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Hernandez was shot twice in the back, and Carranza sustained injuries from broken glass. |
Beck called the truck shooting “a tragic misinterpretation” by officers working under “incredible tension” hours after Dorner allegedly shot police officers. He promised to provide a truck from a donor regardless of potential litigation by the women. |
But Glen Jonas, an attorney for the woman, said the women are still without a truck. |
“After they shot my clients … this broken promise of a truck donation and the nonsense that followed is a slap in the face,” Jonas said. |
Read the rest of Richard Winton’s report on LATimes.com. |
What about the other truck they rammed and then shot? |
Fantastic friendships and fellowships amongst dancing groups across Australia made our yearly grey nomad trip amazing. Hosts in Darwin, Cairns, Innisfail, Silkwood and Bundaberg made it hard to leave for our next spot. We are modern ballroom dancers but have expanded our styles to include line dancing, swing and anythi... |
BOB ROSSI GROUP: Maggi and Darryl Elsey, Glen and Karen Beattie, Debbie Short and Jimmy Fapani. |
BUNDABERG: Joan Tyson with Bev Bradford at the Burnett Seniors Dance Group. |
INSTRUCTOR: Bev and Mike Bradford with Audrey Grace (centre). |
DANCING: Mary Mills, Mike Bradford and Bev Lee at Bundaberg. |
Fantastic friendships and fellowships amongst dancing groups across Australia made our yearly grey nomad trip amazing. |
Hosts in Darwin, Cairns, Innisfail, Silkwood and Bundaberg made it hard to leave for our next spot. |
We are modern ballroom dancers but have expanded our styles to include line dancing, swing and anything thrown at us. |
Banka Banka Station and Charters Towers caravan parks gave us the opportunity to dance in the dirt and while challenging, it did not compare with dancing in a sandpit at Palm Cove in Queensland. |
It did not take a lot of encouragement for us to take to the sand pit but bare feet, sand and wine is not easy. |
Reconnecting with the Northern Territory Ballroom Dancing Association felt like home. Audrey Grace, an 86-year-old instructor who hosts a weekly social dance, started dancing in 1949 and her love of dance is obvious. |
We were thrilled to be invited to a dance at her home on an outdoor portable dance floor. Her words to us “you danced the dance” made us thankful for the lessons given by Judy and Peter Wickham eight years ago. |
Mike’s Rock ‘N Roll Group taught us new moves and tested stamina with a program of non-stop dancing. |
In Cairns we danced with the Bob Rossi New Vogue group, led by Darryl and Maggie Elsley. Instructor Jimmy Fapani taught us four new dances on our first practice night. |
We nailed the ‘Tango with the Sheriff’ and the ‘Boot Scooting Boogie’. |
Innisfail offered rock ‘n roll at the RSL Club with a fantastic duo called Wendy and Dany Duo, both musically and vocally great. |
We were lucky enough to stay with, sugar cane farmers from Silkwood. Their hospitality was amazing. |
We danced with the Burnett Seniors Dance Group in Bundaberg. While many of the dances were new to us, we loved the experience. |
We also met the beautiful Mary Mills, a mere 98-year-old who danced with grace and style. |
Reconnecting with relatives from Ceduna and Gold Coast was fantastic. |
We are excited to have some WA dancers, who we met in Darwin, visit and dance with us at Tumby Bay, Mildura and Wallaroo soon. |
Meeting such wonderful dance colleagues, networking, the sharing of contacts, music and dance scripts certainly makes dancing around Australia worthwhile. |
Transport staff are set to hold protests on Tuesday (14th February) against plans to close Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency offices. |
The demonstrations will be held outside DVLA offices including in Bournemouth, Brighton, and Portsmouth, between 12.30pm and 1.30pm. |
In devastating news for staff, the government announced two weeks before Christmas that it wants to close all 39 of the agency's local and enforcement offices in England, Wales and Scotland, putting 1,200 jobs at risk - more than 340 of which are in the south east. |
The Public and Services Union warns that closures would wipe out the high quality face-to-face services staff in these offices provide to the public and motor traders, whose often complex enquiries could not be handled by telephone or online. |
The cuts to offices and jobs would also be a further blow to local economies and retail areas already struggling as a result of rising unemployment and wage cuts. |
Despite an ongoing public consultation, the decision already appears to have been taken, the union says. The two flawed consultations over coastguard station closures - also run by the Department for Transport - means the public and businesses can have no faith in senior managers' and ministers' willingness to listen t... |
PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka said: "We will not sit back and watch while jobs and highly-prized public services are stripped away. Our local economies are crying out for support and investment, not more cuts. |
"The closure plans are not based on what the people who use these services say they want and need, but on a politically motivated desire to unpick our public services." |
ATLANTA — Federal and state officials have been working for nearly two years to shore up the nation's election infrastructure from cyberattacks by Russians or others seeking to disrupt the voting process. |
Early voting leading up to Tuesday's midterm election revealed a wide variety of concerns with voting and registration systems around the country — from machines that changed voter selections to registration forms tossed out because of clerical errors. |
"We want them to be as informed as possible," said Matt Masterson, senior cybersecurity adviser with the Department of Homeland Security. |
But early voting and voter registration has been problematic in a number of states. Problems include faulty machines in Texas and North Carolina, inaccurate mailers in Missouri and Montana, and voter registration problems in Georgia and Tennessee. |
In other states, including Kansas, Election Day polling places have been closed or consolidated, leading to worries that voters will be disenfranchised if they can't find a way to get there and cast a ballot. |
Questions about election integrity erupted in recent days in Georgia, where the governor's race is among the most closely watched elections in the country. |
Over the weekend, reports of security vulnerabilities within the state's online voter registration portal prompted a flurry of accusations from the Secretary of State's office, which is overseen by Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp. His office claimed without providing evidence that Democrats had tried to h... |
DHS officials have boasted that the 2018 midterms will be the most secure election in U.S. history, pointing to federal intrusion-detection sensors that will protect "90 percent of election infrastructure," as DHS Undersecretary Christopher Krebs tweeted in mid-October. Those sensors sniff for malicious traffic, and ar... |
But similar sensors used at the federal level have performed quite badly. According to a Sept. 14 letter from the Office of Management and Budget, those sensors had a 99 percent failure rate from April 2017 onward, when they detected only 379 out of almost 40,000 "incidents" across federal civilian networks. |
Edward Mendelson Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 Office for the Mac roars back with fast, powerful application suite the best of its kind for the OS X platform. |
Fast, flexible office application suite. Most powerful Mac office software. Highly compatible with Office for Windows. Well-integrated with OS X. Visual Basic for Applications recorded and programmed macros fully supported. Newly-designed Outlook replaces Entourage as mail/calendar/contact app. |
No calendar synching with iCal. Outlook won't synch with or retrieve mail from Exchange Server 2003 or earlier. |
Office for the Mac roars back with fast, powerful application suite the best of its kind for the OS X platform. |
With Microsoft Office for the Mac 2011 (Home and Student version, $119; Home and Business version, $199), Microsoft has finally gotten it right. After a string of disappointing releases, the new Mac version of the world's most widely-used office suite is a spectacular success, and an unexpected triumph for Microsoft's ... |
I used to suspect Microsoft of deliberately holding back Office for the Mac so that Windows users wouldn't be tempted to abandon Windows for OS X. No more. For the first time, OS X has an office suite I can imagine using full-time. Office for the Mac still has some minor weaknesses, and at least one feature that's less... |
Office for the Mac comes in two versions, a Home and Student Version (single user package, $119; three-user family package $149) and a Home and Business Version (single user package, $199; licensed for two machines, $279). The Home and Student version includes Word 2011, Excel 2011, PowerPoint 2011. The Home and Busine... |
The most newsworthy changes in the suite include the shiny new Outlook and the collaboration feature that lets multiple users edit a document simultaneously when the document is stored on Microsoft's free SkyDrive cloud-based storage or on a SharePoint server. I tested this by editing documents at the same time from a ... |
But the best thing about the new suite for most real-world users will be its jackrabbit speedunlike the pokiness that made the previous version almost unusable. I also like the new ribbon interface. It's similar to the ribbon on the Windows version, with a few changes that reflect the graphics-oriented world of the Ma... |
I'm also delighted to see the return to the Mac version of the Visual Basic for Applications automation language. This means I can finally record and edit Word macros in OS X, and, better still, I can use all the macros I've recorded or written over the years for use in the Windows version. I also like a new full-scree... |
One notable feature in Office 2010 for Windows that isn't matched in Office 2011 for the Mac is the Windows' version Backstage view, which puts all file-management and printing features on a single, spacious menu. I like the Backstage view in Windows, because it takes the place of Windows' own cramped and ill-designed ... |
Word for the Mac finally has virtually all the dazzling power and flexibility of Word for Windows, and it even adds a few special tricks of its own. When you edit a document in the new full-screen view, nothing is visible except the current page and a background imageby default flat black, but you can choose among dif... |
Word 2011's full screen view, unlike Pages', lets you switch between editing mode and a read-only mode that uses a Time-Machine-style sheaf of pages behind the current page to give you an idea of how many more pages remain beyond the one you're reading. |
In normal editing views, Word includes an optional Sidebar, roughly equivalent to the Word for Windows navigation panethe column at the left of the editing window that displays thumbnail images, a document map, or search hits. The Mac version improves on the Windows navigation pane by adding the document summary to th... |
For me, the biggest news in Wordand also in Excel and PowerPointis the return of the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) automation language that disappeared from Office in the transition from the "classic" Mac OS to OS X. This isn't the limited version of VBA familiar from ancient Mac versions of Office, but the ful... |
The other terrific new feature is the Styles Guide display. When you turn this on, a color-coded column appears (on screen only) in the margin of your document. Each block of color has a number, and the colors and numbers match colors and numbers in the styles menu, so you can see which styles are attached to every par... |
Like the previous version, Word can operate in two different modes, one for normal word-processing documents, the other a "publishing" mode used mostly for graphics-rich layouts like menus and flyers. (Apple's Pages app uses two closely similar operating modes.) Word for the Mac's publishing mode has essentially the sa... |
The big news in the latest version of Word's publishing mode is the dynamic reordering feature (which is also included in the Mac version of PowerPoint). To move a graphic image or text box toward the front or back in a multi-layer layout, you used to have to select each object in turn and select Move to Back or Move t... |
Now, you can choose Reorder Objects from the ribbon, and Word (or PowerPoint) displays all the objects on the page in a 3-D horizontal stack of layers, each with a separate object on it, making it easy to drag the layer you want to move to exactly the right position in the stack. You can simplify the procedure even mor... |
Like Word and Publisher 2010, Word for the Mac supports typographic features like "lower-case numerals," which are more legible in ordinary text than standard full-height numerals. The Mac version even surpasses the Windows version in its typographic support by showing a drop-down menu of the variations in typographic ... |
Apple's Pagespart of iWork '09is an innovative word-processor, especially valuable for graphics-rich documents. Good as it is, it can't match Word in power and flexibility, and now, with Word's dazzling new version, Pages can't match Word even in speed. If all you need to write are memos and letters, Pages will get t... |
Bottom Line: Office for the Mac roars back with fast, powerful application suite the best of its kind for the OS X platform. |
Synopsis: A young woman joins the military to be part of something bigger than herself and her small town roots. But she ends up as a new guard at Guantanamo Bay instead, where her mission is far from black and white. Surrounded by hostile jihadists and aggressive squadmates, she strikes up an unusual friendship with o... |
(Left) Buddy being treated at Peninsula Humane Society and SPCA. (Right) Buddy waiting to be adopted. |
Buddy the dog was found in the foothills of South San Jose undernourished with tangled fur and a body littered with ticks. |
Despite teetering on the brink of death, Buddy has since been scooped up, cleaned up and is now up for adoption, according to the Peninsula Humane Society and SPCA. |
Buddy, believed to be Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier and about two years old, was first discovered "struggling to survive" in the Silver Creek Valley neighborhood of San Jose, according to the PHS/SPCA. Concerned for the pup's well-being, a resident left food out and tried for roughly two weeks to catch him. |
"The dog was extremely frightened and had been living an almost feral existence in the foothills of [the resident's] neighborhood," PHS/SPCA's Communications Manager Buffy Martin Tarbox said in a statement. |
Thanks to the resident and the PHS/SPCA, Buddy was eventually corralled on March 30. |
"Without the kind-heartedness of the resident to help him, it is doubtful he would have survived much longer," Tarbox stated. |
Buddy, who received his name courtesy of the worried resident, was not microchipped when he was captured, and no one claimed him, according to the PHS/SPCA. |
Buddy spent four days at the San Jose Animal Care and Control shelter just in case someone came forward to pick him up and return him to his home, but no one ever came looking for him, according to PHS/SPCA. He was eventually handed over to the folks at PHS/SPCA. |
Staff members were able to shave away his matted fur and get rid of the ticks. He continued to receive further medical and behavior treatment for the next several weeks until he was determined fit enough to be placed on the adoption list. |
"Buddy is a true survivor," Tarbox's statement indicated. |
Buddy, who is neutered, vaccinated and now microchipped, is available to be adopted at the PHS/SPCA adoption center located in Burlingame. |
His adoption fee is listed at $120, according to the PHS/SPCA. Those interested in adopting Buddy can not have any other animals or small children. |
Summertime brings a need for lifeguards at local pools and the city of Las Vegas offers discounted training. |
The city is providing the new American Red Cross Lifeguard Training course for $50 during February. Normally priced at $90, the course is required for those who wish to be employed as lifeguards. |
Those who successfully complete the course will be certified for two years in Lifeguard Training and First Aid, as well as CPR/AED for Lifeguard. Participants must be at least 15 years old to take the class. The course is approximately 30 hours in length. Participants must attend all class sessions and successfully com... |
Fly fishing in the desert might seem unusual, but your chance to learn how is coming up. |
The Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW) will host a free Introduction to Fly Fishing class Aug. 26-27. This two-part class includes a classroom portion in which participants will learn terminology, how to tie basic knots and about equipment selection. This portion of the class will begin at 6 p.m. Aug. 26 at the NDOW ... |
Teenagers can swim free at the City of Las Vegas Municipal Pool on July 30 for a donation of two cans of soup or other food. |
The Souper Mid-Summer Pool Party runs from 6 to 9 p.m. at Municipal Pool, 431 E. Bonanza Road. All canned goods will be donated to a local food bank. Kids will enjoy swimming, snacks, music by a local DJ, and information tables for area youth councils and other youth opportunities. Call 229-6242 for more information. |
The city of Las Vegas has many events and facilities that offer a wide range of activities for youth and adults to enjoy. These activities are intended to enhance the wellness and healthy lifestyles of a city population rich in diversity. For more information, go online to www.lasvegasparksandrec.com and www.artslasveg... |
KIDRON -- While the general public may consider eye care to be whether someone needs glasses or contacts, Raber Eye Care in Kidron has created a separate clinic focused on therapy to help with reading problems or tired eyes, typically found in schoolchildren. |
Philip Raber and Rita Schrock have been diagnosing and treating visual issues with vision therapy and rehabilitation for 10 years, mostly for children in grades three-seven. |
"A general thing would be a kid that comes in with problems in school, reading problems of some sort or headaches," Schrock said. |
Although the children may be smart, their eyes can hold them back from reaching their full potential if there are struggles with vision, Raber said. When (a) student comes in, they are tested on a range of 20 benchmarks. |
Some students only need to work on one or two benchmarks, while others may need 10 or 15, according to Raber. |
"It can be a variety of things, and that's where the diagnosing comes in to fine tune those things," Schrock said. |
With therapy lasting typically 12, 24 and 36 weeks, each student sees one of two therapists at Cornerstone Vision Development Center, a business that has blossomed from therapy done in Raber Eye Care. |
"Our patients look quite varied," Raber said. "They've got a good memory, and they're bright students, but something just isn't working well." |
Raber said many students who go through the rehabilitation program typically can see 20/20 without glasses or contacts, but Schrock said the therapy helps retrain a student's brain to see correctly, and therefore, relieve the patient of tracking and focusing issues. |
"It's actually building a neurological pathway so you have to have enough time to actually really embed that in your system," Schrock said. |
Raber and Schrock both said vision therapy cases can be considered a hidden disability since it isn't easy to spot when only checking vision during typical school health screenings. |
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