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text: Kristine Bellino [ Fatal Motorcycle Accident In Leroy By Kristine Bellino August 5, 2013 A teenager from Bergen, New York is dead following a crash this weekend. Read More Category: Utica-Rome News Tags: accident, ashley stillwell, derek sheldon, fatal, genesee county sheriff's office, leroy, leroy fire department, marilyn brassie, Motorcycle, new york state police Send to a friend! Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Pin it! Reddit This! Share on Tumblr!


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MCLEAN, VIRGINIA -- This is to report to you the most unsatisfactory results of a conversation with one of Cap One's customer reps. The call was in reference to my wife's difficulties in depositing a certified bank check from her deceased mother's estate to our joint checking account with Cap One via our desktop computer. My wife is wheelchair dependent and thus has great difficulty using ATM machines which are notoriously ADA unfriendly.
Her first attempt at depositing this check on 4/27 resulted in the a "not accepted" message on 4/28 since she unknowingly used a checking account not in our joint names. This prompted me to call customer service on 4/29; after explaining the situation to your rep, he emailed me 2 methods for her to redeposit the check. After attempting to do this via her personal log-in, she received the same "not accepted" message.
My 20 minute conversation with Cap One's second customer representative on 4/30 was most unhelpful since he spent 15 minutes talking to his "supervisor" before he could respond to even the simplest question. He then accused me of "trying to commit fraud " by assisting my handicapped wife, which prompted me to disconnect the conversation. On May 1 I learned from my local bank that Cap One's customer service representative had filed a notice in my name with "Early Warning Services" in Scottsdale AZ, which constitutes malicious discriminatory action on the part of Cap One.
Furthermore, I received a message that both of our accounts "are not available for withdrawal". This "frozen" account has so far cost me in excess of $100.00 in additional charges from businesses which are authorized to withdraw their monthly charges from my Cap One account and which have since been denied. A certified letter to the president of this "bank" has received no response whatsoever. The proper name for this robobank is (AL) CAPONE!
RICHMOND, VA -- I received good service when deposited money. However, when I needed to transfer money - I faced the problem. For 2 weeks I get no help from anybody at Capital One. It is not possible to transfer - I get advice to contact customer service. Customer service is not reachable. I am trying to contact for 2 weeks - on hold forever. It seems that bank is just holding your money without any possibility to transfer or use. We also tried to write to BBB, no answer from Capital One. Headquarters also do not answer any phones. Do not use this bank. They are just robbers.
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA -- For no valid reason (always paid on time, and had credit scores in the high 700's)... Once I actually used the card for a big purchase, Capital One just decided to raise my interest rate from 9% to 14.9%. Of course, when I called to complain, I got some minimal wage call taker who "couldn't do anything" and said it was probably due to my credit score! Ah, yes, my credit score which is 88% above everyone else in the country!
And they did this to a policeman's widow... So any of their so called "charity donations" are just for tax write offs; they obviously don't care and are out to suck the money out of whoever they can. Just paid them off, and relished cutting up their credit card. Will never, ever trust them again... Now, their logo and commercials actually repulse me. Just a bad company who deserves to go under.
MASSACHUSETTS -- Capital ONE A COMPANY NOT TO BANK ON. A few years ago I had a Capital One CC for my business, I used this account for a decade. My bank sent a check automatically every 30 days to cover the minimum, this allowed me to pay the balance at my leisure and was usually paid in full two to three weeks after the automatic bank payment.
I am traveling and I checked into a hotel and my Capital One card gets rejected. I called Capital One to find out what the problem was, they told me I was late on a payment. The Balance on my Capital One account was Fifteen Dollars, they had received a One Hundred Dollar check and another check for over Two Thousand Dollars within three weeks of this phone call. They refused to reactivate the card until I could make the fifteen dollar payment, they actually said that this was due to a new Massachusetts regulation.
They had no problem leaving me stranded, fortunately I have an outstanding credit rating and used another line of credit. Now they send me junk mail five times a week telling me they want my business, what a joke. Vote with your feet when you get bad service from a company.
RICHMOND, OHIO -- I received a phone call from Capital one, asking if I had applied for a credit card - I told them "No". They informed me that someone HAD applied for a card, using MY information and they suspected that it was fraud - thus the call. They gave me the phone numbers of three credit reporting agencies to call, telling me to inform them that someone had applied for a credit card, fraudulently, in my name. They explained that this COULD hurt my credit. They then assured me that they would take care of the matter and no card would be sent to me.
Today, I received a letter for Capital One congratulating me on becoming a Capital One Credit card member with a $5,000 credit line, my card will arrive in a week or so. They gave a number that I could call - NO reference number - nothing. When I called (and I was on the phone for close to an hour and a half) ALL they wanted was my social security number! Saying THAT was the ONLY way they could look up the card. Of course they had my name, phone number and address, but just HAD to have my social security number? Certainly I didn't give it to them.
I think they are crooks. My husband DOES have a Capital One credit card and has had for years - After all this today, he cancelled his card. Also, we could barely understand ANYONE we talked to. Do they NOT hire Americans anymore?
VIRGINIA -- Once again I am on hold with Capital One. This time I am at 31 minutes and counting. I changed insurance companies 3 months ago, but they won't reevaluate my escrow to lower my payments. I have had only bad experiences with Capital One.
When I needed help making my payments during the financial crisis, they asked me if making a higher payment would help me out. When I tried to make up the difference by being on a payment plan, the took 10 days to process my final payment that they required me to send by mail. Then they accessed $1200.00 in late fees. Horrible, predatory company. Please don't do business with them. They are very large and once they have you, they will take advantage of you at every turn.
I flew into Phoenix airport and would have to rent a car to go and visit my son, who is stationed in So. Arizona. Well the girl at the rental car place zipped my card thru for the $300 rental and then said "Oh no, I forgot to add the deposit amount of $150." I said, "no problem, I have cash," and she said "No it has to be on same card in the same transaction," so she credited the $300 and ran thru at $450. Well credit is not immediate and this all went over my limit.
So now I have no rental car. "But wait we have a guy who does rentals on the side for cash, I'm sure he can help you out." They told me I could rent a car for $450 cash thru him. I said, "I'm going to call Capital One." They told me it was a waste of time. I called and told them my situation and got connected to some awesome people who got everything straightened out. They had to talk with the rental car manager and instructed me NOT to hang up until I had the keys in my had. What could of been a nightmare worked out great and I had a wonderful vacation with my son and his wife. Thank you Capital One.
DENVER, COLORADO -- I received a Capital One cc and all was well for years with them. I paid more than my minimum balance due, causing my credit limit to rise. In 2012, I was laid off and for 2 years, still managed to pay at the very least my minimum payment. Then, in 2014 for 3 months, I couldn't pay anything as my unemployment ran out and I wasn't working any temp jobs. When I began working again in July 2014 I began to pay my bill down by paying $50.00 twice a month.
Finally, in October of 2014, I called "customer service" to ask when the restriction would be removed. Since the representative didn't know she had to get her supervisor who told me it was permanent and all I could do was close the account and apply for another one with them!!! When I asked them why they did not contact me to tell me so, he stated, "We just don't do that." Do not use Capital one, they are the most useless overcharging, ignorant scam artists I have ever dealt with!!!
1680 CAPITAL ONE DRIVE, VIRGINIA -- Fine. Since you people need it spelled out for you, and you don't want to take my word for it that this institution is the absolute epitome of incompetence, here goes: On Tuesday, September 14, 2010, a mere 24 hours after capital one's takeover of Chevy Chase savings bank, I happened to go to my local branch's atm to take out a mere $40 from my savings account. When the balance slip came out, I nearly passed out. It said there was only $7,300 in there when I knew there was over $33,000 in there. I immediately called these new "owners" of the bank and could not believe what I was told.
Here I'm using my atm card to take money out of my savings account and these clowns told me that the $40 came out of one of my parents' accounts. How ridiculous is that!! And the reason why? Just because two weeks earlier, we added my name to five of their accounts for the only reason being so I could call the bank and ask questions on their behalf. That's it. My dad is 92. My mom is 88. They don't hear or see too well so I'm trying to help them out. There was never any request or any mention whatsoever of the mingling of my parents' funds with mine. What were they thinking? Oh, yeah, that's right! They weren't!
In October of 2010, my mom went into the bank and changed one of their savings accounts to capital one's "simple savings" in order to get that better 1.1% apy when she was previously getting some joke amount of .25%. So when we got the november statement, the rate was quoted on the statement sheet as being .7%. We made that first call to customer service who told us she was in fact getting 1.1%. They had no explanation as to why their own paperwork clearly said .7%. The december statement came and the same thing happened.
We finally called the local branch manager that my mom deals with to find out what was going on. She admitted to me that upon calling capital one's "customer advocacy" group that there were errors that were providing incorrect information on statements. In november of 2010, they had the wrong social security number for my mom on a cd confirmation mailing. We then called both their "800" customer service number and the local branch manager who assured us that it was only wrong on that cd page, but that their system had the correct number which was confirmed with them on the phone.
So three weeks ago, when my mom got the 1099 in the mail, it still had the wrong social security number. Like it's not bad enough that these idiots had the wrong number on internal paperwork -- now, they're giving the feds the wrong number, too!
What kind of normal bank does not have "transfer" slips? My mom has to do a number of transfer transactions between a checking account and one of my dad's money market accounts that receives electronic deposits of some morgan stanley dividend checks. Every time she has to go in to the branch and fill out a withdrawal slip from the money market, a deposit slip to the checking and ends up receiving three receipts she has to deal with. What a pain!
I could go on, but for what purpose? On the afternoon of february 10, 2011, I made three attempts at calling the office of capital one president and ceo richard fairbank. I know for a fact that his office is right here in mclean, va, the main office for capital one. When I called the main number of 703-720-1000, I specifically asked to be connected to the assistant to richard fairbank. I'm not stupid enough to ask for fairbank himself. Each of the three times I was calling this local mclean, va corp. office, I was connected to a "senior customer service" person either in dallas, texas or other such venue five states away! I highly resent that.
Whenever I have called any ceo's office, I can always be connected to the assistant. So after that miserable treatment, that fine evening of february 10, 2011, I filed an online complaint with the feds -- the office of the comptroller of the currency. That's the group under the treasury department that oversees national banks since the fdic is not over capital one. I believe they need to send their bank examiners into this asylum and do a thorough investigation into the blatant incompetence of this group.
On monday, february 14, I got called by someone at capital one in texas who basically gave me a half-baked apology, saying they would correct my mom's 1099 asap, but hey, what are they going to do about all the other things? The damage is done. Best thing for us to do is simply close out our nine accounts and be gone from these jerks!
LAUREL, MARYLAND -- After I refinanced my mortgage I changed my auto-payment on the Chevy Chase Bank website to stop paying my mortgage automatically to Capital One (which owns Chevy Chase Bank) because I had refinanced with another lender. However, the "cancel payment" order apparently only applied to a single month, and a month later Capital One auto-deducted a payment of over $1,500.00 from my account. When I saw this deduction had taken place, I called Capital One two days later to tell them this payment had been made in error.
They said that although my checking account showed the deduction, they had no record that they had received the payment (electronically... between their checking division and mortgage division. No record). They said they couldn't resolve it until they showed it had been received. At the end of the week I called again. Now they said the payment had been processed on the day I called, AFTER I called and reported it was an error, but they would not refund it for ten business days because it was their policy to hold all funds for that amount of time before releasing them.
They said it did not matter that I had called before the payment was received, or that the account was closed; it was their policy to hold all funds for ten business days regardless and the money would be refunded to me by check in two weeks (ten business days plus weekends). On the Monday after the supposed "release date," I called to confirm that the check had been mailed. I was given a runaround and the woman kept telling me it was their policy to hold it for ten business days, and then it took the mail 3-5 days to arrive.
She kept repeating this over and over, even after I said multiple times that I understood that and all I wanted was for them to tell me it had been mailed. She said they showed no record of that, but that she would do research and call me back. Needless to say she didn't, so the next day I called back. This time I was told that not only had it not been mailed, but that only the previous day it had been sent to the cash department for processing.
I asked how this was possible because I had called twice before to discuss the problem with them and had been told each time, by multiple individuals, that the problem was on their records and that according to their policies it would be refunded on a specific date. I was told by the service person that she didn't know why, and that she had no time frame for the refund of my money, but that the process of refunding it had just begun the day before.
Now it's 19 days later and even though they have no account associated with these funds, no right or reason to hold it according to their own policies, they're holding it anyway, apparently because they can and won't tell me when or if I'll get it back. They're being bullies, in essence, just for the sake of it. The attitude is, "What are you going to do about it?" I could really use that $1,500, but no amount of calling and explaining or arguing with them is making them give it back. They don't want to, so they won't.
I've been a Chevy Chase Bank customer for over ten years and I actually refinanced that mortgage after they were bought by Capital One specifically because Capital One introduced a bunch of nasty, harassing policies relating to their mortgage division (in short: if I didn't pay by the first of the month, they called to harass me and ask "if you plan to pay your mortgage this month," even though I've never been late and always pay within the grace period, which is completely legal and fine).
I didn't want to do business with them anymore after that, but this is simply a nightmare-- I knew they were bad, but not THIS bad. I'd warn anybody reading this to stay far away from Chevy Chase Bank and Capital One. It's really been a learning experience for me about just how corrupt a bank can be.


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(AP) -- All anyone wanted to talk to Boise State coach Chris Petersen about before this season began was his situation at wide receiver.
Gone were Titus Young and Austin Pettis to the NFL, taking with them most of the Boise State record book as the two most lauded receivers in school history.
No one remembered Tyler Shoemaker was still around - until now.
Shoemaker is coming off a career-high three touchdown catches last week against Toledo as the fourth-ranked Broncos return home to host Tulsa on Saturday night. He's already got four TD receptions in two games, nearly his entire total from last season when Shoemaker was Kellen Moore's third or fourth receiving option.
Very quickly, and not unexpectedly, Shoemaker's turned into touchdown option No. 1 for the Broncos.
"He's had the experience much more than the other guys, he's been through a lot, he knows so much of the field," Moore said. "He's a guy we can really put anywhere, he'll know the concept and he'll do it pretty well."
Before the season, Petersen had bigger concerns about how he'd fill holes on his defense than he did about his receivers. Pettis and Young combined for 142 catches and 19 touchdowns last season, but before the emergence of the two future draft picks, most of Boise State's success the prior decade had come with a receiver by committee approach.
And the Broncos thrived in that time with receivers just like Shoemaker; perhaps not the biggest or fastest targets, but receivers who are precise and aware in an offense that relies on timing and recognition.
How much of a committee has it been through the Broncos' first two wins? Shoemaker has just six catches in two games. Freshman Matt Miller and junior Mitch Burroughs both lead the Broncos with 11 catches each. Starting running back Doug Martin is next with eight, but tight ends Kyle Efaw and Gabe Linehan have 13 combined receptions and two touchdowns.
"It has been a motivation. We heard a lot of talk in the offseason about losing Austin and Titus and who the ball was going to go to and we decided as a group that it's not going to be a one-person show this year and we know that. Every game there might be a different person that's really stepping up," Shoemaker said. "You've just got to be ready to take advantage of the opportunities when they come and just continue to get better as a group."
The emergence of Shoemaker in Boise's first two games was made more important by the continuing saga of wide receiver Geraldo Boldewijn. Originally from the Netherlands, Boldewijn has been held out of the Broncos' first two games along with defensive tackle Ricky Tjong-A-Tjoe due to NCAA eligibility questions.
Although still raw with limited football experience, the 6-foot-4 Boldewijn was expected to be one of Moore's main targets. There's been no movement on Boldewijn or Tjong-A-Tjoe's status, although a fellow Dutch player, safety Cedric Febis, was cleared in time to play last Friday at Toledo.
The Broncos haven't missed Boldewijn yet. Shoemaker's three TDs against Toledo was a first for a Boise State player since fullback Dan Paul caught a trio of TD passes against Nevada in 2009. Shoemaker had a sterling debut to his college career with two TD catches back in 2008 against Idaho State, but couldn't remember ever having three in a game.
"I just try to be there for Kellen. I know he's going to be looking for open targets and a lot of stuff we're doing on offense," Shoemaker said. "I just happen to be the guy but I know I really have to thank those other guys for getting us down there close."


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Sweet Rewards of Fair Trade Sugar
Guest post from Sarah Minarik, Business Development Manager
This guest blog post comes to us from Sarah Minarik, Business Development Manager at Fair Trade USA. Sarah works hard every day to create business opportunities that transform the lives of farmers and farm workers around the world. Read on to learn more about her visit with sugar cane farmers near San Ramón in Costa Rica.
Let's take a few seconds to envision one aspect of an ideal world - a world where both the farmer that grows our food and the consumer who eats it are happy and healthy as a result of a thriving symbiotic relationship. Unfortunately for most, this ideal is often not met. Crops are regularly grown with pesticides and agro-chemicals creating an unsavory and unhealthy product and farming is hard work, with long hours and pay that barely allows farming families to subsist. The good news is Fair Trade aims to change that reality. One thing that became clear during our recent visit to Costa Rica is that Fair Trade, through its rigorous standards, is supporting healthy, happy and proud farming communities.
COOPECANERA (Cooperativa Cañera de San Ramón), a sugar cooperative in the rolling hills outside of San Ramón, is just one example of how farmers thrive when they are part of a Fair Trade community.
Meet Jesus Maria Vargas Alvarado. He is a sugar cane farmer. He is a father of 9. He is 72 and President of the Fair Trade Administrative Council. He is a happy man – despite the grimace.
As we toured Jesus's farm, we saw a lot of what you would expect – subsistence crops, animals, compost. The farm seemed to be flourishing, which begged the question – How is Fair Trade helping this well-established farmer? Well, it is important to understand that if my view is a snapshot, we are seeing the 'AFTER Fair Trade' photo, the result of how Fair Trade has impacted Jesus and his family. And, as Jesus pointed out, the differences may be subtle, but they run deep.
Before Fair Trade, economic stability, negotiating power and transportation of the cane were all hard to come by. Without a consistent buyer and minimum price, combined with the uncertainties of crop productivity from one season to the next, planning for the future was very hard. He also had to coordinate and pay for the transportation of the cane to the processing facility, which was costly.
Fair Trade has changed that reality. Now, with a consistent buyer, minimum prices, free transportation of the cane provided by the cooperative, and Fair Trade premiums, Jesus says that Fair Trade has given him an opportunity to maintain a quality of life that allows him and his family to thrive. While much of the premiums go directly back to the farmers, the community has voted to use the premiums to contribute to community projects. These projects include maintenance and supplies for the local school and church as well as extensive training for all farmers around Fair Trade standards covering safe and sustainable farming practices.
As we finish our walk around the farm, Jesus stops for a moment. He adjusts his hat (which he always wanted to make sure looked good for the photo opp) and said:


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Ok, so I thought that next on my list was tackling some AI. I was looking at Boids Psuedocode for a flocking setup (http://www.vergenet.net/\~conrad/boids/pseudocode.html)).
Well, I set up a new project, got a background and some sprites. Im populating the list, and displaying the sprites, then with a short delay it starts updating. Problem is, only some of the entities are behaving properly, the rest dart to the bottom right hand corner. I added in a virtual 'goal' for them to attempt to get to, and as you can see in the video, a couple do, the rest do not. They're all operating off the same rules, so where am I going wrong here?
Its Rule 2 that Im having the problem in I think, since as soon as I make it return a 0,0 vector they all flock to the point they are supposed to, they just dont keep a distance from each other like rule 2 is supposed to provide. Any insights?
game1.cs - http://xna.pastebin.com/m48636854
flutterby.cs - http://xna.pastebin.com/m34f94e13
Project source if you have xna 2.0 installed - Zipped - 597kb
Video of errant behavior: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJhuRkMasxc
Anyone see where im going wrong? I think i've gone cross eyed..
With a quick glance it looks like you intended to divide the rule 2 result vector by count, but did not do so. Since this is done for rules 1 and 3 it could result in a huge bias towards rule 2.
Hi cdxrd,
First thing you should use Vector2.Distance as simply subtracting x and y does not return the correct value.
Also I think you have to take into account that the second flutte could be on the right/left or above/below I would guess that the calc should differ, ie subtracting is ok when the other is on the right side, but will bring them closer if on the left side.


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Wednesday, February 1, 2012
A New Favorite TV Show
And then I discovered Downton Abbey.
It's really, really good. I blew through the entire first season in a matter of days (I may have stayed up later than I should have in doing so). Don't let the fact that it's a PBS series scare you off.
So, is anyone else as obsessed with this show as I am?
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I am planning to start watching this through Amazon Prime. I have downloaded the first two seasons. I am fascinated by royalty and this is right down my alley.ReplyDelete
Yes, yes, yes!! My husband I both love it!ReplyDelete
I love anything they show on Masterpiece Classic! But Downton Abbey has definitely been a highlight. I also enjoyed Larkrise to Candleford and the Cranford series. You might want to check them out, too.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Jenna. I've never watched Masterpiece Classic until Downton Abbey. I'll have to see if Netflix has those others.Delete
Yes! Love it!ReplyDelete
I want to be. Can't get PBS on my tv antenna, and I am 25th in line for borrowing the first season from my library. Gosh, am I old school or what?ReplyDelete
YES YES YES!!ReplyDelete
Yes !!! we love it. My hubby was never interested in anything PBS... he's hooked now !ReplyDelete
- KareninaFebruary 2, 2012 at 6:45 AM
Yes! Love Downton Abbey!! I have Ssn 2 disc 2 & 3 on my Netflix DVD queue which comes out on Feb 7th.ReplyDelete
Oh I love Downton Abbey......Martin (my partner) would laugh at me because for a while there I would call it "Downtown Abbey" haha.....i love the story line, the fashion and the interiors. It has a big following here in Australia and we are about to start the new season soon!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 9, 2012 at 1:55 PM
Yes, I watched it within days on netflix. There is a second season on direct TV. My library has a waiting list of 64 people for the second season... seems to be awfully popular.ReplyDelete
Oh, Downton Abbey! My fiance and I are in love with it. Did you know you can watch the second season and the xmas special on Project Free TV?!? It was a dangerous discovery for me, but the second season will not let you down! just search "project free tv" and search for downton abbey on their site! ♥♥♥ReplyDeleteReplies
ooh, thanks, I'm going to have to do that.Delete
I love that :)ReplyDelete


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Errors fuel Giants' 12-inning loss to Padres
Torres' misplay sparks six-run fourth; Scutaro's allows game winner
SAN DIEGO -- Though a lot happened during the Giants' 8-7, 12-inning loss Saturday night to the Padres, the events that bridged the four-hour, 19-minute affair were easy to identify: stunning fielding errors by left fielder Andres Torres and second baseman Marco Scutaro that accounted for most of San Diego's offense.
San Francisco's season-high fourth consecutive defeat was sealed when Scutaro mishandled Nick Hundley's short-hop grounder, enabling Yonder Alonso to score the run that snapped a 7-7 tie.
But the game turned in the fourth inning, when Torres missed Carlos Quentin's catchable line drive for a two-base error. It precipitated San Diego's six-run uprising that erased the Giants' 5-0 lead.
"We're not playing as a team," Scutaro said.
He didn't mean that the reigning World Series champions are plagued by dissension. Rather, he pointed out that the Giants are enduring a period when they're not receiving sufficient pitching, offense and defense simultaneously.
"Sometimes we pitch and we don't hit; sometimes we hit and we don't pitch," Scutaro said. "It's a matter of time before we start putting all those things together. It'll be fun."
Defense actually sustained the Giants in the 11th, when right fielder Hunter Pence dove to snare pinch-hitter John Baker's fly ball with two outs and Everth Cabrera on second base. That was the last of three shtuout innings pitched by Jean Machi, the stalwart of San Francisco's bullpen in this game.
The end came quickly in the 12th. Facing Sergio Romo with one out, Alonso lashed his third double of the game. He had to hold at third base on Jedd Gyorko's hard-hit single to right field.
Up came Hundley, who smashed Romo's first pitch at Scutaro on one hop. Under normal circumstances, it probably would have been an inning-ending double-play grounder. But Scutaro was playing halfway in on the infield dirt, in case he had to try to throw out Alonso at home if Hundley hit a slow roller.
Scutaro got his glove on the ball but couldn't grab it. It trickled past him, prompting shortstop Brandon Crawford to chase it. Crawford made a desperate throw home, but by then Alonso had scored the run that sealed the Giants' fifth road loss in a row.
"I don't have any excuses. I didn't make the play," Scutaro said.
Giants manager Bruce Bochy absolved Scutaro from blame. "It was a tough hop, an in-between hop," Bochy said.
Initially, it all seemed so easy for the Giants. They opened the scoring in the second inning on Crawford's three-run homer off Padres starter Eric Stults. It was Crawford's fifth homer of the season, second among Major League shortstops behind Troy Tulowitzki's six for Colorado. After the Giants added a pair of third-inning runs, history suggested that victory should have been almost automatic for starter Barry Zito, who owned a 127-7 record when receiving at least four runs of support while he's on the mound.
Then came the fateful fourth inning. Each run except one was unearned, because Torres missed Quentin's relatively easy line drive with one out. The Padres capitalized on this reprieve as six of the next seven batters reached base safely. Two-run doubles by Alonso and Chris Denorfia sandwiched pinch-hitter Jesus Guzman's RBI single. Chad Gaudin relieved Zito and finished the inning, but not before surrendering Cabrera's single that scored Denorfia with the go-ahead run.
"I don't know what happened. I feel terrible," Torres said. "No excuses. I just missed the ball."
Said Zito, "All we ask is you do your best, and we know Torres is busting his tail as much as anyone."
Instead of criticizing Torres, Zito credited the Padres for hitting pitches that he wanted to throw.
"It's tough to tip your hat, but you have to sometimes," he said.
The exception, Zito said, was a changeup that Guzman whacked into center field.
"I've got to get it down or throw something else," he said. "It was off the plate but up in the zone."
The undaunted Giants leapfrogged San Diego in the fifth. Scutaro and Buster Posey singled before Pence tripled to right field off Anthony Bass with two outs.
San Diego pulled even in the seventh inning, when Chase Headley doubled leading off against Gaudin and scored on Blanks' single off George Kontos.
Chris Haft is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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At least once a day, Ukiah Police Chief Chris Dewey said his department has a "violent encounter" with a transient, and that he needs more officers to deal with the problems caused by the city's "homeless influx."
"(On Tuesday), we were in a violent struggle with a transient who's wrist was actually broken," Dewey told the Ukiah City Council Wednesday, providing an update to his report on the problem last year. "The transient population has continued to impact the department routinely, and we arrest three to four people a day."
Rather than just react when crimes occur, Dewey said next month his department will be launching a campaign to educate the community, particularly business owners, on how to help his department reduce the problems created by people living on the street, which include "being drunk in public, urinating and defecating in public, sleeping on (others') property," and other activities that affect residents.
"Our goal is to have the detectives visiting businesses and educating owners and store clerks on what they can do to help us, so panhandling and loitering isn't so much of a problem," Dewey said, adding that his department worked to create posters dissuading others from giving people handouts directly, and to create a pamphlet detailing the different resources available to people in need of help.
Resident Judy Pruden suggested that the UPD also educate the community on the issue of people stealing recyclables from Ukiah Waste Solutions' bins to collect money for the bottles and cans themselves.
"I watch transients take out as many cans as they can carry," said Pruden, suggesting that "the police department go down to the recycling centers, (where) you will see quite an interesting population showing up. An active recycler will easily pick up $10 to $15 on a weekend, which is then spent on cigarettes and alcohol, so that's another area where we can do an educational component."
Dewey said the Ukiah City Code does prohibit the removal of recyclables from bins in front of homes or businesses, and that his department was having officers on the graveyard shift focus on the issue "early in the morning, when the trash cans are out.
"We have received a number of complaints on this issue," he continued, explaining that his department is very much in a reactionary mode, so it doesn't have a lot of time to focus on the lowest priority of crimes, which he described as "quality of life."
When Council member Phil Baldwin asked how long there had been such an ordinance in Ukiah, and whether it was really illegal to take things out of the bins once they were on the street, City Attorney David Rapport said the ordinance "had been on the books for a long time.
"And it's actually theft for someone to take cans out of the bins (even in the public right-of-way) because they belong to the waste hauler," Rapport said.
Council member Mary Anne Landis then asked Dewey to explain the "three tiers" of crimes that his department responds to:
The first tier, he said, was "crimes against people, such as sexual assaults, robberies, murders, and assaults, of which we average about 280 per year, and is by far our strongest emphasis."
The second tier, he said, is property crime, such as theft and vandalism, and "we average around 1,400 of those crimes a year.
"The last tier is quality of life, such as drunk in public, abandoned vehicle and signage," he said. "And today, we are so reactive, we only do those when we have the time. At some point, we're going to need more officers."
Landis said she asked him to explain the tiers because she was asked about the recently passed "nuisance abatement ordinance, and whether there had been a lot of activity with that. But because (those issues are on the) lower tier, there really hasn't been very much attention on them, because we don't have staff for that.
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HEREFORD United have been thrown a lifeline after the Football Conference agreed to keep them in the competition, as long as they meet financial conditions.
The Football Conference board met today at Newport's Celtic Manor with Hereford chairman David Keyte and Andrew Green, a previously unnamed director of the club.
The Bulls had faced expulsion after failing to meet yesterday's 5pm deadline to pay football creditors.
However, they have been given another chance to settle their bills, although the new deadline has not been made public.
The league's annual general meeting takes place tomorrow.
A statement released by the Football Conference board said: "The board unanimously agreed that the club can retain membership of the Ltd Company and their place in the Football Conference Premier Division providing financial payments are secured as directed by the board.
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RALEIGH, N.C. - A winter storm system brought high winds and heavy rains that sparked some flooding in North Carolina.
More than 13,000 customers were still without electric service early Thursday.
A Charlotte television reporter was hurt when she was struck by a vehicle during a wreck Wednesday night. News 14 Carolina News Director Jim Newman said reporter Caroline Vandergriff was in stable condition in a Charlotte hospital.
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DETROIT -- As a former division foe with the Royals, Joakim Soria has plenty of respect for his new hometown fans as the newest member of the Tigers.
"When you go into a ballpark, and you see the stands full, you know they're excited about baseball," Soria said.
Tuesday night against the White Sox, the reliever, who was acquired from Texas last week, did absolutely nothing to endear himself to those fans. In his second appearance for Detroit, he had what he called "probably the worst outing of my career."
In just one-third of an inning, Soria allowed six hits and four runs. Two of those hits left the yard -- the first two homers he has given up this season. He matched his home run total from 2013 in two at-bats Tuesday.
"Obviously, it wasn't what I wanted," a visibly disappointed Soria said. "A new impression is the one that counts to the fans."
The boos began raining down on the Comerica Park mound after Soria gave up a single, a double and a Jose Abreu home run to begin his outing. That Adam Dunn followed with a blast to right to make it back-to-back shots simply made those boos a little louder.
"It seemed like everything I threw, they were on it," Soria said.
Tuesday's outing followed Soria's appearance Saturday in Anaheim in which he allowed a run on two hits in, again, just one-third of an inning. Manager Brad Ausmus showed little concern over Soria's first two outings as a Tiger, believing he can still do what he was brought in to do -- bolster a struggling bullpen.
"Well, we certainly haven't seen the real Joakim Soria," Ausmus said. "He was missing out over the middle of the plate, and they took advantage.
"I'm certainly not going to make a judgment on Joakim Soria based on one outing."
Matt Slovin is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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PHOENIX -- Thank goodness for Brewers reliever Brandon Kintzler's quick reflexes. Without them, he would have been in a world of pain on Wednesday night.
Pitching against the D-backs on Wednesday night, Kintzler reacted quickly enough on an A.J. Pollock comebacker to deflect it with the meaty, outside edge of his left hand and into Kintzler's stomach. Without that deflection, the baseball would have stuck Kintzler in a most unfortunate place.
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"I don't wear a cup," Kintzler said. "The Padres had a rule to wear cups, and as soon as I left them I didn't want to wear them anymore. A know a lot of pitchers who don't wear cups; it gets in the way."
Kintzler does not remember much about the play. He hit the dirt, but recovered in time to throw out Pollock to end the inning. When he got to the clubhouse, he was surprised to see his elbow and knee were bleeding. He also thought his hand was broken.
"I don't know, I blacked out," Kintzler joked. "I was asking [Jim] Henderson, 'Did I fall to the ground?' But it's good -- it's just a bruise."
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Hinkle co-founded Cissna Park, Ill.-based Hinkle Produce with his father and grew the business to include 2,000 acres of vegetables, according to the company website. Of that, about half were devoted to pumpkins.
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While many critics have picked James Rodriguez's sublime chest and volley for Colombia against Uruguay as the goal of the tournament, Ronaldo said he preferred the Australian striker's spectacular effort.
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On 15th December 2011 my lovely husband was diagnosed with liver cancer. He had been feeling nauseous and tired for a few weeks and the doctors thought he had gallstones but a biopsy showed liver cancer or so we were told. Our world fell apart.
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We have three children - two sons who are 17 and 15 and a daughter, 7 at the time (she turned 8 last week). We told our sons everything but we told our little girl that Dad was still sick and that the doctors were trying to help.
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A few days later we were told that he was back on track for chemotherapy but that night he developed an infection at the site of the tube. The next day the hospice team came to his bedside and suggested that he go there the following day. We were shocked and horrified. I thought it was crazy for him to go to a hospice because I still thought he'd be home soon.
The next morning a team of doctors spoke to me. They said that he was declining rapidly. They were shocked themselves. I asked if the initial prognosis was now changed and they said yes, he had just a few weeks to live. All I remember now of that day is crying and blindness. It was like I could hear voices but my tears and shock made them seem far away and all I could see was darkness.
He was transferred to the hospice that afternoon, believing that it was just for respite (he was too drowsy for the doctor to explain how serious it was). I cried in the ambulance and he caught my hand and said "hey love, why are you crying? I'll be home in a few days." I felt so alone.
Two days later, the doctor and counsellor sat us down to explain to my children exactly what was happening. The boys were completely up to date with everything but our little 7 year old didn't realise what was happening at all. We talked and they explained in a kind, loving way that they had tried everything and nothing had worked. My precious girl was getting very scared and then I had to say "daddy's going to heaven". Everyone cried their hearts out. It was the saddest day of my life, watching my children's hearts break. After this meeting my little girl ran down to her Dad's room, hugged him and cried. Her daddy said "hey, what's wrong princess?" She just cried and cried. At the point I think reality dawned on Diarmuid, that perhaps the end could be closer than he thought but he still had hope, lots of it. Why wouldn't he, when just 4 weeks before he was given a prognosis of 1-2 years.
After just five days in the hospice, the most beautiful, loving facility on earth, he fell asleep and we knew he wouldn't wake again, not fully. The next day, Tuesday 17th, he passed away holding our sons' hands, with me running down the corridor from the day room and getting there just in time to say goodbye and kiss him.
He was 47. Diagnosis of cancer to his passing away was just 33 days.
We stayed with him day and night for those 6 days in the hospice. It was a privilege and a blessing.
Now 2 months on, I'm sitting here bereft. I miss him so much I find it hard to breathe. He was everything to the children and everything to me. He brought them to school and collected them every single day. He was there for all their music lessons. He brought our daughter to drama, swimming, the playground etc. He did everything with them.
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There has been suggestion the U.S. import 'cheap' (i.e., nearby supplies priced at variable cost) LNG into the U.S. as a way to apply downward pressure on domestic natural gas prices. However, The U.S. will not be able to attract substantial volumes of spot LNG because there is little supply not committed to firm European and Asian contracts through 2005. Potential spot supplies, given distance from the U.S. and technical constraints at several U.S. regasification terminals, are unlikely to be significantly less expensive than marginal local production.
New Era in Natural Gas Pricing
Natural gas prices in the U.S. have risen to a level attractive to LNG imports since early 1999. As Figure 1 shows, gas prices must rise above $3.00/MMBtu to attract significant incremental volumes of LNG to the U.S.
Global Gas Supply/Demand Balances
The global supply/demand balance for LNG is pretty tight. In 2003 average utilization of nameplate capacity for liquefaction facilities was 87%, but ranged from 99% in Brunei to 20% in Libya (see Figure 2). In early 2004, the explosion at Skikda, Algeria tightened the market by 670 MMcfd (5.1 MTPA), but Sonatrach has been able to make up some of the loss by increasing run rates at their Arzew facility. Thus global supply (without Skikda) has about 2,200 MMcfd of spare capacity. However, as will be shown, there are a number of infrastructure issues likely to constrain send-out capacity at U.S. regasification terminals below the nameplate capacity of 2,700 MMcfd.1
In most LNG markets, supply is secured via long-term off-take contracts and the U.S. is no different. As seen on the left side of Figure 3, over the past four years, 75% of LNG imports have been under long-term contracts. About half (100 MMcfd) of spot volume in 2002 was from an early start-up of Trinidad II in the fourth quarter; volume that disappeared when the long-term contract with Engas (Spain) took effect in June 2003.
Because of the regulatory structure of European gas markets in the past, regasification developers had the financial ability to back signing long-term firm supply contracts. Demand conditions (e.g., mild weather, slow economic activity) in Asia and Europe play a key role in determining supply availability for the U.S. The right side of Figure 3 shows that demand conditions allowing Europe and Japan to release cargoes for spot sale in the U.S. are typically in the spring and summer.
A Price Differential is Rarely Sufficient to Divert Cargoes to the U.S.
LNG projects in Asia and Europe traditionally have been integrated with a consortium of producers and consumers sharing profitability and risk across the entire value chain. Thus off-take agreements at regasification terminals have been for 10-20 years at fairly stable volumes. There usually were no competing supplies (e.g., no pipelines or indigenous supplies) so a long-term contract did not force the gas marketer to forego other supply options. The project also was selling into a tightly regulated (and physically short) market so delivered LNG prices into Asia and Europe tended to be higher than in the U.S. (see Figure 4). As long as LNG pricing in Asia and Europe continues to be on an oil basis (crude in Asia and residual fuel oil in Europe), high crude oil prices should prop up delivered prices to all three markets.
Since 1999 delivered LNG prices to Europe dropped below U.S. import prices for two reasons. First, U.S. gas prices have risen not only in absolute level, but also have moved closer to crude parity. More importantly in Europe as power generation (predominantly in southern Europe) continues to reduce its use of residual fuel oil its price relative to crude declines.
A simple positive price differential in the U.S. is rarely sufficient to divert cargoes. At prices below $3/MMBtu, only Trinidad is close enough to deliver spot volumes to the U.S., pay for transportation, and realize a positive netback. However, a spot cargo from Trinidad to the U.S. can be accommodated only if Spain (the likely delivery point the cargo was diverted from) does not require its next firm contract delivery for 25-30 days (10-12 days to/from U.S. plus another 15-18 days to Spain). As Figure 5 shows, the sailing time and shipping costs for liquefaction facilities farther away than Trinidad make spot deals into the U.S. even tighter to fit into firm contract obligations.
LNG producers often restrict resales to alternative markets so attracting spot cargoes to the U.S. depends on more than the Henry Hub price. However, even with destination flexibility, a tight shipping market makes proximity to markets critical in value creation for the LNG producer. LNG projects currently control 60% of the tanker fleet making it difficult for merchant regasification owners to find vessels for spot chartering. Although a shortage of spot LNG charter vessels is likely to continue for the foreseeable future, the increase in tonnage controlled by ship owners, oil and gas companies, and LNG buyers (about 50% of capacity on order) might improve prospects of a more flexible market that facilitates short and medium-term trading (see Figure 6).
Contractual and Technical Issues Limit Spot cargoes to U.S. Terminals
In 2003, 92% of U.S. regasification capacity was controlled by major (upstream) gas companies. Smaller spot (merchant) players have to work with long-term capacity holders to secure necessary logistical arrangements to complete short-term deals. One form of collaboration is a merchant trader securing access to regasification capacity and infrastructure if the merchant signs contracts with an international gas player's (preferred) liquefaction affiliate. Some announced regasification terminal projects sponsored by merchant players may be running into similar constraints given their apparent difficulty in securing supply contracts.
Technical issues surround physical characteristics of an LNG cargo from a specific liquefaction facility to a specific regasification terminal. The heat content of LNG can range between 1,000 and 1,162 Btu per cubic foot (Figure 7). High heat content is incompatible with many U.S. appliances and industrial processes. Thus major interstate pipelines have a heat content specification of 1,035 Btu per cubic foot, with a range of plus or minus 50 Btu.
On a spot basis, only three operating liquefaction facilities (Trinidad and Skikda, Algeria in the Atlantic Basin plus Alaska in the Pacific) produce LNG with a heat content within current U.S. gas pipeline quality specifications. Given that all four U.S. regasification terminals are in the Atlantic Basin and assuming Skikda is not operational, there is about 150 MMcfd of spare liquefaction capacity meeting U.S. natural gas specifications. Nitrogen or air injection processes diluting higher heat content cargoes at Everett and Cove Point allows the inclusion of spare capacity in Nigeria (100 MMcfd) and Qatar (100 MMcfd). So of the 2,200 MMcfd of spare liquefaction capacity in the world, at best 350 MMcfd (15%) could meet current U.S. quality specifications. 2
In addition to heat content restrictions, a number of other issues restricting throughput at regasification terminals below peak send-out capacity are listed in Figure 8. Some of these issues are the more binding constraints on delivering a spot cargo, but also the hardest for which to estimate the commercial impact.
The likelihood that LNG will be a "cheap" source of supply in the future is remote. With the natural decline of domestic production, increasing volumes of LNG will be necessary. As seen in Figure 9, the cost of new sources of LNG (based on full-cost economics) will be of the same order of magnitude ($3.50 – $5.00) as pipeline gas from the Mackenzie Delta in Canada or the North Slope of Alaska. Capital recovery imbedded in full-cost economics is only one reason why LNG will be among the more expensive new sources of natural gas. Another reason is that the new supply sources will be thousands of miles away from the U.S. (e.g., Norway or Qatar).
There is little hope the U.S. is able to import "cheap" LNG into the U.S. as a way to put downward pressure on domestic natural gas prices. Recent trends indicate Henry Hub prices must exceed $3/MMBtu to make it commercially attractive to bring spot LNG cargoes into the U.S. However, given the tight supply/demand balance in the U.S., current U.S. LNG regasification effective capacity is unlikely to deliver incremental volumes sufficient to displace the need for natural gas to price high enough to encourage demand conservation sufficient to balance the market.
1 LNG volume is typically measured in billion cubic meters. However, this paper measures volume on a daily basis to reinforce the notion that "cheap" LNG cargoes need to be delivered on a ratable basis to have a sustained impact on U.S. natural gas pricing.
2Heat content not only is an issue for current spot cargoes, but for growth in LNG imports as well. The FERC held a public conference in February 2004 on the appropriateness of current gas quality specifications and the potential need to initiate rulemaking on the subjecti>


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About halfway through a radio talk show recently, co-host Yogi Chugh thanked a caller named Amrit for his opinion on gun control, and began to move on to another listener when the man suddenly stopped him.
"No, no," Amrit said firmly. "I am not yet done making my point." Chugh smiled and let the man finish, for it was the sort of thing he and co-host Dharminder Dewan envisioned last year when they started their program, "Jai Ho!: The Voice of Indo-Americans."
Chugh and Dewan, Indian immigrants and Fremont city leaders, know firsthand their community's rising political and social strength, and they aim to give that voice a podium through their one-hour show, broadcast at 3 p.m. on Sundays from a San Jose radio studio.
The Indian-American community — boasting the highest wealth and educational status among U.S. ethnic groups — has come of age, especially in prosperous Silicon Valley. But, Chugh says, too many have not yet embraced their burgeoning power, preferring to remain in the political background.
"We've begun to understand the importance of being of being involved in the process," said Chugh, a Fremont planning commissioner. "No one invites you; you have to do it yourself, and the only way to start getting involved is to have these dialogues. Participation is organic and that's what makes setting the framework of a dialogue so compelling."
Last May, the pair started hosting "Jai Ho!" — or, "Bravo!" in Hindi — on Desi 1170, an AM station that broadcasts programs featuring Indian music, culture and politics.
Chugh and Dewan like to work loose and unrehearsed, getting to the Desi studio — also known as KLOK — on suburban South King Road about 20 minutes before showtime.
When the red "On Air" lights click on, they start by stating the day's hot-button topic — recent programs delved into divorce statistics and community reaction to a shocking rape in India. Then, studio engineer Lowell Tuckerman plays the song, "Jai Ho!," a hit tune from "Slumdog Millionaire," the 2008 Oscar-winning movie set in India. While the upbeat tune plays, the co-hosts hurriedly check their smartphones for text messages and their laptops for last-minute research.
Once the first caller speaks, the show is injected with politicized energy, as studio phones light up with Indian-Americans itching to chime in. One recent caller, Anu, said she is in favor of gun control but understands the need for self-protection, adding that her mother in India rarely left the house without putting an unloaded pistol in her purse — just in case.
Chugh and Dewan say they try not to give their personal opinions. "Triggering the passion of our callers, that's really our goal," said Dewan, who serves on Fremont's Human Relations Commission.
The show is part of the wide-ranging lineup on the station, the former home of Top 40 and Spanish-language formats. In 2009, New York-based Principal Broadcasting Network bought the station and immediately changed it to "Desi 1170," an "Asian Indian format broadcasting 24/7," station general manager Brad Behnke said.
"Desi" is a Hindi word that refers to immigrants from India, Pakistan and other parts of South Asia, Chugh said. "It means 'somebody from back home,'" he said.
The station's roster illustrates the diversity in South Asia and India, where dozens of languages are spoken. The program that precedes "Jai Ho!," called "Virijallu," offers chitchat about current events, celebrities, music, cooking tips and other routine talk show fare, but it is all discussed in Telugu, a language spoken in a southeastern region of India.
Desi 1170's smallish brick studio could symbolize Indian-Americans' restrained voice. The modest, one-story building — tucked in an area surrounded by a hardware store, a pasture, a grassy knoll and a housing development — is easy to miss if you're not paying attention. Yet it's powerful, one of just four 50,000-watt megastations in the Bay Area.
Behnke said the Bay Area has three times more South Asians than Dallas, which has had a desi station for 12 years. Desi radio formats also air in New York/New Jersey, Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago and other markets.
A second Bay Area station airing Indian-American content, Radio Zindagi, went on the air 18 months ago in Fremont, where nearly one in five residents are Indian-American and two serve on the five-member City Council.
From 2000 to 2010, the number of Indian-Americans jumped from 21,600 to nearly 39,000 in Fremont, and from 67,000 to about 118,000 in Santa Clara County, according to the U.S. Census. About 70 percent of all Indian-Americans over 25 hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and their average household income nationwide was $88,538, well above the next-closest ethnic groups — Filipino-Americans ($75,146) and Chinese-Americans ($69,037).
Given those demographics, switching formats was a no-brainer, Behnke said. "With no full-time (South Asian) stations in the Bay Area at the time, it looked like an opportunity to serve an underserved population," he said. "It's the fastest-growing, best-educated and affluent market segment in the country."
But political involvement still lags.
There was no shortage of debate during a recent "Jai Ho!" show about the rising divorce rate in the Indian-American community. As antsy callers lit up the switchboard, red lights pulsated in the dimly lit studio. One caller, Shalu, took the modern view, saying that divorce is painful but "staying in an unhappy marriage is to live a lie."
Chugh then steered the discussion in a direction any immigrant family could relate to. "When we immigrated here from India, there were older views that marriage was sacred and was held onto at all costs," he said. "But as we live in America, it enables people to make their own decisions."
He got what he wanted. A few seconds later, another studio phone rang.
Contact Chris De Benedetti at 510-353-7011. Follow him at Twitter.com/cdebenedetti.


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GUARDIAN: Holder bows out
11:13am Thursday 12th June 2014
By Andrew Simpson
11:13am Thursday 12th June 2014
By Andrew Simpson
MATTHEW Thurlwell, who lifted the Guardian Cup for the first time last summer, bowed out of this year's edition in the qualifying round on Monday.
The Comberbach bowler was one of three current Mid-Cheshire Bowling Association title holders to crash out of the competition at Kelsall.
Cowley Cup champion Dennis Leather, Thurlwell's clubmate at Comberbach, and Wharton Cons' Terry Bebbington – winner of the Joe Robinson Trophy last season, fell at the first hurdle too.
Simon Cookson, who reached the final a year ago, was another casualty at the same venue.
Mark Cookson, of Rudheath and Castle Private's Rob Winnington – winner in 2005 – were the ones to make it to the last 16 later this month.
Five other former champions join him there.
Among them is Glynn Cookson, the most decorated bowler in Mid-Cheshire Merit history with 10 final wins.
He qualified at Spinner & Bergamot along with Comberbach's Daniel Moores.
Wharton Cons Thomas Vickers, a victor in three of the past six finals, is safely through along with four-time champion Jason Cornes (Castle Private).
The other former winners still standing are Gerald Merry (Delamere), John Gurney (Comberbach) and Alan Vickers (Wharton Cons).
Wharton, with six survivors, is the club that supplies the biggest contingent for the next stage.
Two others to reach the final in 2013, Nicola Boulton (Frodsham Red Lion), Geoff Dale (Beech Tree), missed out on Monday too.
Julie Green, from Section One pacesetters Beech Tree, is the only woman to make it through.
The competition resumes on Monday, June 23, from 6.45pm.
Guardian Cup
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Monday, June 9
At Beech Tree: Dave Hamlett junior, WhC; Gerald Merry, Del
At Davenham: Graham Spruce, WhC; Mark Winnington, CP
At Hartford: John Gurney, Com; Jon Gurney, Com
At Hazel Pear: Jason Cornes, CP; Chris Koral, OW
At Kelsall: Mark Cookson, Rud; Rob Winnington, CP
At Owley Wood: Julie Green, BT; Thomas Vickers, WhC
At Rudheath: Daniel Nixon, WhC; Alan Vickers, WhC
At Spinner & Bergamot: Glynn Cookson, WhC; Daniel Moores, Com
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A search and rescue expert used Oklahoma City bombing terrorist attack rescue techniques to take control of the CTV Building collapse site, an inquest heard today.
But by the time Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) operations manager Royce Tatham travelled from Palmerston North to Christchurch after the February 22 earthquake, no more survivors were to be found.
Today at a coroner's inquest looking at the deaths of eight CTV victims, who all survived the six-storey collapse but were unable to be rescued alive, he was critical of the amount of time it took to mobilise to the disaster site.
While his Palmerston North-based USAR taskforce had packed up their specialist rescue gear, arranged flights with the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF), and arrived at Ohakea Air Base by about 4pm - the plane did not leave until 10pm.
And the RNZAF did not have a Hercules available to them, so they had to commandeer a commercial plane, which could not take the 22 tonnes of USAR rescue kit.
The gear then had to be taken by truck to Wellington, which crossed the Cook Strait by ferry, before being driven down to Christchurch - arriving by 4am.
In the meantime, Mr Tatham had flown down, and taken control of the CTV site at around 1am, where the six-storey office block had collapsed and would claim 115 lives.
Giving evidence today he questioned if the RNZAF was the best agency for USAR to rely on, given that they are often deployed overseas and can't always guarantee resources.
He had expected a Hercules, with a massive lifting capacity to take them, but instead had to rely on a commercial plane to carry what it could to Christchurch.
No training had been done with the Air Force ahead of the February quake.
When Mr Tatham arrived at CTV, he called on techniques he had learned from the experts at the Oklahoma City bombing to take control.
He wanted to use listening devices to hear if there were any survivors in the tangled debris.
"My plan was to get everyone to shut up, get off site, do a technical search, and take control," Mr Tatham, a fire station officer and USAR operations manager, said.
He told people in charge of the various rescuers there - fire, police and civilians - that there would be a "quiet period" in 20 minutes.
Once quiet was established he used delsar listening devices to check for signs of life.
They crossed the rubble and at various points paused to say, 'Tap if you can hear me'.
Sniffer dogs were of no use because of the amount of smoke on site from the fire which broke out after the collapse at 12.51pm.
While they found several dead bodies, and managed to extricate them, no more survivors were found.
He was speaking on the tenth day of a coroner's inquest into the deaths of Dr Tamara Cvetanov of Serbia, Cheng Mai of China, Japan's Rika Hyuga and Jessie Redouble, Emmabelle Anoba, Ezra Medalle, Reah Sumalpong and Mary Amantillo, all from the Philippines.
All were students at King's Education School for English Language on the CTV Building's third floor and survived the collapse but could not be rescued from the wreckage.
The inquest, before Coroner Gordon Matenga, continues.
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The public portion of the council meeting starts at a new time, 6:30 p.m. at Willits City Hall where the official agenda is posted. The full meeting is televised live on Willits Community Television. A copy of the agenda and the supplemental information distributed to the council members are posted on the City of Willits website at thecityofwillits.com/ by selecting the council agenda tab.
The starting time was changed by a vote of the council at its January 9 meeting. The time limit allowed for public comment was revised at the same meeting to reduce the time allotted to any one individual for speaking from five minutes to three minutes.
Late note: A special closed session has been scheduled prior to the start of the regular council meeting for the purpose of selecting an interim general manager.
Regular council meeting agenda:
1. Presentation of the city's mid-year financial report.
2. Consent calendar items including prior meeting minutes, outstanding warrants, revision to the catastrophic leave policy and three year service agreement with ACS for accounting hardware and software support services.
3. Discussion and possible action on an ordinance banning the use of plastic shopping carryout bags in Willits.
4. Introduction ordinance modifying the city's procedures for awarding public projects to be consistent with state law.
5. Closed session for legal conference on Remco and Brooktrails lawsuits.


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DAVE Webb has backed new Supermarine goalkeeper Sam Warrell to carve out a good career in the game after being the latest player to help solve the club's troubles between the sticks.
The 24-year-old moved to the Webb's Wood Stadium at the start of this month following a brief spell at Old Woodstock, replacing former loanee Conor Thompson who left the club after his contract with League Two Torquay was torn up.
Thompson had previously been drafted in following Kent Kauppinen's sudden departure just before Christmas, but Webb is pleased by his latest acquisition.
"Sam Warrell was playing his third game for the club on Tuesday night (3-2 home defeat to Shortwood) and really didn't do anything wrong at all," he said. "He's commanded his box well and made some good saves and his distribution is good because he's talking to the players in front of him.
"We need to defend as a team, as a back five, but on Wednesday we defended as individuals and you can't do that. You have to talk, communicate and be organised.
"Sam won't be happy conceding three goals but none of them are down to him and I can't say he's done anything wrong with the goals.
"He, as a keeper, would want clean sheets and he's not going to be happy at all with conceding three goals like we did in midweek because he didn't do anything wrong.
"He's been great since he came in and I see no reason why he can't be a very good keeper for a very long time at this level.
"He's got all the attributes we need and to have got someone in so quickly to replace the keepers who've left is great for us."
Marine take on Yate Town this weekend and Webb is hopeful his players can quickly bounce back after conceding a last minute winner on Tuesday night.
"We have 18 games of football to play but one thing's for certain, we need to improve in the final third," he said.
"We've had words and we believe in everybody but it's only them who can go out there and put things right. We can pick the team but it's up to them.
"It won't be easy at Yate because they're a good side with good forwards and it's another tough test for us."


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Graeme McDowell was California dreaming again after moving into a tie for the lead with Jim Furyk with a round to go at the US Open.
Winner at Pebble Beach two years ago, the 32-year-old Northern Irishman birdied the final hole of his third round for a superb 68 over the treacherous Olympic Club in San Francisco.
The added bonus was that Tiger Woods gave a really poor performance in his pursuit of a 15th major. Joint leader at halfway with Furyk and David Toms, Woods was nothing like the impressive figure of the opening 36 holes and with a five-over-par 75 dropped into a tie for 14th.
Only Toms with a 76 scored worse in the top 60 players. He is now five back and will need no reminding that he has never won a major from behind on the final day.
Among those who came past him was Lee Westwood. A 67 that matched the low score of the round lifted the world number three all the way from 29th into a tie for fourth. The Worksop 39-year-old, making his 57th attempt to land a major and with a record-equalling seven top-three finishes behind him, will tee off again only three behind.
McDowell followed eight opening pars with a bogey on the 449-yard ninth. But the back nine is where most of the birdie chances come and he holed putts of four feet on the 10th, 10 feet at the short 13th and then another four-footer on the last.
McDowell said: "The ninth was a wake-up call. I realised my swing was getting quick and snatchy. Then the save on the 12th was huge. I thought I was in the bushes over the green, but making four spurred me on. I am firing pretty much on all cylinders. The key is not looking at leaderboards. It's not just me and Jim. There are a lot of guys who can win."
Furyk shot a rollercoaster 70. He bogeyed the first and fifth, birdied the seventh and 11th, took six on the 670-yard 16th, then two-putted the 522-yard 17th for his third birdie.
Woods was off right from the start. He dropped shots on four of the first eight and even a 10-foot birdie putt at the ninth did not spark him into life. He too took six on the 16th after driving into the trees and finding a bunker with his third. The worst was saved for the last, a stubbed chip from beside the green leading to yet another bogey.
Swede Fredrik Jacobson (68) is third on one over, two behind, while alongside Westwood are Belgian Nicolas Colsaerts, American Blake Adams and South Africa's 1994 and 1997 champion Ernie Els, who chipped in for eagle at the 17th.


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