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BART police officer shot dead by colleague in Dublin
A seemingly routine mission by BART police to gather evidence at a robbery suspect's apartment in Dublin went horribly wrong Tuesday when one of the officers who forced entry into the home accidentally shot and killed another officer, authorities said.
The death of Sgt. Tom Smith, a 42-year-old agency veteran whose wife is also a BART officer, sent grief through the Bay Area's law enforcement community.
But how such a tragedy could happen during a probation search - one involving the empty apartment of a suspect who has been in custody since last week - was not immediately clear.
The shooting was the first on-duty death in the history of the BART Police Department. It happened about 1:45 p.m. at the normally quiet Park Sierra Apartments at 6450 Dougherty Road. Smith was taken to Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley, where he was pronounced dead.
Sgt. J.D. Nelson of the Alameda County Sheriff's Office, which has jurisdiction in Dublin, confirmed that the officer had been shot by a BART colleague. "It was either accidental or target misidentification," he said.
Nelson said the officer who shot the victim is a 10-year veteran. Sources familiar with the investigation identified Smith as the victim and Officer Michael Maes as the shooter.
Brothers in law enforcement
Smith was a 20-year veteran of the BART force who has two brothers in law enforcement - one an Alameda County sheriff's deputy, the other a Newark officer. Smith and his wife lived in San Ramon and have a 6-year-old daughter.
"Our condolences go out to the immediate family and friends and the extended BART family and the entire BART district," said the agency's police chief, Kenton Rainey. "We ask that everyone please give us a chance to catch our breath and grieve."
The shooting comes as BART continues to try to move past a former officer's fatal shooting of unarmed train rider Oscar Grant on Jan. 1, 2009 - a shooting the officer called accidental.
Last month, an independent auditor praised the department's progress in overhauling a force that had been hamstrung by outdated policies, lax oversight and poor officer training.
Nelson said the shooting happened after several BART officers went to an apartment in a modern complex of three-story buildings to search a home connected to a man suspected of committing robberies on BART property.
Sources identified that suspect as John Henry Lee, 20. He was bitten by a police dog and arrested by San Leandro police Thursday after officials said he led officers on a 20-minute chase into Oakland. Lee had been armed with a handgun and was driving a Honda stolen from a BART lot, police said.
The officers who were conducting the search in Dublin - all of whom wore bulletproof vests but were not part of a SWAT team - forced entry into the apartment, Nelson said, before "one officer fired a shot, which fatally struck another officer."
The shooting shocked residents of the nearby apartments, which sit on both sides of the Iron Horse Trail, saying the complex is usually quiet.
"The most I've ever heard is people arguing," said Rosalia Vazquez, a 33-year-old saleswoman who moved in almost a year ago. "This is just crazy. Nothing like this has ever happened here before."
'An amazing man'
Rainey and BART General Manager Grace Crunican released a joint statement saying, "The entire BART organization is deeply saddened by this tragic event, and we ask the public to keep the officer's family in its thoughts and prayers."
They said they had visited the officer's family to provide condolences and offer support.
Smith's neighbors in a quiet San Ramon neighborhood off Bollinger Canyon Road described him as a friendly, down-to-earth and devoted father who was often outside playing with his daughter or walking his police dog.
"He was an amazing dad, an amazing neighbor, an amazing man," said Neha Shah, who has lived across the street from Smith's family for four years. "I can't say enough about him. This is heartbreaking."
Shah's husband, Amit Shah, said he heard about the shooting on the radio but couldn't believe Smith was involved.
"This is just surreal. I just saw him this morning," he said. "He and his wife are both such wonderful people. This shouldn't happen."
The investigation is being handled by the Dublin police force, a division of the Sheriff's Office. All of the officers who were at the apartment were later sequestered at the Dublin police station, Nelson said.
Officer's 2001 killing
It is not the first time an officer has been the victim in an accidental police shooting in the East Bay. In 2001, two rookie Oakland police officers shot and killed a plainclothes officer whom they mistook for an armed suspect holding someone at gunpoint.
The mood was quiet and somber Tuesday afternoon at Eden Medical Center, as officers from throughout the region gathered to mourn Smith. There were hugs and tears as they congregated on the hospital's bottom floor.
Outside, officers stood at attention as Smith's flag-draped coffin was loaded into an Alameda County coroner's van. A police motorcycle escort accompanied the van as it drove to the coroner's office in Oakland.
Henry K. Lee, Kale Williams and Carolyn Jones are San Francisco Chronicle staff writers. E-mail: email@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com, email@example.com Twitter: @henryklee, @sfkale, @carolynajones


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The next step will be upgrading the skid plates. The stock skids are pretty flimsy and already taken a lot of damage. In fact the front skid was so banged up they couldn't get it back on after installing the new bumper.


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This little device has been taking shape in the Addingham Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Despite numerous setbacks with earlier versions (mostly involving spitting turbines out of the jetpipe in a stream of white-hot shards), the Mk.5 seen here has made many test runs over the last few weeks. Now that reliability has been achieved and some good baseline data captured, henceforth efforts will focus on modifications aimed at maximising thrust.malcolm uk wrote:what news if any from British workshops, garages and basements on projects for 2017?
So far, using propane fuel, the spectacular figure of 2kg static thrust has been observed and with improvements to the mass flow, conversion to kerosene and the addition of an afterburner, I am confident that it will soon be ready to chase records.
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Review and Giveaway: Diane Birch: Bible Belt
Sunday, June 7, 2009
One2One Network sent me a copy of Diane Birch's CD, Bible Belt, to listen to. I listed to it yesterday while surfing the net and WOW! What a great CD!
I love music, all kinds of it! From Rap to Rock-n-Roll, I'm very versatile when it comes to music. I'd previewed one of Diane's songs when it was Free Download of the Week at iTunes. Wow... I was blown away.
Her voice... reminds me of Joss Stone. Her words... so full of soul and have so much meaning. This CD is definitely a CD I'll be listening to more often!
Diane Birch's Bio:
For singer-songwriter Diane Birch, music was a refuge. Although Diane was born in Michigan, her childhood was spent on the move as the daughter of a preacher, living between Zimbabwe, South Africa and Australia, before her parents finally settled in Portland, Oregon. When she was in her early teens, Diane absorbed a unique and cosmopolitan perspective on life that shines through her music and makes a simple categorization of it impossible.
The result? Diane Birch sounds like an old favorite, with all the sparkle and magic of a breakthrough talent. People says she sounds like a combination of early Carole King, Linda Ronstadt and Stevie Nicks, with a little Joss Stone and Cat Power mixed in. Bible Belt is only her first record, but it's one of the most accomplished albums you'll hear all year. From the opening track "Fire Escape" to the closing "Magic View," Diane's stunning voice is mesmerizing.
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Learning to read in Charmon Evans's first-grade classroom is skills-oriented but fun -- whether students are interacting with a talking puppet or playing the Word Wall Game Show. Ms. Evans carefully balances skill development -- phonemic awareness, phonics, and sight word identification -- with authentic reading and writing tasks and a love of learning. To meet the varying learning needs of her class she uses whole-class, small-group, and individual groupings. Students revisit poetry charts, read decodable texts in guided-reading groups, and write in their journals about a challenging, read-aloud chapter book.
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EastWest Institute's Second Worldwide Cybersecurity Summit
On June 1-2, I will be participating in the EastWest Institute's (EWI) second Worldwide Cybersecurity Summit at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Center in London, and I'm very excited about the prospects for this event.
EastWest Institute is a global, action-oriented, "think-and-do" tank founded in 1980. Its goals are to mobilize leading business and government leaders to address cross-border cybersecurity challenges; set new models for private-public-sector leadership in addressing high-priority security threats and vulnerabilities; and to make advances on the most pressing issues in global management of critical information infrastructure with breakthrough international collaboration.
I'm particularly energized about this year's session, as I anticipate we will continue and expand upon the dialogue initiated at last year's inaugural summit in Dallas. I'm proud to have participated in that event, along with other government, business, and civil society leaders from around the world who came together to collaborate on ways to assure the security of the world's digital infrastructure.
This year, I will sit on a plenary panel hosted by Melissa Hathaway of Hathaway Global Strategies, along with Dr. Kamlesh Bajaj, CEO of Data Security Council of India, and Professor Andrey Korotkov of Moscow State Institute of Foreign Affairs. This panel will reflect upon and expand the discussion of breakthrough and interest groups in international cooperation on cybersecurity in three fields chosen by the Summit Committee. The topics will be chosen from such important cybersecurity areas as:
- Information and Communications Technology (ICT): Developing Supply Chain Integrity Principles
- Markers in Cyberspace
- Cyber Crime III: Framing a General Obligation for Cybersecurity – Next Steps
- Fighting Spam II – Best Practice Implementation
- Rules of Engagement for Cyberspace – Next Steps for Advancing Treaty Options and/or Confidence Building
I truly appreciate the opportunity to participate in these EWI summits, as we not only discuss the most pressing issues in global management of cybersecurity in this international forum, but that we come away with proposed solutions and actionable initiatives that will move us closer to solving the cybersecurity threats and challenges we all face.
Among the many heavy hitters in the global cybersecurity arena who will be participating in this year's event are:
- His Excellency Minister Kapil Sibal, India Ministry of IT and Communications
- Dr. Hamadoun Touré, Secretary-General, International Telecommunication Union
- Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones, former Minister of State for Security, United Kingdom
- Shawn Henry, Executive Assistant Director, U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Lt. General (Ret.) Harry Raduege, Chairman, Deloitte Center for Cyber Innovation
- Ross Perot, Jr., Chairman of Hillwood Development Corporation
Visit the Second Worldwide Cybersecurity Summit site to learn more about how the East-West Institute and global governments, businesses and civil society leaders from around the world are tackling these challenging security issues and working collaboratively to move the cybersecurity needle forward.
I'll report back after the event with some new lessons learned and action areas for your consideration, so that you too can help us make our online world more safe and secure.
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Fr. Johnny Go, S.J. is doing it again this Lent 2010.
If you feel like you want to do a Lenten recollection but are having difficulty finding a good one, or too busy to go to one, you can spend time with our Lord from your computer desk or even with your laptop anywhere you are telecommuting. If you have a mobile phone which is browser-capable, you can likewise attend a recollection. If you are not in the Philippines, it does not matter. You can be anywhere around the world as long as you have internet access.
Fr. Johnny has prepared an ONLINE recollection where he effectively merges multimedia technology to make your Lenten journey with the Lord interesting and meaningful.
Titled "God in the Dungeons", this is how Fr. Johnny describes the theme:
Dungeons are not exactly the first place we go to when we want to look for God.
We expect to find Him in churches and the other "holier" places of our lives.
But that's exactly what Lent does not teach us about God.
In the mysteries of Lent, God enters precisely the "dungeons of our lives"
—the deepest, darkest experiences of human pain and suffering—because He wants us to find Him there.
Let's find time this Holy Week and allow God to enter the dungeons of our lives and quiet down to hear Him speak to us.
The online recollection begins April 1 (Holy Thursday) till April 3 (Black Saturday) but you can already do a pre-recollection preparation even now by clicking HERE.


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The Gauchos extended their season long losing streak to eight matches on Saturday night, falling to the UC San Diego Tritons 3-0 (25-21, 25-18, 25-17). With the loss, UCSB falls to 5-17 with a 3-15 conference record.
The UCSB attack struggled again in the loss, as Rick McLaughlin's squad once again failed to produce an attacker with 10 or more kills.
Freshman opposite Matt Marsh led the team in kills for the second straight match, tying junior outside hitter Miles Evans with seven kills. Evans also had a team-high seven dig and three blocks.
Sophomore middle blocker Evan Licht had an outstanding night at the service line, racking up a match-high three aces, more than the entire UC San Diego squad.
Junior middle blocker Dylan Davis was solid, finishing with a line of six kills and two blocks.
The Tritons were led by Carl Eberts, who did a little bit of everything in his team's victory. Eberts had a match-high 16 kills to go along with six digs and five blocks.
With the victory, UC San Diego improved to 8-16, 6-13.
UCSB will host their final homestand of the season next week, when they will welcome Hawai'i to the Thunderdome on Apr. 6 and 7.
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It's been more than a month since spring officially sprung, but don't tell that to Jeff Coulter, Extension agronomist with the University of Minnesota.
"A lot of guys were planting this time last year," he says. "This year has started a bit differently."
That's because there's still some snow cover across large portions of Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin. Coulter is optimistic that the 10-day forecast is generous enough to see some Minnesotans planting as early as May 1.
Still, he acknowledges that many farmers – especially those in the Red River Valley region – could be faced with a late-planted crop this season. His No. 1 recommendation for those farmers? Be patient.
"The key this year will be to show restraint," he says. "Don't get in the field before it's dry."
Coulter estimates that farmers heading into a late-planted crop often jump the gun by 1 or 2 days. That might not sound like a significant amount of time, but it can make a tremendous difference in avoiding compaction problems by driving through too-wet fields.
Coulter also says farmers deviate from their original plans – at least for now.
"Stick with what you've purchased until the 20th or 25th of May before considering a shorter season variety," he says.
Rich Larson, a CCA with North Dakota-based Peterson Farms Seed, is also advocating a holding pattern until May 20 for his customers.
"Think about how many times you have planted into cold or wet soil in the past and had your seed lay there before it emerged, losing vigor and imbibing cold water," he says. "Plus, every time you have delayed emergence, you have uneven emergence. A corn plant two leaves behind its neighbors is a weed, not a productive corn plant. Waiting a few days and having your corn emerge fast and even is worth many, many bushels."
Mark Grundmeier, product manager with Iowa-based Latham Hi-Tech Seeds, says ultimately soil temperatures and conditions – not the calendar – should dictate planting dates.
"The majority of yield is determined during planting," he says. "Good things come to those who wait for the right seedbed conditions."
Farmers can avoid working "unfit" soils by following these three recommendations before planting corn, Grundmeier says:
1. Be sure soil temperatures are at least 50 degrees.
2. Check mid- and long-range forecast for frost or freeze warnings.
3. Minimize soil compaction by avoiding wet soils, reducing tillage and using the right implements.
"We still have a good month of optimal planting dates remaining," Grundmeier says. "There's no need to rush into wet fields."
Research even shows that corn hybrids adjust to later planting by shortening the time necessary to reach silking, says Iowa State University agronomist Roger Elmore.
"Development and final yield of these hybrids will not be largely affected unless an early frost occurs," he says.
Coulter says for the most part, late-planted corn can be managed largely the same as its earlier-planted counterparts.
"If you're planting late, you might have a slightly lower yield potential, so you might be able to back down a little on P and K," he says. "Otherwise, fertility needs should typically be the same."
You can download AgWeb's exclusive Delayed Cost Calculator to estimate potential yield loss due to a planting delay.


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Teenager Killed After Reported Fight Over His Jacket
(NEW YORK) -- A New York City teenager is dead after he reportedly refused to give up his Polo Ralph Lauren jacket to another young man. Friends of 16-year-old Raphael Ward, who lived in the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, told the New York Post that Ward had an altercation over his jacket before he was shot.
Cynthia Nieves, 14, who was with Ward before the shooting, told the Post that he warned her, "Go home!" He didn't say what was going on, but, she told the paper, "He knew they were coming back."
Officer Sophia Tassy of the New York Police Department confirmed the reports of an altercation over Ward's parka, but said police aren't sure if the same people involved in the altercation are responsible for the shooting.
On Friday evening at about 8:10 p.m., police say Ward was shot in the chest in front of a church near his home. According to the Post, Ward stumbled into a nearby convenience store after the shooting and said he had been approached by people who wanted his jacket.
Paramedics rushed Ward to Beth Israel Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
No arrests have been made, and the NYPD has asked the public's help in locating four persons of interest.
Monday afternoon, police released a surveillance video showing four men walking into a bodega, then walking out. Two of the men are wearing ski masks and have been described as Hispanic. Police said the other two are black.
The price of the green coat is unknown, but friends reported that it was expensive and may have attracted unwanted attention in one of New York's poorer neighborhoods.
Raphael Ward lived with his mother and 7-year-old brother in the Baruch Houses, a public housing project. ABC News tried unsuccessfully to reach Ward's family.
The New York police asked that anyone with information on the shooting call them.
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Welcome to Oklahoma's eGovernment News Report. We hope you enjoy the monthly report providing you with up-to-date information on Oklahoma's eGovernment achievements.
Job Creation, Innovation and Education: My 2012 Agenda
On the first day of the legislative session the governor has the privilege of delivering the "State of the State" address to a joint session of the Oklahoma legislature. This gives the governor a unique opportunity to report on the overall health of the state and to introduce a forward-thinking agenda. The following are excerpts from my State of the State address, in which I outline a plan help create more and better jobs, eliminate government waste, improve our schools and the quality of our workforce, and focus on innovative solutions to several problems facing the state.
A bold plan for income tax reduction
"The Oklahoma Tax Reduction and Simplification Act will immediately cut income taxes for Oklahomans in all tax brackets, simplify the tax code, and chart a course towards the gradual elimination of the income tax.
"Our plan is a game-changer for Oklahoma. It's a job-creator. And it provides broad based tax relief to the middle class without starving government or hurting the working poor."
Increasing government efficiency and eliminating waste:
"Beginning in 2012, we are initiating a statewide performance evaluation initiative to apply to every state agency.
"Under current law, state agencies are required to submit a strategic plan that includes goals and proposals for increased efficiency and improved services. Unfortunately, these plans have not, historically, been carefully scrutinized. …
"My office and the Office of State Finance will begin evaluating each and every one of these plans and will use new software and technologies that measure performance and efficiency and align expenditures with outcomes. That analysis will help us to right-size government and ensure that each agency is operating as effectively as possible."
Improving our schools and boosting our workforce:
"We know that a majority of the jobs created in the next decade will require either a college education or a career certificate from one of our Career Technology centers. …
"That's why we have set a goal to increase the number of college graduates from 30,500 degrees and certificates awarded annually to 50,900."
Saving taxpayer dollars through energy efficiency
"… Oklahoma is currently ranked as one of the least energy efficient states in the country, which translates to hundreds of millions of dollars in wasted taxpayer money.
"To address that waste and dramatically improve our ranking, I'm asking our lawmakers to send me a bill requiring every state agency and higher education institution to reduce energy consumption by 12 percent by the year 2020."
Improving Oklahoma's roads and bridges
"Unfortunately, [Oklahoma has] some of the worst bridges in the nation.
"That's why last year I proposed a plan that will fix all 706 of Oklahoma's structurally deficient state highway bridges by 2019 … moving Oklahoma from the list of worst-bridges in the country to the best. …
"… To fund that plan, I have proposed in my budget an additional investment in the form of a $15 million increase to ODOT … paid for by using road money for roads, rather than diverting it to general revenue, as has been the practice in the past."
Creating a healthier Oklahoma
"It's time to address [Oklahoma's health problems] …
"To do that, I have first signed an executive order to prohibit tobacco use on all state property.
"We are also going to close the smoking room at the State Capitol and transform it into a small fitness center. To fund this transformation, the state has already applied for a grant from the Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust, which the Oklahoma Hospital Association has generously agreed to match it."
Free Document Shredding at the State Capitol for Oklahoma Consumer Protection Day
OKLAHOMA CITY – Attorney General Scott Pruitt and Shred-it® will be providing free document shredding on Thursday at the State Capitol during Oklahoma Consumer Protection Day. Free shredding will be available for the public from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the Capitol's south lawn.
For more information on how to avoid identity theft or to report fraud, go online to www.oag.ok.gov, call (405) 521-2029 or e-mail email@example.com.
Pinterest of Interest, But Feds Not Yet Sold On It
The Pinterest social media service is rapidly gaining in popularity on the Web, and federal agencies are starting to take notice.
Pinterest.com is a bookmarking and linking social website where users can create a bulletin board of interesting photographs, graphics, videos and news digitally "pinned" to their page, and easily share those links with others.
As of Feb. 6, no federal agencies were active on Pinterest, and there were no terms of service approved for federal agencies available for the site at the Apps.gov website.
The General Services Administration "probably won't pursue a Terms of Service agreement [with Pinterest] until there is more of a groundswell," the GSA's NewMedia office tweeted on Jan. 6, according to a recent GovLoop article on Pinterest.
While some federal agencies might not be a good fit for Pinterest, others could benefit from its format and its rising popularity, GovLoop said.
Indeed, the service does seem to have some potential as a way to generate interest. In January 2012, 3.6 percent of Web traffic referrals came from Pinterest, up from 2.5 percent in December, according to a Feb 1 article in SearchEngineWatch.com.
Pinterest was fourth in overall traffic, following Facebook, with 26.4 percent; StumbleUpon, with 5.1 percent; and Twitter, with 3.6 percent. Pinterest ranked higher than LinkedIn, Google+ and YouTube as a source of referrals.
Pinterest also more than tripled the number of users on the site between September and December 2011, to 7 million, the article said. The growth was achieved even though participation on the website currently is by invitation only.
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Underscoring the structural integrity of its flagship Landmark fifth-wheel line built for full-time RVing, Heartland RV has instituted an inclusive 2+5 year warranty on all 2013 models.
The warranty, providing two years bumper-to-bumper and five years structural coverage on the roof, sidewalls and floor, represents "one of the most comprehensive warranties in the industry," according to General Manager Kary Katzenberger.
"Full-timers consider their RV as their home," Katzenberger said in a press release. "One of the biggest selling features is peace of mind – knowing that their RV is not only well constructed but also protected in the long-term. The 2+5 warranty represents a set-apart added value in the luxury fifth-wheel marketplace, both for the consumer and our dealer body."
The Landmark fifth-wheel represents Heartland's first entry in the RV market when the Elkhart, Ind.-based company was founded in 2004. Built with an integrated system of laminated fiberglass sidewalls, flooring and roof to increase durability while reducing overall weight, the Landmark is tailored to meet the demands of all-weather conditions and the rigors of full-time use.
"In addition to achieving increased strength and a lighter weight, laminated construction affords superior thermal insulation and noise reduction over wood-framed products," said Katzenberger.
The Landmark is currently available in four floorplans in lengths of 33 to 41 feet, with two new floorplans coming to market in the next 90 days. In addition to a sturdy foundation, the series also offers a residential environment with attractive decors and high-line amenities.
New features in the 2013 line include a "whisper quiet" dual A/C system, optional 6-point leveling system and a new LCD, touch-screen remote that operates the landing gear, awning and sliderooms. MSRP's start at $74,900.
"The Landmark already offered one of the best values in the luxury, full-time fifth-wheel market," said Katzenberger. "The 2+5 warranty reinforces Heartland's standing as a leader in the category, providing the luxury and durability that full-timers require along with the peace of mind that they have made a sound investment."


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And though he played Gretsch instruments for years, his obligation with the company ended and did He chose not to sign on with the new owners. The quality of Gretsch instruments was slipping and Mr. Atkins was well aware of this fact.
By 1987 Gibson designers had come up with the Chet Atkins Country Gentleman. The design was loosely based on the Gretsch 6122; however there are quite a few differences.
492R humbucker on the neck and an alnico 490T on the bridge. These pickups are slightly hotter than Gretsch Super-Trons.
|Chet's Guitar - note red markers
Unlike the Gretsch Country Gentleman, which had tone switches, Gibson's version included a single tone potentiometer.
The cutaway is Venetian style.
|1996 Gibson Chet Atkins
The neck is designed of three-ply Maple capped with an Ebony fret board. There are thumb print style red pearl or abalone fret markers on the bottom edge of the fret board. The guitar has 21 frets and a scale of 25.5", which is slightly longer than most Gibson thinline models. The width of the neck is 1.75" at the nut and tapers out to 2.102" at the 12th fret. The headstock is black and capped with a crown inlay. The Gibson logo is inlaid at the top of the headstock.
The truss rod cover has Chet's name engraved and features a surrounding white binding.
All hardware on the Country Gentleman is gold-plated, including the Schaller tuners, the tune-o-matic bridge, the Bigsby vibrato (some did not come with a vibrato), the ring-nut on the pickup selector switch and the strap buttons.
The tune-o-matic bridge is seated on top of a beautiful rosewood saddle with white inlays inlaid on either side.
The guitar features four speed knobs. Included is one volume control for each pickup, a single tone control and a master volume knob. The master volume is located on the upper bout and the selector switch is on the lower bout.
|Ray Cummins with his CA model
|Scotty Moore's Guitar
This guitar was manufactured in Gibson's Memphis plant.
How does the Gibson Country Gentleman sound? I will let you be the judge by watching and listening to the videos below. In my opinion, it sounds like a Gibson guitar.
Due to the use of the Super-Tron pickups, Gretsch guitars have a very unique sound. But keep in mind most of a guitars sound is in the player's hands. I love the comment that Mr. Atkins once made to an admirer. He had set his guitar on a stand, when someone came over and said to him, "that guitar sounds great." Chet looked at the resting guitar and said, "Well how does it sound now?"
One worth mentioning is the Gibson Tennessean.
This guitar is sort of a stripped down version of the Country Gentleman, but it still remains an incredible instrument. The Tennessean was introduced in 1990. Many of the accoutrements were similar to the Country Gentleman. This guitar was equipped with chromed hardware.
The tune-o-matic bridge is mounted directly to the body.
The body is bound in white trim. However, there is no binding on the neck, arm rest or pick guard. And the pick guard is molded in a slightly different shape than what is found on the Country Gentleman.
The logo is silk screened onto the headstock. The controls are essentially the same as the Country Gent. The guitar comes with two 490 alnico humbucking pickups.
I cannot say for certain what material was used for the center block. The body size, depth and width are the same as its big brother. This guitar also features a 25.5" scale.
Both of these instruments have been discontinued, but can still be found in music stores and on eBay.
Below is a video by perhaps the greatest interpreter of Chet's style, my friend Ray Cummins, who is playing his Sunrise Orange Gibson Country Gentleman.
Here is Chet playing his Gibson Country Gentleman
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Toro 42" TimeCutter® SS4200 (74720)
42" TimeCutter® SS4200 (74720)
Featuring Smart Speed® Control System
This TimeCutter® SS4200 zero turn riding mower is powered by a 452cc Toro engine. It features a 42", 4" deep, high capacity steel mowing deck with washoutport to clean under the deck, 18" Extra-tall seat, along with Smart Speed® control system -- giving you greater control of speed and maneuverability.
- Powerful 452cc Toro Engine
- 42 in (107 cm) Mowing Deck is perfect for mowing in tight areas with many trees and landscaping
- Smart Speed® control system lets you choose from 3 ground speeds for optimal performance - trim, tow or mow.
- 3-Year Limited Warranty - No Hour Limitations
- Toro 452cc Engine: The Toro 452cc engine provides dependable performance and reliable starting with full pressure lubrication and spin-on oil filter.
- Heavy-Duty Rear Engine Guard: This heavy-duty steel guard protects the engine from branches and debris as you maneuver around your lawn.
- 42" (106.7 cm) Mowing Deck: Toro's four inch (10.2 cm) deep, top discharge deck design provides superior cutting performance in all conditions. Anti-scalp wheels allow the deck to float over the turf and reduce scalping. Create your own natural fertilizer by adding a Recycling Kit® or make yard clean-up a snap with an optional Twin Bagging system.
- Washout Ports: Deck washout ports create a pressure washer under your deck providing quick cleaning, maintaining optimum airflow for optimum cutting performance. 50" (127 cm) deck is pictured.
- Automatic Parking Brake: Automatically engaged when the control arms are moved outward. Simplifies operation by eliminating a separate parking brake.
- 3-Gallon (11.4 Liter) Fuel Capacity: All TimeCutter riding mowers feature a large 3-gallon (11.4 Liter) fuel tank for more mowing with fewer fill-ups. Knowing when to fill up is simple thanks to the translucent tank, which also helps to prevent overfilling.
- Heavy Duty 10 Gauge Unibody Steel Frame: The lower the gauge, the thicker the metal. That is why we use heavy duty 10 gauge steel. The unibody steel frame provides the optimal balance in rigidity and flexibility for quick, highly maneuverable mowing conditions.
- Hitch Kit Standard: Hitch kit comes standard on all TimeCutter models. It's easy to increase the versatility of your zero turn mower by attaching a dump cart, de-thatcher, fertilizer spreader or other Brinly-Hardy attachments. (Attachments sold separately.)
- Save on Average 45% of your MowingTime: The Toro TimeCutter cuts your mowing time almost in half*, which means less work for you and your mower. You'll not only have more time to enjoy, you'll extend the working life of your mower. *Time savings by yard size are from 2008 - 2012 survey results for Toro residential zero-turn mowers, as reported by owners.
- Dual Hydrostatic Drive System: Independent hydrostatic drive systems provide responsive maneuverability and zero turning capabilities. These independent drives are anchored to Toro's unibody frame and reinforced with a cross member for lasting durability and performance.
- Smart Speed® Control - Trim, Tow, Mow: Toro's Smart Speed® control system lets you choose from three ground speed ranges for optimal performance. Use low TRIM range to trim closer for maximum time savings, choose medium TOW range for towing attachments, or select high MOW range to mow large open areas and finish quickly.
- Non-Slip, Easy-to-Clean Floor Pan: The pierced floor pan is perfect for homeowners who like their mower to look as nice as their lawn. Simply hose down the floor pan after each use and keep your TimeCutter looking as good as new. The non-slip pierced extrusions also provide an additional measure of safety.
- 18" Extra Tall Seat: When you're mowing for an extended period, there's no substitute for a good seat. The 18" extra tall seat offers permium support during longer mowing sessions.
- 3-Year Limited Warranty - No Hour Limitations: Product is warranted against defects in materials and workmanship for three years without an hour limitation. See owner's manual for complete warranty details.
- Engine: 452cc Toro Engine
- Fuel Capacity: 3 gal / 11.4 L
- Cutting Width: 42" / 107 cm - 13 ga. 2 blades
- Blade Tip Speed: 17,810 ft/min
- Cup Holder: Standard
- Engine Displacement: 452cc
- Ground Speed: Mow(F/R) 7 mph/3 mph, Tow(F/R) 5.5 mph/2.4 mph, Trim (F/R) 4 mph/1.7 mph
- Height: 37.3" / 94.7 cm
- Height of Cut: 1.5" / 3.8 cm - 4.5" / 11.4 cm
- Hour Meter: Optional
- Length: 71.8" / 182.4 cm
- Seat: 18" / 45.7 cm Extra-Tall
- Steering Controls: Dual Wrap Around Levers
- Tires: 11" x 4" (25.4 cm x 10.2 cm) Front, 18" x 7.5" (45.7 cm x 19.1 cm) Rear
- Tool Box: Standard
- Transmission: Dual Hydrostatic
- Washout Port: Standard
- Warranty: 3-Year Unlimited Hours*
- Width: 45.3" / 115.1 cm Deflector Up - 53.8" / 136.7 cm Deflector Down - Storage Dimensions (W x L x H) 45.3" x 71.8" x 37.3" (115 cm x 182.4 cm x 94.7 cm)
- Brinly-Hardy Attachments: Standard hitch pulls a variety of premium Brinly-Hardy attachments, such as a cart, lawn sweeper, dethatcher, aerator and sprayer. See your local Toro dealer for details.
- Brinly-Hardy Direct Mount Attachments: Mount these premium Brinly-Hardy spreader and sprayer attachments directly to your TimeCutter for easy use. See your local Toro dealer for details. (Mount Kit part #131-3966 required.)
- Deck Lift Pedal: Allows you to lift the mowing deck when changing the height of cut position and easily raise the mowing deck while mowing to avoid scalping.
- Anti-Vibration Floor Mat: This rubber floor mat is a great addition to your TimeCutter mower. Reduces vibration and dampens deck noise during mowing.
- Cargo Carrier: The cargo carrier is perfect for homeowners that need hauling capabilities for mulch, soil, garden tools and other items for working the yard. No "jack knifing" and it's easy to store. Model 79040 - Cargo Carrier. You'll also need weight kit - model 131-7658 and mounting kit - model 131-3966.
- Hourmeter: Keep your mower in peak condition with an hourmeter for determining when to service.
- Twin Bagger: Pick up lawn clippings, leaves, and debris quickly with our Twin Bagger. Our twin baggers have a 6.5 bushel (8 cubic feet) capacity.
- Recycler Kit: Cut more grass in less time and improve the health of your lawn. Toro's innovative Recycler® mulching system minces grass clippings into fine particles and puts them back into your lawn giving you a healthy, lush looking yard.
- Sunshade: Keep cool and dry while you mow. The Toro sunshade increases operator comfort by shielding you from the elements. (Model Number - 79011)
NOTES:*See retailer for warranty details.
- Engine Manufacturer
- Toro®
- Engine Type
- Toro Engine
- Displacement
- 452cc
- Transmission
- Dual Hydrostatic
- Wheel Size
- Front: 11 in. x 4 in. (25.4 cm x 10.2 cm); Rear: 18 in. x 7.5 in. (45.7 cm x 19.1 cm)
- Fuel Capacity
- 3 gal. (11.4 L)
- Deck Size
- 42 in. (107 cm)


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Can Rubio save GOP on immigration?
Barely an hour after Mitt Romney conceded the presidential election Wednesday morning, Marco Rubio laid down his marker for 2016: No, he wouldn't be the candidate of the tired old white guy.
"The conservative movement should have particular appeal to people in minority and immigrant communities who are trying to make it," the GOP Florida senator posted on his Facebook page at 2:16 a.m. "And Republicans need to work harder than ever to communicate our beliefs to them."
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This is indisputably Rubio's moment, and how the 41-year-old senator and the most prominent Latino in national politics today carries his party's demographic burden will define not only his own future — but the future of the Republican Party. He was the biggest Republican winner Tuesday, Republicans will tell you, as it became painfully clear that Romney would carry only 27 percent of the nation's fastest-growing demographic.
( Also on POLITICO: Immigration reform returns to foreground)
Now, as fingers are pointed and blame is assigned, all eyes are on Rubio to help lead his party out of the political abyss with Hispanic voters. As Rubio positions himself for a 2016 run, his advisers are adamant that he not become merely the Latino candidate but a conservative leader with a compelling voice who can articulate to Hispanics that the Republican Party's values are their values — family, social conservatism, free-market entrepreneurialism.
"He is without question a world-class political talent with the ability to lead the party into the 21st century … a party that has become synonymous with intolerance and loons to too many swing voters," said Republican strategist Steve Schmidt, who ran Sen. John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign.
( PHOTOS: 20 quotes on immigration reform)
"You know the media and the party — everyone is looking at this lifeboat with Marco written on the side of it and everyone wants to jump in," said GOP political strategist Alex Castellanos. "We better be careful or we're gonna sink it. We're going to take one of our greatest assets and pigeonhole and typecast him. We need to move the conversation to the next generation, and he's one of the people who understand that we have to be the party of hope."
Rubio and his advisers are well aware of the risks: He must thread a needle as he tries to portray an open, tolerant party while not incensing the ultraconservative base who want tall fences, closed borders and nothing that looks like amnesty for illegal immigrants.
Rubio is already testing the national waters — he's heading to an Iowa fundraiser next week — so he's well aware of the complexity of moving the party to the left on immigration while appealing to the conservatives who rule the Republican primary process.
( PHOTOS: 9 wild immigration quotes)
Rubio seems likely to approach potential immigration talks from a biographical standpoint. The son of working-class, Cuban-born parents, the bilingual senator often speaks of how his mom and dad toiled for decades as a hotel maid and bartender after moving to America, longing for a better future for their children.
"He is well-positioned to be a leader on this issue — but it will take courage and he can't do it alone," said Alfonso Aguilar, executive director of the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles.
"This is a very, very dangerous area for Rubio if he has national aspirations," said Roy Beck, head of the anti-immigration group Numbers USA. "You've had Republicans trying to do this in the past that really lost their status in the party once they did it."
Rubio also has a potential problem inside the Senate. Two of the top Senate Republicans — Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and John Cornyn of Texas — are up for reelection in 2014 and have to be worried about a tea party primary challenge if they fire up the base on immigration.


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BEOKAY + Original Art 006
An original 4.5" x 6" traditional drawing based on the artwork and content from BEOKAY: The Dark Art of Self-Therapy. A download code for a free copy of BEOKAY is included with this original artwork.
BEOKAY is an digital art archive featuring:
+50 personal pieces from these following art series:
I Am Resin (The Black Hare) : 26 illustrated prayers for self-esteem and presence
Animus Solo : Confronting, elucidating, and treating my destructive urges
I Am Anima : Redirecting my urges towards after feeling new depths of love
+100 illustrated sketch journal entries in three sections:
Heroes : Pursuing peace through positive imagery
Gargoyles : That darker subjects may bring light by repelling darkness
Sojourn : Transitioning to a new life. Sex Addict Anonymous group notes and art
+45 Autobiographical short story comics spanning +95 Pages
Consumer warning: This work includes sexual content and some themes of violence and abuse. While these contributes to an edifying narrative, please be of legal viewing age in your country for such content.
You can also purchase BEOKAY as just a digital download without the physical artwork for $25 at https://gumroad.com/l/beokay.


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Our roots go back more than 20 years, to the man whose name appears on the downtube. It all started in the late 1980's when Jim Felt, an ace motocross mechanic at the time, designed and built a triathlon bike for motocross star Johnny O'Mara. Johnny was competing in triathlons for training and asked Jim to build him a new tri bike.
That first Felt bike was a revelation. A competitive age group triathlete himself, Jim had a distinct vision of how he could improve on the current designs. He took great care to optimize the rider's position for aerodynamics. Johnny started winning, and before long, Jim was building bikes for many of the world's top triathletes.
Since then, the Felt brand has grown well beyond its racing roots, but the guiding principle remains the same. Every Felt bike – road or off-road, high end performance to entry level recreation-is meant to make the cycling experience the best it can be. Whether climbing the steepest peaks of the Tour de France, bombing singletrack trails, racing a first triathlon or commuting to work, each promises uncompromised performance, comfort, and efficiency.
Ten years after he built that first triathlon bike, Jim wanted to expand and make his bikes available to more riders. Enter Bill Duehring and Michael Muellmann. Bill, a bike industry veteran, wanted to be a part of a company that could capitalize on his years of product development experience and strong relationships with suppliers all over the world. Michael owned a successful distribution company in Europe.
It was easy for the three to agree on a direction because they had the same goal: a bicycle brand dedicated to quality and technology. Jim brought a name, design experience and athlete relationships. Bill had broad-based product development knowledge and vendor connections. Michael had the experience in distribution.
A bicycle company had never been established with so much experience from day one. The day Felt incorporated, it had more than 70 years combined experience developing, manufacturing and selling high-quality bicycles. "We don't want to be the biggest bike company in the world, just the best," is a maxim often uttered by Jim, Bill and Michael.
Over the last decade, Felt has grown into one of the world's most respected cycling brands by staying true to its principles. In engineering, product development, sales, marketing and customer service, the same underlying values that sparked the start of the company drive every Felt employee, every day. However you measure success—product development, milestones or race wins—Felt has experienced it. The products speak for themselves. From Felt's innovative manufacturing processes including InsideOut Internally Optimized Molding and Dynamic Monocoque Construction, to breakthrough product design such as the FAST suspension and the Bayonet 3 Steering System, Felt is constantly seeking to push the technology envelope. The world's fastest UCI legal time trial bike, the DA, has dominated the international time trial and triathlon circuit. The Edict full-suspension mountain bike also had a spectacular entrance to competition, taking on the proving grounds of UCI Elite XC racing. The TK1, which was first raced at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, has been updated for 2012 and will compete at the Olympics in London this year.
This year, Felt is intoducing the FX Series cyclocross bike, a world- class carbon fiber platform that is significantly lighter and stiffer than Felt's previous cyclocross bikes. The TK1 that delivered Sarah Hammer to multiple World Championships has also been refined and is now available in either a Sprint or Endurance configuration. The Verza Line, introduced just last year, was so successful that it has expanded to include the QX Street and QX Equipped series of bikes.
On the competition front, Felt had a tremendous year led by Team Exergy, Felt-Oetztal X-Bionic, Peanut Butter & Co. TWENTY12, and a world class stable of individual athletes. Team Exergy stepped up to the competition in its first year as a UCI Continental squad and has already accumulated impressive palmares. X-Bionic advanced to UCI Elite status in 2011, and has already delivered World Cup wins. Led by Olympic Time Trial Champ Kristin Armstrong, Peanut Butter & Co. continue to emerge as one of the premier women's race teams in the world. Sarah Hammer won another World Championship in the Individual Pursuit and continues her preparation for the 2012 Olympics in London. In multisport, World Champions Mirinda Carfrae and Terenzo Bozzone continue to dominate the Ironman and Ironman 70.3 events.
Of course, competition is just part of the story. Felt's iconic cruiser lineup continues to expand, and the Café series offers a modern, stylish solution for anyone wishing to make cycling part of a healthy, responsible lifestyle. The QX Allround Series and the new QX Equipped trekking bike lines are two more examples of how Felt is changing the way people think about bikes.


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With the return of pro basketball's most storied rivalry in the finals, the National Basketball Association has big hopes for a rebound in fans.
Last year, the league bounced from a controversy-filled All-Star game of celebrity excess in Las Vegas to a tepid San Antonio-Cleveland championship round to a summer filled with a disgraced NBA referee's guilty plea in a gambling scandal. Fast-forward to the NBA's recent run, a remarkable turnaround that began when Commissioner David Stern celebrated the league's humanitarian efforts during an All-Star weekend in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans. It was followed by exciting playoff runs featuring, among others, the resurgent Hornets and capped by a Celtics-Lakers that continues with Game 3 Tuesday night in Los Angeles. Boston leads the series 2-0.
"I just think it's great for the league," former Celtics great Larry Bird said during a recent NBA teleconference with former Lakers rival Magic Johnson to promote the renewed battle. "It's great for basketball."
So far, so good. TV ratings for Game 1 on Thursday were up 38 percent compared with the opener of the 2007 finals – the highest since 2004 – although viewership fell in Game 2.
A longtime L.A.-Boston rivalry
Just a few statistics sketch the history of Boston and Los Angeles as NBA giants. Of the league's 61 championships, the two teams have won 30: the Celtics 16 and Lakers 14. They have faced each other for the title 10 times. Boston won eight of those matchups, but the rivalry lingers as a much more balanced affair in the minds of most hoops fans because Johnson's Lakers won two of three finals against Bird's Celtics in the 1980s.
Now the question is whether a much-changed league and rosters on both sides filled with players who were in diapers during the glory days of those Magic-Bird meetings can keep the newfound momentum rolling. How long has it been? Former Celtic Bill Walton has a new rooting interest this time around: His son, Luke, plays for Los Angeles.
League MVP Kobe Bryant leads the Lakers and, thanks to his relentless scoring brilliance, has begun to evoke comparisons with retired Chicago Bulls legend Michael Jordan. Even so, Bryant has never been embraced by fans beyond Los Angeles like Jordan was across the country. Beyond Bryant, Los Angeles combines a solid supporting cast with the key ingredient added at midseason: center Pau Gasol. Coach Phil Jackson took a team wracked by controversy and infighting – most notably Bryant's trade demands last summer – and steered
it back to the finals for the first time since 2004. [Editor's note: The original version gave the wrong date of the Lakers' last trip to the NBA Finals.]
Boston's resurrection marks the single biggest one-year turnaround in NBA history. General manager Danny Ainge, who played with Bird during the Celtics' title runs two decades ago, engineered two stellar trades last off-season, creating the so-called Boston Three Party by adding versatile swingman Kevin Garnett and veteran sharpshooter Ray Allen with long-suffering but talented Paul Pierce.
"Other than Kobe, who is obviously a marquee player, this is more of a team-style matchup," says Don Hinchey, an executive at The Bonham Group, a Denver-based sports-consulting firm. "With Bird and Magic, it was about superstars. These teams are attractive in a different way, but these franchises still galvanize interest."
And, hey, you can still count on Jack Nicholson sitting courtside when the series shifts to Los Angeles Tuesday.
Analysts say the encore edition of Celtics-Lakers is enough to intrigue casual viewers – and bring back old-school NBA fans who may have lost interest in the league once Jordan and the Bulls won their sixth and final title in 1998. Since then, with a brief run by Bryant and then-teammate Shaquille O'Neal, the finals have been marked by plodding play, dull matchups, and a fleet of uninspiring teams from Detroit, Cleveland, and New Jersey, among others.
"Are these teams going to go down in history like the great Lakers and Celtics of the past? Only if they win multiple championships," says Carl Scheer, a former general manager with several NBA teams and now a sports-franchise consultant. "One time in the finals doesn't do it. What gave those teams their legitimacy was their consistency."
Mr. Scheer and others say the current championship round must extend to six or seven games, ensuring enough drama to stick with fans beyond summer vacation.
When the Lakers and Celtics met three times in four years for the title during the 1980s, the series went seven, six, and six games, respectively. For anyone who followed the NBA then, it felt as though nobody but Los Angeles and Boston ever played for the championship.
Dynasties harder to build now
Matching those giddy days would be hard for any franchise, but in the era of hyperfree agency and salary cap-induced trades, it's harder.
Johnson, leader of the showtime-era Lakers, urges everyone to revel in the current rivalry.
Says Johnson: "Even though the names have changed as players and coaches, when you think about most fans around the world who watch basketball, if you ask them [who] they want to see in the finals, they would pick these two teams."


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U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission
Supplier of Innovative Games and Systems Fired Employee for Complaining About Race and Gender Discrimination, Federal Agency Charges
ATLANTA – In an employment discrimination lawsuit it recently filed, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged that Cadillac Jack, Inc., a supplier of innovative games and systems to the global gaming industry in Duluth, Ga., violated federal law when it fired a manager in retaliation for complaining about race and gender discrimination.
According to the EEOC's suit, the employer terminated Tracey Tucker, an African-American, from her position as a contracts manager on July 15, 2009, in retaliation for complaining about race and gender discrimination. Tucker, who was hired in October 2006, engaged in activity protected by federal law on July 8, 2009, when she informed her supervisor that she felt she was being subjected to discrimination. She reiterated her concerns on July 14, 2009, when she met with her supervisor and the human resources director. The next day, Tucker was terminated.
The EEOC filed suit (Civil Action No. 1:11-cv-02953) in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process. The EEOC is seeking back pay and compensatory and punitive damages for Tucker. The lawsuit also seeks injunctive relief designed to stop discrimination and prevent it from recurring in the future.
"Terminating an employee after she stands up for her rights represents one of the most blatant forms of unlawful retaliation," said Bernice Williams-Kimbrough, district director for the EEOC in Atlanta. "The EEOC will continue to vigorously protect employees' rights to complain about discrimination."
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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Nokia Pulse Projector
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Miika Mahonen has designed the Nokia Pulse Projector that combines an LED projector and an NXT speaker with Dolby Sound. Relying on Pulse software and Bluetooth connectivity, it can be paired up with a cell phone. The prototype is given specifications of a resolution of 1,280 x 768, a contrast ratio of 1,500:1 and 1,000 lumens brightness. The projector can send images of 15 to 60-inches from up to about 7 1/2 feet away.
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stickguy Posts: 33,395way too time consuming to set them up and take them down every day. so, you get to see them unmanned quite often.
in the NE, that is often 3-5 years that you have to put up with the same work zones.
2019 Acura TLX A-spec 4 cyl. (mine), and 2013 Acura RDX AWD (wife's)0
Should at least be permissible to drive a normal speed if no workers are present.
Some fun on the roads this afternoon. Got behind a minivan on an exit ramp, one I usually take at 50 (yellow sign 40) - I was thinking that this van was going to crawl, but I was wrong - the thing flew through the long curve at maybe 55, and once on the surface street, tore down the road weaving through traffic. Shocking. Then while on the foot saw another zillion phone holders, a woman in a Land Rover dawdle at a light and then floor it (sounded awful), woman in a CTS coupe blow through a red light with an occupied crosswalk, and saw a cop make a right turn from a straight lane, then dawdle down the cross street.0
My feelings on traffic camera tickets is that if they send me a picture of my car, then I will send them a picture of my money.
In DC, there is a camera in the D street tunnel. I live in Northern Virginia, and I normally do not go to that part of town, so I had NO IDEA there was a camera (nor was there a posted speed limit sign in that section of the tunnel). I had to go to a government site for 10 days, and got 7 tickets for 60 in a 45. They sent me $900 worth of tickets, but thanks to DC bureaucracy, I never heard from them again. That was 6 years ago. I guess they know that out of state drivers are not going to pay them anyway. Also, I work downtown, and no one has ticketed my car or booted it so I got of easy I guess.
Chris Skalski: Network Engineer 2012 Kia Optima EX0
The worst highway for inexplicable work zones is the Penna Tnpk (I-76). Lots of cones and lane closures...but no workers! Not one. This happened many times over the 35 years I have been visiting family in Buffalo twice a year to visit. Also, they seem to love closing one lane while going uphill in the mountains, and that lane is always occupied by a semi doing 12 MPH. Infuriating.
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If you want to go 45, get onto a minor highway and let drivers drive. Everyone in the country isn't in bland middle America with nowhere to go and all day to get there.
Tell that to the 2 semi drivers and the limo driver who were the blocking trio last Sunday holding up a very, very long line of drivers in vehicles behind them. The Semi drivers could have been from anywhere in the U.S., perhaps the left coast. The limo had a local tag.
The nuttiest drivers anywhere in the U.S. apparently are in the Sleepless area as duly reported on this Inconsiderate board.0
I don't know, CA and FL among others are pretty nutty too - and faster. If you really want to go 45, maybe you should move here - as plenty of so-called "drivers" on I5 around Seattle, and 405 between Bellevue and Renton especially, seem to be afraid to move past that dangerous insane speed.
The blocking semi drivers could also have been from the middle, and thinking "I'm not speeding, I can be in any lane I want, these speeds are too high, slow down!". I've seen the "elephant races" of one truck passing the other at .5mph more in Europe, too.0
Fun today - young woman with huge sunglasses in one of the Lincoln crossover things aggressively merges onto a highway, veers left - only to instantly be caught in a backup. Made me laugh.
Saw a WSP car sitting in traffic - first a car in front of it turns with no signals, then a car turning from a side street barely slows for red and turns - LEO does nothing. I notice why as he starts moving - he's eating a burger. Must be a busy day.
Typical amount of phone yappers out today, always seems to be about 3/4 oblivious young women. One today was in a Land Rover Defender - kind of odd, must be out in daddy's toy.0
stever Posts: 52,462If they are texting, send them to Thumb Wars.
Must be part of a cell class-action settlement or something.0
That would be typical of this overlawyered eventual idiocracy - a class action by people who lack the self-discipline and logic to not text while driving :sick:0
Sunny day here today, which seems to have surprised the locals. First off, old woman in a Crosstour, going ~20 in a 35, left lane of a 4 way arterial, no traffic. I was cruising up the right lane at about the limit, as I approach her, she randomly moves into the right lane, I veer around her. Funny that had her ignorance caused a crash, it would have been ruled my fault. Then at an intersection, I am patiently sitting at a red light, Suburban coming from the right stops on green and eventually encouraged to move again by vehicles behind. Then at a grocery store - little parking, greybeard small man syndrome sufferer in a lifted Dodge diesel wedges his overcompensator into a small spot, by driving over a curbed grassy median and parking halfway on it. WTH? Finished it off by getting behind an E-class who pulled out blindly from a parking lot, then went 20 in a 30, then in low speed traffic kept ~3 car lengths behind anyone...I had to hit the horn. Oh, and a woman in a Pathfinder yapping on the phone weaving like a drunk.0
In the San Diego region, our freeways more often have 4 lanes or more rather than 3 lanes or less. Given the abundance of lanes, it is especially agravating when you encounter left lane campers. MLC's are less obstructive due to the 4+ lane idea. If it was 3 lanes or less, then MLC's can be a problem.
With 4 lanes, it should be 2 lanes on the left are fastest/fast, and two lanes on the right are slow/slowest.
The fact that we have some sections with 6 lanes and you still get LLC's should be penalized by death. The more lanes available, the larger the fine should be for LLC. 3 lanes LLC should be $300, 5 lanes $5,000, 6 lanes = death.
SEcond that motion?'16 Audi TTS quattro 2.0T, '15 Audi A4 quattro 2.0T, '19 VW Tiguan SEL 4-Motion AWD0
I'm laughing because the construction zone speed is set for a reason. Going 75 through the zone is not safe or they would have the limit at 75 mph.
Do you honesty still believe most speed limits are set with safety in mind? I don't believe they even regard safety in their list of considerations, although they may state that in words or speech.
If they did want to set safe speed limits, they'd follow the 85th percentile rule.
No, I'm afraid most speed limits are set with the maximizing of revenue in mind.'16 Audi TTS quattro 2.0T, '15 Audi A4 quattro 2.0T, '19 VW Tiguan SEL 4-Motion AWD0
My feelings on traffic camera tickets is that if they send me a picture of my car, then I will send them a picture of my money.
That's funny.
In CA, they are so money hungry that stunt would probably get you a false accusation brought forth for creating counterfiet money with your pictures, and then fine you for counterfitting currency. Counterfeit charges would be my fear based on my experience with the CA courts.'16 Audi TTS quattro 2.0T, '15 Audi A4 quattro 2.0T, '19 VW Tiguan SEL 4-Motion AWD0
MLCs are not egregiously bad as LLCs, but they can be annoying iimpediments to normal traffic/drivers too!
MLC to me depends heavily on where you are. In a truly urban area, the density of exits (and sometimes the tendency for lanes to randomly peel away) dictates that the middle lane is the best option.
When I started driving in the NW Indiana suburbs of Chicago, I-94 in Indiana and the Tri-State in Illinois were 3 lanes each direction. No lanes randomly lost, but an exit every mile or two. Dad always said (and I have agreed) that "The right lane is for getting on or off, the middle lane is for driving, and the left lane is for passing." I still use that approach when I'm on the 3+ lane expressways in Louisville, but I recognize that it doesn't apply on the more rural Interstates that have gone to 3+ lanes over the last 10-20 years, where the exits are spaced several miles apart.
If the exits are consistently less than 2 miles apart, it's not MLC.2015 Acura RDX AWD / 2013 VW Jetta 2.5SE0
Saw this across the street when I got home today. I think the car was turning left from the side street, Durango was also turning left onto the side street,and they hit. But I could be wrong. Nice spill from it, too.
Didn't see much else other than the usual volume of phone holders/yappers.0
Just one glaring idiot yesterday...
getting on the Gene Snyder (I-265) the ramp from Westport has a bit of an annoying last curve, but nothing I can't enter at 50-55 and use modest power to hit the merging point at 65 (which is the SL). So yesterday I was behind an early Volvo S80, and the driver took her time getting to 45-50, and then entering that curve, hit the BRAKES! And was still tapping them even in a straight line, now at 40mph. When I finally got by, I realized the problem... the curve was too sharp to steer one-handed while holding a cell phone to her head. Silly me.2015 Acura RDX AWD / 2013 VW Jetta 2.5SE0
Not really inconsiderate, but it was odd and created a traffic jam. Got out of work to gridlock, traffic backed up for a mile, a mess. Saw a fire truck heading through traffic, and stopped near where I was headed, and where the bottleneck was. An Outback was stopped in the left lane of a 4 lane road, and was either full of curtains and plastic bags, or all of the airbags deployed. Odd, because the car had no visible damage, and there was really nothing in the immediate area to hit anyway. I wonder what happened.
Nothing else of note, seemed like less phone yappers than normal, did see a young woman in a G-wagen with a phone to her ear - way past time for wealth based fines.0
did see a young woman in a G-wagen with a phone to her ear - way past time for wealth based fines.
So, is this typical for drivers of this brand? Not a clue about driving and capabilities. Only know that the brand has a cache. Have to have to impress. Have the money from "greed" and can afford to buy rather than buying something less ostentatious and donating the rest to charity. Is this inconsiderate to drive these expensive vehicles as an in your face greed message?0
I see a lot of well kept members of the fairer set yapping while driving their tall isotanks, and I see what seems like an inordinate amount of luxobarges usually chosen by the executrash set doing the same. If a vehicle has internal bluetooth, there's no excuse for the phone nonsense - and there should be penalties to match. Driving the vehicles isn't the issue. It's inconsiderate to not use the technology if it is there, usually because the driver is technically illiterate, and has never answered to anything in their lives.
It could be an attentional bias on my part, but I doubt it.0
euphonium Great Northwest, West of the Cascades.Posts: 3,425Driving "these expensive vhicles" by successful people who earned them, through advanced education beyond HS is not an "in your face greed message". It is what they choose to afford while paying off their extensive post graduate university loans. As for donating to charity - upper income tax payers are already donating considerably to others via their portion of the I T that goes to Health, Education, & WELFARE. Those who attract your envy know what they did to achieve their status while others not as successful know equally as well what they failed to accomplish to do the same. Be happy for those whose status is above for they are more likely to be an employer of many who have come to depend on them.0
LOL yeah, flighty young fairer-set in 100K vehicles "earned" them, certainly not belonging to parental largesse or especially a certain group who marries lucky. And bozo aging exec types certainly earned it too, in no way is it a combination of lucky birth and less competition. Nope, all hard work, education, honest and ethical dealings.0
For every dollar spent on the 99% at least 2 dollars are spent on the 1%.
So yes, people should complain about welfare, the welfare for CEO's and big corporations mainly based on Wall Street.'16 Audi TTS quattro 2.0T, '15 Audi A4 quattro 2.0T, '19 VW Tiguan SEL 4-Motion AWD0
How do you explain MLC's when there are 6 lanes?
What about LLC's when there are 6 lanes?
Often times, the right lane becomes the fast lane in heavy traffic due to all the campers.'16 Audi TTS quattro 2.0T, '15 Audi A4 quattro 2.0T, '19 VW Tiguan SEL 4-Motion AWD0
How do you explain MLC's when there are 6 lanes?
What about LLC's when there are 6 lanes?
Did you see my use of the word "sometimes?" Or the phrase "depending on where you are?"
You'll find me in the rightmost lane that I can maintain desired speed, and no, I'm not above changing lanes (99% of the time to the left) to pass. If the exits are closely spaced, that won't be the far right lane. In several urban areas (such as Louisville), that might be the #3 lane out of 5, because #4 and #5 tend to randomly peel off as Exit Only lanes.2015 Acura RDX AWD / 2013 VW Jetta 2.5SE0
On foot this morning, I can say the worst/most oblivious drivers were in Range Rovers and X5s. Do these things have both no turn signals, and a seating position that prevents the driver from turning their empty head?0
Drove down south of Seattle on 405/5, then north of the city on 5, then back home on 5/405 - about 80 miles of driving. Quite a few LLCs out there today - white box vans and big pickups especially, but a middle aged woman in a Lexus ES sticks in my head. Saw an aggressively driven semi with Canadian plates weaving around and trying to pass people on the right - they are notorious for that kind of thing here. Saw a Jag F-type probably going 80-90 on northbound 5, but traffic was sparse, didn't matter.0
Are in Kentucky. I might actually go for 2 months without hearing about a school bus accident here in Louisville because most of the schools are out... and I bailed out an incompetent bus driver today.
Usually it seems like there's at least one school bus crash per month in the Louisville Metro. I had never heard of so many school bus crashes, and wrote it off to a lot of buses logging a lot of miles in a bussed district, or maybe extra media attention due to the infamous 1988 crash (in which the bus driver and passengers were the victim of a wrong-way drunk driver). There was even another fatal bus crash in one of the outlying areas within the last year, which was the result of the bus driver going too fast and losing control.
Today I was driving down the Gene Snyder, and spotted a school bus well ahead of me in the left lane. This was near the Shelbyville Road interchange, so I figured he was making room for merging traffic, and he was up to the speed limit (65mph). As I get closer, I see that he has his hazards on.
Another 3 miles later, we are past I-64 and all the on-ramp business is sorted out. The school bus continued to LLC at the speed limit or just above, still with his hazards on. I'm just closing up in the right lane, doing about 72, figuring I'll just go by. I had my nose up to the rear wheel when he started coming over. And this was no drift... he kept coming over. I lay on the horn and take evasive action to the right. I was just starting to get my left-sides on to the rumble strips when he finally jerked back left and let me get back on the road.
The kicker is it was a charter bus full of kids. WTF? LLCing, hazards, and just plain running me off the road. I'm now convinced Kentucky really has the worst school bus drivers!2015 Acura RDX AWD / 2013 VW Jetta 2.5SE0
No, I wasn't around this one, but it's a good reminder to expect the unexpected whenever you encounter a school bus in Kentucky...
http://www.wave3.com/story/22562375/loaded-school-bus-involved-in-injury-acciden- t2015 Acura RDX AWD / 2013 VW Jetta 2.5SE0
hammerhead Posts: 907He probably forgot to turn the hazards off after the last railroad track stop. Are these local school district buses, or contracted ones such as First Student or Durham?0
He probably forgot to turn the hazards off after the last railroad track stop. Are these local school district buses, or contracted ones such as First Student or Durham?
Interesting theory... makes me wonder how long they had been on. I had seen him on the freeway for several miles before he helped me get acquainted with the rumble strips, and the surprisingly cambered shoulder.
Today's buses (the one that ran me off the road, and the one that crashed in the afternoon) were both charter buses. To be fair, the one that crashed on I-64 had some catastrophic failure that involved a wheel coming off, which caused it to take a hard left from the right-most of 3 lanes, after which it went nose-first into the Jersey barrier. Actually there was some vivid footage from the dashcam of a semi that was just behind.2015 Acura RDX AWD / 2013 VW Jetta 2.5SE0


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I was arrived Khe Ga cape in the first day of Tet (Mung 1). Unfortunately, the boat driver has refused take me to the lighthouse because they don't want go out in the first day of Tet. I am walking on the beach and I saw many rocks in many different shape and size. Just amazing! I miss the chance to reach the top of lighthouse on the day, but it is not bad at all.


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