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Digging out: U.S. 29 open, but tricky driving
2:59pm update: new slideshow from Western Albemarle. (previous slideshow).
According to a new release from Albemarle County spokesperson Lee Catlin sent a few minutes before noon, officials allege that Route 29 South–- utterly closed since early moments of the snow storm Friday–- is now open for its entire length into Nelson County, but Catlin's release warns that conditions are still very challenging and residents are discouraged from driving "except when absolutely necessary."
At some point, people will start asking why Central Virginia's major north-south thoroughfare–- a road so important that millions of dollars have been spent studying ways to make its traffic move faster–- could have closed when just three inches had fallen and then stayed closed for more than a day and a half.
"We'll look at this incident as well as everything else that happened during the storm once we get through it," says VDOT spokesperson Lou Hatter. "Right now we're trying to get the roads open."
Hatter says he knows of no other Charlottesville area primary road that remains closed, though he notes that Interstate 81 has had some blockages southwest of here.
As previously reported, the Route 29 stoppage created a multi-mile queue that induced snow-capable cars to turn around but left other cars and practically all truckers trapped.
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Can't blame the high snowfall for the bad roads as others have noted and I can attest too. Other jurisdictions are handling it much, much better. Have been over in Staunton since Friday and just ventured out for the first time. Black top everywhere maybe only one lane anywhere--and it was a left turn one--which was still a little covered.
And we got nailed here too. 20 inches by 7 Saturday morning. Perhaps of note, the plows never stopped running Friday night. Heard at least five passes Friday night, pretty impressive for a side street way far away from any major road.
first off, give them a break... this kind of storm is rare!!! in the mid80's the city only had 1 plow TOTAL until we got a storm that shut down mail service for a week. Most folks on my street had to borrow my shovel since we don't get enough snow to even own one. I didn't even have a sled to take to Suicide Hill!
1993, 1996 we saw huge storms... but is it really worth having a budget for a ton of salt and sand when it happens only about 1 time per decade? Get real city resident: at least Robert VanWinkle would have told us to stock up on food and snow supplies a week before.
fairview, when you total up the economic loss from this storm, due to folks stuck at home, unable to go to work or shop, I'll bet, even you will agree, it's wise to have enough sand and salt on hand, or readily accessible.
You say the City needs sand, dredge the reservoir. Heard tell a story, by the guy who owns Blue Ridge Sand, that they had a sand dredging operation down by the New River and a huge snow storm hit North Carolina. They needed sand in the worst way and so the trucks from their dredging operation hit the road and saved the day. Just think how much sand we could get and how much money we could save --we wouldn't have to buy it !
I thought this discussion was about highway 29. Not sure what the National Guard can to about clearing snow. As far as helping emergency services the Virginia Army National Guard has about 600 soldiers on duty helping citizens of the Commonwealth. We don't complain about the orders we receive so don't feel inclined to complain for us. As for VDOT they have not cleared my road but I'm sure the workers in those trucks are exhausted and would like to go home and dig out their own families.
Looks like we have a 50-75% chance of seeing a white Christmas. Amazing to contemplate that by Friday this could all be gone--don't think so
East Central U.S. White Christmas Probability Map
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This map shows the probability of having at least one inch of snow on the ground on Christmas morning.
Look at VA511. http://511virginia.org/Conditions.aspx?r=3
Albemarle stands out as the only area in the state where ALL the roads are "severe" or closed. Waynesboro got 32" and they have cleared roads. Northern VA got exactly the same amount of snow and they managed to get their roads clear, and their challenges are several orders of magnitude bigger than C'Ville's.
Stop making excuses for VDOT incompetence. The other regions have managed to clear roads even though more snow fell there.
It's not the weather, it's the personnel. Specifically, it's the management.
Heads should roll for this debacle.
I agree all my kids in Northern Virginia are at work, streets clear. What gives here ?
You can only work with the tools, (and "tools"), that you have to work with.
Then again, no one around here can drive in the rain either........
Having lived in Nelson County for almost thirty years - the way they do it is to concentrate on 29 South which is the major road through the county - other roads wait until 29 is cleared. Charlottesville and Albamarle County have more areas to concentrate on. The storm started earlier than anticipated and moved quicker - how does VDOT contend with dozens of cars and trucks blocking the roads ? We would always like a speedy return to normalcy, but give VDOT a break - this was a monster storm. By the way, I totally agree with you on the National Guard.
why is there still a jeep or whatever still blocking 29??!!
The VDOT district manager for Culpepper is Mr. James Utterback.
I suggest that we all email him to ask why his area manager for Albemarle County has so far been unable to effectively discharge his duties.
Mr. Utterback's email address is: firstname.lastname@example.com
Augusta County is now reporting all secondary roads are clear and passable.
Out here in Albemarle County we are running out of food waiting for the local VDOT manager to pull his thumbs out of his rearend and get the roads clear.
The local manager needs to be sacked immediately and replaced with someone capable of doing the job. It would also be nice if the surrounding regions could loan us some plows and drivers to finally rescue all the people stranded in the rural areas of the county.
What gives is that despite the accurate and timely forecasting, the VDOT crews in this region were caught totally flat-footed.
I drove up here early Friday morning from Blacksburg, and from there to Waynesboro VDOT crews were out on the road, staged for the storm. The roads had all been pre-treated with deicing agent and plow/dump trucks full of grit were everywhere. On this side of the mountain, there were no such preparations. There were no trucks, no road treatment, nothing.
The VDOT crews here likely became trapped by the storm due to this inexcusable delay in mobilization.
When a storm of this magnitude hits you can't wait until it is over to start scraping the roads. The snow will be too heavy to move at that point. You have to get out early and scrape continuously so that you don't have to try and push two feet of snow all at once. The reports of broken and abandoned VDOT gear littering the highways would seem to bear this out.
I was living in DC for the blizzard of '96 and this is exactly what happened back then. VDOT sat on its hands and waited for the snow to quit, only to find that they couldn't get their drivers in to the equipment yards or the equipment out of them. Getting behind the storm resulted in it taking them over ten days to dig everyone out.
I thought they had learned from that fiasco, and to be fair, most of them apparently have. It's only the Albemarle regional manager who seems to have been unaware of the lessons learned from '96.
Please Bison Girl, don't continue the hurtful and mistaken renaming of the great beast of the forests and plains. Buffalo go not on these shores. It is the noble bison. I ask in the spirit of healing that we award the worthy Mr. H. Spencer the Bison Award. I hereby clear your credentials and will allow you to move forwards with that honor.
Go StormTeam Hawes!
Lack of emergency preparedness is no one's fault but your own. Every home should have extra batteries, candles, few gallons of water, canned and dry goods stashed to accomodate at least for a week.
Dozens of VDOT trucks laying on the side of the road, 64, 29, 250--just heard Corbin Snow say, they have a snow removal business and they started with 6 trucks and are down to 2 --parts breaking under the weight of this snow, and not easy to get parts in this area of the country.
Laurel please refer to my comment under the Dozens Stranded headline. The stay off the road comment refers to anyone not accustomed to AND properly prepared vehicle. The character and personal choice of your comment reflects that you are most certainly not one of these said individuals and should most def stay the fu&$ off the road. Even if it ain't snowing.
I agree, there was plenty of warning. It has been four days since the snow ended, shovel your walk, dig your car out, stop complaining.
I would like to know why it was like driving into a different world when I hit the Nelson County line. What did the Nelson VDOT do that Albermarle VDOT missed?
quote: "We'll look at this incident as well as everything else that happened during the storm once we get through it," says VDOT spokesperson Lou Hatter. ââ?¬Å?Right now we're trying to get the roads open."
TRANSLATION: "Give us a few days to come up with some good excuses for our poor performance please!"
Really I can drive around all of the roads in Greene In like 6 hours in good weather, and that is up down and around every bend, but VDOT with over 100 trucks can't even get the main roads clear, beyond one lane, I wonder if they don't sub the work out, then the guys who are getting paid go do private work then after they are finished actually plow the roads vdot pays them for.
To the guys and gals at VDOT and Dominion Electric - thanks for a great job in terrible conditions. It seems as though many people expect the impossible after an event like we just experienced.
No, but we do expect a major road like 29 south to be open --what an embarrassment, VDOT blew it.
I think there have been some real challenges, such as encouraging stupid amounts of growth for the benefit of developers, causing small roads to arry too much traffic.
I imagine that the plows did have to deal with stranded vehicles.
But 29 south is a MAJOR highway. Like, the old cumberland gap highway, the only path down through central VA. That road is one of the THE focuses, and it speaks volumes that a small county like Nelson did its duty, but wealthy Albemarle did not. Maybe that's because instead of focusing on the more important infrastructure, they like to spend a lot of time trying to push trhough stupid projects over reservoir pipelines that we don't need.
No we haven't had a lot of snow over the last 5 years, but we DO get big dumps like this still, and we do get ice, and this winter was predicted to be a snowy one for the mid-atlantic.
Gee, i wonder how much of the national guard is unable to help medical personnel because they are still stuck overseas in a war we are supposed to be exiting.....
I agree Berkley, the coverage from StormTeam Hawes has been phenomenal. If you look at all the other coverage in the area, no one was driving around and producing the broad coverage given in these slideshows and reporting --don't know how this guy does it, he must have a staff of thousands. And so, as I did in another post, I have awarded Mr. Spencer the " Buffalo Award", for best storm reporting. Even Jim, has verified my credentials to bestow this honor, and I thank him.
Video of Route 240 in Crozet -
You really want to see just how badly Albemarle County VDOT performed today without leaving the comforts and relative safety of your own homes? Simply checkout the 511 VA website. (http://www.511va.org/Conditions.aspx?r=3)
The Cville area is the only region in the state with these types of reported road conditions. Someone please try to explain this away...
It is international news that albemarle county was the epicenter of this storm. Just like nelson county was for hurricane cammile.
VDOT requires a huge insurance rider before you can get on theblist to be a subcontractor. So a lot of guys don't do it becuase being on the list only guarnatees you a job in a storm like this.
Maybe the hook should investigate this....
quote: "It is international news that albemarle county was the epicenter of this storm. Just like nelson county was for hurricane cammile."
I was wondering about that. Makes sense. And I seem to recall reading somewhere that the Virginia State Police reported Charlottesville as being the major trouble spot for their troopers. I guess it includes Albemarle County somewhat when they say "Charlottesville".
The current snow will still be on the ground Christmas morning.
We are in the North Garden area and live on Rt.29..VDOT has been doing their job the best they can..but, there are cars stranded everywhere! Even this evening (Sunday) from Trading Post Store North to I64 there are 45 cars, 5 tractor trailers stuck either on the side of the road and some are actually in the lanes! Two of the cars were upside down! Last evening, Saturday, according to an update we heard there were 75 tractor trailers stranded from I64 to Nelson County Line. They simply couldn't move the huge rigs..they can't get up the hills with a small amount of snow much less the amount we got. They were taking up so much of 29 that the State Trucks simply could not do their job. We actually saw two trucks that stayed on the road from Friday nite until this morning, Sunday and only moved after they got a nudge of help from a local logger with a skidloader! So, as much as VDOT can do things to make us nuts, this time we need to bear with them since this is not the usual Virginia snow..here today, gone tomorrow. I am not a huge fan of some of the things I see VDOT do, but, this time, I have to say they have been trying to clear it up! ..And by the way, we measured 26" in our yard..but we have had some wind..but we are sure it is over 24".
Both the character of this storm and personal choice played a major role in the impact on 29 south. I was in town at 4:00. I made the classic (and bad) decision to buy "bread and milk" and found myself stuck for 25 minutes in Barracks Road alone trying to get out and on to 250. In this amount of time, precipitation increased, and before I was at the turn off for 708 (approximately 7 miles south on 29), almost 90 minutes had passed, and 3 to 5 inches of snow had fallen. I made it off 29, but I sat on 29, panicking, for a loooonngg time . . . and I was one of the lucky ones who slept in a bed that night. The storm overwhelmed the drivers who were on their way home from work or shopping, and had anyone attempted to plow, they would have been out of luck - it was 5:00 in central VA and we haven't had a storm like this for 14 years. Oh yes, I am kicking myself for my purchases. My car remains stuck on a rural road, and I just learned tonight that someone ran into it. Snow is pretty but it is a pain in the arse. I cannot (and will not) blame people for this event. I'll just make sure to collect insurance info.
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"The public works department has gone through a lot of salt and sand in this storm and the city has ordered more."--report from chn29
Guess that's why the side streets are a mess. There is no excuse for not having the salt and sand needed. This ain't Florida, storms happen.
Guardsman - By no means was i saying anything negtive about the Guard. This is the sort of event you guys are here for. in past similar blizzards in the area, the Guard has been wonderful about making sure that technicians, nurses, and physicians could get to the hospitals to do their work. they also made sure people had food and shelter. My point was, how much has the Guard been hurt in their ability support such operations because of overseas rotations.
That's all.
Dave - I am not really banging on the VDOT perse. Obvioulsy they were able to do it in Nelson. albemarle is a big county, but it has no more primary focuses than Nelson, unless you include 250 by-pass. So, what, they have four lanes of 29 through North Charlottesville?
I remember the blizzard of 96, and they absolutely kept 29 open and running.
I think it warrants investigation because it will probably give peopl a real look at the sort of development shenanigans that are going on, and the real cost of all this growth to the country just to make a few develpers very rich. As a kid you would have never found 20S littered with cars like this time.
There may be plenty of explanations, but I think there is no excuse for VDOT's poor handling of this storm. And, given the amount of tax increase and cost of living increase we've seen in Virginia - and THIS crap alongside the 'extra' millions that VDOT has been using as a reason to bulldoze and bully (with the help of some traitor city administrators) their McIntire parkway through is particularly galling. The McIntire Parkway, which will not REALLY help our traffic problems, which are primarily rooted in the unbridled development that has been allowed. I'd be inclined to feel more sympathetic to VDOT if not for the McIntire situation. I think that some of you make good points bringing up past heavy snows and VDOT's relatively successful handling of them, and for this very inefficient handling of what is certainly an incredible, yet very accurately predicted storm. This such a crucial time for so many businesses, which are struggling anyway, that it seems there would have been an extra effort made to clear and keep clear the main roads, and since that was so poorly done, that there should be some consequences. I really do hope, and expect there to be some apology to the taxpayers.
More people, more cars, since 1996, but that doesn't mean VDOT shouldn't be able to keep major roads cleared after 2 days. I still think budget cuts are a part of this, fewer workers, trucks, even the City has run out of sand and salt.
By keeping people at home, unable to drive, because city streets haven't been plowed or not in any condition to drive on, the City has assured businesses of fewer sales and themselves fewer tax dollars, seems that investing in enough sand and salt would have made sense.
Fairview - No i am not giving the VDOT crews in Albemarle/Charlottesville a break. Sorry. Everybody else had their crap together.
The reason is the county and city spending lots of time getting all dug into petty things like flattening neighborhoods by rezoning houses for crap businesses, unecessary water plans, and the McIntyre parkway, instead of watching what is going on with growth. The result is they punish the good business by a stunt like this.
What did people think would happen?
Having lived in C-ville in the 70's I can attest to the city having more than one plow truck, or a city truck with a plow attached to it. While massive snow events are not that common, snow is common, or more particularly...ice events. We had a lot of snow AND ice 2002-2003, and we have had winter weather since then, even if it hasn't been a lot.
The sand doesn't go bad if it isn't used one year so no, there is NO EXCUSE for not having it stockpiled. So, they use it all up in this one storm, we have time to get more for the next storm.
The city and country botched this exactly the same way the Jan-Feb 1994, when they netierh salted nor sanded until we had 3 inches of sleet turn to solid ice.
One day city residents will learn and decide to sign a petition to fire gary O'Connell.
Where do I sign ?
1) vdot never stocks enough sand and salt. If they bought it in the summer and overbought they would get the best price. Trying to buy it now probably commands a 50% premium.
2) VDOT already KNOWS why things didn't go well they just want to wait so that it will blow over. The head of VDOT should be called by the Governer and asked WHY he won't give a statment and either explain it properly or take his lumps and swear to do better.
3) All of the people blaming this on "unbridled" growth are full of it. People have a right to develop their land. No landowner has either a moral or legal obligation to preserve his land according to your values. The government is obligated to handle the infrastructure which they charge tremendous amounts of taxes for. There is not a SINGLE living person in this county who did not have a road built BEFORE they moved here. People that have lived here 80 years had roads to drive on and thet roads have increased ALWAYS behind the population because the GOVERNMENT is shortsighted.
4) The government gets enough money to build and maintain the roads but the money is misspent. They run out of sand and salt. They probably don't have common replacment parts in stock to keep the trucks on the road. They alleggedly play games with job assignments to maximise overtime. (just like the cops do)
5) When it comes to building roads no one can explain why it costs 6 million dollars a mile to lay asphalt. You cannot blame this on either the person selling a piece of property, a builder or the "dam yankee" who wants to move here.
When I didn't hear a plow go by for HOURS during the storm, I knew DOT was making a mistake. I'm from up north and the news always showed the road crews chomping at the bit to get going before the snow even started. Dunkin Donuts even made a commercial joking about it...plow driving with coffee in hand jumped into action as the first flake fell.
Anyway, I'm lucky to live in the city and therefore don't have to drive anywhere. I feel so badly for people who live outside of town who are still waiting to get out. Stay warm, folks!
Snow removal/ice control here has always been totally inadequate resulting in extremely unsafe driving conditions, lost time at work, lost business for stores and restaurants, stranding people at home, and making emergency services very difficult. I'd really like to know why since it probably ultimately costs more to do this badly than well. Just something I've wondered about off and on for 30 plus years. Two feet of snow is a lot but it shouldn't be this big a deal.
I'll tell you what the problem is: The switch and love affair with the stupid liquid de-icer stuff. There was the quote on Saturday from some VDOT talking head "It didn't work as expected"
When it starts snowing as hard as it did at the start, there's no time for that junk to work. The old school rock salt-sand mix would at least put some sand in the mix to give some grip.
Go up to New Hampshire and they don't try and clear sidewalks down to concrete... they clear it to hard packed snow and then put down sand.
And whoever has this freaking love affair with putting in traffic circles... get out to Airport road with a front end loader and clean it and the earlysville rd circles out! It looks like it is set for the olympic mogul skiing gold metal runs!
Boy, I sure hope all the clueless city folks who are running out of food already don't just get fed up and go back to where they came from.
If you want know why the roads were in rough shape start with the top VDOT officials in Richmond.
I worked snow duty.
We had:
Old trucks and equipment that broke down. Snow removal is harder on equipment than anything else.
Since the brainless top officials (Connie Sorrell, commissioner etc) decided that we didn't need some of these equipment shops in the residencies mechanics had to drive 20 and 30 miles to repair equipment some out in the storm.
We don't have enough people anymore and the contractors while some try to do a good job had equipment problems as well.
All of this downsizing and restructuring sounds good on paper until you have a MAJOR weather emergency like this.
Hopefully this will wake the citizens up and they will take out thier frustrations on the ones that deserve it.
The Governor, Commissioner, Asst Commissioner and CTB and the General Assembly.
In rural areas, farmers and other people with plows could be paid to plow short sections of their roads. It would be better than nothing. But I agree about writing to protest and not just about snowstorms. On our road after Hurricane Isabelle there was a large hole in the road over a stream with a culvert. VDOT put an orange cone there which of course would blow away or get knocked over. Everyone here knew to drive in the middle but one night someone flipped their car into the stream and died. Of course the next day VDOT was out starting repairs. And running out of food is minor compared with the fact that delivery of emergency services is now hugely impaired. But I'd be willing to bet there are many native Virginians who go back 100s of generations who are even now running out of food.
I agree re: emergency preparedness. I was just responding to the stupid remark about city people and moving back to where they came from. That particular attitude is really irritating especially here ie "who are your people." Grrr.
CvilleAM, are you listening, many roads in the City have no sidewalks, the street is the only place to walk.
Kramer, you're right Charlottesville snowstorm has made it round the globe. Picture of Charlottesville in the Pittsburg paper, my aunt just called to check in --said our little town is in fact all over the airwaves.
Stranded car in Charlottesville, VA
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Winter storm socks East Coast, strands Virginia motorists
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON ââ?¬â?" Officials in Virginia say the snow storm socking the East Coast has caused several hundred motorists to become stranded in the western part of the state.
Virginia Department of Emergency Management spokesman Bob Spieldenner said Saturday that local and state officials, as well as the National Guard, have helped get about 100 stranded motorists to shelters in two counties. About a foot of snow has fallen in the area.
Spieldenner says many of the motorists became stranded after accidents along Interstate 89 and Route 29 blocked the road. Officials are using four-wheel drive vehicles and the National Guard is using Humvees to help some of the motorists
About 16 inches fell west of Charlottesville, Va."
I heard that 30 inches fell at Wintergreen
I think that we all need to realize that the conditions were awful at the beginning of the storm and it just snowballed...the storm basically begin right before rush hour on Friday evening and even in the best of circumstances, I recall there being plenty of issues on Charlottesville roads when things are during the morning/evening commutes. People knew this huge weather system was forming and the ground was impossibly cold as the temperature never got above the freezing mark. I think yes, there are problems with VDOT, but you'd be hard pressed to find good plow coverage anywhere given the conditions and rush hour traffic. After speaking to my brother who lives in Northern Virginia he stated he had to drive home on the Beltway/Dulles Toll Road and was unable to see lines due to the weather conditions. He saw numerous cars spinning out of control so this was not just an issue for Nelson County. I think everyone should just count their blessings that they made it home safely and maybe next time when the weather service calls for a major storm to hit, everyone takes appropriate cautions when driving down snow covered roads and to yeild the right of way to the plows....
I didn't get home to Buckingham county until saturday afternoon and was surprised to find the main route#20 from Scottsville into Buckingham in a lot better condition than Charlottesville.It seems like these roads had barely been plowed from MJH-Keene.


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Creamy Herbed Boneless Chicken Breast
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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2 Teaspoons Garlic Salt
1 Teaspoon Poultry Season
1 Teaspoon Lemon & Pepper Season
1 10 1'4 Can Cream of Mushroom Soup
1 Teaspoon Dried Oregano Leaves
1 Teaspoon Dried Basil Leaves
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NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW, RULE, REGULATION OR ORDINANCE. 2019 [Fontanelle Hybrids] Fall Sweepstakes (the "Sweepstakes") begins at 12:00:01 a.m. Central Time on October 18, 2019 and ends at 11:59:59 p.m. Central Time on November 14, 2019 (the "Sweepstakes Period"). Sponsor's internal business computer will be the official clock of this Sweepstakes.
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The cuts, known as the sequester, are set to begin Friday and have touched off waves of finger-pointing in Washington over who's to blame for them and dire predictions over their impact, especially on the U.S. military's ability to fulfill its missions.
Smith, the top-ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, said his bill provides a pathway for muting the angry back-and-forth and shutting down the cuts before they run too deep.
But he has no co-sponsors, and any further reductions in the Defense Department's budget are likely to be non-starters for most Republicans. The military's budget is already facing a $487 billion spending cut over the next 10 years, mandated by the Budget Control Act passed in 2011.
"I am mindful of the fact that this is going to be a very, very difficult sell," Smith said.
Despite the warnings, much of the sequester cuts to hit the Pentagon and other federal agencies come in later years and could be offset by spending reductions in programs that are wasteful or behind schedule. Even with the sequester, the Pentagon will still maintain an annual budget of well over $500 billion a year for the rest of the decade.
Smith said the idea behind the sequester was to propose cuts to discretionary spending - which covers federal agency budgets for everything from the military to food safety inspections - that would be so unpopular that Democrats and Republicans would resolve their differences on tax reform and how to generate savings from mandatory spending programs, such as Social Security and Medicare.
"Apparently, however uncomfortable watching the discretionary budget be tortured is, it is not as unpalatable as addressing the broader issue," Smith said.


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Independent Inquiry to Investigate Rasmussen Firing
Courtesy Rabobank
Peter Vogelzang (62), the former Superintendent of the Utrecht Regional Police, Chef de Mission of the Dutch Olympic team in Athens, member of the Supervisory Board of the Royal Netherlands Football Association (KNVB) and delegated supervisory director of Feyenoord NV is to head the independent inquiry into the events surrounding Michael Rasmussen and the crisis involving the Rabo Cycling Team in the Tour de France 2007. This inquiry has been initiated at the request of the Executive Board of the Rabobank Group.
The Executive Board has requested Mr Vogelzang to focus the inquiry on the following topics:
The process leading up to the crisis. What are the underlying facts, how did the decision-making procedure take place during the different phases and how were the communications handled?
How did the management and the team management perform within this process?
The governance structure of the Rabo Cycling Teams that was established in 2004 and that provides for a clear division of responsibilities between the sport operation and the bank and facilitates remote supervision.
The policy of the Rabo Cycling Teams concerning training and medical guidance and the system of monitoring the riders' compliance with the policy.
The context of the developments within the realm of international professional cycling. What is the influence of legislation and regulations, doping checks, sanctions and the conduct of the various bodies (UCI, WADA and National Federations) and organisations such as ASO (organiser of the Tour de France)?
The ultimate findings, conclusions and recommendations of the inquiry committee headed by Mr Vogelzang are expected to be presented in October of this year.
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The Oscar countdown has begun! This Sunday, Hollywood will be a buzz with Oscar fever as the Academy Awards will begin in the afternoon. There are a lot of great films nominated this year and as we have done in the past, we want to highlight a few of the environmentally friendly messaged movies.
Unfortunately, this year has a bit of slim pickings. Over the past few years, there have been fictional feature films with deep environmental messages nominated including Wall-E and Avatar. However, this year the only truly Green films are documentaries. While documentaries are very interesting and entertaining, they are not the most popular art form and will not have the greatest impact. Still, they should be honored for their work.
Two films really stand out this year and they include Gasland and Waste land. Gasland is the story of one man's investigation into the hydraulic drilling called "fracking" done by natural gas companies such as Haliburton. In the film he uncovers contamination and government deceit, even finding a town where they can light their drinking water on fire. The film is a great expose on natural gas extraction. Often we are focused on the dangers of oil, while not paying attention to other energy sources which are extremly harmful to the environment as well as our health.
Waste Land is a heart wrenching story of the largest landfill on Earth in Rio de Janeiro. It focuses on the lives and poor working conditions of garbage workers, as well as the story of modern artist Vik Muniz. Muniz creates art from the garbage pickers and gives them money from the profits. He also works to gain recognition and better living conditions for the workers. The film is a beautiful story of excess, trash, art, human connection, and human rights. This is definitely worth a view!
Even if no feature film focused on the environment, we are crossing our fingers that either Waste Land or Gasland are recognized as winning films. Check out the trailers for both films above and let's hope the Academy honors one of these "land" films. Pun intended.


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Ariel wrote:manfred wrote:Ariel, those cute red shoes and the socks with the little hearts and ribbons on top are just to die for. Get some for your husband and your son.... The skirt is great too, but maybe should be pink or something.... Also, some HUGE dangly earrings?
Then you are all set for a day out together in Amsterdam....
I can imagine that you are a tiny bit jealous of that gentleman Manfred. I am....But my dear.... Also you have to go with the tide. With all this gender neutral stuff going on you know. Even we, at our age can't stay behind.
So I have found you the perfect outfit.Spoiler! :
But who knows. You might find this more to your taste? In 3 colours.Spoiler! :
pr126 wrote:It is cultural Marxism. The goal is to destroy western civilization.
The open borders are for the purpose to speed the decline up.
Europe, as we knew it, by the end of the century will be no more.
In a small study published in Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, researchers at Uppsala University in Sweden report that children who attended one gender-neutral preschool were more likely to play with unfamiliar children of the opposite gender, and less likely to be influenced by culturally enforced gender stereotypes, compared to children enrolled at other pre-schools. Tests showed that the kids from the gender-neutral school were as likely as other children to group people by gender, but didn't attach traditional associations to the concepts of "male" or "female" children to the same degree. During a matching task, for instance, they were less likely to make choices in line with cultural norms when shown images of boys or girls and jeans or dresses.
New Swedish children's book: Grandpa has four wives
Normalization of polygamy is now being presented to small children in Sweden. With the new children's book, "Farfar har fyra fruar" (Grandpa has four wives), which comes in both a Swedish edition and a Somali edition "Awoowgay aabbo waxa uu qabaa afar xaas," small children, 3-6 years, can join Asli as she goes back to Somalia to meet her grandfather and his many wives.
"Asli has never been to Somalia, but now she finally gets to go there with her dad, to meet grandfather and all her grandmothers," is the description of the book, written by Oscar Trimbel and sold by the renowned publisher Adlibris.
The book also comes as a coloring book.
In addition to this book, Oscar Trimbel has also written a book that is normalizing the burka, called Mormor är inget spöke (Grandma is no ghost):
"Omar greets his grandmother who comes from Somalia. When it's Halloween, Omar wants to dress up like a ghost like any other child. He wants his grandmother to come along because it can be scary."
Times are changing in the country that gave us Pippi, Emil, Tjorven and Båtsman.
Just for the record: Polygamy is (still) illegal in Sweden.
Swedish dentist Bernt Herlitz revealed to authorities that after checking the molar teeth of hundreds of migrant children that 80% of the so-called children were actually adults.
Herlitz was quickly fired and now may lose his home.
THE STATUS IN SWEDEN 2017 - By a Swede
I, as a Swede, would say that Sweden is in a crisis.
The reckless immigration is on its way to pass what we can handle as a small country. We have the highest immigration per capita in Europe and in 2015 alone we received 265 000 immigrants.
This has resulted in that our politicians priorities 60% of our tax money on the immigrants. More and more pensioners are living in poverty and we have the longest hospital waiting time in Europe.
Multiculturalism isn't working out as planned. We have 55 no-go zones runned by criminals, the violence is increasing drastically, sexual assault is increasing drastically and the police is loosing control of the situation.
We have almost no political debate about immigration and the fact that we must open our hearts when the world face difficult times is still brought up when someone points out how bad things are going. It's so bad that when someone does that - speaks out about the immigration policy, the media and politicians are quick to judge them as racists and even Nazis.
When Donald Trump referred to a Fox Report about the problems we have here in Sweden our mainstream media laughed at him, our prime minister replied with "What have you smoked?" and our government started working their asses of to cover up what he said. What I don't understand though is that every statistics speaks for itself so if only everyone looked up some facts before calling others racists we would have a much better political climate today.
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Ariel wrote:In the mean time in a Swedish church.
Police station damaged by blast in southern Sweden
A police station in the southern Swedish city of Helsingborg was hit by a heavy explosion in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
A large part of the building and even the windows on the building opposite were damaged by the force of the blast, though no people were injured.
"This is very serious. An attack on the police is not just an attack against society, but on everyone's safety," Sweden's National Police Commissioner, Dan Eliasson, told TT.
He said officers from the national police force were assisting the regional police in Helsingborg, including the national bomb squad.
The alarm was raised shortly after midnight, and there was severe damage to both the entryway and the inside of the building.
"The whole entrance has been blown away. The windows are shattered and there's damage to the doors themselves," said Lennart Linderos from the regional emergency services.
On Wednesday morning, bomb technicians had finished their survey but other technicians were still at work.
Åsa Emanuelsson, a police press officer, said that the rest of the property would be investigated during the day.
"It has suffered extensive damage, but exactly how much, we don't know yet," she said.
Local residents said the explosion was powerful. "I was in my kitchen and felt the apartment shake. It felt as if someone had thrown something at my balcony," a resident told Helsingborgs Dagblad.
Others reported their windows rattling and entire apartments shaking.
Threats against Swedish police and prosecutors on the rise
After a southern Swedish police station was damaged in a blast on Wednesday, police officers have said threats against them are becoming increasingly common.
Early on Wednesday morning, the entrance to the police station in Helsingborg was destroyed in an explosion which Minister of Justice Morgan Johansson said was "a serious attack on the judiciary".
Back in June, the Swedish Police Union presented a report suggesting that Swedish policemen have been increasingly targeted in violent acts.
"Unfortunately, I'm not surprised [about the Helsingborg incident]. We have seen several similar attacks against police stations and cars. We know that threats and violence against police have become more widespread. The police force has become more vulnerable over the past two years," said Lena Nitz, chairperson of the Swedish Police Union.
More than 2,000 police officers responded to the union's investigation and 40 percent of them reported that they had been subjected to threats, violence or other undue influence over the past twelve months with the aim of influencing their service.
Nearly 70 percent of police officers said that threats and violence had increased over the last two years.
The same development has been observed at the Swedish Prosecution Authority. Jonas Nygren, a security specialist at the authority, told TT he has seen an increase in the number of cases relating to unauthorized influence. This includes harassment and threats of violence against individual prosecutors.
The latest survey by the Jusek union suggested that one in four members of the judiciary had been subjected to violence or threats.
And there are indications that threats are becoming more common in the judiciary. The court's own statistics show that the number of incidents almost doubled between 2015 and 2016.
"We see an increasing number of reports, in particular relating to harassment and threats," said Anita Kihlström, who is head of security at the Court of Justice, in an email to TT. However, she said that in recent years the security team had been working to raise awareness of the importance of reporting such incidents.
"It's hard to determine what is actually an increase," she said.
Lena Nitz said she believes that the attack on the police station in Helsingborg has been carried out by people with a history of heavy crime and the intention is to intimidate.
"They want to show that they dare to target the police. That's why it's so important to see this as an attack on democracy and to take powerful action. Trust in the judiciary's ability is at risk of being eroded and then the risk of more attacks increases," she said.
It would be more convincing - not that I'm disputing his argument - if he'd concentrated more on his central point: that the image, or rather its derivative, had been faked. He kept going on about bits being added but never showed a detailed still comparing what was presented to the press with the actual pattern.pr126 wrote:"who conrols the past controls the future
who controls the present controls the past." George Orwell 1984
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I am inclined to believe that the woman in the picture is getting her orders from higher up.
It is well known that the Catholic church makes good money from the mass migration all over the western world.
The pope himself is a globalist neo-Marxist.
Seven bombings in twelve days in Sweden, what is happening? We ask it Swedish journalist "PeterSweden"
Peter, seven bombings in twelve days, what is going on in Sweden?
That is the question I've been asking myself. This is probably the worst I have seen in Sweden so far. Previously we "only" had perhaps 3 bombings a month in Sweden, but now it has really been ramped up. According to Swedish police they think some of these bombings have to do with work they have been doing in "certain" areas. As we all know these "certain" areas are the many no-go zones that now exist in Sweden.
Who do you think are behind these bombings?
Most of these bombings seem to be related to migrant criminal gangs that operate and run the no-go zones in Sweden. But there is evidence to suggest the latest attack against a bar where one person was injured could be terrorist related. The reason for this is that the attacker had religious texts in his backpack and according to a witness he had what appeared to be a suicide belt on him (which police later said was not dangerous).
Any ideas about how the Swedish authorities can stop this epidemic?
In my opinion the obvious solution to stop this epidemic is for the Swedish government to deploy the military into the no go-zones and clear them from these migrant criminal gangs. I very much doubt we will see that happen, at least not now. But the Moderate party, which is one of the opposition parties in Sweden, has actually suggested they want to deploy the military in the suburbs as they call them. At least this is a positive step forward, and a glimmer of hope for Sweden.
How does it feel for you to see your home country in this state?
It makes me incredibly sad. I remember Sweden as it was just 10 years ago. Peaceful. Quiet. Low crime rate. The worst things you had to deal with back then were young kids driving around loudly on mopeds. Today there are bombings on a regular basis. Not to mention the soaring rape statistics and gun crime.
Would you consider going back?
Sweden seems to be turning more and more into a war zone every day, and if you think about it, that's probably how these gangs feel about it too. They see this as a war in which they are trying to conquer Sweden. I wouldn't advise women to go to Sweden, but you have to remember to never lose hope. The globalist elite want you to lose hope. Thats how they win. Never lose hope.
2 explosions outside family apartments in Swedish city Varnhem
Thats 9 explosions / bombs in Sweden in 12 days
Why this is important
The Swedish flag is a constant reminder of our dark and oppressive past. Refugees and migrants are forced to live under its Christian Cross; a symbol of the Crusades and the slaughter of millions of innocent Islamic lives in Sweden's past that makes them feel unwelcome and unsafe. Sweden should be a safe space for everyone.
The rise of Extremist Far‐Right movements, emboldened by the flag of Christianity and 'whiteness', only further necessitates this change.
As our outdated national symbol gradually becomes the banner of Xenophobic and racist extremist groups, we must think into the future. A future of peace, understanding and tolerance.
Our proposition is, to show our unity with the religion of peace and to make our home a home and a safe environment for all, that we replace our symbol of an oppressive past with the Holy symbol of Islam. No longer would far‐right extremists feel that their country caters to their extreme and genocidal ideologies.
The cross is only representative of Christians while the moon not only represents our solidarity with Islam but is also a part of nature. The moon and stars represent a universal culture of beauty and resistance to fascism and intolerance.
It is time for Sweden to become an international country, a beacon of tolerance and understanding.
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After last week�s look back, let�s take a peek forward. Extrapolating from the events of 2013, I think some of these predictions are not unlikely:
1. Republicans will fumble their opportunity in the 2014 midterms, not winning the Senate. Political fortunes come and go, like the swallows of Capistrano and the McRib. But Repubs will not fully capitalize because of the tug of the social conservatives.
2. Once again, Democrats will outspend Republicans in the midterm elections. Democrats are prepared to spend hundreds of millions of PAC, union and corporate money to get reelected, once again proving their willingness to end big money�s corrupting influence in D.C.
3. NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden will find a measure of redemption. Most of the press and virtually all of the politicians in Washington condemned him for divulging embarrassing secrets that might curtail their Orwellian powers. Politicians only want the Fourth Amendment enforced when they are out of power. Senators on both sides of the aisle said Snowden needed �to be hung.� Historically, those talking about being hung are lying.
4. In Colorado and California, the same folks who lament that they don�t have health care now stand in line for government-taxed and -distributed, $310 per ounce marijuana. The inevitable reality of the free market will take over. "Twitch" or "Sketch" who see that line will sell the same weed for $50 an ounce -- and you won't have to halfheartedly convince Twitch that you have back pain.
5. Newly inaugurated liberal New York Mayor DeBlasio, who is 6 feet 7 inches tall and some believe too tall to govern, will flounder. The new Mayor will oversee a police force that will arrest someone for having a 16-ounce soft drink but have him plead to a lesser charge of dealing crack.
6. Given the higher taxes, big government nanny state and war on W2 income earners, even more New Yorkers will move to Florida. Here's a helpful guide to Florida for New Yorkers: As you drive south, you will eventually stop seeing Rebel flag shot glasses for sale in stores. This means you are near the Panhandle's Route 30A-- the best part of Florida -- so keep going so we can keep it that way. Continue driving south. Once you get past Tampa, you are back in the north again. You will like it there.
7. �Johnny Football� will not make it long in the NFL, nor will his scrambling ability help him anymore than it did Michael Vick. Novelty quarterbacks like Tim Tebow do not last long. I see a tearfully apologetic press conference in Johnny Football�s future. The only way his foot speed will help him is if he is drafted by Detroit; it will help him get safely from the stadium to his car in the parking lot.
8. Another Kardashian will divorce. Either Chloe or Chlamydia (I'm not sure of all of their names). Obama will have to appoint the new Kardashian husband, presumably from the 2014 NBA draft.
9. The Pope will grow in popularity thanks to his tolerance and compassion. The College of Cardinals will meet at the Vatican to celebrate the Pope�s first year; this conclave will mark the most celibate virgin men ever meeting in one place if you don�t count Star Trek conventions.
10. North Korea�s dictator-in-training, Kim Jung Un, will continue to provoke the West by doing hapless things. He will try to launch another missile with technology beyond his current Mentos-and-Coke mixture. His missile tests will continue to fail, making him the only Asian who does not test well.
11. Gun control legislation will fail. Americans recognize that guns don�t kill people. Husbands who come home early with a gun do.
12. Whites will continue to decline as a percentage of the population faster than expected, and will soon be in the minority. Republicans will regret they appointed all those anti-affirmative action judges.
13. Polling confirms that Obama is and will continue to be worse than George Bush on protecting civil liberties. Pollsters would ask other questions, but poll-ees run and hide because they think they hear a drone overhead.
14. The more than five million Americans who lost their health care coverage because of the ObamaCare debacle will scramble to buy replacement policies. Opportunist con artists will abound. These hucksters will try to entice their victims with false health care insurance promises like, �If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. If you like your current health care plan, you can keep it. Period.� So be careful.
Ron Hart is a syndicated op-ed humorist, author and TV/radio commentator. Email firstname.lastname@example.com or at visit RonaldHart.com


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A New Jersey teenager has been arrested in the shooting death of a high school senior who was killed just hours after he received his diploma at his graduation ceremony, prosecutors say.
Casey Cole, 18, of Wayne, N.J. faces murder and robbery charges in the killing of Isaac Rinas, also 18. The Passaic County prosecutor's office says Cole shot Rinas in the neck inside Rinas' vehicle in Paterson, N.J.
Rinas walked the stage in a cap and gown at Wayne Valley High School Wednesday, then made a trip to nearby Paterson, N.J., according to authorities. Rinas stopped his Infiniti in front of a building on Fair Street, and an armed man entered his car and demanded money.
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Prosecutors have not said why Rinas was targeted or why he stopped in Paterson. Another teen who was in the car with Rinas was not injured.
Bail has been set for Cole at $2 million. Attorney information was not immediately available.
Friends and family gathered at Rinas' home Thursday night to remember the graduate who they said loved football, his family and friends.
"He was happy. He was thrilled," said one classmate. "Everyone was thrilled to graduate, to party. He was a great guy."
"He was a very friendly person," said another friend, Manny Espinal. "If you got to know him, you would know he was a very caring guy."
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Potential Loss of Left Ventricle Pacing Due to Software Issue
All models of Claria MRI CRT-D SureScan and Amplia MRI CRT-D SureScan devices.
Original Date of Communication:
December 2016
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Inactivated as part of issue 82 - May 2020
All models of Claria MRI CRT-D SureScan and Amplia MRI CRT-D SureScan devices.
Status Update October 2019
A software update, Application SW034 Version 8.2 was released in March 2017 to correct this issue. This software has been deployed onto Medtronic CareLink™ Model 2090 and Encore™ programmers. An in-clinic device interrogation with a programmer containing this software version will update the patient's device automatically. To prevent possible recurrence of the software issued described in the original advisory, the patient must continue to received device programming only from a programmer that has this software update. The loss of LV pacing issue will still occur if the specific programming sequence described in the original advisory letter is performed using a programmer that has not been updated with SW034 Software Version 8.2.
Original Advisory
Due to a device software issue, a loss of Left Ventricle (LV) pacing occurs following a specific device programming sequence. If it occurs, this issue can be corrected by re-programming the device. All tachyarrhythmia detection and therapy features remain fully operational.
A software update is being developed to address this issue. Further information will be communicated once the software update receives applicable regulatory approvals.
All models of Claria MRI and Amplia MRI devices are included in the affected population. This issue can only occur in devices that have been programmed from Managed Ventricular Pacing (MVP) mode to a pacing mode with AdaptivCRT enabled.
When a patient with AdaptivCRT enabled (shipped setting) is subsequently programmed to MVP mode and then re-programmed back to DDD or DDDR, AdaptivCRT is not re-enabled. When this programming sequence occurs, LV pacing is not delivered, despite parameters indicating AdaptivCRT is enabled. This will result in RV only pacing, which may be undesirable for the patient. LV pacing will remain disabled until a specific programming sequence is manually completed; refer to the Patient Management section below for details.
Through 10 November 2016, two events have been reported to Medtronic related to this issue. A review of available data revealed an overall occurrence rate of 0.38%. Medtronic has not received any reports of patient injury related to this issue.
Original Patient Management Recommendations
After consultation with Medtronic's Independent Physician Quality Panel, Medtronic offers the following options for managing patients with a device that may be susceptible to the AdaptivCRT/MVP interaction.
Until the software update has been approved and the affected device models receive the update, follow the programming recommendations provided below. These recommendations also apply to any new device implants.
1. At the patient's next scheduled CareLink transmission or in-office follow-up, identify if the patient's device is operating with AdaptivCRT enabled and loss of LV-pacing. Continue this practice for all subsequent device evaluations until the software update has been implemented.
Using CareLink or Programmer interrogation session reports:
- If the CRT setting is currently programmed to Adaptive Bi-V and LV or Adaptive Bi-V (Figure 1), review rate histogram CRT Pacing percentages (CRT Pacing: Bi-V and LV).
- If Bi-V and LV pacing percentages Since Last Session are both near 0%, then the device has encountered the programming sequence and has lost LV pacing; proceed to step 2.
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2. For patients identified with loss of LV pacing:
Perform the following programming steps to restore the device to its expected operating state with AdaptivCRT enabled:
- Select the CRT parameter window, select Nonadaptive CRT, and select PROGRAM.
- Select the CRT parameter window, select the desired AdaptivCRT setting (Adaptive Bi-V and LV or Adaptive Bi-V), and select PROGRAM.
Until the software update is available, follow the programming steps above to avoid the loss of LV pacing.
As part of the software update previously mentioned, Medtronic will also address an unrelated transient mode switch behavior that may occur in MRI Quadripolar CRT-D device models (Claria MRI, Amplia MRI and Compia MRI). The mode switch behavior is unrelated to ventricular tachyarrhythmia detection and therapies. This behavior only occurs when a VectorExpress™ Test is started, but then aborts due to a fast or unstable rate, or due to a manual user abort (i.e., manually selecting STOP Test). Under these scenarios, the device remains in the transient mode switch state until any of the following occur:
- An automatic Atrial Capture Management™ (ACM) pacing threshold search,
- An automatic delivery of any ATP or shock therapy, or
- An in-office follow-up activity, such as a pacing parameter programming or conducting one of the following in-office tests: Sensing, Threshold, Underlying Rhythm, or CardioSync™. A "Test Started" indication is sufficient to clear the transient state.
Through 10 November 2016, Medtronic has not received any field reports or complaints of this transient mode switch behavior
If you have any questions, please contact your local Medtronic Representative or Medtronic Technical Services at 800-723-4636.
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