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Enfield man killed in hit-and-run in Vermont
December 09. 2013 8:27AM
KILLINGTON, Vt. — An Enfield, N.H., man is dead and a local man is being held on $25,000 bail accused of leaving the scene of an accident Sunday morning resulting in a death.
Kyle Wilson, 26, of Enfield, died Sunday morning when he was struck by a car at Mountainview and Killington roads. He was walking to the home of some friends when the accident took place.
According to Vermont State Police, Wilson's friends said he called them about 1 a.m. saying he was walking to their home. He never made it and his friends went out to look for him.
They came across his body, according to police.
Investigators later arrested Michael DeBellis, 27, of Killington. Investigators said his car had heavy front-end and passenger-side damage.
DeBellis is charged with felony counts of careless and negligent operation, and leaving the scene of an accident, death resulting.
He is being detained at Marble Valley Regional Correctional Facility pending arraignment Monday in Rutland Criminal Court.
The investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information concerning it is asked to call Vermont State Police, Rutland Station, at 802-773-9101.

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Over at AtlasShrugs I discuss the new effort to portray jihad as schoolgirls skipping rope, and to package the purveyors of and apologists for the most hateful and murderous ideology active in the world today as lovable lugs who root for the Lakers and giggly girls who can't help indulging their sweet tooth:
Pamela Geller has described the new #MyJihad ad campaign
from by the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as an
"insult to our intelligence," and that it certainly is. In one of the CAIR ads,
a hijabbed woman lifts a barbell while explaining, "My Jihad is to stay fit
despite my busy schedule."
The whole endeavor is reminiscent
of Alexander DubÄek's "Socialism with a human
face." In Communist Czechoslavakia in 1968, DubÄek limited the
power of the secret police and relaxed restrictions on speech; but when the
Czechs got too much of a taste for freedom, the Soviet tanks rolled in to
remind them of just how human the face of socialism really was.
now Hamas-linked CAIR is trying to paint a human face on the Islamic doctrine
that has caused untold suffering for human beings worldwide for fourteen
centuries, and continues to do so today. The leading Islamic supremacist
advocacy group in the U.S., treated as a reputable authority by the mainstream
media, as well as politicians and law enforcement officials around the country,
is trying to manipulate Americans into thinking that because some Muslims think
of jihad in benign, peaceful ways, therefore the ones who think of it in its traditional Islamic sense, as a divine command to wage war against and
subjugate unbelievers, somehow don't matter and are unworthy of attention.
just as sure as the tanks rolled into Prague, no matter how many Muslims think
that jihad involves patting puppies on the head and giving dollar bills to
noble, grateful homeless people, sooner or later the bombs go off and the heads
roll anyway. It's like trying to convince people that because Lyndon Johnson
declared a war on poverty and legions of earnest high school counselors have
waged war on drugs, that therefore it's "bigoted" to point out that the word war usually involves shooting and
killing people.
is indeed an insult to our intelligence — and it is part of a larger
initiative. Pro-Hamas Islamic supremacists such as Zahra Billoo of CAIR and
Linda Sarsour of the Arab American Association of New York tweet about their
love of chocolate and children and their pious good wishes for the people of
Newtown, Connecticut, while simultaneously expressing their support for the
genocidal Palestinian jihad against Israel, even to the point of retailing fabrications of the Palestinian propaganda machine. Qasim Rashid, an Ahmadi
apologist for the Islamic jihadis who are massacring his own people in Pakistan
and Indonesia, likewise made a great show of his grief over the Newtown
massacre, but couldn't resist using it to retail Palestinian jihad propaganda,
tweeting: "As u pray for the #Newtown children, pray for Palestinian children dying of poverty."
Billoo and Linda Sarsour crave chocolate! How bad could they be? Plenty bad:
Billoo has advised
Muslims to shun law enforcement and called U.S. troops "terrorists."
Sarsour has claimed that the jihad underwear bomber was a CIA
agent — part of what she claims is a U.S. war against Islam. They are part
of the Islamic supremacist establishment that is attempting to lull Americans
into complacency about the nature and source of the jihad threat, and their
just-us-girls tweets about chocolate and cute kids are all part of that, after
the manner of the See How Hitler Loves
His Dogs photo spreads that Nazi authorities published long ago to humanize
der Führer. It's a sweet jihad, a chummy jihad, a chocolatey jihad — but a
jihad just the same.
One clue to this phenomenon comes from jazz musician Tarek
Shah, who pled
guilty to providing martial arts and hand-to-hand combat with weapons
training to Al-Qaeda operatives. In 2004 Shah told a man he thought
was a fellow jihadist but who turned out to be an undercover agent, "I could be
joking and smiling and then cutting their throats in the next second."
Of course, Zahra Billoo and Linda Sarsour will never slit
our throats. They will just kill us with kindness, insistently and self-consciously
trying to show the world that they"re cute and cuddly just like the girl next
door while fronting for an inhuman, oppressive ideology that, not
coincidentally, has one of the most sophisticated propaganda machines ever seen
on the planet.
Today"s jihad terrorists are adherents of a totalitarian,
genocidal ideology that teaches them that murders committed under certain
circumstances are a good thing. Those murders are committed for the sake of a
societal vision that portrays itself as the exponent of all that is good, even
while committing unimaginable atrocities to secure and retain power. But it is
not good, and anyone who still retains even rudimentary clarity of vision in
this increasingly befogged age can see that.
That's where Hamas-linked CAIR"s #MyJihad campaign and the sweet-tooth
tweets of Zahra Billoo and Linda Sarsour come in: to lull those few who may
still be awake into thinking that it won't be so bad to accept the special accommodations for Muslims upon which CAIR insists, and the continued enabling
of Islamic supremacism in U.S. foreign policy. After all, there will still be
time to stay fit on a busy schedule, and the need to do so after indulging one's
chocolate craving. Coming from two hijabbed Muslim women, enslaved to the will
of men and subject to their every whim, this is abundantly reassuring — isn't
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written especially for children. And fairies.
Yes, Virginia, there are fairies. Already this spring, I've seen them at Oatland Island and Tybee.
At the bird banding last month at the Savannah Wildlife Refuge, the ranger laid the littlest bird into the hand of the littlest boy.
The ruby-crowned kinglet rested in Malik Muhammad's hand for a minute before it flew away.
Afterward, Malik said it felt like when the tooth fairy alit on his cheek one night to make sure he was asleep before leaving a quarter under his pillow.
She was light as a feather and smelled like the roses his Mom got on Mother's Day. He asked if they ever caught fairies in the mist nets they used to catch the birds.
One volunteer said they had never caught a fairy. But one time they saw three fairies helping a hummingbird get untangled from a net.
I saw lots of fairies at the Oatland Island Fairy and Gnome Festival two weeks ago. That was a very happy event, and fairies like to be around happy children.
Click here to view photos of the Oatland Island Fairy Festival
I saw two fairies, one dressed in pink and one dressed in lavender, floating on the soap bubbles that were blowing all over.
And another fairy that kept coming to sit on the flower crowns some girls had on their heads.
We have seen a few fairies at home, too, in an oak tree just getting its soft, green leaves. They have been flitting around just the outside edges of the tree. They are playful, like otters. I think they like those young oak leaves because they are the same size and shape as their wings and are a good place to play hide-and-seek.
Fairies do not mind all the pollen around. They have fun making pollen balls, just like people enjoy making snowballs.
Sometimes in the morning, you can see where they have made drawings in the pollen on the hood of your car. They make little stars or circles or cloud shapes. Parents can usually see these first because they are taller than children.
Fairies like quiet, peaceful places. A nun here on Tybee has seen them playing in the weeping willow trees next to the pond in her neighborhood. Sliding down the long leaves as they wave in the wind.
One neighbor has seen them chasing fluffy dandelion balls and hiding in the white clover in her yard.
In England, they are often seen holding on to dragonflies, especially ones with blue tails. Princess Diana thought that fairies liked dragonflies because their wings were so much alike.
When it warms up, you can probably see some fairies at the Savannah-Ogeechee Canal because of the lightning bugs there after dark. Fireflies are like Chinese lanterns for fairy tea parties.
At night, sometimes you can see their silhouettes pass in front of the full moon, before it is too high in the sky. They love the moonlight. We have seen them fly across the water in our birdbath, just touching with their feet to leave a little trace. They like the ripple that shows in the moonlight and seeing their reflections in the water.
A nurse at Memorial University Medical Center sometimes sees them at night, hovering around the heads of sleeping newborn babies. They like to feel the curls in the babies' hair. And since they shine a little, in the dark room she can see small halos around the babies' heads.
From all reports, it's going to be a good year for fairies. The trick to seeing them is to be quiet and look carefully. Look for them in the edges of trees that have soft leaves.
They don't like traffic or paved streets. They do like parks and gardens and places where children are playing or having picnics.
They like watching and flying through the rainbows you can make spraying water with a garden hose in the sunshine.
One little girl at Oatland said she saw fairies all the time.
"My Granny taught me how. You have to be friendly and look with your heart."
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Shakira's man ban in music videos
Shakira has admitted her boyfriend has banned her from making raunchy music videos with men - so she had to bring Rihanna in instead.
The Hips Don't Lie singer told Billboard that her boyfriend Gerard Pique was uncomfortable seeing her writhing around on screen with other men, which was why she got up close with Rihanna in her video for I Can't Remember To Forget You.
She said: "He's very territorial, and since he no longer lets me do videos with men, well, I have to do them with women.
"It's more than implied in our relationship that I can't do videos like I used to. It's out of the question - which I like, by the way.
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Myotis austroriparius
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Myotis austroriparius (Rhoads, 1897)
Common Name(s):
|Taxonomic Notes:
|Woodman (1993) notes that many mammalian generic names ending in -otis use the wrong gender for specific names. If this advice is to be followed, the species name should be M. austroriparia. The Chiroptera SG advise keeping the names as they are for now while a decision is still to be made on these.
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Least Concern ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Arroyo-Cabrales, J. & Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T.
|Solari, S.
This species is listed as Least Concern in because of its wide distribution, presumed large population, occurrence in a number of protected areas, and because it is unlikely to be declining at nearly the rate required to qualify for listing in a threatened category.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|The geographic range of this species includes the southeastern United States, west to southeastern Oklahoma and eastern Texas (Mirowsky et al. 2004, Schmidly 2004), north in the Mississippi River drainage through Arkansas, Mississippi, western Tennessee, southeastern Missouri, and western Kentucky to southern Illinois (Hofmann et al. 1999) and southern Indiana, and east to southeastern Virginia (Hobson 1998), southern North Carolina, South Carolina (Menzel et al. 2003), Georgia, and Florida (Jones and Mamming 1989). Summer and winter ranges are the same. Although widespread in southeast, the vast majority of the known population is concentrated in northern Florida, and the species is rare and local outside the Gulf coastal plain.
|Countries occurrence:
Native:United States
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|Considering the total number of maternity roosts, hibernacula, and other occupied roosts and habitat, there are certainly more than 100 occurrences or subpopulations (Gore and Hovis 1992, Horner and Mirowsky 1996, Clark pers. comm.). Total adult population size is unknown but is at least in the 100,000s. This species is still abundant in some places. Florida has at least 18 current or former maternity caves which, in past years, potentially contained 400,000 adult females, a 1991 survey found only eight maternity caves with a total of less than 200,000 adult females (Gore and Hovis 1992). The number of individuals estimated from known tree roosts and man-made structures is much smaller (less than 500, Clark pers. comm., Gore pers. comm.), but it is difficult to locate such roosts, and undoubtedly there are more.
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|The number of occurrences or subpopulations with good or excellent estimated viability may be fewer than 30 (more than 50 percent of these are in Florida). Recent surveys (e.g., Hofmann et al. 1999, Mirowsky et al. 2004) suggest that the number of small maternity colonies may be quite large, but these are of uncertain viability. Only two large (more than 100 bats) winter colonies have been reported in recent years, but there are several small colonies throughout the species range. In Florida, large numbers form maternity colonies in caves; the species has been reported a few times in buildings. Maternity colonies also have been found in a small number of caves in Georgia and Alabama. In the rest of the deep south, these bats generally use buildings and other structures, mines, and hollow trees (e.g., water tupelo, black gum, water hickory, bald cypress) for spring and summer roosts. In Louisiana, a hollow water tupelo (Nyssa aquatica) studied in late summer and early fall contained about 50 individuals (Gooding and Langford 2004). By winter in this region they roost in small groups in outdoor sites, often over water, such as bridges, culverts, storm sewers, and boat houses, as well as in hollow trees (Barbour and Davis 1969). In Florida (and perhaps elsewhere) these bats also roost in caves in winter; apparently they may use different caves for summer and winter roosts (Gore and Havis 1992). In the north, the pattern of cave use is different. Kentucky populations winter in caves (often with Myotis sodalis) but are rare in most caves in the summer, when most roost in large hollow trees. The few old records from Indiana also were mostly from caves in winter. Summer roost sites are poorly known from this part of their range. At least one cave in Indiana had bats every month except May, June, and July (Mumford and Whitaker 1982). Only a few maternity colonies have been reported in this region: one was in the Kentucky cave already mentioned; additional maternity colonies exist in southern Illinois, where one was in a hollow-based water tupelo (Nyssa aquatica) (Hofmann et al. 1999). The key characteristics for maternity sites are high humidity and constant warm temperatures. Foraging habitat is riparian floodplain forests or wooded wetlands with permanent open water nearby (Gardner et al. 1992). These bats may forage primarily over lakes, ponds, or slow-moving streams.
|Major Threat(s):
Florida populations declined by about 50% from some 400,000 adult females in the 1950s (Rice 1957) to less than 200,000 females in 1991 (Gore and Hovis 1992). Not only did numbers of bats decline, but number of caves used as maternity roosts also declined by nearly 50% (from 15 to 18) in Florida over the same period. There is no indication that the population has stabilized. Some caves occupied in the early 1980s are no longer occupied (Gore and Hovis 1992). However, Brown (1997) reported that this species is adaptable and seems to be holding its own in the southeastern United States.
While the Florida population was thriving in the 1960s, Barbour and Davis (1969) reported that the Ohio River Valley population was steadily declining and apparently nearing extirpation. Current data from this northern range indicates that populations are still present in low numbers, although their status remains largely unknown. Indiana populations had declined considerably by 1980 (Mumford and Whitaker 1982), although populations were always small. Recent extensive searches in Illinois indicated that the population has become more restricted than in the past; only one hibernating colony was located, compared to nine previously known hibernating sites, and the bats were only found in four counties compared to six in the past. Georgia has 12 older records (before 1970), and only one record since 1970, but this change could be due to lack of searching. Recent field studies in coastal North Carolina, South Carolina, and eastern Texas have located populations of this species, but there are no baseline data with which to compare trends. Declines likely have resulted from various factors, especially human disturbance and physical alteration of caves used as hibernacula and maternity sites (Gore and Hovis 1992). Excessive human visitation may awaken bats and cause them to use up fat reserves. In maternity colonies, disturbance may cause females to abandon their young. Heavy collecting or banding may cause a population to vacate a site. Attempts to collect, even in winter, usually result in bats vacating at least temporarily (Mumford and Whitaker 1982). In addition, some caves have been made unavailable or degraded by the closing off of their entrances, installation of bat-impermeable barriers, forest removal around entrances, or by flooding by reservoirs. Loss of upland roosts increases vulnerability to mortality from sudden flooding. One cave formerly used by 11,000 individuals was turned into a public dump and virtually abandoned by bats. Clearing and draining of bottonland hardwood forest wetlands likely have reduced available habitat for summer roosting and foraging. The indirect effects of pesticide use are unknown.
|Conservation Actions:
|There are several protected occurrences in Florida; also Bat Cave in Kentucky. Several caves in Jackson County, Florida, are protected due to use by endangered M. grisescens. The species is afforded nominal protection via Florida's Cave Protection Act. Bat Conservation International, TNC, and the state of Florida were instrumental in protecting Judge's Cave; a few other maternity caves on private land in Florida have various levels of protection (Gore and Hovis 1992). South Carolina has used posting and controlled access to roost sites to protect this species (Bunch pers. comm.). One occurrence in Indiana is in a state park and is protected. In Texas, two maternity roosts are in state parks and one is in a national wildlife refuge, and populations are known to exist in other state parks and wildlife management areas, national forests, Big Thicket National Preserve, and Nature Conservancy lands. Determine status and trend in South Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, and Tennessee. Protect roosting sites of all large (> 100) colonies, both breeding and wintering. Protect frequently used foraging habitat in their natural forested state. Obtain more information about summer and winter roosting requirements. Determine viability and importance of small maternity colonies. Develop techniques for monitoring with minimum disturbance. Determine effects of disturbance on survival and reproductive success. Determine dispersal distances and roosting sites for bats when away from the large cave colony sites. Determine importance of hollow trees and other non-cave sites as maternity roosts.
|Arroyo-Cabrales, J. & Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T. 2017. Myotis austroriparius. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T14147A22059907. . Downloaded on 16 October 2018.
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This is mostly aimed at Marcus C., and/or any other involved party on the Dreamcast port.
I was wondering why the DC port still used the rather antiquated Libronin, as opposed to something like KOS, which is still seeing updates and programming usage?
I also have a question about a post by another member here who mentioned that the version of Libronin used might be outdated (V0.6). Would updating to the latest version have any consequences speed wise?
Is CDDA not capable of being supported, as I noticed, from personal experience and other's posts, that the SegaCD version of Monkey Island has no BGM while playing?
And finally, would using the Dreamcasts AICA through say, ADPCM, give any speed performance increases? Or, would it reduce soundtrack stutter on some games as opposed to using MP3 or OGG?
Marcus is one of the libronin authors. I strongly doubt that he is using an outdated version, too . As for KOS: Last time i checked, their website hadn't been updated since 2004. You mean they are still active anyway?
Hi Stryfe.
No, ScummVM on the Dreamcast would not be more wonderful if was using KOS instead. The hardware is still the same.
CDDA is supported by the port, but there are two things to consider:
1) The engine might not support CDDA for some version
of a game that uses it with the original player (I don't
know if this is the case with SegaCD MI)
2) If the engine accesses a file from the filesystem, CDDA
playback will be stopped. The access pattern of the ScummVM
engine may differ from that of the original player, so that
can cause incorrect playback in some cases.
And no, having the CPU recompress the sound using ADPCM would make it slower, not faster.
Ok, thanks. Thought it'd be worth the shot, and I asked.
Not a programmer myself, so thanks for the response.
BTW - Thanks for all the hard work you've put into the app.
Yeah, I too would like to thank you for your work!
quote: Originally posted by mcAnd no, having the CPU recompress the sound using ADPCM would make it slower, not faster.
I think that Stryfe was referring to a dedicated ADPCM sound format to use instead of MP3 or OGG files.
- Btw, I did a little bit of reading on ADPCM and I noticed that the Super Nintendo used ADPCM too. It might be worth a shot to try to get the Dreamcast to decode the ADPCM.
quote: Originally posted by mcAnd no, having the CPU recompress the sound using ADPCM would make it slower, not faster.


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Royals win 3-0 over Oakland Wednesday night
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Jason Vargas tossed a three-hitter for his sixth career shutout, Omar Infante hit a two-run homer and the Kansas City Royals beat the Oakland Athletics 3-0 on Wednesday night.
Vargas (9-5) retired the final 23 batters he faced in only his third start since an emergency appendectomy. The left-hander also helped Kansas City bounce back from having an eight-game winning streak snapped and maintain a half-game lead over Detroit in the AL Central.
Salvador Perez drove in the Royals' other run off Scott Kazmir (13-5), who lost to Kansas City for the second time in 10 days. He has won just once in 10 starts at Kauffman Stadium.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — It began with his brief mention last fall of "troubling lapses" in the nuclear force. Weeks later Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel turned up the heat a notch by paying a rare visit to a nuclear missile base. And on Thursday he dropped his bombshell: a demand for quick answers to what ails this most sensitive of military missions.
"Personnel failures within this force threaten to jeopardize the trust the American people have placed in us to keep our nuclear weapons safe and secure," Hagel wrote in unusually pointed language to a dozen top officials.
Hagel ordered immediate actions to define the depth of trouble inside the nuclear force, particularly the Air Force's intercontinental ballistic missile force, which has been rocked by disclosures about security lapses, poor discipline, weak morale and other problems that raise questions about nuclear security.
It amounted to the most significant expression of high-level Pentagon concern about the nuclear force since 2008, when then-Defense Secretary Robert Gates fired the top uniformed and civilian officials in the Air Force following a series of mistakes that included a cross-country flight by a B-52 bomber that mistakenly had been armed with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles.
The U.S. is reducing the size, and seeking to limit the role, of its nuclear arsenal, but it remains a central feature of national security policy. The weapons are an enormous responsibility for the military, not just to operate them properly but also to ensure they are safe and secure. Critics question whether it is worth the cost.
Hagel had said recently he was considering what may lie behind problems in the nuclear Air Force — many revealed by The Associated Press — but his chief spokesman said Thursday that the defense secretary concluded urgent remedies were needed.
"To the degree there are systemic problems in the training and professional standards of the nuclear career field, the secretary wants them solved," the spokesman, Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby, said. "To the degree there are gaps in our understanding or implementation of those standards, he wants them closed. And to the degree leaders have failed in their duties, he wants them held to account."
Hagel summoned top military officials to a Pentagon conference, to be held within two weeks, to "raise and address" any personnel problems infesting the nuclear force, and he ordered an "action plan" be written within 60 days to explore nuclear force personnel issues, identify remedies and put those fixes into place quickly. Hagel said he and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, will host the nuclear summit.
The Pentagon chief also said he would assemble a small group of outsiders with expertise in the nuclear field to conduct a broader review of the U.S. nuclear force, with a focus on personnel issues, and to recommend changes "that would help ensure the continued safety, security and effectiveness of our nuclear forces."
Since May, the AP has reported that nuclear missile force officers, from the commanding officer on down, had engaged in numerous misbehaviors or lapses. Some of those included failing security tests, violating security rules like leaving the blast door open to their bunker while one of two officers napped, morale so low an officer complained of "rot" in his force and a report citing high levels of burnout.
Personnel issues are important because ICBMs are kept on alert every hour of every day, and the potential for human error is ever-present. Some argue that the men and women who hold the keys to the nuclear missiles have lost some of their focus on the mission, while others say their commanders are more to blame.
Air Force leaders insist the trouble is episodic, correctible and not cause for public worry. They note that the military has a well-established set of inspections and other means of ensuring the safety of its nuclear weapons.
Not at issue, at least in the short term, is the Obama administration's commitment to keeping the bulk of the current nuclear force, which comprises ballistic missile submarines, nuclear-capable bombers and the Air Force's fleet of 450 Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missiles based in silos in five states. Hagel recently reiterated his support for the nuclear force and said he was not questioning its safety.
Hagel directed his concern mainly at the Air Force and its Minuteman 3 missiles, which have been the source of many of the problems the AP reported.
And just last week, in a disclosure that apparently startled Hagel, the Air Force said a drug investigation that began at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Mont., which operates one-third of the ICBM force, led to a separate investigation of alleged cheating on proficiency tests by 34 officers who operate the missiles there.
Those 34 officers had their security clearances suspended in a scandal that the commander at Malmstrom, Col. Robert W. Stanley II, told the AP in an interview last Friday had left his force "brokenhearted."
Last month an Air Force investigation revealed that Maj. Gen. Michael Carey, who was commander of the nuclear missile force, had engaged in embarrassing behavior last summer while leading a U.S. government delegation to a nuclear security exercise in Russia, including heavy drinking and cavorting with suspicious women.
Carey was fired in October, just days after another senior nuclear officer, Navy Vice Adm. Tim Giardina, was relieved of command at U.S. Strategic Command amid allegations linked to counterfeit gambling chips.
Kirby said no single event had prompted Hagel to take action. Rather, Hagel had taken notice of a string of news reports about problems in the ICBM force, including AP reporting, that "made an impact on his thinking," Kirby said.
With an eye toward avoiding further surprises, Hagel's planned Pentagon summit meeting with top officers, as well as other actions announced Thursday, include participation by Navy officials responsible for their portion of the nuclear arsenal. The Navy has not suffered any recent reported lapses or failures within its nuclear submarine force, but Kirby said Hagel believed it would be imprudent for him not to examine the entirety of the arsenal.
"What the secretary wants to know," Kirby said, "is what else don't I know" about problems inside the force.
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I can easily change the oil in the Wrangler, '02, and X3 without raising them an inch. On the ti I raise up the right side with my floor jack and stick a piece of 4X4 under the RF wheel. That gives me enough room to get under the car and pull the drain plug. I then lower it and let the oil drain- repeating the procedure to refit the plug.
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My 1993 Taurus went 325000 miles before I gave it up. It drove to the scrap yard, and the kid there took one look at it and bought it for himself.
My 2000 Intrepid has 175000 miles now. I just spent(happily) $1200 on needed repairs this Summer. The old girl still gets 30 mpg every day I drive her. A great comfortable commuter.
I have done absolutely no repairs to my 2007 Focus. 130000 miles. Just tires, brakes and oil changes.
Would I buy another domestic sedan?
Why not?"
I don't think anyone would consider what you've experienced anything less than a personal success story. In your case, I'd be asking the very same question..."Why not?"
But, there are a few caveats to consider.
As an example, Volvo has created a "high mileage club" for owners of Volvos that have attained mileage amounts comparable or in excess to what you have done. However, I doubt the average Volvo owner would reasonably expect 250K trouble-free miles, even with the appropriate maintenance performed.
IMO, you attained your mileage levels because of the way you treated your vehicles, rather than getting it because of the way your vehicles treated you.
As a side note, my BIL just crossed the 275K mile mark in his 2000 Buick. If you asked him, he'd tell you the car has been a trouble-free car, but he has a tendency to forget the number of times he's been stranded on the side of the road, waiting for a tow truck. The last time he visited us, the car had 2" of water in the floorboard, due to a non-draining A/C evaporator. To him, that wasn't anything to be concerned about. He borrowed my drill and punched a few holes in the floorboard. He was in a work car pool until the other 3 riders kicked him out, due to the lack of reliability of his chosen vehicle.
I'm not suggesting you're anything like him, or that your experience is anything other than exactly what you described. Still, excessively high mileage figures on any make are usually far more anecdotal than an expected reality for most owners.
The point is that, given the proper maintenance, just about any modern car can run unlimited mileage. Overall, the thing that once spelled doom for an automobile (rust) is nowhere near the issue it once was, and the mechanicals can be maintained indefinitely. I suspect the new "killer" of modern autos is going to be the electronics, or rather the long-term availability of replacement electronic parts...0
Yep, I also believe for proper oil drainage the car must be perfectly flat, if not level. :-) I think I'd trust my Chinese floor jacks more than a 4x4 though.
My CJ-5 was easy too. I even pulled the gas tank one time by just crawling under.0
I cannot imagine owning a vehicle with 200k miles or more. I made the mistake of buying a 1999 Ford Ranger V6 FFV with 106k miles on it. Seemed ok driving around the block. We live in the hills and that was a totally gutless pig. At 114k the engine gave up and I traded it on a used Nissan Frontier which is 10 times the truck that Ranger was. No better mileage. Both were lucky to get 17 MPG. Just NO Substitute for a diesel engine.0
This guy proved high mileage can be done...
Although, if he really did have all the maintenance done, especially by a 3rd party, there's no telling how many new Volvos he could have driven for the same $$$...0
Those are one of the few Volvos that had any real style. Keeping a classic like that up and running is commendable. I have been driving 54 years and don't think I am even close to a million miles. That is way too much driving for me to think about. That would be 150+ miles per day every day for 54 years. No thanks.0
Every car in the RB garage has over 100k on the clock except for my wife's car. We drove the 2004 X3 to church today; at 156k it is still tight and rattle-free. The last used oil analysis indicated that the engine was in excellent condition, so I'm confident that it will serve us well for several more years.
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gagrice said: "I cannot imagine owning a vehicle with 200k miles or more."
It is kind of a problem when you have a great Japanese brand such as Honda or Nissan. When you get near or over 200K and everything is fine and you like your car, you look for excuses to get rid of it and buy a new car. Probably boredom and looking for something different.
We finally got rid of a 247K Honda, a 195K Honda, and a 191K Nissan when we got bored and wanted something more current in style, features, etc. and ended up with what? Another Japanese brand. Maybe American brands will be tempt us what with Cadillac and Chevrolet having some interesting offerings. Question remains about reliability.0
steine13 Posts: 2,642>> Yep, I'd just as soon not fool with jacks or jack stands.
Amen to that!
I changed the oil today on our minivan and used ramps and was thinking, I'll not do the jackstand thing again if I can help it. Somehow when I was in my 20s it didn't bother me, but I *hate* getting under a car. Ramps I trust. Especially the steel kind...
Must be getting old.
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It is kind of a problem when you have a great Japanese brand such as Honda or Nissan. When you get near or over 200K and everything is fine and you like your car, you look for excuses to get rid of it and buy a new car. Probably boredom and looking for something different.
Or you have a Japanese vehicle that was out dated technology wise when you bought it new. Our 07 Sequoia has a lot of good characteristics, such as comfort, roominess, reliability. What it has always lacked is handling, fuel economy and decent electronics. It was my first experience with a NAV. I expected it to be at least close to up to date. When I realized freeways that were at least 3 years old that did not exist. I looked at the DVD that has all the maps. It has a 2005 copyright. Hmmm I have a 2007 top of the line limited Toyota with a 3 year old map DVD. When I mentioned to the service guy he was like whatever. Should be a new one soon. Well soon came in 2009 when they had an updated DVD that they offered me for $500. By then I was using a handheld that was better and cost under $200. The Nav also went dead in 2009 and took months for Toyota to get a new one from India. As a purely people hauler heavy duty vehicle it is fine. I am glad to be rid of it. More than likely my last Japanese vehicle.
If I am ready to update my PU within the next few years I will look at the Ram diesel. Maybe some other domestic diesels will be available.
I really do not see the attraction to Honda. Having rented a 2010 Accord for two weeks and ridden in a friends CRV, they are not anything I would consider buying.0
I'd have no problem OWNING a car with over 200K on it, I'd just have a problem giving you more than $500 for it.0
I changed the oil today on our minivan and used ramps and was thinking, I'll not do the jackstand thing again if I can help it. Somehow when I was in my 20s it didn't bother me, but I *hate* getting under a car. Ramps I trust. Especially the steel kind...
I seem to be missing something here. What's the problem with jack stands? Floor jacks, yes, absolutely, I understand not wanting to get under a car / truck supported only by a floor jack. But I've never seen nor heard of a jack stand collapsing.0
are deadly. I put my faith in a good set of jack stands, properly installed on a solid level surface. Jacking a car up and putting blocks under the tires is another safer alternative. I do this when I really have to get it high up.
One day I am going to splurge on a small garage lift. There are several inexpensive models available. I just need to do something with the low roof.0
I traded a couple posts with you on the Intrepid forum. It has since degenerated into a complaint board where people who bought a old used car complain about it. Very few original owners left.0
Buying a car, and driving it well past the last payment provides the most cost effective ownership experience. I maintain my vehicles, and I try to be proactive with repairs. Any vehicle regardless of age or mileage can break down- just go to any new car dealership and watch what comes into the service dept. I commute 100+ miles a day, so reliability is critical to me. Tires and brakes etc are consumables regardless whether your car is three or thirteen years old. This summer I put an alternator, a/c compressor, front struts, tie rods, sway bar bushings-front and back, and an exhaust on my 14 yr old car. Plus a couple small items. The total was less than 4 months new car payment.....a reasonable risk. The biggest chunk I have spent at any one time as well.
Rust is still the big killer of autos where I live-the salt used in winter rots everything. The old Dodge is starting to go underneath and at a couple other spots-I will keep an eye out, and retire her when it comes time.
Two more years please???
PS to keep on topic(kinda)-parts for "American Cars" are cheap and readily available. A friend of mine recently bought an "Un-american car" for his wife.....Range Rover (used). Enuff said........0
certainly means less today than ever. Cars are produced globally out of globally sourced parts. There is less difference today than ever wrt build quality, parts quality etc than ever before. I would happily buy a "domestic" car or an "import". It all depends on the particular car, price etc..0
I have tried over the last 40 years to buy vehicles built in USA. Most of the domestic trucks were built in Canada or Mexico. The only one a 2005 GMC Sierra Hybrid was USA built and not as well assembled as the foreign assembled ones. 2007 I bought a Sequoia that was 60% US made and better built than the GMC. The 2008 Nissan Frontier 55% US made also much better than the Ford Ranger it replaced. This time I was determined to get a diesel SUV and ended up with one totally made from foreign parts. I will keep everyone posted on how well it does.
For 2014 the top selling GM vehicles the Sierra and Silverado are down to 40% US content and 51% Mexican. With final assembly both US & M. Our tax dollars at work in Mexico. The 2013 Sierra and Silverado were both 67% US and 29% Mexican made.0
Did you do a lot of that work yourself? The last major expense I had on my 2000 Intrepid was when the a/c compressor seized up, and ended up contaminating the whole system. It was my own fault, as I knew it was low on Freon. I was trying to hold off until warmer weather to get it fixed, but one winter morning, picking up a friend from the airport, and running the defroster, it seized up about a half mile from home.
That bill was $1300...about 4 months of car payments right there!
Kinda sad that the Intrepid forum has degenerated like that. But, considering the last LH rolled off the assembly line sometime in September 2003, I guess it was destiny. Funny thing is, after I bought the Park Ave, I never really frequented the Park Ave forum on Edmund's. I guess I just didn't bond with this car the way I did the old Trep!
Last year I bought a 2012 Ram, and I don't think I've even set foot in a Dodge Ram forum on Edmund's. And they say pickup buyers are the most fiercely loyal of all! :-/0
Mr Shift states: "I'd have no problem OWNING a car with over 200K on it, I'd just have a problem giving you more than $500 for it."
Got $1000 cash for the 14-year old Honda with 247K on it after putting in an ad in a newspaper.0
Well that's a fair enough price really for anything that can drive around the block.0
I was kinda shocked that my uncle was able to get $2000 in trade for his '03 Corolla, which had about 240K on it, and was pretty beat. Of course, being a trade, sometimes they'll fudge the numbers. But he got (I thought, at least) a pretty good deal on the 2013 Camry he traded on. It was at CarMax.
For comparison, one of my friends traded an '04 Crown Vic with about 232K on it last year, at CarMax. He traded for an '09 Grand Marquis, and they only gave him $300! And his Crown Vic was in a LOT better shape than my uncle's Corolla was.
Now, I just wish I could get my mother to realize that nobody in their right mind would pay the ~$2,000 that KBB says her 340K 1999 Altima is worth. :-P0
I've always thought the online pricing guides (or, in the old days, the NADA Blue Book) were too lenient when it came to high miles. The "standard" is supposed to be 12k miles per year, if memory serves, and anything over that is to be penalized. But the deduct for 150k miles on a 5 or 6 year old used car is not nearly as high in the books as what it should be in my mind.
It's getting harder and harder to find a used car with no more than 12 to 15k per year on the clock. I have been reading that Americans are driving less the last few years, but you couldn't prove it by me. My experience used car shopping would indicate the opposite.0
The "standard" here has been 15,000 miles for many years. We use that number for TCO as well as TMV.
Got new tires for my '99 van a few month back, which tripled its value. But I probably would just keep it instead of selling it for the ~$500 TMV.0
Not so. The Honda had mainly highway, interstate miles. Drove very well. Was very tight and rattle free, good paint, very little rust, excellent shape interior. This in contrast to my Chevrolet Suburban of the exact same vintage year as the Honda. The quality, reliability, body integrity, engine, interior of the two was light years apart. And, the Chevrolet had one-third the overall miles being it was used mainly for utility, was garage kept. Chevrolet of that vintage year was far inferior to the Honda in every regard. Of course, hauling capacity not included here.0
I've always heard that the standard is 10-12,000 per year when you're trading a used car to the dealer, but when you're buying one from the dealer, suddenly it's 15,000.
Regardless, once a car gets to a certain mileage, I don't think it deserves a low-mileage credit. For instance, my '68 Dart was 42 model years old when I got rid of it, and had 338,000 miles on it. That may only be 8,047 miles per year, but that car was NOT low mileage! :P0
The most expensive part of keeping vehicles you don't drive much is the insurance and license. This year on the 24 year old LS400 smog and license $188. Liability insurance $320. New battery was $124 as the 6 year battery went bad at 4 years just sitting in the garage most of the time. Add a $70 synthetic oil change. I would sell it and save us $58 a month. Its the wife's baby. So it gets a spot in our 3 car garage.0
The above mentioned 24 year old Lexus has 105K miles on the odo. That is low mileage. I don't think anyone would pay much attention. As it would take someone that wants a first year LS400 in primo condition. They seem to be going around $5000.0
How many miles per year does that Lexus get driven? Even if the wife loves it, does it get used enough to keep it around? Also, with it taking up garage space, does that force another car to sit out in the elements?
BTW, what would the going rate be for a garage space these days, I wonder, if you had to rent one? I wonder if that should be factored into the cost of the car?
I had a 4-car garage built back in late 2005, and it was finished up in early 2006. I'm probably in that garage about $33,000 at this point, and had full use of it for about 7 1/4 years. I figure that works out to around $95 per month, per space. Not too expensive, I guess. But, if I didn't have the old cars, I never would have had to build it!
**Edit...wow Gagrice, you must have been reading my mind!0
high miles is not only about how the car looks and drives, but it's about statistics.
At 250,000 miles, a car could look and drive fine, and just let loose in one catastrophic moment, and nobody would say "Gee, only 250,000 miles and your transmission burned up..."0
Most of the miles this year were put on by my wife's niece and family. They were here for 3 weeks in June. They did leave it spotless full of gas and a $30 gift certificate for Phil's BBQ. Best experience yet lending a car. Just looking at the spreadsheet. It had 106,805 when I got it smogged a week ago. All original exhaust and emissions. And it was way below the max on all the tests. It had 96k when I first added it to my spreadsheet in January 2009. Less than 3000 a year. We drive it to the zoo or downtown. Just to keep it charged up. I don't like the low slung tuna boat ride. Not bad as cars go. A heck of a lot better than the Accord we rented in Indiana. I did put a new set of Michelins on it back in 2009. She had some nearly new off brand tires a friend sold her. One had a bubble that caused the car to shimmy. Needless to say the friend and tire shop was gone. I don't buy cheap tires even for a parked car. And yes it takes a space in the garage. I don't think I would put the PU in there anyway.0


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I was hit by the latest designer pregnancy sickness: hyperemesis gravidarum. Sounds chic, doesn't it? Well, let me tell you how it really is: Severe morning sickness is a ROYAL pain in the ass—shortness of breath, debilitating nausea, vomiting and/or all day dry-heaving, and migraines that can last 24 hours straight. The last month hasn't been a picnic in pregnancy land, which is why I've been silent on the blog.
But the hardest part? Being sick like this while trying to be a mom. A working mom. My OB put me on bed rest for two weeks, and in that time I did little more than lay in bed and pray to the pregnancy gods to have mercy on me (and, okay, I also watched all four seasons of Felicity on On Demand to take my mind off how miserable I felt).
There's not much you can do for this—except complain endlessly to your husband. And to my mom. And anyone else who would listen (hey, if you don't really want to know how I'm feeling, don't ask!).
There's absolutely no way to pretend you're fine while suffering from HG. The symptoms are mostly due to dehydration—I've had serious food aversions this pregnancy, which makes eating not only difficult but extremely unpleasant. My shortness of breath was the scariest part—I was having chest pains and these weird panic attacks when I was in crowded places like grocery stores, getting faint and then breaking out in all-over body sweats. My OB had me see a cardiologist because of an irregular heartbeat, and she found a heart murmur. I'm having further tests done in a couple of weeks, but hopefully it's nothing more than dehydration...
The good news is—yes, there is some!—I think I've finally turned a little corner. While I'm not counting on a pregnancy glow this time around, I'm thankful for the small victories—my appetite has come back for the most part; and eating small snacks every hour helps keep the nausea and headaches at bay. In turn, I don't feel as depleted. I'm back at work now, and mostly functional. Nighttime is much worse for me though—I have a witching hour at about 4 p.m., when my body feels stretched to its limit, as though I'm 40 weeks pregnant, and my breathing gets more strained. It slows me down in every way. But my OB says that's fairly common in second pregnancies.
And with women my age. Can you believe he said that to me!?
But I refuse to spend this entire pregnancy complaining (I still have more than half way to go), since I'm pretty sure it'll be my last one. And as everyone and their mother has pointed out to me, just remember what it took me to get here! (Seriously, if you see me, don't say that to me. No one knows better than I do…)
Here are a few more things you should not, under any circumstances, say to a woman experiencing hyperemesis gravidarum, or severe morning sickness.
- Just don't think about it so much.
- Aww, Princess Sarah isn't feeling well—you should call Kate Middleton!
- You STILL have morning sickness? (Please—I'd welcome "morning sickness" at this point.)
- Drink some ginger ale. (Zofran is my miracle drug, thank you.)
- Babe, maybe you're having a harder pregnancy this time because you're almost 40. (Thanks, Husband, I'm 38!)
- And avoid this conversation at all costs:
Friend/family member: How've you been feeling!!?
Me: Do you really want to know the truth?
Friend/family member: Yes!
Me: Like total crap. I've been very sick this pregnancy. I was diagnosed with hyperemesis gravidarum—I have a lot of sympathy for Kate Middleton now. It's the worst----
Friend/family member: Well, just think about what it took you to get here.
Me: [Silence.]
Friend/family member: And just be happy you're pregnant.
Me: [Silence.] Obviously I'm happy I'm pregnant...it has nothing to do with that. This is not a sick you can simply shake off.
Friend/family member: It'll all be worth it in the end.
Me: Thank you, I didn't realize that everything I've just been through in the last two years—including how sick I am right now—will be worth it in the end. Who knew!
How was your second pregnancy compared to your first? Mine do not resemble each other even the slightest. Let's discuss in the comments!


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Cutty Sark - Royal Museums Greenwich
Built to last only 30 years, the 1869 clipper was in urgent need of conservation work by the end of 2006 when The Cutty Sark Conservation Project started. The ship is of composite construction, and so the conservation process is a complicated one! This is the biggest overhaul the ship has had in over fifty years and will ensure that no major work is required for another fifty years.
The Project will not only conserve the vessel, but will also result in a greatly enhanced visitor attraction with exciting new exhibitions presenting stories from the ship's eventful history. An inspiring learning resource, when re-opened Cutty Sark will bring the bygone era of sail to life.
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The existing collections consist principally of the 1869 composite clipper ship Cutty Sark, and her contents. In addition the Trust possesses a collections of artefacts relating to the ship and her history, designers, builders, owners, crews, cargoes, the clipper ship genre, the Merchant Navy and Robert Burns. Of particular note are the collections of journals, logs, drawings, paintings, photographs and published material relating to the construction, working life and restoration of Cutty Sark. In addtion the Trust owns the Sydney Cumbers collection of Merchant Navy figureheads, the largest single collection together in the world.
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MAYVILLE, Wis. (AP) — An Illinois man is charged with a felony after allegedly using a stun gun on his wife as part of a bet on the Packers-Bears game.
John Grant, of Tinley Park, was charged Tuesday with possession of an electric weapon in Dodge County.
While driving through Mayville in their semi, the couple stopped at a bar to watch Monday's game, where the Packers lost 27-20.
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This guide explains how to set up WebDAV with lighttpd on an Ubuntu 9.10 server. WebDAV stands for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning and is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol that allow users to directly edit files on the lighttpd server so that they do not need to be downloaded/uploaded via FTP. Of course, WebDAV can also be used to upload and download files.
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With the release of personal web browsing devices like smartphones and tablets, there quickly emerged the need for increased variability in how companies offered their information online. Resolutions on computer screens are not easily compatible with remote devices, so "adaptive" website technology was introduced to allow websites to be viewed on differently sized screens. Adaptive technology, however, would only allow the site to display properly on a predetermined set of resolution sizes.
The Responsive Design used by SEOTA allows a website to automatically adjust to any size screen. Responsive Design employs an ongoing detection of the screen dimensions and organizes the page's content accordingly. This new technology is helping SEOTA's clients to expand how they are reaching their own customers, offering an attractive, user-friendly website experience.
"It's fantastic," remarked Dr. Chris Dobry, a Frisco area podiatrist and SEOTA client. "It's been an excellent experience getting the site up and running. I'm excited to see how it improves my patient's overall experience with the practice." Medical websites are notoriously dull and difficult to navigate, but Dr. Dobry's patients can now easily access all of the information that his site has to offer from the attractive menu of the new responsive site.
Designer Roofing, a Dallas-based home improvement company, has also benefitted from their website's release. The company was looking for a better way to introduce prospective clients to its roster of roofing services; responsive design features all of Designer Roofing's offerings in a compact frame that can be viewed on even the smallest device. "The new website is fabulous" says Designer Roofing spokesperson Carrie Holiman.
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Walter's grandson Hugh Tyrrel (died 1199) took part in the Norman Conquest of Ireland where he became the first Baron of Castleknock and later took part in the Third Crusade.
Another distinct branch of the family was found at Gipping in Suffolk. "This place, which takes its name from the small river Gipping, is the property of C. Tyrell, Esq., whose ancestor, Sir Walter Tyrell, Knt., held the lordship at the time of the Domesday survey." [2]CITATION[CLOSE]
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Despite a rumor sweeping New York that — following her split with Lyor Cohen — high-flying designer Tory Burch is dating Google's Eric Schmidt, we're told their relationship is solely limited to business. One insider tells us, "There is a malicious rumor being put out there that Tory and Eric are dating, which is 1,000 percent not true. Tory and Eric admire each other strictly on a business level. Eric is an investor in her company and a business adviser, and speaks to her board." We're told Burch has only seen the billionaire twice in the past six months, at her holiday party and at a lunch at the Four Seasons with Leonard Lauder. Page Six revealed last week that Burch and the former Warner Music head amicably parted after dating five years. The source adds that Burch remains close friends with Cohen and it's hoped they might reconcile. They spent time together over the weekend in Philadelphia and Cohen was at Burch's Fashion Week presentation. Also at her show was LVMH Möet Hennessy Louis Vuitton CEO Peter-Yves Roussel, sparking speculation that he could be eyeing her line as an investment, amid buzz that her firm might go public. But the source said, "An IPO isn't happening anytime soon. Tory has two new partners, and they are busy working out a way forward together." It's been a great few months for Burch. She settled her ugly dispute with ex Chris Burch, which made her a billionaire as her company was valued at $3.5 billion. A rep for Schmidt, who is still married but has most recently been linked to pianist Cho-San Nguyen, declined to comment.
Tory Burch, Eric Schmidt relationship: strictly business
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A bit more intrigue involving the process of the Donovan McNabb trade:
Browns president Mike Holmgren told the Cleveland Plain Dealer that the Browns did not get seriously involved in trade talks for McNabb before signing Jake Delhomme because the Eagles' asking price was too high.
Holmgren said it was "absolutely higher" than what the Eagles got from Washington. "But it always is [in the early stages], and you're not sure it's going to change," Holmgren said. "But it was pretty high."
He declined to specify the price, but he did say when the Browns talked to the Eagles they made it known that all three quarterbacks -- McNabb, Kevin Kolb and Michael Vick -- were available.
Holmgren said he is not disappointed that the price tag dropped and said he was "pumped" to have Delhomme on the roster.
He also said he is not big on trading a player within the division, adding he had not talked to his longtime friend Andy Reid since the deal was completed.
"Just as a general rule, I don't think it's ever a good deal to trade [with a division rival]," he said. "Clearly, Andy has such a great relationship with Donovan that it seemed to me that he did that because he cares for the kid and he wanted to do something for him. Now, Andy's nicer than I am."
During his appearance Wednesday on the Dan Patrick Show, Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins commented on more than Cliff Lee. After not wanting to talk much about Donovan McNabb on Monday, Rollins had this to say on the radio, courtesy of Sportsradiointerviews.com:
"Whew. Well, I like Donovan in an Eagles' uniform. Obviously, when you go to a place you have three quarterbacks and you haven't won a Super Bowl, everybody starts to get upset and someone has to go. In baseball, we always know it's the manager. In football, I guess it's easier to deal a quarterback."
Been meaning to get to this for a while, but all the news has intervened.
Pro Football Focus, a great stats and analysis Web site, has analyzed drops by receivers from last season. The site has a formula and devised a figure it calls Drop Percentage.
For Eagles fans, the most interesting news is that Jason Avant was credited with no drops last season -- as in zero -- and had 41 receptions. He is one of only three players with no drops and a minimun of 30 balls that a receiver got his hands on. The others are Greg Camarillo from Miami with 51 receptions and Bobby Meachem of the Saints with 45.


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USB cable developers have announced that a forthcoming version of the connector's plug is to be reversible.
It means users of the Universal Serial Bus cables will no longer have to worry which way round the part is facing when plugging it into a device.
The specification is due to be completed by mid-2014, and the first product on the market by 2016.
Spend only a few days using Apple's Lightning connector, and you'll realise how small things like it being reversible just makes life that tiny little bit less frustrating. About time USB did this.


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Everything old is new again.
As game technology advances at an exponential rate, it's easy to get sucked in to what's coming, what's next, what's new. An unfortunate side-effect of this, however, as technology becomes outdated and no longer supported, is that more and more games are getting lost to history. I know people with enormous libraries of old NES games that will never be played again. It's a shame, though, since it's becoming harder and harder for young gamers to experience older, classic (and sometimes better) games.
[image1]Now that I've made myself sound like an old man, Enter The Remake. Some people may chafe at the idea that developers are just selling them the same games over again, albeit running on upgraded tech, but straight remakes of old games are a great way to experience a game if you missed it the first time around (especially if it's good).
And now there's an easy (read: legal) way for the classic platformer Bionic Commando to be enjoyed by people who never experienced the original game on the NES. People who were still in preschool when it got ported over. People like me. (See, I'm not really old.)
Rearmed is actually a remake of the home-console port rather than the arcade version, following the bionic-arm-equipped Nathan "Rad" Spencer as he swings his way through 12 levels to rescue fellow agent Super Joe, thwart the Imperialist Forces (a.k.a Nazis in the arcade version), and their secret evil Project Albatross. Short of being set in the 22nd century instead of the 1980s, the plot has stayed the same.
Plenty has changed, however. The biggest and most obvious update is to the game's graphics. Although the action still all takes place on a 2D plane, level environments are now rendered in three glorious dimensions and enemies are 3D models instead of sprites. The new graphics have their ups and downs: The beautiful outdoor areas make the basic interior levels look dull by comparison, and playing on a non-HD television, I found it hard at first to tell different Imperialist soldiers apart. Regular human enemies tend to be muddy and indistinct, in direct contrast to the bright, sharp design of robotic enemies and bosses.
Speaking of which, the bosses have been completely redesigned from the ground up, and there are some pretty ingenious tactics required to defeat some of them, with a highlight being the enormous siege tank that you'll fight a couple times throughout the game. And for fans of the original game, yes, the final boss has remained the same, along with his oh-so-memorable death once you've sent enough rocket-propelled pain his way. Now, however, he appears only at the end of an all-new final level, which takes some serious work to traverse.
[image2]But even with all the redesign, the look and feel of the original game shines through. From the synth-heavy, 8-bit-style remastering of the original's soundtrack to the cheesy 80's action-movie dialogue, the whole game is calculated to take you back to the halcyon days of the NES.
Along with the retro style comes a retro level of difficulty. While completing the whole game is less difficult than its predecessor thanks to a new save system and unlimited continues – losing all your lives on any level will just dump you back out on the level-select map – individual stages can be head-bangingly hard. Making your way through some of the game's later stages requires excellent accuracy and timing with the bionic arm, and the game can be extraordinarily unforgiving. Latching on to just the wrong section of ceiling will make you more George of the Jungle than Tarzan.
Where difficulty gives way to outright frustration is when you take the somewhat finicky analog controller into account. The bionic arm can be extended in any of five directions, and limping in to the end of a difficult level only to slam into a wall of spikes when your arm goes this way instead of that way may lead to a few thrown controllers. (Fortunately, mine had a nice, soft couch to slow its momentum.)
Although controlling the arm takes some getting used to, once you do master it, you can start pulling off some awe-inspiring stunts. Perfectly executing a complicated series of swings to finally pass an area that has been causing you grief will give you one hell of a rush. Replaying the game a second time, I found myself swinging with carefree abandon through the early levels that had seemed so tricky in the face of the game's precipitous learning curve.
And as you master the regular levels, you can try to take on the challenge rooms, another new feature of the remade Bionic Commando. Gradually unlocked as you play the game, these rooms are far, far more difficult than the regular levels, requiring pinpoint precision and an instinctive feel for the game's controls. While only the hardest-core Rearmed players will pass them all, let alone get a five-star time on each one, more casual players will still find simpler rooms that they enjoy and complete.
[image3]At just $10, there's plenty of gaming value for your dollar. My first time through the game took me well over 10 hours, not including time spent in challenge rooms, and I found only a small fraction of the game's secret areas. Multiplayer is included as well and, with its "Don't Touch the Floor" mode, plays a bit like Super Smash Bros. if Bowser was a Nazi and Link's hookshot was cybernetically welded to his arm.
Deathmatches are overshadowed, however, by the fantastic new co-op mode. Playing with a friend in tow provides a whole new experience, as enemy A.I. will adapt to multiple threats, and boss battle strategies will change to require cooperation. Not that it makes the game any easier; players share the same number of lives as in the single-player game, and now you have to get two people through the toughest obstacles simultaneously. Unfortunately, there's no online multiplayer, so you'll actually have to find some real people to play with.
Fans of the original will feel immediately at home with Bionic Commando Rearmed, and if you're one of them, you probably already bought the game anyway. For people who never got to experience the game the first time around, it's a great opportunity to see what all the fuss is about. More than just a straight remake, Rearmed feels like a game that really has been refined twice.


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Walden of Reston Receives Clarkson University's Top Award for Young Alumni
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Walden received her bachelor of science in marketing and technical communications in 2003.
After graduation, she began her career with Accenture in systems integration, where she worked to design, build and test applications to improve client operations. In the years that followed, she used her Clarkson degree in marketing and communications to begin building a career in change management. Walden has led a number of communications efforts to deliver consistent messages to targeted populations of many sizes. From small groups of users impacted by a system implementation to national awareness campaigns, she has been successful communicating to these audiences, developing not only the communications but the training involved to make the change successful.
Walden has also taken leadership roles internally at Accenture, by overseeing the communications effort for an account vision strategy, and ultimately leading a client site committee for a group of colleagues to organize and execute activities for an account of over 300 people. Since February, she has also taken on the responsibilities of the D.C. community communications action team lead.
Walden has kept strong ties to her alma mater, returning to campus annually to recruit Clarkson graduates for Accenture. She also has served as the Clarkson Washington, D.C., chapter president since 2004, planning events to bring together some of the 1000-plus Clarkson University alumni living in the area. She is a member of the Clarkson Alumni Association Executive Council serving as the regional chapter presidents committee co-chair.
Clarkson University crosses the boundaries of disciplines, nations and cultures in order for discovery, engineering innovation and enterprise to come together. As a result, faculty and graduates grasp the full impact of their calling, direct their research to the world's pressing issues and lead with confidence and distinction. One in seven alumni is already a CEO or other senior executive. Located in Potsdam, N.Y., just outside the six-million-acre Adirondack Park, Clarkson is home to 3, 000 students preparing for rewarding careers through 50 rigorous programs of study in engineering, business, arts, science, and health sciences, as well as unparalleled outdoor recreation and life experiences beyond the classroom.
Photo caption: Jennifer Walden (right) receives the Golden Knight Award from Clarkson University President Tony Collins.


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J.C. Penney could get more cash ahead of the all-important back-to-school shopping season.
Several banks, including Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase, have proposed loans in the range of $500 million to $1 billion that would be secured by the company's real estate, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Following the news, J.C. Penney shares inched higher in premarket trade. (Click here to track the company's stock before the opening bell.)
The value of J.C. Penney's 1,100 stores, one source estimated, was being tallied at around $2 billion.
It's unclear whether J.C. Penney will take out an additional loan, but the option is seen as a positive sign for investors, who remain worried the company's available liquidity could dry up before fully stocking for the crucial back-to-school period.
A real estate loan would be the second of such secured loans that the company has sought to shore up its cash. J.C. Penney, sources say, is also near closing a $500 million deal with Wells Fargo backed by its inventory, set to close in the coming days.
(Read More: House Cleaning of JC Penney Cuts 2 More Executives)
J.C. Penney is expected to evaluate the real estate options after the first loan closes and may ultimately decide not to go that route, sources say.
A J.C. Penney spokeswoman could not be reached for comment.
In the meantime, Standard & Poor's has issued a warning on J.C. Penney, saying that adding more secured debt to its balance sheet could lead to a downgrade of the company's CCC+ credit rating. The rating already indicates that the company's bonds are trading at high-risk, or "junk" levels.
— Written by CNBC's Kayla Tausche. Follow her on Twitter @kaylatausche


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Police still looking for gunman from brawlStaff Report
January 03. 2014 9:10PM
MANCHESTER — Detectives continue to search for a gunman who fired off several rounds from a 9 mm handgun during a brawl involving as many as 40 people early New Year's Day.
"The people detectives were able to track down and talk to about the incident weren't very forthcoming," said Lt. Maureen Tessier on Friday.
The street fight and gunshots were reported about 1:45 a.m. A witness told police a man pointed a gun at the ground and fired it three times. Police recovered a 9 mm casing at the scene.
Tessier said no one was injured and investigators have not found any damaged property.
When officers arrived shortly after being called, two men were still fighting. Both fled when an officer yelled for them to stop.
Officer Casey Finn chased after them, and one ducked into a doorway out of sight. Finn caught up to the second man, identified as Frankie Peralta, 28, of 197 Laurel St. He was arrested for resisting arrest.
Finn then spoke with the person who called police. The witness told the officer the fight involved up to 40 people and a man fired three shots at the ground.
The gunman is described as Hispanic, about 5-foot-9, with black curly hair, wearing a black, hooded sweatshirt.
Finn also picked up a denim vest that was on the ground next to the bullet casing.
Alex Ortiz, 21, of 313 Lowell St. approached Finn saying the vest was his and he wanted it back. Finn refused, telling Ortiz the vest was evidence.
Ortiz allegedly protested the confiscation of his vest and wound up in handcuffs for allegedly causing a disturbance.
While being booked at the station, Ortiz spat at one of the officers, according to police, and subsequently was charged with simple assault.
Two other men also were arrested: Jonathan Gallego, 21, and Pedro Gallego, 23, both of 165 Laurel St. Tessier said police reports do not indicate their relationship, if any.
As Finn and Officer Raymond Youngs were chasing Peralta, Jonathan Gallego allegedly lunged at Youngs and shouted obscenities at the officer.
Officer Christian Horn, running behind Youngs, stopped Gallego and, after a brief struggle, arrested him for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, police said.
Pedro Gallego was arrested on an unrelated warrant for operating after suspension.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to all police at 668-8711. Anonymous tips for cash rewards may be made through Manchester Crimeline at 624-4040 or online at manchestercrimeline.org .


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Great American Ball Park, Cincinnati, Ohio Attendance: 29,350
Reds look to reverse losing trend vs. Cubs
MLB Headlines
- Miley back as Brewers try to stay alive
- Price pitches Red Sox into World Series
- Bradley Jr. totals 9 RBIs, wins ALCS MVP
- Red Sox P Sale ready to make next start
- Cards' Wainwright's contract put on hold
CINCINNATI -- En route to their first World Series championship in 108 years, the Chicago Cubs thoroughly dominated the Cincinnati Reds.
Manager Joe Maddon's club went 15-4 last season against the Reds, including 8-2 at Great American Ball Park. The National League Central rivals will meet for the first time this season Friday night in the opener of a three-game weekend series.
The Cubs (8-7) have won 18 of the past 22 games vs. Cincinnati and six of the past seven series. Chicago hit 42 home runs against Reds pitching in 2016, the most in a single season against Cincinnati.
If the Reds (9-7) are going to continue their surprising start to 2017, they'll need to find a way to exorcise their Cubbie demons.
"We'd like to be a player in this division and, to do that, we've got to play better against every team in the division," Reds manager Bryan Price said. "We can't let them run roughshod over us for 19 games."
The Cubs enter Friday's game with a streak of 12 straight games with at least one homer at Great American Ball Park, four games shy of the record for consecutive games with a homer by an opponent.
Anthony Rizzo hit six homers along the banks of the Ohio River last year. Kris Bryant and Ben Zobrist each hit five.
Bryant went deep 10 times against Cincinnati last year, second-most by a Reds opposing player. Eddie Mathews hit 11 against them in 1953 and Earl Torgeson had 11 in 1950.
Cincinnati's pitching staff, in particular the bullpen, is more stable this season and better positioned to handle a lineup like the Cubs.
"I think we have a better-structured bullpen," Price said. "They beat us up last year, starting and relieving. It was hard to consistently get behind and expect to get back in the game."
Right-hander Tim Adleman will make his first start and second appearance of the season Friday night. He has faced the Cubs twice in his career, going 1-0 with a 3.97 ERA. Adleman was recalled from Triple-A Louisville on Sunday when left-hander Brandon Finnegan went on the disabled list with a shoulder strain.
Cincinnati has owned at least a share of first place in the NL Central for 16 straight days.
"The thing that shouldn't be overlooked is that we're getting good pitching, and we're going to need that compete in our division," Price said.
With an off-day Thursday, the Cubs switched Jon Lester's and Jake Arrieta's spots in the rotation. Lester will start Friday and Arrieta on Saturday.
Lester is coming off seven scoreless innings on Sunday against the Pirates, but it was another hard-luck effort. He ranks among the league ERA leaders with two earned runs in 18 innings over three outings, but he remains winless.
Lester is 3-1 with a 3.32 ERA in nine career starts against Cincinnati.
The Cubs are coming off an eventful homestand at Wrigley Field where they raised banners and distributed championship rings from the 2016 World Series title. The series was capped off by Addison Russell's walk-off, three-run homer Wednesday.
But, it's back to business now as Maddon told MLB.com: "It's been an emotional week. I like where we're at and what we're doing."
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