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Used Car - 2013 Cadillac ATS 4dr Car in Bedrock, Mn
About This 2013 Cadillac ATS 4dr Car
Vehicle Location:
Bedrock, Mn
4dr Car
Exterior Color:
Black Raven (Black)
Interior Color:
Jet Black W/jet Black Accents (Black)
2.0L 4 Cyl.
Five Door
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City MPG
Highway MPG
Combined MPG: 25 - Efficient 30+ MPG
Estimated Monthly Fuel Cost: $89.00*
*Based on $1.78 per gallon and 15k miles per year.
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- Navigation System
- Roof - Power Sunroof
- All Wheel Drive
- Heated Front Seats
- Leather Seats
- Power Driver Seat
- Power Passenger Seat
- Park Assist/back Up Camera And Monitor
- Parking Assist
- Am/fm Stereo
- Cd Player
- Audio-satellite Radio
- Audio Input Jack
- Mp3 Sound System
- Wheels-aluminum
- Remote Keyless Entry
- Trip Odometer
- Seat-memory
- Telescopic Wheel
- Tilt Wheel
- Traction Control
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- 4 Wheel Disc Brakes
- Tire-pressure Monitoring System
- Cruise Control
- Steering Wheel Stereo Controls
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- Intermittent Wipers
- Headlights-high Intensity Discharge
- Child Safety Locks
- Bucket Seats
- Seats - Reclining
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- Power Mirrors
- Heated Side Mirrors
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- Side View Mirror Blinker Indicator
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- Air Bag - Driver
- Air Bag - Passenger
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- Rear Shoulder Harness
- Rear Defrost
- Air Conditioning
- Climate Control - Auto
- Climate Control - Dual
- Tachometer
- Daytime Running Lights
- Built-in Garage Door Opener
- Center Arm Rest
- Console
- Remote Trunk Release
- Trunk-emergency Release
- Power Steering
- Power Windows
- Window Locks
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- 5 Passenger Seating
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2013 Cadillac ATS ReviewThis car review is specific to this model, not the actual vehicle for sale.
All-new compact luxury sedan takes aim at BMW and Mercedes.
As turf wars carry on among the BMW 3 Series, Audi A4 and Mercedes C-Class, the all-new Cadillac ATS elbows its way in with lightweight construction, agile handling and a beautifully executed interior. And while it may not rule the roost, the Cadillac ATS is definitely in the game.
The 2013 Cadillac ATS was designed and engineered from the ground-up on an all-new platform. Its compact size marks a turning point for Cadillac, which has bought into the same sausage, different lengths philosophy of the Germans and now has true compact, midsize and full-size sedans in its lineup. ATS is the luxury brand's small offering (well, as small as compact can get these days, considering they're all getting bigger), and while it may not be diminutive, it's one of the leanest of the pack thanks to weight-saving technology, including the use of lightweight metals, that whittles the ATS curb weight down to as low as 3,315 pounds on base models, less than comparably equipped German competitors.
As with most cars in this class, the Cadillac ATS uses rear-wheel drive. All-wheel drive is available on some models.
Three engine choices are available on the 2013 Cadillac ATS, including two all-new four-cylinder options. Each uses direct injection and variable valve timing to maximize performance and fuel efficiency. The base engine is a 2.5-liter naturally aspirated inline-4, good for 202 horsepower and 191 pound-feet of torque. It's the least expensive and slowest of the bunch, with a manufacturer estimated 0-60 mph time of 7.5 seconds. A sprightly 2.0-liter turbo makes 272 hp and 260 lb-ft of torque and can go 0-60 mph in an estimated 5.7 seconds with the automatic transmission, or 5.8 seconds with the available manual. The top-of-the-line powertrain is GM's much-used 3.6-liter naturally aspirated V6, good in this application for 321 hp and 275 lb-ft. of torque, which propels the ATS from 0-60 mph in just 5.4 seconds. All versions of the ATS use GM's 6-speed Hyrdomatic transmission, with the exception of the 2.0-liter turbo, which also offers a new 6-speed manual in some trim levels.
Like its big brother the CTS, the Cadillac ATS was tuned on the track, including Germany's famous Nurburgring, often used by European car companies during the development process. The result is a light but solid chassis with near 50/50 weight distribution (a la BMW) that performs beautifully on the road. Driving dynamics are further enhanced by an all-new five-link independent rear suspension and optional Brembo brakes with an all-new, high-tech coating that keeps the rotors looking as good as they perform. Magnetic Ride Control, now in its third iteration, is optional on most ATS models, which adjust suspension real-time for even more responsive driving.
Inside, fit and finish rivals that of any Audi or BMW, although we found some interior configuration options limiting. Upper trim levels of the ATS use CUE, Cadillac's new touchscreen interface. An acronym for Cadillac User Experience, the large screen uses proximity sensors, haptic feedback and voice recognition to control phone, audio and navigation functions. Unlike many luxury vehicles with proprietary interfaces (like the BMW iDrive and Mercedes Benz's COMAND system), there is no central control knob on the center console and all functions are performed either through voice or via the touchscreen. However, CUE doesn't appear on the base model, and navigation costs extra on all but the most expensive trim levels.
Fuel economy for the Cadillac ATS 2.5-liter model with rear-wheel drive is an EPA-estimated 22/33 mpg City/Highway and, unlike its German rivals, Regular gasoline is recommended. The ATS with 3.6-liter V6 is rated at 19/28 mpg, also on Regular gas, or 18/26 mpg with all-wheel drive. ATS 2.0-liter turbo automatic is expected to be 22/32 mpg.
In addition to the BMW 3 Series, Audi A4/A5, and Mercedes-Benz C-Class, the ATS competes with the Acura TSX and Lexus IS.
The 2013 Cadillac ATS offers a choice of three engines: a new 2.5-liter naturally aspirated inline-4, a new 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder, and a 3.6-liter V6. Each comes in a variety of trim levels, with most trims similarly equipped across all engine choices. Most models come with a 6-speed automatic transmission, but the 2.0-liter turbo can be had with a 6-speed manual transmission. AWD is available with the 2.0-liter turbo and 3.6-liter engines.
The ATS 2.5-liter standard trim ($33,990) includes leatherette upholstery, dual-zone automatic climate control, 6-way power driver and passenger seats, leather-wrapped tilt-and-telescoping steering wheel, full power accessories, cruise control, a Bose 7-speaker audio system with dual USB ports, keyless ignition, SD card slot and auxiliary audio jack, Bluetooth handsfree phone connectivity, a trip computer, OnStar telematics and 17-inch wheels. Stepping up to the Luxury collection ($38,485) adds leather upholstery, 8-way power driver and passenger seats, unique exterior and interior trim, Brembo performance front brakes and unique 17-inch wheels.
The 2.0-liter Turbo standard trim is available with 6-speed manual transmission ($34,615) or 6-speed automatic transmission ($35,795). It's also available with all-wheel drive and the automatic transmission ($37,795). The 2.0-liter turbo Luxury trim is available with manual ($39,110), automatic ($40,290), or AWD automatic ($42,290). The Performance collection is available with a manual ($41,510) or automatic transmission ($42,790) or with AWD and an automatic ($44,790). Performance trim includes the CUE touchscreen interface, Bluetooth streaming audio, Bose surround system with CD player, and a Driver Awareness Package that includes rear thorax airbags, rain-sensing automatic wipers, lane departure warning and forward collision alert. An optional Driver Assist Package ($3,645) adds adaptive cruise control, front and rear automatic brake, head-up display, side blind zone alert and rear cross-traffic detection.
Options include navigation ($795) and a Cold Weather Package ($600) that incudes heated front seats and a heated steering wheel.
The 2.0-liter with Premium trim includes Magnetic Ride Control and 18-inch wheels and is available with 6-speed automatic ($45,790), 6-speed manual ($44,315), or AWD automatic ($46,890).
The 3.6-liter V6 engine can be equipped with the Luxury trim ($42,090) or Luxury AWD ($44,090), Performance ($44,590) Performance AWD ($46,590), Premium ($47,590) or Premium AWD ($48,690). Most features on each trim level are the same as those found on 2.0-liter turbo variants.
Safety features on all models include driver and front passenger frontal airbags, knee and side airbags, and front and rear head curtain airbags; traction control, electronic stability control and anti-lock brakes. Optional rearview camera can help the driver spot a small child behind the car when backing up. Side blind zone alert and rear cross-traffic detection can help the driver spot other vehicles and possibly reduce the chance of an accident. Optional all-wheel drive can improve handling stability in slippery conditions.
Exterior styling on the ATS is bold, continuing Cadillac's Art and Science design language that's been in use for a decade. The design stems from early sketches that came out of GM's London studio, with the bulk of the exterior and interior refined and finished by designers from both the Michigan and California studios. The ATS will be built at GM's Lansing Grand River Assembly Plant in Michigan.
Lines are cleaner and certain features are less over the top than those on other cars in this class and are more proportionate to (and appropriate for) its smaller size. But the ATS is still unmistakably a Cadillac, which will please brand loyalists and appeal to those who are looking for something unique in a sea of sameness, but may prove a tough sell for European-luxury car enthusiasts who prefer sultry swoops to Caddy's sharp geometric shapes.
Headlamps on the ATS use Cadillac's signature vertical shape, with long, tapering tails that stretch up alongside the hood line. Vertical foglamps underneath accentuate the upright look of the front fascia. The front grille and air intakes are large, but not gratuitous, and are separated, in Cadillac style, by a sharp, three-dimensional angular crease. The front end is not only aesthetic, but functional: Inside the front grille are shutters that automatically close at certain highway speeds to reduce aerodynamic drag and help fuel economy.
From the side, the ATS appears squared-off, but not as wedge-y as the CTS. A rising character line along the bottom is evident, but not overdone. The roofline slopes gently past the C-pillar, and isn't as steeply raked as some sporty compact cars, presumably for the sake of rear passenger headroom. Chrome accents on window surrounds and door handles, as well as polished 17-inch wheels (with optional 18s), convey a look that's more luxurious over sporty. In addition, the Brembo performance brakes that come on some ATS models use a special Ferritic Nitro-Carburizing (FNC) coating, which helps to prevent corrosion and keeps them looking shiny.
In back, the vertical lines are repeated in the tail lamps. A long, thin horizontal LED brake doubles as a rear spoiler. The license plate is framed in shapes that would make Euclid (the father of geometry) proud. The rear bumper echoes the front with its sharp center crease.
As with other Cadillac interiors, materials on the ATS are high-quality and luxurious. Front seats make driver and passenger feel like each is in her own compartment, flanked by an armrest at one hand, and a high center console on the other. The interior design echoes the lines and shapes of the outside, with sharp angles and rising lines that wrap around and create a seamless flow from the center instrument panel to the doors.
The ATS features extra touches like handcrafted cut-and-sewn leather upholstery on upper trim levels. A number of interior color and trim packages are available, but we weren't crazy about some of the options. Aluminum trim inserts, for example, sport etched rectangular patterns evocative of a 1980s Duran Duran album. And while we liked a different model's red-flecked carbon fiber accents on doors and vent surrounds, we were disappointed to learn they were only available as a package with red leather upholstery. A Cadillac exec told us we could order the carbon fiber inserts separately, but we'd have to change them out ourselves (and perhaps try to recoup our losses by selling the original trim on eBay).
Base versions of the ATS include a 4.2-inch color information display, which we weren't able to see in person, presumably because Cadillac is pushing its new CUE system, a voice-activated proprietary interface with an iPad-like 8-inch touchscreen. While past Cadillac models were fraught with an overwhelming number of buttons on the center stack, CUE drastically cuts down the number of controls to just a handful. It controls audio and telephone functions, as well as directions and map information on cars equipped with navigation.
CUE's home menu is configurable so you can access your favorite functions easily. It also uses proximity sensing, which saves extra steps and keeps your attention better focused on the road. When driving, CUE will display full-screen maps or audio information, but when your hand is nearby, it automatically brings up menu options related to the current function on the screen.
We were pleasantly surprised by the navigation and voice activation. Voice recognition systems can be painfully inaccurate (just ask anyone with the latest iPhone), but CUE's is no short of impressive. It understands natural voice commands, meaning you don't need to use pre-canned terms to get it to do something. Even better, it can correctly identify difficult names from an address book, although it will most likely butcher the pronunciation when repeating it back to you.
While CUE is mostly user friendly, there are still a few oddities. One of these is that it uses physical buttons on the center stack, located below the screen for the climate control's fan speed and temperature. However, if you want to change vent mode, you have to go in to the CUE menu. Another thing that annoyed us was the barrage of fingerprints that appeared on the screen after just a few minutes of use. The ATS does come with a microfiber cleaning cloth, but it's not an elegant solution.
Front seats are comfortable, and offer a good range of adjustability from petite to tall. Because it's a smaller, sporty car, bolsters hug driver and front passenger tighter than in other Cadillac models, which is a good thing when navigating winding roads. On cars equipped with the optional Driver Awareness Package, the driver's seat will vibrate when the lane departure warning or forward collision alert is activated. If a vibrating seat isn't your style, you can change the warning to an audible tone. As for us, we think the vibrators should have a manual on/off switch and be repurposed as seat massagers.
In back, legroom is on the tight side, but comparable for a car of this class. It offers about the same as the Mercedes-Benz C-Class, but about an inch and a half less than the Audi A4 and BMW 3 Series sedan. It's a similar story with rear headroom; the ATS is comparable to the Mercedes, but falls about an inch short when compared to the Audi and BMW. This is especially curious considering the overall length of the ATS is two inches longer than the C-Class, and practically three inches longer than the A4.
Trunk space in the ATS falls short of that of the Audi A4 and Mercedes C250, which offer 12.4 cubic feet of cargo space, and the BMW 328i, which offers a roomy 13 cubic feet.
Driving Impression
The Cadillac ATS architecture is all-new, built from the ground up. It uses a combination of several metals, including high-strength steel, aluminum, magnesium, and many others that together help achieve rigidity and lightness, while still keeping attainable pricing. The result is a solid, stable chassis that is wonderfully compliant on the road as well as on the track, with a hunkered-down feel and little-to-zero body roll. The near-50/50 weight distribution keeps the car feeling balanced and controllable around all twists and turns.
We drove the 2.5-liter Luxury ATS on the street, and while it was perfectly adequate for freeway cruising and tooling around town, we much prefer the 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder, which Cadillac expects will account for the majority of ATS models on the road. With its twin-scroll design, torque is readily available on the low end, with a smooth power band an imperceptible lag (although, for fuel economy reasons, you can't get a wide-open throttle right off the line anymore, on any car). Passing was easy, and we never felt short of power, except perhaps a tad around sweeping turns up steep inclines.
The cabin of the ATS is very quiet. We noticed very little road or wind noise while driving. Even the direct-injection engines, which are notorious for their clickety-clackety ticks, couldn't be heard much in the cabin, thanks to plentiful and well-placed sound insulation.
The 6-speed manual transmission was mostly a joy to drive, although we occasionally found ourselves rowing between third and fourth on demanding roads, frustrated that the latter was too tall and the former was strained and noisy. We found the same issue on ATS models equipped with the 6-speed automatic, a gap in the ratios between third and fourth gears. Still, we applaud Cadillac for offering a manual option in a world where others seem to be going the way entirely of paddle shifters.
On the track, we found the 2.0-liter turbo engine had plenty of power to make it fun, but not quite enough to make it effortless. And for those who actually like to work for a lap time, that's a good thing. The 3.6-liter V6 with Magnetic Ride Control, however, was another story. The favorable power-to-weight ratio with the V6 in the ATS makes for a dynamite ride. After a few laps in the ATS V6, it's impossible not to dive into the pit lane smiling.
On both models, the Brembo performance brakes stopped quickly and efficiently.
We have mixed feelings about the new ZF-sourced variable-effort electric steering. Nearly everyone is going to electric steering now, much to the chagrin of some die-hard enthusiasts. The steering gear used in the ATS is belt driven, which Cadillac claims makes for a smoother feel, but we found it a little numb on demanding racetrack turns. Still, we think most drivers will find it satisfyingly responsive in a range of driving situations.
The EPA gives the ATS 2.5-liter model with rear-wheel drive a fuel economy rating of 22/33 mpg City/Highway. Estimates for the 2.0-liter turbo with the automatic transmission are 22/32 mpg City/Highway. The 3.6-liter V6 is rated 19/28 mpg City/Highway; ATS AWD automatic is rated 18/26 mpg. The V6, if properly equipped, can run up to 85 percent ethanol, but E85 fuel gets a dismal 14/21 mpg rating and the EPA estimates it will add $600 to your annual fuel bill.
The 2013 Cadillac ATS is a well-executed compact luxury sports sedan with performance that keeps up with the best from Germany. Sporting rear-wheel drive and a rigid chassis, it's quiet, fun and easy to drive fast. A range of power trains offers a wide range of price, performance, and economy.
Laura Burstein filed this NewCarTestDrive.com report after her test drive of the Cadillac ATS models near Atlanta.
Model Lineup
Cadillac ATS 2.5L Standard ($33,990), 2.5L Luxury ($38,485); 2.0L T Standard manual ($34,615), 2.0L T Standard Automatic ($35,795), 2.0L T Standard Automatic AWD ($37,795), 2.0L T Luxury Manual ($39,110), 2.0L T Luxury Auto ($40,290), 2.0L T Luxury Auto AWD ($42,290), 2.0L T Performance Manual ($41,510), 2.0L T Performance Auto ($42,790), 2.0L T Performance Auto AWD ($44,790), 2.0L T Premium Manual ($44,315), 2.0L T Premium Auto ($45,790), 2.0L T Premium Auto AWD ($46,890); 3.6L Luxury ($42,090), 3.6L Luxury AWD ($44,090), 3.6L Performance ($44,590), 3.6L Performance AWD ($46,590), 3.6L Premium ($47,590), 3.6L Premium AWD ($48,690).
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Lansing, Michigan.
Options As Tested
Navigation ($795); Driver Assist Package ($3,645) with adaptive cruise control, front and rear automatic brake, head-up display, automatic collision preparation, side blind spot alert, rear cross-traffic alert; Cold Weather Package ($600) with heated front seats, heated steering wheel.
Model Tested
Cadillac ATS 2.0L Turbo Performance.The ATS sedan is an all-new addition to the Cadillac lineup. The Cadillac ATS is a lightweight, compact sport sedan with a level of performance, luxury, and sophistication that will challenge the competition. The ATS has a choice of three engines. A 2.5-liter inline-4 engine producing 202-hp matched with a 6-speed automatic transmission is available with rear-wheel drive. Available with either rear-wheel or all-wheel drive a 270-hp 2.0-liter turbocharged inline-4 and a 320-hp 3.6-liter V6 engine are also paired with a six-speed automatic transmission. A six-speed manual is available with the 2.0-liter turbo and rear-wheel drive. Standard features include eight airbags, a Bose speaker system, sport suspension, and LED lighting for the gauges. Available features include Brembo brakes, HD radio, Bose 10-speaker surround sound, CUE - Cadillac User Experience technology with an eight-inch LCD touchscreen, navigation, Magnetic Ride Control, and a wide range of new safety features to help prevent crashes. The exciting ATS is all-new for 2013.
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Country superstars Miranda Lambert, Martina McBride Jennifer Nettles, Reba and Carrie Underwood are among the artists scheduled to appear and be honored at "Girls' Night Out: Superstar Women of Country," a new concert special produced by dick clark productions to be broadcast at a later date on the CBS Television Network. The special will be taped at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on April 4.
"Girls' Night Out: Superstar Women of Country" is a special tribute concert featuring an A-list lineup of performers paying respect to today's top country music female artists, all of whom will be honored with unique accolades from the Academy of Country Music for special achievements in their careers. More talent announcements are forthcoming. Ticket sales from the special will benefit ACM Lifting Lives, the charitable arm of the Academy.
Lambert will be recognized for being the only female in the Academy's history to ever win Album of the Year twice, first for "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" in 2007 and again for "Revolution" in 2009.
McBride will be recognized by ACM Lifting Lives for her dedication to raising social consciousness through songs such as "Independence Day" and "Concrete Angel," which raise awareness of domestic violence and encourage female empowerment. McBride has won Top Female Vocalist three times.
Nettles will be recognized for being only one of two female artists in the Academy's history to ever solo write and perform Song of the Year with "Stay" in 2007.
Reba will be recognized for winning Top Female Vocalist more times than any other artist in Academy history - seven times.
Underwood will be recognized for being the only female in the Academy's history to ever win Entertainer of the Year twice - first in 2008 and again in 2009. (She is the reigning Entertainer of the Year, as the ACM Awards recognize the previous calendar year's work.)
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Just when you think it can't get any worse, Major League umpires show they really are minor league. Although their ineptitude didn't factor in the outcome of the game, what happened last night in Anaheim can't be dismissed much longer.
Time for more widespread use of instant replay.
There were three more blown calls last night in the Yankees' rout of the Angels. These calls were so bad you have to wonder what these guys were thinking, much less seeing.
"I'm just out there trying to do my job, and I'm doing the best that I can," third base umpire Tim McClelland said after the game. "Unfortunately, on instant replay, it was two missed calls (by me)."
At least, McClelland was standup about it.
In the fourth inning, replays clearly showed Nick Swisher was picked off at second base, but Dale Scott, who had to have been no more than six feet from the play, ruled him safe. The phrase "out by a mile," could apply here.
Later that inning, in what would seem to be a classic make up call, McClelland ruled Swisher left the bag early on a what would have been a sacrifice fly hit by Johnny Damon. Again, not even close on the replay, which also showed McClelland out of position.
The next inning, McClelland blew it big time on a play at third when Angels catcher Mike Napoli tagged both Jorge Posada and Robinson Cano, with neither on the bag. McClelland unbelievably called Cano safe.
It's not as if these guys have an agenda, but you have to wonder when you see calls such as those last night. Maybe, it will take such a bad call that will cost a team the Series before something is done and instant replay is used more widespread.
The Yankees are on the road to another World Series, and they dominated last night. We should be talking about them, and a potential meeting with powerful Philadelphia. Instead, we are talking about the umpires.
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On Tuesday, there was a report that five teams among the top 12 picks were interested in trading their picks and moving down in the draft order.
Two more reports on Wednesday morning have pushed that total up to eight teams. Albert Breer of the NFL Network reports that the Jets have made calls to teams in hopes of moving the ninth and/or 13th picks that they currently hold in the first round.
Adam Schefter of ESPN, meanwhile, adds the Raiders (currently holding the third pick and not actively shopping the pick according to General Manager Reggie McKenzie) and the Cardinals (seventh overall pick) to the list. Schefter also mentions "others" as interested in moving down, which suggests that it might just be easier to make a list of every team in the league and report that they are willing to consider trading their pick if the right offer should come along.
Obviously, there's no way all of these teams interested in moving down are going to be able to realize their goal. There's also no reason to believe that some of these teams are simply seeing what's out there while making plans to stay put if they aren't bowled over by a trade proposal. Given the amount of teams thought to be interested in a move, the chances of such a trade proposal being made wouldn't seem to be all that great.
Especially since no one seems to want any of the players available in this year's draft. We've already heard this called the worst draft in 10 years and the reports about the growing list of teams trying to trade away their picks underscores that belief. It's not the best advertisement for Thursday night's festivities and we'll see if the feeling that NFL teams would rather spend the evening playing cribbage winds up impacting the television ratings.


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"Industrialists seek stability instead.
"Industrialists work to take working systems and polish them, insulate them from risk, maximize productivity and extract the maximum amount of profit. Much of society's wealth is due to the relentless march of productivity created by single-minded industrialists, particularly those that turned nascent industries (as Henry Ford did with cars) into efficient engines of profit.
"Industrialists don't mind government regulations if they write them, don't particularly like competition or creativity or change. They are maximizers of the existing status quo."


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HARROGATE, TENN. – The Coker softball team split a South Atlantic Conference doubleheader with Lincoln Memorial on Saturday (Mar. 22), at Neely Field.
LMU pushed two runs across the plate in game number one to take a quick 2-0 lead after the first inning. Coker would respond with one run in the top of the second, but the Railsplitters extend their lead to 6-1 after two runs in the third, and two more in the fourth. The Cobras would then close the gap to 6-4 by tacking on three runs in the fifth, but the score would be finalized after two scoreless innings for Coker.
Katelyn Szupello led the offense in game number one, after going 2-for-3 at the plate with an RBI. Sydney Weatherford and Ashlee Ellen also tabbed an RBI, with Ellen landing the teams only double of the game.
Lauren Phillips (6-6) would be charged with the loss after going four innings, giving up six runs on nine hits.
Game number two featured a thrilling comeback from the Cobras. After being down 2-0 in the bottom of the second, the Cobras shutout the Railsplitters for the remaining five innings and proceeded to score three runs in the seventh to take the game 3-2.
Tayler Barcomb led the Cobras at the plate with two RBI and a double, while Ashley Gallman also added an RBI.
Tabitha Allen (4-3) earned the win for Coker after pitching a complete game and giving up just two runs on six hits.
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I'm very sensitive to the paranormal and have been since the tender age of 5. I had the usual "imaginary" playmates, and met with 2 of my spirit guides around that time as well.
I learned early to not be afraid of the paranormal or supernatural, and to become more educated when the time was right.
I've crossed over a couple of very young Chinese girls from the recent earthquakes and that was an amazing experience. Those were my first experiences with crossing anyone over. It took much energy from me, but the exhaustion that ensued was the good kind.
I share my home with no fewer than 3 shadows - sometimes there are more. They're not the frightening kind - these seem to be neutral in nature and simply watch what is going on in the house.
I don't know whether this is a gift or a curse - it all depends on the experience I guess.
How did you come to know you had the sprit guides? I've always wondered about those, who has them, how do you get one?
I've herd the mediums on television referring to them, but I have never really understood who or what they are.
It is nice that you are able to help sprits who wish to cross over. I have never been much more than an observer, any direct communications have been limited to expressing my desire not to be touched or harassed.
Other than that I have no idea what to do with the experience, I am very afraid to open myself up to something I'm not ready for. Let alone knowing what to do in the first place.
It is something of a comfort to hear that a sprit will travel such a great distance to be helped.
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I caught myself almost going into this rant on someone post and this really had nothing to do with the topic at hand.
So here's my question: Are we, as a nation, actually ridding ourselves of racism, or are we 'sweeping it under the rug' so to speak?
Now in my opinion I feel that we are right on track, if not ahead of schedule, in the process of ridding our nation of racism. This thought is based off of the fact that Africans have been enslaved by Europeans since the 1400s, meaning that Europeans had roughly 400 years of ingrained racism in their system before the slave trade ended in the United States and then another hundred years or so before African Americans took the stage to fight for serious equality. So after 500 years or so of European Americans considering themselves above the African Americans for us to have come as far as we have in the last 50 years to me is quite the achievement.
I'm definitely not trying to imply that we don't still have a ways to go, nor am I saying that we don't have to try anywhere near as hard to help our people in a time where all of the negative stereotypes of the African American is not only encouraged, but rewarded by the media.
So please share your thoughts with me.
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Anyone who cites the crackpot Frances Cross Welsing as an authority immediately discredits himself. One distinction that was made back in the 1960s at the dawn of the Black Power movement, before it itself went off in degenerate directions, was that between personal and institutional racism, emphasized, for example, by Stokely Carmichael. Why was this such a big deal? Because the dominant liberal paradigm of the time, which pervaded popular culture as well (think of all those Sidney Poitier movies) was that racism = prejudice, and the entire popular culture was directed at prejudice, and concentrated its criticisms of institutional racism against the obsolete Jim Crow system of the South. Hence the concept of institutional racism.
As for the exercise of structural racism, it is most self-serving and disingenuous to define it as white supremacy, which is one of its dominant but not exclusive forms. Perhaps you may have heard of the Empire of Japan's adventures in the 1930s and '40s and would have some idea of what would have happened to you if the Japanese, and not just the Nazis, overran your ass. Of course, there were black fascists who rooted for the Japanese, being a colored empire. But that proves only what nitwits nationalists are.
As for the present-day USA, I am not by any means optimistic, but this is not the 1960s, for better and in some respects for worse. One crucial consideration is the correlation of white acceptance of blacks (and also of white revanchism) with class differentiation within Black America. Clearly there is greater acceptance of successful black people and golden opportunities for those who can climb aboard the gravy train, the flip side of which is the increasing desperation and nonpersonhood of the underclass. The neofascist movement targets all social strata in its scapegoating of blacks, which is an integral part of its class warfare. The future of racism can be only understood within the context of the capitalist system and class warfare, not by the mystical black nationalist crackpots, whose politics were a dead end already in the 1970s.
That's pretty audacious of you to assume anyone who cites Dr. Francis Cress Welsing discredit themselves. None of her factual assertions about racism has ever been challenged only supported by other behavioral scientists. For example, racism, as she defines it, is a local and global power system structured and maintained by persons who classify themselves as white. David Wellmen defines racism similar to her definition with a slightly different emphasis; he proclaimed that racism is the culturally sanctioned belief that defends white advantage because of the inferior position of racial minorities.
In his book, called "white racism", Joe Feagin calls racism white supremacy. An article called " "Defending the White Race: White Male Faculty Opposition to a 'White Racism' Course", by Noel A. Cazenae and Darlene Maddern reach a similar conclusion about racism. Racism, according to them, is a system that operates at every level of society and is held together by a sophisticated ideology of color/'race' supremacy, which gives credence to Welsing's position on racism.
As I mentioned before, racism is not merely a pattern of individual and/or institutional practice; it is a universally operating "system" of white supremacy and domination in which the majority of the world's white people participate. Contrary to most present thinking, there is only one functional racism in the known world--white supremacy. If racism is a system of color/race supremacy then I challenge any fair minded reader to identify, and then demonstrate the superiority or functional supremacy of any of the world's non-white peoples over anyone. Also, the theories that postulate that the economic systems as the origin of the state affair are inadequate , for the very economic systems like capitalism, communism, and socialism--have been devised, used and refined in the effort to achieve racism/white supremacy.
Whether or not one is emotionally comfortable with these scholars' assessment of racism is not germane. Usually, the white racial frame thinkers (which includes non-whites), coined by Joe Feagin, usually have propensity to deny white racism and view racism very differently. Here are some excerpts about white racial frame.
" Denial of racism's magnitude and impact – see Pew Research Center study, pp. 130-131
1). Operating from the assumption that the white experience is the universal experience
2). Misperceiving and rarely thinking about the devastating destruction wrought by racism
(Including within the white (faith) institution itself), and failing to acknowledge and to
explicitly address that devastation during social interactions
3) Believing the harm of racism to be limited to, and measuring the impact of racism only as
affecting, the particular individual of color involved in an incident; failing to recognize the huge compounding of harms to the entire family and community.
4.) Color-blind, "un-raced" nature of white thinking and acting "We're post-racial here" (despite all the research that proves that we do see race and act on what we see in major ways)
"Let's not discuss racism here" – learned pronounced discomfort in talking critically About issues of continuing white racism (99)"
Major forms of negative stereotyping – In the white racial frame, whites carry a (usually unconscious) Sense of moral "Velcro" in their regard of people of color, a recurring suspicion that a person of color is behaving, or will likely behave, immorally. Furthermore, this assumed Immorality is perceived and responded to as a "serious problem."
White racial frame persons would think that the social programs and the political freedom of minorities are proofs of the ending of racism or that things are getting better. If anyone truly think that's show read "Yes We Can?: White Racial Framing and the 2008 Presidential Campaign
Moreover, I do not want people to assume that I advocate that all white people are racist, nor do any of my sources. But what I'm saying is that only a white person can participate in racism because the system is set up for only whites. I want would like to see the end of racism and see it replaced with justice on the earth. This is not about hating whites but understanding what racism is about. I don't think we, as a society, are seriously talking about racism and it's implication in our everyday life.
"That's pretty audacious of you to assume anyone who cites Dr. Francis Cress Welsing discredit themselves."
Perhaps just honesty, not audacity.
"it is a universally operating "system" of white supremacy"
Would you perhaps clarify how this system operates and how people (sub)consciously play a role in this? Please feel free to use examples as you please. In your definition you gave a long list of how "racism" (your definition) operate:
"this system consists of patterns of perception, logic , symbol formation, thought, speech, action and emotional response, as conducted simultaneously in all areas of people activity ( economics, education, entrainment, labor, law, politics, religion, sex and war)"
Is this something that is ingrained in white children, is it systematically indoctrinated? How does it all work? When you talk about an "ultimate goal" I confess to think of an Evil Genius kind of character running a world wide organization, I suppose that such is not your perception of how this system operates or do you believe it to be mostly consciously run by organizations?
I still do not see reason to adhere to your definition of racism as it is confusing to me so if this different usage of that word or anything else in my post is confusing, please feel free to clarify.
I am interested however in this "system" that you describe, personally I do believe that there are definite "systems" in place that contribute negatively to racism, be it of religious or political nature, stereotypes in media etc. As an example the stereotype of the violent, women hating muslim men in Dutch culture is both propagated by popular media as a significant percentage of the "group" itself. It's a complex interaction between society as a whole and the minorities involved in such cases. The negative stereotype seems to become a badge of honor in stead as a mark of shame in those cases.
I am inclined to believe that overall non-whites suffer most racism at the hands or mouths of whites, both consciously and subconsciously, this makes it all the more painful to me to see how minorities themselves, specifically the kids can base their life(style) on the stereotype that society has marked them with.
That quote from Francis Cress Welsing should be accompanied with the *thump* *thump* *thump* intro of "Chocolate Salty Balls" by Chef from the serie South Park.
Shaheed, I totally agree with your assessment of racial intolerance in America and on a global scale. Most white people that I come in contact with (and some black), continue to live their lives in abject denial of racism being a huge problem, especially white on black. They seem to want to believe that there is no racism anymore, It's all in my head. Obama got elected, and that blacks are more racist. I just have to grin and bare it. It's like " move on already"...Then you are not allowed the chance to move on. Damn if you do, damn if you don't.
Wow, Frances Cress Welsing, has some valid information. Some not so much. I don't have a problem with anyone quoting her.
I think we have made great strides as far as racism and prejudice is concerened. However, I do feel that it is more hidden. People don't wear Klan outfits and such. The wear a judges robe, and lynch you with their pen, etc.
I work in corporate America and see racism and prejudice at my workplace on a regular. I think it's just harder to recognize. Maybe your mother see's the hidden signs of racism and prejudice that many people just view as coincidences.
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Cuneyt needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 62 designs submitted by 24 freelance designers.
Pragmati is a tight knit, innovate collective that was founded recently to service the largely abandoned mid-market segment in order to aide them in devising and executing marketing programs in the digital arena. The core services revolve around web content management (CMS), cloud based collaboration (Google Apps) and of course project management around digital strategy. As the name states, Pragmati is focused on delivering practical, innovative strategies that will deliver true value; not on the hype of the latest fad.
The target audience is typical of web design agencies: predominantly male, 20-35 year old with technical and marketing backgrounds. The target audience is looking for a solutions provider that not only delivers results quickly, but is a long term mentor as their own maturity in information technology evolves. Think "Mr. Miyagi" for the new wave of cloud computing :)
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* The current design (and colors major #006699, minor #0099CC) is well liked but is lacking a recognizable icon and professional execution
* Logo that works with the word "pragmati" not "pragmati.com"
* Logo can be all lowercase (preferred), or variants of
* Logo should be sans-serif font
* Potential tag line is "content innovation" but can be FPO at the moment, as tagline is undecided
* Logo icon should incorporate the core meaning of "pragmatism" based on the original meaning of "the philosophy of considering practical consequences and real effects to be vital components of meaning and truth." Easy, right? But seriously, the feeling should reflect "innovation and trust"
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THE SQL Server Blog Spot on the Web
On my recent trip to SQLBits with subsequent visits to Dublin,
Cologne, and Malmo (southern Sweden), I enjoyed a chance to meet several
SQL Server MVPs, including Peter Larsson and Thomas Ivarsson.
Among them, I enjoyed Johan Ahlen's article on Pulling real-time data from Twitter using StreamInsight. You can Find Johan's blog here. I also enjoyed several other conversations, such as the one I had with Feodor Georgiev (blog). I particularly enjoyed Feodor's guest post on SQLAuthority.com about waits in the round-trip loop from client to server back to client available HERE.
There's a rumor going around (wink, wink - nudge, nudge) that the
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Kevin, actually it was warm in November! (as you wished) :) Today was the second day of the SQL Rally Nordic, and we actually met earlier today at the event! :)
Nice meeting you, thank you for quoting me in your post above.


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- Due to the web framework used, the site does not render correctly in IE. This limitation needs to be removed.
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david.hong70 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
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Aesthetics Empire, we bring fashion to Fitness wear (shirts, hoodies, shoes, hats...etc) We also have casual lifestyle line as well (Our lifestyle clothes are simple and yet carry very luxurious + sophisticated feelings).
I need a logo that is simple and yet has sophisticated, luxurious feelings.
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Mayor Don Wesely announced today he has negotiated a compromise to ease the impact of the proposed retail project at 70th Street and Nebraska Highway 2 and reduce the threat of retail strip mall development east of 56th Street along the highway.
Developer Mary Jo Livingston has agreed to the Mayor's request to substitute office space for the grocery store and other retail space proposed on the eastern half of her land. The proposed Home Depot retail store would remain on the western part of her property.
In addition, Livingston pledged that the land she owns north of Highway 2 near the Pine Lake area will be developed as residential or residential transition, alleviating concerns for adjacent homeowners.
"I know that this compromise will not satisfy every person who has expressed a concern about this proposed project," Wesely said. "But in my opinion, this is a reasonable arrangement that achieves a reasonable resolution to this controversy."
Wesely said the compromise will:
The City Council will be asked to amend the proposed project before voting on it at its regular meeting Monday, December 4. If the Council adopts the compromise, Wesely said he will sign it.
Wesely also urged the Lincoln-Lancaster County Planning Commission and City Council to adopt the Highway 2 subarea plan as drafted by the City-County Planning Department. The Commission held a hearing on the plan November 29 and is expected to vote in January.
"The subarea plan provides for sizable commercial development at 70th Street and at 84th Street on Highway 2," Wesely said. "I think that is enough. Other land yet to be developed along the Highway 2 corridor should become something other than high-density retail space."
Wesely said he has been contacted about the future of Highway 2 by many people, including residents of southeast Lincoln and developers interested in pursuing projects in the area.
"As the community grows to the southeast, we must have a blueprint for developing Highway 2 that allows for economic development but does not create a strip mall environment or harm nearby neighborhoods," the Mayor said. "The subarea plan written by the planning staff provides that opportunity and that protection."


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Gloria Gaynor is best known for her sensational 1978 hit, "I Will Survive," which won the only Grammy ever awarded for Best Disco Recording. In the past decade she has released new music on unsuspecting audiences and has been honored with a slate of accolades. Gaynor performs "My Funny Valentine" and joins Feinstein for a duet of "The Very Thought of You."
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GIGABYTE Unveils Exclusive Ultra Durable 5 Technology at Computex 2012
Subject: Motherboards, Shows and Expos | June 4, 2012 - 06:46 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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City of Industry, California, June 4th , 2012– GIGABYTE TECHNOLGY Co. Ltd., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, today introduced their latest Ultra Durable 5 technology, featuring a range of high current capable components including the industry's highest rated 60A IR3550 PowIRstage ICs that provide the best quality power delivery to the CPU for record-breaking performance, cool and efficient operation and extended motherboard lifespan.
GIGABYTE is yet again raising the bar of motherboard quality and durability with their Ultra Durable 5 technology, which includes high current capable components for the CPU power zone including the highest rated and awarded IR3550 PowIRstage ICs from International Rectifier, 2X Copper PCB and high current Ferrite Core Chokes rated up to 60A which together are able to deliver up to 60°C* cooler temperatures than traditional motherboards. Featured on a range of new motherboards based the Intel X79 and Z77 Express Chipsets, GIGABYTE Ultra Durable 5 technology is the next evolution in quality motherboard design.
"As the exclusive motherboard manufacturer to utilize the amazingly efficient IR3550 PowIRstage ICs from International Rectifier, GIGABYTE has spent a considerable amount of engineering resources to ensure our Ultra Durable 5 motherboards are our best Ultra Durable motherboards yet," commented Henry Kao, Vice President of GIGABYTE Motherboard Business Unit. "GIGABYTE Ultra Durable 5 motherboards are especially optimized for water cooled systems and overclocked Intel Core i7-3770K Ivy Bridge "K" SKU CPUs due to their exceptionally low operating temperatures, and make the perfect match for anyone looking to push their system to limits."
"We are delighted that IR's award winning IR3550 PowIRstage provides the high current, thermal capability and outstanding performance to power GIGABYTE's new Ultra Durable 5 motherboard series," said Deepak Savadatti, Vice President and General Manager, IR's Enterprise Power Business Unit.
The magic happens thanks to all new Integrated Circuit design
The award winning IR3550 PowIRstage ICs feature greater power efficiency and are the highest rated Power Stage in the industry, able to provide up to 60A of power. This ensures the best power delivery to the CPU, for more stable operation and better overclocking performance. GIGABYTE Ultra Durable 5 motherboards also use both IR digital PWM controllers and IR PowIRstage ICs, for a uniquely seamless power delivery system.
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IR has leveraged its world class packaging technology developed for the DirectFET, improving the thermal capability and layout of the PowIRstage significantly over that of other MCM packages.
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IR3550 PowIRstage ICs feature a specialized MOSFET driver IC which is tuned perfectly for the MOSFET pair. Many Driver MOSFET companies use drivers from other companies, thus the drivers are not always optimized for the MOSFETs. With co-packaged Driver+MOSFETs, IR has designed this driver to optimize this module for greatest efficiency.
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IR3550 PowIRstage ICs are more efficient, with peak efficiency up to 95%, during normal operation. Even at higher Current levels, IR3550 PowIRstage ICs are able to maintain lower power losses. Lower power loss also means less heat as a byproduct.
IR3550 PowIRstage ICs remain cooler than other MOSFET designs, allowing users to overclock to greater levels of performance. Each power component has a maximum thermal operational temperature, and once it is reached, adding more voltage will only result in a failed overclock. Since IR3550 PowIRstages are able to operate at cooler temperatures at higher voltages than traditional designs, overclockers are able to have more headroom to increase voltages, resulting in higher potential overclocks.
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Gigabyte decided to put it up against the Asus P8Z77-V LX board. These shenanigans are an insult to readers like us. Not only is the LX board a lower tiered board, but it is a board that Asus decided to produce for people who want a low cost alternative to their channel boards and for OEM system builders. I'm glad that Asus offers these, but yet they open themselves up to competitors pulling this kind of crap.
Also, 32 phase power system is marketing crap. It is just a number to put on the outside of the box. It doesn't mean you will necessarily get any better performance out of the board.
They did? Do you have a link or something that backs that statement? I dont like to see companies messing with people either.
Are you saying that Gigabyte is bashing Asus here?


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Jan. 19, 2010) - The ETSU baseball team has started preparations for the 2010 opener against The Citadel on Feb. 19 in the The Citadel Memorial Challenge at Joseph P. Riley Jr. Park in Charleston, S.C.
"Our players and staff are excited about our preparation for the 2010 season," said head coach Tony Skole. "It is hard to believe Opening Day is only thirty days away. With the NCAA mandatory start date for official practice on January 29, we will only have three weeks to get ready to play. It would be nice to have a little more time, but we don't have that luxury. Every day between now and the start of the season is vitally important."
The Bucs are currently going through individual work outs, and will start team practices on Jan. 29. ETSU has had Paul Hoilman (Johnson City, Tenn.) and Bo Reeder (Cookeville. Tenn.) receive preseason All-America honors as the Buccaneers return a very talented squad in 2010.
"Our guys have been working extremely hard and our workouts have been very productive since they returned from the holidays," Skole said. "They understand the importance of each day and how it relates to the process of what we are trying to accomplish. This group is very self-motivated and is very eager to get their work in every day. I couldn't be more pleased with how the first week has gone."
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Legend has it that Dan Brown – product of a gold-plate education at both Phillips Exeter Academy and Amherst College – never read a popular novel until he was an adult. Then, while vacationing with his wife in Tahiti in 1993, he is said to have breezed through Sidney Sheldon's "The Doomsday Conspiracy" and decided that he could do better.
No kidding. Today, with the publication of "The Da Vinci Code" in 2003 (to date, 81 million copies sold in 44 different languages), Brown has become one of the most widely read authors in the world. His latest novel, The Lost Symbol – with its expertly paced blend of real locales, off-beat facts, and fast-moving fiction – will do nothing to damage his reputation.
In "The Lost Symbol," Harvard University symbologist Robert Langdon (protagonist of both "The Da Vinci Code" and "Angels & Demons") is back. He's still wearing his Mickey Mouse wristwatch, still suffering from claustrophobia, and as breathtakingly learned about all things occult as ever.
At the book's open, Langdon is seeking no adventures. (Apart from a couple of glancing references to his "scandalous" book about "the sacred feminine and the church" and some unwanted attention from "Grail fanatics" there are no indications that international stardom has gone to Langdon's head.) Instead he's quietly brewing a cup of coffee at home in Cambridge one Sunday morning when he gets a call asking him, in the name of his dear friend and mentor, Peter Solomon, to fly immediately to Washington to fill in for a canceled guest speaker at an illustrious gathering. Many of the attendees at the meeting are expected to be Freemasons and they are gathering in a building rich with Masonic history. So it makes sense that Langdon will be addressing the group on the symbolism found in the architecture of the US capital.
Eager to be of service to Solomon, Langdon jumps on a private jet and speeds to Washington only to discover that his mentor, who is a high-level Mason, is in serious trouble, threatened by a deranged loner who hopes to learn the inner secrets of the Masonic world.
Pretty soon the CIA is involved as well (represented by a tiny, bristly, Japanese woman named Sato who is CIA director of security), although the reasons for the agency's involvement don't become clear till later in the novel.
What is apparent pretty quickly, however, is that both Solomon and his sister Catherine (who is "smart, rich, and thin" and deeply involved in the ultracryptic field of noetic sciences, concerned with matters like weighing the human soul) are both at risk of losing their lives. Because their stalker's goal is the discovery of secret Masonic knowledge said to be hidden in various Washington landmarks, Langdon's expertise as a symbologist becomes key to efforts to rescue them.
As is always the case in a novel involving Langdon, there is plenty of esoterica to intrigue readers. The symbolism of pyramids, the significance of a talisman, the workings of a magic square, the true meaning of "Apocalypse" are just a few of the picturesque alleys that Brown takes us down. There is also a fair bit of metaphysical musing on the true nature of wisdom, the untapped power of human potential, the correct interpretation of the Bible, and the struggle to uncover truth.
If the book begins to seem too fantastic in places, it is well to remember Brown's note to readers at the outset: all the organizations, rituals, science, artwork, and monuments in the novel are real. Brown didn't need to invent any of the core elements of his story – all he dreamed up was a fictional web within which to bind them together.
No one has ever pretended that Brown is a gifted literary stylist, and those who find him lacking in that area will not have their minds changed by "The Lost Symbol." There is no respite here from the cliches of the genre. The devices you expect are all on display: the breathless tone, the italicized sentences, the phrases like, "Bare-chested, Mal'akh stared into the darkness..." (And there will undoubtedly be readers for whom the villain known as Mal'akh – a massive, tattooed eunuch who at times is seen draped in a silken loincloth and clutching a ritualistic dagger – is simply too much.)
But for readers who stay with it (and I can't think there are really too many who are going to put this book down halfway through), it all comes together quite neatly in the end.
Brown is good at what he does – very good, in fact. It may be that eventually readers will tire of the tweedy Langdon and his semiotic-driven adventures. But my guess is that we're not anywhere near there yet.
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I just had to comment on a billboard I saw the other day that said "God is Pro Life."
REALLY???? Have these folks even read the Bible?
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pro' 'that life' the bigoted one...
pro death otherwise...
Anyone who thinks that Yahweh is pro-life hasn't read the old testament. At minimum, they sure as hell haven't read about the Moabites, the Kenites, the Amalekites and all the other "ites" that got hammered 'cuz the big guy said to hammer 'em, and that doesn't even mention the bits about killing down to every man, woman and child (excepting the juicy virgin girls!).
Oh, and has anyone read Psalm 137:9 recently?
I was researching Psalm 137:9 and came across this defense of the verse:
The meaning is pretty obvious in context.
Ps 137 is a lament for Jerusalem after the Babylonians have invaded and destroyed it. Verses 7-9 make it explicit:
7 Remember, LORD, what the Edomites did on the day Jerusalem fell. "Tear it down," they cried, "tear it down to its foundations!" 8 Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is the one who repays you according to what you have done to us. 9 Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.
This is sheer gloating on the part of the psalmist. Whoever overthrows Babylon is someone the author wants to buy a beer! (Put another way, that person is someone really popular with the author.) Whoever wrote this really hated the Babylonians, and would love to kill their children.
Is this "right?" Remember, this is a psalm - an ancient song of the Hebrews. I suspect many a future scholar will puzzle over, say, the misogynistic lyrics of Eminem or many like-minded rappers. Psalms express the feelings of the writer, NOT THEOLOGICAL RULES FOR YOUR BEHAVIOR. (Although, it is often argued that the feelings reflected in the Psalms should be that of a mature Christian.)
Note also, there is nothing that says "You should bash a baby against a rock." Doesn't fit with the text or the nature of God. It would be a misreading of the text, which actually proves the point there are "rules" for reading the text.
So, why is it in Scripture?
Who knows. 'Could be that God desired to illustrate that the Exiles had learned their lesson about spurning God's good gifts in Jerusalem, could just be that people agreed with the sentiment.
For a person who doesn't believe the Bible is a "real" book, this verse is actually a pretty good arguement. If the Bible were merely the work of "men with an agenda," there doesn't seem to be a good reason to let such a genuine feeling in here.
The Bible can be literal but still express itself in the language of feeling.
[Source: http://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/5307/what-is-the-me...]
Let's pick this one apart, shall we.
1) The meaning is pretty obvious in context.
Ps 137 is a lament for Jerusalem after the Babylonians have invaded and destroyed it. Verses 7-9 make it explicit
Agreed. In context, Psalm 137:7-9 is about the human desire for revenge, and explicit it is. Keeping this verse in its original temporal context, it paints a very vivid and disturbing portrait of the mindset of 'god's chosen ones'. How could such a sentiment be relevant today, except as an example of how not to react?
2) Whoever wrote this really hated the Babylonians, and would love to kill their children.
3) Is this "right?" Remember, this is a psalm - an ancient song of the Hebrews. I suspect many a future scholar will puzzle over, say, the misogynistic lyrics of Eminem or many like-minded rappers.
Restated: "It's only a song, and therefore moral judgment of these lyrics in the present temporal context is irrelevant." I could not agree with is argument more. Just as in argument (1) above, the only relevance in present context is, again, how not to act. I also suspect, as does the author, that today's lyrics of Eminem will have the same relevance of Psalm 127:9 thousands of years from now.
4) Note also, there is nothing that says "You should bash a baby against a rock."
True, it doesn't explicitly say to commit such an act. Yet, it doesn't have to. Its mere utterance is enough to plant a seed of an idea.
5) Doesn't fit with the text or the nature of God.
Such a bald-faced lie here! There are plenty of examples throughout the Bible to prove this wrong, but only one is really needed. Here it is:
"Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, says the Lord." - Romans 12:19
6) So, why is it in Scripture? Who knows.
A better question: why is such scripture considered so relevant and even "good" to such a large portion of today's population?
7) For a person who doesn't believe the Bible is a "real" book, this verse is actually a pretty good arguement.
Who has ever said the Bible is not a real book? Of course it's a book - or, more technically, a volume of books.
8) If the Bible were merely the work of "men with an agenda," there doesn't seem to be a good reason to let such a genuine feeling in here.
On the contrary, if the motive was control through fear including such lines make perfect sense!
My rationale is far simpler: anyone who would take revenge out on a CHILD deserves to be hung by his scrotum, and I don't care who they are or which god they worship!
You have this perfectly correct! Thanks.
Will a Bronx Cheer do?
Is it not odd how those who champion religion and scripture, have such flimsy evidence upon which to build their foundation?
Anyone who thinks "God is Pro Life" only has to look around at the conflicts of the world and count how many hate-mongers exist, carrying placards, invading government meetings with their delusions, imposing on education systems to teach mythology, using fear as a tactic. Or listen to the rhetoric of combatants, ie. Israel/Palestine, or the bombers, blasters, murderers, maimers of people providing and needing health services. These people are worse than scum. They lie, distort, pontificate, and just about every disgusting mechanisms one can think of to enforce their primitive beliefs and practices on others. Remember that awful group, Terrorist Organization Profile: Army of God?
"Army of God member James Kopp, alias Atomic Dog:
Dr. Barnett Slepian in 1998, murdered in shooting.
Dr. Garson Romalis in Vancouver, BC, on November 8, 1994, shooting and injury.
Dr. Hugh Short in Ancaster, ON, on November 10, 1995 (Kopp is charged with this shooting),
an unnamed physician in Rochester, NY, on October 28, 1997, and
Dr. Jack Fainman in Winnipeg, MB, on November 11, 1997."
Who hid out theses murderous bomber, shooters, and killers? Pure cowards. He, and others like him, are criminals and should all be prosecuted for helping lay down this precious cargo of murder.
Amazing Grace Kathleen Norris (Riverhead Books, 1998)
By What Authority: The Rise of Personality Cults in American ChristianityRichard Quebedeaux (Harper Collins, 1981)
The Changing Face of the Priesthood: A reflection of the Priest's Crisis of Soul Donald B. Cozzens (Liturgical Press, 2000)
Charismatic Chaos John F. MacArthur, Jr. (Zondervan Publishing House, 1993)
Churches that AbuseRonald Enroth (Zondervan Publishing House, 1992)
Cult Proofing Your KidsPaul Martin (Zondervan Press, 1993)
Damaged Disciples: Casualties of Authoritarian Churches and the Shepherding MovementRon and Vicki Burks
The Drift Into Deception - The Eight Characteristics of Abusive ChristianityAgnes C. Lawless with John W. Lawless (Kregel Resources, Grand Rapids, MI, 1995)
Exposing Spiritual Abuse: How to Rediscover God's Love When the Church Has Let You Down Mike Fehlauer (Charisma House, 2001)
For the Love of God LawrenceW. Gold M.D. (CreateSpace January 19, 2012)
"Join Us" (documentary about cults in America) DVDOndi Timoner
The Grace Awakening Charles Swindoll. (Word Books, 1996)
Healing Spiritual Abuse : How to Break Free from Bad Church Experiences Ken Blue (InterVarsity Press October 1993)
The Jesus People; Old-Time Religion in the Age of Aquarius Ronald M. Enroth (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., May 1972)
Lead us not into temptation: Catholic Priests and the Sexual Abuse of Children Berry and Andrew Greely (Univ. of Illinois Press, 2000)
Letters to a Devastated ChristianGene Edwards (Tyndale House Publishers, Inc, Wheaton, IL 1984, 1992)
More Jesus, Less Religion: Moving from rules to relationship Stephen Arterburn and Jack Felton (Waterbrook Press, 2000)
Occult:They Didn't Think it Could Happen in Their Church June Summers (Global Strategic Resources, 2005)
Rescuing Randy: A Family Determined to Rescue Their Son from a Cult Geneva Paulson (WestBowPress October 24, 2012)
Sex, Priests and Power: Anatomy of a Crisis A.W. Richard Sipe (Bruner/Mazel, 1995)
Shackles of Faith Mark Hosler (Tate Publishing February 2, 2010)
Spiritual Abuse Recovery: Dynamic Research on Finding a Place of WholenessBarbara M. Orlowski (Wipf & Stock Publishers January 2010)
The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse - Recognizing and Escaping Spiritual Manipulation and False Spiritual Authority within the ChurchDavid Johnson and Jeff VanVonderen (Bethany House Publishers, Mpls. MN, 1991)
Tithing: Low- Realm, Obsolete & Defunct Matthew E. Narramore (Tedoa Publishing, 2004)
The Unhealed Wounded: The church and human sexuality Eugene Kennedy (St. Martins Press, 2001)
Youth, Brainwashing, and the Extremist Cults Ronald M. Enroth (Zondervan Publishing Company November 2000)
If you are a battered woman, abused child, a controlling man, or a dominating man, run, don't walk from your nearest preacher, minister, priest, religious therapist, religious support group. They bind minds in ways most dreadful and believe they know what you need. They do not know! They cannot know. Their dogma poisons their minds and prevents healthy functioning.
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Between six and seven thousand years ago, salt was every bit as valuable as gold; and the inhabitants of this ancient, heavily guarded settlement (recently named the oldest ever discovered in Europe) were swimming in the stuff.
Several clues - uncovered in and around the ruins of the prehistoric burg, which resides in what is now northeast Bulgaria - point to its linchpin role in the salt trade of 4700 BC. A nearby spring, archeologists surmise, would have provided the town with access to mineral-rich water that could be boiled to produce bricks of salt, an all-important preservative of meat and other foodstuffs. The massive walls that encompass the settlement - an infrastructural feature archeologist Krum Bachvarov says is "unseen in excavations of [other] prehistoric sites in southeast Europe" - strongly suggest that the community had goods to protect.
And then there's the massive stockpile of gold.
Almost 40 years ago exactly, archeologists uncovered an assortment of 3,000 gold objects at a nearby burial ground, representing what The Telegraph calls "the oldest trove of ancient gold treasure in the world."
But the impressive collection of gold is not the only hoard of precious metal in the area; many other stockpiles of jewellery and ritual objects have been discovered throughout the region over the years, and the discovery of these ancient ruins may finally account for their presence.
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I am rather new here just to start out and I am also studing my ass off about computer security, but that is besides what I am getting @.
Just recently as of a few weeks ago I noticed that in my box there was a VIRUS.... well I was like hmmm that can't be cause I know of all of them in my computer and know exactly where they are located. Well anyways a few weeks back I did a Virus check on my OS by which is "WIN XP PRO" and it showed all of my reg' viruses, but it was diff' this time around, it found a new virus in my OS that I have never seen b/4. The virus is called "KeyHook.dll" it is suppost to I am assuming be undetectable but my Anit Virus Pro' found it. Now here is the thing I did some but not a whole lot of research on the file and it be a ".DLL" file I wouldn't have even considerd it being one, well as I was saying I browsed around on the net about it and found that it is a "Netbus" virus, and with that be all you would need is someones IP and you can get into there system cause if they have WIN XP home or Pro' I have found on each box that I have been on with either of the OS's I have found that file.
But I am just wondering why would windows have a relation with netbus? all that I could come up with is that they are using it for the Remote to System or something like that so that other can get into your computer and do what need's to be done on it/// ....
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The Revolution aims to climb back above the .500 mark when the Colorado Rapids visit Gillette Stadium on Saturday night MatchCenter >>
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. - The last time the New England Revolution and Colorado Rapids squared off at Gillette Stadium on May 16, 2009, Cory Gibbs, Preston Burpo, Jeff Larentowicz and Wells Thompson were all in the building. When the teams kick off their 2010 season series on Saturday night in Foxborough, all four players will once again be involved, only this time they'll be wearing different shades of blue.
A January trade between the Revs and Rapids brought Gibbs and Burpo to New England - along with a third-round selection in the 2011 MLS SuperDraft and allocation money - in exchange for Larentowicz and Thompson. On Saturday night, they'll have their first chance to face their former teams since the transaction.
"It'll be a good, competitive match," said Gibbs when asked about lining up against the team that traded him, quelling any ideas of redemption or extra motivation. "I think Colorado's a strong side. Definitely the two up top are the foundation of their team, and also Pablo [Mastroeni] in the middle. We're just going to have to play hard and expect a good challenge."
The forward pairing which Gibbs refers to is the duo of Conor Casey and Omar Cummings, widely regarded as one of the most dangerous attacking tandems in the league. Casey is an aerial threat and a commanding physical presence at 6-foot-1, while Cummings is a speedster with deadly finishing ability.
Casey and Cummings have already combined for five goals in the Rapids' first four games this season, with Casey converting a trio of penalty kicks and Cummings adding a pair of strikes from the run of play.
"They're a handful," said defender Darrius Barnes, who is likely to find himself in the starting lineup for the second straight week while Emmanuel Osei deals with a leg injury. "When you have a big target like Conor up there to flick the ball on to a fast guy like Omar, that's definitely going to be lethal and dangerous. We just have to do our best to keep them in front of us, and communication is going to be key - just passing them off and staying with runners."
Most likely joining Barnes on the back line will be Kevin Alston, who along with Barnes faced the combination of Casey and Cummings twice as a rookie in 2009.
"We've just got to be smart," said Alston, who has started all four of the Revolution's games this season at right back. "We've got to know their tendencies. We know Omar's going to look for the space and try to get in behind, so we know we've got to be ready for that. Conor's a big guy and you can't let him get the position on you inside because he's one header away from a goal."
Casey proved Alston's point when he last visited Gillette Stadium, scoring on a looping header in just the third minute as the teams played to a 1-1 draw. In fact, the last three meetings between New England and Colorado have resulted in 1-1 draws, while neither team has managed more than one goal in a match against the other in the last five meetings.
Besides the unenviable task of shutting down Casey and Cummings, the other main focus for the Revs on Saturday night will be an improvement in their possession game. Players and coaches alike have singled out the straightforward task of keeping the ball as the key to the Revolution's success against the Rapids.
"It's something that we're always talking about," said head coach Steve Nicol. "If we don't possess it and possess it in a manner that's going to get us up the field and get us attacking the opposition, then it's going to be difficult."
"Make sure that we're confident," said Gibbs when asked how the Revs can improve their possession. "Make sure that we open up for each other and we support each other, on and off the ball. We have to be in good spaces and I think that's something we need to start improving on and doing that on a bigger field, which we have at home."
One of the primary reasons the Revs have had difficulty keeping possession early in the season has been the absence of key players Shalrie Joseph and Edgaras Jankauskas, both of whom are influential in holding the ball with size and strength. Joseph has missed three of the first four games of the season with a right hip flexor strain - making only a 75-minute appearance in the home opener against Toronto - while Jankauskas has yet to make his 2010 debut after suffering a right calf strain during preseason.
The good news for the Revs is that both players could feature on Saturday night against the Rapids. Jankauskas has trained with the first team for the last two weeks and has been removed from the injury report, while Joseph was upgraded from "Doubtful" to "Probable" on Friday. Although the 2009 MLS MVP finalist spent Wednesday and Thursday in the treatment room, he joined his teammates on the field on Friday and participated in the full session.
Joining Joseph and Jankauskas on the list of possible additions is midfielder Nico Colaluca, who has also missed the first four games of the season with a left knee sprain. The former Colorado Rapid has been removed from the injury report after training full for two weeks, and he could make his 2010 debut against his old club.
For Jankauskas and Colaluca, it's a question of fitness after missing such a lengthy period.
"I missed the whole preseason and now I get three days with the team, so of course my fitness must be better," said Jankauskas. "I'm probably not match-fit, but I'm working hard and hopefully getting there."
"As I said, my fitness is not the best," he continued. "But if the team needs me, I'll be able to help. Probably not 90 minutes, but some time."
Colaluca finds himself in a similar situation.
"I'm still getting my fitness back," he said after training on Thursday. "I've been sore [Wednesday] and today after training, but I'm just taking care of myself and gradually getting my fitness back."
Should any of the trio of Joseph, Jankauskas and Colaluca find themselves on the field, they'll likely be familiar with one of the players patrolling Colorado's central midfield - the previously-mentioned Larentowicz. The former Revolution midfielder has played every minute of the Rapids' first four games of the season and registered his first goal for the club in last weekend's 3-1 win over Toronto FC.
"Obviously we know everything about Jeff," said Nicol of the player he drafted in 2005. "The one thing we know is that he's going to come here and he's going to do everything to win the game because that's what he's all about. He's always committed, he certainly has ability and he can pass the ball."
"I don't think Jeff should be surprising us," Nicol quipped.


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Mini Throwdown: Peanut Butter Cookies (Part 1)
First up—Baked's Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies. I love the chocolate/peanut butter combination so I thought these would be great! And easy to bake up on a whim because I already have all the ingredients on hand! Or not. The side note on the recipe says to use only milk chocolate, not semi-sweet. After digging through the nearly 10 pounds of chocolate chips I have stashed in the pantry, I realized I had only semi-sweet. Not a single milk chocolate chip in sight. *sigh* Story of my life. With a grocery store run behind me, I started baking. I had a good feeling about these. These could be the one!
In the moments before pulling them out of the oven, I had the vision of beautiful, thick, perfect peanut butter cookies, studded with delicious gooey chocolate chips. Very reminiscent of my chocolate chip cookies that brought home a blue ribbon last year. What I pulled out? Not quite what I pictured. They were studded with gooey chocolate chips alright. But they looked more like the chocolate cookies my brother used to bake that we affectionately called "cow pies" because they spread to an almost wafer thin dark brown puddle barely clinging to the peanut butter chips he used to throw in. While mine weren't quite that flat (or as dark), they weren't at all what I had imagined. Or even how many I thought I'd be making! In the perfect Baked world, I would be pulling out 2 dozen of these cookies from the oven. In my world? Try close to 40! I had enough to share with both my coworkers AND Boyfriend's. (Sort of. More on that in a second.) But appearance isn't everything—the taste is what matters. Would they be fair worthy? Not really. Don't get me wrong, they were good. Just not that good. Not the "OMG These are amazing" good. A bit chewy.. but not completely the good kind. (There was a bit of an "al dente" bite to them..) But good enough for me to eat so many of my half of the batch, that I didn't actually have enough to bring to work to share… But not good enough that I felt comfortable entering them in the fair. Oh well.. Back to the drawing board.
Stay tuned for the Throwdown competitor—David Lebovitz's Peanut Butter Cookies!
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Adapted from Baked: New Frontiers in Bakingby Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito
Makes about 3 dozen
1 ¾ cups all purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
1 cup granulated sugar, plus more for sprinkling
1 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 cup creamy peanut butter
6 ounces milk chocolate, chips or coarsely chopped
1. In a medium bowl, sift together flour, baking soda and salt. Set aside.
2. In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat together butter and sugars until fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating until each is incorporated, scraping down the side of the bowl as needed. Add the vanilla and peanut butter and beat until just incorporated.
3. Add half the flour mixture and mix for 15 seconds. Add the remaining flour mixture and mix until just incorporated. Using a wooden spoon or spatula, fold in the chocolate. Cover the bowl and refrigerate for at least 3 hours, up to overnight. Let come to room temperature before baking.
4. Preheat oven to 375F. Line two baking sheets with parchment or a silicone baking mat.
5. Using a cookie scoop or a rounded tablespoon, drop dough onto prepared cookie sheet, 2 inches apart. Using the palm of your hand, press the cookie down slightly, forming a tall disk shape. Don't press flat.
6. Sprinkle tops of cookies with granulated sugar and bake for 10 to 12 minutes, rotating the pan halfway through, until the tops of the cookies just begin to brown. Remove from oven and allow to cool on pan for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
6 comments:
- sarahe said...
these sounds really yummy! i am lusting after the baked cookbook right now...if you're still looking for the perfect peanut butter cookie, i have a peanut butter cookie recipe w/peanut butter frosting that people go crazy for! you can add a chocolate drizzle on the top, but i leave them pure peanut butter:
good luck w/the fair!
- July 13, 2010 at 12:30 PM
- How To Eat A Cupcake said...
Good luck! Our local newspaper held a pie competition and said they would sponsor the local winners to go on to the state fair. I was too chicken to enter! :(
- July 14, 2010 at 9:46 AM
- Chef Bee said...
I'm wishing you luck. I have yet to obtain the perfect peanut butter cookie. I'm a soft cookie girl and peanut butter cookies tend to be too crunchy for me.
Plan B
- July 17, 2010 at 9:58 PM
- oneordinaryday said...
Good luck!! My sister and her kids are huge fair-goers and have entries of one kind or another every year. I always wish I could enter cookies or pies at their fair. : ) Sounds like so much fun.
Hey, have you considered jazzing up the peanut butter by using one of those flavored pbs from Peanut Butter & Co.? I've used them in cookies before and been really pleased with the results. Looking forward to seeing your final recipe.
- July 18, 2010 at 6:54 PM
- Ingrid said...
I've always liked the look pb cookies with the fork indentions in them. (make sense?) I like that they are sorta thick, which means the edges are just slighly crisp, a bit chewy, but the middle is still a little soft when warm. MMmmmm, wish I had one now.
Good luck!
- July 18, 2010 at 7:30 PM
- Maureen said...
Nothing better than a peanut butter cookie (or 12) after smelling the aroma of them baking in the oven. Yum.
- May 20, 2011 at 9:44 AM


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The procedures described in this section control the creation of processes
and the execution of programs.
They are in the structures
posix-process and
Fork creates a new child process and returns the child's process-id in
the parent and
#f in the child.
Fork-and-forget calls
thunk in a new process; no process-id
is returned.
Fork-and-forget uses an intermediate process to avoid creating
a zombie process.
(process-id? x) -> boolean
(process-id=? process-id0 process-id1) -> boolean
(process-id->integer process-id) -> integer
(integer->process-id integer) -> process-id
Process-id? is a predicate for process-ids,
process-id=? compares two to see if they are the same,
process-id-uid returns the actual Unix id.
Process-id->integer and
convert process ids to and from integers.
(process-id-exit-status process-id) -> integer or #f
(process-id-terminating-signal process-id) -> signal or #f
(wait-for-child-process process-id)
process-id-exit-status will return its exit status.
If the process is still running or was terminated by a signal then
process-id-exit-status will return
Similarly, if a child process was terminated by a signal
process-id-terminating-signal will return that signal and
will return
#f if the process is still running or terminated
Wait-for-child-process blocks until the child process terminates.
Scheme 48 may reap child processes before the user requests their
exit status, but it does not always do so.
as its exit status.
(exec program-name arg0 ...)
(exec-with-environment program-name env arg0 ...)
(exec-file filename arg0 ...)
(exec-file-with-environment filename env arg0 ...)
(exec-with-alias name lookup? maybe-env arguments)
Exec and
look up the new program in the search path,
exec-file and
execute a particular file.
The environment is either inherited from the current process
exec and
exec-file) or given as an argument
Program-name and
filename and any
argi should be strings.
Env should be a list of strings of the form
The first four procedures add their first argument,
program-name or
filename, before the
arg0 ... arguments.
Exec-with-alias is an omnibus procedure that subsumes the other
Name is looked up in the search path if
lookup? is true
and is used as a filename otherwise.
Maybe-env is either a list of strings for the environment of the
new program or
#f in which case the new program inherits its
environment from the current one.
Arguments should be a list of strings; unlike with the other four
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Each MYV Head Coach or Assistant Coach must certify as a Volunteer Building Director (VBD). This is a role required by Fairfax County Neighborhood and Community Services (NCS) for youth programs to use school facilities.
Here are the three steps to follow. It should take 15- 20 minutes.
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2) Pass the short VBD test. Note you can take the test multiple times if necessary.
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Average row spacing in Illinois soybean fields has increased over the past decade after narrowing for several decades before that, according to University of Illinois crop sciences professor Emerson Nafziger.
This increase resulted from drilled soybeans – those with rows less than 10 in. apart – losing ground to 30-in. rows, which now occupy nearly 1/3 of the soybean acres. Just over 50 percent of Illinois soybean fields remain in 15-in. rows.
Most corn planters are set to plant 30-in. rows, and 15-in. soybeans are generally planted by using split-row units placed between the 30-in. rows. The increasing width of planters – many are now 60 ft. wide – means that splitting rows with additional units makes planters very heavy. Opting not to split large planters means that both corn and soybeans are typically planted in 30-in. rows.
Another reason given for moving from narrow soybean rows to 30-in. rows is that white mold tends to be more severe when the ground and the lower crop canopy stay wet. Air moves better around plants in wider rows, so soybeans in wide rows may be less susceptible to damage by white mold. Wide rows are also easier to drive through to spray or cultivate.
A U of I study over the past two years funded by the Illinois Soybean Association compared 15-in. and 30-in. soybean rows, at different planting dates and seeding rates, over six sites in Illinois. Excluding one southern Illinois site where stands were not adequate, 15-in. rows yielded on average 1.5 bu. more than 30-in. rows. This difference varied among the sites, from no difference to up to nearly four bushels per acre.
"Because late-planted soybeans tend to produce smaller plants, we had expected to find that narrower rows would tend to yield more than wide rows when planting was late," said Nafziger. However, the data showed that response to row width was as likely with early as with late planting. Similarly, there was little interaction between row width and seeding rate.
According to Nafziger, these results suggest that choosing to plant in 30-in. rows instead of narrower rows could bring a small yield penalty. "This doesn't mean that widening rows in order to use a larger planter is unsound, but those making the decision to do this should pencil in about 1.5 bu. less yield," he said.
That amount is not very noticeable in the field, and some growers who make the switch may conclude that they suffered no yield loss. "We know from our research that such loss will not always occur," said Nafziger. "But we have also found that it can, and there's no reason to expect that it won't, at least on average."
There may be ways to reduce yield loss related to changing to wider rows, but the results of recent research in this area are not conclusive. "We do not believe that changing the seeding rate is likely to help," Nafziger explained. "If incidence of disease that can be controlled by fungicide is decreased in wider rows, then we would expect fungicide application to produce less response in wide than in narrow rows."
Choosing taller, perhaps slightly later, varieties might help the crop capture light better in wider rows. Nevertheless, it is best to choose a soybean variety based on its productivity rather than on traits for which the benefits are not certain.