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Sri Lankan chief justice found guilty on 3 counts
A Sri Lankan parliamentary committee has concluded after a much-criticized impeachment hearing that the country's chief justice is unfit to hold office because of unexplained wealth and misuse of power.
Government lawmaker Anura Yapa, who headed the 11-member impeachment committee, told reporters Saturday that they investigated only five of the 14 charges against Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake and concluded that she was guilty of three and innocent of two. Bandaranayake has denied all the allegations.
The committee concluded its hearings despite the absence of Bandaranayake and four opposition party members, who walked out during the week, saying they had no faith in the fairness of the process.
Yapa said Bandaranayake had failed to declare 20 bank accounts, and had purchased a house on behalf of another person and then taken judicial control of several cases filed against the company that sold the property. She also was found to have a conflict of interest because she has supervisory power over judges who are hearing a corruption case against her husband, a former state bank chairman.
"The chief justice has been found guilty of offenses that warrant her removal from office," Yapa said.
The committee's report was presented to Parliament Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa on Saturday. Rajapaksa, the older brother of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, said it will be debated and put to a vote when Parliament reconvenes next year after a break. The result of the voting will be sent to the president, who has the power to dismiss or retain the chief justice.
The impeachment process was much criticized by opposition parties, lawyers and judges, and drew international concern, including from the United States.
Opposition members said the seven ruling party members had rejected what they saw as reasonable requests for establishing a procedure for the hearing and allowing Bandaranayake access to a list of witnesses and a chance to cross examine them.
They said the committee gave Bandaranayake and her lawyers less than 24 hours to study 300 documents and prepare for her defense. Also, in the absence of an agreed procedure, the inquiry was conducted in an ad hoc manner at the will of the majority, they said, adding that remarks made by the government members indicated they had already judged Bandaranayake guilty.
A lawyer representing Bandaranayake said she will not accept the committee's findings because witnesses were called in her absence and the process was hastily concluded late Friday. He spoke on condition of anonymity because public comments on the proceedings are prohibited.
In a statement Friday, U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said the U.S is deeply concerned about actions surrounding the impeachment trial and urged the government to ensure due process.
"These latest developments are part of a disturbing deterioration of democratic norms in Sri Lanka, including infringement on the independence of the judiciary," Toner said.
Lawyers and opposition parties have described the impeachment as an effort to undermine judicial independence and give more power to President Rajapaksa, who effectively controls the 225-member Parliament with two-thirds of its members on his side.
With that majority, the impeachment report is expected to be passed easily.
Bandaranayake was appointed by Rajapaksa as the country's first female chief justice. She began to be heavily criticized by the government after she ruled that a law that gave vast powers to the economic development minister, the president's younger brother, was unconstitutional.


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Today's Blind Items - Chasing Publicity
This actress has been in this space before. A few times. OK, more than a few, but never really for the reason she finds herself back in place now. At some point in the past decade she got addicted to the fame that came with her franchise movie role. She misses the mobs of fans that followed her because of that role. She misses the constant paps and the traveling all over the world promoting it. She is B list, but in a couple of more years as the role begins to fade she is going to drop. I don't think she is going to find a role that can keep her at B list beyond that. She knows this and is trying her best to find a boyfriend that can keep her in the spotlight. She is also doing anything she can to try and stay in the spotlight. A few years ago she latched on to a rich celebrity whose main claim to fame is that he once dated that awful former A+ list reality star. Since that time when he dumped her for someone he was cheating with she jumped into a rebound relationship that was a disaster. She thought they could become a power couple but all that happened is that she ended up spending a great deal of her money on one failed project after the other. She then started cheating on him with some producers in hopes of landing some higher profile movies. Nothing doing. She could get parts, but nothing that was big box office. Fast forward and she got sucked into the vortex of another reality family and thought the male portion of the family was someone who would make a nice boyfriend and keep her in the spotlight. He kept her around a week or two and then dumped her when he found his next week long project. Now she is growing more desperate and latched on to a B+ list mostly television actor and has been dragging him to places he normally doesn't go just so they can get papped together. When he thinks they are going for a quiet dinner she knows won't get them spotted she makes some calls and cuddles real close while the photos are snapped. She has been causing drama and doing all she can to get their relationship noticed. She adores the tabloid coverage and thinks this could be something to keep her in the public eye and make her more attractive in the eyes of producers. It is all calculated and when this guy dumps her, and he will, she will keep looking until she succeeds in her quest to be the most famous person from that franchise.

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Beyonce's halftime show promises to be a 'blue light special'
Chris Strauss, USA TODAY Sports
Every fan in the Superdome will be giving Beyonce the finger at halftime. Two fingers, actually.
Each spectator entering the Super Bowl will find a pack including two small blue "finger flashlights" waiting at their seats, which they've been instructed will be part of the Pepsi Super Bowl Halftime Show Starring Beyonce.
After letting fans know about the lights as they were entering the venue, instructions inside the packet ask the fans to not use the lights until the show and promise that further instructions will be on the big screen just prior to the performance.
Be prepared for over 72,000 fans donning these little guys at halftime.


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Yaskawa America, Inc. Posted 01/31/2010
RIA Chairman, Dean Elkins, speaking from Robotics Industry Forum, January 2010. Mr. Elkins is Senior General Manager of Motoman Inc. (West Carrollton, Ohio) and is the Association's 19th chairman. RIA has been the industrys trade group since 1974 and holds the annual Robotics Industry Forum each year to examine the state-of-the-industry. In this video, Mr. Elkins speaks from the floor of Connectioneering, a VIP networking event during the Forum.


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When Is The Oracle Database View v$sesstat Really Updated?
When Oracle Database Performance Statistics Are Useful
Statistics are meaningful when we understand them and potentially dangerous when we don't. In the Oracle Database performance analysis arena, the instance statistics views (v$[ses,sys]stat) are used quite a bit. While there are many sources describing what a statistic means, what remains elusive is when a statistic is updated. For example, is the execute count updated when a SQL statements starts, ends, or something else?
This posting will provide the answer to when some of the key Oracle Database instance statistics (think: v$sysstat) are updated based on experimental evidence. Plus you can perform the tests yourself. So when does v$sesstat get updated? Interestingly, the answer is, "It depends."
It's a Big Deal When the Statistics Are Updated
While you will hear DBAs talking about when statistics get updated, when this truly becomes something we care about is during long running processes. Especially when there are only a few long running processes. For example, suppose you have long running query that typically takes around 1.75 hours to complete and consumes 2B physical Oracle blocks from the IO subsystem. AND suppose your statistics collection interval is 30 minutes. The table below shows just a few of the possible statistics update scenarios over the six 30 minute periods.
End of each user call. There are three possible user calls; parse, execute, and fetch. (More? Ref #1, Ref #2 ) A query will have a single parse and execute, and potentially many fetches. In this specific example, I'm stating now this query returns only a few rows which requires only a single fetch, resulting in a total of only three user calls. If v$sesstat is updated after each user call, this means nearly all of the physical IO reads will be recorded in period four (P4). Another way of looking at this is if you are monitoring this SQL statement's block reads, you'll see no activity until period four, and then BAM! Surprise! The 2B physical reads will be record in period P4! For quick OLTP activity this wouldn't typically be a problem, but for long running SQL it can be misleading.
End of the statement. No activity will be recorded until period P4 and then BAM! the 2B physical reads will be recorded! Good luck trying to match that with the IO subsystem activity. For quick OLTP statements, this wouldn't typically be a problem.
Every 3 seconds. This is what we would like, as we would see the physical read activity occur pretty much when it actually did occur.
Start of next statement. For OLTP activity, this wouldn't be such a big deal. But suppose the next statement doesn't start for quite a while? And then BAM! all the physical reads will be shown not when the query finished but perhaps a long time after. Not a good reflection of reality.
So what's the real answer? To answer the question I needed to create an experiment...
Let's See What Really Happens: The Experiment
The experimental design is actually quite simple. There are three parts. You can view all three parts in this single text file here.
Part 1 is the application user. That is, this is the code which the "monitoring user" will be monitoring. As you can see here, the code consists of setup (load the table), getting the user's SID (so I know which SID to monitor), and finally the test SQL that I will be monitoring. I run this is a few times so, on my test system, I generally know how long it takes to complete all the SQL. On my system this is about 90 seconds.
Part 2 is the DBA or the monitoring user. After the Part 1 test SQL begins, I will start the monitoring SQL. This SQL is very straightforward: drop the experimental data table, create the experimental table, and then every second sample all the stats from v$sesstat for this application user's SID. Because on my system the application user's SQL takes around 90 seconds to complete, I sampled for 100 seconds, which at a one second interval means 100 samples are collected and stored.
Part 3 is the reporting SQL where I simply select the experimental data that I collected in Part 2. I have various reporting SQL. Some is more visually pleasing and some is better for direct input into my Mathematica notepad used for the actual analysis.
The experiment was run a few times just to ensure the results were consistent... and they were. I detected no differences. In fact, a few months back I performed a similar experiment and the results where the same.
Statistics Analyzed.
Since data for all v$sesstat statistics were collected I can compare when the various statistics are updated. I selected six statistics. I selected them because I use them often in my performance analysis work. Here is the list (statistic #, statistic name, show description):
11. session logical reads. That is, a buffer get (logical IO).
14. CPU used by this session. This is the CPU consumed by the session in centi-seconds.
44. physical read total IO requests. This is the total IO read requests. This is NOT the number of Oracle blocks read but actual IO calls. One Oracle IO request can contain multiple blocks, that is, a multi block read.
72. physical reads. This is the number of Oracle blocks read. This is NOT the number of IO requests, but the number of actual Oracle blocks read as the result of the IO requests.
549. parse count (total). This is the number of parses; hard and soft. I don't know if the "softer" parse is included, which occurs when there is a hit in a session's cursor cache.
554. execute count. This is the number of SQL executions; selects, inserts, updates, delete, and DDL. I have not verified this and will be checked in a later experiment.
Statistics Reporting and initial observation.
For each of the 100 samples, all v$sesstat were collected. But as mentioned above, I only analyzed six statistics.
What I am specifically looking for is when a statistic value changes and relating that back to what the application user's Oracle session was doing (or not doing!). So I want to know what the application user (i.e., the running script) is doing when the statistic value changes. By comparing the statistic value change time stamp with the application SQL timestamp, I can understand when and hopefully why the statistic value changed.
You can look at all the raw experimental results here in this file. If you would like to perform some additional analysis yourself.
You can also download the exported table that contains all the v$sesstat experimental data HERE. It's pretty cool!
When looking at the two data sets below, it is important to know the first query begins at time (STAMP) 85.
Here is an example of the results for statistic physical reads (#72):
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72 80 112270
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72 84 112270
72 85 115034
72 86 137321
72 87 138070
72 88 138756
72 89 139646
72 90 140681
72 91 141596
. . .
Notice that the above statistic value is always changing. Below is an example for the statistic session logical reads (#11):
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11 83 75155
11 84 75155
11 85 77917
11 86 100142
11 87 100142
11 97 100142
11 98 100142
11 99 100142
11 100 118547
11 101 125129
11 102 125129
11 103 125129
11 117 125129
11 118 125129
11 119 129823
11 120 150116
11 121 150116
11 133 150116
11 134 174371
11 135 175103
11 136 175103
11 156 175103
11 157 175103
11 158 175106
11 159 175106
11 160 175106
11 161 175106
11 162 175106
11 163 175109
11 164 175109
11 165 175109
. . .
Notice above how for session logical reads (#11) the statistic values don't constantly change. There must be some event that triggers the value change. Even a quick review of the above data demonstrates instance statistics are updated for different reasons!
Results Analysis.
To understand when and hopefully why a specific statistic is change, we must know what the application "user" is doing at various points in time. Below is a table containing a time identifier (ID), the activity time stamp (Time), and the related activity (Activity 1, Activity 2). Take a moment and scan through this table.
For example, at time 85 (ID A) the big query starts and at time 100 (ID B) it completed and then was immediately run again. After it completed the second time at time 114 (ID C) there was a five second sleep period (dbms_lock.sleep(5)) and when the sleep completed (ID D), the big query started once again...
Now let's look at what occurred from a time, application user, and instance statistic perspective. Looking at the plot below, you can see the horizontal axis is time and the IDs along with their associated time stamps are clearly labeled. The vertical axis contains either the application activity event (Appl) or a specific instance statistic (e.g., LIO, CPU) change. Each blue dot represents a change occurred; either an application activity or a statistic value change.
Even a quick glance at the above plot clearly shows that various instance statistics are updated at different times. For example, physical IO block reads (PIO rds) are updated very often in contrast to executions (exec) which are updated infrequently. To really understand what is occurring we need to compare when a statistic change occurred in conjunction with what the application is doing. Also, it may be helpful to reference the raw experimental data. As I mentioned above, you can look at all the raw experimental results here in this file HERE.
Specific Statistics Analysis.
Let's look closely at each of the instance statistics analyzed.
Logical IOs.
Summary: This experiment indicates the LIOs statistic is updated when the next statement begins. I know, this seems really strange, but this experiment and others I have performed clearly show this to be true.
Basis: Because the big query begins at time 85 (A) and time 100 (B), it initially appears that LIOs are updated when a statement begins and ends. However, if you look closely at when the big query ended at time 114 (C), LIOs are not updated! Rather, five seconds later at time 119 (D) is when the LIOs are updated! It's important to notice that time 119 (D) is after the five second sleep and the next query begins!!! This is not an anomaly because this occurs again at time 158 (G/H): the query ends at time 148 (F). So it's very clear the LIOs are not updated when the query completed or during the query, but when the next statement begins!
So if you are gathering the LIOs statistic for a specific session, make sure to start another statement so the statistic value is updated! Even a "select * from dual" will trigger the LIO statistic update.
CPU Consumption.
Summary: This experiment indicates session CPU consumption is updated when the statement completes.
Basis: For the first few queries (big queries) starting at times 85 (A), 100 (B), 119 (D), and 134 (E), the CPU consumption is updated when the query completes at time 100 (B), 114 (C), 134 (E), and 148 (F) respectively. However, when the small sub-second queries complete (time 158 (G/H), 162 (I/J), 173 (K)) CPU consumption is not updated. Why? My guess is because the small query consumes so little CPU the results rounds to the current number displayed.
So if you are gathering session CPU consumption be aware that the CPU consumption will not be updated until the statement completes.
Physical Reads (PIO).
Summary: The PIO statistic is frequently updated and when a statement completes.
Basis: My experiment showed PIOs where updated during each experimental sample, which occurred every second. And for a sub-second statement (time 158 (G/H)) a PIO change occurred when the query completed; also at time 158 (G/H) which was then followed by a five second sleep.
My experimental queries only required one fetch. Therefore, this experiment also demonstrates a starting or completed fetch is not required for the PIO statistic is updated.
Physical Read Requests.
Summary: The data clearly shows the same behavior as with physical reads (see above).
Parse Count.
Summary: The parse count statistic is updated when the parse occurs.
Basis: It appears that when a parse occurs the statistic is incremented by one and recorded, which is at the beginning of a statement. In my experiment, every application event and activity time contained a parse (even the sleep call requires a parse) and at every activity time the parse count was incremented. Good news if you are counting parses.
Execute Count.
Summary: The execute count statistic is updated as with the parse count (see above).
Important Conclusions.
Even if I have made mistakes in my analysis or my experiment is improved, two points are clear:
1. Instance statistics are not updated at the same time, that is, there are different triggers.
2. My experiments demonstrated four possible statistic value change triggers: when a statement begins (parse and execute), throughout processing (physical IO reads and requests), statement completion (CPU consumption), and when the next statement begins (LIO).
So when do the v$sesstat statistics get updated? As a highly paid consultant would say, "It depends."
Thanks for reading!
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Commissioner Hal Lenobel "strongly opposes" an amendment proposed by the Longboat Key Club and Resort to change a 31-year golf agreement with the town and the way that agreement offers tee times.
The commission reviewed a proposed ordinance Friday, Feb. 12 by the Longboat Key Club and Resort that would amend an agreement between the town and the club to allow guests of the proposed hotel to play golf on the renovated Islandside course.
At the special workshop held in the middle of the Islandside renovation-and-expansion hearing at Temple Beth Israel, Lenobel said he is worried that an amendment proposed by club attorney Jim Syprett does not sufficiently address the rights of playing time for club members and about how the addition of guests from a new hotel at Islandside would affect playing time.
Currently, the agreement allows for tee times and golf course play only by members of the club and guests of the Inn on the Beach.
Syprett presented an amendment Friday that would allow guests of the proposed five-star hotel to use the course as well.
Club members will continue to make tee times on the course at least three days in advance. However, the change proposed by the club involves Inn on the Beach guests asking for tee times two-and-a-half days in advance, and guests at the proposed hotel could make tee times two days in advance.
The club showed statistics that it believes prove that the addition of guests of the new hotel using the course will not create too much play on the Islandside golf course.
But a frustrated Lenobel spoke out against the new amendment. He told Key Club General Manager Michael Welly he thought he had come to an agreement with Welly a day earlier.
"We said guests of the new hotel could make tee times one day in advance," Lenobel said.
Welly, however, said although he agreed with Lenobel on some things the commissioner suggested during their conversation, he did not agree to give guests of the hotel just one day to make a golf reservation.
"We are proposing Inn on the Beach guests to ask for tee times two-and-a-half days in advance and guests at the proposed hotel to make tee times two days in advance," Welly said.
The comment irked Lenobel.
"I am strongly opposed to the amendment proposed and won't support it," Lenobel said.
Islandside Property Owners Coalition attorney Michael Furen said the commission couldn't amend the golf agreement or an open space agreement. Both need to be changed in order to approve the club's Islandside project.
Town Attorney David Persson, however, said the commission has the power to make the changes.
The commission will review a revised golf and open space agreement prepared by David Persson at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 18 during its regular workshop (which starts at 2 p.m.) at Town Hall, 501 Bay Isles Road.
If the commission agrees to bring the amendments forward for approval, the commission can approve the amendments at its next Islandside hearing, scheduled for 8 a.m. Friday, Feb. 19, at Temple Beth Israel, 567 Bay Isles Road.
At that hearing, Planning, Zoning and Building Director Monica Simpson will give her assessment on a revised Islandside project that now calls for the hotel going up one additional floor to 11 stories over one level of parking and the removal of one of the villa unit buildings.
Contact Kurt Schultheis at [email protected].
Commissioner Hal Lenobel "strongly opposes" an amendment proposed by the Longboat Key Club and Resort to change a 31-year golf agreement with the town and the way that agreement offers tee times.


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Videos | December 19, 2013
The Deep Space Network: 50 years of Interplanetary WiFi
On Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, 2013, NASA's Deep Space Network, the world's largest and most powerful communications system for spacecraft, turns 50.
Transcript:Deep Space Network is basically required to do the kind of things that we do in space.
Clearly if you can't talk to your spacecraft and they can't talk to you then there's no point in even sending them out there.
DSN makes everything that we do possible. Imagine landing night for example for Curiosity. Without the Deep Space Network, there'd be no one in there because there would be nothing to see. We would hear nothing from the spacecraft. No touchdown confirmed, no cheering, no nothing.
The Deep Space Network is what helps us figure out where the spacecraft is. We wouldn't even get close to Mars without it.
The Deep Space network comprises of three complexes around the world placed about 120 degrees apart . This insures that we are constantly in touch with the spacecraft as the Earth rotates.
We're today tracking 33 space crafts not only the U.S. space crafts, also the space crafts from other countries.
And remember, this is not only talking to the spacecraft. We have been able to do radar and radio astronomy. And it was the radar on this antenna that actually was used for the men landing on the moon.
50 years ago, director of JPL, Dr. Pickering, and NASA, had established the Deep Space Network to provide communications for all the deep space missions. Rather than having each of the missions build their own ground network.
We used to use big analog recorders for telemetry signals. We used a 2-inch wide tape. In the beginning the first computers we put in we had 64,000 words maximum. And we had to be able to support every mission, NASA missions, other foreign missions, and digital technology and computers allowed that to happen.
If you look at the Cassini mission, we've got a transmitter about an average of 800-900 million miles away. The transmitter is about the power of your refrigerator light bulb and that is what is bringing all these incredible images and data back.
I think it's a resource to be treasured but it's a resource that also needs to be nourished.
We're looking at missions with higher data rate, more complicated missions with more instruments on the missions. We are looking at optical comm, and with optical comm, one day we should have streaming videos. You can see real time rather than a simulation.
We're seeing our success in almost real time and knowing right away, seeing those pictures, all possible because of the DSN.
If there was no DSN, there would be no missions. We always remind the missions, don't leave the Earth without us.


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A benefit basketball game between the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity at HopeCollege and the Holland Police Department will be raising funds for the children of Lori and Ken DeKleine of Holland.
The game will take place on Tuesday, April 22, at 7 p.m. at the college's Richard and Helen DeVos Fieldhouse. All proceeds from the event are being donated to a fund for the children's education.
Lori DeKleine was found murdered at her home on Thursday, Jan. 10. Her husband, Ken, a Holland police officer, has been arrested for the murder and is scheduled to stand trial in July.
The couple had a daughter and son at home. The fraternity has organized the benefit as a way of supporting the children, according to Matthew Day, a fraternity member who is the event's coordinator and a sophomore from St. Clair.
"A tragedy like this hits home, and we wanted to try to do something," Day said. "Hope is a part of the community of Holland, and we thought of a community as being like a family. This event is people helping people, a community family helping its members."
Holland Police Chief John Kruithoff said, "The DeKleine tragedy continues to be very painful for the affected families as well as the HPD staff members and we very much appreciate the care, concern and support offered by the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity and HopeCollege for the DeKleine children. This event will continue to help with the future financial needs for the children."
Tickets for the event are being sold on a donation basis for $3 each - although if purchasers choose to pay more the additional amount that they spend will be contributed to the fund. In addition to contributing the ticket proceeds, the fraternity has also been obtaining additional monetary support for the fund from local businesses.
As an added incentive to encourage audience attendance at the game, Day noted that a variety of area businesses, organizations and individuals are contributing items that will be available as prizes during the event. Contributions from the college, for example, include a one-year membership to the Dow Center and signed basketballs from the college's MIAA-championship football and men's and women's basketball teams.
Entertainment during the game will include activities involving children and students in the crowd and a halftime show. The organizers plan to present a check to a representative of the family at the game's conclusion.
The game will be announced by Dean Kreps, who is head football coach and associate professor of kinesiology at Hope, and fraternity member Taylor Fox, a sophomore from Canton. The refereeing team will include Dr. Scott Vander Stoep, who is associate professor of psychology and chairperson of the department, and Holland police officers.
The college's Tau Septaton Chapter of the national Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity was chartered in 2003 and has 40 members. The fraternity was founded in 1873 at the University of Massachusetts, and now has 86 chapters and a total of 118,000 members nationwide.
The DeVos Fieldhouse is located at 222 Fairbanks Ave., between Ninth and 11th streets. The ticket office, which is located in the building's front lobby, is open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and can be called at (616) 395-7890.
Tickets will also be sold at the door on Tuesday, April 22. In addition, Hope students will also be able to purchase tickets outside of the Phelps Hall dining hall during meal times.


text: At Café NOMA, by Ralph Brennan, food and art meld together in this relaxing and intimate space, nestled among the winding lagoons and lush greens of historic City Park, and located just inside the New Orleans Museum of Art. Treat your taste buds to casual fare, from light bites of artisanal cheeses & charcuterie plates to crisp salads, warm pressed paninis and specialty flatbread pizzas. Step onto the outdoor patio, sip wine with friends, and enjoy the spectrum of artful colors that the park has to offer. Cafe admission is free everyday via the front desk at NOMA – just request a sticker.


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And fun it is not
When you have to take call
With a nose full of snot.
With a throat full of phlegm
The constant clearing (ahem)
And a head full of pain
And a fuzzy clogged brain
It is so hard to round
When you want to fall to ground
Your muscles are mud
With bad bugs in your blood
And you go home to rest
But the ER knows best
And they dial your cell
So you drive back to hell
But your throat feels sore
So you're a Tylenol whore
With boogers you abhor
Give me Sudafed- MORE!
This fucking sucks
Regardless of the bucks
I hate being on call
That is all.


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Hi gurus,
I have a web site that uses the AJAX Control Toolkit v3.020820.28853 and master pages. Everything works absolutely perfectly on my development machine, however when I deploy the site to our test web server it gives an error.
I have a login page which uses Ajax Control Toolkit (but not a master page) and this loads fine. The other pages which all use a master page containing a ToolkitScriptManager throw up a 'AjaxControlToolkit is undefined' error message.
I searched around but cannot find any answer to this. I have the 'Verify file exists' for .axd unchecked in the IIS application config, the date/time on the server is correct, I don't have any OutputCache directives on the pages and I've disabled enableCompression for the scriptResourceHandler in the web.config file.
Has anyone else come across this and possibly know the solution?


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Home eco: Costello digs domesticity
Making art is by nature a personal experience, but it's rare that an artist's work and life offer as seamless a continuum as Patrick Costello's. Like a M¶bius Strip, Costello's daily endeavors–- often focused on growing and preserving food in a sustainable way–- lead to his art, and the ecological ideals of his art lead to his everyday actions. This integration of existence and expression is the key to Costello's beautifully unified exhibit, "Cheer On," currently installed at The Garage.
Comprising geometric paintings–- often with narrative content–- letterpress images, screen prints, and sculptural pieces, the show addresses the efforts people are making to recover an environmentally sound way of living. But rather than wagging his finger and taking the preachy high road, Costello has created a homey show, filled with warmth and nostalgia for planting gardens, recycling worn-out clothes into quilts, and canning homegrown goods. Costello furthers this feeling of grandma's-kitchen comfort with a mix-and-match approach to framing.
The sweetness of his message, though, does not compromise Costello's artistic integrity. The former UVA Aunspaugh fellow combines a flat, linear aesthetic with an interest in textile design. Each piece is distinct, yet Costello threads them together through palette, symbolic repetition, geometric elements, and stylistic flourishes. For example, the hair and beards of his farming figures, which occur in several works, are similar to repeated compost heap images and the textured tops of recurring acorns.
Deftly using a palette dominated by browns, grey-blues, and ochre, Costello's pieces woo viewers with a satisfying symmetry, although small moments of asymmetry keep things lively. For instance in the quilt-like acrylic painting, "The Things We Do to Make Do," the top of a diamond of intersecting dodecagons features a linear pattern that descends into a fringe of arms hanging down, with an implied but inexact symmetry, ending in hands holding multicolored jars of canned preserves. Below, overlapping leaves/gloves drape over the backs of twin mirrored figures planting stylized saplings.
The piece de resistance of the show, however, is the sod-roofed "Shack," which Costello has constructed from recycled lumber and typesetting drawers, and hung with beaded lamps crafted by his grandfather. The chevron-patterned floor of brown and blue planks points to a whitewashed back wall, where seven shelves dazzle with color-coordinated jars of jellies, pickles, sauces, and preserves canned by Costello himself, their hues as delicious as what they hold.
Costello's embrace of life as art and art as life is definitely something to cheer on!
Patrick Costello's exhibition, "Cheer On," is on view through October 31 at The Garage, 251 First St. NW (across from Lee Park). Gallery hours by appointment; for more information, e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Congratulations Patrick--impressive. I wish I were rich enough to hire you! With any luck we will be able to see the show. Again, congratuations. I am keeping my green felt Christmas tree for when you are so famous--at least I will have a piece done by you!


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Lance Storm Shoot Interview Volume 2 DVD-R
" idea that Russo had for Lance and what the reaction of Bischoff was.
Lance has been known lately for his criticism of Vince Russo on his website commentaries. Lance talks extensively about why he can't stand Vince Russo. Lance has some classic Russo stories from WCW. Find out what Russo originally wanted to call Team Canada. Did Vince Russo screw Booker T when he went over for the WCW world title? Lance has a very revealing story that has never been told before about the night Russo went over for the title. You will understand Lance's frustrations with Russo a lot more after seeing this Shoot Interview.
Lance also reflects back on the many personalities he worked with in WCW. Lance recalls a story about Lex Luger going to the top rope which is hilarious. Lance also talks about the first time he met Scott Steiner and the rib Steiner pulled on him. Lance talks more about one WCW star and how ironic it was that this star didn't say two words to him in WCW, yet was overly friendly in the WWE. Lance also has great stories on Kevin Nash, Ric Flair, DDP, Bret Hart, Hulk Hogan, and Goldberg. None of these stories have ever been told until now.
Lance does a great job recounting the last days of WCW. You won't believe how Lance actually found out about the WWE sale. Lance tells a very funny story about meeting Shane McMahon the first time at Nitro. Lance also talks about why he felt secure about getting a WWE deal. Ironically, Lance also talks about his contract situation almost cost him a WWE deal. Lance also reveals his original bookings plans for that night which were changed. Get a glimpse into one of pro wrestling's most historic nights from someone that was right there.
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Driver missing: After 85mph car scalps house
A stolen car speeding down Rugby Road Friday morning went airborne and plunged through a garage and then a house before shearing off tree limbs and coming to rest crumpled and upside-down in a suburban back yard–- sans driver.
The August 7 wreck has perplexed bystanders. But neighbor Lucky Stone, who was awakened by what he first thought was 2:30am thunder, thinks he figured out what happened after the car took out a utility pole and pulverized a concrete curb.
"He smashed into the roof of the garage, and I guess that gave him some lift," says Stone, who says an investigator estimated the vehicle's speed at 85 miles per hour.
"And then he smashed into the roof of the house, which I guess gave him a little more lift. He wound up upside down with the air-bag deployed."
Pointing to a black stripe spanning the breadth of the intersection where Preston Avenue and Barracks Road meet Rugby Road, Stone says it doesn't appear that brakes were ever applied.
"That's a yaw mark," explains Stone, suggesting that the driver futilely attempted to negotiate the T-intersection.
"I thought a plane had crashed into my house," says the owner, Russell Skinner. "There was debris everywhere, and I could look up and see the moon, so I thought it was either a plane– or a meteor."
Skinner says he and his wife, Nura Yingling, were sleeping only ten feet from the impact zone but that neither was injured. He's not sure he can say the same of the driver, who may have landed about 100 yards from the road and about 50 feet lower in elevation on the steeply sloped property.
Skinner, now ensconced downtown at the Omni hotel by his insurance company and contemplating at least five months before the house–- declared unfit by the City–- can be reoccupied, notes that another car plunged through his yard two months ago before winding up next door in Stone's yard.
Stone says police found that fleeing driver but have yet to locate this one. Given the severity of the wreck and the scope of the flight, he says police were particularly surprised not to find this perpetrator, who allegedly stole a silver Ford Five Hundred sedan from a residence in the Johnson Village neighborhood.
Although tree limbs 15 to 20 feet above ground were broken, there was no body dangling from any tree. Infrared devices and dogs failed to locate anyone, dead or alive.
"I've seen people walk from horrendous wrecks," says Stone, "but I was half expecting when they flipped the car over that they'd find his body in there."
Not only that, but Stone says there was no blood. Still, police are on the lookout for someone badly bruised, or worse.
Other media accounts indicate that a police chase, allegedly called off in the interest of safety, had preceded the crash. Charlottesville Police Department spokesperson Ric Barrick says that although no suspects have been identified by investigators, some evidence was recovered from the scene that "might give them more direction."
–last updated at 12:56pm, August 11
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Really?, I will tell you another well kept secret Since I have Armchair and SOS on a roll now. When you read about a pursuit where 2 or 3 police cars were damaged, it's usually the result of the cop cars running into each other. Most press releases are worded in such a way that the average reader assumes the bad guy was ramming the police cars.
I will never forget a call I was on one night. We had 3 cars responding to a large party where a disorder had erupted and somebody was waving a gun. I was the 3rd car, and being older and more experienced, I kept my distance from the two ahead of me. Approaching a red light on Route 29 northbound, both troll cars in front of me went through a ~~ red light ~~ at about 85 mph. They never even touched their brakes or slowed one bit. I slowed down and crossed my fingers on both hands hoping they would make it through the interesection without killing somebody. Young kids wearing badges, a free ticket to drive like crazy, the the "it won't happen to me" attitudes, all a recipe for disaster as innocent motorists get killed.
SOS and Armchair I gotta say rambo stated his points well and backed them up with examples. Do you have a comment on this article or are you just here for personal attacks? You incompetent pigs pointing the finger at one another is hilarious though. Oink Oink!
Armchair, I thought you were a little more informed than the average bear. I guess not though, after seeing your reply above. I was state certified at every department I have ever worked for. Kinda shows how much attention you pay to your friends or informants, eh?
My opinion on cop pursuits has nothing to do with a hatred of any particular cop. But, yes, there's a few corrupt lying cops I hate with a passion.
Hundreds of innocent people are killed nationwide during police pursuits. It wasn't that long ago off-duty Colonial Heights police Lt. James Sears was killed when the cop pusuing Beefy Brown lost control and hit his car. Work all his life, climb through the ranks, and killed in a senseless police pursuit by a rookie who thought he was Richard Petty.
When you read about 156 cops dying in so and so year, half of these deaths are usually the result of pursuits or rushing to the scene of crimes in progress. They can't drive well enough to get to the scene of a crime, much less expect them to handle a police car going 100 mph in city limits. God help the innocent citizens!
In addition to banning pursuits, I think the taser should be banned too. While often called a non-lethal alternative to deadly force, it sure is killing a lot of people nationwide. And it has actually already been banned in a lot of the more intelligent law enforcement agencies. And I also believe it's being used as a tool of intentional torture when anybody commits "contempt of cop" out on the street. Any cop who can't handle an 85 yeart old grandmother without tasering her has no business whatsoever carrying a badge and gun.
Yet, you are correct. It wasn't the Albemarle Police who initiated the arrest of Scott Hambrick. It was the law enfocement agency who was online pretending to be juvenile boys.
In reference to your other question, I'm not sure how much they pay out in awards on an annual basis. I imagine it would be pretty close to impossible to track. I think it's probably been at least $6 million in the last 5 years. Wasn't $4.5 million awarded to the family of slain Frederick Gray. He was also shot in the side and back and killed. Must not be the same guy you spoke of being shot 5 times in the back.
Mr/Mrs/Miss Tired, in reference to the roadblock you speak of, you have to remember the specialized "Traffic Division" has to justify their existence somehow. They don't want to be stuck back out on evening and midnight shifts where they can actually serve a meaningful purpose in detering and fighting real crime. Daylight hours, gravy train job, that's where it's at!
who is this idiot commenting on this blog? don't mention pursuit nowhere? ididots!!!!
Mr/Mrs/Miss Yet, you forgot several of the best.
A police captain soliciting juveniles on the Internet. (And similar accusations against another police captain that were never revealed publicly)
Charging a man in a 20 year old murder when they knew they had a snowball's chance in Hades of a successful prosecution. Rumor mill is the charge was only placed in an attempt to get the victim's family off their back. Rumor mill also says it was just a detective trying to make a name for himself.
An excellent police officer run out of town for publicly exposing the dirty laundry within a police department. The resulting lawsuits cost the taxpayer's a fortune.
Arresting a Greene County deputy sheriff for impersonating a Greene County deputy sheriff. This was going down in the history books, the first police impersonation arrest in the history of the Albemarle County Police Department. Or so the rookie thought. The sergeant on duty was later terminated.
Setting up a 220 pound former 50 year old white male deputy sheriff for a crime committed in Northern Virginia by a 20 year old 140 pound Hispanic male. A Northern Virginia rookie placed the charge not knowing they had been duped by a few local cops. Backfired in the local cop's faces too.
Numerous terminations for domestic abuse.
And one before you came to town... the most violent wife beater ever seen in this area rise from rookie to top line of command. He was never charged or prosecuted because his wife knew he would kill her if she ever testified against her.
In reference to your #7, it's a game now since the law was upgraded to a felony and carries mandatory jailt ime. They incite people into resisting arrest and assault so they can put 'em in jail for 6 months. They joke about it after the arrest, during the trial and the entire time the person is in jail.
Your #4 was a direst result of "contempt of cop". The couple actually had nerve enough to shout out for the cop to slow down and drive responsibly.
Hot off the presses, simple traffic infraction results in 7 innocent people being KILLED in a police pursuit!!!!!
I rest my case!!!
August 9, 2009
FRESNO, Calif. ââ?¬â? The California Highway Patrol says a car fleeing from police ran a stop sign and slammed into a pickup, killing three people in the car and four young children in the truck.
The patrol says police in Dinuba, southeast of Fresno, were trying to stop the car Saturday afternoon for a traffic infraction.
The patrol says the truck was carrying two adults and their five children. Four of the children ââ?¬â? ages 1, 3, 4 and 7 ââ?¬â? were ejected and died at the scene. The fifth child ââ?¬â? age 8 ââ?¬â? and the parents were taken to a hospital. The adults were identified as 29-year-old Carlos Salazar Jr. and 26-year-old Jennifer Salazar of Orange Cove.
All three men in the car being chased were killed. Their identities and ages weren't known.
"A police captain soliciting juveniles on the Internet. (And similar accusations against another police captain that were never revealed publicly)"
You should name names, as the police are apt to do. After all this guy WAS convicted, (the first one) because of the FBI, not Albemarle county. No, he was too popular in Albemarle County. I heard from a very good source that he also had created a basement dungeon, in which to house the intended victim, a child-a boy.
So what to do? Call the Department of Justice? The FBI? I am tired of this nonsense.
So many lives disrupted and ruined, because of a few stupid mean bully cops. Epps for a felony? For goodness sakes!!!!!!
Absolutely, not all cops are bad. Actually I think most are very decent, but their tolerance for the bullies among them is destroying all public confidence. I know it has mine.
Ohh, I agree. There's definitely an idiot posting here.
Channel 19
Charlottesville Police say just after midnight Friday a suspect broke into a home in the 700 block of Holland Avenue. The suspect stole a woman's purse containing car keys. Police say the suspect then drove off in a 2005 Ford 500.
Around 2:40am Friday, police radar picked up the stolen vehicle speeding northbound on Rugby Road. Police gave chase until eventually the suspect ran off the road at the intersection or Rugby and Preston Avenue.
Channel 29
It was a wild morning for one Charlottesville homeowner and police when the driver of a stolen car lost control and knocked off the top floor of a home. It happened about 2:30 Friday morning at the intersection of Rugby Road and Preston Avenue.
Charlottesville police say officers had just started to pursue a stolen vehicle going about 80 to 90 miles per hour when the driver lost control, went down an embankment, rolled across the roof of a home, and then crashed onto the other side of the house.
Yea, the Albemarle County police hate soccer moms you know. And I believe it is a police state.
Also, Sick, you might be the best source for this information. Just how much money has the Albemarle County Police Department cost in law suits? Is this a cost effective department? How many millions of dollars?
Yeah, that's Sick's modus operandi to a T. He makes accusations but never reveals names. Why? Because he's probably scared that the unjustly accused will come after him in a court of law, just like he's done.
If it's truly a matter of record that someone in a position of trust was convicted of a serious crime, or fired for misconduct, then why is Sick so scared to reveal who these supposed bad people are? Instead he drops hints that might make a reader assume it's a person who is, in fact, innocent.
So s**t or get off the pot, Sick. You can't have it both ways. Ad nauseum accusations with no proof offered to back them up is a coward's way of doing business.
Armchair Quarterback, Sneeziee and Sick of Sick, see what you all have done now???
You took my dislike of cop pursuits and turned it into another discussion thread about the good, the bad and the ugly of cops.
No. On second thought, scratch the word GOOD in the above sentence. :)
Just like Presidential approval polls are conducted every so often, I wonder what the figures would be if a similar poll was conducted about the local cop shoppes? More and more people are losing respect for our local cops. The problem needs to be fixed.
quote: "But here's the differenceââ?¬â?? I do so when the situation directly warrants it. Not on every single bloody thread that mentions a crime, accident, red-light cameras, etc etc ad nauseum. I don't high-jack the dialog to serve my own self-aggrandizing agenda."
Go back and study this thread. Start with the very first reply. You will see that I commented on cop pursuits, and only on cop pursuits. A few others ran the thread off topic very quickly and made it about ME. And just like a Lemming, whether you want to admit or not, YOU followed their lead. :)
You guys and girls please feel free to disrupt every discussion thread as often as you like. But once all of you make each and every discussion about me, you actually get what you despise so much. It seems like some sort of self inflicted punishment. It makes no sense at all.
Since this thread has now joined the ranks of anti-cop versus pro-cop in some minds, I have to agree with what "thinkingfree" just said. There's a very serious problem when a citizen feels the Virginia State Police is the only professional law enforcement agency in this area. And this problem needs to be fixed. when more and more people have serious doubts about the local cop shoppes.
I also notice that not person commented on the deadly cop pursuit I posted above. 7 people killed, 4 of them being young children. So, go back and read my very first reply again. See if you can connect the dots between my very first reply and my reply about the deadly crash. What a senseless waste of human life over a traffic offense! The results could have been the same in Charlottesville if some innocent motorists had been passing through the intersections of Preston, Barracks and Rugby.
FYI folks - I am in agreement that there is no place for a high speed chase in a residential area, as well as some of the BS Blue Wall situations that happen around here... However, from the Daily Progress - "A police officer detected the speeding car on radar and followed it, but the chase ended when the officer felt the car was going too fast to be safe for the public." This would explain why the PD did not find the driver of the car, because they were not actually chasing him at the time of the accident.
Although some officers are corrupt and in it for the thrill and or vicarious revenge, there are still some out there that take on the job for reason that it was created, to protect and serve. Please don't generalize all of police, there are still some good ones out there...
"I wouldn't expect them to say anything else. It's a canned response since so much damage was done."
The "chase" definitely ended WAY before the crash. I am in full agreement as well that high-speed pursuits are completely un-called-for, dangerous, and don't belong in residential city neighborhoods. However, this crash was not caused by an "adventurous" police pursuit. This crash was caused by some (almost certainly drunk or on who-knows-what) idiot who went 85 mph through an intersection without slowing down. It's unlikely that the police had even recently been chasing this idiot seeing as the rescue squad were the first people to get to the car. I just feel that needs to be clarified as, last I checked, this is an article about a crash caused by some idiot that destroyed a family's house, not a commentary on the state of our police force.
" quote: ââ?¬Å?The ââ?¬Å?chase" definitely ended WAY before the crash"Š. this crash was not caused by an ââ?¬Å?adventurous" police pursuit."
And how do you know this? Because the cops said so?"
Because the driver (at 2:30 AM on a Friday morning...hmm...) stole a car, drove 85 mph down Rugby Rd, DID NOT SLOW DOWN AT ALL for the intersection, and fled the scene (this we can agree upon I believe). Again, Rambo, I agree with you with your beef against high-speed police pursuits and am also aware of several less-than-honorable acts by police officers. There is certainly room for complaint and improvement. I just don't agree that this is the appropriate forum to rail out against the police force. Perhaps when more evidence comes to light these questions will be answered...
That's exactly why I am so quick to question what really took place -- The car DID NOT SLOW DOWN AT ALL. As if a cop car was hot on his/her tail when he/she ran through the intersection and went airborne. Criminals do not slow down when there's a cop car chasing them. They usually go faster. Which could explain the 85 mph estimate of the speed when he/she crashed.
Did the cop car have video? Was the video in use? Did the video come on when the emergency lights and siren were activated? Will the video show a responsible decision by the cop to back off? Has the video been released to the various media outlets yet? That's the questions I would like to see answered. It will settle our debate easily. :)
an ididot is someone who is unable to copy and paste someone else's screen name!!!!
And your point, Rambo?
MY point was just imagining the horrifying nature of having a large object come barreling into your house only 10 feet from where you're sleeping. Whether it be a car being chased by police, or anything else. That was my point. But I see what people are complaining about in earlier posts, because here you go again, turning everything back around onto the one dimensional "How can I turn the focus into a neverending attack against the CPD and Albemarle County PD?"
I DON'T CARE HOW THE CAR WOUND UP WHERE IT WOUND UP. I was just imagining how scary and horrific it would be to have a large object come crashing through one's house when they're peacefully sleeping, and narrowly miss getting crushed by only 10 feet.
Soleil, can you imagine being 4 years old again and having a light pole come down crushing you to death? Read this...
Just like in the movies, the city of Los Angeles loves a good car chase ââ?¬â?? until, that is, it all goes horribly wrong.
A couple of months ago, a driver with lapsed registration became so alarmed by the wail of police sirens behind him that he raced into the Saturday afternoon traffic around a big shopping mall. Losing control at a pedestrian crossing, he bounced off a parked Mercedes and slammed into an elderly couple, Henry and Anna Polivoda, both of whom suffered horrific injuries and narrowly escaped with their lives.
Then, just a few days ago, police in central LA gave chase to a suspected car thief. The thief, driving a BMW, hurtled into the crowded area and hit a small van. The van hit a street light, shearing it off at the base, and the lamp came crashing down on top of four-year-old Evelyn Vargas, who died instantly.
Who should be held accountable for these accidents? Should the fleeing drivers take all the blame, or should the police also think twice before gunning up their engines for the chase, lights flashing, at times when a lot of innocent bystanders are likely to get in the way?
It's not an idle question. The Los Angeles Police Department initiates more car chases, leading to the injury of more people, than any other law enforcement agency in California. The state, in turn, leads the US in pursuit-related deaths, most of them occurring in LA. The reason for the lopsided statistics is simple. Most other jurisdictions will only initiate a chase if the driver is a known serious criminal. But in Los Angeles, any excuse will do.
It seems any excuse will do in Charlottesville and Albemarle County too.
SOTLR says: "But the bottom line is the car crashed into the house because he sped up when the blue lights behind him went on."
Are you saying that police officers should not turn on their lights to signal a car to stop? Instead, should they have shot out his tires with no warning lights or siren first?
How am I supposed to know when a cop wants to pull me over. And if I make the choice to panic when I see the lights and then hit a car, person, or house, then I'm not responsible-- the cop is? Sweet!
Are you saying that police officers should not turn on their lights to signal a car to stop?
Instead, should they have shot out his tires with no warning lights or siren first?
How am I supposed to know when a cop wants to pull me over.
You will see blue lights in your rear view mirrors.
And if I make the choice to panic when I see the lights and then hit a car, person, or house, then I'm not responsibleââ?¬â?? the cop is? Sweet!
Panic??? If you choose to flee and end up killing somebody, cops nationwide have been found to be at fault in certain cases. And in some cases they haven't. It's totally a question for a jury to answer.
If a car is fleeing from police on Rugby Road and the cop has pushed him to 85 or 90 mph, which in turn causes the driver to lose control and kill 3 UVA students, I think the cops would find themselves in quite a bit of trouble just for chasing a stolen and causing 3 deaths. That's my opinion, and I guess you are asking for my opinion, right?
Weird hobby I gotta say. Who doesn't love Ilsa, She Wold of the SS? But, other than that the uniform fetish thing is beyond my simple level of comprension.
I guess if I spent all my time in my momma's basement, I'd get it maybe?!?!
I'm just glad that Nura is okay---she was my teacher, and an excellent one at that. I'm glad ya'll are safe.
By the way, here's some quotes from real cops, what they have to say about cop pursuits. They are discussing the California cop pursuit gone wrong that killed 8 people. See if it doesn't match what I have been saying all along.
quote from cop "When drivers run, we chase. The faster they go, the more determined we are to catch. The longer it last, the more pissed we get...'that SOB aint getting away from me' mode kicks in quickly."
quote from cop: "You run, I chase ... END of story...
quote from cop: "I say chase em until they are caught. Oh well if you don't like it."
quote from cop: "Just two weeks ago in my county one of our local deputies was responding to a call running code and "T' boned another vehicle that crossed in front of him. Killed the female driver in the collision when her car caught fire."
Seems all is NOT lost. There are still some responsible and intelligent law enforcement agencies (and cops) out there.
quote from cop: "Why are some departments still pursuing for traffic offenses, misdemeanors, or even non-violent felonies such as auto theft??"... We only are allowed to pursue for VIOLENT felonies, or crimes involving guns!!
quote from cop: "We only chase for crimes against persons, violent felonies, etc. Property crimes we do not chase for."
quote from co: "Pursuits are a no win situation. See a guy run a stop sign, light him up and he takes off. Now he's going 100mph blowing through red lights to get away.... At the next intersection he, still trying to flee from you, T-Bones a minivan and kills the entire family."
Sick, if "everyone" knows who you are, then why don't you use your real name? Yet you continue to hide behind a fake one, which makes you appear disingenuous, to say the least. Especially when you repeatedly tell your story in the third person, rather than using "I" and "me." There's a very good reason why you don't want the general public to know who you are. Why don't you tell us that reason?
Married to a cop? Dainty feelings? That's rich. Clearly, you have faulty inductive AND deductive reasoning, old chap. There are no feelings involved here, just cold facts. I've been extremely critical of the police on many occasions, and right to their faces too, not just anonymously on a blog. But here's the difference-- I do so when the situation directly warrants it. Not on every single bloody thread that mentions a crime, accident, red-light cameras, etc etc ad nauseum. I don't high-jack the dialog to serve my own self-aggrandizing agenda.
Yes, we ALREADY know about Mike Baird. For the love of god, you've crammed that story down everyone's flippin' throat. But guess what? Lots of people already knew about him well before you ever uttered one word on the topic. He wasn't elected simply because he wasn't the best person for the job. As a matter of fact, he was an incredibly lousy candidate, and most definitely an embarrassingly piss-poor debater (a fault the two of you share). That was duly noted by everyone. You didn't save Charlottesville from Mike Baird, no matter how hard you try to spin it.
Your problem is that you treat your audience like they're mentally challenged, repeating the same tired lines over and over and over again. Get a new schtick because you've worn the old one down to a nubbin.
Nobody is trying to "get one up" on you. Honestly, I have no desire to embarrass you. You've already done that to yourself on too many occasions to count. There are many people out there who would have gladly been your allies, something you seem desperate for based on your exorbitant rate of self-involved posts per week. But instead, most people just roll their eyes when your name is mentioned. No, it's not the police behind it-- it's the general blog-reading public that's "Sick" of you. YOU turned what could have been a valuable public service (speaking clearly and informatively about police corruption) into a pathetic joke. At this point, it no longer matters if what you say is the truth. And that's sad.
At my age I've come in contact with police on numerous occasions,
fortunatly none of them serious. I could comment on on several issues relating to how cops view themselves and how they see the public at large. I could also tell someone why most cops become cops. But I won't. I will say this, Having lived in Virginia for
20 years now the Va State Police is the only law enforcement organization that brings any degree of professionalism to the table.
No I don't work in law enforcement, never have.
Hey Sick-- pot, kettle, black. Talk about goofy made-up names. But of course you're allowed to have a moronic name online because your mission is so incredibly noble and not at all self-serving, correct?
You're an internet troll. You tirelessly jack as many threads as possible in order to create pompous half-assed "teachable moments" for everyone. You make accusations, but present zero proof of those accusations. That's why your words lack credibility. The contrast between someone like you, and genuine cops with a beef like Karl Mansoor, is very telling. He's believable because he backs up his assertions. He commands respect. He's a man who served nobly as a police officer in a public capacity. You're a petulant baby who was a glorified courtroom babysitter and chauffeur to prisoners, and who was also apparently fired for sleeping on the job.
Some cops are bad. Many are good. WE ALREADY KNOW THAT. WE'RE NOT IDIOTS. If you can't offer anything more insightful than the drivel you've been producing thus far, then maybe you need a new hobby.
Mr/Mrs/Miss Har-de-har, the main difference is everybody knows who I am. You're just another anonymous poster who uses a different user name every time you post in the various threads. YOU hide behind goofy user names. I don't.
Apparently fired for sleeping on the job? You got that part right. The key word is apparently. The records can read whatever a sheriff wants them to read. The truth of the matter is I was suspended. I was fired when I filed grievance complaint over being suspended before a hearing. Ya see, I committed a cardinal sin, also known as "contempt of sheriff"! State code says a sheriff can hire or fire at will, with or without cause. So the sheriff exercised his right when I filed the grievance complaint against him. (Karl was pretty much in the same boat. He couldn't do a darn thing about it when the department made up it's mind to can him in an attempt to shut him up.)
While we're on the topic.... a sheriff being able to hire and fire at will is also why you see so many sheriffs hiring and promoting their family members and best friends. We even had this take place in Charlottesville, a son hired and promoted during his daddy's term of sheriff. But he had his butt handed to him recently when he decided he wanted to run for sheriff. I can name Sheriff's Offices statewide where friends and family are hired and promoted. In almost every case, it ruins moral within the department.
But anyhow, you honestly think you can embarrass me any more than a handful of lying corrupt cops attempted to do with a series of false arrests between 1997 and 2005? Keep dreaming, Cup Cake. Ain't gonna happen.
And as far as Karl Mansoor is involved, I feel confident he would tell people that everything I have said is true. If he really wanted to get involved. I'm sure he sees no need to get involved though. HaHaHaHa!
Which cop are you married to, living with or related to? I can probably tell you what his/her reputation in the community is for truthfullness.
And I do apologize if this thread has hurt your dainty little feelings. OK? All I wanted to discuss was cop pursuits until some of you jumped in with both feet thinking you could get one up on me.
Charming though the thread on the police chase issue is, just wanted to jump in and say that I hope that the family that has been displaced by this is doing ok and let them know that we're thinking about them. I can't imagine the terror of waking up to the sound of a car crashing through your roof only to discover that you'll be out of house and home for months to come. Hook, please let us know if there's anything that the community can do to help these folks out.
It's a new web site... idi-dot.com :)
hey sneezie, whats an ididot????
And your proof that the cop pushed him to 85-90 mph is... what, exactly? You keep stating thia as though it's a fact. Then you backpedal and act kinda like maybe it's just an opinion, then you state it as a fact again. Which is it: opinion or fact?
Provide proof.
quote: "The ââ?¬Å?chase" definitely ended WAY before the crash.... this crash was not caused by an ââ?¬Å?adventurous" police pursuit."
And how do you know this? Because the cops said so? Do you expect law enforcement agencies to admit they were chasing a suspect "full speed ahead" when a serious crash involving property damage or serious injury/death takes place? If you go on YouTube you can find many videos where cop pursuits have been called off by a supervisor, but the rookies just keep on going for that extra mile or so before acknowledging the supervisor's command.
Cop pursuits have been a pet peeve of mine ever since an Albemarle County cop car ran a stop sign and hit a Toyota pickup broadside. I still have an image of the totaled police Caprice on a hard drive somewhere. The couple in the truck are lucky they weren't killed.
It's also been a pet peeve of mine ever since an Albemarle County police car ran a red light in front of Stromberg Carlson and almost killed my then 8 year old daughter. With all the sound insulation in the newer cars, air conditioing on, radio on... you can't hear their siren. And you can't see the blue lights in broad daylight. Cops don't seem to understand this though.
What happened in this case? Don't know, don't care. But when an agency says they ended the pursuit before a serious crash, it raises serious doubts in my mind that the truth is being spoken.
Looks like my cut and paste skills are the win!
Another genius move by the Albemarle County Police was to set up a roadblock at Rairoad ave and Lanetown rd in Crozet at 3 pm on a Tuesday afternoon, What was this? "The soccer mom Dragnet"?
This was a terrible use of resources and a worse location. If this "task force" was set up to check the 200-300 people that live on Bucks Elbow or Yancey Mills, did they really need 10 plus police officers and 8 vehicles milling about for 3 hours? 20 citations for minor infractions such as bad inspection stickers is a tremendous waste of time and money. It's just another example of the heavy handed policing techniques employed by Albemarle County Police to harass it's citizens. I found it shameful. Where was the probable cause? I was stopped twice. Coming and going, ridiculous! This is not a police state! but they sure act like it is
Har-de-har, names aren't necessary. Some are exposed, criminally charged and convicted. Some aren't - if the police chiefs can let these individuals gracefully retire and walk into the sunset, never to be heard from again. In other words, sweep it under the carpet.
If I say anything libelous about any person, you're correct, they can sue me. Once the lawsuit is filed, we shall hold depositions of numerous witnesses who will back up every claim I have made. Among those witnesses will be the police chiefs themselves.
The cowardly way of doing things is to come into a blog, create a goofy name like "Har-de-har", and challenge somebody who is not afraid to speak the truth.
Hey Sic,
you don't have to go it alone. Just cut, copy and paste the link. Like this:
This last link is really good, as one of the stories is about the reporter they subpoenaed in an effort to control the information the public is allowed. That will shup up those pesky reports, HUH!
I think you estimate is way low. The murdered man family got at least 6.5 million. I think more.
Every source I have seen claim the award was $4.5 million. $3.5 million in compensatory damages and an additional $1
million in punitive damages.
quote: "...the chase ended when the officer felt the car was going too fast to be safe for the public."
I wouldn't expect them to say anything else. It's a canned response since so much damage was done.
What do you mean "where is the video"?
You used to be in that line of work, so you'll be able to explain the whereabouts of this mysteriously missing video in great detail to all of us non-insiders. Explain to us how, whenever an idiot that lurks around local websites engages in idle supposition about the force, the police then run to grab the video, get over to the idiot's house as fast as possible, and sit down with the idiot to watch the video so he can rate their performance. Does Chief Longo make you popcorn to munch on while you watch it, too?
You're not playing with a full deck if you think that the police owe you a special explanation for what happened the other night. If you're so damned concerned about what is, to you, a cover-up, then launch a proper manly sort of investigation, instead of posting impotent whiny screeds from your Mommy's basement. Hey, here's an idea! Why don't you head on down to HQ and DEMAND to see the video?
...and when you do get the fruits of your manly demand, cut and paste a bit of it on the internet if you can. Great opportunity for your first post on your new website...
This is exactly why HIGH SPEED PURSUITS should be banned in congested or populated areas. I recall a few years back the city police were chasing a car down 5th Street at 95 to 100 miles per hour. Ohh, trust me, it's fun! Until an innocent bystander gets killed.
I would rather see the auto thief get away than read about the two people killed in bed while sleeping. which could have been the outcome of this particular HIGH SPEED PURSUIT.
Armchair: But at least he finally got one thing right about himself:
"Ohh, I agree. There's definitely an idiot posting here"
Quit hating on the police because you're jealous. We get it already. No department would hire you, so you became an auxillary with the Greene County Sheriff's office. Then you couldn't do that right either, we get it.
There is a reason that department's are getting rid of their auxillarys. That reason is because insurance wouldn't cover them because of a lack of training. So when you get on here and spout off your opinions, you should at least be honest that they come from an undertrained and underinformed point of view.
After living here for over a decade, I conclude that the police force both Charlottesville, but especially Albemarle county, should be disbanded completely. The courts should also be cleaned out, and replaced with people interested in justice instead of politics.
1. The bomber kids, who didn't do much of anything, except get victimized by the judicial system.
2. The Mom sentenced to jail for 7 years for a underage drinking party
3. Ticketing a wheelchair bound person, after hitting him with a police car.
4. Arresting citizens Austin and Sylvia after nearly running them down with a car, and throwing pregnant Austin to the ground when she protested. This case went to court, and was fought by the state only to reduce the blatant police liability.
5. Shooting an unarmed man 5 times in the back and murdering him.
6. Selective charging of individual persons, leaving out the most destructive, and including them that are the least of the damaging.
7. Behaving as bullies and thugs, such as when breaking a window on Elizabeth Epps car and inciting her. Than charging her with felony assult. Breaking windows is thug behavior-CALL A LOCK SMITH!!!
8. Checkpoints to harrass citizens, but mainly to increase revenue to get more police toys
I say remove them all. Perhaps the FBI can help.
from another Hook topic http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/30/hobby-or-harassment...
sneeezie August 12th, 2009 | 9:43 am
My mind? You were the one speaking of the private sex lives of male officers now. You asked if a male (me) was a scorned lover of one of them. Your ââ?¬Å?100% positive" is wrong. I received a phone call a few minutes ago asking which JADE officers were homosexual after the office had read your post here. They asked if you had mo confused with somebody else. I told them it was just another local blogger who didn't really know how to drive their point home very well. It's going to be all town now that you have claimed some of the JADE cops are homosexual. I knew it was a bad rumor to start once I read your post. Shameful!!
Sick Of The Local Rambos August 12th, 2009 | 9:44 am
My bad! I cut and paste SNEEEZIE in another thread and forgot to change back. HaHaHaHa!!!
which makes this from later all the more hilarious....
sick of the local blaa bllaaaa August 12th, 2009 | 7:38 pm
The sickest shifflett in the barn! and probly the smartest.
nope, it don't look like SS/SOTLR skillz really is the win.
What in the Wide World of Sports are you talking about?
Have you gone paranoid on us too?
"Charming though the thread on the police chase issue is, just wanted to jump in and say that I hope that the family that has been displaced by this is doing ok and let them know that we're thinking about them. I can't imagine the terror of waking up to the sound of a car crashing through your roof only to discover that you'll be out of house and home for months to come. Hook, please let us know if there's anything that the community can do to help these folks out."
Glad somebody thought to bring this up. This is what the focal point of the thread should be, not all this back and forth ego wars. I can't even imagine what that would be like to wake up to the sound of a car smashing through your home at 85 mph....only **10 feet from where you're sleeping.** How terrifying. When I saw this story I read it outloud to my coworker because it was so nuts.
I don't quite get how a car can smash up at 85 mph and the driver can just get up and walk away so quickly, and without leaving a trace of blood? Without knowing the details of the story my first thought was that somebody had like, taped the gas pedal down and let the car go unmanned. "Where it stops, nobody knows..." You know, a prank or something.
This topic, IMHO, is actually about cop pursuits and the aftermath. it's fine to say a car crashed into a house. But the bottom line is the car crashed into the house because he sped up when the blue lights behind him went on. If the driver had just killed 3 people, heck yeah, chase him. If not, and without doubt, the stolen car will always turn up parked somewhere. Even if the car disappears forever, it's better than the public being put at risk and innocent people getting killed (like the two people sleeping in their own bed could have been). Keep in mind too that the vast majority of cop pursuits are initiated over simple traffic infractions.
I can tell you, most likely, and from my own experiences that nobody backed off in this pursuit until they saw there was going to be a serious crash. That's just the way it usually works. Is there any video from the cop car to discedit my belief?
In this particular case, it did not include death fortunately.
My point is that all cop pursuits nationwide should be banned by department policy unless the driver is a known violent offender. There's no excuse for chasing a stolen car into a minivan and killing five people. I can gaurantee you the wife and children of police Lt. James Sears would agree with me.
quote: August 9, 2009
FRESNO, Calif. ââ?¬â? The California Highway Patrol says a car fleeing from police ran a stop sign and slammed into a pickup, killing three people in the car and four young children in the truck.
The patrol says police in Dinuba, southeast of Fresno, were trying to stop the car Saturday afternoon for a traffic infraction.
The patrol says the truck was carrying two adults and their five children. Four of the children ââ?¬â? ages 1, 3, 4 and 7 ââ?¬â? were ejected and died at the scene. The fifth child ââ?¬â? age 8 ââ?¬â? and the parents were taken to a hospital. The adults were identified as 29-year-old Carlos Salazar Jr. and 26-year-old Jennifer Salazar of Orange Cove.
All three men in the car being chased were killed. Their identities and ages weren't known."
A fifth child has died after a stolen car fleeing police in California ran a stop sign and crashed into a pickup truck carrying a seven members of a young family, robbing a young couple of all of their children.
Dinuba police say that a carjacked Dodge Neon carrying the suspects sped away from police when an officer tried to pull the vehicle over for a traffic infraction Saturday afternoon. All three passengers in the Neon died when the car plowed into the truck, leaving a death toll of eight.
No one in the 1997 GMC pickup was wearing a seat belt, and the parents of the five deceased children, Carlos and Jennifer Salazar, remain in the hospital with moderate to major injuries.
Four of their young kids were killed at the scene, and a fifth ââ?¬â? 8-year-old Carlos Eric Salazar ââ?¬â? died at the hospital Sunday.
The four children who were ejected and died at the scene were identified as 7 year-old Jocelyn Grace Salazar; 4-year-old Monique Janae Salazar; 3-year-old Michael Alexander Salazar; and 1-year-old Sienna Rose Salazar, CHP Officer Felipe Martinez told FOX News on Sunday.
The Salazars were on their way to a youth football game, where 8-year-old Carlos was supposed to play, before the crash. Officers had been chasing the suspects in the Neon for four miles before the deadly collision.
Where is the video from the cop car to discredit my theory that the cop car never backed off long before the crash? That's just not the way it works in the real world. You should know this, after all, you are Reality Check. :)
I'll bet you $1,000 if the driver had stopped, gotten out of the car, and proceeded to violently resist arrest.... there would be a video to prosecute him with.
Sneeezie, alas, it will never happen. Acting in a direct fashion in order to get the video that is so clearly due him would require a degree of testicular fortitude that is sadly lacking in this instance.
Better for him to keep well within his neatly circumscribed comfort zone, tucked away safely at home, cutting and pasting conspiracy theories and what-if scenarios gleaned from his lonely travels throughout the internet police forums.


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