posting.
- Do sift through your photos to make sure they're all G-rated. Delete questionable pictures of yourself. Untag yourself from any unsavory photos, whether they include your image or not.
- Be diplomatic in your "updates." Don't gripe about your current boss. Don't use swear words, and be mindful of participating in controversial topics or debates. "Think of your Facebook account like your dinner table," Carpenter says. "If you wouldn't bring it up at the table, then don't do it on Facebook."
- Do "like" or "join" Facebook pages of companies or organizations that interest you, as a way of staying abreast of news and promotions.
- Don't create separate work and personal profiles. With two of them, you can easily get confused and post to the wrong account. "When you try to straddle the line, that's when mistakes happen," Carpenter says.
- Don't "friend" anyone you don't feel comfortable sharing your life with.
Next: How to be on your best behavior while using LinkedIn. »
If Facebook had a professional sister, her name would be LinkedIn. Some 150 million career-oriented users have profiles that tell the world who they are, what they do, and the chronological trail that got them there.
It's today's largest professional social networking website, and you're selling yourself short if you don't have a profile there — especially if you're in search of a new career. LinkedIn is an effective space to network and make contacts.
"If you want a job at Company X, you may not know anyone, but one of your LinkedIn connections may and you can ask for an introduction," says Deb Silverberg, social communications and strategy manager with AARP for money and work issues. "It's a virtual water cooler for people all across industries."
But you've got to know how to put your best foot forward. Think of it this way: Would you wear a pair of sneakers with a business suit? Not likely.
- Do register and create a comprehensive profile to increase your visibility. LinkedIn ranks high on Google searches, so make sure that when people find you, they're impressed by what they see.
- Don't make your profile photo a holiday snapshot with the grandkids. Make it a recent, professional-looking photo of just you.
- Do participate in LinkedIn groups (alumni networks, previous companies you've worked for). It's a great way to reconnect with former colleagues.
- Don't overlook the job search function on LinkedIn. After all, that's what the site is for!
- Do build relationships by being a resource for others first. Pay it forward by using your knowledge and contacts to help someone (without expecting anything in return). Then someone else will help you. You can write recommendations for your coworkers and they can do the same for you.
- Don't request a connection with someone you don't know, even if you think that person can help you get a foot in the door somewhere. "It's considered poor LinkedIn etiquette and can be considered 'spammy,' " Silverberg says.
On Twitter, you post personal thoughts, current news and anything else you hope will be intriguing, all in no more than 140 characters. These messages are known as tweets. They go out to your network of followers, who could be friends or complete strangers.
Of all the social networks, Twitter is probably the least helpful in a job search. Still, it can help you stay up to date on what people, companies and organizations in your occupational field are doing.
- Don't tweet first and think later. You are what you tweet. An employer can search and find what you've posted. "If you wouldn't want it on page one of your daily newspaper, don't tweet it," Silverberg advises.
- Do follow leaders in your field, potential employers, your college career center, your college alumni office and career advice sites. Using the site's search function, get career tips and learn about potential employers and developments in your field.
- Do make your Twitter profile count. You have only 160 characters to work with in a profile, so be creative and to the point. "It's the first impression people will get about you," Silverberg says.
- Do connect with TweetMyJobs and sign up for its free services. You can choose the cities and job titles you're most interested in, and these will be tweeted to you as they appear. The postings are immediate, so you'll hear about a job before other social platforms will likely have it.
- Do establish yourself as an expert in your area of interest by tweeting about its latest articles, news and research. If fashion is your thing, tweet out your best tips to followers.
- Don't create separate Twitter accounts for personal and professional use. It could get confusing and cause you to send a tweet from the wrong account. And from a practical standpoint, you want anyone who finds you to see who you are, from all standpoints. If you're a busy mom who happens to work for a Fortune 500 company, talk about it.
- Do put a disclaimer in your Twitter bio and profile that your views are your own, not your current employer's.
Personal websites and blogs
The beauty of the Internet is that you can carve out your very own space to promote yourself. Some people turn those Web spaces into business enterprises. For others, it's a way to show off their work — like a résumé but better. Still others blog in their field of professional interest.
As with any other social media platform, if your Web page or blog is public, it's open for employers to see, too. So follow a few a simple rules while you're job hunting.
1. Do make sure your website has the privacy you want. You may want it to be viewable only to those you invite and approve. On the other hand, if your blog is related to the field of your interest, you'll want to make it easy for people to find you. This is a way to market your personal brand.
2. Don't let your website be cluttered or unattractive in other ways. It's only natural that an employer will take it as a reflection of your own work habits.
3. Do make sure your site or blog is optimized to show up in search engine queries. This means tagging your posts with relevant keywords that people use to search online for information on that subject. You can find how often people search for specific keywords at the website Google Adwords.
4. In your résumé, do include a sentence or two or a link to your blog or website if it's relevant to the job you're seeking. For example, if you blog about your dog, there's no need to link the blog to your résumé unless you're applying for a job as a dog groomer.
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Written by Szawel on 02.11.2012 at 15:11
'Frühling' IS awesome, like the whole album. What a great idea, amazing compositions and perfect performance. Incredible masterpiece, wchich breaks barriers and redefines black metal as a genre. The most stunning thing is that they perfectly cought the deep atmosphere and emotions related to each season. Poetry.
Written by Slayer666 on 02.11.2012 at 22:35
Did someone honestly say this about a Nargaroth album?
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And this is said by the fan of the most innovative and atmospheric band - Slayer No comment...
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Don't take it the wrong way, buddy, I meant no offense.
It's just that, IMO, Nargaroth is pretty much the embodiment of average, color-by-number black metal.


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Feds & state again fund West Sacramento DUI checkpoint program
West Sacramento's police department announced last month that it will receive renewed funding for DUI checkpoints and other traffic enforcement.
The department has been awarded a $ 91,000 grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) for a year-long program of special enforcements and public awareness efforts to prevent traffic related deaths and injuries, it reported. West Sacramento Police Department will use the funding as part of the city's ongoing commitment to keep our roadways safe and improve the quality of life through both enforcement and education.
"After falling dramatically between 2006 and 2010, the number of persons killed and injured in traffic collisions saw slight increases in 2011 and 2012," said the W.S.P.D. statement. "Particularly worrisome are recent increases in pedestrian and motorcycle fatalities and the dangers of distracting technologies. This grant funding will provide opportunities to combat these and other devastating problems such as drunk and drugged driving and speeding."
"California's roadways are still among the safest in the nation," said OTS Director Rhonda Craft in a press statement. "But to meet future mobility, safety, and sustainability objectives, we must create safer roadways for all users. The West Sacramento Police Department will be using these and other resources to reach the vision we all share – Toward zero deaths, every 1 counts."
Activities that the grant will fund include:
• DUI checkpoints
• DUI saturation patrols
• Motorcycle safety enforcement
• Distracted driving enforcement
• Seat belt and child safety seat enforcement
• Speed, red light, and stop sign enforcement
• Warrant service operations targeting multiple DUI offenders
• Compilation of DUI "Hot Sheets," identifying worst-of-the-worst DUI offenders
• Specialized DUI and drugged driving training such as Standardized Field Sobriety Testing (SFST), Advanced Roadside Impaired Driving Enforcement (ARIDE), and Drug Recognition Evaluator (DRE)
Funding for this program is from the California Office of Traffic Safety through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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Liking the new bridge
As a Southport resident I have already enjoyed driving on the new Mike McGowan Bridge near my home. Not only does it shave a few minutes off driving, the bridge is a good start for diverting heavy traffic from Jefferson Boulevard.
Mike McGowan is deserving of the bridge's name (see Mike McGowan: the man whose name is on that new bridge", News-Ledger, December 3, 2014) for playing an important role in making West Sacramento a good place to live.
Thanks to Jay Davidson, senior civil engineer at the City of West Sacramento for addressing my initial concerns, such as cars using the bridge as a "pass through" and to the city council for promptly going forward with the project.
Keep up the good work, City of West Sacramento!
West Sacramento
Buses & carts
(Editor's note: Author Bill Lowell speaks below about the need for a new shopping cart design that can fit aboard public buses — something like an airline carry-on bag with wheels and a handle).
For bus-riding shoppers and retailers, a major tool is often missing: we need a tall, medium-size suitcase-shaped shopping cart which would fit between forward-facing bus seats. The right shape is particularly important for YoloBus riders, since recent insurance rules prohibit use of the front flip seats and over 90% of shopping carts, when filled, do not fit between forward-facing seats. This lack of right size/right shape personal shopping cart availability not only discourages shopping in Yolo County, but appears to be a major reason so many retailers' commercial shopping carts are "borrowed" without being returned.
While the homeless take many such carts, retailers would greatly reduce such costs and attract more preferred customers by offering the public such a suitcase-shaped shopping cart.
West Sacramento
Adopt a dog, cat
(Editor's note: although we weren't able to publish this letter before the holidays, we thought it is still a timely topic)
The Yolo County Sheriff's Office, Animal Services Section would like to thank our community for their on-going support for shelter animals throughout the year. Nearly 3,600 at risk animals (lost, homeless or unwanted) entered our doors in Yolo County last calendar year. Your generosity created life-saving outcomes for more that 90 percent of them! During this season of giving and sharing we hope you will continue to help us provide for homeless shelter animals now and in the future.
Part of this effort is 'Homes for the Holidays!' Old policies in the industry state pets should not be adopted as gifts. This belief, however, is counter to research by the ASPCA which indicates dogs and cats obtained as gifts are actually more likely to stay within those homes, whether the pet is a surprise or not! Help us support that theory!
If you or someone you know are considering providing a home for a shelter pet there are 11 medium to small dogs and 11 adult cats and 6 kittens which would love to be in a new home for the holidays! Recommendations for success when adopting pets as gifts are to consider the recipient's interest in adopting, their lifestyle, make sure parents of young children are ready to be a caregivers and their schedule will help assure an easy transition into the new home. If you or your friends are not ready for the commitment of adopting you are encouraged to volunteer; help with fostering, shelter care, laundry, and socialization and office tasks. Last year 429 cats and dogs were helped by our foster program; some underage and many that needed a temporary home prior to finding their forever fit. Check out our Facebook page and if you love it, like it!
Animal Services, located at 140-C Tony Diaz Drive, Woodland is accepting donations of liquid laundry detergent; used to wash animal bedding, dry or canned pet food, especially cat food for Mouse's Pantry, new or gently used towels or wash cloths and lap size acrylic blankets. Toys are also welcome; for cats they must be washable and toys for dogs should be hard nylabone or Kong type; nothing with fabric stuffing as they are not safe for shelter dogs. Tax-deductable monetary donations are always welcome; it can be a general donation or designated for such things as helping with spay and neuter or surgical needs for injured homeless strays.
Contact the Yolo County Sheriff's Office, Animal Services Section at (530) 668-5287.
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Shooter in killing on West Capitol Avenue is denied parole
A man convicted in a shooting death in West Sacramento back in 2000 was denied parole last month.
The Yolo County District Attorney's office reported that a panel of the state board of parole hearings denied parole for David Cree, 34.
Cree (then 20) and companion Jessie Lampkin were driving on West Capitol Avenue on Oct. 8, 2000, after a night of drinking, said the D.A.'s office. They drove past Jimmy Lee Richardson and Gregory Rowan, and Cree believed Richardson might have previously assaulted him.
Cree pulled the car over and asked "Where are the girls?"
Then he fired a sawed-off shotgun at the pair. Richardson died, and Rowan was seriously injured.
Cree was convicted of second-degree murder and other charges, and was sentenced to 15 years to life in state prison. Lampkin was also convicted of murder. His conviction was overturned although he later served time for manslaughter.
The parole board believed Cree's release posed an "unreasonable risk" to the public. He's eligible for another hearing in 2017, although he may request earlier hearing date.
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Local 'Knights' chapter earns honor
A West Sacramento fraternal group reports it won an honor for the 2013-2014 service year.
The Knights of Columbus Council #9469 were named a "Star Council" chapter.
"The award recognizes overall excellence in areas of membership recruitment and retention, promotion of the fraternal insurance program, and sponsorship of service-oriented activities," said the organization.
Knights of Columbus is a Catholic lay organization with 1.8 million members spread over 15,000 councils internationally.
Grand Night Glen Mochel, head of the local council, called the award "quite an honor for us."
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Hats: for ladies and domed reptiles —
By Steve Marschke
News-Ledger Editor
December 20 turned out to be "the best birthday ever!" reports Cindy Breninger of Southport.
That day, a sketch of her little tortoise in a handmade decorative "hat" was part of a front-page article in the Wall Street Journal. The article explored people who put holiday focus on their pets.
Shortly afterward, "Neil" the tortoise also made appearances on Fox 40 and Good Day Sacramento.
Neil is a little guy, not even six inches in diameter.
"He's kind of a smaller one," said Breninger. "He's around six years old, but you never really know with tortoises. We got him August 10, 2012. He's named after Neil Armstrong (first man on the moon), who was my son's hero."
Breninger is a legal secretary at her day job, but a side-business helped give rise to Neil's holiday hat.
"I have an 'Etsy' business," said Breninger. "I make 'fascinators,' those mini top hats that ladies wear. Princess Kate wears a lot of 'fascinators.' So I put one on Neil."
"Etsy" is a website that plays host to crafters who sell hand-made goods. Breninger sells her people hats and now her tortoise hats there at her online shop called "Deerwood Creek Gifts." The shop name comes from Breninger's childhood home on Deerwood Street in West Sacramento, which had a "sort of" creek behind it.
"One lady bought two hats for her tortoises – matching Santa hats!" said Breninger.
Has the local and national attention gone to Neil's head at all?
"Maybe a little bit," allowed Breninger.
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West Sac council okays new community — minus the gate
By Steve Marschke
News-Ledger Editor
— A couple of larger issues — the desirability of gated communities and the density of local development — emerge during discussion of project —
The West Sacramento city council has approved a 222-home subdivision in Southport. The project – which abuts Southport Parkway, the Bridgeway Island Subdivision and Savannah Parkway – was designed as a gated community, and approved last month in a 4-2 vote at the city planning commission.
Usually, that would be the last word for approval. But in this case, Mayor Christopher Cabaldon appealed that decision, calling it up to the city council for review. The council took it up on Dec. 17.
Gary Mandarich of Mandarich Developments told the council that his company was "expert" at projects like this one with high-density detached homes. The Southport project, called Promenade, is designed to put the 222 units onto 18.3 acres, with a homeowners association and a gym, pool and event room.
Mandarich used as an example his development of gated properties in other cities, which helped him reach a "higher profile" of buyer.
[adrotate banner="37″] "We went to the city and said 'Look, when you are buttoned up against an arterial road, like Southport Parkway, you need gates. The consumers don't want to go onto (their) roads and feel invaded by people with easy access. You put gates on it, it's a beautiful project. . . The nature of our business is to build nice, boutique projects."
(Comments cited in this article come from the city's video feed of the council meeting.)
Mayor Cabaldon asked him if the project would be viable without gates. After a pause, Mandarich answered:
"We can have a project that is viable without gates. We don't think it will be successful, but it could be viable."
Cabaldon explained that gated communities are not in his vision of West Sacramento – although the city has one higher-end gated subdivision called The Rivers as well as a gated apartment complex and a gated cluster of homes on Bastone Court. Cabaldon said the city leaders essentially held their nose when approving the gate at the Rivers (which is open during the day to preserve public access to the river) back in 1996, when the project was known as Lighthouse. Said Cabaldon:
"There was widespread universal opposition in the community to the concept that a community which is full of neighborhoods which had been divided from one another repeatedly by the railroad tracks, by the freeway, and by the ship channel would voluntarily start to carve itself up, and this was offensive to the residents of West Sacramento."
The council approved that gated community largely because it had inherited a development deal partly negotiated in advance by county officials, he recalled.
Mandarich, the Promenade developer, said that gating a community helped his target homeowners (such as single women raising children, and retirees) to feel safer.
Cabaldon said that whether gates improve safety is, at best, unclear in the research.
"These studies show that gated communities result in lower amounts of community participation, lower levels of community cohesion, a higher psychological sense of segregation – none of the things we are trying to accomplish," said the mayor. "Personally, as I was in 1996, I am very opposed to the idea that we would approve gates."
The city doesn't currently have a formal policy about gated communities in the city.
Other opinions on the council varied as the five-member body deliberated about Promenade.
Council member Bill Kristoff liked the fact that the single-family project would take place instead of an apartment complex, which was what the zoning seemed to call for.
"I like the fact that it's not an apartment complex," he said. "I don't have a problem if it is gated."
Kristoff did worry about the smaller setbacks (the close distances between the homes and their neighbors) that was being proposed to accommodate the high-density housing.
Council member Beverly Sandeen worried that gating the project would be "about segregating and not having the open world that we love and cherish in West Sac."
"I have been and will continue to be opposed to gating," she said.
Council member Mark Johannessen called the design "a decent project for the city," adding that he is "not really dead set against gating."
Colleague Chris Ledesma said that you can have a high density project along a busy road – like the projects at Metro Place or Ironworks in West Sacramento – and it can work without a gate.
"What worries me about gated communities is the sense of segregation they do tend to breed, that somehow they are separate from the rest of the community and somehow they're entitled," said Ledesma.
Ledesma joined Johanessen and Cabaldon in worrying also about the precedent set by allowing this project to take a piece of land zoned for apartments and substitute a project with lower densities. They worried about "having to make it up later," changing the zoning in other city properties in order to meet home-building commitments to the region and to the state, and in order to put enough people in the city's "villages" to support community shopping and retail opportunities.
Kristoff seemed more defensive of low-density construction as a rule:
"One of the things I think we need to also remember is that if everything is high density, it is a slum, and it becomes one very quickly," said Kristoff. "We have seen it built time and time again in other major cities. There needs to be that balance of higher density and lower density."
Cabaldon rebutted that the reason you can ride a horse to the Target store in West Sacramento is because the high density developments that supported Target were built near the horse-owning properties.
The policy question about density was tabled for another day.
When Ledesma made a motion to support Promenade – but without a gate – the motion passed with a majority vote. (Editor's update: the final vote included a 'no' from Bill Kristoff and 'ayes' from the other four members of the council.)
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Knitting for the world
By Al Zagofsky
Vona Giese of West Sacramento wondered if it was a prank when the caller said, "Hi, I'm the costume designer for the NCIS television show."
(SPOILER ALERT: If you're an NCIS fan, you may wish to skip the next paragraph).
She asked Vona that to make a couple of pairs of finished booties and another couple of partially finished booties for an upcoming episode. In the episode, the forensic scientist, Abigail "Abby" Sciuto, is expecting a child and knitting booties.
The designer discovered Vona by searching the Internet and discovering her Giese DesiGns online store where she sells he hand-knitted fingerless gloves, mittens, scarves, booties, and hats for babies, kids and adults.
Through her Internet store, Vona has sold her knitted goods to customers in the United Kingdom and Australia, and in every state except Hawaii—where, she explained, "They really don't need woolen booties."
Unexpectedly, her most popular item is fingerless gloves. "They like it because the tips of their fingers are free so they can use their cell phones and can do texting," she explained. "They use them to ride their bikes. Some high-tech offices are kept very cold to keep the equipment chilled, so they can still use the keyboard and keep their hands warm."
Vona is a native of the Northern California town of Covelo. Her mother and grandmother loved to sew, crochet and knit, although they never taught her to knit; she was self taught—learning from a book and asking questions of her mom's friend when she could not quite figure it out.
"My mom always sewed," Vona noted, "and she taught me how to sew. I sewed from the time I was six or seven. I started out making potholders and dishcloths."
"She had a Brother portable electric sewing machine. When I was real small, before I learned to sew, she had a Singer treadle machine."
One day, a traveling salesman came to town selling sewing machines. "My dad asked my mom if she would like a sewing machine."
Her mom said, "The treadle machine I have works perfectly fine."
"He turned around and gives it to her," Vona said. "He had already bought it."
Vona started knitting at age 9, and by high school, she had a side business making Barbie doll outfits: dresses, boots, hats and skating outfits for one or two dollars each.
"I had a blast," she said. "My 4-H teacher contacted the local television station and I was on news. But I never saw it because there was a big storm and the power was off. That was before we had VCRs."
After receiving an Art degree from Sacramento State College, Vona returned to Covelo, and for ten years operated Country Crafts and Yardage. But when the local economy waned, she returned to Sacramento to study Home Economics—hoping to teach.
Her timing was poor. "The schools were closing their programs in home economics," she explained. "So I took jobs in fabric stores, alteration places, and selling and making dresses for porcelain dolls."
Later, she met and married Del, a retired Air Force serviceman whose hobbies are running marathons—he's completed 80, and tending his garden—he's a master gardener.
After some time in Utah, they settled in West Sacramento. Now Vona works several craft fairs each year, sells her knitting on her web site, and has been teaching knitting at the West Sacramento Community Center.
She sells about 200 knitted items a year through her web site and at craft fairs. Sometimes, she thinks that she could sell more.
"But I would have to work a lot harder," Vona concluded. "It's probably fine about the way it is now, so Del and I can have time to
do things together."
Vona Giese's knitting can be viewed at: http://www.artfire.com/ext/shop/home/giesedeseigns, and at: https://www.etsy.com/shop/giesedeseigns.
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Springfield board approves agreement with biomass developer
SPRINGFIELD A key provision of the new agreement between the town of Springfield and the developers of the proposed biomass plant in North Springfield involves a $3 million payment to build a new access road to serve the project.
But the $3 million would be part of a tax stabilization agreement between the town and the North Springfield Sustainable Energy Project, and would in essence be an advance payment toward those taxes, Town Manager Robert Forguites said Tuesday.
Forguites said the $3 million would not be in addition to property taxes the 35-megawatt project is expected to pay. The project has been estimated as high as $170 million to half that, so until the project is built and assessed, it is difficult to say how much it would ultimately pay in taxes, Forguites said.
Forguites said he expected the biomass plant, if built, would increase Springfields Grand List by 15 percent. He said it is currently at about $660 million.
The Springfield Select Board voted 4-1 in favor of the memorandum of understanding between the town and North Springfield Sustainable Energy Project, a joint venture of Winstanley Enterprises and Weston Solutions.
Voting against the agreement was Select Board member Michael Knoras, who told fellow board members at Monday nights meeting he wanted some changes made in the agreement. Knoras couldnt be reached for comment Tuesday.
Select Board member David Yesman said he had originally proposed the board approve the agreement conditionally, with some changes incorporated regarding protection of the aquifer in North Springfield, with final approval set for the boards next meeting in mid-July.
But Yesman said Tuesday he withdrew his motion because he realized that the town had no power to enforce what he was seeking that is up to the Agency of Natural Resources.
Forguites said the project would give $1.5 million upfront to the town to build the access road. They would still pay taxes under the tax stabilization plan, which has not been finalized yet, he said.
The $3 million would be a credit toward its first 10 years of taxes, he said.
They would still be paying a sizeable amount of taxes, Forguites said.
At Monday nights meeting, at least one resident urged the board not to enter into a tax stabilization agreement with the project, noting it wasnt a clean industry and wouldnt create many jobs.
Forguites said the Southern Windsor County Regional Planning Commission was working on its own memorandum of understanding with the project to address regional issues such as truck traffic and access routes.
The biomass developers already have an option on one of two properties they would need to build the new access road from Route 10 to the North Springfield Industrial Park.
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Pics: Doc Gooden at Mo's then awesome seats at Citi!
I can't lie–the "event" was rather anemic. Mitchell Modell talked to us a bit, Doc took the mike for about two minutes, and then the Modell's fan bunch posed for a group pic with Doc before heading on the bus.
But I got some cool pics, and so I'll share them here! A few other bloggerati were there too, including Coop of My Summer Family, Corey of Metsie, John of Metstradamus, and Adam of Brooklyn Met Fan. Check out their links on the right-hand sidebar!
After the group photo op with Doc, I threw my camera at Coop, snuck in at his side, and ambushed in a pic with him. Looks like that chick on the other side had the same idea. Too bad I don't look better in it!
I went straight from the event to Citi Field, where I had some time to kill before Tracy came with the tickets, so I took a couple pictures of funny fan bricks…and a funny man. Coop says she's seen him at Shea before; I have not. He's…colorful. And so is his poor dog. Anyone else seen this character before?
When Tracy arrived, and she got the tickets she had been offered–for free!–we realized they weren't in the 500s, as we all thought. They were on field level. My seat was Section 125 (flush with 2nd), row 8. I have never sat 8 rows back at a baseball game before. I was in heaven. As Dykstraw said, "Don't curse, we're in the classy seats."
So here are some pics from last night's (Wednesday's) game, the 2nd ever at Citi Field, with Good Ollie on the mound and an exciting win from our boys. (As I write this, the team ends what I thought might just be a 9th inning rally to win tonight's game. Alas, John Maine looked great to begin with, but had a nasty inning there. The boys could make it up to us next series with a sweep!)
Click here for the full Wednesday photo album–lots of cool, close-up pics of the players and the ballpark!
We also checked out the Acela Club briefly, and it's certainly an attractive place to eat a meal, and if you can catch a spot near the window a decent place to watch the game. But all in all, I preferred watching the game outside. Still, here are some pics for the curious!
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Wow! Thanks for sharing your pictures. Citi Field is looking great; just another excuse to visit New York! I think the "World Peace, World Series" quote is brilliant. Looks like a fun park.
That's so cool! Sorry, but I was really happy that my Padres won the series🙂 It was a lot of fun, but I'm sure you guys wil get your wins.
I'm upset I didn't get a picture when I was walking in yesterday, but there is a brick, more towards the right site, that says "Step on me for a Mets win"
Ha, I also saw a brick with "Rub here for luck."
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Authorities say a 17-year-old Michigan boy was fatally shot in rural Central Indiana, as he and his father and three siblings were playing paintball in a wooded area.
Indiana conservation officers say Brandon J. Spangler of Flushing, Mich., was pronounced dead at the scene southeast of Indianapolis shortly after noon Friday. He was in Indiana visiting during school break with his father, Mark Spangler, Greenwood, according to a news release from the Indiana Department of Natural Resources.
The shooting occurred in a wooded area near County Road 550 West, about three miles south of Ind. 44, in Shelby County.
Shelby County Deputy Coroner Robby Stonebreaker pronounced the boy dead at the scene of one or more gunshot wounds.
The investigation is continuing, but authorities said it was believed Mark Spangler and four children, including the shooting victim, had permission to use the wooded area for paintball activities, according to the release.
Witnesses told investigators that the gunshots came from an area home. The father and surviving children were taken to a hospital for observation.
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Company adapts for shale gas industry
SPRUCE CREEK – A local hospitality company has formed a new division to further its involvement in the shale gas industry.
In anticipation of Act 9, which requires unconventional well operators to install specifically designed signs at the entrance of every unconventional well, Unconventional Well Pad Signs, a division of HomeWaters Retreats, was formed to design, manufacture and install signs in a quick, cost-effective way.
Unconventional gas wells extract gas through hydraulic fracturing.
Production of the signs began in mid-January at the HomeWaters site on Riverside Drive, said Troy Beaver, director of shale gas business development at HomeWaters.
"As active members of the Marcellus Shale Coalition, we wanted to bring our sign production experience and dedication to the unconventional gas business to help E&P [exploration and production] operating companies be proactive when it came to Act 9," Troy Beaver said.
HomeWaters has been involved with the shale gas industry by hosting executive summits, management retreats and client appreciation events.
"Instead of going to golfing events, they come here to fish and hunt. We talked to the people and got to know their needs. We learned they needed new signs to meet all of the requirements of Act 9," Troy Beaver said.
HomeWaters had the proper background to get into the sign-making business.
"We have a strong background in print production. For nearly 15 years, our family owned and operated a printing company, BeaverPrints. We know and understand design, proofing, production, delivery and all the elements that are required to create world-class signs and deliver them on time and on budget," said HomeWaters founder Donny Beaver in a statement. "We're combining our skill sets to help E&P operators stay ahead of the compliance curve."
At the present time, about six employees are involved in the sign-making operation.
The company will make signs for companies such as Range Resources and Chesapeake Energy, Troy Beaver said.
Mirror Staff Writer Walt Frank is at 946-7467.


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Female Satyr with Tambourine, Child and a Putto, c. 1740-42
Giovanni Battista TiepoloItalian, 1696-1770
Oil on canvas, oval (one of a pair)
23-5/8 x 37-3/4 in. (60.0 x 95.9 cm)
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Tiepolo's luminous frescoes and ceiling paintings, inhabited by soaring gods and allegorical figures, earned him great fame. His fantasia, or imagination, was no less ambitious in the terrestrial zone. This oval painting was likely part of a decorative cycle found in an aristocratic Venetian palazzo. The canvases are related to Torquato Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered, a masterpiece of Italian literature that tells a tale of forbidden love and of the battle between good and evil, during the Crusades. The oval paintings, originally four in number, served as overdoors. Satyrs, half human and half goat, do not appear in the original epic poem, but their beastly nature may function as pictorial metaphor for the immoral and self-indulgent passions of two of the poem's characters, Rinaldo and Armida.
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Margaret Thatcher, the longest-serving Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of the 20th century and the only woman ever to have held the post, passed away after suffering a stroke. She was 87. NBC's Martin Fletcher looks back at the life and times of the "Iron Lady."
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, the "Iron Lady" who led a conservative resurgence in her home country and forged a legendary partnership with President Ronald Reagan, died Monday following a stroke. She was 87.
Thatcher led Britain from 1979 to 1990, the first and only woman to hold the job and longest-serving prime minister of the postwar era.
"Margaret Thatcher didn't just lead our country — she saved our country," Prime Minister David Cameron said. "Margaret Thatcher took a country that was on its knees and made Britain stand tall again."
Queen Elizabeth II planned to send a private message of sympathy to the family, said a statement from Buckingham Palace, where the Union Jack was lowered to half-staff. Cameron called Parliament back for a special session Wednesday to pay tribute.
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A pioneer for her sex, Margaret Thatcher was prime minister of the United Kingdom for almost 12 years. Take a look back at her life and career.
President Barack Obama hailed Thatcher as an exemplar of British strength and resolve and a role model for young women. Invoking Thatcher's friendship with Reagan, Obama said that she reminded the world "that we are not simply carried along by the currents of history — we can shape them with moral conviction, unyielding courage and iron will."
'True force of nature': World reacts to Thatcher's death
A grocer's daughter with a sharp tongue and a no-nonsense style, Thatcher was elected to Parliament at age 34 and climbed the Conservative Party ladder. She became its leader at age 50 and swept into 10 Downing St. four years later.
The year she took office as prime minister, Thatcher took note of her place in history: "Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country."
Ten years earlier, she had predicted that no woman in her time would hold the job of prime minister. She held it for 11 years, longer than Winston Churchill or any other British leader of her century.
Thatcher transformed the British economy and took on its welfare state and powerful unions. Her government cut, closed or privatized state-owned industries, notably struggling steel plants and coal mines, and radically cut taxes and public spending — strong medicine, she conceded, but precisely what was needed to restart a stagnant nation.
"The problem with socialism," she once said, "is that eventually you run out of other people's money."
In 1980, when fellow conservatives were fretting that her tough, anti-inflation economic policy was driving up unemployment, she addressed the prospect of whether she would make a political U-turn: "You turn if you want to. The lady's not for turning."
Under her leadership, Britain fought and won a war with Argentina for the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean — determined to preserve one of the last outposts of the British empire.
Thatcher's military worries became focused on a speck of land halfway around the world in 1982 when Argentina invaded the Falklands, a British archipelago. After American mediation attempts failed, Thatcher decided to retake the islands, a feat accomplished in a few weeks. The war was a huge boost to Thatcher's popularity.
An estimated 650 Argentinians and 255 Britons were killed in the war. Argentina still asserts a claim to the islands, but the people there overwhelmingly voted last month to remain under British control. One islander told Reuters on Monday that Thatcher was "our Winston Churchill."
Thatcher survived an assassination attempt when an Irish Republican Army bomb exploded at a Conservative Party conference in the British city of Brighton in 1984, killing five people and injuring a cabinet minister, among others. Thatcher gave the keynote speech hours later and said: "This attack has failed. All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail."
She took on the British coal industry, nationalized and seen as politically untouchable. The coal union had brought down the government of another conservative, Edward Heath, with a strike a decade earlier, and coal workers walked off the job again in 1984 after the Thatcher government announced job cuts.
During the strike, she told the House of Commons: "We had to fight the enemy without in the Falklands. We always have to be aware of the enemy within, which is much more difficult to fight and more dangerous to liberty."
Thatcher, anticipating the confrontation, had stockpiled coal to keep the country's energy supply humming. The strike collapsed in March 1985.
Former London Mayor Ken Livingstone, of the Labour Party, told Sky News on Monday that Thatcher's economic regime was to blame for many of the problems that Britain still faces.
"She created today's housing crisis. She created the banking crisis. And she created the benefits crisis," he said. "In actual fact, every real problem we face today is the legacy of the fact that she was fundamentally wrong."
Thatcher had a well-known friendship with Reagan during his two terms as president in the 1980s. They shared an allegiance to free-market principles and opposition to the Soviet Union.
Thatcher recalled in her memoir, "The Downing Street Years," that she met Reagan in 1975, when she led the political opposition in Britain and Reagan was the ascendant governor of California. She said that she was won over by his "warmth, charm and complete lack of affectation — qualities which never altered in the years of leadership which lay ahead."
When Reagan died, in 2004, Thatcher delivered a recorded eulogy and said: "We have lost a great president, a great American and a great man. And I have lost a dear friend."
Nancy Reagan on Monday said the world had lost "a true champion of freedom and democracy." She said that Thatcher and her late husband had a strong personal friendship.
"From the very beginning, the first time they met," Nancy Reagan said in a telephone interview on the MSNBC program "Andrea Mitchell Reports." "She was at the first state dinner we had at the White House, and the last state dinner was for her."
Thatcher was forced out of office by her own party in 1990, unhappy with some of her policies. Her reduction of British social spending also earned her the scorn of some pop culture figures and helped spawn the British punk movement. Billy Bragg and Sinead O'Connor lashed out in song, and Morrissey recorded a track called "Margaret on the Guillotine."
Meryl Streep, who won an Oscar for her portrayal of the former prime minister in "The Iron Lady," said that Thatcher had endured hatred and ridicule unprecedented for "a public figure who was not a mass murderer." While praising her conviction, however, Streep suggested that Thatcher had contributed to a widening income gap.
"Her hard-nosed fiscal measures took a toll on the poor, and her hands-off approach to financial regulation led to great wealth for others," Streep said in a statement. She said that she would leave history to settle the matter of Thatcher's greatness.
Thatcher played polarizing role in pop culture
The mayor of London, Boris Johnson, said Monday that Thatcher's views had been vindicated — on unions, on communism and on the movement toward European political integration, of which she was extremely skeptical and urged Britain to stay out.
"The country is deeply in her debt," Johnson said. "Her memory will live long after the world has forgotten the grey suits of today's politics."
Her successor as prime minister, John Major, said that Thatcher's economic reforms and the British victory in the Falklands War "elevated her above normal politics, and may not have been achieved under any other leader."
Former President George W. Bush said that Thatcher guided Britain with confidence and clarity.
"Prime Minister Thatcher is a great example of strength and character, and a great ally who strengthened the special relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States," he said in a statement.
Thatcher's daughter said in 2008 that she had been suffering from dementia for eight years, and had to be reminded that her husband was dead.
Margaret Hilda Roberts was born Oct. 13, 1925. At the hand of her grocer father, she later said, she learned both thrift and capitalist principles.
"Before I read a line from the great liberal economists," she wrote, "I knew from my father's accounts that the free market was like a vast sensitive nervous system, responding to events and signals all over the world to meet the ever-changing needs of peoples in different countries, from different classes, of different religions, with a kind of benign indifference to their status."
Cameron's office said that Thatcher would receive a ceremonial funeral with military honors at St. Paul's Cathedral.
Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
British Prime Minister David Cameron expresses his sorrow at the death of Baroness Margaret Thatcher, who passed away at 87 after suffering a stroke. NBC's Michelle Kosinski reports.
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A fire at a farm near Sleepy Eye in southern Minnesota destroyed a dairy barn and the livestock inside.
The fire was reported around 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, and firefighters battled the blaze for at least three hours.
The Journal of New Ulm reports that officials say the farm's owners, Ben and Jenny Fischer, reported losing approximately 20 to 25 cows, 20 embryos and an unknown number of calves and other equipment. The cause of the fire has not yet been released.
Although no serious injuries to people were reported, the owners and their son were taken to a hospital to be checked out for what were described as minor issues.
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On Tuesday, July 16 2013 the Village of Liberty Police Department arrested two brothers, Ryan J. Eck and Bryan J. Eck both 22 and of Livingston Manor, after an investigation into a residential burglary in the Village of Liberty.
Police began investigating on Monday, July 15 2013 around 11 a.m. when they received reports of two men walking in the roadway and attempting to stop passing vehicles and open their car doors.
Police responded and located the two men walking on Lake Street.
They were found to be in possession of illegal prescription controlled substances. Further investigation revealed that the two men had stolen the prescriptions, cash and a lawn mower from a residence on Carrier Street.
Both men were charged with burglary in the 2nd degree a felony, petit larceny, criminal possession of a controlled substance in the 7th degree and criminal possession of stolen property in the 5th degree, misdemeanors. Both men were arraigned in the Town of Liberty Court and remanded to Sullivan County Jail in lieu of $15,000 bail (Bryan J. Eck) and $12,500 bail (Ryan J. Eck).


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Back by Popular Demand - NOAH at the Sight & Sound Theater in Lancaster.
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Look at all that's included for this Very Special Price: Reserved evening seats for "NOAH", family style dinner at Plain & Fancy, overnight accommodations at the lovely Cork Factory Hotel in Lancaster, PA. Breakfast the next morning, some shopping fun at Kitchen Kettle Village. Behind-the-Scenes tour of the making of NOAH - very interesting. A lunch at Hometown Kitchen before we depart Lancaster and head back home.
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Your lodging is included on all overnight tours. All hotels are AAA rated. We never use second-rate hotels, restaurants, or activities on any tour, to the best of our ability to make that determination. Payment of telephone calls, room service, and other incidentals at places of lodging are the responsibility of the customer.
One suitcase per person is included in the price of your tour. You are also permitted a carry-on, which is your responsibility. Additional luggage may be transported at the cost of $5.00 per bag, per day. It is wise to travel light. Luggage tags are provided and required for hotel identification, and are sent with the final letter with the phone numbers of your hotels.
All taxes and gratuities for included meals and activities are included, unless otherwise mentioned by the Escort. Driver and Escort gratuities are not included in the price of the tour, and are optional. However, the suggested gratuity as posted by the American Bus Assoc. for a job well done is $2.00-$2.50 per person/per day for the tour escort, and $2.00-$2.50 per person/per day for the driver. We request that you express this on an individual basis, and let the quality of service received be your guide.
On all overnight tours, we use a daily seat rotation. The first day of a trip, we allow you to choose your seat when you get on, and rotate from there. We feel this is fair to all involved. If the coach is not full, a less formal rotation may be used at escorts discretion.
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School Showcase Poster Sessions
The School Showcase Poster Sessions are new this year and are intended to disseminate information and promote a school's achievements. Displays can focus on such things as a program that makes the school unique, grant activities and accomplishments, community service projects, and much more.
Please visit the displays in the Universal Center as you enjoy breakfast on Wednesday morning.
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