Subject: Afternoon Buzz: District’s incoming fire chief announces new recruitment tests
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Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 14:49:55 -0400 (EDT)

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What's new since this morning's newspaper * Fri., Apr. 17, 2015
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DISTRICT’S INCOMING FIRE CHIEF ANNOUNCES NEW RECRUITMENT TESTS 
Peter Hermann
The District’s incoming fire chief announced Friday that the department will, for the first time in about a decade, test recruits before they enter the academy to help attract more city residents to the department.Read full article &gt;&gt; [
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TAKE A RIDE ON METRORAIL’S CAR 7000 
Robert Thomson
Commuting is habit-forming. So when Blue Line riders stepped through the doors of Car 7000 on Tuesday morning, their eyes did not linger on the radically different features of the new-generation trains. Most riders did what they always do: Scanned the car for empty seats.Read full article &gt;&gt; [
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KARATE INSTRUCTOR TAPED SEX ACTS WITH ADOLESCENTS IN STUDIO, POLICE SAY 
Julie Zauzmer
A Montgomery County karate instructor recorded videos of himself having sexual contact with adolescents in the Chevy Chase karate studio where he worked, police said on Friday.Police said that the instructor recently fled the country, after admitting to police that he had traded child pornography online.Read full article &gt;&gt; [
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MOM: THE RELIGIOUS REASONS MY KIDS WON’T BE TAKING COMMON CORE TESTS 
Valerie Strauss
Jessie B. Ramey is the parent of two children in Pittsburgh public schools and a historian of working families, gender, race and U.S. social policy who teaches women’s studies and history at the University of Pittsburgh. She has decided to opt her children out of upcoming state-mandated tests in Pennsylvania known as the PSSAs for reasons not often cited by parents who have made the opt-out decision for their own children.Read full article &gt;&gt; [
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VIDEO OF DEAD MAN’S BLINK ALLOWED AS EVIDENCE IN MARYLAND MURDER TRIAL 
Lynh Bui
Video of a paralyzed man blinking to point out his accused killer can be used as evidence in a Prince George’s County murder trial, according to a decision issued by Maryland’s highest court on Friday.Read full article &gt;&gt; [
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NO LONGER WORRIED ABOUT COOPERSTOWN, MAURY WILLS ENJOYS INDUCTION INTO D.C. SPORTS HALL OF FAME 
Clinton Yates
There was a time when Maury Wills was concerned about his name ending up on a bust in Cooperstown. Those days are over. The longtime Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop, who was born at D.C. General hospital and raised in the Parkside public housing projects in D.C., used to consider getting into the Baseball Hall of Fame a priority, but now, he’s just happy to be alive. When he is among the 13 inducted into the Washington D.C. Sports Hall of Fame on Sunday, he’ll be in front of family members, which is enough for him.Read full article &gt;&gt; [
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‘EX MACHINA,’ ‘UNFRIENDED’ AND OTHER NEW MOVIES, REVIEWED 
Macy Freeman
In this week’s new releases, actors Oscar Isaac, Alicia Vikander and Domhnall Gleeson deliver engaging performances in the unsettling sci-fi flick “Ex Machina.” “Unfriended,” a horror film for the social media age, centers on the issue of cyberbullying.Read full article &gt;&gt; [
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TRAFFIC, TRANSIT TIPS FOR THE WEEKEND 
Robert Thomson
The main event of the weekend is likely to be the Earth Day concert on the Mall, but there’s plenty of other traffic-generating activity in the D.C. area. The Capital Weather Gang says Saturday will be the better of the two days — in fact, Saturday probably will be spectacular.Read full article &gt;&gt; [
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