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August 25, 2016- Congratulations to Tammy DeMerchant, Peace River School Division (PRSD) school bus driver chosen for the 2016 PRSD Transportation Award of Excellence. The annual award celebrates the dedication and commitment of transportation staff.
Tammy operates school bus route 31 in the Peace River area and is starting her third year as a school bus driver for the division. When asked how she felt about being nominated and chosen for the award, Tammy expressed surprise and gratitude.
"I'm excited. I was not expecting this and it feels really good to be recognized by the community and the school division" says Tammy. "I really enjoy driving school bus. I like being around the kids and the flexibility of the job is great."
Superintendent Paul Bennett and Support Services Director John Przybylski presented Tammy with the award in a special ceremony in front of 100 school bus drivers during the annual Transportation and Support Services start-up meeting held at Fairview High School yesterday.
During the presentation, John shared commentary from management, office staff, parents and fellow colleagues regarding Tammy's service to the division. "Tammy is a fantastic driver who is organized, thorough, positive and pleasant. She is calm, skillful and in control at all times. Tammy is described as a caring and kind human being and has very positive relationships with students and their families."
John also commented how the transportation office has received phone calls from parents to make sure Tammy was driving again this year.
"Our school bus drivers are very important members of our school division family and play vital role in the education of our youth" says Darren Kuester, PRSD Board Chair. "The role of a school bus driver is so much more than transporting students to and from school and I can understand this as both my parents were school bus drivers. On behalf of the board of trustees, it's my pleasure to congratulate Tammy and thank her for her important contributions to student safety, well-being and success."


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The construction firm owned by Dianne Feinstein's husband scored a nearly $1 billion contract for the Fresno-Madera high speed rail line.
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Fresno trash measure turns into internship quid pro quo
A new local fight in Fresno has spilled onto the statewide radar for political insiders as Mayor Ashley Swearengin and City Manager Mark Scott have called in GOP reinforcements to assist in a campaign to privatize residential trash service for city residents.
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A New Tradition: Welcome to Davis Political Review
TALKER: Sen. Lois Wolk (D-Davis)
Chris Telfer and Omar Ornelas interview Davis' State Senator Lois Wolk for the first issue of Davis Political Review
Sudan: Isolated and Ignored
Joe Steptoe discusses the perpetuation of non-intervention in the Sudan and provides an update to the current problems facing the African nation.
Diplomas and Debts
Along with the cap and gown, diploma, and the bliss of finally graduating, there's something else that recent college graduates might be taking home upon graduating: more than $26,000 in student loan debt.
Following a crushing victory in November, California Democrats accomplished a first since since 1883 – a supermajority in both houses of the State Capitol, and control of Governor's mansion.
Postwar South Asia: Democracy Rising
While the Middle East may get most of the media attention when it comes to foreign affairs, South Asia is the region that has the focus of various policy makers.
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Fit-Box: An iOS Application to track CrossFit exercise
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(Reuters) - U.S. advertising company Omnicom Group Inc (OMC.N) on Thursday reported fourth-quarter revenue that missed Wall Street estimates due to lower spending by clients in North America and the healthcare sector.
Shares of New-York based Omnicom, one of the world's "Big Four" traditional advertising companies, were down 5.8 percent at $77.97.
Cut back in client spending, as well as consulting firms such as Accenture (ACN.N) and IBM (IBM.N) have taken away market share from traditional advertising companies in recent years by expanding their marketing divisions.
Omnicom's organic revenue fell 0.8 percent in North America, largely below analysts' expectations of a 1.3 percent rise, according to research firm FactSet.
The drop in organic revenue from North America was due to reduction in client spending, including lower political spend in PR related to the 2016 elections, Chief Financial Officer Philip Angelastro said on a call with analysts.
Omnicom, which houses advertising agencies such as BBDO and DDB, reported a rise of 1.6 percent in organic revenue for the reported quarter, below FactSet estimates of 2.25 percent.
"In the U.S., several of our ad agencies, and in particular, our independent brands, experienced client losses earlier in 2017, that are still cycling through and will continue to do so in the first part of 2018," Chief Executive Officer John Wren said on the call.
Omnicom expects organic revenue — which excludes the impact of foreign exchange and mergers — to grow between 2 percent and 3 percent in 2018, which was in line with what its peer Interpublic Group (IPG.N) had forecast on Wednesday.
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Omnicom, whose clients include Apple (AAPL.O), McDonald's Corp (MCD.N) and Adidas (ADSGn.DE), said net income attributable to the company fell to $254.4 million, or $1.09 per share, in the quarter ended Dec. 31, from $350.3 million, or $1.47 per share, a year earlier.
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UFO Sighting Report - Isle of Man
February 14th 2009 : Port Erin
UFOINFO Sighting Form Report
Location: Port Erin, Isle of Man
Date: February 14 2009
Time: approx. 10:30pm
Number of witnesses: 2
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: Circular [round]
Weather Conditions: Calm and clear
Description: Standing outside the Cherry Orchard Hotel I saw in the distance an orange circular light in the low sky heading from Port Erin bay. It travelled directly towards the hotel and as it neared it was rather like a glowing orange football. It passed over the hotel at no great speed and I called two other people to witness the event. It carried straight on not turning left or right or higher/lower and I watched it until it went out of sight. I am used to seeing aircraft over head at night which are quite distinctive in the lighting arrangements and this not fit a description of that. No sound what so ever accompanied the sighting, also the Isle of Man airport is closed at this time of night.
UFOINFO Note: As with other similar reports I asked the witness to have a look at the UFO Balloons website to see if this is what might have been seen and received the following reply:
Hi John,
Thanks for your reply. I checked out the web site you mentioned prior to reporting the sighting and feel certain that my sighting was not a ufo balloon. The sighting I witnessed was purely circular and was moving through the sky at a steady speed with no deviation in its trajectory. I watched the object for approximately 3 minutes from coming into sight until disappearing from my vision. A possible coincidence happened the 16th February when a colleague of my son who lives in Somerset was out with his young son just as it was dark and saw a very similar sight in the evening sky to what I had seen. Described by him as a completely circular shape orange/red in colour passed over Yeovil. Joe described it as a football shaped orange/red ball with no accompanying sound.
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So vein: Hand surgery removes tell-tale sign of ageing
By SADIE NICHOLAS
Last updated at 08:39 21 September 2007
Here, the first three women in Britain to have new cosmetic surgery treatment to remove the veins from their hands talk about their experiences.
Jeannette McPHAIL, 56, works in customer services at Heathrow Airport and lives in Hayes, Middlesex, with her husband Charles, 62, a security engineer. The couple have four grown-up children and 11 grandchildren.
You're completely mad, exclaimed my husband when I announced I was having cosmetic surgery to remove the veins in the backs of my hands.
He couldn't understand why I would choose to have such surgery when plenty of people have no option but to go under the knife for medical reasons.
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My three daughters were more sympathetic, as they are just as vain about their appearances as me and understood the insecurity I felt about my hands.
For a decade or more the veins on the backs of my hands have been so prominent that they have looked like they belong to a 100-year-old woman, not someone almost half that age.
It has made me very self-conscious.
Like it or not, we live in an era where women are judged by the way they look, and I felt my hands let me down.
I've always taken chances, so when I heard about the new surgery - whose technical name is avulsions of hand veins - I didn't see what I had to lose.
An initial consultation with vascular surgeon Josh Derodra confirmed that I was the perfect candidate for the operation, as the skin on my hands has clearly thinned to leave numerous veins protruding.
He explained that he would operate on the left hand first, give that three months in which to heal fully and then do the right hand.
Removing veins will leave the hand potentially a little painful and swollen for the first few weeks and a bit tender for a couple of months after that while the tiny wounds heal, making it uncomfortable to do things such as typing, driving and housework certainly for the first month.
Although Charles tried to talk me out of it, I reasoned that if it didn't work out then I'd have only myself to blame, and if my hands looked like they belonged to a 30-year-old at the end of it then it would have been £1,800 well spent.
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On a bright sunny morning, I arrived at the Springfield Capio Hospital in Chelmsford, Essex, with Charles for support.
After filling in the final paperwork and one last consultation with Mr Derodra, I was led to the operating theatre.
He applied an antiseptic iodine solution to my left hand and lower arm then injected the back of my hand with local anaesthetic which felt like bee stings.
He then used a tiny needle to make punctures in my skin into which he inserted an equally tiny hook a bit like a fine crochet needle to tease out the veins, just like in a varicose vein removal.
Mr Derodra explained that the veins were between 2cm and 3cm long and that he was removing only the prominent ones - about half a dozen in total - thus ensuring that the blood supply to my hands would not be affected.
I can honestly say I didn't feel a thing and the 45 minutes it took to remove the veins whizzed by.
I didn't even need stitches, but Mr Derodra immediately put a tight compression glove on my hand which I was instructed to keep on for three weeks to support my hand and to limit any swelling.
He also put my arm in a sling to keep it upright for three days to help further reduce swelling by encouraging any fluids to drain away.
After a cup of tea and a sandwich at the clinic, Charles took me home.
For two days, I took painkillers as my hand felt a little bruised, but nothing more than that.
When I changed the glove after five days and cleaned up my hand, I could already see that it looked smoother despite being a bit swollen. And now it's two months since my surgery, I'm very impressed with the results and desperate to get the other hand done.
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At a dinner party I showed off my hands to other guests and they couldn't believe the difference between them.
My left hand now looks like it belongs to a 35-year-old and once I've had the other one done, I'll no longer feel the need to keep my hands in my pockets or hide them behind my back when I'm talking to people.
Rachel Brooks, 51, is an awards co-ordinator and lives alone in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. She has two grown-up children and is separated from their father.
For as long as I can remember I've hated the veins in my hands, which look all the more prominent because I'm a slim size ten with little excess fat.
It's not something I've inherited from my mother - she's 77 and her hands are more youthful than mine.
I think it's just down to me being thin.
I've always thought my hands were scrawny and aged me, especially since I separated from my husband three years ago.
That spurred me on to take greater care of how I look and feel - you have to when you're back on the dating scene. I go to dance classes every week too, so my hands are on show all the time and I'd love them to look attractive for men.
So, when I heard that a revolutionary new cosmetic surgery procedure had been developed to remove the veins in your hands, I was one of the first in the queue, £1,800 in hand.
My only hesitation was that my job involves lots of computer work and I wouldn't be able to do that if both hands were out of action.
Thankfully, it was explained to me during the initial consultation in June that my hands would be done about three months apart to give the first chance to heal.
Reassured that I'd still be able to work, three weeks later I returned to the Essex clinic for the procedure and despite being quite squeamish felt completely at ease thanks to the prospect of having youthful hands.
Despite not feeling nervous about the operation, it wasn't quite the easy experience I was expecting.
After a good start - the anaesthetic injections were like little pinpricks - I could feel an unpleasant tugging sensation as Mr Derodra pulled the veins out.
At one point the thought of the veins being tugged made me feel quite faint, but I took deep breaths and resolved to get through it.
Two hours after arriving at the clinic, I was heading back to the railway station to catch the train home wearing a very unattractive compression glove and with my arm upright in a sling, where it would have to stay for 48 hours.
I refused painkillers, which was a mistake as that first night I awoke with such horrendous pain in my hand that I had to get out of bed and pace around.
It lasted for another four nights, by which time I was ready to remove the glove for the first time and inspect my hand.
Underneath it was a disgusting, bloodied mess and I had to ask a friend to soak it all off for me, as it made me feel ill.
The bruising went all the way up my arm, but I couldn't see any of the little incisions the surgeon had made, which was amazing.
Although my hand felt bruised, I didn't experience pain other than that and it wasn't too difficult to move around, although I obeyed instructions to rest it as much as possible to encourage recovery.
Two months on and my hand definitely looks better than the other - smoother, plumper and just like it did 20 years ago.
But I'm undecided whether to have the other hand done, as I'm not sure I can face the tugging sensations and post-operative pain again.
Nawal Gharbieh, 50, is a language teacher and lives in Beddington, Surrey, with husband Said, 58, an engineering director, and their daughters Diana, 24, who works in PR, and Selina, 23, a marketing executive.
I'm not going to lie.
As the surgeon-pulled at my veins to take them out through the tiny incisions he'd made in my left hand, it felt uncomfortable.
Obviously the local anaesthetic administered to the back of my hand meant it wasn't painful, but it wasn't a pleasant sensation.
As I lay there chatting to the nurse, trying to take my mind off the pulling and tugging, I resolved that it would be worth it.
Finally, I'd have hands that would look the same age as my face - I've really looked after my skin and people often comment that I appear much younger than 50.
But one glance at my hands would give the game away.
The skin on my hands thinned during my 40s and I tried a few anti-ageing creams, but then wised up to the fact that no amount of lotions and potions can stop your veins protruding.
SO, when my daughter Diana told me she'd heard about a new cosmetic surgery procedure to remove the veins in the backs of your hands, I was virtually jumping for joy and wasted no time in tracking down the surgeon.
After a consultation, he deemed me perfect for the operation and I broke the news to my family.
They were all supportive and although Said reassured me he didn't think I needed to do something so drastic, he also said he'd be right behind me if I went ahead.
Like most patients, I experienced slight stinging as the anaesthetic was injected, plus the tugging sensation.
But you can't expect to have an operation and not experience at least a little unpleasantness.
Much as I would have liked the idea of nipping in to a clinic for surgery then going on a shopping spree a couple of hours later, it wasn't to be.
Selina drove me straight home to put my feet up and for the first two nights I continued to take the painkillers as I did experience a bit of discomfort.
But, again, I was prepared for it.
The hand was a little swollen afterwards as you'd expect, but there were no incision marks and I don't have any scarring, which is incredible.
Thankfully, the fact it was the school holidays meant my operation didn't affect my work and shortly after the surgery Said and I flew to Houston in the U.S. for a holiday.
By the time we returned, my hand had all but healed to reveal itself as a beautifully smooth specimen, which even the friends who warned me not to go under the knife had to admit was impressive.
I now can't wait to have the right hand done so I've got a youthful matching pair, although I have to confess that I'm not looking forward to the discomfort.
I don't regret having the surgery, but I won't be rushing to have any more nip tuck, for now at least.
• For more information contact the Springfield Capio Hospital on 01245 234000 or visit www.capio.co.uk
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Jeff Wood, the founder of Clowncar Publishing, recently held a contest on his fan page and I was honored to be declared the winner. Using the bits and bobs he could glean from my facebook page as inspiration and with a self-imposed two-day time limit, Jeff wrote a short piece of elegant fiction about the hold of memory and family that reads like poetry. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do:
by Jeff Wood
As she opened the splintered door to the attic a cloud of miller moths burst into the air, motes of dust trembling in their wake as she climbed the stairs, every Spring now for twelve years: putting up the heavy quilts, the coats and sweaters, taking down the summer clothes and light blankets. She looked forward to it, yearly. The theater of memory, the lure of the closed box. First one right up near the door, old Christmas lights, the ones her husband had drunkenly attempted to disentangle on the naked hardwood floor that last Christmas together. She never bothered to disentangle things, she put them in a box and trucked them to the attic: out of sight, out of mind. Put away the winter things, bring in the summer. Dust devils swirled at her feet as she walked, moths like flocks of birds. Next up, boxes from her daughter's room. She had left for college nine months ago, come home hurriedly for Thanksgiving and Christmas, was due for summer break in a scant few days. She had intended her daughter's room to be kept the same, a diorama, a tar pit, but life moves on and she soon learned there is no such thing as an unused room, even if all it holds is memory. The bed soon became covered with fabric, the end-table a space for needle and thread, yarn and loom. She had needed room and so packed up some the clutter and moved it up here. Trophies. Video games. Orphaned cards from the Sorry board. She pulled out a favored stuffed monkey and tried to remember what her daughter had named it—Ferfy, Foofy, Floopy—and as she tilted her head to ponder a familiar shape peered from around another box: a worn wooden crate belonging to her Grandfather Wright, a relic from his merchant days.
Moths fluttered, dust settled on cardboard. She was not much tempted to open it, content in the comfort of her daughter's things, the smell of them, the touch. Grandpa Wright had built raised flowerbeds for his wife using the same wood the crate was built from, and his wife had coaxed a garden from it what, forty years ago? And decades later, with his wife passed and his children scattered, they had pleaded with him to stay at the hospital but he insisted on going home, insisted upon the garden, surrounded by his wife's flowers, butterflies and bees humming among the petals, the sky full of magpies. She had been with him out in the garden that afternoon, not very old, ten maybe, eleven. He had been showing her a daylily and in mid-sentence seemed to simply go to sleep, his eyes closing, and she caught a notion of what might be happening and his head tilted to the side and his jaw dropped open and the air was suddenly alive with birdsong, she had never heard so many birds before, how could the world contain so many birds, so much song? She ran to tell her parents, sat on the porch with them waiting for the ambulance. Flashing red and blue lights strobed in the trees as they rolled him out of the house on a stretcher. The magpies had been long ago scared away by the siren. The ambulance rushed away in a loud blare of horn and they all walked back inside the silent house. Her father closed the front door solidly and began to weep.
She snapped back to the present with a sneeze, clearing her nose of dust. There is no such thing as an unused room. She began to repack her daughter's things, readying her home for the coming visit, moths above her like birds on the wing, motes dancing in the attic light like kites.
I was so pleased with this lovely result from a simple contest that I made it a point to check out Jeff's author page on Amazon where you can see a short biography and where a novel, two sci-fi novellas, and several short stories are available inexpensively as Kindle Editions. And check out his blog, The Oort Cloud, too—definitely the home of a clever, curious mind.


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There's only two days left.
We are almost packed, thanks to my husband -
I have had long hours at work.
Here is a film about the final rehearsal -trip.
Since that we have decided not to take the husky-tent,
because the dogs did not use it when the wind was blowing hard.
Instead we have made two layers of coats for them:
One is breathable and windproof so that it can be used when trekking.
The other is very warm, almost like a dog-sleeping-bag.
I'm sure they will be Ok, if we make shelter for them from snow.
Tomorrow my parents come and the day after that we leave.
The weather will be quite cold,
but I really hope the sky would be clear at least for one day
So that we could see the mountains.
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by Emma Gijsbers, AmeriCorps member serving on the MFS Investment Management team with Hennigan K-8 School
My students say they don't like when I sing but I think they actually do. Usually I sing to get them engaged in the lesson. I'll sing the math problem or sing follow-up questions to them. Or with some students I use it to encourage them to do work. If I say take out your book and they no, I can say, "Do you want me to sing?" and I know they'll take it out right away. With one particular student, I know only to sing if it is absolutely necessary. Just the other week, for example, Jamaris* was struggling with a long division problem. Though it is a rare moment when I actually have a real math song to contribute to the lesson (usually I just make it up on the spot), this was one time where I had something in my back pocket. Earlier this year a teammate had taught me a song to remember the steps of long division and I was excited to share it with my student.
"I have a song!" I said to him when I realized he was struggling.
Jamaris* looked alarmed. "No, no, it's really okay."
"No, it's a real song, I promise." I pointed to the problem as I sang the steps. "Divide, multiply, and subtract, bring it on down, and bring it on back." I looked at him with a smile. He didn't say anything so I took that as a good sign. I sang it again. "Do the problem along with me," I told him. "Divide." He divided and wrote the answer above. "Multiply." He multiplied and wrote the answer below. "And subtract." He subtracted. "Bring it on down." He brought the next number down. "And bring it on back." He went back to the beginning. "See, isn't it awesome?" I exclaimed. He shrugged but when I circled back later that class period, I heard him singing the steps under his breath and later that week, he and another student at his table were singing it together. Now, Jamaris* still stops me if I'm about to sing our long division song will live on.
*Name has been changed to protect student privacy.


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Li Tang, Wade-Giles romanization Li T'ang, (born c. 1050—died c. 1130), major Chinese painter who lived during both the Northern and the Southern Song dynasties and established a style of painting that became the base for the academy-style landscape of the Southern Song.
He earned the highest rank in the academy of painting of Emperor Huizong, and, after the North fell to the Mongols, went to the South and entered the academy of Emperor Song Gaozong. His landscapes—of which one dated 1124 is the most reliably ascribed—serve as a vital link between the earlier, and essentially Northern, variety of monumental landscape, and the more lyrical Southern style of the Ma-Xia school. Li perfected the brushstroke texture known as the "ax stroke," which gives a tactile sense to painted rocks and suggests the precise and comprehensive reality that Southern Song artists sought to give their landscapes.


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Blake Childers was named the Director of Sports Information and Promotions at Berry College in July of 2016.
He is a member of College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) and serves on the organization's New Media Committee.
Childers, a 2015 graduate of Berry, returned to his alma mater after spending a year with the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) as the league's Sports Information and Multimedia Assistant. In his time at the SCAC, he was the main contact for eight sports, while also handling the conference's video editing, interviewing and producing duties. Under Childers' guidance, the conference saw large gains in viewership for all video content, increasing the total views by more than 300%, while the average views per video grew by the same amount.
Childers was a magna cum laude graduate in communication and held student-work positions in various areas including his roles as the student Photographic Services Coordinator for Berry's Office of Public Relations and Marketing, the Game Operations Supervisor for the Sports Information Office and the Sports Producer at Viking Fusion, Berry's student-run multimedia website.
Additionally, Childers worked with the Rome Braves (Single-A affiliate of the Atlanta Braves) as an audio-visual assistant for three seasons where he oversaw in-game entertainment, video board operation and content creation for the team.
A native of Calhoun, Georgia, Childers is a dedicated Atlanta sports fan including the Falcons, Braves and Hawks.


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Update: On Feb. 19, 2009 Heidemarie Schnitzer was captured and arrested by Tijuana police. Within weeks she was deported to Austria where she stood trial on April 14, 2009. After being found guilty of stalking and sending death threats to David Caruso, Judge Guenther Boehler sentenced her to prison for 7 months. Following her incarceration, she was transferred to a mental facility for an undisclosed period of time.
It has been nearly 4 months since Heidi Schnitzer fled Austria to avoid prosecution on charges she stalked and threatened to murder David Caruso, his daughter Greta Caruso and Liza Marquez. Recent intelligence suggests that Schnitzer is planning to illegally enter the US as soon as possible to carry out her death threats against the actor and his family. The U.S. Border patrol remains on high alert with photos of this dangerous fugitive at each checkpoint.
Intelligence sources strongly suggest that the stalker may attempt to carry out her death threats prior to CSI Miami's season premiere scheduled for late September. The FBI's NCIC has all of the necessary information on Schnitzer that will aid in her detainment and eventual deportation if caught attempting to enter the U.S. What has officials concerned though is the fact that Schnitzer has already escaped from her own country twice. They fear that she could slip into the U.S. undetected posing a grave threat to David Caruso and his family.
Heidi Schnitzer remains on the lam hiding out in the Tijuana, Mexico area. She is armed and considered to be extremely dangerous. Do not attempt to apprehend this woman. Contact the U.S. Border Patrol at 1-800-232-5378 , the FBI or Austria's Bundeskriminalamt at +43-(0)1-531 26-0.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
David Caruso -Stalker's Proximity to US Border Has Officials Concerned
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008
David Caruso - Stalker on the Lam Four Months
Nearly 4 months have now gone by and Heidi Schnitzer, David Caruso's fugitive Austrian stalker remains on the run. It would appear that Austria's inept Bundeskriminalamt has put this matter on their proverbial back burner. After the FBI initially contacted them in 2007, Austria went through the motions to maintain free flowing diplomatic channels with the U.S. They filed charges, allowed Schnitzer to escape , sought the aid of the FBI to locate her, set a trial date and ultimately allowed her to escape AGAIN. On April 16, 2008, Heidi Schnitzer [aka Gabriele Huber] failed to appear for trial on charges she stalked and threatened to murder David Caruso, Greta Caruso and Liza Marquez. She fled for the second time.
For almost 4 months, the Austrians have done nothing to capture this woman and are probably glad to be rid of her! For those unaware of this story, the following is helpful background on this extremely dangerous woman who fled to Tijuana, Mexico where she remains in hiding:
For almost 4 months, the Austrians have done nothing to capture this woman and are probably glad to be rid of her! For those unaware of this story, the following is helpful background on this extremely dangerous woman who fled to Tijuana, Mexico where she remains in hiding:
Meet the face of hate. This woman, identified as Heidi Schnitzer aka Gabriele Huber, hates David Caruso. And she will go to the ends of the Internet posting slander and libel to let you know it. Been to a David Caruso fan site lately? If you have, undoubtedly you noticed an ongoing war of words between Caruso fans and one of Heidi's many pseudonyms [see list in sidebar]. Bloggers and news outlets who even mention the words "David Caruso" are inundated with Heidi's hate comments.
Heidi is responsible for countless forum disruptions and spam all in the name of her "I Hate David Caruso" campaign. Why? Several years ago, Heidi reportedly left Austria in pursuit of her prey. She followed David Caruso to a Miami restaurant and she propositioned him. When Caruso said "no thanks" [do you blame him?], this one-time love obsessed fan turned criminal stalker over night.
At the now famous moment of rejection, Heidi abandoned a young daughter, failed to show up for work and forfeited her reputation all in the name of hatred. Heidi mailed hundreds of letters to Caruso demanding an autograph. When these went unanswered, she went into a tailspin. Composing her now famous "death threat letter", Heidi vowed to seek vengeance for Caruso's alleged slight.
David Caruso, his daughter Greta and his former companion Liza Marquez all became targets of Heidi. When she first fled Austria in 2007, the FBI tracked her down in Mexico where she was captured and extradited to Austria. She continued her hate war against David Caruso via her laptop. Fast forward to April 16, 2008--the date of Heidi's trial. Again, she fled Austria to avoid prosecution. A warrant was issued for her arrest.
Heidi remains on the lam hiding out in Tijuana, Mexico. Reliable sources report that she is employed in the Zona Norte area of the city where she also has limited Internet access. Day in and day out this unstable, deranged woman continues her hate war hoping that one day David Caruso will take notice of her. That will never happen. Hopefully, law enforcement will.
Heidi Schnitzer aka Gabriele Huber remains at large wanted for threatening to murder David Caruso. She is armed and considered to be extremely dangerous and is hiding out in Tijuana, Mexico. Do not attempt to apprehend this woman. Contact the U.S. Border Patrol at 1-800-232-5378 , the FBI or Austria's Bundeskriminalamt at +43-(0)1-531 26-0.
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2013, 84 minutes, Color, 16mm/DVD
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ALICE WALKER: BEAUTY IN TRUTH tells the compelling story of an extraordinary woman. Alice Walker made history as the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her groundbreaking novel, The Color Purple. Her early life unfolded in the midst of violent racism and poverty during some of the most turbulent years of profound social and political changes in North American history during the Civil Rights Movement. Mixing powerful archival footage with moving testimonials from friends and colleagues such as Howard Zinn, Angela Y. Davis, Gloria Steinem, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Quincy Jones, Steven Spielberg and Danny Glover, ALICE WALKER: BEAUTY IN TRUTH offers audiences a penetrating look at the life and art of an artist, intellectual, self-confessed renegade and human rights activist.
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"...a much needed contribution to the slow but ever growing archive of African-American women who have indelibly shaped our discourses of race, gender, sexuality, class, and oppressive regimes of power."
"An intimate, exquisitely rendered portrait of one of the great artists of our time."
Ava DuVernay
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"Parmar has given us all an opportunity to gain both understanding and encouragement from one of humanism�s great exemplars."
"Alice Walker is one of the great thinkers of our time, and has changed the lives of so many women with her ideas - this rich and honest film tells a story that we all need to hear."
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" The ultimate impression left by Pratibha Parmar�s eloquent film is of a courageous life full of risk but full of joy too."
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"...inspiring and informative� Parmar presents audiences with a detailed landscape of the �beauty� and �truth� of Walker�s life"
"A compelling and inspirational documentary."
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"Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth is a dazzling, courageous portrait of the extraordinary life of a living legend. "
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"Parmar's film masterfully presents Alice Walker's revolutionary story as integral to American history."
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�Pratibha Parmar�s documentary on the life�s work of Alice Walker is the director�s invitation to exalt with connected, layered complexity the artist, the activist, the woman, the person of colour as cultural icon..."
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The Texas State Board of Education endorsed an updated Educators' Code of Ethics last week that raised so much concern among teachers that every major teacher organization was opposed to the revision.
Here's testimony provided to the SBOE from Texas AFT's legislative counsel Patty Quinzi:
"Texas AFT is opposed to these proposed rules because the changes would serve to expand the prosecutorial authority and discretion of (the State Board for Educator Certification) staff while providing professional educators with inadequate guidance regarding what is expected of them in their professional role."
Quinzi gave three specific examples:
"Section 247.1(b) uses broad language requiring educators to 'exemplify…good moral character' without providing guidance as to SBEC's definition of these terms. Increasing the Code's use of such language targeting ill-defined 'immorality' represents a step backward in the quality of our state's rules and standards for the education profession. When the Education Code was rewritten in 1995, then-Sen. Bill Ratliff, lead author of the rewrite, cited such vague language as an embarrassment to the state and struck it from the law on continuing contracts. Now with this proposal we see the proliferation once again of the same type of problematic language that never served to communicate to teachers what is expected of them. Instead of improving on the current rules, these proposed rules take the state and the profession backward 15 years. The focus of the disciplinary rules needs to be on job-related conduct, not on someone's vague notions of 'character.'
"Section 247.2(1)(A) adds the term 'intentionally' or 'recklessly' to the existing term 'knowingly,' a change that expands prosecutorial authority but gives educators no guidance regarding the appropriate boundary between acceptable and unacceptable conduct.
"Section 247.2(1)(L) would create Standard 1.12, adding 'abuse of prescription drugs' to the litany of sanctionable offenses. This rule might make sense if it were linked to an event in which a person is arrested and charged with a crime. However, as written it seeks to police an inappropriately broad spectrum of off-duty behavior. For instance, it would be inappropriate to hold educators to a standard triggering potential sanctions for what could be the result of simple human error, such as taking too many Ambien before going to bed."
The revisions were proposed by SBEC. SBOE members have the power by a two-thirds vote to reject but not amend proposed rules. They took no action on Friday, which means the revisions are in effect.
Another revision to note updated the ethics code to address social media. The new Standard 3.9 reads:
The educator shall refrain from inappropriate communication with a student or minor, including but not limited to, electronic communication such as cell phone, text messaging, email, instant messaging, blogging, or other social network communications. Factors that may be considered in assessing whether the communication is inappropriate include, but are not limited to:
(i) the nature, purpose, timing, and amount of communication;
(ii) the subject matter of the communication;
(iii) whether the communication was made openly or the educator attempted to conceal the communication;
(iv) whether the communications could be reasonably interpreted as soliciting sexual contact or a romantic relationship;
(vi) whether the communication involved discussion(s) of the physical or sexual attractiveness or the sexual history, activities, preferenes, or fantasies of either the educator or the students.