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Thursday, February 6, 2014
Today on "Kresta in the Afternoon" - Feb. 6, 2014
Talking About the "Things That Matter Most" on February 6
Live from the Legatus Summit in Orlando, FL
4:00 – Kresta Comments
5:00 – UN says Vatican 'systematically' allowed sexual abuse of children
Yesterday a U.N. human rights committee said that the Vatican "systematically" adopted policies that allowed priests to rape and molest tens of thousands of children over decades. The U.N. committee severely criticized the Holy See for its attitudes toward homosexuality, contraception and abortion and said it should change its own canon law. The Vatican promptly objected and its U.N. ambassador accused the committee of having betrayed the international body's own objectives by allowing itself to be swayed by pro-gay ideologues. He said it appeared the committee simply hadn't listened when the Holy See outlined all the measures it has taken to protect children. We talk to Matthew Bunson, author of Pope Benedict XVI and the Sexual Abuse Crisis: Working for Reform and Renewal
5:20 – The Romance of Religion: Fighting for Goodness, Truth, and Beauty
C. S. Lewis said that Christianity works on us like every other myth, except it is a myth that really happened. Fr. Dwight Longenecker grabs this idea and runs with it, showing that the Christian story is the greatest story ever told because it gathers up what is true in all the fantasy stories of the world and makes them as solid, true, and real as a tribe of dusty nomads in the desert or the death of a carpenter-king. Fr. Longenecker calls for the return of the romantic hero—the hero who knows his frailty and can fight the good fight with panache, humor, and courage. Conflict and romance are everywhere in the story of Christ, and our response is to dust off our armor, don our broad-brimmed hats, pick up our swords, and do battle for Christ with confidence, wonder, and joy. Is religion no more than a fairy tale? No, it is more than a fairy tale—much more: it is all the fairy tales and fantastic stories come true here and now. We talk to Fr. Dwight.
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He's listed as 6'2" 195 but measurements this week have him at 6 even. Said to have a wingspan that rivals any WR in the draft, though. He has some great quickness, but not exactly the fastest from what I have seen of him. He hasn't played against the best talent but when he has, he lights it up. Against Texas A&M he had 21 receptions for 233 yards and TDs.
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(can someone post his highlights if this doesn't work. Trying to figure it out on my phone)
Lots of posts on Twitter about him standing out and looking really good out there on day 2 of practices. That got me to look him up and his highlight reel intrigued me the most. Now I have never evaluated players in the past or even paid too much attention to players before the draft, but PC and JS have me getting excited about every facet of football.
What do you guys know about him? Where would he likely go in the draft? How does he compare to the upper tier WRs?

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Fifa has confirmed that they have rejected appeals from the Football Associations of Hungary and Bulgaria and both teams will now play matches behind closed doors.
The two countries were reprimanded in January after incidents surrounding their supporters but had hoped that the world football's governing body would change their mind.
Hungary were punished after anti-semitic chants were heard during their World Cup qualifier against Israel in August while a group of Bulgarian fans shouted racist abuse at Denmark's Patrick Mtiliga in October.
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Tricida is trying to sell 10.3 million shares at $16-18 per share, which will trade on the Nasdaq under the symbol TCDA.
No convertible securities will be remaining after the IPO goes live. Dilution risk will diminish.
At $17 per share, the company would trade at approximately 2.8x its cash per share.
Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan and Cowen are working on the IPO.
With an experienced management in place and in-house generated patents, Tricida seems a must follow stock. The fact that company's only product candidate is at Phase 3 is quite interesting. Finally, loan agreement with Hercules will provide additional financing, which could lead to share price appreciation in 2018 and 2019.
Source: Prospectus
The underwriters are well-known. It is another beneficial feature:
Source: Prospectus
Incorporated in Delaware in May 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, Tricida is a pharmaceutical company focused on the treatment of chronic kidney disease. With one product candidate at Phase 3, the company seems interesting because the research is at the final stage. It has planned to submit a New Drug Application in the second half of 2019.
The company casts itself with the following words in the prospectus:
Company's only product candidate completed a Phase 3 clinical trial after working with 208 eligible subjects. The image below shows the results provided in the prospectus:
Source: Prospectus
In the next phase, Tricida will work with 196 patients to continue its safety extension trial TRCA-301E, which is expected to be completed in the first half of 2019.
What's the total addressable market? According to estimates of Tricida, approximately 3 million people suffer from chronic kidney disease in the United States. The following lines from the prospectus show more information about people suffering from disease as well as Tricida's patent rights:
Source: Prospectus
According to the prospectus, annual Medicare expense for CKD including end-stage renal disease is approximately $98 billion.
Which are the competitors of Tricida? Investors will appreciate that there are no therapies approved by the FDA for the treatment of metabolic acidosis. No competition will mean more potential revenues for Tricida in case of success:
Source: Prospectus
Tricida has 61 employees, of which 45 are engaged in RD. The following lines provide further information:
Source: Prospectus
Additionally, the company leases a 26,897 square feet office until 2021. The amount of square feet seem sufficient for 61 employees.
Source: Prospectus
The management seems to have outstanding expertise accumulated in large pharmaceutical companies. The founder and CEO, Gerrit Klaerner, Ph.D., and CSO, Jerry Buysse, Ph.D., previously discovered and received approval for the commercialization of Veltassa® (patiromer) and bixalomer (approved in Japan as Kiklin®). Additionally, members of the management bring expertise accumulated in Anacor Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Goldman Sachs (NYSE:), Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:), and Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:).
As it is usually the case in pharma IPOs, the company shows stable financial situation. With $9.7 million in cash and $57.7 million in marketable securities, the company seems cash rich. The following is the list of assets provided in the prospectus:
Source: Prospectus
With that, there are some intangibles that are not registered in the balance sheet. The rights for the TRC101, the company's sole product candidate, were not acquired by Tricida, but discovered in-house. The company has two issued patents in the U.S. and another one in Europe. The following lines provide further information in this regard:
Source: Prospectus
Research in Google Patents shows that Tricida filed a patent application in February 2015 and received a patent in December 2015. Check the following image and note the name of the company:
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With most small pharmaceutical companies acquiring rights from large groups to conduct their research, investors will appreciate that Tricida discovered the potential beneficial use of TRC101.
On the liabilities front, as of December 31, 2017, the company showed total liabilities of only $11.545 million with $11.2 million in current liabilities:
Source: Prospectus
However, the investors need to notice the Loan and Security Agreement signed with Hercules Capital Inc., which was not included in the balance sheet. Depending on several performance-based milestones, the company could receive up to $100 million at high interest rate of 8.35%. The following lines contain further information in this regard:
Source: Prospectus
With that, the contractual obligations as of today are not worrying. Tricida will have to pay $37 million for term loan and several leases:
Source: Prospectus
Investors will appreciate term loan received from Hercules Capital Inc. If the clinical data from the Phase 3 Clinical trials is beneficial, Tricida will receive financing to continue its activities. With that, investors should also notice that 8.35% interest is elevated. It is evident that in case of failure, Tricida will have to pay large sums to debt holders. Little assets could remain after payment to debt holders. As a result, equity investors could see large value erosion if the company is not successful
The company seems very well financed, but it is also burning cash at a high pace. The net losses in 2016 and 2017 were equal to $28.6 million and $41.3 million respectively:
Source: Prospectus
On the cash flow front, the situation is the same. The company used cash of $23.1 million and $40.4 million in operating activities in 2016 and 2017 respectively:
Source: Prospectus
With this elevated cash burn rate, the company will need to raise more capital or receive more debt soon. The company noted in the prospectus that with the current amount of cash, it will have financing to fund its operations for the next 12 months. Investors should be aware of the risks. If the company raises more capital, the share price could decline in the future.
Source: Prospectus
Investors will appreciate that the money to be received from the IPO will be used for financing the research activities. A small part of the proceeds will be used to repay the term loan:
Source: Prospectus
Investors who take a quick review of the current state of the balance sheet will not appreciate $147 million in convertible preferred stock. It is shown in the image below:
Source: Prospectus
My followers and investors making a full review of the prospectus will get to know that the equity structure will be much better after the IPO. All the outstanding convertible preferred stock will be converted into shares of the company's common stock. Read the following lines for more information in this regard:
Source: Prospectus
The following is the list of shareholders with the amount of shares owned before the offering. Investors will appreciate getting to know that well-known money manager Wellington Management Company is among the shareholders:
Source: Prospectus
Additionally, it is also beneficial that certain shareholders have indicated interest in acquiring up to $45 million in shares:
Source: Prospectus
With that, it is also quite beneficial that the Board of Directors of Tricida is independent:
Source: Prospectus
Selling shares at $17.00 per share, the company would have $233 million in cash after the IPO. With $33 million in debt, the net debt is equal to approximately -$200 million. Taking into account 39 million shares outstanding after the offering at $17, the market capitalization would be equal to $663 million, and the enterprise value would be equal to $463 million.
With Medicare expenses for CKD at $98 billion, in my view, the amount of capital employed is not large. With this information in mind, shareholders should get excellent stock returns if the company is successful.
Source: Prospectus
The cash in hand per share is equal to approximately $6. If shares trade at $17 after the offering, the price would be 2.8x its cash in hand. With most pharma IPOs trading at 3x after the offering, Tricida does not seem undervalued. Readers should check Autolus (NASDAQ:) , or Eidos () for some other examples of pharma IPOs trading at 3x their cash per share.
With a massive total addressable market and a fantastic team of professionals, Tricida seems like an interesting stock to buy and hold for a long time. Taking into account the agreement with Hercules, beneficial data after the clinical trials would help Tricida receive additional financing, which could lead to share appreciations. With this rationale, following company's press releases closely will be very important.
I/we have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours.
I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.
"We are a late-stage pharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of our drug candidate, TRC101, a non-absorbed polymer designed to treat metabolic acidosis by binding and removing acid from the gastrointestinal tract, or GI tract. Our goal is to slow the progression of chronic kidney disease, or CKD, through the treatment of metabolic acidosis." Source: Prospectus
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5th March 2017, 01:25 #1
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Fgp 2017
Hello and once again welcome to FGP!
This is the 2017 edition and as usual if you wish to join please observe the following:
All teams have a budget of £48,000,000.
To complete the team, please pick three drivers (two official drivers and a 3rd driver), a chassis and a team engine.
A list of drivers, chassis and engines, with their relative prices can be found below.
Two of the three drivers must come from this price list.
The third driver choice, which costs £1m, is any driver that does not appear on the price list.
Finally, pick a bonus GP which will score double points for the team at that race.
Once complete please choose a name for your team and then post your entry here.
Price list and the complete rules can be found here: Fantasy Grand Prix
Thank you for reading and I hope we see you in our happy little fantasy game!
Last edited by N. Jones; 5th March 2017 at 06:30." Lady - I'm in an awful dilemma.
Moe - Yeah, I never cared much for these foreign cars either."
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The Fighting Anglo American Mafia
Chassis: Mercedes
Power Unit: Mercedes
Driver1: Jolyon Palmer
Driver 2: Esteban Ocon
Driver3: Alfonso Celis
Bonus Race: Spain
Total $47m
Good luck to all.There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Flying Yorkie Zakspeed Express
Chassis: Ferrari
Power Unit: Mercedes
Driver1: Massa
Driver 2: Ocon
Driver3: Leclerc
Bonus Race: BritainThe Old Republic was a stupidly run organisation which deserved to be taken over. All Hail Palpatine!
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POSF1 Scraps Launch After Car Failure
Today, POSF1 have cancelled their planned unveiling of the POSF1-10 due to car problems.
"Today's engine problems for Fernando Alonso and poor lap times by STR have caused us to rethink our entrant for 2017" stated EJ Roller, team principal at POSF1. "We now have to go back to the office and further discuss what our entrant is going to consist of." Roller further stated.
"I am very disappointed with Honda" Alonso stated. "I have a good chance to join a winning organization and Honda screwed it up!"
There is currently no time table for POSF1's launch date.
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I strongly believe I'm smart enough to play pickems, but how this works goes way over my head, but i will give it a try and see what happens"Wives live longer than husbands, because they are not married to women" Colin Mochrie - "Whose Line is it anyway?" - The funniest TV show on earth!
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Aki Racing team yet to reveal anything
Aki Racing Team are yet to reveal there launch date but rumours are circulating that the team may have a change of sponsorship for 2017.
The team is entering their sixth season of FGP and have had varying success in those years. Lets look back at the teams history.
The story started in 2011 when the team failed to meet the deadline for entering the 2011 FGP season. Following a season of testing and work on team structure 2012 saw the team make a debut.
2012 saw Aki Racing Team (ART) unable to gain sponsorship before the season started. Thus running on low funds the team struggled at the start of the season. However enjoyed a good run and finishing 32nd of 55 entries in year 1 was a solid start to life midfield.
2013 arrived and sponsorship in the shape of Hedgehog gutter brush. Forming the new look Aki's Hedgehog Racing Team. (AHRT) The team spent big on drivers securing Jenson Button & Valterri Bottas. However spending on high rated drivers lead to a Sauber chassis which endured an average season, coupled with Bottas Williams being poor and the Mercedes engine couldn't save the season. 2013 ended with AHRT finishing the season in 43rd of 46.
2014 arrived and with Hedgehog still in the name the AHRT aimed high with a Mercedes engine. However the Mclaren engine was a let down. Ricciardo was a top first driver but Maldonado added very little. However after the terrible backmarker season of 2013, it was a relief for the team to secure a midfield position of 15th of 32.
2015 arrived with a new sponsorship. Twix bringing money to ART. Making them Twix's Aki Racing Team (TART) and finally the team leapt into Championship contention. Raikkonen, Gutierrez, Ferrari and Mercedes gave the team a real shot. The TART narrowly missed out on the title to Henners F1. Finishing 2015 as runners up.
After the highs of 2015, 2016 was a disappointment. Once again Twix offered partnership. Mercedes & Ferrari were good performers again but Alonso & Gutierrez let the team down. Finishing 9th of 27 was a let down.
So what will 2017 hold for ART? We will find out over the next couple of weeks.Its not crashing it's drifting with style
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Mia Witt & Tom Horn
Chassis: Ferrari
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Driver1: Massa
Driver 2: Grosjean
Driver3: Tom Horn
Bonus Race: Silverstone
Total $48m
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Driver1: Ocon
Driver2: Kvyat
Driver3: Nico Rosberg
Bonus: UAE"quattro best 4wd rallycar ever"
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Driver 3: Gasly 1
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6th March 2017, 21:34 #10
Chassis: Ferrari
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Driver1: Sainz
Driver2: Vandoorne
Driver3: Di Resta
Bonus Race: CanadaTito Vilanova = :champion:
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CALIFORNIA, U.S. - Weeks after Twitter finally dealt with the problems of spam bots and rolled out new rules that prohibit bulk tweeting, it has now launched a purge on accounts behind artificially viral tweets.
Twitter said it was cleaning up the network, in its push for more genuine interaction and had suspended a horde of accounts that are notorious for mass-retweeting each other's posts.
So far, the network has not made any specific comment on individual suspensions or whether these suspensions are permanent.
However, a report in Engadget pointed out that the accounts had been suspended for violating spam policies that forbid mass duplication and impersonation.
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Reports also noted that the accounts that have been targeted in Twitter's latest crackdown have millions of followers and so the suspension of the accounts is likely to have an impact.
Further, many said that the crackdown might not really have been a coincidence since Twitter is under pressure to eliminate coordinated spamming of all kinds and not just for political reasons.
Meanwhile, the microblogging site is also struggling to add users despite turning its first profit.
Last month, the company - which faced a lot of heat after it was revealed that thousands of Russian troll accounts used the platform to influence the 2016 Presidential elections - announced a set of changes and new developer guidelines.
Twitter's new guidelines were meant to fight off automated actions and to make it harder for "tweetdeckers" to flood the social network.
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Lamb of God's Randy Blythe was charged in December in Prague with causing bodily harm to another person with lethal consequences. Blythe was accused of pushing a 19-year-old who had climbed onto the stage during a 2010 concert at Prague's Abaton club.
The man hit the floor with his head and later died of a head injury.
Prague's Municipal court ruled Tuesday that Blythe was not guilty because what he did was not a crime, court spokeswoman Marketa Puci said.
Blythe, who had pleaded not guilty, acknowledged he pushed the teenager because the band doesn't tolerate any fans on the stage but said he was not aware of any injuries.
In its ruling, the court said it was the concert's organizers who are to blame for the accident, Puci said.
The state prosecutors, who had demanded a five-year prison term for Blythe, said they will appeal the verdict.
Blythe said Tuesday that the victim -- who cannot be named in line with Czech privacy laws while the case still is handled by courts -- was a fan of his band and he felt sorry for the loss of life.
"I had no wish to harm him. He was just a boy. I wish he was still here."
The 42-year-old musician was arrested in June when he returned to the Czech Republic for another gig, not realizing that he was being investigated in the Czech Republic. He was released five weeks later on $400,000 bail after a Prague court dismissed a prosecution request that Blythe be banned from leaving the country, fearing he wouldn't return for the trial.
The relatives of the fan, who are seeking compensation, were told by the court to file a separate case, Puci said.
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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) — A pretrial hearing in the Sept. 11 case at Guantanamo has come to an end following a debate on a defense effort to dismiss some of the charges.
Defense lawyers argue that charges such as conspiracy and terrorism can't be made by a military commission, a special tribunal for war crimes. Attorney James Connell says such charges are suitable to civilian court because they are not considered violations of international laws of war.
The chief prosecutor disputed that argument Friday and said there is a historical and legal basis for using the military commission, which combines elements of civilian and military court.
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Will I tire of orange?
Let's fresh your memory on how it looks now. Ugh.
I found two rugs with a bit of orange on a light background. This flat weave geometric and this modified honeycomb. The first is about half the price of the second but a lot thinner so not especially plush.
So the question is: Will I tire of orange accents? Anyone sick of their accent color?
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Go for it, I have little touches and it goes well with neutral colors and black or dark grey!ReplyDelete
I have a large, mostly orange tapestry from Peru, that I never tire of.ReplyDelete
I've had bright yellow for a while now and I still love it. The nice thing about accents-- if you get sick of them in a year or two you can switch them out without having to re-do the whole room. I think you'll love it! I'm kinda digin' the second rug for some reason.ReplyDeleteReplies
I really love the second rug but its more than twice the price so I'm not sure if I love it twice as much.Delete
You may.... but dinnae fas yoursel' hen, as they say in Glasgow! Have it now, and in a few years you may still love it. If you don't, have a change then. Actually I have been toying with the idea of coral pops in my gray bedroom, so obviously you show amazingly good taste!ReplyDeleteReplies
ha! great minds think alike!Delete
I think you should go for it. You will almost certainly tire of any accent colour you choose so pick the one you love now and enjoy it!! That said - I wouldn't spend a ton on a rug with the accent colour because of the tire-factor. I love the orange!ReplyDelete
Not sure what you see on your end, but the flat weave is $270 right now and the Mandara (which I like better) is $612...but there's a 50% off code "DROP50" to use, so it's only $306! BAM! Problem solved!ReplyDeleteReplies
OMG! I thought the 50% was already taken off but you are totally right! Woo-hoo!! Thank you so much for giving me the heads up.Delete
I don't know if you'll get tired of it but I know I LOVE that rug! The right one. Doesn't it almost look red? Maby if you get tired of orange as a accent, you just use red in the rest of the room and it'll read as read; brand new! ;)ReplyDeleteReplies
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My son has had bright orange stripes on his wall for 3 years and I love them as much today as I did the day I painted them! I didn't even know I liked orange!ReplyDelete
I have a very small kitchen and the walls are completely covered by cabinets, appliances and tile backsplash. Due to the 9' almost 10' ceilings I had about 2 feet of "playing space above my cabinets for color. I chose orange and I love it. Most would say that it is a main color scheme , but in actuality it is more of an accent color, I have an open layout , so its a splash of color and I love it. Makes me happy every time I look at it. Its my bold self statement in a house of boys. Have had it over 3 years and am still in love. Orange is just happy and funReplyDelete


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Scammer impersonating sheriff's deputy strikes in Kenosha
Scammer impersonating sheriff's deputy strikes in Kenosha
KENOSHA, Wis. —
Kenosha police said a woman reported a man claiming to be from the Kenosha County Sheriff's Department tried to force her to pay a debt that she did not owe.
The victim, Beverly Beyer, told officials that the person on the other end of a phone call identified himself as Lt. Moore, from the Sheriff's Department.
She said she asked the person, who sounded like a white man, for his badge number. The caller replied, "I know you are not going to pay," and the phone disconnected.
Authorities said numerous Milwaukee agencies had their phone numbers spoofed on caller IDs, and they believe the calls came from New York City.


text: Hey guys. Im new to the forums. this is my desperate plea for help. I had my baby girl on May 15th. She weighed 6.10 at birth. We went in the monday after and she was 6 lbs. I know that babies lose weight after birth but that they should be back at their birth weight by 2 weeks. We went in because of Thrush at exactly 2 weeks. She was 6.5. They didnt like that she wasnt back at 6.10 but they said to keep EBF like i am. Well we went in for a weight check yesterday (a week later) and she is down to 5.10. I let the dr know that she is trowing up about 2-3 times a day. It wasnt projectile vomiting but it was def a lot. The dr sent us to go get an u/s done to check for pyloric stinosis. She passed that with flying colors. I believe that the throwing up has to do with the weight loss. He said he doesnt believe it do because its not after every feeding. She is classified now as "failure to thrive" because of her weight loss. the title alone scares me. Her diapers are great. We get plenty of peepee and poopie dipes a day. We have checked for tongue tie and she is clear of that as well. We were having some latching issues that have been fixed within the last week. Any thoughts? Im so scared and thinking of pumping and switching to formula just until she gets her weight back. right now I am pumping and giving her BM so that we can keep a record of how much she is taking in. We go in on Monday for another weight check.


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Watertown Chief Ed Deveau said Tuesday that the events that unfolded during the week of the Boston Marathon bombings will cost the police department upwards of $250,000 – but he hopes the town won't have to bear the cost.
Deveau said he expects over $250,000 in overtime and equipment charges stemming from the incident, though he cautioned the final numbers "are not even close to being completed yet."
Deveau said the department is working with the federal and Massachusetts emergency management agencies for reimbursement.
"Based on our involvement in the Boston bombings and then with everything coming out to Watertown, we've created a credible amount of increased monies in overtime and equipment," Deveau said. "We're working with FEMA and MEMA to try and get those costs covered."
He also said that "it is our hope" to make sure the town would not have to pay any additional expenses related to the Boston Marathon events.
Late on the night of April 18, the two Boston Marathon bombing suspects came to Watertown after hijacking a car, and engaged in a shootout with police. As events unfolded, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was shot fatally and run over by his younger brother, Dzhokhar, 19, who was attempting to escape. Dzhokhar was captured the next evening in a boat parked behind a house on Franklin Street in Watertown, after a massive manhunt.
The federal and state money could help alleviate the cash-strapped town's financial responsibilities: Watertown's police budget has been continually shrinking over the past decade, leading the now 65-person department to cut eight officers in as many years, Deveau said.
And as the town's police budget hearing scheduled for Tuesday, June 4 looms, Deveau said he hopes the town-wide support shown since the events will be reflected in the accounting books.
"I think it's a dialogue we need to have moving forward," Deveau said of the events affecting budget decisions. "We all recognize the bombing in Boston has changed the landscape. Boston, Cambridge, and Watertown need to look at their police services, and see if they need more staffing."
Next fiscal year's public safety budget in Watertown is proposed at $15.9 million, compared to last fiscal year's $15.5 million, according to town documents.
Deveau also noted that the creation of the Watertown Police Foundation, which takes contributions and also profits from the police-specific "Watertown Strong" shirts, will help the department fund much-needed police training sessions and community outreach programs.
"I'm hoping the foundation will be able to give us a shot in the arm, and help get our officers back into the specialized training that we've missed in the last five to seven years after state cuts," he said.
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October 15. 2013 9:50PM
UPDATED: AG rules trooper was justified in fatal shooting of Canterbury grandmother
New Hampshire Union Leader
Police say extensive training helps guide deadly force decisions
Former Congressman Chuck Douglas' firm representing family of woman shot by state police
Woman shot by police had sped off from traffic stop, nearly hit person, AG statement says
Woman shot, killed after police chase
Boyfriend says shooting victim was executed
The fatal shooting of a Canterbury woman by a state police trooper in a Manchester neighborhood was a justified use of deadly force because the trooper who fired off 11 rounds from his .45 caliber Smith and Wesson pistol feared she was going to run him down, according to a report released Tuesday by the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office.
Trooper Chad Lavoie was either four feet, as he maintains, or 10 to 30 feet away, as other witnesses say, from the boxed-in Monte Carlo being driven by Wendy Lawrence, 45, when she accelerated in his direction Sept. 30.
He emptied his gun into her windshield. Four shots hit Lawrence; a bullet to her chest killed her, according to an autopsy performed by Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Thomas Andrew.
"Are you kidding me?" said an incredulous Charles Peter of Warner, Lawrence's boyfriend, when told of the finding. "This is unbelievable. There is no way shooting an unarmed woman is justified."
Senior Assistant Attorney General Jeffery A. Strelzin confirmed Tuesday that Lawrence — a habitual offender whose license was suspended and who had a criminal record — had no firearms or other weapons, other than her car.
Attorney Richard J. Lehmann of Concord represents Lawrence's family, which includes her mother, two sons and a grandchild. Lehmann said there is nothing in the report that "justifies the trooper unloading 11 rounds into the windshield of that car and Ms. Lawrence in light of the degree of risk she posed while sitting in a vehicle that was pinned in by police."
He said, if anything, the report raises more questions than it answers, such as why didn't the other troopers feel compelled to fire their weapons and why Lavoie didn't move out of the path of the Monte Carlo; other troopers estimated it was moving at 10 mph.
Lavoie has been involved in two other officer-involved deadly force incidents. The first was on May 7, 2011, and involved a 37-hour standoff in Manchester between police and James Breton, 50. Lavoie did not fire his weapon in that incident; Breton was shot dead by state trooper Gerard Ditolla.
Lavoie was one of several other officers who shot and killed an armed suspect during a confrontation in Pelham on Oct. 22, 2011.
Both of those shootings were found to be justified uses of deadly force by the officers.
Spike strips fail
The Sept. 30 shooting happened about 6:20 p.m. at the intersection of Kennard Road and Dave Street in the North End of Manchester. Lawrence was pulled over about 6 p.m. by Trooper Kevin Leblanc for driving erratically on I-89 southbound around mile marker eight.
Lawrence told the trooper she had a valid license, but did not have it with her. Leblanc noticed a non-driver license in the car and asked to see it. As he ran her record, and learned she was a habitual offender and that her license was suspended, Lawrence drove off and headed south toward Concord. Leblanc pursued her and soon came upon the Monte Carlo sideways in the road. Lawrence quickly sped off, almost hitting a person, who is not identified in the report.
She proceeded onto I-93 south where Leblanc and two other troopers pursued her in a chase that reached speeds of 90 mph.
Lawrence took Exit 9S off I-93, heading into Manchester. By then, state police headquarters had called off the pursuit and the troopers turned off their sirens and blue lights, but continued to follow the Monte Carlo as it drove at about 25 mph through the city.
At the intersection of Dave Street and Kennard Road, however, Lavoie — who was on duty on an interstate (the report does not give his exact location) heard the radio transmission about the pursuit and two troopers saying they were going to deploy spike strips. He then heard someone say the attempt was unsuccessful.
He continued north on the highway, intending to set up his spike strips in the area of Exit 7, but heard that the Monte Carlo had taken Exit 9S. Lavoie turned off his blue lights when the pursuit was called off, but continued north on the highway.
Cruiser rammed
Lavoie took Exit 8 and headed toward the intersection with Mammoth Road. He heard other troopers call out the name of a road and punched it into his GPS and realized it was close by. He drove down Mammoth Road to the intersection with Kennard Road where he saw the Monte Carlo with a cruiser following behind it.
He decided to box in the Monte Carlo, according to the report. He stopped his cruiser, put it into park and got out to arrest Lawrence. The report states Lawrence drove forward and rammed into the side of his cruiser. Lavoie ran to the back of his cruiser, taking his handgun out of its holster as he did.
'Stop the car'
Lavoie stood facing the front of the Monte Carlo, yelling over and over again, "Stop the car!" Lavoie said he could see Lawrence through the windshield and that she looked "determined," not afraid.
After hitting Lavoie's cruiser, the Monte Carlo backed up and hit the cruiser in back of it, the report says. Lavoie continued yelling at the driver to stop, but instead, she put the Monte Carlo into drive, turned the wheel to the left in the direction of Lavoie and started to move forward.
"Trooper Lavoie believed that the driver was not going to hold back when she hit his cruiser and would do whatever it took to avoid being taken into custody. He was about 4 feet in front of the Monte Carlo and thought that the driver was going to run him over and kill him. At that point, Trooper Lavoie started firing his gun, aiming at the driver. He continued shooting until the car stopped moving forward and the threat of being run over ended," the report said.
Other troopers told investigators they believed Lavoie was in danger of being run over by Lawrence when he started firing his gun.
The report noted Lawrence "was motivated by her prior criminal and motor vehicle record due to the near certainty that she would be going to prison if the troopers successfully apprehended her."
Boyfriend's accusations
Charles Peter said Tuesday he considered the AG's report a way for police "to cover up their lies."
"I don't care what the AG said," Peter said. "That state trooper murdered her. That's what Donald Brown said. He told me he saw everything from his window."
Peter said Brown, who lives near where the shooting happened, told him in the presence of another woman that Lawrence had her hands up when she was shot.
According to the AG's report, Brown told investigators that Peter and a woman were at the shooting scene and asked him questions. He said they asked him if Lawrence's hands were up in the air like she was giving up. Brown said he never told Peter he saw that occur. Instead, Brown confirmed he did not see the shooting and only heard the shots being fired, according to the report. After, he looked outside and saw Lawrence in the car with both her hands on the steering wheel.
Next, he saw her hands come off the steering wheel and fall down toward her lap.
"Then the police must have gotten to him," Peter said when read what Brown told investigators.
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This University of Denver hockey team, and its fans, must find the inner strength to come together and play (and cheer) with inspiration, passion and purpose. The way the team responds to their fallen teammate, their ever depleting roster and their arch-rival itching to get the Gold Pan back presents an amazing opportunity for this DU band of brothers to define their collective identity. Right now, they are .500 hockey team that is now sitting at something of a cross-roads in their season. Additionally, we DU fans also need to come together to put aside our stoic resolve and simply find our joy and catharsis in the all-out support of our players and our school. The team needs us, and, frankly, we need them.
This weekend's performance will tell us a lot about that identity and how they respond to the really difficult set of cards they've had to play this year. How can they deal with intense emotion, stress, distraction, doubt, friendship and duty? Coach Gwozdecky talked about "completing the mission". They now have a clearly defined inspiration for their season, but they are a young and somewhat hampered bunch right now. The old saying goes that adversity doesn't build character, but does reveal it. Gwozdecky has a very tough coaching job in front of him as he must turn a range of new emotions and uncharted territory as he channels the output of these young men into something hopefully positive.
I want to see the whole DU community rally around this team and give them the emotional boost that a full building and and arch rival provides. While nothing compares to what the Martin family and the DU players and staff are feeling right now, I will not discount the emotions that we die-hard fans are feeling, too. Many of us are also sharing this sense of being kicked in the gut - anger, pain, blame, constant questioning and a real deep fear for a young man and the program we all follow. DU fans are missing sleep, calling each other often, and sitting on their computers waiting for the next shred of information, wishing we all could help in some way.... Sometimes, this board is a even form of therapy and connection, as we share our hopes in the silence of night with others who feel what we feel...
The best therapy right now for us fans is to help Magness become the place where we all gather to let out a week's worth of shared hell in some serious fan thunder. I want to hear the student section erupt. I want to hear the fight song. I want our fans standing and yelling and giving these guys the support they need to complete their mission. I know I am going to shed some tears when they come out of the tunnel and I don't care.
Our team needs us now more than ever, but in reality, I think we need them just as much.


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Old Wives Tales
Posted 01 April 2009 - 09:57 AM
Size Does Matter
Posted 01 April 2009 - 10:03 AM
However, I *am* really nearsighted, so maybe there IS some truth to it!
Posted 01 April 2009 - 10:17 AM
Yikes! Becareful Chestnut!
Wow, if that really were true I'd be in trouble--I go to sleep with damp hair all the time.
However, I *am* really nearsighted, so maybe there IS some truth to it!
Size Does Matter
Posted 01 April 2009 - 10:22 AM
Size Does Matter
Posted 01 April 2009 - 08:59 PM
If you go outside with wet hair, you'll catch a cold.
If you cross your eyes, they'll stay that way.
If you swallow chewing gun, it will take seven years to digest
Posted 02 April 2009 - 11:50 PM
Edited by ravenhecate, 02 April 2009 - 11:51 PM.
Posted 07 May 2009 - 09:22 PM
Posted 08 May 2009 - 08:35 AM
If your ears are ringing, someone is talking about you. If they itch, someone is thinking of you.
If your nose itches, you are going to kiss a fool - but remember, two fools can't kiss!
Never put new shoes on the table or you will have bad luck every time you wear them.
If someone gives you something sharp, like a set of steak knives, you have to give them a penny. That way, you 'purchased' it and won't cut yourself.
If someone gives you a plant, or other living thing, don't say thank you or it will die. Say "I appreciate your kindness." etc.
Whatever the weather is on Palm Sunday, that will be the weather for the next seven Sundays.
When you get a new item of clothing, wear it for the first time to church to ensure good luck when wearing them.
Posted 08 May 2009 - 08:59 AM
Posted 17 June 2009 - 05:40 PM
If a broom falls down company is coming.
Salt sprinkled across your door and windows will keep "bad" people out.
Saltwater burn witches when thrown on thier familars.
If a door opens, a ghost just walked in.
You must wear metal (safety pin, broach, etc) on a pregnant belly when you go out at night, or the baby will be born with disabilities.
Posted 19 June 2009 - 10:19 PM
Posted 20 June 2009 - 05:46 PM
Posted 20 June 2009 - 06:28 PM
Eating the crust of your sandwich will make your hair curly (for girls) and it will put hair on your chest for boys.
If you cross your eyes and someone hits you on the back, your eyes will be stuck like that.
Touching yourself *down there* will either put hair on your palms or make you go blind.
Posted 20 June 2009 - 11:08 PM
Touching yourself *down there* will either put hair on your palms or make you go blind.
Also, you might go insane if you are touching yourself in those ways.
Posted 21 June 2009 - 12:47 AM
Saltwater burn witches when thrown on thier familars.
I find this one rather amusing since, as a witch, I myself use salt water like the Catholics use Holy Water.
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UPDATE: Apple refuses to refund five year old's £1,700 App Store spending spree
UPDATE: According to Eurogamer, Apple has since refunded the full 1710.43 'as the purchases were clearly unintentional.'
The Daily Mail has today highlighted the plight of a mum and dad whose kid has racked up am eye-watering 1,700 Apple App Store bill.
The paper reports that Danny Kitchen's father happily handed over his password so the youngster could download free title Zombies vs Ninjas. Which he did.
The thing is, he also went on to download a 69.99 piece of DLC. 19 times.
However, whereas Apple has refunded in the region of 66m to US customers whose kids had cheekily downloaded IAPs without permission, the company has refused to refund the Kitchens.
In the Daily Mail's (but sadly not the Kitchen's) defence, the paper does point out that iOS devices have built-in parental controls designed to prevent just this sort of issue.
On the flip side, poor Danny – who has understandably been left in tears" by the drama – surely cannot be held to account for what is a very easy misunderstanding?
Indeed, most parents will have either experienced similar problems first hand or at the least know other parents who have. In many instances Apple has agreed to refunds. Why it will not in this instance is unclear, particularly considering the stance it takes in the US.
All iOS devices have built in parental controls that give parents and guardians the ability to restrict access to content, eg internet access and age rated content such as music, games, apps, TV shows, movies etc," an Apple spokesperson explained.
Parental controls also give parents and guardians the option to turn off functionality such as purchasing from iTunes and the ability to turn off in-app purchases.
Our parents' guide to iTunes details the steps and measures parents and guardians can take to make sure younger players have access to the right content. The first thing we recommend is not to share your password."


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Jeff Hawkins and the Brain
The creator of the PalmPilot and the Treo is at it again. But his latest startup, Numenta, isn't just making another gadget. It's attempting to fuse silicon and gray matter to produce the ultimate intelligent machine.
(Business 2.0 Magazine) -- Jeff Hawkins was just another junior engineer at Intel in 1979 when he stumbled across an issue of Scientific American magazine that would illuminate a path to what would become his life's work.
It had nothing to do with the two great breakthroughs - the PalmPilot and the Treo - for which Hawkins would later become celebrated as one of the great technological and design geniuses of recent times. The issue was devoted to the human brain, and it featured an essay by DNA co-discoverer Francis Crick bemoaning the lack of a grand theory explaining how the roughly 3 pounds of gelatinous tissue each of us carries around in our skulls could possibly do all the fantastically complex tasks it does.
Hawkins read it, put the magazine down, and thought to himself, "I have to work on this." Then and there, he set a goal of not just devising such a theory but using it to build a machine that, simply put, can think like a human.
People thought he was nuts. He tried to enroll in doctoral programs at MIT, then as now a hotbed of artificial intelligence; they wouldn't take him. He got into a biophysics doctoral program at the University of California at Berkeley but gave up after he was told he couldn't work on his brain-meets-machine interests because no one on the faculty would sponsor that kind of research.
Hawkins drifted back to the computer industry, but the brain obsession never waned. "In 1986, I laid out a plan, and it included making enough money to do what I wanted to do," Hawkins recalls. With the PalmPilot, first introduced in 1996, and the Treo, unveiled in 2001, Hawkins went about making his money.
Yet even as he was perfecting his groundbreaking inventions and trying to help manage the roller-coaster corporate fortunes of his companies, Hawkins quietly began puzzling out an overarching theory of how the brain works. Once in a while, he would pop up at some conference and hint that he was onto something epic - "the biggest idea I've ever had," as he once put it - but coyly refuse to give many details. There were whispers in Silicon Valley that Hawkins's project, whatever it was, was at best a distraction and quite possibly a technological white whale.
Now Hawkins is finally ready to open up about what he's been chasing. And what he says makes clear that his quest may well lead to a tremendous technical advance with far-ranging implications. Hawkins believes that his latest startup, called Numenta, is on its way to creating the first truly intelligent computer - a thinking machine that, in essence, learns the same way the human brain does.
Hawkins, now 49, founded Numenta in 2005 and brought in longtime business partner and Palm (Charts) veteran Donna Dubinsky as CEO. Numenta, Hawkins stresses, has nothing to do with the field known as artificial intelligence. What he has in mind is far more supple and elegant.
Rather than being inspired by biology, AI uses brute computing power and logic to make computers seem intelligent through their behavior. When IBM's (Charts) Deep Blue finally beat chess grand master Gary Kasparov a decade ago, it wasn't because it was smarter than he was. It was just faster.
Even today, computers don't have intuition. They have trouble recognizing images, understanding language, and dealing with ambiguous information. Humans have no trouble doing those things. We are intelligent, and computers are not.
Numenta's approach is radically different. Computers running Numenta software will not be programmed like regular computers. Rather, algorithms that Numenta has come up with allow machines to learn from observation, just as a child learns by observing the world around her.
Numenta is developing a new computer memory system that it says can remember the patterns of the world presented to it and use them, the way a human does, to make analogies and draw conclusions. If it works as Hawkins expects, the applications and business opportunities will be stunning. They could range from the mundane - helping radiologists or airport security officers to read X-ray images, predicting machine failures in factories, improving manufacturing yields at chip plants - to the mind-boggling: predicting tornadoes and stock prices, making smart cars, unraveling the mysteries of the cosmos. "I know this has to work because this is how the brain does it," Hawkins says.
Even with his track record, it's tempting to dismiss Hawkins's enthusiasm as overheated. "No one yet knows how human brains work," cautions Marvin Minsky, a venerated researcher who co-founded MIT's AI lab in 1959.
Nonetheless, some very impressive people have bought in. Bill Atkinson, one of the software engineers who designed the original user interface for the Mac computer, declares, "What Numenta is doing is more fundamentally important to society than the personal computer and the rise of the Internet." Atkinson pulled himself out of semiretirement to become one of the first outside developers of Numenta software.
The company also has four corporate partners developing their own applications: a major automaker, two defense contractors, and a software firm that monitors electrical surges in factories. Numenta plans to release a beta version of its software, along with a set of development tools and "learning algorithms," under a research license early this year.
Targeted at research scientists and hard-core programmers, the license will allow people to play around with the software for free until they're ready to create a commercial product. "We want as many people experimenting with the technology as possible," Hawkins says.
He knows that he needs to build a community of developers around Numenta with financial incentives to help his technology succeed, just as he did at Palm. He toyed with making Numenta a nonprofit, like his Redwood Neuroscience Institute from which the company sprang, but ultimately decided against it. "If you have a technology and people think they can make money from it, you will get thousands of people working on it," he explains. "I'm an impatient guy. I want to start seeing these machines working."
At his core, Jeff Hawkins is a designer in the grandest sense of the word. Whether it's a handheld computer or the human brain, he takes a big-picture, holistic approach. "When you look at the PalmPilot," he points out, "there was nothing new in it. Everything had existed in a prior product. The trick was to know what to include, what to exclude, and what we were trying to accomplish with it."
Hawkins is driven by his constant dissatisfaction with the way things are. Handwriting-recognition software was horrible, so he invented the Graffiti writing system used in the original Palm. An avid sailor, he recently commissioned a naval architect to build him a small, gaff-rigged schooner. The type of schooner he has in mind has two masts and, for the past 300 years, has required at least two people to operate it.
But Hawkins wants to be able to sail alone, so he designed a way to pull up the sails with one line instead of the usual two. "He can look at a problem and think about how to take all the constraints in the world and form the right thing out of them," Dubinsky says.


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Cruising on a four-lane road like Sir Winston Churchill Avenue on a sunny day, one might stop to ask why the speed limit – 50 kilometres an hour for much of the road – is set so low.
Driving down Dawson Road with the speedometer locked at 50 when it's ideal road conditions can be a challenge for some as well.
But speed limits in St. Albert aren't set arbitrarily. A limit that might seem too slow on an ideal day has a variety of other factors taken into account, explains St. Albert's transportation manager Dean Schick.
"On a nice sunny day there's minimal volume, minimal perceived conflict from other vehicles or road users, and so that would be a perception of what the ideal speed should be, because I may not recognize as a driver that I've passed five different access points to condos, commercial lots, and I'm driving across a 60-degree curve, but all my brain takes in is I've got two lanes of travel, and it's a nice road condition, I should be driving faster," Schick says.
City engineers use guidelines from the Transportation Association of Canada to help them determine speed limits for St. Albert's roadways, Schick says.
The guidelines help provide an assessment tool for the engineers and use a scoring system.
"It takes subjectivity out of the equation," Schick says.
Factors considered include the roadway classification (i.e., arterial, collector or local road); the land use surrounding the road (this can impact who is on the road and how it's used); as well as the number of travel lanes, median separation and the length of the road corridor.
Engineers consider the speed at which the road is deemed safe under ideal conditions then lower the limit based on the presence of various risk factors.
These factors can include "horizontal" and "vertical alignment" (usually meaning hills and curves), lane width, roadside hazards, pedestrian and cyclist exposure, the pavement surface, intersections, private access points and on-street parking.
Each road in St. Albert has its own profile and hazards, Schick says.
The speeds aren't set only with drivers in mind, but also take into account other road users like pedestrians and cyclists.
"You need to equate the most vulnerable road user when you're looking at the most potential danger," he says.
As a pedestrian hit by a car, your chance of survival diminishes significantly as speeds increase. At 30 km/h your chance of survival is high but drops to only 10 per cent at 60 km/h.
"We need to design speeds and roadways for all road users," Schick says. "We are a very heavy vehicle-reliant community but on the same token we want to enhance mobility and ensure the quality of life is high for all residents using our network systems."
While there are many complaints that speeds are too low – Sir Winston Churchill Avenue and Bellerose Avenue are two that Schick hears about often – there are also complaints that speeds are too high.
The latter complaint is often about local roads.
Schick says all drivers have their own perspectives on their routes and needs from a roadway. For instance, while driving to work a driver might want the limit to be higher, but on the local roads close to home think the speed limit is too high.
And drivers aren't the only people complaining. The city also gets complaints from frustrated pedestrians who think traffic is travelling too fast or not stopping at crosswalks.
"You don't often hear a pedestrian complain the speed is too low on any roadway," Schick says.
Engineers might crunch the numbers, but education and enforcement also play a role in addressing the city's speed limits.
"The majority of drivers out there are in general very reasonable and travel at a speed which will allow them to avoid crashes. However, complacency created from driving under ideal scenarios may create a false sense of security in both the drivers' capability and the vehicle capability. That's just a reality," Schick says.
Hidden risks
Stu Fraser, supervisor of the peace officer program for the city, says an average driver doesn't see the work the engineering department does or necessarily understand what hazards may lie ahead on a road.
A good example is coming into the downtown area from the west via Sir Winston Churchill, Fraser says.
"The average motorist doesn't realize that Dean and his section have gone out and played with the crosswalk lights because we have pre-school and out-of-school care down there, we have seniors going back and forth from the support services (to the mall)," he says.
"We've created an expectation by signage and by enforcement that this is the speed from one end of Sir Winston to the other, yet the average driver just knows that it's a four-lane divided collector route and they're frustrated because they can't get quickly where they want to go."
It's not always clear to a driver why the speed limit is what it is, Fraser says.
"We've artificially by perception depressed the speed limit, but it's because of a number of various factors that have been identified," he says.
Schick says his department tries to be evidence-based when it comes to decisions.
Martin Parker Jr., a traffic engineering principal for the U.S.-based firm Wade Trim, echoed Schick's desire for evidence.
"You need to have this factual information and then you can make good decisions that are realistic," Parker says.
When it comes to setting speed limits, Parker says, one size does not fit all.
He says setting speed limits should be like shoe shopping for municipalities.
"You go out and look for your size, look for your style and so on and purchase the shoes, see how they fit and then you're happy," Parker says.
However, that's not how it always works.
"The problem with speed limits, everyone has an opinion, and instead of selecting a speed limit that fits the conditions, we go with general limits."
To determine a limit that's realistic, Parker says doing some measurements is required. He says speed samples should be first on the list to determine the 85th percentile speed – the speed at which or below 85 per cent of the people are travelling.
"It gives you a good idea of what the general driver perceives on that section of road," Parker says.
After that you need to collect crash data. The presence of pedestrians and other road users also needs to be considered.
In urban situations in particular, the needs of non-motorists often should have an impact on the speed limit, he says.
But it depends on the conditions of each individual road and its uses.
Updates to speed limits should absolutely be on the table, Parker says.
"Conditions change. We should always be open to a review," he says.
Bellerose Drive/McKenney Avenue – 50/60 km/h
Bellerose changes from a two-lane undivided road, with no curbing or other urban features, to a four-lane divided road that travels through a major commercial area.
Schick says some speed-limiting factors on this road include a hill on the east end that impacts visibility coming up to intersections, as well as road curvature.
On McKenney there is a hill as well, along with a private access point on the north side, west of Liberton Drive, along with an "S" curve with multiple private access points.
There are multiple roadway intersections along the road.
Pedestrian use, including children attending school in Lacombe Park, needs to be considered as well, Schick says.
Dawson Road – 50 km/h
Many feel the 50 km/h speed limit is too low for this undivided four-lane road. However, Schick says speed-limiting factors include the fact that it's undivided, is used by pedestrians (many of whom are children) and there are multiple intersections that provide neighbourhood access.
Giroux Road – 60 km/h
A four-lane divided arterial road, Giroux Road has some less severe "S" curves to consider. There are minimal private access points but there are some. There are also intersections and pedestrian movements, including high school students, to consider.
Grandin Road – 50 km/h
A four-lane undivided road, Grandin Road has potential pedestrian conflicts, roadway intersection points, a hill and the entrance to the downtown area – all of which serve as speed-mitigating factors, Schick notes.
Poirier Avenue – 50 km/h
While it is a four-lane roadway, Poirier Avenue is undivided and there is some curvature that limits the visibility of major intersections.
Schick notes there are private access points on the east end as well as pedestrian movements to accommodate.
Residents complain about drivers' speeds in the area, particularly at the Parkwood Drive and Pinewood Drive points, he says.
Sir Winston Churchill Avenue – 50/60 km/h
Schick notes there are multiple school zones and private access points along this road.
The limit is 60 km/h at the west end but 50 km/h near commercial and residential access points. Near some of those spots there is an "S" curve that limits visibility.
The road also shifts from a two-lane undivided road to a four-lane divided road, he notes.
Villeneuve Road – 60/80 km/h
The road is an undivided two-lane roadway that transitions from a rural setting to an urban one. Coming in from a highway speed, there are segments of 80 km/h and 60 km/h to reduce speeds to urban-appropriate levels, Schick says.
Factors considered in the limit include intersections with neighbourhood sites and city works sites.
Villeneuve also approaches a major commercial area near St. Albert Trail, he notes.
We asked you: How do you feel about speed limits in St. Albert? Are there certain streets/areas that you find particularly frustrating?
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Amanda Babey, @smandaleeb:
Despite what drivers seem to think, Bishop Street is not a freeway.
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MissMandi Mae:
Woodlands Road seems to be extremely problematic. I live right on it and people speed up and down it every day like it's a race track. I have resorted to standing outside and watching my child walk to and from school because too many drive carelessly and don't pay enough attention to the fact that it's a residential area with many children!
Amanda Knippshild:
Personally I think all residential roads should be decreased to 40 km/h and the other collector type roads should all be 60 km/h. There are some that are 50 right now and there are no homes, or schools facing onto them. It makes no sense. I guess they are just a cash cow for photo radar. Also why is that little piece of 137 Avenue from Ray Gibbon Drive to 170 Street 60 km/h? The rest is 70.
Jessica Brisson:
North Ridge Drive really needs a posted speed decrease.
Graham Roth:
The only reason most roads are 50 is for the purpose of photo radar, most roads are made to handle 60 km/h speed limit!
Christina Kwasny:
I agree that the section of Ray Gibbon that is 60 should be 70. In fact, Ray Gibbon could be increased to 75.
Patti Gagnon:
There's a weird section by Sir George Simpson that's like a grey area. If you go one way it's 30 but the signage in the other direction says 50.
The 30 km/h section on Mission by the grain elevators and on Hebert make me crazy. It's posted 30 on Grenfell – around the corner by Wildrose no one pays attention to that. People need to respect the speed limits on all the collector loops in residential areas too.


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SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (AP) — A 27-year-old upstate New York man has been charged with starting a fire that swept through a second-floor apartment, killing a man and three young children and critically injuring a fourth child, police said Friday.
Schenectady police Lt. Mark McCracken said Robert Butler of Saratoga Springs was arraigned in Schenectady City Court on a first-degree arson charge and was sent to the county jail without bail.
McCracken said Butler was known to the family.
David Terry, 33, was killed along with 3-year-old Layah Terry, 2-year-old Michael Terry, and 11-month-old Donavan Duell. Safyre Terry, 5, was taken to the burn unit at Westchester Medical Center where she was last listed in critical condition.
The Terry children were David Terry's biological children. Jennica Duell, the mother of all four children, was not at home when the fire broke out.
Autopsy results may determine if Butler will face more charges.
The fire in Schenectady, a city of 66,000 just west of the capital of Albany, broke out shortly after 4 a.m. Thursday. Fire Chief Michael Della Rocco said the wood-frame building burned quickly and completely largely because the residence was built in the style of the late 19th- and early 20th-century known as "balloon construction," in which studs run from the ground to the roof without fire-breaks, now required by modern codes.
City fire investigators were working with state and federal agencies to try to determine the cause. Della Rocco said the building will be condemned and demolished.
Police said Butler would be represented by the county public defender's office. A message left with the office was not immediately returned Friday.


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NEW YORK The Newspaper Association of America, the New York Times (NYT) and several other newspaper companies have filed papers in support of a lawsuit filed by The Associated Press against Meltwater, a company that monitors the media for corporate customers.
The AP sued Meltwater U.S. Holdings and its Meltwater News Service in U.S. District Court for the Southern District in Manhattan last February, alleging that the company copies AP content and sells it to clients without paying AP licensing fees.
The Times and other companies, including USA Today publisher Gannett (GCI) The McClatchy (MNI) and Advance Publications said in court papers filed late Monday that their businesses would be jeopardized if Meltwater's activities were allowed to continue. The publishers argue that their websites and other digital businesses that generate revenue through advertising, subscriptions and licensing fees are threatened if other companies can distribute their content without paying licensing fees.
"None of these revenue streams can be sustained if news organizations are unable to protect their news reports from the wholesale copying and redistribution by free-riders like Meltwater," the filing said.
Also joining in the friend-of-the-court brief was BurrellesLuce, a Meltwater competitor that says it is at a disadvantage because it pays to license content that Meltwater takes for free.
Meltwater did not immediately have a comment.
Meltwater was founded in 2001 in Oslo, Norway. According to the company's website, it has more than 800 employees working in 55 offices around the world. The company says it monitors more than 162,000 online publications for its clients. Its clipping service tracks media coverage of products and other activities. Meltwater uses the information to help clients analyze the effectiveness of marketing and public relations campaigns.
In the filing, the AP's supporters argued that Meltwater's service differs from a search engine. The distinction could be important because search engines have legal protection from paying licensing fees if they merely point users to a location where information can be found. Meltwater tailors its clipping service to specific clients and copies the headline and lead paragraph of stories, the filing said. Meltwater includes more content if the client requests it.
The AP's supporters also said Meltwater's service does not amount to "fair use" because it copies material without alteration, does not aid the public good and damages the market for copyrighted work.
Laura Malone, acting general counsel for the AP, said the news cooperative welcomed the support from the newspaper companies.
"It demonstrates that the media community stands together in recognizing that Meltwater's business of appropriating and selling media content cannot be excused as fair use and instead is infringing," she said.
Founded in 1846, The Associated Press is a not-for-profit news cooperative owned by its American newspaper and broadcast members.


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Cyber defenders hold off hackers
Winners say Iowa State's first Cyber Defense Competition was a chance to combine theory, ingenuity and teamwork. The competition involved setting up computer networks and protecting them from a team of hackers.
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Iowa State researchers have, for the first time, studied and documented the impact of Iowa's $402.5 million child care industry on the state's economy
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Three bronze scultures recently added to Reiman Gardens symbolize our love-hate relationship with the cute creatures that are devouring our plants.
Meningitis case reported at Iowa State
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The Midwest could someday replace the Mideast as the center of energy production if researchers can develop plants that more readily convert their leaves, stalks and other fibers into energy and biobased products. At a May 16 conference, experts will explore this challenge.
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Vet Med is 125
Iowa State's College of Veterinary Medicine, the nation's first public veterinary college, is 125 years old.
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Eric Hentges, director of the USDA's Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, came to Iowa State to talk about the newly designed food pyramid. The government's new MyPyramid.gov site received 48 million hits in its first 24 hours. Hentges, an ISU alumnus, was instrumental in developing the new pyramid, which is designed to help improve consumer nutrition.
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Quick and Easy Homemade Beauty Products
Aloe Vera Lip Gloss Recipe
1 tsp. Aloe Vera gel
1/2 tsp. coconut oil
1 tsp. petroleum jelly
Combine the ingredients in a small glass bowl until well mixed. Heat for about 2 minutes in the microwave. Stir and pour into a small container. Let cool completely before use.
Relaxing Facial Recipe
1 beaten egg (unclogs pores)
1 carrot (cooked and mashed)
1/2 cup heavy cream
1 avocado (peeled and mashed)
3 tbsp honey
Combine the egg, mashed carrot, cream, avocado and honey in a bowl. Make sure the carrots are cooled down before you add them, or they will start to cook the egg. Stir everything together with a fork until they are well combined. Of course you could also throw everything in the blender and combine it that way.
Spread the mixture all over your face, being careful not to get it in your eyes or mouth. Leave it on for about 10 minutes, then rinse the mask off with plenty of warm water.
Hair Mask
- 1/2 cup of ripe avocado
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1/2 banana (I prefer it not to be too ripe)
- 1 egg yolk
Massage it in to your hair and especially your scalp. Cover it with a shower cap. You can also use a gallon size baggie in a pinch. Wait 45 minutes to an hour then rinse it off thoroughly and shampoo as usual.
Acne Clearing Mask
Mash together 1/4 cup fresh strawberries with 1/4 cup sour cream or yogurt, spread on clean skin, let sit for 15 minutes, and then rinse well. Strawberries are a natural source of salicylic acid (the same stuff found in acne products).
Have you ever made your own beauty products? If so what is your favorite recipe? Come join the discussion!


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Mountian Through the Mist
Carolyn M. Fletcher 4/18/2008 3:58:54 AMThis is gorgeous, Alan! #903243
Michael G. Marshall 4/18/2008 4:01:54 AMBeautiful image Alan! Love the light, comp and color! Michael #5802799
Mary L. Graham 4/18/2008 4:22:07 AMWow Beautiful capture of morning light Alan!! =) #5802870
Christian P. Nicolas 4/18/2008 4:35:22 AMAwesome mood in this shot, you capture the scene beautifully #5802916
Mary Beth Aiello 4/18/2008 5:36:46 AMWowzer. Outstanding. #5803155
Carolyn J. Connolly 4/18/2008 7:43:30 AMFABULOUS early morning capture, Alan!! It's hard to beat that mist for making a great photograph, isn't it?!! Phil and I must get to Far North Queensland one of these days...so that we can endeavour to capture scenes like this!! :o) #5803606
Dominick M. Dimacale 4/18/2008 10:15:58 AMLovely scenery, Alan.
Dominick #5804095
Baqer Mohd Jawad 4/19/2008 12:02:48 PMThis is great Alan .. all the best , Baqer #5808010
Tania Chamberlain-Messervy 4/23/2008 4:07:26 AMBeautiful image - lovely colour! You have really captured the magical early morning experience in the FNQ Tablelands - this image brings back fond memories of times living up there! #5828626
Bruce E. Van-Buskirk 5/9/2008 7:01:55 AMVery nice. I love early morning light, low clouds and great composition.
Great job
Bruce #5904235
Phillip R. Connolly 5/17/2008 9:33:03 PMAnother great layered shot Alan. Well taken.
Phil #5936349
Donna La Mattino Pagakis 5/19/2008 12:42:45 PMCongratulations on your finalist Alan! Magical and a fav! #5944454
Tiia Vissak 5/19/2008 1:43:26 PMCongratulations! #5945086
Jennifer L. Alder 5/19/2008 3:04:21 PMSurreal! Very beautiful, Alan, big congrats on your finalist :) #5945627
paola A. Jofre 5/19/2008 7:13:35 PMoh my!! Wow, that is some shot...Incredible dof and color!!!
Jose Luis Castro Ponciano 5/19/2008 7:26:47 PMCongratulations for your second place this picture is amazing, fantastic composition, I love this picture. greetings. #5947669
Elida Gutierrez 5/20/2008 7:20:23 AMCONGRATULATIONS!!!
Nadya Johnson 5/20/2008 11:38:04 AMOutstanding, Alan! Congratulations on your stunning winner! #5952335
Colette M. Metcalf 5/21/2008 4:06:09 AMCongratulations!!! #5955833
Dominick M. Dimacale 5/22/2008 3:22:09 AMCongratulations Alan on your Fabulous Win.
Dominick #5960742
Mitzie Loland 5/22/2008 5:37:50 AMCongratulations on your stunning winner - great work Alan!! #5961484
RC Fritz 5/22/2008 10:08:06 AMIncredible, incredible!! Big Congratulations, Alan!!! #5962697
Linda Blair 5/24/2008 3:15:29 PMGorgeous....congratulations on your win!!!!!! ☺ #5972542
Bill Houghton 5/25/2008 3:49:11 AMAlan, this is such a beautiful photo. Just an awesome job. Congratulations. Have a great week. Bill
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Milan Banik 5/28/2008 9:25:36 AMawesome composition with excellent light.
Eli Boschetto 5/29/2008 2:26:52 PMCongrats on your winner, Alan! #5994306
Mount Bartle Frere over the mist early morning Far North Queensland
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One of these day's I'll take this neat old whimsy accessory off the display shelf and install it on one of our T's.
This unit clamps over a standard Model T tail light fixture. When you pull the cable the STOP stencil comes down over the tail light lens.
What a neat stoplight! Is it made by the same folks that made the Pocket Fisherman and other items sold on late night TV?
Vintage Paul
It was on late-night radio!
Thank you Jay!
Wow, what a nice find! Although I guess the bulb is died a long time ago? What will you use to replace it? I would advise some kind of LEDs with a bit of coloring to them from https://www.expresslightbulbs.com/
Jay, in this time and day of crazy drivers, that type of stop light that blocks the only red light to the rear would not be what I want.
It is an a need accessory, but probably best left on the display shelf. Maybe used for day driving only??????
I was trying to say "a neat accessory"
Is it called a "semaphore" signal, whenever a flag like device comes out to signal one's intentions? Jim Patrick
That is a very cool accessory, Jay. The lettering and script are so typical of the era. Another treat you have given us.
I agree with Willie. What you want for actual driving is more light when you stop, not less. It's still a way cool accessory, just not for driving in traffic these days.
Maybe you need your light to say stop as most drivers don't know what that bright red light means. It would not work here in Canada, it would have to be in french and english LOL
You better change the lettering to Espa�ola now days.


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WSOF 17 Results and GIFs: Shields Taps Foster And…That's…About…It
WSOF 17: "Shields vs. Foster" took place last night from Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, NV., featuring former Strikeforce champion and UFC alumni Jake Shields against another fellow UFC veteran Brian Foster.
The winner of their contest would go on to challenge Rousimar Palhares for the welterweight title at a later date, and despite the slow start, Shields scored his second consecutive submission win. He's now 2-0 since being fired from the UFC:Read More DIGG THIS