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There are a lot of different things that can go wrong with a mechanical fuel injection system. I will try to cover the most common symptoms and their usual suspects. I have included some basic info for testing things common to all cars (like the throttle body sticking) but this mainly covers K-Jet related problems. This is not intended to be a full course in fixing cars in general, so I'm not going to cover how to check your spark plugs or distributor cap and rotor or reset your timing belt.
Note: READ THE CI GREENBOOKS. Also, please refer to the K-Jet in Detail article for diagrams and descriptions of the K-Jet components.
Note: If you have not replaced your engine wiring harness (1980 to 1987 cars) replace it first. It can cause a lot of problems on its own. Due to the random nature of wire breakdown, the problems associated with a bad wiring harness can take almost any form. If you want to do it on the cheap, read this article.
Difficulty starting engine warm or cold
1) Vacuum leaks
2) Other air leaks
3) Airflow sensor plate out of adjustment or sticking
4) Fuel distributor clogged
5) Low fuel pressure (line pressure)
. a) bad fuses or fuse block
. b) bad fuel pump relay
. c) bad fuel pump check valve
. d) clogged fuel filter
. e) bad fuel pump
. f) out of gas
. g) line pressure regulator out of adjustment
Difficulty Starting Engine Only When Cold
1) Control pressure too high
2) Auxiliary air valve or idle air motor not working or sticking
3) Problem with cold start injector / thermal time switch circuit
Difficulty Starting Engine Only When Warm
1) Cold start injector stuck open or leaking
2) Control pressure too high or too low
3) Regular fuel injectors leaking
4) Wrong rest pressure
Idle fluctuates or 'hunts,' surging in gears 1-4, abnormally high idle
1) Idle air motor not working properly
2) Throttle plate improperly adjusted
3) Bad wiring to CIS Computer
4) Vacuum leaks
Random no-start, or will not start unless left in Key Position II for a few minutes
1) Wiring problem at ballast resistor
2) Wiring problem at starter or coil
Difficulty starting engine warm or cold
If you turn the key and NOTHING happens, you probably have a dead battery or the wires that connect to the starter solenoid are disconnected. However, if you turn the key and the starter motor engages and the engine turns over but just won't start, here are some common causes of this:
1) Vacuum leaks: The K-Jet system is very sensitive to vacuum leaks. It is dependent on vacuum lines due to the mechanical nature of the system. Unlike some EFI systems, K-Jet cannot compensate for vacuum leaks. If there are air leaks in the system, more air is getting to the engine than is being measured by the air flow sensor plate. Because of this the air/fuel mixture is lean meaning that there is too much air in the mixture. Vacuum leaks can also cause abnormally high idle problems, as well as many other weird symptoms.
The easiest way to check for vacuum leaks is to look. Check out your vacuum hoses. Are they all connected? Are any cracked or broken? Are they hooked up like the diagram under the hood shows (Vacuum hose routing sticker)?
Vacuum hose is cheap so it's a good idea to just replace all the lines when you get your Volvo. Major vacuum lines, like those coming from the idle air motor, the auxiliary air valve, or the brake booster, will make a loud POP! the first time they come off, and after that the car won't start at all.
Tips for preventing vacuum leaks:
- Always keep your vacuum lines in good condition.
- Use the right size of vacuum lines (metric!).
- When you replace them, use small hose clamps or cable ties to make sure that they are tight and don't pop off.
- Use quality (OEM Volvo) gaskets (intake manifold, throttle body).
2) Other air leaks: If you can actually get the car running, but it runs rough or has trouble starting, you can check for air leaks at the intake manifold gasket (where the intake manifold attaches to the head) or at the throttle body gasket (where the throttle body attaches to the intake manifold) or at the injector seals (where the fuel injectors are inserted into the engine.)
Check for air leaks at these places by spraying a flammable solvent (such as WD-40 or carb cleaner) around the gasket or seals. If the idle of the car speeds up, it means the engine just sucked in that flammable solvent through an air leak.
To fix these problems, you probably need a new gasket or new injector O-Rings. These are also inexpensive parts, even from the Volvo dealer.
3) Airflow sensor plate out of adjustment or sticking: This is a very unlikely scenario, but it can happen. Basically, you have to take your fuel distributor and air flow sensor apart and re-calibrate it. Like I said, very unlikely that this would happen.
4) Fuel distributor clogged: Again, this is an unlikely scenario, but it can happen. Mostly it is caused by some contaminant in the fuel caused by a low quality fuel filter or by someone putting sugar in your gas tank. Anyway, fixing this requires dismantling the fuel distributor and cleaning it all out with carb cleaner or the like.
5) Low fuel pressure (line pressure): Low line pressure means that not enough fuel is making it to your fuel distributor. This could be caused by many different things, which I will go over in detail.
a) bad fuses or fuse block
Believe it or not, bad fuses account for a large number of K-Jet no-start conditions. The main fuel pump and the in-tank fuel pump are fused and if one of these two fuses is blown or poorly connected, your fuel pump won't work. The best way to remedy this is preventative maintenance. Your fuse panel is located behind a plastic panel to the left of the driver's left leg, below the steering wheel and in front of the driver's seat.
With the battery disconnected (so you don't kill yourself) remove all the fuses in the fuse block and scrub all of the terminals with a wire brush. You can get a wire brush about the size of a toothbrush that is perfect for this at any hardware store for about $1. Once all the terminals are clean, put the fuses back in with the right amperage ratings in the right spots. Replace any fuses that are corroded or burnt.
b) bad fuel pump relay
The fuel pump relay is a very common cause of failure to start or of your car dying when you are driving it. A relay is a fairly simple device that allows a low amperage electric circuit to turn on a high amperage circuit. This way, you don't have to run a high-amp circuit for a very long distance, reducing the risk of showers of sparks and fire etc. The fuel pump relay does just this – it takes a signal from various components in the car and turns on the fuel pump when it's supposed to go on.
If you can't hear your main fuel pump buzzing (running) when you try to start the car, suspect the relay before you suspect the pump. The fuel pump is located underneath the car on the drivers side.
The fuel pump relay on a K-Jet car is located underneath the steering wheel and behind the black felt mat that protects the underside of the dash. It has six spade connectors on it and is rectangular; the size is about about 1 inch by 2 in. by 2 in. It can be green, red, yellow or black in color. You'll know it is the fuel pump relay because it has the following wire colors: red, red/blue, blue, red/white, black, and yellow/red (at least on most cars. Pre-1981 cars may be different.)
The fuel pump relay is cheap, like $25 or so from fcpgroton. Some people take out their old relays and try to re-solder the connections on them, but hey, it's $25 freakin dollars that might save you from getting stabbed because your car broke down in a bad part of town.
c) bad fuel pump check valve
The fuel pump check valve is attached to the fuel pump. It keeps fuel from running back down the fuel line and back into the tank. It is a cheap ($5) fix, but rarely breaks, since it is just a simple one-way valve. It is silver and is attached to the outlet side (opposite from the gas-tank side) of the fuel pump. If you have a bad check valve, the car will usually still start, but it will be harder to start (takes a few tries every time or the fuel pump will be noisy because it is working too hard, or both.
d) clogged fuel filter
The fuel filter is located under the hood, on the firewall, on the driver's side of the car. It is about the size of a 12oz soda can. Earlier 240's (not sure what year delineates this) had the fuel filter located on the firewall as well, but more toward the center. Buy an OEM (Bosch) fuel filter or better! I cannot stress this enough! The fuel lines in the fuel distributor are small and you can save yourself a lot of time and money by having a good fuel filter. Where does gas come from? The middle east! What do they have a lot of over there besides oil? SAND! Does gas have sand in it? You bet! What keeps the sand from clogging up your fuel distributor and causing you lots of problems? Your fuel filter.
The easiest way to test your fuel filter is to unhook the passenger's side of it and see if any fuel is making it through the thing. If no fuel comes out, the your fuel filter is clogged up or you have a fuel delivery problem (bad fuel pump, check valve, or fuel pump relay.) If just a little fuel comes out (like a tablespoon or so) it is probably clogged as well. If a couple cups of fuel comes out, your fuel filter is probably fine.
e) bad fuel pump
Fuel pumps are expensive ($100+) but they do die occasionally. The easiest way to do this is to start your car and listen for the fuel pump running. If you can hear it buzzing, it's working. If you can't check your fuel pump relay first. If the relay is new, and the fuel pump still doesn't run, you probably need a new fuel pump. The wiring to the fuel pump could be bad (rarely), so you can inspect it first. You'll have to remove your back seat to find the wires though. You can also definitively check the pump by hooking it up to a battery or booster pack. Yellow is positive and black is negative on the fuel pump.
f) out of gas
Just in case you forgot to check. I've done it before.
g) line pressure regulator out of adjustment
The line pressure regulator is a component of the fuel distributor. It can be adjusted by shimming it with these little metal discs. This is kind of a complex process and you need to have a fuel pressure gauge to tackle this. (I am eventually going to write up an article on the fun things you can do with a fuel pressure gauge but for now I am not really going to cover these kinds of things.) In any event, it's pretty unlikely that this would happen anyway.
Difficulty starting engine only when cold
This is one of the most common problems with the K-Jet system. What happens is you turn the key and the starter motor engages and the engine turns over, but the engine just won't fire up.
Here are some common causes of difficult cold-starting:
1) Control pressure too high (Control Pressure Regulator) The control pressure changes as the engine warms up. The pressure is created by the Control Pressure Regulator (CPR). The CPR has a lower pressure on the control plunger in the fuel distributor when the engine is cold compared to when the engine is warm. The lower pressure allows the control plunger to let more fuel into the engine when the engine is cold. If the control pressure is too high, the air/fuel mixture will not have enough fuel, and thus the engine will not start.
The common symptom with a bad control pressure regulator is that the engine takes about 20 tries to start, each time idling for a little longer after it starts. Basically, you turn the key, the rpms go up to about 1500 – 2000 when the cold start injector fires, and then the car dies because it is not getting enough fuel after the cold start injector shuts off. Also, a bad control pressure regulator can make the engine almost die when you shift in to neutral (auto trans.) or depress the clutch pedal (manual trans.)
Fixing this often requires a new control pressure regulator (a fairly expensive part). However, many people have achieved success by cleaning out their control pressure regulators. The come apart fairly easily. First though, the CPR must be removed from the car, which usually requires removal of the intake manifold first. However, I have replaced the CPR on a N/A 240 without removing the intake manifold. I removed the distributor cap, the intake manifold support bracket, and the rubber bellows, and I had enough room to move. for turbo models, this probably could not be done.
The CPR is held to the engine by two hex bolts, and is held together by four flat-head-screwdriver bolts. Be careful! The CPR contains several springs and other fragile components. Take it apart indoors in a clean environment where you can keep track of all the little pieces. When it comes apart, there are three metal pieces held together by two gaskets in a sort of sandwich. If your gaskets are ruined (hopefully not) you can replace them with that gasket maker stuff.
Once you have it apart into these pieces, you'll need to remove the 10mm nut on the heating element and carefully bend the heating element out of the way by bending the two wires that attach to it. Now, use a small flathead screwdriver and remove the four bolts that hold down a circular diaphragm. Be careful!. Once you have that taken apart, get out your carb cleaner and spray out the insides of the thing as best you can. Now, put it back together, making sure that everything goes back the same way it did before.
2) Auxiliary air valve or idle air motor not working or sticking: depending on which one of these devices you have, the symptoms may be different. I've never had a bad auxiliary air valve myself, but if I did, I would probably have just replaced it with a "new" one from a junkyard car. If the auxiliary air valve sticks in the open position, the car will idle very high, about 2500 rpms. If it sticks in the closed position, the car won't idle at all, but may run if you keep your foot on the accelerator to let air into the engine.
A sticking idle air motor will often cause a "surging" when driving – your car will accelerate when it's not supposed to – and/or a "hunting" idle, where your car just can't seem to find the right idle. A hunting idle might range from 500 to 2000 rpms, and just keep going up and down.
An idle air motor that just plain won't work can be detected by trying to start the car and having another person "feel" the idle air motor. It vibrates (buzzes) when it is running. You can also hook it up to a battery or booster pack to test it. Supposedly the middle terminal on the plug is positive and the two outside terminals are negative, but I have been unable to verify this other than just hearsay. An idle air motor that is REALLY dead will actually emit white smoke when you try to use it.
The idle air motor can be cleaned out by removing it from the car completely and spraying it out with carb cleaner. Wear gloves and goggles! This stuff can burn the bejeezus out of your skin and eyes! Spray a bunch of carb cleaner in it and plug both of the ends. Now, shake it up as much as you can – up and down and roll it between your hands like you were trying to make a long snake out of Play-doh like in kindergarten. When you roll it, you should be able to hear it clicking back and forth. If you can't hear anything moving in there, keep cleaning it or get a new motor. Make sure to shake out all of the excess carb cleaner and let the thing dry for a bit before you re-install it.
3) Problem with cold start injector / thermal time switch circuit The cold start injector provides a brief blast of fuel only when the starter motor is running (when the key is in position III). It operates based on info from a thermal time switch, which tells the cold start injector when the engine is cold. If the engine is warm, the thermal time switch breaks the circuit and the cold start injector doesn't fire.
Testing the cold start injector is fairly easy. Just remove it from the intake manifold (and make sure to bolt down the ground wires again). Now have a friend start try to start the car while you hold the cold start injector in a small bottle or napkin or some such. If it sprays out fuel, you're good to go. If it doesn't, then you've got a problem.
The best way to try and solve this problem of whether it's the cold start injector or the thermal time switch causing the problem is to get out your voltage meter and hook it up across the two little plugs in the plug that hooks up to the cold start injector. If, when you start the car, you get 12 volts across the cold start injector plug, then the thermal time switch is working and the cold start injector is faulty. If you don't get 12 volts across the plug, then the thermal time switch needs to be replaced.
Difficulty starting engine only when warm
1) Cold start injector stuck open or leaking: basically, this test is the same as the test above for the cold start injector, but you must have the engine warm before you test it. If the cold start injector fires when the engine is at normal operating temperature, then you've got a problem. You can do the test for 12 volts across the injector plug to see if it's the injector or the thermal time switch causing the problem.
2) Control pressure too high or too low: If you are blasting unburnt fuel (black smoke) out of your tail pipe, then your control pressure regulator is giving too low of a control pressure when the engine is warm and needs to be cleaned or replaced as described above. If the control pressure is too high (less likely) then the fuel mixture will be too lean (too much air, not enough fuel).
3) Regular fuel injectors leaking: Again, this would probably be signified by unburnt fuel coming out of your tailpipe. If the injectors leak, then a bunch of gas flows into the combustion chamber when the car is sitting. After the car has been warmed up and has been running, turn off the car and pull out your fuel injectors and see if any are leaking. Be careful, the engine is hot of course. If they leak more than one drop every 15 seconds, they should be replaced. If all of the injectors are leaking by about the same amount, the rest pressure is probably too high, so see below.
4) Wrong rest pressure: The rest pressure is the pressure that the fuel system stays at when the car is not running. If it is too high (pretty unlikely), fuel will be leaking out of all four injectors. If it is too low, the car will have a hard time starting because there is not enough pressure at the injectors, but may eventually start. The rest pressure can be adjusted by adjusting the line pressure regulator, which is a component of the fuel distributor. As I said before, I am not going to cover the line pressure regulator in detail because you need a fuel pressure gauge to really do it right.
Idle fluctuates or 'hunts', surging in gears 1-4, abnormally high idle
1) Idle air motor not working properly: the idle air motor is only found on cars with CIS, and a description of its duties can be found here. If the idle air motor is clogged up with gunk, it can't change the idle speed fast enough, and the idle will often hunt up and down, eventually finding the right idle speed after several times up and down, ranging from say 300 to 2000 rpms. Often, putting in the clutch or shifting in to neutral will make the car almost die, because the idle air motor cannot catch up quickly enough to balance out the idle. If the motor is really shot, it will emit white smoke when it burns out. You won't be able to see this smoke unless one of the idle air hoses is disconnected.
Another way to test the idle air motor is to measure the resistance with your multimeter. A good motor should read +/-20 ohms resistance between any two pins that are next to eachother and +/-40 ohms resistance between the two outside pins.
The idle air motor can be cleaned out if it is not too damaged. The most common way to do this is to detach the motor from the car and spray it out with carb cleaner. Fill the motor with carb cleaner and plug both openings in it. Shake it up and roll it back and forth in between your hands like you are making a 'snake' out of clay. You should hear it clicking back and forth. Repeat the cleaning process several times, drain the motor, and then allow it to dry for an hour or so.
Surging is when the engine RPM's jump up unexpectedly while driving, as though a ghost had stomped on the gas pedal. This is almost always caused by a bad or sticky idle air motor. If the surging only occurs in Overdrive (manual transmissions), then it is probably being caused by a short or bad wiring to the overdrive solenoid.
2) Throttle plate improperly adjusted: will force the idle air motor to work too hard (if the throttle plate is too tightly closed), and may even require it to work beyond its capacity, creating the same symptoms of a failing idle air motor. The throttle plate is inside the throttle body and can be adjusted by turning a small screw near the throttle cable spool with a screwdriver. The throttle plate should always be slightly open to allow some air to go by, otherwise all of the air that the engine burns at idle will have to travel through the idle air motor.
Also, make sure that your throttle microswitch is properly adjusted when you check the throttle plate. For example, if the microswitch is not "clicking" when you open and close the throttle, you need to adjust it or replace it. Also make sure your throttle cables are good and tight, but not so tight that they are holding the throttle body open on their own.
3) Bad wiring to CIS computer: when replacing the engine wiring harness, many people do not replace the wires that run through the fire wall to the CIS Computer. These wires do not come with a new wiring harness and must be replaced by hand. They often need to be replaced, especially on high mileage cars, due to their close proximity to the exhaust manifold. Inspect the wire sheathing by unwrapping the electrical tape that covers this wire loom on both sides of the firewall.
Another possibility is that the wiring or wiring terminals are corroded. I recently had a surging idle problem on my 1985 245 Turbo that would happen so randomly it was difficult to diagnose properly. I took the wiring off of the CIS computer to test a different computer (which could have caused it, although it is extremely unlikely) and I noticed that several of the terminals were corroded. After cleaning them with a wire brush, everything works fine again.
Random no-start, or will not start unless left in Key Position II for a few minutes
Note: This is not a problem caused by K-Jet, but is common enough that I decided to include it.
1) Wiring problem at ballast resistor: This problem came to my attention because it happened to a friend of mine. The cause of this problem is usually a wiring problem at the ballast resistor. This can also cause a random no-start scenario. Corrosion, overheating, or just plain old wiring can make it difficult for wires to conduct electricity. On K-Jet cars with the Bosch ignition system, there is a ballast resistor near the passenger's side firewall, as shown in this picture as part G.
The brown wire that comes off of the starter and goes to the ballast resistor. There is also a blue wire that connects to the other side of the ballast resistor. If the brown wire is not providing enough voltage to the starter, the car will not start unless the ignition is left in Key Position II for a few minutes. This is usually caused by corrosion on the contacts at the ballast resistor.
Cars with Chrysler (white-cap) ignition can have this same problem (I know from experience) even though they lack a ballast resistor. These cars still have the connections in the same spot, and corrosion at this point can cause the car to randomly fail to start.
2) Wiring problem at starter or coil: Same as above, but the problem is at the starter or coil. Check for disconnected wires or corrosion. This is a much less common cause of a no start condition when compared to the ballast resistor.
Also, check the wires between your ignition module and distributor, and between the module and the coil. One time my car decided to suck the red/white wire from the coil into the fan and chop it up, and the car died on the freeway.


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Hyperlite Mountain Gear Windrider I
Weight |
1 lb 8 oz / 680 g |
Volume |
2400 cu in / 39 L |
Height |
36 in / 91 cm |
Very comfortable pack and holds a lot of gear, but…
Source: bought it new
Price Paid: on sale for $240
Very comfortable pack and holds a lot of gear, but it is not totally waterproof.
- Extremely comfortable
- Very lightweight
- Large hip pockets
- Handy exterior mesh pockets
- Still need dry sacks inside for items.
- Strength of the fabric is questionable.
I used this pack the first time in the Adirondacks and halfway through our day the skies opened up and the rain lasted for about 3 hours. I opened the pack up afterwards and was quite disappointed that all the items were damp to wet inside. When I got home, I called customer service and she suggested that I use dry sacks inside the pack. My whole premise of buying this pack was to get rid of all the dry sacks in my pack.
The second time I used the pack was on my Presidential Traverse in the White Mountains. Again, the morning was a rainy and wet day. This time I had packed extra dry sacks and the items that I did not put in dry sacks were somewhat wet. I was disappointed.
I used it a third time up Katahdin in Maine and this time it did not rain, so no items got wet. The pack has met several boulders, rocks, trees, etc. and there is some visible abrasions. I am hoping the material will stand up to the Adirondacks, the Whites, and wherever else I may hike.
It seems to hold quite a lot of gear and it feels very stable when packed. I love the mesh exterior pockets for items that I want to quickly grab or stow. I have recently ordered the extra straps and patch kit, because you never know what items I will want to carry in the future.
The pack is very comfortable and I do plan on taking it on the Northville-Placid Trail next year, but I will be adding the unwanted extra weight of dry sacks to be safe.
I have used the Windrider for over 2 yrs, hiking in the Dacks and the entire A/T and found it rock solid durable. The Windrider has proved itself in rain and snow with no pack cover. I always use light weight stuff sacks from HMG for all items inside the pack and have not had issues
5 years ago
I am glad you had success with yours, but I am not totally sold on this product even though I would love to be. I also was not happy with the response from their customer service. In fact, once customer service suggested I use dry sacks I replied and never received another response from them. I rarely complain about products and I was very professional with my correspondence to the company.
5 years ago
I ordered my Windrider backpack from the A/T after…
Price Paid: $255
I ordered my Windrider backpack from the A/T after my pack failed. Hyperlite Mountain Gear delivered my pack within one day. The pack exceeded all of my expectations over the 1200 miles I logged on the trail.
It is well made, comfortable, waterproof and easy to load. And it's USA made! The white Cuben Fiber allows light to pass through to see inside the pack. The internal stays give the pack the necessary support to carry loads above 30lbs. At a weight of 25.5 oz, the pack allowed me to drop my base weight by 2lbs.
Some of my favorite Windrider features while on the trail were:
- Water resistant hip pockets great for iPhone and snacks.
- Three outer mesh pockets for clothes, food and my 2 liter water bladder.
- I like that I could reach around to the back mesh pocket and feel how much water I have rather than take the pack off.
- The pack is the same width as my body, so it did not get caught on rocks and trees.
- The Velcro roll-top closure that kept everything in place.
- The anti-microbial belts that did not smell and still does not.
I continue to use the Windrider as a NYS Guide hiking in the Adirondacks this fall and plan to use it throughout the winter.
I highly recommend this pack for thru hikes, weekend hikes or just around town.
The Windrider after 3 months of constant use continues to impress and surprise. Hyperlite Mountain Gear got this right.
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Charles C. Johnson Openly Wonders If He'll Be Assassinated Over Cochran Coverage
At least that appeared to be what Johnson was insinuating in a tweet on Wednesday in which he vowed to never commit suicide and asserted that he's "also a very safe driver" whenever he's behind the wheel.
For the record: I will never take my own life. Ever. I'm also a very safe driver when I drive at all. #mssen
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) July 30, 2014
Does he really believe, as the tweet seemed to suggest, that he might be targeted for death?
Johnson told TPM in an email that while the tweet was "a tongue in cheek comment regarding the conspiracy theories" about the deaths of journalists Michael Hastings and Andrew Breitbart, he noted that he's "been getting death threats from folks in Mississippi."
Johnson said he also interpreted a recent tweet from Mississippi radio host Paul Gallo as a death threat. TPM left a message for Gallo on Wednesday seeking comment but did not receive an immediate response.
Dear Tom,Please print this in its entirety.
Sure, it's a tongue in cheek comment regarding the conspiracy theories surrounding Michael Hastings and Andrew Breitbart though I have been getting death threats from folks in Mississippi.
Radio host Paul Gallo threatened to kill me on Twitter a few days back. I've also gotten several other death threats online.
Mark Mayfield, a Tea Party leader, took his own life when he was being pressured in the phony nursing home photo incident.
I'm just making clear that I won't be doing that, no matter the pressure.
All the best,
Johnson thrust himself into the middle of Mississippi's tense political dispute earlier this month when he reported on Stevie Fielder, a self-proclaimed minister who claimed that Sen. Thad Cochran's (R-MS) campaign bribed black voters in the Republican runoff against tea party challenger Chris McDaniel.
Fielder was paid by Johnson for the story, which was strongly disputed by the Cochran campaign. Jim Hood, Mississippi's Democratic attorney general, said Wednesday that his office is investigating whether or not Johnson paid Fielder to make a deliberately false claim.
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Fittingly, Hood's comments were reported by Clarion-Ledger reporter Sam R. Hall, who's become Johnson's biggest journalistic adversary during the fallout over the runoff.
On Tuesday, in fact, Johnson vowed to sue Hall for defamation over an article on Johnson's purportedly improper use of photographs from other news outlets.
Although he wouldn't share the details, Hall told TPM in an email on Wednesday that the Clarion-Ledger had already received a letter from Johnson.
Johnson indicated that he sent the newspaper an email "outlining my request for correction which is required under Mississippi law" and that he's also corresponded with the Clarion-Ledger's executive editor, Brian Tolley.
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Dallas-area home prices saw the biggest gain in more than five years in September.
Prices rose by 4.4 percent from year-ago levels in the latest nationwide housing comparison in the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller Home Price Index.
September was the seventh month in a row that Dallas-area home prices were higher than the previous year in the closely-watched home price measure.
Nationwide home prices were up 3.6 percent in the monthly report released Tuesday.
Home prices were up from 2011 levels in 18 of the 20 markets included in the Case-Shiller comparison.
"With six months of consistently rising home prices, it is safe to say that we are now in the midst of a recovery in the housing market," S&P's David Blitzer said in the report. "We are entering the seasonally weak part of the year.
"Despite the seasons, housing continues to improve."
The biggest increases in home prices in September were in Phoenix, up 20.4 percent from a year ago, and Minneapolis, up 8.8 percent.
The only declines were in New York, -2.3 percent, and Chicago, -1.5 percent.
Even with recent gains, U.S. home prices are still almost 29 percent lower than they were in mid 2006 in the Case-Shiller index.
In the Dallas-area, home prices in September were down 4 percent from the peak of the market. At the worst of the downturn – in early 2009 - Dallas-area home values had fallen 11 percent.
Local home prices in the Case-Shiller report have been rising since March.
Case-Shiller's index tracks over time the prices of specific single-family homes in each metropolitan area. The index survey does not include condominiums and townhouses. It only covers preowned properties — no new construction.
North Texas median home prices are up 7 percent so far this year, according sales by real estate agents, which are included in the multiple listing service.
And preowned home sales in the area are 17 percent higher through the first 10 months of 2012 compared to the same period last year.


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Denver ordered to turn over documents related to complaints about police use of excessive force - The Denver Post
Denver ordered to turn over documents related to complaints about police use of excessive force - The Denver Post A clearly peeved federal judge on Wednesday ordered Denver to turn over a trove of documents related to the city Police Department's handling of excessive-force complaints against its officers. The documents include records of every excessive-force complaint filed against a Denver police officer or sheriff's deputy in the past eight years, as well as all documents showing what the departments did with those complaints and whether they imposed discipline on the officers involved. The city must also turn over any internal studies done on use of force by police officers. Senior U.S. District Judge John Kane, who issued the order, also blasted the city for failing to turn over the documents sooner. "Further obstruction will not be tolerated," Kane wrote. Attorneys for Jason Graber — who has sued the city, saying officers roughed him up and severely injured his leg after he objected to what he said was an insult from one of the officers — say the documents are needed to prove their claim that the city has a "continuing, persistent and widespread practice of unconstitutional misconduct by its law enforcement." The scope of the documents ordered released — police disciplinary records are normally closely guarded — is unprecedented, said Qusair Mohamedbhai, one of Graber's attorneys. "No judge has ever compelled Denver to produce this amount of discovery related to its officers' use of force," Mohamedbhai said. Denver city attorney David Broadwell declined to comment on the order. Wil Alston, a spokesman for Mayor Michael Hancock, said Wednesday afternoon that Hancock was not aware of the order and could not comment. An attorney for Denver Officer Shawn Miller, who is also named in the lawsuit, could not be reached for comment. Graber filed suit against the city and Miller in 2009, alleging Miller and another officer violated his constitutional rights by using excessive force on him and seizing him without probable cause during an incident in downtown Denver. In March, Kane dismissed most of Graber's case, saying Graber had failed to provide evidence that the officers' actions stemmed from the department's overall culture. But after Graber's attorneys argued that Denver had stonewalled their requests for the needed excessive-force documents — some of which the city did provide in a separate excessive- force suit against Miller — Kane reversed his decision and ordered the city to hand over the documents, against the city's objection. Kane said the city could have avoided the trouble by turning over the documents earlier.


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Amazon.com is NOT an european website definitively. It's an american online shop.
Those examples are NOT valid, because they are in USD not in Euros, so let me show you how both models retail in Europe.
First example: Here in dv247.com, that is a british online shop:
As you can see, the Audio-Technica ATH-M50s is 3 pounds more expensive than the Shure SRH840.
Other example: In Amazon.de, that is a german online shop:
The Shure SRH840 is slightly more expensive, less than 10€, than the Audio-Technica ATH-M50.
Third example: In Amazon.co.uk, another british online shop:
Again the Audio-Technica ATH-M50 is more expensive than the Shure SRH840.
I think that is enough with three examples, but I can post some more is someone is still sceptic about the similarities in the price. So with these 3 examples you can see that the prices for Europe for the Audio-Technica ATH-M50 are considerably higher than in the USA and because of that, the Audio-Technica ATH-M50 and the Shure SRH840 cost more or less the same.


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We are a fast growing solutions provider for enterprise customers who would like to take their products mobile. We specialize in designing and implementing custom software solutions for wide range of mobile devices, with concentration on Android OS.
Fortune 1000 executives looking for a expert in mobile app development
We are looking for a clean, professional design to our main site, that is backed by Wordpress.
We will have at least following pages:
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The main purpose of the website is to communicate to potential clients that we are there to help them achieve their goals in mobile space. Something along the lines of happy customer interacting with "a generic" tablet (like Barnes & Noble NookColor).
As the design we like, check out http://rhomobile.com/
It would be great to have a section on the Home Screen, where our latest projects|products could be rotated, similar to RhoMobile.
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'Glee' Star Naya Rivera: "A Lot of Lovely Ladies Love Me" (VIDEO)
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What can she say? Both sexes find Naya Rivera attractive.
On a recent appearance on The Late Late Show, the gorgeous Glee star spoke about her fan base, which includes lesbians.
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Digital Book World Announces Publishing Innovation Awards & QED Seal
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Digital Book World is honoring the best in electronic book and book app publishing with the launch of the QED Standard for Excellence and the Publishing Innovation Awards (PIAs). The 2nd annual PIAs will celebrate outstanding digital book products in several distinct categories (from ebooks to apps, and more) while the QED Seal will provide a benchmark of excellence in digital publishing. The official press release appears below:Read More


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WildStar PAX East 2013 Developer Preview
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Welcome to Wildstar… Developer demo/preview at PAX East 2013
Executive Producer Jeremy Gaffney demonstrates the dynamic, platforming, and organic world of Wildstar to several members of the press at this year's PAX East. Here we get a detailed look at player housing, fun elements in the game they may or maynot be easily discovered by players who are victim to standard MMORPGs, and how the environment plays its role in the game.
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Lighting: How To Use Daylight and Flash
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Learn how to work with light. From outdoor sunlight to indoor lighting to nightlights in the city, you'll be able to capture beautiful images in any lighting condition. Digital camera with flash / portable strobe recommended.
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This week on The Glee Project we're learning how to dance! Dance-ability (which isn't even a word), is the theme for the week and the super special Glee guest mentor is Samuel Larsen, one of the winners of season one. He comes out with a guitar and no shoes, looking like he's fresh from Bonnaroo, to teach these newbies about dance.
When the Glee hopefuls picked parts for the homework assignment, Mario started to rub people the wrong way because he acted like a total diva. Taryn was getting irritated by everyone, and she called home for the SECOND week in a row doubting whether she should be there. Then immediately after the phone call, we learn that Taryn left the competion. No scenes of her packing her things tearfully, no one-on-one with the camera where she ways then pros and cons of being there. NOTHING except "Hey, guys, she's gone. kthx." So Abraham, the asian with red hair as the show describes him, won the homework assignment and gets one-on-one dance time with Samuel.
During the video shoot for "Party Rock Anthem", Aylin ends up kissing two guys (and a few girls), establishing herself as the Santana of the group (she's probably my favorite right now). Since Dance-ability is the theme for the week, there is a big dance number at the end of the song — and they all danced horribly. This group has been getting A LOT of negative feedback. During the bottom three reveal, they were basically told it was a catastrophe and to pick who is not in the bottom three, they had to pick who sucks the least.
The bottom three, who have to perform for Ryan Murphy, are Dani, Tyler and Lily because they were all horrible dancers. They were all good, but Lily had a diva-type attitude about why she was in the bottom three. However, in the end Dani got cut because Ryan didn't think she would make it far anyway. She just wasn't Glee enough.
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In the middle of the night I heard you walking in half-sleep, a fear gripped me like on childhood nights, somewhere unsafe. I held my breath, as if that magical thinking ever worked.
This morning I heard you again, slippers scuffing on creaking stairs, but there being no clock and the sky still dark, I slept another hour.
Downstairs for coffee, woodstove still embering the last of before bed logs, it is just the goldfish and I who are awake, waiting for the inevitable snowfall. It is winter, when snow is always falling, the sound quite calming.
I plug in the Christmas tree lights for one last day, and fill the thirsty cup of the storm tree. The angel on top is leaning, as if to look outside or falling. Hard to tell these days.
You, you are back in the land of sleep, where I hope your dreams are of my golden hair, unbraided, untangled with promises I once made, where bagpipes play and nothing is lost or broken or forgotten, and a woman sings with a better voice than mine.
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The Gunnison Gorge NCA is located within the BLM Uncompahgre Field Office approximately 50 miles south of Grand Junction, Colorado.
To access the NCA from the northwest, look for Delta County Road 2200 approximately 10 miles east of Delta along Colorado Highway 92 near the town of Austin. Follow signs for Peach Valley Road, which runs the entire length along the western edge of the NCA.
To access the BLM Gunnison Forks Day Use Area at the northern tip of the NCA, drive approximately 13 miles east of Delta on Colorado Highway 92. Look for the Gunnison Forks/Pleasure Park sign and paved County Road 28.10 south of the highway.
From the southwest, access Falcon Road from U.S. Highway 50, about 10 miles north of Montrose and just south of the town of Olathe.


text: Truck Carrying Radioactive Generator Continues Journey Truck Hauling Generator Parked Along Oceanside Boulevard Earlier Monday 11:46 PM, Aug 1, 2011 Share Article Truck Carrying Radioactive Generator Continues Journey pn.jramos Show Caption Hide Caption Previous Next A 400-foot-long big rig hauling a radioactive steam generator continued its journey on Monday through the North County on its way to Utah.On the first day of a three-week drive, the generator only made it 25 miles before it had to stop at about 3 a.m. on the eastbound side of Oceanside Boulevard, just east of El Camino Real, according to police.The truck, which is carrying the generator from the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station to another plant in Utah, was parked in that location because it is only allowed to travel at night and there wasn't enough time to get to the next checkpoint before daybreak, Lt. Leonard Mata said.The truck, which has 192 large wheels to move and had two other rigs pushing it along, was heading east on surface streets in order to get to Interstate 15.San Diego State University professor Murray Jennex said Southern California Edison had no choice but to transport it by truck because a train is not wide enough. "Oh, it's huge," said spectator Kimberley Edgar, as she got an up-close look at the rig on Monday afternoon. Late-morning traffic was not greatly affected by the lane closures caused by the rig. However, by 5 p.m., traffic was a lot heavier, as the three lanes were condensed into one. "We went just a little slower than we had panned for which is okay," said Scott Andresen of Southern California Edison. "We did it for safety reasons, for the public." Andresen said slower means the rig never reached speeds over 20 mph Sunday night as it made its way to Oceanside from the San Clemente area of Orange County. The maximum speed the rig can reach with its load is 25 mph. The nuclear canister was once used to generate steam at San Onofre, but 10News was told it's not hazardous anymore. "If you stand next to it for one hour, you'd get about the same amount (of radiation exposure) as you would get in a dental X-ray," added Andresen. Murray told 10News, "It's been out of the plant for over a year sitting there decaying, so all the heavy radiation that was there was very short-term. It's gone." Experts said even if someone tried to create chaos by slamming into it the only danger would be to the driver. "It won't release any radiation it won't be a problem," said Jennex. "The vehicle that hits it will probably suffer by far the most damage." Share Article A Share A A A Share Article


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Why this conflict is so persistentReader comment on: Hamastine: A Present from the U.N. to Khaled Mashaal Submitted by Prof. Taheri, Dec 25, 2012 21:17 We all want peace, and yet, after more than a century of conflict, the struggle between these two related nations remains more intractable than ever. Why? Because each side is entrenched in its own narrative, to the exclusion of the other's. Its faults notwithstanding, one must admit that Israel has taken some steps since the Oslo Accords toward acknowledging the Palestinian suffering. These steps are reflected in schoolbooks, in the media, and through other informational outlets. The Arabs of the West Bank and Gaza, for instance, are now referred to as "Palestinians," and most Israelis would like to see a Palestinian state emerge. The fact that Israeli voters don't reflect these wishes has to do with fears of surface-to-air missiles two miles from Ben-Gurion International Airport, and scarred memories of blown-up busses and pizzerias. The Palestinians, unfortunately, have done little to allay Israeli fears. While Palestinians clamor for the removal of onerous checkpoints and barriers, militant attempts to penetrate these barriers and attack Israeli civilians have not ceased at all since the second Intifada. Similarly, schoolbooks and speeches, in Arabic, have grown radical, to the point of portraying Israel's very existence as a crime. Little has been done to acknowledge the Jewish roots in Palestine. The fact is that the Jewish presence in Palestine goes much farther back than most Palestinians, as well as Arabs and Muslims in general, would be willing to admit. Before 1948, Palestine was ruled by a series of empires. Before that Palestine was Judaea—a Jewish country. Jews have lived in Palestine continuously for more than 3,300 years. "Palestine" was the name given to the Jewish homeland in the second century by the Romans, in an attempt to break the Jewish adherence to the land. This was a century after the Jewish temple was destroyed and more than a million Jews were massacred. The Jews stopped fighting the Romans only after they had no more fighting men standing. As Evangelist William Eugene Blackstone put it in 1891, "The Jews never gave up their title to Palestine… They never abandoned the land. They made no treaty, they did not even surrender. They simply succumbed, after the most desperate conflict, to the overwhelming power of the Romans." The Jews persisted through the centuries under the various empires, after the Arab invasion of 635 AD (which they fought alongside the Byzantines), and after the Crusade massacres of the 11th Century, which decimated much of their population. Few Palestinians realize that Jewish customs, religion, prayers, poetry, holidays, and virtually every walk of life, documented for thousands of years—all revolve around Judaea/Palestine/Israel. For thousands of years Jews have been praying for Jerusalem in every prayer, after every meal, in every holiday, at every wedding, in every celebration. The whole Jewish religion is about Jerusalem and the land of Israel. Western expressions such as "The Promised Land," and "The Holy Land," did not pop out of void. They have been part of Western knowledge and tradition dating back to the beginning of Christianity and earlier. After the Crusades, the Jews—including many who have returned over the centuries—lived peacefully with Arabs, often in the very same villages, as in Pki'in, in the Galilee, until the Zionist immigration of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Article 6 of the PLO Charter specifically calls for the acceptance of all Jews present in Palestine prior to the Zionist immigration. These Jews were simply another ethnic group in a region composed of Sunnis, Shiites, Jews, Druz, Greek Orthodox, Catholics, Circassians, Samarians, and more. Some of these groups, like the Druz, Circassians, Samarians, and an increasing number of Christians, are actually loyal to the Jewish state. Incidentally, genetic studies consistently show that Zionist immigrants (a.k.a., Ashkenazi Jews) are closely related to groups that predate the Arab conquest, like the Samarians, who have lived in Palestine for thousands of year. Palestinian denial of these facts may lead to events such as the ones brilliantly depicted in Jonathan Bloomfield's award-winning book, "Palestine," in which actual history and predicted events are thinly veiled as fiction. If, as the current Palestinian narrative goes, the Jews are not a people indigenous to Palestine but rather an invading foreign colonialist body, then they must be fought until they are removed from this land. Anything short of that, by any standard, would be injustice. Thus, war and bloodshed will continue until the Palestinians start acknowledging the Jewish narrative, and the fact that Jewish roots in Palestine date back thousands of years, long before the Arab invasion. Note: Reader comments are screened, and in some cases edited, before posting. Gatestone Institute reserves the right to reject anything found to be objectionable. Reader comments, including the one above, represent solely the opinion or viewpoint of the readers that submitted them and do not represent the opinion or viewpoint of Gatestone Institute. Gatestone Institute takes no responsibility for the content of reader comments. Other reader comments on this item
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"Flight" raked in $25 million during its opening weekend, but some booze companies are not happy about the free product placement they got in the Denzel Washington film.
The AP reports Anheuser-Busch, whose beer, Budweiser is featured prominently throughout the film — including a scene where Denzel's character is drinking behind the wheel — has asked Paramount Pictures to remove the Budweiser logo.
Budweiser issued the following statement to the Associated Press:
"We would never condone the misuse of our products, and have a long history of promoting responsible drinking and preventing drunk driving. We have asked the studio to obscure the Budweiser trademark in current digital copies of the movie and on all subsequent adaptations of the film, including DVD, On Demand, streaming and additional prints not yet distributed to theaters."
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What's the secret to making it to age 80 and remaining active, happy and healthy? No, the answer isn't "finding the fountain of youth."
Playing competitive basketball together for the past 15 years, the New Mexico Cruisin' Big Dogs of the 2013 National Senior Games know exactly what that secret is. These six members, Katherine "Kay" Dolce, 89, Claire Hanson, 81, Barbara Loveless, 80, Arlene Mayer, 82, Ina Stewart, 81 and Mickey Sutton, 80 can tell you it involves combining the following tips into your daily lifestyle.
No. 1: Be active.
"Keep walking," says Sutton in an interview with Life Line Screening. "I think if that's all you can do, walk as much as you can."
Another method the women suggest is finding a sport or other hobby you love, like they did with basketball, and take part in it with friends. As long as you're moving and staying active, it doesn't matter what you're doing. Just find what you love and stick to it.
No. 2: Eat well.
"A good diet and exercise [is important]," says Dolce. "And you need to get your rest."
Proper nutrition is essential for people of all ages, but it's especially important as you get older and your body becomes more susceptible to serious health problems, like heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes. Eat a well-rounded diet full of protein, fiber, calcium and other important nutrients to give your body the fuel it needs to stay strong.
No. 3: Love.
"You tend to be alone and separate [at our age], and that leaves you not interested in anything," says Mayer. "So be connected with friends and volunteer and work and serve."
We often forget how important the emotional aspect of health is to our overall well-being. To keep your body and mind happy and strong, you should always be striving to maintain and create connections with other people.
In the end, all three of these ultimate healthy aging tips come together. Stay active and eat well with your friends and family. This will allow you to foster and sustain relationships, give your body the nutrition it needs, and keep your body strong for years to come. And hey, you might even make it to an active and healthy age 80, like these ladies did. You never know.


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There's nothing inherently unique about the substantive issues in Burzlaff v. Thoroughbred Motorsports, Inc., No. 13-2520 (July 10, 2014), a decision released yesterday by the Seventh Circuit. The plaintiff, Ronald Burzlaff, purchased what he alleged was a defective "Stallion" motorized tricycle from Thoroughbred Motorsports and then brought claims against Thoroughbred under the federal Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, 15 U.S.C. § 2301 et seq., and Wisconsin's Lemon Law, Wis. Stat. § 218.0171. A jury found for him on both claims.
But the case contains a unique jurisdictional twist—one that the Seventh Circuit (in an opinion written by Judge Hamilton) described as "turn[ing] the usual pattern of supplemental jurisdiction on its head." Slip Op. 5. Oddly enough, given the facts of the case, the district court did not have original jurisdiction for the federal claim under the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, but did have original jurisdiction over the state-law claim under Wisconsin's Lemon Law. It then exercised its supplemental jurisdiction—appropriately, the Seventh Circuit held—over the federal claim.
How could this happen? The key was the amount in controversy. The Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act requires that the amount in controversy equal or exceed "the sum or value of $50,000 (exclusive of interest and costs) computed on the basis of all claims to be determined in this suit." 15 U.S.C. § 2310(d)(3)(B). Burzlaff's compensatory damages under the Act amounted to his purchase price, $35,633.23. His attorneys' fees couldn't make up the roughly $15,000 difference.
But Wisconsin's Lemon Law (at the time, it has been modified since) allowed for damages of twice Burzlaff's pecuniary loss, which permitted Thoroughbred to avail itself of diversity jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1332. Two times Burzlaff's pecuniary loss (again, the purchase price) was $71,266.46. That's still short of exceeding $75,000, § 1332′s amount-in-controversy requirement, but the Lemon Law permits a plaintiff to recover attorneys' fees, and the Seventh Circuit believed that "[i]t was not unreasonable to think that Burzlaff and his attorney had invested at least $3,733.55 in fees at that time." Slip Op. 7. That would bring Burzlaff's claim to $75,000.01.
The district court thus had original jurisdiction over the state-law claim based on diversity of citizenship and could exercise supplemental jurisdiction over the federal claim. The court of appeals expressed its relief with the result in a footnote, noting that it would otherwise have had to send Burzlaff and Thoroughbred back to state court for the case to be retried. Slip Op. 7 n.2.
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I was reading in the D&C today that the boy injured in a hit and run accident in Chili on Friday, was released from the hospital. Sarah Rapp, what a pillar of society, a real humanitarian. She is the driver involved in that hit and run on Ballantyne Rd. at Theron St. What kind of person drives off atfer hitting a child? How self centered can you be? What excuse could she possibly have? Was she intoxicated? Was she running from the law? I just don't understand why she thought her life was more important than that child, that was lying in the road. There is no excuse for her behavior. I applaud the medical taxi drver that followed her home. I think he or she deserves to be commended. Most people wouldn't want to get involved, or am I wrong about that? Would you have followed her? I would have stopped to help the child. Please tell me ,are we that far gone as a society? Where is the love?
Ballantyne Rd. is like a speed zone. Sometimes I forget that there is a pocket neighborhood there. We use to call that whole area , {Ballantyne and Archer and Paul Rd} " The back roads", when I was a kid. It is almost like once Jefferson Rd. turns into Ballantyne Rd. , the speed limit increases by 50 mph. Well..not really but I have been guilty of speeding through that area, until recently. A couple of weeks ago on a Friday night around five p.m. , my husband and I were driving down Ballantyne Rd. and a cat ran across the road. A car that was speeding on the other side of the road, hit the cat and kept on driving. It was traumatic for me. I am a cat lover. The cat literally died in my wonderful husbands arms. We pulled over and I stayed in the car with Reeese, while Rob went and took the cat out of the road and covered it. It had already passed. We went to some houses to ask if the kitty belonged to anyone, but we had no luck. When we went back to get the cat to bury it, the cat was gone. The man who owned the property where we set the cat, came out and threw the cat away. He just tossed it out. I was furious , but there was nothing I could do. I was upset about the whole thing. I was trying to comprehend how someone could kill a animal and just drive off. Silly me….


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Craig The girls who work the front desk at the Wyman Living History Ranch and Museum keep telling Lou Wyman to stop shopping for more antiques because the place is getting full.
But the longtime resident and museum owner Wyman can't curb his attraction to old artifacts and antiques.
When he heard that Bernard Buckley, the largest landowner in Georgetown, passed away at 92 years old, Wyman knew an upcoming estate auction would feature items that might be the right fit for the living history museum in Craig.
"I knew he had a lot of old stuff and Claypoole had three auctioneers working at one time, so it must be big," Wyman said. "There's mining equipment (displays) on all the street corners in Georgetown. That's part of his stuff."
Buckley was a life-long collector of memorabilia in the town on the other side of the Continental Divide, and he was known for driving a golf cart around town after losing his license.
He owned a stamp mill in town used for crushing rock containing gold, and he was an important part of Georgetown history.
"He didn't really collect things. He used it, and sometimes even took it apart so nobody would steal it," Wyman said. "He just bought stuff and accumulated everything."
An 1890s hearse at the Wyman museum came from the Buckley collection sometime ago.
It sits restored just inside the museum doors, a near copy of one used at the turn of the century in Craig.
The items collected by Wyman at the latest auction include a milling-machine and a set of lathes.
An old engine, which is thought to be from a 1918 Beaver, caught his eye, and a Harley Davidson transmission from 1922 was discovered in a discard pile.
He bought part of an automobile believed to be a Nash.
Wyman plans to have many of the most recent acquisitions on display in the near future, and also looks ahead to more trips east as the Buckley collection is liquidated.
"I'll go down again before too long," Wyman said. "He has two places in Idaho Springs too. I think he had about 40 acres of stuff."


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ATR is run by Grover Norquist, who has become a central player in the debate over the debt ceiling. The group controls the anti-tax pledge so many Republicans in Washington have signed, and many look to Norquist for the conventional GOP wisdom on what does or does not constitute a tax increase. That's become a main sticking point as Republicans and Democrats try to work out a deal to lower the deficit and raise the debt ceiling before the nation defaults in just about a week.
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It's something we at Prophet discovered a few months ago when we pulled several concepts together to create a four-day, all-hands occasion we called Unplugged (no computers or cell phones, texting, Tweeting or Facebooking allowed!).
Part Innovation Jam/employee crowdsourcing, part business retreat, and part Project Runway, the initiative paid off in more than just sharpening up our innovative edge. It also enhanced our people's level of engagement with each other, and the processes and culture that we share across two continents.
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Will the op amp be changeable or will it be soldered on? looking at the pictures it seems like there isn't a DIP8 socket as there is on the cMoyBB.
All opamps are soldered to the board (SOIC-8). We'll be releasing the enclosure as an open design. This means:
1) We can design more products in the same, thin enclosure. If there's demand for DIP-8 sockets in a thin portable amp, we'll do it.
2) DIY'ers will finally have access to a thin case designed for portable audio!
Have you finalized which op amp you will be using on the retail version?
If so which one are you going to go with?
Yes, the main opamp is finalized and will be announced with the official release. It's an expensive chip.
Maybe hes implying OPA627AU?


text: The Sponge That Can Absorb 180 Times Its Own Weight (In Toxic Sludge)John Herrman11/10/09 3:19pmFiled to: NanotechCarbon nanotube spongespongesNanotechnologyResearchScience60EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalinkThat tiny, plastic-looking black cube up there can absorb up to 180 times its own weight in toxic waste without absorbing any water. How? As with just about every amazing and/or inexplicable scientific breakthrough nowadays, the answer is spelled N-A-N-O.AdvertisementResearchers at the Peking and Tsinghua Universities have adapted carbon nanotubes into a sponge-like material which can be squeezed dry, which sounds like extremely exciting news for the infomercial cleaning product industry. One minor detail:since carbon nanotubes are hydrophobic, there's no modification required to make them not absorb water.For the record, that includes mysteriously blue infomercial demo water, so there goes that. If not ABSORBING 20 TIMES AS MUCH WATER AS ITS LEADING COMPETITOR, what exactly is this new type of sponge good for? Environmental cleanup, evidently. See, instead of just dropping dispersants into the middle of an oil or chemical spill—which forces the spill to simply absorb into the water—these nanosponges could be used to sop up the spill, after which they could theoretically be wrung dry and reused, like so: It's an amazing idea, but I get the feeling that carbon nanotube sponges, riskily abbreviated as CNT sponges, aren't exactly cheap. [Materials View via Treehugger]


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You hear it again and again, variation after variation on a core message: if you tax rich people it kills jobs. You hear about "job-killing tax hikes," or that "taxing the rich hurts jobs," "taxes kill jobs," "taxes take money out of the economy, "if you tax the rich they won't be able to provide jobs." ... on and on it goes. So do we really depend on "the rich" to "create" jobs? Or do jobs get created when they fill a need?