1. “Yappy Hours” at Siips. Did anyone over there actually pass 5th grade spelling? Either way, they are raising money for the SPCA. Did any of you actually every go back to Siips? I know I was scared to go after your reviews. [UNCUS]

2. “Citizens Academy for 911” on April 19th at the Emergency Communications Center, you get to learn how to dispatch calls. I guess this is cool. I thought it wasn’t for real at first. Contact Debbie Wade at 434-971-3509 or DWADE@albemarle.org for more info. Event details:

If you have ever wondered what a 911 Communications Officer’s job really entails this academy will provide you with the internal workings of our local emergency dispatch system. The day long training will begin at 8:00 am and conclude at 5:00 pm. The classes will include an orientation of emergency operations, call taking, fire dispatching, law enforcement dispatching, emergency medical dispatching, emergency management/CERT, and quality improvement and quality assurance review.

In addition to the classroom session, all academy participants will be expected to spend four hours of time in the Communications Center participating in a “sit-along” with an actual communications officer as they perform their duties. The “sit-along” will provide each academy student with a practical demonstration of the duties of the job. All participants who successfully complete the academy training will receive a Certificate of Completion.

3. The Virginia ABC gets the shaft. Now you can advertise alcohol in student newspapers. Yippee. [WSLS]

4.  Local private school, Saint Anne’s Belfield, will begin having separate boy and girl classes for math and science classes for fifth graders.  This is to “test better learning environments for young children.”  Next up, separate classes by … OH WAIT…. we already did that. It didn’t work so well. [DP]

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I heard aliens know how to party hard. Because I am an internet addict, I often see some funny trends emerging. I am starting to get a little nervous that either (1) aliens are invading us with drones that look like giant magnifying glasses (THINK: WE ARE ANTS THEY ARE GOING TO PLAY ANT WARS WITH US) or (2) some genius has started the best viral marketing campaign ever (think: Independence Day 2, Mars Attack 3, etc.). Read more about the story here.

Apparently, there is this anonymous believer dude, Isaac, who runs this site where he discloses his whole take on UFOs, his experience at a top secret government laboratory and all that jazz. If you don’t mind reading a huge essay on the internet, it’s quite the story. If, in the least it’s science fiction it’s an amazing story.

Check out the site. Read the story… come back and discuss!

Here is an excerpt:

Their hardware wasn’t operated in quite the same way as ours. In our technology, even today, we have a combination of hardware and software running almost everything on the planet. Software is more abstract than hardware, but ultimately it needs hardware to run it. In other words, there’s no way to write a computer program on a piece of paper, set that piece of paper on a table or something, and expect it to actually do something. The most powerful code in the world still doesn’t actually do anything until a piece of hardware interprets it and translates its commands into actions.

But their technology is different. It really did operate like the magical piece of paper sitting on a table, »Read More

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