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"CNN is reporting, via Chicago Tribune" is the correct way to attribute the link in the story.

Here is the Chicago Tribune version: http://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/la-pn-tsa-implants-20110706,0,1632570.story

From the basement of Trib Tower...

There are great ways to fund investigative journalism. Here are a few:

http://homedelivery.nytimes.com/
https://services.chicagotribune.com/
http://www.latimes.com/about/mediagroup/shop-and-subscribe/
http://service.usatoday.com/

More investigative journalism comes out of daily newspapers than anywhere else. Subscribe to your local newspaper.

I have to vehemently disagree with you.
  The story of Bell, California that won the LA Times a pulitzer this year
The Hired Truck scandal in Chicago
Chicago Tribune exposes University of Illinois clout-based-admissions procedures

I can go on...

Nope, 6th kid died shortly after the wreck. I was wrong that the crash was due to unsecured load, though, it was due to a loose mudflap retainer breaking off. A horrible thing...

I can't agree; "common sense" would say that a device is supposed to do what it's designed and sold to do. A GPS that will lead you into a situation like that is incredibly bad design. It was the engineer's lack of common sense that led to the tragedy.

You have to design devices with the knowledge that half the people who buy them will have two digit IQs, as I keep reminding myself when I curse the idiots on the road. Stupid people can't help being stupid.

Nitpick: the family consisted of a pastor and his wife, and 9 kids. Six of the children died in the crash....

Actually it was 5 children.

I'm guessing, based on history that being accomplices to human rights violations doesn't bother them...

I'm an alumni of the U of I, and I work here as well. I get these notifications. I thought I'd bring up 2 points:

1. Fortunately, given the spring break, the actual number of people on campus able to read this was was quite low.
2. Unfortunately, we just had a fire on Green street 2 days ago, and we got an alert from the same system informing us about it. So this warning was probably taken very seriously for those 12 minutes.

Overall, I'm satisfied with the system and I was impressed by the very explicit letter from the chief both explaining the error and accepting the blame for the mistake. She also detailed the upcoming efforts to address the error. I'd like to see the same level of accountability from my ISP or phone company.

Hell, the Illinois Department of Public Health department issued a warning not to take Potassium Iodide because idiots were taking them out of fear.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chibrknews-dont-take-potassium-iodide-state-advises-20110317,0,2270076.story

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chibrknews-womans-mom-denies-facebook-allegation-20110215,0,4906576.story (posted by diskofish above) says that the victim had been in a minor accident and was struck by the defendant while getting out of his vehicle to exchange information with other driver in that minor accident. It also mentions the sun issue.

The fact that the victim (who died later) made the 911 call before the surviving one did (if ever) is suspicious

Not that I have a clue what happened, having never seen this story before today, but http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chibrknews-womans-mom-denies-facebook-allegation-20110215,0,4906576.story (posted by diskofish above) says that the victim had been in a minor accident and was struck by the defendant while getting out of his vehicle to exchange information with other driver in that minor accident. It's possible the 911 call was from that accident.

Rosario Rodriguez said her daughter, Araceli Beas, posted that she needed to go to the gym as she sat in her car while waiting for it to warm up outside her boyfriend’s home near East 80th Street and South Commercial Avenue last Dec. 27.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chibrknews-womans-mom-denies-facebook-allegation-20110215,0,4906576.story

Globalization means you can't not invest in China. For example, GM now sells more cars and trucks in China than the US. The Asia-Pacific region has been Caterpillar's fastest-growing geographic market in recent years. GE's China sales are rising at about 20 percent annually. And IBM is a partner in this new datacenter project.

One thing i want to check is this:
I saw some images of people being scanned by backscatter machines http://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/ktla-naked-images-leaked-online,0,4426956.story
Some of the images were taken as people were approaching the machines which could mean that they're emitting radiation constantly.

You put 6 of them lines up in a row, constantly emitting xrays, your going to have some interesting effects on the TSA agents who are there working 6-8 hour shifts around these machines.

Can't wait to see the cancer rates.

Would you still be ok with it if they stored the pictures they took, the stored pictures they insist don't exist somehow wound up on the internet, and eventually those pictures of your wife wound up on 4chan? Just saying...

You're almost right, except for confusing the past and future verb tense.

I agree with you that the 1st season and 1/2 was incredible. It is why I stuck through it but it really became almost a chore towards the end.

I didn't bother with Capria for the same reasons the gp mentioned.

Here is an interview where he states it wasn't until the 3rd season they decided on the final 5

http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2009/01/final-fifth-cylon-ellen-tigh-battlestar-galactica-dualla-dee-.html

The youtube videos are all well and good.. heres a few links to written articles about this though

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/debonis/2010/10/prof_explains_how_dc_online_vo.html

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-dc-dcelections-heari,0,541741.story

There are people that do not want a cell tower within 5 miles of their home... But they want perfect cell coverage in their home including their basement. They complain about how WiFi makes you sick, while surfing the internet on their laptop/netbook/PDA via WiFi at the coffee shop or in their home.

Or complain about their neighbor's electronics making them so sick they have to sleep in their car. Three feet from an assload of electronics and a lead acid battery.

Crashing! Good point. I have gone to my fair share of live theatre... but not until last month was a show ever cancelled. And the reason the show was cancelled? The computer which controls the set was down. COMPUTER ERROR - SHOW CANCELLED. COLLECT REFUND, KISS PARKING AND TICKETMASTER FEES GOODBYE. I thought The Show Must Go On? So, let's add more computers which can crash! GREAT IDEA.

It's not because California has gotten better, but because Illinois has pretty much collapsed.

The budget deficit in Illinois is almost as big as the one facing California, a financially beleaguered state that has triple Illinois' population, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal Washington-based think tank.

"This is historic, it is epic," said Laurence Msall, president of the watchdog Civic Federation. "It is impossible to overstate the level of peril."

As this system leaves in the human factor for actually deciding if an action is necessary (ie: sending cops), and then leaves the cops deciding what actions to take, it doesnt seem any more open for abuse than the current surveillance system in place.

Except that you left something out, the system is partially paid for with forfeitures. The more forfeiture the bigger the system can be made. We've already been having problems with law enforcement forfeitures. "For example, between 1989 and 1992, the Sheriff's Office in Volusia County, Florida, seized $8 million in cash in roadside stops of motorists. Although the office returned about half of the money in settlements, it still retained $4 million over the three-year period." Today Texas police seize black motorists' cash, cars. Or Asset Forfeiture: Austin Police Use of Seized Funds Probed. Law enforcement makes a lot of money from forfeitures.

Falcon

the united states used to dissolve the charters of thousands of corporations a year. Way back when, it was a valid punishment for fucking up. Then, suddenly, corporations became people too.

So, corporations should only be dissolved in Texas, on flimsy made-up evidence, right?

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/09/07/090907fa_fact_grann

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0412090169dec09,0,1173806.story

I could still one-up you with Aardsma.

This neither effects all of texas, nor is it confined to texas; but there are a number of parts(particularly small towns) where drivers of the Negro persuasion are very likely to get an involuntary demonstration of how asset forfeiture works in Sheriff Bubba's town.

Those of a more Hispanic countenance may find themselves as "guests" in ICE's rather sinister network of semi-secret prisons, being shuffled from one to the next faster than their lawyers can keep up with them(if records even exist). The latter mostly hits foreign nationals here illegally; but legal visitors, green-card holders, and even citizens get caught up in it from time to time.

On the worldwide scale-o'-oppression-and-human-rights-abuses, Texas is pretty small potatoes; but there are certainly parts best avoided.

1. How does getting a lot of email 'disrupt a court proceeding'? Specifically, ~300 emails.

2. Define private email. What if the judge's email was a gmail account? What if it was anything but a mail server he, himself, hosted?

3. The actual issue was on his federal computer, so it was his federal government email. Does that change your mind?

4. His email, or at least one with his name on it, is on the Illinois US District Court website.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/ktla-pitchman-sentenced-to-prison,0,5512411.story

Now, I think Trudeau got nice bit of karma from this biting him in the ass, but I don't think it was legal.

[From Ald. Leslie Hairston Wants To Revive Gunshot-Location Technology In Chicago - cbs2chicago.com ]

Fifth Ward Ald. Leslie Hairston wants Chicago to reintroduce the Shotspotter gunshot location technology. After all, Shotspotter's web site says it can reduce crime. So why isn't the CPD using it? Don't they care?

The CPD did adopt Shotspotter and found mixed results in Chicago. Specifically:

The city conducted three separate tests of gunshot sensors between 2003 and 2007 in the West Side’s Harrison Police District. Only on one occasion did the detection system send a warning prior to a person calling 911 to report the shooting. As a result, the city felt the gunshot detection systems were too expensive at a cost of $200,000 a square mile.

The city is going forward with installing the technology in the Loop. However, Shotspotter is an expensive technology and the CPD decided it wasn't the best use of their scare resources. The city of Chicago is approximately 227 square miles, so to cover the entire city would cost close to $50 million.

The Shotspotter technology locates gunshots. In a dense city, 911 calls often serve the same function. Gunshot location is a useful piece of information for police officers, but it is not a silver bullet. It cannot by itself reduce crime. If the system is reliable and works well with officers, it could lead to less shootings (but not necessarily less crime). The independent studies I have seen show the results are quite mixed.

In Chicago, there has been a rash of shootings in Chicago were no regard for the police or cameras. Shotspotter is now the silver bullet. I am concerned that Shotspotter is seen as the answer because people are scared. It doesn't make sense to spend money on technology that makes us feel better, but is ineffective. The city can address this by making public its tests of Shotspotter. I would like more details about the tests, for example: How many gunshots were there during the tests? How accurate was the system?

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Most people who say they don't believe in GW mean to say they don't believe in anthropogenic GW. It's generally a short-hand.

Based on the comments I read regarding weather in Chicago (In the Chicago Trubune web site), there are still many that deny GW. Every cold day, they post something along the lines of "see, SEE I knew it was a hoax." This is regardless of the weather around the rest of the country or the rest of the world. Today it is pretty warm - 77 F. That's about 25 above normal so the deniers are uncharacteristically quiet. ... Nope, I take that back. There is cold weather somewhere in the US so once again, global warming is a hoax: http://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/sns-ap-us-weatherpage-weather,0,6317155.story

I read an article a few months ago that suddenly became relevant. Original Article (behind register wall) Dhani Harrison, told the Chicago Tribune in an interview that he is "working on 'Rock Band 3' and making the controllers more real so people can actually learn how to play music while playing the game".

I cannot find reference to it anywhere else. If true, it could make it worth looking at.

I add: and if they are so terrible how could FIAT buy Chrysler with the backing of the Obama administration?

Laughable - In order for a terrorist to achieve their goal they have to instill terror into their targets.

I refuse to be terrified of the minuscule chance of being blown up.
Ref : http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news_columnists_ezorn/2010/01/terrorist-incident-on-your-next-flight-the-odds.html

Quote : Therefore, the odds of being on a given departure which is the subject of a terrorist incident have been 1 in 10,408,947 over the past decade. By contrast, the odds of being struck by lightning in a given year are about 1 in 500,000

And you want me to pose nude ?

Well, there is a story written by a journalist with quoted sources and pictures, but I guess I could go ahead and choose to believe the stranger from Canada who posted in the comments instead.

It's not at all surprising that a mere few inches thickness of snow could blur an arrow to appear to take up the whole field.

You mean just like it isn't doing here?

(Link is from TFA, for the benefit of those who didn't read it)

That doesn't help with snow-related icing, because snow doesn't "fall" like rain (more surface area, less density and so it's much more susceptible to slight wind gusts in any direction). Generally, it doesn't even "stick" in place unless you have either a barely-frozen "wet" snow in just-barely-freezing temps, or a surface with "just enough" heat to get the initial under-ice layer going.

There's plenty enough ambient blowing during a good snowstorm, and these LED's are putting out "just enough" heat that the first few snowflakes go through a slight partial melt and stick themselves on good and tight. Chicago Tribune has a great photo showing you what happened to the "blinders with no bottom" approach. Even if you squared off the hoods, you'd still have this issue.

Crap. Here's the link.

The big lie that Republicans have inflicted on us, starting with St. Ronald, is that government is a morass of inefficiency, and private enterprise is the Enlightenment. (Republicans have practically disappeared from the Snow Belt. I just point this out.) My own experience is that when I go to get a new driver's license in St. Paul, or deal with the city inspector when a sewage line breaks, or walk into a post office to mail letters, or talk to the police when our house alarm goes off, I find public employees to be cheerful and competent and highly professional; and when I go for blood draws at Quest Diagnostics, a national for-profit chain of medical labs, I find myself in tiny, dingy offices run by low-wage immigrant health workers who speak incomprehensible English and are rude to customers and take forever to do a routine procedure. An hour in a Quest office will ruin your whole day.

If the government took over this miserable operation, paid the people decently and trained them to smile and speak softly to the clientele, civilization would be advanced. If we simply extended Medicare to anyone who wished to sign up for it, the vast Kafkaesque bureaucracy of for-profit insurance would come crashing down, and the public would be healthier.

They do this to avoid violating antitrust laws. The laws require them to sell the same product to all retailers at the same price. By differentiating the products they can skirt the law. This is the same reason you see bulk packaging at warehouse clubs like Sam's Club & BJ's.

These are the same people who have no problem imprisoning others based on hearsay, and cops beating someone up because someone didn't look right.

It's much worse than that. Since this is Chicago we're talking about:

Official proceedings to remove Anthony Abbate from the Chicago Police Department began Tuesday with the airing of about 30 minutes of video showing the disgraced officer showboating and harassing patrons of a Northwest Side bar before he turns on the bartender, beating and kicking her.

The infamous recording -- played around the world -- largely has been seen in shorter snippets.

On Monday, city attorneys aired lengthy portions of the recording to highlight how events unfolded at Jesse's Short Stop Inn in the afternoon and evening of Feb. 19, 2007. The additional video shown in the hearing has not been released because Abbate's case is ongoing.

During two visits to the bar, Abbate consumed large quantities of alcohol and persistently harassed and physically abused patrons and the bartender, Karolina Obrycka, according to the attorneys and the charges filed against him by Police Superintendent Jody Weis.

Abbate, already convicted in criminal court for the felony aggravated battery of Obrycka, faces dismissal from the department before the Chicago Police Board. The board conducts hearings and determines punishment. Weis is seeking his dismissal.

Abbate invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination at least 75 times during questioning by city attorney Anna L. D'Ascenzo, who repeatedly asked Abbate to identify himself on the recording.

"You pounce on Karolina Obrycka," said D'Ascenzo, referring to the video. "You throw her to the ground. ... You grab fistfuls of hair."

The cops claim it's an "isolated incident". Riiiiight.... Yeah, isolated. Stuff like that seldom happens. BTW, those links are from Google's first page of a search for "Chicago police beatings". One of them has a video of a cop beating the holy shit out of a "special needs" student for refusing to tuck his shirt in.

Is it any wonder people in the ghetto have nothing but fear, loathing, and hatred for the police? Anybody who says "but if I'm not brealing the law" are woefully ignorant.

Don't click thoise links if you're easily pissed off, or are one of those "law and order" folks. There is little law and less order.

You're right, 1.25 billion to Illinois alone is small when contrasted with total dollars spent. That doesn't mean we don't care about the reported results being total nonsense.

Also, you clearly didn't go through many of the links he provided, you just got angry. The Daily Herald is a pretty far left-leaning paper, and even they had to print the numbers.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/education/chi-education-stimulus-04-nov04,0,4659134.story

Enjoy.

Such a convenient excuse (if true)... but still doesn't explain all of the fake jobs 'created or saved' in New Hampshire, Florida and Georgia, Ohio, Wisconsin, New Jersey, Virginia, Texas, Illinois, Colorado, Washington, Massachusetts, Arkansas, Connecticut, or Michigan.

Given the scope of the fakery going on... there are two options... even more errors, or a deliberate attempt to cook the books.

Giving the amazing failure of the stimulus... the latter is far more likely given the continued delusional claims that it saved us from the brink... instead it is setting us up for a double dip and massive inflation.

let me know if you find otherwise.

Found Otherwise.

Even so, I'm fairly certain that OP meant "available to the public for viewing" not "open for anyone to publish in". I assume CNN asserts some editorial control over the tweets that it publishes.

Yea, the problem with the /. link was the slash at the end
Now with more clicky: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-speeding-tickets-09-nov09,0,7869040.story

Here's a working link to the article: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-speeding-tickets-09-nov09,0,7869040.story Note: The forward slash at the end of the link in the summary is what is throwing off chicagotribune.com

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-speeding-tickets-09-nov09,0,7869040.story

Should prayers be covered?: "As the health care battle moved forward last week, Phil Davis, a senior Christian Science church official, hurriedly delivered bundles of letters to Senate offices promoting a little-noticed proposal in the legislation requiring insurers to consider covering the church's prayer treatments just as they do other medical expenses. Critics say the proposal would essentially put Christian Science prayer treatments on the same footing as science-based medical care by prohibiting discrimination against "religious and spiritual health care."

If infrastructure would stop breaking people, maybe the healthcare wouldn't need quite as much help. :)

Minnesota - 13 dead, 145 injured.

Florida - 35 dead, 1 injured.

Washington - 0 dead, 0 injured, 1 dog dead.

Indiana 25 injured

Massachusetts 1 dead, 1 injured

1) Most of the people involved in drug cartels are brainless thugs or stupid patsies. Not the type of people likely to use a high-tech solution to a problem.

Drug cartels don't use high tech tools? I recall people asking who would have a need for a cellphone unless they deal in drugs. And before cellphones it was pagers. "Paging her dealer?" I bet organized crime syndicates, even Mexicans, use computers.

4) The US Air Force. Do you REALLY think that they will allow foreign UAVs to fly for long in US Airspace?

Yeap, they certainly will. The Air Force certainly shot down that Northwest flight to Minneapolis. And that was high altitude. A UAV can fly at low altitudes evading radar long enough to hop over the border. Smugglers even use submarines, which can carry more drugs and other contraband.

Falcon

It doesn't force you to accept anything. Your signature is not required on your neighbors marriage license, nor is your consent, as frankly it would be none of your business.

No study? Seriously, do you even read the news?

http://prorev.com/2009/09/study-gay-adoption-doesnt-harm.html

http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE58O3MK20090925

http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2008/sep/25/local/chi-gay-adoption-25-sep25

http://www.adoptioninstitute.org/policy/2006_Expanding_Resources_for_Children.php

Yes, it would be discrimination, just as it would be discrimination to prevent a mixed race couple from adopting. The burden of proof lies on those trying to prevent it. Any non-partisan study you find will show the same result. The children grow up to be normal, well adjusted children with no ill affects.

The reason this country has gone from 20+ flu vaccine manufacturers a decade ago to 2 today is because it's so unprofitable.

Not sure about that:

A half-dozen U.S. companies are producing seasonal flu vaccines this year, double the number from five years ago. In the late 1990s, the number of seasonal flu vaccine-makers dwindled to just two because excess capacity caused prices to fall to the $2-a-dose range. Today, seasonal flu dosages list for about $15 each at wholesale prices.

PREPA was passed in 2005 and dramatically reduced the liability of vaccine makers. Then Bush dropped $1 billion onto folks like GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis for R&D to speed up vaccine production (in fear of the Avian Flu).

How do vaccines stack up to "normal" drugs? Not much money in vaccines, but not insignificant either:

The U.S. vaccine industry, which also includes vaccines for cancer, accounted for $4.7 billion in annual sales last year. In the same period, Pfizer Inc. sold nearly $8 billion worth of the cholesterol drug Lipitor, and AstraZeneca PLC generated $6 billion in sales from its heartburn pill Nexium, according to industry reports.

Yeah, and there's a civil case in Illinois too.

Just today in the Chicago Tribune there is an article about a new Microsoft "cloud computing" datacenter in the suburbs. It goes on and on about how great cloud computing is and how visionary Microsoft is for their work in this field (*snicker*). They briefly mention some other companies, I think one called "google" and yahoo or whatever, that are following in Microsoft's footsteps into this brave new world of internet-based applications.

Given that, I doubt MS planned the Danger/Sidekick fiasco in order to discredit cloud computing. In fact I found it very amusing to read about the new data center and then just under it another article about an MS data center losing all of it's user data.