East Side Story
Why was Michael Angel Garcia murdered?
Thursday, May 16, 2002
So far, everyone tells the same story about what happened on the night of April 17. Michael Angel Garcia, 18, and his brother Julian, 17, were walking home on the sidewalk along Rider Avenue in their Eastside Salinas neighborhood. They were within sight of the house where the Garcia family-Michael and Julian, older sisters Sandra, Lorraine and Lupita, and mother Nilda-has lived for 28 years.
Michael (Mickey to his family) had worked that night at a new job clerking at a local liquor store. His mother Nilda, along with Julian, picked him up at the store at 9:30 or so for a ride home. The brothers wanted to go to a neighbor''s house to say hello. It was late, but Nilda knew the friend and so she dropped them off. About 40 minutes later Michael and Julian set out for home on foot.
Near the corner of Amarillo and Rider, Michael heard something behind him. He told his little brother to stop laughing and be quiet. Julian said afterward that Michael saw something behind them that made his face look scared. Someone, or maybe more than one person, was back there walking after them.
A city detective said later, "We have no idea who he saw. We''re assuming he knew who these other people were."
Julian sensed trouble and said to his brother that they could just run home from where they were-it was less than a block away. Michael said no, just be quiet and walk faster. After that, Michael pushed Julian to the ground and said don''t get up. Then either Michael got on top of his little brother to protect him or he fell on him.
At home, Mrs. Garcia was watching a movie on TV. Michael''s older sisters Sandra and Lupita were there too. It was about 10:40pm. Mrs. Garcia heard a gun shot. Then another.
Out on the sidewalk, Michael didn''t move when Julian said to get up. Julian says it was then that he realized his brother had been shot.
Julian, a tall and lanky sophomore who runs track and plays football at Everett Alvarez High School, tried to carry and drag Mickey home. He made it to a spot under an ornamental tree and ran to a neighbor''s door, and then another, knocking and pleading for someone to come outside and help his brother.
No one responded. Julian learned later they were scared by the gunfire.
Leaving Michael on the sidewalk, Julian ran home and nearly broke down the front door. He burst into the living room and cried, "Mama! Mama! They shot Mickey!"
Sandra ran out of the house to her little brother and started giving him CPR. Soon everyone was out in the street while Lupita called the police. She also called the oldest sister, Lorraine, 32, who drove over from her house right away and arrived about the same time a patrol car pulled up.
Sandra remembers looking up from doing CPR and seeing a lot of backs of cops. They told her to get away from her brother so they could take over. An ambulance rolled in and the paramedics tried to revive Michael. Sandra looked at the crew and wished they''d jumped off the ambulance faster.
Mrs. Garcia watched them use the defibrillator on her son. Describing it later, she mimics the hand-held paddles that the medics hold on a victim''s chest to send an electrical shock to the heart. Later she said she knew Michael had no pulse when they put him in the ambulance. Days afterwards, the coroner told one of the sisters that the bullet killed Michael straight away. If he''d been shot in the emergency room, even then and there, they couldn''t have saved him, the coroner said.
Two weeks later, on the evening of May 2, Mrs. Garcia sits at her kitchen table with her daughter Sandra and Marie, Michael''s girlfriend of two years. They''re writing thank-you notes to Michael''s co-workers. They are all still mourning. Mrs. Garcia has not slept well. She doesn''t want to talk about it at all.
"He died on the road we live on," Sandra says. "He died on the road he walked on the way to school since he was five. He wasn''t looking for trouble. He was coming home."
Michael Garcia was a fieldworker''s son. He liked to read books about history-Mexican bandits and Aztecs. He was not interested in sports. Last spring, he wore a dapper zoot suit with a floppy black hat, drooping wallet chain and two-foot necktie to the Everett Alvarez High School prom.
Friends and family describe Michael as easygoing. A cool kid. A good kid. Caring. Quiet but with strong opinions. Respected by the other students. A committed boyfriend. A stay-at-home kind of guy. Someone who turned his life around, and was doing everything a young man from East Salinas could do to get out of East Salinas.
In a town infected by chronic gang violence, where boys in some quarters are forced to claim allegiance either to the Nortenos (the "northerners") or the Surenos (the "southerners") and then live and die by that choice, they say Michael was not a thug. He was not a gangbanger.
Michael Garcia was a devoted Bob Marley fan. The walls of his bedroom are covered floor to ceiling with posters of the late reggae great. Michael''s older sisters turned him on to Marley, an icon who sang about the plight of the Third World and preached unity and reconciliation among all people. Lorraine says Michael took the message to heart-the message "that we all have to live to together and be one big family."
Despite the many depictions of Marley inhaling clouds of marijuana smoke in Michael''s posters, his family insists he was not a stoner. Standing in his room, which Mrs. Garcia can still not bear to enter, Lorraine says, "When it came to drinking and smoking, he was clean, and I made sure of that. That was my main thing, at least [for him] to give my mom the honor of graduating."
Sitting at the kitchen table one night in May, Michael''s sister Sandra tearfully remembers him and how he was trying to do the right thing.
"He was just going to do good. He was always saying how he wished everything was better for everybody," she says. "He was just a positive person and it''s hard to be positive when you come from a negative situation."
Michael''s father left the home when he was very young. Sandra says it hurt him that his father was gone.
"That bothered him a lot that he didn''t have a dad," Sandra says. "He knew as he grew up he was the man of the house."
Rising in strength at the same time were East Salinas gangs. Michael was open with his family about the lure of gangs, and the fact that his friends were getting involved.
"That was a big influence around here. We''d be dumb if we said it wasn''t," Sandra says. "There was a time when were worried he would go deep into it and not come out. But he didn''t have the heart for it."
In fact, Michael was walking the straight and narrow.
Before working at the liquor store, Michael worked for the Safe Teens Empowerment Project in Salinas (STEPS), a government-funded substance abuse prevention program. Michael and his girlfriend Marie were undercover "decoys" sent into stores to try to buy booze. They also observed DUI checkpoints and counseled kids on substance abuse.
Rose Colon runs STEPS. She says some other kids called the decoys "junior narcs," but Michael had the respect of his peers. His death saddens Colon because she says he was going in the "right direction."
"Michael''s problem was he just couldn''t help where he lived," she says. "He had to go home to it all the time. That was his neighborhood. He lived in that house since he was a baby."
Violent crime in Salinas-about 80 percent of which is blamed on gangs-has grown steadily since the 1980s. A perennial hot spot is the Eastside. In 1994, when Michael was 11, there were 24 homicides in the city. President Clinton visited in 1996 praising gang prevention efforts, but the violence didn''t cease. There were 15 homicides in the city in 2001 and 18 in 2000. At a popular skatepark near Michael''s East Salinas neighborhood, the kids joke that they''d wear skateboard helmets because of bullets, not concrete.
Nilda, Michael''s mother, started working in the fields when she was thirteen. She did not graduate from high school. She wanted to be sure her children got diplomas. Michael took summer jobs in the fields, but she was determined that it would not be his life.
Michael earned his diploma in January and planned to attend commence- ment at Everett Alvarez High School on June 13. His name will be read with the other graduates.
At the table one night while Sandra and Lorraine and girlfriend Marie were there, Nilda Garcia started speaking in Spanish. Lorraine translated and quickly she had tears in her eyes. Her mother said the only thing she asked of Michael was that he finish high school and get his diploma. She said she was proud of him.
Mrs. Garcia said something else in Spanish that Lorraine does not immediately translate. "She just wants the person responsible to be caught," Lorraine says.
It''s getting to be after nine at night and Julian comes home wearing a tight black skullcap and a black hooded sweatshirt. He talks about wanting to go to college at either the University of Texas or Oregon, but he doesn''t want to talk about his brother or what happened on the night of April 17.
"He''s taking it really hard," Lorraine says.
From the city center, beyond Natividad Medical Center and off Constitution Boulevard, the construction of new, attractive, cloistered subdivisions booms. The roads have exclusive-sounding names like Nantucket, Cape Cod and Beacon Hill.
Michael''s neighborhood lies across Natividad Creek, through a city park via Las Casitas, which drops out on Rider Avenue nearly at the Garcia driveway.
Rider and the surrounding streets seethe with tension. Sworn enemies are neighbors in East Salinas. In Los Angeles, Oakland, and other California cities, gangs live in demarcated territories. On the Eastside of Salinas, Nortenos live across the street from Surenos.
The hostility is readily apparent. One woman working in her yard around the corner from where Michael was shot complained bitterly about the "wetback motherfuckers" who, she says, drive real slow by her house and point guns at her and her family. The woman''s son was about to return from prison, but she didn''t want him around. "I don''t want him to come back to this," she says. "I don''t want him to get killed."
According to a senior probation official, 80 percent of the 1,600 kids on probation in Monterey County are from East Salinas-or South County farm towns like Greenfield and King City. At one point earlier in his life Michael Garcia was one of those kids talking to a probation officer. How he ended up that way no one will say, and it is impossible to know what happened. (Information about juvenile crime is kept confidential by police and the courts.)
No one who knew him offers any specifics. All insist it was not for violence or drugs. "It was just petty things," says his girlfriend Marie.
According to people who knew him, he did have gang-affiliated friends, most likely Nortenos. But they say Michael tried to stay out of it.
Police say Michael was not one of the 2,700 kids in Salinas who are officially listed as "gang-affiliated." But they are treating his death as a gang-related slaying.
"He never was in a gang. He had no tattoos or anything," says his sister Lorraine. "He wasn''t representing anything, blue or red or whatever else is out there now."
For whatever trouble Michael got into, in April 2000 he ended up at Proyecto Unidad, a juvenile education, counseling and treatment center in downtown Salinas. The facility, now called Rising Eagle, offers help for kids who have received a "dual diagnosis," where substance abuse is complicating another problem.
In the morning, the students take academic class provided by the county education department. In the afternoon, they attend group counseling and hear presentations on subjects like domestic violence and AIDS.
"[Rising Eagle] was really good for him," says his sister Sandra. "That opened his eyes. That gave him something that he lacked here. We tried, but being a young male is difficult without a father figure. It [was] a place where he could talk about his feelings."
The students are usually referred by the probation department and likely have found themselves in trouble for truancy, petty theft, and other offenses. Some have been in and out of Juvenile Hall and Youth Court for charges such as burglary, drug possession or assault.
Between 18 and 25 kids are in the program as of late April. All but one is Hispanic, only two are girls, and the majority had some gang affiliation.
As in county probation programs, rivals are forced to coexist. They are not separated. At Rising Eagle, Nortenos and Surenos are made to shake hands at the beginning and end of every day. Colors are not tolerated.
The whole regimen costs $112 per student per day, billed to MediCal. Running the program on site is Shelia Smith.
"The system, the normal way things work for kids hasn''t worked for these kids," she says. "A lot of our kids are gang-involved or have been. Violence has been a large part of a lot of their lives."
"A lot of our kids are in a war. A gang war," she says. "Once you''re in a gang you can''t say, ''I''m not doing it anymore. Leave me alone.'' It doesn''t work that way."
To pass through the Rising Eagle program successfully, a young person must be clean and sober for 60 consecutive days, have gained insight and understanding into substance abuse, and have passed five levels of achievement, each requiring completion of five personal and community service-oriented tasks.
Not all make it, but one of them who did was Michael Garcia.
Smith remembers him fondly. "He was a kid who took everything he could from this program," she says.
Rising Eagle graduates are given a blank ceiling tile to paint, which is then installed above the lobby, outside Smith''s wide-angle window. Michael painted his tile black and gold, with an eagle design. On it he wrote: "The Eagle''s Gift Is Not Just Given, But a Chance to Have a Chance."
Teenagers die. Young people get killed in drunk-driving accidents, sober driving accidents, drug overdoses and occasionally through violence. Survivors are often left asking why; why is that their friend, brother, daughter or teammate had to die so senselessly. In Salinas it can be as gratuitous as wearing the wrong color sweatshirt.
There were 15 homicides last year in Salinas, nine of which involved victims aged 25 or less. There is nearly nightly gunfire in some areas and steady street crime such as robberies and beatings.
This year started off with a large number of youngsters getting gunned down. In February, two young men were shot and a third stabbed in a span of three days. On March 11 an eight-year-old was shot and wounded while playing marbles in Michael''s neighborhood. It was a stray shot reportedly intended for a gang-member. On March 12, a 14-year-old boy was shot and killed in a park. On March 15, two teenagers were shot in a 9am drive-by shooting, leaving a 16-year-old boy dead and a 15-year-old wounded. Police considered all of the shootings gang-related.
The randomness of brutality turns some kids into fatalists at a young age. As one Rising Eagle student who''d been in and out of Juvenile Hall said, "I want to get a good job in the world but I live day by day. That''s me. You can''t dodge a bullet. Whatever happens, happens."
When someone dies in a gang-related violence, "why" takes on disturbing potential. The narrow-mindedness of the gang mentality does not calculate for maybe. It relies on simple math. The enemy simply must be subtracted.
In the case of Michael Angel Garcia, no one wants to point fingers or ask "why" too loudly. Marie, his girlfriend, says she hears all kinds of rumors, but doesn''t listen. She just wants to hear that the killer has been arrested.
Working the case is Salinas city detective Rick Soratos, who happens to be friends with Marie''s mother''s boyfriend, Brandon Hill, a Salinas police officer who patrols East Salinas. Hill knew Michael well.
Hill says that in East Salinas, "You''re either on one side or the other. There is no gray area. For the kids who walk the gray line like Mike, it''s tough.
"A lot of families, when a young man dies, the family says he wasn''t in any gang. I can honestly say Michael was not in allegiance with any one gang. He was in it for himself, to get a diploma and join the Marines and provide for his family and provide for [Marie]."
Detective Soratos, who also knew Michael, cannot provide specifics, as the investigation is ongoing.
Soratos says the "why" of Michael''s murder could have been anything. The investigators don''t believe he owed anyone money, and they don''t believe the slaying was retaliatory.
Speaking vaguely, Soratos mentions the street rule of guilt by association. It''s not impossible to speculate that Michael might have been speaking to a known Norteno, for example, and been seen by Surenos, and the Surenos might have killed him later just because they had the chance. The mentality is that savage. As Soratos says, gangbangers don''t bother to verify. They don''t stop and ask, "Are you claiming Norte or what?" he says.
Another possibility is that Michael was killed by a gang candidate who had to shoot someone to pass an initiation.
"Of course it''s not out of the question that it was a random thing," Soratos says.
In the days after Michael''s death, there was regular gunfire in East Salinas. Only about 20 minutes after he died, according to reports, a 22-year-old was shot in the stomach on Roosevelt Street, not far away. Two days later, Soratos says, someone was shot at further down Rider Avenue. On April 28, at Pellet and Sanborn Streets, also on the Eastside, a man was killed by a flurry of bullets. On Friday, May 10th 18-year-old Josh Rios was shot in the head and killed in a North Salinas driveway.
In a disturbing prophecy, Michael wrote a short essay in April 2001 for the STEPS program where he worked. It was printed in the STEPS newsletter. He wrote, "I hope I never have to face these violent crimes at my school or anywhere else. I also hope that kids wake up and realize violence is not the answer. There is help out there for those who need it."
There is something very chilling, very sinister about Michael''s death. Someone, unidentified for now and maybe forever, sneaked up in the darkness and gunned him down only feet from his childhood home. Did Michael know his killer? Was it a neighbor? Or was it someone sent there to pull the trigger and vanish? Was it, as some of his family believe, some kid with a gun just trying to act "brave"?
The awful specter of an unseen gang out there that has slain a son, a brother and a friend draws down a veil of secrecy and fear. A fear of retaliation descends. A gang is a brutal, well-armed and often intoxicated network locked in a vicious cycle of hate that''s blind but for the enemy''s color. Usually gangs only aim for each other but in Salinas and elsewhere, people know people who''ve died as anonymous targets, randomly and violently.
There was only so much Michael Garcia could do to escape the violence of his neighborhood. In the end, it wasn''t enough.


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I've been mostly focused on one general research topic for the past few years: medieval music. I've been branching out a bit into medieval poetry as well. Ah, let's call it medieval performance. And I've gotten pretty deep in, to the point where I can just glance around and see all the unanswered questions I have, all the different routes to furthering my knowledge.
That can make it hard to remember what it's like to get started in a new field.
I've got my two beginner's books on calligraphy and my felt-tipped pens. If I were to try an A&S entry right now, my documentation would be something like, "And this is Unical, as described by Duffin and used in (some manuscripts). I'm using a felt-tipped pen because I'm still learning; a metal nib dip pen would be better, and a quill would be most appropriate." And my references would be two books.
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I'm sure there's even more. But, having just barely scratched the surface of this art, I don't know enough to know what questions to ask! Which, in its way, is a positive. First, the trip itself, the "journey to knowledge," is fun and exciting in its own right, and I look forward to it. But second, if I "knew everything," I'd feel compelled to try and do everything, and paralyze.
Apprentices were not plonked down, lectured until they were stuffed full of lore, and set to work making masterpieces. They were given simple tasks, with explicit guidelines. When they mastered those, they could move on, and on, to more complex tasks and to understanding why the guidelines were the way they were. I'm at this apprentice stage, or even a pre-apprentice stage in which I'm learning the most basic skills an apprentice would need to do useful grunt work. It seems appropriate that the scholarship reflects that level of artistic involvement.

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By M. Sue Bergin, ’79
An interdisciplinary BYU team seeks to help families raising children with disabilities.
STUDYING children is a bit like trying to grasp a ray of sunlight. They’re elusive subjects, and their behavior yields reluctantly to standard data collection methods. Innovation is called for, and that’s exactly what an interdisciplinary group of BYU researchers has accomplished. To uncover the stressors and coping strategies of children who have a sibling with a disability, they’re using two highly unusual research techniques—having children keep diaries and take photographs.
“You have to be really creative in how you get data from children,” says Elaine S. Marshall, dean of the College of Nursing and a pioneer in developing qualitative techniques for studying children. “An interview situation with an adult puts children in the subordinate position, and children have been socialized to give the right answer. But if you can empower children—give them their own private diary or hand them their own camera—you get amazing things.”
The “amazing things” include rich data sets that have generated numerous journal articles and conference presentations over the last five years. The research team includes Marshall; Susanne Frost Olsen, associate professor in the School of Family Life; Barbara L. Mandleco, associate professor of nursing; and Tina T. Dyches, assistant professor of counseling psychology and special education; along with undergraduate and graduate students. Their articles draw on data collected from parents and children in 53 Utah Valley families that have a child with a disability. They’re examining issues including sibling adjustment, family resilience in the face of profound challenges, and the role of faith in coping with a child who has a disability.
For one article, published in 1999 in Contemporary Perspectives on Family Research, the team analyzed two to three weeks of diary entries made by 23 siblings. The semi-structured diaries had the children write about five topics each day, such as “The hardest thing about living with my brother/sister today was . . . ” and “This is what I did about it.” Major stressors identified from their answers included physically aggressive or annoying behavior by the sibling with special needs and feelings of responsibility for him or her. But nearly one quarter of the diary entries indicated no particular stressor at all.
“What we find from this research is that many of the stressors identified by siblings may be part of normal sibling interactions and not unique to families with a child with disabilities,” says Olsen.
To unearth more information about sibling adjustment, 17 children in the subject families were given disposable cameras and asked to take pictures of things important to them. “Depending on their age, children can’t just say, ‘This is what’s important to me,’ but they can easily go out and take pictures,” says Dyches. “It’s been fun to look at those pictures—their trophies, their dogs, their Cabbage Patch dolls—things that probably wouldn’t come out in an interview.”
Most photographs revealed family life and typical activities any child would experience whether or not they lived in a family raising a child with special needs, says Dyches. She currently is taking the photograph technique a step further by handing over cameras to children with special needs themselves. “Researchers have rarely talked to these kids because they’ve thought they were incompetent or couldn’t give valid answers. But how simple is it to take a picture? So we’re doing that right now with kids ages 8 to 18, and we’re finding that they too can participate as research informants.”
The team also has examined the hardiness of these families, having the parents fill out questionnaires. They reported in a 1999 issue of the Journal of Family Nursing that support and communication were critical factors in predicting how well a family adjusted to the challenge of a child with special needs. They also found that the families overall are doing well. “For these families, raising a child with special needs is normal. These families see themselves as no different from other families, which kind of surprised us,” says Mandleco, who cautioned that the families were young and that adjustment might be different when the children are older.
Another finding that surprised the team was the importance of spirituality to the study families, most of whom are LDS. “We expected this theme to some degree, but not the overwhelming power of faith, religion, and spirituality in the lives of these families,” says Marshall. “Their faith is deepened and becomes very personal. Many of them saw special meaning and purpose in their situations.” Though investigation on the subject is sparse so far, Marshall says, research suggests that this phenomenon carries over to people of other faiths.
M. Sue Bergin is a writer and editor living in American Fork, Utah.

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With gumption, insight, and brilliant use of social media, a few guys in Virginia built an operation that makes what could be the world’s finest toolbelts. In the process, they have also built a community that is bringing new respect for those who work in the trades.
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A small, quiet army of historians, scientists, and restoration experts are putting the pieces of Portugal’s past together again, one gorgeous tile at a time. Their efforts are being helped by a new generation of artists, who are starting to re-invent an art form that has defined Portuguese culture since the 13th century.
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For generations, the Isbell family of Arkansas has been tinkering with innovations in rice farming. They were the first American farmers to grow elite varieties for sushi and sake, and have also pioneered rice cultivation methods that can conserve water and slow climate change.
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Since the 16th century, Cremona’s luthiers—including Stradivari himself—have been using an unusually resonant wood from Paneveggio, known as Italy’s “violin forest,” to handcraft the world’s finest string instruments. Then a 2018 storm decimated the forest. A band of experts in Cremona is now rallying to save this iconic tradition. A documentary short.
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The word artisanal has become so shopworn that it’s almost devoid of meaning. (To wit: we once saw a pizza outlet on the outskirts of a small town in northern France that was fashioned in the style of an ATM-kiosk under the following sign: “Artisanal Pizza.”) In stark contrast to this sorry state of affairs, we would like to suggest a few items for holiday shopping made by some of the masters we profiled in 2019.
By EDITORS OF CRAFTSMANSHIP QUARTERLY
While Scottish culture is branded by its famous Highland bagpipes, its neighbor across the water has long made a very different set of pipes that plays a much wider range of music. Our correspondent visits the indefatigable, obsessive masters of the uilleann pipes.
Story by LARRY GALLAGHER
Photography by RUTH CARDEN
Centuries ago, a fleet of rowboats called Whitehalls plied the waters of the San Francisco Bay, helping the chandlers at their helms ferry goods to and from the giant sailing ships working the city’s port. Today, descendants of those early crafts are being built, rowed, and occasionally put to work on the same waters.
A documentary short by WENDY “PEPPER” SCHUSS
Story by TODD OPPENHEIMER
When a Disney film, “Coco,” spotlighted a small Mexican town where almost every shop makes guitars, it suddenly made ornate, white guitars famous. Underneath the new pop icon, however, lies a variety of much finer instruments—and a rich craft going back generations.
Story by LAURA FRASER
Photography and videography by ANDREW SULLIVAN
Only a handful of artisans still practice the centuries-old craft of rust printing on fabric. Of those who do, even fewer use the traditional stone mangle, or press, on handwoven, raw hemp fabric, yielding textiles that last for centuries. The Marchi family print-works, in Italy’s Romagna region, may well be the only place left in the world that still produces authentic, rust-printed textiles that are fully handmade.
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Malami: letter to Delta group was about £80m Ibori loot
By Eric Ikhilae, Abuja
Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice Abubakar Malami has said the letter written by the Federal Government to the Urhobo Progress Union (UPU) was in respect of the £80 million looted funds traced to ex-Delta State Governor James Ibori in the United Kingdom, but currently encumbered by his pending cases.
Malami, who spoke through his media aide, Dr. Umar Gwnadu, said the letter has no relationship with the £4.2 million Ibori-linked loot in respect of which litigations have been concluded and the UK authorities have undertaken to return.
Responding to a media report that the Federal Government appealed to the UPU to prevail on Ibori to withdraw his case in relation to the £4.2 million recovered loot, he said: “The report is a bit misleading. The letter was not specific to nor meant to address the €4.2 million, on which litigation has been completed. The issue was regarding the other assets related to Ibori.
“This letter was made in reference to his (Ibori’s) ongoing case in the UK where more than £80 million is held up because his appeal, which the Federal Government wants to recover as well.
“You may recall that the £4.2 million are related to families connected to Ibori, but this letter was made in reference to his ongoing case in the UK, where more than 80million is held up because of his appeal,” Gwandu said.
The letter, written by the Special Assistant to the President on Justice Reform and International Relations, Juliet Ibekaku-Nwagwu, was in response to a March 23, 2021 letter by the UPU, through its President-General, Joseph Omene, requesting that the £4.2m be used for projects in Delta State against the position of the Federal Government that it would be used to fund critical projects across the country.
Titled: “Re-commendation for retrieval of Delta’s stolen funds and request for review of projects to be executed with the retrieved funds,” the letter reads: “I am directed to inform (you) that the HAGF is in receipt of your letter dated 23rd March 2021 with regard to the above subject matter.
“The HAGF appreciates your concerns and welcomes the interest of UPU in the returned assets. The HAGF wishes to inform that he does not have the authority to approve projects for the application of returned assets.
“These decisions are taken at the Federal Executive Council after in-depth deliberations. The HAGF’s mandate is to implement the decisions of the council.
“I am also directed to inform further that the decision of the council is also guided by bilateral negotiations between Nigeria and the country from which the asset will be returned.
“Accordingly, Nigeria and the government of the United Kingdom or any other country for that matter must agree on a specific project in a transparent and accountable manner before a project is approved.
“However, the HAGF has directed that I inform you that the stumbling block in negotiating the return of assets linked to Ibori is the ongoing litigation by Mr James Ibori against the government of United Kingdom in the confiscation hearing in London.
“It is advisable that you approach Mr James Ibori to advise him to withdraw his appeals against the confiscation and repatriation of the assets linked to him, his family, and associates back to Nigeria.
“This is the only way to provide an enabling environment for negotiation on the use of the identified assets for Delta State.”


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Apache Corporation announced a second-quarter 2015 net loss of $5.6 billion, or $14.83 per diluted common share, which includes an after-tax ceiling-test write down of $3.7 billion resulting from current low commodity-price levels and $1.9 billion of other items, mostly after-tax losses and tax expense associated with the company's assets sold during the quarter.
When adjusted for certain items that impact the comparability of results, Apache's second-quarter net income totaled $82 million, or $0.22 per share. Adjusted EBITDA from continuing operations was $1.3 billion. Worldwide reported production for the second quarter was 564,000 boe per day. Including 35,000 boe per day of production associated with discontinued operations in Australia, Apache's total production was 599,000 boe per day.
"I am pleased to report that Apache made excellent progress toward achieving the ambitious 2015 goals we laid out earlier this year," said John J. Christmann, IV, Apache's chief executive officer and president. "In February, we established a plan to maintain relatively flat pro forma production in 2015, despite an aggressive 60 percent reduction in budgeted capital expenditures from 2014 levels. Year to date, our capital spending remains on track, but we have exceeded our production plan in the first half of 2015 and delivered correspondingly strong cash flow from continuing operations. As a result, we are raising our 2015 production guidance."


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Preoperative IL-6 serum levels were collected in all patients with a STS at first presentation between February 2020 and November 2021. Textbook outcome was defined as a R0 resection, no complications, no blood transfusions, no reoperation within the postoperative period, no prolonged hospital stay, no hospital readmission within 90-days, and no mortality within 90-days. Factors associated with textbook outcome were determined by multivariable analysis.
Increased IL-6 serum level is predictive for not achieving a textbook outcome after surgery for primary, non-metastatic STS.
Among 118 patients with primary, non-metastatic STS, 35.6% achieved a textbook outcome. Univariate analysis showed that smaller tumor size (p = 0.026), lower tumor grade (p = 0.006), normal hemoglobin (Hb, p = 0.044), normal white blood cell (WBC) count (p = 0.018), normal C-reactive protein (CRP) serum level (p = 0.002) and normal IL-6 serum level (p = 1.5 × 10-5) were associated with achieving textbook outcome after surgery. Multivariable analysis showed that elevated IL-6 serum level (p = 0.012) was significantly associated with not achieving a textbook outcome.
The pro-inflammatory cytokine interleukin-6 (IL-6) plays a role in cancer development and progression, but research into the predictive value of IL-6 on postoperative outcome in soft tissue sarcoma (STS) is scarce. The purpose of this study is to investigate the predictive value of serum IL-6 level for the achievement of assumed (post)operative outcome after STS surgery, the so-called textbook outcome.

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Lady Gaga is one of the most well-known figures in the music industry currently. With her critically popular albums and performances, she has changed the game and redefined what it means to be a pop superstar. As a singer-songwriter, actress, and entrepreneur, Lady Gaga has become a global phenomenon and has inspired millions of people with her message about love and acceptance. From her iconic clothing choices to her stunning performances, Lady Gaga’s influence is felt across different genres and generations. This blog post focuses on her life as well as the career path of Lady Gaga and explores the influence she has made on the music industry as well as popular culture. From her first album to the Super Bowl halftime show, Lady Gaga’s professional career has been one of revolutionary success and a huge influence. We’ll examine her talent, business acumen and social impact she’s created on the industry. Through her creative spirit and dedication to her craft, Lady Gaga has changed the industry of music and remains an inspiration to many.
1. An overview of her career
Lady Gaga is an American singer, songwriter actress, record producer, and businesswoman. She is well-known for her unconventionality and provocative work and her work with new imagery and musical styles. Gaga started her professional career by performing in bars and clubs in New York City, before signing with Streamline Records in 2007 and releasing her debut album, The Fame. The album received a lot of praise which was also nominated for 6 Grammy Awards, winning two. The album that followed, The Fame Monster, was released in 2009 and was also a huge success, both commercially and critically. She has since gone on to drop five more studio albums and four extended plays, and has won the likes of nine Grammy Awards, one Golden Globe and an Academy Award.
2. Genres and styles of music
Lady Gaga has explored a variety of musical genres and styles throughout her career. She has dabbled in all kinds of dance music as well as funk and EDM and the country to rock. The most well-known of her hits, “Bad Romance,” was a dance-pop tune with a beat that incorporated elements from electro and pop music. But she has also released more experimental songs including the dreamy “Venus,” the dark “Dope,” and the country-tinged “Million Reasons.” Gaga has stated many times she is influenced by all sorts of music, and her discography reflects this.
3. Nominated and prestigious awards
Lady Gaga has received numerous nominations and awards during her entire career. She has received nine Grammy Awards, one Academy Award, one Golden Globe Award, three BAFTA Awards, and fifteen MTV Video Music Awards. Gaga is also nominated for an astounding thirty-one Guinness World Records, and has won four to recognize her achievements by being the top-followed person on Twitter, the most liked person on Facebook, the most watched artist on YouTube, and the first artist to perform three times on the popular show Saturday Night Live. She also has received numerous honorary degrees and awards, from to the Harvard Foundation and the Songwriters Hall of Fame to the British Fashion Awards.
4. Successful albums
Lady Gaga has released five studio albums. The most recent album, Chromatica which was released in 2020. Throughout her time in the industry, she’s enjoyed many successes in her albums, including many reaching the top spot on the Billboard 200 chart. The album she released her debut record, The Fame, was released in 2008 to high praise, as well as being certified platinum four times by the United States. Her second album, Born This Way, was released in the year 2011 and was ranked number one across more than twenty countries which includes the United States. Her third album, Artpop which was launched in 2013 was a commercial success and was certified platinum by the RIAA. Her fourth album, Joanne, released in 2016 was her third top album in the United States, becoming her fourth consecutive album to reach at the top of charts. Her fifth album, Chromatica came out in the year 2020 and debuted at number one in seven countries.
5. Popular songs
Lady Gaga is one of the most famous performers of the present, having many popular tracks on Radio. Some of her most-loved songs are “Poker Face,” “Bad Romance,” “Telephone,” “Just Dance,” and “Born This Way.” With captivating melodies and danceable beats these songs have become timeless classics that continue to being heard at clubs, on the radio, and on streaming services all over the world. Lady Gaga’s distinctive style music, sound, and lyrics have made her a household name for herself.
6. Prominent acting roles
Lady Gaga is an accomplished actress and singer-songwriter. She has appeared in a variety of television and film productions such as the romantic drama A Star Is Born (2018) which won Gaga an Academy Award for Best Original Song as well as her role in the FX the anthology program American Horror Story (2011-present) and won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a limited Series. Gaga has also appeared as a guest on several TV shows, including The Simpsons (2019), RuPaul’s Drag Race (2020), and The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2020). She’s set to be a part of in the upcoming movie House of Gucci (2021) along with Adam Driver and Jared Leto.
7. Philanthropic work
Lady Gaga’s charitable efforts have been extensively documented throughout her career. She has been a frequent supporter of the Elton John AIDS Foundation, the Born This Way Foundation, and the World Health Organization, among many others. Gaga has raised funds for various charitable organizations, including The Trevor Project and Global Citizen. Additionally, Gaga has spoken out to support LGBTQ rights, gender equality, and reforms to health care. She has also contributed her time and money to a variety of causes, including helping those affected by natural catastrophes and boosting awareness of homelessness, as well as helping to promote education in the developing world. Lady Gaga is truly an source of inspiration and role model for all of us.
8. Influence on pop culture
Lady Gaga has had a huge influence on pop culture in the past decade. Her unique style of music and her fashion has inspired many young people to find their individuality and express themselves in new and unique ways. The music videos she has made, that usually include elaborate costumes and elaborate sets, have also become cultural iconic, and her catchy phrases such as “Born This Way” and “The Fame” have become part of our vocabulary. Lady Gaga has also been an open advocate for LGBT rights and the LGBT community, which has given her a glamor that is full of social engagement that’s unusual for a pop-star. Additionally, her ongoing partnership along with Tony Bennett has shown that she can create meaningful music that appeals to all ages. Lady Gaga’s influence on pop culture will undoubtedly keep growing.
In conclusion, Lady Gaga is an amazing artist who has inspired many. Her talent, her fashion sense and her ability to continuously evolve her music and performances make her one of the most popular and beloved pop artists of all time. While she continues to tour and create new music, as well as challenge conventional wisdom, Lady Gaga will remain an inspiring figure in the music industry for many years to come.


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Asking for a change that will probably fall on deaf ears, The Guardian is begging people to stop using plastic and for governments to take action to stop its use. Microplastics are now in the food chain, in the water we drink, embedded in our lungs and with production predicted to increase, things are only going to get worse.
But let there be no doubt: we are on edge of a plastic calamity. Current projections show that global plastic production will skyrocket in the next 10-15 years. This year alone, manufacturers will produce an estimated 360m tonnes. With a booming population driving demand, production is expected to reach 500m by 2025 and a staggering 619m tonnes by 2030. So the next time you see scenes of plastic choking a river or burying a beach, consider double that impact in just over 10 years.
Avoiding the worst of these outcomes requires more than awareness, it demands a movement. A wholesale rethinking of the way we produce, use and manage plastic. That’s why United Nations Environment is now focusing on a simple yet ambitious goal: beat plastic pollution.
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A Secure Digital, abbreviated as SD, card is a small memory card to be used in portable digital devices like digital cameras, GoPro cameras, mobile phones, and MP3 players. It has three different sizes including standard SD cards, miniSD cards and microSD cards. With the popularity of social media, people take and share pictures and videos whole a lot more than before. And most of them will be saved on SD cards for later editing or transferring.
However, SD cards are vulnerable to corruption. It is common that your SD card suddenly stops working without any warning.
Then, a lot of questions may come into your mind. Is it possible to keep my photos and videos safe? How to recover them? How to make my SD card workable again? This post will walk you through things you should know about SD card data recovery and solve all your concerns.
What you should do and shouldn’t do before data recovery
Those tips are important for any deleted or lost data recovery. They can help you maximize the number of recoverable files. Moreover, it may save your time or even money on data recovery.
- Stop using the SD card immediately. If you are aware of lost files on the SD card, don’t keep using it to save any more data. For example, don’t put the SD card back to your digital camera and take photos. The writing operations might overwrite the original files, resulting in corrupted and unrecoverable files.
- Find out if the computer can detect the SD card. Go to the Disk Management on Windows or Disk Utility on Mac to see if you can find the SD card in the disk list. If not, it is very likely that the SD card is physically damaged and beyond any data recovery you can do.
- Check the connection between SD card and the computer. If you insert the SD card to a computer via an SD card slot, try to use a reliable SD card reader to reconnect it to the computer. Meanwhile, if you connect the SD card to the computer through a card reader, change to another card reader too. A poor or instable connection could cause the SD card malfunctioning.
- Run First Aid to repair the SD card. Mac’s First Aid in Disk Utility can check and repair slightly corrupted disk. In some cases, you will be lucky that the SD card can be fixed and all data is safe.
If your photos and videos are still inaccessible after all the activities above, you will need a professional SD card data recovery tool to accomplish the data recovery task.
How to recover lost photos and videos from an SD card
Data recovery software has algorithm to scan the disk sector by sector and rebuild MBR, partition table, root directory, file directory and file content for you. Technically speaking, the damages to the information aforementioned won’t hurt the actual file content, because they are stored on different physical sections on the SD card. As long as the lost photos and videos are intact on the SD card, the software can restore them successfully. However, if they are overwritten or corrupted because of bad sectors, it is impossible to get them back.
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The software will detect the SD card fast. You can see the name, partitions, file system and free space in the drive list in the simple interface of the software.
Step 3: Check “Deep scan” and click on “Scan” button.
For recovering lost data, it is recommended that you utilize the deep scan feature of a data recovery application. It can find most files on the SD card. Furthermore, because it is typical that an SD card has relatively small storage capacity, deep scan won’t take much time to finish compared to scanning a hard drive.
Step 4: Filter the scan results and preview the photos and videos.
The scan results will be categorized in Path, Type and Time in left panel. You can also search for specific photos or videos in the search box. By clicking the “Preview” button, the software will provoke any built-in or pre-installed applications for you to easily preview the photos and videos.
Step 5: Select the wanted files and click on “Recover” button.
The software will ask you to choose a disk to save the recovered photos and videos. If you have enough storage space on your Mac, you can choose your Mac as the saving path. If not, attach another removable disk. Do not save the restored photos and videos to the faulty SD card.
How to make the SD card workable again?
After you are sure that all important photos, videos or other files have been retrieved from the SD card, go ahead to Disk Utility to erase the SD card. When you are erasing the SD card, choose FAT or ExFAT as the format. FAT or ExFAT is a universal file system, so it won’t cause any incompatibility trouble in different operating systems or digital devices.
How to prevent an SD card from corruption?
There are a few precautions you can take to protect an SD card and data on it. Some of them you might have already know.
- Eject SD card safely from a computer.
- Format SD card on a computer instead of on a digital device like cameras.
- Back up photos and videos often on another disk or in a cloud storage
- Don’t leave SD card connected to a computer during the rebooting.
- Don’t bend, scratch, wet or burn SD card.
- Don’t use a same SD card across multiple devices.


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I used up the summer controlling people
[in a video game]. I made him handsome
and tall and I made her patent the peanut
-size sheath that keeps umbrellas open that keeps
them from collapse. She got picked up for work in
a mint green Datsun each morning and one day
I made him drop his soft wallet in the street
and I made her DING DING hurtle after him
like a sneeze. I watched their nailless fingers touch
and then I intervened because god! think of
a pursuit less fruitful than affinity!
I made them go about their days. He married
a dentist and she died young and he ran down
his years evading the diagnoses of
bruxism and she died young. Neither handed
the damp debasement of a life spent wanting.
Their lives were lilac aldehyde there was no
asbestos slung behind their walls. Now Autumn
is here and I need a life soft-edged with heart
motif a small girl’s ring-bound notebook. I need
insight. It oozes from the corners navy
damp DING DING You’re a product of your choices
you’re a totem pole you’re hunger on top of
caprice on top of the grazed cheeks of debauched
nights spent folded your face in the gravel like
an animal. I decide to fix things I
streamline my practices. I wear a yellow
mini dress in an always temperate clime.
My house is pristine now and if not I’ll eat
or fuck or swim to lessen the scores of it
all. I’ll buy a dog and then I’ll teach that dog
to die and when it does my children will be
prepared for everything in the world and then
– when my life is panacea smooth – a new
person will enter the game through the back door
DING DING yes it is attainment and we’ll dance.
We’ll dance to the open fire on the stove
top to the graceless wordless music to all
the things I mistook for the sky and we’ll dance
to the entombed cockatoo moans of my dog
– buried neat beneath the geranium bush.
by Susannah Dickey
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‘a black cloth over your face isn’t the same as night’ is copyright © Susannah Dickey, 2020 and is reprinted here from bloodthirsty for marriage (Bad Betty Press, 2020) by permission of Bad Betty Press. You can read more about the pamphlet and buy a copy on the Bad Betty website.
Notes from Bad Betty Press:
There is an arresting and profound specificity to Susannah Dickey’s astute tragicomedy, in which the sky is ‘the colour of a cous cous salad’, gods rub shoulders with video game characters and everyone is enslaved to desire.
Corrupting the classically male, reportedly frivolous hendecasyllabic form, Dickey forges a register that feels both ancient and millennial. At the centre of this work beats a star-bright pain, seen through the poems’ breezy vacillations and squandered love, crushed to a shimmer. You can find out more about the pamphlet and buy a copy on the Bad Betty website.
Susannah Dickey is the author of three pamphlets, bloodthirsty for marriage (Bad Betty Press, 2020), I had some very slight concerns and genuine human values (The Lifeboat). Her first novel, Tennis Lessons, was published in July 2020 by Doubleday. You can follow Susannah on Twitter.
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|Statement||by Chas. K. Reed and Chester A. Reed. Illustrated by drawings and photographs of mounted specimens by the authors and Mr. N. F. Stone|
|Contributions||Reed, Chester A. (Chester Albert), 1876-1912|
|The Physical Object|
|Pagination||304,  p. incl. front., illus.|
|Number of Pages||304|
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Andy Dawson's Parkgate will be looking to make a good start to their preparations for the upcoming Northern Countries East Football Division One season. The game pits the Steelmen up against nearby Football League side Rotherham United, in what will be a friendly affair between two teams that have a positive history of affiliation.
Now becoming an annual tradition for both sides, the season’s curtain raiser will take place at Roundwood on Saturday 6th July, 1:00pm kick-off. It is a game which over the few years has drawn in a good level of support from both sides. Offering a chance for both sets of fans to have their first glimpse at new signings.
The Millers adding Lagos-born striker Freddie Lapado from relegated Plymouth Argyle has given them the needed firepower up top to potentially bounce straight back into the Championship.
Although the game is nothing more than a mere fitness raising exercise for the Steelman and the Millers, both teams will be aiming to start their pre-season off with a win and positive performance to help build up a positive atmosphere within their respective camps. Though, Andy Dawson and his staff will be sure to remind his players that this game is just the start of what will be another long 10 months in which all involved will be hoping to push on from their 8th place finish last season.
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My dealer said that currently the '07s are showing a $1000 rebate for retail orders. Mine is a lease so I'm not sure if I will even get that. Ford Credit normally kicks back a little when you roll from lease to lease.
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Background: Tuberculosis is a disease of the poor, affecting the pulmonary and extra-pulmonary organs.
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Methods: A review of all the clinical and pathological records and slides of histopathologically diagnosed extra -pulmonary tuberculosis was undertaken.
Results: Extra-pulmonary tissue samples with tuberculosis (n=52) constituting 1.46% of a total number of samples received during the years under review. Male to female ratio was 1.1:1. Modal age group was 21-30 years. Mean age was 28.3 years. Thirty seven (71.1 %) cases occurred in patients aged under 30 years while the remaining 15 (28.9%) cases occurred in the patients aged above 30 years. Lymph node was the most preponderant extra-pulmonary tuberculosis site, constituting 30 (57.7%) cases with the axillary lymph node being the most common site in 18 (60.0%) cases. Neither tubercle bacilli nor other acid fast bacilli including Nocardia, and Cryptosporidium was demonstrated in the extra-pulmonary tissue biopsies.
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Adam Strange, Publishing Director of Sphere, who bought the UK and Commonwealth rights to Nadal’s memoir, is confident that the book will make for an exciting read.
“It’s a real treat to have this book as I’ve been a fan of Rafa’s for some time,” he said this April. “Along with the rest of his millions on fans worldwide, I’m very much looking forward to finding out what makes him tick. Rafa is an intensely private person and until now he’s not talked openly about his personal and family life.”
“I don’t think any player since Agassi has really captured the tennis world in the way Rafa has, so we have really high hopes for the book,” added Strange.
The 25-year-old Spaniard, who surrendered his world No.1 ranking and Wimbledon crown to Novak Djokovic at the All England Club this month, also plans to unveil the first chapter of the book on facebook, posting on Thursday:
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Police investigate crash on Route 61
POTTSVILLE — Pottsville police investigated a crash in the unit block of North Claude A. Lord Boulevard, Route 61, in front of the CVS store around 11:50 p.m.
Cpl. Renee Truscott determined that Eric Crim, 28, of Cressona, was driving a 1999 Ford Explorer north on Route 61 in the right lane when he lost control and ran into the back of a 2005 GMC Sierra 150 truck driven by a 62-year-old Wellsboro man who was stopped in traffic and just starting to move forward.
The Wellsboro man and a 49-year-old woman who was a passenger in his truck were transported by Schuylkill EMS to a local medical facility for treatment of injuries they suffered in the crash.
Both vehicles sustained disabling damage and were towed from the scene, Truscott said, adding that Pottsville firefighters assisted.
She said the northbound right lane of Route 61, between East Arch and East Norwegian streets, was detoured for about 30 minutes as a result of the crash.
No injuries in crash in Pottsville
POTTSVILLE — No one was injured in a crash at of North Third and West Market streets around 4:10 p.m. Wednesday.
Pottsville police Patrolman Steven Delinko and other officers arrived at the scene and found a dark-colored Chevrolet sedan in the middle of the intersection.
The other vehicle involved was a tan-colored Chevrolet Trailblazer, which was facing west in the 300 block of West Market Street.
Police said officers spoke with the driver of the Trailblazer — Bunnie Becker, 33, of New Boston — who said he was driving west on West Market Street, entered the intersection of West Market Street and North Third Street and was blinded by the sun.
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Police said Pottsville firefighters assisted at the scene and that both vehicles had to be towed.
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A McAdoo man faces multiple charges after fleeing from the borough police station after being picked up for attempted theft Monday morning, police said.
Keith Pettis, 32, was charged with escape, resisting arrest, defiant trespass and two counts of attempted theft from a motor vehicle and remanded to the Schuylkill County Prison, police said.
Police were dispatched to the 200 block of South Kennedy Drive at 8:05 a.m. for a man wearing gray sweatpants and a black jacket attempting to break into two vehicles and a garage.
Police found a man matching that description and ordered him to stop. He was identified as Pettis and taken into custody, police said. Witnesses said he tried to get into a garage and two vehicles.
While in custody and after using the restroom, Pettis ran from the police station and officers discharged their Taser, but it didn’t have an effect due to the thickness of the jacket, police said. Pettis fell over a banister and started to run away, police said. He was taken into custody a short time later on North Manning Street, police said.

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On Thursday, May 18th, at the San Francisco Civic Center Plaza, City leaders gathered for the announcement of the largest commitment to biodiesel ever made by a major American city. The press conference began with the announcement by the Fire Chief that her department had begun its B20 pilot program. The Fire Chief was followed by SFPUC General Manager Susan Leal who announced the PUC's commitment to cleaning up San Francisco's sewer system and converting waste products into fuels.
Supervisor McGoldrick announced the formation of the Biodiesel Access Task Force, the first of its kind in the nation, which was created by legislation authored by Adam Hagen and me. I then had the privilege to speak and inform the press and the gathered crowd about the Task Force's two principal goals: creating incentives for improving access to biodiesel and biodiesel blends and streamlining the permitting process for co-op style B100 filling stations.
Mayor Gavin Newsom followed with his announcement of his Executive Order to move the entire City fleet to B20 by the end of 2007, making San Francisco the first major American City to make such a commitment.
These announcements were the culmination of a great deal of work by a number of people both inside City agencies and within the larger San Francisco biodiesel community. Brie Matthews and Mike Ferry spearheaded the effort at the Fire Department. Great photo of Brie in this story of the event. And members of the SF Biofuels Co-op have been working with the City on these and other biodiesel initiatives for over a year.
It was great to be part of this wonderful day and I look forward to continuing to work with the City of San Francisco to make this a successful program.
Written By: Eric Bowen