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Pontiff Calls Interfaith Dialogue the Road to Peace
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The Pope said this today in a reception hosted by President Shimon Peres at the presidential palace in Jerusalem, on his first day of a visit to Israel that is the second leg of his pilgrimage to the Holy Land, under way through Friday.
During the courtesy visit, the Pontiff symbolically planted a tree in the palace garden in the presence of numerous political and religious personalities. After this, there was a moment of spontaneous exchange between the Israeli leader and the Holy Father.
Benedict XVI then addressed those present, affirming that peace is above all a divine gift that we find when we seek God "with all our heart."
He noted that "the particular contribution of religions to the quest for peace lies primarily in the wholehearted, united search for God."
The Pope added, "It is God's dynamic presence that draws hearts together and ensures unity."
He stated that security "arises from trust and refers not just to the absence of threat but also to the sentiment of calmness and confidence."
"Security, integrity, justice and peace," the Pontiff said, are inseparable "in God's design for the world."
"No individual, family, community or nation is exempt from the duty to live in justice and to work for peace," he affirmed.
The Holy Father stated: "I hear the cry of those who live in this land for justice, for peace, for respect for their dignity, for lasting security, a daily life free from the fear of outside threats and senseless violence.
"And I know that considerable numbers of men and women and young people are working for peace and solidarity through cultural programs and through initiatives of compassionate and practical outreach; humble enough to forgive, they have the courage to grasp the dream that is their right."
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Court officials tell us a judge amended Frank Yarno's sentence to 70 years because it is the maximum sentence allowable under the law for the charges he faced.
Yarno was convicted on two counts of child rape.
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SUNRISE, Fla. -- Florida Panthers defenseman Tyson Strachan's memorable week got even better on Wednesday.
Three days after scoring his first NHL goal in his 75th career game, the 27-year-old Strachan signed a one-year contract extension. And for the first time in his career, it's a one-way deal.
Asked after Florida's morning skate Wednesday whether his week could get any better, Strachan replied: "I didn't buy my lottery ticket, so I don't think so. It's been a huge week. I get a huge goal and that's obviously a huge, exciting moment for me, and then to get the phone call a couple of days ago about a contract and get everything worked out there and just know that they're thinking of me in the plans for the future is an exciting thing for me.
"I'm just excited. That's about the only word that describes it. I'm excited to be part of it and excited to keep moving forward and to get some wins down the stretch."
Strachan, who played 67 games for the St. Louis Blues over the past three seasons, signed a one-year, two-way deal with the Panthers last July. He was recalled in January when injuries starting hitting the Florida blue line.
In eight games with the Panthers, Strachan has 1 goal and 2 assists along with a plus-3 ratio.
"It's deserved," Panthers coach Kevin Dineen said. "Tyson Strachan has proven in the last couple of weeks that he certainly doesn't look uncomfortable out there at the NHL level. He has some experience. He's played in a quality organization in St. Louis and has come in here and played in the minors and when the opportunity arose he was certainly prepared for it. Well-deserved contract extension for Tyson Strachan."
Florida will face Ottawa on Wednesday night without regular defensemen Ed Jovanovski (hand), Dmitry Kulikov (knee) and Jason Garrison (lower body). In addition to Strachan, the Panthers also will have recent call-up Colby Robak in the lineup.
Robak played 14:40 in his NHL debut in Sunday's 4-1 victory over the Islanders and finished a plus-2.
"I thought he was fine," Dineen said. "I thought he looked comfortable out there. I thought he responded to a lot of the Islanders' pressure well."


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Hurricanes Katrina, Rita left many social agencies isolated
When computer servers at Fayette County's Children and Youth Services department crashed three years ago, caseworkers quickly learned of the challenges their counterparts in Louisiana faced when hurricanes Katrina and Rita slammed the Gulf Coast in 2005.
"It was very debilitating," said Gina D'Auria, casework manager. "We learned how completely dependent we were on the computer system. All of our referrals, our forms — when it crashed, we couldn't function. We were going by memory."
D'Auria said the agency managed to maintain operations during the three-day crash, allowing caseworkers to monitor children in its care and respond to new reports of suspected abuse until repairs were made.
Child-welfare caseworkers in Louisiana didn't have the benefit of a quick fix when hurricanes Katrina and Rita hit. According to a Government Accountability Office report, workers couldn't access their case files for weeks. They had trouble finding foster parents and could not communicate with one another because phones were down. In some areas, caseworkers had to reconstruct case files from memory because the files had been obliterated in the storms.
Looking to prevent a repeat elsewhere, the federal government in 2006 passed a law requiring states that receive federal funding for child-welfare services to develop disaster-response plans. The Child and Family Services Improvement Act of 2006 requires that agencies have mechanisms in place to find children in their care who are displaced in a disaster; maintain communications with workers; respond to new child-welfare reports; preserve essential agency records; and communicate with agencies in other states.
Pennsylvania's Department of Public Welfare, which oversees child welfare agencies, does not keep copies of disaster plans. But a review of those plans has been part of the inspection process since the federal law went into effect, said spokeswoman Stacey Witalec.
Allegheny County officials drafted a disaster-response plan well ahead of the federal requirement.
Robert Stumpp, senior policy manager for the Allegheny County Department of Human Services, said he was put in charge of a disaster planning team shortly after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
The department has five program areas that aid not only children, but the elderly, the disabled and people with mental health and drug and alcohol issues.
Most of the department's work is done through its 400 nonprofit providers, Stumpp said.
"It means that communication (with consumers) typically goes through the provider network," he said. "On Sept. 11, we found out we did not know how to do any of this effectively."
Today, Stumpp leads a team of employees from each program area who work together on emergency management issues.
"We all have laptops. We all have cell phones that also have push-to-talk capabilities, because on Sept. 11 nobody's cell phone worked," Stumpp said. "We created good relationships with emergency management."
With the touch of a push-to-talk button, Stumpp can get in touch with emergency officials and vice versa.
When Stumpp learns of an emergency, he'll contact his team members, who will then contact providers in the areas affected by the disaster.
So, if a train derails and leaks a chemical, the department will contact all foster care providers in that area to let them know about the situation and to work with them on evacuation if necessary.
Fayette's plan includes an off-site server that will contain the same records maintained on its primary server, D'Auria said. The off-site server will be housed at Fayette Area Coordinated Transportation offices in Dunbar Township. The main office is in South Union.
"With the computer system with an off-site backup, if one goes down, we have the other," D'Auria said.
The agency will purchase 14 two-way radios for staff to use in the event phone service is down, said Dave Madison, agency administrator. In addition, the agency will have six laptops available for use in a disaster. Those laptops can be used for daily work as well, he said.
"With the laptops, they'll be able to access information outside of the office, say, if they had to respond to a hospital," he said. "So it will be a time-saver."
About 63 percent of the funding for the equipment will be obtained through state and federal sources, Madison said.
Westmoreland County's disaster-response plan calls for operations to be moved temporarily to Westmoreland Manor, if necessary, said administrator Shara Saveikis. The agency's main office is in the courthouse annex in Greensburg.
Saveikis said employees have access to agency records via a Web-based application. Caseworkers already have laptops they use to access the system remotely, she said.
Caseworkers who are in the field during a disaster will be instructed to stay there and maintain telephone contact with the agency, according to the county's disaster response plan. Top priority will be given to essential functions such as confirming the safety of children in the agency's care and child abuse investigations.
Butler County Children and Youth Services had a disaster plan in place that met federal requirements, but when Joyce Ainsworth took over as director a year ago, she wasn't satisfied.
"It really wasn't very comprehensive, so we're working on a much more comprehensive plan right now," Ainsworth said. "We're looking at what we have to do for 24 hours, two weeks and two months (after a disaster), because each requires different planning."
Ainsworth said both Hurricane Katrina and the fear of a pandemic flu have spurred child welfare agencies to take a hard look at their plans.
"The circumstance could happen that you have less than 50 percent of your staff, and you need to know what are you going to do and how are you going to do that," she said.
Butler officials have been gathering disaster plans from child care providers and working with them to develop emergency contacts. They plan to buy walkie-talkies for communication if cell phones don't work, and they're drafting a contingency plan in the event their building becomes unusable.
"We were even talking about doing some drills and things — that's never been done before," Ainsworth said.
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Nanotube Fibers
How to make strong, conductive fibers hundreds of meters long.
In a Rice University lab, a black fiber the diameter of a human hair spools into a beaker of ether. Made up of pure nanotubes, the strand is the culmination of nearly a decade of experimentation. Chemical engineer Matteo Pasquali and his colleagues have spun nanotubes into fibers several hundred meters long, proving that commercially useful manufacturing techniques can be developed to produce macroscale materials from these cylindrical molecules of pure carbon.
Making carbon nanotubes into fibers was a particular dream of the late Rice professor Richard Smalley, who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his discovery of the spherical carbon molecules called buckyballs. Individual nanotubes have remarkable properties: they're lightweight, they're strong, and they can be electrically conductive. But assembling them into large structures with these properties has been difficult.
In 2001, Smalley began trying to use liquid processing to spin carbon nanotubes into fibers that retained the tubes' electrical and mechanical properties over kilometer lengths–an idea that, he admitted, was "really lunatic extreme" (see "Wires of Wonder," March 2001). Such fibers would be stronger than steel and more conductive than copper. Smalley imagined them woven into cables that could efficiently carry electricity from remote wind and solar farms to populated areas–without losing energy to heat. Pasquali, who was part of the project from the beginning and took over after Smalley's death in 2005, acknowledges that he started out as a skeptic. "I thought that it was complete lunacy, because carbon nanotubes are not soluble in fluid–and I'm a fluid guy," he says.
Other researchers have made macroscale fibers from dry nanotubes, pulling them from vertical arrays or spinning them like wool as they emerge from a reactor. But the individual nanotubes in these fibers don't line up, and proper alignment is critical: tangled masses of the molecules don't carry electricity well, and they're not strong. Pasquali knew that nanotubes brought into solution would line up like logs floating down a river, resulting in well-ordered fibers.
The group had a breakthrough in 2004, when they reasoned that the methods used to manufacture Kevlar fibers, a component of bulletproof vests, might also work with nanotubes. Like nanotubes, the Kevlar polymer is long, thin, and difficult to dissolve in solution; the fibers are made by mixing the polymer with sulfuric acid and then shooting the solution through needles grouped like the holes in a showerhead.
The Rice researchers managed to dissolve only small amounts of nanotubes using sulfuric acid. But when they used chlorosulfonic acid–a so-called superacid–they could get high concentrations of nanotubes into solution. The tubes form a liquid crystal, in which they are already aligned–a tremendous advantage in making them into fibers.
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Pasquali's group starts its spinning process with single-walled nanotubes made in a nearby lab using a process originally developed by Smalley. In a high-pressure reactor where temperatures reach 1,000 °C, carbon monoxide alights on droplets of pure iron catalyst and decomposes. The carbon atoms build up into hollow cylinders about a nanometer in diameter and a few hundred nanometers long. These nanotubes emerge from the reactor in fluffy black drifts; they're kept in five-gallon buckets stacked to the ceiling, each holding just 200 grams.


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How to beam photos using the iPhoto app
One of the new features in iPhoto for iOS is its ability to beam photos. This is just what it sounds like: a way to transfer images from one iOS device to another, without any sort of intermediary (like iTunes on a computer). It's a pretty cool feature and the sort of value-add that people expect if they are going to purchase multiple devices from the same manufacturer and use multiple devices on the same operating system.
So, how to you beam photos using iPhoto for iOS?
First off, you'll need to purchase and install the iPhoto app. To do this you'll need to update your phone or tablet to iOS 5.1, which can now be done wirelessly if you don't mind it taking a few extra minutes. Once that's done hop into iPhoto.
With iPhoto open go to the gear icon on the top right (Settings) and you'll see that Wireless Beaming is enabled by default. You can turn if off if you don't want the possibility of strangers trying to beam you photos, much in the way that you might turn off Bluetooth discoverability.
Now you'll have to do the same thing with your other iOS devices. Since you bought iPhoto for one, it'll be a free download for the rest, so long as they are connected to the same iTunes account. Speaking off connections, make sure all your devices have an internet connection (and that they're not in Airplane mode) if you want this to work. This connection should be to the same network. If one device is not seeing the other, make sure they are both operating off of WiFi. If your iPhone or iPad is on 3G, they won't see another device just because they are physically close to one another.
So, basically the situation is that you have two iOS devices, both connected to the same WiFi network, and both with the iPhoto app open. Now go to an image (in iPhoto) and hit the share button, it's a box with an arrow coming out of it. Among all the share options, choose Beam. Next select the images you want to send, either a single photo or a larger group. The final step is finding the recipient, which will be easy if you followed the previous steps and have clearly labelled your devices. Choose where you want it to go, accept the transfer on the other device, and the images will be there momentarily. Because the images are being transferred over WiFi, they move from device to device quite quickly.
And that's how you beam photos using iPhoto! If you have any problems, check the basics: make sure both devices are on WiFi, that you have beaming enabled, and that you have the app open.
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Scherzinger's romance makes a pit stop
It's a sad day for fans of singing competitions and race cars: "X Factor" judge Nicole Scherzinger and Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton have ended their five-year romance, her rep confirms the London Daily Mail.
"Nicole is just so heartbroken and completely devastated," says a source.
That's not surprising, given that just days ago rumors were flying that Hamilton planned to pop the question.
"We've been together for five years, which is quite a milestone really," he said last month when asked about proposing. "But hopefully in the near future. Maybe before we get to six years."
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Opinion - Healthcare buildings
The 1970s saw a huge hospital-building programme, yet just 30 years later many of these buildings have been found to be unsuitable for current clinical care. Hospitals built with deep plans and to nucleus designs are inflexible and do not let in enough natural light. One solution is to shut down these hospitals – like the planned closures of the University Hospital of North Tees and the University Hospital of Hartlepool – and move a proportion of the services out into primary care centres, providing care in a setting closer to people's homes.
Primary care is changing rapidly to respond; there are now fewer single practices housed in new buildings on their own, and two, three or more practices are co-locating. They are being encouraged to federate by the Royal College of General Practitioners' Roadmap initiative – which promotes working co-operatively.
Seven years ago we designed our first new primary-care building, Mowbray House in North Yorkshire. Now this building, built with 30 per cent expansion capacity, needs a significant expansion to be able to deliver this new care agenda. Many existing and new buildings are often designed in a very bespoke
way, unsuitable for expansion or adaptation – often nice buildings for architects but a cul-de-sac in terms of setting the trend for good sustainable buildings. They are often overdesigned and too expensive and represent poor value in the long term.
It is vital that these buildings are flexible and adaptable enough to respond as care delivery changes. We shouldn't invest in new buildings now, only to find that they become outdated in seven years' time. There are a number of key considerations which can help to create buildings which are suitable for the long term and justify the investment. Essentially, the main objective is to deliver buildings which are able to change with the NHS.
The starting point is location – key hub buildings have to be placed right in the centre of a town, close to excellent transport links. Primary care buildings need to be designed with simple shapes, open floors, minimal columns, good floor-to-floor heights and space for installation of future services. Circulation space needs to be the right size; many recent buildings have seen circulation
cramped down to save money. The spaces within the buildings need to be suitable for multiple uses, with space being shared by many clinicians and, wherever possible, with expansion space built in from the outset. These buildings can be adapted easily with changes in care standards and have residual value as they can transform from health to commercial or residential use.
Primary care buildings should be exciting places in which to work, providing a good healing environment but above all, they can change over the years to suit future demands.
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This is to keep track of races for contributers to the Indiana thread.
6/8 - Camp Eden 5k, Golden, CO
June 15th. Munster Rotary 10k
6/22 - Run 4 the Hills 4 mile, Floyds Knobs, IN
June 23 Chicago Women's Half Marathon
7/13 - USCAA Nationals 5k, San Ramon, CA
7/14 - USCAA Nationals 10k, San Ramon, CA
7/19 - Oldham County Days 5k, La Grange, KY
August 4th. Run Dirty 10k Lemon Lake
Popcorn Panic - 9/7
Venomized (maybe)
September 8. Ashely Can Half, Bourbonnais Illinois
Merrillville half - 9/29
Air Force HM: September 21
Chicago marathon - 10/13
Monumental: November 2
AmiK (FM)
Almostharmless (FM)
Allnamestaken (FM)
BoilerUp (FM)
Psalms4211 (FM maybe)
Jillm (HM)
Ellenslacks (HM goal: sub 1:33:06 for a PR)
BirdDoggin ( HM maybe)
MarkO (HM)
Msol (HM)
NYC Marathon - November 3
Veterans Marathon - 11/9
Madison Marathon - 11/10
4/27 - Kentucky Derby HM, Louisville, KY--BirdDoggin
5/3 - Little Kings 1 Mile, Cincy, OH--BirdDoggin
Indy Mini: May 4th
AmiK (5K), Venomized (preferred), csab (A), HoosierTed (C), Allnamestaken (C), Jillm (C), Ellenslacks (C), Runninfeets (D), Rhumper (F), Msol (J), Almostharmless (M)
5/5 - Pittsburgh Marathon, PA--BirdDoggin
5/18 - Roman Road 5k, Crestwood, KY--BirdDoggin
Geist: May 18--BoilerUp (HM)
Green Bay Marathon - May 19--HoosierTed
Sunburst 10K: June 1--Runninfeets
Thanks Michelle.
Nothing on my schedule yet. Hope to do something at Monumental.
Mark O.
Upcoming Races:
April 3, 2016: American River 50m
April 24, 2016: Big Sur International Marathon
5K: 22:59 10K: 46:54 HM: 1:51:15 FM: 4:33:47 (ouch!)
Nothing I am aiming for 2014 at this point.
Gar Williams Half December 2015
Coastal Delaware Marathon April 24, 2016
thanks for starting this up, Michelle!
Indy Mini: may the fourth be with you (haha, just a little star wars humor there!)
Sunburst 10K: june 1
Monumental HM: nov 2
Michelle-Mini, May 4th, Corral F.
Jill-as we used to say at church-May the Fourth be with-and also with you.
now we say "and with your Spirit"
Half marathon best times:
Indianapolis Mini Marathon: 2:10:04 (2008) 2:13:09 (2013)
Sunburst 2:13:53 (2007)
Purdue Half Marathon 2:28:50 (2012)
Upcoming race: Indianapolis Festival 500 Mini Marathon, May 7, 2016
Follow me on Twitter: @Humphreycpa
I have two races on the books, and added my goals:
• Mini Marathon (goal: 1:36-ish)
• Monumental Half (goal: sub 1:33:06 for a PR)
This is supposed to be a non-racing year for me.....whoops....
Indy Mini - May 4th (first race post-injury so it's gonna be U-G-L-Y)
Not registered yet but likely Sunburst 5 or 10k June 1
That will probably be it or I'm in trouble.....
Don't hassle me...I'm STILL slow....
5k - 25:27 (now that I have one....happy now Mark?)
10k - cant remember and want to forget anyway....54ish minutes
Half Marathon - like they say, 10th time's the charm......1:58:00 (Indianapolis Monumental Half marathon 2014)
Full Marathon - 4:32 Indianapolis Monumental Marathon 2015. Ouch. That's all I'm going to say.
Put me down for the mini. Just two weeks after a full, it will just be for fun.
And I'm registered for the Monumental full. (may turn into a half depending....)
2016 Races (so far):
February 6th: Miler Series, 3 Miles
March 5th: Miler Series, 6 Miles
April 9th: Miler Series, 10 Miles
April 16th: Carmel Half-Marathon
May 7th: 500 Festival Mini-Marathon
Put me down for the mini. Can you add Corral C. And then the same for others who care to and maybe we'll find each other there if not at a pre-race meet-up.
Green Bay Marathon - May 19
Marathons Completed since Nov, 2008: 29 States: 24
Upcoming Races: Route 66 Marathon (OK) - Nov 22; 1 or 2 marathons in Jan/Feb?; Boston Marathon - April 18, 2016
Post 50 PRs: Full: 3:27 HM: 1:35:36 15k: 1:07:04 10k: 43:59 5k: 20:40
Mini - corral C. Maybe we should all note that too.
Upcoming Races
Half: 1:29:25 (Mini 500 - 2 May 2015)
Full: 3:17:16 (Indy Monumental - 7 November 2015)
5k: 19:23 (French Lick - April 18 2015)
I'm corral D @ the mini with the slow folks
Geist HM: 18May
Monumental FM: 02Nov
I'm in M.
Since all the cool kids are doing it, I'll be in C for the Mini.
April 14th Crossroads of NWI Lowell. Half. 1:47:13
September 8. Ashely Can Half, Bourbonnais illinois
November 2nd. Monumental Marathon , Indianapolis.
Hi de1565--we all post to Indiana Spring Dailies. This is a great group if you want to post there. As you see, there are others doing the Monumental.
I'll be in my debut HM at this year's mini. I'm assigned to corral E, but will be starting in F to be with family. Hopefully it won't make too much of a difference.
I'll be running the 500 festival mini on Saturday. I sporadically posted to the old thread of the Indiana runners.
A question: Since I'll be driving from Louisville on race day, where do you think I should park? And when should I arrive? I don't mind arriving early and I don't mind jogging a mile to the start line. I'll be in the front in corral A. Anybody has any experience? Thanks,
PRs: FM: 2:59:03, HM: 1:23:28, 10K: 37:52, 5K: 18:11
Hi csab, when I asked about parking, here are the responses I got on our dailies thread:
"As for when to park, I like to be there very early or you will be in a long line to enter the garage (assuming you mean the State Govt parking garage at West and Maryland). When I do the Mini, I usually try to be arriving there around 6:00am or shortly thereafter. Even if the line for the garage is long, it usually moves pretty quickly. Just fyi, if the weather is ok and you don't mind a bit of a walk, you can park in a lot on the northeast corner of Missouri and South streets (just past Lucas Oil Staduim on the right). The benefits of parking in that lot are that it's cheaper and you get to park 5-10 minutes faster and are walking faster than the line of cars trying to get into the parking garage are moving. I personally prefer to be super early and get into the Govt garage.... but, when running a tad late once or twice, I've parked in that lot and it worked out pretty well. "
"Parking suggestion-if Govt garage isn't cooperating, consider Circle Center garage at the Illinois/Georgia Street corner. Price is good, distance is a good warm up. Just make sure you enter off Illinois or Georgia and not in the garage directly across the street from the convention center. that one is $$$$$. And traffic shouldn't be an issue when trying to leave. Just be careful feeding the meters. most in that area are 4 hour limit only. unless you have the Parkmobile app and want to extend while you are enjoying your complimentary beverage in the Beer Garden"
Thanks a lot, Michelle! Good luck tomorrow!
Good luck to you as well!
Michelle, I'm doing the Monumental HM for sure.... not sure of my goal yet, will let you know in 5+ months, lol
I'm doing the Chicago Women's Half Marathon June 23, and will probably do my fist marathon at the monumental!
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Another one to add to the list is on September 28 in Columbus, Indiana---the Mill Race Marathon! Also includes a 5K and a half. This is the first year for it, which is really exciting! Boston qualifier FYI.
I did the Mini Marathon in May 2013
I am currently training for the Indianapolis Mararthon in October!~
I'm doing these races. Linked to web sites if you click on them:
Nov- Indianapolis Monumental Half Marathon
Jan- Winter Night (quarter) Marathon
Apr- Carmel Full Marathon
Apr- Spartan Race
Sep- Evergreen Lake Ultra (50k) (pending Clint and I solidifying plans)
More to come for later in the year.
Monumental in November '13. Last year I ran the Santa 1/2 Marathon in Indy. not even sure if race is happening in '13, but planning on running it.
Upcoming races:Chicago Marathon Oct. 13, 2013Monumental Marathon Nov 2, 2013
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by Keenan Bowen, EWU Sports Information
Alex Smart has been a journeyman of sorts over the course of his Eagle career. The 6-foot-3, 220-pound senior quarterback from North Bend, Wash., has played whatever position asked of him. Recruited out of Mount Si High School as a quarterback, Smart has played both wide receiver and tight end along with quarterback – something that attests to his athletic ability on the football field.
Smart has appeared in 17 games at quarterback so far, completing 18-of-35 passes for 197 yards with three touchdowns. In 2007, Smart was named to the Big Sky Conference All-Academic team.
Q: What is the team's mindset right now with Montana coming up this weekend after the heartbreaking loss to Portland State last weekend?
A: "It seems like any loss in the Big Sky can feel like the nail in the coffin. Luckily for us, the league is still wide open, so maybe this loss will be more constructive than other losses have been. That's not to say losing to a Big Sky opponent three seasons in a row isn't very disappointing. I know it has left a sour taste in a lot of mouths and hopefully that will help us turn up the intensity a little bit for this weekend."
Q: With this being your last year at Eastern, how are you feeling about your college football experience?
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One such company is online gaming firm Betfair, which handled one billion bets in 2005 and claims to process twice as many credit and debit card transactions as any other European web site.
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'Criminals will be interested in any place on the internet where there's a lot of money,' says Rorie Devine, IS director at Betfair.
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'The size of the attacks is increasing and the challenge they pose is getting bigger,' says Devine.
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'DDoS attacks are part of the landscape now; they have become something we all have to live with. But you need to keep abreast of the constant changes and new approaches they take,' says Devine.
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Betfair, Blue Square, Eurobet and the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit formed the Internet DDoS Forum in 2004 to share information on criminals' tactics and to decide on steps to take to prevent attacks.
'One of the best things to come out of the first wave of DDoS attacks in 2004 was that the online gaming community came together to share experience,' says Betfair IS director Rorie Devine. 'It got us all up the learning curve very quickly.'
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Malcolm Gladwell, writer for the New Yorker and author of bestsellers The Tipping Point, Blink and Outliers, will release a new book from Little, Brown in 2013. Its topic? Power.
In an interview with The Globe and Mail, Gladwell was vague on the specifics but said he is "very interested in the foibles of the powerful."
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Includes: Eps 1-26
Rating: TV-PG
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A true and noble heart holds much power, stronger than the hardest fist and mightier than the most potent magic. Four disparate travelers begin an epic journey… their goals different, their destiny the same. Along the way, the past will meet the future in the present. Of all the paths of every life, mingling in the dimension between dimensions where a foe has the face of an ally, and an ally the face of a monster.
At the center of this heroic undertaking, Syaoran: A young man called upon to save his fated, the princess Sakura. Her memory has been shattered, the very essence of her soul sent adrift across the universe. Feather\'\s float down on strange lands, torn asunder if only to prove the power of love.
With fellow travelers Kurogane and Fai, a warrior and a wizard, an epic quest begins. One of danger and mystery… The possibilities are endless.
- Includes: Eps 1-26
- Format: Blu-ray
- Language: English,Japanese
- Subtitles: English
- Rating: TV-PG
- Aspect Ratio: 16x9
- Main Feature Video: 1080p High Definition
- Main Feature Audio: Dolby Digital: Japanese 2.0,Dolby TrueHD: English 5.1
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- Main Feature Runtime: 640
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Nobel Physicist Chosen To Be Energy Secretary
Browner, Two Others to Get Climate Posts
By Steven Mufson and Philip Rucker
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, December 11, 2008; Page A01
President-elect Barack Obama has chosen Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who heads the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, to be the next energy secretary, and he has picked veteran regulators from diverse backgrounds to fill three other key jobs on his environmental and climate-change team, Democratic sources said yesterday.
Daschle also to oversee new health reform office
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WASHINGTON – Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle will pull double duty in the Obama administration, where he will serve not only as the Health and Human Services secretary but also oversee a new White House Office of Health Reform. SOURCE


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West Seattle weekend scene: Summer-like Alki trafficMarch 30, 2013 at 7:41 pm | In West Seattle news, West Seattle weather | 12 Comments
Today was gloriously similar to summer – minus ten degrees or so – all the way down to the photo just shared by Debra Salazar Herbst, sunset traffic along the beach. P.S. Debra is co-founder of the Facebook page Alki Beach Daily Sunsets, and with the sunsets headed back north, the views there keep getting better.
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just grove down Alki about 9pm..lots and lots of teenagers hanging out across from Pepperdocks…just having a good time…
Harleys screaming by, motorcycles revving their engines, cars speeding and cruising by over-and-over, remarkably loud stereos, people fighting, cursing… This is life on Alki now that the sun's out. And soon we'll have another shooting to punctuate this insanity.
Not 1 SPD Officer in sight, all day.
Comment by concerned on alki — 11:24 pm March 30, 2013 #
Concerned, I saw a number of police cars and officers before, during, and after my afternoon bike rides through Alki and on Harbor and Beach.
Comment by onion — 5:50 am March 31, 2013 #
I lived on Alki for 20 years beginning in the early 70′s and it was quite a bit more sane. Almost quaint with just a handful of condos,the funky old IGA,a couple taverns and a few places to eat. About the only time I go down there anymore is early mornings. What is the attraction to so many Kent and Federal way people? It seems that is where most of the "trouble" originates. I guess West Seattle is getting all "growed up" now, with more to come. Oh well
Comment by Rick — 7:27 am March 31, 2013 #
Comment by alki…this why we need those cameras
Comment by mehatemejob — 8:01 am March 31, 2013 #
We saw a cop about five minute AFTER a motorcyclest was blocking traffic making a dozen or so tire circles in the middle of the street outside of Bamboo Grill…It was a just swell way to be held up for 3 minutes on a main thoroghfair for such nonsense…Man, when did I become an old grouch!?!?
What I do like is the "mix" of people — ages, cultures, races, backgrounds. My partner and I commented on how we were happy to be Seattlites and our slightly extended (and misplanned) evening drive on Alki was what reaffirmed this for us yesterday.
Comment by Mr. Teach — 8:04 am March 31, 2013 #
West Seattle welcomes the city's jackasses on sunny days! Come one come all.
Comment by smokeycretin9 — 8:36 am March 31, 2013 #
Cameras dont make up for police
See now all the absurd will come out and say lets start getting lic plates with the cams
You guys will want facial recognition software and all that soon
This is why we dont need cams
Comment by Jeff platt — 11:58 am March 31, 2013 #
Welcome to the city.
(An experience I welcome with open arms.)
Comment by JRR — 8:05 pm March 31, 2013 #
"What is the attraction to so many Kent and Federal Way people?"
Ummmm…they live in Kent and Federal Way.
Comment by anti-obstruction — 8:24 am April 1, 2013 #
Exactly why I moved here from Kent in 1991…
Comment by M — 9:17 am April 1, 2013 #
To see more of the same just go to golden gardens on days like this.
Comment by boy — 7:10 pm April 1, 2013 #
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Whew! It was a whirlwind 3-day weekend, with a 6-7 hour drive each way, a trail run, loop meets, tourism, gastronomic excess (burgers, pizza, burritos and french toast, for starters), and a fabulous little 6 mile race. Loved every minute!
Last year, when several of us got together in San Francisco, Medievalist (or V, from now on) suggested we do the Santa Cruz Wharf to Wharf in 2013. It is a 6 mile beach run that sells out its 15,000 spots in days! It is a 41 year old local tradition and a big rolling party. 52 bands (supposedly) line the course. It starts next to the Santa Cruz boardwalk and its famous roller coasters, and you run along the coast to the next little fishing village. Beautiful course! Of course I said I was in.
We ended up not being able to reserve Alice's Loop mansion this year, but V offered to put me up in her dorm at UC Santa Cruz, where she is academic dean for a summer camp for young brainiacs. So I spent two nights in spartan surroundings. Brought my own sleeping bag, pillow and towel, and re-lived college life, in a small way anyway. UCSC is tucked into the wooded hills and offers fantastic trails to run on. So we did! As soon as I arrived Friday at 5PM, V and I went out for over 5 miles of "shake-out". Although it was a little hillier than I like my shake-out runs, it was great to run in the shade of giant redwoods.
Then V and I put on our matching Boston marathon jackets and went out for a delicious burger at a place called "burger". And we stopped by her office, where she has papered her wall with bibs.
Saturday I drove V up to Stanford to show her around. She is stuck without a car every summer, so hasn't had a chance to explore. It was fun for me to go back and relive old memories, and V really enjoyed seeing the campus - especially the track! Here is a shot of the main campus from the top of Hoover tower.
Next we had a Loop-meet lunch. Alice and her DH had just drove up from LA, and we met with them and John Wayne who lives in nearby San Jose. It was fun to talk running and loop smack over some delicious pizza.
Saturday evening we decided to drive the course so we were better able to visualize our race. Good thing, too! Because the "rolling hills" were kind of nasty. I always like to know the course ahead of time, and it made me much more comfortable after seeing it. There were numerous little ups and downs - steep enough to notice! And also lots of turns. Tangent running would be critical! Here is the elevation and map.
OK, not HUGE elevation, but 30-40 feet can be pretty darn tough over a short distance! The course was really pretty too. Ocean and beach views, cute old neighborhoods, lots of variety, lots of fans and bands everywhere. I highly recommend this race!
OK, Goals: My training is going well, so I felt I had a shot at my over age-40 10K PR pace, which was 6:59/mile. So, I was shooting for sub-42 for this 6-mile race. I felt it would be tough, but possible. I would be OK with sub-43 too as a B-goal. Plan was about 7:15 first mile, then close to 7 for mile 2, and sub-7 the rest of the way in.
V and I were up early and hit Starbucks for some coffee. We worried about the crowds and parking, but everything was smooth and easy, so we were in our "elite" corral (top 1000 runners) with over an hour to go.
Had a leisurely warm-up of 0.7 miles, some time to chill, and then it was time to roll.
Thanks to the corral system, the 15,000 people were not a problem, and I was out of traffic within seconds. My conservative start worked, and I didn't have to slow myself down for once. I was right on schedule. By the time I finished mile 1 at 7:09, it was starting to feel hard already. This really wasn't much slower than my mile repeats at 6:45; The ones where I get to stop after a mile and rest. "Oh, yes, 10Ks are painful, aren't they. Sigh. Oh well, stick with the plan."
And mile 2 started with a nasty hill. I practiced patience, but was heaving for oxygen by the top. My mile 2 lap pace was showing 7:26, but I knew the rest of the mile would be down. So once I could breathe again, I pressed back on that gas pedal and got into serious race mode. By the end of mile 2 I had dropped it to 7:06.
The next few miles rolled. There were downs where I used gravity and opened it up and felt confident. There were ups that took a little piece of my soul away. Lots of turns so I could focus on the tangents. Plenty of people to pass to keep it interesting. I was sub-7 now and it hurt. A lot. But I felt like maybe I could maintain it for a while. Mile 3 came in at 6:53 and mile 4 was 6:54. But the Garmin was losing distance to the official mile markers, and I was still about 15 seconds over 28:00 at 4 miles. At this point, I had almost given up on sub-42. I was hurting bad and couldn't imagine two more miles at this same pace. I was just trying to hang on.
Mile 5 is the worst. The finish is still so far away, and the pain is just telling you to slow down. RIGHT NOW!! I just focused on getting to mile 5. Because I knew the last mile would come with some adrenaline. Somehow I kept going. I picked a woman who was at my pace and stayed behind her as we passed all the other dying runners. It is amazing how that can help. I got to 5 in 6:59. Hanging on.
I remembered that the last 1/4 to 1/2 mile was downhill to the finish. I knew once I got back to the ocean view, it was downhill from there. But that first 1/2 mile of mile 6 took FOREVER! Hang on, hang on. Better yet, Pick it up! Yes, you can do anything for a mile! Go get it! So I picked it up a little. I didn't have the energy to check my watch and see my pace or try to calculate my chances of sub-42. I was just giving everything I had.
Finally I saw the ocean. It would be over soon. I was passing more and more people. Sweet, sweet downhill!! God bless you! Flying!!!
Mile 6 was 6:40, and somehow G made up some distance in mile 6, so I finished with only 6.02 miles.
And 41:45!! YES!!
I was completely exhausted. V was waiting for me at the finish after her awesome race, so we had to do one of these.
We were quite happy.
If you go back to the elevation chart you can see my pace in blue. Check out the dip in the last 1/2 mile. It showed 6:20, 6:10, sub 6! And for the last .02 it said 4:24 pace. Sure, why not! I gave it all in this one and could not be happier!
V and I eventually cleaned up and celebrated at the Santa Cruz Diner with Mimosas.
And then I had to get back in the car for the 6+ hour drive home. Long day. But a fantastic weekend!
Freakin' Sweet, Bangle! Those photos really tell a story of pure racing effort. Some people know how to race, and the rest of us can only read about it an be amazed and think...."One day...."
Huge effort--Congrats on the sub 42.
What a great trip and SUPER race!! Congrats!!! Love all the pics!
And oh how I miss Santa Cruz (I am a SLUG) LOL!
What a fantastic race. Way to hang in there and kick that last mile. Great pics too.
Wow! Amazing race! Way to push until the end! And a Loopmeet makes it all the better!
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step
-Lao Tzu
Awesome!I knew you were ready for some super speed!
Do your feet ever touch the ground?
Not if I can help it!
Way to go, buddy! I'm working on my RR right now. You did such a great job and ran so well. Thanks again (again again) for coming up. Good luck nailing your sub 20!
Dancing bananas, indeed.
Run fun! ~Mike
Awesome race!! Sounds like a great weekend
Flying in all of the race pictures. That is a good trick. (41:45 if good too) Congratulations.
Any weekend with V is a good one. Congrats.
Attitude is everything
A cool weekend and a great race. Congrats!
Run on everyone.....................Steve
Congrats on a great race! Super speedy! Way to hang on and really push at the end. That takes such mental strength (at least in my experience). To top it off with a Loopmeet I'd say what a successful weekend!
Running = Happiness
Fantastic race! Great weekend too.
Way to gut it out! But I think your biggest accomplishment was not falling asleep at the wheel on the drive home.
Your race was fantastic, but it's those great pictures that really blow me away! Congrats.
Great race Bangle!! You would run a sub 40 on a flat course, you are in awesome shape!
Congrats, Bangle! I knew you could do it. Looks like a fun race, too!
The best part of my weekend was seeing you all! Sad to have missed the race! Looks awesome! Congrats on your A goal! Love the pics, especially the double BP!
Do you only post the pictures where your feet are off the ground, or do you really just never touch the ground when you run?
Awesome race! Sounds like a tough course to hold sub-7, but you killed it. Looks like the rest of the trip was pretty great too!
Congrats! The online results had you at 42:02, but that must have been the gun time. Nice work hanging on in the pain cave! I think you need to run a real 10K soon so that you can officially get that PR! The Loop meets are never long enough! Hope you can squeeze in that 50K on October 12th. Or we can wait for some other race when the Matz's are available.
Superb race, great Loopmeets, awesome views and good food!! Wow! Well done!
"Glory is Fleeting, Anonymity is Forever"
Speed+Pavement = a fling
Distance+Trails = True Love
Great race. Congrats.
Selective editing is kind of a tradition now...
Yes, that was gun time. No 50K this year. But next year is a strong possibility.
Congratulations Bangle!!! That's a great race time!! Glad you guys had fun. The pictures are awesome, and your racing pics are always good too...Yep, I hate you (jk)
"Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing" - Hunter S. Thompson
Stout effort! Way to "fly" through the course- are you from the Matrix?
30-40 feet? Ha ha ha!
When are we racing a 5K...
Awesome report! Nice job embracing the pain and pushing through.
That's fast. Congrats on a fantastic race!!! Looks like the weekend was super fun too (aside from the whole dorm-room thing, lol)
Wow, that's speedy. Congrats to a great race!
Seriously. Your feet never touch the ground. EVER.
Congrats on an amazing race!
Humbled. Very humbled.
This is late, but wanted to congratulate you - Great Race! Just shows what happens when you put in the work in the "pain cave"... Congrats! You certainly earned it.
Also, Nice pics...
Life's a Journey...Enjoy the Ride!
Sounds like a wonderful loop meet. And there you are, flying again. =)


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The dramatic growth of ecological restoration, from mass reforestation to the large-scale reintroductions of long-lost species, is providing a welcome cause for optimism among often overly-pessimistic conservationists, argues Marcus Nield
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The UK's bee population is in trouble, having nearly halved over the last 25 years. Bee the Change, a social enterprise based in Bristol, is working to tackle the decline with a combination mentoring and educational courses for all ages
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the problem with iguidance is it saves the gps port settings in the registry only up to 4 values.... so COM1 through COM9 are fine, but COM10 gets cut off to COM1 after you close the program... COM34 would get cut to COM3 and the like.
key tricks i use to coax Xport into working.
*Baud rate 4800 in Xport, and the driver port should be set to 9600 or 4800, which should be default anyway.
*If unsure about things, uncheck the 'enable ports' box and close out of xport. restart the pc, then open xport and configure if need to. then re-enable the ports, then restart the pc. if you do this whole process, it seems to clear out xport and then lock it back in to default behavior pretty well. the system restarts are key.
*if you know everything is set right, and you did the process i stated above, sometimes it seems to help to just drive around for 10 min to let the gps puck start sending sequential figures instead of random crap that it seems to give while standing still. i have noticed a few times that if i enable everything as i should but xport still wont 3d fix, i drive around and then it will just start working.
*use the checkbox next to your gps driver inside the xport screen. if you change this setting- leave xport running and do a system restart so when it does boot back into windows xport will load up with that feature enabled right at the start. again, this process of doing a system restart after any major change seems to help greatly.


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Dallas Stars center Cody Eakin (20) celebrates his second period goal with teammate Valeri Nichushkin (43) against the Ottawa Senators at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Saturday, March 22, 2014. (Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News)
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The city of Indianapolis has bigger issues on its plate right now:
The fate of Indianapolis Colts coach Jim Caldwell. The decision on quarterback Peyton Manning. The draft of Andrew Luck. And, of course, whether to attend the Maxim or Rolling Stone Super Bowl parties. (OK, that's my issue.)
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FREEPORT — Freeport High School's first day of football practice had a different feel to it.
FREEPORT — Freeport High School's first day of football practice had a different feel to it.
The first hour of practice was dedicated to walkthroughs.
Players embraced it, but wound up more anxious about afternoon practice than the anticipation leading up to the first day itself.
"It's kind of weird just walking through with no football," Freeport quarterback Quaveon Meeks said. "It's my senior year and I'm trying to get right at it.
"So it was kind of slow."
Players participated in a one-hour walkthrough where the focus Wednesday was on special teams.
"The first 20 minutes we went through some coverage unit teams," head coach Aaron Wichman said. "We used the field so that they can visualize kick coverage. Then we did punt coverage for the second 20 minutes.
"Special teams, at times, gets squeezed out. So we thought it would be an excellent chance to at least explain what the expectations are as far as special teams."
Following walkthroughs, players were given their equipment and tied up any loose ends.
"This allowed us to get some late physicals and paperwork and some of that stuff done," Wichman said.
The football program has spent the summer working on conditioning, lifting and getting acclimated to the offense and defense through camps. Participation during the summer months has been encouraging.
"I think we had a great summer of preparation," Wichman said. "Since I've been here, our core group of athletes has expanded.
"At any given day, I know there's going to be 40-50 kids that will show up and do whatever we ask them to do, and that's grown in my two years. So that's a positive for the program."
Wichman said he will use walkthroughs to further implement the offense.
"We'll do some things implementing our offense signal-wise and we use wristbands so we can go through that," he said. "We do things that don't take any conditioning, but still need to be taught."
Walkthroughs will also serve as a catch-up session for younger players and those who didn't attend as many summer workouts as others.
"It helps some of the guys that haven't been here to learn things," Meeks said. "It should help them improve on their technique."
"I think it'll help the younger guys," senior receiver David Wichman added.
Afternoon practice ran from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. and was much more up-tempo.
Players won't be in full pads until Tuesday.
"I think the kids will definitely be ready for that this year," Wichman said. "They're going to be out here five days before they can actually start practicing with them.
Page 2 of 2 - "So by next Tuesday, I anticipate that they're going to be eager and ready to go.
"As will the coaches."
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There is a real disconnect in policing in this community when a landlord can show officers evidence of crime and nothing happens.
Vicki Smith manages the Colonial Grove Apartments on DeSiard Street. Smith says Monroe police knew Christopher Robinson's name long before taking him into custody on a second-degree murder charge last week.
Smith said there were several other incidents in the recent past to warrant attention from police.
She said she called MPD for three months to complain about Robinson reportedly trespassing on her property and dealing drugs outside Apartment No. 32, where she said he had taken up residence by force.
Before the July 19 attack in which Robinson reportedly beat tenant James Atwell to death with a 2- to 3-foot long stick, Smith reached out to The News-Star in her frustration about how "worn out" she felt "with this whole mess."
Robinson, 20, used to work for Smith as a maintenance man, but she believed he was also burglarizing the complex. After she fired and evicted him, Smith said Robinson knew the official tenant of Apartment No. 32 had suffered injuries in a car accident late last year, forcing that woman to stay with her mother.
Smith said, "He knew since he worked here that she wasn't staying there. So he just took the apartment over totally. Stole my stove, stole my refrigerator, trashed the apartment, totally ruined all her stuff, stole and sold everything that was worth anything in there.
Smith said officers told her they would get a warrant for his arrest, but she said Robinson remained on her property every day.
This vignette of one person's experience is unfortunately not unique. Over the past few months, The News-Star has reported multiple stories about people who have not been able to obtain what they would consider to be active policing from officers of the Monroe Police Department.
About two months ago, Smith said she took a Monroe police officer into the trashed apartment filled with used condoms, bullet casings and drug paraphernalia.
"I showed the police officers all this stuff laid out," Smith said. "I showed them this set up, where they had sold my refrigerator and stove, pushed a table over there in that place, and that's where they were cutting and bagging and weighing and doing their deal."
Smith said she asked the officers, "You see this? You see what they're doing?"
She said the officer replied, "It's apparent," but did nothing.
"They didn't take it. They didn't take a fingerprint, they didn't confiscate (it), they didn't do anything," Smith said.
Though she asked repeatedly for additional patrols of the area, and though Monroe police logs indicate officers complied, Smith said she never saw officers driving through the complex.
Smith's multiple reports were surely logged as calls, but when asked if Monroe police received any complaints about Robinson prior to his arrest, Assistant Police Chief Don Bartley said, "He has had contact with law enforcement before," and cited a 2011 burglary charge as an example.
While we believe there's certainly a place where the buck stops, we also wonder about what is happening on the street.
With this situation, and certainly others, the foot soldiers of the Monroe Police Department are not providing the citizens of this city with the service and aggressive pursuit of crime we believe we are paying for and we deserve.
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noun mo·tor·ist \ˈmō-tə-rist\
: a person who drives a car
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