done council approved stickers contract three to one for the four panel sculpture honoring various key groups of police in grass valley history with an accelerated time line shortening from thirteen months to five holding state are accountable for the five month timeline when the you support local art or not sort out said i feel from a public perspective this isn't the right time to be doing this we should wait until we have more financial stability staker said he he'd get a work on the sculpture get to work on a day media community a group of about two hundred fifty people who live communally north of nevada city and blends eastern spirituality with christianity this is not a picture of it here this is a sample of something like it and then to members bundled in an elaborate victorian custom spend much of th crested street scene in contemporary standards such as jingle bell rock and frosted snowman i do have a picture but the union blocks pictures now for half an hour though the victorian singers pause next to the nativities scene and focus their lyrics on jesus birth the choir includes both traditional carols and christmas songs written now to founder swami and there's a variety and inspiration they bring to each song makes the performances different elevator than elevator music said jeff rice who directs the victorian singer's lawn with his wife  me it's the spirit in which we offer it he said we believe that it brings people a sense of greater joy and people are starving for that day in any community was founded nevada city in one nine hundred sixty seven by swami correa nanda a disciple of the india of a system of physical postures it's a way of life that in for size is harmony of the soul christmas day is an example of eastern western oneness in action what's different is that instead of racing to the christmas tree we begin to day with meditation wright said we try to uphold the spiritual foundation of what christmas is really all about material aspect is secondary i like ran into the christmas tree myself in addition to the traditional trappings of the season christmas trees cards and cookies now the community hosts an eight hour meditation session two days before christmas around this time of year it's a chance focused on jesus i have the time chance focused more on communities eastern roots one and then the specific celebration is yogananda spirit day on january fifth chances a sunday services are usually in english but can also be in a tie in sanskrit a lot of people speak those languages around here music is also integra to another services which is part of the reason victorian choir has a natural fit all the nine characters standing in the one of jail on broad street are as real as st francis first display with two exceptions the baby is just a doll moved occasionally by mary's hand and there is no live animals in this christmas table overindulged then get behind the wheel very counties avoid the five dui campaign is gearing up for the holidays for its first saturation patrol the second country wide patrol has been scheduled wednesday december sixteenth plus a check point five thirty to ten thirty p m on saturday december nineteenth so while you drugs mark your calendars in grass valley law enforcement officers at the checkpoints will be looking for anyone driving under the influence also will be checking driver's licenses grass valleys police captain dave this is the fifth year is a grass valley police department has administered a grant from the california office of traffic safety to coordinate to avoid the five campaign this year's grant was for two hundred eighty two thousand dollars i pad for a couple days of stopping people educate the public grant active activities specifically target those who drink too much and then drive officers will be staff india y and drivers license checkpoints and they will join in multi agency dui saturation patrols to search for drunk drivers to grant provides funding for officers overtime to conduct a special in force meant activities to dui fatalities this year the void to task forces have played an integral part role in the recent reduction of alcohol related and other deaths in our roadways and alcohol impaired dest by more than twenty percent in the last three years in california said christopher murphy director of the office of traffic safety this grant will also help make grass valley in the vatican a safer place to live and work to f county this year have been attributed to drunken driving local artist class seaver fifty nine was killed in a wreck march twelfth and holly forty nine north of colby road edward anderson thirty eight of grass valley allegedly was driving drunk when he struck a vehicle being driven by secret anderson son was in the vehicle with him and was injured and richards has been charged with gross vehicle manslaughter driving under the influence with bodily injury and child endangerment within enhancement of greater bodily injury dave david went from four hundred block south auburn street broke someone's reported someone broke into apartment through a window and took personal items twelve forty five p m caller from neil street reported a loose pit bull tried to bite the ca reported her husband was in a dispute with her seventeen year old son her husband pushed the son was a broom after the son became upset about a family christmas picture he did not want taking the situation was might have been a victim of a financial scam twelve thirty one p m a caller forty does block a long valley court reporter the man also bill was parked at the bottom of the driveway and said he was selling twelve fifty seven p m a caller from ten thousand block not roads reported a vehicle rollover and at seven thirty three pm a call from burma and blue jay hill reported hearing it can charts and that a city police department on monday for forty pm the woman from stimulus iraq bombing toll reaches one hundred twenty seven and lawmakers said keep pre war claim based on iraqi truck taxi driver neck and barry says no opposition to afghan escalation and over there in copenhagen have been shaken up with the news of what the nations have drafted a secret agreement sidelined in poor countries and the united nations on tuesday the guardian newspaper published details of a leaked agreement said to include the us britain denmark and a handful of others deals lacks binding at mean the chair of the group seventy seven bloc of developing nations said the proposals are unacceptable and also said g seventy seven members will not walk out of these consultations on negotiations in this way our goods we cannot afford failure of copenhagen let me just actually be very blunt ten billion dollars will not buy developing countries people and confidence so that democrats appear to have finalized the deal on removing a government funded public insurance option from the health care reform bill on tuesday senate majority leader harry reid said a group of ten democrats separate prod agreement on a so called can promise proposal the plan would abandon a government funded health plan to compete with private insurers instead the federal office of personnel management would h insurance companies to run the house plans uninsured americans between the age of fifty five and sixty four would also be able to obtain coverage through medicare reid says he'll unveil the private after the congressional budget office analyzes its costs announcement came as the senate defeated an amendment that would have added harsh anti abortion restrictions to the health care bill the proposal from democrat senator ben nelson of nebraska mirrored the language of the house bill the bars any woman who receive hundred cities incidents of time to coincide with the international human rights day which marks the signing of the universal declaration of human rights nine hundred forty eight the declaration affirms medical care as a basic human right a new study of health care in wealthy nations meanwhile says the u s ranks near the bottom in life expectancy despite spending more than double the average amount in health care cost the organization for economic co operation and development says the u s health care spending averages over seven thousand dollars in two thousand and seven  a settlement on long running class action lawsuit over federal mismanagement of native american land trust dating back to the nineteenth century and to see an interior department announced it would pay a mere three point four billion in settle claims by more than three hundred thousand native americans for although we have reached a settlement totaling more than three point four billion there is a little doubt that this is significantly less than the full of county to which individual indians are entitled yes we could prolong our struggle and fight longer and perhaps one day we would know down to the penny how much individual indians are owed perhaps we could even litigate long enough to increase the settlement amount but we are compelled to sell now by sobering realisation our class go smaller each year each month and every day as our elders down forever prevented from receiving their just compensation plus the fact that by the time we did get three hundred billion it's only going to be worth three billion because up until a few president obama has unveiled a new round of economic stimulus proposals to address unemployment on tuesday obama called for a small tax cuts intense about it just this past summer and insistent to banks once thought to be cost taxpayers untold billions is now on track to actually reach billions in profits for taxpaying public so this gives us a chance to pay down the deficit faster than we thought possible and to shift funds that would have gone to help banks on wall street to help create jobs on main street if there's any jobs and iraq to death toll from tuesday's multiple bombings has reached least two hundred twenty seven more than five hundred people were also wanted there's been one of the worst attacks to hit iraq this year the united nations secretary ban ki moon condemned the bombing i am very sharp tonight and condemned in the strongest terms possible this just is unacceptable horrendous terrorist bombing against civilians this must be sto you civilians continue to in do or deadly attacks the us the british pre war effort to justify the invasion occupation of iraq is coming under new scrutiny if british parliamentarians is now claiming the us and britain based one of its claims about iraq's nonexistent weapons of mass destruction on a here's a testimony of an iraqi taxi driver the taxi driver is said to have recounted a conserver conservation that he claimed to have been a cause of cancer conversation he heard overheard between a bracket issued two years earlier s the deployment of at least thirty thousand additional troops last week a protester with the group code pink was removed from the area after holding up a sign reading surge big mistake and can bury meanwhile addressed the controversy over his reporting opposition to the deploying me ploy additional troops in the fact he supported the escalation along and bester coral ecan barry said it was not a question of additional troops it was a question as we all had about the number of troops what would be the timelines for those troops what would be the context of those troops would operate in with this was that at this point in time as i said in my opening statement mr chairman i am unequivocally in support of the mission i am exactly aligned with general mcchrystal here to my right in moving forward now to vig implement the assigned mission to bomb administration has announced it will cut ties with the scandal plagued private military firm hired to guard u s embassy in afghanistan the firm armor group america came under scrutiny this year twelve guard made claims of unauthorized on missions security lapses and lewd behavior the state department says armor group's contract won't be renewed when it expires next summer maybe blackwater it's a good idea around probably cheaper is supporting the past and supporting the past without any form of shame and following him sadly and unfortunately as a group of government from our own america and in brazil a new report says police have killed at least eleven thousand people since two thousand and in massachusetts state attorney general martha coakley has won the democratic nomination to run for the late edward kennedy's senate seat coakley will square off against republican nominee state senator scott brown in a special election next month watching yes it's serious three for music each week we'll try to scour the world for music for you and if possible always looking for local music if you're local and have a song on d v d then let us know when we will be happy to put it on the show that's right it's time for the police blotter the pictures 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