Not stated in the article, but one of the suspects used to work for the City's Aviation Department until...well....today.....
Authorities arrested two suspects in connection with a series of fatal shootings that have terrorized Phoenix area residents for more than a year, Phoenixs police chief said Friday.
The men apprehended at a gated apartment complex in Mesa late Thursday are believed to be responsible for the crimes in the Serial Shooter case one of two serial predators whom authorities say have been operating in the Phoenix area, said police Chief Jack Harris.
Authorities identified the two as Dale Hausner and Samuel Dieteman, and said the arrests were made following numerous tips from the public. Harris said the two will be booked later Friday each on multiple counts of murder and aggravated assault.
These are the two monsters we have been hunting, and I promise you and our colleagues promise you, we are not finished, added Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon.
Police said authorities identified the pair, whom they say are friends, on Monday and that the arrests occurred Thursday night after the pair "presented themselves," allowing tactical units from Phoenix and Mesa police to take them down. "I assure you, these are the right guys," said Phoenix Assistant Police Chief Bill Louis, who headed up the investigation for months as a commander before his recent promotion. "The hunt is over but the work has just begun."
Authorities said they have also linked Hausner and Dieteman to two arson fires at two Wal-Mart stores on June 8 that caused an estimated $7 million in damage. The fires were set about 45 minutes apart in the plastic-flower aisles in the back of the 24-hour stores at 5605 W. Northern Ave. and 5010 N. 95th Ave. The arson suspects were believed to be captured on surveillance camera.
The series of shootings has held the Valley in a grip of fear for more than a year, with six people killed and 18 wounded. The shootings began in May 2005.
The latest incident was Sunday night when a 22-year-old woman was shot to death while walking on Gilbert Road near Grandview Street in Mesa.
If a camper taking a leak in the woods falls off a cliff, and his buddies are too drunk to hear him, does he make a sound?
Here's a tip for campers on the go: Or on the go to go...
Bring a flashlight when wandering in the woods. Nah, that's okay. I know this place like the back of my...
Jerry Mersereau, 23, learned that lesson the hard way when he trekked out in the dark to relieve himself and fell off a cliff in the Mt. Hood National Forest. Hey, anybody seen Jerry? He's got the opener.
Tucked into his lawsuit (Jerry Mersereau v. United States of America) is this succinct description of his misadventure: "While finding a place to relieve himself, plaintiff walked off the unguarded and unprotected cliff falling approximately 20 to 30 feet to the creek bed below." Pissing in a National Forest. What would Smokey the Bear say? Friggin Communist, serves you right.
Now Mersereau wants the U.S. government to pay for his injuries and the "mental anguish" his fall has caused. He says the government should have known the cliff posed a danger to campers. Especially the stupid ones...
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The pain and suffering were caused by Bambi mocking his genitalia.
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"While finding a place to relieve himself, plaintiff walked off the unguarded and unprotected cliff falling approximately 20 to 30 feet to the creek bed below."
Something about environmental and impact laws and rules disturbing the natural splendor of the place means you got to adapt [or perish].
BRIDGEPORT, Ind. - Gamblers raked in nearly half a million dollars over two days on a slot machine that multiplied by 10 the amount of money that players put in, a newspaper reported.
Caesars Indiana lost $487,000 before a player notified officials of the problem with the machine, The Courier-Journal of Louisville, Ky., reported Friday. What a friggin idiot! If the casino was screwing you, which they pretty much are every day, do you think they'd let you in on it?
Kathryn Ford of Louisville, Ky., realized something was wrong July 23 when she and her husband sat down at two of the machines, called Extra Money. When she put in a $20 bill, the machine registered it as $200. She tried another $20 bill and the same thing happened, she said. Ford said she put eight $20 bills in the machine and received vouchers that could be redeemed for $1,600 in cash without even playing. I would've sold my car in the parking lot and headed back in to feed the thing...
Other gamblers noticed. Oh, I'll bet...
"There was even a young woman who jumped in while I was sitting there. She ... reached across me, popped a hundred in, popped out a thousand and then she took off," Ford said. Outta the way, granny!
Ford and her husband reported the problem to a security officer and casino officials determined the machine had a switch set for use in the Philippines instead of the U.S. instructing it to multiply credits by 10. So next time you're in Vegas, look for the Filipino slot machines...
An Italian resort plans to create all-female beach sections for Muslim women wishing to shed their headscarves and long robes to enjoy the sun in privacy, officials said Thursday. Riccione, a resort town on Italy's eastern coast, will let hotels set up partitions on the shoreline to satisfy requests from growing numbers of Arab and Muslim tourists. "Our beaches are big enough to answer this need," said Loretta Villa, Riccione's councilwoman. "We live on tourism and we can't survive if we don't satisfy the requests of our customers." By making some areas off-limits to men, observant Muslim women will be able to ease up on religious restrictions to cover up if men are present, Villa said. The reserved beaches would be waited on by by waitresses and watched over by women lifeguards. The partitions will not reach into the sea as a section, Villa said. To allow Muslim women to swim without covering up in robes and headscarves, Riccione would consider building reserved seaside swimming pools, she said.
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Er, so if one of the Lions of Islam parks his ass out in the water adjacent to the chick beach (since the partition doesn't go out that far), does everyone have to cover up again?
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lol, Besoeker. Of course, I've never thought of this before (because i use logic), but do muzzie wummins have to cover up if the guy is NOT muzzie? I mean if Hef walks by, do they have to cover up?
And, just who's gonna pay for all these partitions (and future muzzie separate swimming pools), Ms. Villa? Oh yeah, you and I. Another notch toward dimmhitude.
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Meant to add, GREAT graphic too, Sea/Fred.
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Burkas and Riptides? Probably not a good combo.
Not to mention, if it's true that sharks get confused between surfboards and seals this really has Blockbuster written all over it.
If your religious beliefs require such fantastically elaborate measures just so you can enjoy a beach, then that is a clue in that your beliefs are the PROBLEM!!!
ARGGGGHHHHH!
Ok. I am done now.
And I will not go anywhere that has these kinds of partions either.
A federal appeals court ruled that former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's name must remain on the Nov. 7 ballot even though he withdrew from the race for his Texas congressional seat. The decision, which affirmed a prior ruling, may force DeLay to either campaign for the Houston-area seat he wanted to abandon or concede it to Democratic candidate Nick Lampson.
``In situations such as the one before this court, a replacement candidate cannot appear on the ballot if the original candidate merely withdraws,'' Judge Fortunato Benavides wrote for the three-judge panel. The ruling is a setback for the Texas Republican Party, which argued that it should be able to replace DeLay because he withdrew from the race and announced he was moving to Virginia after he won the March 7 party primary.
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The good people of Texas should inflict high speed pain on 2 judges and one prosecutor. That would send a message from all Americans, to all assholes who would phalk with the election process. Hands off, or die young.
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It's just politix, which in Texas is fairly hardball. That's how DeLay was cornered and forced to drop out.
Texans aren't going to take to the streets to tar and feather Benavides and the Publicans will either run DeLay and win or run him and accept the loss as a tradeoff -- they succeeded with the redistricting on balance.
Bumping off judges, even the ones you don't like, is maybe acceptable politix in Baghdad, but it's not here. Let the party handle it.
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Well, he should stay on the ballot, since he didn't bother to resign in time. This is the same thing that happened 2 yearz ago with Torricelli and Lautenburg. The difference is that New Joizy, being Democrat, is far more corrupt and will break any law to make sure they keep power.
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Didn't DeLay ask to be removed from the ballot because he was an ineligible candidate, having officially 'moved' to Washington? As such, if he was to win re-election would he not be ineligible to serve? I would think he does not even have enough time before the election to re-establish Sugarland as his legal residence. What happens if an ineligible candidate wins? Does the governor appoint a replacement? Do they hold a special election? Does the second-place finisher get the office?
Just because it's nice to know!
Eleven New York firefighters put their lives on hold this week and paid their way to Jerusalem, where they have been volunteering in a number of understaffed stations.
Because of rocket-caused fires in the North, fire stations elsewhere started sending units to help, leaving places like Jerusalem in need of more personnel.
"It's a good feeling to know somebody's thinking about you," said Arik Nisimov, a firefighter at the Giva station. "That here are guys that will come and help, no matter how far we are between countries."
Nathan Rothschild, commissioner of the Monsey fire district in New York's Rockland County, who planned the whole trip, said 22 more firemen would be coming to Israel next week to replace firemen in other parts of the country.
He said that his relationship with the Fire and Rescue Services began when it contacted him several years ago with a request to find cheap fire trucks. He managed to get what was needed for about 20 percent of the cost.
When he heard about the Katyusha attacks on the North, he correctly assumed that fire departments throughout the country would come under severe strain. He then had the idea to gather volunteers to help, immediately got the approval of Shimon Romach, the Fire and Rescue Services commissioner, and three days later they arrived at Ben-Gurion Airport with a warm welcome and a minibus that said "New York Firefighters."
The New Yorkers have been getting to know their local counterparts while helping them respond to calls since Monday.
"We learned that Israeli 'chick-chak,'" Rothschild said. "It's amazing to see they can successfully do it as firefighters as well."
"Firefighting is the same job no matter where you go," said Evan Humphrey, one of the volunteers. "It's one big brotherhood like everybody says."
As well as working hard, the New Yorkers pray three times a day and visited the Western Wall for Tisha Be'av.
For Jacob Strauss spirituality was paramount in his decision to come and help Israel. "Religion played a big part," he said. "We mention Yerushalayim all the time in our daily prayers. To talk is one thing, but to actually act and to actually help is another."
Eli Sabo, who is also an undergraduate at Yeshiva University, agrees that there was a very Jewish feeling of duty. "We all feel a strong connection," he said. "As opposed to just sitting there watching what's going on, we wanted to help out."
The Israeli firemen interviewed, as well Ofer Shefer, the instructor officer of the fire department, were extremely grateful that the New Yorkers came to help.
"I think it's unbelievable," Ofer said. "They're full of Zionism, they're full of wanting to help. Excellent people, and we enjoy them very much - first of all because they're all professionals. They are very well trained. Secondly, they're very nice people."
"It makes us all feel very good," said Doron Moshe, a fireman at the Giva station. "It's like a big brother over there watching us. Knowing that when you need him he will come makes you feel peaceful. In Israel, at this time, the general mood is about going and helping. They have a Thanksgiving once a year, we have a war. Everybody's together helping each other."
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Of course they did! The NYC Firemen know right from wrong and are inclined to act. Hats off to them. Israel is really the only nation to unquestionably support America during this war. We must now help them at every turn. I think the NYC Firemen realize this also. Good on um!
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"They have a Thanksgiving once a year, we have a war. Everybody's together helping each other."
Bloody Israeli humour! Thanks for the post, Sherry. :-)
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New York State, not New York City. I think the NYC firefighters can't really spare anybody for this. Face it, the NYC FD expects to be the targets again sometime.
Rockland Co. is northwest of NYC; take the George Washington Bridge West to NJ, and take the Palisades Interstate Parkway about 15 miles North. As you can guess, some of the towns there are mostly Jewish. The NYC FD is mostly Irish.
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awwww the INFAMOUS Irish Jooooos
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Islamic values and Arabic language education are now in the mainstream of Philippine education. As mandated by Department of Education Order No. 51, the two subjects are now taught in public schools around Mindanao and in some parts of the country that have at least 30 enrollees who are Muslims.
According to the Basic Education Assistance for Mindanao (BEAM), which partnered with DepEd in three Mindanao regions to implement a Muslim education roadmap, there is a plan to institutionalize madrasah education, contextualize aspects of DepEd's Revised Basic Education Curriculum (RBEC), provide alternative learning system for Muslim out-of-school youth, to create a special fund for the madaris (Islamic schools, plural for madrasah), among others. Islamic values and Arabic, taught only in the madaris before, is now offered as the Arabic Language and Islamic Values Education (or ALIVE curriculum) in public schools, said Noor Saada, BEAM Muslim education coordinator. Classes started in school year 2005-2006 in pilot schools in select areas, according to Wallina Tambuang Motiva, DepEd Muslim education and madaris coordinator in Southeastern Mindanao. BEAM announced that ALIVE is now taught in at least 1,010 classes in Southeastern Mindanao, Southwestern Mindanao and the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).
Saada could not provide figures for other parts of Mindanao and the Philippines, but said the classes are now held nationwide in public schools that have at least 30 Muslim pupils. ALIVE, part of an integration of the Islamic values and Arabic language in the basic education curriculum for Muslim students studying in public schools in the country, is among the key actions provided in DepEd's Muslim education roadmap. DepEd Order No. 51 series of 2004 provided for a "Standard or unified Madrasah Curriculum" for private madaris seeking government recognition. It also provided for the ALIVE curriculum in public schools, which was developed by a group of Ulama representing Muslim communities, Saada said.
In the ALIVE curriculum, Saada said, Muslim students in public schools still take RBEC subjects such as English, Math, Science, Filipino, and Makabayan. In addition, he said, they will also take four Islamic studies subjects: the Qur'an; Seerah (Life story of the Prophet) and Hadith (Sayings of the Prophet); Aqueeda (Conduct) and Fiqh (Jurisprudence) and Arabic. Saada clarified that the extent of the subjects covered varies from one grade level to another. He said Islamic studies focus on values education for the Muslim children. Non-Muslim students could take the ALIVE curriculum as an elective, but only with their parents' consent. This development will reportedly help Muslim children studying in public schools because they do not have to go to school seven days a week. He said at present, Muslim students attend Monday to Friday classes in public schools and Saturday to Sunday classes in madaris.
An ustadz (or a Muslim mentor), who shall become a regular teacher of the public schools, will handle the Islamic and Arabic subjects. Around 1,000 asatidz (plural of ustadz), Saada said, are expected to finish the accelerated teacher education program in six Mindanao universities in 2008 so DepEd could hire them as regular teachers. The non-Muslim teachers will handle the RBEC subjects but asatidz could also be tapped. The asatidz attended a 23-day Language Enhancement Program before teaching. The program serves as their orientation to the Philippine educational system.
Muslim education in public schools has gained headway in Southeastern Mindanao, Motiva said. From 36 public schools that offered ALIVE in 2005, the number has now almost doubled at 70. She said with 210 asatidz, they have an enrolment of approximately 15,000 in Davao City, Davao Oriental, Davao del Norte, Tagum City, Compostela Valley, Panabo City, Samal Island, Digos City, and Davao del Sur. Saada said the integration of the subjects in the RBEC curriculum promises to help build "bridges of dialogue" between Muslims and non-Muslim students.
Teaching Arabic, Islamic jurisprudence and the Hadiths will bring all the peoples of the Philippines together. Kumbayah, Allah, kumbayah.
But among the big concerns facing the teaching of Islamic and Arabic in public schools is budget for salaries of the asatidz. Saada said local government school boards shoulder salary expenses.
Ask the Soddies for some loose change. I just bought gas this morning.
"Not much in big local government units, but the problem is in smaller LGUs that do not have funds for an ustadz. Hopefully, DepEd could release funds for salaries starting school year 2007-2006," Motiva said. Government recognition of private madrasah is also another strategy to increase the access of Muslim students to education in Mindanao, Saada said. He said work is ongoing for the standardization of a madrasah curriculum and in processing recognition of private madaris that could operate like the private schools in the country. Together with this, Saada said, are the contextualization and indigenization of instructional materials. The roadmap, Saada said, is based on the Philippines Medium Term Development Plan, the 1996 GRP-Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) peace agreement, Republic Act 9054 or the Expanded ARMM Organic Act, and the salient advocacies of the GRP -- Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) peace process.
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Bottom line is they do not have the fuds to run the schools normal classes. The areas are so dangerouse that the teachers will not report to the class room. Not to worry here, they will never get it on line.
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funds not fuds oops!
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In March 1918, a British intelligence unit set out to blow up a huge German ammunition dump in western Belgium.
By all accounts, it was an audacious mission, one that involved a Catholic priest who headed up a local spy network and the clandestine use of a German plane for the daylight insertion of a demolition expert.
We would prefer to lose 10,000 men than to lose this munitions site, Belgian air force Commandant Jan Savelkoels said, quoting a World War I German army general who was assigned to the region.
The mission succeeded, insofar as it effectively denied German forces use of that stockpile.
But the saboteurs failed to destroy all the munitions, something a Belgian explosive-ordnance disposal team is now addressing nearly nine decades later.
Savelkoels, the team commander, estimates that the site contains at least 300 tons of munitions, and that roughly 6 percent of it is toxic. The list of undesirable agents ranges from phosgene and diphosgene to chloramine, all of which were used by both sides in the Great War.
As far as Savelkoels knows, the site, near the U.S. air base at Chievres, is the biggest one of its kind from WWI. It alone will account for a normal years worth of recovered munitions.
In the interest of security, Belgian and U.S. officials asked that the exact location of the site not be disclosed.
There are bombs I have never seen before, said Savelkoels, a career EOD officer.
That says a lot, given that the Ypres region is still peppered with all sorts of ordnance, much of it dating to that era. Savelkoels said Belgian explosive-ordnance units annually get at least 3,000 requests.
To see rounds that you studied about in (EOD) school is awesome, said U.S. Army Master Sgt. Thomas Frankhouser, who recently visited the site and would be among those contacted in case of an emergency there. We didnt know it was here.
For years, neither did members of the Belgian military, which lost or misplaced many of the documents pertaining to the ammunition site, Savelkoels said. Local residents brought the issue to the attention of Belgian authorities, but even then the details were sketchy.
The site was initially thought to cover about 130 square meters, Savelkoels said. But when his 12-man team began working the site in late April, they found it was more than four times that size. What was estimated to be a monthlong effort has turned into a six-month project.
With every (passing) year, it is more and more dangerous, Belgian army 1st Sgt. Dirk Gunst said.
After WWI, Belgian authorities began to work the site but lacked the expertise to handle it, so they buried it. A second effort commenced in the 1950s but it, too, was aborted.
Its an extraordinary site, Frankhouser said.
The artillery rounds range in size from 7.7 cm to 25 cm, and the heaviest piece recovered so far checks in at 93 kilograms. Once the materiel is unearthed, it is either destroyed near the site, especially if it is deemed unstable due to leakage, or moved.
Every day, Savelkoels team checks the direction of the wind and other factors in the event an accident occurs and toxins get released into the air. So far, there have been no serious problems, though Savelkoels worries about complacency.
Routine kills, the Belgian officer said. Thats what I fear here.
That concern is negated somewhat by the extraordinary opportunity to get an extended view of a large cache of munitions nearly a century old.
Weve never found very large ammunition dumps from the second World War, only the first World War, Savelkoels said, explaining the front lines were more static in World War I. Its the biggest one Ive seen.
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trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
An Italian resort plans to create all-female beach sections for Muslim women wishing to shed their headscarves and long robes to enjoy the sun in privacy, officials said Thursday. Riccione, a resort town on Italy's eastern coast, will let hotels set up partitions on the shoreline to satisfy requests from growing numbers of Arab and Muslim tourists. "Our beaches are big enough to answer this need," said Loretta Villa, Riccione's councilwoman. "We live on tourism and we can't survive if we don't satisfy the requests of our customers." By making some areas off-limits to men, observant Muslim women will be able to ease up on religious restrictions to cover up if men are present, Villa said. The reserved beaches would be waited on by by waitresses and watched over by women lifeguards. The partitions will not reach into the sea as a section, Villa said. To allow Muslim women to swim without covering up in robes and headscarves, Riccione would consider building reserved seaside swimming pools, she said.
A federal appeals court ruled that former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's name must remain on the Nov. 7 ballot even though he withdrew from the race for his Texas congressional seat. The decision, which affirmed a prior ruling, may force DeLay to either campaign for the Houston-area seat he wanted to abandon or concede it to Democratic candidate Nick Lampson. 
Islamic values and Arabic language education are now in the mainstream of Philippine education. As mandated by Department of Education Order No. 51, the two subjects are now taught in public schools around Mindanao and in some parts of the country that have at least 30 enrollees who are Muslims.
