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Book Appeal: When you're browsing goodreads, the library, or another blogger's reviews, what grabs your attention to make you want to read it?
This is a great question, because sometimes even I don't know why a book catches my attention. The obvious attention grabber when I'm browsing online would definitely be the cover art. Everybody loves a beautiful cover, and I am no exception. With the deluge of books releasing every month, there has to be something about the cover – be it the art or the title – that makes me want to stop and read the synopsis. With the nearest physical bookstore now over ten miles away, I rarely get to browse the aisles of a brick and mortar. Almost all of my shopping takes place online, and there has to be something to set a book apart in order for me be interested enough to even notice it.
Blogger reviews help me discover books that I might have missed because I didn't like the cover. Shallow, I know. I am drawn to the pretty, and I know that you can't judge a book by its cover. So many awesome reads are missed because of that! Other blogger reviews help pick up the slack. I get a better idea of the plot by browsing through reviews, and often add titles to my TBR after seeing a book on another blog. Maybe the blogger mentions a favorite trope, or even a setting that I am curious about. Typically, it doesn't even matter whether or not they enjoyed the book, because what doesn't work for one reader, works well for another. This is what confuses me about authors attacking bloggers and reviewers on Goodreads – there are so many books to choose from, and even if that particular reader didn't enjoy a book, that doesn't mean another potential reader won't. The bad behavior of attacking a reader, instead of thanking them for taking the time to read and write about their book, boggles my mind, and will have me crossing a title off my wish list faster than a bad review. But that is a topic for another day!
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Previous studies using thermal imaging have suggested that face and body temperature increase during periods of sexual arousal. Additionally, facial skin temperature changes are associated with other forms of emotional arousal, including fear and stress. This study investigated whether interpersonal social contact can elicit facial temperature changes. Study 1: infrared images were taken during a standardized interaction with a same- and opposite-sex experimenter using skin contact in a number of potentially high–intimate (face and chest) and low–intimate (arm and palm) locations. Facial skin temperatures significantly increased from baseline during the face and chest contact, and these temperature shifts were larger when contact was made by an opposite-sex experimenter. Study 2: the topography of facial temperature change was investigated in five regions: forehead, periorbital, nose, mouth and cheeks. Increased temperature in the periorbital, nose and mouth regions predicted overall facial temperature shifts to social contact. Our findings demonstrate skin temperature changes are a sensitive index of arousal during interpersonal interactions.
1. Introduction
A variety of affective states, such as aggression [1] and emotional arousal [2–5], have been shown to elicit thermal responses in the face suggesting that skin temperature may be indicative of affective/emotional states. For example, fear has been shown to cause a rapid (300 ms post-stimulus) increase in temperature in the periorbital region, with simultaneous cheek temperature decreases [6,7]. Stress in infants, caused by maternal separation, results in decreased forehead temperature [8,9]; while stress in adults (e.g. lying, performing difficult mental tasks) causes increases in skin temperature in the forehead [10] and periorbital regions [11], and temperature decreases in the jaw area [12].
Merla & Romani [12] tested facial thermal responses to stress, pain and sexual arousal/excitement in a male cohort. Pain and stress caused a decrease in facial temperature (particularly in the perioral region) while sexual arousal caused a temperature increase owing to increased facial blood perfusion rates, particularly in the forehead, mouth and lip regions. Thermographic measures in all conditions were correlated with other physiological measures of arousal (galvanic skin response, penile turgidity). These results suggest that specific thermal signatures may exist in relation to specific types of emotional arousal.
This study aimed to explore whether temperature changes occur during interpersonal social contact in the absence of any direct emotional manipulation. In study 1, we (i) measured thermal responses in response to social contact in a standardized setting, and (ii) determined if any such responses differ for inter- and intrasex social contact. In study 2, we assessed the topography of facial temperature changes in response to heterosexual social contact.
2. Material and methods
(a) Equipment
Thermal responses were measured using a Testo (881-1) thermal imager (FPA 160 × 120 a.Si, spectral range: 8–14 μm, thermal sensitivity (NETD): less than 80 mK, 1 frame per 75 s). Object emissivity was set at 0.98, the standard value for skin [13]. The camera captured a frontal view of the participant's head and chest. To preserve ecological validity, in study 1 the camera was placed out of direct view of the participant (distance of 1 m). In study 2, the camera was positioned 0.5 m from the face and participants were instructed to look at the camera and avoid movement whenever possible.
(b) Study 1
(i) Participants
Sixteen heterosexual, Caucasian women (age: M = 21 years, s.d. = 1.9, range = 19–24); six currently using hormonal contraceptives. Written consent to capture thermal images was obtained from all participants.
(ii) Procedure
During a 20-min acclimatization period, participants completed a demographics questionnaire and a filler task (viewing a series of emotionally neutral faces). The experiment was conducted in two separate, counterbalanced conditions; one involved interaction with a same-sex experimenter, the other with an opposite-sex experimenter (both peer-aged). During each condition, skin contact was made at different body locations (face × 3, arm × 3, palm, chest) using a handheld device that flashes light onto the skin under the guise of measuring skin colour (2 s of contact at each location). These measurements provided a standardized form of social interaction. Participants were given 15 min between conditions during which time a distracter task was given.
(iii) Image analysis
A set of six thermal images per condition was selected for analysis: two baseline images (averaged) taken prior to any experimenter contact, and the first image captured during facial contact (left cheekbone), outer arm contact (at the elbow), palm contact and chest contact (top of the sternum). All images were selected via visual inspection. To account for breathing artefacts, we ensured that participants' mouths were closed in all images selected. For each image, the maximum temperature within the facial region was assessed using Testo analysis software.
(c) Study 2
(i) Participants
Twenty-three heterosexual, Caucasian women (age: M = 20.3 years, s.d. = 1.9, range = 18–25); nine currently using hormonal contraceptives.
(ii) Procedure
The procedure for study 2 was the same as that of study 1, except only the opposite-sex experimenter interacted with the participant. Following interaction, all participants reported: excitement, embarrassment, discomfort, stress, sexual arousal and overall stimulation felt using a five-point Likert scale (table 1 for response distributions).
(iii) Image analysis
For each participant, a baseline image (before any contact) and the image captured immediately after contact were analysed to determine temperature changes resulting from social contact. Using a similar analysis to that of Pavlidis [7], images were converted to greyscale bitmap images. A thermal scale of 20–40°C was mapped to the 0–255 RGB range. In order to account for movement artefacts across images, facial structure was mapped using Psychomorph [14]. All faces were three-point aligned based on interpupillary and mouth distances which allowed for accurate assessment of facial temperature (via pixel value averaging) in five topographical regions of interest (ROIs): forehead, periorbital region, nose, mouth and cheeks (figure 1).
3. Results
Facial temperature changes were calculated for each contact location by subtracting the baseline facial temperature from the facial temperature during experimenter contact. Subsequent data analyses reflects facial temperature.
(a) Study 1
(i) Does social contact cause a detectable temperature shift?
Overall temperature shift was calculated by averaging the changes for each of the four measurement locations. Social contact caused a significant increase in facial temperature (t16 = 2.78, p = 0.013), with an average change of 0.1°C across conditions (s.e.m. = 0.035°C).
(ii) Does experimenter sex affect temperature shift?
A paired comparison t-test confirmed that baseline temperatures did not differ between conditions (t16 = 0.058, p = 0.954; , ). A repeated measures ANOVA was run with experimenter sex (two levels) and temperature change during measurement at various locations (four levels) acting as within-subject factors. Because oral contraceptive use can impact thermoregulation [15], it was included as a between-subject factor (Npill-users = 6); but no effect of pill use was found on observed thermal changes (F1,15 = 0.92, p = 0.354, m.s.e. = 0.17, ).
The location of experimenter contact had a significant effect on facial skin temperature (Greenhouse–Geisser correction used for sphericity; F1.7,25.3 = 9.59, p = 0.001, m.s.e. = 0.11, ). Pairwise comparisons using Bonferroni correction (to control for multiple testing error) revealed that facial temperature during chest contact was significantly higher than that observed during either outer arm (p = 0.02) or palm (p = 0.006) contact. Peak facial temperature during facial contact was marginally higher than that of the outer arm measure (p = 0.084) and significantly higher than during the palm measurement (p = 0.041). Facial temperatures did not differ between face and chest contact, or between outer arm and palm contact (all p > 0.95). A significant interaction was detected between experimenter sex and contact location (F3,45 = 4.60, p = 0.007, m.s.e. = 0.02, ). Peak facial temperature tended to be higher when interacting with an opposite-sex experimenter than a same-sex experimenter during face and chest contact, while no differences were observed during palm or outer arm contact (figure 2). There was no main effect of experimenter sex (F1,15 = 0.32, p = 0.58, m.s.e. = 0.29, ), and all pill-use interactions failed to reach significance (all F < 1.6, p > 0.21).
(b) Study 2
Again, facial temperature significantly increased overall during social contact (t22 = 3.99, p = 0.001; , s.e.m. = 0.07). There was no effect of pill use on observed thermal changes (F1,19 = 0.02, p = 0.893). After ensuring that a similar thermal response to that described in study 1 was present in the current dataset, temperature changes in each ROI were entered into a regression model to determine which facial regions were driving the observed change. The overall model was significant (r2 = 0.92, F5,22 = 36.4, p < 0.001). Average temperature increase in the periorbital (, s.e.m. = 0.07), mouth (, s.e.m. = 0.08) and nose (, s.e.m. = 0.10) regions accurately predicted overall facial temperature change (table 2). Although temperature increased in the forehead (, s.e.m. = 0.09) and cheek regions (, s.e.m. = 0.09), these did not significantly predict overall facial temperature change. Outside of the face region, we also measured temperature changes in the chest area (at the top of the sternum); an independent t-test indicated that temperature increased in this region as well (t22 = 3.29, p = 0.003, , s.e.m. = 0.11). Spearman's correlations were performed to investigate the relationship between self-reports of psychological reaction of social contact and temperature changes. None of the arousal categories (excitement, embarrassment, discomfort, stress, sexual arousal or overall stimulation) were significantly related to overall facial temperature change or change in any specific ROI (all p > 0.16). Self-reported sexual arousal showed a marginal positive correlation with temperature increase in the periorbital region (rs = 0.40, p = 0.058), however due to multiple testing this effect is likely to be small.
4. Discussion
We find that tactile contact elevates facial temperature, even when touch is an incidental part of laboratory procedure. Study 1 indicated that this thermal response was dependent on the location of contact (i.e. larger for contact with more 'personal' locations) and the reaction was most pronounced for contact with an opposite-sex peer. Study 2 indicated that the main regions involved in this thermal reaction are the periorbital region, nose and mouth. This pattern of reactivity along the midline facial features parallels that seen in Merla & Romani's [12] study of thermal changes during sexual arousal in men.
Whether the changes measured in this study are detectable by others is currently unknown. If such changes in facial temperature during social contact are detectable (by observers or the individual), they could act as social cues; temperature changes may be evident to observers directly through touch, or indirectly through sight or smell. For example, because temperature changes are due to changes in blood flow, they may be visible via concurrent skin colour changes. Slight increases in facial skin redness are perceived as more attractive [16,17], so it may be the case that temperature changes impact perceived attractiveness—although whether or not the skin temperature changes in interactions such as those studied here lead to detectable changes in redness and attractiveness remains to be determined. Moreover, the skin temperature changes may be detectable to the individual and alter their behavioural reactivity. The detectability of thermal changes by observers and/or the individual remains an interesting area of research that has yet to be explored.
In summary, we present evidence for measurable immediate physiological reactions to social contact. Thermal imaging offers new possibilities in the study of psychological responses to social interactions and is of particular interest in the context of mating signals.
The authors thank D. Re for his assistance in data collection.
- Received April 10, 2012.
- Accepted May 3, 2012.
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More than 60 non-union CTA employees could lose their jobs before Thanksgiving under a staffing reorganization approved Wednesday that is aimed at saving $13 million annually, officials said.
The cutbacks were announced as the CTA wrestles with ways to close a $10 million budget gap before the end of the year.
The CTA board voted to abolish a total of 149 positions, most of them in management and administration, in a move to eliminate redundancies and run a more efficient operation, officials said.
Almost a third of the positions, about 45, are currently vacant, officials said.
The cutbacks are related to the launch this month of the Ventra fare-payment system, said Omar Brown, CTA vice president of human resources. A number of current positions related to money collection are being phased out.
About 40 union members whose jobs are being eliminated will be offered opportunities to switch to different positions, officials said. Thirty-seven of the 40 positions being eliminated are related to the transition to Ventra, officials said.
The approximately 64 non-union employees affected by the downsizing will be paid for 60 days and then let go on Nov. 11, officials said. But efforts will be made to rehire some of those affected into new positions that will be created, Brown said.
About 30 new jobs are being created, CTA spokesman Brian Steele said.
It was not immediately clear how the changes would save the CTA the $13 million projected.
The CTA payroll includes more than 10,000 union and about 1,000 non-union employees.
The belt-tightening was done as the transit agency grapples to close a $10 million budget deficit. In revenue projections for 2013, CTA finance experts misjudged the impact of increases in the price of all passes in January.
Sales of multi-day passes have been significantly lower than the original estimates as many riders changed how they pay fares and ride the system. CTA ridership is down through August.
The staffing reorganization is the second under CTA president Forrest Claypool. In 2011, after Mayor Rahm Emanuel was elected, the CTA cut about 200 non-union positions.
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In our final In the 'Works newsletter for 2010, we let everyone know we've got six brand-spankin new wallpapers for Fallout: New Vegas. New Vegas fans will also want to check out the newsletter to see brand-new screens for Dead Money — releasing on Xbox LIVE tomorrow!
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I decided to re-read the Temeraire series again, written by Naomi Novak. Now I'm anxious for her to finish up the next installment.
On my Nook, I'm reading the Whisperings paranormal mysteries (with a little romance).
If anyone would like the loan of any of the Craig Johnson books (Longmire), I have Any Other Name (the new one) plus several others. for the Nook. Sorry, I don't own a Kindle.


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RESOLVED, that the proper city officials are authorized to enter into Amendment No. 4, a copy of which is on file in the office of the city clerk as Public Document No. ____________, to grant Contract No. 2000-9748 with the state of Minnesota, department of public safety, division of homeland security and emergency management, for terrorism prevention exercise, equipment and training for the police department, extending the term thereof through March 31, 2007.
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE: This resolution is to authorize an amendment to the city's grant contract with the Minnesota department of public safety for terrorism prevention exercise, equipment and training for the police department. This amendment would extend the term of the grant contract to March 31, 2007.


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Gene Wurth, executive director, American Dental Association Foundation
Gene R. Wurth has been appointed executive director of the American Dental Association Foundation. Wurth, 60, will manage the the ADA's charitable arm, which secures contributions and provides grants for dental research, education, access to oral health care for underserved populations and assistance for dentists and their families in need. Wurth most recently was president and chief executive of the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation, which raised more than $150 million for research and education in his 11-year tenure. Before that, he was assistant dean for development of alumni programs at the University of Illinois College of Law and president and CEO of Provena Covenant Medical Center Foundation in Urbana. Wurth has a bachelor's degree in English, a law degree and an MBA from the U. of I. at Urbana-Champaign.
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Aboriginal men's group opens up for NAIDOC Week
The Broken Hill Aboriginal Men's Group has flung open its doors in a bid to attract more members and raise awareness of the group.
Anthony Hayward organised an open day at the men's shed yesterday.
He says the people who came along were impressed.
"The open day was an opportunity for the community to start to see just what some of our Aboriginal men are doing in our community - some of the projects, some of the wonderful art and carpentry and woodwork that they're doing," Mr Hayward said.
"I think it's something like this that needs to be recognised and seen.
"That's why we're having an open day - for people to come in and say 'this is good'."
One of the founders of the group, Clarry Mitchell, say the group is not just about woodwork, but having a chat about important issues, too.
"A lot of the problems I find in our community now are the loss and grief and a lot of our boys won't talk about it," Mr Mitchell said.
"Hopefully with the set-up of this program and getting the support group going, then we can start getting together as one and start supporting one another."
Broken Hill NAIDOC Week events continue today with a family fun day in Sturt Park from 10am until 3pm.
Organiser Chloe Bennett says there will be fun activities such as karaoke, merry-go-rounds, jumping castles, rugby league and stalls.
"It's a great way to bring the community together," Ms Bennett said.
"It's also a great way for organisations to engage with community as well, so community can actually see what's actually around in Broken Hill and what services are in Broken Hill."
A pancake breakfast will be held at the Warra Warra Legal Service tomorrow.
Topics: aboriginal, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, mens-health, mental-health, community-and-multicultural-festivals, broken-hill-2880


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Porting Android to Devices
Android provides you with the freedom to implement your own device specifications and the drivers to support them. The hardware abstraction layer (HAL) gives you a standard way to create software hooks in between the Android platform stack and your hardware. In addition, the Android operating system is open-sourced to help you through your device's bringup.
To ensure that your devices maintain a high level of quality and offers a consistent experience for your users, they must must also pass the tests in the compatibility test suite (CTS). CTS ensures that anyone building a device meets a quality standard that ensures apps run reliabaly well and gives users a good experience. For more information, see the Compatibility section.
Android Low-Level System Architecture
Before you begin porting Android to your hardware, it is important to have an understanding of how Android works at a high level. Because your drivers and HAL code interact with many layers of Android code, this understanding can help you find your way through the many layers of code that are available to you through the AOSP (Android Open Source Project) source tree. The following diagram shows a system level view of how Android works:
Application framework
This is the level that most application developers concern themselves with. You should be aware of the APIs available to developers as many of them map 1:1 to the underlying HAL interfaces and can provide information as to how to implement your driver.
Binder IPC
The Binder Inter-Process Communication mechanism allows the application framework to cross process boundaries and call into the Android system services code. This basically allows high level framework APIs to interact with Android's system services. At the application framework level, all of this communication is hidden from the developer and things appear to "just work."
System services
Most of the functionality exposed through the application framework APIs must communicate with some sort of system service to access the underlying hardware. Services are divided into modular components with focused functionality such as the Window Manager, Search Service, or Notification Manager. System services are grouped into two buckets: system and media. The system services include things such as the Window or Notification Manager. The media services include all the services involved in playing and recording media.
Hardware abstraction layer (HAL)
The HAL serves as a standard interface that allows the Android system to call into the device driver layer while being agnostic about the lower-level implementations of your drivers and hardware. You must implement the corresponding HAL (and driver) for the particular piece of hardware that your product provides. Android does not mandate a standard interaction between your HAL implementation and your device drivers, so you have free reign to do what is best for your situation. However, you must abide by the contract defined in each hardware-specific HAL interface for the Android system to be able to correctly interact with your hardware. HAL implementations are typically built into shared library modules (
.so files).
Linux Kernel
For the most part, developing your device drivers is the same as developing a typical Linux device driver. Android uses a specialized version of the Linux kernel with a few special additions such as wakelocks, a memory management system that is more agressive in preserving memory, the Binder IPC driver, and other features that are important for a mobile embedded platform like Android. These additions have less to do with driver development than with the system's functionality. You can use any version of the kernel that you want as long as it supports the required features, such as the binder driver. However, we recommend using the latest version of the Android kernel. For the latest Android kernel, see Building Kernels.


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elsebj taking ' bmi ui be , ■rms • • o portiaud maine a the best smith in $ the couhty ! red lo do ill kinds of re s i and at ind pel your \\ atches at salisbury ; and try the k l hi.uu x sunds at the head tu '' : light itrxxixg p'om^estic - i leailcr is a none equal it nincr .: wood work vb is warranted ■best material kin la of work er 3 respect upiej territory ltic-hmond va ■1 l * & rendumah for the watchman thoughts while among the lands of the skies 1 by t m weatheblt thf distinctive characteristics of man are not alone in his endowments with the ability to perceive and reflect there are higher attributes of human nature ever acting as innate force through which he alone can come into ultimate relation with his creator by which he may trace a kinship to the might v jehovah of the universe in the weeps of his imagination man may explore the great mysterious realm of infinitude and course the boundless universe between the material and the immaterial until he reaches the very throne of < fomipotence and stands amid the glories of celestial worlds the moral nature of man though very nearly allied to his reasoning fac ulties is yet a very distinctive part of his bein'g.and a nobler attribute ma king him as a creature of the highest rank m the scale of created intelligence through hi perceptive faculties man is only brought in relation with and sensibly realizes the existence of an out side world while through these higher innate moral forces he lifts his nature above the sordid materialism of the act ual and is inspired with thoughts and experiences emotions far beyond the powers of animal instincts or mere hu man reasoning here do we find the very foundation the basis upon which rests the argument for an immortal spirit whose hungerings are not fed with the sapless noil of the material world and whose thirstings are satiated only ai the perennial springs of a life that knows no ending an appreciation of the grand idea of creation of god as the mighty author of heaven ami earth the omnipotent architect of the universe can be had only by knowing him in the mani festations of his works and by reading his presence in all the marvels of crea tion meeting us at every step of the way from the cradle to the grave there is no veiled mysticism no shad owy vestments of the supernatural but in all his works a beneficent crea tor reveals his presence to the inquir ing creature a thousand voices fall upon the spirit proclaiming his presence rejoicing in his praise and attesting his majesty these come to the senses in fwvy stage of existence at every step we make in the pilgrimage of life it may be in the gentle whispering of a zephyr's breath or in the tempest of a sweeping whirlwind the sparkle of a dew-drop or the heaving billows of an ocean the soft beams of a summer's sun or the shivering bolt of an electric flash the sweet murmur of a?olian music or the deep-toned thunder peals of tin con vulsed heavens ; all all are but a thou sand oracles divine proclaiming to man's higher nature the majesty and glory of the omniscient creator the highest of these innate endowments of our humanity is that faculty through which we are enabled to realize the sublime in nature ; the highest because through these all the senses of our be ing are aroused and brought into full realization of the grandeur anil glory of nature's wondrous works in the soft breath of a may morning whose danc ing sunbeams gently kiss away the dew drops from myriads of flowers we are lead to the gentle slope of a woodlawn hill where embowered in a canopy of new-born leaves a thousand leathered songsters lave their gay plumage in the genial sunshine and send up a contin ued anthem of praise in the sweetest melody of music a hundred sporting denizens of the forest leap from bough tn bough of stately trees joyous in this gladsome day while above and around them the rich garments of spring give to the sc lit 1 the charmed expressions of an actual paradise beyond a meadow richly carpeted in green has coursing on its bosom the rippling waters of a clear brook whose reflected flashes of sunlight make an ornament for the ver nal goddess more beautiful than all the fabled diadems of arabian princes we rest in this scene upon the velvet robe of an ancient rock whose grave and worn features seem to have harmo nized with the charming reality about us from the modest daisy whose tiny petals blush in the embrace of the sun beams to the rich garniture of the for est all is enrapturing to our senses the delights of such a scene and of such surroundings steal almost imper ceptibly upon our senses and as one after another of these charming pictures of the landscape meet the vision we become enraptured with the scene such is the beautiful in nature awak ening only the gentler emotions of the human breast a id moving us intuitive ly to join the swelling chorus of joyous praise to god the creator gladly would we linger here and rest our souls in this prototype of eden's changeless beauties the back ground of this scene in which we have been reveling is skirted with a mountain chain whose azure hues in the distance have only added to its beauty there let us go and from the beautiful reach a yet higher manifestation of the glories of nature the nearer we approach what but a short while since seemed the dra pery of a lovely landscape scene the more sharply defined its character be comes over hill-tops and through miles of forest me wind our way until at last there is before us the mighty form of an upheaval so great so majestic that in its presence we feel at once the awe of a supernatural existence 1 . qu we wind our way over rocks whose gray moss coverings make of them the bearded indices of centuries by the brink of a yawning chasm whose tin known depths have echoed the rumbling | thunders of ages — on and on through the mist and spray of forming clouds we wind our way until we reach the summit of the tallest cliff whose awful form lifts its.4f far above the haunts of beaste or the flight of birds alone in its solitary grandeur it stands out , against the sky as a tablet upon which time has registered the flight of periods ; the passage of epochs and the death of worlds here view the scene around you far below the clouds which we . passed through and felt only as a morn | ing mist have formed themselves into j polling masses and give the majestic | movement of a boundless ocean above j the glorious orb of day lights a burnish j ed sky with dazzling spendors and gives to the ocean of clouds below the browz j ed tint of an aerial sea silence reigns , in the hush of an awful stillness maj esty grandeur power and glory are all about us now the rumbling echoes of , a noise far below breaks upon the still j i less as it warns the valley cottagers of j a coming storm the vast reach from j mountain to horizon is covered with thickening clouds whose dark masses roll high upon each other like mighty billows of the sea from one to an other of these the zigzag lightnings play and luridly light their grotesque forms as phantoms from a spirit world darker and denser the mass of clouds becomes and with a roaring rumbling sound the hoars bellowing of a mighty wind are carried through mountain gaps and echo with demoniac screams among the chasms below nature now is in wild commotion the everlasting hills tremble to their foundations with peal on peal of bursting thunders and everything seems to be passing away in the wreck of universal ruin so passes this hour presently from the western limit of the dread scene the black and broken clouds begin to roll away as a mighty scroll and from their hideous grandeur reveal to our vision a scene of glory 710 language can portray the imperial god of day is passing to anoth er hemisphere robed in all the pomp and grandeur of an autumn sky behind he leaves a gilded crown of splendor on the brow of mountains and hills while in his train a hundred fleecy clouds hold the gorgeous rainbow hues of his own creation the dark and lengthen ing shadows of the valley far below seem the drapery of mourning as if they had felt the last warm embrace of the sunlight this spreads from the valley to the hills until near where we stand the dark funeral curtain seems to rest its folds and our tall cliff has lost the glories of the day and is robed in the sable vestments of a coming night for the first time in hours we become conscious of our own existence and our thoughts turning to our own utter nothingness amid these surroundings of grandeur we are led involuntarily to exclaim how marvelous are thy works oh lord god omnipotent soon another scene of the sublime engages our attention in the east the full orbed moon is brightening into a soft and silvery light while planets and stars are fast appearing to adorn the canopy of night while all is hushed below and all the earth seems to have settled into a quiet repose the firma ment above is spangled with myriads of starry worlds that give to us a grand realization of the sublime contempla ting such a scene his whole being lost in its grand realization the sweet sing er of israel and the mighty monarch of god's chosen people losing sight of his own power and the glory of his impe rial rank could but exclaim when i crnsider thy heavens and the earth the work of thy fingers and the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained what is man that thou art mindful of him or the son of man that thou shouldst visit him this exclamation of king david is a full expression of the emotions we realize in the presence of a sublime manifestation of nature man must come in contact with some object in nature some creation of the supreme being surperior in the vast ness of its structure before he can be lost to his own self-importance and lose sight of his own existence it is by comparisons that our senses are im pressed that we experience pleasure or pain or admire the superior excellence of a work or an achievement canute the flattered sovereign of a mighty kingdom surrounded only by such pleasing objects as obsequious courtiers ami boundless wealth could provi le excelling in his pride and fan cied omnipotence must challenge the sublime in nature before his imperial vanity is rebuked and he is made to re alize the superior power and glory of god i.i nature the challenged ocean derides the mandate of this proud mon arch and its waters rush and roar and sport with his imperial throne as with the sands on its fretted shore over whelmed with the power he could not resist the mighty monarch drops his sceptre in the sea and declares to his subjects that the god of the ocean is the lord of canute the mighty em peror of france while the tread of his legions was sounding the death-knell of principalities and kingdoms would stand uncovered in the stormblast and with each lurid blaze of lightning add his voice to the deep-toned thunder in adulation of a power he could not real ize among the myriad flowers of mal maison or the quiet shades of st hel ena such is the beautiful such the sublime in nature and such the avenues through which they reach our senses and impress their distinctive features upon our minds leaving these outward expressions of nature let us pass a few moments in the contemplation of those laws and the wondrous machinery of their ex pression and execution provided in the great laboratory of nature the phi losopher following the uniform aciion of molecular attraction beholds the wondrous evolutions of the material universe from the minutest particles of matter the grain of sand is formed in obedience to a force so subtle and etherial that finite minds can never know its character save and only in its expressions the same law moving on with ever increasing force builds from grains of sand the smiling valleys the rolling plains the swelling hills and piles up grand mountain chains to bind continents together and stand out as signal stations of a world in the great universe of creation following on from solid to fluid formations he finds this law of attraction uniting by affinities the subtle gases and thin va pors of the earth into sparkling dew drops and then gathering up these myr iad gems froms of them the storm cloud whose bursting fountains water the thirsty plains with fruitful showers reaching out into the infinitude of space he draws from the heavens the great impulse of these laws and finds in a lightning's flash the energized expres sion of the law of all existence through this force more subtle than a spirit's form more etherial than the air we breath comes the pulsation of his heart beating in rythmic measure the funeral march of a human life through this force the bounding pulse of nature is moved and thence conies the animation of all living creatures by it the world is peopled with active intelligences the sea is tilled with count less forms the firmament on high re ceives its thousand glories and the earth its garniture of beauties through these laws come the regular develop ment of form the growth of trees gras ses and flowers the movements of all the fluids that course a thousand ave nues of our bodies by it as by the breath of the great jehovah man walks the earth and lives and has his being no circumstances or situation iu life can separate us from the marvelous ex pressions of nature's wonderful works no thick darkness of a dungeon no close cell can take us from the ever present power of god in nature it meets us in every breath in the pulsa tions of the heart the complete and perfect adaptation of every limb and every organ of the body to the necessi ties of life nature's works are perfect works when the play of her matchless affinities are unrestrained and the rules of her actions are not modified by the intervention of art but why limit our thoughts to this single earth ? the boundless infinitude of universe upon universe through the unmeasured and immeasurable expanse of eternity where time has never registered exist ence and never known duration all all is the grand expanse of nature's mighty domain worn and wearied our imagination rests where only suns and systems begin to fill the great in finitude of space and coming back to this earth is followed by the echoing music of the spheres amid the scenes of glory that fill the earth and waits a time when disembodied it shall find companionship with higher intelligen cies and explore throughout infinitude the marvelous works of the god of nature evolution dr james woodrow wants to know whether he is a heretic or xot and demands a trial by the presbytery the delegates from this city to the meeting of the augusta presbytery at union point returned yesterday a full attendance of the churches was had rev donahl mcqueen of mill edgeville was moderator and rev j b morton of sparta clerk of the presbytery the usual statistical re ports from the different churches were read and gratify accounts of progress and growth came from nearly every one the principal matter of business before the meeting was the considera tion of a communication from dr jani<s woodrow late professor in the columbia seminary it was to the effect that rumors in the public jour nals and elsewhere were abroad charg ing him with heresy that as this is a grave offense in the presbyterian church he asked his brethren of the presbytery to inquire into the matter and if they found the rumors were well founded topreparechargesagaiust him and try him for the offense the presbytery having no discre tion in the matter but to take action upon the communication as requested appointed a committee consisting of rev h m newton of union point rev w111 adams rev g t goet chius and mr james w wallace of augusta and col j a billups of madison to examine into the rumors complained of and if they found that they justified legal proceedings to re port the same to the presbytery this was the only action that could be taken yesterday and the status of the case now seems to be about this dr woodrow was found by the four synods who had jurisdiction over him i as a professor of the theological sem j inary to be interpreting the teaching ; of the scriptures upon the question of evolution not in accordance with their ideas accordingly they in 1 ! structed the directors of the seminary j j to take steps to prevent this teaching ! the measure adopted to secure this i eud was the removal of dr wood row j from the professor's chair the ground that dr wood row now takes is that this action implied that lie was guilty of heresy this how ever it is said does not necessarily j follow lor the book of church order draws a distinction between heresy and error and by many leading cler gymen it is maintained that dr wood row's offense does net amount to heresy but is simply error in his interpretation of the scriptures upon the subject of the creation believing his teaching to be error however thoy were justified in insisting that it should not be continued in the sem inary whether it was error or heresy is 1 the question to be tried and the sub j ject before the committee for investi igation the intelligence prudence and christian character of the com mittee give assurance that the most ample justice will be done both dr wood row and the synods they have this predicament to contend with if they sustain dr woodrow they con demn the action of the synods in declaring dr woodrow a here ic they have his reputation intelli gence learning and christian charac ter to bear in mind the committee will enter upon the work at once and will strive to arrive at a just conclu sion an adjourned meeting of the pres bytery will be held in this city at an early day to receive the report of the committee and try the charges against dr woodrow the session will be full of interest and will attract much attention not only from members of the denomination but the public gen erally — augusta chronicle of sunday kissing pets — the habit of kiss ing pets or of handling and surely breathing their exhalations is fre quently the cause of epidemics that destroy whole families it is a filthy habit at best but if mothers will un derstand that the pet cat or poodle communicates its diseases of throat and mouth to the child who carries the beast in her arms we would have less of that class so fatal to children a writer in the british medical jour nal says it is a source of danger that should be widely known and prevent ed a writer in the st louis medical journal advises young practitioners never to make fun of au old woman's remedy the writer add in 1s30 while practising in madison county iii i was induced by the represen tation of an old woman to make the trial in dysentery and diarrhoea of tablespoonftil doses of pure cider vin egar with the addition of sufficient salt to be noticeable ami it acted so charmingly that i have never used anything else ■» — a german paper states that eggs may be kept perfectly fresh for a 3 car by rubbing them with vaseline which has 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the carolina watchman xyi third series salisbury n c apbil 9 1385 no 25 iegorvs toils mixture '• . uman*e>'t cure . indigestion vmiregory ■n <' c s-ov.29.1884 . i hereby certify ,.,.,| yoni dyspeptic ■, un sell uine nl "■j i l w uuso i ii irlon '". n c i . ... .•: i lake great pleasure i ■' , • , , he \ i le of yonr , v - used it with rea1 i it to any one si tte treasurer m 1 t c smitli & h'pijuarters for farm wagons n v in inn air ues & spring wagons md guano drills is ha v bakes jltiva'tors niomas hakhows elegraph straw cutters a . m ixie plows texter corn sliollers teines and boilers saw and grist mills i ikr fittings guns vii


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January 24, 2018
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December 20, 2017
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November 09, 2017
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November 10, 2017
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Hi again Sugar Bee readers! Shatzi from Love and Laundry here and I'm so excited to be back this month! My kids love snow globes! Okay, maybe love is stating it a little lightly. They are obsessed with them!! They've been begging me for months to make some for Christmas. I thought it would be a fun thing for them to make for their friends as gifts.
These are so fun and easy to make! Here's what you need:
Baby food jars with the labels removed (WD-40 is amazing at removing label residue! Also, I pre-spray painted the lids for the kids)
Glycerin – you can get this at any pharmacy
Glitter and Confetti
Waterproof ornaments
Hot Glue
E6000 glue
First, glue the ornament onto the inside of the lid with hot glue. Definitely help your kids with that part if they are young. We don't want anyone getting burned!
I had my kids hold the ornament in place for a few minutes until the glue was cooled off.
Next, fill up the jar half way full of glycerin – that's the secret to getting the glitter to stay floating instead of falling straight to the bottom!
Then, add glitter and confetti. If you use confetti, just be sure it's the metallic kind.
After adding the glitter and confetti, grab something to stir it all around really well. Otherwise, you might end up with glitter clumps.
Top the jar off with water. You want to fill it pretty full, but not so full that it over flows.
Before screwing the lid on, put some E6000 glue around the rim of the jar. That glue is amazing for stuff like this! I would recommend adult help with this part, too.
Finally, screw the lid on!
Leave the jar right side up until the glue dries. I would recommend waiting 24 hours at least. The glycerin and water will remain separated until you shake it for the first time. Then, it all gets mixed together really well!
Ta-da! All finished!
Thanks for having me, Mandy! I hope you all have a wonderful holiday!!!
I'd love to stay in touch! You can find me on my Blog, Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.
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|2007-10-10, 01:45
|Link #304
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Join Date: Apr 2003
Kaidan no Odoru is basically about these group of 3 guys that had really nothing better to do, so they decided that they would try to steal from a local shrine's Offertory Box. They eventually cracked open the lock, only to find it that it's mostly empty since not many people have been donating. They thought they would've been cursed from the day that they started trying out the combination of the lock of the Offertory Box, but nothing really happened. It was then that they came up with their own curse instead, that being "Ohone-sama no Tatari" (curse of "bone"-sama)
So first they spread it around the school they went to. First they wrote "Hone" on all the blackboards, then they dropped random pieces of bone in people's drawers or their bags and so on. Eventually people were frightened by this new curse and started to blame all sorts of things on it. Also due to people's fears, the donations at the Offertory Box has increased significatiantly, until one day they found an envelop with 50,000 yen in it, with a note that said
Please Curse Tanashi Miyoko.
As to if Tanashi Miyoko is indeed the same one from Higurashi, I would say not really. It's indeed that their ideals are very alike, and does share some personality traits, but it really doesn't makes sense why the Higurashi one would be going to school at Shishiboneshi at that time, or the lack of mention of her grandfather which plays a critical role in all these.
My take is that they are the same characters, in the sense of a mascot character, but different worlds.
|2007-10-10, 12:32
|Link #306
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Belgium, Brussels
Age: 32
that's because 1 is pronounced "ichi" in japanese.
if you use "K" with the english prononciation and the japanese 1, you got the good prononciation for Keiichi.
|2007-10-10, 23:42
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Knowledge is the solution
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: St. Louis, MO
Age: 34
/me concurs. Don't forget that our flag has a l33t shield.
Heck, it would have been understandable if you had confused it with Ireland's since only the red's shading is different... but with Mexico's? What do the younglings learn in their geography classes these days... tsk tsk
|2007-10-14, 11:48
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Will we not get a ending? D: "he official Japanese websites of the Tōkai TV broadcast station and the Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni Kai murder mystery anime series have announced that Tōkai TV will preempt the early Friday morning airing of this series "due to various circumstances." School Days, which is another late-night, game-based anime series with schoolgirl characters in occasionally violent scenes like Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni Kai, was preempted after the alleged axe murder of a police sergeant by his 16-year-old daughter. Officials have not directly linked either series to the murder case."
|2007-10-24, 15:36
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y hello thar
Join Date: Sep 2007
Okay I have watched up to 15 of the new season and understand alot, but one thing bothers me.
What keeps causing the reset? Why doesn't time just go on after June 1983, with the town just dead? Obviously this is not just a retelling, but they are connected worlds, but what keeps causing the rewind?
I don't mind spoilers, and if someone doesn't want to say anything here, PM me please. Thanks.
|2007-10-24, 17:11
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2003
Quick answer:
Becuase there's not much to tell when the main cast is dead, is there? From the times they actually told you what happened after, ie. Himatsubushi-hen or Yakusamashi-hen, there isn't really much to tell besides the aftermath. Ooishi/Akasaka still couldn't solve the mystery, have tons of different theories, and still doesn't know what was the cause of the disaster, the truth about the 5 years worth of disappearances/deaths, nor who was the real culprit.
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Without Anyone Paying Attention, Canada Is About To Change Its Laws To Support ACTA
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The whole point of ACTA, and this bill, are to unite two very different issues: counterfeiting and copyright infringement. The legacy copyright players have been trying to conflate these things for years. That's because they can point to the tiny, but very real, problem of counterfeit drugs or safety equipment that can cause serious damage... and then mix it with the very "large" issue of copyright infringement (where they can't show any actual damage or harm) and pretend that it's a big problem which puts tons of people at risk. Of course, none of that is true. Counterfeiting may be an issue, but it's a very small issue, and in the vast, vast majority of cases, with little to no threat of harm. But, the copyright legacy players have figured out that tying their bandwagon to the claim that "counterfeit drugs kill people" may help them to pass draconian copyright laws.
Bizarrely, the Canadian government appears to have bought this bogus argument, despite nearly all of the evidence suggesting it's wrong. Michael Geist made exactly this point to the Canadian Parliament, but nearly everyone else they heard from were industry folks insisting that they needed this new "anti-counterfeiting" bill. And the end result is it appears that the Canadian Parliament is about to move forward on the bill without hearing from anyone other than Geist who might represent the interests of the public at large. As Howard Knopf notes:
What this exercise it will do – and has done – is to allow lobbyists with a maximalist agenda to use this fake problem of fakes to create the potential for interference with legitimate trade in parallel imports, vastly increased criminalization of everyday "infringement", shifting of enforcement costs from the private sector to the taxpayer, and the interference with the transshipment of generic drugs and other legitimate products. The new law will allow incredible opportunity for abusive or even simply incompetent enforcement. This can be very costly to large and SME business, not to mention consumers. This is perhaps the most sweeping legislation in Canadian IP law in 70 years, and it is being done without adequate hearings, study or the demonstration of any need. Anyone looking for counterfeit products can find them on the street in mid-town and downtown Manhattan. One doesn't find this kind of flagrant counterfeiting in Canada. The "evidence" of a major problem with counterfeit good that can't already be dealt with via existing laws almost entirely anecdotal or absent. Piling on of responsibility to border officials is an unnecessary and costly mistake. The DNA and fingerprints of the movie and record industries are all over this bill.Tragically, there appears to be almost no media coverage of this at all. Basically, it looks like Canadian politicians waited until everyone was looking elsewhere, and then tried to sneak ACTA right through the Parliament. This would be a major win for the movie and recording industries in the US, but a massive loss for Canadians and Canadian innovation.


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The New Bern Bears� soccer team welcomed C.B. Aycock into the newly-formed Eastern Carolina Conference with a 4-0 win Tuesday.
The New Bern Bears� soccer team welcomed C.B. Aycock into the newly-formed Eastern Carolina Conference with a 4-0 win Tuesday.
New Bern scored two goals in each half by three different players.
Antonio Babic scored a pair in the second half, while Tyler Oakley and Tanner Brown added goals in the first half.
�We haven�t played C.B. Aycock before and with a new opponent, didn�t know what to expect, but the defense and midfield did a great job. We have to get better in that final third of the field,� New Bern coach Tim Guter said.
Guter said he continues to be impressed by two defensemen up from the JV ranks this season, in Charlie Doty and Garrett Rhodes.
�We have some very good players in the back. The new guys up from JV mixing with the guys we had returning have been great,� Guter said.
New Bern improves to 4-2-1 overall and starts ECC play 1-0.
The Bears continue to spread the scoring wealth with a well-balanced offensive attack.
�We have a situation with our team where it could be anybody who scores goals for us. We don�t know who our leading scorer is going to be this year, we are just kind of scoring by committee,� Guter said.
New Bern has a quick turnaround as it hits the road Wednesday for another Eastern Carolina Conference clash with Eastern Wayne.
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Goals: New Bern - Antonio Babic (2), Tyler Oakley, Tanner Brown. Assists: New Bern - Jessie Roth, Htoo Soe.
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Requirements for graduation vary between the different diplomas offered. Each diploma requires a slightly different emphasis in coursework, credit hours earned and grade point average.
A student must be enrolled for the last semester of his/her final academic year, completing a minimum of two units of academy coursework during that semester.
An international student whose native language is not English must complete an English language proficiency test with a satisfactory score to graduate with a College Preparatory Diploma.
When a student application is processed, grade placement is considered. In order to make normal, consistent progress towards graduation, a student should earn an average of approximately 6 credits per year. This will accumulate, over a four-year period, the approximate number of credits required for graduation (24).
Grade placement is credit-based. The student must complete the previous grade with the minimum credit totals shown below:
- successful completion of eighth grade—grade 9 (freshman)
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Secretary of State's Prosecution Assistance Unit Closes Alanar Case with Convictions and Prison Sentences for All Defendants in Investment Fraud Scheme
Successful partnership between Secretary White's office and Sullivan County prosecutor comes to a close as final defendant in Alanar case is sentenced.
INDIANAPOLIS (July 29, 2011) Indiana Secretary of State Charlie White is applauding another success of his Securities Division's Prosecution Assistance Unit and local authorities. Vaughn "Chip" Reeves Jr., the eldest of three brothers involved in a scheme encompassing their Alanar enterprise and related ventures, pled guilty today to ten counts of aiding and abetting securities fraud. The plea provides for a 24 year sentence, with four years suspended for probation, and with the final four years to be served on in-home detention.
Investors in Alanar church bonds and churches were misled in the sale of the bonds. The ten counts of fraud related to ten different church bonds that left over 3,000 people, mostly church members and churches, with losses in excess of fifteen million dollars.
Alanar, the holding company owned by Vaughn Reeves and his sons Josh, Chris, and Chip (Vaughn, Jr.) sold bonds to finance church construction and then shuffled money to cover losses without telling investors or the churches in what has been termed a modified Ponzi scheme. The investigation and subsequent criminal charges against father and sons was a collaborative state effort with the Sullivan County Prosecutor Robert Hunley, the Indiana State Police, and the Secretary of State's Prosecution Assistance Unit. This effort followed a federal receivership of Alanar that began in 2005.
This plea follows an October 2010 trial where a Gibson County jury found the patriarch of the family, Vaughn Reeves, an ordained minister and founder of Alanar, guilty of nine counts of fraud, resulting in a prison sentence of 54 years. In February and May 2011, younger brothers Josh and Chris also pled guilty to all ten counts of fraud and received a six and eight year prison sentences respectively with probation.
"Hoosiers should be on the lookout for this type of 'affinity fraud,'" White said after the sentencing of Chris Reeves in May. "When promoters of unlawful investments prey on people of the same faith, our office will be here to help bring them to justice."
This brings to a close a successful partnership between White's Securities Division and the Sullivan County Prosecutor's office.
Information for Alanar Investors:
The Prosecution Assistance Unit was created within the Enforcement Section of the Securities Division to assist law enforcement agencies in prosecuting white collar criminals. Currently the unit includes two attorneys and two investigators devoted exclusively to the enforcement of the criminal provisions of the Indiana Securities Act, the Indiana Loan Broker Act and related statutes. The Unit operates under the direction and supervision of the Securities Commissioner and the Senior Investigator.
Media Contact:
AJ Feeney-Ruiz
Deputy Chief of Staff
Communications Director
Office of Indiana Secretary of State Charles White
Office: 317-233-8655
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2013 model year changes
For 2013, the Acura ZDX receives a new front grille, along with revised front and rear bumpers that integrate parking sensors. Power-folding side mirrors complete the exterior updates, while a high-contrast interior option is new. The ZDX continues to cut a dramatic shape and offer strong performance to the luxury buyer, though Acura will cease production of the car at the end of the model year.
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Luxurious interior; high tech entertainment in a sound-controlled space; impressive all- wheel drive performance
Special features for 2013
Acura began with no intention of developing an economy car, though efficiencies are everywhere. The obvious competitors are the Infiniti FX37 and BMW's X6. The ZDX is priced directly between the two models, with interior technologies at the top of its specialized segment and luxury appointments well above the competition.
A luxury crossover with seating for five, the 2013 Acura ZDX is powered by a 3.7-liter V6 engine that produces 300 hp and 270 lb-ft of torque. Super handling AWD is paired with a 6-speed automatic transmission to enable the ZDX to achieve an EPA estimated 16 mpg city and 23 mpg highway. Features include multi-view rear camera, Blind Spot Information System, HID headlights, front/rear parking sensors, push button ignition, steering wheel controls, USB audio interface, navigation, hands-free phone capabilities, and automatic temperature control. Safety is comprised of vehicle stability assist (VSA), tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS), forward collision warning, lane departure warning, advanced airbags and anti-lock braking (ABS). The ZDX is backed by a 4-year/50,000-mile warranty.


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Congress enacted a special "visibility protection" measure for the statutory Class I areas where visibility is an "important value." In the PSD title of the CAA, "Congress declares as a national goal the prevention of any future, and the remedying of any existing, impairment of visibility in mandatory Class I federal areas which impairment results from manmade air pollution." In this provision, Congress expressed the national desire to preserve the ability to see long distances, entire panoramas, and specific features associated with the statutory Class I areas.
EPA is still developing the regulatory program to assure "reasonable progress" toward the national visibility goal. Prodded by lawsuits, EPA issued so-called "Phase I" visibility regulations (40 C.F.R. 51.302, 40 C.F.R. 51.305, 40 C.F.R. 51.306) that address "plume blight" and other visibility impairment "reasonably attributable" to a specific source or sources. "Phase II" visibility regulations (40 C.F.R. 51.308, 40 C.F.R. 51.309) to address visibility impairment from "regional haze" were promulgated in 1999.
The visibility regulations attempt to protect visibility in mandatory Class I areas in several ways. Through "new source review," (40 C.F.R. 51.307) major new and modified sources may not receive an air quality permit if they will have an adverse impact on visibility within the Class I area. States must establish a monitoring strategy (40 C.F.R. 51.305 ) for evaluating visibility conditions, baselines, and trends and develop a long-term (10 to 15 years) strategy (40 C.F.R. 51.306) for making "reasonable progress" toward eliminating all manmade visibility impairment from mandatory Class I areas. Existing sources found to impair Class I visibility may have to retrofit pollution controls as a result of an analysis to determine best available retrofit technology (BART) (40 C.F.R. 51.302).
EPA's visibility regulations also allowed the federal land managers until December 31, 1985 , to identify "integral vistas," (40 C.F.R. 51.304 ) but the Secretary of the Interior declined to do so. "Integral vistas" are views from inside a mandatory Class I area looking outward to specific important panoramas or landmarks beyond the Class I area's boundaries, which views have scenic, scientific, or cultural importance to the Class I area. The National Park Service issued a preliminary list of integral vistas for its Class I areas on January 15, 1981 . Had these vistas been promulgated as final regulations, they would have become mandatory factors for the states to consider in the review of development activities that might impair the vistas. States would not have had to protect these vistas, but would have had to consider vista protection along with energy, economic, and other factors in the decision-making process. As a policy matter, the Department of the Interior has nevertheless encouraged the park service to seek protection of these park-related resources on a case-by-case basis in individual permit and SIP proceedings.
The visibility program is codified at: 42 U.S.C. §§ 7491 - 7492 (CAA §§ 169A - 169B).
Implementing regulations for this provision are at 40 C.F.R. 51.300 through 40 C.F.R. 51.309.
More information can be found on EPA's Visibility web page.