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VERNON TOWNSHIP — A labrador retriever was shot and killed by a police officer Saturday, sparking concern among local animal rescue groups as township police said an investigation is underway. The three-year-old dog, named Hiro, was an Eleventh Hour Rescue alumni, according to that organization. The founder of Buddha Dog Rescue & Recovery, Nicole Asher, said she was in the Scenic Lakes neighborhood, a private lake community, to help with a case of a lost dog when she saw other police responding to the scene. According to Vernon police, they receive a call on Saturday about an aggressive dog along...

I flew out out of MCO this afternoon. I was in a security screening line that was not moving. After about 10 minutes of literally not moving a foot, I heard "all the people in the left two lines are getting a preview of screening in 2018, all food, electronics, candies and anything larger than a cell phone must be removed from your carry on luggage". I snuck over to a different line and got through, but this means the TSA theatre will now require that you remove everything from your carry on. My DSLR camera, lenses and flash are...

My Step Father, a marine, did 3 tours in Vietnam, 1st Battalion, 9th Marines "The Walking Dead". He was combat wounded twice, earning two purple hearts, one was earned as he was shot while carrying his buddy to the med facility. He made it with both of them by the way. He was in Khe Sahn during the thick of it and the Tet offensive and saw a lot of action, including a 3 day objective that turned into 3 months. He was Honorably discharged at the Rank of Sergeant in 1969. He passed away on September 22, 2016 after...

So I'm setting up a new Compaq 500b MT today and I noticed a new connector next to the PCI slot. It looks like it's a SODimm type connector(except it is missing the "snaps") for perhaps a cache chip or something. Anyone have any information on what the purpose of this connector is? I checked all the manuals, none seem to refer to it. I googled the Foxconn connector but didn't find anything. It's probably for some future thing as some of the older Compaqs I just checked didn't have one. Not a big deal, just curious. This is from...

assMutual says it has no intention to seek help from a federal government program designed to restore liquidity and loosen the frozen credit markets that are hampering economic activity. MassMutual says it has the financial strength and capital necessary to satisfy policy holders and customers. The Springfield based company says it has not participated in any discussions directly to seek capital investment from the Treasury Department.

I'm buying a new car tomorrow and writing a check for cash. I told a co-worker that I was doing it and he said "the dealer won't take that personal check". My question which is only valid in the next 16 hours or so..is that true? Can't the dealer hold the money against me or something?

My father passed on Father's day in 2005. He was 69. His wife promised to have stone or whatever within a few months. I live in NJ, this was Ohio. This past week, wife and I went to Ohio to visit my mom and friends...and as I went to the graveyard to see my father's marker..there was nothing. I contacted my "step mother" and she said "she was planning on getting around to it before memorial day". I've never had any good relationship with this woman, but I guess what I'm really after...how much can a modest headstone cost? I...

The Innovation: A ceramic power source for electric cars that could blow away the combustion engine The Disrupted: Oil companies and carmakers that don't climb aboard Forget hybrids and hydrogen-powered vehicles. EEStor, a stealth company in Cedar Park, Texas, is working on an "energy storage" device that could finally give the internal combustion engine a run for its money -- and begin saving us from our oil addiction. "To call it a battery discredits it," says Ian Clifford, the CEO of Toronto-based electric car company Feel Good Cars, which plans to incorporate EEStor's technology in vehicles by 2008. EEStor's device...

Big Brother Is Watching WHO?? TSA "Terrorist" Turns Out To Be A Homeward-Bound Marine by ANN Senior Correspondent Kevin R.C. "Hognose" O'Brien The Transportation Security Administration bagged a terrorist in Los Angeles International Airport Tuesday, or so they thought. Daniel Brown's name came up on their no-fly watchlist, so they dragged him into interrogation and grilled him, despite the protestations of Brown and his fellow travelers, who swore they could vouch for him. The others in Brown's party went on their Northwest Airlines flight to Minneapolis-St. Paul, where they waited on a bus at the airport. You see, the detained...

I know I'm loathed a as vanity starter, that said, I'm interested in if anyone has an opinion about Solar battery chargers. Brand/website? I use a 12v deep cycle battery to keep my house warm since I heat with firewood, but what I'm after is opinion on Solar battery chargers. Anyone with experience or suggestions is quite welcome. Thanks.

Associated Press WASHINGTON - If the American public has a distorted picture of the combat readiness of Iraqi troops, the U.S. military is largely to blame for it, the most senior American military officer said Thursday. "We have done ourselves a disservice in the way that we have defined how we are tracking the progress of Iraqi forces," Marine Corps Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told an audience of military and civilian students at the National Defense University. It was his first public speech focusing on Iraq since he became Joint Chiefs chairman on Oct....

This is a vanity thread. Yes I know how much some folks around here hate them. I'm sorry. Today, June 19, 2005 is Father's Day. Few Freepers will recognize my name unless you follow tech threads. This isn't an opus. Today, my father passed away. It was just like him to pick a day that I wouldn't forget. I did love my father. I have had major issues with him over the years. It took me until I was into my 30s before I forgave him for some things. I grew up on a farm in Ohio. There were times...

VERNON, N.J. -- A township police officer fatally shot a 100-pound black bear after he and another officer responded to a woman's call that two bruins had broken into her kitchen. Margo Spilotras had just finished taking a shower when she heard crashing and crunching sounds coming from the back of her home around 2:30 p.m. Tuesday. Clad only in a towel, Spilotras ran to the kitchen and found two bears -- a 400-pound mother bear and one of her cubs -- had slid open a screen door and were inside the home. The mother bear fled out the door...

The man charged with killing 11 people on a commuter train by allegedly parking a truck in its path wasn't trying to commit suicide but wanted to create a "horrific tragedy," according to police. Authorities initially said Juan Manuel Alvarez was planning to kill himself when he allegedly parked his truck on railroad tracks where it was struck by a Metrolink train carrying commuters to downtown Los Angeles on Jan. 26. It was believed he had lost his nerve and fled the truck before the train hit it and derailed. "Although first impressions led us to believe Mr. Alvarez was...

Ok, so I saw this commercial that demanded vacations...but after some time on the website, I see that it's from Universal Studios. It's probably a joke. I frankly don't know what to call it. The website compares the USA, the most productive economy in the world with a market basket of socialist economies in Europe. Gee, ya think we might be more productive ala taking fewer vacation days? I can't figure out where this is going. Admin Mod, nuke this one if a dupe and/or we don't want to support the socialist agenda. After all, can't we all just stay...

Ok, so I've spent the better part of 30 minutes hunting for an image that really just makes me giggle. In fact, I was outside shovelling the 18 inches of snow today and it popped into my head. I don't like stupid posts and this one falls into this category, but now my wife is looking at me like my beeber is stuned. I'm outside shovelling snow and giggling like a madman. She's like "What's so funny" I reply UNNGH(spelling is wrong). The image is one of Kerry pointing with a grin on his face and someone added "Unnngh" ROFL....

Mrs. Mal and I are considering Sponsering a Child with the Christian Children's Fund. The cost is small, and everything I read is that the overhead is reasonably low. The American Institude of Philanthropy gives it an A. Of course, who grades the grader. Other Freepers have experience with this one? I searched around here and didn't find any hits. There were some threads on Charities, didn't find one that talked about this one. Opinions/Suggestions Welcome. Sorry for the Vanity.

Southeast Airlines out of businessLVIA scrambles to restore service between Valley, Fla. Thursday, December 02, 2004? By JONATHAN HENRY The Express-Times Southeast Airlines is gone, and so may be the vacation money of many area residents. The low-cost carrier to Florida, which just two weeks ago announced it was adding flights to and from Lehigh Valley International Airport, abruptly ended operations Tuesday. The move may leave hundreds of area residents with no chance to obtain a refund. Southeast Airlines, which flew from LVIA to Orlando, St. Petersburg and Fort Lauderdale, locked its office and left its Web site's now-Spartan home...

There is an ongoing thread about the French Atrocities in the Ivory Coast. I downloaded it as I have a good connection and I'd like to re-host a shrunk version. I have about 100GB of monthly bandwidth across several hosts that I can use. I have used Adobe Premiere to author some videos for some games that I play, but I'm essentially a Premiere newb. I tried just exporting the 100mb video with just lower resolution and got it down to 10MB, but what I'd prefer to do is reduce the video to 160x120 so that the slow can get...

Forgive the vanity please, but I've not seen this addressed. John Kerry said: "We attached telephone wires to human genitals and cranked up the voltage" or some such. I'm perplexed. The prominent comm equipment used in vietnam was 12-15 volts. Isn't skin resistivity higher than that? Certainly you can apply enough voltage with hand crank devices, but if it's only putting out 12-15 volts...wouldn't nothing happen? I'm not suggesting anyone try this, but 15 volts won't hurt unless you put water on it or something. Could someone clear this up for me?