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That terrible morning, Antonio Balta dropped off his girlfriend, Michelle Bashford, at the Gulfstream Park Racetrack in Hallandale Beach, where she worked as a waitress and he as a horse groomer. The couple planned to drive north as soon as she finished her shift. They'd be in New York with their families in a day or two. Balta, a 27-year-old Peruvian, told Bashford not to worry; he'd take care of all the last-minute errands. As she got out of the car, she kissed him and said goodbye to their 9-month-old daughter, Veronika.
Once alone with the baby, Balta ticked off his pretravel chores. He got the car washed, said goodbye to the landlord, and loaded the couple's meager belongings — dishes, baby clothes, photos — into their 1996 Pontiac Grand Prix. He went to a gas station and filled up the tank, buying a bag of Fritos and two Starbucks coffee drinks for the road.
When he returned to the Gulfstream parking lot around 1 p.m. that spring day — March 13, 2004 — it was 65 degrees out, cool enough for many race fans to wear light jackets. He called Michelle on her cell phone to let her know everything was ready to go. When she got out around 5, they'd head straight for the state line.
She asked what he planned to do until then. Balta said he had to talk to his boss for a minute, to make sure his transfer back to Saratoga would go smoothly. She warned him not to leave the baby alone in the car.
But Balta had taken Veronika inside the track twice before. The loud, flashing slot machines and bustling crowds made her cry. So he cracked the front window a little to give the baby some air. He didn't roll the window down far, though — he didn't want someone trying to kidnap her. Then he went into the casino to look for his boss.
But it was the day of the Florida Derby — the track's busiest day of the year — and his boss, a horse trainer, was busy. So Balta returned to the car to check on Veronika. He looked in through the window and saw her playing happily with her favorite toy, a stuffed pink bunny with the words I Love You across the chest.
Then he went back inside. This time, he ran into some friends. As they talked about his move, Balta placed a few bets. The wagers were all under $10, all on long shots he'd seen around the stables and thought might have a chance. He was hoping to make a little extra cash for the trip.
When his races were over, Balta said goodbye to his friends. They pleaded with him to hang out just a little while longer. Surveillance tapes would later show he was inside for about two hours.
When he stepped out of the air-conditioned betting parlor, Balta was struck by how much warmer it was. The temperature had spiked to 80 degrees. He immediately thought of Veronika and broke into a sprint across the parking lot.
Now, more than six years later, Balta recalls that fateful day from a stuffy cinder-block meeting room at the Sumter Correctional Institution in Bushnell, Florida. It was, he says, "the worst moment of my life." His voice is soft, and his words are slow and accented. "When I got there, I could see her through the window," he says, fidgeting with his right hand. "She looked like she was sleeping. I thought she was going to be OK."
Balta has spent most of the time since his daughter's death in a prison cell decorated with pictures of her. He had expected a lenient sentence when, on the advice of his attorney, he pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter of a child. Instead, he got 20 years. It's the longest sentence handed down for this type of crime anywhere in the nation.
While Balta's arrest originally drew shock and anger —a Sun-Sentinel headline at the time read "Father Gambles as Baby Dies"— the extraordinary length of his sentence has caused a small but dedicated group of supporters to come to his defense. His case highlights the remarkably inconsistent laws that punish this tragic — but not uncommon — mistake.
It happens somewhere in America on average once a week from spring through early fall. Children die in cars due to hyperthermia more than 30 times a year. Sometimes the child crawls into a car when nobody is looking, but most are left by a caregiver. In more than half the cases, it's a parent who forgets the child is in the car.
In August, a 2-year-old died after a Delray Beach daycare employee left her in the back of a van for several hours. Three weeks later, a mother in Miami was charged in the death of her 3-year-old boy after she left him in a car for about 45 minutes. In early October, a 14-month-old girl died after her 28-year-old father left her in the car for three hours outside a church in Miramar.
Roughly one-sixth of child hyperthermia cases in this country occur in the Sunshine State. At least 60 children have died in Florida since 1998, and more than 150 others have been injured. Some years bring more incidents than others: Last year, there were eight cases in Florida. The year before, there were two. In 2004, Veronika Balta was the first of ten. With 49 deaths nationwide by mid-October, 2010 has been the worst year yet.
"It's one of the worst tragedies a family can experience," says Janette Fennell, founder and president of kidsandcars.org, a Kansas-based safety advocacy group. Fennell's organization tracks child deaths and injuries in and around cars. According to her group, more than 450 kids have died from hyperthermia in vehicles since the mid-1990s — when safety experts told parents to move car seats to the back, to avoid the dangers of passenger-side airbags.
A March 2009 article by Gene Weingarten in the Washington Post Magazine, "Fatal Distraction," pondered whether parents who forget their children in cars should be charged with a crime at all. The story, which won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing, detailed how the human brain is capable, especially when aggravated by stress, of simply forgetting that a child is in a car all day.
In Florida, prosecutions and penalties vary widely. In some cases, no charges are ever filed. In others, the caregiver ends up in prison. In the 50 fatal incidents in Florida since 1998 for which public information is available, government policies differed significantly from one jurisdiction to the next. Some counties, such as Miami-Dade, prosecuted every case, while other jurisdictions, like Sarasota County, have declined to file criminal charges in similar circumstances.
In total, charges were filed in 58 percent of the Florida cases, and of those, most defendants were convicted — about 85 percent. In most cases, the defendant was given probation, though prison sentences ranged from a few weeks to Antonio Balta's 20 years.
The tragedy strikes across ages, races, and socioeconomic status. But each story has its own awful twist, a point when an ordinary, mundane day turns into an unimaginable nightmare.
One Coral Springs mother watched her two oldest children play soccer at a park for hours on a warm Saturday afternoon before remembering that her 9-month-old was still in the car. No charges were filed.
A Lake Worth woman's 4-year-old son died in the back of her Ford Expedition as she got her nails done the day she was to be married. The boy had sneaked into the back seat and hid in an attempt to spend extra time with his mother and aunt. They didn't notice him when they parked the car outside a salon for three hours. The mother was so distraught she had to be sedated at the hospital. Again, no charges were filed.
A Naples woman dropped her oldest child at school and thought she'd also dropped her 2-year-old daughter at daycare when she headed to work at a bank, where her Toyota Corolla remained parked in direct sunlight all day. After work, she drove all the way to the daycare to pick up the girl before noticing the body on the floor of the back seat — in the sweltering heat, the baby had escaped her car seat but couldn't get out of the car. The mother ended up pleading no contest to child neglect and received two years' probation.
After waking up and finding his girlfriend's 1-year-old son unresponsive in the car where he'd been left, a frightened 20-year-old in Fort Lauderdale put the dead baby in his crib and initially told police the child died from SIDS. An autopsy showed the baby's body temperature had reached about 108 degrees at the time of death. The man was sentenced to a year in jail and drug treatment.
The only sentence that even approaches Balta's was handed down in 2004, to a Lake Worth woman who left her 4-month-old in her own driveway overnight. She told police she passed out after drinking four or five beers and using marijuana, cocaine, and Xanax. She woke up at 2 p.m. to find her baby dead in the beat-up Pontiac parked outside. Two hours after the tiny girl was removed, her body temperature was still 106.3 degrees. The mother was sentenced to five years in prison.
Just four months after Antonio Balta accidentally killed his daughter, a dentist in Boca Raton brought his 3-year-old son with him to the office. He left the boy asleep in the car, thinking he'd be inside for only a minute. Three hours later, after a call from a relative and a sprint across the searing parking lot, he found the toddler unconscious, still strapped into the back seat of the family's Ford Explorer. The boy died an hour later. The dentist pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter to avoid the anguish of a trial. The judge withheld conviction, sentencing the father to ten years of probation and 500 hours of community service.
"One of the most tragic parts is that these situations could almost all be prevented with either more awareness or the use of technology that's already available for automakers," says Fennell of kidsandcars.org. Safety groups suggest putting a wallet or purse in the back seat of the car during every trip (even if the child isn't in the car), setting a cell phone alarm as a reminder to check on the baby, or scheduling emails that automatically ask, "Did you drop off the child at daycare?" High-tech gadgets — like censors that trigger an alarm if a child is left in the seat while the ignition is off — have been designed and tested by NASA engineers, but manufacturers have been reluctant to sell them for fear of liability issues.
"One of the reasons this is still such a problem is that nobody wants to believe this can happen to them," Fennell says. "Believe me, it can. Most of these people are caring, doting parents who made a terrible, terrible mistake they have to live with for their rest of their lives. There's a temptation to demonize them because that makes the tragedy easier to understand, maybe, but I work with many of these people. They are good people, good parents who are in hell wherever they go, whatever they do, whether they go to prison or not."
Antonio Balta sits against a blank wall in the stark prison meeting room, near a dusty, old fan. He can hear the echo of other inmates howling in the yard. Now 33 years old, he's 5-foot-9 and barely 150 pounds. Ash-blue prison scrubs hang baggily on his slouched frame.
Asked to describe his early life, he says in a soft voice, "Things have always been bad."
When Balta was a boy in Peru, his father was in the military and scarcely around. His mother cleaned houses. As a teenager, he baby-sat his infant cousins. His parents sent him to America — illegally — in 1993, when he was 16, to live with his uncle, a jockey. They hoped he'd have a better life away from the streets of Lima.
Balta says he worked odd jobs at horse tracks as his uncle followed the racing circuits from Florida to California to New York. At Belmont Park in New York, his first job with racehorses was as a "hot walker," the guy who cools down the horses after a race.
Eventually, his family settled near the track in Saratoga Springs, New York. At 20, Balta got his then-girlfriend, Jenny, pregnant. They married, had a second child, and separated soon after. He rarely saw the kids or paid child support.
In early 2002, Balta met Michelle Bashford, an American girl who was at the track with her father. Balta was betting that day — and winning. They went out for margaritas and hit it off. Within weeks, they were sharing an apartment. In November, Michelle announced she was pregnant.
They debated an abortion. He worried about money but missed having a baby around — the smells, the feel of the soft skin. "I told myself I could get another job and support this baby," he says. "Plus she could work a little, so everything was going to be all right. She was so happy. I'd never seen her that happy. She was crying.
"Michelle is a good woman," he says as he stares at the floor. "She has a good heart."
The day Veronika was born — May 21, 2003 — Balta had gone to work. When he'd left in the morning, Michelle wasn't having any pains. When he called that afternoon, Michelle's father answered. The baby was on the way: "You better hurry!"
Balta sped to the hospital. In the lobby gift shop, he stopped to buy the small pink bunny with I Love You embroidered on the chest. When he got to the room, he learned he'd missed the birth by about 20 minutes. The baby was sleeping. He leaned down to his daughter and whispered, "I'm sorry I didn't make it to meet you. I didn't know you were going to come early."
He worked extra hours during Saratoga's horse season while Michelle stayed home with Veronika. At the end of the racing season, his boss invited him to work in Kentucky. Michelle, who'd never lived outside of New York, was excited at the prospect of traveling. They packed everything they owned into Balta's '96 Pontiac Grand Prix and set off across the United States. Life was filled with promise.
Balta did a good job in Kentucky and was invited to work with the team in Florida. Michelle was elated. She'd always wanted to live by the beach.
They drove to Hallandale Beach December 3, 2003. The only hotel room they could afford had roaches crawling out of the refrigerator, so the first two nights in South Florida, the family slept in the Grand Prix.
After Balta began working at Gulfstream Park, they rented a $300-a-month efficiency in Hallandale, right across from the track. Michelle got a job waiting tables in the track restaurant. They couldn't afford daycare; when both parents worked, Balta took Veronika with him to the stables. He would park her stroller outside each stall and talk to her as he brushed the horses. He sang to her, calling her "mami" — short for mami chula, Spanish for "pretty mommy."
In March, the Florida racing season was ending and the couple planned their trip back to New York. They decided they'd drive up directly after the Florida Derby.
The night before they were scheduled to leave, Michelle suggested they drive into the night and skip the last day of work. "I have a bad feeling," she said.
Balta calmed her. The Florida Derby is the biggest horserace of the year in the Sunshine State. The track would be busy. She'd make a lot of money.
"It's just one day," he remembers saying.
Balta opened the door and saw Veronika hunched over in her seat. He called her name, but she didn't move. As he lifted her out of the car, he could feel her hot skin.
"Veronika!" he said again, moving her gently.
The baby's lips were bluish-purple. Her eyes rolled back in her head. A milky foam dropped from her mouth.
"Veronika! Veronika!"
Though he'd never learned the technique, he attempted mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. No response. He called Michelle, panicked.
"The baby isn't waking up," he said.
"What do you mean the baby isn't waking up?" he remembers her saying.
He started the car. With Veronika on his lap, he drove toward the track ambulance. Michelle met him there. When EMTs tried cooling the baby with ice and a damp cloth, she moved her arms a bit. Balta remembers someone saying she'd be OK — she just needed to go to the hospital immediately.
As Balta stepped up into the ambulance to ride with his baby, a police officer grabbed his arm. He should stay. They had some questions.
"They were already treating me like I did this on purpose," Balta says.
Multiple police officers asked him to explain what happened. At first, he said he thought maybe she had choked on her milk. Soon, though, he admitted he'd left the baby in the car — for "not long," he told police.
He was still in the back of an investigator's car more than an hour later when a nurse at the scene informed him that Veronika had died on the way to the hospital. He remembers staring out the window, feeling like the car was closing in around him.
At the police station, he saw Michelle. From across a small waiting room, she sobbed and asked him over and over how this could happen. He didn't have any answers.
They were taken to separate rooms. Two more officers interviewed Balta; then he was placed under arrest.
At his sentencing a year later, the courtroom was filled with reporters, photographers, a few former co-workers, and Michelle's family. Wearing orange scrubs two sizes too big, Balta looked like a confused little boy. His hands were folded in front of him. His eyes were distant. He spoke a little English, but that day, the words all seemed new and strange. Everyone was talking so fast.
Just two months earlier, the dentist in Boca had pleaded guilty and received probation, so Ken Padowitz, Balta's attorney, hoped for a similar resolution. He figured that at worst, Balta might serve a year or two and then be deported. That's why Balta pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter of a child and threw himself at the mercy of Circuit Judge Ilona Holmes.
At the sentencing, Balta did not cower or cry. He did not shake, scream, or plead with someone to kill him. He just stared, catatonic, as the lawyers around him argued over what should become of him.
A psychologist testified that Balta has an IQ of 74 and is emotionally disconnected. Padowitz called him "borderline retarded."
But prosecutor Howard Scheinberg reminded the court that Balta was betting while his daughter died alone. "This baby died trapped and tied down in a human sauna," he said. "In the stifling, 125-degree car, the baby's body temperature reached 107 degrees."
When it was time for Balta to speak to the court, his voice didn't crack. He shed no tears. In slow, heavily accented English, he said, "I did a mistake. I suffer her loss every waking hour of each day. She was my life."
Judge Holmes — who did not respond to requests for comment for this article — apparently wasn't moved. She told him his actions were "totally callous" and "heinous." Balta didn't recognize most of the words the judge was using, but he understood what came next: "Twenty years."
Looking back, Balta's attorney feels like he let him down. Padowitz says he thinks of the case often. His own children can be heard playing in the background as he speaks by telephone.
"I felt sorry for the child who died here," he says, "but I also felt enormous sympathy for Mr. Balta himself. He received much too harsh a sentence. It's a tragic situation in every way, but his sentence was disproportionate to the specific facts of this case. From the first the time I met with my client, it was clear to me he was suffering from a mental deficit. That's a significant fact in this case and wasn't accounted for. The prosecution focused on the facts that would stir the emotions of anyone hearing them."
He believes the 20-year sentence was a reaction to public outrage at the time. "He didn't wake up that morning intending to commit a crime or hurt his child," Padowitz says. "There are people who wake up in the morning knowing they're going to go commit a criminal act, knowing they're going to shoot somebody, and they don't get as long as he got."
The attorney who prosecuted the case, Scheinberg, had young children at the time of the sentencing. "I just couldn't imagine what [Balta] was thinking," Scheinberg says. "He had a stroller in the trunk. He knew the effects of the heat. She was only 9 months old. She was small. He could have carried her."
Scheinberg notes that Michelle, Veronika's mother, pushed for the max penalty. (She did not respond to requests for comment.) "She adored that little girl," he says. "She told us she had caught him doing the same thing at least twice before, and she warned him. She was completely devastated. She told us she wanted the death penalty, but we had to explain that wasn't an available sentence."
He points out that unlike so many other parents who accidentally leave their children in hot cars, Balta chose to leave Veronika. "I'm not suggesting he was trying to eliminate the burden of having a child in his life; I just think it was a burden to have a child that day."
Balta's ex-wife, Jenny, with whom he has two children, says he has always been an irresponsible father. "We have two precious kids together, but he was no dad to them even before he went to prison," she says. "My daughter is 9, and he has not seen her since she was under a year old. He chose to walk away from them. If you are gonna paint a picture of him, get all the angles."
Scheinberg resigned from the State Attorney's Office two years ago but says he thinks of this case a lot and believes the sentence was fair.
"Frankly, I'm surprised anybody is outraged over this sentence," he says. "It's not overly extreme. He killed his little girl."
However, a small network of supporters around the country believes Balta has endured enough punishment. Even if he made an egregious error in judgment, they say, a 20-year sentence is too harsh.
Doris Sutton is an 89-year-old poet living in La Hoya, California. She first heard about Balta's case from the news in 2004 when she was visiting Fort Lauderdale. She has met him in prison and now dedicates several hours every week to getting him out. She founded the Committee to Free Antonio Balta, a collection of a dozen or so advocates around the country.
Sutton regularly calls judges, politicians, and reporters to discuss Balta's case. "He's a good man," she says. "He's not a criminal. He's a grieving father. It was an accident. Either deport him now, send him to be with his parents, or just let him out. I want to see him free before I die."
Members of the committee correspond with Balta through letters and Christmas cards, and several have gone to Bushnell to see him. A creative-writing professor at the University of California, Riverside, is working on a screenplay inspired by Balta's struggles and the dedication of his defenders.
Another supporter, Stacey Brodfuehrer, of upstate New York, says, "I just felt compelled to reach out to him. I wanted to tell him that there are people out there who hear about his situation and they don't think it's right."
Sutton has personally written to every member of the Florida Legislature on Balta's behalf at least four times. State Rep. Joe Gibbons, a Democrat from Hallandale Beach, has heard her pleas. Gulfstream Park is in his district.
"You hate to see inconsistencies in our judicial prudence like that," Gibbons says. "I'm not going to blast our justice system, but obviously he didn't have the same kind of representation as the dentist [who was sentenced to probation]. You have to look at the fact he's a person of color. You have to look at his economic level."
In 2007, when he was a rookie representative in the Florida House, the first piece of legislation Gibbons passed was a bill making it a crime to leave any child younger than 6 alone in a motor vehicle for more than 15 minutes. (He says he'd rather not have the 15-minute clause, but "politics are politics." Janette Fennell says, "You should never leave a baby in a car for any amount of time, period.")
While Gibbons's law established a crime, it also set the maximum punishment at five years in prison. Had this legislation passed two years earlier, Gibbons notes, Antonio Balta would be out of prison by now. "But the law can't be retroactive," he explains. His bill will not affect Balta's sentence.
Gibbons says that to keep Balta in prison — where he cannot earn income to support his two other children — costs the state about $50,000 every year. If he serves out his entire sentence, Balta will have cost Florida taxpayers more than $1 million. "We're spending money on adjudication and not education," he says. "And when he gets out of prison, he's going to be deported. Who is that helping?"
Because he pleaded guilty, Balta has no chance to appeal his sentence, and because he isn't a U.S. citizen, when he gets out of prison, he'll be deported immediately. The only alternative would be an executive pardon.
Gibbons plans to ask Gov. Charlie Crist to release Balta before he leaves office later this year. A representative from Crist's office says the governor has not yet decided whether he will take up Balta's case.
Just beyond the 14-foot fences, rolls of razor wire, and armed guards of the Sumter Correctional Institution lie sprawling green pastures. The air smells like horses — like the stables where Antonio Balta used to sing to Veronika.
After more than an hour in the cinder-block meeting room talking about accidentally killing his daughter, Balta looks tired. Six years in prison have taken a toll. Nobody would mistake him for a little boy now.
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During his time behind bars, Balta has earned his GED and now helps other inmates study for the exam. He does carpentry and has crafted an elaborate wooden dollhouse for a niece. He goes months without hearing from anyone on the outside. (As part of his sentence, he is forbidden from contacting the Bashford family.)
His cell is lined with photos of Veronika. He says he thinks of her every day. "Every time I see kids on TV, I think about holding her," he says. "She would be 7 now. I think about what she would look like and what we would be doing for her birthday."
A prison administrator lets Balta know it's time to go. He walks slowly through narrow halls toward the prison yard. The hot summer sun blazes in through the door frame. Balta pauses for a moment before stepping outside.
There are 14 years left on his sentence, but he'll never get out of prison.


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Alabama Real Estate Investors Agree to Plead Guilty to Conspiracy to Rig Bids for the Purchase of Real Estate at Public Foreclosure Auctions
WASHINGTON – Two Mobile, Ala., real estate investors and one real estate investment company have agreed to plead guilty today for their roles in a conspiracy to rig bids for the purchase of real estate at public foreclosure auctions in southern Alabama, the Department of Justice announced.
Three separate charges were filed today in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama in Mobile against Allen K. French, M & B Builders LLC and its co-owner, Harold H. Buchman.
According to the felony charges, the real estate investors participated in a conspiracy to rig bids by agreeing to refrain from bidding against one another at public real estate foreclosure auctions in Mobile County and surrounding areas.
The department said that the primary purpose of the bid-rigging conspiracy was to suppress and restrain competition to obtain selected real estate offered at public foreclosure auctions at noncompetitive prices. When real estate properties are sold at these auctions, the proceeds are used to pay off the mortgage and other debt attached to the property, with remaining proceeds, if any, paid to the homeowner.
"The Antitrust Division continues to vigorously pursue bid-rigging conspiracies at real estate foreclosure auctions, and will work with its law enforcement partners to ensure that the process is fair and open so that consumers will benefit from competition," said Sharis A. Pozen, Acting Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division.
According to the court documents, the real estate investors conspired with others not to bid against one another at public real estate foreclosure auctions in southern Alabama, participating in a conspiracy for various lengths of time between May 2001 and March 2010. After the conspirators' designated bidder bought a property at the public auctions, which typically take place at the county courthouse, the conspirators would generally hold a secret, second auction at which each participant would bid the amount above the public auction price he was willing to pay. The highest bidder at the secret, second auction won the property.
FBI Special Agent in Charge Lewis M. Chapman recognized the perseverance of agents and prosecutors in this complex investigation. Chapman stated, " This investigation sends the message that real estate fraud including antitrust violations will continue to be pursued in these tough economic times, no matter how intricate the scheme."
French, Buchman and M & B Builders were each charged with one count of bid rigging to obtain selected real estate at foreclosure auctions. M & B Builders also was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud. According to court documents, M & B Builders used the U.S. mail in carrying out the conspiracy to defraud financial institutions by paying potential competitors not to bid competitively in the public auctions for foreclosed properties.
Each violation of the Sherman Act carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $1 million fine for individuals and a $100 million fine for companies. The maximum fine for the Sherman Act charges may be increased to twice the gain derived from the crime or twice the loss suffered by the victim if either amount is greater than the statutory maximum. Each count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud against a company carries a maximum fine in the amount equal to the greatest of $1 million, twice the gross gain the conspirators derived from the crime, or twice the gross loss caused to the victims of the crime by the conspirators.
The Antitrust Division and the FBI have identified a pattern of collusive schemes among real estate investors aimed at eliminating competition at real estate foreclosure auctions, and today's charges are part of the department's ongoing effort to combat this conduct and restore competition to public auctions. The investigation into fraud and bid rigging at certain real estate foreclosure auctions in Southern Alabama is being conducted by the Antitrust Division's Atlanta Field Office and the FBI's Mobile Field Office, with the assistance of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Alabama. Anyone with information concerning bid rigging or fraud related to public real estate foreclosure auctions should contact the Antitrust Division's Atlanta Field Office at 404-331-7100 or visit www.justice.gov/atr/contact/newcase.htm.
Today's charges are part of efforts underway by President Barack Obama's Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force. President Obama established the interagency task force to wage an aggressive, coordinated, and proactive effort to investigate and prosecute financial crimes. The task force includes representatives from a broad range of federal agencies, regulatory authorities, inspectors general, and state and local law enforcement who, working together, bring to bear a powerful array of criminal and civil enforcement resources. The task force is working to improve efforts across the federal executive branch, and with state and local partners, to investigate and prosecute significant financial crimes, ensure just and effective punishment for those who perpetrate financial crimes, combat discrimination in the lending and financial markets, and recover proceeds for victims of financial crimes. For more information on the task force, visit www.StopFraud.gov.


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Hardcore bikers who want to ride into the colder seasons have the perfect excuse to expand their motorcycle wardrobe, and Harley-Davidson is more than willing to help.
Keeping an eye on tradition, Indian Motorcycle have released new apparel collections to celebrate the coming of Fall and Winter.
It's not just motorcycles enjoying the latest technology, Bell Helmets latest lines are also packed with integrated, life-saving features.
Marrying the latest motorcycle fashions with the newest Harley-Davidson softail models could occupy otherwise idle bikers over the following winter months.
The boundaries of just how much technology can be squeezed into a motorcycle helmet is being tested in a new Kickstarter campaign.
Once a novelty, the latest full-color displays making their way onto new model motorcycles rival those found in their four-wheeled cousins.
From the machine itself to the rider, Harley-Davidson has released a host of accessories and apparel to make riding this summer even more enjoyable.
There are so many new features on Yamaha's new North American touring motorcycle, the Star Venture, it's easy to overlook smaller, but clever ideas. Such is the case with the model's infotainment system.
American motorcycle manufacturer, Indian, have scored a new first and its nothing to do with their bikes. Making a debut in Indian's apparel choices, its own line of performance eyewear.
Riders on the lookout for a new motorcycle book may want to consider the worldwide adventures of Hans Karlsson.
A vintage looking boot with manufactured with bikers in mind comes from a notable name in footwear.
A new motorcycle product turns a bike's vague warning lights into informative codes, bringing them as close as a smartphone application.
While their motorcycles may offer the finest of Italian engineering and design, Ducati's latest apparel is an American affair.
Fans of naked motorcycles who thought their time in the spotlight had come and gone only need look to the latest accessories to know it's still a popular style.
Long known for its enthusiasm to help riders make a motorcycle 'their own', Harley-Davidson has released a line of accessories aimed at a celebrated period in biker history, cafe racers.
A popular riding boot takes a more casual approach with the Taser from Bates Footwear hitting the streets in waterproof suede.


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NEW YORK, Aug. 16 (UPI) -- Most women agree with Jennifer Aniston in supporting single women using in vitro fertilization to have a child, a U.S. survey indicates.
Aniston, while promoting her film, "The Switch," about a single woman who conceives a child through artificial insemination, said: "Times have changed and we have so many options these days, as opposed to our parents' days when you can't have children because you have waited too long," People.com reported.
Bill O'Reilly, host of the FNC's "The O'Reilly Factor," criticized Aniston comments as: "Destructive to our society," and accused her of "diminishing the role of the dad."
The survey of 1,936 U.S. women ages 25-45, conducted before the dust up, June 7-14, says 83 percent say they support a single woman using IVF to conceive if she is emotionally and financially able to care for the child.
The survey conducted by Ipsos Reid, for the Barbados Fertility Centre in the Caribbean, which provides IVF at less than half the U.S. cost of $14,000, also says 28 percent of American women aged who are planning to have a child are concerned about their ability to conceive.
"We have seen a sharp increase in patients and inquiries from all backgrounds in the United States, including heterosexual and gay single women and couples, so we wanted to better understand how American women view IVF," Dr. Juliet Skinner, medical director of Barbados Fertility Centre, says in a statement.
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An inmate work crew in Las Cruces saved a man's life.
Someone won $1 million in New Mexico but might not know it yet.
A judge told Gov. Martinez she couldn't publish the salaries of some state workers on the Sunshine Portal. So she put them on the New Mexico home page.
Megadeth singer blames President Obama for mass shootings. And if you can't trust Dave Mustaine about politics ...
Brits are pissed that Ecuador granted Julian Assange asylum.
Can't hang with the footage of mosquitos biting people in this story about West Nile being on the rise. Stupid nature's vampires.
Gov. Jan Brewer signed an executive order to deny Arizonans benefits from the new federal Dream Act-esque immigration program.
This month in free speech.
Anti-Semitic jerk in Hungary finds out he's Jewish.
These gorillas are all happy to see each other.
Where does all that aid money go? Haiti's still without safe housing for most people.
How to shop for groceries when you hate shopping for groceries. (Step One: Realize that your problem is not really a problem. After all, you could be living in a tent in an earthquake-ravaged country.)
Coffee shop bans people from talking about annoying hipster stuff like denim, left-handedness and anything that happened before 2000.
Best gravel voices in movie/TV history.


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If you've seen Talaash, what did you think? Liked it? Loved it? Didn't like it? What's *your* verdict? (If you've written about it, please share the link in a comment below.)
And since December is upon us, here's wishing you and your families the very best. Merry Christmas and happy holidays! God bless.
I usually stay out of the buzz around upcoming movies because I like to come in with a mostly clean slate. But what I did see of the leadup to Talaash was lots of speculation about the plot because, it being a mystery and all, it was somewhat secretive. I usually like to think it's a good sign when things are kept under wraps — meaning there might be a big twist. But I'm not so sure it worked out well in this case, though I can see why not knowing details is important in watching this film. So I'm going to try my best to talk about it without ruining anything.
I can tell you this: Surjan "Suri" Shekhawat (Aamir Khan) is a police inspector investigating the death of a young film star who inexplicably swerved on an empty street and crashed into the ocean. Suri's not without his own problems — he and his wife, Roshni (Rani Mukherjee), are grieving and at odds after the death of their young son — but the case opens up a whole web of blackmail and deaths linked to powerful men mixed with pimps and prostitutes. Including the mysterious Rosie (Kareena Kapoor), who flits around the narrative trying to help Suri with the case when she feels like it and trying to seduce him when she doesn't.
I'll take a minute to say that Aamir's performance is entirely top notch. It's raw and gripping and moving in all of the right places. Brooding, sleepless and emotionally tortured are hardly the qualities you'd expect from a hero, but Aamir is able to draw you into them. Rani Mukherjee is also stellar, but she ends up mostly as a tangent to the main plot, which to me was a great waste of an amazing actress who gives a brilliant portrayal of a broken wife and mother. She's hardly the most beautiful character, always looking like she's hardly slept and slightly out of her mind, but Rani plays Roshni just like she looks: raw.
On the other hand, you have an always overglammed Kareena Kapoor playing a mysterious prostitute. And not very well at that. I tired of her very quickly and think she might have done a better job with the role if all she had to do was be a frivolous streetwalker.
Another performer here who should not go unmentioned simply because he's not one of that Big 3: Nawazuddin Siddiqui. I loved him in Patang earlier this year, but for Talaash, he turned supporting character Tehmur — pimp Shashi's lackey, who is partly crippled and kicked around by everyone — into so much more than he probably would have been otherwise.
But if the performances are mostly stellar, the rest of the film is something of a mixed bag.
Talaash is dark. Make no mistake about that. In a very overarching way, the film is about death and people messing with death — and /* Spoiler Alert Roshni's communicating with her dead son (through a very, very creepy neighbor, I might add) does not sit well with me. End Spoiler Alert */ But stepping away from that, the film continues to carry a dark tone. It's primarily set in a rather seedy red light district. There are lots of dark emotions and a side of violence. Somehow the majority of actions seems to take place at night.
But in some ways, the dark tone is overdone. The plot doesn't seem to bear out the level of darkness that the top-notch editing and cinematography provide. For all of the blackmail and malice that stems from the blackmail, the reasons behind it aren't nearly as dark. Instead, it all comes back to desperation and poor decisions. There's no instigating evil.
And I won't spoil it for anyone, but the "twist" of the movie that everyone kept warning that I'd be spoiled on was really not so remarkable or suspenseful and certainly not unique. I had it figured out way before intermission, though I was hoping I was wrong and it wasn't that simple. The "twist" and its resolution are a little too deus ex machina for me, but, well, without the deus. (In Latin-based literary terms, deus ex machina literally means "God from machine," figuratively meaning that a resolution is engineered from the inexplicable supernatural, usually without warning.)
And generally thrillers like this want to get you thinking, but once my mind got turning on this one, it couldn't stop churning out supposed plot elements that are picked up but then ignored.
An officer at the beginning alludes to other unexplained deaths that have happened in the same way as the film star's, in the same place. Who are the others that have died on the road? How and why did they die if they weren't linked to what actually killed the film star there? /* Spoiler Alert And by the end of the film, Suri's superiors have some doubt in his sanity, but for some reason, they want to keep him on — why? And where did the pimp Shashi disappear to before he was found killed? Even worse — who the hell killed him?!
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The ending also leaves lack of resolution on too many points for my liking.
Does Suri leave the police force? Is he crazy? How does Roshni deal with what her husband has been through — does he even tell her what happened?
But the ending does leave the film's emotional rollercoaster wrapped up. And maybe that's what the point was. So if you consider plot tangential to the film and treat emotion as the centerpiece, darkness and all, then the film is fantastic. But if you're actually looking for a thrilling plot that keeps you thinking and guessing, Talaash leaves something to be desired.


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Gelder, Arend van (1756-1798)
Arend van Gelder was a Dutch Mennonite minister, son of Preacher Hendrik van Gelder and Maria Smidt, b. 1756 at Ouddorp, d. 1798 at Groningen. He was baptized at West-Zaandam in 1783. Having been trained for the ministry by his father, he passed his examination to become a ministerial candidate in 1785 before the board of the Mennonite church of West-Zaandam. Thereupon he served the congregations of Norden, East Friesland, Germany, 1785-1795, and Groningen (United Waterlanders and New-Flemish in the Pelsterstraat) 1795-1798. Then he resigned because of bad health and died soon after. He was married first to Dirkje Bakker of Norden and afterwards to Catharina Vissering of Leer.
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The great Spanish violinist Pablo Sarasate was born in Pamplona in 1844, the son of a military bandmaster. After study in Madrid with Manuel Rodríguez Sáez, a pupil of Jules Armingaud, the leader of the quartet of which Edouard Lalo was a member, he entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of twelve, with the aid of a scholarship from Queen Isabella and the Province of Navarre. Here he became a pupil of Jean-Delphin Alard and also embarked on the study of composition.
He won first prize for violin in 1857 and the following year for solfège, and in 1859 for harmony as a pupil of Henri Reber. By the age of fifteen, however, Sarasate had launched himself on a concert career, at first winning a reputation in Spain and France, before more extended tours to North and South America and throughout the rest of Europe. Composers who wrote for him included Saint-Saëns, Bruch, Lalo, Wieniawski and Dvořák, and he remained distinguished for the purity and beauty of his tone, perfection of technique and musical command. He refused, however, to play Brahms's Violin Concerto, claiming that the only proper melody in the work was given to the oboe. His playing was in contrast to that of his older contemporary Joseph Joachim, who represented a more characteristically German attitude to performance.
For his own use Sarasate wrote a number of works for violin and piano or violin and orchestra, including, as might be expected, compositions based on Spanish themes and rhythms. Following the common practice of his time, he also wrote concert fantasies based on themes from popular operas and compositions based on Spanish themes and rhythms. Among these one of the best known is his Zigeunerweisen (Gypsy Airs), together with his Spanish Dances of which the best known remains his 'Carmen Fantasy'.
As a composer, Sarasate was prolific. His works can be divided into five general groups. The first group contains compositions in the folk idiom, the second consists of opera fantasies, the third group are 'original' compositions and the fourth group are some excellent transcriptions, with the last group consisting of a few cadenzas to violin concertos.


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But KW also sounded like he's been duped _ likely by Washington Nationals GM Mike Rizzo _ in talks for Adam Dunn. While he didn't mention any specific names, Kenny said it's been "frustrating" dealing with newer GMs, of which Rizzo is one. He also mentioned "playing games" and "being above board," so you pretty much get the picture. I'm hearing that Rizzo has taken Dunn off the market, but who really knows? These have been the most unusual days leading up to the trade deadline I ever can remember, by far. But I'm thinking the original plan was for the Sox to acquire Jackson and send him to the Nats for Dunn.
I don't know if Kenny was duped, I know that Kenny made a crappy trade.
UPDATE: HardballTalk:
According to Olney, the Nationals had told teams interested in Adam Dunn that a "key piece" to get a deal done was Edwin Jackson. This forced teams to try to pry Jackson away from the Diamondbacks. Of course, just before 1pm EST today, the White Sox acquired Jackson from the D-Backs in exchange for right-hander Daniel Hudson and left-hander David Holmberg. Now, according to Olney, the Nationals are indicating that they don't want Jackson.
If this what Kenny complained about, the fault is his. You don't trust anyone, especially one you haven't done business with before, Kenny.
UPDATE #2: From Peter Gammons' WEEI appearance:
Q: Where does all this [trade rumors] come from?
A: A lot of times people like to guess. I think agents like to throw it out there. For instance, one of the things I found curious of this whole notion if the White Sox can get Edwin Jackson from Arizona, then they can get Adam Dunn from Washington. It never made any sense to me. I think that is very agent-driven, in that the same people I see writing about this get it from the same place. I know that I talked to [Nationals GM] Mike Rizzo, and he said, I don't want Edwin Jackson, he makes $8 million next season and he has a 5.00 ERA. He said, "I have four pitchers I know are going to be in my rotation next year, why would I spend $8 million on a fifth starter and trade Adam Dunn, who I might be able to sign. It just doesn't make sense, but it gets thrown out there a lot. Colorado has clearly made certain guys available: Aaron Cook, [Joe] Beimel, who's been OK at times. Some of it makes a lot of sense, but the fact is we have so many media outlets. I find it a lot of fun, but it can also drive you crazy trying to chase them all down.


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The new Eli's Cheesecake Cafe at O'Hare would not have been possible without the passion and dedication of Department of Aviation Commissioner Rosemarie Andolino in promoting Chicago Brands.
Eli's Janet Troche, Erin Arceo, Kathy Kirby, Executive Pastry Chef Laurel Boger, Elsa Gomez and Keyla Torres celebrate the opening of the new Eli's Cheesecake Cafe. Over 1,000 slices of Eli's were served free to the public and the celebratory Eli's Cheesecake was donated to the USO at O"Hare Airport.


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New neuroscience minor engages students across disciplines
July 29, 2013
Drawing together biology, chemistry, psychology, mathematics, and sociology, neuroscience is a field between many disciplines. Its researchers explore complex, diverse questions—such as how the brain communicates chemically and how individuals communicate verbally. In the fall of 2013, this cutting-edge field comes to Lewis & Clark.
Faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences recently approved a new neuroscience minor, with the goal of promoting interdisciplinary and collaborative scholarship.
"Students now have the opportunity to explore the field of neuroscience in a structured, challenging, and satisfying way at Lewis & Clark, and to receive recognition for their interests and efforts," said Tamily Weissman-Unni, assistant professor of biology. "It will give students a strong background to prepare them for graduate or other professional programs."
Weissman-Unni and Assistant Professor of Psychology Todd Watson envision students using the neuroscience minor as a way to explore other fields and achieve academic goals without the stress of double majoring. The neuroscience minor allows students to explore phenomena from a wide variety of perspectives and to work with students and faculty from other fields of study.
"The students and faculty here are very enthusiastic about neuroscience and have been working toward developing a minor for several years," said Watson. "The inclusive, interdisciplinary nature of neuroscience very much fits with the overall ethic of a liberal arts institution like Lewis & Clark."
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The Peerless Prognosticator is ON THE AIR!!!
It's all about the divisions, now...at least as far as the remaining game matchups are concerned. As the calendar turns from winter to spring the Caps head into their last seven games with nothing between them and a playoff spot but 21 periods (give or take) against the familiar teams of the Southeast.
Trouble is, this division thing probably isn't going to matter…with Carolina's 2-1 shootout win over Florida last night, the Hurricanes opened up a seven point lead on the Caps with seven games for the Caps to play. Even with a sweep of the two games remaining with the Hurricanes, the Caps are going to need lots of help in the Southeast. And since Carolina is 14-3-1 in their last 18 games, it doesn't seem likely that help is going to be forthcoming. So, the Caps just have to tend to their own business with an eye on Philadelphia and Boston…
"It's such a good feeling…to know you're alive…it's such a happy feeling…you're growing inside…and when you face off, ready to say…'I think I'll make a snappy new day.'"
Why, Mr. Rogers…we didn't know you were a hockey fan. Guess you're like the rest of us who think that the loss to Chicago on Wednesday was a killer…
"Well, I just wanted to say…
You can never go down…can never go down…can never go down the drain
You can never go down…can never go down…can never go down the drain
You're bigger than the water…you're bigger than the soap…you're bigger than Kornheiser (you know, he's a dope)
So you see...
You can never go down…can never go down…can never go down the drain
You can never go down…can never go down…can never go down the drain
The rain may go down…but you can't go down…you're bigger than any bathroom drain
You can never go down…can never go down…you can never go down the drain."
Guess you're caught up in the playoff fever like the rest of us…
"It's a beautiful day in the NHL…a beautiful day for some hockey
Would you please win? Could you please win?
Won't you please... Please won't you make the playoffs?"
Any special wisdom you can share with the boys?
"You always make it a special day for me. You know how, don't you? By just your being you. Whether you're a goal scorer or a checker or just wearing a baseball cap, I like you just the way you are. I'll be rooting for you. Bye."
Thanks, Mr. Rogers...that dose of optimism comes just in time. As for tonight's opponent, Atlanta has done their level best to keep the Caps out of the playoffs…why, this week alone they lost to Florida (one point behind the Caps), Philadelphia (two points ahead of the Caps), and Carolina.
It's part of a complete meltdown by the Thrashers over the last five weeks, during which they are 2-10-4. They have been, to put it plainly, awful in these last 16 games:
Record: 2-10-4
Goals for/against: 36-61
Power play: 10/60 (16.7%)
Penalty killing: 53/69 (76.8%)
Avg. shots for/against: 25.1/36.3
Times allowing >3 goals: 9
Times scoring >3 goals: 2
This is not, at the moment, a very good hockey team. While his numbers certainly aren't stellar, it would be hard to fault number one goaltender Kari Lehtonen for the misfortune. He is 1-7-1, 3.83, .899 in ten appearances over this stretch, but he's been in a shooting gallery, facing 37.5 shots-per-60 minutes. He has a good career record against the Caps – 8-4-2, 2.66, .917 – but this year he is 2-3-0, 2.96, .917.
With the departure of Marian Hossa and Pascal Dupuis via trade, this is the Ilya Kovachuk show as far as the skaters go. And while Kovalchuk can be an exhilarating player to watch, this isn't really a good thing, as the Thrashers' record suggests. Kovalchuk is 10-6-16, +4 over the last 16 games – he's had a hand in 44.4 percent of the Thrashers' offense. By way of comparison, second leading scorer Mark Recchi is 2-9-10, -5 over the last 16 games and hasn't scored a goal in his last 13 games. We say that with some trepidation, since Recchi hasn't lacked for scoring against Washington in his career: 46 goals in 89 games.
Atlanta has had three seasons within a season. There was the 0-6-0 start that got Bob Hartley fired as head coach. There was the 29-21-4 "second season" that had folks thinking this might be a playoff team, and now they are in the throes of the 2-10-4 run over their last 16 games that has them in 28th place in the league-wide points standings. If you're wondering which one is most representative of the club, based on their statistical rankings, well…you decide:
Goals/game: 2.53 (24th)
Goals-against/game: 3.26 (30th)
5-on-5 goals for/against ratio: 0.72 (30th)
Power play: 17.4% (18th)
Penalty killing: 78.7% (27th)
Winning pct. When scoring first: .548 (30th)
Winning pct. When trailing first: .311 (12th)
Winning pct. When leading after 1st period: .667 (27th)
Winning pct. When leading after 2nd period: ..762 (28th)
They are actually 8th in winning percentage when outshooting their opponents, but having accomplished that feat only 10 times in 76 games this year, it is another – if perversely so – indicator of how bad the club has been.
There are two immutable truths about games like this. First, the Caps have no business losing, even if it is on the road. Atlanta is a beaten team – on the ice and confidence-wise. They are getting almost nothing outside of some decent performances from Ilya Kovalchuk and at least determined goaltending from Kari Lehtonen (and Johan Hedberg, for that matter, who has managed to cobble together a winning record: 14-13-3, even if his other numbers are inferior to Lehtonen's).
Second, the Caps have it well within their power (or lack of it) to lose a game like this. Showing up is not a sufficient condition to win. Kovalchuk is always dangerous, and Lehtonen is more than capable of stealing a game on his own. If the Caps play like they did in Chicago on Wednesday, this could end unpleasantly.
Part of the lesson plan for the kids is learning how to win when the season is waning and the pressure is growing. While unable to match Carolina's 14-3-1 record over the last 18, the Caps are a respectable 9-6-3 over a like number of games. Unfortunately, such a pace (say, a 4-2-1 record) over the last seven games probably will not be good enough to earn a playoff spot. With 14 points still on the table, we're thinking 11 more – at a minimum – will be needed. And the Caps can't give two of those three "spare" points away to a team in a situation such as that in which Atlanta finds themselves.
The Caps are simply better, and – the "stinker" in Chicago notwithstanding – they have for the most part played that way lately. There should be no lack for focus with what is at stake, and that's why…
Caps 5 – Thrashers 2


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This year for our Pink Glove Dance Video, we were fortunate to have Stacy Ashley be our choreographer once again! This is the second year in a row that Lexington Medical Center is entering the international Pink Glove Dance video contest sponsored by Medline Industries, Inc., a company that makes pink exam gloves. The project honors cancer survivors and raises awareness about breast cancer.
Our hospital's 2012 Pink Glove Dance features the compelling story of Lexington Medical Center nurse Amy Kinard of Lexington, who was diagnosed with breast cancer at the young age of 34. The video is shot in our hospital and around our community – including at a highly-energized Williams-Brice Stadium, on a special pink glove skydiving adventure and inside a rock star celebration of cancer survivors.
And this year, we're excited to share with you some of the dance moves featured in the video, choreographed by Stacy Ashley:
Vote for Lexington Medical Center's Pink Glove Dance by going to www.pinkglovedance.com, searching on the "L-M" age for LMC and clicking "Vote" on our video. You must have a Facebook account to vote. Lexington Medical Center is the only Columbia area hospital entering the competition. Voting for the Pink Glove Dance 2012 is from October 12th to November 2nd – there's only one week left to go!
The winner will receive $10,000 to donate to a breast cancer charity of its choice. Lexington Medical Center would donate its prize money to the Vera Bradley Foundation for Breast Cancer Research, as it did last year.
To take one of Stacy's classes, check out Gold's Gym located at 619 North Lake Drive, Lexington, SC 29072.


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Any doubt of soccer's popularity in the Bay Area was swiftly kicked away Sunday as throngs of fans, flaunting their allegiance to either Germany or Argentina, packed into bars and parks to watch the World Cup final play out in Brazil.
The epicenter of excitement was City Hall Plaza where tens of thousands - many from Germany and Argentina - watched the thrilling match culminate in a 1-0 victory for the European side.
"This is so awesome," said Katrin Skovsky, 25, who was visiting San Francisco from Munster, Germany. "The atmosphere was fantastic. There are a lot of German people here, so it feels like I'm home."
Skovsky was one of thousands of Germans packed on the south side of the plaza watching one of the two big screens set up for the match. On the grassy north side of the park, thousands more - covered in the famed blue and white colors of Argentina - desperately tried to will their side to victory.
Jason Amico, 17, a Fremont resident of Argentine descent, was wearing his lucky socks adorned with the face of Diego Maradona, the hero of the Argentine team that won the World Cup in 1986.
"They're my lucky socks," Amico said. "I've had them on every game and we won. They have buena suerta (good luck)."
Luck, however, was not on Argentina's side Sunday as the scoreless game finally fell in Germany's favor when Mario Goetze scored the game's only goal in the dying minutes of extra time.
"We're pretty upset," said 25-year-old Bruno Corvalan, who hails for Mendoza, Argentina, but moved to San Francisco last year with 26-year-old Andrea Alarcon. "We had some good chances but it wasn't for us.
"At least we know now there is a big Argentina community here," Alarcon said.
For the crowd at Venga Empanada, a cafe in San Francisco, statistics were irrelevant going into the match.
"Germany looks like they play with a compass - Argentina plays with a passion," Manuel Godino, owner of the cafe on Valencia Street, said before the hammer fell on his team.
Well before the game began, Argentina fans were packed around a television in the cafe that was showing the match on a Spanish language channel. This game is a chance for the player widely considered to be the best in the world, Argentina's Lionel Messi, to notch his biggest honor with a win, and the weighty significance of that was not lost on anyone.
"If Messi has a good day, we will win," said Gabriel Weinst, 31, an Argentine who is now a student in San Francisco and was wearing a Messi jersey. "The Germans are too confident. That's why they will lose.
"My forecast is 2-1 Argentina."
He was two goals short in his prediction - and the only one that counted went against his guys.
Down Valencia a block away at 16th Street, the crowd at Giordano Bros. tavern skewed more German.
"It's a bit of a shame to be out of Germany right now," said Rudolf Schlangen, 37, who is from Cologne, Germany, and has been working in San Francisco for four years in the tech industry. "I was super-young when they won last time."
The bar exploded with delirium when the final second ticked off, leaving the Germans as the new world champions of soccer.
"This is awesome," crowed bartender Derrick Wright. "I'm just glad it didn't go down to the shootout."
Huge crowds were also gathered at San Francisco's City Hall Plaza and dozens of locations all over the region, from Oakland and San Jose to Walnut Creek and San Rafael.
Shortly before the half-time break, a German player almost scored when he banged a ball off the goalpost with a header.
"I almost had a heart attack - I thought I saw it go in," said German fan Aike Behrens. "I was screaming and yelling."
The Era Art Bar and Lounge on Grand Avenue in Oakland was also crammed so full it was hard to hear anything above the whoops of fans - most of whom were cheering for Argentina. Right up front, near the main television screen, were two wedding parties who came directly from the ceremony to watch the match.
"Everyone is just so excited, it's crazy and fun," said bar General Manager Michael Edwards. "We're selling a lot of beer."
Chronicle Staff Writer Kevin Fagan contributed to this report. Evan Sernoffsky is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: email@example.com Twitter: @EvanSernoffsky