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Looking at the lists the Nintendo games have a great chance of winning quite a few awards, at least in mind. However, as always with these things, I feel when Nintendo does win it comes begrudgingly from the industry.
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London, June 4 - "Charlie's Angels" star Cameron Diaz says she makes fun of herself to make people comfortable in her presence.
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|Thu, 07-26-2012 - 4:34pm
I was sad to learn that Sally Ride had passed away this week, she was such a role model to my generation to know that women really can a "man's job". I really didn't react to the news that she was lesbian, until I read this opinion piece from CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/26/opinion/darrah-sally-ride-lesbian/index.html?hpt=op_t1
The piece talks about how some opinions are that she let down the LGBT community by not coming out that she was gay, which the author disagreed with. She talks about how it was a different world 30 years ago, and it didn't surprise her that she wasn't public about that side of her life. It makes me wonder if she would have been the first woman in space if it was known that she was gay. She might not have had the same legacy if she was open about her sexuality.
Do you think that women today are still hesitant to come out as gay in today's workforce? Do you think that's it's more acceptable in some industries versus others?
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I'm glad you brought up the discrimination factor, savcal. I've been wondering if any of their employees who are gay would have the grounds for a lawsuit. I would think that it causes a hostile working environment for them to know that their employer is so publicly against the LGBT community. From a business standpoint, do you think they are opening themselves up to risk?
ETA: had to change my wording to reflect what I really meant to ask. That's what I get for focusing more on what I'm trying to ask than what I'm typing *smacks head* This is why I'm not good at debating and leave it to the experts!
|Tue, 07-31-2012 - 7:16pm
they are refusing to eat at CFA because the money they spend there is then going to support anti-gay groups; groups that often participate in severe anti-gay activities. CFA also, arguably, practices discrimination against its employees.
I do business with a lot of people and businesses that do not support gay marriage or gay rights. But they aren't using their business profits to hurt the gay community.
It's not about, imo, punishing CFA. It's about choosing where I want my money to end up.
|Tue, 07-31-2012 - 6:06pm
I do not think it matters. That may be a very simplistic view but I do feel that it is a personal issue. Chick-Fil-A is taking a nasty beating right now for stating their feelings, yet when you state your preferences, it is fine. We cannot have it both ways. People should say what they feel without retribution, including any from your employer. Sadly, who knows if it would have removed her from the position of being an astronaut had she 'come out' prior but it definitely should not have. It is irrelevant and people should not have to fear being themselves, whether others like it or not.
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There is no evidence that she did not talk about it. Her friends and family knew that she was gay so it was not a secret. She just choose to not talk about it publically.
In her case the public arena was her work life, there are many things that people share in their private life, with friends and acquaintances that they choose not to share in their work life.
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You didn't say "people should refrain from making public stands about their sexuality" or "People should keep their sex lives out of the public arena". You said people should just keep their mouths shut. Period.
<< My friends know I'm straight--I have no obligation to stand up and say, "I'm straight and proud." >>
My point exactly. People know you're straigh - because your husband accompanies you places. Because you've talked about your husband or your wedding or activities with him, etc,etc. Gay people's acquaintances should know they are gay - because they too talk about their partners, their weddings, activiites with their partner, etc. But in Sally's case (and in the case of too many people still today) they feel they can't talk about that stuff, so therefore people don't know they are gay.


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Ron Paul To Hold Major Rally In Tampa Ahead Of RNCSubmitted by emalvini on Fri, 06/29/2012 - 15:43
Ron Paul To Hold Major Rally In Tampa Ahead Of RNC
LAKE JACKSON, Texas – 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul will hold a major rally with thousands of supporters ahead of the Republican National Convention in Tampa.
The event will take place at noon on Sunday, August 26th at the University of South Florida's 11,000-seat Sun Dome. Yesterday the Ron Paul campaign signed a contract to secure the venue with the approval of the Republican National Committee.
Details of the event are as follows. Time is Eastern.
Sunday, August 26, 2012
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This is it!
The Republican National Convention is just around the corner, and the establishment is about to find out what you and I have known all along this election season – the future is ours!
So on August 26, the day before the Convention convenes, I hope you'll join me at a special rally to celebrate how far our message and movement have come this year.
The event will start at noon at the University of South Florida's Sun Dome.
The University is located at 4202 E. Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL 33620, and you can find a map and directions HERE.
More information, as well as a link to RSVP, will be available soon. But for now, please save the date!
I've greatly enjoyed getting to meet our campaign's supporters at our events this year, and I hope to see you in Tampa on August 26!
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Yeah. Please do this. And maybe add options for your champion's graphic setting, everyone else's champion setting, and then finally, the minion/monster graphic setting. I hate that I get 40-60 FPS on very high with just my champion on the screen but when the minions appear it drops to like 20. I only really care about my own champion having good quality.. Please add the options. It really wouldn't take more than a minute (at the very least) Bump.
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TEHRAN - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is due to make his first visit to Iran as head of the Baghdad government next week, Iranian state television reported.
The television said that his deputy Barham Saleh would be visiting Tehran on Tuesday in order to prepare the ground for the visit by Maliki.
The Shiite prime minister lived in Iran in the 1980s in order to escape persecution of his Dawa party by Saddam Hussein.
The first visit by an Iraqi prime minister since the fall of Saddam Hussein was made by Maliki's predecessor Ibrahim al-Jaafari in July 2005.
The two countries waged a war between 1980 and 1988 in which around one million people died but ties have warmed considerably since the fall of Saddam, with the Islamic republic becoming a close ally of the Shiite-led Iraqi government.
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Lynnwood finishes third in 4A state tournament | Girls basketball
Lynnwood rallies in the second half to beat Moses Lake, 48-38, to take third place in the 4A girls basketball state tournament.
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TACOMA – The sense of urgency finally sank in.
Trailing at halftime in the final game of the season, the Lynnwood girls basketball team got a reminder of what was at stake Saturday at the Tacoma Dome.
"We made it clear at halftime that this was our last half together," senior Jasmin Edwards said. "We all stepped up and did what we had to do."
Edwards scored 12 of her game-high 18 points in the second half to lead the top-ranked Royals to a third-place finish in the 4A state tournament with 48-38 victory over No. 9 Moses Lake.
"Last game, senior year, I wanted to pull through and have a good game," Edwards said. "I'm really proud, we actually made history for our school."
Lynnwood (25-2), which had never finished better than sixth, bounced back from Friday's disappointing semifinal loss to Gonzaga Prep. Edwards made sure of that.
"I could tell the way the game started she was going to bring the thunder today and lead her team to a third-place finish and I couldn't be more proud," said Everett Edwards, Lynnwood's head coach and father of Jasmin and Jordyn Edwards, a sophomore starter.
Mikayla Pivec, another sophomore, was also key with 15 points, 19 rebounds and four blocked shots and the Royals got other key contributions, too. They trailed 34-28 midway through the third quarter, when junior Dani Hayes hit a three-pointer to start an 11-0 run.
Moses Lake (21-6), which let a late lead slip away against Mount Rainier in Friday's other semifinal, didn't make a field goal in the final 11½ minutes. Coach Matt Strophy said guard Jessie Loera, a promising sophomore, was suffering from either the flu or food poisoning, but she still contributed 10 points and seven rebounds.
Strophy was pleased with the fifth-place finish.
"If you would have told me at the start of the season we would finish fifth, I don't think I would have believed you. But I think we proved we can play with anybody in the state."
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Ideas for Queensgate quarter go on show.Huddersfield Huddersfield, city (1991 pop. 147,825), Kirklees metropolitan district, N central England, on the Colne River. Its textile industry, including cotton, woolen, and rayon goods, is important. Other products are machinery, iron goods, chemicals, and dyed fabrics. town centre should look.
Pupils from five Huddersfield schools joined forces with architecture students from Huddersfield University to come up with designs for the Queensgate area of town.
The designs have gone on show at Huddersfield Art Gallery.
The students worked with pupils from Moorlands Junior School, Birkby Junior School, Royds Hall High School, Honley High and Almondbury High.
They began working on the designs last September after being asked to take part by Kirklees Council's regeneration Regeneration (biology)
The process by which an animal restores a lost part of its body. Broadly defined, the term can include wound healing, tissue repair, and many kinds of restorative activities. development service and Loca, the council's arts and regeneration agency.
The challenge was to come up with ideas for the Piazza piazza
Open square or marketplace, surrounded by buildings, in an Italian town or city. It was equivalent to the plaza of Spanish-speaking countries. The term became more widely used in the 16th–18th century, denoting any large open space with buildings around it. and pedestrianised areas around New Street.
Council discussions about how to develop the Queensgate area have been under way for several years and options were put forward.
But the credit crunch Credit Crunch
An economic condition whereby investment capital is difficult to obtain. Banks and investors become weary of lending funds to corporations thereby driving up the price of debt products for borrowers. and recession has led to a delay in decisions about the future of the project.
Clr Christine Stanfield, Kirklees Council cabinet member for regeneration, said the input from young people would give designers something to think about should work finally go ahead..
"The project has given rise to a host of exciting ideas which ought to be inspiring for any architect or designer who is thinking about our public spaces.
"The young people's ideas are fresh, imaginative and lively and the presentation gives them a really professional finish.
"It would be wonderful to think that some of these young people's visions could be realised in years to come, so that as adults they are able to look back and see evidence of their creative input around the town." Students and pupils were given ideas at a launch day at the art gallery last autumn and, since then, have worked in groups on design sessions led by artists Antonia Stowe and Dawn Sharkey.
These sessions gave the architecture students first-hand experience of running practical workshops.
The groups looked at public art, the design of public spaces, materials and parts of Huddersfield's heritage that could provide inspiration.
They came up with ideas for paving, seating, lighting, sculpture and produced a 3D model of their designs.
The models and designs will be displayed at the gallery until July 25, alongside a film presenting a flythrough animation.
The exhibition will be open from 10am to 5pm Mondays to Fridays, 10am to 4pm on Saturdays and is closed Sundays. Admission is free..
DESIGNS: Pupils from Honley High School Honley High School is a secondary school situated on the edge of the village of Honley in the Holme Valley, West Yorkshire, England. The catchment area is the neighbouring villages of Brockholes, Honley and Meltham. Honley High has around 1,250 pupils aged 11-16. and Clr Christine Stanfield (right) at the Queensgate exhibition
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Current daily US Airways flights to Mexico City are: Charlotte 1, Phoenix 2
Current daily American Airlines flights to Mexico City are: Dallas/Ft. Worth 5, Miami 4, Chicago O'Hare 1
American Airlines is not among the pair of U.S. airlines allowed to fly to Mexico City from either New York or Los Angeles though it does codeshare on Alaska Airlines' LAX-MEX service.
The details of the new deal between the two countries, which goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2016, haven't been announced yet. However, the rumors are that it will include a lifting on the cap on airlines on a particular route. If that's correct, then CLT is definitely at risk of losing its Mexico City flight. The new treaty isn't going to eliminate slot caps at MEX, which means that the new American still can have only 13 flights a day to there. And let's be honest here: It's questionable whether keeping the existing Charlotte – Mexico City flight would be the best use of one of those limited takeoff and landing rights, if both NYC and Los Angeles become possibilities 13 months from now for the merged airline.]]>
The Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority, which manages the hall for the city, said […] that the hall lost $1.4 million for the fiscal year that ended in June.
In the previous year, the loss was $1.6 million.
The CRVA is optimistic that the hall's finances are stabilizing, as attendance has essentially leveled off.
Attendance at the hall this year was 169,724, down from 176,838 visitors in 2012-2013. The CRVA had originally estimated the hall would attract about 400,000 visitors annually.
"We feel good about stabilization," said CRVA chief executive Tom Murray.
No one operating a business would ever feel good about "stabilizing" at losing $1.4 million a year. Nor should taxpayers feel good about running a $1.4 million a year deficit on a museum that commemorates a family-owned for-profit business. Or, again, like with the National Whitewater Center, have banks write off loans for local economic development projects — at some point no bank will be willing to offer such loans. The NASCAR Hall of Fame, the project that keeps take from local taxpayers.]]>
The Mecklenburg County Commission: highly dysfunctional but also highly entertaining, in a watching-a-train-wreck-in-slow motion sort-of way. If you're into that sort of thing, of course.]]>
I've lived in this town long enough to see the purpose for that Independence reversible lane change a couple of times — originally, it was suppose to be a reversible HOV lane. Then, somewhere along the way, it was determined that it didn't meet current standards or was otherwise unsuitable for use by the general motoring public but CATS' skilled bus drivers could safely make use of it. So it has always operated as a busway. Now comes word that for a mere $13 million the lane can be used as a reversible HOT lane. It's exactly these sorts of whipsaw changes that undermine faith in government. I would most certainly like someone for the state or city department of transportation to explain to the public why the lane is now suitable for use as an HOT (or HOV) lane now when previously that wasn't an option. Somehow I don't imagine government officials volunteering an answer to that question…]]>
For years, town watchdogs and former elected officials have contended that former town manager John Munn, now deceased, improperly received $400,000 in pay beyond his part-time, $45,000 annual salary, and ex-mayor Sandy Moore also received extra compensation to which she was not entitled.
Town Council routinely has denied public records requests related to those issues.
Those residents now say former town planner Lee Bailey's sworn testimony corroborates what they have claimed all along — developers pull the strings of town government, and town officials skirt the law to accommodate them.
"The town's agenda is a partnership with these developers. It has been for years," said former mayor John Quinn, who defeated Moore in 2007 and served until 2011.
"This obsession of urbanizing Indian Trail was just curious to me. Somebody had to be benefiting from it because the residents weren't happy" with the rapid growth, rising crime, and lax enforcement of building and planning codes under Munn's 10-year tenure that ended with his firing in December 2005, Quinn said.
Bailey "claims that he was directed by the mayor to engage in illegal activity" to approve development plans, said attorney Steve Smith, who deposed Bailey in September.
Smith represents the Bonterra Village subdivision homeowners association against the developers, R.D. Harrell Company, in a $1.5 million lawsuit alleging shoddy construction of roads and stormwater systems, substandard repairs, and noncompliance with planning guidelines. A settlement was reached in October.
"Absolutely not, that's ridiculous," Moore, the former mayor, said of Bailey's allegations. "I have no idea" why he would say that.
"I certainly hope" all development projects during her tenure were done according to code and legal standards, Moore said.
Smith said Bailey, who was dismissed in 2005 by Munn, "was clear in his deposition that none of those [unlawful] activities were related to Bonterra." He was unable to press Bailey about the alleged illegal acts during the deposition, he said, because the plans for Bonterra were approved in 2001 before Bailey started working for the town.
Moreover, Bailey signed a nondisclosure agreement with the town. Indian Trail gave him a partial waiver of that agreement to discuss Bonterra matters only.
"I think it's highly unusual for a planning director to have a confidentiality agreement," Smith said.
"I can't answer that," Moore said when asked about the nondisclosure agreement. "I think that's probably part of personnel records that are part of North Carolina law."
Smith asked Town Council on Sept. 23 for the partial waiver. Some council members unsuccessfully attempted to rescind the entire speech ban "because they didn't see the utility in continuing to keep these secrets from the public," Smith said.
During the deposition, town attorney Keith Merritt said he represented both Bailey and the town.
"I think that's extremely, extremely unusual" for a town-paid attorney to be at a deposition in a case in which the town is not a party, Smith said.
"The town was there to protect its own interests. They were not there to protect Lee Bailey's interests, I guarantee you that," Smith said.
When he tried to ask Bailey questions beyond the scope of the confidentiality waiver, Merritt "objected on the basis of privilege, and directed the witness not to respond," Smith said.
Smith said Bailey testified that when he was town planner "he was uncomfortable because certain developers had unusual access to the mayor and to John Munn."
Smith said developers got plan approvals for areas that "would not make monetary sense [unless] they had control over the local politicians who could direct sewer and water to those areas."
As mayor, Quinn had testy relations with council as he investigated Munn's salary and other town politics. He has tried unsuccessfully to get a local or state law enforcement agency to investigate Indian Trail.
"Why doesn't anybody care?" he asked after Bailey testified about the town's alleged illegal activities. "He said it under oath."
Quinn provided Carolina Journal with an audio recording made several years ago in which Bailey made statements similar to those in the deposition.
"I wasn't rubberstamping all the plans and letting things ride," Bailey said on the recording. While there were threats and attempts by Munn and Moore to bully him, "There's no smoking gun" in which he was threatened with "any bad acts."
Quinn asked if the actions Bailey was asked to perform were criminal in nature.
"Probably," Bailey responded. "But you know, at this point I have no interest in going back and creating [inaudible]. John's passed away, and Sandy's no longer mayor, so what would it accomplish?"
Jonathon Baer has been attempting without success for years to get information about Munn's salary overpayments and public documents of other town business.
Baer believes there is a "culture of corruption" that leads to "the attitude that the only way to get information or the only way to have any kind of transparency is for the citizens to sue the government, and that is preposterous."
He said Bailey's received compensation with the confidentiality agreement.
"When you put two and two together, it looks like hush money," Baer said. Quinn called it a suspicious "golden parachute" laced with several months' pay.
Former councilwoman Mercedes Cass said Munn was fired because "there were a lot of crooked things going on." He threatened to sue council members individually if they withheld payments he said he earned.
No formal contract could be found to show Munn's salary was only $45,000 for 25 hours of work per week. Council members ultimately declared Munn was owed the hundreds of thousands of dollars, citing accounting errors as the reason the payments didn't appear earlier.
Cass said Moore received overpayments as mayor of $200 monthly, approved by Munn but not authorized by council.
Former state representative and senator Fern Shubert briefly succeeded Munn as town manager.
"There was a whole bunch wrong with that picture" involving Munn's pay, she said.
When his attorney threatened council members, "I begged them not to pay him that money" because there was no record of it ever being authorized, Shubert said.
She signed an agreement with the council to be paid the same amount Munn received, she said. Council did not pay her the higher amount when it was discovered how much Munn had paid himself.
Both Shubert and Cass said Munn's pay was the source of heated discussions in closed meetings, records of which remain sealed despite state laws requiring them to be made public.
Smith said when he first started talking to Indian Trail residents, he had an initial impression they were "conspiracy theorists."
"At first blush it sounds kind of fantastic and incredible, but the more you get into it the more you see what these people are telling you is true, and it's very suspicious," he said.]]>
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Is it any wonder there's a war on Christmas? Christmas is a territorial aggressor.
No wonder people are irate that you're erecting a Nativity scene in the town square. You're erecting it there on Nov. 5th! We've barely recovered from the election! Maybe there would not be such a war on Christmas if Christmas had not invaded Thanksgiving. And this year it was clearly making a play for Halloween. Columbus Day is next. No one even celebrates Columbus Day anymore, so it is unlikely to put up much of a fight.
Regulation stifles innovation, resulting in poor-quality products at higher prices for consumers. And removing long-established regulations takes a massive effort, usually driven by obvious massive benefits that an emerging new industry offers.
That's the difficult situation ride-sharing services Uber and Lyft are facing today as they attempt to provide an alternative to existing taxicabs.
While the concept of private individuals using their own cars to transport passengers for money may seem like a new concept, it's not. It first happened a century ago, as the mass production of the automobile suddenly saw an estimated 62,000 "jitneys" — slang of the time for a nickel, the typical streetcar fare — operate in 175 cities across the country.
Jitneys didn't last long, though. They effectively were regulated out of existence across the country by 1918, in large part to protect the streetcar industry, which had better political connections. Since then, taxicab companies have faced regulations, usually from local governments, with the usual result protecting existing cab companies from competition.
Where the absurdity of such regulation reaches its zenith is at many cities' airports. The situation at Charlotte Douglas International Airport is typical. In 2011, the Charlotte City Council approved a special set of regulations on cabs operating at the airport. The justification was that the cabs running in the Queen City weren't nice enough and would give visitors a poor perception of the city.
The solution: Upgrade a limited number of cabs to a nicer standard, with special markings showing they are allowed to pick up fares at the airport. Only a limited number of companies — three to be exact — were permitted to operate cabs that could pick up passengers at the airport.
This is madness. These limits let the city pick winners and losers. The companies allowed to operate at the airport make a lot of money; those that aren't have a huge disadvantage compared with the favored companies.
It's no surprise that the winning cab companies are generous political donors. Patrick Cannon, who in 2013 was elected mayor of Charlotte, received 10 percent of his total campaign contributions from the taxicab companies selected to operate from the airport. There had been allegations that now-former mayor and convicted felon Cannon, who will begin serving a 44-month sentence on public corruption charges on Nov. 18, may have tried to shake down cab companies wanting to get in on the airport action.
Even if the charges aren't true, the current arrangement simply encourages corruption. Still, plenty of politicos and bureaucrats have no problem with the status quo, as it gives them power over marketplace transactions. And forcing locals to rely on cabs that visitors might find too decrepit doesn't send an encouraging signal about the general quality of taxi service in the city.
Uber and Lyft have done very well since coming to Charlotte. These services let passengers book rides using a smart-phone app. The drivers are independent contractors using their own vehicles. Drivers share their fares with the service.
"What they've done in the past five to six months is scary," said Obaid Khan, co-owner of Charlotte-based Diamond Cab, to The Charlotte Observer. "They've set their rates so low small companies like us can't compete with them."
Khan wants to see Uber and Lyft regulated more strictly or have regulations loosened on cab companies.
The General Assembly is working on new regulations for ride-sharing companies. The best outcome would be a framework allowing ride-sharing companies to serve the customers who value that alternative while liberating taxi companies from excessive, costly regulations through which the government often picks winners and losers.]]>
Just as Republicans would be foolish to react to their 2014 successes with triumphalism or complacency, Democrats are foolish to react to their 2014 losses with denial or misdirection. Yes, Kay Hagan lost primarily because of her close association with an unpopular president. That was, of course, the GOP strategy. And because the central message of Hagan's 2008 campaign was that Elizabeth Dole voted 92 percent of the time with President Bush, Republicans may be forgiven for seeing poetic justice where Democrats see bad luck.
You can read the rest of John's column here.]]>
Crisis is instructive. It tests all the things we want in our leaders, including integrity and truthfulness. Until [Mary] McCray and the school board realize that,[Heath] Morrison's resignation will remain a dark cloud over the district, including employees such as acting Superintendent Ann Clark, a Morrison deputy. We're not sure what the board is gaining with its secrecy, but it's already lost the public's confidence.
RALEIGH — Drunks don't always make the most cooperative suspects. But it's not clear how aggressively police can pursue evidence, such as blood samples, when they apprehend a suspect who's suspected of driving while intoxicated. And a recent ruling by the state Court of Appeals hasn't settled the matter.
On Dec. 28, 2010, Chatham County Sheriff's Deputy Justin Fyle responded to a call reporting suspicious activity. Fyle found Ronald McCrary apparently sleeping in a red Isuzu Trooper parked poorly in a driveway of another person's home. When Fyle opened the car's door, he noticed a nearly empty bottle of vodka. McCrary smelled of alcohol, had red and glassy eyes, and couldn't stand up to perform field sobriety tests. Fyle arrested McCrary for driving while impaired.
Soon afterward, McCrary began complaining of chest pains and demanded to be taken to the hospital. Emergency medical services personnel were called. At that point, Fyle stated his plan was either to bring McCrary into the sheriff's office for processing if EMS personnel cleared him or obtain a blood sample without a warrant if McCrary were transported to the hospital.
Fyle's sergeant ordered McCrary to be taken to the hospital, where his "belligerent conduct accelerated." McCrary also refused to provide a blood sample; one was taken without his consent.
McCrary eventually was convicted of driving while impaired and communicating threats. He was sentenced to consecutive 120-day prison terms on the charges.
Drawing blood is a search
At trial and again before the N.C. Court of Appeals, McCrary argued that the results of the blood sample should be suppressed.
Federal and state courts have recognized that taking blood from someone amounts to a search under both the U.S. and North Carolina constitutions. Searches conducted without a properly issued warrant are unreasonable unless conducted with probable cause and under exigent circumstances. And last year, the U.S. Supreme Court in a case called Missouri v. McNeely held that "in drunk-driving investigations, the natural dissipation of alcohol in the bloodstream does not constitute an exigency in every case sufficient to justify conducting a blood test without a warrant." In McNeely, an officer drove a suspect to a hospital to obtain a blood sample without first obtaining a warrant after McNeely said he would refuse a breath test.
The question before the appeals court was whether the circumstances in McCrary's case rose to the level of an exigency. Two of the three judges on the Court of Appeals' panel held that it might, although a trial court needed to make that determination.
"We find this case to be more similar to State v. Granger than to McNeely," wrote Judge Donna Stroud for the court.
In Granger, the Court of Appeals held that exigent circumstances existed when a DWI suspect required hospital care and no other officer was available to stay with him while the officer left to obtain a warrant.
The appeals court ruled that the trial judge should have made specific findings of fact about whether a magistrate had been available and how much time it would have required to obtain a warrant.
Judge Ann Marie Calabria dissented from the majority holding, finding that Fyle overstepped his authority and it was not necessary to ask a trial court to look for more facts.
"In the instant case, the trial court's unchallenged findings demonstrate that Deputy Fyle's actions fall squarely within the ambit of the example articulated by McNeely."
The key to Calabria was that Fyle had decided to obtain a blood sample well before any exigent circumstances may have developed at the hospital.
"Deputy Fyle simply ignored our Supreme Court's long-established directive that 'a search warrant must be issued before a blood sample can be obtained,'" she wrote.
"He then sought to impermissibly benefit from his failure to seek a warrant by asserting that an exigency existed at the moment the blood draw was to occur. At this point, it was far too late for Deputy Fyle to consider, for the first time, whether a warrant could reasonably be obtained. "
N.C. Court of Appeals rulings are binding interpretations of state law unless overruled by a higher court. Because of Calabria's dissent, the state Supreme Court is required to hear the case should McCrary appeal.
The case is State v McCrary, (13-1059).]]>


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2 robberies take place minutes apart in Jefferson City
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Jefferson City police are investigating two robberies that happened just minutes apart.
A man told police he was assaulted and robbed by three men wearing masks in the 1000 block of Elizabeth Street early Saturday morning.
ABC 17 News has learned the victim later saw his alleged attackers and rammed their car with his pickup truck. Police arrested him for second-degree assault.
Just four minutes after the initial robbery, police responded to what they are calling an unrelated armed robbery at the McDonald's on Jefferson Street.
One McDonald's employee is in police custody on suspicion of helping the robbers.
"We did detain one individual from there who was an employee of McDonald's, who we believe let the subjects into the business, and he is currently being held in the Cole County jail," said Lt. Deric Heislen of the Jefferson City Police Department.
Police are asking anyone with information about the crimes to call Crime Stoppers at 573- 659-TIPS (8477).
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Can you take this story about Dragon Ball Z and turn it into a story about Pokemon?
The History of the Dragon Ball Z anime in the U.S.
For the first two seasons, Dragon Ball Z was dubbed by FUNimation in conjunction with Saban. These initial seasons had a lot of rewrites, a replaced music score, and a countless number of edits. Despite these changes, the English version was many fans' first (and only) exposure
My New Year's Resolution for 2010 is to stop buying so many damn video games.
I originally compiled this list for a thread on toonzone. And when I actually sat down and listed out all the games I bought last year, I kept amazing myself at how large the list was growing:
Wii Downloads (American)
Final Fantasy IV The After Years
Final Fantasy IV The After Years - Rydia's Story
Super Punch-Out!
Mega Man 9
Wii (Japanese)
We've all seen people complain about the price of video games on various message boards. The idea that $60 is too much to pay for a game is a popular one, and there are many people out there who think they're being ripped off.
I, for one, completely disagree.
Think about it for a second. You pay $60 for a game that lasts you 20 hours. That may seem like a lot, but if you break it down, that's about $3 for every hour of entertainment.
In comparison,
You guys know that I'm currently teaching English in Japan, right? I don't have to do this big lengthy introduction, do I?
Well, today, my third grade class (think 8-9 years old) was learning family related vocabulary. Y'know..."mother," "father," "brother," etc.
Well, after having the kids help me draw up Son Goku's family tree (fact: most of them didn't know anything beyond what's been shown on Kai so far) and playing some
...So I was playing my copy of Gold the other day, and got a phone call from a trainer in the game.
It was something like 4:00am game time. And the girl had the gall to ask if she had woken me up.
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Finding a Link Between Comedy and Psychosis
April 8, 2014 Jessica Kashiwabara
Researchers from Oxford wondered about that question so many people have asked: are comedians a little bit crazy?
So they did a study, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, asking over 500 comedians to fill out a questionnaire designed to measure psychotic traits in healthy people.
The four traits measured (in case you want to ask yourself whether they apply to you) were:
• Unusual experiences (belief in telepathy and paranormal events)
• Cognitive disorganization (distractibility and difficulty in focusing thoughts)
• Introvertive anhedonia (reduced ability to feel social and physical pleasure)
• Impulsive non-conformity (tendency towards impulsive, antisocial behavior
Turned out the comedians scored higher in all four types of traits than two control groups—one of actors and one of "non-creative" types.
The researchers say they see a link between the creativity used to make humor and some cognitive characteristics in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
In a BBC report, Gordon Claridge, lead author of the study, explains, "although schizophrenic psychosis itself can be detrimental to humor, in its lesser form, it can increase people's ability to associate odd or unusual things or to think 'outside the box.'"
Likewise, the manic characteristic of bipolar disorder may be a possible link explaining how comedians form and create "new, original, and humorous connections."
Of course, some comedians really do have diagnoses. To see the great Stephen Fry's take on what it's like to have bipolar disorder, watch this video.View Comments | Add Comment
All 'Big Data' Is Not Created Equal
April 7, 2014 Harry Kimball
Yesterday, the New York Times published an op-ed taking the faddish obsession with "Big Data" to task. Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis rightly point out that not every pattern revealed by supercomputers crunching numbers is significant. They are worried that, because we are historically quick to attach meaning to coincidence, that "the risk of too many correlations" posed by huge data sets already has and will continue to lead us astray.
"A big data analysis might reveal," they write, "that from 2006 to 2011 the United States murder rate was well correlated with the market share of Internet Explorer: Both went down sharply. But it's hard to imagine there is any causal relationship."
Well put. But the authors also understate a crucial distinction and threaten to sour readers on a valuable new approach to scientific observation. They allow that "big data can work well as an adjunct to scientific inquiry but rarely succeeds as a wholesale replacement." Of course it is a tool, and not a magical answer machine. Just as we shouldn't blindly accept computer-generated correlations as truly connected phenomena, we should not confuse what big data analysis is—a new and powerful observational tool—with what it isn't: an end in itself.
If data analysis reveals a correlation that intrigues a researcher, that is when a hypothesis is formed and tested, as always. Big data is a new lens with which to view the world, but we still don't need to believe everything we see.View Comments | Add Comment
The Case for Risky Play
April 1, 2014 Caroline Miller
The Atlantic has a terrific, provocative piece by Hannah Rosin about the negative effects of parenting that tries to take all the risks out of childhood. Rosin takes us on a visit to a British playground that looks more like a junkyard: Kids are busy building structures with old tires and wooden pallets, jumping on dirty mattresses, starting a fire in a tin drum, and sliding down a muddy hill—into a creek if they get going too fast. Grade-school age kids. Without their parents.
It's a startling scene, reminiscent (for those of us of a certain age) of the many unsupervised hours we spent as kids, poking around outdoors, while our parents were inside doing whatever parents did back in the day when they didn't spend most of their free time taking kids places and supervising their activities.
The larger point is that kids who don't get a chance to take risks—what feels like risks to them—don't learn to tolerate and manage fear in a healthy way. Our fear of their being harmed makes them more fearful. And it's backed up with a lot of interesting data that despite our perception of living in more dangerous times, actual risks to children have not increased.
Risky play, Rosen notes, is essentially what psychologists do with anxious children when they use what's called exposure therapy—they face fears in tolerable doses in order to learn to manage those feelings. As Steven Kurtz, a clinical psychologist at the Child Mind Institute, puts it, "helping kids get comfortable with being uncomfortable."View Comments | Add Comment
CDC: Kids With Autism Up 30%
March 27, 2014 Caroline Miller
The Centers for Disease Control released a new survey today finding that one in 68 children in the US has autism, up from one in 88, which the agency reported two years ago. The new prevalence figure, which is based on a sample of 8-year-olds taken in 2010, is a 29 percent increase over the figure for 2008, and a 123 percent increase in the figure for 2002.
Other details:
• Gender differences: The new figure breaks down into one in 42 boys and one in 198 girls. That ratio has remained constant, though it varies among individual states.
• Ethnic differences: Non-Hispanic white kids were almost 30 percent more likely to be diagnosed than non-Hispanic black children, and 50 percent more likely than Hispanic children.
• Intellectual disability: The number of children diagnosed with autism who do not have intellectual disability has risen to 46 percent, up from 32 percent in 2002.
• Age of diagnosis: The median age of the first diagnosis is 4.5 years, not significantly different from the last survey.
• State breakdown: Prevalence of autism diagnoses varies a great deal among states in the survey—from 5.7 to 21.9 per 1,000 children. The lowest rate is Alabama and the highest is New Jersey.
The survey is based on a sample of kids in 11 sites around the country who have been identified by records from medical providers or school services as having an autism diagnosis. Records are then scrutinized by professionals to check them against accepted diagnostic criteria for autism.
Since it's based on the 2010 survey year, this survey reflects diagnostic criteria for autism-related diagnoses from the DSM-IV-TR, rather than the new criteria in DSM-5 that was released in 2013. Included in the prevalence figures are all children diagnosed with autism, PDD-NOS, and Asperger's Syndrome, which have all been combined more recently into ASD.
The CDC reports that the distribution of children among these subtypes has not changed significantly since 2006.View Comments | Add Comment
Depression, Suicide, and Too Much Sharing
March 25, 2014 Caroline Miller
In an op ed piece in the New York Times today an anthropologist named TM Luhrmann writes about an increase in reported rates of depression and suicide around the world. She notes that the increase reflects changes in how cultures label feelings: "For example, until recently, most Japanese understood intense fatigue as sacrifice for one's work and suicide as an act of reasoned will." Now many Japanese who find themselves drained of energy and beset by suicidal thoughts would call themselves depressed. That's not a bad thing.
But of the factors she mentions, one that's particularly interesting is the change in what she calls "our awareness of other people and where we stand in social space." Studies show that Facebook makes people feel less good about themselves. The constant stream of other people's flattering photos and evidence of fun you're not having, not to speak of accomplishments you haven't achieved, is tough on all of us. But I would suggest that it's probably hardest on teenagers, who are acutely sensitive to, and anxious about, comparisons with their peers.
On a global scale, she's talking about people everywhere knowing, thanks to both television and the internet, how much richer and more powerful others are. On a high school level, it may be addictive to keep up with what everyone is doing and thinking, 24/7, but it's also potentially depressing.View Comments | Add Comment
Autism and Sensory Overload
March 25, 2014 Caroline Miller
In what's called the "intense world theory," a leading neuroscientist is arguing that autism should be seen as a result not of cognitive deficits but of cognitive overload.
Henry Markram's radical rethinking stems from observation of his own son, Kai, who is on the Asperger's end of the spectrum. And his research with rats offers evidence, he argues, for the theory the autistic brain is actually hyper-responsive to stimuli. The rigid and repetitive behaviors associated with autism, not to speak of the meltdowns, are explained as attempt to manage bewildering sensory and emotional overload. And social unresponsiveness is seen as a coping mechanism for a "barrage of chaotic, indecipherable input, a cacophony of raw, unfilterable data."
A story about Markram and his theory on the website Medium is riveting, and it has important implications for treatment. Since children learn social skills in specific windows of development, could it be that "early intervention to reduce or moderate the intensity of an autistic child's environment" might keep kids from shutting down during crucial learning periods and hence protect their development?
Learn about another theory of sensory issues in autism based on brain imaging here, from Dr. Wendy Chung, who reaches a remarkably similar conclusion concerning tailoring learning environments and experiences for young people on the spectrum.View Comments | Add Comment
Avonte's Brother Thanks New York City
March 24, 2014 Beth Arky
During the desperate search for Avonte Oquendo, the nonverbal autistic teen who went missing after running out of his Queens school last October, his older brother, Danny, emerged as a leader in the unprecedented citywide effort to find him.
Now, two months after his brother's remains were found in the East River, Danny has written a blog thanking the city on the Autism Speaks website.
Unable to remain on the sidelines while they hoped the police would find Avonte, the family went public. Avonte's mother, Vanessa Fontaine, and the family lawyer appealed to traditional media, while Danny took to twitter, Instagram and Facebook. At first, there was only a small band of volunteers, but then something surprising happened.
"We went from a small family searching night and day for our loved one," he writes, "to a large operation with thousands of volunteers ready and willing to help in every possible way."
Danny says in the blog that while New Yorkers have a reputation for being "rude, impatient, aggressive and unsympathetic," the city showed its true compassionate colors, much as it had in the aftermath of 9/11. "His disappearance sparked a city-wide search and an autism awareness campaign came right along with it."
Danny explains that his brother engaged in running or bolting, a common autistic trait that too often ends in drowning, requiring constant supervision on the part of whoever's responsible for the child. In the aftermath of the 14-year-old's death, Senator Charles Schumer introduced a bill called Avonte's Law to fund the voluntary distribution of tracking devices to parents of autistic and other special-needs children. The Justice Department responded that it would make grants available for the devices.
Danny, who aims to go to law school so that he might represent special needs students, expresses the hope that his brother's death will focus efforts to improve security in schools for kids like him. "The city was behind us when we were attempting to find Avonte,' he writes, "and now the city is behind us as we make efforts to reform our school system's security protocols."
The family has also taken steps toward a lawsuit against the city.
Blogger Jill Smo has set up a virtual candlelight vigil on April 1, the first day of Autism Awareness Month, to honor and respect the memories of children like Avonte who have lost their lives to wandering.View Comments | Add Comment
Reality Star Kristin Cavallari on Vaccine-Autism Link: 'I Choose to Believe'
March 18, 2014 Harry Kimball
Kristin Cavallari, the former reality TV star, has been making headlines again after announcing that she and husband Jay Cutler won't be vaccinating the child they are expecting because of autism fears. "Something is going on," she tells the Huffington Post, referring to the rising incidence of the disorder. "Something is happening, and we can't really ignore that. I choose to believe that I think it's in the vaccines but, again, to each their own and that's where I stand on it."
While the rates of autism diagnoses are rising, vaccines aren't the explanation. The truth is that experts aren't sure why autism rates are rising. Many argue that the breathtaking increase in diagnosis is the result of earlier and more widespread identification. There are also lines of inquiry into how changing environmental factors could influence prevalence. But what Cavallari is choosing to believe is one theory that has been studied in depth and roundly refuted. This debate often gets emotional, but the basic medical recommendation—you should get your children vaccinated, and whatever risks involved pale in comparison to the benefits—is based on scientific observation. And for the record, those risks do not include autism.
But there is something else that Cavallari said, in a Fox interview, that is more deserving of contemplation and less infuriating than her "to each their own" approach. "You know what?" she said when asked where her anti-vaccine stance comes from. "I have read too many books about autism." And here's the thing: I'm sure she has. I may not think she's read the right books, but I understand the deep concern of parents in the face of a poorly understood developmental disorder that appears to be on the rise.
Parents are worried, and they want answers. Unfortunately the science isn't there yet. Meanwhile, those who see a vaccine-autism connection are offering a simple solution. Their certainty, particularly in the face of science's massive uncertainty, is alluring. Unfortunately, it isn't the answer to the autism riddle. And it has consequences. When it comes to vaccinations, it can't be "to each their own."
Read more about how the vaccine theory started, and why it persists, in this article on Andrew Wakefield and autism research.View Comments | Add Comment
Static Over Smartphones and Parenting
March 11, 2014 Beth Arky
Electronic devices seem to be on everyone's minds, as well as in everyone's hands.
Today's New York Times features an article titled "Parents, Wired to Distraction" by Dr. Perri Klass, in which she cites a new study in yesterday's Pediatrics. The object was to observe caregivers eating with children in Boston-area fast-food restaurants to see how much they were engaged with their charges vs. their smartphones and tablets. While the researchers had no way of knowing if the caregivers were parents, as Klass writes, the adults' behavior does help pinpoint "what kinds of questions we should be asking about how digital devices relate to parenting."
Unfortunately, the results don't surprise me in the least. Of the 55 caregivers observed by researchers eating with one or more young kids, 40 used devices during the meal, with a high degree of absorption. Even more troubling was the study's finding that "Highly absorbed caregivers often responded harshly to child misbehavior."
Klass's piece comes on the heels of a controversial blog in The Huffington Post, in which pediatric occupational therapist Cris Rowan serves up "10 Reasons Why Handheld Devices Should Be Banned for Children Under the Age of 12."
She claims that children's use of technology, including cell phones, tablets and electronic games, can cause everything from delayed development to aggression to mental illness. While most of the connections are a stretch, it's true that too much technology can be bad for kids. But calling for a total ban is a pretty extreme (and extremely unrealistic) move.
Our gadgets are here to stay, and thankfully they can do a lot of good, too. Blogger Jo Ashline was eager to point out that handheld devices like iPads actually assist special-needs kids like her nonverbal autistic son in their communication efforts (something an OT ought to be familiar with).
Dealing with encroaching technology might feel new, but it isn't really. I grew up in a family that watched TV at dinnertime, which didn't allow for much engagement, either. I suppose that's at least subconsciously why I don't allow devices at the dinner table.
These two stories do share one common theme: We need to be mindful of the fact that by plugging in, we're in danger of plugging out of family life. When it comes to electronics, there is no doubt that some parents and kids know no limits. I myself have been guilty of checking in on Facebook and email while my son is in the room.
But there's no putting the genie back in the bottle. It seems to me it's a question of moderation and making smart choices. And isn't that what parenting is about?View Comments | Add Comment
What Kids Actually Think About Sheryl Sandberg, Leaning In, and 'Ban Bossy'
March 9, 2014 Harold S. Koplewicz, MD
Most of us have heard of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's "Lean In" campaign to encourage women in all professions to follow their ambitions and transform the idea of a woman's character and capabilities. Now, with the Girl Scouts, she has launched a new initiative: "Ban Bossy." The aim? Correcting a common (and false) dichotomy: when a man acts like an assertive leader, he's the boss; when a woman does, she's "bossy."
Sandberg wants to eradicate the word from boardrooms and on the playground, because it's toxic to girls and forces them to step back, rather than lean in and get branded as "bossy." I was interested in what kids actually think about "bossy," and what they actually think about each other. So ABC Nightline anchor Cynthia McFadden and I took a trip to New York's Hunter College Elementary School and sat down with 1st and 6th grade boys and girls, in 4 groups.
Everyone agreed: "bossy" isn't a great word, and it is used more often to refer to girls. The girls disliked the word bossy more than the boys did, sure. But here's what's interesting: when we asked the 1st-graders about the word "leader"—"You're a leader, Harry, how does that make you feel?"—they were more positive but not overwhelmingly so. There's a feeling of wanting to be friends and wanting people to like you, not be a leader. And there was a great equality between the sexes in terms of this.
Things change in 6th grade, but maybe not how you would think. Who are the clear leaders? The girls. The 6th grade boys reported them as much more enthusiastic about student leadership and academic-more ambitious and more interested in being the best. They saw the girls as equals but did admit that they were more likely to call a girl bossy than a boy.
The girls could care less about that. Bossy was a bad word, but not a terrible word, and it meant nothing from a boy. It meant nothing from someone they didn't know. But: if someone they cared about called them bossy they'd try very hard to change their behavior, meaning that they didn't want to hurt someone else's feelings. In terms of socialization, girls are more concerned about how people feel, and have more collaboration, and are more socially minded. Boys at this age have a totem pole hierarchy; they don't really care how other people are doing, as long as they can yank the one above them down and pull themselves up.
What does this mean? I think it means that a pivotal time in development—entering adolescence—we have a great model of successful, social, high-achieving young women. At the very same time, we have relatively under-achieving boys, who even admit this, testing out the sort of dog-eat-dog hierarchy that we often see at the top of any profession. Are these things incompatible in adult life—and is "bossy" the reason?
The girls I spoke to had the same question, and were unsure if Sandberg was right. "Maybe that was old times," they said. Their career choices: Scientist, actress, lawyer, doctor. The major problem I saw was a distinct lack of successful female role models in this country, and around the world. And that's where I think Sandberg is really making waves, encouraging women to "lean in," be assertive, engage their professions and their leadership drives. Hopefully our successful adult role models can help our children build a different world.View Comments | Add Comment


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