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Gas Mileage 15 mpg City/20 mpg Hwy
Engine Gas V8, 4.4L
EPA Class Sub-Compact
Style Name Coupe
Drivetrain Rear Wheel Drive
Passenger Capacity 4
Passenger Doors 2
Body Style 2dr Car
Transmission 5-speed electronically-controlled automatic transmission w/Adaptive Transmission Control & Step-Tronic
EPA Classification Sub-Compact
Weight Information
Base Curb Weight (lbs) 4167
Interior Dimensions
Front Leg Room (in) 44.0
Second Shoulder Room (in) 55.3
Passenger Volume (ft³) 81.3
Second Head Room (in) 34.7
Front Shoulder Room (in) 57.3
Second Hip Room (in) - TBD -
Front Head Room (in) 35.9
Second Leg Room (in) 25.2
Passenger Capacity 4
Front Hip Room (in) - TBD -
Exterior Dimensions
Height, Overall (in) 52.8
Length, Overall (in) 188.2
Min Ground Clearance (in) - TBD -
Track Width, Front (in) 61.2
Width, Max w/o mirrors (in) 73.0
Liftover Height (in) - TBD -
Wheelbase (in) 105.7
Track Width, Rear (in) 61.5
Cargo Area Dimensions
Trunk Volume (ft³) 9.5
Fuel Economy
Fuel Tank
Fuel Tank Capacity, Approx (gal) 23.8
EPA Fuel Economy Est - Hwy (MPG) 20
EPA Fuel Economy Est - City (MPG) 15
Performance Specs
Fuel System EFI
Engine Type Gas V8
SAE Net Horsepower @ RPM 282 @ 5700
Displacement 4.4L/268
Engine Order Code NA
SAE Net Torque @ RPM 310 @ 3900
Trans Description Cont. Automatic w/OD,
Fourth Gear Ratio (:1) 1.00
Final Drive Axle Ratio (:1) 2.81
Trans Order Code NA
Second Gear Ratio (:1) 2.20
Reverse Ratio (:1) 3.68
Trans Description Cont. Again Electronic
Fifth Gear Ratio (:1) 0.80
Trans Type 5
Third Gear Ratio (:1) 1.51
Clutch Size (in) NA
Drivetrain Rear Wheel Drive
First Gear Ratio (:1) 3.57
Sixth Gear Ratio (:1) NA
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Brake ABS System Four-Wheel
Drum - Rear (Yes or ) NA
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Disc - Front (Yes or ) Yes
Rear Drum Diam x Width (in) NA
Brake Type Pwr-Assisted
Rear Brake Rotor Diam x Thickness (in) 12.8 x - TBD -
Turning Diameter - Curb to Curb (ft) 37.7
Steering Ratio (:1), Overall 15.4
Turning Diameter - Wall to Wall (ft) - TBD -
Lock to Lock Turns (Steering) 3.3
Steering Type Pwr Rack & Pinion
Front Tire Size P235/50R16
Rear Tire Order Code NA
Rear Tire Size P235/50R16
Spare Tire Order Code NA
Front Tire Order Code NA
Spare Tire Size P235/50R16
Front Wheel Material Aluminum
Rear Wheel Size (in) 16 x 7.5
Rear Wheel Material Aluminum
Spare Wheel Size (in) 16 x 7.5
Front Wheel Size (in) 16 x 7.5
Spare Wheel Material Aluminum
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Suspension Type - Rear Five-Link
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Suspension Type - Front (Cont.) w/Anti-Roll Bar
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Suspension Type - Front Independent
Shock Absorber Diameter - Rear (mm) - TBD -
Safety Features
Air Bag-Frontal-Driver Yes
Air Bag-Frontal-Passenger Yes
Air Bag-Passenger Switch (On/Off) No
Air Bag-Side Body-Front No
Air Bag-Side Body-Rear No
Air Bag-Side Head-Front No
Air Bag-Side Head-Rear No
Brakes-ABS Yes
Child Safety Rear Door Locks No
Daytime Running Lights No
Traction Control Yes
Night Vision No
Rollover Protection Bars No
Fog Lamps Yes
Parking Aid No
Tire Pressure Monitor No
Back-Up Camera No
Stability Control No
Other Features Hydraulic energy absorbing bumpers (damage control to 9 MPH)
Impact sensor-inc: auto door unlocking/interior lights/hazard...
Anti-lock braking system (ABS)
Driver & front passenger airbags supplemental restraint system...
Ergonomic seatbelt system w/integrated front seat belts &...
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Anti-lock braking system (ABS)
Driver & front passenger airbags supplemental restraint system...
Ergonomic seatbelt system w/integrated front seat belts &...
Basic Miles/km 50,000
Basic Years 4
Corrosion Years 6
Roadside Assistance Miles/km 50,000
Roadside Assistance Years 4
Other Specs
Cooling System
Total Cooling System Capacity (qts) - TBD -
Maximum Alternator Capacity (amps) 140
Cold Cranking Amps @ 0° F (Primary) - TBD -
Wt Distributing Hitch - Max Tongue Wt. (lbs) - TBD -
Dead Weight Hitch - Max Tongue Wt. (lbs) - TBD -
Wt Distributing Hitch - Max Trailer Wt. (lbs) - TBD -
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Foursquare, the location-sharing app that rose from the ashes of the founders' Google-deleted Dodgeball service, was the breakout of South by Southwest 2009, which makes sense. Although Pepsi is trying its best to transport people to Austin, Texas, with SXSW livestreams and other coverage, really, you can't be here without being here.
[eventbug id="sxsw2011"]South by Southwest, like Foursquare and real estate, is a case of "location, location, location."
True to its roots, Foursquare (available for Android, iPhone, BlackBerry, Palm and others) launched version 3.0 of its service (for iPhone and Android) the week before SXSW, with a recommendation engine that finds places to go based on keywords – sort of like a real-world search engine that takes into account places other people and your friends like. It also adds a merchant rewards program to give them more ways to attract Foursquare users and added new SXSW-friendly badges, pictured above.
We asked Foursquare's head of product Alex Rainert whether Foursquare is scared of Facebook, what the new version means for music fans, whether I can be mayor of a band, why it launched before SXSW this time, and what Charlie Sheen has to do with it (sort of). This interview has been edited for clarity and length.
Eliot Van Buskirk, Evolver.fm: Can you sum up what has changed with this new version of Foursquare?
Foursquare head of product Alex Rainert
Alex Rainert: The big vision for us is to have Foursquare be an app that you can open up anywhere in the world and it will give you things that you should do, and this is a huge first step in that direction.
We've had two great years during which we've gotten really great data, and we wanted to take that data and use it to help make people's experiences better – to expose it in an interface that makes sense to a new user. It's a challenge. So we created main categories for food, coffee, nightlife, shops and arts and entertainment; we found that these are the things that people are mostly trying to do in the real world.
Evolver.fm: What is the new version of Foursquare going to do for music fans? I can imagine the recommendation feature would come in handy not only in Austin, but any place where live music is a big factor.
Rainert: The new app lets you see parties and venues ebbing and flowing over the course of the night. We launched Trending at the last SXSW and found that people used it to know where to go next, but it's more robust this year – more venues and more data. The nightlife category [is helpful] in that you can quickly tap "nightlife" and "discoteque" and get recommendations based on that. We also wanted to give people more control – you can type in "sushi" and get recommendations for that, or things like "gluten-free" or "chocolate chip pancakes" or "karaoke" to search all of the tips people have left about locations. In our internal testing, this is where the delightful moments surfaced because you find those hidden gems that aren't going to be surfaced by any other recommendation tool out there.
Evolver.fm: A lot of this stuff comes from scale – the amount of data you have. There's another company that also has a lot of scale, which also does check-ins now, and also starts with a the letter "F." How worried are you about Facebook?
Rainert: A lot of people on this team have been thinking about location for eight or nine years now [since the Dodgeball days], and Foursquare's goal has always been to change how you experience the real world. We feel confident in the vision that we have and the direction that we're headed. We're happy to see more people play in this space that we've been leading and excited about for such a long time now. It just gets more people and more users excited about location.
Evolver.fm: I saw an app called Youzakk at Music Hack Day New York that uses Foursquare check-ins and Hunch to help venues figure out which music to play in order to please their clientele. Is that something Foursquare might look at doing?
Rainert: The new version does include some new kinds of merchant integration that we've designed around the social behaviors that we've seen on Foursquare: flash specials (i.e. the first 20 people here get 10 percent off) and friend specials (check in with four of your friends and you get 25 percent off your bill). As far as the hack day stuff, we love that stuff – we had a hackathon of our own after that event, and we just love seeing people build stuff like that.
Evolver.fm: Youzakk started me thinking about how the world will start to be designed around people who care less about their privacy. If you don't mind checking in on Foursquare, your taste can control the music playing at a public venue. But if you care more about your privacy than using this new stuff, your taste won't be included.
Rainert: From day one, we've taken a very user-centered focus on privacy. Everything we do is opt-in, and we give people full control over what they're sharing and who they're sharing it with.
Evolver.fm: I was thinking more about what you get for using this: Your environment will start adapting around you to make you happy.
Rainert: Oh, for sure. I think the burden is on us as designers to build products that compel you to want to take part in it, because the value is just that good.
Evolver.fm: SXSW is huge for you guys. Why launch early? And do you expect Foursquare to be as big a deal this year as in years past?
Rainert: A big part of Foursquare is the badges. We don't consider Foursquare a game, although we recognize the value of using game mechanics to change behaviors. We've revisited the leaderboard, which was a huge part of the app when it launched, but now it is richer and rewards many more actions in the real world. The whole product is evolving to the next level, and we like doing that at SXSW because that's where we started, but also because it's a great platform to tell a story about your company. The people who made Foursquare what it is and understand what it wants to be are all down there.
Evolver.fm: The "Me" tab on the far right of the app has been redesigned.
Rainert: That's the new leaderboard. You can see your points from the last seven days, but also how you're doing in relation to your friends, to get a little of that competitive spirit. There's no winning and losing.
Evolver.fm: So it's not a Charlie Sheen thing.
Rainert: Right, there's no winning, no tiger blood in this release. We're just trying to build these motivating aspects of the game back into the Foursquare experience.
Evolver.fm: Can I be mayor of a band someday?
Rainert: It's not currently on the roadmap. What do you mean by that?
Evolver.fm: If I see them the most, I want to be the mayor of them.
Rainert: We've always been about places in the real world where you can meet and socially engage. Things like TV shows and bands as they are don't fit that paradigm for us, but there are ways we've been thinking about working with bands that you would be happy about. Nothing immediate though.
See Also:
- SXSW: Razorfish VP Urges App Designers to Learn from Fashion
- SXSW: ShareSquare's 'Most Scanned Bands' Contest Points to Next-Generation Artist Marketing
- DJs, Venues Can Pick Best Music Based On Foursquare Check-Ins
- SXSW 2011: 'Clickable' QR Code Posters For The Win
- Soundtrckr: What Does Music Have to Do With Location?
- Brilliant: UK Venue's App Lets Regulars Skip the Line

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10 Things You Can Do in the Next 10 Days to Experience Peace, Joy and Balance
How are you progressing in life? Are you in control, or do you feel life is just "happening" to you?
Maybe you thought that by now you'd be famous, or at least wealthy. But our childhood dreams only come true if we make them true.
Maybe you have accomplished much, but you secretly feel you could do more or be more. And you don't know what's holding you back.
Here's something to consider: You've already achieved everything you really believe you can. Change what you believe, and you can achieve so much more.
Examining your own beliefs about your true potential—and then working to expand those beliefs so they include even greater success—is the easiest way to raise the bar. In fact, it's the only way.
In Living in Peace, Joy and Balance from Ultimate Destiny University, you'll find a self-assessment quiz that reveals your underlying attitudes about how much you've grown as a person and how much you might yet grow. You'll also find material to help you understand the results, and references to the books that really make a difference—books that teach you not how to be a better person, but how to focus your thoughts so you can become the BEST person you possibly can.
If you're not making a beeline toward recognizing and fulfilling your potential, here are ten things you can do in the next ten days to take the first steps toward personal growth and achievement.
Read one item from this list each day and work on incorporating it into your life. As you add new skills, don't forget to keep up the lessons from the earlier days. These are subtle but important changes in perspective and behavior that will help you attract the prosperity you want and deserve.
Day 1. Stop negative talk. Decide that today, and from here on, that you will never describe your potential in negative terms. Never again say, "I couldn't possibly do this" or "I gave up my dream years ago." Unless you actually want to limit yourself, stop sending energy to those negative concepts.
Day 2. Visualize. Take some time to form a mental picture of yourself as someone whose life is right on track. What have you accomplished that you're proud of? Think of someone you admire, and picture yourself in those shoes. Develop the most complete, positive picture of yourself you can, and return to that image often throughout the day.
Day 3. Affirm. It's not enough to just stop saying what you can't do; you must say that you are blessed. No matter what condition you are in at this moment, you have the power to claim a better condition. When you wake up in the morning, say aloud, "I am on the right path, and growing every day." As you drive, repeat, "I know the next step to take and I'm proud of what I've already done."
Before you retire at night, say aloud, "My dreams tonight will give me even more insights into my personal development." Draw energy to that perfect vision of yourself by describing your vision in words—out loud— and often.
Day 4. Pray. If you're not a religious type, or not sure you believe in God, choose your higher self, a higher power, Nature, guardian angels, or whatever you think is "out there." Ask for help in three parts: a request, an affirmation and a thank you. "Spirit, please help me live up to my potential. I now am on a path where I'm achieving everything I am capable of. Thank you, Spirit, for helping me grow."
Day 5. Write a goal. Begin with that perfect picture of yourself from Day #2, but expand it now. See yourself doing the things that person who is actively improving his potential would do, and write those things down. "I know how my mind works, I have balance in all areas of my life, and I have access to people who know how to help me."
Day 6. Write a plan. To get from where you are to where you want to be will require action. Figure out some of the steps on that path. Do you need to read books about getting your finances or your household in order? Should you hire a personal trainer? Choose one area and one action plan, and write down the first step. If you decide to work on achieving your full potential in a number of areas, the first step might be making an appointment for a consultation with a life coach who can assess your situation.
Day 7. Feel grateful. It might sound counter-intuitive to be "thankful" for what you have accomplished when you feel like a failure. But in fact, even if you fall short of your full potential, you have accomplished much. Be grateful for the progress you've made, and that attitude of gratitude will help draw accomplishment to you. Thank your God, or life itself, that you are now living the life you secretly know is possible for you. Imagine how grateful you will feel, and hold that feeling in your heart.
Day 8. Forgive. This is a difficult step for many people, but it's vital. Imagine: You will only have the level of personal accomplishment you wish for your worst enemy. If you now believe someone is to blame for holding you back from developing your full potential—a former spouse who belittled you, the parent who told you you'd never amount to anything—find a way to believe that they were doing the best they could do at the time. If you realize that your own fear has been holding you back, forgive yourself, too. You did the best you could then, and are now ready to make a new, more courageous start.
Day 9. Release the past. Tied to forgiving is the idea of letting go of what was. You don't have to be the way you've always been. If you used to call yourself a "loser," you've stopped that negative talk already. You're already taking steps to determine just what your potential might be. Be willing to let go of the things that tied you to being an underachiever, whether it was discouraging friends or a go-nowhere job. Break the pattern and let go of the way things were before. You are born anew.
Day 10. Let joy in. Sometimes we become so accustomed to achieving little, we forget to appreciate our minor accomplishments. When suddenly we get praise for doing something well, we begin to doubt the person praising us. But to have joy in your life, you're going to have to let yourself trust in joy, and believe you deserve it, and celebrate its arrival. Joy is always fleeting; recognize it when it comes and savor it fully. It will return more often.
After you've spent ten days unlearning bad habits, learning good ones, and adding activities to your day, see if you can keep them up for another ten days, and
then perfect them in the ten days after that. Pray, visualize, and affirm every day. Watch what you say and think, and keep yourself positive. Forgive those who wrong you and feel grateful for the things that go right. Keep writing down your goals and action plans. When you catch yourself clinging to old ways, let them go. And let yourself feel good about it! One month from today, you'll be headed in a whole new direction—toward personal growth and increased personal potential.
Article by Kimberley Jace, co-author of the Ultimate Destiny Success System and Harnessing Your Mind's Creative Power


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If Your Comment Section Is Awesome, It's Your Community's Fault
from the chaos-theory-at-work deptMeek Barbarian informed us that veteran blogger Anil Dash wrote a piece recently discussing websites having open and anonymous commenting on their sites. I'll preface this with a quick anecdote. I discovered Techdirt some three years back when my boss informed me that, as a technology consultant, it would be useful to follow a couple of technology related blogs to keep up on what is occurring in the industry. I came across Techdirt, found an article I was interested in, and dove in. I was immediately drawn in by the comments section and the community. There were anonymous cowards bravely trolling the threads. There were other anonymous cowards offering up valuable statistics, links, and points of view. There were folks using funny names and cartoon pictures as their avatars, while others used what were apparently their real names and real pictures. Even the author of the article was diving into the comments and responding to some.
I saw information. I saw jokes. I saw supporting views and dissenting opinions. I saw trolls, academics, lawyers, techs, etc. etc. etc. It was true chaos theory at work, with the article setting up a comments section sensitive to the conditions discussed but open to the topological mixing of the wide open world. More than anything else, I think I was most amazed at how this tumultuous soup of free communication provided surprising and useful information, laughter, and references. I was hooked. This was the place for me to offer my view on stories I cared about, read responses from others, get opposing views, and most of all, make more phallic-related jokes than an Adam Carolla on meth.
So that was the background I brought when I read Anil's piece, which he conservatively and open-mindedly titled, "If Your Website's Full Of Assholes, It's Your Fault." Let's dive in:
"The examples are already part of pop culture mythology: We can post a harmless video of a child's birthday party and be treated to profoundly racist non-sequiturs in the comments. We can read about a minor local traffic accident on a newspaper's website and see vicious personal attacks on the parties involved. A popular blog can write about harmless topics like real estate, restaurants or sports and see dozens of vitriolic, hate-filled spewings within just a few hours."I'll thank Anil here, because we immediately get to my baseline issue with this viewpoint. I read all of the above, hear all about how rudeboy knuckle-draggers will show up on the most innocuous article and scream racist nonsense, spout uninformed conspiracy theories, and call you the kind of names that would make Sam Kinison do that screaming thing he did, and all I can think to myself is so what? Words don't hurt unless you let them. I, as someone with an Irish background, can be called a dumb potato-farming mick, and I can ignore it. More importantly, the idiot that calls me that loses all credibility in the formed community. Even if he's anonymous, all such behavior does is provide a reason for the community to couch their faith in comments provided by ACs in skepticism. The community provides a reason to identify yourself, in the hopes that you'll be taken more seriously. In other words, from the chaos emerges order. And not an unnatural kind of order provided by head-in-the-sand policing and moderation. Assholes exist, both online and in real life. So what?
In any case, Anil prescribes us his wisdom-medication on how everyone should run their website:
"You should have real humans dedicated to monitoring and responding to your community."I happen to agree. As does Techdirt, actually. You know who is dedicated to monitoring and responding to our community? Our community! As long as we aren't working from a supposition of "words can hurt," we see our community policing itself just fine. Trolls get called trolls, true. But I've seen dissenters stick up for Techdirt supporters. I've seen Techdirt contributors and those with like-minds stick up for dissenters and their opinions (I know this one in particular, because I make a point to do this, though I'm not the only one). ACs have a tougher road in the realm of credibility because of the way the community polices itself. Those with accounts and names have a tougher road because we have a comment history we have to own up to. It's as simplistic as it is beautiful. And it's all emergent behavior, meaning it's natural and not forced or faked. That's what open comments do: they create fertile ground for emerged behavior. And it's amazing how productive that is.
"You should have community policies about what is and isn't acceptable behavior."Bullshit. And here's why: one man's asshole is another man's prophet. Who am I, or Mike, or anyone else to say what is acceptable and what isn't? Are there things that most can agree suck? Sure. Racism is just plain stupid and ignorant. What does a policy against racism do? Really? "Don't be racist, Techdirt community." Did I just end racism? Did I somehow change the minds of anyone who would read a racist comment and think of it as anything other than pure stupidity to be rebuked or ignored? No, I didn't. So why bother? Remember, words don't have any power unless we give it to them.
"Your site should have accountable identities."No, it shouldn't. It should certainly offer that option. But I've seen value from both sides of the debate on this site coming from Anonymous Cowards. And I know that some of the folks that contribute anonymously here do so because they're afraid of real repercussions in having their names associated with their words. Does that make their words any less valuable? No, it doesn't. And would making some racist, trolling, or ignorant jackwad sign in with a name make his/her words any different? No, it wouldn't. So why bother with this at all? What's the upside?
"You should have the technology to easily identify and stop bad behaviors."Again, unless it's just flatout illegal or automated annoyance, what's the point of this? I think we can all agree that a relatively intelligent spam filtering system makes sense, but that isn't the kind of "bad behavior" Anil appears to be discussing. He's talking about controversial speech. Who is getting hurt when someone exhibits "bad behavior"? And how do you define that? If the site is community driven, shouldn't they be the ones to decide what is "bad behavior" and respond accordingly?
"You should make a budget that supports having a good community, or you should find another line of work."It isn't a matter of cost, it's a matter of reason. What's the point? You're killing off all the good you get from the anonymous and semi-anonymous chaos, and what are you getting in return? People don't have to hear certain words that make them itchy?
I apologize for repeating myself, but I can't say this enough: words do not hurt. They never do. When someone says something designed to inflict pain, you get to choose how to react and respond. If an anonymous coward calls me an idiot and my response is, "Nice argument there, captain logic", then what has that person accomplished? I'm not hurt, they've put themselves on display being a jerk, and the community at large will react accordingly.
Don't lock down your comments. Don't kill off anonymity. Don't pretend the trolls and jerks don't exist. Do the opposite. Open it all up and trust in your community to be smart enough to react accordingly. I know that's largely what occurs here at Techdirt and elsewhere.
And I can't tell you how thankful I am for it and for everyone here, from those that generally agree with us to those that don't. You're welcome here. Forever and always.
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2014 Subaru BRZ Priced From $26,390
BRZ price climbs slightly.
The 2014 Subaru BRZ sports coupe receives only the mildest of updates and price bumps for the new model year. In its second year on the market, the 2014 Subaru BRZ starts at $26,390 (including a $795 destination charge), an increase of $125 from last year's base price.
There are no major changes to the 2014 Subaru BRZ, aside from the fact that the car's touchscreen radio now comes standard with Aha! Internet radio integration. The aforementioned base price affords buyers a 2014 Subaru BRZ Premium with a six-speed manual transmission. Equipment includes touchscreen navigation, air conditioning, LED running lights, a leather-wrapped steering wheel with red stitching, and 17-inch alloy wheels.
Buyers who spend $28,390 (an increase of $125 versus last year) receive a 2014 Subaru BRZ Limited, which adds foglights, a trunk spoiler, push-button start, dual-zone climate control, and a security alarm. Spending another $1100 nabs a six-speed automatic transmission in place of the standard car's six-speed manual.
For 2013, the Subaru BRZ offered an automatic transmission on the Premium model, but for 2014 it's available only on the Limited. Subaru explains that's because the majority of people who bought an automatic BRZ picked the higher-end Limited trim level anyway, so the company simply streamlined the ordering process.
Although there are no changes this year, a new report suggests the Subaru BRZ will be refreshed in 2015 for the 2016 model year.
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Strategic investments in the future of the community include the development of new parks and expansion of the existing extensive trail system as well as preservation of the prized open spaces that keep Little Elm as beautiful as it has always been. The town has earned a number of acknowledgements for its commitment to urban forestry initiatives. Trend-setting city planning and growth initiatives have also earned Little Elm some impressive accolades, including being named the second safest city in the nation and safest city in Texas by the FBI.
The Town is home to a growing business community ranging from small and major retailers to high tech, medical manufacturing. While 5 minute access to the Dallas North Tollway and other major thoroughfares link Little Elm to the surrounding region's major city centers, Little Elms is also committed to opportunities to attract additional businesses to the area to create more work choices close to home. Little Elm also enjoys a rich variety of cultural offerings including an expanded public library, recreation center, senior center, live music at its shoreline amphitheatre, and a variety of seasonal festivals and events.
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Companies to develop and commercialize Opdivo (nivolumab), Yervoy (ipilimumab), and three early–stage clinical immuno-oncology assets as single agents and combination regimens
Bristol-Myers Squibb gains access to Opdivo in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, broadening company's leadership in immuno-oncology
Ono strengthens its immuno-oncology portfolio with access to additional assets
Collaboration will leverage global clinical trials by including patients from Japan, South Korea and Taiwan
NEW YORK & OSAKA, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE:BMY) and Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. ("Ono") have signed a strategic collaboration agreement to jointly develop and commercialize multiple immunotherapies as single agents and combination regimens to help address the unmet medical needs of patients with cancer in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. As part of the agreement, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Ono will jointly develop and commercialize Opdivo (nivolumab) and Yervoy (ipilimumab) across a broad range of tumor types.
Opdivo is a PD-1 immune checkpoint inhibitor approved in Japan for the treatment of patients with unresectable melanoma, making it the first PD-1 immune checkpoint inhibitor to receive regulatory approval anywhere in the world, and is being developed in multiple tumor types in more than 35 clinical trials. Yervoy, a CTLA-4 immune checkpoint inhibitor, is approved in Taiwan for the treatment of patients with advanced melanoma who have received prior therapy, and is in late-stage development as a potential treatment option for melanoma, small cell lung cancer (SCLC) and non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in Japan. The agreement includes three additional early-stage clinical immuno-oncology assets from Bristol-Myers Squibb: lirilumab, an antibody that blocks the KIR receptor on natural killer cells, urelumab, an agonist of the CD137 co-stimulatory receptor, and BMS-986016, a LAG3 immune checkpoint inhibitor.
Bristol-Myers Squibb and Ono will jointly pursue development of monotherapy and combination regimens, with Opdivo as the foundational therapy in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, and leverage global clinical trials by including patients from the three countries.
"Bristol-Myers Squibb's collaboration with Ono supports our goal to maximize the full potential of our immuno-oncology portfolio for patients worldwide," said Lamberto Andreotti, chief executive officer, Bristol-Myers Squibb. "This collaboration combines our leadership in immuno-oncology with both companies' experience and capabilities in Asia, and strengthens our long-standing relationship with Ono."
"Our collaboration with Bristol-Myers Squibb strengthens our ability to further enhance the potential of Opdivo, for which Ono recently received manufacturing and marketing approval in Japan as the first PD-1 inhibitor approved anywhere in the world," said Gyo Sagara, President, Representative Director and CEO, Ono. "By pursuing the study of investigational combination regimens of immunotherapies with Bristol-Myers Squibb, we hope to bring a range of new therapeutic options to cancer patients."
Under the terms of the agreement, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Ono will jointly develop and commercialize all collaboration products in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. Development costs and commercial profits will be shared equally when Opdivo is used in combination with any Bristol-Myers Squibb compound (Yervoy, lirilumab, urelumab, BMS-986016). For a Bristol-Myers Squibb compound used as monotherapy, or two Bristol-Myers Squibb compounds used in a combination regimen, Bristol-Myers Squibb will fund the substantial majority of development costs and receive the substantial majority of commercial profits. When Opdivo is used as a single agent, Ono will fund the substantial majority of development costs and receive the substantial majority of commercial profits.
Prior to this announcement, Ono held exclusive rights to develop and commercialize Opdivo in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan while Bristol-Myers Squibb held such rights in the rest of the world, along with sole rights to develop and commercialize Yervoy, lirilumab, urelumab, and BMS-986016 worldwide. The trade name Opdivo has been proposed in the U.S. and other countries, but remains subject to health authority approval.
About Opdivo (nivolumab)
Cancer cells may exploit "regulatory" pathways, such as checkpoint pathways, to hide from the immune system and shield the tumor from immune attack. Opdivo is an investigational human PD-1 immune checkpoint inhibitor that binds to the checkpoint receptor PD-1 (programmed death-1) expressed on activated T-cells. The companies are investigating whether by blocking this pathway, Opdivo would enable the immune system to resume its ability to recognize, attack and destroy cancer cells.
Opdivo was approved in Japan on July 4, 2014 for the treatment of patients with unresectable melanoma and is being studied in multiple tumor types in more than 35 trials – as monotherapy or in combination with other therapies – in which more than 7,000 patients have been enrolled worldwide. Among these are several potentially registrational trials in NSCLC, melanoma, renal cell carcinoma (RCC), head and neck cancer, glioblastoma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. In 2013, the FDA granted Fast Track designation for Opdivo in NSCLC, melanoma and RCC. In May 2014, the FDA granted Opdivo Breakthrough Therapy Designation for the treatment of patients with Hodgkin lymphoma after failure of autologous stem cell transplant and brentuximab.
About Yervoy (ipilimumab)
Yervoy, which is a recombinant, human monoclonal antibody, blocks the cytotoxic T- lymphocyte-associated antigen-4 (CTLA-4). CTLA-4 is a negative regulator of T-cell activation. Yervoy binds to CTLA-4 and blocks the interaction of CTLA-4 with its ligands, CD80/CD86. Blockade of CTLA-4 has been shown to augment T-cell activation and proliferation. The mechanism of action of Yervoy's effect in patients with melanoma is indirect, possibly through T-cell mediated anti-tumor immune responses. On March 25, 2011, the FDA approved Yervoy 3 mg/kg monotherapy for patients with unresectable or metastatic melanoma. Yervoy is now approved in more than 40 countries, including Taiwan. There is a broad, ongoing development program in place for Yervoy spanning multiple tumor types. This includes Phase 3 trials in prostate and lung cancers.
Yervoy (ipilimumab) INDICATION & IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION
Yervoy (ipilimumab) is indicated for the treatment of unresectable or metastatic melanoma.
Important Safety Information
Yervoy can result in severe and fatal immune-mediated adverse reactions due to T-cell activation and proliferation. These immune-mediated reactions may involve any organ system; however, the most common severe immune-mediated adverse reactions are enterocolitis, hepatitis, dermatitis (including toxic epidermal necrolysis), neuropathy, and endocrinopathy. The majority of these immune-mediated reactions initially manifested during treatment; however, a minority occurred weeks to months after discontinuation of Yervoy.
Assess patients for signs and symptoms of enterocolitis, dermatitis, neuropathy, and endocrinopathy and evaluate clinical chemistries including liver function tests (LFTs) and thyroid function tests at baseline and before each dose.
Permanently discontinue Yervoy and initiate systemic high-dose corticosteroids for sever immune-mediated reactions.
Recommended Dose Modifications
Withhold dose for any moderate immune-mediated adverse reactions or for symptomatic endocrinopathy until return to baseline, improvement to mild severity, or complete resolution, and patient is receiving <7.5 mg prednisone or equivalent per day.
Permanently discontinue Yervoy for any of the following:
Immune-mediated Enterocolitis:
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Other Immune-mediated Adverse Reactions, Including Ocular Manifestations:
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Please see Full Prescribing Information, including Boxed WARNING regarding immune-mediated adverse reactions, available at www.bms.com.
Immuno-Oncology at Bristol-Myers Squibb
Surgery, radiation, cytotoxic or targeted therapies have represented the mainstay of cancer treatment over the last several decades, but long-term survival and a positive quality of life have remained elusive for many patients with advanced disease.
To address this unmet medical need, Bristol-Myers Squibb is leading advances in the innovative field of immuno-oncology, which involves agents whose primary mechanism is to work directly with the body's immune system to fight cancer. The company is exploring a variety of compounds and immunotherapeutic approaches for patients with different types of cancer, including researching the potential of combining immuno-oncology agents that target different and complementary pathways in the treatment of cancer.
Bristol-Myers Squibb is committed to advancing the science of immuno-oncology, with the goal of changing survival expectations and the way patients live with cancer.
About the Bristol-Myers Squibb and Ono Collaboration
Bristol-Myers Squibb, through its wholly owned subsidiary Medarex, Inc., and Ono have a long-standing relationship since 2005 to develop and commercialize PD-1 antibodies, including Opdivo. Bristol-Myers Squibb obtained rights to develop and commercialize Opdivo in North America in 2009 as part of the Medarex, Inc. acquisition. Through a collaboration agreement entered into in September 2011, Ono granted Bristol-Myers Squibb exclusive rights to develop and commercialize Opdivo in the rest of the world, except in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan where Ono retained such rights.
On July 23, 2014, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Ono signed a new collaboration agreement in which the companies agreed to jointly develop and commercialize Opdivo, Yervoy and three early-stage immunotherapies in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.
About Bristol-Myers Squibb
Bristol-Myers Squibb is a global biopharmaceutical company whose mission is to discover, develop and deliver innovative medicines that help patients prevail over serious diseases. For more information, please visit www.bms.com or follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/bmsnews.
About Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., headquartered in Osaka, Japan, is an R&D-oriented pharmaceutical company committed to creating innovative medicines in specific areas. It focuses especially on the diabetes and oncology areas. For more information, please visit the company's website at http://www.ono.co.jp/eng/index.html.
Bristol-Myers Squibb Forward-Looking Statement
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 regarding the research, development and commercialization of pharmaceutical products. Such forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and involve inherent risks and uncertainties, including factors that could delay, divert or change any of them, and could cause actual outcomes and results to differ materially from current expectations. No forward-looking statement can be guaranteed. Among other risks, there can be no guarantee that any of the compounds mentioned in this release will receive regulatory approval in Japan, South Korea or Taiwan, either as single agents (other than Yervoy in Taiwan and Opdivo in Japan) or in combination regimens, or, if approved, that they will become commercially successful products. Forward-looking statements in this press release should be evaluated together with the many uncertainties that affect Bristol-Myers Squibb's business, particularly those identified in the cautionary factors discussion in Bristol-Myers Squibb's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2013 in our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and our Current Reports on Form 8-K. Bristol-Myers Squibb undertakes no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.


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No, not the Rylan Star League. Princeton and 25 other colleges have teams in the "Collegiate Star League." Friday, the Tigers took on Tsinghua U. of Beijing, and The New York Times covered the action.
The New York Times covered the match for yesterday's edition, describing the genesis of the league and dropping in some comments that should make a few tuition-paying parents recoil.
"We're looking to get more people off the athletic field and into the gaming room," said Peter Liu, who is also described as having an A.P.M. (actions per minute) of 200. Korean pros go upwards of 500.
The Collegiate Star League seems to have gotten its start at Princeton, where the concept was initially laughed out of the room. But a match against M.I.T., and some well produced hype videos leading up to it, brought people around to the idea.
The League is currently in its playoffs - Princeton, having been eliminated earlier, took on Tsinghua in a friendly on Friday and took at least one victory in a five-round match. The Times calls the action:
The match began as green (Princeton) and beige (Tsinghua) drones, fluttering triangles with tails, and jellylike spawning pools, started filling up the screen.
"Here we go, here we go," Liu said excitedly as Princeton's legions of green-winged Zerglings started attacking Tsinghua's half-built defenses. Flames shot up from Tsinghua's bases. Standing now, the audience hooted and clapped. It was Princeton's first win of the evening. A few moments later, Zhang came back in, a broad smile on her face, and double high-fived a few teammates.
Every time I want to say the idea of gaming as a spectator sport is flat-out absurd, I remember that it's a million-dollar business in South Korea. And that a friend and I once set a point spread, over-under line, and bet on both while watching the computer play itself in Madden.
Princeton Goes International for StarCraft E-Competition [The New York Times]


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Light Chicken Divan
* 1 1/2 pounds broccoli (about 3 large heads), chopped
* 24 ounces boneless, skinless chicken breasts (I used 2 cans chicken)
* Salt and pepper
* 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
* 2 1/2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil
* 2 cloves garlic, crushed
* 2 tablespoons minced onion
* 1/4 cup all-purpose flour (I used cornstarch)
* 1 cup fat-free chicken broth
* 1 cup nonfat milk
* 1/4 cup dry sherry or white wine (I used white cooking wine)
* 6 ounces shredded reduced-fat Swiss cheese
* 1/4 cup grated Parmesan
* 1/4 cup seasoned whole-wheat bread crumbs (I used gluten-free bread crumbs)
1. Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add broccoli and blanch 3 minutes. Drain and rinse with cold water to stop cooking.
2. Preheat oven to 350°F. Mist a 9-by-13-inch baking dish with cooking spray.
3. Season chicken with salt and pepper. Mist a large skillet or grill pan with cooking spray; place over medium-low heat. Cook chicken, turning once, until browned and almost cooked through, about 10 minutes. Remove from heat; transfer chicken to a cutting board. When cool, slice chicken into bite-size pieces.
4. Warm a medium skillet over medium heat. Add butter and 2 tsp. oil; heat until butter has melted. Add garlic and shallots and sauté until tender, about 3 minutes. Sprinkle flour over mixture and whisk until incorporated. Stir in broth, milk and sherry and bring to a boil. Remove from heat and stir in half of Swiss cheese. Season with salt and pepper.
5. Arrange broccoli in baking dish and pour half of sauce on top. Arrange chicken on top and cover with remaining sauce. Sprinkle with remaining Swiss cheese and Parmesan; top with bread crumbs. Drizzle with 1/2 tsp. olive oil. (I just layered the broccoli, then chicken and poured all the sauce over the top at once)
6. Bake for 30 minutes or until browned on top; serve hot.
Makes 6 Servings, Calories:390 * Fat:13g * Saturated fat:7g * Protein:41g * Carbohydrate:19g * Fiber:3g * Cholesterol:93mg * Sodium:701mg
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November is a somewhat sombre month, and not only because the days are getting a lot colder and darker here in the UK. This year's remembrance ceremonies have had extra potency due to the centenary of the end of the First World War, so i've taken this as my cue for the next 5:4 mixtape. It's titled 'Silence (Requiem)', though i should stress that i haven't created it as a commemoration, homage or tribute to anyone or anything specific – i've simply curated music that exists in an interesting and thoughtful relationship with silence.
In some cases this takes the form of busy lowercase chatter (Bernhard Günter, John Wall, Tomas Phillips & Luigi Turra, Shinkei, Ennio Mazzon, Christopher McFall), a few tracks are creatively 'silent', presented as ostensibly passive field recordings (Unknown Artist, Christoph Limbach, British Library, Dallas Simpson), and there are various examples of restrained or compressed music, containing a sense of pent-up energy (Ben Frost, Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto, Desist, Jason Lescalleet, Supersilent, Need Thomas Windham, Secret Chiefs 3, Andrew Liles, Ryoji Ikeda). Most of the tracks, though, are gentle, ruminative and/or meditative music, most of which treats silence as an omnipresence into which its material is carefully placed (Gareth Davis & Frances-Marie Uitti, James Weeks, Brian Eno, The Hafler Trio, The Denisovans, Ouvrage Fermont, Jakob Ullmann, Haruo Okada & Fabio Perletta, Burkhard Schlothauer, Kenneth Kirschner, Jürg Frey, Eva-Maria Houben).
Interspersed at half-hourly intervals are four short excerpts from choral works that either reference the dead or are otherwise laments. Ricky Ian Gordon's Water Music: A Requiem is a work, according to the composer, "not only for the dead, but for what seemed like a sort of death in me". Galina Grigorjeva's setting of Joseph Brodsky's The Butterfly (review) is an exquisitely tender articulation of life's frailty and ephemerality. Bernat Vivancos' Requiem (review) avoids the traditional Latin text in favour of a more personal philosophical and poetic reflection on death. To end the mixtape, following two minutes of quasi-silence by irr. app. (ext.), i've turned to Alfred Schnittke and the haunting wordless piece that ends his Psalms of Repentance.
In all, two hours of near-noiseless contemplative quietude; i recommend close listening in a darkened space, and as there are no sudden loud outbursts feel free to crank up the volume as much as desired. Here's the tracklisting in full, together with links to obtain the music. As usual, the mixtape can be downloaded or streamed via MixCloud. Read more


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The High Museum of Art commissioned Martin Parr to document Atlanta as part of its Picturing the South project—a series of artist commissions that engage with the American South. Channeling his unparalleled ability to collate humor, wit, and curiosity into his heavily socio-cultural photographs, Parr captured the oddities and eccentricities of contemporary Americana.
British-born Parr, whose photography career spans over 30 years, is known for his provocative documentary style by using cultural criticism through an exaggerated and humorous light. His analysis of how we live is not simply satire, as Parr offers his audience an approach to seeing which acts not to denounce, but to highlight (both aesthetically and thematically) patterns between people, the things we consume and the milieus in which we live.
The outcome of the museum's commission offers a vivid, comedic and touching perspective on the diversity that lies in Atlanta. Parr covers a large body of subject matter in his findings, which ranges from the high and low—juxtaposing images from a gallery opening to an oddly lengthy corn dog on a stick. Parr's images offer insight which would only be found through the lens of a meticulous and curious outsider.
Beyond the exhibition at the High Museum of Art, Italian publisher Contrasto released a book, Up and Down Peachtree: Photographs of Atlanta, and a documetary, Hot Spots: Martin Parr in the American South. The book, a meticulously edited and impeccably designed object in its own right, is printed without text beyond the book's title and colophon—which, undeniably, is a testament to Parr's talent for storytelling. The documentary is a 60-minute lens behind the lens where documentarian Neal Broffman followed Parr photographing around Atlanta. The documentary includes interviews with noted curators, writers, critics and photographers, and offers a look into at Parr's real-life affable personality and interactions with his subjects. Below, Contrasto has given LightBox an exclusive clip on the documentary:
Martin Parr's photographs are on view now through September 9, 2012, as part of Picturing the South: New Commissions from the High Museum of Art. Up and Down Peachtree and Hot Spots: Martin Parr in the American South are both available for purchase online.


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Chris Lundy reaches for his laptop computer and pulls up a statement he typed 24 hours ago. He says he's afraid he'll stumble over his words if he doesn't at least look at what he articulated in size-14 Helvetica font.
He says he wants to express how the fluidity of surfing mirrors the fluidity of painting. How painting waves and surfing waves are both impulsive and calculated. How one wave can travel thousands of miles before it breaks and one painting can take a dozen years to complete. How rendering a globule of water is as instinctive and consuming as raising a child, and how painting and surfing are, at this point in his life, the same thing.
But, as Lundy begins to read from the document, he remembers he created a Facebook page earlier in the week and instead gets sucked into showing off his online photo albums.
"I got like 70 friends in one day," he says with a bemused chuckle. "Are you on Facebook?"
Behind him, a 6-foot-tall canvas looms, its orange, red and turquoise waves are an angry, ominous swirl, crashing and spraying in a deliberate pattern that, when viewed from a distance, reveals a dragon.
The painting, titled "Mama's Mad 2," reflects the Earth's changing global climate and belies Lundy's casual exterior: floppy cargo shorts, black T-shirt, flip-fops, Hawaii driver's license, Facebook profile.
He painted his first "Mama's Mad" in 2003, pre-dating the tsunami that killed 230,000 people in Southeast Asia one year later.
The painting, which ran on the front cover of Juxtapoz magazine in April 2006, sticks out among Lundy's other work. It's fiercer and more apocalyptic, and when asked to discuss it, Lundy clams up.
"People don't understand that kind of cynicism," he says. "It confuses them. The painting is a commentary on what's going on as the world heats up and the sea level rises, but it's not the main thrust of my stuff. I'm more meditative and contemplative. What you see up there is my dark side poking out."
He laughs nervously and again averts his eyes to his laptop, clicking on a Nike poster he designed for Hawaii's 1994 Honolulu Marathon. The image of a hulking Tiki man running up the beach is almost cartoonish in comparison.
"If my art crosses over into pop culture, that's fine," Lundy says. "Painting can be a very inward, self-immersed thing. If it jumps over and communicates with people, I'm fine with that. It's nice when someone can look at a painting and instantly recognize it."
A 53-year-old surfer from Sarasota who has lived in Hawaii for the last three decades, Lundy has spent his entire career painting the Pacific Ocean as if it were viscous slow-moving mercury.
"There's an element of wonder to his work," says Daniel Petrov, education program coordinator at Art Center Sarasota, where Lundy's "H20: An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Prints" exhibit is currently on display. "The sheer spectacle of water, especially when it's moving, is definitely something that holds a viewer's attention."
Lundy grew up surfing on Siesta Key beach, hardly the best place to hang 10. The son of acclaimed Sarasota School of Architecture disciple Victor Lundy, the young artist spent much of his childhood with his mother, Shirley Lundy, who split from her architect husband when Lundy was 3 years old.
"I was aware of the gut-level aesthetics of my father's buildings," Lundy says. "He got a lot of attention for his curved structures. I never made a conscious effort to emulate that, but I guess there is a rhythm and architecture to the ocean."
He describes Sarasota as a ragtag community of "wacky artists" who were all friends with his mother, a painter and a longtime actress at The Players Theatre.
Five days after graduating from Riverview High School, Lundy, then 18, moved out to the North Shore of Oahu carrying only a backpack and a surfboard. For 10 years he competed in Hawaii's famous pro-surfing circuit, working as a custom surfboard designer on the side.
In 1983, he dislocated his left knee surfing in Oahu's notoriously dicey Pipeline Masters competition. The injury, says Lundy, put him out of commission entirely, so he decided to enroll in art school in Pasadena, Calif., and pursue painting on a full-time basis.
He spent the 1990s creating large-scale canvases and designing event posters for A-list surfing events all over the world, garnering a following that landed him a gig designing sneakers for Nike.
He mentions that he's taking a break from Hawaii, that he plans to stay in Sarasota for awhile, spend time with his mother , reunite with old friends and take pleasure in his first hometown-art show.
"I had a feast out there," Lundy says. "But there are lots of other places in the world with better waves. There are places with nicer, longer, dreamier waves."
Turning back to his computer, he minimizes Facebook and remembers that an hour ago he had intended to read a prepared statement about his art.
"I'm sorry," he says. "I got off on a tangent, huh?"
He opens the idle Word document and slowly reads a passage of it.
"I would say," Lundy begins, "that my paintings are essentially meditations in and of themselves and, through that, hopefully, they serve as a glimpse into the rhythmic, radiant, liquid sanctuary that is the true home of many."
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The Minnesota Wild has locked up one of its young blueliners for two more seasons. Minnesota has re-signed Marco Scandella to a two-year contract.
The 6-foot-3, 210-pound defenseman has shown the potential to be a top-4 pairing while with the club. After spending most of the 2012-13 season with the Wild's American Hockey League affiliate, the Houston Aeros, Scandella played in all five of the team's postseason games in the Western Conference Quarterfinals against the Chicago Blackhawks, posting a goal and an assist. He led team's defensemen in playoff scoring and ranked fourth in time on ice at 18:01 per game.
In 45 games with Houston this season, he scored 17 points (2-15=17) and earned a plus-2 rating. In parts of three seasons with Minnesota, the 23-year-old has played in 89 NHL games, scoring four goal and adding 11 assists.
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Nero and his friends are among us
By Julio Severo
Satan, the Supreme Blamer, was the first to rise up with accusations against the children of God.
Centuries later, Nero, an insane emperor, rose up. He had Rome torched and blamed Christians.
Centuries still later, Satanist Karl Marx arose. He was a former Protestant and blamed God, family and Christians for the evils in the world.
Today, the Supreme Accuser uses not only people like Nero and Marx, but also nominally Christian individuals who, while claiming to despise Nero, are lovers of Marx. Among those there are Catholic and Protestant leaders who use* Christ's Gospel merely as a stump for Marxist ideas.
In their hands, the Kingdom of God is a mere façade for a socialist theocratic kingdom*, where "kingdom" ideology imposes a Gospel molded in the image and likeness of Karl Marx to rule this world.
Everything opposing the socialist "kingdom" agenda is treated as… apostasy.
Even Christian opposition to abortion and sodomy agenda raises the socialists' ire, and their faithful Catholic and Protestant lovers prefer alignment with… their ideological siblings.
Any crime, regardless of how distant from Christians, is used as an excuse for them to take revenge on Christians.
In the recent case of an Islam sympathizer who murdered students in a Rio de Janeiro school, a progressive (or "kingdomist", or Marxist, or socialist, or whatever) evangelical leader compared* the murderer to Catholic and Evangelical Christians who oppose abortion.
In another text, in his routine reasoning poisoned by ideological malice decorated and topped with "Christian love," this same "kingdom" evangelical, who is an Anglican bishop, declares* in regard to abortion,
"Anyone who thinks, for instance, that by banning abortion he is going to restrain the growth of this nefarious practice, is mistaken. Clandestine clinics express gratitude for any attempt to hinder abortion from being regulated in Brazil."
Coming from an ordinary individual, this would be an irresponsible and stupid statement. But coming from an Anglican bishop, can one say that these are pure and innocent words?
Such schizophrenic linguistic gymnastics are reminiscent of what Lula once said: "I am against abortion, but I support its legalization."
These schizophrenic linguistic gymnastics also remind us of Caio Fábio, who says that he is against abortion, but he counsels* its practice — an inconsistency as flagrant as his views and counseling about homosexuality. Not coincidentally, both progressive evangelicals figure prominently in the sensationalist tabloid Genizah.
The fact is, abortion is homicide. My friend Fr. Luiz Carlos Lodi da Cruz, who has a degree in law and is a prominent Catholic pro-life leader, said this about the Anglican bishop's thinking: "An individual person has an intrinsic value, a certain dignity owing to the simple fact that he is a person. The human person's dignity is one of the foundations of the Federal Republic of Brazil (first article, III, Federal Constitution). Therefore, what matters is not to know if the overall number of abortions will decrease through its 'legalization.' What matters is to know if this human individual in this woman's womb will or will not be protected if abortion is 'regulated'."
The "kingdom" evangelical might have tried to hide his intentions, but the obvious implications of his reasoning are easy to discern if we apply his "logic" to other equally horrendous situations,
"Anyone who thinks, for instance, that by banning rape he is going to restrain the growth of this nefarious practice, is mistaken. Clandestine rapists express gratitude for any attempt to hinder rape from being regulated in Brazil."
"Anyone who thinks, for instance, that by banning murder he is going to restrain the growth of this nefarious practice, is mistaken. Clandestine murderers express gratitude for any attempt to hinder murder from being regulated in Brazil."
"Anyone who thinks, for instance, that by banning pedophilia he is going to restrain the growth of this nefarious practice, is mistaken. Clandestine pedophiles express gratitude for any attempt to hinder pedophilia from being regulated in Brazil."
I had already refuted at length that kind of thinking in my article on an evangelical leader who attacked Christian activism against a Brazilian anti-"homophobia" bill and homosexual "marriage". Nowadays, that leader writes, together with the aforementioned Anglican bishop, in the sensationalist internet tabloid Genizah.
Inconsistency and paradox dominate the Anglican bishop's words, which purport to oppose abortion, but display clear indifference to its legalization. In the same breath, he shows favoritism for Marxist ideas while claiming to have no sympathy for Marx. And in a letter on so-called Christian love, he had the chutzpah to say that he doesn't make use of snide language, but in the same letter, insulted Brazilian philosopher Olavo de Carvalho. He is a silver-medal schizophrenic linguistic gymnast, trailing his gold-medal friend Caio Fábio.
What about PLC 122, the anti-"homophobia" bill threatening religious freedom in Brazil? Anglican bishop Hermes Fernandes laughs* derisively as if Christians opposing the gay agenda were paranoid.
But if I were in his shoes, I would be crying. The Anglican Church is demolishing itself with the advance of the gay agenda in its midst, having already ordained gay and lesbian bishops. And its "more conservative" representatives, like Robinson Cavalcanti, a Brazilian Anglican bishop, are wallowing in a bottomless pit of inconsistencies. Cavalcanti, for instance, founded the Progressive Evangelical Movement, which helped elect socialist Lula to the Brazilian presidency years ago. In turn, Lula put the gay agenda on the pedestal during his administration. Even at the end of his administration, Lula, the champion of gay activists and progressive Christians, gave numerous gifts to gay activists.
Today, with his typical schizophrenic linguistic gymnastics, Bishop Fernandes, who lives in the US, is a devout backer of Dilma Rousseff and Barack Obama, both followers of the Marxist religion of abortion and sodomy. Might the Anglican bishop blame Dilma and Obama for the promotion of that religion in the Brazilian and American society? No, he simply couldn't do that. He was trained only to blame conservative Christians.
Whether opposed or not to abortion and the sodomist agenda, what progressive evangelicals do and say eventually contributes to the advance of the socialist agenda, although they swear they want nothing to do with socialism. The many contributors include Ariovaldo Ramos, who traveled* to Venezuela to lend his support to Marxist dictator Hugo Chavez; and Caio Fábio, who admitted* that for years he had worked for a rapprochement between Brazilian evangelicals on the one hand and Lula and his socialist party on the other. Other prominent Evangelical socialists in Brazil are Ricardo Gondim, Paul Freston and Ed Rene Kivitz.
They wreak untold havoc on the spreading of the Gospel by perverting it and making it serve an ideology alien to Jesus Christ. Every attempt to build a human kingdom on that ideology has brought about the manifestation of the kingdom of darkness: slaughter, genocide, lies, destruction and horrendous persecution to Christ's true followers.
When society is destroyed by the fire of their ideology, Marxists, in the tradition of Nero, are quick to blame pro-life and pro-family conservative Christians, who thus must also suffer the accusations of progressive Catholics and Evangelicals.
If someone says that this is the spirit of Nero among Christians, "kingdomists" and progressive Christians quickly deny it, saying, "We prefer the religious descendants of Marx!" or in the style of the schizophrenic linguistic gymnastics, "We want to bring out the best in them!"
It doesn't matter. Ultimately, the result is the same.
Reviewed by Don Hank.
* These are Portuguese links. Links without an asterisk are English links.
Portuguese version of this article: Nero e seus amigos estão entre nós
Spanish version of this article: Nerón y sus amigos están entre nosotros
Source: Julio Severo in English
Other articles by Julio Severo:
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Wow. Your article really made me think. I'm an American, and in my state they are voting on shutting down Planned Parenthood (which performs 330,000 abortions a year, nationwide). I support a clinic that is pro-life, and the director emailed me today asking me to call our legislators to ask them to vote to shut down the awful organization. For a second, I thought, "There's no way we're going to be able to stop abortion in this country.. What's the point?" I know that's horrible. Especially for a believer to think! (Forgive me Lord)
But from your comparison of replacing abortion with rape, murder, or pedophilia.. I realized that I MUST call. ASAP.
Thank you. God bless you!
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Sexiness, like love or nostalgia or sinus congestion on a pollen-free day, has a way of sneaking up on us at the most improbable moments.
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How do we account, for example, for that ineluctable feeling of desirability that can come over us when we are traipsing home from the yoga studio in sweaty leggings and flip-flops that reveal more about our pedicure history than we'd like? And how, by the same token, do we explain the ease with which many of us can slip into our most reliably fabulous Balenciaga dress and Louboutin slides and still feel as sexy as a bag of carrots?
There are, of course, as many reasons for this cruel dichotomy as there are ways to feel bad about ourselves.
We can blame hormones, headaches, pimples, bloating, bad moods, bad hair, or bad lighting. We must also consider what it is we're staring into. Mirrors, as all women know, are highly politicized entities. For reasons that I am convinced are more complicated than national health care, it is entirely possible for me to look and feel reasonably hot in front of my own mirror and, less than an hour later, catch a reflection of myself that suggests some shapeless creature from Jim Henson's workshop has borrowed my outfit and copied my hairstyle, and is blithely chatting up my friends, all of whom are too polite to say anything.
There have, of course, been times when I have felt almost unbearably sexy for no apparent or justifiable reason: retrieving the newspaper in pajamas and clogs, standing over the kitchen sink washing dishes, pondering the produce selection at Whole Foods. None of these occasions led to or had anything to do with an actual sex act.
In other words, let's get one thing very clear: The phenomenon I'm discussing has to do with sexiness, not horniness. There is a sizable, if nuanced, distinction. If this were the analogy portion of the SAT, we might say that sexiness is to horniness as epicureanism is to hunger. Whereas lust tends to limit its reach to particular people or stretches of time (and, like hunger, can presumably be sated via fairly standard channels), sexiness is a state of mind. It is inextricably linked to sex as a concept but wholly separate from fornication. Despite our preoccupation with the sexiness of women, sexiness applies to both genders. Despite the youth-centric tyranny of our times, it transcends age. As much about posture and voice intonation as it is about cleavage or skirt length or the dimensions of our posteriors, feeling sexy is, at its root, about owning ourselves. It's being at home in our own skins. No wonder it is so damn elusive.
After all, pretty much anyone can have sex.
Capturing the essence of sex and customizing it to our own needs and tastes is more difficult. Hence, another analogy: Having sex is to being sexy what conceiving a child is to raising a child. The first, age and health permitting, is more or less a biological function. The second is an art: a complicated, ever-evolving process that no two people can possibly do the same way. And just as the parents who are most successful at child rearing are often those who pay the least attention to its fads (heated diaper wipes) and socially constructed paranoias (the idea that the child will suffer due to unheated diaper wipes), women who possess an innate eroticism tend to do the least amount of worrying about how they measure up to popular images of sexiness.
The Unlikely Hot Girl
Enter the Unlikely Hot Girl. We all know at least one of her, more likely several. She's the less than totally attractive woman who mysteriously draws men to her as though she were the last female on a remote tropical island. In other words, men don't simply like her, they want and need her; they require her. It's not that she's ugly. She's just notably imperfect. Maybe she has crooked teeth or substantial hips or a bump on her nose. Maybe her breasts are too small or saggy or possessed of any of the myriad flaws that, here in the Plasticine Age, are avoided only by way of artificial mammary enhancement. Maybe the worst thing we can say about her is that she's not as attractive as we like to think we ourselves are. So why is she being madly pursued by the guy we've met several times but who never remembers our name?
Conventional wisdom might say, "It's the pheromones, stupid!" Most often associated with insects and those intriguing advertisements in the backs of magazines — "Attract the Mate You Want: Order Now!" — pheromones are chemicals that trigger a variety of biological responses. There are pheromones associated with danger from a predator, with the marking of a trail, and with claiming territory. In other words, pheromones are the chemicals released when bees sting, when ants travel to and from their nests, and when dogs urinate on everything they pass.
Notice that none of these examples involve people being asked for their phone numbers in bars. That's because despite the widespread assumption that pheromones are inextricably linked to erotic appeal, there's a long-standing debate as to whether humans even have them. (William Shatner has said, "I'm told that my pheromone count is very high and that I am just naturally attractive to women and, I think, sexual deviants.")
"The whole notion of human pheromones was a popular thing with psychiatrists in the 1970s," says Mary Roach, author of "Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex" (W. W. Norton), which looks at the elaborate lengths researchers have gone to in order to untangle the mysteries of Eros. "But increasingly it looks like a nuts-and-bolts chemical thing. It has to do with the insect world."
Still, as Roach describes in "Bonk," the idea that a human sex hormone can be identified and isolated (and even packaged and sold) has long captured the scientific imagination. In 1971, University of Chicago psychologist Martha McClintock, then a Wellesley College undergraduate, published research suggesting that, thanks to pheromones, women who lived in groups tended to get their periods at the same time each month. That same year, Richard P. Michael, a British behavioral neuroendocrinologist studying rhesus monkeys, professed to have isolated whatever compounds in vaginal secretions cause male monkeys to initiate sex when they sniff them. The assumption was that, due to genetic similarities between primates and humans, the existence of monkey pheromones must prove the existence of human pheromones. Unfortunately, in 1977, when a sample group of married women were asked to apply synthetic rhesus monkey hormones on their chests at bedtime for three months in a row, they reported no change in their husbands' interest level or behavior.
The art of attraction
But that hasn't stopped other researchers from fighting the good fight. In 1986, research biologist Winnifred Cutler and George Preti, a chemist from the Monell Chemical Senses Center, a research institute in Philadelphia, published data showing that male sweat extracts secreted from sexually active men's armpits promote more fertile menstrual cycles.
Cutler went on to claim that in the same way that women who live together experience a synchronization of their periods, "women with unusually short or long menstrual cycles get closer-to-average cycles after regularly inhaling the male essence." (That essence, according to Cutler, is comprised of male hormones, sweat, and body odor. "You just walk into a male locker room," she told a reporter in 1998. "That's the odor.")
That scent isn't exactly a recipe for feeling like hot stuff. But further research — such as a study suggesting that women who applied armpit secretions donated by other women to their upper lips had sex more often — led Cutler to extrapolate that human pheromones attract members of the opposite sex.
Preti, who now questions some of his and Cutler's research methods and conclusions, is no longer associated with Cutler. Meanwhile, if her name sounds familiar, it may be because her pheromone potions, which include an "aftershave/cologne additive" for men and a "cosmetic fragrance additive" for women, are advertised in magazines and sold on her Web site. The prices: $99.50 and $98.50, respectively, for one sixth of an ounce.
In case you're wondering, I've never heard of anyone experiencing any effects, positive or negative, from mail-order pheromones. Back in 1999, Roach tried them as part of research for an article in the online magazine Salon, and reported that people made more eye contact with her, but only because she was staring at them trying to discern if they felt uncontrollably drawn to her. That's not to suggest that William Shatner doesn't have a "high pheromone count." It's more likely, however, that what he really has is a healthy dose of ego. As we've been told by every self-help author, talk-show shrink, and platitudinous celebrity, the many portals to feeling sexy are accessible via a single key: self-confidence.
"It's all about knowing who you are, about owning yourself," says April Masini, author of "Think and Date Like a Man" (iUniverse), which essentially tells women to stop sabotaging themselves with needless self-loathing. "To any woman who walks into a room and feels too old or not sexy, I have three words: Camilla Parker Bowles," Masini says. "She wasn't as conventionally sexy as Princess Diana. But she got the prince."
Granted, Parker Bowles isn't everyone's idea of a femme fatale. But the fact that Prince Charles held deeper affections for this relatively ordinary-looking woman than for the princess whose beauty and sex appeal were universally recognized and relentlessly celebrated serves as further proof that what Mom told us is true: namely, that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Also, stand up straight. (Diana, for all her loveliness, never mastered that one.)
Sexiness is evanescent
The Unlikely Hot Girl, on the other hand, has the posture of a dancer even if she's zaftig, the smile of a beauty queen even if she has a space between her teeth, and, perhaps most importantly, a fashion sensibility that truly places sensibility over fashion. That is to say, she does not purchase clothes solely on the basis of having seen them on the body of a 16-year-old celebrity. She also, according to author and sexologist Yvonne K. Fulbright, doesn't ignore her flaws so much as embrace them.
"She recognizes that she's sexual and that there's no excuse for how she was made," says Fulbright, who's now an expert on CherryTV, a new video-based Web site focusing on women's sexuality and health. "She's good at channeling her energy to focus on desirable traits."
Moreover, says Fulbright, a lot of Unlikely Hot Girls have figured out how to resist the pervasive cultural message that being sexually attractive requires impersonating a stripper or a porn star. And on that front, their closest allies can be the very forces that less enlightened women live in fear of: age and wisdom.
Mary Roach suggests that the trick to feeling sexy is to tap into the freedom we can feel in a dark bedroom. "In this culture, what's hot is tits and youth," Roach says. "The majority of us don't have enough of one or the other, or either. That's why it's easy to be sexy in a dark room. In your own mind you can be Jennifer Lopez. But when you walk into a bathroom with unflattering light, it makes you crumple. So perhaps the thing to do is focus on that feeling of having the lights out, of being anything you want to be, rather than thinking about how big your ass is."
That's an interesting angle, but most of us live chiefly in daylight (or, worse, under an unforgiving fluorescent glare), where flaws are relentlessly pointed out and commented upon with an eye toward correcting them. So how do we own our natural sexiness in a world that's constantly selling us an artificial version of it? Self-confidence is great, but where does it get us in those moments when sexiness, like a name we can't summon at a cocktail party, has escaped our grasp? When our elaborate lingerie stares menacingly at us from the drawer; when we can't accept a lover's compliment; when we're convinced we've lost our looks; when we wish that the Unlikely Hot Girl would, for once, look in the mirror and consider the possibility that she's not all that hot — we need guidance.
What do we do? Perhaps we do nothing. The answer — insofar as there are answers to this fundamentally unsolvable puzzle — is to realize that sexiness, by its very nature, is evanescent. It makes appearances only on the grounds that it will soon disappear. Like a skilled flirt, it always backs down before we start to take its affections for granted. Like a wise teacher, it reminds us that true knowledge means knowing we'll never really know.
True appreciation, on the other hand, is an infinitely worthy goal. Most of us will never feel sexy all the time, or even most of the time. But there's something to be said for taking what we can get — and enjoying it while it lasts.
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