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The Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel westbound reopened after a multi-vehicle crash, Tuesday afternoon.
The Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel westbound reopened after a multi-vehicle crash, Tuesday afternoon.
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Police are looking for a man they believe used someone else's credit cards at a Virginia Beach 7-Eleven.
Police say the man stole a Samsung Galaxy 4 smartphone from a vehicle in the Walgreens parking lot located at 856 Military Highway.
A truck fire shut down a highway in Northern Virginia Tuesday morning.
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Chief of Naval Operations, Adm. Jonathan W. Greenert spoke to sailors Tuesday morning at NAS Oceana.
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Adult education's unclear future
"Right now you have kind of a bifurcated system, with one foot in K-12 and one foot in community colleges," he said.
Unlike regular college classes that students take for credit in pursuit of degrees, adult education includes non-credited classes for students learning English as a second language, seeking diplomas or acquiring vocational skills, such as the popular medical assistant program at the Vista Adult School.
Palmer said if more adult-education students took classes on community college campuses, the exposure would expand their vision of school beyond basic milestones and possibly inspire them to pursue a degree.
The move also should not be seen as a potential end to all adult schools run by K-12 districts, he said, because those districts could still offer the same programs or partner with community colleges.
So why issue pink slips to adult-education teachers at this point?
Ebon Brown of the Vista Adult School said there are other uncertainties ahead in the proposed budget, including a new weighted system of funding that would give more money to schools with poor children or students learning English as a second language.
"Our district thought it would be unethical to not notice the staff," Brown said about the pink slips.
The Escondido Union High School District, which serves about 10,000 adult-education students each year, is among the districts not issuing pink slips to adult-education staff. "We just chose not to disrupt lives at this time," said Superintendent Ed Nelson.
He added that while the district is committed to adult education, it may be pushed to divert dollars away from that program if its general fund falls short because of weak state support.
At the Sweetwater Union High School District, communications director Manny Rubio said layoff notices may be issued to about 25 percent of employees in adult education, which serves about 22,000 students per year.
"We keep hearing a lot of different things," he said. "We've heard everything from 'This may not happen at all' to 'It will be eliminated completely from the (state's) Education Code.'"
Also among the unknowns associated with the governor's proposal is the question of whether community college districts will want to create or expand adult-education programs.
"If it's just to augment the program we currently have and the K-12 districts maintain theirs, that would be great," said Robert Deegan, president of Palomar College in San Marcos. "But if it's us taking on all of the work they're already doing and with limited resources, that would be difficult for us to do on short notice."
MiraCosta College in Oceanside already provides adult education for 1,600 students because there are no similar programs in school districts in Carlsbad and Oceanside.
The college's continuing-education dean, Alketa Wojcik, said MiraCosta would take on more students if the San Dieguito Union High School District were to end its adult-education program.
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The Etawantaw family live in Tin'Akoff, a village in the far north-east of Burkina Faso, five kilometres from the border with Mali. This region is known as the Sahel. It is dry and dusty for most of the year. As it is hard to grow food, most people who live here are pastoralists, raising cattle, goats and sheep. The region is plagued by regular droughts. In 2011, the rains failed again. As a result harvests were lost and there is a major food shortage for both people and livestock. People in this region mainly eat millet, sorghum and meat.
Tahya has five daughters. She and her husband used to have 50 cows and goats. They lost many of their animals over the last five years due to drought and sickness. The rest they have had to sell to buy food to survive. This year they have no animals left to sell and no form of income to buy food.
"To be able to provide for my children, I have to go out and beg for food from others. Or I depend on my neighbours for food. If the children don't eat at the neighbours, they eat nothing."
Some families like Tahya's have had to resort to boiling up the leaves of wild thorn bushes or the bulbs of lilies from a reservoir nearby. Both are poisonous and cause health problems, especially for the children.
The failed harvests have caused a major increase in the price of food this year. 100kg of millet costs £37, which is double what it cost at the same time in the previous year. Even if Tahya had some money, buying millet at this price would be prohibitively expensive.
Christian Aid partner ATAD which works in the region has started delivering food relief to vulnerable families like Tahya's to prevent the current crisis developing into a famine.
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I've joined the proud ranks of maids and grandparents fetching kids from school. :p
made some adjustments to the boy's transportation issue – no more ridiculous 1-hour bus ride at 5.50am. I timed exactly 5 minutes to drive him directly to school, and 5 minutes back. do you know it's $100 for 2 ways, and $95 for 1 way? what maths is this? seriously, school buses!


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Dr. Jane A. Weintraub, dean of the UNC School of Dentistry, was recently appointed to serve on the National Advisory Dental and Craniofacial Research Council of the National Institute of Health (NIH). Her appointment will conclude at the end of November 2017.
The Council, which is comprised of 15 members, advises and consults with the secretary of DHHS and the director of NIDCR on issues related to research, research support, training and career development supported by NIH. It provides a secondary review of grant applications, cooperative agreements and career development award applications, among others.
"It is an honor to be appointed to a committee that I hold in high esteem," said Weintraub. "I'm pleased to be able to provide input in the future of oral health research and the future of the research workforce."
Weintraub is widely known for her expertise in oral epidemiology, dental public health and clinical research, and is considered a leader in research to understand and prevent oral health disparities. Following a seven-year employment at UNC, she took a position as the Lee Hysan Professor and chair of the Division of Oral Epidemiology and Dental Public Health at the University of California, San Francisco School of Dentistry. From 2001 until 2011, when she returned to UNC, she was the director and principal investigator of the NIH-funded Center to Address Disparities in Children's Oral Health, nicknamed the CAN DO Center. Weintraub is a diplomate of the American Board of Dental Public Health, a fellow of the International College of Dentists, and past president of both the AAPHD and the Behavioral Sciences and Health Services Research Group of the International Association of Dental Research. Her accolades include the 2009 IADR H. Trendley Dean Distinguished Scientist Award for her research in oral epidemiology and dental public health, the 2010 American Dental Association's Norton Ross Award for Excellence in Clinical Research, the AAPHD President's and Special Merit Awards, and the 2012 Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors Distinguished Service Award.
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The Nice Guys Of PokerCreated By: Lianna Shen
I know - I've been a bit down on the male poker population as of late. And I figure it's time to give props to those who deserve it. There really are some good guys out there on the felt.
It's a bit hard to spot them, these nice poker guys, because they're all endowed with these brilliant poker faces that sometimes just make you want to run away and hide. Sometimes though, they'll crack you a little smile or give you a cordial little nod.
With that being said, let's get down to business. Here are five of the nicest guys in poker:
Thor Hansen
Thor Hansen is not a degenerate gambler. He knows who to play, what to play, when to play, and when to quit.
This guy is always in a good mood. And he has those friendly little wrinkles around his eyes that get all scrunched up when he smiles. Even when he's getting chastised by Mike Matusow, he keeps it light and shrugs it off. He always asks how you're doing as you slip by him, scrawling down illegible notes, and he sounds like he actually cares how you're doing. He asks about other players, how they're doing, not because he wants to know how far ahead he is - but because he cares about how those players are doing.
Currently he is still chipping high in the H.O.R.S.E. tournament, and he has already made the money
Scotty Nguyen
Sure, this guy drinks a lot of beer and uses the word "baby" superfluously, but he's not a mean drunk and he is not derogatory. He saunters into the tournament room in his leather and jeri-curl juiced mullet and you can't help but smile when you look at him. He'll shoot you the two-fingered gun and say hey even if he doesn't know who you are; he probably thinks he does know you and is just covering his bases.
Apart from poker, this guy's also a family man, by his own admission. He loves to be at home. He never yells or loses his cool at the table, and often he'll coerce his opponents into a friendly drinking fest, as was the case at this year's World Championship Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo final table with Eli Elezra.
Doyle Brunson
He's the legend of the legends, and probably the most recognizable face when it comes to poker. He's 84 years old but age doesn't stop him - he plays in as many events as his son Todd, and his fans always come out to watch him.
And he doesn't mind it one bit. He fulfills all requests for autographs, poses for pictures, and shakes every hand. During one tournament, a fan called out to him from the rail, and he got up, hobbled up to his crutches, and slowly made his way over, just to sign a t-shirt. He doesn't take his fame for granted.
Unlike other players who may have been jaded from the industry after playing for so many years, it seems that Doyle maintains an air of decency and control. He even has a master's degree in administrative education. How cool would it be to be sent down to Principal Doyle's office?
Marcel Luske
He is the pinnacle of poker class. Every day, Mr. Luske gets decked out in a dapper suit and hits the felt with his fellow sweat-shirt wearing, cowboy hat sporting players. It's just nice to see someone who has that much respect for the game.
Or maybe he just really likes nice clothes. Whatever the reason, Luske is one of the most entertaining men in poker. He sings, he jokes, he really doesn't stop talking - and sometimes it's hard to understand what he's saying but as long as you smile and nod, it's okay because he's never really talking about anything serious.
Daniel Negreanu
Danny Negreanu is a fun guy. He raps for his tablemates, speaks with a fake Brooklyn accent and is just an all-around nutty guy. Sometimes he'll chase you down the hallway, yelling "Whatcha doin'? Where ya goin'?" until you finally turn around and pay attention to him, at which point he'll continue talking to you in the same loud voice, as if you're twenty feet away even though there's only three feet of space between you.
And, he's a vegan. Yup, this guy doesn't eat animals, so he's gotta be a good guy. He even invited us over to his house to hang out for an interview, but unfortunately had to cancel because he made it to the final table of an event.
So there are nice guys in poker, and these are only a few of the many. Some of them will even smile for pictures, giving the poker-face a momentary break; these shots are money!
And if you really can't find a nice guy at the WSOP, just hang out at the final tables. The winner will almost always crack you a smile and thumbs-up sign.
Sometimes, money really can buy happiness.
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has he released any official stuff yet? I want to hear "Let Jesus Fuck You" in its entirety.
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I love JDevil's stuff so far, but no official stuff yet (other then Evilution.) im super excited for it though aha
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I've watched a few stuff of him on youtube and its good....apart from his 'dad dancing' :-)
Guess I will see for myself first hand in 3 weeks time :-D
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I think he will get better as he goes, especially if he keeps surrounding himself with the masters like Skrillex and Kill the Noise. Meanwhile check out this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXf_7Go-C9A
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Architects: APlan
Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia
Design Team: Darko Lečnik APLAN team for the business portion and Rafael Draksler with the ARHITEKA team for the residential portion
Client: MABRA engineering
Area: 60000.0 sqm
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Miran Kambič
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Terme Olimia Wellness Spa / Enota
The project proposal for the new Terme Olimia wellness spa, designed by Enota, is located in the very center of a well-known ski resort, Kranjska Gora in Slovenia. With rethinking the local building characteristics completely, the new spa building exhibits attractive design and despite its distinctive and extensive program maintains the town's unified look. More images and architects' description after the break.
Home for the Elderly / Ravnikar Potokar Arhitekturni
Architect: Ravnikar Potokar Arhitekturni Location: Idrija, Slovenia Competition Team: Robert Potokar, Sabina Colnar, Ajdin Bajrović, Mateja Šetina, Carlos Graca Project Team: Robert Potokar, Andrej Strehovec, Marjan Starič Interior Design Project: Andrej Strehovec, Maja Slapernik, Robert Potokar Project Area: 7,740 sqm Project Year: 2011 Photographs: Andrej Strehovec
Razgledi Perovo Housing / dekleva gregorič arhitekti
Architects: dekleva gregorič arhitekti
Location: Kamnik, Slovenia
Architects: dekleva gregorič arhitekti
Project Team: Aljoša Dekleva u.d.i.a., M.Arch. (AA Dist),Tina Gregorič u.d.i.a., M.Arch. (AA Dist)
Client: SAVA IP d.o.o., Ljubljana
Area: 1760.0 sqm
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Miran Kambič
West Gate Office Building / Studio Kalamar
Located in Ljubljana, Slovenia on a corner site at the western entrance to the city, the composition of the West Gate office building, designed by Studio Kalamar, is defined by two office towers. The southern tower rises over the intersection, accentuating the direction towards the city with its sharp projecting corner while the lower northern wing serves as a background to the principal motive as its composition approaches the dynamic of railway traffic behind it. More images and architects' description after the break.
A-partment / Granda Strovs Architects
Architects: Granda Strovs Architects
Location: Bežigrad, Ljubljana 1000, Slovenia
Architects: Granda Strovs Architects
Area: 90.0 sqm
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Courtesy of granda strovs architects
Mivka Hotel Resort / Enota
Architects at Enota have shared with ArchDaily their recent competition entry, a "natural experience" hotel resort in Bled, Slovenia, entitled 'Mivka'. For additional images of their design as well as descriptive text from the architects themselves, please follow after the jump.
Trimo Urban Crash 2011: Opening of the Winning Life Stand
On June 23, 2001, in the residential neighborhood of Fužine in Slovenia, Ljubljana, Trimo officially handed over a public architectural installation "Life Stand" – the winning project of the Trimo Urban Crash competition for students of architecture and design which was created by Polish students, Wojciech Nowak from an architectural faculty in Gliwice, and Martynika Bielawska, from an art and design academy in Wroclaw. "Life Stand" is the result of the Trimo Urban Crash competition, which encourages a creative transformation of the urban environment with the help of advanced building materials and technologies. The creative workshop was held by Professor Cyril Shing from the Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of Arts, London who also served as the mentor for the finalists. The event was opened by the General Manager of Trimo, Tatjana Fink, and the Deputy Mayor of Ljubljana prof. Janez Koželj. Read on for more after the break.
Theatre Park / Studio Kalamar
Architects: Studio Kalamar
Location: 9000 Murska Sobota, Slovenia
Architects: Studio Kalamar - Andrej Kalamar
Area: 1460.0 sqm
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Miran Kambič
Pegan Petkovšek National Gymnastics Centre / Enota
The National Gymnastics Centre Pegan Petkovšek, designed by Enota, is part of the comprehensive renovation of Svoboda Sports Park in Ljubljana. It is the first of the three sports halls that are to be built on the western edge of a belt between an access street on one side and a large greened park layout with sports grounds on the other. The building of the gymnastics centre is placed on the northernmost part of this belt. The northern and western edge of the building reference the building line regulated by the spatial acts, which also stipulate the greatest built ratio and the height of the building. The strict urban regulations necessitate a very compact design that allows for little deviation.
New Concept Stores for Jeweler Franchise Zlatarne Celje / OFIS arhitekti
Architects: OFIS arhitekti
Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia
Design Team: Rok Oman, Spela Videcnik, Sergio Silva Santos, Kiki Marien, Katja Aljaz, Janez Martincic, Janja Del Linz
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Courtesy of OFIS arhitekti
Urban Sculpture / Rok Grdisa
Architects: Rok Grdisa
Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia
Architect: Rok Grdisa
Contractor: Trimo
Area: 25.0 sqm
Photographs: Peter Mihelic
Mavrica Kindergarten / Breda Bizjak, Lidija Dragišić M.A., Katja Florjanc, Emir Jelkić, Ajda Vogelnik Saje
The municipality of Brežice in cooperation with The Chamber of Architecture and The Spatial Planning of Slovenia have invited applications for public project, open and anonymous architectural competition for the kindergarten "Mavrica" in a small town Brežice, Slovenia. Among 64 submissions, commission assigned the 1st prize to the Ljubljana based group of architects: Breda Bizjak, Lidija Dragišić M.A., Katja Florjanc, Emir Jelkić, Ajda Vogelnik Saje. More images and architect's description after the break.
Symposium: Ljubljana Days of Oris
This year, on Thursday 19 May, Ljubljana becomes the centre of architecture. The international symposium of architects Ljubljana Days of Oris is bringing to Ljubljana, for the fifth time, contact with cities worldwide and the contemporary world architectural scene. The symposium is conceived as a series of lectures by renowned architects. Through lectures and visual presentations they express their visions of architecture, design and culture in order to present their country of origin. At the same time they present problems faced in the realization of their work, and make a comparison to the current situation in our environment. Because of the audience's already traditional enthusiasm, this symposium was visited last year by more than 600 people. This year, Ljubljana Days of Oris will present the following globally renowned names from the world of architecture: Miha Kajzelj (Slovenia), Lada Hršak (Croatia/Netherlands), Heinz Tesar (Austria) and Mansilla+Tuñón (Spain). The organizers of the event are ORIS House of Architecture and Association Trajekt. For more information click here.
Herman's Square / Arhimetrics + Enota
Herman's Square, the new business residential building by Arhimetrics + Enota, is located at an important location in the old city centre in Celje. The land intended for construction is a part of a larger degraded non-built up area, which was somewhat forgotten for decades and exempt from the development of the city. Through the years a very heterogeneous structure evolved around this "wound" in the urban tissue, which was untouched for a long time. It is now surrounded by a range of modern construction in an area that has extensive open space intended for a future park along the Savinja River. More on this project after the break.
Temporary Kindergarten Ajda / Arhitektura Jure Kotnik
Architects: Arhitektura Jure Kotnik
Location: 2390 Ravne na Koroškem, Slovenia
Architects: Arhitektura Jure Kotnik
Design Team: Jure Kotnik, Andrej Kotnik
Container System: Conhouse
Sticker Artists: KITSCH-NITSCH
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Kitsch-Nitsch, Vid Brezocnik
Video: Lace Apartments / OFIS Arhitekti
Continuing with the video updates OFIS arhitekti have share with us, the last one showcases some very interesting details of the Lace Apartments. The video shows the very geometric shapes of the facade, that seams a constant in this office's works.
Video: Tetris Apartments / OFIS Arhitekti
The Tetris Apartments is a project that we already published in 2008. This is an update video courtesy of slovenian architects OFIS arhitekti. The video focuses primarily on the very geometric shapes of the facade of the building.


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An eye for an eye has left Arizona blind
In this job you are not really supposed to "root" for teams.
Though you may have grown up following them, you are supposed to become an impartial spectator who can simply write the facts without being jaded (or blinded) by previous loyalties.
Sadly, even if I wanted to root for the Arizona Diamondbacks, they are making it very difficult to do so.
Friday night, as the D-backs were in the process of losing to the Pittsburgh Pirates, Paul Goldschmidt got hit with a pitch in his hand, breaking it and ending his 2014 season. Upset over the fact that the Pirates had the audacity to try to get their star out with a five-run lead in the ninth inning, on the following night, Arizona righty Randall Delgado, with his team down four runs in the ninth, hit Pirates star and reigning NL MVP Andrew McCutchen square in the back with a fastball.
Of course, the D-backs had to do that because they had to protect their best player from...uhhh...what exactly are they protecting him from? Inside pitches? Because if anyone thinks that's going to stop, well, they're going to be in for a surprise.
The best way to get a hitter of Goldschmidt's caliber out is to pitch him inside. Now, assuming the first baseman was up at the plate with the intention of getting a hit, then Ernesto Frieri had every right to try to get him out. It's sad the pitch sailed a bit too far in and hit Goldschmidt on the hand and hurt him, but unfortunately the only way to guarantee a player will not get hurt is to leave him in the dugout.
Getting hit by a pitch is part of the game.
Throwing at someone intentionally because of an accident should not happen, even in the name of "protection."
What if Delgado had missed his spot with the 95 mph fastball much in the same way Frieri did with his? What if the pitch sailed a bit high and drilled McCutchen in the helmet? Would that have been OK? If he suffered an injury that kept him out the rest of the season due to the pitch, would that have been fine because the Pirates cost the D-backs' best player the rest of his season?
Where is the line drawn, and is it the intent or the result that matters most?
Somehow people have become convinced that the D-backs must respond every time one of their players is perceived to have been wronged. Never mind whether or not they actually were. The mere idea that someone may have to be defended is enough to get some kind of reaction.
Nick Ahmed was accidentally hit in the arm with a throw Sunday. Do the D-backs now have have to exact vengeance for that?
It appears there are finally enough pitchers to execute the style of play GM Kevin Towers yearned for, and now it's turned the D-backs into a national target for criticism.
If what Arizona is doing is the same thing that has been done in baseball for years, why are they being called the dirtiest team in baseball by some? Why, if all the D-backs did was stand up for their star as has been done for generations, are they being chided for it?
Maybe they're doing it wrong.
Though he was not Arizona's favorite player during his season-plus in the desert, a look at some of the tweets Brandon McCarthy "favorited" following the plunking of McCutchen gives you a bit of insight into how at least one player thinks. Maybe he's bitter over how things went with the D-backs, or perhaps his perspective comes from having suffered his own devastating injury. Whatever the reasons, McCarthy CLEARLY was not a fan of what his former team did.
If anyone would understand the "unwritten rules" of baseball, wouldn't it be a nine-year vet who has been on enough teams to see how they all operate?
The funny thing is a team does not have to protect its guys to win. Entering play Monday, the Milwaukee Brewers have been hit with 50 pitches while hitting opponents with just 28. They're pacing the NL Central, by the way.
Though a team is probably best served to stick up for itself by winning games, not hitting batters, it can be argued that there is a place for a little policing. For instance, if Goldschmidt got hit an at-bat after crushing a monster home run, then it would have been understandable for Arizona to do something. After all, no team should allow any of its players to be intentionally put at risk just because he did his job earlier in the game.
But that's not what happened here.
All Goldschmidt did to get plunked was be a great hitter who stepped into the batter's box. The only intent behind the pitch that hit him was to get him out and avoid what could have started a rally. Though it was a five-run game, the D-backs have a reputation for fighting until the very last out, and the last thing a struggling hurler like Frieri can afford is to allow a comeback in a contest his team was in position to win. The Pirates, after all, are fighting for a playoff spot.
The Diamondbacks apparently couldn't see that, and thus were willing to intentionally endanger someone on the other team the following day, all in the name of retribution and/or protection. Amazingly -- and disappointingly -- a lot of fans seem to be perfectly fine with it.
An eye for an eye has left Arizona blind.
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