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Assault Rumors Unfounded
Talk circulating around Fulton County that a woman was assaulted in Mc- Connellsburg Borough recently is totally unfounded.
Pennsylvania State Police Cpl. William Baker of the Mc- Connellsburg barracks confirmed that an attack did not occur in McConnellsburg during the last several days. In fact, Baker stated the case is being treated as a case of public drunkenness. Charges are pending in the incident.
Baker said the woman, who was reportedly from the McConnellsburg area, had been allegedly drinking at the Pub on January 13, left the bar at 1:25 a.m. and fell in an alley at the intersection of Poplar and Third streets. She suffered a head injury and was flown from the scene.
"People should refrain from putting rumors on Facebook that are unsubstantiated and have not been been verified," he concluded.
Death Ruled A Suicide
Pennsylvania State Police in McConnellsburg have issued a ruling on a death that occurred sometime January 6 or 7 in the McConnellsburg area. Trooper Kenneth Falkosky reported the death of 65-year-old Roger Dale Mills of 592 Buchanan Trail in Ayr Township was consistent with a suicide. Police added the cause of death was linked to asphyxiation due to hanging.
Mailboxes Struck
A southbound vehicle ran off Great Cove Road, down an embankment and struck two mailboxes on Monday, January 7, in Belfast Township. State police said the unknown vehicle and driver fled the scene in an unknown direction at 6 p.m. Anyone having further information pertinent to this hit-and-run accident should immediately contact state police Trooper Garner at 717-485-3131.
Fuel Oil Stolen
Approximately 200 gallons of heating oil were stolen from a fuel tank at the Waterfall Grange Hall between 12:01 a.m. on January 4 and midnight on January 6. Anyone with additional information related to this theft is asked to call state police Trooper Garner at 717-485- 3131.
Police Respond To Crash
Pennsylvania State Police in McConnellsburg responded to an accident along the westbound lanes of Interstate 70 on December 27, 2012.
Reports indicate a section of ice and snow became dislodged from a bridge and struck a 2003 Nissan Sentra at 11:09 a.m. The driver, who was not identified by police, travelled approximately two miles through Union Township before pulling onto the berm to report the incident.
The vehicle was removed from the scene by Town Hill Towing.
Driver Cited
A McConnellsburg woman faces charges of accidents involving damage to an unattended vehicle following a hit-and-run accident along Lincoln Way East.
According to state police, Wilma L. Waters, 51, was travelling westbound through McConnellsburg Borough on December 27 when her 1990 Ford F-150 struck the mirror of a parked 2004 Chevrolet Trailblazer. Waters allegedly continued travelling west at 1:30 p.m. without stopping at the scene.
Gun Stolen
A firearm was stolen from a Plum Hollow Road, Hustontown, home between December 8 and December 30, state police reported. Victim is a 48-year-old male from the Hustontown area. Anyone having further information linked to this theft is asked to call state police Trooper Doriguzzi at 717-485-3131.
Man Accused Of Mischief
A Baltimore, Md., man is accused of criminal mischief in connection with an incident at 287 Great Cove Road, Warfordsburg.
According to state police reports, Nicholas Damon Unger, 23, is accused of breaking the windshield wiper on a vehicle belonging to a 19-year-old Derry, Pa., man on December 29. The alleged incident occurred during a 1:41 p.m. custody exchange. Charges against Unger are pending further investigation.
Woman Cited
A McConnellsburg woman has been charged by state police for endangering the welfare of children. Police investigators said Kristie Ann Longenecker, 37, repeatedly endangered a 14-year-old girl and a 16-year-old girl on various occasions between May 25 and December 1, 2012. The alleged incidents occurred at a location at the intersection of North Third and West Walnut streets in McConnellsburg Borough.
Pennsylvania State Police troopers responded to a hitand run accident that occurred on the 100 block of Lincoln Way West in Mc- Connellsburg Borough.
Police said on Thursday, January 10, an unknown, westbound vehicle struck driver's side mirror of a parked 2003 Jeep Grand Cherokee at 7:35 p.m. Anyone having additional information linked to this case should call state police Trooper Piasecki at 717-485- 3131.
Truck Rolls Over
A Harrisburg, Pa., man was not injured during a single vehicle accident on Friday, January 11, in Taylor Township, according to state police.
Jay R. Hyle, 59, was travelling northbound on Waterfall Road when he lost control of his 2000 Ford E-350. The truck, police said, drove onto the western berm where it struck an embankment, slid counterclockwise and overturned. The truck's pull- behind trailer then struck a guiderail, police added.
Hyle was wearing a seat belt when the accident occurred at 5:50 p.m. He will be cited by state police for driving on roadways laned for traffic.
Two Uninjured In Collision
Two men escaped harm during a two-vehicle accident on Thursday, January 10, along the westbound lanes of Interstate 70.
Pennsylvania State Police said Kevin M. Cooney, 54, of Sykesville, Md., was travelling through Brush Creek Township at 3 p.m. when he failed to merge left as directed by a flashing roadway sign. The passenger side mirror of Cooney's 2011 Dodge Ram struck the driver's side mirror of a 2012 Ford F-250 operated by Andrew Price, 35, of Warfordsburg.
Cooney and Price were both wearing seat belts. Cooney will be cited by state police in connection with the accident.
Accused Of Assault
Twenty-year-old McConnellsburg resident Ryan Matthew Little has been cited by state police with simple assault, terroristic threats and harassment. Little allegedly threatened to harm a 25- year- old Mc- Connellsburg woman with a weapon during a verbal and physical altercation on Sunday, January 13. The argument occurred at 3 a.m. at 1246 Patterson Run Road in Licking Creek Township.
Driver Hospitalized After Crash
A New London, Conn., woman was taken to Meritus Medical Center in Hagerstown, Md., after having suffered moderate injuries during a single-vehicle accident along Flickerville Road.
According to state police, 30-year-old Syeda Fatima was injured while travelling southbound through Brush Creek Township on Monday, January 14. Fatima failed to negotiate a right-hand curve in the road at 6:48 a.m., causing her 2002 Toyota Highlander to travel onto the berm and crash into a tree. The vehicle then rolled onto its passenger's side and struck another tree, police added.
Fatima was wearing a seat belt. She will be cited for driving a vehicle at unsafe speeds.
Parked Vehicle Struck
A westbound 1994 Toyota Corolla struck a vehicle parked in a driveway along Crossroads Road on Sunday, January 13, state police reported.
The Corolla operated by Lucas D. Youngblood, 18, of McConnellsburg, ran through a stop sign at the intersection of Great Cove Road and into a private driveway at 7:30 p.m. The car struck a parked 1998 Dodge Durango.
Youngblood and his passenger, Aaron E. Hahn, 21, also of McConnellsburg, were both wearing seat belts and escaped injury. Youngblood will be cited for failure to stop at a stop sign.
Warfordsburg Men Cited For Harassment
Two Warfordsburg area men will be cited for harassment in connection with a physical confrontation at Stoneybreak Road residence. State police said James Marcus Yoak and William Francis Webber will be charged through the office of Magisterial District Judge Tamela Bard for the alleged incident that occurred at 7:44 p.m. on January 13.
Four People Uninjured In Two- Vehicle Crash
Four people escaped harm on Saturday, January 12, during a two-vehicle crash along Grist Mill Road in Dublin Township.
Twenty-year-old Burnt Cabins resident Shane L. Seville was travelling eastbound when he attempted to make a left-hand turn at 10:07 a.m. Seville's 1997 Ford F-150 turned into the path of an oncoming 2007 Ford F- 150 driven by Mark D. Mellott, 23, of Willow Hill.
Seville and Mellott were uninjured as were Mellott's passengers Shirley E. Angle, 65, and George A. Angle, 66, both of Fannettsburg. All individuals were using seat belts.
Both vehicles were disabled as a result of the accident. Seville will be cited for left-hand turns.


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National League Divisional Series: Game 1: Behind the two-hit pitching of Cole Hamels, the Phillies take game one of the series, 3-1.
Behind Cole Hamels' eight innings of shut out ball, the Phillies would take a 1-0 lead over the Brewers in their National League Divisional Series. After Phillies' starter Cole Hamels and Brewers' starter Yovani Gallardo would both pitch two straight shut out innings, Hamels would pitch a 1-2-3 third, striking out four of the first nine men that he would face. Gallardo wouldn't be so lucky, as he would give up a lead-off single to Carlos Ruiz, the first hit of the ballgame. Hamels would then come to bat and laid down a sacrifice bunt that would become a catch error by the Brewers' second baseman Rickie Weeks. Both men would then be safe on the play, with Ruiz reaching second and Hamels being safe on first. Jimmy Rollins would then fly out to left for the inning's first out. Jayson Werth would then follow by striking out swinging, for the second out of the inning. Chase Utley would then come up, and on a 2-2 pitch, hit a double to center that would not be caught by Brewers' center fielder Mike Cameron, scoring both Ruiz and Hamels and giving the Phillies a quick 2-0 lead. The Phillies would then load up the bases via an intentional walk to Ryan Howard and a walk to Pat Burrell. The next batter, Shane Victorino would also get a walk, forcing in Utley and giving the Phillies a 3-0 lead, and leaving the bases loaded as Howard and Burrell would both move up a base. With a chance to break the game wide open early, Pedro Feliz, the ninth batter of the inning, would instead end it by flying out to center. Now with a lead, Cole Hamels would then proceed to breeze through the Brewers' lineup, giving up only two hits, while striking out nine Brewers. He had only one troublesome inning, the sixth. After striking out Jason Kendall, he would give up a single to Craig Counsell and then would walk Cameron, which would put Counsell on second. But Hamels would get out of the inning by first getting Bill Hall to strike out swinging for the second out of the inning, and then, on one pitch, he would get Ryan Braun to pop up to Jimmy Rollins, for the inning's final out. Meanwhile, the Brewers' bullpen would keep the Phillies' bats pretty much muzzled until the bottom of the eight, when they would threaten to add on to their lead. After Utley would ground out, 4-3, for the inning's first out, Howard would reach base with a walk. Eric Bruntlett, a defensive replacement for Burrell, would get a single off of Brewers' shortstop J.J. Hardy, putting runners on first and second, as Howard would reach second base, with one out. The next batter, Victornio would then hit into a force out, 4-6, as Bruntlett is wiped out at second, while he would beat the throw to first base. In the meantime, Howard would reach third, putting runners on the corner. After Guillermo Mota is sent to the mound in place of Manny Parra, Victorino would steal second, putting both runners in scoring position. Sadly, Feliz would be unable to knock them in as he pops up on a ball that Counsell would just be able to catch in the outfield, ending the inning. Brad Lidge would then be given the ball to nail it down for the Phillies. After getting Cameron out on a called third strike, Lidge would give up a single to pinch hitter Ray Durham. Braun would follow him with a double to right, scoring Cameron, thanks in part to a catch error by Utley, preventing him from making a possible play at the plate, giving the Phillies a 3-1 lead. Lidge would then get Prince Fielder to strike out swinging for the inning's second out. Hardy would then get on base with a walk, putting runners on first and second. With Corey Hart batting, Lidge would uncork a wild pitch, putting Braun on third and Hardy on second with the tying run and two outs. Lidge would then, on a 2-2 pitch, strike out Hart swinging on a high fastball, to end the game, striking out the side, and giving the Phillies a 1-0 lead in the series.
Cole Hamels will get the win, as he pitch eight shut out innings, giving up only two hits and a walk, while striking out nine. He is now 1-0 in the post-season with a 0.00 ERA. Brad Lidge would get the save, his forty-second save in forty two tries, and his first for the post season, as he gives up an earned run on two hits and a walk while striking out three. Yovani Gallardo would get the lost as he pitches only four innings, giving up three runs, all unearned, on three hits and five walks, while striking out three. He is now 0-1 in the post-season with an ERA of 0.00. Mitch Stetter, Carlos Villanueva, Manny Parra and Guillermo Moto would combine for four shut innings, giving up only one hit (Parra) and a walk (also by Parra), while striking out four (Stetter (1), Villanueva (3)).
With the win, the Phillies has started the series off on a good foot as they have won their first post season game since they have won game five in the 1993 World Series. They will now try for a sweep at home, but they will have to bat better than they did in today's game against the hard to hit C.C. Sabathia. If they don't, they'll be heading to Milwaukee with a spilt. They will also need a good start from Brett Myers, who has gotten bombed in his last two starts after being almost unhittable since his return from his minor league assignement.
Game 2 of the NLDS will be played tomorrow night at Citizens Bank Park and will start at 6 pm Eastern. The Phillies will send out Brett Myers (10-13, 4.55), who is coming off his second straight bad performance, after going 7-2 in his previous eleven starts. In his last two starts, he would only go a combined total of eight and a third innings, giving up fourteen earned runs on ninteen hits. He will be trying to recover from those two starts and prove that he can help the Phillies get further along in the playoffs. His opponent will be the Brewers' ace of the second half, C.C. Sabathia (17-10, 1.65), who is coming off his third straight game of pitching with three days rest, and winning his second straight start, as he pitched nine inning against the Cubs on September 28, giving up an unearned run on four hits, in the Brewers' 3-1, which would help get them into the post season. He will once again be pitching with three days rest. The Phillies should be able to defeat him if he start to show any fatigue from pitching so many games with less rest than he would normally get, and if the Phillies' batters show some patient while batting against him. Sabathia will be trying to even the series.
The Phillies will be trying to go to Milwaukee with a 2-0 lead in this short series, if they can get past Sabathia. Otherwise, they will be trying to win both games in Milwaukee.

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BATON ROUGE, LA - Southern University confirms Nevada offensive line coach James Spady and current interim head coach Dawson Odums will make on-campus visits to interview for the head football coaching vacancy this week.
Details regarding remaining finalists and interview schedules still under review at this time.
Spady and Odums are the first of six semifinalists to advance to the final phase in the process to name the 20th head coach in Southern football history.
"Spady is sharp, personable, with a great personality, energy, and drive for success," said southern athletics director Dr. William Broussard. "Spady's resume, record of success, and his belief in innovation and high tempo would be successful against our peers."
Spady spent several seasons at some of black college football's elite programs before becoming the offensive tackles and tight ends coach at the University of Nevada, where the Wolfpack finished ranked #2 in FBS in total offense in 2010 and are currently in the Top 10 in several categories in 2012. Spady served as Grambling's offensive coordinator from 2007-2009 helping the Tigers win a SWAC title after an 11-2 record in 2008. Spady, who played four years as a center at Texas-El Paso, also helped win conference titles at N.C. Central in 2006, South Carolina State in 2004 and UTEP in 2000, while adding HBCU national championships in 2006 (NCCU) and 2008 (Grambling) to his resume.
Broussard also confirmed current SU interim coach Dawson odums will interview Tuesday. Odums assumed the post in September following previous coach Stump Mitchell's reassignment and led SU to a 4-5 record highlighted by signature wins over Jackson State, Florida A&M and Grambling.
"(Dawson) Odums proved to be a capable leader through adverse times during the 2012 season, and accomplished much with little," Broussard said. "He led with purpose and vision, valued high character and discipline among his players and staff, and put our team in position to win in the fourth quarter in eight of nine contests."
Odums arrived at Southern in 2011 after a 3-year stint at N.C. A&T where he served as the Aggies' co-defensive coordinator in 2010 and defensive line coach in 2009. Odums also served as the interim head coach at Clark Atlanta during the 2004 season and head coach in 2005.
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From his spot on the Time Ideas blog, the MSNBC anchor Toure admitted "If President Obama had to run against Senator Obama of 2008, he'd probably be crushed. Back then, Obama seemed superhuman; today he is merely mortal. His victory in 2008 was historic, breaking the race barrier in the nation's highest office."
Guess what came next. Re-electing Obama is a greater test of whether America is racist than it was in 2008: "But an Obama victory in 2012 would say something even more profound about how far our country has come. Granted, Obama's election (or not) is merely one of many factors that will tell us where we are on race in America. But it is a big one." Toure put Obama into the metaphor of The Matrix:
In 2008, Obama was Morpheus and America was Neo, a nation of great potential that had lost its mojo and did not understand reality. Obama offered America the red pill — the chance to vote for him — and we swallowed it. In The Matrix, the red pill took effect immediately, and it wasn't long before Neo revealed himself to be the One — the Jesus-like figure Morpheus had thought he was. In the real world, change happens much more slowly. When Obama took office, it felt as if the sky were falling and we were close to a depression. We avoided that fate. But it has been a rough few years marked by problems (not all of his making) that include a historic recession, Washington gridlock, the passage of controversial health care legislation, the failure to close the Guantánamo prison, the Middle East explosion and the rhetorical blunder of "If you've got a business, you didn't build that," by which the great orator handed the GOP a gift it could mangle into a slogan. After all that, it's impossible to view Obama as a superhuman magical-Negro figure anymore.
Toure raised the "magical Negro" stereotype as the image Obama needed to win -- and he has to shed that to prove America isn't racist. So far, he's impressed that America is putting Obama ahead of Romney in the polls:
All incumbents have natural advantages, but for Obama, incumbency is a double-edged sword. Given the super-human expectations placed on him when he took office, it's not surprising that he has disappointed some of his followers.
So those poll numbers suggest something very interesting about this country in terms of racial progress. They show American voters embracing a non-magical black man. The magical Negro concept arose from a need to rectify supposed black inferiority with the undeniability of black wisdom by suggesting that wisdom is so alien that its origins cannot be explained by normal scientific methods.
While some may think it complimentary to be considered "magical," it is infantilizing and offensive because it suggests black excellence is so shocking it can only come from a source that is supernatural. To accept a black leader who is extraordinary yet so human that he cannot be magical is an entirely different prospect than electing a black superhero. Anyone would vote for a superhero who lived up to my mom's standard of having to be twice as good. But for it to embrace a nonmagical black person who cannot promise anything but hope, intelligence, sweat and experience, now that comes closer to equality. Equality is freedom from having to be twice as good to get ahead.
This is the racial con game that's being presented this time. He doesn't promise anything but "hope, intelligence, sweat, and experience" besides his atrocious record of routine incompetence. So America is pressured: prove you're not a bigot by voting for Obama.


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One resident who asked to be identified only as Andy, had his home destroyed by the hurricane and has been staying at John Jay High School in Park Slope since the storm began. He went to his nearby home on Tuesday afternoon to find tree limbs in his house, water damage and broken glass scattered around his furniture.
Andy said he needed to get into his house.
"I don't have a lot with me," he said, noting that he rushed to leave when the evacuation orders were announced.
And the generosity of New Yorkers is on display at the shelters.
A sign on the door at John Jay High School read, "No more donations, Thank You." And clothing and supplies aren't the only thing being turned away.
People wanting to volunteer their time and help out with the efforts have been told that there are more than enough volunteers at John Jay.
"I've seen all the reports and I wanted to do my part," said David Chimoskey, a school teacher.


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Participation in and understanding of the performing arts can have wide-reaching benefits for children. Our music curriculum has been designed to nurture cultural literacy and key skills to benefit your child in music, and all their studies.
Through our music curriculum designed by The Juilliard School, every student can enjoy being an engaged listener, composer, interpreter and communicator. In addition, your child will be developing valuable skills that will pay dividends in all aspects of learning and prepare them for success in future life.
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These are the ways the performing arts collaboration with Juilliard will enhance learning for our students.
Learning music and the performing arts is linked to high academic performance[1],[2], helping students to improve literacy[3], mathematics[4] and cognitive development.[5]
Evidence suggests that students who participate in learning the arts achieve higher grades in school, and musically-trained students demonstrate enhanced brain performance[6]. Music also helps develop various attributes – from motor skills[7] by learning to play a musical instrument, through to an appreciation of mathematics via rhythm and tempo[8].
So while some education systems focus on exam after exam, they are missing the whole picture. If they also created time for the performing arts, they would see their pupils achieve even more.
The performing arts teach young people a range of personal skills that enable them to shine in every aspect of their lives – both at school and in the world of work. In fact, they teach young people exactly the attributes required in the modern workplace - creativity[9], critical thinking, the ability to collaborate and various social skills[10].
Studying rehearsing and learning to perform teaches young people various character traits including confidence, self-esteem and discipline[11].
A lot of educators talk now about the need to build character – the performing arts do exactly that.
Learning music and the performing arts more widely exposes young people to a form of learning that is increasingly rare for young people – one to one (or one to a few) tuition. Learning at this level and in this way helps ignite sparks in young people who may not have previously engaged with academic learning, enhancing satisfaction and sense of achievement in school[12].
And once they get the love of learning, this can transfer across to all their subjects.
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Microsoft Tuesday took credit for crushing the Storm botnet, saying that the malware search-and-destroy tool it distributes to Windows users disinfected so many bots that the hackers threw in the towel.
"They realized they were in our gun sights," said Jimmy Kuo, a principal architect with Microsoft's malware protection center, the group responsible for the Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT). Microsoft updates and automatically re-distributes the software tool to Windows users each month on Patch Tuesday.
Last year, said Kuo, the criminals behind the Storm Trojan -- malware designed to compromise PCs and add them to a botnet, or collection of infected machines -- tried to keep pace with Microsoft and the MSRT. "They were anticipating our monthly release [of MSRT]," said Kuo, "with new versions that were ready to go immediately before our release."
The bunch controlling the Storm botnet knew that it took Kuo's group several days to create new definitions for the MSRT, and that Microsoft held to a once-a-month release schedule for the tool. And they used that lag time and set schedule to their advantage.
"They knew that it takes [us] a week or more to create new definitions, and they were prepared to update their botnet immediately prior to MSRT releasing," he said, adding that the hackers would get a new version of the Trojan onto already-infected members of the Storm botnet to try to hold on to the machines after Windows had downloaded the newest version of the MSRT.
The idea was to preempt detection by swapping out the Storm bot already on the PC with a version less likely to be identified by the MSRT.
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It is with great excitement that the royalist community, and indeed the country, await the birth of the first child of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and future King or Queen of the United Kingdom. Here is a list of 7 things we already know about the Royal baby, based on St James's Palace statements and on what we've been told by royal sources.
| A Mid-July Baby
The Duchess of Cambridge herself has confirmed that the baby is due in mid-July. The Daily Mail said the specific date of arrival was expected to be 13th July, although this hasn't been confirmed.
| Maternity Break
The Duchess also said that she will be giving up royal duties in anticipation for the baby's birth in the middle of June. Many sources report that this year's Trooping the Colour on 15th June will be her final engagement before taking maternity leave.
| Naming A Royal Baby
We already know that the Duke and Duchess will be choosing a traditional name for their baby for many reasons, discussed by us in previous articles. Hot favourites include James or George for a boy and Victoria or Alexandra for a girl (though we think George for a boy and Mary for a girl). The child will likely have 4 names if a boy and 3 if a girl, following royal precedent.
| 'Long To Reign Over Us'
This baby will definitely one day be our Sovereign. Due to recent changes to legislation (which are due to take effect soon), the first child of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will, if a girl, not be later usurped in the line of succession by a younger brother as was previously the case. The baby will come 3rd in line to the throne and will be sovereign after Prince William.
| Great Grandchild
This will be the third great grandchild for Her Majesty The Queen. She already has two from her eldest grandson Peter Phillips: Savannah Phillips and Isla Phillips.
| Kensington Palace
The Royal Baby will live in Kensington Palace Apartment-1a with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge once the apartments have finished being renovated. The Duchess has been spotted out on numerous occasions hunting for baby goods.
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In a special Letters Patent issued by The Queen, it was confirmed a few months ago that all children of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will receive the title of Prince/Princess and style of Royal Highness. I.e. if it's a boy, the child will be called 'His Royal Highness Prince X of Cambridge' and if a girl, 'Her Royal Highness Princess X of Cambridge' (where X represents the child's name).
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I cannot believe how quickly the holidays have come upon us. It seems like yesterday I was laying out on the beach while watching my kids frolic in the lake.
But now that the leaves are changing from green to bright reds and oranges, I know that Christmas is not that far off. In fact, I see all the Christmas displays in the stores filled with lots and lots of goodies for the family members. So, ya know what I say? Bring on the Christmas holiday!
It's time for the annual 5 Minutes for Mom Christmas Giveaway 2011 to begin. I have been busy lining up some great giveaway prizes this year, which you will soon be able to find down at the bottom of this post (the first one will be posted on Tuesday, November 1st).
Yes, we love this time of year! Not only do we have the pleasure of helping some families in need with our Under the Tree program, but we also get to bring some fun Christmas Giveaways your way to help you with your holiday shopping.
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- Charmies Personlized Jewelry
- 2 Chix Graphic Maternity Tee
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If precedent prevails, future ACC basketball schedules will work on rotation. No surprises. Teams will know their conference opponents years in advance.
But crafting the 2013-14 schedule was a unique challenge and opportunity. With Syracuse, Pittsburgh and Notre Dame bringing league membership to 15, ACC officials had to scrap their previous model.
Moreover, in concert with television partner ESPN, they wanted to rapidly introduce the newcomers and their fans to the conference's most storied programs.
They have done just that, witness Tuesday's release of league opponents for next season.
Duke and North Carolina are the ACC's marquee basketball draws, and it's no coincidence that they, along with Tobacco Road neighbor North Carolina State, play at Notre Dame and Syracuse in 2014. Duke and N.C. State travel to Pitt, as well.
That's southern hospitality from conference HQ in Greensboro, N.C., and a transparent grasp for ratings from the worldwide leader in Bristol, Conn., both of which are understandable.
Virginia and Virginia Tech, as a result, play less traditional league schedules next season. But if a rotation is created, as it should be, the Cavaliers and Hokies will get their share of games against Duke and North Carolina.
The ACC first adopted a rotation for 2004-05 and beyond. That's when the additions of Virginia Tech and Miami forced the abandonment of the double round-robin in which a team played every conference rival home-and-home.
With 15 teams, another long-term model is possible, senior associate commissioner for basketball Karl Hicks said via email Wednesday. That would spare Hicks, ESPN and others starting from scratch each year.
Meanwhile, Virginia and Virginia Tech could play relatively tame ACC schedules next season. That's a potential blessing, in the form of a better record, and a potential curse in the form of a lower strength-of-schedule, a key evaluation tool of the NCAA tournament selection committee.
Unless top 2013 prospect Andrew Wiggins signs with Florida State — both his parents attended FSU — the ACC's top three teams in 2013-14 figure to be Duke, North Carolina and Syracuse. Neither the Hokies nor Cavaliers play any of those squads twice.
Virginia and Virginia Tech each play Syracuse and North Carolina only at home, Duke only on the road. The Hokies and Cavaliers do travel to league newcomers Notre Dame and Pitt.
Of the four teams Virginia plays twice — Virginia Tech, Maryland, Notre Dame and Florida State — the Fighting Irish (six NCAA tournaments in the last seven years) or Seminoles appear to be the best, again hinging on Wiggins, who's deciding among FSU, North Carolina, Kentucky and Kansas.
Of the Hokies' home-and-homes — Virginia, Miami, Boston College and Maryland — the Cavaliers are the toughest, regardless of whether Hurricanes sophomore guard Shane Larkin declares for the NBA draft.
The ACC's can't-miss, first-time home-and-home in 2014 is Duke-Syracuse. Hall of Fame coaches Mike Krzyzewski and Jim Boeheim are close friends — Boeheim was an assistant to Krzyzewski for the 2008 and '12 Olympics — and rank 1-2 in Division I career victories.
Their teams have met twice, the Orange winning in the 1989 ACC-Big East Challenge in Greensboro, Boeheim's favorite city (wink), the Blue Devils winning in the 1998 NCAA South Regional semifinals.
More obscure: Boeheim's final game as a Syracuse player was in the 1966 East Regional final against Duke in N.C. State's Reynolds Coliseum. He scored 15 points in a 91-81 loss that sent the Blue Devils to their third Final Four in four years.
Speaking of Reynolds, this will never happen, but I'd love to see Pitt's 2014 game at N.C. State — the Wolfpack relocated to a new arena in 1999 — moved to the old barn. Why? History.
Reynolds hosted the 1974 East Regional, and the finalists were N.C. State and Pitt. First-team All-American David Thompson led the Wolfpack, second-teamer Billy Knight the Panthers.
State won comfortably, 100-72, but in the first half, Thompson, an aerial artist, took a harrowing fall after blocking a shot. He caught teammate Phil Spence's shoulder on his descent, and the subsequent thud silenced the crowd and left blood on the court.
Thompson was rushed to the hospital but returned to the arena, head bandaged and stitched, to observe the second half. A week later, he led the Wolfpack over seven-time defending champion UCLA and Marquette to claim State's first national title.
The site of that Final Four? Greensboro Coliseum, host of the 2014 ACC tournament.
College basketball's pioneer conference tournament, the ACC's next year certainly will be bigger than ever. And perhaps better.
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S-HYPNO - Wednesday - 5 sessions - 7th Feb, 14th Feb, 21st Feb, 28th Feb, 7...
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You will need to attend 5 session - 4th, 11th,18th,25th Jan & 1st Feb 2017
The HypnoBirthing® program facilitated by the education team at Women's at Sandringham, follows the Mongan Method, with all facilitators trained through HypnoBirthing® International. HypnoBirthing® is the work of Marie F. Mongan, Founder and Director of the HypnoBirthing® Institute. https://au.hypnobirthing.com
HypnoBirthing® is described by HypnoBirthing® International (2016) as a rewarding, relaxing, stress-free method of birthing that is based on the belief that when a mother is properly prepared for birthing physically, mentally, and spiritually, she can experience the joy of birthing her baby in an easier, more comfortable way.
Why HypnoBirthing works…
According to Dr Grantly Dick-Read, when fear is not present neither is pain. Fear causes the arteries leading to the uterus to constrict and become tense, creating pain. In the absence of fear, the muscles relax and become pliable, and the cervix is able to naturally thin and open as the body pulsates rhythmically and expels the baby with ease.
Through deep relaxation and innate breathing, you can rid your body of the debilitating fear that creates tension and labour pain. HypnoBirthing® creates the ideal platform for women, their partners and their babies to learn the necessary tools in order to achieve their ultimate birth wishes. These relaxation exercises become life skills that also shore up their parenting skills. Armed with this knowledge, the pattern of calming techniques and steps that they learn helps them to create endorphins and avoid the effect of the negative hormones that cause their bodies to constrict, rather than open.
It reminds us that birth is normal and natural, and like the bodies of other mammals in nature, a healthy pregnant woman instinctively knows how to birth, just as their bodies instinctively know how to conceive and nurture the development of their babies.
The workshop runs over 5 consecutive weeks of 2 and ½ hour classes. Each class starts at 6:30pm and is held at the Family Life Centre, 197 Bluff Road, Sandringham. There is onsite parking available. The course includes a textbook & relaxation CD or MP3 to support your learning and preparation towards the birth. Each session has a different focus, as listed below:
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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Considering Home Ownership Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Considering Home Ownership Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> General Discussion View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message Nomad DanJoined: 17 Feb 2003Posts: 145Location: Myanmar Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2003 7:54 pm Post subject: Considering Home Ownership Hey everyone, As my name indicates, I love the nomadic way. I am already itching to get overseas again. BUT I want a home base. I am currently teaching in Dallas and I have found a small brick home in a quiet neighborhood that is just beckoning me. It is priced at 60,000 very reasonable for Dallas. I am so tempted to buy it and get out of the apartment game. My monthly apartment rent is more than my mortage payment would be. BUT I would also love to take off for the middle east for another tour....or to Thailand or Africa or whereever! I teach bilingual kids in Dallas and there is great job security at the moment. I feel sure that I can always come home to a job. I am working on my masters degree and should finish in 2004. I guess my concern is that I do want to be a nomad but I would also like to maintain a home base in the United States. I am thinking of either leasing it to very specific teachers....Single or couples...when and if I decide to take off again. Perhaps even storing my earthly belongings in the garage or building a builing specifically for that purpose. Am I on the right track here, or do I need to choose between a career here or life overseas....the later of which I am dearly missing. Thanks, Nomad Dan Back to top Ben Round de BlocJoined: 16 Jan 2003Posts: 1946 Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2003 9:08 pm Post subject: A few questions Just a few questions for you to consider. How could that nice little house in Dallas be your home base if someone else is living in it? What are the property taxes like in Dallas? Who would handle the maintenance problems if you're off teaching on the other side of the world? Back to top Nomad DanJoined: 17 Feb 2003Posts: 145Location: Myanmar Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2003 10:41 pm Post subject: Hello Ben, I guess the idea would be to have someone I really know well living there while I am not occupying it...l work with lots of single female elementary school teachers who are renting...It would seem that it could be a win win situation. I just need a minimal amount of space for storage. Even with the taxes, I think it would pay off. I would hire someone to manage the place as far as maintaining it. There are lots of Mexican American craftsmen in the area whom I would trust with the job. Thanks for the thought-provoking questions....I need to consider all of that stuff. Nomad Dan Back to top CelesteJoined: 17 Jan 2003Posts: 814Location: Fukuoka City, Japan Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2003 11:50 pm Post subject: My husband and I have a house in Canada. When we are abroad, we rent it out and store our possessions in a detached garage. (There is plenty of street parking, so this is not a problem for the tenants.) When we are returning to Canada, we give the tenants about 6 months notice before our return (legally we only have to give 3 months notice in our city, but I prefer to give them more itme to find a new place.) So far it is working out very well for us. Getting the right tenants is key, though. We also use a property management company to help out with things like credit/reference checks, repairs, rent collection, etc. For this they take 10% of the rent, but I think that the place is renting for more than it would if I'd tried to do it alone. Back to top Paul GJoined: 16 Jan 2003Posts: 125Location: China & USA Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2003 2:03 am Post subject: Dan Having been in real estate investments and rental properties for over 30 years now, let me share a few things with you. 1) Real estate is generally a great investment. 2) Renting to friends is foolish. To begin with, you are your tenants friend, so surely, as a friend, you won't mind if they skip a rent payment or two when the car breaks down, they need a new sound system or the dog eats their paycheck. 3) Get an experienced real estate agent who specializes in rental management to manage the property for you. Staying up until 2:00 a.m. in Riyadh, so that you can call the Roto Rooter guy in Dallas is no fun. It is also quite difficult to get prospective tenants to call Bangkock to inquire about your rental that has suddenly gone vacant. It is also very hard to inspect the newly vacant house to both see what it needs to make it rentable again and to determine how much, if any, of your previous tenant's security deposit should be refunded. 4) Crunch the numbers on building a storage room vs renting a storage facility. The result should provide an answer to the storage question. If you do build a storage building, consider what the future potential use of the structure might be. Sticking a few capped-off pipes and conduits through the foundation and into the walls, and framing to easily allow the future installation of windows can allow for the future conversion of the building from a very low value storage building to a rather high value guest apartment, party room, etc. The cost of adding these things during initial construction is negligible while a future use conversion can add a lot to the property value. Good luck! Back to top chuckieJoined: 31 Jan 2003Posts: 17 Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2003 4:00 am Post subject: owning property from afar I own several properties in Arizona - all which I have bought since heading overseas about thirteen years ago. Don't attempt to handle the problems yourself. Hired property managers are professionals and know what they are doing - generally. Ask around. Property managers, like all employess may be a problem from time to time, but it is often worth working it out - rather than changing too quickly. I've had to change a couple times. COmpanies that do only or primarily property management are usually best. They will be the most highly skilled. Real estate companies often put their least experienced newest realtors in the prop man role. Also, I once had a realtor lie to me about the neighborhood around my condo going bad (so I should have him sell it right away!)- he knew I hadn't been back in town for a couple years. He didn't know my brother lived in the area. Changed prop man. But, also have a couple really professional great people doing the work for me now. Build a shed in the back yard and keep your stuff there - or just rent a storage place. Try not to mix the two ideas. Also, a rental property should be one that you have NO emotional attachment to. Houses get beat up in the rental business. Not often, but often enough that you should know it will happen some time. Use the rent you earn from the rental to rent a place when you are in town. Never trust anyone - fellow employee or even family member - to take care of these things for you. Hire a professional unless you want to lose a friend or sour a family relationship. Rental property is a business and needs to be treated as such. Back to top Nomad DanJoined: 17 Feb 2003Posts: 145Location: Myanmar Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2003 12:16 am Post subject: Wow! What solid great advice. Thanks everyone. I am doing it....I am buying the little house just to have something to mess with...and to beat the rent rap. I do know that I will have to leave again to live overseas. It is just in me. You have let me see the pros and cons and there are some really good suggestions in the posts... Many Thanks!!! Nomad Dan Back to top petermcJoined: 04 Apr 2003Posts: 8Location: Seoul, Korea Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2003 7:24 am Post subject: Home Ownership In your case you are presently working stateside. So qualifying for a loan, assuming good. credit is not a problem. But what about a situation where someone has only been working overseas and has no employer reference. I have been filing my taxes as self-employed. That is all I would have in the way of proof of income. Nomad Dan wrote: Wow! What solid great advice. Thanks everyone. I am doing it....I am buying the little house just to have something to mess with...and to beat the rent rap. I do know that I will have to leave again to live overseas. It is just in me. You have let me see the pros and cons and there are some really good suggestions in the posts... Many Thanks!!! 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WASHINGTON — CIA security officers in a Benghazi post responded within 25 minutes to a call for help from a nearby State Department compound after it came under attack Sept. 11, officials said Thursday, seeking to refute a Fox News report asserting that CIA managers ordered them to stay put.
In releasing a detailed timeline of CIA actions that night, senior intelligence officials have put aside long-standing concerns about revealing the extent of the agency's presence in Benghazi in order to push back against what officials say are baseless allegations that aid was withheld.
"At every level in the chain of command, from the senior officers in Libya to the most senior officials in Washington, everyone was fully engaged in trying to provide whatever help they could," a senior intelligence official said in a statement. "There were no orders to anybody to stand down in providing support."
PHOTOS: Attack on consulate in Libya
Fox News asserted in a story last week that CIA managers had ordered agency security officers to "stand down" and remain in their own facility, known as the Annex, when the attack on the diplomatic compound began about 9:40 p.m. and that there was an hour delay before officers disobeyed orders and went to help repel the attack that killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and State Department officer Sean Smith.


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October 27, 2011
Halloween Freak FestA three venue event creates the andamp;#8220;Barmuda Triangleandamp;#8221; in Tahoe City (Jakeandamp;#8217;s, Hacienda and Lakeside), Friday, Oct. 28, 21 and older with ID. The fun starts at 9 p.m. at Jakeandamp;#8217;s On The Lake: Dance party with Ryu, no cover charge, Jello shots, and 11 p.m. costume contest with prizes. At 10 p.m. Hacienda del Lago presents Jelly Bread live and Lakeside will feature two incredible house DJs, Micah J. and Joseph Lee. Bounce from bar to bar. For more information please call Jakeandamp;#8217;s at 530-583-0188, Hacienda at 530-583-0358 or Lakeside at 530-583-2000.Truckee Halloween paradeFor children of all ages, parade through Downtown Truckee to the Community Art Center, then trick-or-treat through the rooms for candy, Friday, Oct. 28. Parade leaves the Truckee train station at 6 p.m. sharp. Truckee Donner Recreation andamp; Park District is looking for candy sponsors, please call 530-582-7720 for more info.Elegant spooky affairThe Rotary Club of Truckee is pleased to present the 2011 Haunted Cadillac Ball, Not for the Faint of Heart, Saturday, Oct. 29 at the Resort at Squaw Creek. Event tickets and raffle tickets are on sale now. Cost is $100 per person/event and $100/raffle. The raffle prizes include $15,000 grand prize, $5,000 second prize and $3,000 third prize. The Cadillac Ball is annual must attend event. Attire is elegantly spooky, dinner, a live band, live and silent auction will entertain the guests. The Cadillac Ball is the Rotary Club of Truckeeandamp;#8217;s largest fundraiser and helps the club fund needs locally and globally. For more information visit: http://www.cadillacball.com or call 530-414-1550.Trick or Treat on HalloweenOct. 31, Dress up in your spookiest attire and go for trick or treating in downtown Tahoe City. Check in at Heritage Plaza at 4 p.m. for two hours of fun. A glow stick and a candy bag for the kids will be provided, and Tahoe City merchants will hand out candy throughout town. Scarecrows on Parade, a traditional autumn event, has more than 60 scarecrows on display.Le Chamois Halloween partyAttention all naughty nurses, blood sucking vampires, roller-skating football players and saucy superheroes. Get out the costumes and the face paint and creep over to Squaw Valleyandamp;#8217;s Le Chamois Monday, Oct. 31, 2011 for the annual Halloween Costume andamp; Dance Party.Ghouls are encouraged to dress up in their most clever costumes and celebrate all-hallows eve with great music and a fun party. Tables will be cleared for dancing. Upstairs, the bar welcomes partygoers with beer, wine and sake for a howling good time. Doors open at 8 p.m. and children are welcome to trick-or-treat until 9 p.m. After 9 p.m. there is a $5 cover and only adults age 21 and older are permitted.The Halloween Party marks the opening night celebration for Le Chamois for the 2011-2012 winter season, with the restaurant scheduled to open daily in early November.


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Italy's premier-designate short of securing support for a ruling coalition, cites difficulties
ROME – Italy's premier-designate, Enrico Letta, said candidly Thursday he is still short of securing support for a ruling coalition after Silvio Berlusconi's forces insisted that the media mogul's populist economic policies dominate the would-be government's agenda.
"The difficulties are there," Letta acknowledged during talks, broadcast live on TV, with one of several parliamentary groups he met with during the day in his uphill quest to nail down a deal that could bring archrivals into a ruling coalition strong enough to revive growth in recession-afflicted Italy.
He added he hasn't yet decided if can succeed a day after Italy's president asked him to try to bring the forces in a highly polarized Parliament together in a grand coalition, two months after inconclusive elections left the nation in political gridlock.
"We are crossing uncharted territory in a unique and difficult situation," Letta said, referring to the election results that found bitter rivals — his center-Left Democratic Party and Berlusconi's center-right alliance — short of the seats needed to effectively govern without each other.
The Democratic Party whip in the Chamber of Deputies, Roberto Speranza, said Letta would need "extra time" to work out a coalition agreement, but stressed the premier-designate's determination to succeed.
"This country, more than ever before, cannot afford to wait" for a new government, Speranza told reporters just after he met with Letta on Thursday evening.
If Letta fails, that could mean fresh, and perhaps again, inconclusive elections for the country, a prospect sure to spook financial markets anxious for economic reform to heal Italy's shaky finances and revive growth in the eurozone's No. 3 economy.
Letta voiced his reservations about whether he can form a government after a two-hour meeting with top aides to Berlusconi, the former three-time premier who was in Texas for the dedication of the library of his friend, George W. Bush, the former U.S. president.
Berlusconi's No. 2 Angelino Alfano said some progress was made toward an agreement on joining Letta's Democratic Party in a coalition.
But Alfano stressed that whether the coalition is born depends entirely on whether Letta will embrace Berlusconi's economic recipe.
"There are still some kinks to smooth out," Alfano told reporters after huddling with Letta. "The path has been laid out, and that involves putting the economic crisis at the center" of talks. "All revolves around that," Alfano said.
He said more "contacts" between the rival blocs were planned.
Berlusconi is adamant about abolishing a property tax some consider crucial to Italy's surviving the eurozone debt crisis. In his electoral comeback bid, Berlusconi made eliminating the tax and refunding to citizens the amount they paid last year his main campaign pledge.
The tax was instituted by caretaker Premier Mario Monti, who made the measure's revenue a key way to shore up Italy's finances and keep the country from succumbing to a Greece-style sovereign debt crisis.
Monti, an internationally respected economist, took Berlusconi's place as premier as the financial picture deteriorated, and his small but influential centrist party will be needed by Letta for a coalition.
In an apparently hasty bid to placate Berlusconi, a senator in Monti's party indicated that the property tax measure could be tweaked.
"It's useless to make an ideological clash" over the tax, Senator Linda Lanzillotta said in a statement.
Alfano said Berlusconi also insisted on eliminating payroll taxes for companies which hire young workers to reduce soaring youth unemployment. Monti had focused heavily on increasing tax revenues.
Failing to form a government would further delay sorely needed economic and political reforms in a country where widespread corruption discourages investment, recession has devastated the job market and Italians are fed up with ever-higher taxes as the price for surviving the eurozone-debt crisis.
Letta, 46, a veteran lawmaker highly regarded by Italy's politically influential pro-Vatican centrists, needs to secure wide and reliable support in Parliament for an agenda that would balance measures for both austerity and growth.
Meanwhile, Berlusconi, who has been premier three times, is intent on furthering his political comeback while protecting his business interests and himself in various criminal trials.
Roberto Maroni, a Berlusconi ally, said his Northern League forces won't join the government. He told reporters that Letta was "neither optimistic nor pessimistic" about his prospects to form a government.
Letta is very "aware that if its attempt fails, we go to early elections," Maroni said.
It was with Letta's meeting with lawmakers from the anti-establishment, grassroots 5 Star Movement, which made a stunningly successful first foray into national politics, that the premier-designate acknowledged uncertainty about his ability to form a coalition.
Parliament's third-largest bloc, the movement, led by comic-turned-political agitator Beppe Grillo, won't join a government, but might support Letta on some measures.
Letta's publicly squabbling party splintered after it won control of the Chamber of Deputies, but not of the Senate. Not only must the premier-designate form a government, he must stop his own party's implosion to ensure its lawmakers will close ranks on the government's reform platform.
Democratic Party chief Pier Luigi Bersani resigned last week after back-to-back humiliating failures. Although his party was the largest vote-getter in February's election, he failed to line up a coalition government after President Giorgio Napolitano asked him to try to do so. Next, traitors in his own party sabotaged his high-profile choice, Romano Prodi, a former European Commission president, to succeed Napolitano, whose term in office was expiring.
Bersani wound up pleading with Napolitano to serve an unprecedented second term as head of state to help squabbling politicians get down to the business of giving Italy a new government.
Meanwhile, Italian media carried details of the latest corruption scandal to sully the nation's political class.
In the southern region of Basilicata, the governor resigned after a probe exposed abuses and fraud in expense accounts by local officials, including one who submitted reimbursement claims for dinner in restaurants in three different cities on the same day.


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In the end, it was Jon Cavaiani alone, standing in full view of North Vietnamese attackers, swinging a machine gun indiscriminately as his fellow soldiers ran pell-mell for their lives.
It was an act of desperation by the 27-year-old serviceman -- frantic, improvised, predicated not on strategy but on a stark, irreducible fact: Everything else had gone horribly wrong.
Aug. 2, 1:26 p.m.: The headline and a caption in an earlier version of this obituary misspelled Jon Cavaiani's last name as Caviani.
Cavaiani's instinct to wing it that day – to cover the disorderly retreat of his remaining platoon of Vietnamese Montagnards on June 5, 1971 -- would result in his receiving the Medal of Honor from President Ford.
It would also earn him burns and shrapnel wounds over much of his body, a wretched 11-day quest for survival, and 23 months in a POW camp. He would live the rest of his days with the Medal of Honor recipient's paradox – lifelong recognition for memories that were at best burdensome, at worst annihilating.
"You try to spend a lot of time forgetting about the war, and then they call you to the White House to give you a reward and remind you of those things," the 31-year Army Special Forces veteran told The Times of Shreveport, La., in 2002.
Jon R. Cavaiani, who died Tuesday in Stanford, Calif., at the age of 70 of leukemia, made the best of it. Into his final years, he spoke, taught and advocated for veterans, talked up patriotism and was sought for appearances and interviews as are many recipients of the nation's highest award for bravery in combat.
Along the way, he used the platform the medal afforded to speak forthrightly about the post-traumatic stress he endured, the prescription medications, the lasting psychological problems, and the ambivalence he felt bearing that conspicuous label of combat hero.
When people asked him about the medal, he stuck to platitudes. His stock answer reduced what people called valor to a humbler brew of strict necessity: "I couldn't outrun 'em, I had to fight 'em," he would say.
The explanation had the same tone, if not content, as the discussions he had among intimates. "He felt he could do it, so he did it," said longtime friend Mike Reilly, summing up Cavaiani's description of his acts. He once confided to a reporter that the events surrounding the medal felt like a part of his private life made painfully public.
Born Aug. 2, 1943, in Royston, England, Cavaiani came to America as a child and became a citizen in 1968. Shortly after, he joined the Army. He served with the 5th Special Forces Group in Vietnam.
Assigned as platoon leader to a secret radio relay site in enemy territory near Khe Sanh in 1971, he woke up the morning of June 4 to find the camp under attack. According to the medal citation, Cavaiani led the hopeless fight all that day, moving about the camp perimeter and directing his platoon's fire. Helicopters succeeded in evacuating most the group. But intense fire prevented rescue of the soldiers who remained–Vietnamese highlanders called Montagnards recruited to fight alongside the Special Forces.
Cavaiani's official citation states that he "unhesitatingly volunteered" to remain in the landing zone to direct helicopters and was later unable to escape. But Cavaiani gave a different account in a videotaped interview years later for the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation, created by the society of the same name which confirmed his death.
He said he was commanded to abandon the Montagnards that June 4. "You gotta be frickin' joking," he recalled thinking when the order came down. He defied it.
By the next morning, his group was overwhelmed and forced to run. Cavaiani, in desperation, stood atop a bunker in plain sight and swept a machine gun from side to side for cover. It was crazy. Belatedly realizing this, Cavaiani tried to get down, turning away from the gunfire. A bullet hit him in the back, he said. When the camp was overrun, he played dead, lying still as a victor examined his boots for plunder.
He survived wounded alone in the countryside until his capture, and was released in March 1973. He received the Medal of Honor in 1974 and served with the Special Forces until 1990, retiring at the rank of sergeant major and teaching in the ROTC program at UC Davis.
He and his wife Barbara Elf had a rural property in Columbia, Calif. It was his fifth marriage, according to the Modesto Bee, lasting from 1992 until his death. Cavaiani credited Elf with his emotional survival.
Friends described him as cheerful and outgoing despite his personal turmoil -- a bearded intellectual who spoke several languages, loved cooking and reading, and raised money for families of fallen soldiers and police officers. He worked frequently to meet the demands of the medal, giving speeches, teaching schoolchildren, even though "he had issues; most of 'em do," said Carol Cepregi, director of operations of the medal society.
Cavaiani is to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery per his request, said Reilly, a funeral director who is handling arrangements.


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Head Coach Robert Olesen enters his 16th year overall at Charlotte, 13th as head coach, and has been the driving force behind the development of well-balanced men's and women's track & field and cross country programs that are highly competitive at the conference level and advance student-athletes to the highest levels of competition in the nation.
Since joining the program in 1998, Olesen has helped the 49ers win 19 indoor & outdoor track and field league titles and a conference title in men's cross country. Since his arrival, the vast majority of the school records in both the indoor and outdoor seasons have been established and nearly all of the top 10 performances have come since Olesen came to Charlotte.
From 2006 to indoor 2010, Charlotte swept all women's conference titles, earning seven in a row. Olesen was named A-10 Coach of the Year 15 times, along with Southeast Region Men's Indoor Coach of the Year three times (2008, 2009, 2010) and Southeast District Women's Outdoor Coach of the Year once (2006).
Under Olesen, Charlotte has garnered 20 NCAA All-America honors from 11 different individuals, most recently Trey McRae in the high jump in 2014, in addition to 11 CoSIDA Academic All-Americans. Olesen guided Charlotte's first male track & field All-American (Rephel Martin, 2000) and women's indoor All-Americans (Shareese Woods and Cassie Ficken, 2005). Charlotte has had 11 Most Outstanding Rookies and 16 Most Outstanding Performers in track and field during its eight year Atlantic 10 tenure.
In addition, under his watch the 49ers track & field program has produced its first USA Junior National Team member for track and field (2001-Ian Dickinson), World Junior Cross Country National Team member (2005, Nick Sunseri-Canada), its first Olympian (Abe Morlu-Liberia, 2000) and a gold-medal winner for the U.S. in international competition (Shareese Woods, at the NACAC in 2006) among other accolades.
Olesen was named the A-10 men's and women's outdoor Coach of the Year during the 2012 season in which both teams captured the conference title. He was also tabbed with the same honor as the women's indoor Coach of the Year for 2012. The 4x100 meter relay team (La Trese Barker, JoAnn Blakney, Briauna Jones, and Sirrell Butler) earned a trip to the NCAA finals that same season. Charlotte's year was also highlighted by pole vault athlete Macy Ruble, who was awarded an NCAA Postgraduate scholarship and named the A-10 Scholar Athlete of the Year. Ruble ended his career at Charlotte posting a flawless 4.0 GPA, while double majoring in mathematics and physics. In 2013, Jake Deaton, participated in the NCAA T&F Championships in Eugene, Oregon placing 20th overall.
Olesen saw senior Darius Law, a 2011 NCAA Walter Byers Scholarship Finalist, earn a school-record three Capital One/CoSIDA Academic All-America awards. Excelling in the classroom throughout college with a 4.0 GPA in management, Law was also named the 2010 Arthur Ashe Jr. Scholar-Athlete of the Year, one of two national winners and several finalists in recent years for Charlotte. He ended his collegiate career with a school-record 26 gold medals in Atlantic-10 Championship competition, including seven as a senior. Law competed at the 2011 NCAA Championships in the 400-meters and was the only athlete to qualify for the 2010 NCAA Championships in both the 200 and 400-meters, earning All-America honors in the indoor 400-meter dash.
In addition to Law, the track and field program produced another recent All-American in Amanda Goetschius, who earned the honor with her performance at the 2010 women's indoor 5,000-meters. Along with All-America accolades, both Law and Goetschius earned berths into the outdoor national finals, as did Adu Dentamo. Goetschius wrapped up the 2010 season by running in the 10,000-meters at the USA Track and Field Championships, as did Sunita Braithwaite in the 100-meter hurdles.
Charlotte sent a school-record eight athletes to the 2009 NCAA Outdoor Championships with senior long jumper Pat Springs turning in her second All-America performance of her senior year. At the 2007 NCAA Championship, former 49er sprinter Shareese Woods came just two steps away from making the trip to Beijing for the 2008 Summer Games. Former Triple Jumper Sharonda Johnson was the first female All-American in a jumping event and recorded the feat twice during her career. As a field-event specialist, Olesen has had eight All-American performances in the jumps at Charlotte; in addition, the 49ers have had All-Americans in each of the major event categories, including sprints, field events and distance for each gender since Olesen began his tenure as head coach.
Olesen is a 1990 graduate of the University of Illinois, earning a Bachelor's Degree in Kinesiology with a coaching endorsement. He garnered All-America honors in the triple jump in 1989 and was the Big Ten triple jump champ and the team MVP in 1990. Olesen, who first joined the Illini as a walk-on, earned four letters and competed in both the triple and long jumps. Olesen got his coaching start as a Graduate Assistant at Southwest Texas State in 1990. He served as assistant coach there from 1992-95, and earned his Master's Degree in Physical Education from Southwest Texas State in 1995. While in Texas competing as a post-graduate, Olesen competed in the 1992 Olympic Trials in New Orleans. Olesen is a USA Track and Field level one certified coach as well as being level two certified in both the jumping and throwing events.
In addition to his success on the track, Olesen was a member of the 1998 United States Olympic Bobsled team, helping the U.S. finish seventh in the two-man bobsled at the 1998 Olympics in Nagano, Japan. En route to this accomplishment, his sled teams accumulated eleven world cup medals, including two bronze at the 1997 World Championship, an Olympic Trials championship and a number of U.S. Championships. His tenure with the team lasted from 1994-1998, during which he also earned the 1995-96 USOC Athlete of the Year Award in the sport of bobsled and was a member of the 1996-97 USOC two-man bobsled team of the year.
Olesen and his wife, Cindy, who was a four-time Big Ten high jump champion, have two children, Elizabeth and Thomas.