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Wiggins Airways taking off with $3M expansion project at Manchester-Boston Regional AirportBy DAVE SOLOMON
New Hampshire Union Leader
September 25. 2013 6:00PM
MANCHESTER — Growing demand for general aviation hangar space at the Manchester-Boston Regional Airport has fueled a $3 million expansion project by Wiggins Airways, the fixed-base operator servicing commercial and noncommercial flights.
A foundation has been laid and the steel will soon arrive in anticipation of an Oct. 7 groundbreaking for a new, 23,240-square-foot hangar, with much of the space already committed, according to Wiggins President and CEO James H. Thomforde.
"We have been successful in keeping our hangars full in spite of the difficult economy," he said. Two of the three existing Wiggins hangars are occupied by corporate or private aircraft that operate out of the Manchester airport, while the third is used primarily for transient, noncommercial air traffic.
"We have a couple tenants in line to go into the new hangar as soon as we're done, which will help us improve our revenues for hangar rentals and fuel sales," Thomforde said. "We're confident from some surveys we've done that we can bring in a couple more over the course of the next six months."
The Wiggins property at the airport is comprised of three hangars attached to a general aviation terminal and corporate offices. The company also operates a fueling and de-icing facility for commercial aircraft at the other end of the airport. The new hangar, built by Pro Con Construction of Manchester, will be attached to the north end of the existing general aviation complex, on approximately a half-acre that's already part of the Wiggins lease.
Wiggins employs about 145 with annual sales of more than $25 million. The expansion at the general aviation facility will not require any additional hiring. "Our employee numbers will not go up," Thomforde said. "The existing people here will be able to deal with it."
The company has been the largest private investor in the airport since opening its first hangar in 1997, having spent $7 million on its existing buildings and $5 million on fueling facilities, with another $3 million project in the works. It was family owned until 1984, when an employee stock trust was created transferring ownership to the employees.
Thomforde said Manchester-Boston has become a preferred site for private and corporate aviation because of its commercial quality runways, 24/7 operation, international customs and maintenance facilities.
"We've worked hard on our own, with our fuel supplier and with the airport management to attract aviation here," he said. "I don't have the figures on corporate flying nationally, but we've been able to attract them here."
Over the years, Wiggins hangars, with their vast floor space, have been used for more than just aircraft storage. In August, Wiggins hosted a replica of the "Memphis Belle," a WWII vintage B-17 bomber, and a fundraiser for the Children's Hospital at Dartmouth. "We make the facility available as we can, in cooperation with our tenants, for certain nonprofit affairs," Thomforde said.
Deputy Airport Director Brian O'Neill said the expansion will benefit the airport and its general aviation business. "Wiggins Airways is a world-class operation," he said. "We're very supportive of this project and thrilled they've decided to expand."


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A derogatory term, stemmed from the play West Compton, in which it refers to a dillusional gangster's hideout.
While Charles was walking to the Dumpster Fortress, he was fighting a battle within himself. He would need to make a choice between the gang war, turning himself in or leaving West Compton for good. As he neared the hideout, many other gangsters were there already, preparing for war.
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I'm afraid there's no easy answer to this question. The truth is that despite all the protections and features of a modern USB flash drive, it will wear out eventually.
It's because of how a flash drive works. You see, when data is stored in a flash drive, it is loaded into its memory and then a charge (flash) is sent to the device telling it to retain that information. As soon as the memory is "flashed", it is capable of retaining that data even after all the power has been removed from the device.
This is what makes the flash drive so useful and versatile. The downside to this process is that a flash drive can only be "flashed" a limited number of times.
Most flash drive manufacturers put that number at around 10,000 to 100,000 times. However, some studies estimate that recent flash drives can tolerate millions of flashes before they wear out. This means that a newly bought brand name flash drive can last for years of daily use before it fails. Moreover, even if the flash drive fails you'll still be able to read data from it, you just won't be able to write any new data to it.
Here are a few tips that will increase the life expectancy of your flash drive.
Always backup your flash drive data on a computer.
Don't use disk intensive applications (compression programs, installers, databases) from your flash drive. They will constantly write to the drive, severely reducing its life expectancy. A flash drive's primary role is to copy files between computers. If you use it just for that, it will last you a very long time.
Slowdowns and read/write errors can be considered warning signs that a flash drive is about to fail. The easiest way to determine the health of your flash drive is to use the error-checking utility built into Windows.
To access this utility, go to the Start menu and click on Computer (My Computer for Windows XP).
Next, right-click on its icon in the Computer window and click on the Properties option.
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Jungle Red Writers is the blog of six Sisters in Crime--Rhys Bowen, Jan Brogan, Hallie Ephron, Rosemary Harris, Roberta Isleib and Hank Phillippi Ryan. Earlier this month, Jan Brogan issued a challenge--for six weeks, write a page a day BEFORE you get on the internet. Just one page. Dozens of writers signed up, agreeing to check in at least three times over the next six weeks with their progress. The initial post has 101 comments. The update has over 30 comments, many from inspired writers.
Jan, did you expect this reaction to your challenge?
I actually worried that in August, when so many people are on vacation, that I wouldn't get enough people to even read the post, let alone reply. I was grateful my Blog sisters so eagerly signed up, because at least then, there would be the six of us. I was surprised at the groundswell of other writers, who like me, needed a way to attack their Internet procrastinations.
What made you think of it?
I read about a really cool challenge in the New York Times, it was a fashion challenge: You had to choose six items of clothing -- any six -- and that's all you could wear for a month. (not counting shoes and accessories). A number of women signed on and learned interesting things about their fashion/shopping addictions. I thought -- what kind of challenge would be appropriate to writers? I knew I needed to be more productive and that my biggest enemy was the Internet -- because once I start checking email for the day, it becomes a way to distract myself from a story problem. I chose one page a day because it's doable. There's really no excuse NOT to write one page -- no matter what's going on in your life. And starting is always the hardest problem for me. Once I get going, one page leads to another.
The lazy days of summer are one thing, but do you think the challenge will continue after the six weeks? Are you hoping to inspire new habits?
I'd love it if the challenge continued past the summer. For me, I plan on expanding, rather than stopping my own new, improved habits. Even now, I'm not checking email until after noon. Email and the Internet are incredible time thieves that make you THINK you are working when you are just goofing off.
Have you had any unexpected results from the challenge?
Yes, the enthusiasm and the comments I've gotten -- which have been so terrific. One woman suggested doing the same thing AFTER Lunch. Writing a whole page before you check email again. Hank suggested a Twitter hashtag to search and follow #JRWRITEFIRST, and authors have come to share some of their daily frustrations with me there, as well as with all of us on the blog. I feel like I'm making new friends.
Journalist Jan Brogan is the author of the Hallie Ahern series, set in Providence and the stand alone Final Copy, which won the Drood Review of Mystery's Editors Choice award. She recently finished a screenplay based on the 1976 Combat Zone murder in Boston which has been accepted by a director. She is currently writing a narrative non-fiction account of the same murder, as well as a comic noir mystery, The Devil In Waverley.


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The psychology degree certainly helped.
But it was 13 years spent as a TV producer for programs such as CBS News, the Rosie O'Donnell Show and Girls Behaving Badly that really prepared Jill Pollack for her new career as a de-cluttering expert. If you can keep a live broadcast running in order, setting aright a family mired in its own muck is a snap. Sort of.
Watching the member of the National Association of Professional Organizers ply her trade on HGTV Canada's new series Consumed, it's clear that a wideranging skill set is needed.
"I like to think that running a TV show is like run-ning a life; there are a lot of factors all going on at once, and you need to have that slight OCD ability to assess things spatially and make them work," says Pollack.
"As my grandmother said, 'You got the beauty and organization from me, but none of the cooking skill.' We all have our strengths and weaknesses."
Produced by Vancouverbased Paperny Films, the series shows Pollack putting real families such as the Welches and Fowlers through her "shock-therapy" approach to getting rid of their clutter and - hopefully - freeing up their lives in the process. If you've watched a messy closet spread into a room and then ooze into the rest of your home on a seemingly endless quest to take over, this is a viewing expe-rience you'll relate to.
Pollack says it can happen to anyone, and it doesn't happen overnight. Life situations happen and it "changes the stuff." When it hits the point of critical mass, then it has to be assessed and fixed because it becomes a serious hindrance to living life.
"Where do you start? Anywhere will do," says Pollack. "I mean, when people are asking 'When is it a problem?' and they are displaced from their own beds because of piles of unfolded clothes on it - hello, way past problem. When you take all of it away from someone, it's different for everybody, but it's never not a powerful experience."
Watching families coming to terms with the environments they have created around themselves is some-what shocking. These are regular folks who just became overwhelmed by daily life. One day it went from skipping dining together as a family because the table was covered with laundry to becoming a permanent extension of the laundry room and the end of group meals.
"Everybody always complains that there isn't enough space. But there is always the ability to tailor your life to what is your reality. You have to be honest about what your life is, where you are living and how to make it work," Pollack says.
The debate around needversus-want is an underlying theme in Consumed. As Pollack helps participants through re-introducing their "stuff" into their homes after clearing it all out and making them learn to live without, it becomes obvious that being happy is really about having your health, satisfying your basic needs and then "the rest is gravy."
Hoarders are a different breed. They have their own show and with good reason.
"Those people, it's like an addiction, and they need inpatient/out-patient therapy and sometimes chemical balancing. This show is about behavioural modification and committing to something and sticking with it for the benefit of moving forward on a righted ship."
Everyone has their "clutter issue." But at the heart of de-cluttering is selfimprovement. The first thing you need to get rid of is "the guilt that slowly chips away at your soul because you don't want to hold onto your beloved dead aunt's rocking chair that needs fixing and you never use."
From there, it seems to be a series of skirmishes until the big battle is won (or lost). She says that there is excitement in de-cluttering because it is taking stock of your life, going down memory lane and recalling times passed and then sending things like that horrible 1970s patterned dress out into the world where someone might make use of it.
"If you don't do that. If you hang onto everything, eventually it will suffocate you and hold you in the past," says Pollack. "Snakes shed their skins. So should we."
Consumed can be seen Tuesdays at 7 p.m. on HGTV Canada.


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FOREST GROVE, Ore. -- Sophomore running back Dylan Jones scored for Willamette University on a 1-yard run with 27 seconds remaining, as the Bearcats rallied past Pacific University for a 35-31 Northwest Conference win on Saturday, Nov. 3. The Bearcats drove 76 yards on 10 plays for the winning score on a drive that began with 2:26 left.
Willamette improved to 7-2 on the season, 3-2 in the Northwest Conference. Pacific fell to 3-5 on the season 2-3 in the NWC.
Pacific returned the ensuing kickoff to the 50-yard line and reached the Willamette 25 two plays later. On 1st-and-10 with five seconds left, Pacific quarterback P.J. Minaya was intercepted by Tyson Giza (Jr., CB) at the 10-yard line, as Willamette secured the win. It was Giza's second interception of the game.
Willamette's game-winning drive started simply enough with a 3-yard pass from quarterback Josh Dean (Jr.) to Terrell Malley (Jr., HB), who stepped out of bounds at the WU 27. Jake Turner (Sr., WR) followed with a 10-yard catch and went out of bounds, allowing WU to save its last timeout.
On 1st-and-10 at the WU 37, Dean rushed for six yards. After two incomplete passes, Dean ducked away from a pass rush on 4th-and-4 and completed a 22-yard pass to Malley to the Pacific 35.
A 6-yard pass from Dean to Jake Knecht (Sr., WR), plus a personal foul on the Boxers at the end of the play, moved the ball to the Pacific 14.
Dean scrambled for four yards on first down and then Willamette used its remaining timeout. Dean threw an incomplete pass, before hitting Turner on a 9-yard toss to the 1-yard line.
As WU set up to quickly snap the ball, the Boxers called timeout. When play resumed, Jones rushed the final yard for his third touchdown of the day. Kyle Derby (Jr., PK/P) kicked the extra point, giving Willamette a 35-31 lead.
Willamette gained 486 yards of total offense, while Pacific achieved 464 yards. The Bearcats rushed 36 times for 171 yards and four touchdowns. Pacific earned 110 rushing yards on 36 carries.
Dean was 22 of 43 passing for 315 yards and one touchdown. Minaya ended the game 25 of 46 in the air for the Boxers, as he threw for 354 yards and four touchdowns.
Malley had an outstanding game for the Bearcats. He carried the ball 12 times for 87 yards and one score, and also caught 7 passes for 104 yards and one TD. Dean added 52 rushing yards on 16 carries. Jones rushed six times for 24 yards and three short touchdowns covering 1 yard, 5 yards and 1 yard.
Joining Malley with over 100 yards receiving was Knecht, who hauled in 6 passes for 119 yards, including a 51-yard catch. Pacific receiver Caleb Roher caught a game-high 8 passes for 123 yards and Jacob Lawrence of Pacific brought in 5 passes for 112 yards.
The Bearcats scored first on the opening possession of the game, marching 67 yards on nine plays. Late in the drive, Willamette overcame 2nd-and-15 at the Pacific 21 when Dean rushed for 13 yards on second down, and then completed a 7-yard pass to Benny Weischedel (Sr., TE) on third down. Jones scored the first of his three touchdowns on the next play on a 1-yard run.
Pacific tallied the next 17 points. The Boxers tied the score at 7-7 when Minaya hit Roher with a 68-yard scoring strike at the 1:11 mark of th first quarter. Pacific added a 36-yard touchdown from Minaya to Lawrence on the Boxers' second possession of the second quarter. The drive lasted nine plays after Brandon Harms intercepted Dean at the Pacific 23.
Willamette reached the Pacific 28 on its next drive, but turned the ball over on downs with 1:58 left in the half. The Boxers advanced to the WU 6-yard line, before a sack by Ben Lyons (Sr., DE) backed up Pacific to the 14. An offensive holding penalty on the next play led to 3rd-and-goal at the 24. On fourth down, Moses Villareal-Gomez kicked a 41-yard field goal to end the half.
On the third play of the third quarter, Giza registered his first interception of the game on a long pass to give WU the ball at the Willamette 41. Nine plays later, Willamette had to punt, but Derby's 42-yarder pinned the Boxers at their own 1-yard line. Four plays later, Chad Pollard (Sr., HB) returned a punt 11 yards to the Pacific 36.
The possession led to a 19-yard touchdown pass from Dean to Malley with 6:43 left in the third quarter. Derby's extra point kick pulled WU within 17-14.
After holding Pacific without a first down, the Bearcats drove 72 yards on 10 plays to take a 21-17 lead. The drive included a 20-yard run by inside linebacker Wes Wenzel (Sr.) on 4th-and-16 at the Pacific 49. Dean threw a 27-yard pass to Weischedel two plays later and Jones tacked on a 5-yard run to reach the end zone.
Late in the third quarter, Willamette used a 14-yard pass to Knecht and a 17-yard run by Malley to set up the next score. Malley completed the drive with a 6-yard scoring jaunt with 14:26 remaining in the game. Following the PAT, Willamette led 28-17.
Pacific responded with a pair of lengthy touchdown drives to regain the lead. Minaya threw a 12-yard scoring pass to Kelson Kawai at the end of a 10-play, 80-yard drive with 10:08 left. The drive included a 12-yard run by punter Aaron Koford on 4th-and-8 at the Pacific 48. A two-point conversion attempt failed when Minaya threw an incomplete pass.
When Pacific got the ball back with 8:30 to go, the Boxers drove 63 yards on 15 plays, with Deven McKinney catching a 1-yard pass from Minaya for a touchdown with 2:32 remaining. Minaya passed to Jack Michels on the conversion for two points and a 31-28 Pacific lead.
Willamette answered with its game-winning drive.
The Bearcats will conclude the season on Saturday, Nov. 10 when they host the University of Puget Sound. Game time at McCulloch Stadium is scheduled for 4 p.m. (PDT).


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Oh, My Sweet Alien! (GN)
Title: Oh, My Sweet Alien!
Volume: GN
Pages: 320
Distributor: Yen Press
Release date: 2018-02-06
Suggested retail price: $20
Age rating: 18 & up
Nobuo is an ordinary salaryman with a dark secret-his wife is an alien! Despite her tentacle hair and tendency to shoot beams from her eyes, he wouldn't trade her for anything. Love knows no bounds in this extraterrestrial romantic comedy!
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VIENNA (AP) — It was 1947 in post-war Vienna, and Hilde Zadek remembers taking a deep breath behind the curtain. A rookie on her first opera gig, she was about to sing the prestigious role of Aida for an audience full of particularly harsh critics — whistle-packing Nazis she says were determined to show "that Jew from Palestine" she was not welcome at one of the world's greatest opera houses.
But their whistles stayed silent, as Zadek celebrated her first on-stage triumph.
"At the end even they applauded and were my fans," recalls the 95-year diva with a chuckle, as she recounts a life of improbable turns from the time she fled Nazi Germany to that first performance in Vienna that launched the former shoe sales clerk's stellar opera career.
Sixty-five years later, Vienna has morphed from what she calls a post-war "nest of Nazis" replete with die-hard Hitler supporters into a city that has worked to reckon with its past. Austria's capital has compensated thousands of relatives of Holocaust victims and frequently honors their memory. After decades or denial, Vienna's municipal government now freely recognizes that the city — and the nation — were Hitler's eager accomplices.
As for Zadek, the city she once despised as part of Hitler's evil empire has long become a home she says she would never leave — and one that is proud to call her its own. She has been showered with medals, granted high honorary titles and a singer's competition named after her 13 years ago has turned into an international launching pad for future opera stars.
"I live the life," she exults, eyes twinkling behind rimless glasses as she serves coffee in her high-ceilinged apartment at Vienna's tony 19th district. "I don't feel a trace of anti-Semitism. And I have long forgiven — Vienna was a wonderful audience from the first moment on."
With even Viennese Nazi sympathizers charmed by that first performance, Zadek was unstoppable. By the time she stopped singing and turned to teaching in 1971, the spunky soprano was one of the world's leading divas, with 60 roles under her belt and thousands of appearances at the world's greatest opera houses. She still teaches today, equating voice coaching with a personal mission to pass on what she knows to a new generation.
"If I had to give an accounting of myself up above and were asked 'what have you achieved,' then I would say, 'I have trained good voice teachers,'" she says.
The way to Vienna and operatic stardom was perilous.
It began in 1934, in Poznan. Now Polish, the city was then part of Germany, and like other German communities it was gripped by growing anti-Semitism that made life more and more intolerable for Jews.
"I was told often enough what a Jew is, including that they had deformed brains," she said. Kids were taken on school outings to see the Fuehrer and on one such occasion "I had the 'privilege' of seeing Herr Hitler, the 'joy' of breathing in his aura — an ugly little gnome who did nothing else but scream with a face contorted by hate!"
One day, it all came to a head: "I knocked out a few front teeth of a school-mate after she said 'it stinks like Jews here,'" she said. "From that second on I had to leave Germany or I would have been jailed."
Zadek initially fled to Berlin; then a year later, at age 17, to what was then Palestine. She worked first in an orphanage, living in a small room with 16 of her charges before training as a pediatric nurse at a hospital. Life was hard, but safe — unlike at home, where the Nazi vise was tightening around the Jews who remained.
Her father's four-story shoe emporium was destroyed in 1938 as Nazis rampaged, thrashing and torching Jewish businesses in what became known as "Kristallnacht" — the "Night of Broken Glass." He was sent to a concentration camp shortly afterward.
Jews could still leave if they had elsewhere to go, and Zadek got her family visas for Palestine after her father was released. He opened a small shoe store and she left the hospital to work for him. At night she studied voice — she had wanted to sing opera from childhood, but she said "nothing sang in me" from the time she fled Germany until that joyful family reunion.
"Then everything in me started singing again."
Her teachers were Austria's and Germany's best — renowned Jewish voice coaches who fled to Palestine. At the same time, there were few prospects. There was no opera house — and Zadek says that in British-ruled Palestine, singing in German, the language of much of the world's greatest operas, was prohibited.
Once the war was over, the young singer was accepted at the Zurich Conservatory. She paid her way to Europe on a British troop ship by singing to the soldiers. In Switzerland, she worked as an au pair, studied voice — and through a chance acquaintanceship suddenly found herself singing for Vienna State Opera Director Franz Salmhofer, who invited her to come to a city still closely identified with the Nazis, even if the party had been banned after the war.
"I would have returned to Berlin as well, because I had only one goal; to become an opera singer," she said. "At the same time, I went through unbelievable emotional turmoil, not only because of my own doubts but because of what my family and friends in Palestine said. I was bad-mouthed from top to bottom for entering this 'nest of Nazis.'"
Looking back, she sees that her return was more than just about singing opera.
"I had to show that Jews don't stink, that they don't have hunched backs, long noses or anything else" branding them as subhuman under the Nazis, she said. "These young people aged 17, 18, who grew up under Hitler, had never seen a Jew in their lives! And then suddenly this young and good-looking woman comes onto the stage and then proceeds to sing beautifully and they ask 'this is a Jew?'"
"Forget the old Nazis," she said. "But I hope I was able at least to change the image ... for the youth."
The next day, she signed a contract with the Vienna opera that ended only when she stopped singing more than 20 years later. Top engagements followed at the Met in New York, London's Covent Garden and opera houses and festivals in Rome, Paris, Munich, Salzburg, Edinburgh and elsewhere, keeping her performing 12 months of the year — and establishing her as one of her era's top divas.
As she progressed, so did Austria — from being home to the "nest of Nazis" ready to destroy her career for being Jewish, to a country that is proud to call her its own.
"Today? I am never attacked," she says, with a laugh. "I am overwhelmed with honors."


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Dead Space 3 delivers terror to our screens in less than 9 days. To help players prepare for the Necromorph plague, Steve Papoutsis, Executive Producer, handed out some nifty tips on the developer's blog. The backbone for playing the game like a pro is to remember that before Isaac Clarke was thrown into the role of bad-ass soldier, he was an engineer.
The DS series is soemthing I never got around to playing, but this looks like something I really ought to be paying attention to
I'm sure this game will be good, but the in-game micro transactions leave a bad taste in my mouth.
I will be one of those who rushes in with guns blazing because my brain is just terrible. Which is why I haven't finished Portal or Half-Life :'(


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DENVER (AP) — A police raid at an Amsterdam-style cannabis lounge in Denver has triggered a debate over where adults can smoke pot in a state that allows recreational marijuana consumption — but not in public.
Denver police showed up last week at Maryjane's Social Club, one of dozens of private pot-smoking clubs in Colorado operating in a legal gray area. The officers handcuffed smokers, seized drug paraphernalia and ticketed the club's owner for violating state law banning indoor cigarette smoking. Three people were cited for smoking in public.
Colorado law prohibits recreational pot consumption "openly and publicly or in a manner that endangers others." And state lawmakers say that smoke-free laws also appear to ban indoor pot smoke-outs.
But marijuana advocates argue the increasingly popular private pot dens are permissible because marijuana isn't sold, nor is food or drink. Like Maryjane's, the clubs are only for members, who bring their own weed.
The officers entered Maryjane's on Friday to investigate "illegal activity" — public marijuana consumption — when they issued the citations, department spokesman Sonny Jackson said.
He said police are not targeting other private pot clubs but that all pot-related businesses, including private lounges, are under new scrutiny since recreational sales began in Colorado in January.
"This is new for us," said Ashley Kilroy, Denver's executive director of marijuana policy, noting that police routinely look for pot clubs that are publicly advertising or who impose cover charges as a sham and then give away weed. "We're going to be as proactive as we can and educate businesses as we go along."
Kandice Moss, who was inside Maryjane's at the time, said she recognized the plainclothes detectives because they had been inside the club before, posing as new members.
One of them told her the club was a public place before they started issuing citations.
"I asked, 'Where is it safe?'" Moss said. "He said, 'You're legal to possess it and smoke it at home, and that's it."
But Denver attorney Rob Corry, who represents one of those cited, said the club is private. It doesn't advertise specific events, and it requires memberships to get in, even if to smoke there for just one night.
Corry argued the raid was hypocritical. He noted that the city of Denver has allowed the Colorado Symphony Orchestra to hold a series of bring-your-own-cannabis fundraising concerts — labeled private events — after the symphony agreed to hold the shows by invitation only at private galleries.
After days of wrangling, city officials concerned about public consumption withdrew their objections to three symphony events called Classically Cannabis, which have marijuana companies as sponsors and are expected to raise $200,000 for the symphony.
"This is an identical situation," Corry said. "It's not even close to being a gray area."
The symphony took corrective action after the city warned them about public consumption and Maryjane's did not, Kilroy said. Corry said he was unaware of any formal warnings the club had received.
The attorney represents Andrew Overall, who received a $135 citation for public consumption at Maryjane's.
Officers said they saw Overall, 25, smoking hash oil from a water pipe, which they seized as evidence, according to his citation. The document also notes that his club membership was issued in June.
Overall said he started buying nightly memberships at the club for $10, and then bought a monthly pass.
"It's a place where people who are like-minded can get together and enjoy cannabis," said Overall, who was supposed to work as a DJ the night of the crackdown. "I feel safe there."
Overall said he plans to fight the ticket in court.
Maryjane's has closed after the arrests. Its patrons hope it would reopen, perhaps as a hookah lounge.
Owners of other private pot dens around the state are keeping an eye on the Denver case.
"The number of clubs is going to increase, and the number of enforcement actions is going to decrease," Corry predicted
David Fanelli, who owns Club Ned near Boulder with his wife, Cheryl, said the club-cafe has not had any problems since it opened in March after more than a year of planning for proper ventilation and consulting with police, an attorney and zoning officials.
Still, the town of Nederland has only allowed his club to operate for a six-month trial period. Officials will then decide whether to extend its license.
"We are just a test," Fanelli said.


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Rapper Rich Homie Quan has been hospitalised after suffering two seizures while filming a music video.
The 24 year old, real name Dequantes Lamar, was in Atlanta, Georgia's Piedmont Park shooting a promo with fellow MC Problem when he fell ill.
His representative tells TMZ.com that he suffered two consecutive seizures, and smashed his head badly when he fell to the ground.
Quan was taken to a local hospital, but his current condition is unknown.
The health scare comes a day after editors at XXL magazine placed the up-and-coming MC as part of their 2014 Freshman Class list, an annual issue which names the rappers to look out for in the coming year. He joins the likes of Chance the Rapper, Ty Dolla $ign and August Alsina.


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April 05. 2013 12:12AM
Police use stun gun, pepper spray on Gilford man
GILFORD - An officer used a stun gun on a man he arrested for DWI, and a second officer later hit the man with pepper spray after he began smashing his head against the police cruiser's barrier and cut his forehead, police said.
The incident happened Monday night when police responded to a 911 call on Cherry Valley Road, where a vehicle had collided with a sign in front of the Gunstock Inn.
When Officer Douglas Wall arrived, a man was walking away from a 2001 BMW that had struck a wire attached to a utility pole. Wall yelled for the man to stop, but the man, identified by police as Cameron Lobo, 23, of 344 Old Lakeshore Road, No. 13, allegedly ran down a steep hill toward the inn's parking lot.
Wall caught up to Lobo after he fell and rolled down the hill. The officer told him repeatedly to stop, get on his knees and put his hands behind his back. Lobo, police said, refused to comply and began yelling obscenities, resulting in a struggle, with Wall ultimately zapping him with a stun gun.
A subdued Lobo was handcuffed and held on the ground until another officer, Kevin Baron, arrived. Lobo was placed in a cruiser, but on the way to the station he began "forcefully hitting his head against the cruiser's barrier," cutting his forehead, according to a news release.
Baron stopped the cruiser and the officer attempted to get Lobo to calm down and prevent him from further injuring himself. Lobo, police said, would not comply and during a second struggle, he was sprayed with pepper spray.
After being initially treated on the roadside by Gilford Fire Rescue, Lobo was taken to Lakes Region General Hospital for further treatment. At the hospital, police said Lobo remained uncooperative, yelling obscenities and threatening officers and hospital staff.
While being placed in restraints, police said Lobo head-butted Wall in the chest and injured a nurse when he spit blood and saliva in her right eye.
Once Lobo was medically cleared, he was taken to the Belknap County jail where he was held on charges of DWI, simple assault, unregistered motor vehicle, misuse of plates and operating without a valid license. He was released on $2,500 personal recognizance bail after being arraigned Tuesday in 4th Circuit Court, Laconia District Division.


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Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Although careful management of CKD may delay its progression, kidney disease may eventually progress to the point where renal replacement therapy (RRT), such as either dialysis or transplantation, is required. The stage at which the kidneys fail so that they can no longer sustain life unaided is known as "end stage renal disease," or ESRD.
How can we determine when someone has reached end stage renal disease, and when dialysis is needed? Although renal failure occurs gradually and there is usually no exact moment when it becomes clear that dialysis is needed, the patient's lab results provide an important guide.
BUN and Serum Creatinine - Two blood tests that are monitored in CKD patients are the BUN and serum creatinine, which reflect the kidneys' waste-excreting function.
Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate (eGFR) - The filtering and waste-removal functions of the kidneys are also measured by the "estimated glomerular filtration rate" (eGFR), which can be calculated by a formula using the Nephron Information Center MDRD GFR Calculator - (with SI Units) and the National Institutes of Health GFR MDRD Calculators for Adults.
The kidneys have reached the stage of needing help when:
Eventually the deterioration of lab values is accompanied by the onset of symptoms of advanced kidney failure and ESRD, such as the following:
Not all of these symptoms occur in a single patient, and not all occur at the same time. In general, the aim of managing a patient with CKD is to arrange to start dialysis as renal function declines to end stage (as measured by the lab tests above) but before the patient actually develops the symptoms of ESRD, or "uremia."
Many research studies are underway to help us learn about End Stage Renal Disease. Would you like to find out more about being part of this exciting research? Please visit the following links:
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Last Reviewed: Sep 03, 2013
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The excitement for children of the days leading up to Christmas is palpable and infectious. When you're a kid, it seems as though Christmas will never arrive. To help pass those days until Dec. 25, make each day special. Count down to Christmas with stories, crafts or acts of kindness.
The excitement for children of the days leading up to Christmas is palpable and infectious. When you're a kid, it seems as though Christmas will never arrive. To help pass those days until Dec. 25, make each day special. Count down to Christmas with stories, crafts or acts of kindness.
Wrap up a book for each day, either one borrowed from the library, purchased at a thrift shop or bookstore, or even your own bookcase. Let your child delight in unwrapping the book, and then read it together.
Some suggested titles:
1: "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" by Dr. Seuss
2: "How do Dinosaurs Say Merry Christmas?" by Jane Yolen
3: "The Giving Tree" by Shel Silverstein
4: "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens
5: "A Ghost Tale for Christmas Magic" by Mary Pope Osborne
6: "Clifford's Christmas" by Norman Bridwell
7: "The Christmas Wish" by Lori Evert
8: "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever" by Barbara Robinson
9: "The Night Before Christmas" by Clement Clarke Moore
10: "The Polar Express" by Chris Van Allsburg
11: "It's Christmas, David!" by David Shannon
12: "Drummer Boy" by Loren Long
13: "Merry Christmas Curious George" by H.A. Rey
14: "A Charlie Brown Christmas" by Charles M. Schulz
15: "Yes, Virginia: There is a Santa Claus" by Chris Plehal
16: "Christmas Stories" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
17: "Thomas' Christmas Delivery" by Reverend W. Awdry
18: "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" by Robert L. May
19: "Miss Holly is Too Jolly" by Dan Gutman
20: "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry
21: "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" by Beatrix Potter
22: "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
23: "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum
24: "The Velveteen Rabbit" by Margery Williams
25: "Mary Poppins" by P.L. Travers
1: Head for the hills and cut down your own tree.
2: Make gift tags with cookie cutters and felt. Trace two shapes from a cookie cutter on colored felt. Glue together and add decorations. Make a small hole at the top and add ribbon or string to attach to a gift.
3: Make snowflakes by folding white paper, cutting shapes - diamonds, triangle, squares - then open them up and string together.
4: Set up a hot chocolate stand and ask for a donation to go to your child's favorite charity.
5: Let your kids sprinkle decorations on your cut-out sugar cookies.
6: Take a drive through neighborhoods looking at Christmas decorations. Bring along some hot chocolate and turn the radio on to Christmas music.
7: Make your own snow globe. You'll need: a glass jar with a tight-fitting lid; a plastic figurine; waterproof glue; distilled water (you can also use boiled and cooled tap water); liquid glycerin (available at crafts stores); glitter. Let your child pick out the figure, then glue it inside the lid and let the glue dry. Fill the jar with water, a squirt of glycerin (it helps the glitter swirl), and the glitter. Screw on the lid tightly, then flip.
8: Have a movie night with your favorite holiday shows, or watch a different one each night.
9: Go caroling in your neighborhood, or gather friends and see if you can all sing in a convalescent hospital.
10: Make hand print ornaments. Paint your child's hand white with acrylic paint and have him or her hold a solid colored ornament ball. When the paint on the ornament dries, decorate the fingerprints as snowmen and add white paint dots for snow. Sign and date the bottom of the ornament.
11: Spray-paint pine cones green and decorate with buttons, and other decorations to make them look like Christmas trees.
12: Turn burned-out light bulbs into ornaments. Paint a design of your choice with acrylic paint and water, or use glue and glitter to create something sparkling. Loop some wire through the top to hang on your tree.
13: Take a clear or opaque glass ball ornament and carefully remove the top. Squirt glue inside and let your kids sprinkle colored confetti inside, shake it and then let dry. Replace the top, and you have a multi-colored ball.
14: Make a personal card for someone special with your child's thumbprint. Have him or her dip a thumb in green acrylic paint and make rows of prints, 5-4-3-2-1 to shape a tree on heavy paper or card stock. Then trim the tree with sequins, sparkles or other decorations.
15: Create a Christmas tree to hang on the wall. Paint a piece of canvas a solid color. Trace a Christmas tree shape onto the canvas, leaving room a the top for a star and at the bottom for a trunk. Glue green yarn around the tree shape and let dry. Cover the interior of the tree - section by section - with glue and completely cover the inside with small beads, buttons and other tiny colorful items. Let it dry, then create a star with yellow yarn and an interior of glitter or paint, and use brown felt to make a trunk.
16: Have your children create an "I am thankful" list, adding one item every day. Turn it into a decoration by having the items written on a snowflake- or Christmas tree-shaped paper and string them across the mantel or down a banister.
17: Volunteer as a family at a charity event or soup kitchen.
18: Let each member of the family contribute to the holiday letter to friends.
19: Share homemade treats with neighbors, or take them to a local senior citizens home and let them know they're not forgotten.
20: Spend a night in front of the decorated tree as a family reading stories, making up stories or singing Christmas songs.
21: Turn cone-shaped paper cups into trees and Santas. Paint cups green and turn them upside down. Decorate with glitter, pom-poms, stickers or other sparkling decorations. Paint cups red and cut out a circle face shape from light colored felt and a beard and mustache shape from white felt. Glue facial hair to face and make two black dots with ink for eyes. Glue a white pipe cleaner near the top of the cone to outline his hat, and near the bottom to outline his coat. Glue the face near the top of the cone under his hat, add a small red pom-pom for the nose and a white pom pom on the top of the cone.
22: Help your child write an old-fashioned letter to Santa Claus. No texting, no emailing, no faxing. Put a stamp on it and send it in the mailbox.
23: Start a new tradition. Begin a Christmas village and add a new piece every year, or create a new ornament with your kids every year. Make one for the grandparents, aunties and uncles each year, too.
24: Make gingerbread houses. Use graham crackers if you don't want to make gingerbread dough, or you want to build up to the more extravagant gingerbread creations.
25: For Christmas Day, hide a special gift and write a series of clues - in rhyme - that lead the person on a hunt to find the gift.
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The following commentary does not necessarily reflect the views of AgWeb or Farm Journal Media. The opinions expressed below are the author's own.
As a farm machinery mechanic and writer, Dan brings a hands-on approach that only a pro can muster. Along with his In the Shop blog, Dan writes a column by the same name as well as the Shop Series for Farm Journal magazine. Always providing practical information, he is a master at tackling technical topics and making them easy for all of our readers to understand. He and his wife, Becky, live near Bouton, Iowa.
Please don't take offense, but some farmers are just plain cheap. Not economical. Not frugal. Cheap. As in, they're so interested in saving a penny on planter maintenance and repair they lose the potential to make a dollar at harvest.
Here's a quote from the story, "Prep For Perfect Planting " found elsewhere on Farm Journal's home page: "It may take $400 per row to go through an older 12-row planter and replace worn disk openers, gauge wheel arms and components other than the seed meter, " says (Dustin) Blunier, (marketing communications manager for Precision Planting). "That's $4,800 in parts. If you plant 500 acres of corn that maintenance costs $9.60 an acre. At today's prices, that's less than 2 bushels of corn spent to maintain the planter to potentially gain 20 bushels at harvest, if the corn yields 200 bushels per acre."
Blunier is referring to studies done at Purdue University that indicate reduced plant population at harvest due to misplanted seed in the spring can reduce yields by 15 to 20 bushels per acre.
Maintaining planters to keep them in showroom condition is expensive and borderline frustrating. Parts have to be replaced even though they're not broken. Sometimes the difference between worn-out and "new" is only fractions of an inch. You end up with a pile of used parts that really don't look much different from the new parts you just installed, and you wonder if you're really going to get your money back from the investment.
Any planter, no matter how worn or abused, will plant seeds and give you something to harvest. Even the junkiest, most worn-out, poorly adjusted planter can put 28,000 or 30,000 seeds per acre in the ground, or at least most of them. They may vary in depth by an inch or more, and have spacing that ranges from hill-drop close to a foot apart, but by golly, they'll be "planted." The problem is, it's not enough to toss seeds in the dirt and cross your fingers that most of them grow an ear.
I tell customers that their greatest yield potential is when they're sitting on the endrows of an unplanted field, with the planter full of seed. At that point they're looking at 200, maybe 250 bushels per acre, because they haven't done anything to reduce the potential of every seed to grow an optimum ear. Once they drop the planter and start planting, "potential" evaporates and reality sets in because every misplaced seed reduces final yield.
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Proposed Canon
Warchalking is the city closest to Gobwin Knob. It was the site of the battle in which Lord Manpower the Temporary was croaked.Erf-b1-p002
When the decrypted Ansom marches on Warchalking after TBfGK, it is a small level 2 city held by Unaroyal and described as being valuable primarily for its farms. It also possesses an orchard and a mill. Its defenses consist of its location on a small hill, an earthen berm capped with stones for an outer wall featuring an iron gate between stone blockhouses, and an inner garrison fortress of logs around a stone tower with a wooden roof.
Attacking Force
The side that won the battle vs. Lord Manpower and conquered Warchalking might have been Unaroyal, because they held that city when it was reconquered by Gobwin Knob. Unaroyal Spearman Wrigley indicates that the Marbits "did most of the work at Warchalking", further indication that Unaroyal lead the original attack.Erf-b1.5-p034
Distance from Gobwin Knob
Warchalking is between 37 and 54 hexes away from Gobwin Knob, if each of those hexes costs at most 1 movement point to travel through. This has been determined from the following evidence:
The Decrypted army led by Wanda Firebaugh and Ansom reaches Warchalking on turn 4 after TBfGK. It is implied that they left Gobwin Knob on turn 2. With its slowest move value of 18, the stack could travel through at most 54 hexes that do not incur a movement penalty in the three turns it took to reach Warchalking. To take three turns, it would have to be at least 37 hexes away.
This, of course, presumes that the road leads directly from city to city and that a Dwagon could not cross the distance between cities by a shorter route.
Real World Reference
Warchalking is the drawing of symbols in public places to advertise an open Wi-Fi wireless network.


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DeKALB – The Kaneland girls bowling team defeated Lisle, 2,604-2,425, on Wednesday on its senior night at Mardi Gras Lanes.
Ellissa Eckert rolled the Knights' top game (178) and series (509). Morgan Wojciechowski's 444 series was next.
"It was nice to win with so many parents and family members and friends there. Lisle has been a longtime rivalry for us that probably goes back 25 years or more, and we were glad that they were able to get here in spite of the weather," Kaneland coach Jim McKnight said. "We didn't put together a lot of great scores, but it was enough to win."
The match marked the Knights' final tune-up before Saturday's Schaumburg Sectional at Poplar Creek Bowl in Hoffman Estates. McKnight said the team will be without standout junior Christie Crews, who will be taking her ACT.
"That's going to be a real loss for us, so it's going to make things a little more interesting," McKnight said, "but it's going to be a tough sectional anyway."
Geneva, St. Charles East and St. Charles North also are part of the Schaumburg Sectional.
Batavia 71, Larkin 43: At Elgin, Batavia romped to improve to 16-9 (7-4 Upstate Eight Conference River Division). Hannah Frazier tallied 17 points to pace nine Bulldogs in the scoring column. Batavia, which usually carries just eight players, promoted three sophomores for the game.
Liza Fruendt (16 points) and Miranda Grizaffi (12) also were in double figures.
Burlington Central 40, Streamwood 37: At Streamwood, Central erased an 11-point halftime deficit to defeat the UEC River co-leaders in nonconference play.
Camille Dela Cruz provided the final margin for the Rockets (21-4) by swishing two free throws with six seconds remaining.
"She ran the show in the second half," BC coach Mark Smith said. "Had a bunch of steals and played great defense."
Aurora Christian 39, Immaculate Conception 34: At Elmhurst, Aurora Christian vaulted into a four-way tie for the Suburban Christian Gold lead by limiting the hosts to 12 points after intermission.
The Eagles (16-8, 6-3 SCC Gold) switched to a man-to-man defense at halftime.
"Really no great magic," ACS coach Jerry Tokars said. "Just solid basketball."
Alyssa Andersen paced the Eagles with 19 points, while Natasha Brown grabbed 12 rebounds.


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No. 93,563
1. Pursuant to K.S.A. 2005 Supp. 22-3602(a) and K.S.A. 2005 Supp. 22-3210(d), a defendant may not file a direct appeal from a guilty plea unless the defendant first files a motion to withdraw the plea and the trial court denies the motion.
2. Absent exceptional circumstances, an appellate court may not consider an issue which the defendant has failed to raise before the trial court.
3. The right to appeal is strictly statutory in Kansas. Neither the United States Constitution nor the Kansas Constitution guarantees the right to appeal. Therefore, appellate courts may only exercise jurisdiction over an appeal if it is taken within the time limitations and in the manner prescribed by statute.
4. Pursuant to K.S.A. 21-4721(c)(1), an appellate court has no jurisdiction to review a presumptive sentence for a felony committed on or after July 1, 1993. This includes presumptive sentences which are ordered to be served consecutively.
Appeal from Sedgwick District Court; TIMOTHY G. LAHEY, judge. Opinion filed September 1, 2006. Appeal dismissed.
Carl F.A. Maughan, of Maughan Hitchcock LC, of Wichita, for appellant.
Jeffrey E. Evans, assistant district attorney, Nola Tedesco Foulston, district attorney, and Phill Kline, attorney general, for appellee.
Before RULON, C.J., McANANY, J., and KNUDSON, S.J.
McANANY, J.: Joshua J. Thorpe pled guilty to one count of involuntary manslaughter while driving under the influence of alcohol and two counts of aggravated battery. He was sentenced to a controlling prison term of 94 months. Thorpe appeals his convictions and his sentences.
The Facts
Thorpe was involved in a three-car collision sometime between 3 and 3:30 a.m. on December 6, 2003. His vehicle was observed swerving from side to side in its own lane and striking the curb three times before it struck a Ford pickup. The impact caused Thorpe's vehicle to spin around and cross into the lane for oncoming traffic where it struck a Mercury Cougar head on. Thorpe's passenger, Zachariah Mills, died at the scene. The driver of the Mercury and her passenger were injured. The pickup truck was damaged, but its occupants were not injured. Thorpe's blood sample taken at approximately 5:58 a.m. showed a blood-alcohol concentration of .15. At the hospital, Thorpe misidentified himself as his brother. Several hours later he admitted his true identity.
Thorpe was charged with involuntary manslaughter while under the influence of drugs or alcohol, two counts of aggravated battery, and making a false information.
Thorpe waived a preliminary hearing and signed an acknowledgment of his rights. He agreed to plead guilty to involuntary manslaughter and two counts of aggravated battery in exchange for the State's dismissal of the charge of making a false information and its agreement to recommend to the sentencing court to impose the low number in the appropriate guidelines grid box on each sentence and that the court impose concurrent sentences.
At the plea hearing, Thorpe advised the court that he "got behind the wheel of an automobile while I was intoxicated and caused a wreck that led to the death of Zack Mills." When asked if he caused bodily injury to the occupants of the Mercury, Thorpe stated: "They were in the car that I hit." He also admitted he was driving under the influence at the time. The trial court found a factual basis for each of the charges and accepted Thorpe's guilty plea.
At his sentencing hearing a month later, Thorpe was sentenced to consecutive prison terms of 47 months for involuntary manslaughter and 31 months for each conviction of aggravated battery. Since his total prison sentence on all convictions was more than twice the sentence for his involuntary manslaughter conviction, his controlling sentence was reduced to 94 months in accordance with K.S.A. 21-4720(b)(4).
Thorpe appeals both his convictions and his sentences. He claims the court lacked a factual basis to support his conviction for involuntary manslaughter. He further claims the trial court abused its discretion in imposing consecutive sentences.
The Plea
Thorpe does not argue that his plea was made involuntarily or that he did not understand the consequences of his plea. Rather, he argues that at the plea hearing, the court did not have before it any evidence that he was under the influence of alcohol to the extent that he was rendered incapable of safely operating his vehicle. In his opinion, his statement to the court was not sufficient to establish this.
The State argues that this issue, which was not raised below, is not properly before this court on appeal. It further argues that we have no jurisdiction to hear this appeal because K.S.A. 2005 Supp. 22-3602(a) provides:
"No appeal shall be taken by the defendant from a judgment of conviction before a district judge upon a plea of guilty or nolo contendere, except that jurisdictional or other grounds going to the legality of the proceedings may be raised by the defendant as provided in K.S.A. 60-1507 and amendments thereto."
K.S.A. 2005 Supp. 22-3602(a) controls. A defendant may not file a direct appeal from a guilty plea unless the defendant first files a motion to withdraw the plea and the trial court denies the motion. See State v. Solomon, 257 Kan. 212, 219, 891 P.2d 407 (1995); K.S.A. 2005 Supp. 22-3210(d). Since Thorpe did not move to withdraw his plea, the exception does not apply to Thorpe. This issue is not properly before us. See 257 Kan. at 221-22.
As additional grounds, we note that we may not consider an issue which Thorpe failed to raise below. See State v. Williams, 275 Kan. 284, 288, 64 P.3d 353 (2003). There are no exceptional circumstances which would permit us to deviate from this rule. See State v. Wiegand, 275 Kan. 841, 844-45, 69 P.3d 627 (2003).
The Sentences
Thorpe argues the trial court abused its discretion in imposing consecutive sentences contrary to the State's recommendation of concurrent sentences. The State points out that we have no jurisdiction over an appeal from a presumptive sentence. See K.S.A. 21-4721(c)(1). This is an issue of law over which our review is unlimited. See State v. Stough, 273 Kan. 113, 116, 41 P.3d 281 (2002).
In Kansas, the right to appeal is strictly statutory. Neither the United States Constitution nor the Kansas Constitution guarantees the right to appeal. State v. Legero, 278 Kan. 109, Syl. ¶ 2, 91 P.3d 1216 (2004). Therefore, appellate courts may only exercise jurisdiction over an appeal if it is taken within the time limitations and in the manner prescribed by statute. See State v. Snodgrass, 267 Kan. 185, 196, 979 P.2d 664 (1999).
K.S.A. 21-4721 provides:
"(c) On appeal from a judgment or conviction entered for a felony committed on or after July 1, 1993, the appellate court shall not review:
(1) Any sentence that is within the presumptive sentence for the crime; or
(2) any sentence resulting from an agreement between the state and the defendant which the sentencing court approves on the record."
Thorpe received a controlling prison sentence of 94 months, which is a presumptive sentence for convictions of one count of involuntary manslaughter and two counts of aggravated battery. Thorpe argues that he should have received concurrent sentences for these three convictions, for a total of 47 months. Thorpe's controlling sentence was within the presumptive range. K.S.A. 21-4721(c)(1) controls. We lack jurisdiction to consider an argument that imposing consecutive sentences is an abuse of judicial discretion. See State v. Flores, 268 Kan. 657, 658-60, 999 P.2d 919 (2000).
Appeal dismissed.


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10. TV: Superheroes
Produced by out filmmaker Theodore James and premiering August 8 as part of HBO's summer documentary series, Michael Barnett's film celebrates kooky vigilantes who don homemade costumes while protecting their communities from criminals and evildoers. Gay hero Zimmer of the New York Initiative uses his tech-savviness to help stop hate and homophobia in his Brooklyn hood. For more info visit SuperheroesTheMovie.com.
9. THEATER: Hairspray
Jerry Mitchell directs and choreographs this starry Los Angeles production of Mark Shaiman and Scott Wittman's musical adaptation of John Waters's 1988 civil rights comedy. Mitchell, Hairspray's original choreographer, reunites Broadway duo Marissa Jaret Winokur and Harvey Fierstein (pictured) August 5 through August 7 at the Hollywood Bowl with a cast that includes Nick Jonas and John Stamos. For tickets visit HollywoodBowl.com.
8. ART: Fire Island Pines Art Show
Among the 30 artists participating in the 13th annual Fire Island Pines Art Show, which will be well hung August 6 at Whyte Hall, emerging gay artist and philanthropist Lars Klingstedt will display his popular series of contemporary Warholian celebrity portraits. His newest works, Liz Was Cleopatra and Violet Liz, honor late actress and AIDS activist Elizabeth Taylor. For more info visit LarsFineArt.com and FIPAP.org.
7. EVENT: San Francisco Drag King Contest
The 16th annual San Francisco Drag King Contest, the nation's longest-running drag king competition, judges butch hopefuls based on criteria such as studliness and facial hair. Fudgie Frottage (pictured) and Sister Roma emcee the royal occasion — a benefit for Pets Are Wonderful Support — August 5 at DNA Lounge with special appearances by the Indra, D.R.E.D., and other local faves. For more info visit SFDragKingContest.com.
6. TV: Out. The Glenn Burke Story
Nominated for a GLAAD Media Award, this Comcast SportsNet documentary explores the '70s peak and tragic decline of Glenn Burke, Major League Baseball's first openly gay player, who died of AIDS complications in 1995. Making its national broadcast premiere August 9 on Versus, the doc features interviews with Burke's former Los Angeles Dodgers and Oakland A's teammates, who believe that his sexuality caused his career's derailment.
5. FILM: Magic Trip
In 1964, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest author Ken Kesey embarked on a legendary, LSD-fueled road trip with the "Merry Pranksters," a psychedelic posse that included bisexual Beat icon Neal Cassady as the bus driver. That journey was captured on 16-millimeter film that stayed mostly unseen until filmmakers Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood shaped 100 hours of footage into a cool documentary, which opens August 5 in limited release.
4. ART: The Pop-Up Museum of Queer History
Transforming spaces into temporary installations that celebrate LGBT history, this grassroots organization's latest endeavor, Pop-Up Soho, opens August 6 and runs through August 25 at Manhattan's Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, where more than 30 artists and activists have come together to create an exhibit that represents a dozen centuries and creative media. For a list of featured talent, visit QueerMuseum.com.
3. TV: Behind the Music: Adam Lambert
In the August 7 episode of VH1's Behind the Music series, Grammy-nominated glam-rocker Adam Lambert opens up about his gay awakening in sixth grade, the contractual American Idol closet, his "coming-out" interview with Rolling Stone, and much more. The dramatic exposé features never-before-seen home videos and candid interviews with family, friends, and music industry folks such as Barry Weiss and Idol winner Kris Allen.
2. FILM: The Help
Emma Stone stars as a young writer exposing the injustices suffered by black housemaids in 1960s Mississippi in this adaptation of Kathryn Stockett's novel by gay screenwriter-director Tate Taylor (pictured, with Stone). "I didn't live through the '60s," said Stone in an interview with The Advocate, "so one of the ways I was able to really understand that struggle was by looking at what's happening in America now with the gay community."
1. FILM: Gun Hill Road
In writer-director Rashaad Ernesto Green's terrifically tense and touching feature debut, which opens August 5 in limited release, stunning trans actress Harmony Santana stars as Michael, a shy Bronx teen just beginning to live as Vanessa — something that confuses, angers, and disgusts her papi, a macho ex-con played by Esai Morales. Also look for out Camp star Robin de Jesús as her sassy gay sidekick. For more info visit GunHillRoad.com.


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Hello everyone, i'm really disturbed with a issue that i'm working on since two or three days.
Here is the context :
Code :class MyClass { ... }; MyClass::display(void) { ... }
I'v a class MyClass, with a method display(). Then i'm declaring everything for my object that i call object. And what i want to do is some glutDisplayFunc(). So i'm using some wrappers to avoid errors of kind
Code :void (*) () expected instead of void (MyClass::) ()
.. here is a solution for people who were stucked there :
Code :struct MyWrapper { static void display(void) { u->display(); } static MyClass * u; }; MyClass MyWrapper::u = 0; ... int main ( .. ) { ... MyWrapper::u = &object; glutDisplayFunc(MyWrapper::display); ... }
Fortunately i'v passed this issue, but now what i want is implementing multiple MyClass objects in multiple windows..
But modifying the structure by simply trying to make arrays of object or something like that will stuck because of we need a reference to the concerned object. (here is this version)
I'v thought of functions pointers but i'v telled that it will not work.
Thank you for your help.
For the moment i'm using a limited amount of object wich should work until the amount of objects is not dynamically set ..


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Hardly anybody likes Congress. Yet despite public disgust with the gridlock between lawmakers and President Barack Obama that has dominated the past two years, Republicans remain in position to continue controlling the House for the next two years, probably by about the same margin as now.
Democrats had been hoping to add the 25 seats on Election Day that they would need to run the chamber, or at least gain a healthy number of districts. Now, after both sides' House candidates and their allies spent a record $1.1 billion campaigning, it appears Democrats may pick up a handful of seats or even lose some strength in Tuesday's voting.
Though all 435 House seats were in play, only around 60 featured truly competitive races.
Democrats targeted many of the 87 members of the GOP's tea party-backed freshman class of 2010 that swept the party to House control. Only about two dozen faced threatening challenges.
As Obama's lead over GOP challenger Mitt Romney shriveled to a near draw as Election Day approached, Democrats' expectations for coattails that would boost their House candidates shrunk as well. Republicans, building off their enhanced control of statehouses, also did a robust job of protecting their incumbents and weakening Democrats when congressional district lines were redrawn after the 2010 census, especially in states like Pennsylvania and North Carolina.
The economy and jobs dominated the presidential campaign, but there was little evidence either party had harnessed those issues in a decisive way at the House level. Both sides agreed that this year's election lacked a nationwide wave that would give either side sweeping strength — as occurred when Democrats seized control in 2006 and expanded their majority in 2008, and Republicans snatched the chamber back in 2010.
Democrats had predicted that waning public support for the tea party movement and disgust with gridlock between Congress and Obama would cost Republicans seats. They also said the House GOP budget and its reshaping of the popular Medicare health care program would wound House Republican candidates — especially after the fiscal blueprint's author, GOP Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, became his party's vice presidential nominee.
From coast to coast, Democrats flooded the airwaves with TV spots linking GOP candidates to the tea party and to crusades to abolish Medicare and slash taxes for the rich. Republicans responded by tying Democratic candidates to Obama and his economic stimulus and health care overhaul laws, especially in areas where he is less popular.
Going into Tuesday's voting, Republicans controlled the House 242-193, including vacancies in two formerly GOP-held and three Democratic seats.
Turnover was inevitable, and a large number of newcomers will be sworn into the House in January no matter what.
There were 62 districts where no incumbents were running at all, either because they had retired or lost earlier party primaries or because the seats were newly created to reflect the census.
When combined with likely losses by incumbents, the number of new House members in the next Congress could match the 91 freshmen who started serving in 2011 — a number unmatched since 1993.
Polls underscored the public sentiment that Democrats had hoped they could use to their advantage.
A CBS News-New York Times poll late last month showed just 15 percent of Americans approved of how Congress was handling its job, near its historic lows. And an Associated Press-GfK poll in August showed that 39 percent approved of congressional Democrats while just 31 percent were satisfied with congressional Republicans.
Republicans, however, enjoyed a significant financial edge.
Republican House candidates, the GOP and allies like Karl Rove's American Crossroads political committee and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce spent a combined $664 million on House races through October, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.
Democrats and their backers like labor and environmental groups spent a total of $506 million.


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The Lakers have declined their team option on Jordan Hill's contract, making the forward/center an unrestricted free agent in July, according to a person with access to the NBA's daily transactions.
Hill signed a two-year, $18-million contract last season, with the second year at the team's discretion.
The team will still hold his rights, although as a free agent, he'll take up $13.5 million of the team's spending power with his cap hold.
The Lakers will need to renounce Hill to remove his salary completely from their books.
Once they do, along with similar free agents like Carlos Boozer and Jeremy Lin, the Lakers could have almost $23 million in spending power...


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Oh, and as far as the LSAT, they should at least try to figure out why minorities score lower. I think they should do that and then figure out what to do from there.
I would suggest to stop having uneven standards. A broken solution isn't a solution.
Right but you still don't have to involve things that aren't in people's control. I think the only variables that should be used are ones that people have made or not made for themselves.
I am going to jump into this debate somewhat late and I'm not going to read through 6 or 7 page of replies. Rather, I will attempt to answer the question posed by the original post. I agree that racial stratification is a negative aspect of our society and that most people oppose the stratification of groups according to race. The "significant cost" you speak of, I think, manifests itself in several ways. First, by acknowledging the stratification of racial groups, we cannot help but prolong the stratification. This is a type of self-fulfilliing prophesy....you tell someone they need help over and over and sooner or later they begin to believe it. I ask you, is AA a motivating factor or a demotivating factor? And yes I realize that minority groups have had so much taken from them that in some ways it makes sense to give things back. But why does that involve taking something from the privileged? We don't live in a truly zero sum society. I think AA is a neanderthal approach to the problem. I personally don't have the perfect answer, but I think we can do better than AA. I think those racial groups who have been wronged want something better as well. They don't want preferential treatment. Just my .02
Indeed, many argue that an admission system shouldn't have a qualification that people cannot control, but then why have legacy? One cannot predict nor choose which family they are going to be a part of.


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Hayden Panettiere kicks up her heel as she arrives at the 2012 CMA Awards held at the Bridgestone Arena on Thursday night (November 1) in Nashville, Tenn.
The 23-year-old actress, who stars on ABC's Nashville, wore a cute mint Georges Chakra Couture mini dress, Giuseppe Zanotti heels and a L'Dezen Jewellery bracelet for the award show.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Hayden Panettiere
Along with co-star Connie Britton and Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Hayden hit the stage to present Miranda Lambert with the Female Vocalist of the Year award.
In case you missed it, check out Hayden's video for "Telescope"!
15+ pics inside… More Here! »


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our old calendar system was a mess and never worked the way it was supposed to. now if you would like to add an event you have 2 options but they both end up in the same area.
Option 1: you can click on the calendar link at the top of the page and add your event.
Option 2: you can attach a calendar event to any topic in any forum. create your event topic as you normally would and then click the "Associated Event" tab below to enter the information. you will have full permission to edit or delete your event as necessary. note: topics created this way can only be edited by editing the topic attached to them
enjoy and please post if you have any issues or questions


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Short, modern intro piece perfect for projects that want a mystery/noir feel in a contemporary setting. This piano-driven piece begins with a mysterious theme played on a piano, and evolves into a contemporary/rock climax. Designed with dramatic webseries/television intros in mind, this piece gives your editors flexibility and several option for length and style.
Included are 2 versions of the file:
Modern Noir Intro (Standard): 1:15 Modern Noir Intro (Punchy Ending): 1:18
The "punchy ending" version features a minor guitar riff that cut off by percussion. (Perfect for intro credit stingers). The "standard" version features the same ending without the guitar riff or percussion, simply holding an ominous, low tone. (Perfect for projects that need a more mysterious and ominous feel).


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Oscars won't 'Listen' to Beyonce; she's disqualified in song race
You can not only forget about Beyonce Knowles winning an Oscar for best actress this year. (If you haven't heard, a certain ingenue keeps upstaging her throughout "Dreamgirls." And in the race for best comedy/musical actress at the Globes, she's up against a real devil — Meryl Streep — who knows a lot about winning that award.) Now it looks like Beyonce won't win an Oscar as a songwriter either — for "Listen," one of the original new tunes added to the original Broadway score. Officially, she's listed as one of the song's four writers, but the motion-picture academy only permits three names — max — as a credit. To see the specific language of its Rule 16 — CLICK HERE!
Oscar Rule 16 is fairly new, by the way. At the 2003 derby, seven people were cited as cowriters of "Accidentally in Love" from "Shrek 2." In 1981, four folks won for writing "'Arthur's' Theme." Oscar guru Wayman Wong asserts that limiting the number of songwriters to three "is kinda arbitrary," adding, "The Oscars, of course, give out four Oscars in other categories, like visual effects and sound." However, the academy does limit the number of producers who get credit for best picture to three in its Rule 17 CLICK HERE.
The Oscars' songwriting branch has decided to qualify only Henry Krieger, Anne Preven and Scott Cutler for writing "Listen." No explanation is given for why Beyonce is excluded over the others. Is this just one of those cases of where the singer insisted upon having her name added to credits as part of her performance deal? In media interviews, she's often said that she was truly involved in its songwriting. Apparently, not to the extent as her three collaborators, according to the Oscars.
Notice some info posted in the "Comments" section of this blog piece — from poster named Nick. He provides a link to an article about the writing of "Crazy in Love," which earned Beyonce and cohorts the Grammy for best R&B song of 2003, an award bestowed to songwriters. CLICK HERE to read what her actual involvement was in its composition. In fact, it notes that she wrote the song's bridge section. Thanks for adding this insight and link, Nick!
Take heart, Beyonce fans. Not only is she nominated in the actress race at the Globes, but she'll be among the people who share the credit for "Listen" if it wins best song there. And it probably will.
(NOTE: Since this blog item was written, we've heard official word from Beyonce and the academy — CLICK HERE!
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October 24, 2012
Makers of "Chicken Run" and The Humane Society of the United States Release "A Pig's Tail" on Food Day
Children's film highlights plight of animals on factory farms
The Humane Society of the United States has teamed up with the Academy Award-winning film company Aardman Animations to produce a four-minute animated children's film exposing problems with factory farming from the perspective of a piglet named Ginger. The film's release coincides with Food Day, a national movement for healthy, sustainable food.
Aardman Animations, creators of "Chicken Run," "Wallace and Gromit" and other beloved animated feature films, produced the short film under a grant from the Steven C. Leuthold Family Foundation.
"The Humane Society of the United States is thrilled to celebrate Food Day with the release of this endearing and educational short film," said Joe Maxwell, vice president of outreach and engagement at The HSUS. "We hope 'A Pig's Tail' will ignite conversation about how food gets to the table and help end inhumane practices in the pork industry."
Sarah Cox, director at Aardman Animations, added, "I was very proud to direct this film for The Humane Society of the United States because it is about an issue I passionately believe in. It is so important that children understand where their food really comes from, particularly the connection between meat products and the treatment of the animals that they are made from. I wanted the campaign to be positive and optimistic so I created a strong and likeable lead character - a little piglet called Ginger, and gave the story a happy ending because that is ultimately what we are trying to achieve."
The film features voices from actress Catherine Taber and voice actor James Arnold Taylor of the animated series "Star Wars: The Clone Wars." Original music was produced by singer and songwriter Steven Delopoulos.
The film, intended for children ages 7 to 10 and accessible to all audiences, follows Ginger and her mother as they experience life on a typical industrial factory farm. After Ginger is taken from her mother, she is determined to escape. The film follows her journey, and the evolution of a farmer who opens his eyes to a more humane and sustainable way of farming.
The film centers on industrial pig farming where most mother pigs are confined day and night during their four-month pregnancy in gestation crates, cages roughly the same size as the animals' bodies, preventing them from even turning around. The pigs are then placed into another crate to give birth, re-impregnated, and put back into a gestation crate. This happens pregnancy after pregnancy for their entire lives, adding up to years of virtual immobilization.
Recently, leading food companies like McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy's, Cracker Barrel, Oscar Mayer, Costco, ConAgra and Kroger have agreed to eliminate gestation crates from their pork supply chains. This corporate shift away from crates comes on the heels of nine U.S. state laws banning the crates.
Media Contacts
The HSUS: Anna West: 301-258-1518; firstname.lastname@example.com
Aardman Animations: Anna Harding: + 44 (0) 117 307 1318; firstname.lastname@example.com


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Jordan finally front and center in 'Fruitvale'
CANNES, France (AP) — Before "Fruitvale Station," Michael B. Jordan was glimpsed sporadically in supporting roles on TV shows like "The Wire" and "Friday Night Lights," and in films like "Chronicle" and "Red Tails."
That changes emphatically with "Fruitvale Station," a Sundance hit that premiered Thursday night at the Cannes Film Festival. In the film, he plays Oscar Grant, the 22-year-old victim of the infamous 2009 police shooting on the Oakland, California, transit system.
To humanize Grant, first-time filmmaker Ryan Coogler fashioned the movie around his last day: Jordan hardly leaves the frame.
"When I first saw it, I was like, 'Man, can we cut to something else? I'm tired of looking at myself right now,'" Jordan said in an interview by the beach off the Croisette. "That's when it really sunk in that this is sink or swim. Sink or swim. Hope I'm swimming."
Not only is the 26-year-old Jordan swimming, he might as well be doing swan dives along the Riviera. He utterly commands "Fruitvale Station" with star-quality charisma and an honest naturalism.
"I wanted to show that I could carry a movie," he says. "That's the next step. I want to do films. I want to be a leading man. A lot was riding on this."
"Fruitvale Station," which was simply called "Fruitvale" before the Weinstein Co. picked up the film for release July 16, won both the Grand Jury prize and the Audience Award for a drama at Sundance. Cannes has a tradition of cherry-picking the best of Sundance. Much as "Beasts of the Southern Wild" did last year, "Fruitvale Station" is playing in this year's Un Certain Regard section.
Jordan, who says he was merely hoping the film would make it into Sundance, was excitedly enjoying himself at Cannes on Thursday. He's planning to stay at the festival a few days longer than necessary, "to drink a little more, stay up a little later."
"It's electric," says Jordan. "It's like March Madness. It's that time of year where everyone's just in it, talking about movies."
But he's also trying not to get ahead of himself.
"I don't want to be that ignorant American who comes over here and expects everyone to love it: 'Oh, you got to love it because it's hot over there,'" he says. "I want people to be excited about it because it really affects them."
"Fruitvale Station" has certainly been doing that, with raves for the film continuing at Cannes. Its power owes much to Jordan's performance, as he slowly — through a routine day of running errands, fighting to keep a job, trying to live down an earlier stint in prison, and caring for his daughter — fleshes out Grant beyond the simple posthumous photo in a newspaper.
"Something me and Ryan really wanted to show is spontaneity," he says. "It's about the humanity. It's about how people treat each other, regardless if they're black, white, orange, from wherever, whatever social background, how much money you got — it doesn't matter."
Coogler, a native of the San Francisco Bay area where the film takes place, had Jordan specifically in mind for the part. A moment after meeting him, the director knew he had the magnetism of the sociable Grant.
"In everything that he was in, I wished the camera stayed on him," says Coogler. "He would be in a scene, and on TV, it leaves and goes on (to another character). I would be like, 'Man, we should be following that guy.'"
Jordan has had some memorable roles, including as the tragic, young, drug-dealing Wallace in the first season of "The Wire," and as Vince Howard, the troubled but good-hearted quarterback of "Friday Night Lights." The show, Jordan says, was the first time he got the material to "show what I can do."
The actor says he was "drooling at the bit" to play Grant. But perhaps the greater challenge to seeing his name atop the call sheet every day during shooting "Fruitvale Station" was that Jordan would be playing a real person, one whose family was intimately connected to the production.
"His daughter is going to have to watch this movie one day," he says. "I didn't want to let anybody down. I didn't want to see me up there. That was the biggest thing: I didn't want to see Mike up there."
Jordan has been in talks to play the Human Torch in Twentieth Century Fox's "Fantastic Four" reboot. He acknowledges the possibility, but says, "That's not real yet." The film is to be directed by Josh Trank, who cast Jordan as one of three high school friends who gain superpowers in "Chronicle."
If Jordan were to be cast in "Fantastic Four," he would be the rare black actor to assume a superhero role. Jordan acknowledges that some will prefer the continuity of the Human Torch remaining white, as he is in the comics. But he thinks the character's most identifiable qualities have little to do with race. (Jordan's character in "Chronicle" was also originally scripted as white.)
"I'm all about breaking barriers and changing stuff," says Jordan. "It's 2013. We've got a black president. Times have changed."
But whatever is to come for Jordan, it's clear he has big ambitions: "I want a career like Leo," he says. "I want a career like Ryan Gosling."
Smiling, Jordan says: "It feels good. It feels good to get to a place where I can be creative and selective about certain things I do. I'm really curious to see what's next."
Follow AP Entertainment Writer Jake Coyle on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/jake_coyle


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EDGEWATER — A 32-year-old Edgewater woman was killed when she was hit by a car while walking along the shoulder of South Ridgewood Avenue, police said.
Leah M. Hogan was pronounced dead at 11:05 p.m. after being airlifted to Halifax Health Medical Center on Tuesday night.
According to the preliminary accident report, Hogan was walking along the right shoulder of the roadway in the 2300 block of South Ridgewood Ave. when she was struck about 9:12 p.m. by a station wagon driven by Alexander V. Brown, 21, also of Edgewater.
"She was walking on the white line along the shoulder of the road," Brown said by telephone Wednesday. "My headlights didn't see her. In a split second I saw a shadow and then there was the collision."
The report said Hogan was dressed in dark clothing and walking south in the unlighted section of roadway when the southbound car hit her. The vehicle was traveling at an estimated speed of 45 mph in the 55 mph zone when its right front struck Hogan, throwing her near the woodline.
Brown said he was headed to his Tree Top Lane home from the Winn-Dixie Shopping Plaza and was driving along the strip of roadway just north of Carter's Motel, 2450 S. Ridgewood Ave., when the accident occurred.
"There are no lights there," he said.
Brown stopped at the scene and called 9-1-1.
The accident report said Brown showed no signs of impairment at the scene.
Edgewater police are conducting a traffic homicide investigation.
Edgewater woman killed while walking on U.S. 1
EDGEWATER — A 32-year-old Edgewater woman was killed when she was hit by a car while walking along the shoulder of South Ridgewood Avenue, police said.