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Northwest Texas Healthcare System is planning a $17.5 million clinics upgrade to reduce emergency room overcrowding and delays that can keep patients waiting for a doctor for over an hour, according to recent Medicare data.
At a recent Amarillo Hospital District board of managers meeting, Northwest Chief Operating Officer John McDonald presented documents detailing the projects.
The cost will be covered by grants from Texas Department of Health and Human Services through its Delivery System Reform Incentive Program, which aims to spark innovation and enhance health care access in Texas.
The projects are expected to reduce wait times and costs associated with emergency room visits; areas the hospital has been focusing on, Northwest CEO Mark Crawford said. Patients at Northwest waited an average of 67 minutes before seeing a doctor, according to a propublica.org report of Medicaid data collected from April 2012 to April 2013.
However, wait times have now been shortened to about a half-hour over the past several months, Crawford said.
"And we could do better," Crawford said.
A major factor affecting emergency departments across the country is overcrowding caused by patients seeking treatment for nonemergency conditions. Low-priority injuries and illnesses fill emergency departments while high-priority trauma conditions are continuously moved to the front of the line. So while a patient with a sore throat might not cause a delay for a heart attack patient, he or she might cause patients with less serious maladies to wait for treatment, Crawford said.
"It clogs up the whole system," he said.
The first step will be to expand operations at three clinics the system runs in Amarillo:
■ J.O. Wyatt Community Health Center, 1411 E. Amarillo Blvd.
■ Northwest Texas Women's and Children's Center, 814 Martin Road;
■ Northwest Texas Women's and Children's Center, 1900 S.E. 34th Ave.
Each clinic will be open an additional 11 hours each week, according to the plan.
"The goal is to increase access (and) to reduce unnecessary utilization of the emergency room, therefore reducing the cost of care within the market," Crawford said.
Northwest has identified 1,400 people who used the hospital's emergency room four or more times a year, effectively using it as a primary care provider, Crawford said.
Another problem is the inability of many people to discern a serious medical condition from symptoms of common conditions, Northwest Emergency Director Dr. Stephen Newman said.
To combat these problems, the hospital is implementing a patient navigation system to direct patients to the proper care providers. The system is a hotline where nurses will be trained to diagnose a patient's symptoms and send them to the correct clinic or emergency room for treatment.
"Basically you're doing the same thing as a 911 operator might do," Crawford explained. "They go through a triage process to see how urgent it is and how emergent it is."
"It will be like having your own nurse on call," Northwest Chief Financial Officer Gene Winters said.
The patient navigation system will be directed at the 1,400 patients Northwest identified as frequent emergency room visitors, but Crawford said the program would be expanded later on. The program is set to be operational by Sept. 30, but it could be online earlier, Winters said.
Northwest also plans to open new urgent care clinics attached to or housed within its three existing clinics.
Some new construction is expected, but some buildings already have extra space available, Winters said. The first clinic, housed within J.O. Wyatt Clinic, will be opened before the end of September and another, attached to the Women's and Children's location on 34th, will be open by the end of the year.
"But as soon as possible," Winters said. "It depends on what we run into with permits and construction."
A new seniors' clinic will round out the expansion. The location of the clinic has not yet been selected, but Winters said potential sites have been identified. The clinic should be operational by the end of 2014, he said.
The programs are not based on any set model; Northwest has developed the expansion project from scratch. Proposals had to be approved by the government before they were funded.
The Affordable Care Act spurred the hospital's clinic expansion project, Crawford said.
"I think it was more of a punch in the gut in the beginning," he said. "I think it's making us rethink how we deliver care. I mean, that's what these four projects are all about."
Health care is beginning to shift toward preventative medicine and treating people before they get sick, he said.
"It has caused us to think outside of the box more than we were before," he said.
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Levine: Cubs' Javier Baez Coming Of Age"I look at the sky being the only limit to my game," Baez says.
Levine: Staying Active In Trade Market, Cubs Add Bullpen Arm On Deadline DayThe Cubs had talks with the Rays centered around Matt Moore but balked at giving up Javier Baez.
Bernfield: Cubs Embrace Joe Maddon's Positional Versatility Vision"They don't care who gets the credit or who gets it done that night," Maddon says of his players.
Levine: Javier Baez Returns, Is Ready For Utility Role"You will see him all over the place and all over the map," Cubs manager Joe Maddon says.
Cubs Activate Javier Baez, Send Down Munenori KawasakiBaez had been dealing with a left thumb injury.
Cubs' Javier Baez Not Expected Back For Home OpenerBaez has been out for several days since hit was hit by a pitch in the helmet.
Levine: Javier Baez Aims For Quick Return, Mulls Best Manner To Slide InNursing a jammed left thumb, Baez is eligible to come off the DL on April 9.
Javier Baez Placed On DL As Cubs Roster Rounds Into FormThe Cubs will open the season with 13 pitches on the roster.
Levine: Javier Baez Ready To Make An Impact For CubsExpanding his versatility, Baez continues to work in center field.
Levine: Cubs, Rays Talking TradeTampa Bay has done its homework on all of Chicago's young players.
Report: Tampa Bay Rays Are Interested In Cubs' Javier BaezThe Cubs are seeking pitching in return.
Emma: Cubs Making This A Special Season"We want it all," Cubs rookie Kris Bryant says.

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Heat's Josh McRoberts says he broke foot in Game 6 vs. Raptors, remains out
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To call Josh McRoberts' time in Miami injury plagued might be the understatement of the decade.
Now with Chris Bosh out, the Heat could really use McRoberts at the four, but "shockingly" he is not healthy. Wednesday he finally admitted the reason he has been limited in training camp with foot issues.
McRoberts run of bad luck continues. And foot injuries — when your job involves running up and down a hardwood floor — are something that has to be taken seriously and allowed to fully heal, lest they become chronic. I'm not sure the Heat can bet on a lot out of McRoberts this season.
With no Bosh and McRoberts, expect Derrick Williams, Udonis Haslem, and maybe Luke Babbitt will get some run there. Coach Erik Spoelstra also likely will have some small lineups where Justise Winslow will play the four.
51Q: Will Larry Bird's renovation of the Pacers pay off?
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We continue PBT's 2016-17 NBA preview series, 51 Questions. For the past few weeks, and through the start of the NBA season, we tackle 51 questions we cannot wait to see answered during the upcoming NBA season. We will delve into one almost every day between now and the start of the season.
There are two types of basketball analysts: Those who believe the Pacers improved by swapping George Hill for Jeff Teague and those who believe Indiana got worse in the trade.
Teague uses his superior quickness in the pick-and-roll to score and assist more. Hill defends better, commits fewer turnovers and shoots more efficiently.
I prefer Hill. Larry Bird opted for Teague.
I can't wait to see who's right.
Though I'm inclined to value Hill's less-flashy contributions – and like his lead-guard skills if he were called upon for that role – I'm also not arrogant enough to believe I certainly know better than Bird. An all-time great who has excelled as a player, coach and executive deserves some benefit of the doubt.
Bird is leveraging it now.
Seemingly unsatisfied with the team that reached consecutive conference finals in 2013 and 2014, Bird has now fully torn down the roster to build a more dynamic offense around Paul George. The Pacers president has long talked about the change, and we'll learn this season whether his vision will bear fruit.
In addition to trading Hill for Teague, Bird let Lance Stephenson leave in free agency, deemphasized and traded Roy Hibbert, offended David West into leaving and fired Frank Vogel. In came Monta Ellis, Rodney Stuckey, Myles Turner, Thaddeus Young, Teague and Nate McMillian.
And Bird hasn't stopped after jettisoning everyone who regularly started with George in those conference-finals runs. Indiana will miss Ian Mahinmi's defense – maybe more than Al Jefferson works as a change-of-pace in the low post. But Bird is fully embracing the course of trading defense for offense.
Debate how he addressed it, but the team's identity was clear. In the last four years, the Pacers stunk offensively and thrived defensively. Their rank in points per possession:
- Offense: 20th, 23rd, 23rd, 25th
- Defense: 1st, 1st, 7th, 3rd
The beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I see an excellent defense propping up an offense that could have been better. Bird saw a struggling offense and couldn't look past it.
Indiana now has a deep squad of players who can break down opponents off the dribble. They will have matchup advantages – if they pass well enough to find the player in favorable position. The ball will move plenty between the hardwood and the dribbler's hands. Between players? That's a major question mark.
It's one of numerous hitches in Bird's plan.
He tried to fast-track the offense last year by moving George from small forward to power forward. Despite Bird's demands, George resisted. The plan was largely scrapped early in the season.
McMillian was also a curious choice given Bird's stated goals. McMillian's Trail Blazers and SuperSonics teams usually played slow. Still, perhaps the coach can adapt his scheme to fit his players (and appease his boss). Bird chose McMillian for a reason, after all.
Bird chose it all.
This is the team he long desired – for better or worse.
Lakers GM Kupchak tries to brush off Jim Buss' timeline discussion
Consider this a little preview: On Thursday the ProBasketballTalk podcast returns, opening with a discussion of the Lakers and the Pacific division with Mark Medina of the Los Angeles Daily News. We talk about the young core — D'Angelo Russell, Brandon Ingram, Julius Randle, Jordan Clarkson, etc. — and how Luke Walton fits with them. How this is a team that if handled properly could develop into something of quality in a couple of years as these players come along. Patience is key.
But then we got to what Medina called the "elephant in the room": Jim Buss' timeline for returning to contending. He's the head of basketball operations and vowed to at least make the second round of the playoffs at least by this season. Which is not happening. Will Buss be patient? Is he grounded in today's NBA reality? Will the woman with the hammer, Jeanie Buss, hold him to that timeline? Does she have the backing of the other Buss children to push him out? (Reportedly she does.) It has Shakespearian drama potential.
Laker GM Mitch Kupchak was asked about that Tuesday and wanted no part of the question. Via Medina at the Daily News.
"I'm not in a position to debate the stuff you talked about," Kupchak said on Tuesday at UC Santa Barbara. "I'm not sure what was said with certainty. From my point of view, we've created a team that has a lot of young talent that can grow into really good NBA players that can leave an imprint on this league. I think we've surrounded them with older veterans to help us win games. I'm excited about our coaching staff….
"Wins and losses, I couldn't pick a number," Kupchak said. "I could guess. But I would not guess in front of you. That's not something I would do. That's something I would stare at for the rest of the year."
The Lakers should win more than the 17 of last year, maybe climb into the upper 20s, with 30 wins being the goal. That would signify a good season. But what matters is development, and if the Lakers are better at the end of the season, if their young players are on the right track, then that is success for this season.
Everyone around the Lakers understands that.
But is that enough to save Jim Buss' job? That's a different question.
New challenges face Portland guard CJ McCollum in Year four
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) CJ McCollum became a starter for the Trail Blazers last season, broke out as the NBA's Most Improved Player then signed a big contract over the summer.
Driving him all along the way was third-year pressure.
"Because I knew that was a make-or-break year for me. I know that going into year three I hadn't played particularly well. I'd had flashes, but I just didn't sustain a level of consistency for a season.
"In our league you get three years, you get traded, you get put in a box and they say `This is what you are,"' McCollum said when the team convened this week for training camp.
The 25-year-old guard became a star in the Blazers' backcourt with Damian Lillard last season after four of the team's starters left in the offseason.
With one of the youngest rosters in the league, the Blazers were considered a team that was rebuilding.
But they surpassed expectations, finishing 44-38 and earning the fifth seed in the Western Conference and advancing to the second round of the playoffs.
At one point last season, Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle referred to Lillard and McCollum as "a younger version of those Golden State guys."
McCollum averaged 20.8 points, 3.2 rebounds and 4.3 assists during the regular season. He had 197 3-pointers, fourth most for the Blazers in one season. He scored in double figures in 79 games.
He raised his scoring average by more than 14 points over the previous season and the dramatic turnaround earned him the Most Improved Player award.
That improvement was the most since Tony Campbell from an average of 6.2 points to 23.2 points with Minnesota between the '88-89 and `89-90 seasons.
McCollum averaged 20.5 points, 3.6 rebounds and 3.3 assists in the postseason last season.
But at times he was nervous that he was just an injury away from seeing all the hard work fizzle away.
"It was nerve-wracking for me because if you get hurt so many times you fear it. You're like, `Oh, this could be it,"' he said. "So for me to get through a season healthy and to play well, it was comforting."
McCollum, the 10th overall pick in the 2013 draft out of Lehigh, missed the first 34 games of his rookie season with a foot injury.
The next season he was a reserve, but he started to turn heads down the stretch and into the playoffs after starter Wesley Matthews was knocked out with a ruptured Achilles. His postseason included a 33-point game against Memphis.
This summer the Blazers solidified their backcourt for years to come by signing McCollum to a four-year contract worth $106 million. It will keep him in Portland through the 2020-21 season.
While McCollum says he feels "less pressure" this season, he's still looking to grow. The Blazers signed free agent Evan Turner in the offseason to help shore up the Blazers' depth at guard.
"As a younger player you just play and react," McCollum said. "As an older player you start to get more experience and you start to `think' the game. I think once I put those two things together I can be a special player."


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In his Second Inaugural Address, President Barack Obama pledged shared allegiance to preserving the Declaration's unalienable rights that bind us together as exceptional Americans. Too bad he doesn't share the Founders' understanding of Liberty nor the Constitution's insistence upon the separation of limited government powers necessary to preserve it.
The Commander-in-Chief that even Algeria's counterpart doesn't bother to call when authorizing military actions that deem American hostages expendable, likened the oath he swore to the Constitution at noon today on the west steps of the Capitol, to those sworn to by soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines in the U.S. armed force that defend us with their lives.
Too bad the President doesn't deem his Oath to require his office to defend them in Benghazi or even allow them to defend each other; but he does admit today that:
Being true to our founding documents does not require us to agree on every contour of life; it does not mean we will all define liberty in exactly the same way, or follow the same precise path to happiness. Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time – but it does require us to act in our time.
One would think that a Chief Executive would deem himself required to act in time to deploy our armed forces against al Qaeda in the Maghreb to save American hostages or consulates under siege, but modern-day liberal Democrats like Obama deem both founding documents to be "living", not just the Constitution they regularly re-define to invent abortion rights or restrict property rights.
With regard to the latter, early in today's address the President gave new life to the phrase "Together, we..." in making more clear his particular definition of liberty:
Together, we determined that a modern economy requires railroads and highways to speed travel and commerce; schools and colleges to train our workers.
Together, we discovered that a free market only thrives when there are rules to ensure competition and fair play.
Together, we resolved that a great nation must care for the vulnerable, and protect its people from life's worst hazards and misfortune.
Really, together, WE did all that? That explains why WE were all named Time's 2006 Person of the Year (Obama's first of three), but I digress:
- I didn't know that WE and Henry Ford mass-produced the Model T or that WE and James Hill established the Great Northern Railway (pictured);
- I had no clue that WE and the Christians founded universities before federal judges determined what could be uttered within the walls of local school's science classes they converted into houses of worship for its established state religion;
- I wasn't aware that the "fair play" ensuring a thriving free market requires subsidizing Brazil's oil drilling industry while making it a crime in the deep waters Gulf of Mexico or the frozen tundra of Alaska; and
- I was ignorant that WE and the Christians founded hospitals so charitable that they treated indigents in emergency rooms before the federal government made it a condition of federal tax redistribution.
Together, We really did all that? Well, actually, no WE didn't.
What We the People (as constitution-ratifying super-majorities and decades of electoral majorities) did that made America an exceptional nation was restrain do-gooder liberal Democrat meddlers, intent upon enlisting us all in their grand designs of what a modern economy requires, with a constitutional republican government of limited powers requiring that the Edisons, Fords, Hills, Wrights, and Gates of the world be left alone. Because when we don't so restrain Obama's "Together, We", together we force would-be Edisons, Fords and their capital onto the sidelines while taxing ourselves to pay for Solyndra experiments in campaign payoffs that make China look more exceptional at our nation's expense.
Obama's Together, We version of Liberty doesn't require agreement on happiness pursuits, but it does mean that when 50%+1 of Together, Wees put Obama's party in charge, happiness pursuits inconsistent with their vision become subject to fines, taxes or bankrupting regulations. Would you like to pursue the happiness produced by a lower-priced health insurance policy that isn't mandated to cover morning-after abortion pills? Too bad. Want the joy of lower energy prices driven by increased supplies of American drilled-for oil? Tough. Crave the glee associated with employment building Keystone XL pipelines? Guess you aren't into pursuing the happiness of extended EPA studies, but government bureaucrats have to eat too! At what price Liberty?
President Obama's reform-before-recovery agenda of his first term indicates that he views long Hoover-FDR-dare I say-Obama-like Depressions and/or anemic so-called "recoveries", along with many other "contours of life" dictated by the central government, as "nation-binding" experiences he supports. Sadly, what keeps so many of We, together is that the Twenty-Second Amendment prohibits a third Obama Inaugural.
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Achievements are like crack. Life consuming, addictive and hard to stop.
The first game you play on your 360, you play like any other you've ever played. Put it in, start it up, RROD (for me anyway), and play through the first stage of your brand spanking new game. Sat with the normal satisfaction of progress, a small graphic appears reminiscent of a Windows dll error. "Oh? Whats this?" you ponder, basking in the seductive glow of your LCD. Achievement Unlocked it pulses. Clicking the guide button you proceed to something called a achievement list. Here begins your feelings of inadequacy, dispair and completion at any cost.
Seeing a games achievement list unfinished is like your first born coming home from school with "grade A's", then kicking you in the nuts.
For me it ruined my 360 experience. The only thing that stopped me on my journey of disappointment was 6 RROD(!!). I kid you not. It's the only thing in my life I've ever given more than 2 chances too, and in return it f*cked me. Like some hooker girlfriend claiming shes changed, and you with your naive positivity believe it. 6 different men answering your home phone when you ring from work later, and you finally give up kicking your self for being steadyfast in the face of inevitablility.
The only reason I didn't get a PS3 earlier is because it was shit. Sony didn't give a f*ck so why should I. £350 for a console filled to the brim with inferior ports!? Don't think so. Why have burgers when you can have steak? But as it happens the steak turned out to be cow shit.
PS3 Trophies on the otherhand just don't seem to caress my compulsive/ competitive side. Which at first feels a bit unfufilling. But after a few days I actually just enjoy playing games again.


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Today sees the un-stealthing of a new company called Otto which plans to build self-driving systems for long haul trucks. The company has been formed by a skilled team, including former members of Google's car team and people I know well. You can see their opening blog post
My entire focus on this blog, and the focus of most people in this space, has been on cars, particularly cars capable of unmanned operation and door-to-door service. Most of those not working on that have had their focus on highway cars and autopilots. The highway is a much simpler environment so much easier to engineer, but it operates at higher speeds so the cost of accidents is worse.
That goes doubly true for trucks that are fast, big and massive. At the same time, 99% of truck driving is actually very straightforward — stay in a highway lane, usually the slow one, with no fancy moving about.
Some companies have done exploration of truck automation. Daimler/Freightliner has been testing trucks in Nevada. Volvo (trucks and cars together) has done truck and platooning experiments, notably the Sartre project some years ago. A recent group of European researchers did a truck demonstration in the Netherlands, leading up to the Declaration of Amsterdam which got government ministers to declare a plan to modify regulations to make self-driving systems legal in Europe. Local company Peloton has gone after the more tractable problem of two-truck platoons with a driver in each truck, aimed primarily at fuel savings and some safety increases.
While trucks are big and thus riskier to automate, they are also risky for humans to drive. Even though truck drivers are professionals who drive all day, there are still around 4,000 killed every year in the USA in truck accidents. More than half of those are truck drivers, but a large number of ordinary road users are also killed. Done well, self-driving trucks will reduce this toll. Just as with cars, companies will not release the systems until they believe they can match and beat the safety record of human drivers.
The Economics
Self-driving trucks don't change the way we move, but they will have a big economic effect on trucking. Driver pay accounts for about 25-35% of the cost of truck operation, but in fact early self-driving won't take away jobs because there is a serious shortage of truck drivers in the market — companies can't hire enough of them at the wages they currently pay. It is claimed that there are 50,000 job openings unfilled at the present time. Truck driving is grueling work, sometimes mind-numbing, and it takes the long haul driver away from home and family for over a week on every long-haul run. It's not very exciting work, and it involves long days (11 hours is the legal limit) and a lot of eating and sleeping in truck stops or the cabin of the truck.
Average pay is about 36 cents/mile for a solo trucker on a common route. Alternately, loads that need to move fast are driven by a team of two. They split 50 cents/mile between them, but can drive 22 hours/day — one driver sleeps in the back while the first one takes the wheel. You make less per mile per driver, but you are also paid for the miles you are sleeping or relaxing.
A likely first course is trucks that keep their solo driver who drives up to 11 hours — probably less — and have the software drive the rest. Nonstop team driving speed with just one person. Indeed, that person might be an owner-operator who is paying for the system as a businessperson, rather than a person losing a job to automation. The human would drive the more complex parts of the route (including heavy traffic) while the system can easily handle the long nights and sparse heartland interstate roads.
The economics get interesting when you can do things that are expensive for human drivers and teams. Aside from operating 22 or more hours/day at a lower cost, certain routes will become practical that were not economic with human drivers, opening up new routes and business models.
The Environment
Computer driven trucks will drive more regularly than humans, effectively driving in "hypermile" style as much as they can. That should save fuel. In addition, while I would not do it at first, the platooning experimented with by Peloton and Sartre does result in fuel savings. Also interesting is the ability to convert trucks to natural gas, which is domestic and burns cleaner (though it still emits CO2.) Automated trucks on fixed routes might be more willing to make this conversion.
Road wear
There is strong potential to reduce the damage to roads (and thus the cost of maintaining them, which is immense and seriously in arrears) thanks to the robotruck. That's because heavy trucks and big buses cause almost all the road wear today. A surprising rule of thumb is that road damage goes up with the 4th power of the weight per axle. As such an 80,000lb truck with 34,000lb on two sets of 2 axles and 6,000lb on the front axle does around 2,000 times the road damage of a typical car! read more »


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Skip to comments.Missing Florida Girl's Family: Pedophile Cousin Took Haleigh Cummings
Posted on 02/21/2009 7:23:34 PM PST by kcvl
"What we've been told is that he's a sexual pedophile," said Haleigh's mother Crystal Sheffield. The child's grandmother, Teresa Neves, said Croslin described him as a "jerk" and she was worried.
"I couldn't tell you anything about him," a distraught Neves told reporters Friday, adding that she only knew of the cousin by his first name Joe. "I can't tell you how they could have taken her from a family that absolutely adores her."
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Why can't I get that banjo tune from Deliverance out of my head?
I have believed since the beginning that this would go back to the family. It started with the story that someone took the child from the same bed the girlfriend claimed to be sleeping in.
The father has another child (daughter) by another 17 year old girl friend (not the one he is shacking up with now).
I have learned to reserve judgment in cases like this. When that little girl, Danielle Van Dam disappeared and it came to light that her parents were swingers, I thought that there was too much attention on the neighbor. It was found out that the the night the girl disappeared, the parents had swingers at the house for an after bar party.
I am reserving judgment. The neighbor received the death penalty.
Then both the father and the cousin must be slaughtered. If I hear of something like this happening where I live, they better hope the cops catch them first.
Oh boy, we've got a real family of winners here.
The nogoodnik father's nogoodnik girlfriend's nogoodnik cousin is a prime "person of interest?"
Were the girl's GRANDPARENTS even married to each other, let alone her parents?
It's in chaotic, messed-up "families" like this where little children are most easily taken advantage of.
But I think we all knew that already.
I am leaning toward the dad too....
Family members told Channel 4 that a relative named Joe visited the Cummings' home and left hours before Haleigh disappeared.
Friday morning, Croslin told Matt Lauer on the "Today Show" that she doesn't trust that cousin and doesn't know if he's involved in Haleigh's disappearance.
"He's a criminal, pretty much," Croslin said. "He's been in trouble his whole life."
Earlier in the day, Cummings' girlfriend, Misty Croslin, was taken to the sheriff's office once again for more questioning. Detectives have remained tight-lipped about what was discussed with the 17-year-old.
"I hope she's telling the truth because my kids they love her. I hope she wouldnt do nothing to hurt them," Sheffield said.
"One family member said a fight had taken place between Ron, the biological father, and Joe, the cousin, where Ron says, 'No, that didn't take place,'" Van Zandt said. "Evidently a gun disappeared from the house and it was found in a ditch later."
Van Zandt said, typically, investigators try to rule out immediate family as suspects first before branching outside of the home. But he said, in this case, it appears that authorities are looking at both at the same time.
Lord God, please rescue this precious child.
Many fathers have hit their girls before. It's (most of the time) called discipline.
Still can't figure out how they left that child alone to go to dinner...bizzare.
How many fathers do you know who have given their girls a black eye?!
None, but I do know of fathers that spank their young daughters.
So do I.
I don't call giving a daughter a black eye 'discipline'.
I watched video of the Dad online. He had what looked like a bandaid on the left side at the bottom of his hairline on the back of his head/neck. I wondered if he'd been in a fight. It was odd.
Have worked on to many cases of child abuse and family murder with the County Attys.
People don't know the half of it when it comes to what
is done to the children
For one thing, could the father be charged with statutory rape for shacking up with that 17 year old?
If that's the case (I've not kept up with this case) and it can be proven that this is the case (not some unverified accusation), then I think the father should first be investigated for involvement in this disappearance and then if possible be punished for giving his daughter a black eye.
The age of consent is 18 in Florida?????
Since the daughter is missing (and possibly dead) I doubt the father will be investigated for the child's possible black eye.
I don't know. That's why I asked.
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the last of the rock... her eye was black
I just did a quick Google. I think that is the age of consent, but there are some exceptions depending on the age of the partner.
He may be 24 chronologically but he's probably not any "older" than the GF. I doubt they'll charge him but they should. And she isn't old enough or mature enough to care for 2 kids full time.
"Paddle faster, I hear banjo music!" is a popular t-shirt down here.
The age of consent in Florida is 18, but close in age exemptions exist
From what I can see, NOBODY in either extended family has an IQ over 80.
You said — "Then both the father and the cousin must be slaughtered. If I hear of something like this happening where I live, they better hope the cops catch them first."
That's why we have a system that people go through, prescribed by our Constitution, in which details are dispassionately examined and the real facts are developed. That's why we have trials, to protect all parties involved. It would do no good to get the wrong guy and leave the real perpetrator out there, ready to do something like that again.
I remember seeing a tombstone in Tombstone, Arizona, on Boot Hill — which said "Hanged by mistake"... It turned out that a mob chased a guy down and hung him, however, they later found out that they had the wrong guy... ooops...
So, that's the reason why we have the system that we do...
I think I heard something about the family being investigated by Social Services before. No reason why, though.
You're quite right but where emotion is involved, common sense is not. And these threads are always emotional.
Well, supposedly the kid did it. It's not really known for sure. It's like some defense attorneys say — if you're sitting in the defense side of the table, you must be guilty or you wouldn't be there in the first place... LOL...
"Many fathers have hit their girls before. Its (most of the time) called discipline."
I'm not digging you on this thread but you have a very good home page and make many, very smart observations on it.
Sometime you should do a vanity post on the general/chat forum and let us discuss your presidential breakdowns, it is darn good, but not perfect. I think that it would be a great thread.
You said — "Youre quite right but where emotion is involved, common sense is not. And these threads are always emotional."
It's sort of disturbing to me that FReepers would be so eager and quick to abandon the very system that the Constitution gives us, along with the presumption of innocence until proven guilty in a court of law (and in many cases, by a jury of one's peers).
It's like many are saying — "I'm 100% for the Constitution and all our founding fathers gave us, until I get mad about something..." LOL...
Then *everything* gets thrown "out the window"...
Did you hear what he said to the shack up girlfriend when she was trying to call 911?
CUMMINGS: How the F*** (DELETED) can you let my daughter get stole B**** (DELETED)!
Of course it's usually better to let the courts determine guilt or innocence. However, we may soon reach the point where the courts will be too corrupt or inept to do this. Then we will have to do our own detective work...and the rest.
We are not a court of law and not bound by that principle.
I agree. Sometimes I try to reason and use common sense on these threads but....And I understand how they feel, you want to weep for that lost baby. But we are either a Nation of laws or we aren't.
No. I missed that. I don't have TV and only watch what's online. Yikes! But he left his kids with her.
If society really had to follow the 'presumption of innocence' we would never arrest anyone!
You said — "If society really had to follow the presumption of innocence we would never arrest anyone!"
That's not true, because we arrest people on probable cause and evidence that the prosecuting attorney believes can get a conviction "beyond a reasonable doubt" with a jury of one's peers.
I'm surprised you don't know that.
All the while, during the time that one is at trial and before a judgement is delivered, one *is presumed* innocent under the law. That's our system. AND, furthermore, many are declared "Not Guilty" too. So, there you go...
When I heard those two on Greta's show, I got the creeps. The girl seems to be under the control of this guy, she seemed afraid to speak, but my spirit was really troubled. I feel they know a lot more than they've said, and maybe they're the ones who killed her somehow. I hope they find out the truth soon.
You said — "Of course its usually better to let the courts determine guilt or innocence. However, we may soon reach the point where the courts will be too corrupt or inept to do this. Then we will have to do our own detective work...and the rest."
That day will never come, as long as we have any kind of government at all. And if we don't have a government, then we simply have mob rule and anarchy and then it really doesn't matter, because at that point, whoever has the biggest guns will get the "rule of law" (that he sets up himself).
You better hope that the day never comes when we no longer have a functioning government, because mob rule is never just, never gets to the real issues and is more concerned with power and keeping control rather than justice. Under that kind of "rule" (anarchy, mob justice and rule) I can see much more child molestation than what we have at the present, and that kind of "anarchy" will protect the perpetrators of this kind of child molestation, because the ones who have the power and control will usually be the ones to commit the most horrendous crimes under anarchy...
You don't want to look forward to that kind of "day"...
All the while, during the time that one is at trial and before a judgement is delivered, one *is presumed* innocent under the law. Thats our system. AND, furthermore, many are declared Not Guilty too. So, there you go...
I know that. I am not surprised that you would post falsely about me, though. AND
"presumed innocent" ONLY in the court of law.
Why do you not know that?
You said — "We are not a court of law and not bound by that principle."
The law does not prescribe the types of opinions that you must have and in that way, you're free to those. But, when your own opinions go against the very kind of government that many here whole-heartedly approve of (from our founding fathers and our system of justice) — then one has to question whether you really do adhere to those founding fathers' principles or not. At the least, it's hypocritical, saying that I give "lip service" to the principles laid down by the founding fathers for this country — but — I really don't believe them or practice them myself... LOL..
However, with that being said — one *is bound* — by law — to adhere to the legal methods for addressing situations like this, which *does* happen to be by those founding principles — *no matter* — what your opinion is...
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The "innovations" didn't cross over because Metroid Prime wasn't made specifically because of Halo.
halo was shown before and came out a year earlier, also, halo has been in development since 1999.Originally Posted by gingerkid
actually, WOW, i just found this little piece of info that might actually make my statement true. look here from wikipedia: First it was in third-person perspective, but Miyamoto made them change the perspective to first-person, causing almost everything already developed to be scrapped.
Miyamoto "made" them change
ahh but i just looked over the metroid prime 1 controls. innovations from halo did not cross over into this game, which i thought they did...man..thats a weird control scheme..
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The "innovations" didn't cross over because Metroid Prime wasn't made specifically because of Halo.
Good for Miyamoto!Originally Posted by Sovieto
3rd person for metroid prime woud be still cool tho, seeing samus in her suit always.
Speaking of wikipedia and Halo's development, check this out. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo:_Combat_Evolved
"At E3 2000, the first trailer of Halo was well-received.[55] The version shown there differed greatly from the one exhibited previously, marking the first major overhaul in the game's development.[56] At this point, Halo was a third-person action game, in which a transport starship crashlands on a mysterious ring world that orbits a star."
And later:
"In accordance with rumors,[59] Microsoft announced on June 19, 2000 that it had acquired Bungie Studios.[60] Halo became an exclusive game for Microsoft's Xbox video game console, and Bungie Studios rewrote the game's engine, heavily altering its presentation and turning it into a first-person shooter"
From the Metroid Prime wikipedia page, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metroid_Prime:
"After establishing their offices in Austin, Texas in 1999, Retro received five game ideas for the future GameCube, among them a new Metroid.[13] Nintendo members, such as Shigeru Miyamoto, Kensuke Tanabe and Kenji Miki, as well as Metroid designer Yoshio Sakamoto, that communicated with Texas through emails, monthly phone conferences and several personal gatherings. First it was in third-person perspective, but Miyamoto made them change the perspective to first-person, causing almost everything already developed to be scrapped"
Sounds as if Prime might have been switched to first person before Halo, or even at the same time. It does not appear to have happened after Halo was switched. Nice job of making an assumption about something rather than actually researching it.
I sure as hell hope so. I don't like the backtracking/puzzle nature of previous Metroids. I just want to run and gun with the wiimote. Here's to hoping MP3 is like halo in every way (with the addition of the wiimote).Originally Posted by ericlewis91
nevr compare halo with metroid.... Halo, is good, i like it, its a good shooter, even though the levels are fun to go bak and do. But the game can be beaten really really fast with all the stuff, you can beat halo in less than 12 hours, even beginner players can. Metroid...The prime games can take up too over 2 weeks or even a month to complete. But if you want to get everything in metroid, the data, and equipment, that might take 1-2 extra months.
in halo you are ordered to go to certain places, like it or not. But metroid, you can just go where you need to go anytime, or you can do something else and save it for later.
Their offices were established in 1999. No word on when in 1999. After that, Nintendo weeded through 5 game ideas through apparently several monthly conferences and gatherings. It's REALLY hard to come up with a timeline that has the list being discussed, MP rising to the top of the list, getting partially developed, undergoing review, and getting scrapped for a different perspective all before Halo showed.Originally Posted by IcedEarth81
That doesn't mean it was the basis for the change, but your quote does nothing to disprove Sovieto's suggestion that Halo influenced Prime's development. If you're going to get smug about people's research skills, bring your A game.
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Halo was being developed as a 3rd person game at the same time that Prime was. They were changed around the same time, probably Prime first, but at the very least around the same time. Sovieto was claiming that Prime was changed in reaction to Halo being developed but there is zero evidence of that.
And yes, I will question his research skills because he assumed that since Halo came out first it went into development way before Prime, which is proven false by the links and quotes I provided.
who cares to me halo 1 + 2 were pretty average shooters where in 1 mission of 1 it lasted about an hour of running through dark corridoors repeating the exact same (but not same place) settings it sucked ass.
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Is there something is the earnings report I missed? The profits were well above any of the estimates. They didn't raise guidance, but anyone with half a brain knows that Nintendo is ultra conservative. I really don't get it. The stock is already cheap factoring growth and earnings.
The presentation was very sad wasn't it? All those clueless managers riding on Nintendo genius Miyamoto's back. Congratulating themselves as they hand another big holiday season to eBay Wii scalpers.
The shares may have sold off because the Xbox and Wii are almost the same price now. I don't think it is a problem for Nintendo, but just looking at the specs may have convinced some *fund manager* that Nintendo will have to slash prices to fight off MSFT.
I really don't understand. I've never seen a company report such good results and get punished so much for it. It's like people don't even notice they completely blew by every estimate. However other companies that report rotten earnings, lower their guidance, and paint a bleak picture for the future barely get touched.Now I know why the Japanese market does so poorly, they punish success.
keep in mind that the market is future looking. This next quarter for NTDOY may be uneventful. No news equals stale stock performance.The 4th quarter however should be $$.
Since Nintendo doesn't plan to release anything new until October, there are alternative investments elsewhere...at the current time. Stay long if you can't find anywhere else to put your money.
I am not sure but here are just my thoughts.Slower growth in DS?Guidance was not good enough?Shorts?This is kind of like Gamestop in the shorts rule! What I mean is that any pop or uptick is the shorts getting squeezed. Once we get that pop, more shorts or the ones that had already covered their positions come back in. You can buy here and sell somewhere between $68 and $72.
NTDOY will see $20 before it sees $70 again, chump.
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This bike is a 1910 Harley-Davidson 6A
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The word "conclave" is derived from the Latin "cum clave".
Just thought you'd like to know.
Hard to cum with a key though. (Clave = latin for key).
it's clavis
Clave is the ablative, needed after cum.
Silly old goons dressed like clowns select head silly old goon dressed like a clown.
I just imagine them as a bunch of drag queens in antique dresses and makeup having a gossip and tossing some shade.
Gurrrrrrl I would be PERFECT. Let's get some hatred goin up in he-yaaa!
Same old, same old!
It's more interesting that The Independent says a Cardinal lives in a12 room apartment directly over the entrance to the Sauna, and many other priests live in the building too, so they can hardly have been unaware.
Wrong then. A dreary old man who was promised it after last time
His priorities won't be any different from the last one. Well maybe a bit less camp
But the question is. Did he know Eva Peron LOL
115 closeted gay haters seeking to elect the new chief hater and Pope Vicious!!!!
I hope they do pick a really nasty piece of work, it will just speed up the decline of this vile and corrupt institution.
That's a given, no matter whom they select. Let's hope someone comes forward after the election with some juicy tales of clerical frolics in Rome and elsewhere. Wouldn't it be delicious if the next pope were a frequent user of that gay sauna?
The cardinals must be praying (literally) that the new pope doesn't get exposed as a child molester after his election, there could be someone out there at this very moment waiting to spring a surprise.
they have to jam the electronic signals of course, because the cardinals' sense of honour won't stop them tweeting …
I watched in utter amazement at the whole show this morning. How can anyone take seriously the decisions of old men dressed in sparkly gold, red and white robes and matching hat.
But did you see those old nuns faces – so excited they were bouncing on their seats.
I'm with the bookies favourite Angelo Scola – he's got the dirt on them all and I'd imagine looking at those old geezers there are plenty skeletons.
Roll on the show.
From the BBC: 'the chairs with holes in the seat, believed to date from the 14th Century…they were used to check that the new pope had not been castrated.'
See, just proves from a very old age, the church has been obsessed with sex/sexuality.
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