Tracey drove 2.5 hours to a meeting with her new peers and then 2.5 hours back. She says she really didn’t get anything out of it but maybe the Regional Vice President (RVP) was happy to meet his people. He started his job as RVP the same day as Tracey started hers as Regional Education Manager (REM). (Learning a lot of new acronyms lately)
MjL 30 Sep 2016, 7:38 a.m.
A Philadelphia fifth grader ditched school for the chance to meet rock legend Bruce Springsteen and “The Boss” gladly played along by signing the boy’s absence excuse note.
Two excerpts from the article below make me wonder why we have the money to install black boxes in trains to determine who to blame for accidents but don’t seem to have enough money to install equipment to prevent accidents?
Federal investigators pulled one of the black box recorders from the wrecked commuter train at the Hoboken station and struggled to extract the second one Friday as they tried to figure out what caused the crash that killed one person and injured more than 100 others.
The investigation will seek to answer many questions, including whether a system designed to prevent accidents by overriding the engineer and automatically slowing or stopping trains that are going too fast could have helped if it had been installed on the line.
Think about the loss of income most cities will suffer if they can’t send multiple squad cars out on the highways and byways to waylay drivers with traffic tickets for millions in loot?
“I think you would see the end of traffic stops,” Joseph A. Schafer, the criminal justice department head at Southern Illinois University, says of the coming of driverless cars. “It radically changes police-public encounters.”
The world just passed a longstanding climate marker, further proof that atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide has changed in a stunning, measurable way since the Industrial Revolution.
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