The Chicago South Side Spring Offensive has begun.
[Chicago Tribune] he son of a Harvey police officer was killed and three other people were wounded when gunfire erupted at a strip club in the south suburb early Wednesday, police said.
The officer's son was shot in the parking lot of the Boogie Nights Club after a fight started inside the club and spilled outside around 2:10 a.m., Harvey Police Chief Greg Thomas said in a statement.
The victim, 25, was pronounced on the scene. Thomas said his name would be released later.
Three other people, including two security guards working there, were shot inside the club in the 14700 block of South Wood Street, Thomas said.
The three were taken to Metro South and Ingalls Memorial hospitals, Thomas said.
No one was reported in custody.
This is a developing story. Check back for details.
[NBC] A former New Jersey priest who had been "credibly accused" of sexually abusing minors was found dead in his Nevada home, and police are treating it as a public service homicide.
The body of John Capparelli was found Saturday morning by police conducting a welfare check at his home in Henderson, about 15 miles south of Las Vegas.
The Clark County Coroner's Office said Capparelli, 70, died from a single gunshot wound to the neck. His body was found in the kitchen, a spokesperson said.
Police said they did not have a suspect at this time.
Capparelli's name appeared on a list in February with 187 other clergy the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark said had been "credibly accused" of abusing minors.
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Croatian (right) Italian (left) - https://imgur.com/Rza4VcB
hat tip reddit this am.
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I always was intrigued at how the Roman Legion could subdivide into small squads and recombine... there was that battle that midway they stripped the rear maniples and reformed them to the threatened flank as a new "pseudo-Legion". Like a Lego™ block army they could assume almost any shape.
HEJERE, Ethiopia (AP) ‐ The Latest on Ethiopian Airlines crash (all times local):
4:40 a.m.
The United Arab Emirates, a key international travel hub, has barred the Boeing 737 Max 8 and 9 from its airspace following the crash of a similar jetliner in Ethiopia.
The Emirates’ General Civil Aviation administration made the announcement late Tuesday night.
It cited the similarities between Sunday’s Ethiopian Airlines flight and another by Indonesia’s Lion Air last year for its decision.
The budget carrier FlyDubai, owned by the Dubai government, uses the aircraft as a workhorse of its fleet.
FlyDubai said in a statement "is adjusting its schedule to minimise disruption to passengers."
[Jerusalem Post] dissident Republican group calling itself the "IRA" claimed responsibility on Tuesday for letter bombs sent to buildings in London and the University of Glasgow last week.
"The claim was allegedly made on behalf of the 'IRA'," British police said.
The group used a recognized codeword, police said.
Police blew up a parcel sent to the University of Glasgow on March 6, and said it was linked to three devices sent to major transport hubs in London the day before.
[PM] A Google executive admitted during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday that Google tracks users' phones ‐ even when their location history is turned off.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) questioned Google Senior Privacy Counsel Will DeVries about the company's tracking policies during a hearing examining online consumer privacy. Some of DeVries' answers will likely disturb consumers who thought there was a way to avoid being tracked by Google through their phones.
In his prepared remarks, DeVries told lawmakers that "the processing of personal information is necessary to simply operate the service the user requested." He asserted that "requiring" individuals to control every aspect of data processing "can create a burdensome and complex experience that diverts attention from the most important controls without corresponding benefits," and therefore a "specific consent or toggle" should not be required for every use of data.
"I'm concerned about the implicit bargain that consumers are being asked to ratify by which they supposedly get free services but actually have enormous amounts of personal data extracted from them without knowing exactly what's going on," Hawley said. He asked DeVries about his claims in his prepared remarks that Google provides "free" services and that the company "clearly explains" how personal data is used. "Is that really true?"
DeVries explained that it's "complicated" -- a word that he used several times as he tried to evade Hawley's questions about why Google tracks its users' locations.
An Associated Press report in August 2018 found that "many Google services on Android devices and iPhones store your location data even if you’ve used a privacy setting that says it will prevent Google from doing so."'
[USA Today] Dick's Sporting Goods announced Tuesday it will remove firearms from 125 of its stores, according to news reports. The move follows the company's ban on assault-style weapons last year in the wake of the Parkland shooting.
CEO Ed Stack said Tuesday that Dick's will pull hunting gear from 125 stores starting in around August in response to its slumping sales in those stores, Bloomberg reported, a move that may spread to more stores next year.
Dick's last year announced it would ban sales of assault-style weapons after the Parkland, Florida, school shooting and revelations that its shooter, Nikolas Cruz, had purchased a gun from a Dick's store. The company also halted sales of high-capacity magazines and guns to anyone under 21 years old.
Hunting products started vanishing from 10 Dick's stores last fall as the retailer swapped those items for products such as kayaks and baseball gear. Stack said the stores saw higher sales, margins and foot traffic than when they had guns, according to Bloomberg.
Halting assault-style weapon sales put a dent in overall sales for Dick's, the company noted last fall, a dip furthered by a weaker gun market. On Tuesday, the Pittsburgh-area company said net income for the quarter fell to $102.6 million from $116 million in the year-earlier period, per MarketWatch.
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It would be interesting if they had the stats of guns sold by Dicks that actually were involved in a crime by the person who legally bought the gun from Dicks. I suspect it would be really low if greater than one.
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And track equipment celebrates the slaughter of Persians.
Kayaks huh. They do know that 2018 was the deadliest year on record for drowning in the Great Lakes, drowning is in the top 5 causes of death for children, and water sports in general are racist.
[MAIL] A hyper-efficient and super-light one-piston engine smaller than a backpack could render modern hybrids obsolete.
Shaul Yaakoby, 53, is the engineer from Tel Aviv, Israel, that developed the engine and claims it is capable of churning out enough horsepower to run a small hatchback for 750 miles (1,200 km) without refuelling.
The engine, manufactured by firm Aquarius Engine, is made of a only a dozen moving components.
MailOnline has obtained data from the firm which reveals the car engine to be 10 per cent more efficient than the average vehicle.
It is now undergoing field tests and the company expects its generator it to be commercially available by the end of 2020 and in cars by 2022.
Mr Yaakoby said its simplicity enables the lightweight design to be so efficient.
'What makes the Aquarius Engine so revolutionary is its simple design, we took the traditional combustion engine that hasn't really been changed in 150-years and we stripped it down to the bare necessities,' he said.
'This means a 10kg [22lbs] engine made up of 20 parts that is more efficient than a 200kg [220lbs] engine made of 200 parts.
'For over a century cars have been carrying around a ton of dead weight that has costed us power and efficiency.
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'For over a century cars have been carrying around a ton of dead weight that has costed us power and efficiency.
Heeeyy! Is he tawkin' about me?
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Building a lightweight engine by using exotic heat resistant materials has long been possible, but the cost of the materials made the engine much more expensive that the old cast iron water cooled engines. This article doesn't say how they are solving the cooling problem ?
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"You can't have airbags or glass, seats, or a spare tire, and the driver must weigh less than 45 lbs. Also, no headwinds"
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Mazda started using heat resistant ceramic materials for their rotary engines for racing because of heat buildup in rotary engines because of all of the friction and low combustion rate.
Since the micro-engine is such a small, light design it is like an RC model airplane engine.
Light means thin walls and air cooling fins can be close enough to the source of the heat to obviate a water cooling jacket.
Aircraft reciprocating engines from Continental and Lycoming get by with oil cooling because of plenty of air cooling in flight.
These a/c engines have to run at low RPM because of prop drag and are designed for low compression for safety reasons.
Cylinder head temperature is use to lean engine for fuel efficiency up to max CHT allowed to prevent cylinder head damage.
So I am guessing the micro-engine might be able to get by with oil cooling versus water at low output.
But oil cooling would require an oil pump and that would probably require more than 20 parts.
From YouTube link I can see an air fan blowing air across the combustion chamber.
And because the single combustion chamber is split into two sides the effective combustion rate is halved, doubling the amount of time to cool.
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They've been making jet turbines the size of a pickle jar and smaller for a long time. Some of them are almost beer can size. They're nominally for models and experiments, and cost quite a bit.
A Swiss pilot mounted two of them on set of folding wings, and flew in front of reporters for a half an hour. He has since flown the English Channel with his rig.
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All I can think of is a Fiat 500 with a massive Ram-Air Scoop.
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Sounds like a slightly smaller version of my old VW air-cooled engine. They made some rad dune buggies out of those things.
[The Hill] The Trump administration will reportedly shutter all 21 international offices operated by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) in a move intended to consolidate services from the Department of Homeland Security.
The Washington Post reported that the decision was announced by USCIS Director L. Francis Cissna in an email to agency staffers on Tuesday, which stated that the services provided by the 21 offices would be consolidated into U.S. embassies and stateside offices.
"I believe by doing so, we will better leverage our funds to address backlogs in the United States while also leveraging existing Department of State resources at post," Cissna wrote, according to the Post.
"Change can be difficult and can cause consternation. I want to assure you we will work to make this as smooth a transition as possible for each of our USCIS staff while also ensuring that those utilizing our services may continue to do so and our agency operations continue undisrupted," he added.
A senior official at the Department of Homeland Security told the Post that the move was being implemented as a cost-cutting measure that would shift the offices' responsibilities to existing agency staffers. About 70 staffers in the offices would be reassigned as part of the decision, according to the Post.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[NBC] A former New Jersey priest who had been "credibly accused" of sexually abusing minors was found dead in his Nevada home, and police are treating it as a 
[Jerusalem Post] dissident Republican group calling itself the "IRA" claimed responsibility on Tuesday for letter bombs sent to buildings in London and the University of Glasgow last week. 
[PM] A Google executive admitted during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday that Google tracks users' phones ‐ even when their location history is turned off.
[USA Today] Dick's Sporting Goods announced Tuesday it will remove firearms from 125 of its stores, according to news reports. The move follows the company's ban on assault-style weapons last year in the wake of the Parkland shooting.
