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So this past weekend I did the Avon 2 day 39.3 mile walk to raise awareness for Breast Cancer. Let's just say it was more than an experience. I didn't train for it at all and signed up a month before. Thankfully, I had many supporters who quickly helped me reach the obligatory $1,800 dollars to do the event and some who keep donating to this day. I have realized that there is a support system out there for me that is so big, and that was a huge thing that touched my heart from the beginning. As for training, it didn't happen, at all. I run a lot, and I know it's not the same, but I figured I would be able to survive. My roommate, who I'm officially naming DJ on my blog as of today, was also doing the walk with me. It was so great to have a friend there and everyone was so encouraging and friendly. It meant to much to see people cheering for us, even though they didn't know us.
This was at 5:30 am at the opening ceremonies. It was pretty cold and we got dropped off at the site by DJ's mom. Sadly, we waited on our feet for 2 hours for the opening ceremony to begin, which probably wasn't the best idea to start off the day where we had to walk 26.2 miles. We arrived when they told us to be there and there were barely any other participants there, and we just had to wait, wait, wait. It was a great ceremony though and we were excited to start the walk.
Yup, still very dark, but we were ready to go!
They had these huge pillars that you were suppose to sign in the area where you did the walk. We obviously signed the 'Los Angeles Walk' area. I wrote a quick not to my mom amongst others notes and letters and words of encouragement. It was cool to see the other signed sections from other cities as well, which also made me realize how many other people had done the walk. It was great and encouraging to see everyone else that had completed it.
Finally the sun rose and the opening ceremonies started. We were ready to start walking at this point as we had been up for about three and half hours now.
The walk began and it was really nice to walk a lot of the same beach path that I normally run, it just takes a LOT longer to walk it. Also, I had forgotten my sunglasses, so I sprinted home, since our house was about .5 miles off the path we were taking and grabbed them along with a powerbar. I was SO tired once I rejoined DJ, and SO thankful I got them since we were going to be out on the path ALL day. People saw me sprinting back onto the path and gave me some weird looks.
I realized I hadn't raced a race since my treacherous mile 8 experience in San Diego. When we reached it, I laughed and DJ told me that, "You know how hotels don't have a floor 13? Well you just don't ever have a mile 8" :) We laughed and talked a lot along the route and at this point we still felt fine. This was also the most scenic part of the route, along the bay and ocean and beautiful houses. It was still overcast and it was great weather.
A picture by mile 8. Yes, I don't really know where we got the mardi gras beads and also the cape?! When did that happen?
Obviously I was really feeling good! :) It was fun to walk and talk and just joke around with DJ. I'm seriously SO glad she did it with me and so glad we did the walk together. I am SO proud of her!
At the lunch stop, DJ realized she had some pretty intense heel blisters. Um, like the worst I've ever seen! I don't know how she walked with them so beat up! We made a quick trip to the medic and got her bandaged up, ate lunch and stopped overall for about 15 minutes. She changed her socks and we applied sunscreen and trekked on. There weren't many pictures taken during this time because it was a pretty boring and weird residential area that wasn't really exciting.
Nothing really happened between mile 9 and mile 17 besides lunch, and mile 17 is when we really started to go downhill. We had been walking for an incredibly long time and the path was getting hotter and hotter and more boring. We kept encouraging each other and just kept walking. I told her how to play mind games with herself and how we just kept getting closer. From mile 17 and on though, every step was constant pain. My back of my knees were hurting the most along with my feet. Other than that I was fine but both our feet hurt A LOT.
Here DJ is passing mile 17. Kind of happy? :) We both knew our feet were getting pretty messed up, but we didn't want to stop because starting to make yourself go again was even more difficult.
YAY, less than 10 to go! Once we saw 17 I knew we could finish, I was just wondering how long it was going to take us. It felt like we had been walking all day long, which was pretty true, but this was when the pain really started to begin. We kept ourselves busy by quoting movies and talking about random things.
Nothing happened from mile 17 to mile 20. We got pretty delusional and were REALLY tired of walking and just wanted to be done. Once we saw mile 20 we were so excited, but we still had a long way to go and we didn't really realize how we were going to do it. Our feet were KILLING US. Both of us had pain with every step and we just kept telling ourselves that every step we took was one step closer to the finish. Seeing mile 20 was a pretty exciting thing for us, but this was at the peak of the afternoon and it was really hot and the route was VERY boring and there were very few supporters along a few parts of the route.
Yea, this was about mile 24. At mile 24 we took a 5 minute break at the rest stop because DJ was getting a little light headed. Besides lunch that was the ONLY rest stop we stopped at, which I was pretty proud of. Obviously I didn't want anything bad to happen to her and that is also where they were handing out the little crowns that you see on the top of my head. Weird, I don't really remember wearing it. You might think this picture is a joke, but seriously, I felt like that. We were SO slow and just kept thinking about the finish. We kept getting passed by everyone and this is where we named ourselves Team Turtle. Walking that far is SO hard, being on your feet for that long really starts taking a toll on your mind and body. The back of my knees were killing me, and I had never had pain like that before. Right after our rest stop we also realized I had DRIED BIRD POOP on my shoulder. We have no idea how long it was there for. I started almost crying laughing. We were really delusional at this point.
FINALLY we walked into the park and saw the mile 26 sign. I have never been so happy in my life. Every step was so painful and we just wanted to be done for the day! We both tried not to think about what the next day held for us, but we only had .2 to go and just wanted to sit down.
DJ and I at the finish line for Day 1! Walked 26.2 miles, took 10.5 hours. Longest walk EVER.
See, DJ was a little tired after day 1. We realized when we were done that maybe training a little bit was important.
I was wearing a crown. Yes. Bizarre. Your mind starts to go after you are walking for ten and a half hours… okay?! :)
After we crossed the finish line, DJ's mom came and picked us up and took us to walmart for our outfits for the next day. I swear I'm going to show up on Peopleinwalmart.com, I wore the crown and reeked of sweat and dirt and we both could barely walk. We picked up our outfit and two 20 lb. bags of ice. I knew it would be imperative for our recovery to take an ice-bath. We stopped at in and out on the way home and quick ate a burger.
I normally am NOT this hardcore, I never completely submerge most of my body, but I was deathly afraid of being sore the next day. I hopped in and let it burn for 15 minutes. After, I did feel SO much better but it was just mainly my feet that were hurting. Being in an ice-bath like that was pretty hardcore for me, but WAY more hardcore for DJ! She did it too and has never taken one before and doesn't run or anything. I was SO incredibly impressed! It was much easier to move after and we basically just went straight to bed and I slept like a rock.
It was definitely a different sore than I was after the marathon. My legs were okay, minus the back of my knee which felt so incredibly tight. I think it's because when you run, you are bending your knees and when you walk you don't really move your legs as much. Also, my feet were killing me. I had a huge blister on my heel and also some snake toes are back to being really tore up. They were just so sore from having to be on my feet for that long and just walking. I can't believe we finished it, seriously, it was so incredibly hard and I have a mad respect for walkers now.
Come back tomorrow for how we got through 13.1 on Day 2 with many more pictures! :)


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In support of the latest issue of MAKE, Volume 28, MAKE contributor Stefan Jones sent me a link to this PDF of a booklet from the 1950s on model airplane building. It was put out by Sterling Models and reprinted from Flying Models Magazine. Our Toys and Games issues contains a wonderful Maker Profile of Paul Guillow, pretty much the father of "stick and tissue" plane kits and balsa wood gliders. This PDF will whet your whistle while you're waiting for your issue.
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'Assalāmu 'alaikum wa rahmatul-Lāhi wa barakātuh,
Does the nabr affect the timing of the first letter of the shaddah, for example the first yaa' in:
1 : 5: 'iyyāka, and 2 : 255: hayyu, (and similarly with the waaw and still other cases,)
is the timing the same as the normal timing for letters with the characteristic of 'arrakhāwah (or the appropriate characteristic group the letter is from) when sākin and the normal timing of yā'un sākinah but not leen nor madd?
Jazākal-Lāhu khairā.
Salāmun 'alaikum wa rahmatul-Lāhi wa barakātuh.
Wa alaikum assalaam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh,
The timing is the same as for other saakin letters with the same characteristics; (ie rakhawawah, in this case) the difference is that the voice is raised just before letter that has a nabr.Wa iyyaakum. Wa assalaam alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.


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- Premier League
Schweinsteiger: No offer from Chelsea
Bastian Schweinsteiger has cooled talk of a move to London after meeting Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich when the Russian visited Germany's Euro 2012 base earlier this week.
Abramovich spent time with the Bayern Munich midfielder, who missed the decisive penalty during the Champions League final which saw Chelsea lift the trophy for the first time.
However, the 27-year-old was quick to quell reports they had discussed a potential switch to Stamford Bridge.
"I was surprised to see him and wondered why he was here," Schweinsteiger said. "I've congratulated him and we had a brief chat. No, he didn't make me an offer."
"Roman Abramovich paid us a visit and had a talk with Bastian," Germany coach Joachim Low told Hamburger Abendblatt.
"They were having a laugh with each other, and Bastian congratulated him with the Champions League win. I don't think there's anything behind the meeting."


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MANGO MAN: Wearing a dark blue double-breasted jacket, white T-shirt and dark jeans, Andrés Velencoso looked the part — nice and normal in updated classics, a lot like H.E., the Mango menswear brand he fronts for the spring campaign. At a press conference held in Madrid, the 34-year-old Spanish model and budding actor was asked how he liked being the best-looking man in Spain. "I didn't know I was," he replied sans attitude. As for his personal dress code, "It's comfortable and casual."
And regarding girlfriend Kylie Minogue, he noted, "We've been together four years, she's very nice to be around."
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RSL Faces 'Quakes in Latest MLS 1v2 Battle
8:00 p.m. MT Kickoff Live on ABC4 from Buck Shaw Stadium
SANDY, Utah (Friday, July 13, 2012) – League and conference dominance are on the line yet again, as Real Salt Lake (11-6-3, 36 pts.; 2nd in West) travels to the Bay Area to battle the San Jose Earthquakes (11-4-4, 37 pts.; 1st in West) for first place in MLS for the third time this season. RSL currently trails San Jose by only one point, but has dropped both previous 2012 meetings, with the Quakes knocking the Claret-and-Cobalt off the No. 1 spot each time. RSL seeks vengeance in Saturday's Western Conference brawl, with the club hoping to turn the tables by reclaiming the top of the table from the Earthquakes.
Saturday's kickoff from Buck Shaw Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., is set for 8:30 p.m. MT, with television coverage of the "Best in the West" showdown on ABC4 preceded by a 30-minute pregame show beginning at 8:00 p.m. Fans will also be able to listen to the action live via the team's official radio partners: ESPN 700/ESPN700Sports.com and La Gran D 102.3 FM.
RSL concluded their four-game winless streak Saturday against the Portland Timbers, with FW Álvaro Saborío recording the second MLS hat trick in RSL history to defeat the Timbers 3-0 at Rio Tinto Stadium. Saborío now leads RSL with 10 goals this season, placing him in 3rd in the league in goals scored, just two spots behind San Jose striker Chris Wondolowski who leads MLS with 14 goals.
On the subject of strikers, the Claret-and-Cobalt's offense recently gained the support of FW Justin Braun, a Salt Lake City native who was acquired in a trade with Montreal on Wednesday. Braun – who will be available for selection on Saturday – has a successful history against the Quakes, scoring four goals in eight career games against San Jose.
How to Follow Real Salt Lake @ San Jose Earthquakes
- Kickoff: 8:30 p.m. MT from Buck Shaw Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif.
- TV: LIVE on ABC4 with Rob Stone & Brian Dunseth (RAM Trucks pre-game coverage at 8:00 p.m. MT)
- English Radio: ESPN700/ESPN700Sports.com (pre-game coverage at 7:30 p.m.)
- Spanish Radio: La Gran D 102.3 FM/ Juan 1600 AM with Nelson Moran & Fernando Hortal
- Online: Live updates via the @RealSaltLake Twitter Feed and MLSsoccer.com MatchCenter
MLS Game Guide for Saturday's RSL-SJ Showdown Now Available Online
Following is the link to the Adobe PDF file of the Major League Soccer Game Guide (media notes) in advance of Saturday's clash of Western Conference powers between Real Salt Lake and the San Jose Earthquakes at Buck Shaw Stadium. If you have any problems obtaining the document, would prefer to receive the document as an attachment, or are seeking more information on the match, please contact Media Services Manager Sam Stejskal in the RSL Communications Department via email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Click here to download the PDF version of the MLS Game Guide
RSL History v. 'Quakes
RSL has lost twice this year to San Jose, first falling 1-3 on April 21 at Buck Shaw Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif. RSL FW Fabian Espíndola and DF Jamison Olave both receive red cards in that match, with Espindola getting ejected in the first half before Olave was sent off in the second. Nine-man RSL was unable to make Captain Kyle Beckerman's short-handed equalizer stand up, dropping all three points after giving up a pair of second half stoppage-time goals. The sides' second encounter on June 23 saw San Jose emerge victorious at Rio Tinto Stadium; withstanding a scintillating free kick goal by RSL MF Javier Morales as well as an onslaught of RSL attacks before emerging 2-1 winners on goals by Alan Gordon and Chris Wondolowski.
Real Salt Lake enters Saturday's match with a 5-5-5 all-time record against San Jose (15 meetings), and a 3-2-0 all-time mark at Buck Shaw Stadium.
Last year, RSL posted two wins versus San Jose. The first came on March 19 on the campus of Santa Clara University, with the Utah side using a Kyle Beckerman goal and a heroic effort by goalkeeper Nick Rimando in monsoon-like conditions to post a 1-0 triumph. RSL also emerged victorious from last year's home leg on July 23, riding an Álvaro Saborío brace to a 4-0 win, with all four tallies in the annual Pioneer Day celebration game coming in the second half.
www.RealSaltLake.com / www.RioTintoStadium.com / www.ESPN700Sports.com


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|Keeping Inmates Honest (with Technology)
|By Colin Wood- Staff Writer at Government Technology
|Published: 05/19/2014
The job of watching criminals is never over. For most of the public, prisoners are a non-entity, locked up and unable to perpetrate further crimes. But resourceful criminals are able to continue breaking the law and costing society more money even under lock and watchful eye.
Pennsylvania found that its prisoners were illegally receiving unemployment checks while incarcerated. And at the Baltimore City Detention Center in Maryland, cellphones were used by gang members to direct contraband smuggling schemes, transfer payments and alert one another of searches. New prison systems, however, have helped stymie these activities.
Pennsylvania reported the blockage of more than $100 million in unlawful unemployment payments to prisoners. Inmates are not legally eligible to receive unemployment, so many have had family members or friends outside of prison fraudulently file for benefits and have the funds wired to the prisoner's account. Through the use of a cross-matching system, a partnership between the Pennsylvania Justice Network (JNET) and Department of Labor and Industry is now able to block such payments.
JNET is a bureau that brokers messages between various agencies, explained Executive Director Dustin Rhoads. "Part of the JNET system is allowing what we call 'event messages,'" he said. "When something happens, we send that message out to subscribed users, just as you would a weather notification or a traffic notification."
In this case, the system is sending out confinement messages – any time someone is confined in one of the state's 57 participating county prisons, the Labor and Industry Department knows about it. JNET receives special access to some of the department's data so it can see if there's a match between a prisoner and those who receive unemployment benefits. If there's a possible match, Labor and Industry conducts an investigation to verify it's the right person, and oftentimes, it results in cutting off those benefits for the inmate.
Two additional county prisons also participate outside of JNET using their legacy systems, and the remaining three county prisons do not participate.
"From a technology standpoint, it was relatively simple due to the fact that JNET is built on a service-oriented architectural platform along with global-reference architecture," Rhoads said. "The data sharing that we do and the applications that we build, we build on those standards so that they are reusable." In other words, the architecture for this functionality had been in place for a while, the agencies just needed to identify the way to use it.
The discussions of starting the cross-matching program began in late 2012 and the agencies soon discovered it would be relatively easy to implement, Rhoads said. "It took JNET a whole two weeks to provide this information to Labor and Industry," he said, adding that once the initial data sharing was completed, they now need to only cross-match the information for newly confined prisoners.
In addition, there are likely benefits outside of unemployment data. "We've been working with our innovation office to explore potential opportunities to help other agencies identify fraud and abuse of services," he said. "It is a success on one hand that we've done this with Labor and Industry, but I think the success comes from the ability to use this sort of data sharing to multiple agencies to allow them to do their work more efficiently." JNET, for example, is now working with the Department of Public Welfare.
While Rhoads' bureau's primary concern is law enforcement and criminal justice, it's nice to see that its data can help other agencies do their jobs too, he said.
Tech Helps Baltimore Reduce Contraband
At the Baltimore City Detention Center in Maryland, officials have spent the last few years looking for ways to cut down on the amount of contraband prisoners smuggle in. Inmates smuggle in cellphones, drugs and weapons, but new security practices and technologies have cut down on the amount by more than 60 percent since 2011.
The prison began computerized random searches of 30 prisoners and 30 guards every day, and expanded its K-9 unit to include seven new dogs that could smell drugs and cellphones. The facility bolstered its intelligence gathering efforts, hiring eight new detectives and four intelligence analysts. Through Senate Bill 114, the prison also streamlined intelligence, giving its internal investigative unit authority to coordinate across the department.
The Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services (DPSCS) created a forensic lab to investigate contraband cellphones and continues to work with the state's fusion center, state police and federal law enforcement to better understand how prisoners are using the devices.
The prison invested $300,000 in the installation of a new surveillance system that includes 234 high-definition cameras, and $4 million on a "managed access" cellphone detection system. Before the upgrade, officials said the use of cellphones was an integral tool for individuals like Black Guerrilla Family leader Tavon White, who used illicit devices to direct smuggling and warn others of searches.
But now that the cellphone system has been turned on, only authorized devices are permitted to dial or text non-911 numbers inside the prison, said Rick Binetti, spokesman for the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services. In the past, the prison was prohibited from using technology that stops cellphone operation because of a U.S. statute that only allows federal agencies to do that, but in 2009, the FCC gave the state permission following a congressional hearing in which Maryland's public safety secretary stated the case for the Safe Prisons Communications Act of 2009.
The new system doesn't block all cell signals, but catches and filters them based on whether the device is recognized as authorized. Hundreds of antennas are stationed throughout the facility to create an umbrella of localized amplification through which precise signal levels are needed to operate properly. Officials have so far been pleased with how the system is working, Binetti said, and they are considering expanding it to other prisons in the state.
"In one prison, the rate of usage of the authorized inmate telephone system increased by a whole lot," Binetti said. "We think it has been a very effective tool in the shed to thwart communications between gangs or organizations that would profit from the flow of contraband inside prisons. It is just one part of an overall strategy to stem the flow and use of illegal cellphones inside our correctional facilities."
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I think there is truth in most myths, it's just figuring out the fact from the distortion. e.g Unicorns. Someone had seen a rhino and tried to explain it to his european friend back home "Err it's kinda of like a horse, but has a horn on his head" (I have a similar story to this where my sister, tried to explain Santa Claus to a foreign friend without them understanding what a reindeer, sleigh, or chimney was... describing it a a fat man who rides a cart with no wheels pulled by horses with horns and put presents through a hole in your roof... and you end up with a pretty scary image!!). Or elephant skulls mistaken for cyclops skulls (the trunk space looks like an eye socket).
There are some pretty convincing images, engravings etc of what we now called dinosaurs (and even recognise from recent archaelogical reconstructions) on ancient murals, pots etc. So I think dragons are probably descriptions of dinosaurs, whether you believe it to be firsthand or from bones or stories passed down is open to opinion and debate.


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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Congressman Anthony Weiner has hired an attorney in response to what some are calling "Weiner-gate" — the mystery of how a lewd photo that was sent from his Twitter account to a college student.
It is the story that has the political world, you should pardon the term, all a-twitter, reports CBS 2's Marcia Kramer.
Congressman Weiner clearly did not want to discuss the issue anymore on Tuesday.
"You know, I'm not going to talk about this anymore. I know that if I was giving a speech to 45,000 people and someone stood up and heckled in the back I wouldn't spend three days talking to him," Weiner said.
The "picture" Congressman Weiner was being asked about – again — was of a man's bulging underpants sent Friday from the six-term Democrat's Twitter account to 21-year-old Seattle college coed Genette Nicole Cordova. Weiner claims his account was hacked and the incident was a prank done to humiliate him.
"This is a distraction and I'm not going to let it distract me," Weiner said.
The congressman's office said he has hired a lawyer to help him decide whether he should pursue criminal or civil actions against the "hacker."
But there are questions he refuses to answer — like why he was following the 20-year-old coed on Twitter in the first place.
When asked just that, Weiner brushed it off.
"I appreciate the questions, but, um, I understand you're doing your job, but this is now a couple of days later. I've got to get back to work," the congressman said.
Some of Weiner's constituents think it's a dirty trick hatched by people who want to hurt his chances to become the city's next mayor.
"I, personally, do think it's a prank. I mean this guy's in the limelight all the time. No one could be that stupid and put stuff on the Internet where everybody could see it," Midwood resident Jeff Saunders said.
But then there is another viewpoint.
"I think there's probably something to it. I think he's trying to cover up something, because he hired an attorney. I mean if there's nothing to hide why hire an attorney?" said Joseph Abrams of Midwood.
The coed in question categorically has categorically denied having an affair with Weiner and said her life has been "seriously impacted by speculation and faulty allegations."
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That was type of inspiring! Completely unanticipated. Now I do know what I am heading to complete tomorrow 🙂
You stick to your guns Congressman.
FIRE! that perverted Jew.
There is nothing perverted about being an exhibitionist. If you're single and the person that you're sending the pics to are wanting to see them.
Anyone that Breitbart and his cronies have ever accused of anything has turned out to be innocent.
The federal worker that he got canned last year? She got her job back and is suing Breitbart, and will probably win.
Take a good hard look at who you are hitching your wagon to here.
Suing for what? Breitbart said the NAACP speaker admits to racism against white farmer then feels bad about it. She admitted to a crime, treating a white person different while working as a federal employee. How can she sue for him telling the truth? She did admit it after all. I watched the whole 1/2 hour+ clip.
What an ironically whiny post. Wiener isn't going anywhere except in your ear some more.
I predict we'll see a news story along these lines in the not too distant future….
EX-Congressman Anthony Weiner started his new job today as spokesmodel
for Fruit of the Loom. Since resigning from Congress, Weiner said
today that "I've been a little worried about finding work, but my leaked
Twitter photo proved to be a blessing in disguise. I guess good things
do come in small packages!" Weiner has also been offered advertising
contracts by Bar-S Meats to promote their line of "Little Smokies", and
the American mini-Dachshund Fanciers Association for their upcoming
"Leash a Little Weiner" campaign to increase the ownership of these
miniature dogs.
His next job is Mayor of NYC. You may not like it but you should book on it.
Breitbart has the second Weiner photo taken earlier in the year:
Weiner was PUNKED big time on CNN last night – love it! Time for Weiner the Whiner to go. He's lost all the respect of his people here in NYC. What a sniveling little weenie. And he totally sent that photo of himself on Twitter, it's so obvious he lied about being "hacked". The people of NY should dump him, and so should his wife for that matter. It's so clear that he's been fooling around with all these young girls on Twitter & Facebook for years, and he thought he could get away with it – just like taking a page from the Bill Clinton playbook.
Still hating on Clinton after all these years. Pathetic.
Poor guy – I actually believe Rep Wiener. Sounds like someone trying to pull a fast one on him.
Admittedly, for a guy who is so dorky-looking, his wife is totally HOT!
Weiner as mayor? Please, he won't even get the Democratic party nod. Remember that Christine Quinn is owed payback from Bloomberg for letting him have a third term. So, Quinn will have all the money in the world to beat Weiner. Only Weiner thinks he's going to be mayor and the lame stream media but who counts them.
Pack yu bags Weiner you are going back to Brooklyn alone
Porn star Ginger Lee has stated publicly she has had an ongoing conversation with Weiner for months. I guess everybody's lying when it come to a demorat.
Also, when an account is hacked the password is changed. Weiner had no trouble jumping back into his account to make a retraction. Don't play us for fools Weiner. Dana Bash made hash out of you yesterday. Punk.
Centuries of female pent up emotions are now exploding, and it is payback time. Rape-hate persecutions are tearing into the bankbooks and testicles of innocent men; order has to be restored. A temporary refusal by the police to accept complaints of sexual assault will cool off the anger of feminist nazi`s that have gone mad. Men must be protected against the new witch hunt.
Excuse me? Try having a vagina pal, then we can talk about witch hunts. Women have been repressed and abused for thousands of years not to mention getting biblical blame for original sin. It's very easy for men to brush this off and call women witches, as they will NEVER have to deal with what we deal with. Stop your whining, the sins of the fathers are ALWAYS visited upon the sons. We've been dealing with misogyny for millennia, I think men should try being in our position for the same amount of time and see how much they like it. What? you wouldn't? Oh right, which explains the rapes, abuses and injustices forced upon women on a daily basis.
"Mayor Weiner"?! Nope, that would never work, never happen. Way to chucklesome a name.
At least it isn't Rolly Higginbotham. Now there's a ridiculous name!
Maybe this episode will shut his fat sanctimonious mouth once and for all. I am so sick of listening to his whiny self important posturing. Hey, Is it me, or does this guy really look like a rodent?
Dream on. The only losers here are the people who are falling for Breitbart's nonsense.
man dont you look stupid
Funny how the photo above has the same pursed lips and humiliated, bewildered, shamed expression as Elliot Spitzer did on his day of resignation. History repeats?
Garden variety pervert, lets call a spade a spade and get Weiner out now.
Your time is up Weiner! You are a disgrace.
Then why did you sext me a pic of your cooch?
Not a chance. This guy is the next mayor of NYC, guaranteed.
somewhere, hillary must be saying "it's a vast right wing conspiracy." When you get caught, blame the hackers and the republicans.
Every single person saying it is Weiner himself doing this used the word "maybe" and "I bet you will see" …not a single one can show any proof it is him. And then when he gets a lawyer to defend himself against crazy right wing accusations they say "that is proof positive he must be guilty"
REALLY PEOPLE, is this what you have stooped to, lies and inuendo in place of facts….just like Andrew Brietbart.
so would you like to retract this statment?
He better get lawyered up. That he has not sought an FBI investigation does not bode well for his lack of involvement in this affair. Power hungry egotists like Anthony's Wiener think that they are above accountability. An accomplished liar like Wiener defaults to lying. He can't even conceive of taking another route. Unfortunately, NY will continue to be represented by this reprehensible individual for the time being. Having Chuck Schumer serve as a character reference says it all.
Sounds like The People want you out Weiner. Maybe you should go now, before all the sordid details emerge about your secret sexual pervisions persued on social media.
GUILTY AS SIN. This is blowing up in your face Weenie. Sounds like another disgrace is ready to roll down the turnpike – this could be a sheep in Sptizer's clothes??????
Something VERY shady going on here………..I will bet that Weiner the Weasel set this whole thing up himself and it's now backfiring. There is also possible marital infidelity involved here – he would not lawyer up if he didn't feel the heat coming from this. To blame the political conservatives is a very desperate tactic. Yep, something stinks to high hell here. I think it's time for Weiner the Weasel to go!!!!!!!!!!
Well, you certainly have an active imagination.
Maybe it was him and he's looking to protect himself. Politicians are all $umbags!
I guess he has other things on his mind and might not have time to plead for the rabbi who was convicted of stealing millions from the tax payers. Oh well
So Breitbart accidently posted it to Weiner's site. I'm sure that he didn't intend to do so.
How quickly it's been forgotten how Andrew Breitbart's video posting of a statement that was false and atributed to Shirley Sherrod, caused her to lose her job with the Agriculture department.
Even Fox News host Bill O'Reilly offered a rare mea culpa apologizing for airing the controversial tape of a speech given by Ms. Sherrod.
Lesson that should have been learned: Take what Andrew Breitbart posts on his web site with a grain of salt.
Not to go off on a tangent but:
I was never convinced that Shirley Sherrod redeemed herself in that speech, so whether or not O'Reilly & Breitbart played all of the tape didn't make any difference to me. Sherrod exposed her chip on her shoulder against the white farmer.She seemed to relish her power over him, like a slave owner over his slave… If she had carried on in the vein she started with in the speech, she could have redeemed herself by addressing the more important issue of ending the sanctioned animosity in the black community against whites. Instead, she tried to make out she was such a saint… . In the same respect, Eric Holder is another "chippy" who only cares about "my people" as seen in the Black Panther incident at a Philadelphia voting station .He didn't do anything to punish the threatening behavior at the polling station which is a place that I always remember to have a degree of reverence towards all mens' right to vote freely.. He is the country's no. 1 attorney who is meant to protect all Americans. Did he not learn anything from the civil rights movement? All men should be treated equally under the law. What do you think?
With all the silly issues Weiner attacks to get publicity, do you really think he needs to send porn to someone he doesn't know who lives 4,000 miles outside his district? LOL
Very clever move on Weiners part to act as if he didn't do it. About the only clever thing he has ever done. This guy is a Garden Weisel.
You know, it's simple. He's just not too bright.
What do you expect from someone who talks a lot and no substance! An empty vessel that makes a lot of noises. If it is not from him, who else?
Dan Wolfe, aka patriotusa76. The guy who was crowing about the bombshell that was about to engulf AW for months before this incident.
Who also coincidentally was one of the only people to see the picture actually show up on AW's twitter account.
Who also coincidentally was the guy who went immediately to Breitbart and was very eager to know if there was "any news" about the article.
I'm sure it doesn't matter that yfrog, the application that was actually used to post the picture, contained a feature which made it possible to post pictures to twitter without a password. Starting to get the picture?
This right here is the crux of people's problem with AW, and why they are so eager to believe he would do this, despite all evidence to the contrary.
He did it!!!! MORON
What do you mean "no comments." I just commented, saying that Weiner is not stupid, and that this is obviously a right-wing hit job.
You obviously just need to PRINT the comments after they are written.
A right wing hit job? You mean like the tires being slashed on the vans in Wisconsin as part of the Republican get out the vote drive or Sarah Palin's e-mail being hacked. When will the right wing stop?!
Quick! Change the subject!
Look at the FACTS. He did it. His account wasn't hacked. That was just his lame excuse for lame people to believe. I guess it worked on you, huh?
Hacking wasn't even necessary. Yfrog, the application that was actually used to post the picture, allows pictures to be posted to twitter without a password. Literally anyone could have posted the picture.
Yfrog's creators have since removed the feature.
All this nonsense about hiring a lawyer is a distraction from the fact that the last thing he will ever do is file a criminal complaint. A criminal investigation will result in a finding that Weiner was the one who sent the lewd photo. What an idiot!
He won't file a criminal complaint because there was no "hacking" involved. However, don't be surprised if Breitbart and this Wolfe fellow end up on the wrong end of a civil suit. How many civil suits is that for Breitbart? Why does anyone believe anything that guy says?


text: OK so we have all seen the Rags to Riches stories. Well we thought we would turn it on its head and see if anyone has gone from Riches to Rags. The rock n role lifestyle is notorious with people making a lot and then blowing it all. I guess it does not matter if you're rich or if your poor managing your money and living within your means is pretty important.


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Since I was new to the area I knew that I had to go off of recommendations and reviews. My dogs are also seniors so I wanted the very best vet in the area. Through a friend, I was recommended to Dr. Alex Casuccio and Scottsdale Animal Healthcare. He and his entire staff are extremely professional and I knew that my dogs were in good hands the moment I met him for the first time.
Dr. Casuccio didn't tell me anything that I didn't already know. My dogs teeth were rotten and infected and if not treated ASAP it would lead to much more serious health risks, disease, and possibly death. This is common with any infection, even in humans.
I scheduled their teeth cleaning three days after my next payday. I knew I was looking at a few hundred dollars, I paid a little over $1300 after all was said and done. That definitely hurt the wallet.
To my surprise, it was Jolie's teeth that were more infected than Bebe's. Jolie lost a total of 7 teeth and Bebe only had 3 extractions. One of Bebe's extractions was her beloved snaggle tooth which was so infected that upon removal is almost fractured her jaw. She will now only eat soft mushy food. Below are the photos that were emailed to me while the pups were in recovery and waking up from anesthesia (how professional!)
Here is Jolie's mouth:
Here is Bebe's mouth:
Bebe had a total of three extractions including her beloved snaggle tooth. Everyone just loved her snaggle tooth including me, but sadly it was the most infected tooth in her mouth. The infection reached all the way to her jaw and the vet was very specific and blunt when he said that any chewing would result in a fractured jaw. I've since then been preparing all of Bebe's food to a baby food-like consistency and will continue to do this for the rest of her life. Leave a comment below if you would like high-protein and low-fat homemade dog recipes.
Jolie had a total of seven teeth removed. Her infection was much more severe than Bebe's was and in fact I had no idea. Trying to brush Jolie's teeth takes multiple people and a sedative. Just to have the vet LOOK at her mouth that required three people prying her mouth open. She may weigh 4lbs but her strength is out of the ordinary.
Above are the medications and treatments that the vet recommended after surgery. The large clear spray is an antiseptic rinse that is to be used 2x a day. It is called Clenz-a-dent and as the name suggests, it cleans the dogs teeth. Spraying this in my dogs mouth has been quite the challenge. Bebe is good, but Jolie is a nightmare. I'm literally trying to hold her down just to get a few droplets in her on a daily basis. I've used their product in the past before and they are a good solid company. I suggest getting their product on Amazon as at the vet they are usually marked up, someone has to make a profit right?
The next item you see in the picture there are two dark glass vials of ZydaClin which is an antibiotic. As you can imagine, after removing infections in the teeth area it is important to treat the infected area. As per Drugs.com, this medicine is labeled as Oral Drops that contain clindamycin hydrochloride which is the hydrated salt of clindamycin. This liquid is given once a day to each pup until empty. 1cc for Bebe and .5cc for Jolie.
Canine dental hygiene is extremely important and can turn deadly if left untreated. I urge you to educate yourselves on the issue, especially if you have little dogs! It is common in them the most! Please feel free to ask any questions. Thanks for reading!


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A weekly drop-in knit and crochet gathering: knitters and crocheters of all levels are welcome to attend this FREE group! Get tips and support if you are a beginner. Work on your own project or on a joint blanket project.
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Litigation Release No. 21322 / December 4, 2009
Securities and Exchange Commission v. Nova Gen Corporation, Margaret Grey, and Paul Randall Fraley, United States District Court for the Southern District of California, Case No. 09CV2711 MMA (JMA) (filed Dec. 3, 2009).
The Securities and Exchange Commission ("Commission") today charged a purported bio-diesel fuels company with making false statements regarding its purported emissions-free coal conversion technology and financial condition.
The Commission's complaint names Nova Gen Company ("Nova Gen") of San Diego, Calif., its current CEO, Margaret Grey ("Grey"), and a sales agent, Paul Randall Fraley ("Fraley"). The complaint alleges that Grey, of San Diego, Calif. and widow of the company's founder, has continued in Nova Gen's unregistered fraudulent securities offering since she assumed control over the company in June 2009.
According to the complaint filed in U.S. District Court in San Diego, Nova Gen falsely claimed to have technology capable of converting coal into bio-diesel fuel, virtually emissions free, and even touted a plant that was up and running. The complaint further alleges Nova Gen disseminated financial statements to investors that depicted $27 million in a brokerage account and net operating income of $21 million. The complaint alleges that, in fact, Nova Gen's technology was not "ready to go," and that it did not have any plant, did not own any brokerage account, and had not generated revenue at any time. The complaint further alleges that Fraley, of Hewitt, W.Va., located potential investors and received sales commissions for his efforts, and falsely told investors that Nova Gen was about to become a publicly-traded company that would pay a guaranteed 11% dividend.
The Commission's complaint charges the defendants with violating the securities registration provisions, Sections 5(a) and 5(c) of the Securities Act of 1933 ("Securities Act"), the broker-dealer registration provisions, Section 15(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ("Exchange Act"), and the antifraud provisions, Section 17(a) of the Securities Act and Section 10(b) of the Exchange Act and Rule 10b-5 thereunder, of the federal securities laws. The Commission's complaint seeks permanent injunctions, disgorgement, prejudgment interest, and financial penalties.


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A Coal City firefighter said he was just picking up trash on his family's property Sunday when he was arrested by the Will County Sheriff's Office and charged with looting.
Michael W. Barrow, 24, of Coal City, is a part-time firefighter for the Coal City Fire Protection District. He said he was with his wife, Kaylie, shortly after 4 p.m. Sunday, picking up debris that had blown on property owned by her family, when they were approached by a deputy with the Will County Sheriff's Office who arrested him for looting.
"I was wrongfully arrested," Barrow said. "My good name is smeared."
The deputy, who was assisting with the response to the tornado, observed a man and woman exiting a pick-up truck in a field near the back of the Stop and Smoke Tobacco Shop on Route 113 in Diamond, Kathy Hoffmeyer of the Will County Sheriff's Office wrote Monday in an email.
The truck left the area, and then the two people left the back of the store at which time the deputy followed them and made contact with the male, identified as Barrow, who had dropped two packs of cigarettes while being followed by the officer. An additional 15 packs of cigars and cigarettes were on him, according to Hoffmeyer.
Barrow said he has no idea why the deputy would have said he was looting, as Barrow said he was at least 100 yards from the shop, which sustained heavy damage from the tornado.
"The building was so compromised, and with me being a firefighter, I know what structural damage is," he said. "I would never go within 30 feet of this building."
The couple were picking up the waterlogged cigar packs and other debris, he said, because they didn't want younger family members helping with the clean up to pick them up.
The person in the truck, he said, was an uncle of his wife's who said a police officer didn't want them in that area, so they headed back toward the home.
Barrow said he saw a cop out of the corner of his eye, turned toward him and asked how things were.
The officer asked what he was doing, and when he replied picking up trash that was on family property, Barrow said the officer told him that was looting and arrested him. When his wife said it was family property, Barrow said the officer said he would arrest her too if she wasn't quiet.
Barrow said as they were walking to the squad car, he told the officer, "Sir, I am a fireman, I would never do anything like this. You are going to ruin my life."
The officer's response, he said, amounted to "I don't care."
He said he was on his way to the Will County Jail within 5 minutes of being arrested, and that no one asked him for his side. During a video conference court appearance early Monday afternoon, a judge told him charges were being dropped. He wound up in jail for more than 24 hours, he said.
Barrow was held on probable cause for allegedly looting, Will County State's Attorney spokesman Charles Pelkie said Monday, but there was not sufficient evidence to move forward with charges and the office sent it back to the sheriff's office.
When he was released from jail, Barrow said officers would not give him his or his wife's keys because they were evidence.
"I'm not sure why keys were held for evidence when charges were dropped," he said.
No one from the sheriff's office has returned his calls, he said Wednesday afternoon, adding he wants to talk about getting his keys back and to talk about the situation.
A message left Wednesday afternoon by the Morris Daily Herald with the Will County Sheriff's Office was not immediately returned.
"I was wrongfully arrested and I was a respected member of this community with a clean record and never did anything wrong," Barrow said when asked what he wants the community to know. "And now my good name is ruined."
Barrow said the next scheduled day he is to work is Thursday.


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Our mobile site has a home page showing our new mermaid logo and with brief information about our Sandwich inn. It has a "Rooms & Rates" page that has photos of our guest rooms with a brief bit of information about each one. You can also book a reservation from the site.
The best part is that we have a "Specials & Packages" page that enables us to offer great packages and last minute deals on accommodations to smart phone users. If we have a last-minute cancellation or room available, we can let you know. If the inspiration strikes you to take a spur-of-the-moment trip to Cape Cod, you will be able to check our mobile site to see if we have any great last-minute deals or just to check our availability.
Another useful feature is the link at the bottom of the mobile site that lets you click onto a Google map showing our location in Sandwich Village and how to get to our bed and breakfast. We hope you will use this site often and come for a visit. We will have your room ready, the wine chilled, and interesting people for you to meet.
Jan Preus, the Innkeeper, chef, and artist in residence at the 1750 Inn at Sandwich Center, Sandwich, Cape Cod, Massachusetts


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Q: Do you like muffins or pickles better?
A: Almost everyone in my house chose muffins. Kiddo chose pickles!
Please leave a comment with your own answer to this question!
Hmmmm, I like them both. I guess pickles since I like salty a little better than sweet! :)
This is a really hard question for me, but I think my answer is pickles!
Pickles. I grew up eating sweet pickles and thought I didn't like dill pickles; but it turns out I like dill pickles best.
Brother Bear is allergic to wheat so muffins aren't really a part of his typical menu. Plus he is a pickle-a-holic so we vote for pickles!
I like them both but given the choice I would choose muffins first.
It depends on the mood! and time of day. But I think I will have to say muffins. (Especially if it is blueberry!)
Pickles for sure!
Pickles! I love half-sours. Yummy ^_^


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The Beautiful Game is played on a beautiful field, typically one comprised of grass. So when ESPN commentator Adrian Healy said two million artificial fibres were woven into the Moses Mabhida Stadium pitch this morning, I was dubious. No longer:
You see, for all intents and purposes, the field is predominantly grass. Beautiful Game integrity intact! However, strengthening that grass are the two million artificial turf fibres that Healy had alluded to during the Slovenia/Algeria match this morning.
The tech is called GrassMaster (a brand name), and it's the work of Desso Sports, an artificial turf company that's been in the biz for about 20 years.
And yes, ignorant is me, as major teams like the Denver Broncos and Premiership clubs in Chelsea and Arsenal have also installed the grass-turf hybrid in their respective stadiums.
Oh well I learned something, and maybe you did too. European readers who knew about this stuff all along can feel free to lambaste yet another ignorant-about-football American. Free shot, but in my defence I have played for more than 20 years – just never on turf. [Desso]


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OED Editor Retires As Only Seventh Person To Hold The Job
John Simpson is going to retire. As you may know, Samuel Pepys wrote in 1667 of another gentleman: He did not think any man fit to serve a prince that did not know how to retire and live a country life. There may be some peril in retiring. Mr. Simpson is retiring from the position of chief editor. And as Bishop Joshua Hall wrote in "Resolutions and Decisions of Diverse Practical Cases of Conscience" in 1649, some interloper may perhaps underhand fall upon the work at a lower rate and undo the first editor.
If these comments are a little more researched than usual, it is in honour - with a U - of John Simpson's position. He is chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, a perennial massive work in progress, recording the story of the English language. And those are fairly typical citations from the OED. John Simpson joins us now from Oxford. Welcome to the program.
JOHN SIMPSON: Yeah. Thanks very much.
SIEGEL: You're only 59. Why are you retiring this year?
SIMPSON: Well, I'll be 60 at the end of the year, and I thought, well, I've been working on the OED for 37 years. Well, there must be lots of things out there between 9:00 and 5:00 in the day that don't involve actually updating the OED all the time, so I thought I'd give it a try.
SIEGEL: Now, the dictionary is in the midst of its third revision, I gather. It's the third in how many years?
SIMPSON: Well, it's the first comprehensive revision the dictionary has ever had since it came out first between 1884 and 1928. So what we're doing is we're going right back to first principles. We're taking every word in the 20 volumes of the dictionary. We're reviewing the etymologies, the documentation to show how old the word is in the English language and the definitions, et cetera, the pronunciations, and we're updating it for the 21st century. It will take probably another 15 years or so to complete. And really, it's never completed, anyway, because the language just carries on.
SIEGEL: When you were first hired at the Oxford English Dictionary, what was - what's the first word you handled?
SIMPSON: The first word I ever worked on or the first - well, first of all, you have to acclimatize yourself to the ways of the dictionary. So I was given a very obscure translation of a French cinematographic textbook to read, looking for words that we might put into our card files. But (unintelligible) was allowed some free rein to do some actual editing. The first word I worked on, in a patriotic manner, was queen, in fact.
SIEGEL: Did you include a more risque usage of queen?
SIMPSON: Well, we have every single meaning. There's an old sense of queen where it's actually spelled Q-U-E-A-N, which means a prostitute or strumpet. And then there's a modern - you have gay sense of queen. That was - that's been around since the 1920s, '30s, I think. I haven't got the dictionary in front of me at the moment. But quite a wide range of meanings we had to include at the time. No holds barred.
SIEGEL: In the past, we've had the spoken language, and then we've had the written language and texts. But now, we have something in between. With a tremendous amount of Internet writing, which is almost as casual as speech, does it qualify as material to cite?
SIMPSON: Well, certainly. We're interested in the language in any of its manifestations. About 10 years ago, we broadened our policy to allow these quotations, citations that we use in the dictionary to come not just from printed texts or whatever but also from the Internet because we think it's important for us not just to find the first printed record of a word, but the first real record as far as we can. And if the earliest record is on the computer, the Internet somewhere, then we're going to include it.
One of the first we included was the word deflame. Now, if you didn't like somebody, you could get all your friends to send them lots of spam. You flame them. The first records we found for that were documents simply on the Internet. And so for us, that's quite a change. We had to sort of think hard about it before we actually did it.
Over these years of editing the OED, have you had time for a lot of reading that was simply for pleasure, or have you always been reading some assignments?
SIMPSON: Well, I'll let you in on a secret. The first 10 years working on the OED, you can't read for pleasure. Every time you read anything, you're always thinking, oh, that's interesting. Maybe I should write that down. I used to carry a little notebook right in my trousers. But after a while, you get used to it, and you think, well, actually, you get a bit naughty and let somebody else jot that down because somebody else will notice it, and you managed to get it through. So it's sort of rite of a passage business. You have to get through it, and I think I have got through it now.
SIEGEL: Well, as a lady-in-waiting said to Pompey in "Love's Labours Lost," John Simpson, great thankes, and that's with an E.
SIMPSON: Thank you.
SIMPSON: Great thanks to you too.
SIEGEL: John Simpson is retiring later this year as chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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(CNN) — The struggle between life and death is not going so well for dozens of pilot whales stranded in shallow waters in Florida.
Rescuers have been trying to save about 30 whales by herding them into deeper waters.
Of the 51 whales originally stranded, 11 have died, and five gone missing in the shallow waters on the edge of Everglades National Park, NOAA Fisheries officials said.
Scientists spotted 20 whales Friday afternoon about five nautical miles off shore.
The pod was moving in a southward direction and inshore, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said.
"The whales were reportedly swimming more slowly and in a more disorganized fashion, which may suggestexhaustion, dehydration or malnutrition," marine scientists said.
NOAA Fisheries is keeping crews on standby for necropsies and to rescue any live stranded whales.
Pilot whales are protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, but they are not endangered.
Mass strandings by pilot whales are not uncommon in Florida.
In 2012, nearly two dozen pilot whales stranded and beached themselves. In 2011, 23 pilot whales stranded and beached themselves
By Susanna Capelouto
CNN's Mariano Castillo and Marlena Baldacci contributed to this report.


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The 19-mile Pikes Peak Highway is a 2-lane road ascending more than 6,000 feet in elevation to 14,115 feet. The views are breathtaking and the drive is truly amazing. We want you to experience all that Pikes Peak - America's Mountain has to offer and have a few safety tips for your visit.
The Pikes Peak Highway Rangers are on duty at all times when the highway is open. They are here to help make your trip to Pikes Peak the highlight of your vacation. If you have trouble of any kind, send for or wait for the Rangers who will assist you.
Mountain roads are as safe as any other roads if the driving speed is kept consistent with the type of road and conditions.
Reminder: There is no hiking or overnight camping/parking allowed on the Pikes Peak Highway. Drone use is prohibited.
Terms of Use: The Pikes Peak – America's Mountain Recreation Corridor and the Pikes Peak Highway (collectively the "Highway") is a part of the U.S. National Forest and is within the City of Colorado Springs ("City") Watershed areas. The Highway is operated by the City under a special use permit. As consideration for the City allowing use of the Highway, users expressly agree to waive, remise, and release the City and the United States of America from any and all loss, damage, injuries, claims, causes of action, or any liability whatsoever on behalf of the themselves and all heirs, assigns, successors, and any person claiming or attempting to exert a claim for any injury now or in the future resulting from use of the Highway. Users further agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the City and the United States of America, and their respective officers, employees, and agents from and against any and all losses, damages, injuries, claims, causes of action, or any liability whatsoever resulting from, arising out of, or in connection with the use of the Highway. Use of the Highway is a privilege and users are expected to conduct themselves in an appropriate manner. In the event any user violates any federal, state, City, or local law, rule, or policy or treats another person or persons or property with disrespect, as determined within the sole discretion of the Highway Manager or designee, the Manager or designee may remove that person or persons from the Highway and may, at the sole discretion of the Manager or designee, limit or prohibit such person or persons from future use of the Highway.


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Clackamas sheriff: 'How we prepared for mall shooting'
Department has learned from past tragedies not to wait for SWAT to arrive
By Police1 Staff
PORTLAND, Ore — A Clackamas County Sheriff says that preparation and training may have helped reduce the number of fatalities at Tuesday's mall shooting.
Jacob Tyler Roberts, 22, who was wearing a camouflage outfit and a white mask, shot an initial burst of fire and then more rounds at Clackamas Town Center.
"Law enforcement has learned through past tragedies that we can't wait for SWAT teams, and teams need to deploy immediately," said Sheriff Craig Roberts during a news conference.
"We were also well prepared for this incident because we had practice in active shooter techniques at the Clackamas Town Center this past year, just for this type of situation.
"Many people have asked me why there were so few victims during this incident…I believe it's a combination of factors that led to this outcome."
• Based on the evidence obtained, the suspect's rifle jammed while he was attacking individuals in the food court
• The mall had a lockdown procedure in place for this type of incident, and implemented that program successfully
• A large number of officers arrived on the scene quickly, curtailing the suspect's ability to move around the mall
• 10,000 people in the mall at one time kept a level-head, getting themselves and others safely out of the mall
"Taking together these four factors limited the suspect's access to potential victims and gave him less time to harm others," Roberts said.
He went on to praise neighboring jurisdictions for their support during the incident.
"I would like to thank our local, state and federal law enforcement partners for their extraordinary efforts," Roberts said.
"Several neighboring jurisdictions said 'Send everybody;' they were talking about all the patrol officers for their small cities.
"This was even when we had already determined the shooter was dead. This level of support was absolutely amazing. It gave us the ability to continue to the get the investigation done in quick manner and move forward to get some resolution on this.
Mark Lomax, executive director of the National Tactical Officers Association told CBS, the response highlighted the paradigm shift in police responses since Columbine.
"In the past, it was the standard protocol if there was a shooting incident or a barricade suspect or a hostage situation, the first responder would secure and contain the crime situation until the SWAT team or negotiators or bomb techs would arrive," he said.
"It takes a while for a fully equipped SWAT team or hostage negotiation team to get to the scene. We've realized over many sad incidents that time is of the essence when it comes to saving lives and that those first responders should be fully knowledgeable with how to handle those situations. "