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Joe Cahill was downsizing.
He cleaned up his Gunbarrel bedroom before heading out on tour with Leftover Salmon last spring and presented his housemate and longtime friend Kara Murphy a black trash bag stuffed with some of his old clothing.
"I worked at Boulder Outreach for Homeless Overflow, and he said, 'Here's a bunch of awesome clothes for your 'BoHos,'" said Murphy, who had known Cahill since they both attended high school in Yorktown Heights, N.Y.
Cahill, 40, headed out on tour as a lighting technician for the band long popular in Colorado and beyond for its patented "Cajun slamgrass" sound and good-time vibes.
A Death in New Orleans: Part 1
This story will appear in Sunday's print edition of the Daily Camera. A second part, delving into the aftermath of the shooting of Boulder's Joe Cahill, will appear in print and online Monday.
Murphy would never see her old friend again.
But she does not view Cahill's parting with some old duds as a gesture signifying anything more than what it was — a modest donation to charity and a bit of spring cleaning.
"Not for one second did I think he was not coming home from that tour," she said recently. "I was waiting for him to bring home 'tour food,' which was like mini salt shakers and two beers. The leftovers."
But Cahill, the son of a career New York City cop, did not return.
His life came to a violent and inexplicable conclusion one year ago Monday, the day after that tour wrapped. His life was ended with four bullets to the abdomen shot from a Sig Sauer .40 caliber semi-automatic handgun in the front room of a stranger's shotgun-style home in a tough neighborhood of New Orleans. He died within earshot of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival underway at the nearby Fair Grounds Race Course.
Cahill apparently had barged into a modest home where he knew no one, with cocaine and alcohol in his system. And although the shooting has been ruled "justified" by police, to his loved ones, that finding doesn't equate to an adequate explanation.
Murphy is just one of many Cahill friends and family members still left with pain — and with questions.
"What the hell happened?" Murphy asked earlier this month. "Everybody said, 'It doesn't matter what happened because it doesn't change the outcome.' ... I get that. But I do spend a lot of time wondering what happened and why."
And, she said, "Now I have the rest of his clothes."
"He was the baby," said Ken Cahill, his big brother, 52. "There were six of us; now there are five."
Joe Cahill made his mark at Yorktown High School most memorably as an athlete, setting some long-standing records in lacrosse and starring as a football player, too.
His lacrosse exploits earned him an athletic scholarship at the University of Massachusetts, his brother said, which fell through after he suffered a shoulder injury. He ended up instead at the State University of New York at Oswego.
Quentin Young, an entertainment reporter for the Longmont Times-Call, the Daily Camera's sister paper, was Cahill's classmate at SUNY-Oswego, but didn't meet him until 1993, the fall of their senior year, when both were part of a study-abroad program in London.
"We got to know each other on the way over there because we both had guitars," Young said. "We both had guitars out, playing on the plane."
For the balance of his life, Cahill was known to often grab the nearest guitar. Dylan, The Grateful Dead. Neil Young. Songs he wrote himself. It was always about the music.
"We both played guitar, we both liked to have fun and play music, and so we hung out for three months in London," Young said. "He was with a slightly different group, but we got together and jammed pretty regularly."
They would graduate in 1994, and each found his way to Colorado. They were attracted to Colorado by the music scene and the state's reputation as hospitable turf for the jam band ethos epitomized by the Dead and Phish — another group about which Cahill grew passionate. Young and Cahill became housemates in Fort Collins. The music almost never stopped.
Benefit fund
A fund has been established at the Bank of the West to benefit Joe Cahill's 17-year-old daughter, Cassidy. Contributions can be made at the bank's branches in the name of Cassidy Cahill.
"He was not technically very talented, but he was the kind of guy where he entertained you; he was fun to watch, and he didn't care who was watching or what they thought of his talent, or his lack of talent," Young said.
In addition to his guitar, Cahill also brought a drum kit into the Fort Collins house, helping to turn their residence into a popular hangout.
"There were people in and out all the time," Young said. "I was playing in a band, we both had long hair, and we did a lot of partying."
Eventually, Young said, a couple more girls from Yorktown High School showed up and moved in. One, Andrea Rossin, would become Joe's wife in 1996 and give him his one and only child, daughter Cassidy. She was named for the Grateful Dead song.
Cahill's strong identification with the band never wavered. His ATM PIN at the end of his life, when the numbers were converted to letters, was D-E-A-D.
Joe Cahill came from a large Irish-Catholic family whose patriarch, George Cahill, was a New York City cop. George Cahill had a 35-year career in the department, rising to the rank of lieutenant.
"He was in employee relations," said Joe Cahill's sister, Pat McCullough, 57. "When a cop got hurt, or shot and killed, my dad would be on the front page of the (New York) Post with the widow."
The Catholicism ran deep, Santa Claus not even arriving each year until the family was back from church on Christmas morning. The family would take up an entire pew of its own.
McCullough said she and her siblings were taught "everything" about guns by their father, but never knew where his service weapon was kept.
"We don't have guns, and I never really thought about them until this Sandy Hook thing," she said.
"This Sandy Hook thing" was the Dec. 12, 2012, murders of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. McCullough and her husband live one mile from the school.
"That happened on a Friday, and I picked Joe up on Sunday," she said. "I had everyone to my house the following week for Christmas. He came in for a couple of weeks. ... It was a three-ring circus. It was disturbing. It was a big envelopment, and everybody wanted to pay their respects."
That would also be the final Christmas for George Cahill. He died after an 18-month battle with pancreatic cancer, surrounded by family members — including Joe — at his Yorktown Heights home March 13, 2013.
Joe Cahill's brother and sister remember their kid brother going the extra mile in comforting their father through George Cahill's final days.
"He was home whenever he could be there. He would do whatever needed to be done to help," Ken Cahill said. "He would cook, clean and take him to doctors. He would watch football, whatever."
Joe Cahill was there for the final two weeks of his father's life, doing "24/7" duty at his parents' Cape-style home, his siblings said.
"He and I would do the night shifts with my dad," McCullough said. "Joe would sleep on the couch, and Dad would be in his chair."
Ken Cahill remembers their father's last days as "amazing quality time."
"It wasn't 'woe is me' from the get-go. We were all on the thankful page, for the time that we did have, when he did pass," he said.
McCullough, 15 years older than Joe Cahill, said the age difference was such that at times, when he was growing up, it was like he was her own kid. He took his first Holy Communion at age 7, during McCullough's wedding, on May 10, 1980.
Thirty-three years to the day later — and only eight weeks after her father's death — she would deliver her kid brother's eulogy at the very same parish, St. Patrick's Church in Yorktown Heights.
"I told myself I needed to do it," McCullough said. "I'm the oldest. I felt like I needed to do that. They (her brothers and sisters) all thought I couldn't do it. But I did it. I had to do it, and I did it."
* * *
"I have seen where the wolf has slept by the silver stream.
I can tell by the mark he left you were in his dream."
— "Cassidy," by John Perry Barlow and Bob Weir
April 27, 2013 — a Saturday — marked the final night of Leftover Salmon's spring tour. They had played roughly 10 shows that took them across Florida and Georgia, ending the road trip at the Howlin' Wolf, a low-key but roomy venue on the edge of New Orleans' French Quarter.
A typical Salmon show might see the crew arrive at a venue at 2 p.m. to start the load-in and set-up. It would not be uncommon to finish packing out at 2 a.m. the next day.
"But with these guys, it was fun," said Mario Casilio, who handles front-of-house sound and production management for the band and worked alongside Cahill, whom he called a steady and dependable colleague.
"Joe was a very kind of high-energy and positive kind of fella. He was very dedicated to his craft and his art, and did his job very well."
Cahill was a respected veteran of the music scene in Boulder and beyond, having logged time before Leftover Salmon with saxophonist Karl Denson's Tiny Universe and the String Cheese Incident, and handled lighting at both the Fox and Boulder theaters.
The Fox Theatre was packed last May 13 when The Motet and members of Leftover Salmon and the String Cheese Incident played a tribute concert there for Cahill that benefited Cassidy, who also sang in her father's memory.
Casilio, whose first show with the band was in August 2012, said he was initially surprised that Leftover Salmon carried its own lighting system from show to show.
"But when we started doing shows, I started realizing what it really added to the show," Casilio said. "It was mostly Joe and what he did with the lights that made it special. He knew the music really well and cared about what it looked like."
The night of April 27 — actually, the morning of April 28 — was more arduous than usual.
Leftover Salmon went on late — late enough that the band didn't finish until about 4 a.m. that Sunday, and the crew didn't complete its load-out until the sun was threatening the horizon.
Casilio said a few members of the crew headed to a Rampart Street bar called the Dragon's Den to unwind, then the after-show party moved to Igor's on St. Charles, a funky 24-hour joint known for its Bloody Marys and coin-operated laundry machines in the back.
The group broke up at Igor's about 10 a.m. By this time, most members of Leftover Salmon's tour group were on their way to the airport, save for Cahill, Casilio and bassist Greg Garrison.
Cahill already had made arrangements to remain for Jazz Fest, staying with New Orleans resident Wendy Pabian, a platonic friend with whom he had connected the previous year. She had been at the Howlin' Wolf show hours earlier.
"Our plan was to meet up later that afternoon at the festival," Casilio said. "I had to go back to the bus to get my luggage, and he was already moved into Wendy's place."
Casilio remembers nothing unusual about his colleague when they parted company.
"He was normal. I didn't see anything wrong with him," Casilio said. "We had all been drinking a little bit, but it wasn't anything crazy. It wasn't sloppy drunk. We were laughing, having a good time. We were all excited to be done with the tour."
Pabian, who did not respond to a request from the Daily Camera for comment, contacted an attorney after New Orleans Police Detective Tindell Murdock last year made repeated visits to her apartment seeking interviews.
She eventually told Murdock by phone that "she did not wish to make any statements regarding her encounter with Joseph Cahill on the date of the incident," according to a police report.
Pabian's most expansive remarks on the events leading up to the tragedy came in a letter to Ken Cahill, which he then made available to detectives. It had been addressed to "Leftover Salmon, Family and Friends of Joe."
According to her letter, as documented in the police report, she and Cahill left her residence in a cab headed for the Fair Grounds on Sunday.
Along the way, the report stated, "Mr. Cahill's laughter suddenly turned into anger and rage, at which time he began to yell and trash the interior of the vehicle. In his rage, Mr. Cahill also began to bite the side and top of the car while yelling at pedestrians."
After Cahill tossed his sunglasses out the window, Pabian wrote in her letter, he "pulled his chain from his neck, which caused him to bleed, and then tried to jump out of the window. As they got closer to the festival, Mr. Cahill jumped out of the cab. Ms. Pabian attempted to calm and restrain Mr. Cahill, but was pushed away. He then ran away and was not seen again."
Several people close to Cahill who have investigated his final hours believe that a third person was in the cab, a New Orleans-area man with music-business connections they identify as "Ramon." Such an individual is not referenced in any publicly available police records.
Casilio confirmed that "Ramon" was still with Cahill at the time he bid Cahill goodbye at Igor's.
Cahill's siblings continue to pursue a more complete picture of their brother's death with a persistence that likely would make their police lieutenant father proud.
Little more than a month ago, McCullough sent Pabian a letter via the U.S. Postal Service, paying for it to be tracked so she could confirm its delivery.
The letter posed several questions, including, "What did he/they ingest (rumors range from mushrooms/acid/bath salts, but only cocaine was in his system.)" She also asked when Cahill got out of the cab, and whether the taxi was moving at the time — which might possibly explain some of the other minor injuries discovered in his autopsy.
And, McCullough wrote, "We still cannot comprehend what happened and none of us have been able to 'move on' until we can put the pieces together, as disturbing as it is."
She is still waiting for a response.
* * *
Police reports and interviews with eyewitnesses paint a picture of the bizarre and chaotic final minutes of Cahill's life — and reveal for the first time that the stranger's house where he died was not the first to which he tried to gain entrance.
Barry Davis and Reginald Anderson are two brothers who live in adjoining units on Laharpe Street in New Orleans' 7th Ward, just around the corner and down the block from the residence where Cahill was shot and killed.
"He tried to come inside my house. He wanted to come in," Anderson said in an interview earlier this year, as he and his brother nursed vodka and grapefruit juice while relaxing after a bit of landscaping.
"I'm like, 'Step back, man,'" Anderson said. "He stumbled back" toward the street. "He was drunk, or high, or something."
It was not long after 2 p.m.
Both men noticed obvious intoxication — and blood on Cahill's stomach and chest.
"He may have fallen and hurt his face. He did not look like he had been beat up," Davis said. "But that man was bloody, and that man was drunk."
As Cahill reeled uncertainly down the block, Davis had a bad premonition.
"A bloody white man, a mixed neighborhood," he said. "You do the math."
Farther down Laharpe Street, a resident who said he is acquainted with the man who shot Cahill said he spotted Cahill as he came down the block.
"He was in an argument with a black gentleman who was in his car," said the resident, who would provide only his first name, Frank.
He recalled that Cahill was shirtless and bleeding when he first noticed him.
"He's talking to this gentleman, and this guy tells him, 'Stop bleeding all over my car,'" Frank said. "A minute or two later, these two cops start coming down from the corner, trying to call the guy over."
The officers would report that Cahill was bleeding from his head.
Frank said he witnessed Cahill push one police officer off his bicycle and remove his Calvin Klein belt and throw it at the other officer before running toward North Broad Street.
Police reports identified the officers as Hilary Hunt and Stephen Neveaux, members of the New Orleans Police Department's bicycle unit.
"I'm like, really?" Frank said. "I'm trying to understand this. The cops were really, really trying to be polite with that guy. They weren't trying to be aggressive toward that guy. He was on a little something extra."
Cahill headed around the corner from Laharpe Street, onto the busier thoroughfare of North Broad Street. There at the corner, passing time sitting on the porch as he often does, was 70-year-old Jessie Clark, known throughout the neighborhood as "Mr. Jessie."
"He looked like his mind was not right. He was drunk or high or might have taken something," said Clark, who saw Cahill stepping into traffic, forcing cars to stop to avoid hitting him and behaving otherwise erratically. "Those two police officers should have taken him home, and then that never would have happened."
The police report detailing the investigation reflects Cahill's apparent belligerence when officers approached him. Just before Hunt was pushed from his bicycle, the report stated, Cahill told the officers, "Get away from me. I don't want any (expletive) help."
Across the street and a few doors down, eye doctor Jarrett Johnson, owner of side-by-side properties both on the National Register of Historic Places, was doing renovation work with some friends. She, too, saw Cahill endangering himself in traffic; others, she said, were scrambling to help him.
"They were trying to beckon him back out of the street so he wouldn't get hit," Johnson said.
She is accustomed to people coming through her neighborhood from Jazz Fest, sometimes so intoxicated, she said, they will fall down — and remain there for some time. Still, Cahill stood out.
"He was so combative," Johnson said. "He wasn't going willingly. They had to fight him to keep him out of traffic."
When she saw Cahill was out of harm's way — or so she thought — she refocused on her renovation work.
Officers Neveaux and Hunt, meanwhile, were still trying to catch up to Cahill, who was approaching a home at 1509 N. Broad St., a low-slung duplex with a short flight of stairs leading up to a shared front porch, no more than 6 feet from the sidewalk, an iron security grate over the front door.
But that front door was unlocked.
Both officers briefly lost sight of Cahill, but Neveaux, trailing behind, spotted Cahill entering 1509 N. Broad St. Moments later, a black woman exited the home and told the officer that someone she didn't know had barged in and was refusing to leave. Her husband and son, she said, were still inside.
The officers then heard a single gunshot. There are conflicting accounts of whether a 62-year-old man who lived there came outside at that point, or whether he emerged several moments later, after another volley of shots exploded inside the door.
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"Blow the horn, tap the tambourine
Close the gap on the dark years in between"
— "Cassidy," by Barlow and Weir
In the wake of Cahill's death, saxophonist Karl Denson wrote on his official Facebook page that whatever happened, "I'm sure after knowing him for years, that it was a tragic mistake brought on by those dark forces in his nature."
Denson, who had planned to connect with Cahill in New Orleans, didn't elaborate, nor did he respond to requests for interviews.
But Young, Cahill's college friend and former Fort Collins housemate, offered an explanation, citing a trip Cahill made to the West Coast, following Phish on tour sometime in 1994. It was something he would often do with his wife and daughter in a Volkswagen van. This time Cahill was alone.
"He had some experience on 'shrooms — it might have been LSD, but I think it was mushrooms — that went terribly wrong," Young said.
"He fell off the face of the Earth, basically, and nobody knew where he was. His parents were looking for him. Nobody knew where he was. It could have been weeks before some cop in Washington or Oregon found him walking barefoot, somewhere in the Northwest. And he had just been doing goodness knows what, just wandering around in this trip gone bad."
Young added, "After that, he just was never the same again."
The general outline of the West Coast meltdown described by Young is confirmed by Cahill's sister, McCullough.
"As they say, a strange trip," she said. "My parents got a call he was on the West Coast. I don't know what he took. The police found him and put him on a plane back to New York. My parents made the arrangements. They picked him up at the airport; they brought him home."
McCullough, who said it was Washington where police found Cahill, denied there was a lasting personality change.
"It was a very upsetting time," she admitted, "but it was 20 years ago. But that wasn't the same person who had been with us the last two years. It wasn't even close."
The person McCullough saw in more recent years was a fully engaged and loving kid brother. She recalls how his vibrant energy helped fuel their annual family get-togethers at a rented vacation home on Long Beach Island, N.J. — his 40th birthday party there was an epic celebration, she said.
Similarly, he was a key participant in Thanksgivings at McCullough's Vermont vacation home, which could draw dozens, including the 12 Cahill grandchildren.
"Dark forces?" McCullough dismisses such a notion.
"Whatever happened, happened," she said, referring to her brother's misadventure of 1994. "But he was not a dark person."
* * *
"Quick beats in an icy heart, catch colt draws a coffin cart
There he goes and now here she starts, hear her cry"
— "Cassidy," by Barlow and Weir
"Bam bam bam," Davis said, recalling the sounds he heard even from around the corner, rising above the background din of music from the Fair Grounds.
Victoria Le, busy taking orders for po' boys and Louisiana crawfish by the pound at Broadview Seafood on North Broad Street during the midday rush, heard the barrage of gunfire from across the street and about a block to the north.
"I thought it was blown tires," she said. "And then there were people running."
But not long before that, Le recalled, "I saw a white man passing" the store. "He was walking shirtless."
An external surveillance camera at Broadview Seafood recorded Cahill's passing, a 10-second snippet recorded at 2:18 that Sunday afternoon. When detectives recovered those images, they confirmed that Cahill was bloody and shirtless.
Officers Hunt and Neveaux first confronted Cahill a block-and-a-half away, on Laharpe Street.
Before they could corral Cahill a second time, he was brought down by a stranger's gun. The officers stood just outside the North Broad Street residence with the homeowners, a barrage of gunfire having shattered the peace of a Sunday afternoon in festival season.
As they stood there, the couple's 29-year-old son emerged from the house. Officer Hunt asked who did the shooting.
"I did," the young man said.
Coming Monday: A Death in New Orleans, Part 2
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A report released Monday by Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Chairman Carl Levin said Caterpillar used a wholly owned Swiss affiliate to shift $8 billion in profits from the U.S. to Switzerland to take advantage of a 4% to 6% corporate tax rate Caterpillar negotiated with the Swiss government. Levin is a Michigan Democrat, and McCain is the top Republican on the panel.
In his opening statement, McCain said the U.S.'s corporate tax rate – the highest in the world – is "no doubt…a factor in moving operations overseas and, as we have seen from previous hearings, parking those profits overseas rather than bringing them back to be subjected to a 35% corporate tax rate."
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McCain's treatment of Caterpillar was markedly different from his labeling last year of Apple Inc. as "among America's largest tax avoiders" and saying Apple was "purposefully depriving the American people of revenue."
Executives from Caterpillar said in prepared testimony that the company complies with tax laws enacted by Congress, states and all jurisdictions where it does business.
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During those heady times, margaritas and massages flowed in the MarketWatch newsroom, transvestites served burgers at a Razorfish bash and Oracle's Christmas soiree took over the ritzy Fairmont in a grand display of excess.
Alas, while the index says the party is back, the reality tells a different story.
For one, those investors burned by the epic collapse may still be suffering some form of post-traumatic stress disorder. And nobody could blame them for that.
If they're sitting on a 14-year-old pile of Cisco /quotes/zigman/20039/delayed /quotes/zigman/20039/lastsale CSCO , Yahoo /quotes/zigman/59898/delayed /quotes/zigman/59898/lastsale YHOO and Applied Materials /quotes/zigman/19895/delayed /quotes/zigman/19895/lastsale AMAT , they're probably ringing in this occasion by crying into a bottle of Thunderbird and slurring along to Johnny Cash's version of "Hurt".
That's because while Monday's headlines put the technology burst on blast, those three former high-fliers, along with seven other notable downers, are sitting at least 50% below their levels from that fateful March 10 trading day. These aren't just cherry-picked underperformers. Even the Nasdaq-100 /quotes/zigman/105934/delayed /quotes/zigman/105934/lastsale QQQ , which tracks the index's 100 biggest companies, is down double-digits from that point.
Not to mention all the other reasons dark clouds hang all over this "party". Remember, these are the dog days of August and the strength could be fleeting. As BTIG Chief Strategist Dan Greenhaus points out: "Can we really read anything into this? In 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013, the equity move in August's final 10 sessions was reversed in the subsequent 10 days. Perhaps that's all we need to know."
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The quote of the day: "We're going to be hardcore. Haaaaardcore! Haaaaaaaardcore!We're going to get better everyday. We're going to be tenacious. Something knocks us down, and we're going to get back and keep coming and coming and coming and coming. Did you watch these guys? That was haaaaaardcore! Haaaaardcore baby! Nothing gets in our way, BOOM! Keep coming. Haaardcore. The Haaaardcore Clippers, that's us." — Steve Ballmer, sounding just like you'd expect him to sound during his Clippers introduction speech.
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The buzz: Aeropostale /quotes/zigman/304381/delayed /quotes/zigman/304381/lastsale ARO is benefiting from some goodwill, with shares up early after the company announced that Julian Geiger would return as chief executive effective immediately, replacing Thomas Johnson.
Skilled Healthcare Group /quotes/zigman/437036/delayed /quotes/zigman/437036/lastsale SKH is this morning's humongous winner. The stock is up about 50% after the health-care services holding company said it would combine with acute-care provider Genesis HealthCare in a 100% stock transition.
Apple /quotes/zigman/68270/delayed /quotes/zigman/68270/lastsale AAPL got a lift from RBC Capital Markets in Monday's session, and the buying is spilling over into today's premarket, but only just a bit.
The chart of the day: On Friday, Tim Knight of the Slope of Hope blog used this chart to make his bullish case for Sky-mobi /quotes/zigman/2380081/delayed /quotes/zigman/2380081/lastsale MOBI . Little did he know his call was more prescient than he could have possibly hoped for. The stock blew up for a 26% gain Monday. And if you liked it before, you should love it now, because "this stock looks even better than it did Friday," Knight said in a post revisiting his call.
The call of the day: AllianceBernstein's Chris Marx offered up his playbook for how to handle the inevitable rising-rate environment. Nothing too earth-shattering here, but considering this climate change could happen sooner rather than later, there's no harm in taking a harder look at your portfolio. Especially with Janet Yellen on the horizon. "Investors need to take measure of the rate sensitivity in their portfolios — and stay agile — to negotiate the rough market crosscurrents a rate reversal may bring," he said. To summarize, income-oriented plays like utilities, tobacco, telecom and real-estate investment trusts are obviously vulnerable, while financials, energy and consumer discretionary should prosper. Read his full breakdown.
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As if you needed another reason to not have a child. The cost to bring one up from cradle to high-school graduation runs about $250,000.
This is how often preseason number 1s end up national champs.
Golfing for golf tips. And then paying the price.
'Ongoing magma movement.' Uh-oh, Bardarbunga is waking up in Iceland.
Johnny "Middle-finger" Manziel takes on the Cleveland Browns in a preseason matchup, and as expected, we're not talking about his performance.
This is why I don't fish near saltwater crocodiles in Australia. On a positive note Down Under, Australia lays claim to four of the 10 most liveable cities in the world.
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Hodgson quizzed on Beckham return
Roy Hodgson is not expecting David Beckham's high-profile move to Paris St Germain will herald a return to the England fold.
After quitting the Los Angeles Galaxy in November, Beckham has now returned to Europe to join the cash-rich PSG bandwagon under Carlo Ancelotti. Immediately questions were raised about the potential for Beckham, who won the last of his 115 England caps in 2009, returning to the international arena.
But Hodgson said: "When did he last play for the national team? I don't think he has been plotting a return to the national team."
He went on: "I have spoken to him on a number of occasions. Maybe at some point he will pull me aside and tell me not to forget him even though he has not played for so long.
"I am not really prepared for that.
"David made up his mind a while ago what he wanted to do with his life."
Hodgson did concede the move to PSG was "fantastic" for Beckham, and it is clear he holds the midfielder in high regard.
"David is a footballing icon, not only in this country but all over the world," he said. "He is one of the most recognisable footballers anywhere.
"We are perfectly aware of who he is, what he is and what he has done. All I can do is wish him all the best.
"Let's hope he can be as big a success at PSG as he has been everywhere else."


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ABC crime drama will be set in Modesto; local reaction mixed
A crime is about to put Modesto back on national television, but this time it's a fictitious one.
The city is the setting for the new ABC drama series "American Crime," set to air during the network's upcoming 2014-15 season. The show from Oscar-winning "12 Years a Slave" screenwriter John Ridley will focus on one crime through the investigation, arrest and trial and how it affects the community. The series, which will premiere midseason, stars Emmy-winner Felicity Huffman and Oscar-winner Timothy Hutton leading a multi-ethnic cast of veterans and newcomers.
The drama will follow the crime, the violent attack on a young white couple in their home that leaves the husband dead, while tackling the issues of race, class and gender politics. The series pilot features a handful of opening shots of Modesto, including the downtown arch, Kansas Avenue-Needham Street overpass and D Street water tower. But the series itself is being filmed in Austin, Texas, according to ABC spokesman Edwin Escobar. (see trailer below)
The official ABC synopsis reads:
"All over the news are reports about a young couple in Modesto, California, who were attacked in their home. The case sends shock waves into the community, stirring up tensions across racial lines in this gritty drama."
At the broadcast network's upfront presentations for advertisers in May, ABC Entertainment Group President Paul Lee called the series the channel's "biggest swing of the year" and said he could "not be more proud of 'American Crime.' " Los Angeles Times has dubbed the series "ambitious" and New York Magazine's entertainment site Vulture called it the network's "prestige drama."
Representatives for ABC and series creator Ridley were not available to comment on why Modesto was chosen as the setting for the drama. In the first episode, several references to the city are made, including to the Modesto Police Department, the Miss Modesto Pageant and a nonexistent Valley Hospital of Modesto.
For local law enforcement, having a crime – even a fictional one – put the spotlight on Modesto has drawn mixed reactions.
Stanislaus County Sheriff Adam Christianson was troubled after watching the trailer for the series.
"It's not an accurate reflection of our community and the people who live here," he said in an email response to The Bee. "It's a sensationalistic, inaccurate media portrayal of fictitious crime in our community that exploits victims of crime and our community. Given the challenges we face in public safety such as addiction, mental illness, the unemployment rate and quality-of-life issues, you have to ask yourself the question, why Modesto?"
"American Crime" isn't the first show to make Modesto the home base for make-believe mayhem. The FX series "Sons of Anarchy," about a band of outlaw bikers, is set in a fictitious Central Valley city and has made mention of Modesto and Stockton. An episode of the CBS crime series "Criminal Minds" swung through Modesto as the team of FBI profilers tried to capture a serial killer who was murdering victims along the railroad tracks.
On a lighter note, in 2009, Modesto was the epicenter of a meteor strike that brought about mutant powers and an alien invasion in the DreamWorks animated family film "Monsters vs. Aliens."
Modesto Police Chief Galen Carroll said setting the series in the city does not have to reflect badly on the community.
"It's a double-edged sword," he said. "I am not really worried about it. You don't want any show to make the city look bad. I think we get kicked enough as it is. But I think it can apply just about anywhere. When you look at the trailer, this could be anywhere, USA."
Carroll said the Modesto Police Department has been contacted by various television productions over the years for information and collaboration on shows. He said a few months ago the department was approached about a new series, but he is not sure if it was associated with "American Crime." Still, the department's position has been largely to turn down such requests.
Modesto Police Department uniforms can be seen in the pilot episode, albeit with the department's old gold badges and patches. The city changed to silver stars and silver-and-blue logos last month.
"I said, tongue in cheek, thank God we changed those," Carroll said. "We look at (show requests) show by show. 'Cops' has asked to work with us. But if it is looking at crimes or things like that – they want violence, drugs and the like – I am not interested in perpetuating those stereotypes of the city. I think we have a pretty good city. We have our problems, but I don't think shows like that help us out."
The "American Crime" pilot episode, which was made available to screen for the press via the ABC media site, sets up the series for a long, tough look at racial and economic issues. The victim is a white Iraq War veteran, and those connected with the crime range from a first-generation immigrant Latino family to a biracial couple addicted to meth.
Series producer, writer and director Ridley, who took home the best adapted screenplay Oscar for "12 Years a Slave" in March, said during the upfront presentations that in coming to ABC, "the only mandate I was given was to be bold."
"This challenges ideas about race in a way typically not done on television," he told The Hollywood Reporter during the presentation.
Ridley, who is also a novelist, previously wrote the screenplays for the satirical war drama "Three Kings" with George Clooney, the George Lucas-financed Tuskegee Airmen project "Red Tails" and the blaxploitation spoof "Undercover Brother." His historical drama "12 Years a Slave," starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Lupita Nyong'o, Michael Fassbender and Brad Pitt, earned nine Oscar nominations and took home three, including best picture.
Carroll said he plans to watch the series, at least initially, to see how Modesto is depicted. He said Modesto's reputation as a perennial placer on "Worst Cities" lists for things such as crime, jobs and the economy have garnered the community unfortunate attention over the years. Real-life, high-profile crimes such as the Scott Peterson murder case in 2002 and Chandra Levy's disappearance in 2001 have added to that perception.
"We always seem to end up on the bottom of whatever list happens to be, or at the top of bad lists," Carroll said. "Sometimes lists don't mean everything. If you look at our neighborhoods and neighbors, we'd be a lot worse off if we didn't have a bunch of good people who make great neighbors. That never comes out in lists."
No premiere date has been given for "American Crime," but as a midseason show, it should debut in late 2014 or early 2015. Until then, Carroll said, his hope is that the series shows Modesto as being similar to any other city – its good and its bad.
"I don't think there's anything to be afraid of," he said. "But we'll see what they do."


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MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury police were informed that someone had left threatening voice mail messages on the answering machine at the local office of the Vermont Department of Children and Families on Nov. 12. Police said the person also made threats against the Vermont State Police. The investigation continues.
In other action last week, Middlebury police:
• Responded to a juvenile issue at a Water Street residence on Nov. 11.
• Searched in vain for a man who allegedly had been asking for drugs in the Bakery Lane area on Nov. 11.
• Responded, with local fire and emergency personnel, to a two-car crash with injuries on Route 7 South, near Rosie's Restaurant on Nov. 11. Police said one operator was taken to Porter Hospital by Middlebury EMS for minor injuries sustained in the crash.
• Received a report from Hannaford Supermarket that a person had tried to purchase alcohol using a fake identification card on Nov. 11.
• Took into protective custody a dog that had been wandering at the intersection of Ossie Road and Church Street on Nov. 12. Police turned the animal over to the dog warden.
• Were informed of the theft of an outside light bulb from a Jayne Court residence on Nov. 12.
• Investigated a trespassing complaint at a Jackson Lane residence on Nov. 12.
• Recovered a bike in the South Street area that had been reported stolen on Nov. 12.
• Warned a homeless person who was found sleeping in a North Pleasant Street garage on Nov. 12.
• Were informed of a near collision involving a truck and a pedestrian on Court Street on Nov. 13. Police said the witness declined to cooperate further in the investigation.
• Ticketed a youth for being a minor in possession of tobacco on Middlebury Union High School grounds on Nov. 13.
• Turned over, to a parent, a juvenile who had been seen smoking marijuana on MUHS grounds on Nov. 13.
• Turned over, to Porter Hospital, a local woman who had been suffering a mental health crisis on Nov. 13.
• Assisted Middlebury ambulance staff with a local woman having detox issues on Nov. 14.
• Received a report that some tools had been stolen from a North Pleasant Street residence on Nov. 14.
• Recovered a stolen motorcycle from a section of the Trail Around Middlebury off Washington Street Extension on Nov. 14.
• Returned a truant student to MUHS on Nov. 14.
• Responded to a domestic disturbance at a Valley View Road home on Nov. 14.
• Investigated a report of a man hollering on College Street on Nov. 15. Police could not find such a man.
• Investigated a report of a strong odor of propane coming from a train traveling past South Street Extension on Nov. 15. Police checked the area and said they found no cause for concern.
• Were informed of the theft of some tires from outside a North Pleasant Street residence on Nov. 15.
• Warned a man for urinating in public off College Street on Nov. 15.
• Were informed that someone had struck and damaged a car parked off South Main Street on Nov. 16.
• Responded to a report of a disorderly woman at the Porter Hospital emergency room on Nov. 16.
• Assisted Vergennes police with a case off Basin Harbor Road on Nov. 16.
• Took into protective custody a drunken man who had been opening dorm rooms on Middlebury College campus on Nov. 16.
• Cited Nichole Lopinto, 32, of Middlebury for driving under the influence on Charles Avenue following a stop for a defective turn signal on Nov. 16.
• Took a very drunk local woman to receive detox services at the Marble Valley Correctional Center on Nov. 17.
• Warned a man who was in violation of the town's open container law on Storrs Avenue on Nov. 17.
• Issued court diversion paperwork to a woman who was seen drinking alcohol on Hillcrest Road on Nov. 17. Police said they also warned the woman for violating the town's open container ordinance.
• Served court diversion paperwork to two underage women who were in possession of alcohol on Adirondack View on Nov. 17.
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A small community with plenty of character and charm, you'll see why Glenmorgan was the winner of the 2008 Queensland Bush Spirit Award.
Car and railway buffs love this little town - Glenmorgan is a small community with lots of character!
Monty's Garage and Vintage Car Museum is like stepping into a auto workshop from the 1940s .. you'll see beautifully, painstakingly restored vintage cars and trucks as well as works in progress and motoring memorabilia. You can also fill up with fuel there.
Visit the end of the railway extension, 'End of the Line' and view memorabilia of the railway in the Shire. Housed in the Glenmorgan Railway Station, it's a must see for railway buffs. Interesting local fact: the streets are all named after family members of one-time Queensland parliamentarian, Minister for Railways, Godfrey Morgan.
Glenmorgan is also home to Myall Park Botanic Gardens, which is an internationally recognised botanic garden, boasting Queensland's oldest collection of Australian semi-arid zone flora. The gardens were developed by amateur botanist David Gordon, AM in the 1940s on the ridge behind his home. He and his family then spent the 1950s gathering seeds and cuttings of Australian plants from all over the continent, which they then propagated and then planted over an area which covers more than 130 hectares. Many species planted by David are now extremely rare and sometimes extinct in their own natural habitat. The on-site gallery exhibits superb botanical paintings by his wife, the late Dorothy Gordon. Follow the interpretive signs off the beaten track on foot or on bike, to see the very best specimens.
There's also a hotel and a shop in town. Glenmorgan is located on Surat Development Road between Surat and The Gums.
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Testing has already gotten underway and concluded at Sepang today, meaning the teams of MotoGP have released their livery for the next season with varying degrees of fanfare and showmanship. It's no surprise then that we found a couple photos of the LCR Honda RC212V adorned with a seductive Playboy bunny affixed to it, in what surely has to be the best GP team launch in 2011.
If you read Asphalt & Rubber on a religious basis (we are your motorcycling zen temple, right?), you've likely divined by now that I'll chastise just about any company that uses the premise that "sex sells" (nothing boils my blood more than this cleverly short, yet misguided maxim), and that I love a good scrappy startup that's got more hustle than funding (case in point: A&R is a penniless motorcycle startup trying to make it in this crazy online world).
So how does a the multi-million dollar motorcycle racing team with half-naked women draped all over their machinery get such accolades from our humble motorcycle blog? Because LCR Honda is the epitome of innovation on the business side of MotoGP racing.


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Terry praise for controversial Di Canio
John Terry hopes Chelsea can inflict defeat on Paolo Di Canio's Sunderland at Stamford Bridge after praising the controversial Italian's character.
Di Canio's appointment as successor to Martin O'Neill has been the subject of much debate this week, with former foreign secretary David Miliband quitting as vice-chairman of Sunderland over the 44-year-old's past statements professing to be a "fascist but not a racist".
Di Canio insisted he does not support "the ideology of fascism" as he seeks to mastermind Sunderland's Barclays Premier League survival. That quest begins on Sunday against Chelsea. "I can only speak highly of him (Di Canio)," Terry said.
"I played against him when he was at Charlton. His movement was fantastic and I found he was just a real nice guy on the pitch. I was only young at the time when I was playing against him when he was at West Ham and sides like that.
"He always spoke to me after games and said 'listen, maybe you should do this and do that' which was really nice at the time. A two-word sentence was enough and something I learned from.
"He always gave a battle. If there was a little tussle he'd get up and shake your hand after and that kind of thing. So very fair, very passionate, as we've seen with his character, and his ability was fantastic. He was a credit."
Terry, who was not asked directly about Di Canio's views, anticipates the Italian's arrival will galvanise the Black Cats.
"He's certainly going to have them up for it," said Terry, who may return to the bench after starting in Thursday night's 3-1 Europa League quarter-final first leg defeat of Rubin Kazan.
The FA Cup holders have a place in the semi-final against Manchester City and travel to Moscow next Thursday seeking to confirm their last-four spot in the Europa League, with Terry believing winning results in the Premier League are now imperative.
"We really need to push on in the league," Terry said. "Realistically he (interim boss Rafael Benitez) probably can't rest too many in the league. We must win and keep winning games in the league and really push, because that is what this club feeds off, is the Champions League. We must be involved in that."


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e's how old?
Twenty, was the answer.
And he's a violinist in the Los Angeles Philharmonic?
Yes. He nailed his audition last spring at the age of 19, beating out hundreds of applicants who had far more experience.
So went my conversation with the orchestra's publicist on the subject of Robert Vijay Gupta, who has seven months to go before conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen can legally buy him a beer after a concert.
I bumped into Gupta at Walt Disney Concert Hall recently and said hello, but didn't know anything about him until that conversation with the publicist. I asked Gupta if we could get together, and he invited me to his home, just west of the 405.
Before going to see him, I looked up his biography, which made me consider throwing myself in front of a moving truck.
The New York native graduated from college with a pre-med biology degree at 17. He graduated from Yale with a master's in music at 19. In his spare time as an aspiring neuroscientist, he did laboratory research at Harvard and two other colleges, studying Parkinson's, spinal cord regeneration and the effects of pollution on the brain.
I wasn't sure whether I wanted to interview him, clone him or strangle him. But I was definitely curious to find out how he got where he is, and whether there were any universal lessons in the story of his success.
Gupta greeted me at his condo with a polite, "Welcome, Mr. Lopez." This is not a young man who's likely to cross paths with Lindsay Lohan on the club circuit. He's got poise and humility, and his eyes are dark reservoirs of maturity.
The musician poured me a cup of coffee and said his father would be with us shortly. It's a safe assumption that Gupta is the only member of the orchestra who needed a parent with him to get settled.
The elder Gupta, who has managed his New York travel agency by phone while helping his son set up a home, had to cosign on the condo loan since Robert had no credit record.
"You have to be 25 to rent a car," Robert added, so his father also had to ferry him to rehearsals and concerts until he found time to buy a car. The next youngest member of the orchestra is 28, and publicist Adam Crane said he has so far been unable to find a younger musician in a major orchestra anywhere in the country.
For dinner, if the Guptas are not scoping out a new hole-in-the-wall restaurant as they explore their adopted city, father and son try their hand at cooking Indian food. This involves the occasional frantic call to Robert's mother, Chandana, for advice. An accountant, Mrs. Gupta is busy raising Robert's younger brother, Akshar, a classical pianist and biochemistry major who, of course, will graduate from college in May at the age of 17.
So what gives with this family?
Mr. and Mrs. Gupta, both born in Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta, raised their boys to hit the books and work toward good-paying jobs in medicine, law or business. Music was supposed to help round them out, not get in the way of the important stuff.
"My parents tell me I liked to dance to music when I was 3 or 4," Robert said. His father, Vivek, came in from another room to clarify the matter in scientific terms.
"He was a weird child."
Mr. Gupta recalls tuning the television to "Tom and Jerry" cartoons and watching Robert flip to New York Philharmonic concerts on PBS. Piano lessons followed, then violin.
"I was completely infatuated," Robert said.
Breezing through the Suzuki method, he completed in two years what normally takes eight or 10. At the ripe old age of 6, he stunned his parents when he aced an audition for the pre-college program at the Juilliard School in New York City, which became his music lab for the next seven years.
But Vivek Gupta doesn't want people to get the wrong idea. "I hate it when people call him a child prodigy," he said.
His son didn't play like an angel the first time he picked up the violin. It was years of devotion that got Robert where he is, thanks in large part to the sacrifices of Mrs. Gupta. She drove her son to and from schools and music lessons while he did his homework in the car.
Robert performed as a young solo phenom in Israel, India, Europe and Japan. Even Oprah Winfrey had to have him. In school, the cherubic lad skipped a grade because of how advanced he was, but got picked on and occasionally beaten up for being such a young whiz.
"People in high school were like wolves," Robert said, so he doubled up on courses with a tutor and finished his high school graduation requirements two years early. Then, simultaneously, he was a full-time student at the Manhattan School of Music in Harlem and at Mount St. Mary College before transferring to Marist College.
Yeah, I know. It begins sounding like one of those stories where children experience everything in life but childhood. Except that Robert never felt that way.
"I loved every second of it," he said.
When I asked how he could excel as both an artist and a scientist, he leaped at the question as if it were a pizza fresh out of the oven.
"I have a theory," he said, telling me he believes that music training at an early age -- when there are more neurons in the brain -- enhances the band of fibers that connects the two hemispheres of the brain. Get to know Mozart's 4th Violin Concerto, in other words, and Einstein's quantum theory of light might make a little more sense.
You listening, parents? Get the kids some piano lessons.
Robert said that as far back as he could remember, music for him was "exhilaration, joy, complete release." But he also believed that immersing himself in science, history and philosophy would make him a better violinist.
"To be an artist, you have to know something outside your instrument," he said. "You have to be a human."
After collecting his master's from Yale in May, it was time to figure out what to do next. Rather than rush off to medical school or go for an MBA, Robert thought he'd take time to reflect while doing some freelance soloing.
Might as well have told his parents he wanted to work at a car wash.
"His mother wanted him to become a doctor and so did I," said Vivek Gupta, who had always thought music would be something Robert did on the side, to take a break from his real job. "We thought he was wasting his time."
But Robert had developed a mind of his own, and a friend told him the L.A. Phil had openings for two violinists.
Interesting, he thought. He'd counted on a career as a soloist, but believed an orchestral job would be more challenging and useful at this stage of his development. He'd have to interpret the conductor, take a cue from the section leader, work in tandem with his stand partner, and still produce an original sound.
Honestly, though, he figured he had a better chance of jumping off a chair and landing on the moon than getting hired in Los Angeles, which he believes is supplanting New York as the music center with all the buzz. But long odds could work to his advantage, he theorized. It would free him to play without pressure.
"I wanted to not think about the result."
Of the 332 musicians who applied for two violin positions, 111 were invited to audition. In the first round of trials, Gupta's strategy worked well enough to move him into Day Two. And then it worked again.
For most of the performances, musicians played behind a screen, so judges evaluated only the sound and not the person. But in his final two performances, Robert was face to face with conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen.
In the first of those sessions, Gupta felt like he'd faint from lack of food. But someone rescued him with a snack, and so he was in front of Salonen one last time, with the conductor asking him to play Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream.
Gupta dug down once more, trying not just to play the piece, but to feel and interpret it. If his boldness cost him the job, so be it.
By the end of the night, Salonen had made his decision. Gupta and David Chernyavsky were the winners, and Gupta would be invited back the following week for tryouts with the full orchestra.
After just three concerts, Gupta was called to the conductor's office.
"I'm very honored to offer you the position," Salonen said. "Will you accept?"
"Absolutely," Gupta said.
Here's what Salonen told me about why he hired a 19-year-old kid for his world-class orchestra.
"I was struck not only by the sheer quality of Robert's playing, but also by the boldness and confidence of it, which is kind of rare at that stage. . . . Many people who come to audition are trying to play it safe . . . and it's playing that . . . is quite often not very interesting."
I wondered, though, if Salonen might be worried that he would show up to work one night and see an empty seat in the orchestra because Gupta had gone off to run Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
"In a sense," Salonen said of Gupta's far-ranging interests, "this made me even more confident about his future in music, because very clearly Robert is not playing violin in the L.A. Philharmonic for any other reason than his love of music."
In concert at Disney Hall, Gupta appears to have settled in comfortably but lost none of the exuberance. After a recent performance of Beethoven's 4th, he stood Boy Scout proud, basking in warm waves of applause. Last week, he passed his first season of probation with unanimous support from his colleagues.
"He's really a joy to be around," whatever the topic of conversation, said principal concertmaster Martin Chalifour, who finds Gupta's music "enlightened" and "aesthetically beautiful."
Gupta said he looks forward to the occasional solo opportunity, playing chamber music, and perhaps competing one day for a higher position in the orchestra. When he's off duty, he studies literature and science on his own.
Is there still a chance he'll be a doctor one day?
"My wife and I gave up," Vivek Gupta said. "Whatever he decides will be fine. And without music, he would go crazy."


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INDIAN LAND – Margaret Barfield carefully scanned the shelves for deals as she pushed her cart through the new ALDI food market in Indian Land.
Barfield, who lives just miles from the store, was one of many shoppers swarming the aisles of the store during its grand opening Thursday morning.
She has been traveling to the Rock Hill ALDI for years to take advantage of the chain's unique discounts and brands, and couldn't wait for her favorite store to open near her home. The new store is at the intersection of Marvin Road and U.S. 521.
Customers of Verizon Wireless will soon have much spacier confines to browse products and take care of other cell phone-related business.
Verizon Wireless in Lancaster is having a new office built on S.C. 9 Bypass near the Founders Federal Credit Union headquarters. It will replace the space it's been using across from Walmart since it took the place of Alltel last year.
Louis Streater, code enforcer for the city of Lancaster, said a building permit was granted May 4 to WT DuBois Construction Inc. of Tennessee, the contractor for the project.
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Selena Catoe wanted a change.
Despite the poor economy and the fact that she already had a stable nursing job at Springs Memorial Hospital, the lifelong Lancaster resident was looking for a new profession. Catoe, 38, said she loves nursing but wanted to express herself in a "happier setting."
"Event planning has always been something I wanted to do, but going into nursing was a career I could depend on," she said.
VAN WYCK – It's taken him more than 20 years, but Steven Muratore is ready to make his and several aspiring truck drivers' dreams come true.
Muratore opened the KDS Commercial Driver Training Institute in Van Wyck on June 25 with the hope that he could help reduce the county's high unemployment numbers.
Through extensive classroom and on-the-road training, Muratore said students will be able to earn their Commercial Drivers License, Class A, allowing them to drive tractor-trailer trucks.
KERSHAW – Haile Gold Mine employees, county officials and media representatives entered an air-conditioned tent at the mine on June 29, not knowing why they had been called there.
Diane Garrett, chief executive officer of Romarco Minerals, which owns about 4,000 acres of land at the mine, soon made an announcement to the curious crowd.
The company was celebrating five years with no reportable injuries, Garrett said. She thanked the employees for helping achieve the safety record.
INDIAN LAND – A prototype Walmart store is almost ready to open in Indian Land.
Shoppers are getting ready for the new store, located off U.S. 521 just before the state line, to open its doors on Aug. 18. Store manager John Clevenger said Walmart will begin moving into the 180,000-square-foot building on July 12, stocking shelves and readying for the grand opening.
This will be one of Walmart's new prototype stores, which will feature a new logo, a more natural outdoor color and a revamped in-store design.
INDIAN LAND – Frank and Judy Taillon retired just a few years ago to their dream home at Clearwater Beach, Fla., to start a new life of leisure. But what seemed to be a dream come true soon developed into a change of plans.
It started with a move to Indian Land to be closer to their best friends – Judy's sister, Felicia, and her husband, Dana – and their new dream of starting a business together.
Breaking open the small plastic package, Kirsten Blackmon grabs the rubber bracelets inside and clips them to her belt.
Blackmon, 11, has been on the hunt for the bracelets for months, checking out jewelry and specialty stores along with her 7-year-old sisters Alexa and Alysa. The fifth-grader found her latest additions at Maple Street Monograms in Lancaster, adding to her collection of more than 40 bracelets.
Because of the economy, now might not be the best time to start a new business venture, but that isn't stopping Tony Shehane.
Shehane has started an one-hour radio show, "Sunday Bluegrass" from 4 to 5 p.m. on WAGL (1560-AM). And Shehane, 69, isn't intimidated by a risk of failure.
"I figured Columbus took a chance on something, so why can't I?" Shehane said. "It's really no different. You don't know if you can succeed if you don't try."
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- Boot-style slippers that look like the TARDIS
- Faux-suede with embroidered details
- Come packaged in a TARDIS shoe box
Traditional slippers are awesome, but when it gets cold, slippers leave you with a spot on your ankle that's uncovered no matter how long your sleepwear of choice is. Your options? Footie pajamas. Or these.
These are pretty spectacular even if you don't have cold ankles, we have to admit. TARDIS blue faux-suede exterior with a white fuzzy lining, these TARDIS Boot Slippers have embroidered details. You'll be sporting the top front of the TARDIS on your shin and the DW logo on your ankle. White, molded outsoles made from some sort of foam stuff provide traction for those late-night, in-the-dark fridge runs.
Also? The box these come in is pretty epic. The front looks like a TARDIS. It'd be great for storing Doctor Who memorabilia and stuff.
Keep away from fire. Sponge clean only. Imported.
THESE ARE LADIES' U.S. SIZES. Subtract 2 from the women's size to get the men's or youth size they'll fit. Example: A Size 4 youth can wear a Size 6 in these boots. Someone who wears a Size 8 men's shoe should choose a Size 10 in these. Additionally, these run slightly small- please order a size up if you're unsure of your size or are between sizes.


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Nature is humming along at Aliso Creek Inn and Golf Course — quite literally.
The picturesque lodge and nine-hole golf course is the site of a new "green" initiative that combines locally-grown produce with the power of bees.
Six new table-height planter boxes, built in June near the location of the conference and meeting rooms at the Inn, are now producing several varieties of lettuce, plus Thai peppers and a number of herbs, in addition to strawberries.
At a remote location on the property, a beekeeping box hums along, with a healthy stock of Italian brown bees inside.
The "potager" garden and beekeeping projects were the idea of the Inn's general manager, Kurt Bjorkman, who wanted to demonstrate the precepts of sustainable agriculture.
Bjorkman had his staff build the raised garden beds out of lumber found on the grounds, in an effort to "re purpose" or recycle the wood.
The rabbit-proof garden beds were put in place in June, and now are yielding an impressive selection of winter vegetables. In spring, they will be planted with even more vegetables for "strictly fresh" fare in the Inn's restaurant.
As for the bees, since their arrival in March, they have so far produced about 30 pounds of honey, but that's not the main reason they're being kept.
"You need bees for a garden," said beekeeper and gardener Andrea Wilde — who doubles as the Inn's catering and conference director. "Yields on a garden are greatly increased by having bees."
The honey is not being harvested — yet. That will wait for the future.
"Right now, I am keeping the honey for the use of the bees," Wilde said.
Bees survive on the honey they produce, and Wilde wants to make sure the hive remains healthy and well-fed.
Wilde opens the box about once a month to check on the hive. Even without opening the drawer in which the queen lives, bees begin to swirl out of it, curious about the strangers who have come to call on them, and protective of their monarch.
Wilde worked at an estate in England where she learned the art of beekeeping, and says she eagerly volunteered for the beekeeping job. She also has a knack for gardening, as evidenced by the healthy crop of vegetables and herbs on which she keeps a watchful eye.
"It's all for 'green' awareness," Wilde said. But it's clearly more than a demonstration project.
Wilde says there are more plans in the works, such as using landscaping between the hotel rooms for a cut flower garden, as well as fruit trees.
"We'll use the flowers for weddings and parties," she said.
Wilde just planted three varieties of tomato seeds that should be ready for picking next summer.
"Then we'll harvest the seeds and develop a tomato by taste," she said.
The garden plots all have calendula plants growing in them, and not just because of their attractive yellow flowers.
"It's the poor man's saffron," Wilde explained. "The flowers are edible and you can use them to color foods. They also attract bees." The bees collect pollen from the plants to make honey and in the process pollinate the plants — and so the cycle of nature is complete.
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If You Go
Aliso Creek Inn and Golf Course is at 31106 Coast Hwy. in South Laguna. The restaurant is open for private parties, and the golf course is open every day, rain or shine.
For more information call (949) 499-2271 or visit http://www.alisocreekinn.com.


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Built upon the foundation established by Souls series creator and Dark Souls II Supervisor, Hidetaka Miyazaki with development helmed by FromSoftware Director Tomohiro Shibuya, Dark Souls II will feature a new hero, a new storyline, and an unfamiliar world for players to survive in while delivering its signature brand of unrelenting punishment that players hunger for.
Epic battles with gruesome enemies and blood-thirsty bosses await adventurers as they traverse through a devastated world filled with death and despair; only those who are strong willed or cunning can survive this journey to achieve great glory. Players seeking to share their experience will discover a revamped server-based multiplayer mode that will put a distinct Dark Souls II twist on the concept of playing with others.
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Bhg House Plans Beautiful Bhg House Plans - There is undoubtedly a lot to think about when finding plans for sheds. It is possible to also go by your own plans if you would like a true DIY undertaking. It is possible to browse through different floor plans to provide you with the look that you want or you are able to customize your new modular building to receive a unique floor program, totally unmatched to anything else. Although it may seem intimidating, it's really simple to plan and build it. Possessing the correct loafing shed plans will make it possible for you to construct the correct shed for protecting your horses from bad weather. As it's simpler to find or design a home plan for a particular lot instead of find a lot that suits a particular house program, I advise that you purchase your land first, before you acquire any plans.
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There's a good chance your next computer won't have an optical drive (that would be the place on the side of your laptop where you insert discs). For those already immersed in technology, losing the drive is an obvious move. Digital can be just as convenient and allows for thinner, lighter computers.
However, many people still rely on discs for software and media, and, if you're among their number, ditching the disc can be intimidating. What happens if you have to install software or – worse – recover the operating system?
Relax. Computers without a disc drive aren't so different. Let's cover a few simple points that will help you decide if going disc-less is ideal.
Can you really download everything?
Can you really download everything? The answer is yes … if your Internet connection is up to the challenge. This is the first item to check before turning your back on physical media.
Let's imagine that you want to watch a movie on a new Ultrabook. Since you have no disc drive, you decide to buy the movie from iTunes or Amazon. You opt for the HD version, so the file size is about 4GB.
If you're on a 10 megabit per second (Mbps) connection, and the actual speed of the connection is close to what was advertised, the file will take about an hour to download. That's not bad. Buying a Blu-ray at the nearest store would probably take the same amount of time.
Reduce the speed to 6 Mbps, however, and the download will be closer to two hours. A connection of 2 Mbps extends the download to over four hours, and a person on a 0.5 Mbps line could start the download before leaving for work, only to find it not yet complete when he returns home.
Anyone not already on a 10 Mbps connection should upgrade before buying a disc-less PC. The cost of this upgrade is worth some thought. If you're happy with your current, slower connection, and upgrading is an extra $20 per month, you'll be spending $240 per year to ditch your disc – and not everyone will find that worthwhile.
Handling old media
Solving the Internet issue is an important step, but it doesn't address the other big problem: what the heck should you do with your DVD collection?
There are two answers to this question. The first is to buy an external optical drive. If this is the route you choose, there's not much else to explain. Optical drives are boring commodity hardware. Find one that supports read and write and has a low price. Oh, and make sure the drive supports Blu-ray if you want to watch HD movies from a disc.
The other answer is to convert your existing collection of disc media into a digital collection that lives on your hard drive. To do this, you'll still need access to a disc drive – but only once. So, you can use your old computer or borrow some time on a friend's to rip your media.
While discs may look the same, they must be treated differently depending on if they contain media (movies, music, etc.), or software.
Ripping CDs and DVDs
Music and movies will have to be saved to your computer as music and video files. Extracting these files from discs is known as "ripping."
Ripping a music CD is simple. Both Windows Media Player and iTunes have one-touch solutions in their interface. All you need to do is insert the CD into a computer, open the disc in either program, and then locate the "Import CD" or "Rip CD" button. Most music can be ripped within minutes.
DVDs are more complex because of copy protection, which must be defeated before the video files can be accessed. DVDShrink, which is free, can handle older DVDs. Newer discs will require retail software like DVDFab or AnyDVD.
Understanding .ISO
You might think that software on a disc could be copied straight away. The disc contains the software, right?
Not exactly. Discs contain an installer, which isn't the same as the software itself. Worse, some software installed from a disc will need the disc inserted to function. That will be a problem if the software is installed on a PC with no optical drive.
The solution is known as a disc image (or .ISO) file. It's a single file containing everything that was on a disc and packed up so that it acts exactly like a disc when opened by the appropriate software.
Windows doesn't have the ability to make and use .ISO files on its own, so you'll need to download third-party software. There are some great free options available like ISODisk (to create .ISO files) and Virtual CloneDrive (to mount them). These utilities will help you make the .ISO and then mount it into a "virtual drive," which tricks your computer into thinking the .ISO file is a disc in an optical drive.
You'll also need to use .ISO if you want to reinstall Windows. You can do this by using one of the above tools to make an .ISO of your Windows install disc, and then, using the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool, mount that file on a USB drive. Note that you must use the tool; simply dragging the .ISO file into the USB drive's storage won't work.
A note about storage space
When you buy a new computer that lacks a disc drive you are forcing all of your data to your computer's hard disk. This may or may not be a problem, depending on the size of your existing media and software collection.
An average Ultrabook on sale today comes with a 500GB hard drive. That's a lot of space, but it can also go quickly. A drive of this size can handle just 60 uncompressed DVDs. Think about the size of your physical media collection and whether you want to rip all of it, or just some. An external hard drive will be necessary if your collection is large, and that adds another $60 to $180 (depending on capacity) to your tab.
Some computers come with small, fast solid-state drives. These score well in our reviews because of their incredible performance, but are hampered by limited capacity. If you purchase a new PC with such a drive, you should plan on also buying an external optical drive, an external hard drive, or both.
Ditching the optical drive is not for everyone. Consumers who don't have and can't access fast Internet will find them annoying, and budget buyers will find the necessary extras – like an external hard drive – irritating.
There are many advantages to going digital, but don't forget the disadvantages. It's important to not feel pressured to move away from discs because they're considered outdated. Ditching the disc has hidden costs and can take more effort than some users find worthwhile.


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The Costs of Being Landlocked: A Road Trip in Africa
The Ouagadougou-Accra-Tema corridor, a road stretching from Ouagadougou in West Africa's Burkina Faso through Ghana's bustling capital city Accra and onto the country's port city Tema, is one of Africa's most well-known corridors. In October, we joined Albert, a 50-year-old driver from Burkina Faso, on a 750 kilometer journey to highlight the high economic costs faced by landlocked countries and the cumbersome border crossings that impede trade.
The journey, which should have taken seven hours by car, took us 17 hours, 1 border crossing and 20 checkpoints.


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Too Many Distractions At Home? Send Your Teens To The Prairie West Branch Of The Siouxland Library.
Right now, all high school teens are looking forward to the end of the school year. The only thing that is standing between those teens and their summer vacation is their impending semester tests. But one library in Sioux Falls is doing what they can to help those teens get prepared for those semester tests.
High school teens are encouraged to take part in the 'Teen Study Time' at the Prairie West Branch Library, Monday, May 12th and Tuesday, May 13th. The Prairie West Branch Library is located at 7630 W. 26th Street in Sioux Falls. Hours of the 'Teen Study Time' are from 5pm to 9pm on Monday, May 12th and from 1pm to 9pm on Tuesday, May 13th.
Even though it is an unsupervised study time, it is set up for teens who might need to get away from the distractions of home and focus on studying for their semester finals. Students will have access to all the resources in the Prairie West Branch Library and when the student feels a need to take a quick break, "brain snacks" and water will be provided for them.
The library will have two separate rooms set aside to accommodate the students for studying. One room will be set up for students to study individually and a second room will be made available for students who need to work in a group study situation.
The Prairie West Branch Library is also getting prepared for students who will be taking their ACT tests, by holding ACT test prep sessions the last two Saturdays in May. On Saturday, May 24th, students will be able to prep for the English and Math portion of the ACTs and on Saturday, May 31st, students can prep for the Reading and Science portions. The ACT test prep sessions begin at 11am both Saturdays.
During the ACT test prep sessions, students will be able to take actual ACT practice tests and have access to the databases of different practice ACT test questions.
For more information regarding the 'Teen Study Time' and 'ACT Test Prep' sessions, contact the Prairie West Branch Library.


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– . The Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano is reporting that 67 professors from La Sapienza University in Rome who wrote a letter opposing a visit by Pope Benedict XVI based their opposition on a quote taken out of context from Wikipedia.org.
The Vatican daily also referred to the declaration signed by the 1,479 subsequent protesters, as mark of solidarity with the 67 in wich is stated that they "would have acted the same in the name of liberty and the investigation of science."
"Perhaps," L'Osservatore Romano continued, "the 1,479 professors do not know that, In the name of 'freedom of research and of knowledge,' they have taken false information to be true, accepting an assertion without checking whether it is factual".
In their letter, the 67 professors maintained that "on March 15, 1990, during a speech in the city of Parma when he was still a cardinal, Joseph Ratzinger quoted a statement by Feyerabend (a philosopher of science): 'During the era of Galileo the Church was more faithful to reason that Galileo himself. The trial of Galileo was reasonable and just. These are words that, as scientists faithful to reason and teachers who devote their lives to the advance and spread of knowledge, offend and humiliate us. In the name of the lay nature of science and culture and out of respect for our forum open to teachers and students of all creeds and ideologies, we urge that this event be canceled."
"If before rushing to express their solidarity with the 67, one of the 1,479 would have verified the affirmation (of the original letter), they would have discovered that the one who wrote the letter took the citation of Ratzinger's discourse from the entry Papa Benedetto XVI in Wikipedia, the well-known Internet encyclopedia, composed by its users, which no scientific person uses as an exclusive source of his investigations, without carefully verifying its credibility," L'Osservatore Romano noted.
"That Wikipedia in all likelihood is the source of the quote is evident by the fact that the letter from the 67 professors makes reference to a speech by Cardinal Ratzinger on March 15, 1990 in Parma. The speech was given, but it took place in Rome, at La Sapienza University on exactly that day," L' Osservatore continued. "The surprising thing is that whoever took the quote from Feyerabend could not have read the rest of the entry in Wikipedia, as he would have realized that the meaning of Ratzinger's statement is exactly the opposite of what the 67 claimed the Pope was saying."
The complete text of Cardinal Ratzinger's conference was published in 1992 with the title "Svolta per l'Europa? Chiesa e modernità nell'Europa dei rivolgimenti."
In a footnote to the conference text in that volume, the author explained that the address was delivered at La Sapienza University in Rome, on Feb. 15, 1990.
"Now then," L'Osservatore Romano continued, "what's surprising is that the person who took the Feyerabend citation could not have read the complete Wikipedia entry, which enables one to realize that the meaning of Ratzinger's phrase is exactly the contrary to what the 67 professors have aimed to attribute to the Pope."
"Each person is free to judge if this way of using reason is correct or if it is an act of disloyalty. The risk of reason folding to the pressure of interests and to the attractiveness of utility is exactly the risk which the Pope would have warned the staff of La Sapienza about had he been able to speak there," the Vatican newspaper stated in conclusion.


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Columbus Alive
Like many a musical mad scientist, Davey Highben inhabits his own distinct reality, one where contradictions and chaos are means to making sense of earthbound existence.
For Highben, making music is "the only thing that really brings me to peace," even if that music is among the least peaceful racket a human being could conceive. He is a self-proclaimed perfectionist who "could work on something for 10 years trying to get it right," but someone with Highben's hunger for creation "(doesn't) have the time to wish for the perfect idea of something."
Instead, Highben leads his band Altered States of the United Snakes (AS*US for short) on a sonic scouting mission, attempting to pluck transcendence out of the ether and bask until it dissipates. They leave their lo-fi punk rock open-ended, keeping structures loose and always searching for new approaches.
As bassist Fred Pfening explains, "We're trying to find the moments where it goes beyond what we could plan."
While Pfening and drummer Mat Bisaro have become trusty co-conspirators with Highben over the years, other catalysts have come and gone. The sonic upheaval once provided by departed guitarists Tom Derwent and Adam Fleischer now falls to The Unholy Two noisemaker Adam Smith and his oscillating feedback network.
That said, the band's lineup and sound have stabilized a lot since the days when Fleischer would invite guests to play with AS*US on a whim.
"For a while, since we never practiced, it seemed like a good idea," Highben said.
This Saturday they'll celebrate the latest document of their combustible cacophony. "Pagan Tiger Swing Band" was originally released last fall as a comically limited CD-R. Now 300 copies are coming out on vinyl courtesy of Ohio experimental label Lost Treasures of the Underworld.
The band is playing two release shows in the same day, one at Used Kids and one at Ace of Cups, which seems like a good way to cut your audience in half. But as Bisaro put it, "I don't think any of us are in this for the audience."
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