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A new season is here, and we're looking forward to the fabulous fashions this spring is forecasting. And, If the runway shows are any indication of what's to come, then the upcoming months are going to be haute.
Read on for a list of the top 10 trends to look for right now.
Crop Out
Keep doing crunches ladies, because crop tops aren't going anywhere. The ab-flashing top hit multiple catwalks including Lela Rose, Tracy Reese and 3.1 Phillip Lim. We'll be seeing it in two forms this spring – a sophisticated look made of fabrics like satin, which reveal just a sliver of skin, as well as nylon and cotton stomach-baring styles. We've already renewed our gym membership!
Flower Power
Designers put their green thumbs to work, adding floral prints to dresses, pants, jackets and sweatshirts. Although floral is used every spring season, new takes caught our attention. Oscar de la Renta showed off edgy black and white garden motifs, while Tommy Hilfiger revealed Hawaiian blossoms. We'll choose a flowery wardrobe over a bouquet of roses any day!
Sheer Perfection
Adding a dose of sex appeal, see-through pieces dominated the runways last fall. While some left little to the imagination (like Milly by Michelle Smith), others including Zac Posen went for transparent sleeves and hemlines. We love the way it added an airy feel to the overall look.
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Not only was there a white-out on the catwalk, but models also donned the muted hue from head to toe! Derek Lam, Carolina Herrera and Victoria Beckham all layered colorless pieces with different textures to make a serious sartorial statement. If snow white isn't your style, cream and ivory will also be popular looks for the upcoming season.
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Metallic fabric replaced sequins during spring's fashion week. Whether it was dazzling gold, sparkly silvers, or bold blues, Diane von Furstenberg, Jason Wu and Thakoon all used shimmering looks to make their models stand out. Flashiness is in!
Three words: Wide-leg pants. This silhouette was all over the spring 2014 runway, and we mean all over. The look is what we like to call hippie haute. One that exudes a free spirit, yet harnesses everything we love about crisp style. Pair the bottoms with a crop top or a slim-fitting top.
The Boys are Back in Town
Victoria Beckham and Thakoon were just two designers who incorporated menswear into their collections. We can expect lots of relaxed tailored pieces from blouses, jackets and trousers. Men's sportswear also hit center stage with basketball jersey-style dresses (compliments of Tommy Hilfiger), wedged high-top sneakers, track pants and baseball jackets. Cozy but chic, what more could we ask for?
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Neutrals are taking a backseat this year to pastel colors. Lilac, mint, yellow, citrus, powder blue, and blush pink paraded down almost every runway, infusing styles with a gentle softness. It certainly fulfills our sweet tooth for feminine and flirty.
Groovy Jumpsuits
The 70s made a blast from the past with beautiful flowing jumpsuits. Whether wide-leg, slouched, or cropped, a floor-length romper is perfect for any occasion! We had a big soft spot for Marc by Marc Jacobs' satin styles, which came in vibrant prints as well as shiny metallics.
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Can anyone help me out, I got a EML and read the code it said Mass air flow sensor. So I got a new one from EBAY and put it in. I hooked it up with it's connector and then started my car. It started up fine and idled fine, but when I went for a test drive it would bog down and I couldn't get out of 1st gear. It pretty much wouldn't go above 2000 rpm and it sounded like it was chocking. So next I left the new MAF installed but disconnected it and started it again. it ran just fine and I had no problems. I've actually been driving it like this for a week now and the only thing not normal is I can smell some extra gas burn off when I drive, like it's running a little rich and my MPG is worse then it was before, but it drives just fine and the only EML i'm getting is the mass air flow sensor one. The old MAF was definitely bad because I could see both the little diodes things were completely gone. Is it necessary to get the ECU recoded after replacing the MAF? I'm not sure. If anyone has experienced this sort of problem any help would be awesome before I have to take it to the dealership and get jammed for a bunch of money with something I can probably do myself. Thanks for the help.
Pretty self explanatory. You need to get a new MAF, other than the one from Ebay. What brand is the one from ebay? It may not even be the right one for your car. I recommed Bimmerspecialist.com . Good prices and fast shipping. Overnight available.
You got the wrong maf or another defective one did the old maf do the same thing? What are the voltage reaidng and the G/sS of the new and ol Maf???
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I have told some people that my leukemia diagnosis is a blessing, and the first thing they ask me is, "How can you say it's a blessing?"
First of all, my belief is that God is sovereign. I said a long time ago, "I'm all yours." And when you say that, you better mean it, because you don't know what it could bring. I'm not bitter. I know there is a reason for this. I feel honored that He would use me in whatever way he wants to use me. If what I'm going through helps one person, then it's worth it.
Everyone asks that question, "Why was I born? What is the meaning of my life?" I know the meaning of my life is not to be the basketball coach at the University of North Carolina, even though I love that role. The meaning of my life should be to help other people and touch other people, and that's what I have a chance to do right now.
I'm thankful that because of what I'm going through, we're able to bring some attention to the National Bone Marrow Registry. There are ten million people registered, but that's not much compared to the population of our country. People still have the perception that it's painful to register with them. It's not. It's a cotton swab of your cheek.
And I don't know if I'll ever even need it, because right now my prognosis is very good. But there are people every day who need a match in that registry, and I hope we can bring more attention to that.
I'm so, so thankful to be at UNC Lineberger. People don't understand how blessed we are to have this facility right here in Chapel Hill. These people are incredible. What better place could I be in anywhere in the country other than right here?
I'm very thankful for my friends and family. Since I began treatment, I have not spent one single night by myself. I tried very hard not to have (husband) Sammy or (son) Van change their schedules for me. But even with that, I have so many great friends who have spent the night with me, whether that's at our house or sleeping on the couch at the hospital.
I have talked to my team about this situation quite a bit. I've told them that my prognosis is good and I'm working as hard as I can to be back with them before long. And when I get back, I guarantee I will be the best coach in America. I promise you that. I can't tell you how much I miss those girls, and how much I miss coaching them, and being the coach of the University of North Carolina. I'm just like anyone else: you don't realize how much something means to you until it's taken away.
I know I'll have to make adjustments. I won't just be able to have the doctors tell me I can go full-speed back into being a coach. I have to work my way back in, and on the days my numbers are good, I'll be able to go into the office and maybe watch practice and do a couple of things. I realize I'm going to have to slow down a little, because I have been someone who wants to do everything. If it needs to get done, there's no reason why I can't be the one to do it. I may not be able to take that approach as often.
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Dayton airport director Terrence Slaybaugh tells the Dayton Daily News that the 54-year-old Shelbyville, Ky., woman indicated God sent her a message, which she relayed to a ticket agent in Dayton. Slaybaugh says the woman said the US Airways flight had a bomb on board and people would die.
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In a blow to electric vehicles (EVs) being the solution to global warming a new study shows that EVs might pollute more. The study, by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology found that green house gases were increased if an EV is charged from electricity produced by burning coal.
With 44% of the US electricity coming from petroleum or coal does an EV in the US make sense if the goal is a reduction of green house gases?
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*Of course* IF you compare the latest and lowest emission gas engine to one of the oldest coal plants in Tennessee (or some-such) many environmental factors are a draw, and some go one way or the other. Especially if you hand pick an electric vehicle and use it as counter to it's design as possible, all highway miles, for example, to use the most electricity as inefficiently as possible.
*Of course* this is leaving out that people aren't buying EVs to drive 100 highway miles each way in Tennessee.
They are using them *in cities*, where the regen greatly heightens mileage, and that is mostly *in states* which due to population density and pollution concerns have long been very tough on electric generation emissions, such as California. And this will improve even more over time as old plants are retired and replaced with new highly efficient Natural Gas based plants or even greener alternatives.
Under those much more reasonable circumstances EVs can look very good. Though I do still have concerns about the battery and electric motor materials, where they have to come from, the damage done by their extraction and use... (then again, the alternative is the middle-east...)
But I don't need some probably petro-chemical funded "study" from some *Norwegian* university to tell me this!
Next can we have a petro-chemical funded red-herring article about how electric is a dead end, that Hydrogen is the magic beans and is just 5-10 years away (same as the last 20-30 years...)? Make sure it mentions that Hydrogen *can* be broken out of water but entirely skips over the fact that the only economical way to make it... is to break it out of petro-chemicals!
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Is there any hope for a person, who is brainwashed to the point of believing that bearing arms is responsible for a violent disposition in the human psyche? -me
Obviously shotgun slugs shouldn't be allowed at indoor ranges, at least this one. Getting hit by a slug that's bounced back is much worse than by a 148 gr. wadcutter. Slugs can be dangerous even at outdoor ranges depending on type of target and distance. Bounceback has to taken into account.
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never shot at a range that has steel target frames. splash will happen, nothing can be done about it. sorry guys.
Guilty as Charged....
There was a range incident where I was one of THOSE guys. I was participating at an action shooting event at an indoor range. The course of fire involved carrying a briefcase while on the move. Obviously, you have to think whenever in the presence or firearms, even more so on a hot range.
The flow of adrenaline while trying to remember the course of fire resulted in me not doing that for a split second. With my weapon in my left hand and the briefcase in my right hand, I moved to the second firing station with natural arm swing.
That resulted in my muzzle sweeping just about everybody behind me waiting for their turn and got me immediately called out for a severe ass chewing. I deserved it and said so. I was mortified at what I had done and of the potential consequences.
I often wonder what everybody thought about that incident but you can bet its something I'll never do again.
It does not feel good to look like a jackass.
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This is why we wear eye protection. It's not for ejecting shells. This isn't that out of the ordinary. My range has sound absorbing material on the walls behind the shooters, and it's all peppered and torn up from stuff bouncing off the steel over the years. Just curious, if 12 ga tactical guy was shooting in a safe direction, why some of the hate towards him in the comments? I've gotten hit w/ hot lead in the ankles more than once. Learned the hard way not to pick it up w/ bare hands.
Just one of those bitter folks clinging to his guns.
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I have never witnessed any incidents at my range but I have heard plenty of tales. When the RO's catch it they will try and educate first. If that does not seem to work they take there card and gate key.
One guy was allowing his 2 boys (like (10-12 y/o) play shoot at one another while he was shooting targets. They were using his very reel guns. RO explained the problem to him (as if he should have to) the guy said its ok they are not loaded. He was escorted off the property. IMO they should have also contacted CPS.
Glad your recovering. Dont let guys doing crap like that keep you from the range. Consult the RSO and get to the bottom of it. He may have just needed a little education. How did the woman next to you fair?
"your rights end when they infringe upon my mine"
I shot at an outdoor state range in TN on highway 421 a few times. It got so crazy out there, I carried to defend myself. That is no joke my friends.
Trap shooting from the first picnic table, John Dillinger on second, tacticool tool "sniper" (200 meters) on the third and a Germen guy with a WAY overloaded mussel loader on the end. Also, people shooting pistols a mag a second at the first target - 25 yards - unable to hit the paper.
Let's cut down to the brass tacks here... How much for the ape?
Let's cut down to the brass tacks here... How much for the ape?
ETA: maybe i just get lucky on the times/days i go
I call them tacitfools .The few ranges in my area uasally has at least one of of them numbnuts every time i go .I don't mind guys shoothing magnums or doing double taps,but when i see some donkey going rapid fire with a glock and not hitting anything i want to walk over and kick him in the nuts
I have a strict hands on policy concerning my firearms.When they are loaded only my hand are allowed to touch them.
A local range here in S. Florida rents handguns, to let customers "try before you buy." The range is "supervised" by a guy looking through a glass window.
A few weeks ago a guy came in, paid for a range, rented a handgun, and bought a box of hollow points. He went to his station and loaded up. Then he placed the muzzle under his chin, pulled the trigger, and repainted the ceiling.
The range I go to is Markham Park, run by the Ft. Lauderdale parks department, and I feel very safe there. It's run like a military range. Good ratio of ROs to shooters, same process for each wave of shooting and target maintenance. No drawing from holster and no rapid fire. No monkey business whatsoever.
If you don't feel safe where you shoot, find a place where you DO feel safe. There are no second chances with firearms.
"I'm your huckleberry...."
What is the reaction of the range owners?
Dont they know if someone gets hurt or killed, they will be sued for more money then they could ever dream of? Is is worth some AH's range fee to let them spray and pray on their property, maybe even shooting one of the employees?
If someone can't figure out what is going to happen when they" ol rapid fire" some pistol grip shotgun, then they are too stupid to own a firearm. It works in the movies, because it's the movies.......
First year of college, had a roommate from NYC who'd never shot a gun before. Took him out to some public land. Gave him a fairly lengthy and detailed run down on the way out, and then again when we got there with some practical instruction. As soon as I handed him the gun, he shot at something on the ground about 5 ft away. Took the majority of the ricocheted slug in my knee. Lodged between my patella and tibia. 2 surgery's later I was fine...kinda...
If the shotgunner fired wildly and caused a ricochet that hit people on the line, yes, he should be suspended for some time and told why.
But guys, complaining about hot brass at an indoor range? That's nitpicking. My stepson and I were at a new indoor range yesterday along with apparently every other father and son in Richmond, and it was raining brass. I was wearing a cap for this reason. When my son was shooting, I amused myself by picking up various pieces of it to see what the others were shooting, check for primer flow and see who had a centered firing pin. Mostly 9mm and .40S&W.
Im alittle confised.So if the shotgun had a stock there would be no chance of shrapnel?As long as the guy was using safe shooting procedures and follows range rules he has the same right to be at the range as any one else.
The indoor range I go to doesn't allow AKs to be fired on the 25-yd rifle range for this exact reason.
A few idiots ruined it for everyone. Good thing I'm not an AK buff.
Glad you are safe and have spread this lesson. My thanks to the off duty cops who used to volunteer at the range near Lambs Canyon just out of Salt Lake. They were no nonsense, "Ready on the Right", ready on the left" " Is there anybody down range" Types. About the only time since I got out of the Army I felt mostly safe shooting around the public.
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I used to shoot at a public unsupervised range run by the Fish and Game folks. One day I showed up there, and as I was unpacking my stuff, another shooter told my I just missed the fist fight!
It seemed that there was a guy who was sighting in a lever-action deer rifle, and there was another guy shooting at the bench next to him. The guy with the lever action got done shooting and was packing up, picked up his rifle and pointed it at the concrete floor, and pulled the trigger to drop the hammer. BOOM. Put a .35 Remington into the floor right behind the other shooter, who promptly got up, looked at the big divot in the concrete, and proceeded to beat some sense into the lever-action shooter.
Last time I went to that range - I joined a private club after that.
Not to stereotype, but in my experience the worst guys for unsafe range practices were the young men that showed up with an SKS modified to accept 30-round AK magazines.
"Sure glad I was unarmed," said no one ever.
I wasn't as old and responsible as I am now.
Was at a buddies farm doing some shooting and sighting in.
One of his other buddies steps up to the left of me and without warning or checking anything starts firing dropping hot brass on me, one of which went down my shirt collar. He laughed about it, thinking it was funny. There was 160 acres of ground so he didn't have to be right up beside me, or could easily have stepped to the right of me.
So a few minutes later, he was bent over with his plumbers crack showing and I fired 6 quick rounds with the Taurus .38spl I had at the time, and then dropped all 6 of the hot empties down his plumbers crack and dropped another speedloader into the pistol and shut the gate.
When the guy got done hopping around and yelling I very plainly pointed out that turn about was fair play and that he'd asked for it.
I then packed up and told my buddy the landowner that I'd just as soon never shoot with that idiot on the place and left.
There's always foolish idiots out there and they're always a danger.
I hope and pray that none may kill me, Nor I kill any, with woundings grim. But if ever any should think to kill me, I pray thee, God, let me kill him first
I leave this rule for others when I'm dead, Be always sure you're right THEN GO AHEAD! Davy Crockett
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I have heard and seen so much stupidity that it is hard to imagine what some folks are thinking.
Last bit of range stupidity I saw? A pair of jokers at an outdoor range show up and I kid you not they are tactical tommys to a T. They came out of their truck in some cheap UTG vests, knee and elbow pads, one was rail thin and looked like he was going to collapse under and the other was obese. Drop leg holsters, looked like Glocks with tactical flashlights (the cheap Just off the boat from China deals) an SKS, an AK that had both seen better days, one had a revolver sticking down the front of his pants. They were festooned with gunshow bargain-basement knives, morale patches from websites, and yes their urban camo BDU pants were tucked into surplus combat boots circa the 1970's.
I was already clearing out and another gent was planning on sticking around until he saw them and he just rolled his eyes, looked at me, shook his head, and started packing his range box as well. Those same idiots got banned from using the range through the local club, I guess they got caught running downrange and shooting past each other a few months later. The official story is they were preparing for the end of the world/zombies/the next Justin Bieber album.
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"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not to stereotype, but in my experience the worst guys for unsafe range practices were the young men that showed up with an SKS modified to accept 30-round AK magazines.[/QUOTE]
I guess mines ok huh it takes 20round mags for a SKS. It also has a M4 type stock.I've seen quite a few other modified SKS owners and never had a problem with any of them. Def not my fav weapon but would use it if needed. And my AR or M17 wasn't around.
I would hate to have to deal with people like that.i have had a one older guy at my local indoor range scare me by sweeping the room with his Ruper LCP. Then seen him in my CWP class the next week. He failed. Poor guy. Shoulda got a mans gun. The ruger is ok for a back up but I'm sure he would have had beetter luck with a larger handgun.
My local indoor range which I'm a member doesn't allow rapped fire,or drawing a weapon but other than that not really that strict. They have two ranges both 25-35 yds. The normally only open the front range. They rent the back one for classes. But do use it sometimes when crowded but not always. Both are 8 bays wide with automatic steel target hangers. I have seen splash back if too close.it has video camera s but no RO to say of and only say something if they here you rapid firing. The back wall is glass.
My other range is at a state park open from sunrise to sunset with a ranger that patrols but I've never seen one. They have a covered firing line with 10-12 nicedoubleb shooting benches with a 25 yd berm and a 100 yd 20 ft tall berm ( cut outta a hill). Ive just started using this one but so far opts not been too crowded except the first time me and my buddy took our kids and got they are a saterday morning to find 20-30 bickers with one suv caring a butt load of guns. They was just shooting the s#*t and packing up thank god. But only bc it would have been full and noisy trying to teach my girls too shoot. Instead they was cool and before we left my ten yr old daughter had emptied a magazine on my AR and I'll never forget the smile on both our faces. I knew I had found my new shooting partner and her a new hobby.
To the OP glad you wasn't hurt worse. Do you mean a pistol grip shotgun or one with no stock at all ? Just wanted to clear that up. Thanks
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Washington Post continues to give hard-right extremists a platform
Blog ››› ››› JAMISON FOSER
Since I first pointed out the massive ideological imbalance in Washington Post "Live Online" guests this year, the Post's guest list has been a bit more balanced -- with progressives actually holding a numerical advantage. By my count, the paper has hosted three clearly-identifiable conservatives and five progressives since my April 6 post.
But those numbers are misleading: The people I'm classifying as progressives include a scientist at Oceana and the Secretary of Energy. Meanwhile, the Post consistently gives a platform to hard-right ideologues.
Jacqueline Savitz, Sr. Scientist, Oceana
Rep. Raul Grijalva, (D-Ariz.)
Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy
Mark Potok, Spokesman and Director of Publications and Information, Southern Poverty Law Center
Ellen Kahn, Family Project Director, Human Rights Campaign, washingtonpost.com
Joe Arpaio, Sheriff, Maricopa County (Ariz.)
Peter Sprigg, Senior Fellow for Policy Studies, Family Research Council
Judson Phillips, Founder, Tea Party Nation
Those two lists aren't remotely similar.
Sprigg, as I noted previously, says "gay behavior" should be outlawed and that he would "much prefer to export homosexuals from the United States than to import them into the United States because we believe that homosexuality is destructive to society."
Arpaio's draconian treatment of prisoners and rabid anti-immigrant stance have made him a favorite of the "White Nationalist Community" Stormfront.org and prompted federal civil rights investigations -- investigations he as refused to cooperate with.
Phillips has defended Tom Tangredo's statement that Barack Obama was elected because of the lack of a "civics literacy test" for voting and has been accused of profiteering. Phillips praises the fringe Birther site WorldNetDaily as an "amazing source of information," and offers a "solution" to undocumented immigrants: "Take a plane load of them and dump them in Somalia. Make no secret of it and tell the illegals, every time we catch them, that is where they are going."
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|I'd go with the Chiltons. I have a lot of Haynes (seems like all you can get around here) and they tend to be dumbed down too much. A lot of the info is generic repeated in all manuals, and they have a section on repairing rust and dents. Like who'd buy it for that? Haynes has also steered me wrong a couple of times, like the time it told me to use an axle puller on my Jeep, which I eventually found had a c-cllip rear.
|dirty dixon
I'm going to pick up the chilton or hayes manual.
Any input on which book is better?
|dirty dixon
|So I took a look at the car last night. It seems pretty good. It will need a new hood, radiator mount, and front bumper. I am wondering how difficult it will be for me to take out the bent one and replace the radiator support. We are considering picking up the car on saturday. I want to do a little research to see what it will cost me and if I can do it myself in the driveway. It doesn't look too difficult, but you never know. Any input? I don't really know too much about imports or modern cars.
If I came across that car I'd snatch it up, fix the collision work and flip it.
looks like a deal to me.
|Do a quick google search, for complaint's, and recall information on it. Then base your thoughts about purchasing it.
|dirty dixon
|Thanks for the heads up on The distributor. I hope this works out, and we score a cheap runner.
Car looks like it was maintained. The interior can tell a lot about a car owner.
For $650 I don't think you can go wrong especially where the timing belt was recently done. The only other big ticket common item is the distributor seals leak oil into the cap. This will cause a no start or poor running condition. The distributor can be purchased new for under 200.
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Here are a few pics of the civic. I'm going to be giving it the look over tonight. Thanks for all of your input guys. Good information!
It looks like there is some rust on the top of the rear pass wheel well. I'm not too worried about the rust as long as it's not the floor pans. The hood is bent up, the bumper is cracked and the lights looked to be pushed back. I'm sure the body panel gaps will never line up right again. I know how to do some body work, if I need to. But that appears to be all cosmetic. I'm hoping it runs decent and isn't smoking or sputtering. I forgot about the CV joints on these cars (good call), I'll have to check the boots.
The timing belt is the most common repair, and usually the most expensive. If it was done at about 90k then you should be okay for now. Alternators seem to go at about this mileage, but its not a real expensive repair. CV joints are also often bad, usually because the boot is torn and dirt got in the joint. Its usually best to just get a complete axle assembly. The rest of the suspension seems to wear forever, and the struts are usually okay unless you can see them leaking.
Small electrical components hold up well in Honda's, but are expensive when they do go bad. For example, a Honda turn signal flasher is usually only available from Honda, and you might pay $20-30 for it. Compared to the $4 flasher for most cars, this is quite a difference.
There is also a quirky setup on some Hondas where the OEM radio is part of the security system. If you replace the radio you may disable the car. Crutchfield used to sell a radio bypass kit, but I don't know exactly how it worked.
Those cars are pretty bullet proof. I would look for oil leaks and rot.
Rot is the thing that can kill you. 122K is not a lot of miles for that engine. We had several customers with over 200K on older civics and they still ran good. If the timing belt was done and the body isnt a total mess I dont think you can go wrong to be honest
I messed with these stupid things for a long time and know that year series thru and thru.
start off by turning the ignition to "on", watch the lights and make sure there is a bulb in the "Check Engine" indicator.
now drive the car and/or allow it to reach normal operating temperature. Keep an eye on that Check Engine light. The on board diagnostics on these cars (OBD1) are pretty nice because you do not need to buy a code scanner to read the trouble codes, all you need is a bobby pin or a piece of wire that you can jumper the two pin green service connector located under glove box. With the ignition on and at operating temperature placing a jumper between the two wires will cause you're "Check Engine" indicator light to blink a series of blinks that coincide with the trouble code number. A list of these codes can be found online, or a Haynes/Chilton's manual.
That is usually the first thing I look for in those cars. If the light is on, chances are it has been on for a while and is a sign of neglect. It also causes the computer to change fuel and ignition maps to a "Limp Mode" state that can kill your catalytic converter, foul your spark plugs and much more if it is ignored for too long.
You really just want to find one that has never been "Modified" in any way. If the car appears to be lowered.. run! if there is anything other than black split loom on any electrical harnesses... RUN! if there are any body kit pieces on the car or ANYTHING that appears to be aftermarket...
well you get the point.
post pictures if you want.
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// I know right,
It was owned by a friends sister, but I believe her dad was in charge of up keep. The good news is they only want $650 for it. I'm not expecting to find a jem, just a runner for a year or two.
Thanks for your input!
|Kids cars. Be aware of the age of the owner. If he is young, the car is most likely thrashed. Body damage is just one sign.
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Buying a 95 Civic things to look for??
Im going to look at a 95 2 door Civic for my girlfriend tomorrow. What are some common problems with these cars? What should I pay close attention to?
I know there is some front end damage (it was in a accident and the hood is push in a little. They claim the radiator is fine.) I'm not concerned with cosmetic damage. I also know: 122,000 miles; new timing belt and water pump at 90, 000, & new battery
I plan on looking it over for:
Engine preformance: Taps/leaks/oil/smoke
suspension /engine mounts
Exhaust holes/leaks
& over all up keep
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"Toys" jumps to top of best-sellers list
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - "Toys" jumped to the top of the Publishers Weekly best-sellers list on Thursday.
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3. "The Jungle" by Clive Cussler with Jack Du Brul (Putnam, $27.95) 2
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Suspect rams police cruiser and runs into woods during police chase
WASHINGTON COUNTY, VA - We have more facts on a police chase Friday night in Washington County, VA.
We spoke with Damascus Police Chief Bill Nunley who says officers began to chase Josh Phillips of Whitetop, who was speeding in Damascus.
Chief Nunley says Phillips rammed his vehicle into a Damascus police cruiser in an attempt to escape.
Phillips eventually crashed his car and ran into a wooded area near the Konnarock community.
K-9 units took down Phillips in the woods after about 30 minutes.
Phillips was bitten in his left arm.
Phillips is charged with felonious assault on a police officer, felony evading, and DUI.


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The Rookie: The Incredible True Story of a Man Who Never Gave Up on His Dreamby Jim Morris, Joel Engel
He Played A Boy's Game. He Lived A Man's Life. As a lonely child, Jim Morris took one thing with him wherever his family moved-his ability to hit and throw a baseball. For Jim, the passion of becoming a major-league ballplayer was his anchor and inspiration...until injuries and life got in the way. A decade after Jim walked away from the minors and began a life of fatherhood and mortgage payments, he made a promise to the hardscrabble high-school team he coached: If they could win their local championship, he would try out again for the big leagues. They did-and he did. Now, in this wondrous, heart-tugging book, Jim Morris tells the story of his remarkable life and his amazing journey to the Big Show at the age of thirty-five...and how he finally fulfilled his childhood dream.
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Chapter One
THE FIRST THING you need to understand about West Texas is that even local video stores have announcement boards out front with messages like "Keep the Christ in Christmas."
The second thing to understand is that, if Jesus Christ himself were to show up on a Friday night in the fall, he'd have to wangle a seat in the high school stadium and wait until the football game ended before declaring his arrival.
In West Texas, high school football and religion are often the strongest links between small towns lying hundreds of miles apart. As you drive down two-lane highways that cut through scrub-brush landscapes littered with deer carcasses and the cars that hit them, your car radio is likely to pull in only two stations, country and religiousand both are likely to broadcast high school football games.
That's how it's been since before my father, Jim Morris, grew up in Brownwood during the era of black-and-white television. A city of about 19,000, Brownwood is in an area of West Central Texas where much of the country's pecan crop comes from. If you're there at the right time of year, when all the pecan trees are blooming, it's something to see. But pecans didn't put Brownwood on the map. Football did.
Even for Texas, the town's devotion to its Brownwood High School Lions is extraordinary. I can't imagine the people of South Bend, for instance, showering Notre Dame heroes with more affection than Brownwood residents and merchants do their home team. They treat football players like celebrities. You're lucky to be a great athlete in Brownwood, and even luckier to be a great athlete from another town whosefather is suddenly offered a better job in Brownwood. Everyone wants to play for the Lions.
Yet my dadwho was big, strong, fast, smart, and had an arm like a rocket launcherchose not to play, turning his back on a chance to be Brownwood's maximum BMOC, the starting quarterback. Glory, at least, if not a college scholarship, could have been his. But the new coach hired by the school board before Dad's junior year, 1960, came with a reputation for discipline. And Dad was allergic to discipline. Maybe he was trying to be nothing like his father, who epitomized self-discipline. Or maybe Dad modeled himself after James Dean and that whole Hollywood motorcycle-jacket culture. Whatever the reason, Dad preferred to drink, smoke, and chase girlshe was the rebel in search of a party. There'd be time for none of that if he had to practice football five days a week, four hours a day. Many people tried, but no one could sway himnot his father, not the coach. It didn't even matter that pretty cheerleaders favored football players, because his good looks, smooth talking, and come-on smile made him popular enough with other girls. As it turned out, the new coach brought home Brownwood's first state championship trophy that first season. Grateful, the citizens of Brownwood tagged him with a nickname"God"though they whispered it.
Dad had missed playing on a championship team but felt no regret. To him, the world was filled with too many people who thought they were God. He couldn't wait to get out of Brownwood, where his mother was secretary at Central Methodist Church and his father spent his waking hours either volunteering at the church or running his menswear store the way Brownwood's coach ran his football team. College? Not for Dad, not if he couldn't major in Pabst Blue Ribbon. No, what Dad wanted after high school was adventure. To see the world, and be paid for it.
He joined the navy.
When she was younger, Olline Ketchum liked to brag about her deep Texas roots. Way back on her mother's side was Sam Bostick, who helped capture Santa Anna after the battle of San Jacinto. On the other side was Black Jack Ketchum, the notorious train robber who shouted to witnesses at his hanging, "I'll be in hell, boys, before you start breakfast." Ollie, as everyone called her, used to wink and say that she had a little of both men in her. As her son, I know she does.
At eighteen, she was lissome and blond and stood five feet ten, with striking blue eyes and flawless alabaster skin. I've seen snapshots from back then and have to believe that, if she'd lived in New York, some photographer would have spotted her sitting on a soda fountain stool and put her on magazine covers. But she'd grown up in San Saba, Texas, population two thousand something, and had graduated high school without a clue about what path to follow. So she took her mother's advice and went to Brownwood for the summer to study cosmetology, renting a room with a shared kitchen and bath from the landlady next door. To her, Brownwood was the big city and offered big-city fun. And she was on her own.
It was the summer of 1962, the summer of Telstar and Diet-Rite Cola and the Houston Astros. One hot night when she should have been studying, Ollie freshened her makeup and put on something pretty. Running out to her car, she considered which hangout to visit first, Lion's Drive-In or the Dairy Maid on Coggin Avenue. A few minutes later she pulled into the Dairy Maid parking lot.
She spotted him, standing next to his car while talking to someone, the same moment he saw her. Wearing a tight T-shirt, he was tall, with broad shoulders and powerful arms. His wavy black hair was cut in a flattop. As he walked her way, she felt her face flush.
"Hey," he said.
"Hey yourself," she said.
He smiled as he folded his arms above her car window, and Ollie knew it was going to be hard to mind her mother's one and only sex-education lesson: "Keep your dress down and your panties up."
He was in the navy, he said, and would be going back to San Diego in a couple of days. San Diego? She'd always wanted to see it. Yeah, it's a great town, he said, but he'd be shipping out on a submarinewould be gone most of a year, to who-knows-where. That sounded pretty good to her.
His name was Jim Morris, and soon they had a date for the following night.
Over the next six months, Jim and Ollie carried on a torrid romancein letters. He wrote to her in San Saba from ports far away, describing what he saw, complaining about his superiors, and telling her about his dreams. He had the same easy way with words on paper as he did in person. When he came back on Christmas leave, he drove the two hours south from Brownwood every day. And in April, his next time home, Ollie got pregnant.
She knew it in May, since she was never late. After seeing a doctor, she called Jim in San Diego.
"Oh, good," he said when she told him. "It's what I wanted."
"It is?" she asked, thinking that the last thing he would want was to be saddled with a family. It hadn't been high on her list.
They were married in early July, on a miserably hot day, at the minister's house, with only a few family members and friends as witnesses. Jim needed to be back in San Diego in five days to catch a sub for parts unknown.
Nineteen years old and seven months pregnant, Ollie rode a Continental Trailways bus to California in November. She set up a furnished apartment near the naval base and waited for Jim to come back and for the baby to be born.
I arrived in January, weighing in at ten pounds. My size may have made it tough on my mother, but it saved my life when the naval hospital took thirty-six hours to diagnose my pneumonia. Treatment required putting me in isolation for ten days and left me with weak lungs and asthma.
It was 1964, and the Beatles were one month shy of Ed Sullivan. By the time they had the top five songs that summer, we'd already left San Diego and moved up to Vallejo, in Northern California, so my father could attend nuclear sub school. When that didn't work out, we were sent elsewhere, and then elsewhere, and then elsewhere.
At seven months old I made my first cross-country journey, from California to Key West, Florida, in my parents' new gray Volkswagen Bug that they'd bought with the money earned for Dad's re-up. Shipping their belongings ahead, they'd placed me on a pallet of cotton blankets that covered the hard vinyl backseat, and expected me to lie contentedly for five days. Somewhere outside of Phoenix, I stood up for the first time. Neither of them heard me, not with the noise that came from squeezing seventy out of that little engine and the 110-degree wind whipping through the open windows. As I prepared to launch myself through the space between the bucket seats, Dad noticed me in the rearview mirror and shouted to Mom. First she grabbed me and held me on her lap, then she reached down to consult her worn copy of Dr. Spock. Apparently, I'd just skipped five months of normal development.
By late that night, we'd nearly made it to Balmorhea, Texas, as forsaken a part of America as exists. Dad exited the interstate, hoping to find some Cokes and candy bars. Nothing was open. The only light came from the single traffic signal on the town's main drag. Mom checked that I was still sleeping. When she turned forward, the car was suddenly bathed in blue light, thousands of watts' worth. They had to shield their eyes. Dad commented that they must have stumbled onto an airport runway, and he put the car in reverse, but the light continued to blanket them no matter which direction or how fast they drove. They felt terrified.
Then it was over. The next thing Mom and Dad rememberand they're both clear on thisis driving fifteen miles an hour on a pitch-black country road, thirty miles east of where they'd begun, and feeling as though they'd just awakened from a trance. Dad checked his watch. Two hours had passed. "What happened?" they asked at the same moment.
Being too young at the time, I have no idea whether this incident actually occurred. What makes it meaningful for me is not the possibility that my parents had a close encounter; it's that this was one of the few things they consistently agreed on. In their twenty-three years of marriage, they were so much more often at each other's throats than united that I enjoyed seeing them defend themselves and each other against accusations of being crazy or drinking or taking drugs every time they told family or friends what happened that night. These were about the only times I really considered them husband and wife, and I was sorry when they finally stopped telling people the story.
Our first apartment in Key West was the tiny upstairs unit of a converted house owned by an elderly lady who lived downstairs with her grown son. The clapboard building had no air conditioning, only a small oscillating fan that didn't do much. Mom, who wasn't used to the humidity that made the late summer heat so much more intense, fanned herself and missed Texas. A week after we moved in, Hurricane Hilda struck.
Before hitting Louisiana and killing dozens, Hilda terrorized the Keys. All the naval wives and children were taken to the base and safeguarded in barracks while the men put out to sea in a sub for the duration. When the crisis was over, Mom announced that she hated Key West. Dad asked her what she expected him to do about it. "The navy owns me," he said. My parents were twenty-year-old kids who'd been drawn together by sex and had to marry because of it. That's the way it was done in 1963. The moment they conceived me, they forfeited the right to take their time deciding whether to spend their lives together. With their mistake growing every day, they felt trapped as much by what they were learning about each other as by circumstances. It seemed a blessing when Dad's assignment sent him to sea for several months. As soon as he left, Mom and I drove to San Saba for a long visit with her mother.
Grandma Frances was excited to see her only child's only child, and had bought a closetful of toy tanks, cars, and gunsthe usual stuff you gave toddler boys. What Mom had forgotten to tell her is that I only played with balls. I loved balls of all kinds, big, medium, and small. Give me a ball and I would roll it, throw it (left-handed), bounce it, kick it, and catch it for hours; give me a toy dinosaur and I'd toss it aside, crying for a ball.
Mom or Grandma would take me to the playground, where I could play with other toddlers in the sand or on the jungle gym and ladders. But I preferred to chase a ball through the grass. The idea that this ball might be attached to a particular game with rules, like the ones being played elsewhere in the park, didn't compute. Nothing could have been more fun than exploring the physics of soft, round objects. That's why the older kids playing ragtag football and soccer couldn't hold my interest. They didn't seem to be having any more fun doing that with each other than my ball and I were having by ourselves.
Then one day, when the weather was warmer, a group of twelve-year-olds began playing a new game. For some reason, I stopped and watched. They stood apart from each other, wearing leather gloves. One kid threw the ball at another, who swung a stick of smooth wood and struck the ball, which then flew in the air and was either caught or run after; meanwhile, either one, two, or three kids ran in a giant square. No matter what happened, the ball remained the center of attention.
There are moments and then there are moments. Most of them pass unremembered. Some become snap-shots that form a kind of narrative. A very few stick in your brain and change your destiny. This happened to be one of those moments. With no conscious effort on my part, my brain just seemed to chisel this particular moment into something permanent.
Then Mom gave me the vocabulary to name it:
Those kids, she said, were playing baseball. I said I wanted to play, too.
By that afternoon she'd bought me a Wiffle baseball and bat. Hour after hour I insisted that she lob the ball for me to hit, or stand with the bat and let me try to sneak a fastball past her. But moms have their limits. So I learned to play by myself, throwing a rubber ball against the steps, catching it, and throwing it again. The constant thwack on concrete must have seemed like a Chinese water torture to everybody else. I assume that's why she bought me the Larry Sherry Pitchbacka large, rectangular frame attached to elastic netting that allows you to play catch with yourself. Silently.
All the activity accelerated my eye-hand-foot coordination. At a year and a half, I could do what athletic five- and six-year-olds did. If I'd had the same relative level of manual dexterity, I might have spent my days assembling models or taking apart and reassembling transistor radios. But I had no interest in anything else, not games, not models, not toy soldiers, not books, not even other kidsunless they played ball with me. And they didn't. I was too young for the kids who were good enoughthey wouldn't be caught dead playing with a little squirtand too good for the kids my own age, who could barely throw forward, let alone straight.
Dad's sub brought him back to Key West, and he was assigned shore duty. We moved into another clap-board house, this time on the bottom floor. (Good thing, too, because one day when no one was looking I managed to open the screen and fall out the window. It was the first of many accidents, and about the only one that didn't send me to the hospital. A few weeks later I swallowed a bottle of aspirin and had to be rushed there. Mom had been bleaching her hair at the time and of course didn't have time to wash the bleach out until the doctors assured her I'd be okay.) Having been gone so long, Dad was surprised by my skill level. First he watched me play, then he joined me. It wasn't a game as much as a tutoring lesson. He showed me the right way or a better way to do everything. I happily soaked it up, not yet knowing that there would always be a better way.
On the Christmas right before my third birthday, Dad called me into the front yard, where he proudly stood beside a two-and-a-half-foot-tall, green and orange battery-powered truck. "Watch this," he said, pushing the button. The truck began to roll forward, its oversized tires and powerful little motor taking it easily over every molehill and mound in its path. "Isn't that great?"
Dad's face beamed with the expectation that mine would beam too. And what boy's wouldn't have? What boy wouldn't love this truck?
Only one.
I looked at it and ran off screaming, in search of a ball. Dumbfounded, Dad stayed outside and played with the truck for a while before putting it back in its box. Poor Dad.
A few months later, Grandma Frances came for her first visit and brought me a gift. Not a toy this time, it was a junior baseball uniformcap, shirt, and pants, all of which said "Little Slugger" on themalong with a tiny glove, a soft baseball with red laces painted on, and a tiny bat.
I didn't understand the point of a uniform, since I'd never seen a real team wear one, but I put it on anyway and begged Mom to play with me. She took me outside and agreed to pitch. The first one came and I connected. The ball soared far over her head. She cheered as she ran to get it, and when she came back I insisted on pitching to her. Struck her out. Fastball.
From then on the ball, glove, and bat became parts of my anatomy. I took them everywhere, begging people to let me hit or pitch. When they got bored, and they always did, I'd toss the ball up fungo-style and whack it, then run to retrieve it and hit it back the other way. Sometimes I pitched myself small rocks or bottle capswhatever was on the ground. When darkness or weather forced me inside, I stood in the living room and practiced throwing the ball up and catching it in my mitt, over and over, hundreds of times, trying to see how close I could come to the ceiling without hitting it. In bed, I'd lie on my back and continue in the dark.
Nobody asked me, when I was three, what I wanted to be when I grew up. If someone had, I would've said I wanted to play baseball. I didn't even know you could actually get paid to do it.
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I am looking at buying a house in which part of the basement walls are covered with Particle board/Strand board. I am wondering if this is code-compliant and acceptable or if it needs to be replaced with sheet-rock. See the attached pictures, this is in the walk-out basement.
The code doesn't dictate what the wall finish/material on the inside of your home is. The only room where sheetrock is actually required is the garage (for fire resistance).
Personally, I'd want to know why they covered the walls with a cheap product like particle board. What is being concealed? Cracked foundation walls? Mold? Water infiltration? There's the possibility that they just wanted it as a shop area and needed a wallcovering that would be good for nailing into.
Another thing to check is that the electric boxes are flush mounted with the face of the particle board. If the boxes are not flush then spark rings are required. With sheetrock there is a little allowable tolerance, but with wood products there is not...Can't have any electrical exposed to that wood.
No problem using OSB for interior walls......... of a barn. You can even use it for flooring. But you will never get it to look like anything other than what it is.... u-g-l-y!
I do have full intentions on replacing it with sheetrock, but the reason I am asking about if its a code violation is with the FHA loan I will need to have the house fixed up to standards before I can move in, and if this is not a code concern or issue, then I'd like to put it off until a later date. It's the family room space down in the basement, I have no idea why someone would want to cover the walls with this stuff inside a house and yes I do agree it looks ugly. I doubt this was intended for a shop space but who knows, maybe they didnt want to tape and top the sheetrock down here for some strange reason.
I was recalling the garage had to be covered with sheetrock becuase of the 15 minute fire rating, I assumed it applied inside the house as well.
I am getting a 203k rehab loan on the house and I want to keep the loan as small as possible and fix what needs to be fixed now before I can move in, then worry about anything extraneous later after I close and have moved in. My plan would be to turn this space into a home theatre room, there is a built-in bar around the corner, its just not a wet bar .... yet!
i saw it used as a counter facing in a chinese restaurant a while back.....
you know what? when it has a nice, high gloss thick coating of polyurethane..... it's STILL ugly! lol
That is OSB, not particle board. I would never use it below grade, and definitely not touching concrete.
true... big difference between strand board and particle board.
Either way its still ugly in the basement and I really would like to replace it, but if its not a requirement to replace it before I can move in, then its probably something that will be put off for later. Just trying to keep the initial rehab costs down since it will be a loan on top of my mortgage there by increasing my monthly mortgage payments. Granted it doesn't really matter what I think needs to be done or what anyone else says needs to be done its what the appraisal says needs to be done. I already have a pretty good idea what the list will include, just trying to get some information on some of the stuff that may or may not have to be on that list. And it appears from the comments here that this particular issue can be dealt with later.
i wonder what the original owner had planned for it? mud/texture? panelling? i might consider another route if it meant tearing all that down.
maybe a faux finish would be cool?
I suspect its possible they had planned on wood paneling, but looking at the fact that there are shelves hung on the wall in this area and the drop ceiling is also installed over the OSB I suspect they fully intended to keep it like this. Which I can't think of a reason why anyone would want this on the walls in the living space of their house! Like someone else said it would be OK for like a work shop or a BARN, but this is what would be considered the "family room" in the basement of this house. There is a fireplace in the room next to this space, along with a bar that they built out of brick.
well, anything you decide to do short of using dynamite will surely be an improvement! let us know what you decide.
I've seen it mostly installed in work areas
It was sanded & stained, looked OK
Main reason was the ability to hang things up & screw in anywhere to wood
FYI, you don't need to remove it, you can just sheetrock over what is there but ad any electric before you rock.
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Trial begins for wreck that killed mother, son
The jury trial for New Mexico v. Joel Cordoba-Lopez began Monday afternoon. Cordoba-Lopez is charged with two counts of vehicular homicide, leaving the scene of a traffic accident and speeding.
During his opening statement, Assistant District Attorney Matthew Stone recounted the incident that took place on Aug. 5, 2012, around 3:54 a.m., where Cordoba-Lopez, driving a 2007 Cadillac Escalade, ran over a blue Hyundai Sonata at the intersection of Br[auth] asher Road and southeast Main Street. Mandy Miranda and son, Joe Alvarez, died as a result of the crash
Attorney for the defense, Gary C. Mitchell, said this was an accident. He told the jury that Cordoba-Lopez, of Dexter, was the primary breadwinner for his family and worked in the oil industry as a supervisor.
"That Saturday night, he came to Roswell to visit friends. He was driving north on 285 to go to Denny's for breakfast."
He argued that the accident occurred in the outside lane after the Sonata changed to the right hand lane from the left lane.
Mitchell acknowledged that the Escalade went over the top of the other vehicle and tore it up, but said Cordoba-Lopez had little time to react.
Mitchell referred to the victim as a hard-working mother who was returning home after picking up her children from the babysitter.
"The bottom line from the defense point of view is this was an accident. … Joel Cordoba-Lopez was unconscious, suspended upside down in the car. He left. It wasn't any kind of a crime."
The state's first witness, Miguel Nava, a passenger in another vehicle that was stopped at the intersection, was one the first to respond to the accident while his girlfriend called 911. Assistant District Attorney John A. Phinizy pointed out that he was a reluctant witness.
"I don't recall too good seeing the accident. The car was already ripped into," said Nava.
He said the accident was so recent that he could still smell burnt rubber from the tire. "I seen her body in the car."
Another vehicle pulled up and told Nava about the Escalade. He went to see if he could help the other driver. He confirmed Mitchell's report about Cordoba-Lopez being upside down in the overturned vehicle. The driver did not respond when Nava asked in both English and Spanish if he needed him. He described the emotional state of Mariah, the little girl who survived the crash.
During cross examination, Mitchell asked about Cordoba-Lopez's condition. Nava said: "I thought he was dead." Mitchell also inquired if Nava had seen the lights of the car or any use of the turn signals. Nava replied "no" to both questions.
The state then called Officer G. Juarez, a first responder from the Roswell Police Department. Stone had Juarez describe his route to the scene. Juarez said he arrived from the north, saw the Escalade overturned, but turned his attention to the sole survivor of the crash. "She was hysterical and screaming."
Juarez testified that he waited with the child until emergency medical services arrived and took her to the hospital and then assisted with the search for Cordoba-Lopez, who had disappeared from the scene.
Night patrol supervisor Sgt. Rusty Brisco took the stand. He stated that his attention was first drawn to the child. He checked the Sonata.
"The side of the car was missing. Her arm was hanging from the car. I checked for a pulse."
Brisco reported to the court that he then moved around to see if he could find a pulse from the neck. "The windshield was hanging down on the passenger side."
He said he pulled the windshield away and then noticed the small hand of child on the floor board. The license plate was missing from the vehicle, so he had to get insurance information from the car to trace family members for notification.
Later, Brisco supervised the search for Cordoba-Lopez, dispatching some nine officers and at least two sheriff's deputies to the fields adjacent to the intersection before going to check on the little girl.
The final state witness for the day was Tyson Sanders, New Mexico Game and Fish conservation officer. He said he volunteered his services after he heard that there was a traffic accident and RPD was looking for the suspect. "I have experience tracking and locating people."
Sanders explained to the court that he picked up a blood trail in the field west of the accident. "It led straight toward the cemetery. It went across the road at the entrance and veered west … across a chain link fence and across south Main."
He noted that he lost the trail around Gayle and Lea and estimated that Cordoba-Lopez had traveled about a mile from the point of impact.
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NHL cancels first 2 weeks of regular season
It came as no surprise, but the news still shook hockey circles Thursday: The NHL canceled the first two weeks of the regular season due to the player lockout.
"Right now," Penguins defenseman Matt Niskanen said, "this whole thing just stinks. It totally stinks."
The decision marked the third time regular-season games have been lost on commissioner Gary Bettman's watch. The 1994-95 season did not start until January because of a lockout, and the 2004-05 season was lost because of another lockout that resulted in a convincing victory for the league.
Players have been locked out since Sept. 15.
The season was scheduled to begin Oct. 11, and the Penguins were set to open at Consol Energy Center on Oct. 12 against the New York Islanders. With the cancellation of two weeks — through Oct. 24 — 82 games are postponed, including six Penguins contests. It was unclear whether the games would be rescheduled.
"We remain committed to doing everything in our power to forge an agreement that is fair to the players, fair to the teams, and good for our fans," deputy commissioner Bill Daly said in a statement. "This is not about 'winning' or 'losing' a negotiation. This is about finding a solution that preserves the long-term health and stability of the league and the game. We are committed to getting this done."
The Penguins announced that full refunds for canceled games would be given to season-ticket holders who request one in writing. They also said they still have no plans to lay off employees.
"The decision to cancel the first two weeks of the NHL season is the unilateral choice of the NHL owners," NHL Players' Association executive director Donald Fehr said. "If the owners truly cared about the game and the fans, they would lift the lockout and allow the season to begin on time while negotiations continue. A lockout should be the last resort in bargaining, not the strategy of first resort."
The NHL and NHLPA have talked four days during the lockout's almost three weeks. Only minor issues were discussed during recent meetings, as neither side has been willing to consider the other's proposal.
The biggest divide remains how to distribute revenue.
Players said they aren't interested in losing a second season in eight years.
"We all want to get out there and play," Penguins defenseman Ben Lovejoy said.
No meetings are scheduled between the league and union. There is optimism on each side that an 82-game schedule could still take place should a deal be struck shortly. But games do not appear to be imminent.
"We want to talk. We want to get this done," said right wing Craig Adams, the Penguins' player representative.
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