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As a side why is that? I'm sure if they can control the print head so accurately using a DC motor with an encoder why not on the scanner?
Anyway, with the Lexmark's scanner step motor I now have two both with 4 wires. They're pretty small but through their gearing stepping down quite a lot they should have enough torque to move the print head and the table,.. or so is the plan :)
I like the metal bridge so I'm going to see if I can modify it to take the stepper motor with it's gears... stay tuned.


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It is now more than two weeks since the horrible massacre of 20 little children and 6 adults in Sandy Hook Elementary School, Newtown, Connecticut.
Shocking though it was, the massacre already is beginning to recede from news headlines and our consciousness, Americans being prone to short attention spans. Except for the Left's exploitation of the terrible tragedy to redouble their perennial calls for "gun control." Make hay while the sun shines! For as Obama's former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel instructs, one should never let a crisis go to waste.
But there are those, prone to skepticism and suspicion, who are not letting Sandy Hook fade away. They are asking if Sandy Hook and other recent mass shootings (Batman and Sikh temple) are "false flag" incidents — events contrived and manipulated by government in order to provoke mass fear and panic that are then used to achieve some covert agenda.
Such skeptics are dismissed as conspiracy kooks by the establishment media. I am not a conspiracist for this reason: If they are right, it means there are people so utterly evil that they would stoop to killing innocent little children to achieve their political ends. That in turn means our government is in the hands of people so malevolent and diabolical, calling them psychopaths doesn't even begin to describe what they are. That is a frightening thought.
No matter how dubious you and I are about the conspiracy nuts, they are asking very troubling questions that demand answers. Those questions are reducible to one:
If 20-year-old Adam Lanza indeed was the lone gunman who single-handedly killed 28 people in Newtown (26 in Sandy Hook, as well as his mother and himself), why are there reports of other suspicious individuals at the scene?
Here are the reports:
1. In this audio recording on the night of the Sandy Hook massacre of unedited Newtown Police and Fire Dept. and Connecticut State Police radio traffic, you will hear the police referring to two strange individuals seen wearing ski masks and a nun outfit:
Beginning at the 1:34:19 mark, a male voice says "Danbury's reporting a vehicle, a purple van, two occupants with possible ski masks that may be involved in this incident."
At 1:35:07 into the audio, referring to the two occupants in the purple van, the same male voice says "One may be wearing a nun outfit, headed toward Danbury and Stoney Hill, purple van".
The audio recording was provided by Radioreference.com and uploaded onto YouTube by Radioman911.com who writes: "There is information about two occupants in a van which turned out to be either unrelated or unfounded. There is also speculation that some unintelligible radio traffic that seems to contain the word 'Adam' is referring to the suspect. The word Adam is the police phonetic alphabet for the letter 'A', often used as part of a unit identifier."
2. In this next video, an eyewitness told CBS News that he saw police lead a "grown man" "out of the woods" "in handcuffs". The man was "wearing camo (camouflage) pants and a dark jacket" and was still sitting in front of the police car as they spoke. The eyewitness said as the man was led past him, the man said "I didn't do it."
Who is the man who was handcuffed and taken into police custody? Why didn't CBS News follow up on this story?
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It is said the man in camo pants is Chris Manfredonia, a father of one of the students allegedly on his way to the Sandy Hook school to bake gingerbread cookies with students. But then the Newtown Bee reported that the man was an off-duty tactical squad police officer: "A man with a gun who was spotted in the woods near the school on the day of the incident was an off-duty tactical squad police officer from another town, according to the source." However, Intelhub. points out that the timeline indicates that the camo guy would have to be hanging around int he woods almost 3 hours after the massacre. Why would either a parent or an off-duty police officer be doing that? The man's name was never revealed to the media, and with the media everywhere that fateful day, why is there no video of this man, although such footage reportedly exists.
3. In this next video, another eyewitness, a boy, says as he and other school children "ran down to the firehouse," he saw "a man pinned down to the ground with handcuffs on." Was this the same man "wearing camo pants" whom the CBS eyewitness had seen, or is he yet another suspect?
4. Dave Hodges, who describes himself as "an award winning psychology, statistics and research professor, a college basketball coach, a mental health counselor, a political activist and writer who has published dozens of editorials and articles in several publications such as Freedoms Phoenix, News With Views and The Arizona Republic," writes in the Activist Post, Dec. 28, 2012:
"Former FBI informant, Larry Grathwohl, an infiltrator of Obama's original backers from the Weathermen Underground with Bill Ayers, has also told me that the word on the street is that two teachers took down Lanza. Another unnamed source told me that there were at least 3 other shooters, not including Lanza. I must say that the evidence is compelling as we listen to the raw police radio recordings where the police are clearly stating that they have two shooters in custody, after two teachers reported seeing two shooters run by the gym."
These reports by police (audio recording) and civilian eyewitnesses of other suspects may just be false sightings and false arrests of innocent suspects which often happen in the midst of traumatic and very chaotic events like Sandy Hook.
Or they may not.
If they are bogus, Newtown police should publicly and convincingly counter these rumors — if only to prove that "false flag" conspiracists really are nuts. But then, nearly five months after the Sikh temple shooting in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, the police still haven't countered eyewitness reports of multiple gunmen ("a four-man team in a coordinated attack") instead of a lone gunman, who did the killing.
Then there's this sane-looking eyewitness who said James Holmes wasn't alone but "had someone with him" in that dark Century movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. Why? Because there was a second can of tear gas which didn't come from the side of the theater where Holmes was.
Is our government capable of perpetrating these evil deeds for "false flag" purpose?
I don't want to think so. But then I remind myself that there are human beings who are that evil. Just ask the millions of innocent men, women, and children whom the Nazis killed, and the hundreds of millions of innocent men, women, and children whom the Communists killed in the Soviet Union, People's Republic of China, and in North Korea today….
H/t Activist Post and FOTM's May, Tina, and Joan W.
See also:
- "Professional crisis actors simulate mass casualty events," Jan. 1, 2013.
- "Sandy Hook dad goes from laughing to grieving in blink of an eye," Dec. 30, 2012.
- "Spooky coincidences of Sandy Hook and Aurora massacres," Dec. 21, 2012.


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Rennes seal deal for PSV forward Toivonen
Ligue 1 outfit Rennes have completed the signing of PSV forward Ola Toivonen on a three-and-a-half-year deal.
The 27-year-old joined the Dutch side in 2009 from Malmo, and became an integral part of the first-team set-up at the Philips Stadion.
Toivonen collected the KNVB Beker in 2012, and has featured in the UEFA Champions League and Europa League for PSV.
But the Sweden international has been on the periphery of Philip Coco's plans this term, starting just six Eredivisie matches and making a further seven appearances from the substitutes' bench.
PSV had hoped to retain Toivonen's services, but he has decided to follow in the footsteps of fellow Sweden internationals Kim Kallstrom, Andreas Isaksson and Erik Edman, who have all donned the Rennes jersey.
A statement on the club's official website read: "Looking for an attacking reinforcement, Stade Rennais FC have recruited for three and a half years Swedish striker Ola Toivonen.
"He previously played at PSV Eindhoven since 2009. At ease in the passing game and skillful in front of goal, Toivonen has a different and complementary (approach) to other attackers (at) Rennes."
Rennes will hope Toivonen can add attacking spark to a side that has scored just 22 goals in 21 matches this season.
Philippe Montanier's charges will be keen to put distance between themselves and the relegation zone, with Rennes currently 15th in Ligue 1, six points above Valenciennes in 18th.


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TD Boston Garden Changes From Ice To Parquet Floor [VIDEO]
It's going to be a busy day at the TD Garden today in Boston. The Bruins will play the Tampa Bay Lightning in a 1 o'clock Veteran's Day matinee. Then, the Celtics will host the Orlando Magic tonight. So how the heck do they change the hockey rink into a basketball court in the matter of a few hours? Watch this cool video below.


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Here's the star of my next batch of unknown covers for you. Both late 50s Corgi books, both almost certainly US reprints and both rather lovely. The Pastures Of Heaven looks exactly like Ben Stahl to me... but did he paint paperback covers? (Yes, see some examples here ~ Leif)
* Addendum: Ben Stahl confirmed here.
The other one could be one of many great '50s artists working in the shadow of James Avati, though here the quality of drawing underneath the paints is absolutely top notch.
There couldn't be more of a contrast here! Montana Fury is gorgeous and I'd swear it was Robert McGinnis except it doesn't appear on the list in his paperback books so I guess it could be someone like Ron Lesser instead.
Actually it's one of those strange situations where I'm more certain of the model who in this case is obviously Steve Holland, best known as James Bama's model for Doc Savage.
The other cover is a classic piece of sleeze but with an unusually comic-styled cover. The question is; why does he look so anguished?
This time we have 2 panther books from 59-61, both almost certainly US cover reprints...
* Addendum: Interesting variation of this cover documented here.
... and both rather wonderful.
The Nevil Shute cover is from an early '70s series all painted by the same artist, with trademark white backgrounds. The only name that's been suggested to me is the marine artist Chris Mayger which seems a little left – field since he rarely, if ever, painted people. I like the combination of quite bold colours with some quite rough black pencil on top.
The Matt Helm cover is one of those glorious Bond-esque montage shots with hero, villain, action and sexy girls- what's not to like? There's something about the painting which vaguely reminds me of Sanford Kossin - albeit it a much more tightly controlled Kossin.
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This project was reported and written by MARIA CRAMER, MEGHAN E. IRONS, AKILAH JOHNSON, JENNA RUSSELL, and ANDREW RYAN.
It's not even Memorial Day and it's already sweltering. The 74-year-old priest shuts the door of the sky-blue church van, fishes in his shirt pocket for the white collar he keeps there, and tucks it in place around his neck. He always wears the collar on his walks across the neighborhood. It is an advertisement that he is no one to fear. Still, in this heat, it would be nice to leave it off.
He sets out briskly, as he always does, from the parking lot on Bowdoin Street, raising a hand each time he passes a face, "Hi, how are ya," and heads into a purpling dusk along the teeming street. From a distance, Father Richard "Doc" Conway could be a slightly stooped Clint Eastwood, with his silver hair and glinting eyes. The walks are a ritual twice a week, sometimes three. He makes it a point to traverse every street in the neighborhood. The exercise is a side benefit; since triple bypass surgery in December, he is on a strict regimen. But mostly, he goes to be seen. He wants people to know he's there, especially the gang members. He wants them to see there's another path if they choose to take it. Maybe they'll start filling the pews at St. Peter Church on Sundays, not just for the funerals of friends.
Getting people to church is a much harder mission than it once was. For a century, the church defined the neighborhood, spiritually and physically. Its 150-foot stone tower was visible for miles. A fiery priest built it in 1872 when the neighborhood was still countryside, deliberately making the cathedral massive as a visible rejoinder to the wealthy Protestants who lived there. The floods of poor Irish immigrants who came called it "The Rock." There were 10 Masses on weekends. But most of the Irish left in the 1970s, and now there are just three Masses. The tower, decaying with age and lack of money to fix it, was condemned in 1980 and cut down by a third.
Waves of new parishioners have passed through — Puerto Ricans,
Vietnamese. Now, they are largely Cape Verdeans drawn to Dorchester in the 1970s, believing there were more opportunities in the city than in Southeastern Massachusetts. A good number of families come to church. It's considerably harder to draw in the young men who Doc believes need it most.
But this is the work Doc likes best. He likes the challenge, and he prefers neighborhoods like this one, where it feels as though he's making a difference. "People here are real," he says.
On the streets here, old Cape Verdean women take his hand and press it to their foreheads. He often shows up at crime scenes. He goes to counsel the families, comfort neighbors, and try to understand what triggered the violence. He speaks their country's official language, Portuguese. He has learned that people in the community will not come to him. He must be a street priest, walking his beat. He likes to think he's good at it.
As he walks now, some stare or hurry away. But most return his waves and, when he stops to greet them, accept his playful slaps on the back of the head and the salt he dishes out.
"You know you got two hats on," he says to a lanky teenage boy walking past.
"Yes, sir, I do," the boy says, nodding and tipping the two baseball hats balanced on his head.
"Just making sure you know that."
Doc is on a particular mission this evening. In his hand is a white flier advertising six hotel jobs at the Fairmount Copley Plaza. The hotel is looking for bartenders, busboys, and housekeepers. Doc has someone in mind, 25-year-old Tal, who has survived shootings so often that the priest once overheard someone call him bulletproof.
Tal has been a problem in the neighborhood for years. A poster of his mug shot is taped on a wall at the C-11 district station among a gallery of "impact players," the police term for gang members to watch closely. He's threatened cops, mouthed off. Police say he's in a gang on Norton Street in the heart of the neighborhood. Tal flatly rejects that classification. What police call gang, he calls family, the friends he grew up with and won't abandon. He's never been caught with a gun or, as far as anybody knows, shot anyone. But others have shot at him, and done it so often that he's seen as a trigger for violence. He's been hit three times in seven years, once in the chest, requiring open-heart surgery. The Globe agreed not to use his full name because of his concerns about his safety.
Last year, three young men with handkerchiefs over their faces mounted a fence at a July 4 party at his house and began firing into the crowd. A man standing near Tal, his cousin, was killed. Doc, along with neighborhood worker Susan Young and a police captain who took a liking to Tal, launched an effort to get him out of Bowdoin-Geneva. Susan had met him two years earlier, just after starting her job at Bowdoin Street Health Center. Tal had warned her that driving with him in the car could be dangerous because someone might shoot. But he also called her constantly, wailing about needing a job. One day, a colleague of hers was in a pizza shop in the neighborhood where Tal was eating. A group of young men passing on the sidewalk stopped. One of them made the shape of a gun with his hand and pointed it through the glass at Tal. "You're dead," he mouthed. That's when Susan started trying to find Tal a way out of the neighborhood. After the Fourth of July shooting, the effort became urgent. They wanted him somewhere safe, somewhere bullets meant for him wouldn't endanger others.
It didn't pan out. Tal didn't want to go to the places they offered — a job program that would have sent him to Maine, and a rooming house in Chelsea. Now, authorities will settle for getting him employed and on track to a safer life.
Doc can't help liking Tal. He's got charm and exuberance that are hard to resist. On the street, everyone seems to know him. Girls wave. Cars honk. When he sees people he knows, he waves wildly and bursts into a smile of delight. And, as troubled as Tal's life has been, Doc thinks he sees in him a genuine desire to be saved.
Doc cuts down Norton Street and approaches a porch. A stout, round-faced woman, Tal's mother, stares back at him.
"Where is my friend?" Doc asks.
She shrugs. "He's not around."
"Alright, tell him I'm looking for him," he says and heads back out to Norton to continue his walk.
Jhana Senxian strides down the sidewalk on Coleman Street, past the long blocks of brick row houses. She passes the former crack house, now boarded up; the house with the clematis vine climbing skyward; the house with the "Obama for President" sign in the window.
She is headed to the community garden at the end of her street, once the dominion of the aging Ella Pierce, a neighbor and longtime caretaker who has taken ill.
The street feels secluded, canyonlike, though she is only a block off busy Bowdoin Street.
Late May sunlight filters down into the narrow space, reflecting off warm brick and picking up a rosy tint.
Jhana has been passing by the tall black garden fence for years, never really seeing it. The garden has always been a mystery to her, a padlocked wilderness with an uncertain purpose.
Today the heavy gate is unlocked and she steps through, tall and striking in jeans and a crisp white button-down shirt, her long, dark hair tied back with a scarf. She has the intense, appraising air of someone sizing something up.
The garden sits on land once occupied by a half-dozen houses, some of which were condemned before they were torn down.
It is clear the place, once a neighborhood jewel, has seen better days. There are weeds and piles of brush and plots that look abandoned. Jhana sees a need for structure: nametags on the plots; a list of who has keys and where they live.
But as she strolls deeper into the garden, under the maples, a grander vision begins to take shape in her mind. Of the garden as it should be: a busy, beautiful, welcoming place; an asset benefiting not just a handful of gardeners, but the whole street, the whole neighborhood.
Jhana and her neighbors can stake a claim. They can grow flowers in the garden and transplant them, into sidewalk gardens up and down Coleman Street.
The idea is deeply pleasing: And why stop there? Why couldn't Bowdoin Street, a block away, be planted with daisies and lilies from the garden? Would that be the craziest thing in the world?
It could be the start of something new, for the garden and the neighborhood. It could bring together people on her street.
The idea shines, but the details are fuzzy. Jhana has never gardened in her life.
And she doesn't know the neighborhood that well. Growing up in a different part of Dorchester, she was determined to get out and see the world. She became an anthropologist, traveled widely, lived in Rome. When she returned, to work on her doctorate at Harvard, she fell in love with a house on Coleman Street, its quiet charm, its shady back yard.
She didn't see the problems right away. Then her neighbors told her about the drug dealers, prostitutes, rats. And she thought: We should do something.
She had started a small business, devoted to solving urban problems, and decided to make her street one of its projects. She created the Coleman Street Neighbors Association and hung up fliers announcing the first meeting.
The handful of neighbors who came agreed on one thing: Somebody ought to get rid of the rats. They pointed to the garden and told her it was the source — the large, untidy compost pile in the corner.
She has arranged a meeting with the man who runs the place, on his own now, with Ella Pierce, still sick. He is in the garden now, and Jhana walks over to meet him, a wiry, white-haired figure wearing beat-up work boots. Years ago, he fought to build this place, convinced it could help change the neighborhood. He has spent years beating back the weeds.
"It's beautiful," she tells him. "But it needs to be maintained."
They stand together in the sun. Tiny white butterflies flit over pink peonies.
Jhana doesn't know exactly what she's getting into. She doesn't know that even in a little community garden — seemingly forgotten — there can be tensions and high stakes, fruitful alliances and bitter rivalries.
But a garden starts with planting, and that is what Jhana must do, if she wants to fill her street with flowers.
She will write to local farmers, asking them to donate plants. Maybe they will want to help her make the neighborhood beautiful.
Theresa Johnson reaches for the phone and dials. She's sitting anxious and alone inside an eerily silent house. Not even Jalanae is here. The 13-year-old left hours ago with a friend to walk up Blue Hill Avenue and watch the Haitian Unity Parade.
She knows her child, knows Jalanae is not some boy-crazed teen into drinking or drugs. Jalanae barely tolerates her mother's cigarette smoke. So it's not the same kind of worry as she has with her two sons, Sean and Easy.
But this is one of the few times Jalanae has left the house on her own. Sitting in her small kitchen, a purple peace ribbon magnet on the refrigerator, Theresa lets her imagination roam.
What if someone tries to snatch her, molest her? Jalanae, with her curvy frame, doesn't look 13.
It's 5:30 already, and the parade should be winding down. She picks up the phone.
"When do you think you'll make it home?"
Theresa listens and frowns.
"No, I'm sorry. At 13, that's not a good answer."
Jalanae checks in again at 6 and 6:30 and finally makes it home about 7.
Theresa spends much of the next week planning a Memorial Day cookout that never happens.
That Friday, while scrolling through Facebook on her phone, first at work, then at home, she keeps seeing the same tribute in her newsfeed: RIP. RIP. She doesn't make much of it at first. Until someone attaches the name. It's someone she knows.
Theresa shuts herself in her bedroom. Her friend can't be dead. She just saw him, and now, just like that, he's gone, killed in a work accident.
Watching television, crying, Theresa keeps returning to one thought: the Book of Life. Her mother always told her about it, and how you'll be judged at the end.
Right and wrong. The just and the unjust. Easy and Sean. She's thinking about her life, too — mistakes she made, debts to be paid.
Theresa Johnson's children are her greatest joy, and biggest headache, especially the two boys.
Sean and Etohn. Livewire and Easy. Brothers first. Brothers always. But in the streets: rivals. Sean got his name from the streets, Etohn from his grandfather, the boy's laid-back demeanor evident even as a baby.
Both represent their 'hoods — Franklin Field and Greenwood Street. One is a public housing complex, the other a street. For years these 'hoods hated each other, shot at each other. This is where they're from. But where you're from is not necessarily where you live. It's what 'hood you represent.
Theresa doesn't really know everything Easy's done and doesn't ask. He's so secretive about his dirt. She's not sure he would even bother telling the truth. "My older brother tells my mother stuff I would never tell," Easy says. "I know it's lying, but I just don't want her to see me that way. I want her to see me as a good boy."
So does Sean, but he also doesn't want his mother singing her sons' praises should something serious happen. "So she don't be one of those parents out here like, 'Oh, my son was this and my son was that,' not knowing your son was a little terror."
At 24, Sean is a year older than his brother, stockier, and a smidgen shorter. Tattoos are inked on the back of both hands, one for a deceased aunt, the other for his grandfather. And his daughter's — his princess's — name is spelled in two-tone letters down his left forearm. Trinity.
Theresa never wanted boys. She grew up in this neighborhood and knew well that the road to manhood for black boys is too often a minefield of police harassment, gang activity, and low academic expectations. She tried to steer them straight with punishment for back talk and bad grades, and rewards for being good, like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle bed sheets and mini pool tables.
It worked, until high school.
Once her oldest children hit adolescence, the streets drowned out her influence. It started with drinking, smoking, and hanging out. Still, she tried. If they were going to smoke weed, it had to be in the house so things couldn't get out of control. Theresa feared police would stop her sons with a few grams — enough for a couple of blunts — in their pockets, enough to get arrested.
Soon, fistfights turned into gunfights.
The summer before Sean's sophomore year, when they lived on Greenwood Street, some guys approached, wanting to know where he was from. Nowhere, he told them, but a fight ensued.
He phoned people from Greenwood he thought were friends, but no one came. So he stopped hanging with them and Easy did, too.
Once school started, Sean bumped into someone he used to play ball with, eventually going up to the Field one day after a game.
Soon, he was met with an ultimatum: "If you really want to be around here and hanging with us, you gotta show us you really down for it."
So he volunteered to go "do something." First, to prove his loyalty. Then, to honor the bonds he built. "When everyone was like, 'Yo, let's go do this,' I'm like, 'F*** that! I'm going.' "
"That's why they call me Livewire, because I used to do a lot of stupid s***."
Eventually, Easy started hanging with Greenwood again, although not in a hardcore way.
Both boys started skipping school. Sometimes, it seemed Theresa spent more time in the office at English High than at the school where she works, Marshall Elementary. Eventually, they dropped out or got kicked out.
Still, Theresa won't put them out. She can't. Yes, they are defiant, and both have criminal records, but they're her children, and she will defend them when no one else will, especially Easy, betrayed by the truth a decade ago.
As an eighth-grader at Harbor Middle School, back when it was on Bowdoin Street, Easy was accused of stealing the teacher's edition of a book. During a suspension hearing, the principal mentioned Easy was also suspected of stealing field trip money.
"There's just some field trip money that came up missing, and although we can't prove it, we suspect that Etohn had something to do with it."
It clicked. Theresa turned to her son: "You and I both know that a couple of weeks ago, you had a nice little amount of money, and I don't know where you got that money from. So, if that money came from that field trip, you need to tell the truth."
Easy sat silent and unbowed.
"We're not leaving this room. You need to tell the truth," Theresa insisted.
So he did. He admitted stealing the money. And they expelled him.
Theresa sent Easy into the hallway and pleaded with the principal. Suspend him. Send him to the counseling center. But expel him? Don't do that.
"I knew he had done wrong. I felt like I did a good thing, and I felt like I made my son do a good thing."
But good led to bad, Easy's candor was punished, and Theresa carries that pain.
For years, Easy would joke around with his mother, saying: "You never got my back, Mummy." And Theresa always felt there was truth there. "I felt like I owed Easy. You know, to be in his corner."
But some things she will not tolerate. Dealing drugs is one. Bringing guns into the house is another.
Sean was 16 when Theresa found a gun in a dresser drawer while looking for a hair brush. He tried to play it off, telling her it was fake, but she didn't buy it.
"Either the gun goes or you go," she said.
He left, stashing the gun at some girl's house.
That was the last time Sean ever brought a gun into his mother's house.
Theresa, who turns 46 this summer, may not be a religious woman. But sitting in her room, still in mourning, she knows this truth: We all have to answer for the things we do. We will answer to each other. We will answer to God. For in the Book of Life, the names of all mankind are recorded and all people are judged according to their deeds. The names of the righteous, those destined for the world to come, remain. To be blotted out signifies eternal death.
Her name, she vows, won't be deleted for violating this truth: A mother never turns her back on her children, no matter what.
Doc is out on his circuit, up one street and down another. He walks the long compass-line of Draper Street, a place of frequent violence, past cookouts and houses with brilliant gardens of roses and rhododendrons. A woman comes to the curb and scoops gray water for her flowers from a pool left from earlier in the day, when children opened a fire hydrant to play in the spray.
He goes to Hendry Street, where neighbors have been complaining lately about drug traffic and threats. He stands for a time before a big yellow house at the end of the street that residents say is the source of the trouble. He wonders aloud if anything can be done, then turns to head back.
As he approaches the parking lot where the van waits, a banged-up white Civic growls furiously toward him and comes to a stop beside him. Tal grins up at the priest through the open driver's side window. With his round, cherubic face, he looks 10 years younger than his age — 25 — and, as ever, he is full of bravado. He's dressed up for a party, blue-and-white button-down shirt, hair in braids. The car is a new acquisition.
"This needs a blessing," Doc says, peering into the car. "Maybe last rites." He still has the white flier with the job listings and holds it out for Tal.
Tal bounds from the car and glances at the flier. He thinks the housekeeper job would suit him. Still grinning, he shoves the paper in his pocket.
Two young men, Tal's friends, amble up Bowdoin Street, shake hands with him, then loiter at an iron fence a few feet away, watching silently.
Tal lights a Newport and broadens his smile, needling Doc about the women he'll be taking to bed tonight. "I am going to part-tay!" he says.
Doc reaches out to slap him on the back of the head. Tal ducks and laughs. The priest tells him to be good. "You're on the cusp of getting a job," he says.
He reminds Tal police are just looking for a reason to go after him.
"You know where to find me if you need anything," he says, pointing to the big cathedral up the street.
"I don't go to church!" Tal calls back.
The priest watches while Tal gets in the car and zooms away with a roar.
"Now they'll get him on a noise violation," he mutters.
'I don't want to see you in a courtroom again, ever." The judge's stern words that day 25 years ago ring as loud to Big Nate now as they did back then, when he sat in this courtroom the first time. At least he thinks it was the same courtroom. Then he was in his 20s and sat at the defense table, the judge staring down from the bench, looking him straight in the eye. Today, he sits in the back row while lawyers select jurors. The trial of his son Nicholas's accused killers has begun. The two defendants are at the defense table, their backs to the gallery. They seem so small, so young, like school boys in their pressed shirts and ties. The 22-year-old, with the acne scars, stares coolly. The younger one, the 18-year-old who fired the gun, looks uncertain and afraid, with the fragile face of a figurine.
Those many years ago, when Big Nate sat where they are, he already had had a long criminal career, one that started when he was a teenager. A friend had gotten a knife and liked showing it off and talking about what he was going to do with it. Nate and his other friends only laughed at him. One night when they were all together in the Fenway, the friend said he was going to hold up someone. They laughed again, dared him. Two college students near a hot dog cart looked like easy targets, and they approached from behind.
"Gimme the cash,'' Nate's friend said.
The students gave up their wallets. Nate took the hot dogs and ate them.
Nate was electrified. It was so easy.
The group of friends robbed again and again. It was fun, he says. The people he robbed had money to spare. That's how he justified it at the time.
He was arrested time and again, but it didn't stop him. His mother, working and going to nursing school at the same time, anguished over him. When she came to bail him out after his first arrest, she had warned that if he was going to be a criminal, then he had better be the best thief ever because this would be the last time she would bail him out. That didn't stop him, either.
Even the stern admonition from the judge that day didn't make a lasting impression. It would be more than a decade before he quit that life. He eventually sold drugs and started making real money, bought kids ice cream, gave money to families who needed it. He felt like a hero.
One night, one of Nate's friends pulled the trigger during a robbery. It only grazed the victim's shoulder, but the man dropped to the ground. Nate's friends ran, but Nate knelt next to him, put pressure on the wound, assured him he was OK. He stayed until he heard sirens. "I got to go," Nate says he told the man. "I'm sorry, but I got to go."
The police caught up with him that night but eventually released him when the man would not identify him as one of the robbers.
Sitting now in the courtroom, watching the mutter of business up front, all Nate can think is that those two men at the defense table took his son. He'd done bad things in his own life, but he had never killed.
The drawn-out process of picking a jury takes days. In the middle of it, the court took a day off. Nate and his wife, Trina, went to Faneuil Hall to watch their daughter Natalie graduate from high school. As Natalie took the stage and accepted her diploma, Trina threw a fist high in the air. "Yeah!" she screamed from the balcony, an instant of elation that passes in a moment, like fading sunlight.
On Friday, June 8, testimony is set to start. Trina wears a white dress. Nate puts on a polo shirt and slacks. She packs extra packages of Kleenex in her bag.
The courtroom is now full. There are harsh-looking men with tattoos and a small man in a pinstripe suit sitting near the front. He stares meekly ahead, his feet flat on the floor. He is the father of the younger defendant.
Nate and Trina and their daughters come to seats in the front row and sit stiffly, as though braced for what is about to come.
The courtroom goes quiet, and the prosecutor begins to speak:
"It was the Memorial Day weekend," he says. "In the Dorchester area, people around the community didn't have school the next day. Didn't have work the next day. It was a beautiful, almost blissful holiday weekend. . . . "
The Davises seem to huddle together as the prosecutor recounts the scooter ride, the near accident in the street, the ambush. Big Nate watches, rapt, as the lawyer extends his hand to reenact the three shots fired from the gun — one bullet missing Nicholas, the second striking his thigh, the third his chest. As the lawyer describes the trajectory of the final, fatal shot, through the heart and the left lung, Nate is overcome. He shouts, "Oh, man!" and stomps from the courtroom.
Trina is called to the stand. She walks deliberately, passing the defense table without looking. She folds her hands in her lap, answers questions about her children, how she raised them. She describes the phone call from her older daughter that night, remembers dropping the phone and driving panicked to the scene.
"There was was an ambulance just leaving. Little Nate was still there crying, and I was just screaming, 'Where is Nicholas? Where is Nicholas? Where is Nicholas?' And he said, 'Mommy, Nicholas is in that ambulance.' " Then she bows her head and weeps.
Over the next two weeks, they relive the last 10 minutes of their son's life again and again as witnesses take the stand: The gang unit officer, the cop who tried to save him, a neighborhood resident who was driving by, the woman in the variety store where Nicholas fell.
Big Nate has outbursts. During a break, guards drag him away after a stare-down with a tough man with R.I.P. tattooed across the back of his hand. During another, the man in the pinstripe suit comes near, turns his face to Big Nate, as though in apology. Big Nate stares, and the man turns again to leave.
They go home each night spent, and then return to sit through it again. On the day that Little Nate testifies, Trina packs a lunch of macaroni and cheese and fried chicken, along with an SAT study booklet for him to take back to prison. Outside the courtroom, Big Nate catches a fleeting glimpse of his son being led in cuffs down a hallway. Big Nate calls out to him — "Nate!" — and holds up a hand to wave. His son looks back, pauses for a moment and nods hello before he is led away.
THE GARDEN IS EMPTY and ablaze with early summer sunlight. From Coleman Street comes the sound of children playing.
The sound comes closer, and a small hand pushes the gate open.
Ghiyahna Ennis, 11, has come to water her plot. The garden is a stone's throw from her grandfather's porch, but it is like another world.
It is the closest thing she has to a space of her own.
Ghi-Ghi stands on the garden wall in her flip-flops. She points the hose at the sky, watching the water droplets fall in what looks like slow motion.
"I don't plan on drinking when I'm older. I don't plan on having kids. Well, maybe one, but not for a long time," she says.
Anything seems possible on a lush, green, late afternoon in the garden.
Behind her, her cousins spray mist in the air to make rainbows. They soak their heads, their shirts. Ghi-Ghi tells them to stop, but they ignore her, squealing and spraying each other.
Across the street, on the porch, her Grandpappy is watching. When he sees them dripping wet, trouble erupts.
He orders them all home. NOW.
The next day is hot. Ghiyahna sits on the porch steps, twisted with frustration. A relative promised to take her swimming but hasn't shown up.
The girls wander around the corner to Dougie's store. Back on the porch, they share a sticky, bright-green bar of taffy with their baby cousin Fatty. Then they head inside to practice their dance routine for an upcoming family party. But one of their uncles orders them to leave.
Outside again, Ghiyahna starts to cry, tears rolling down her cheeks. She feels like she has no place to be. Her sister follows her across the street to the garden.
They sit under the grape arbor, eating candy in the breeze, lacy vines and heart-shaped leaves entwined over their heads. The sound of Baby Fatty crying seems to come from far away.
JUNE 20TH. The first night of summer. Somewhere beneath the streets, a squirrel gnaws through a power cable and plunges the neighborhood into darkness. On top of Meetinghouse Hill, in the big white church that marks the northern edge of the neighborhood, a gathering of residents continues meeting. The crowd in the stuffy room is roughly half white and half black; many of them have lived here, and come to these meetings, for decades. They eat ice cream and listen wearily to the latest news from the police department: another big grant application; another bid for money to stamp out the crime on their streets.
"It sounds like some kind of scam," someone calls out in the back, as others murmur in agreement, fanning themselves in the heat.
Outside, the air is hot and sodden. As the last livid streaks of pink fade from the sky, people pour into the streets for relief from the heat. Cars tentatively negotiate busy intersections where traffic lights are dark. Fireworks crackle green and white. Along Bowdoin Street, the only light is the electric-blue pulse of police strobes from the cruisers parked at intervals along the street.
Big Nate and Trina spend the evening on the back porch with Natalie, the moon their only source of light.
The next day, the jury reaches a verdict. The Davises hurry to the courtroom and hear the words they wanted to hear, "guilty" and "guilty." After the judge sentences Crisostomo Lopes and Joshua Fernandes to mandatory life sentences, the family gathers in a private room in the courthouse and says a prayer.
But as they leave the courthouse, they do not feel the peace they had hoped for. They still have to go home, close their doors, and live forever without their son.Reporters and photographers involved in this project can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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THE BLIND DATE CHALLENGE- Brush off: Dog lovers bark up wrong trees

The background

Dating may get harder by the year in Charlottesville, with many women over 40 claiming a total dearth of eligible single men (who aren't still looking for breeders), but it's not easy even for fertile twentysomethings.

Karin's 24, a Longwood graduate who recently moved to town to work as a recreational therapist. She loves Charlottesville, but meeting datable guys has been tough. Micah's a 26-year-old entrepreneur, whose latest business venture has him moving and painting all over town.

"I'm really laid back," he says, asking for someone with a similarly quirky, easy-going style. He dates, he says, but hasn't found the right woman to suit his bohemian tendencies.

Will Micah's "moves" be slick enough for Karin? Will her idea of recreation match his?

The date:

Micah and Karin went to Starr Hill for dinner.

How did you get ready for the date?

Micah: Took a shower, trimmed my beard, and had a beer.

Karin: I was busy all day at a horse workshop that ended an hour and half later than I had expected. I had already committed to helping two girls do their hair for prom, so by the time I was finished helping them get ready, I barely had enough time to get ready myself.

Who arrived first?

Micah: She got there first.

Karin: I got there about 10 minutes early and figured I'd go ahead inside the restaurant. The staff was really nice and kept coming by to speak to me.

Were you nervous?

Micah: A little bit.

Karin: Definitely. When Micah walked to the table, I stood up to greet him and was so nervous that I didn't notice that there was a step by the table and I slipped a little. Oops!

If so, when did you settle down?

Micah: Right away.

Karin: It didn't take long. Micah greeted me with a hug and a handshake, so that kind of set a pretty comfortable, relaxed mood.

First impression?

Micah: She was very sweet.

Karin: This guy seems pretty cool and down to earth.

What was your date wearing?

Micah: Pants and a black top with sparkles. Kind of conservative, but my dress was pretty conservative as well.

Karin: Jeans and a blue Polo shirt

How did you like his/her style?

Micah: It seemed nice.

Karin: His style was fine– how I dress on a normal day. I'm all about being comfy!

What did you order?

Micah: She had a drink, and I had a couple of beers. For an entrée, I ordered the fish and chips, which was the cheapest thing on the menu; she got the tuna steak, the most expensive.

Uhhh, Micah, when the restaurant's picking up the tab, you probably should go for the good stuff... –MM

Karin: We shared the sundried tomato spinach dip for an appetizer and it was really good– very flavorful. I ordered the tuna for my meal and was very pleased. The mashed potatoes served with it were very tasty.

How was the service?

Micah: Great.

Karin: Terrific. Everyone was friendly and helpful. Our waitress was very attentive with taking our orders and making sure our drinks were full. My only complaint would be the music– it was playing so loud that it was difficult to hear each other across the table.

What did you talk about?

Micah: Basic stuff; work– she works with autistic kids, so she must have a lot of patience. We talked the whole time, but it was small talk. She's trying to get a place in Charlottesville, I'm a connoisseur of the rental market.

Karin: We talked about where we lived, went to school, and what we do for jobs now. We also talked about animals, music, and hiking. There were definitely some awkward moments of silence, though.

Did you have much in common?

Micah: A little bit– not a lot. We're both big dog lovers. She has her career intact, she's more of a professional. I'm more of a slacker probably. She's one who's going to have her life more planned out, I'm more of a go-with-the-flow kind of guy.

Karin: Yes, we did have a lot in common. I had recently been on a trip to the British Virgin Islands and found out that Micah had spent time sailing around the islands in the past. It was cool to talk about that with someone who had experienced it, too. We both also have a love for dogs (especially the big breeds). Micah and I also share an interest in the local music scene as well as hiking and camping. We both also used to live in Augusta County.

Was there anything that particularly impressed/interested you about your date?

Micah: Her professionalism– not only in her current job, but in past jobs. She has a good résumé, she has a well-paying job that she really enjoys. She uses dog and horse therapy in her work with autistic kids, and that seems like an awesome aspect of her job.

Karin: Micah's brother can't have dogs where he lives, so Micah has taken in his brother's puppy. I thought that was pretty thoughtful of him.

Any turn-offs?

Micah: She was allergic to beer. That makes her allergic to me.

Karin: The moments of silence were awkward, but I think we were both nervous and didn't know what to say. There wasn't anything about him that I disliked.

Was there chemistry? Any flirting?

Micah: No.

Karin: I don't know that there was really any chemistry. He's definitely a really nice guy, though. I enjoyed the evening and would like to hang out again.

Did you do anything afterwards?

Micah: I invited her to get more drinks, cause she had just had one glass of wine, but she lives 40 minutes out of town and said she'd take a rain check.

Karin: Micah invited me to go out for a drink at South Street Brewery, but I asked him if I could take a rain check on it. We exchanged phone numbers.

How did the date end?

Micah: Where it started. I walked her to her car, and we left.

Karin: I was really impressed that Micah offered to walk me to my car, especially since I had parked two blocks away in the opposite direction of where he had parked. When we got to my car, I offered to take him to his.

Kiss? Hug? Exchange numbers?

Micah: No, we didn't kiss. She gave me a hug and her phone number.

Karin: We hugged and said goodbye and that we'd call each other.

Overall date experience?

Micah: We had good conversation. I was comfortable talking to her; she was friendly and sweet. It was a good time.

Karin: It was a great experience, and I always love meeting new people. Hopefully Micah and I can hang out again as friends.

Would you see this person again?

Micah: Probably not.

Karin: Yeah. We have a lot in common. It would be nice to go out for a drink, go to a concert, or take our dogs for a hike.

On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate the date?

Micah: 5

Karin: 6

Well Micah and Karin won't be painting the town red, but it wasn't a dog of a date either... Maybe they'll both find better trees to bark up.–MM

Stay tuned for news of an upcoming Blind Date Challenge shindig, where local singles can meet and greet, and, most importantly, sign up for the challenge!


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Wow. Neat. That's kind of a lot. That many hits in almost a year.
I wish there were a way to know how many readers I have.
I know that I use to get about 30 hits a day. Now I get 40-50 hits a day. Sometimes 60 and up. This Monday I got up in the 80's.
Most of those are direct hits, so I'm assuming that those are mostly returning readers. But then, I still don't know exactly how many readers I have.
I guess it doesn't really matter to much. More than three.
Yay for me!
Space Losers, a sci-fi epic, of sorts.
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northstar needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 301 designs submitted by 59 freelance designers.
We need a contemporary design of our business name for use on a website, business cards, stationary, etc.
Northstar Services, Inc.
We want a "Northstar Services, Inc." designed with a security theme and possibly a logo created out of the letters NSI. We deal with corporate security and are looking for a design that implies security without being literal, more of an abstract symbol.
UPDATE: We are providing comments to all designers. Please do not take offense to anything that is said. We are merely trying to help everyone understand what exactly we are looking for.
What we mean by Corporate Security: Think about security cameras and systems and not mall security. Think about surveillance.
- Navy blue and white color scheme, should be serious in nature. UPDATE: Navy and Silver would also be acceptable. Think conservative.
- Bright colors, anything tongue in cheek, anything clip-arty, no locks, no stars, no handcuffs, nothing literal.UPDATE: Please try to steer away from the shield concept.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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Video Podcast - New Sea Kayak Navigation Aid
One look at it and you'll think, "that's so simple, why has no one thought of it before"!
[edit - See comments below - they might have!]
It allows you to do table-top chart work in the cockpit of the kayak.
Priced just £14.95, and available from Howard's website, it's the perfect seasonal gift for paddlers.
Howards stayed with us for a night and we shot a proper video which you'll find on his website and YouTube.
After we'd finished I thought we could have a go at a rougher video podcast - you can see the result below.
Next update will be in early January 2013. Subscribe free at SeaKayakPodcasts.com and you won't miss a thing.
6 comments:
- paddlingOTAKU said...
Simon, I think that is very interesting. Just about a year ago I did a post about making a small plotter http://tinyurl.com/agr3mc3 which does pretty much what this does, BUT I really like the size of this one - and it is commercially printed, and thicker than mine. The Long edge is very handy, I really like it. About the only thing that is keeping me form buying it is that I am in the states and shipping would be almost as much as the plotter.
And I really like the video podcast!
- 4:25 pm
- Simon said...
Hi PO - That short link doesn't take me to a page - could you check it please?
Glad you like the video podcast.
- 5:19 pm
Hi Simon
This kind of Tool has been used between German Sea Kayakes for a long Time.
You can buy it for 6 Euro in the Alpenverein:
It also comes with a long string in the middle (despite the picture) .
So it´s not really a "new invention".
Best wishes Björn
- 5:38 pm
- Simon said...
Wow! Thanks for that. I'll make sure Howard knows.
- 5:39 pm
- paddlingOTAKU said...
Try this Simon.
- 2:34 am
- Simon said...
Yes - very similar. Thanks for that. And there are others showing up here too.
- 9:28 am


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Md. lawmakers vote to repeal death penalty
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Maryland lawmakers approved a measure abolishing the death penalty on Friday and sent the bill to Gov. Martin O'Malley, who has long supported banning capital punishment.
The House of Delegates voted 82-56 for legislation already approved by the Senate. Eighty Democrats and two Republicans voted for the bill, which needed 71 votes to pass. Eighteen Democrats joined 38 Republicans to vote against it.
The vote represented a major victory for the Democratic governor, who has pushed for five years for the death penalty's repeal. He is widely believed to be weighing a presidential bid in 2016.
"We have a moral responsibility to stop doing the things that are wasteful and do not work and, that I would argue, run contrary to the deeper principles that unite us as Marylanders," O'Malley said, flanked by a group of death penalty opponents, including NAACP President Benjamin Jealous.
Under the bill, life without the possibility of parole would be the most severe sentence in the state.
Supporters of repeal argued the death penalty is costly, racially biased, a poor deterrent of crime and sometimes wrongfully applied. The possibility of executing the innocent prompted many lawmakers to support the measure.
"I can live with putting to death criminals who committed what are truly grievous and wicked acts against our children, our police, our mothers and our daughters," Delegate Luiz Simmons, D-Montgomery, said on the House floor, "but what I am opposed to, and what I can no longer live with, is using the death penalty to accidently put to death an innocent man or woman."
Opponents insisted capital punishment was a necessary tool in punishing those who commit the most egregious crimes.
"This bill is wrong-spirited," said Delegate Michael McDermott, an Eastern Shore Republican. "It's a shame that we will not allow future generations to have the option of putting the absolute worst of the worst to death."
Kirk Bloodsworth, the first person in the United States freed because of DNA evidence after being convicted in a death penalty case, watched the vote from the House gallery. He pumped his arms toward the ceiling when he saw the vote count.
"You can't punish the guilty by walking over an innocent — ever," an elated Bloodsworth said.
Bloodsworth was twice wrongly convicted of a 9-year-old girl's murder, and he spent two years on death row following his first trial. A second trial brought another conviction, although he received a life sentence instead of capital punishment. He was cleared in 1993.
Maryland has five men on death row. The measure would not apply to them retroactively, but the legislation makes clear that the governor can commute their sentences to life in prison without the possibility of parole. O'Malley said he would evaluate those cases individually.
Maryland has executed only five inmates since 1976. There were three executions in the 1990s and two under O'Malley's Republican predecessor, Robert Ehrlich.
In contrast, neighboring Virginia has executed 110 inmates since the U.S. Supreme Court restored capital punishment in 1976, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. However, Virginia's death row population has dwindled to eight from a peak of 57 in 1995, in part because fewer death sentences are being handed down in the state amid an increased acceptance of life without parole as a reasonable alternative.
"We see Maryland as the bellwether for the direction the rest of the country is headed in," said Diann Rust-Tierney executive director of the National Coalition To Abolish The Death Penalty. "There was an effort, early on, to try to address some of the problems with the death penalty, especially the possibility of executing an innocent man. Maryland has gone the full gamut trying to fix it and realized it can't be fixed."
The state's last execution took place in 2005, during Ehrlich's administration. He resumed executions after a moratorium had been in place pending a 2003 University of Maryland study, which found significant racial and geographic disparity in how the death penalty was carried out.
Capital punishment was put on hold in Maryland after a December 2006 ruling by Maryland's highest court that the state's lethal injection protocols weren't properly approved by a legislative committee. The committee, whose co-chairs oppose capital punishment, has yet to sign off on protocols.
O'Malley, a Catholic, expressed support for repeal legislation in 2007, but it stalled in a Senate committee. Maryland has a large Catholic population, and the church opposes the death penalty.
In 2009, lawmakers tightened the law to reduce the chances of an innocent person being sent to death row by restricting capital punishment to murder cases with biological evidence such as DNA, videotaped evidence of a murder or a videotaped confession.The center said death sentences have declined by 75 percent and executions by 60 percent nationally since the 1990s.O'Malley's signing of the measure would make Maryland the 18th state to ban the death penalty. Connecticut did so last year. Illinois, New Jersey, New Mexico and New York also have abolished it in recent years.


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2019 Toyota Corolla
SE CVT Sedan
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2019 Toyota Corolla
SE CVT Sedan
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Vehicle OverviewSunroof, SE PREMIUM PACKAGE, ALL-WEATHER FLOOR LINER PACKAGE, Back-Up Camera, Alloy Wheels. EPA 35 MPG Hwy/28 MPG City! FALCON GRAY METALLIC exterior and BLACK interior, SE trim. Warranty 5 yrs/60k Miles - Drivetrain Warranty; READ MORE!
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- Engine: 1.8L I-4 DOHC Dual VVT-i
- Transmission: Continuously Variable (CVTi-S)
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- 390CCA Maintenance-Free Battery w/Run Down Protection
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- Strut Front Suspension w/Coil Springs
- Torsion beam rear suspension w/coil springs
- 4-Wheel Disc Brakes w/4-Wheel ABS, Front Vented Discs, Brake Assist and Hill Hold Control
- Vehicle Name : Toyota Corolla
- Body Style : Sedan
- Drivetrain : Front Wheel Drive
- EPA Classification : Compact Cars
- Base Curb Weight (lbs) : 2885
- Engine Type : Regular Unleaded I-4
- Displacement : 1.8 L/110
- Fuel System : Sequential MPI
- SAE Net Horsepower @ RPM : 132 @ 6000
- SAE Net Torque @ RPM : 128 @ 4400
- Trans Type : 1
- Trans Description Cont. : CVT w/OD
- First Gear Ratio (:1) : 2.48 - 0.40
- Reverse Ratio (:1) : 2.60
- Final Drive Axle Ratio (:1) : 4.76
- Cold Cranking Amps @ 0° F (Primary) : 390
- Maximum Alternator Capacity (amps) : 80
- Suspension Type - Front : Strut
- Suspension Type - Rear : Torsion Beam
- Suspension Type - Front (Cont.) : Strut
- Suspension Type - Rear (Cont.) : Torsion Beam
- Steering Type : Rack-Pinion
- Turning Diameter - Curb to Curb (ft) : 35.6
- Brake Type : 4-wheel disc
- Brake ABS System : 4-Wheel
- Disc - Front (Yes or ) : Yes
- Disc - Rear (Yes or ) : Yes
- Front Brake Rotor Diam x Thickness (in) : 10.8
- Rear Brake Rotor Diam x Thickness (in) : 10.2
- Wheels: 17" x 7.0" Machined Alloy -inc: black painted accents
- Tires: P215/45R17 All-Season
- Steel spare wheel
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- Clearcoat paint
- Body-colored front bumper
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- Black Side Windows Trim
- Body-colored door handles
- Body-Colored Power Heated Side Mirrors w/Manual Folding and Turn Signal Indicator
- Fixed Rear Window w/Defroster
- Light tinted glass
- Variable intermittent wipers
- Fully Galvanized Steel Panels
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- Front Tire Size : P215/45HR17
- Rear Tire Size : P215/45HR17
- Spare Tire Size : Compact
- Front Wheel Size (in) : 17 x 7
- Rear Wheel Size (in) : 17 x 7
- Spare Wheel Size (in) : Compact
- Front Wheel Material : Aluminum
- Rear Wheel Material : Aluminum
- Spare Wheel Material : Steel
- Wheelbase (in) : 106.3
- Length, Overall (in) : 183.1
- Width, Max w/o mirrors (in) : 69.9
- Height, Overall (in) : 57.3
- Track Width, Front (in) : 59.8
- Track Width, Rear (in) : 59.9
- Min Ground Clearance (in) : 6.7
- Trunk Volume (ft³) : 13
- Radio: Entune Audio w/6.1" Screen -inc: Entune Multimedia Bundle (6.1" touch-screen display, AM/FM CD player, MP3/WMA playback capability, 6 speakers, auxiliary audio jack, USB 2.0 port w/iPod connectivity and control, advanced voice recognition, hands-free phone capability, phone book access and music streaming via Bluetooth wireless technology) and Siri Eyes Free
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- Front Sport Bucket Seats -inc: 6-way adjustable driver's seat and 4-way adjustable front passenger seat
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- Interior Trim -inc: Metal-Look Instrument Panel Insert, Metal-Look Console Insert and Chrome/Metal-Look Interior Accents
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- Fabric Seat Trim w/SofTex -inc: sport fabric inserts
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- Passenger Capacity : 5
- Passenger Volume (ft³) : 97.5
- Front Head Room (in) : 38.3
- Front Leg Room (in) : 42.3
- Front Shoulder Room (in) : 54.8
- Front Hip Room (in) : 53
- Second Head Room (in) : 37.1
- Second Leg Room (in) : 41.4
- Second Shoulder Room (in) : 54.8
- Second Hip Room (in) : 43.9
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- Fuel Economy Est-Combined (MPG) : 31
- EPA Fuel Economy Est - City (MPG) : 28
- EPA Fuel Economy Est - Hwy (MPG) : 35
- Tons/yr of CO2 Emissions @ 15K mi/year : 5.7
- Fuel Tank Capacity, Approx (gal) : 13.2
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Huntsville, TX – Sam Houston State has run a defense with some of the same structure as McNeese State, so the Bearkats expect a smooth transition in hiring defensive coordinator Mike Collins away from the Cowboys.
Sam Houston State announced the hiring on Wednesday as its new defensive coordinator switched Southland Conference programs. His new team has won two straight conference titles and reached the FCS championship game in each of the past two seasons.
Collins coached 12 seasons over two stints at McNeese State, including since 2008. He also was the Cowboys' assistant head coach and secondary coach.
The 2009 Cowboys were Southland co-champions.
"This is a great opportunity. I'm excited to be a Bearkat," Collins said. "What interested me most about the position was the outstanding job coach (Willie) Fritz has done here at Sam Houston. I appreciate the way the team has played with such discipline. I've also seen the support the university administration has given the program. Sam Houston obviously is committed to success in athletics. I am thankful for the opportunity they have given me."
Previously, Collins was the defensive coordinator and later the head coach at his alma mater, Louisiana-Monroe, the defensive coordinator at Northwestern State, and he spent the 2003 season as an intern on Nick Saban's national championship staff at LSU, then was the linebackers coach a year later.
Collins replaced Steve Stoker, who left Sam Houston State last month to become the defensive coordinator at UTEP. Stoker served in that position with the Bearkats the last four seasons.


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Metro-North cans conductors for cheating on safety test
Metro-North Railroad fired a whole class of aspiring conductors over an investigation involving cheating on a safety-related test about the railroad's territory and infrastructure, Metro-North spokesman Aaron Donovan confirmed Wednesday.
A copy of the safety test was stolen by one of the conductor trainees from an instructor's bag, photographed with a smartphone, and then the photo was shared with his fellow classmates, Donovan said.
In all, nine probationary conductors were dismissed, and three other MTA employees in the class were also disqualified from being promoted to conductor, Donovan said. The cheating occurred about two months ago, he said, but it came to management's attention two weeks ago.
"They were dismissed and the information has been referred to the MTA inspector general for investigation," Donovan said.
The nine probationary conductors were not yet full-fledged Metro-North employees, but were paid about $54,000 annually, about 70 percent of a fully certified conductor's salary during the 11-month training program, Donovan said.
They lacked union protection, given that Metro-North's labor agreements allow the railroad the right to terminate them within their first year of service without cause or explanation.
Calls to Michael Boxer, a spokesman for Inspector General Barry Kluger, for comment on the ongoing investigation were not returned. Anthony Bottalico, general chairman of the Association of Commuter Rail Employees, which represents conductors, declined comment on the dismissals.
Another engineer in training was dismissed this past winter when he was caught masturbating on a sleeping female passenger. He had started out as a coach cleaner, and been transferred up to the engineer training program about a year earlier. At the time, then-Metro-North President Howard Permut said, "We hold our employees to a high standard, and his alleged conduct is completely unacceptable."
The cheating scandal comes at a time when the railroad is seeking to overcome concerns about safety, after the Federal Railroad Administration found in March that Metro-North's "safety culture" suffered due to a singular focus on on-time performance. The finding was part of a report from the oversight agency's investigation into the railroad after a string of accidents and mishaps, most prominently the two major derailments, one in Bridgeport last May and the other in the Bronx, N.Y., in December, which killed four people.
Since taking over leadership of the railroad in February, Metro-North President Joseph Giulietti has emphasized that rigorous safety standards would take priority over on-time performance.
Among the FRA report's findings and recommendations was that Metro-North needed to reform its training department, especially its oversight of conductors and engineers.
Many supervisors did not conduct annual face-to-face performance reviews with conductors and engineers, the report found, and the railroad was not doing adequate testing of compliance with operating rules.
Railroads must revamp their conductor qualification and certification programs by June 2015 under the Passenger Rail Investment and Safety Act of 2008, and certified conductors must be knowledgeable about the physical characteristics of the territory where they are operating. The FRA approved Metro-North's new conductor qualification and certification program in December 2012, according to FRA spokesman Warren Flatau.
Federal regulations require conductors be recertified every three years, Donovan said, including testing on their familiarity with speed restrictions, station locations and curves, and other physical characteristics of the territories they might work in. The Bronx derailment happened when the engineer approached a 30 mph turn at 80 mph. Testing on Metro-North operating rules is required every year, Donovan said.


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The Victim Compensation Program (VCP) can help victims of violent crime and their families deal with the emotional, physical, and financial aftermath of crime. Victims can apply for compensation by filing an application with the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board, which administers the VCP.
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ProShot is an app for your Windows Phone 8 device that delivers a ton of features to your camera. The app was recently updated to version 2.2 that piles a few more features into the mix, including a new look.
Most notable is the addition of a burst mode that allows you to capture images at five frames per second. The burst mode interface is a little on the cumbersome side but after a while it becomes second nature.
Once you've lined up your shot, press and hold the screen until a "burst" symbol appears. Once you see the symbol, press the shutter button and the camera begins capturing up to fifteen images at a rate of 5 frames per second.
Other features of the version 2.2 update include:
- Support for portrait user interface
- Auto aspect ratio added
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- Histogram moved out of beta
- Chinese language support added
- Various bug fixes and user interface tweaks
You'll also note a different icon and splash screen for ProShot to add to the slightly new appearance. Overall the ProShot update adds to a very nice Windows Phone 8 app. ProShot is a great alternative to the native Windows Phone camera app for those looking for a little more control over things.
There is a trial version available for ProShot to let you try things out. The full version of ProShot is currently running $1.99 and you can find it here in the Store. Due to it being a lens app, it's for Windows Phone 8 only.


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While the Oldsmobile brand may now be defunct, the company enjoyed a 107-year run beginning at the dawn of the automotive age. Along the way, Oldsmobile carved out a well-deserved reputation as a producer of reliable high-end and high performance American-made vehicles. However, missteps such as a failed line of diesel-powered passenger cars in the 1970s and an inability to remain in step with changing consumer tastes in the 1990s ultimately lead to the brand being discontinued in 2004.
Oldsmobile Origins
Oldsmobile was founded by Ransom E. Olds as the Olds Motor Vehicle Company, in 1897. The company enjoyed almost instant success. By the early 1900s, thanks to models like the Curved Dash, it was producing the best-selling cars in the U.S. at the time. The Curved Dash was also the first car to be mass-produced using an automotive assembly line. While this particular innovation is often wrongly credited to Ford, it was in fact Oldsmobile that pioneered this process.
Once Ransom Olds departed, General Motors acquired the company in 1908, rechristening it as Oldsmobile. GM steered the Oldsmobile Division toward the high-end of its vehicle hierarchy. Early models produced by GM like the Model 42 Touring Roadster were known for being sophisticated and luxurious. The company introduced its first closed top, the Model 37, in 1918. The seven-seater, V-8 powered Model 46 proved a hit during the 1920s, and Oldsmobile continued to innovate throughout the 1930s and 1940s.
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In the postwar era, Oldsmobile introduced the iconic Rocket 88. The 88 was powered by a short-stroke, overhead-valve V-8, and rapidly became a favorite among automotive enthusiasts. In the 1960s, Oldsmobile introduced the sporty front-wheel drive Toronado, and in the 1970s the Oldsmobile Cutlass would become one of the most popular cars in the U.S. After an unsuccessful stab at producing diesel-powered vehicles in the late 1970s, Oldsmobile regained its footing in the 1980s, thanks in large part to the continued success of the Cutlass.
Oldsmobile sales in the U.S. peaked in 1985. At the time, Olds ranked just behind Chevrolet and Ford as the third best-selling U.S. automotive brand.
The Oldsmobile brand's fortunes finally began to flag in the 1990s. With many Japanese manufacturers finding success through upscale imprints such as Acura and Lexus, Oldsmobile began to lose its footing in the market. GM attempted to reestablish the Oldsmobile brand as an alternative to the upscale Japanese and German imports with the introduction of the Aurora in 1995 as it shuffled the deck with its various divisions and retooled Chevrolet and Pontiac as its performance marques.
However, the auto giant's efforts were largely unsuccessful, and many of Oldsmobile's existing models were phased out. By December 2000, GM had officially announced that the Oldsmobile brand would be discontinued, and in April 2004, the last ever Oldsmobile -- a compact Alero -- rolled off the assembly line.
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Released in 1999, the Alero was Oldsmobile's most successful attempt to break into the compact car segment of the market. While the Alero wasn't successful enough to reverse Oldsmobile's fortunes, it was regarded as stylish and well-designed by automotive critics.
The full-size Oldsmobile 88 was one of the brand's most successful and long-running models. The 10th and final generation of the 88 ran from 1992 to 1999 and was intended to be a luxury sport sedan that could compete with European brands. It was also known variously as the 88 Royal, Regency, and LSS.
The 98 was another full-size sedan produced by Oldsmobile that dated all the way back to 1941. The final generation of the 98 was released in 1991. Massively large for the time period, the 98 failed to catch on with the public and was discontinued by 1996.
At one time, the Oldsmobile Cutlass was the most popular car in the United States. The sixth and final generation of the Cutlass was unveiled in 1997 and was in fact a more upscale version of the Chevrolet Malibu. Production of the Cutlass continued until 1999, when it was replaced by the Alero.
Oldsmobile also tried its hand at cashing in on the 1990s SUV craze with the Bravada. A midsize luxury SUV, the Bravada was unveiled in 1991. The Bravada's third and final generation holds the distinction of being the last new model issued by Oldsmobile. Note the Bravada was successful enough for Oldsmobile to keep producing it until the brand's demise in 2004.
Popular Oldsmobile Products and Technologies
Oldsmobile was one of the most successful automotive brands in the U.S. for the better part of 100 years. The company introduced numerous automotive innovations in its time, including one of the earliest automatic transmissions, the overhead-valve V-8 in the 1930s, and the driver's side airbag in the 1970s. Drivers today still appreciate Oldsmobiles for being a reasonable used car option.
Oldsmobile Achieva
1998-1995 | Coupe, Midsize, Sedan
Oldsmobile Alero
2004-1999 | Coupe, Midsize, Sedan
General Motors released the Oldsmobile Alero in 2004.
Oldsmobile Aurora
2003-2001, 1999-1995 | Hatchback, Luxury, Sedan
General Motors manufactured the Oldsmobile Aurora from 1994 to 2003 as a recovery vehicle to revamp the sales figures for the manufacturer, which suffered from plummeting sales at the time.
Oldsmobile Bravada
2004-1996 | SUV, Utility/Offroad, Wagon
The Oldsmobile Bravada is a midsize sport utility vehicle (SUV) of three generations.
Oldsmobile Ciera
1995 | Midsize, Sedan
The Oldsmobile Ciera, which in its earlier years many referred to as the Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera, uses front drive and is categorized as a midsize sedan.
Oldsmobile Cutlass
1999-1998 | Midsize, Sedan
The Oldsmobile Cutlass lived on the automobile charts from 1985 to 1991, briefly teetering on the verge of extinction in 1987 when the manufacturer produced it as a limited edition.
Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme
1997 | Coupe, Midsize, Sedan
The Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme brags of being one of the most attractive vehicles ever manufactured by General Motors for the American market.
Oldsmobile Delta Eighty-Eight Regency
1998-1997 | Midsize, Sedan
The Oldsmobile Delta Eighty-Eight Regency debuted in 1992 and saw production until 1999 as a four-door sedan.
Oldsmobile Intrigue
2002-1998 | Midsize, Sedan
The Oldsmobile Intrigue, built from 1998 to 2001, focuses on design and intent to compete with the fast-growing, formidable Japanese vehicles.
Oldsmobile Silhouette
2004-1995 | Minivan/Van
The Oldsmobile Silhouette minivan is a remarkable vehicle that has stood its ground as a trendsetter in the minivan range of vehicles.


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Electrical Systems Technology
The Electrical Systems Technology curriculum is designed to provide training for persons interested in the installation and maintenance of electrical systems found in residential, commercial and industrial facilities. Training, most of which is hands-on, will include such topics as AC/DC theory, basic wiring practices, programmable logic, controllers, industrial motor controls, the National Electric Code, and other subjects as local needs require. Graduates of this program should qualify for a variety of careers in the electrical field as an on-the-job trainee or apprentice. The Associate Degree provides more in-depth exploration of programmable logic controller, estimating, and energy management. Graduates of the degree program would qualify for jobs in both the construction and industrial maintenance fields. The Certificate programs offer the opportunity to acquire specialized knowledge in specific areas of the electrical installation and maintenance for Commercial, Control, Residential, and Maintenance.
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Click here for a printable description of the Electrical Systems Technology A.A.S. degree program.