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President Trump Meets With Prime Minister Abe
By DipNote Bloggers on February 10, 2017
President Donald J. Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held their first official meeting today at the White House. Following their meeting, President Trump and Prime Minister Abe released a joint statement affirming their determination to strengthen the U.S.-Japan Alliance and advance the two countries' economic relationship.
In a joint statement, President Trump and Prime Minister Abe underscored, "The unshakable U.S.-Japan Alliance is the cornerstone of peace, prosperity, and freedom in the Asia-Pacific region. The U.S. commitment to defend Japan through the full range of U.S. military capabilities, both nuclear and conventional, is unwavering. Amid an increasingly difficult security environment in the Asia-Pacific region, the United States will strengthen its presence in the region, and Japan will assume larger roles and responsibilities in the alliance. The United States and Japan will continue to implement and expand defense cooperation as laid out in the 2015 U.S.-Japan Defense Guidelines. The United States and Japan will further enhance cooperation with allies and partners in the region. The two leaders underscored the importance of maintaining international order based upon the rule of law."
On the topic of the United States' economic relationship with Japan, the two leaders highlighted, "The United States and Japan represent 30 percent of the world's GDP and share an interest in sustaining a strong global economy, ensuring financial stability, and growing job opportunities. To advance these interests, the President and the Prime Minister reaffirmed their commitments to using the three-pronged approach of mutually-reinforcing fiscal, monetary, and structural policies to strengthen domestic and global economic demand. The two leaders discussed opportunities and challenges facing each of their economies and the need to promote inclusive growth and prosperity in their countries, the Asia-Pacific region, and the world. They emphasized that they remain fully committed to strengthening the economic relationships between their two countries and across the region, based on rules for free and fair trade. This will include setting high trade and investment standards, reducing market barriers, and enhancing opportunities for economic and job growth in the Asia-Pacific."
Prime Minister Abe invited President Trump for an official visit to Japan during the course of this year, and also welcomed a visit of Vice President Mike Pence to Tokyo. President Trump accepted these invitations.
Today, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson also met with his Japanese counterpart, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, at the U.S. Department of State.
Editor's Note: This entry is also published on Medium.com/StateDept.
For more information:
- Read the Joint Statement from President Donald J. Trump and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
- See remarks by President Trump and Prime Minister Abe of Japan in Joint Press Conference.
- Learn more about the United States' relations with Japan.

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Well, if anyone wants them I have a Clonetrooper, Snowtrooper, and Stormtrooper up for grabs. They are kind of growing on me - have to get rid of them before I'm infected.
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First of all....I received the exchange piece from the "Stitch Red for your Heart" exchange....and I'm in love with it. Leigh stitched for me this fantastic 15sided biscornu. You should see it in person...it's SO beautiful. Thank you so much Leigh for this beautiful piece and also for the candle holders and the red floss.
I finally finished this scissor pocket called "Token of Love" This one was in my travel bag for donkey's ages, and I thought it's time to get it out and finish it. The initials of my daughters and my husband are worked in it :)
Next in row is an applique piece, which is my second piece ever, and I'm pretty pleased how it turned out. I mounted that on a canvas. The kit was laying around here since months simply because I'm a chicken and didn't have the courage to start it. After this one was finished, I ordered 2 more out of the serie (Hope and Faith).


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July 2014 How To Survive! - Tales of SurvivalPosted in News on June 14, 2014
Each month, we talk to experts about how you can survive the various scenarios that could come your way while wheeling or in the Great Outdoors, from bears and gators to your Jeep plunging off a mountain or into a body of water, as well as skills you should have. This month, we've got some of your unbelievable letters of survival.
J-Date (aka Jeep-Date)
I had started online dating and found this girl whose profile said she liked four-wheeling, so I asked her out and we decided to take my Wrangler on this new trail I'd just heard about called Yellow Bear Gulch near Black Bear Pass in Colorado -- so new, only the locals know where it is and few have been able to get over the first obstacle, so make sure you ask one if you want to wheel it. We got to the first obstacle and it was a hillclimb with a bit of a ledge at the top, so it required a little gas but I gave it a little too much as I crested and discovered too late it was a sheer drop-off. I rolled the Jeep twice and we landed in a tree, which broke our fall then dumped us into the river, which was raging. We were both OK, and so was the Jeep, but she was screaming as we were caught in the rapids. There was nothing we could do but go along for the ride, and her screaming got louder as we pounded into the rocks and trees on either side of us. Finally, a big rock stopped us and I was able to drive over it and get us out of the river. But we weren't done trying to survive -- the only way out was through a super deep mud pit and my Jeep got stuck. I was a gentleman and let her drive while I stood in the waist-deep mud and pushed us free. Once we hit pavement, I asked if she wanted to get coffee but she said no and that she just wanted to go home. Her Facebook status: "Worst date ever -- I almost died." Mine: "Best date ever."
Ben D.
Tequila Run
Me and my buddy Jake decided to go to Mexico for Christmas break from San Diego State (go Aztecs!). I was all "We need to get the best tequila," and he was like "Yeah, man, Rosarito Beach!" and I was all "Yeah, man!" My mom was all "There's a travel warning," and I was all "You only live once!" so Jake and I took my CJ down. We had to go on this dirt road to get to the bar and we were the only Americans in the whole place. We order the tequila and everything's going OK, but then these two Mexican dudes walk up and are all "You guys don't belong, come with us," and Jake's all "We're not going anywhere with you," and I'm all "No way, man," and then they took out their guns and no one tried to help us, so we had to go into this back room with them. Jake was all "You need to let us go, we're just college kids," but the Mexican dude said, "I'm calling your parents and telling them they won't see you again unless they give us $10,000." He asks for our cell phones, and I said, "You can't have our phones," and then the other guy said he was going to cut off half my tongue if I didn't stop talking back, so I gave him my keys and he went outside to get our phones. When he came back he said, "You have a Jeep?" We immediately bonded over that and started doing shots of some of this awesome tequila and learned they were from Los Zetas, the biggest drug cartel in Mexico. Turns out these guys wheel all the time and love Jeeps. As we were leaving, the one dude said, "You know we would have killed you, right?" Moral of story is, Jeeps save lives -- and tongues. P.S. I got a cool nickname too from the trip: "Lengua Blanca" (white tongue).
Austin R.
Chula Vista, CA
All Washed Up
My wife and I were vacationing in Oregon and doing some camping and fishing, when we thought we saw what looked like a Jeep in the water not far from shore. We waded out and discovered it was a Grand Cherokee. We managed to get the WJ on land with help from fellow campers. Not surprising, the engine was flooded, and the interior was destroyed, plus there was rust in a bunch of spots. And curiously, it was right-hand drive. I'd heard about stuff floating over here from the tsunami in Japan, but a Jeep?! Without the VIN I couldn't figure out who the owner was or even the dealership, so we figured we'd make it a ground-up project Jeep! We haven't started rebuilding it yet, but we did name it: Project Radioactive! This may not have been about me surviving, but that Jeep is certainly a survivor.
Patrick and Ellen D.
Snakes on the Plain
I spotted a barn-find M-170 that a local farmer had on his property. I decided to talk to him, and he didn't really seem to know or care what he had. Said it was on the property when he bought the land a couple years ago and that he'd sell it to me. I checked it out and it must have been put to bed with fluid and everything, because it fired right up. He told me I could tool around his property in it as the test drive, so I did and found a hillclimb. About halfway up, I started to hear this hissing sound. Next thing I knew, a rattlesnake stuck its head through a hole in the firewall and was heading right between my legs! I couldn't stop the truck and get out on the hill, so I braced for it -- he took a nibble on my right thigh then slithered under the seat. I backed the truck down and raced back to the farmer, who shooed me to the passenger seat and took the wheel to race me to the hospital. We went back up the same trail I was just on, because he said it was a shortcut. Despite my agony and fear, I did notice the truck wheeled really well. Everything turned out fine at the hospital, and when we were back to his house, I knew I needed to make an offer and not haggle after how helpful he'd been, but he decided after test-driving it himself, it was too good to sell. So I guess you could say I survived a snake in a Jeep, but I wish I had a Jeep instead of a bite!
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Many of you by now will recognize the name HTC as the abbreviation for the Taiwanese based company High Tech Computer. They are the world's largest manufacturer of Pocket PC and Smartphone OS based PDAs, and as such they are responsible for many of the more recognizable devices which are rebranded by companies including Hewlett Packard, i-mate, Audiovox, and Dopod - to name a few.
The device we'll be looking at today is known by several names including the O2 XDA Trion, the MDA Vario II, Orange SPV M3100, and the Dopod 838Pro. This review will specifically cover the HTC Hermes branded as the Dopod 838Pro; while some of its included software may differ from other branded versions, the general hardware specifications should be about the same.
Similar to the HTC Apache / Sprint PPC-6700 which I reviewed last year, the Hermes features a compact touch-screen PDA form factor with a left-sliding keyboard which only appears when needed. The Hermes is intended to function not only as the user's mobile phone, but also as a fully functional PDA, an email and text messaging center, and a compact means to wirelessly surf the internet.
Unboxing the Hermes:
The Dopod 838Pro includes a manual that is almost 0.75″ thick! I wonder if anyone ever really reads it. Also in this section are the leather carrying pouch, user manual, quick-start guide, getting started CD, and an application CD.
Nestled in the bottom of the box are the Dopod 838Pro, its battery, a round prong (Asian) AC adapter, two styli, a USB sync cable and a USB hands free headset.
Before we talk about the hardware, let's look at the device's specs…
Battery Type: User removable / rechargeable 1350 mAh Li-Ion
Battery life: Up to 5 hours talk time, up to 220 hours standby
Measurements: (with a micrometer) 4.44″ tall x 2.29″ wide x 0.85″ thick
Weight: 6.1 ounces
Processor: Samsung 400MHz
Wireless: GSM Quadband (850/900/1800/1900)+WCDMA Triband (850/1900/2100), EDGE/GPRS/UMTS, Bluetooth (v2.0) and WiFi, IrDA FIR
Messaging Support: SMS, MMS (English; Chinese support via CE-Star)
Email support: Outlook, multiple POP3, Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo mail
Platform: Windows Mobile 5.0
Expansion Card: MicroSD (hot-swappable)
Memory: 128MB ROM, 64MB RAM (persistent storage)
Screen: 2.8″ 240×320 resolution (QVGA), 65536 colors TFT screen (effective)
Audio: Dual Receivers/Speakers, Hands-Free supported, microphone
Multimedia Player: Windows Media Player 10 Mobile
Supported ring tones: 40 chord polyphonic, MIDI/SP-MIDI/WMA/WMV/MP3/AMR/SMF
Cameras: Primary: 2.0 megapixel CMOS w/flash and mirror, 0.1 megapixel CMOS for video calls and self-portraits, video recording capable
The Hermes measures exactly 4.44″ tall x 2.29″ wide x 0.85″ thick and with its memory card installed weighs 6.1 ounces. In hand it is quite comfortable and feels very solid - there is no creaking and the keyboard is not loose.
Those who read my PPC-6700 review may remember that I thought the silver painted plastic of that particular device made it feel and look cheap; there is none of that here. While the 838Pro's case is still composed of plastic, it is matte black with matte silver plastic trim. There is a muted silver metal trim around the right side of the screen, and the only truly shiny area on the front is in the center of the directional pad. As I've stated previously, I believe that this center button was left shiny so that it could also operate as a mirror when making video calls.
Overall, the 838Pro's style greatly appeals to me; it feels nicely weighted without being too heavy, and it looks like the expensive device that it is.
Previous to using the Dopod, I was alternating between the HTC Universal or the DualCor cPC as my daily driver, depending upon the circumstance. You can see in this line-up that the Hermes is quite diminutive when compared to my two favorite devices.
It's amazing what can be crammed into such a tiny space…
The left side of the Hermes introduces a feature that I immediately fell in love with and that I truly believe should be on every PDA - the scroll wheel. Measuring just 0.25″ long, when used in conjunction with the OK button directly below it the pressable scroll wheel makes it possible to quickly move through a screen full of options and make a selection - all without taking out the stylus or touching the screen. The black button to the right is the voice recorder, which will create a voice note when pressed. This button is generally mapped to eReader on all of my PDAs, it's not a function that I ever need.
For those that aren't familiar with what an OK button will do, look at it as a type of "Back" button. When in a program, pressing the OK button will minimize the window of the screen that is open. If four programs are open, it will back through each of them until the user is back to the Today screen. When at the Today screen, pressing the OK button next to the scroll wheel will expand the Start menu.
Even at half-brightness, the Hermes' 2.8″ QVGA screen is quite vivid and bright. I never know if it is because the device is newer or simply because screens continue to improve as new devices come out, but it always seems as if the screen on a newer device is clearer and crisper, and the Dopod's is no exception. Here it is compared to the screen on the HTC Universal.
Hermes on the left, Universal on the right
While I missed the Universal's larger screen when reading eBooks, believe it or not I found that the scroll wheel almost made up for it…almost!
Towards the bottom of the device is a slot for one of the tiniest memory formats available - microSD. The card presses in and out of the slot, similar to the way a spring-loaded SD card slot accepts and ejects its card.
On the one hand it drives me crazy that I now have yet another memory card to keep up with, on the other hand microSD memory card prices are not too outrageous at all. I would like to think that the space saved by not installing an SD slot allowed the Hermes to add an extra feature…or two.
The button cluster on the front of the device is quite complex - not only is there a four-way and selectable D-pad, there are also seven other buttons surrounding it. From the top left corner and going clockwise…
The first button activates the Video Call Button. Those that are not on a UMTS system, and that therefore can't use the video call features, might want to remap this button to another function…but you can't. Ha!
Instead, you can press the button to call up the video call function and just make voice phone calls - dreaming of the day when your area has an upgraded 3G network. The other six buttons are pretty self-explanatory: left and right confirmation buttons, another OK button (this one does not activate the Start menu from the Today screen), a red LED backlit call Hang-Up button, a green LED backlit Talk button, and a Start Menu button - ah, that explains why the OK button wouldn't do that particular function…
Phone calls are made by pressing the green LED Talk button on the left. When pressed, an onscreen keypad will pop up and the numbers can either be tapped in with the stylus or a finger. Numbers can also be entered without ever touching the screen - pressing the D-pad to the left will pull up the sped dial screen, while pressing it to the right will pull up recently dialed numbers. I found that it was possible to do much of the navigation one-handed - without ever touching the screen or using the stylus.
The bottom of the Hermes has an Infrared port, a small reset button hole, a small microphone, the battery compartment lock/unlock latch and the mini-USB port which not only serves to sync and charge the device, it is also the headset jack. This was a new feature to me, and I have to admit that while it is nice to eliminate yet another orifice on a device, it means that a separate adapter must be purchased if the user does not find the included headset acceptable…or if, in other words, you want to use your favorite 3.5mm plugged headset to listen to MP3s.
On the bottom of the right side is the stylus silo, the button above it activates the camera. Further up the side of the Hermes are the button that triggers the Communication Manager screen and the Power button. There are a couple things that should be pointed out about the Power button - a quick press only turns the screen on or off. The device is not actually shut off unless the button is pressed and held for five seconds. When the screen is turned off calls may be received, when the device is turned off no calls will come through.
Here's another shot of the top end of the Hermes…
…and here is a close up of the dedicated Messaging Center and the Pocket Internet Explorer buttons; each button is set on the end of a brushed metal toggle which reminds me of a dignified see-saw. Both buttons are remappable for those that are using other than the default programs. Under this toggle bar are two LEDs that surround the call speaker. The left LED indicates WiFi or Bluetooth status, while the right LED indicates event notifications, charging status, and UMTS/GSM status. Looking mighty splotchy in the upper right corner is the video call camera.
The top of the Hermes is smooth and domed - and missing an external antenna of any kind. I found that the reception was quite excellent in my area, and although displayed bars may be a lame indicator of signal strength, it was still reassuring to see a full line-up when indoors. Calls made on the handset were clear, and I did not experience any dropped calls during testing.
Since I got it almost a month ago, I have made a habit of opening and closing the slider even when I don't need to use it - trying to see if the repeated action will cause the action to loosen or "sloppy"; the keyboard still feels as tight now as it did the day I got the device.
When the keyboard is opened the Hermes immediately converts from a portrait oriented PDA to landscape. The keyboard has a bright blue backlight which while pretty seems slightly "blurry"; personally, I would prefer a sharp white LED. The keyboard itself is very well laid out, the buttons have a good tactile feedback, and using my thumbs to tap out text messages and emails is quite comfortable.
Here is a shot that shows the keys when backlit. The selection of accessible features from the keyboard is quite good…but wait, what is that I see? Is that yet another OK button?! Enough is enough already.
Similar to the HTC Apache I previously reviewed, the keyboard on the Hermes is moves on twin rails which slide open and shut. Unlike the Apache keyboard, when opened there is no play between the two halves of the device whatsoever; everything feels rock solid.
The user replaceable battery is accessed by sliding the battery cover latch to the unlock position; the thin plastic back will immediately unlock and release into a lifted position.
Although the battery compartment cover is as thin as that of the Apache, there is a huge difference between the closure quality. Unlike the Apache, the Hermes' cover can not be slid off when too much pressure is applied; it is only released when the compartment release is triggered.
The SIM card slides into a receiving tray underneath the tightly fitting battery.
To the left of the camera is the rubber cap which covers the car antenna connection; it also pokes through the battery compartment cover when it is in place.
The Hermes is outfitted with two cameras, the main one being the 2.0 megapixel CMOS with a white LED flash and round mirror. The camera has two focus settings, normal and macro. This camera can also be used to capture videos.
Here are two sample photos taken on a rather overcast day…not too shabby for a cheesy ol' PDA camera!
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For comparison, I am including two photos from the HTC Universal. Although it is only a 1.3 megapixel camera, there is a setting that allows a two megapixel capture size. (FYI - picture sets were taken at different times of day, so please excuse shading differences)
The video camera on the front of the Hermes is a much lesser quality 0.1 megapixel CMOS; it can also be used for self-portraits…but I didn't take any.
The stylus is housed in the bottom right of the Hermes…
…it is of the telescoping variety.
When completely compact, the stylus measures just a little over 2″ long.
When extended, the stylus is 3.25″. As one can imagine, the stylus is "okay" for jotting a quick note, but it is not comfortable for extended text entry; its tip is also quite sharp and scratchy. I have noticed scratches in the Block Recognizer area of the lower left screen. Thankfully I put a left-over PPC-6700 screen protector on the first day and there is no permanent damage to the actual screen.
A feature I might have scoffed at years ago, but that I greatly appreciate now is the lanyard hole. If you are the type to often walk around with your device in hand, it only makes sense to add a simple wrist lanyard. The first time you forget what you are doing and reflexively open your hand, you'll be grateful. If you never walk with your device in hand, the hole is nicely designed and easy to overlook.
The included leather pouch is as expected - better than nothing, but still pretty lame.
It has a clip that will accept up to a 1.5″ belt on the rear…
And while it provides excellent screen protection, three sides of the Hermes are left greatly exposed.
As I mentioned in the Specifications section, the Hermes has built in GSM Quadband (850/900/1800/1900)+WCDMA Triband (850/1900/2100), EDGE/GPRS/UMTS, Bluetooth (v2.0) WiFi and Infrared. In a nutshell, this means that you will be able to connect just about anywhere - except perhaps in the middle of nowhere.
The only thing that might be out of the ordinary here is that since the Dopod is set up for Asia, mine did not have the T-Mobile wireless internet settings pre-programmed. This was solved by creating an internet connection through the process mentioned on the T-Mobile site. Once that was completed, I was able to surf and email to my heart's content.
Battery Life:
I was able to read an eBook for several hours, check my email via T-Mobile GPRS, and make a few calls without dipping below 80%. That's not a very scientific test, but since I am not far from a plug for much of the day, it will have to do for now. I will try to get a more thorough battery test performed and posted in the next day or two.
A Potential Problem:
As mentioned previously on this site, several HTC Hermes owners are having issues with their digitizers. Please read this entry for more information. At this time I have not had any problems with mine, but it needs to be a consideration.
Included Software:
Since the usual included Windows Mobile 5 software has already been covered many times already, I'll just briefly touch upon the Dopod 838Pro'a add-on software…
It came loaded with Cyberon Voice Commander, a "Hands free voice command & control for PPC phone with highly accurate continuous speech recognition."
Aidem MP3 Player, which is a Dopod add-on for MP3 and WMA files.
Magic Productions Magic Puz, a very simple bubble pop game and Magic Productions Another World, an old Amiga role playing game that has been translated to the PPC, which even if it is corny is…kind of cool. Someone needs to translate Leisure Suit Larry!
And SimpleAct QuickMark, which is best described as a bar-scanner and decoder program for mobile devices.
The Application CD includes a copy of World Card Mobile, an interesting application which allows you to use the camera to take pictures of people's business cards, edit them, and then file the transcribed info directly into Contacts. Clever!
Hermes owners interested in a little bit of fine-tuning should also check out fit4cat Hermes Tweaker.
I will admit that I was somewhat prejudiced against the Hermes coming into this review. It should be obvious that I have become quite spoiled by the larger screens of the Universal and cPC, and "downgrading" to 2.8″ again just seemed so backwards. However the HTC Hermes turned out to be a very robust wireless PDA, and it quickly won me over.
Perhaps because of its smaller size I found myself holding it more often and using it when I might not have otherwise thought to. Battery life has turned out to be quite good, and the bright screen has been a welcome treat for my eyes.
Overall, this is a PDA phone that I would recommend to anyone that wants a "can do it all" device. While this might not necessarily be a mobile phone for a PDA beginner, it is intuitive enough that almost anyone could easily learn its functions. I have to admit that I will miss it once it's gone…I hope the new user enjoys it as much as I have.
The HTC Hermes is available from various distributors under various brand names.
MSRP: Approx $999US, approx. $1499AU
What I Like: Excellent style & finish, snappy performance, bright screen, A2DP, Quad Band, easy wireless connections with multiple options, 2 megapixel camera with macro-mode
What Needs Improvement: The non-standard mini-USB headset jack, digitizer problems on some Hermes devices
Added Later: These are the results gathered by running Spb Benchmark on both the HTC Hermes and Universal. Each device had been freshly reset and had no programs installed…


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The Middle Oconee River near Arcade is expected to crest Tuesday at 22', a "moderate" flood stage.
Early Tuesday morning, the river was at 20.5'. Flood stage is 16' and the record stage is 25.4'.
Although the river is expected to go down Wednesday, heave rains are now forcast which could could increase flooding during the day.
Some areas of Jackson County received 5" of rain Monday, creating flooding conditions in the streets. A number of wrecks were also reported Monday.
Anyone with flood damage is asked to call the EMA office at 706-367-5202 so staff can take photos and do assessments on the property.
TUESDAY: Flood alert issued for Middle Oconee
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Drive to any high place ( like a bridge ) and stop the car next to the ceiling. Take another car and crash to the car 1 ( don't touch the car over a sec or it will explode ). Keep doing it until the car is completely bugged to the other side and floats in air. Drive the car 2 to the car 1's original position and take another car and crash to the car 2 like you crashed the car 2 to the car 1. This only for making sure the car 1 is completely at the other side ( this all will be faster if you put the cars 1 and 2 sideways ). When you have crashed 2-3 times, get out. Take another car ( car A ) and drive it 5-6 meters from the first place and stop it SIDEWAYS ( you have to stop it when the drivers door is next to the ceiling ) next to the ceiling. Take another car ( car B ) and crash it to the car A like you did with car 1 and car 2. Don't crash it completely to the other side ( only half ). Drive the car B away and get in and out from the car A and - Tadah! You'll float in air! Get in to the floating car and drive. Sorry because this text is so long and sometimes this wont work but hope you liked :D
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STOCKTON - Stockton police assisted Department of Motor Vehicles investigators in apprehending a man who sold a number of used cars with falsified odometer readings, authorities said.
STOCKTON - Stockton police assisted Department of Motor Vehicles investigators in apprehending a man who sold a number of used cars with falsified odometer readings, authorities said.
DMV investigators requested assistance from the Stockton Police Department on Thursday after Albert Navarro Zapata, 27, fled on foot, officers said. Zapata flagged down a vehicle, got into the back seat and then refused to get out when police located the vehicle near West Lane and East Alpine Avenue, authorities said.
Zapata reached under the seat several times, prompting officers to deploy a police dog into the vehicle. Zapata was taken into custody after being bitten by the police dog, officers said.
Zapata was arrested on suspicion of altering odometer mileage, obtaining money by false pretenses and acting as an unlicensed car dealer, authorities said. He was treated for dog bites at a hospital before being booked into the San Joaquin County Jail, where he is being held on $155,000 bail, according to jail records.
The DMV launched a seven-month investigation after a victim in the Fresno area purchased a car on Craigslist, authorities said. When the victim registered the vehicle, DMV officials determined the odometer reading had been altered, investigators said.
Investigators believe Zapata bought Honda and Acura vehicles, lowered the odometer readings, altered the titles and used Craigslist to resell the vehicles throughout the Central Valley. Craigslist records revealed that Zapata posted nearly 100 vehicles on the site in a 19-month period, authorities said.
Zapata sold at least six vehicles with odometer readings lowered by an average of 100,000 miles, but investigators believe there may be other victims, the DMV said. Anyone who believes they purchased a vehicle from Zapata is encouraged to contact the Stockton DMV Investigations Office at (209) 473-6964.
The DMV warns car buyers to check with manufacturers and inspect car titles closely to determine if the odometer has been tampered with.
"Zapata's fraudulent acts caused victims to pay a substantial amount more for a vehicle than its true market value," Central Area DMV Cmdr. Tom Wilson said. "Make sure you do research on the vehicle before buying a used vehicle and beware of high-pressure tactics. If it looks too good to be true, it probably is."
Contact reporter Jason Anderson at (209) 546-8279 or email@example.com. Follow him at recordnet.com/crimeblog or on Twitter @Stockton911.


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Alexander V. Litvinenko, a former K.G.B. officer and critic of the Kremlin who had won asylum in Britain, died in November 2006, after drinking tea laced with a radioactive isotope, polonium 210, at a meeting with Russian contacts in London. He was 43.
Mr. Litvinenko's death created one of the most stirring dramas of espionage since the cold war. It chilled relations between Britain and Russia, leading to tit-for-tat expulsions of diplomats. Russia's refusal to hand over the man accused of killing Mr. Litvinenko has since stymied efforts to restore normal ties.
The British authorities have accused Andrei K. Lugovoi, a former K.G.B. bodyguard who is now a member of the Russian Parliament, of murder and requested his extradition from Russia. But Russian authorities say their Constitution forbids extradition of their own citizens.
Mr. Lugovoi, who has denied any wrongdoing, in turn accused the British secret intelligence agency, MI6, and a self-exiled Russian tycoon, Boris A. Berezovsky, of organizing the killing. They have denied the allegation.
The precise nature of the evidence against Mr. Lugovoi has not been outlined, though investigators have linked him and an associate, Dmitri V. Kovtun, to nuclear traces stretching from luxury hotels and offices in London to Hamburg, Germany, and to British Airways planes that had flown to Moscow.
Mr. Litvinenko died after weeks of debilitating illness. He became ill the day he met Mr. Lugovoi and Mr. Kovtun at the Pine Bar in the Millennium Hotel, across from the American Embassy, in Grosvenor Square. At the meeting, Mr. Litvinenko drank tea, which his associates have since asserted was laced with polonium.
On his deathbed, Mr. Litvinenko accused Russia's president, Vladimir V. Putin, of ordering his murder.
Testimony Points to Russian State Role in Death
New testimony that emerged on Dec. 13, 2012, deepened the intrigue surrounding the death Mr. Litvinenko, offering prima facie evidence of Russian state involvement and indicating that he had been a paid agent of the British Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, lawyers at a preliminary inquest hearing said.
The potentially explosive assertions were made at a procedural hearing before a full inquest, set for May 2013, into Mr. Litvinenko's death.
Hugh Davies, a lawyer acting for the inquest, said evidence provided by the British government had established a "prima facie case as to the culpability of the Russian state in the death of Alexander Litvinenko."
Neither the Russian authorities nor Mr. Lugovoi offered any immediate response to the accusation. Mr. Litvinenko's adversaries had long depicted him as an agent of British intelligence, accusing him of trying to recruit Mr. Lugovoi. But the details of his role had not been enumerated publicly until the hearing.
Ben Emmerson, a lawyer representing Mr. Litvinenko's widow, Marina Litvinenko, said that Mr. Litvinenko, who fled to Britain in 2000 and became a British citizen weeks before his death, had for some years been a "registered and paid agent and employee of MI6, with a dedicated handler whose pseudonym was Martin."
He would meet his handler in central London, Mr. Emmerson said, and discuss the encounters with his wife.
Mr. Litvinenko also worked for the Spanish intelligence service, Mr. Emmerson said, and both the British and Spanish spy agencies made payments into a joint account with his wife. He added that the inquest in 2013 should consider whether MI6 failed in its duty to protect him against a "real and immediate risk to life."
Mr. Litvinenko's contacts and meetings with Mr. Lugovoi have been documented in the past, but there seemed to be a further twist to their relationship, according to Mr. Emmerson, who said the two former K.G.B. officers had been scheduled to travel together to Spain to give evidence to the Spanish security services about possible links between Russian organized crime and the Kremlin.
A lawyer for the British authorities, Neil Garnham, said he could neither confirm nor deny whether Mr. Litvinenko had been a British agent.
Mr. Litvinenko was also a close associate of the self-exiled Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky, another of Mr. Putin's adversaries. Hugo Keith, a lawyer acting for Mr. Berezovsky, denied any involvement by his client.
"It's not open to an individual to get polonium 210," he said. "The suggestion that Mr. Berezovsky is responsible is implausible."
The testimony set the stage for highly contentious hearings in May, at which both Russia and Britain may be forced to deal with unwelcome questions about what their security services knew about events leading to the killing.
Motive is Still a Mystery
Of the many gaps in the Litvinenko jigsaw, the biggest is the question of a motive. If Mr. Litvinenko was, as his adversaries in Russia long maintained, a British agent, was that enough to justify a vengeful state conspiracy to silence or, at the least, make an example of him? Or does the Spanish connection offer a more plausible line of inquiry?
In 2010, American diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks described the conclusions of a Spanish prosecutor, José Grinda González, in support of Mr. Litvinenko's oft-voiced belief that the Russian security and intelligence services "control organized crime in Russia." Was that the trigger for a killing?
But that is where the story crosses into a world of flawed loyalties and double-dealing. As the December 2012 hearing revealed, in late 2006, Mr. Litvinenko had been about to embark on a journey to Spain to tell investigators about bonds between the Russian mafia and the Kremlin — a follow-up to a secret visit in May 2006, during which he provided critical information about Russian organized crime bosses. Months later, he was dead.
The twist in the latest disclosures was this: His companion on the second voyage was to have been another alumnus of the K.G.B., Andrei K. Lugovoi, a successful Russian businessman, who just happens to be the person British prosecutors have accused of poisoning Mr. Litvinenko.
In the years immediately after Mr. Litvinenko's death, it was possible to cast it, as British prosecutors did, simply as the murder of a British citizen by a foreigner. (Mr. Lugovoi denies killing Mr. Litvinenko, and Russia has refused to send him to Britain to stand trial, citing constitutional prohibitions on the extradition of its own citizens.) After the latest assertions, however, the case shifted to a far more ominous plane — the alleged state killing of a state agent, a conspiracy on foreign soil, a throwback to the cold war.


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Survival In A BETA-infested World
Welcome to Alternative Earth. It's a world very much like our own, and yet different in many ways... most prominently, an infestation of the Beings of Extra-Terrestrial origin that are Adversaries of the human race.
To be a human in this world is to live day from day. It is a time of both great technological achievement and mindbreaking terror.
You're a resident of Alternative Earth. How are you going to survive as long as possible? You can't keep the reaper from calling... but you can try evade him as long as possible.
This thread serves as a location for discussion of just how one would go about surviving in Alternative Earth, as well as a frank assessment of life expectancy and how badly humanity is fucked. Due to the nature of this topic, this is regrettably a spoiler zone - it is very difficult to discuss this topic without making references to materials outside the animated adaptation of Total Eclipse. That said, let's continue to use spoiler tags - it's merely good practice, afterall.
Let the posters beware.
tl;dr, as grevierr put it: Welcome to Survivor: Beta. Outlive. Outkill. Outlast.
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Sleeping in Yokohama base, Section 9.
In the Grim Darkness of Muv Luv, there is only CHOMP!
For those unfamiliar with the background of humanity's war with the BETA, please take a look at this timeline on the wikia. It is translated from the Japanese wiki, which is in turn taken from the Intergral Works technical manual of the world.
|2012-10-17, 01:54
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Onani Master
Joining the ADF anyway in January albiet as an Intelligence Operator so if it came to World War BETA I'd be one of those poor fuckers in the command centre just waiting for the doors to be busted down by soldier-kyuu.
That said I live in Australia so we're still pretty alright in the Alternative time line except we're a bit over crowded with refugees....
Still I'd put in for TSF Pilot Training. Is there a F111 TSF we know of? Otherwise soon we'd have F35 Lightning TSFs; the looks of a Raptor with the abilities of a Spitfire. Gawd.
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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Lost in the road of life
Doing this on military side perspective,or a civilian?. And what timeline should we start... after year 2000?
Surviving in this world is going to be hell. Being a soldier in such a young age.... I guess that what I do.But if being a TSF pilot is the only way to survive... It's rather kill,Or be killed.
But if is possible I would rather be a TSF mechanic rather than go to the battlefield. Let people call me a coward. A support team is as important as frontliners (but still need to learn how to shoot too)
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Or we can be a little creative find if you a just army officer failed at TSF you got more ammo you can use find crap of lot cheap 4 x4 trucks jury rig it to be remote controlled with proximity timer load with high explosive and AP rounds =Sympathetic detonation .... let those DEMO trucks slow down the beta advance for a bit buy time for the civilians to evacuate ....
|2012-10-17, 02:30
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The Lovable SuBiTA
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Sleeping in Yokohama base, Section 9.
And for timeline, lets put it at the TE/Alternative timeline for now, since we have the most info on this period. So around 2001.
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|2012-10-17, 03:06
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: FRESNES, near PARIS
Wow survival in this kind of world? May i say it's even more difficult than a zombie outbreak?
If you want to live you're only choice its to join the military, sure you can die anytime soon, but it's better than dying for hunger(no chance for foods to be found outside) or be eater by cannibals(see Chonicles Successions?)...
|2012-10-17, 03:21
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The Lovable SuBiTA
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Sleeping in Yokohama base, Section 9.
I'm thinking if you want to have a relatively good standard of living, you would need to be working in the military somewhere. Meals and living quarters are provided for, and basic necessities are available.
Since working as a solider means you get to die first, so a rear line position would be good, since we want a lifestyle that is peaceful and non-threatening. Of course, it must also be a position that is non-threatening to other humans, since terrorists are abound in this world.
So what would the safest position be? Which country would you rather work for?
|2012-10-17, 03:33
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Join Date: Sep 2008
the that has no beta hive near yet I think US, Australia ... Africa ??? but social/ political tension must really high in those countries ( Heck all of the remaining countries are politically unable in 2001 ) as IRL by where I'm at The ASEAN must be in constant threat of being over run by beta
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The Lovable SuBiTA
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|2012-10-17, 04:48
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Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Post-apocalyptic Seattle
On-topic, ASEAN would be a good place. Considering according to a map I've seen they're mostly BETA-free.
Sounds like my country is a good place to be.
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Aaron Hernandez's high school teammates from Bristol Central in Connecticut long ago grew used to the fame and attention Hernandez drew to their town and school, first as one of the best high school football players in the country and most recently as a star tight end for the New England Patriots.
The attention this week, with Hernandez in the middle of a homicide investigation in North Attleboro, Mass., has been altogether different.
"So all this that's going on for him today, it's overwhelming," said Dustin Tucker, a former classmate and teammate who graduated with Hernandez in 2007. "I guess you could say it's overwhelming for our whole city. He represents us, too, and the whole city and everything that we stand for."
EARLIER: Police spend 4 hours at Hernandez home
CYTOSPORT: Hernandez loses endorsement
Saturday, police went into Hernandez's home for at least the third time this week. It was not known if Hernandez was there. Officers spent more than three hours at the house, leaving around 5:30 p.m. ET. They did remove several bags.
Monday, a jogger found the body of Hernandez acquaintance Odin Lloyd, 27, a semi-pro football player, in a nearby industrial park. Police said Lloyd was shot in the head.
Hernandez, 23, has not been publicly named a suspect, but ABC News, citing anonymous police sources, has reported that police could try to arrest Hernandez on charges of obstruction of justice. ABC News has reported that Hernandez destroyed his cellphone and video surveillance system and had his home professionally cleaned Monday, the day Lloyd's body was found.
AREA VERDICT: Locals assume he's guilty
A clerk in the Attleboro District Court told USA TODAY Sports no arrest warrant had been issued when the offices close Friday.
Much of the news media focus this week has been on North Attleboro, not far from the Patriots' Foxborough, Mass., home. But Tucker said news media also descended on Bristol, a city of about 60,000 people 20 miles from Hartford. Bristol is home to ESPN, but Tucker said it had a small-town vibe, adding, "Everyone knows everyone."
And now, few people know what to think.
Tucker said he had been asked frequently this week by friends about Hernandez and the investigation into Lloyd's death.
Last week another man from Connecticut filed a civil lawsuit in Florida saying Hernandez shot him in the face in February, causing him to lose an eye; he is seeking damages in excess of $100,000.
"I hope it's not true, but I can't make assumptions on if it's true or not. I really don't know, and I don't want to guess," Tucker said.
Tucker said he had made the two-hour drive from Bristol to Foxborough several times to watch Hernandez play with the Patriots and caught up with Hernandez each time he was there. Tucker said he didn't want to bother Hernandez while he was in the midst of the investigation and would wait until there was resolution to contact him. But he said it was difficult to reconcile the friend and teammate he remembered with the reports he saw on television.
"I just don't want the papers to make him seem like a crazy person, you know? I feel bad for the people it happened to, the guy who died and the guy who got shot. My condolences go out to them. But I just don't like the fact that he's mixed up in all of this," Tucker said.
But there have been signs of trouble in Hernandez's personal life dating back to high school, issues that followed him to the University of Florida and now to his life as an NFL star.
In previous interviews and multiple news reports, Hernandez and his family said Hernandez was devastated by the sudden death of his father, Dennis, in January 2006, when Hernandez was 16. Dennis' death, the result of complications from hernia surgery, left Hernandez feeling lost and angry, his mother, Terri, and brother, D.J., told USA TODAY Sports in 2009.
Hernandez responded by lashing out at his family, smoking marijuana and spending his free time hanging around with a rough crowd of young men in Bristol.
"He would rebel. It was very, very hard, and he was very, very angry. He wasn't the same kid, the way he spoke to me. The shock of losing his dad, there was so much anger," Terri Hernandez told USA TODAY Sports in 2009.
Still, as a senior at Bristol Central High that fall, Hernandez was a star on the field, leading his team to an 8-1-1 record while scoring 17 touchdowns. The previous season, Hernandez set a Connecticut state record with 1,799 receiving yards and set another record when he had 376 receiving yards in a game. He was named to USA TODAY Sports' All-USA squad as the first-team tight end for the 2006 season.
"It was phenomenal. It was a good thing to watch and experience, to have something like that happen in the small little city that we have," Tucker said.
Hernandez initially wanted to play at the University of Connecticut, where his father and brother both played, but after Dennis Hernandez's death, Hernandez picked Florida, largely to get away, he told The Hartford Courant at the time.
Hernandez enrolled at Florida in January 2007, two months after turning 17, and trouble soon followed. During his freshman year, before he turned 18, Hernandez was arrested for getting into a fight with a bouncer at an off-campus bar (he received deferred prosecution in that case after being charged as a juvenile), and the Orlando Sentinel reported Hernandez was questioned by Gainesville police about a shooting that injured two men after a Gators game later that fall. Friends from Connecticut were with Hernandez that night, the Sentinel reported.
Hernandez was suspended for the 2008 season opener and later acknowledged the suspension was punishment for testing positive for marijuana.
But by his junior year in Gainesville, Hernandez, his mother and coach Urban Meyer seemed convinced Hernandez' off-field troubles were over. Hernandez was an important part of the Gators' 2008 national championship team, had developed into college football's best tight end (he won the John Mackey Award that year) and was spending time at Meyer's home, sometimes for Bible study. Meyer, it appeared, had become the father figure Hernandez needed.
"When your guy, your idol, your soul is taken from you, how do you deal with that? I just think there's a part of his life that was not there. He needed discipline; he needed someone to talk to," Meyer told USA TODAY Sports in 2009.
For the first time since his father's death, Hernandez finally seemed happy.
"He's my Aaron again," Terri Hernandez said in 2009. "Just now everything's getting better, and it took him three years. I thought I lost him for good. He wasn't the same kid. Now he's back, the same fun-loving Aaron."
Hernandez left Florida after his junior season, but NFL teams weren't convinced he was clear of his past troubles. He fell to the fourth round of the draft in 2010, largely because of concerns about his marijuana use and temperament.
One NFL general manager told USA TODAY Sports recently that Hernandez's scouting file contained multiple red flags, and an official from another team said the character concerns were significant enough for the team to remove Hernandez from its list of draftable players.
Team executives who spoke to USA TODAY Sports did not want to be identified, given the sensitivity of the ongoing homicide investigation.
After the draft, the Boston Globe reported Hernandez had failed multiple drug tests, perhaps as many as six, while at Florida, which led Hernandez to issue a statement admitting to the one failed test that led to the 2008 suspension.
In that statement, which was released through the Patriots, Hernandez said he was as candid as he could possibly be with NFL teams about football and his personal life.
"I regret what happened; I learned from it and will make better decisions going forward," Hernandez said in that 2010 statement.
The Patriots twice decided Hernandez was worth the risk, first when Bill Belichick drafted him in the fourth round and again last year when they offered Hernandez a long-term contract extension that would pay him $40 million through 2018.
Hernandez cried at a news conference announcing the deal and called that August day one of the best of his life. He gave $50,000 of his new paycheck to the Myra Kraft Foundation.
"You get changed by the Bill Belichick way; you get changed by the Patriot way," Hernandez said at that news conference.
But a civil complaint filed this month in a U.S. District Court in South Florida by a Connecticut man raised questions about how much Hernandez had truly changed. In the complaint filed by attorneys for 30-year-old Alexander S. Bradley, Hernandez is accused of shooting Bradley in the face while the two were in a vehicle early Feb. 13 after a night of partying at a strip club in Miami.
According to the complaint and a police report from the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office obtained by USA TODAY Sports, Bradley lost his right eye and has lost much of the use of his right arm. He said he needed further surgeries and experienced pain and difficulty eating and was requesting damages in excess of $100,000.
Bradley refused to cooperate with the police investigation, giving only a vague description of "black and Hispanic" men that shot him. When he wouldn't speak any further with investigators, the case was deemed inactive, and it will not be reopened without Bradley's cooperation.
Hernandez's relationship with Bradley is unclear, though both are from Connecticut, with their hometowns located about 20 miles apart. Bradley was convicted of selling drugs in 2006 and spent 18 months in jail.
Bradley's lawsuit was initially filed four days before Lloyd's death in Massachusetts.
The NFL, Commissioner Roger Goodell and the league's security staff are closely monitoring the developments in the homicide investigation. Hernandez has not previously violated any of the league's conduct policies but could be subject to punishment from the league, even without an arrest. Goodell suspended Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger for four games after Roethlisberger was the subject of a sexual assault investigation in Georgia and a lawsuit in Nevada. Roethlisberger was never arrested.
Contributing: wire reports.


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The future stars of Danish and indeed European golf were on display in Horsens on Friday, but the crowds had only come to see one man: Thorbjørn Olesen.
Olesen was conducting a clinic on the range at Stensballegaard Golf, going through the wide array of shots which have served him so well in his rapid rise from the Nordic League to The European Tour via the Challenge Tour.
A winner of titles on all three Tours, Olesen is undoubtedly the heir apparent to the man whose name graces this week's tournament, the ECCO Tour Championship hosted by Thomas Björn & Mercedes-Benz.
Like Björn before him, Olesen enjoyed outstanding success on the Challenge Tour in 2010, winning The Princess and recording a further four top five finishes en route to finishing the season in third place in the Rankings.
Further success swiftly followed on The European Tour, as he finished in the top 50 of The Race to Dubai in his debut campaign in 2010 and claimed his maiden title at this year's Sicilian Open to climb to 25th in the current Money List.
The 22 year old is thus expertly placed to espouse the benefits of receiving an education in Europe's finest finishing school.
He said: "The Challenge Tour is very important in preparing players for life as a pro – I learned so much on the Tour two years ago. It's a great school and the best preparation you can have before going on to the main Tour. Travelling all over the world and competing against very strong players every week makes you grow up and adapt very fast. It's very tough to finish in the top 20 of the Rankings, so you know that if you manage it you've had a good season and you deserve to be given an opportunity to move up to the main Tour.
"My win in Sweden was huge for my development as a golfer. When you win on the Challenge Tour, you believe you can win on any Tour. I took a lot of confidence with me onto The European Tour after winning on the Challenge Tour and finishing third in the Rankings in 2010, and had a good first season on the main Tour. This season I've played some really consistent golf and managed to get my first win in Sicily, and without the Challenge Tour I would not have adapted so fast."
Olesen's success has inspired the next generation of Danish golfers to follow his lead, with the likes of Lucas Bjerregaard, Joachim B Hansen and Morten Orum Madsen all making highly encouraging starts to their fledgling professional careers.
"Don't go changing," would be Olesen's advice to the talented trio as they try to make their way in the game.
He said: "The future for Danish golf is looking pretty good at the moment. You have the likes of Morten, Lucas and Joachim coming through, so it's a really exciting time for Danish golf and I look forward to seeing some of them on The European Tour over the next few years. They're definitely good enough, they just have to keep working hard and believing in themselves, and not change too much.
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"We've seen this season how strong the guys who come up from the Challenge Tour are, with Bernd [wiesberger] winning twice and Branden [Grace] winning three times. It should give the guys playing on the Challenge Tour this year the confidence to believe that they can do it too."


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Buccaneers looking for a chance to defend A-Sun title
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (October 28, 2011) – The ETSU men's soccer team closes out the conference schedule on Saturday, October 29, at 1 p.m. inside Summers-Taylor Stadium, needing a win against USC Upstate to secure its spot in the A-Sun Tournament field.
The Bucs (8-5-3, 2-4-1 A-Sun) are not alone on Saturday in their quest for a tournament berth, as Upstate (5-7-2, 2-3-2 A-Sun) faces a very similar scenario needing a win to guarantee its spot as well. With a tie, the Spartans still clinch a spot via the A-Sun tiebreaking rules.
ETSU currently sits in eighth place with seven points in the A-Sun standings, but Mercer, Belmont and Upstate are all within striking distance at eight points. The Bears and Bruins square off on Sunday in their final A-Sun game of the year. If they were to tie, an ETSU win would jump the Bucs all the way to the No. 5 seed.
Sophomore David Geno (Kingsport, Tenn.) and senior Aaron Schoenfeld (Knoxville, Tenn.) have been the Bucs' two primary scoring threats, combining for over half – 13 of 21 – of ETSU's goals on the season. Geno leads the team with seven goals and, more importantly, four crucial game-winners.
One of Geno's game-winners came against the A-Sun's current first place team, Florida Gulf Coast. Down, 1-0, at halftime, redshirt freshman Nick Dykes (Nashville, Tenn.) scored the equalizer on his first goal of the season before Geno pulled through with the eventual game-winner less than five minutes later.
The loss was FGCU's first of the year in conference and remains their only loss in A-Sun play as the Eagles sit atop the conference at 6-1-0.
Jolted with new life, the Bucs traveled to Mercer for a chance at three more points and all but guarantee a spot in the A-Sun Tournament. Outshooting the Bears, 10-7, through the contest, ETSU seemed in control, but surrendered a 79th-minute goal to fall, 1-0.
The loss put the Bucs' fate temporarily out of their hands, but losses by both Lipscomb and Belmont on Sunday put ETSU right back in control of its A-Sun Tournament destiny.
Upstate has struggled to score this season, scoring 13 goals in 14 games for a goals per game average of just 0.93. Dylan Hoop has been the Spartans main scoring threat, leading the team with four goals, but has not put in a goal since Upstate's, 2-0, win over North Florida on October 9.
The Spartans head into Saturday off a 10-day break, having not played a match since their, 0-0 draw with Mercer back on October 19. In its contest prior to Mercer, Upstate took Stetson to double overtime after being outshot 25-6 in regulation, but eventually fell in the 100th minute when Gonzalo De Mujica spoiled the upset.
ETSU leads the all-time series 2-0-1 against Upstate, including a convincing, 4-1, victory at Upstate on October 27 of last year.
Live stats will be available for Saturday's game courtesy of ETSUBucs.com.
ETSU's will be celebrating its 2011 Homecoming during the game, as fans in attendance will be able to partake in a charity carnival and a luncheon. The luncheon will last until 2 p.m. At halftime, the Homecoming King and Queen will be announced on the field.
For more information on ETSU men's soccer, please visit ETSUBucs.com and click on the men's soccer links.


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ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (AP) — The leader of a self-styled Bonnie and Clyde couple who staged a brazen prison escape and a three-week crime spree was convicted Monday of murder in the killings of a retired Oklahoma couple who crossed their path on an eastern New Mexico highway.
John McCluskey was found guilty of murder, carjacking and other charges in the August 2010 deaths of Gary and Linda Haas of Tecumseh, Okla., who were making their annual summer trek to Colorado.
McCluskey could be sentenced to life in prison or the death penalty.
McCluskey was one of three prisoners who escaped from a medium-security prison near Kingman, Arizona, in July 2010 with the help of his cousin and fiancee, Casslyn Welch.
One of the inmates was quickly captured after a shootout with authorities in Colorado, while McCluskey, Welch and inmate Tracy Province headed to New Mexico, where the carjacking of the Haases sparked a nationwide manhunt and an Interpol alert.
Province and Welch pleaded guilty last year to charges of carjacking resulting in death, conspiracy, the use of a firearm during a violent crime and other charges.
They both fingered McCluskey as the triggerman.
Province went his own way following the killings and was caught in Wyoming seven days later. But Welch and McCluskey remained on the lam, drawing comparisons to the legendary Bonnie and Clyde.
The Haas family has seen three years of tragedy. Gary Haas's mother, 83-year-old Vivian Haas, lost her home in the Joplin, Mo., tornado a year later. And her granddaughter, Gary and Linda's daughter, was found shot to death this year. Her husband has been charged with murder.
Vivian Haas was at the McCluskey trial every day along other relatives intent on seeing justice served.
The victims, who were high school sweethearts and recent retirees from General Motors, were making their 11th summer trip to Colorado when they were killed three days after the prison break that Welch testified was funded by a drug smuggling ring she and McCluskey ran for prison inmates.
Welch acknowledged throwing cutting tools onto the prison grounds. McCluskey, Province and Daniel Renwick used the tools to break through a perimeter fence and flee into the desert. Welch also supplied the men with guns and money, and Renwick with a getaway vehicle.
While Renwick went his own way, the other three were accused of kidnapping a pair of truck drivers and commandeering their rig until they reached McCluskey's ex-wife and persuaded her to give them a ride to a getaway car at McCluskey's mother's house.
Three days later, tired and hot from driving a small car 1,000 miles (1,610 kilometers)with no air conditioning, they set out to find a better vehicle. Testimony showed they spotted the Haases at an eastern New Mexico highway rest stop. Within an hour, the Haases were dead. Their charred remains were found among the wreckage of their burned-out travel trailer on a remote ranch in eastern New Mexico.
The defense called no witnesses and sought to save their client from a possible death penalty by casting doubt that the killings were premeditated. They also tried to undermine the testimony of Welch and Province, saying they reached plea agreements to testify against McCluskey to save themselves from possible execution.
Prosecutors contend McCluskey intended to kill the Haases from the moment he spotted them.
"He wanted that vehicle, he wanted to stay on the run. And the only way he could do that was to ultimately eliminate the Haases," prosecutor Mike Warbel said.
When he and Welch were finally captured at an Arizona camping ground, Warbel said, McCluskey was wearing Gary Haas's John Deere cap.
"I just have to ask you guys: Who wears a dead man's hat?" Fouratt said to the jury. "Is this some kind of trophy? Is this like a keepsake or a memento? And doesn't that help you decide, as between the three of these people, who was the one who ended Gary Haas' life?"
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Soon Michigan may join the list of other states who have passed legislation checking the president's power under the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to indefinitely detain American citizens.
On Monday, September 24, constitutionalists and friends of liberty gathered at the Oakland County (Michigan) General Government Committee Meeting to support Commissioner Jim Runestad's Liberty Preservation Resolution. Blake Filippi of the Tenth Amendment Center (TAC) originally drafted this measure with the assistance of the Rhode Island Liberty Coalition.
Reports to The New American from those attending the meeting indicate that many residents attended the meeting, as well, and passionately defended the right of Americans to live without the specter of an all-powerful police state looming over their every action.
One citizen, Anna Janek, stood at the meeting and recounted a childhood living in fear of government and police in communist Czechoslovakia.
A follow-up meeting to consider the anti-NDAA proposal is scheduled for Monday, October 8 and 9:30 A.M.
Apart from the noble work being done in Oakland County, State Representative Tom McMillin (R-Rochester Hills, pictured above, at left) has introduced a bill in the state legislature that would prevent the president's power to indefinitely detain Americans from crossing the Wolverine state borders.
McMillin's measure, HB 5768, would prevent the arrest and indefinite detention of citizens of his state under the authority of relevant provisions of the NDAA. According to the text of the legislation:
No agency of this state, no political subdivision of this state, no employee of an agency of this state or a political subdivision of this state acting in his or her official capacity, and no member of the Michigan national guard on official state duty shall aid an agency of the armed forces of the United States in any investigation, prosecution, or detention of any person pursuant to 50 USC 1541, as provided by the federal national defense authorization act for fiscal year 2012.
The day after citizens turned out to support the cause of freedom in Oakland County, over 40 concerned Michiganders attended the Michigan State House Oversight, Reform and Ethics Committee chaired by Representative McMillin.
Led by TAC state coordinator Shane Trejo, representatives from a coalition of groups devoted to the protection of individual liberty testified in favor of McMillin's bill and the principle of due process. The organizations present at the hearing included People Against NDAA, Campaign for Liberty, Downsize D.C., the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, and the ACLU among others.
Notably, consistent defender of the Constitution Congressman Justin Amash (R-Mich.) appeared before the committee and spoke in support of HB 5768.
As readers may remember, Amash's effort to repeal the indefinite detention provisions of the NDAA for 2013 was blocked in May when by a vote of 238-182, members of the House of Representatives voted to renew the president's power to arrest and indefinitely detains Americans suspected of posing a threat to national security.
At the committee meeting in Lansing, however, no testimony in favor of the NDAA was heard.
In a statement, Representative McMillin recognized Amash for his aid to the cause of liberty.
"I appreciate the support from Congressman Amash, who has fought against the federal law that enables the executive branch to arrest and indefinitely detain anyone on U.S. soil using the slightest thread of evidence or suspicion," McMillin said.
"Michigan residents should not be party to what most people consider an unconstitutional infringement on the rights of citizens by indefinitely imprisoning someone under the most ambiguous of terms," he added.
Other parts of Michigan are actively engaged in the good cause of fighting for liberty. In Allegan County, County Commissioner Bill Sage is working with his colleagues and encouraging them to get behind a county resolution specifically supporting HB 5768.
Sage's goal, according to a press release issued by People Against the NDAA (PANDA), is "to get all 83 counties to pass a county resolution in support of HB5768."
It is primarily thanks to the tireless efforts of County Commissioner Sage that by a vote of 8-3, the Allegan County Commission passed a resolution reaffirming the principles of the McMillin bill.
Allegan County's resolution explicitly rejects the exercise in that jurisdiction of the NDAA's indefinite detention provisions. The resolution reads:
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Allegan County Board of Commissioners condemns in no uncertain terms Sections 1021 and 1022 of the 2012 NDAA as they purport to:
1) Repeal Posse Comitatus and authorize the President of the United States to utilize the Armed Forces of the United States to police the United States of America,
2) Indefinitely detain persons captured within the United States of America without charge until the end of hostilities as purportedly authorized by the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force,
3) Subject persons captured within the United States of America to military tribunals, and
4) Transfer persons captured within the United States of America to a foreign country or foreign entity
In a letter to the editor of the Allegan County News, Sage explained to readers the purpose of the resolution:
In order to protect these [constitutional] rights, it is time for Michiganders to speak up against this unconstitutional federal law.
On July 26, I presented the Allegan Liberty Preservation Resolution to the Allegan County Board of Commissioners with the intent of passing support for State Rep. Tom McMillin's Michigan Liberty Bill, HB 5768, which makes it illegal in the state of Michigan for any official of the state, be they National Guard or any other official, to assist in the investigation or arrest of any citizen of Michigan in connection to sections 1021 and 1022 of the NDAA.
The resolution also states that all agencies of Allegan County up to and including the Allegan County Sheriff Department and all police departments in the jurisdiction of Allegan County are instructed to decline requests from federal agencies acting under detention powers of Sections 1021 and 1022 of the NDAA that could infringe upon county residents' constitutional rights.
It should be of the first priority of all our elected officials, from the governor, U.S. Senate, Congress, states senate, state representatives, right down the line to the board of commissioners, to aggressively defend our country and constitution in every avenue possible.
All Americans should be encouraged by the efforts underway in Michigan and elsewhere to enforce the Tenth Amendment and to prevent the unchecked growth of the power of the federal government. The Tenth Amendment mandates:
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
In the statement issued by PANDA, Dennis Marburger of Bloomfield, Michigan, explained the critical role of the Tenth Amendment in safeguarding the sovereignty of the states from the constant usurpations of Washington:
Thomas Jefferson called this the cornerstone of the Constitution. When Freedom of Speech was under attack by President Adams in 1798, Jefferson went to Kentucky in order to fight back through his Kentucky resolves where he enunciated the concept of Nullification, which he called the "rightful remedy" to D.C.'s lawlessness and violations of the Constitution. James Madison went to Virginia and and wrote the Virginia Resolves calling for state interposition between the people and Feds when the latter unconstitutionally endanger the former. Thus was born "the Spirit of '98". The State of Michigan joined other Northern states in employing noncompliance / Nullification to resist the Fugitive Slave Act and government sanctioned kidnapping in the 1850's.
Finally, in a statement to The New American, Dan Johnson, the founder of PANDA, praised the people and lawmakers of Michigan for their commendable work on behalf of freedom.
"We are very excited about what is happening in Michigan right now and, with leaders like Dennis Marburger, Bill Sage and Ray Kirkus, we fully expect Rep. Tom Mcmillin's bill to pass out of committe and onto a full floor vote in Michigan," Johnson said.
By passing similar anti-NDAA resolutions, counties and states across American can proudly join several other state and local authorities in taking a stand against the federal government's use of the NDAA to abolish centuries old due process and habeas corpus protections.
The New American will continue to report on all efforts nationwide to oppose the unconstitutional indefinite detention provisions of the NDAA.
Photo: Rep. Tom McMillin is joined at the State of the State Address by Gary Glenn of the American Family Association