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The Malaysian government said Friday that it can't confirm the report.

And a senior U.S. official offered a conflicting account Thursday, telling CNN that "there is probably a significant likelihood" the plane is on the bottom of the Indian Ocean.

Among the things being considered is whether lithium batteries in the cargo hold, which have been blamed in previous crashes, played a role in the disappearance, according to U.S. officials briefed on the latest developments in the investigation.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release details to the media.

If the batteries being carried on the plane caused a fire, it still doesn't fully explain other anomalies with Flight 370, the officials say.

Malaysian officials, who are coordinating the search, said Friday that the hunt for the plane was spreading deeper into both the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea.

India has deployed assets from its navy, coast guard and air force to the south Andaman Sea to take part in the search, the country's Ministry of Defense said Friday.

Indian search teams are combing large areas of the archipelago. Two aircraft are searching land and coastal areas of the island chain from north to south, an Indian military spokesman said Friday, and two coast guard ships have been diverted to search along the islands' east coast. Indian officials are also including part of the Bay of Bengal in their search, officials said.

As of Friday, 57 ships and 48 aircraft from 13 countries were involved in the search, Hishammuddin Hussein, the minister in charge of defense and transportation, said at a news briefing.

China, which said it would be extending its search, said crews have searched more than 27,000 square miles (about 70,000 square kilometers) of the South China Sea without finding anything.

On Friday, the United States sent the destroyer USS Kidd to scout the Indian Ocean as the search expands into that body of water.

"I, like most of the world, really have never seen anything like this," Cmdr. William Marks of the U.S. 7th Fleet said of the scale of the search. "It's pretty incredible."

"It's a completely new game now," he said. "We went from a chess board to a football field."

The movie-plot theory seems more complicated and unlikely than one in which the plane -- its flight crew perhaps incapacitated -- simply flew on until it ran out of fuel or faced some other problem. But it's one that law enforcement has to check out, former FBI Assistant Director James Kallstrom said.

Aviation experts say it's possible, if highly unlikely, that someone could have hijacked and landed the giant Boeing 777 undetected.

The international airport in Port Blair, the regional capital of the Andaman and Nicobar islands, has a runway that is long enough to accommodate a 777, according to publicly available data.

But the region is highly militarized because of its strategic importance to India, Indian officials with knowledge of the operation tell CNN, making it an unlikely target for pirates trying to sneak in an enormous airplane with a wingspan of more than 200 feet.

Denis Giles, editor of the Andaman Chronicle newspaper, says there's just nowhere to land such a big plane in his archipelago without attracting notice.

"There is no chance, no such chance, that any aircraft of this size can come towards Andaman and Nicobar Islands and land," he said.

The sabotage theory got a boost Friday from The Wall Street Journal, which reported investigators increasingly suspect the plane's communications systems were manually switched off.

Investigators are trying to determine whether the satellite communications system that pinged for hours stopped functioning because "something catastrophic happened or someone switched off" the system, the newspaper reported, citing an unnamed person familiar with the jet's last known position.

The pings stopped at a point over the Indian Ocean, while the jetliner was flying at a normal cruising altitude, according to the newspaper.

Then there's the theory that maybe Flight 370 landed in a remote Indian Ocean island chain.

The suggestion -- and it's only that at this point -- is based on analysis of radar data revealed Friday by Reuters suggesting that the plane wasn't just blindly flying northwest from Malaysia. Reuters, citing unidentified sources familiar with the investigation, reported that whoever was piloting the vanished jet was following navigational waypoints that would have taken the plane over the Andaman Islands.

The radar data don't show the plane over the Andaman Islands, but only on a known route that would take it there, Reuters cited its sources as saying.

That theory is buoyed by word from a senior U.S. official familiar with the investigation that the Malaysia Airlines plane made several significant altitude changes and altered its course more than once after losing contact with flight towers.

The jetliner was flying "a strange path," the official said on condition of anonymity.

The details of the radar readings were first reported by The New York Times on Friday.

Malaysian military radar showed the plane climbing to 45,000 feet soon after disappearing from civilian radar screens and then dropping to 23,000 feet before climbing again, the official said.

The question of what happened to the jetliner has turned into one of the biggest mysteries in aviation history, befuddling industry experts and government officials.

Suggestions have ranged from a catastrophic explosion to sabotage to hijacking to pilot suicide.

The analysis conducted by the United States and Malaysian governments may have narrowed the search area for the jetliner that vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, leaving little trace of where it went or why.

The analysis used radar data and satellite pings to calculate that the plane diverted to the west, across the Malayan peninsula, and then either flew in a northwest direction toward the Bay of Bengal or southwest into the Indian Ocean.

The theory builds on earlier revelations by U.S. officials that an automated reporting system on the airliner was pinging satellites for up to five hours after its last reported contact with air traffic controllers. Inmarsat, a satellite communications company, confirmed to CNN that automated signals were registered on its network.

Taken together, the data point toward speculation of a dark scenario in which someone took control of the plane for some unknown purpose, perhaps terrorism.

CNN Exclusive: Analysis shows two possible Indian Ocean paths for airliner
By Barbara Starr and Chelsea J. Carter, CNN
March 15, 2014 -- Updated 0201 GMT (1001 HKT)


Washington (CNN) -- Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 made drastic changes in altitude and direction after disappearing from civilian radar, U.S. officials told CNN on Friday, raising questions for investigators about just who was at the controls of the commercial jetliner that went missing one week ago with 239 people on board.

The more the United States learns about the flight's pattern, "the more difficult to write off" the idea that some type of human intervention was involved, one of the officials familiar with the investigation said.

The revelation comes as CNN has learned that a classified analysis of electronic and satellite data suggests the flight likely crashed either in the Bay of Bengal or elsewhere in the Indian Ocean.

Quote from: bugsay on March 15, 2014, 08:20:35 PM
lubos bitaw akong pagtuo nga si Bay Hubag mauy nagputol sa kahimanan sa komunikasyon sa maong eroplano....ekperto!!8)

Oops, ikaw maoy mas kadudahan, Bay Bugs, kay dugay2x kang nawala, nag-schooling pa galing...

Quote from: Mike Ortega Ligalig on March 15, 2014, 06:29:38 AM
Basin nakaingong ang uban, Botoy, nga naapil ka ug sakay sa missing Malaysian Airlines.

Church me away! If I have anything to do with that flight, ako ang shaman nga modumdom sa authorities ko hain na kaha tong ayroplanoha...

Quote from: bugsay on March 15, 2014, 08:18:21 PM
dia ra intawon....sama sa naandan nagpahipi lang kanunay sa daplin nga maaninag lang sa kidlap sa aninipot...

...nagahuwat sa panahon nga mosakdap ang mga kwaknit sa tanlag mga maoy modagit ug mobuntaw kaniya sa hawanan sa Tubag Bohol taliwala sa kaberks nga dugay nang nagaantos sa tumang kamingaw sa iyang mga hinanggaw...

Quote from: wardiflex on March 02, 2014, 08:09:58 AM
pastilang hapita matiwas...

Maayo na lang kay naanghelan...

Quote from: Lorenzo on March 12, 2014, 06:40:25 PM
lol , busy diay ning buhay sa milyonir eh, nong hubag og bai bugsay?

Abaw linti gid! Sang kwarta ginapiko ginapala ... !

Ginapiko ginapala ra ang among Bay Bugsay. Ang kang Islander kay gina-bulldoze, gina-backhoe!

Botoy reporting for duty! Bay Bugs, tuyhakaw na pud!

Makatangtang sa dunggan sa katam-is...

Oops, hunas na. Time for me nga manginhas. See you later, pandagator.

The indifferent (though slightly harmful) panda sal...

Bwahaha! Unsa man nang sa iyang tiyan, mga tinai?

Aw, basta si Bugsay diri makapahinumdom nako sa lines ni George William Russell: In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed.

This is a harmful panda...

Maayo nang pagkasimang. Back to pandas...

And you, you can't eat shrimp again. He, he, he...

Nindot bitaw tiradoron kon mopagarpar na...

Sa akong tan-aw, patas ra...

Suya lang ka sa ka-cool sa imong katagilungsod, tan-awa ang porma...

Hmm, morag si Steampunk C3 ray nasayod...

Wa na galing kay morag maayo man kang magpaluoyluoy...

Alien? Sama ani?

Ingon ana jud nang mga ambisyoso. As Gore Vidal is supposed to have famously said: It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

He he, wa uroy moklaro nga wala sa iyang vocabulary ang takla ug uwang, ay...

He he, wa man kaha usbi?

Hmm, porkchop pud diay ni siya?

Alien civilization

Ancient civilization

Future civilization

Daghang mahayblad ani...

Hala, kuyawa na diay ron alang sa gatrabaho sa atong judicial system. Bag-ohay pang diay gi-ambus patay nga abogado sa Cebu, karon huwes na pud sa Zamboanga...

Chief Inspector Tindero said they recovered at least six empty shells believed to be dispensed from .45 caliber pistol.

Senior Superintendent Angelito Casimiro, City Police director, said they were investigating several angles into the slaying of Estacio including the motive of possible job related angle.

Branch 14 court personnel considered Estacio as a very approachable and a very considerate judge. But his branch has been dealing with high profile cases including murder and human trafficking.

Estacio was raised in Margosatubig, Zamboanga del Sur before his family migrated to Bulacan.

According to his court personnel, Estacio became a court clerk in the Court of Appeals and was assigned as fiscal in Caloocan city before he came to Zamboanga City and assigned as judge sometime in 2005.

The court personnel said Estacio was supposed to retire on March 25. 

The Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) Zamboanga chapter strongly condemned the gun slaying of Estacio citing it as an act of cowardice.

“We condemn the killing of Judge Estacio. This is an attack not only to the IBP but also to the judiciary,” said lawyer Gian Paulo Enriquez, IBP vice president for Zamboanga chapter.

The IBP believed that the killing of Estacio was a work-related incident.

The local IPB official also called on the police to resolve the crime.

“If they cannot solve this case they should resign,” Enriquez said.

By Roel Pareño (philstar.com) | Updated February 28, 2014 - 5:00pm

 

A grab from the tarpaulin picture shows slain Judge Reynerio Estacio of Regional Trial Court Branch 14, having a group picture with his court staff in Zamboanga City. (Roel Pareño)


ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines - A court judge handling high-profile cases was gunned down Friday morning by two unidentified assassins Zamboanga City, police officials said.

Chief Inspector Danilo Tindero, deputy police commander of Station 6, identified the victim as Judge Reynerio Estacio, 65, of Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 14.

Police investigation disclosed that at 8 a.m., the victim was on board a service vehicle with his wife Tess and was about to leave his residence when the suspects fired at close range.

Estacio sustained two gunshot wounds on his left arm and back which exited toward his left chest.

Police said the victim might have struggled to cover his wife as the suspects shot them several times before escaping on board a single motorcycle toward an unknown direction.

The wife was unhurt as a neighboring tricycle driver Jun Fabriga rushed the victim to the nearby hospital but Estacio was pronounced dead on arrival by an attending physician.

Quote from: islander on February 28, 2014, 04:50:29 PM
bag-ong gipasaylo ang sinner.

Hmm, speaking from experience, Miss Panda Girl?

Mag-ilog jud ta Madame. Yuna pa, morag di man ni pasayan. Takla galing ni o kaha uwang...

Quote from: islander on February 28, 2014, 05:34:36 PM

Photograph by Gaia Light

Morag gi-Indian man ni si Manoy...

Quote from: hofelina on February 28, 2014, 07:19:57 PM
no winter at all, except to some areas like Bavarian Alps. We have a very mild temperature and at the moment we are enjoying 8-7°C and some scattered rains. The weather is really confusing looking at some parts of the globe where snow is too much and water is too much like in London.

Oh, how unusual. Nag-snow man gani kuno sa Egypt ug Vietnam...

Quote from: hofelina on February 28, 2014, 07:00:26 PM
In George Washington's days, there were no cameras. One's image was either sculpted or painted. Some paintings of George Washington showed him standing behind a desk with one arm behind his back while others showed both legs and both arms. Prices charged by painters were not based on how many people were to be painted, but by how many limbs were to be painted. Arms and legs are 'limbs,' t herefore painting them would cost the buyer more. Hence the expression, 'Okay, but it'll cost you an arm and a leg.' (Artists know hands and arms are more difficult to paint)

If hands and arms are difficult to paint, they must also be difficult to sculpt. Mao ba kaha ni ang rason ngano nga si Venus de Milo way bukton?

Nia, nag-antos sa tumang ka-cute--sa picture nga gi-Photoshop, he he...

Hope you're doing fine, Ms. Hof. How's the winter over there?

Hahay ning balitaa. Ngitngit pas ata sa tabugok nga nalata...

Matud sa polis nga sa hapit na tungang gabii kaniadtong Pebrero 20 ang duha ka menor de-edad nga ig-agaw ra sa mireklamo nangatulog didto sa ilang kwarto apan sila kalit lang gipanghuboan.  Nahibaw-an sa kapolisan nga ang 27-anyos nga mireklamo nga gibun-og sa konsehal gikataho nga mihikap-hikap sa pribadong parte sa lawas sa batang babaye.

Apan dihang mihilak ang batang babaye, ang tawo mitapon na usab ngadto sa bata nga lalaki. Dihang nahigmata ang bata’ng lalaki ug mihilak, midali pagdagan ang mapahimuslanon.

Matud pa nga pagka- buntag, adunay nakataho ngadto ni Konsehal Buot sa gihimo sa mao’ng tawo. Ang konsehal miadto sa gipuy-an sa maong tawo ug matud pa gipasakay kini sa motor ug gidala sa ilang balay.

Sigun sa reklamo nga gipasaka didto sa piskaliya nagkanayon nga ang maong tawo gidagmalan sa konsehal sa barangay pinaagi sa pagbunal og kawayan mao nga nakaangkon siya og samad ug bun-og sa kalawasan.

Matud pa nga kun wala pa ang tanod nga si Dante Tojeno nga mihangyo sa konsehal nga undangan na’g dagmal ang tawo, dugang kadaut pa ang nahiaguman.

Namasangil pa ang maong tawo nga gitionan siya’g armas sa konsehal.

Ang piskaliya gipaabot nga mopatubag na sa konsehal sa pasangil batok kaniya.  (BANAT NEWS)

Ni Melissa Q. Cabahug /RUB (Banat) | Updated February 28, 2014 - 12:00am


CEBU, Philippines - Usa ka barangay konsehal sa lungsod sa Balamban nag-atubang karon og tulo ka sumbong sa Cebu Provincial Prosecutor’s Office tungod kay gipasanginlang midagmal og tawo nga nanghinol og duha ka menor de-edad.

Ang gipasakaan og kaso mao si Alfonso Buot Jr., konsehal sa Barangay Baliwagan, Balamban.

Ang gipasaka nga mga kaso batok ni Buot mao ang kidnapping and serious illegal detention, less serious physical injuries ug grave threats.

Ang reklamo batok sa konsehal gipasaka sa usa ka 27-anyos nga biktima nga ang ngalan gipugngan lang sa Banat News kay matud sa kapolisan gitoohan nga adunay gamay’ng problema sa iyang pangisip.

Si SPO1 Jose Ranielito Villarino sa Balamban Police Station mitug-an nga ang mireklamo nga gibun-og sa konsehal gipasanginlan ‘sab nga miabuso sa duha ka bata niyang ig-agaw nga iyang gihuboan ug gihikap ang pribado’ng parte sa ilang kalawasan.

Brindle tortoise shell Native American Indian dog

Hinuon, naa puy dili photogenic pero cute diay sa personal...

Bantog rang daghang batig nawong sa personal...

Tortoise shell cat

Tortoise shell

World's Oldest Cheese Was Snack for 3,500-Year-Old Chinese Mummy in Afterlife
By Hannah Osborne , February 27, 2014 10:56 AM GMT





The world's oldest cheese has been discovered on the necks and chests of mummies in China, dating to over 3,500 years old.

Cheese discovered with mummies in China's Taklamakan Desert was dated by researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, USA Today reports.

They found the cheese dated to 1615 BCE, making it the oldest ever discovered by a long way.

Study author Andrej Shevchenko said: "We not only identified the product as the earliest known cheese, but we also have direct ... evidence of ancient technology [that is] easy, cheap ... It's a technology for the common people."

The cheese was preserved with the mummies at the Small River Cemetery Number 5, first discovered by Swedish archaeologists in the 1930s.

The cemetery included a group of Bronze Age people buried on top of a large sand dune underneath what appears to be large wooden boats. These boats were packed with cowhide so well that they created a "vacuum-packed" effect.

Pandas in love...

Tortoises are prone to gigantism, as shown here...

Tortoise vs turtle: mas lami ang turtle.

Tuba-tuba unya pahuwas sa hubog? Cool...

I'm sorry for you, Madame, you with your divided loyalties...

Ma-choke man pud tag kinatawa ani...

Oops, sorry, Mr. Prosecutor, but it's just so funny!

How did you get inside his head and capture what was driving him?

I felt maybe these kinds of guys are dreamers and we all have dreams of course, but our dreams are usually limited by some kind of reality check and because a guy thinks because he can pluck a guitar a couple of strokes he thinks he's going to be Elvis Presley or whoever. I think that disconnect between a certain reality is kind of good for that kind of psychopath mentality.

You seem to have the details of Missouri down very well. Did you go look around the area? It feels very real
.
I did. I'm a big one for trains so I took the train to Kansas City, rented a car and I drove around Missouri for four days. Went down the back roads, the rivers and the lakes. It's kind of an interesting country and I've always been fascinated by the Mississippi river although I didn't do a lot of the Mississippi in this book, but it's an interesting country and one that, not to put Mark Twain behind, but certainly was established by Daniel Boone and a lot of pioneers in American culture.

The final inevitable question: Can we hold on any hope of seeing you on the screen again?

Only in reruns.

That's it?

Yeah, that's it. I'm at a place where I feel very good about not having to work all night.

Did your wife help with fleshing her out?

Yeah. I batted things around with her a lot. Of course, she's my savior because I write longhand and she's the typist and the wordsmith.

Your heroine seems to get annoyed with pretty much everybody that crosses her path. Is that something you relate to?

Yeah, I do. I like that in this strong woman. I like the idea that she's able to maintain some kind of professionalism and yet still speak her mind.

Did it scare you living with your psychopath character as you were writing this?

Yeah, I think that's one of the things that's exciting about writing, for me at least, is the fact that you can kind of get inside those people and kind of pull up all the stuff that you wouldn't normally be thinking about. It doesn't take you off the hook but you kind of live with them. With me it takes quite a long time, at least a year maybe a little more by the time I go through two or three edits, professional edits, but it's still fun because it's always a challenge.

Your book is built around a very memorable, tough as nails female cop who is also the target of the story's villain. How did she come together?

I started with wanting her to be a strong woman, a little unusual if you will, in that she was handy. She was physically handy and kind of mentally sharp and I liked that idea that she was not in an area of a put-upon women or the frail female. She was very capable. There's so many detective stories done and they are almost all male detectives unless they are written by females. I just thought I would kind of try to stretch it a little bit and see if I could do a female. It was great fun because every time I would write something, I would have to really dig down and think about how is this going to work? Is this what a women would really do? In some ways, that was kind of helpful because it kept me on my toes.

Gene Hackman at the 2003 Golden Globe Awards (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, file)

What is your writing process? Do you do it at a certain time of day?

Yes. Always in the morning. I can't write past two o'clock in the afternoon. If I do, then I'm up all night. I have a little office, you might call it. It's just a writing desk and a pretty comfortable chair. I write longhand and I go back and I go over it I don't know how many times and I hand it to the professor and she types it up. Then we go over it a number of times and get a little bit of a critique from the wife and like that.

How did the germ of "Pursuit" come to you?

Well, in the previous book that I had written on my own, it took place in and around Santa Fe, where I lived, in New Mexico. I just thought I would expand my horizons a little bit and do this one in Missouri. "Payback at Morning Peak" was fun to do because it was oh, I don't know, childhood dreams and that kind of thing, where the next book, "Pursuit," was maybe a little more serious.

How does creating a character as a writer compare to creating a character as an actor?

It's kind of a peculiar thing. I have to go back to my early days as an actor when my first or second professional job was in improvisational theater. In improvisation, one of the cardinal rules is not to deny what the other person on stage has given you. So you have that always on your mind; to take what they have said and expand on it. When I began doing television in the early days and feature films, I always had great respect for the author's intent and I never wanted to change that, even though there were times where you would like to expand on what somebody says. But I tried to put that behind me in some ways because the spur of the moment is not always the best way to proceed creatively, I don't think.

How's it been writing solo?

I think I probably like it a little better. I feel like it's my responsibility and it's my sense of what's going on and my poor writing or whatever. It seems to work better for me. I've spent my life, actually, with other people trying to create and it's kind of a different process and kind of exciting in a way.

In acting you're so dependent on the director, the editor, the script, so many other things; but in a novel, it's all you, start to finish. Is that liberating?

It is. In a sort of way it is liberating because you don't have a director right there at your elbow giving you a little nudge now and then or telling you how he thinks you should pronounce a certain word or emphasize a certain phrase or whatever. Many times it goes against the grain, you know? You have to have an ego to be an actor, you really do. I think that compared to the writing it's liberating in a strange way. I know that I'll never be the writer as successful as I was as an actor, but in some ways it's maybe more creative.

'Pursuit' by Gene Hackman.

So what's he been doing since we last saw him? Living in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with his wife of 23 years, Betsy, and writing novels. His latest publication is  "Pursuit," a taut thriller about a Missouri cop who sets out on a desperate manhunt after serial killer abducts her daughter.

We spoke to Hackman, 84, by phone from his New Mexico home about the book, his new life as a writer, and the big question: when will his fans see him again.

So what made you decide to start writing novels? "Pursuit" is your second solo writing. How did you get into this rat race?

Actually, I started with a fellow who I knew in Santa Fe, where we live, a friend who actually was a marine biologist. We were having lunch one day, talking about what we were reading and that kind of thing. Then we said, "Why don't we write a novel?" you know, like a lot of people do. We got together, it was a difficult process writing with somebody else, but we did it. We wrote, I think, three books together.

By Richard Rushfield
7 hours ago
Yahoo Movies



Gene Hackman in 2003. (Vera Anderson/WireImage)


There is perhaps no living lion of screen acting who inspires as much respect as Gene Hackman, a man of whom it has been said, he never gave a bad performance. For the past decade, however, the screen has had to soldier on without him; it has now been 10 years since the actor made his last film, 2004's "Welcome to Mooseport."

DAVAO. Naugdaw ang 10 ka balay sa Barangay Kapitan Tomas Monteverde Sr., Agdao District kagahapon sa hapon. Ang kalayo nagsugod sa balay ni Le Marvin Enriquez nga giingong nagbahad nga "damay-damay nalang ta" human nadakpan ang iyang asawa tungod sa drugas niadtong Sabado. (Seth Delos Reyes)

Kon hamisay lag hubon, Santo Papa material diay si Botoy...

He he, sa hinilakan lang daan, morag way kaseguroan ang imong pangagpas...

Asa kaha ni dapita sa Cebu. I used to know every crook and nanny, er, every nook and cranny of the city...

Ang 3D nga naghuwat sa tumoy sa panahon: Defeat, Disarray, Decay...

Animals that are solitary are often territorial and do not like the company of another animal in their territory and especially an animal of their own kind. This could be due to competition between rivals for the opportunity to mate or over territory, or it could be a more suitable way to live in the environment. When two of the same species meet they often show aggressive displays to try to chase off the other, but if neither of the two backs down a brawl can escalate. In some species these fights can end in the death of one or both animals. --Wiki

Bantay! Paingon ka ambakan!

Quote from: islander on February 27, 2014, 10:40:37 AM

Alone in a big group...

To each his own...

Quote from: islander on February 23, 2014, 05:34:32 PM
utituron pa tingali kun iapil sa collection ug tawong dato nga way lingaw.  imagine, naay cookie pieces.

Unya ang bulay-og nga "artist" mo-claim dayon nga apil ang utitod sa iyang art work.

...tinunoan nga obra maestra...

DAVAO. Si Police Sr. Supt. Vicente Danao Jr., direktor sa Davao City Police Office, nagsusi sa lawak diin napatay ang usa sa mga drug pushers. Pito ang napatay ug 35 ang nasikop apil ang usa ka Korean national sa anti-drug raid sa siyudad. (King Rodriguez)

Calling all bounty hunters...