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Doors open 5 p.m. at the Douglas County Community & Senior Center, with the debate, moderated by Jacques Etchegoyhen beginning at 6 p.m.
■ Jim Hartman is president of Nevadans for Responsible Drug Policy, an IRS qualified 501 (c) (4) non-profit corporation. He served for 13 years as legal counsel and vice-president-administration of Up-Right, Inc., a Berkeley, Calif.-based international manufacture of work platforms and grape harvesting equipment. During that time, he was a member of the Berkeley Rotary Club as well a director of the Berkeley Chamber of Commerce and Alameda County Taxpayers' Association. Jim and his wife Mary retired in 2013 from full time employment and relocated from the Bay Area for long contemplated retirement in Genoa."
■ Dan Wray is a chemist and businessman, who during his 40 year career has developed a variety of industrial and consumer products. He founded BioFilm, Inc., the operating company in Vista, California started in 1991 with six employees. He and his wife Lois renovated the Pink House in Genoa, which opened last year. He is a member of the board for the Business Council of Douglas County and supports the Northern Nevada Development Authority. Dan and Lois have three children. One is a teacher in Concord Calif., another is a doctoral candidate in Madison Wisconsin and the youngest is a senior at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
■ Bill Chernock was named the executive director of the Carson Valley Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Authority in November of 2008. He spent 1984 to 2004 on the South Shore of Lake Tahoe, where he worked as the Marketing Director for the MS Dixie and Zephyr Cove Resort for 13 years before becoming the Executive Director of the Lake Tahoe Visitors Authority. He is a native of Springfield, Mass., and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.
From next week my blog will be coming from Beijing.
Although the Olympics do not begin until August 8 - the Chinese consider 8 so lucky that they planned the opening ceremony for 8pm on 08/08/08 - the week before the Games begin is always an important one in terms of sports politics.
This is when meetings of the Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the wider IOC session are held, meetings which bring together the great and good from the world of sport.
While it is easy to mock these gatherings as jollies for the blazer brigade, they remain the most important gathering of those who run world sports.
The start of construction of the Aquatics Centre for the London Games three months ahead of schedule sounds just like the good news story London 2012 should be bragging about.
But the fact is that the issues surrounding the most hyped sporting venue for the London Games illustrate many of the problems that now dog it.
Yes, the Games will provide Londoners with some marvellous facilities, including Olympic-sized swimming pools.
But for the Aquatics Centre to be converted into use for the community after the Games, more money will have to be spent on it, another facility built next to it, and more money found for it.
English cricket is ready to follow the example of football's Premier League as it heads for a revolution in which some of the long-established principles of the county game could be abandoned.
I learned the details of the plans for the future while watching Derbyshire play Leicestershire on a rain-interrupted day at a ground with probably no more than 100 people in attendance - but the future will be far different if the authors of the report get their way.
I have seen the 21-page document and I am staggered by what Surrey chairman David Stewart and MCC chief executive Keith Bradshaw - with the help of Hampshire and Lancashire - have produced.
Ali Bacher, the former head of South African cricket, has added his voice to those demanding a sporting boycott of Zimbabwe, calling for a "sustained and concerted" campaign of isolation to help bring President Mugabe's regime to its knees.
Bacher, the last captain of the white South African cricket team which existed before sporting sanctions were imposed for the country's racist sporting policies, told me: "Look at our own history.
"During the apartheid years the majority of South Africa's white sporting community held the view that sport and politics should not mix. But (prominent anti-apartheid campaigner) Hassan Howa was right when he said that there can be no normal sport in an abnormal society.
Uefa is happy with the progress being made in Poland to get the country ready for Euro 2012 but are very concerned about Ukraine.
That is the message coming from the headquarters of European football following the visit of an inspection delegation led by Uefa president Michel Platini and including executive members Geoff Thompson, former FA chairman, to these two countries.
The resolution of the Zimbabwe cricket crisis, keeping Zimbabwe out of the World Twenty20 in England, comes as no surprise.
This was exactly the fudge I anticipated last Friday in my blog.
I did not think Zimbabwe would be thrown out of the International Cricket Council but a solution would be found to keep them out of the World Twenty20.
Michel Platini knows all about a footballer being as good as his last game. But he is discovering that this also applies when you become a football administrator.
Having presided over arguably the best ever European Championship he is this week coping with the possibility of having to move Euro 2012 from the hosts Poland and Ukraine.
London 2012 overestimated the number of security personnel that would be available for the Olympic Games by over six times, a top private sector security expert told a conference on 2012 security in London on Tuesday morning.
When London won the bid in Singapore back in 2005 the bid book said that 6,500 security personnel would be available. But at present there are only 1,000 available and a lot more training needs to be undertaken if the gap is to be closed by the time the Games start.
If not this would put pressure on the police who would have to step in.
David Evans, Project Director 2012 for the British Security Industry Association, also told a 2020 security conference that the bid had assumed that there would be a public private sector partnership which would deliver Games security.
Two men were arrested after the fracas.
POLICE IN THE North attended a scene in an Antrim town in the early hours this morning where fighting had broken out among a large crowd.
Officers were called to the scene on the main street in Ballyclare just after 3am, and found around 50 people had gathered there and a fight had broken out amongst them.
When police arrested a 23-year-old man on suspicion of a number of offences including being in charge of a vehicle while unfit through drink or drugs, assaulting police and criminal damage, the PSNI said the crowd “became hostile towards police”.
Inspector Alison Ferguson said: “CS spray was then used to restrain a 36-year-old who was subsequently arrested on suspicion of disorderly behaviour. He was released, pending report.
Ferguson added that a number of police officers received minor injuries in the incident, and appealed for witnesses to come forward.
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Confusion reigned last week in one of Lewes’s busiest car parks as drivers were confronted by an out of commission ticket machine with a cover telling them to pay by mobile phone.
Cllr Graham Mayhew said: “One resident who rang me said they had seen several older drivers without mobiles having to drive off to find parking elsewhere.
“The car park behind Premier Inn is particularly popular with older people because it is nearest the shops.
“Senior citizens are also the group with the lowest proportion of smart phones as not everyone finds them easy to use.
“I went and looked at the car park and although I found another machine that would take cash it wasn’t immediately obvious.
“The cover on the machine that was out of service was emblazoned with a large notice telling people they could still use the car park if they paid by mobile phone.
“I didn’t even see the much smaller notice at the bottom mentioning payment by another machine as it isn’t at all prominent and obviously nor did a lot of other people.
A spokesman for Lewes District Council said this week: “There are no plans to prevent people using cash to pay for parking.
“Unfortunately, two pay and display machines failed at the same time during a busy period in the town centre.
Cllr Stephen Catlin said: “I am delighted to hear this is not pay by phone or by card being introduced by stealth.
Thousands of people Friday tried to flee Urumqi in China's Xinjiang region after deadly ethnic unrest with many mosques ordered shut for the Muslim day of prayer.
The exodus came as the authorities raised the toll from the violence that erupted on Sunday to more than 180 in the midst of growing international anger, especially in the Islamic world, at the plight of Xinjiang's Uighurs.
Authorities said they had put on extra bus services out of the regional capital Urumqi, but demand outstripped seats and scalpers told AFP they were charging up to five times the normal price for tickets.
"It is just too risky to stay here. We are scared of the violence," said Xu Qiugen, a 23-year-old construction worker from central China who had been living in Urumqi for five years and had bought a bus ticket out with his wife.
The unrest began when thousands of Muslim Uighurs, who have long complained about repression under Chinese rule, took to the streets to protest and security forces moved in to clamp down.
The Chinese government said 184 were killed with more than 1,000 others injured as Uighurs attacked people from China's dominant Han ethnic group, with most of those killed Han Chinese.
But it was anger at the plight of the Uighurs that drew howls of protest from around the world on Friday with rallies in several cities, including Ankara, Berlin, Canberra and Istanbul.
Uighurs are Turkic speakers and Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was the most outspoken for their cause, going as far as to label the events in Xinjiang "a kind of genocide."
Uighur exiles claim China's security forces over-reacted to peaceful protests and used deadly force.
The leader of the exiled community, Washington-based Rebiya Kadeer, cited unconfirmed reports Friday that the death toll "is up to 1,000, or some say 3,000" in violence across the region, and estimated that another 5,000 people had been imprisoned.
In Urumqi earlier this week tensions mounted as thousands of Han Chinese took to the streets wielding knives, poles, meat cleavers and other makeshift weapons vowing vengeance against the Uighurs.
AFP witnessed Han Chinese mobs assaulting two Uighurs in separate attacks, and Uighurs alleged many other beatings took place, but the extent of the violence was unclear.
With ethnic tensions still at flashpoint and security forces saturating the city, many mosques were ordered shut for weekly prayers.
"The government said there would be no Friday prayers," said a Uighur man named Tursun outside the Hantagri mosque, one of the oldest in the city, as about 100 police carrying machine guns and batons stood guard.
"There's nothing we can do... the government is afraid that people will use religion to support the three forces."
He was referring to a Chinese government term referring to extremism, separatism and terrorism -- forces it says are seeking to split Xinjiang from the rest of the country.
Xinjiang makes up one-sixth of China's territory and it crosses into Central Asia, sharing borders with eight countries including Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Eight million Uighurs, who share more links with their Central Asian neighbours than the Han Chinese, make up just under half of Xinjiang's population.
Heavy security was also in force throughout the historic city of Kashgar, about 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) from Urumqi where smaller-scale ethnic unrest flared last year, AFP journalists witnessed.
Foreign journalists were ordered out of the city, preventing them from reporting events after exiled Uighur leaders said this week that Chinese security forces may have killed 100 people there.
"All foreign journalists should leave for their own safety," Chen Li, a press official with the Kashgar government, told AFP.
At Urumqi's Bayi bus station, mainly a hub for travel to other parts of China rather than within Xinjiang, around 10,000 people were trying to leave the city, double the normal number, a top official named Adili told AFP.
Queues at the bus station had as many as 300 people in them on Friday morning, with many of them Han but also some Uighurs.
Scalpers moved fast to take advantage of the extra demand.
One man, who only gave his surname as Wang, was selling train tickets for Kashgar city, about 1,000 kilometres away, for 500 yuan (73 US dollars), well above the face price of about 100 yuan.
"A lot of people are leaving because they are afraid. It's really hard to buy tickets," Wang told AFP.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told reporters on Thursday that she is confused why Americans aren’t “uprising” against the Trump administration over conditions on the border with Mexico.
The California Democrat’s weekly press briefing veered into explosive territory when the subject of illegal immigration came up. Mrs. Pelosi said there may be “uprisings” over children who are separated at the U.S. southern border when asylum seekers decide not to arrive at a proper checkpoint.
The Republican Party immediately blasted her “extreme rhetoric” in a video uploaded to its “War Room” YouTube channel.
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar told lawmakers on June 6 that authorities are not arbitrarily splitting up families who seek asylum in the U.S.
Virginia is among the top ten exporters of agriculture in the United States, with crops such as soybeans, wheat, corn, barley, tobacco, cotton, fresh vegetables and raw peanuts. Communities all across Virginia celebrate their agricultural bounty each year with fall harvest festivals that are much in the same spirit as the Pilgrims’ first Thanksgiving observance.
Carter Mountain Orchard is located next to the historic Michie Tavern and Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello near Charlottesville. Their annual Apple Harvest Festival in October has a cornucopia of apples, cider and pies, as well as pumpkins, gourds, jams and jellies and apple butter. Participants can snack on hot apple-cider donuts while listening to live bluegrass music, looking at crafts, taking in a hayride, or just enjoying the panoramic views of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Every weekend in October, Mount Bleak Farm celebrates the fall harvest with events held at Sky Meadows State Park in Delaplane, Virginia. Enjoy live music, interpretive programs and living history demonstrations, a corn maze, local cuisine and crafts, or dive into the pick-your-own pumpkin patch.
The Massanutten Resort hosts an annual Fall Festival near its ski slopes and ski lodge. Visitors can take advantage of free chairlift rides to the top to enjoy the crafts fair, live music, wine tasting, a beer garden, more than 50 arts and crafts vendors, and kids’ activities.
The City of Fairfax Parks and Recreation Department holds its fall festival right on the second Saturday in October, with more than 400 juried crafters, 100 interactive activities and exhibits, and ethnic foods, rides, musical groups, and a children's corner.
George Washington’s historic Mount Vernon estate is the site of Fall Harvest Family Days in late October, with a weekend of storytelling, cooking demonstrations, free horse-drawn wagon rides and a straw bale maze. There also educational events for kids of all ages such as playing colonial games, watching candles being made and listening to period music. Families can save money by buying a family pass.
For four decades, the Graves Mountain apple orchards have been celebrating the fall harvest with a two-weekend festival in October. You can pick your own apples fresh from the trees, but there are also pre-packaged pumpkins, gourds, cider and Indian corn. Entertainment abounds via bluegrass music, cloggers, arts and crafts, hayrides and horseback rides.
Historic Willamsburg’s Fall Harvest Festival and Haunted Wagon Ride are held near the James River State Park, with daytime wagon rides traveling from the festival site to the scenic Tye River Overlook. In addition to the usual live music and food, there’s face painting, cornhusk doll making, candle dipping, a corn husking bee, pumpkin painting, butter churning, apple pressing, a corn shelling demonstration and sack races. At sunset, a bonfire is lighted and the “haunted wagon rides” begin.
Singleton, Bonnie. "Harvest Festivals in Virginia." Travel Tips - USA Today, https://traveltips.usatoday.com/harvest-festivals-virginia-5143.html. Accessed 18 April 2019.
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U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen says she hasn't heard newly released audio of crying children who have been separated from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border.
An audio recording that appears to capture the voices of small Spanish-speaking children crying out for their parents at a U.S. immigration facility took centre stage Monday in the growing uproar over the Trump administration's policy of separating immigrant children from their parents.
"Papa! Papa!" one child is heard weeping in the audio file that was first reported by the non-profit ProPublica and later provided to The Associated Press.
Human rights lawyer Jennifer Harbury said she received the tape from a whistleblower and told ProPublica it was recorded in the last week. She did not provide details about where exactly it was recorded.
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said she hasn't heard the audio. She said the government has high standards for detention centres and the children are well cared for, stressing that Congress needs to plug loopholes in the law so families can stay together.
Around 2,000 minors have been separated from their families in the past six weeks, since Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a zero tolerance policy where everyone caught crossing the border illegally will be prosecuted. Children can't go to jail with their parents, so they are separated.
The audio, in which children are heard pleading for their parents and other family members, was published Monday by a ProPublica article by Ginger Thompson.
The article says the audio was recorded inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, by a person who asked not to be named out of concern about possible retaliation. The audio was given to civil rights attorney Jennifer Harbury, who then made it available to the independent, non-profit news team.
In the recording, children are asked about where they are from and their family situation. One girl repeatedly asks to be put in touch with an aunt, reeling off a number she had memorized. Some weep as they ask for their mom or dad.
Nielsen, who faced questions from reporters about the Trump administration's actions on Monday, repeatedly defended the administration's actions and said the government has high standards for detention centres and the children are well cared for.
While Democrats like Nancy Pelosi blasted such treatment as "barbaric" and some Republicans also voiced concerns, Nielsen and other Trump administration officials have said the separations are necessary to enforce immigration laws, and that it falls to Congress to change the laws.
Both the House and the Senate are controlled by Republicans.