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Section 68
Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Hiram, Ohio, November 1, 1831, in response to prayer that the mind of the Lord be made known concerning Orson Hyde, Luke S. Johnson, Lyman E. Johnson, and William E. McLellin. Although part of this revelation was directed toward these four men, much of the content pertains to the whole Church. This revelation was expanded under Joseph Smith's direction when it was published in the 1835 edition of the Doctrine and Covenants.
1–5, The words of the elders when moved upon by the Holy Ghost are scripture; 6–12, Elders are to preach and baptize, and signs will follow true believers; 13–24, The firstborn among the sons of Aaron may serve as the Presiding Bishop (that is, hold the keys of presidency as a bishop) under the direction of the First Presidency; 25–28, Parents are commanded to teach the gospel to their children; 29–35, The Saints are to observe the Sabbath, labor diligently, and pray.
1 My servant, Orson Hyde, was called by his ordination to proclaim the aeverlasting gospel, by the bSpirit of the living God, from people to people, and from land to land, in the ccongregations of the wicked, in their dsynagogues, reasoning with and eexpounding all scriptures unto them.
2 And, behold, and lo, this is an ensample unto all those who were ordained unto this priesthood, whose mission is appointed unto them to go forth—
3 And this is the aensample unto them, that they shall bspeak as they are moved upon by the Holy Ghost.
4 And whatsoever they shall speak when moved upon by the aHoly Ghost shall be scripture, shall be the will of the Lord, shall be the mind of the Lord, shall be the word of the Lord, shall be the voice of the Lord, and the bpower of God unto salvation.
5 Behold, this is the promise of the Lord unto you, O ye my servants.
6 Wherefore, be of good acheer, and do not bfear, for I the Lord am with you, and will stand by you; and ye shall bear record of me, even Jesus Christ, that I am the Son of the living God, that I cwas, that I am, and that I am to come.
7 This is the word of the Lord unto you, my servant Orson Hyde, and also unto my servant Luke Johnson, and unto my servant Lyman Johnson, and unto my servant aWilliam E. McLellin, and unto all the faithful elders of my church—
8 aGo ye into all the world, bpreach the gospel to every ccreature, acting in the dauthority which I have given you, ebaptizing in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
9 And ahe that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, and he that believeth not shall be bdamned.
10 And he that believeth shall be blest with asigns following, even as it is written.
11 And unto you it shall be given to know the signs of the atimes, and the bsigns of the coming of the Son of Man;
12 And of as many as the Father shall bear record, to you shall be given power to aseal them up unto eternal life. Amen.
13 And now, concerning the items in addition to the acovenants and commandments, they are these—
14 There remain hereafter, in the due time of the Lord, other abishops to be set apart unto the bchurch, to minister even according to the first;
15 Wherefore they shall be ahigh priests who are worthy, and they shall be appointed by the bFirst Presidency of the Melchizedek Priesthood, except they be literal descendants of cAaron.
16 And if they be literal descendants of aAaron they have a legal right to the bishopric, if they are the bfirstborn among the sons of Aaron;
17 For the firstborn holds the right of the presidency over this priesthood, and the akeys or authority of the same.
18 No man has a legal right to this office, to hold the keys of this priesthood, except he be a aliteral descendant and the firstborn of Aaron.
19 But, as a ahigh priest of the Melchizedek Priesthood has authority to officiate in all the lesser offices he may officiate in the office of bbishop when no literal descendant of Aaron can be found, provided he is called and set apart and ordained unto this power, under the hands of the First Presidency of the Melchizedek Priesthood.
20 And a literal descendant of Aaron, also, must be designated by this Presidency, and found worthy, and aanointed, and ordained under the hands of this Presidency, otherwise they are not legally authorized to officiate in their priesthood.
21 But, by virtue of the decree concerning their right of the priesthood descending from father to son, they may claim their aanointing if at any time they can prove their lineage, or do ascertain it by revelation from the Lord under the bhands of the above named Presidency.
22 And again, no bishop or high priest who shall be set apart for this ministry shall be tried or acondemned for any crime, save it be before the bFirst Presidency of the church;
23 And inasmuch as he is found aguilty before this Presidency, by testimony that cannot be impeached, he shall be condemned;
24 And if he repent he shall be aforgiven, according to the covenants and bcommandments of the church.
25 And again, inasmuch as aparents have children in Zion, or in any of her bstakes which are organized, that cteach them not to understand the ddoctrine of repentance, faith in Christ the Son of the living God, and of baptism and the gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of the hands, when eeight years old, the fsin be upon the heads of the parents.
26 For this shall be a law unto the ainhabitants of Zion, or in any of her stakes which are organized.
27 And their children shall be abaptized for the bremission of their sins when ceight years old, and receive the laying on of the hands.
28 And they shall also ateach their children to pray, and to walk uprightly before the Lord.
29 And the inhabitants of Zion shall also observe the aSabbath day to keep it holy.
30 And the inhabitants of Zion also shall remember their alabors, inasmuch as they are appointed to labor, in all faithfulness; for the bidler shall be had in remembrance before the Lord.
31 Now, I, the Lord, am not well apleased with the inhabitants of Zion, for there are bidlers among them; and their cchildren are also growing up in dwickedness; they also eseek not earnestly the riches of eternity, but their eyes are full of fgreediness.
32 These things ought not to be, and must be done away from among them; wherefore, let my servant Oliver Cowdery acarry these sayings unto the land of Zion.
33 And a commandment I give unto them—that he that observeth not his aprayers before the Lord in the season thereof, let him be had in bremembrance before the judge of my people.
34 These sayings are atrue and faithful; wherefore, transgress them not, neither btake therefrom.
35 Behold, I am aAlpha and Omega, and I bcome quickly. Amen.

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The Meccano Society of Scotland
Menstrie Meeting 2016
In May 2016 we held our annual Menstrie Meeting and Challange.
The challenge this year is to construct a hamster wheel and a hamster powered by a clockwork motor to run in it. See the Challenge Rules page for more details.
Menstrie Challenge - Report
The competition this year was to construct a wheel in which there was to be a (clockwork motor driven) hamster. The wheel making the greatest number of revolutions in one winding of the motor would be the winner.
As can be seen form the above photograph a large and very number of designs resulted. Everyone favoured a No1 clockwork motor as its running time is much greater for one winding than the Magic motor. However there the similarity in designs largely ended. The entrants had to solve two problems, One was the diameter of the wheel. Obviously the smaller the wheel the more revolutions. As the total distance travelled is πDN where D is the wheel diameter and N is the number of revolutions, minimizing D will maximize N. However as the hamster had to be removeable there were practical difficulties in getting D down. The other major problem was to keep the hamster running smoothly round the wheel without bumping into the sides A small made up wheel had a lot of joints to be negotiated, a large wheel made with Strip Plates had fewer joints.
In the end those who chose to compromise won the day. All three leading entries had a track consisting of two rails formed by the edges of Flanged Rings. In two cases the hamster ran on flanged wheels and was driven by a rubber ringed pulley wheel mounted on the output shaft of the motor and bearing directly on the surface of the ring. These two entries were first and second the difference being
Name | Number of revolutions achieved |
Bert Hutchings | 66.3 |
Alistair Nicoll | 52.8 |
George Roy | 31.5 |
Gordon Stewart | 27.0 |
Dale Stanford | 14.8 |
Douglas Carson | 5.25 |
Robert Jones | 2.0 |
Bill Jack | 1.5 |
In accepting the trophy Bert Hutchings congratulated Bill Jack on coming up with an imaginative and challenging problem which had given rise to an encouragingly large number of very varied entries.
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Mileage: 32.2 and 35.0
November mileage: 510
I felt strong during my two "tempo" rides today and yesterday. My plan has been to ride three or four of these rides every week: two to three hours of semi-uncomfortable effort. But I am almost certainly on a fitness plateau right now, because these rides have become much too easy. I know the obvious answer is "ride harder," but I almost feel like my lungs and heart have outpaced my legs, and I just don't have the muscle power to push the pace much higher. I know I probably do, I just need to find it. And of course there's the short cuts - more intervals, climbing, squats. But there's just so much fun riding out there right now - frozen trails, hardened muskeg, shattery paper ice (see small photo) and dustings of new snow. I keep telling myself I can start building again in December. :-)
I was able to get in plenty of bursts of hard effort today after I snapped the rear shifter cable on my mountain bike. I feel bad for my Karate Monkey; only seven months old, and she's already been through the war. But after riding most of the morning with three speeds (and really only using the middle ring), I have to say, I still don't understand the single-speed thing. It's not a matter of being able to push a high gear up steep hills - that I can do if I have to. But I prefer to have my rotations per minute stay the same no matter how fast I'm going. Single-speeders must have their legs spinning all sorts of different crazy speeds. And once your RPMs drop down to two or three, don't you start questioning the efficiency of your one gear?
Also, I wanted to thank people who have e-mailed me about buying a book. When I made the offer, I didn't really formulate a plan about how I would organize requests and orders and the like. So what I have is an inbox full of e-mails, some of which I have answered, some which I'm not sure, etc. I plan to sit down and organize the whole mess on Thursday or Friday, so if I haven't gotten back to you yet, I apologize. I put in a big order Monday (and I want to thank those who already sent in Paypal payments; it made the prospect of ordering a big box of the exact same book much less painful.) I was told they would take six to eight days to print, so the turnover may be a little longer than I expected. I ordered some extras and can always order more, so if you are still interested in a signed copy or are hesitant to use the direct site, please e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Once I get a chance to really scrutinize and think about it, I may go the route of purchasing a distribution package, getting the book on Amazon and possibly into actual stores (maybe bike shops?). Of course, this would require a ton of marketing on my part, and convincing third parties that it's a worthy product. One of the main benefits of having an outside publisher (besides brutal, thorough editing) is marketing. I'm still not sure whether I want to step outside the safe boundaries of this blog. This was, after all, a personal project and not a commercially-minded venture. More of what I think I might get out of "Ghost Trails" is a learning experience that I can use as a springboard for future projects.
That said, I'm curious if any books have trickled in yet. I'm interested in feedback, any feedback. If you've had a chance to look it over, shoot me an e-mail or leave a comment and let me know what you think. I realize people aren't just going to receive the book and read the whole thing in a day (although it is a pretty quick read), but I just wanted to throw it out there that I'm interested in hearing your thoughts, whatever they may be.
And, just as a friendly reminder, it's still available here. :-)
Finally, I just signed up for Facebook! I still don't know why. Peer pressure, I presume. But that's the whole reason I started a blog, so maybe it will work out for me. My profile.
31 comments:
- AnonymousNovember 19, 2008 at 5:27 AM
I became a facebook person through peer pressure also. interesting.... I wonder how many of us end up doing it for that reason.
I liken single speed or fixed gear riding to free heel skiing. maybe even free solo climbing. there is just something very pure about it. The bikes are so simple (particularly fixed gear) just a chain ring and some cranks. it's like taking things back to basics. Though, I don't think I would feel the same way doing it off road. that may boarder on masochism.
b - AnonymousNovember 19, 2008 at 5:42 AM
I so don't get the single-speed deal either. I've heard some claim it's a more "pure" riding experience—whatever that means.
I'm all about switching gears on the fly, not taking 30 minutes to do it pre-ride.
And don't even get me started on the fixies. That's one step away from a unicycle. Clowns. singlespeeds are just fun. that's all. no pressure. not too fast. just fun. i have actually put more miles on my surly 1x1 than any of my other bikes. i bought it as a training tool to force me to spin but i fell in love with it. just me. :) low maintenance, no cables to adjust, easy to clean. throw the studs on it and ride it all winter.
ReplyDelete- AnonymousNovember 19, 2008 at 6:13 AM
"I'm still not sure whether I want to step outside the safe boundaries of this blog. This was, after all, a personal project and not a commercially-minded venture."
Stepping outside of safe boundaries is the only time you get anywhere in life. You went to all the trouble of writing the book so why not put a little extra work into it to see if it could become successfull. A good analogy to your book project would be racing....you did all the hard work putting your training miles in, but now you're afraid to enter the real race.
Who knows, maybe the book (and a calendar) could take off and lead to bigger things, or it might give you a Plan B incase things go bad at the newspaper. You'll never know unless you try. It's better to reach for a goal and fail, then it is to have never tried at all and have regrets about it later. You just need a good swift kick in the ass to get you motivated. Maybe the newspaper going bankrupt and you losing your job would get you motivated. - AnonymousNovember 19, 2008 at 6:42 AM
As far as single speed bikes goes there's a fair amount of yuppie douchebaggery involved in owning one. I mean seriously, outside of yuppie douchebag posers who the hell owns a single speed ADULT bicycle ?!. Notice I said adult, because little kids' bikes and BMX bikes don't count. Cruiser style bikes don't count either because they're usually owned by old geezers either too stupid to know how to work gears, or too slow to even need them.
There's a good reason why gears were invented, because only having one speed SUCKS. Try driving a car with only one speed. Single speed riders just do it because they like the attention it gives them by being different from everyone else. Either that or they have some weird fantasies about being bicycle messengers, track racers, or some turn of the century circa early 1900's bicycle rider. These are the same kind of guys that spend big bucks on retro wool racing jerseys. Ride your single speed in your retro jersey down to Starbucks to look pretentious yuppie douchebags !. - AnonymousNovember 19, 2008 at 7:35 AM
Just to let you know I ordered your book last Thursday and it arrived today (Wednesday). Pretty good service as it's printed to order.
I'm in the UK and I think the book was printed and delivered from here also.
£13 inc. delivery (about $21).
Can't wait to read it!!
Rich Hey Circa42 and Anonymous@4:42 AM: Thanks for letting me in on what a yuppie douchebag clown I am. While I didn't realize that enjoying somethinf that you don't relegated me to that status, now that i do know I will be sure to make a maximum effort to conform to your sensibilities and gain your respect.
More yuppie douchebag clownery can be found here: www.grinderswheels.blogspot.com- AnonymousNovember 19, 2008 at 10:26 AM
OK, I'll bite. I have a Pugsley and it is a SS. I ride it mostly on the beach in Socal--it's flat (obviously) and gears, cables and sand are a bad mix. (I came to your blog because I enjoy your suffering and I like looking at pictures of your Pugsley in its natural habitat.)
More generally, I have an armada of bikes (really, how many people with Pugsley's don't?) and usually pick out the single speeds and fixies when I have time to ride (small kids, job, yadayada).
I get the constant cadence bit, but I find that with my shifty bikes I was using a lot of my mental energy paying attention to gears and shifting rather than just twisting the cranks about, which is why I left the house in the first place.
Maybe sometimes adults like to remember what it was like to ride a bike as a kid, I guess. Also, I hate dealing with adjusting this and that, and simple means less to fix (or break on the road/trail).
My two cents--you all should ride what you like. - AnonymousNovember 19, 2008 at 11:11 AM
I shouldn't have pigeonholed singlespeed bike users as mainly douchebag yuppies....there are also retro-nerds, geeks, freaks, and hippies that ride them too. Stereotypically mostly left-leaning folks from larger cities or college towns. People who like to think of themselves as cool, hip, or trendy but are anything but.
As far as singlespeeds and fixies go, either the hills they're riding on aren't steep enough or they're pedalling too fast. - AnonymousNovember 19, 2008 at 11:18 AM
Singlespeeds and fixies, because shifting is soooooo hard.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxn567bHny8 Anon's comments on singlespeeds are funny, because I don't ride a singlespeed. Jons comeback makes me want to look at his site. My chilhood memories of zig zagging up steep hills are not good.
However, here in WV we have only hills and many often exceed 20%. There are plenty of guys, and gals, who will kick your geared ass with thier singlespeeds (although even they have the sense to use a freewheel). In fact in MTB and cross races, they will often kick the competition's collective rear sans gears.
But, they never road race with a single-speed. Bottom line, on a clear day on a clear road, shifting is better. Unless,that is, you want to feel like a kid again- That can't be bad... or can it?Anonymity breeds unaccountability.
I have multiple bikes. Some geared, some single.
This past year most of my riding has been on singlespeeds. A road single and a 29'er mtb single.
Where I live (Minneapolis, MN) a single can get me anywhere I need to go at a decent rate of speed.
38x18 with knobbies works on all the metro trails I ride most.
Could I go faster with gears. Possibly. Which is another way of saying maybe.
But I don't really care about going faster. I'm not racing. I'm just out riding.
There are times when it is tough to turn the pedals, and there are times when it is a bit too easy. And there are of course times when the porridge is just right!
Both the easy and the difficult times make you find ways to overcome it. Sometimes even making you stronger. Or making you pick a better line.
In the end it is just a choice based on what I'm hoping to get out of my ride. Nothing to do with how others see and perceive me, whether I'm right wing, left wing, middle of the road, etc.
It is nothing more than a fun choice of bikes. And that is something that I hope is only ever thought of as a good thing.Sorry, I didn't mean to ignite any vitrol about single speeds. I have friends who ride a single speed, some exclusively, and I really respect them (Especially Jenn who finished the Great Divide Race on a single speed, which is so amazing and cool.) I'm just saying that I don't think it's for me. Maybe because I'm a wimp. That is all. :-)
ReplyDelete- AnonymousNovember 19, 2008 at 1:40 PM
I thought SSing was for douche bags too... then I rode one. Now I own one.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousNovember 19, 2008 at 3:32 PM
Jill: Are you SURE it's not for you? You're hardly a wimp. Pugsley has a freewheel or (more likely) a fixed cog on the "front" rear wheel already (you can see it in all its glory in one of the Ididabike pix).
Pick a snow ride with rolling hills, drop your way-too-long chain, replace it with a shorter one and give Pugsley a chance at simplicity and SS love.
My guess is that you'll end up writing a new letter to her (him?).
It's not for everyone nor every ride. But maybe it's a way to enjoy all that snow and break your workouts out of the rut they appear to be in. And it's OK to walk sometimes(remember?).
Or, maybe I'm just a douchebag hipppie yuppie freak who wants to fit in with the latest trend. In that case just take more pix of Pugsley. Everyone likes that, right? Regarding SS: It's a bike. It has two wheels, two pedals, something to steer with and something to sit upon. Personally, I don't own one, but I'm not gonna trash anyone who does. At least they are out there pedalling, right?
Jill: I'm about halfway through the ebook. GREAT read! I'm not going to say anything else about it cus some anonymous person would probably accuse me of giving away spoilers.- AnonymousNovember 19, 2008 at 4:48 PM
I think Jill should skip the singlespeed idea and go straight to a fixie. Afterall, nothing says blown out knees and surgery better than trying to push too big of a gear uphill.
Here's your typical fixie rider without brakes trying to go downhill:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdQf0K4AjWc&feature=related - AnonymousNovember 20, 2008 at 2:47 AM
wow what a wonderful blog! i'd love to visit Alaska... you pictures are making me dream!
ReplyDelete A big factor is riding at night with leaves, sticks, mud and other crap you deal with in the east. I have, and ride both. From a cost perspective much cheaper build, longer wear and lower replacement.
How many people out there have broken a derailiuer or hanger? What about shifting problems when the cables get junked or frozen. Or cogs get messed. Well you don't have those worries with one. I could see ice and snow really jamming cables and gears. And for the most part riding uphill with a bike on difficult terrian usually becomes a hike. It is funny watching people try and spin so low of a gear that walking is faster.- AnonymousNovember 20, 2008 at 4:56 PM
Ordered your book from Lulu on 11/13, shipped on 11/14 and received in Juneau on 11/17. Pretty good service, I'd say1
ReplyDelete - AnonymousNovember 20, 2008 at 11:50 PM
As far as bikes goe there's a fair amount of yuppie douchebaggery involved in owning one. I mean seriously, outside of yuppie douchebag posers who the hell owns an ADULT bicycle ?!. Notice I said adult, because little kids' bikes and BMX bikes don't count. Cruiser style bikes don't count either because they're usually owned by old geezers either too stupid to know how to work cars, or too slow to even need them.
There's a good reason why cars were invented, because only having a bike SUCKS. Try driving a car with only two wheels. Bike riders just do it because they like the attention it gives them by being different from everyone else. Either that or they have some weird fantasies about being bicycle messengers, track racers, or some turn of the century circa early 1900's bicycle rider. These are the same kind of guys that spend big bucks on retro wool racing jerseys. Ride your bike in your retro jersey down to Starbucks to look pretentious yuppie douchebags !. Anon @9:50 --
I feel sorry for you. You obviously have never had any fun on a bike. You've obviously never had any fun exercising either. You probably never use your body to accomplish anything at all except to type this dribble. You might even use some sad voice recognition software, so you don't even have to bother to type.
There's nothing as fulfilling as passing a douchebag like you stuck in traffic in a car, while just tooling along gracefully on an adult bicycle, reducing an ugly commute from an hour an a half to just 15 minutes.
The most gorgeous part of the commute though is when the exercise causes the endorfins to kick in, causing the "rider" to be so high, so delighted, to feel so good, that there no longer remains any reason whatsoever to bother justifying exercise, fitness, or even something as simple as riding a single speed bike, to douchebags like you.
Get a bike, please. And ride it. Do everyone a favor.- AnonymousNovember 21, 2008 at 2:23 PM
Sorry, cut and paste, not voice recognition. Wow, so much drama stirred up about one little comment about singlespeeds. Heres the straight dope.
Please don't judge, hate, playa hate, stereotype, or criticize others for their preferred means of enjoying life on a bike. In the end, its all about the passion.
Until you have ridden a real singlespeed (not just ridden for an hour without shifting), you don't know what the experience is like. Your whole mindset changes and brings a fresh new perspective to cycling.
I also said I would never ever ride a singlespeed, now 2 years later I have SS mtbs and 2 fixed gear road bikes in addition to my geared bikes. I love all of them, and ride each as needed. They all let me enjoy the awesomeness of nature, the sity, and cycling in general in different ways. It keeps it fresh, keeps me from getting burnt out. (It also gets me to work...)
SS is great for building strength when you don't have time to hit the gym, or would rather be riding in the beautiful outdoors than stuck in a sweaty gym with all the jockstrap man-boys.
We ss'ers all have our different reasons. But we all have one thing in common too: a love and passion for biking, on or off road.
Ill say it again. Please don't judge, hate, playa hate, stereotype, or criticize others for their preferred means of enjoying life on a bike. In the end, its all about the passion.


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However Warner Bros. reports the Comic Con Saturday schedule for Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows is on and attendees will see all new "never before seen" clips, props, and some "special" opportunity for Comic Con attendees.
The news that the cast of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows would attend Comic Con, and if they did it would be a first in Comic Con history, came as a Twitter rumor by SD Comic Con Expert:
#SDCC Rumor Patrol: Let Me In WILL have a panel. Harry Potter cast/crew MIGHT be there. All of WB's talent at the con is purposely secret.
But then, anything can happen, and who's to say that the reported "schedule conflict" will remain? And what about that "special" opportunity?
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3 NBA FanDuel Value Plays to Target on 3/25/19
One of the keys to finding success in daily fantasy basketball is uncovering potential value plays. If you're looking to roster a stud player or two, you need to consider squeezing in one of these lower-priced options into your lineup.
Let's take a look at three players who can help fill in the gaps in your lineup.


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In just a few days and 76 tweets, Dotcom's Twitter account has garnered over 30,000 followers. Dotcom, for his part, only follows President Barack Obama.
Dotcom's associates Finn Batato, Matthias Ortmann, and Bram van der Kolk, who are co-accused of copyright conspiracy by the U.S., also feature in his Twitter timeline.
The tweet storm comes amid a new round of legal wrangling in Dotcom's federal case in Virginia. His defense team, lead by Ira Rothken, filed a rebuttal (.pdf) in an ongoing fight over the personal liability of Dotcom and the others, who prosecutors says are responsible for around $500 million in damages. The defense also argues that the court has no personal jurisdiction over the defendants.
According to Rothken, who visited New Zealand three days ago, the U.S. froze the assets of Megaupload without serving the company itself, which Rothken argues should force the dismissal of the entire case.
The Dotcom legal team also objects to a U.S. government request that a hearing scheduled for Friday be adjourned due to members of the prosecution team being out of town on that date. "[T]he government should not be permitted to forestall adjudication" after it has "laid waste to Defendants' business, deprived them of tens of millions of dollars in assets along with their ability to earn a living and branded them as criminals whose liberty is confined."


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For those of you in the US, the day has come! Well… sort of. More like the week has almost come. The official Nokia Lumia 920 case is right around the corner.
The straight-from-Nokia (CC-1043) cyan and red soft cases for the Lumia 920 will be ready to ship soon. According to a US Expansys rep last week:
Along with the CC-1403, we are also seeing what seems to be the black case with a protective leather flip cover (CP-600), although in the photo it's showing a Lumia 900.
The yellow, black and white soft cases are still on backorder and are due to arrive in the beginning of February, and although you can still order them... Be prepared for a bit of a wait.
The soft covers are available for $16.99, the leather covered case for $27.99.
Windows Phone Central reader Loiselle posted pictures showcasing the fit and quality of the case back in December, and a few other members have since received (and posted about) theirs as well. Some other forum members have since ordered and received theirs, you could get lucky too.
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Johnny Football just got himself a way cooler nickname: Johnny Heisman.
Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel became the first freshman to win the Heisman Trophy, taking college football's top individual prize Saturday night after a record-breaking debut.
Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o finished a distant second and Kansas State quarterback Collin Klein was third in the voting. In a Heisman race with two nontraditional candidates, Manziel broke through the class barrier and kept Te'o from becoming the first purely defensive player to win the award.
Manziel drew 474 first-place votes and 2,029 points from the panel of media members and former winners.
"I have been dreaming about this since I was a kid, running around the backyard pretending I was Doug Flutie, throwing Hail Marys to my dad," he said after hugging his parents and kid sister.
Manziel seemed incredibly calm after his name was announced, hardly resembling the guy who dashes around the football field on Saturday. He simply bowed his head, and later gave the trophy a quick kiss.
"I wish my whole team could be up here with me," he said with a wide smile.
Te'o had 321 first-place votes and 1,706 points and Klein received 60 firsts and 894 points.
Just a few days after turning 20, Manziel proved times have truly changed in college football, and that experience can be really overrated.
For years, seniors dominated the award named after John Heisman, the pioneering Georgia Tech coach from the early 1900s. In the 1980s, juniors started becoming common winners. Tim Tebow became the first sophomore to win it in 2007, and two more won it in the next two seasons.
Adrian Peterson had come closest as a freshman, finishing second to Southern California quarterback Matt Leinart in 2004. But it took 78 years for a newbie to take home the big bronze statue. Johnny Football really can do it all.
Peterson was a true freshman for Oklahoma. As a redshirt freshmen, Manziel attended school and practiced with the team last year, but did not play in any games.
He's the second player from Texas A&M to win the Heisman, joining John David Crow from 1957, and did so without the slightest hint of preseason hype. Manziel didn't even win the starting job until two weeks before the season.
Who needs hype when you can fill-up a highlight reel the way Manziel can?
With daring dashes and elusive improvisation, Manziel broke 2010 Heisman winner Cam Netwon's Southeastern Conference record with 4,600 total yards, led the Aggies to a 10-2 in their first season in the SEC and orchestrated an upset at then-No. 1 Alabama in November that stamped him as legit.
He has thrown for 3,419 yards and 24 touchdowns and run for 1,181 yards and 19 more scores to become the first freshman, first SEC player and fifth player overall to throw for 3,000 yards and run for 1,000 in a season.
Manziel has one more game this season, when the No. 10 Aggies play Oklahoma in the Cotton Bowl on Jan. 4.
The resume alone fails to capture the Johnny Football phenomena. At 6-foot-1 and 200 pounds, Manziel is master of the unexpected, darting here and there, turning plays seemingly doomed to failure into touchdowns.
Take, for example, what he did in the first quarter against the Crimson Tide. Manziel took a shotgun snap, stepped up in the pocket as if he was about to take off on another made scramble and ran into the back a lineman. On impact, Manziel bobbled the ball, caught it with his back to the line of scrimmage, turned, rolled the opposite direction and fired a touchdown pass — throwing across his body — to a wide-open receiver.
He might as well have been back in Kerrville, Texas, where he became a hill country star in high school.
Manziel thought he was going to be the next Derek Jeter — hence the No. 2 he wears. Instead he became the biggest star football star in College Station since Crow won the Heisman.
His road to stardom was anything but a clear path.
Manziel competed with two other quarterbacks to replace Ryan Tannehill as the starter this season, the Aggies' first in the SEC and first under coach Kevin Sumlin.
Manziel came out of spring practice as the backup, and went to work with a private quarterback coach in the summer to better his chances of winning the job in the preseason.
It worked, but still nobody was hailing Manziel is the next big thing.
Then he started playing and the numbers started piling up.
He had 557 total yards against Arkansas, 576 vs. Louisiana Tech and 440 against Mississippi State.
He also had some struggles against Florida in the season opener and in a home loss to LSU. The question was: Could Johnny Football do his thing against a top-notch opponent?
The answer came in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Nov. 10. Going into the matchup against the Crimson Tide, Manziel said he and his teammates heard a lot of doubters.
"You can't do this and you can't do that," he recalled Saturday at the podium
Manziel passed for 253 yards, ran for 92 and the Aggies beat the Tide 29-24. Klein had been the front-runner for most of the season, but Manziel surged after beating 'Bama.
Still, Manziel was still something of a mystery man. Sumlin's rules prohibit freshmen from being available to the media. Johnny Football was off-limits, but not exactly silent.
Manziel gave glimpses of himself on social media — including some memorable pictures of him dressed up as Scooby-Doo for Halloween with some scantily clad young women.
Before he became a celebrity, Manziel got himself into some serious trouble. In June, he was arrested in College Station after police said he was involved in a fight and produced a fake ID. He was charged with disorderly conduct and two other misdemeanors.
After the season, Texas A&M took the reins off Manziel and made him available for interviews, allowing Johnny Football to tell his own story.
Though in the end, his play said it all, and he made Heisman history.


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T.J. Oshie scored four times in the shootout and got the winner in the eighth round, leading the United States past Russia 3-2 Saturday in the thrilling revival of a classic Olympic hockey rivalry.
Cam Fowler and Joe Pavelski scored in regulation for the Americans in the marquee game of the preliminary round. Jonathan Quick made 29 saves and stopped five attempts in the shootout.
International rules allow the same player to take multiple shots after the first three rounds of a shootout, and U.S. coach Dan Bylsma leaned on Oshie, one of the NHL's shootout specialists.
The St. Louis forward went 4 for 6 against Sergei Bobrovsky, ending the game with one last slow-developing move past the Columbus goalie. The Americans improved to 2-0 in preliminary-round play, all but wrapping up an automatic berth in the quarterfinals next week.
Captain Pavel Datsyuk scored two goals in regulation and another in the shootout for the Russians, who rallied from a third-period deficit. In a fast-paced game played in front of Russian President Vladimir Putin and an energized home crowd, the Russians also had an apparent goal waved off with 4:40 left because Quick's net came off its moorings.
The gimmicky shootout finish was entertaining, but the entire game at the Bolshoy Ice Dome was international hockey at its most compelling -- and the third period was a thriller.
Pavelski scored the tiebreaking goal for the Americans on a power play with 10:33 to play, but Datsyuk tied it with 7:16 left during a Russian power play, spurring Putin out of his seat to cheer.
After review, the officials waved off Fedor Tyutin's apparent go-ahead goal because the net was loose, incensing the Russian crowd.
Both teams had quality scoring chances in overtime, but Bobrovsky denied Patrick Kane on a breakaway in the most hair-raising moment.
Oshie started off the shootout with a low shot between Bobrovsky's legs, and the next four shooters missed before Ilya Kovalchuk scored in the third round. Datsyuk and Kovalchuk scored in the fifth and sixth rounds, respectively, but Oshie tied it twice in dramatic fashion.
Datsyuk and Oshie both missed in the seventh, and Quick denied Kovalchuk again before Oshie ended it.
Oshie was among the final selections for the U.S. roster, and the 27-year-old from Warroad, Minn., was chosen for exactly this type of situation. Although Oshie has never had a 20-goal NHL season, the hard-nosed forward has one of the highest rates of shootout success among the American-born players.
Although the game had little impact on the medal race in Sochi, the finish woke up the echoes of a U.S.-Russia rivalry best known for the "Miracle on Ice" at Lake Placid in 1980, when a team of American college students stunned the Soviet Olympic team.
The sociopolitical impact of that game is long gone, and the nations have already met three previous times in the Olympics since NHL players joined the games in 1998. Several players on both teams are teammates in the NHL, and this result only helped determine positioning for next week's elimination games.
But the Sochi Games are extraordinarily important to the Russian players, and the arena was packed to overflowing with fans of both nations jovially posing for photos and comparing their colorful sweaters. The Russians waved hundreds of flags, blew horns and banged drums from the first moments of warm-ups.


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Individuals play the game, but teams beat the odds.
— SEAL Team saying
Over the last 40 years Technology investors have learned that the success of startups are not just about the technology but "it's about the team."
We spent a year screwing it up in our Lean LaunchPad classes until we figured out it was about having the right team.
Startup team lessons learned
During the last 12 months we've taught 42 entrepreneurial teams with 147 students at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and the National Science Foundation. (As many teams as most startup incubators.)
Get into the class
When I first started teaching hands-on, project/team entrepreneurship classes we'd take anyone who would apply. After awhile it became clear that by not providing an interview process we were doing these students a disservice. A good number of them just wanted an overview of what a startup was like – an entrepreneurial appreciation class (and we offer some great ones.) But some of our students hadn't yet developed a passion for entrepreneurship and had no burning idea that they wanted to bring to market. Yet in class they'd be thrown into a "made-up in the first week" startup team and got dragged along as a spear-carrier for someone else's vision.
Step One – Set a Bar
So as a first step we made students formally apply and interview for the Lean LaunchPad class. We were looking for entrepreneurs who had great ideas and interest in making those ideas really happen. We'd hold mixers before the first class and the students would form their teams during week one of the class.But we found we were wasting a week or more as the teams formed and their ideas gelled.
Step two – apply as a team
So next time we taught, we had the students apply to the class as a team. We hold information sessions a month or more before the classes. Here students with preformed teams could come and have an interview with the teaching team and get admitted. Or those looking to find other students to join their team could mix and market their ideas or join others and then interview for a spot. This process moved the team logistics out of class time and provided us with more time for teaching.
But we had been selecting teams for admission on the basis of whether they had thebest ideas. We should have known better. In the classroom, as in startups, the best ideas in the hands of a B team is worse than a B idea in the hands of a world class team.
Here's why.
Step three – Hacker/Hardware, Hustler, Designer, Visionary
As we taught our Lean LaunchPad classes we painfully relearned the lesson that team composition matters as much or more than the product idea. And that teams matter as much in entrepreneurial classes as they do in startups.
In a perfect world you build your vision and your customers would run to buy your first product exactly as you spec'd and built it. We now know that this 'build it and they will come" is a prayer rather than a business strategy. In reality, a startup is a temporaryorganization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. This means the brilliant idea you started with will change as you iterate and pivotyour business model until you find product/market fit.
The above paragraph is worth reading a few times.
It basically says that a startup team needs to be capable of making sudden and rapid shifts – because it will be wrong a lot. Startups are inherently chaos. Conditions on the ground will change so rapidly that the original well-thought-out business plan becomes irrelevant.
And finding product/market fit in that chaos requires a team with a combination of skills.
What skills? Well it depends on the industry you're in, but generally great technology skills (hacking/hardware/science) great hustling skills (to search for the business model, customers and market,) great user facing design (if you're a web/mobile app,) and by having long term vision and product sense. Most people are good at one or maybe two of these, but it's extremely rare to find someone who can wear all the hats.
It's this combination of skills is why most startups are founded by a team, not just one person.
University silos
While building these teams are hard in the real world, imagine how hard it is in a university with classes organized as silos. Business School classes were only open to business school students, Engineering School classes were only open to engineering school students, etc. No classes could be cross-listed. This meant that you couldn't offer students an accurate simulation of what a startup team would look like. (In our business school classes we had students with great ideas but lacking the technical skills to implement it. And some of our engineering teams could have benefited from a role-model to follow as a hustler.)
So the next time we taught, we managed to ensure that the class was cross-listed and that the student teams had to have a mix of both business and engineering backgrounds.
I think we've finally got the team composition right – relearning all the lessons investors already knew.
But now on to the next goal – getting our mentor program correct.
Lessons learned
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Additionally, the Inquisition used the Philippines as a sort of penal colony. There are Mexican Inquisition records indicating that people were sentenced to Manila for several years.
One story concerned a monument to be dedicated in June in Israel commemorating the "Open Doors" program, and remembering the courage, hospitality and determination of the Philippine government, through President Manuel L. Quezon, to give humanitarian support to European Jews seeking refuge from the Holocaust in the 1930s.
The second story was about a Philippino family that learned about its Sephardic Converso background and has just returned to Judaism in Kansas City.
Tracing the Tribe posted on the country's Jewish history in March 2007. Here's a link to the Embassy of Israel's web site for an online exhibit telling the Manila community's history since the Spanish colonial days through to more contemporary times.
The islands were a Spanish colony from 1521-1898, and conversos accompanied Spanish adventurers who settled the islands, according to Harvard University history professor Jonathan Goldstein, who wrote a paper on Jewish merchants in Far Eastern ports.
New Christians Jorge and Domingo Rodriguez are the first recorded Jews to have arrived, reaching Manila in the 1590s. In 1593, both were tried and convicted at a Mexico City trial ( auto-da-fe) because the Inquisition was not operating in the Philippines. At least eight other New Christians were also tried and convicted. Others with Jewish roots kept very quiet, settling in rural areas, living a precarious existence and keeping their traditions very secret in a very Catholic colony.
The Suez Canal opened in March 1869, cutting the travel time from Europe to the Philippines from three months to 40 days. In 1870, brothers Adolf, Charles and Rafael Levy arrived from Alsace-Lorraine, fleeing the Franco-Prussian War, and established a Manila jewelry store famous throughout the Philippines, La Estrella del Norte included general merchandise, gems, pharmaceuticals and automobiles. Leopold Kahn, also from Alsace, arrived in 1909 and joined them in business.
Many refugees were welcomed during the Holocaust. Later, Sephardic Bagdadi Jews from India arrived, as well as those from the American-European Ashkenazi community.
Some Sephardic discussion groups, such as Sephardim.org have recently seen messages from Filipinos discussing their Jewish backgrounds and remnants of Hebrew still preserved.
Click here to read the story of Cantor Cysner and more.
The Manila Bulletin's story about the monument in Rishon-le-Zion, Israel is here.
Recognizing the generosity and humanitarian assistance of the Filipino people to the Jews during the Holocaust, the Israeli government is set to inaugurate the first Philippine monument in Israel's Rishon Lezion Holocaust Memorial Park on June.
The Israeli embassy in Manila described the first-ever monument as a "lasting symbol" of more than five decades-old bilateral partnership between the Israel and the Philippines.
This year marks "another milestone for the cordial ties" between the two countries with the inauguration of the "Open Doors" monument, designed by Filipino artist Jun Yee, on June 21, the embassy said in a statement.
"The warm hospitality of the Filipino people undoubtedly shed light to one of the darkest and most difficult periods in Jewish history," the Israeli embassy said.
The Kansas City Jewish Chronicle covered the story of a group of individuals who recently converted to Judaism. Involved in this story was Rabbi Jacques Cukierkorn, a Brazilian native, well know for assisting converts and in outreach efforts in South and Central America. The group included a Filipino family:
It's been a long road for Romeo Bagunu, his wife, Araceli, and their three children, Yeremeya, 10, Yonatan, 9, and Annaliza, 6. Both Romeo and his wife were born in the Philippines and raised in the United States.Read the complete articles at the links above.
"The whole process has taken many years for us, from study, trying to work out our faith," said Romeo Bagunu.
He estimates they've been studying Judaism on their own for 11 years. Research into their ancestry sparked a curiosity about Judaism. Both Romeo and Araceli found that their heritage was Spanish and that their ancestors had settled in the Philippines after the Spanish Inquisition. The Inquisition expelled Spain's Jews and forced those who remained to convert to Christianity.
"During the Inquisition, a lot of the Jews settled in the Philippines. In learning that, we became more interested that our family had a lot of Spanish-Jewish culture they kept," Bagunu said.
In exploring their faith, "we went from a very charismatic Christian background to a Messianic congregation, then to an Orthodox congregation and finally settled last year with Rabbi Cukierkorn's New Reform Temple… Moving from the Christian faith to this, we wanted to know where the paths were alike and different," he said.


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Gmail's help center provides an interesting tidbit about the new themes: "In some cases, you can also customize by location. Some themes change during the day, and we use the location information you provide to correctly time these changes with your local sunrise, sunset, and/or weather. If you select one of these themes, you'll see a Country/Region drop-down menu appear."
Gmail also adjusted the default theme, but you can always go back to the previous theme by selecting "Classic" in the settings page. I can't decide between Contrast Black, Cherry Blossom, Graffiti and Ninja. What's your favorite theme?
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Seven Ways Banks Can Leverage a 'Security Data Scientist'
Security executives are stepping in line and forming their own strategies, approaches, and use cases to achieve that new competitive edge. CISO's are conquering this frontier by reducing risk and fraud, whether it stems from cyber data loss or questionable customer transactions.
In general, businesses have made progress in laying the foundations for the required technical data-mart infrastructure and the organization structure to support big data security initiatives. And yet, there is much work to be done in other component areas of the complex journey of building the successful security program.
Organizations can benefit by leveraging existing skilled and proven data scientists from within the core business community to propel the journey forward.
Here are seven ways that CISOs of banking institutions can leverage the Security Data Scientist:
- Blueprint the program: Most security and Big Data experts agree that starting with a blueprint for a holistic cyber security program is key. Tenets of this blueprint start with understanding business requirements first, then the infrastructure and data sources. Quantitative analysis is later performed to support the business opportunity.
- Define Use Cases: Identify the criteria for success through business use cases tying back to bigger business drivers and objectives. In the banking and financial services industries this can often be tied to imperatives such as the mitigation of data loss, reduction of fraud, and the identification of low profile cyber-attacks.
- Understand the current implementation level: Most organizations have early forms of big data solutions in-house, and it only makes sense to get educated on their implementation and how they stack up against industry standards. This is a logical starting point of the program.
- Merge business and security data: To bring about a data rich view of enterprise security, business information should be merged with security information. The technology platform should support the collection of all information, structured and unstructured, in a centralized repository.
- Identify long range technologies: It is important to evaluate technologies and tools currently in play using a long range lens for inclusion in the program. Move away from point products that don't have a long life value to the program; accommodate technologies that do. Internal business experts in data science can help create the foundations for the security data management program. Data scientists have long associations with backbone banking functions such as financial performance, risk management, and operational management. These scientists are better positioned to present a holistic view of the business and integrate security across silos.
- Identify skills and expertise: : Staffing the big data security program is paramount as these resources will provide the ongoing viability of the program. The role of security data scientist intersects two high demand areas: Big Data and cyber security. The qualified security data scientist must be able to apply skills and technologies to security risk in the world of finance. As it may be difficult to find staff in both skill areas it may be necessary to blend people with data skills with people with security skills.
They will formulate trends, point to keen insights and conclusions, and make recommendations for business decisions. They will assist Security Operations in the early identification of brewing cyber-attacks or even questionable behaviors of employees, clients and partners.
- Sponsorship: Studies have shown there is a changing pattern of executive sponsorship. Most big data security efforts are driven by the CIO or CISO as the early stages are related to technology adoption. As organizations advance to a mature big data security program, and the value proposition is realized, sponsorship will likely gain support from other business units and executive levels.
Big Data means many things to many people. It crosses the technology realm into the business realm. The early e-commerce adopters of large scale Big D fraud detection have realized very tangible and measureable results. As customer profiles for ad agencies are generated in sub-second response time, it is imaginable to do the same for transaction scoring. It is time to jump on the big data band wagon.
Lynn Price is a Banking and Financial Services Security Specialist at IBM


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Bentley Mulsanne defines higher plane of luxury, includes modern tech
CNET takes on the onerous job of driving and riding in the 2012 Bentley Mulsanne, a flagship sedan with iPads for the rear-seat passengers.
A Lexus LS or a Mercedes-Benz S-class may seem like the height of automotive luxury, but there exists a higher plane of opulence, embodied by a car such as the Bentley Mulsanne. At this level, rubberized surfaces and plastics get replaced by wood, stainless steel, and leather. The Mulsanne needs a better descriptor than "luxury"; maybe call it HD luxury, or giga-luxury.
Like Rolls-Royce, its closest competitor, Bentley employs craftsmen patient enough to spend hours working on one piece of wood trim for the doors. The leather covering the seats comes from bulls, but not just any bulls. Bentley strips the hides from Scandinavian bulls for its seats, because apparently these cattle live free of barbed wire, which would mar their skin.
Cars with this sort of old-world coachwork sometimes suffer in the cabin tech department, which can take a lesser priority. However, Bentley has a secret weapon of German origin. As part of the Volkswagen Group, Bentley draws on Audi for the Mulsanne's cabin electronics, and Audi is currently among the best in the business.
On the Mulsanne's center dashboard, we see an LCD showing navigation, audio, and hands-free phone information. Below the climate controls on the dashboard is a set of controls following the same paradigm as those in Audi cars, a dial surrounded by four buttons, with other buttons giving quick access to specific functions, such as navigation.
However, like the screens on the LCD, these controls do not come from the Audi parts bin. Rather, Bentley makes its own knurled brightwork metal dial, complete with a metal toggle in the center. The buttons and dial control the screens on the LCD, which also have a custom Bentley look.
The navigation system itself is no better than that found in Audi models, and doesn't even offer the Google Earth integration seen in cars such as the Audi S5. It is very functional, and if you don't want to look at the brightly colored maps, the screen can hide away behind a wooden panel.
Exceptional audio
The real highlight of the cabin tech is the Naim audio system, a $7,415 option. This upgrade replaces the standard 14 speakers with 20, custom-made by Naim for Bentley. The amp rates at 2,200 watts, and each speaker gets its own channel. On paper, this system blows any other production automotive system out of the water. In real life, it is even better.
Playing track after track of music ranging from classical to electronic, this system produced near-perfect audio. The only issue I had was that the reproduction seemed to emphasize the midranges with the bass and treble set to flat. Hardly a complaint, and one easily fixed by setting the tone controls.
And Naim, which makes home stereo components that go for tens of thousands of dollars, shows its awareness that we are well into the 21st century. Among the different digital signal-processing profiles available is one designed to handle compressed digital music. This profile fills in those missing bits that the MP3 compression algorithm threw out so the files would fit on your iPod.
A velvet-lined tray in the Mulsanne slides out of the center dashboard. It contains an iPod adapter cable, similar to what Audi uses in its cars. This tray is a little small for the current crop of smartphones. I could barely fit my encased iPhone 3GS in it. Playing music from this source, I was treated to a nice library interface on the LCD.
With the Naim audio system and the big, comfortable seats covered in Scandinavian bull hide, I was content to sit in the Mulsanne listening to music, without going anywhere at all.
Torque by the ton
However, the Mulsanne has wheels for a reason. Under the hood sits a Bentley standard 6.75-liter V-8, with twin turbochargers strapped on for good measure. This very English engine delivers 505 horsepower and 752 pound-feet of torque. Why so much torque compared with the horsepower? Because the Mulsanne weighs in at about 3 tons, and that is with an aluminum body.
The body of the Mulsanne is pretty striking in itself. It features the big Bentley grille in front with subtly embedded headlights. From rear to front fenders, the sides present a completely smooth surface, the lack of seams being thanks to a welding process that requires many man-hours for initial strengthening and then finishing. Most cars squeak and develop odd little sounds that we just get used to. With its body and coachwork, the Mulsanne should remain quiet and solid through many, many years.
The massive torque moves the Mulsanne's 3 tons almost effortlessly. For the driver, it responds instantly to accelerator input, either gliding forward easily or turning into a charging freight train, depending on pedal angle. The big shifter, topped with a B emblem, works in unique fashion. Instead of it sticking into each position of a typical gate, you push down the B emblem and either push it forward or pull it back to sequentially go through the eight-speed automatic transmission's drive modes. After each movement, it settles back into its center position.
As the Mulsanne is Bentley's big flagship sedan, I expected that it would need an S.S. in front of its name, such as the Rolls-Royce Phantom deserves. But the Mulsanne proved surprising maneuverable. Sure, the hood stretches miles out in front of the windscreen, the flying B hood ornament (a $3,000 option) serving as a targeting scope, but it did not feel any more ponderous than a big sedan from Lexus or Mercedes-Benz.
On the other hand, it's no Continental, Bentley's sporty coupe. The Mulsanne uses an air suspension to soften the ride, but it does not keep the car from leaning in a hard corner. Even given its HD luxury nature, the Mulsanne still gets sport modes for ride and transmission. A dial near the shifter takes the ride quality from Comfort to B to Sport. That B mode lets the car automatically adjust the suspension response based on how the driver is handling the car.
In Comfort mode, the Mulsanne went down the road very smoothly, although I did not find the ride quality much better than a high-end Mercedes-Benz. Both cars insulate passengers from jolts very well, although the Mulsanne gets better overall sound dampening.
Back-seat driver
If you leave the driving to the help, the rear seat offers plenty of amenities. Covered in the same thick, unscarred bull hide, the rear seats include power adjustment and a massage function. There are even memory settings, so the lord and lady don't always have to sit on the same sides.
Bentley keeps up the modernity in the rear seats, as well, with motorized tray tables fitted with iPads and wireless keyboards, a $33,620 option. These iPads connect to the car's own wireless hot spot, allowing full Internet access on the road.
While the rear seats are certainly comfortable, the Mulsanne doesn't offer the type of rear lounge found in the Rolls-Royce Phantom. Front and rear cabin offer about the same amount of space.
The EPA fuel economy for the Mulsanne comes in at only 11 mpg city and 18 mpg highway, but if you are buying one, I assume your financial manager arranged for ownership to reside with a Cayman Islands shell corporation, which will also pay for gas and insurance.
The upfront price of $290,000, before options, may sound utterly ridiculous to the average car buyer. However, with the build quality of the Mulsanne your financial manager can amortize the cost over its lifetime, which will probably be longer than yours.


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