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Book your room at DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Bay City - Riverfront
Get an overview of this hotelRiverfront hotel with 2 restaurants and free airport shuttle
Located in the heart of Bay City, this hotel is steps from Wenonah Park, Friendship Shell, and Delta College Planetarium. Alice and Jack Wirt Public Library and Bay County Historical Society are also within 10 minutes.
Hotel Features
Along with 2 restaurants, this hotel has an indoor pool and a 24-hour fitness center. Free WiFi in public areas, free self parking, and a free airport shuttle are also provided. Additionally, a bar/lounge, a spa tub, and a 24-hour business center are onsite.
Room Amenities
All 150 rooms offer free WiFi and free wired Internet, TVs with cable channels, and comforts like pillowtop beds and Egyptian cotton sheets. Other amenities available to guests include MP3 docks, refrigerators, and room service.Would you like to give us feedback? Share it! Opens in a new window
DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Bay City - Riverfront1 Wenonah Park Pl Bay City MI 48708
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
In addition to an indoor pool, DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Bay City - Riverfront provides a spa tub and a 24-hour fitness center. Dining is available at one of the hotel's 2 restaurants. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. High-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary.
Business-related amenities at this 3-star property consist of a 24-hour business center and meeting rooms. Event facilities measuring 7630 square feet (687 square meters) include conference space. This business-friendly hotel also offers gift shops/newsstands, coffee/tea in a common area, and laundry facilities. A roundtrip airport shuttle is complimentary to guests during limited hours. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
- 24-hour business center
- 24-hour fitness facilities
- 24-hour front desk
- Free airport transportation
- Bar/lounge
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Conference space
- Conference space size (feet) - 7630
- Conference space size (meters) - 687
- Elevator/lift
- Express check-in
- Express check-out
- Free self parking
- Free WiFi
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Indoor pool
- Laundry facilities
- Meeting rooms
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Number of floors - 6
- Number of meeting rooms - 19
- Number of restaurants - 2
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Spa tub
- Total number of rooms - 150
- Wedding services
- Year Built 2004
Family Friendly Amenities
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
- Free Wi-Fi
- Indoor pool
- Laundry facilities
- Microwave (on request)
- Refrigerator
- Rollaway/extra beds available
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi , Free wired high-speed Internet
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking
Room Amenities
- Air conditioning
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Cable TV service
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Coffee/tea maker
- Free toiletries
- Free weekday newspaper
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Desk
- Down comforter
- Egyptian-cotton sheets
- Free WiFi
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Hair dryer
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Iron/ironing board
- Microwave (on request)
- MP3 docking station
- Pay movies
- Phone
- Pillowtop mattress
- Premium bedding
- Premium TV channels
- Private bathroom
- Refrigerator
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Room service (limited hours)
- Shower/tub combination
- Television
Where to Eat
Riverfront Grille - This restaurant specializes in American cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Riverfront Lounge - This restaurant specializes in American cuisine and serves lunch and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Nearby Things to Do
An indoor pool and a spa tub are on site. Other recreational amenities include a 24-hour fitness center.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Downhill skiing nearby
- Cross-country skiing nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Personal motorized watercraft on site
- Golf lessons available nearby
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Minimum check-in age is 21
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Optional extras
- Breakfast fee: USD 15.95 for adults and USD 7 for children (approximately)
Hotel Name
- Bay City DoubleTree
- Bay City Hilton
- DoubleTree Bay City Riverfront
- DoubleTree Hilton Bay City
- DoubleTree Hilton Bay City Riverfront
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We should mention
This property offers transfers from the airport. Guests must contact the property with arrival details before travel, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.


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Hornets' Belinelli fined for hard foul on Marion
Published: Friday, March 11, 2011 at 8:38 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, March 11, 2011 at 8:38 a.m.
NEW YORK — The NBA fined Hornets guard Marco Belinelli $10,000 on Thursday for his flagrant foul on Shawn Marion during New Orleans' 93-92 victory over the Dallas Mavericks a night earlier.
NBA executive vice president Stu Jackson said the foul, initially ruled a flagrant foul, penalty one, has been reviewed by the league and changed to a more serious penalty two.
The foul caused Marion to lose his balance while attempting a fast-break layup. He crashed into photographers on the baseline, hurting his right ribs.
At practice in suburban New Orleans on Thursday, before Belinelli was fined, Hornets coach Monty Williams said he thought officials got the initial call right.
"Marco's foul on Marion — he has the same play against (Mike) Conley in Memphis and he allows Conley to get a layup — I talked to him about we're not trying to hurt anybody, but you don't give up layups," Williams said. "I thought it was a good foul. He didn't try to hurt him."
Marion stayed on the court for a few possessions after the play, which occurred in the third quarter, then left the game for good.
Marion said afterward that X-rays were negative and that he'll be fine.
Belinelli wound up scoring 21 points, including his fourth 3-pointer of the game with 50 seconds left, igniting an improbable 8-0 run during the final minute.
Had officials initially ruled a flagrant foul, penalty two, Belinelli would have been ejected with more than 5 minutes remaining in the third quarter.
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WHERE: Hawaii and Guam
WHY: Platinum hard rock musicians Shaun Morgan, Dale Stewart, Troy McLawhorn and John Humphrey of Seether are gearing up for their second USO/Armed Forces Entertainment tour. The quartet will take their high-energy antics on the road to perform for troops and their families serving overseas, pose for photos and participate in meet and greets.
Formed in 1999, the South African rock band released its first U.S. album "Disclaimer" in 2002. Having become one of the core artists on rock radio, Seether has sold more than 5 million records worldwide with each release producing multiple Top 10 hits. Their chart-topping success includes number one singles "Remedy," "Fake It," "Rise Above This," as well as the gold certified hit "Broken" and "Careless Whisper."
In 2009, the group participated in their first USO tour visiting more than 5,000 troops and their families stationed in Japan. Their newest album "Holding on to Strings Better Left to Fray" will be released in 2011.
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'We're Here for the Soldiers': How One Volunteer Couple Answered the Call to Serve at USO Fort Hood
Anne Cosper always wanted to volunteer at the USO. So when her daughter, who currently serves in the U.S. Army, was reassigned to Fort Hood – only an hour drive from her Georgetown, Texas, home – she decided it was the perfect opportunity to get involved at the USO center on base.
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Bob Harris first began volunteering at the USO Northwest Seattle-Tacoma International Airport center in 2013. Shortly after he started, he was asked if he'd be interested in picking up donated bananas and bringing them to the airport center once a week. It wasn't long after his first delivery that Bob realized the donations runs had earned him a new nickname.


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My DD just turned 3 on Jan 23rd and we are nowhere near potty training =( I got her a potty a year ago and she has showed NO interest in it. She is always watching her big sister (4 1/2) go on the big potty so I got her the seat that clips onto the big potty and a step stool, and still she doesnt want to learn. I even let her pick out her own big girl undies. She doesnt tell me when she poos or anything. She will literally sit in it until I smell it or check her.
For those who have potty learned, how did you get your LO to go or tell you when they have to go?


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America's over-100 population on the rise
Ethel Estock's birthday is on Sunday.
She'll turn 103.
"Wow," the Erie woman said the other day when asked about it. "I never thought I was going to live that long."
Do any of us think we'll live to see 100?
Maybe we should start.
America is home to the world's largest population of centenarians, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
In April the Census Bureau will release a more detailed report of characteristics of the nation's over-100 segment, including trends in education and marital status.
The 2010 census, which was the bureau's last count, revealed 53,364 centenarians in the U.S., with more than 44,000 -- nearly 83 percent -- being women.
The country's over-100 population in general is a 66 percent spike over the nation's centenarians in 1980.
"I'm not surprised at all," said Danielle Hansen, D.O., a geriatrician and the associate director of the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine's Institute for Successful Aging.
"As health care, medicine, science and research have gotten more sophisticated, there are a lot more treatment options that improve wellness and extend life," Hansen added. "We have the technology to detect disease at an earlier state, or prevent diseases from occurring in the first place, so we can intervene before disease causes too much trouble."
Pennsylvania's over-100 crowd increased from 2,400 in 2000 to 2,510 in 2010. So did Erie County's centenarian population, slightly rising from 43 in 2000 to 44 in 2010. The city of Erie experienced a drop, going from 19 centenarians in 2000 to 11 in 2010.
Estock has lived in her own apartment inside the Sarah A. Reed Retirement Center since 1995.
She receives some support services from the center's staff, such as reminders to take medication, but otherwise lives independently.
Her vision is weakening, making it difficult to watch television, but she'd prefer anyway to laugh and chitchat with fellow residents while they're eating lunch and dinner.
Estock's memory has good and bad days. Sometimes she struggles, and it upsets her. Other times she reveals details of her life from several decades ago as if they happened yesterday.
She remembers growing up on Plum Street. Her father, a sheet metal worker, taught her how to swim in Lake Erie, skills she would later use to star on the Academy High School varsity team.
She worked as a housekeeper in a hospital for more than 20 years, married a roofer, Gordon Estock, in 1936, and eventually settled down as a homemaker after the couple had three children.
"We loved to go dancing," she said about her husband as she rubbed the wedding ring she still wears. Gordon Estock passed away in 1983.
Centenarians cruise right past the current average life expectancy, 79.8 years, in the U.S. For women it's 82.2, and for men it's 77.4.
Local experts on aging say getting to 100 is helped by having a healthy diet, hobbies and regular exercise, friends or family to interact with, and a hearty social life.
"Good genes help. So does good luck," said Dorothy Candib, M.D., medical director at Saint Mary's Home of Erie-East. "There are no formulas, guarantees or promises. But I've found staying socially connected, having a cheerful disposition and finding meaning in your life certainly helps."
Hansen, of LECOM, has treated 10 centenarians -- nine women and one man -- in the past couple of years.
"They're a great group. Happy and very wise," Hansen said. "They have seen and experienced so much. They are very resilient and determined, and have lived through much tougher times than we have ever faced."
Harley Wells was born in Waterford in 1912 and lived through the Great Depression. His father, a dairy farmer, mother and four brothers and sisters often ate at soup kitchens during those trying times.
"Those places were sloppy. You were lucky to get a handful of chicken if you could find it," the 102-year-old said the other day. "But we had to go. We had nothing to eat. Many nights we went with nothing to eat."
Wells lives at Sarah Reed, 227 W. 22nd St., and receives round-the-clock skilled nursing care. So does his roommate, Edward "Skip" Ciroli, a 101-year-old retired machinist from Ridgway.
Wells emerged from the Depression, became a farmer and electrician, and was married for 70 years until his wife passed away. He has a daughter in Waterford, and a son who lives in California.
"My life is great. I enjoy every minute of it," Wells said before smiling. Then he focused on his TV and ESPN.
When asked what his secret was to joining America's booming group of centenarians, he paused for a few moments. Then he answered loudly.
"Hard work," he said.
GERRY WEISS can be reached at 870-1884 or by e-mail. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/ETNweiss.


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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: France
Age: 29
I'm so disappointed Chiaki didn't join in on the cosplaying fun... I'm sure she would have enjoyed it.
Next episode looks like it will be great. Rescuing beautiful girls from arranged marriages is always exciting, even more so when it possibly is so that she can run away with her lesbian lvoer. I'm hoping Lynn and Jenny's "relationship" will be clarified next week.
|2012-04-22, 17:59
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|2012-04-22, 18:35
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Cyberjaya, Malaysia
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I always thought that the attack on Princess Apricot (prologue of vol 3) should be done in 5- 7 minutes or less, as it is only 10 pages, and no Ritsu singing . Chapter 4 was the preparation to attack, while Chapter 5 was after the attack (Jenny's request, Silent Whisper etc). Air time should be allocated to when Marika was recruiting, and when the Yacht Club was preparing the ship.
I still find it funny though: A Masquerade Pary is being raid by girls in costumes . I guess the production team couldn't effort to draw costumes for the Princess Apricot's Captain and passengers (and Chiaki too)
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Beta by Accident
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Maine
Age: 44
With Lynn's reveal, I'm suddenly wondering about how the crew got exposed to the infected animals in the first place. In Ep. 14 it was indicated that the crates were intentionally tampered with, leading to the crew's quarantine, the result of which was that Marika had to get a new crew.
Logically, the first people she'd turn to would be the yacht club. If that wasn't enough, Chiaki and her father made sure that would happen.
...and now Lynn has a pirate ship in hand ready to run off and rescue Jenny. Makes me wonder if Jenny and/or Lynn weren't behind the outbreak in the first place.
|2012-04-22, 21:30
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2007
I don't think so. Lynn's communication with someone who I'm assuming is Jenny indicated that the wedding was going to happen sooner than they expected. Given the scheduled flight plan of the Odette II, they can't be planning for this trip to last more than a few days, so the original date of Jenny's wedding almost certainly wouldn't have overlapped with the trip.
Besides, if Lynn has the means to hire the Bentenmaru for the job, she'd be better off just hiring it with the regular crew. She's not so foolish as to think that her girls are actually better qualified for this rescue/kidnapping than an experienced group of pirates who have almost certainly done kidnappings before (given that they have a room specifically for keeping people that they've kidnapped).
|2012-04-22, 22:09
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Location: Mexico
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|2012-04-23, 00:03
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Episode 16
Daily Lives of High School Girl Pirates...
This episode wasn't as entertaining compared to episode 15 probably because we don't see the Bentemaru crew freaking out constantly. It's still ok, but the last episode was better.
I kind of face palm myself when I saw the cosplay kiddies raiding a cruise liner. I was thinking to myself, "Like. Really?!" Then the old guys making moves on the little pirates was....interesting.
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|2012-04-24, 22:54
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Truth Martyr
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Doing Anzu's paperwork.
Age: 30
I have finally seen episode 16.
Chiaki-chan, I share your pain.
*bashes head against the wall*
Mami, I would not normally be against cosplay for cute girls, but I am against cosplay when it DOES NOT FIT THE THEME. As a future designer, you should know that ;__;
Also, next week, the kidnapping of love. It appears that excretions will become coherent. And a corporate fleet? Sounds like the Doolittle Shipping line have their own screening elements to protect their cargo convoys. Though when I saw it, I immediately thought of EVE Online.
|2012-04-25, 01:09
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It's bacon!
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Up and to the Left
Age: 36
So with episode 16, we are told that there are other cameras onboard the Bentenmaru for the sick crew to use to spy with. And the doc would rather let the new crew to try to handle the work on their own. If you didn't catch that, it's kind of a old potty training reference, now that the old crew had taught the new crew most of everything they needed to learn. Not that the doc doesn't have any further concern with the new crew, but may mean that she's on to cyborg boy's toilet cams.
|2012-04-25, 08:36
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~ Your Smile ~
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: 346Pro
Age: 30
In my theorized world of Moretsu, I called them "Escort Freighters". These would be small civilian lighters with jump capability modified (often illegally) with weapons and armor to be able to defend against/slow down pirates while the cargo freighters cycled down their warp drive. Its a job not for the faint-hearted, as escort captains go against foes that are fast and bristling with firepower with small, relatively fragile ships with too many weapons and too overpowered engines. The escort freighter is named as such to avoid giving the impression that civilian shipping companies were fielding warships.
(In my fic, the Crest Eagle is one of the last surviving escort freighters. And all you Trek fans can probably smell the thick Defiant fragance in this post. Which btw, is centered on a shipping hub.)
|2012-04-25, 09:14
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: GMT 10+
Convoy Escort Programme Ltd 's private navy service and it's backed by the marine insurance industry (U.K. insurance and reinsurance broking company Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group Plc). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8JV746Qnms
Bentenmaru and Barbarossa are also backed by Harry Llyod Insurance Union. Space is a very large area to cover i.e. private companies should be paying for the bills not the tax payers.
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A group of S&P 500 stocks has significantly moved away from their trading ranges and may be ready to drop as the market rolls over. » Read More
Karen Mills, head of the Small Business Administration, talks about the challenges and importance of loaning to small businesses, and being a part of the Cabinet.
One retailer's experience raises a question that many small businesspeople are asking in times of tighter credit and uneven profits: Are bigger banks willing to deal with the risk of a smaller business in tough times?
Banks remain hesitant to lend, and when they do, they're asking for more information and toughening requirements. It's a trend that is stalling the pace of lending to smaller companies.
In another milestone in the banking industry's recovery from the financial crisis, the Federal Reserve this week will release the results of its latest stress tests, which are expected to show broadly improved balance sheets at most institutions, the New York Times reports.
Although defensive stocks have performed well this year, one fund manager said he is finding more attractive valuation in some slightly riskier mid-cap companies, including several regional banking stocks.
Want to know which banks investors are currently betting against? Take a look at the short interest ratio, which divides average trading volumes by outstanding short interest.
Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase and U.S. Bancorp are usually the first names that come to mind when bank stock investors think about dividends, but these names are actually in the middle of the pack when it comes to dividend yield.
Stocks finished mixed in choppy, low-volume trading Tuesday, with the Dow and S&P breaking a five-day winning streak, as investors largely shrugged off Moody's downgrade of Portugal's rating into junk territory and ahead of some key employment news expected later this week.
Stocks paring earlier losses in choppy, low-volume trading Tuesday, as investors largely shrugged off Moody's downgrade of Portugal's rating into junk territory.
Stocks struggled for direction in choppy, low-volume trading Tuesday, after logging their biggest gain last week in almost two years.
Futures wavered ahead of the open Tuesday as traders took a cautious stance after the long weekend, waiting to see if economic growth will return to the U.S. and whether concerns over Greek debt can be eased.
Following are moves you might have missed. Find out why shares of Amarin and M&T Bank popped while Marvell and Abercrombie & Fitch dropped.
It seemed appropriate on The Strategy Session yesterday that on a program where we focused on the disappearance of "Merger Monday," that the first real "take-under" since JP Morgan's acquisition of Bear Stearns transpired.
Privatized prison stocks have seen a modest gain in the past three months, so is there room to run from here? T.C. Robillard, analyst at Signal Hill discussed his insights.
Following are moves you might have missed. Find out why shares of M&T Bank and JinkoSolar popped while Endo Pharmaceuticals and Stanley Black & Decker dropped.
Stocks ended mixed after a choppy session as investors hesitated to commit to the market ahead of Tuesday's mid-term election and the Federal Reserve's decision on monetary policy. Intel and Pzifer rose, while Kraft fell.
Stocks pared losses, although remained lower, after rallying for most of the session as investors hesitated to commit to the market ahead of Tuesday's mid-term election and the Federal Reserve's decision on monetary policy. Kraft and Chevron fell, while Intel rose.
It is has become clear that until today shareholders of Wilmington Trust had no idea how bad things had gotten for the bank. Bad enough, in fact, that management chose to sell itself for roughly 43 percent below it's stock market value on Friday.
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Barnabei wins commission seat
May 14, 2014
NEW CUMBERLAND — Hancock County voters chose change over continuity Tuesday by electing Democrat Joe Barnabei over incumbent Dan Greathouse as the next county commissioner....
Looking forward to having you as our County Commissioner Joe.
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Congratulations, Joe! Yes, it is definitely time for a change. When people are in office too long, they tend to get lazy and cut corners. I'm not picking on anyone, just stating a fact. Look at our government. Give Hancock county a hundred percent, be honest and the people will respect you. Jules Verne
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Tyler G. Brocaille, 23, and his passenger, Courtney J. Laforce, 20, both of Hannibal, Mo., were injured in a one-car crash at 5 a.m. Friday, June 20, in Marion County.
According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Brocaille has moderate injuries, and Laforce had minor injuries. They were using safety devices.
Officers said both went to Hannibal Regional Hospital.
The State Patrol reported Brocaille was driving a 2008 Lincoln MKZ on Marion County Road 418 a half mile west of Hannibal, when it went off the right side of the road and hit a tree.
The State Patrol was assisted at the scene by the Hannibal Rural Fire Department and Marion County ambulance personnel.
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Techniques for portable computers and mobile devices
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The arrival of Linux on portable and mobile devices provides so many interesting opportunities for customization. This month we look at Linux in portable and mobile environments.
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Graham Wagg's last home game as a Derbyshire player ended in defeat after an impressive all-round display by James Middlebrook took Northamptonshire to a five-wicket Clydesdale Bank 40 victory.
Wagg, who is leaving the club after five seasons and is expected to join Glamorgan, took the first two wickets as the Steelbacks slipped to 76 for five before Middlebrook followed his 3-34 haul with an unbeaten 57, his highest one-day score.
Northants skipper Andrew Hall and Lee Daggett also took three wickets apiece to restrict Derbyshire to 171, of which Chesney Hughes made 55 from 62 balls, but Steelbacks were in trouble until Stephen Peters, who hit 53 not out, and Middlebrook shared an unbroken stand of 96 in 14 overs.
Hughes gave the Falcons a decent start but the rest of the batting struggled against some disciplined seam and spin bowling on a sluggish pitch at Derby..
Northants conceded only three wides and the 16 overs of spin from Middlebrook and Tom Brett cost just 61 runs, which stifled Derbyshire in mid-innings.
Hughes hit seven fours before he was neatly stumped off a quicker ball from Middlebrook, but no other batsman found the boundary until Dan Redfern glanced Daggett to fine-leg in the 31st over.
There were only 11 fours and a big six - on to the pavilion roof from Jon Clare - in the entire innings, which ended swiftly once Redfern pulled Daggett to deep square-leg in the 35th over.
Hall mopped up the tail by taking the last three wickets in seven balls at a cost of two runs, but Northants' pursuit quickly stalled as Wagg removed both openers in the first seven overs.
Mal Loye's lean run continued when he failed to clear mid-on and Wagg took an acrobatic return catch after Rob Newton top-edged a paddle sweep with the score on 19.
The Derbyshire total looked even more formidable when Tim Groenewald bowled Alex Wakely with one that nipped back and David Sales clipped a full toss from off-spinner Jake Needham to short midwicket.
At 40 for four, the game was slipping away from Northants, who had much to do when Hall fell to a fine diving catch by wicketkeeper Steve Adshead, but Peters and Middlebrook batted calmly to steer them home.
They wanted 60 from the last 10 overs but Wagg's return to the attack proved a turning point.
He had conceded only 11 from his first five overs but his sixth cost 19, including a straight six over the sightscreen by Middlebrook and a free hit which Peters pulled for four.
Despite some uncertain running, the sixth-wicket pair did not look like being parted and there were three overs to spare when Northants wrapped up their fourth victory in Group B.


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First of all this is coming from an Android ex user, I used to have the Evo 4G and after growing bored of Android I took the plunge back into BB, and wow what a difference! I used to have the Bold 9700 back in the days and this to me is a HUGE improvement! Its fast its quality built is just incredible, I would put the quality built up there next to the iPhone 4. If feels solid and you just want to write something to someone LoL. I dont know what other are saying about the size, its the perfect size, its hands down the BEST keyboard Ive ever typed on!
The screen is gorgous and the LED light makes my old Evo look like a dimm light for notifications. I love that you can see the LED light from any angle and with the Evo you had to literally face the device to see the light turn on. As for the browser its not up to par with Android or iPhone, but its not the same old BB one either, its WAY quicker, smoother and overall a big leap forward.
As for the apps I found a lot that i can use as well. The best thing to do is to go to your local Sprint store and play with one. Although I will tell you that I did that and there is no comparison, the display unit feels cheap, yet once you buy one it feel way better ( quality) And whoever complained about carrier.... then why would you purchase it in the first place? LoL Sprint is # 1 right now for realesing the most devices, just look at their BB , Android , Windows phone line up...they got choices! I wont be going back to Android until a phone comes out that blows my mind away, until then I am loving this Bold Touch- heck I even got some of my die hard Android friends looking into buying one too!
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Japan's Nikkei Stock Average rose 0.1% to 8615.65, Australia's S&P/ASX 200 index gained 0.9% to 4039.50. However, South Korea's Kospi fell 0.7% to 1723.09, while the Shanghai Composite Index fell 1% to 2392.06, its lowest close since July 2010. The Hang Seng Index lost 0.7% to 18011.06, and India's Sensex fell 0.5% to 16446.02.
Describing Asian stock markets on Wednesday as "listless," DBS Vickers director Peter Lai said investors want to see more developments on Europe's debt situation before they are willing to take a more positive stance on the region's equities.
"The market is very bearish. They don't agree with [U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben] Bernanke's Operation Twist, and the euro-zone debt situation doesn't create any positive hope. After all, there are demonstrations in Greece and Italy, and political tension in Greece is very tight. This is why people doubt that there will be some kind of rescue with the European debt," he said.
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hp psc 1610 all in one - Installing scanning
I am unable to install the Scan facility via the disc which came with the Printer as the disc is a Macintosh version.The computer promptme to install a Windows disc, unsurprisingly as I run with Windows XP.
Where can I download the requisite software to use the scan facility.
Re: hp psc 1610 all in one - Installing scanning
Hi use this link to download the full feature software for your printer
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I am having the exact same problem! I spent the last 2 hours downloading the software from the link that was supplied here and I followed all the directions given on the HP website about disabling the msconfig choices for startup and services and I unplugged the printer and turned it on when it said to do so and plugged it back in when it said to do so and .....................
Nada!! I get to about step 8 in the count down where the program is trying to connect with the printer and it says it detects a new device but it doesn't do anything about connecting to it!! It's like the danged program just decides to step out for a
Starbucks about the time it should be finalizing the loading operation! If that program was an employee of mine, I would fire it on the spot!!
So, does anyone have any advice for this old guy to get his blood pressure back down and get him scanning some old photos into his computer??
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A nested-intensity design for surveying plant diversity
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Managers of natural landscapes need cost-efficient, accurate, and precise systems to inventory plant diversity. We investigated a nested-intensity sampling design to assess local and landscape-scale heterogeneity of plant species richness in aspen stands in southern Colorado, USA. The nested-intensity design used three vegetation sampling techniques: the Modified-Whittaker, a 1000-m2 multiple-scale plot (n = 8); a 100-m2 multiple-scale Intensive plot (n = 15); and a 100-m2 single-scale Extensive plot (n = 28). The large Modified-Whittaker plot (1000 m2) recorded greater species richness per plot than the other two sampling techniques (P < 0.001), estimated cover of a greater number of species in 1-m2 subplots (P < 0.018), and captured 32 species missed by the smaller, more numerous 100-m2 plots of the other designs. The Intensive plots extended the environmental gradient sampled, capturing 17 species missed by the other techniques, and improved species–area calculations. The greater number of Extensive plots further expanded the gradient sampled, and captured 18 additional species. The multi-scale Modified-Whittaker and Intensive designs allowed quantification of the slopes of species–area curves in the single-scale Extensive plots. Multiple linear regressions were able to predict the slope of species–area curves (adj R 2 = 0.64, P < 0.001) at each Extensive plot, allowing comparison of species richness at each sample location. Comparison of species–accumulation curves generated with each technique suggested that small, single-scale plot techniques might be very misleading because they underestimate species richness by missing locally rare species at every site. A combination of large and small multi-scale and single-scale plots greatly improves our understanding of native and exotic plant diversity patterns.
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- Title
- A nested-intensity design for surveying plant diversity
- Journal
Biodiversity & Conservation
Volume 12, Issue 2 , pp 255-278
- Cover Date
- 2003-02
- Print ISSN
- 0960-3115
- Online ISSN
- 1572-9710
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- Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers
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- Keywords
- Inventory
- Nested-intensity designs
- Plant species richness
- Sample plot size
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- David T. Barnett (1)
- Thomas J. Stohlgren (2)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA
- 2. Midcontinent Ecological Science Center, United States Geological Survey, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA


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Skip to comments.The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Pea Ridge Campaign (Jan-Mar/1862) - Mar 25th, 2004
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(Elkhorn Tavern)
Arkansas was quiet during the first few weeks of 1862. The primary concern of Confederate authorities in Richmond and Little Rock continued to be the unsettled situation in neighboring Missouri, where Maj. Gen. Sterling Price's ragtag army, the Missouri State Guard, was in winter quarters at Springfield in the southwestern corner of the state. Price's army was a mix of Confederates and Missouri state guardsmen and numbered about eight thousand men and forty-seven cannons. Despite serious organizational and logistical problems, the Missouri Rebels had fought well at Wilson's Creek and Lexington the previous year, and they constituted a potential threat to the vital Union stronghold of St. Louis.
Brigadier General Benjamin McCulloch
Brig. Gen. Benjamin McCulloch's Confederate army was located in northwestern Arkansas about one hundred miles south of Price's force. McCulloch's command consisted of about eighty-seven hundred men and eighteen cannons. Many of his Arkansas, Texas, and Louisiana soldiers were veterans of Wilson's Creek and other engagements in Missouri and the Indian Territory. At the beginning of the new year, the infantry was in winter quarters in and around Fayetteville, Cross Hollows (near present-day Lowell), and Bentonville, enduring the frigid temperatures atop the Ozark Plateau; the cavalry and artillery were spread out along the Arkansas River Valley sixty miles to the south, where warmer temperatures and adequate forage made life more bearable for men and beasts. McCulloch, who did not expect any military activity along the frontier until spring, had gone to Virginia to confer with President Jefferson Davis about the state of affairs in the Trans-Mississippi.
What McCulloch wanted to discuss was his long-simmering feud with Price. The two generals no longer were on speaking terms, and their partisans were engaged in a full-scale newspaper war. After listening to McCulloch and to Price's advocates in the Missouri congressional delegation, President Davis decided that only a bold act could resolve the impasse. He created a new entity, the Military District of the Trans-Mississippi, on January 10, 1862, and placed an old friend, Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn of Mississippi, in command. Davis believed that Van Dorn's appointment would provide unity of command and purpose to the Confederate war effort west of the Mississippi River.
Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn
Van Dorn was a poor choice despite his West Point education and years of service in the regular army. He was impulsive, reckless, and lacked administrative skills. None of that was apparent, however, as Van Dorn hastened westward from Virginia to his new post. He assumed command in Little Rock on January 29, but established his headquarters in Pocahontas because he intended to invade Missouri from northeastern Arkansas in the spring. Van Dorn expressed his rather casual approach to strategy in a letter to his wife: "I must have St. Louis - then Huzza!"
In St. Louis, meanwhile, decisions were being made that would bring the war to Arkansas more quickly than anyone expected. President Abraham Lincoln appointed Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck commander of the Federal Department of the Missouri on November 19, 1861. Halleck was an excellent administrator and strategist who was determined to protect St. Louis and reassert Union control over the rest of Missouri. On December 25, 1861, he placed Brig. Gen. Samuel R. Curtis in command of the District of Southwest Missouri and its military arm, the Army of the Southwest, a force of about twelve thousand men and fifty cannons. Curtis was a West Point graduate and Iowa congressman who had helped to found the Republican Party. He was an able administrator and an aggressive campaigner well suited to his mission: to destroy Price's Rebel army.
On January 13, 1862, Halleck authorized Curtis to begin. During the next four weeks, the Army of the Southwest struggled across the Ozark Plateau toward Springfield and Price's smaller army. Price repeatedly called upon McCulloch and his subordinates for assistance, but due to McCulloch's absence and a general breakdown in communications, no help was forthcoming from Arkansas. As the Union army approached, Price decided not to fight but to flee. He abandoned Springfield on February 12 and retreated to the south. If McCulloch would not join him in Missouri, he would join McCulloch in Arkansas.
General Samuel Curtis
Curtis followed, much to Price's surprise, and the result was the only true pursuit of one army by another in the Civil War. For four days the two columns hurried down Telegraph (or Wire) Road, the primary route linking southwestern Missouri and northwestern Arkansas. The weather was intensely cold, and the soldiers in both armies endured snow, sleet, and freezing rain. Sharp engagements occurred every day between the Confederate rear guard and the Federal vanguard.
The head of Price's column reached the Arkansas state line on the morning of February 16. Later that day the pursuing First Missouri (Union) Cavalry caught up with the First Missouri (Confederate) Cavalry, which was trailing behind the Confederate main body. The intermingled mass of shooting and slashing horsemen splashed across Big Sugar Creek and swirled into Arkansas. Soon afterwards, the Federals disengaged and fell back a short distance into Missouri. Federal casualties were light: one man killed and five wounded. Confederate losses were more serious: sixteen men killed and many wounded. This minor encounter, known locally as the skirmish of Pott's Hill, was the first clash between Union and Confederate forces on Arkansas soil.
The next morning, February 17, the Army of the Southwest invaded Arkansas and the Confederacy. Bands played patriotic and popular tunes, including, appropriately enough, "The Arkansas Traveler," while thousands of cheering blue-clad troops stepped across the state line. Curtis congratulated his men for being the first Federal soldiers to set foot on the "virgin soil" of Arkansas and sent a triumphant message to Halleck in St. Louis: "The flag of our Union again floats in Arkansas."
Federal Army National Battleflag. There were no regulations governing the layout of the stars on the national flag. Some flags had the stars arraigned in rows with either a square or rectangular canton (blue field), while others had the stars arranged in two-ovals within a rectangular canton.
Later that day Curtis and his men crossed the broad table land of Pea Ridge and tramped past a rural hostelry called Elkhorn Tavern. A short distance south of Little Sugar Creek (near present-day Avoca), the Federals encountered a strong line of Confederate infantry and cavalry supported by artillery. After an initial engagement between mounted forces, the two sides blasted away at each other with artillery. As darkness fell, Price withdrew down Telegraph Road to join McCulloch's army at Cross Hollows, a dozen miles to the south. The clash at Little Sugar Creek was the first Civil War engagement fought entirely in Arkansas, and the first time since the battle of Wilson's Creek that some of McCulloch's troops fought alongside Price's men. An Arkansas soldier described the fight at Little Sugar Creek as a "right brisk skirmish," but it was more than that and casualties were correspondingly high: thirteen Federals killed and about twenty wounded; Confederate losses are uncertain, but may have included as many as twenty-six men killed. Curtis camped for two days in the broad valley of Little Sugar Creek. He heard rumors that exaggerated the strength of the Confederate position at Cross Hollows, which was a large cantonment rather than a fortified strongpoint. He therefore decided not to advance directly upon the Confederates but to outflank them by swinging around to the west by way of Bentonville and Elm Springs. Such a maneuver would compel McCulloch and Price to retreat or be surrounded. On February 18 he sent Brig. Gen. Alexander S. Asboth and a cavalry brigade on a reconnaissance in force down Little Sugar Creek to Bentonville. When Asboth reported that the rolling terrain west of Cross Hollows was clear of enemy soldiers, Curtis prepared to move his command in that direction.
Image from Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper
Before the Army of the Southwest could move, however, the Confederate retreat began anew. McCulloch, just returned from Richmond, was appalled at the strategic consequences of Price's headlong flight, for he knew that the cantonment at Cross Hollows was untenable and that the combined armies would have to fall back even deeper into Arkansas. And so on February 19, the Confederates burned the barracks, huts, mills, and storehouses in Cross Hollows and trudged south in miserably cold weather. The next day they reached Fayetteville, the major Confederate supply depot in northwestern Arkansas. Unable to remove the tons of military stores because of a lack of transportation, McCulloch made everything available to the passing troops. The disorganized system of distribution soon degenerated into looting. Homes and businesses were ransacked and vandalized. The situation grew even worse the next day when McCulloch ordered all remaining supplies destroyed. Unsupervised soldiers set fire to warehouses, some of which contained ammunition. The resulting explosions spread the fire and several city blocks burned to the ground. A disgusted Confederate surgeon called the sacking of Fayetteville "one of the most disgraceful scenes that I ever saw."
The heavily laden Rebels, many of them carrying jewelry, mirrors, dresses, and even baby rattles, staggered south another seventeen miles on Telegraph Road into the Boston Mountains, which form the rugged southern edge of the Ozark Plateau. McCulloch's army camped along the Illinois River near Strickler's Station (present-day Strickler); Price's army bivouacked just to the west along Cove Creek. The long retreat was over.
Curtis soon learned from Arkansas Unionists and runaway slaves that the Confederates had abandoned Cross Hollows and had fallen back into the Boston Mountains. Curtis declined to follow because the headlong Confederate retreat from Springfield had drawn him much farther south than anticipated. The Federals were over two hundred miles from the railhead at Rolla, and their supply situation was critical. Curtis decided that he could best carry out his mission of securing Missouri by holding his ground in northwestern Arkansas and keeping Price at bay. He knew that it would be dangerous to be entirely passive, so he dispatched cavalry raids and scouting expeditions in various directions to keep the enemy off balance. The largest of these operations, another reconnaissance in force led by Asboth, occupied Fayetteville on February 22-26.
In order to facilitate foraging, Curtis placed two divisions at Cross Hollows and two divisions at McKissick's Creek (near present-day Centerton) and posted advanced pickets at Mudtown (near present-day Springdale) and Elm Springs. Should the Confederates launch a counteroffensive, the two halves of the Army of the Southwest would fall back toward Little Sugar Creek and make a stand. Curtis disliked assuming the defensive after such a successful offensive campaign, but he felt he had no choice. In addition to the alarming logistical situation, the attrition caused by inclement weather, hard marching, and the need to garrison Springfield and other vital points along his line of communications had worn down the Army of the Southwest to only about ten thousand men and forty-nine cannons. "Shall be on the alert, holding as securely as possible," Curtis assured Halleck. What happened next would be up to the Confederates.
The Confederate retreat from Pea Ridge was as disastrous as the advance and the battle. Late on the evening of March 8, most of the Army of the West reassembled at Van Winkle's Mill on the east side of the White River. The men were famished. They devoured everything in sight, but the sparsely populated Ozark countryside provided only a fraction of the food necessary to feed thousands of men and animals. For the next week, the pathetic column staggered south on primitive trails through almost uninhabited country, generally moving up the narrowing valleys of the Middle and West Forks of the White River. A Texas soldier observed that he was "in much greater danger of dying from starvation in the mountains of northern Arkansas than by the enemy's bullets." Hundreds of Rebels wandered away in search of food and never returned to the ranks. The trail of the defeated, dissolving army was littered with discarded clothing, weapons, coffee pots, and even flags. By the time the Confederates crossed the Boston Mountains and followed Frog Bayou down to the Arkansas River near Van Buren, they were a pitiful remnant of the proud army that had opened the campaign two weeks earlier.
The Confederate Monument is dedicated to the Confederate soldiers who fell near the Elkhorn Tavern during the battle of Pea Ridge. It is located in a field just south of the Tavern
While the troops recuperated, Van Dorn received a telegram from General P. G. T Beauregard in western Tennessee. Beauregard suggested that Van Dorn transfer the Army of the West to Corinth, Mississippi, as part of a concentration of all Confederate armies west of the Appalachian Mountains. The purpose of this grand design was to assemble a force powerful enough to defeat Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's Federal army camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. Van Dorn agreed and began to move his force eastward from Van Buren. Heavy spring rains turned the roads into sloughs, slowing the march. The leading elements of the army did not begin boarding steamboats at Des Arc on the White River until April 6. By then, it was too late - the battle of Shiloh was underway. Without Van Dorn's sizable contingent, the Confederates failed to destroy Grant's army and were driven from the field. Van Dorn did not know this and continued to hurry his command across the Mississippi River. The transfer was complete by the end of April.
Close up of the Confederate Monument
Unknown to Beauregard or anyone else in the Confederate high command, Van Dorn did not merely move the Army of the West out of Arkansas, he abandoned the Trans-Mississippi altogether. He carried away nearly all troops, weapons, equipment, stores, machinery, and animals. Van Dorn's unauthorized actions meant that in order for the Confederates in the Trans-Mississippi to continue fighting, they would have to start from scratch. Arkansas was thrown into turmoil by this unexpected and alarming development. Gov. Henry M. Rector protested to President Davis and vaguely threatened to secede from the Confederacy and form a new political entity west of the Mississippi River. Brig. Gen. John S. Roane succinctly informed Beauregard of the situation in Arkansas: "No troops - no arms - no powder - no material of war - people everywhere eager to rise, complaints bitter."
Rugged and Sublime: The Civil War in Arkansas
I hope all's well with everyone.
To all our military men and women, past and present,
THANK YOU for serving the USA!
Good luck to OSU tonight in the NCAA "Sweet Sixteen".
We're entertaining guests for the next couple of days. My sisiter from the East Coast and her family will be coming down later today.
As are we, it's 51 degrees right now with a high of 65 !
The same thing has happened to us. It's been beautiful all week and now a storm front is moving in, even some snow in the mountains.
Sad to see that some of the Poles are still buying into the EU crap.
Today's classic warship, CSS General Sterling Price, later known as USS General Price.
General class cottonclad steam ram
Displacement. 633 t.
Lenght. 182'
Beam. 30'
Draft. 9'3
CSS GENERAL STERLING PRICE often referred to as GENERAL PRICE or PRICE was built as LAURENT MILLAUDON, L. MILLANDON or MILLEDON at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1856. She was acquired for Confederate service and fitted out at New Orleans, La., for the River Defense Fleet under Capt. J. E. Montgomery. On 25 January 1862 Captain Montgomery began to convert her into a cottonclad ram by placing a 4-inch oak sheath with a 1-inch iron covering on her bow, and by installing double pine bulkheads filled with compressed cotton bales. On March 25 GENERAL PRICE, Capt. J. H. Townsend, sailed from New Orleans to Memphis, Tenn., where she stayed until 10 April having her ironwork completed. She was then sent to Fort Pillow, Tenn., where she operated in defense of the river approaches to Memphis.
On 10 May 1862, off Fort Pillow, GENERAL PRICE under First Officer J. E. Henthorne (or Harthorne), in company with seven other vessels under Captain Montgomery attacked the ironclad gunboats of the Federal Mississippi Flotilla. In the action of Plum Point Bend, which followed, the Confederate ram GENERAL BRAGG struck USS CINCINNATI halting her retreat. This allowed GENERAL PRICE to violently ram the Federal gunboat, taking away her rudder, stern post, and a large piece of her stern, decisively disabling her. At the same time GENERAL PRICEs well directed fire silenced FEDERAL MORTAR BOAT NO. 16, which was being guarded by CINCINNATI. GENERAL PRICE was heavily hit in this action. Her upper works were severely damaged, and she was struck by a 128-pound shell which cut off her steam supply pipes and caused a dangerous leak.
The Confederates quickly repaired GENERAL PRICE and later she participated with Montgomerys force in holding off Federal vessels until Fort Pillow was successfully evacuated on 1 June. The Confederate vessels then fell back on Memphis to take coal.
Following the Federal capture of Fort Pillow, Flag Officer C. H. Davis, USN, commanding the Mississippi Flotilla, pressed on without delay and appeared off Memphis with a superior force on 6 June. Montgomery, unable to retreat to Vicksburg, Miss., because of his shortage of fuel, and unwilling to destroy his boats, determined to fight against heavy odds. In the ensuing Battle of Memphis, GENERAL STERLING PRICE charged the Federal ram MONARCH but instead collided with the Confederate ram GENERAL BEAUREGARD, also attacking MONARCH. GENERAL PRICE lost her wheel and was disabled. While the two Confederate vessels were entangled Federal rams attacked them mercilessly. GENERAL PRICE collided with the Federal ram QUEEN OF THE WEST under Col. C. Ellet, Jr., USA, commander of the two rams of the Davis Flotilla. As QUEEN OF THE WEST captured her crew, GENERAL STERLING PRICE sank slowly onto a sand bar.
Raised and repaired by Federal forces, she was commissioned for U.S. Navy service in March 1863 as USS GENERAL PRICE, though her old name also continued to be used.
GENERAL PRICE was involved in the Vicksburg campaign in March and April 1863, and took part in the Mississippi Squadron's run past the Confederate fortress city on 17 April. During the rest of the Civil War, she operated against Grand Gulf and Vicksburg, in the Red and Black Rivers and elsewhere in the lower Mississippi River area. On 8 March 1864, GENERAL PRICE accidently rammed and sank USS CONESTOGA. She took part in the Red River Expedition during the next month. Decommissioned in July 1865, USS GENERAL PRICE was sold the following October.
Which way to the nooklear wessels?
In 1969 we caught Cream in concert at the symphonic Cloewes Hall at Butler University.
There was a semicircular wall of speakers behind the trio approaching Berlin Wall proportions.
Ginger Baker had an impossible forest of drums of all shapes surrounding him.
I think had we directed the sonic weapon of Clapton-Bruce-Baker at the Soviets--perhaps their satellites--we could have compelled them to disarm.
Perhaps as a counter to their beaming microwave energy at our Embassy.
Yes, the band could've stayed on the other side of the pond and we'd've heard them just fine.
USS Halibut with disguised chamber for diving
In October 1971, this security was shown not to exist. A US submarine, Halibut, visited the Sea of Okhotsk off the eastern USSR and recorded communications passing on a military cable to the Khamchatka Peninsula. Halibut was equipped with a deep diving chamber, fully in view on the submarine's stern. The chamber was described by the US Navy as a "deep submergence rescue vehicle". The truth was that the "rescue vehicle" was welded immovably to the submarine. Once submerged, deep-sea divers exited the submarine and wrapped tapping coils around the cable. Having proven the principle, USS Halibut returned in 1972 and laid a high capacity recording pod next to the cable. The technique involved no physical damage and was unlikely to have been readily detectable.
Cable tapping pod laid by US submarine off Khamchatka
Combat Subs (Seawolf/Torpedo) 1:350 USS Halibut
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The briefcase contains the transcript of Jean-Fraud Kerry's sellout of U.S. POW-MIA's to this man, disguised as Jimmy Carter in a Sgt. Pepper jacket, seated beneath a bust of Karlharpo Marx in Two Bit Ho City.
"My cousin Forbes wants to make billions on real estate here.
We'll let you keep our POW-MIAs--they're just murderers and rapists, anyway."
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Dark Horse to distribute online SWTOR comic via softcover collection
BioWare, LucasArts and Dark Horse Comics plan to release 27 of the online issues of the Star War: The Old Republic series into a 96 page softcover collection.
Written by Rob Chestney and drawn by Alex Sanchez, the comic serves as a prequel to the MMO.
It's to be released on April 28, per BigDownload.
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Chris Froome
Becomes fourth three-time Tour winner; Greipel finally grabs a stage win in Paris
We were blown away by Froome's post-crash resilience and decision to run up Mont Ventoux. But how was his stride?
When the Tour de France leader ditched his bike for a loping jog up the climb after the Stage 12 moto crash, the internet's wittiest and most dumbfounded commentators were ready with responses
Organizers ASO revealed next year's course today—and previous victors are already reacting
Some moments of the Tour you have to watch over, and over, and over again
Backed by a powerful Team Sky, Froome could rule the Tour again next year
This year's peloton was one of the most consistently strong in years
The Pyrenees climbs are some of the steepest and most treacherous of the Tour and provided plenty of action as riders fought for every second
The yellow-jersey-wearer blamed journalists who accused him of cheating for setting the "tone" that led to the fan's actions
The Sky rider, a key lieutenant to race leader Chris Froome in the mountains, claims his team is being targeted because of its success
The Team Sky leader used the K8-s to conquer Stage Four's cobbles in his quest for a second Tour de France victory


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SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (10/21/02) -- Top 10 individual finishes by Zach Atkinson and Brad Gibson led the North Texas men's golf team to a second place finish Tuesday in the Countrywide Home Loans Intercollegiate golf tournament.
Atkinson led the way by battling to a second-place individual finish with rounds of 71-67-73 -- 211, which was three strokes behind individual champion Casey Fowles of Utah (70--70-58 -- 208). Gibson ended in a two-way tie for sixth place overall with rounds of 73-71-71 -- 215.
Utah was the runaway team champion with a 867 three-round score, finishing 18 strokes in front of the Mean Green in second place. North Texas compiled rounds of 299, 290 and 296 for a total of 885 to place second in the 20-team field.
Atkinson's second round score of 67 was the tournament low and was five under par for the 6,730-yard par 72 Wood Ranch Golf Club course.
North Texas scores2. Zach Atkinson 71-67-73 -- 211T6. Brad Gibson 73-71-72 -- 216T37. Thomas Kulcak 78-76-75 -- 229T41. Casey Carnes 79-76-76 --231T80. Jason Lindgen 77-78-85 -- 240


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