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Crews have restored power to about 1,800 We Energies customers in the Shorewood area who were in the dark for part of Saturday afternoon, according to a company spokeswoman.
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Jose's Blue Sombrero has its sights on a new restaurant in Fox Point, at 8617 N. Port Washington Road.
The village's Plan Commission will take up the request next week by the DeRosa Corp. to open the Mexican restaurant.
The building once housed an Outback Steakhouse, which closed several years ago. It would require extensive remodeling inside and out, said George Flees, who would open the restaurant for the group and who is the general manager at DeRosa's ParkSide 23 in Brookfield.
Owner Joe DeRosa said the restaurant would have a patio and a garden in summer that would supply tomatoes, chiles and other ingredients for salsa.
It would be the third such restaurant by the DeRosa Corp.; the others are at 20371 W. Blue Mound Road in Brookfield and 6430 Washington Ave., Racine. Besides ParkSide 23, the group also operates Eddie Martini's in Wauwatosa and several Chancery restaurants in the metro area.
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Whitefish Bay junior forward Joe Sherburne has said that he "Hasn't hit a three-pointer at home all season."
Well, if so, he made amends for it a good time on Friday night, as in the battle for second place in the North Shore Conference against rival Homestead, he bombed in five trifectas in the third quarter to head off a Highlander rally and lead the Blue Dukes to a 70-60 victory.
"I've been in something of a slump for awhile now," said Sherburne, "but something just clicked tonight."
Sherburne finished with a game-high 28 points as the Blue Dukes improved to 6-1 in North Shore play and 10-3 overall while Homestead fell to 5-2 and 9-6, respectively.
Bay senior guard Kelin Johnson, who finished with 21 points, including a critical 10-point outburst in the second quarter that helped put the Blue Dukes ahead for good, thinks that Sherburne is being much too modest.» Read Full Article
Lipscomb to run unopposed for North Shore court judgeship
Current Glendale Municipal Court Judge Christopher Lipscomb will run unopposed for North Shore Municipal Court Judge, a position created by the recent consolidation of the Glendale and Brown Deer municipal courts.
Brown Deer Municipal Court Judge David Victor filed for non-candidacy. Lipscomb can be reached at (414) 276-5763.
Officials expect each municipality to contribute its current judge's salary toward the new position, $8,000 annually from Brown Deer and $14,000 annually from Glendale throughout the three-year term.
Shorewood Village, School boards contested come April
The Shorewood Village Board has three candidates running for two open seats. Longtime trustee Ellen Eckman will not seek re-election in the April election.
Below are the candidates for Village Board:
Patrick Linnane (i), (414) 331-9294;
Paul Zovic, (414) 962-7388;
and Tammy Bockhorst, (414) 967-1972.» Read Full Article
River Hills Village Board race uncontested
Two River Hills trustees will run unopposed for re-election in April.
R. David Fritz, (414) 467-5017, and J. Stephen Anderson (414) 351-3512 are running for re-election to the board.
Trustees serve three-year, unpaid terms.
Brown Deer Village, School Board races contested
Eight Brown Deer residents are seeking to serve their community on the Village Board and School Board.
Village president Carl Krueger will run unopposed for his seat, and three others will run for two available seats on the Village Board:
Carl Krueger, incumbent village president, (414) 536-5225;
Jeff Baker (i), (414) 355-7119;
Gary Springman (i), (414) 354-4062;» Read Full Article
Mequon to have primary for alderman seat
The city of Mequon will have a primary election in February for the 4th District alderman seat.
Three challengers are running for the position. Alderman John Wirth, who represented the 4th District, declared his noncandidacy.
Newcomers Cherry Lange, Jeff Hansher and John Leszczynski will face off Feb. 19. The top two vote-getters will move on to the April election.
Mayor Curt Gielow is opposed by the current 1st District Alderman Dan Abendroth. Gielow has served as mayor since 2010. He served as the 6th District alderman in Mequon from 1997 to 2003 before serving as a state representative in the 23rd Assembly District.
Abendroth served as alderman of the 1st District for two and a half decades. Through his time on the council, he has served four terms as council president.» Read Full Article
Four vie for two seats on Bayside Village Board
Bayside Village Board incumbents Eido Walny and Michael Barth face two challengers in the spring election.
The top two vote-getters out of the four candidates will be elected. Former Nicolet School Board member Kelly Herda and newcomer Tom Noble are running against Walny and Barth in the April 2 election. Walny has served as a trustee since 2008. Barth was first elected in 2003.
Trustees serve three-year terms and earn $1,200 annually.
One of four Nicolet-area races contested
Among the Nicolet School District and its three feeders, only the Fox Point-Bayside School District will have a contested race come April.
Here are the candidates who will vie for the two open seats currently held by Fox Point-Bayside School Board President Michael Weiss and board member Eliz Greene, who have both filed for non-candidacy:
Elizabeth Wick (414) 446-5953
Michael Weidner (414) 659-3588
David Smulyan (414) 247-1679» Read Full Article
Three to run unopposed for Glendale Common Council seats
Three men will run unopposed in spring for the three seats up for election on the Glendale Common Council.
District 3 Alderman Elliott Moeser decided not to run in April. Administrative Law Judge for the state of Wisconsin John Gelhard is running for this position.
Gelhard, 50, has served on the board of directors for the Wisconsin State Attorneys Association since 2005 and also served on the board of directors for the Racine Theatre Guild.
District 1 Alderman Robert Whitaker is running once more. He has served as an alderman since 1997. District 5 Alderman Izzy Goldberg is also running. Goldberg has served as alderman for nine years.
Council members serve two-year terms and earn $2,700 a year.
Primary upcoming in Whitefish Bay village race
With five candidates declared and two village board seats available in the upcoming spring election, Whitefish Bay will need to hold a primary Feb. 19 to whittle the field down to four.
Here are the declared candidates:
Jay W. Miller (i) (414) 232-7087
Robert C. Crawford (414) 332-2229
Kenneth A. Wysocky (414) 962-6202» Read Full Article
Three run for two seats open on Fox Point Village Board
Filing officially closed Wednesday and three candidates will vie for the two open seats on the Fox Point Village Board come spring.
Incumbents Douglas Frazer and Eric Fonstad are running for re-election against Fox Point resident Terry McGauran. The top two vote-getters will be elected.
The election is slated for April 2.
Trustees serve three-year terms and are not paid.
Woman stabbed this morning in Brown Deer
A Brown Deer woman was taken to a local hospital this morning after being stabbed, according to a police news release.
From the release:
Brown Deer police were called to 4475 W. Dean Road around 8:16 a.m. Jan. 2 because of a noise complaint about yelling.
While officers were en route the call was changed to a rescue call for a person who had passed out. Arriving officers found a female victim who had been stabbed multiple times and soon arrested a 22 year-old male suspect, a resident of Milwaukee who knows the victim.
The victim was taken to a local hospital for treatment. Police are investigating the circumstances of the stabbing.
Mequon bank robbed
The Associated Bank 10509 N. Port Washington Rd. in Mequon was robbed shortly before 1 p.m., Monday, police said.
A vehicle believed to be used in the robbery was located in Milwaukee shortly after 1 p.m. and police are asking anyone with information on the crime to call them at (262) 242-3500.
Social media users remember Jennifer Sebena
Wauwatosa Police Officer Jennifer Sebena was remembered on Saturday at her funeral at Elmbrook Church.
But community members, law enforcement officials and other people didn't stop then. They continued to offer remembrances on Twitter, Facebook and other social media channels. Read the social media story.


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February 18, 2010, 01:50:28 PM »
In the Hardware thread, "is my shaevaplug dead",
, there are two or maybe three users who appear to have a broken sheevaplug internal mains to 5V power supply unit.
The common theme in these faults appears to be connecting and running an external USB 2.5in disk drive that is drawing it's 5V supply via the sheevaplug's USB connecter.
Looking at the pictures of one of the blow ups, it appears that C1, a 6.8ufd 400v electrolytic capacitor dumped its electrolyte into the supply. This capacitor is connected across the o/p of the full wave bridge rectifier (4 diodes) that rectifies the incoming ac mains voltage.
Now a digression on electrolytic capacitors. (Wikipedia has a full explanation for enquiring minds)
In the theoretical world, a capacitor consists of two plates and an 100% insulating dialectric. In the real world, the dialectric has a dc leakage resistance and an ac leakage impedance. This impedance is composed of a reactive and resistive component. The in phase resistive component is called the "Equivalent Series Resistance" (ESR).
The ac component in the current flowing in the capacitor, is caused by the ripple on the dc current. If the capacitor is drawing a CONSTANT current, there is only the ripple current is the charging part of the cycle when the mains bridge conducts and charges the capacitor, and the constant load discharges it to the mean value. However if the output of the capacitor is connected to a rapidly changing load, then the ripple can assume a large percentage of the total supplied current.
The ripple current is converted to heat (Irip^2 x ESR = watts) and this causes the electrolyte to heat. When the electrolyte heats the ESR increases and the capacitor can go into thermal runaway. To stop the capacitor exploding violently the top of the capacitor is scribed in a cross, as a deliberate weak point. Capacitors that are on the way to self distruction sometimes bulge the flat end out into a dome instead of a flat before they vent.
To prevent this, capacitors that are going to be used in a power supply or high ripple environment ( audio amps etc), are normally carefully chosen for a low ESR and a high nominal operating temperature.
There are also stories that many manufacturers used a "magic" formula from another manufacturer and got it wrong, and made the ESR problem worse. PC motherboards have suffered from electrolytic cap failure for several years, and if you Google for motherboard cpacitors you will find dozens of sites talking about it and the replacement caps procedure.
Returning to the Sheevaplug power supply.
I was worried about these failures so I stripped the power supply out of my sheeva plug and had a look at the manufacturer and type of capacitor used. I found the two main electrolytics were Chinese in origin, Yalecon RX 400V, 105 deg C devices. I searched vainly for a proper specification for these capacitors. All I found was a one line buying spec from one of the Chinese sales factors. The capacitors are manufactured by Gagaku Yiyang Electronics Co,and have the following characteristics (Example RX only):-
Brand Domestic Model RX
Dielectric Aluminum Applications Filter
Profile Cylindrical Power characteristics Power
Frequency HF Adjusting Fix
Lead Type In the same direction pinout Tolerance ± 20 (%)
Withstand voltage 500 (V) Nominal Capacity 68UF
Loss 5.0
The USB V 2.0 spec defines that the host shall supply up to 0.5A at 5V per port.
A typical 2.5in 500GB hard disk drive spec, my Samsung HM500L1 states the power consumption is:-
Power Requirements:
- Voltage: +5V+/-5%
- Spin-up Current (Max.): 1000 mA
- Seek (typical): 2.6 W
- Read/Write (typical): 2.3 W
- Low Power Idle(typical): 0.6 W
- Standby(typical): 0.25 W
- Sleep(typical): 0.2 W
So on idle its using 0.6W = 0.12A, but when seeking it uses 2.6W or 0.52 A
Depending on HOW MUCH FILTERING is in the external enclosure, the drive is going to create some or a lot of ac ripple in the Sheevaplug 5V supply.
This is ignoring the ripple of the sheevaplug SOC's own current consumption variations
The other problem is that the capacitors are "domestic" rated at 105 deg C max. There are higher quality devices on the market rated at 130 deg C.
I have NO knowledge what the internal operating temperature of the Sheevaplug power supply is when it is drawing a heavy load.
Also I have NO idea what the design output current for the Sheevaplug power supply is.
Therefore I would recommend that you power your USB hard drive enclosures from a separate +5v wall wart or brick
If you don't know the normal HV safety rules then you should not be into a mains switcher!
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February 18, 2010, 04:10:17 PM »
An interesting and informative post, superpat. Thanks.
The 1000ma spin-up current you mention as typical is outside of the limits for USB2.0 supplied power, but I don't doubt many of the USB-powered hard drives want more amps than what is called for in the USB specs. Mine offers an "optional" (not supplied) USB cord that plugs from the drive into two USB ports, apparently to resolve the case where one port is not be able to provide sufficient power.
I suspect your assessment is probably correct -- that the Plug's power supply is not designed for the load required by an external USB powered drive. Unfortunately, there is probably no circuit in the Plug to limit the power provided to the USB port. I use a powered hub with mine, and so far it has worked well. (I'm actually running two USB powered drives from it as I type this.)
Unfortunately, at the current juncture, it appears that USB-powered hard drives are a catch-22: I know of no one who has been successful at reliably booting from a HD attached to the Plug through a hub, and if you attach a USB-powered drive directly, the Plug will be providing the power. That's one of the reasons I've elected to stay with an SDcard for my Plug's root FS.
Perhaps the eSATA port offered on one of the next generation of Plugs, the GuruPlug Server Plus, will offer a solution to these problems, although with 2 or 3 separate USB ports now brought out, if they haven't beefed up their power supply, I suspect it will make such PS failures even more prevalent.
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February 19, 2010, 03:40:20 AM »
I don't think an occasional spinup 1000 ma is going to be a problem.
I think the problem is constantly varying dc load plus maybe a high overall current requirement and finally perhaps elevated temperature in the unvented metal ps enclosure in the Sheevaplug base.
The ripple current varies as the dc load on the power supply. During the conducting period of the bridge rectifier, the cap is charged up, and the bridge rect supplies BOTH the charge current and the current for the dc load. During the "off" period of the bridge rectifier, the cap has to provide the dc power for the load, as the charge is used in the cap the voltage across the cap decreases. On the next conducting period of the bridge the cap recharges. Obviously the greater the current drawn, the more "ripple" current is generated.
I will dig out a couple of 10w 0.1 ohm resistors from my parts box, and wire them into the 5v output and do some 'scope measurements of the current amplitude and waveforms. I will also try to measure the operating temperature inside the power supply case, if I can get my remote temp probe into it.
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February 19, 2010, 11:42:02 PM »
Hi superpat,
FWIW, I agree with you on the spin-up current; mainly I'm just surprised a drive would exceed the USB2 power specs by that amount. I think, technically, all USB devices need to come up in a low-power mode and then negotiate with the USB2 controller before attemping to draw more than 100ma. The controller can always shut a device down if it exceeds 100ma, or 500ma if it has negotiated a high-power profile, but practically I suspect that most, including the Plug, don't do so; they just attempt to supply the necessary power to the load. (I do wonder what such a load, even for a relatively short duration, does to the voltage supplied to the processor, though.)
I also agree with you that most capacitor failures are due to either
Capacitor Plague
or not paying attention to ESR issues in the design. I've brought several computers and monitors back to life by replacing the obviously bulged caps. Someone did post a picture of their PS recently with some gunk covering several components. It was unclear if the gunk was simply excessive glue that was dribbled over the components during the manufacturing process or the remnants of an exploded capacitor. If the former, it appeared that it had been subjected to a lot of heat. If the latter, it appeared to be from a component above the PS board, and not one of the PS components itself.
In any event, based on what I've seen here and elsewhere, I've come to consider the Plug's PS a relatively delicate component, and have personally taken some pains not to subject it to excessive current demand. I look forward to hearing what you find, both thermally and electrically, when you stress-test your Plug's PS.
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February 20, 2010, 03:04:45 AM »
I'm also very interested in the smoke test results. Thanks for volunteering to do all the dirty work!
I've had a few switching power supply failures due to bulging or venting capacitors myself, the last one being an NSLU2 power supply. It's usually easy to put in a new capacitor with better ESR ratings and the power supply will work again. Just keep in mind superpats warnings about the high voltages in switching power supplies! Given the relatively low price of those caps, it makes me wonder why manufacturers are so cheap about them...
BTW, you can usually connect a power supply directly to the USB disk enclosure so you can apply separate power to the HD without having to use a hub.
BTW2, unless you mercilessly overload the PS to the point of explosively venting capacitors, a typical failure pattern will be that the capacitor doesn't stop working right away; instead, it will slowly lose capacity. This process will accelerate as the electrolyte degrades and by the time you notice something, you probably have only a few days left. One of the things you may notice is that the HD doesn't spin up anymore, trying again and again and generating clicking noises as it does so. But even if you disconnect the HD now, the capacitor is doomed and even a normal plug power load will destroy it in a few hours or days. I had the exact same thing happening on a NSLU2 and ended up powering the NSLU2 by plugging a power supply into the HD enclosure (the NSLU2 can actually be powered by the USB port -- not sure if this is the same with the plug
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Quote from: restamp on February 19, 2010, 11:42:02 PM
mainly I'm just surprised a drive would exceed the USB2 power specs by that amount.
A lot (most?) bus-powered USB drive comes with 2 USB connectors precisely because 1 can't drive them if it runs exactly to teh max power spec (but many ports run over spec for power).
Certainly, plugging in my external USB drive (which has 2 SUB connectors, but runs OK off one when connected to a desktop or laptop) causes my Plug to become unusable (but the port is driving a Wifi dongle too, so perhaps that's not too surprising).
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February 25, 2010, 01:33:01 PM »
If your power supply dies, would it be possible to power the plug off a USB wall wart? It looks like the power supply drops the house 110v down to +5v, .5a, right?
I was thinking you could strip the wires on a usb and the wires from the connect point on the Plug board and solder them together....
Wishful thinking?
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February 27, 2010, 12:41:15 PM »
Quote from: digitlman on February 25, 2010, 01:33:01 PM
If your power supply dies, would it be possible to power the plug off a USB wall wart? It looks like the power supply drops the house 110v down to +5v, .5a, right?
I was thinking you could strip the wires on a usb and the wires from the connect point on the Plug board and solder them together....
I don't think that is going to work properly. The plug takes around 5W in normal use. That means you need at least 5V/1A. That's what most usb wall warts are.
But at full usage the plug can draw up to 2A and then you are going to be in trouble.
The inside power supply is good for 3 or 4A. If you find a power supply 5V/3A or so you can do it.
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Re: SheevaPlug USB Power Supply problems. Can it Drive a USB Ext Disk?
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I just found out that the WD Scorpio Blue have a Reduced Power Spinup setting that might help: peak power goes from 900mA to 850 (which is not a lot :-p) but the duration that peak power is required goes from 800ms to 125. Spinup time increases from 4.5s to 5.05. My guess is that does help for startup problems, and very little inconvenience. A dual USB cable still sound prudent, though.
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Thanks guys for all the info. Especially the last post with the info about WD scorpio blue spin-up options. Very useful!
My setup is like this : the plug, Debian OS on 8gb flash drive + attached 2.5 inch usb hard drive (500gb WDC). I bought it in Nov 2009 and running torrent box (transmissiond) 24h/7.
Here's my story:
-Noticed strange sounds coming from the HD about 2 months ago. Like others suspected the disk is becoming instable. (wrong!)
-This went on for a few weeks, sometimes with no noise. Absolutely no r/w problems with the disk.
-Then, last week disk has read problems. Ok, I thought, the disk is ready for RMA. But to my surprise everything was readable on a Win7 box. (I made a full backup just in case)
-I googled and found this forum with all the folks posting their similar experience. (Power of the web)
-Opened the sheevaplug and found the PSU intact (no cap has blown), but close: One of the caps was bulging!!
-Went down to an electronic hw store and got the 5V 2A Delta Electronics PSU. This is now external and working very well with my setup.
Anyway, what I like to say is,
find an external PSU and don't support this crappy company called Globalscale Tech.!
First, the sell you a shitty PSU inside the plug, then they make you pay for another 10usd for a spare PSU (who knows when you will get this and how long it will work with your existing plug).
Customer is supposed to be king! This company doesn't give a damn about you and keeps you guessing whats going on for weeks (when I placed my order).
I got my Delta Electronics (this is a very reputable manufacturer) PSU for less than 5usd!
For me one thing is clear:
I'll never deal with those guys (Globalscale Tech) again.
Have fun plugging!
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The better solution for an external pwr supply is to use small 5v switcher type wall wart. These days even the usb types for many of the newer phones have rating of about 1 to 2 amp. Many of these supplies seems to last for ever, compared to the ad hoc designs some companies do specifically for the Plug etc. You need to buy one designed by a pwr supply specialist.
To handle the peak load fluctuations mentioned in a couple of posts below, one simple way is to put 4 AA NiMh rechargeable cells right across the power supply output. The newer ones have 2500mAHr capacity, so they would provide 5+ A for short durations, and also will serve as a good short term power backup for upto 30 minutes plus easily. BTW, 98+ % of power outages last less than 5 minutes in most places in the USA. At the typicall <5.5v DC, 4 cells will never be over charged. You can buy 4 for <$6 these days.
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Well, there have been reports that the Sheeva plug has been having constant issues regarding broken internals and I think much of that could be because of connecting and the running of external USB drives which tend to be interfering with the 5v supply! So since the root cause of the error is the USB drive, I dont think it can drive a USB external disk!
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Quote from: swaery on February 09, 2011, 01:35:58 AM
Well, there have been reports that the Sheeva plug has been having constant issues regarding broken internals and I think much of that could be because of connecting and the running of external USB drives which tend to be interfering with the 5v supply! So since the root cause of the error is the USB drive, I dont think it can drive a USB external disk!
That's true. A USB fix would be the best solution ..
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Actually, from the reports in this forum, the problem occurred mainly with one or the other of two conditions:
Using an unpowered USB device
Running on 240V mains power.
So, it was not only the USB drive that caused the problem.
Most of the reports seem to be associated with the early power supplies. GlobalScale reported that they got a new supplier for that part (who can say if that is actually true? I think the "research" is ongoing.)
In another thread, there was an estimate that using a 5V PSU, switchable up to 2.5 to 3.0 Amps, would be enough to handle a disk without over-taxing the power supply.
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Actually, like most ethnic jokes, I find that Aggies have the best Aggie jokes.Note that that's Texas Aggies, not some inferior imitation Aggie from other states.
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Rhythmbox is good but not as compare to Clementine or Amarok music player.. Though Amarok is KDE app but works well even on GNOME.. Clementine is also very fine tuned music player give a try
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A gun rampage that left 27 people dead, including 20 children in a Connecticut elementary school, has plunged this state's first-term governor, Dannel Malloy, into an unfamiliar position: consoler of the grieving.
Through a career in public office spanning 20 years, Mr. Malloy's stock in trade has been a hard-charging, managerial manner, allies and observers say. His hard edges have sometimes seemed to outweigh his efforts to empathize with other officials and the public. And while his struggles to overcome dyslexia and other learning disabilities have made him an effective debater, he sometimes speaks haltingly in dealing with the press, searching for the proper words.
But in the aftermath of Friday's massacre in Newtown, the Democratic governor has been forced to lead the public in its rituals of mourning. In his most decisive, and painful, moment at a volunteer firehouse, he even took it upon himself to inform some that their children were dead.
In an interview Tuesday, Mr. Malloy dismissed the notion that he is too cool to lead during a tragedy.
"I think there is a sense, fed by the media, that I am this unfeeling automaton that just comes to work every day and goes to work without feeling," the 57-year-old governor said. "I reflect on what I do before, during and after I do it."
It is a task for which there is no script, the governor said, after attending his third funeral. "It's been a brutal week," he said, exhaustion in his voice. "You'd be hard-pressed to have a worse day than we did last Friday."
He added: "I haven't thought about much else but the firehouse."
Many political observers in Connecticut wouldn't have picked Mr. Malloy as the most likely candidate to lead an exercise in communal empathy.
"There is a distance between himself and the electorate, and there always has been," said Gary Rose, a political-science professor at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield.
Still, Mr. Malloy, the former Stamford mayor, has displayed rare flashes of vulnerability in the days since the shooting, most notably on Monday, when he choked up and wiped away tears at a capitol news conference, after a reporter asked him to describe the experience of informing many of the parents and family of Sandy Hook victims that their loved ones had died.
"I'm giving him pretty high marks," Mr. Rose said. "Here he is now in a new role which has nothing to do with policy and is all about healing. I think he has crossed over and has made some gains in that area. He's done more than I thought he could do."
It was during the governor's rush from the state capitol to the Sandy Hook firehouse, which served as a de facto shelter and receiving station for children and their parents, that Mr. Malloy learned the gravity of the crime that had unfolded Friday morning, said Roy Occhiogrosso, his senior adviser.
Nearing Newtown, Mr. Occhiogrosso told the governor the latest: 26 dead, 20 of them children.
"He just sort of stared at me," Mr. Occhiogrosso said. "He was processing it."
The scene inside the firehouse was tense and complicated, according to Mr. Occhiogrosso, police officials and state Senate Minority Leader John McKinney, a Republican whose district includes Newtown.
Some parents had collected their children and returned home. Others were gathered in an adjoining room of the building, waiting for news about their loved ones. They had been told the numbers of the dead but hadn't been told definitively that their relatives were gone.
Officials considered reserving space in the senior center nearby, in which to individually break the news to different sets of parents, Mr. McKinney said. But that move could have caused even more agitation and confusion, he said.
Mr. Malloy consulted with Col. Daniel Stebbins, the deputy commissioner of the state police and the highest-ranking officer on the scene, in the parking lot beside the firehouse. It was about 3 p.m.
"He asked him, 'Is there anybody in that school who's alive?' and Danny [Stebbins] said, 'No,'" Mr. Occhiogrosso said.
At that point, Mr. Malloy said, he decided that he wouldn't wait for police to formally identify the dead even as their families waited, some disbelieving, in the firehouse.
The governor walked into the center of the room, and began speaking so softly, Mr. Occhiogrosso said, that one man called out to ask him to raise his voice.
"If you haven't been reunited with your loved one by now," Mr. Malloy said, "that is not going to happen."
The room exploded in wailing and tears, the officials said. Mr. McKinney, who had waited outside the door when Mr. Malloy went in to deliver the news, heard the cries from the hallway.
The task was immense, and deeply affecting, Mr. McKinney said, recalling a moment on Friday when he spotted Mr. Malloy sitting on a stool, alone, near the firehouse kitchen.
"He was sitting by himself and just, you know, staring," Mr. McKinney said. "I saw him in a way that obviously I've never seen him. Just as a guy with a really heavy heart."
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One of my wrists is weaker than the other. I am working on strengthening both of my wrists, but I want to protect my weaker wrist while I workout. Should I use wrist wraps on the weak wrist or both wrists?
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Disclaimer: when you are experiencing recurring pain that lasts for weeks during your workouts, then you should definitely consider getting a doctor or physical therapist to check it out. The rest of my answer is going to assume that you got the "all-clear" from your doctor and that this is in fact nothing more than a muscular imbalance in your wrists.
To me it sounds like the exercises you are doing are too intense for your weaker wrist to handle, thus the pain. I would scale back on the intensity level and gradually build up wrist strength before attempting to do these exercises at the intensity level you are at now. Additionally, you may want to consider adding some supplemental grip strength exercises to your routine to expedite the recovery. Here are some exercises that will help you build wrist strength:
As far as doing your current exercises, using a wrist wrap is totally fine, and as you scale in intensity it can often become a necessary tool in order to avoid injury. On your build up sets I would recommend forgoing the wraps, and only using them on your work-sets / exercises that are giving you problems. That being said, wraps can become a crutch that prevent grip strength from developing, and will lead to eventual degradation of wrist strength in relation to the rest of the muscles.
As for using one or both, I would personally stick with both. For one, if the weak wrist is experiencing pain from the exercise, chances are the other wrist isn't too far away either. Second, by using only one wrist wrap you will be developing the muscles asymmetrically.


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I have a bunch of inequalities, and I'm trying to see if another inequality can be deduced from the first bunch. For example, assuming that $a \leq b$ and $c \leq d$, we can deduce that $a + c \leq b + d$, but we cannot deduce that $a + d \leq b + c$. Is there some software that allows me to take some inequalities which are assumed to be true as input, and to check if another input inequality can be deduced or proved from these earlier inequalities?
I am most familiar with MATLAB and it doesn't seem to do this. I realized that I could hack it and say for example $b = a + p$, $d = c + q$ with $p, q \geq 0$, then just writing $b + d - (a + c)$ and asking MATLAB to simplify the expression, and noticing that all the $p, q$ terms are nonnegative. But is there a more natural way to do this?


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Do all the field theorems apply to surreal numbers? If fields were redefined so that their elements were allowed to come from an arbitrary class, would the theory look different to an algebraist?
The Surreal numbers satisfy all the field axioms except that its elements constitute a proper class. Is it safe to call it a field?
First, let me say that the set/class issue is not a problem to deal with properly, and so one shouldn't be very worried about it. It is true as you say that the surreal numbers No are a proper class, and they do not form a set. So in a purely technical sense, they are not a field. But nevertheless, they do satisfy all the field axioms and have all the usual kinds of structure that one would want in a field, and so one can correctly describe them as a proper class field, or Field as Conway writes it, in much the same way that the class of all ordinals is regarded as a proper class well-order. Although this set/class issue may seem mysterious or irritating, in practice it is a routine matter to handle correctly for those familiar with the set/class distinction.
But since you seem particularly interested in what might go wrong, let me suggest on the negative side, one issue that could make a difference is that when dealing with the surreal field No, one will want to strengthen the background set theory from ZFC to GBC, which includes the global axiom of choice, the assertion that there is a proper class well-ordering of the universe. The reason is that it is consistent with ZFC that the surreal numbers do not admit any proper class well-ordering, and actually, the assertion that they have a definable such well-ordering is equivalent to the set-theoretic axiom known as V=HOD, as I proved in my answer to David Feldman's question on a Definable map from all the ordinals to the surreal numbers. So if one wants to undertake algebraic constructions requiring one to have a well-ordering of the field itself, such as finding a proper class maximal ideal inside a particular subring of No, then there could be difficulties undertaking such a construction in ZFC as opposed to GBC. But nevertheless, the theory GBC is conservative over ZFC and one may thereby freely assume the global axiom of choice. (This is used in the various arguments showing that No is universal for class-sized objects, such as the assertion that every class order embeds to a suborder of No.) In particular, in GBC one has a well-ordering of the entire universe, including the surreals, and this situation would address such issues. Much of the theory undertaken by Ehrlich on the surreals, for example, works in GBC as the background theory. Beyond this issue, even in GBC one does not have any sense of a well-ordering of the (meta-class) collection of all class-sized subrings of No, if this were desired for any algebraic construction, and this is the kind of issue that would arise with the set/class issue.
But meanwhile, there is also a positive answer. The situation is that if one wants set versions of the surreal numbers, they are abundantly available in increasingly powerful and accurate approximations, which are well-understood and studied. Specifically, we have numerous set-sized approximations to the surreal numbers, simply by considering the set of surreal numbers born before a given ordinal birthday. For any ordinal $\lambda$, let $\text{No}(\lambda)$ be the set of surreal numbers born before $\lambda$. One should regard $\text{No}(\lambda)$ as the version of the surreal numbers as constructed inside the set-theoretic universe $V_\lambda$, which can satisfy increasing fragments of our set theory, as $\lambda$ is chosen to exhibit increasingly strong closure properties.
Philip Ehrlich mentioned in his recent talk at the CUNY Logic Workshop that he and Lou van den Dries prove in their article Fields of surreal numbers with exponentiation the following facts:
These facts are proved by giving a careful analysis of exactly how long it takes to add the inverse of a given surreal number, based on its birthday, and so when the ordinal $\lambda$ is closed under those waiting times, then the resulting $\text{No}(\lambda)$ contains the requisite inverses.
Ultimately, we obtain set-sized approximations $\text{No}(\lambda)$ to the surreals by truncating at sufficiently powerful ordinals. Indeed, for any particular natural number $n$, there will be a closed unbounded proper class of ordinals $\lambda$ such that $\text{No}(\lambda)$ has all the same $\Sigma_n$-expressible properties as the full class of surreal numbers No. This can be proved as an immediate consequence of the reflection theorem. So in fact, No is the union of a proper class chain of increasingly elementary subfields $\text{No}(\lambda)$.
One can think of the situation as corresponding to the small/large distinction that one finds in category theory with the use of Grothendieck universes, as in Daniel's answer. But in fact one doesn't need a whole Grothendieck universe just to have a subfield, since a mere epsilon number suffices in comparison with an inaccessible cardinal (which are all epsilon numbers).
In ZFC+I, where I asserts the existence of a strongly inaccessible cardinal, we can create a Grothendieck universe out of that inaccessible cardinal and have a set that satisfies all the properties of the surreal numbers, where quantification is taken over elements of that universe. From the perspective of the outside universe, this would be a field. Since no one has found a contradiction in ZFC+I, it's safe to say at present that the field theorems apply to surreal numbers and that an algebraist cannot detect any essential difference, only relative differences that you probably know such as "This Field contains all totally ordered fields."


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Located in southeast Lake County near Vernon Hills, this crushed gravel surface trail is perfect for hiking, biking, horseback riding, and cross country skiing. The trail offers a medium level of difficulty as it winds alongside tree-laden riverbanks, through dense bottom-land woods, adjacent to ponds and over footbridges. This trail links the Half Day Forest Preserve to the Wright Woods Forest Preserve spanning nearly the entire length of Lake County.
CITY:Vernon Hills
Didier Farms
Didier Farms offers a variety of vegetables and flowers in our greenhouse this spring, and our farmers market in summer. U-pick opportunities are plentiful throughout the summer, weather permitting. During our Pumpkinfest, the last week of September and all of October, we offer hayrides, pony rides, corn maze and an exotic zoo, in beautiful Lake County. Also enjoy the Buffalo Creek Mining Co, pony & camel rides, Animal Land, Pumpkin Playland, kiddie rides, Parakeet Encounter, Pig Races (Sat, Sun & Mon) Pumpkin Patch Café, homemade apple cider & pumpkin donuts made daily. Antique tractor display, fall produce, birthday parties and school groups by reservation only.
Half Day Forest Preserve
This quiet and clean preserve features a 1-mile trail for hikers, bicyclists and cross-country skiers, three beautiful picnic shelters, a 3-acre pond for fishing, open playfields and a playground. The Half Day Forest Preserve is also the starting point for the Des Plains River Trail which links this preserve to the Wright Woods Forest Preserve. The entrance and parking area are located on Route 21 (Milwaukee Avenue) at the light for Woodlands Parkway, south of Route 60 (Townline Road) and just north of Route 22 (Half Day Road).
CITY:Vernon Hills
Midwestern Helicopter
Have you ever wanted to see the beautiful city of Chicago from above? Join us for an amazing helicopter skyline tour where you will see the city from a birds eye view! This is one of the most incredible adventures you can ever imagine. During our flight you will see all that the Chicagoland area has to offer.
The Arboretum Club
This beautiful 30,000-square-foot clubhouse features an upscale restaurant with patio seating and 18 holes of championship golf.
CITY:Buffalo Grove
Vernon Hills Family Aquatic Center
The Family Aquatic Center offers something for everyone, including grassy areas to relax and catch some sun! Some of the amenities include: zero-depth leisure pool with six lap lanes; a zero-depth leisure pool with waterfalls, sprays & jets; 700-foot lazy river, body slide; body & innertube slides, a fully enclosed body flume, sand play area, 20 foot shade umbrellas, lounge chairs, and more.
CITY:Vernon Hills
Vernon Hills Golf Course
This golf course has been ranked as one of the top ten 9 hole golf courses in Chicagoland. Situated in Vernon Hills, this challenging 9-hole municipal course boasts small greens, rolling terrain, tight fairways and seven holes featuring water. Golfers of all skill levels will appreciate both the playability and the eye-catching views. The full-service clubhouse features a varied lunch menu, which is served all day and a full-service bar. Banquet facilities available for up to 80 people.
CITY:Vernon Hills
Vernon Hills Park District Sullivan Community Center
Overlooking park land, the Community Room, equipped with a stage and kitchen, can serve 260 dinner guests or 400 people theater seating. Smaller meeting rooms with a capacity of 10-140 people including a gymnasium rental are also available.
CITY:Vernon Hills
WhirlyBall Vernon Hills
WhirlyBall is a combination of basketball, hockey, lacrosse and bumper cars all rolled into one exciting sport. The Lake County location also includes a two-level laser tag arena, climbing wall, video games, pool tables and a sports bar. A second suburban outpost is located in Lombard.
CITY:Vernon Hills
WhirlyBall Vernon Hills
WhirlyBall combines basketball, hockey, lacrosse and bumper cars all rolled into one exciting sport! Whether you're planning a holiday party, corporate outing or meeting, team building session, bar/bat mitzvah, bachelor/bachelorette or birthday party, WhirlyBall is the most complete venue in Lake County offering a variety of entertainment options including WhirlyBall, two-level lasertag, climbing wall, video games, pool tables, complete food & beverage menus, fully-loaded sports bar and flexible event facility that comfortably accommodates 400+ guests.
CITY:Vernon Hills
White Deer Run Golf Club
Built on the well-known Cuneo Estate in Vernon Hills, White Deer Run Golf Club is an 18-hole public course sprawling over 240 acres of rolling terrain and picturesque lakes with bent grass greens and fairways. Able to accommodate small and large group outings and banquets.
CITY:Vernon Hills
Xtreme Trampolines
Trampolines on steriods!! This giant warehouse is filled with commercial grade trampolines that are connected together. Play trampoline basketball, trampoline dodgeball and land in a huge foam pit. Kids of all ages love the fun and completely forget that they are getting exercise. Check out this exciting concept online for more pictures and videos.
CITY:Buffalo Grove
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The world has been captivated these past several weeks with the loss of Flight 370 with 239 bodies. To witness the grief of family members in their personal anguish with no evidence of the plane's disappearance, is emotionally, physically, and psychologically unbearable. As the mother of Philip Wood from Texas, whose son was one of three reported Americans on that ill-fated plane said: "We have no body to bury."
It might be well for us all to personally internalize their horrific event and look at it in a very subjective way.
The most common experience I witness at a funeral home just before the casket is closed is for loved ones to touch the body. There appears to be a need for a physical touch that confirms not only the expression of love, but also a confirmation in the reality of death that provides closure in the physical relationship. I remember well just before the casket was closed containing the body of my late wife (after a 46-year marriage) my need was to hold the left hand of my wife containing the wedding ring. That small, and perhaps for many, insignificant gesture assured me that it was alright to let go and move on. The power of touch at the time of death cannot be overestimated.
But what happens to grieving people who are denied this powerful symbol when the body doesn't exist as seen these past several days in China and Malaysia?
The power of touch must then take a different form. There are many ways that a survivor's life can find healing apart from the body's presence. We need to be reminded that the physical touch is only one way for the experience of death to not lose its meaning.
Long after the body of a loved one is gone by natural causes or accidental circumstances in which it doesn't exist, we must find within the survivor's life a discipline that enables one to recall events that still have the same power of touch. I will hear a song on the radio reminding me of a special dance we enjoyed, and I'm touched with joy; I will see a book on my shelf which we enjoyed reading together, and I'm touched by discussions in the book's contents that often produced dialogue; and I am touched by a beautiful sunset reminding me of a special occasion in Africa or the Antarctic that produces a smile.
Handling grief without a body is an extremely personal and private matter. It is a subjective response in which there is no right or wrong way, but a matter in which one finds comfort in the reality of death.
May the power of touch, with or without a body, provide the reality that we are all spiritual beings, and the things we see are tempered and pass away, but the things that are not seen, like our feelings or a missing body, are real and eternal.
Page 2 of 2 - It's a common expression for one to say, "I'm touched by that!" That's not a euphemism devoid of deep meaning. It's an expression with feelings which communicate who we really are.
It is our prayer that the grieving family members and loved ones of those lost on Flight 370 can feel the power of touch in God's healing, that though they have no body over which to grieve, they can find comfort in reviewing those personal circumstances in which they were touched by a meaningful memory that makes the lost one's presence more bearable.
Reverend Dr. Robert P. Lawrence
Lawrence is pastor emeritus of First Congregational Church, Fall River
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Jensen's covering theorem states that if $0^\sharp$ doesn't exist, then every uncountable set of ordinals can be covered by a constructible set of the same cardinality.
Now consider the following (somewhat) dual statements:
- Every uncountable set of ordinals covers a constructible uncountable set of ordinals.
- Every uncountable set of ordinals covers a constructible set of ordinals of the same cardinality.
I have two questions:
- Does any of the above statements follow from the non-existence of $0^\sharp$?
- If the answer is "no", are they still known to be consistent (in order to avoid trivialities, we may assume that V=L doesn't hold)?


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Shots fired at
car with teens
STEUBENVILLE - A car reported stolen out of Wheeling was hit several times with gunfire around 7:07 p.m. Tuesday in the 1300 block of Pennsylvania Avenue, City Police reported.
The 14-year-old female driver was arrested by police and charged with receiving stolen property. There were four teens in the car between the ages of 13 and 16, police reported.
The car was found abandoned several blocks away in an alley, police reported. The juveniles were stopped in the 1200 block of Wellesley Avenue and questioned, an officer said.
The front and rear windshields, a tire and doors were struck with bullets, police reported. Officers said they found six spent 9 mm shell casings in the 1300 block of Pennsylvania Avenue.
City Police Chief William McCafferty said detectives and officers still are investigating what caused the shots to be fired at the vehicle and who was involved.
Trial date set in
child porn case
STEUBENVILLE - A trial date of March 18 has been set for Ryan D. Kasler, 31, of 24 Union St., Mount Pleasant, who recently was indicted by a federal grand jury in Columbus on three counts of receiving or possessing child pornography.
Kasler was arrested on Dec. 6 after a federal raid at his house.
Kasler's name and address were uncovered during an investigation into a foreign company distributing child pornography, according to an affidavit for a criminal complaint filed in federal court.
Between Jan. 28, 2006, and Feb. 15, 2011, Kasler placed orders and made purchases of films and photos on 13 occasions, according to the affidavit filed by a U.S. postal inspector. The films and photos contained child pornography, the postal inspector said.
U.S. District Court Senior Judge James L. Graham scheduled a jury trial for Kasler on March 18.
Kasler pleaded innocent to the charges and is being held without bond.
Man transported
following accident
WELLSBURG - A Weirton man was transported by medical helicopter following a collision involving a tractor-trailer Tuesday afternoon at the intersection of state Route 2 and 27th Street.
City Police said Timothy Derby, 51, of Weirton was transported to University of Pittsburgh Medical Center after the pickup truck he was riding in struck the front tandem wheel of a tractor-trailer.
Police said the driver of the pickup truck was traveling south on the highway when he failed to stop for the large truck, which was northbound and turning onto 27th Street.
No one has been cited in connection with the accident.
Bethany names
graduation speaker
BETHANY - Ralph Baxter, chairman and chief executive officer of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, has been announced as Bethany College's 2013 commencement speaker at 10 a.m. on May 18.
Baxter has held his position since 1990, during which he expanded Orrick, extending its geographic reach and transforming the company from a domestic firm with California origins to one of the world's largest and most prominent law firms, with more than 1,100 lawyers in offices across the United States, Europe and Asia, according to officials.
He has been recognized as one of America's "100 Most Influential Lawyers" by the National Law Journal and is the founder of the Law Firm Leaders Forum, a gathering of law firm leaders that annually examine issues facing the profession. In addition, he was named a California Lawyer of the Year by California Lawyer magazine.
Baxter received a bachelor of arts degree from Stanford University in 1968, a master's degree in 1970 from Catholic University of America and a juris doctorate from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1974.
Baxter serves on the advisory board of Harvard Law School's Center on Lawyers and the Professional Services Industry and is active in numerous civic leadership and public interest organizations, particularly in California and West Virginia.


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News Releases
Throughout the past year, the Columbia College Relay for Life team raised $18,645 for the fight against cancer. The fundraising culminated on June 11-12 at the 2010 Boone County Relay for Life held at Rock Bridge High School Stadium in Columbia, where Columbia College's total bested all 92 other teams by almost $4,000.
"We are a sweat-of-the-brow fundraising organization," said Eric Cunningham, associate dean for adult higher education and co-captain of the Columbia College Relay for Life team. "We accept direct monetary donations, but 90 percent of the funds we donate annually to the American Cancer Society are raised through a year-long series of fundraising events."
To raise the money, team members held a book sale, penny war, silent auction, can crushing operation, garage sales and basketball fundraisers.
Columbia College has been participating in Relay for Life for the past 11 years, donating a total of more than $125,000 to the American Cancer Society.
Columbia College, a private, nonprofit institution founded in 1851 in Columbia, Mo., educates more than 28,000 students each year and has more than 64,000 alumni worldwide. For more information, visit www.ccis.edu.


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5 Movies That Accidentally Killed Innocent Characters
There's a reliable economics to movie character deaths. If a heroic character is going out, you can bet it will be with plenty of slow-motion shots of his eyes looking to the heavens. Villains are more of a mixed bag. Hans Gruber snapped off enough clever one-liners to earn some extreme slow motion as he plummeted to his death, while the bad guys who tried to kill Vito Corleone in his hospital bed got coolly dispatched with a mouthful of pasta halfway down their throats. But occasionally, a movie chooses to kill completely innocent characters in the most horrible way possible for no discernible reason. For instance ...
#5. A Paralyzed Mutant -- X2
Via Joblo.com
Like all X-Men movies and comics, X2: X-Men United is about what a bunch of assholes able-bodied humans can be to our differently abled mutant peers. And no character bears the brunt of our assholery more than Jason Stryker. His father is the movie's mutant-despising villain Col. William Stryker, who sends Jason to Professor X's school because he thinks it's one of those gay-to-straight conversion camps for curing people of their superpowers. When he learns that Professor X is teaching Jason to embrace his power (creating controlled hallucinations in people's minds), he blames himself for doing a terrible job researching the school and learns to love his son for what he is. Or that's what he would do if he wasn't the worst father in the world. In reality, he yanks Jason out of his self-actualizing environment, lobotomizes him and uses his son's brain as the joystick in his quest to destroy everyone who has the nerve to be disgustingly abled like him.
"Well, I might be biased, but I think that's the best Christmas card photo we've ever taken."
And that's before we even get to the fact that Jason's in a wheelchair, which is what the X-Men universe does when someone with telekinetic powers needs to seem more sympathetic.
OK, so Jason doesn't exactly pull off "sympathetic" so much as "Donnie Wahlberg's character in The Sixth Sense, as played by Crispin Glover." But you'd probably look a little washed out, too, if your Dad was using your brain to kill an entire race of people just because they remind him of you. Jason is a character who is built to be pitied, not hated. He's no more responsible for his actions than Master Chief is responsible for having worse aim when you're drunk.
As the climax closes in, Jason's dad is using his brain to trick Professor X into killing all the world's mutants. The X-Men figure out what's going on just in time, and Nightcrawler teleports to Professor X's side to find him sitting across from Jason in the belly of a crumbling dam.
"Thank goodness for the Protagonists With Disabilities Act, eh?"
Unfortunately for Jason, the dam is about to disintegrate and kill everyone in its general vicinity, he's in a wheelchair and he's spent the last hour helping his dad screw with the only people who could save him. Fortunately for Jason, there's a clear precedent for this sort of scenario that says you always take pity on the pathetic bad guy who's being taken advantage of. If you've seen The Goonies take pity on Sloth or The Karate Kid take mercy on Johnny Lawrence, you know that Nightcrawler's next move should be to lift Jason out of his wheelchair and tell him "It's not your fault" while a bear hug teleports them both to safety.
So what does Nightcrawler do?
Guys? Guys, it's not funny anymore.
Either because they forget that Jason is handicapped and therefore can't escape or even move, or because they just don't care, they just leave Jason to helplessly sit there as the entire dam collapses in on him.
It's not like they didn't have the time. A few minutes later, the X-Men are still escaping, and they take the time to offer to save the life of Jason's father -- the guy who was manipulating the mutant they just left to die. When Stryker tells them to go screw themselves, they just move on. The movie remembers to apply its core message of compassion for mutants and mankind to every single character except the most pathetic and helpless of them all.
But to be fair, he did have stupid hair, and he deserved to die for that.
#4. A Bank Full of People -- Fast Five
Via Collider.com
Fast Five took a bold new step in cinematic not giving a fuck. By forgetting about the fictional world of underground drag racing and focusing on a ridiculous heist, the movie parked itself firmly in the realm of gloriously stupid action spectacles like The Rock. But one thing The Rock knows is that you go out of your way to show that your reckless car chase isn't killing the many, many innocent bystanders it totally would in reality. When Sean Connery steals a Hummer and drives it like a speeding tank through San Francisco, he does so while screaming at people to get out of his way the whole time.
We're pretty sure that's either Sean Connery's real o-face or his pooping face. Maybe both.
When a cop car speeding after him crashes into a cab, the movie makes sure to show that the driver is standing outside at the moment. The fact that the movie does it with good old-fashioned racism reminds you that we're still dealing with Michael Bay.
"How do we make sure people know this guy's the cab driver, while at the same time promoting ridiculous stereotypes?"
The Fast franchise is new at this, and the characters aren't great at keeping words straight in their heads anyway. So in the film's climactic scene, when Vin Diesel and Paul Walker drag a giant wrecking ball of a safe between their two cars, it's bad news for everyone: the presumably full cabs that get slammed into at full speed ...
... the hundreds of cops in cars that get junked by the giant people-crusher the heroes are dragging behind them ...
... and any of the innocent people unlucky enough to be anywhere they have to make a turn.
They'll be OK. Counting the centripetal whip, it can't be going more than, say, 50 miles per hour, right?
The movie cuts away before anyone inside that bank is physically crushed by the vault, and the last time we see them, they're fleeing, so it's always possible that everyone banking that day has superhuman reflexes and made it out OK.
But there's one young lady who the movie seems to go to extreme lengths to make sure you know has been vaporized by our heroes. We first see her at the moment when Walker and Diesel see a chain of spikes ahead and decide they have to make a right.
We'll call her "Judeth Soonfucked."
That's Walker and Diesel's cars in the upper-left-hand corner. The cops in the middle distance are the ones that they have to veer right to avoid, and the woman in the foreground is standing where physicists would draw an "X" labeled "point of impact."
It might seem odd that they'd go out of their way to place an innocent woman in the path of danger, but this is the same trick we saw in The Rock. You raise the question of innocent deaths, and then show the bystanders miraculously escaping in order to put everyone's minds at ease.
But when we cut back to the same shot, she hasn't moved an inch. We see the cars narrowly avoiding her, but she's still standing in the geometrically worst possible place with regard to the giant steel block swinging behind them.
If the steel block doesn't get her, the ropes, flying glass and exploding bank should do the trick.
Not only does Fast Five not show her get out of the way, it gives her the old "out of the frying pan into the fire" death -- when a despised villain dodges the fast-moving train only to be killed more horribly by the train coming from the opposite direction that's made of razor blades. In this case, you can practically hear the woman thinking "What a close call. As long as those two cars that almost hit me aren't dragging a giant wrecking ball behind them, my innocent life has been spared."
And that's the last we see of her ... the cars are hanging a sharp turn directly in front of her with a giant safe clanking toward her at top speed. It is not, however, the last we see of the front of the bank.
Pow! In your face, anonymous Latina woman! Also, every other part of your body.
The movie acknowledges that they've just turned an innocent woman into hamburger meat by pausing the action so Diesel can shoot Walker a look of regret.
"Duuuuuuuuuuuuh ..."
Though it should be noted that Diesel's look of regret is nearly indistinguishable from his look of "I'm farting silently."
#3. Thousands of Lives -- Bruce Almighty
Via Notrecinema.com
When God lets Bruce co-pilot the planet Earth and all of its moral and metaphysical concerns, his first move is to use his newfound power to get laid. One of the ways he goes about doing this is by pulling out some invisible rope and lassoing the moon closer, in order to impress his girlfriend, Jennifer Aniston.
Ladies: If your date ever literally lassos the moon, he is not God.
You have been drugged and need to seek immediate medical attention.
Those of our readers who keep up with the latest scientific findings may have heard that the moon controls the Earth's tides, and therefore could guess that moving the moon closer might cause some issues. Flooding, giant waves, super werewolves. Of course, that's just us reading too far into a lighthearted moment in a PG-rated comedy, right?
Actually, nope. The movie totally acknowledges just what hell Bruce has brought onto the planet Earth in his quest for mood lighting. After becoming the first woman ever to have her world rocked by the dick of God, Jennifer Aniston wakes up to turn on the news and catches a brief clip about a major tsunami in the Pacific.
"Wow, it looks like that part of the world got rocked by the dick of God."
The movie came out in 2003, less than one year before an enormous tsunami rolled on the Pacific, killing 228,000 people and splashing images just like that across TVs in the real world. Fortunately for humanity, God gave his powers to Bruce, who springs into action by ignoring the whole thing. In fact, other than a throwaway line by Morgan Freeman about how actions have consequences, there's no mention of this natural disaster for the rest of the movie.
"The American middle class is where I am truly needed."
We understand that God works in mysterious ways, but sacrificing thousands of lives in order to teach a Buffalo-area weatherman to shape up and not be a dick seems less mysterious than "bad at his job." At least now when children ask why God would let bad things happen to them, you can confidently answer that it's because God likes giving his power away to teach douchebags a lesson.
Holy shit, don't scare him; he's loaded!"


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The 6 Most Terrifying Medical Malpractice Cases Ever
Any trip to the doctor's office involves a fairly straightforward trade off: you hand over your personal safety to the guy who went to school for eight years, and they fix something that you wouldn't have the first clue how to do yourself. But as in every profession, some doctors are better than others, and even good doctors have bad days.
And then, there are those doctors who go out of their way to find creative ways to make the world a terrifying place.
#6. "Sir, I'm afraid we inadvertently obliterated your penis."
A patient named William Morrison underwent a screening that required his penis be washed in a solution of three to five percent acetic acid. Sure, just typing the words "acid" and "penis" in the same sentence makes us cringe. But that doesn't mean anything could possibly go wrong there, right? Hell, a three to five percent solution probably feels kind of tingly and refreshing, like when you wash your sack in a bowl of ginger ale.
When it came time actually wash his wang, however, Mr. Morrison got a 72 percent solution, which is a little more like having your dick immersed in a piranha's mouth, after it's been drinking 72 percent acid.
But that's a one-in-a-million scenario, right? Surely health care professionals normally take way more care when a man's dong is on the line.
Not in the case of Mexican doctor, Francisco Javier Valentin y Ortiz who, despite having a wicked matador name, was not great with sharp objects, and cut off a patient's penis during a routine circumcision. We like to think Dr. Ortiz muttered "Oh geez," scratched his head then tried to put the severed penis into the patient's ballsack, kind of like a tulip in a vase, in the hopes the guy wouldn't notice.
But those two are cases are only runners up in the medical world's penis mutilation Olympics. Our gold medalist is Romanian doctor, Naum Ciomu. He separated himself from the pack when he was performing an operation to correct some poor dude's weird, bulgy nutsack. Due to the various stresses of being a guy who has to perform delicate surgeries on weird, bulgy nutsacks all day, he lost his shit and cut off the patient's dick with a scalpel, put it on the operating table and furiously hacked it into tiny pieces in front of the nursing staff. They were apparently too busy trying to think of a more succinct way to say "What the fuck is going on?" to stop him.
Ciomu said he had a temporary loss of judgment, due to some personal problems. You know, kind of like how you get really mad sometimes and punch a wall. It was like that, only he hacked a man's penis to confetti. He ended up having his license suspended and he was ordered to pay the patient 120,000 pounds while the patient got a shiny new non-functional wang made from arm skin.
Repairing the fender of a Ferrari. Equal value of a single dong.
#5. Sexual Healing
Mental health can be a tricky subject. For instance, if you see a psychiatrist, the first task is making sure they're not crazier than you are. One way to tell is if the psychiatrist, for instance, demands that you start calling them "mother."
Which brings us to Harvard Medical School psychiatrist, Margaret Bean-Bayog, whose last name is lesser known slang for burrito-induced Montezuma's revenge. She was treating a student at the school who came to her because he was feeling lonely. According to the good doctor, the patient had suffered severe childhood abuse and was now hooked on drugs and alcohol as well as dealing with overwhelming anxiety, rage and sociopathic tendencies. That was strange, because no previous doctor had managed to detect any of these things in the poor kid.
The course of treatment was exactly what you'd suspect given the young man's poor mental health: several thousand pages of sadomasochistic fantasies written by the doctor, and an extensive effort to brainwash him into believing he was a child and that the doctor was his mother.
The doctor wrote flash cards for her patient with instructions to read them 10 times a day until he believed them, chock full of important mental health slogans like "I'm your Mom and I love you and you love me very very much." Presumably other cards read "Fill you anus with applesauce and learn kung fu" and "Every episode of House follows the same pattern... because of Jews."
Because of Jews.
Hey, did we mention that the rest of her medical advice amounted to "let me use your boner like a carnival ride"?
The patient's family filed suit against the doctor after the patient killed himself. And while the doctor conceded her treatment was "unconventional," she denied she did anything wrong. Presumably she then shat in a coffee cup and accused it of spying on her.
#4. Vagina Reconstruction, of the Involuntary Variety
If a doctor ever promises to turn you and others into "horny little mice," you should probably just go home and take some Tylenol instead of spending any additional time with him. However, it seems a lot of people turned a blind eye to Dr. James Burt for a number of years, allowing him to perform reconstructive surgery on women's vaginas--which probably sounds like a perfectly normal thing for a doctor to do... until you realize the women didn't ask him to do it.
Burt even wrote a book called The Surgery of Love, in 1975, about the operations he performed on many women--without their consent. He was at least thoughtful enough to do it after the birth of children so he could explain away the stitches as a result of the delivery.
While he had them on the table he would tinker around with their anatomy, removing some things, even repositioning the vagina, urethra and alter the walls between the vagina and rectum in order to "increase sexual responsiveness." Again, why no one stopped him while he was cutting and probably muttering things like, "you're welcome, Mommy" is anyone's guess. Apparently if you're wearing surgical scrubs everybody just assumes you're on the level.
More often than not, the unwanted surgeries caused extensive damages and required additional surgeries to correct the problems. Twelve malpractice suits against the doctor were dropped over the years when other doctors he worked with refused to testify against him, presumably convincing the man his Frankenvaginas were totally kosher.
It's claimed he performed the procedure on around 2,000 women and when the Ohio State Medical Board finally caught up with him, they made him voluntarily surrender his license , a punishment which is known in legal circles as "bullshit."