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A few words of advice for the White House: "Promise less and deliver more."
By now, most people are aware that some of President Barack Obama's bold claims about the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, turned out to be untrue.
That includes his repeated promise that "If you like your health-care plan, you can keep it."
On New Year's Day 2012, Emma Longstreet was going to church with her family at 11 a.m. when a car ran a red light and slammed into their van, instantly killing Emma and critically injuring her mother, father and three brothers.
After drinking until 5:30 a.m. and sleeping just a few hours that morning, the driver of the car, Billy Patrick Hutto Jr., still had a blood-alcohol concentration of almost 0.2, more than twice the legal limit.
I am really concerned about the big growth boom in Indian Land.
Approved new developments coming include:
u Queensbridge – 234 apartments and 249 homes on Collins Road
u Retreat at Rayfield – 383 homes
u Ansley Park – 36 homes and 130 townhomes on U.S. 521
u Enclave at Bailes Ridge – 246 apartments on S.C. 160
u Tree Tops – 800 homes, Van Wyck Road
u Doby's Bridge – 145 townhomes
u Estates of Audubon Lakes – 125 homes at Barberville Road
Alice in Wonderland may forever give up her looking glass, because nothing in her world makes sense any longer.
Oh, my! I must be living in Wonderland, because the same thing is happening in my world.
How do the civilized nations of this world allow the Russian president to do as he pleases and do nothing but shake the proverbial big stick back at him?
Here is a fictional scenario:
PUTIN: I am reclaiming Crimea, because ethnic Russians want to come home.
WORLD: OK, as long as you stop there.
I spent a delightful Sunday afternoon revisiting Main Street thanks to Cherry Doster's and Cole Waddell's reflections in their articles, "Town used to mean Main Street," in the March 23 edition of The Lancaster News. While looking longingly at the photos (courtesy of Travis Bell), it was once again one of those lovely Saturdays when we went "to town."
Each year, the week that includes March 16 is designated as "Sunshine Week."
It's a time to remind government officials about the laws that govern them, laws that require meetings to be held in the open and public records to be made available to citizens. Sunshine Week aims to advance the idea that government works best when the sun is permitted to shine in.
We in South Carolina love our history. As William Faulkner said of the South, "The past is never dead. It's not even past."
Lately I have been reading a wonderful book about our state's past – and clearly there are lessons to be learned.
The book is Deliver Us from Evil, by Dr. Lacy K. Ford, and it's about how the South, especially South Carolina, dealt with the issue of slavery from the time of the drafting of the U.S. Constitution until the days prior to the Civil War.
Curiously, one of the most debated items in the entire S.C. House budget process was a combined $70,000 reduction in appropriations to the College of Charleston and the University of South Carolina Upstate. $70,000 is an utterly trivial part of a $25 billion budget, but the reason for the reduction is what raised the ire of many House members.
It's been another week of circumstances which scream corruption. First, Lois Lerner was back to testify or actually recite the Fifth Amendment on the IRS scandal.
When the show was over and meeting closed, Rep. Elijah Cummings pitched a fit because he wanted to ask some questions. When Rep. Darrell Issa turned the microphones back on, Cummings actually had no questions for the witness. He simply wanted to make a statement about the proceedings.
Lancaster County Council voted 5-2 on March 10 to approve first reading of Mattamy Homes' proposal to build a large housing development on the TreeTops property in Van Wyck.
The puzzling thing is that during the discussion they showed quite conclusively that they understood all the arguments against this use of the property and then voted 5-2 that they don't care.
The question is: Why don't they care?
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Celebrity Central / Top 25 Celebs
Pete Wentz
- 1993
Pete's First Bass
Wentz steals a bass guitar from the brother of a friend and forms his first band, First Born. "It seemed like it was an interesting instrument to play, where you would only stand out if you wanted to stand out," Wentz tells the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "And when you weren't, you could definitely not be standing out."
- 2000-2002
Forming Fall Out
After playing in a handful of local bands, Wentz and guitarist Joe Trohman hook up with vocalist/guitarist Patrick Stump to form Fall Out Boy. "We were all playing in different hardcore bands on the same scene with each other," Wentz later tells the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Within a year, they're signed by California indie label Uprising Records. In 2002, they release their first album, Fall Out Boy's Evening Out with Your Girlfriend.
- 2003
The Pen is Mightier…
Fall Out Boy releases Take This To Your Grave. Many of the album's lyrics center on Wentz's ex-girlfriend cheating on him with two of his friends the same weekend while Wentz was on tour. Wentz later tells the Pittburgh Post-Gazette, "It was very, very cathartic. When somebody hangs up on the phone when you're 2,000 miles away from them, you have no recourse. The only reaction there is, is a pen. There's nothing else that you can do." The album becomes one of the best-selling indie records of 2003.
- 2005
Wentz Attempts Suicide
Wentz takes a near-lethal dose of Ativan anxiety pills while sitting alone in his sister's car in a Chicago area parking lot. "I just wanted to have my head shut up," he later tells the UK's Independent. "I was either totally anxious or totally depressed." Wentz's suicide attempt later inspires the song, "7 Minutes In Heaven (Atavan Halen)," and he becomes a spokesperson for the Jed Foundation's Half Of Us campaign, promoting mental health for students.
Sugar, They're Goin Up
Fall Out Boy releases From Under the Cork Tree, which debuts at No. 9 on the Billboard charts, and eventually goes double platinum. It spawns two Top Ten hits with "Sugar, We're Going Down" and "Dance, Dance," a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist, and a big tour with Panic! at the Disco – a band Wentz discovered and signed to his Decaydance record label.
- 2006
The Naked Truth
Nude photos of Wentz are allegedly stolen from his phone and hit the web. "The pictures were actually taken like a year before and, at that time, I was this dude who no one cared about, 'cause, otherwise, I don't think I'd have those," he tells the Toronto Sun.
Thanks for the Memories
Wentz and Ashlee Simpson (left) are spotted making out in New York City. But Wentz denies the romance, telling Rolling Stone, "Maybe in a different universe, we'd be some hot couple, but not in this one." By spring, they go public. "The truth is, it's crazy to be able to kiss your best friend," Wentz tells PEOPLE.
- 2007
A New Kind of High
Fueled largely by the hits "This Ain't a Scene, It's An Arms Race" and "Thnks Fr Th Mmrs," Fall Out Boy's Infinity on High debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard charts and goes platinum in a little over a month. In March, Wentz and his bandmates appear on the cover of Rolling Stone. Soon after, he opens the nightclub Angels & Kings in New York's East Village.
- 2008
With This Ring
Wentz and Simpson announce their engagement. "We wanted our fans to be the first to know, because you guys are the best," Simpson says in a statement. "Yes, we are thrilled to share that we are happily engaged." The announcement is followed by persistent pregnancy reports, which they initially deny. On May 17, the pair marries in an intimate ceremony at Simpson's parents' L.A. area home before confirming that they are, in fact, expecting their first child.
It's a Boy Named Bronx!
Simpson-Wentz and Wentz welcome son Bronx Mowgli to the family. The newborn weighs in at 7lbs., 11 oz. In December, Wentz has another kind of baby: Fall Out Boy's third album, Folie A Deux.
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- Name
- Pete Wentz
- Real Name
- Peter Lewis Kingston Wentz III
- Date of Birth
- June 05, 1979
- Birth Place
- Wilmette, Ill.
- Relationships
Meagan Camper, girlfriend (2011 to present)
Ashlee Simpson, ex-wife (2006 to 2011)
- Children
Bronx Mowgli Wentz, son (11/20/2008)
Saint Lazslo Wentz, son (8/20/2014)

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When he woke up June 21, Dwayne German learned that his stepson had died of a gunshot wound the night before and that a revolver was missing from his house.
He learned little else about the death of 19-year-old Denzel Curnell during the next few weeks as authorities withheld information that could answer his questions.
The Charleston Police Department's search-and-seizure field guide poses factors that officers can consider in deciding whether a suspect might be up to criminal activity and could be stopped and possibly frisked. "Each one taken alone may or may not be enough, but taken together can justify the stop. Consider the totality of the circumstances!" the policy states. These are the possible factors:
1. Officer's knowledge of recent criminal conduct.
2. Personal experience of the officer.
3. Suspicious conduct/furtive movement of the suspect.
4. Nonresponsive or nervous behavior, shaking, sweating for no reason.
5. Attempts to flee.
6. Implausible/false answers upon questioning.
7. Location near crime scene, alarm sounding or in a high-crime area.
8. Time of day and location of a given situation.
9. Clothing of the suspect (big coat in summer).
10. Gang affiliation signs (clothing, tattoos, gestures).
11. Knowledge of the suspect, including prior criminal history and reputation.
"I had to pick out his casket and be a pallbearer for my own son," he said. "And I still didn't know why he was gone."
German still didn't understand last week, when authorities ruled the death a suicide and defended why Officer Jamal Medlin approached Curnell outside the Bridgeview Village apartments.
Curnell's hooded sweatshirt in the summertime heat had first raised the officer's suspicion.
Curnell suffered a gunshot wound during an ensuing struggle, prompting German to wonder if his stepson would still be alive if the confrontation never happened.
That's why he donned a hooded sweatshirt Monday and stood next to NAACP officials as they announced plans to ask for a federal probe into the "stop-and-frisk" policies involved in the encounter.
The civil rights organization likened the practice to racial profiling, and past encounters like Curnell's have been ruled unconstitutional.
"The stop-and-frisk policy clearly labels young black men who don't look right to a police officer as criminals," said Joseph Darby, first vice president of the Charleston NAACP branch. "That's clear and evident racial profiling."
The Charleston Police Department continued to defend Medlin's actions, reiterating Monday that the consensual encounter was based on observations by a trained officer, agency spokesman Charles Francis said. The department's policies also guard people's civil liberties, he said.
"The department adamantly and unequivocally disagrees with the characterization of this event as racial profiling," Francis said.
'Community concern'
The NAACP's move comes the week after authorities released reports on their findings. The Post and Courier acquired many of the documents through requests under the S.C. Freedom of Information Act.
The organization will gather accounts of alleged racial profiling during a meeting Thursday and will request a civil rights investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice, local leaders said. They might also ask the American Civil Liberties Union of South Carolina to consider a lawsuit to halt certain police practices.
Victoria Middleton, executive director of the local ACLU, said a lawsuit over New York City's stop-and-frisk policies resulted from a coalition that documented the practice for years.
"We do not have such documentation here, to the best of my knowledge," Middleton said Monday.
Medlin was working an off-duty security job at Bridgeview Village when he saw Curnell wearing a black hoodie. Part of the officer's job was to make sure people belong in the privately owned community.
After Medlin drove up to Curnell on North Romney Street, Curnell refused to follow the officer's orders, including a command to take his right hand out of his pocket. Medlin saw the concealed hand as a possible threat, he later wrote in a statement.
A struggle followed.
With Medlin pinning him to the pavement, Curnell revealed his right hand and shot himself, the officer said.
The State Law Enforcement Division's investigation ended last week after a 298-page report indicated that the death was a suicide, 9th Circuit Solicitor Scarlett Wilson said.
While they still questioned investigators' findings, NAACP leaders focused Monday on policing measures that they said unfairly target black people.
Charleston's stop-and-frisk policy lays out factors that officers can consider in deciding whether someone might be involved in criminal activity. Among them is a person's clothing.
"We're not holding the Police Department to a higher standard than any of the other citizens of this state should," said Dot Scott, president of the NAACP's Charleston branch. "It's a community concern."
'Many inconsistencies'
Civil rights experts and activists have said that Medlin didn't have "reasonable suspicion" to stop Curnell under the Fourth Amendment. They said his clothing and his refusal to take his hand out of his pocket were not enough. Twelve years ago, judges overturned an Upstate man's criminal convictions for similar constitutional reasons.
In the late 1990s, police officers in Laurens were checking people in a parking lot for arrest warrants by asking them for identification. Kenneth Andrew Burton refused to hand over his ID or to take his hand out of his pocket. During a scuffle, a gun fell from Burton's pocket.
He pointed it at the officer and pulled the trigger, but it was jammed. Burton was found guilty at trial and sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison. But his state and federal convictions later were tossed out.
"He did refuse to talk with the policemen and to remove his hand from his pocket," a federal judge wrote, "but something more is required to establish reasonable suspicion that criminal activity is afoot."
Attorney Andy Savage, who represents Curnell's family, is investigating alternative explanations to suicide and exploring the reason for the confrontation with Medlin, he said.
German couldn't accept that his stepson committed suicide. Curnell had struggled with homesickness during Army basic training in December, but German said his stepson wasn't depressed on the night of his death.
"I truly believe that there are too many inconsistencies," he said. "To bury your dead and just go away - I can't do that."
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Someone who you want to slap round the face with a fish of some sort
Woah, someone's a bit of a spack...
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The self-proclaimed leader of a cult of pseudo-deadheads who claim to embrace the deadhead culture, but only live to belittle others.
See also: white trash
See also: white trash
Spack got so upset when a photographer dissed him that he went on an internet rampage for weeks.
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A SPACK is a one time use pack, small enough to fit in your going out bag and contains a mini toothbrush, toothpaste, 2 makeup removing cleansing wipes, a deodorant cloth and a hair-tie. all the essentials a girl on the go needs to keep clean. It's perfect for a sleepover, weekend getaway, business trip, party or after the gym.
Are you going out tonight? Don't forget to Pack a Spack
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It's not a smack, it's not a punch, it's fucking spack.
That ending legit spacked me in the gut. Like it was too hard for a smack, not hard enough for a punch. It was...well...a fucking god damned spack!
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A political spin attack aimed at discrediting an alternative view, derived from SPin attACK. First noted use Aug 2012 in an exchange of correspondence with conservative constituency office (Tewkesbury UK).
The politicians SPACK upon his rival was misleading and aggressive.
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Mentally retarded person derived from spastic
You spack! (Insult)
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The sound that a blast of cum makes when hitting a hard surface, such as a bathroom tile floor.
The spack of that hot guy's load on the bathroom floor startled him.
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A programming language sold by microsoft in the late 80s and early 90s as the successor to it's popular Microsoft BASIC. Still in use by some niche circles, it's heyday has long since been forgotten, and the vast, vast majority of programmers use more advanced languages, such as Visual Basic, Pascal, Delphi, or C/C++.
Microsoft QuickBasic 4.5 -- the final word in development for 1985!
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Today at the Microsoft Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC)
2006, Microsoft Corp. announced various PC manufacturers, independent hardware
vendors (IHVs) and independent software vendors (ISVs) that are committed to
supporting HD DVD in their respective products. Industry leaders showcased
plans to ramp up support for HD DVD playback in PCs and on PC hardware and
software in 2006 and early 2007. With a growing list of top movies available
and favorable reviews of the latest HD DVD consumer electronics player already
at retail, the community of hardware and software supporters for HD DVD
continues to grow.
Innovative PC original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) including HP, Niveus
Media and Toshiba Corp. are supporting the HD DVD format through a variety of
activities in connection with the HD DVD Promotion Group. Specifically,
Niveus and Toshiba have announced HD DVD support in desktop, notebook and
Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition-based PCs, allowing for stunning high-definition
playback. A full line of IHV components from leading manufacturers such as
Broadcom Corp. and Intel Corporation will also support HD DVD on PCs, and a new
line of software players from CyberLink Corp., InterVideo Inc. and both
software playback and professional authoring and encoding solutions from Sonic
Solutions and Roxio will ensure seamless playback on Windows Vista-based PCs
and provide the professional production community with the tools they need to
create HD DVD titles.
At the conference, Microsoft reiterated that Windows Vista will be shipped
with the drivers, file system and other components necessary to support HD DVD
playback. The company also gave a positive progress report on the state of
third-party software players, and announced a new initiative designed to help
ISVs implement VC-1 and iHD and create the best HD DVD playback solutions
possible. This program will also provide iHD test vectors, sample code and more
— all of which will enhance third-party iHD implementations for Windows Vista.
"Windows Vista is an exciting platform with the right infrastructure for our
cinematic-quality HD DVD authoring and playback solutions," said Rolf Hartley,
senior vice president and general manager of the Professional Products Group at
Sonic Solutions. "At the same time, Microsoft's support for our efforts with
VC-1 and iHD implementations will ensure that the HD DVD authoring and playback
experience on Windows Vista-based PCs is the best available for the complete
range of Sonic's customers, from Hollywood
to home."
"Eight months ago, Microsoft announced support for HD DVD with Intel, with
the shared belief that the format met important criteria and would deliver
unique advantages to the PC ecosystem and to consumers," said Amir Majidimehr,
corporate vice president of the Windows Digital Media Division at Microsoft.
"Today, we're seeing those benefits come together: affordable hardware and
excellent replication yields, along with amazing levels of interactivity, more
capacity and incredible quality. At WinHEC we're committing to help our
hardware and software partners achieve a great playback experience for
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on February 28, 2013 - 10:09 PM
Sept. 15, 1958 – Feb. 19, 2013
As a longtime pilot for United Airlines, Michael C. Lauria spent his days and nights flying planes all over the world.
But he always made it back to his Amherst hometown to attend Mass at Easter and Christmas with his father, Thomas, and mother, Virginia.
"No matter where he was, he would always make sure he could fly back to celebrate Easter and Christmas at St. Gregory the Great Church with his parents," recalled Mr. Lauria's cousin, writer and college professor Paul Chimera. "He never missed those services. … Mike was completely devoted to his church and his family."
A Mass of Christian Burial was offered for Mr. Lauria on Wednesday in St. Gregory the Great Church.
Mr. Lauria, an Air Force veteran who was a flight captain with United Airlines for 27 years, died at one of his homes, in Chicago, after a brief illness. He was 54.
He had homes in Buffalo, Chicago and Tampa, Fla.
Highly respected by fellow pilots, he sometimes spoke as an aviation expert in the Buffalo media, particularly after the horrific Continental Connection Flight 3407 crash that killed 50 people in Clarence Center in 2009.
He also thrived as an investor and business entrepreneur. He was a huge fan of the Buffalo Bills, the artworks of Salvador Dali, and animals. Mr. Lauria was an active volunteer with PAWS Chicago, the largest animal rescue and humane organization there. He was a member of the group's board.
Known for his unflappable and ambitious nature, Mr. Lauria was a graduate of Canisius High School and Canisius College, where he volunteered as a guest lecturer to business students.
Deeply devoted to his Catholic faith, Mr. Lauria was proud that he once made a pilgrimage to Medjugorje, a small town in Croatia that has a well-known shrine to the Virgin Mary.
"He literally traveled all over the world, and he was Buffalo's greatest ambassador," his brother Thomas Lauria Jr. said of Mr. Lauria. "Michael would tell people everywhere he went how much he loved Buffalo. He loved its food, its restaurants, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, and the Buffalo sports teams were always at the top of his list. In his heart, mind and soul, he was a Buffalonian and proud of it."
After Mr. Lauria's death of a heart attack, his family found a huge cache of Buffalo Bills merchandise and memorabilia among his possessions, and all those items were donated to charity, Thomas Lauria Jr. said.
He said his brother also loved golf and fishing, and was very proud of a business he started years ago to enable small "mom and pop" businesses to accept credit card transactions.
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June 29, 1920 – May 7, 2013
LOS ANGELES – Ray Harryhausen, the stop-motion animation legend whose work on "The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms," "Jason and the Argonauts" and other science fiction and fantasy film classics made him a cult figure and an inspiration to later generations of filmmakers and special-effects artists, has died. He was 92.
Mr. Harryhausen died Tuesday in London, where he had lived for decades, according to his Los Angeles attorney, Kenneth Kleinberg.
In the pre-computer-generated-imagery era in which he worked, Mr. Harryhausen used the painstaking process of making slight adjustments to the position of his three-dimensional, ball-and-socket-jointed scale models and then shooting them frame-by-frame to create the illusion of movement. Footage of his exotic beasts and creatures was later often combined with live action.
Working with modest budgets and typically with only two or three assistants – if any– to keep costs down, Mr. Harryhausen created innumerable memorable big-screen moments.
In "The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms" (1953), a dinosaur thawed out by A-bomb testing in the Arctic goes on a Big Apple rampage in which it devours a New York cop before meeting its demise at Coney Island. In "Jason and the Argonauts" (1963), the mythological hero Jason, played by Todd Armstrong, slays a seven-headed hydra guarding the Golden Fleece, then Jason and two of his men battle seven sword-wielding warrior skeletons that spring from the hydra's scattered teeth.
The fantasy world of Ray Harryhausen inspired Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, James Cameron and many other filmmakers, some of whom have paid cinematic homage to the special-effects maestro.
"I had seen some other fantasy films before, but none of them had the sort of awe that the Ray Harryhausen movies had," Lucas said in "The Harryhausen Chronicles," a 1998 documentary written and directed by film critic and historian Richard Schickel.
In 1992, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented Mr. Harryhausen with the Gordon E. Sawyer Award for technical achievement.
Born in Los Angeles on June 29, 1920, Mr. Harryhausen was 13 when he saw "King Kong" during its run at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
Inspired by the landmark special effects of stop-motion animation pioneer Willis O'Brien in "King Kong," Mr. Harryhausen began creating dinosaur models and making experimental 16-millimeter stop-motion films in the garage.
In high school, Mr. Harryhausen discovered that a classmate's father had worked on a film with O'Brien. The man suggested that Mr. Harryhausen call MGM and talk to his idol. He did, and to his surprise, his special-effects hero invited him to the studio.
Producer-director George Pal hired him, at $16 a week, to help animate the models for the "Puppetoons," Pal's series of shorts for Paramount Pictures.
From 1940 to 1942, Mr. Harryhausen worked on the "Puppetoon" shorts. Then, with the world at war, he enlisted in the Army.
Assigned to the Signal Corps, he was transferred to the Special Service Division, where, among other films, he worked on the "Why We Fight" series supervised by Col. Frank Capra.
Mr. Harryhausen launched his three-decade partnership with producer Charles H. Schneer with "It Came From Beneath the Sea," a 1955 film about a giant octopus that destroys the Golden Gate Bridge.
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Stetson University golfer Andrew Peterson was named the Atlantic Sun Conference Golfer of the Week following his performance at the Gary Freeman/Bethune-Cookman Invitational Tournament last weekend.
Peterson is the second Stetson freshman to earn the honor this year, joining with Dustin Dingus, who was named the league's Golfer of the Week on October 31.
A native of Andover, Minn., Peterson posted his first career top five finish with an eight-over par score of 224, which was his best score in an event this year, besting his previous low tournament score by three shots. He finished seven shots off the tournament lead, in a tie for fifth with Dingus and one other player.
The two freshmen helped the Hatters to a third place finish as a team in the tournament.
The Hatters will return to tournament play on Monday and Tuesday, March 4-5, at the Charleston Shootout in Charleston, SC.


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We couldn't mark the occasion by interviewing the real Nixon (he's been dead since 1994) so we did the next best thing: Talk to actor Harry Shearer, the Simpsons and Spinal Tap alum who plays the 37th president in Nixon's the One, a comedy series based on Nixon's secretly recorded conversations in the Oval Office.
As you might expect from an actor who underwent four hours of makeup to step into Nixon's famous features, the series is the culmination of Shearer's decades-long fascination with the president.
"The comic value of Nixon was evident from a very young age," Shearer told PEOPLE. "Growing up in southern California, he was an omnipresent political force hovering over all of us."
The events gave the future Spinal Tap bassist his first taste of his Nixon character, whom he would roll out at various phases throughout his career.
"Nixon's one of the great comic figures of the 20th century," he said. "Here's a man who spends 85 percent of the time trying to suppress his emotional reactions, and 15 percent of the time blurting them out."
Together, Shearer and Kutler wrote the script for the series, though perhaps the word "assembled" would be more accurate; every line of dialogue was taken verbatim from the transcripts of Nixon's meetings. What interested them most weren't the moments where Nixon plotted his crimes – those had been well-covered by history – but the smaller, weirder moments where the commander-in-chief would launch off on a bizarre conversational discursions, his listeners forced to politely nod along.
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Nixon's feelings on warm milk are included in first episode of the series, which originally aired on Britain's Sky Arts. Though Shearer has previously said that the show would not have been able to be made in America, he hopes the show's U.S. airing in the fall will correct some of the stereotypes around our most notorious president.
"What's been lost in all the mythologizing of Nixon is that he was significantly to the left of Obama," Shearer explained, "He started the EPA and OSHA, he passed the Clean Air Act. He even gave a speech calling for a guaranteed annual income."
Shearer insisted he's not trying to defend Nixon, or exploit his failings. Instead, he's trying to offer audiences a fuller picture of the man (while still making them laugh). "He was very smart, but he was so twisted and warped by his early experiences – it's fascinating."
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Police say an elderly Oklahoma City man grabbed a woman's buttocks in a theater Tuesday.
Ferdinand Wilhelm, 81, was arrested on a charge of sexual battery.
The woman told police she was exiting the North Park Cinema on North May Avenue and 122nd Street Tuesday afternoon when Wilhelm grabbed her buttocks and said, "You're welcome," according to a police report.
Wilhelm had been driven to the theater in a bus by Emeritus at Quail Creek Retirement Center, officers said.
Police said they questioned Wilhelm about what day it was, who the president is and what year it is. According to a police report, Wilhelm was able to answer all the questions. He was then placed under arrest.


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The act of spreading a woman's breasts as far apart as they can possibly go. You then insert your face between them, and let them spring back onto your face, while making a sound with your mouth that sounds like Wa-tata. Similar to the infamous Motorboat
Bob wants to give Sherri a Wa-tata.
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Hanyu vs. Yan could be very exciting.
I wouldn't bet on any of the women yet, as they tend to have more problem keeping their jumps.
To my eyes, the travel buddies appear equally tall/short , more or less. I can't decide who (if either) perhaps looks smaller by just a hair (literally ).
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flame vs feather
I'm not into rivalries.
Gold vs Lipnitskaya- Talent (Gold) vs mental toughness (Lips)
Lipnitskaya vs Tuktamysheva- Jumps (Tuks) vs spins and wow moves (Lips)
Weaver & Poje vs Capellina & Lanotte- Sexy (W&P) vs C&L (cute)
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Wagner vs Gold- Talent (Gold) vs hard work (Wagner)
Fernandez vs Hanyu- training mates and good friends with same coach
Those will be the biggest rivalries for big titles in the 4 years from after Sochi to the next Olympics. Chan, Takahashi, German pair, Kim, Asada, Kostner, Davis & White, Virtue & Moir, will all be retired.
You honestly believe that Scheherazade, Tango, Phantom, Samson and Delilah, and Die Fledermaus are the same music?they somehow pick the same kind of music
As for upcoming rivalries; if they can keep it together, Jason Brown, Josh Farris, and Nathan Chen should be fun. Karen Chen and Polina Edmunds could be a good rivalry as well.


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Duckett, from Dreher High in Columbia, committed to the Gamecocks near the end of her junior season more than a year ago. She watched a team picked to finish fifth in the SEC win 21 of its first 23 games. She would periodically flip to a game on television, check the ranking next to South Carolina on the scoreboard, and realize her future team was a program on the rise.
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Duckett was the first, taking a chance when South Carolina was considered merely a fringe contender. Others would follow.
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"I don't want to live in other people's shadows," White said. "Like, Tennessee, they've won national championships. I just really wanted to make a difference."
South Carolina's freshmen could've gone elsewhere, to programs with glitzier history and more tradition. Wilson and White each had Tennessee on their short lists. Instead, they chose to carve an unbeaten path.
It's rare for a freshman class to enter a program and within the first week lend their voices to a national title hunt, rarer still when those stakes are a constant topic for discussion in dorm rooms and off the practice court. This is a new reality at South Carolina. Over the next four years, Duckett knows the pressure is something she and her classmates will have to handle.
"We know what everybody's expecting," Duckett said. "They're expecting us to win the national title. What we're expecting from ourselves though is to become not only better athletes, not only better in the SEC, but better young women. In that process - whatever happens, happens. That's just how we're going to go about it.
"We don't even know what we're going to eat for lunch today, let alone if we're going to win a national title this year or next year. It doesn't make a difference to us. What we're trying to do is become better, and better each game. We're going to take it one game at a time."
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Looks like three-fall programs from top skaters are not uncommon.
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Well if we are being fair here, Abbott was even more inflated than Chan. Look at his pcs to the others in the freeskate; Chan looks like a clean skate compared to those marks. Okay exaggerating a bit but trusting this isn't the home nation advantage Abbott was gifted and then some in the long for pcs. I think jeremy could win worlds and olympics but I in some ways I don't want him too. I would hate to see him "pull it together" at the right time and snatch the gold from someone who has also worked hard but been consistent for the most part. But skating and life isn't fair or just. But it could happen. You can tell he is so talented.
It's the Yu-Na Kim gambit. Have Brian Orser as your coach, break a world record in the short, bomb the long, and still come out with a good score. It's a shame it only works in Skate America.
I didn't get to watch last night and haven't seen videos yet....but I am so happy to hear about Kazuka and Machida; so sad to hear about Hanyu and Abbot - especially Abbot as Hanyu, I feel, has youth on his side (although the asthma must make that tricky and difficult). I am an Abbot uber - so I really, really hope that this competition doesn't set him back with the work he has been doing with the sports psychologist, and I really hope that whatever his physical ailments/injuries, he is able to recuperate quickly.
I've been following Armin Mahbanoozadeh with some interest this year. He really does have a quality of movement and performance that's wonderful to see. I hope that he has better luck the rest of the year to really stay injury free and really go after his goals this year. Even though he missed the quad and the second triple axel in his long, he still managed to make most of his jumping passes and on a strained ankle- that's really good.
His style of movement reminds me of Paul Wylie- really stretched out lines with great dynamic energy. So much more mature in presentation than Ross Miner or Richard Dornbush. And with Jeremy's hit or miss track record and Evan's uncertain status I think the men's field is really open this year. I hope he makes a good showing at Nationals and makes it to more international competitions this year.
It's a shame that someone so talented hasn't had more opportunity on the international stage to really work out the kinks and gain more experience and exposure performing under pressure.
That is an exquisite program for Takahiko, I simply adore it. It is classy, nuanced and of course an excellent choice of music. Some parts of the program were already very well and effortlessly interpreted - it will probably be even better at the end of the season. I think Takahiko's quads will always be hit and miss, but I can live with that as long as he doesn't start imploding again as he did at the end of last season.
What a splatfest! After the amazing SP, now we got a splatfest LP.
Kozuka another bland program with no expressions, but he deserved to win because he was the only one close to clean. Congratulations to him.
Yuzru Just as I predicted, he bombed his LP. Actually this could be a great program with most difficult technical layout, intricate transitions, and a lot of angst. But if his stamina doesnt improve then well probably see him bombing this again at NHK.
Machida the most overscored skater at this competition. First of all the Firebird program does not suit him at all. I kept wishing the choreographer Lambiel would skate to this. It reminds me of Machidas Don Quixote program last season they are both good programs, but he should not be skating to them. His PCS should not be higher than 75 even if he were clean. Plus, he was not even clean! His TES was only 75, how did he receive 80 on PCS? What were the judges smoking? Machida did not have the best skating skills, he did not have difficult technical layout and transitions, his interpretation was awful, his TES was only 75, and he had a fall. Plus, he was the only man not trying quad in his SP. Very infated scores for him in the SP and LP. I understand if world medalists like Takahashi and Asada bomb they could still get 80/60 on PCS because of their reputation, but whos this Machida? Why was he so gifted?
Jeremy wish hell recover soon.
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missysays - I love your thoughts on Armin and totally agree!
Just watched Abbot on tv, and although my heart breaks for him, once again, I'm over the moon in love with his LP. Watch a beautiful program - I do hope he can skate it to its full potential this season!
and now they are showing Kazuka: another one of my favs for that amazing edge wuality and flow. sigh (with joy this time)
I just saw Jeremy Abbott's program. Marvelous. He should forget about scores and placements and just skate.
I felt so bad for Jeremy. He hasn't always been my favorite but won me over at last year's US Nats. I have to agree with Sandra Bezic that his program is a "diamond in the rough!" If only he could get his head together. He said in the after skate interview that his body just gave out. You could tell something happened but that he wasn't hurt. The music, the choreography, his interpretation..........OMG. I was totally enthralled to the point that the falls barely registered until it was over. The look on his face said it all. I do hope he gets it together before his next competition.


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However, Milus isn�t being made the scapegoat for the Broncos� stunning surrender of that 70-yard touchdown pass with 31 seconds left that led to their 38-35 loss to the Baltimore Ravens in double overtime last weekend, a person with the team told The Associated Press on Tuesday night.
The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the club doesn�t speak publicly about coaches� contracts.
Milus� contract wasn�t renewed. He was in his second stint with the Broncos, who hadn�t allowed a 300-yard passer all season before giving up 331 to Joe Flacco last weekend. Flacco also threw touchdown passes of 59 and 32 yards to Torrey Smith, who repeatedly got behind 12-time Pro Bowler Champ Bailey.
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After weeks of speculation about the state of her relationship with fiancé Liam Hemsworth, Miley Cyrus took to Twitter Wednesday to put the rumors to bed. "I am so sick of LA. And sick of the lies that come with it," she wrote. "I didn't call off my wedding. Taking a break from social media."
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"My new music is gonna shut everyone up," she added in a later tweet.
Exactly how long the former Disney Channel princess stays off social media remains to be seen. She tweeted a day earlier she was "over tweeting" but then re-tweeted four posts and wrote one original entry prior to her rant.
Rumors about the state of Cyrus and Hemsworth's relationship come after they were each spotted solo at several events. The couple met on the set of their 2009 film The Last Song and have dated on and off since then. Hemsworth proposed last May. Earlier this year, his rep denied that the two had secretly married after Cyrus referred to herself as married in an interview with Cosmo.
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Amherst and six other communities across the state failed to conduct background checks on all the individuals who provide town-sponsored youth programs, according to an audit by the State Comptroller's Office.
Though no evidence showed up in a test group of 396 Amherst town employees that anyone working with youth had a criminal record, the audit said the town had no written policies that require checking the background of all individuals providing youth services.
The audit also found that while the town does have an unwritten practice of performing some background checks for full- and part-time employees, that practice does not extend to seasonal employees – roughly 100 – the town hires each summer.
"At the beginning of our fieldwork, the management of the department stated that they thought that the town was conducting background checks on the seasonal staff, which was later discovered to be incorrect," the report stated.
Amherst was the largest of eight New York communities audited and the only one in the region. The audit covered Jan. 1, 2010, to May 18, 2012. During that time, 447 Amherst employees had worked in town youth programs.
Mary-Diana Pouli, the town's youth and recreation director, said the town was already in the process of developing a formal background-check policy for all its youth programs when state auditors came in early last year. When the Youth Department and the Recreation Department merged 2½ years ago, she said, each department had very different background requirements.
Under the current practice, she said, full- and part-time employees working in licensed programs, like the town's after-school programs, are subject to background checks that require fingerprinting. Those who work in summer camps receive background checks through the state Department of Criminal Justice Services.
"Just because it wasn't in writing didn't mean it didn't exist," Pouli said of the town's background-checking practices.
Youth program employees also receive training to recognize child abuse, she said.
In light of the audit findings, the town will now also have the Amherst Police Department conduct local and state background checks of seasonal employees who work with youth, such as lifeguards, Pouli said.
The audit said the town provides youth programs for approximately 50,000 children. That figure includes Little League groups and other organizations for which the town does not provide any direct supervision, Pouli said. She estimated that only about 10,000 children are directly supervised by town workers.
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As Buffalo goes through its biggest real estate boom in decades, one dark cloud hangs over the revival: the prospect that downtown's tallest building could soon have as much as 38 stories of empty office space.
While the owners of One HSBC Center make the case for public money to renovate and revive the building, some of their real estate rivals are starting to make the opposite case: Let it fail.
The outcome of the argument could have a big effect on whether Buffalo's boom grows or fails. Seneca One Realty, which owns the building, warns of damage to the entire downtown commercial market if the building were foreclosed upon and sold, suggesting that a new owner could desperately slash rents to lure tenants from other buildings. That, in turn, could cause a downward spiral for older office facilities.
But increasingly, rival building owners, developers and brokers say the use of any taxpayer money would constitute an unfair public subsidy of one building and owner over others in town, artificially driving down rental rates and creating an uneven playing field.
Though no one says so, there could be a measure of self-interest at work as well. If the building is sold out of bankruptcy, the price may be low enough to make it affordable for a developer to buy and renovate – and make a good deal of money.
"I don't see why there's any need for the government to get involved," said Jim Militello, president of J.R. Militello Realty. "Should we write checks to every landlord to help them keep the lights on?"
The tower could be 95 percent vacant within a year, after its two dominant tenants move out by December. That would leave the New York City owners without the revenue stream to keep up the building's monthly mortgage payments, not to mention unable to meet a $75 million, one-time "balloon" payment due in January 2015.
A panel of out-of-town land experts in March said a "public-private partnership" would be necessary to achieve a turnaround by converting the tower to other uses.
That drew the ire of rival building owners, developers and brokers.
"Let the building be foreclosed. We don't care," said Carl Paladino, founder and chairman of Ellicott Development Co., the biggest private property owner in the city. "If the owners made a bad investment, they should suffer the consequences."
Others concur.
"Not a nickel of taxpayer money should be spent to bail out a developer or a bank in that type of a situation," said Sheldon Berlow, a longtime Buffalo broker now at Pyramid Brokerage Co. of Buffalo. "For the taxpayer to subsidize the mortgagee or the investor, both of whom made errors, is preposterous."
But supporters say some public support is critical to keep the landmark from "going dark" and falling into foreclosure, citing its prime location and massive size. It has been assessed at $84 million, and it generates property taxes of $2.4 million to $3.6 million a year, plus fees to help support the Buffalo Place downtown improvement district.
"It's a worthwhile building to do it for, only because of the size," said Greg Oehler, chief operating officer of Hunt Commercial Real Estate, which represents Seneca One. "You can't just leave it sitting there vacant."
Instead, they say, the building should face regular market forces – foreclosure or bankruptcy.
A unique scale
The debate over the fate of One HSBC Center is part of the bigger ongoing battle over government's role in private-sector development, and it takes on more significance because of the tower's prominent position as the tallest privately owned building in the state, outside of New York City. It also sits on the edge of the Canalside project, and its difficulties come just as construction and development on both the waterfront and the Medical Campus reach a fever pitch.
"You will not uncover any building or situation in the past that would even come close in comparison to the HSBC Center going dark," said Clarke Thrasher, the Hunt broker who handles lease negotiations for the tower.
Numerous buildings downtown have gone through bankruptcy. Among those are the Olympic Towers, the Rand Building, the Main Court Building, Cathedral Place, Main Place Tower, KeyCenter, the Tishman Building and the Guaranty Building.
"The market and law have this process, and it works and is fair," said David Schiller, associate broker and director of sales at Pyramid. "Let the market work, and it will repair itself."
The 10-year loan on the tower – originally for $83 million when Seneca One bought the building in 2005 – is part of a mortgage-backed investment security that was packaged and sold by Goldman Sachs Group to investors. A total of 186 loans, backed by 203 properties nationwide, are included in the package, but the HSBC loan is one of the 15 largest.
In March, Fitch Ratings downgraded the investment, citing 46 loans as worsening problems that could cause losses. The leading cause of concern was the HSBC tower loan, as Fitch noted the impending vacancy and lack of excess cash flow. Additionally, the ratings agency reported, Seneca One and HSBC Bank USA are in arbitration over the bank's failure to pay supplemental charges other than just the rent.
"Fitch said it will continue to monitor the tenancy and leasing status of the property.
Given the situation, the national panel of six real estate experts, convened here by the Urban Land Institute on behalf of the city and Seneca One, backed a strategy to convert the office tower into a mixed-use building with condominiums, a hotel, office space, retail space, a restaurant and an observation deck.
They said that plan would have a less devastating impact on the community and could be done much more quickly than restocking the building with smaller office tenants. It could also have a broader public appeal, by tapping into waterfront redevelopment.
"We think the conversion of the building could make it a destination," said Seneca One Chief Operating Officer Stephen Fitzmaurice.
But such a conversion is also more expensive, the real estate panel said, so a public-private partnership was proposed.
"Perhaps those opposed to some form of public-private effort are not thinking ahead about how difficult the un-managed process will be," said Charles Long, of Oakland, Calif., who led the Urban Land Institute panel. "If the decision is to postpone action, it will be much harder and more expensive to tackle the problems later."
Even some critics concede support may be necessary. "It's not going to happen on private funding, without public assistance," said Robert P. Strell, president of MBA Consulting & Appraisal Co. "... Look around at all the projects in Buffalo. How many are without public funding? You don't see any."
Yet opponents insist it should not be the role of the government to rescue the private sector – a position supported by Howard Zemsky, co-chairman of the state's Western New York Regional Economic Development Council.
"People make investments, take risk and seek reward. Sometimes it works out; sometimes it doesn't. That's OK," said Zemsky, who is also managing partner of Larkin Development Group, owner of the Larkin at Exchange Building. "The government's job here is not to bail out the owner."
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The Way We Get By is a documentary that starts out focusing on the work of the "troop greeters" in Bangor, Maine. This group of senior citizens goes to the Bangor International Airport at any hour of the day or night to greet outgoing and incoming US troops. Oddly enough, Bangor is the main departure and return point for those serving overseas . The greeters, some retired military themselves, offer service men and women a warm welcome, snacks and free cell phones to call their loved ones. Those arriving at 3 am receive the same enthusiastic greeting as those coming at 11 am, rain, sleet or snow. This seemingly small gesture has a big impact on those returning from overseas, many unsure of how they would be received or concerned about returning to life in the US.
But there's another layer to the story, one that's possibly even more touching- that of the lives of the greeters themselves. Focusing on three of the senior citizens the film becomes a study of aging, loneliness, and the universal search for a sense of purpose in our lives. Joan Gaudet, the widowed mother of eight (and grandmother of many more), overcomes daily health struggles to greet the troops. Prior to joining the greeters she frequently did not leave her house, but now goes to the airport in all weather at all times of the day and night. Unable to keep from crying when seeing off those who are leaving, she has to see two of her own grandchildren off at one point. Bill Knight, in his 80s, is a retired 32 year veteran. He now lives in near squalor, faces possible bankruptcy and finds out he has prostate cancer. Meeting the troops keeps him going. And Jerry Mundy, also a former Marine, greets service men and women with jokes and laughter. But he develops heart trouble and loses his only companion- his dog of 16 years during filming. These troubles don't keep him from greeting the men and women in uniform. All three wonder what they will do when they no longer greet the troops.
At the end of the film (2008) the troop greeters have welcomed more than 500,000 men and women back into the United States. I looked at their website today and they have since greeted more than 1,400,000 troops. The difference this group of ordinary people have made in the lives of US soldiers is astounding. I was both touched and inspired by this compelling documentary.
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The act of masturbation while simultaneously defocating then calling attention to ones self, with the aim being to finish both activities before being caught.See Dangerwank. The word Dangershank is adapted from dangerwank, but with the words Shit and Wank being combined to create the shank.
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I think Filppula would fit in perfect there. He's a 2nd line center and could center fellow countrymen Jokinen & Ruutu. I would think Carolina would be very interested in trading with us if Holland is willing to move Val.
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Julie Ramos escaped the attack with bruises and stab wounds, but her 59-year-old husband, Richard Ramos, was shot dead when he was unable to wrest a gun away from the intruders.
Police later shot and killed Cody David Winters, 27, and arrested his 35-year-old accomplice, Natasha Galenn Jackson, on suspicion of murder, attempted murder, burglary, kidnapping and other charges, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
"I want everyone to know that Richard Ramos is the greatest guy in the world, and I don't want anyone to think he died in vain," Julie Ramos said at a news conference Wednesday. "He saved his family like the lion that he was."
Police said the crimes began at about 6:30 a.m. Tuesday, when Jackson and Winters — who's also known as "Havoc" — carjacked a freeway service vehicle that had stopped to help them on the side of the U.S. 95 freeway.
The driver of the roadside assistance vehicle thought the couple needed help. Instead, the duo pulled out a gun and robbed the worker of personal items, including a cellphone, and forced him to drive to a neighborhood about 3 miles east of the Las Vegas Strip, according to the police report. They let him leave, and he contacted police, according to Las Vegas Police Dept. Capt. Matt McCarthy, who addressed the media.
'Total Terror, Trauma, Violation'Meanwhile, according to the Las Vegas Sun and other sources, Jackson told police she and Winters knocked on the Ramos family's door and then pulled out a gun once they got inside. Jackson told police that she and Winters wanted to steal a car from the family.
Richard Ramos tried to grab the gun from Winters' hands, Jackson said, and Ramos' wife tried to help him in the struggle.
Jackson told police she stabbed Julie Ramos with a screwdriver and Winters got control of the gun, eventually shooting Richard Ramos, who died at a hospital.
Police said two of the Ramoses' children witnessed the attack.
The ordeal was "total terror, trauma, violation," Julie Ramos said. "I felt raped. I had to fight for my life. My husband fought for us to the bitter end. He was shot. He was stabbed. We saw it."
Crime Spree ContinuesThe invaders then left the Ramos home and tried to break into two other homes. McCarthy said Winters entered another house and shot a woman there.
Winters "broke out a window and entered the residence," a release from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said. "While inside he confronted a couple and demanded their keys. The male homeowner complied and the suspect proceeded to shoot the female homeowner. The male homeowner fled from the residence and advised officers that his girlfriend had been shot."
"Officers positioned in front of the residence observed the male suspect exit the front door holding the injured woman. The suspect was yelling and threatening to kill her. The victim fell to the ground and Officer Rotta fired at the suspect causing him to stumble back into an alcove near the front door. The suspect walked back toward the edge of the house and Officer Rotta fired once again. The suspect refused commands to surrender and finally came to rest near the side of the house," the release said.
The woman shot in the second home was taken to the hospital in critical condition, according to McCarthy.
Winters was convicted of driving under the influence in Idaho four times, and he's been in and out of prison several times since 2007. He also has battery and drug convictions, according to Idaho court records.
Ramos was a hardworking father of four who grew up in New York and worked as a salesman for a packaging company, according to his sister-in-law, Kim Johnston. The family has opened an account to accept donations for his survivors.
They also sounded a warning Wednesday.
"Please don't ever open your door for anybody," Julie Ramos said. "I sound so awful, but look what's happened. It happened to me."


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You have to be careful with parallel execution when it comes to disk I/O.
If each thread is accessing a file, the whole thing slows down to a crawl as the hard disc read head has to jump to each file every 20ms. It would be MUCH better if the operating system could allocate more time to read a file before it allowed a context switch. say 500ms. that would allow more data to be retrieved from the hard disc, less head thrash, less time waiting for the head to move, and performance would go up greatly.
Just try creating 2 or more zip archives at the same time, then time it again but only doing 1 at a time. Winrar has a feature where it will wait (probably using a global mutex) for other winrar windows to finish before the next one starts.
You can context switch CPU threads till the cows come home, but a phsical device needs more time to read/write when the head arrives.
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As was revealed earlier this week, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited Scotland, where Prince William offered a kiss to a 4-year-old girl – who then turned down his offer.
The girl was Shona Ritchie, 4, and as her mother, Karen Ritchie, 30, recounted the very special day to PEOPLE, it began with an early start for the tot.
"Shona woke up early at 6 a.m., because she saw in the newspaper that Kate and William were going to be in Glasgow," said Karen, a customer-service worker for the utility company Scottish Power. "I had promised her to take her to see a real princess ever since she watched the Royal Wedding."
When she awakened, says her mother, Shona was already shouting, "The Princess is coming. The Princess is coming," recalls Karen. "I told her the real princess is still in bed. She's still asleep."
Shona – Karen says she's "a very outgoing, enthusiastic girl" – chose to dress up as Princess Merida from the animated feature Brave, "because she's a princess and [like Shona] she's Scottish," says her mom, who, along with Shona and about 800 other well-wishers, by 9 a.m. were standing outside in anticipation of seeing the royal couple.
Shona had a flower to give Kate, "a bright, pink carnation. She kept telling everyone she was going to steal a kiss form the handsome prince and give the flower to the princess," says Karen.
"When William came by, she reached the flower out to him. I think she wanted him to smell it." Karen then indicated that this may have been the moment when things got confusing: "I think he thought she was offering it to him. She thought it smelled nice and she was giving it to everyone to smell."
'Is That for Me?'As Karen further recalls, "He said to her, 'Is that for me?' Shona shook her head and pointed to Kate. He said, 'Quite right, you give it to her.' [Then] she asked him for a kiss. She said, 'Can I have a kiss?' "
According to Karen, "William said, 'You want a kiss?' [Shona] nodded her head. When William reached forward to give her a kiss, she suddenly got overwhelmed and shy and dived into my shoulder. She doesn't normally get that shy."
Evidently, even the prince was overwhelmed. "William blushed a little bit," says Karen. "He took it really, really well. He laughed. He patted her on the shoulder. He said, 'Maybe next time, Shona.' She was all [excited] because he remembered her name." (Karen thinks the Prince might have overheard her saying it.)
Karen says Shona promised that she'll give him a kiss the next time. "Both of them were so lovely to her. They'll be really good parents," Karen adds.
Funnily enough, says Karen, "When Kate came around, Shona stopped being shy for five minutes. Kate said, 'Hello, you look very pretty in your costume. Did you pick [the flower] out of your garden?' [And] Shona said, 'I stole it out of my mum's vase.' "
The royal reaction? "Kate burst out laughing."