hi my name is alex and welcome to the nevada county mall we're bringing the community to you and a revolutionary way to save you time money and gas before we know it can be frustrating driving all around town spending time on the the style of shoes that you had in mind and find out who has the best sale on back to school all in one place and it only takes minutes in town december seventeenth the test will allow television viewers to see if all their television sets are ready for the transition from analog to digital the sacramento market is trying something the san francisco region already has done said brian baird a spokes comcast which is what we're heading the test when all the stations can do it at the same time it raises the awareness for the viewers in the market it's much harder to ignore if anyone is watching t v they're going to see if they're ready or not during that half hour when the on screen graphics will appear on the broadcast television stations informing the viewer if the television is ready or not for the digital transition the graphic will direct viewers to the station or consumer websites that will provide information about the conversion each station will also provide a telephone number the viewers can call for more information and technical support some people may find some of their televisions work and some don't but added this just allows you to be sure that all your sets are ready he said if you bought your t v set before one thousand nine hundred eighty it probably doesn't have a digital tuner at all according to the national telecommunications and information and ministration almost every t v set made before nine hundred ninety eight was a traditional analog the agency said another way to determine whether your t v set has a digital tuner a built in is to console your owner's manual the recent reports indicate that the viewing public is learning about the transition many have not yet taken any of the actions that will be required in order to continue viewing television after the conversion about forty percent of the sacramento region one point twenty millions households still receive their t v exclusively over the air consumers who receive their television over the air with an antenna or their roof or a rabbit your set up must buy a digital converter box buy a new digital ready television or upgrade service to cable or satellite by midnight deadline on feb seventeenth on tuesday nevada county board of supervisors is expected to adopt an ordinance that will raise their pay in february the the board also will hold a public hearing to consider the adoption of development fees for the dark horse subdivision the meeting be held at ninety m in the board chambers of the eric rude and administrative center located at nine fifteen minute in about the city the board also will address a resolution adopting the county clerk certified statement of the results of the general presidential election resolution approving the completion of the norse in one community park improvement project for eighty four thousand eight hundred thirty six dollars a status report on the board's concerns about emergency access road in the use of the gates to control them county staff is recommending the board direct staff to convene a meeting of interested stakeholders to look at issues related to the use of the gates to control access routes review a five year plan for road maintenance and capital improvements by douglas farrell director of public works and the story in the union written by david morality signs of the economic recession manifested itself at the roman angels car club toy run on saturday in grass valley as with other fundraisers this holiday season this year the car club collected just one bicycle for needy children during the day long drive compared with more than twenty last year cash donations totaled seven hundred down nearly sixty percent from last year the toys in money are distributed by the salvation army and that's very indicated by the economy said roman angels president ron cherry whose group has sponsored the toy drive for seventeen years people did come by and they did give and we're thankful for that people were good on the whole but there just wasn't enough money this year the economic crisis has created a double barreled problem for many this holiday season two years ago the salvation army had two hundred ninety five families signed up for holiday assistance such as food and gifts for families who meet specific low income guidelines this year three hundred sixty five families have signed up for assistance from three hundred five last year said office manager d n bellows if nothing else we've seen a lot of new folks needing help said major robert keene of the salvation army last year about half the families who requested salvation army assistance were adopted by individuals this year is significantly down he said the group has a tree in k mart where people can sign up to adopt families and provide toys and food for people in need residents are asked to take a tag from the tree and buy items for the from the family's wish list the items will be distributed by salvation army recipients for salvation army aid typically must be in nevada county residents earning less th three thousand and five hundred dollars a month in income for a family of four said we're just trying to make it happen and we want to make sure people have something under the tree on christmas day he said in another story by liz keller a fire that apparently began a woods began in a wood stove caused a major damage to the north san juan home saturday the tenants of the home in the twenty three thousand block of pleasant valley road were awakened by the fire at about six thirty a m the daughter initially saw a glow and then the power went out said nurse in one fire chief boyd johnson when the father went out to check the power he still flames coming from the attic and called nine one one firefighters from north and one fire department responded but the flames shooting out of the kitchen window so department public information officer tracy corus firefighters from city fire department in sierra county also responded in a mutual aid agreement in all about eighteen fire fires work to combat the flames the north in one firefighters sustained minor cuts and bruises when a plaster of lay the ceiling collapsed on them during him up the house believed to be a total loss chris said the fire was confined to the attic but the ceiling collapse means the house probably is not salvageable the family was able to get most of their belongings out of the house however representatives from the red cross are helping the family the fire is believed to have started in the chimney for a wood stove we'd like to remind people it's imperative that chimneys be inspected and cleaned every year before you score a said if i did the wood stove fires are more common as colder weather hits because people forget to before and that means before they use them for the first time since the previous season when creosote goes its explosive course said it will blow a chimney apart that's right stanford police blotter pictures in a blog are not from these actual ranch but used for visual aid only grass valley police department on sunday seven twenty six million dollars from two hundred block of georgia drive reported hearing loud noises since four am a person in a partment question refused to talk and was always quite right to one p m a woman from to want to block a certain way reported her eight year old was out of control juvenile was told not to lash out of parents and parents were admonished for parenting who were not in car seats and through thirty nine p m a caller from south bronx highway forty nine had mcknight way reported a woman in a red truck with paper plates was tailgating and driving at a high rate of speed and at four thirty five since that you knew before and at nine twenty four am an elderly woman from the ten thousand block of grandcourt reported to want to scream was loose and someone might be trying to break into our house learn twenty five am a man from twenty one thousand bedroom window screen off its track three twenty seven p m a call from the fifteen thousand block among all of world reported juveniles on a motorized vehicle were turned up to grass at your car park school and it's three fifty three p m the man from the sixteen thousand lean way reported i lean way five gallons of gas were siphoned off his vehicle two weeks ago and two sets of christmas lights were stolen last night and it's for a one p m i want from the ten thousand block of jasper to get a court reporter her in today's world headlines illinois cuts ties to bank of america plant closing five blackwater guards charge some thirty four counts in iraq killing washington  as laid off union workers refused to leave until the plan is reopened and they receive severance pay and accrued vacation time the republic windows and door factory closed last week after bank of america cut the company's line of credit to factory owner gave workers just three days notice to plant closure many of the plants two hundred fifty union workers have been occupying the plant since friday the laid off workers are members of the united electric electrical radio and machine workers of american local eleven ten on monday illinois governor rod big old jeff beck ordered state agencies to stop doing business with bank america intelligent uses some of its federal bailout money to keep the factory open he also said so unless and until they do that we the state of illinois will suspend doing any business with bank america and we hope that this kind of leverage and pressure will encourage bank america to do the right thing for this business take some of that federal tax money they've received invest it by providing the necessary credit to this company so these workers can keep their jobs political leaders on the chicago city council and cook county is threatened similar actions against bank of america in five blackwater security guards were charged on monday with killing fourteen armed iraqi civilians  others in two thousand and seven a source square massacre in baghdad the federal prosecutor accused blackwater guards of opening machine gunfire on innocent iraqis and watching a grenade into his girls school the five guards have been charged with fourteen attempted manslaughter and also charged with using machine gun to commit a crime of violence a charge that carries thirty year minimum prison sentence assistant attorney general pat rowan said the government alleges today that at least thirty four unarmed iraqi civilians including women and children were killed or injured without justification or provocation by these security guards in the shooting and a source square today's indictment and guilty plea should serve as a reminder  illegal attacks on civilians whether during times of conflict or times of peace will be held accountable and congressional democrats and white house are close to settling on a plan to rest fifteen billion dollars in emergency loans to detroit automakers under the proposal the treasury department would cut checks for the car companies as soon as next week the plan also calls for president bush to name a cars are to manage an vast restructuring of the firms and restore them to profit bility the detroit free press reports the deal could grant washington a majority stake in he's in general motors or chrysler and media news monday was a turbulent day for the newspaper industry the tribune company filed for bankruptcy the company's holdings include los angeles times chicago tribune baltimore sun and twenty three the television stations and the chicago cubs meanwhile mcclatchy company has put the miami herald up for sale and new york times company has announced plans to borrow up to two hundred twenty five million to consist mid manhattan headquarters building to ease a potential cash flow squeeze maybe they should go and ask for a p r i did and other economic news sony has to eliminate eight thousand jobs meanwhile dow chemicals so says it will cut five thousand jobs and close twenty plans colleague sheikh mohammad the alleged mastermind of september eleventh attacks and four of the prisoners have asked to plead guilty to work on charges they face in guantanamo a military commissions the fact that rules are not understood that they haven't been truly allied by all sides and that this is no way to salvage this debacle and the only way to salvage it is by scraping it entirely and starting scrapping it entirely and starting afresh and in greece a fifteen year old boy killed by the police will be buried today the death of alexander us will go broke polis has sparked four days of unrest in athens and greek cities as thousands of used took to the street hundreds of buildings have been towards among the students took over the elton's law school before was set to foreign ministry in a strip of five star hotels are ransacked students have set up barricades and probably technical technique university police have arrested or detained two hundred fifty people spokesman for the united anti capitalistic lef said we are experiencing moments of great social revolution the twenty four hour general strike has been called for wednesday and our current israel prime minister who would omar has condemned the jewish settlers in the west bank who opened fire on protestants last week saying their actions constituted a pod room there's suddenly shot and wounded three palestinians and set fire to her property after israel's security forces effective jewish group from a disputed building almost said as a jew i was ashamed of this scenes of jews opening fire at innocent arabs in hebrew there is no other definition of the term program to describe what has i have seen where program is emotionally charged in israel it is often used to describe russian massacre of jews in the nineteenth century meanwhile israel's leading civil rights organization the association of civil rights of israel has broken a table by describing israel policies and the occupied west bank as being reminiscent of apartheid regime in south africa a spokesperson for the group said their organization decided to drop its previous reluctance to use the south african comparison because the things are getting worse in the occupied territories and in britain nearly fifty climate change activists have been charged with aggregated trespassed after they were arrested during a protest in london's stansted or airport the activists broke through an air force france and ran an airport fence and ran onto the runways forcing fifty flights to be canceled the protest was organized by a group of actors trying to raise awareness of the potential environmental impact of airport expansion in haiti children are now being airlifted from rural villages to stave off death or starvation last month international aid workers and doctors airlifted forty six starving children in the southeastern haitian village of by the orange after twenty six have died from severe malnutrition hillary clerk of the world food program said but what's happened recently has double shocked at the high food prices which you remember where the price of rice which is the staple here doubled in a year and on top of that came hurricanes and did considerable damage to the crops and these farmers many of them home are so obsessed and farmers and rely on mangoes  feed themselves and so losing those crops has put them into a very very difficult position and in california a fighter jet crashed into san diego never heard on monday killing three people in their homes part of the fire ejected safely and the president bush has bought a new home an exclusive section of dallas up until two thousand to get a community had a neighbor hood association come cannot comment that allowed only whites to own property to document said areas land shall be used in occupied by white persons only except those covenants shall not prevent occupancy by domestic servants of a different race or nationality or employ of an in times of recession is not the time to be getting raises and our board of supervisors should vote their own race down for now grass probably wants to cut days the city hall is open so employees could last hours to save money but city council voted to give a rais administrators and that point is at around ninety five dollars per hour why should the elite job holders skim money while the actual workers get wage cuts it's bad enough that the government is now bailing out big business failures with taxpayers money couple ism is based on private business success by competitive competition and the intelligence of the individuals who run the companies if you aren't competitive or the quality or pricing is too high you don't make a profit you fail as a business small and large businesses fail all the time because why and demand swings and why it disappoint should we bail out those who make the wrong decisions this is a new standard then where is the money is to bail out small businesses they need money too best solution is to take the eight hundred billion that equates out to about one million dollars to every citizen usa and give each person one million dollars and let them go spend it and boost our economy by injecting the money back in to the people where it belongs car manufacturers begging for money when they let unions drive them out of business union members you must look at your own leaders who advised you to gadgets car manufacturers to make point they can't make to the point they can't make money if you're out of a job you should picket your union leaders it's their fault some say the new administration is for change and to jingle in my pocket hasn't gotten any louder yet socialism didn't work in russia it won't work here but the big boys fall where they may in the change when gloated companies fail let us stay healthy by getting rid of the weeds that are growing all over our country want justice then vote in laws that require senators and house representatives to get paid according to the net profits of the regions of the country they are voted in by this way they earn their salaries voted to disband disband lobbyist and maybe some of the greed and corruption will be controlled hi my name is alex and welcome to the nevada county we're bringing the community to you and a revolutionary way to save you time money and gas but we know it can be frustrating driving all around town spending time on the right now for the first time you have the ability to find just about anything in minutes and you'll be able to view the menus of local restaurants find the best price plumber that can come out on the weekend locate the style of shoes that you had in mind and find out who has the best sale on back to school gear all in 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