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LAPD Had "No Idea" Who They Were Shooting At In Dorner Pursuit, Says Victims' Attorney
"It's 100 percent clear that they had no idea who was in that vehicle and just lit it up," says attorney Christopher Driscoll.
Driscoll is representing Maggie Carranza, 47, and her mother, 71-year-old Emma Hernandez, the two women who were shot on Thursday, Feb. 7 in Torrance, CA by LAPD officers. The officers were on the hunt for Christopher Dorner, and claim to have mistaken Carranza and Hernandez's truck for Dorner's.
"They had a description of the suspect, they had a description of the suspect's vehicle. The two women obviously do not match that description in any way," Driscoll says.
ReasonTV's Tracy Oppenheimer sat down with Driscoll to discuss how this tragedy could have happened.
"When an officer is injured, or goes down, or is threatened, the team mentality really steps up," Driscoll says, "you have that concern that individual citizens' rights are going to get trampeled when the officers are attempting to get justice for their brothers.
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Produced by Tracy Oppenheimer; shot by Zach Weissmueller.
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Officer safety! It trumps all other concerns and laws. Just as long as no officers were hurt, then they acted appropriately.
/PoliceOne dumbfuckery
Your three sentences are more coverage than this panicked attempted murder has actually received over at PorcineOne.
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If I'm a black male anywhere around LA, I'm staying inside and out of sight. Those cops are CRAZY.
well, those ladies were hispanic. So apparently no one is safe
What about a 71 year old, small Hispanic woman making an honest buck with your small Hispanic daughter, delivering papers with your pickup, which BTW wasn't the same model or color as the suspect's truck?
Would you figure you'd be mistaken for a young 270 lb. African-American man and sprayed with bullets without warning?
Shit, the only despicable thing these pigs DIDN'T do, was racial profiling.
Would you figure you'd be mistaken for a young 270 lb. African-American man and sprayed with bullets without warning?
Well, there is an obesity "epidemic" in this country.
Hey, if you don't want to be shot at by the police, try leaving your lights on when you pull up to people's houses at 4:30 AM to make deliveries!
Well Servo, I don't blame you. Those fools that shot at the 2 women should be fired and brought up on charges of attempted murder. There is no excuse for that kind of behavior.
It really is the opposite of heroic behavior. To do as much as possible to make yourself better armed than "civilians" and then to open fire on those civilians, solely to ensure your own safety above all other consideration.
That's the trick these days.
Cops use overwhelming force to protect themselves, with little regard to the damage or terror they inflict. Procedures are all about keeping cops safe, not citizens.
We're supposed to respect them for "risking their lives" to protect us. How should we feel about them when they risk our lives to protect themselves?
It's the same trick the state has always used -- the sole justification for the state is to protect the citizens, but the state really uses the citizens (via the military draft) to protect itself.
perfectly said.
I would answer the question (who did the cops think they were shooting at) with: People....or dogs...they really shoot the dogs a remarkable number of times.
"Produced by Tracy Oppenheimer; shot by Zach Weissmueller"
Is Zach related to the Tarzan guy, and is Tracy related to either the physicist or the diamond people? Inquiring minds want to butt in.
Tracy has produced yet another fine piece of journalism. Enjoy her while you can Reasonoids, because she won't be around for long. She's got the looks, the brains, and the journalistic chops needed to be successful on a national scale. She'll get snapped up by Bloomberg or CNBC soon.
Zach is the person who shot Tracy.
This is the story that keeps on giving:
1. Whistle blower cop turns in cops for brutality.
2. Whistle blower cop gets fired for it.
3. Whistle blower cop goes crazy and starts shooting cops.
4. LAPD goes on nation-wide manhunt and look like fools.
5. Cops search houses out of their jurisdiction.
6. Cops shoot first and ask questions later, wounding two Asian ladies in a pick-up NOT matching the description of the whistle blower cop.
7. Whistle blower cop gets away from the Keystone cops (literally).
8. Prognosis... Whistle blower cop shoots more cops OR cops shoot Whistle blower cop.
9. Regardless... cops look stupid(er).
FdA...enjoying the show.
Don't bogart the popcorn!
6. Guess they were Hispanic. CNN was reporting Asian.
Just a guess but Spanish surnames are rather common among those of Filipino descent.
+1 Skittle
naw, asian hispanics wind up like being dictators of their adoptive countries.
Ethnically, they were simply from Los Angeles. What they weren't, is anyone resembling he suspect. Thir truck was apparently the wrong color and model, too. The cops sprayed two random people with bullets, plain and simple.
I'm not so sure about the whistle blower part. He didn't come forward until after he got a bad evaluation and none of the complaintent stories match. There were also non-police witnesses who testified no brutality occured (although they were employees of the location where the incident occurred).
Well he claimed that the training officer confessed later. I'm not sure that is so easily made up. He also supposedly did exactly the right thing, which was to go step by step on the chain of command.
Also, he has a completely unblemished record with the USN. A person who pulls shit like that with the LAPD would probably not do so well for so long in the military.
Is waiting to file a report evidence that no wrongdoing occurred? Maybe he was planning to keep his mouth shut, but then got a bad evaluation and said, F that.
I'm not ready to accept his status as "whistleblower" quite yet, as the veracity of his claims has not been established. Right now he's just a murderer.
Note: I'm not defending the LAPD or denying that there are bad cops (and lots of them). Just blowing the whistle on Reasonoids lionizing yet another criminal because it suits their ideology.
Who the hell is lionizing him? Claiming that our ideology is akin to a pro-gun control, masturbating to MSNBC anchors maniac is "Somalia 'n Roadz" level stupidity.
With a bit of research, ie looking at the comment I was responding to, you would have seen FDA is calling him a "whistleblower". I know that's a lot to ask of a humanities professor, maybe I should lower my standards. ;-)
I never said his ideology was yours, just that praising an anti-cop person is easy for those with your ideology.
I know that's a lot to ask of a humanities professor, maybe I should lower my standards. ;-)
Social sciences, actually. Humanities was just my undergrad degree.
Anyway, my ideology, at least, is not "anti-cop" as much as it is "don't murder people" be they cop or X-Cop.
"Don't murder people" That kind of radical mentality is what's wrong with society today.
Well, their goes my plans this afternoon.
And this is the same FDA who was claiming, in the days after Newtown, that we must lay all blame for shootings on the shooter and no one and nothing else. Yet now it's the LAPD's fault for driving this guy crazy.
I'm fairly certain I never chose either side in this, nor did I give ANY praise to the man who murdered people. NOR did blame anyone's actions on another. I simply said I was enjoying watching idiot cops go out of their way to prove what I've always suspected. They put themselves above average citizens and the law...
So fuck off and die in a fire.
1. Whistle blower cop turns in cops for brutality.
2. Whistle blower cop gets fired for it.
3. Whistle blower cop goes crazy and starts shooting cops.
You called this murderer a whistle blower and papered over the fact that he killed two non-cops as well as the one cop. Apparently cops are not considered worthy of a right to life on Reason any more, but at least the two "civilian" deaths should give you pause.
I repeat.
I NEVER gave any praise to either side.
Are you implying the words "whistle blower" has some sort of positive connotation? It does not. He was reported to have turned in other cops for brutality. That makes him a whistle blower. I never speculated or implied any legitimacy to his or anyone else's claims.
Would it make Tulpy happier had I said "alleged" whistle blower?
As far as I'm concerned, everything in this story is alleged.
Both the LAPD and the shooter appear to be idiots. Which was my point. It's going to turn out bad for the idiot cops either way.
Are you implying the words "whistle blower" has some sort of positive connotation? It does not.
Yes, it does.
Fuck off and die in a fire...twice.
Eh, whistle blower does have a positive connotation. As opposed to the more neutral "source" or "informant", or the harshly negative "snitch" or "rat".
I do think saying FDA was praising this guy is nuts. He was clearly more interested in the way the LAPD has conducted themselves.
Your average newspaper comments sections has plenty of idiots heaping shit on whistle blowers whenever one pops up.
Idiots is exactly the right word for them. They still think they're in grade school, and if they raise their hand and report an infraction then in swoops the grownups to make it all better. Hell, reporting major issues up the chain, not ethical or criminal stuff, but just "Hey, we need to go back and change this or else the product will be all fucked up" type memos can get you blamed for it. To say nothing of reporting major ethical or legal trouble up the chain, and if that fails, to the outside world. Much better to keep your head down, maybe file a CYA memo somewhere.
I have a folders of emails, many of which are emails written to myself, titled 'CYA'.
Can you be lying and still be a whistle blower?
Of course you can. Just because you accuse somebody of something doesn't mean the accusation is true.
While whistleblowing is often glamorized as heroic and noble, it is often as much self-preservation as it is good intentions. Take Sherron Watkins' "whistle blowing" on Enron. Her internal memo was basically a statement of: "We might attract scrutiny because of these shady looking finances, so we should meet and discuss how to present them better."
No it doesnt.
Admittedly, its more positive than snitch.
But I would say whistleblower is neutralish while snitch is perjorative.
I see Virginian beat me to it, but I think whistleblower is neutral too, but YMMV.
And meanwhile, at the other FDA...........
yep. I understand what he's doing, but I find the deaths of the two civilians a bit indefensible (although we don't know 100% for sure if he killed them - we may never).
I wouldn't let him stay in my house, but if i saw him in the street, I wouldn't turn him in. I might even buy him a burger.
Wow. Just wow. This comment is exhibit A in what's wrong with you guys' attitude on this.
We're totally outraged about cops wounding two innocent people, but you'd buy a burger for a double murderer (assuming we don't count cops as people) and let him go free, all because he wrote something that criticized cops.
Tulpa, it's because we're tired. We're tired of cops getting the benefit of the doubt every time they drop the hammer on someone. Thousands of Americans die under a cops fists or under a cops baton, or shot to death by a cop, and every single fucking time they are exonerated, or allowed to plead to lesser charges. I'm not talking about dark alley shoots where there are legitimate "furtive movements to the waistline". I'm talking about old women being shot to death by cops because they got the wrong house. I'm talking about six fucking pigs beating a man to death on the street because they could.
Read the Declaration of Independence. How many more decades of brutality, routine violations of civil rights, no knock raids, increasingly militarized police, compliant media, vicious prosecutors, and foolish judges do you think people will tolerate? It makes me furious, and I don't even get victimized by them. How does some black kid who stays away from drugs, stays away from the gangs, works hard in school to get out of the ghetto feel when the NYPD shoves him up against the wall while hes walking home from the job he works to save up some money for tuition?
I'm honestly just surprised there aren't people in LA joining him.
I agree 100% - I used to be pro cop, law and order, until reality slapped me silly. Southern CA just had the case were a homeless mentally ill man was beaten to death by cops, with about a dozen cops looking on and failing to do anything. Afterwards, nothing but lying. If there hadn't been videotape, there would not have been an iota of justice.
Oh, and some interesting links from this article
Did he confess to killing the people in Irvine, or has any conclusive evidence been released linking him to those murders?
And for that matter, is there any evidence that he killed the cop in Riverside?
Read his manifest. Yes, he wanted to kill his former attorney's children for messing up his life.
That's right, Tulpa. We're outraged about cops wounding two innocent people. The cops, however, are not innocent.
Look, I considered joining the navy as an MD, and I knew doing so that I would not be innocent until decommissioned, that my life was dispensible, and that moral penalty for killing me is lower than that of any civilian.
I agree with you Tulpa. Anyone who kills innocent people intentionally is a murderer and should be considered as such. It would be one thing if he was a vigilante hunting down cops that won't ever be brought to justice for some heinous act. It's a whole other thing to shoot an attorney's innocent family members in cold blood.
Yeah, I don't see buying this guy jack. If he pounded at my door in an agitated state, he'd be met by bullets. I'm simply not going to trust my life with his state of mind. Most likely, he did kill two non-cops (cops are civilians too), and that makes him a piece of shit in my book.
However, informing if I saw him near by? Probably would on the balance of things, but I know it would be a huge risk. The manhunt becomes centered around my neighborhood and the stormtroopers come blaring in taking inventory of my shit, my gun collection, my robotic parts, other things that they have no understanding of and therefore would assume to be illegal. The fourth and fifth amendments don't mean shit these days, and a warrant would not even apply. Now, I've thought about it, no I would not report him if he showed up in my neighborhood. Too big of a risk to put my life in the hands of 'roid ragers.
And I know, there are plenty of people who take supplements and roids who handle those products without emotional issues. I know a few. It is safe to assume, however, that on balance, cops are not these kind of people.
If you read his manifesto, he's willing to give cops a pass on reporting him, so it's almost certain that he would give civilians a pass on reporting him.
sorry, I misread you statement.
Maybe he's Orenthal, the Whistleblowing murderer...
3. Whistle blower cop goes crazy and
starts shooting cops.murders the daughter of his union rep and her fiance.
This guy can burn as far as I'm concerned, though some few elements of the situation have certain endearing qualities.
You pretty much summed it up, Francisco
Every one of you dumb motherfuckers who stick up for poor little dunphy should go read the "Spree Killer Manifesto" thread.
Fuck him, and fuck you.
I have come to the conclusion that dumbfy is no cop at all, just a wannabe.
His unabashed, over-the-top fellating of himself and cops in general is creepy and detestable.
His defense of various police shootings borders on the insane.
He should stick around though, if for no other reason than to give an opposing ( but wrong ) POV. It gives us something to push against.
His defense of various police shootings borders on the insane.
It's so crazy that I think he's gotta be a cop.
He gets caught saying impossible shit all the time about the profession. Sugarfree massacred him, the guy going under the name Harvard the other night wiped him on the mat on the inconsistencies in his narrative. My favorite example is how dunphy claimed to be doing traffic in the middle of the street with Rage Against the Machine blaring on his headphone set. He is not a cop though crazy and creepy he may very well be.
I think he was going overboard in apologetics for the cops who shot these innocent people not being immediately jailed and charged. But he did say they should be prosecuted.
you have that concern that individual citizens' rights are going to get trampeled when the officers are attempting to get justice for their brothers.
Gang violence is no respecter of innocent bystanders.
4. LAPD goes on nation-wide manhunt
in what appears to be a frantic attempt to silence him permanently.
He needs to get a bus and cover it with steel plating. Then he and some blond chick can drive it through a hail of gunfire onto the steps of the LA court house.
Speaking of violence and buses.
Speaking of violence and buses.
Hey, back in the day Sondra Locke was a real hottie. I would drive her through a hail of bullets any day.
She always had that look of crazy in her eye. Bang her, but don't let her follow you home.
That wont help, she will just sue me.
Never mind, she can drive herself. Actresses are crazy.
I do seem to recall Tom Turner telling me something about a daughter who was a little...odd.
I guess we will have to be content with her nude scenes...and endeavor to persevere.
There is iron in your words of life, Lone Watie.
My dad always told me. "boy, Don't stick you dick in crazy"
You might end up becoming Michael Douglas in Fatal Attraction.
And when I'm finished, bring the yellow tape
To tape off the scene of the slaughter
punk police are afraid of me
A young nigga on a warpath
And when I'm finished, it's gonna be a bloodbath
Of cops, dyin in LA
They put up my picture with silence
Cuz my identity by itself causes violence
And there's no cue, yo, so I can hear a
Dumb muthafucka with a gun
And if I'm rollin off the 8, he'll be tha one
That I take out, and then get away
And while I'm drivin off laughin
"LAPD Had "No Idea" Who They Were Shooting At In Dorner Pursuit, Says Victims' Attorney" is the latest from Reason TV.
I certainly hope so.
What's the alternative, that they were hunting elderly women.
Thank God their weapon training is as poor as everything else. Over two dozen shots at stationary targets and both survived.
Clearly Glock's standard magazines aren't nearly large enough.
She'll get snapped up by Bloomberg or CNBC soon.
Will it be murder, or suicide?
So not only did they riddle an entirely different type of truck containing 2 people of an entirely different race, gender, and build with 40+ shots and only hit their targets twice (think God they fucking suck), they also hit nearby cars and houses. And the officers involved will get a slap on the wrist, if that. Remember these are the only people who can be trusted with assault rifles!
think = thank
That incident just proves that assault weapons are too dangerous for civilians
/brain dead proglodyte
Only cops have the proper training and brain-conditioning to safely handle firearms.
/double-brain-dead proggie
I just saw a bit on fox about this story. No mention whatsoever of these shootings. They portrayed the cops as heroes facing a tough situation but dealing with it competently. Disgusting.
I'm sure Tulpa will be along soon to agree.
Wait, it was food truck?
Wait, it was food truck?
Now he has to go clean himself off again.
And then he will say that the dirty brown furen women had to be doing something to deserve being shot at. Dirty fureners can't be trusted, they are all poor, and they pee in their own water.
That's why I was arguing that the cops should be immediately jailed and prosecuted in the other thread.
Some of you fucksticks were even involved in that thread and you still defame me. Typical.
Wow, Tulpa. That's almost libertarian of you.
You can imagine our surprise.
I'm in agreement with the rest of you on 90% of the police abuse cases. The remainder are the ones where you guys go off the derp end and think that anyone stopped by a police officer doing an investigation has the right to bludgeon him with liquor bottles, for example.
I've gotten into it with dunphy over the double standard many times. Your 0-1 thinking leads you to some pretty stupid conclusions about people and life in general.
You would be hard pressed to find me commenting negatively on the 10% of cases you are referring to. I personally believe certain people go too far here accusing cops. It is as if the default is to accuse. I do not hold with that. I prefer to make my decision based upon the available facts. To do otherwise is unlibertarian.
News outlets are waiting for cues from their Govt masters on how to spin this thing --
"Left-wing goose-stepping nutjob Fascist ex-police ex-military whistle-blowing minority discrimination-victim seeking retribution goes on a whack-job out-of-control killer rampage for racial justice."
That's what you get for tuning into Fox.
"you have that concern that individual citizens' rights are going to get trampeled when the officers are attempting to get justice for their brothers."
Driscoll's wrong about one thing. This wasn't an attempt to get justice. There was no attempt to apprehend Dorner; this was a straight-up attempted execution.
Even if it had been Dorner in that truck, it still would have been attempted murder.
Even if it had been Dorner in that truck, it still would have been attempted murder.
I'm not sure about that. Dorner has quite publicly made threats on the life of high-ranking police and police in general, has the firearms expertise to follow through on those threats with little warning, has stated that he does not care about dying, and has already killed three people including one cop.
If it were known to be Dorner approaching the home of one of his targets, I would consider that to be a good shoot. Problem is, it obviously wasn't, and the reasons for thinking it was were so flimsy as to make these cops a greater danger to public safety than Dorner is.
Tough, until a government employee actually has a shot fired at him, he should not even touch his weapon.
That's going too far. The standard in the military is positive ID (I can tell what I'm looking/shooting at) AND a threat (its trying to kill me or is in a category where being armed or even existing [like uniformed military] means it's always ok to kill it. If cops followed the same rule I wouldn't have a problem with one unholstering his weapon and pointing it at the ground, although the safety should stay on.
And the military is supposed to be on a battlefield engaging hostile forces. If government employees are going to roam the streets with honest citizens, then they need to be severely restricted. I would even go so far as stripping most basic human rights from government employees. No weapons, no voting, no right to assemble. If they want the rights of a citizen, then they can quit living off the citizens.
I'm calling BS on that one Chris. That's a good way to get killed.
No Fraggle, not here in Georgia. He is a fugitive from justice, armed and dangerous and wanted for murder. He would be shot down like a dog and deservedly so. No cop should risk his life to try to capture this crazy fool.
Hey, look on the bright side. Since the guy was black, left-leaning, and a cop, the media isn't going to use this to talk about gun control. It was obviously fueled by racism.
The poor guy was just bucking for a job with the Obama SS Assassination Squad.
PS, sad but true.
Yep, there are some incompetent police officers out there.
Give these ladies a pile of your cash taxpayers of whatever city this took place in.
"They were reaching in their waistbands for what we thought were Assault Rifles. We felt our lives were in danger so our service weapons discharged and suspects were shot in the back."
"Only later was it discovered that they were newspaper-ladies. Committing the crime of being Hispanic, we also thought they could have been with the Mexican drug cartels delivering cocaine, which further justifies our actions. Anyway, fuck them."
"We are positive that the Police-staffed "Civilian" Review Board will find all of our actions in compliance with departmental procedures and practices."
Oh, I'm thinking they will be suspended for two days without pay.
At a minimum, they should be fired. I have no hope that the police union backed prosecutors will charge them with any number of violations of law.
There is no "right" side to this story. Don't turn Dorner into a hero, because he is not. Don't turn LAPD into heroes, they are not. Dorner's "Manifesto" is nothing more than the rantings of a lunatic. I think Driscoll hit it perfectly at the end discussing the "Triple Irony."
Dorner is nothing more than someone willing to do whatever he feels it takes to get what he's "entitled to."
You're not fooling us, Domer.
Dorner's "Manifesto" is nothing more than the rantings of a lunatic.
Tow that lion.
Brooksie has also long held an ineffable attraction to Margaret Cho.
Oh m'lord. It's clear that H+R is going on one of those "We want to believe" benders again.
And yet, Obama is using the same logic in all his drone strikes.
Ie, these are relatives of a person who I feel has wronged me, so it's okay for me to kill them
Dorner obviously was not in the targeted vehicle. Since neither the vehicle nor its occupants even vaguely resembled the description of Dorner and his vehicle, we're looking at a remarkable level of incompetence.
It's far worse than that, though. Even if Dorner had been in the vehicle, police had absolutely no right to open fire, clearly attempting to execute the occupants. Obviously the unarmed occupants had not fired at police. It's remotely possible that they made some move that was misinterpreted by police, but even then the response--if it was a response--would have been grossly disproportionate.
These police officers probably will receive slaps on their hands and be put back on the street. They ought to be jailed.
I cant find what the cops have to say about this other than the 'mistaken identity' excuse. Do I really have to point out just how much that doesnt hold water?
And if it actually had been the guy, how did these highly trained professionals shoot 40+ rounds, hitting other cars and houses, apparently, and not even hit the driver?
It looked like Dorner was more accurate when he shot up the LAPD cruiser in Riverside.
Anyone else surprised that Dorner turns out to be a O-3 after being described just as a "Navy reservist"? Makes a little more sense how getting fired ruined his life. Fired for lying/dishonesty = loss of security clearance = walking papers?
I'm sure they don't have anything to say. They will 'investigate' themselves, and find that they followed all the correct procedures. Nothing to see here, move along.
This being a case of mistaken identity does hold water... it's just not an excuse. I can totally believe that they were ready to riddle with bullets any blue pickup truck that was doing anything the slightest bit suspicious, in this case stopping and slowing down repeatedly. Of course, they shouldn't be doing that, and if any non-cop did this they would be prosecuted for attempted murder.
How do you know they weren't born here?
I guess you need for Tulpa to come here and explain to you about dirty fureners and immigration. He has all the facts.
You mean like in most of Americas inner cities?
Ah, yes, the fallacy of composition. One anecdote about 3 Ethiopians somehow allows us to infer that the entire culture of Ethiopia is based on fraud and thievery.
What's next? Based on your forum name, I'm guessing blood libel.
What makes you think I'm limiting the inference to Ethiopia?
Unwarranted charity toward you on my part.
What makes you think I'm limiting the inference to Ethiopia?
Are you Tulpas sister?
That's nothing. All people living in Latin America, are poor, and pee in their own drinking water. If not for the generosity of Murika, they wouldn't even that that water to pee in!
All people living in Latin America, are poor, and pee in their own drinking water.
Tulpy-poo should know about this, as someone who pisses in his own corn flakes, every morning.
Yep. Those affluent blancos y blancas.
Or is this the part where you blame the JOOZ?
HM, you are better than this. C'mon dude you are being trolled.
I am suspicious that one of the regulars here regularly trolls us under various names.
You're not a regular, but you make a comment about John's spelling disorder? Pull the other one.
Tell me again that Brazil has a better economy than the US. I'd take the worst neighborhood in inner city Detroit over the shanty towns ringing Rio. How about you? Oh, wait, you've already made your decision. As have the ex-Brazilians who go through our ridiculously labyrinthine immigration system.
And for those who weren't involved in the thread last night, I'll give context. I was not implying that Latin American people are inferior or stupid, just that their economies are underdeveloped. The "pee in the water" remark was about the water supply, not water a person is actually about to drink.
I forgive your ignorance, Tulpa. You might want to let it go before you make a bigger ass out of yourself. But, really, I can't stop you.
I'm still pretty sure this is Sarah Palin's fault.
as Eric implied I'm in shock that any one able to profit $4673 in 1 month on the computer. have you seen this website http://www.FLY38.COM
No, I havent seen it.
Where is pedo-bot? There is something comforting about seeing his harmless little 'Wow!" posts in every thread. Plus there is the occasionally astounding level of AI where he appears to partly grasp the nature of the discussion at hand.
This bot sucks.
Who the fuck is Eric?
Half a bee, philosophically, must ipso facto half not be.
I'm Eric and so's my wife.
Try to keep up, man. He's the dude who "allegedly able to profit $4673 in 1 month on the computer"....but I'm somewhat dubious.
I didn't get why this wasn't mentioned when Geraldo was on Fox & Friends the other day. Just the three spree victims. Can't figure it out.
Haven't been so entertained since they chased down Roy "Mad Dog" Earle in the mountains ...
Do think the State of California would vastly improve public safety if they restricted police to carrying a single bullet in their shirt pockets.
Good for you. Where is it?
Fuck off Mary.
all indications are they screwed up big time. they let fear take over. you can't let fear take over. the streets are scary, but you attack them with confidence and caution, not fear.
Fuck you Dunphy. The streets are not a war zone. Give me a gun and a badge and I will go any place in this country. If you are sacred on the streets, you are a lunatic or a coward.
I don't think dunphy is disagreeing with you on that.
the streets are scary,
Does that not mean what it says?
Only fools have no fear.
-- Lt. Worf
If you are sacred on the streets, you are a lunatic or a coward.
RC'z law strikes again!
Check out the comments from the story in the LA Times
This one was particularly appalling:
Drive a truck like a cop-killer, at night, tinted windows, and totally ignore and try to evade the police? This is not an outrage! This was an innocent mistake. It is a shame the women did not come to an immediate stop and freeze like any normal citizen should do!
What. A. Fucking. Twat.
You not fooling anyone Mary. Get off your meds again?
Apparently so. You are so easy to spot. For someone who prides themselves on making up characters, you do a very bad job of hiding yourself. But your breed of insanity is pretty hard to hide and impossible to imitate.
Don't be too sure, John, there are lots of other people out there just as stupid as this person. Ever read the comments at Politico?
There is no end to stupid people. But there is a certain style of trolling that is distinctly Mary stack. You really can't miss it once you get a feel for it
No Mary I just feel sorry for you.
You gonna tell us all about agrarian city states, or white chimp/shit flinger today?
Go away and lick some authoritah boot and get your fix. You will feel better.
The regular douchey trolls on Reason are somewhat entertaining to engage; this one just fucking sucks. Reason deserves a higher caliber of troll...not the kind that you would find at Fox or Kos.
This one is a particularly loathsome one who shows up when she gets out of confinement or wherever she goes.
What's your argument, Treply? I'm really interested in hearing your views on this shooting, because you're really, really intelligent and obviously have some keen insight. So show your cards you vapid cunt.
Come on, pussy; take a position already.
Then just come out and say that shit instead of acting like a bitch troll. Personally, I value the comments on these boards that are inconsistent with garden-variety libertarianism.
We still have derider. It doesn't get much stupider than that. Tony is a close 2nd, with Buttwipe the Libertarian dude, in 3rd.
I think shreek is the worst followed by Derider and then Tony. Tony is just dumb but he actually seems to be a human being.
Tony has said some of the stupidest things that I have ever heard a human being utter. He seems to start out half way reasonable sometimes and as a thread progresses, he descends into complete babblings non-sense. IMHO, derider is much worse than Tony and Shreek combined.
But I give the all time stupid H&R Troll award to Crayon.
Derider is the old Joe From Lowell. And he has always been really bad. Just a dishonest arrogant twit.
John, I just realized that you are right, it's Mary.
I can always tell when it is her. She has a certain voice. I can't quite explain how I can tell. But I can.
John, you do realize she's in love with you, right?
That is a thought that is too horrible to contemplate. I prefer to think of her as a troll and hope she never shows up at my door with a kitchen knife.
When you show up her entire tone changes. She gets flirtatious and has this sort of dreamy posting quality.
You two could be the next Sloopy/Banjos. ;-)
On second thought, better just get another deadbolt and make sure you are unlisted.
She is also Cheradenine Zakalwe. Hopefully Reason will ban her and the infestation will end soon.
To come clean, I've read H&R comments semi seriously for a few months. I've posted a handful of comments as "Slithery D"; it's the only other handle I've ever used. I'm a 30s dude in the military who regards himself as an "aristo-libertarian" and has some minor empathy for the cosmos, while still enjoying the scorn heaped on them by the "straights" around here. I appreciate the weirdos outside the consensus (like John)almost as much as I do the (more skilled and funny) core group.
Working on it.
note the comments: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....kA&index=1
It doesn't get much stupider than that.
It looks like it just did. This rape baby has set a new precedent.
"It is a shame the women did not come to an immediate stop and freeze like any normal citizen should do!"
I've always felt a "freeze" could be misconstrued as the mental formulation of criminal intent. So, I throw myself down on the ground spread eagle and keep shouting "Sir, please don't hurt me! Please, sir, I'm begging you! Don't hurt me, please!"
We've seen videos where the cops yell "freeze!" and "get on the ground!" at the same time, or other contradictory commands.
There was a case here in maryland where two FBI agents stopped a car, ordered the occupants out, with one yelling "freeze" the other "hand up" and one of the occupants got shot (in the neck I believe - luckily, he lived).
No one fired, no one prosecuted. I think he got some small compensation from suing...
People have been court martialed, kicked out of the military and sent to jail for less egregious conduct than this. Our soldiers treat Afghans and Iraqi civilians in a war zone better than we expect our police to treat American citizens. It is disgraceful. And everyone knows that these guys won't be so much as disciplined let alone prosecuted for what amounts to depraved indifference.
It is a full Mary outbreak today.
We need to buy her a blue pickup truck and give her a free trip to LA.
And give them an anonymous tip that the killer is coming back to town.
And some shooting lessons to improve their accuracy!
Perhaps because the citizens in Afghanistan are better armed?
Touche. Or perhaps also because unlike the LAPD, the military is disciplined, trained and generally held accountable.
That's why 30rd magazines (or, better yet, full auto fire) are needed for self defense.
Of course, you'd need to have a government which believed its reason for existence was to secure certain fundamental rights ... oh, wait a minute ... I mean ... oh, hell, never mind!
Depraved indifference? You're going easy on them. Assault with a deadly weapon, reckless endangerment, at the very least. Possibly attempted murder.
Tulpa, they were just trying to do you a favor and rid Murika of some dirty brown fureners. You should thank them.
You are really angry aren't you Mary?
I knew it was you Mary. I can always tell. Go take your meds you poor sad person.
you guys go off the derp end and think that anyone stopped by a police officer doing an investigation has the right to bludgeon him with liquor bottles, for example.
This made me laugh.
Out loud.
Me too.
"when the officers are attempting to get justice for their brothers"
When the officers are engaged in reprisals to show everyone who is really in charge.
This thread is funnier post ban.
It's more modernist.
I've heard conflicting reports on whether the officers gave verbal commands to stop. One of the lawyers for the women says the police didn't say anything. Other sources say the car kept on moving despite verbal warnings.
The lawyer "Clearly it wasn't Dorner inside the car". But if that was the case, they wouldn't have fired. They didn't realize the truck was blue and a different make from Dorner's car until after they fired.
The police officers receive firearms training, but they probably almost never use guns. Most of them will spend their days writing tickets, pulling people over, and doing other mundane duties. The recent shooting incidents is fresh on everyone's mind. "Armed and dangerous" is might as well be "the return of Lanza." Perfect recipe for disaster.
Dorner was prefect cop because he was in more combat situations. It's a shame that he resorted to vigilantism.
"The lawyer "Clearly it wasn't Dorner inside the car". But if that was the case, they wouldn't have fired. They didn't realize the truck was blue and a different make from Dorner's car until after they fired."
Maybe you should make a positive id of a suspect or at least the vehicle they're driving before you start playing Rambo?
If you're not sure what kind of vehicle you're looking for, maybe you shouldn't open fire on random vehicles that might be like the one you're looking for.
This thread is funnier post ban.
I was thinking the same thing.
Somebody who wanders in and reads the expurgated version will be highly skeptical of the quality or sanity of the commentariat.
Is this the expurgated version that I'm reading now?
Ok, I thought I was going crazy. People referencing people that haven't commented. It is more entertaining now that I know there is one side missing.
Me too. I saw John calling himself Mary and people responding to completely reasonable posts as being Mary as well.
A guy was arrested at a gym in a local shopping mall here in San Diego yesterday, as far as I can tell just for fitting some general description of this Dorner guy and being "uncooperative" when a bunch of rifle-toting cops stormed the 24-hour fitness where he was spotted. I guess if you're black and have a muscular build you might want to keep a low profile for the next few days.
Heat of the moment? Bullets flying everywhere and anywhere? Lots of noise, and screaming and shouting and running? Shoot the wrong person? Yeah. Mebbe. Mebbe I could see that. ...mebbe...
These cops had time to think about it...
...and apparently shot the wrong people, on purpose. Triggers on guns do not pull themselves. You have to point the weapon, idenitify the target, then pull the trigger.
Hispanic women with lotsa hair do not look like a black guy with short hair. Not even from the back.
If anyone else had done something like this, they'd already be in jail and awaiting their day in court...on murder charges.
Thankfully, they didn't actually manage to kill the two ladies, so it'd be attempted murder charges.
"The windows were tinted, so they had no way of knowing it wasn't Dorner. Those silly ladies shouldn't have tinted their windows, duh."
For the record, university "public safety officers" are cops, in other words, not people.
Punk cops liek that I jsut love to hear about in the news getting clipped in the line of duty!
Wah! Wah! Boo-hoo! Sob! Everyone's so busy bawling that they're completely overlooking the most important point in all this: No officers were injured and that's what matters. Civilians are a penny per twelve-thousand, if even that much, we have hundreds of millions of them. But not LEOs, they are our very finest, and our most rare. Besides, law enforcers have been extensively trained and are fully qualified to do this kind of stuff. It's not like some idiot Joe Public is running around wildly blazing away randomly killing people without having the proper training to do so. Save the whining for that.
A soldier overseas acting this way would be hauled up on warcrimes charges. But for the police at home its ok?
Most cops are great public servants, but if you fire at someone/something that is not in any way a direct threat to you or anyone... Sorry but it sounds like attempted murder to me.
The utter hypocrisy of this is amazing.
First, a well trained unit such as in the military routinely are engaged in exactly the same situation as the LAPD officers face today. Yet, they are not out randomly shooting and ramming innocent people and vehicles. In fact, if any of those cases occur, the slightest of which, the military serviceman is brought up on charges, relieved of duty and confined stripped of their duties.
Second, what type of an ill organized, untrained, incompetent mass would be out on the streets randomly shooting and ramming citizens without any supervision.
Apparently Mr Dorner is correct in his assessment that there are issues in the LAPD department that require scrutiny.
The actions of LAPD so far are not very impressive as they are being reported, I suggest this entire operation be turned over to a competent military commander for leadership and operational dispatch.
""When an officer is injured, or goes down, or is threatened, the team mentality really steps up," Driscoll says, "you have that concern that individual citizens' rights are going to get trampeled when the officers are attempting to get
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The world of Darwinia is a virtual theme-park, running entirely inside a computer network and populated by a sentient evolving life form called the Darwinians. Unfortunately Darwinia has been overrun by a computer virus which has multiplied out of control. Your task is to destroy the Viral Infection and save the Darwinians from extinction. The Darwinians can not be directly controlled. You can, however, influence the world by creating Programs such as Squads and Engineers, which you can directly control and use as weapons.
Darwinia is a truly very unique game to a degree that it just can't be categorised to a single genre. The core gameplay is a mix of strategy, action, puzzle and God games. It was honored with very positive reviews and a gaming award nomination - Best Game in the GameShadow Innovation in Games Awards 2006. Unique and fun gameplay was one the many features praised by critics, there is simply no game like this one so if you are in a mood for something different then this gem is for you!
Darwinia was acclaimed one of the best strategy games by the biggest worldwide media outlets:
- Nominated for Best Game in the GameShadow Innovation in Games Awards 2006
- Scored 90% from PC Gamer UK and reached number 21 on its 'Top 100 PC Games' list.
- Scored 8.5 in GameSpot's review.
- "Has to be played" from PC Review
- Darwinia won the Seumas McNally Grand Prize, Technical Excellence, and Innovation in Visual Art awards at the 2006 Independent Games Festival.
- Earned a 5 out of 5 on X-Play.
- New Age Gaming magazine awarded Darwinia a score of 97, its highest ever, and an Editor's Choice award. No other game has exceeded 96 since June 2007.
Age requirements: ESRB Rating: TEEN with Fantasy Violence. PEGI Rating: 7+ with Violence, Online gameplay.
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Posted on 2012-04-03 18:50:20 bycr8yzyc8nuck:
That is what this game was to me when I first played it. It had a unique premise and storyline, and presented me with a new genre.
I mean, I can only kill so many evil wizards, slay so many dragons, and lead a so many party of adventurers before things get a little old.
You won't find a lot of blood, but you will find a lot of heart, and there is something to be said for theread more cool way the Darwinians either run away from danger, or rush head-long into it while firing their weapons (assuming you've equipped them with some).
I won't say it's difficult, but it's certainly fun to see how the game responds to your commands.
This is truly an under-appreciated classic if ever there was one. I've played through it twice now, and I was thinking to myself just last week that I should play it again, just for the sheer awesomeness of it.
It's a bit on the short side, and I remember paying 9.99$ when it came out, so to see it on GOG at that price... well, wait for a sale, but don't miss out!
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Posted on 2012-04-04 20:13:09 bygl3nnium:
Darwinia is a greart genre busting game. What if, let's say hypothetically, you kind of like the idea behind RTS games but they bore you to tears at the same time.
What if you were thinking to yourself one morning "Gosh darn it I really like the exciting parts of RTS games but if I have to build one more base or cut down one more tree I'm gonna go postal and go on a bloodyread more rampage at the shopping mall with a jar of vaseline and a cricket bat".
Like me I'm sure you have that thought all the time but gladly I can now put down that cricket bat and put that jar of vaseline back in the cupboard.
Darwinia is that game...RTS action with an arcade pace and neat retro graphics that actually enhance the game. Tron meets dawn of war meets space invaders.
I alrady own multiwinia (the multiplayer version) so im not sure if i need Darwinia but I can truly recommend this game.
Yes it's a 40 meg download but theres lots of memorable play for your 40 megs. The only reason though that I seem to be the only one giving this game 4 out of 5 stars is that GOG have gotten the price point wrong...partly becasue it still is a 40 meg download afterall and to be honest this game really is a $5.99 game (multiwinia would be the $9.99 equivalent but its not here on gog)...You need to work out that price point gog..dont forget that back in the day this was a free game before it got picked up....if you spend $9.99 you wont be wasitng your money....you'll still get hours of fun. But wait for the sale....as soon as it comes down in price to $5.99 then buy. buy. buy !
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Posted on 2012-04-18 02:23:15 byKilmex:
A sky like Tron, flyers like Space Invaders, enemies like Centerpides and an overall minimalistic presentation.
You stumble into Darwinia a digital playground that has been infected by an evil virus that turned most of the artificial life into monsters. So you are to help restoring the small digital souls into normal darwinians by killing the monsters, retrieve their "souls"read more and refine them ... but wait: first you got nothing. No big lasers, no motars, bazookas, air strikes. No refinery and no transports ... but you can find these techs and develop better versions.
It plays fairly straight: summon a squad (a unit of 3 to 6 guys that do exactly what you want them to do) at the entering point and hunt enemies down. From time to time you conquer a new bulding or transportation point where you can summon troops from then on. Command & conquer - I would call it.
A special treat are some details the developers made: Everytime you start the game you get a random intro, all little intros like the crack themes in the 80s or 90s.
They implemented the option to summon units by drawing specific gestures, which works quite good.
They tried to tell a story about a system that works like a religion: darwinian get born (a digital souls comes to their world), it lives an collects memories, dies and gets absorbed into a central repository. There the soul gets intermixed with all other souls and loses it's own specific memories by getting the memories and skills of all darwinians that lived before. Then it gets reborn again in order to evolve a bit more and so on.
You will visit the place where the sould touch down on the world of Darwinia. You wll see the mines that provide raw materials for the little guys to buidl stuff. And you will see the place all utilized energy comes from. But the most important thing is to find the source of the virus!
So grab a squad and go for it!
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Between 700,000 and 1.4 million people in the United States have compulsive hoarding behaviors.
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Darnell Hinson has seen the world, courtesy of his basketball skills honed right here in the Gee.
The Muskogee High graduate and member of Northeastern State's 2003 national championship team launched his professional career in 2004 in Australia, weaved it through Europe and into Russia, where home seemed mighty appealing a couple of weeks ago.
In fact, Hinson had just returned to Volgograd, Russia, from a Christmas visit at home when he heard about a suicide bomber striking a train station in the city Dec. 29. Hearing about that is one thing. Experiencing it was something else.
That happened the next day when another suicide strike destroyed a trolley. Combined, the two attacks killed 34 and injured many more.
"This one was like two minutes from my house. Going to practice that day, we saw what was left of the bus," Hinson said.
Airports were closed. Hinson's season with Krasny Oktyabr in the VTB United League was put on hold. He began to see firsthand what a nation bordered to the south by radical Islamists does when struck.
"The army just flooded in here," he said. "You couldn't go to the store without having your bags checked, your pockets pulled out and, in my case, your passport checked. It was pretty much a ghost town for a few days with the exception of soldiers."
Hinson and his team made it out of Volgograd once the airports reopened. They've been practicing in Lithuania, awaiting resumption of play on Sunday in Moscow. Two games were canceled because of the tragedies.
It's all still heavily on his mind — and on those of Russians in general. The Sochi Olympics start next month, 427 miles southwest from Volgograd. Both cities are in the Northern Caucasus region that has Islamic roots. A self-proclaimed leader of the resistance, Doku Umarov, has called for action to stop the games that are "being held on the bones of many, many dead Muslims buried in our land."
Hinson said: "President Putin, he's a tough man. He's going to meet this head-on.
"You hope nothing happens, but who knows? I mean I got back and saw this. The train station is next door to where one of my teammates and an assistant coach live."
There's certainly been more peaceful seasons for Hinson, 33. He's making five times his starting salary and it's all tax free, with living allowances, transportation and a phone thrown into the package. It's a high-level league — one of its teams, CSKA Moscow, knocked off the NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves and lost to the Western Conference champion San Antonio Spurs in a pair of two-point overtime exhibition games last fall.
He's had better years — "this is a down year for me" — averaging 8.8 points, 2.3 steals and 1.4 assists.
But these episodes remind him of what's back here, including his son, Darnell Jr., who's in eighth grade. The season extends into March, and a planned team camp back here this summer in safer surroundings looms.
"It's times like this that make me rethink it," he said.
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According to figures provided by ODEQ, the permissible amount of total dissolved solids in water used at Koch was reduced in 2010 by more than 40 percent — from 4,500 mg per liter to 2,694 mg/L.
According to ODEQ, Koch explored several options for meeting the stricter water standards in 2010, including drilling its own water wells; installing an on-site demineralization facility; land application of the effluent; and purchasing potable water, which meets ODEQ standards, from the city.
Koch signed a contract in March 2010 with the city to purchase as much as 4,027 gallons of potable water per minute — equivalent to more than 2.1 billion gallons per year.
The change from gray water, or industrial water, to potable water came with a significant increase in price for Koch, increasing from 6.5 cents per 1,000 gallons for industrial water to the current rate of $2.68 per 1,000 gallons for potable water.
Enid City Manager Eric Benson said in an interview last week that signing the contract with Koch was necessary to keep a major industrial producer and employer in the local economy.
"It kept one of our biggest industrial customers able to sustain production," Benson said. "If they hadn't been able to buy fresh water from us, they wouldn't have been able to stay in operation."
According to Koch figures, the Enid plant employs about 140 people and pays out to local workers annual compensation and benefits worth more than $13 million.
But, it's not just in annual payroll that Koch is paying into the local economy.
According to figures provided by Garfield County Assessor Wade Patterson, Koch Nitrogen is the fourth-largest ad valorem taxpayer in the county, behind ADM, AdvancePierre Foods and OG&E.
Patterson said Koch Nitrogen currently pays more than $1 million per year in property taxes.
About 85 percent of that ad valorem revenue goes to local schools, while another 11-12 percent goes into the county general fund. The remainder is split between Garfield County Health Department and the city of Enid sinking fund for bridge bonds. The city portion of that tax expires this year.
Patterson said Koch's valuations have steadily increased, with a corresponding increase in the amount the company pays in to local schools and county government.
Plant expansion doubled the company's valuation in the county in 2008, from $40 million to $80 million.
Patterson said new additions are expected to increase Koch's valuation to $90 million next year, increasing the company's property tax payment in Garfield County to about $1.15 million per year.
Koch Nitrogen also has generated millions of dollars in revenue for the Enid Municipal Authority in potable water payments.
According to city records obtained through an Open Records Act request, Koch Nitrogen purchased 1.6 billion gallons of potable water in 2012 at a statute rate of $2.38 per 1,000 gallons, generating $3.8 million in revenue.
Enid Chief Financial Officer Jerald Gilbert said all of that revenue, along with all other utility revenue, goes into the Enid Municipal Authority.
The funds are used to fund EMA departments and capital improvements, including construction of new water wells, water lines, water towers and other water-related infrastructure.
Gilbert said the EMA brought in about $11.5 million in utility revenue in 2012.
Koch's portion of that revenue — about one-third in 2012 — was due almost entirely to potable water consumption.
Koch now is exploring options for reverting to gray water consumption at the plant — a move that would simultaneously decrease city water demand by as much as 40 percent and cut by about one-third the city's utility revenue available for water system improvements.
Mike Kleis, Koch Nitrogen plant manager, said in last week's press release: "The focus of this evaluation is to understand which water treatment technologies the Enid plant might be capable of installing that could decrease the plant's usage of potable (drinking) water and increase the use of non-potable discharge (industrial water) from the city's water treatment plant."
Koch Industries declined to comment any further on the company's plans for implementing gray water usage at the plant.
Benson said Koch has been exploring options for increasing gray water usage for the past 18 months, and already has increased its gray water usage as much as possible within DEQ guidelines.
"Koch is researching a variety of measures by which they can increase their use of gray water," Benson said. "I know any future expansion plans of theirs depend on their ability to use more gray water, and they want to decrease their use of potable water, because they know the impact it has on the community."
Benson said Koch has discussed with the city the possibility of the company implementing a pilot water treatment program at the Enid facility.
"They are keenly aware of the perceptions and the impact on the community through their use of potable water, and they have for some time been trying to reduce that impact," Benson said.
The city also is conducting a feasibility study to determine the costs of constructing a city treatment plant to produce gray water suitable for all industrial users.
The city contracted in January with Alan Plummer Associates, of Fort Worth, to conduct the study.
Steve Kime, director of marketing and public relations for the city, said the study will determine what options are available and what the costs would be for the city to treat gray water for industrial and irrigation uses.
The Alan Plummer study is expected to be completed this summer.
Benson said a cost estimate for a city treatment facility is not yet available, but it would require "a multi-million dollar up-front investment."
If Koch constructs its own facility, the city may not need its own treatment facility, but the city still would lose the utility revenue from potable water sales to Koch.
Benson said if Koch constructs its own treatment facility at the plant, there would be no extra infrastructure required from the city to support the plant's increased draw of gray water.
"We're already plumbed for them to take gray water, so it's really just a matter of us opening a valve," Benson said.
Benson said Koch could have a pilot program for gray water treatment available at the Enid plant by mid-summer.
Benson said the city will facilitate Koch's efforts as much as possible.
"We'll be looking at all available options, including allowing them free access to our gray water," Benson said.
If the plant does become capable of operating solely or predominantly off city gray water, Benson said there will be costs to the city in utility revenue.
"When you wean a major customer like that off, it does have economic implications," Benson said. "But, on balance, it's the right way to go, and we're all pleased they're headed this way."


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International and Scottish musicians rub shoulders in Edinburgh during this annual celebration of jazz and blues.
31st July 2014, Inverness:
The Scottish Chamber Orchestra perform works by Ravel, Rodrigo, Rossini and Mozart.
26th July 2014, East Lothian:
Scotland's National Airshow is a spectacular day out for all the family.
19th July - 3rd August 2014, Glasgow:
Conflux aims to develop street arts, physical theatre and circus in Scotland.
25th July 2014, Scottish Borders:
The Woman is back in the second part of Jennifer Tremblay's moving, award-winning trilogy of plays that began with The List in 2012.


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<communications> (PDH) A transmission system for voice communication using plesiochronous synchronisation.
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PDH combines multiple 2 Mb/s (E1) channels in Europe and 1.544 Mb/s (DS1) channels in the US and Japan.
PDH is being replaced by SONET and other SDH (Synchronous Digital Hierarchy) schemes.
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▶ The Council of the Arts for Clinton County has successfully pulled off its first Imagination Celebration, which concluded this week.
▶ The construction of a new waste-disposal system that was originally supposed to be a joint project between Franklin, Clinton and St. Lawrence counties has been left solely to Franklin County.
▶ Plattsburgh Air Force Base is holding Spouses Day this week, honoring the role of the military spouse. Activities will include a breakfast, a display of FB-111s, KC-135s, helicopters, fire trucks, Peacekeeper vehicles, a fly-by and a tour of the commissary. The day will end with a formal retreat ceremony for the spouses.
▶ The Clinton County Highway Department has received permission to spend $362,915 on road projects this year. Of the 14 towns in the county, only two—Mooers and Ellenburg—aren't having any construction done.
▶ The State Conservation Department has taken to removing scrub fish from Chazy Lake, and has already removed 5,000 pounds of the fish, which have been given to area residents.
▶ Organizers of the Lake Placid's 8th annual Jaycee Canoe Race are a little concerned over this weekends predicted heavy rains, though the race has been run under such conditions before in 1956.
▶ Thomas Shannon, a shoe salesman originally from Glens Falls, reported the theft of his car — containing $1,000 in shoes — to the Plattsburgh police at 7:30 in the evening, his car was spotted and returned by Sergeant L. L. LeVasseur and Corporal B. B. Watkins that night. The driver was Harold Russell, 17, of the Twenty-sixth Infantry at Plattsburgh Barracks, who allegedly stole the car to visit his family in Malone.
▶ Dr. F. F. Williams, Canton town health officer of 50 years, comments on the contrast of his job today compared to in 1888—when he had 20 cases of typhoid come through his door daily. "These diseases have been practically eliminated by now," he said, giving credit to the State Health Department.
▶ Plattsburgh motion picture theatres are now being permitted to exhibit Sunday matinees starting at 2 p.m.
▶ Nonstop heavy rains have taken a toll on the planting season for local farmers, the lack of sunshine has virtually guaranteed a late growing season.
▶ The largest man in the country passed through Malone on his way to Montreal, weighing 750 pounds at 5 feet 11 inches tall with a waist measurement of 110 inches. He will appear in a museum exhibit in Montreal next week.
▶ A severe storm struck the Plattsburgh area, layering young gardens and blooming foliage with two inches of snow.
▶ This year's semi-annual meeting of the Clinton County Medical Society was the most successful meeting held in the history of the group.
▶ James Farley will be auctioning off his string of valuable race horses this week. The collection of horses is expected to attract horsemen from all over the continent.
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Many Canadians suffered personal tragedies during the Great War. The War tore families apart, heightening emotions of sorrow, fear and hate. In addition to the personal sorrow that befell individual Canadians, there were some tragedies that were experienced on a grander, national scale. The Fire of the Parliament Buildings brought, on a symbolic level, the destruction of war to the very heart of the country. The Halifax Explosion, on the other hand, brought the carnage and horror of war to Canada in a very real sense. The Quebec Bridge Disaster and the Spanish Influenza Epidemic were examples of man-made and natural disasters that were worsened through their impact on a war-weary society. The events listed above are just a few examples of some of the disasters that gripped the Home Front. If you want to know about these events, click on the links below. However, if you would like to know more on other wartime tragedies, be an explorer and investigate some of the many books and Web sites that there are on the First World War. You can also research keywords through our on-line catalogue ArchiviaNet for references to material in Library and Archives Canada.
On the evening of February 3, 1916, a mysterious fire engulfed the elegant Gothic-Revival Centre Block of Parliament Hill. The intense flames consumed the building rapidly with the interior of the central tower collapsing just after midnight. While most were able to safely exit, the Ottawa Citizen reported that seven people were known to have perished in the blaze. The Parliamentary Library, and the priceless collection of books within, was fortuitously saved through the closing of heavy metal doors which separated it from the rest of the original Centre Block.
Many of the newspapers of the day playing to public fears of German conspiracy immediately published that the fire was a deliberate act of sabotage. The Toronto Globe reported that while "officially" the cause of the fire was a carelessly left cigar, "unofficial Ottawa, including many Members of Parliament, declare 'the Hun hath done this thing.'"
The Victoria Memorial Museum, now the home of the Canadian Museum of Nature, was chosen as the site for Parliament until the structure could be rebuilt. On September 1, 1916, the Governor General of Canada, His Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught, laid the cornerstone for the new Centre Block. This act was one of Connaught's last as Governor General as he soon left Canada to a command in the British forces.
When the Quebec Bridge collapsed in September 1916, a horrific sense of déjà vu was felt throughout the city. The bridge, which was conceived to be one of the most advanced in the world, had already collapsed nine years earlier. Eighty-five workers perished in that tragedy prompting a Dominion Royal Commission to investigate the catastrophic failure. To this day, all graduating engineers from Canadian universities receive iron rings to remind them of this event and the responsibility they have in the proper design and execution of projects.
The second collapse came just as the final section was being lowered into place between the rebuilt iron spans. Several photographers were in place to capture what was to be a triumphant moment. Unfortunately, what they did photograph was the spectacular fall of the middle section into the St. Lawrence River, leaving 11 dead in its wake.
Immediately fears of a German sabotage were reported; however, it was soon clear that another tragic construction accident had befallen the structure. Re-construction began almost immediately after the accident and special permission granted for the bridge builders to acquire the steel that was in high-demand because of the War effort. After the bridge's completion in 1917, special passes were required for those wanting to cross the structure. Armed soldiers, and later Dominion Police, guarded the structure and checked passes until the end of the War.
The devastating explosion in Halifax harbour on December 6, 1917 brought the horrific carnage and destruction of the First World War to Canada's doorstep. The blast, which is said to have been the largest man-made detonation before the invention of the atomic bomb, levelled approximately 2 square kilometres of Halifax and was reported to have been heard as far away as Prince Edward Island.
Halifax harbour was Canada's maritime nerve centre during the First World War. Troop transports, supply vessels and warships all plied the crowded waters around the city embarking and returning from the War effort. On the morning of December 6, 1917, two such vessels, the Imo, a Norwegian vessel employed in the Belgium Relief effort and the French munitions ship Mont Blanc, collided at the narrowest portion of the harbour, just outside of the large Bedford Basin staging area. The Mont Blanc was carrying over 2,500 tons of benzol fuel, TNT, picric acid and gun cotton. It is believed that immediately after the initial collision, the on-deck stores of benzol began to leak and soon ignited. The crew, knowing the danger that they were in, abandoned ship and headed for Dartmouth while the ship drifted towards Pier 6 on the Halifax side. A large group of bystanders, unaware of the volatile cargo, started to gather near the pier to watch the spectacle of the Mont Blanc as it drew closer to the shore.
In an unimaginable flash of light the Mont Blanc exploded, barely 20 minutes after the initial collision. All lines of communication with the city were immediately severed. Over 1,600 people died in the immediate blast with later deaths rising to over 2,000 souls. As in all disasters of this nature, the exact number of those affected will never be known; however, varying accounts argue that up to 9,000 were injured, including approximately 200 to 600 people that were blinded. An outpouring of support came from the rest of Canada, and the world, to assist Haligonians affected by the tragedy. One of the longest running measures of assistance to victims of the explosion is the Halifax Relief Commission. Now administered by the federal Department of Veterans Affairs, this program continues to help the remaining victims 84 years after the explosion.
The chills, aches and fever of the flu is a painful ritual with which all Canadians are familiar. It is rare, however, that the virus is considered a serious threat to the majority of the population. In the fall of 1918, soldiers returning home from the Great War, brought with them an undiscriminating, airborne killer. The Spanish Influenza Epidemic took more victims than the battlefields of Europe killing over 20 million people world-wide with 50,000 deaths in Canada alone. Canada, which had already endured four years of wartime hardship, buckled further under the pressures of the murderous virus. The population donned masks to limit exposure to the airborne microbes while public gatherings were cancelled and public buildings were closed. Medical care was in great demand and health care workers were desperate for new means of treating the sick. While the greatest effects were felt between 1918 and 1919, virulent cases of the flu continued, claiming more victims, well into the 1920s.


text: I shot a buck and a doe a couple of weeks ago in Wyoming. We hunted unit 41. We had a good time out there, although we didn't see much for trophy potential. We hunted hard with our bows for two and a half days without much luck. The rifle season opened on Sunday, so we broke out the guns and filled our tags the first day. Can't wait to go back!


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The Mankato Symphony Orchestra will be trying out a unique event tonight.
MSO is hosting Music and Brews at 5:30 p.m. in the Mankato Brewery. The event represents an attempt to engage the public by allowing visitors to try out instruments and sample locally made beer.
The Mankato Brewery launched around the same time that MSO was considering new ways to engage the community. Planners immediately saw the allure of having a nice, cold beverage at the local brewery.
With the help of Music Mart, numerous instruments will be available for the community to test out tonight while enjoying a local brew with orchestra members.
"It's like in elementary school, when you get to try all different instruments to decide which one to play -- only with a cold brew," said Sarah Buechmann, executive director of the Mankato Symphony Orchestra.
Buechmann explained that the orchestra felt they needed to get away from the rigid schedule of performances and show the community that the orchestra is not all about performing concerts. Buechmann sees this as an opportunity to attract new patrons.
"People who hear us perform enjoy us; it's getting them in through the door that is the hard part," Buechmann said.
The money raised through Music and Brews will go toward the Mankato Orchestra Symphony. Funds are used to make tickets more affordable to the public.
Among the musicians attending Music and Brews will be violinist Mark Wamma, as well as cellists Lori Smart and Kate Sonsteby. Herb Kroon will be the emcee for the evening.
Those who wish to attend are not expected to stay for the entire event. Buechmann iterated the event is intended to be laid back, with visitors able to come and go as they please.
MSO's Music and Brews
Begins 5:30 p.m. today
Mankato Brewery, 1119 Center St. in North Mankato
Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at the door. Reservations can be made online at www.mankatosymphony.com


text: What a concert!! I went to see Godsmack in Nashville on May 11th!! From the moment they hit the stage until they left I was grinning from ear to ear singing every song!! I was so happy to have one of my wishes come true!! I don't really want to see many people live, I'm kinda a homebody, so to speak, and don't really get out much. Seeing Godsmack live was always one thing I really REALLY wanted to do and I finally got there!! My amazing boyfriend heard they were coming to town and he got the tickets right after he heard about it and suprised me. Thank you Marty!! I would certainly see Godsmack again at any opportunity!! You guys rocked and the stage show was awesome!! Sully on the drums was the highlight for me!! I hoped they would do a lil more acoustic stuff but the concert was called MASS CHAOS so I do understand why it was all heavy metal. Either way it was friggin awesome and I'd totally go again!! Thanks for a great show guys!! I'll see you again some day. (at my first opportunity to return, I assure you)


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In recent days, attention has been given to last week's national meeting of state lawmakers, including members from the North Carolina delegation, at the American Legislative Exchange Council.
While some suggest exchanging ideas and learning from other legislators is a bad idea, continuing education and exposure to a variety of viewpoints enable legislators to make more informed decisions.
Democracy is a participatory process where ideas are shared and the best ideas are advanced.
Lawmakers are not experts on every public policy issue upon which they are asked to vote, but their constituents expect them to make the best decisions in partnership with their communities. Good legislators, in order to effectively represent the people in their communities, seek information from a variety of sources, including industry experts, policy analysts and interested citizens.
The American Legislative Exchange Council provides lawmakers with a valuable opportunity to learn from the ideas and experiences of their counterparts from around the country, to see how policies have worked in other states and to learn from others' mistakes so they are not repeated. Legislators are offered academic research and policy analysis from industry experts who actually work with the issues, processes and problem-solving strategies upon which they vote.
During these meetings, policymakers engage in candid and informative dialogue. They seek the best solutions for government accountability, removing unnecessary regulations and trimming state budgets to allow taxpayers to keep more of their money, enable businesses to grow, hire more people and improve state economies.
Legislators learn about business operations because it is important to understand the industries they intend to regulate. These legislative meetings allow lawmakers to return to their state capitols with ideas, information and examples from other states to help them institute plans for success and government efficiency at home.
One such policy, in development as a result of lessons learned after Superstorm Sandy destroyed critical infrastructure throughout New York and New Jersey, will help first-responders and governments work together to ensure minimal service interruptions.
After Sandy, tens of thousands of Americans were left without communication and electricity for weeks, and some continue their recovery. Repair crews traveled from across the country to assist but faced complicated tax liabilities such as business activity, unemployment insurance and payroll taxes, simply for being out-of-state companies that offered assistance after a natural disaster. First-responders should be focused on the task at hand rather than wondering whether they need a tax lawyer to provide assistance in the midst of crisis.
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I don't know if I'd vote for her or not, but I'm happy to read that Rep. Carolyn Maloney intends to challenge Kirsten Gillibrand in the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by Hillary Clinton.
No knock against Gillibrand. I just think voters ought to have a choice. Unlike, say, Chuck Schumer and the Obama crowd, who have been working to avoid a Democratic primary.
I understand, there's that magical 60 votes in the Senate to consider. Then again, there's that quaint notion that voters have a choice when they go to the polls.
I know that's not in vogue here in New York, where incumbents in the state Legislature win re-election 98 percent of the time. But given that Gillibrand has never run in a Democratic primary for her Senate seat, much less a general election, what's wrong with Democratic voters test driving her?
As for Maloney, I interviewed her this winter when she passed through to meet the locals when Hillary's seat was up for grabs. I wasn't particularly impressed, but then again, I don't know how Gillibrand would have struck me, either. (Those of you who read my blog on a regular basis know there's not many pols I'm impressed with.)
Speaking of Schumer, I see where he showed up the other day for a press conference (what a surprise!) in which Yahoo! made it official - it's coming to Lockport. Schumer declared that with Yahoo! here, the high tech world will beat a path to our door. That's not what the experts I've spoken to have said.
Data centers usually don't act as a catalyst to other high-tech development, however, said Rob Atkinson, president of the Information Technology Innovation Foundation, a technology policy think tank in Washington, D. C.
"They tend to be relative stand-alone entities," he said. "They don't generally have a lot of spinoff."
The whole scene involving Yahoo!'s announcement underscores to me what economic development in this town is really about - ribbon cuttings and press conferences. But hey, what do you want for a measly subsidy of $810,000 per job?