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MOVIE REVIEW- Force field: Cop's lives are tough in <i>Brooklyn's Finest </i>
Anyone who would choose to become a police officer after seeing Brooklyn's Finest should be disqualified as psychologically unfit.
Director Antoine Fuqua has made a few films of varying quality since Training Day, but that's the one he's best known for. He returns to similar territory with Brooklyn's Finest and again demonstrates his flair for combining violent action with serious drama in depicting the lives– and sometimes deaths– of those whose job is to protect and serve us.
The three stories that make up the movie rarely intersect, but all take place during the same week in Brooklyn's 65th Precinct. Burned out Eddie Dugan (Richard Gere) is to retire at the end of that week after 22 years of decent but undistinguished service. He grudgingly consents to help break in a couple of rookies (Logan Marshall-Green, Jesse Williams), but that doesn't go well.
Sal Procida (Ethan Hawke) rationalizes the stealing of drug money to take care of his sickly wife (Lily Taylor) and several children (with twins on the way). Though he doesn't consider it a crusade, he saves the state a lot of court expenses by leaving no witnesses alive. He's filled with guilt but makes a good case for the money not being well used if it's turned in. Still, his saintly friend Ronny (Brian F. O'Byrne), Brooklyn's cleanest cop, tries to act as his conscience.
Undercover operative Clarence Butler (Don Cheadle), whose street name is Tango, suffers from the Donnie Brasco syndrome. He befriended druglord Casanova Phillips (Wesley Snipes) in prison, where Caz saved his life; but Tango's job is to set Caz up and bring him down. Feeling underappreciated by the police and having just been served divorce papers by his wife, Clarence's loyalties are divided, "Tango and Caz" jokes notwithstanding. He's trying to get out of his assignment: "I want my life back."
Screenwriter Michael C. Martin juggles the three stories well, only occasionally neglecting one for too long at a time. He pours the melodrama on a bit heavily sometimes, with a realtor constantly reminding Sal of his deadline to put a down payment on a new house, while wood mold in the old house is killing his wife.
Tango's tough-but-tender approach makes him stand out among the thugs he associates with and causes him to lock horns with ambitious dealer Red (Michael Kenneth Williams). Will Patton plays Tango's contact on the force and Ellen Barkin plays their superior. (Is the song "Sea of Love" thrown in as homage to her?)
Dugan, whose marriage probably ended some time ago, has no interests in his off-duty hours but a prostitute (Shannon Kane). After playing it safe for 22 years, he waits until after he retires to try to be a hero.
Brooklyn's Finest can't avoid clichés– how many ways can you show a person being shot?– but it's good at avoiding pat moralizing. Nothing here is black and white, and good and evil have infinite gradations.
The performances are fine, but even the best, which would probably be Hawke, becomes one-note after awhile. Fortunately the notes of Hawke, Gere and Cheadle work together to strike an effective chord.

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SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI — When state wildlife officials decided to expand alligator hunting this year — not once but twice — local officers got a tiny bit worried.
At first, the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks said the hunt could take place on public waterways across two-thirds of the state, including all of southwest Mississippi.
Then officials expanded the territory even farther, to include waters accessible by boat adjacent to public waterways.
That meant, for example, that Buffalo River at Lake Mary would be open. Though it's not classed as a public waterway, it connects to the Mississippi River, which is.
Maj. Lane Ball of MDWFP said he had some concerns about the expansion.
"The people in Jackson didn't understand how much water that opened up in our part of the state," Ball said, noting it took in lots of water in the Lake Mary area as well the Pascagoula River Basin.
"We had been telling people, 'You can't hunt on Buffalo River.' "
As it turned out, though, "the only complaint that I really heard, some of the people that had camps at Lake Mary were a little bit miffed because you had people coming from all over Mississippi putting in there," Ball said.
In one instance, an offshore vessel with twin engines came chugging up the Old Homochitto River, he said.
But then, some Lake Mary camp owners were gator hunting as well.
The lottery hunt was held Sept. 7-17. Only specific methods were allowed. The most popular was a deep-sea fishing rod with treble hook. Hunters snagged the gator, pulled it alongside, snared it, then shot it.
The southwest zone — south of Interstate 20 and west of Interstate 55 — yielded 116 gators. The average male was nine feet long, and the biggest was 13.17 feet.
The south-central zone produced 87 gators, the southeast 95 and the west-central (Delta) 156.
A group of Delta hunters caught one that measured 13-feet, 1-1/2-inch and weighed 697.5 pounds.
"It was a big success," Ball said of the hunt. "A lot of people enjoyed it."
"It benefits everybody because we're getting too many gators," said wildlife conservation officer Jimmy Hutson. "People see them out on a lake and it scares them. We're having to go get them out of swimming pools. Won't nothing kill a gator but another gator — or a human."
The state had already been holding lottery hunts on private lands in 28 counties — including Adams, Wilkinson, Lawrence and Marion in southwest Mississippi. The expansion into public waterways coincided with a surge of interest in alligators thanks to the TV show "Swamp People."
"When they came out with 'Swamp People,' everybody wanted to kill an alligator," Hutson said. "Before that, nobody wanted to kill an alligator."
But Mississippi's recreational season was quite different from the Louisiana hunts depicted in the TV show.
Unlike Mississippi, Louisiana allows hunters to hang large baited hooks over the water.
"I can't tell you the number of cases we've made based on 'Swamp People,' baiting their hooks," Ball said.
Art Mott of Lawrence County is a professional gator trapper for the wildlife department and is licensed to buy gators from the recreational hunters. As a result, he saw lots of them.
The biggest he saw was 12 feet, 10 inches and just over 700 pounds, taken in Pearl River just north of Monticello.
"He was just huge as far as girth and all," Mott said. "He was as big an alligator as you want to see."
A lot of big ones, 12 feet and longer, came from the Mississippi and Big Black rivers.
"I skin them and I salt the hides and I sell the hides to an alligator buyer that buys hides," Mott said.
The state doesn't pay him to trap but allows him to work year-round and keep and sell the gators.
"I've caught some big ones this year myself as far as nuisance gators," Mott said.
He caught three at Percy Quin State Park before the lake was drained in September — one more than 11 feet long and two over 8 feet.
He also catches them in Pearl River, Lake Lincoln, Lake Mary Crawford, Lake Columbia, Lake Bill Waller — "all the state lakes. We try to keep everything down to 7 feet or below out of there just for safety purposes," Mott said.
"There's so many of them. That's the reason they had this season. They try to control the population, just like they do deer."
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Wales manager Chris Coleman has told Real Madrid it may take until 2014 for Gareth Bale to start producing his best form for the Spanish club.
The 24-year-old forward has made just three appearances for the Bernabeu club since completing his world-record £86million move from Tottenham in August.
Bale is currently sidelined with a back injury, and earlier this week Madrid denied a newspaper report that the Welshman had suffered a slipped disc and required surgery.
Coleman believes Bale's lack of a proper pre-season is a reason for his injury-troubled start to life at Real, and believes it will take some time for him to produce the sort of barnstorming performances which were his trademark in the Premier League.
"Anyone who plays top level professional football and you don't have a pre-season, if you expect to start any game, you are bonkers, crackers. It doesn't happen," he said.
If you think you can just pick up where you left off the season before, that doesn't happen either. It takes time. It doesn't matter how good you are - and he's a super player and a super athlete. You can't just switch it on or off if you've missed all that pre-season.
He said: "You are always playing catch-up so I wouldn't be surprised if it's after Christmas before we see Gareth getting into it again.
"It may take him some time. He's in a new environment that he needs to get used to and he's playing catch-up all the time.
"I hope it's not serious but it may be some time before we see Gareth doing what he is capable of."
But Coleman dismissed suggestions Bale has been carrying a back injury for some time.
He said: "There's been no problem with his back with Wales - I think he missed the Olympics with his back and our friendly against Mexico that summer. But he's never complained about his back with us."


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The first clip for director J.J. Abrams' sequel Star Trek Into Darkness has been released. It features star Zachary Quinto in costume as Spock, donning a protective suit as he is seen in the heart of a volcano. Fair warning: the clip is a literal blink of an eye since it's three frames long. Abrams and Conan O'Brien had a big laugh at the expense of all of us nerds (and tired bloggers) out there, but we'll take what we can get.
Hit the jump to watch the clip. The film stars Chris Pine, Karl Urban, Anton Yelchin, Zoe Saldana, John Cho, Simon Pegg, Alice Eve, Peter Weller, Noel Clarke, and Benedict Cumberbatch. Star Trek Into Darkness opens in 3D and IMAX on May 17th, 2013.
Watch the first "clip" of Star Trek Into the Darkness below (via Conan) and look for Quinto at the 1:51 mark. Or, better yet, just look at the screengrab I painstakingly caught for you:


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Shoe addiction may seem like just for women but this is not true. Even if it's true that means women look at your shoes and criticize your taste. Either way you have to be careful and selective as a men when it comes to shoes.
Men shoes have an informal look for Spring 2014, but are yet very stylish. If you are a conservative guy in means of style try the ones with laces. One of the hottest trends in men's shoes for the season are the solid soles, decorated with metal elements or unexpected colours. But I – personally- don't like metals in men's shoes unless they are just for decoration. The most popular models of men's designer shoes for the spring of 2014 are moccasins, loafers, slippers and chukkas. Smooth leather, suede and nubuck keeps their ranking in fashion. You will also find that reptile skin and reptile skin imitations are another popular choice of material for men's shoes. Combinations of materials with different textures are also possible.
My DO's
- Loafers (just for a business look)
- Sandals & flip flops with Bermudas
- Trainers (always)
- Chukkas
My DON'Ts
- Reptile Skin
- Too much metal elements
- Pointy-toed shoes
- Flip flops with boot cut jeans
Vibrant colours, like cobalt blue, emerald green and cherry are another popular trends in men's shoes for this season. Of course, the traditional colours like black and brown are not excluded. You can also try floral prints for espadrilles too (Which I like a lot!)
Here is the editor's pick (which is me in this case) for shoe shopping!
- Clarks Movers Ray Sandals Standard Width Fitting £71
- Dune Suede Tassel Trim Slip On Shoe
- Giuseppe Zanotti Gold-Bar Leather Sandals £620.99
- Red Tape Glaven Brogue Boots £50
- Asos Sandals in Leather £18
- Swims Penny Loafer £105
- We Are Saints Kennedy Espadrilles Burgundy
- Havaianas Origine Espadrille Black
- Lacoste Fairbrooke 12 Dark Grey Leather & Suede Chukka Boots
- Submarine Espadrilles £45


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Some revenue-starved municipalities are targeting ongoing maintenance fees paid to IT vendors as an area for cutting costs.
A conflict is brewing among local government IT departments and vendors over the degree to which vendors should adjust their prices to save government jobs. Some revenue-starved municipalities are targeting ongoing maintenance fees paid to IT vendors as an area for cutting costs. Typically when an agency buys hardware or software, it also purchases an ongoing service plan for repairs and parts replacement. Maintenance fees can be lucrative for vendors, and the fees frequently increase annually. Some CIOs, like Steve Emanuel, CIO of Montgomery County, Md., believe today's maintenance charges no longer reflect realistic amounts governments can pay. He wants the county's vendors to lower their profit expectations for those services, but many vendors seem reluctant to do so, according to Emanuel. CIOs often see maintenance fees as gravy for vendors, while vendors insist that maintenance fees seed future product upgrades and ensure quality service.
State and federal legislation frequently mandates changes in the way government systems operate, and these changes are included in vendor software upgrades. Government IT departments report that private-sector willingness to eat maintenance fees tends to depend on how easily government can switch vendors. Smaller companies seem more willing, while larger ones tend to dig in their heels. Emanuel said vendors risk losing government business if they don't adjust to governments' current fiscal realities.
"In some cases, it's going to drive us to other products," Emanuel said. "In some cases, it's going to drive us to other service providers. In some cases, it's going to make us take the risks we really don't want to take."
Vendors vary on their approach to revising maintenance fees, but most insist the charges amount to much more than gravy.
"We have a cost of doing business just like there is a cost of doing government," said Mark Testoni, president of software vendor SAP's Public Services division. "We have to balance that with our ability to make sure we don't degrade the service that we're offering to our customers."
Video: Vendors charging high maintenance fees put on notice to cut their rates by Steve Emanuel, CIO of Montgomery County, Md.
Government agencies and vendors love to call each other "partners." It makes the two parties sound like they're on the same side. But many CIOs warn that willingness to cut maintenance fees will be a test of a true vendor partnership.


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The wooden System boxes, designed by Joanna Laajisto for Lundia, are perfect for storing small objects and magazines. They fit perfectly into Lundia's Classic shelving system and can also be used as stand-alone elements such as side tables. The System boxes are handmade form pinewood and painted in cool shades of mint, blue and grey, allowing the beautiful wood grain to show through.
- Manufacturer:
- Lundia
- Design:
- Joanna Laajisto
- Material:
- Pinewood
- Colour:
- Grey
- Width:
- 20,5 cm
- Depth:
- 29 cm
- Height:
- 15 cm


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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — You can see the streets where he grew up and played soccer, the church where Jorge Bergoglio prayed as a teenager and the cathedral where the man who would become Pope Francis said Mass. You can even visit the stand where he bought his newspapers every weekend and where he went for a haircut.
With an Argentine on the throne of St. Peter, the South American country's capital city has launched a series of guided tours to give visitors a glimpse of the places that formed Francis, even if the bus and walking tours are just a modest, and so far non-commercial first stab at papal tourism.
The tour bus is a single-story cruiser with sealed windows above a huge image on each side of Francis and the words "Pope Circuit" in papal yellow, which also happens to be the official color of the metropolitan government that began offering the tours last weekend.
For three hours, the bus winds through Buenos Aires twice each Saturday and Sunday and can carry about 40 passengers, rolling past 24 sites linked to the new pope, but stopping only twice and leaving little opportunity for snapshots. There's no charge for the trip, or for more limited walking tours of downtown and neighborhood sites offered on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
"I loved the tour ... It's to live the history of Bergoglio, of his family, and I also visited his neighborhood, which I had never seen," said Alicia Perez, a 71-year-old Argentine who was one of the few non-journalists on inaugural bus tour.
The house at 531 Membrillar where the pope and four siblings grew up with his mother and father, Regina Maria Sivori and Mario Bergoglio, in the 1930s and 40s is gone now, but the bus cruises down the tree-shaded middle-class street past the property, where another dwelling was later built.
Nearby there's the little plaza where he played soccer as a boy, and the narrow, neo-classical San Jose de Flores church where he worshipped as a teenager and felt called to devote his life to God.
Visitors also see the seminary in the leafy neighborhood of Villa Devoto where Bergoglio decided to become a Jesuit priest, and the Metropolitan Cathedral, which looks more like a classical Greek temple than a typical Catholic church. Bergoglio eventually presided as the capital's archbishop in the imposing structure, which also houses the tomb of South American independence hero Jose de San Martin.
The tour also passes the Jesuit College of El Salvador, where Bergoglio taught literature and psychology in the 1960s, and the Salvador University he later oversaw.
The tour leaves out the gritty slums where Bergoglio's church was a frequent benefactor, but there's a nod to his reputation for ministering to society's outcasts: a swing past the Devoto prison where he often said Mass on the Thursday before Easter.
The bus finally stops at the parish of San Jose del Talar, where visitors can pray at a sanctuary that features a painting of the Virgin untying knots and passing them to angels. Bergoglio had the painting brought from Germany in the 1980s, and ever since, attendance at the church has soared.
Less sacred ground is covered as well. The bus stops downtown at the historic Roverano passageway, where Bergoglio had a monthly haircut for 20 years at Romano's barber shop, a high-ceilinged place that seems to have been frozen in time since the early 20th Century. But the barbers would rather not be bothered: Tourists are advised to gawk from outside as the artisans with scissors and razors work on their mostly elderly clientele.
"It's a pride to have had Monsignor Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, as a client every month for 20 years," says a poster stuck to the shop window.
Owner Nicolas Romano, 72, is only four years younger than the pope. He told an Associated Press team that returned for a post-tour interview that Bergoglio came to the barbershop until about a decade ago, when one of the barbers began going to give him a personal trim at the archbishop's office. An assistant also gave him a monthly pedicure.
"He was a man of few words. He spoke just what was needed, sometimes of politics or current affairs," said one of the barbers, 71-year-old Mario Saliche.
The tour ends at the Plaza de Mayo, which is fronted by the cathedral and the office building where Bergoglio lived alone in a humble room, shunning an ornate diocesan mansion in a northern suburb. The church has not provided outsiders with access to this bedroom, despite the curiosity of the faithful.
Across the plaza is the newsstand where Bergoglio bought his La Nacion paper on Saturdays and Sundays.
"He paid me with coins and we chatted about soccer and how things were," said Nicolas Schandor, who owns the weekend stand. He also said Bergoglio would stop to chat with war veterans occupying the plaza, and give food to the poor who slept on the cathedral's steps. "He's a very simple person. Nobody expected he would become pope."
Schandor's kiosk is one of the few attractions on the trip that shows any evidence of papal commerce: A plastic key holder with the pope's image goes for about $1.90, and a calendar costs $2.30. Schandor said some tourists even have themselves photographed with him.
Buenos Aires launches tours for Argentine pope
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — You can see the streets where he grew up and played soccer, the church where Jorge Bergoglio prayed as a teenager and the cathedral where the man who would become Pope Francis said Mass. You can even visit the stand where he bought his newspapers every weekend and where he went for a haircut.


text: Interesting story about the underwater treadmill that RG3 is using for rehab. It's an interesting idea, you get the running motion but with less weight on the knee. Buried somewhere in the story, the company claims that Adrian Peterson used one for rehab last year, which is pretty significant if true (I don't have any reason to doubt them but I don't think Peterson has publicly said he used one).


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Department of Biology (BIOL)
Core Curriculum
Lake Shore Campus:
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Phone: 773-508-3620
Degree Requirements
The major in biology requirements include six required courses (19 hours) and several elective courses (19 hours), totaling 38 hours. The courses required for the biology major are:
- Biology 101, 102, 111, 112, 251, 265, 282, and one of 252, 266 or 283
- 19 hours of biology electives; two courses must have a lab component
- General Chemistry 101, 102, 111 and 112; or 105 and 106
- Organic Chemistry 223, 224, 225 and 226; or 221 and 222
- Physics 111, 112, 131 and 132; or 113, 114, 133 and 134
- Mathematics 131 and 132; or 161 and 162
This major requires 38 hours, including the basic courses required of the biology major, plus Evolution (Biology 319) and specific elective courses (16 hours) that allow students to focus on key areas of ecology and evolution.
Molecular Biology
This major requires a total of 38 credit hours, including the basic courses required of biology majors. Upper-level courses are mostly specified in the areas of genetics, biochemistry and molecular biology, with eight hours of upper-level elective courses also part of the program. Note: Students completing this emphasis program will also automatically fulfill the requirements for the minor in chemistry.
Core Curriculum
In addition to fulfilling major requirements to earn an undergraduate degree (usually 128 hours), students complete Loyola's new Core Curriculum, which teaches them important skills and values, and develop their own interests by taking general electives.
Transfer students majoring in biology must take a minimum of 20 credit hours in biology courses at Loyola. No more than 18 credit hours in biology transferred from another institution may be applied toward the biology major for the B.S. degree. Ordinarily, transfer of credit from professional or graduate schools for the purpose of obtaining a major or minor in biology is not permitted.
Biology The minor in biology requires 24 credit hours including 17 credit hours of required biology courses (Biology 101, 102, 111, 112, 251, 265 and 282) and seven hours of biology electives. Transferring students who seek a minor in biology must take a minimum of 12 credit hours in biology at Loyola University Chicago.
Bioethics Loyola's bioethics minor encompasses work in the fields of biology, natural science, philosophy, sociology and theology. It enables students to study topics in which the life sciences and ethics converge, such as: biological and chemical weapons, human stem cell research, global warming, human and animal experimentation, pollution, genetic screening and gene therapy, and human population growth. The program helps prepare students for a range of careers or for advanced study in ministry, the health professions, the sciences, teaching, law, journalism, research, government or social work. The bioethics minor requires at least seven courses or 21 credit hours. The science requirement is satisfied by four courses in biology or three courses in natural science. The ethics requirement is satisfied by three courses in philosophy, theology or biology. An interdisciplinary, team-taught course is also required that examines a specific bioethical topic. The biology and interdisciplinary courses also count toward the biology major.
Biostatistics Designed for students interested in the growing number of jobs that apply quantitative skills to problems in biomedical research, statistical genetics and bioinformatics, this minor requires three statistics courses as well as Introductory Biology (Biology 101, 102, 111, 112) and Basic Calculus (Math 131, 132 or 161, 162). Two of the statistics courses (Biology/Stat 335 and Biology/Stat 336) are cross-listed in biology and also count toward the biology major.


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Sparky's high energy and enthusiasm for everyone he meets inspired his name. Like most puppies, Sparky has two settings – blissfully asleep and flat-out pedal to the metal fun time. He is very sweet natured, but his cuddles and snuggles suddenly erupt into fun and smiles. He is a fast learner, but will need to learn his boundaries. With a family dedicated to training and some experience of raising puppies, Sparky will make a fantastic family member. He appears to be a German Shepherd mix.
Note that visual breed identification in dogs is unreliable so for most of the dogs we are only guessing at predominant breed or breed mix. We get to know each dog as an individual and will do our best to describe each of our dogs based on personality, not by breed label.
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The first annual Let The Kids Grow (LTKG) Foundation's Holiday Gala took place on Saturday, December 1st, 2012 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, celebrating the inspiring individuals of the next generation featuring world-class entertainment, a one-of-a kind silent auction, dinner and dancing. The Inaugural Black Tie Charity Ball was hosted by Let The Kids Grow founder, entrepreneur and media-mogul Percy "Master P" Miller and Simin Hashemizadeh, who supports various organizations in which her contributions to humanity have been recognized by numerous celebrities.
Let The Kids Grow Foundation was sponsored by South Pacific Surgery Centers, Serenity Sleep Labs at GR8SLEEP.com, Bank of America, Walmart, Mass Mutual Financial Group,YF Corp, Beverly Hills Times, Women's Entertainment TV, Celebrity Society Magazine, and many more.
The honorees of 2012 were successful philanthropist and owner of South Pacific Surgery Centers, Simin Hashemizadeh; rapper, actor and businessman Romeo Miller; Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning actress Kristie Alley; award-winning actor, director, producer Tyler Perry; television personality, actor and rapper Nick Cannon, Los Angeles Lakers Dwight Howard; KPWR's Big Boy, Dr. Ralph Mayer and Dr. Shahrad Rahban.
Let The Kids Grow Foundation, is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to address the problems of Los Angeles City's undeserved and at-risk young children and teens through a well-rounded program focusing on out-of-school activities and family strengthening. "The LTKG organization promotes healthy relationships, and provides underserved youth valuable life experiences through activities including performing arts, film, and photography," said Percy "Master P" Miller. "Our mission is to strengthen families through education and togetherness."
Guests included celebrities, socialites and Beverly Hills' elite who joined the quest to make a difference and help support the cause and enjoyed live performance by Cymphonique Miller, "I Have Nothing" dedicated to Whitney Houston.
I had the great privilege to meet and speak to some of the most extraordinary people including the one and only beautiful Simin Hashemizadeh; legendary Freda Payne; media mogul Percy "Master P" Miller; talented rapper Romeo Miller and his amazing sister, actress and singer who voices Holly on the Disney Channel animated series Phineas & Ferb Cymphohique Miller; Honorable Mayor of Ontario Paul S. Leon and his lovely wife Cheryl Leon; actress, TV host and fashion model Eva Marcille; Persian singer Andy Madadian.
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A theist has recently made this claim to me online. I have to say this is a new one on me, I have never heard anyone claim that the universe is actually shrinking.
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hey Mr. Wolfeyes,you are joking right?Your one of these trolls aren't you?my own eight year old has taken a big interest in the universe through his school as they covered it and he could tell you that it's still expanding and getting faster as it does so.
I never said I agreed with the theist, I'm simply trying to understand why one would produce such an argument. I personally don't believe him
My apologies,I read your question wrong and jumped to the wrong conclusion.And I usually hate that when other people do it DOH = (
He's been told that science is wrong & bad. Therefore, the Truth must be the exact opposite of whatever science says. Yes, it's a really, really stupid viewpoint. Best just to laugh & point when you hear whargarble like that.
Short answer: the universe is not shrinking, but expanding.
Long answer: it's been theorized that at some point (we are talking possibly trillions of years) the universe will stop expanding and start shrinking, or it will continue growing further apart until all the subatomic particles are so far away from each other that they'll stop moving and everything will freeze, but by then anything similar to life would have been long gone.
At least that's what I understood from some Physics text I read in college.
No, it's expanding. Just google it.
Far from it! The universe is actually expanding at an accelerated rate quicker than had been previously calculated due to the presence of dark matter and dark energy. Any claim against this is pure crap!!
Although it is currently expanding, there is a theory that it's rate of expansion will not continue growing infinitely, but will cease acceleration of it's expansion and actually slow down, or even reverse. I understand that dark matter/energy is the main topic behind the theory, but that's as far into it as I know, and is a little strange considering dark matter/energy is suppose to be what is increasing it's acceleration in the first place.
What is known for certain is that currently it is expanding. Ridiculously.
It is interesting to imagine a civilization born into such darkness, with nothing but their home cluster to know of. What theories they would have in contrast to ours... Very interesting.
The 'collapse' theory was shared to me by my physics professor at the U of MN, but he is a self-declared old coot and I don't think he keeps up well with cosmology. No more than I do, at least. I will have to do some reading, now.
There are some very small pieces of evidence that the universe will shrink... that it wwill expand to a specific point, where mass would overpower the expansion of the universe, and start pulling everything inward, known as the "Big Crunch".
But as of now, no, the universe is expanding, and it's expanding faster and faster. There's way too much proof on the table of that, to say otherwise.


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A 26-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of committing a lewd act on a child in Livermore on Tuesday, police said.
Jesse Schlicker allegedly committed the act while hired at a soccer camp program as a speed and strength coach at the Cabernet Indoor Sports facility at 6474 Patterson Pass Road, police said.
He was booked into county jail on suspicion of committing a lewd act on a child under 14, according to police.
On its website the company's management said they are cooperating with the Livermore Police Department's investigation into Schlicker.
"We take many steps to ensure a safe and secure environment, from the high visibility of every inch of our play areas to screening the people who come in contact with our customers," the company's management said in a statement.
"The coach in question has been suspended pending the outcome of this investigation and formally restrained from the company's premises," according to the statement.


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This site posted an item about how Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was ready for his close-up as chair of the Democratic National Convention. It turns out, he wasn't.
The LA mayor had the most embarrassing moment of the convention, when he approved changes to the party platform after a voice vote that clearly showed less than necessary support for said changes.
So what does this mortifying moment mean for the ambitious mayor, and for California? Here are five thoughts:
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5. The scene will haunt him forever. The vision of Villaraigosa listening to a voice vote that was divided -- and then approving it anyway (albeit after a couple of false starts) -- will be used by every political opponent, and joke writer, for the rest of his political career. It's a deadly scene for a politician to be shown literally ignoring the voice of the people.
4. The mayor may have scored some insider political points. Villaraigosa, in pushing through the changes, took one for the Democratic team. He pushed through changes -- re-inserting God and a statement that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel -- into the platform that the Obama campaign needed for political reasons. Yes, the mayor looked like a fool doing it, but he also earned some credit for being the guy willing to look bad for the needs of the party.
3. Party platforms still have power. This episode -- and the criticism of the Republican platform -- shows that ideas still have meaning and value. This is telling. California elections, like American elections, are framed as a choice between individuals. But we really choose among parties. California's political parties should do more to emphasize their platforms -- and they would be wise to include big proposals for fixing the state governing system.
2. Maybe LA mayors aren't meant to rise to higher office. Villaraigosa has expressed interest in the governorship. But no LA mayor has been elected governor, and Villaraigosa's performance won't help him. Potential competitors like Attorney General Kamala Harris got better reviews.
1. What is it about two-thirds votes tripping up Californians? The platform changes the mayor pushed through required a two-thirds vote. But the voice vote was split. The mayor declared two-thirds anyway.
California, the state Villaraigosa dreams of governing, has had all kinds of problems with supermajorities. Perhaps the mayor could make light of this fiasco and spin it to his advantage -- by poking fun at himself, but also using it to make a full-scale assault against the 2/3 vote requirements (for taxes, for fees, for changing school funding, and for a host of other fiscal rules) that make the state so hard to govern.
It's just the kind of argument that California gubernatorial candidates should be making -- particularly if they want to have more power to govern the state once they win office.
So, Villaraigosa still has time to turn this convention lemon into lemonade.
Lead Prop Zero blogger Joe Mathews is California editor at Zocalo Public Square, a fellow at Arizona State University's Center for Social Cohesion, and co-author of California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It (University of California, 2010).
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Nike Savvas Rally 2014 (detail)
Renowned for her physically immersive and optically dazzling installations, Sydney artist Nike Savvas energises the Gallery's 'main street' with a newly commissioned installation.
Inspired by the vibrant paintings of the post-Impressionists as well as the cheap exuberance of discount plastics and decorations, Rally is a vast billowing field of colour suspended above the Gallery's entrance court. Consisting of more than 60,000 strips of coloured plastic and stretching more than 50 metres through the building, it is one of the largest individual works ever staged at the Art Gallery of NSW.
A rally is a parade or protest that occurs in public space. And 'to rally' is also to come back forcefully from a position of retreat or disadvantage. Walking beneath this new work, viewers join a rally of Savvas's invention, drawn in and swept along by the power of colour in motion.
Commissioned with funds provided by the Art Gallery Society of NSW Contempo Group 2014. Supported by Three Green Promotions.
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Indiana State Police are seeing a surge in gun permit requests amid the national gun-control debate sparked by December's deadly Connecticut school shooting.
The Indianapolis Star reports state police are now seeing up to 4,000 permit requests each week. That's three times the number the agency was handling at the same time last year.
Indiana residents make online gun permit applications to the State Police, but those applications are funneled to local police agencies for inspection, fingerprinting and background checks.
Each of those applications must be reviewed and approved or rejected by the local police chief, town marshal or county sheriff.
In Indianapolis, the city's police department received more than 1,100 applications in December. That's 360 more than the department received in November.


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Growth failure; FTT; Feeding disorder; Poor feeding
Failure to thrive may be caused by medical problems or factors in the child's environment, such as abuse or neglect.
There are many medical causes of failure to thrive. These include:
Factors in the child's environment include:
Many times, the cause cannot be determined.
Failure to thrive refers to children whose current weight or rate of weight gain is much lower than that of other children of similar age and gender.
The health care provider will perform a physical exam and check the child's height, weight, and body shape. Parents will be asked about the child's medical and family history.
A special test called the Denver Developmental Screening Test may be used to show any delays in development. A growth chart outlining all types of growth since birth is created.
The following tests may be done:
Normal growth and development may be affected if a child fails to thrive for a long time.
Normal growth and development may continue if the child has failed to thrive for a short time, and the cause is determined and treated.
Permanent mental, emotional, or physical delays can occur.
Regular checkups can help detect failure to thrive in children.
Children who fail to thrive do not grow and develop normally as compared to children of the same age. They seem to be much smaller or shorter. Teenagers may not have the usual changes that occur at puberty.
Symptoms of failure to thrive include:
The following may be delayed or slow to develop in children who fail to thrive:
Babies who fail to gain weight or develop often lack interest in feeding or have a problem receiving the proper amount of nutrition. This is called poor feeding.
Other symptoms that may be seen in a child that fails to thrive include:
Treatment depends on the cause of the delayed growth and development. Delayed growth due to nutritional problems can be helped by showing the parents how to provide a well-balanced diet.
Do not give your child dietary supplements such as Boost or Ensure without talking to your provider first.
Other treatment depends on how severe the condition is. The following may be recommended:
The child may need to stay in the hospital for a little while.
Treatment may also involve improving the family relationships and living conditions.
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McLean HS, Price DT. Failure to thrive. In: Kliegman RM, Stanton BF, St. Geme JW, Schor NF, eds. Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics. 20th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier; 2016:chap 41.
Turay F, Rudolph JA. Nutrition and gastroenterology. In: Zitelli BJ, McIntire SC, Norwalk AJ, eds. Zitelli and Davis' Atlas of Pediatric Physical Diagnosis. 7th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier; 2018:chap 11.
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text: Show Hide image Welfare 29 April 2011 Back to the fantasy Public hysteria over Kate, Wills and the royal wedding is another kind of crowd madness, writes Will By Will Self Follow @@wself In February 1542, Katherine Howard, Henry VIII's fifth wife, was executed under the terms of speedily concocted legislation that made it a capital offence not only for the Queen to have committed adultery, but for her "handlers" to have concealed that she had had sexual liaisons before her marriage. Henceforth it would be treasonable to keep from the king information concerning any "will, act or condition of lightness of body in her which for the time being shall be queen of this realm". The penalty for said light bodies and those who didn't rat on them was to be the same: death. Half a millennium later, another Kate is getting hitched to an English monarch (albeit one in embryonic form); and while physical death probably wouldn't be Ms Middleton's penalty if it were discovered that she had spent her student days at swingers' clubs swigging back liquid Ecstasy while taking on all comers, she would certainly endure the modern equivalent: death by media. This Kate's head would be digitally severed from her body and pasted on to a billion tabloids, and the sanctity of public opinion would be withdrawn from her - a latter-day excommunication. Sadly, we can be reasonably sure this ain't gonna happen. Ms Middleton's old linen has been thoroughly mediatised already, while MI5 will have gone over all her known associates with the proverbial pubic lice comb. Unlike poor Katherine Howard (or, indeed, her groom's late mother), no one is saying that the soon-to-be Princess of Wales should be virgo intacta, and yet the phrase "a past but no history", has been used approvingly of her. Some may feel that my concentration on the sexual hinterland of the royal bride is a little prurient, but let's get this perfectly straight: this royal wedding, like all other royal weddings that involve the line of succession, is all about sex and nothing else. I say sex but what I really mean is procreation - I say procreation but what I really mean is breeding, although not "breeding" in the sense used by old-fashioned snobs, but breeding as practised selectively by members of the Kennel Club, or, indeed, adherents of a satanic cult that uses a so-called "broodmare" in its rituals. It is difficult in the early 21st century to account for the stands along the Mall, the bunting here, there and every-bloody-where, the memorabilia, the unmemorable blether, and all the other manifestations of hysterical approbation that float around these nuptials in a great cloud of unknowing. Most Britons are pretty clear-sighted folk: they know there's nothing special about members of the royal family in and of themselves; they also understand that, in constitutional terms, the monarchy is a kind of feint, designed to distract us from our gerrymandered electoral dictatorship. William Windsor seems to be a fairly decent young man, especially considering his upbringing; and while Kate Middleton is ostensibly blameworthy - having chosen to get mixed up with this farrago - she, too, is young and probably wouldn't take much deprogramming. Still, I've known crack dealers with a more aristocratic bearing than this heir to the throne, and I've consorted with prostitutes who were almost certainly wittier and smarter - and who indisputably have far better dress sense - than our future queen. I'm sure that so have most of you. How then do we account for this marriage madness? The answer is that, just as with that founding father of serial monogamy, the reginacidal Henry, the British crowd is driven mad by the quest for an heir. And so, at a subconscious level, this perverse exercise in humans being treated as if they were miniature Schnauzers grips a good part of the nation. To themselves, and to anchorwomen from the American TV networks whose visages closely resemble cling film stretched over cold chicken, the royalists will stolidly proclaim the virtues of the couple: their exemplary capability for public service, charity, forbearance, et cetera, et cetera. In fact, they will be unable to view the ceremony except through retinas and camera lenses smeared with royal sperm. Freud viewed the hysteria of his female patients in fin-de-siècle Vienna as the result of suppressed sexual desire - in his memorable coinage, such phantasmagorical symptoms resulted from a failure to achieve "full genitality". The British body politic is similarly afflicted by delusional thinking. Due to a repressive convention that makes the statement "I want a republic" as unutterable for front-bench politicians as "I want to get laid" would have been for Freud's patients a century ago, the entire nation has become unable to achieve what we might term "full constitutionality". And so the people fall prey to voyeurism and other perversions, seeking their jollies in the consummation of the royal couple's union. Following the days of Pearly Spencer and her genuinely adulterous hubbie, the whole miserable syndrome seemed to be fading away. We had the Prince of Biscuits to thank for this, as his egregious exploits helped expose the grotesque chauvinism that lurks beneath all that satin, silk and tulle. I used to deride Chucky as "Prince of Tampons", but I now think there's something rather affecting about his leaked sex talk, and his blatant refusal to do only who was expected of him - by the public, if not the court. Now his son is riding to the rescue and the whole storybook phantasia is under way once more: the queen-to-be is a clotheshorse to be serviced, the institution of monarchy is a honey trap for tourists, and so we carry on sending our armed forces - of which the prince is an exemplary officer - off to impose our ways on the Mad Mullah de nos jours. With lunacy like this abroad in the land, now is not the time to be cutting down funding for mental health services, is it? Will Self is an author and journalist. His books include Umbrella, Shark, The Book of Dave and The Butt. He writes the Madness of Crowds and Real Meals columns for the New Statesman. Subscribe For daily analysis & more political coverage from Westminster and beyond subscribe for just £1 per month! This article appears in the 02 May 2011 issue of the New Statesman, The Firm


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CHANHASSEN, MN -- Life Time Fitness, Chanhassen, MN, had membership growth of 13.6 percent in 2008 compared to 2007, according to preliminary financial results announced today for the fourth quarter and full year ended Dec. 31, 2008. The company also announced preliminary expectations for 2009.
"We were very pleased with this achievement, especially given the current difficult economic environment," Life Time Executive Vice President and CFO Mike Robinson said in today's conference call. He added that Life Time's attrition rate rose in the fourth quarter to just over 42 percent for the year.
The membership growth is expected to drive Life Time's revenue of approximately $192 million to $194 million for fourth quarter 2008, and approximately $768 million to $770 million for the year 2008. In October, Life Time projected its revenue for the year would be between $775 million and $780 million.
Life Time's preliminary revenue guidance for 2009 is between $830 million and $860 million. The guidance assumes revenue growth from ramping centers, as well as new centers the company expects to open in 2009. The guidance also assumes Life Time's attrition rates and membership rates remain at about the same levels as in late 2008.
Life Time opened a center in Berkeley Heights, NJ, on Tuesday and plans to open its Atascocita (Houston), TX, center tonight. The company has seven centers in various stages of construction that it plans to open over the next two years. Life Time expects to spend $150 million to $200 million in capital expenditures in 2009.
Previously, the company announced delays in the construction of clubs in Colorado Springs, CO, and in the Memphis, TN, suburb of Collierville, TN. The publicly traded company had pared down its expansion plans for 2009 from 11 clubs to six because of tight credit markets and a slowing economy. As a result of slowing its expansion efforts and various efficiency initiatives, Life Time laid off about 100 employees late last year.
"Our plan is to closely monitor costs and cash flow and modify the construction schedules accordingly, if needed, to ensure we have adequate liquidity," Robinson said. "We can slow down further or add new sites to our opening mix depending on our cash flow generation and the credit environment."
Robinson added that Life Time had some success raising capital in fourth quarter 2008 through a small equipment leasing line and a small mortgage on a Minnesota center.
Life Time had an increase in more individual memberships compared to couple and family memberships, and saw an impact from new lower-priced dues programs. A "young professionals" membership plan, in which individuals 26 years old and under qualify for up to $20 in lower monthly dues, received the highest acceptance of any of the special plans offered, Robinson said. In the fourth quarter, employees also could refer one friend or family member to join at a reduced enrollment fee and a $20 reduction in monthly dues per member.
This past January, Life Time saw a net membership increase of approximately 20,000 memberships compared to the net 10,000 memberships added in January 2008. The company was ahead of its internal plan on new membership acquisition in January 2009, and attrition was stable compared to the last part of 2008, Robinson said.
"While lower average dues per incremental membership and the resulting lower profitability per incremental membership present some challenges, we fully believe the best long-term strategy is to attract new members to Life Time Fitness," Robinson said. "It is in the best interest of our business to maintain existing membership levels and to ramp new memberships. We expect dues growth and in-center businesses to rebound as the economy improves."
Robinson did not take questions in today's conference call. Life Time will announce its official fourth quarter 2008 and year-end 2008 results in a conference call on Feb. 19, at which time Life Time executives will answer questions from analysts.
Around noon EST today, Life Time's stock price was $12.47 on the New York Stock Exchange.


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Anyone here about a new version of Gplayer coming soon? Being my copies of Giga don't work past installation dates, due to the lack of support for registration, I'm excited about Gplayer.
I've been using the demo for about 3 months grinding it and it's FAR more stable than Giga and sounds just as good. The CPU usage is low which is quite a surprise even with every channel loaded and playing!!! Nice job on programming.
I was talking to Bernard at Soundlib and asking why doesn't he promote Gplayer harder. It's a lower cost alternative to Kontact and sounds perfect.
I'm wondering, if Soundlib could create a better presentation (website) for Gplayer, would other companies re-release their libraries. I know they're out of print, but they can sell them via D/L or begin to reburn discs to ship. Why wouldn't they want to make money except Gplayer may contend with their very own products such as EWSOL or Garritan Personal Orchestra. Still seems like it could give them a small income with little work, after all the libraires are already completed, they just need to resurrect them for sale.


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Registration, etc., records of public libraries to be confidential; right of parents to inspect records.
It is recognized that public library use by an individual should be of confidential nature. Any other provision of general, special or local law, rule or regulation to the contrary notwithstanding, the registration and circulation records and information concerning the use of the public, public school, college and university libraries of this state shall be confidential. Registration and circulation records shall not be open for inspection by, or otherwise available to, any agency or individual except for the following entities: (a) the library which manages the records; (b) the state education department for a library under its jurisdiction when it is necessary to assure the proper operation of such library; or (c) the state Public Library Service for a library under its jurisdiction when it is necessary to assure the proper operations of such library. Aggregate statistics shown from registration and circulation records, with all personal identification removed, may be released or used by a library for research and planning purposes. Provided however, any parent of a minor child shall have the right to inspect the registration and circulation records of any school or public library that pertain to his or her child.


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For as long as I can remember, Brother Troy has had heart trouble. But now, in just the last month, cancer and its treatments make it so he can�t stand behind the pulpit and deliver a full sermon. I heard he sat down halfway through his talk on Easter and that more hymns were sung [...]
For as long as I can remember, Brother Troy has had heart trouble. But now, in just the last month, cancer and its treatments make it so he can�t stand behind the pulpit and deliver a full sermon. I heard he sat down halfway through his talk on Easter and that more hymns were sung than normal.
Of course the small Oklahoma congregation understands. Of course they pray for his strength and comfort. Of course they offer support to the man who has officiated at their children�s weddings and helped them say their earthly goodbyes.
But it feels like there should be something more � some proper way to thank the man who baptized you and then coaxed you to wade deeper, to grow stronger.
In the more than 20 years that I sat under his teaching, I�ve lost count of the times the Baptist preacher told us that the name on the church sign didn�t matter. I don�t care if the sign says Methodist or Lutheran or Pentecostal, he�d say. What matters is that they are preaching the Bible, that they are following God�s teachings.
Then, sometimes in the same sermon, he�d tell us not to just swallow his teachings whole. Don�t just take my word for it. Study it yourselves. Pray about it.
I�ve always liked that about him, how he humbly points to God and to scripture � his true north. And I don�t even have to ask. I know that hasn�t changed in the years since I moved away.
His wife, Sister Betty, still teaches Sunday School. It was there in her classroom where my 7-year-old self fell in love with David and his psalms. Where I saw a re-enactment of Daniel in the lions� den on an old-fashioned flannel board. Where I memorized most of the scriptures that guide me today.
All those lessons. All those sermons. They�ve mattered in my life and in the lives of countless others. I�m in awe when I think about the influence of two faithful people in a tiny little town, and I�m struck by the far-reaching ripples of all people in ministry � be that behind a pulpit, in a classroom or mowing the lawn for a neighbor.
Thank you, Brother Troy. And you, too, Sister Betty. Thank you, all who teach us about God�s love.
Dearest readers, Brother Troy went to be with his Heavenly Father today. Many are mourning his passing. Will you join me in praying for them? �
No one preached a finer funeral than Brother Troy. There was just something indescribable about how he shared God's love with those who were hurting. I'll never forget what he said at Daddy's funeral. He talked about faith, hope and love. He said faith and hope are realized in heaven, completed if you will, but love continues. There is no end, no death for love.
Much love to you, Brother Troy, and welcome home.


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Big wrecks: Should interstate detours get traffic cops?
UVA football games, Charlottesville running races, and even the recent Dogwood Festival get the benefit of police officers directing traffic. So why didn't the massive tie-up that snarled Pantops for several hours on Tuesday, April 12?
That's what Tayloe Emery wants to know.
The Virginia man was trying to get to downtown Charlottesville, but his path was blocked by an Interstate 64 wreck that sent a tractor trailer sprawling across both westbound lanes and created a 10-mile-long backup behind mile marker 123.
"There's not a single cop directing traffic," said miffed motorist, reporting two hours spent creeping from the area of Zion Crossroads to the top of Pantops Mountain.
"Don't you think it would be smart," asked Emery, "to have people pushing traffic instead of moving an inch an hour? The cop could be waving people through."
Emery says that as he crept along U.S. 250 east of Free Bridge he called the police departments of both Albemarle and Charlottesville and says he was told that manpower issues prevented officers from supplanting traffic lights.
Virginia Department of Transportation spokesperson Lou Hatter was asked if VDOT has a game plan to deploy traffic directors in the wake of an interstate-snarling crash.
"We do what we can to minimize the impacts," says Hatter, mentioning media releases, illuminated roadside message boards, and the state's 511.org website which duly noted this incident.
But as for a more intensive boots-on-the-ground (and hands-in-the-air) program, Hatter said, "I'm not aware of that, but that's a suggestion I'll pass along to the traffic operations group."
According to state releases, the incident began around 7:58am at mile marker 123 when a tire blew out on a Toyota Tundra pickup truck which swerved to its right and struck a nearby tractor-trailer which then jackknifed across both westbound lanes, leading to minor injuries for the truck-driver.
The Toyota's driver, William Agusto, 31, of North Carolina, and his passenger were not injured in the crash; but Agusto was charged with driving without a license and with reckless driving.
The fuel tank on the tractor-trailer reportedly ruptured in the collision, so there was a spill that needed to be cleaned up before the highway could be reopened. One westbound lane was opened around 11:50am, and the other around 12:30pm.
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Cops cost money. You can't keep "starving the beast" of government and then demand that government be there to help you as soon as you face some adversity.
Welcome to the 21st century.
Fuel tank ruptured requiring clean-up. Another reason not to build the earthen dam, The height of this dam at Ragged Mt. will create a reservoir that goes under I64. Does anyone think that is a good idea ? If we have a toxic spill into that new reservoir we will have more problems than a traffic tie-up to worry about.
There is no shortage of manpower when cops are off duty and being paid overtime.
I prefer to see as few cops around crashes as possible..... after dark. The blue lights have gotten so bright with modern technology that it causes more problems than it solves. The blue lights are just one step short of totally blinding motorists coming upon a crash site.
This is also why so many cop shoppe cars are being rear ended nationwide. And yet the cop shopped can't figure out why the significant increase in cops shoppe cars getting hit.
Another diesel spill today on 81 near Staunton with hazmat called in --2 toxic spills in our area in one day . How crazy is it to run, what will be our only drinking water supply reservoir, under an interstate ?
from chn29's web-site
"The truck overturned and plunged down a steep embankment in the median. .... Hazmat crews had to clean up spilled diesel fuel. "
The photograph of the traffic above was taken in Singapore. What does a road in Singapore have to do with a traffic jam in Charlottesville? You should, at the very least, get the traffic heading in the American direction when you borrow a photograph.
Use your imagination - traffic is traffic is traffic . One thing we all have in common no matter where we live.
Well, NancyDrew (ND), since I learned to read I have used my imagination. But when it comes to the media, I look for truth in verbiage and images. And when a reporter is too lazy to get a local picture, then I have to question their verbiage. Is this what the local community wants the Hook to use: foreign pictures to represent local news? Now all photographs by the Hook are questionable and not necessarily true reporting. Can you imagine that ND?
I expect this post to get deleted by a lazy reporter....
They had plenty of cops to direct traffic. Take the cops out running radar, writing tickets to soccer moms on the way to ACAC personal training sessions, and going to "swinger" parties on duty and you could have had the whole dayshift of the ACPD available. I see them all the time sitting in parking lots talking to young females. I guess they are giving "crime prevention" tips. Yeah, I am jealous...
or they are at Chipotle
They get half price at Chipolte, can you blame them?? Chipolte gets a bargain 4 cops at all times hanging out whining about how hard they work, their child support, and getting screwed out of a raise again by the county, stuffing their faces, for basically nothing but 60 cents worth of tortilla shell and filling. Better security than any bank I have seen. I guess they are protecting them from "ICE".
I haven't seen a large group of city and county cop shoppe cars at Chipolte's for a long time now. Perhaps the chiefs finally realized how unprofessional it looked to have 4 to 10 cop shoppe cars sitting out front at the same time and put an end to their little mid-shift get-togethers.
Chik-fil-a beside Lowes on Route 29 must be giving out free or half price food now too. Not long ago there were 4 city cop shoppe cars and 4 county cop shoppe cars there all at the same time. It looked like a cop shoppe sub-station. The couple in the booth behind me were discussing how so many cops could meet at the same time and sit in a restaurant for an hour or longer.
I used to only stop at restaurants where I saw truckers and cop cars, cause I knew it was good and cheap. The ones that do half price for cops throw this system off though, because you could serve dog food and cops would eat it if it was half-price. Truckers though always know the best places to eat.
"The fuel tank on the tractor-trailer reportedly ruptured in the collision, so there was a spill that needed to be cleaned up before the highway could be reopened"
Now imagine that it was fuel tanker truck trailer that crashed a few miles west above an expanded Ragged Mtn. Reservoir.
If you don't think there is already fuel contamination in your water supply go to the car wash and watch people changing their oil in the car wash bays, by letting the old oil drain down the grate. I didn't think there was anything wrong with doing it that way, until my neighbor explained to me the whole groundwater system and what not. It kinda made sense. I had no idea where all that stuff I dumped down the storm drain went. Now I save it up, and take it to the Ivy Dump, where they recycle it or something like that.
This is hilarious! Cop must have been late getting to Chipolte's to meet the other guys!
The cop uses hisstate issued tools to deal with the problem. :)
No lie, I was at Chipolte at Barrack's road tonight. There were four ACPD cop cars and four cops there. Makes it hard to justify their argument that they need to hire more cops. People were laughing about all the cop cars in the parking lot. That new chief needs to get him some real sergeant's who can motivate these officers. I can't think of a police department anywhere that would tolerate four officers congregating at the same place. Especially, out of your jurisdiction.
What time of night was it? They must be coming in after the UVA students thin out later in the evening. There's long lines of people waiting to order food once the UVA students start rolling in around 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Sellers is just another pretty face, don't expect any changes at the county cop shoppe.
Some of the comments above have gotton off of the topic of the accident itself. So, as a person waiting in traffic for almost two hours to get to work on that faithful day, here are my thoughts about the accident and the comments in the article:
I quote the article above: Virginia Department of Transportation spokesperson Lou Hatter was asked if VDOT has a game plan to deploy traffic directors in the wake of an interstate-snarling crash. "We do what we can to minimize the impacts," says Hatter, mentioning media releases, illuminated roadside message boards, and the state's 511.org website which duly noted this incident.
Excuse me Mr. Hatter but none of the above was of any help to me on that faithful morning. First of all, while getting ready to leave for work, our electricity went out, so the media releases and the state's 511.org website is useless with no electricity! I live in Fluvanna County and use I-64 at Keswick/Boyds Tavern and there were no roadside message boards posted, nor are they ever any permanent ones posted, along Route 250 or before you head onto I-64 heading west towards Charlottesville or east back to Fluvanna. The same goes for the Zions Crossroads I-64 exit. After this fiasco, they should consider adding the message boards in these high traffic areas on a permanent basis like they do on I-64 West near the Crozet exchange. If I would have known ahead of time I would have kept going on Route 250 West rather than turning off onto I-64 at Boyds Tavern, which is normally quicker. The only roadside sign I saw on I-64 which was about a half of a mile before the traffic started backing up then I heard about the accident on a local radio station but by then I was stuck in traffic and couldn't turn around. May be VDOT should purchase its own radio station that reports on road conditions in the Charlottesville area, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. If the bridge on Route 250 at Shadwell would have been closed, which was originally planned by VDOT but a decision was delayed, in order to replace it, the traffic back ups would have been much worse on I-64, probably backed up past Boyds Tavern and Zions Crossroads exchanges. When an accident of this magnitude happens there aren't many other alternative routes for those that live east of Charlottesville. Route 250 and a couple of back roads which lead to Route 250 is all we have.
Troy Resident, I think it would be much cheaper for the taxpayers if VDOT simply recorded your address and phone number, and then provide you a personal shuttle service in one of their vehicles whenever a nearby road is closed for whatever reason.
I can also suggest you stay out of Charlottesville and Albemarle County if closed roads cause you so much distress. The cop shoppes, fire departments, and rescue squads seem to take pleasure in totally blocking roads or closing roads for hours at accident scenes lately. I can't say I blame them too much, they will get run over if they don't. Why will they get run over you may ask? Because most everybody is in such a hurry to get wherever they are going now. My wife and a dozen other fellow employees of hers were detained in this I-64 closure the other day. They weren't whining and complaining though. They were expressing interest in exactly what happened, and they were hoping nobody had been seriously injured.
The moral of this story.... have some interest in your fellow man and don't concentrate so much on the inconvenience you encountered in getting to work a few minutes late.
Close the donut shops and maybe someone would be available to work traffic.


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The first step to getting back into the groove was to organize and inventory the bento supplies.
Wow, that was easier than I thought. I have a ton more shit than I thought I did.
Okay, next step was to pack lunches that my starving children will actually eat. I say 'starving' because that is what they choose to do. Starve themselves and force me to throw away literally tons of organic delicious food every single year.
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For shame deny that thou bear'st love to any,
Who for thy self art so unprovident.
Grant, if thou wilt, thou art beloved of many,
But that thou none lov'st is most evident:
For thou art so possessed with murderous hate,
That 'gainst thy self thou stick'st not to conspire,
Seeking that beauteous roof to ruinate
Which to repair should be thy chief desire.
O! change thy thought, that I may change my mind:
Shall hate be fairer lodged than gentle love?
Be, as thy presence is, gracious and kind,
Or to thyself at least kind-hearted prove:
Make thee another self for love of me,
That beauty still may live in thine or thee.
Sonnet 10: Translation to modern English
Out of a sense of shame you, who are so unwilling to provide for the future, should admit that you don't love anyone. I grant you, if you like, that you are loved by many, but it's very clear that you don't love anyone; because, being someone who doesn't hesitate to conspire against himself, you are determined to murder your potential progeny. You are prepared to end your noble line, which it should be your main concern to maintain. Oh! Change your mind, so that I can change my opinion of you. Do you, the most beautiful creature, want to be the house where hate lives? Be as gracious and generous to your relatives as you are to everyone else, or at least be generous to yourself. Change your mind for my sake so that you will be a noble person and that your beauty will live on in your descendants.


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Seven whole years ago I wrote about re-reading [corrected – getting old and forgetful not
William Gibson's it was] Douglas Coupland's Microserfs and how it compared to his then new book JPod. And how they both reflected the IT world at their time. Speculative fiction always says more about the time they are written than the future they predict.
I have just read 'The Circle' by Dave Eggers which in many ways is a similar book for our social media, big brother monitored age. I will leave it to you to decide if it a utopian or dystopia but it is well worth a read


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This article is Day #26 in a series called 31 Days of Windows 8. Each of the articles in this series will be published for both HTML5/JS and XAML/C#. You can find additional resources, downloads, and source code on our website.
As a kid I was always amazed at a gyroscope. I would find anything I could to balance that thing on. I always though physics was very interesting but like anything if you don't constantly use it, you start to forget bit's and pieces of it. As we've seen over the past few days, the machines of today have started to become an interesting physics experiment. Rather than just some toy of days past we can leverage these sensors to accomplish some very interesting features.
Today, we are taking a look at yet another sensor that we might find in a Windows 8 device: the gyrometer. The gyrometer measures the angular velocity or rotational motion. The gyrometer can easily compliment the accelerometer to create one very advanced game controller. When used together, the accelerometer measuring the linear motion and the gyrometer measuring the rotational force, you can make things like a pretty wicked game controller.
Working with the gyrometer is the same as working with our other sensors. Just a few simple steps and we're getting data:
- Initialize the Sensor.
- If it's available,
Here's my the entirety of my code and it looks scary similar to that of the other sensors.
var _x, _y, _z; function onReadingChanged(e) { _x.innerText = e.reading.angularVelocityX.toFixed(2); _y.innerText = e.reading.angularVelocityY.toFixed(2); _z.innerText = e.reading.angularVelocityZ.toFixed(2); } function onShaken(e) { _wasShaken.innerText = e.timestamp; } function getDomElements() { _x = document.querySelector("#x"); _y = document.querySelector("#y"); _z = document.querySelector("#z"); } function startAccelerometer() { var gyro = Windows.Devices.Sensors.Gyrometer.getDefault() if (gyro) { var minimumReportInterval = gyro.minimumReportInterval; var reportInterval = minimumReportInterval > 16 ? minimumReportInterval : 25; gyro.reportInterval = reportInterval; gyro.addEventListener("readingchanged", onReadingChanged); } }
Once again, no real surprises here. We get to our data in the same basic was as we did with the other sensors. The real magic is your software that leverages the data it's measuring.
Today we briefly looked at getting data from our gyrometer. Working with each of these sensors is pretty much the same but what you do with them is entirely up to you.
If you'd like to download my working sample that uses the code from this article, click the icon below:
Tomorrow, we're going to look at the Inclinometer. See you then!