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A jetliner was forced to make an emergency landing after a passenger realised the plane had a cracked window.
The terrifying incident happened on board the Boeing 737 travelling from Milan to Oslo on Friday.
The crack appeared on the outer window of the plane, and pictures show a large section later fell out.
The pilot of the SAS Scandinavian Airlines flight chose to land the plane in Frankfurt, Germany.
A former Malayia Airlines pilot has spoken to the Malay Mail Online about the disappearance of MH370.
Nik Ahmad Huzlansaid told the website even though it is strange that the jet did not send out any signal at all, this could be explained by the angle of impact.
"The angle of impact is very important for it to trigger," he said.
"The reason why they have certain impact indicator is so that when the aircraft is doing a hard landing on an airport's runway, the ELT will not trigger.
"If the ELT is really sensitive, every time an aircraft makes a hard landing, the ELT will trigger. So it has a pre-determine value for it to trigger."
Acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein has been questioned once again about the four-hour gap from when MH370 went missing and any action to trace it was actually taken.
He said it took France seven hours before they responded to the Air France flight 447 crash.
"If our airforce had scrambled its jets, what would have happened? Would we shoot down our own passenger plane if we sent up the Sukhois?" Hishammuddin argued.
A former Malaysian Airlines chief pilot has said that he beleives flight MH370 didn't go down in the southern Indian Ocean.
Nik Ahmad Hussain said that it is odd that the Emergency Locator Transmitter would drigger its signal depending on the impact.
Speaking to the Malay Mail Online: "The angle of impact is very important for it to trigger.
The reason why they have certain impact indicator is so that when the aircraft is doing a hard landing on an airport's runway, the ELT will not trigger.
"If the ELT is really sensitive, every time an aircraft makes a hard landing, the ELT will trigger. So it has a pre-determine value for it to trigger."
He said that the ELT on the Air France AF447 flight that went down in the Atlantic did not trigger because it was flying at a slow speed.
Suppose 2 meet up wit him Monday :( "@jayadylan: Laos Defence Minister Douangchay Phichit feared dead in plane crash http://t.co/xVXJLW4H8O— Hishammuddin Hussein (@HishammuddinH2O) May 17, 2014
A news organisation has asked if Malaysia actually wants the plane to be found.
The Examiner reports that if there is little incentive for Malaysia Airlines or the government of the country to actually find it.
It says that the cost to the country and the company could be "devastating".
A film is already being planned based on the disappearance of Flight MH370.
According to the Hindustan Times, an Indian filmmaker is drumming up support for the film at Cannes Film Festival.
A Laos air force plane carrying about 20 people including the country's defence minister and other senior officials has crashed, according to Thailand's foreign ministry.
There was no immediate word on casualties, said a foreign ministry spokesman.
The plane took off from the capital, Vientiane, early on Saturday morning and crashed in the north-eastern province of Xiangkhoung, about 290 miles away.
The aircraft was carrying Laos defence minister Douangchay Phichit, who is also a deputy prime minister, and several other high-ranking officials, including the governor of Vientiane.
They were heading to an official ceremony for the ministry of defence, said the spokesman, who was informed of the crash by authorities in neighbouring Laos.
There was no official statement on the crash from authorities in Laos.
Just heared d tragic news of d plane crash involving my Laos couterpart Gen Douangchay Pichit.We in Msia @1MinDef n ATM r deeply saddened.— Hishammuddin Hussein (@HishammuddinH2O) May 17, 2014
The family of an Iranian passenger on the plane have been refused a copy of his ticket for the flight "citing a pending investigation".
Pouria Nourmohammadi was on flight MH370 on a stolen passport and was first feared to be a terrorist.
However, it later turned out that he was a Christian convert, trying to get to Germany where his mother is battling breast cancer, according to The Examiner.
It is two months since the plane went missing, and the loved ones of those on board appear to be no closer to getting any solid answers on what happened to it.
The Malaysian government is in the process of acquiring tools from a number of companies aimed at helping them with the search, CNN reports.
These include oil companies which regularly use underwater scanning technology while search the sea bed.
Inmarsat, which owns the satellites that recorded MH370's final movements, says the data has already been released to investigators.
"Inmarsat's raw data was provided to the investigation team at an early stage in the search for MH370," Chris McLaughlin, the company's vice president of external relations, told CNN.
"We have very high confidence in the analysis of this data, which was independently evaluated by the international teams accredited to the official investigation."
The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 goes on, with an international fleet of vessels and aircraft combing an area of the Indian Ocean for any sign of the jet.
Families of those on board have called for satellite data on the movements of the jet before it vanished to be made public.
They claim the data is vital to helping them understand why the area being searched was specifically chosen.
But the Malaysian Government said it did not have the raw data, which is with the satellite company Inmarsat.
"The raw data is with Inmarsat, not with Malaysia, not with Australia, not with Malaysia Airlines, so if there is any request for this raw data to be made available to the public, it must be made to Inmarsat," Acting Minister of Transportation Hishammuddin Hussein said.
Flight MH370 disappeared on route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8.
The Boeing 777 was carrying 12 Malaysian crew members and 227 passengers when it vanished from radar screens.
Terrorism was widely blamed for the disappearance, although no theory has so far been proved with hard evidence.
The search effort to find the missing plane is the largest in history.
The search in the Indian Ocean is being led by the Australians and is using underwater robots.

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When Martin J. Cline, MD, of the UCLA School of Medicine announced his recent trial of gene transfer in humans outside the United States, some thought it might be the opening of a new era in the treatment of genetic diseases.
But this first attempt to use genetic engineering methods to treat patients directly has aroused the criticism of the community of scientists who are most involved in recombinant DNA research.
Although most of the critics say they hope that therapy of this kind will eventually work, they believe that this attempt had no reasonable probability of success. Both clinicians and basic scientists in the fields of recombinant DNA research and hematology are concerned that Cline was brash and used poor scientific judgment in attempting such an experiment at this time.
In the meantime, Cline has resigned as chief of the Division of Hematology-Oncology at the medical school while UCLA's
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Arecent study, published by the Center for Creative Leadership,
reported that between 66 and 75 percent of all public and private
change initiatives faila depressing statistic for those who
seek to change an organization.The study identified a resistant
organizational culture as the chief culprit.
We recently completed an intensive two-year study of large-scale
changes in six public and nonprofit organizations,which focused on
roles leaders play in initiating and implementing change
efforts.Our findings
suggest that change efforts typically fail as a result of the
in change leadership, including the following:
Insufficient advocacy for the change or failure to understand
in the change initiative
Insufficient attention to the complexity of the change itself and
the potential risks introduced by the change initiative
Inadequate engagement of critical stakeholders affected by the
change initiative Inadequate understanding of the organizational
culture in the leaders own organization as well as
in the organizations networked in the change effort
Inadequate understanding of the organizational
capacity needed to implement and sustain the
Our research helped us identify strategies and tools
for leaders entrusted with leading change and transformation
initiatives to combat these potential failings.We
offer a vision of leadershiptransformational stewardship
that calls for leaders to balance the imperative for
change with important organizational and stakeholder values,
while ensuring that the changes made are in the general
public interest.We draw from our work to offer guidance
for leaders charged with stewarding public resources
as they implement public- and nonprofit-sector change
initiatives.First,we discuss the attributes of effective change
leaders, or transformational stewards, and then we offer
strategies for leading change efforts.
We have geared our efforts to assist all leaders of
change efforts, including those with positional authority
in their public or nonprofit organization and those who
assume situational leadership roles in a change effort.Depending
on the nature of the change, different types of
managers may assume leadership roles, for example, the
chief technology officer in an e-government initiative or
the chief human capital officer in a pay-forperformance
proposal. Middle managers play an important
leadership role in communicating and translating
change initiatives to their supervisees and colleagues across
their organizations.We view all these individuals in a variety
of organizational roles as potential change leaders.
Attributes of
Transformational Stewards
Leaders cannot effectively initiate or implement
change unless they are fully involved.We suggest a middle
ground between top-down and bottom-up approaches
to change,which we calltransformational stewardship.
Rather than focus on the level of the organization
that should institute the change effort, this approach seeks
to find the proper balance, with the organizations leaders
serving as facilitators of change. Sometimes, the top
leaders in an organization need to make change decisions,
especially when external environmental pressures and resource
constraints do not allow for more employee involvement.
In most cases, however, because change
efforts in the public and nonprofit sectors are often completed
over a longer time frame,more participation from
all ranks in the organization can be cultivated. Dialogue
among all levels of leadership should be encouraged, but
not to the extent that the decision-making process is hindered
and the progress of the change initiative is slowed
or halted.
Transformational stewardship, our model of changecentric
leadership, is a leadership function in which those
exercising leadership have developed certain attributes that
provide a foundation for their actions.These attributes reflect
leaderspersonal outlooks or attitudes (their inner beliefs
or values), how they approach a situation (their operational
mindset), and how they involve others in the
function (their interpersonal abilities and interactions with
others).Table 1 shows the leadership attributes successful
change leaders share.One of the major strengths of
stewardship is its ability to address the lack of buy-in and
resistance problems associated with top-down approaches.
The interaction between top leadership and various levels
of employees creates a sense of ownership for those involved
with the change process.Moreover, it requires leaders
to build trust and collaboration among affected interest
groups, users, communities, and potential partners and
stakeholders.Leaders attempting to change organizations
need to combine strategic goals from top leadership and
tactical involvement by informed and knowledgeable
members of the organization at all levels.
Strategies for Leading Change
Four critical leadership functions or responsibilities are
critical in change initiatives: (1) diagnosing change risk and
organizational capacity, (2) strategizing and making the case
for change, (3) implementing and sustaining change, and
(4) reinforcing change by creating a change-centric, learning
organization (Figure 1).Effective change leaders must
make a compelling case for the change and manage change
risk to protect their organization and its stakeholders.
The leadership responsibilities for change do not always
happen in sequence: they are interactive as leadership
effectiveness in one area affects the others.For example,
effective diagnoses of the change risk and organizational
capacity help leaders in strategizing and making the casefor
change; creating a more change-centric organization
strengthens leaders abilities in the other three areas.
Understanding Change Complexity
and Risk
Changes often fail because leadership fails to fully understand
or underestimates the complexity of the change,
increasing the risk that the change will not yield the desired
results.A number of factors can influence change complexity
and the risks of change. For example, the change
itself may be complex,many stakeholders may be adversely
impacted by the change, the socioeconomic environment
may be hostile to change, or the organization may have
insufficient capacity to handle the change initiative.
Table 2 shows some of the chief risk factors typically
involved in a major public or nonprofit change effort.
What can change leaders do to improve the outcome
when they need to make a complex, risky change? First,
they must diagnose change complexity and risk and assess
how capable the organization is of coping with that
complexity and risk. Second, they must create a strategy
to deal with the risk. In the short run, this may mean limiting
the risk by reducing the scope of change or perhaps
creating a pilot project. In the long run, it means creating
a more change-centric, learning organization that is
comfortable and adaptable in complex change situations.
Third, leaders must implement their strategy and mitigate
risks. Finally, they must continually reinforce the behavior
needed to successfully address the change.
Communicating and Collaborating
with Stakeholders
Stakeholders are the individuals and organizations that
perceive they have a role in, or are affected by, an organizational
change.This includes internal and external stakeholders
(those located outside the organization undergoing
transformation,usually including Congress, the executive
branch,private interest groups,other governmental or nonprofit
organizations, and citizens). In a multisector environment,
private contractors to public and nonprofit sector
organizations are also considered external stakeholders,
but are becoming increasingly integrated with public employees
in serving public purposes.The key elements to be assessed
regarding stakeholders
are (1) the degree of diversity among them, in terms of
profession,worldview, and mission orientation; (2) their
perceptions regarding their potential gain or loss from the
change initiative; and (3) the existence (or lack of) collaborative
networks to facilitate communication among
leaders and important stakeholder groups.
When leaders intentionally and consistently communicate
their vision of collaboration to stakeholders
through various formal and informal channels, they promote
a shared vision that generates common, public interests
and a level of trust.New collaborative synergies can
be fostered that are critical to facilitating the implementation
of even massive changes in ways of providing public
Leaders cannot afford to overlook the views and motivations
of their staffstheir internal stakeholdersor
their contractors and other external stakeholders. In the
increasingly complex networks of organizations that supply
public services, leaders pay a high price if they fail to
secure stakeholder buy-in and collaboration from the outset
when strategizing for change.
Learning how key stakeholders view the impact of
change can help change agents develop their common
case for change. For example, Kizer wrote Journey of
Change, which became the reference manual for the staff.
The document was disseminated throughout the organization
to address internal stakeholder perceptions
about potential gains and losses.The involvement of key
stakeholders in developing the change strategy and in formulating
the domains of value that would drive the
change initiative provided the opportunity for collaboration,
reducing stakeholder fears about the proposed
Building Organizational Capacity
An organizations internal capacity to initiate and sustain
a major change effort involves a number of aspectsand is affected
by both human and material resources.Kaplan
and Norton, for example, argue for the importance
of organizational capital, consisting of leadership, culture,
alignment, and teamwork in change efforts. In our
analysis of organizational capacity,we have identified and
defined the following key elements as necessary to facilitate
major change and transformation:
Organizational leadership, at the top and throughout
the organization
An organizational culture that values and supports
change initiatives, reinforcing change-centric
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We continue to hear about religious groups who cover-up sexual abuse. We have been exposed to the Catholic Church's abuse of young people that was kept hush-hush for decades. Unfortunately, just as Pope Benedict XVI is retiring, we are hearing about more abuse and the attempt to hide the truth, again. Those of us who believe in God cannot stand by and allow fundamentalists to second religion and then abuse the flock.


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Morten Andersen, who headlines the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame's 2011 class going in Saturday in Natchitoches, probably can consider what's coming as "induction practice."
After all, when "The Great Dane" hung up his kicker's cleats in 2008, he held 22 individual NFL records, and his name figured prominently near the top of many others. Andersen, the NFL's all-time leading scorer, seems certain to one day have a bust in Canton, Ohio, at the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
"I think Morten's production and success as a National Football League kicker speaks for itself," said Jim Mora, who coached him on the Saints. "I think he's the best kicker in the history of the National Football League. He's the leading scorer in history -- he deserves to be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Not only the Louisiana Hall of Fame; he deserves to be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame."
Andersen acknowledges he has thought about Canton and the way it would cap his Hall of Fame progression -- from Michigan State's Hall, to the Saints', now to Louisiana, and then the NFL's.
"And ending it with the NFL Hall of Fame would be unbelievable," he said. "My work is done, my portfolio is out there, and if it's worthy of induction, then it will happen. I think my numbers hold up, I feel pretty good about my place in the game."
For now though, it's a portrait in Natchitoches. Given his myriad athletic accomplishments, one might suppose Andersen had a hard time choosing one to highlight in his picture. But that would assume Andersen was just another talented athlete.
Andersen, 51, did insist that one piece of his life be in the painting, and it had nothing to do with football. Instead, Andersen wanted a reference to the Children's Hospital in New Orleans.
That's not vanity, according to those familiar with his off-field work. Andersen never used the Children's Hospital as some kind of charitable badge to burnish his own fame. For decades, he has poured hours and cash into the hospital and its patients.
"Morten gave himself," said Brian Landry, the hospital's vice president of marketing. "Even before he was famous, he made himself available, too. He was always a gentleman."
The most public aspect of Andersen's work was 'Kicks for Kids,' a fundraising gimmick he invented and maintained throughout his 25 years in the NFL. At its peak, 'Kicks for Kids' was raising more than $100,000 per year.
But Landry said that prolonged effort wasn't the true measure of Andersen's contribution. The man who earned the nickname "Mr. Automatic" while making 565 field goals and going to seven Pro Bowls, did as much for the hospital privately as publicly.
There was the $35,000 personal check Andersen once slipped Landry without a word, or his organizing work for the Children's Hospital's telethon. And, perhaps most important, Andersen worked with the kids.
"We had a patient once with spina bifada who had to undergo 60 surgeries," Landry said. "And when he was 19 or 20 years old, he was going to give up. The physician called me one night before his 48th or 49th surgery and said, 'I don't think he's going to make it -- he's not fighting anymore.' This was late on a Friday night, and I called Morten, and he said, 'I'll be there.' Early the next morning, there he was in the kid's room."
Anderson would even turn off his own spotlight if he thought that would help.
"Once Sports Illustrated was doing a story on Morten, and they were touring the hospital," Landry recalled. "We had a patient -- I think she had even been a beauty queen -- and she was very depressed. And when Morten saw her, he very politely told the crew following him that was it, the tour was over. 'I've got something I need to do,' he said. And he went in the room and shut the door, and that was that. He was in there talking to her for more than an hour."
Andersen said his work with pediatric intensive care units, which continues through a foundation he and his wife still run from their home outside Atlanta, was part of the fabric of his Louisiana life.
"The Children's Hospital has been such a big part of my community involvement," he said. "On my days off, on Tuesdays, I would go and visit with the kids and get to know those who were there for a long time, who were very sick. Some had happy endings, some did not. But that was a big part of what I stood for and believed in. So I wanted there to be, in some small way, a measure of that relationship."
It seems it would take a long time to recite all the things Andersen did as a football player. In both the 1980s and the 1990s, Andersen was the NFL's All-Decade kicker, accolades that came as no surprise to Saints fans.
Of course, even the great ones have awkward moments. Andersen's NFL debut gave no indication of the stature he would attain in the game. On his very first kick in the strike-shortened 1982 season, Andersen, a fourth-round draft pick from Michigan State, twisted an ankle and missed eight games.
But that inauspicious beginning was soon forgotten. He proceeded to set the Saints' record for games played (196). He remains the franchise's all-time leading scorer, with 1,318 points amassed through 302 field goals and 412 extra points. He made nearly 78 percent of his career kicks in New Orleans, and some years he was much better than that: he made 31 of 35 attempts in 1985, and the next season made 26 of 30. He scored more than 100 points nine times in his Saints career, including a single-season record 121 in 1987 when New Orleans made its first playoff appearance.
He was inducted into the Saints Hall of Fame in 2009, and is the specialist on the franchise's all-time team.
Andersen also passed the ultimate test: kicking under pressure. Perhaps his most famous field goal was the one in overtime in the NFC Championship to send Atlanta to the Super Bowl in 1999. But Mora said Andersen was always clutch. Andersen made 40 of 84 attempts of 50 or more yards.
"A lot of guys could kick 50-yard field goals in pregame warmup or during practice," Mora said. "But what really makes a good kicker, in my opinion, is somebody who could do it when the game was on the line. He goes in there with seconds left on the clock. You make it, we win, if not, we lose. Well, Morten was great under pressure. He's going to make most of those kicks. So when you send him in at the end of the game to win or lose for you, you had a pretty good feeling he was going to get the job done. And he definitely wanted to be in that spot. That's what made him, in my opinion, special."
Andersen said he's in Louisiana fairly often, and he spent the past weekend fishing in Grand Isle with a bevy of former Saints. Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, Andersen now has a business-consulting business, and he likes to bring European clients to Louisiana's bayous for airboating and crawfish boils.
But Saturday will be about his greatness as a player and a professional, an honor Mora said Andersen earned in any number of ways.
"There were a couple of things I liked about Morten besides the fact that he was a great kicker," he said. "One, he was a good team guy. Some kickers have a reputation of being a little flaky. Morten was anything but that. He was a pro through and through. Well-liked by his teammates, well-respected by his teammates; just a good guy to have on the team. A very team-oriented player. Always wanted what was best for the team."
HALL OF FAME AWARDS: Elmo Adolph, a New Orleans native and world-renowned boxing official, and Billy Montgomery, a state legislator and former prep basketball coach from Natchitoches Parish, are the 2011 recipients of the Dave Dixon Louisiana Sports Leadership Award. The award is presented in conjunction with the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame induction ceremonies in Natchitoches this weekend. Also honored will be two recipients of the Louisiana Sports Writers Association's Distinguished Service Award in sports journalism, New Orleans-based sportswriter Ron Brocato and longtime Southeastern Louisiana University sports information director Larry Hymel. Adolph was a professional and amateur boxing referee from 1964-2005. He officiated an estimated 23,000 amateur bouts, including the 1988 Olympic Games. He became a professional referee in 1992, working another 1,000 bouts, 32 of those being world championship fights. Among the fighters in matches he officiated were Mike Tyson, Roy Jones Jr., Roberto Duran, Marvin Hagler, Larry Holmes, Tommy Hearns, Sugar Ray Leonard, Lennox Lewis and Hector Camacho.
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"I don't think I'm any more obsessed with making a career out of this than she is," the recent Playgirl model said in an interview that ran Friday on CBS's Early Show. "Obviously she's doing Dancing with the Stars. I wouldn't say I'm obsessed with any of it. I'm just taking it as it comes.
And as for that apology to almost-mother-in-law Sarah Palin? "That was something I did to make my fiancée happy," he said.
Now Johnston, 20, is eyeing Sarah Palin's former office as mayor of the town where he became father of Sarah Palin's grandson Tripp. After an ugly split in which Johnston publicly badmouthed the former vice presidential candidate as a money-hungry diva, Johnston briefly reunited with Sarah Palin's daughter. Bristol, 19 – only to end up calling off the engagement a second time, with Bristol saying Johnston was more interested in becoming a celebrity than in being a husband and dad.
Fears Sounding Like a Liar"I don't really regret anything," he told CBS. "But the only thing I wish I wouldn't have done is to put out that apology, 'cause it kind of makes me sound like a liar. And I've never lied about anything. So that's probably the only thing. The rest of the stuff I can live with."
Despite the fact he's never graduated from high school and is taping a reality show that he is trying to pitch, Johnston insists he'd be a better mayor than Sarah Palin.
"I don't think being mayor is about qualifications. I think it's about people liking you and believing in you," he said.
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(Click on image to enlarge)A dog waits for its turn to be judged.
(Click on image to enlarge) A dog being judged by Alan Reznik, editor-at-large for Dog World and Dog Fancy magazines, and judge on last year's CBS reality show "Greatest American Dog."
Whenever there are critters at the office, I feel like a giddy second grader when the mobile pet farm rolls in. This time it was a dog show, and by show I mean a miniature Westminster in a roped off show ring in our parking lot. Of course contestants were limited to the types of breeds owned by co-workers and most of the pooches had never been in the judging spotlight like this. Our very own Alan Reznik, editor-at-large for Dog World and Dog Fancy magazines, and judge on last year's CBS reality show "Greatest American Dog" brought his dog show expertise as he explained what judges look for.
This mini event lured a lot of us away from our computers for a half hour. Not too many people can resist dogs strutting their stuff. I joked that a pet bird show would be the on the office calendar of events, but some took this seriously and I must admit their reactions weren't "Oh how cute," or "That will be fun" They were more along the lines of "Birds, really?"
I suppose birds take a certain kind of people. But I think it would be fun to set-up a bird-safe area, and then have pet birds waddle along the judge's table (imagine caiques or lories being scored on their hopping skills) or see which flighted cockatiel best embodies a bird's gracefulness in flight. Of course, our show would be different from a dog show by the very fact that our contestants can talk back to the judges: "Watcha looking at?" And I imagine some would try to sublimely influence judges by saying "Ima pretty bird."
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With the redesign of the Civic for 2006, Honda also rolled out a new version of its Civic Hybrid that, with EPA gas mileage estimates of 49 mpg in the city and 51 on the highway, was more fuel-efficient than the prior-generation model. It used a new version of Honda's Integrated Motor Assist system, which the company said allowed the car to operate on the electric motor alone when cruising conditions were right.
For 2007, XM Satellite Radio is standard on Civic Hybrids with the navigation system.
The redesigned Civic sedan looks futuristic compared to its predecessor. The hybrid takes the look even further, with disc-like 15-inch alloy wheels fitted with low-rolling-resistance tires. The A-pillars are practically over the front wheels, and the large front doors make getting in and out of the car easy. In addition to the wheels, a rear lip spoiler, hybrid badges and redundant turn-signal indicators in the side mirror housings serve to differentiate the Civic Hybrid from conventional models.
There's room for five in the Civic Hybrid, which has two-tone cloth seating surfaces. Air conditioning, cruise control, a tilt/telescope steering wheel, a CD stereo, and power windows, locks and mirrors are standard.
The Civic Hybrid has an interesting-looking instrument cluster that's similar to the regular Civic's. It features a digital speedometer that's positioned near the base of the windshield, and a large tachometer in front of the steering wheel that's within its own housing. There's also a battery meter and a charge/assist gauge that monitors the electric portion of the powertrain.
The hybrid's 10.4-cubic-foot trunk is slightly smaller than the regular sedan's 12.0-cubic-foot cargo area. Unlike the regular Civic sedan, a 60/40-split, folding rear seat — which expands the effective cargo area — isn't offered.
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Featuring a 1.3-liter four-cylinder engine teamed with an electric motor, the Civic Hybrid makes 110 horsepower and 123 pounds-feet of torque. A continuously variable transmission is standard.
Standard safety features include antilock brakes, side-impact airbags for the front seats, side curtain airbags and active front head restraints. In the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's frontal-offset and side-impact crash tests, the Civic received the highest overall rating.
Driving Impressions
It's amazing how putting a few hybrid system readouts on a dashboard can alter driver behavior. While driving the Civic Hybrid, the battery meter and charge/assist gauge provided instant rewards in exchange for efficient driving. Beware: Watching those two gauges is highly addictive.
Though it's not especially quick, the Civic Hybrid accelerates adequately. The car has an engine auto-stop feature that turns off the engine when the car is stopped for traffic, in order to save fuel, and restarts the engine once it's time to accelerate. Auto-stop works fine, but it can catch you off guard sometimes; the engine occasionally needs to be started even when you're not moving, which can make the car creep forward if your foot isn't firmly on the brake pedal.
The Civic Hybrid has a taut suspension, and body roll is well-controlled, but the ride can get a bit jittery at times on uneven concrete highways. The steering is responsive, though the non-linear brakes can make smooth stops tricky. All-around visibility is exceptional.
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Way, way in the future, when our planet had finally perfected space travel, we found that our galaxy was full of other inhabited planets. Almost all of those planets were filled with friendly people. As we began to visit them, they in turn visited us; we found that before long all of the planets started to celebrate Christmas.
This was great because everyone likes Christmas right? I say it was great for everyone but Santa Clause. He suddenly had many thousands of worlds to get to each Christmas. He had to move his entire North Pole operation out into the galaxy and onto a little frozen planet just east of the North Star. From this new location he was able to set up many giant factories that produced millions of kinds of toys, and it was easier for him to reach all of the new planets that started to celebrate Christmas.
To help him deliver these toys he employed a giant spaceship that was called Big Blue. Big Blue was a very large and powerful ship and he liked working for Santa. Every year the elves would load up Big Blue with millions of tons of toys for all the children in the galaxy. They also loaded Santa's sleigh and all the reindeer inside Big Blue. Then on Christmas Eve big blue would set out to all the planets of the galaxy and help Santa deliver all those toys to all the children in all the worlds.
One year, when Santa and Big Blue were on their way to deliver all those toys, they happened upon a little red space ship floating next to a small moon.
"Whoa there Big Blue!" Santa said as they approached the small moon. "Look at that."


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The 10 best (and 5 worst) American presidents
There's a reason George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt are immortalized on Mount Rushmore.
These are the leaders we most often celebrate on Presidents Day. But who else ranks high on the excellence scale? And whose administration was an epic fail?
Siena College Research Institute has been polling presidential scholars since 1982. The 10 best and five worst presidents are below, as ranked in its 2010 survey.
Oh, and how did our current president, Barack Obama, do? Scholars ranked him 15th, with high marks for imagination, communication and intelligence. Then again, that was four years ago, long before healthcare.gov and the other problems that have marred his second term.
It'll be interesting to see how the rankings change in the next poll. George W. Bush, for example, fell from 23rd in 2002 to 39th in 2010.
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The immigration reform bill is making its debut in before the Senate Judiciary Committee Friday. During the hearing, opponents will be able to grill the authors of the bipartisan legislation over its contents.
The bill addresses border security, legal immigration programs, and a path to citizenship for the 11 million immigrants living illegally in the United States.
Critics say they haven't had time to read the 844-page bill since it was only introduced at 2 a.m. Friday morning. They're calling for more hearings and a long discussion process.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has been invited to testify. She's sure to face tough questions from Republicans about conditions along the border, which the Obama administration says is more secure than ever.
Some Republicans disagree and also contend that the immigration bill does not do enough to improve border security, even though it requires certain enforcement steps to be taken before any path to citizenship can begin.
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Two months after being hit by devastating floods, parts of Atlanta are still cleaning up. Many families in the region are still homeless.
CBN's Operation Blessing teamed up with Atlanta-based Home Depot to help some of those families.
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November 21, 2006, 07:31 PM
I've recently been wondering about the possibility of converting a 357mag SP101 to a moonclip 38 Super... just for kicks. Does anyone have any thoughts on how difficult this conversion would be?
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November 21, 2006, 07:46 PM
Doable, but don't expect sterling accuracy or top velocity. The .38 Super's bullet is 9mm, which has a nominal diameter of .355 inch. The SP101's barrel is sized to take .357 diameter bullets. If someone makes a barrel for the revolver with a correctly sized bore, it's a go. If not, you can probably expect performance in the .38 Special +p category...maybe.
If you have a chronograph, you can find out...though it's ill-advised to fire a round in a gun not chambered for it, so apply all due caveats if you elect to try this...but the Super's semi rim will chamber and very likely headspace in the revolver's cylinder. Don't ask...:rolleyes: (Yes. I've done strange things with guns in my reckless, misspent youth.)
This is for informational purposes only, and if you decide to fire a .38 Super round in a .357 magnum or .38 Special revolver...you're on your own.
November 21, 2006, 10:14 PM
I've done strange things with guns in my reckless, misspent youth
The Ruger may not fire a .38 Super without the moonclip. The semi-rim of the .38 Super case is thinner than a .38 Spl or .357 magnum. The frame mounted firing pin of the Ruger may not protrude far enough to reliably set the primer off. Then again, it may. I have never tried to fire a .38 Super from an SP101.
Most of your older Smiths probably would fire, the only Colt I have on hand has chambers too tight to take the Super, though the barrel would probably be closer to the .38 Super's dimensions.
As far as bullet diameter goes, my Hornady manual has several .38 Super loads with .357" revolver bullets. They would work quite well for that purpose with moonclips. .38 Super pressures are pretty close to .357 mag pressures. I like the auto length pistol cases, even in a revolver. Revolver cases are way too large for moderate level loads with modern powders.
November 21, 2006, 10:24 PM
Would have a kind of odd two stage chamber throat in a converted .357...no real harm, but sending that 9mm bullet (or even a .357" diameter one) accross about .39" of .380" diameter left over .357chamber wouldnt be the best thing for accuracy. Would probably work out just fine....but at some point you just have to ask "why?".
November 21, 2006, 10:37 PM
>Would probably work out just fine....but at some point you just have to ask "why?"<
Precisely. See if you can find an out-of-print Smith & Wesson revolver...the model designation escapes me at the moment...that was chambered for the 9mm and didn't require moon clips. Ream the chambers out to let the Super round headspace on the rims...may take a little customizing on the ejector star...but could likely be arranged without a lot of fuss. The revolvers are essentially 3-inch, round butt Model 13s, and would probably handle the pressures, but ask around on the S&W forum for anybody who's done the conversion to see if there are any glitches.
The question remains. Why? .38 Super ammo availability is sometimes
spotty, fairly expensive when you do find it, and provides no option for interchangability as with the .38/.357 revolver. You're pretty much stuck with
one, not-so-prolific caliber that offers little advantage over the hotter .38 Specials...and gives away a good bit to the .357s round.
Not raggin' on ya...Just curious.
November 21, 2006, 10:49 PM
offers little advantage over the hotter .38 Specials
9x23mm Winchester would be the round to use if you want HOT!
Pressure greater than .357 magnum, though I admit I don't know how its ballistics look in a wheel gun.
9mm J-frames have been rechambered, but I admit that I am leery of a cartridge with a slightly larger diameter case, and a MUCH higher pressure than a .357 magnum!:what:
Still, never heard of any problems. If I ever do it, I think it will be an L-frame, however.:cool:
November 22, 2006, 10:08 AM
The rim thickenss is a little off....38sp/357mag. is listed as having a rim about .058" (it des vary in real life) and the .38super's little semi-rim is supose to run about .050". that .008 isn't a whole bunch, but it might be enough to get some trouble with firing pin strikes(esp. with the modern captive pins) Probably would work fine...leave it to you to decide if .008" of extra headspace is acceptable. If it is, then no moon clips required...no cylinder face modifications to make them run...and could still shoot .357's in the slighly modifided chamber (would have a tiny shoulder where the .38super chamber ended...and there is a risk of case splitting from the increase in diameter).
SOME as issued .357 chambers will allow chambering of a .38super as is...chambers might be a little large and .38super factory loads often comes a little thin. Just becasue yu can jamm it in the hole don't make it wise thing to fire.
That old no-clip S&W 9mm revolver was the 547? Anyway, the extractor asssembly was tried a couple of differnt ways...one with little spring "fingers", one for each chamber...and one with little wire loops to engage the extractor groove....the "fingers" being more common (and I don't know if the little wire loop version ever made it to real production). They weren't popular, didn't last long (and all I've seen for sale tend to the 4" square butt version...not the 3" round butt version).
November 22, 2006, 11:16 AM
Some Speed-Sixes and SP-101s were chambered in 9mm, with moon clips. It would be relatively easy to rechamber those to 9x23mm, and .38 Super would also fit, though the slightly larger diameter chamber base might be a little hard on brass. I don't know if they used a tighter barrel on those guns or not.
I still want a L-frame in 9x23mm, and some day I will probably have one. I need it to go with my 9x23mm AR15. I don't have one of those either, but some day, I will.:D
November 22, 2006, 12:00 PM
...See if you can find an out-of-print Smith & Wesson revolver...the model designation escapes me at the moment...that was chambered for the 9mm and didn't require moon clips... The revolvers are essentially 3-inch, round butt Model 13s ...
Model 547. They were made in 3" round and 4" square versions (very rare). A unique extractor arrangement. Fingers made of beryllium copper if I recall.
November 22, 2006, 12:09 PM
That's the one! I thought that was a pretty neat little wheelgun...bein' a huge fan of the 3-inch Model 13 and all...and I nearly bought one. Wish I had. There weren't many made, and I rarely see one any more. Heard of 4-inch guns, but never saw one.
Brian Williams
November 22, 2006, 12:56 PM
Why you ask, why do the 625's in 45ACPs rule over a 45 colt or most any other revolver in the gun games.
A short fat case going into big large holes in a cylinder.
Take a smaller gun and fit a short smaller diameter case and nice chamfered charge holes with a good tight moonclip. Now we are talking.
I would love to have a totally new round made up, a true .38 caliber(not .357)about 175/190gr with a short semi rimmed case in a K frame round butt 3" barrel with moonclips.
You ought to see what a 9mm w/moonclips does out of a S&W 60-4
At the range of a pocket gun the "accuracy" issues of a .355 bullet out of a .357 barrel is nil.
November 22, 2006, 01:01 PM
The fastest speedloader available for a wheelgun...and I do love K-frames.:cool:
November 22, 2006, 03:35 PM
Truthfully... no particular reason other than it might be fun to do it. And it would be a great conversation piece. Now what I'd really
I've resolved to try it on an SP101...
Will let you all know how it turns out when I'm done.
Brian Williams
November 22, 2006, 04:06 PM
If you are a reloader, just load the Super 38 with 357 cal bullets...
Find the number of Mark Hartshorn from Pinnacle High performance, His web sight is one of the ones that moonclips.com suggests for the machining of a cylinder. Mark did the fitting of my 940 cylinder for my 642 and did the barrel swap and moonclip conversion for my S&W 65.
Mark has told me about converting some S&W 940s to 38 super, that move takes away the problems of "sticky extraction" with 9mm's.
I'll also bet that WildAlaska would do the same as he is also mentioned on Moonclips.com for the machining of cylinders.
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