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Cartel associates plead guilty to bribery charge
AUSTIN — Three Mexican citizens pleaded guilty Wednesday to attempting to bribe a federal judge who was hearing a case on how the Zetas drug cartel laundered money by trading in American racehorses.
Franceso Colorado Cessa, son Francisco Colorado Cessa Jr. and business associate Ramon Segura Flores admitted they tried to arrange a $1.2 million bribe for District Judge Sam Sparks the day before he sentenced the senior Cessa for his role in the money laundering, U.S. Attorney Robert Pitman said in a statement. The men will remain in custody until sentencing.
Segura and Cessa's son tried to arrange the bribe to get a more lenient sentence for the senior Cessa, who already had been convicted for his role in spending nearly $25 million to buy and sell 500 racehorses to launder drug money. The FBI and Austin police set up a sting after recording conversations between Cessa, 53, and his son at the Bastrop County Jail in which they discussed how to bribe Sparks.
A confidential source made contact with Segura and introduced him to two undercover agents, an FBI agent and an Austin police officer, who said they could deliver the bribe. But they said it needed to be $1.2 million and include a $25,000 fee for the undercover agents. One of the agents said he could deliver a $250,000 down payment to the judge during a game of golf.
Cessa Jr., 25, relayed the plan to his father by telephone and they agreed to go forward with it, the complaint said.
Segura, 52, and Cessa Jr. demanded a signal from the judge, through use of a code word during sentencing, to prove that he had accepted the bribe before they would make a down payment. The undercover agents suggested "golf," a word Sparks did not use while sentencing Cessa.
On the day of the sentencing, Segura testified for more than an hour and his attorneys presented extensive documentary and videotaped evidence about Cessa's good deeds as a businessman in Veracruz. Sparks, who was unaware of the plan to bribe him, passed down the maximum punishment of 20 years in prison and federal agents arrested Cessa Jr. and Segura a few hours later.
The scheme to take proceeds from drug sales in the United States and launder them by purchasing American quarter horses was led by Jose Trevino Morales, the brother of the Zetas cartel's two leaders. A jury in Texas found Morales guilty in May of investing $16 million of drug money in the buying, training and racing of horses across the Southwest.
There was no indication any other defendant in the horse racing case was involved in the attempt to bribe Sparks.


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OTTAWA — Subsidiaries of the company that wants to build the Northern Gateway pipeline through northern B.C. have reported more than 170 pipeline leaks and spills in the United States since 2002, accident reporting data shows.
Records filed with the U.S. government show companies owned by Calgary-based Enbridge Energy experienced 159 reportable accidents and incidents involving liquid pipelines and another 16 in their natural gas lines.
The reports detail minor incidents, with only a few gallons lost, and major accidents, including the 2007 leak from an Enbridge pipeline in Clearbrook, Minn., that killed two workers and led to $2.4 million U.S. in fines against the company.
The great majority of the incidents occurred in the American Midwest, around the Great Lakes and close to the Canadian border.
National Energy Board hearings into the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline kicked off this week. The Conservative government is pushing the project hard and has denounced environmental groups who want to testify against the pipeline as foreign-funded "radicals."
Enbridge's safety record is expected to be one aspect under consideration for a pipeline that will slice through the B.C. wilderness to a port in Kitimat, where bitumen will be shipped by tanker to Asian markets.
Enbridge did not respond to a request for comment. The company has defended its safety and environmental record in the past, saying it spills less oil than the industry average.
At a speech in 2010, company CEO Patrick Daniel said Enbridge pipelines spilled only about 4.2 barrels of oil for every billion barrel-miles, compared to the industry average of more than 10.7 barrels spilled. A barrel-mile is defined as one barrel of liquid moving one mile.
Projecting Enbridge's figure of 4.2 barrels spilled per BBM onto the Gateway pipeline would result in about 588 barrels spilled each year — about 94,000 litres.
The company's own data, from 2004 to 2008, shows 32,000 barrels spilled from its liquid pipelines, a rate of about 7.7 barrels per billion barrel-miles. Projected onto Gateway's average capacity, that rate would produce more than 1,000 barrels spilled each year.
One of Enbridge's worst pipeline accidents occurred in July 2010, when a line belonging to Houston-based Enbridge Energy Limited Partnership ruptured near Marshall, Mich., gushing 20,000 barrels into a creek and the Kalamazoo River.
Under the direction of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Enbridge cleaned up about 18,000 barrels and kept the oil from flowing into Lake Michigan. The EPA considers the spill the worst in the history of the Midwest.
Less than two months later, another Enbridge line burst in Romeoville, Ill., about 30 minutes' drive south of Chicago, spilling more than 7,500 barrels of crude.
Also in 2010, an Enbridge line broke near Neche, North Dakota, with 3,700 barrels contained on the company's right-of-way near a highway.
Still, the company claimed it had a 99.99-per-cent safety record that year.
The U.S. provides pipeline accident data freely online but the equivalent data is not publicly available in Canada.
The National Transportation Safety Board, however, does provide details on some incidents:
September 2009, near Odessa, Sask. About 1,100 barrels of crude oil leaked from a crack in a section of Enbridge pipe in densely-vegetated marsh. Most was recovered.
April 2007, near Glenavon, Sask. A rupture in a section of pipe through a wetland area on a farm leaked about 6,200 barrels, of which all but 480 were recovered.

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Like the hexagram, which is comprised of two equilateral triangles, the octagram (eight-pointed star) is comprised of two squares.
Possible origin: Tartessos, an ancient civilization based in Andalusia, which lasted till the 6th Century B.C.E.
Spanish name: Estrella tartésica
Arabic name: Rub el Hizb (the Quran is divided into 60 chapters each of which is called Hizb) – it marks the end of a chapter in Arabic calligraphy.
Also called: al-Quds star
Indian name: Star of Lakshmi representing the eight forms of the goddess Lakshmi.


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Lenovo not worried about Microsoft Surface
Lenovo says Microsoft's Surface will only help generate more excitement around Windows 8
Despite Microsoft recent admission that it will compete directly against its own OEM partners with Surface, its homegrown Windows 8 tablet PC, Lenovo, one of Microsoft's biggest global hardware partners, is excited about the Surface debut.
And its relationship with Microsoft, Lenovo said, is 'closer than ever.'
According to Preston Taylor, senior global product manager in Lenovo's ThinkPad group, Surface will only help generate more excitement around the Windows 8 ecosystem as a whole, ultimately helping and not harming Microsoft partners like Lenovo.
"On the whole, the Surface tablet does a lot for the Windows ecosystem, and we believe that Microsoft announcing Surface is going to really bring excitement to the Windows 8 ecosystem and help to drive that," Taylor said.
Last week, Lenovo unveiled its ThinkPad Tablet 2, the first tablet from the company to be optimised specifically for Windows 8. While it will go head-to-head with Surface upon its launch in October, Taylor said Lenovo is not concerned about the competition.
"Our general position is that the excitement in having strong, quality products in the Windows 8 ecosystem will be good for the ecosystem and ultimately great for ThinkPad," he said.
Lenovo's reaction to Surface is antithetical to that of fellow Microsoft OEM partner Acer, which said it may start seeking 'other alternatives' to Windows now that Microsoft has made its hardware debut.
"If Microsoft is going to do hardware business, what should we do? Should we still rely on Microsoft or should we find other alternatives?" said Campbell Kan, Acer's president for personal computer global operations, in an interview with The Financial Times.
Acer chairman and CEO J.T. Wang also told The Financial Times that Acer has reached out to Microsoft, urging it to rethink its entry into the tablet market.
"It will create a huge negative impact for the worldwide computing ecosystem, and other brands may take a negative reaction," Wang said Acer has told Microsoft. "It is not something you are good at, so please think twice."
Microsoft itself acknowledged that Surface will create a new competitive dynamic between itself and its partners, writing in its annual 10-K report last month: "Our Surface devices will compete with products made by our OEM partners, which may affect their commitment to our platform."
Other Microsoft OEM partners including Dell and HP have expressed plans to go to market with Windows 8 devices later this year, but have been relatively quiet with their reactions to Surface.


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Helicopter aerials show an out-of-control blaze burning in Mantoloking, N.J., a community left devastated by Superstorm Sandy. TODAY's Natalie Morales reports.
A section of Hurricane Sandy-ravaged Mantoloking, N.J., was ablaze again Wednesday morning, two days after 14 homes burned in the affluent barrier island enclave.
Video from NBCNewYork.com showed flames possibly fueled by broken natural gas lines raging in the town about 50 miles east of Trenton on Wednesday.
A large cluster of flames could be seen as smaller fires spread out from it, TODAY's Natalie Morales reported.
Ocean County Emergency Management officials said they believed ruptured natural gas lines caused the flames to rekindle Wednesday.
Impassable roads hindered Bricktown firefighters' efforts to reach the blazes, NBCNewYork.com reported.
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"What was shoreline and beautiful, waterfront properties were completely pushed back, gone, and covered by sand," Morales reported.
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Google's come a long way from being just an online search company. Although it has its fingers in Android, Chrome, Google TV, Google+ and a million other projects, its special trick is and will always online search. Google made this six minute video to show the progress of its search business since 1996.
It's hard to fathom that things we take for granted (or as a nuisance) in Google search such as advertisements were non-existent back in the 1990s. Remember when Google couldn't even search for images? Remember when Google News was still really crappy?
Oh, memories.
U.S. & World
Nobody outside of Google knows the secret algorithm sauce that keeps the search engine going, but it's clear that Larry Page and his engineers and computer scientists want the future of search to be even smarter and faster than it is today. Ten years from now, we'll probably wonder how anybody lived without Google Instant.
Via YouTube (Thanks Danny!)


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Hi guys.
I understand that in Java Eclipse that to read files, the files have to be within the folder of the java program so I have put the files into the folder of the java program where all the files to do with the DTM file reader is.
Thing is I haven't I clue what code to type up to be able to read the DTM files. I know about needing the required tools to such as a file reader, or buffered reader etc but I haven't a clue either if these are the correct tools.
Could someone point me in the right direction.
The program should be able to print out the highest peak and lowest peak data ranges from the DTM files and also be able to print out this information from the DTM files to the console window within java eclipse.


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During the Sixties, Lincoln retained the clean, classic look introduced in 1961. But the times demanded change, so the 1966-1969 Lincoln Continentals wore new -- if familiar -- styling.
By the mid-Sixties, the annual variations on the elegant 1961 Lincoln Continental design had produced a loyal clientele for the Lincoln Division. But there was a problem -- owners were so pleased with their prized vehicles that they were hanging on to them for a longer time. This phenomenon was a two-edged sword: It demonstrated the success of the design and impeccable quality control of these cars, but it also meant that the actual numbers of repeat customers were declining!
Lincoln overhauled the Continental's design
in the early 1960s. The 1968 Lincoln Continental
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Lincoln's major competition was, of course, Cadillac. General Motors had pushed its luxury marque through several major design changes between 1961 and 1965, while Lincoln did only mild annual variations on its one basic design. Some people applauded this restraint, accepting Ford's loud hints that the money saved on annual retooling was being spent on quality control.
But another segment of the public wanted a new look, something that would really make them think twice about buying a Cadillac. Ford executives, given the decreased repeat sales of Lincolns, finally decided to align themselves with the group clamoring for more substantial model changes.
Making significant facelifts while retaining the essential character of the original 1961 Lincoln Continental posed quite a dilemma. In the end, Ford designers were able to pull it off by producing a magnificent restatement of the 1961 design for 1966, and modifying this only slightly, year-by-year, through 1969.
These four years witnessed some of Lincoln's best and most luxurious automobiles. A major overhaul of the design was sorely needed, if only for aesthetic reasons. Comparing the 1961 Lincoln to the 1965, one can immediately see the end result of four annual design changes, for the 1965 had a bulkier look and lacked the true understated elegance of the 1961.
Amott B. "Buzz" Grisinger, Chief Stylist of the Lincoln-Mercury Studios, and his design group had changed the front end of the Lincoln Continental substantially for 1965. Borrowing the front rounded-bulge "coffin-nose" theme from the 1936 Cord 810 the group abandoned the straight-across grille (as seen from above) of the 1961-1964 era.
This Cord-flavored theme was not only carried over into 1966, but was made more distinctive and gradually enlarged via various facelifts through 1969. In fact, Grisinger made that theme ever more evident with the introduction of the all-new 1970 body-on-frame models.
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1966 Lincoln Continental
For the 1966 Lincoln Continental model year, Amott B. "Buzz" Grisinger, Chief Stylist of the Lincoln-Mercury Studios, and his crew pushed through major changes. Thus far, the car had sported clean smooth slab-sided styling. The fashion in cars, as well as other areas of industrial design, by this time leaned toward a visual "crispness."
The crease line along the sides of the 1966 Lincoln
Continental sharpened the car's styling.
The 1963 Buick Riviera introduced razor-edge styling to American cars, which had been seen much earlier on the Rolls-Royce and other British makes. Cadillac incorporated some of this into its 1965 redesign. Following these trends, Grisinger cut a slight ridge along the sides of the Continental just a few inches below the stainless steel accent that ran the length of the car atop the fenders and along the belt line. The effect was to "stiffen-up" the design, making the car's lines sharper, even a bit sporty.
Grisinger pointed out that such a ridge had been cut into the length of the body sides of the 1956 Continental Mark II, but lower on the bodyside rather than near the top of the fenderline. The effect on the Mark II had been to make it appear heavy. But with the 1966 the height was broken up by its higher mounted crease line, making the car appear clean-cut and relatively light.
Overall, the 1966 received the most extensive facelift for this series since 1961 In a yearly modified form, this basic crisp theme would be carried through to 1966's curved side glass, which had been eliminated for 1964-1965, returned for 1966, and stayed with Lincoln through 1969; it served to accentuate the car's otherwise straight-line design.
Ahead of the front wheel and above the front bumper, the car carried the four-pointed Continental "star." The 1966 Lincoln deserved this star -- a distinctive benchmark of Lincoln Continental styling. It was as if the creators had placed it there as a tribute to this triumph of design.
Of the 1961 through 1969 Lincolns, the 1961, the 1964, and the 1966 are the ones that set the standard for each sub-series. The 1966 reminds the automotive enthusiast of the clarity of concept found in the original 1961. Everything is in its place, and even though the 1966 is bigger than the 1961, there appears to be not one inch of fat.
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Advancements for the 1966 Lincoln Continental
The 1966 Lincoln Continental was chock-full of true advancements over its predecessors. The convertible now had a glass rear window instead of plastic, as in previous years. Like earlier unit-body Continentals, when the top was down, it was down -- there was no unsightly bulge to break the clean flow of the ragtop's lines. The owner could now operate the top mechanism, or the rear decklid, with an exterior key mechanism set next to the gas cap compartment.
Despite the car being nearly five inches longer than the 1965 model -- 220.9 inches versus 216.3 -- the impression was one of easy grace and lightness.
The expansive taillight lenses mounted in the rear bumper stretched almost two feet on both sides for increased visibility. They were covered by a "grille" that mimicked the front-end design. Three vertically mounted red reflectors rode within the chrome strips that capped the rear fenders, and the back-up lights were also in the bumper, beneath the taillights.
A simple horizontal-bar front grille emphasized the vitality under the hood and gave, as Lincoln put it, "a bold forward thrust to the look of the 1966 Lincoln Continental." It was the understated power of the fresh design that spoke of elegance and luxury to anyone who saw it. Lincoln simply claimed that the 1966 was "America's most distinguished motorcar."
This was the first year of the reversible key (cut on both sides): It worked either way -- there was no upside down. Rear seat belts, front disc brakes, and an emergency flasher were standard equipment.
The 1966 model year saw major changes at Lincoln. The sharp new design was approved and brought into production with a new 340-horsepower, 462-cubic-inch V-8 engine lurking under a longer hood. In 1965, the 430-cid engine, which dated back to 1958, cranked out 320 horses.
Also in the driveline, a new rubber-cushioned 3.75-inch diameter driveshaft, with a constant-velocity universal joint at each end, transmitted power from the "completely new" Twin-Range Turbo-Drive transmission to the rear wheels. It had two "Drive" ranges, one that started in first gear, another that started out in second (useful in slippery conditions). The standard rear axle received a quieter and more economical 2.80:1 final drive ratio, with 3.00:1 optional for a quicker getaway.
Previous models of the Continental had used rubber bushings for the upper control arm anchor points of the front suspension. This year nylon sleeves were added to the bushing, for durability and improved ride.
Using its own matched carburetor, each engine was operated by robot controls on hot-test stands to optimize break in. Every 10 to 20 minutes of this period the robot changed the throttle settings until it was time to gradually increase the throttle to the maximum programmed standard. Then the throttle was backed off in increments before being returned to maximum once again.
After this run, the oil pan was removed for internal inspection. Dental mirrors were used to inspect cylinder bores and bearings. Adjustments and alterations were then made as needed before the engine was run yet again.
A similar test was made for transmissions. After the engine was mounted in the assembled automobile, a one-and-a-half hour final inspection was made of the entire car, including "the unique 12-mih road test that every Continental must pass on 189 counts before it is approved for delivery." Any necessary final fixes were made before shipment to the dealer. The various factory tests and adjustments made the usual 1,000-mile inspection unnecessary.
All Lincoln Continentals were manufactured at the Wixom, Michigan, plant where Ford proudly pointed out that it took at least four days to build each of these luxury cars. A car started on Monday morning would usually be completed by Thursday afternoon. The first two days were spent building the magnificent unit-body, a painstaking process beginning with welding the sheetmetal body panels in bucks, progressing through a phosphating process to painting.
In the area of the plant where such items as hardware, electrical circuits trim, and some optional equipment were installed, there were no continuous conveyers. A car was moved through this portion of the plant only after work was satisfactorily completed and approved for the next step of production.
For the first time since 1960, a two-door hardtop version of the Lincoln was produced, but because this wasn't just any coupe, Lincoln dubbed it "Coupe." Cadillac had offered a two-door hardtop ever since the debut of the Coupe de Ville in 1949. Lincoln wanted to recapture some of that market, claiming for itself drivers who might otherwise end up buying a Caddy.
Nearly 16,000 Coupes were sold in 1966, about five times the number of drop-tops, of which only 3,180 were built. Unfortunately, 1967 would be the last year for Lincoln's unique convertible sedan.
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1967 Lincoln Continental
In 1967, Lincoln beckoned prospective buyers to "Come live the Continental life." The largely unchanged 1967 Lincoln Continental was touted as "Clean. Uncluttered. Functional. ... You'll also notice that because we don't make sweeping changes in our car the classic Continental look continues."
A spring-loaded star hood ornament was unique
to the 1967 Lincoln Continental.
The trademark four-pointed star moved from the fenders to the C-pillars of the hardtop and sedan, but remained on the hood and decklid. Up front, spelled out on the hood, was the CONTINENTAL name, as in 1966. Ford elected to make 1967 the only year that a unit-body Lincoln hood sported a spring-loaded star hood ornament, a move that would confound collectors for years.
Lincoln's new flow-through ventilation system, which the company called "Fresh-Flow," was standard. Fresh air was continuously allowed to enter the car, even with the windows up, displacing stale air through a system of vents and valves. Air exited from the interior via a grille mounted about midway at the base of the front doors. There, air pressure activated a one-way valve, through which stale air and smoke escaped to the outside through a door-facing on the outside of the door gasket.
The brake system was split, one half operating the front brakes, the other the rears. This provided a fail-safe system in case of hydraulic failure. Front-wheel ventilated disc brakes enhanced the dual hydraulic self-adjusting power brake system.
The automatic transmission was renamed Select-Shift Turbo-Drive. It shifted automatically in "D," but the "1" and "2" positions on the "P-R-N-D-2-1" shift quadrant allowed drivers to manually hold the car in low or second gear if desired. This feature was extended to other automatic-equipped Ford vehicles for 1967.
The front grille gained seven vertical bars and, overall, was slightly recessed. At the rear, the taillight overlays were modified to complement the new grille-work. Inside, the dashboard continued with most everything except the clock directly in front of the driver. Minor modifications were made to the warning light cluster, which included one for the parking brake and a seat-belt reminder light.
The deep-dish steering wheel was also new, boasting a padded hub. Other safety features included padded A-pillar (previously finished in chrome) and a lane-changer feature that operated the directional signals with a light touch. The door panels now carried a vertical-roll motif, and the seats were redesigned. The standard upholstery fabric was Chalfonte, a knit nylon broadcloth; a Continental emblem was embroidered into the seatbacks.
One of the most aristocratic options ever listed for an American luxury car was made available for the buyer of a 1967 Continental: a full set of hand-stitched, custom-made luggage specially designed to fit precisely into the beautifully lined 18-cubic-foot trunk. The set was offered in burgundy, palomino (a neutral beige), or black.
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1968 Lincoln Continental
The 1968 Lincoln Continental model year marked the production of the one-millionth Lincoln at Wixom on March 25, a metallic blue sedan with a Heritage vinyl roof. In the PR photo marking the occasion, it was pictured with a 1925 Lincoln Brougham by Brunn. Again, Ford restated its Sixties philosophy for Lincoln, saying that "No change has been made for the sake of change. The classic Continental look continues."
A new front parking light arrangement was just
one feature of the 1968 Lincoln Continental.
The tone for the 1968 was set by the elegant front parking lights, which appeared to be a continuation of the upward thrust of the front bumper, itself a beautiful and massive sweep of chrome. For the first time since 1965, the taillights were notched into the rear fenders above the bumper. Combined with the new front parking light arrangement, this enhanced night visibility from the side of the car -- and at the same time met the government's demand for side-marker lights.
The grille was now made up of six panels of six flat, wide rectangles, and the Coupe featured a more "formal" roofline. All this helped make the Continental "A classic among American cars."
For this model year, the star hood ornament was deleted (unsafe, you know). To replace it, an applique of the logo was placed on the front of the hood. To many loyal Continental buyers, this was a puzzlement. All through the Sixties, Ford had supplied Continental owners with a hood ornament mounted on a walnut wood base, which they could proudly display in their home or office. Now the freestanding star was nowhere to be seen. Many owners of 1968 Continentals -- as well as some dealers -- decided this just wouldn't do, so they purchased the old hood ornament and had it mounted on the hood of their new car.
Collectors today are aware of at least one confusing feature of the 1968 Lincoln. Although the 462-cubic-inch, 340-horse-power V-8 introduced in 1966 was listed as standard in the brochures for this model year, many of the later 1968s were factory-equipped with the new "computer-designed" 460-cid engine, also found in the mid-year Mark Ills and all 1969 Lincolns. With a bore and stroke of 4.36 by 3.75 inches and a 10.5:1 compression ratio, the new V-8 produced 365 horsepower at 4,600 rpm and an impressive 500 lbs/ft of torque at 2,800 rpm.
More to the point, this was, according to Lincoln, "The first engine to be designed from the drawing board up with exhaust emission control as an element of the original design." Thomas E. Bonsall pointed out in The Lincoln Motorcar: Sixty Years of Excellence, that "The new engine was significantly more efficient than before, not only in terms of power and economy, but also in its burning of hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide. Since emissions control would be an increasingly important engineering problem in coming years, the new powerplant was well suited to help engineers meet the challenges immediately ahead. An improved induction system permitted a much greater flow of air to the carburetor.
"The intake manifold was designed to minimize air/fuel ratio variations among cylinders and permit the leanest mixtures possible. In common with other Ford engines, fuel flow was limited to optimum settings by carburetor adjustment restricters. Also included in the design was the special air pump, or Thermactor, to meet current government emissions standards. The compact cylinder block was manufactured with thin-wall casting, and an improved foundry technique permitted the block to be cast from eight cores, rather than the 12 used before."
In addition to the cleaner engine, engineers devised a "controlled-crush" front end to better absorb energy in the event of a head-on impact, and front-seat shoulder belts were fitted beginning January 1, 1968. Coupes had self-locking front seatbacks, and manually adjustable headrests were available.
Lincoln was in the news a great deal this year because of the new flagship Mark III, which debuted on April 5. A "personal-luxury" coupe, it carried many of the design themes -- such as the distinctive side sculpturing -- seen on the Lincoln Continental sedan and Coupe.
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1969 Lincoln Continental
For the 1969 Lincoln Continental, CONTINENTAL block lettering replaced the star just above the grille, which was raised in the center to more closely resemble the front end of the Rolls-Royce-inspired Mark III. Overall length increased again, by 3.2 inches, making the 1969 sedan a foot longer than the original 1961 model on which it was based. The taillights migrated back into the bumper, while the back-up lights moved up into the rear fenders.
The 1969 Lincoln Continental was even longer
than its predecessors.
A "new Town Car ultra-luxury interior option" became available, highlighted by leather-and-vinyl upholstery with hidden stitching, unique door panel trim, special napped-nylon headliner, color-keyed instrument panel trim, simulated wood on the seatbacks, and plusher pile carpeting.
Other changes were minor, although the 9.15 x 15 Goodyear Polyglas white-wall tires flaunted three stripes, the one in the center much wider than the other two. A remote-control decklid release eased loading the fully carpeted trunk with the optional "twelve-piece Marvel-on luggage set created by Guild Masters exclusively for Continental."
Since 1963, Lincoln Continental Executive Limousines had been available through a unique agreement between Ford and Lehmann-Peterson, Inc., a custom coachbuilder located in Chicago. Arguably the most exquisite limos that have ever been or ever will be produced, the 1966-1969 versions of these handsome 21-foot-long behemoths were quite successful.
Specially built, they were stretched (normally three feet) factory cars that met -- and exceeded -- Ford Motor Company's specifications for body strength, reliability, and performance. For that reason, Ford awarded them the same 24,000-mile/24-month "Total-Car Warranty" carried by factory Lincolns, and even extended it to the limousine conversion equipment. This was almost unheard of in the American automobile industry.
One notable feature of the L-P limo was the lack of jump seats. Instead, an "intimate conversation area" was created via rear-facing "companion seats" that flanked a hand-rubbed walnut cabinet housing whatever sound system the buyer had chosen. In 1968, the limo was base-priced at $15,104, and options -- from Lincoln and/or Lehmann-Peterson -- could drive that to $20,000. But even at those prices, approximately 500 limos were produced through 1970.
Buzz Grisinger and his design group went to work on the 1970 model -- the first non-Mark Lincoln built with conventional body-on-frame construction since 1957. The model run that had begun in 1961 had finally ended, making it one of the longest ever at either Ford or in the American automobile industry as a whole. A total of 341,781 of these unit-body cars -- convertibles, four-door sedans, and hardtop coupes -- had been built over the nine years of production.
The 1961 Lincoln took the automotive marketplace by surprise. Cadillac had by that time diminished the size of its fins, which had peaked in 1959. Chrysler's Imperial was still of monstrous proportions. In the years following World War II, some Lincoln models had sold well, others had not. But the other luxury-car manufacturers rushed back to their styling studios when they saw the clean and elegant 1961 Lincoln Continental. One quick look was enough to convince anybody that Lincoln was now setting the pace in style.
Interestingly, the 1961 through 1969 Lincoln Continental also set an enduring styling legacy and identity for Lincoln, something design chief Eugene Bordinat had been searching for when he proposed a 1958-styled model for the 1961 design. Although he lost to Elwood P. Engel and John Najjar for that particular design generation, the 1961 Lincoln Continental set the character for that fine family of automobiles.
Park a 1987 Lincoln Town Car next to a 1961 -- or a 1969 Lincoln Continental -- and the family resemblance is instantly recognizable. Ironically, except for its eggcrate front end, Cadillac has pretty much lost out in continuing its distinctive design heritage.
Annual facelifts for American cars during the Sixties were inevitable. Ford's efforts for the 1966-1969 Lincolns were masterful. The last 1969 Continental that rolled off the assembly line still carried the elegant spirit of the award-winning 1961 masterpiece.
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Lincoln Continental Specifications
Here are the models, prices, and production numbers for the 1966, 1967, 1968, and 1969 Lincoln Continental, as well as detailed specifications for the 1966 Lincoln Continental.
1966-69 Lincoln Continental: Models, Prices, and Production
| 1966
| Weight
| Price
|82 4d sedan
| 5,085
| $5,750
| 35,809
86 convertible sedan
| 5,480
| 3,180
89 hardtop coupe
| 4,985
| 15,766
| Total
| 54,755
| 1967
| 82 4d sedan
| 5,049
| 33,331
| 86 convertible sedan
| 5,505
| 2,276
| 89 hardtop coupe
| 4,940
| 11,060
| Total
| 46,667
| 1968
| 81 hardtop coupe
| 4,883
| 9,415
| 82 4d sedan
| 4,978
| 29,719
| Total
| 39,134
| 1969
| 81 hardtop coupe
| 4,910
| 9,032
| 82 4d sedan
| 5,005
| 29,258
| Total
| 38,290
| Source: Encyclopedia of American Cars From 1930, by the Auto Editors of Consumer Guide®, Publications International, Ltd., 1993
1966 Lincoln Continental: Specifications
| Wheelbase (in.)
|Overall length (in.)
|Overall width (in.)
|Overall height (in.)
|Tread, front/rear (in.)
|Ground clearance (in.)
| Curb weight (lbs)
| Fuel tank (gal)
| Trunk (cu ft)
| 12.0
| Interior (sedan)
|Headroom, front (in.)
|Legroom, front (in.)
|Hiproom, front (in.)
|Shoulder room, front (in.)
|Headroom, rear (in.)
|Legroom, rear (in.)
|Hiproom, rear (in.)
|Shoulder room, rear (in.)
| all-steel, unit-construction
| 90-degree ohv V-8
| cast iron
| Bore x stroke
| 4.38 x 3.83
| Displacement (cid)
| Horsepower @ rpm
| 340 @ 4,600
| Torque (lbs/ft) @ rpm
| 485 @ 2,800
| Compression ratio
| Main bearings
| Valve lifters
| Fuel pump
| Carter 4-bbi
| Electrical system
|3-speed torque-converter Twin-Range Turbo-Drive, with 6-position selector dial
| Suspension, front
|independent Silent-Strut with sealed, pre-lubricated ball-joints, helical-coil springs, hydraulic shock absorbers with rebound control
| Suspension, rear
|solid semi-floating axle, Hotchkiss drive, 64-inch-long parallel leaf springs, rubber-cushioned rear axle mounting, hydraulic shock absorbers
|re-circulating-ball, power-assisted
| Turns lock-to-lock
| Turning circle (ft)
|dual-hydraulic with front ventilated discs/rear drums, self-adjusting, power assisted
|Rear drum diameter (in.)
| Differential Ratio
|hypoid 2.80:1, 3.00:1 opt
| Exhaust system
|dual aluminized and stainless steel with twin mufflers and resonators
|stamped-steel 15-inch disc
|9.15 x 15 4-ply rayon
|24,000 miles/24 months
| Performance*
| 0-30 mph (sec)
|0-45 mph (sec)
|0-60 mph (sec)
|0-1/4-mile (sec @ mph)
| 18.1 @ 80.0
|Top speed (mph)
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Team Travel
As many of you have been reading, one of the regular contributors to this blog is Scott Akasaki, our manager of team travel. Some of you know about him, but now the whole world does, as he was featured in recent article of Forbes magazine.
His latest post is below…
For a couple of years, our team would not stay at The Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee because of rumored ghost visitations to our players' rooms. I recall hearing a story about a former third baseman on our team who left the hotel in the middle of the night because he woke up after all the lights in his room were turned on. Problem was he distinctly remembers turning all the lights off before falling asleep.
On our most recent trip to Milwaukee, we checked in to The Pfister Hotel once again simply because hotel is probably the best hotel in Milwaukee. At the end of our brief stay there, I did not hear of any visitations from the supernatural but there might have been a few player pranks in the works. One player who did not make the trip told me yesterday that if we stayed there again next year, he already wants a room in a different hotel.
There are actually enough ghost stories in baseball that there is a book titled "Haunted Baseball" and a website that shares the same name. Some of our players have stories themselves from their minor league days to urban legends that they have heard over the years.
Today's lineup is the same as yesterday's, but since I never got around to posting that one, here it is…
Pierre, LF
Ethier, RF
Martin, C
Kent, 2B
Loney, 1B
Kemp, CF
DeWitt, 3B
Hu, SS
Kuroda, P
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From the previous post – as to Conte's contention that AJ's extra weight has no bearing on his knee damage, my own contention is that Conte is the least credible of all our management people. Taking any medical opinion from Conte at face value is ludicrous in the extreme, and I'm almost inclined to take whatever the opposite view is from Conte's opinion.
Think you hit the nail on the head there bear!
messagebear: maybe this is old stuff, but I'm still miffed they let Stan Johnston go. He had been our trainer for years, and the fact he resigned after a year as an assistant for not only the Giants trainer, but the trainer who turned the other way when Barrys head inflated to match the size of his ego, is puzzling. I didn't read the papers, so I don't know the story, but why this happened is beyond me.
Then again, this is the front office that has consistently spitshined the trash from San Francisco (not to mention the fact that they treated Joe Amalfatano and Ross Porter like a couple of panhandling transients.)
To respond to underdog8's post from the previous thread, I can't see why anyone at the Stadium would boo Griffey. From the times I've seen him at Dodger Stadium, the guy was all class.
This is a guy who, when a beachball fell onto the warning track between innings, he picked it up, tossed it to the air, and hit it back up to the Pavillion with a huge smile I could even see from the Loge section.
Ken Griffey Jr. is class, and together with Tony Gwynn, I feel that they're the two great players of the past 20 years who didn't have to take a shot in the butt to compete.
Not (really) wanting to join in on any conspiracy paranoia, but perhaps Conte is here because he can be controlled by the front office.
email@example.com from the previous thread is absolutely correct that Votto made the smart play by passing on the force at first to keep force at home intact.
Agreed that Ken Griffey is a class act. I loved that he wanted to play for the same team his father played for. (Similarly, I really respected Barry when he made the decision to go to San Francisco where his dad starred). It's just a shame that Griffey was so much lesser a player in Cincy than he was in Seattle. Problem was Junior relied on his natural talent too much and while not abusive did not take care of himself as well as he might have.
Going to the game tonight. Woo-hoo!!
Any new cheers, mlk?
Our newest cheer is a chant for Blake DeWitt. "Do it, DeWitt! … Do it, DeWitt! …"
Works for me…….bring home a winner, will ya?
Will do, D-Eric. I'm 4-0 so far this year.
MLK, I'll be cheering and booing from Sec. 7.
Furcal going to be back tonight?
Furcal will not be back tonight…Best case scenario is Friday, but they want to be sure he is 100% before they let him play……I sure hope Andruw has the surgery, otherwise our team will not be as good as it can be….other than Andruw, my only concern is our starting pitching….except Bills and Kuo…and maybe part time Park……but Penny and Lowe have been awful all year…Anyone know what's wrong with them?
Okay, totally off topic and selfish, but since you are all baseball fans, you will appreciate my efforts. I have Open House tonight for my class, and I have to admit my best wall is the baseball wall. It looks totally awesome! You would all be very impressed. It is the most educational and fun wall I have ever done. I have all the current standings listed. I have action shots of players from around the league from the past few weeks (I focused on the top two teams from each division), and each photo has captions for reading purposes. I also have recent news articles from around the league – Piazza's retirement, Lester's no-hitter, etc.). Plus, the table by this wall has a sample of my baseball cards and baseball books that I have collected. Just wanted to share for those of you who have been following my efforts into getting the sport of baseball into the lives of 1st graders, whether they are playing the sport or not.
Have a great night everyone!! I will check in later after the festivities. The game will be in it's early innings when I am finished.
sorry, I hit enter too soon
P.S. The Dodgers are very well represented as most of you know – Andre, Russell, Matt, James, and now Blake are very prominent so any gnat fans know exactly where my loyalties are.
I apologize in advance for some of the "rhymes".
Mike Piazza, baseball player.
Mike Piazza, baseball player.
Mike Piazza, baseball player.
Nothing can come between us,
When you got traded it tore our hearts away.
Standing by and watching BP,
When I caught a glimpse of Mikey,
Crushing balls over the big blue walls.
Drafted last as a favor to Tommy,
He took you in and fed you salami
Said to head south and learn how to catch.
Mike Piazza, baseball player,
May I inquire discreetly,
When are you free,
To take some bows with me.
You took over for Michael Scioscia,
Hitting baseballs to Nova Scotia,
Couldn't go to the bathroom 'cause we'd miss you hitting one.
O'Malley sold and News Corp bought 'em
Traded you and we hit bottom
Like to catch those ba$tard$ in a really dark room.
Oh, Mike Piazza, baseball player,
Cooperstown is waiting for you.
Give us a visit and let us cheer for you.
Cool thanks. Hope he is back Friday or at least Monday for the Cubs series. Got great seats for all 3 games in Wrigley.
Yes, there were a few boos to Ken Griffey Jr. but oveall there were more cheers than boos, especially when he made a great catch.
I am ready for the game tonight as opposed to last night when I was cold. It was 10 degrees cooler from the night before according to Vin.
big props to Chad for the win and also for his hit! I thought it was funny when he mentioned on his interview that when he was coming to bat, D.Lowe stopped him and told him to go the opposite way.
Also, another thing I noticed during the game when Hu was getting ready to catch a high popup, Kent signalling (and probably yelling), "two hands".
please someone tell me how to get spaces between lines? I am off to the game! thanks -emma
Just thought I'd share these numbers from Baseball Prospectus regarding Stan Conte, these numbers are from last year.
Head Trainer: Stan Conte
Player Days Lost, 2007: 951
Dollars Lost, 2007: $20.4 million
Three-Year Rank: 30
How many teams are in the league again?
Oh yeah; 30—way to go Stan!
I am glad to see that the lineup is identical to yesterday. Has that happened yet this year? Hopefully Joe's getting a clue.
you think you could take a picture of your wall so we could see it.
Anyone see Spencer and Heidi at the game last night? Some or most of you might not know, but they are on an MTV show and have become pretty popular. He is a total dbag and was in all Dodger gear last night which was cool, and she was in LA gear too and looking hott as usual! mmm
I would have thrown something at Spence though lol
Heard Nick Lachey got booed pretty goood!
Hey, bigkace – that's a great synopsis of Conte's accomplishments and ranking. I wonder what Ned's ranking is compared to his peers. Probably no better than Conte's. Does McCourt ever note those type of statistics.
I just learned an interesting side note. Stan Conte had a nickname in SF; Hac Man. Fitting to say the least.
If you have the time (it's a pretty long read) please visit this link. There's a poll on who is the worst GM in the game. The play one against each other in a bracketing system. The synopsis that was given on Ned Colletti is absolutely nails, the best article I've read on the ineptitude of our GM. By the way, Ned beat J.P. Ricciard in the semi-finals as far as I could tell, something like 63% to 37%. I didn't see who won the title however. My money's on Ned.
mfc, I have pictures, but not sure how to get them sent.
I had sent some earlier to Dodger Stadium through Andre Ethier. Since my class is fully aware that Andre and Russell are my favorite players, my class wanted to write Andre a letter for his birthday back in April so they made a birthday poster, and I wrote a letter (from a teacher and fan point of view) about how I was using Dodgers baseball (and mlb) in the classroom to teach geography and math, among other things. I have added a great deal to the wall since then, and it has been an eyeopener on how to keep boys (and girls) interested in learning through things they already know about, and most are very impressed that I am a girl (and a mom and a wife) and still love baseball this much. It allows the girls in my class to enjoy a sport that they consider a "boy sport." It is also great for the boys to see that girls can like to watch and play baseball, too. I know that is probably too much information for you, but I thought I would share.
An update to the worst GM poll—
Ed Wade beat Ned Colletti~
Brian Sabean beat Bill Bavasi~
Brain Sabean beat Ed Wade as the worst GM in baseball.
Ned Colletti can't even win at sucking.
That's awesome dnel – wish I had a first grade (or any grade) teacher like you when I went to school.
emma – try triple spacing your paragraphs. Don't know what the glitch in the system is, but that works for me. Have fun at the game!
Speaking of going to games, does the drunken "let's go Dodgers" chant annoy anyone else besides me? I can take it for intense situations, but over and over for the final 3 innings does begin to get tiresome for me.
emma: the way I get spaces is by typing (minus the underscores), hitting enter, and typing again, then pressing enter again and then type the next paragraph. It ends up looking like this:
and the result is a line break. I just put the underscores in there because since that tag is HTML, if I entered it as it is, it'd just be a space.
ARGH, the tags disappeared. Here, I'll try it like this:
{ is really .
to cause a break, you type {br}, hit enter, type {br} again, then hit enter again, and type the next line or paragraph. So, it should look like this (with
and you end up with the space.
This looks like algebra. And I thought I had just finished finals, heh.
It made it disappear again! The brackets you need are the ones found on the comma and period keys when you press space. So it should look like this, except with the other brackets.
Yet another reason Normar is not welcome back…
emma – I put triple spaces, too.
thanks, enchanted – my baseball center is a big hit with the dads (some moms, too)- plus I have a baseball game on in here (Braves and Mets) so that is just perfect!!
Go Lakers…Go Blue later. Aw tonight is gonna be beautiful….(hopefully)
So now Nomar is not welcomed back because he wastes too much time during his plate appearances? No, his problem is what happens when he finally gets in the box. Nomar has enough real issues without having to manufacture ones, IMO.
dbacks loose
Liked DNelson's comments on her baseball wall. I'd like to see a picture of it. Anything that helps kids enjoy learning while sparking interest in the game is a plus. Anyone else read the story about the Branch Rickey biography? Sounds interesting for those into the history of the game as well as Dodger history.
why dioes pierre take so long to throw the ball.
Good DP. Lets get some runs. Loney & Dewitt should be able to drive it to right up into the wind.
gotta love it
The kids are doing the job again, and doing it well.
Beautiful squeeze by Hu, helps a lot when the guy on 3rd (Kemp) has so much speed. Bison!
Sweet play by Blake on defense.
Dewitt came to play and he's going to be here awhile
Kuroda's pitching well again, let's get him another run.
Blake, good hit again.
We need some production from HU
Will they keep DeWitt when Nomar comes back? Whenever that is.
We'll take 3 runs anytime.
They better keep DeWitt when Nomar comes back.
If DeWitt is no longer the starting 3B on an every day basis after Nomar returns from the DL, there is going to be a revolution. This revolution will not be televised, it will be LIVE.
Scully said Juniorgriff picked the wrong time but it was the right time for us.
If he stays who goes? I think that Hu should go. I mean Nomar can play 3 positions. He can play ss 1st and 3rd. Does Hu play anywhere else besides ss and 2nd? I also think that Nomar should be the back-up to DeWitt. I think that Blake deserves to be the starter. He has earned it. Nomar is to accident and injury proned to be the everyday starter.
Nomar will get a hangnail or a blister and be out 4 to 6 weeks.
Hu needs to go to Vegas and get lots of hitting practice.
Another starter in the 7th, two days in a row.
How far can Kuroda go.
Who is pitching Friday?
If we win this game we will trail the D-Backs by only 3 games. They lost today. Webb finally lost a game.
The Website shows Lowe/Penny/Billz vs Wainwright/Lohse/Pineiro over the weekend. I guess they're using the offday tomorrow to skip the 5th starter.
If Nomar's return gets DeWitt benched, there should be 56,000 empty seats at Dodger Stadium.
I would be elated if we could sweep the Cardinals. All my family (except me) are all Cardinal fans.
Great goin' KURODA
Threw a lot more balls
May continue
Let's get another insurance run with Martin/Kent/Loney.
Any guesses on how effective Lowe will be on Friday? We'd have to go back to April to find a game where he gave up less than four runs.
Good Job Loney
L_O_N_E_Y Ties Furcal with 5 HRs
Retakes RBI lead.
My Loney has a first name, it's J-A-M-E-S
LONEY has 29 RBI
WHO's PITCHING?
IT's KURODA
When is the last time one of our starters has gone into the 8th inning?
My Loney has a second name, it's L-O-N-E-Y
When's the last time we had someone go 8?
Ya beat me to it, jegiboney!
Very funny crash24
Can KURODA DO IT?
Last time someone went 8 was Lowe on April 12, 8 innings, 4 hits, 1 earned run, 0 walks, 6 K's. Seems like eons ago the way he's been pitching lately.
Nahh not with 98 pitches.
If he does when is the last time we had a complete game?
Oh no, it's Sweeney the Weenie. What's wrong with Delwin Young? Is he sick? Or is JoJo sick for sending up a .128 hitter?
Sorry, .118 (couldn't believe it)
Good job Kuroda.
Sorry, .114 (correction again)
great start from Kuroda. Much needed.
The Reds have been Kurodaized.
LET's GO SAITO
Maybe Ned and Torre will be compelled to DFA Sweeney once he gets below .100, or maybe they'll just DL him and save him for October.
Come on Saito?
Most recent complete game was July 23 by Billingsley.
Broom Time
Bear, then we need to suffer through 6 more ABs from Sweeney?
Good night!
Only three games out. And the Snakes travel to Atlanta tomorrow.
that sucks for Kuroda. He should easily have atleast 4 victories maybe in 5. Good job guys all the way around.


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The man, Felix Baumgartner, an Austrian daredevil, made the highest and fastest jump in history after ascending by a helium balloon to an altitude of 128,100 feet. As millions around the world experienced the vertiginous view from his capsule's camera, which showed a round blue world surrounded by the black of space, he stepped off into the void and plummeted for more than four minutes, reaching a maximum speed measured at 833.9 miles per hour, or Mach 1.24.
He broke altitude and speed records set half a century ago by Joe Kittinger, now 84, a retired Air Force colonel whose reassuring voice from mission control guided Mr. Baumgartner through tense moments. Engineers considered aborting the mission when Mr. Baumgartner's faceplate began fogging during the ascent, but he insisted on proceeding and made plans for doing the jump blind.
That proved unnecessary, but a new crisis occurred early in the jump when he began spinning out of control in the thin air of the stratosphere — the same problem that had nearly killed Mr. Kittinger a half-century earlier. But as the atmosphere thickened, Mr. Baumgartner managed to stop the spin and fall smoothly until he opened his parachute about a mile above the ground and landed smoothly in the New Mexico desert.
"It was harder than I expected," said Mr. Baumgartner, a 43-year-old former Austrian paratrooper. "Trust me, when you stand up there on top of the world, you become so humble. It's not about breaking records any more. It's not about getting scientific data. It's all about coming home."
Mr. Kittinger praised Mr. Baumgartner's courage for proceeding with the mission and said that he had more than broken a record.
"He demonstrated that a man could survive in an extremely high altitude escape situation," Mr. Kittinger said. "Future astronauts will wear the spacesuit that Felix test-jumped today."
Mr. Baumgartner was backed by a NASA-style mission control operation at an airfield in Roswell that involved 300 people, including more than 70 engineers, scientists and physicians who have been working for five years on the project, called Red Bull Stratos, after the drink company that has financed it.
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While building the customized suit and capsule, the team of aerospace veterans had to contend with one crucial uncertainty: What happens to the human body when it breaks the sound barrier? There was also one major unexpected problem for Mr. Baumgartner, known to his fans as Fearless Felix.
Although he had no trouble jumping off buildings and bridges, and soaring across the English Channel in a carbon-fiber wing, he found himself suffering panic attacks when forced to spend hours inside the pressurized suit and helmet. At one point in 2010, rather than take an endurance test in it, he went to an airport and fled the United States. With the help of a sports psychologist and other specialists, he learned techniques for dealing with the claustrophobia.
One of the techniques Mr. Baumgartner developed was to stay busy throughout the ascent. He conversed steadily with Mr. Kittinger, a former fighter pilot whose deep voice exuded the right stuff as he confidently went through a 40-item checklist rehearsing every move that Mr. Baumgartner would make when it came time to leave the capsule.
When the actual moment came, Mr. Kittinger said to him, "All right, step up on the exterior step. Start the cameras. And our guardian angel will take care of you now."
Mr. Baumgartner stepped outside, saluted and made the jump right after delivering a message that was mostly garbled by radio static. Afterward, he repeated it: "I know the whole world is watching, and I wish the whole world could see what I see. Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are."
Engineers forecast that Mr. Baumgartner would reach a supersonic speed of 720 miles an hour by jumping from 120,000 feet, the altitude that they had promised to reach. But all along they had hoped the balloon would go even higher — and lead to an even faster fall, which did occur. As a result, even though he fell farther than Mr. Kittinger
did, his fall took less time: 4 minutes and 20 seconds, which was 16 seconds less than Mr. Kittinger's.
Mr. Baumgartner jumped from an altitude of 128,100 feet and landed in desert about 4,000 above sea level, so the jump from capsule to the ground covered about 23 and a half miles.
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Wagasky barely knew her way around a kitchen when she started her money makeover.
Now she's an avid cookbook collector (she checks them out from libraries or asks for them as gifts to save), and it's one of the simplest ways she's managed to cutback on spending.
Her prize possession is a $7 bread-maker she scored at a local thrift shop, which she uses to make homemade breads and save on store-bought slices.
She skips all kiddie snacks in favor of healthier, cheaper DIY options like homemade granola, and chops vegetables and fruits to freeze them for a month. She gives dairy products like milk, cheese, butter and yogurt the same treatment.
"Everything must be budgeted," Wagasky wrote in a June entry on her blog. "From family outings, to toiletries to clothes purchases. It must be budgeted."
And she takes Do-It-Yourself to the extreme. Everything from laundry soap to clothing was either crafted by hand or thrifted.
They also did away with cable (they invest $14.99/mo in a Netflix plan) and limited grocery shopping to once per month.
"Once that $400 [we budget for groceries] s gone, it is gone," she wrote. "There are no extra shopping trips made because there is no more money."
How they manage to stay credit-debt free:
After Wagasky's husband left active duty and started school, the couple knew they would only have $14,000 per year to live on –– and that didn't cover summer months, when he wasn't paid while on vacation from classes.
They learned to attack debt head-on and as early as possible.
Both of their cars were paid off by setting aside a little savings each month until they could afford it –– that included $8,000 for Jason's truck and $22,000 for a new van.
Credit cards are always reserved for medical emergencies only.
"We recently had some medical bills we had to pay, and we were able to take our savings and pay those down as fast as we could," she said.
Their proudest achievement was purchasing a home in cash.
By the time Jason came home from Iraq in 2009, the couple had managed to scrape together the $30,000 they needed for a downpayment on a home.
There was just one problem: Nevada's job market was weak, and Jason wasn't likely to find work straightaway. Rather than take out a loan on a home they likely couldn't afford, they figured it was wiser to downsize their ambitions a little.
"We decided the best option would be not to have a mortgage payment at all," she said. "We found a fixer-upper that didn't have a kitchen ... and we paid cash."
Price tag: $28,000. With the leftover cash, they were able to finish the kitchen and install wood flooring throughout the house.
"I don't feel like we're missing out on anything."
Even after Jason completes his degree later this year and gets for a full-time job, Wagasky says they still plan on keeping their $14,000 budget in tact.
And they have good reason to be cautious.
Due to their strict budget, Wagasky admits they haven't been able to save for anything other than immediate needs –– that means a practically nonexistent retirement fund.
Once their income grows, they hope they'll be able to make up for lost time.
"I don't feel like we're missing out on anything," she said. "I feel like in our society now we focus on the tings we feel like we need. For me, I have my family and we have food and we have a place to live and to me that's the most important."


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NEW YORK, N.Y. - New York will become home to the "flawed heroes of Hell's Kitchen," as four of Marvel's characters will come to life in a live-action series that will be filmed principally in the state and streamed on Netflix.
The announcement was made Wednesday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, The Walt Disney Co., Marvel and Netflix Inc. The project, scheduled to start filming in the summer, will feature the characters Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist.
It's the largest film or television production project commitment in New York's history and is expected to bring up to 400 full-time jobs, Cuomo said.
"The Defenders are classic New York characters; smart, resourceful and tough enough to always stand up for what's right," said Ted Sarandos, Netflix's chief content officer. "We're delighted they're coming to life on their home turf thanks to Gov. Cuomo and his team."
Marvel and Netflix had announced a deal in November for the programming, which is slated to take the form of four series — each with 13 one-hour episodes — and a miniseries. They're slated to start streaming next year.
No details were available about how long the productions would last or what the story lines would look like. Daredevil is first up, followed by the others.
In the Marvel world, Daredevil is the superhero identity of Matt Murdock, who is blind but whose other senses are extra-human. Jessica Jones is a former superhero now working as a private detective. Luke Cage was wrongly imprisoned and gained his powers unexpectedly in an experiment. Iron Fist is the superhero identity of Daniel Rand, who has amazing martial arts abilities.
In making the announcement, Cuomo offered up his own very personal idea for a new superhero. "I can see it: boy from Queens goes to Albany to fight the evil empire and bring justice to the people of the state," he said.
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Massiah Needs To Call Time On U.S. T20 Career
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Beset by a series of tactical blunders, the United States crashed out of the World Cup 20/20 qualifying competition, shattering hopes of a potential historic appearance in a prestigious Global championship.
Given the talent available in the squad, the team management badly misused its resources and emerged with two losses and one win. It proved inadequate to progress to the second round from which the top two of four teams would journey to the West Indies for the 2010 edition of the International Cricket Council's second most important championship, after the 50 overs World Cup.
In their defeats to Afghanistan and Scotland, the United States was guilty of poor team selection, bad use of bowlers and woeful batting order choices, that gifted their opponents victories that could've been denied with more thoughtful and objective decision making in the two main areas of the game.
Against Ireland, the U.S. bowling let them down badly, allowing the former team to pile up a mammoth 202 runs tally, their highest score ever in 20 overs competition and so far the most conceded by any of the teams in UAE.
With Ireland, rated the best team in the competition, and needing a victory to keep their hopes alive of qualifying, after losing their opening game to Afghanistan, they applied intense pressure from the get- go and the U.S. crumbled as a result with the captain Steve Massiah unable to counter Ireland's early batting onslaught with his bowling tactics.
There was an over-reliance on spin by Massiah who used four slow bowlers, a shocking tactic which allowed Ireland to feast for easy runs.
In limited overs competition, the use of even one spinner is a risk, much less in 20/20 where the bowlers are attacked from ball one.
Massiah committed suicide by giving Ireland 13 overs of spin of the allotted 20 and they capitalized fully, that initiated the beginning of the U.S's ouster.
With only three matches to qualify for the second round, the U.S. needed to play pressure cricket in all three games but they lowered their guard after defeating Scotland in the first game, where they used 11 overs of seam. They reduced that number in the next encounter and paid the penalty.
The captain's thinking was mind boggling because he had five seam bowlers in Kevin Darlington, Orlando Baker, Usman Shuja, Tim Allen and Rashard Marshall at his disposal, but chose only seven overs of the faster stuff, which is always more difficult to attack.
To add insult to injury, Marshall is one of the country's most effective seam bowlers, yet he was not given a single ball in all three matches. They chose to play him as a batsman, but these days Marshall has proven to be a better bowler, but the management was blind to this reality.
Incredibly too, was the decision to use Tim Allen as a spinner when the player has been a specialist seamer all his career.
There is a glaringly good reason why slow bowlers are never used by all teams at all levels of competition, at the death of an innings.
If the team's use of its bowlers was poor, its batting tactics were worst. Dhaniram who has failed every time he represented the U.S. as a batsman was inexplicably used in the top order.
He never scored more than four runs in all three games, and even though he got a total of five in the two warm up games against the UAE, was still persisted with at number four and five thereafter.
In contrast, Dhaniram has good results as a bowler and should've been used as a specialist spinner with no place for him batting in the top five. Why the decision makers could not have adjusted is beyond belief.
At the same time, the team bewilderingly underused Aditha Thyagarajan, their best batsman from the Americas Championships one year ago. A shocking omission from the first game, Thayagrajan was only drafted in for the second encounter because Sushil Nadkarnie was unfit. To make matters worse he was used at number seven in the order and promptly exposed the mistake by slamming an accomplished 72, not out, by far the highest for any U.S. player.
Then, to rub salt in the wounds, the team failed to promote him next game in the crucial run chase against Afghanistan, keeping him at number seven which was much too late.
With all of these factors staring the team management in the face, they still regarded Dhaniram a batsman.
And to crown a dreadfully mismanaged campaign, Massiah failed to lead from the front even though he is supposed to be the team's premier batsman.
The captain has scored all of his many runs for the team at number three, yet he dropped himself down the order when the team needed him most in all three games. Against Afghanistan he appeared as a tail ender at number eight.
And the fact that he never scored more than five runs in the three competition games and a total of 13 in the two warm-up matches, raises serious doubts about his future in the team for 20/20 matches.
Massiah is accustomed to having his way in almost all team matters whether it is team selection, batting order placements or tactics on the field.
And unless there was a steep change of team policy, the disastrous showing of the US team in the Middle East has justified the critics claim that he has no place in the 20/20 team.
If there was no change in that policy, then coach Clayton Lambert's position should also be in jeopardy as those tactical blunders were inexcusable.
Significantly, by getting dumped in the first round, the U.S. failed to justify the ICC wildcard entry it received for this competition to the annoyance of other teams.
Massiah is more comfortable in the 50 overs version as a batsman and should remain there in the U.S. team setup.
Ricky Ponting, has relinquished his place in the game's shortest version for Australia and so has Andrew Strauss for England.
Therefore, there is no humiliation in the U.S. captain following suit, given his shortcomings.
And any explanations of the U.S. losing to better equipped teams would not wash with anyone. Does Afghanistan, a war thorn country, among others, have superior facilities, better domestic competitions or better coaches?


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San Francisco's big push for low-flow toilets has turned into a multimillion-dollar plumbing stink.
Skimping on toilet water has resulted in more sludge backing up inside the sewer pipes, said Tyrone Jue, spokesman for the city Public Utilities Commission. That has created a rotten-egg stench near AT&T Park and elsewhere, especially during the dry summer months.
The city has already spent $100 million over the past five years to upgrade its sewer system and sewage plants, in part to combat the odor problem.
Now officials are stocking up on a $14 million, three-year supply of highly concentrated sodium hypochlorite - better known as bleach - to act as an odor eater and to disinfect the city's treated water before it's dumped into the bay. It will also be used to sanitize drinking water.
That translates into 8.5 million pounds of bleach either being poured down city drains or into the drinking water supply every year.
Not everybody thinks it's a good idea.
A Don't Bleach Our Bay alert has just gone out from eco-blogger Adam Lowry who argues the city would be much better off using a disinfectant like hydrogen peroxide - or better yet, a solution that would naturally break down the bacteria.
As for whether the supposedly environmentally friendly, low-flow toilets are worth the trouble? Well, according to Jue, they have helped trim San Francisco's annual water consumption by about 20 million gallons.
Trading places: San Francisco Assistant District Attorney Paul Henderson has landed a temporary new criminal justice job inside the mayor's office - making $35,000 more than the last guy who held the post.
Henderson earned $195,000 a year as a senior deputy to former D.A. Kamala Harris and had hoped to be named her successor last month when she exited to become state attorney general.
The appointment instead went to Police Chief George Gascón. And despite assurances that he still had a job, Henderson let it be known that he hadn't ruled out challenging Gascón come November.
Until last week, anyway, when it was announced that Henderson would be "on loan" until the end of the year as Mayor Ed Lee's public safety czar.
It's essentially the same job that former U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan had under ex-Mayor Gavin Newsom - except he made $160,679 a year.
Henderson will keep his $195,000 pay.
"The mayor values Paul's nearly 20 years of experience," mayoral spokesman Christine Falvey said.
At the same time, mayoral Deputy Chief of Staff Cristine DeBerry is moving over to the D.A.'s office to fill a newly created chief of staff position. DeBerry's pay is still being worked out, but we're told she'll receive a $35,000 to $40,000 bump over her current $144,000 a year.
D.A. spokeswoman Erica Derryck said the new position is part of a management restructuring intended to allow the office to handle more cases with "increased efficiency."
What's in a name: What's really behind adding Silicon Valley to the name of the already long-winded Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport?
Japan's All Nippon Airlines.
According to San Jose City Councilman Sam Liccardo, when Mayor Chuck Reed and a local business delegation met with airline execs in Tokyo recently to try to lure All Nippon service to the South Bay, they were told they should first consider adding Silicon Valley to the airport's name.
That would attract more business travelers, the execs said.
So, with Mineta's blessing, San Jose officials are weighing the idea - though they've put off a decision while they see how Norman Y. Mineta San Jose/Silicon Valley International Airport flies with the flying public.
Coming together: The next to last of five sections being assembled to form the tower for the Bay Bridge's new eastern span is scheduled to be hoisted into place today - all 500 tons of it.
When erected, it will push the tower from 374 feet to 480 feet and start to give the bridge the dramatic look that everyone has long anticipated.
"In April, we will top out the tower," said Bart Ney, a spokesman for the bridge project. When that happens, it will be 525 feet, on par with the towers on the west side of the bridge.
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- A novella by the late movie star Charlie Chaplin has been published for the first time. The 34,000-word novella Footlights, which was the basis for his 1952 film Limelight, was found in the Cineteca di Bologna's Chaplin archive. It is the only known work of fiction written by Chaplin, and, like Limelight, features a suicidal ballerina and a clown. The Guardian has an excerpt. Cecilia Cenciarelli, co-director of Cineteca's Chaplin project, told the Guardian that the novella written in the late 1940s "has shadows. It's the story of a comedian who has lost his public, by a comedian who at that time had lost his public, who was referred to in the press of the time as a 'former comedian,' a 'former successful film maker.' "
- Roman Catholic Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz is publishing a book of Pope John Paul II's private writings in defiance of the late pope's will, which asks that they be burned. The book was set to be published Wednesday in Poland. According to The New York Times, the papers "contain religious meditations written from July 1962, when he was a young bishop on the rise, to March 2003, when he had been pope for more than 24 years and Parkinson's disease was eroding his health." At a news conference, Dziwisz said, "In writing his will, the Holy Father knew he was entrusting these notebooks to someone who would treat them responsibly. I had no doubt these were such important items, testifying to the spirituality of a great pope, that it would be a crime to destroy them."
- Philip Roth was interviewed by Stanford University's Cynthia Haven. He said, "I have no desire to write fiction. I did what I did and it's done. There's more to life than writing and publishing fiction. There is another way entirely, amazed as I am to discover it at this late date." Asked about the term "American-Jewish writer," he responded, " 'An American-Jewish writer' is an inaccurate if not also a sentimental description, and entirely misses the point. The novelist's obsession, moment by moment, is with language: finding the right next word."
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Many in the gay community have concerns that pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) may increase sexual risk-taking and actually lead to an increase in the transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Some, however, are challenging that notion: A new study published in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes shows that the overall rates of sexual risk taking in a group of HIV-negative men who have sex with men (MSM) on PrEP fell or remained stable during the 24 months of the study.
The study sought to evaluate any changes in the sexual behaviors of men who were put on a daily PrEP regimen consisting of the U.S. FDA-approved drug Truvada (tenofovir/FTC). In the randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, 373 HIV-negative men reporting anal sex in the past 12 months were enrolled in San Francisco, Atlanta and Boston. At the end of the trial, researchers found no evidence that HIV-negative gay men who knew they had the protection of PrEP increased their risk behaviors.
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We found that substance use (including poppers, amphetamines, and sexual performance-enhancing drugs) was associated with increased reported risk ... Services to link substance using MSM into counseling and treatment should be considered in future PrEP programs.
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