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Statement of Regulatory Priorities
USDA's focus in 2012 will be on programs that create/save jobs, particularly in rural America, while identifying and taking action on those programs that could be modified, streamlined, and simplified, or reporting burdens reduced, particularly with the public's access to USDA programs. In addition, USDA's regulatory efforts in the coming year will be focused on achieving the Department's goals identified in the Department's Strategic Plan for 2010 to 2015.
Important regulatory activities supporting the accomplishment of these goals in 2012 will include the following:
Retrospective Review and Executive Order 13563
In January 2011, President Obama issued Executive Order (E.O.) 13563 on Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review. As part of this E.O., agencies were asked to review existing rules that may be outmoded, ineffective, insufficient, or excessively burdensome, and to modify, streamline, expand, or repeal them accordingly. Reducing the regulatory burden on the American people and our trading partners is a priority for USDA, and we will continually work to improve the effectiveness of our existing regulations. As a result of our regulatory review efforts in 2011, USDA will make regulatory changes in 2012, including the following:
Labeling - Generic Approval and Regulations Consolidation. FSIS is developing a rule that will expand the circumstances in which the labels of meat and poultry products will be deemed to be generically approved by FSIS. The rule will reduce duplication and streamline the regulations on this subject by combining them into a single part of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR);
Electronic Export Application and Certification Fee. FSIS is planning a rule to provide for the electronic transmittal of foreign establishment certifications between FSIS and foreign governments. The rule will consolidate four inspection certificates (meat, meat by-products, poultry, and egg products) into one certificate. The rulemaking is intended, in part, to accommodate the Agency's electronic Public Health Information System.
Environmental Compliance. The Farm Service Agency (FSA) will consolidate and update the environmental compliance regulations to ensure regulations are consistent and current for all FSA programs and remove obsolete regulations;
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Streamlining. The Natural Resources and Environment mission area and the Forest Service (FS), in cooperation with the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), is considering a series of initiatives to improve and streamline the NEPA process as it applies to FS projects;
Rural Energy for America Program. This new program will modify the existing grant and guaranteed loan program for renewable energy system (RES) and energy efficiency improvement (EEI) projects. In addition, it would add a grant program for RES feasibility studies and a grant program for energy audits and renewable energy development assistance. This rulemaking will streamline the process for smaller grants, lessening the burden to the customer. It will also make the guaranteed portion of the rule consistent with other programs Rural Development (RD) manages and allow applications to be accepted year around;
Business and Industry Loan Guaranteed Program. RD plans to rewrite the regulations, which will result in improved efficiency and effectiveness of the program, fewer errors because the guidelines and requirements will be clearer, and items will be more easily found in a better organized volume of regulations; and
Water and Waste Loans and Grants. RD will update the operations aspects of the loan and grant program to reduce the burden on the borrower.
Reducing the Paperwork Burden on Customers and Executive Order 13563
USDA has continued to make substantial progress in realizing the goal of the Paperwork Reduction Act. For example, the Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services (FFAS) mission area will reduce the paperwork burden on program participants by consolidating the information collections required to participate in farm programs administered by FSA and the Federal crop insurance program administered by the Risk Management Agency (RMA).
FFAS will evaluate methods to simplify and standardize, to the extent practical, acreage reporting processes, program dates, and data definitions across the various USDA programs and agencies. FFAS expects to allow producers to use information from their farm-management and precision agriculture systems for reporting production, planted and harvested acreage, and other key information needed to participate in USDA programs. FFAS will also streamline the collection of producer information by FSA and RMA with the agricultural production information collected by National Agricultural Statistics Service.
These process changes will allow for program data that is common across agencies to be collected once and utilized or redistributed to Agency programs in which the producer chooses to participate. FFAS plans to implement the Acreage and Crop Reporting Streamlining Initiative (ACRSI) in an incremental approach starting in late 2012 with a pilot in Kansas for growers of winter wheat when OMB approves the information collection. Full implementation is planned for 2013. When specific changes are identified, FSA and RMA will make any required conforming changes in their respective regulations.
Increasingly, USDA is providing electronic alternatives to its traditionally paper-based customer transactions. As a result, customers increasingly have the option to electronically file forms and other documentation online, allowing them to choose when and where to conduct business with USDA.
For example, Rural Development continues to review its regulations to determine which application procedures for Business Programs, Community Facilities Programs, Energy Programs, and Water and Environmental Programs can be streamlined and its requirements synchronized. RD is approaching the exercise from the perspective of the people it serves, by communicating with stakeholders on two common areas of regulation that can provide the basis of reform.
The first area provides support for entrepreneurship and business innovation. This initiative would provide for the streamlining and reformulating of the Business & Industry Loan Guarantee Program and the Intermediary Relending Program-the first such overhauls in over 20 years. The second area would provide for streamlining programs being made available to municipalities, tribes, and non-profit organizations; specifically Water and Waste Disposal, Community Facilities, and Rural Business Enterprise Grants, plus programs such as Electric and Telecommunications loans that provide basic community needs. This regulatory reform initiative has the potential to significantly reduce the burden to respondents (lenders and borrowers).
To the extent practicable, each reform initiative will consist of a common application and uniform documentation requirements making it easier for constituency groups to apply for multiple programs. In addition, there will be associated regulations for each program that will contain program specific information.
Natural Resources Conservation Service will also improve the delivery of technical and financial assistance by simplifying customer access to NRCS' technical and financial assistance programs, streamlining the delivery and timeliness of conservation assistance to clients, and enhancing the technical quality of its conservation planning and services. The streamlining initiatives will allow NRCS field staff to spend more time on conservation planning in the field with customers, reduce the time needed to implement cost-share contracts, and provide more flexibility for customers to work with NRCS in different ways. NRCS estimates that this initiative has the potential to reduce the amount of time required for producers to participate in USDA's conservation programs by almost 800,000 hours annually. This includes efficiencies from reduced paperwork, data entry by the client, and reduced travel time to and from the local office to complete forms and other administrative tasks. Improvements being considered include the following:
Major Regulatory Priorities
This document represents summary information on prospective significant regulations as called for in E.O.s 12866 and 13563. The following USDA agencies are represented in this regulatory plan, along with a summary of their mission and key regulatory priorities in 2012:
Food and Nutrition Service
Mission: FNS increases food security and reduces hunger in partnership with cooperating organizations by providing children and low-income people access to food, a healthful diet, and nutrition education in a manner that supports American agriculture and inspires public confidence.
Priorities: In addition to responding to provisions of legislation authorizing and modifying Federal nutrition assistance programs, FNS' 2012 regulatory plan supports USDA's Strategic Goal "Ensure that all of America's children have access to safe, nutritious, and balanced meals," and its two related objectives:
Access to Nutritious Food. This objective represents FNS's efforts to improve nutrition by providing access to program benefits (food consumed at home, school meals, commodities) and distributing State administrative funds to support program operations. To advance this objective, FNS plans to publish a final rule of the 2008 Farm Bill that ensures access to SNAP benefits and addresses other eligibility, certification, employment, and training issues. An interim rule, implementing provisions of the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004 to establish automatic eligibility for homeless children for school meals, further supports this objective.
Promote Healthy Diet and Physical Activity Behaviors. This objective represents FNS' efforts to improve the diets of its clients through nutrition education, support the national effort to reduce obesity by promoting healthy eating and physical activity, and to ensure that program benefits meet appropriate standards to effectively improve nutrition for program participants. In support of this objective, FNS plans to publish the final rule regarding the nutrition standards in the school meals programs, finalize a rule updating the WIC food packages, and establish permanent rules for the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program, which currently operates in a select number of schools in each State, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.
Food Safety and Inspection Service
Mission: FSIS is responsible for ensuring that meat, poultry, egg, and catfish products in interstate and foreign commerce are wholesome, not adulterated, and properly marked, labeled, and packaged.
Priorities: FSIS is committed to developing and issuing science-based regulations intended to ensure that meat, poultry, egg, and catfish products are wholesome and not adulterated or misbranded. FSIS regulatory actions support the objective to protect public health by ensuring that food is safe under USDA's goal to ensure access to safe food. To reduce the number of foodborne illnesses and increase program efficiencies, FSIS will continue to review its existing authorities and regulations to ensure that it can address emerging food safety challenges, to streamline excessively prescriptive regulations, and to revise or remove regulations that are inconsistent with the FSIS' hazard analysis and critical control point (HACCP) regulations. FSIS is also working with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to improve coordination and increase the effectiveness of inspection activities. FSIS' priority initiatives are as follows:
Notification, Documentation, and Recordkeeping Requirements for Inspected Establishments. As authorized by the 2008 Farm Bill, FSIS will issue final regulations that will require establishments that are subject to inspection to promptly notify FSIS when an adulterated or misbranded product received by or originating from the establishment has entered into commerce. The regulations also will require the establishments to prepare and maintain current procedures for the recall of all products produced and shipped by the establishments and to document each reassessment of the establishments' process control plans.
Catfish Inspection. FSIS is developing final regulations to implement provisions of the 2008 Farm Bill provisions that make catfish an amenable species under the Federal Meat Inspection Act (FMIA).
Public Health Information System. To support its food safety inspection activities, FSIS is implementing the Public Health Information System (PHIS). PHIS, which is user-friendly and Web-based, will replace many of FSIS' current systems and automate many business processes. PHIS also will improve FSIS' ability to systematically verify the effectiveness of foreign food safety systems and enable greater exchange of information between FSIS and other Federal agencies (such as U. S. Customs and Border Protection) involved in tracking cross-border movement of import and export shipments of meat, poultry, and processed egg products. To facilitate the implementation of some PHIS components, FSIS is proposing to provide for electronic export and import application and certification processes as alternatives to the current paper-based systems for these certifications.
Other Planned Initiatives. FSIS plans to finalize a February 2001 proposed rule to establish food safety performance standards for all processed ready-to-eat (RTE) meat and poultry products and for partially heat-treated meat and poultry products that are not ready-to-eat. Some provisions of the proposal addressed post-lethality contamination of RTE products with Listeria monocytogenes. In June 2003, FSIS published an interim final rule requiring establishments to prevent L. monocytogenes contamination of RTE products. FSIS has carefully reviewed its economic analysis of the interim final rule and is planning to affirm the interim rule as a final rule with changes.
FSIS Small Business Implications. The great majority of businesses regulated by FSIS are small businesses. Some of the regulations listed above substantially affect small businesses. FSIS conducts a small business outreach program that provides critical training, access to food safety experts, and information resources (such as compliance guidance and questions and answers on various topics) in forms that are uniform, easily comprehended, and consistent. FSIS collaborates in this effort with other USDA agencies and cooperating State partners. For example, FSIS makes plant owners and operators aware of loan programs, available through USDA's Rural Business and Cooperative programs, to help them in upgrading their facilities. FSIS employees meet with small and very small plant operators to learn more about their specific needs and provide joint training sessions for small and very small plants and FSIS employees.
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Mission: A major part of the mission of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is to protect the health and value of American agricultural and natural resources. APHIS conducts programs to prevent the introduction of exotic pests and diseases into the U.S. and conducts surveillance, monitoring, control, and eradication programs for pests and diseases in this country. These activities enhance agricultural productivity and competitiveness and contribute to the national economy and the public health. APHIS also conducts programs to ensure the humane handling, care, treatment, and transportation of animals under the Animal Welfare Act.
Priorities: With respect to animal health, APHIS is continuing work to revise its regulations concerning bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) to provide a more comprehensive and universally applicable framework for the importation of certain animals and products. In the area of plant health, APHIS is in the midst of a revision to its regulations for the importation and interstate movement of plant pests and biological control organisms to clarify the factors that would be considered when assessing the risks associated with the movement of certain organisms, facilitate the movement of regulated organisms and articles in a manner that also protects U.S. agriculture, and address gaps in the current regulations. APHIS also plans to propose standards for the humane handling, care, treatment, and transportation of birds covered under the Animal Welfare Act.
Additional information about APHIS and its programs is available on the Internet at http://www.aphis.usda.gov.
Agricultural Marketing Service
Mission: The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) provides marketing services to producers, manufacturers, distributors, importers, exporters, and consumers of food products. The AMS also manages the Government's food purchases, supervises food quality grading, maintains food quality standards, and supervises the Federal research and promotion programs.
Priorities: AMS' priority items for the next year include rulemaking that impact the organic industry, as well as the wholesale pork industry. Rulemakings the Agency intends to initiate within the next 12 months include:
Sunset Review (2012)-Nutrient Vitamins and Minerals. On March 26, 2010, the National Organic Program (NOP) issued an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) announcing the National Organic Standards Board's (NOSB) sunset review of exempted and prohibited substances codified at the National List of Allowed and Prohibited Substances of the NOP regulations. This review included a listing for "Nutrient vitamins and minerals" scheduled to sunset on October 21, 2012. AMS intends to publish a proposed rule to address a recommendation submitted by the NOSB for this listing. This proposed rule would continue the exemption (use) for nutrient vitamins and minerals for 5 years after the October 21, 2012, sunset date. This proposed rule would amend the annotation for nutrient vitamins and minerals to correct an inaccurate cross reference to U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations as AMS determined that the current exemption for the use of nutrient vitamins and minerals in organic products in the NOP regulations is inaccurate. In effect, the proposed amendment would clarify what synthetic substances are allowed as nutrient vitamins and minerals in organic products. Further, the NOP regulations do not correctly provide for the fortification of infant formula that would meet FDA requirements. This proposed rule would incorporate the correct FDA citation with respect to the addition of required vitamins and minerals to organic infant formula.
Livestock Mandatory Reporting; Establishing Regulations for Wholesale Pork. As directed by the 2008 Farm Bill, the Secretary conducted a study to determine advantages, drawbacks, and potential implementation issues associated with adopting mandatory wholesale pork reporting. The report from this study concluded that negotiated wholesale pork price reporting is thin and becoming thinner and found some degree of support for moving to mandatory price reporting exists at every segment of the industry interviewed. That study also concluded that the benefits likely would exceed the cost of moving from a voluntary to a mandatory reporting program for wholesale pork.
Subsequently, the Mandatory Price Reporting Act of 2010 (2010 Reauthorization Act) (Pub. L. 111-239), was signed into law on September 28, 2010, and reauthorized Livestock Mandatory Reporting for 5 years and added a provision for mandatory reporting of wholesale pork cuts. The 2010 Reauthorization Act directed the Secretary to engage in negotiated rulemaking to make required regulatory changes for mandatory wholesale pork reporting.
Further, the 2010 Reauthorization Act directed the Secretary to establish a Committee that represented the spectrum of interests within the pork industry, as well as related stakeholders, to ensure all parties had input into the regulatory framework. Specifically, the statute required that the Committee include representatives from (i) organizations representing swine producers; (ii) organizations representing packers of pork, processors of pork, retailers of pork, and buyers of wholesale pork; (iii) Department of Agriculture; and (iv) interested parties that participate in swine or pork production.
The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) convened the Wholesale Pork Reporting Negotiated Rulemaking Committee (Committee) through notice in the Federal Register on January 26, 2011. The Committee met three times over the period February through May of 2011 to develop the regulatory framework necessary to implement a mandatory program of wholesale pork reporting.
The regulatory text developed by the Committee will serve as the primary basis for the proposed rule, consistent with both the intent of Congress and the Negotiated Rulemaking Act. It is important to note that the Committee reached consensus on all items included in the proposed rule-where consensus was defined by the Committee bylaws as being unanimous agreement. Therefore, AMS is confident the proposed rule to implement wholesale pork reporting will be met with little or no resistance from the industry members who will be required to report under the mandatory system.
Grain Inspection, Packers, and Stockyards Administration
Mission: The Grain Inspection, Packers, and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) facilitates the marketing of livestock, poultry, meat, cereals, oilseeds, and related agricultural products and promotes fair and competitive trading practices for the overall benefit of consumers and American agriculture. GIPSA's activities contribute significantly to USDA's goal to increase prosperity in rural areas by supporting a competitive agricultural system.
Priorities: GIPSA intends to issue a final rule that will define practices or conduct that are unfair, unjustly discriminatory, or deceptive, and/or that represent the making or giving of an undue or unreasonable preference or advantage, and ensure that producers and growers can fully participate in any arbitration process that may arise relating to livestock or poultry contracts. This regulation is being finalized in accordance with the authority granted to the Secretary by the Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921 and with the requirements of sections 11005 and 11006 of the 2008 Farm Bill.
Farm Service Agency
Mission: FSA's mission is to equitably serve all farmers, ranchers, and agricultural partners through the delivery of effective, efficient agricultural programs, which contributes to two USDA goals: Assist rural communities in creating prosperity so they are self-sustaining, re-populating, and economically thriving; and enhance the Nation's natural resource base by assisting owners and operators of farms and ranches to conserve and enhance soil, water, and related natural resources. FSA supports the first goal by stabilizing farm income, providing credit to new or existing farmers and ranchers who are temporarily unable to obtain credit from commercial sources, and helping farm operations recover from the effects of disaster. FSA supports the second goal by administering several conservation programs directed toward agricultural producers. The largest program is the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), which protects nearly 32 million acres of environmentally sensitive land.
Farm Loan Programs. FSA will develop and issue regulations to amend programs for farm operating loans, down payment loans, and emergency loans to include socially disadvantaged farmers, increase loan limits, loan size, funding targets, interest rates, and graduating borrowers to commercial credit. In addition, FSA will further streamline normal loan servicing activities and reduce burden on borrowers while still protecting the loan security.
Disaster Designation. FSA will revise the disaster designation process to streamline it and reduce the burden on States and tribes requesting disaster designations. One result may be fewer delays in delivering disaster assistance to help farm operations recover from the effects of disaster.
Forest Service
Mission: The mission of the Forest Service is to sustain the health, productivity, and diversity of the Nation's forests and rangelands to meet the needs of present and future generations. This includes protecting and managing National Forest System lands, providing technical and financial assistance to States, communities, and private forest landowners, and developing and providing scientific and technical assistance and scientific exchanges in support of international forest and range conservation. FS' regulatory priorities support the accomplishment of USDA's goal to ensure our national forests are conserved, restored, and made more resilient to climate change, while enhancing our water resources.
Special Areas; State-Specific Inventoried Roadless Area Management: Colorado. FS planned final rulemaking would establish a State-specific rule to provide management direction for conserving and managing inventoried roadless areas on National Forest System lands in the State of Colorado.
Land Management Planning Rule. FS is required to issue rulemaking for National Forest System land management planning under 16 U.S.C. 1604. The first planning rule was adopted in 1979, and amended in 1982. FS published a new planning rule on April 21, 2008 (73 FR 21468). On June 30, 2009, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California invalidated FS' 2008 Planning Rule published at 36 CFR 219 based on violations of NEPA and the Endangered Species Act in the rulemaking process. The District Court vacated the 2008 rule, enjoined USDA from further implementing it, and remanded it to USDA for further proceedings. USDA has determined that the 2000 planning rule is now in effect, including its transition provisions as amended in 2002 and 2003, and as clarified by interpretative rules issued in 2001 and 2004, which allows the use of the provisions of the 1982 planning rule to amend or revise plans. FS is now in the 2000 planning rule transition period. FS published a proposed planning rule on February 14, 2011 (76 FR 8480). The final rule is expected to be published December 2011. In so doing, FS plans to correct deficiencies that have been identified over two decades of forest planning and update planning procedures to reflect contemporary collaborative planning practices.
Community Forest and Open Space Conservation Program. The purpose of the Community Forest Program is to achieve community benefits through financial assistance grants to local governments, tribal governments, and nonprofit organizations to establish community forests by acquiring and protecting private forestlands. Community forest benefits are specified in the authorizing statute and include economic benefits from sustainable forest management, natural resource conservation, forest-based educational programs, model forest stewardship activities, and recreational opportunities.
Rural Business-Cooperative Service
Mission: Promoting a dynamic business environment in rural America is the goal of the Rural Business-Cooperative Service (RBS). Business Programs works in partnership with the private sector and the community-based organizations to provide financial assistance and business planning, and helps fund projects that create or preserve quality jobs and/or promote a clean rural environment. The financial resources are often leveraged with those of other public and private credit source lenders to meet business and credit needs in under-served areas. Recipients of these programs may include individuals, corporations, partnerships, cooperatives, public bodies, nonprofit corporations, Indian tribes, and private companies. The mission of Cooperative Programs of RBS is to promote understanding and use of the cooperative form of business as a viable organizational option for marketing and distributing agricultural products.
Priorities: In support USDA's goal to increase the prosperity of rural communities, RBS regulatory priorities will facilitate sustainable renewable energy development and enhance the opportunities necessary for rural families to thrive economically. RBS' priority will be to publish regulations to fully implement the 2008 Farm Bill. This includes promulgating regulations for the Biorefinery Assistance Program (sec. 9003), the Repowering Assistance Program (sec. 9004), the Bioenergy Program for Advanced Biofuels (sec. 9005), and the Rural Microentrepreneur Assistance Program (RMAP). RBS has been administering sections 9003, 9004, and 9005 through the use of Notices of Funds Availability and Notices of Contract Proposals. Revisions to the Rural Energy for America Program (sec. 9007) will be made to incorporate Energy Audits and Renewable Energy Development Assistance and Feasibility Studies for Rural Energy Systems as eligible grant purposes, as well as other Farm Bill initiatives and various technical changes throughout the rule. In addition, revisions to the Business and Industry Guaranteed Loan Program will be made to implement 2008 Farm Bill provisions and other program initiatives. These rules will minimize program complexity and burden on the public while enhancing program delivery and RBS oversight.
Rural Utilities Service
Mission: The mission of the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) is to improve the quality of life in rural America by providing investment capital for the deployment of critical rural utilities telecommunications, electric, and water and waste disposal infrastructure. Financial assistance is provided to rural utilities, municipalities, commercial corporations, limited liability companies, public utility districts, Indian tribes, and cooperative, non-profit, limited-dividend, or mutual associations. The public-private partnership, which is forged between RUS and these industries, results in billions of dollars in rural infrastructure development and creates thousands of jobs for the American economy.
Priorities: RUS' regulatory priorities will be to achieve the President's goal to bring affordable broadband to all rural Americans. To accomplish this, RUS will continue to improve the Broadband Program established by the 2002 Farm Bill. The 2002 Farm Bill authorized RUS to approve loans and loan guarantees for the costs of construction, improvement, and acquisition of facilities and equipment for broadband service in eligible rural communities. The 2008 Farm Bill significantly changed the statutory requirements of the Broadband Loan Program. As such, RUS issued an interim rule to implement the statutory changes and requested comments on the section of the rule that was not part of the proposed rule published in May 2007. Comments were received and the agency will analyze the comments and finalize the rule.
Departmental Management
Mission: Departmental Management's mission is to provide management leadership to ensure that USDA administrative programs, policies, advice, and counsel meet the needs of USDA program organizations, consistent with laws and mandates, and provide safe and efficient facilities and services to customers.
Priorities: In support of the Department's goal to increase rural prosperity, USDA's departmental management will finalize regulations to revise the BioPreferred program guidelines to continue adding designated product categories to the preferred procurement program, including intermediates and feedstocks and finished products made of intermediates and feedstocks.
Aggregate Costs and Benefits
USDA will ensure that its regulations provide benefits that exceed costs but is unable to provide an estimate of the aggregated impacts of its regulations. Problems with aggregation arise due to differing baselines, data gaps, and inconsistencies in methodology and the type of regulatory costs and benefits considered. Some benefits and costs associated with rules listed in the regulatory plan cannot currently be quantified as the rules are still being formulated. For 2012, USDA's focus will be to implement the changes to programs in such a way as to provide benefits while minimizing program complexity and regulatory burden for program participants.


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A man released from jail this week after being investigated in the deaths of four Atlantic City prostitutes found dead in a ditch last fall is likely to get apologies from the husband of one of the victims and a hooker who told police he admitted killing people to her.
Terry Oleson, 35, was released Monday from the Salem County Jail after pleading guilty to invasion of privacy for videotaping his ex-girlfriend's 15-year-old daughter while she was naked in the bathroom of his Alloway Township home.
It was the only criminal charge lodged against Oleson, who was questioned about the killings and submitted DNA samples to prosecutors for comparison to evidence found on the victims.
Last Nov. 20, the bodies of Barbara Breidor, Molly Jean Dilts, Kim Raffo and Tracy Ann Roberts were found in a ditch not far from the Golden Key Motel in Egg Harbor Township, a few hundred yards from the Atlantic City border.
They were all barefoot, with their heads pointed toward Atlantic City.
Oleson was questioned because he had been staying at the motel, working part-time as a handyman there. However, prosecutors have repeatedly refused to call Oleson a suspect in the murders and say the case remains under investigation.
Denise Hill, a self-described prostitute, previously told authorities and reporters that a man she recognized as Oleson was a customer who she had spent the night with shortly after the bodies were discovered, and who admitted killing "some people."
But she said Wednesday she now believes Oleson was not that man. She said she met another customer last week who she said resembles Oleson, and identified him as the one who had made the statements about killing people.
Hill said she has not given that information to the authorities.
"I thought I'd just let it lie," she said.
Hill said she will attend Friday's news conference to personally apologize to Oleson, who has denied ever meeting Hill or patronizing prostitutes.
"I need to make things right," she said. "I'm human; I make mistakes. I was wrong about him."
Also expected to be present will be Hugh Auslander, who was Raffo's husband.
"He said he made some comments he wants to say he's sorry for," said Oleson attorney James Leonard.
Auslander could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
Oleson is to be sentenced Nov. 27 for the videotaping charge. A judge accepted a plea agreement under which Oleson could get 364 days in jail, but would be credited with the 5½ months he spent in jail awaiting trial.

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Base Concept Hotel
- Free buffet breakfast, free WiFi, and free parking
Main amenities
- 361 guestrooms
- 2 restaurants
- Free airport shuttle
- Fitness center
- 24-hour business center
- 24-hour front desk
- Coffee/tea in a common area
- Air conditioning
- Daily housekeeping
- Arcade/game room
- Computer station
- ATM/banking services
For families
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Daily housekeeping
- Laundry facilities
- Hair dryer
- Blackout drapes/curtains
What's around
- Dom Bosco Sanctuary (8.2 mi / 13.3 km)
- National Museum of the Republic (8.7 mi / 14 km)
- Metropolitan Cathedral (8.7 mi / 14 km)
- Itamaraty Palace (9.2 mi / 14.9 km)
- Jardim Zoologico de Brasilia (4.7 mi / 7.5 km)
- Brasilia (BSB-Brasilia Intl. - President Juscelino Kubitschek) 1-min drive; 0.4 miles/0.6 km
- Free self parking
- Limited parking
- Free airport shuttle
- Free area shuttle
- Free shopping center shuttle
Base Concept Hotelfrom S$59
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- Deluxe Room
- Executive Suite
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- Junior Suite
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Key facts
Hotel size
- This hotel has 361 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 7 floors
- Check-in time starts at 3 PM
- Check-out time is noon
Required at check in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
- Minimum check-in age is 18
Travelling with others
- One child (2 years old and younger) stays free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding
- Parents must have child's birth certificate and photo ID *
- Pets not allowed (service animals welcome)
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi in rooms
- Free airport shuttle
- Free self parking (limited)
- Free area shuttle
- Free shopping center shuttle
Other information
- Resort fee included
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In the hotel
- Free buffet breakfast daily
- 2 restaurants
- Bar/lounge
- 24-hour room service
- Coffee/tea in a common area
- Fitness facilities
- Arcade/game room
- Billiards or pool table
- 24-hour business center
- Number of meeting rooms - 2
- Meeting rooms
- Conference center
- Computer station
- 24-hour front desk
- Laundry facilities
- Luggage storage
- Wedding services
- Multilingual staff
- Porter/bellhop
- Number of buildings/towers - 2
- Year Built 2013
- Elevator/lift
- ATM/banking
- Designated smoking areas (fines apply)
- Television in common areas
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
In the room
- Air conditioning
- Minibar
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- 42-inch LCD TV
- Desk
- Free WiFi
- Phone
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe
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Thursday, February 28, 2013
New Video: Wizkid - Azonto
93 comments:
- johnnie said...
- February 28, 2013 at 1:14 AM
finally wizkid lost it ,we love just because of ur team so go back before its too late
- February 28, 2013 at 1:18 AM
But is this song not old? Why make a video of it now? Is this how they do things in Naija? Release a song then release the video about that song a year later!?
- February 28, 2013 at 1:23 AM
Dope video , star boy !!!!
- February 28, 2013 at 1:28 AM
- crystal said...
OK! i cant shoot myself now. I cant believe i actually watched this rubbish. I shd probably start singing now cos if this little boy with a mediocre voice(too modest of me....horrible voice) and cliche dress sense can come up with this meaningless song that is biting to my ears, then i'll definately do well in the nigerian entertainment industry. Pls what happened to Style-Plus and Asa? cant stand this talentless wizchild...someone shd advice him to go back to sch cos he has no future in entertainment.
- February 28, 2013 at 1:31 AM
- promise michealz said...
Video is 2 plain, wat were dey finking?
- February 28, 2013 at 1:44 AM
- Chidozie Mario said...
The video is just there
Inside St Peter's Basilica
- February 28, 2013 at 1:55 AM
This video just made this song dry..sori to say douh...didn't make sense...he shouldn't as released this song after the song ha finished raining...trash video...
- February 28, 2013 at 2:04 AM
- Myne Whitman said...
A true dance video, kudos!
Romance Meets Life
- February 28, 2013 at 2:08 AM
Video is not bad,too many dancers though
- February 28, 2013 at 2:10 AM
- February 28, 2013 at 2:31 AM
No B Beanz,
- February 28, 2013 at 2:38 AM
A just dea video:/ ds girls are sha hot
- February 28, 2013 at 2:40 AM
- Austine Onyedibe said...
Wow! I love this , what a Beautiful- Nonsense 3-| .........Mtcheeeeeeeew! Abegi u even get luck da the audio sold very well if not eenh Omor wizzy notin 4U oO
Cos it is not even up to 3mins(1kb)
Ogaoooo. On like u ,abi u don join?
- February 28, 2013 at 3:47 AM
Davido keeps winning... Shame.
- February 28, 2013 at 4:13 AM
Good but too short a music video.
- February 28, 2013 at 4:50 AM
Wizkid's worse video ever...haba,wat is dis..
- February 28, 2013 at 5:23 AM
- February 28, 2013 at 5:44 AM
- DISCOVER THE SECRET OF LOOSING WEIGHT AND BURNING TOMMY FAT said...
Star boy Tinz
- February 28, 2013 at 5:49 AM
I dont really like d video
- February 28, 2013 at 6:12 AM
Flat line 「````······‥‥‥‥‥‥‥‥‥__________.X-(
- February 28, 2013 at 6:14 AM
- ★★PRINCE CHARMING™★★ said...
At long last its here! The visuals of this video are surely enticing, superimposed I must say though. Wizkid flanked by an army of gyrating girls doing their best version of the azonto moves is cool, nice dance moves. I didn't expect anything different from that though. This song is a banging super club hit already, I give it a 4.5 rating because this can make anyone move on the dance floor. The creativity of the directed is too mainstream though.
- February 28, 2013 at 6:18 AM
On scale of 1-100 I'll say 35
- February 28, 2013 at 6:29 AM
Clean but dry!
- February 28, 2013 at 6:33 AM
At star boy good concept buh too casual and also poor choreography. Abeg no comparison oooo, I know say people must mention davido name here.
RELOADED via talkso
- February 28, 2013 at 6:37 AM
- KOLA said...
Download video to mobile here
- February 28, 2013 at 6:58 AM
The video girl is so pretty
- February 28, 2013 at 7:03 AM
- Make-Up by Teju Tobun said...
Dry video....mschew... He had better makeup with Eme crew back, nonsense!, jus pack bi***es. Full dere
- February 28, 2013 at 7:05 AM
Ok. Not as hot as gobe IMO
- February 28, 2013 at 7:19 AM
Absolute rubbish video. It is not even clear. Who is the director sef? The guy is rubbish. Check for other Azonto videos and see the production and compare it to this.SMH. and whats with the stars? we know Star sponsored it but that shld not be the reason to spoil the video. Pls, Star shld not Wizkid O!
- February 28, 2013 at 7:23 AM
- PRINCE JOBLESSˡᶤᶬᶤᵗᵉᵈ ᵉᵈᶤᵗᶤᵒᶰ said...
Wizkid disappointed me. Wtf is this? I'd choose Gobe's video over Azonto anyday, unfortunately.
- February 28, 2013 at 7:26 AM
Dunno wat I was expecting... But def not dis.. How many azonto dance dem do for d video now! Anyway u get a 3 4 outta 10 for effort
- February 28, 2013 at 8:22 AM
too many tinz goin on in d video...nt wah i was expecting...msheeeeeeeeewwwwww
- February 28, 2013 at 8:25 AM
Quite interesting! Those gurls that danced in oliver twist are still my personal favourites...
- February 28, 2013 at 8:25 AM
Huh? Kai! Chai! Buh ......! Wot d fack? U̶̲̥̅̊ turned dt amazn song in2 girls play?
- February 28, 2013 at 8:27 AM
- Chinomso Omezurike said...
Nice one wizkid, keep it up.www.mymarketstores.blogspot.com
- February 28, 2013 at 8:28 AM
beats david's gobe video HANDS DOWWWNNNNN!!!!!!!! davido is gettin boring. guy needs to up his game. wizkid exudes raw talents while all davido has is effizy!!! talent will forever outshine effizy... MY TAKE.
- February 28, 2013 at 9:00 AM
9ice song but as 4 video just ok.
- February 28, 2013 at 9:07 AM
- Jeremiah oriola said...
Lovely video
- February 28, 2013 at 9:38 AM
DAVIDO IS BACK!!! Nice tunes and a sure club banger. i'm a fan again.
- February 28, 2013 at 10:25 AM
- Susan Onize said...
Not feeling this @ allllllll
- February 28, 2013 at 11:44 AM
Na wa o,if though am nt a huge fan cos I think am too old 2b fanning wizkid,I av2 disagree with u dat he is talentless!he's a good singer.n has a strong voice!shikena
- February 28, 2013 at 11:50 AM
what a shit video!!! i just wasted 4mins of my llife that im not going to get back. *stomps off*
- February 28, 2013 at 11:51 AM
C☺☺l vid
Double d ca$h 4 makn d vid n audio @ diff tym intervals...
ask p-Saquare they do it a lot
he startd lookn fresh aftr he left eme
If u like vex n don't buy it coz its old song
D song wld stil sell widout u...
#rock gurl#
- February 28, 2013 at 11:54 AM
- Sasha Diamond said...
Nice but didn't blow me away. I expected much more but the video kibda dulled d song the song a little bit.
- February 28, 2013 at 11:57 AM
Lovely video
- February 28, 2013 at 12:11 PM
Wats wit dis ur useless no b beanz?if u dnt av anytin to say then shut d fuck up
- February 28, 2013 at 12:25 PM
He is still richer than you, so you hate you nor hate your word wont get to him, appreciate someone rather than tearing him down, like say u sef get wetin you Sabi for life.mseeew Retard.
- February 28, 2013 at 12:31 PM
Dude, chill. It is below expectation.
- February 28, 2013 at 12:35 PM
Tell him or her
- February 28, 2013 at 12:56 PM
The problem nigerians have is dt we don't appreciate good fins, dts y the country is nt progressing. What's wrong with this video now??? Huh? U can't do anyfin yet u condemn what odas do...Tufiakwa!
- February 28, 2013 at 1:12 PM
- MY TURN said...
@Crystal OUCH!! to harsh don't you think? He at least has more Talent than that Juvenile Davido.
Anyway i expected more from the video. No body really busted the azonto dance step. I expected to see different people bursting sexier versions of azonto ( like May-D's Ile-ijo video and even better). Meaningless video to such a lovely song.
- February 28, 2013 at 1:14 PM
- MY TURN said...
princess K said...
DAVIDO IS BACK!!! Nice tunes and a sure club banger. i'm a fan again.
February 28, 2013 at 10:25 AM
Are you blind ni? where you see davido for there? chai!me sef i must comment
- February 28, 2013 at 1:16 PM
In my opinion... This dude has lost it. There was something dt sets him apart from the rest.Not sure what it was, but he's def lost it. If you are reading this boy, I think you should av a second thot about leaving your crew, it will do you more good than harm. You've built a brand for yourself which people love. Leaving all dt to start all over will only make u a looser in d end. Don't forget dt a few young lads like you are begining to join d industry en are more than willing to take your place. Going back to start all over will make you loose your spot at the top en before you get back there, some1 else who's better would have taken your place. Dbanj might do it en get away with it, you don't know en will never know the secret behind it. People who are comparing you to the likes of diana ross en micheal jackson obviously didn't know what it was like for them. I'm sure Micheal before his demise would wish he could turn back the hands of time if given a second chance. Although he had fame en money, but he lost more than he gained. He lost the people who knew him en loved him regarless, not those d ones d saw him as a money making machine, He even said it dt sony is evil (can't remember his exact words), I'm sure he would have lived a better life or maybe live longer if he was still with his group. Your fans only love you cos you feeding their ears at the moment, the min som1 better comes along, you are history. Don't know what went wrong btwn u en banky, but remember 1 thing, he had a choice, but he choose you regardless. Even when no one thot u were good enuf, he saw something in you. He changed your future en dt of your descendants. Not every1 dt God sends to us actually do His will, some get lost in d way. So my dear go back to the beginning and think it thru. My hands are hurting #okbye# :)
- February 28, 2013 at 1:23 PM
- ★★PRINCE CHARMING™★★ said...
- February 28, 2013 at 1:33 PM
- lydia nzekwe said...
Comparing this video with gobe is just wrong because gobe is just way beta
i have never been a fan of davido's but the gobe video is kul...wizzy dissapointed the hell out of me with this apology of a video.
- February 28, 2013 at 1:37 PM
U guyz no one is perfect, many of u can't do better... Admit its he got talent n he can do very much well without banky or Eme..so if any of u av issue's wit him, deal with its n stop say rubbish abt d guy..
- February 28, 2013 at 1:44 PM
I'm not a wizkid fan,his best song will always be "holla @ ur boy" he should stick to song like dat not all this trashy boring song.yaaaawwwns
- February 28, 2013 at 1:45 PM
- Derick Hosagie said...
NOT DAVIDOS MATE #enuffSaid
- February 28, 2013 at 1:49 PM
Its a shame Nigerians always copy Ghanains. I will always respect Ghanains because they are authentic and original no matter what. Naija don finish.... go sit down biko.
- February 28, 2013 at 1:49 PM
@least is beta dan davido's gobe video
- February 28, 2013 at 1:51 PM
Crystal the hater na wa for you o,ahan the guy is doing what he knows how to do best and he is maing his money,well u sef dey do what u know how to do best,u can fit to shoot yourself who cares who knows you....kai u haters #SMH *whew!!!
- February 28, 2013 at 3:24 PM
Hey bloke, I know you are entitled to your own opinion. But, it seems your every comment has grammar ambiguity. Can't you just say things with good, simple English?
I bet you don't speak so much grammar when giving a talk.
- February 28, 2013 at 3:57 PM
where is the EME class?
- February 28, 2013 at 3:59 PM
whc video?...mtcheew.
- February 28, 2013 at 4:25 PM
- teeteelahyo said...
Anon 12:31pm hope wizkid pays u for calling someone a retard on his behalf.
- February 28, 2013 at 4:30 PM
Your standard must be low to call this video 'good'
- February 28, 2013 at 4:38 PM
Criticism is good..buh u have 2 knw d exact angle ure going towards not just saying trash like d song is 2 short,as if the audio was longer. Some re comparing it to gobe as if both of dem re in a competition. Mind u both songs are different. Some pple say they re dissapointed like they've done 1 creative thing in their damn lives. In my opinion, wizkid is a good n versatile artiste and dis particular song has bin off the hook and the video is clear n precise..1 advice to. Critics/haters don't waste ur muscles over some1's success u can't even compete wiv.
- February 28, 2013 at 5:16 PM
As Linda pays you for commenting on her blog ode! Teeteelayo
- February 28, 2013 at 5:23 PM
Not bad @ all, very ok, haba! Haters y? Always apreciate pple
- February 28, 2013 at 6:03 PM
Crystal why not enta studio, drop hit..stupid lazy bitch...teeteelayo, u re good for a backup singer! Ugly bitches
- February 28, 2013 at 6:43 PM
Some faceless people come just to lib to comment like they are perfect.. And some other just follow the bandwagon. well everyone is entitled to his opinion, Thumbs up wizzy. Dont let all these low lives bring you down some of them are wanksters! and why use anonymous when you have a name?
- February 28, 2013 at 7:18 PM
- daniel said...
if nor be Davido Video it can never be called a video..
- February 28, 2013 at 7:46 PM
- daniel said...
somebody should beg him to return to his boss.. drop ur pride oh
- February 28, 2013 at 7:47 PM
- lydia nzekwe said...
And your name is sheriff?start with the man in the mirror
- February 28, 2013 at 8:12 PM
Naija artistes should learn that travelling abroad would not make u better.stay in ur country and u would grow.Stop goin to america nd forming yankee or uk nd formin innit...it would not work, ur dullin ur shine.dis video was tres dissapointing..still luv u wizkid tho
- February 28, 2013 at 8:36 PM
This kid better go write jamb and WASSCE. His future is so not bright
- February 28, 2013 at 8:38 PM
Who send you to write epistle??
- February 28, 2013 at 8:56 PM
Thank u
- February 28, 2013 at 9:17 PM
...what a stupid noisy song. I mean wizkid has always made noise but then you could hear small music inside. this one...hmmmm smh
- February 28, 2013 at 10:04 PM
Hey Wizkid. this video is wack. thank you. Bye!
- February 28, 2013 at 10:52 PM
Very very low ... Mscheeewww
- February 28, 2013 at 11:02 PM
Hahahahaha lwkm...to all d bitches n bastard sayin he is nt gud,,sm said he has no future in entertainment i swear na dia una go die put befin sm1's glory...d guy is in fuckin moni n fame nw...foolsss y dnt u go awt dere n display ur rubbish talents too.....saddists!!!
- February 28, 2013 at 11:13 PM
Dis is just too bad,wizkid go bck to ur team.you re still d best tho.
- February 28, 2013 at 11:20 PM
I dont even know wat to say..... dis is d worse wizkid video... its beta u go bk to EME b4 its too late.. btw, u dont expect banky to focus on u alone when he has oda artistes nd if u say hes using ur own hard earned money to promote d oda artistes I think thats ow it shud be for now cos they r still new nd av not made as much money as u.... abeg wizzy av a rethink nd stop been selfish, ok. bye
- March 1, 2013 at 7:57 AM
Who is dis? bia wizzy didnt u see Clarence peters to shoot dis video for u? u beta talk of hw ur cash will increase in EME and not leave ur label cos if u do,hunger go kill u oh. dis video doesnt look like a childs play sef,its actually nothing,i saw nothing.
- March 1, 2013 at 9:21 AM
Wizkid....shuuuu nawa oh... U don join p-square dey do vid 1yer afta audiou? Well video was nt all bad, quite short if I must say, seen beta, very cliche + d fact d we hav really had our share of d whole azonto fin....hmmmm let's jus say; Ur 1year Tooo late!!!
- March 1, 2013 at 9:36 AM
- sandra felix said...
We knw u re a gud singer nd we also knw u can do beta dan dis. Dnt forget 2 give ur christ kuz he loves u. Even with ur unique voice if u attempt any gospel, u'll make it. God bless u Ayo
- March 1, 2013 at 11:21 AM
wow! see haters! i have never been a fan of all these boys wizkid or davido but i have to say this video is really nice..the pictures are clear and very neatly packaged. Wizkid had his reasons for leaving EME, he was brave enough to walk away..am sure he is also scared of leaving his comfort zone and he was there for banky's show...i think that banky has this mentality that he made wizkid and so he is angry that the young man wants to leave and do his own thing...
i respect wizkid for what he is doin and he will go far.
isn't that how we were yapping tuface when he was about to leave kennis music and instead of failing, he soared higher..
i believe wizkid will only soar higher and higher and do better cos he knows that many pple want him to fail.
Don't be afraid kid, just trust in God and choose the best for your job, so your brand isn't diluted..we are solidly behind you...
be humble and you will never regret it....
- March 1, 2013 at 1:16 PM
- March 1, 2013 at 8:21 PM
wizkid should have shot the video in Nigeria, how can u travel 6 hours to shoot a video and end up with that. sorry mate the video didn't do your song justice
- March 2, 2013 at 12:58 PM
- dozie john said...
ur talent is tu much legoooooooo bro
- March 2, 2013 at 10:23 PM
- Unknown said...
Yea. Except Davido.
- March 17, 2013 at 4:08 PM


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Pharoah Sanders Quartet: New York, March 20, 2012
New York, NY
March 20, 2012
Tenor saxophonist Pharoah Sanders has long embodied the tradition, the musical voice, and the spirit of John Coltrane. He is arguably among the most truly authentic of Coltrane's disciples, considering that he was a member of the saxophonist's band during the last two years of his life. At the same time, Sanders offers an exuberant, inspired kind of expression that is all his own.
Joining Sanders at Birdland for a five-night stint were three longtime collaborators: pianist William Henderson, whose first recordings with Sanders go back to 1987, bassist Nat Reeves, the longtime faculty member at the jazz program begun by Jackie McLean at the University of Hartford, and veteran drummer Joe Farnsworth, whose résumé includes work under a list of bandleaders that reads like a who's who of jazz.
The quartet opened the first set on their first night at Birdland with Coltrane's composition "Welcome," which was initially recorded by the classic quartetwith pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Jimmy Garrison, and drummer Elvin Jones just two weeks before Sanders' first recording with a larger Coltrane ensemble in June, 1965. Evoking Tyner's attack and style, Henderson laid the foundation for the tune, a rubato ballad prayerfully projected by Sanders, with Farnsworth playing freely on mallets throughout.
Next was a Sanders' original, "Doktor Pitt," an up-tempo tune made up of shifting modes in eight-bar segments, first recorded on Journey to the One (Evidence, 1980). Sanders built his solo by liberally using the Coltrane "sheets of sound" vocabulary, punctuating it with occasional forays into the altissimo register, overblowing to achieve the multiphonics that Sanders is well known forproducing multiple tones out of his instrument simultaneously. Reeves largely kept to walking in his accompaniment, but with a certain freedom in his playing, an approach that continued through his solo. Sanders concluded the tune by wielding his saxophone up close to the microphone and emitting a range of sounds without blowing into it tapping the keys and drawing out sounds percussively using the pads and the air in the horn.
Sander's approach to the Coltrane ballad "Naima," was a very straightforward onesimply stating the classic melody at the beginning and end of the performance, leaving the improvisation for others in the band to showcase Reeves' beautiful tone, Henderson's rich modal colorings, and Farnsworth's fine brush work. A blues in B flat followed, with Sanders blowing at least 16 choruses and sprinkling the most bebop flavorings of anything in his set. Farnsworth's solo in particular stood out here, quickly criss-crossing his arms here and there as he got an impressive variety of sounds out of his small drum kit.
The closer for the set was another Sanders original, "The Creator Has a Master Plan," perhaps his best-known composition and one that often draws comparisons to Coltrane's "A Love Supreme." The tune started off with Reeves playing arco, with Sanders improvising loping, legato lines, and some especially powerful playing in the lower register, in addition to his soaring altissimo. Sanders also contributed some vocals to the performance, bringing to mind somewhat Leon Thomas' singing and yodeling on Sanders' classic recording, Karma (Impulse, 1969). Sanders also invited the audience to join in on the singing, while he danced away in small movements on stage. He finished the song as he did with "Doktor Pitt," tapping the keys of his horn.
When he was asked, during a famous interview conducted by Frank Kofsky in 1966, how he liked having Sanders in his band, Coltrane said, "it helps me stay alive sometimes." There's no doubt that Coltrane's influence on jazz has beenand will continue to bea lasting one. With performances like this one at Birdland, Pharoah Sanders is, in his own unique way, doing more than his part to keep Coltrane's legacy burning bright.
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A six-time winner at Texas Motor Speedway, site of Friday night's WinStar World Casino 350k, Bodine has demonstrated a mastery of the l.5-mile oval like few others.
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Ditto for Homestead-Miami Speedway, site of the season finale on Nov. 18. Bodine has a pair of victories in six starts at the south Florida track, and could thus conceivably close out the season 2-for-2 after being denied victory in the first 23 events.
Win or not, Bodine is ready to put 2011 behind him.
What many prognosticators expected to be a repeat championship season quickly went south for the Chemung, N.Y., native when he recorded just one top-five finish in the first seven races.
By the start of the summer stretch, Bodine's title hopes were toast, and serious questions had emerged about whether lack of sponsorship would force him to abandon a full-time run.
But thanks to a sponsor-sharing partnership forged between Germain and Randy Moss Motorsports, Bodine wasn't forced to sit out a race. And his results have steadily improved since, with him recently moving all the way to sixth in the standings after spending much of the year outside the top 10.
Not that Bodine, a 21-time truck series winner, is ready to celebrate.
"We're not pleased at all with it. We're used to finishing in the top five every week," said Bodine, who has 11 top 10s but just five top fives in his 23 starts. "And to finish sixth and seventh and eighth and 11th and 12th, that's just not what we're about. It's not acceptable for the standards that we've set for ourselves. … We're not pleased with that performance at all."
Bodine isn't, however, overly concerned about the possibility of going winless for the first time in seven full seasons of truck series competition.
"You can't go to Texas or Homestead and put all that on your shoulders," he said. "You've just got to go there to try to do what you can do and win the race."
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Race distance: 147 laps/220.5 miles
Qualifying: Thursday, 8:10 p.m. ET
2010 winner: Kyle Busch
2010 polesitter: Matt Crafton
Points standings: 1. Austin Dillon, 811; 2. James Buescher, 800; 3. Ron Hornaday, 796; 4. Johnny Sauter, 796; 5. Timothy Peters, 763; 6. Todd Bodine, 744; 7. Matt Crafton, 720; 8. Joey Coulter, 719; 9. Cole Whitt, 715; 10. Parker Kligerman, 682.


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Owl injured in Iowa storm expected to recover
Published On: Aug 09 2012 03:55:45 PM CDT Updated On: Aug 09 2012 03:46:01 PM CDT
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- A great horn owl injured during a storm that hit the Des Moines area is expected to make a full recovery.
KCCI-TV says the owl suffered a broken wing during Wednesday's storm that blew through with heavy rain and 70 mph winds.
The owl has lived in a tree near a retirement home in Norwalk for about nine years.
It was rescued by a city public works employee, who took the owl to a veterinarian who specializes in raptor rehabilitation. Once it mends, the owl will be returned to its home.
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Abdominal hernias, or inguinal hernias, occur when part of the intestine or other soft tissue protrudes through a weak area of the lower abdominal wall. Surgical repair is a common treatment for many abdominal hernias.
According to the Mayo Clinic, a hernioplasty is a surgical procedure that is similar to patching a tire and uses a piece of synthetic mesh to cover the portion of the abdominal wall that includes a hernia. Hernioplasties can be performed with a long incision or they may be done with a laparoscopic fiber optic tube that is inserted in a smaller incision.
Laparoscopic Hernioplasty Advantages
A laparoscopic hernioplasty causes less discomfort than a conventional procedure and a return to work and normal activities in a few days in many cases. Laparoscopic hernioplasties can be a good choice for patients with hernias on both sides of their body.
Laparoscopic Hernioplasty Disadvantages
Laparoscopic hernioplasties may have a higher risk of complications and there is a greater chance of recurring hernias.
A herniorrhaphy is a procedure in which the surgeon makes an incision in the groin, pushes a protruding intestine back into the abdomen and repairs the weakened abdominal muscle by sewing it together. Patients may not be able to resume normal activities until four to six weeks after this procedure.
Small Hernias
Many doctors refrain from surgery on smaller abdominal hernias if the patient does not suffer discomfort. Small hernias need to be monitored by a doctor and may require surgery if they grow larger.
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Softball state dreams fall
State dreams by the Mount Si softball team ended after a two-win, three-loss series at districts last week.
Tournament hopes took a significant hit on Thursday, May 21, as missed opportunities bit the 'Cats, who fell to Bishop Blanchet.
Mount Si was blanked 6-0 by the Metro League Braves in a Sea-King District Tournament game at Seattle's Lower Woodland Fields.
The Wildcats put two runners on base in scoring position in the first inning and loaded the bases in the third, both times with one out. The team failed to score a single run, though.
"It's been the story of the season for us," said Mount Si coach Larry White, "giving teams that extra one and two outs per inning. They come back and beat us."
Pitcher Alex Johnson gave up just five hits despite pitching most of the game with a bad bruise on her shin, which came when a line drive hit her hard early in the contest.
"We should have come out and did more damage," Johnson said.
"We could have hit her a lot better," she added, referring to Blanchet's starting pitcher, sophomore Hannah Shanahan.
Megan Stone had a pair of hits and Brielle Buhner had a double. The Braves scored twice in the first inning and twice more in the third following the Wildcats' chances in those frames.
Breanna Skeslien came a home run short of the cycle (she had a single, double and a triple) and drove in four runs to lead Bishop Blanchet.
In a loser-out game prior to the Blanchet match, Mount Si handled Seattle Prep 10-0 in five innings. Freshman pitcher Kendra Lee, brought up from junior varsity for the postseason, started on the mound and pitched one-hit ball through four innings and struck out six.
"It was really fun to play varsity," Lee said. "I knew that they were behind me in defense."
"Kendra did a really nice job," White said. "We were real confident that she would go out there and throw strikes. We knew we were going to score runs against Prep; we just needed somebody who could throw strikes and get it done for us."
The Wildcats scored runs in every inning off of Seattle Prep starter Jessica Bladow of Fall City, taking advantage of six Panther errors. Kimber Behrends, Sara Rice and Maura Murphy each led the way with a double apiece, and Rice and Danielle Massengill each scored a pair of runs. Melissa Webster had two hits.
Mount Si beat Bellevue 12-5 in their first game on Friday, May 22. After Bellevue scored five runs in the fifth inning, the Wildcats scored six runs in the sixth to take the lead.
Then, the Wildcats lost to Bainbridge 12-2 in six innings. The mercy rule ended it early.
Mount Si next played West Seattle for fifth place. The Wildcats took an 8-1 lead in the third inning, only to see West Seattle come back and tie things in the bottom of the seventh, 8-8. West Seattle scored twice in the bottom of the ninth under international tiebreaker rules to win 10-9.
Mount Si ends the season at 14-14.
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As expected, the Long Island-based King Kullen closed its Arden Heights store on Dec. 31, less than three years after the company increased its presence on Staten Island by purchasing five supermarkets.
The supermarket could not come to an agreement with the landlord, the Savo Brothers, over terms of a new lease, King Kullen vice president Thomas Cullen said in a statement, as reported by the Advance in September.
Bruno Savo said King Kullen defaulted on their lease.
"We decided at this point that the area needs a better supermarket," he added.
The Arden Heights King Kullen opened in 1990.
Its closure has created a vacancy in an otherwise fully occupied shopping center that is home to CVS, Chase, State Farm Insurance, a pizzeria, bagel store, nail salon, hair salon, skin and body shop, travel agency, sushi restaurant, Chinese takeout, dry cleaner, coin laundry and hardware, optical, card and liquor stores.
CVS recently expanded into a spot once filled by Wendy's. That fast-food restaurant closed abruptly in the summer of 2009.
Located in the Village Greens Shopping Center on Arden Avenue, nearby residents said that the supermarket's loss will be felt.
"I think it's terrible," said Debra Heaney, an Arden Heights resident for the last 10 years.
Ms. Heaney said she'll need to travel to another King Kullen in Greenridge to get her shopping done, but that's "a pain in the neck."
"This was nice; it was small. It was in the neighborhood," she said. She thinks the loss of the 53,000-square-foot store could hurt smaller businesses in the plaza.
Donna Saviano, also of the neighborhood, said King Kullen had been the community's only grocery store.
"It was convenient. I live two blocks from here. If I needed something, I'd just come right over," she said. "There's nothing else near here."
She's hoping another big grocery opens quickly. She said she would be surprised if the center's landlords kept the plaza without a supermarket.
Savo said the landlords and another supermarket are in the middle of lease negotiations at this point. He couldn't give the store's name.
"We're trying to get the best anchor and the best supermarket that will serve us and the community. We're just at the final stretch now with one of them," he said, adding that details will be available at a later date.
According to one King Kullen employee, who chose not to give his name, the Savo Brothers had been working with Met Foods, Key Food and, most recently, Stop & Shop to fill the vacancy, but none wanted the spot because of the high asking price for rent, $80,000 a month.
Savo Brothers denied that the rental rate was a factor.
The employee said he and others are clearing out all items from the closed supermarket. He said workers can either go to Long Island stores or be laid off, because most stores on Staten Island have different unions.
King Kullen announced in November 2007 that it had made a deal to buy four Staten Island Waldbaum's stores and a Pathmark from the Great Atlantic & Pacific (A&P) Tea Company for an undisclosed price, the Advance reported in September last year.
The transaction was inspired, in part, by a Federal Trade Commission decision: After A&P purchased the Pathmark chain, the FTC became concerned that the company, which also operates Waldbaum's, would have a monopoly in the borough.
Since that purchase, the store in New Dorp's Hylan Plaza went out of business and reopened as a Pathmark, and the one at 778 Manor Rd. in Castleton Corners also was shut down.
Both closed their doors last year: The one in Castleton Corners when King Kullen was unable to renegotiate a lease extension, and the one in New Dorp because of competition from nearby Stop & Shop and ShopRite.
After the Arden Avenue store closes, three King Kullen supermarkets will remain on the Island – at 3251 Richmond Ave. in Greenridge, 4343 Amboy Rd. in Eltingville and 1441 Richmond Ave. in Graniteville.
Asked if the supermarket had other plans for Staten Island, Cullen said in a statement that King Kullen is always looking for opportunities to expand, be it on Staten Island or elsewhere.


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As part of the Solon master plan, the city may widen Solon Road from four to six lanes between SOM Center and Aurora roads.
Planning Director Rob Frankland made the announcement Monday during a City Council work session on the master plan.
Frankland said the city would widen Solon to accommodate additional traffic that would result from a possible tearing down, rebuilding and expanding of Solon Square Shopping Center.
However, the Solon Square and Solon Road plans are conceptual only. There are no plans by the shopping center's owner, Mid-America Management Corp., to rebuild the center.


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Wear lifting gloves?
I had those grippers for a while, yet I haven't trained with them for a fair while now.
Today I understood why, except the general fit in my hand (I'm a tall guy, but I don't got huge hands), these grippers are quite rough on the skin of my palm. Any ideas on how to make it more comfortable?
Wear lifting gloves?
Grow a callous.
Steak, eggs, potatoes - fruits, nuts, berries and forage. Coconut milk and potent herbs and spices. Tea instead of coffee now and teeny amounts of kelp daily. Let's see how this does! Not really had dairy much, and gut seems better for it.
It's not manly to the womenz you're pawing OR your johnson when it's
on the PALM of your hand.
Otherwise, I'm alllll for calluses, even have my own.
You want that texture, tha thelps you grip them, otherwise they'd be likely to go flying out of your hands... because they will start to get smooth from use as skin cells fill the space betweent he bumps (when this happens I usually drunk them in some boiling water to help get it out then take a brass brush to them... because no one wants all that dead skin just sitting around).
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+1 on the texture being there in order to grip them. you will need to get callouses. gloves will only interfere with being able to close them. you want the gripper properly seated in your hand or you could actually injure yourself
I have too many bloody callouses. I'm not worried about it being uncomfortable, it's alright with me and makes me feel badass.
Problem is, I do not believe women will like that. So I have to choose, badass or not. (Anyhow I don't think those callouses are going to disappear any time soon, they were there even when I stopped training for a while).


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About St. Timothy's
St. Timothy's is a vibrant Episcopal church, located on a beautiful five acre campus at the base of Mount Diablo, that has served the greater San Ramon Valley since 1953. Our community is made up of people of all ages, religious backgrounds, political positions, family configurations, ethnicities, and church experience. What we share is a love of God and each other, a sense of meaning and belonging, a yearning to learn and grow in faith, and a desire to serve others both inside and outside of our community.
St. Timothy's embodies the following core values:
- We welcome all with uncompromising hospitality, including at the Lord's Table, and value everyone who seeks to experience God's love, mercy, and power to heal.
- We respect all wherever they are on life's journey, with particular attention to our children and youth as the church of today, not just tomorrow.
- We serve all as we live our baptismal covenant by sharing the Good News of God and the life of our community through mission, commitment to and involvement in outreach, and working for social justice.
About The Episcopal Church
St. Timothy's is a member of The Episcopal Church and is one of the largest parishes of the Diocese of California . The word Episcopal means "overseer" or "bishop" in Greek, and the Diocese of California is overseen by our own bishop, the Right Reverend Marc Handley Andrus . The Diocese of California is made up of approximately 85 churches in five Bay Area counties. The Episcopal Church is overseen by our Presiding Bishop, the Most Reverend Katharine Jefferts Schori. There are approximately 2.5 million members of The Episcopal Church in the United States.
The Episcopal Church has its roots in the Church of England and is a member of the Anglican Communion , a worldwide association of 34 self-governing provinces, 6 United Churches, and 4 other churches with more than 85 million members in over 160 countries. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the head of the Church of England, is the spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion. Together, we join with our brothers and sisters across the globe in our common worship and service to Christ.
A brief history of St. Timothy's Parish
Episcopal worship services have been offered in Danville by traveling clergy in homes and rented facilities since the early 1900s. It was not until 1952, however, that steps were taken to form a permanent congregation. Under the direction of the Rev. Wilfred Hodgkin, rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Walnut Creek, seminary students led worship services in the homes of Danville residents. The following year St. Timothy's Mission was formally organized, and the Rt. Rev. Carl M. Block, Bishop of California, appointed the Rev. William Goodall its first vicar. Its name, St. Timothy's, was intended to reflect its relationship to St. Paul's, just as the New Testament ministry of St. Timothy of Ephesus sprang from his relationship with St. Paul the apostle.
St. Timothy's first regular meeting place was a community center on the site of the old movie theater on Front Street. A few current parishioners still fondly remember carrying an organ and everything else needed for worship from their homes to the church site every Sunday. Later, the congregation moved its services to the Veteran's Hall on Hartz Avenue.
Between 1953 and 1957, a five-acre parcel was purchased for the permanent establishment of St. Timothy's. In 1958, the Parish Hall was built and served as a church and Sunday school classrooms for 18 years. The Rev. Robert Tsu became the second vicar of the mission in 1958, and under his leadership the Education Wing was built in 1963.
The Rev. James McLeod became St. Timothy's third vicar in 1967, and the Rev. George (Ted) Ridgeway its fourth in 1970. Under the Rev. Ridgeway the mission became a self-supporting parish in 1975 (making him St. Timothy's first rector), and the church building in which we now worship was completed in 1976.
St. Timothy's called it's second rector, the Rev. Steven R. Strane, in 1988. During his tenure St. Timothy's grew to become one of the largest congregations in the Diocese of California. In 1996, St. Timothy's opened Noah's Ark Preschool. The plant also expanded to include Grace House (completed in 1996 and now the home of parish administration, staff offices, music and conference rooms, and a dedicated youth center) and the St. Timothy's Columbarium. In 2003 a labyrinth was completed on the northeastern side of Grace House and is now the center of a Meditation Garden and Stations of the Cross, which were completed in 2007.
The ministry of St. Timothy's has been enhanced by the presence of other clergy and staff over the years. But it has been the countless parishioners, who have given their hearts, their time, their talents and their treasure to the work of St. Timothy's, who have shaped its history and are carrying it into its future.


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Becky Whitecotton's third grade class at Bayshore Christian School wrapped up their study of Greece by celebrating Greek Day on Oct. 26. Each student dressed as a Greek god or goddess and gave a presentation. The class then enjoyed a Greek-style meal and wrapped up the day with the Greek Olympics. Pictured are, from left, back row, Becky Whitecotton, Meg Haynes, Emma Long, Maegan Livingston, Demi Hendryx, Mary Fuller Hauge, Luke Edmiston; front row, Ben Moseley, John French, Jeb Scarbrough, Dillion Ensor and Zachary Maidstone. (Photo submitted by Lori Scarbrough)


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Jacola Collins describes leaving her premature baby in a New Orleans hospital as she and her family evacuated Saturday as heartbreak - the same heartbreak she felt in July, after giving birth and leaving the hospital without her baby.
Tulane University Medical Center was the family's last stop Saturday before heading to Collins' brother's house in Meridian, Miss., where she rode out Hurricane Gustav with her husband, 12-year-old son and mother.
Collins cleaned out her freezer of breast milk and dropped it off at the hospital for her son and told him goodbye.
"I said, `I love you,' and I got a chance to kiss him," Collins, 27, said Wednesday in Birmingham.
Twelve-week-old Josiah was evacuated to UAB Hospital Sunday night. Tulane didn't want to risk losing power and not being able to care for fragile newborns in its neonatal intensive-care unit.
In all, critical-care teams from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Children's Hospital flew to New Orleans twice and brought back 11 premature babies. UAB kept four of the babies, Trinity Medical Center took three, Princeton Baptist Medical Center got two and Shelby Baptist took two.
Collins' family reunited with baby Josiah on Tuesday.
"I wanted to squeeze him, but I knew I couldn't," Collins, of Gretna, La., said.
The family came back again from Meridian to see Josiah on Wednesday. In New Orleans, the parents visited him twice a day. The trip from Mississippi to Birmingham is a two-hour drive each way. The family is hoping to find housing here until they can all go home, which may be as early as this weekend.
Josiah Collins was born July 24, at 24 weeks' gestation by emergency Caesarean section after Collins' placenta separated from the uterine wall. He was 1 pound, 11 ounces at birth and now weighs 2 pounds, 4 ounces.
In New Orleans he had gotten off a ventilator, but was put back on one for the flight to Birmingham. He went back on the ventilator again Tuesday after his abdomen filled with gas, but the doctor taking care of him expects that to be a minor problem. The baby is in an incubator to stay warm.
"He's not critically ill," said Dr. Joe Philips, a UAB neonatologist. "He's been stable for the last 24 hours."
Philips said the baby is stable enough to go back to the Tulane hospital, but it's better to wait a few more days before such a trip. Philips expects Josiah to stay hospitalized for another four to six weeks. Although Josiah may later develop some motor problems, Philips is optimistic about the baby's future.
UAB and Children's made up the first critical-care transport team to get into New Orleans to evacuate premature babies after Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005. Philips said the Gustav experience was much less dramatic and the transport was done in advance as a precaution.
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