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Friday, March 8, 2013

Couple allegedly steals 2 cop cars during chase

The young couple accused of stealing multiple police cars from two cities and leading authorities on a high-speed chase through two states Tuesday morning have been identified as Blake Bills and Shayna Sykes.

"I never heard of anyone stealing two police cars in one incident," said Philadelphia Deputy Police Commissioner Richard Ross.

Camden, N.J., Police Chief John S. Thomson tells NBC10's Cydney Long?that Camden Police Officer?Sekou Reid-Bey?made a traffic stop at 9:49 a.m., directly in front of Camden Police Headquarters at 800 Federal Street, when the incident began.

"As [the officer] was interviewing the driver of that car, he heard his car door shut," he said.

Thompson says Reid-Bey, 49,?saw the couple jump into his cruiser. He says they struck him, breaking the officer's leg,?before driving off.

Read more at NBCPhiladelphia.com

Initially, Sykes, 23,?and Bills,?24, were pursued by both the Camden and Pennsauken Police Departments -- reaching 100 mph on the Admiral Wilson Boulevard, according to Camden County prosecutors. That pursuit lasted?about 10 minutes?and wove through the city of Camden and portions of Pennsauken.

As the stolen police cruiser crossed the Ben Franklin Bridge the South Jersey officers peeled off and Philly PD?picked up the?chase.?The suspect eventually crashed the Camden Police car in the area of 7th and Norris in North Philadelphia.

Sykes fled from the crashed cruiser, according to law enforcement sources, leaving Bills trapped inside the Camden Police car.

With police attempting to apprehend Sykes, sources say she managed to steal a Philadelphia Police car, No. 2625, from the area of 7th and Norris, also in Philadelphia.

As it was being chased, the stolen Philadelphia cruiser hit three cars at 6th and Lehigh. It also?nearly struck?a pedestrian walking near 5th and Clearfield. That person fell and hit their head -- his/her?condition is unknown.

The car was eventually stopped at 1100 Hope Street on the edge of Northern Liberties. Sykes attempted to run from the cruiser, but was apprehended by several officers just feet from the stolen car.

Sykes was handcuffed and put into another police cruiser. She was taken to East Detectives. The entire Philadelphia chase lasted about 15 minutes.

"I thought it was a movie," Felix Vargus, a tow truck driver, told NBC10's Claudia Rivero. "She was trying to fight with them so she could escape again."

Another witness who observed her arrest told Rivero the woman was not wearing shoes when she was taken into custody.

Police say that drugs possibly played a role in the incident and that both Bills and Sykes will face a slew of charges including resisting arrest, DUI, fleeing police and risking a catastrophe.

"And that's just here," Thompson said. "The other charges you will need to deal with Camden prosecutors for that."

Sykes and Bills are suspected of evading an officer during an attempted traffic stop Sunday -- just two days before the high-speed chase.

Camden prosecutors say they expect to charge the duo with aggravated assault and theft.

Reid-Bey was being treated at Cooper University Hospital.?

"He's doing well. He's going to be fine. He's in stable condition; significant injuries to the lower extremities of his body though," said Thompson. He says the officer, after being hit, went onto the cruiser's hood before being thrown to the concrete. The injured officer was then able to radio for assistance.

An official with the Camden Fraternal Order of Police tells NBC10 that Reid-Bey is an 18-year-veteran of the force.

"There will be a litany of charges she will face in Philadelphia," said Ross. "I think [authorities] did a great job under the circumstances."

Bills and Sykes both hail from Macungie, Pa. Police say that Bills grandmother reported the couple missing earlier in the day after they allegedly took the woman's car and left her with the couple's 7-month-old child.?Police also suspect the couple is involved in another police chase on Sunday that left an officer injured.?

By NBCPhiladelphia.com

Source: http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/06/17210359-i-thought-it-was-a-movie-nj-couple-allegedly-stole-cop-cars-led-police-on-chase?lite

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Iowa City Among Top Five College Cities in Country

IOWA CITY (CBS 2/FOX 28) --
?? Two Iowa communities now rank amoung the top five college cities in the United States.
?? This according to the American Institute for Economic Research.
?? Ames has jumped four spots within the last year to reach the number 2 spot.
?? Iowa City stayed the same as last year, retaining the number four position.
?? Several higher-population cities were knocked out of the top rankings this year, due to new factors in the AIER study.
?? Arts and leisure, unemployment rates, and the number of entreprenuers were three factors added in 2012.
?? Other Midwestern cities, like Lafayette, Indiana and Lawrence, Kansas also made the top 10.Iowa City Among Top Five College Cities in Country

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Source: http://www.cbs2iowa.com/shared/newsroom/top_stories/videos/kgan_iowa-city-among-top-five-college-cities-country-14608.shtml?wap=0

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Thursday, March 7, 2013

Can't stop employee from working off the clock? Fire him for willful ...

Letting employees work off the clock can create quite a mess. For one thing, it leaves employers exposed to large class-action overtime lawsuits, which can wind up costing hundreds of thousands of dollars in back pay and legal fees.

What can employers do when em??ployees insist on clocking out and continuing to work? Warn them?and then discipline them. If you terminate employees for refusing to listen, they won?t be eligible for un??em??ployment compensation and you will also protect your company from an overtime lawsuit.

Recent case: Johnson, who worked for Macy?s, often clocked out but continued working. When he was caught removing expired food from the store, he explained that he considered the food compensation for the unpaid hours.

Macy?s explained that he was not allowed to work off the clock, but paid him for the estimated time he had done so in the past. But John??son continued to clock out and then keep working. He was fired and applied for unemployment benefits.

Macy?s objected, arguing Johnson had been warned and then purposely broke the rule against working off the clock. It argued this was willful misconduct.

The court agreed and said he was ineligible for unemployment benefits. (Pragoo v. Macy?s, No. A12-0308, Court of Appeals of Min?ne??sota, 2012)

Final note: Macy?s handled this case right. It paid Johnson for the time he spent working off the clock, cutting off potential liability for un??paid wages. Then it fired him when he wouldn?t comply.

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TSA to allow small knives, bats, clubs on planes

FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2006, file photo, knives of all sizes and types are piled in a box at the State of Georgia Surplus Property Division store in Tucker, Ga., and are just a few of the hundreds of items discarded at the security checkpoints of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport that will be for sale at the store. Airline passengers will be able to carry small knives, souvenir baseball bats, golf clubs and other sports equipment onto planes beginning in April 2013 under a policy change announced Tuesday, March 5, 2013, by the head of the Transportation Security Administration administrator John Pistole. (AP Photo/Gene Blythe, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Airline passengers will be able to carry small knives, souvenir baseball bats, golf clubs and other sports equipment onto planes beginning next month under a policy change announced Tuesday by the head of the Transportation Security Administration.

The new policy conforms U.S. security standards to international standards, and allows TSA to concentrate its energies on more serious safety threats, the agency said in a statement.

The announcement, made by TSA Administrator John Pistole at an airline industry gathering in New York, drew an immediate outcry from unions representing flight attendants and other airline workers, who said the items are still dangerous in the hands of the wrong passengers.

Transport Workers Union Local 556, which represents over 10,000 flight attendants at Southwest Airlines, called the new policy "dangerous" and "shortsighted," saying it was designed to make "the lives of TSA staff easier, but not make flights safer."

"While we agree that a passenger wielding a small knife or swinging a golf club or hockey stick poses less of a threat to the pilot locked in the cockpit, these are real threats to passengers and flight attendants in the passenger cabin," the union said in a statement.

The policy change was based on a recommendation from an internal TSA working group, which decided the items represented no real danger, said David Castelveter, a spokesman for the agency.

The presence on flights of gun-carrying pilots traveling as passengers, federal air marshals and airline crew members trained in self-defense provide additional layers of security to protect against misuse of the items, he said. However, not all flights have federal air marshals or armed pilots onboard.

The new policy permits folding knives with blades that are 2.36 inches or less in length and are less than 1/2-inch wide. The policy is aimed at allowing passengers to carry pen knives, corkscrews with small blades and other knives.

Passengers also will be allowed to bring onboard as part of their carry-on luggage novelty-sized baseball bats less than 24 inches long, toy plastic bats, billiard cues, ski poles, hockey sticks, lacrosse sticks and two golf clubs, the agency said. The policy goes into effect on April 25.

Security standards adopted by the International Civil Aviation Organization, a U.N. agency, already call for passengers to be able to carry those items. Those standards are non-binding, but many countries follow them.

Box cutters, razor blades and knives that don't fold or that have molded grip handles will still be prohibited, the TSA said.

Reaction to the changes was mostly positive among travelers interviewed Tuesday at Los Angeles International Airport.

"I figure small knives are appropriate and fine," said Becca Wong of Los Angeles. "People carry pocket knives on them daily on the street so I'm just as at risk there versus on an airplane. So I'm not really too concerned about it."

"Just a little small pocketknife that most people have isn't going to do a whole lot of damage to anybody," agreed Matt Shaw of Los Angeles. "I don't think it's that big a deal."

"I carry a pocket knife as well," said Tunde Akinyele of Los Angeles. "But I know when I travel I leave it at home. They were taking those small knives that you use to clean your fingernails ? those, no. But a pocket knife, I would say, yes, that is a weapon. It can be used to harm somebody on the flight. So I would say still we shouldn't allow that yet."

The policy change got a thumbs up from Dean Rhymer, a Junior Los Angeles Kings hockey player who strode into the terminal carrying a hockey stick. "I think it'll be helpful. It's easier to carry it on to bring it places."

The items that will be permitted under the new policy don't present any greater danger than other everyday items that passengers can turn into weapons, aviation security consultant John L. Sullivan said. A pen or a toothbrush can be sharpened into a knife like the "shivs" inmates sometimes make in prisons, he said. Some airlines have returned to using real glassware and silverware in first class, rather than plastic or paper, he noted. Glasses can be broken and used as weapons, he added.

"There are a lot of things you can use on an airplane if you are intent on hurting someone," said Sullivan, co-founder of the Welsh-Sullivan Group in Dallas. "Security is never 100 percent."

But speaking as a passenger, he said, the "last thing I need is someone getting on a plane taking up valuable space with their pool cues and hockey sticks."

Douglas Laird, a former security director at Northwest Airlines and now a security consultant, said the change was long overdue. He said security should focus more on profiling passengers and less on what they're carrying.

"After 9/11, TSA did a lot of things pretty fast without thinking it through. They have better things to do than look for a guy who's got a 2-inch knife," he said.

There has been a gradual easing of some of the security measures applied to airline passengers after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. In 2005, the TSA changed its policies to allow passengers to carry on airplanes small scissors, knitting needles, tweezers, nail clippers and up to four books of matches. The move came as the agency turned its focus toward keeping explosives off planes, because intelligence officials believed that was the greatest threat to commercial aviation.

And in September 2011, the TSA no longer required children 12 years old and under to remove their shoes at airport checkpoints. The agency recently issued new guidelines for travelers 75 years old and older so they can avoid removing shoes and light jackets when they go through airport security checkpoints.

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Associated Press writers Eileen Sullivan in Washington, David Koenig in Dallas and Raquel Maria Dillon in Los Angeles contributed to this report.

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Tuesday, March 5, 2013

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Alpine Announces Advanced Training and National Certification in ...

Alpine Physical Therapy announces that owner Brent Dodge, PT, OCS, CMPT, CSCS completed advanced training and received national certification in Functional Dry Needling.

Alright. Let?s cut to the quick. I gotta share the exciting news about my time spent in Colorado for advanced training this weekend. The advanced course was far beyond what I?d imagined. Having been in clinical practice for 21 years, I?ve seen a lot of great treatment approaches come and go. We continue to use the good ones, like spinal manipulation, intelligent movement, and core stability training. Yet I?ve not seen a game changer on the level of Functional Dry Needling. I?ve provided well over 200 treatment sessions and have witnessed life-changing results in many of my clients. The advanced application of this form of treatment, which I?ve now competed in Brighton, Colorado, will yield even greater results.

Several more of our team of therapists are marking their schedules to work toward their certifications. Alpine is once again at the forefront of new and meaningful technology. It?s our way of bringing the best forms of physical medicine to our beloved Missoula!

On a final note, if you have pain that is keeping you from your favorite activity, sport, or recreation, you owe it to yourself to seek out this form of care. We now have three physical therapists applying Functional Dry Needling. Give us a call at 406-251.2323. For more information, visit our webpage on this topic by clicking here.

Source: http://healthandfitness101.com/?p=3614&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=alpine-announces-advanced-training-and-national-certification-in-functional-dry-needling

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Did CBS Make Kaley Cuoco Delete This Tweet? - Business Insider

Last week, actress Kaley Cuoco sang Dish's Hopper DVR's praises in a sponsored tweet claiming that the ad skipper was both "awesome" and "amazing."

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The only awkward bit?

Cuoco is the star of CBS's "Big Bang Theory," and the network ? along with almost every other studio ? is suing Dish over the commercial-eliminating technology.

After supposedly realizing the error of her ways, Cuoco erased the tweet, and Dish is saying that CBS made her do it.

Kaley Cuoco on CBS's "The Big Bang Theory."

"It?s disappointing that CBS ? once the exemplar of editorial independence and innovation ? continues to use its heavy hand to hold back progress from consumers,? said Dish CEO and president Joe Clayton in a statement. ?Clearly, with this kind of response, consumers have a true interest in the types of innovations the DISH Hopper offers. It?s a shame that CBS, despite its legacy, feels it needs to thwart this kind of consumer demand.?

But CBS says it didn't do it.

?Once again, Joe Clayton demonstrates his dubious gift for hyperbole and hucksterism," a statement reads. "No demands were made, but it?s clear that Dish?s culture of fabrication is alive and well.?

Although even if official demands weren't made, we're sure Cuoco got the message that she didn't want to offend the network that put her on the map.

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/did-cbs-make-kaley-cuoco-delete-this-tweet-2013-3

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