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"'Saudi Arabia was betting on advantageous military developments in Syria when in reality tables were turned against Riyadh & allies!'"
We never get quite enough good information - reporting from Syria is bad even by the abysmal standards of modern 'journalism', not to mention the fact that it is all Jew-centric propaganda - but is it fair to say that the tide turned for Assad - and the tide certainly has turned - when Hezbollah started helping him in a big way? The Jews must be wondering if they are again too clever by half - they are giving Hezbollah fighters a tune-up for when the Jews inevitably illegally invade Lebanon yet again to steal land and water, and they have turned the once mediocre Syrian army into a first-rate modern fighting machine.
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LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — The University of Wyoming Athletics Department has launched a new mobile app for Cowboy and Cowgirl fans with compatible iOS and Android devices.
UW's official mobile app offers streamlined access to news and information. The "Wyo Pokes" app can be used to check team schedules and scores, purchase tickets, watch videos, view photos and get the latest news on all 17 UW Division I sports.
From their phone, Wyoming fans can follow events with live scores and stats all in one place. Those who download the app will be able to watch game highlights, features and other multimedia content on their mobile device.
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This year's All-Star Acoustic Jam (3 p.m. Sept. 21, Tess' Lark Tavern, Albany):
Rob Jonas
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Idette and the Sunrunners
Barbecue Benny
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Tom McWatters
Bryan Thomas
There will also be a drawing for prizes, and a local vendor will be selling her line of jewelry. All proceeds benefit the American Cancer Society.
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A head-scratcher for NHL
Many concussions come on legal hits, leaving league with vexing problem
Brian Burke remembers how hockey dealt with concussions when he was playing in the minors in the late 1970s.
"Coming back to the bench after you got your bell rung, you puked, you missed one shift, you waited until the cobwebs cleared, then the trainer gave you one of those little ammonia sniffers,'' says the Maple Leafs president/general manager. "And you went back out.''
Now, with the number of head injuries on the rise and the game's best player on the shelf indefinitely, concussions have become what Burke calls the "issue du jour,'' with more than 60 NHL players reportedly diagnosed already this season. Though the league has banned the most vicious head shots, legitimate checks and accidental collisions have increased the number of injuries.
Pittsburgh superstar Sidney Crosby, who hasn't played since Jan. 5 after receiving head blows in successive games, was hit inadvertently in the jaw by Washington's David Steckel, who was dashing for the puck, and then checked legally by Tampa Bay's Victor Hedman, who pushed Crosby's face into the boards from behind.
Thus the dilemma for the game's guardians: How do they keep players from getting their brains scrambled without removing much of what makes hockey hockey?
"There is a reluctance to change the essence of the game,'' says Bill Daly, the NHL's deputy commissioner. "The physicality of the game is one of its greatest attractions.''
The league made a huge change last year when it created Rule 48 to eliminate blind-side and lateral hits in which the head either is targeted or is the principal point of contact. The penalty is stiff: a five-minute major and an automatic game misconduct, with the offender also missing the next game if the referee deems the hit was meant to injure.
"I think that's a huge step forward for ice hockey,'' says Dr. Robert Cantu, the neurosurgeon who consulted with the Bruins after Patrice Bergeron and Marc Savard both were put out of commission. "The [first] hit that put Savard out now is illegal.''
Yet most of the hits that cause concussions — the head-on "north-south'' shot and the shoulder check — are within the sport's rules and traditions, and there's little appetite to ban them.
"Hitting is a big part of my game, and you want to do whatever you can to keep that physicality in the game,'' says Bruins forward Milan Lucic, who is both the club's top goal scorer and its trademark thumper. "It is a tough sport and it's inevitable that concussions and injuries are going to happen.''
Tricky balancing act Unlike most contact sports, hockey is played in an enclosed space with rigid wooden dashers, glass barriers, and a slippery playing surface that is pavement-hard.
"It's an inherently unsafe workplace,'' observes Burke.
Since the workers themselves are significantly taller, heavier, and faster than they were half a century ago, the concussions are more frequent and serious.
"It's speed,'' says Cantu, who is chief of neurosurgery service at Emerson Hospital and a professor at Boston University's School of Medicine. "The guys are big and strong and they hit with great velocity.''
Despite the rising concerns, hockey players still are less susceptible to concussions than their football counterparts.
"They're both collision sports, but in football every single day there are subconcussive hits,'' says Dr. Ann McKee, a BU associate professor who directs the neuropathology service for the New England Veterans Administration medical centers. "Hockey doesn't have those.''
Still, the punishing give-and-take of the game has been part of the professional DNA since the NHL was founded nearly a century ago, and hard-nosed teams such as the Big Bad Bruins and the Broad Street Bullies of the 1970s were both feared and admired for their muscularity.
"We're on record and we've said repeatedly that it's important to maintain the fundamental nature of the sport, which is its physical aspect,'' says Daly.
But with Savard sidelined for the remainder of the season after sustaining a second concussion last month and Crosby's return date unclear, there has been renewed focus on the balancing act between keeping players reasonably safe and turning the game into an all-skate.
"We're ending careers far too early,'' says Paul Kelly, the former executive director of the NHL Players Association who now holds that post with College Hockey Inc. "There are dozens of guys who could have and should have played five to 10 more years, but their careers were cut short by hits to the head.''
The concern about head injuries is not new. The NHL was the first professional league to form a working group for the study of concussions, the first to mandate neuropsychological baseline testing, and the first to develop diagnosis and return-to-play protocols. Players suspected of having been concussed are evaluated on the bench by either the team trainer or physician and, if so diagnosed, are kept out of action until they are deemed symptom-free.
Equipment challenges Reducing the number and severity of concussions is a complex undertaking. Suggestions have included enlarging the playing surface, modifying the rink confines, softening the equipment, and changing the rules, but all of them come with tradeoffs.
Expanding the ice from the standard 200-by-85 feet to the international 200-by-98 size would require removing hundreds of prime seats at a time when foreign rinks are downsizing to the North American standard.
Because some concussions result from the player's head bouncing off the glass, the NHL has been switching from the rigid seamless style back to the original design, with individual panes that are more forgiving.
Since most concussions, though, result from open-ice collisions, the conversation has been more about equipment — specifically helmets and shoulder and elbow pads.
Mark Messier, the Hall of Famer who played 25 years in the league, has developed the M11 helmet that compresses to spread out the impact from a blow and then resets. But Messier and neurologists agree that no helmet can keep the brain from being bounced around by a direct blow.
"Helmets are made to prevent skull fractures and brain hemorrhages, not concussions,'' says Cantu, who is co-director of BU's Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy.
The NHL didn't require helmets until 1979 and grandfathered helmetless players who were already in the league.
"There wasn't a whole lot of headhunting back then,'' recalls Rick Middleton, who played for the Bruins for a dozen years and didn't wear a helmet until his final three seasons. "Call it respect or fear of retribution. But when the game went to all helmets, the hitting definitely got higher. Guys would come and hit you under the chin.''
Equipment designed to prevent injuries to the wearer is being used as a weapon.
"If you put bigger shoulder pads on, the players go in harder,'' says Burke. "If you put bigger helmets on, they go in head-first.''
A video analysis of 260 reported concussions over four seasons that was performed last year by Toronto neuropsychologist Dr. Paul Comper concluded that 60 percent resulted from a shoulder check.
Making the pads less armorlike likely would lower that number.
"I feel strongly about looking at the shoulder and elbow pads,'' says Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli. "They've done a good job in making them softer, but I think you have to get them even softer and smaller.''
Even then, there's only so much cushion that can be provided in a collision with a defenseman who stands 6 feet 9 inches and weighs 255 pounds.
"The answer will never be technology,'' says McKee, a CSTE co-director.
Hesitant to change rules Tweaking the rules produces countermeasures as players find ways to adapt to restrictions. When the NHL began enforcing obstruction penalties to cut down on the clutching, grabbing, and hooking that was bogging down the game, defenders put more emphasis on playing the body. Comper's analysis found that only a quarter of the concussed players had the puck when they were hit and that nearly half of them had just released it.
"When you get the puck and you know you're going to be targeted, you're braced because you know the hit is coming,'' says Cantu. "Once you've passed it, your antennae aren't quite as heightened.''
While banning north-south head shots clearly would reduce the number of concussions, it also would skew the time-tested equilibrium between offense and defense. As long as a player can see who's coming at him, he's fair game.
"From the time you're 8 years old, you're taught to keep your head up, and that if you get labeled, it's your fault,'' says Kings general manager Dean Lombardi.
Even after he has released the puck, the offensive player has to expect to be taken out of the equation.
"Ever since I've been involved in the sport, you've been taught to finish your check,'' says Chiarelli. "If you don't, the guy knows you're not finishing the check, so he has that much more freedom.''
Any change to the rulebook changes the game, which is why both management and players tend to react hesitantly to proposed alterations. While the general managers will deal with the concussion issue at their meeting next month and likely will talk about north-south hits, their sense is that Rule 48 should be given more time to work before more changes are made.
"Whenever you're going to change a playing rule and people don't have a degree of confidence in what the result will be, they're going to be cautious about it,'' says Donald Fehr, executive director of the NHL Players Association. "The uncertainty is one of the reasons for the caution.''
There is universal agreement that Rule 48 was necessary and that cheap shots to the head clearly diminished this season with only six penalties (four suspensions and two fines) assessed under the rule and players are more mindful about how they play the body.
"Definitely, guys are thinking a bit more,'' says Lucic. "If you look at tapes of games where those hits could have happened, guys let up this year. So you can see somewhat of an improvement when it comes to that.''
But the NHL has never been an ice ballet, not since the Montreal Wanderers and Toronto Arenas first had at each other in 1917. Hockey is by its nature a concussive game, and the risks are obvious to everyone who pulls on a sweater.
"I say to people, these guys are all volunteers,'' says Burke. "There's no one out there who was conscripted. They signed on for a game that's dangerous at times. We have to make it as safe as we can while preserving the fabric of the game.''
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That's right, dudes, it's time for you to come on down to The Price is Right, but this time they're not looking for contestants. For the first time in the game show's history, the search is on for a male model to join the ranks of Amber Lancaster, Gwendolyn Osborne, Manuela Arbelaez, and Rachel Reynolds as showcase models.
TV Line says that there will be an open call in Los Angeles to find one lucky (handsome) fellow to show off cars, appliances, and give Plinko chips to contestants. The open call takes place Thursday, August 30th, from 10am to 2pm PST at KCBS Studios, 4024 Radford Avenue, Studio City, California. So if you're in the area and have the time to leave the gym, it might be in your best interest to try out.
The first round will have producers and the current female models – Amber Lancaster, Gwendolyn Osborne, Manuela Arbelaez, and Rachel Reynolds – judging the hopefuls after checking out their verbal skills, their ability to pose and "properly showcase a product," and more. Then, on September 28th, up to six finalists will be announced on the game show itself and a web series will be launched featuring the candidates competing in various challenges. Finally, it will be the viewers who decide by October 4th which male model gets the coveted position. But there's a catch: it's only a one week gig on the show starting October 15th.
It's not clear if the male model will become a mainstay if the audience response is positive, but if that's not the case, it kind of feels like a gimmick. Unless someone sick at home with the flu calls in to complain, I don't see a reason why a male model can't be a permanent installment of the show. Either way, I suppose it's something fun to keep the show interesting and engaging after all these years.
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Savia has started a fundraising campaign on Kickstarter for their three new atmospheric fountains. The aim of the campaign is to bring bottled atmospheric waters from the newly discovered Ice Atmospheric Fountain. The campaign also hopes to spread awareness among the general public about the three new atmospheric fountains that have been discovered in the recent past.
"Our Savia Atmospheric Waters is a project designed to bring to you, the purest and healthiest atmospheric drinking waters straight from the ice atmospheric fountain that was discovered recently, says the spokesperson for Savia. These are 100% active atmospheric elements that are run manually without using electricity. We are also committed to the continued development of new winter-based atmospheric fountains which involves harvesting waters even when the temperature goes below freezing."
The Kickstarter campaign by Savia has been launched for providing nearly 100% coverage from summer through winter from the glass fountains which includes the Solid Fountains that were discovered in 2014, Ice Fountains discovered in 2014, and Winter Fountains discovered in 2016. The Savia team is in the process of finalizing the design phase and will soon begin international production and manufacturing.
The core intent of the Kickstarter campaign is to bring bottled atmospheric waters from the ice atmospheric fountain to consumers from across the globe and also to introduce the three newly discovered atmospheric fountains to the public at large.
Atmospheric fountains have emerged as popular drinking water resources in which drinking waters are harvested right from the air around us naturally, using ice. Savia boasts of having discovered the process of making ice work atmospherically which is a fully natural process. In this process, the melted weight of ice is greater than its original weight by around 4 per cent.
Savia is working on the process of producing bottled water from the three newly-discovered atmospheric fountains. There is a growing demand for pure drinking water from across the world that has remained unfulfilled for a long time now. Savia aims to tap the three atmospheric fountains and create the technology needed to run these fountains atmospherically without using electricity. They aim to meet the demand for pure and clean drinking water by creating the technology that can be used to tap water from these resources naturally and without using electricity at all.
The world at large is looking at a water crisis in the near future. Countries are using up their precious resources to ensure pure water for its populace. There is an urgent need to create access to reliable and safe drinking water. A key factor to remember in this endeavor is that unlimited access to water can also help create food resources in fairly large numbers.
According to Salvia, Atmospheric Fountains can be fully relied to deliver this objective all round the year. It can be the only way of obtaining very large quantities of waters virtually free.
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What will 2014 bring? Will all our mail really be delivered by robots? Will the new Planet of the Apes finally deliver an image more iconic than Charlton Heston yelling at a statue? Do you have a prediction about what the year has in store for you personally? Tell us your predictions about the year ahead.
Since it's the last day of 2013, this leaves us just one final day where 2014 to officially qualifies as the future. So let's make some short-range predictions about the upcoming year before the clock runs down.
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As this fiftieth anniversary year comes to a close, we here at Tardis just want to thank you for being a part of our community — even if you haven't edited here in a while. If you have edited with us this year, then thanks for all your hard work.
This year has seen an impressive amount of growth. We've added about 11,000 pages this year, which is frankly incredible for a wiki this big. November was predictably one of the busiest months we've ever had: over 500 unique editors pitched in. It was the highest number of editors in wiki history for a year in which only one programme in the DWU was active. And our viewing stats have been through the roof. We've averaged well over 2 million page views each week for the last two months, with some weeks seeing over 4 million views!
We've received an unprecedented level of support from Wikia Staff, resulting in all sorts of new goodies and productive new relationships. And we've recently decided to lift almost every block we've ever made so as to allow most everyone a second chance to be part of our community.
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Perennial to trees, from membranous bulb, fibrous corm, scaly rhizome, or erect caudex
Stem generally underground
Leaves generally basal, often withering early, alternate, generally ± linear
Inflorescence various, generally bracted
Flower generally bisexual, generally radial; perianth often showy, segments generally 6 in two petal-like whorls (outer sometimes sepal-like), free or fused at base; stamens 6 (or 3 + generally 3 ± petal-like staminodes), filaments sometimes attached to perianth or fused into a tube or crown; ovary superior or inferior, chambers 3, placentas generally axile, style generally 1, stigmas generally 3
Fruit: generally capsule, loculicidal or septicidal (berry or nut)
Genera in family: ± 300 genera, 4600 species: especially ± dry temp and subtropical; many cultivated for ornamental or food;
some TOXIC. Here includes genera sometimes treated in Agavaceae, Amaryllidaceae, and other families.
Perennial with onion odor, taste; bulb solitary or on rhizomes, reforming each year, divides at base into daughter bulbs, outer bulb coats generally brown or gray, cell sculpture generally important to identification, inner bulb coats generally white
Stem scapose, cylindric or flat
Leaves basal, 15, linear, cylindric, channeled, or flat, generally withering from tip before flower
Inflorescence: umbel; bracts generally 24, conspicuous, ± fused, scarious
Flower: perianth segments 6, in 2 petal-like whorls; stamens 6, epipetalous, filaments wide at base, fused into a ring; ovary superior, sometimes with 3 or 6 crests, chambers 3, ovules generally 2 per chamber, style 1, stigma entire or 3-lobed
Fruit: capsule, loculicidal
Seed obovoid, black, sculpture net-like, smooth, or granular
Species in genus: 500 species: worldwide, especially CA
Etymology: (Latin: garlic)
Bulb 1017 mm, ovoid to ± spheric; outer coats red-brown, sculpture 0 or 23 rows of vertical cells above root pad; inner coats pale brown to white
Stem 1037 cm
Leaf 1.52 X stem, cylindric
Inflorescence: flowers 675; pedicels 620 mm
Flower 612 mm; perianth parts lanceolate to ovate, entire, dark red-purple to white; ovary crests 6, prominent, finely dentate to deeply cut
Ecology: Dry slopes and flats
Elevation: 3002700 m.
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How Much Do Your Friends' Facebook Apps Know About You?
Even if you never connect your Facebook account to a single app, dozens of them may still have access to your profile information via your Facebook friends.
When your Facebook friends connect new apps, the list of permissions they approve can include access to not just their own information, but also specific information from your profile — including your birthday, status updates, photos, hometown, current city and app activity.
Facebook won't share information with your friends' apps that you haven't shared with your friends, and you can control which information friends' apps can access through a privacy settings page. But some Facebook users don't realize they're sharing information with app developers this way, or that they can control it.
How Apps Use Information From Your Friends
Access to friends' information makes some Facebook-connected services more useful.
For instance, an app called Banjo, which alerts users when their friends are nearby, asks users to see Facebook friends' hometowns, locations, likes and education histories. It uses this information to figure out which friends are most relevant. Friends' information enables the app to be selective about when it sends alerts. A similar app called Glancee also asks for access to information on friends' profiles.
Christy Liu, co-founder of a travel recommendation engine called Wanderfly, tells Mashable relevance is also a factor in why that site asks for access to Facebook friends' information.
"Specifically, it helps us identify which friends you might want to follow and get recommendations from," she says. "For example, I might be more interested in travel recommendations from a friend who also lives in NYC than someone who lives in a small town somewhere across the world."
Some Facebook-connected services, such as recently launched people search engine Ark, base a large portion of their functionality upon access to your friends' profile information. Ark, for instance, lets uses search their own friends by criteria such as current city, gender, language, hometown or employer.
How to Control What Information Friends' Apps Can Access
Users can block their friends' applications from accessing some information, but not everybody realizes these settings exist.
"It's hidden deep in Facebook," Israel-based entrepreneur Avi Charkham tells Mashable. "As a matter of fact, you can't even link directly to a page with those settings."
To raise awareness of this option, Charkham created a new website, which consists of just one link: the Facebook privacy setting for blocking friends' apps (he linked to the mobile version of the page).
Users can access this settings page on their own by opening their privacy settings, clicking "edit settings" next to "apps and websites," and then clicking the same option next to "How people bring your info to apps they use." Charkham's site just gives them a shortcut.
Providing a direct link seems like a small effort, but it has been well-received in the past. Earlier this year, Charkham made another website with shortcuts to app permission pages on popular social networks. The site took off. More than 400,000 people visited the site, and a link to it was retweeted more than 34,000 times.
"Most of all, it opened my eyes to how lost and helpless people feel when it comes to privacy," Charkham says of the simple site's popularity.
What You Won't Be Able to Control From the Privacy Settings Page
The only way to become completely invisible to friends' apps is to revoke all app access to your profile — meaning you will no longer be able to play Facebook games or use apps. Otherwise, your name, profile picture, gender, networks and user ID as well as any information you make public on your profile is available to friends' applications.
Facebook notes this default in its statement of rights and responsibilities: "When you publish content or information using the Public setting, it means that you are allowing everyone, including people off of Facebook, to access and use that information, and to associate it with you (i.e., your name and profile picture)."
Facebook's Platform Policies, however, stipulate that "a user's friends' data can only be used in the context of the user's experience on your application," so applications aren't allowed to share information they learn about you via your Facebook friends with anyone but your Facebook friends — who could technically access it anyway.
A Fair Trade?
To some, the exchange of some profile information for utility seems a fair one. Others, like Charkham, are offended by it. "It's basically 'outsourcing' my privacy to my friends and letting them decide who gets access to my private info," he says.
Are you grateful for the increased social capabilities that sharing information with Facebook friends' apps provides, or will you be blocking such access? Let us know in the comments.


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READ about Piers Morgan's long career in journalism here.
Judge, creator and executive producer of the U.S. version of "The X Factor" Simon Cowell is a guest on "Piers Morgan Tonight" this evening at 9pmET/PT, ahead of the launch of the new show tomorrow. "It is the biggest moment of my career," Cowell tells Piers Morgan. "I kind of knew what I was getting involved in before we did this, but you're never quite prepared for it."
Cowell also compared the U.K. hit version with this new American version.
"It has its own personality," he said. "And I've been quite cautious about saying to people how they're going to feel about it...you've got to discover this show."
Watch the full interview tonight 9pmET/PT – also on the show, his fellow judge Nicole Scherzinger.
What is going on with Simon Cowells eyes!!!!!!!!!!!!! Is it just too much make up or has he been under the knife again!!
That's it Piers. I'm done. I've really been wanting to like your show, but I've come to realize what it really is. You do realize that this show airs in the US, right? I'm sure that all these British guests are very interesting to you, but I've had it. I'll be honest, I did really like the Ricky Gervais interview, and a few others were mildly interesting, but you're obviously making a show you would want to watch, without regard for your audience. Assuming that your show has an audience evenly distributed among all English-speakers (obviously not true, given that CNN is American, but meh), British people make what, 5% of that total? Yet they are something like 50% of your guests. Why?
I suppose you could persuade me to watch again, but it's going to take a gesture on your part indicating that the show is something other than an opportunity for you to meet your personal heroes. A month free of British guests would be quite the breath of fresh air, methinks. Otherwise, you might as well just rename it "Piers Morgan Interviews Yet Another Popular but Unimportant British Narcissist."
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Simon Cowell is the biggest closet Queen on TV. When he reaches about 60 he will regret not coming out.
But of course Piers wouldn't ask any difficult questions being a friend and employee of Simon Cowell.
Did she say she has a Grandpa who was/is a Catholic Priest? Interesting....
Mr. Morgan, I wish your video clip here would show the hilarious condescending exchanges between you & Simon Cowell ! lol , I thought his remarks on your twitter were really funny....And by the way, his left hand moves are pretty feminine...
Wow Simon's face is so Botoxed it's frozen. Why people do that to themselves is beyond comprehension to me. They think people won't notice they have work done on their faces? Come on.
He looks so bad:)))
But speaking to People, Cowell revealed that the US network Fox actually asked for another season of the reality show, although he decided to take a step back.
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This week, the House Oversight Committee held a hearing to discuss the role of federal regulations on hydraulic fracturing and natural gas development in the United States. And while committee members and panelists varied in their positions, one resounding fact was clear: The safe development of America's natural gas supply is pivotal to the health and stability of our nation.
In Pennsylvania – a state endowed with an immense reserve of natural gas – state regulators have stepped up to the plate, putting in place forward-leaning regulations so that energy resources are developed in a safe and responsible manner that protects the continued health of our environment, water, and communities. And by constantly updating the regulatory framework, Pennsylvania regulators under both the Rendell and Corbett Administrations have ensured the continued protection of our ecosystems while developing the energy consumers and the county needs.
From providing clean-burning and affordable energy to customers, to creating jobs and opportunities throughout the community, states are working with industry and other stakeholders to develop our energy resources in a way that we can be proud of. As Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Michael Krancer, emphasized at this week's hearing, Pennsylvania's regulations have played an effective role in keeping oil and natural gas production safe in the Commonwealth for decades, while serving as a model for other states to follow.
More from Secretary Krancer:
"Our ability to unlock the huge clean burning energy source contained in unconventional shale formations has transformed Pennsylvania into an energy exporter and will ultimately move our nation toward energy self-sufficiency. In addition, we are looking at an economic and energy transformation."
"We have already seen tens of thousands of new jobs here in Pennsylvania from the industry itself as well as from new industries spawned to support it. These are good paying career jobs in many fields. And that is just the start. There will be hundreds of thousands more good paying skilled and unskilled jobs in a variety of sectors."
"Pennsylvania's natural gas extraction has dramatically increased over the past few years and we are delivering huge amounts of cheap clean fuel to Americans because of our ability to know our state and regulate and oversee the safe conduct of this activity within our state better than anyone."
"Pennsylvania regulates oil and gas well operations under several statutes including the Oil and Gas Act of 2012, the Clean Streams Law, the Air Pollution Control Act, the Dam Safety and Encroachments Act and the Solid Waste Management Act. As described in more detail to follow, this network of laws and their associated regulations provides the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) with the tools it needs to comprehensively regulate everything associated with oil and gas development – from locating the well site, site preparation, drilling the well, fresh water withdrawals and water storage, wastewater management, and site restoration."
"According to STRONGER, 'the Pennsylvania program is, over all, well-managed, professional and meeting its program objectives.' I would go beyond that and say that Pennsylvania has done an exceptional job managing the new challenges that shale gas development presents while allowing our citizens to enjoy the enormous benefits created by this industry."
"The promise for the future is even brighter as this and other domestic energy sources can unlock an economic renaissance that America can lead. I can tell you unequivocally that the federal government could not have implemented and executed what we have done, and done very well, right here in Pennsylvania."
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Christine Quinn's failed campaign to become New York City's first out-LGBT and female mayor has aroused a debate about whether we have moved beyond identity politics and into a "post-gay" political universe.
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City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, once the most bitter of foes, stood side by side in front of City Hall on Tuesday as she backed him for mayor, sealing the endorsement with a hearty hug.
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UPDATE: Seton Hall campus in N.J. mourns shooting victims
EAST ORANGE, N.J. -- Friends, teachers and fellow students remembered a Seton Hall University student as strong and selfless, hours after she was fatally shot at an off-campus apartment by a gunman who also wounded four others after he was denied access to a party.
The gunman remained at large early Sunday, authorities said.
Some 500 students, faculty and staff attended a Saturday evening prayer service at the school for Jessica Moore, 19. Moore's parents, grandparents and uncle were also on campus, mourning her death and praying for her.
After the service, Christian Powe, who said he and Moore were first classmates and then "real tight" after sharing an oral rhetoric class together, called her someone "you can really open up to."
She was nicknamed "Tennessee," he said, a nod to her roots there, and said she was a fan of the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers, texting him the scores of their games when he couldn't watch them on TV.
He had returned from a college retreat in Pennsylvania for the prayer service.
"She had a magnetic personality," he said.
Moore had been at the party early Saturday when a fight started after a man was kicked out because he didn't want to pay the cover charge, said a student who said she attended the party and had classes with Moore. The woman did not give her name, citing fears for her safety because the shooter was not in custody.
She said the man came back and began firing, sending screaming partygoers rushing out the door and climbing out windows.
The other four victims were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, and one was released, said East Orange Police Sgt. Andrew Di Elmo.
The victims did not know the shooter, who fled from the apartment on foot, Di Elmo said. Police offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to the suspect's capture.
Police said that two of the wounded are both 19-year-old women who go to Seton Hall, and one is a 25-year-old man who attends the New Jersey Institute of Technology. The fifth victim is a 20-year-old man from New York City who is not a student.
Seton Hall, a private Catholic university in nearby South Orange, about 15 miles west of New York City, enrolls about 10,000 students.
Moore was a sophomore honors student from Disputanta, Va., majoring in psychology, said the university's interim president, Gabriel Esteban, who appeared to be on the verge of tears during a news conference on campus.
Police were not releasing the other victims' names because the shooter wasn't in custody, Di Elmo said.
Mary Williams, a 59-year-old retiree who lives next door, said she was in bed when she heard the gunshots, and she called 911.
"I seen people scattering, climbing out the window, trying to get out the front door, back windows, a lot of hollering and screaming," Williams said in a telephone interview.
A number of people who fled the house sought refuge at a White Castle restaurant down the street, said Vanie Estime, an employee there.
"I was doing the drive-in and I heard screaming through my headset," she said.
The apartment is less than a mile from the university. Well-kept row homes line the street, but a main cross street leads to a tougher part of town.
The school's Department of Public Safety urged students to "travel in groups when walking off campus."
Student Connor McCormick, of Colchester, Vt., said the school sends campuswide e-mails whenever a mugging occurs.
"We probably get one a week," said McCormick, 19, adding than when students go off campus, "You don't walk alone."


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After several years of budgets that have had minimal increases or even decreases, Waitsfield Elementary School is anticipating a budget increase of 6.28 percent for the 2013-2014 school year.
"These increases are not reflective of additional programming or curriculum, but are primarily a result of fixed costs. 2.6 percent (well over 1/3) of the increase is a result of raised predicted insurance rates from our provider VEHI. We have not experienced this level of increase in many years," explained school principal Kaiya Korb.
An additional 2.3 percent, comprised of increases in nursing staff and special education contracted services, is to meet the needs of a few students. Increased transportation costs and preschool partnership tuition (incurred when the preschool is at capacity) comprise an additional .97 percent increase.
Less than 1 percent of the increase (.66 percent) is an amalgamation of salary changes that includes a reduction of a teacher at third/fourth grade, the addition of a one-year kindergarten teacher in response to a large incoming class, increases in salary as a result of negotiations and professional development compensation, and a slight increase in paraprofessional staff.
"This year, as in past, the school board and administration are committed to building a budget that is sustainable for our taxpayers while responsible to our students. As most of the increases outlined are predetermined or required, the only means for achieving a smaller budget would be to eliminate programming. Reduction of a 3rd/4th grade teaching position is already planned in an effort to build as lean a budget as possible and respond to the slight drop in enrollment that we've experienced over the past few years. Further paring would look like the elimination of a program, a step that compromises the commitment to the whole student that Waitsfield School has made over the years," Korb explained.
"The school board has been working hard to maintain the quality of education while containing costs and keeping property taxes from escalating over the last several years. These challenges are being faced throughout our state (and beyond). In 2006, the Vermont state education cost per equalized pupil was $9,769. In Waitsfield, the per pupil cost was slightly higher, at $9,839. While our costs have increased over the years, so has the state average. This fiscal year, our per pupil cost is $13,172, again just slightly higher than the state average of $12,789. Review of per pupil costs from around the state reveal exactly what one might expect; there are cost challenges inherent in running a smaller school," she continued and noted that in the past few years, the school board has
offset tax costs by maximizing revenue opportunities, including special federal funds and fund balances to reduce taxes;
significantly improved the building, resulting in marked energy and cost savings, by accessing grant funding and existing fund balances;
whenever possible, reduced staffing to match school population. A kindergarten classroom was eliminated in response to a dip in enrollment; the preschool also ran a combined 3- and 4-year-old classroom in response to smaller numbers. Over the past five years, special education support staffing dipped as specific needs diminished.
The board has been able to bring forth budgets that led to tax rates that have actually dropped slightly in recent years.
"While there are many revenue factors, set by the state and federal government, that are yet to be finalized, the board of school directors recognizes that the budget draft proposed for next year will not be able to sustain the downward tax trend they have established. However, given the careful and long range planning in which they have been engaged, they do believe that the sustainable stewardship of the school continues to be at play," school board chair Rob Williams said.
"The school board welcomes your opinions and ideas on these topics. This coming Monday, December 19, the school board will meet to review the second draft of the school budget. The meeting, which convenes at 7 p.m. in the school library, is open to the public and provides an excellent opportunity both to become informed on the proposed budget and to share your thoughts and input. Now, more than ever, your input and involvement is needed as we work to continue to shape and fund our children's educational experiences," he added.


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GOLDEN GIRL: This year's Miss Golden Globe Francesca Eastwood was the guest of honor at the World Gold Council's lunch to kick off this week's Globes festivities. The first event held at Chateau Marmont's newest venue, Selma House, the luncheon featured all manner of gold baubles from jewelers like Neil Lane, who was also in attendance.
Eastwood, the daughter of Clint Eastwood and Frances Fisher, chatted animatedly about her duties for this weekend. "I'm a bit nervous to be on camera all the time, since I'll be handing out all the awards on stage, but I'm also very excited." She said she also has older sister Alison, a former Miss Golden Globe, to look to for advice, as well as Fisher, who is also "my best acting coach."
The budding actress plans to wear a white Pronovias dress on the red carpet Sunday, and an ice blue Armani gown for the awards show. For lunch, she chose a red and blue taffeta Armani frock accessorized with her own Equipment cashmere sweater plus two custom Jennifer Meyer necklaces — both gold, of course.
Eastwood has had a busy few months, having just wrapped the thriller "Final Girl," directed by her boyfriend, Tyler Shields, who was also her lunch date. "It's coming out at the end of the year," he added. She is also set to be the new face for Too Faced cosmetics, whose fall ad campaign will be shot soon.


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Shuck looking to build on solid 2013 season
TEMPE, Ariz. -- Angels outfielder J.B. Shuck is in Spring Training trying to earn a spot as a reserve outfielder. This after the 26-year-old put up some solid numbers in 2013, hitting .293 in 129 games with eight stolen bases and 39 RBIs.
Shuck said he learned a lot about what it's like to be in the Majors every day. He spent the winter working out more and refining his swing to come into camp ready to keep his place on the big league roster.
Shuck worked out with a trainer on his mobility and flexibility, and feels he's in better shape this year.
"I try and do my thing. I don't really focus on who else is in camp or who else is trying to compete for the same spot as I am," Shuck said. "I just go and try to do what I can, and if it's good enough, it will get me there. If not, I'll keep working."
Shuck isn't resting on his laurels from his production last season, telling himself he has to earn a spot on the team again. The Angels have two other veteran outfielders with significant Major League experience in camp vying for a backup job -- Brennan Boesch and Collin Cowgill.
The key to his success last season, he feels, was not trying to do too much.
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Criminal informants provide important information to the justice system, but they also pose serious risks. We hope this website will help attorneys, journalists, advocates, and families to better understand this vital area of public policy.
Criminal informants are famously unreliable. Jailhouse snitch testimony often leads to wrongful conviction. Over 45 percent of all innocent people exonerated from death sentences were wrongfully convicted based on the testimony of a lying criminal informant. This makes snitches the leading cause of wrongful conviction in U.S. capital cases.
Police sometimes use children as young as 14 as informants. These children may be exposed to drugs, violence, and other criminal activities as they work to get information for their handlers. Some have been killed. California and New Jersey have laws restricting the practice: in other states police have discretion to use juvenile informants.
Some informants are serious criminals who receive leniency for their own crimes. The FBI has been known to use murderers as informants. Many jurisdictions permit drug dealers to continue selling drugs in exchange for cooperation. In 2011, the crimes committed by FBI informants alone totaled over 5,600.
Informants are a staple of drug enforcement. This means that where drug enforcement is heaviest, informant activity is also heaviest. Because drug arrests occur disproportionately in low-income African American neighborhoods, those residents must live with the crime, violence, and distrust that go with criminal informant use.
Many states are rethinking their criminal informant policies. Some have passed laws restricting the use of jailhouse snitch witnesses. Some have created new rules for disclosure and accountability. The U.S. Congress is considering a number of reforms that would improve transparency and safety. In the future, the laws governing criminal informants will likely look very different than they do today.


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This blog isn't about telling people that they should be obsessed with clothes, that they should dress like a parade of corporate clones or that they can't show their personality in their wardrobe choices. In fact, far from it: it's meant to be some words of advice from a fellow man on how you can tweak and upgrade your wardrobe without requiring a great deal of time or money (and, I also throw random, interesting stuff on here as well, such as biometric wallets, just for interest's sake). There's not one way of looking good, and it always annoys me when websites and forums claim that there is – with that said, there are some things that I believe are mistakes that do guys no favours and I believe there are certain basic rules that will serve you well.
Occasionally I'll check my inbox and find a message from someone about this blog, asking me either: a) to post more (thanks, I really do appreciate the encouragement, please keep it coming – I'll try to post more); or, b) asking for some sort of general sartorial guidance. This post is my attempt to kill two birds with one stone. These are my general rules for dressing – some of them I've gleaned from various books, my father and grandfather, or other sources; some should be obvious and yet I see them gone wrong all the time; others are because I'm a bit nit-picky; and still others are just things that I've adopted and I've found to work well. The common thread is that following these rules have helped to prevent me from at least looking like a jackass, which, as I've stated in the past, is one of the major goals of this blog. I'm hoping this article will be something that I update and add to regularly, so feel free to send in suggestions and check back regularly (I'll post on Twitter, @oneguysstyle, whenever I make a significant addition).
Without further ado, here are an assortment of rules that I follow to jackass-proof my wardrobe, along with my reasoning for them. I've also divided them into categories – things you absolutely have to get right, things that you probably should get right, and things that may take your style game up that extra notch.
1. Fit is everything
It doesn't matter what the label says; how much you paid for it; how much the retail price was; what store you bought it in.; or, what the "working for commission" sales associate said. If it doesn't fit (and cannot be made to fit), it's not worth it. That goes for suits, shirts, pants, jackets, belts or whatever else you can think of. A Uniqlo shirt can look better on you than a Brunello Cucinelli shirt, simply because the former fits better than the latter. Outside of Sweden, guys tend to wear clothes that are too big for them. I'm 6'2″, 175lbs and grandmas and aunts have long sent me "Large" sized clothes. In actuality I wear "medium" in most brands – use this as your benchmark. Just because you're over 6'0″ doesn't make you a "Large" (although it may make you a "tall", depending on the length of your arms and torso). Wearing clothes that are too big for you make you look sloppy; and, contrary to common belief, they are no more comfortable than clothes that actually fit you.
The good news is, if you do have clothes that don't fit (especially shirts) than a good tailor can likely work wonders (more about this in a minute). I've had shirts that I've bought (knowing full well that I'd be taking them to my tailor) that I could almost make a second shirt out of with the excess fabric – the only thing that fit when I got them was the collar. Don't live your life trying to find ways to tuck in extra shirt fabric, or trying to keep pants from sliding down your ass, or looking like your jacket is wearing you rather than the other way around. Either don't buy clothes that fit like that in the first place, or, if you already have, take them to a tailor. Clothes that fit will make you look slimmer, taller, more professional, sexier and better proportioned. There's not attribute on that list that you don't want. It's really as easy as figuring out what fits and buying it (or having things altered to fit) – but I constantly see men that have ignored this rule. If you take nothing else from this list, at least understand the importance of Rule 1. Check out the pictures above. Clearly they represent something of a caricature, but it's immediately clear to everyone when someone is wearing things that fit and when they're not.
2. Find a tailor and understand what he or she can and can't do
People associate tailors almost entirely with suits. This is like associating football entirely with quarterbacks – sure, they're the most recognizable member of the team, but there are 50 other guys out there as well. In the same way, to simply go to the tailor to have your suits fit is to barely skim the surface of their capabilities. To whit, I recently purchased a polo shirt from a well-known manufacturer. I have a few of their shirts already, all in a particular size (they don't use the typical "small", "medium", "large" sizing). I happened across a sale, was in a hurry and simply grabbed a shirt in what has always been my size and didn't try it on. Unbeknownest to me, this particular maker has introduced a new fit and their sizes are now a little bit different than before – which meant that I now own a polo shirt that swamps me, that I can't return. I took it to my tailor and, $12 later, I have a polo shirt that fits perfectly and I was even able to customize certain details of the shirt. At first this may seem ludicrous (tailoring a polo shirt? Really?). However, think of it this way. Before, I had an article of clothing that was essentially worthless to me – I couldn't return it, and I would never wear it because it didn't fit. Now, I have a polo shirt that I will wear, and fits me perfectly – $12 very well spent, in my opinion, as it saved a $35 investment from becoming worthless. Think of it this way: every pair of dress pants you buy needs to be tailored, just like every suit. If a shirt doesn't fit perfectly, it needs to be tailored. I've tailored jeans that I liked, got a great deal on and wanted to keep, despite the fact that they didn't quite fit (they now fit perfectly). I've had my tailor repair jeans and shirts that had ripped, thereby reviving some of my favourite articles of clothing. You can have ties narrowed, sleeves and armholes repositioned or narrowed, custom articles of clothing made, even t-shirts recut, sometimes for the price of buying you and a friend venti americanos and a muffin from Starbucks. More importantly, they can take something you never wear, that lingers in the back of your closet like a spectre because you don't like how it fits, what it looks like, or a certain thing about it and make it your "go-to" article of clothing. Sometimes, you can go shopping in your own closet and find things that, with a little work, can be made new.
The only caveat is this: you need to know what a tailor can't do. They can't really do much for suits that don't fit in the shoulders (so, make sure your suits fit there; you can do some tailoring to the body of the suit, if need be). They can't remove shoulder pads, or reduce them. They can't really adjust the collar size of a shirt. They can only work with the material you give them (i.e. you can't have pants let out if there's no material to let them out with. You can't have pants lenghtened without material being there to do it.). It's tough to adjust the rise of pants too substantially. There is a limit to how many sizes they can take an article of clothing down (sorry, but those size 42 pants cannot be made into 32s… The two back pockets will become one back pocket). Sweaters aren't really their speciality. Re-working sleeves with functioning buttons is a problem (as it's tough to move already made buttonholes without leaving very visible marks). So is substantially lengthening or shortening a jacket (the pockets will now be in a slightly odd position, and it's expensive). Just like Superman had his limitations (kryptonite), so do tailors – in my experience, Superman is the most apt comparision for a great tailor.
3. Wear a tie darker than your shirt, 95% of the time
– This is a good experiment: walk into the suit section of Tip Top, Men's Warehouse or other down-market men's retailers – your eyes will be greeted with dress shirts in a ROY G. BIV assortment of colours. Mannequins will be rocking solid black, red, green, dark purple and even orange dress shirts. Then head over to one of the finer men's stores in your area; I'll toss out Harry Rosen, Niemen Marcus, Barney's… any of those would be fine. Now check out what colour shirts the mannequins and floor displays have on – I guarantee that at least 90% will be wearing shirts where the predominant colour is either white or blue (they may have red, purple, pink, green, orange or any other colour represented via stripes or checks, but the shirt will almost definitely be rooted in white or blue). This isn't an accident – solid black, red, orange, green and dark purple are not colours for dress shirts, unless you work as a magician in Vegas. For whatever reason, it looks better when your tie is darker than your shirt, and these colours generally make this difficult. They're also tough colours to match and they're definitely not traditional for business or just about any other form of social interaction. This isn't to say that you can't wear solid shirts in colours other than white or blue; pink and lavender can be nice colours for shirts. However, stick with pale rather than dark shades, and pair with a tie in a colour darker than your shirt (navy, dark grey, etc). Furthermore, I have no problem if you're going to cocktail party in a dark space at night and want to wear a black dress shirt with a black suit and no tie (see Bradley Cooper on the left). If it's nighttime and dark, and drinks are in the hands of many, then black may be an option (again, skip the tie) – but the look on the right is a train wreck. Ties and black shirts do not go together, especially at the office.
4. Suit, shoes, tie and then shirt should be your focus in terms of allocating your attention and resources
A nice suit is something you need and is the most noticeable part of your business or formal wardrobe. Plus, a suit is versatile, as it can be worn without a tie, just as a jacket with jeans or slacks, etc, or even the pants with a shirt and sweater. Suits are also the most difficult thing to get right. Shoes are the next most important as bad shoes can destroy a look, even if you have a nice suit, tie and shirt. Shoes can also be quite expensive and often demand a significant investment (although, if you purchase quality shoes, this investment should last a lifetime). Ties come third as a nice tie will get you noticed positively, and a bad tie will immediately get you noticed negatively – if you're diligent, you can often find nice ties at relatively low prices without sacrificing quality (eBay, Holt Renfrew Last Call, Saks Off 5th Avenue, Century 21, etc, can be excellent sources for high quality ties at bargain prices). Furthermore, if you don't own many suits, having a range of ties will make it seem like you have a wide ranging wardrobe. Finally, shirts should be your last area of focus, as you can find nice shirts quite easily at good prices (see my articles about Shirts (here) and TM Lewin (here)). The importance of shoes should really be underlined (I thought about putting them first). Don't fall into the trap of spending $150 on shoes and $140 on a shirt. Spend $40 on a TM Lewin shirt, as per my post here, and $250 on the shoes (for some info about choosing shoes, read this post.
5. Don't wear black suits or ties (or shirts) to work
Simply put, black is not traditional business wear, beyond shoes and belts. A black suit doesn't look good under artificial light (and is susceptible to, and looks worse after, fading more than any other colour). Black ties are too formal for most workplaces (unless your job is hosting the Oscars, working at a funeral home or raising barns on the weekends with your Amish buddies). And, as I discussed earlier, don't even think about wearing a black dress shirt to any workplace. Black is one of the hardest colours to match shirts and ties to. Choose navy, charcoal grey, mid-grey, light grey, dark brown or even khaki or beige (in the summer time) for suits before you go with black. This is especially important if you only have one or two suits, as your goal should be to maximize the number of colour combinations you can wear with your limited suit wardrobe. That said, black is great when it comes to evening activities; for suits, ties or shirts. So if you're going out for a night on the town, as a 5th or 6th suit, or you'd like to wear it for other occasions that aren't business related, think about black. But unless you work as a chaplain or are going door to door for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (or were given the suit as wardrobe for your role in 'Book of Mormon'), go with navy or charcoal for your suits at the office, and skip black shirts and ties.
6. Shoes polished. Always.
When I was in university and needed a pair of brown dress shoes, I found a pair of Brown's Shoe Store's private label shoes on sale and bought them. I couldn't afford much more than a $75 investment and these looked nice enough for what they were and served me well. Being that my grandfather and father have instilled in me a pseudo fanaticism about keeping shoes polished, I made sure that they sparkled when I wore them. Amazingly, my $75 shoes got lots of compliments. I've since upgraded my shoe collection, but nonetheless, these experiences underline something vitally important – you can make decent shoes look substantially better when you take the time to keep them polished. I actually still have the shoes in my closet (the uppers remain in good shape, and, as they were glued, it was the soles that went first – I resoled them and they're now my rainy day shoes). Conversely, you can make nice shoes look like cheap shoes if you do not polish them. Polished shoes will set you apart from the rest of the dull-shoed masses and undoubtedly engender compliments. How else can you upgrade your wardrobe for $3 (the price of a tin of shoe polish) and ten minutes of your time?
7. The bottom button of a two or three-button suit should always be left undone. The top button of a shirt worn without a tie should always be left undone too.
Not only is this the modern way of wearing suits, but, more importantly, suits are actually cut with the assumption that you will leave that button undone. If you do it up, it will often result in a pull at that button and change the balance of the suit. If you're wearing a dress shirt (or casual button down, or polo shirt) without a tie, then leave the top button undone. If you're not wearing a tie, then clearly the occasion is at least mildly informal, so you don't need to do that button up. I realize that it's hipster-chic to do these buttons up, but, at least in my mind, it doesn't work for the majority of guys trying for this look. If you want to add formality to your outfit, wear a jacket, don't do it with that damn top button. To my eyes, doing up the top button makes you look about as uptight as a nun in Vegas. Even the guys on The Big Bang Theory don't do up their top buttons, and that's a strong statement.
8. Step away from the cell phone belt holster
We get it, you have an iPhone, Galaxy or BlackBerry. So do most 11 year old girls. I'm sure you're a very important man, who gets very important emails from very important people. That's great. The good news is, those emails still manage to get to your phone when it's in your pocket. This applies in equal measure to your pants pocket and your suit jacket pocket – you really don't need to display your BlackBerry like you're Wyatt Earp in Tombstone. I'll make an occasional exception for individuals with holsters who wear suit jackets that will cover the holster, but grudgingly. Unless you're a time traveller from 5 years ago and are stuck with a BlackBerry with a side scroll wheel, than your phone will be slim enough to be in your pocket with no discomfort, I can assure you. I covered this growing societal issue before here.


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Student hit on Greenwood crosswalk
Boy on his way to school, police say
A seventh-grader is at a Little Rock hospital after he was hit by a car on the way to school Thursday, authorities said.
Police said the boy was hit at a crosswalk where the speed limit is 45 mph. 4029 News learned there was no cross-guard watching the area when the student was hit.
"(The driver) said she didn't see him until he was right in front of her," said Will Dawson, of the Greenwood Police Department.
Police said the school's policy is to have cross-guards at crosswalks from 7:30 until 8:30 a.m., but the accident happened about a half-hour earlier.
"(The guard) did get here at 7:30 a.m., and she was visibly upset about the incident," Dawson said.
Police said the student felt he was to blame.
"He felt that it was his fault that he came to school early. He wanted to come to school early," Dawson said.
The student was taken to surgery for a broken wrist and leg.
Police said the city cannot change the speed limit where the accident happened because the crosswalk is on a state highway outside of the school zone.


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The week in review
Biggest discovery: UVA scientists are part of a Large Hadron Collider team in Europe that finds what may be the Higgs boson– a.k.a. the "God particle"– believed to give mass to every other particle in existence and essential to the formation of the universe.
Grimmest headline: "DEQ reports pollution 'everywhere we look'" from a Daily Progress story on an additional 840 miles of streams and rivers, 100 acres of lakes, and two square miles of estuaries added to Virginia's impaired waters list. And a StreamWatch study finds that about 70 percent of Rivanna streams do not meet state clean water standards.
Latest extreme weather casualty: A contractor in his 40s from Tennessee working with Comcast July 7– a day in which the temperature reached 105 degrees– in the Glenaire neighborhood in Ivy complains to his partner that the heat is really bothering him around 7pm and goes to sit and drink water. He disappears, and an Albemarle Sheriff's search and rescue volunteer finds him dead around 10pm under a bush in a resident's yard. There were no signs of foul play.
Longest wait for electricity: Esmont still has 950 households without power July 8– nine days after the June 29 derecho. Appalachian Power whittles that number down to 570 by noon July 9 and to 189 that evening.
Perennial question after a major power loss: Why aren't the electric lines buried? City councilors Kristin Szakos and Dede Smith ask; Dominion issues its standard reply: It would cost billions.
Unanswered question: How much did businesses and individuals lose in the most recent outage?
Worst place to try to take a load off: Five benches are removed from Central Place on the Downtown Mall because a certain drunken, profanity-spewing, ready-to-brawl, and aggressive-panhandling segment of the population was creating a sense of unease among business owners and patrons, Graham Moomaw reports in the DP.
Worst mud-bogging accident: Carol Dennis "Chuck" Engel Jr., 45, of Goochland County dies at an event on Haislip Farm in Fluvanna July 7. According to the Fluvanna County Sheriff's Office, Engel had finished a run, veered off course, and overturned into a nearby pond. Officials suspect a medical condition or mechanical malfunction caused the experienced driver to lose control of his pickup.
Saddest loss to UVA athletics: Orthopedic surgeon Frank McCue, a.k.a. "Doc," who ran UVA's sports medicine program for more than 40 years, dies July 8 at age 82.
Saddest loss to architecture: Jay Dalgliesh, of Dalgliesh, Gilpin, and Paxton, best known for his historic renovations and homes tailored for client and location, dies July 5.
Biggest donor on UVA's Board of Visitors: John L. Nau III has written checks totaling more than $11.5 million, according to Ted Strong in the DP.
Biggest riprap flap: Charlottesville says Stonefield developer Edens is in violation of its erosion and sedimentation permit for not putting rocks– the riprap– on both sides of a 72-inch stormwater drainage pipe that crosses land owned by the U.S. Post Office, Pepsi, and Seminole Square before unplugging the pipe. Edens put riprap on the postal land, but contends it's not responsible for installing riprap on land it doesn't control and is appealing the violation at a Planing Commission hearing July 10. Charlottesville Tomorrow has the story.
Best national appearance by a local photographer: Billy Hunt will be on NBC's Today show Sunday, July 15, with his Screamotron 3000– a converted boombox that takes a picture when you scream.
Best get: The Dalai Lama makes his third visit to Charlottesville October 11 (here previously in 1979 and again 1998). He will speak at a medical conference at the Paramount Theater and to the public at nTelos Wireless Pavilion.
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RIP, Dr McCue.
Dr. McLaughlin operated on my elbow, but Dr. McCue started me out on my physical therapy. I think it was he that showed me his beer stein that had a 5 lb weight attached to the bottom and showed me how that worked for a speedy recover.
Doc took care of me back in the old days. I had a severe pain in my right foot and he looked at my foot, had me walk up and down the hall a few times, looked at it again and told me to have a seat that he would be right back. He came back with an inch high cotton pad in the shape of the heel of a shoe. He told me to put it my right shoe and walk on until it was completely flat. He said if that doesn't solve your problem, we will have to amputate the leg at the knee! After I turned ashen, he said, "only kidding." A month later the cotton
pad was worn flat and the pain in my foot was gone.
RIP Doc, Welcome to the Big Football Game in the Sky
Clearly a doctor who deserves praise but Hook, cease the hokey "passes", this man "died."
(Passes-for what? a touchdown?)


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THE PARTY A departure from last year's five-parties-in-five-days approach, Miami magazine ushered in its sixth anniversary with a celebration at Hyde Beach at the SLS South Beach, where it gathered guests, readers and clients in one smooth social swoop. THE GUESTS More than 250 Miami VIPs turned out to blow out the candles on the magazine's 47th issue (September 2013)—a fact the step-and-repeat wall made clear with its collage of past covers. Glamming up the guest list were some of the women featured in the September edition's "Women of Style" feature, including Katy Stoka, Criselda Breene, Adrienne bon Haes and the one and only Tara Solomon, whose LBD with its impossible-to-miss "VIP" sequin decolletage had many attendees in a fashion tizzy. "You like?" Solomon teased. "It's vintage!" THE DETAILS Soon after entering the party area, guests encountered a 2014 Lexus IS model just steps from the SLS pool. The celebration took over the Hyde Beach space as well as the tree-filled garden fronting the lounge. As attendees mingled and navigated the room, DJ Mad Linx tunes played on, and artist Kazila worked his palette magic with a live painting demonstration. By evening's end, the big question of the night was where to go for dinner at the hotel: sushi at Katsuya or tapas at The Bazaar? Photography by Brett Hufziger/BHUF.COM
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Looking for How to Write a Letter to editor highlighting street and roads problems experiencing water logging during the monsoon season? Here we are with a Letter to editor about water logging problems during monsoon season in metro cities like Delhi.
Letter to editor about water logging problems during monsoon season
Tri Nagar
15 November 2017
The Editor
The Times of India
New Delhi
Subject- Highlighting about water logging problems in Delhi during monsoon season
Through your esteemed newspaper I want to draw the attention of concern authorities towards the problem of water logging in Delhi during every monsoon season.
It was a bit odd to see parts of many streets and roads in Delhi being waterlogged just after a few hours of intermittent rains a few days ago. This shows a major problem with the drainage system in the city. Delhi gets rains like this only for few weeks in a year during every month. But even then the city could not cope with it. The situation was especially bad on the roads below some flyovers. Many drivers had to abandon their cars after being stranded in pools of water. Waterlogging refers to the saturation of soil with water. When new roads are being built, especially in low-lying areas, it is important that a proper drainage system is put in place so that water is quickly drained in case of rain. As being of a capital of India, it is incongruous to see flooded roads after a spell of rain.
Every year the heavy rains make some parts of the city to suffer from waterlogging. The rainwater infrastructure, if it exists at all, is not sufficient to guarantee the drainage of the water so that streets in low-lying areas get inundated. Roads are blocked leading to traffic jams, pedestrians have to wade through flooded streets and especially the urban poor, living in slums or squatters have their homes often damaged by the water, which may take several days to recede. But waterlogging happens everywhere, whether in rich or in poor neighborhoods. Every year newspaper's weather report informed about the exact date when the rains are expected to start and whether the monsoon has brought more or less rain than in the years before in spite of that concerned authorities failed to manage the situation.
Our MCD has enough resources to manage the situation, but improper garbage dumping by the public and the failure of the MCD is one of the main reasons for sewers getting choked with garbage which exacerbates water logging. Because of waterlogging people has to face lots of problems like road accidents even causes death sometimes, Traffic Jams, increase mosquitoes and so on. We hope that Public Works Authority will take the water logging problem seriously and adopt new practices and measures to prevent such problems in future.
Yours sincerely
Pooja Bhushan
Source- http://www.waterandmegacities.org


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Skydivers Compete in Wingsuit Race to Earth
This video takes racing to a whole new level. Usually, competitors run, bike or swim to a finish line to achieve victory. Hooray! However, in this video, it takes a little bit more than that to get to the end…
Wingsuits are just completely crazy. Say goodbye to the regular old race where running is usually anywhere from five to 10 miles per hour. With these suits, it's been said that skydivers can get up to 140 miles per hour… and that's without a vehicle.
Once reaching the ground and landing, the contestants are not done… there's still a finish line waiting to be crossed.
The video was put together by Devin Graham — DevinSuperTramp. All of the shots were taken by cameras mounted on the skydivers' helmets. Pretty cool, isn't it?
Oh, and please, don't try this at home. These people are total professionals.


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