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Mookie Wilson
News about Mookie Wilson, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Mookie Wilson on Life After the Mets
And, of course, Bill Buckner.
April 25, 2014, Friday
MORE ON MOOKIE WILSON AND: Wilson, Mookie , New York Mets , Baseball , World Series , Buckner, Bill , Books and Literature
For Mets, Whispers to Build From Within
Former Mets Mookie Wilson and Darryl Strawberry said they believed the team could regain its standing if it could develop and stick to an organizational blueprint.
April 6, 2012, Friday
MORE ON MOOKIE WILSON AND: Baseball , New York Mets , Strawberry, Darryl , Wilson, Mookie , Carter, Gary
At Home, the Mets Pay Tribute to Carter
The team unveiled a new sign in left field in honor of Gary Carter, who died in February, and all the current players wore his No. 8 shirt during pregame warm-ups.
April 6, 2012, Friday
MORE ON MOOKIE WILSON AND: Baseball , New York Mets , Carter, Gary , Strawberry, Darryl , Wilson, Mookie , Awards, Decorations and Honors
For the Cardinals, a Classic Finish
In 1975 and 1986, the teams that won classic sixth games had to try doing it all over again in the series finale, with mixed results.
October 29, 2011, Saturday
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4 Coaches With Mets Will Not Be Back
6:28 p.m. | Updated One year into its tenure, the Mets' new front office is continuing to make emphatic moves. In recent weeks, the team announced that Terry Collins, who recently completed his first season as manager, would be kept on thr...
October 6, 2011, Thursday
Mets Announce Coaching Changes
Ken Oberkfell, the bench coach; Chip Hale, the third-base coach; Mookie Wilson, the first-base coach; and Jon Debus, the bullpen coach, will not be with the team next year, the Mets said.
October 5, 2011, Wednesday
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Familiar Faces Round Out Mets' Coaching Staff
Ken Oberkfell and Mookie Wilson highlight the list of new Mets coaches.
December 14, 2010, Tuesday
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John Kibler, Umpire for Bill Buckner's Error, Dies at 81
Kibler was at first base for Game 6 of the 1986 Series between the Mets and the Red Sox, which the Mets famously won when Mookie Wilson's ground ball rolled between Buckner's legs.
February 20, 2010, Saturday
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First Aid, Part II
For Preston Wilson and his family, and for Gary Carter, an in-gmae baseball injury was a case of history uncomfortably repeating itself.
June 2, 2009, Tuesday
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Rainouts Saturate Weekend With Doubleheaders
The rain that caused the postponement of the Mets' game also claimed games in Philadelphia, Chicago, Baltimore and the Bronx.
September 13, 2008, Saturday
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Majority ownership of the Great Sandhills Railway comes with the CWB's acquisition of the locally owned Great Sandhills Terminal business announced June 23. CWB executives are declining to state the strategic objective of the deal, or whether it will seek to spin off the railway operation from the grain terminal operation at Leader, Sask. They are withholding comment before the deal is approved by shareholders sometime in August. The total purchase price, include the railway, is C$17.5 million.
Great Sandhills Railway is CP's former Empress subdivision, divested in poor condition to local owners in 2009 for C$6.1 million. Derailments are not uncommon, including one a year ago involving four tank cars loaded with butane. That incident has not previously been publicly reported by the railway or by provincial or federal regulators who authorized the on-site flaring of the tank car contents. The wrecked cars were still lying beside the line as late as October 2013. A toppled grain hopper from a previous nearby derailment was also left unrecovered.
Substantial investment in track rehabilitation will be necessary to keep trains on the rails, particularly the butane and propane movements from the Spectra Energy plant just across the Alberta boundary.

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And I endorse these betas
Hi Folks
And I couldn't get WinXFP to open strawberry-perl-126.96.36.199-beta-1.msi
But I am thinking a Windows MSI package might be a good idea
My personal site can sometimes be painful when downloading large files, but it is free, so I think I'm getting what I pay for in that regard. (Maybe I should put file sizes and checksums up.)
You may need to use wget or something of the like.
I'll check that they work (and got uploaded correctly) tomorrow.
Hi Folks
First time I downloaded it thru my ISP.
Just tried again via deakin.edu.au.
Same result. Curious.
Hi Folks
First time I downloaded it thru my ISP.
Just tried again via deakin.edu.au.
Same result. Curious.
I just put up file sizes and checksums at the site to compare against, so you can use any md5sum or sha1sum-type program to check if there wasn't a blip between my site and Australia.
And I had somebody else report a bug (not anything serious, just an appearance bug) yesterday on that same file, so I know it worked for somebody.
Hi Folks
Yes, I realize adding h: to the list of supported drives is getting a bit ridiculous if they are all separate distros.
It's just that at educational institutions, every student is given a personal folder on h:.
Of course, the flash-drive option more or less solves that problem.
Given that we only have a hundred or so downloads a quarter for the D: version, H: would seem to be pushing things a bit
Alternatively, if you install Perl::Dist::Strawberry with a little bit of work you could probably spin your own distribution.
And something I admit I'd like to see is a relocatable build where you can choose where the installation goes - but that may not come until late 2009.
Trying to think of how I can implement that.
At the moment, there's only two ways.
1. Hardcode the path in at some fixed but easily detectable path, and do a string-replacement to tailor it to your system during the install process.
2. Tweak Strawberry Portable slightly so it uses all the normal Portable magic for most files, but uses the system paths for File::HomeDir (which currently is magicified to point into the Portable directory).
And I should add, whichever of those two you do, go through the entire Perl and GCC toolchain and most of the top 100 CPAN modules to make sure they work with spaces in the path.
And I'm thinking that if perl.exe is not one of the files that would need patched, (i.e. trying to expand the space a string is stored in a binary) #1 would be the better option. Otherwise, #2. Maybe I'd do #1 if perl.exe needs patched if we were only changing the drive, as opposed to both the drive and directory.
The reason being it's easy enough to write a CA that does #1 in C++. (after writing the clear-files CA, I've got an idea of how to do it. Maybe use the pcre library? would have to check.)
I think
Works on latest Win7 RC release. Running Win7 in a Sun Virtual box.
Since I don't have a (personal) computer powerful enough to run Win7 RC, thanks!


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Wouldn't it be easier
Wouldn't it be easier to just watch the X-Files but imagine it's John Steed and Emma Peel investigating?
The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has begun releasing its voluminous files regarding unidentified flying objects, aerial phenomena, possible alien visitations etc. The documents will all become available to the public via the National Archives over the next three years. UFOs of various kinds have been sighted and reported to …
Wouldn't it be easier to just watch the X-Files but imagine it's John Steed and Emma Peel investigating?
Why to release now such document to the public? We are ready and we know the goverment plans to stage alien invasion.(to reinforce the NWO?)...sad whistle-blower videos have already been removed from youtube (watch?v=8YDByy484ZQ).
...on the most accurate use of the word "bumf" I've seen in years.
Any fule kno that they'll keep the really juicy bits back as ultra-black secret documents.
Seriously, though - prepare for a whole load of tedious weather balloon spottings and incompetence. Never presume a conspiracy where good old fashioned incompetence and idiocy is a far more adequate explanation.
.......cause everyone to get hooked up on the potential of extraterrestrials living in the country then whip up this fear to support the national ID database!
Mines the one with matching tinfoil hat and gloves...
Robert Long wrote:
"...on the most accurate use of the word "bumf" I've seen in years."
It ain't an alien spacecraft unless you can see the blue glowing mud dried on the landing gear, the dents around the docking port/airlock and expired registration sticker in the window.
(...took me years to get that damn mud off...)
Just do the usual conspiracy* theory routine and assume that when a gubmint document states "No. Never" it should be read as "Yes. Always" etc.
*Conspiracy Theory: The modern equivalent to attributing natural phenomena to sprites, spirits, gods and so on.
Surely the MOD should be releasing these on DVD through Asda/Woolworths. Make some money that way
"UK X Files Vol 1 by The MODSquad - £9.99 - all proceeds go to support our troops in the war zones!"
the MODs reply to the argument that there is a world wide cover-up.
Basicly "we are very flatterd that people think we could organise somthing like that, but we cant"
Anyone know what the highest level of classification of these docs is? If previous releases are anything to go by, there ain't nothing released beyond the category formerly known as Secret. Everyone knows that the real goodies are at Super Duper Double Quadtuple Secret Level.
BTW, Rendlesham happened on a USAF base. We've all seen the UK MoD docs pertaining to that case but what happened to the USG's docs?
So, why are they releasing the info now? Simple, it's to provide a SMOKESCREEN to cover up other things that are going on that they don't want us to know the TRUTH about. (big letters to denote evangelistic importance)
Actually, the history of UAM's (Unidentified Ariel Manifestations) is rather interesting as the reports of sightings change with technology. We've had angels, airships and flying saucers, I wonder what's next that they're not telling us about. Need to have new transportation system, flying De Loreans and and Yogic Flyers are sooooo last century.
We demand to know what it is they are not telling us - or rather we demand they keep saying there's nothing so we can say there's a cover up. Can't have the buggers coming clean, it will ruin a whole industry based on FUD.
Unidentified Ariel Manifestations? Is that when you've drunk too much on your fishing trip and you start seeing redhead mermaids, or is it when you dream about being beamed into an alien spaceship and when you wake up all your clothes are completely spotless?
I always thought that the greatest argument against government organised conspiracy theories was that if you look at the gross level of incompetence displayed by government in every-day matters (like info-sec, or economic management), what makes you think they could lock down information so completely that nobody credible ever leaks it.
As Fraser said, "Never presume a conspiracy where good old fashioned incompetence and idiocy is a far more adequate explanation."
Thanks Spleen, I had an idea I'd got it wrong. I could try and wriggle out of it by saying it was deliberate in order to mimic the usual crap spelling by conspiracy theorists but I was distracted by blue flashing lights outside my window - It was just a bunch of El Ron's aliens popping by to see how the master race is getting on. I hope that's clear now.
Gordan Brown said that they didn't exist ?
What? No comment on this story from amanfrommars?
Just because they are aliens, the government thinks it can pass their personal data around with wild abandon. Migrants have a right to personal privacy too.
Won't somebody think of the (alien) kids!?
I would assume amanfrommars is off at the national archives website trying to find any reference to the day he was left here by his mates on Mars.... they couldn't understand him either.....
Ever since the monumental non-release of the Jack the Ripper investigation archives, I've always had a sneaking suspicion that the documents classified as super-secret and Not For Release Ever, No Really, We Mean It would only reveal (a) mind-numbing incompetence, or (b) text so windy, boring and devoid of information that it would make 'Swann's Way' seem only marginally less snappy than 'Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy'.
I seen a suspicious aerial on the room of my neighbours house....
The nice thing about conspiracies is that for every conspiracy exposed, there is another deeper conspiracy -> YES!! Recursion without terminating condition!
Anyway, all AEMs/UFOs are just manifestations of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
Pastafarians RULE!
Chpper because there is no FSM icon (shame!!)
The trouble is the alien craft have some sort of sensor which can detect and avoid credible witnesses, which is why only nutters see them. For instance I saw one, I drove right underneath it on a road so famous locally for sightings that someone put up a homemade 'low flying UFO' road sign. I'm not sure what it was but it had rather disappointing halogen headlights. Maybe inter-galactic boy racers come here for the Halfords accesories. I never reported it or mentioned it to people as I worked at an airport and wanted to keep doing so. The craft appeared to be stationary and it also seemed capable of sudden acceleration. I assumed and still assume it was some sort of large UAV being tested and the joystick pilots were just having a bit of fun freaking out yokels on country roads.
Can anyone say "BLUEBOOK"?
Elmer, when you can't trust the government's spinning disks, your subconscious is what you should trust. Unidentified Ariel Manifestations are precisely what we should be looking out for.
Tho you may not know it, hard (real hard, as in scientific) evidence now exists for a Tree of Life that joined heaven and earth in the past. A Tree that was the ladder and playground of "spirits of light". There is some reason to think related phenomena will make a reappearance (quite apart from fake alien battle fleets). Have you counted sunspots recently? No? That's because there aren't any to count, and some are wondering why. (And no, that's not because the Alien Greys are not rubbing them out as soon as they appear).
"More than 10,000 sightings have been reported, the majority of which cannot be accounted for by any scientific explanation, eg that they are hallucinations, the effects of light refraction, meteors, wheels falling from aeroplanes, and the like . They have been tracked on radar screens and the observed speeds have been as great as 9,000 mph.
I am convinced that these objects do exist and they are not manufactured by any nation on earth. I can therefore see no alternative to accepting the theory that they come from an extraterrestrial source.
Air Chief Marshall Lord Dowding, Commanding Officer of the RAF during WWII.
"I have frequently been asked why a person of my backgrounda former Chief of the Defence Staff, a former Chairman of the NATO Military Committeewhy I think there is a cover-up (of) the facts about UFOs. I believe governments fear that if they did disclose those facts, people would panic. I dont believe that at all. There is a serious possibility that we are being visited by people from outer space. It behoves us to find out who they are, where they come from, and what they want."
Admiral Lord Hill-Norton, British Royal Navy, former Chief of Defence during a videotaped interview for the Disclosure program.
"The reported operating characteristics such as extreme rates of climb, manoeuvrability (particularly in roll), and action which must be considered evasive when sighted lend belief to the possibility that some of the objects are controlled
General Nathan Twining, Head of Air Material Command (AMC), 1947.
"Reliable reports indicate there are objects coming into our atmosphere at very high speeds and controlled by thinking intelligences.
Navy Admiral Delmar Fahrney in a public statement during 1957.
"Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe that unknown flying objects are nonsense.
Former CIA Director, Roscoe Hillenkoetter, public statement, 1960
You're right Danny... Buncha nutters.......
"The MOD admitted today that a laptop containing 100 years of UFO data has been stolen."
Doesn't that sound far more plausible?
Mine's the one with three sleeves.
YES, nutters like those, Mr. Pompous.
Are we supposed to believe that high ranking military officials are immune to bizarre and unfounded beliefs? Apart from recommending books like Jon Ronson's "the men who stare at goats" to temper your evangelistic fervour about people who run the military...
Try asking any army officer in a western country how much of a clique religion can be, and how turning up at services can influence your rank.
Just because we can't identify something doesn't mean it's either important or interesting... honestly.
> "The MOD admitted today that a laptop containing 100 years of UFO data has been stolen." Doesn't that sound far more plausible?
100 years, no. 60 years, definitely. There seem so few UFO reports prior to Roswell that if these started turning up one could assume they were being manufactured for present purposes, not to reveal past history. The explanation for UFO therefore seems connected with events originating at that time and continuing to the present. Events that are public domain. Events like having our own supersonic silver flying machines with night lights and preternatural noisiness...
You don't suppose alien space ships are like randy dogs, always on the lookout to sniff another of similar general appearance...?
lets not always listen to generals they are occasionally wrong
"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist..." (General John Sedgwick, battle of Spotsylvania, 1864)-oh for those who don't know that was his last quote!
not to mention Iraq and WMDs
which to be honest just about negates someone high up in the modern equivalent of each organisation in each of your quotes
The invisible pink unicorn told me so.
and all joking aside, what is the purpose behind the reasoning of releasing this story to the public?
It all smells like a (not very proficient) exercise in misdirection.
This kind of shot gets me worried. Not because of the wee green men, but because its an obvious distraction from the big picture.
Pompous, rifk. Yeah, they're human, prone to unfounded, and sometimes harebrained ideas. But perhaps they are in a better position to make an assessment than you or I. I am glad you people have all the answers to the universe in your little brains.....speaking of pompous :P Whatever, keep thinking what you like. As will I. Fair enough? Good, k, thx.
Got a beef with organized religion have we? Why you bring that up? This is about U.F.O.'s., don't vent your frustration with Father Feely in this venue. Go to counseling for that....honestly.
....the first human-alien love-child.
... is only scratching the surface of the topic.
The *term* UFO dates back to the 1940's, Unidentified Arial Phenomena (term used within the wonderful wikiworld of dubious data) have been reported as early as the late 1800's and technically, in 240BC the Chinese documented "Halley's Comet" as such.
@ we are all ignorant: I don't know about Feargal H, but *I* most certainly DO have a beef with *organised religion* and I enclude the British and American governments in that genre (mmmm, why stop there - Politics is now a faith movement - do you BELIEVE this or that party will act in your best interests? Do you obay the laws that they set out? Do you listen to their sermons?).
Given that *believing* in UFO's is a matter of faith (until such time as incontravertable evidence comes to light in which case they become a matter of fact, and no longer *unidentified*), the organising of this data release fills me with overwhelming disinterest. Truth be told, if the report was "oh shit, we've lost a laptop full of top shelf secret UFO reports" I'd probably put more credence in it. Am I pessimistic? cynical? ... maybe - but that doesn't make me wrong.
@ AmanfromMars: hope you find the relatives your looking for; save us a seat my liege, I'm sick of this retarded planet.
...the weird thinking and appearance of our current government !! Where do I sign up for the anti-alien guerrilla army ??
>>Given that *believing* in UFO's is a matter of faith - of course not !! The Vatican-approved astronomer, himself, said there ARE aliens, so it MUST be true !! We can't question the Church, can we ??
Apologies for the word nutters, I was applying it to myself preemptively. I was also trying to indicate the sort of person who would expect to be believed relating an unwitnessed extraordinary experience. As opposed to the sort of person who could be beamed up and flown around the galaxy and would still have a logical, terrerstial explanation for it.
As for tying organised religion into the discussion, the Popes Chief Astronomer recently released 'Aliens are my brothers' speculating that aliens might be free of original sin. This is part of a drive to boost the Vaticans scientific credentials ! It is a timely reminder that each infant who dies is not considered free of original sin. ET good, Elliot bad.
Unidentified Ariel Manifestation - is that a bright white light seen at lower temperatures? Is it hypoallergenic too?
Unidentified Arial Manifestation - Its a font Jim, but not as we know it...
Mines the one with the dodgy writing on it which has been dry-cleaned...
...not worth putting on the old CV that, mind you, if she paid them enough I'm sure they'd make Paris a vatican approved virgin.
I wonder how many references to flying blue boxes and this weird guy calling himself a doctor there will be.
As Terry Pratchett once remarked in one his novels (sic): it's amazing how good governments are at covering up UFOs when they're so poor at keeping anything else a secret.


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Good to see the Hog Pit getting some good reviews, this place has great BBQ. I've had the brisket and pulled pork sandwiches, the ribs, and also the chicken. The meats are always tender and juicy, the rub they put on the slabs is great, as are the 3 homemade sauces (mild, med, hot). Sides are excellent too - slaw, cornbread, very tasty beans. Owners are very friendly, good selection of beers, plus sweet tea. Nice place, the pit master knows his stuff, check it out!
So good! Nightlife used to be kind of lame until they opened the Hot Pig. It's rockin!
Our family had a birthday dinner here thursday May 23rd. Celebrating many blessings.
The food was outrageous.. delicious and prepared with a thoughtful hand. I never knew
you could prepare shrimp in so many ways.. I really appreciated the clean surroundings.
Best BBQ!
Excellent food, Tucson best breakfasts. Don't miss the chiliquilas. Dinners are also tasty and varied. Even outside tables. Best on the east side of town.
Best in Tucson and perhaps Arizona. Prices are good, portions are large and the food is excellent.
La Cocina has great food whether you want a nibble or a meal. La Cocina is in the courtyard of the beautiful Old Town Artisans of Presidio Barrio. La Cocina has a great assortment of live music. What else could there be?!
My favorite restaurant in Tucson! Every dish I've had there has been amazing. Lots of vegetarian and vegan options too!
This was my wife and my first evening out in Tucson and it DID NOT disappoint. Everything written above proved to be true: intimate, excellent service and a bargain. I LOVE, I mean LOVE mussels. Sitting at the bar, a GREAT glass of white, professional wait staff and a steaming, aromatic bowl of mussels was just what a stranger in a strange land required - home. The Rumrunner was also an experience worth revisiting with an excellent selection second to none. The Friday bar special made it all the more affordable. Go, you'l enjoy.
This could have it all. For a lonely boy looking for chile with an 'e' this place comes so close. Just not bold enough with the what we New Mexicans need to wake up our old decrepit bodies on a cold winter's day. Having said that, it's still the BEST (and maybe ONLY) place for New Mexican food in town. Once you go, you'l never go back to that Sonoran sludge of too much of everything except flavor that's called Mexican food in Tucson. Yes, totally biased - and spoiled.
We eat here quite regularly. Always a good experience, and one of the kids' favorite places to go. I've never experienced any bad service or bad attitudes. In fact, I would question those people who rush home to go online to complain about a place. If you don't like it, don't go back. Vote with your dollars, not with some stupid website.
I have personally been going to this amazing place for the past couple years. My family and friends use Sushi Ten for celebrations or just a night out. This is the only place i have ever been to let alone just in Tucson that has a half off happy our of such a variety of things for such a long period of time.
THE best restaurant in Tucson.
This place is under new management and is now a great place to visit. The owner and his wife are very friendly and make you feel right at home. The Mexican menue is typical, but the quality of the food is way above average. The pozole, which is available only a couple of days a week can't be surpassed. It has to be the best in the Tucson area and if you are lucky enough to be there when they have it, you're in for a real treat. The chef really knows how to cook terrific Mexican food that is fresh and delicious. The second time we went we had the enchaladas and the tamales and we were not the least bit disappointed. Everything was moist and flavorful and could'nt have been better. If you happen to be driving south on Nogales Highway, don't pass up the opportunity to enjoy this great family run bar and grill, or better yet, set it as your destination and plan a trip to eat there as soon as you can. I don't think you'll be disappointed.
This place is phenomenal. I love everything about it. For those naysayers.. Good, that means I will always be able to get a table there.
Papa Locos is sooooo goood. Actually you can grab a six pack of beer next door and bring it in to the restaurant. Alot cheaper than paying $4-5 for a beer at other places.
We visited this restaurant with a large group of people and our waitress was wonderful. She managed to get all our orders correct and had a wonderful smile the entire time. Everyone enjoyed the food, this place is great can't wait to visit it again!
I go to the Guadalajara Grill West
at Least 2 times per month for Happy Hour
Great Place to Chill; Beer and Margarita's are great.
Fresh Chips and Salsa; The Owner Emma is very customer service oriented
and plus she is easy on the eyes.
The bartenders Ramon and Christina are great.
I give this place a 10.
George G.
The free tango lessons at Cafe Vincente were the greatest one on one dancing instructions I have ever witnessed. Superb is the only word we can use to describe the combined experience of authentic Tango Argentina lessons taught by Ms. Forde, her attention to individual requests and her professional style. Along with the great food and beverages our evening was nothing short of magnificent.
Me & my ol' lady went to the Monterey Court Cafe for breakfast on a Saturday morning and we both decided to get the Monterey Breakfast (burrito), mine served w/ the seasonal fruit and her's w/ the southwest potatoes. What a great choice we made, everything in this burrito seemed to compliment each other; plus the pico de gallo on the side was beyond fresh. It may seem expensive @ $7.95 but believe me, I was convinced that when I saw the size of this thing that I would be taking some of it home. That didn't happen. It was so good that my gluttonous side kicked in & I devoured the monsterous sized thing. Delicious food, great service & a very casual atmosphere. We will be returning in the near future to try some of the other delectable sounding items on the menu. Highly recommended!


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Mobile Life: Japan vs. Toronto
Editors' Intro:
** Special Notice: NTT docomo has issued a warning that this product is ONLY for use with dogs. **
You are not the only one who can benefit from wearable technology. Your fluffy best friend can benefit too.
NTT docomo today has announced that they are going to start providing a new service called Pet Fit for users' dogs sometime in March. You can remotely check how your dog is, maintain his daily health condition, and find out where he is when he's lost.
Sony has just announced that they are going to release new mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera α6000 on March 14.
Canon has revealed their new entry-level digital single lens reflex camera model - EOS Kiss X70 - will be available for a reasonable price of about ¥50,840 in late March. Its lens kit with "EF-S18-55mm F3.5-5.6 IS II" will be released for about ¥60,800 at the same timing as well.
Sony is going to release new compact digital camera DSC-HX60V from their Cyber-shot series for about ¥40,000 on March 7.
Sony is going to release the new Cyber-shot DSC-HX400V for about ¥51,000 on April 4.
DSC-HX400V features an effective 20.4 MP 1/2.3 inch Exmor R CMOS sensor, image processor BIONZ X (same as the ones used for their mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera "α7" series), and optical 50X Carl Zeiss Vario-SonnarT* lens (equivalent to 24-1200mm in 35mm format). It also has GPS, NFC and Wi-Fi functions, Multi Interface Shoe (MIS) and 0.2 inch electric view finder (20.1M dots) and tiltable 3-inch LCD monitor (0.92M dots).
Sony is going to release the compact digital camera DSC-WX350 from their Cyber-shot series for about ¥33,000 on March 7. DSC-WX350 is a successor model of the DSC-WX300, which was released in March 2013.
As part of its 2014 "SAKURA" series, Starbucks Japan is going to release a seasonal cherry blossom-themed latte and frappuccino on February 15.
They are called "Sakura Chocolate Latte with Strawberry Flavor Topping" and "Sakura Chocolate Frappuccino with Strawberry Flavor Topping".
The JT Tech Show with Reno J. Tibke, Presented by Japan Today
Terrie's Take is a selection of Japanese-centric news collected and collated by long-time resident and media business professional Terrie Lloyd. AkihabaraNews is pleased to present Terrie's learned perspective; we all could use another take on the news - here's Terrie's:
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Does anyone think that there is too much happening in Naruto right now?
1.Naruto is learning to go into sage mode.
2. Sasuke, and other akatsuki trying to extract bijuu.
3. Konaha is under attack.
4. There is supposedly a meeting of all the kage happening soon.
5.Konohamaru knows something we don't.
6.Kakashi's dying
Anyone think this is a lot to keep up with? I mean, Alot of things are happening so fast.


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- Java 6 (for running Eclipse, you can still use Java 5 for your projects)
Install Eclipse
(If you do not have Eclipse installed, or you want to make isolated tests of the Clojure plugin for Eclipse)
- Grab the Eclipse ZIP file from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads . If you do not know which "package" to get, pick the "Eclipse IDE for Java Developers" one since it ships out of the box with Git support
- Unzip it somewhere. The executable is eclipse (linux) or eclipse.exe (windows) located in the eclipse/ directory created by the unzip operation
- The first time Eclipse is run, it will ask you for a location on your disk where eclipse will put its metadata and will create new projects by default.
Install Counterclockwise (the Clojure plugin for Eclipse)
(Counterclockwise, CCW for short, is the Clojure plugin for Eclipse)
You install it via the "software update center", that is:
- Menu Help > Install new software…
- Paste the following Counterclockwise url in the "Work with:" textbox: http://updatesite.ccw-ide.org/stable/ , Hit Enter
- Select counterclockwise, verify the "Contact all update sites during …" chekbox is checked, click next, accept licence, etc., restart Eclipse
- Go to menu Window > Reset Perspective ... this will reset the way the views are layout, and also place correctly the views contributed by Counterclockwise (the Namespace Browser view, placed "behind" the code outline view)
Test the install
Create and run a simple Clojure project ("Hello Betty")
- Open the Java perspective
- Window > Open Perspective > Java (a perspective is a predefined layout of views, suitable for a particular type of development)
- Create a Clojure project
- With Clojure Project Wizard: File > New > Clojure Project, name it myproject
- The project is created using the "default" Leiningen Template, which creates a Clojure project with a predefined "myproject.core" namespace in src/myproject/core.clj
- Add a function definition to myproject.core:
- Open src/myproject/core.clj, add the following at the end: (defn hello [who] (str "Hello " who " !")), save the file
- Run the project:
- With file src/myproject/core.clj open, Hit Ctrl+Alt+S (Cmd+Alt+S on MacOS). This sends the whole file's code to the REPL (and also takes care of starting a REPL for the project if none is currently started)
- Switch to the REPL in the namespace of your file:
- Hit Ctrl+Alt+N (Cmd+Alt+N on MacOS). Alternatively, just click on the bottom of the REPL inside the "text input area"
Call your function (Hit Enter to send the expression if the cursor is at the end, or hit Ctrl+Enter / Cmd+Enter if the cursor is not at the end of the text):
No Format
> 1:1 helloworld=> (hello "Betty") [Ctrl+Enter] > "Hello Betty !"
The Getting Started instructions have been reincorporated in the Official Documentation.
Simply follow from the Install Counterclockwise Section


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Cascade Volcanoes > Mount Thielsen > Climber's Log
Mount Thielsen Climber's Log
[ Sign the Climber's Log ]
|Route Climbed: West Ridge Date Climbed: June 20, 1998
|A cool climb. When we started it was clear, by the time we summitted it was pelting hail on us. We heard some thunder and got down below the peak as fast as we could. This peak is known as the lightning rod of the Cascades and we now know why!
|Posted Apr 13, 2004 3:47 pm
|Route Climbed: West Ridge Date Climbed: July 1999
|A great workout climb in a great area (lots of lakes below). The top is very aesthetic: after a few simple rock moves, you are sitting on top of a tiny little pinnacle. There's room for maybe six, maximum up there. Very cool. Route descriptions, as usual, over-rate the exposure/difficulty. Anyone accustomed to mountains will zip right up.
|Posted Nov 28, 2003 1:08 pm
|Route Climbed: West Ridge Date Climbed: July 3, 2002
|In my opinion this was my first peak worth counting. What a beautiful area! From about half way up it looks like Grinch mountain. There is great exposure on the top. A must do if you are in Oregon
|Posted Sep 10, 2003 3:36 pm
|Route Climbed: west ridge Date Climbed: September 8, 2003
|It took me a little less than 4 hours to reach the summit which was covered in a light dusting of snow, possibly the first of the season. It was a pretty fun solo climb, however the views were nonexistant. i could barely see the bottom of the summit pinnacle from the top. it was also cold and windy. winter is almost here!!! I saw two other people heading up as i was on my way back. I was a little nervous about the last section but it was nowhere near as hard as i was expecting.
|Posted Sep 9, 2003 12:26 am
|Route Climbed: West Ridge Date Climbed: Aug, 18, 2001
|Incredible views from the summit. The last 70 ft or so were a little scary for me.
|Posted Sep 5, 2003 2:23 pm
|Route Climbed: West Ridge Date Climbed: July 26, 2003
|For a lot of details of my trip see Cornvallis entry below. This was my second hike. I loved it. Some guys brought a little girl, maybe 8, with them. Its a pretty easy climb. There is a lot of scree but not compared to St. Helens or Middle Sister. The last 80 feet or so are definitely worth the climb (the little girl didn't go up this, but she got to Chicken Point). It makes the trip. The views from the top were awesome. If you want to feel woosy sit on the summit point and look down to the east. Its about 2000' straight down. Good times!!!
|Posted Sep 3, 2003 1:19 pm
|Route Climbed: West Ridge Date Climbed: July 26, 2003
|Perfect weather, beautiful mountain, incredible day! Fellow SummitPost member annaleiserabinek and I arrived late Friday night and found a spot at the Broken Arrow campground at Diamond Lake and grabbed a few hours of sleep. I awoke to the silhouette of Mt. Thielsen through the trees as the sun began rising behind it, small sliver of moon still hanging above the summit pinnacle. Broke camp and ate in the short lived cold morning air, by the time we hit the trailhead at 7:30AM it was warm. The trail leading to the west ridge was very nice and mellow. Once on the ridge the views were spectacular, from the Sister's to Mt. McLoughlin. The hot morning sun hung directly over the summit of Thielsen as if the mountain was emitting the intense light. Trudged our way up the loose rock and scrambled our way to the chicken out point. The final eighty feet were not as bad as I had imagined although I took a less preferable route a little more to the left than I wanted because there was roped climbing team going up the easiest route. The down climb was easy. Spent about an hour eating and soaking in the views and sun barefoot just below the summit, then headed back. Couldn't resist climbing on the hudge sand castle looking rock formation on the way down. After, we drove a few miles down HWY 230 to Hamaker campground and soaked our feet and washed up in the frigid Rouge River...beautiful. Drove back to Diamond Lake resort and had omelets, fries, toast, lots of coffee, and decided to climb Mt. Bailey the next day since we were there (great decision). Found a nice little camp site on the lake with a view of Mt. Bailey, set up camp and drifted off to sleep. Perfect day!
|Posted Jul 29, 2003 2:43 am
|Route Climbed: West Ridge Date Climbed: July 23, 2003
|The last 100 feet were great! A little fourth class fun.
|Posted Jul 25, 2003 2:53 pm
|Route Climbed: West Ridge
Date Climbed: Jul 21, 2003
|Great little finish to this one! Could have done without the flies on the summit tho.
|Posted Jul 25, 2003 1:51 pm
|Bob Bolton
|Route Climbed: West Ridge Date Climbed: July 5, 2003
|Dean and I slept in a rest area along US97, then got up early and drove to the TH. It was a perfect day to climb Thielsen, with the smoke of the LaPine fire to the north being the only visibility limiter. I enjoyed the scramble at the summit, although I'm not all that confident on rock and the downclimb had a moment or two. Great fun! 24th and 25th Oregon county highpoints (Douglas and Klamath).
|Posted Jul 17, 2003 8:12 pm
|Route Climbed: Standard West ridge Date Climbed: 7/12/03
|Left PDX at 10:00AM
Started climb 2:20PM
- Fast hike to PCT, scree slog & summit scramble
- Ran & walked back to car
- Round trip 3 hours & 46 minutes
- It was only about 80 degrees and sunny, but it felt pretty hot. Now I know why this one seems more commonly done in early Fall.
Back home at PDX at 10:15PM
Can you say peak bagger?
|Posted Jul 13, 2003 10:01 am
|Route Climbed: Standard route Date Climbed: July 5, 2003
|Great day to climb this peak. Not a cloud in the sky and tremendous views in all directions. I must admit to being a little intimidated at first by the last 80 feet but finally made the effort to stand on the summit after being prodded by fellow summitposter rfbolton who went right up it with no hesitation. The register is a lead pipe with bits of paper scraps stuffed in it and a red pen inside. I'm not sure how long entries will last as it is a sketchy set up. .
|Posted Jul 6, 2003 2:21 am
|Route Climbed: West? - Standard Date Climbed: August 2002
|Easy hike in. Last few hundred feet are a little hairy, loose rock slabs. The pinnacle is easy class V, the group I was with didn't rope up but a group ahead of us placed protection -- it feels fairly exposed. The weather was beautiful, hot. Bring lots of water and sunscreen if you climb during the summer.
|Posted Feb 6, 2003 4:33 pm
|Route Climbed: W Ridge Date Climbed: Several
|Great peak. Several summits of this mountain including a winter attempt thwarted by overhanging snow cauliflowers 50 ft. shy of the summit.
|Posted Nov 22, 2002 1:00 pm
|Route Climbed: Standard Date Climbed: October 27, 2002
|Fun climb - we did it twice over the weekend. Last pitch of rock is fun with no real exposure and easy climbing. Weather seemed much better on the mountain both days in the morning, with clouds rolling in around noon-2pm.
|Posted Nov 17, 2002 6:00 pm
|Route Climbed: West Ridge Date Climbed: September 23, 2001
|A gorgeous day to climb, lots of scree near the top, a fun scramble the last few feet for the summit.
|Posted Oct 20, 2002 8:41 pm
|Route Climbed: West Ridge Date Climbed: September 2001
|Both Mary and I hiked to the PCT on a beautiful day in September. We took a short break and started up the climbers trail. We had packed our rock climbing gear and a rope and just before the saddle we decided this was just taking too much gear. Especially after speaking with some climbers who passed us, we left our equipment stashed on the way up. Once we gained the saddle and scoped the summit pinnacle we started our scramble. The pinnacle was very easy climbing and unexposed. You can stay in between boulders and the handholds are large. Down climbing was only a bit more challenging. This is a great mountain to sharpen your teeth on.
Don't forget to sign the summit log.
|Posted Oct 19, 2002 1:33 pm
|Route Climbed: West Ridge Date Climbed: July 22, 2000
|Large good holds on pinnacle made unprotected solo ascent non-scary.
|Posted Oct 18, 2002 9:10 am
|Route Climbed: West Ridge Date Climbed: July 5, 2002
|Great day! First Group to summit as we got an early start in order to beat the heat. Passed many a hiker/climber on the way down. Only wished I would have taken care of my hot spots on my heels a little earlier! Nothing like raw meat, however got to dip them in Diamond lake before the drive to Smith Rock.
|Posted Jul 9, 2002 12:54 pm
|Route Climbed: West Ridge Date Climbed: June 16, 2002
|We hit snow just after the 2 mile mark on the way up, and the trail disappeared! Route finding to the west ridge was very straight forward. We set up camp by the PCT junction with a great view. Stay close to the ridge above timberline to avoid very loose, steep talus. Summit block is an easy climb, but unless you enjoy exposed downclimbing bring a rope.
|Posted Jun 19, 2002 1:24 pm


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I always wondered why C++ was so hard to learn.. What's about C++ that makes it really hard to learn? Anyone have an answer??
I always wondered why C++ was so hard to learn.. What's about C++ that makes it really hard to learn? Anyone have an answer??
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Probably because of its complexity and most notably, the pain to get things working with GUIs and such.
It's not hard to learn, it just has a steep learning curve; you have to learn a lot to write even basic programs.
It may be due to the fact that the designers of the language value utility over ease of use. Not that ease of use is not a priority, just in the scheme of things it is a low one.
It is too clear and so it is hard to see.
A dunce once searched for fire with a lighted lantern.
Had he known what fire was,
He could have cooked his rice much sooner.
C++ has a lot of complicated rules to learn such as Koenig lookup, SFINAE, RAII, exception safety etc. It is also extremely flexable, allowing such things as template meta-programming.
You only pay for what you use, but when there is so much you can use, it takes a lot if you want to learn it all.
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Advice: Take only as directed - If symptoms persist, please see your debugger
Linus Torvalds: "But it clearly is the only right way. The fact that everybody else does it some other way only means that they are wrong"
Id say over C is harder to learn as it is more low level and its memory management is more complex than in C++. C heavily relies on pointers more than C++ ( all pass value is done using pointers in C as references do not exsist ). But you write a complex program in C++ with a bit more ease than if you used C.
Both languages can do similar things although the main addition to C++ is OOP, which strives away from the procedual programming structure that C uses, although there is nothing wrong with that.
Double Helix STL
As most others have said: C++ is a LARGE language, and one that offers great flexibility in how you go about solving a problem. And being backwards compatible with C [1] makes for even more possibilities of confusion, since almost anything that can be done in C can also be done in C++, including almost all of the "mistakes" that can cause run-time bugs. C & C++ aren't really strongly typed languages, which also allows simple mistakes to go unnoticed until the phase where you run the application, rather than detecting mistakes earlier on.
If you compare C++ with other languages, it is a bit more complex because it relies more on the programmer to do things right. In other languages, the compiler or language run-time will look after things in a different way than in C/C++. Typical things are memory management [although for small apps, that can be fairly much ignored], array boundaries [which is definitely one of the things some other languages enforce].
But you also have to consider that LEARNING TO PROGRAM is a difficult task in itself. Since C/C++ are very "free" languages, you have many choices of how to do things, and there is little checking for mistakes. This makes it unsuitable as a beginner language, in my opinion. Java or even Basic would be better choices.
[1] It is certainly a good idea for making the C++ language accepted, and it also makes it much easier to interface a C++ program with a C-based OS. Both of these are sort of necessary to make the C++ language "work well with other products".
Compilers can produce warnings - make the compiler programmers happy: Use them!
Please don't PM me for help - and no, I don't do help over instant messengers.
I would not say that C++ is a large language per se but it is a complex language in that it has many many features that may be hard to comprehend at first.
C++ is simple to learn.
Try assembly, now that's just evil...
Assembler is generally relatively easy, it uses very small building blocks, so the code tends to get very long (lots of lines, not necessarily more kilobytes) very quickly. Using small functions or blocks of functionality is the key to assembler programming.
Of course, writing HUGE amounts of code in assembler is hard, because there's a great risk that you don't split the code into managable functions/blocks.
And of course, you need to understand what you are doing - which can be somewhat ignored in C or C++. But the language itself is much easier.
Compilers can produce warnings - make the compiler programmers happy: Use them!
Please don't PM me for help - and no, I don't do help over instant messengers.
No way. In assembly (or even C to some degree), you need to do everything yourself, which could easily result in "oops's" creeping in. Plus all the instructions in assembly are 2 or 3 letters which makes it pretty hard to read.
I guess it just depends on how your brain works. If you're one of those people who can memorize just about anything, then assembly might not be so hard, but for me things need to make some sort of sense (at least to me) before I can memorize it. Since C++ is more or less in plain English, it's easy for me to read.
I guess you are right - it depends on who you are, and what sort of "mind" you have. It also depends on experience. If you don't know how to make a decimal number string (for example to print it) from an int in C, how can you be expected to do it in assembler - in C you can "cheat" by using sprintf, printf or something like that, but in assembler you can't call those [unless you happen to have a C-library function floating around that you understand how to call].
I learned assembler a long time before I even SAW a C program. Because C was still a "new" language when I started programming. I learned the following languages in this order:
Basic, Z80 assembler, Pascal, PDP-11 Assembler, 6502 Asm, 8086 Asm (16-bit), 68K Asm, VAX-11 Asm, C, 29K Asm, x86 (32-bit) Assembler, x86-64 Asm, C++.
I also know enough Lisp, Fortran and Cobol to roughly get an idea of what something does, but I wouldn't say I "know" either of those languages.
Compilers can produce warnings - make the compiler programmers happy: Use them!
Please don't PM me for help - and no, I don't do help over instant messengers.


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Join Skaneateles Artisans in celebrating the Season as well as the end of the First Friday season in Skaneateles on Friday, December 6 from 6-9 p.m. Do some Christmas shopping, meet old and new friends, celebrate the Season and the beautiful art and talent among us. Long Point Winery will be hosting a wine tasting. Long Point Winery is located on the east side of Cayuga Lake in the Finger Lakes Region. Finger foods will also be served. Please join us from 6-9 pm. Live Artfully, and Give Artfully this holiday season.
The Skaneateles Artisans Gallery Under the Stone is located in The Old Stone Mill at 3 Fennell Street (lower level), offers off-street parking as well as municipal parking, and accepts major credit cards. Visit our website at www.skaneatelesartisans.com. For more information, call 315-685-8580.


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Adams' Park Street evacuated in bomb scare
ADAMS -- A portion of downtown Adams was evacuated for several hours early Sunday after police discovered suspicious material in the car of a man who was arrested for allegedly masturbating in public.
A worker at the Daily Grind restaurant on Park Street called police about 7:50 a.m. to report that a person in a green Subaru was acting suspiciously while parked in front of the business.
The employee later told the North Adams Transcript that the man appeared to be masturbating.
James V. Bourdon, 59, of Highland Avenue, West Springfield, was arrested after two officers, Thomas Cook and Joshua Baker, responded to the call. During a routine search of the vehicle, police discovered several "items of concern." Police declined to reveal what items in the vehicle prompted their concern.
Police closed off Park Street from Hoosac to Center streets, evacuating residents and closing down several businesses. About half the businesses are not open on Sunday, police said, which mitigated the evacuation.
A service at the First Congregational Church was canceled and the American Legion Post 160's Veterans Day ceremony, planned for 11 a.m. in front of the Town Hall, was moved to the Adams Visitor Center.
Traffic was diverted to Depot Street while Park Street was shut down.
After the street was sealed off, state Fire Marshall Michael Mazza and members of the Massachusetts State Police Bomb Squad were called in to investigate.
The investigation did not reveal anything that would have caused an explosion, police said. Police Chief Donald Poirot later confirmed that an "unsecured and loaded" rifle was confiscated from the vehicle. Bourdon has a valid firearms license.
Bourdon, who police said was in town visiting his parents, was charged with lewdness, open and gross indecent exposure and possession of an unsecured loaded weapon.
He was remanded to the Berkshire County House of Correction. He is scheduled to be arraigned on Tuesday morning in Northern Berkshire District Court.
Virtually all the commercial buildings along the Park Street corridor have one or two or more floors of residential apartments. A police spokesman could not estimate the number of individuals who were briefly displaced.
The street was eventually reopened shortly after 11:30 a.m.
The investigation is ongoing, and further charges may be filed, police said.
New England Newspapers staffer Jennifer Huberdeau contributed to this story.
If you'd like to leave a comment (or a tip or a question) about this story with the editors, please email us. We also welcome letters to the editor for publication; you can do that by filling out our letters form and submitting it to the newsroom.


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DSK Accuser Sues NY Post for Calling Her 'A Hooker'
This past weekend, the New York Post branded the maid who accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of rape "A HOOKER," based on a single anonymous source, who said it was so. Now, she is suing them for libel. Makes sense.
The Post reported on Saturday that the Sofitel housekeeper "was doing double duty as a prostitute, collecting cash on the side from male guests." An article the following day reported that the housekeeper "continued to work as a prostitute in a Brooklyn hotel where she was stashed by prosecutors."
The NYP definitively stated that the woman "was doing double duty as a prostitute," based on "a source close to the defense investigation." And they branded her "A HOOKER" on their cover. I mean. Really now. Libel suits tend to be extremely hard to win, but I think she has a good shot! Unless Post editor-in-chief Col Allan personally hired her as A HOOKER, in which case, he should come out and say so.


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I haven't taken a survey on this, but I feel pretty confident that the secret shame of photo archivists is that drawer full of unidentified images — the "orphans," in archive speak. Photos that stubbornly refuse to reveal any hint of who might be in them, where they may have been taken and, most important, for whom they held significance.
One 8-by-10 glossy stood out like a gleaming sore thumb among the "orphans." The unidentified women depicted in it almost begged to remain anonymous despite their perky expressions, the halo lighting just above their heads, and their twin outfits and matching wavy hairdos.
Found in the middle of a drawer full of cantor's headshots, photos of Israeli folk singers of the early 1950s and or Yiddish theater stars, the photo from the Forward's archives seemed to show one of a generation of sister singers. Were they perhaps the Barry, Feder or Pincus Sisters? Or maybe that breakaway pair from the Malavsky Family Choir — Goldele and Gittele — who became known as the Marlin Sisters?
In a first effort to unlock their identity, we reached out to expert Krysia Fisher, curator of photographs at the epicenter of Yiddish imagery, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. She was confident that the subjects were gentile. Perhaps they, too, in the style of Connie Francis or Julie Andrews, tried to reach the Jewish market by singing in Yiddish?
Fisher's bold response reminded us that sister vocal groups were likely not invented by the Yiddish-singing Barry Sisters, a belief that seems hard for some to accept. More colleagues were consulted. Their guesses leaned toward the garden variety Yiddish sister singers.
In hopes of finding the answer, we turned to you, dear readers. The photo appeared in the Aug. 16 issue of the Forward's Forward Looking Back column, which went up online August 10. Then we took to our Facebook page to ask for help.
Forward readers offered supportive guesses — including the Pincus Sisters and the Miller Sisters.
Patricia and Joan Miller, who may have inherited their famously non-Jewish features from their dairy salesman father, Elmon Gordon 'Bud' Miller, appeared to be the best bet. Popular enough to sing on television's "The Hoffman Hayride" in the 1950s, they certainly have a close resemblance to the image in our archive. It is tempting to declare the case closed and remove the stigma of the orphaned image.
But truth be told, it's too close to call. And what about imprinting a mistaken identity and ending up with a case of the dybbuk of mixed-up-souls? The question may be more than purely theoretical.
The Miller twins became reclusive in later years and lived together in the resort town of South Lake Tahoe, Calif. In March 2012, the twins were found dead in different rooms in their shared home.
A coroner determined that they died of natural causes, but the case remains puzzling, since it's unclear if they died within a very short time of each other. Detective Matt Harwood told Britain's Daily Mail that he believed the two sisters, long each other's only companion, could not live without each other.
"My perception is, one died and the other couldn't handle it," said the detective, who has been unable to identify any close friends or family members to inform of the sisters' deaths. "It appears purely natural, but we are still trying to piece it all together."
Getting back to our mystery photo, it's like the Yiddish saying: "Az ikh vel zayn vi yener, ver vet zayn vi ikh?" It roughly translates to: "If I am to be like someone else, who will be like me?" The unidentified pair in the photo could be the Millers, but it might not be them.
One day soon, the right answer might rise up from the Internet. Maybe someone will start a website for long-lost sister singing groups.
Chana Pollack is the Forward's archivist. Contact her at email@example.com


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Instead of arguing about D'Antoni's past accomplishments, why can't he be judged on what he's doing with the NEW YORK KNICKS? Larry Brown had a better resume when he first came to NY, but despite his accomplishments, we all knew as fans that he had to go because of the complete mismanagement of the product on the floor. D'Antoni, on the other hand, is on his 3rd year, and I'm sorry, but he doesn't get a bye from me for the 1st two years, not when the 1st two years are showing the same tendencies as year 3.
In 2 and a half years, D'Antoni:
- has yet to get our Knicks to play above-average league defense (ranked 15th or higher)
- has kept such a short rotation each season that our starters have continually burned out by mid-season
- has no accountability for his main stars (Amar'e/Felton, Lee/Duhon), while he unleashes his wrath on rookies/role players
- has implemented a system where the team chucks up 25+ 3's every game, despite the fact that the only player who's shooting above 40% from 3 is Shawne Williams, a bench role player.
- has an unnatural love for small ball, even when the opposing team is trotting out Dwight Howard/Bass or Odom/Bynum in the frontcourt, he'll put out a lineup with Chandler/Williams at PF/C cause "he wants more speed" on the court.
- has a coaching staff of "yes men" -- his brother, Herb Williams, Phil Weber; and would balk at any suggestion of hiring a defensive coordinator or advance scout like Frank Lawrence.
For those who still support D'Antoni for whatever reason...do you honestly believe he can lead our team to a championship? And don't give me crap about how close he was in Phoenix. I don't care about what he did in Phoenix. I'm asking if you can see the NEW YORK KNICKS winning a championship playing this style, under this coach?


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i think we got to give thomas some time to get the team to jell.
after all starbury has only been a knick for what 3 years... ditto curry, and q-rich and stevie franchise have just arrived last year.. same for nate,lee and frye.. and we gotta give jerome some time to get into his comfort zone.
i am already seeing the beginnings of a turnaround.. and that's after only what 13 games 1/6th of the season.
a starting line-up of curry-frye-qrich-starbury-franchise
and a 2nd unit of james-lee-balkin-jc-nate
and that not even mentioning jefferies...
what other team can match up to the knicks??


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This goes for the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), as well as regional accords such as Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife (SPAW) Protocol, through the development of national laws on biodiversity.
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In response to a resolution adopted at the IUCN World Conservation Conference in 2004, the IUCN Regional Office for Mesoamerica and the Caribbean has implemented an initiative that supports Insular Caribbean on conservation and sustainable development issues.
It is from this effort that the need has been highlighted of a Red List of Species for the Caribbean, which is seen as key to achieve conservation goals.


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Discussion in 'Hacks' started by Dakar Couple, Apr 27, 2012.
Glad you're ahead of me there. Thought it worth mentioning though.
I appreciate the input and need to thank the INMATES of ADV, becuase of the info they have put out there on side car building and installation not much of my build was a suprise, there is the occasional one but mostly attributed to my not paying attention ( like the klr bearing being two different sizes )
So, fridays beginning post covered the first 5 months now you get stuff as hit happends.
Sub Frame comming together its 1" .120 wall, great stuff to work with.
I had to rigg the side car frame quickly at this point, make sure I wasnt going to gusset and reinforce in the way of one of the mounts.
FIrst time for a SANS kick stand kinda pic. A proud day !!!!!!
I had some time last night and was actually able to assemble some stuff, I had this horrific dream the night before that the roll cage interfered with the rear upper strut mount, Well the bike gods granted me a ONE FREE, it close but not in the way.
The largest feat of design with this thing is the simple fact that you cannot weld around the body, you need to be able to split.
Did you get the attachment point for the rear top mount sorted out?
It's looking great!
Should be able to drive through brick walls unscathed.................
Wow !
Correction - Triple WOW !
Well, I've just had an interesting conversation with a friend of mine. He feels the sidecar ( gun metal gray ) roll cage ( flat black ) would look far more interesting if the bike matched it, rather than making the it match the bike. The intention was to always paint the car to suit one of the two Dakars, the only question was wich one.
Mine the 2006 ( Above ) ~ Its got some "love" on one side from a go down last year or hers ( the 2003 ) that is in immaculate condition.
I've always been a fan of the flat gun metal grey with clear coat on it look, it would be an interesting look, very Mad Max'ish.
Nice build going on. Gotta luv a wife that likes to ride her own...much less help drag a tubing bender downstairs to the basement!
That frame work is so beautiful it should be protected by yet another Velorex body on the outside
Well did some work last night, its starting to come together, still have to sort out the upper rear strut, finish the caliper holder, the subframe, and the wiring for the lights, plus build a base for LG's 5 point harness.
Oh, I've also got to shorten the axle, Ya its a socket and crown nut holding the wheel on right now
Mind if you go into some detail about your tube bending set up? Those are some pretty nice looking bends, not kinks. What kind of bender and what type of tubes. Thanks.
Stunning workmanship - keep the dimensions - people will pay you money for the plans, or to replicate your design.
Adding some extra weight to the Velorex is no bad thing - I just used a chunk of 8mm steel plate and had a race-car roll-over hoop made up with the 6-point harness attached to that:
But ultimately, you'll want one of these, so you still have a "motorcycle", as opposed to a three-wheeled car:
WWW.PRO-TOOLS.COM for the bender, the tube is mostly P/O 1 1/2 .120 wall, with some lighter stuff mixed in in less crutial areas, and a piece of .180 for the rear main hoop.
The sub frame is 1 inch .120 wall. with a piece of 3/4 bar at the sweep 90 and a piece of 3/4 that is about 8 inches long at the rear ( floating overhand just looked like it would bend )
The Velorex frame was plated with .60 1 1/2 on the outside in critical, places, the suspension was rewelded and squared.
Other than that is pretty simple. Lots of measuring and re measuring and some input from friends as they would stop by for a look see.
I need to mention one thing when it comes to building the roll cage, spend some time on the threads and blogs from the 4x4 and rock crawler guys, they now how to build stuff. I spent hours chatting with a guy that builds rock crawlers in Texas about how things bend when they are hit. Some real insight from a guy that has been flipping big 4x4 over on mountains is a nice addition to your train of thought.
I'd use words like:
Cool! Wow! And Wild!
Then I'd get in the way and disappear inside to get drunk with his wife.
Well for the first time since it was a bunch of bits LG has seen what all the noise is about.
So it's a conditional pass, needs some modifications to the socket hubcap, and I'm pretty sure that he is going to break the windshield, apperently it perfect for peek abo and a grab handle.
But he liked it, he kept pointing to the ignition and saying ON ON, ON bike, mine helmo and tapping on his head.
AAAAH Yes! Uncle Ron, A picture perfect rendition of how not to go down a hill with a KLR, a guy who the bike gods have given a pocket full of ONE FREE's too, and didn't complain when he over spent on them.
He does drink all night with my wife while I work on side car stuff then he usually says something before he goes home like " WOW, we made good progress today"
Thank you for the compliments, they are always appreciated.
As for the flexit it, not really a fan of a fully articulated side car, but Ive been really looking at the Kalich style of side cars, that guy does beautiful work. The problem I have at present is the agreement that my wife and I have. The deal is that we dont have a bunch of bike that can break a ground speed record sitting in the garage when he gets his license, so we are gonna D-S it for a couple or 16 years. It wasnt a hard transition for me because Ive got lots of history with dirt bikes, and as soon as I came to the realization that a dual sport must be heavily dirt biased in order to be enjoyed I was happy.
Anyone can bump a BMW / KAWI / KTM / TRIUMP up the blacktop fully loaded looking for adventure, pick a gravel and head down it till it turns to double track then turn around. But a special kind of person gets excited when it goes from double track to single track to goat path, to bog. Last year I was out with some friends back in the bush playing around and this guy with his son motors up on some sweet little 2 stroke bikes, he looks at us and says you guys got balls bringing big bikes like that back here ( they were just some 650s). Ya its hard work, hard on your body and equipment but worth the drive and the compliments of some guy on a 150lbs two stroke. Ive often been referred to as special, maybe it wasnt a compliment but who cares.
Anyways I digress. A leaner by nature cannot go on a dirt biased bike, we need clearance, and to be as skinny as possible. Now the side car Ive built will probably end up on my wifes bike a Dakar that wont see allot of bogs while she owns it, the METZ tourences are a good indication of that. So playing around with LG on some Double Track and gravel roads is something Im ok with. Id rather have him out with me learning a healthy respect for the environment, bikes, and people. Appreciation for a friend who will work hard for an hour pulling a 400 lbs Beemer out of a bog is one thing, but if that same friend helps you do the same thing with the same bog 10 min later because you thought you could make it with more speed, hes a friend, thats the kind of people you should surround yourself with, and thats what the side car is about.
Now once he is of driving age and has hopefully paid attention to the life lessons I could see myself taking a kick at a GSXR1000 with a leaner.
All good points you raise - funny how parenthood shifts your perspective a bit, isn't it? Our daughter's been riding dirt bikes since she was 4.
I love the macho look of the exo-skeleton you've given the Verlorex - previously it was a dainty, classic sidecar - but not yours!
Can you still use the roof? I found ours to be a spectaucularly good design - these guys have obviously been doing this stuff for a while and pretty-much perfected the folding water-proof sidecar roof.
However your desire to continue riding off road with LG and preserve your licence begs the question: why not just buy a 2wd Ural and be done with it?
You've turned a one-track vehicle into a pretty-much permanent two-track vehicle, so why not have the extra wheel working for you, instead of against you?
(One of the major features of the Flexit is that you can take the sidecar off in about 3 minutes and have a single-track vehicle again!)
Or there's this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McjozFNSp_M - just turn your speakers off unless you're deaf (or want to be so) and actually like French heavy metal.
The Toro is/was made in France and can apparently go "places":


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Glenn Vincent Shrive, 60, of Beaumont died Jan. 20 at the Havasu Regional Medical Center.
He worked for the Redlands Fire Department for his entire career, retiring as a fire captain in 2005.
He was born in Fontana on May 3, 1952, to Vincent and Mikki Shrive.
The family moved to Redlands in 1955. He lived most of his life in Redlands and Beaumont.
He enjoyed boating, off-road rides through the sand dunes and desert, and taking his dogs to the park to play Frisbee.
He is survived by his wife, Susan of Beaumont; two sons, Matthew of Reno, Nev., and Kevin of Beaumont; stepchildren, Michael Wilsey of Beaumont and Jessica Wilsey of Redlands; six grandchildren: Chloe, Cora, Grace, Alyssa, Ethan, and PJ; his sister, Lori Vereker of Lakeside; and several aunts, cousins, nieces and nephews.
Services were Saturday at the Church of Christ in Redlands.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorial donations to the Humane Society of San Bernardino Valley, attention: Gina Rhue, 374 W. Orange Show Road, San Bernardino, CA 92408.


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Psychologist reprimanded over six-year affair with patient
A Melbourne psychologist has been reprimanded for having an affair with a female patient while he treated her and her husband for marital problems.
Frank Luzza also treated the wife for anxiety and depression and the husband for anger management.
He gave the couple food and wine, visited them at their house, went to social events with them and regularly went on walks with the woman.
The affair happened for six years from 1992, but the couple told the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency in November 2010. It then took the agency until last July to begin proceedings in the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal.
Dr Luzza surrendered his registration in February, meaning that VCAT was only able to reprimand him and find that he engaged in unprofessional conduct. It chose not to fine him.
The affair had its genesis when Dr Luzza began hugging the wife when she cried during consultations. Over time, the wife said, the hugs became more intimate and the doctor rubbed her shoulders and back.
The wife and Dr Luzza had sex in his consulting rooms at his home, and at other locations.
She told the tribunal that during this time, she was vulnerable, depressed and had low self-esteem. She said she felt "powerless" to stop the behaviour, or to leave.
During consultations with the husband only, Dr Luzza never discussed marital problems between the couple's relationship, VCAT senior member Robert Davis and members Gwenneth Crawford and Carolyn Manning said in their judgment, released publicly on Monday.
Dr Luzza denied that he forced the wife into a relationship, or that the affair was against her will.
"Whilst a personal and family friendship developed ... the therapeutic relationship continued in such a way as to provide [the woman] with the necessary psychological support she needed at the time," he told the tribunal.
But he conceded that his own wife, who was not professionally trained, tried to warn him of the inappropriate relationship with his patient.
The tribunal members chose not to fine Dr Luzza because he admitted the allegations, which meant no public hearing was required.
They said that had Dr Luzza still been a registered psychologist, they would have cancelled his registration.
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OCEAN CITY — It certainly didn't take long, but it also didn't surprise anyone.
Just one day after the town sold all 175 taxi medallions last week at $1,500 a pop, one found its way to the web on the popular site Craigslist for $2,000.
The ad pitches the medallion as "a once in a lifetime opportunity to start a taxi business in Ocean City", and was essentially targeted to the handful of people who left City Hall empty handed on March 1, saying "if you missed out of getting a medallion, I have one for OC Maryland Independent Medallion for sale."
There was speculation leading up to the sale of the medallions amongst City Council members that the town needed to ensure that extra medallions were not simply scooped up by wealthy proprietors and seemingly flipped and/or scalped for a profit.
As a result, the town placed into the ordinance a section that would allow no one to sell the medallion until the medallion was paid for in full, and the medallion had to be attached to a vehicle within 30 days after purchase.
Simply put, even if the medallion were to sell on the Internet, which as of press time on Thursday was still posted, the buyer would have to have a car inspected and on the road 30 days after the original purchase of the medallion on March 1.
However, according to Kathy Mathias, who is transitioning between positions as assistant to the city manager and city clerk, a few of the medallions were paid in full on March 1, while the majority took the financing option of 10 percent for March and April, and then 20 percent each month until final payment is due Aug. 15.
As word spread of the first medallion for sale, the council members were able to say "I told you so", albeit in a subtle way.
"I don't think it's surprising at all," said Councilman Doug Cymek. "We said that they were going to add value to the taxi business and already the price is up to $2,000 after one day. I imagine those things are going to be worth five times that in a few years."
In addition, the town will get 25 percent of the sale of any medallion in a "transfer fee", meaning that if the medallion sold on the Internet for $2,000, the town would take $125 of the $500 profit the seller seeks to make.
The "for sale" medallion also created a bit of conversation at the Police Commission meeting on Wednesday, as commissioners took turns questioning City Solicitor Guy Ayres that all sections of the taxi medallion ordinance had covered the town's best interests.
According to Christy Freeman, owner of Classic Taxi, now that people have acquired medallions, there is still a bit of concern on how those medallions are going to be used.
"Some people bought medallions without having cars, meters, top lights for their cars and they have no clue how to put them all together in 30 days," said Freeman. "So the word on the street is that some people are going to try and lease them to other people."
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I got to feed my children man, I got to feed my children....so ladies and gentlemen here comes number 8...haha i thought that was funny...alright sadly I have to make this quick and undetailed because I have a script to finish..running late....so HERE WE GO.
Transactions, Transactions read all about 'em..SOOO here we go with the leagues Signings, Waivings, Tradings and important IL placements around the NBA.
1.Activated guard Tony Delk. 2.Placed center Michael Stewart on the injured list.
1.Activated guard Derek Anderson. 2.Placed forward Zach Randolph on the injured list.
1.Activated guard Dahntay Jones. 2.Placed guard Andre Emmett on the injured list.
1.Activated forward Eddie Griffin 2.Placed center Ervin Johnson on the injured list.
1.Activated forward Erik Daniels. 2.Placed center Brad Miller on the injured list.
Like tomorrows courtroom at the Congressional hearings, this is also filled with big people and even bigger rumors ANYWAY lets get to the part of this thread dedicated to the speculation and facts regarding anything news worthy around the league. Heres my Top 5.
#5.ANOTHER JORDAN IN THE MAKING::OVER HYPED??Michael Jordan's son, Marcus Jordan, has been described as the best eighth-grade basketball player in the state of Illinois. We can't tell you much about the seventh-grade and sixth-grade crop of basketball players in Illinois, but there must be a Web site somewhere tracking these middle school magicians. But apparently, the 6-foot 2-inch Marcus Jordan appears to be a high-level prospect
#4. AGENT SHAQ:::NYK SAY NO TO PHIL??The market for Phil Jackson has been set - according to his new agent, Shaquille O'Neal, anyway. Joking with the New York media contingent last night at Madison Square Garden, O'Neal said his former coach would need a five-year contract that includes the general manager's title."If he goes back [to Los Angeles], we're not taking less than $20 million," O'Neal said, tongue in cheek.What about the Knicks? "Ten, 12."Dropping the charade, O'Neal offered his take on a recent Jackson interview about the Lakers' job, saying, "It didn't look like he wanted to come back. You have to realize that he's a smart individual and he knows what he's doing."Asked if Jackson feels any sentimental pull to coach the Knicks because he played for them, O'Neal said, "I'm not sure. But I'd like to see Herb Williams get a shot, a full year ... I just think he should get a shot rather than always trying to hire the superstar coach. The Knicks started off kind of slow, and he's brought them back to where they are now. You want to see good people get the job."Told he could help Williams by tanking the Heat's two games against the Knicks this week, Shaq said, "No way, no way."
#3.EARTH TO HOUSTON:::BACK BEFORE END OF SEASON??Allan Houston says he is making progress in his latest rehabilitation stint and remains optimistic that he will play again this season. "I believe so," Houston said yesterday. "I'm just making my progress. I can't tell you that next week this will happen, or that the following week this will happen. All I can tell you is it definitely has made a lot of progress." Houston missed his 24th straight game and 42nd overall due to soreness in his arthritic left knee. He hasn't appeared in a game or a practice since Jan. 19. "I feel that between now and the end of the season, I'll be ready to play," Houston said. "That's all I can tell you. The way it feels and the way it's gone, that's just all I can tell you. Without driving myself crazy with too many details, I just have a feeling that I will because it's getting better and the way I feel it's moving during my exercises."...Allan Houston said yesterday that he and the Knicks' medical staff didn't take his arthritic knee condition seriously enough earlier this season, had the wrong approach to treating it and forced a premature return in December.Houston said a new set of "measuring sticks" are in place, as is a revised rehab program that's concentrating on several parts of his leg, not just his knee. Houston, who has played in 20 of the 62 games this season, indicated the new plan of attack may compromise his chances of returning this season since the "standards" are higher. "Realizing what I'm doing now and the progress I had and have to make, there's no way I should have been out there," Houston said of his December comeback. Since, Houston said, "The whole staff sat down, talked about it and went to good people. We didn't evaluate it in that much depth the first time. We didn't say we have to look at this thing seriously. Now that we did, we all see where we have to go." Houston, once emphatic he'd return, was now not quite as sure. Indeed, with five weeks left to the season, Houston is running out of time. However, he said he's willing to return, even if it means playing only the final week. "I feel between now and the end of the season I'll be ready to play," Houston said. "I just have a feel I will because it's getting better."
#2. UHAS ON THE MARKET:::MIA? ATL? CLE???Atlanta and Cleveland will be among teams with substantial cap space that are expected to pursue Heat restricted free agent Udonis Haslem this summer. Miami can offer a contract starting at no more than $5 million, and hopes that will be enough. Haslem, incidentally, is holding his own statistically against seven other power forwards who have started alongside Shaquille O'Neal (Horace Grant, A.C. Green, Dennis Rodman, Robert Horry, Samaki Walker and Travis Knight and the final NBA season of Karl Malone).Entering Tuesday, Haslem's shooting percentage (54.4/fourth in the NBA) topped any Shaq PF partner except Grant, who shot 56.7 percent alongside O'Neal in 1994-95. Haslem's 9.2 rebounds per game rank third among O'Neal's PF partners -- topping Malone's 8.0 average last year -- while his 11.3 scoring average ranked fourth among the eight. And Haslem's numbers -- projected over 48 minutes -- actually increase when Shaq isn't on the floor gobbling up rebounds.''He's the top no-name power forward I've ever had,'' Shaq said.
#1.SHUTTLESWORTH ON THE MARKET:::SEA? LAC? NYK?...DA BULLS??Allen is a free agent after this season and has talked openly about leaving Seattle. He's arguably the best shooting guard in the NBA, a position the Bulls need with Ben Gordon being a classic sixth man. It's doubtful the Bulls would have major salary cap room this summer, so it's unlikely they would be a candidate for Allen. Would Allen be interested in the Bulls? "Whatever team I feel is the right situation is where I'll go," Allen said. "Chicago is a great market to play in. I always envied this city being in Milwaukee. The opportunity for players is greater. Tradition is very rich and they're not far from Jordan's era. "But you have to see their direction. You can sign with a team and not know. Look at Jason Kidd in New Jersey. They were going in the direction he wanted and then, boom, they're trading everyone. I wouldn't eliminate Chicago at all."
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Cadillac's Escalade ESV offers more room for those who find the Escalade, a full-size SUV, just a bit too small. Its wheelbase is 14 inches longer than the full-size Escalade, and its total length exceeds the standard model by more than 20 inches. Third-row occupants benefit from increased legroom, and cargo capacity behind them nearly triples. With seating for up to eight, the ESV competes with other luxury SUVs such as the Lincoln Navigator L and Lexus LX 570.
As with the regular-wheelbase Escalade, the Escalade ESV gets a full complement of luxury equipment, including leather seats, plenty of exterior chrome and optional 22-inch wheels. It's available with rear- or all-wheel drive.
New for 2012
Apart from navigation system upgrades and a variety of new anti-theft features, there are no significant changes for 2012.
Built on the same platform as the Chevrolet Suburban and GMC Yukon XL, the Escalade ESV stretches more than 20 inches longer than the regular Escalade. Fourteen of those inches go to extending the wheelbase, which allows for larger rear doors unconstrained by wheel wells. Despite the bigger dimensions, curb weight increases by just 241 pounds for rear-wheel-drive models. Exterior features include:
- Jeweled headlights
- Cadillac's now-familiar grille
- Rectangular taillights in back
- Eighteen-inch wheels standard; 22-inch wheels optional
- Available Platinum Edition features LED headlamps and unique 22-inch wheels
- Power liftgate standard
The ESV's extended dimensions don't yield significant gains for first- or second-row occupants, but third-row passengers gain nearly 10 inches of legroom. Cargo volume behind the third row increases from 16.9 cubic feet to 45.8 cubic feet. With the third-row seat removed and the second row folded forward, maximum cargo volume is 137.4 cubic feet — about 28 cubic feet more than the regular Escalade. Interior features include:
- Optional DVD entertainment system includes a second 8-inch screen for third-row passengers
- Standard leather interior, automatic climate control and power-operated front seats
- Standard seating capacity is seven; available second-row bench expands capacity to eight
- Available Platinum Edition features a heated steering wheel, heated and cooled cupholders, a leather-wrapped interior and a dual-DVD entertainment system with screens integrated into the back of the front head restraints
Under the Hood
The Escalade ESV uses the same engine as the regular Escalade: a 6.2-liter V-8 with 403 horsepower and 417 pounds-feet of torque. It works with a six-speed automatic transmission. Cadillac includes standard scheduled oil changes, tire rotations, replacement of engine and cabin air filters and multipoint vehicle inspections for four years or 50,000 miles. Mechanical features include:
- 8,000 pounds (RWD) or 7,700 pounds (AWD) of towing capacity when properly equipped
- Optional Magnetic Ride Control replaces mechanical shock absorbers with electronically controlled shocks that GM says react to the road more quickly
- Available full-time all-wheel drive
Safety equipment includes:
- Standard four-wheel-disc antilock brakes
- Standard electronic stability system with rollover-mitigation technology
- Standard side curtain airbags in all three rows of seats
- Front-seat side-impact airbags
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Kim Kardashian moots London move
Kim Kardashian has said she loves the idea of living in London - partly because of the weather.
The reality TV star and hubby Kanye West have been the centre of attention since arriving in the capital, where Kim was awarded Woman Of The Year at the GQ Awards.
She told Radio 1 breakfast show host Nick Grimshaw: "I love London."
Asked if she'd consider moving here, she replied: "I don't know, maybe... It's so hot right now in LA, this is so refreshing, I really love it and I love fall fashion, it makes it fun."
Meanwhile the star has posed for a series of raunchy pics for GQ magazine.
She told the mag: "It's great to be considered a sex symbol, but I don't get hit on - I think men are too afraid of Kanye. And it's true he would go after anyone that tried."
Meanwhile, Kanye is said to have defended Kim after some questioned why she won the GQ trophy.
The Sun said he ranted: "She is a reality star who became a fashion icon who became this wife, mother and worldwide personality. You cannot take that away, never."