The bewildered talk throughout most of central California is in regards to this crop circle, which was created earlier this week in the Salinas Valley. Some residents claim to have seen a UFO with flashing green lights and then suddenly… this was discovered. Security guards have been called in to keep folks off of the field. Is it an alien message or man-made hoax? It’s intricate and precise, whatever it is.

Sara Oliveira, Sonora High School Graduate (class of 2006), is not only chasing her musical dreams but is quickly gaining notice.

Raised in the Mother Lode, Oliveira thinks that her music echoes the beauty and freedom of where she spent her childhood.

Oliveira now lives in Redding, CA and works for the Bethel School of Ministry in the Media Department. Oliveira performs frequently around the region’s various restaurants, wine bars and coffee shops.

“I’ve been building a great fan base in the Redding area,” says Oliveira. “The people there and back here in the Mother Lode are very supportive.”

On a recent trip to Twain Harte this past summer, Oliveira was invited to open for the popular local group “Chains Required”. She feels that she was very well received.

“Right Here Right Now” is Oliveira’s lead track off her debut EP “Things Untold”. The song was recorded at PopGun Studios in Nashville, TN.

On January 14, 2014 Oliveira will release her next EP called “Chasing the Day”. She describes her music as “folk-pop”.

Oliveira would like to take the next step in 2014 and move to Nashville, to continue to build her music career.

For more information, log onto http://www.saraoliveiramusic.com

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These are mountain goats, Alpine ibexes to be exact. They’re here at the Cingino Dam in northern Italy because this wall is rich with salt, a mineral they crave, so they’ve come to lick, while balancing with four feet on the most narrow and steep surface imaginable.

Republican House Speaker John Boehner must hate well-established conservative groups and organizations. He lashed out at them earlier today. This video shows GOP Congressman Paul Ryan (who crafted the so-called budget with Democrat Patty Murray) standing behind the Speaker. Clearly these two prominent Republicans, Boehner and Ryan, aren’t in the business of doing what’s best for the American economy. Both gentlemen are wanting to please Democrat President Obama and are led by his direction.

This shoutfest took place Wednesday December 11th, 2013 during the House Energy Subcommittee on Health. At the end of the video ask yourself, who really wins this type of battle?

A distraught Cuban-American member of Congress confronts John Kerry about the President Obama, Raul Castro handshake. In response, Kerry dances around the answer in an almost beautiful display of “diplomatic speech”. Beautiful… if it wasn’t so obviously pathetic.

President Obama shook the hand of Raul Castro at the Nelson Mandela Memorial in South Africa. Perhaps it was because Obama knew how much love Mandela had for Raul’s brother, Fidel Castro. According to Mandela, Castro helped “train our people and helped us with our struggle” to end apartheid.

You won’t see blood, but you will cringe all the way down the cliff. Ready to jump? Push play!

This footage from 1975 captures life along the Stanislaus River before New Melones Reservior. This film was made as an effort to keep the Melones Dam from being built. Right or wrong, the Dam did flood the River’s whitewater runs, limestone caves, Indian relics and Gold Rush history.

Luis Rodriguez has announced that he will run for California Governor in 2014, as a Green Party candidate.

Who is Rodriguez? Watch his introduction video above.